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email letters@nowtoronto.com Twisting by the park I must say that your Party In The Park article (NOW, July 26-August 1) is quite a twist on the opinions I expressed about weed smoking in Trinity Bellwoods. Although I did mention it, I never condoned weed smoking. Your article almost portrays me as a careless mother who puts her four-year-old daughter out there in the face of drunken debauchery. I would never immerse my daughter in an environment that could be toxic to her or her health. The sensationalism you give to the topic bastardizes the rich culture that Toronto is known for. You might need to revisit your analysis of your alleged “party.” I’d like to believe that Toronto still has peaceful communities that offer a diversity of activities and spaces where families can gather outside. Maybe your article will brand Trinity Bellwoods Park as unsafe for children and families. Let’s see what kind of demographic you’ll be left with when that happens. Marivi Barrios and Karyssa Barrios Mississauga

Fly by greenwash I’m very disappointed with Adria Vasil’s column on eco-friendly ways to travel (NOW, July 26-August 1). It read more like a promo for Porter Airlines with its references to how shorthaul flights may be more efficient than driving to Montreal. A full 78-seat Porter Q-400 may be have a better per-passenger CO2 rating but a half-empty one does not. The airport is also the largest or second-largest source of seven carcinogens in Toronto. Remember that hundreds of children live, play and go to school in the area and spend the whole day in this chemical soup. If your readers in their 20s and 30s concerned about global warming

want to see 70, they’d better change their flying habits and quickly. Barry Lipton Toronto

E-bikers taken for a ride Thank you for Adam Giambrone’s article My Parks Vision For The City (NOW, July 26-August 1). Council adopted seven key Guiding Principles for future parks planning. The seventh Guiding Principle states, “Environmentally responsible practices and green initiatives should be incorporated into the daily planning, design, operation and maintenance of City parks and trails.” Despite this, ebikes are being prohibited in city parks while their pedalling two-wheeled brethren, who can travel just as fast, continue to enjoy parks resources. City staff claim that e-bikes present a safety issue, but the same arguments used to ban the e-bike (too big, too wide, too heavy) can be used to ban cargo bicycles, bicycle trailers and other practical forms of “bike”. Lock Hughes Toronto

Education on gunplay Regarding Toronto’s Gun Violence Begins In The Classroom (NOW, July 26-August 1). I am an elementary school teacher employed by the TDSB. Students are not placed on an IEP (special education) and “stuck” with that designation, as Bairu Sium suggests, from that point forward. Students can be placed on an IEP at any point in their academic career when multiple professionals have tried a variety of in-class interventions. The goal of special education is always to reintegrate the student into the regular classroom when and if it’s possible. I don’t disagree with the author’s assertion that Ontario needs to do a better job keeping African-Canadian students engaged in school and in-

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crease graduation rates. If there’s a systemic problem, let’s go at that with everything we’ve got. But I’m not clear how the recent gun violence can be attributed to the education system. KM From nowtoronto.com

“ Ontario needs to do a better job of engaging African-Canadian students. ” Gun pushers pop off I’m not sure what’s more disturbing : what Mayor Rob Ford said about immigration and the recent gun violence or what a few of your passionate commenters online are saying in response to Five Lessons Learned from the Danzig Street shooting (NOW, July 26-August 1). I’ll have to say that it’s the mayor’s utter insensitivity that takes the cake here, because the commenters completely missed the excellent points and information in Enzo DiMatteo’s article. Thank you and keep ’em coming! Brian Young From nowtoronto.com

Another meat ribbing Thank you for your cover story on Toronto’s Best BBQ (NOW, July 19-25). My copy of 2010’s BBQ Special Issue was getting worn out, and it’s been a long

eight months since the Eat Meat cover. I appreciate these issues of NOW because they make the severe limits to your vision of “social transformation” particularly stark. I know you have encountered, and printed, arguments for ethical veganism, as well as stats on meat’s environmental impact. It appears, however, that when our city is in the throes of a meat mania, you’d rather join in the slavering than challenge your readers. David Regan Toronto

Eggs a hot potato Café Fiorentina is one of my favourite places to eat in this city, and their food is amazing! Tina and Alex are kind, talented young chefs running a lovely little café using fresh and local ingredients and serving the public good food. The bullying from city health inspectors over their heritage eggs (NOW Daily, July 24) is totally unwarranted. Thank goodness they’re so resilient! They really don’t deserve this. What they do deserve is your support. Eat at Café Fiorentina. It’s delicious. Sasha Arfin From nowtoronto.com

Cabbies a bike turnoff n Saturday, July 14, at 6:10 pm, my O 12-year-old son and I were riding north on Yonge in the bicycle lane from Queens Quay. At Lake Shore our thus-far peace-

ful and enjoyable ride was destroyed by a Beck Taxi cab honking its horn and bearing down on my son’s rear wheel. The taxi was in the bicycle lane attempting to get to some people flagging him down. I stopped and turned around to see what this fool’s problem was. I assume he was expressing displeasure with our not moving out of his way. I called Beck and lodged a complaint. Their attitude leads me to believe that my complaint will not be given a high priority. My son no longer feels safe riding his bike. I am extremely angry that this driver’s actions could end my son’s cycling experiences before they have truly begun. David Otway Toronto

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Five questions that haven’t been asked about the latest internet storm to blow up around Rob Ford – this snapshot of the mayor taken at the New Year’s Levee with Jon Latvis, former member of neo-Nazi band Rahowa, short for “racial holy war.”

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Some councillors can’t even get face time with the mayor, so how did this turkey get a sit-down with Ford, allegedly to discuss “transit” issues?

What is it with extremists and “transit” anyway? Ford’s transit adviser during the 2010 campaign, James Alcock, accepted an invitation to speak at white-rights guy Paul Fromm’s Alternative Forum. Is this Latvis business an isolated incident or a reflection of the ilk that occupies the fringes of Ford Nation? The mayors recent colour-coded musings on immigration laws and gun violence, not to mention gays, are bound to attract a few nutbars. Why are the mayor’s conservative friends at the Sun now trying to downplay Latvis’s skinhead past. That is a swastika – sorry, cross of thunder – tattooed on Latvis’s pasty white body in other shots that have appeared of him on the internet, right? Shouldn’t the dolt who set up the meeting with the mayor in the first place be fired over this?

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Number of voters whose personal information was lost by Elections Ontario after two USB keys, left on the desk of an Elections Ontario employee, mysteriously went missing in April. The loss wasn’t reported to the provincial Privacy Commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, until July. She revealed in a special report released this week that the agency failed to follow even the most basic security measures but says she is confident nothing more than the names, home addresses, dates of birth and gender of voters was contained in the USB keys. We won’t know that for sure until the OPP finish their investigation.

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[Frontlines] Enzo DiMatteo on the chief’s middle finger to Rob Ford If you weren’t listening closely, you might have missed the middle finger, symbolically speaking, of course, that police Chief Bill Blair flipped Mayor Rob Ford last week. It came during that press conference last Friday, July 27, to announce a heightened police presence in at-risk neighbourhoods post-Danzig Street shoot-up. Check the police video of the presser on YouTube. It’s definitely there, right near the end where the chief mentions, as an afterthought, that his plan to put some 329 more coppers on the street until Labour Day won’t cost the city an extra nickel. The money, he says, will come out of the current police budget. Hard to see how the two-plus mil in overtime costs Blair’s plan will cost can be accommodated under current police budget constraints. The chief’s spokesperson, Mark Pugash, says he’s confident the police can cover the added costs. But it was only a week ago that the mayor was at Queen’s Park asking the province for money that the city obviously doesn’t have to hire more cops. Viewed in that context, Blair’s temporary safety initiative reads like one big “fuck you” to the mayor. Ford has been content to squeeze the police budget and watch Blair, never his choice for chief, take the heat for the uptick in recent shooting incidents. Now it’s time for Ford to

pick up the tab, or so Blair seems to be saying. Historically, the city has given the police department extra funds for emergency expenditures or other unforeseen costs, topping up the budget at year’s end when necessary. The bottom line has never been written in stone. And who would deny the cops a little more cash to help restore their fractured relationship with affected communities as a result of the recent gunplay?

Ford has been content to watch Blair take the heat for policing cuts. Ford, for one. His administration set the police budget artificially low to create the illusion that spending was under control, while also ordering a hiring freeze on new recruits in each of the last two rounds of budget cuts. Some might argue that the scaling back of police personnel has contributed to the intelligence gap on the ground that’s left the force scrambling for clues in the Danzig shooting. Blair’s seeming open defiance of the mayor is not without political risks. But where police politics are concerned, so far Blair’s proved a more able player than knee-jerk Ford. 3

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A historic global deal to end the devastation caused by the irresponsible and poorly regulated arms trade moved a step closer at the UN, Amnesty International reported Friday, July 27.

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Custom-made bikes and bike-related memorabilia were all part of the free-wheelin’ fun at the inaugural Toronto Vintage Bicycle Show, presented by the Community Bicycle Network at Trinity Bellwoods Park on Sunday, July 29. The show attracted some 200 gearheads and passersby. Check out our slide show at nowtoronto.com/daily.

On the record In a rational world, the RCMP would investigate Enbridge, Shell and others that have a long history of violating human rights in their rush to fill their pockets. Greenpeace Canada campaigns director Yossi Cadan responds to an RCMP report detailing “criminal activity” by the group as part of a “growing radicalized environmentalist faction.” Welcome to Stephen Harper’s Canada, where civil disobedience against his buddies in Big Oil gets you labelled a radical and targeted by the cops for political repression.

The city partners with the Canadian Film Centre and iThentic to give five emerging filmmakers the chance to learn their craft with noted directors, including Jennifer Baichwal and Bruce McDonald.

Hardship Fund The emergency kitty for low-income residents in need of medical assistance has been restored – for now – after the Star revealed staff had quietly killed the $900,000 program earlier this month.

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Hollywood antics Mayor Rob Ford officially becomes a parody of himself, taking part in a photo op to promote comedians Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis’s new film, The Campaign. We have the video evidence at nowtoronto.com.

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What 1936 art deco fixture located on the former site of Montgomery Tavern where the Rebellion of 1837 was born. Proposed The fear is condos, but Canada Post, which owns the building, is currently reviewing applications. Backdrop Local Liberal MPP Mike Colle led a rally to preserve the building on Monday, July 30, but the area is held municipally by developer-friendly Karen Stintz. whose happens to be buds with Colle’s son Josh, the councillor with whom she shares Eglinton-Lawrence.

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The Irie Music Festival announces it’s cancelling its musical showcase in Yonge-Dundas Square, “in response to the security concerns arising from the recent increase in violence in Toronto.”

Stephen Harper Bruce Carson, a former top adviser to the PM with a history of fraud convictions, is charged with influence-peddling on behalf of his then fiancée, a former escort trying to sell water filters to First Nations communities.

Blood on the tracks Other cities recognize streetcar rails as a cycling hazard – so what’s with Toronto? By BEN SPURR

t’s a feeling many Toronto cyclists know all too well – the iron grip of streetcar tracks as they catch your front wheel and send you vaulting over the handlebars and down hard onto the street, into the path of passing cars. On Monday morning, July 30, Twitter was abuzz with the latest tale of track-on-tire terror, as a friend of Globe and Mail columnist Tabatha Southey told the story of how Southey was knocked unconscious and her chin split open when her wheels got snagged at a streetcar junction at Dundas and College Friday night. Southey isn’t alone. On Tuesday morning, three days before her accident, an ambulance was called to the same spot after rider Chiara Purdy wiped out under nearly identical circumstances. “I tried to turn and completely just slipped,” Purdy says. “I had to get three stitches right below my eyebrow, and I was bruised and cut all over.” She usually avoids the turn from bike lanes on Dundas to a connecting route on College because it involves traversing two sets of tracks at difficult angles while pointing downhill. “It’s incredibly dangerous,” she says. Because the city only records bike accidents that involve other vehicles, it’s difficult to know how many cyclists are taken out by Toronto’s streetcar network. But preliminary data from a University of British Columbia study determined in 2010 that up to one-third of all bicycle accidents in Toronto involve streetcar rails. Glen Bandiera, chief of emergency medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital, says his ER sees several streetcartrack casualties every week. The numbers increase after rainfalls,

which make the rails dangerously slick. “It’s certainly not the most common [cause of bike accidents], but it is definitely a significant cause,” Bandiera says. Despite the frequency of accidents, cyclists seem to accept that T.O.’s 90year-old streetcar network is a hazard they must learn to live with. The shortage of safety measures to keep bikers out of the rail lines’ jaws is generally not viewed as a failure of planning or policy. There are no activist campaigns to pressure the city about the issue, and information from leading advocacy group Cycle Toronto puts the onus on riders, advising them to practise crossing the rails at perpendicular angles to avoid getting snagged. Other cities’ riders are more militant about track threats, however. In several U.S. towns where cyclists are less accustomed to the risks of rails, the recent construction of streetcar lines has provoked outcry and even court action. In 2007, the opening ceremony for Seattle’s South Lake Union streetcar line was crashed by protesters, many of whom were still nursing injuries from encounters with the newly laid rails. Three years later six riders filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Seattle after they suffered broken jaws, teeth and arms while riding over the SLU. “When the streetcar first opened, people were just crashing left and right,” says Bob Anderton, the lawyer who filed the suit. A judge eventually dismissed the case, but due in part to the resulting publicity, Seattle’s next streetcar line, opening this fall, will come with physically separated bike lanes that continued on page 15 œ

Cleaning Up Our Waterways: The Don River and Central Waterfront Project Municipal Class Environmental Assessment - Notice of Study Completion The City of Toronto has completed a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Study to advance the recommendations of the City’s Wet Weather Flow Master Plan (approved by City Council in 2003) to capture and treat polluted stormwater and combined sewer overflows (CSO’s) that are discharged to the Don River and Central Waterfront. This will help to improve water quality and our environment. In addition, necessary upgrades have been identified to the City’s critical sanitary trunk sewer infrastructure within the study area to improve operations and service future growth. The study has defined the problems/opportunities, identified and evaluated alternatives, and determined a preferred solution and design in consultation with the City of Toronto, regulatory agencies, and the public. The City has accepted the consultant’s recommendations regarding the preferred solution and design, including the following project components: Sanitary Trunk Sewer System l A Lower Don/Coxwell Bypass Tunnel that will be used on a contingency basis as a bypass to the existing Coxwell Sanitary Trunk Sewer (STS) allowing for periodic maintenance and any necessary repairs of the Coxwell STS, l Four underground storage tanks for offline storage of peak sanitary flows where additional capacity is needed. l Upgrades to the North Toronto Treatment Plant (NTTP). Wet Weather Flow Collection and Storage System l Three integrated tunnels (Lower Don/Coxwell Bypass Tunnel, Taylor Massey Creek Tunnel, and Inner Harbour Tunnel) connected to an equivalent of 15 underground vertical storage shafts that will collect and store wet weather flows and convey these flows to a new wet weather flow treatment facility. l Three underground storage tanks for offline storage of wet weather flows from four remote outfall locations. Treatment of Collected Wet Weather Flow l A new wet weather treatment facility that will provide high-rate treatment of wet weather flows and will be located on future lakefill in the waterlot south of the existing Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant. l A new pumping station in Ashbridges Grove Park with forcemains connecting to the new wet weather flow treatment facility. l Retrofit of an existing CSO tank at the North Toronto Treatment Plant. Opportunities for Review The study was carried out following the requirements for Schedule ‘C’ projects under the Municipal Class EA. An Environmental Study Report (ESR) has been completed and placed on public record for a 45-day review period starting August 10, 2012 and ending September 24, 2012. The ESR will be available for review on the project website at www.toronto.ca/cleanwaterways and at the following locations: Beaches Library 2161 Queen St. E. 416 393 7703

Leaside Library 165 McRae Dr. 416 396 3835

City Hall Library 100 Queen St. W. 416 393 7650

St Lawrence Library 171 Front St. E. 416 393 7655

If you have any outstanding issues about this project, please address them to the City staff listed below and we will attempt to seek a mutually acceptable resolution. James Yacoumidis, Policy, Planning and Project Consultant City of Toronto, Metro Hall, 18th Fl., 55 John St., Toronto, ON M5V 3C6 Tel: 416-392-8834 Fax: 416-338-2828 TTY: 416-397-0831 E-mail: cleanwaterways@toronto.ca or Visit: toronto.ca/cleanwaterways If concerns regarding this project cannot be resolved in discussion with the City of Toronto, a person or party may request that the Ontario Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments. The Minister must receive the request in writing by September 24, 2012 at the address below, and a copy must also be sent to the City contact. If no requests are received by September 24, 2012, the City may proceed with this project as outlined in the Environmental Study Report. The Honourable Jim Bradley Minister of the Environment 77 Wellesley St. W., Ferguson Block, 11th Fl., Toronto, ON M7A 2T5 Issue Date: August 2, 2012 Information will be collected in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. With the exception of personal information, all comments will become part of the public record.

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With hundreds of buildings under construction, the city is changing before our eyes. It’s getting harder by the day to envision the Toronto that once was. Sometimes the connection to the past gets really clear, as it did for the residents who protested this week to preserve Postal Station K, an art deco building on the site of the old Montgomery’s Inn, the seat of the 1837 rebellion. But in general, we are losing the city’s history on a regular basis as a consequence of neglect or development. Our lax heritage regime just isn’t doing its job. One problem is that it isn’t under enough citizen pressure. It’s often difficult to focus public attention because so much of our history is no longer visible. Compare this to Sudan, where I go often to do archaeological work. There the temples and buildings we excavate can often be seen on the surface – the pyramids at Meroe, for example, are standing after more than 1,600 years because of the dry climate and a lack of development. But Toronto, too, has a rich cultural heritage going back hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of years, though much is beyond our reach. As a consequence of natural and human-made changes to our waterfront, for example, a great deal of our aboriginal heritage won’t be retrievable. Blame some of this on the changing shoreline of our lake over the last 11,000 years. After Lake Iroquois (the old name for a larger Lake Ontario with its edge still visible between Davenport and St. Clair) broke through and flowed out the St. Lawrence river, water levels dropped, creating a waterfront 20 kilometres south of where it is today. Then over time, the lake slowly rose to a point where its edge was at Front Street. Subsequent landfilling pushed the lakeshore to its modern location in the late 19th and 20th century. Most aboriginal settlements were close to bodies of water for food and transportation reasons. But with the natural shoreline getting covered by fill

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We need to understand why a small British garrison town developed into one of the most multicultural cities in the world so we can better plan for T.O.’s continued evolution. or water, many of the first people’s major sites are now gone. The largest ones we know about mostly date, at the earliest, from the 17th century and the contact with Europeans, like aboriginal town sites, Teiaiagon at Baby Point overlooking the Humber and Ganatsekwyagon on the Rouge. Then there are the mostly temporary camp sites, like the one found a few years ago at Withrow Public School. In addition to our First Nation heritage, there are sites (many lost) that mark the presence of 17th- and 18th-century European traders, including the three French forts built on the western waterfront. One of these is the 18th-century Fort Rouillé, the remains of which were recently discovered at Exhibition Place. The amazing thing is that while much of the city’s land has been disturbed over time, a huge amount of it with archaeological potential remains. In 2005 the city began to implement the Archaeological Management Plan, which has a useful online tool for property owners or residents wishing to understand the historical potential of a piece of property – check the archaeological maps at toronto.ca and see how much history there is left to uncover. Those developing the maps reviewed historical documents to identify past dwellings and applied knowledge of where aboriginal settlements were typically located, taking into consideration nearness to water sources, the elevation of the land and the nature of the soil.

The danger, though, is that without more emphasis and resources, many important finds will be ploughed under by developers, despite regulations that if major artifacts are discovered, builders have to excavate. Archaeological assessments are not overly expensive – under $5,000 for most sites – and certainly within the budget of multi-million-dollar development projects. History is on the edge of being recovered all the time. The foundations and remains of the first Parliament site just east of Berkeley and south of Front were recently discovered under a parking lot. During construction of the Shangri-La condo at University and Adelaide in 2008, the buried foundations of the Bishop’s Block, a 19th-century townhouse project, revealed themselves and were excavated. About 130 banker’s boxes of artifacts were found including glass bottles, ceramics and children’s toys. Even in an area greatly altered, there is still potential for the recovery of things past. But we need to have good laws and resources to help property owners protect heritage – it takes money and expertise to do it right. Ontario got its first professional government archaeologist in 1888, but today such a post does not exist in Toronto. A chief municipal archaeologist could encourage residents to promote the protection of artifacts, and allow us to understand the reasons why a small British garrison town chosen for its defensive location prospered and developed into one of the most multicultural cities in the world. If we fully grasp this, perhaps we can better plan for Toronto’s continued evolution. There is a rich history under our soil and in our structures, but city governments haven’t always been good at revealing or protecting it. Council needs to find the resources so coming generations don’t fault us. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

RECOVERING T.O.’S PAST What the city needs to do:

1|HIRE A PERMANENT STAFF ARCHAEOLOGIST to coordinate excavations and curate a collection of artifacts. Though developers are required to do excavations if significant archaeological remains are found, the firms doing the work often keep the findings. They belong to all of us.

