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[Frontlines] Samantha Stroh on the often misunderstood world of chick lit The coolest professor I ever had, in a totally out-there OISE course on imagination, asked us to create a character. It only took me minutes, giggling, to conjure the secret life of Wanda X, a leather-loving fetishist.

Creating Wanda X was so much fun, I knew I wanted to write a novel. Not about her – she exited my mind pretty quickly – but in the often misunderstood genre of chick lit.

The pastel covers, strong female friendships and hilarious romances were totally suited to my slightly sarcastic voice. It took me a year to finish that novel, and being young, smug and confident, I went after the big guns, a prestigious New York City literary agency.

I knew the impossible stat that only 1 per cent of writers get agents. But, hell.

I was still shocked and ecstatic when one actually came along.

We signed an agreement, and as I held the creamy contract in my hand, I cried a little and dreamed a lot. My agent tossed around delicious words like “auction”, “bid” and “movie rights.”

Was it really as easy as it seemed?

Sadly, no.

Four years and a few completed manuscripts later, my agent hadn’t found a publisher to buy my books. I despaired, I ranted and eventually I accepted. My smart and edgy chick lit, romantic comedy for those who think the genre is all about shopping and shoes, had nary a vampire or wizard, and traditional publishers were wary of taking me on.

So I pitched magazines and websites. But I still didn’t have what I wanted most (besides the ability to stretch myself beyond 5 feet and for my loved ones to live forever): the right to call myself an author.

And as Canadian publishing houses were shutting down and reputable companies like Penguin began opening up self-publishing options, doing it myself didn’t seem to carry the same stigma any more. E.L. James, Stephen King and the much-hyped Amanda Hocking have done it with astounding success.

Print or ebook? Vanity press or publish-on-demand? After months of researching, I ultimately decided on Ama-

zon’s Kindle platform.

Now, I like my paperbacks, with their dog-eared pages and book smells. But I wanted to see how far my ebook would take me. It cost me quite a bit and was worth every cent. The cover of Finding Lucas is exactly how I’d imagined it, though there was some file converting and computer stuff I knew I didn’t want to mess with, so my beloved and talented Starbucks barista became my tech expert, hand holder and head shot photographer.

Yes, I am still learning how to get Finding Lucas noticed on the world’s biggest bookshelf. And as I hand out photos of my book cover, I know how the Jehovah’s Witnesses must feel when people see them coming.

But some amazing things have hap-

pened, too. I was selected as June’s best debut chick lit author on a prominent website, and I’m going on a blog tour in September, which means I don’t have to leave my house or even brush my teeth. I have also met the most supportive and interesting bloggers, re-

I’m going on a blog tour – I don’t have to leave my house or brush my teeth. viewers, writers and readers, and my second novel is coming out in the fall.

I may never get that publishing house “call” or do a book signing with people who can actually see me in person, but maybe, just maybe, some Hollywood producer out there....

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Calm before the comedy at Canadian Stage’s presentation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, High Park Amphitheatre, 7:50 pm, Tuesday, July 24.

Schadenforde

The mayor has a new ride to go with the tough-guy image he’s been burnishing. It’s a Cadillac Escalade SUV, the preferred wheels of pimps and gangstas that takes its name from a siege warfare tactic.

No more minivan for the so-called man of the people. Sticker price: from $94,463. The mayor’s peeps went into damage control mode when Ford arrived for a photo op in the monster last week. Brother Doug, the councillor for Ward 2, told the Star it was a gift from him and brother Randy. But a different story appeared in the Sun, which quoted the mayor as saying he’d saved a long time to buy the luxury wheels. Either way, taxpayers end up picking up the fuel tab. The cost to fill up one of these babies: $130.

More than 140,000 Number of unwanted cats and dogs that ended up in Canadian animal shelters in 2010 50,000 Number that were euthanized because good homes couldn’t be found for them 67,000 Births prevented in six years by spaying one female dog 420,000 Births prevented in seven years by spaying one female cat

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Barometer Metrolinx Pr Citing the importance of the right mix of corporate and public sector experience, the province appoints three new members to the board of its decidedly corporate-heavy regional transit agency. We await the positive results.

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“Danger due to bad mayor” outside the construction zone at Toronto Dance Theatre at Winchester and Metcalfe in Cabbagetown, before someone with spray-paint came by to whiteout the message.

City Hall watch

In a move the arts community is calling a “big surprise,” Rita Davies, the city’s executive director of culture, has left her post. Michael Williams, general manager of Economic Development and Culture, broke the news in a letter Thursday, July 19, the day before Davies was scheduled to leave. Toronto Arts Council executive director Claire Hopkinson described Davies as “a true champion of culture,” who will be “sorely missed.”

Davies, who has been with the city since 1999, was instrumental in the development of the city’s culture plan and is credited with taking arts programs to underserved areas.

About a dozen of the city’s top ’crats have departed since Rob Ford took office 18 months ago.

The newly re-elected chief of the Assembly of First Nations begins his second term with a bang.

After criticism in his first term that he was too cosy with the Harper Conservatives, Atleo demands native rights be respected in the development of the Northern Gateway pipeline.

City CyCling The city starts dealing with its notso-theft-proof bike-ring backlog, rolling out 500 of 1,000 new and improved post rings slated for locations around town. At $78 a pop, they better be good.

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over-the-toP editorializing The Star publishes an apology for its editorial cartoon following the Danzig Street shooting. The paper admitted that the image of a small girl accompanied by the caption “Injuries to expect before they are two” – including an injury from a bullet – “fed into racial stereotypes at a time when emotions were running particularly high.”

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Riverdale residents are reporting the presence of coyotes in and around Riverdale Park East, including one particularly large and aggressive one, which might in part explain all the signs on poles in the area looking for missing cats.

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Scene stealer Globe-trotting TV foodie Anthony Bourdain cut through the Big Smoke this week to taste for himself the city’s culinary delights, making stops at Kensington Market’s Agave y Aguacate, Queen West’s Poutini’s House of Poutine and Porchetta & Co. on Dundas West. Read Steven Davey’s post at nowtoronto.com.

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In response to a Harris/Decima poll suggesting Canadians would favour a ban on supersized soft drinks like the one being contemplated in New York City, the Canadian Beverage Association launches an American-style PR offensive downplaying the link between soda and obesity.

At the scene of the rhyme

Return to the Allan Gardens spot where people’s poet Milton Acorn made his mark on city’s consciousness By RoBeRt PRiest An act of civil disobedience begins in Allan Gardens. The speaker, a burly fellow with a face that might’ve been carved by a woodcutter’s axe from a particularly grainy tree stump, calls out, “I shout love in a land muttering slack damnation / as I would in a blizzard’s blow.”

He is quickly ticketed and fined by police for the crime of speaking without a permit in a public park. He refuses to stop his reading, and the small crowd refuses to stop listening or disperse. They are occupying the park.

Sounds familiar, right? But it happened 50 years ago this summer. The speaker was iconic Canadian poet Milton Acorn, just then becoming famous for his Marxism-informed free verse and delicate lyrics that would lead to his being named “the people’s poet” by his peers Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Joe Rosenblatt and more in a legendary ceremony at Grossman’s Tavern.

All of which explains why on Thursday, July 12, 2012, a group of poets returned to the scene of the crime to take the park, mark the anniversary and toast the publishing of Mosaic Press’s new Acorn collection, In A Springtime Instant.

They gathered in front of the statue of Robbie Burns, where the original readings took place, to recite Acorn’s work. The group of 20, of course, was nothing like the thousands who attended his resistance readings in 1962.

Back then, despite mounting fines, Acorn continued Sunday after Sunday, drawing ever larger crowds and ever more media.

Other poets joined in, and the protest was soon being covered coast to coast. Inevitably, stung by the bad publicity and the unstoppable poetry, the city of Toronto changed its bylaw.

I knew none of this when I used to visit him more than a decade later, in the late 70s, in the cigar reek of his Hotel Waverly room at College and Spadina. Rather than brag about

old achievements, he preferred to spend his time reciting first drafts of brand new poems to any young poet bold enough to drop by.

A clearly tormented man, Acorn, who railed against war and inequality and would have loved Occupy, was sometimes inarticulate with rage. He told me once, in one of his moments of clarity and connection, about the sonic impact of a shell blast he experienced aboard a ship in the Second World War, an injury that affected his brain health ever after and no doubt contributed to his early demise in his hometown of Charlottetown in 1986, aged 43.

Astonishingly, on July 12, two weeks ago, police once again converged at our poetry happening in Allan Gardens. Those reading from Acorn’s book hadn’t got more than three poems into the oeuvre before they were interrupted.

It seems a couple of Allan Garden regulars and a resident of nearby Seaton House got into a violent altercation involving some head-kicking, bottle-heaving and a bit of sitting in the middle of Sherbourne traffic while bleeding.

This had nothing to do with the poetry, but the poets wound up being referees, peacekeepers and ambulance scouts as the fight broke out again and again.

Eventually, quite a number of police arrived, though unlike half a century ago, it was the poets themselves who summoned them. Not exactly civil disobedience, but as poet Kent Bowman put it, “I think Milton would have been pleased with the outcome and the chaos.” Probably.

As Acorn said: “I shout love even though it might deafen you / and never say that love’s a mild thing / for it’s hard, a violation / of all laws for the shrinking of people.”

Thanks, Milton. Message received.

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LESSONS learned (and some yet to be absorbed) from the troubling aftermath of the Monday, July 16, shooting spree on Danzig Street in Scarborough.

By ENZO DiMATTEO A couple of his soldiers showed up at Premier Dalton McGuinty’s presser at the Scarborough Boys and Girls Club Friday, July 20, one of them carrying a sign, to blame Third World arrivals for all that ails T.O.

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2. Toronto enters red-neck territory.

1. Rob Ford is so out of his depth, it’s not funny any more.

Give the big dog a bone and he’s liable to mangle it. The mayor’s spinners thought they’d found an issue post-Danzig Street tragedy – one tailor-made for Ford to reclaim that agenda that’s been MIA for some months now. Ford tried his damnedest to look like the man in control, wearing that business-like expression he acquires for the cameras during important moments like these. Instead, he fell flat on his face. His off-the-cuff proposal that immigration laws be used to deal with gun crime left even his comrades in the conservative press – ones usually willing to give the bully the benefit of the doubt – scratching their heads.

Ford’s anti-immigrant musings were no fluke, but rather coldly calculated to rouse the segment of that dormant base of his, aka Ford Nation, that eats up that kind of crap.

On the immigrant cock-up, news orgs busied themselves politely seeking clarification on what were clearly ignorant, and possibly racist, comments, as if the mayor simply had some explaining to do. None required, it’s sad to say.

Ford has always had his issues with immigration (Gino Boys and Asians who work like dogs, etc). It’s like that gay thing. He cracked on live TV during the election about too many foreigners in the city, it should be remembered.

And while it’s easy to dismiss the mayor’s musings as misguided, unfortunate, shortsighted – take your pick – they’re harder to ignore in the context of other ill-informed comments that opinion makers in the conservative press have made about the root causes of gun violence. Women “spreading their legs,” as some guy named Menzoid over at Sun TV put it, and bearing “fatherless” children has been an overarching theme of the gun violence coverage.

Let’s forget for the moment that arrests have yet to be made, save for a minor one unrelated to the two deaths in the Scarborough incident. We know nothing of the family situations of the alleged culprit or culprits.

But alongside the colour-coded narrative, gun advocates and right-wing media outlets trying to pre-empt any discussion of a handgun ban (the premier thinks that’s part of the

solution) have adopted the position made popular by the political doublespeak of the NRA in the U.S. – that loosening gun laws will reduce crime. If everyone is packin’, that’ll scare away the bad guys, or so the theory goes. Perhaps they haven’t noticed the events that transpired in Aurora, Colorado last week.

We know from our experience in Canada that provinces with higher rates of gun ownership, for example, also have higher rates of gun-related death and injury. More guns equals more death.

3. Hoaxes and hypocrites.

The mayor was quick to take credit for squeezing more cash out of the province for the force’s TAVIS “rapid response” unit.

Money talks, bullshit walks was Ford’s sound bite going in to Monday’s so-called “gun summit” with the premier and Police Chief Bill Blair.

But other political forces are behind the $500K for TAVIS, chief among them the fact that the province is already spending millions in crime prevention programs. The other overlooked political variable: McGuinty’s Minister of Health Promotion and Sport, Margarett Best, represents Scarborough-Guildwood, the riding where the shooting happened.

Ford is only kidding himself if he thinks he came out of this week’s meeting with anything but egg on his face. He’s the guy who froze hiring of police during the last round of budget cuts, which raises the question: how much of the gun play we’re excontinued on page 15 œ

Various notable people have offered their pronouncements about the possible causes of the gun violence in Toronto following the Monday, July 16, shooting spree in Scarborough.

Some blamed it on Jamaicans or thuggish behaviour or fatherlessness. Come on, they’re packing guns because they’re growing up fatherless?

Many of their fathers and grandfathers didn’t grow up with their fathers either, but they didn’t pick up a gun. Besides, this fails to give credit to the loving and nurturing homes headed by mothers and grandmothers.

No. The elephant in the room is our education system.

An abundance of studies and reports on education, specifically on streaming of African-Canadian kids in the system, have been trickling in since the 1980s. All give us a longitudinal look at our school system and the effects of its decisions.

Generally speaking, students pushed into higher streams are destined for university.

Students relegated to the lower streams, with few exceptions, never go to university, no matter how much they want to. Many end up in community colleges for training in the trades. Others complete high school and join the workforce. A significant proportion simply drop out.

Of course not everyone can or needs to go to university, but when such opportunities are influenced by race, there is a serious problem.

Streaming is done on the basis of achievement rather than potential. It’s also influenced by race.

HERE ARE THE FACTS:

64 per cent of black students are channelled into lower streams compared to 32 per cent of white students and only 18 per cent of students of Asian origin.

Black students are twice as likely as whites and four times as likely as those of Asian origin to drop out of high school.

That’s been a known fact since 1980, and it’s still the same today.

40 per cent of black students drop out of high school, compared to 25 per cent of the general student body.

Roughly 20 per cent of black students tracked into the lower streams complete high school.

How did we get here? The process of streaming starts very early, in Grade 3.

That’s when children are identified as either exceptional or special needs and receive what is known as an IEP (Individual Education Plan). That information is added to their OSR (Ontario Student Record) and follows them throughout their elementary continued on page 15 œ

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We should have as our goal that all Torontonians live within a 10-minute walk of a pool, park or sports facility By ADAM GIAMBRONE It’s one of the hotter summers in recent memory, and our large expanse of Parks and Recreation facilities offer a needed break from the concrete jungle.

Our parks system is based on some lucky geology, which long ago created ravines and watersheds that feed our rivers and provide naturalized settings. Who could forget the archipelago off our coast?

These beautiful parks harbour historical treasures, but their potential is not being fully realized.

This isn’t as much an issue for people with suburban backyards as it is for the large population of apartment dwellers in places like Malvern and Rexdale, or for the increasing number of downtown condo residents living in units sometimes smaller than 600 square feet. Our urban green treasures need to be celebrated and promoted.

While we’re unlikely to reach the 35 million visits that New York’s Central Park gets (seven times that of the Grand Canyon), we could do a better job of promoting our parks and using them as a tourist draw.

Perhaps the waterfront, which will one day function as one large linear park, will have the same draw as Millennium Park in Chicago or Stanley Park in Vancouver.

But in order to achieve this, we need to upgrade our facilities – from the tired Toronto Island ferry terminal to the lowly worn-out park washroom buildings. We also need to add utilitarian features like working drinking fountains and benches where people can linger.

We should also consider tapping our city’s arts community to enliven parks with art installations and programming that contributes to the natural settings.

Each year, more than 1.2 million residents participate in recreation

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and leisure programs offered by the city. This intense use takes its toll, as does the weather, and time and again this is the primary focus of the department’s capital budget. Some 90 per cent goes to fixing what is broken or needs replacement.

However, we need to think about expanding green space in a city whose population grows by 1 per cent or so every two years. With 1.5 hectares per 1,000 people, Toronto has less parkland than New York City or Chicago and less than half the park space of Boston. In fact, our 4,300 hectares works out to just 16 square metres per person.

Our city spends around $375 million, or $130 per capita, for operations and programs of our Parks, Forestry and Recreation Department, which oversees our parks and street trees and provides services in and around our community centres and pools.

To put that in perspective, Toronto spends about the same as Montreal, although Montreal has only 60 per cent of the population.

We need to find ways of doing things differently to help use our funds more efficiently.

We should begin by empowering communities and engaging them in the management and programming of their local parks.

In most cases, having the community maintain the parks on a regular basis is not sustainable.

Those tasks are better left to professionals and city staff, but local residents can play a big role in helping to create programs.

Places like Dufferin Grove Park, with its myriad community activities, is a model for what we should aim to offer. Whether it’s Friday night dinners, community theatre, farmers’ markets or other programs oriented around the bread oven and

food, Dufferin Grove has shown that get relief from extremely hot and active community centres don’t need humid summers. four walls.

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that While almost everyone in the many of the areas experiencing the neighbourhood loves Dufferin Grove, recent gun violence also are those its existence is constantly challenged with fewer recreational facilities and by regulations. We need to find new programs, lacking neighbourhood models that let residents come in. community-building activities.

Rules need to be flexible and manageIn all the debate about budgets ment structures accommodating if and not being able to afford the city residents are to be active players, not we want, this is an essential discusjust in the consumption of services, sion to have. One of the cheapest but also in their provision. ways to make neighbourhoods safer Finding ways to engage residents is through building a sense of comwould be a great way of expanding munity and giving kids opportunthe quality of our parks and the pro- ities to learn and have fun in a safe grams they offer. place.

Moreover, in our growing city, Children’s programs offered by more and more newcomers do not the city and other agencies give kids have backyards, so community-led a place to be and to learn social internon-traditional “community centres action skills different from without walls” like Dufferin Grove are import1.2 million ant.

Torontonians participating in recreational programs each year

90 Percentage of parks capital budget spent on repairs and maintenance

1.5 Hectares of park space per 1,000 people in Toronto, less than New York, Chicago and Boston $375 million Total amount Toronto spends (operating and capital) on parks annually – the same as Montreal, which has a little more than half T.O.’s population

In many parts of Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke, kids can’t walk to a neighbourhood pool or other community asset to

what they pick up elsewhere.

They also allow them to explore their city in a way that they can’t do alone.

We should be able to find some community safety money to expand our summer camp programs and the small overnight camp the city operates to give all urban kids that quintessential Canadian experience.

We also need to think about yearround programs. While having green space is important, we also need rec facilities that offer programming.

We should have as our goal that all Toronto residents live a 10minute walk away from a community centre with programming, a pool, a park, a library and recreation sports facilities.

These facilities aren’t cheap: a new community centre costs $20 to $30 million, a new library $10 to $15 million and playgrounds $100,000 to $250,000. But imagine a 15-year capital program that allocated $45 million additional dollars a year to building these facilities. That’s doable, considering we only spend 4 per cent of our current capital budget on parks.

Some of the funding could come from the Public Health budget, which is cost-shared with the province, since lack of exercise is a leading cause of medical problems, and Toronto Public Health is charged with encouraging healthy lifestyles.

Ongoing efforts to limit tax increases means Toronto hasn’t seriously considered enhancing its parks and their programs as it should. Toronto has amazing natural beauty. Surely it would be well worth the $15 to $20 a person it would cost to better maintain and program.

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periencing now is fallout from the fact that community foot patrols had to be scaled back to meet the Ford admin’s bottom line?

Cops all the way from 14 Division in the west end had to be dispatched to cover off the Danzig shooting. For that matter, Emergency Medical Services personnel from the 905 had to be called in as well to bolster Toronto EMS, another area that’s seen budgetary tightening.

4. So much for that law and order agenda.

Nice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to take a break from his summer holidays to blow through town and meet with fishing buddy Ford for a photo op and what the PM termed a “full and frank” discussion on gun violence Tuesday. It’s all an illusion, of course.

At a time when police say 70 per cent of handguns used in the commission of crimes are entering the country from south of the border, the feds are cutting hundreds of frontline positions and funds for border security. Ironic, really, considering that it was the high-profile gang-related 2005 Boxing Day shooting of Jane Creba that Conservatives used to push the panic and their lawand-order agenda during the 2006 federal election.

More to the point, how can a government that says it stands for law and order abolish willy-nilly the long-gun registry police have relied on to catch gun criminals? How is mandatory minimum sentencing, discredited as a crime fighting tool in the U.S., going to do anything but produce more hardened criminals? We can’t arrest ourselves out of this situation.

The feds need look no further than the research conducted for their own public safety minister, which is hiding in plain sight on the government’s website.

A brief prepared on street gangs states that “suppression strategies” like crackdowns and aggressive enforcement tactics show “little evidence of lasting impact.” The document recommends a focus on prevention programs that keep kids out of gangs in the first place, backed by stable funding. The report notes that even successful antigang programs have lost funding since the HarperCons have been in office.

These findings are not rocket science. We know

them from countless provincial reports on the root causes of gun violence, including Alvin Curling and Roy McMurtry’s in 2008, Julian Falconer’s on school violence after the 2007 death of Jordan Manners, and the Toronto police’s own summit headed by former chief Julian Fantino. Poverty, racism, the education system and lack of economic opportunity and jobs all play a role, to say nothing of mental health issues associated with grinding poverty and isolation.

5. The extent of the gang problem in Toronto depends on how we define “gang.”

Is gang activity increasing? Is it becoming more violent? The recent very public shootings at the Eaton Centre and on Danzig (not to forget a café on College and one in Lawrence Heights) would suggest the answer is yes to both questions.

But with crime, perception usually trumps reality. The fact is, crime rates in Toronto have been on the decline for the better part of the last decade. That didn’t happen magically. Prevention programs have had something to do with it. The previous administration at City Hall also spared no expense where policing was concerned. And the police brass over at 40 College also had their marching orders to put more boots on the street.

For all the chief’s publicly stated commitment to community policing, it can’t be overlooked that the more hard-boiled tone preferred by the Ford admin has seemingly filtered down to the division commanders.

And as a consequence, we’re having the same debates about gun violence that we’ve been having for the last decade.

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and high school education.

Usually, less informed parents gladly give their consent to the IEP designation for students destined for lower streams. It’s explained to parents that this will give the child special help. No mention is made about the fact that this placement is permanent and follows kids through high school.

There is nothing bad about identifying children to determine if they need special help, because some children really need that.

The problem is that race is often a factor when streaming in high school is neither necessary nor fully justified.

Most students who are inappropriately placed in lower streams soon realize they’ve been channelled into dead-end courses that don’t prepare them for anything.

Many are youth who were born and raised in Toronto or brought here when they were very young. They expect inclusive education and equal opportunity for employment.

As a result, many black youth feel that all the time they spent in school was a waste.

Premier Dalton McGuinty needs to look beyond more social services and job creation in his search for solutions to gun violence.

The school system has to stop targeting African-Canadian children for special education designations inappropriately. That vicious cycle must be broken.

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On the road again? Who doesn’t love the excitement of heading out into the unknown to sights unseen – or to cousin Bill’s second wedding, whichever pushes you to hop on a plane, train or automobile.

A super-comprehensive fiveyear-long research project by 45 research teams around the globe published in Environmental Science & Technology took a good look at various modes of transport. They didn’t just tally carbon dioxide pollution, but also nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide, water vapour and more, considering their long- and short-term impacts.

It may be no surprise that trains and buses creamed cars and planes.

But the researchers shocked a lot of people when they noted that while planes have a bigger impact than cars in the short run (causing short-term temperature increases), a single person driving alone from, say, Toronto to Montreal has a bigger impact on the climate (on a perperson basis) than one taking a plane.

If flying, minimize your fuelsucking stopovers (takeoff and landing guzzles the most fuel) and opt for smaller turboprops over regular planes if you can on shorter-haul flights.

Now, how do you allay your lingering green guilt when you opt out of the train or bus and end up driving column 1/10 or flying to your destination?

Some airlines let you offset your

flight on their websites, which is certainly convenient, though I prefer buying an offset through an outside organization that puts the money toward certified green energy projects rather than, say, trees that can potentially die.

Less.ca is a highly reputable carbon offsetter for flights, and offsetters.ca offers sound options for flights or a year’s worth of driving (but won’t let you buy credit to offset just one car trip).

At the airport, let them feel you up, if you can choose between patdown and body scanner. You don’t need the extra radiation. You’ll already be getting a dose from flying high in the friendly skies.

Also, try to lighten your load. The lighter your luggage, the less fuel that’s needed to haul your ass.

Moreover, pack right. That means making sure you have a few key things before you leave home. One: your own natural, paraben-free shampoo and conditioner. Trust me, you don’t want to take in all the toxins in hotel soaps, loaded with hormone-disrupting phthalates from the fake ylang ylang scent or whatnot.

Plus those little throwaway shampoo bottles are totally wasteful and packaging-intensive. Sure, they may get recycled, but it takes a hell of a lot of petroleum to crank out all the mini conditioner bottles of the world.

Don’t forget a good sized reusable

water bottle or two so you’re not buying a throwaway Evian every couple of hours. You can even pack a mini portable carbon filter for your bottle, good at getting rid of the chlorine taste of, say, Chicago’s tap water.

Where are you staying when you get to town? Organic B&Bs are popping up everywhere from PEI to Bangkok, so do a little googling.

If you’re trying to track down a hotel with a greener conscience, keep in mind that pretty much everyone is now asking guests to reuse their towels and sheets, so don’t be wowed.

Everyone can qualify for a couple of green points in the Green Key system, so look for hotels that have four or more keys (greenkeyglobal. com).

Most importantly, be sure to ecoproof your home before you leave for your trip. That means unplugging all the usual stuff we should be tugging from the wall daily, like cell chargers, coffee makers and laptop plugs, and turning off all the bigger stuff, too, like cable boxes and preprogrammed central air. Wouldn’t want any energy vampires hanging around your home while you’re off doing the macarena with Bill and Grandma. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com

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Thursday, July 26

Benefits

Julyna 2012 Gala (Canadian Cancer Soc) A

gala party with DJs, a photo booth, food and more raises money for cervical cancer and HPV research. 8 pm. $60. Storeys Bldg, 11 Duncan. julyna.com/events.

Events

alternate reality GaminG Fest-O-COn A

scavenger hunt, talk by Emmy Award-winner Evan Jones, presentation on the web series Guidestones and more. Today 6:30 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-9:30 pm; Jul 28, 9:30 am-4 pm. $35-$190. Ryerson U Pitman Hall, 160 Mutual. argfest.com.

arChiteCture aFter Oil: natural BuildinG in the 21st Century Presentation by engin-

eer/researcher Bruce King. 7 pm. $5-$15. The Pit at Ryerson University, 325 Church. endeavourcentre.org. art spin Multi-disciplinary art-crawl style bicycle tour of galleries. 6:30 pm. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. artspin.ca. artFul@saGe Interactive art history discussion. Free. Sage Cafe, 166 McCaul. 416-3407345.

CeleBrate CuBa’s reBelliOn day Presentation honouring professor Keith Ellis, live music and more. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil. torontoforumoncuba. weebly.com. 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. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. rharBOurFrOnt summer Camps One-, two- and four-week day camps for kids three to 17 include culinary arts, glee club and digital media. To Aug 31. $195-$875.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay. Preregister 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre. com/camps. letter rip! Tour of an exhibition exploring the interplay of visual art and literary expression, led by Charles Reeve. 6 pm. Free.

Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca. mOney & yOuth Workshop for teens on setting goals, decision making, careers and investing. 6 pm. Free. Jane/Sheppard Library, 1906 Sheppard W. 416-395-5966.

peOple OF the COmiC BOOk: Jews and the GraphiC nOvel Keith Friedlander talks about Will Eisner’s Contract With God. $12, stu $6.

Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Queer Beer Festival Danish singer Oh Land, local DJs and queer bands, beer, food and more. 4:30-11 pm. $38.50-$48.50. Bandshell Park, Exhibition Place, 210 Princes’ Blvd. queerbeerfestival.ca. rrOBin hOOd Kids’ show with Duffelbag Theatre. 7 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto.ca/parks/ events/zukerman-theatre.htm. tasty thursdays Live music and food from the grill every Thu. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_ events/thursdays/index.htm. rthinkinG skills CluB Info session with a talk by club founder Mitch Moldofsky and games for kids that support mental development. 2 & 5 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. eventbrite.ca/event/3942676652.

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.

Friday, July 27 Capture the FlaG Urban game, similar to tag or hideand-seek. 8:30 pm. Free.

NW corner Parliament and Carlton. manhunttoronto. wordpress.com.

COlleCtOr’s niGhts Museum tour and tips on collecting Inuit art, plus wines and hors d’oeuvres. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Pre-register miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite.com.

CritiCal mass ride A group ride through the downtown takes place the last Fri of every month.

6:30 pm. Free. Spadina and Bloor. the Gem expO Precious and semiprecious stones, minerals, silver jewellery and more. Today 11:30 am-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Jul 29, 10 am-5 pm. Hyatt Regency, 370 King W. thegemexpo.com.

sauga). 905-274-8892.

rFiZZiCal FiZZiks Demos of circus skills

paws On the shOre (Abbey Cats Rescue)

Fundraising dog walk on the lake. 10 am. Pet food donation. Marie Curtis Park, Lakeshore and Browns Line. abbeycats.org. wOmen’s arm wrestlinG (Because I Am a Girl) Arm wrestling with prizes for best wrestling name, best costume and first place. 11 pm. $5-$10. Good Kids, 751 Queen W. facebook.com/ events/184220141708447.

Events

help deFend Our urBan FOrest aGainst the emerald ash BOrer Learn about treat-

ment options for ash trees, replanting programs and more. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough. Pre-register yourleaf.org.

the hOly mOnth OF ramadan and the ethiCs OF FOOd Lecture by Reginald Noble.

art & perFOrmanCe tOur Toronto Soc of

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

Culture & Campus tOur Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

CuratOr’s COrner: prOJeCt Guyana Talks by curators Hernan Lopez-Fernandez and Ross MacCulloch. 11 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. 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.

elGin and winter Garden tOurs Guided tour of the

historic double-decker theatre. 7 pm. $12, stu/ srs $10. 189 Yonge.

416-314-2874.

renGlish Breeds CavalCade Dog

that use science, including unicycling, juggling and pogo sticks. Today and tomorrow 11 am-3 pm. Ontario Science Centre, Free.

416-696-1000.

show. Today noon5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3:30 pm.

Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsways.ca.

7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. i’d-tap-that! Event for people who want to make sex-positive likeminded friends. 9 pm. $5. Central, 603 Markham. id-tap-that.com.

immiGrants salOn

Workshop for new immigrants on credit, mortgage and bank loans (in Mandarin and English). 10 am1:15 pm. Free.

Immigration Resources Centre, 2330 Midland.

416-292-7510.

