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Most of us just force ourselves into marriage because it’s the best solution we have for raising children. If two people aren’t having sex any more, to me that means that they’re no longer sexually attracted to each other (bored of that particular chase) and would be more interested in having sex with someone new. Of course, breaking through this obstacle is a psycho-social barrier we as North American humans desperately need to overcome. Unfortunately, while we have realized the need to outsource all our other tasks in life (renovations, childcare, food preparation, etc), we haven’t yet realized that even though one may be in a marriage, if sex is no longer a strong part of that marriage (and sex is different from love, don’t kid yourself or get fooled by Hollywood), sex, too, must be outsourced. KJK From nowtoronto.com

Tyler Perry parry Radheyan Simonpillai’s statement that Tyler Perry movies “cater to middle-class black audiences” (NOW, June 28-July 4) seems inaccurate to me. I fall into the category of middleclass black, and I’ve yet to find what’s so appealing about Perry’s Madea films and his “over-the-top melodrama [played] against juvenile comedy.” Many of my peers are puzzled, too. The black blogs I follow echo the same opinion. That said, I give him props for getting his films funded and distributed, and for casting actors of all races. Roxanne Holder Toronto

Dumped by CAMH I, too, am disgusted by CAMH’s current Pollyanna publicity campaign (NOW, June 28-July 4). It gleefully proclaims that “stigma [of mental illness] is old hat” while stubbornly refusing to acknowledge that individuals can be denied insurance, employment or housing if they are forthcoming about their condition. Such propaganda is irresponsible. My doctor sent me to CAMH as a

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source other tasks in life; why not sex if you’re in an unhappy marriage? ” last resort after the majority of his referrals had resulted in rejection. The attending psychiatrist diagnosed double depression, then handed me a list of resources and told me to get lost. Since I need therapy for some major rejection issues – loss of career, disowned and disinherited – getting dumped by the country’s largest mental health institution wasn’t exactly what the doctor ordered. Rosi Platt Toronto

Sorry Camp Schecky Regarding Camp Schecky. A Play On A Bus (NOW, July 12-18). This Fringe play was a lot of fun but very contrived. I had a hard time giving in, but felt pressured enough to fake it. Sooooorry. Paul Salter From nowtoronto.com

Botched delivers Botched, by local playwright and visual artist Colleen Osborn, was an incredibly well done piece about a tremendously volatile subject. The final line has a huge impact. The compassion and non-judgment in the closing scene bears witness to the clever weaving of a thoughtful, talented writer. It was a delight to experience this very moving and insightful play that delivered a positive message of forgiveness and healing. Well done! H. Angel From nowtoronto.com

Scatter-gun approach The anti-gun lobby promises that banning or severely restricting the ownership of firearms from law abiding citizens will make society safer (NOW, June 21-27). That experiment was tried in Jamaica, and murder and other crimes have gone up dramatically. In the U.S., a different approach was tried. Since the crime epidemic of the 1980s, many laws were passed that made it easier for non-felons to use firearms for self-defence, and society became much safer. The conclusion to be drawn is that firearms in the hands of criminals are bad, while firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens are not. Jeff Gardiner Waterloo NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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The city gets a new chief, James William Sales, a 27-year fire services veteran whose previous job was head of Barrie’s community operations division in charge of fire, works, parks and transit. On Sales’s to-do list: staffing shortages that the firefighters union says are taking three trucks out of service every day.

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Police made an arrest last Friday, July 13, in the January 3, 2011, fire that destroyed the historic William Reynolds Block at Yonge and Gould. Stewart Poirier was charged while being investigated by police for another fire on Sackville that occurred July 12. The city’s last remaining example of Romanesque Revival architecture, between Dundas and Gould, was declared a safety hazard after the fire and had to be demolished. But its fate was sealed months earlier when its north wall collapsed after the city did little to enforce repair orders, and the Ontario numbered company that owns the building applied for a permit to demolish the 1888 gem.

Metron Construction is fined $200,000 for criminal negligence in the Christmas Eve 2009 scaffold deaths of four workers.

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Number of extreme heat alerts issued by Toronto’s medical officer of health so far this year – four more than were issued all of last year. A record 18 were called in 2005. According to the MOH’s heat alert system, an extreme alert is issued when “forecast weather conditions suggest that the likelihood of a high level of mortality is at least 50 per cent greater than would be expected on a typical day.”

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Ontario won’t continue to defy the feds on gun control. After saying the province would continue to require gun shop owners to collect names, addresses and telephone numbers of buyers even after the feds killed the long gun registry in the spring, Ontario’s chief firearms officer revealed last week that they no longer need to collect this information. In its submission to the Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs back in March, the Coalition for Gun Control said that doing away with record-keeping provisions would make firearms untraceable. The coalition points out that even the gun-loving U.S. requires merchants to keep records.

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SUN-SENSATIONALISM The Sun puts some nobody described as a “street cleric” on the cover just so the paper can get its yah-yahs out bashing Muslims.

CALGARY STAMPEDE Three horses die in the annual pride of Alberta event’s chuckwagon race, spurring calls, again, from animal rights activists to end the carnage. Joshua Errett’s take at nowtoronto.com.

realitycheck Don’t believe the austerity camp. It’s not all gloom and doom, according to CAW economist Jim Stanford. The proof? Two key economic indicators: net financial debt as a share of GDP, and total public debt servicing charges. Both are down. The conclusion: big cuts in spending aren’t necessary to stabilize and reduce public debt. Says Stanford, “We should make a rational decision regarding how much new debt is optimal, rather than being dominated by an initial quasi-religious assumption that all debt is bad.”

Council votes unanimously to expropriate the remaining privately owned properties between Parliament and Berkeley that make up the site of Canada’s first Parliament to make room for the future home of the St. Lawrence Library.

AFGHAN WOMEN’S GAINS The assassination of Hanifa Safi, director of women’s affairs in Laghman province, eastern Afghanistan, sets back fragile advances in human rights in the war-torn country, says Amnesty International. Safi was killed by a car bomb along with her husband.

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The National Farmers Union is calling on the province to provide disaster relief for Ontario farmers hit by drought across the province. Ontario NFU coordinator Ann Slater says the extreme heat has led to severe shortages in feed crops for livestock as well as a decline in food crops as harvests dry up or fail to pollinate. Slater says the federal and provincial agriculture ministries are currently renegotiating disaster relief, talks that could end in budget cuts to farm programs. Crop insurance, she says, is not designed to cover loss from drought. The NFU is urging Ontarians to buy local.

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from the archives October 6, 1988 ON THE COVER

Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural sat down with NOW just as his band, Buckwheat Zydeco, was set to open for guitar god Eric Clapton. It was Clapton, one of Dural’s biggest fans, who personally insisted the New Orleans outfit, mixing rock and funk to danceable beats, should set things in motion on his North American tour. Dural talked at length about the growing influence of the Lousiana sound and why it was zydeco – and not Creole – music that was making it into the mainstream (page 19 of the issue). The accordion legend brings Buckwheat Zydeco to Hugh’s Room, Wednesday (July 25). See listings, page 44.

Homage to a warrior

Friends fete outspoken human rights lawyer Charles Roach, who changed the city’s political culture By PETER ROSENTHAL and VIVIAN PITCHIK

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I used to hate condos with a passion and regularly ranted about the perils of gentrification, but I’m starting to realize that my rage has been replaced. I’ve more recently decided that NIMBYism is a much worse threat to our city, even when outraged property owners are going after the cheese-ball pseudo-artsy condo developments I love to hate. Why? Because some of these same people also hate methadone clinics, bars, basketball courts, city-appropriate density, wind turbines and most offensively to me, affordable housing. I was fortunate enough to spend much of my youth in subsidized housing, living in genuinely mixedincome neighbourhoods. I am eternally thankful for the opportunities that experience provided me. Increasingly, though, Toronto is being divided sharply between haves and have-nots, with the latter isolated and segregated from the former. Complaining about condos feels like a laughable sideshow compared to the real housing issues facing Toronto. Sure, it’s been surreal to see artists forced out of repurposed warehouses so that buildings can be demolished and replaced with half-assed impressions of “lofts” and then sold to people who long to be part of the creative community they’ve displaced. But the hipsters who’ve had to

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abandon their once-affordable live/ work spaces were, at one point years earlier, also invaders who changed the nature of the area. We all participate in this cycle. Property-owning NIMBYs claim to be protecting delicate neighbourhoods, but really they’re just trying to freeze fluidly changing areas at a point that suits them personally. Say what you will about big retail

NIMBYism is a much worse threat to our city. stores, but the tenant living in the basement apartment of a nice house is probably better served by a large grocery store within walking distance than yet another fancy restaurant or high-end clothing boutique. If those railing against towers really cared about making Toronto a liveable vibrant city for everyone, they should focus their anger on the lack of affordable housing. With a waiting list of 70,000 households, the backlog is beyond shameful. You can easily wait more than a decade for an affordable home. It’s hard to lift yourself out of poverty when you’re spending all your time and energy worrying about keeping a roof above your head. benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

WHEN Sunday (July 22), 2 pm WHERE U of T’s Medical Sciences Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle WHAT Tribute to Charles Roach with Paul Copeland, Howard Morton, Julian Falconer, Michael Thompson, Lennox Farrell, Jean Augustine, Liberty Silver, Lillian Allen, June Harris and many others.

harles Roach remains his usual wonderfully optimistic self despite the fact that he’s recently been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. For 50 years, the human rights lawyer, activist, artist, musician and Caribana founder has campaigned to make Toronto a more equitable place. Now, Roach is being recognized for having inspired several generations of activists, and helping to alter the city’s political culture. On Sunday, his many supporters and friends will honour him by recalling his many accomplishments and enjoying performances by entertainers he has influenced. They will, in particular, express appreciation for his long-standing efforts to win civilian control of policing following the shootings of Buddy Evans in 1978 and Albert Johnson in 1979. Roach is currently representing the family of Michael Eligon Jr., shot in February of this year. Along with Dudley Laws, Charlie, as his friends call him, founded the Albert Johnson Defense Committee and the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC), which led the charge against racist policing for decades. One of the movement’s key achievements was the creation of the Special Investigations Unit, the civilian agency mandated to look into killings and serious injuries caused by police. Over the decades, BADC has continually pushed the SIU to do more substantial investigations. Roach has always pursued human rights on two fronts simultaneously:

in the courts and through political organizing. This was certainly an inspiration for me, the senior author of this article, to try to emulate him. I was a math professor, activist and paralegal doing movement defence when, in middle age, I wondered if I should go to law school. Charlie, unlike all my other friends, enthusiastically encouraged me to do it. One of his spectacular victories was the case of the seven Jamaican mothers who won permanent residency with the help of his activistlegal campaign, which challenged the situation of domestic workers who had been in Canada for many years without hope of landed status. His contributions to the fight against apartheid in South Africa included founding the Freedom Ride Against Apartheid (with Lennox Farrell), and the controversial 1986 case in which he argued that the South African ambassador to Canada was complicit in crimes against humanity and therefore shouldn’t be permitted to give a lecture at U of T. One of his most persistent projects is the abolition of the oath of allegiance to the Queen as a condition of citizenship. The monarchy, he believes, is a symbol of colonialism, an insult to both his African and Irish roots, and contravenes his belief in equality. Roach’s refusal to swear allegiance to the Queen has cost him. He was, for example, offered an appointment as a provincial court judge, but since that required the oath, he could not accept it. Because the oath is integral to the citizenship ceremony, he has never become a Canadian, though he moved here from his native Trinidad in 1955. He lost an oath-to-the- Queen case in federal court in the 90s, and the appeal as well, but more recently he initiated a similar case in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice and, just last month, won the right to continue that case. When the media asked him recent-

ly how he maintains his activism in the face of failing health, he replied, “The struggle is the important thing. Not how it ends. It’s not whether I win or lose, but did I fight and do all I can?” Please join us to show our appreciation to this amazing man. 3 Peter Rosenthal is a lawyer with Roach, Schwartz & Associates, professor emeritus of mathematics and adjunct professor of law at U of T. Vivian Pitchik has a summer job as legal assistant at Roach, Schwartz & Associates. news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

CHARLES ROACH: THE RESUME 1950s • Immigrates to Canada from Trinidad-Tobago • Begins his campaign to end the citizenship oath to the Queen

1960s • Chair of the first Caribana Festival • Defends Black Panthers seeking to escape the unfair U.S. legal system

1970s • Establishes the Movement for Minority Electors to encourage more people of colour to run for office • Wins case against deportation of Jamaican nannies

1980s • Co-founds Black Action Defense Committee

1990s • Chair of the Pan-African Movement’s Canadian branch • Appointed lead defence counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. • Organizer for Martinsday • Argues in federal court that the oath to the Queen violates the Charter

2000s • Executive member Citizens for a Canadian Republic • Local organizer for the National Conference of Black Lawyers

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Up on Downsview Park Neighbourhood around forgotten green space will become T.O.’s most important revamp next to the waterfront

centre of gravity for this part of suburban North York. The history of the development, though, has left some hard feelings. For years, the northwest part of Toronto lacked large tracts of green space for its growing population, so there was huge enthusiasm about turning the former military base into a major park. In 1998, when the feds formally gave the land to Crown corporation Parc Downsview Park, it was intended to be a High Park north. Unfortunately, no funds accompanied the original 572 acres, so little happened aside from a few large events and the creation of indoor and outdoor sports fields and a museum. That’s why the plan was changed to use revenue from development to build a high-quality park, though the size of the parkland was cut in half, which constituted the breaking of a promise. It was more than 14 years after then-Prime Minister Chrétien announced the handover before the park fully opened.

By ADAM GIAMBRONE The transformation of Downsview Park, with its new green spaces and housing, gets a lot less attention than the waterfront development, but it’s just as important to the city’s longterm growth and prosperity. At about 320 acres, the park (bordered by Keele, Allen, Sheppard and roughly Wilson) includes a mix of terrains and a large body of water. But despite its proximity to the Downsview subway stop and the new line to come, it’s still considered by some to be isolated. I would remind everybody that in 1873 the two dissenting city councillors who voted against accepting High Park as a bequest made the same argument. The reality is, the Downsview plan will produce a new

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Nonetheless, Downsview is going to be one of the city’s largest revamped spaces, with a planned 7,300 units of housing along with commercial and light industrial development. Add in the subway extension to the north and the area will become much denser and more urban, with walkable neighbourhoods and dynamic streetscapes. The first spot to be developed, Stanley Greene, is actually the least transit-accessible. It’s far south of the still-to-come Sheppard West subway stop, so users will need to rely on the Keele bus for transit. In coming years, the neighbourhood will include over 1,356 townhouses and low- and high-rise buildings, and will likely house about 2,200 people. North of it, the park will have wooded areas (today, there are just young trees) and meadows and hills made using fill from subway construction. The next areas set for development are Chesswood and William Baker. These will have even higher

density and likely bring in a younger demographic because of condo developments that will help the area feel more like the downtown. These changes are not welcomed by everyone. There’s still resentment about the park being downsized and worries about increased traffic. But the neighbourhoods will create a dynamic centre for the whole community, And the condos, Toronto’s new starter homes, will bring in a greater mix of people. The process is similar to what happened in the 1950s and 60s when immigrants and first-time buyers moved north to procure their first homes. With reliable rapid transit, residents can access jobs and services outside the area, although governments must work to attract services and employers to the community. Creating more development outside of downtown will help us spread out the continued influx of new residents to our city. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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the tough on crime rhetoric Maybe the chief is finally owning up to the gun violence problem, but his desperate pleas for the public’s help in the wake of Monday’s Scarborough shooting expose deep divisions with disadvantaged neighbourhoods By ENZO DiMATTEO

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Those among the media looking for reasons for Monday’s shooting spree at a Scarborough block party found none at a presser presided over by police Chief Bill Blair at headquarters on Tuesday, July 17. Was there a gang connection? Is this part of a larger trend? Has gang warfare broken out on Toronto’s streets? “There’ll be ample time to reflect on the con text of this event,” the chief said. “But right now we are dealing with a very specific crime of horrendous violence. And I think it is ab solutely incumbent [on us to] focus our atten tion on resolving that and bringing those people to justice.” To the larger significance in a moment, but here’s what we know for sure about the shoot ing on Danzig Street in Scarborough: two people are dead, 14yearold Shyanne Charles and 23yearold Joshua Yasay of Ajax; 23 others were injured after being caught in the crossfire, one of them a man who was seriously wounded and is in critical condition. He was operated on in hospital on Monday. One handgun was seized at the scene. While in the aftermath of the June 2 Eaton Centre shooting the emphasis was on ex plaining away the violence (“One idiot with a gun,” said Blair’s deputy at the time), this time around it’s been on reassuring the public. But on this shooting the cops seem at an em barrassing loss. The Twitterverse was reporting details of the incident (had the name of the 14yearold deceased, in fact; see sidebar) before Blair summoned the press to police headquar ters for the official version of events. There’s evidence, too, that the cops were aware of the party and the potential for violence. Uniformed officers, in fact, appeared on the scene in the hours before hell broke loose to investigate noise complaints. The chief made references to

“some other investigations that were going on.” So what happened? As with the Eaton Centre shooting, which po lice first denied had any connection to violent incidents in the weeks beforehand in the Alex andra Park neighbourhood, the cops are down playing suggestions that the Scarborough af fair is gangrelated. Blair was reluctant to go there during Tues day’s presser, deflecting the suggestion of “gang warfare” even as he was expressing deep con cern about scuttlebutt all over social media sites that friends of the deceased were now promising payback. But what else could he say? Hard to explain away a shooting the chief himself described as “unprecedented” and the worst in North Amer ican history, which turns out to be a crock. Truth is, by the time of this press briefing, cops by the dozen had already been deployed in neighbourhoods across Scarborough and as far west as Rexdale and JaneFinch to ferret out the culprit or culprits. Maybe the chief is finally owning up to the fact that there’s a problem. It’s not of his mak ing entirely, although there have been policing mistakes when it comes to constructive en gagement in priority neighbourhoods. Perhaps the strategy of deploying rapid response teams to fight gun violence has to be rethought and the emphasis put back on community policing. Yes, Toronto remains a safe city. But there’s no ignoring the fact that there is a culture in some neighbourhoods in which young people think nothing, or very little, of solving their disputes through gun violence. Government policy has something to do with that. While the premier and the mayor both pro claimed that what happened in Scarborough won’t be tolerated – hopefully that doesn’t just mean more cops – it should also be pointed out

cipal or police. (Never a real option. Whatever authorities you bring down would be lucky to find someone to reprimand, and if they did, I’d be the bitch who talked and the target for more harassment.) Option three: you “man the fuck up.” Some victims, after the first fight, assemble their own crew to reBy nowtoronto.com editor taliate and eventually end JOSHUA ERRETT up in a game of escalation The shooting Monday night on Scarborough’s where bravado meets braDanzig Street has left the city searching for anvado and the only hope is swers, but few were available immediately folthat it ends without somelowing the public violence. That’s because of one dying. police procedure, rules around crime reporting In this option it’s not and the need for accuracy. long before some will serOn social media, however, there are different iously contemplate buying rules. And when questions are unanswered, a used $300 gun with rightly or wrongly there’s usually an effort to someone else’s blood alanswer them online. ready on it. You don’t have On Reddit, a social news site, the Toronto to come from a poor family forum was buzzing Tuesday morning as one user to get caught up in this put together a sketch of Monday night’s events mix. You just have to sucusing just tweets. (Cut, pasted and slightly cumb to this brand of peer abridged in online version of this article.) pressure and ideology surBitchslappedByLogic, an obvious avatar, rounding street reps. went through Twitter to identify some of the Strict gun penalties are victims, aspects of the shooting, the potential not top of mind when fallout and what might happen next. The rethinking about reputation sults are startling. or how to retaliate when The tweets tell the tale of a neighbourhood you’ve caught a beating or party that many knew ahead of time would be even just an awkward eye. the scene of a gun battle. Several messages How could they be when made it clear that there’d be a settling of scores, serving time is seen as a and there was. Before the police released badge of honour, official names of any of those injured or killed, photo public notice of how much collages were posted paying tribute to the vicof a bad man you are? tims and names were named. We don’t know much yet about the latest Then there was talk of retribution, a coming shootout, but I’m guessing it’s a product of this war. “I fear for this community,” wrote Bitchculture and indicative of how much Toronto’s atslappedByLogic. risk neighbourhoods need more substantial If Toronto police missed the posts forecommunity programs to keep teens in line. I’m shadowing this violence, they certainly should saying this while programs like the Youth Chalbe aware of the warnings of more lenge Fund have run out of resources and violence to come. (Calls to the poRob Ford still believes cutting lice about this went unanswered.) funding is the answer. After Before long, every Twitter acONE OF THE MANY all, we’re not as far gone count mentioned in the Reddit post PHOTOS OF THE as Detroit, right? was spammed by news reporters. CRIME SCENE POSTED The only way to TO TWITTER One witness deleted all her messteer teens away sages about the shooting to from violence is to keep reporters from quoting distract them her. while they’re This narrative was formed by young and introa collection of 140-character duce them to the messages and very clearly role models they wasn’t proof in any way whatdesperately need. soever. The author puts that disGive them clubs that claimer right on the post: “This is a will spur their interportrait of the event formed solely ests, dedicated to basby linking from things found on Twitketball, hip-hop, movies ter. None of this is concrete evidence of and other arts. Give their activanything’s having happened or anyone’s inities media attention so they have a sense of volvement in the shootings.” achievement. Give them a space to breed an Indeed, many dismissed the tweets as unalternative culture where they prize talent and verified and untrustworthy. accomplishment over bravado and street cred. But at the same time, just because these are Give them access to people who made it: rapmessages on social media doesn’t make them pers, basketball stars and folks like TIFF’s Camuntruthful. Police were monitoring protestors eron Bailey. before the G20 on Twitter, so they, too, recogI’m not encouraging the city just to throw up nize the importance of the medium. a few more basketball nets and be done with it. As the Urban Eatery shooting earlier this I’m saying get involved and do it right. Sorry summer showed, first-hand accounts of public about your tax dollars, but, really, we have no crimes are inevitably posted to Twitter, no matchoice unless, of course, you don’t mind treatter what the police and media choose to report. ing the residents of some areas like moving tarThat is a certainty. How we choose to use that gets. 3 valuable resource is what’s left to be decided. RICK MADONIK/ CP PHOTO

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that for all the mayor’s arguments that a job is the best social program for challenged youth, a few weeks back he voted against accepting federal cash to help gang members get back into the workforce. Meanwhile, the province’s chief firearms officer only last week announced that Ontario would stop bucking the feds’ killing of the long-gun registry and no longer require gun shop owners to keep records of purchases. Gun advocates will scoff, but every crime gun begins as a legal gun, let’s not forget. On Monday, the chief called the now-abolished long gun registry a “valuable” tool in the fight against gun violence. But in the next breath he offered that it’s important for police to “respect the will of Parliament.” That stance was similar to that taken by Blair’s office post-Eaton Centre shooting and Adam Vaughan’s call for a bullet ban. A ban wouldn’t help stanch the gun violence, the chief said at the time. But if we’re truly concerned about gun violence why not bring all the laws to bear? The chief signed off Tuesday sounding confident that arrests would be made soon. “We need additional information to get this thing nailed down. But we believe we have investigative leads and that we are making real progress.” Blair’s repeated pleas to the public for help, however, sound anything but hopeful. In fact, it sounded a little desperate. “We’re asking those individuals who care not only for themselves but for their families and friends and the safety of their communities to come forward.” What are the chances of that if you’re living in terror in neighbourhoods where people are getting shot? 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

IT’S A PROBLEM OF CULTURE NOT GUNS By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI With Monday night’s brazen shootout in east Scarborough, we can expect the chorus at City Hall to waste more time debating stricter gun penalties. This is an obvious way to go, but it won’t mean anything to the majority of young guns who don’t weigh the consequences when they decide to start packing. Council needs to attack the general culture and ideology that infect teens in areas where violence and intimidation are idolized instead of condemned. I grew up and frequented Scarborough’s Tuxedo Court, Mornelle Court and Galloway, among others, and unfortunately have subscribed to this culture, too. I remember walking my high school hallways or streets like Morningside, Ellesmere, Lawrence, Eglinton and Kennedy and being ready for confrontation with young thugs hoping to impress their peers. Sometimes they wanted money, other times just to make an example of you. It’s like high school bullying only the stakes are higher. There are only a few options when you’re in this situation, and I’ve tried them all. Keep your head down, though this just tags you as easy prey for humiliation. Report them to the prin-

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CITY HALL

7 REASONS WHY STAR POLITICAL FIXER RALPH LEAN WOULD SPELL DISASTER FOR A ROB FORD RE-ELECTION BID

In municipal election races, it’s money and organization that win out, or so the theory goes. Except that’s not always the case. See Ford’s win in 2010. His main rival, George Smitherman, who had Lean in his corner back then, raised twice as much cash, and look where that got him. The pre-amalgamation arrangement where a bunch of suits sat around a kitchen-cabinet table deciding who was going to be the next mayor is long gone.

If it’s populist appeal that Ford’s after, then having a rainmaker/ political bagman to the stars with a Bay Street business address won’t do his downhome-boy rep much good. As one Liberal spinner told me, “I’d bet it loses him votes – a lot of them.”

There’s more on the bad optics front in a Leanbacked Ford mayoral run. Robo’s already deep in Lean’s pocket. Lest we forget, it was Lean and the backroom boys at his law firm, Cassels Brock, who organized that Harmony fundraising dinner for Ford so he could pay back the threequarters-of-a-million-dollar debt he incurred during the campaign. Political favours? With Lean at the helm, we’ll sure see a few.

Where there’s smoke…. Check the who’s who on Lean’s list of clients in his other role as political lobbyist. More than two dozen strong on the Queen’s Park lobbyist registry alone. Lean doesn’t boast the biggest Rolodex in the biz for nothing. He also counts former U.S. president George Bush Sr. as a fishing buddy.

You know what they say about too many chefs? The same applies to politics. The beauty of the Ford mayoralty run in 2010 was its simplicity, not only in terms of its messaging (gravy train, anyone?) but on the ground, too. It was as close to a family-run affair as you’ll get – a closed shop to outsiders. Ford axed three campaign managers before settling on Nick Kouvalis. Will the big-money backers offering their support via Lean be able resist the temptation to buff the mayor’s image and put their stamp on him? The answer, of course, is no. And that’s where trouble for Ford begins. He won last time because he was the anti-candidate.

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a tissue, kept one for himself, and we stood there, side by side, blotting our faces. He also called later that week to check on Quin and me. I recently read through my email correspondence with Kyle and came upon a poignant note about a project that my arts company led in 2010. I’d like to share an excerpt here because it says such so much about him. It’s my hope, as well, that it might console those with whom he worked most closely. “I have always wanted to be able to look at a piece of art and see a part of myself, my creativity, my energy reflected there. Through this project I was able to realize this dream. “It seems fitting that the artwork is on the outside of the 519, a building that has been my support and safe haven for so long, and where I’ve worked as an activist for close to 10 years. Through the project, I’ve literally left my mark on Toronto’s LGBTQ community. Everyone deserves that opportunity.” – Kyle Scanlon To this I’d like to say, Kyle, you are reflected in our communities in a thousand ways – in those of us whose lives are better for knowing you and in those who have and will encounter you through your work. You’ve left a profound mark, one that transcends the boundaries of time and space, bricks and mortar. Go gently, friend. You are not forgotten.3

A graceful leader

Activist, mentor, community worker Kyle Scanlon transcended boundaries By ANNA CAMILLERI

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tirelessly, and his legacy will be felt and recognized for years to come. We met about 10 years ago, when I was working at Supporting Our Youth. A group of trans and gender-variant youth and allies came together to create Trans-Fusion Crew, a grassroots initiative. Our meetings buzzed with energy and, on occasion, conflict. Urgency was heightened, palpable: almost no trans-centred resources existed at the time, and systemic change and education were sorely needed within both queer communities and the broader culture. In heated moments, Kyle listened closely and offered meeting grounds – places from which consensus might be built. Afterward, we often walked together, and it was then when I learned that he prioritized the group will over his own personal vision of what to do, and when. He understood that a lack of flexibility and openness in a fledgling project could take out one of its table legs or cause contributors to decide that community engagement was more trouble than it was worth.

There’s no guarantee Ford’s angling for a reelection He’s been absent for long stretches during his first term. A perfect storm brought him to office, but next time he’d have to run on his record, which is practically non-existent. 3

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LEGACY

I’ve started and backspaced this piece into a blank screen at least eight times: too saccharine, too earnest, too something or other. The thing about beginnings and endings is that they’re often difficult. Instead of doing the thing that needs to be done, you prepare lists, reorganize the sock drawer or over-zealously hit the delete key – effectively delaying the actual doing. I’ve cycled through all three this week because I’m mourning the loss of my friend Kyle Scanlon and moving homes at the same time. I learned of Kyle’s death on Sunday, July 8. My partner and I pulled up in front of the housing co-op that had been my home – and Kyle’s – for more than 10 years. While Katie set about moving my stuff, I sat in the car motionless for a long time. Now, more than a week later, I’m no more resolved or less sad, but I am among the many mourning Kyle. This comforts me. Kyle has been described as an activist, a trans activist, mentor, community worker, ally, researcher and advocate. He worked

Lean can’t be serious. As legendary as his rep is for backing winners, he’s also known as a shameless self-promoter. He could have just been talking out his ass when he vowed his public support for Ford to the Globe, sending a signal to prospective clients that if they want access to the mayor, he’s the man. Worked like a charm. He got page one.

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THE LEAN MACHINE

Anyone contemplating a run against Rob Ford in 2014 might as well fuggedaboutit now that lawyer/lobbyist, political fixer and fab fundraiser Ralph Lean has offered the mayor his support in a front-pager in the Globe, right? Not so fast. There are many reasons why a Lean-backed Ford campaign would be a train wreck for the incumbent mayor. Here are seven deadly ones.