2|GET TOUGH with landowners letting a building decay in order to avoid heritage restrictions. Ensure the Heritage Property Standards bylaws have teeth. The idea is to be proactive and if necessary fund the preservation of the building by jacking up the owner’s tax bill. 3|BE GENEROUS WITH REBATES The city issues fewer than 30 Heritage Property Tax Rebates rebates yearly to residents for restoration of their properties. Not really enough, since Toronto has added approximately 6,000 buildings to the Heritage Inventory since 2000.

4|TIE CASH TO A PROMISE The city should ensure a historic building is protected for all time by getting those receiving public money for restoration to sign an agreement committing to long-term preservation. 5|PUMP UP THE GRANTS Currently developers can get city money to restore the front of a historical building, but grants for the other parts of the structure are so paltry that typically just the front is preserved. Time to reverse the trend of facadism.

6|MAKE THE PAST OFFICIAL Revise the Official Plan to ensure that cultural heritage landscapes are preserved.

7|KEEP HISTORY IN THE ’HOOD Develop more detailed policies for the identification, designation and protection of Heritage Conservation Districts.

8|BE FLEET OF FOOT IN EMERGENCIES The city needs protocols to deal with threats to heritage buildings and archaeological sites from floods, fires or development pressures.

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keep riders out of the way of trams. Sharrows have also been painted on the existing line to show riders the safest angles at which to cross. In Portland, another bike-friendly city building streetcar lines, bike lanes swerve to cross curving trolley tracks at right angles, and twostage crossings known as “Copen hagen lefts” allow riders to safely make left turns in two signal intervals. At other intersections, bike-only left-turn lanes to the right of car left-turn lanes permit riders to traverse the tracks at less dangerous angles. Portland has also erected signs warning riders of particularly treacherous tracks, as has Washington, DC. In Toronto, however, few safety measures have been taken, despite the city boasting the largest streetcar network in North America and a growing cycling population. Precautions have been taken on

the city’s inner-city railroad crossings, some of which have been fitted with compressible rubber strips called flange fillers that are inserted into the rails so bike tires don’t get caught. But TTC spokesperson Brad Ross says the commission is not aware of any situation where flange fillers have been used successfully on streetcar tracks, and warns they could interfere with the electrical current that powers the trams. While Cycle Toronto campaign director Jared Kolb concedes that his organization has done little research on the issue, he thinks more could be done to mitigate the danger posed by trolley tracks. “As it stands, the city has done a relatively poor job of providing for the needs of cyclists crossing streetcar tracks,” he says. Kolb believes accidents could be avoided by creating two-stage intersection crossings, building more physically separated bike lanes and removing on-street parking to give riders more room between the tracks and the curb. Councillor Mike Layton thinks that on-street sharrows showing safe angles to cross tracks might be the

best way to go. “Sometimes you don’t know what angle you should be going on,” says Layton, an avid cyclist. “Whenever you get two junctions of streetcar tracks it gets really confusing.” Layton intends to take the idea to the citizen cycling advisory committee he facilitates, with a view to possibly bringing forward a motion at the Public Works committee in the fall. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

TIPS FOR STAYING OFF-TRACK • Slow down • Always cross rails at as close to a 90 degree angle as possible, while being sure to shoulder-check and signal • Take extra care during wet conditions when rails are slippery • Consider a ride with fatter tires • If not confident about making a left turn, cross the intersection in two stages • When in doubt, dismount and walk T:9.833”

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he defining moment at the July 26 presser to announce the findings of John Tory’s advisory panel on the future of Ontario Place: the man of the hour, Tory, doing a slow burn as NDP MPP Rosario Marchese raised the spectre, in a scrum with reporters, of developers erecting a wall of condos on the shuttered waterfront park. On its face, Marchese’s appraisal may seem a little over the top. Tory’s panel actually recommends giving over no more than 15 per cent of the 39-hectare site to residential development. But condos form only part of the “live, work, play” space Tory’s panel envisions. A hotel and resort have also been thrown into the mix as possible anchors for the site, despite plans to build a hotel on the Exhibition Place grounds across the street. A revamped forum, a possible educational institute, shops and other venues that “amuse and delight,” to use Tory’s words, have also been floated as part of the recom-

mendations. Sounds palatable. But Marchese, who represents the area that includes Ontario Place, is right to be leery. The deck was stacked in favour of private sector investment from the get-go, it seems. Tory’s plan is clearly premised on private investment leading the way. Tory said during Thursday’s press conference that his advisory team went into the future-visioning exercise anticipating no government money in any redevelopment plans. In fact, Tory’s report states categorically that “the renewed Ontario Place can only become financially sustainable and operationally efficient by leveraging the investments and expertise of the private sector.” And we’re not just talking about corporate naming rights and wellmeaning philanthropists picking up the tab. Tory’s report makes a more ominous reference to “a shift away from the identity of Ontario Place as primarily a public sector entity.” It quotes from the Drummond report on the province’s “current fiscal reality” (read: we’re broke, folks) to make the argument for public-private partnerships. Those could include the non-profit sector, but let’s not kid ourselves. It’s big biz that has the kind of coin that Tory’s talking about to remake Ontario Place. The devil in this proposed revamp is in the fine print. Exhibit A: Tory has expressed a personal preference

for saving architect Eberhard Zeidler’s iconic Cinesphere and related pods, but only if the structures can “feasibly” be included in redevelopment plans. Exhibit B: Things get trickier on the western half of the site, where Tory proposes locating the residential development. There, Tory’s report makes no recommendations on water lots over the lake that were never developed when the park was built back in the 70s, leaving the possibility open to more residential development than even he envisions. Tory’s attempt to put the future of Ontario Place in the hands of private interests should raise alarm. Private investments in waterfront development have a poor track record. There are more mistakes by the lake than we care to count. These projects have not only cut people off from the water, but also forever undermine innovative growth on huge stretches of the lakeshore. In addition, questions still remain about the province’s reasons for closing the waterfront attraction in the first place in 2010, when it was still turning a marginal profit despite poor attendance. Was it a case of utter neglect? Lack of investment? A provincial government not interested in partnering with the Ontario Place board to make the park a success? Or all of the above? Provincial plans were afoot only a

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year earlier, in 2009, to return the site to its former glory, “to revitalize Ontario Place as the flagship of a new era in Ontario tourism,” according to a report by the Ministry of Tourism and Culture. At the time, the world’s first freshwater biodiversity centre was being contemplated for the site, as well as twinning Ontario Place with nearby Fort York and the Exhibition Grounds to create a “permanent, global world’s fair.” That idea was championed by Liberal MPP Glen Murray while he was with the Canadian Urban Institute. Other worthwhile proposals have included moving the Ontario Science Centre to the Ontario Place site. It’s unclear what Tory’s report will mean for the future of the park. Michael Chan, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, issued a statement before Friday’s press conference stating that the government “is committed to ensuring that future generations of Ontarians have access to the water’s edge.” But bankers and developers have been circling ever since the park was closed. A Request for Information issued by the Ontario Place Corporation to test interest in the site attracted some 35 development proposals – none of which can apparently be shared with the public for proprietary reasons, according to one provincial government spokesperson. There is room for improvement on the site. Parking lots and administrative offices take up far too much precious space. Tory’s report makes reference to shifting tourism interests to explain Ontario Place’s precipitous decline, blaming the emergence of theme parks in the 905 like Canada’s Wonderland and Wild Water Kingdom for

its shrinking attendance. The reasoning seems facile. The government’s and park board’s inaction no doubt contributed to its fall from grace, but there are also factors beyond Ontario Place’s control: the continued economic slowdown, transportation and access issues, the fallout from the G20 mayhem in 2010, not to mention cuts to its advertising and operations budget. Yet despite the resulting drop in gate numbers, $12.9 million in revenues and a net profit of $237,000 was generated in 2010, Ontario Place’s last year of full operation. Not gangbusters, mind you, but certainly showing some potential for improvement before the province closed the gates. Who knows what the future might have held if the Liberals, as well as the previous Harris government, had intervened to stop a decline that’s been two decades in the making? Neighbourhoods around the site have experienced exponential growth due to condo intensification, so the population base that was never there before now exists to help Ontario Place make a go of it. There are financial obstacles, chief among them the lack of public transit to the site, which could cost in the area of $100 million to remedy. Millions more will need to be spent on repairs. But what of the huge public investment in Ontario Place? When it was built back in 1971, Progressive Conservative premier John Robarts called it a “spiritual home, a touchstone of stability, a place where people come, see and reflect upon their society that has been created in Ontario.” Robarts must be rolling in his grave. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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rall aboard the MInIature traIn (Toronto Firefighters’ Toy Drive) Tour the plaza by train and raise money for kids. 11 am-5 pm. $3. Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills, at Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca.

GaIa – the earth lIke you’ve never seen It beFore (One Drop) Exhibition of large-scale photographs that follow the experience of Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté’s experience on board the International Space Station. To Sep 3. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com.

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(Mindfulness Without Borders/Hospice Toronto) The band performs in memory of bandmate Reid Diamond. 8 & 11 pm. $20. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

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conFessIons underGround This videobased art installation of public confessions can be viewed on TTC platform screens throughout the city to Jul 15. Free. confessionunderground.com. craFt beer FestIval Beer sampling, barbecue nibbles and entertainment. 7 pm. $35, stu $30. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca. 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 centre suMMer caMps

One- two- and four-week day camps for kids three to 17 include culinary arts, glee club, digital media and much more. To Aug 31. $195-$875. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/camps.

reducInG the Global cancer burden: InquIre and InspIre Lecture by professor Ab-

dallah Darr. 8 am. Free. Princess Margaret Hospital, 6th fl Auditorium, 610 University. emily.milne@rmp.uhn.on.ca. 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/thursdays/index. htm. thInGs that Go buMp In the nIGht Astronomy talk on variable signals from the sky,

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rIrIe MusIc FestIval Family-friendly

festival celebrating reggae, salsa, gospel, soul and African music, spoken word, art, film and food. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. iriemusicfestival.com. Aug 3 to 6 rIsland soul Caribbean festival with live music, dance, storytelling and more, with Duane Stephenson, Caribbean Folk Performers and others, a mas carnival parade, drumming workshops and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 3 to 6 sound travels Festival of sound art with a soundwalk, indoor and outdoor performances, installations, a symposium and more. Concerts $10-$15, symposium $35-$75, intensive $175. Pre-register soundtravels.ca. Aug 4 to 31 veld MusIc FestIval Performances by Avicii, Nicky Romero, Swanky Tunes, AN21, Bassnectar, Deadmaus and many others. Twoday pass $166-$383. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall, near Keele and Sheppard. veldmusicfestival.com. Aug 4 and 5 followed by telescope observing. 9:10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. uoft.me/astrotours. 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. runderpass park openInG The city’s new urban park in the West Don Lands opens today with a ceremony. 10-11 am. Free. S of King under Eastern and Richmond/Adelaide overpasses (access from River). 416-214-1344 ext 276. 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

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the hours that reMaIn (New Harlem Productions/Saskatchewan Native Theatre Co) Celebration of Keith Barker’s play with music by Aqua, performances by Belladonna, Tara Beagan and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille Cabaret Space, 16 Ryerson. newharlemproductions.wordpress.com.

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cattle drovers traIl: syMes road to tory hIll (Mt dennIs) Urban ecology walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Dundas and Runnymede. 416-5932656. collector’s nIGhts Museum tour and tips on collecting Inuit art, plus wine and hors d’oeuvres. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Pre-register miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite.com.

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festival of all things Caribbean features musical performances, the Grand Parade, art exhibits and 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. 416921-9797, openrooffestival.com. To Aug 23

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International classical music festival. $26 and up. Edward Johnson Building (80 Queen’s Park), RCM Koerner Hall (273 Bloor W), Hart House (7 Hart House Circle. torontosummermusic.com. To Aug 4

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

Guided walking tour. 10 pm. $15. S side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Pk. Preregister muddyyorktours.com.

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Interactive show of laughs, magic and circus feats. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. rMad about FIshes Celebration of all things wet and wild with tours and more. To Aug 6, 9:30 am-6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. rsIMcoe day lonG Weekend Historic buildings tours, exhibits, historic treats and more. Today to Aug 5, noon-7 pm; Aug 6 noon-6 pm. Donation. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807. Wonder WoMen Artistic self-esteem workshop for women. 5 pm. Free. Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre, 3650 Dixie. 416458-9721.

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bIkInG For bellIes (Thorncliffe Park Public

School meal program) 200K ride up to and through the Kawarthas. Today and tomorrow. 80 Thorncliffe Park. 416-396-2460.

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ner of Bloor and High Park. manhunttoronto.wordpress.com. coFFee WIth spIrIt Meet other spiritual seekers in a casual environment. 10 am. Free. Hermit’s Lamp, 398 Vaughan. 647-286-8739. culture & caMpus tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

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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 of the hotel. 1 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. reId bazaar Organization of South Asian Art & Culture bazaar, with fashions, jewellery, henna, food and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-11 pm. Free. Albert Campbell Square, 150 Borough. 647-886-6427. 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. Pre-register 416923-6813.

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Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/ srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. artIsans at the dIstIllery Art, pottery, textiles, clothing, wood, gourmet food and more. To Aug 6, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. capture the FlaG Urban game, similar to tag or hide-and-seek. 8:30 pm. Free. Cor-

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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. queen West WalkInG art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. the really really Free Market Community space for sharing clothes, toys, music, furniture, artisan goods, services and 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.

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Sunday, August 5 hIstorIc Garden tours Guided tour of Spadina’s 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. 416-586-5797. 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 416923-6813.

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, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. steve lobel Talk by the hip-hop manager plus musical performances by RazFresco, JaiJones and others. 4 pm. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. sunday antIque Market Outdoor market with vintage jewellery, books, Victorian sterling, furniture, architec-

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women CuLTivaTors – besT HigH-FLying Crop growers – garden siTes Urban ecology walk. 6:45 pm. Free. Dundas West subway. 416-593-2656. 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 rCiTy buiLding: simCoe To skysCrapers

Tour highlighting the founding of York and the fortification and development of the harbour. 11 am. Free. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907. CiviC HoLiday Canoe Tour Tour the Toronto Islands in a historical voyageur canoe. Noon-3 pm. $30. Harbourfront Canoe and Kayak Centre, 283A Queens Quay W. 416-993-4224. danCing in THe Town square Learn the latest steps and moves in Latin dance. 7 pm. Free. Shops at Don Mills, Don Mills and Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca. drawing From THe modeL Life drawing sessions with a model take place every Mon. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-3926810. eyes on queen wesT Interactive talk show, featuring Stephen Eyes interviewing LA Complex’s Ennis Esmer and Joe Dinicol, plus comedians Debra Digiovanni and Trevor Boris and music from Vag Halen. 8 pm. $13-$18. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Live CuriosiTy mars Landing parTy Celebrate the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity Rover with live play-by-play video and narration, interviews with scientists and more. 8 pm-2 am. $20. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. marsparty.ca. rsimCoe day aT ForT york A historic parade, tours, musketry demos, cannon firing, live music, exhibits and more. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-3926907. rsimCoe day aT gibson House Historic house tours, kids’ activities, homemade ice cream and more. Noon-5 pm. Pwyc. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-225-0146.

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Paddle 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/ beyondblackboards. diaLeCTiCaL naTuraLism Foundation for Social Economics four-week workshop. 7-9 pm. $60 sugg. OISE, rm 5-260, 252 Bloor W. Preregister thefse@thefse.org.

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.

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Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. drop-in CLay CLass A class for all skills levels happens weekly. 6 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

rearTH rangers – bringing baCk THe wiLd Presentation on the urgent challenges

facing global biodiversity, with videos and live animal appearances. Wednesdays and Thursdays through the summer. 10:30 & 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-5797. Free FLiCks: wHip iT Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 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/ wednesdays.index.htm. Hidden Treasures ii Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. $10. Call for location and to reserve. 416-586-5799, rom.on.ca. How-To oF worm ComposTing Workshop on making indoor worm composters for your home or office. 6 pm. $20 sliding scale. Eglinton Park Community Garden, 200 Eglinton W. Pre-register torontogreen.ca.

NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

Forever known as the band behind that catchy Kids In The Hall TV show theme, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet perform two shows to raise funds for Mindfulness Without Borders and Hospice Toronto, all in memory of their late bandmate Reid Diamond. Tonight (Thursday, August 2) at the Cameron House, 408 Queen West. 416703-0811.

Toronto Climate Campaign has joined the worldwide Fast For The Earth, intending to focus on the tar sands. The aim is to have someone fasting every day somewhere on the planet. The Wednesday (August 8) local kickoff features To The Tar Sands, a doc about an 1,800 km bike tour to Fort McMurray and a talk by participant Shawn Khan. 6:30 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. climatechangetoronto@gmail.com.

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The Canadian government, it’s just been revealed, is worried that enviro protests could “landlock” Alberta bitumen. As part of an attempt to keep the pressure on, the

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Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet’s Dallas Good (left), Don Pyle and Brian Connelly hit the Cameron tonight (Thursday, August 2).

clean city air and battle climate change. Featured are urban forest expert Joris Voeten of SHFT, a sustainable design firm in Tilburg, Holland, and Jelle Vonk of ZinCo Canada Inc. Thursday, August 9, 5:30 pm. $30. Carrot Common, 2nd floor, 348 Danforth. greenroofs.org.

miCrosoFT word 2010 advanCed FunCTions Online resources and computer tools workshop. 6:30 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Services, 7220 Kennedy, unit 8 (Markham). Pre-register rex.liu@ welcomecentre.ca.

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Ghostly tour and tales of Financial and Entertainment district bldgs. 6:30 pm. $25, srs/ stu $18, child $15. Old City Hall (front steps), 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. rrouge park guided waLks Explore the park’s trails Wednesdays and weekends to Aug 29. Free. 905-713-3184, rougepark.com/ hike.

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Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. David Pecault Square, behind 55 John. tiff.net. To THe Tar sands A screening of the documentary about an 1,800K bike tour to Fort McMurray, plus an intro by participant Shawn Khan and other speakers, marks the start of a worldwide Fast For The Earth initiative. 6:30 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. climatechangetoronto@gmail. com, fastfortheearth.com.

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Cers Ojibway dancers. 7 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto.ca/parks/events/zukerman-theatre. htm. green rooF gaTHering Discussion on new green roof technology, with Joris Voeten of Dutch sustainable design firm SHFT and others. 5:30 pm. $30. Carrot Common, 2nd fl, 348 Danforth. greenroofs.org. LeaH bobeT Teens meet the writer of the novel Above. 4 pm. Free. Centennial Library, 578 Finch W. 416-395-5490. reduCing THe gLobaL CanCer burden: inquire and inspi re Lecture by surgeon Peter

Kingham. 8 am. Free. Princess Margaret Hospital, 6th fl Auditorium, 610 University. emily.milne@rmp.uhn.on.ca. Keenleyside talks about how he started writing travel/recipe books. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-3955440.

TaoisT Tai CHi inTernaTionaL awareness day Demonstrations of Taoist internal arts, a dragon dance and parade. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. taoist.org.

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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 and Tuesdays 5:30 pm. Free. West end of the garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontomusicgarden.ca.

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stylenotes The week’s news, views and sales DRY CLEAN DISH

A new laundry service has arrived in Toronto to help the dry-cleaning-dependant. Urban Hamper offers customers who live between Lake Ontario and Eglinton, from Parkside to the Beach, the convenience of dropping off their dirty duds at a neighbourhood location or condo building bin and having the clean clothing delivered back to their home within 24 hours. Prices range from $2.75 for a laundered shirt to $23.50 for a duvet cleaning. Check out urbanhamper.com for more info.

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What to buy now? It’s the height of summer sale season, and that means there are some pretty sweet deals out there. Here are five of the best.

FASHION FUNDER The lineup for September 9’s Fashion Cares 25 fundraiser (fashioncares.com) has been announced. Headliner Elton John will be joined by Janelle Monáe, Scissor Sisters and Sky Ferreria on the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts stage. Supermodel Linda Evangelista along with designers Dean and Dan Caten will host the style and music extravaganza including a fashion show featuring labels like Greta Constantine, Gareth Pugh, Mercy, Pink Tartan and the Blondes.