JOhn street Farmers market

Organic, local produce, fair trade coffee, art and more plus live music. 9 am-1 pm.

Free.

Courtyard at 197 John.

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. liver health Health talk. 1 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register sarah.cunningham@uhn. ca. rmeet the Olympians Celebrate the London Olympics with Jennifer Botterill and Jayna Hefford of the women’s hockey team, and sledge hockey athlete Kevin Rempel.

Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. rpeaCe is pOssiBle Children’s Peace Theatre parade and theatre show. Parade 11 am from 3003 Danforth to Dawes; show 1 pm at 306 Dawes. Pwyc. childrenspeacetheatre. org.

facebook.com/JohnStreetFarmersMarket.

JunCtiOn Farmers market Local, sustainably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Green P Lot, 385 Pacific. junctionmarket.ca. maBuhay Festival Festival of Philippine culture, with performances by Sam Milby, Nicky Gil and others, a fashion show, gala ball and more. 9 am-11 pm. $20-$50. Metro Convention Centre, 222 Bremner. pidctoronto.com. mad deCent BlOCk party Live bands, DJs, games, food trucks, swag and more. 9 am.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Quilts at the Creek Show and sale of handmade quilts. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. rrOuGe park Guided walk Explore the urban wilderness in the Rouge. Today and tomorrow. Free. Various locations throughout Rouge Park. rougepark.com/hike.

saturday niGht swinG “BeaCh Bash” danCe party Flapper dance performance,

hula-hoop contest, beginner dance class and dance party. 7 pm. $13-$18. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. swingtoronto.com. rsummer Jam OccupyGardensToronto and FoodForward hold an edible and musical community potluck picnic, with music by the Jolly Jive Trio Minus Two and others, hands-on workshops on seed-saving and more, plus garden walks. Noon-5 pm. Free. NW area of Queen’s Park. pushfoodforward.com. withrOw park Farmers market Organic and ecologically farmed produce and prepared foods. 9 am-1pm. Free. S of Danforth between Logan and Carlaw. withrowpark.ca.

Sunday, July 29

Benefits

Cruise FOr BOOBs (Canadian Breast Cancer Fdn) White-and-pink boat cruise with DJ Your Boy Brian, a silent auction and more.

1-5 pm. $100. Captain Matthews Flinders, 207 Queens Quay W. bit.ly/cruiseforboobs. swap & rOCk (Girls Rock Camp) Swap of clothing, music, books and more, with live bands. Noon-5 pm. $5-$12. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. swapdontshop@gmail.com.

Events

Cinema paradisO Outdoor screening of the Guiseppe Tornatore film. 9 pm. Free/pwyc.

Christie Pits, Bloor and Christie. christiepitsfilmfestival.eventbrite.ca. histOriC Garden tOurs Guided tour of Spadina’s six acres of restored gardens. Sundays and Wednesdays 1:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission.

Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. the 99 market Local produce, baked goods, art, crafts, fashion, food sampling and more.

Free. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury. ca/99mrkt-2. paul ZinGrOne The Power Plant’s head of installations talks about the cre-

Saturday, July 28

Benefits

GaraGe sale & Car wash (Army, Navy & Air Force Veterans) Home-baked goodies and more. 9 am-3 pm. Free. 765 Third (Missis-

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ative role played by the installation technician.

2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

rpeDestrian sunDay: summer! oFF-the-

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

Queen’s parK CirCle Guided ROM walk. 2 pm.

Free. Front steps of the Ontario Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park at Wellesley. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

Monday, July 30

roseDale Valley antiQue marKet/salVage shop Multi-dealer market. Every Sunday. 9 am

ContesteD Futures: tar sanDs anD enVironmental JustiCe Reports on front-line

to 5 pm. Free. Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview. 416-469-2557. rsWim to surViVe Drop-in basic swimming skills classes for all ages take place at YMCAs across the GTA. Free. ymcagta.org/ swimtosurvive. rteDDy Bear’s piCniC A teddy bear parade, check-up clinic, performances by the Stylamanders, games and more. Noon-4 pm. $15/ family. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). museumsofmississauga.com. t.o. FooDFest Food sampling from various cultures. 1-6 pm. Free admission. Chinese Canadian Community Centre, 5181 Sheppard E.

Benefits

maKe musiC matter Performances by Luke

McMaster, Crash Parallel, Jesse Labelle and others support music education in Africa.

Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604, songforafrica.com.

Events

resistance and discussion, with environmental policy analyst Ron Plain and others. 7 pm. Free.

OISE, rm 5150, 252 Bloor W. tinyurl. com/7sybutn.

DraWing From the moDel Life drawing sessions with a model take place every Mon. $9.

Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-3926810. rsummer opera Camp Intro to the world of opera with Canadian Opera Co, for kids five to 12. $200 one week, 4-day camp $160. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Pre-register 416-363-8231.

Tuesday, July 31 City Cinema: Do the right thing Outdoor

film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

ConsCious Feminism DisCussion series An evolving consciousness salon on women, meditation, feminism and spirituality. 6:45 pm. $15. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744. rgrenaDier ponD Family nature walk to look for dragonflies, turtles, frogs and other pond creatures. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre. com.

rKiDs’ sCaVenger hunt at the legislatiVe assemBly Kids six to 12 explore the historic

grounds through 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. running Free! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. Every Tue to Aug 30. 6 pm.

Free. CAMH, rm 2029, 33 Russell. Pre-register 416-535-8501 ext 2189. 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. W end of the garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontomusicgarden.ca.

Worn: heartBreaK KaraoKe The fashion journal launches its summer fling edition with a night of karaoke. 9 pm. $5-$7. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. wornjournal.com.

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t.o.foodfest2012@gmail.com. toWers tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. rVintage BiCyCle shoW Community Bicycle Network show of bikes of all makes and models 25 years or older. 9 am-6 pm. Free. Trinity Bellwoods Park, Queen and Strachan. communitybicyclenetwork.org.

Festivals this week

ClassiCal iV: strings Classical music fest

with the Masters of Mali featuring Sidi Toure, the Ukulele Project and others.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Jul 27 to 29 toronto FestiVal oF Beer Celebration of Canada’s rich craft brewing history with tastings, seminars and more. $38.50/day.

Bandshell Park, Exhibition Place. beerfestival.ca.

Jul 27 to 29

Wednesday, August 1 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 every Wed at 6 pm. $15, stu/srs $12.

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

rearth rangers – Bringing BaCK the WilD

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Presentation on the urgent challenges facing global biodiversity, with videos and live animal appearances. Today and tomorrow 10:30 & 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm. Free w/ admission.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-5797.

Free FliCKs: the soCial netWorK 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. historiC toronto Guided ROM walk. 6 pm.

Free. In front of Post Office, Adelaide E of George. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. moVe to the Beat Celebrate the spirit of the Olympic Games with live music by Down with

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Luke (left) and Sean raise a glass to the Toronto Festival Of Beer.

BeaChes international Jazz FestiVal

Concerts and street festival with performances by Liona Boyd, Heavyweights Brass Band, LMT Connection, Phusion and many others. Free. Queen East between Woodbine and Beech and Kew

Webster and others, Olympic-themed gaming, dance activities and more. 1 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca. no more FuKushimas peaCe WalK Join Buddhist nuns on a walk around Lake Ontario calling for a nuclear-free future for a talk and veggie potluck. 6 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. angela@cleanairalliance.org.

phantoms, players anD punDits WalK

Ghostly tour and tales of Financial and Enter-

Gardens Park. beachesjazz.com.

To Jul 29

rCariBBean CarniVal toronto The an-

nual festival of all things Caribbean features musical performances, the Calypso Monarch Finals, the Grand Parade, rugby, art exhibits, kids’ activities, parties and much more. Various prices, some events free. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

To Aug 5 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 toronto summer musiC FestiVal International classical music festival with performances by Zukerman Chamber Players, the Nash Ensemble, Warhol Dervish and many others plus master classes. $26 and up. Edward Johnson Bldg (80 Queen’s Park), RCM Koerner Hall (273 Bloor W), Hart House (7 Hart House Circle). torontosummermusic.com.

To Aug 4 tainment district bldgs. $25, srs/stu $18, child $15. Old City Hall front steps, 60 Queen W. Pre-register torontowalksbikes.com. rrouge parK guiDeD WalKs Explore the park’s trails Wednesdays and weekends to Aug 29. Free. 905-713-3184, rougepark.com/ hike. tiFF in the parK: mr anD mrs smith Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net.

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Flex your muscles and raise funds for a great cause in this Women’s Arm Wrestling event featuring participants with names like Scarlett O’Terror and Faye Tality. Why not choose a name, pick out a costume and compete for a prize yourself? It costs $10 to watch and $5 to wrestle, and proceeds go to Plan Canada’s becauseiamagirl.ca to help empower the lives of girls and women. Saturday (July 28) from 10 pm (doors at 9 pm) at Good Kids (751 Queen West). womensarmwrestling.ca.

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OccupyGardensToronto and FoodForward celebrate urban-grown food with a bring-your-own potluck picnic. The food-related fun includes hands-on workshops on everything from starting a summer garden to

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seed-saving, as well as walks to local community gardens. Musical performances by the Jolly Jive Trio Minus Two, Maria Kasstan and Jacob and the Radicchio-Active Light Energy Band. Saturday (July 28) from noon to 5 pm. Free.

Northwest corner of Queen’s Park. pushfoodforward.com.

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Buddhist nuns calling for a nuke-free Ontario on a month-long walk

around Lake Ontario hold a talk and veggie potluck at Friends House Wednesday (August 1). Event organizers say the nuclear buildup along the shores of Lake Ontario, which is being highly contaminated by 13 nuclear reactors on the Canadian side and four on the U.S. side (there are plans to build two more) is contributing to disproportionately high cancer rates among First Nations people. Free. 6 pm. 60 Lowther. angela@cleanairalliance.org.

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VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 I propose that

you try to accomplish the following cleanup projects in the next four weeks: 10 bushels of weeds yanked out of your psychic landscape; 25 pounds of unused stuff and mouldering junk hauled away from your home; 10 loads of dirty laundry (especially the metaphorical kind) washed free of taint and stains – and not blabbed about on social media; at least $5,000 worth of weird financial karma scrubbed away for good; a forgotten fence mended; and a festering wound tended to until it heals.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Philosopher William Irwin Thompson says that we humans are like flies creeping along the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We literally cannot see the splendour that surrounds us. As a result, we don’t live in reality. We’re lost in our habitual perceptions, blinded by our favourite illusions and addicted to beliefs that hide the true nature of the universe. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that every now and then, each of us slips into a grace period when it’s possible to experience at least some of the glory we’re normally cut off from. The veil opens and previously undetected beauty appears. The weeks ahead will be the closest you’ve come to this breakthrough in a long time. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Can you guess which European country has the best military record in the last eight centuries? It’s France. Out of the 185 battles its soldiers have engaged in, they’ve won 132 and lost only 43. Ten times they fought to a draw. Of all the signs of the zodiac, Scorpio, I think you have the

best chance of compiling a comparable record in the next 10 months. Your warrior-like qualities will be at a peak; your instinct for achieving hard-fought victories may be the stuff of legends years from now. But please keep in mind what the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu said in his iconic text The Art Of War: The smart and powerful warrior always avoids outright conflict if possible, and wins by using slyer means.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 After

consulting the astrological omens, I’ve concluded that during the next three weeks, you will deserve the following titles: 1. Most Likely to Benefit from Serendipitous Adventures; 2. Most Likely to Exclaim “Aha!”; 3. Most Likely to Thrive While Wandering in Wild Frontiers and Exotic Locales; 4. Most Likely to Have a Wish Come True If This Wish Is Made in the Presence of a Falling Star. You might want to wait to fully embody that fourth title until the period between August 9 and 14, when the Perseids meteor shower will be gracing the night skies with up to 170 streaks per hour.

The peak flow will come on August 12 and 13.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 You may

have to travel far and wide before you will fully appreciate a familiar resource whose beauty you’re half blind to. It’s possible you’ll have to suffer a partial loss of faith so as to attract experiences that will make your faith stronger than it ever was. And I’m guessing that you may need to slip outside your comfort zone for a while in order to learn what you need to know next about the arts of intimacy. These are tricky assignments, Capricorn. I suggest you welcome them without resentment.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 My daughter

Zoe has been writing some fine poetry these last few years. I regard it as professional-grade stuff that has been born of natural talent and developed through discipline and hard work. You might ask, quite reasonably, whether my evaluation of her literary output is skewed by fatherly pride. I’ve considered that possibility. But recently, my opinion got unbiased corroboration when her school awarded her the “All-College Honor” for her poetry manuscript. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience.

Your views or theories will be confirmed by an independent and objective source.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 The critic Dorothy Parker didn’t think highly of Katharine Hepburn’s acting skills. “She runs the emotional gamut from A to B,” said Parker. I realize that what I’m about to suggest may be controversial, but I’m hoping you will be Hepburn-like in the coming week, Pisces. This is not the right time, in my astrological opinion, for you to entertain a wide array of slippery, syrupy, succulent feelings. Nor would it be wise to tease out every last nuance of the beguiling vibes rising up within you. For the time being, you need to explore the pleasures of discerning perception and lucid analysis. Get lost in deep thought, not rampant passion.

Homework: Each of us has a secret ignorance that’s burning a hole in our soul. What’s yours, and what are you going to do about it?

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All day I’ve been switching between several different jobs and checking Facebook. And sometimes, I proofread while conducting an interview. I

try to avoid that because it’s rude, but, hey, sometimes you gotta meet a deadline or 12. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t drive.

Multi-tasking is just the way we live these days. We do five or six things at the same time, both because we need to and because we want to. But what is this doing to our brains?

What the experts say “Almost every published psychology study to my knowledge shows that our task performance decreases when we multi-task. Multi-tasking can even impair cognitive functions and can be life-threatening, such as while driving.

So, why are we multi-tasking more and more when it’s a really bad thing to do? Data suggests that it makes us feel good. Multi-tasking is never consciously driven by emotional needs, like feeling relaxed or finding fun things to do, but it does gratify those needs. In one study, we wondered if we could improve multitasking performance. We found that people’s perception about how well they did didn’t match up with how they actually performed. People are overconfident about their capabilities.”

ZHENG JOYCE WANG, assistant professor, Ohio State University School of Communication, Columbus “The more worrisome problem is that there are long-term consequences for thinking. Those who chronically multitask are less able to think well in a number of different domains, even when they’re not multi-tasking.

They have difficulty focusing, distinguishing between the relevant and the irrelevant, and managing their short-term memory.

The brain gets into the habit of not thinking deeply, but rather on surface level. Executive

control functions, which guide how we think, become weakened, leaving people more impulsive and less able to cope in social situations. Your brain, in a sense, gives up on thinking hard. If you habitually multi-task, when you try to focus, you can’t. We are doing brain scans to see if multi-tasking rewires the brain. Our guess is that the change happens in the prefrontal cortex. There are lots of reasons to believe this doesn’t have an upside.”

CLIFFORD NASS, professor of communication, Stanford University, Stanford, California “My study didn’t draw a conclusion about the relationship between media multi-tasking and cognitive abilities. But it provided an intriguing possibility: that abundant experience in media multi-tasking can affect how your attention is allocated.

Media multi-taskers may be better at detecting and utilizing unexpected but useful information.”

KELVIN LUI, master of philosophy student, Perception & Experience Lab, department of psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong “Some people believe that you can do multiple things in parallel, but for the most part, that’s simply not true.

People switch their attention between things. So, how can you do it in a relatively healthy way? We could probably do a better job if we let go of whatever we were last paying attention to.

When we try to do five things at once, we get tense. So we could become more relaxed. One recent study based on the work of Zen teacher Darlene Cohen gave people an intensive multitasking test. Then we gave them eight weeks of training. One group got mindfulness meditation training, one body relaxation and the third no help at all. At the end of the eight weeks, we found that the meditators were less stressed. The people in the control group showed none of those improvements, and one out of three in the relaxation group showed better memory.”

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through the Kawarthas. Today and tomorrow. 80 Thorncliffe Park. 416-396-2460.

Events

ART & PERFORMANCE TOUR Toronto Society of Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

ARTISANS AT THE DISTILLERY Pottery, textiles, art, clothing, wood, gourmet food and more.

Today, tomorrow and Aug 6, 11 am-6 pm. Free.

Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict. com.

CULTURE & CAMPUS TOUR Toronto Society of Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

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Thursday, August 2

Benefits

rALL ABOARD THE MINIATURE TRAIN (Toronto

Firefighters’ Toy Drive) Tour the shops by train and raise money for kids. 11 am-5 pm. $3.

Shops at Don Mills, Don Mills and Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca.

GAIA – THE EARTH LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT MAKE EVERY DAY BEFORE (One Drop) Exhibition of large-scale COUNT IN THIS photographs that follow the experience of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté’s exCALENDAR OF THE perience on board the International Space Station. To Sep 3. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill.

HOTTEST EVENTS, thedistillerydistrict.com.

TAKING YOU Events UNDERGROUND Video-based art STRAIGHT THROUGH CONFESSIONS installations of public confessions can be seen on TTC platform screens throughout the city TO LABOUR DAY to Jul 15. Free. confessionunderground.com.

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CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Beer sampling, barbecue nibbles and entertainment. 7 pm. $35, stu $30. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

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Pier house band and learn global dance trends. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

DUSK DANCES Outdoor performances with choreography from Zata Omm Dance Projects, Bageshree Vaze, the 605 Collective, Lua Shayenne & Co and Tiger Princess Dance Projects. Through Aug 5. 7:30 pm. Withrow Park, S of Danforth btwn Logan and Carlaw. 416504-6429 ext 41, duskdances.ca.

rHARBOURFRONT CENTRE SUMMER CAMPS

One-, two- and four-week day camps for kids three to 17 include culinary arts, digital media, glee club and much more throughout the summer. To Aug 31. $195-$875. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay. Pre-register 416973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/camps. rROUGE PARK GUIDED WALKS Explore the park’s trails Wednesdays & weekends. To Aug 29. Free. 905-713-3184, rougepark.com/hike.

TASTY THURSDAYS Live music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free.

Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events.

32 SPOKES AT THE FARMERS’ MARKET Simple bike repairs, bike maps and cycling advice.

Free. East Lynn Farmers’ Market, East Lynn

Park (Danforth near Woodbine). ward32@ bikeunion.ca.

YIDDISH VINKL Professor Derek Penslar talks about Jews in the Russian Army. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. Pre-register yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca.

Friday, August 3 COLLECTOR’S NIGHTS Museum tour and tips on collecting Inuit art plus wines and hors d’oeuvres. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Pre-register miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite.com.

rINCREDIBENT’S MAGIC & COMEDY CIRCUS

Interactive show of laughs, magic and circus feats. Times tba. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

WONDER WOMEN Artistic self-esteem workshop for women. 5 pm. Free. Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre, 3650 Dixie. 416-4589721.

Saturday, August 4

Benefits

BIKING FOR BELLIES (Thorncliffe Park Public School meal program) 200K ride up to and

Dog show. 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.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHARLES DICKENS Guided walk to places where Dickens ate and slept while visiting in 1842. 3 pm. $25, stu/srs $18, child $15.

St Lawrence Market middle door, 93 Front E. Preregister 416-923-6813.

JOHN STREET FARMERS MARKET Organic, local produce, fair trade coffee, art and more plus live music. 9 am-1 pm. Free. Courtyard at 197 John. facebook.com/JohnStreetFarmersMarket.

JUNCTION FARMERS MARKET Local, sustainably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Green P Lot, 385 Pacific. junctionmarket.ca.

KENSINGTON FOODIES ROOTS WALK Walk to celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 10 am. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30. Red Pole with Black Cat, 350 Spadina.

Pre-register 416-923-6813.

THE REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET Community space for sharing clothes, toys, furniture, artisan goods, music, services ane more. 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Campbell Park, S of Dupont, W of Lansdowne. rrfmarket@gmail.com.

ROGERS CUP TENNIS Pros from the men’s tour compete for the championship. To Aug 12. $35 and up, qualifying weekend (Aug 4-5) free. Rexall Centre at York U, 1 Shoreham. rogerscup.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT SWING DANCE PARTY Beginner dance class and dancing to live music by Patrick Tevlin & His New Orleans Rhythm. 7 pm. $13$18. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. swingtoronto.com.

WITHROW PARK FARMERS MARKET Organic and ecologically farmed produce and prepared foods. Saturdays 9 am-1pm. Free. South of Danforth, between Logan and Carlaw. withrowpark.ca.

WOMEN AS SOURCES OF MEDIEVAL QUR’AN INTERPRETATION Lecture by Aisha Geissinger. 7 pm.

Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a bike courier on the run in Premium Rush.

Sunday, August 5 Historic Garden tours Guided tour of six

acres of restored gardens. Sundays and Wednesdays through the summer. 1:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. tHe 99 Market Local produce, baked goods, art, crafts, fashion, food sampling and more.

Free. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury. ca/99mrkt-2.

rPartners in Protection: rouGe Park

Presentation on the city’s urban wilderness. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

rosedale Valley antique Market/salVaGe sHoP Multi-dealer market. Every Sunday. 9 am

to 5 pm. Free. Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview. 416-469-2557. rrouGe Park Presentation on protecting biodiversity. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5865797. second cHinatown Foodies walk Tour of a Chinese bakery, grocery shops and more, plus dim sum. 10 am-1:30 pm. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30 (includes food). Red pole with black cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. sunday antique Market An outdoor market with vintage jewellery, Victorian sterling, furniture, architectural salvage and more runs every Sunday from dawn to 5 pm. Free. St Lawrence Market, 92 Front E. sundayantiquemarket.com. toronto laneway tour Bike tour of laneways in Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy and Queen West. 11 am. Free. NW corner Gore Vale and Queen. info@graemeparry.com. toronto laneway tour Walking tour of laneways in Queen West, Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Portugal. 1 pm. Free. Outside Pizza Pizza, Queen and Bathurst. info@graemeparry.com. towers tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. rwooFjocks Canine performance show. Today 11 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3:30 pm.

Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsways.ca. yorkVille Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. 416-586-8000, rom. on.ca.

Monday, August 6 city buildinG: siMcoe to skyscraPers Tour

highlighting the founding of York and the development and growth of the harbour. 11 am.

Free. Fort York, 250 Fort York. 416-392-6907. dancinG in tHe town square Learn the latest steps and moves in Latin dance. 7 pm. Free.

Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills, at Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca. rsiMcoe day at Fort york Historic troops on parade, live music, exhibits, a walking tour, musketry demos and more. 10 am-5 pm. Free.

Fort York, 250 Fort York. 416-392-6907.

rsiMcoe day at Gibson House House tours,

homemade ice cream, kids’ activities and more. Noon-5 pm. Pwyc. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. rsiMcoe day lonG weekend Historic building tours, treats, exhibits and more. To Aug 6 from noon. Free w/ admission. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807. rsiMcoe day sunday in tHe Valley Meet Elizabeth Simcoe as she recounts her early travels along the Don River and sample seasonal treats. Noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission.

Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416396-2819.

toronto islands by VoyaGeur canoe

Paddle across the harbour in a historic canoe.

Noon-3 pm. $30. Harbourfront Canoe & Kayak Centre, 283 Queens Quay W. 416-993-4224, canoetoronto.com.

Tuesday, August 7 beyond tHe blackboard Day of learning for educators looking to empower youth in nontraditional ways. 5:30 pm. Free. Leaside Library, 165 McRae. Pre-register facebook.com/ beyongblackboards.

Haunted yorkVille, u oF t and queen’s Park Ghost walk. 6:30 pm. $25, srs/stu $18,

child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

rkids’ scaVenGer Hunt at tHe leGislatiVe asseMbly Kids six to 12 explore the historic

grounds through 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. lGbt beacH Volleyball Join Get Out Canada for a game. 7 pm. $10. Ashbridges Bay East Courts, foot of Woodbine. getoutcanada.com. sound traVels intensiVe NAISA workshop for sound and media artists. To Aug 11. $175.

NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca. rsuMMer oPera caMP Intro to the world of opera with Canadian Opera Co, for kids five to 12. $200 one week, 4-day camp $160. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Pre-register 416-363-8231. toronto Music Garden tours Tours of the garden’s unique design and history, led by a botanical guide, happen Wednesdays 11 am to Sep 26 and Tuesdays 5:30 pm to Sep 13.

Free. West end of the garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontomusicgarden.ca.

Wednesday, August 8 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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ThE summER’s BEsT movies While the heat grows ever more oppressive, movie theatres offer an air-conditioned refuge. But if The Dark Knight Rises blew out your tolerance for ampedup action (apologies, The Expendables 2), there’s plenty of other cinematic distraction. By NORMAN WILNER Scrutinizing Sorkin

French Toasts

As Aaron Sorkin’s reputation suffers under the insistent moralizing and regressive sexual politics of The Newsroom, Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks series (introduced each Wednesday night by yours truly) makes a coincidental corrective, screening two recent Sorkin projects that showcase the screenwriter’s talent at its crackling best.

The Social Network plays at 9 pm August 1; Moneyball, at 8:40 pm August 22. I’ll do my utmost to provide the appropriate context in my introductions. harbourfrontcentre.com/freeflicks.

Whoever programmed TIFF’s Summer In France series should be congratulated for scheduling the Jean-Luc Godard films in the middle of August, when it’ll be so scorchingly hot that you won’t immediately be able to tell if you’re hallucinating from heatstroke or Pierrot Le Fou’s colour palette really is that intense. The short answer? It is – and Weekend really is that nuts. (Pierrot Le Fou screens August 10; Weekend, introduced by TIFF’s director and CEO, Piers Handling, screens August 16.) tiff.net.

Ruby Sparks Real-life couple Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano co-star in this offbeat comedy – scripted by Kazan – about a struggling writer (Dano) whose latest character suddenly appears on his doorstep. Kazan’s not the only actor who wrote herself a vehicle this month – Rashida Jones co-wrote her romantic dramedy Celeste And Jesse Forever, which also opens August 3. But only Ruby Sparks seeks to hit the absurdist sweet spot of Woody Allen’s earlier, funny movies. Opening August 3.

Killer Joe

Outdoor Moonrise The Open Roof film series has been serving as Toronto’s most distinctive rep theatre this summer, screening second-run titles like Marley, China Heavyweight and Undefeated atop Amsterdam Brewery on Bathurst every Thursday night. On August 16, Open Roof presents Wes Anderson’s marvellous Moonrise Kingdom, a performance by Dusted (aka Brian Borcherdt of Holy Fuck and Leon Taheny) and food by Bloor West sandwich wizards Sky Blue Sky. Seems like decent value for $15. openrooffestival.com.

Premium Rush

William Friedkin’s southern-fried dark comedy Why are we amped for a real-time chase about a very stupid young man (Emile Hirsch) thriller about a New York bicycle courwhose impulsive murder scheme spirals alier trying to stay ahead of a corrupt most immediately out of control was a breakcop who wants to intercept his packout hit at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. It’s age? Because the hero is Joseph Gordonbeen gathering steam on the festival cirLevitt (50/50, The Dark Knight Returns), cuit ever since, thanks to Matthew Mcthe bad guy is Michael Shannon (Take Conaughey’s diabolically charming Shelter, Boardwalk Empire), and the performance as a Dallas police defilmmaker is genre specialist David tective who moonlights as a hit Koepp, writer of Jurassic Park, Misman for hire. (Thomas Haden sion: Impossible and Spider-Man Church is pretty great, too, in and director of The Trigger Efthe role of Hirsch’s hapless fect, Stir Of Echoes and Ghost father.) This month, the Town. Interested now? rest of y’all can see what Opens August 24. the fuss is about. August Matthew McConaughey continues 10. his killer comeback in Killer Joe.

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global biodiversity, with videos and live animal appearances. Wednesdays and Thursdays all summer. 10:30 & 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm.

Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797.

Free Flicks: Whip it 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. hidden treasures ii Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. $10. Call for location and to reserve. 416-5865799, rom.on.ca.

MicrosoFt Word 2010 advanced Functions

Online resources and computer tools workshop. 6:30 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Services, 7220 Kennedy, #8 (Markham).

Pre-register rex.liu@welcomecentre.ca.

tiFF in the park: the philadelphia story

Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. David Pecault Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net.

Wide ancient World oF sports: egypt edition Lecture. 7 pm. $5. Earth Sciences Bldg, rm

149, 5 Bancroft. 647-520-4339, thessea.org.

Thursday, August 9 curator’s tour Tour of the exhibition

BRAVOS: Groundbreaking Spanish Design.

6:30 pm. $10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416363-6121.

rgonrah desgohWah White pine dancers

Ojibway dancers. 7 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto.ca/ parks/events/zukerman-theatre.htm. leah BoBet Teens meet the writer of the novel Above. 4 pm. Free. Centennial Library, 578 Finch W. 416-395-5490.

tales and trials oF the accidental travel Writer Author and former diplomat Terry

Friday, August 10 Burlesque cruise Show aboard the River

Gambler with Tanya Cheex, Coco Framboise and others. 7:30 pm. $40. 333 Lake Shore Blvd E. 416-364-6999, epiccruises.ca. rdiscovery hike Family nature walk. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

toronto queer arts and culture Festival launch party The festival kicks off with a

Montreal-style French dance party, with music by women DJs including Cozmic Cat, Quinces and Chiclet. 8 pm-2 am. No cover. Le Steamée, 1602 Dundas W. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

saturday, August 11

Benefits

JaMaica land We love gala (Jamaican Can-

adian Legacy Endowment Fund) Performances

by Jay Douglas, Leroy Gibbons, Kreesha Turner and others plus dinner and an after-party.

5:30 pm. $175-$500, after-party only $75.

Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. jamaica50.ca. rock the court (Athletes for Africa/St Alban’s Boys & Girls Club) Celebrity soccer tournament. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. Preregister info@athletesforafrica.com.

Events

rgoWer park place coMMunity Fair Kids’

crafts, a yard sale, barbecue and more. 9 am-2 pm rain or shine. Free. Garden Courtyard, 10 Gower. 416-288-8140. rindia day Festival and parade Indian festival with a parade down Yonge, cultural performances, food and more. 9:30 am. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. leather Ball Leather/fetish/kinksters party with entertainment, Mr Leatherman Toronto, Ms Leather Toronto and Mr Rubber Toronto

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Workers’ struggles aMidst neoliBeral gloBalization National workers’ conference,

with talks, seminars and more. Today and tomorrow. $20. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. Preregister magkaisacentre.org. your silence is like an unpierced pearl Lecture on whether early pious and Sufi women were silent and reclusive by Laury Silvers. 6:45 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

sunday, August 12 electric vehicle day Stay plugged in to the future of driving in Ontario and check out electric cars, bikes and more. 10 am. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. the Junction Flea Outdoor market with antiques, vintage clothing, crafts, records, food and more. Today and Sep 9, 9 am-4 pm. Free.