Kyle was a generous and graceful leader, wise and modest. I learned a lot from him, and I am thankful. There are many more stories that I could share, like the time my dear dog Quin fell seriously ill. When I

blurted (through a mess of sniffles and streaming mascara) that the emergency vet bill had exceeded $5,000 in a week, Kyle didn’t behave like the cheese had slid off my cracker. Not for a moment. He handed me

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What happens when sunscreen gets into lakes and rivers? It’s hotter than a billy goat with a blowtorch out there (okay, so I stole that from redneckwordsofwisdom. com), and if you step into the sun you’re gonna need some sunscreen. But what happens when you step into a lake, ocean or shower wearing that sunscreen? It all depends on which lotion you’re talking about. You’d think that a product designed to be slathered on people who then jump directly into bodies of fresh and salty H20 would be safe for the environment it ends up in, but sadly, that ain’t the case. Take Aveeno Active Naturals Sunblock Lotion with Enviroguard, for instance. Sounds promising, for a drugstore brand. The so-called Enviroguard protection is the company’s combination of five sunscreen chemicals. Now, they can call it whatever trademarked name they want, but once you put “enviro” on there, it’d better be good for the environment, especially since it’s water-resistant, thereby encouraging us to use it in the water. Alas, some of these Enviroguard sunscreen chemicals are exactly the opposite of eco-friendly. Consider oxybenzone, found in 66 per cent of sunscreens (including Aveeno Active Naturals). This bioaccumulative endocrine disruptor has been found to feminize male fish and is a known coral reef killer. Yes, even at low levels, sliding off swimmers backs, oxybenzone has been found to trigger viral infection outbreaks in coral reefs that inevitably bleach and kill them. Considering researchers’ estimate that an astonishing 4,000 to 6,000 tons of sunscreen washes off swimmers into the oceans every year, we’re certainly not doing coral a solid. And the coral reef bleaching and estrogenic effects continue with sunscreen chemicals like octinoxate (aka ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, found even in natural brands like Alba sunscreen and some Kiss My Face and Nature’s Gate sun protection, including Nature’s Gate Aqua Broad Spectrum for water sports). Parabens, too, have the same effect on reefs. Octocrylene (used in three of the four sunscreens mentioned so far, as well as lots of other brands) is another suspected endocrine disruptor that’s persistent in the environment and has been found building up in fish downstream from wastewater

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Thursday, July 19

Benefits

the InsIde rIde (Coast to Coast Against Cancer Fdn) Charity cycling challenge. 11 am. Donations. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Events

campaIgn.to launch partY Learn how to

use this new website to launch effective, lowcost online campaigns to effect change in your community with NOW editor Joshua Errett. 7-10 pm. Free. Academy of the Impossible, 231 Wallace. joshua@campaign.to. dancIng on the pIer Join the Dancing on the Pier house band and learn global dance trends. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. rharBourFront summer camps One-, two- and four-week day camps for kids three to 17 include culinary arts, digital media and more. To Aug 31. $195-$875. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay. Pre-register 416973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/camps. IndIan humanItarIan amma The spiritural leader and humanitarian offers spiritual blessings to the public. Today 10 am & 7:30 pm; Jul 22, 7 pm. Free. Double Tree by Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel, 655 Dixon. ammacanada.ca. rKIds’ cBc daYs CBC kids’ characters including Huckle from Busytown Mysteries, performances by the Doodlebops and activities including a monster math squad and maskmaking, for kids two to six. Today and tomorrow 10 am-2 pm. Free. CBC Broadcasting Centre Atrium, 250 Front W. cbc.ca/parents. KYle scanlon memorIal The LGBT community gathers for speeches, videos and sharing stories to celebrate the queer activist’s life. 7 pm. Free. Cawthra Square Park, next to 519 Church. the519.org. mIngle For the Future Caribbean & African Chamber of Commerce meeting with a speaker on economic growth in the future. 6 pm. Howard Johnson, 22 Metropolitan. Pre-register 416-770-6397. personal saFetY and street smartness Info session on self-defense and personal security. 6 pm. Free. Morningside Library, 4279 Lawrence E. 416-894-2988. shIatsu Wellness daY Mini-treatments and info. 10 am-6 pm. Free. Metro Hall Rotunda, 55 John. shiatsufederation.ca. rsummer storYtellIng Stories for all ages on the patio. 7 pm. Free. Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. 416-393-7717. tastY thursdaYs Live music and food from the grill. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events. teens WrItIng WorKshop Hands-on workshop with author Matthew Tierney. 12:30 pm.

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Festivals this week

Beaches InternatIonal Jazz FestIval

Bandshell concerts and street festival with performances by Alex Pangman, Treasa Levasseur, Tyler Yarema, Conjunto Tropical de Cuba and many others, plus workshops and lectures. Free. Woodbine Park, Queen E of Woodbine and Kew Gardens. beachesjazz.com. Jul 20 to 29 rBIg on Bloor Street festival with musicians, dance, theatre, karate, storytelling, strolling buskers, an alternative art fair, food and more. Free. Bloor from Dufferin to Lansdowne. bigonbloor.com. Jul 21 to 22 FestIval Bana Y’aFrIque African music festival with performances by Diblo Dibala, Donné Roberts, Focusway, Moto Kapia and many others. $10-$15. Passion Lounge (1220 Danforth), Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas W). afriquenouvellemusique.org. Jul 20 to 22 hot & spIcY Food FestIval Culinary arts, music, film panels and dance, with Chilean musician Ana Tijoux, an international Iron Chef competition, taco takedown, the TECHmunch food conference and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jul 20 to 22 Free. Reference Library 789 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5577. toronto Burlesque FestIval KIcK-oFF Meetand-greet teaser with live music and burlesque acts for a small stage. 6 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Friday, July 20 capture the Flag Urban game, similar to tag.

8:30 pm. Free. NE corner Yonge and Sheppard. manhunttoronto.wordpress.com. collector’s nIghts Museum tour and tips on collecting Inuit art. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Preregister miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite. com.

rIncredIBent’s magIc & comedY cIrcus

Interactive show of laughs, magic and circus feats. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. rretro nIght dInner cruIse Dinner cruise and dancing. 7 pm. $73. Boarding near 207 Queens Quay W. mariposacruises.com. rWaterFront nIght marKet Asian food, live entertainment, cooking demos, a graffiti competition, Raptor’s Fan Zone, kids’ zone and more. Today 6 pm-midnight; tomorrow 1 pmmidnight; Jul 22, 1-10 pm. Free. T&T Supermarket, 222 Cherry. waterfrontnightmarket.com.

Saturday, July 21

Benefits

FundraIsIng concert (Fernie House) Per-

formances by the Good Mourning Band and Divine Hammer support a home for children in the legal system. 9 pm. $10. Opera House, 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. grand Jeté (Windfall Basics) Art gala and silent auction, featuring paintings by Theodora Roman, live music by Lexi Tellings and more. 7 pm. Merchandise Lofts Rooftop, 155 Dal-

Hear great music at the Beaches International Jazz Festival, beginning July 20.

toronto Burlesque FestIval Burlesque per-

formances, a strip search competition, parties, the Burlesque Ball and more, featuring Roxi D’Lite, Burgundy Brixx, Armitage Shanks and many others. Various prices and venues. torontoburlesque.com. Jul 19 to 22 toronto trIathlon FestIval A fun run, sports and fitness expo, Olympic race and more. Preregister torontotriathlonfestival.com. Jul 20 to 22

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rcarIBBean carnIval toronto The annual

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from South Asia and the West Indies, musical performances by Prita Chabbra and others, Bollywood dancing, buskers, kids’ activities and more. Noon-10:30 pm. Free. Albion and Islington. albionislingtonsquare.com. rall-canadIan mentorshIp cup Exhibition hockey game for bantam-aged players and an autograph table with NHL pros Taylor Hall and John Tavares. 1 pm. Free. Hershey Centre, 5550 Rose Cherry (Mississauga). Pre-register allcanadians.com. art & perFormance tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

Crcanada vs JamaIca rugBY league

Match featuring the Jamaican International team and Team Canada for the festival cup. $25. Lamport Stadium, 1150 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. CcanJam FestIval Celebrating the fusion of Canadian and Jamaican culture through film, music, fashion and art. 8 pm. $50-$150. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. canjamfestival.com. rceltIc Breeds cavalcade Traditional Irish, Scottish and Welsh dog breeds on display. 11 am-5 pm. Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsways.ca. docents gone WIld Performance artists, thespians, drag queens and comedians lead guided performance tours through the hotel. 1 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

open rooF FestIval International films,

documentaries, indie music acts and more every Thu on the patio. $15. Amsterdam Brewing Co, 21 Bathurst. 416-921-9797. To Aug 23 summerlIcIous More than 180 restaurants across the city offer special 3-course prixfixe menus. Lunch $15-$25, dinner $25-$45. toronto.ca/special_events/summerlicious. To Jul 22 toronto summer musIc FestIval International classical music festival with performances by André Laplante, Stephen Ralls, Seoul Spring Festival Ensemble and many others, plus master classes. $26 and up, passes $111-$560. Edward Johnson Bldg (80 Queen’s Park), Koerner Hall (273 Bloor W), Hart House (7 Hart House Circle. torontosummermusic.com. To Aug 4

the health FaIr Info from health care providers, an exercise class, computerized scans of how you walk and more. 11 am-2 pm. Free. Shops at Don Mills, Don Mills and Lawrence. physioatdonmills.com/events.html. JunctIon Food tour Sip and savour at foodie destinations in the Junction neighbourhood. 10:30 am. $55. Location on registration. Preregister foodiesonfoot.ca. CrJunIor carnIval and FamIlY daY

Annual children’s costume parade and family celebration. Free. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. rlIve green toronto FestIval Outdoor green fest with live music, a farmers’ market, green products, buskers, a kids’ zone and more. 11 am-8 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. toronto.ca/special_events. rossIngton street art plaY daY Live music by Kevin Wilson, chalk art, glass blowing, hulahoop workshops, food trucks and more. Noon6 pm. Free. 109OZ Lofts site, 109 Ossington. laura@kimgraham.ca. queen West WalKIng art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. roncesvalles vIllage Food tour Sip and savour at foodie destinations in the Roncesvalles neighbourhood. 2:30 pm. $65. Location on registration. Pre-register foodiesonfoot.ca.

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Vendors, samples, pottery lessons, live music and more. 11 am-6 pm. Harbord, between Bathurst and Spadina. harbordstreet.ca.

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awareness of the need for organ donors. 3 pm. Free. Bandshell Park, Exhibition Place. 416444-4803. taste oF the teesdale Foodie festival with tastings, live entertainment and all-ages activities. Noon-4 pm. Free. Teesdale Community Centre, 40 Teesdale. wardenwoods.com. thrIll oF the grIll Danforth restaurants compete for the People’s Choice Award before celebrity judges including chef Lynn Crawford. Noon-3:30 pm. $12. Danforth btwn Playter and Jackman. thedanforth.ca. urBan dare Adventure/scavenger hunt race in the downtown. Noon. Harbour Sports Grill, 10 Yonge. Pre-register urbandare.com. West end Food co-op open house Get a preview of the new food co-op store and community kitchen, and enjoy snacks. Noon-4 pm. Free. 1229 Queen W. westendfood.coop. World lIstenIng daY New Adventures in Sound Art holds a trans-local sound walk led by Darren Copeland. Noon. $5. NAISA Space, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca.

Sunday, July 22

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JustIce For levI: BeneFIt agaInst polIce ImpunItY (families of Levi Schaffer and Douglas

Minty) Performances by Infinity Project and Test Their Logik support the families’ court case against police for the killing of the men. 9 pm. Donation. Detour Bar, 193 Baldwin. facebook.com/events/444000115631777.

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BIg Outdoor screening of the Steven Spielberg film. 9 pm. Free/pwyc. Christie Pits, Bloor and Christie. christiepitsfilmfestival.eventbrite.ca. BrIdal Bazaar 2012 Bridal fashions and services. 1-4 pm. $5. Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. info@thriftybridetobe.com.

charles roach trIBute – FIghtIng agaInst War, racIsm, InJustIce and neo-colonIalIsm Speakers include Jean Augustine, Julian

Falconer and Lennox Farrel, with music by Liberty Silver and others. 2 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Auditorium 1 King’s Collge Circle. charlesroachtribute@gmail.com. rFamIlY anImatIon WorKshop Noon-4 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416973-3012. groWIng FIg trees Workshop with horticulturalist/author Steven Biggs. 10 am. $45, adv $35, stu $25. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register communityorchard.ca. hIgh parK steWards sessIon Help water and weed a newly planted site. 10:30 am. Free. Grenadier Café, High Park. highparknature.org. hIstorIc garden tours Guided tour of six acres of restored gardens. Sundays & Wednesdays 1:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. mY noIsY BodY Francine Gerstein and Liza Fromer present their book that teaches children about the human body. 2 pm. Free. Chapters, 2901 Bayview. 416-2226323. netWorKIng For artIsts Workshop with Entreprenarts co-founder Christa Fairchild. 1-4 pm. $60. Gallerywest, 1332 Queen W. Pre-register gallerywestworkshops.eventbrite. ca.

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lage Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. TORONTO LANEWAY TOUR Bike tour of laneways from Corktown to Cabbagetown (11 am, Distillery District Gates, Mill and Trinity) and Riverdale and Queen East (1 pm, NE corner Withrow Park, McConnell and Carlaw). Free. info@graemeparry.com. TOWERS TOUR Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. WYCHWOOD PARK Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. $10. Call for location and to reserve. 416-5865799, rom.on.ca. rYOUTH DAY Young artists 14 to 24 showcase their music, dance, art and photography. 11:30 am-10 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. youthdaytoronto.com.

Monday, July 23

Benefits

rSWEET TUNES FOR SICK KIDS (Hospital for

Sick Children) Performances by Nixon and Two Crown King, all-ages activities, prizes and more. 7 pm. $10. Playdium, 99 Rathburn W (Mississauga). playdium.com.

AMY WINEHOUSE TRIBUTE AND CAMH BENEFIT CONCERT Emma-Lee, Saidah Baba Talibah,

Treasa Levasseur, Tanika Charles and Tia Brazda perform. 8 pm, $10 suggested donation. Orbit Room, 580A College. 416-535-0613.

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rSUMMER OPERA CAMP Intro to the world of opera with Canadian Opera Co, for kids five to 12. 9 am-3:30 pm. $200 one week, 4-day camp $160. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Pre-register 416-363-8231. WGSN SEMINAR – STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE

Toronto Fashion Incubator seminar on the key colours, fabrics and trends for Fall/Winter 2013. 5:30 pm. $60. TFI, 285 Manitoba, Pod 3. Pre-register fashionincubator.com/shop.

Tuesday, July 24

Events

CITY CINEMA: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. CONSCIOUS FEMINISM DISCUSSION SERIES An evolving consciousness salon on women, meditation, feminism and spirituality. $15.

Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416922-8744. HOW TO SET UP A SMALL BUSINESS Workshop for new immigrants. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. CICS Immigration Resource Centre, 2330 Midland. Pre-register 416-292-7510.

rKIDS’ SCAVENGER HUNT AT THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Kids six to 12 explore the historic

grounds at an outdoor scavenger hunt, weekdays through Aug 31. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park. Pre-register tourbookings@ontla.ola.org. MANAGING CAREGIVER STRESS Workshop for people caring for an elderly relative or friend. 4 pm. Free. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. Pre-register 416-595-9618. TALKING TUTUS Talk on the tutu from a historical and contemporary perspective by curator/ costume designer Caroline O’Brien, in conjunction with the exhibition 60 Years Of Designing The Ballet. 6:30 pm. $10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. TORONTO GREENHOUSE – GREEN CARS Panel discussion on the future of electric cars with General Motors product manager Dan Mepham, Plug’nDrive Ontario CEO Cara Clairman and others. 6 pm. $35, adv $25. Haworth Showroom, 55 University. tggreencars. eventbrite.com. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN TOURS Tours of the garden’s unique design and history, led by a botanical guide. Wednesdays 11 am and Tuesdays 5:30 pm. Free. West end of the garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontomusicgarden.ca.

Wednesday, July 25

Events

ADULT CIRCUS Six-week circus camp for adults

with aerialist Marsha Kennington. $175. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093. CREATE A WEBSITE WITH WORDPRESS Online resources and computer tools workshop. 6:30 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Services, 7220 Kennedy, unit 8 (Markham). Preregister rex.liu@welcomecentre.ca. DRAKE TRIVIA Play a game of Trivia. 8 pm. $2. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. DROP-IN CLAY CLASS A class for all skills levels happens weekly. $15, stu/srs $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

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Presentation on the challenges facing global biodiversity, with videos and live animals. Wednesdays and Thursdays through the summer. 10:30 & 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797. FREE FLICKS: NAPOLEON DYNAMITE Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. FRESH WEDNESDAYS Live music and a farmers’ market every Wed through the summer. Noon. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events. GLUTEN SENSITIVITY Health talk by naturopathic doctor Kate Whimster. 7 pm. Free. Main Street Library, 137 Main. torontopubliclibrary.ca. HEART OF TORONTO Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. New City Hall, Queen and Bay. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca. TIFF IN THE PARK: HIS GIRL FRIDAY Outdoor film screening. 9:15 pm. Free. David Pecault Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net.

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Thursday, July 26

Benefits

QUEER BEER FESTIVAL (519 Community Centre) Danish singer Oh Land, local DJs and queer bands, beer, food and more. 4:30-11 pm. $38.50-$48.50. Exhibition Place, Bandshell Park, 210 Princes’ Blvd. queerbeerfestival.ca.

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ARCHITECTURE AFTER OIL: NATURAL BUILDING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Presentation by engineer/

researcher Bruce King. 7 pm. $5-$15. Ryerson University, 325 Church, the Pit. endeavourcentre.org. ARTFUL@SAGE Interactive art history discussion. Today and Aug 30. Free. Sage Cafe, 166 McCaul. 416-340-7345. rROBIN HOOD Kids’ show with Duffelbag Theatre. 7 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto.ca/parks/ events/zukerman-theatre.htm. ZOOSHARE BIOGAS CO-OPERATIVE Info session on a community-owned biogas plant on the grounds of the zoo. 7 pm. Free. Community Centre 55, 97 Main. Pre-register eventbrite. com/event/3810707930. 3

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Developers build houses like there’s no tomorrow, but, despite the depletion of the earth’s resources, we hope there is one. Architecture After Oil: Natural Building In The 21st Century examines construction alternatives – think better forms of concrete or straw bale. Featured speaker is San Francisco-based engineer, Bruce King, head of the Ecological Building Network in California. Thursday, July 26, 7 pm. The Pit

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at Ryerson University, 325 Church. $5-$15. endeavorcentre.org.

HONOURING CHARLES ROACH

The city is a fairer place thanks to the efforts of civil rights lawyer Charles Roach, an advocate for civilian control of police, co-founder of the Black Action Defence Committee, social justice activist and first chair of Caribana. The battling humanist and foe of the oath to the Queen is fighting cancer, and his supporters have organized a tribute on Sunday (July 22) at 2 pm. Speakers include Julian Falconer, Paul Copeland and Howard Morton, Councillor Michael Thompson, former MP Jean Augustine, Lennox Farrell, John Clarke and performers Wanda Thorne, Liberty Silver, Lillian Allen and more. Medical Sciences Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. charlesroachtribute@gmail. com.

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When the city sizzles, so does the steak –

By STEVEN DAVEY

and the sausage and chicken and kebabs! To maximize your backyard barbecue, we show you where to find the best humanely raised meat and sustainable seafood, and we identify the house specials at downtown’s top butcher shops. We also take a look at Hogtown’s newest barbecue shacks – including a literal hole in the wall in Chinatown and a gas station in Leslieville – and count down the GTA’s top five rib joints and top five multiculti barbecue restos while we’re at it. And before you freshly converted fruitarians bang out a letter to the editor complaining about NOW’s glorification of grilled meat, check out our vegan barbecue recipes from such notable chefs as One Love’s Ikeila Wright and a certain Susur Lee. Plus, tips on what to drink with everything you’re eating from drinks guy Graham Duncan. If you can’t stand the heat, back away from the ’cue.

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STOCKYARDS’ SMOKED CHICKEN (LEFT) AND ST LOUIS-STYLE RIBS

THE TOP 5 RESTOS EVERYBODY’S GOT THEIR FAVOURITE ’CUE JOINT. WE FEARLESSLY NAME T.O.’S TOP FIVE.

BUSTER RHINO’S

7-2001 Thickson Road South, at Wentworth, 905- 436- 6986; 30 Taunton East, Oshawa, 289-240-3111; 28 King East, Oshawa, 905-4366986, busterrhinos.com. For those who get the vapours every time they travel east of the DVP, the hour-long trek down the 401 to Whitby may prove an out-of-body experience. The trick is to ignore the bumperto-bumper traffic and stay focused on what awaits at the end of the line: some of the finest southern-style barbecue in the GTA. In true ’cue fashion, the original’s white-on-white room isn’t much to look at: a fluorescent-lit takeout counter and a scattering of plastic patio furniture. But who needs decor when the grub’s this good? Nicely sauced racks of maplesmoked baby back pork ribs ($15.99 half/$17.99 whole) come sided with Carolina-correct coleslaw and deep-

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fried hush puppies (the fritters, not the shoes), whereas the deli-style brisket and pulled pork sandwiches ($5.99) stand alone, sauce-free. Want further proof of authenticity? Look no further than the autographed 8x10 of Paula Deen on the wall, y’all. But what of Buster’s plans to move into the Hogtown market? “We still plan to take on Toronto,” says the mini-chain’s Darryl Koster, who’s just opened a third Rhino’s in downtown Oshawa. “We’re always looking for locations, but it has to be the right space.” Let’s hope it’s west of the Don Valley. Monday and Tuesday 10 am to 4 pm, Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 8 pm (Whitby); Monday to Thursday 10 am to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 10 pm, Sunday and holidays 11 am to 8 pm (Oshawa). Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays (Whitby). Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

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699 St Clair West, at Christie, 416- 658-9666, thestockyards.ca. When I plan a visit every six months or so to Tom Davis’s uptown ’cue pit, I always do so with some trepidation. Will his ribs really be as good as I remember? But once I lay eyes on them, it’s love all over again. I’d forgotten how large the racks ($13 half/$25 whole) are – twice the size of others and three times as meaty. Cut St Louis-style, i.e. Flintstonian, they come rubbed with subtle notes of cayenne and cumin and the distinct Mediterranean presence of olive oil: two and a half pounds of hog heaven. The fantastically textured pig on his pulled pork sandwich ($8) isn’t so much shredded as hacked by a blindfolded samurai wielding a chainsaw. The spicing on the whole smoked chicken

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($14) now verges on jerk and is the tastier for it. No crappy industrial coleslaw here. An exceptional salad of snappy garden-fresh green beans gets drizzled with a garlicky vinaigrette spiked with rehydrated red bird chili flakes, while the starch du jour turns out to be cubed sweet potatoes in a buttermilk dressing topped with house-smoked bacon (both $5). Davis could be churning out his ribs on an assembly line, like most of the competition, but he chosen instead to offer it only Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 5 pm – it’s that labour-intensive. If only for that, he deserves our respect. Tuesday to Saturday 9 am to 9 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 2:45 pm, dinner Sunday 4:45 to 8 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: steep ramp at door, washrooms on same floor.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON PUB

76 Gerrard East, at Church, 647349-3294; 589 King West, at Portland, 647-347-3294, loudawgs.com. If the last two words of this N’Awlinsstyle roadhouse’s name don’t scare you away, the brassieres hanging from the light fixtures will: Lou is the Guu of barbecue. From the corrugated tin and reclaimed barnboard (yawn) on the walls to the satellite radio tuned to ye olde blues station, this Dawg is very much a student pub. Lucky for the rest of us, this house-smoked carte rises far above the clichés of pub grub. Racks of St Louis-style ribs ($12.95 half/$22.95 full) are best when amply dusted with the house dry rub (my guess: smoked paprika and powdered garlic), though if you’re the type whose ’cue isn’t complete unless it’s smeared all

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over your face, you might want to have them mopped with the house’s sugary sauce. Lou’s slow-cooked brisket doesn’t

so much fall from the bone as fall apart on its own accord, so tender the beef. Both pulled pork and chicken (all $11.95 with two sides) come in a sweet, syrupy sauce that tastes like it escaped from the nearest Swiss Chalet. Not a bad thing. Next to the ladies’ underwear, the things that bring us back to the Dawg again and again are the sides (all $2.99 small à la carte/$4.99 large) – an aggressively spiced coleslaw with the crunch of a hella red onion, baked beans thick with shredded pork, and mashed sweet potatoes laced with roasted apple and maple syrup that wouldn’t be out of place in a Thanksgiving pie. Monday to Wednesday noon to 11 pm, Thursday and Friday noon to 2 am, Saturday 10 am to 2 am, Sunday 10 am to 11 pm. Weekend brunch till 4 pm (summer hours); daily 11 am to 4 am (school hours). Licensed. Access: nine steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

Hadley’s

Barque

299 Roncesvalles, at Geoffrey, 416532-7700, barque.ca. There are those who swear that David Neinstein and Jonathan Persofsky’s familyfriendly spot makes the best barbecue this far north of the Mason-Dixon line. There are others who claim the same thing about the once-mighty and exorbitantly expensive Phil’s (nee DiPammo’s) on College. The rest of us will find a larger than usual card that’s hit-or-miss. Among the former, baguette sandwiches handsomely piled with thick slices of fat-marbled brisket ($12), slow-smoked chicken wings in sticky chipotle sauce, and a very good Caesar salad (both $10) strewn with candied bacon. Yum! Nevertheless, meaty racks of baby back pork ribs ($16 half at lunch/$19 dinner/$29 whole dinner only, all with two sides) in a “sweet ’n’ heat sauce” are neither, and dry to boot. No amount of kimchee slaw, however on trend, can save the pulled pork sandwich ($12) from bordering on sour, and 4 bucks for half a cob of grilled corn is highway robbery no matter its supposed Cuban heritage. Management might also want to advise some of their attitudinal staff that there’s a good reason the resto biz is commonly known as the hospitality industry. Lunch weekdays 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, dinner nightly 5 pm to close. Weekend brunch 10:30 am to 2 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

LESLiEviLLE PuMPS’ BEEF BRiSkET SANdWiCH

BBq store

494 Dundas West, at Spadina, 647-994- 8710. If it doesn’t come on a wooden stick, this northern Chinese snack shack located on the south side of the old Victory burlesque theatre doesn’t sell it. That explains the skewered likes of tender grilled lamb dusted with cumin and what the tiny take-away’s unusually extensive street-food menu calls “gristle strings” – think, crunchy tendons and cartilage. Thin slices of charbroiled duck gizzards are prized for their chewy texture, while beef omasum and flammulina (all $3 for two/$5 four) are better known to most as tripe and mushroom fungus. Scrawny chicken wings are a street-easy gnaw ($5 for three), but we can’t imagine taking to the sweltering sidewalks of Chinatown with a fatty barbecued pork hoof ($3) that’s all bone, gristle and fat in hand. Ears of spicy corn ($2.50 for two) get roasted over fire as do ginormous whole sweet potatoes ($2), the latter’s skin deliciously blistered from the heat. Always wanted to try deep-fried stinky tofu ($3) but never had the nerve? Here’s your chance to experience the dish that not only smells like funky old running shoes but tastes like them, too. Optional sauces range from New World ketchup and mayonnaise to old-school hoisin and hot sauce. Cool things down with ice-cold skewers of tanghulu ($3), aka sour sugar-coated hawthorn berries straight from the freezer. Daily noon to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no seating, no washrooms.

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929 Queen East, at Carlaw, 416- 465-1313, leslievillepumps.com. If I lived in Leslieville and rode my bike to work, I’d be stopping by this 24-hour gas-station-cum-snack-bar every day, if only for the Pump’s terrific breakfast BLT ($5.04). Who wouldn’t make a regular pitstop for a slab of housesmoked peameal glazed with maple syrup on a toasted Ace Bakery bun dressed with romaine, ripe tomato and house-made mayo? Absorbant ciabatta buns get piled with hickorysmoked southern-style brisket in a not too assertive sauce, gently pulled pork dressed with remarkably spicy cole slaw or chunky chicken thighs with arugula and grilled tomato (all $7.74). Baked beans ($2.99) do what they’re supposed to do, and a half-dozen corn frit-

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940 College, at Dovercourt, 416588-3113, hadleys.ca. Poor Hadley’s. It tries so hard and coms so close. Not that there isn’t lots to love here: an unpretentious room decked out with TTC memorabilia, an efficient, attitude-free staff, and a primo brunch on Thursday and Friday as well as the weekend. Sadly, it’s downhill from there. Racks of pork ribs ($17 half/$27 whole) seem more baked than smoked, which might explain why they’re so dry. Too much sauce of no particular distinction doesn’t help. The smoked chicken ($14 half) consists of almost a pound of borderline dry meat in a spice rub that wouldn’t be out of a place in a Christmas cake. Prices seem high when compared to Stockyards, where the same money gets you a whole bird. Granted, the Yards’ chicken and ribs don’t include two sides, like they do here, the best a chunky potato salad kicked with capers, buttery mashed potatoes and a tangy purple cabbage slaw that complements the roughly pulled pork sandwich ($10 with side) perfectly. “50 bucks for dinner for three is a good deal,” says our friendly server as he packs our take-away. Not this it ain’t. Tuesday and Wednesday 4 to 10 pm, Thursday 10:30 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 10:30 am to 11 pm. Brunch Sunday 10:30 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement, booth seating.

ters ($3.99) would be more accurately described as creamed corn pakoras. Normally, we steer clear of ordering anything deepfried for takeout. By the time we get it home, it’s an inedible, soggy mess. The LP guys solve the problem by packaging their excellent hand-cut fries and amply battered deep-fried dill pickles ($3.99) in insulated paper bags. No more sog! On their website, owners Greg and Judson Flom say they’re on a mission “to serve gasoline at a competitive price and convenience products tailored to a fast-moving clientele.” Mission accomplished. 24/7. Kitchen open daily 7 am to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

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1660 O’Connor, at Northline, 416- 551-7356, rallysportsbar. com. If you’ve ever been to Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven, you’ve been to this sprawling 7,000-square-foot watering hole. Judging by the spacious parking lot out front, the recently relaunched roadhouse’s motto of “Eat, drink, cheer” could be amended to include “and then drive home.” We’ve come to the verge of Scarborough not for the 40 highdef TVs or the jock-ular camaraderie, but for the better-than-most barbecue, mains like wellmopped racks of St. Louis-cut pork spare ribs ($15 half/$25 full) with a bit of bark, and dry-rubbed and properly moist brisket sandwiches. Most come sided with coleslaw and a slew of optional sides, the best of which is the baked beans with crispy pork tips. Avoid the anemic macaroni salad unless you’re a fan of limp noodles in watered-down mayo. And though we aren’t impressed with the sourdough that accompanies the pork belly sandwich (all $12) – Texas toast, more like – the bacon-like belly and crackling dressed with sauerkraut, apple sauce and grainy mustard are worthy of a Reuben by way of Porchetta on Dundas West. And since Rally’s part of Summerlicious through July 22, a Caesar salad, pulled pork or brisket sandwich and a half-dozen house-baked beignets goes for only $15 at lunch. At dinner, the same salad and fancy French donuts plus a half-rack of those commendable ribs will set you back $25. Bargoon! Sunday to Thursday 11 am to 11:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 12:30 am. Weekend brunch till 3 pm. Bar nightly to close. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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“They sell it at the House of Spice in Kensington Market,” says the celebrated cook, whose signature Singapore slaw contains 19 exotic ingredients including salted apricot paste and flower petals. “It comes in a bag.” Mr. Lee also has strict serving instructions. “You can do the tempeh in a burger, but I like it better as a satay with stir-fried in-season vegetables like zucchini, sweet potato and cherry tomatoes. Some grilled pita and you’re laughing.”