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TWEED ON WHEELS Some cyclists like to pedal as vigorously as possible while others take a more leisurely approach. Toronto’s Tweed Ride (tweedridetoronto.com), a benefit for Bicycles Without Borders, is definitely for the latter. On September 22, participants are invited to dress in their finest tweeds for a relaxed ride through the city that includes a high tea break and a swinging party. Registration is $20 to $40 and prizes range from a Bobbin bicycle for anyone who raises over $1,000 to Brooks bags and Yakkay helmets for riders chosen as the Most Distinguished Chap or with the Most Awe-Inspiring Mustache.

SWEET DEAL It’s summer clearance sale time at Lavish & Squalor (253 Queen West, 416-530-0003, lavishandsqualor.com) and the store is offering some extra incentives to get you shopping. On Friday and Saturday (August 3 and 4), stop by between 5 and 7 pm for complimentary drinks upstairs in the CityBar. Also on Saturday, espresso shots to fuel your deal hunting are just a buck. 3

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1. A smart sofa All sectionals, couches, chairs and ottomans are 20 per cent off until August 19 at Style Garage (938 Queen West, 416-534-4343, stylegarage.com). That includes new options like this Atwood sofa upholstered in bright Muskoka Surf fabric ($1,720 on sale).

2. Fresh boots Believe it or not, you can track down fantastic fall footwear at the beginning of August that isn’t fresh on the shelf or, therefore, full-priced. Aldo’s Adames style ($62.99 on sale, 50 Bloor West, 416-921-9763, and others, aldoshoes.com) comes in a rainbow of colours and neutrals.

3. Patio pleasers There’s still a good six weeks of guaranteed al fresco entertaining weather left, but retailers are ready to clear out their patio party stock. CB2’s (651

Queen West, 416-3662828, cb2.com) discounted offerings include outdoor furniture covers, terracotta oil lamps and this bright, striped outdoor rug ($39.95 on sale).

4. Local fashion It’s true that Toronto-made clothing can be pricier than a feast of fast fashion from the mall, but sale season levels the playing field a bit. Now’s the time to search out great locally designed deals like Virginia Johnson’s 100 per cent linen lobster-print, V-neck shift dress ($73.75 on sale, 970 College, 416-516-3366, virginiajohnson.com).

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ARIES Mar 21 | Apr 19 The astrological

omens suggest that you now have a lot in common with the legendary Most Interesting Man in the World – adventurous, unpredictable, interesting, lucky, one-of-a-kind. To create your horoscope, I have therefore borrowed a few selected details from his ad campaign’s descriptions of him. Here we go: In the coming weeks, you will be the life of parties you don’t even attend. Astronauts will be able to see your charisma from outer space. Up to one-third of your body weight will be gravitas. Your cellphone will always have good reception, even in a subway 100 feet underground. Panhandlers will give you money. You could challenge your reflection to a staring contest – and win. You’ll be able to keep one eye on the past while looking into the future. When you sneeze, God will say, “God bless you.”

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TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim said the dreams we have at night are “the result of inner pressures which have found no relief, of problems which beset a person to which he knows no solution and to which the dream finds none.” That sounds bleak, doesn’t it? If it’s true, why even bother to remember our dreams? Well, because we are often not consciously aware of the feelings they reveal to us. By portraying our buried psychic material in story form, dreams give us insight into what we’ve been missing. So even though they may not provide a solution, they educate us. Take heed, Taurus! Your upcoming dreams will provide useful information you can use to fix one of your longstanding dilemmas. GEMINI May 21 | Jun 20 When French

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3471 Yonge, 647-348-1119, greenbeauty.ca Donna Bishop’s Green Beauty concept has grown up so fast! What started as an online store selling eco-friendly cosmetics, bath and body buys in 2009 has morphed into an uptown shop, salon and spa devoted to going green from head-to-toe. Looking around the two-storey space, you wouldn’t necessarily guess that you’re in a place that focuses on sustainable skin care, hairstyling, facials and more. Staff offer you a cold glass of coconut water as soon as you arrive, and the cushy mani-pedi chairs and luxe treatment rooms prove you can still be properly pampered while being eco-friendly. The green proof is in the products they use: a facial is built around Consonant’s scent-free lineup, and nails get painted up with non-toxic Butter London polishes. Hair clippings are even collected by a company that reuses them to soak up petroleum after an oil spill. Green Beauty picks: Bishop’s favourite summer makeup hue is Vapour Organ-

ic Beauty’s blush in Courtesan berry pink, $28; the Consonant facial includes a deep cleanse, exfoliating steam, head massage and more, $95; the store’s newest shampoo option is O’right’s green tea formula, $32. Look for: A new roof deck opening next summer. Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30 am to 6 pm, Thursday and Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm, Saturday 8:30 am to 4 pm.

composer Georges Auric scored the soundtrack for Jean Cocteau’s movie Blood Of A Poet, he produced “love music for love scenes, game music for game scenes, and funeral music for funeral scenes.” But Cocteau himself had a different idea about how to use Auric’s work. For the love scenes he decided to use the funeral music, for the game scenes the love music and for the funeral scenes the game music. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Gemini, I recommend that you experiment with that style of mixing and matching. Have fun! (Source: A Ned Rorem Reader, by Ned Rorem.)

CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened any more,” wrote A. A. Milne in his kids’ story Winnie-thePooh. That’s my prescription for how to evade the worrisome fantasies that are nipping at you, Cancerian. If no one has invited you to do some engaging and important labour of love, invite yourself. You need to be needed – even more than usual. P.S. Here’s what Rumi advises: “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22 You’ve been making

pretty good progress in the School of Life. By my estimates, you’re now the equivalent of a sophomore. You’ve mastered enough lessons so that you can no longer be considered a freshman, and yet you’ve got a lot more to learn. Are you familiar with the etymology of the word “sophomore”? It comes from two Greek words meaning “wise” and “fool.” That’ll be a healthy way to think about yourself in the coming weeks. Be smart enough to know what you don’t know. Cultivate the voracious curiosity necessary to lead you to the next rich teachings.

VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22 A few years ago, a

Malaysian man named Lim Boon Hwa arranged to have himself “cooked.” For 30 minutes, he sat on a board covering a pan full of simmering dumplings and corn. The fact that no harm came to him was proof, he said, that Taoist devotees like him are protected by their religion’s deities. I advise you not to try a stunt like that, Virgo – including metaphorical versions. This is no time to stew in your own juices. Or boil in your tormented fantasies. Or broil in your nagging doubts. Or be grilled in your self-accusations. You need to be free from the parts of your mind that try to cook you.

LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22 On a spring day in 1973, an engineer named Martin Cooper debuted the world’s first cellphone. He placed a call as he walked along a New York City street. The phone weighed two and a half pounds and resembled a brick. Later he joked that no one would be able to talk very long on his invention, since it took a lot of strength to hold it against one’s ear. Think of how far that amazing device has come since then, Libra. Now imagine some important aspect of your own life that is in a rather primitive state at this moment but could one day be as natural and fully developed as cellphones have become. Are you willing to work hard to make that happen? Now’s a good time to intensify your commitment. SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21 In the coming

week, you will lose some clout and selfcommand if you’re too hungry for power. Likewise, if you act too brazenly intelligent, you may alienate potential helpers who are not as mentally well-endowed as you. One other warning, Scorpio: Don’t be so fiercely reasonable that you miss the emotional richness that’s available. In saying these things, I don’t mean to sound as if I’m advising you to dumb yourself down and downplay your strengths. Not at all. Rather, I’m trying to let you know that the best way to get what you really need is to tailor your self-expression to the unique circumstances you find yourself in.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21 For a

while, French writer Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in a place that had no heat and almost no furniture. To enhance his environment, he resorted to the use of fantasy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote the words “rosewood paneling with ornamental cabinet.” On another, he wrote, “Gobelin tapestry with Venetian mirror.” Over the empty fireplace he declared, “Picture by Raphael.” That’s the level of imaginative power I encourage you to summon in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So much of what you’ll need will come from that simple magic.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19 It’s an excellent time to overthrow false gods and topple small-minded authorities and expose fraudulent claims. Anyone and anything in your environment that do not fully deserve the power they claim should get the brunt of your exuberant skepticism. When you’re done cleaning up those messes, turn your attention to your own inner realms. There might be some good work to be done there. Can you think of any hypocrisy that needs fixing? Any excessive self-importance that could use some tamping down? Any pretending that would benefit from a counter dose of authenticity? AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18 In old China,

people used to cool themselves by sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath, they buffed the excess water from their skin by using a wet towel. When greeting a friend, they shook their own hand instead of the friend’s. To erect a new house, they built the roof first. You’re currently in a phase of your astrological cycle when this kind of behavior makes sense. In fact, I suspect you’re most likely to have a successful week if you’re ready to reverse your usual way of doing things on a regular basis.

PISCES Feb 19| Mar 20 I’m really tired of

you not getting all of the appreciation and acknowledgment and rewards you deserve. Is there even a small possibility that you might be harbouring some resistance to that good stuff? Could you be giving off a vibe that subtly influences people to withhold the full blessings they might otherwise confer upon you? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to work on correcting this problem. Do everything you can to make it easy for people to offer you their love and gifts.

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Caribbean musiC fest Celebrates JamaiCa’s 50th anniversary Byron Lee Dragonaires,

Ken Lazarus, and Lovindeer perform. Doors 8 pm, adv $50, more at the door. Doubletree By Hilton, 655 Dixon. caribanatoronto.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, $35. Rich Nightclub, 332 Richmond W. caribanatoronto.com.

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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. 905-5320504, 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. make it rain DJs Prostyle, Jus, Diamond Kutz, Charlie Brown and others. Adv $25. City Nightclub, 296 Richmond W. citynightclub.ca.

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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.

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Family picnic with games, music and entertainment with Ravi B, Ki, Rita Jones and others. $15. Bella Gardens, 12700 Jane (King City). torontolime.com. Duane StePhenSon Island Soul entertainment. 9:30 pm, free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

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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 Destra and others. 10 pm, $40. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. torontolime.com.

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chicken you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong joint. But if it’s exceptionally executed island-style grub that just happens to be vegetarian – and vegan to boot – you’ve come to the right love shack. Historical trivia: Ikeila Wright’s take-away was once home to Joyce’s, Toronto’s first Caribbean provisioner. Best: to start, Wright’s legendary spicy corn soup; mains like mildly curried bean curd and buttery lima beans paired with sliced avocado, caramelized plantain, organic basmati rice ’n’ lentils and a heap o’ salad and ripe tomato in sesame ginger vinaigrette; whole-wheat dahl puri roti stuffed with spicy Jamaican pumpkin; to drink, house-brewed ginger beer; organic raspberry lemonade. Average main $10. Open Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, no washrooms, minimal seating.

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| Caribfusion 3 Southeast corner King W, at Bay. If success in the resto biz is all about location, Bridgette Pinder’s sidewalk Caribbean food cart at the crossroads of the financial district has it made. Best under-$10 lunch in the core? Best: gently jerked and grilled boneless chicken breast dressed with two salads – crisp romaine, purple cabbage and carrot, the other sweet ripe mango and bell pepper strips in a spicy Thai vinaigrette – doused with both island-style barbecue and hot sauces, and wrapped in a grilled whole wheat pita or dalpoori roti; curried shrimp and sweet pumpkin roti. Average main $8. Open Monday to Friday 11 am to 2 pm-ish weather permitting. Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free.

2 | pam’s Caribbean Cuisine 912 Bloor W, at Ossington, 416-533-3588. Back in busi-

ness after a much-needed renovation, effervescent Pam Singh’s Bloordale hole-in-the-wall still bills itself as “the not-so-fast fast roti resto.” Locally sourced ingredients and an unusual attention to detail – nearly everything’s made from scratch in house – make her Guyanese-style meal-in-one wraps well worth the wait. Best: Pam’s incendiary curried goat complete with marrow-rich bones in garlicky gravy spiked with cumin and red Scotch bonnet peppers sided with slabs of waxy potato, plain ol’ rice and a cooling cucumber salad; the best veggie roti in town amply stuffed with either carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, okra, spinach, squash, turnip or long green beans; three varieties of house-bottled hot sauce ranging from relatively mild to nuclear meltdown. Average main $9. Open Monday to Wednesday noon to 9 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 9:30 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, minimal seating.

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| Gandhi 5 554 Queen W, at Bathurst, 416-504-8155,

Georgina Hamilton’s patties are fit for royalty.

4 | Caribbean Queen of Patties 1294 Bloor W, at Lansdowne, 416-538-

1732. Now operating out of digs directly across the street from the original location, Georgina Hamilton remains Toronto’s undisputed monarch of the tasty Jamaican turnover. Sure, they’re more expensive than most – 2 bucks a pop – but the considerable payoff is more than worth the price. Best: the epitome of patties, either stuffed with mixed veg (chickpeas, green beans, spinach), quality

minced spicy beef or diced shrimp, flaky of crust and tinted with turmeric; curried chicken or veggie stew roti Jamaica-stylee; for those only somewhat peckish, the halfroti. Average main $10. Open Monday to Saturday 11 am to 11 pm, Sunday 1 to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrierfree, no washrooms.

Kensington Market’s newly opened Jerk Spot (149 Baldwin, at Spadina, 647-348-8838, rating: NN; second location 120 Peter, at Richmond, 416-599-5375) has one of the largest Caribbean cartes in town. We count 67 items including a curried goat roti ($6.75) special of the day. Opting instead for the veggie wrap ($6.50), we find 18 ounces of carrots, chickpeas, potatoes and broccoli in a rather unassuming gravy. The fried chicken, jerk pork (both $6.75 small/$9.50 large) and oxtail ($8.63/$12.17, all with perfunctory rice ’n’ kidney beans and watery coleslaw) come smeared with an American-style barbecue sauce. The cute knotted festivals ($1.43) are hopelessly stale. The best deal? Buy a halfpound side of jerked chicken breast ($8.63) and a half-kilo of tortillas from nearby La Tortilleria to create an instant taco party.

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gandhicuisine.ca. Everybody’s favourite roti isn’t really a roti at all. Call it East Indian curry osmosed through the Caribbean, then wrapped in a paratha made on a pizza press and you’re closer. Also: Mother India, 1456 Queen W, at Lansdowne, 416-588-4634. Best: the signature – and pricey! – boneless butter chicken in sweetly curried tomato sauce; boneless chicken jalfrezi with cauliflower and green peas; saag paneer with puréed spinach and tofu-like cheese. Average main $11. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

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(2 blocks West of Spadina) 416 967 1078

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Roti shop

Beat the heat with Le Ti Colibri’s Exotique Salade of shrimp, avocado, lettuce, pineapple and mango.

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1376 Queen W, at Brock, 416-532-8191. There are only two types of roti authorities – those who swear by Ali’s down the block and those who prefer this long-running Parkdale institution. Ignore the Restaurant Makeover decor – banquettes! upside-down lampshade chandeliers! – and focus on the veggie-friendly card. But whatever you do, hold the cheese! Best: unorthodox made-toorder roti combos like curried shrimp with squash, spinach and cheese; tender butter chicken in minimal sauce with curried potatoes and chickpeas; vegan green beans, squash and spinach, all on lightly grilled whole wheat paratha; to side, skinny sweet potato frites or retro creamy coleslaw; to finish, layered spice cake topped with sticky caramel pudding; to take home, jars of X-rated hot sauce. Average main $9. Open Tuesday to Saturday noon to 9 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrierfree.

7 | alBeRt’s Real Jamaican Foods 542 St. Clair W, at Vaughan, 416-

658-9445, albertsrealjamaicanfoods.ca. Tucked away in fancy new digs directly around the corner, Albert Wiggins’s islandstyle fast food joint has been packing them in since the 80s. Best: slowly stewed bone-in island-style jerk chicken with allspiced rice ’n’ peas and JA slaw; melt-in-your-mouth oxtail dinners with caramelized plantain; sides of salt cod fritters, gungo pea soup or dumplings with four types of gravy (“juice”); to drink, fresh sugar cane juice and ginger beer. Average main $10. Open Sunday to Wednesday 10:30 am to midnight, Thursday 10:30 am to 3 am, Friday and Saturday 10:30 am to 4 am. Licensed. Cash only. Access: two short steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

Oxford, 416-925-2223. Complete meals for $15 per person, including tax, tip and a lemonade. Average main $8. Open Tuesday to Wednesday and Sunday noon to 8 pm, Thursday to Saturday noon to 10 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: five steps at door, washroom in basement. Rating: NNN (patio)

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Chef Matthias Laurin and marketing manager Kristel Procida make sure the spice is just right.

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1182 King W, at Dufferin, 416-532-6298, island-foods.com. Established in 1974 in the Dufferin Mall, this very busy spot operates assembly-line-style. Sadly, a long queue of ravenous customers at lunch and dinner doesn’t make it move any faster. Also: 1310 Don Mills, at Chipping, 416-487-7717. Best: boneless chicken roti packed with equal amounts of curried greens and potatoes; an all-veggie version with sliced ’n’ curried carrots, cauliflower, chickpeas and sweet bell peppers; mid-range jerk chicken or pork over regulation red rice ’n’ peas; slow-stewed oxtail dinners with curried spuds and mixed veggies. Average main $9. Open Monday to Wednesday and Saturday 11 am to 8 pm, Thursday and Friday 11 am to 9 pm (King W); Monday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm, Saturday 11:30 am to 8:30 pm (Don Mills). Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

9 | Vena’s

1263 Bloor W, at Lansdowne, 416-5323665. Mashud and Homewaty Siddique’s no-frills snack shack may not be the fastest food in town, but since everything’s made to order from scratch, who’s watching the clock? Best roti in town? The neon sign out front seems to think so! Best: hefty house-made rotis overloaded with butterflied shrimp and sliced asparagus; slow-cooked stewing beef with button mushrooms in assertively curried gravy; generous veggie combos like sweet squash, firm eggplant and leafy spinach. Average main $8. Open daily 10 am to 8 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

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MICHAEl WATIER

I like to think I have a cast-iron stomach. Years spent dining at the likes of Bonga Buldak (Home of Hot Taste) and Captain John’s will do that to a palate. Yet the prospect of the Caribbean Carnival makes me weak in the knees. How much industrial-strength jerk chicken – don’t forget the rice ’n’ peas, mon – can a person eat? So imagine my great relief when I stumble upon Le Ti Colibri, a monthold spot in the Market that specializes in the French Caribbean cuisine of owners Matthias Laurin and Kristel Procida’s respective roots in Martinique and Guadeloupe. Having placed our order at the colourful resto’s

across the street where Laurin once cooked. Go with the hand-cut sweet potato fries over the somewhat dry regular spuds (both $2.99). Like the fritters, there doesn’t seem to be much difference between LTC’s chocolate banana cake ($4.25) and chocolate coconut fondant ($4.50), which taste a lot like the pudding cakes of our white-bread suburban youth. And after an inordinate wait, overly fried plantain ($5) zested with lime on a stick can’t help but disappoint. Best go with an eggy coconut flan ($4.99) and deeply caramelized pineapple upside-down cake ($4.25) finished with caramel. Who needs jerk chicken anyway? 3

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| patty King 10 187 Baldwin, at Kensington, 416-9773191. Since opening in 1980, the Chong family’s modest Kensington Market bakery has grown into a national wholesaler. And it all started with a patty! Also: 321 Progress, at Brimley, 416-321-1034. Best: minced beef, shrimp, ackee, goat and callalaoo patties baked or frozen by the dozen; rudimentary old-school rotis stuffed with curried chicken and potatoes, chickpeas as exotic as it gets; outstanding desserts like sweet potato bread pudding, chocolate volcano cake, black ’n’ white chocolate soldiers; to drink, homemade ginger beer. Average main $8. Open Monday to Thursday 7 am to 8 pm, Friday 8 am to 7:30 pm, Saturday 7:30 am to 7 pm; Sunday and holidays 9 am to 7 pm. Unlicensed. Cash

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takeout counter, we park ourselves under the thatched roof of the backyard patio, glasses of icy housesqueezed lemonade ($3.50) in hand. We start with fritters, both with shredded salt cod ($4.25) and diced shrimp ($4.50) and virtually identical, eight falafel-sized nuggets of batter laced with thyme, onion and Scotch bonnet pepper. Those who like it especially hot will appreciate Colibri’s tomatillo-based hot sauce. Crab claws ($6.50) arrive stuffed with minced crustacean, a retro take on a cruise-ship classic. All come sided with a terrific salad of leaf lettuce, chopped tomato, cucumber and corn in watermelon vinaigrette. Think of bokit (Féroce, $8.99) as the Big Mac of the Lesser Antilles, a particularly tasty deep-fried burger-like sandwich piled with tomato, chunky avocado and more salt fish. The veggie version with spicy TVP ($7.99) should be a big hit with the Urban Herbivore set

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PASS THE DUTCHPOT Back in 82, when Musical Youth requested that someone “pass the dutchie on the left-hand side,” they were not referring to recreational cigarettes. Instead, the one-hit wonders were talking about the lidded Caribbeanstyle Dutch oven from which Dennis and Lorna Jarrett’s Caribbean Dutchpot (751 Broadview, at Danforth, 416465-7779, rating: NNN) derives its name. There’s even one on the wall right next to the mandatory Bob Marley poster. You might remember the Dutchpot from its days on Queen East in Leslieville, the Jamaican take-away’s original stomping grounds. After an extended break to raise a family, the Jarretts relaunched in the current location last spring. That’s where we rediscovered

the couple’s magnificent curried chicken dhal puri roti ($6.99), a whopping 26 ounces of tender-pink boneless chicken breast, firm new potatoes and chickpeas in a mellow turmeric-tinted gravy flecked with thyme. Unusually moist jerked-to-order chicken dinners ($6.50 small/$8.50 large) come sided with correctly nutty rice ’n’ peas ($3.99 à la carte) and a generous helping of barely dressed coleslaw ($2.50). Donut-like festivals and cookie-sized cod fritters (both 99 cents each) have been fried in the recent past and still taste fresh. Liven up the latter with a splash of deliciously sour house-bottled hot sauce ($2.50). Dense wedges of boozy rum cake ($3.99) more than make up for the cozy SD room’s lack of a liquor licence.