2803 Dundas W. junctionflea.com. lgBt dodgeBall tournaMent Join Get Out Canada for a tourney. 11 am. $15. Trinity Bellwoods Outdoor Rink, Dundas W and Shaw. getoutcanada.com. rone World, one sky Summer star party with activities, night sky observing and the Perseid meteor shower. 7:30 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. reBel Without a cause Outdoor film screening (rain date Aug 19). 9 pm. Free/pwyc. Chris-

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Keenleyside talks about how he started writing travel/recipe books. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

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day Demonstrations of Taoist internal arts, a dragon dance and parade. 10 am-3 pm. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. taoist.org.

events competitions, host Deb Pearce and more. 6:30 pm. $30, adv $25. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. torontoleatherpride.ca. rloBsterFest dinner cruise Dinner and harbour cruise. 7 pm. $99. East side of Queens Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay W. mariposacruises.com. rpuppy/kitten Weekend Vets, trainers, and groomers talk about getting your first pet.

Today 11 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3:30 pm.

Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsways.ca. saturday night sWing dance party Beginner dance class and dancing to live music by Up Jumped Swing. 7 pm. $13-$18. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. swingtoronto.com.

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OVO Fest Now in its third year, Drake’s OVO Fest has firmly established itself as one of the biggest events of the summer. Drizzy himself headlines again, and opening acts include his mysterious dark-R&B protégé the Weeknd and heavily hyped rappers A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz. However, considering the high-calibre surprise guests who have jumped onstage in previous years, it’s safe to assume that the official lineup is just the tip of the iceberg of what we’ll get on August 5, when the fest hits Molson Amphitheatre. ticketmaster.ca.

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its type in North America. This year’s lineup includes garage-blues duo the Black Keys, weed-loving rapper Snoop Dogg, French electro stars Justice, Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós, Canadian indie folk star Feist, dream-pop band M83, classic rock revivalists the Sheepdogs and far too many others than we have space to mention. osheaga. com.

Torontonians love to complain about the city’s lack of big, camping-friendly music festivals, but the annual ALL CAPS! Island Festival (August 12 and 13, Artscape Gibraltar Point) offers something close to that, albeit on a smaller and artsier scale than Glastonbury. This year’s talent includes critical darlings YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, blisteringly loud Brooklyn noise rockers A Place to Bury Strangers, stoner rock/disco house band Lioness, garage punks Tyvek, quirky jazz-pop singer Maylee Todd and many others. wavelengthtoronto.com.

WEMF Not only has electronic music made a massive comeback, but it’s now bigger than it was during its late-90s rave years. So it’s no surprise that the giant three-day World Electronic Music Festival is also back from the dead, from August 17 to 19 at a site in South Algonquin township. Highlights include rave-era survivor Moby, Toronto dubstep heros Zeds Dead, drum ’n’ bass bigwigs Chase & Status and about a million other DJs and live acts. wemf.com.

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WychWood Park Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. $10. Call for location and to reserve. 416-5865799, rom.on.ca.

monday, August 13 raGo Summer art and deSiGn camPS Day

camps for kids six to 16 run weekly to Aug 31.

Prices vary. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/learning. coStumed Life draWinG Life drawing session with a My Little Pony theme. 7 pm. $10.

Rhino, 1249 Queen W. acidanimation.com/ toonsontap. rurban ecoLoGy Summer camPS One- and two-week day camps on canoeing, pond studies, hiking and more for kids five to 13. To Aug 31. 9 am-4 pm. one week $205, two weeks $380. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College. Pre-register 416-675-5009.

tuesday, August 14 city cinema: Labyrinth Outdoor film screen-

ing. 9:15 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. city cinema: the PrinceSS bride Outdoor film screening. 7:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. rmoth niGht Family nature walk to discover the butterflies of the night. 8:15 pm. $2.

Grenadier Restaurant, High Park. highparknaturecentre.com. tedx tueSdayS Creative discussion to share ideas featuring a mystery moderator. 6:30-9 pm. Free. ING Cafe, 221 Yonge. Pre-register tedxtotuesdays.eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, August 15 the annex Guided ROM walk. Today 6 pm;

Oct 21, 2 pm. Free. Bedford across from St George subway. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. diScover Ward 37 bike ride Leisurely ride along the quiet streets of Scarborough. 6 pm.

Free. Thompson Park, Sheppard and Brimley.

416-288-0293, lucy.perri@hotmail.com. free fLickS: WhaLe rider Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. tiff in the Park: What’S uP doc? Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. David Pecault Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net.

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NAISA symposium with performances, lectures and workshops. To Aug 18. $35-$70. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca.

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honey Jam (YWCA Toronto programs) Allfemale artist showcase with performers tba.

8 pm. $25, adv $20. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 711 College. ticketweb.ca.

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iinternationaL infLuenceS: inSPirinG ideaS for treeS in PubLic SPaceS Learn about how

trees enhance and humanize our cities with landscape architect and urban designer Brendan Stewart. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Metro Hall, 55 John, rm 308-309. Pre-register 416-413-9244, yourleaf.org.

Friday, August 17 rcanadian nationaL exhibition The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, the midway, rides, a talent competition and much more runs to Sep 3. To Sep 3. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com. ttc SubWay muSicianS auditionS Musicians

audition to play at city subway stations. To Aug 19. Free. CNE, Exhibition Place. ttc.ca.

saturday, August 18

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aLS yoGa chaLLenGe (ALS Society of Canada) Back-to-back yoga classes raise money for research. 8 am-2 pm. Pledges. Angus Glen Community Centre, 3990 Major Mackenzie (Markham). als.ca/alsyogachallenge.

GooaaaL! feStivaL of footbaLL (West Park Healthcare Centre) Six-on-6 soccer fundraiser, with soccer celebs, games, entertainment, food and more. $45. Eglinton Flats, Eglinton at Jane. 1-855-775-4625, festivaloffootball.ca. ri Love Shakey: in 3d (Epilepsy Canada) A 3-D screening of the film starring Steve Lemme and Beverly D’Angelo. 9:30 am. $150, child $50. Scotiabank Cineplex Theatre, 259 Richmond W. epilepsy.ca.

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doG traininG ceLebration Q&A on dogfriendly positive reinforcement training with certified trainer Sean Howard. Noon-4 pm.

Free. Furballs Pet Stuff, 1618 Gerrard E. 647272-9361. fiLiPinoS makinG WaveS Filipino cultural festival with a parade down Yonge, cultural performances, food and more. 10 am-10 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. the firecrackerS Go cLaSSic Burlesque show.

9:30 pm. $20, adv $15. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. thefirecrackersgoclassic.eventbrite.com.

LGbt fencinG Join Get Out Canada for a match. $35. My Fencing Club, 1443 Bathurst. getoutcanada.com.

WarriorS’ day Parade Parade celebrating 91 years of honouring our veterans and members of the Canadian Armed Forces. 10:30 am.

Free. Exhibition Place, Lake Shore W and Strachan. thewarriorsdayparade.ca.

sunday, August 19 the metaPhySicS of Water Poetry reading by

Beatriz Hausner and visual art by Seth Scriver.

2-7 pm. Free. Someone.ca Studio, 1691 Dundas W. deborah@someone.ca.

PoSieS, PicnicS and PaPiLLonS Victorian garden tour accompanied by the voices of John George Howard and his wife, Jemima. Today and Sep 16, 1 pm. $20. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916.

Sacred StoneS & SteePLeS Guided ROM walk.

Today, Sep 2 and Oct 7, 2 pm. Free. NE corner Church and King. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. toronto LaneWay tour Bike tour of laneways from Corktown to Cabbagetown. Today and Sep 16, 11 am. Free. Distillery District, Mill and Trinity. info@graemeparry.com. toronto LaneWay tour Bike tour of laneways in Riverdale and Queen East. 1 pm. Free.

NE corner Withrow Park (McConnell & Carlaw). info@graemeparry.com. yoGathon Outdoor yoga classes. 9:30 am-1 pm. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

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Daniel MacIvor heats up this year’s SummerWorks slate.

THe Summer’S beST Stage There’s lots to see in theatre and dance before the new season kicks off in September. Here are some can’t-miss shows and festivals heating up stages and other sites. By JON KAPLAN and GLENN SUMI summerWorks sizzle You won’t find a stronger theatre festival lineup than that for the 22nd annual SummerWorks, a juried event that brings together local and national companies for 11 jampacked days of performance. This year’s edition includes music, curated performances and the new Live Art Series, which examines the nature of performance and audience/ performer relationships. Among the playwrights involved are Jason Maghanoy, Erin Shields, Anton Piatigorsky, Richard Sanger, Aurora Stewart de Peña, Amiri Baraka, Sean Dixon, Daniel Karasik, Cliff Cardinal, Daniel MacIvor, Nicolas Billon, Rosa Laborde, Tanisha Taitt and Anthony Black. Venues cluster around the Queen West strip from Bathurst to Dufferin. See the full schedule at summerworks.ca; tickets at ticketwise.ca or 416-9156747.

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The young George Frederick Handel wrote a cantata about the tangled love lives of two shepherds and a shepherdess. Ross Manson’s Volcano Theatre and Ashiq Aziz’s Classical Music Consort collaborate with librettist Deborah Pearson to give the baroque work a narrative overhaul in A Synonym For Love, a site-specific staging in the Gladstone Hotel. The three contemporary characters are now a gay woman, a bisexual woman and a straight man – though that role is sung by a high-voiced countertenor.

Audience members start the show in the same room and

hands-on experience with the camera, lighting, sound and editing, with artist John Caffery, plus a day-long video mashup with Videodrome. To Aug 24, 10 am-4 pm. $299.

Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond W #376.

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then follow the character of their choice through the hotel. Previews August 19, opens August 20 and runs through August 31. 1214 Queen West. volcano.ca or 800838-3006.

Park ’n’ fly Dusk Dances transforms the province’s parks into outdoor stages where the rolling hills, trees and benches get used in inventive ways. The series hits several Toronto-area parks, including Withrow (July 31 to August 5), which includes William Yong’s Zata Omm Dance Projects, Yvonne Ng’s tiger princess dance projects (with Julia Aplin) and Bageshree Vaze. On August 11, BoucharDanse’s classic comic piece A Flock Of Flyers: Remix hits Chalkfarm Park at Jane and Wilson, while the same piece gets performed with La Otra Orilla’s Cercania/1 and Throwdown Collective’s BoxSet at Earlscourt Park (August 16 to 19) at St. Clair West and Caledonia. Check out the full schedule at duskdances.ca.

Full glass Stand-up Todd Glass’s jokes have always been based on brutally honest observations. He applied that same approach to his personal life earlier this year when he came out on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast in response to the rising suicide rate among young people. A favourite with Toronto audiences, Glass hits the Comedy Bar (945 Bloor West) for a series of sure to sell out shows August 10 and 11. 416-551-6540.

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mic comedy and motivational speakers. 8 pm. $10. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. rWILD EDIBLES Family nature walk to look for edible leaves, berries, flowers and seeds. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

TRANS FILM SCREENING Screening of the

Wednesday, August 22

CITY CINEMA: HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE Outdoor film screening. 8 pm. Free.

FREE FLICKS: MONEYBALL Outdoor film screen-

ing. 9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

TIFF IN THE PARK: THE LADY EVE Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. David Pecault Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net.

WHISKEY, WHARF & WINDMILL Guided ROM walk. Today and Sep 16, 6 pm. Free. King and Trinity. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

Thursday, August 23 rFAMILY FUN Kids’ activities and a family mov-

ie under the stars. 8 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto.ca/ parks/events/zukerman-theatre.htm. rFAN EXPO Comic book expo, with celebrity guests including Stan Lee and Gillian Anderson, Q&As, costumed charcters, workshops and more. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Aug 25, 10 am-7 pm; Aug 26, 10 am-5 pm. $25-$95. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. fanexpocanada.com.

LGBT BOWLERAMA Join Get Out Canada for a game. 7 pm. $20. Thorncliffe Bowlerama, 45 Overlea. getoutcanada.com.

Friday, August 24

Benefits

ALOHA TORONTO (Sick Kids & Surfers Healing

Camp) Beach party with longboard surfer Izzy Paskowitz, big-wave surfer Garrett McNamara and other Hawaiian surfers. Stand Up Paddle challenge, surf movies, DJs and live entertainment. Fri from 7 pm, Sat from 9 am, Sun from 10 am. To Aug 26. Free. Woodbine Beach, Lakeshore Blvd. Pre-register alohatoronto.com.

Saturday, August 25

Events

CURATOR’S CORNER: THE ECOSYSTEM OF A SHARK Talk by associate curator Claire Healy.

11 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

EDIBLE TREE TOUR LEAF tour of edible treats from our urban forest. 10 am. $5 sugg. Ben Nobleman Park, across from Eglinton West subway. yourleaf.org.

ELGIN & WINTER GARDEN TOURS Guided tour of the historic double-decker theatre. 7 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. 189 Yonge. 416-314-2874.

NBA 3X Outdoor basketball. Today 7 pm, tomorrow from 9 am. Today and tomorrow. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

TORONTO ROLLER DERBY Toronto Roller Derby Semi-Finals. 6:30 pm. $18, adv $12. Bunker at Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.

Sunday, August 26 ST JAMES’ CEMETERY Guided ROM walk. Today and Oct 14, 2 pm. Free. 635 Parliament, N of Wellesley. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

Tuesday, August 28 Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, August 29 KAYT BURGESS The 3-Day Novel Writing

Contest’s 35th-anniversary celebration and launch of Burgess’s book Heidegger Stairwell. 7 pm. Free. Victory Café, 581 Markham. 3daynovel.com.

CABBAGETOWN Guided ROM walk. Today 6 pm; Sep 16, 2 pm. Free. NE corner Parliament and Spruce. 416-586-8000, rom. on.ca.

FREE FLICKS: VOTER’S CHOICE – KARATE KID, ROCKY, RUDY OR BILLY ELLIOT Outdoor film

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Thursday, August 30 ART SPIN Guided art tour on bikes. artspin.

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ARTFUL@SAGE Interactive art history discussion. Free. Sage Cafe, 166 McCaul. 416-3407345.

Friday, August 31 ARTFEST TORONTO Painting, photography,

sculpture and more by Canadian artists. To Sep 4, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com.

CRITICAL MASS RIDE A group ride through the downtown takes place the last Fri of every month. Today and Sep 28. Free.

Spadina and Bloor.

106 & YORK URBANARTS FESTIVAL Performances by JD Era, Shi Wisdom and others plus visual art. 4 pm. $5. Yorkwoods Theatre, 1785 Finch W. facebook.com/106andyork.

Saturday, September 1 rAIRSHOW LUNCH CRUISES Cruise the har-

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To Sep 3 noon. $59, child $25. East side of Queens Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay W. mariposacruises.com.

rALL ABOUT MISS LOU: WHAT’S YOUR STORY? Storytelling from diverse cultural

traditions. Weekends to Oct 28. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Exhibition Place. theex.com.

Monday, September 3 LABOUR DAY PARADE The annual parade

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Thursday, July 26 CARIBBEAN DREAM Speakeasy Productions presents Marvin Trini Ishmael’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in present-day North York at the time of the Caribbean Carnival festival. Runs to Jul 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu $20, child $15. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst.

647-938-2804, speakeasyproductions.org.

CONTEMPORARY JAMAICAN ART, CIRCA 1962

An exhibition runs to Sep 8. Art Gallery Of Mississauga, 300 City Centre, Mississauga.

905-896-5088.

Friday, July 27 CARIBANA RAGGA JUNGLE JAM DJs Medicine Muffin, Marcus Visionary B2B Lush, Rick Toxic, Frankie Guns B2B Chaleon. 10 pm. $10-$15. Annex Wreckroom, 794 Bathurst.

416-536-0346.

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL TORONTO GALA Gala celebration with costumed masqueraders and dinner. $160. 7 pm. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia, Exhibition Place. 416-3915608, torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

UNITYFEST: WHITE & ANYTHING PRE-CARIBANA EDITION Black Chiney, Renaissance Disco, Spex Riddim Track Master, Soca Sweetness. On The Rox, 1600 Steeles W. 647-707-4687.

Saturday, July 28 CALYPSO MONARCH FINALS Nine finalists com-

pete for the Canadian title. Chinese Cultural Centre P.C. Ho Theatre, 5183 Sheppard E. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

CARIBANA ART EXHIBITION Showcase of more than 100 works from African-Canadian artists on the theme of From The Soul. 10 am-5:30 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. caribanatoronto.com.

CARNIVAL: FROM EMANCIPATION TO CELEBRA-

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Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

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Sunday, July 29 rJUMPIN’ AT THE ROM Mask-making, storytelling and steel drumming. 10 am-5:30 pm.

Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797.

Wednesday, August 1 NUBIAN DISCIPLES ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson and guests.

8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

SWEETNESS ON THE WATER Boat cruise with music by Socca Sweetness, Back 2 Basics and others. Boarding 8 pm. $45, adv $40. Way-

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WEDNESDAY ON THE ROOF Caribana party.

Advance $15 (Play De Record). Wetbar, 106 Peter. 416-451-6016, jusblaize.com.

Thursday, August 2 CARNIVAL VIBEZ BOAT CRUISE Escape to the islands with soca, calypso and chutney from SW Storm, Hunter and others. $50. Enterprise 2000, 242 Cherry. caribanatoronto.com.

BACCHANAL THURSDAY – ELECTRO-FIED DJ Soca Sweetness, Whitebwoy, Renegade Squad, Marxman, DJ Spoonz, MC Linx, Dirty Dez, Jeff Jam, Creepa, Mistah Dingolay, Megawave and DJ Lime. $10 before midnight. Six Degrees, 2335 Yonge. fetenet.com.

EROTIC: CARIBANA WARM UP DJ Starting from Scratch, Secret Society, Redemption, Sweet Tears, Amnesia, Musicology, Barrie Hype and DJ Chief. $15 (Play De Record). Tryst, 82 Peter. jusblaize.com.

IRIE MUSIC AWARDS Nominees for the best reggae and world music artists perform.

Doors 8 pm, $35, adv $25 (Ticketweb.ca).

Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. iriemusicfestival.com.

KING AND QUEEN SHOW Mas band leaders compete for the titles of Queen and King. 7 pm. $30. Lamport Stadium, 1150 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

OPEN DJ Prostyle and Charlie Brown. Time Nightclub, 81 Peter. $15-$20. caribanatoronto. com.

SOCA SUMMIT D’Enforcas International, Bass Line, Jugglers International, DJ Spice, Giselle D’Wassi One, Chinee & Gilligan, Doc, Soca Warrior Crew. $15 adv. Empire Lounge, 50

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Cumberland. ticketgateway.com.

SplaSh Boat CruiSe Hip-hop, reggae and R&B for the mature crowd. $25-$45. Empress of Canada, 11 Polson Sound. caribanatoronto. com.

Friday, August 3 Beyond de lime Island-style fish fry and

j’ouvert. 10 pm. $20. Exhibition Place. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Byron lee’S dragonaireS Boat ride Empress Of Canada Cruise Ship, 11 Polson. 8:30 pm, $50. caribanatoronto.com.

“Big people ting” CariBana edition DJs Chris Dubbs, King Turbo, Tasha Rozez, Tyrone, Blax Dun Da Place and Black Ice spin rock, foundation, culture and dancehall. $20-$25 (ticketgateway.com) OhSo Nightclub, 137 Peter. 416-825-8386.

Cool roCk $25. Guvernment Orange Room, 132 Queens Quay E. caribanatoronto.com. de Camouflage Boat CruiSe DJ Chris Nice, Soca Vibes, Mr Sobers and DJ Chief. Boarding 6 pm, $45 (Play De Record, ticketgateway. com). Captain Matthew Flinders, 207 Queens Quay W, Pier 6. 416-203-0178. glow: white dreSS party 9 pm, $50 (Play De Record). Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. caribanatoronto.com.

he(art) and Soul pre-CariBana CoCktail party Casey Yugo and the Band perform

alongside live painting by local artist Ilene Sova. 8 pm, $20, $5 going to charity PEACH Youth Org. The Foundery, 376 Bathurst. northsoul.com. heat – Bare aS you dare DJs Lissa Monet and Unruly Twin. Doors 10 pm, $25, adv $20.

Pacha Lounge, 1305 Dundas W. heat2012. eventbrite.com. heatwave DJs Jason Chambers, O-Nonymous and D’Enforcas. 10 pm, $20-$25. Peridot Lounge, 81 Bloor E. caribanatoronto.com. ririe muSiC feStival Family-friendly festival celebrating reggae, salsa, gospel, soul and African music, spoken word, art, film and food. To Aug 6. Free. Nathan Phillips Square (Queen and Bay) and Yonge-Dundas Square. iriemusicfestival.com. irie muSiC feStival Fay-Ann Lyons, Jaxx, DJ D’Enforcas and others perform. 6-10 pm, free.

Nathan Phillips Square. iriemusicfestival.com. riSland Soul Caribbean festival with music, dance, storytelling and more by Caribbean Folk Performers, Joy Lapps Project, Duane Stephenson and others, a mas carnival parade, drumming workshops and more.

Free. To Aug 6. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. rJerkfeSt Food festival with live music, dance, giveaways, a kids’ zone, So You Think You Can Jerk cooking competition and more.

Free. Today and tomorrow. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn, at the base of the ski hills. jerkfestival.ca. pan alive Members of the Ontario Steelpan Association compete before a panel of judges. $25. Lamport Stadium, 1150 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Set it off 10 pm. Mansion Nightclub, 102 Peter. caribanatoronto.com.

Shine Doors 10 pm, $25-$28.25. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. dbandit.com.

SoCa on the roof 10 pm, $30. Guvernment Skybar, 132 Queens Quay E. caribanatoronto. com.

Steel pan parade This Island Soul festival celebration features a strolling parade and a tribute to the Grandmaster Calpysonian Lord Kitchener. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre. com.

Carnival deCadenCe fete DJ Channel 9 and

DJ Christopher Michaels. 10 pm, $25. The Vue, 195 Galaxy Blvd. caribanatoronto.com. direCtor X’S CariBana event 10 pm, $30.

Sound Academy, 11 Polson. caribanatoronto. com.

dollarS dollarS: the CariBana floSSing live from JamaiCa Stonelove, Nitro Da CD

Sound, Military, and Firekid Steenie. Royal Banquet Hall, 185 Statesman, Mississauga.

647-267-2986. heat of the night ConCert SerieS Popcaan, Mya, Orlando Octave, Tony Matterhorn, Spex, Whitebwoy, Lino P, Vertex and others. 9:30 pm to 4:30 am, $40-$100 (Play De Record, ticketgateway.com). Coconuts Restaurant & Lounge Outdoor Arena, 2180 Steeles W. 905532-0504, clubzone.com. irie muSiC feStival Richie Spice, O’Dell, Colin Levy, Luanda Jones, Baque De Bamba and others perform. 1-10 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival.com. irie muSiC feStival Carlos Budd Ford, DJ Mic Boogie, Chris Rouse, Lady Pista, Andreena Mills, Unbottened, Maccie Paaquette and others. Noon to 11 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square perform. iriemusicfestival.com. make it rain DJs Prostyle, Jus, Diamond Kutz, Charlie Brown and others. Adv $25. City Nightclub, 296 Richmond W. caribanatoronto.com.

toronto CariBBean Carnival: SoCa or die!

Kes the Band, Nadia Batson & Sass, Benjai, Problem Child, KI & 3Veni, Bunji Garlin, DJs Crown Prince, Spice, Flip and many others.

Tickets at Play De Record, ticketgateway.com.

Wild Water Kingdom, 7855 Finch W, Brampton. caribanatoronto.com. trinidad & JamaiCa party SerieS 10 pm, adv $25, more later. Six Degrees, 2335 Yonge. caribanatoronto.com. the wet fete 10 pm, $20-$25. Rich Nightclub, 332 Richmond W. 416-578-2524.

Sunday, August 5 admiral Bailey Island Soul celebration with the dancehall DJ. 8 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Beyond de lime food feStival & ConCert

Food festival noon to 7 pm, concert 7 to 9 pm. $20 (VIP $85). Polson Pier, 11 Polson. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Carnival SoCial 10 pm, $30. London Tap House, 250 Adelaide W. caribanatoronto.com. rChutney in the park Family picnic with games, music and entertainment. $15. Bella Gardens, 12700 Jane (King City). caribanatoronto.com. duane StephenSon Island Soul entertainment. 9:30 pm, free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. relite on the water Carnival boat cruise with DJs 4Korners, Kid C, Scott Boogie and others playing hip-hop, reggae R&B and more. Boarding 9:45 pm, $45. Empress of Canada, 11 Polson Sound. empressofcanada.com. fire fete CariBana Sunday 10 pm, $40.

Sound Academy, 11 Polson. caribanatoronto.

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hot 97/Bet CariBana party 10 pm, $30.

Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. caribanatoronto.com. irie muSiC feStival Shi Wisdom, Shobha, Lisa Banton, Carlos Morgan, Gyles, SoJay, Snookie Tynes Band, Stacey Y and othersentertain.

Noon to 11 pm, free. Yonge-Dundas Square. iriemusicfestival.com. the kariBana Coalition Jam DJ Chris Nice, Nigel B, DJ Wayne, GQ-DA-MC, DJ Majess.

Doors 10 pm. Adv $20, more at the door (Play De Record, ticketgateway.com). The Hoxton, 69 Bathurst. fetenet.com. midnight applauderS DJs Kwame Younge and Dave Campbell. 10 pm, $10. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. wrongbar.com. pool party 2 Yankee Boy, Worm, Whitebwoy, Lindo P, Chris Dubs, Ghost Ryder, USA Ruff Ryders and Lava Man entertain. Noon to 8 pm.

Sound Academy, 11 Polson. 647-983-5683. rooftop BBQ DJ Chris Nice and others. 3 to 8 pm, $20 (ticketgateway.com). Dazzling Restaurant, 291 King W. 416-506-8886.

SoCa rave Iwer George, Kerwin Du Bois, Shal Marshal, Swappi, Rita Jones, Gyptian, Ki, Ravi B and others perform. 10 pm-6 am, adv $30$40. Kings Park Soca Village, 7185 Dixie. caribanatoronto.com.

Summer Breeze outdoor Street party & Summer Sizzle Ball DJs Blackcat & Pleasure.

3 to 10 pm. Zipperz/Cellblock, 72 Carlton.

416-921-0066. third world Ibadan, the Memberz, House of

David and others perform alongside the reggae superstars as part of Irie Music Festival. 12:30 to 10 pm, free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival. com.

Monday, August 6 irie muSiC feStival Dawn Penn, Lillian Allen and others perform. 12:30 to 10 pm, free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival.com. rJamBana Performances by Exco Levi, Steele, Blakka Ellis, MountainEdge Crew, host Oliver Samuels and others. 1-9:30 pm. $30. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. jambana.com.

Joy lappS proJeCt Island Soul concert. 1 pm, free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Saturday, August 11 JerkfeSt Yolande Noble, Evolution Band,

Lougin, Jermaine Cowan, Jay Davis, Lukie ‘D’ and Admiral Bailey entertain alongside storytellers, dancers and food competitions.

11 am to 9:30 pm. Free. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn. jerkfestival.ca.

Sunday, August 12 JerkfeSt Heritage Singers, Evolution Band, Django, Lukie ‘D’ and Admiral Bailey perform. Youth talent competitions, story tellers and food competitions. 11 am to 9 pm, free. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn. jerkfestival.ca.

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pm, $20. Lambadina, 875 Bloor W. 416-8884607.

CariBana aBove the City 10 pm, $35. Toula, 1 Harbour Sq, 38th flr. 416-777-2002.

CariBana def Jam party 10 pm, $40. Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. caribanatoronto. com.

CariBana long weekend DJ Blackcat, DJ TriShy and DJ Hype. 10 pm, $10-$15. Harlem, 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. rCariBBean Carnival grand parade The annual parade celebrating Caribbean culture winds its way along Lake Shore starting at Exhibition Place. Free, ticketed seats avail ($15-$40). torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Ken Lazarus, and Lovindeer perform. Doors 8 pm, adv $50, more at the door. Doubletree By Hilton, 655 Dixon. caribanatoronto.com.

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wonder many prefer to ditch the bar scene for a night beneath the stars.

Toronto’s green spaces have become nightlife destinations – places people don’t just pass through on the way to the bar, but social spaces where people meet instead of going to the bar.

One recent Saturday night Indrit Kasapi, a Toronto stage actor, was celebrating his birthday in Bellwoods. For a bash on the grass it was a stylish affair – 30 friends discreetly sipped mixed drinks as Robyn pumped from an iPod and ambient light flickered from handmade paper bag lanterns.

“I wanted something different, something fun and accessible,” Kasapi explains when asked why he’s chosen Bellwoods for his birthday party, one of at least two going on in the park that night. “If you go to a club, you have to wait in line.

You’re not guaranteed that all of your friends are going to get in.”

“Quite frankly we’ve done the bar scene. It’s over and done with,” agrees his friend Anamaria, a marketing professional who declines to give her last name. A lot of her friends are in their late 20s and live in condos, she says, and it’s rare they get to hang out in some green space.

“We don’t have backyards, we don’t have barbeques. So we come to the park.”

One indicator of how deeply park culture has taken root in the downtown west end is that local businesses have started marketing to the growing legions of Bellwoods lawn loungers.

This summer the County General, a restaurant half a block from the park, started renting out picnic baskets that come stocked with your choice of snack from its homestyle menu, a blanket and a game (badminton is the most popular, but they also offer horseshoes and bocce). Even

with the mandatory $100 deposit, all 10 baskets regularly sell out on weekends.

This June also saw the opening of the campthemed Trinity Tuck Shop, which sells parkready products like all-natural homemade popsicles, Frisbees and vintage cut-off shorts, and rents out blankets at $5 a day.

Queen West restos catering to the park set

Lister says that the city’s downtown green spaces, like Christie Pits, Queen’s Park and Bellwoods, were originally designed according to the colonial British conception of what a park should be. With their networks of paths and pretty flower beds, they were built mainly as places to take a pleasant stroll. Lawns were for looking at and not much else.

But the post-World War II influx of immigrants with non-British backgrounds, coupled with Toronto’s chronically underfunded municipal parks department, has led to citizens ditching the colonial idea and deciding for themselves what goes on in park space.

Community gardens, outdoor fitness classes and other activities that are now park fixtures were rarities as recently as 10 years ago.

“What we’ve seen in park design in the past 20 years has been an opening up of the idea of a park [as a space that’s] much less programmed,” Lister says, “to recognize that people [should] have both the opportunity and the right to have spontaneous uses.”

Those spontaneous uses tend to reflect the demographics that surround each park. While seniors from Chinatown congregate at Grange Park to do tai chi and Parkdale high-rise dwellers head to Budapest Park on weekends for family cookouts, Lister says the arrival of middle-class young people in the Queen West area has led to the booming Bellwoods nightlife.

“What you’ve seen is a gentrification of the neighbourhood,” Lister says. “You definitely have a demographic influence of younger people and more families… who have a particular kind of urban liberal attitude toward public continued on page 32 œ space.”