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3265 Yonge, at Cranbrooke, 647346-1416, stackrestaurant.ca. Besides raking in as much cash as possible in the shortest amount of time, every new resto has an agenda these days. This four-month-old spot is no different, claiming on its website that owners Todd Savage and Bill Panos are out to “give our guests the best possible tenderness and flavour without too much smoke.”

If the contents of their Ultimate Platter ($59) are any evidence, they’ve successfully managed the second part. The combo’s baby back ribs and overly fatty brisket not only fail in the smoke department, but the undercooked rare meat falls on the “pass” side of take it or leave it, too. Because they’re out of chicken on the day we visit, they double up on nicely pulled pork that gets most of its kick from a tangy Lexington-style vinegar sauce. The platter also comes with perfunctory baked beans, mac ’n’ cheese and french fries that we switch out for a very good potato slaw laced with sour cream. They even include four grilled buns for making sandwiches. The large, loungey room also jumps on the taco and donut bandwagon with messy grilled catfish tacos ($10 for three) and sugary Timbits clearly aimed at sprogs. When I ask our pub-style server how many come with an order, I’m surprised to learn it’s 16. Thank heavens, they’re tiny, deepfried calamari-sized doughy rings dressed with chocolate sauce, crushed graham wafers and miniature marshmallows ($5). The leftovers were tastier the next day once everything had solidified. The family-friendly restaurant’s website calls Stack “uptown’s answer to Barque.” They got that right. Sunday and Monday 11:30 am to 10 pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11:30 am to midnight. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

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854 Bathurst, at London, 416- 5355683, oneloveveg.com. When Ikeila Wright first started selling grilled island-style corn on the cob at Harbourfront 15 years ago, who could have guessed it was the start of a culinary journey? Now the owner of One Love Vegetarian – the most ac-

with new spices and flavours.” No argument there! But the recipe he submits to NOW when we ask for a simple vegan grill raises a few eyebrows. Ketchup? Corn syrup? And WTF is jerk spice mix? complished Caribbean and/or vegan kitchen in town – Wright shares the secret of one of summer’s most essential noshes. “A propane grill is fine, but the best-tasting grilled anything is done over real-deal charcoal,” she cautions. “Let the coals come to a nice ember to the point where they’re not flaming. You don’t want your corn to burn. If you’re using propane, make sure the grill gets nice and hot. And make sure to have lots of napkins on hand!” You’ll need: 6 ears of fresh corn (“Ontario produces some of the best”) 3 limes, halved 3 whole garlic cloves 1 tsp hot chili flakes 1/4 cup (or more!) soft butter or vegan margarine (“Earth Balance works great”) 1 tbsp mild Mexican chili powder 1 inch ginger root, finely grated sea salt, to taste For maximum freshness, remove the husk and silk from the corn at the last minute and rub the corn with a garlic clove. Squeeze the grated ginger through a cheesecloth so the ginger juice drips onto the corn. If you

You’ll need: 1 250-gram block of unflavoured tempeh 1 tbsp Jamaican jerk spice mix 4 tbsps corn syrup 4 tbsps ketchup 2 tbsps Japanese soy sauce Whisk the jerk spice, corn syrup, soy sauce and ketchup together. Slice the tempeh into 1-centimetre strips and marinate them in the mixture for 1 to 2 hours. Grill on barbecue over low heat. Continue glazing with sauce until caramelized. Serve with additional sauce if desired. Dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 to 11:30 pm, bar till close. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

don’t have cheesecloth, improvise with a paper towel. Grill the cobs, turning frequently until they’re blushing with a beautiful light brown colour. They can be grilled a little darker, which caramelizes the sugar in the corn even more. This should take five to seven minutes. Using tongs, remove the corn from the grill and place on a cutting board. Holding the end of the cob with a doubled paper towel, brush on butter or vegan margarine generously. Squeeze the juice of half a lime onto each cob and then sprinkle with the chili powder and hot chili flakes. Use the chilis sparingly, as they pack quite a bit of heat. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt. For those who prefer their corn off the cob, shave the corn from the cob into a bowl once it’s grilled. Add extra lime juice and a little more seasoning. Makes a sensational salsa for tacos or a topping for One Love’s legendary spicy vegan pumpkin soup. Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

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375 Donlands, at O’Connor, 416429- 6057, simbagrill.ca. Meal deals don’t get much sweeter than the $10 rib special at Sultan and Rashma Jessani’s foodie-friendly Tanzanian trat. Cut across the bone like Korean kalbi, their gas-grilled halal beef short ribs come lightly doused with garlic powder, crushed black pepper and an undertow of cumin. And if you still can’t kick-start the heat with one of the east African eaterie’s four incendiary chutneys, there’s always the chili-pepper-fired Pili Pili version ($16) to light your fire. Both get sided

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Bairrada 1000 College, at Havelock, 416- 539- 8239, bairrada.ca. Forget the Beast and the Black Hoof! If it’s true nose-to-tail dining you’re after, head to this longrunning Portuguese resto every Wednesday from noon, when they spit-roast an entire 40-pound pig on the gorgeous backyard patio. There, under a leafy canopy next to a burbling water feature, chow down on plates of obscenely fatty skin and super-moist pork sided with black olives, orange slices, a whack of seasoned rice and a dozen or so of those little deepfried potato balls for all of 15 bucks. Ask nicely and they might even save you the snout. Wednesday noon to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. RAoul MonTERo

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481 Church, at Maitland, 416-9235600; 1636 Bayview, at Manor, 416485- 5620, cumbraes.com. WHO: Not only does the Rolls Royce of Toronto butcher shops grow most of its own meat, but it’s custom cut, dryaged and smoked in-house as well. ’CUE THIS: Pulled Berkshire pork burgers; butterflied legs of lamb marinated in Dijon mustard and lemon; whole brined chickens in lime and Sriracha hot sauce; pulled chicken sausages; butterflied quail in lemony molasses; brined pork chops with apple and sage. Monday to Friday 9:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 11 am to 5 pm (Church); Monday to Friday 9:30 am to 6 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 10:30 am to 5:30 pm (Bayview). Closed some holidays.

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pies, tourtière and beef bourguignon. ’CUE THIS: Forty-day- aged naturally raised steaks; gluten- and filler-free burgers like lamb, chicken, turkey, bison and the inevitable beef; venison chops; old-school Barese sausages just like they make them back in the old country; pre-assembled kebabs. Monday to Friday 9 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm, Sunday noon to 3 am. Closed some holidays.

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1538 Queen West, at Fuller, 416537- 8454. WHO: Parkdale knows cheap. The meat this 75-year-old family-owned shop sells might not come with a pedigree, but it’s half the price of its nearby fancy-pants competitors. Bonus: marrow shanks, smoked cows’ feet and bones for the family hound. ’CUE THIS: Triple-A strip loins and ribeyes; real-deal spare ribs, not those puny baby back affairs; house-made hot Italian sausage; partially boned chicken thighs. Tuesday to Friday 9 am to 8 pm, Saturday 9 am to 7 pm, Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. Closed Monday, holidays.

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HOOKED 888 Queen East, at Logan, 416-828-1861, hookedinc.ca. Some are hooked on phonics, and others are hooked on drugs. Hooked’s Dan Donovan happens to be addicted to sustainable seafood. Professionally speaking, of course. He first got hooked – and lined and sinkered – on ethically sourced fish while working alongside locavore wunderkind Jamie Kennedy. Seeing the potential market for politically correct pickerel and such, his next step was to launch Hooked, an eco-minded seafood shop in Leslieville. “The hardest part has been building the supply chain,” says Donovan. “They’re small suppliers and they’re strung out across the country. We had to get good at air freight really fast.” And so we get wild chinook salmon and sushi-grade

albacore tuna from BC, heart-smart mackerel from Nova Scotia, and silver bass from Lake Erie. Hard to screw up on the barbecue, Kolapore trout come all the way from Collingwood. In an act of cosmic synchronicity, Donovan (uncle of Ryan Donovan of West Side Beef) will be opening a second Hooked in Kensington Market in the storefront currently occupied by Sanagan’s Meat Locker once the butcher moves into European Meats. Still too far out of your way? Hooked also takes part in the Appletree farmers’ market at Davisville and Mt Pleasant on Tuesday afternoons, the Withrow Park meet on Saturday mornings and the Leslieville farmers’ market Sunday mornings to 2 pm. Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm. Closed Monday, holidays.

206 Baldwin, at Augusta, 416- 5939747, sanagansmeatlocker.com. When the 5,000-square-foot Kensington storefront that once housed longrunning European Meats came on the market, Peter Sanagan knew it was time to make a move. “The new landlord asked if I was interested, so I moved quick,” says the owner of Sanagan’s Meat Locker, a butcher shop less than one-10th the size just a few doors down. “There were rumours Rowe Farms wanted it, but I also heard Starbucks was after it.” Once the new location’s opened by the end of July, he plans to offer much more than pricy wild boar Tbones. “Since we have so much space, we’ll be doing a lot more prepared food and charcuterie. We’re also keeping the lunch counter, so we’ll have really good roast beef sandwiches and rotisserie chicken.” Until then, you can still stock up at the original store on barbecue basics like house-stuffed pork taco sausages and King Capon chicken. Sanagan even carries organic veal

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ribs ($3.99/lb) and grass-fed beef ribs ($2.99/lb) perfect for the barbie. Bargain or what? “A lot of people think we’re expensive because we’re more upscale than European. We’re just not!” Monday to Saturday 8 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm. Closed some holidays.

westsidebeef.com. Ever wanted to invest in a 450-pound side of beef but couldn’t figure out how to butcher all that meat? And once you had, where you’d keep it? Enter West Side Beef, a subscriber service that buys naturally raised sides of aged beef direct from Brantford’s Dingo Farms and then breaks them down into 20 to 25-pound assortment boxes for its members. Each share – vacu-packed roasts, ribs, stewing beef and briskets as well as stock and soup bones – goes for $150. They also offer a special barbecue box of steaks, sausages and burger patties for the same price. “Everything in that box is meant to be grilled,” says WSB’s Carl Heinrich. You may remember Heinrich from his kitchen duties at meat-mad Cowbell and Marben. No slouch, he also

won the last season of TV’s Top Chef Canada. “The meat will last up to two weeks in your fridge, or you can freeze it till you need it,” says Heinrich, who also throws in a bottle of his own homemade spicy barbecue sauce with each order. Heinrich and partners Ryan Donovan and Kurt Krumme will be appearing at July 26’s Tasty Thursdays at City Hall. What’s for lunch? “Seven-dollar burgers! Whenever we do one of these big events, we hold back a couple of shares and turn them into hamburger.”

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Textstyles to do NOW’s own street-style snapper, Stefania Yarhi, is celebrating the belated fourth birthday of her Textstyles blog (textstyles.ca) with a dance party Saturday (July 21) from 9 pm to midnight at Daniel Faria Gallery (188 St. Helens). The theme is live art, so plan your outfit accordingly. RSVP to rsvp@textstyles. ca to get on the list.

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Trend forecast What does the future of fashion look like? Find out at the Toronto Fashion Incubator’s (285 Manitoba) WGSN trend seminar on Monday (July 23) at 5:30 pm. The networking opportunity offers a glimpse of fall 2013’s must-have colours, fabrics, trends and pieces. Tickets are $35 for TFI members and $60 for non-members through fashionincubator.com/shop.

ost style-centrics fall head over heels for flashy handbags or designer shoes, but this one loves statement light fixtures more than anything he can wear or carry. So it’s not surprising that while other fashion brains are already fixating on fall’s new coats and boots, I spent a summer afternoon drooling over the pendants and desk lamps at Lightform’s westend headquarters. The company focuses on selling to architects and designers, using the Toronto showroom located in an old lamp factory to educate them about their lighting lineup. (The long list of brands includes Fabbian, Metalarte, Marset, Roll & Hill and Baccarat.) Homeowners can order fixtures here, too, though, and have the pick of everything from miniature FLOS task lamps to an LED installation that makes a wall look like it’s been pierced with dozens of glowing rings. Lightform picks: FLOS’s D-Light lamp is also an iPhone charger equipped with a cool touch dimmer, $425; Brooklynbased Roll & Hill reinterprets industrial cage lights in copper and powdercoated metal, $650 to $850; the showroom’s ultimate buy is Phillippe Starck’s decadent Marie Coquine fixture for Baccarat, an ornate crystal chandelier suspended from an umbrella on the end of a photographer’s light stand weighed down by – wait for it – a leather punching bag filled with sand from France, $38,000. Look for: A new collection by Rich Brilliant Willing debuting in the fall. Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm, Saturday 11 am to 5 pm. 3

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Acro-Yoga is a

relatively new physical discipline. According to a description I read on a flyer in Santa Cruz, it “blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of massage and the dynamic power of acrobatics.” I’d love to see you work on creating a comparable hybrid in the coming months, Aries – some practice or system or approach that would allow you to weave together your various specialties into a synergetic whole. Start brainstorming about that impossible dream now, and soon it won’t seem so impossible.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Unless you

grow your own or buy the heirloom variety at farmer’s markets, you probably eat a lot of tasteless tomatoes. Blame it on industrial-scale farming and supermarket chains. They’ve bred tomatoes to be homogenous and bland – easy to ship and pretty to look at. But there’s a sign of hope: A team of scientists at the University of Florida is researching what makes tomatoes taste delicious, and is working to bring those types back into mainstream availability. I think the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks is metaphorically similar, Taurus. You should see what you can to do restore lost flavour, colour and soulfulness. Opt for earthy idiosyncrasies over fake and boring perfection.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 It’ll be a humming, murmuring, whispering kind of week – a time when the clues you need will most likely arrive via ripplings and rustlings and whirrings. Here’s the complication: Some of the people around you may be more attracted to clangs and bangs and jangles. They may imagine that the only information worth paying attention to is the stuff that’s loudest and strongest. But I hope you won’t be seduced by their attitudes. I trust you’ll resist the appeals of the showy noise. Be a subtlety specialist who loves nuance and undertones. Listen mysteriously. CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Most change is

slow and incremental. The shifts happen so gradually that they are barely noticeable while you’re living in the midst of them from day to day. Then there are those rare times when the way everything fits together mutates pretty quickly. Relationships that have been evolving in slow motion begin to speed up. Long-standing fixations melt away. Mystifying questions get clear answers. I think you’re at one of these junctures now, Cancerian. It’s not likely you’ll be too surprised by anything that happens, though. That’s because you’ve been tracking the energetic build-up for a while, and it will feel right and natural when the rapid ripening kicks in.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Lately you’ve been

spending time in both the off-kilter parts of paradise and the enchanting areas of limbo. On one notable occasion, you even managed to be in both places simultaneously. How’d you do that? The results have been colourful but often paradoxical. What you don’t want and what you do want have gotten a bit mixed up. You have had to paw your way out of a dead-end confusion but have also been granted a sublime breakthrough. You explored a tunnel to nowhere but also visited a thrilling vista that provided you with some medicinal excitement. What will you do for an en-

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core? Hopefully, nothing that complicated. I suggest you spend the next few days chilling out and taking inventory of all that’s changed.

and benefits you need. So do you have any brilliant notions about how to proceed? Here’s one idea: Be utterly at peace with who you really are.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 The painter Philip Guston loved to express himself creatively. He said it helped him to get rid of his certainty, to divest himself of what he knew. By washing away the backlog of old ideas and familiar perspectives, he freed himself to see the world as brand new. In light of your current astrological omens, Virgo, Guston’s approach sounds like a good strategy for you to borrow. The next couple of weeks will be an excellent time to explore the pleasures of unlearning and deprogramming. You will thrive by discarding stale preconceptions, loosening the past’s hold on you and clearing out room in your brain for fresh imaginings.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I brazenly

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Nineteenth-century author Charles Dickens wrote extensively about harsh social conditions. He specialized in depicting ugly realities about poverty, crime and classism. Yet one critic described him as a “genial and loving humorist” who showed that “even in dealing with the darkest scenes and the most degraded characters, genius could still be clean and mirth could be innocent.” I’m thinking that Dickens might be an inspirational role model for you in the coming weeks, Libra. It will be prime time for you to expose difficult truths and agitate for justice and speak up in behalf of those less fortunate than you. You’ll get best results by maintaining your equanimity and good cheer.

predict, my dear Aquarius, that in the next 10 months you will fall in love with love more deeply than you have in over a decade. You will figure out a way to exorcise the demons that have haunted your relationship with romance, and you will enjoy some highly entertaining amorous interludes. The mysteries of intimacy will reveal new secrets to you, and you will have good reasons to redefine the meaning of “fun.” Is there any way these prophecies of mine could possibly fail to materialize? Yes, but only if you take yourself too seriously and insist on remaining attached to the old days and old ways.

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years, ambergris was used as a prime ingredient in perfumes. And where does ambergris come from? It’s basically whale vomit. Sperm whales produce it in their gastrointestinal tracts to protect them from the sharp beaks of giant squid they’ve eaten, then spew it out of their mouths. With that as your model, Scorpio, I challenge you to convert an inelegant aspect of your life into a fine asset, even a beautiful blessing. I don’t expect you to accomplish this task overnight. But I do hope you will finish by May of 2013. ruption” will be a word of power for you in the coming days. No, really: I’m not being ironic, sarcastic or satirical. It is possible that the interruptions will initially seem inconvenient or undesirable, but I bet you will eventually feel grateful for their intervention. They will knock you out of grooves you need to be knocked out of. They will compel you to pay attention to clues you’ve been neglecting. Don’t think of them as random acts of cosmic whimsy, but rather as divine strokes of luck that are meant to redirect your energy to where it should be.

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pink moTh and kiTe hill at the Tinshop, Saturday, July 14.

Rating: NNN Few things are lovelier than passing a hot summer night with a handful of patrons and musicians, all gently rocking inside an under-the-radar venue newly brought to life with love, care and fresh white paint. The warmly lit Tinshop’s secondever music show (it’s primarily an art venue) featured a solo Kite Hill and the four-piece Pink Moth, whose bandleader, Ray Cammaert, is behind the Ossington/Bloor venue. Kite Hill’s Ryan Carley writes earnest, melancholy songs delivered in a world-weary voice contrasted by astounding and lively piano lines. Though he’s often accompanied by auxiliary percussion, strings and wind instruments, this one-man version set an intimate tone. Watch for a new album in September. Pink Moth rocked things up slightly (houses surround the space, so the volume must be kept low) with a set of thoughtful, nuanced art-pop interwoven with intriguing lyrics. Humming Wurlitzer, shuffling drums and muted double bass hugged Cammaert’s voice and acoustic guitar like a blanket. The goal now is to get more bodies CG out to the events. NOW July 19-25 2012

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BEIRUT, LITTLE SCREAM Sound Academy (11 Polson), tonight (Thursday, July 19) Eccentric world folk-pop. JONWAYNE, DJ NUMERIC, MYMANHENRI Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, July 19) See preview, nowtoronto.com. SEPALCURE, KEVIN MCPHEE Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, July 19) Brooklyn bass visionaries.

ANDREW BIRD, BASIA BULAT Echo Beach (909 Lake Shore West), Friday (July 20) Loop-pedal-assisted folk-pop. RIFF RAFF, DJ GHETTO GOLD MATT, DJ PATRICK MCGUIRE Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (July 20) Puzzling, possibly satirical rapper. GIRL UNIT, DJ SLIINK The Great Hall Black Box Theatre (1087 Queen West), Friday (July 20) Forward-thinking UK dance music.

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SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT The Edmonton dance rock six-piece have turned down the rock a bit on their newest album, Spanish Moss And Total Loss, but they still keep the mood warm and organic. The growing influence of classic disco and cosmic synth music suits the band well, and should inspire lots of sweaty dancing at live shows. At the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (July 21), doors 9 pm. $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.

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PATRICK WOLF Acoustic Tour Music Gallery 7 pm, $25. PDR, RT, SS, TM. September 25.

BELL XI Virgin Mobile Mod Club PDR, RT, SS.

September 29.

BETH ORTON, SAM AMIDON Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $25. RT, SS, TW. September 30. JULY 19-25 2012 NOW

THE PACK A.D. Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 26.

pm, all ages, $26.50. RT, SS, TM. October 2.

EROL ALKAN The Hoxton 10 pm, $15.

THE ATLAS MOTH, ALTER THE PLAGUE Sneaky Dee’s doors 8 pm, $12.50.

ALABAMA SHAKES Kool Haus doors 8

pm, $22.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. October 23.

RT, SS, TM. October 23.

ber 14.

pm, all ages, $39.50-$69.50. RTH. December 8.

The short list for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize has been announced.

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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 50, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

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All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, July 19 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

alleyCatz Elevation Band (U2 cover band). amsteRdam BReweRy Open Roof Festival:

Outdoor Film And Music Series Stacey Bulmer 7:30 pm. BoIleR hoUse The Better Half (pop/rock/ soul) 8 pm. BovIne sex ClUB Sluts on 45, East End Radicals, Society’s Ills, Dildoniks, DJ Cactus. BRooklynn BaR Rock Thursdays SWOOT doors 9 pm. the CentRal UPstaIRs The Cypher 3-Year Anniversary The Cypher, MC Fubb, Crossword, NewBreedMC, Bad Newz, Scott Ramirez, J Maroon, ill-Literate, Sy-Fi, DJ Explisit and others 9 pm. the CentRal Will Hunter 6 pm. the CentRal Maya Killtron 10 pm. ClInton’s Planet Creature, Different Skeletons, Magic Shadows, Invisible Instruments, Das Rad doors 9 pm. el moCamBo The New Hands, Bryan Butler Band, Red Night Fall 9 pm.

FIRst CanadIan PlaCe wateRFall stage Suzie McNeil 12:15 pm.

gladstone hotel melody BaR Barry Lyndon, Philly Moves (hip-hop) doors 10 pmz. gRaFFItI’s Bright Blue Motels 5 to 7 pm.

hoRseshoe Album launch Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Lemon ñ Bucket Orkestra, Nick Teehan 10 pm. lee’s PalaCe Rise of the Lion, Royal

Windsor, Animal Farm. lUFF galleRy die O.S.T. vol.IV Moon King, Osten Miln (video w/ live soundtrack) doors 8:30 pm. ngoma loUnge Xperience Thursdays: Roots & Reggae Open Mic Jam DJ Red Out, 3 Star, DJ Nic, Charlie Bobus, King Ujah, Humble, Quentin Vercetty (live hip-hop/R&B). the PIston Hinterlandband, Parcs & Rec, Jehan Khoorshed 9 pm. PRess ClUB Press Fest IV 7 pm. RanCho Relaxo The Indie Machine Seas, Young Wife, the Superlative, David Hustler & the Trustworthy doors 9 pm. RIvolI Who’s Army, the Love Machine 9 pm. sazeRaC gastRo loUnge The Capitol Beat (funk/soul/R&B) 10 pm. sIlveR dollaR Womb, Mother Leads, Nitemarket 12, Xephyr doors 8 pm.

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the sIsteR Cosmic Eye. soUnd aCademy Beirut, Little Scream

(indie rock) doors 8 pm, all ages. ñ soUthsIde Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm.

tRanzaC Loom, Gracious Calamity, Thom Gill, Murder Boats 10 pm.

the wIlson 96 The Poor Darlin’s (rockabilly/ rock) 9 pm.

nathan PhIllIPs sqUaRe Tasty Thursdays

Diego Marulanda (Latin) noon to 2 pm. the RUsty naIl Open Jam Steph Armstrong, Tommy Flanagan & Brian Law 10 pm. toRonto BotanICal gaRden The Edwards Summer Music Series Belle Starr 7 to 8:30 pm. tRanzaC soUtheRn CRoss Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

wRongBaR Jonwayne, DJ Numeric & mymanhenri. See online preview, nowtoronto.com

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

the FlyIng BeaveR PUBaRet John Alcorn 7:30 pm. haRBoURFRont CentRe Dancing On The Pier

asPetta CaFFe Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. CameRon hoUse Fedora Upside Down 10 pm. dRake hotel UndeRgRoUnd CD release Mahmood Schricker, DJ medicineman (electro-Persian classical) doors 7:30 pm.

eCho BeaCh at molson CanadIan amPhItheatRe Andrew Bird, Basia Bulat ñ 8 pm, all ages. eton hoUse Keith Jolie (folk) 7:30 pm. gRaFFItI’s Lisa Marie Kruchak, Cam de Latt,

Myles Wilson 8 pm.

haBIts gastRoPUB Courtney Lynn (acoustic/ folk/indie) 8:30 pm. holy oak CaFe Stari Sestri (Turkish) 7 pm. holy oak CaFe Alex Lukashevsky 10 pm. hUgh’s Room Betty Richardson 8:30 pm.

emmet Ray BaR Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

Pablo Terry & Sol de Cuba, Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 pm. mUsIdeUm MAZ (jazz/world music fusion) 8 pm. the PaInted lady Bonzai Suzuki, Jaymz Bee (alt acid jazz glamour pop) 10 pm. RePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. Rex The Music Of Moe Koffman Jake Koffman, Herbie Koffman, Bernie Senensky, Neil Swainson, Morgan Childs 9:30 pm.

Royal ConseRvatoRy oF mUsIC koeRneR hall Toronto Summer Music Festival: Seoul

Spring Festival Ensemble Don-Suk Kang, Paul Neubauer, Stephan Picard, Yong-Chang Cho, Youngho Kim, Timothy Ying, Françaix String Trio 7:30 pm. somewheRe theRe stUdIo Avesta Nakhaei (jazz/improv) 8 pm.

st James CathedRal PaRk gazeBo Music In St James Park The Kevin Barrett Group (jazz/ bossa nova) 7 to 9 pm.

toRonto mUsIC gaRden

Summer Music In The Garden: Jayme Stone’s Room Of Wonders Jayme Stone (banjo) 7 pm. wateRFalls Riko Shimatani, the Sometimes Quintet (jazz/funk/blues) 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/postpunk/new wave/UK punk/ pop) 10 pm.

dRake hotel UndeRgRoUnd Sepalcure, ñ Kevin McPhee doors 10 pm.

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BoIleR hoUse Organic Funk (funk/soul/pop) 8 pm. BovIne sex ClUB Bonwit Teller, Tracking Nicely, Shotgun Wedding, Back Alley Ringers, Cadence Weapon Hope In Dirt City DJ Vania doors 9 pm. Cold Specks I Predict A Graceful Expulsion the CentRal UPstaIRs Press Play 10 pm. Drake Take Care / Kathleen Edwards Voyageur doRa keogh Julian Taylor Feist Metals / Fucked Up David Comes To Life Band 10 pm. Grimes Visions / Handsome Furs Sound el moCamBo The Responsables 9 Kapital / Japandroids Celebration Rock pm. YamantaKa // SoniC titan YT//ST haRBoURFRont CentRe Hot & Spicy Food Festival Ana Tijoux 9:30 pm. haRBoURFRont CentRe Hot & Spicy Food Festival Kae Sun (reggae/soul/hiphop) 8 pm. haRd lUCk BaR Conflicted, Tiger Star, My hUgh’s Room Ritchie, Parrish & Ritchie 8:30 pm. Own Chaos, Full Give, Sang Freud, Lesion lUla loUnge Salsa Summer Changui Havana, doors 8:30 pm. DJ Suave (salsa) 10:30 pm. hoRseshoe Murder by Death, Cory Chisel, mel lastman sqUaRe Cultura Festival Le Vent Wandering Sons (punk) doors 9 pm. du Nord (Québécois folk) 7:30 to 8:30 pm. lagondola BanqUet hall Wiz Kid, E.M.E. on CUe CD Fundraiser Crazy Voda (European/ Skales, DJ Chigzzy, DJ Dlimit, DJ Magic Afro-Latin music) 9 pm. Flowes. PassIon loUnge Festival Bana Y’Afrique lee’s PalaCe JacksonLIVE (Michael Jackson Donné Roberts, Focusway, Moto Kapia, Tich tribute) 9 pm. Maredza 1 to 10 pm. the loaded dog Murphy’s Law (rock/top 40) RePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). 8:30 pm. tRanzaC soUtheRn CRoss Hobson’s Choice on the Rox Wiz Kid. 10 pm, Hugh Oliver 7:30 pm. PJ o’BRIen IRIsh PUB The Marc Joseph Band Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental (pop/rock) 9 pm. domInIon on qUeen Aimee Butcher 8 pm. PRess ClUB Press Fest IV 7 pm. the gRaydon PUB Andy De Campos & the RanCho Relaxo SpeekEZ Trio 6:30 to 10 pm. Aim Low, Kestrels. haRt hoUse gReat hall Toronto Summer RevIval Hip-Hop Karaoke: Round 66 DJ Music Festival: Friday Late Night Louis Dufort Numeric, Ted Dancin’, More or Les, Ab10 pm. dominal 10 pm. lUla loUnge Friday Jazz Series Alithea CamRIvolI Graydon James & the Young Novelists, eron (jazz/soul/R&B) 8 pm. Among Millions, Ben Ripani Music Co, Elana Harte 8:30 pm. old mIll Inn home smIth BaR Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Archie Alleyne, Stacie McGregor, savIng gIgI Attila Darvas 7:30 pm. Kathleen Phillips, Fiver. the qUeen’s legs Beelzeboptet 9:30 pm. sIlveR dollaR The Indie Machine Vanessa Legacy, Low Hanging Lights, Vedette, Vibonics Rex Benny Sharoni Quartet 9:45 pm, Worst doors 9 pm. Pop Band Ever (jazz) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. the sIsteR Hellbent Rockers, Combo Royale. Royal ConseRvatoRy oF mUsIC koeRneR soUnd aCademy CD release party Saga doors hall Toronto Summer Music Festival: Music Of 8 pm. Russia The Borodin String Quartet 7:30 pm. soUthsIde Johnny’s Busted Again 10 pm. somewheRe theRe stUdIo Leftover Daylight Series 8 pm. woodBIne PaRk maIn stage Beaches International Jazz Fest Countermeasure, Afroteque, Jamaica to Toronto 6 to 10 pm.