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BADBADNOTGOOD, NADASTROM, JACQUES ñ GREENE and A TRIBE CALLED RED at Yonge-Dundas Square, Saturday, July 28. Rating: NNNN

If you doubted that dance music’s comeback was real, the sight of a few thousand kids going mental at the Toronto edition of the Mad Decent Block Party should have changed that. This year is looking more and more like the second coming of rave. The range of rhythms and styles that get partiers on their feet these days is refreshing. Ottawa trio A Tribe Called Red combined elements of every contemporary strain of dance music with traditional native music, Montreal’s Jacques Greene threw some mellow Frank Ocean into a set of bangers, DC’s Nadastrom proved that

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week

moombahton’s slowed-down tempos can make a crowd jump around just as much as punk rock can, and BADBADNOTGOOD did the impossible by using live jazz to make the party go off. But it was Zeds Dead’s headlining set that really drove home how much the scene has exploded. Say what you will about the aggressive vibe of North American dubstep, but it definitely works on the big stages. Hard to believe they were playing tiny Toronto pubs just a BENJAMIN BOLES few years ago.

JONNY CORNDAWG at Lee’s Palace, Wednesday, July 25.

Rating: NNN Too bad only a small crowd came out for Jonny Corndawg. It was pouring rain, and he joked that if anyone was soaking wet and shivering, he or

she could get a glow-in-the-dark Corndawg T-shirt at half price. The country singer’s known for his dirty humour and 70s throwback vibe, but his show is thankfully more nuanced than that. Playing material from last year’s Down On The Bikini Line as well as the forthcoming Dad Country, he sang about the anonymity and malaise of touring, social climbers in L.A. and depression before slyly taking the set in a more upbeat direction, at least musically, moving beyond country toward a funky early rock ’n’ roll sound. Corndawg seemed a bit tired (or tired of performing), but his songs translated well, thanks in part to his excellent band. A few times, he hung back while drummer Jerry Pentecost and fiddler Joshua Hedley held things down. Hedley took a few turns in the spotlight during a ridiculously long fiddle solo and when taking on Sherry, one of Corndawg’s older songs. SARAH GREENE A good set by a great band.

CHAD VANGAALEN at the Virgin Mobile Mod

ñClub, Thursday, July 26.

Rating: NNNN Chad VanGaalen embraces a sort of laid-back chaos that sometimes causes his performances to meander or lose the plot. Other times, like at his jam-packed Virgin Mobile Mod Club show, the

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alabama dinOSaur jr. kooL haus • 26.50 adv • aLL-ages

shakes

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september 26 @ the phoenix $ 19.00

advance • all-ages

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BRotHeRs nonesuch bLuegrass

sold out

Jesus & maRy chaIn glen hansaRd

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propagandhi sat october 13 @ phoenix • $24.00 adv +ff

the phoenix • $19.50 adv

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the antlers the raveonettes $ 21.50 advance • brookLyn • transgressive records

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@ pHoenix

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with fLatLiners & DeaD to Me

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a hawk and a haCkSaw

friday august 17 $

thurS auguSt 23 @ hard luCk • $11.50 adv

jenS lekman thurs october 4 @ the phoenix • $20.00 adv

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dan mangan

the phoenix • $20.00 advance

amanda

with MeLoDY’s ecHo cHaMber

$32.50

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swans palmeR Lee’s paLace • $26.50 advance

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hard Luck • 11.50 advance

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wed

@ Lee’s paLace • $15.00 adv

tuesday septeMber 11 @ Lee’s paLace • $22.50 adv

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full band • ex dead kennedys

tueS SeptemBer 18 @ drake • $16.50 adv

tueS SeptemBer 18 @ rivoli • $10.00 adv

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pittsburgh percussive Jam foLk band

tues septeMber 18 great haLL • $ 15.50 adv

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fri septeMber 14 horseshoe • $15.00 advance

vetiveR with habibi

mod cLub • $ 15.50 advance

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breton

rivoLi • $ 10.00 advance

@ horseshoe • $13.50 advance

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horseshoe • $ 10.50 advance

seattLe hip-hop

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mon septeMber 17

mono oak horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

cHris brokaw

horseshoe • $ 12.50 advance

baLtimore • merge records

thurs septeMber 13 horseshoe • $ 12.50 advance

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mon august 6 • shoeless • no cover

the Company the Falling SkybirdS young CardinalS

concerts at

8:00pm (Sun-wed) 8:30pm (thurSday) 9:00pm (fri & Sat) THurs august 2 • $6 @door

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BalConies

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THursdAy august 2 • $7.00

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delusIon manIfesTo beRnadeTTe connoR The Reed effecT haley sTaRk

the unChained fallen heirS aSleep at the maChine

fri august 10 • $7.00

sat august 11 • $10.00

sunday august 19 • $11.50 advance

eLos arMa • rainbows tHe nobLe trutHs stuck on pLanet eartH

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Original liVe muSiC @ 8:30pm fridayS & SaturdayS @ 9:00pm frOnt Bar 12:00pm - 2:00am

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mon

alternative rock dance club

The open dooR all buT oveR fRaIlfRagmenT blInd Race juStuS mondAy

august 20 23.50 advance

LocaL aLternative rock • $ 7.00

THurs august 9 • $6.00

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fri august 24 • $10.00 adv

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sat august 25 • $9.00 adv

featuring

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JUSTICE ELECTRO PROG ROCK

Expect even more Marshall stacks on this tour By JORDAN BIMM

JUSTICE with M83, AUSTRA , BURAKA SOM SISTEMA and CHARLIE XCX at Scion Sessions’ Hard Fest at Fort York (250 Fort York), Saturday (August 4), 5 pm, all ages. $49-$69. PDR, RT, SS, TW.

Last fall, when French electro-house duo Justice released Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger), the follow-up to their dance-floor-filling 2007 debut, the reaction was mixed.

The new prog-rock they’re bringing to their heavy metal bangers had some complaining that Justice had lost their Midas touch, while others commended the novel pairing. “We got some bad press and some good press, too,” says Xavier de Rosnay on the phone from a tour stop in Bali. “It was very divided, just like it was for our first album, so we were prepared for that.

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“Whether it’s my grandmother or a rock critic, everybody feels something different, and that’s fair enough. That’s the game when you make an album.” Though the press gave the album a “prog” label, de Rosnay says that he and Gaspard Augé weren’t thinking in those terms. “The genre we are exploring is always the same: pop music. We make modern pop music that reflects the moment in which it was made.” As for the live show, de Rosnay says it’s like an amped-up version of their first world tour. “It’s great because we now have twice as many songs and can play a sort of greatest hits set. But we tried to think about it from the audience’s perspective. What would they like to see at a Justice show? The Marshall stacks? Yes, okay, but make them bigger. The cross, yes, make it bigger, too, and light up differently. We changed some things and upgraded others.” After completing this final tour leg in the fall, the pair return to Paris to begin work on album number three at their own currently-under-construction studio. But first, Justice are looking forward to playing Fort York. “Playing outdoors is magical. Because there is no ceiling, it feels like there are no limits. Looking out, the crowd seems almost infinite, so that’s always a lot of fun.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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clubs & concerts hot SNOWDEN, THE AUTUMN STONES The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, August 2) See preview, page 46. FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, THE WALKMEN, SPECTATOR Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), tonight (Thursday, August 2) Epic and intense indie soul-pop. THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, NIGHTBOX Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Friday (August 3) Reunited noise-pop pioneers. BIG PRIMPIN: THE GOLD DRANK EDITION w/ Miss Jamaica, House of Monroe, DJs Blackcat, Stunts and more Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (August 3) Long-running hip-hop for homos party. HEAT OF THE NIGHT w/ Popcaan, Mya, Orlando Octave, Tony Matterhorn, Spex, Lindo P and many others Coconuts (2180 Steeles West, Vaughan), Saturday (August 4) See Popcaan preview, page 43. JUSTICE, M83, AUSTRA, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, CHARLIE XCX Fort York (250 Fort York), Saturday (August 4) See preview, page 37.

THE BLACK KEYS, THE SHINS Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Saturday (August 4) Garage-blues superstars. VELD MUSIC FESTIVAL w/ Deadmau5, Steve Angello, Knife Party, Steve Aoki, Bassnectar, Avicii, Nicky Romero and many others Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Saturday and Sunday (August 4 and 5) Giant two-day dance party. OVO FEST w/ Drake, the Weeknd, 2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky and others Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (August 5) See cover story, page 40. SUMMER BREEZE w/ DJ Blackcat, Pleasure Zipperz/Cellblock (72 Carlton), Sunday (August 5) Queer Caribana afternoon party and vogue ball. ALOE BLACC, BADBADNOTGOOD The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Monday (August 6) Throwback soul and hip-hop jazz. ETERNAL SUMMERS The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (August 7) Peppy, melodic dream pop. COLD SPECKS, SNOWBLINK The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Wednesday (August 8) See preview, page 48.

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Legends Of Hip-Hop: Mecca & The Soul Brother Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $25. PDR, RT, SS, TM. August 16.

THE CORRESPONDENTS, DJS MEDICINEMAN & FOXTROT HOLMES Electro Swing Club Gladstone Hotel 10 pm, $20, $15 in vintage attire. August 17.

SKYDIGGERS, LAZYBONES, IAN BLURTON & HURON, HAPPY ENDINGS, JESSICA MITCHELL Queen West Musicfest: Musicounts Benefit Trinity Bellwoods Park noon to 7 pm, $10 donation. August 18.

THE SHEEPDOGS, YUKON BLONDE, THE SADIES, ZEUS Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $29.50-$45. RT, SS, TM. September 15.

Opera House $tba. PDR, RT, SS. October 22.

FATHER JOHN MISTY, LA SERA Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 27.

MILO GREENE Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 29.

WILD NOTHING, DIIV The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $15.50. RT, SS, TM. September 18.

THOSE DARLINS The Garrison doors

THE ZOOBOMBS, JOHNNY DOWD

CRYSTAL CASTLES, HEALTH Kool

Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $11. RT, SS. September 21.

8:30 pm, $12.50. RT, SS. October 30.

Haus $tba. PDR, RT, SS, TW. November 4.

EMILIE AUTUMN Virgin Mobile Mod

THE SCRIPT Sony Centre 7:30 pm, all ages, $34.50-$44.50. TM. November 6.

ANGUS STONE Opera House doors 7 pm,

November 10.

THE ANTLERS The Great Hall doors 8 pm,

GWAR, DEVIL DRIVER, CANCER BATS Sound Academy 7 pm, $32.50. Nov-

Club doors 7 pm. September 22.

FEIST, EMMYLOU HARRIS, DANIEL LANOIS, BRIAN BLADE, GORD DOWNIE & THE SADIES, SARAH HARMER, JESSE COOK AND OTHERS Greenbelt Harvest Pic-

$21.50. RT, SS, TM. September 25.

ember 24.

DATA ROMANCE, DRAGONETTE, YOUNG EMPIRES Sound Academy doors

MOLLY JOHNSON, ELIZABETH SHEPHERD, DENZAL SINCLAIRE

Revival. August 18.

nic Christie Lake Conservation Area gates 11 am, $69.50. TM. harvestpicnic.ca. September 1.

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Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. September 10.

DJ BLACKCAT For more than 20 years, DJ Blackcat has been playing dancehall, hip-hop and R&B for queer audiences, long before urban music was fashionable in the gay scene. For the past three years he’s been doing a special Urban Jungle party for Caribana weekend, proving that the queer Caribbean community is far larger than you’d guess from a walk down Church Street on an average Saturday night. The party is so popular, Toronto R&B singer Jully Black will release her new mixtape at it this year. Check NOW’s music listings for more queer-friendly Caribana-related events. At Fly (8 Gloucester), Sunday (August 5), doors 10 pm. $15. 416-410-5426. AUGUST 2-8 2012 NOW

$tba. RT. September 15.

NOUVELLE VAGUE Dawn Of Innocence

DJ ROY DAVIS JR, DJS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, TYRONE SOLOMON, ANDY ROBERTS & SEAN SMITH Sweet Tears Seventh Anniversary

QUEER CARIBANA

OBITUARY, BROKEN HOPE, DECREPIT BIRTH, JUNGLE ROT, ENCRUST Carnival Of Death Tour Opera House

$tba. RT, SS, TW. September 23.

7 pm, all ages, $tba. RT, SS, TW. October 18.

AC NEWMAN Exclaim’s 20th Anniversary Concert Series Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 21.

ROYAL WOOD Winter Garden Theatre.

Jazz At Massey Hall Massey Hall 8 pm, series package $99-$199. RTH. November 30.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA W/ WYNTON MARSALIS Jazz At Massey Hall Massey Hall 8 pm, series package $99-$199. RTH. January 30.

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this week How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 48, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

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.

molSon AmPHitHeAtre Florence & the Machine, the Walkmen, Spectator doors ñ 6:30 pm. nAtHAn PHilliPS SquAre Tasty Thursdays

Lyndon John X & Wheelbarrow noon to 2 pm.

ngomA lounge Xperience Thursdays: Roots

& Reggae Open Mic Jam DJ Red Out, 3 Star, DJ Nic, Charlie Bobus, King Ujah, Humble, Quentin Vercetty (live hip-hop/R&B). CPHoenix concert tHeAtre Irie Music Awards doors 8 pm. tHe PiSton Andrew Johnston, Amanda Mabro 9 pm. Silver DollAr Meanwood, Pow Wows, Cletus, Savanah 9 pm. SounD AcADemy Brand New, Cursive, An Horse doors 6:30 pm, all ages. SoutHSiDe JoHnny’S Skip Tracer 9:30 pm. SuPermArket A Night With Papertape Farheen Beg, Arun Chaudhuri (live electronic/ new wave/soul/pop/ambient) 9 pm. 3030 DunDAS WeSt Nora House Art Show The Unseen Strangers. trAne StuDio Alex Duncan Quintet 8:30 pm. trAnzAc tiki room Thom Gill (pop) 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Thursday, August 2

ASPettA cAFFe Open Mic Jam 8 pm. cAmPBell HouSe muSeum The Fatal Gazo-

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

cAStro’S lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation

AlleycAtz Local Music Is Sexy Showcase. BoAt The Great Sabatini, Teethmarks, Gunt,

John Smith doors 9 pm. Bovine Sex cluB Bootleg Glory, the Lou Davis Material, Winter Rouge. cAmeron HouSe Mindfulness Without Borders Benefit Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet 8 pm, Hospice Toronto Benefit Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet 11 pm. clinton’S Air Marshal Landing, the Most Loyals, Maintenance Request Form, DJ Elektrotank doors 9 pm. DAkotA tAvern Freeman Dre, Ada Dahli 10 pm. el mocAmBo Some Minor Noise, Delta Will, DJ Chang A Lang doors 9 pm. tHe Flying BeAver PuBAret Kate Reid 7 pm. tHe gArriSon Snowden, the Autumn Stones 9 pm. See preview, page 46. groSSmAn’S Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm. HorSeSHoe Elos Arma, the Noble Truths, Stuck on Planet Earth, Rainbows doors 8:30 pm.

lee’S PAlAce J’Nai (alt rock) 10 pm.

gene After Performance Nick Rose 8:30 pm.

(folk/rock/country) 9 pm.

tHe centrAl David Hakan (folk) 7 pm. c’eSt WHAt Ember Swift 9 pm. eton HouSe Keith Jolie (folk) 7:30 pm. glADStone Hotel meloDy BAr Steve Strong-

man (blues) 9 pm. HugH’S room Canadian Guitar Festival Don

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“Snoop Lion is a whole new way and vision. I’m 40 now and growin’ up. Powerful and peaceful. I spent a whole month in Jamaica and had a serious spiritual journey. I found out a lot about myself, and throughout tha album my fans will definitely see tha growth and journey of that road travelled.”

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WEMF 2012 FT. ZEDS DEAD, WOLFGANG GARTNER, & MORE SOUTH ALGONQUIN ANNEX WRECKROOM AUG 26 :: SILVERSTEIN w/SUCH GOLD + MORE FOOTWORK SEP 1 :: MAYA JANE COLES KOOL HAUS SEP 10 :: AMON TOBIN ISAM 2.0 W/HOLY OTHER PARTS & LABOUR SEP 11 :: HOLOGRAMS DANFORTH MUSIC HALL SEP 20 :: WALK OFF THE EARTH DANFORTH MUSIC HALL SEP 26 :: FIRST AID KIT w/ DYLAN LEBLANC THE DRAKE OCT 2 :: NIKI AND THE DOVE PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE OCT 5 :: MATT AND KIM SOUND ACADEMY OCT 5 :: TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB W/ FRIENDS DANFORTH MUSIC HALL OCT 18 :: RAY KURZWEIL DANFORTH MUSIC HALL OCT 19 :: MADISON VIOLET DANFORTH MUSIC HALL OCT 23 :: THE PRESETS OCT 24 :: UMPHREY’S MCGEE w/ THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR DANFORTH MUSIC HALL DANFORTH MUSIC HALL NOV 2 :: SQUAREPUSHER KOOL HAUS NOV 4 :: CRYSTAL CASTLES W/HEALTH & KONTRAVOID AUG17-19::

THE SCRIPT SONY CENTRE NOV 15 :: DARK STAR ORCHESTRA NOV 6 ::

THE HOXTON NOSAJ THING & DOLDRUMS *FREE SHOW AUG 11 :: ALEX METRIC AUG 3 :: SNOOP LION & THE JUNGLE SEP 7 :: FRED FALKE SEP 20 :: SUB FOCUS DJ SET SEP 26 :: TY SEGALL & THEE OH SEES AUG 2 ::

Snoop Dogg explains his new reggae-inspired Snoop Lion project, which makes its live debut at the Hoxton on Friday (August 3). For the full interview, see nowtoronto.com.

FLYING LOTUS DEC 14 :: SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO [LIVE] OCT 15 ::

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SURKIN XILENT SEP 29 :: JOHN TALABOT OCT 11 :: ANGRY SAMOANS AUG 11 :: AUG 15 ::

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GANG OCT 26 :: DISCLOSURE

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OVO Fest with Drake, the WeeknD, 2 Chainz, a$aP rOCky and more at the Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (August 5). 6:30 pm. $34.75-$99.75. LN, TM.

hen you picture how Drake is spending his W summer, you’re probably thinking of partying in VIP rooms with famous friends and sipping champagne on a tour bus. Turns out the truth is a lot less glamorous. “I’m actually spending my summer graduating high school,” admits the rapper on a toorare visit back home. “That’s my main focus after OVO Fest. I only have one credit left, and I’m really excited about that.” It’s a particularly Canadian answer from a performer who’s somehow managed to turn all the nice and boring bits of our identity into a wildly successful hip-hop brand. Rival rappers can’t even successfully diss him for being soft, because he’s never bothered pretending to be hard. And as exciting as this city can be, we still tend to fear that we seem provincial compared to places like New York or London. “As close as we are to New York, it still feels far removed. We feel far removed from that American celebrity lifestyle, and from that kind of success.” But Drake isn’t so removed from that culture any more, although you get the sense sometimes he wishes he were. His people have made it very clear that we are not to ask any questions about Chris Brown and the club brawl in which he may or may not have been involved. Up until the very last minute it seemed pretty likely that the interview wouldn’t even happen. On the phone, though, Drake’s high-wattage charm melts away all resentment of the seemingly endless hoops you have to jump through to get access to the superstar. How can you stay mad at someone who was late because of his great-aunt’s funeral? He exudes the polished professionalism of a major-league superstar, a point in his career he’s arrived at with an image and sound that are irrevocably tied to his hometown. That shouldn’t be so notable, but Toronto has long had an unfortunate tendency to do really good impressions of music from other places. “When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren’t for Toronto,” he says. “You talk about certain artists, and they sound like where they’re from. Myself and the Weeknd, we both just sound like Toronto.” Our town has never really been known for that particular kind of hip-hop civic pride. Drake started OVO Fest in part to help shift how we see ourselves as a city. “I just wanted to create a special night for the city. When I grew up, I always used to hear how we never get anything good coming through Toronto.