Soon the fieldS are dotted with beat-up bikeS, the air iS laced with marijuana Smoke, and the park echoeS with the hiSS of beer canS cracking open and bottle capS twiSting off. by the time it getS dark,

Bellwoods is Buzzing. might make the weekly conversion of Bellwoods into an open-air beer garden like the latest front of the hipster offensive, the grimly predictable takeover of public space by the same stylish, privileged demographic that has already swallowed much of the street west of Bathurst.

But according to Nina-Marie Lister, a professor at Ryerson’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, it’s also part of a broader trend that’s seen the gradual democratization of Toronto’s public parks.

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ne of the most popular spots in Trinity Bellwoods is an overgrown bush toward the centre of the park.

On a recent Friday night, as a friend and I sat on a bench nearby drinking tall cans of DAB, the bush must have had two-dozen visitors in the span of an hour. Men and women would enter the shrubbery one by one, only for a moment or two, and then walk out, sometimes discreetly adjusting their pants.

This of course is an excellent place to pee, and that’s a scarce commodity in Bellwoods many nights this steamy summer, when hundreds of people toting six-packs, wine bottles and other diuretics cram into the park for what’s become Toronto’s most popular weekly outdoor party.

Where Los Angeles has beach culture and Paris has café culture, Toronto is home to a burgeoning park culture.

Bellwoods is its epicentre – by day the Queen West park is like any other in the city, but as the afternoon begins to turn into evening, people stream into its 14 hectares in twos and threes to claim a spot on the grass.

Soon the fields are dotted with beat-up bikes, the air is laced with marijuana smoke, and the park echoes with the hiss of beer cans cracking open and bottle caps twisting off. By the time it gets dark, Bellwoods is buzzing.

And it’s not the only one. Although the city doesn’t keep accurate statistics, city officials say attendance in parks across the downtown core is higher than ever.

Parks, Forestry and Recreation credits the condo boom for the surge, but that likely isn’t the only factor driving record crowds to Toronto’s common greens.

With a seemingly endless stream of extreme heat alerts, major construction making crosstown trips a pain and seats on patios at a premium, it’s no

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While it may reflect the demographics of the surrounding community, the ubiquitous public drinking in Bellwoods isn’t welcomed by all its neighbours. Mike Layton, the local councillor, says he receives frequent noise complaints.

“When it starts getting to amplified music and lots of rowdiness in the evening, it does significantly disrupt the neighbours,” Layton says. “People need to follow basic sets of rules, including just being courteous to others in the park and to people living around it.”

But for the most part, visitors to Bellwoods seem to have struck a balance between open drug and alcohol consumption and what could be considered more legitimate uses of public space.

Marivi Barrios and her four-year-old daughter Karyssa come to the park from Mississauga once or twice a week to practice capoeira, a form of Brazilian martial arts, with other families. She’s noticed people drinking and smoking weed on the grass, but says they’re rarely a nuisance and are usually considerate enough to keep illicit behaviour away from children.

“I just think there’s an understanding about this park. It’s different than in other parks,” Barrios tells me one Saturday afternoon, as she and a group of parents cook hamburgers on a portable barbeque. “High Park I don’t trust. I know there are a lot of kids who go off and do their thing there. But here it seems there’s an understanding.”

The police also appear to be part of that understanding. While bike cops occasionally roll through, the laws against public drinking are enforced unevenly, to say the least.

“We use our discretion of course… depending on the situation that’s given to us,” says Sgt. Ramon Oliveros of Division 14’s community response unit. “Also it depends on the officer, right? You can have 10 different officers and have 10 different reasons why they did or did not give that person a ticket.”

On a recent visit to Bellwoods on a Saturday night in the prime-time hours between 7:30 and 10:30 pm, I didn’t see a single officer enter the main part of the park. Meanwhile, an untold number of bottles of booze were guzzled with impunity. For a city that has a reputation for cracking down on spontaneous expression of fun, this is one area where the authorities appear willing to let things slide.

That laid-back attitude is the defining characteristic of park life in Bellwoods this summer.

The whole thing is made possible by the unspoken understanding – between police and families and the after-dark drinkers – that illicit behaviour will be tolerated as long as it doesn’t interfere too much with anyone else’s enjoyment of the park.

It may not always be that way, of course.

It’s possible that soon Bellwoods will become too crowded, too rowdy or too trendy to be the idyllic getaway it is today. It’s possible that, after this article, police will crack down on the public drinking.

But then again, there are over 360 other parks in this city. There’s plenty of space for this party to grow.

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1. The party circle If Trinity Bellwoods were a club, this would be the dance floor. Easily the most popular spot in the park. Also the site of the original Trinity ­College, opened in 1852, demolished in the 1950s.

2. The tennis courts Under these concrete courts lie buried parts of the old University of Toronto chapel.

3. The front gates The official entrance to the park, and a remnant of the park’s days as a 19th university campus.

4. Duelling diamonds Hipster boozeball played here.

5. Dog bowl A reminder of the now-buried ravine that ­included Garrison Creek.

6. Crawford Street Bridge Before Garrison Creek was covered with leftover earth from digging the Bloor subway, you could cross it on an elegant bridge.

7. El Libertador Simón Bolívar The bust of Latin American revolutionary Simon Bolivar is a popular meet-up spot.

8. The pee bush Be careful, people urinate in large numbers here – the real bathrooms often get locked early.

9. i miss you Art project or public love letter? Whatever the case, someone with a deep yearning and a ball of yarn spelled out these words on the tennis court fence around 2009.

10. white squirrel habitat Trinity’s most famous tenant is a blanched rodent that, urban legend has it, is a single critter. More likely there are several from the same bloodline.

11. slacklining trees Aspiring acrobats can regularly be found in this part of the park practising a bouncy variant on tightrope-walking.

12. shagbark hickory An ancient tree thought to be one of the few left over from the park’s days as a pristine forest was cut down in 2011.

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Game gear: Golden playing cards ($22, Drake General Store, 1144 Queen West, 416-531-5042, drakegeneralstore.ca) Oversized extra-soft blanket: West Elm Favorite Throw ($29, 109 Atlantic, 416-5370110, westelm.com) Cocktail cooler: vintage Aladdin thermos ($10, BYOB, 972 Queen West, 416-858-2932, byobto.com) Statement sun hat: Onigo raffia sombrero ($69, Imelda, 123 Roncesvalles, 647-3441006, imelda.ca)

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Trinity Tuck Shop

198 Walnut, trinitytuckshop.ca The newest incarnation of the always evolving store space at 198 Walnut is definitely its cleverest. The Trinity Tuck Shop, a collaboration between designers Ashley Rowe and Dylan Davies as well as 69 Vintage’s Kealan Sullivan, is just what its name suggests: a summer-camp-style store across from the southeast corner of Trinity Bellwoods stocked with everything you need (but inevitably forget) to live the park life on a sunny afternoon.

We’re talking foodstuffs (juicy popsicles, penny candy, Pop Shoppe soda and toasted ’smores), rentals (tennis racquets, picnic blankets and bocce ball sets) and lots of lazy weekend perfect clothing and accessories, including Rowe’s own slouchy, tie-dyed tops. The trio has committed to the concept until Labour Day, but if all goes well they might be letting out toboggans come winter.

Trinity Tuck Shop picks: If you can’t commit to buying an old-school scoop game set for $5, it’s available for rent for $2; munch on barbecue-flavour Deep River Snacks chips, $4; watch out for grass stains on a pair of vintage white overalls, $45.

Look for: Group games coordinated by the tuck shop team. During a recent visit, I may have agreed to an August run of Assassin in the park.

Hours: Thursday to Sunday noon to 6 pm.

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The week’s news, views and sales Frugal Fashion Week launch Annual shopping fest Frugal Fashion Week kicks off tonight (Thursday, July 26) at 7 pm at Roots in Rosedale (1073 Yonge), which will be set up to create the feeling of cottaging in the city. The outdoorsy vibe continues Friday (July 27) at the Narwhal (8 Price, suite 101), where picnic-inspired fare and 60 per cent discounts will be up for grabs. It all wraps up with a Summerhill shop crawl on Sunday (July 29).

Tickets for Thursday and Friday’s events are $10 each through frugalfashionweek.com.

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Bombay in the city Today (Thursday, July 26) is your last chance to check out the NorBlack NorWhite (norblacknorwhite.com) pop-up at Miracle Thieves (249 Crawford). Bombay-sourced merch up for grabs includes a curated style selection from WE THE PPL, Rajni Perera, Bombay Electric and Kala Raksha.

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Consonant sunscreen If there’s one summer park life essential, it’s a smart sunscreen. One of the best new blocks on the market is Consonant’s 100% Natural Matte Finish formula. The invisible lotion achieves its SPF 15 with a mix of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. And you don’t have to smell like a pina colada to protect your skin. Consonant products are completely fragrance-free. $36, 2479 Yonge, 416-925-2855, consonantbody.com.

Designer call Nuit Blanche’s most fashionable happening is usually the Art Of Fashion design competition finale held every year during the artsy all-nighter. Organizers are now accepting applications for the 2012 edition of the contest, which comes with a $30,000 prize package. For more info on this year’s RAW theme and how to enter, check out artoffashion. org before August 17.

Sweet deals TNT (392 Eglinton West, 416-481-5550, 87 Avenue, 416-9751810, tntfashion.ca) is making further reductions on already on-sale clothing and accessories. Pieces regularly priced up to $495 are discounted by 60 per cent, while more expensive buys are now reduced by 70 per cent. At Josephson Opticians (60 Bloor West, 416-964-7070, and others, josephson. ca), the summer sunglasses sale is on until Saturday (July 28).

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825 Dundas W, at Palmerston, 647-3526611, porchettaco.com.

Tiny wood-lined take-away with a onetrack mind – porchetta!

Picnic this: One wicked ’wich of slowroasted naturally raised pork shoulder marinated in garlic, olive oil and lemon zest wrapped in thickly sliced prosciutto and a fatty outer layer of fennel-cured pork belly on a lightly toasted sourdough Portuguese pada bun ($6.45) upgraded with extra pig ($2.95), truffle sauce, bitter rapini (both 75¢) and a side of hot banana peppers (95¢); Saturday specials like deepfried soft-shell crab Po’ Boys with prosciutto baco-bits, coleslaw and spicy mayo ($11.95).

Tuesday to Saturday 11:30 am to 9 pm.

Closed Sunday, Monday, some holidays.

Cash only. Access: short ramp at door, counter seating, no washrooms.

chiPPy’s

893 Queen W, at Gore Vale, 416-8667474, chippys.ca.

Upmarket fish and chip shop with a focus on fresh seafood.

Picnic this: The Double Dunk, two arteryclogging deep-fried fillets of Acadian sturgeon dressed with red cabbage coleslaw and tartar sauce sandwiched between two slices of donut-like deep-fried dough ($9); more orthodox cod ($8.50), halibut ($13.99) or scallops ($12.50, all with handcut chunky fries) battered with Guinnessspiked Japanese panko bread crumbs; sides of mushy peas or garlicky mayo (both 90¢).

Daily 11:30 am to 9 pm. Access: barrierfree, no washrooms.

red tea Box

696 Queen W, at Euclid, 416-203-8882.

Over-the-top pan-Asian salad ’n’ sandwich combos and obscenely decadent desserts.

Picnic this: To beat the heat, chilled gingery beet and purple yam soup ($6.50); N’awlins-style muffuletta sandwiches on Fred’s chipotle sourdough spread with pumpkin-seed pesto and stacked with roasted eggplant ’n’ peppers ($9); Indospiced chicken breast on raisin sourdough ($9.50); crusted quinoa salmon salad in mustardy soy dressing ($13); kaffir lime

tarts with mango curds ($8); to drink, fresh strawberry and rhubarb fizz ($5.75).

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 6 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Sunday and holidays 10 am to 5 pm.

Closed Tuesday. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor, four steps to terrace, and another four steps to coach house.

county General

936 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-531-4447, thecountygeneral.ca.

Wallet-friendly spinoff of fancy-pants Splendido where they’ll rent you a picnic basket made from recycled materials, a

blanket and a choice of games (badmitton, boce ball or horseshoes) for a mere 10 bucks.

Picnic this: Fried deboned chicken thighs with slivered red onion, leafy coriander and chunky guacamole on Thuet milk bun sided with twice-fried frites ($14); a trio of steamed Chinese bao stuffed with Korean-style pork garnished with avocado chutney and green apple slaw ($12); Mediterranean sea bass tacos for two ($40, both dinner only).

Monday to Friday 11 am to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm, dinner 5 to 11 pm. Closed some holidays.

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Ex-Splendido and JKWB kitchen vet Francisco Alejandri brings upscale Mexicana to a low-rent Kensington food court.

Picnic this: The Anita tostada, a deep-fried fresh tortilla piled with sliced avocado and minty puréed pinto beans laced with habanero peppers and crumbled chorizo drizzled with house-made crema

fresca and garnished with queso and spicy guajillo sauce; whitefish ceviche mixed with diced ripe tomato, white onion and avocado (both $9); tender beef tongue in mole sauce sided with cassava chips ($11); in-season Ontario strawberries topped with more crema fresca, lime juice and rosemary ($6).

Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. Closed Mondays, holidays and Tuesdays after long weekends. Cash only. Access: three steps at door, no washrooms. Minimal seating.

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69 Kensington, at Baldwin, 416593-2672, misscoraskitchen.com.

Caterer extraordinaire Cora DeVries offers a rotating card of health conscious take-out.

Picnic this: Whole-wheat pizza slices dressed with roasted baby tomatoes, fresh basil, mozzarell’ and ’shrooms; savoury puff pastry pies stuffed with ham, Swiss cheese and Dijon mustard (both $4.50); vegan multi-berry muffins ($4); gluten-free flourless chococontinued on page 38 œ

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Daily noon to 6 pm. Cash only. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

Jumbo EmpaNadas

245 Augusta, at Baldwin, 416-977-0056, jumboempanadas.com.

Terrific oversized Chilean turnovers.

Picnic this: Cornish-pasty-like empanadas generously stuffed with chicken, red pepper, black olives and hard-boiled egg; beef with additional raisins; vegetarian with spinach, red pepper, mushroom, onion and basil pesto (all $4.50); sugar-crusted pastel de choco, a fabulously sweet pie of cornmeal mush thick with chunks of beef, chicken, black olives, hard-boiled egg and raisins ($8.50).

Monday to Saturday 9 am to 8 pm, Sunday 11 am to 6 pm. Closed holidays. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement.

FrEsco’s Fish aNd chips

213 Augusta, at Deninison, 416-546-4557, frescosfishandchips.com.

Beatles-obsessed chip shop with an eco conscience. Even the oil they use is turned into biofuel.

Picnic this: Sustainable Ocean Wise salmon in potato-chip batter or pan-seared with house-cut spuds deep-fried in transfat-free oil, creamy coleslaw, lemon wedges and house-made tartar sauce ($12.99); vegan and gluten-free poutine topped with either rich mushroom gravy and convincingly cheesy Daiya “cheese” or mildmannered veggie chili ($5.98 small/$10.98 large); deep-fried dill pickles ($4.95/$9.50).

Too lazy to pick up your order? They’ll deliver to the park!

Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm, Saturday noon to 10 pm, Sunday and some holidays noon to 8 pm. Closed some holidays. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

Near Christie Pits bristol Yard

146 Christie, at Pendrith, 647-716-6583.

Terrific Brit-style café introduces lunch service.

Picnic this: Two-fisted sandwiches like the Churchill – slow-roasted beef dressed with caramelized onion, wild lettuce, heirloom tomato and horseradish mayo on

house-baked Yorkshire pudding ($10); the Francis Bacon with lettuce, tomato and house-made HP on rustic farm bread ($7); real-deal chip butties ($4.50); a proper pork pie slice with pickled onion, wedge of Stilton and salad ($10).

Lunch Wednesday to Friday noon to 4 pm, dinner Wednesday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm.

Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm, dinner Sunday 6 to 10 pm. Cash only.

Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

796 Bloor W, at Crawford, 647-342-4359, madrasmasalatoronto.com.

South Indian offshoot of next-door Banjara.

Picnic this: Thin, crisp crepe-like rice ’n’ lentil flour dosas stuffed with spicy onionpotato curry and sided with soupy sambar, minced coconut and coriander chutneys spiked with Tamil chilies; the wafer-thin Spring Dosa with stir-fried peppers, carrot, and cabbage; sweet ’n’ sour Hakka-style deep-fried cauliflower (all $9.99).

Monday to Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Sunday and holidays noon to 10:30 pm. Access: three steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

mExitaco

828 Bloor W, at Shaw, 416-537-6693, mexitaco.com.

Bloordale’s favourite family-run Mexican cantina.

Picnic this: Soft tacos stuffed with the likes of shredded pork pastor topped with diced pineapple and onion; lime-marinated cochinita pibil pork with pickled red onion; sautéed peppers with onions and mushrooms (all $8.99 for three); make sure you ask for everything to be packed separately, including the tortillas, or it will all be mush by the time you hit the park.

Sunday to Wednesday noon to 10 pm, Thursday noon to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday noon to midnight. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

Nosso talho

1042 Bloor W, at Rusholme, 416-5317462, nossotalho.com.

Portuguese supermarket and grocery store with takeout counter.

Picnic this: Remarkably moist 2-pound rotisserie chickens in sealed recyclable containers ($5.99); loaves of crusty broa cornbread ($2); a half-dozen Pastel de Nata eggy custard tarts in flaky puff pastry ($5.99), in view of a bottle of vinho verde (Avelda 2011, $15.95); 12 cans of buzz-inducing guarana ($7.99).

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BEST COAST at the Phoenix, Saturday, July 21. Rating: NNN When you go to a Best Coast concert, it’s for the cocooning reassurance found in songs from 2010’s lo-fi and fuzzy Crazy For You – Bethany Cosentino’s real-girl laments against shitty dudes and the feelings they inspire.

With that tumultuous summer now past, you can sing along to Our Deal (“When you leave me, you take away everything / You take all my money, you take all my weed”) and I Want To with giddy triumph, secure in the knowledge that you’ve moved on.

That Crazy For You served such a specific purpose – to catalogue summer love – heightens the disconnect we feel toward Best Coast’s glossy latest, The Only Place. Thankfully, live, the songs sound harder, less candied and more age-appropriate than the debut record’s. Still, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Storms resonated more than the sanitized emotionalism of newer songs Let’s Go Home and No One Like You. Much like the first time around, Cosentino is charming enough between songs but still just an okay performer – a crop-topped vessel for her same-old three-chord melodies.

ANUPA MISTRY SEPALCURE at the Drake, Thursday, July 19. Rat-

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ing: NNNN New dance music styles are usually at their best in that brief window before they’re properly named and defined. In the case of Brooklyn duo Sepalcure (aka Travis Stewart and Praveen Sharma), people throw around the ambiguous label “future bass music.”

But they actually sound like everything that’s ever rocked a dance floor. Elements of vocal house, R&B, 2-step, classic rave, IDM, UK funky, broken beat, techno, permutations of dub and more blend into a cohesive sound that’s all their own.

Though Stewart’s solo career as Machinedrum has been blowing up, Sepalcure are still more under-the-radar. Nevertheless, the pair performs like they’re on a massive festival stage entertaining thousands, even at a two-thirds-full Drake. No one could ever accuse them of phoning it in. And their enthusiasm was contagious. By the end of their set, everyone was grinning as widely as they were.

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MURDER BY DEATH with CORY CHISEL AND THE WANDERING SONS and EAMON MCGRATH at the Horseshoe, Friday, July 20. Rating: NNN

Bloomington, Indiana, gothic alt-country rockers Murder by Death have a growing and enthusiastic local following, judging by the tightly packed crowd singing along to their whisky-fuelled murder ballads and devil songs.

They previewed material from their upcoming sixth album, Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon, and dusted off old tunes in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their debut album.

Cellist Sarah Balliet and multi-instrumentalist Scott Brackett brought orchestral flash and nuance, but the focal point was the deep, wacky, rock-opera-like voice of guitarist/frontman Adam Turla. It’s truly a surprise, given his slight, unassuming appearance.

Though the set literally ended in sparks flying – they have a Brackett-built theremin that shoots electricity – the band’s anthemic drinking-song formula got a little tiring.

Cory Chisel and the Wandering Sons did a good job conveying their polished blues, country and gospel-inspired pop/rock during their first Canadian appearance. But it was altogether too clean and sterile following the gritty, heartfelt performance by local rootspunk Eamon McGrath and his band.

SARAH GREENE Rating: NNNN A feel-good night of death metal might sound like an oxymoron, but it sums up the vibe at the Hard Luck on Saturday. Athens, Ohio’s Skeletonwitch are completely pummelling – all relentless doublebass-drumming and Death-reminiscent riffs flying at breakneck speeds. Yet burly singer Chance Garnette is the death metal equivalent of Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham, a frontman as huggable as he is intense.

Between crushing songs largely drawn from the band’s blacker and speedier fourth album, Forever Abomination, Garnette left behind his unholy growl in favour of an unscary Mid-western drawl.

“Y’all are the best!” he shouted, dedicating a song to “every single person under this roof tonight.” The sold-out crowd frequently took time out from moshing to raise devil horns.

Opener Barn Burner, an epic Montreal four-piece, aren’t as sonically devastating, but are, in many ways, more engaging. Their progressive tendencies bring out a fan’s inner music nerd, and they aren’t afraid to veer into super-heavy stoner metal or pull a few Maidenesque guitarmonies from their toolbox of killer riffs. Bassist Pat Bennett also isn’t afraid to climb onto the merch table midsong and headbang ferociously without missing a note. CARLA GILLIS

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TWIN SHADOW Compared to making music, motorcycles are mundane By KEVIN RITCHIE

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While explaining how motorcycles are integral to his life nowadays, George Lewis Jr., aka Twin Shadow, quickly finds himself on a slippery metaphorical slope.

“It’s what I’ve found solace in,” he says during in an interview at Toronto’s SoHo Metropolitan Hotel. “The last record, I found solace in women, perhaps, who will always interest me, but they’re becoming less and less the centrepiece.

“There’s a heavy emotional cost to enjoying a lifestyle of sexuality or strong sexual desire, I suppose. There’s a lot that comes with that. There’s less of a return than....”

He stops abruptly, realizing the dead-end street he’s on.

“I mean, let’s not compare sex and motorcycles. Can we scratch all this? I think it’s really corny when people compare sex to anything else.”

Better to compare motorcycles and music. Last year, the Dominican Republic-born musician relocated from New York City to Los Angeles to record Confess (4AD), the follow-up to his critically adored 2010 debut, Forget. He moved in large part because California’s wide-open spaces are more conducive to his hobby.

Lewis started riding eight years ago while living in Boston.

A self-described “irresponsible kid,” he knew nothing of how bikes worked and regularly drove drunk. Today it’s a different story. The more his life as a touring musician fixated on hard partying, indulgence and recklessness, the more working on his 1972 Triumph Bonneville – his dream bike – became a respite.

“When you’re doing music constantly, you start to need slightly mundane hobbies,” he explains. “Cleaning out your carburetors is like heaven.”

What does making music feel like in comparison?

“It’s like a constant anxiety attack. A really positive anxiety at-

tack, but nonetheless your heart gets pumping. I’m a leg-shaker so I shake the leg a lot. It gets stressful.”

Anxiety is all over Confess. Much like Forget, it’s an album of urgent and sentimental pop ballads, though slightly more aggressive in tone. Lead single Five Seconds is paced like a highspeed chase.

Writing the lyrics was the most stressful aspect, Lewis says. Right before he was due to mix the record, he freaked out and postponed the sessions for two weeks in order to finetune his lyrics and strip excess details from the arrangements.

“A good lyric is the difference between an amazing pop song that’s a huge hit and a pop song that’s a flash in the pan,” he says. “The beauty of good lyrics is, if you do it right, you can attract people who read lots of books or even people who can’t read at all, and that’s perfection right there.

That’s the goal.”

The defining lyric, from hidden track Mirror In The Dark, is the only thing printed in the centre of the LP artwork: “The finest words I ever wrote to you are just a mirror in the dark, seeking a long lost look for you.”

“Mirror In The Dark is me trying to reflect the truth about something and someone not seeing it,” he says.

“A lot of the record deals with these moments when you’re giving someone a lot back and they’re not seeing it.”

Much of Confess wrestles with the emotional fallout that occurs when one party in a sexual relationship wants out.

“With sex you’re like, ‘You’re hot. Want to be friends for a night?

Maybe two? Maybe three?

Maybe four? Maybe five?

Maybe six? Maybe seven?’” Lewis says, grinning.

“All of sudden you’re connected to this person because sex is such an easy way to connect people, and then you’re trying to pull away and it’s an even bigger deal.”

Does he learn from his mistakes?

“I never learn from my mistakes but I’m trying to learn. Or trying to distract myself by doing something else.”

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TU FAWNING Portland quartet conjures eerie atmospheres

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TU FAWNING with AU at the Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Monday (July 30), 8 pm. $10 advance. RT, SS.

When Corrina Repp and her partner, Joe Haege, first started playing music together a few years ago as Tu Fawning, they had no idea that the casual project would end up becoming a fulltime band. Repp was busy with her quiet-music solo career and Viva Voce, while Haege had his hands full with 31Knots and Menomena.

But any perception of Tu Fawning as merely a side project has been washed away with the release of the Portland band’s cinematic second album, A Monument (City Slang).

“Joe and I originally started Tu Fawning because we wanted to take a break from our own bands,” explains

Repp from their Portland home. “We knew we liked how our voices sounded together, so the plan was just to sing some songs. It became more and more adventurous over time. We weren’t completely sure what we wanted to do, and that freedom allowed us to pursue things we might not have in our other projects.

“Now we don’t have time to do much of anything else.”

A four-piece that also includes Liza Rietz and Toussaint Perrault, Tu Fawning craft dark, dramatic dirges that echo some of Nick Cave’s moody deranged blues or, for a Toronto comparison, Timber Timbre’s eerie folk.

Except in their case, the rich textures are just as likely to come from synths and samplers as dusty old organs and guitars.

“A lot of the songs are pretty sam-

ple-heavy, and when we tour Europe we have to do a lot of acoustic sessions, which is fun but challenging.”

Their debut full-length, 2010’s Hearts On Hold, was more overtly experimental and electronic, while A Monument lends itself better to live performance. Repp and Haege make every effort to feature as much human playing as possible. Unfortunately, that also means each member plays multiple instruments, which makes sound checks more complicated than for your typical guitar-bass-drums outfit.

“In Europe we get to travel with our own sound person, but over here we don’t,” Repp says. She says of in-house techs, “There have definitely been moments when you see a look of panic in their eyes.”

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BEACHES INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Various venues, continues till Sunday (July 29) Huge outdoor jazz festival and street party.

UMA NOTA FIFTH ANNIVERSARY w/ QuiQue Escamilla & band, Maninho Costa & Batucada Carioca, DJ eLman, DJ General Eclectic The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (July 27) Popular Afro-Latin dance party.

HAPPY ENDINGS w/ Scuba, Egyptrixx, Exeter Bright Pearl (346-348 Spadina), Friday (July 27) See Scion Sessions preview, page 46.

THE XX, JACQUES GREENE Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (July 28) Dark minimalist UK dream pop.

TWIN SHADOW, POOLSIDE Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Monday and Tuesday (July 30 and 31)) See preview, page 40.

CHILDISH GAMBINO Echo Beach (909 Lake Shore West), Tuesday (July 31) Comedian and nerd rapper.

FRANK OCEAN Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Tuesday (July 31) Critically acclaimed R&B visionary.

SHARON VAN ETTEN, TENNIS Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (July 31) Brooklyn indie singer/songwriter.

SIGUR ROS Echo Beach (909 Lake Shore West), Wednesday (August 1) Icelandic experimental pop.

TUNE-YARDS Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Wednesday (August 1) Futuristic ukelele pop.

BASSMENTALITY w/ Killabits, ColeCo, Grimeskee Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Wednesday (August 1) See Scion Sessions preview, page 46.

MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY w/ Zeds Dead, BADBADNOTGOOD, Jacques Greene, Nadastrom, Claude Vonstroke, A Tribe Called Red, Riton, Smalltown DJs, Grandtheft Yonge-Dundas Square, Saturday (July 28) See Scion Sessions preview, page 46.

WIZ KHALIFA, MAC MILLER, KENDRICK LAMAR, CHIDDY BANG, CHEVY WOODS Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (July 29) Talent-stacked hip-hop tour.

TU FAWNING, AU Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Monday (July 30) See preview, page 43.

EXPERIMENTAL ROCK

How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See the Venue Index, page 50, for addresses and phone numbers. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

C = Caribbean Carnival event How to place a listing

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

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

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

On this tour, the Calgary noise-folk experimentalist will perform songs and sounds from his series of 10 limited-run cassettes drawn from five years’ worth of unreleased material. Each hand-lettered cover is colourful and psychedelic, which can also be said of the tunes.

At the Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), tonight (Thursday, July 26), doors 8 pm. $20.

RT, SS, TW.

ALLEYCATZ Cousin Slow Poke.

AMSTERDAM BREWERY Open Roof Festival:

Just announced WHALE TOOTH CD release Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $10.

HS, RT, SS. August 24.

JELLO BIAFRA & THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 29.

CHAMPAGNE CHAMPAGNE Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS. September 2.

THE OFFSPRING, DEAD SARA Echo Beach at Molson Canadian

Amphitheatre doors 5:30 pm, all ages, $42.50-$75. RT, SS, TM. September 2.

JAILL, FERGUS, GERONIMO Rivoli doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS. September 6.

LARRY & HIS FLASK Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 13.

NOBUNNY, BAD SPORTS Silver Dollar

doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. RT, SS. September 18.

KATATONIA Opera House $tba. September 19.

MILK CARTON KIDS Drake Hotel

doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TM. September 20.

GRIMES Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 21.

PROPAGANDHI, COMEBACK KID, BURNING LOVE Phoenix Concert Theatre

doors 8 pm, all ages, $19. RT, SS, TM. September 26.

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ELLIOTT BROOD, BORN RUFFIANS, WOODHANDS,

THE ACORN Paper Bag Records 10th-Anniversary Concert Series: Benefit for Musicounts The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $25, threeday pass $60. PB, RT, SS. September 27.

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, CUFF THE DUKE, PS I LOVE YOU, SLIM TWIG Paper Bag Records

10th-Anniversary Concert Series: Benefit for Musicounts The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $25, three-day pass $60. PB, RT, SS. September 28.

WHITE COWBELL, OKLAHOMA, DIEMONDS CD release Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 28.

CALVIN HARRIS Sound Academy doors 9 pm. September 28.

YOU SAY PARTY, YOUNG GALAXY, THE LUYAS

Paper Bag Records 10th-Anniversary Concert Series: Benefit for Musicounts The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $25, three-day pass $60.

PB, RT, SS. September 29.