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Beaches International Jazz Fest Saluki Music 6 to 10 pm.

ePIPhany RestaURant & loUnge Epiphany Thurs-

days DJ DLimit (Afro/ dancehall/hip-hop/old school/soca). InsomnIa DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). PeoPle’s ChICken Happy Hour DJ Michael Williams (Motown classics/smooth jazz/northern soul/Canrock) 6 pm. RIvolI UPstaIRs Riv ’ER DJ Plan B (hip-hop). tota loUnge Radio Circus Volume 3 Breezno, Nikola, Kotsy, Sid Frisk.

Friday, July 20 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/ Soul

alleyCatz Lady Kane. the BallRoom Disco Re-

bels (disco/funk) 10 pm.

BaR ItalIa UPstaIRs Shugga

(funk) 9:30 pm.

wRongBaR Riff Raff, DJ Ghetto Gold DJ Patrick McGuire. ñMatt, yonge-dUndas sqUaRe Indie Fridays ñThe Beauties 8 to 10 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

asPetta CaFFe Bema, Sadeh Adam, the Dreadful Starlings 7 to 11 pm.

CadIllaC loUnge Jack De Keyzer (blues). CameRon hoUse Patrick Brealey (folk rock/ roots) 8 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm.

CameRon hoUse The Prince Brothers 10 pm. the CentRal Bury the Hatchet 10 pm. C’est what Spencer Simmons 8 pm. dRake hotel UndeRgRoUnd Plaitwrights, Courtney Lynn Music (alt-folk) doors 8 pm.

gladstone hotel melody BaR The Fried

Angels (blues) 9 pm. gRaFFItI’s Bill Wood and the Woodies 9 pm, Matt Bajcar 5 to 7 pm. haRBoURFRont CentRe Hot & Spicy Food Festival Mexico Amigo Mariachi 7 pm. holy oak CaFe Square Peg String Band (old time) 7 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

BRassaII Love Me Till I’m Me Again DJ Bobby K (house/hip-hop/club anthems). ClInton’s Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party doors 10 pm. dRake hotel UndeRgRoUnd Edumacation DJ Fase doors 11 pm. dRake hotel loUnge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. emmet Ray BaR DJ Pie & Mash (party music) 10 pm. emmet Ray BaR DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm. Fly Ax-A-Gogo DJ Alex, Sofonda doors 10 pm.5 the FlyIng BeaveR PUBaRet Electric Chapel (70s/80s/90s rock/dance anthems) 10 pm. FootwoRk Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm. the gReat hall BlaCk Box theatRe Girl Unit, DJ Sliink. gUveRnment Redemption: Past Vs Present – Singers Edition. holy oak CaFe Chaps 10 pm.

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Bathke doors 10 pm. LUXY NIGHTCLUB T.G.I. Fridays DJ Spex, DJ Chris Michaels, Mark Strong. MAISON MERCER EDX (electro house) 11 pm. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Phantastic 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR DJ Stupa & DJ Mac (hip-hop/ electro/house/indie/soul) doors 10 pm. THE PISTON Gin & Phonic (soul/funk) 10 pm. RIVER GAMBLER Sunset Miracles Boat Cruise EDX (electro house) 6-11 pm. SALVADOR DARLING Run The Line DJ Sta (rap). STONE LOUNGE Fabricated Anniversary Party Droog, Matt Coleridge doors 10 pm. SUPERMARKET Course Of Time! Mr Charlton, David Patterson vs Michael Black, Andrew Green, Alex Brooks (contemporary/future club music) 10 pm. TOTA LOUNGE Junglist Gone Mad Tour Osci, Mighty Dreadnaut, Ninjah Fareye, Jonny Dangerously, Ghaleon, Glease Peace 10 pm.

Saturday, July 21 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BOILER HOUSE Gyles (neo-soul/neo-Motown)

8 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Flying Fortress, Shotgun Dolls, Vince Lombarrdi, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Tony Springer. THE CENTRAL Jessica Chase 6 pm. COMFORT ZONE Korrupt, Serene Molestation,

Pyres, Vesication, Gunt (death metal/punk) doors 8:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Heavy Grease Eddie Clendening & Blue Ribbon Boys, Ruby Ann 9 pm, Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm. THE DUKE LIVE.COM Band Warz. EL MOCAMBO Ben Hur, Morning Thieves, the Years, the Soundsmiths 9 pm. THE 460 The Johnny Ill Band, Deutsche Banks, Mother Teresa & the Miracles, the Walls Are Blonde doors 9 pm. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Hot & Spicy Food Festival KC Roberts & the Live Revolution 2:30 pm. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Hot & Spicy Food Festival The Slakadeliqs 8 pm. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Hot & Spicy Food Festival Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens 9:30 pm. HORSESHOE Shout Out Out Out Out, Jeremy Glenn, Beta Frontiers, Soft Copy doors 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Liars, Cadence Weapon doors 9 pm. THE LOADED DOG Two Left Feet 8:30 pm.

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OPERA HOUSE Fernie House Benefit Concert

MÉLANGE Jazz Jam Norman Marshall Ville-

The Good Mourning Band, Divine Hammer doors 8 pm. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Best Coast, Those Darlins doors 8 pm. See preview, page 46. PRESS CLUB Press Fest IV 7 pm. REX Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm, Danny Marks (pop) noon. RIVOLI The Tricky Ones, Team Blackbird, Forgetting All I Know 9 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Record Release Show Music Maul, Leonids, Dog Is Blue doors 10 pm. THE SISTER The Go Agains. SOUND ACADEMY CanJam Festival – Celebrating Jamaica 50 Freddie McGregor, Anthony B, Etana, Leroy Gibbons doors 7:30 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4 to 8 pm. SOYBOMB Doomsday Student, Tinsel Teeth, Neon Windbreaker, Thighs 9 pm, all ages. TRANZAC All This Talk, Formalists (rock/folk) doors 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Jamzac (folk) 3 pm.

neuve’s Jazz Message Trio 7 to 10 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Andrew Scott, Alex Dean, Alex Coleman 7:30 pm. REX Bob Brough Quartet 9:45 pm, The Cookers 3:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Eminent Domain 8 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

THE CENTRAL DJ

ALBION ISLINGTON SQUARE Fusion Of Taste

Parichay, SW Storm, Prita Chhabra, Music Fever, Cardell’s Steel Pan Band, Janet Naipaul & Nritya Kala Mandir and others noon to 10:30 pm. ASPETTA CAFFE Morta, Caitlin Gallagher, Luke Vajsar, Designer D & the Afterthought, Liquid Larry & the Afterburners, Super Sonic Snail, Rich Alleyne 3 to 11 pm. BLOOR STREET BIG On Bloor Festival Honey Novick, Arashido Taiko, Andrew Cash, the Horables, the Pairs, BrouLala, Cassandra Henry, AHI, the Starfires 1 to 9 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Mary & Micky 3:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Jane’s Party (Canadian roots) 10 pm, Whitney Rose (country) 8 pm, Smokey Witt 6 pm. C’EST WHAT Alysha Brillinger (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Mark Ripp (folk/rock) 4 to 7 pm. DUFFY’S TAVERN MARGUERETTA STAGE Big On Bloor Festival Dave Soloman, James Carroll, Eastbourgh, Snake and Crane, John Bridgens, Seam, Drumhand, Harmanauts 1 to 8 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Anna Gutmanis, Bryn ScottGrimes, Karen Dinardo & Wayne DeAdder 8:30 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Laura Repo (country) 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Ollie Vee 8 pm, Sin City Boys 3 to 6 pm. GROSSMAN’S The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Skeletonwitch, Barnburner. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Country Jam Murray Powell 2 to 6 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Heart Of Mine: Songs Of Dylan George Axon, Wendell Ferguson, Hap Roderman, Ed Roth, Rick Sacks, Lynn Simmons, Willem Moolenbeek, Robert Morgan 8:30 pm.

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Fast Folk Festival 2 Darren Eedens, the Most Loyals, Merival, the Good Hunters, Graydon James & the Young Novelists, the Old Salts 4 to 10 pm. THE LISH New Music Night Jenny MacDonald (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Summer Yani Borrell & the Clave Kings, DJ Gio (salsa) 10:30 pm. PASSION LOUNGE Festival Bana Y’Afrique Donné Roberts, Focusway, Moto Kapia, Tich Maredza 1 to 10 pm. REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY Open Mic David Crighton.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BEERBISTRO The Gene Pool Boys (soulful

swinging jazz) 8:15 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival Seoul Spring Festival Ensemble members (chamber music of Brahms & Fauré) 4 & 7:30 pm.

Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal 10 pm. SUTRA TIKI BAR The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB UK Underground DJ MRK, Tigerblood (dubstep/indie/electro/rock) 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Tropic Punch (Island funk) 9 pm. THE GARRISON Crosswires Shart Attack, Blue Bonnets 10 pm. ñ GRAFFITI’S The High Tides (surf) 4 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Hot & Spicy Food Festival Slim Moore & the Mar-Kays 4:30 pm.

WOODBINE PARK MAIN STAGE Beaches Internationñ al Jazz Fest Alex Pangman, Treasa Levasseur, Blackburn, Brass Transit, Papa Grows Funk noon to 9:30 pm.

WOODBINE PARK NEW GENERATION STAGE Beaches International Jazz Fest Amy Hunter, Rob Christian Band noon to 9:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/ DJ/LOUNGE Bram Gonshor 10 pm. CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll 60s Dance party (pop/soul/ R&R) doors 10 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Ukulele Stu, Blues & Troubles,

Strange Specimens, Celia Opera 1 to 5 pm. BLOOR STREET BIG On Bloor Festival Honey Novick, Arashido Taiko, Andrew Cash, the Horables, the Pairs, BrouLala, Cassandra Henry, AHI, the Starfires 1 to 9 pm. CAMERON HOUSE The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm, Laura Repo (country) 6 pm. C’EST WHAT Song Studio Workshop Blair Packham (alt folk) 7:30 pm. CLINTON’S Clinton’s Unplugged Courtney Lynn & Everybody Wave 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 10 pm. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. THE LISH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Festival Bana Y’Afrique Diblo Dibala and Matchatcha (soukous) 8:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Cuban Son Duo noon. MCGRADIES TAP AND GRILL Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. SPIRITS Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 7 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Marianne Girard 5 pm, Michael Laderoute 3 pm. THE WINCHESTER ARMS Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

AMADEUS Rick Donaldson & the Jazz

GROUND Bang

Cats 6:30 pm.

The Party 6 Year Anniversary Andy Capp, Lucie Tic doors 8 pm.

THE GRAYDON PUB Sax Appeal On The Patio Gerry Stewart, Tiffany Costa 3 to 6 pm. GROSSMAN’S New Orleans Connection All Stars (jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Summer Serenades Casablanca Orchestra 7:30 to 9 pm. REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY Sunday Matinees Michael Kleniec (jazz guitar) 1 to 4 pm. REX Mary-Catherine Trio 9:30 pm, Bernardo Padron (Latin jazz) 7 pm, Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm, Brunch Matinee Abbey’s Meltdown noon. SOLARA MEDITERRANEAN Conversation Piece Trio 4 to 7 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Holger Schoorl 8 pm, Kyle Macdonald 5 pm. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden: Hitting The Waves-Electronic Percussion By The Lake Rick Sacks 4 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE

DJ DB Cooper doors 10 pm.

ECHO BEACH AT ñ MOLSON CAN-

ADIAN AMPHITHEATRE

Identity Festival Eric Prydz, Excision, Madeon, Nero (DJ set), Paul Van Dyk, Arty, Showtek, Bingo Players, Audrey Napoleon and others gates 2 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Funk You Very Much (funk/soul/oldschool hip-hop) DJ Expo 10 pm. FLY Ivan Gomez, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Alexx doors 10 pm.5

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BOVINE SEX CLUB B.Y.O.DJ B.Y.O.DJ. CUBE Hot Stepper Sundays DJs Mike Tull &

Paul E Lopes 3 to 10 pm.

FOOTWORK Kevin Saunderson doors 10 pm. ñ HOLY OAK CAFE Southern Nights DJ Sandro Perri (Kraut & Prog ) 10 pm.

INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep

house).

LUXY NIGHTCLUB Upscale Saturdays DJ Danny D, Dj Gino, Deejay Toma, DJ Mechon. MARO Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover 10 pm. OUR HOUSE BAR DJ Mike Conradi (deep-tech/ groovy house/funky beats vs hip-hop) 10 pm. PACHA LOUNGE Darkrave V139 Ad Hoc, Phink, Dreamstate Seven, Lazarus, Johnny Extreme, Jnes, Darkshadow doors 9 pm, all ages. THE PAINTED LADY Salazar 10 pm. THE PISTON Hot Blooded (disco mix) 10 pm. SAVIARI TEA + COCKTAIL LOUNGE Step N Groove Undergroundvibe, Curtis Smith (soul/disco/ boogie/funk/rare groove) doors 10 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. SUPERMARKET Do

WRONGBAR Flosstradamus 10 pm. ñdoors

Sunday, July 22

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BOVINE SEX CLUB Sista Fista, the Living Dead

Beats, Captain Higgins, the Reply. CADILLAC LOUNGE The Hip Shakers 9 pm. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Tennessee Voodoo Coupe (rockabilly country) 4 pm. THE CENTRAL Songwriter Showcase Jessica Speziale, Lora Bidner 5:30 pm. DETOUR BAR Justice For Levi: Hip-Hop Benefit Against Police Impunity Infinity Project, Test Their Logik (hip-hop) 9 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am-3 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Elvis Monday... On A Sunday doors 9 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Paul Erlichman (pop) 9 pm. PRESS CLUB Press Fest IV 7 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Refused, OFF! doors 8 pm, all ages. See preview, page 50. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Porter. WOODBINE PARK MAIN STAGE Beaches International Jazz Fest Diana Salvatore, Chloe Charles, Suzana d’Amour, Tyler Yarema, David Rotundo & Enrico Crivellaro 1 to 9 pm.

WOODBINE PARK NEW GENERATION STAGE

Beaches International Jazz Fest JP Saxe, My Son the Hurricane 1 to 9 pm. WOODBINE PARK YOUTH STAGE Beaches International Jazz Fest Humber Community Music School Combo, GTA Honour Combos 1 to 9 pm.

EMPRESS OF CANADA CRUISE SHIP Northern Lights Cruise Andy Warburton, Undercover, Rob Friday & Makan, Brent Hayward boarding at noon. INSOMNIA DJ Shannon (old school hip-hop/ disco/funk). LONDON TAP HOUSE Dutty Sho Nuff Edition DJ Corey Dawkins, DJ Dirty Dale 3 to 9 pm. RIVER GAMBLER Summer Rush Jelo, Deko-Ze, Addy, Ticky Ty, Lyle Disco, Kim of Diamondz boarding 11:30 am.

Monday, July 23 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Coldplay, Marina & the Diamonds, Emeli Sande 7 pm. See Emeli Sande preview, page 49. THE CENTRAL Jam Night 10 pm.

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wed july 25 @ opera house

sat july 21 @ the phoenix • $18.50 adv

best

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thursday july 26 @ the phoenix • $30.50 advance • 8:00pm

wednesday

citizen cope yeasayer

august 1 phoenix • 20.00 adv

griMes dinosaur Jr.

mozart’s sister

with

those darlins

tues august 21 @ sound academy

20.00 advance • 9:00pm • 19+

strung out playing SuBurBan teenage waSteland + twiSted By deSign

with such Gold + handGuns + lucky ones

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

wednesday october 10 @ mod club • $21.50 advance

frightened rabbit lagwagOn

saturday october 13 @ the phoenix • 24.00 adv +FF with $

flatliners dead to me

monday july 23 the drake • $10.50 advance

saint motel with races Friday august 17 $ the drake • 10.00 advance

young man thurs september 6

jaill rivoli • $ 10.00 advance

tuesday july 24 the garrison • $13.50 advance

girl in a coma

black boX revelation

magneta lane

mon september 17

WYe oak horseshoe • $ 12.50 advance

baltimore • merge records

with the

wednesdAy

september 26 @ the phoenix $ 19.00

advance • all-ages

besnard lakes

propagandHi with

comeback kid + burninG love

Friday july 27 @ hard luck • $10.50 advance

wednesday july 25

saturday

FridAy

the phoenix • $19.50 adv

Friday august 10 $ hard luck • 11.50 advance

JoYce manor

wed august 29 @ lee’s palace •

jellO Biafra

& tHe guantanamo scHool of medicine full band • ex dead kennedys

algernon cadwallader

sun september 9 rivoli • $ 10.00 advance

BretOn d/r /u/g/S

15.00 advance

Friday september 7 @ mod club •

the phoenix • $35.00 advance

afghan

15.50 advance

lee’s palace • $26.50 advance

a hawk and a haCkSaw

from the jam

Friday july 27

monday july 30

nonesuch bluegrass

love monkey / the rocker

wednesday october 17 @ lee’s palace • $29.50 adv

• performing ‘in the city’ in its entirety •

drake hotel • $10.00 advance

tuesday august 7 the garrison • $11.00 advance

au + tu eternal fawning summers

sun september 2 @ horseshoe •

13.50 advance

Friday august 24

champagne whale champagne tOOth horseshoe • $10.00 advance

cd release

thurs august 30 @ horseshoe • $13.50 adv • so-cal punk

rOn pOpe laetitia sadier Cate LeBon $

thurs october 25

brothers mod club • $ 13.50 adv • all-ages

(the freSh & onlyS)

wed october 3

punch whigs swans

september 28

@ silver dollar • $11.50 advance

fort Lean + itnL ZoMBies of Love

sharon van etten tennis 18.50 advance • JagJaguar • Fat possum indie Folk pop

gone bad teddY bear deals august 11 hands sonny & the sunsets MagiC triCk geiger the drake • $12.50 advance

river citY eXtension + JoHn Heart Jackie $

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

17.50 advance • portland Folk rock

tuesday july 31 @ the phoenix

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

Friday september 21 @ lee’s palace

blind pilot $

guttermoutH tueS SeptemBer 18 @ drake • $16.50 adv

with

permanent bastards

tueS SeptemBer 18 @ rivoli • $10.00 adv

Fri september 21 horseshoe • $20.00 advance

hot

snakes sunday july 22 • $10.00

concerts at

8:00pm (Sun-wed) 8:30pm (thurSday) 9:00pm (friday & Sat) Friday july 20

THurs JulY 19 • $6 @door

rise of the lion royal windsor animal farm wednesdAy JulY 25 • $11.50 adv

jonny corndawg will Currie + Charlotte Cornfield THurs JulY 26 • $6 @door

nDMa • Mattress CoMpany new Design • King pawns three

$ 10.00

@ door

JaCkson

live FridAy JulY 27 • $7 @door

saturday july 28

monday july 30 & tuesday july 31

$ 7.00

advance • “conFess”

avery isLanD rye desperate exeCutives ruBy Spirit

FridAy august 3 • $15.00 adv

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twin shaDow the Do $ 20.00

lemon bucket orkestra freeman dre & tHe kitcHen partY nick tecHan Friday july 20 bloodshot • 15.00 advance

advance

CadenCe weapOn

SCOtt ramirez inner City grOOVeS

thursday july 19 • $10.00

liars $ 15.00

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

saturday july 21

12-piece musical tribute to michael jackson

local hip-hop

alternative rock dance club

Corey ChiseL • wanDering sons eaMon Mcgrath

WedneSday auguSt 1 • $11.50 adv pay $7.00 cover b4 11:30pm & receive tWo free drinks or

nO COVer B4 11:30 or w/ Student i.d.

sunday august 5 $

16.50 advance • l.a. ska 60’s soul

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the growlers mondAy

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silence tHe sirens West Hammock lavender orange

saturday july 21 • $12.50 advance • edmonton

ShOut Out Out Out Out jeremy glenn + beta frontiers + soft copy

wed july 25 • no coVer

JerrY JosepH & tHe Jack mormons portland neil young Folk

thursday july 26 • $10.00

tHe monks tribute

Friday july 27

local alternative rock • $ 7.00

witCh eVer the CunninghamS maladieS Of adam StOkeS Canadian Shield the Skirt ChaSerS

tuesday july 31

the noise broken arroWs milo greene sHerman doWneY band familY of tHe Year saturday july 28 $ 10.00

advance

dan

teenage BottLeroCket vapid & the CheatS sunday august 19 • $11.50 advance

with

ramones punk

nothington

SeBadOh

horseshoetavern.com

featuring

lOu BarlOw of dinOSaur jr.

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ex-Screeching WeaSel • ramoneS punk

sat august 25 • $9.00 adv

topanga aug 28 • Little Barrie sept 20 • street Dogs sept 21 • hot snakes

primal scream

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DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Saint Motel, Races doors 8:30 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Dave Martin 3 to 5 pm. OPERA HOUSE Agalloch, Taurus, Musk Ox doors 7:30 pm.

ORBIT ROOM Amy Winehouse Tribute And CAMH Benefit Concert Emma-Lee, ñ Saidah Baba Talibah, Treasa Levasseur, Tanika Charles, Tia Brazda 8 pm. PRESS CLUB Domestic Bliss Mondays Molly Babin & Dave Nardi, Proof of Ghosts, Julianna Riolino, the Red Birds (rock) 10 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Refused, OFF! doors 8 pm, all ages. See OFF! preview, page 50. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB The Quinceañera Show Gomez, Quiet Corral 8 pm. THE WILSON 96 Jordan John, Prakash John & Al Cross (soul/funk) 8 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAMERON HOUSE David Baxter 10 pm, Dun-

can Davies 8 pm, The Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

C’EST WHAT Song Studio Workshop Blair Pack-

ham (alt folk) 7:30 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Nigel Irwin, Jeremy Murphy, Max Gross (folk/pop) 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Gut Bucket Lounge Kevin Quain 5:30 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. SUPERMARKET Case Of The Folkin’ Mondays 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

EMMET RAY BAR Ken MacDonald 9 pm. REMARKS BAR & GRILL Jazz Jam-gria Pat

Murray, Mark Kieswetter, Artie Roth, Nick Fraser 8 to 11 pm. REX Jazz Mechanics Big Band 9:30 pm, Brilliant Corners 6:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALLEYCATZ Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Moody Monday The Thinly

Veiled Double Entendres. INSOMNIA DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). THE PISTON Junk Shop DJS Jorge & Jeeks (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. REPOSADO Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

EMELI SANDÉ R&B

UK songwriter for the stars takes her turn in the spotlight By ANUPA MISTRY

EMELI SANDE opening for COLDPLAY and MARINA & THE DIAMONDS at Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Monday and Tuesday (July 23 and 24), 7 pm. $49.50-$115. LN, TM.

Songwriters, the geniuses behind million-dollar hooks, are no longer content to stay incognito. One of the best-known contemporary examples of a songwriter-turned-pop-star is The-Dream, who wrote Rihanna’s Umbrella. Others include Ester Dean, L.P. and the UK’s Emeli Sandé, who’s currently spending her second summer opening for stadium rock behemoths Coldplay. We caught up back in March, when Sandé played two nights at the Drake Underground in support of the North American release of her debut album, Our Version Of Events (Virgin). It’s a glossy and intimate R&B record with traces of quintessentially British trip-hop and D&B. While Sandé was in Toronto, practically unknown, the album was number one in the UK. “I’m starting again over here – doing small shows and things I did in the UK – so it reminds me that there’s still work to be done,” Sandé muses an hour before ripping the Drake with a powerful voice clear-

ly meant to reach more people and fill bigger spaces. “It keeps you grounded, I guess.” At 16, Sandé chose medical school over a record deal, a decision spurred partly by her Zambian father’s immigrant work ethic, she says, laughing. “Growing up, I looked at the [music] industry and I didn’t see myself there. So it was really about making my own path. It took me a long while as a songwriter; I had to find the right people to respect what I do instead of producers just saying, ‘Okay, write that and do this.’” Top-tier British pop stars Tinie Tempah, Leona Lewis and Cheryl Cole have recorded Sandé’s songs, as well as Britain’s Got Talent breakout Susan Boyle. “A good melody and a simple lyric resonate with people. I think people underestimate melody,” says Sandé, citing Tracy Chapman, Nina Simone and Whitney Houston as favourites. “At first, [writing] was about me and how I was going to express myself. I was quiet growing up and needed a way to communicate. But slowly I realized great stories [can come out of] listening to people around you and simplifying your lyrics to reflect that.” music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

Tuesday, July 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Coldplay, Marina & the Diamonds, Emeli Sande 7 pm. See ñ Emeli Sande preview, this page. BOVINE SEX CLUB Dick Fister, Black Cat Attack. CADILLAC LOUNGE Made You Look Party The

Neil Young’uns.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation (Tom Waits covers) 8 pm.

THE CENTRAL Autumn Portrait 9:30 pm. C’EST WHAT The Johnson Report 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Craig Stickland,

Tim Moxam, Gavin Slate (rock) doors 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Hill & the Sky Heroes doors 9 pm. THE GARRISON Girl in a Coma, Black Box Revelation, Magneta Lane doors 8:30 pm. HORSESHOE Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Slyde 8 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Shotglass Wedding, Kurvi Tasch doors 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Grapefruit Colour, Le Stack, Science in Space (indie pop) 10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAMERON HOUSE Ben Rough 6 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass/folk) 10 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Song Studio

Songwriting Showcase 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S Tony Allen (bluegrass) 7 pm, Jeff Osourren 5 to 7 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Fado Expressions (Fado/electronic) 9 pm. HUGH’S ROOM CD release Amy Campbell, Suzy Wilde 8:30 pm. PASSION LOUNGE Open Stage & Jam Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9 pm. PRESS CLUB Open Jam 10 pm. RESERVOIR LOUNGE Tall Grass (gospel country) 7 to 9 pm. THE RUSTY NAIL Open Jam Kevin Davies 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ALLEYCATZ Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/

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OFF! PUNK

Playing hardcore is a hostility release for getting-up-there band By JOANNE HUFFA

JULY

21/22 Toronto BURLESQUE Festival 23 Gomez 26 Chad Vangaalen 27 Teddy Bear 30 AESOP Rock

OFF! opening for REFUSED at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Sunday and Monday (July 22 and 23), 8 pm, all ages. $35.99. RT, SS, TM.

When I call eternally youthful bass player Steve McDonald the afternoon prior to OFF!’s first show on tour with Refused, I catch him with a face full of shaving foam. He apologizes, and a few minutes later he’s cleaned up and ready to talk about what it means for “gentlemen of a certain age” to be in a hardcore band. “Most of our touring happens two weeks at a time,” McDonald says, “although we just did a five-week tour of Europe. I think we all agreed that was a little much. But other than that, it’s been as civilized as modern hardcore can be.” At 45, McDonald, also bassist for Redd Kross, is one of the youngest members of a band that includes Burning Brides’ Dimitri Coats, Hot Snakes/Rocket from the Crypt’s Mario Rubalcaba and pissed-off Black Flag/Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris. Their debut full-length album, OFF! (Vice), features 16 songs in about as many minutes, each

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AIR CANADA CENTRE 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. ALBION ISLINGTON SQUARE Albion Rd and Islington Ave. ALLEYCATZ 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AMADEUS 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245. AMSTERDAM BREWERY 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882. ASPETTA CAFFE 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. THE BALLROOM 145 John. 416-597-2695. BAR ITALIA 582 College. 416-535-3621. BEERBISTRO 18 King E. 416-861-9872. BLACK SWAN 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. BLOOR STREET Bloor btwn Lansdowne and Dufferin. BOILER HOUSE 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. BOVINE SEX CLUB 542 Queen W. 416504-4239. BRASSAII 461 King W. 416-598-4730. BROOKLYNN BAR 1186 Queen W. 416536-7700. CADILLAC LOUNGE 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. CAMERON HOUSE 408 Queen W. 416703-0811. CASTRO’S LOUNGE 2116 Queen E. 416699-8272. THE CENTRAL 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’EST WHAT 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. CHEVAL 606 King W. 416-363-4933. CLINTON’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB 394 College. 647-436-0228. COMFORT ZONE 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909. CUBE 314 Queen W. 416-263-0330. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. DETOUR BAR 193.5 Baldwin.