Toronto’s first genuine hip-hop superstar reflects on three years of OVO Fest and life at the top of both the pop charts and the critics’ year-end lists By BENJAMIN BOLES

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You talk about certain artists, and they sound like where they’re from. Myself and the Weeknd, we both just sound like Toronto

“We actually do get some great things in Toronto compared to many other places, but it’s true that sometimes you might not see your favourite hip-hop artist for a full year, or even two. Sometimes we do get skipped over here.” Instead of putting together a huge bill of big names, though, his strategy over the last three years for his hometown mega-concert has been to advertise a relatively small lineup and then blow people away with a stream of superstar surprise guests. Many (including us) were unprepared the first year when people like Jay-Z and Eminem jumped onstage, but by now it’s an established, integral part of the event. “I don’t want people to just come for the surprise guests, but at the same time I do put in a lot of effort and take a lot of pride in the friends that I can call up to travel to our city. I don’t really call on too many people for favours, but for this one night I do.” Today, Drake doesn’t need the gimmick of secret guests to fill the Molson Amphitheatre. But after setting the bar even higher last year with a surprise visit by Stevie Wonder (which Drake describes as “one of the most incredible things ever”), he can’t drop that aspect of the experience. Don’t expect many specific hints from him, though – after all, he’s still not even

sure who’s going to show up this year. “I like for it to be a surprise, and a lot of the time we’re working up until the last minute on it. Trying to get Jay-Z up there the first year,? I didn’t even know if he would make it onstage. Trying to get Lil Wayne to land in Canada successfully last year, especially right after he got out of jail? “A lot of the time it’s very last-minute. Sometimes I’ll only find out 10 minutes before that so-and-so is about to walk onstage. It’s exciting when it works out, but it’s an anxiety attack for the entire time that you’re still unsure about it.” As much as Drake is all about repping his hometown, early in his career Toronto seemed a bit wary of the former Degrassi star. As has long been the case for Canadian musicians, he had to make it big elsewhere before we embraced him wholeheartedly here. “Toronto had never really had someone that they thought would take it all the way,” he says. “I can’t fault Toronto for waiting until I broke, through – without getting that approval from America, I wouldn’t have been the guy who took it all the way.” He almost seems star-struck about himself when speaking of his own success. There’s a palpable sense of disbelief that he turned out to be the guy who finally smashed through that barrier and got Toronto hip-hop on the map globally. Sure, we’ve had local success stories in the past, but nothing on this level in terms of commercial success and influence. It’s no surprise that he’s booking reclusive local R&B sensation the Weeknd (see sidebar, page 42) to play OVO Fest for the second year running. Drake helped initially expose the singer to the world by posting an early recording on his own blog, and has since developed a close relationship with the emerging artist. Beyond the two artists’ obvious professional ties, many critics have drawn links between Drake’s confessional, introspective rewiring of rap’s traditionally extroverted bravado and the moody, experimental approach to R&B that’s made singers like the Weeknd and Frank Ocean the current critical darlings. That sound has been sometimes dismissively labelled “PBR&B” for being hipsterfriendly, but there’s something happening to urban music that marks a bigger shift than simply the addition of some indie rock influences into the mix. “Surface R&B doesn’t work any more,” says Drake. “The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed. “The more you can tap into people’s minds – ‘I think that stuff and I’ve just never been able to say it, and this guy just said it for me’ – that’s the brand of music that’s winning right now, continued on page 42 œ

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and that’s a great thing. It just makes for better music to listen to.” It seems that both listeners and critics agree with him. Not only does Drake sell shitloads of records, but he also gets favourable reviews from Pitchfork and stands out like a sore thumb on the indie-dominated Polaris Music Prize shortlist. He’s definitely aware of how unusual a position that is for a top 40 artist. “At the end of the day I’m an extremely mainstream rapper as far as my popularity goes, so if I can still make music with enough integrity to also please some of the toughest critics, it’s flattering. But I also know the flip side, which is that some people will never give me that moment because I’m part of Young Money, and I’m with Lil Wayne, and I’m not the new rapper who just put out a mixtape that no one knows about yet.” He seems fairly accepting of the hate that comes at those who are in a position to buy mansions. Of course,

having a mansion to come home to probably helps. It’s not until I ask him why he doesn’t challenge more often the widely repeated myth about his rich upbringing in Forest Hill that I hear frustration in his voice. “People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich. “I had rich friends, but they weren’t giving me their money. I’m just not the type of guy to go ‘No, no, no, I’m not rich.’ People can say whatever they want about me, though. If they really want to learn them, the facts are out there. But I guess it’s easier on their hearts if I didn’t have to struggle, and makes it easier to not like me. It is what it is.” When I remark that I also grew up poor in a rich neighbourhood, he tells me he likes that line and might steal it for a song. I’m pretty sure he’s just buttering me up, but I’m oddly okay with that. 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/benjaminboles

Drake’s famous friends

The main attraction at OVO Fest is Drake, of course, but the talent he ropes into performing each year is another big part of its appeal. We asked Drake for his thoughts on this year’s openers.

The Weeknd

The mysterious Toronto R&B sensation hasn’t even released an official record yet, but his dark, atmospheric and sometimes creepy take on the genre has made his three free mixtapes some of the most talked-about albums of 2011.

“I could do a whole separate interview about how talented [the Weeknd] is and what he means to the city. I’m so proud of him. He’s going to come out and prove how far he’s come in a year and how much he’s evolved as a performer.”

2 Chainz

Formerly known as Tity Boi, the Atlanta rapper releases his debut album, Based On A T.R.U. Story, on August 14, but is already enjoying a ton of buzz thanks to guest appearances on Nicki Minaj’s Beez In The Trap and Kanye West’s Mercy.

“I’ve known him for years, since when I was coming out on Lil Wayne’s stage as Jimmy from Degrassi. He’s one of the most exciting rappers out right now. I’m on his album, and we’ve done a lot of work together. I’m really excited to be bringing him to Toronto for his first solo show.”

A$AP Rocky

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“He’s a great performer. He brings a real energy to the stage and has a crazy, wild team around him that jump around and get people riled up and excited.”

The secret surprises

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Like the two other supporting acts, A$AP Rocky has yet to release his official debut album, but there’s huge hype behind the Harlem rapper thanks to his LiveLoveA$AP mixtape and intense live show.

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Shortly before this interview, it was leaked on the-weeknd-xo.com that Meek Mill would be one of the surprise guests, but Drake says that announcement was news to him. Since then French Montana has also been tagged as a likely secret act.

DANCEHALL

POPCAAN Jamaican star takes his work ethic seriously By ANUPA MISTRY

POPCAAN with MYA, TONY MATTERHORN, ORLANDO OCTAVE and others at Coconuts (2180 Steeles West, Vaughan), Saturday (August 4), 9:30 pm, all ages. $40-$100. PDR, TG.

Where can you find one of dancehall’s biggest stars on a Thursday night? Chilling at his mom’s house in Greater Portmore, Jamaica. Across the bay from Kingston, it’s a neighbourhood Popcaan refers to as “gangster city.” Andre Sutherland, 24, a one-time church DJ christened Popcaan by a friend, is a cherubic aberration amongst the deadpan bad men of popular dancehall. “Growing up, me favourite artists was always Vybz Kartel and Sizzla Kalonji,” he says, referring to two of the genre’s most forceful artists. But interestingly, his singles Ravin’ and Party Shot are all confection: schoolboy pitch, fizzy synths, elastic drums and a graceful manoeuvring of dancehall’s trademark minor keys into big-room, radio-destined earworms. Earlier this year, Only Man She Want, a minimalist Casanova anthem with a soaring hook, landed on the Billboard R&B chart. Popcaan’s also collaborated on songs with Snoop Lion (né Dogg) for possible inclusion on the rapper’s upcoming reggae record. Kartel, currently imprisoned on a murder charge, debuted Popcaan on

2010’s fiercely popular single Clarks, dedicated to the British shoe brand as ubiquitous in JA as Nikes around these parts. So Poppy isn’t just poised to match his mentor – he could go further. Crediting “teacher” with his success, Popcaan is humble about his position within Kartel’s clique, Gaza, a name that parallels a troubled section of Portmore with the beleaguered Middle Eastern strip. “He takes music very serious, so I get my work ethic from him,” he says. Just today, for example, Poppy wrote three songs, and there’s a full-length studio record planned for 2013. A desire to counter the negative publicity surrounding Gaza also figures into his music. “Believe in yourself, be a man,” he sings on System, a relatively sombre “conscious” tune produced by New York’s Dre Skull. “Life is not always about partyin’ and raving,” says Popcaan. “You have ’nuff people who can’t afford food, much less money for rave, and you still have to speak to their reality. At least them can hear a different side of me – not just the partier. No madness, no derogatory things. “It’s not only because of that, but when Vybz got locked up it made me adjust myself and say, ‘Yeah, you must be careful in life.’” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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Ross, Jimmy Whalsteen, Jon Gomm 8:30 pm. The LocaL Paul Reddick (blues). LoLa Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. MeadowvaLe TheaTre Celtic Crossing – A Transatlantic Journey David Leask Trio, Fiona Cuthill, Stevie Lawrence, Johnny Max 8 pm. The PainTed Lady Hatchetmen (country rock) 10 pm. Passion Lounge Jabez Stone 9 pm. The rusTy naiL Open Jam Steph Armstrong, Tommy Flanagan & Brian Law 10 pm. ToronTo BoTanicaL garden The Edwards Summer Music Series Darbazi (Georgian choral ensemble) 7 to 8:30 pm. ToronTo Music garden Summer Music In The Garden: From L’Acadie To The Land Of Faerie Donna Hébert, Max Cohen, Molly Hebert-Wilson (fiddle, guitar, vocals) 7 pm. Tranzac souThern cross Bluegrass Thurs-

days Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

aMsTerdaM Brewery Open Roof Festival: Outdoor Film And Music Series Eucalyptus (calypso/jazz/reggae) 7:30 pm. church of The redeeMer Toronto Summer Music Festival Outreach Concert noon. eMMeT ray Bar John Wayne Swingtet (Gypsy swing) 9 pm. The fLying Beaver PuBareT Ori Dagan Sings Bing Ori Dagan, Mark Kieswetter, Jordan O’Connor 9 pm. gaTe 403 Mélanie Brûlée Jazz Band 9 pm, Melissa Lauren Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. harBourfronT cenTre Dancing On The Pier Pablo Terry & Sol de Cuba, Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 pm. hoLy oak cafe John Russon Quartet (jazz) 10 pm. MajLis MuLTidisciPLinary arTs Cheryl O (cello) 8 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. royaL conservaTory of Music koerner

haLL Toronto Summer Music Festival: Music Of

England The Nash Ensemble w/ Colin Ainsworth 7:30 pm. soMewhere There sTudio Claude Witmann 8 pm. sT jaMes caThedraL Park gazeBo Music In St James Park The Prominent String Quintet (classical strings) 7 to 9 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

Bovine sex cLuB Fizztastique DJs George &

Nikki.

chevaL Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/

club anthems).

drake hoTeL underground Hypnotic Mindscapes: Future Sounds Vol 2 Derek ñ Martin, Cee Cee Cox doors 11 pm. CeMPire Lounge Soca Summit D’Enforcas

International, Jugglers International, DJ Spice, Giselle D’Wassi One, Bass Line, Chinee & Gilligan, Doc, Soca Warrior Crew. CeMPress of canada cruise shiP Splash Boat Cruise Caribana 9 pm. CenTerPrise 2000 All White Carnival Vibez Boat Cruise SW Storm, Hunter (soca/calypso/ chutney) boarding 7 pm.

ePiPhany resTauranT & Lounge Epiphany

Thursdays DJ DLimit (Afro/dancehall/hip-hop/ old school/soca). goodhandy’s T-Girl Parties.5 The greaT haLL We On Some Rich Kidd Shiiiiit Volume Six Release Party Rich Kidd, Wristpect, DJ Nana, DJ Mensa, Meka doors 10 pm. The hoxTon Scion Sessions Showcase Nosaj Thing, Doldrums, Beta Frontiers, Jesse Futerman, Lucie Tic doors at 8 pm. insoMnia DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). The ossingTon Blahzay Florplay (hip-hop). 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). rivoLi Praxis 5 One-Year Anniversary DJs Basic Soul Unit, Jonathan Coe, Beton Brut doors 10 pm. Csix degrees Bacchanal Thursday – Electrofied DJs Soca Sweetness, Whitebwoy, Renegade Squad, Marxman, DJ Spoonz, MC Linx, Dirty Dez, Creepa, Mistah Dingolay, Jeff Jam, Megawave, DJ Lime. CTiMe nighTcLuB Open DJ Prostyle, Charlie Brown (hip-hop/R&B/reggae). CTrysT Erotic: Caribana Warm Up DJ Starting from Scratch, Secret Society, Amnesia, Redemption, Sweet Tears, Musicology, Barrie Hype, DJ Chief (soca masquerade event). wayLaBar Oh-La-La (French pop music) 10 pm.

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aLLeycaTz Jamesking. Bar iTaLia uPsTairs Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. Bovine sex cLuB Fall and Divide, DJ Vania. casTro’s Lounge Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

dakoTa The Royal Crowns doors 9 pm. drake hoTeL underground The Dream-

boats doors 8 pm. eL MocaMBo SmashMouth Mentality 2.0 Showcase THURZ, the Antiheroes, Notes to Self, Smash Brovaz, Raz Fresco & the 6th Letter (hip-hop) doors 8:30 pm. CThe foundery He(art) And Soul PreCaribana Cocktail Party Casey Yugo & the Band 8 pm. The 460 Night of the Ghouls, Face the Hate, the Curmudgeons, Kount Rottula, Unheimlich Manoeuvre (horror punk/experimental) doors 8:30 pm. The garrison Friends With Benefits Carlo Mariano, Mr Mover & the Shakers and others doors 9 pm. gLadsTone hoTeL MeLody Bar Monday’s Fiction (indie rock) 9 pm. hard rock cafe Black Ice Summer Jam 2012 Exco Levi, Teflon 8 pm. horseshoe Delusion Manifesto, Bernadette Connor, the Reed Effect, Hayley Stark doors 9 pm. The hoxTon Snoop Lion & the Jungle (Snoop Dogg) 7 pm. CkooL haus Glow: White Dress Party (soca) 9 pm.

Presents

Music Series

Lee’s PaLace The Dø doors 9 pm. ñ CnaThan PhiLLiPs square Irie Music Festi-

Featuring

Hawksley Workman, Buck 65, Bry Webb, , Doug Paisley, Aline Morales, Sandro Perri, The Magic, Evening Hymns

val Fay-Ann Lyons, Jaxx, DJ D’Enforcas and others 6 to 10 pm. Cohso nighTcLuB The Cool Rock ‘Big People Ting’ Caribana Edition DJs Chris Dubbs, King Turbo, Tasha Rozez, Tyrone, Blax Dun Da Place, Black Ice (rock/foundation/culture/ dancehall). ParTs & LaBour The shoP Split 7-inch Release Show Young Widows, Coliseum, TV Freaks. Phoenix concerT TheaTre The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nightbox (alt rock) doors 8:30 pm. siLver doLLar Foxes in Fiction, Rival Boys, Say Domino, Helsinki, Whoop-Szo 9 pm. Csound acadeMy Shine doors 10 pm. souThside johnny’s Paul James Band (rockabilly/blues) 10 pm. yonge-dundas square Indie Fridays The Magnificent 7’s 8 to 10 pm.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

asPeTTa caffe Colin Oliver, Al Babarino, Jason Ambosta 7 pm.

All shows at The Theatre Centre (1087 Queen St. West). Advance tickets available at ticketwise.ca, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.

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For dates and times, performer bios, and full festival listings, visit summerworks.ca

Benares hisToric house On The Verandah

Concert Abeena Samm (singer/songwriter) 7:30 pm. caMPBeLL house MuseuM The Fatal Gazogene After Performance Rory Lavelle 8:30 pm. c’esT whaT Jack Walker (singer-songwriter) 8 pm. coLoneL saMueL sMiTh Park Lakeshore

Mardi Gras The Kings and others 7 pm. gaTe 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm. gLadsTone hoTeL BaLLrooM Pop Kult! Joakim, Scott Seewhale, Colin Bergh 10 pm. grossMan’s Combo Royale 10 pm, Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm. CharBourfronT cenTre Island Soul: The Mighty Shadow (calypso/soca) 10 pm, Tribute To The Grandmaster Calpysonian Lord Kitchener 8:30 pm, Steel Pan Parade 7 pm. LoLa Danny Blu Acoustic Jam 3 to 7 pm. LuLa Lounge Salsa Summer Yani Borrell & the Clave Kings, DJ Suave (salsa) 10:30 pm. MeL LasTMan square Cultura Festival Silk Road (Chinese-Western fusion) 7:30 to 8:30 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Tranzac souThern cross Greg Recco (altcountry) 10 pm, The Foolish Things, Hugh Oliver (folk) 5 pm. waTerfaLLs She Bangs: The Salsa Fiesta All White Attire Party (salsa/bachata/merengue/ cha-cha) 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

The cenTraL Kyojin Jazz Quartet 7 pm. edward johnson BuiLding waLTer haLL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Music Of France The Nash Ensemble 7:30 pm. gaTe 403 Miss Caroline M/R Jazz Band 5-8 pm. harT house greaT haLL Toronto Summer Music Festival Warhol Dervish (unorthodox chamber music collective) 10 pm. MajLis MuLTidisciPLinary arTs Tricia Postle, William Shookhoff (mezzo, piano) 8 pm. Concert will be held Aug 4 in the event of a storm. oLd MiLL inn hoMe sMiTh Bar Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Pat Collins, Tom Szzesniak, Rob Piltch 7:30 pm. rex Frank Botos (jazz) 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/ solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. The sisTer Andy De Campos & Trio (jazz) 8:30 pm. soMewhere There sTudio Leftover Daylight Series 8 pm. Trane sTudio Ruth Mathiang 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

annex wreckrooM Calibre UK Sniper, Rick Toxic, Mr Brown and others 10 pm.

CcaPTain MaTThew fLinders De Camou-

flage Boat Cruise Iwer George, DJ Chris Nice, Soca Vibes, Mr Sobers, DJ Chief (soca/reggae) boarding 6 pm. casTro’s Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm. cLinTon’s Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party (90s pop) doors 10 pm. coLLege sTreeT Bar Heavy Rotation DJs Riccachet, Thera-P, Mercilless, Royale (4 DJs on 4 turntables spin funk/soul/R&B/hip-hop) doors 10 pm. CdeviL’s MarTini Carnival At Part Two DJ Wikked, DJ Nora Tones 10 pm. drake hoTeL underground Your Boy Brian doors 11 pm. drake hoTeL Lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. eMMeT ray Bar Back ‘A’ Yard DJs Pie & Mash (reggae) 10 pm.

of canada cruise shiP Byron Lee’s Dragonaires Boat Ride Byron ñ Lee & the Dragonaires (calypso) 8:30 pm. CeMPress

fLy Dirty Sexy Party DJ Foxtrott (remixes) doors 10 pm.5

fooTwork Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm. CguvernMenT skyBar Soca On The Roof

(reggae/soca/calypso) 10 pm.

CguvernMenT orange rooM Cool Rock (reggae/dance hall).