TWO GALLANTS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TM. September 29.

PERFUME GENIUS 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts doors 8 pm, all ages, $22.50. October 5.

TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Sound Academy doors 8 pm.

October 5.

CHEAP GIRLS, FRONT OF BROTHERS Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS. October 14.

DAN MANGAN, THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVAN-

TAGE The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $32.50$39.50. TM. October 25.

SARAH NEUFELD Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12. RT, SS, TM. November 10.

THE WHO Air Canada Centre $tba. November 23.

Outdoor Film And Music Series Run with the Kittens (rockabilly eclectic punk/surf psychedelic folk punk) 7:30 pm.

BOAT Leverage Model, In One Wind, Foxfires.

BOILER HOUSE Organic Funk (funk/soul/pop) 8 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Belle’s Bovine Nights Most People, Justin Dube, Polarity.

THE CENTRAL Clockwise, Garage Baby 10 pm.

CLINTON’S The Indie Machine The Best Friends w/ Wolves Club, the Rest, Rival Boys, Cousins doors 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Alexz Johnson, Mamabolo (pop/rock) doors 7 pm.

ñECHO BEACH AT MOLSON CANADIAN AM-

PHITHEATRE Sam Roberts Band, Bombay Bicycle Club, the Jezabels doors 7 pm, all ages.

EL MOCAMBO Breached, Missing in Venice, Revmatic, All But Over, Citizen Hollow doors 8:30 pm.

EXHIBITION PLACE BANDSHELL Queer Beer Festival Oh Land, Uh Huh Her, Men, Hunter Valentine 4:30 to 11 pm.5 FIRST CANADIAN PLACE WATERFALL STAGE Kira Isabella 12:15 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Profits and Loses 8 pm, Bright Blue Motels 5 to 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm.

HORSESHOE A Tribute To The Monks Thomas D’arcy, John Ford, the Order of Good Cheer.

LEE’S PALACE NDMA, Mattress Company, New Design, King Pawns Three.

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 PAINTED LADY Picturesound, Ollie Midfield 11 pm, Hollowphonic (ambient space rock) 10 pm.

THE PISTON Raw, Meredith Shaw, the Tristones, Stefi Beck 9 pm.

RANCHO RELAXO Royal Creatures.

RIVOLI Must Stash Hat, Blind Mule, Ambisonic 9 pm.

ROCKPILE Lifeguard Party Boro Bash Round 3 DJ Delirious, DJ Maltease, DJ Bais.

SILVER DOLLAR Stella Ella Ola, Reversing Falls, Grounders, Triple Gangers doors 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer 9:30 pm.

SUPERMARKET CD release Send Medicine, Revolvers, Lost Babies doors 9 pm.

3030 DUNDAS WEST Album release Winnebagos of Death.

TRANZAC Corey Isenor, Pat Lepoidevin 9:30 pm.

TRANZAC TIKI ROOM T H O M A S, Ben Gunning (indie) 10 pm.

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Mobile Mod Club Chad VanGaalen, Cousins, Dusted doors 8 pm. ñVirgin

Folk/Blues/Country/World

AspettA CAffe Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. eMMet rAy bAr Patrick Brealey (folk rock/ roots) 9 pm.

Austra

eton House Keith Jolie (folk) 7:30 pm.

Holy oAk CAfe Sea Hags & Lost Girl (old time) 10 pm.

nAtHAn pHillips squAre Tasty Thursdays Jaffa Road (world music fusion) noon to 2 pm.

pHoenix ConCert tHeAtre Citizen Cope (folk rock) doors 8 pm.

roy tHoMson HAll Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group 8 pm. ñ tHe rusty nAil Open Jam Steph Armstrong,

Tommy Flanagan & Brian Law 10 pm. tHe sister Sean Pinchin. toronto botAniCAl gArden The Edwards Summer Music Series Jayme Stone 7-8:30 pm. trAnzAC soutHern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

CHurCH of tHe redeeMer Toronto Summer Music Festival Outreach Concert noon.

doMinion on queen Rinse the Algorithm 9:30 pm.

tHe flying beAVer pubAret Julie Michels 7:30 pm.

HArbourfront Centre Dancing On The Pier

Pablo Terry & Sol de Cuba, Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 pm.

HugH’s rooM Songwriting Workshop Student Showcase 8 pm. lulA lounge CD release Shuffle Demons (jazz-funk fusion) 8 pm. queen eAst Beaches International Jazz Festival: StreetFest Sultans of String, God Made Me Funky, Quincy Bullen, Yiannis Kapoulas, Samba Squad, Dr Draw, Paul James Band and others 7 to 11 pm. reposAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. rex Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm.

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Toronto Summer Music Festival The Gryphon Trio w/ Scott St John & Steven Dann 7:30 pm. soMewHere tHere studio Avesta Nakhaei (jazz/improv) 8 pm. toronto MusiC gArden Summer Music In The Garden: Music From The Natural World David Mott, Joseph Petric (baritone saxophone, accordion) 7 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

beAVer Sheroes: League Of Legendary Ladies – Nina Simone. ñ CHeVAl Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/

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Scion Week It’s a testament to the brand-aligning, money-making pull of “EDM culture” that corporate sponsors are spending dough to group independently organized events into festivals – under their name, of course. Capitalism – so wily.

Not that we’re super-mad over what Scion is calling Scion Sessions Week (July 27 to August 4). In this case, it boosts our local economy while also highlighting the city and country’s growing reserve of quality electronic producers, DJs and party promoters.

Here are a few acts we have our eyes on. For the full lineup and access to exclusive downloads and 7-inches, hit scionsessions.ca.

Friday, July 27 Exeter A 2011 alum of another branded venture, Red Bull Music Academy, Toronto’s Evan Doyle, aka Exeter, has made the single 88MPH for Sessions Week.

It’s a soulful slice of computer funk, his main thing, and features a B-side remix by Ryan Hemsworth.

Egyptrixx

A trend-bucking dark horse, Egyptrixx makes cinematic, capricious compositions that are like the soundtrack to transcendental club experiences. As one half of Hiawatha (with Camouflage Nights/Thrush Hermit’s Ian McGettigan), he’s taking that aesthetic into the rock band sphere. w/ SCUBA at Happy Endings, Bright Pearl Dim Sum (346 Spadina), 10 pm. $15. PDR, RT, SS.

Saturday, July 28 Jacques Greene

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Jesse Futerman

SeSSionS

Car company slaps its name on a bunch of (amazing) events By ANUPA MISTRY and BENJAMIN BOLES Greene without knowing it. That’s him (with pal Lunice) in Azealia Banks’s 212 video. One of Canada’s most indemand producers internationally, Greene has just launched his own label, Vase. This free all-day all-ages party is packed with other top-notch talent, too, that regular NOW readers should be very familiar with. w/ ZEDS DEAD, CLAUDE VONSTROKE , RITON, A TRIBE CALLED RED, JACQUES GREENE and BADBADNOTGOOD at the Mad Decent Block Party, Yonge-Dundas Square, 1-11 pm. Free.

Wednesday, August 1 ColeCo

Local production/DJ duo ColeCo have released a couple of vibesy EPs but are best known for giving the sun-faded remix treatment to an eclectic range of artists like the Weeknd; Tyler, The Creator; Young Empires and Bedouin Soundclash. w/ THE KILLABITS, COLECO and GRIMESKEE at Bassmentality, Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), 10pm. $10-$15. 416-516-8677.

Thursday, August 2 Jesse Futerman

Jesse Futerman’s a bit different from the rest, creating down- to mid-tempo beats with conceptual, song-like focus.

Common to his jazz- and hip-hop-inflected work are persistent grooves and strange percussive tics. w/ NOSAJ THING, DOLDRUMS, NAUTILUSS, JESSE, BETA FRONTIERS and LUCIE TIC at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst), 8pm. Free.

Friday, August 3 Split 7" While the vast majority the acts associated with the Scion Sessions Week are electronic, punk rock is cool, too, so they’ve invited noisy Louisville bands Young Widows and Coliseum to join up with Hamilton’s TV Freaks on a three-song split 7-inch, which you can only get by RSVPing to this show. w/ YOUNG WIDOWS, COLISEUM and TV FREAKS at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), 10pm. Free.

Saturday, August 4 Austra

Toronto’s ice-synth queen Katie Stelmanis and band play their first Toronto show of 2012 as part of a heavy-hitter lineup featuring Justice and M83. The mix of heady pulse and pristine vocals on Feel It Break, their 2011 debut album, made it a critical favourite. w/ JUSTICE, M83, AUSTRA , BURAKA SOM SISTEMA and CHARLI XCX at Hard Fest, Fort York (100 Garrison), 5 pm. $49-$69. PDR, RT, SS, TW.

Ryan Hemsworth The buzzed-about Halifax producer plays the popular Slowed party, which, as you may have guessed from the name, focuses on dance music in the lower end of the BPM range. w/ TORRO TORRO, LUCIE TIC and special guest at Slowed, Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), 10 pm.

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tuesday july 31 @ the phoenix

sharon van etten tennis $

sundAy

september 16

18.50 advance • JagJaguar • fat possum indie folk pop

friday september 21 @ lee’s palace

FridAy

september 28

glen punch hansard dAnForTH music HAll

the phoenix • $19.50 adv

25.50 - $35.00 adv • all-ages

$

Advance Tickets @ TickeTmAsTer.cA or 1-855-985-5000 HorsesHoe FronT BAr • soundscApes • roTATe THis thursday july 26 @ the phoenix • $30.50 advance • 8:00pm

citizen cope

jAm Blues rock

with

adam gontier

sold ouT

The XX Jesus & marY chain

july 28

@ pHoenix

AugusT 3

@ pHoenix

wednesday

august 1 phoenix • 20.00 adv

of frames & swell season

brothers nonesuch bluegrass

tuesday october 2 $

alaBama grimes strung out shakes the antlers propagandhi the raVeOnetteS frightened rabbit afghan jenS lekman lagwagOn beach house Whigs dr.dog 20.00 advance • 9:00pm • 19+

$

26.50 advance • all-ages

$

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

so cAl punk rock

tues september 25 @ great hall $ 21.50 advance • brooklyn • transgressive records

playing SuBurBan teenage waSteland + twiSted By deSign

with such Gold + handGuns + lucky ones

wednesdAy

september 26 @ the phoenix $ 19.00

thurs october 4 @ the phoenix • $20.00 adv

advance • all-ages

with

comeback kid + burninG love

wednesday october 10 @ mod club • $21.50 advance

mozart’s sister

saturday october 13 @ kool haus $ 23.50 advance • all-ages

tuesday october 2 @ the phoenix • $18.50 advance

wed october 3

sat october 13

with crocodiles

W/ COttOn jOneS

the phoenix • $35.00 advance

opera house • $20.00 adv

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

flatliners dead to me

friday july 27 @ hard luck • $10.50 advance • ska

friday july 27

deals gone bad teddy august 11 sonnY & the sunsets magic trick geiger sound one ghetto blaster harmonauts

saturday

mod club • $ 13.50 adv • all-ages

@ silver dollar • $11.50 advance

(the freSh & onlyS)

tuesday august 21

russian circles lee’s palace • $ 14.50 advance

tueS Sept 18 @ Silver dollar • $11.50 adv

nobunny

with BaD sports

love monkey / the rocker

wed august 29 @ lee’s palace •

15.00 advance

$

jellO Biafra

& the guantanamo school of medicine full band • ex dead kennedys

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

monday july 30

tuesday august 7

thurs september 6

thurS auguSt 23 @ hard luCk • $11.50 adv

drake hotel • $10.00 advance

the garrison • $11.00 advance

wed august 8

great hall • $15.00 adv • seated show

au eternal cold tu fawning summers specks

friday august 24 @ horseshoe •

whale tooth cd release

thurs september 6 918 bathurst • $25.00 adv • all-ages

sun september 2 @ horseshoe •

thurs september 6

mon september 10

led tigers JaW jOhn k. champagne zeppelin 2 the atlas moth SamSOn champagne The knuX lee’s palace • $ 10.00 advance

13.50 advance

$

Sun SeptemBer 2 @ Sneaky dee’S • $12.50 adv

with

tues september 18 @ lee’s palace •

rusted root antiBalas jaill caspian pittsburgh percussive Jam folk band

10.00 advance

$

$

20.00 adv

rivoli • $ 10.00 advance

horseshoe • $ 10.50 advance

new york city daptone • afrobeat

thurs september 13 horseshoe • $ 10.00 advance

larry &

his flask lemon Bucket orchestra

monday july 30 • shoeless • no cover

The lunes elissa barclay the PePtides

concerts at

8:00pm (Sun-wed) 8:30pm (thurSday) 9:00pm (fri & Sat) THurs july 26 • $6 @door

friday july 27 $

alternative rock dance club

saturday july 28

thursday july 26 • $10.00

7 @door • locAl Hip-Hop ndMa • Mattress coMpany SCOtt averY islanD new design • King pawns three inner Cityramirez grOOVeS rye dOn draper elmnt jaff, rez raida desperate executives chain city ruBy Spirit will currie + charlotte cornfield $ 7.00

80s drugs in my pocket!

the monks tribute john ford & the

@ door

wednesday july 25 • $11.50 advance

jonny corndawg

monday july 30 & tuesday july 31 $ 20.00

advance • “confess”

order of good cheer

THurs august 2 • $6 @door

THursdAy august 2 • $7.00

familiar friends j’nai • amanda robb band

twin shadow the Do

elos arma • rainbows the noble truths stuck on planet earth

FridAy august 3 • $15.00 adv

with poolside

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

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

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

friday july 27

saturday july 28 • $10.00 adv

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

dan vapid & the cheats

saturday august 4

sunday august 19 • $11.50 advance

local alternative rock • $ 7.00

local alternative rock • $ 7.00

the unChained fallen heirS august 3 aSleep at Delusion manifesto the maChine BernaDette connor

friday

• $10.00

ex-screeching weasel

ramones punk pop rock

with

e street canada bbq

Tramps like us!

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

aug 20 • Down By law aug 21 • russian circles aug 29 • Jello Biafra

horseshoetavern.com

leespAlAce.com

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southern soul funk blues

mondAy

august 20

$

23.50 advance

l.a. psych rock & roll! ramones punk

sat august 25 • $9.00 adv

topanga

SeBadOh

balconies

the aggrolites

with the

wed august 15 • $17.50 advance

the growlers

nothington

friday auguSt 24 • 1:00pm-7:30pm

the reeD effect haleY stark

dan sherkin • bryan rason hearts, unicorns, gin! isebeurg de movement

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jj grey& Mofro

sAT august 4 • $10 @door

tuesday july 31

the noise broken arroWs milo greene sherman doWney band family of the year

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

featuring

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EPIPHANY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Epiphany

Thursdays DJ DLimit (Afro/dancehall/hip-hop/ old school/soca).

GOODHANDY’S T-Girl Parties.5 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).

Friday, July 27 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

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

THE BALLROOM Chicken & Waffles 10 pm.

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

BIER MARKT DON MILLS Julian Taylor Band

(rock ) 8 pm.

BOILER HOUSE Lester McLean Trio (soul/funk/

pop) 8 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Automan, Heavy Early, DJ Vania.

THE CENTRAL Get Blown 9:30 pm, Peter Kauffman 6:30 pm.

COURTHOUSE Hammers of Misfortune, the

Gates of Slumber, Castle doors 8 pm.

EL MOCAMBO The Mark Inside, Nicholas Doubleyou & the B-Squad, California Death Rays doors 9 pm.

EXHIBITION PLACE BANDSHELL Festival Of Beer Salt-N-Pepa, Michie Mee, Kreesha Turner, D-sisive & My Son the Hurricane, Hello Beautiful 4:30 to 11 pm.

THE GARRISON CD release Old World Vulture, Black Walls, Hot Kid, Black Hat Brigade doors 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Vezi and Kim Cole 8 pm, Paul Martin 5:30 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Frankie Foo 10 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR Deals Gone Bad, Sound One, Harmenoughts, Ghetto Blaster (ska) doors 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Witch Ever, the Cunninghams, Maladies of Adam Stokes, Canadian Shield, the Skirt Chasers.

LEE’S PALACE Inner City Grooves Scott Ramirez.

MONARCH TAVERN UPSTAIRS Wavelength #547 Conoisseurs of Porn, Das Rad, This Mess, Old Acid doors 9 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Strung Out, Such Gold, Lucky Ones, Handguns (punk rock) doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

RIVOLI Pop With Brains 38 Patti Cake, Joseph & the Mercurials, You, Me, Baxter and Phil, Hinterlandband, the Davey Parker Radio Sound, DJ the FranDiscos doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC Corey Isenor, Pat Lepoidevin 9:30 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Teddy Geiger (pop) doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Indie Fridays The Bright Light Social Hour 8 to 10 pm.

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ASPETTA CAFFE Sadeh Adam, Colin Oliver, Ivy James 7 to 11 pm.

BOARDWALK CAFE WORLD BEAT STAGE Beaches

International Jazz Fest Imbayakunas, Party Island, Changuy Havana noon to 9 pm.

C’EST WHAT Christie Ulicny 8 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Album Release party Faye Blais, Scarlett Jane (alt folk) 8 pm.

THE GREAT HALL Uma Nota Five-Year Anniversary Party QuiQue Escamilla & Band, Maninho Costa & Batucada Carioca, DJ eLman, DJ General Eclectic doors 10 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Classical IV: Strings Maryem Hassan Tollar 7 pm.

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HUGH’S ROOM CD release Crowns for Convoy,

Too Many Sisters, Sean Pinchin 8:30 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION Beaches International Jazz Fest: Latin Square Conjunto Tropical de Cuba, DJ Manyoma, Un Poco Latino 3 to 7 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION BIG BAND STAGE

Beaches International Jazz Fest The George Lake Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics, the Big Smoke Big Band 3 to 6 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Salsa Summer Salsomania, DJ Bernal, Vladimir.

MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Cultura Festival Jayme Stone (banjo) 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

SILVER DOLLAR Pop Montreal ‘Pop Off’ Canailles, the Unseen Strangers, the Modern Grass, Sin & Swoon (Mike O’Brien & Michelle Tompkins) doors 9 pm.

THE SISTER Red Revue.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Ryan Driver Quartet (avant-garde indie folk) 10 pm, The Foolish Things, Hugh Oliver (folk) 5 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BENARES HISTORIC HOUSE On The Verandah Concert Rob Tardik (jazz guitar) 7:30 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: The Toronto Reunion Mark Fewer, Scott St John, Steven Dann, Sharon Wei, Mathias Gredler, Shauna Rolston (music of Germany & Russia) 7:30 pm.

THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Sonya Jezebel Côté 7:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Classical IV: Strings Masters of Mali w/ Sidi Touré 9:30 pm, Tio Chorinho (Brazilian choro ensemble) 8 pm.

HART HOUSE GREAT HALL Toronto Summer Music Festival: Friday Late Night With Mark Fewer 10 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Iroko (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

MISSISSAUGA CELEBRATION SQUARE Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration Jill Barber, Shannon Butcher, Arlene Paculan 7 to 10 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Dave Field, Chris Robinson, Frank DeFelice 7:30 pm.

QUEEN EAST Beaches International Jazz Festival: StreetFest Sultans of String, Quincy Bullen, Yiannis Kapoulas, God Made Me Funky, Samba Squad, Dr Draw, Paul James Band and others 7 to 11 pm.

REX Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm, Worst Pop Band Ever (jazz) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Crankbox 8 pm.

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ADDIS ABABA Overfunk’d DJs King Curtiss Winston & Son of S.O.U.L. 10 pm.

CANNEX WRECKROOM Caribana Ragga Jun-

gle Jam Medicine Muffin, Marcus Visionary B2B Lush, Rick Toxic, Frankie Gunns B2B Chaleon 10 pm.

BRIGHT PEARL Happy Endings Scuba, Egyptrixx, Exeter. See preview, page 46.

BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE Fuck U Fridays: Midnight Erotic Cabaret DJ Triple-X, DJ Bruce La Bruce 10:30 pm.5 CAMP 4 Switched On DJs Pammm, Angelo 10 pm.

CLINTON’S JAMZ! Andy & Ty (80s/90s/00s) 10 pm.

COLD TEA Mighty Real DJs John Caffery & the Robotic Kid (acid/disco/vogue/house) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Itzsoweezee Tom Wrecks, Demiggs doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Your Boy Brian doors 11 pm.

FLY Dance Camp – Olympiad DJ Mark Falco, DJ Pleasure.5 FOOTWORK Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Pansexual Sex Party DJ Todd Klinck doors 10 pm.5

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GUVERNMENT Blueberrry Bashment – Vibez

Session X Renegade Squad, Dr Jay, Infamous w/ Boodoo, Whitebwoy, JUK, Black Reaction, Soca Sweetness, Lindo P, Loud Mouth Chiney, Glax Dun Da Place and others door 10 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Sweet Beats DJ Elektro Tank (new wave/funk/electro) 10 pm.

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

LUXY NIGHTCLUB T.G.I. Fridays DJ Spex, DJ Chris Michaels, Mark Strong.

MARGRET Massive Gritty (reggae) 10 pm.

CON THE ROX UnityFest – White & Anything Pre-Caribana Edition Black Chiney, Spex Riddim Track Master, Renaissance Disco, Soca Sweetness.

THE PAINTED LADY DJ Frank Phantastic Johnson, Honey B Hind 10 pm.

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

THE PISTON Shindig DJ Misty Rock n’ Roll, DJ Splattermonkey, Parkdale Funk (R&B/garage/ Northern soul) 10 pm.

REVIVAL Soul Sisters Stand Up Release Party Skratch Bastid, the Gaff, DJ Marcus Aurelius.

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

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

3030 DUNDAS WEST Bring Your Own Vinyl Party DJ OhSixteen.

RANCHO RELAXO Soul Khan (hip-hop) 11 pm.

REX Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm,

Danny Marks (pop) noon.

RIVOLI Adrian Pain & the Dead Sexy, Antitrust Division, Dawn Before Descent, Mind Mechanics 7:30 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Elvyn, the Mercy Now, the Blue Stones, Modernboys Moderngirls doors 9 pm.

THE SISTER Macro Fiesta, the Treble.

SOUND ACADEMY A Foot in Cold Water doors 8 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4 to 8 pm.

STUDIO 835 Album release Leah Hunter (roots/ rock/folk) 9 pm.

3030 DUNDAS WEST High, Low & Inbetween, Blair Harvey, Jetset Motel, the Kirkpatrick Brothers.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Morgan Sadler, Tiny Montgom-

ery, Celia Opera, Jelle, Roger Dorey 3 to 10 pm.

BEACH BOARDWALK WORLD BEAT STAGE

Beaches International Jazz Fest Puente del Diablo, Party Island, Fantasia noon to 9 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Whitney Rose (country) 8 pm.

C’EST WHAT Thar Be Dragons (alt-rock) 8 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN The Sin City Boys (alt country).

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Mark Ripp (folk/rock) 4 to 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Changui Havana 10:30 pm.

MAD BEAN Roger Dorey (singer/songwriter) 2 to 4 pm.

MISSISSAUGA CELEBRATION SQUARE Bollywood

Monster Mash-Up Concert Rajdeep Chatterjee, the Bollywood Monster Choir, Mississauga Choral Society, MoHit, Ferzana, Prita Chhabra, Autorickshaw 6:30 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY Open Mic David Crighton.

RELISH BAR & GRILL Chris Strang 9:30 pm.

REX Jake Chisholm (blues) 9:45 pm.

SHOPS AT DON MILLS The Vibes (percussion, steel drum, keyboard) 12:30 to 3:30 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BEERBISTRO The Gene Pool Boys (soulful swinging jazz) 8:15 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: TSMF Mentors & Fellows Concert (chamber music of Brahms and Schumann) 4 & 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Andy De Campos Trio 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Classical IV: Strings - The Traditional Arabic Music Ensemble George Sawa & Nada El Masriya 1:30

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ALLEYCATZ Soular (R&B/soul/funk).

ANNEX WRECKROOM King Of The

Dot: Ground Zero V11 Luciano Crakk Vs SMP, Tycoon Tax Vs Mischief, Bulle Vs Kid Platinum, Forkfarm Vs Christ Tipsy, Loonie Vs Bowman and others 1 to 8:30 pm.

BIER MARKT DON MILLS Julian Taylor Band (rock ) 8 pm.

BOILER HOUSE Gyles (soul/neoMotown) 8 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB The Creepshow, the Fundamentals, the Thinly Veiled Double Entendres, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

CAMERON HOUSE Janes Party 10 pm.

THE CENTRAL Novacayne 7 pm.

COMFORT ZONE 60s Psych Rock Night Galaxies in the River, Enchantress, Scober’s Cabinet, Pyramids of Mars, Vince Hawinka & Company Slave doors 8:30 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.

THE DUKE LIVE.COM Band Warz.

EL MOCAMBO Creep Echo, Rivers Run Red, Milky Tide Space Dusters doors 9 pm.

EXHIBITION PLACE BANDSHELL Festival Of Beer Gentlemen Husbands, July Talk, Taj Weekes, Emerson Street Rhythm Band, Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose, the Matthew Brothers 1:30 to 8 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Taxichang 4 to 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Caution Jam 10 pm.

HARD ROCK CAFE The Marc Joseph Band (pop/ rock) 9 pm.

HART HOUSE MUSIC ROOM Roots Rhymes And Resistance 3: Laying Tracks Against Cutbacks Fenaxiz, Dagamuffin, UKPC/FCYA (Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance) (hip-hop) 7 pm.

HORSESHOE Dan Vapid & the Cheats, Victims Party, Plan 32, School Damage (punk rock) doors 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Avery Island, Rye, Ruby Spirits, Desperate Executives (indie rock) doors 9 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE The XX, Jacques Greene doors 8 pm.

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HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Country Jam Murray Powell 2 to 6 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM deVah String Quartet 8:30 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION Beaches International Jazz Fest: Latin Square Miko Sobreira, Jazzmeetssalsa, DJ Gury Gury, Lucho De Sedas y Los Selectos, Heavy Mambo noon to 7 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION BIG BAND STAGE

Beaches International Jazz Fest The George Lake Big Band, the Big Smoke Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics 3 to 6 pm.

pm, Ethiopia: Classical Variations Fantahun Shewankochew Mekonnen 2:30 pm, Lute Legends Ensemble 3:30 pm, East Meets West Mash-Up Concert Radha Academy of Carnatic Violin 5:30 pm, Minor Empire (Turkish/jazz/ rock) 7:30 & 9:15 pm, Irshad Khan (sitar) 8:15 pm, Deborah Henson-Conant (electric harp) 10 pm. œ continued on page 50

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doors 8 pm.5

kew gArdens Beaches International Jazz Fest

The Julia Cleveland Quintet, Robert Scott Power Trio, the Heavyweights Brass Band, Liona Boyd 11 am to 6 pm. lulA lounge Salsa Nights Sonido Cubano, DJ Suave, Giovanni Torres. mélAnge Jazz Jam Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message Trio 7 to 10 pm. old mill inn home smith bAr Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Terry Clarke, John Sherwood, Mike Downes 7:30 pm.

Queen eAst Beaches International Jazz Festival: StreetFest Sultans of String, God Made Me Funky, Samba Squad, Quincy Bullen, Yiannis Kapoulas, Dr Draw, Paul James Band and others 7 to 11 pm. rex Late Show Rich Brown’s Rinse the Algorithm 12:45 am. rex Chris Hunt Tentet & 2 3:30 pm. somewhere there studio Rebecca Burton 8 pm.

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DANCE MuSIC/DJ/LOuNGE

Annex wreckroom Dubstep Toronto One-

Year Anniversary Hydee, Dr Ozi, Rene LaVice, Grimeskee, Stickbubbly, HugsNotDrugs, Lucid Excuses, the FranDiscos and others 10 pm. the centrAl Crush Party – Pajama Edition 9 pm. clinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll (60s dance party) doors 10 pm. crAwford Ice Cold Dranks 1-Year Anniversary Party (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10 pm. drAke hotel underground Evening Standard Membersonly doors 11 pm. drAke hotel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. embAssy bAr Pressure Drop DJs Guvn’or General, Chuck Boom, Morningside 116 (roots reggae/ dubwize/ska/rocksteady). emmet rAy bAr DJ Gerald Belanger (house) 10 pm. fly Fly Olympics DJ Jamie Hammond, DJ Alexx doors 10 pm.5

footwork

ñClaude Vonstroke doors 10 pm.

holy oAk cAfe Essence Brown (soul/R&B/

dancehall) 10 pm. insomniA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (house). luxy nightclub Upscale Saturdays DJ Danny D, Dj Gino, Deejay Toma, DJ Mechon. mAro Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover 10 pm. the pAinted lAdy Salazar, Anastasia 10 pm. pArts & lAbour True School Hip-Hop DJ Romeo (hip-hop) 10 pm. the piston Brendan Canning (DJ set), DJ Fathom 10 pm. revivAl Midnight Mix P Plus, J-Class, Sweet Touch Foundation, Big Philly doors 10 pm. rivoli upstAirs Sippin & Dippin DJ Plan B (hip-hop/R&B). sAviAri teA + cocktAil lounge Foundation Meets Soul DJs Kevin Laverty, Uncle Funke, General Eclectic (foundation reggae/blue beat/ska/rare groove).

751 Women’s Arm Wrestling benefit for Because I Am A Girl doors 9 pm. sneAky dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. stone lounge Midnight Mix D’Enforcas & De Farmers Rhythm Section doors 10 pm. supermArket Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal 10 pm. sutrA tiki bAr The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). toikA United Electronic Audio Workers Of Toronto DJ Ad-ver-sary. velvet underground Panic: Nine Inch Nails Spotlight DJ Lazarus, DJ Prospero 10 pm. virgin mobile mod club UK Underground DJ MRK, Tigerblood (dubstep/indie/electro/rock) 10 pm. yonge-dundAs sQuAre Mad Decent: Block Party Zeds Dead, BadBadNotGood, Jacques Greene, Nadastrom, Claude Vonstroke, Riton, a Tribe Called Red, Smalltown DJs, Grandtheft 1-11 pm, all ages. See preview, page 46.

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Sunday, July 29 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

bovine sex club Sudan, Kether, Skies Be-

neath, Adrenechrome, Killmachine (hardcore rock) 9 pm. cecil community centre Sheroes: Virtual Season House of Monroe, DJ Cozmic Cat, Kids on TV, Lal, Marker Starling 9 pm. dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am-3 pm. drAke hotel underground Elvis Monday...

On A Sunday Papermaps doors 9 pm. el gordo bAck pAtio & lot Sheroes: Virtual Season – Pedestrian Sundays Lido Pimienta, Lillian Allen, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, DJ El Machetero, Basil Alzeri, Bizzarh, Zoë Alexis-Abrams, the Weather Station and others 2 to 9 pm, all ages. exhibition plAce bAndshell Festival Of Beer Big Wreck, Hollerado, Detroit Rock City Allstars, Frank Ryan, Levon 1:30 to 8 pm. grAffiti’s PS Kensington Boys from County Hell 4 to 7 pm. the hideout Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/ songwriter) 10 pm. molson AmphitheAtre Under The Influence Of Music Tour Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, Kendrick Lamar, Chiddy Bang, Chevy Woods (rap) doors 4:30 pm, all ages.