DOMINION ON QUEEN 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. DORA KEOGH 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. DRAKE HOTEL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. DUFFY’S TAVERN 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. THE DUKE LIVE.COM 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. EARL BALES PARK 4169 Bathurst. 416395-7873. ECHO BEACH AT MOLSON CANADIAN AMPHITHEATRE 909 Lakeshore W. EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. EL MOCAMBO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. EMMET RAY BAR 924 College. 416-792-4497. EMPRESS OF CANADA CRUISE SHIP Pier 29, 261 Queens Quay W. EPIPHANY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 4000 Steeles W. 416-802-4077. ESTONIAN HOUSE 958 Broadview. 416-461-7963. ETON HOUSE 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. FIRST CANADIAN PLACE 1 First Canadian Pl. FLY 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. FOOTWORK 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. THE 460 460 Spadina Ave. FREE TIMES CAFE 320 College. 416-967-1078. THE GARRISON 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. GLADSTONE HOTEL 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GOODHANDY’S 120 Church. 416-760-6514. GRAFFITI’S 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. THE GRAYDON PUB 235 Queen St S (Mississauga). THE GREAT HALL 1087 Queen W. 416826-3330. GROSSMAN’S 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. GUVERNMENT 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. HABITS GASTROPUB 928 College. 416-533-7272. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE 235 Queens

one faster and angrier than the last. “It seems like the older you get and the more adult and responsible your life has to be, the more you need some sort of hostility release,” says McDonald with a hint of a laugh. “People with kids and real jobs are the ones who wanna say, ‘Fuck people.’” McDonald first met Morris at age 11, when Redd Kross opened for Black Flag. Over the years, they bumped into each other from time to time, but it wasn’t till a few years ago, when both were attending SXSW as A&R consultants, that they sat down to talk at length. “Keith and Dimitri dreamed up the band, and me and Mario – well, this is what they tell me – were at the top of their rhythm section list. We were the first people they called. I mean, that could be bullshit. But one night I was at a club and Keith came up and said, ‘Me and Dimitri from Burning Brides have this new thing you gotta check out. Here’s our demo.’ “I just thought that was really funny, Keith Morris handing me a demo.” music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

Quay W. 416-973-4000. HARD LUCK BAR 772a Dundas W. 416833-0302. THE HARP PUB 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277. HART HOUSE 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. HOLY OAK CAFE 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. THE HOXTON 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. HUGH’S ROOM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. INSOMNIA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 630 Spadina. LAGONDOLA BANQUET HALL 227 Bowes (Vaughan). 905-669-2436. LEE’S PALACE 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. LI’LY 656 College. 416-532-0419. THE LISH 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. THE LOADED DOG 1921 Lawrence E. 416-901-0662. LONDON TAP HOUSE 250 Adelaide W. 416-205-1234. LUFF GALLERY 688 Richmond W, ste 202. LULA LOUNGE 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. LUXY NIGHTCLUB 60 Interchange Way (Vaughan). MAISON MERCER 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. MARO 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. MCGRADIES TAP AND GRILL 2167 Victoria Park. 416-449-1212. MEL LASTMAN SQUARE 5100 Yonge. 416-395-7582. MÉLANGE 172 Main. 416-686-6485. MUSIDEUM 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE 100 Queen W. NGOMA LOUNGE 424 College. 647-345-8382. NOCTURNE 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. NORTH YORK CENTRAL LIBRARY 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535. OLD MILL INN 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. ON CUE 349 Jane. 647-763-0417. ON THE ROX 1600 Steeles W. 905-597-9491.

OPERA HOUSE 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. ORBIT ROOM 580A College. 416-535-0613. OUR HOUSE BAR 214 Ossington. 647341-4477. PACHA LOUNGE 1305 Dundas W. 416530-4781. THE PAINTED LADY 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. PARTS & LABOUR 1566 Queen W. 416588-7750. PASSION LOUNGE 1220 Danforth. 416-999-0654. PEOPLE’S CHICKEN 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. THE PISTON 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. PJ O’BRIEN IRISH PUB 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. PRESS CLUB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. THE QUEEN’S LEGS 286 Eglinton W. 416-481-3555. RANCHO RELAXO 300 College. 416-920-0366. REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. REMARKS BAR & GRILL 1026 Coxwell. 416-429-9889. REPOSADO 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. RESERVOIR LOUNGE 52 Wellington E. 416-955-0887. REVIVAL 783 College. 416-535-7888. REX 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. RIVER GAMBLER 261 Queen Quay E, Pier 29. RIVOLI 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. THE RUSTY NAIL 2202 Danforth. 647729-7254. SALVADOR DARLING 1237 Queen W. 416-534-0488. SAVIARI TEA + COCKTAIL LOUNGE 926 King W. 647-382-7072. SAVING GIGI 859 Bloor W. SAZERAC GASTRO LOUNGE 782 King W.

647-342-8866. SILVER DOLLAR 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. THE SISTER 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. SLACK’S 562 Church. 416-928-2151. SMILING BUDDHA 961 College. 416-516-2531. SNEAKY DEE’S 431 College. 416-603-3090. SOLARA MEDITERRANEAN 1731 Lakeshore W (Mississauga). 905-916-2334. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO 227 Sterling, unit 112. SOUND ACADEMY 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. SOYBOMB 156 Bathurst. SPIRITS 642 Church. 416-967-0001. ST JAMES CATHEDRAL 65 Church. 416364-7865. STONE LOUNGE 783 College. SUPERMARKET 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. SUTRA TIKI BAR 612 College. 416-537-8755. TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-271-0016. TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. TOTA LOUNGE 592 Queen W. 416-866-8878. TRANZAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. VELVET UNDERGROUND 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB 722 College. 416-588-4663. WATERFALLS 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. THE WILSON 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. THE WINCHESTER ARMS 1090 Kingston. 416-690-4070. WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051. WOODBINE PARK Coxwell and Lake Shore E. WRONGBAR 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Yonge & Dundas. 416-979-9960.

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album reviews Recorded over three days in Pembroke by Wylie’s former Blinker the Star bandmate Jordon Zadorozny and mastered in the UK by Andy Baldwin, Bon Echo features layers of synths, drums, guitars and vocals. They paint a dreamy, summery picture that suits the lyrics about rural living. It’s hard to pick favourites, but fluid and angular Staying In The Curl, groovy, falsettoed soul-folk Living Underground and vast Beach Boysesque Intelligent Design are notable. Most satisfying, though, is Come On Home’s simple, crunchy indie rock groove and endearing melody. Top track: Come On Home Hinterlandband play the Piston tonight (Thursday, July 19) and July 27 at the Rivoli (Pop With Brains CAMH benefit). SARAH GREENE

album of the week AZEALIA BANKS Fantasea (Inter-

scope) Rating: NNNN “Ratchet bitches make the world go round.” That line, uttered with a whiff of irony during an interlude on Azealia Banks’s new mixtape, could very well form part of the lascivious Harlem rapper’s manifesto. Since exploding all over the internet with gleeful tongue-rolling club jam 212, the 21-year-old has proven herself wickedly adept at turning ideas of nasty-ass craziness into pointed, self-aggrandizing lyric weaponry. Much like her debut EP, 1991, Fantasea plays out like a sketchbook of

LIARS WIXIW (Mute) Rating: NNN

ideas, memorable pop hooks and unpredictable, table-flipping flows. It’s also a wildly entertaining platform for her arsenal of producers, who straddle the worlds of hip-hop and dance (Diplo, Drums of Death, Hudson Mohawke, Machinedrum) at the minimal, anti-pop end of the spectrum. Zebra Katz-produced Ima Read is a menacing runway anthem, Runnin’ is glitchy hip-hop, and Esta Noche is a schizo, Montell Jordan-sampling closer. By the time Fantasea’s 19 tracks end, you can’t help but wonder if ratchetness is the new realness. Top track: Nathan, featuring Styles P KEVIN RITCHIE Wheeler, who lends exuberant guitar leads to standout track Dumb Angel. That the young trio recorded A Ghost History themselves is another reason to admire them. Despite a few meandering tunes, the album sounds colossal and visceral. Apparently, closer The Past Rests, another standout, was tracked 23 times before they were satisfied. Top track: Dumb Angel Kestrels play Rancho Relaxo on Friday (July 20). CARLA GILLIS

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A Ghost History (Sonic Unyon) Rating: NNNN With interest in 90s shoegaze only getting stronger, the Kestrels’ sonic assault of a sophomore album arrives right on time. The Halifax trio perfect dialed-to-11 volume, churning guitar drone and feedback, and unpolished vocals – a mix that draws heavily from Creation Records bands like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. But it’s not all pummelling drums and HINTERLANDBAND Bon Echo tsunamis of ringing guitars obscuring the (independent) Rating: NNNN sometimes off-key singing. The sounds Ottawa Valley native Colin Wylie has take shape around guitarist/vocalist Chad crafted a busy, euphorically poppy sophoPeck’s melodic and structured songwritmore album under the Hinterlandband ing, inspired in part by a summer living on moniker that sounds like a full band reNew York’s Lower East Side. During that Ad_Now_1-5 130712.ai 5:53 PMWylie played and sang cording, though excursion, Peck also secured a cameo by1 7/13/12 every note. one of his musical heroes, Ash’s Tim

Gloomy Brooklyn electronic rock band Liars have a lot in common with Radiohead – some good, some bad. Both acts can write a catchy pop song but do everything to avoid it. While this sometimes leads to groundbreaking creativity, it can also result in directionless jams that are more boring than challenging. As much as both bands claim to love electronic music, some of their attempts to bring those textures into a band format come across as dilettantism. When Liars choose to write a pop song, though, they pull it off, and the latter half of WIXIW has enough to offset their plodding attempts to be experimental. The more you listen to the album, the more glimpses of greatness you find. They hit their mark on the tightly focused Brats, which successfully reconfigures the icy synth-punk doom of cold wave into something modern and unique. Top track: Brats Liars play Lee’s Palace Saturday (July 21). BENJAMIN BOLES

MUSIC MAUL Boxy (GFM) Rating: NNN

Kingston, Ontario, isn’t just PS I Love You, the Tragically Hip and giant prisons. It’s also home to Music Maul, an intriguingly quirky indie rock act led by Trevor Henderson. Henderson rocks the accordion and lap steel, but this isn’t a folk band. There are also cosmic synths, grimy guitars and an off-kilter rhythmic sensibility. It’s still pop/rock music, but twisted in enough unexpected ways to grab your attention. Henderson shares vocal duties with Sarah Harmer, and the dual-singer thing works well. She’s clearly the stronger vocalist, though it’s the interplay between them that makes the whole thing work. Some of the goofier moments come close to oddball 80s college rock (like Camper Van Beethoven or They Might Be Giants), but it’s not like there’s a glut of bands going for that right now. Top track: Lil Girl Shot Me Music Maul play the Silver Dollar Saturday (July 21). BB

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SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT Spanish Moss

And Total Loss (Nrmls Wlcm) Rating: NNN On their third album, Edmonton electro

rockers Shout Out Out Out Out outgrow their “dance punk” label and move toward more mature and measured Kraut- and house-influenced sounds. The songs still groove and uplift, but the band’s earlier youthful chaos has been subdued. There’s also more warmth and melody, though, particularly in opener and first single Now That I’ve Given Up Hope, I Feel Much Better, which starts with slightly off-sounding keyboard chords that set a disquieting tone that you hope will continue. (It doesn’t, really. The album’s contentedly major-key.) The lengthy songs, mostly instrumental, unfurl deliberately and dynamically, and even the few with vocals keep the human element at bay. (Vocoders have that effect.) That’s not a bad thing. This is fairly arm’s-length music – more about beat and texture than emotional confessionals. Top track: Now That I’ve Given Up Hope, I Feel Much Better Shout Out Out Out Out play the Horseshoe on July 21. CG

continue in the vein of their debut: harmonica-heavy roots rock with a Eurofolk-punk party vibe courtesy of accordion, mandolin and a bit of violin. The focus this time is on Dre’s Dylan-, Cohen- and Petty-inspired songwriting, and lyrics that loosely retell the story of his grandparents’ immigration from Nazi-occupied Poland while also touching on the lives of family members who never made it to Canada. Dre is still trying on different vocal styles, and he’s best when least affected and letting the weight of the lyrics do the work, as on Wasted Every Time. Stories of his youth (Hey There Dillon) and present-day regrets (Whatever It Takes) creep in, and the album closes with a Village Green-style homage to an old hometown. Top track: Wasted Every Time Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party play the Horseshoe tonight (Thursday, July 19). SG

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Every Opposite (digital) Rating: It was like a spark when Something In The Water, the first single from Every Opposite, Zaki Ibrahim’s official debut, dropped in December. All of a sudden you realized how much you’d missed the one-time Juno-nominated singer (now HQ’d in South Africa, where the album was officially released). The song grows, writhes and clatters beneath Ibrahim’s vocals, which are sweet and blue, a slow exhale. The full album – 13 tunes plus one body-rolling, Kwaito-referencing remix by Nick Holder – delivers on that song’s promise. It’s poetic and lush, backed by warm, lingering choral patterns, rhythmic interplay and instrumental idiosyncrasies in the sub-Saharan tradition. It’s also hyper-contemporary, reshaping R&B via skittering, pulsing, head-nodding production from South London trio LV and Toronto’s Rich Kidd and Catalist. Most importantly, it’s all Ibrahim: quietly defiant and demanding to be heard. Top track: Something In The Water ANUPA MISTRY

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FREEMAN DRE & THE KITCHEN PARTY Old Town (independent) Rating: NNN On their new album, Parkdale troubadour Freeman Dre and his Kitchen Party band

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It’s frustrating that an 18-year-old record overshadows Nas’s very much alive, stillin-demand career. Never mind that Illmatic is impossible to replicate – a perfect storm of prodigious youth, instinctual talent and sublime production – or that Nas can still effortlessly rap circles around most of his peers and underlings. Never mind that a number of his subsequent albums have been cohesive and defiant, with requisite (but tolerable) concessions for radio. (I don’t care what people say – You Owe Me was a hot song.) Nas’s 10th might be the reprieve the rapper deserves. It’s a solid album anchored by The Don, his best single since 2003’s Made You Look and so raucous it belongs in raves and on runways. Boom bap classicists Salaam Remi and No I.D. weave a raw, funky, orchestral lattice customized for Nas’s age-appropriate raps about custody battles and fatherhood. Cherry Wine, featuring Amy Winehouse, feels special, given that the late singer was mad for him. Rick Ross is the perfect ride-along on Accident Murderers, one of Nas’s trademark true crime narratives. But to everyone’s chagrin, Swizz Beatz continues to trade beats for guest verses. Top track: A Queens Story AM

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THEATRE PREVIEW Residents of Toronto’s Seaton Village community get involved with Porch View Dances.

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Dance projects engage neighbourhoods in new ways By KATHLEEN SMITH PORCH VIEW DANCES choreography by Karen Kaeja, Allen Kaeja, Michael Caldwell, Nova Bhattacharya and Maxine Heppner. A site-specific show starting at 84 London. Opens July 19 and runs to July 22, Thursday-Saturday 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday 2 pm. Pwyc. JANE/FINCH ULPI PROJECT choreography by Robert Abubo, Lua Shayenne, Troy Feldman, Andrea Nann and Mariano.Oakwood Community Centre (350 Grandravine), August 25-26. Free. Both presented by Kaeja d’Dance. kaeja.org.

Ever since Jane Jacobs pointed it out, one of Toronto’s proudest features has been our neighbourhoods. Two of them – Seaton Village and Jane/Finch – are integral to new contemporary dance project Urban Landscape Performance Initiatives (ULPI). Conceived by husband-and-wife team Karen and Allen Kaeja, the project teams professional choreographers and residents of both neighbourhoods to create and present new work in their own back (and front) yards – literally. “Our basic interest was to access the stories that happen behind closed doors,” says Karen Kaeja, who lives in Seaton Village with her family. “What would these stories look like if they were turned into movement and poured down the front stairs and into the yard for all to see?” After soundings, town halls and community workshops, not to mention many hours of creation and rehearsal time, the 35 non-dancing

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residents of Seaton Village and 120 Jane/Finch participants are set to reveal themselves to their neighbours and the world at large. “You can really see the appetite for physicality, animation and connection,” Kaeja says shortly after her first viewing of the finished dances. “It’s really beautiful – far beyond what I imagined.” Alongside both Kaejas, the choreographers working in Seaton Village on Porch View Dances are Nova Bhattacharya, Maxine Heppner and Michael Caldwell. Here, in leafy and modestly middle-class environs, the audience is invited to tour from house to house (entertainingly led by performers Tina Fushell and Diana Rose) to watch each dance unfold. The evening concludes with a “flock landing” communal performance at nearby Vermont Square. The much less evocatively titled Jane/Finch ULPI Project takes place August 25 and 26 on the grounds of the Oakwood Community Centre at that neighbourhood’s heart. Here, the participating choreographers, the methodology and the general vibe of the project are all “completely different,” Allen Kaeja points out. The Kaejas initially worked with 14 local organizations to source their untrained talent pool, and while there’s a focus on youth, one piece features elderly performers working with choreographer Andrea Nann. Also involved are Afrodance expert Lua Shayenne, bboy and musical tal-

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ent Troy Feldman (currently part of the cast of War Horse) and local hiphop star Mariano. Both Porch View Dances and ULPI Jane/Finch spring from the Kaejas’ recent work on integrating audiences into performances and exploring movement with untrained dancers. Though making dances with “real people” can be challenging, both choreographers readily comment on the special qualities non-dancers bring to the table. “It’s about authentic energy and life force,” says Karen, who talks about the six-year-old in her piece sleepwalking through rehearsal after a day spent at soccer camp. “All the members of the cast were supporting him, moving toward the energy of what he needs on the day. There is this constant rebalancing. It’s a beautiful inconsistency.” Allen notes the “unbelievable originality and unpredictability” he’s able to tap from his untrained cast members, a mother and son combo. “There’s no artifice, no performance value – they’re just alive inside the movement. I believe the honesty and clarity of the performers will have a profound impact on the audience.” So impactful that they might be inspired to join in themselves during the flock landing finales. This dance project could give a whole new meaning to the term “neighbourhood watch.” 3

SPEED-THE-PLOW by David Mamet (Soulpepper) At the Yonge Centre. Runs to September 22. $51-$68, some rush and discounts. See Continuing, page 54. 416-866-8666. Rating: NNN Even good actors can’t save a so-so play. That’s the lesson reinforced by Soulpepper’s production of SpeedThe-Plow, helmed by David Storch. Bobby’s just been promoted to head of production at a Hollywood studio thanks to his knack for producing shitty movies that put bums in seats. When long-time colleague Charlie brings him a project that’s box office gold – a major star’s agreed to make an exploitative prison pic – they get ready to take it upstairs to be green-lighted. Enter temp secretary Karen, who in the pivotal second scene convinces Bobby to make a prestige picture

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Opening ALTAR BOYZ by Kevin Del Aguila, Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker (Lower Ossington Theatre). A boy band perform their Christianthemed hit songs in this musical comedy. Opens Jul 20 and runs to Aug 3, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. BACKBEAT by Iain Softley, Michael Thomas and Stephen Ward (Mirvish). The Beatles seek fame in Germany and lose their original bassist when he falls in love with a local photographer. Opens Jul 21 and runs to Sep 2, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (no mat Jul 21). $36-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. C CARIBBEAN DREAM adapted by Marvin Trini Ishmael (Speakeasy Productions). Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set in present-day North York at the time of the Caribbean Carnival festival. Opens Jul 24 and runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu $20, child $15. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. 647938-2804, speakeasyproductions.org.

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about radiation and the end of the world, sabotaging Charlie’s plans. Speed-The-Plow features Mamet’s signature devices: searing satire (here of Tinseltown), great natural rhythms in the dialogue, macho men and a woman who’s not what she seems. Except for a reference to TV Guide, the 25-year-old script isn’t dated. And the actors are terrific. Ari Cohen hides Bobby’s vulnerabilities under his bravado and gruffness. Jordan Pettle stays tightly wound as the guy now forced to suck up to his one-time partner. And Sarah Wilson almost makes you believe she could convince a major Hollywood player to repent. But not quite, which is the problem with the play. It’s all flash and, except for the guys’ passion for profit, no emotional truth. Revel in the nastiness, groove on the dialogue and admire the cast, but this is middling Mamet. SUSAN G. COLE susanc@nowtoronto.com

Speed-The-Plow’s Ari Cohen (left) and Jordan Pettle do their macho thing.

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One-nighters

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Clouds over T.o. by Sten Eirik (Guildwood

Festival Theatre). A man struggles with urban living and debt in this adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Clouds set in present-day Toronto. Opens Jul 19 and runs to Aug 12, WedSun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Inn Gardens, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Greek Theatre. guildfestivaltheatre.ca. Fly Fisher’s Companion by Mike Melski (Lighthouse Festival Theatre). Two lifelong friends look to reconnect on a fishing trip after years of estrangement. Opens Jul 19 and runs to Aug 4, see website for schedule. $27$33. 247 Main, Port Dover. 1-888-779-7703, lighthousetheatre.com. Freedom 85 by Debra Hale (Port Hope Festival Theatre). A feisty senior hires a personal assistant with a secret past in this comedy. Opens Jul 19 and runs to Jul 28, see website for schedule. $29, mat $25. Capitol Arts Centre, 20 Queen, Port Hope. capitoltheatre.com. i love you, you’re perFeCT, now Change by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts (KooGle Theatre Co). This musical comedy looks at dating, mating and romance. Jul 19-21, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $28.50. Burlington Performing Arts Centre, 440 Locust. koogletheatre.com. Johnny and June by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical revue pays tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter. Opens Jul 25 and runs to Aug 11, Tue-Sat, see website for times. $40, stu $20. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. King John redux (The Pure Carbon Collective). The collective explores the character of Philip the Bastard for Shakespeare’s The Life And Death Of King John. Jul 19-21, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. totix.ca.

The lonely diner: al Capone in euphemia Township by Beverley Cooper (Blyth Festival).

The infamous gangster seeks Canadian thieves who are stealing his whiskey. Previews to Jul 19. Opens Jul 20 and runs to Aug 25, see website for schedule. $30-$34, previews $22$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. maCbeTh by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Co). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy presented outdoors. Pwyc. Jul 22-27, Fri & Sun 7 pm. Humber Bay Park East (Lake Shore W at Parklawn); Jul 2425, Tue-Wed 7 pm, at Thornlodge Park (Thorn Lodge and Winthrop, Mississauga). See website for details on other GTA shows, to Aug 5. 416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca. a midsummer nighT’s dream by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic performed outdoors. Pwyc. Jul 21-22, Sat-Sun 7:30 pm, at Bradley House Museum, (1620 Orr, Mississauga); Jul 24-29, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, at Withrow Park (725 Logan). Bard’s Bus Tour continues to Aug 19, see website for dates and cities. 905-5762396, driftwoodtheatre.com.

The burlesque ball (Toronto Burlesque Fes-

Pomme is french for apple, with Liza Paul (left) and Bahia Watson, is one of the Best Of The Fringe.

tival). This night of live music, striptease and performance art features St Stella and James the Giant Pasty, Sauci Calla Horra, Skin Tight Outta Sight, Roxi Dlite and many others. Jul 21 at 7 pm. $35-$80. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. torontoburlesquefestival.com.

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(Toronto Burlesque Festival). Performances by Nasty Canasta, the Saucy Tarts, Esther de Ville, Kitty Kane and others. Jul 22 at noon. $10-$20. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. torontoburlesquefestival.com. sovereign allianCes by Herbie Barnes (AFN AGA 2012 Host Committee). This performance highlights key contributions made by First Nations in the War of 1812. Jul 19 at 8 pm. $50. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. chiefs-of-ontario. org/afnhostcommittee.

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9 To 5: The musiCal by Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick (Drayton Entertainment). Secretaries plot revenge against their sexist boss in this adaptation of the 80s film. Opens Jul 25 and runs to Aug 11, Tue-Sat 9 To 5: The Musical. $40, previews $32, stu $20. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. The seCreT lives oF henry and aliCe by David Tristam (Globus Theatre). A bored couple use imagination to escape their humdrum lives in this comedy. Opens Jul 25 and runs to Aug 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Jul 28 & Aug 2 at 2 pm. $27.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. globustheatre.com.

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(Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Cabaret singer Matthews performs her latest solo show (see preview, page 56). Jul 19-22, ThuSun 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. solFerino by Emily Johnson (Rogue & Peasant Theatre). In his final years, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross struggles with memories and mental demons. Previews Jul 19. Opens Jul 20 and runs to Jul 21, Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. rogueandpeasanttheatre@gmail.com. ToronTo burlesque FesTival (Toronto Burlesque Festival). Performances, parties, the International Strip Search Competition and more featuring Dolly Berlin, Burgundy Brixx, Pastel Supernova, Les Coquettes and many others. Jul 19-20, see website for details (fest continues to Jul 22 at other venues). $20-$80, Thu Meet & Greet free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontoburlesquefestival.com.

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beiruT by Allan Bowne (Borat Gump Productions). A woman defies the law and sneaks into a quarantined area of New York to be with her lover. Previews Jul 24-25. Opens Jul 26 and runs to Aug 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25, Tue pwyc. Unit 102 Theatre, 376

Dufferin. secureaseat.com. The CruCible by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). A small, devout Massachusetts town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft in 1692. Previews Jul 25-Aug 8. Opens Aug 9 and runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. hedda gabler by Henrik Ibsen (Shaw Festival). A headstrong new bride wreaks havoc on all around her to keep her checkered past secret. Previews Jul 25-Aug 9. Opens Aug 10 and runs in rep to Sep 29. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. helen’s neCKlaCe by Carole Fréchette (Shaw Festival). A visitor looks for her lost necklace in a Middle Eastern city scarred by war. Previews to Aug 10. Opens Aug 11 and runs in rep to Aug 31. $50. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. The royal Comedians by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). This play looks at the life of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, aka Molière. Previews Jul 24-Aug 6. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Sep 21, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. The sunshine boys by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). Two vaudeville veterans must overcome their mutual dislike to reunite for a TV special. Previews to Jul 25. Opens Jul 26 and runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. a word or Two by Christopher Plummer (Stratford Festival). Plummer performs his solo autobiographical show about the literature that has stirred his imagination. Previews Jul 25-Aug 1. Opens Aug 2 and runs in rep to Aug 26. $75-$125. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca.

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advenTures in slumberland (Frolick). This all-ages show about a boy’s dream world is an adaptation of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland. Runs to Aug 26, Wed-Sun 11 am, noon, 1 and 2 pm. $10/pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. frolick.ca. avenue q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). This intimate revival of the Broadway smash delivers all the fun of puppets behaving badly. Songs about racism, porn and being in the closet are hilarious, honest and performed well by a strong cast of singers and puppeteers challenged by a few technical restraints. Runs to Oct 7, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) besT oF The Fringe TheaTre FesTival (Fringe Toronto). Encore performances of ñ Help Yourself, Mahmoud, pomme is french for

apple, Rare, The Shape Of Things, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Wakowski Brothers and With Love And A Major Organ. Runs to Aug 3, Wed-Sat 7 and 9 pm, mats Sun 1 and 3 pm (and Jul 21 at 3 pm). $16.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. fringetoronto.com. disney’s beauTy and The beasT by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Linda Woolverton and Tim Rice (Dancap Productions). This musical is based on the feature film. Runs to Jul 22, ThuSat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $42-$150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. dancaptickets.com. hello (Huge Picture Productions). The leader of a vigilante group wrestles with existential questions during an alien invasion in this multimedia musical. Runs to Aug 31, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25. Electric Theatre, 299 Augusta. 416317-8715, hugepictureproductions.com. The lasT 5 years by Jason Robert Brown (Rose Theatre). Different views on a relationship are revealed in regular and reverse chronology in this musical. Runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sun and Wed 2 pm. $27. 1 Theatre Lane, Studio, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. memory in The mud (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of brick makers, POWs and Depression-era homeless people who spent time at the Brick Works. Runs to Sep 30, most Sat and Wed 2 pm (see website for schedule). $20, child $10. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw. evergreen.ca/whats-on/memory-in-the-mud. a midsummer nighT’s dream by William Shakespeare (Canadian Stage Shakespeare in High Park). This magical outdoor theatre spectacle – celebrating its 30th summer – delivers a hilarious take on the Bard’s classic comedy about lovers who take to a forest populated by mischievous fairies. Packed with action, comedy and eye candy, this Dream has something for everyone, young and old. Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sun 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg), 14 and under free. High Park Amphitheatre, Bloor W and Parkside. canadianstage.com. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) million dollar quarTeT by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux (Dancap Productions). This musical recounts the 1956 impromptu jam session featuring Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley at a record company studio. Runs to Jul 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416644-3665, dancaptickets.com. mr. marmalade by Noah Haidle (Outside the March). A four-year-old’s imaginary friend is a violent drug addict in this black comedy. Runs to Jul 28, Mon-Sat 7:30 pm. $20, under 30 $10 (Mon & Wed only). Holy Family Catholic Church School, 1372 King W. outsidethemarch.ca. odysseo (Cavalia). This entertaining followup to 2003’s equine escapade Cavalia features

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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 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29.50-$119.50. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. 1-866-999-8111, cavalia.net. nnn (GS) p-dale episode 1: The heisT by Luis Fernandes (Unit 102 Actors Company). Four men attempt a heist in Parkdale in this comedy from the 2011 Fringe. Runs to Jul 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. p-dale.com. speed-The-plow by David Mamet (Soulpepper). Movie industry big shots use sex and schemes to succeed in Hollywood (see review, page 53). Runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnn (Susan G Cole) Troilus & Cressida by William Shakespeare (UC Follies Theatre Company). The romantic tragedy is performed outdoors. Bring your own blanket. Runs to Jul 28, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $8, Wed pwyc. Hart House Circle, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca. war horse based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (Susan G Cole)

Out of Town

amelia: The girl who wanTs To Fly by John

Gray (Thousand Islands Playhouse). This musical re-imagines the life of the aviatrix. Runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $30$32, stu $16. Firehall Theatre, 185 South, Gananoque. 1000islandsplayhouse.com. The besT broThers by Daniel MacIvor (Stratford Festival). Two very different brothers learn about each other and their mother after her death. Runs in rep to Sep 16. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. For The pleasure oF seeing her again by Michel Tremblay (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). Tremblay’s tribute to his mother will be performed in both English and French. Runs to Jul 28, see website for schedule. $32, srs $26, youth $10. Mount Tabor Playhouse, 2179 County Rd 17, Milford. 1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.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. 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. Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. his girl Friday adapted by John Guare (Shaw Festival). This comedy is based on Howard Hawks’s 1940 film and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s play The Front Page. Runs in rep to Oct 5. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. a man and some women by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). A man seeks a new life but feels duty-bound to his wife and unmarried sisters. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 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. The millionairess by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). The richest woman in England and an Egyptian doctor fall in love, but have coflicting family obligations. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre,

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est Ed’s, was hopping throughout the fest, with visual artists, 10 alley plays, an open-mic stage and rotating local food vendors taking part in the activity. The visual artists made more than $13,000 through the sale of their work, a 400 per cent increase from the previous year. Though there were 13 fewer companies than last year, ticket sales for 2012’s 155 productions were strong, with many productions nearly selling

out their houses. The Fringe sold over 59,000 tickets, and more than $450,000 was returned to the artists, who get all their box office receipts. Since the Fringe began in 1989, Fringe artists have pocketed almost $6 million. It’s not just the festival artists who benefited from the festival; this year’s Tip-the-Fringe watering cans were filled to the tune of $43,000. Here’s NOW’s annual list of Fringe highlights.