CguvernMenT Caribana Kick Off Tony Matterhorn.

insoMnia Funkin’ Fresh Fridays Mickey D

(house/breaks). LuLa Lounge Ceilia Monte (Latin jazz) 8 pm. Luxy nighTcLuB T.G.I. Fridays DJ Spex, DJ Chris Michaels, Mark Strong. CMansion nighTcLuB Set It Off (hip-hop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. CPacha Lounge Heat-Bare As You Dare DJ Lissa Monet, Unruly Twin doors 10 pm.5 The PainTed Lady DJ Frank Phantastik Johnson 10 pm. CPeridoT Lounge Heatwave DJ Jason Chambers, O-nonymous, D’Enforcas (hiphop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. The PisTon Beatlemania Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop) 10 pm. rivoLi Droppin Knowledge! (hip-hop) 9 pm. saviari Tea + cockTaiL Lounge Journey Inside The Mind Of Gene King DJ Gene King doors 9 pm. sazerac gasTro Lounge Scissors DJs Fawn Big Canoe, DJ Sokes (house music) doors 10 pm.

Supermarket Market Fresh DJ Classick (hiphop/party jams). Waylabar East End Girls Club DJ Quinces (top 40/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm. Wrongbar Big Primpin – The Gold Drank Edition Miss Jamaica, DJ No Problem, House of Monroe, DJs Dionne, Stunts & Blackcat (hip-hop) doors 10 pm.5

Saturday, August 4 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

alleycatz Jamesking. bovine Sex club WM Studies, Human Bodies, Beliefs, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

the central Fly Home Freedom: Signs of Life

9 pm, Sonja Lahtinen 6 pm. the central upStairS Press Play 10 pm. cherry cola’S rock n’ rolla The Damn Truth, the Breaks 10 pm.

reStaurant & lounge outdoor arena Heat Of The Night Concert ñ Series Popcaan, Mya, Orlando Octave, Tony CcoconutS

Matterhorn, Spex, Whitebwoy, Lindo P, Vertex and others 9:30 pm. See preview, page 43. dominion on Queen The Kat Kings (roots rock) 9 pm, Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm. Cdoubletree by hilton Caribbean Music Fest Celebrates Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary Byron Lee Dragonaires, Ken Lazarus, Lovindeer doors 8 pm. the duke live.com Band Warz. Fort york garriSon commonS Justice, M83, Austra, Buraka Som Sistema, Charlie XCX doors 5 pm, all ages. See preview, page 37. gladStone hotel melody bar Country Saturdays Tim Bastmeyer (solo blues) 9 pm. CharbourFront centre Island Soul Duane Stephenson (reggae) 9:30 pm. hard luck bar Earth Crisis. horSeShoe The Unchained, Fallen Heirs, Asleep at the Machine doors 9 pm. Ckool hauS Caribana Def Jam Party (hip-hop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. molSon amphitheatre The Black Keys, the Shins doors 7 pm. Cnathan phillipS SQuare Irie Music Festival Richie Spice, Odel & the Govament, Colin Levy, Luanda Jones, Baque de Bamba and others 1 to 10 pm. rex Solo & Lovin’ It! Danny Marks (pop) noon. rivoli Inlet Sound Single Release Party Inlet Sound, the BelleRegards, Alanna Gurr, Lowlands doors 9 pm. Croyal banQuet hall Dollars Dollars: The Caribana Flossing Live From Jamaica Stonelove, Nitro Da CD Sound, Military, Firekid Steenie. Silver dollar White Tiger, Darling Prey, Tia Brazda 9 pm. SouthSide Johnny’S Handsome Dan 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. CWild Water kingdom Toronto Caribbean Carnival: Soca Or Die! Kes the Band, Bunji Garlin, Nadia Batson & Sass, KI & 3Veni, Problem Child, Benjai, DJs Crown Prince, Spice, Flip and many others.

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aSpetta caFFe Dan Guiry, Luke Vajsar, DDM,

Celia Opera, Sadeh Adam, Personal Helicopter, Matt Drago 3 to 11 pm. campbell houSe muSeum The Fatal Gazogene After Performance Boys Who Say No 8:30 pm. caStro’S lounge Big Rude Jake (blues) 4:30 pm. colonel Samuel Smith park Lakeshore Mardi Gras Alen Frew and others 8:30 pm. dave’S... on St clair Mark Ripp (folk/rock) 4 to 7 pm. groSSman’S Porch Dogs 10 pm, The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm. CharbourFront centre Island Soul Afrafranto (Palmwine music) 5:30 pm. hirut Fine ethiopian cuiSine Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm. the local Too Many Sisters 10 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm. lola Spare Parts 8 to 11 pm. lula lounge Salsa Summer Lady Son & Articulo Veinte, DJ Gio 10:30 pm. portobello Max Layton, Darlene Collison, Michael Laderoute 1:30 to 4:30 pm. reliSh bar & grill The Trollblazers 9:30 pm. rex Homeless w/ Vivian Vasquez (blues) 3:30 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Adrian Glynn, Donovan Woods 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

beerbiStro The Gene Pool Boys (soulful swinging jazz) 8:15 pm.

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messy bits kept things human, hilarious and unexpected. Near the top of the set, for example, the Calgary noisefolk musician’s three-piece band launched into Eat It for no apparent reason. VanGaalen entered late, and in a different key, but he went with it, taking the Weird Al/ Michael Jackson song in a visceral, punk rock direction by screaming through a distorted mic. VanGaalen does tender and melodic (that stirring falsetto!) just as well as weird and guitar-squealy, and it’s that unique back and forth that’s made him so influential to other musicians and beloved by his fans. The set was heavy on recent Diaper Island tunes – ballad Sara and frantic Freedom For A Policeman were standouts – though during the encore, a solo rendition of the emotional Willow Tree from 2008’s Soft Airplane really socked us in the gut. carla gilliS

Bernard Sumner • Stephen Morris • Gillian Gilbert Phil Cunningham • Tom Chapman August 23

On Sale Thursday 10am

THE XX at the

Phoenix, Saturday, ñ July 28.

Rating: nnnn There’s something to be said for a band that looks like a band. Dressed all in black and wielding black instruments, The xx guitarist Romy MadleyCroft and bassist Oliver Sim spent much of their sold-out show trading hushed, lonely verses as their handsome silhouettes drifted in and out of an enveloping fog and a flickering light show. The expertly choreographed display was as subtle and affecting as the Mercury Prize-winning London trio’s forlorn ballads. In the two years since they last toured, they’ve grown more confident and relaxed onstage, and the 70-minute set featured their entire debut album plus a handful of songs from the forthcoming Coexist. New songs Angels and Fiction arrived to powerful effect with little more than guitar strums and breathy vocals, while drummer/keyboardist Jamie Smith cranked the beats on Reunion and Sunset. On recordings, the rhythms creep in quietly, but in concert their loudness boldly disrupts the delicate balance that makes The xx’s music so alluring. Still, it’s a nice changeup. kevin ritchie

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What happened to Snowden? That’s the question fans have been asking ever since the Austin-based indie rock band slipped under the radar following their brilliant 2006 debut, Anti-Anti. The short answer is that singer/ songwriter Jordan Jeffares endured some drawn-out label drama, in which emo imprint Jade Tree dropped his dour dance-rock styles after keeping him in legal limbo for over a year. “It’s like finding yourself right back at the start,” says Jeffares over the phone from New York City. “I kept waiting and waiting and wondering, ‘What the fuck am I doing with my life?’ Finally everything came together last August.” That’s when he signed a deal with former tour mates Kings of Leon’s new label Serpents and Snakes to release Snowden’s long-awaited follow-up, No One In Control, due out in October. But the excruciating and frustrating wait saw Jeffares slinging suds to get

by and returning to his indie roots out of desperation. “I had to do something. I was going stir crazy,” he says about Slow Soft Syrup, a stopgap Snowden EP he wrote, recorded and digitally released on his own in 2010. The five-song collection was a sleeper gem, showcasing patient and refined songwriting, while still delivering the sweet, layered melodies fans and critics had celebrated. There was no label, no tour and no promotion to support it. “The EP songs were slower simply because it’s easier to mix and record slow stuff when you’re working all by yourself. Reworked versions of those songs will be on the full-length, but there’s some upbeat rock stuff, too.” The Toronto show will conclude a two-week warm-up tour featuring a new lineup – “everyone else has moved on with their lives, except me” – which is Snowden’s first string of dates in nearly five years. Needless to say, Jeffares is busting to get back on the road and onstage. And if the swell of interest around first single The Beat Comes is any indication, the wait will have been worth it. 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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C’EST WHAT Lara MacMillan (jazz) 8 pm. EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival Grand Finale TSMF Academy fellows and members of the Nash Ensemble (chamber music of Brahms, Dvorák, Strauss) 4 & 7:30 pm. GATE 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm, Michelle Rumball Duo 5 to 8 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Gary Benson, Rob McBride, Joel Haynes 7:30 pm. REX Sean Bray’s Peach Trio 9:45 pm, Sophia Perlman 7 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Len Aruliah Quartet 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Steve Cole Group 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Matador Trio (jazz) 10 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANDY POOLHALL Major Rager Billionaire, Ballistik, Mickey D, Mandelephant, O-God (house/dubstep/reggae/hiphop) 10 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM Saturday Nights At Wreckroom 10 pm. BLUE SUEDE SUE’S Addicted To Saturdays DJ Vinny Mac, DJ Casanova. CCITY NIGHTCLUB Make It Rain DJ Prostyle, DJ Jus, Diamond Kutz, Charlie Brown and others. CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll (60s dance party) doors 10 pm. COLLEGE STREET BAR Heavy Rotation DJs Merciless, Royale, Sweet Touch Foundation (4 DJs X 4 turntables). DOWNSVIEW PARK Veld Music Festival Deadmau5, Steve Angello, Knife Party, Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, Michael Woods, Deniz Koyu, Flipside, Tommy Trash, Bassnectar and others all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Never Forgive Action Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull, DJ Numeric, Ted Dancin’ (hip-hop) 11 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Famou$ Players doors 10 pm. EMMET RAY BAR DJ Sawtay (ol’skool/hip-hop) 10 pm. FLY Pitbull Soaking Wet! DJ Dwayne Minard (house) doors 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK David Herrero doors 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Fetish Party DJ Jimi Lamort doors 8 pm.5 CHARBOURFRONT CENTRE Island Soul Admiral Bailey (dancehall) 8 pm. CHARLEM Caribana Long Weekend DJ Blackcat, DJ Tri-Shy, DJ Hype 10 pm.5

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(deep house).

CLAMBADINA Black Light Caribana Party DJ Flacco (dancehall/soca/hip-hop) 10 pm. LUXY NIGHTCLUB Upscale Saturdays DJ Danny D, Dj Gino, Deejay Toma, DJ Mechon. THE PAINTED LADY Salazar, Anastasia 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Pay Day DJs Isosceles &

CTOULA Caribana Above The City 10 pm. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB UK Underground DJ

MRK, Tigerblood (dubstep/indie/electro/rock) 10 pm. CTHE VUE Carnival Decadence Fete DJ Channel 9, DJ Christopher Michaels (hip-hop/rop 40/R&B) 10 pm. WAYLABAR DJ Mark Falco 10 pm. WRONGBAR Slowed Ryan Hemsworth, Torro Torro, Lucie Tic.

Sunday, August 5 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CBELLA GARDENS Chutney In De Park: Guyanese & Trini Family Picnic Ravi B, Ki, Rita Jones, Nisha B, SW Storm, Dolly Boy and others (soca/chutney) 1 to 11 pm, all ages. THE CENTRAL Jam Night 10 pm, Operation Midnight Danger 9 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am-3 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Tin Can Man (funk/jazz) 9 pm. THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET All Strung Up

Acoustic Night Jen Clader, James Mulvale, Amy Lewis 7 pm. THE GARRISON Crosswires Jim Storie Juniors, Shit from Hell, Boys Who Say No 10 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM International Left Hand Path Convention Buddy Black, Watered Down, Scott Martin, Pleasure the Priestess 1 pm to 2 am. CHARBOURFRONT CENTRE Island Soul Derrick ‘Johnny Too Bad’ Crooks 9:30 pm, Fire Fusion 8 pm, Michael Baker 7:30 pm, Jamie Ramseyl 3:30 pm, Joy Lapps Project 1 pm. HARD LUCK BAR The Bunny the Bear. CTHE HOXTON The Karibana Coalition Jam DJ Chris Nice, Nigel B, DJ Wayne, GQ Da-MC, DJ Majess (R&B/old school/hip-hop/reggae/ soca/house) doors 10 pm. LEE’S PALACE The Aggrolites, the Balconies (ska/reggae/60s Stax soul) doors 8 pm. THE LOCAL Jordan Faye (pop) 10 pm. MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE OVO Fest Drake, the Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz doors 6:30 pm. See cover story, page 40. CNATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Irie Music Festival Third World, Ibadan, House of David, the Memberz and others 12:30-10 pm. SAVIARI TEA + COCKTAIL LOUNGE Keisha Prince 7 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. TRANE STUDIO Soul Volume 2 The John Campbell Group 8 pm. WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Porter.

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ASPETTA CAFFE Rebeca Tunks, the Pinsent Press 3 to 6 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm.

C’EST WHAT Dirt Farmer 7 pm. CLINTON’S Unplugged Ruby Randall & Nabi Loney. COLONEL SAMUEL SMITH PARK Lakeshore

Mardi Gras David Wilcox and others 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 10 pm. GROSSMAN’S New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm. CHARBOURFRONT CENTRE Island Soul, Royal Sweet Fingers Tambrin Band 6:30 pm, Speechifers 5:30 pm, Pan Fantasy Steelband 5 pm. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. THE LOADED DOG Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. LULA LOUNGE Cuban Son Duo noon. 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.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BOVINE SEX CLUB DJs Jive Bombers. BRANT HOUSE Cirque Du Freak Geoff Brown. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Watch This Sound 9 pm. CDAZZLING RESTAURANT Rooftop BBQ Party

DJ Chris Nice and others (soca/reggae/90s R&B/old school) 3 to 8 pm. DOWNSVIEW PARK Veld Music Festival Avicii, Bassnectar, Nicky Romero, AN21, Max Vangeli, Mord Fustang, Swanky Tunes, Darth & Vader, Manzone & Strong and others all ages. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Long Weekend Jam DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. CEMPRESS OF CANADA CRUISE SHIP Elite On The Water DJs 4Korners, Kid C, Scott Boogie, JB Allen, ISC Nation, Mr Phantastik, Special K boarding 9:45 pm. CFLY Go Hard: The Urban Jungle & Military Mini Ball Blackcat, Unruly Twin, JJ Rock, Pleasure, Yes Yes Y’All Crew doors 10 pm.5 CGUVERNMENT Hot 97/BET Caribana Party 10 pm. INSOMNIA DJ Shannon (old school hip-hop/ disco/funk). CKINGS PARK SOCA VILLAGE Soca Rave Iwer George, Kerwin Du Bois, Shal Marshal, Swappi, Rita Jones, Gyptian, KI, Ravi B and others 10 pm-6 am. CLONDON TAP HOUSE Carnival Social (hiphop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY DJ NV (hip-hop/funk/soul/ Motown/mashups) 10 pm. RIVOLI Hip-Hop Don’t You Know Devon Tracy, Raz Fresco, 6th Letter, Everyday, Jay Braaks, Jai Jones doors 4 pm. CSOUND ACADEMY Pool Party 2 Yankee Boy, Lindo P, Worm, Whiteboy, Chris Dubs, Ghost Ryder, USA Ruff Ryders, Lava Man noon to 8 pm. CSOUND ACADEMY Fire Fete Caribana Sunday (soca) 10 pm. SUNNYSIDE PAVILION Jump’N Shout Mark Farina, Jason Hodges, Morgan Shim, Nik Nik, Felix & Gani, Manolo, Richard Brooks, Ali Black doors 9 pm. CWRONGBAR Midnight Applauders Kwame Younge, DJ Dave Campbell (funk/house/soul/reggae/hip-hop) 10 pm. CZIPPERZ/CELLBLOCK Summer Breeze Outdoor Street Party & Summer Sizzle Ball DJs Blackcat & Pleasure 3 to 10 pm.5

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GROSSMAN’S No Band Required. OLD NICK Kim Jarrett, Elana Harte, Deb Whalen 7 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. SUPERMARKET Case Of The Folkin’ Mondays 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

GATE 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm, Mat MacDonald Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. PEOPLE’S CHICKEN Advocats Big Band (bop/ swing/swoon) 7:30 pm. REMARKS BAR & GRILL Jazz Jam-gria Pat Murray, Mark Kieswetter, Artie Roth, Nick Fraser 8 to 11 pm. REX Bob Lanzetti Trio & the Donna Grantis Electric Trio 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Panic! 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Fabrizio Mocata (jazz piano) 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, August 7 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BOVINE SEX CLUB Freddy Fuck-up, Rehab for Quitters, Coregasm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Memphis Tuesdays Hill

& the Sky Heroes doors 9 pm. THE GARRISON Eternal Summers (indie pop) doors 8:30 pm. HORSESHOE Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Sound of Lions, Arizona Lily Band, Brendan Distefano, Bright Skies, Daredevil Christopher Wright doors 8:30 pm. KOOL HAUS The Temper Trap, Doldrums doors 8 pm, all ages. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Collette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CASTRO’S LOUNGE BlueVenus (singer/songwriter) 10 pm.

C’EST WHAT Hinindar (dark folk) 9 pm. GATE 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. GROSSMAN’S Ms Debbie & the Don Valley Stompers 9:30 pm.

Fujimoto, Kanda Nissa, Rob Cayer 2 to 6 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM The Ault Sisters 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL Massey/Harris. MOTEL Open Mic 10 pm. PASSION LOUNGE Open Stage Nicola Vaughan

BOVINE SEX CLUB Moody Monday Flash Lightnin’. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm. CDOWNSVIEW PARK Jambana Festival Exco

THE RUSTY NAIL Open Jam Kevin Davies 9 pm. SUPERMARKET Spoke N’ Heard Showcase

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ASPETTA CAFFE Strange Specimens, Sargent

Levi, Steele, Andrew Tosh, Divine Brown, Josie Whales, MountainEdge Crew, Denis Jones and others 1 to 9:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

AMADEUS Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats

(pop rock) 9 pm.

doors 6:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ALLEYCATZ Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. THE CENTRAL Chris Peterson & the Time Wizards (jazz rock fusion) 10 pm.

6:30 pm.

GREAT BEER LIVES HERE Stew Innes (old school hip-hop/R&B).

THE PISTON Shoplifters Will Be Prosecuted

(digital needle DJs) 10 pm. REVIVAL Body Rock DJs Royale, Big Jacks, Shai, Surreal Sound, Mensa, Riccachet, Thera-P, Wan Luv, Big Philly doors 10 pm. CRICH NIGHTCLUB The Wet Fete (reggae/ soca) 10 pm. CSIX DEGREES Trinidad & Jamaica Party Series (hip-hop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. CSOUND ACADEMY Director X’s Caribana Event (hip-hop/R&B/reggae) 10 pm. CSUBA Walk Out Pon A Gyal DJs Unruly Twin, JJ Rock, Roman & Pleasure. SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal 10 pm. SUTRA TIKI BAR The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop).

DOMINION ON QUEEN Jazz Jam Noah Leibel

4 to 7 pm. GATE 403 Will Fisher Jazz Band 9 pm, Jeff Taylor & the SLT 5 to 8 pm. THE GRAYDON PUB Sax Appeal On The Patio Gerry Stewart, Tiffany Costa 3 to 6 pm. MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Sheraton Cadwell Orchestra 7:30 to 9 pm. REX Charles Mingus Tribute Tonight@Noon 9:30 pm, Alex Goodman Duo 7 pm, Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. SOLARA MEDITERRANEAN Conversation Piece Trio 4 to 7 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Holger Schoorl, Mike Gennaro, Dan Friedman 8 pm, Kyle Macdonald 5 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Woodchoppers Association (improv jazz) 10:30 pm, the Spanish Waiter – Mike Hopkins (classical guitar) 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, Composers’ Workshop 2 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Elvis Monday

Papermaps doors 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Yuka (funkfunk) doors 11 pm. EMMET RAY BAR William Carn’s RunStopRun 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Eyes On Queen West Vag Halen, JAT doors 8 pm. GUVERNMENT Lisa Lisa doors 8:30 pm. HORSESHOE Shoeless Monday The Company, the Falling Skybirds, Young Cardinals doors 8:30 pm. THE HOXTON Aloe Blacc, Badbadnotgood doors 8 pm. THE LOCAL Hamstring String Band. CNATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Irie Music Festival Dawn Penn, Lillian Allen and others 12:30 to 10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

COLONEL SAMUEL SMITH PARK Lakeshore Mardi Gras Suzie McNeil 4:30 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Hot Club Of Corktown DJango Jam 8:30 pm.