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oz studios Extra Life, Picastro, Black Walls 8 pm, all ages.

the pAinted lAdy Punk Sundays Sids Kids 7:30 pm.

pArts & lAbour Frustrations, Fresh Snow, the Milk Lines (garage/noise rock) 9 pm. southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. winchester kitchen & bAr Porter.

FOLK/BLuES/COuNTRY/WORLD

AspettA cAffe Pedestrian Sunday Festival Nicole Coward, the Real, Ego & the Rest, Air Marshal Landry, Cousin Rufu, Sing Bandana Singh, the Hamptons noon to 7 pm. boArdwAlk cAfe world beAt stAge Beaches International Jazz Fest Samba Squad, Joaquin Hidalgo & Rumba Squad, Johannes Linstead, La Maquina de la Salsa noon to 8:30 pm. cAmeron house The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm. cAstro’s lounge Scotty Campbell (roots) 4 pm. the gArrison Crosswires The Walls Are Blonde, Shbti, Suncapades 10 pm. glAdstone hotel melody bAr Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. grossmAn’s Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 10 pm. hArbourfront centre Classical IV: StringsThe Ukulele Project 4 pm. hirut fine ethiopiAn cuisine Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. holy oAk cAfe Folk Off (folk) 9 pm. hugh’s room Talavya 8:30 pm. leuty lifeguArd stAtion Beaches International Jazz Fest: Latin Square The Latin Jazz Ensemble, DJ Manyoma, Mike Sobreira, El Swing de Azuris noon to 5 pm.

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mel lAstmAn sQuAre Summer Serenades National Band of the Naval Reserve 7:30 to 9 pm. orbit room The Kingsley Ettienne Trio (Hammond B3 organ) 3:30 to 7 pm. rebAs cAfé & gAllery Sunday Matinees The Miller & Mcleod Jazz Duo 1 to 4 pm. rex June Harris Trio 9:30 pm, Bernardo Padron (Latin jazz) 7 pm, Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm, Brunch Matinee Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. solArA mediterrAneAn Conversation Piece Trio 4 to 7 pm. somewhere there studio Kyle Macdonald 5 pm. somewhere there studio Now Series 8 pm. toronto music gArden Summer Music In The Garden: Wild Reeds Kornel Wolak, Joseph Macerollo (clarinet, accordion) 4 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Plumes Ensemble, David Occhipinti 7 pm. villA colombo Columbus Centre Concert Band 2:30 pm.

DANCE MuSIC/DJ/LOuNGE

bovine sex club B.Y.O.DJ. brAssAii Lé Brunch DJ Undercover noon. clinton’s Unplugged Nathan Carroll 9 pm. cube Hot Stepper Sundays DJs Mike Tull &

Paul E Lopes 3 to 10 pm. insomniA Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. 3030 dundAs west Dany Laj (DJ set) 7 pm. the yAnkee lAdy FHE Launch & Yacht Party DJ Ritz, Whitebwoy, DJ Jinx Cream Team 7 pm boarding.

Monday, July 30 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

Beaches International Jazz Fest The George Lake Big Band, the Big Smoke Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics 3 to 6 pm. mcgrAdies tAp And grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. relish bAr & grill Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. spirits Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. supermArket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 7 pm. the winchester Arms Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

bovine sex club Moody Monday The Thinly

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AmAdeus Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats

6:30 pm.

the centrAl The Sammy Jackson Trio 6:30 pm. dominion on Queen Musical Theatre Cabaret

7 to 11 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. hArbourfront centre Classical IV: Strings Regent Park School of Music students 1:45 pm, Bach On The Banjo Jayme Stone 2 pm, Toronto Mandolin Orchestra 3 pm, From Violence To Violins the Hammer Band & Yosvani the Violinist 3:30 & 4:30 pm. the Afiara Quartet 5 pm. kew gArdens Beaches International Jazz Fest Lou Pomanti, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Bill King Trio, Stacy Bulmer, Johnny Rawls, the LMT Connection 11 am to 6 pm.

Venue Index Addis AbAbA 1184 Queen W. 416-538-0059.

AlleycAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

AmAdeus 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245.

AmsterdAm brewery 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882.

Annex wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

AspettA cAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. the bAllroom 145 John. 416-597-2695. bAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. beAch boArdwAlk foot of Lee Ave. beAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. beerbistro 18 King E. 416-861-9872. benAres historic house 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). 905-615-4860. bier mArkt don mills 7 O’Neill. 416-862-7075. blAck swAn 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. boArdwAlk cAfe 1681 Lake Shore E. 416-6948844. boAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. boiler house 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. bovine sex club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. brAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. bright peArl 346-348 Spadina. 416-979-3988. buddies in bAd times theAtre 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555. cAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. cAmp 4 1173 Dundas W. 416-546-6780. cAsA lomA 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171. cAstro’s lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. cecil community centre 58 Cecil. 416-392-1090. the centrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. c’est whAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. chevAl 606 King W. 416-363-4933. church of the redeemer 162 Bloor W. 416-9224948. clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cold teA 60 Kensington. 416-546-4536. comfort zone 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909. courthouse 57 Adelaide E. 416-214-9379. crAwford 718 College. 416-530-1633. cube 314 Queen W. 416-263-0330. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dAve’s... on st clAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. the duke live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302.

Veiled Double Entendres.

the centrAl Jam Night 10 pm. drAke hotel underground Tu Fawning, AU (rock) doors 8 pm. See preview, ñ page 43.

drAke hotel lounge Bootknives doors 11 pm. grAffiti’s Dave Martin 3 to 5 pm. grossmAn’s No Band Required. horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Lunes, Elissa Barclay, the Peptides doors 8:30 pm. lee’s pAlAce Twin Shadow, Poolside doors 8 pm. See preview, page 40. virgin mobile mod club Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz 7 pm. wrongbAr Logic, Tayyib Ali 7 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COuNTRY/WORLD

grAffiti’s Gut Bucket Lounge Kevin Quain

5:30 pm.

hugh’s room Make Music Matter Benefit

Luke McMaster, Jesse Labelle, Tim Edwards doors 8:30 pm. the pAinted lAdy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. supermArket Case Of The Folkin’ Mondays 9 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMENTAL

emmet rAy bAr Alex Fournier (jazz) 9 pm. remArks bAr & grill Jazz Jam-gria Pat Murray, Mark Kieswetter, Artie Roth, Nick Fraser 8 to 11 pm. rex Brilliant Corners 6:30 pm.

echo beAch At molson cAnAdiAn AmphitheAtre 909 Lake Shore W. 416-260-5600. edwArd Johnson building 80 Queen’s Park.

416-978-3744. el gordo 214 Augusta. 416-205-9981. el mocAmbo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. embAssy bAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy bAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. epiphAny restAurAnt & lounge 4000 Steeles W. 416-802-4077. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. exhibition plAce 210 Princes’ Blvd. first cAnAdiAn plAce 1 First Canadian Pl. 416-8628138. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. the flying beAver pubAret 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567. footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. gAllery 1581 1581 Dundas W. 416-655-5108. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. 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).

905-997-8333. the greAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. hArbourfront centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luck bAr 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302. hArd rock cAfe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. the hArp pub 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905274-3277. hArt house 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. the hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. 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. kew gArdens 2075 Queen E.

rex John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm. somewhere there studio Panic! 8 pm.

DANCE MuSIC/DJ/LOuNGE

AlleycAtz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. goodhAndy’s T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck

doors 8 pm.5 insomniA DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). the piston Junk Shop DJS Jorge & Jeeks (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

Tuesday, July 31 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

bovine sex club The Dookies (Green Day covers).

cAstro’s lounge Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation (Tom Waits covers) 8 pm.

the centrAl Dominique Fricot 10:30 pm. drAke hotel underground Givers,

Yellow Ostrich 8 pm. ñ drAke hotel lounge Memphis Tuesdays Hill

& the Sky Heroes doors 9 pm. horseshoe The Noise, Broken Arrows, Milo Greene, Sherman Downey Band, Family of the Year.

echo beAch At molson cAnAdiAn AmphitheAtre Childish Gambino doors 7 ñ pm, all ages. grAffiti’s Trace Minerals 5 to 7 pm. grossmAn’s Karli Forget benefit 9:30 pm. kool hAus Frank Ocean doors 8 pm, all ages. ñlee’s pAlAce Twin Shadow, Poolside doors 8 pm. See preview, page 40. ñ pArts & lAbour Blues Control, Skull Bong,

Bruised Knees (post-punk/experimental) 9 pm. phoenix concert theAtre Sharon Van Etten, Tennis (indie folk pop) doors 8 pm. rivoli Kishi Bashi, Tall Trees (avant-pop) 8 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Courtney Lynn (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

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c’est whAt The Johnson Report (acoustic pop.alt-rock) 9 pm. grAffiti’s Party Down String Band 8 pm. hugh’s room Metalworks Institute: A Night To Make Music Matter Dan Hill, Tim Edwards, Luke McMaster, Fernando Basillio Ferreira & Bela, Jesse Labelle, Odario Williams, Julie C, Mark Christiano, Sixteen Different Minds 8:30 pm. motel Open Mic 10 pm. musideum Shawna Caspi & Anna Dagmar 8 pm. pAssion lounge Open Stage & Jam Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9 pm. the rusty nAil Open Jam Kevin Davies 9 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMENTAL

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album reviews album of the week

NNNN ñLAETITIA SADIER

Silencio (Drag City) Rating: Throughout Laetitia Sadier’s career with Stereolab, she’s made an art of pronouncing each word as individual syllables, forcing us to pay attention or just accept her voice as an instrument providing counterbalance to the Moogs and guitars bubbling up around it.

Nothing’s changed on her second solo album, including the fact that she still sings with stinging precision about politics and the state of the world, in both English and her native French.

Musically, songs are altogether pleasant,

ranging from languid to downright danceable, with undercurrents of the German art pop that influenced much of the ’Lab’s sound.

But the lyrics show Sadier’s as pissed off as any crust punk. If there’s any doubt of her thoughts about the G20, the economic collapse at the hand of the banks and corrupt government in general, she makes it plain when she trills, “We want a real democracy.”

Top track: Auscultation To The Nation Laetitia Sadier plays the Drake Underground on September 18.

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Pop/rock

ROYAL WOOD We Were Born To Glory

(MapleMusic) Rating: NNN Toronto singer/songwriter Royal Wood has come up with an accessible collection of charming pop/rock tunes, and it’s already paying off with radio play and sales.

He’s sounding more and more like Paul McCartney, which is a strategy that leads to both good and bland ideas. We Were Born is packed with plenty of catchy romantic songs, arranged and produced so tightly that not a hair seems out of place.

Wood does, however, manage to sneak in a few moderately adventurous moments, and resists the urge to let himself get stuck in that too-Canadian roots-pop mold.

What’s surprising is how good he is at writing upbeat major-key rock songs. He may love writing ballads, but someone should force him to jam in a garage with a loud band for a few weeks and see what happens. At the moment, his rock tunes sound somewhere between the Cars and Tom Petty, but there’s potential for something more there.

Top track: Hard Thing To Find Royal Wood hits the Winter Garden Theatre November 10.

BENJAMIN BOLES

subtlety – too often they come across as plodding when they’re aiming for a relaxed groove. They do, however, excel at wall-of-sound pulsating drones, and that’s really what this kind of music is all about.

Top track: Last Kicks Of A Dying Horse Old World Vulture celebrate the release of Trophy Lovers Friday (July 27) at the Garrison.

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D’ARCY PRESENTS A TRIBUTE TO THE MONKS ñTHOMAS NNNN

(independent) Rating: It’s hard to say why Canadians – Ontarians, specifically – latched onto the Monks at a time when the late-70s English band (not to be confused with the same-named 60s garage-rock act) was largely ignored elsewhere. Perhaps the idea of a punk band made up of progressive folk-rock dudes from Strawbs just didn’t rankle listeners here as much as it did in the U.S. and UK, where the still-nascent genre had more incendiary movements.

Plus, the Monks did have seriously catchy and smart songs (their biggest being Nice Legs Shame About Her Face).

That’s more than evident on Bad Habits, their 1979 debut album that’s just been lovingly covered in full by local musician Thomas D’Arcy (Small Sins, the Carnations). He delivers an infectious tribute bursting with energy and fun, with help from members of Sloan, the Doughboys, New Pornographers, Cursed and Monks singer John Ford himself. Chris Murphy’s bittersweet vocals on perfect power-pop tune Love In Stereo steal the show.

Top track: Love In Stereo Thomas D’Arcy, John Ford (of the Monks), the Order of Good Cheer and special guests play a tribute to the Monks tonight (Thursday, July 26) at the Horseshoe.

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United States Of Being (Saddle Creek) Rating: NNNN The only reason I listened to Pujol’s previous EP, Nasty, Brutish, And Short, was because the press release was full of obnoxiously academic phrases like “the idea of cultural maxims dominating the individual’s ability to vocalize and interact with the external world.” I thought I’d give it a listen for a laugh. Surprisingly, it turned out to be a too-brief collection of insanely catchy garage punk anthems that tragically escaped most critics’ attention (who were likely turned off by the same promo material).

The new full-length sees Daniel Pujol expanding on that winning formula with a wider palette of sounds and rhythms, but without sacrificing any raw snarling fury.

His approach captures what you love about late-period Jay Reatard, minus all the stimulant-fuelled rage and ridiculously sped-up tempos. While there’s definitely some anger here, Pujol seems to make equal use of pure adolescent joy, and you soon realize that his nerdier tendencies are what holds all of this together.

Top track: Mission From God BB

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OLD WORLD VULTURE Trophy Lovers (independent) Rating: NNN It’s not nearly as friendly a time for instrumental post-rock as it was in the late 90s, but Toronto’s Old World Vulture bring something new to the table that could help them overcome that handicap. Instead of focusing on atmospheric textures and intricate interlocking riffs like their forebears, OWV take pleasure in unabashedly rocking out, and are willing to bring some sparkly synth pop melodies into the mix, too. The latter in particular give listeners something they can actually sing, or at least hum, along to.

The crunchy guitars and pounding drums might be a bit too alt-rock for some, but instrumental music doesn’t always have to be sleepy and delicate. On the other hand, the rhythm section would benefit greatly from more swing and

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PURITY RING Shrines (4AD) Rating: NNN

If you’re looking for a convenient overview of on-trend indie pop right now, listen no further than the debut LP from Purity Ring. The Montreal/Halifax duo combines muffled, moody hip-hop-influenced beats and spaced-out synths with quirky vocal effects and saccharine songwriting that sounds something like if Southern rap producer Lex Luger produced the Knife.

That pairing sounds either super-annoying or extremely inspired, and Shrines runs the gamut between those extremes. When the contrast between beat maestro Corin Roddick’s cold, shivery beats and singer Megan James’s heartfelt vocals and lilting melodies locks in, Purity Ring produce serious pop earworms, like the wobbly Ungirthed and the groovy, minimalist Obedear.

Conversely, the inventiveness in James’s vocals draws attention to the lack of that quality in Roddick’s production, which grows clichéd after a while, particularly his reliance on skittery drum rolls that turn positively orgiastic on closing track Fineshrine.

Top track: Ungirthed KEVIN RITCHIE

HOT PANDA Go Outside (Mint) Rating:

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Vancouver-via-Edmonton indie rockers Hot Panda have always had a knack for making bouncy, hooky pop with a jerky, off-kilter edge and a slight smirk. On their third album, the first after a couple of lineup changes, they play things straighter, abandoning some (but only some) of their levity for lyrics that address economic failure and global conflict.

That could’ve been a damaging move for such a lighthearted band, but for the most part the newfound earnestness is balanced by quirky arrangements and Chris Connelly’s unpolished yelp reminiscent of Destroyer’s Dan Bejar. (Destroyer producers John Collins and David Carswell act as co-producers).

Connelly’s coarseness, for instance, lends album opener One In The Head, One In The Chest a sinister undercurrent, fitting for a song about “with us or against us” extremism.

Top track: One In The Head, One In The Chest RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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Reservation (Noizy Cricket) Rating: NNNN Angel Haze is among a few ferocious rappers threatening the established iconography of hip-hop. The Brooklyn MC is transgressive in both her influences and content: the way those before her came up on Kanye or Nas, Haze is the product of Drake’s cultural dominance. It shows in her flow – when short of breath, both she and Drake yield to a pinched delivery – and method, as heard on this introspective, R&B-smeared EP, her fourth free release in two years. At 14 tracks, it’s more like an LP. But the Drake thing seems more subconscious than intentional. Reservation is more overtly indebted to the left-field beats and fast-talking, whip-smart rapping of Missy Elliott. Nicole Wray, Elliott’s former protege, resurfaces from obscurity on Wicked Moon, and Haze reworks Aaliyah’s Hot Like Fire, a Missy co-production. Even the double-dutch thump of New York, haunted by a snippet of Gil Scott-Heron, is a loose redux of Pass That Dutch.

Despite all of its references, Reservation is original, cohesive, absorbing and Haze’s most polished release to date.

Top track: New York ANUPA MISTRY

Country/Folk

LYLE LOVETT Release Me (Lost Highway)

Rating: NNN As a musician, Lyle Lovett is almost above reproach. He knows his way around the roots music lexicon, infusing his songs with playfulness or wistfulness as needed.

At his best, he can induce a lump in the throat or a curl of a smile with just a couple of lines. With the exception of his straight-faced rendering of Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man, these moments have occurred in songs penned by him.

And so Release Me, an album featuring only a couple of his own tunes, falls short of greatness. It opens with sprightly traditional instrumental Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom, and his voice intertwines beautifully with a restrained k.d. lang on the title track. But another coy cover of Baby, It’s Cold Outside is too familiar to be exciting.

Familiarity is the downfall of much of the album. Whether the song is widely known or one Lovett thinks deserves more attention, it’s been given a homespun arrangement. Some stand up to the violins and mandolins, but others get overwhelmed.

Top track: Understand You Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group play Roy Thomson Hall tonight (Thursday, July 26).

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Githa Sowerby (Shaw). At the Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. In rep to September 22. $24-$90. See Out of Town, page 58. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Rating: NNNN

During her tenure at the Shaw Festival, Jackie Maxwell has introduced audiences to Githa Sowerby (1876-1970), a member (like Shaw) of the Fabian Society and an early feminist playwright.

This year she presents Sowerby’s A Man And Some Women, which is about liberation, but not, on the surface, for women. It’s a tiny gem of a play given a fine production by the Shaw ensemble.

The man of the title is Richard Shannon (Graeme Somerville), who’s tied to his family by obligation and financial need rather than love. Those who hold him in thrall are his controlling, condescending wife, Hilda (Jenny L. Wright), and his unmarried sisters, the bitter, gossipy Rose (Kate Hennig) and the more gracious Elizabeth (Sharry Flett).

Richard would like to pursue his interest in the sciences, but family duty

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Alon Nashman’s generosity shines through in Hirsch, at Stratford’s Studio Theatre.

Heartfelt Hirsch HIRSCH created and conceived by Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson (Stratford Festival). At the Studio Theatre, Stratford. In rep to September 14. $30-$70.

See Out of Town, page 58. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Rating: NNNN

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If you don’t know anything about director John Hirsch (1930-1989) before seeing the extraordinary solo show created by actor Alon Nashman and director Paul Thompson, you’ll know a great deal about him by the end of the evening.

You’ll also care for this passionate, caustic, insightful man, a Hungarian refugee to Canada who became artistic director of the Stratford Festival and an internationally celebrated man of the theatre.

The power of the production, though, comes not just from the storytelling but also from the way Nashman fills the Studio Theatre with his adept, heartfelt performance as Hirsch and others in his life.

Nashman not only recreates Hirsch but also steps outside that role to become himself, an actor who reveals the way the director affected his life and career. Always a generous artist, Nashman never shies away from providing personal details about both men’s lives.

Moving kaleidoscopically through Hirsch’s life, the play traces the love he

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rules his life until Jessica Hendred (Marla McLean) intervenes. She’s an independent woman who loves Richard and encourages him to cut the emotional and financial ties that are suffocating him.

Though the play occasionally feels small in scope and has a truncated climactic confrontation, director Alisa Palmer’s production lets the strength of the writing shine through.

The actors handle the subtext with thrilling suggestiveness, never leaving us in doubt of the unspoken desires and submerged anger felt by their characters, whose relationships are often desperately needy and stunted.

Leslie Frankish’s costumes and sets, lit by Louise Guinand, echo the emotional tone of each act. In Richard’s library, the atmosphere is intentionally airless, while in Jessica’s apartment, where an element of liberation comes into the story, there is some breathing space.

The play sometimes provokes audience laughter for what viewers perceive, I think, as touches of melodrama.

But A Man And Some Women is really about repression and the explosions that occur when no one can let off JK steam.

Graeme Somerville, Sharry Flett, Jenny L. Wright and Kate Hennig are marvellous in Shaw Fest’s A Man And Some Women.

had for his family and the horror of their deaths during the Holocaust, defined by a chilling, near-silent scream that recurs throughout the show.

But there are celebratory moments, too, among them Hirsch’s creation of world-class theatre in the “wilderness” of Winnipeg, triumphs at the Stratford Festival and successes abroad.

Thompson and Nashman view Hirsch as an outsider on a number of levels; he was Hungarian, gay, Jewish and an artist. Being the “other” helped shape his work and his relationships,

Pretty Good YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN based on the Charles Schulz comic, book, music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, additional dialogue by Michael Mayer and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa (Stratford Festival). Avon Theatre, Stratford. In rep to October 28. $29.40-$106. See Out of Town, page 58. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Rating: NNN

Complaining that director Donna Feore has updated You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown is like bitching about Shakespeare being performed on a proscenium stage.

Ridiculous.

So I’m astonished by the critical reaction to Stratford’s version of the musical based on Charles Schulz’s comic strip. Too big, too brassy, too much

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and the production doesn’t ignore Hirsch’s anger and sharp tongue.

But the impression we’re left with is of Hirsch the artist, who saw the stage as hallowed ground on which to create magic, as he did in productions of King Lear, The Tempest and a never-bettered version of The Three Sisters.

Nashman recounts his own encounter, visceral and metaphoric, with the tradition-laden Festival Theatre stage, and we see he shares Hirsch’s passion for the wonderful possibilities that can be JON KAPLAN conjured on it. razzle-dazzle are the general beefs.

Sure, what was once a charming, lofi series of episodes in which the hapless Charlie Brown tries to find some dignity now features all-out production numbers on a huge, beautiful high-tech set. But the cast, with one exception, is terrific, and more importantly, the kids in the audience loved it.

First things first. The players are wonderful, except for Andrew Broderick as the artistic Schroeder. He lacks the character’s nobility and is the weak link vocally. And why have him breakdance? Because he’s black?

As Charlie Brown, Ken James Stewart has just the right sad-eyed quality. Erica Peck is a little shrill as Lucy but sings up a storm. Amy Wallis is a knockout as Charlie’s

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fierce and funny sister, Sally, and Kevin Yee as Linus almost steals the show out from under all of them. My Blanket And Me is a showstopper.

Stephen Patterson gives more edge to Snoopy than fans may be used to.

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But his ferociousness – his video game play is a riot – and ongoing snarky commentary, done mostly with stage business only, make him a real crowdpleaser.

Credit the Stratford Festival with presenting a show that draws in a younger audience. I sat behind a girl who was so thrilled, she could barely contain herself.

Next year, she and other young audience members will be asking their parents to take them again.

And before you know it, she’ll have heard of that Shakespeare guy I mentioned earlier and she’ll want to see something by SUSAN G. COLE 3 him, too.

This version of You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown travels to some cool places.

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It’s our intention to boycott Factory Theatre, as artists and as patrons, until Mr. Gass is reinstated as artistic director.

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Beirut by Allan Bowne (Borat Gump Produc-

tions). A woman defies the law and goes into a quarantined area of New York to be with her lover. 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.

HaviNg Hope at Home by David S Craig (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). A woman goes into labour at a tense family gathering. Opens Jul 26 and runs to Aug 11, see website for schedule. $30, preview/mat $27, stu $14. 302 Bridge, Port Stanley. portstanleytheatre.ca. a HiStorY oF ForgettiNg by David Anderson and Krista Dalby (Clay & Paper Theatre). This play looks at modern hubris and our lack of humility in the face of the past. Previews to Jul 26. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Aug 26, WedSun 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg).

Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. iN tHe Wake by the Downstage Creation Ensemble (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). This play takes a darkly comic look at the plight of West Coast fisheries. Previews Jul 30. Opens Jul 31 and runs to Aug 3, Mon-Fri 8 pm, mat Wed and Fri 2 pm. $32, srs $26, youth $10. Fields on West Lake, 15786 Loyalist Parkway, Bloomfield. festivalplayers.ca.

LittLe SHop oF HorrorS by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A flower shop clerk raises a plant that feeds on human blood in this musical. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Sep 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27-$32, stu/preview $16.

Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque.

1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. macBetH by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Co). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy presented outdoors.

All shows at 7 pm. Pwyc. Jul 26 at Casa Loma (1 Austin Terrace); Jul 28 to Aug 5, Sat-Sun, at Montgomery’s Inn (4709 Dundas W); and Jul 31-Aug 1, Tue-Wed, at Old Mill Inn (21 Old Mill Rd). See website for performances in other GTA parks, to Aug 5. 416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca. maN oF La maNcHa by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (Theatre by the Bay). The imprisoned Cervantes reenacts the misadventures of his novel’s protagonist in this classic musical. Opens Jul 28 and runs to Aug 18, see website for times. $31, stu/srs $28. Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop W, Barrie. theatrebythebay.com. tHe meLviLLe BoYS by Norm Foster (Drayton Entertainment). Two brothers’ plans for a guys getaway change when they meet two sisters in this comedy. Opens Aug 1 and runs to Aug 11, Wed-Sat (see website for times). $40, previews $32, stu $20. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

micHaeL JackSoN tHe immortaL WorLd tour by Jamie King (Cirque du Soleil). This

fusion of visuals, dance, music and fantasy uses choreography by Jackson and more than 60 dancers, musicians and acrobats. Jul 27-28, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $50-$175. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca. mid-LiFe! tHe criSiS muSicaL! by Bob and Jim Walton (Orillia Opera House). This musical

to Aug 26, Wed-Sun 11 am, noon, 1 and 2 pm. $10 or pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock. frolick.ca. 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. Runs to Aug 3, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45.

100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. 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) 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 photographer.

Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $36-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

BeSt oF tHe FriNge tHeatre FeStivaL (Fringe Toronto). Encore performances ñ of Help Yourself, Mahmoud, Pomme Is French

comedy looks at divorce, empty nests and more. Opens Jul 31 and runs to Aug 25, see website for schedule. $34, child $28. 20 Mississaga W, Orillia. orilliaoperahouse.ca. miNi opera FeStivaL 2012 (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre). The opera training program presents Rossini’s The Barber Of Seville, Mozart’s The Marriage Of Figaro and Darius Milhaud’s La Mère Coupable. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Aug 5, see website for schedule. $26, stu/srs $22; three shows $55, stu/srs $50. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, solt.ca.

SkiN FLick by Norm Foster (Theatre Collingwood). Suddenly unemployed, a middle-aged couple consider making adult movies in this comedy. Opens Jul 30 and runs to Aug 4, MonSat 8 pm, mat Tue & Thu 2 pm. $36, stu $18.

Gayety Theatre, 161 Hurontario, Collingwood.

1-866-382-2200, theatrecollingwood.com. tHe SuNSHiNe BoYS by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). Two vaudeville veterans must overcome their mutual dislike to reunite for a TV special.

Opens Jul 26 and runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. voYage to Your miNd (Haim Goldenberg).

TV star and mentalist Haim Goldenberg performs mind tricks and games. Opens Jul 26 and runs to Aug 2, Thu and Tue 8:30 pm. $40.

George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. reallifementalist.com/TorontoLiveShow.

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tHe cruciBLe by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). A small, devout Massachusetts town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft in 1692. Previews to 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. tHe roYaL comediaNS by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). This play looks at the life of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière. Previews to 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. a Word or tWo by Christopher Plummer (Stratford Festival). Plummer performs his solo autobiographical show about the literature that has stirred his imagination. Previews to Aug 1. Opens Aug 2 and runs in rep to Aug 26. $75-$125. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

One-Nighters

roBiN Hood (City of Toronto Family Fun Theatre Series). Dufflebag Theatre performs the classic tale in a family show. Jul 26 at 7 pm.

Free. Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst, Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre. 416-395-7873. tHe SmaLL time by Jon Wayne Brown (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto).

Brown’s screenplay gets a reading followed by discussion as part of the LIFT Out Loud Series.

Aug 1 at 7:30 pm. $5. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. lift.on.ca/mt/liftoutloud.html.

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adveNtureS iN SLumBerLaNd (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world is an adaptation of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland. Runs

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. $16.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855-985-2787, fringetoronto.com. 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. Runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu $20, child $15. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. 647-938-2804, speakeasyproductions.org. cLoudS over t.o. by Sten Eirik (Guildwood Festival Theatre). A man deals with urban life and debt in this adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Clouds set in present-day Toronto. Runs to Aug 12, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Inn Gardens, 201 Guildwood Pkwy. guildfestivaltheatre.ca. tHe FataL gazogeNe by George Bernard Shaw (Red One Theatre Collective/the Clean Shavian Co-op). Shaw’s tragic farce about a love triangle is performed with musical guests. Runs to Aug 4, Tue-Sun 8:30 pm. $23. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. secureaseat.com.

Forever pLaid by Stuart Ross (Rose Theatre).

Four young singers get a posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams in this musical revue.

Runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. $32-$37. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

Hair by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts). Young pacifists explore free love and 60s culture as the Vietnam War draft looms in this musical. Runs to Aug 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $22. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst.

1-855-985-2787, ticketmaster.ca.

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 2 pm. $27. 1 Theatre Lane, Studio, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. macBetH by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Co). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy presented outdoors.

Runs to Jul 27, Fri 7 pm (see website for performances in other GTA parks, to Aug 5).

Pwyc. Humber Bay Park East, Lake Shore W at Parklawn. humberrivershakespeare.ca. memorY iN tHe mud (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of brick makers, POWs and Depression-era transients who spent time at the Brick Works.

Runs to Sep 30, most Sat and Wed 2 pm (see website for exact 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)

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A MiDsuMMER Night’s DREAM by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy performed outdoors. Runs to Jul 29, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm (Bard’s Bus Tour continues to Aug 19, see website for dates and cities). Pwyc. Withrow Park, 725 Logan. 905-576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com.

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.