Outstanding New Plays

Weird Ladies Bomb The Fringe; Release The Stars: The Ballad Of Randy And Evi Quaid

The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe; The Empire Of The Magic Beanstalks; PornStar; The Tempest… A Puppet Epic!; The Taming Of The Shrew; little tongues; Tick; Dirty Butterfly; The House Of Bernarda Alba; Help Yourself; The Other Three Sisters; The Wakowski Bros.; England; Halapatooloo; The Canary Wallpaper; Then He Wakes Up

With Love And A Major Organ; Of Mice And Morro And Jasp; The Other Three Sisters

Outstanding Productions PornStar; Mahmoud; The Taming Of The Shrew; Of Mice And Morro And Jasp; Rare; little tongues; The House Of Bernarda Alba; Medicine; Tick; The Wakowski Bros; Help Yourself; The Other Three Sisters; With Love And A Major Organ; England; [ZED.TO] Byologyc: Where You Become New; Two Release The Stars: The Ballad Of Randy And Evi Quaid was one of the best productions.

Outstanding Performances Tara Grammy (Mahmoud); Kimberly Persona (Water); Morgonn Ewen (Annabelle’s Tails From Jail); Elva Mai Hoover and Kristen Zaza (Piecing Together Pauline); Christopher Kelk (A Slight Ache); TJ Dawe (Medicine); Terrence Bryant (SOULO)

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Outstanding Production For Young Audiences The Tempest… A Puppet Epic!

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26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-5117429, shawfest.com. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Stellar performances by Ben Carlson and Deborah Hay as the warring Benedick and Beatrice anchor director Chrisopher Newton’s warm-hearted show. Other production elements are also strong, though the subplot’s comedy involving the watch isn’t very funny. 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. NNN (JK) QUEEN MARIE by Shirley Barrie (4th Line Theatre). This musical is based on the life of Marie Dressler, a Canadian who found fame on the vaudeville stage and Holllywood screen. Runs to Aug 4, Tue-Sat 6 pm (and Jul 30). $26-$30. Winslow Farm, 779 Zion Line, Millbrook. 1-800-814-0055, 4thlinetheatre. on.ca. RAGTIME by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-of-the-century America is seen through the eyes of three very different families in this musical. 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.

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Cabaret strikes Gold Sharron Matthews reaches back to the old hits to gain Superstar status By JORDAN BIMM

Sharron Matthews redefines the cabaret genre, mixing stand-up, storytelling and song classics.

THE WAR OF 1812: THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1812-1815 by ñ 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. Runs in rep to Aug 12. $50, child $25. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN by Clark Gesner (Stratford Festival/Schulich Children’s Plays). This family musical is based on Charles M Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters. Runs in rep to Oct 28. (See review online at nowtoronto.com/stage.) $49-$106, srs $41$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival. ca. NNN (Susan G. Cole) 3

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SHARRON MATTHEWS SUPERSTAR: GOLD by Sharron Matthews. Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). To July 22, Thursday to Sunday at 8 pm. $20. 416-975-8555.

When saucy cabaret singer Sharron Matthews debuted her solo show World Domination back in 2010 at the Edinburgh Fringe, the title was clearly tongue-in-cheek hyperbole. But now, with a string of hit shows and upcoming gigs in New York, London, Cape

Town, and this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, world domination actually seems under way. Last week in Scotland, her new show, Sharron Matthews Superstar: Gold, was tipped as one of 50 to see (out of over 2,000 shows vying for attention) by local tastemaker weekly The Scotsman. “I had a little cry,” admits Matthews – who’s also a vocal coach on CTV’s Canada Sings – after learning the news. “To go from playing the small-

est venue to Edinburgh in 2010 – from begging people to come see my show – to now playing the best venue, and making the top 50, is amazing and really gratifying.” Her upcoming four-night stand at Buddies gives Toronto audiences a sneak peek at Gold, which stays true to her signature blend of storytelling, stand-up, and super-charged cabaretstyle cover songs, and gives her the chance to work out kinks before she takes it on the road.

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“Buddies is where I’ll perfect the show,” says Matthews on the phone. “My tried and true fans will be there, so it’s the perfect place to fine-tune things”. Gold finds Matthews’s observational humour reflecting on people she deems “gold diggers” and “gold stealers” while belting out about 20 “gold hits,” all shameless covers of guilty-pleasure pop. To keep things fresh, she’s added a few new songs to her repertoire, but part of the point of Gold is to resurrect old songs fans have been requesting from past shows. “When I sat down to put it together, I was going over some emails I got after Edinburgh last year. People kept requesting three songs from my last show [Radiohead’s Creep, The Eagles’ Hotel California, and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody], so I thought, ‘These are my solid gold hits! I’ve got to bring them back!’” A pioneer of cabaret in Canada since the early 1990s, Matthews has worked hard to make the often difficult-to-pin-down genre more accessible and mainstream. “Starting out, I quickly realized people didn’t want to come out to see something called ‘cabaret,’ because they thought they were going to see a crazy, androgynous German or some New Yorker in sequins. I did my first show in a talk show format, because that was something people were comfortable with. I also made sure to sing songs that everyone knows.” In the decades since, alongside a smattering of roles in big-budget musicals and feature films, Matthews has earned a reputation for her seemingly limitless onstage energy and confidence – a reputation that’s inspired a daring “satisfaction guaranteed.” “If you don’t like my show, I’ll eat a bug,” she deadpans. “If you don’t get at least one or two gut laughs out of it, see me after the show and I’ll eat a bug to cover your 20 bucks. That seems fair to me.” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

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comedy listings

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Jonathan Schabl, Richard Lett, White Panther Girlfriend, Ned & Dave and hosts James Dalzell and Deanna Palazzo. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com. LATE NIGHT WITH MATTY D Gennelle Smith presents live taping of the comedy show w/ Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Alex Pavone, Tim Gilbert, Mike Rita and Eric Andrews. 7:30 pm. Free. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. latenightwithmattyd.com.

Tuesday, July 24 ACADEMY TUESDAYS Bad Dog Theatre pre-

sents a weekly student showcase featuring workshop presentations. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 19. SKETCH COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents The Twitter Gong Show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. STRIP COMEDY The Central presents Matt Folliott and host Georgea Brooks-Hancock. 8 pm. $5. 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. 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.

Ryan Belleville joins the Altdot Comedy Lounge at the Rivoli, July 23.

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-364-1166 or mail to Comedy, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, producer, comics (host/headliner/sketch troupe members), brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, July 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Moody McCarthy,

Keven Soldo, Adam Downey and host Trent McClellan. To Jul 22, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE Second City presents a collection of sketches, songs and improvisations. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus late show Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. GORILLA THEATRE Backyard Spaceship Productions presents four improv directors at the mercy of the audience. Thursdays at 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-661-6540. JAMES ADOMIAN Comedy Bar presents the NYC comic headlining w/ Alexandra Howell, Levi MacDougall and Evan Desmarais. 10 pm. $15. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUGH SABBATH presents Bob Kerr, Todd Graham, Deborah Etta Robinson, Nick Flanagan, Graham Kay, Chris Locke and Levi MacDougall. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE PRIMO SHOW Supermarket presents a monthly sketch show w/ Primo and others. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

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Empire Comedy Live presents amateur comedians competing for a $1,000 grand prize. To Jul 19, Mon-Thu 8 pm. $5. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. empirecomedylive.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 Mike McGregor. To Jul 22, Thu-Sun, see website for times. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Darren Frost. To Jul 21, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Jean Paul. To Jul 21, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, July 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19. 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. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 19. KATHLEEN PHILLIPS Saving Gigi presents a night of comedy and music w/ Phillips and

Fiver. 9 pm. $10. 859 Bloor W. savinggigi.com. PREMIUM COMEDY Comedy Lounge presents Rob Mailloux, Jen McCauliffe, Kris Bonaparte and others. 8 pm. $10. Grotto Lounge, 647 College. comedylounge.ca. SET LIST Comedy Bar presents comics improvising on a list of topics w/ Dave Merheje, Ron Sparks, Evan Desmarais, Levi MacDougall, Sean Green and Steve Patterson. 8 pm. $15. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 19. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 19.

Saturday, July 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19. COMEDY LOUNGE: ITALIANS DO IT BETTER

Lambadina presents Mark Debonis, Sandra Battaglini, host Sandro Veri and others. 8 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca. COMEDY MACHINE presents Craig Fay, Zabrina Chevannes, Ben Miner, Ben Bankas, Danielle Meierhenry, Andrew Henry and host Amanda Day. 10 pm. Pwyc/$5. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. 416-920-3115. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 19. THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Debra DiGiovanni, Ryan Horwood, Alex Pavone, Pat MacDonald and host Darryl Purvis. 9:30 pm. $12. 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, comedybar.ca.

WEST END GIRLS: GIRLS OF SUMMER EDITION Daniela Saioni presents all-girl ñ stand-up w/ Heidi Brander, Heather Gold, Laurie Elliott, Allison Dore and others. 8:30 pm. $5. Rhino, 1249 Queen W, upstairs. westendgirls.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 19. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 19.

Sunday, July 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19. COMEDY AT 51 Kyra Williams presents a late-

night comedy cabaret w/ Natalie Norman, Aaron Stern, Abbee Fernandes, Brian Ward and host Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 19.

ROASTED AND TOASTED! COMEDY ROAST OF ARIE KIZEL & ELI JAKEMAN Happy Hour @ Ein-

stein presents Charles McCarroll, Dave Kemp, Josh Infald, Justin Laite, Sean Quinlan, Peter Aterman, Dave Paterson and host Ruby. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19.

Monday, July 23 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Fraser Young, Eddie Della Siepe, Debra ñ DiGiovanni, Ryan Belleville, Pete Zedlacher,

Bobby Mair, Tim Steeves, Sean Cullen, MC Rob Pue and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

Wednesday, July 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Trent McClellan, Kevin Hesari, Camille Cote, Eli Jakeman, Sean Sinclair-Day, Sarah Donaldson and host Lamont Ferguson. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG PRESENTS: Bad Dog Theatre presents a weekly showcase of the company’s best performers and unscripted comedy. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/ChuckleCo. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 19. HUMPDAY HUMOUR Muoi Nene Productions present weekly Afrocentric comedy w/ Raïs Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-519-1569. LAUGHS @ SLACK’S presents a weekly open mic w/ host Catherine McCormick. Doors 8 pm. Free. Slack’s, 562 Church. facebook.com/ LaughsAtSlacks. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Jon Schabl and host Mike Kellett. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. TOP SKETCH CANADA Black Swan presents a sketch and improv competition w/ Joe Delfin, Josh Bowman, Matt McCready, Joel Buxton, Alicia Douglas, Meredith Cheesbrough, Laura Bailey, Ron Sparks and host Jen Littlewood. To Aug 22, Wednesdays 8 pm. $5. 154 Danforth. jen.littlewood@gmail.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dylan Gott. To Jul 28, Wed-Sat, see website for times. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

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COEXISDANCE SERIES #47 CoexisDance Duet

Series presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Jul 21 at 8 pm. $10. Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts, 163 Walnut, Art Garden. coexisdance.wordpress.com.

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Cool comic FRIENDS WITH BOYS by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second), 224 pages, $18.50 paper. Rating: NNN Call it a teen drama layered with a supernatural mystery. Or a comingof-age tale co-starring a ghost whose silence says more than you’d think. Whatever you call it, Friends With Boys is a compelling graphic novel. The third release from Halifax’s Faith Erin Hicks, Friends With Boys takes the reader into Maggie’s home, where she’s surrounded by three brothers, a cop dad and questions over why her mom abandoned the family. She goes to a new school with the kind of anxiety any newcomer experiences, and soon finds the friend-

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BUY THE BOOK All eyes are on London, England, lately, whether it’s because of the upcoming Olympics or the latest rate scandal rocking the banking system centred there. Speaking of which, John Lanchester ter’s new novel, Capital ($32.99, McClelland & Stewart), is all about characters caught up in the 2008 financial meltdown. The book pursues his personal obsessions; he wrote a famous series of essays on the financial flameout in the London Review of Books, and 2010’s I.O.U. was a non-fiction primer on the crisis. He knows money talks. SGC

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, July 19

Sunday, July 22

THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED Readings by

LUCILE BARKER/DAVID BATEMAN/JEANETTE LYNES/DAWN PROMISLOW Poetry reading

Marcy Rogers, Thomas Scott and Charnie Guettel plus an open mic. 6:30 pm. Free. Glad Day Bookshop, 585 Yonge. thebeautifulandthedamnedpoetrycabaret.wordpress.com.

and an open mic. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com.

Friday, July 20

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WILL HOLDER: AN EVENING WITH ROBERT ASHLEY Holder reads from the work of opera composer Ashley. 7:30 pm. Free. Gendai Workstation backyard, 1265 Bloor W. artmetropole.com.

DIVERGENT DANCES FOR WINDOWS AND WALLS Anandam Dancetheatre presents a

Wednesday, July 25 benefit for workshops for young offenders) Hip-hop readings by Progress, Mahlikah Awe:ri and James from the Songs. 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. nowhearthis.ca. 3

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choreographic installation featuring dance and aerial arts including performances on the building’s exterior walls. Previews Jul 24. Opens Jul 25 and runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 8:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $20, preview $15, closing night gala $75-$125. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. anandam.ca. PORCH VIEW DANCES Kaeja d’Dance presents dance performed by area residents on their own porches. Choreographies by Michael Caldwell, Nova Bhattacharya, Karen and Allen Kaeja and others (see story, page 53). Jul 19-22, Thu-Sat 7 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. Pwyc. Seaton Village, starts at 84 London, near Euclid and Bloor. kaeja.org. 3

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ship of a brother-sister duo on the fringes of high school cliques. Maggie feels at home with these outsiders, since she’s always felt abnormal – never girlie, always too tomboy. Hicks weaves a few supernatural elements into the Ghost Worldesque town, but it never feels kitschy or clichéd. As in her other work, Hicks’s art is gorgeous. Sometimes the perfect facial expression says more about a character than any thought bubble. She also adds some nice humour to her drawings, especially of scenes from a school play. Some might view this as a young adult book, but it’s a fantastic read for everyone. Friends With Boys is sure to take you back to that high school daze when life often felt boxed in – like the panels of DAVID SILVERBERG a comic.

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Tools rules Insightful show probes diverse devices to examine social attitudes and behaviour By FRAN SCHECHTER TOOLS FOR CONVIVIALITY at the

Power Plant (231 Queens Quay), to August 26. 416-973-4949. Rating: NNNN

Canadian and European artists loosely apply the theme of tool use to dissect social behaviour through a political or absurdist lens in this Melanie O’Brien-curated show. Its inspired by radical priest Ivan Illich’s 1973 Tools For Conviviality, a critique of our elit-

ist technological society, which he wanted to replace with one based on egalitarian interrelationship. Illich’s idea of convivial tools might not include Iranian-born, Torontobased Abbas Akhavan’s series of prison-style shivs and weapons made from ordinary household items, which pull in references to torture and domestic violence as well as incarceration. He displays them like precious arti-

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Abbas Akhavan’s Makeshift Objects, part of Tools For Conviviality, reference torture and incarceration.

facts in a vitrine, a strategy that only slightly distances us from their malicious aura. Museum subway station’s plastic totem pole might give us a break from TTC ads, but Vancouver-based Haida artist Raymond Boisjoly points to the startling disconnect represented by this decontextualized bit of his culture. In an outdoor photo-mural, he ornaments a photographic negative of the station with the word “Toronto” in a black metal font. His use of the Scandinavian metalheads’ script, which usually conjures dripping wounds, completes an odd circle of

cultural appropriation. Combining monumental drama with school project fun, Vancouver’s Geoffrey Farmer riffs on The Hunchback Of Notre Dame with an impressive two-storey-high evocation of a rose window made of coloured string. Farmer also leads a workshop for kids aged 8 to 12 on August 12, when they’ll transform a lumpy 8-foot black pole with a knee-like protrusion (which he says is a worm digesting an idea but also resembles a giant bird leg) into a monster described in the novel. Other highlights include Swintak and Don Miller’s colonization of the

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porary Jamaican Art, to Sep 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). Installation: Katie Bethune-Leamen, to Aug 5 (Young Gallery, free). Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. Photos: Berenice Abbott, to Aug 19. Painting/sculpture: Zhang Huan, to Aug 19. Max Dean, to Sep 9. Picasso And Man: The 1964 Exhibition, to Sep 30. Michael Snow, to Dec 9. 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. 416-979-6648. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear, ongoing. Roger Vivier, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. DESIGN EXCHANGE The Tutu Project (pwyc); 60 Years Of Designing The Ballet, to Sep 2, talk 6:30-8:30 pm ($10) Jul 24. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Rule

Public Sins/Private Desires: Tracing Lesbian Lives In The Archives, to Aug 6, reception 7 pm Jul 22. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755. CENTRE SPACE Painting/video: Kent Monkman, to Aug 11. 65 George. centre-space.ca. EDWARD DAY GALLERY Performance: Stray Dog Salon, 7:30 pm Jul 25 ($10). Photos: Elaine Waisglass, to Jul 21. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

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BAU-XI Painting: Steven Nederveen, to Jul 21. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600. BAU-XI PHOTO Lori Nix, to Jul 21. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. BIRCH LIBRALATO Mathieu Gaudet, Nadia Myr and Martha Townsend, Jul 19-Aug 25. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. ARTA GALLERY Painting/Mixed Media: What Ever Imagined Is Real Group Show, to Aug 1, reception 6-8 pm Jul 19. 55 Mill, bldg 9, ste 102. 416-364-2782. ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY Spring Handmade Market: Toronto Etsy Street Team, 11 am-5 pm Jul 21. 38 Abell. shopcats.ca/ SPRING.html. BIRCH LIBRALATO Mathieu Gaudet, Nadia Myr and Martha Townsend, Jul 19-Aug 25. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CANADIAN LESBIAN AND GAY ARCHIVES

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Britannia! 400 Years Of British Ceramics, to Sep 16. 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 Painting: Douglas Walker, to Aug 18. Garden installation: Ron Benner, to Sep 30 (SE corner near Queen’s Park). 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

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Fashionality: Dress And Identity In Contemporary Canadian Art, to Sep 3. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-8931121. MOCCA trans/FORM; The Shape Of Things group shows, to Aug 12. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Collector’s Nights, 7-9 pm Jul 20 ($10). Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection; drawings: Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-6407591. POWER PLANT Dissenting Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Aug 26. Tools For Conviviality group show, to Aug 26,

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Power Plant with an outhouse and natural items from their artists’ residency site in Shelburne; German artist Ulla von Brandenburg’s rustic stage platform paired with a little film projection of masked Sardinians performing a primitive ritual; and French collective Claire Fontaine’s pairing of cultural theory and menacing everyday objects. It’s difficult to effect change from the confines of the art world, but these cerebral works do present a thoughtprovoking portrait of the terrain we’ve travelled since Illich’s day. 3

FORGETUS GALLERY Mixed media: Felix Kalmensen, Jul 19-21. 163 Sterling, unit 29.

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tion youth group show, to Jul 28. Photos: Proof 19; Dan Morrison, to Jul 28. 401 Richmond W, #120. 416-979-3941. GALLERY TPW Silver Sendoff moving fundraiser, 6 pm Jul 25. Video/photos: Francisco-Fernando Granados, Igor Grubic and Emily Roysdon, to Jul 21. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. HANG MAN Mixed media: Rob Croxford, to Aug 5, reception 7-9 pm Jul 19. 756 Queen E. 416-465-0302. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Crossroads; Not So Fast group shows, reception 6-10 pm Jul 19, Jul 20-Sep 23. Material Wealth: Revealing Landscape; Not So Fast group shows, Jul 21Sep 23. Photos: Uncharted Waters: Toronto’s Enigmatic Harbour, to Jun 30, 2013. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. INTERACCESS Corpus Lucida: emerging artists, Jul 20-Aug 18, reception 7 pm Jul 20. 9 Ossington. 416-532-0597. JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS Threshold group show, to Aug 4. 1450 Dundas W. 416537-3125. KATHARINE MULHERIN Drawing: Shauna Born, to Jul 29. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

walking tour 2 pm Jul 22. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Drawing: Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana, to Jan 6, 2013. Photos: Todd Ainslie, to Feb 24, 2013. Soveriegn Allies/ Living Cultures: First Nations Of The Great Lakes, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:308:30 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, to Sep 3. 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. 416599-5321. VARLEY ART GALLERY (Da bao) (Take-out) group show, to Sep 3. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511. 3

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KOFFLER OFFSITE Summer Special group show, to Nov 25. Honest Ed’s, 581 Bloor W. 416-636-1880. LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY Summer Special group show, to Sep 2. 326 Dundas W. 416-516-4440. LOOP GALLERY Collective Vision group show, Jul 21-Aug 12, reception 2-5 pm Jul 21. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. MERCER UNION Red Sky At Night group show, to Jul 29. 1286 Bloor W. 416-5361519. NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting/photos/ drawing: Charles Bierk, Peter Horvath and Renie Spoelstra, Jul 19-Aug 18, reception 6-8 pm Jul 19. 451 King W. 416205-9000. O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Abby McGuane and Mark Peckmezian, reception 6-9 pm Jul 20, Jul 21-Aug 25. 131 Ossington. 416413-9555. OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Prints: Tom Ngo and Derek Sullivan, Jenn Law, to Jul 28. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-504-8238. PAUL PETRO Charlie Katz and Marie Finkelstein, to Aug 11, reception 7-10 pm Jul 20. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. STUDIO VOGUE Limitless Expressions group show, to Jul 29, reception 6-8 pm Jul 19. 216 Avenue Rd. 416-459-9809. SUSAN HOBBS Exposure group show, to Aug 18. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

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nowtoronto.com/movies Audio clips from interviews with MICHAEL CAINE, VICTOR GARBER and FIRST POSITION DIRECTOR BESS KARGMAN • Friday column sampling ongoing series and free screenings • and more Tom Hardy (left) and Christian Bale star in the inflated The Dark Knight Rises.

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Rises and falls THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Christopher Nolan). Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 63. Rating: NNN

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Caine’s Cockney and bull UK star loves the Batman movies because they don’t sacrifice acting for action By NORMAN WILNER

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES directed by Christopher Nolan, screenplay by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan from a story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer, with Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Michael Caine. A Warner Bros. release. 164 minutes. Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 63.

Michael Caine has made five pictures with Christopher Nolan in the last eight years. He’s played Christian Bale’s right-hand man in all three Batman movies and again in The Prestige, and he was Leonardo DiCaprio’s sole link to home in Inception. In all those movies, Nolan uses the avuncular actor as a sympathetic sounding board for his tormented heroes. Over the phone from the Los Angeles press junket for The Dark

Knight Rises, the actor puts it even more simply. “He calls me the heart of the film,” Caine says, the Cockney rhythm of his speech putting me instantly at ease. “I’m sort of representative of us, in the audience. I say things like ‘You’re gonna do what? You’re gonna put a mask on and go up on the roof?’ I’m always the one who sort of disbelieves, and in the end I have to give in to him because I love him so much and I want him to do what he wants to do.” Gary Oldman, who plays Commissioner Gordon in Nolan’s films, once told me that actors age into respectability if they don’t flame out. I ask Caine – who became a star playing flinty, disreputable anti-heroes in movies like Alfie, The Italian Job and the original Get Carter – how he feels about playing fatherly characters these days.

INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL CAINE “Oh, I love it,” he says. “I especially love my part in this last movie – which obviously I can’t discuss cuz it gives all the game away,” he laughs. Fair enough, though you shouldn’t expect to see Alfred suiting

up to fight crime alongside Batman. “I didn’t want any fights or chases in this role. It was a nice, quiet, easy part. Well, not easy,” he laughs, “but brilliantly written. I loved it.” The two-time Oscar winner (for Hannah And Her Sisters and The Cider House Rules) has lightened his workload these days. “I used to make a lot of movies many years ago,” he says, “but I don’t make many now.” He’ll next be seen in Sandra Nettlebeck’s Mr. Morgan’s Last Love. (“I’ve seen the rough cut; it’s very good,” he says.) But he says he’s always happy to work with Nolan; he loves the director’s collaborative modus operandi and attention to story. “You know, often on a very expensive film, you’re inclined to get cheap actors cuz you’re not really interested in the characters,” he says. “You’re interested in the special effects and the stunts and everything. But he’s not like that. He writes parts that really need some acting. I’m always surrounded by terribly talented people.” That has to help, I venture. “Oh, the most difficult thing is to work with bad actors,” he laughs. “It’s terrible. And I always forget my lines, cuz I’m looking at someone, going ‘What the hell’s he doing?’ And suddenly somebody says, ‘It’s your line, Michael.’ “I never forget my lines except when I’m with a bad actor.” normw@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm

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The final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s ambitious Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, is less a movie than a colossus – an unstoppable force crashing into your summer, bent on destroying all challengers. Everything’s inflated for spectacle, with the simplest of dialogue scenes thrumming with nervous energy, and filmed with large-format IMAX cameras wherever possible for added bombast. But where Nolan’s first two Batfilms felt nimble and restless, The Dark Knight Rises is encumbered by its own self-importance. It’s been eight years since Batman captured the Joker and took the blame for the death of Harvey Dent to keep Gotham City from exploding into chaos. Now, Gotham having settled into complacence, Bruce Wayne has hung up his cape to recede into the shadows of Wayne Manor, tortured by the loss of his beloved Rachel Dawes. But when a masked mercenary known as Bane (Tom Hardy) rises up to turn Gotham into a lawless hellscape, the cape comes out of storage – and the city becomes a battleground. And that’s where The Dark Knight Rises turns into an unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement. Except that Nolan isn’t content to leave it as an allegory; he has to have characters underline it for us in declarative statements. Christian Bale’s obsessed hero feels like a guest star in his own movie; rookie Gotham cop John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) does most of the detective work. Hardy’s jolly line readings provide an intriguing contrast to Bane’s hulking physique, but after the sharklike perfection of Heath Ledger’s Joker he just doesn’t measure up as a heavy. Anne Hathaway has fun with the shifting moods of cat burglar Selina Kyle (her introduction is a particular hoot), and Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman still invest their appearances as Commissioner Gordon, Alfred and Lucius Fox with heart, gravitas and wit. But the complex structure requires everyone to spend a lot of time waiting for the story to come together. When he concentrates on the action – a thrilling mid-air prisoner extraction; Bane’s assault on Gotham’s financial heart; a massive climax that plays out on more levels than Inception – Nolan is in total control. And he can deliver a final flourish like nobody else. The last 30 seconds of The Dark Knight Rises very nearly had me on my feet cheering. It’s just all the stuff in the middle NORMAN WILNER that needs pruning. NOW JULY 19-25 2012

Daniel Hendler and Natalia Oreiro face disaster in the Argentine farce My First Wedding.

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Victor Garber unguarded Busy actor admits that Moving Day’s improv was a challenge By SUSAN G. COLE REVIEW

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MOVING DAY (Mike Clattenburg) Rating: NNN Maybe I’m getting soft. I’ve seen so many great Canadian actors take on crappy screenplays that when I see great actors in a movie with a not completely terrible script I get all warm and 3N toasty. Will Sasso plays Clyde, the lovable schlep who, alongside an alcoholic foreman (Gabriel Hogan) and a wise-cracking excon (Charles Q. Murphy), works for disreputable moving company owner Victor Garber. Clyde has ambitions beyond being a moving man but appears be going nowhere fast. Even with a too pat ending, the film has an endearing quality – director Clattenburg created the Trailer Park Boys TV series and directed both TPB movies, so he knows his losers – aided and abetted by appealing leads Sasso and Murphy and a lovingly selected Canuck indie soundtrack.

burg, written by Clattenburg and Mike O’Neill, with Will Sasso, Gabriel Hogan and Victor Garber. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times see Movies, page 63.

Given his mile-long resume, a sixyear stint on the mega-hit TV series Alias and a significant role in one of the biggest movies of all time – that would be Titanic – you have to wonder what Victor Garber’s doing in Mike Clattenburg’s small Canuck indie Moving Day. Turns out the London, Ontarioborn actor has maintained his Canadian agent all his working life and wants to do even more pics here. “I’ve been with my Canadian agent, Michael Oscars, since I started,” says Garber on the phone from New York City. “I specifically asked him to look for Canadian films. I like working up there – I was in Exotica, remember. And I just finished shooting Richie Mehta’s I’ll Follow You Down. When Canadians do something good, there’s always something special about it.” In the case of Clattenburg’s script for Moving Day, Garber likes the fact that characters who seem unlikable start to grow on you as the film unfolds. “That’s why I said yes to it. There are twists and surprises, and I didn’t see them coming.” Another thing he didn’t see coming was the expectation that he’d be doing improv when he got on set. Though he began his career in theatre and never stays away from the stage for long (he performed last year offBroadLikeable Will Sasso tries to upgrade way in his career in Moving Day.

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Present Laughter), Garber hadn’t had much experience going off-script. “I’m not used to it. Normally, you follow the script, but this was more freewheeling.” He got his first taste of improv action last year when he joined the cast for several episodes of Web Therapy, Lisa Kudrow’s Showtime TV comedy series in which she plays a therapist who counsels via webcam. “[Until then] I was the actor who learned the lines, showed up and did them as written,” he says. “Web Therapy was the first time I ventured forth into the improv world. Lisa’s beyond smart. I’m in awe of her.” Garber’s career is divided almost equally between television, theatre and movies. But there’s no question his heart still belongs to the stage. “When I get up there and it’s all working, there’s no experience that compares,” says Garber. “You can’t go back and start again. You have to be in great form all the time, but the payoff is so much greater. “The audience participation is everything. They’re a part of the play. People often ask me if I get bored performing the same thing every night. Well, no. Every night is different because every audience is different.” He works almost constantly, whatever the medium. “I’ve been very fortunate that I haven’t been typed as a particular kind of actor, and it helps that I’m always intrigued by doing something different.” Pretty decent, considering that he got his start in the star-studded, legendary stage production (and subsequent film) as the lead in Godspell. “Yeah,” he laughs. “I started out as Jesus Christ, and I was kind of worried that there was nowhere to go from there.” 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm

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Wild wedding MY FIRST WEDDING (Ariel Winograd). 103 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (July 20) at the Royal. See Rep Cinema Listings, page 69. Rating: NNN After playing the Toronto Jewish Film Festival earlier this spring, the Argentine farce My First Wedding settles into a commercial run at the Projection Booth in Leslieville. Don’t worry about the subtitles or the potentially alienating cultural aspects; Ariel Winograd’s comedy of errors bends over backwards to appeal to absolutely everyone. At the end of the very long day on which wistful Adrián (Daniel Hendler, of Lost Embrace and Family Law) was to marry his beloved Leonora (Natalia Oreiro), the prospective bride and groom explain what went wrong in

flashback, directly addressing the camera. It’s an intriguing gambit for what ultimately turns out to be a very pedestrian farce. Patricio Vega’s script follows the classic comic structure of a small mistake necessitating a white lie that triggers an escalating series of disasters that bring out the worst in Adrián and Leonora. Or at least Leonora, who comes off as a wild-eyed Bridezilla because she’s kept in the dark about the lengths to which Adrián is going to save the day. And that’s the problem in the end. Winograd pitches the movie so broadly and pads out the running time with such creaky running gags about a priest and a rabbi driving around together and Adrián’s elderly grandfather trying to get high that the farce never gets out of second gear. That won’t stop Nia Vardalos from buying the remake rights, though. NORMAN WILNER

Impressive documentary Vito uncovers the powerful legacy of queer activist and thinker Vito Russo.