EARL BALES PARK BARRY ZUKERMAN AMPHITHEATRE Tuesday Night Live Toronto Saxo-

phone Quartet 7 pm. GATE 403 Dave Rubel Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. REX Zongo Junction 9:30 pm, Amanda Tosoff Trio 6:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Len Aruliah 8 pm. TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR Don Breithaupt & Chris Smith 9 pm. TRANE STUDIO Belinda Corpuz (jazz/pop) 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Peripheral Vision (jazz) 10 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

GOODHANDY’S T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck

doors 8 pm.5

HOLY OAK CAFE DJ Udon (reggae) 9 pm. INSOMNIA Soulful Tuesdays D-Jay. THE PISTON Bill Dre & the Poor Boys, Cailean Lewis 9 pm.

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In the wake of Lana Del Rey’s hyperspeed career explosion and flame-out, it’s become natural to receive out-ofnowhere overnight hype with shields up. That’s especially true if the hype comes from the British music press, which seems to crown a new “best band ever” every few weeks. So it shouldn’t come as a great surprise that the dramatic rise of Etobicoke’s Cold Specks has attracted a few suspicious side glances from music critics still worshipping the false idol of “authenticity.” The songs on Cold Specks’ debut album, I Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Arts & Crafts), had their live origins on the Toronto folk circuit, where band leader Al Spx performed solo under the name Basket of Figs. But they

didn’t start attracting buzz until she moved to London, England, hooked up with producer Jim Anderson, PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis and a crack team of British session musicians who reworked her fragile, heartfelt gospelblues ballads into full-band compositions with strings and horns. The response from UK publications was both immediate and hyperbolic. “There was a lot of hype in the UK before we even had the record out, and I have noticed that some of those magazines and newspapers tend to be incredibly fickle,” admits the softspoken Spx over the phone from the Calgary Folk Festival. “I just hope that the music we made justifies that.” Despite the blog hype, Expulsion benefits from repeated close listens, and, despite the long-laboured-over arrangements, its instrumentation mostly stays out of the way of Cold Specks’ biggest assets: her soulful, robust voice and expressively nuanced

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lyrics, which brim with barely hidden pathos and hesitant, insecure devotion. The album recently landed a coveted spot on the Polaris Prize short list, an honour that continues the 24-yearold’s transformation from virtual unknown with “disgusting stage fright” to the leader of a viable touring band recognized for making one of the 10 best Canadian albums of the past year. Not bad for an artist who didn’t find success until she left the country. Still a Canadian at both heart and passport, Spx feels lucky to be on a list with Feist and Cadence Weapon, her personal picks to win the prize. “I go back and forth between Toronto and London every other month,” she says. “I’m going to have to decide where to settle down eventually, but right now it’s hard to decide which one to call my home.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtoronto.com

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Early bird tickets on sale $25

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BOVINE SEX CLUB Hell Bros. THE CENTRAL Iain Leslie 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Classy Johnny

Massey, Felicia & the Bangs doors 9 pm. THE GREAT HALL Cold Specks, Snowblink doors 8 pm. See preview, this page. THE HARP PUB Johnny Max Band 8 pm. HORSESHOE Devah Quartet, the Blue Stones, Daybreak Gentlemen, Oxford Town 9 pm. THE PISTON Tropicalia 9 pm. RIVOLI Diana Mino 8:30 pm. SUPERMARKET Wednesdays Go POP! Seam, Dig Devil Dog, Danger Bees, JR Robitaille 9:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Raucous Barr (indie rock) 10 pm.

ALLEYCATZ Citysoul (swinging blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm.

Tickets available at: • TicketWeb/Ticket Master • Play De Records • System Music Warehouse

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ALLEYCATZ 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AMADEUS 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245. AMSTERDAM BREWERY 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882. ANDY POOLHALL 489 College. 416-923-5300. ANNEX WRECKROOM 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. ASPETTA CAFFE 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. BAR ITALIA 582 College. 416-535-3621. BEERBISTRO 18 King E. 416-861-9872. BELLA GARDENS 12700 Jane (King City). 905-833-2355. BENARES HISTORIC HOUSE 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). 905-615-4860. BLACK SWAN 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. BLUE SUEDE SUE’S 75 Watline (Mississauga). 905-890-0690. BOAT 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. BOVINE SEX CLUB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BRANT HOUSE 522 King W. 416-703-2800. BRASSAII 461 King W. 416-598-4730. CAMERON HOUSE 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. CAPTAIN MATTHEW FLINDERS 207 Queens Quay W, Pier 6. 416-203-0178. CASTRO’S LOUNGE 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. THE CENTRAL 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’EST WHAT 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA 200 Bathurst. CHEVAL 606 King W. 416-363-4933. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER 162 Bloor W. 416-922-4948. CITY NIGHTCLUB 296 Richmond W. 416-977-8900. CLINTON’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. COCONUTS RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 2180 Steeles W. 905-532-0504. COLLEGE STREET BAR 574 College. 416-533-2417. COLONEL SAMUEL SMITH PARK 1 Colone Samuel Smith Park. DAKOTA TAVERN 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. DAZZLING RESTAURANT 291 King W. 416-506-8886. DEVIL’S MARTINI 473 Adelaide W. 416-591-7541. DOMINION ON QUEEN 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. DOUBLETREE BY HILTON 655 Dixon. 416-244-1711. DOWNSVIEW PARK 35 Carl Hall. 416-954-0544. DRAKE HOTEL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. THE DUKE LIVE.COM 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. EARL BALES PARK 4169 Bathurst. 416-395-7873. EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. EL MOCAMBO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. EMMET RAY BAR 924 College. 416-792-4497. EMPIRE LOUNGE 50 Cumberland. 416-840-8440. EMPRESS OF CANADA CRUISE SHIP 11 Polson. ENTERPRISE 2000 242 Cherry, Pier 34. 416-777-5777. EPIPHANY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 4000 Steeles W. 416-802-4077. ETON HOUSE 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. FLY 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. FOOTWORK 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. FORT YORK GARRISON COMMONS 250 Fort York. THE FOUNDERY 376 Bathurst. THE 460 460 Spadina Ave. 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. 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. HARLEM 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. THE HARP PUB 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277. HART HOUSE 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. HOLY OAK CAFE 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. THE HOXTON 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. HUGH’S ROOM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. INSOMNIA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. KINGS PARK SOCA VILLAGE 7185 Dixie. KOOL HAUS 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. LAMBADINA 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607.

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Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Peter Boyd (blues) 9 pm. GATE 403 Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm, Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S Bruce Domoney 10 pm. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Gary 17s Acoustic Open Stage James Sloan 8 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Canadian Guitar Festival: Candyrat Night Maneli Jamal, Van Larkins &

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Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PaLace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. The LoaDeD Dog 1921 lawrence E. 416-901-0662. The LocaL 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. LoLa 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. LonDon TaP house 250 adelaide W. 416-205-1234. LuLa Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. Luxy nighTcLub 60 interchange Way (Vaughan). MajLis MuLTiDisciPLinary arTs 163 Walnut. 647-476-6472. Mansion nighTcLub 102 peter. McgraDies TaP anD griLL 2167 Victoria park. 416-449-1212. MeaDowvaLe TheaTre 6315 montevideo (mississauga). 905-615-4720. MeL LasTMan square 5100 Yonge. 416-395-7582. Mississauga ceLebraTion square 300 City Centre. 905-615-4311. MoLson aMPhiTheaTre 909 lake shore W. MoTeL 1235 Queen W. naThan PhiLLiPs square 100 Queen W. ngoMa Lounge 424 College. 647-345-8382. ohso nighTcLub 137 peter. 416-477-1474. oLD MiLL inn 21 old mill rd. 416-236-2641. oLD nick 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. The ossingTon 61 ossington. 416-850-0161. Pacha Lounge 1305 Dundas W. 416-530-4781. The PainTeD LaDy 218 ossington. 647-213-5239. ParTs & Labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. Passion Lounge 1220 Danforth. 416-999-0654. PeoPLeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chicken 744 mt pleasant. 416-489-7931. PeriDoT Lounge 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560. Phoenix concerT TheaTre 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. The PisTon 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. PorTobeLLo 995 Bay. 416-926-1800. reLish bar & griLL 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. reMarks bar & griLL 1026 Coxwell. 416-429-9889. reMenyi house of Music 210 Bloor W. rePosaDo 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. revivaL 783 College. 416-535-7888. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rich nighTcLub 332 richmond W. 416-578-2524. rivoLi 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. royaL banqueT haLL 185 statesman (mississauga). 416-587-1997. royaL conservaTory of Music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. The rusTy naiL 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. saviari Tea + cockTaiL Lounge 926 King W. 647-382-7072. sazerac gasTro Lounge 782 King W. 647-342-8866. siLver DoLLar 486 spadina. 416-975-0909. The sisTer 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. six Degrees 2335 Yonge. 416-486-9666. sLackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. sneaky Deeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 431 College. 416-603-3090. soLara MeDiTerranean 1731 lakeshore W (mississauga). 905-916-2334. soMewhere There sTuDio 227 sterling, unit 112. sounD acaDeMy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. souThsiDe johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3653 lake shore W. 416-521-6302. sPiriTs 642 Church. 416-967-0001. sT jaMes caTheDraL 65 Church. 416-364-7865. suba 292 College. 647-272-5067. sunnysiDe PaviLion 1755 lake shore W. 416-531-2233. suPerMarkeT 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. suTra Tiki bar 612 College. 416-537-8755. Ten resTauranT & wine bar 139 lakeshore E (mississauga). 905-271-0016. 3030 DunDas wesT 3030 Dundas W. 416-662-7072. TiMe nighTcLub 81 peter. 416-581-1118. ToronTo boTanicaL garDen 777 lawrence E. 416-397-1340. ToronTo Music garDen 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. TouLa 1 Harbour square, 38th floor. 416-777-2002. Trane sTuDio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. TrysT 82 peter. 416-588-7978. virgin MobiLe MoD cLub 722 College. 416-588-4663. The vue 195 galaxy Blvd. 416-213-9788. waTerfaLLs 303 augusta. 416-927-9666. wayLabar 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. wiLD waTer kingDoM 7855 Finch W (Brampton). 416-369-9453. The winchesTer arMs 1090 Kingston. 416-690-4070. winchesTer kiTchen & bar 51a Winchester. 416-323-0051. wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. yonge-DunDas square Yonge & Dundas. 416-979-9960. ziPPerz/ceLLbLock 72 Carlton. 416-921-0066.

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album reviews Their fourth album and major label debut continues to embrace classic rock fetishism, aiming for the rafters with grand, fist-pumping anthems and lighterwaving epics. Armed with shout-alongable meat-and-potato hooks, it reveals a band that’s lost its grasp on nuance. Choruses are bigger, solos longer and lyrical references more nostalgic and romantic. Brian Fallon croons his love for handwritten letters, vinyl records and working-class America, all in broad strokes and without a hint of irony. That straight-faced underdog populism has always been one of Gaslight’s most likeable qualities, but after four albums of American girls, dirt roads and fingers in dust with the radio on, it’s tough to overlook the clichés. Top track: Too Much Blood RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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Cut The World (Secretly Canadian) Rating: In most cases, only a band’s diehard fans love their live albums, which are often a cheap way to buy time between studio albums. But when you’ve got a stunningly beautiful voice like Antony Hegarty’s, you can get away with it. He’s the kind of singer who makes people remember what they were doing when they first heard him. Hearing him let loose over lush arrangements played by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra is immensely pleasurable, even if the title cut is the only new song. Many of the older songs, though, have been significantly reworked. It’s hard to picture Hegarty any more dramatic, but an orchestra definitely lends an epic quality to the music. Second track Future Feminism is an odd interlude featuring Hegarty talking about religion, patriarchy, gender and ecology for almost eight minutes. While you might be tempted to skip it, spending some time trying to absorb what he’s getting at gives you a much richer context in which to appreciate his songwriting. Top track: I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy BENJAMIN BOLES

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Correct Behavior (Kanine) Rating: NNNN Virginia’s Eternal Summers grew from a duo to a trio between their debut LP, Silver, and their new album, Correct Behavior, and the change has done them good. They’re still bouncing between dark post-punk and sunny dream pop every other song, but that dichotomy is making more sense, and they actually rock out

ñREDD KROSS here and there, too. It’s almost as if they’re deliberately offering up a buffet of hip, underground guitar-band trends from the past four decades. One song might bring to mind 90s UK shoegaze acts, the next bouncy Ramones pop-punk, and then it’s onto the jangly new-wave of 80s college radio. On paper, that gives the impression of a homemade compilation, but the production stays consistently sparse and minimal. Despite the eclectic influences, Correct Behavior is a remarkably cohesive listen. Top track: You Kill Eternal Summers play the Garrison Tuesday (August 7). BB

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Handwritten (Mercury) Rating: NN The Gaslight Anthem have always been too easily described in three words: “punk rock Springsteen.” But with every album the New Jersey rockers have slid closer to Bruce and further from punk.

Researching The Blues (Merge) Rating: NNNN The brothers McDonald, Steve and Jeff, have been making music together as Redd Kross for 30 years. Their early records were scrappy punk rock that name-checked pop culture icons like Linda Blair and Lita Ford. Researching The Blues is as far away from that early DIY sound as possible. From the opening chords of the title track, it fills the speakers with guitars, harmonies and drums that recall Keith Moon in his prime. Should the album title cause you to think they’ve changed musical direction, rest assured that Red Kross still have a soft spot for big 70s riffs and infectious choruses. Lyrically, they tread slightly more serious territory, though there are still plenty of bah-bah-bahs to keep things bubbly. From start to finish, Researching The Blues satisfies. It’s too bad there’s no ballad, but the energy that crackles from these rockers makes it easy to forget about the lack of love songs. Top track: Stay Away From Downtown JOANNE HUFFA

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Small Fame (File Under: Music) Rating: NNNN Progressive pop band Bend Sinister haven’t released a full-length album since 2008 , but that was never due to a lack of new songs. The Vancouver four-piece instead chose to stay out on the road and roll out EP after EP, the latest as recently as March of this year. Small Fame, their long-awaited third LP, comes hot on its heels, and features just two of On My Mind’s songs. That my favourite, The Road Divided, didn’t make the cut goes to show how consistently strong singer/pianist Dan Moxon is as a songwriter.

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On Small Fame, he cherry-picks the best aspects of Supertramp, Billy Joel, Queen and even Iron Maiden, then adds his huge voice and woozy keyboards overtop. Meanwhile, his bandmates throw in glammy guitar solos, crushing drums and thunderous bass lines. Does it occasionally cross into cheese? Yes. (See Hot Blooded Man, My Lady). Mostly, though, it’s anthemic, heart-bursting, whiplashingly ambitious music that gives everything they’ve got. Top track: One Shot Bend Sinister play the Horseshoe October 6. CARLA GILLIS

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KALLE MATTSON Lives In Between (Parliament of Trees) Rating: NNN On Someday, the first song on Kalle Mattson’s new five-song release, the Sault Ste. Marie-born, Ottawa-based singer/songwriter sings that he’s sick and tired of “bars and shitty rock ’n’ roll.” The lyric jumps out against the harmonica-touched folk and Mattson’s small nice-guy voice, which are so pleasant – as is the album as a whole and to a fault – that it’s satisfying to hear him momentarily lash out. But it only happens once. The tunes that follow continue in a sweet and breezy vein. Horns replace harmonica on poppy Sun Is Gone, reverb vocals and distorted guitar add a psychedelic edge to The Shore, a sputtering rhythm, poetic lyrics and big guitars push the beguiling Water Falls into Weakerthans’ territory, while closer Miles In Between settles back into gentle folk, this time with elegant string enhancements. Top track: Water Falls CG

And not everything moves so briskly. Travelin’ Song is spaciously drenched in reverby banjo and sad strings, and The Rapture begins with a quietly growled religious warning and a scream. But don’t get the wrong idea – these guys are fun and charismatic. Not frightening in the least. Top track: Blue And Feelin’ The Magnificent Sevens play YongeDundas Square Friday (August 3). SG

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RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don’t (Universal) Rating: NN Rick Ross is one of hip-hop’s most vividly self-aggrandizing rappers, but his fifth LP falls short of the lofty Mafioso visions he conjures in his rhymes. God Forgives, I Don’t is a smoothly sequenced mix of bangers and introspective narratives that eventually give way to the requisite radio-friendly ladies’ jams. The Florida MC’s eccentric storytelling skills are as tight as ever on the soulsearching, Bill Withers-sampling Ashamed. But the album’s production work is predictable, and its high-concept narratives (Hold Me Back, Diced Pineapples) are painfully over thought. With few exceptions, the guest features fall flat, the most egregious offenders being Dr. Dre and Jay-Z, whose inane verses undermine Three Kings’ iconic aspirations. Much better is Meek Millassisted So Sophisticated, with its ferocious syllabic one-upmanship. André 3000 attacks the 16-bar verse format – and a guitar solo! – on Sixteen, which contains some of the record’s best rapping. But it also reminds us that Ross’s idea of cinematic grandeur draws heavily on B-movie clichés. Can we please retire the sax solo? Top track: Ashamed KEVIN RITCHIE

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Mint Juleps (Hidden Pony) Rating: Bicycle-touring Ottawa-based singer/ songwriter Jeremy Fisher has bottled up a bit of the summer in his simple and sweet fifth album, a mix of covers and originals recorded live with a small acoustic band. Mint Juleps kicks off with a cover of John Hiatt’s Gone that brings out the song’s bluegrassiness, then moves into Gordon Lightfoot’s jangly Spin Spin. Fisher’s On My Mind recalls elements of both. The rest of the album flows just as well, with an especially strong acoustic-guitardriven middle featuring If It’s Alright With You (Gene MacLellan) and Bleed A Little Tonight (Ron Hawkins). Politics creep in near the end on Fisher’s simple-living manifesto Built To Last and a cover of Greg Brown’s Canned Goods. Top track: Bleed A Little Tonight SARAH GREENE

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVENS All Kinds Of

Mean (Transistor 66) Rating: NNN You may want a shot of coffee in your beer in order to keep up with the Magnificent Sevens’ sophomore album. Many of the bluegrass- and countryinspired tunes move at an impressive clip, including an adrenalin-soaked cover of Neil Young’s Unknown Legend and a tough take on the Dillards’ There Is A Time. The Winnipeg acoustic five-piece may be contemporary and a little punk in approach, but they’re traditional in instrumentation, playing acoustic guitars, upright bass, banjo, dobro and fiddle.

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THE VERY BEST MTMTMK (Moshi Moshi) Rating: NNN The video for the Very Best’s first single, Yoshua Alikuti, from second record MTMTMK is a remake of Lil Wayne’s A Milli. Singer Esau Mwamwaya, who lives in Lilongwe, Malawi, saunters, flaneur-like, around the slums of Nairobi, hopping on cars and trailed by associates and bandmate Johan Hugo of London’s Radioclit. The Very Best have benefited from the publicity gained by riffing on a video or song by a popular Western artist. Covers of M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend tunes on their 2009 debut helped bring attention to the Afro-pop project. But beneath the stunts, they’ve got strong originals, too, with Mwamwaya’s effervescent, giddy performances – usually sung in English or Chewa – bubbling merrily over Hugo’s sub-bass. On MTMTMK, the duo moves through a range of global sounds, from Congolese kwassa kwassa to reggaeton to electro house. Fuelling the idea that polyriddims are the future, they’ve got features from powerhouses like Bruno Mars, K’naan, Amadou & Mariam, and other of Mwamwaya’s continental compatriots. Top track: Kondaine ANUPA MISTRY

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Paolo Santalucia and Sarah Koehn reunite with their ﬁrst teacher, director László Marton, on Mikhail Bugakov play.