416-644-3665, 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 (see review, this page). Runs to Jul 28, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $20. Holy Family Catholic Church School, 1372 King W. outsidethemarch.ca. NNNNN (JK) ODyssEO (Cavalia). This entertaining followup to 2003’s equine escapade Cavalia features some Cirque du Soleil glitz, a bit more hunky human flesh and some jaw-dropping production values. The horses are the stars, galloping, clearing fences and performing in unison, sometimes with brave riders jumping over them (and in one eye-popping case, under them). Runs to Jul 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) REP 21 suMMER sERiEs (Canadore College).

Graduates perform Timothy Findley’s Can You See Me Yet?, John Murrell’s Waiting For The Parade and Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth in rep. Runs to Jul 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. Free. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, rep21.ca. sPEED-thE-PLOw by David Mamet (Soulpepper). It’s middling Mamet – all flash and with almost no emotional truth – but this tale of two Hollywood sharks who plan to produce an exploitative prison pic and the temp secretary who tries to bring salvation to one of them has some searing satire, razor-sharp dialogue and three fine performances by Ari Cohen, Jordan Pettle and Sarah Wilson.. 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. 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.

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"Laughs were available aplenty...

The performances uniformly strong."

- Leslie Barcza

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Gray (Thousand Islands Playhouse). This musical re-imagines the life of the aviatrix. Runs to Jul 28, Thu-Sat 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. cOME BAck, LittLE shEBA by William Inge (Shaw Festival). A couple who married young confront their past and future 20 years later when a woman rents a room in their home.

Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35-$90, stu mats $24.

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

FOR thE PLEAsuRE OF sEEiNg hER AgAiN by Michel Tremblay (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). Tremblay’s tribute to his mom is 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. festivalplayers.ca.

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Directed by Sten Eirik

Amy Keating wants to play with a coke-snorting Mr. Marmalade (Philip Riccio).

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Tart Marmalade

Songs & music by David Buchbinder

Poster graphic by Rachel Natalie Rawlins Design by Nicole Hirtz

Site-specific show is funny and dark By JON KAPLAN MR. MARMALADE by Noah Haidle

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(Outside the March). At Holy Family Catholic School (141 Close). Runs to July 28. $20. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca.

See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNNN

Funny, raunchy and always fascinating, Mr. Marmalade follows the adventures of four-year-old Lucy (Amy Keating), a precocious child whose imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade (Philip Riccio), is a drugged-up, insulting, vicious adult who offers her companionship but also makes her life hell.

Lucy lives with her self-centred single mother (Katherine Cullen) and is regularly left in the company of a bored teen babysitter with attitude (also Cullen) whose thoughts are on shagging her current boyfriend (Jason Chinn). The youngster finds a new acquaintance in the boyfriend’s stepbrother, Larry (Ishai Buchbinder), a wide-eyed boy whose life experiences haven’t been great.

And he’s only five.

Noah Haidle’s extraordinary play explores the idea that we’re fundamentally influenced by our earliest childhood experiences, whether we realize it or not, and that this influence continues into adulthood.

Tracing patterns of rejection, pain and need, Mr. Marmalade wraps its truths in laughter and absurd situations.

Director Mitchell Cushman’s inventive production, designed by Jon Grosz, is site-specific: the action takes place in a kindergarten room filled with blocks, toy ovens, stuffed animals and a small sandbox that plays an impor tant part in Mr. Marmalade’s life.

Following the characters around the crowded classroom – you can sit on tiny chairs and have a juice box break partway through the show – the audience is caught in a disorienting world where Lucy regularly indulges in hopscotch but has also learned to play the games of a grown-up relationship.

The performers – including Sebastien Heins as Mr. Marmalade’s sympathetic personal assistant and Julie Tepperman as our Romper Roomstyle guide through the story – are superb at conveying these complex characters, making some surprise entrances and shifting nimbly from cartoony, fast-action figures to moving, wounded souls.

Playing house has never been so comical and so dark.

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dance listings Opening

DuDEs & DAMEs Nexx Level presents jazz, hip-

hop, street jazz and dancehall with choreography by Chris Clarke, Anthony Williams and Tazz Blaze. Jul 26 at 8 pm. $40. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. dudesanddames2012@ gmail.com.

Dusk DANcEs presents outdoor dance featuring Zata Omm Dance Projects, the 605 Collective, Bageshree Vaze, tiger princess dance projects and Lua Shayenne & Co. Opens Jul 31 and runs to Aug 5, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, 725 Logan. duskdances.ca.

Dusk DANcEs EAst presents outdoor dance by La Otra Orilla, BoucharDanse, Allen Kaeja & Troy Feldman and Tamla Matthews. Jul 26-28, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Neilson Park, Neilson Rd and Finch E. duskdances.ca.

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DUSK DANCES

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presents a full-length work for four dancers choreographed by Sharon B Moore. Jul 26-28, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $17, stu/srs $14. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-912-8711, fantasiesandotherpoisons.wordpress.com. thE swEEt RAw Rebecca Yakimowski and Natalie Krill present an original work by Yakimowski that explores the world of the heart.

Jul 27-29, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. secureaseat.com.

Continuing DivERgENt DANcEs FOR wiNDOws AND wALLs Anandam Dancetheatre presents ñ a choreographic installation featuring dance

of Danforth, JULY 31–AUGUST 5 WITHROW PARK (South between Logan and Carlaw) Avenue West AUGUST 16–19, EARLSCOURT PARK (St-Clair and Caledonia Road)

OPENING BAND AT 7PM; DANCE STARTS AT 7:30PM PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN (SUGGESTED DONATION $10) INFO LINE: 416-504-6429, EXT. 41 WWW.DUSKDANCES.CA Photographer – Gary Mulcahey | Dancers – Yvonne Ng and Robert Glumbek Graphic Design – d’na (dakis&associates)

and aerial arts including performances on the building’s exterior walls. Runs to Jul 28, ThuSat 8:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $20, closing night gala $75-$125. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. anandam.ca.

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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.

HARVEY by Mary Chase (Drayton Entertainment). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his society-conscious sister in this comedy.

Runs to Aug 4, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, stu $20. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. draytonentertainment.com.

HAVING HOPE AT HOME by David S Craig (Blyth Festival). A woman goes into labour at a tense family gathering. Runs to Aug 18, see website for schedule. $30-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com.

HENRY V by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). England’s new king invades France in this epic drama. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $49$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 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 (see review, page 54). Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70.

Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) 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 bound to his wife and unwed sisters (see review, page 54). Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 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.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy performed outdoors. See website for exact dates and locations. Runs to Aug 19, all shows 7:30 pm.

Pwyc. Southern Ontario, from Kitchener to Peterborough, Hamilton to Bobcaygeon. 905576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM/OTHELLO by William Shakespeare (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival). The romantic comedy and the classic tragedy are presented outdoors.

Runs to Aug 18, shows alternate, see website for schedule. $25, stu/Wed mat $20, under 14 free. Kinsmen Amphitheatre, 1 Water W, Prescott. stlawrenceshakespeare.ca.

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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. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Stratford Festival). A young pirate apprentice must choose between love and duty in this comic operetta. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29.

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

PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival). An actor deals with various people vying for his attention in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

QUEEN MARIE by Shirley Barrie (4th Line Theatre). This musical comedy 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, preview $20, opening night $40.

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.

TROUBLE IN TAHITI by Leonard Bernstein (Shaw Festival). This one-act opera looks at the 1950s American dream through the eyes of a seemingly perfect couple. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $32. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

WANDERLUST by Morris Panych and Marek Norman (Stratford Festival). This musical comedy is based on the life and poems of Robert Service. Runs in rep to Sep 28. $49$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1812-1815 by Michael Hollingsworth (Stratford Festival/ VideoCabaret). This history play looks at the war and its effects on a native confederation that fought in defence of Canada. 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 comic strip characters (see review, page 54). Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) 3

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JAPE PRESENTS... CENT OF A WOMAN! Comedy Bar presents an evening of ñ sketch w/ Fun Car, Brian Crosby, Jonathan LADYSTACHE HEADS TO THE EDINBURGH FRINGE! Monarch Tavern presents a ñ trip fundraiser and silent auction w/ Chris

Locke, Scott Thompson, Kathleen Phillips, Dick Mime, Vest of Friends, Ladystache and host Hunter Collins. 8 pm. $10. 12 Clinton. ladystache.com.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Tom Henry, Tony Ho, Jon McCurley, Chris Locke and Nick Carter.

9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dylan Gott.

To Jul 28, Thu-Sat, see website for times. $12$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Peter White. To Jul 28, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Jen Grant. To Jul 28, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, July 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 26.

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ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Jon Steinberg, Matt O’Brien, Ian Lynch, ñ Tim Gilbert, Jared Sales, Darryl Orr, Karina

Tommy Fitz and host Lamont Ferguson. To Jul 29, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, 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.

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Monday, July 30

ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Trent McClellan,

Langdon and Jape. 8 pm. $7. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. 416-488-3976.

FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 26.

GAME OF DEATH The National Theatre of the World and Theater Im Bahnhof present solo improv w/ Jacob Banigan. To Jul 28, Fri-Sat 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

HIRUT HOOT: NOW IN 3D! Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents videos and stand-up comedy w/ Timothy Allen, Luke Gordon Field, Darren Frost, Andy Boorman, Dave Martin, Darryl Purvis and host Scott McCrickard. 9 pm. $5.

2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915.

INSIDE THE KILT FRIDAYS Dean Young presents monthly comedy w/ Jesse Owens, Brian Ward, Dan MacRae, Franco Nguyen, Danielle Meierhenry, Christina Walkinshaw and others. 9 pm.

Free. McGugans Pub, 1058 Gerrard E. 416-9019859, mcgugans.com.

KEVIN HART Live Nation presents the actor/ comic in a live show. 7 & 10:30 pm. $49.50.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

THE MARYJANES OF COMEDY Vapor Social presents Deborah Etta Robinson, Desiree Lavoy-Dorsch, Jess Beaulieu, Becky Bays, Brenda Lennie and host Amanda Day. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647-765-4422.

MOCKERY NIGHT IN THE JUNCTION Shoxs presents stand-up, sketch, improv and more. 8:30 pm. $5. 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight.com.

THE PANEL SHOW MegaShark Productions presents a comedy quiz show w/ Ron Sparks, Ned Petrie, Brian Crosby, Steven Shehori, Rhonda Riche, David Tichauer and Chris Leveille. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

PASSION COMEDY Passion Lounge presents a monthly comedy show. 9 pm. $5 or pwyc.

1220 Danforth. 416-999-0654.

REGGAEMYLITIS Naughty Nadz presents a comedy and music showcase w/ Poetic Justiz, Zabrina Chevannes, Fuzion, host Blair Streeter and more. 9 pm. $5. 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 26.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 26.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 26.

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REVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson, headliner Trixx and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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

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Trixx headlines Nubian show on July 29, then hits the AltDot and Best Of The Shisha Show on July 30 and August 1.

ics and host Evan Carter. 3 pm. Evening show, see Thu 26. $5. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY AT 51 Kyra Williams presents a latenight comedy cabaret w/ Chris Roberts, Oliver Georgiou, Danielle Meierhenry, Jeff Leeson, Andy Itwaru, Rulers of the Universe and host Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011.

FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 26.

HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents Shaun O’Neill, Kevin Appleby, Alex DeWitt, Anto Chan, Tony Cianchino, Chris Roberts, host Peter Aterman and others. 8 pm. Free. EinStein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 26.

FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 26.

GAME OF DEATH See Fri 27.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 26.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 26.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 26.

Sunday, July 29 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Second City presents the

Stand-Up 101 Graduation Show, w/ new com-

Karina, MC Trixx 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.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

THE COMEDY CABARET Chris MacLean and Robin Crossman present the pro/am July Jesters stand-up show with Xerxes Cortez, Rob Mailloux, Aastha Lal, Danny Polischuk and DJ Sqrl. 9 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com.

THE JOKEBOX COMEDY LOUNGE Impulsive Entertainment presents sketch troupes Good Game and the Reception, stand-up w/ Natalie Norman and Ron Josol and host Jim Kim. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com.

THE SHISHA SHOW Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Dave Merheje, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. Free.

1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

Tuesday, July 31 FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 26.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber

School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, August 1 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Lamont Ferguson, Danny Polishchuk, Parker & Seville, Jason Gracey, Ken Roche, Zabrina Chevannes and host Jim McNally. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

THE BEST OF THE SHISHA SHOW Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Trixx, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. $5. 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905232-5577.

EGG ZEPPELIN Bad Dog Theatre presents Kris Siddiqi and Marcel St Pierre cooking up unscripted comedy, live music and actual bacon w/ guests James Gangl and Fiona Carver. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 26.

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/ Michelle Mohan and host Steph Lisson. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SWITCH OFF Touch My Stereotype presents and hosts a sketch competition featuring Plum Thunder, Smells Like the 80s and the Short Form Richards. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com.

TOP SKETCH CANADA Black Swan presents a sketch and improv competition w/ Josh Bowman, Matt McCready, Joe Delfin, Joel Buxton, Alicia Douglas, Meredith Cheesbrough, Ron Sparks, Laura Bailey and host Jen Littlewood. To Aug 22, Wednesdays 8 pm. $5. 154 Danforth. jen.littlewood@ gmail.com.

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The assignment is problematic for two reasons. Played backwards, the sections of Trinity’s sermons spoken in tongues turn out to accurately predict the future. Plus, Trinity is Daniel’s

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Daniel’s push-pull relationship with Trinity makes up the emotional guts of the novel, though an ex-girlfriend also shows up to make Daniel question his vow of celibacy.

The plot revolves around the interests threatened by Trinity’s powers: Las Vegas casinos sure to lose money to people who take Trinity’s tips seriously; the FBI, which wants Trinity out of the picture because he causes a riot everywhere he goes; and, of course, the all-powerful Vatican, determined to debunk the idea that

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You can almost forgive him for not solving the essential mystery.

SUSAN G. COLE Chercover launches The Trinity Game at Dora Keogh Wednesday (August 1). See Readings, this page.

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As that orgy of beautiful bodies known as the Olympics gets set to dominate our collective consciousness, it’s worth dipping into a book by a world-class athlete. Leanne Shapton – who later became a New York Times art director – devoted her childhood and teens to swimming competitively and writes poignantly about the pain and pleasure of the experience in Swimming Studies ($26.50, Penguin). This soulful book is less about the races per se than it is about the training rituals, the personal commitment and what it feels like to have left the sporting life behind.

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, July 26

Tuesday, July 31

EMANCIPATE YOURSELF POETRY NIGHT Ontario

RACHEL JOYCE Dinner and discussion with the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. 416361-0032.

ROBIN SHULMAN Dinner, drinks and conversation with the Eat The City author.

7:30 pm. $50 (includes book). Beast Restaurant, 96 Tecumseth. Pre-register 647-352-6000.

Black History Soc poetry slam. 6 pm. $7, stu/ srs $5. Central, 603 Markham. 416-867-9420.

Saturday, July 28 ROBIN SHULMAN Taking about her new book,

Eat The City. 3 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. typebooks.ca.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition featuring Mary Pinkoski. 7:30 pm. $5.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-312-3865.

Monday, July 30 ROBERT U DOYLE Launching the second edition of his novel The Tangerine Murders. 7 pm.

Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104.

Tropical Contact High wouldn’t seem out of place in a travel agency.

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Tropical kitsch Show reflects our sun-filled fantasies By DAVID JAGER LAUREN HALL AND SUSY OLIVEIRA at ESP (Erin Stump Projects, 1086½ Queen West), to August 12. 416-834-0005. Rating: NNN

For their show Tropical Contact High at ESP, Lauren Hall and Susy Oliveira have built a simulated island paradise, or to put it more precisely, a simulation of a simulation.

The two sculptors, collaborating as Sculpture Club, seem eager to press every sensory and associative button to evoke the idea of a tropical island in its many commercial and fantastical forms.

Pedestals sporting glossy tropical landscapes are scattered throughout

the room, surrounded by rings of neon pink sand. One of them is crowned with fake palm leaves. Macramé pot holders hang from the ceiling, holding glass planters filled with eye-popping rainbows of more dyed sand. The walls have been striated with stripes of light, oceanic blue.

Scent is also a major part of the show, with air fresheners plugged into the walls wafting tropical essences through the gallery. On the back wall, red, orange and gold sand has been carefully poured into a round glass frame to create an abstract portrait of a fuzzy, flaming sunset.

Survivors of island cruises and

MUST-SEE SHOWS BULTHAUP Painting: Anda Kubis, to Sep 28.

280 King E. 416-361-9005.

CENTRE ISLAND Photos: April Hickox and Rafael Ochoa, to Sep 15 (islandparkworkers.tumblr.com). Sound installation: Barry Prophet, to Oct 16 (between pier and boardwalk, Toronto Islands, naisa.ca).

CENTRE SPACE Painting/video: Kent Monkman, to Aug 11. 65 George. centre-space.ca.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY A Child’s View From Gaza, to Aug 29. 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521.

DANIEL FARIA GALLERY New Meditations group show, to Sep 15. 188 St Helens. 416538-1880.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Sculpture/film: BGL and Robert Arndt, to Aug 18. 100 Niagara.

416-361-2972.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Peripheries group show, Jul 26-Sep 1, reception 6-8 pm Jul 26.

952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

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GALLERY 1313 Light Bringers group show, to Aug 5. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Material Wealth: Re-

vealing Landscape; Not So Fast; Not Forgetting group shows, to Sep 23. Photos: Uncharted Waters, to Jun 30, 2013. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

INDEXG GALLERY Art Brownie Rainbow 2012 group show, Jul 28-Aug 31, reception 3-8 pm Jul 28. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Contemporary Japanese Crafts, to Oct 13 (Mon-Fri, some Sats). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Drawing: Shauna Born, to Jul 29. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY This Must Be The Place group show, to Aug 11. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515.

ONSITE [AT] OCADU Letter Rip! Art, Words And Toronto group show, to Oct 7, curator’s tour 6 pm Jul 26. 230 Richmond W.

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Wednesday, August 1 SEAN CHERCOVER Launching his novel The

Trinity Game. 6 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

LIFT OUT LOUD Reading of Jon Wayne Brown’s screenplay The Small Time. 7:30 pm. $5. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. lift.on.ca.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50).

Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. Katie Bethuneñ Leamen, to Aug 5 (free). Berenice Abbott;

Zhang Huan, to Aug 19. Michael Snow, to Dec 9. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Douglas Walker, to Aug 18. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

MOCCA trans/FORM; The Shape Of Things, to Aug 12. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT Tools For Conviviality; Dissenting Histories, to Aug 26. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM Carnival: From Emancipation To Celebration, Jul 28-Feb 24. Carabana Exhibit, Jul 28.

Sovereign Allies/Living Cultures, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8.

100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Portable Mosques, to Sep 3.

Dreamland: Textiles And The Canadian Landscape, to Sep 30. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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packaged Caribbean vacations will recognize all this. The over-dyed and packaged theme park atmosphere is a hallmark of the cruise ship aesthetic that has overtaken the tropics. This could be a promotional display at a travel agency or an airbrushed mural on the side of a surfer van.

It’s less a critique than a celebration, however, cheerfully embracing the lo-fi aesthetics of tropical kitsch in all of its glorified technicolour weirdness.

416-977-6000 ext 327.

PIKTO Photos: Daniel Neuhaus, to Aug 31.

55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443.

QUEEN GALLERY Four Weeks Of Cuba group show, to Aug 1, Alexei Diaz Bravo reception 6:30-9 pm Jul 26. 382 Queen E. 416-3616045.

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

STATION GALLERY Fictionary: Jay Dart and others, to Sep 2. 1450 Henry (Whitby). 905668-4185.

STEPHEN BULGER First Photographs: Early Photographs Of North American Indigenous Peoples, Jul 26-Sep 15. 1026 Queen W. 416504-0575.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Home On Native Land group show, to Aug 19. 350 King W. 416599-8433.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Deanna Pizzitelli, to Sep 8. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999.

WYNICK/TUCK GALLERY Gallery artists, to Sep 1. 401 Richmond W #128. 416-5048716.

As a whole, the show has just the right amount of glib visual resonance and humour to work. Nothing terribly serious, and nothing too taxing. It’s easy-going, garish and slightly absurd – just like the tropics, and our fantasies about them, are supposed to be.

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Joffrey gems JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (Bob Hercules). 82 minutes. Opens Friday (July 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 63. Rating: NNN

Dutifully researched and illustrated with lots of performance clips, Joffrey is a standard documentary about one of America’s premier dance companies; it wouldn’t seem out of place as a PBS special.

When the company was founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, artistic as well as personal partners for much of their lives, the country’s classical scene was dominated by the American Ballet Theater and the New York City Ballet, both of which had ties to the European and Russian traditions.

Joffrey, whose interest in dance began when the Ballets Russes toured to his hometown of Seattle, wanted to fashion a distinctly American ballet company.

He eventually did, hiring many American choreographers and reflecting the times in works like his 60s-inspired “psychedelic rock ballet” Astarte, and remounting Kurt Jooss’s anti-war ballet The Green Table to comment on Artist Ai Weiwei flips the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. the bird to authorities The company was also revolutionary in Never Sorry. for its diversity, hiring performers of different shapes and colours, all trained DOCUMENTARY in ballet but stretching themselves to work in different styles.

Narrated with understatement by Mandy Patinkin, the film tracks the company’s ups and downs, which included the terrific genre mashup Doc chronicles the trials, tribulations and tweets of China’s number-one troublemaker By NORMAN WILNER Deuce Coup, a piece by a then-littleknown Twyla Tharp, to the cash cow AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY directed lapsed by the Sichuan earthquake – real fury, showing us a man more away at a moment’s notice, as we Billboards, perby Alison Klayman. A Mongrel Media which leads to him being assaulted committed to defiance than perhaps realize when he disappears without a formed to songs release. Some subtitles. 91 minutes. Opens by a police officer and requiring even he himself originally believed. trace, detained by government auby Prince (a fan Friday (July 27). For venues and times, see emergency surgery to relieve the reA late-film revelation about Ai’s exthorities without notice or explanawho let the comMovies, page 63. Rating: NNNN sulting swelling in his brain. (He put tended family shows us precisely tion. He emerges physically unpany use his that on Twitter, too.) how much he has to lose if harmed but visibly shaken; a songs royaltyThe artist Ai Weiwei helped design Klayman’s sympahe’s prevented from reshot of him waving to supfree).

Beijing’s Olympic stadium and has thetic lens lets us see turning to China after porters at his home with one The doc also been celebrated all over the world.

Ai as a man rather the Tate show – and hand while holding his pants covers the comHe’s also put himself and his family than a symbol, how far Chinese au- up with the other serves as a pany’s financial in potential danger by taking to Twit- whose puckish wit thorities are willing powerful visual metaphor for problems, bureauter to openly criticize the Chinese allows him to make to go in retaliation. his time away. cratic struggles and government’s draconian policies – light of the darkest It’s a David and It’s exactly the sort of imJoffrey’s death in the leading to his detention for 81 days in situations.

But Goliath situation, age Ai would never think 80s to AIDS, which the spring of 2011. we’re never allowed viewed with an eleof himself, because it’s oddly wasn’t reported as Alison Klayman’s documentary, to forget the risks he’s gance and an eye for about power and intimisuch in obituaries. fresh from highly praised appeartaking by poking fun at the absurd that nicely dation; his work is all Apart from what we ances at the Hot Docs and Sundance a system that doesn’t have reflects Ai’s own sensibil- about resistance. see onstage, there’s litfilm festivals, follows Ai’s efforts to a sense of humour. ities.

Ai Weiwei: Never tle tension or artfulness make art and trouble (sometimes That sense of risk weighs more Ai’s millions of Twitter followers Sorry leaves us hoping to the film, however, simultaneously). He prepares for a heavily on Ai as the clock ticks down and his resilient spirit make him we’ll see more of that making it of interest Decent doc explores show at the Tate Modern while con- to his Tate show. The whimsical asseem mightier than he is. His ability work, and soon.

3 mostly to dance afiRobert Joffrey’s ducting an investigation into the pects of his activism fade away; ob- to reach out to the Chinese people normw@nowtoronto.com cionados. dance legacy. construction of Chinese schools colstinacy and indignation give way to (and the larger world) can be taken twitter.com/nowfilm GLENN SUMI

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NNN Let’s face it. You’re not expecting Oscar-calibre material from the fourth instalment in the Step Up franchise. These movies promise gyrating hips, and that’s exactly what they deliver.

As dramatically inert as Step Up Revolution is, it showcases bodies that are fluid, kinetic and very often aerodynamic. The plot is unbelievable, but so are the moves. The dialogue is hard on the ears, but the beats quickly drown it out.

Stars Kathryn McCormick and Ryan Guzman, who play Emily and Sean, are bland actors but fine dancers and eye-pleasing in every way. Emily is an aspiring professional dancer with a rich property developer daddy (Peter Gallagher doing his smarm-charm routine), and Sean is the co-founder of a flash mob dying for Bieberlevel YouTube hits.

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LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER ñABRAHAM

(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 (Benjamin Walker) in the middle of an incredible action set piece; in other words, it’s as batshit crazy as its title promises. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Alison Klayman) 91 min. See review, page 60.

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Webb) gives the franchise a fresh start, though the key story points are still the same: high-school nerd Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is imbued with the speed and strength of a spider after an encounter with a genetically enhanced arachnid, and driven by tragedy to become a superhero.

Webb, who made (500) Days Of Summer, gives the big 3-D web-swinging set pieces a thrilling, vertiginous energy, but doesn’t have Sam Raimi’s confident editorial style.

This is a somewhat bumpier ride; at two and a quarter hours, it could stand to lose 20 minutes, or add 20 more. That said, the actors make this Spider-Man feel pretty amazing indeed. Garfield’s awkward, selfdoubting Peter is very different from Tobey Maguire’s wide-eyed wonder, and the layers Emma Stone brings to Gwen Stacey make her every scene pop. If Sony has to keep making these movies, this is as good a way to go as any. 136 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ANDRÉ RIEU’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY HOMETOWN CONCERT is a live concert from

Maastricht marking the 25th anniversary of Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra.

Jul 28, 12:45 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh Zeitlin) is an allegorical drama about the spirited, predominantly black inhabitants of a fictitious New Orleans district known as “the Bathtub” – so named because it’s a 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) Grande - Yonge, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone deliver flawless performances in this unnecessary but solid reboot about the kid who shoots silk from his fingers and gets to hang upside down.

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Writer/director Sarah Polley takes big stylistic and tonal risks in this look at a woman (Michelle Williams) who’s considering cheating on her husband (Seth Rogen).

JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (G) “A marvelous documentary…enlightening and moving.” – Film Journal International

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BERNIE (Richard Linklater) is half true-crime

WINNER—Critic’s Choice Award—RIDM Festival Montreal 2011 Director in attendance for post-screening Q & A on July 27 & 28.

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

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (John

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.

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Rolleston as a young boy who greets his father (charismatic writer/director Waititi) as a hero when he returns home after a seven-year prison term to dig up the money he stashed before going into the slammer. Not much new in the plot department, but Boy has a lot of appeal. 88 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

CASABLANCA (PG) Featuring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid From our Back to the Bloor series.

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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, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 continued on page 64 œ

Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry This essential new documentary offers an intimate portrait of Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous international artist and most outspoken domestic critic, as he pursues his art and activism against a backdrop of strict censorship and state oppression.

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(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.

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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.

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Nolan) 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 largeformat IMAX cameras wherever possible for added bombast. But where Nolan’s first two Bat-films felt nimble and restless, The Dark Knight Rises is encumbered by its own self-importance (and its unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement). When he concentrates on the action – a thrilling mid-air prisoner extraction, the villain 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 very nearly had me on my feet cheering. It’s just all the stuff in the middle that needs pruning. 164 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire

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(Bess Kargman) is a nail-biting doc that 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 worldclass winners. Director 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 stage mom.

Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Morten Tyldum) is an energetic Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief (Aksel Hennie).

When his scheme goes wrong, our hero must go on the run – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running. Director Tyldum keeps the plot twisting in a manner that feels both surprising and logical, but be warned: this is decidedly not for the squeamish. Subtitled. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Regent Theatre

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

hysteria (Tanya Wexler) is not as risqué as its premise, the invention of the vibrator, though it’s certainly pleasurable enough.

Hugh Dancy stars as a Victorian doctor who cures women’s mental ailments by using his fingers to... umm... provide a deep tissue massage. Dancy, an ideal romantic lead, has a fine foil in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character, who embodies the women’s emancipation movement. The charming pair rise above

the pandering, lightweight material. 99 min. NNN (RS) Regent Theatre

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 crea-

tures 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.

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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, Yonge & Dundas 24

JoFFrey: maveriCks oF ameriCaN DaNCe (Bob Hercules) 82 min. See review,

page 60. NNN (GS) Opens Jul 27 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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.

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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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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waNteD (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon) 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 - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, 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)

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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

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son) might be Anderson’s purest work yet – a tender tale of longing and melancholy as seen through the eyes of a handful of people on an isolated (fictional) island off the coast of New England in September 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.

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MovINg day (Mike Clattenburg) stars Will

Sasso as Clyde, the lovable schlep who, alongside an alcoholic foreman (Gabriel Hogan) and a wisecracking ex-con (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, this 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. 87 min. NNN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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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, Kennedy Commons 20, 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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñMoNsIeur lazhar

(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary school politics and Canadian immigration.

Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former

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 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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

ñthe 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) Humber Cinema, 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) Carlton Cinema, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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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.

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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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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lypse 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.

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SNow white ANd the huNtSmAN

(Rupert Sanders) adapts the classic fairy tale for Twihards who like their fantasies served with Kristen Stewart and some burning loins. Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron, mugging passionately) dispatches the titular Huntsman to capture an escaped Snow White (Stewart). The film reaches for epic adventure, but the only thrills come from the bold visual designs. Like that poison apple, SWATH looks inviting but offers nothing you’d want to chew on. 127 min.

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Step up RevolutioN (Scott Speer) 106 min. See review, page 62. NNN (RS) Opens Jul 27 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, 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

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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, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñted

(Seth MacFarlane) is guaranteed 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, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 tRiShNA (Michael Winterbottom) trans-

plants Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The D’Urbervilles to modern India, 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. 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. Pinto, meanwhile, looks radiant throughout, though her frustratingly passive character makes it hard to sympathize with her suffering. Some subtitles. 117 min.

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tyleR peRRy’S mAdeA’S witNeSS pRotectioN (Tyler Perry) sets out to be the

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.

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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, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, 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.

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 uNited StAteS oF AFRicA: BeyoNd hip hop (Yanick Létourneau) 75 min. See re-

view, page 69. NNN (NW) Opens Jul 27 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ñvito

(Jeffrey Schwarz) documents the life of Vito Russo, who died from AIDS-related illness in 1990 but 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. Schwarz’s impressive doc touches on all of this, using archival footage to provide a front-line perspective on preStonewall bathhouse raids, homophobic mainstream journalism and how New York City’s queer community fractured in the 70s 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 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. Essential viewing for LGBT and other activists. 93 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema

the wAtch (Akiva Schaffer) 98 min. See

Also Opening, page 62.