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Vital Vito VITO (Jeffrey Schwarz). 93 minutes.

Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 63. Rating:

NNNN When Vito Russo died from AIDS-related illness in 1990, he left behind an enormous legacy, not only as a pioneering gay and AIDS activist, but also as the author of the seminal book The Celluloid Closet, about the history of gays and lesbians in cinema, which was later turned into a movie itself. Jeffrey Schwarz’s impressive doc touches on all of this, as well as Russo’s personal life, which included a family that provided unconditional support after he came out early and unashamedly, and his lover Jeffrey Sevcik, who was as shy as Vito was outgoing.

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The film’s impressive archival footage gives a front-line perspective on pre-Stonewall bathhouse raids, homophobic journalism in publications like Harper’s and how New York City’s queer community fractured in the 70s – once their fights for sexual freedom and expression were won – and then banded together when the terrifying and mysterious AIDS epidemic hit urban centres. Besides the articulate and impassioned Russo, the interviews and footage include friends like Larry Kramer, Armistead Maupin, Lily Tomlin (one story about her run-in with Time Magazine is worth the price of admission) and Bette Midler, who once unified an out-of-control queer rally with style and chutzpah befitting the Divine Miss M. Essential viewing for LGBT and other GLENN SUMI activists.

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Freida Pinto plays the frustratingly passive title character in Trishna.

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Tepid Trishna TRISHNA (Michael Winterbottom). 117 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (July 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 63. Rating: NN

Michael Winterbottom has adapted the work of Thomas Hardy before, in 1996’s straightforward Jude and 2000’s The Claim, a little-seen version of The Mayor Of Casterbridge set in the American Old West. But trans-

planting Tess Of The D’Urbervilles to modern India is a bold move that doesn’t fully pay off. Trishna (Freida Pinto) is a beautiful village girl lured by Jay (Riz Ahmed), the underachieving son of a property developer, to work for him at one of his father’s resorts in Jaipur and then become his lover. She bows to his every wish, even when they later settle in bustling Mumbai, where he ignores her and quashes her dreams of becoming a Bollywood dancer. The lack of an Angel Clare figure – the third point in the Tess triangle – means there’s less tension in the narrative, resulting in a meandering second half and no sense of tragedy. The colourful, vibrant locations add lots of texture, as does Shigeru Umebayashi’s Indo-influenced score, which occasionally recalls his melancholy theme from In The Mood For Love. Pinto, meanwhile, looks radiant throughout, though her frustratingly passive character makes it hard to symGLENN SUMI pathize with her suffering.

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FIRST POSITION This acclaimed new documentary follows the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of six young dancers as they vie for the top prize in one of the world’s most prestigious children’s ballet competitions. Opens July 20

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Take a look at any first-rate ballet company and you’ll be hard pressed to find a black female dancer. Michaela DePrince, one of six subjects in the excellent ballet documentary First Position, can pretty much count them on one hand. “There’s Misty Copeland in the American Ballet Theatre, but she’s a bit lighter-skinned,” says DePrince, sitting on a sofa with director Bess Kargman before the film’s world premiere at TIFF. “And there’s Lauren Anderson at the Houston Ballet. In Canada I know of one girl, but she’s half German.” In the film, DePrince and five others compete in the Youth America Grand Prix, an annual contest that can launch young careers, offering jobs with companies and scholarships at prestigious and expensive training schools. DePrince’s story is easily one of the most engaging. Born in Sierra Leone, she was placed in an orphanage after her parents were killed by rebels. At school, she watched as her teacher was murdered. Eventually, she was adopted by a family in the American Midwest, and that’s when her love of ballet began. It’s pretty much become her entire life, and she’s determined to continue to break through the race barrier. “Because I’m black, people think I’m not capable of being delicate, only athletic,” she says. “I want to show that black people can dance ballet as well as white people. Recently, two

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This nail-biting doc follows a handful of aspiring ballet dancers competing in the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix, which awards international attention and lucrative scholarships to some of the world-class winners. Director Bess Kargman has found a good range of subjects, from Rebecca, a pampered Barbie lookalike, and Aran, whose parents have uprooted the family to support his dance, to dirt-poor Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastian and the adopted Michaela, whose parents were killed in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Along the way, the doc takes a frank look at costs, job opportunities, body issues, injuries and gender. There’s lots of great dance, plus a bit of unexpected humour thanks to one adorable 10-year-old who balks at his GS stage mom.

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little black girls saw me perform and afterwards told me they didn’t know that black dancers could do ballet, because they’d never seen it before.” Kargman got the idea for the documentary a few years ago, when she chanced upon a group of a 100 young dancers outside a theatre in Manhattan. It turned out to be the Youth America Grand Prix. “I snuck in without a ticket, and onstage walked this little mini professional ballerina, who was 11. She was the most beautiful dancer I’d ever seen at that age. I watched her dance, then I stood up and walked out and said to myself, ‘That’s my movie.’” Her own childhood ballet training helped her gain the trust of her subjects and their parents. “I could say to someone, ‘Oh my god, your turnout has totally changed!’ We could talk shop, which helped in bonding. They knew I had their best interest in mind.” Kargman also wanted to challenge a lot of stereotypes about the ballet world. “I wanted to show dancers who are rail thin but not anorexic,” she says. “I wanted to show male dancers who are extremely passionate about ballet and not gay.” And, of course, DePrince’s experiences ensure real diversity. “My hope for Michaela is that she becomes the black dancer in the world everyone talks about. I want them to say, ‘She was one of the first.’” She turns to face the talented teenager. “I think you can do so much to diversify ballet. You’d better make it, because I’m rooting for you.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (Timur Bekmambetov) is a

spectacular mutant beast, the likes of which we’ve never quite seen before. This is a movie where a vampire picks up a horse and throws it at Abraham Lincoln, and that’s just the first beat of one of two incredible action set pieces in which director Bekmambetov 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 story are ridiculous – a stiff, clumsy retelling of salient points in the real Lincoln’s career, reflected through screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith’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 a good bloodsucker (Dominic Cooper). But we’re there to see a movie that’s as batshit crazy as its title promises – and you get one. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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flood zone just waiting to happen. Seen through the eyes of six-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), who narrates in a voice that’s meant to be simple yet profound, the movie establishes a hazy, dreamlike state. Its early movements have a powerful, intuitive sort of energy, and Wallis is terrific, utterly open and radiating emotion in every scene. But think about what you’re watching for even two seconds and the whole thing collapses; every supporting character is a caricature of brusque resourcefulness, some literally killing themselves for the sake of homesteading. They’re not human beings, they’re narrative devices. It probably worked a lot better onstage, where Hushpuppy’s squalid, dangerous environment was largely left to the imagination; here, confronted with the horrible reality of the post-apocalyptic Bathtub, you just want these morons to get the hell out. 93 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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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) Mt Pleasant

Waititi as Alamein, a negligent dad who returns home after a seven-year prison term to dig up the money he stashed before he went into the slammer. His son, Boy (James Rolleston), whose mother died giving birth to younger brother Rocky, is home alone, taking care of the family while his grandma is away. Boy greets Alamein as a returning hero, but soon discovers he’s chosen the wrong role model. The script has real insight about the fantasies kids generate as survival mechanisms, and an important underlying theme is how American pop culture works to undermine New Zealanders’ own history and traditions. Waititi is charismatic as the reprobate dad – the other “boy” in the pic – and he’s found a great young actor in Rolleston. Not much new in the plot department, but Boy has a lot of appeal. 88 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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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, Carlton Cinema, Grande -

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(Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman) is a 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 Andrews and Chapman have constructed an entirely new myth – rooted in Scots mysticism, human pride and a very relatable mother-daughter conflict – and built a gorgeous movie around it, filled with spectacular visuals, inventive action sequences and a passionate heart. See it before people spoil it for you. 93 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colicontinued on page 64 œ

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Collaborator (Martin Donovan) is

a gimmick movie, but the gimmick is sound. Actor Donovan’s economical directorial debut is a two-hander about a damaged playwright (Donovan) who finds himself trapped in his childhood home by a working-class neighbour (David Morse) with a gun and a grudge. By taking the time to establish Robert in the outside world before springing his thriller mechanism, Donovan (who also scripted) makes the theatricality of the situation less of an issue. (He also does a great job of disguising his Sault Ste. Marie locations as a suburb of Los Angeles.) And he gets a terrific performance out of Morse as a lifelong fuck-up who’s finally beginning to understand the role he’s played in his own misery … not that it helps the current situation any. 87 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg) adapts Don DeLillo’s 2003 tale of a financial wizard’s (Robert Pattinson) personal and professional meltdown during an endless limo ride across Manhattan. 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. 108 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema the Dark kNight rises (Christopher

Nolan) 164 min. See interview and review, page 59 NNN (NW) Opens Jul 20 at 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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) Docks Lakeview Drive-In

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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) Regent Theatre

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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

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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) Carlton Cinema

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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20 iCe age: CoNtiNeNtal DriFt (Steve Mar-

tino, Mike Thurmeier) is showing its age with gags that are prehistoric. After 10 years, the Ice Age movies have exhausted their characters and whatever charms they had, leaving this fourth instalment scrambling for material and feeling laboured. Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Diego the sabre-tooth tiger (Dennis Leary) and Sid the dimwitted sloth (John Leguizamo) are now faced with Pangaea breaking apart into continents, separating them from their herd. The plot hinges on natural forces, but Continental Drift seems overly schematic, as if written by a boardroom who hit all the predictable notes. Kids won’t mind the familiar elements, but adults will be bored and puzzling over which of the bland new creatures are voiced by Drake or Nicki Minaj, who are here as a ploy to show that Ice Age can still be hip instead of extinct. 94 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the iNtouChables (Olivier Nakache, Eric

Toledano) is a well-acted, charming French buddy picture about a wealthy white quadriplegic (François Cluzet) who learns to reembrace life through his friendship with a worldly-wise ethnic caregiver (Omar Sy). It feels like it’s been meticulously calibrated to hit the centre of some grand art house Venn diagram. Subtitled. 112 min. NNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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(Steven Spielberg) is the greatest American movie ever made, as well as the perfect summer blockbuster. It’s your duty, frankly, to see it at least once on a big screen. Universal’s splendid new digital restoration – overseen by director Spielberg – accurately renders Joe Butler’s slightly grainy cinematography, and gets the underwater footage back to its original brightness after decades of dull video transfers. The subtle surround remix hews closely to the original monaural audio, keeping most of the sound at the centre of the screen while expanding John Williams’s score into the back of the room. The 15-year-old print TIFF screened a couple of years ago was very nice, but this is gorgeous. You owe it to yourself to check out the upgrade. 124 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

katy perry: part oF me (Dan Cutforth,

Jane Lipsitz) chronicles a year in the life of pop star Perry as she embarks on her first world-wide concert tour and tries to keep her marriage to comic Russell Brand alive. Copious concert footage shows her hard work and the candy-coloured, fairy tale universe she or her marketers have constructed, but we never get a clue about why she relates to this faux fantasy or what it’s feeding in her fans. An interview with Brand would have added edge to the earnest proceedings. Statements from Perry herself (“Follow your dreams!”) and her

sycophantic handlers are so clichéd, they seem culled from a Christopher Guest mockumentary. And even though the singer’s stylist/hair guy is around, there’s no mention of how the retro Bettie Page look contributed to her image. 97 min. NN (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 Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

maDagasCar 3: europe’s most waNteD (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Ver-

non) is zippy, silly and 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 and a sleek jaguar (Jessica Chastain, oozing sex appeal even as a cartoon animal). On their tails is a villainous animal control chief voiced by the magnificent Frances McDormand with malevolent glee. 85 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Steven Soderbergh) is a brawny, brainy reworking of Flashdance inspired – and informed – by Channing Tatum’s early days as a male stripper. Tatum plays the eponymous (and entirely fictional) Mike, a self-styled entrepreneur who dreams of starting a furniture business but spends most of his time performing or trying to charm the unavailable sister (Cody Horn) of his underage protege (Alex Pettyfer). Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin weave a subtle commentary on various American notions of exploitation in between energetic, self-aware dance sequences, though Tatum saves the full force of his charisma for his scenes opposite Horn. And as we’ve come to expect, Matthew McConaughey steals every scene he can as the club’s cagey MC and occasional performer. 110 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge

marley (Kevin Macdonald) can be compared to a massive joint – and not just because there’s an obscene amount of ganja onscreen. Everyone will come away with a different kind of high. Hardcore Bob Marley fans will be astonished by the docu-

mentary’s depth and breadth, while those who only know his most popular tunes will walk away enlightened about the music and its roots. 145 min. NNNN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñmarvel’s the aveNgers

(Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of adrenaline, glee and wise-assery. That’s mostly due to director and co-writer Whedon, whose ability to render large, distinct casts of characters is exactly what’s required for a movie of this scale. Everything that happens is grounded in who these people are, not what they can do. And he’s the first filmmaker to crack the problem of the Hulk. Some subtitles. 143 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

meN iN blaCk 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld) sends

Will Smith’s Agent J back to 1969 to save Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K from an alien assassin. 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 evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas. 105 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary school politics and Canadian immigration. Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former teacher’s suicide. Falardeau proves once again why he’s one of Canada’s premier talents in this focused and intelligent drama that never allows allegorical touches to overwhelm the very personal story at its centre. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) Regent Theatre

Neil youNg JourNeys (Jonathan Demme) is Demme’s third Young concert picture in six years, and finds the performer opening up to the director more than ever. Shot in May of last year, Journeys interweaves Young’s 2011 Massey Hall solo shows with hand-held footage of his drive into Toronto from his hometown of Omemee. Young shows us the sights, reminiscing about this vanished school or that little outpost by the lake where he and his brother knocked around as children. And eventually he gets to Toronto, observing that things sure look different these days. Echoing the looking back/moving forward theme of the road trip, the song selections contrast Young’s early 70s compositions with tracks written in 2010; Demme helpfully identifies each track with an on-screen super, along with the year of its composition. Diehard fans will obviously get more out of this than the uninitiated. 87 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ñpeople like us

(Alex Kurtzman) stars Chris Pine as amoral salesman Sam who, with the Federal Trade Commission on his tail, heads to his record producer father’s funeral in L.A. His mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) greets him with a slap in the face. Plainly, he’s got issues. When the family lawyer gives him a sack full of cash with instructions to give it to a certain Josh Davis, Sam discovers that his father had a daughter from another relationship, and 11-yearold Josh (Michael Hall D’Addario) is his nephew. Soon Sam is almost stalking his half-sister Frankie (Elizabeth Banks) and

Maggie Smith checks into The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, one of the summer’s big crowd-pleasers.

ñmooNrise kiNgDom

(Wes Anderson) 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 1965, when two 12-year-old pen pals (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) run off together. It’s also one of the saddest comedies you’ll ever see, though that’s not a criticism. 94 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

moviNg Day 87 min. See interview and review, page 60. NNN (SGC) Opens Jul 20 at Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

SAFE (Boaz Yakin) is a Jason Statham movie, making friends with Josh, never giving away who he is. Sure, it’s soap, but Pine is riveting, Banks – both tightly wound and achingly vulnerable – is terrific, and Pfeiffer (finally playing her age) is in fine form. Plus D’Addario never makes cute. It’s great to see a well-acted, character-driven film in this season of actioners and half-baked sequels. 115 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS

(Peter Lord) is as energetic and fearlessly goofy as anything to bear the stamp of England’s Aardman Animation, with an affable Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his jolly crew (including Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson and Anton Yelchin) sailing merrily through a series of inspired set pieces while lustily reciting some very silly dialogue. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott) follows a team of corporate explorers to a distant celestial body, where 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 before that one. But Prometheus doesn’t enhance or complement the original Alien as much as it builds a video-game module onto it, a weightless digital creation that can’t hold a candle to the original’s grimy analog impact. 119 min. NN (NW)

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) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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) Mt Pleasant

SAVAGES (Oliver Stone) stars Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson as Chon and Ben, drug

kingpins thanks to the supercharged pot seeds Chon smuggled from Iraq. Theirs is the perfect partnership – war vet Chon handles security, Buddhist Ben handles the botany. They even share girlfriend Ophelia (Blake Lively). When Mexican queenpin Elena (Salma Hayek) muscles in on their territory (she motivates them with video of a decapitation execution), the boys resist. Until Elena kidnaps Ophelia. The secondary characters are what give this movie its kicks. Hayek is delicious as the vampy villain, John Travolta’s gloriously weaselly as a corrupt cop, and as Elena’s brutal thug, Benicio Del Toro steals the movie out from under all of them. Watch how he handles being spat in the face. Beware the silly narrative glitch in the last act. The characters, the violence, the kinetic energy – they’re all over the top. Like Stone in this mode? You’ll like this. 130 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD ñSEEKING

(Lorene Scafaria) begins three weeks before the Earth is scheduled to collide with an asteroid the size of New Jersey, and follows the depressed, newly single Dodge (Steve Carell) and his slightly manic neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley) on a road trip to look up Dodge’s old girlfriend before everything ends. Making her directorial debut, screenwriter Scafaria (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist) has constructed an intriguing, effects-free take on the apocalypse genre, shifting nimbly between dark comedy and outright despair. She’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. Any similarity to Don McKellar’s Last Night – which envisioned a similarly lo-fi apocalypse back in 1999 – is entirely coincidental. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (Ru-

pert 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) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

TAKE THIS WALTZ (Sarah Polley) takes a leap into far riskier territory after writer/ director Polley’s relatively conventional Away From Her. Emotional realism is paramount in this story of a young wife (Michelle Williams) considering an affair with a neighbour (Luke Kirby). The playful exchanges between Williams and her distracted husband (Seth Rogen, excellent) will have some squirming, but that’s what intimacy looks like from the outside. And the film takes an impressionistic approach to familiar Toronto locations: characters drift through a deserted, early-morning Kensington Market, have emotional breakdowns on the Scrambler at Centre Island or stop by an unlikely drum circle at the Trinity Bellwoods dog park. I’m not sure Polley accomplishes what she’s reaching for in the final movement, but she’s reaching for it, and that makes all the difference. 116 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy

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to offend with jokes about race, sexual orientation and religion, but who cares when it’s this fucking hilarious? At least the cute, cuddly titular teddy spews quick-witted, toxic verbiage equally to every minority and majority – he’s very democratic. Family Guy creator MacFarlane makes the big screen his bitch in his feature debut, as cowriter, director and voice behind Ted, the knee-high toy bear who comes to life when the child who owns him makes a wish for a friend. Mark Wahlberg plays the grown-up child, John, who’s still attached to his bear. Ted, however, is now a pot-smoking, beerguzzling, hooker’s best friend who enables John to avoid responsibilities and arouse the ire of his long-time girlfriend (Mila Kunis). It may be immature, but the movie taps into the foul-mouthed man-child in all of us to deliver a raunchy good time. 106 min. NNNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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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ThaT’s My Boy (Sean Anders) has Adam Sandler reiterating the same man-child routine he’s been doing since Billy Madison in 1995, here as a 40-year-old washout who attempts to reconnect with his estranged son at the latter’s wedding. Cue the barrage of generic toilet (and jizz) humour, fat jokes

and unwarranted cameos (Vanilla Ice?). Sandler’s not bad at what he does; he’s just not doing much else. 116 min. N (RS) Kennedy Commons 20

To RoMe WiTh Love (Woody Allen) has

multiple storylines, so when one plot line sags, another picks things up. Allen plays a

failed opera director who tries to make his daughter’s fiancé’s dad (Fabio Armiliato) a star, though he can’t sing outside the shower. In another weak storyline, a justmarried guy gets a surprise visit from a happy hooker (Penélope Cruz); meanwhile, a nebbish (Roberto Benigni) becomes famous for no reason. In the best segment, an architecture student (Jesse Eisenberg) and his girlfriend welcome a house guest (Ellen Page) with home-wrecker written all over her, or so says the student’s imaginary friend (Alec Baldwin). These actors play it straight and let the comedy work for them. Betcha Page becomes the next Allen muse.

Rome is gorgeous, but you still have to juggle Woody the creep with Woody the endearing schlep. One moment you’re howling at his fear of flying and the next rolling your eyes at a woman being sexually liberated by a thief wielding a handgun. Some subtitles 102 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

But Savoca knows how to tell a story. Soon you discover the nature of Lucy’s connection to Jenny and start to relax. The film is shambolic and lacks texture, lurching from one emotional moment to another but, as information steadily leaks out – most of it surprising – it becomes wholly absorbing. Look for Patti LuPone in a gem of a small role. 80 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

TRishNa (Michael Winterbottom) 117 min. See review, page 62. NN (GS) Opens Jul 20 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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WhaT To exPecT WheN yoU’Re exPecTiNg (Kirk Jones) offers vignettes about

kind of comedy Martin Lawrence used to make (Big Momma’s House, anyone?). Perry dons the fat-suit and muumuu once again as Madea, a once reliable source of outrageous laughs who now seems neutered. Madea opens her humble home to a CFOturned-witness (Eugene Levy) with a family of white people problems, including an undersexed wife (Denise Richards). That plot sounds ripe for hilarity, but Perry only delivers a few mild chuckles. You can’t help but assume that he’s is targeting a wider (read whiter) audience by casting Levy and Richards and focusing the plot on their characters. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have as firm a grasp on that world, and he’s forgetting to serve the audience that’s made him rich. Not that his previous movies were good, but they were never this bland. 114 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Kennedy Commons 20, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre

UNioN sqUaRe (Nancy Savoca) opens with Lucy (Mira Sorvino) at the titular subway station on her cell, trying to convince her married boyfriend to meet her. He’s obviously not that into her, which makes her a shrill mix of needy and demanding. When she turns up unexpectedly at Jenny’s (Tammy Blanchard) apartment and aggressively settles in, endlessly mocking Jenny’s wholesome lifestyle, she’s become insufferable. 66

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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. 110 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30

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 he meets a mysterious woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who takes him into her bed for enigmatic reasons. 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) Carlton Cinema 3

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The darK KNighT rises (PG) Fri-sun 9:30 darK shadoWs (14A) Fri-sun 12:20 savages (18A) Fri-sun 11:15 Ted (14A) Fri-sun 9:25

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The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri, tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45, 11:45 sat-mon, Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:01 Fri, tue 12:15, 1:05, 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 sat-mon, Wed 12:15, 1:05, 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 8:00, 10:00 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri 11:10 late KaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 1:10, 3:30, 7:05, 9:30 savages (18A) thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, tue 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20, 11:40 sat-mon, Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 Ted (14A) 12:55, 3:40, 7:15, 9:35

scotiaBank tHeatre (ce) 259 ricHmonD st W, 416-368-5600

aBrahaM liNcolN: vaMpire huNTer (14A) thu 12:50, 3:30, 9:50 aBrahaM liNcolN: vaMpire huNTer 3d (14A) thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 The aMaziNg spider-MaN: aN iMax 3d experieNce (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:40, 4:40, 5:30, 6:50, 7:50, 8:50, 10:00, 11:00 The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Bol BachchaN (PG) 2:55, 6:20, 9:40 sat-sun 11:30 mat Brave (PG) thu 1:00, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Brave 3d (PG) thu 12:15, 3:00, 6:00, 8:45 Fri, Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 sat-sun 11:35, 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 mon-tue 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 cocKTail (PG) thu 2:40, 6:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:50, 9:15 collaBoraTor (14A) thu 2:05, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 12:15, 2:00, 2:45, 4:45, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:10, 4:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 sat-sun 11:30, 12:45, 1:45, 3:10, 4:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT 3d (PG) thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40

Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed (G) thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:15, 9:00 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed 3d (G) thu 2:00 4:25 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 sat-sun 11:40 mat MeN iN BlacK 3 (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 MoviNg day Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 rocK of ages (PG) thu 12:45, 2:50, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:50 Fri-tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 safeTy NoT guaraNTeed (14A) 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 sNoW WhiTe aNd The huNTsMaN (PG) thu 12:15, 1:30, 3:25, 4:30, 6:25, 7:35, 9:25, 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:50 TaKe This WalTz (14A) thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 sat-sun 11:45, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Ted (14A) thu 2:00, 2:45, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:20, 9:55, 10:55 sat-sun 11:35, 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:20, 9:55, 10:55 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 FriWed 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50

Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed (G) Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed 3d (G) thu 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 9:40 savages (18A) thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Ted (14A) thu 7:05, 1:20, 3:50 Fri-tue 1:20, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 1:00, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45 Tyler perry’s Madea’s WiTNess proTecTioN (14A) thu 12:55, 4:15, 6:55

The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 2:00, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45

east end

kingsWay tHeatre (i)

BeacH cinemas (aa)

midtown

The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) thu 2:15 7:15 Fri-Wed 2:45, 7:15 The iNTouchaBles (14A) Fri-Wed 5:00 The piraTes! BaNd of MisfiTs (PG) thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 11:15 TaKe This WalTz (14A) thu 5:00, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:45, 9:30

canaDa square (ce)

queensWay (ce)

The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 sat-sun 1:10 mat KaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 sat-sun 1:50 mat Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed (G) thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:05 Marvel’s The aveNgers (PG) 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 sat-sun 1:00 mat MooNrise KiNgdoM (PG) 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 sat-sun 2:00 mat people liKe us (14A) 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 sat-sun 1:40 mat sNoW WhiTe aNd The huNTsMaN (PG) thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Fri, mon-Wed 6:30, 9:10 sat-sun 1:15, 6:30, 9:10 TaKe This WalTz (14A) thu 4:00 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:00 sat-sun 1:20 mat To roMe WiTh love (PG) 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 sat-sun 1:30 mat

The aMaziNg spider-MaN 3d (PG) thu 1:30, 3:20, 4:40, 7:50 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:55, 8:00, 11:10 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 thu 12:50 4:00 7:10 10:20 Fri only 12:55 4:00 7:15 10:20 aNdré rieu’s 25Th aNNiversary hoMeToWN coNcerT Wed 7:00 Brave (PG) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:05 Fri-Wed 12:15 Brave 3d (PG) thu 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 The darK KNighT MaraThoN thu 6:30 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:01, 12:05, 12:10 Fri-sun 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 mon, Wed 12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 tue 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 12:45, 1:45, 3:10, 4:10, 5:35, 6:40, 8:00, 9:00, 10:25 Fri-tue 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT 3d (PG) thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, sun-Wed 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 8:55 sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 8:55 KaTy perry: parT of Me 3d (PG) thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed (G) thu 1:10 Fri-mon, Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 tue 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed 3d (G) thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, sunWed 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Marvel’s The aveNgers (PG) thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 MooNrise KiNgdoM (PG) thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-tue 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Wed 1:55, 4:35, 10:45 people liKe us (14A) thu 9:35 proMeTheus (14A) thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 10:35 Fri 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55 sat 11:05, 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:50 sunWed 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:50 savages (18A) thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Fri-tue 1:25, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:40, 10:40 sNoW WhiTe aNd The huNTsMaN (PG) thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55 Ted (14A) thu 1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40, 11:20 TeeNage MuTaNT NiNJa TurTles sat 11:00 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-tue 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50

The aMaziNg spider-MaN 3d (PG) thu 1:10 4:10 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Brave (PG) thu 1:00 Fri-tue 12:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00 Wed 12:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Brave 3d (PG) thu 3:30, 6:30, 8:50 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 11:45, 12:15, 3:25, 3:50, 7:05, 7:30, 10:30, 10:45, 11:05 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 12:15 Fri-Wed 12:40 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT 3d (PG) thu 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 8:10 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Ted (14A) thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-tue 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40, 11:15 Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40

2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 BerNie (PG) Fri-sat 9:25 sun 7:00 salMoN fishiNg iN The yeMeN (PG) thu-sat, tue-Wed 7:00 sun 4:30

regent tHeatre (i) 551 mt Pleasant rD, 416-480-9884

edWiN Boyd (14A) Fri-sat 8:55 sun, tue 7:00 MoNsieur lazhar (PG) thu-sat, Wed 7:00 sun 4:30

silvercity yonge (ce) 2300 yonge st, 416-544-1236

The aMaziNg spider-MaN 3d (PG) thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:30, 10:45 Fri-sun, tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 mon, Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:05, 10:25 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 12:35, 3:40, 11:00 Brave (PG) thu 12:55 Fri-sun, tue 11:35 mon, Wed 12:35 Brave 3d (PG) thu 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Fri-sun, tue 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:30 mon, Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 The darK KNighT MaraThoN thu 6:40 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-sun, tue 11:30, 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 mon, Wed 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-sun, tue 11:30 mon, Wed 12:00 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT 3d (PG) thu 12:40, 3:10, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-sun, tue 12:30, 3:25, 6:15, 8:35 mon, Wed 1:00, 3:25, 6:30, 9:10 KaTy perry: parT of Me 3d (PG) thu 1:20, 3:45 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 12:50, 3:30 Fri-sun, tue 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40 mon 1:10, 4:10, 10:40 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 savages (18A) thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-sun, tue 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:55 mon 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 sTar TreK: The NexT geNeraTioN 25Th aNNiversary eveNT mon 7:15 Ted (14A) thu 12:30, 2:00, 7:50, 10:55 Fri-sun, tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 mon, Wed 12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50

3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Brave (PG) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 The darK KNighT rises (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:00, 10:00 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05 Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 KaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:20

1651 queen st e, 416-646-0444

north york emPire tHeatres at emPress Walk (et) 5095 yonge st, 416-223-9550

The aMaziNg spider-MaN 3d (PG) thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:30 The aMaziNg spider-MaN: aN iMax 3d experieNce (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-sun, tue 1:45, 4:45, 8:00, 11:00 mon, Wed 1:45, 4:45, 8:00 The darK KNighT MaraThoN thu 6:15 The darK KNighT rises: The iMax experieNce (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 11:45, 3:30, 7:00, 10:45 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-sun, tue 12:15, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:00, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:15, 11:15 mon, Wed 12:15, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:00, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:15 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT (PG) thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 ice age: coNTiNeNTal drifT 3d (PG) thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:15, 9:45 KaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 KaTy perry: parT of Me 3d (PG) thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Marvel’s aveNgers asseMBle (PG) thu 12:30, 4:10, 7:10 MeN iN BlacK 3 (PG) thu 10:45 people liKe us (14A) thu 12:50, 3:50 proMeTheus (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20

granDe - yonge (ce) 4861 yonge st, 416-590-9974

aBrahaM liNcolN: vaMpire huNTer (14A) thu 9:55 aNdré rieu’s 25Th aNNiversary hoMeToWN coNcerT Wed 7:00 The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00 Brave (PG) 12:30 Brave 3d (PG) 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 The iNTouchaBles (14A) thu-tue 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed (G) 1:55 Madagascar 3: europe’s MosT WaNTed 3d (G) 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Magic MiKe (14A) thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 mon-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 MooNrise KiNgdoM (PG) thu-tue 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 4:00, 9:30 continued on page 68 œ

The aMaziNg spider-MaN 3d (PG) thu 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 4:40, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00 The aMaziNg spider-MaN: aN iMax 3d experieNce (PG) thu 1:00, 4:10 The aMaziNg spider-MaN (PG) thu 12:30, 3:00, 3:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:40 aNdré rieu’s 25Th aNNiversary hoMeToWN coNcerT Wed 7:00 The darK KNighT MaraThoN thu 6:40 The darK KNighT rises: The iMax experieNce (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 The darK KNighT rises (PG) thu 12:10, 12:20, 12:25, 12:30 Fri-sun, tue 11:30, 12:30, 1:10, 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 mon, Wed 12:30, 1:10, 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 KaTy perry: parT of Me 3d (PG) thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-tue 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 12:20, 2:45, 10:40

NOW july 19-25 2012

movie times œcontinued from page 67

SavageS (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Take ThiS WalTz (14A) Thu 12:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40 Ted (14A) 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 To Rome WiTh love (PG) 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 TRiShna Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45

SilverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon 12:40, 3:50, 10:10 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 BRave (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:30, 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 5:15, 10:05 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed 3d (G) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 7:40 magic mike (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 Mon, Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 SavageS (18A) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:20 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 STaR TRek: The nexT geneRaTion 25Th anniveRSaRy evenT Mon 7:15 Ted (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:50, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:50 Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:00, 10:15 Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:50 Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00

SilverCiTy yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-2052

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:30, 3:30, 4:40, 7:50, 11:00 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 3:40, 10:00 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 5:00, 10:40 BRave (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:05 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:45, 9:15 The daRk knighT maRaThon Thu 6:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:02 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 Mon, Wed 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 8:10 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15 SavageS (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 11:15 Ted (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00

Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 11:05 Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:55 BRave (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:30, 12:00, 1:45, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:00, 6:30, 6:55, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10, 10:30, 10:45, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:00, 1:45, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:00, 6:30, 6:55, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10, 10:30, 11:00

july 19-25 2012 NOW

ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:45, 2:00, 4:30 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:30 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30 Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 1:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed 3d (G) Thu 3:45, 6:00, 8:20 magic mike (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 SavageS (18A) Thu 1:50, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:10 Mon, Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:10, 11:00 Ted (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:45, 11:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:40, 11:10 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:20

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce) SCarborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 8:00 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 4:00, 10:20 andRé Rieu’S 25Th anniveRSaRy homeToWn conceRT Wed 7:00 BRave (PG) Thu, Wed 12:40 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:10 Sat 1:30 BRave 3d (PG) Thu, Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Fri, SunTue 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 4:10, 7:35, 10:15 The daRk knighT maRaThon Thu 6:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:05, 12:10 Fri, SunTue 11:45, 12:30, 2:05, 2:45, 3:25, 4:10, 5:55, 6:35, 7:05, 7:50, 9:35, 10:15, 10:45, 11:30 Sat 11:00, 11:45, 12:30, 2:05, 2:45, 3:25, 4:10, 5:55, 6:35, 7:05, 7:50, 9:35, 10:15, 10:45, 11:30 Wed 11:30, 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 5:00, 6:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:00, 10:10, 10:30, 11:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 Wed 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu, Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Fri-Tue 9:15 Wed 10:25 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 12:10 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:50 Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed 3d (G) Thu 2:30, 7:00, 9:20 magic mike (14A) Thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 SavageS (18A) Thu, Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:50, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Ted (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00 TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:40

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:00, 3:15, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:15, 8:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 BRave (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:05, 5:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 The daRk knighT maRaThon Thu 6:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:01, 12:10 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 Mon, Wed 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 2:20, 3:25, 4:45, 5:50, 7:10, 8:15, 9:35, 10:35 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:00 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 11:35, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 magic mike (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:15 maRvel’S The avengeRS (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:45, 7:55, 11:10 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 10:30 people like uS (14A) Thu 10:35 pRomeTheuS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:40, 2:35, 5:35, 8:20, 11:20 Sat 11:25, 2:25, 5:25, 8:10, 11:10 Mon, Wed 2:35, 5:35, 8:20, 11:20 SavageS (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 Fri-Sun, TueWed 2:00, 5:10, 8:20, 11:30 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:40 STaR TRek: The nexT geneRaTion 25Th anniveRSaRy evenT Mon 7:15

Ted (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 8:20, 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:25, 6:05, 8:45, 11:25 Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00

Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00 TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC)

CourTney park 16 (Ce)

aBRaham lincoln: vampiRe hunTeR (14A) 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:00 mat The BeST exoTic maRigold hoTel (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat Bol Bachchan (PG) 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:15 mat cockTail (PG) 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat The hungeR gameS (14A) 2:15, 5:25, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat jaTT & julieT 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat magic mike (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat maRvel’S The avengeRS (PG) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat maRvel’S The avengeRS 3d (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30 mat men in Black 3 3d (PG) 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat moonRiSe kingdom (PG) 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat naan ee (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 people like uS (14A) 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:35 mat pRomeTheuS 3d (14A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat Rock of ageS (PG) 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:15 mat Seeking a fRiend foR The end of The WoRld (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 SnoW WhiTe and The hunTSman (PG) 2:00, 5:00, 8:15 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat Take ThiS WalTz (14A) 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat TeRi meRi kahaani (PG) 2:05, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat ThaT’S my Boy (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 To Rome WiTh love (PG) 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00, 11:00 Fri, Wed 2:10, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 Sat-Sun 11:10, 2:10, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 BRave (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:15 Sat-Sun 11:40 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS: The imax expeRience (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:50, 11:30 Sat-Sun 11:00, 11:30 mat ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Thu 1:35, 6:15, 10:50 FriWed 9:10 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 3:55, 8:35 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:40 SatSun 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:40 magic mike (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 people like uS (14A) Thu 10:20 pRomeTheuS (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 SavageS (18A) Thu 1:25 4:15 7:45 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 SnoW WhiTe and The hunTSman (PG) Thu 2:10 5:10 8:10 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:40, 8:00, 10:55 Ted (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 8:30, 11:10 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 8:30, 11:10 TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05

kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

Billa 2 Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Bol Bachchan (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:45 cockTail (PG) Thu 4:15 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce) Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 1:50, 5:00, 8:00, 11:55 Fri-Tue 1:50, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 Wed 1:50, 9:20 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 10:20 Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 andRé Rieu’S 25Th anniveRSaRy homeToWn conceRT Wed 7:00 BRave (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50 Fri-Wed 12:00 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 The daRk knighT maRaThon Thu 6:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS: The imax expeRience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:10, 7:50, 11:30 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:05, 12:15, 12:25 Fri 11:45, 12:15, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 3:55, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 7:35, 9:20, 10:00, 10:20, 10:45, 11:15, 11:50, 12:00 Sat 11:00, 11:45, 12:15, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 3:55, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 7:35, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 10:45, 11:15 Sun-Wed 11:45, 12:15, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 3:55, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 7:35, 9:20, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:20, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:10, 8:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 10:30 Thu 12:45 3:10 5:40 7:55 Fri only 12:40 3:00 5:30 7:55 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 maRvel’S The avengeRS (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 pRomeTheuS 3d (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 SavageS (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Fri-Wed 2:10, 5:15, 8:10, 11:05 STaR TRek: The nexT geneRaTion 25Th anniveRSaRy evenT Mon 7:15

110 CourTney park e aT huronTario, 416-335-5323

SilverCiTy MiSSiSSauga (Ce) hWy 5, eaST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

The BeST exoTic maRigold hoTel (PG) 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 BRave (PG) Thu 1:35 Fri-Wed 12:15 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:25, 4:10, 4:50, 6:35, 7:15, 9:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:45, 2:50, 4:10, 5:10, 6:35, 7:30, 9:00, 9:50 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 12:40 Fri-Wed 12:20 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed 3d (G) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 magic mike (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Rock of ageS (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 SnoW WhiTe and The hunTSman (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 To Rome WiTh love (PG) Thu 2:00 4:45 7:25 10:05 FriWed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

The amazing SpideR-man 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:40, 4:40, 6:50, 7:50, 11:00, 11:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:50, 8:10, 11:20 The amazing SpideR-man (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:35 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 10:50 BRave (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:50 Mon, Wed 12:45 BRave 3d (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:05, 6:05, 8:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Mon, Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 The daRk knighT maRaThon Thu 6:40 The daRk knighT RiSeS: The imax expeRience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 The daRk knighT RiSeS (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:30, 12:30, 1:20, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:30, 1:20, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 Mon, Wed 12:30, 1:20, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:00, 4:10, 4:15, 6:40, 7:15, 9:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:10, 8:35 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:05,

5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:45, 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05 Sat 11:15, 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05 Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me (PG) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 kaTy peRRy: paRT of me 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed (G) Thu 1:40, 4:00 madagaScaR 3: euRope’S moST WanTed 3d (G) Thu 1:00 3:30 6:00 8:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15 maRvel’S The avengeRS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 men in Black 3 (PG) Thu 12:55 3:25 5:55 8:25 10:55 FriWed 12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:25, 10:55 pRomeTheuS (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 10:15 SavageS (18A) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 7:15, 10:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:35, 2:30, 5:25, 8:20, 11:25 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:25, 8:20, 11:25 SnoW WhiTe and The hunTSman (PG) Thu 7:05, 10:20 STaR TRek: The nexT geneRaTion 25Th anniveRSaRy evenT Mon 7:15 Ted (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:55, 3:10, 4:30, 5:40, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:40, 12:20, 2:20, 3:00, 5:05, 5:45, 7:40, 8:30, 10:20, 11:15 Mon 12:20, 2:20, 3:00, 5:05, 7:40, 8:30, 10:20, 11:15 Wed 12:20, 2:20, 3:00, 5:05, 5:45, 7:40, 8:30, 10:20, 11:15 Teenage muTanT ninja TuRTleS Sat 11:00 TyleR peRRy’S madea’S WiTneSS pRoTecTion (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:35, 8:15, 11:05

inTerChange 30 (aMC)

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FRI 20 – My First Wedding (2011) D: Ariel Winograd. 7 pm. SAt 21 – Patang. 2 pm. To Make A Farm. 3:30 pm. My First Wedding. 5 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 10:30 pm. SuN 22-wED 25– Check website for schedule.

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tHu 19 – Adopted ID (2011) D: Sonia Godding.

6:30 pm. $12. Tickets at adoptedid.com (no door sales). Shut Up And Play The Hits (2012) D: Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. 9 pm. FRI 20 – Neil Young Journeys (2011) D: Jonathan Demme. 3:30 & 9 pm. Peace Out (2011) D: Charles Wilkinson. 6:45 pm. SAt 21 – Stop Making Sense (1984) D: Jonathan Demme. 1 pm. The Times Of Harvey Milk (1984) D: Rob Epstein. 3:45 pm. Neil Young Journeys. 6:30 pm. Peace Out. 9 pm. SuN 22 – Swimming To Cambodia (1987) D: Jonathan Demme. 1 pm. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) D: Don Coscarelli. 3:30 pm. Peace Out. 6:30 pm. Neil Young Journeys. 9 pm. MON 23 – Neil Young Journeys. 6:45 pm. Peace Out. 9 pm. tuE 24-wED 25 – Neil Young Journeys. 6:45 pm. Marley (2012) D: Kevin Macdonald. 9 pm.

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tHu 19 – Jaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg. 12:45, 3:30 & 8:50 pm. Summer In France and Jean Grémillon X 2: Remorques (1940). 6:30 pm. Lumière D’Été (1942). 8:45 pm. FRI 20 – First Peoples Cinema: Utu (1983) D: Geoff Murphy, and The Indian Raid (1911) D: James Young Deer. 2 pm. Jaws. 3:15 & 8:20 pm. Summer In France X 2: Le Quai Des Brumes (1938) D: Marcel Carné. 6:30 pm. Diabolique (1955) D: Henri-Georges Clouzot. 8:45 pm. SAt 21 – Summer In France X 2: Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) D: Marcel Carné. 1 pm. Jaws. 3:15 & 8:20 pm. Le Plaisir (1952) D: Max Ophüls. 5 pm. Beefcake: Cliffhanger (1993) D: Renny Harlin. 8 pm. SuN 22 – Hollywood Classics: Some Came Running (1958) D: Vincente Minnelli. 1 pm. Jaws. 3:15 & 8:20 pm. Summer In France: La Bandera (1935) D: Julien Duvivier. 5 pm. La Grande Illusion (1937) D: Jean Renoir. 7:30 pm. MON 23 – Jaws. 8:20 pm. Summer In France: The 400 Blows (1959) D: François Truffaut. 6:30 pm. tuE 24 – Jaws. 3:15 & 8:20 pm. Summer In France: Small Change (1976) D: François Truffaut. 6:30 pm. First Peoples Cinema: Utu and The Indian Raid. 9 pm. wED 25 – Jaws. 3:15 & 8:20 pm.

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tHu 19 – Headhunters (2011) D: Morten Tyl-

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Naked truth – or is it? THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL

ñBUTT NAKED (Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion)

Rating: NNNN Compelling and disturbing in equal measure, The Redemption Of General Butt Naked raises a lot of questions where no easy answers are possible. Its titular subject, a former Liberian warlord who used to march carrying an AK-47 and wearing just sneakers, is responsible for the horrific murder of thousands, women and children included. Now he’s evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi, who swears by Jesus and preaches forgiveness, possibly for selfish reasons. Directors Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion trust the audience to form their own opinion of a SAt 21 – Grease (1978) D: Randal Kleiser. 2 pm.

Prometheus 3D. 4:15 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 7 pm. Prometheus 3D. 9:30 pm. SuN 22 – Grease. 2 pm. Prometheus 3D. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 7 pm. MON 23-tuE 24 – Prometheus 3D. 6:45 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 9:15 pm. wED 25 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 1:30 & 9:15 pm. Cosmopolis (2012) D: David Cronenberg. 7 pm.

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larger-than-life figure whose charisma energizes a religious congregation the same way it once rallied child soldiers. This is that rare opportunity to get inside the mind of a mass murderer, who confesses that he used child soldiers because video games and movies trained them to be expert killers. Whether you buy his redemption or not might come down to whether you believe in the possibility of spiritual rebirth, though Blahyi’s case is certainly one of the most extreme. One thing’s for sure. When he grabs hold of a victim’s kinswoman, commanding her to forgive him, you can see that the General is still alive and well. Opens Friday (July 20) at the RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI Royal. tHu 19-FRI 20 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5

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tHu 19 – Patang (2011) D: Prashant Bhargava.

1 & 5:30 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World (2012) D: Matthew Lillard. 2:30 & 7 pm. To Make A Farm (2011) D: Steven Suderman. 4:15 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 9 pm.

tHu 19 – History Of French Horror Films. 5 pm. Famous Monsters Of Filmland. 7 pm. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Lon Chaney. 9 pm. SAt 21 – Jacques Tati Film Fest. 5 pm. Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm. The Salvador Dali Film Fest. 9 pm. SuN 22 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 6 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A & OK Computer. 7 pm. Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonderland (1951) D: Clyde Geronomi and Wilfred Jackson, with music of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. 9 pm. MON 23 – The Marx Borthers Film Fest. 5 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. Charlie Chaplin Film Fest. 9 pm. tuE 24 – Subversive Film Fest. 5 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 9 pm. wED 25 – Anarchist Film Fest. 5 pm. Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) D: Pedro Almodóvar. 7 pm. Fortune And Men’s Eyes (1971) D: Harvey Hart. 9 pm.

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tHu 19 – Marley (2012) D: Kevin Macdonald. 6:45 pm. Headhunters (2011) D: Morten Tyldum. 9:30 pm. FRI 20 – Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 7 pm. Prometheus (2012) D: Ridley Scott. 9 pm. SAt 21 – Labyrinth (1986) D: Jim Henson. 2 pm. Prometheus. 4:15 & 9 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 7 pm. SuN 22 – Labyrinth. 2 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 4:15 & 7 pm. Prometheus. 9 pm. MON 23-tuE 25 – Prometheus. 6:45 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 9:15 pm. wED 25 – Moonrise Kingdom. 1:30 & 7 pm. Prometheus. 9 pm.

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tHu 19 – Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) D: Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre. 7 pm. ALPS (2011) D: Giorgos Lanthimos. 9 pm. FRI 20 – The Redemption Of General Butt Naked (2011) D: Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss. 7 pm. Take This Waltz (2011) D: Sarah Polley. 9 pm. The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm. SAt 21-SuN 22 – The Redemption Of General Butt Naked. 7 pm. Take This Waltz. 9 pm. tuE 24-wED 25 – Take This Waltz. 7 pm. The Redemption Of General Butt Naked. 9:15 pm.

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Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416-8686937, cntower.ca. tHu 19-wED 25 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma. org. tHu 19 – Open Roof Festival Outdoor Film And Music Series presents Herman’s House (2012) D: Angad Bhalla. 7:30 pm. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. Gotta Love That French Activity Club presents Madagascar (2005) D: Eric Carnell and Tom McGrath. French version. 6 pm. $5. 1437 Kingston Rd. 416-759-7397, gottalovethatfrench.com/activityclub. FRI 20 – Cultura Festival presents an outdoor screening of One Week (2008) D: Michael McGowan. 9 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. culturafestival.ca. SAt 21 – Harbourfront’s Hot And Spicy Food Festival presents Savoury Cinema films: Ratatouille (2007) D: Bard Bird and Jan Pinkava. 1 pm. El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) D: Gereon Wetzel. 4:30 pm. A Matter Of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (2011) D: Sally Rowe. 7 pm. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. SuN 22 – Movies In The Park presents an outdoor screening of Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) D: Steven Spielberg. Screening begins at dark. Free. Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview, south of Danforth. moviesinthepark.wordpress.com. Christie Pits Film Festival present an outdoor screening of Big (1988) D: Penny Marshall. 9 pm. Free or pwyc (proceeds benefit the festival). 750 Bloor W at Christie. facebook.com/ ChristiePitsFilmFestival. MON 23 – The Toronto Film Society British Invasion Screening Series presents Candlelight In Algeria (1943) D: George King, and Contraband (1940) D: Michael Powell. 7:30 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com. tuE 24 – City Cinema: Cult Classics presents an outdoor screening of The Big Lebowski (1998) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. The East Gallery presents the documentary They Call It Myanmar (2012) D: Robert H Lieberman. 8 pm. Free. 334 Dundas W. Reserve theycallitmyanmar2.eventbrite.com. Pleasure Dome presents an outdoor screening of Me & My Brother D: Robert Frank. 9 pm. $8. Courtyard, 401 Richmond W. (Rain location CineCycle, 129 Spadina.) pdome.org. wED 25 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks: Movies Under The Stars presents an outdoor screening of Napoleon Dynamite (2004) D: Jared Hess. Screening at approximately 9 pm. WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/freeflicks. Toronto Entertainment District BIA and TIFF present TIFF In The Park, an outdoor movie series: His Girl Friday (1940) D: Howard Hawks. 9:15 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. torontoed.com. 3

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blu-ray/dvd The Three Stooges (Fox, 2012) D:

Bobby and Peter Farrelly, w/ Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes.Rating: NNNN; DVD package: N

For most of its brief running time, The Three Stooges is exactly what it ought to be – knockabout slapstick performed by a trio of actors thoroughly steeped in the techniques and personas of Moe Howard, Curly Howard and Larry Fine, the original Stooges. For a few minutes here and there, the movie sinks into the bathos of ailing orphans and friends parted, but that never lasts long.

The negligible plot has the Stooges venturing into the world for the first time to save the orphanage where they’ve lived since infancy. This brings them into contact with Lydia and Mac, who hire them to murder Lydia’s rich husband, a plan that immediately leads to mayhem. Along with the eye-pokes, nosegrabs and bad puns, the movie has some moments of high weirdness, notably the battle of the babies, the salmon farm and the poodles and the skateboard. It’s all very funny. I’d like to know what Sean Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamantopoulos went through to become Larry, Curly and Moe, but all this DVD gives us are a few deleted and extended scenes and some slapstick

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bits cut together to classical music. EXTRAS Deleted and extended scenes, mashup. English, French, Spanish audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

disc of the week Mel Gibson goes easy on the mugging in Get The Gringo.

Silent House (eOne, 2011) D: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau, w/ Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN

Silent House makes two smart moves that set it a little apart from the runof-the-mill haunted house tale. First, it plays out in real time. Twenty-something Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) meets her father (Adam Trese) outside a house by a lake. The nastiness starts right away, escalating till the end. Second, we’re with Sarah all the way: she’s either in the shot or we’re watching from her point of view. These elements work together and separately to keep us off balance. We know there are other people in the house. Are they real or ghosts? There are good reasons to go either way. There’s no room for exposition, so you’re hanging on every detail, looking for clues. That effort pays off in the end. Olsen is alone on screen a lot, and Sarah panics easily (something else to wonder about), so we spend too much time listening to nothing but her short, fast breathing. It does get tedious. But Olsen brings more than one note to her terror and fashions a character with more depth than the generic horror movie heroine. Directors Chris Kentis and Laura Lau make the house look bigger on the inside than it does from the outside and create a good, though not perfect, illusion that we’re watching one continuous shot. The brief extras package contains little information and none about the challenges of making a real-time movie. EXTRAS Cast and crew interviews, on-set footage. English, French audio. English SDH subtitles.

Get The Gringo (Alliance, 2012) D: Adrian Grunberg, w/ Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN Nobody likes Mel Gibson these days, but if you can get past the tabloids and the clunky title, you’ll find a brisk crime drama reminiscent of Richard Stark’s Parker novels and played out in a unique and fascinating setting. Gibson plays a robberywith-violence career criminal who gets thrown in a Mexican prison that looks, as he says, “like the shittiest mall on earth.” Nobody is locked in cells. Some of the cons have guns. Stalls for drugs, food, hookers – whatever you want – operate openly. Husbands, wives and kids live with the prisoners, coming and going as they please. The

Lockout (Alliance,

2012) D: James Mather, Stephen St. Leger, w/ Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace. Rating: NN; Bluray package: none Lockout’s creators blew their budget on the opening set-piece, which intercuts a brutal interrogation with a highoctane fight and chase, but once the plot kicks in, the action settles down to uninspired B-movie levels leading to a

thief settles in to learn the ropes, aided by a 10-year-old boy who’s determined to kill the jail’s top gangster. At the same time, people are looking to recover our thief’s stolen millions. Gibson dials back his penchant for slapstick mugging till it’s barely visible and plays the thief as neither a hero nor a guy who finds redemption through the admiration of a child. He just wants the money. Kevin Hernandez, the kid, stays just as self-interested. The extras take a little look at production but focus mainly on how Gibson, director Adrian Grunberg and co-writer Stacy Perskie came up with the story. EXTRAS Making-of doc, scene-specific on-set footage. English, French audio and subtitles. thoroughly disappointing climax. The plot rips off Escape From New York: only one hard-ass (Guy Pearce) can rescue the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from the fortress prison. In this case, the prison is orbiting Earth and the inmates are staging a riot. Pearce does good comic deadpan, but Grace isn’t playing on the same cartoonish level, so their scenes don’t spark. EXTRAS English, French audio and subtitles.

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Friends With Kids (2011) Comedy about two best friends who decide to have a baby together.

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Hubby’s beef not helpful I am desperately In need of your help.

After eight years of marriage, it turns out that the blow jobs I give are “good but not great” and are now getting “boring.” My husband is unable to tell me anything specific he wants me to do, just that I should do something different and “be creative.” I’ve done pretty much everything I can think of over the years, fingers and hands included, so I have no idea where to go from here! My husband is my first partner, so I have no past experience to draw from, and porn hardly seems the proper inspiration: visually exciting (for a guy) but no visible technique other than some rather extreme deep-throating, which I am incapable of, as I have an annoyingly sensitive gag reflex. Is there anything non-standard but fun that you (or your fans) could suggest? I’m not exactly vanilla, so I’m willing to try pretty much anything at this point. Thought I Was Doing It Well Seeing as I think saying, “You’re doing it wrong, do it better, but don’t ask me how I want it done,” is an asshole move, TIWDIW, I’m tempted to give asshole advice. Something along the lines of “take a swig of Tabasco sauce immediately before popping his dick in your mouth.” You seem like a nice person, TIWDIW: a good sex partner, GGG, open to constructive criticism. But “I grow weary of your blow jobs, they bore me – do something about it!” isn’t constructive criticism. It’s destructive criticism, the kind of feedback that can leave a sex

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partner feeling inadequate and selfconscious. To be constructively critical, your husband needs to come through with some suggestions and direction – something more helpful than “surprise me.” (I bet he’d find that mouthful of Tabasco sauce surprising.) Now, maybe your husband has no clue what he wants you to do. But that’s still no excuse for “Your blow jobs bore me. Fix it! Creatively!” Your husband should’ve tossed out some suggestions, invited you to do the same, and you two should’ve given ’em all a whirl until you found a few new tricks that worked. Minor unfairnesses slosh around relationships like water in the bottom of a canoe, of course, but “Be creative!” in this context isn’t just unfair, it’s paralyzing. Putting all the responsibility for busting out new tricks on the shoulders of the person whose blow job/ass-fucking/bondage skills have been criticized rarely results in the criticized person busting out new and mind-blowing blow job/ass-fucking/bondage moves. A destructively criticized sex partner is apt to shut down. So your husband isn’t just guilty of unfair behaviour here, TIWDIW, he’s guilty of self-defeating behaviour. Meaning, you may be able to give better head – we all have room for improvement – but this is not the way to go about getting better head from you. Finally, TIWDIW, you mention that your husband was your first partner. Can I ask how many women he’s been with? If the answer is “not many,” then I would respectfully suggest to your husband that his frame of reference may not be large enough to craft a truly informed critique of your blow job technique. For all he knows, you give amazing head. (Cue the straight men who’ll tell your husband he should be happy he’s getting blow jobs at all, that you wouldn’t catch them complaining if they were getting regular and enthusiastic blow jobs eight years into their marriages, etc.) But routine can make even the best blow jobs seem boring. So it may not be the how of your blow jobs that bores him, TIWDIW, but the when and the where. Give him the same old head in a new and exciting place (outside?) or in a new and exciting

circumstance (his hands tied behind him?) and see if that doesn’t make your blow jobs exciting again. And while we’re on the subject of oral sex: How are your husband’s cunnilingus skills these days? If they’re not all they could be, now’s the time to tell him.

Girlfriend’s Savage love I’m a straIght guy Into Intense bond-

age – extended scenes, sensory deprivation, whole-body casting – and the only people who have the gear and are willing to do it for free are gay guys. I “laid my kink cards on the table” at three months, per your instructions, and told my girlfriend that I sometimes get tied up by guys. She understood. It turns out she’s been reading your column since she was 15. She’s not worried that I’m gay; she didn’t ask me to stop. Just writing to say thanks. Only Gay For Bondage You’re welcome, OGFB. Give my regards to the girlfriend.

Devotee letter was fake I was upset by the letter In last

week’s column about the devotee who posted pictures of her disabled girlfriend’s body and wheelchair online without permission. I cannot speak for all devotees, but I was disgusted by the behaviour of GIMP’s girlfriend. I do not date people solely for their bodies and would never see my partner as “just a body” or post pictures of them online. As a devotee, I do find particular disabled bodies more attractive and sexually appealing than most “able” bodies. But physical attraction is only a starting point. In order for a relationship to move forward, there must be attraction on other levels and compatibility on an interpersonal level, and there must always be mutual respect. I wanted to put this perspective out there for people who, like GIMP, are wary of devotees. I’m sorry this happened to her. In any “group” there will be people who are perverted and disrespectful. But when a devotee acts up, it contributes negatively to an already largely misunderstood attraction. Good Dev In Canada

A programming note: People typically write to me when someone has done them wrong or when they’ve done someone wrong. When the bad actor in a particular situation is someone like a devotee – the kind of person who is unlikely to be out to friends and family members about their deeply stigmatized sexual identity and/or interest – my readers can’t weigh what they’re learning about this one particular devotee against what they know about the other devotees they know and love… because the other devotees they know and love aren’t out to them about being devotees. It’s something to bear in mind, gentle readers, when someone with a rare or deeply stigmatized sexual interest makes an appearance in the column. Remember: GIMP’s girlfriend doesn’t represent all devotees any more than TIWDIW’s husband represents all straight men. With that said… GIMP’s letter appears to have been a fake. There’s a disturbed person lurking on the web who pretends to be a woman in a wheelchair, as a number of readers wrote to inform me, and this person has peddled the exact same story before. A fake letter is going to make its way into the column from time to time – there’s no way to verify every letter – and as every question that does make the column is a good hypothetical to every Savage Love reader save one, I try not to get too worked up about the odd fake question. But it is a problem when a fake question contributes to the negative public perception of a group of people whose sexual desires are already so stigmatized. While the news that GIMP’s letter is fake will come as a comfort to everyone who thought my advice for GIMP sucked, it’s cold comfort for all the good and decent devotees out there who had to see yet another story about a shitty – and, in this case, completely fictitious – devotee make it into print. My apologies. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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