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whAt to expect wheN you’Re expectiNg (Kirk Jones) offers vignettes about

the bumps on the road that a woman with a baby bump might encounter. The five couples’ nine-month journeys to parenthood are so chopped up that the people become less fleshed-out characters than types. Still, some stories ring surprisingly true, particularly Cameron Diaz’s controlfreak and Elizabeth Banks’s on-point depiction of a pregnancy from hell. The filmmakers neuter the emotional wreckage of a miscarriage with the standard pop-songmontage treatment, clearly trying to move on to the upbeat stuff as quickly as possible. That’s the biggest problem with What To Expect. For all the wisdom it may impart, the film would rather resort to immature humour for kicks. Many of these gags are so forcibly contrived that the movie seems like it’s going through labour to deliver them.

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BeasTs of The souThern WilD (PG) 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 The Dark knighT rises (PG) 11:55, 3:25, 6:55, 10:25 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:50, 10:30

yonge & DunDas 24 (ce) 10 DunDas st e, 416-335-5323

aBrahaM lincoln: vaMpire hunTer 3D (14A) 1:55, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 The aMazing spiDer-Man: an iMax 3D experience (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:40, 4:40, 5:30, 6:50, 7:50, 8:50, 10:00, 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 1:30, 3:10, 4:40, 6:20, 7:50, 9:30, 11:00 The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Brave (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Brave 3D (PG) thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 cockTail (PG) 2:20, 5:50, 9:15 DerangeD 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sat-sun 11:35 mat ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 thu 1:45 mat, 4:10 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 thu 12:00 mat sat-sun 11:50 mat JaWs (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 kaTy perry: parT of Me 3D (PG) 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 sat-sun 11:30 mat kyaa super kool hain huM 3:35, 6:40, 9:55 sat-sun 11:55 mat MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) Fri, mon, Wed 2:00 sat-sun 11:35, 2:00 tue 1:00 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD 3D (G) thu 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-mon, Wed 4:25, 7:10 tue 3:25, 6:10 Men in Black 3 (PG) thu 1:30 4:15 7:05 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Moving Day 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 safeTy noT guaranTeeD (14A) 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Wed no 5:10, 7:40 snoW WhiTe anD The hunTsMan (PG) thu 2:05 5:00 7:55 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 sTep up revoluTion (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 satsun 11:30 mat Take This WalTz (14A) thu 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Frimon, Wed 9:45 tue 8:45 TeD (14A) thu 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:20, 9:55, 10:55 Fri, mon-Wed 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:35, 5:40, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55, 10:55 sat-sun 11:40, 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:35, 5:40, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55, 10:55 To roMe WiTh love (PG) 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50

midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 sat-sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 kaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Fri, mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:25 sat-sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 9:25 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) thu 4:05 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) thu-Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 sat-sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 Fri, monWed 4:15, 6:20, 8:50 sat-sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:20, 8:50 people like us (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 Fri, mon-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 sat-sun 1:30, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 savages (18A) Fri, mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 sat-sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 snoW WhiTe anD The hunTsMan (PG) thu 6:30, 9:10 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 4:00, 6:35, 9:00 Fri, monWed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 sat-sun 1:20, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Fri, monWed 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 sat-sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35

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

heaDhunTers Fri-sat 9:00 sun, Wed 7:00 hysTeria (PG) Fri-sat, tue 7:00 sun 4:30 Monsieur lazhar (PG) thu 7:00

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

The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:45 3:50 7:00 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Brave (PG) thu 12:35 Fri 12:05, 2:35, 5:00 sat-sun, tue 11:40, 2:10, 4:40 mon 1:00, 4:00 Wed 12:50, 3:20 Brave 3D (PG) thu 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 The Dark knighT rises (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 sat-sun, tue 11:30 mat ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu-Fri, mon, Wed 12:00 sat-sun, tue 11:50 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 1:00, 3:25, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:10, 3:30, 6:15, 8:35 sat-tue 12:50, 3:30, 6:15, 8:35 Wed 3:30, 6:15, 8:35 Magic Mike (14A) thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Fritue 7:40, 10:25 Wed 10:25 savages (18A) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 10:45 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 TeD (14A) thu 12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 The WaTch (14A) Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 The Who - quaDrophenia: The coMpleTe sTory Wed 7:30

Metro

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

The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 2:45, 7:15 The Dark knighT rises (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 The piraTes! BanD of MisfiTs (PG) thu 11:15 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 1:00, 9:30 TeD (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45

The WaTch (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40

kingsWay tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 2:45, 7:15 Fri-Wed 5:00 The inTouchaBles (14A) thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) Fri-Wed 7:15 The piraTes! BanD of MisfiTs (PG) thu 11:15 proMeTheus (14A) Fri-Wed 9:10 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 12:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 The african queen (PG) sun 1:00 The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 1:45, 4:55, 8:00, 11:10 Fri, sun, tue 2:05, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 sat 11:05, 2:05, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 mon, Wed 1:25, 4:35, 7:45, 10:55 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:15 anDré rieu’s 25Th anniversary hoMeToWn concerT sat 12:45 Brave (PG) thu 12:15 Fri-Wed 12:20 Brave 3D (PG) thu 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 curious george (G) sat 11:00 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu-Fri 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 sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 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 sun 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 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 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 5:20, 6:00, 6:40, 7:20, 8:10, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 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 Wed 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 5:20, 6:00, 6:30, 7:20, 8:10, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 4:40 sat-sun, tue 11:55, 2:15, 4:40 mon, Wed 1:50, 4:10 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 8:55 Fri-sun, tue 12:40, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 mon, Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 kaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Wed no 5:05, 7:35 kaTy perry: parT of Me 3D (PG) thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, sun, tue 1:40, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 sat 11:20, 1:40, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 mon, Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Magic Mike (14A) thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, mon, Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 sat-sun, tue 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 proMeTheus (14A) thu 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:50 savages (18A) thu 1:25, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 sTep up revoluTion (PG) Fri, mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 sat-sun, tue 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) Fri-sun, tue 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 mon, Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40 TeD (14A) thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40, 11:20 Fri, sun, tue 12:45, 3:15, 5:55, 8:30, 11:10 sat 3:15, 5:55, 8:30, 11:10 mon, Wed 12:40, 3:15, 5:55, 8:30, 11:05 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-sun, tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 mon, Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 The WaTch (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 The Who - quaDrophenia: The coMpleTe sTory Wed 7:30

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Brave (PG) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:30, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 9:15 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) thu 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 savages (18A) thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 sTep up revoluTion (PG) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 TeD (14A) 1:20, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45

east end BeacH cinemas (aa) 1651 queen st e, 416-646-0444

The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Brave (PG) thu 12:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 11:45, 12:15, 3:25, 3:50, 7:05, 7:30, 10:30, 10:45, 11:05 Fri 12:15, 3:25, 3:55, 7:10, 7:40, 10:45, 11:15 sat, tue 11:45, 12:15, 3:25, 3:55, 7:10, 7:40, 10:45, 11:15 sun 11:45, 12:15, 3:25, 3:55, 7:10, 7:40, 10:45 mon, Wed 12:15, 3:25, 3:55, 7:10, 7:40, 10:45 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:40 Fri, mon, Wed 12:35 sat-sun, tue 12:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 3:10, 6:00, 8:10 Fri 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 sat-sun, tue 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 mon, Wed 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 TeD (14A) thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-sun, tue 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 11:00 mon, Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 The WaTch (14A) Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00

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

The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 1:45, 4:45, 8:00 Fri-sat, tue 8:00, 11:00 sun-mon 8:00 The Dark knighT rises: The iMax experience (PG) thu 11:45 3:30 7:00 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:45 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 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 Fri-sat, tue 12:30, 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, 10:30, 11:15 sunmon, Wed 12:30, 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, 10:30 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:40 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:15 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:40, 10:20

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

anDré rieu’s 25Th anniversary hoMeToWn concerT sat 12:45 BeasTs of The souThern WilD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Brave (PG) thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 12:35 Brave 3D (PG) 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 The inTouchaBles (14A) thu 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, sun-Wed 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 sat 2:30, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) 1:55 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD 3D (G) 4:20, 6:45 thu 9:10 Magic Mike (14A) thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri, sunWed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 sat 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 savages (18A) thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40 FriWed 9:10 TeD (14A) 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 To roMe WiTh love (PG) 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Trishna thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 The WaTch (14A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30

silvercity FairvieW (ce)

FairvieW mall, 1800 sHePParD ave e, 416-644-7746 The african queen (PG) sun 1:00 The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:40 3:50 7:00 continued on page 68 œ

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10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 BRAVE (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 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 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 3:15, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed 10:20 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 TED (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:50 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Wed 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 THE WHO - QUADROPHENIA: THE COMPLETE STORY Wed 7:30

SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-2052

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 5:00, 10:40 BRAVE (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 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 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:00, 12:45, 3:10, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 11:30, 12:00, 12:45, 3:10, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 8:10 Fri-Wed 1:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Thu 1:00 mat MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:15 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:45 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:35 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 TED (14A) 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50

Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:55 BRAVE (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 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 FriWed 12:15, 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:15, 6:00, 6:50, 7:15, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30 FriWed 1:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:10, 11:00 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 TED (14A) Thu 12:45 3:20 5:50 8:20 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (14A) Thu 7:35, 10:20 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:10 Mon 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:50 Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:55

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 2012 NOW

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:15, 10:30 Mon 7:15, 10:15 Wed 10:15 ANDRÉ RIEU’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY HOMETOWN CONCERT Sat 12:45 BRAVE (PG) Thu 12:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:00 Sat 2:20 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 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 Fri-Sun, Tue 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 Mon, Wed 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:40, 5:00, 6:15, 6:50, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:55, 2:15, 4:45 Mon, Wed 12:05, 2:25, 4:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 12:30 2:55 5:20 7:45 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Thu 10:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:05 Mon, Wed 9:50 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:45, 2:00, 4:20, 6:45 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:20, 6:45 Mon, Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40 TED (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:20, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 THE WHO - QUADROPHENIA: THE COMPLETE STORY Wed 7:30

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

THE AFRICAN QUEEN (PG) Sun 1:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:40 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 6:20, 9:30 Sat 6:25, 9:35 Sun, Tue 6:55, 10:05 BRAVE (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu-Fri 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, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 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, 12:45, 2:10, 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 6:00, 6:40, 7:20, 8:10, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:00 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:00 Sun 11:40, 2:05, 4:35 Tue 11:40, 2:05, 4:30 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Fri 12:10 Sat 1:15 Sun, Tue 12:00 Mon, Wed 12:30 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:25 2:50 5:20 7:50 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:15 FriSun, Tue 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10 Mon, Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:55, 11:10 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:35, 10:45 Sat, Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sun 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 PROMETHEUS (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:35, 8:20, 11:20 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 2:00, 5:10, 8:20, 11:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:10, 5:15, 8:20, 11:25 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:50, 10:55 STEP UP REVOLUTION (PG) 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun, Tue 11:30 mat STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 TED (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:15, 8:55, 11:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:15, 8:55, 11:30 Mon, Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Sat, Tue 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40, 11:20 Mon, Wed 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:40, 4:40, 7:35 BOL BACHCHAN (PG) 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:50 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 Thu 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 KYAA SUPER KOOL HAIN HUM 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30 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) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:10

Step Up Revolution

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 SAVAGES (18A) 2:10, 5:15, 8:10, 11:05 Sun only 3:15 5:15 8:10 11:05 STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN Mon 7:30 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 THE WHO - QUADROPHENIA: THE COMPLETE STORY Wed 7:30

COURTNEY PARK 16 (CE)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 416-335-5323

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nowtoronto.com/movies MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat PEOPLE LIKE US (14A) 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:35 mat PROMETHEUS 3D (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:40, 4:25 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 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, 6:40, 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 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 WATCH (14A) 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:30 mat

WOODSIDE CINEMAS (I) 1571 SANDHURST CIRCLE, 416-299-3456

BILLA 2 (18A) 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Thu 9:30 BOL BACHCHAN (PG) 3:45 Thu 6:45 COCKTAIL (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

GTA Regions Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

THE AFRICAN QUEEN (PG) Sun 1:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) 1:50, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Fri, Tue 6:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 7:15, 10:20 Mon, Wed 10:10 ANDRÉ RIEU’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY HOMETOWN CONCERT Sat 12:45 BRAVE (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue 12:00 Fri, Mon 2:30 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Tue 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:30, 4:10, 7:50, 11:30 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu, Tue 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 Fri 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 Sat 11:00, 11:45, 12:15, 2:40, 3:25, 3:55, 5:00, 6:20, 7:05, 7:35, 8:40, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 Sun 11:45, 12:15, 1:15, 2:00, 3:25, 3:55, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 7:35, 9:20, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 Mon, Wed 1:15, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 5:00, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:50 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 SatSun, Tue 11:55 mat KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 2:10, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 Sat 11:10, 2:10, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 Sun 11:10, 2:10, 7:40, 10:50 Mon, Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:45, 10:55 Tue 12:15, 3:30, 7:45, 10:50 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 6:00, 9:00 BRAVE (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 2:15 Sat-Sun 11:40 Mon, Wed 12:30 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Mon, Wed 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 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 Fri 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 Sun 11:00, 11:30, 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:30, 5:20, 6:00, 6:40, 8:10, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 12:30, 2:00, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:25 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Thu 9:10 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:40 Fri, Tue 1:50, 4:15, 6:40 Sat-Sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:45 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu-Fri, Tue 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:55, 10:50 PROMETHEUS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 SAVAGES (18A) Thu-Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:40, 8:00, 10:55 Fri-Wed 9:10 STEP UP REVOLUTION (PG) 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:00, 5:45, 8:15, 10:55 Mon, Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 TED (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 8:30, 11:10 Fri, Tue 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:30, 11:00 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 10:10

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 12:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:40 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:10 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:45, 2:50, 4:10, 5:10, 6:35, 7:30, 9:00, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:20 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:45 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:15 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED 3D (G) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Sat-Sun, Tue 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 FriWed 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 ROCK OF AGES (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 7:20, 10:20 TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 THE WATCH (14A) 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:00 mat

North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 1:30 4:50 8:10 11:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:55, 11:10 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:35 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:50, 10:20 BRAVE (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri-Wed 12:15

BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 CURIOUS GEORGE (G) Sat 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) 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 mat Sun, Tue 11:30 mat ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:10, 8:35 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 Sat 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 Sun, Tue 11:45, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:55 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Fri, Sun-Wed 12:35, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Sat 11:20, 1:40, 4:00, 6:25, 8:40 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 12:55 3:55 7:00 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:25, 10:55 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:25, 8:20, 11:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11:20 Sat 11:10, 2:10, 5:15, 8:15, 11:20 STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN Mon 7:30 STEP UP REVOLUTION (PG) 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Sat only 11:45 2:35 4:55 7:30 9:50 Sun only 11:50 2:35 4:55 7:30 9:50 Tue only 11:50 2:35 4:55 7:30 9:50 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 TED (14A) Thu 12:20, 2:20, 3:00, 5:05, 5:45, 7:40, 8:30, 10:20, 11:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 10:05, 11:15 Mon, Wed 12:20, 3:00, 7:00, 10:05, 11:15 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:35, 8:15, 11:05 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:15 THE WHO - QUADROPHENIA: THE COMPLETE STORY Wed 7:30

INTERCHANGE 30 (AMC)

30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:55 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45 Fri 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:45 BOL BACHCHAN (PG) Thu 6:35 COCKTAIL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:05 Fri 5:30, 9:00 Sat 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Sun 12:35, 3:50, 7:05 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25 Fri 6:15, 9:20 Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20 Sun 12:10, 4:00, 7:10 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00 Fri 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00 MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG) 5:00, 7:30 Fri 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:30 mat, 9:50 Sun 12:00, 2:30 mat MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) 4:45, 7:20 Fri 9:35 Sat 12:05, 2:25 mat, 9:35 Sun 12:05, 2:25 mat PEOPLE LIKE US (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:50 Fri 6:15, 9:00 Sat 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 PROMETHEUS 3D (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:40 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:10, 4:40, 7:35 SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30 Fri 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:35 Fri 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Sat 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:25 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S WITNESS PROTECTION (14A) 4:50, 7:25 Fri 10:00 Sat 2:10 mat, 10:00 Sun 2:10 mat WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:40 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40

RAINBOW PROMENADE (I)

PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 416-494-9371 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 12:15, 1:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:50, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:30, 5:00, 8:30, 9:00 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 5:00, 8:30, 9:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:10 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:10 4:10 6:55 8:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 TED (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:25 THE WATCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30

West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590

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thu 26 – Neil Young Journeys (2011) D: Jona-

than Demme. 6:45 pm. Marley (2012) D: Kevin Macdonald. 9 pm.

Fri 27 – Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance (2012) D: Bob Hercules. 3:30 & 8:45 pm. United States Of Africa (2012) D: Yanick Létourneau. 6:45 pm. The Song Remains The Same (1976) D: Peter Clifton and Joe Massot.

10:45 pm. sat 28 – Grey Gardens (1975) D: Ellen Hovde, Albert and David Maysles and Muffie Meyer. 3:30 pm. Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance. 6:30 pm. United States Of Africa. 8:45 pm. suN 29 – The Times Of Harvey Milk (1984) D: Rob Epstein. 1 pm. Casablanca (1942) D: Michael Curtiz. 3:30 pm. Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance. 6:30 pm.

United States Of Africa. 8:45 pm.

MoN 30 – Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance. 6:45 pm. United States Of Africa. 9 pm. tue 31– Marley. 6:30 pm. Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance. 9:45 pm. wed 1 – Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance. 6:45 pm. Marley. 9 pm.

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thu 26 – Jaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg.

3:15 pm. Canadian Open Vault: Listen To ñ The City (1984) D: Ron Mann. 6:30 pm. Belle

De Jour (1967) D: Luis Buñuel. 9 pm.

Fri 27 – First Peoples Cinema: Black Robe (1991) D: Bruce Beresford, and Sacred Spaces (2009) D: Tusi Tamasese. 2 pm. Summer In France and François Truffaut X 2: Jules Et Jim (1961). 6:15 pm. The Bride Wore Black (1967) 8:45 pm. sat 28 – First Peoples Cinema X 3: First Peoples Shorts III: New Worlds including Green Bush (204) D: Warwick Thornton, Plains Empty (2005) D: Beck Cole, and others.

12:30 pm. Busong (2011) D: Auraeus Solito.

3:15 pm. Summer In France: L’Enfance Nue (1968) D: Maurice Pialat. 5:45 pm. Beefcake: Conan The Barbarian (1982) D: John Milius. 8 pm. suN 29 – Hollywood Classics: The Bad And The Beautiful (1953) D: Vincente Minnelli. 1 pm. First Peoples Cinema: Toomelah (2011) D: Ivan Sen. 3:45 pm. Summer In France: The Soft Skin (1964) D: François Truffaut. 7 pm.

MoN 30 – Director Eli Roth presents Cannibal Ferox (1981) D: Umberto Lenzi. 6 pm. tue 31 – Hollywood Classics: Forty Guns (1957) D: Samuel Fuller. 6:30 pm.

First Peoples Cinema: Black Robe, and Sacred Spaces. 9 pm. wed 1 – Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 9 pm.

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Part tour documentary, part examination of the tangled lines of cultural resistance and nationalistic pride that run through contemporary African music, Yanick Létourneau’s United States Of Africa: Beyond Hip Hop isn’t lacking in ambition.

Montreal-bred filmmaker Létourneau follows Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi around the globe as he records his 2010 album, Présidents D’Afrique, which offers modern rappers the chance to build tracks around the sampled voices of such inspirational leaders as Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Malcolm X. Awadi’s project takes him from Burkina Faso to France to South Africa and even America, where he collaborates with Dead Prez rapper M-1 in New York City and then rushes to DC for Barack Obama’s inauguration, a hugely symbolic

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thu 26 – Prometheus (2012) D: Ridley Scott.

6:45 pm. Cosmopolis (2012) D: David Cronenberg. 9:15 pm.

Fri 27 – Hysteria (2011) D: Tanya Wexler. 7 pm.

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World (2012) D: Lorene Scafaria. 9 pm. sat 28 – Snow White And The Huntsman (2012) D: Rupert Sanders. 2 & 7 pm. Hysteria.

4:30 pm. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World. 9:30 pm. suN 29 – Snow White And The Huntsman. 2 & 6:45 pm. Hysteria. 4:30 pm. Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World. 9:15 pm.

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United States Of Africa travels the globe to tell inspiring story about national pride.

moment for Africans everywhere.

And at every stop, Létourneau grabs a snapshot of the politics on the ground. In particular, Burkina Faso, where the rapper Smockey risks his safety by speaking angry truths to a government he accuses of oppressive tactics, feels like a powder keg.

I’d have liked to hear more of the

finished project, though. Other than one number performed live in concert, we’re limited to mere snippets of the individual songs as they’re being recorded or rehearsed.

But I’m not sure that’s really Létourneau’s point.

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MoN 30-wed 1 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

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The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm.

The Salvador Dali Film Fest. 9 pm. suN 29 – 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 30 – The Marx Borthers Film Fest. 5 pm.

Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm.

Charlie Chaplin Film Fest. 9 pm. tue 31 – Subversive Film Fest. 5 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 9 pm.

thu 26 – My First Wedding (2011) D: Ariel Winograd. 2 & 6 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World (2012) D: Matthew Lillard. 4 pm. Doghouse Reily Films fundraiser party and short film screening. 8 pm.

Fri 27 – To Make A Farm (2011) D: Steven Suderman. 2 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World.

3:30 pm. My First Wedding. 5:30 pm. Primordial Ties (2010) D: Otto Buj. 7 pm. Projection Booth First Year Anniversary Party. 9 pm. sat 28 – My First Wedding. 1 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 3 pm. Primordial Ties. 5 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 9 pm. suN 29 – Battle Royale. 1 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 3 pm. My First Wedding. 5 pm.

Primordial Ties. 7 pm. Hip-Hop Eh! (2012) D: Joseph PS Klymkiw. 9 pm. hiphopeh.ca.

MoN 30 – To Make A Farm. 2:30 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 4 pm. My First Wedding. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm. tue 31 – Patang (2011) D: Prashant Bhargava.

2:30 pm. My First Wedding. 4 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm. wed 1 – To Make A Farm. 2:30 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 4 pm. My First Wedding. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm.

cook Rick Blechta. 6:30 pm. $12 includes food samples. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 9:15 pm.

Fri 27 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) D: John Madden. 7 pm. Moonrise Kingdom.

9:30 pm. sat 28 – A Night At The Opera (1935) D: Sam Wood. 2 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 4 & 9:30 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 7 pm. suN 29 – Top Hat (1935) D: Mark Sandrich. 2 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 4 & 6:45 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 9:15 pm.

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The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Lon Chaney. 9 pm.

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The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 26-wed 1 – 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 26 – Open Roof Festival Outdoor Film And Music Series presents Undefeated (2011) D: Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin. 7:30 pm. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com.

The City of Mississauga ON Screen Movie Nights presents an outdoor screening of The Artist (2011) D: Michel Hazanavicius. 8 pm.

Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. mississaugacelebrationsquare.ca.

The East Gallery presents the documentary They Call It Myanmar (2012) D: Robert H Lieberman. Q&A with the director to follow screening. 7:30 pm. Free. 334 Dundas W. RSVP theycallitmyanmar3-es2.eventbrite. com.

Fri 27 – Cultura Festival presents an outdoor screening of Life In A Day (2011) D: Kevin Macdonald, Natalia Andreadis and others. 9 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. culturafestival.ca.

The Italian Consulate and the Consulate General of Italy present Opera In The Garden, a series of free outdoor screenings of classic operatic films subtitled in English: La Donna Del Lago (1992) D: Werner Herzog.

Film at sunset (approx 9 pm). Free. Consulate General Of Italy, 136 Beverley. iictoronto.esteri.it. sat 28 – L’Altra Italia presents Italian Cinema Under The Stars with a screening of L’Industriale (2011) D: Giuliano Montaldo. Italian w/ s-t. Gates open at 8 pm, screening at dusk. Free. 136 Beverley. iictoronto.esteri.it. suN 29 – Christie Pits Film Festival presents an outdoor screening of Cinema Paradiso (1988) D: Giuseppe Tornatore. 9 pm. Free or pwyc. 750 Bloor W at Christie. facebook. com/ChristiePitsFilmFestival.

LIFT (Liaision of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) and E-Fagia present Acting Out, a screening of works by Brazilian artist Kika Nicolela, including Flickering (2009), Actus (2010), and more. 8 pm. Free. CineCycle, 129 Spadina, down the lane. lift.ca.

MoN 30 – The Toronto Film Society British Invasion Screening Series presents The Glass Mountain (1950) D: Henry Cass, and The Devil’s Disciple (1958) D: Guy Hamilton. 7:30 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com. tue 31 – City Cinema: Cult Classics presents an outdoor screening of Do The Right Thing (1989) D: Spike Lee. 8:30 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. wed 1 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks: Movies Under The Stars presents an outdoor screening of The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. Screening at approximately 8:30 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: Mr And Mrs Smith (1941) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 9:15 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. torontoed.com. 3

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Lusting for lingerie I am a hetero female, but one of my

iggest fantasies is for a guy to dress up b in women’s underwear. Not full-blown drag, just a teddy, fishnets and some heels. He doesn’t even have to act like a woman. I just want him to parade around a bit, and just for me. I’ve had the ovaries to bring this up only twice to men I’ve been with. My first boyfriend was game, but I was so insecure with my sexuality at the time that I let it go. My second boyfriend found it degrading and wouldn’t do it. I think there are two things holding me back: (1) I’ve never even heard of this fantasy, and that makes me feel like a creep. Is there a name for it? (2) I know the first time I will giggle with joy and I’m afraid that will be a big buzzkill if my hypothetical future boyfriend thinks I’m laughing at him.

Lingerie Without A Man

1. There isn’t a name for this fantasy, LWAM, so let’s come up with one. How about “Frank-N-Furter-Ing,” for Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a noted research scientist who also enjoyed dressing straight boys up in fishnets, teddies and heels.

Your fantasy probably lacks a name because it isn’t that odd or a whole lot to ask. And this fantasy makes you more sexually and romantically marketable than you seem to realize, LWAM. The world is full of men who aren’t gay, aren’t into drag and aren’t into fullblown cross-dressing but who are turned

on by the idea of wearing the girlfriend’s panties and/or a little lingerie. A lot of these men are with women who barely tolerate their kinks. The single ones, on the other hand, are out there looking for a girlfriend who is turned on by the thought of a guy in panties, teddies, fishnets and heels. Post a few explicit personal ads on online dating sites – kinkster and normster – and I promise you’ll be flooded with responses from guys who want to put on a show for you.

2. It is permissible to giggle during sex. If you’re worried that your partner might think you’re laughing at him, qualify your giggles in advance. Explain that you’re prone to joyous laughter when you’re turned on and you might get a little giddy during his performance. Emphasize that your giggles are evidence of arousal, not disgust or contempt. Then prove it by fucking the shit out of him.

3. Have you checked out .xdress.com?

Think of it as your own personal porn stash before you find a boyfriend, and your favourite online shopping destination after.

Married to a pill I am a heterosexual female. my hus-

and hates condoms. When we started b being exclusive and monogamous, we were both fully screened for STDs and I went on the pill. That was four years ago. Since then, I have been through eight different versions of the pill. My current one gives me a two-week period, I have gained about 25 pounds in two months and I am more moody. My doctor just prescribed me a new pill that will likely increase my weight and make me even moodier, but it should decrease the length of the period. I am sick of this! I think my husband should suck it up and wear a condom. He is completely resistant. It is ironic that the pill protects me from pregnancy if I have sex, but we’re having less sex due to the weight gain, bloating, bleeding, no sex drive and other side effects. My doctor does not think other options for birth control (e.g., an intrauterine device) will be a good fit for me. Should I continue on the pill or tell my husband

that if he wants sex, he has to share responsibility in avoiding pregnancy?

Tired Of Pills Shared responsibility.

And you can keep having sex without pills, condoms, or pregnancies. There’s oral (his-and-hers), anal (ditto), and mutual masturbation (underrated). But if it’s vaginal intercourse he wants, then he’ll have to get used to condoms. Some women can’t take hormonal birth control, and your husband is married to one.

Double trouble I was watchIng a porno featurIng a

ot gay threesome. Two tops doubleh penetrated a bottom. The odd part: The tops shared a single condom! I’m wondering how safe this might be. It certainly doesn’t seem safe. Dubious In Phoenix It was safe for the bottom – provided that overtaxed condom didn’t burst (here’s hoping they were using a more spacious, more durable female condom) – but it wasn’t safe for the tops. Jamming two dicks into a single condom could result in dick-to-dick transmission of a number of sexually transmitted infections – herpes, HPV, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, etc.

Getting beyond casual I am a 25-year-old straIght woman. I recently started seeing a man. The first

time I slept with him, he told me that he was interested in a relationship, and I told him that I wanted to keep things purely casual. Over the next month and a half of talking to him, hanging out and having sex, I started to really like him. I was thinking about changing my mind and taking the relationship to the next level. The last time I saw him was a week ago. He came over, we had sex and then he mentioned he had met someone else.

As he was beginning to elaborate, I told him to leave. My anger comes from his timing. If he had told me this before we had sex, Dan, I would have been able to have a constructive conversation about this. The problem now, if I’m being completely honest with myself, is that I really

like him and I don’t want to stop seeing him. A couple of questions: Do I reach out to him again? Did I overreact?

Left In The Lurch I can understand why you were upset.

You had already taken things to the “next level” in your heart – you were thinking of this guy as your boyfriend – you just hadn’t gotten around to informing him about the upgrade. And you assumed that, when you did get around to letting him know, he would be delighted. Because he was the one who wanted a relationship at the beginning, right?

Unfortunately, LITL, he took you at your word when you said you weren’t interested in a relationship. Keeping things “purely casual” with you meant he was free to pursue a relationship with someone else.

I can’t help but wonder what he was about to say when you told him to get out. He met someone else, which wasn’t a violation of your rules. Did that mean things were over between you two (which would make the timing of the last fuck an insult)? Or was he willing to pass on this other girl if you were ready for a relationship (which would make tossing him out before he could elaborate a mistake)? You probably should’ve heard him out.

Go ahead and reach out. Let him know that you were thinking about taking things to the next level – ughers to that phrase – before he told you about the other girl. You were starting to fall for him, you hoped he felt the same, and you were disappointed. But since he was only doing what you asked – keeping it casual – you can’t fault him for keeping his options open, looking around, dating other girls, etc. And you can’t fault him for failing to read your mind.

Close by telling him that you’d be open to dating – a real, noncasual relationship – if things don’t work out with this other girl.

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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