Members of Soulpepper’s Academy rub shoulders with vets in The Royal Comedians By JON KAPLAN

When playwrights live in a repressive age, they sometimes turn to an earlier time to discuss their artistic constraints. Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Royal Comedians (Molière) isn’t overtly political, dealing as it does with the life of 17thcentury French comic playwright Molière. But Bulgakov, writing in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, found a parallel between his ruler, Stalin, and Molière’s all-powerful Sun King, Louis XIV. Soulpepper’s production features not only company regulars Diego Matamoros (as Molière), Stuart Hughes and William Webster, but also the mainstage debuts of the eight members of the Soulpepper Academy. “There are fascinating parallels between Molière and Bulgakov,” says Sarah Koehn, who plays Molière’s

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THE ROYAL COMEDIANS (MOLIÈRE) by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by László Marton, with Diego Matamoros, Gregory Prest, Michael Hanrahan, Sarah Koehn, Raquel Duffy and Paolo Santalucia. Presented by Soulpepper at the Young Centre (50 Tank House Lane). Previews through Monday (August 6), opens Tuesday (August 7) and runs in rep to September 21. $51$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. 416-866-8666.

young bride, Armande Béjart. “Both were at the mercy of their rulers, and Molière was further inhibited by the Catholic Church, which had a huge influence on what art was created and performed. “Bulgakov had a similar relationship with Stalin; some of his works were thought to slander the Soviet

theatre listings How to find a listing

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one- offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows:

NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook

= Critics’ pick (highly recommended)

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ANTOINE FEVAL by Chris Gibbs (Globus The-

atre). This comedy looks at the exploits of a 19th-century English detective’s dim-witted sidekick. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 18, Tue-

state, which was as dangerous a thing to do as criticize the established religion in Molière’s time.” Directed by frequent guest artist László Marton, the show incorporates not only Bulgakov’s text, but also scenes from Molière’s plays, including episodes from Tartuffe and The School For Wives, which comment on

what’s happening offstage. “László creates a context in which the audience sees how quickly things can shift in the world of Paris,” notes Paolo Santalucia, who appears as Molière’s adopted son, Zacharie Moirron. “It was a scary time in which the king could shower you with accolades one minute and

Sat 8 pm, mat Aug 11 & 16 at 2 pm. $27.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. globustheatre.com. THE BEST OF FRINGEKIDS 2012 (Theatre Direct/Fringe Toronto). Three kids’ shows from last month’s Fringe Fest (Something From Nothing; The Tempest – A Puppet Epic; Tick) return to the stage. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 12, Tue-Thu 10 & 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30 & 7 pm, Sun noon, 1 & 4 pm. $12.30. Wychwood Barns Theatre, 76 Wychwood. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. BLUE SUEDE SHOES: MEMORIES OF THE KING by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the songs of Elvis Presley. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Sep 1, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, previews $32, stu $20. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888-3729866, draytonentertainment.com. BRIXTON STORIES by Biyi Bandele (AfriCan Theatre Ensemble). A father wakens from a coma and reunites with his daughter in this magic realist play. Opens Aug 2 and runs to Aug 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30, stu/srs

$20. Lyric Theatre, 434 King W, Hamilton. 905527-6135, lyrichamilton.com.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (The Classical Theatre Pro-

ject). Three actors perform 37 plays in 97 minutes in this interactive show performed on the garden terrace. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 29, Wed 7 and 9:30 pm (no show Aug 22). $50, stu/srs $30. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-915-6750, completeworksabridged.com. THE DEVIL WE KNOW by Cheryl Foggo and Clem Martini (Blyth Festival). Black teen sisters at home alone must deal with a dangerous stranger in 1940s Saskatchewan. Previews to Aug 2. Opens Aug 3 and runs to Sep 1, see website for schedule. $30-$34, preview $22$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON LIVE (DreamWorks). Dragons and Vikings collide in this live show featuring actors, acrobats and fullsize dragons. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 12, Wed-Sat 7 pm, mats Sat 11 am & 3 pm, Sun 11 am & 4 pm. $35-$160. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. dreamworksdragonslive.com.

put you in the dungeon the next. “There’s an excitement in performing that kind of manic changeability. Sometimes it can be funny, but then you’re hit with how terrifying it can be. Bulgakov understood and lived that danger, too, trying to figure out, like Molière, how to please those in power.” Working with Marton brings the Academy members full circle; he was their first teacher when they started the program last year, guiding them through Ibsen scene studies. “What he’s always encouraged us to do is find out who we are as young actors and make use of that in the roles we play,” explains Santalucia. “He never asks us to push beyond what we can do, but rather coaxes us to draw on our own experiences and lives to create a character. “I adore the fact that when he talks about The Royal Comedians, it’s always in terms of ‘our production.’ Though it’s his vision and his casting, he treats all of us, Academy people and seasoned actors, as an ensemble.” Koehn’s also impressed with the Academy’s seamless transition from studying to acting. “Moving from the classroom to the rehearsal hall means that we get to work with Soulpepper actors we’ve admired for so long,” she adds. “Now we have a chance to create alongside of them and see what their work processes are. While the work we’re doing now is so different from the scene studies, we’re still learning from these talented people.” “It’s a thrill to walk into a room and know that everyone there wants you to be part of the company and the community,” smiles Santalucia. “I’m a young actor, but I feel integral to the heartbeat of the place.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowstage

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MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Humber

River Shakespeare Co). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy presented outdoors. Aug 2-3, Thu-Fri 7 pm (see website for performances in other GTA parks, to Aug 5). Pwyc. Etienne Brulé Park, Bloor W at Riverside. 416209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca. THE MAN FROM THE CAPITAL by Colin Heath and John Millard (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). Corrupt local officials panic when they hear that a government inspector is coming in this comedy. Previews Aug 7. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 25, Wed-Sat 6:30 pm, mat Fri 1:30 pm. $32, srs $26, youth $10. Rosehall Run Vineyard, 1243 Greer, Wellington. 1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca. OLIVER by Lionel Bart (Port Hope Festival Theatre). This musical is based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist. Opens Aug 2 and runs to Aug 26, see website for schedule. $29, mat $25. Capitol Arts Centre, 20 Queen, Port Hope. 1-800434-5092, capitoltheatre.com. PETER PAN by JM Barrie (UC Follies Theatre Company). The classic story of the boy who

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Paul Dunn scores as Puck in this innovative Dream.

Dream on

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare, adapted by Kevin Fox, Tom Lillington and D. Jeremy Smith (Driftwood). On tour in Ontario through August 19. See driftwoodtheatre.com for schedule, and Out of Town, page 54. Pwyc. Rating: NNN

It may be a line from another Shake speare play (Twelfth Night), but Drift wood Theatre’s production of the Bard’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes to heart the idea that “if music be the food of love, play on.” The innovation in this Dream, adapted by Kevin Fox, Tom Lillington and director D. Jeremy Smith, is the extensive use of a cappella musical settings of some of the original spoken text and the fairy songs. The plot involves two pairs of lovers wandering through the woods; their initially tangled relationships are first confused further and then set right by fairies whose rulers, Oberon and Titania, have their own amatory squabbles. A group of workmen, rehearsing a play for the upcoming nuptials of royals Theseus and Hippolyta, become caught up in the forest’s magic. The acting company is a compact one, with the lovers (Nathan Carroll, Madeleine Donohue, Christian Felici ano and Stephanie Seaton) appearing as four of the rubber-booted workmen as well as voicing Titania’s attendant fairies, seen as dolls flying around on

bamboo poles. There’s also the usual doubling of Theseus/Oberon (Steven Burley) and Hippolyta/Titania (Alexis Gordon). In Smith’s hands, the language is generally well handled, though some of the lovers are more successful in conveying their emotions than their words. That’s never the case with Donohue, whose Helena is always in the moment; one idea flows clearly into the next. The other standouts are Burley’s commanding Oberon, Paul Dunn’s hyperactive Puck and Andrew Scanlon, who plays up the character’s comedy but also provides an occasional touching moment, as Bottom. And the a cappella music? It’s often cleverly devised, well sung by the company and much of it works, especially the material involving the fairies. The tunes for the mortal lovers, though, are less convincing; while they’re attractively performed, little’s gained from a musical adaptation of JON KAPLAN the text.

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never grows up is performed outdoors. Bring your own blanket. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $8, Wed pwyc. Hart House Circle, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca. THE ROyAL COMEDIANS by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). This play looks at the life of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, aka Molière (see story, page 51). 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. STORM WARNING by Norm Foster (Rose Theatre). A weary army vet meets a brash music writer in 50s northern Ontario in this romantic comedy. Opens Aug 3 and runs to Aug 25, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sun and Wed 2 pm (no shows Aug 9-12). $27. 1 Theatre Lane, Studio, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. WIFE BEGINS AT 40 by Arne Sultan, Earl Barret and Ray Cooney (Upper Canada Playhouse). An unhappy woman and her clueless husband try to rekindle the spark. Previews Aug 2-3. Opens Aug 4 and runs to Aug 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $32, stu/srs $28, previews $21. 12320 County Road 2, Morrisburg. uppercanadaplayhouse.com. A WORD OR TWO by Christopher Plummer (Stratford Festival). Plummer performs his solo autobiographical show about the literature that has stirred his imagination. Opens Aug 2 and runs in rep to Aug 26. $75-$125. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

Previewing THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). A small, devout Massachusetts ñ 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. ELEKTRA by Sophocles (Stratford Festival). Elektra and her brother seek vengeance against their mother and stepfather. Previews to Aug 10. Opens Aug 11 and runs in rep to Sep 29. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen (Shaw Festival). A headstrong new bride wreaks havoc on all around her to keep her checkered past secret. Previews to Aug 9. Opens Aug 10 and runs in rep to Sep 29. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. OLEANNA by David Mamet (Unit 102 Actors

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Hardcore Beatles fans will find lots to enjoy in this moody, slow-moving story about the forming of the Fab Four. Others, though, might not be so enthusiastic. I fall somewhere in between. It’s the early 1960s, and young Liverpudlian rockers John Lennon (Andrew Knott), Paul McCartney (Daniel Healy), George Harrison (Daniel Westwick), Pete Best (Oliver Bennett) and painterturned-mediocre-bass-player Stuart Sutcliffe (Nick Blood) get a gig in Hamburg playing eight hours a night in a seedy club. When Sutcliffe falls for German photographer Astrid Kirchherr (Isa bella Calthorpe), it threatens to disrupt the group, who are on the verge of finding their voice and breaking

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Company). A power struggle ensues when a female student accuses a professor of sexual harassment. Previews Aug 8-10. Opens Aug 15 and runs to Aug 31, Fri and Wed 8 pm (except Aug 17), Aug 18 at 8 pm, mats Aug 19 and 25 at 2 pm. $20. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102tix@gmail.com.

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THE HOURS THAT REMAIN (New Harlem Productions/Saskatchewan Native Theatre Co). Funder for Keith Barker’s new play with performances and visual art. Aug 3, doors 8 pm. Pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. newharlemproductions.wordpress.com. PROTESTIvAL (Jesse Stong). Staged readings of six 10-minute plays by emerging writers that are based on real Canadian protest stories. Aug 3 at 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

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ADvENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (Frolick). This all-ages show about a boy’s dream world is an adaptation of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland. Runs to Aug 26, Wed-Sun 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm. $10 or pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. 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 (see review, this page). Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun & Wed 2 pm. $36-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) BEIRUT by Allan Bowne (Borat Gump Productions). A woman defies the law and sneaks into a quarantined area of New York to be with her lover. Runs to Aug 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. secureaseat.com. BEST OF THE FRINGE THEATRE FESTIvAL (Fringe Toronto). Encore performances ñ of Help Yourself, Mahmoud, Pomme Is French

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through. It also upsets the bromance between him and Lennon. The script, based on co-writer Iain Softley’s film, doesn’t offer much insight into anyone or anything, including the crucial Lennon/Sutcliffe relationship. Some moments – like the changing of the band’s name – aren’t given proper significance; at the same time, though, there’s a hushed reverence about the proceedings, as if the writers are worrying too much about hitting plot points and following facts instead of making entertainment. Loud, brash renditions of classics like Johnny B Goode and Good Golly Miss Molly – all performed by the actors – seem inserted to appease audience members who just want to rock out. But once the show finds its emotional heart, it’s absorbing enough. Director David Leveaux uses the depth and height of the Royal Alex well, and Timothy Bird and Nina Dunn’s projections – often inspired by Kirchherr’s photos –

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and With Love And A Major Organ. Runs to Aug 3, Thu-Fri 7 and 9 pm. $16.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855-9852787, fringetoronto.com. CLOUDS OvER T.O. by Sten Eirik (Guildwood Festival Theatre). A man struggles with urban living and debt in this adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Clouds set in present-day Toronto. Runs to Aug 12, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, 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). The tragic farce about a love triangle is performed with musical guests. Runs to Aug 4, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm. $23. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. secureaseat.com. 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, Thu-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. 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. Runs to Aug 26, Wed-Sun 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Co). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 5, Sat-Sun 7 pm (see website for performances in other GTA parks). Pwyc. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-2092026, 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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add lots of texture. The costumes in the German underground scene strike some odd notes, seeming either retro or way ahead of their time. But the music, like the rare quiet a cappella number sung by Healy or the greatest hits package blasted by the band near the end, is pretty brilliant. And that’s what audiences want, GLENN SUMI after all.

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MIND READER (Bobby Motta). Mentalist Motta

performs a weekly interactive show. Indefinite run, Wed 8 pm. $15. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 647-692-3403, bobbymotta.com. 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. Runs to Aug 5, see website for schedule. $26, stu/srs $22. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, solt.ca. 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 (in one eye-popping case, under them). Runs to Aug 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29.50-$119.50. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. cavalia.net. NNN (GS) 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. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) THE SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). Two vaudeville veterans must overcome their mutual dislike to reunite for a TV special (see review, this page). Runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) VOYAGE TO YOUR MIND (Haim Goldenberg). TV star and mentalist Goldenberg performs mind tricks and games. Runs to Aug 2, Thu 8:30 pm. $40. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. reallifementalist.com/TorontoLiveShow.

WAR HORSE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford ñ (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole)

Out of Town THE BEST BROTHERS by Daniel MacIvor (Stratford Festival). Two very different ñ 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. 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. CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A bogus claim of infidelity leads a king’s daughter to risk everything for love. Runs in rep to Sep 30. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. 42ND STREET by Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Festival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical production afloat. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS by Terence Rattigan (Shaw Festival). Young men come to France to improve their language skills but get distracted by women in this comedy. Runs in rep to Sep 15. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. 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. HAVING HOPE AT HOME by David S Craig (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). A woman goes into labour at a tense family gathering. Runs to Aug 11, see website for schedule. $30, mat $27, stu $14. 302 Bridge, Port Stanley. 1-855782-4353, portstanleytheatre.ca. 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). Actor Alon Nashman and director Paul Thompson’s portrait of John Hirsch, the talented, complicated director who for a time ran the Stratford Festival, pulls no punches; the show reveals Hirsch’s caustic, irascible side as well as his passion for and insight into theatre. Nashman is mesmerizing as he takes the audience from the Hungarian-born Hirsch’s loss of family in the Holocaust to his successes and tribulations on Canadian and international stages. Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, 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. JOHNNY AND JUNE by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This revue pays tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter. Runs to Aug 11, see website for times. $40, stu $20. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. 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. Runs to Sep 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27-$32, stu $16. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1000islandsplayhouse.com. A MAN AND SOME WOMEN by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). Sowerby’s unknown little gem of a play is an early feminist work, but on the surface it’s about the liberation of a man from servitude to his demanding, manipulative wife and sisters. The Shaw ensemble is expert at suggesting the emo-

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Shtick sticks THE SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). To September 22. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. See Continuing, this page . Rating: NNN

Neil Simon’s best known play continues to be The Odd Couple, that classic comedy about mismatched roommates. The Sunshine Boys is a sort of geriatric take on that formula, and though not as well known, it’s endured through community stagings and the odd high-profile revival, like the recent West End production and the current one at Soulpepper. Al Lewis (Kenneth Welsh) and Willie Clark (Eric Peterson) were a famous vaudeville team for 43 years before Al suddenly retired, leaving Willie scrounging for solo work. They haven’t seen each other in more than a decade when they get a call from a network asking them to stage a famous routine for a TV special on the history of comedy. When they finally, reluctantly reunite, via Willie’s agent/nephew (Jordan Pettle, fine in an underwritten role), grudges resurface, and the now old men generate a lot of laughs, as well as the occasional tear.

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tional subtext of the play and, under Alisa Palmer’s direction, the strength of the writing shines through. 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. THE MELVILLE BOYS by Norm Foster (Drayton Entertainment). Two brothers’ plans for a guys getaway change when they meet two sisters in this comedy. Runs to Aug 11, WedSat (see website for times). $40, stu $20. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. 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 review, page 52). See website for dates and locations. Runs to Aug 19, all shows 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Southern Ontario, from Peterborough to Kitchener, Hamilton to Bobcaygeon. 905-576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com. NNN (JK) THE MILLIONAIRESS by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). The richest woman in England and an Egyptian doctor fall in love, but have conflicting family obligations. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. MISALLIANCE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane crashes into her home during a dull party. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). 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-on-the-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, Thu-Sat 6 pm. $26-$30. Winslow Farm, 779 Zion Line, Millbrook. 1-800-814-0055, 4thlinetheatre.on.ca. RAGTIME by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-of-the-century America is seen through the eyes of three 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. 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, Niagara-on-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.

THE WAR OF 1812: THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1812-1815 ñ by Michael Hollingsworth (Stratford Festival/

VideoCabaret). This history play looks at the war and its effects on a native confederation that fought in defence of Canada. 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). Who says this show doesn’t belong on a Stratford stage? Sure, the original charming, low-fi staging has been thrown out for big production numbers, but the cast is almost always winning and, just as importantly, the kids in the audience loved it. Maybe in later years they’ll ask their parents to bring them to see some Shakespeare. 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

Simon’s script is jokey, middlebrow material, but there’s an affection for show business types in it, as well as a moving metaphor about friendship and working relationships. It’s a shame Simon doesn’t dig deeper into Willie’s feelings of betrayal and loneliness. Still, director Ted Dykstra and the actors suggest a lot that’s not in the script and nail most of the jokes, even the corniest ones. In comedy, timing is everything, and Peterson and Welsh, who have the contrasting energy of a genuine duo – the former’s all scattered zaniness, the latter’s more stolid and deadpan – know just when to deliver a salvo. Classic gags fill the act two recreation of their TV scene, and the pair are almost upstaged by Sarah Wilson’s bosomy nurse. Patrick Clark’s set and costumes efficiently evoke 70s Manhattan, and it’s surely no coincidence that, in the second act, Quancetia Hamilton (another scene-stealer) plays her real-life nurse like a smarttalking character in a sitcom from GLENN SUMI that era.

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Thursday, August 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Lamont Ferguson,

Marc Sinodinos and host Jim McNally. To Aug 5, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 49 Drake Hotel presents the sketch troupe’s monthly show. Doors 8 pm. $10. 1150 Queen W, Underground. boomcomedy.com. 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. READY, SET, LAUGH! Second City presents an all-ages collection of sketches, songs and improv to benefit the SickKids Foundation. To Aug 31, Thu-Fri 1 pm. $14, family pack $48. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN The Weaker Vessels present a sketch comedy revue w/ Charles Booth, Allan Cooke, Jeff Clark, Colin Sharpe and Becky J Johnson. To Aug 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $5-$8. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. facebook.com/events/467915456557070. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Freddy Proia. To Aug 4, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Donnie Coy, Manolis Zontanos and Kristeen Von Hagen. To Aug 4, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, August 3 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. PREMIUM COMEDY CARES Comedy

Lounge presents a benefit for Colorado ñ shooting victim/comic Caleb Medley w/ Nile

Saturday, August 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. THE COMEDY HOSTEL: LAUGH WITH FELLOW TRAVELLERS Jon Selig presents stand-up w/

Danish Anwar, Kris Bonaparte, Emma Wilkie, Hoodo Hersi, Selig, host Ali Hassan and others. 7:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2.

LAUGH THROUGH THIS: ALL FEMALE COMEDY SHOW Black Swan presents improv, musicals,

sketch and stand-up w/ host Moniquea Marion and others. 10 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. THE SAL & SANDY SHOW Underground Comedy Club presents Precious Chong, K Trevor Wilson, Lianne Milaudin, the Sue’s, John Hastings, Mark DeBonis and hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761. WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 3. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 2.

Wednesday, August 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

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Monday, August 6 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Bob Kerr, Bryan Hatt, Diana Love, Allison ñ Dore, Rob Bebenek, MC Dom Pare and others.

9 pm. Coming Soon... w/ Jeff Free, Eli Jakeman, Nitish Sakhuja, MC Michael Harrison and others. 11 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. EYES ON QUEEN WEST Gladstone Hotel presents a variety show w/ Debra DiGiovanni, Trevor Boris, host Stephen Eyes, musical guests and more. 8 pm. $13-$18. 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/events/494343637259009. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Cheap Smokes w/ Ali Hassan, Cash Grab, host Danny Polishchuk and more. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com. THE SHISHA SHOW Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Terry Clement, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. Free. 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

Brian Stollery, Danielle Meierhenry, Leny Corrado, Mike Samuels, Peter Aterman, Phil Maynard and host Ward Anderson. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca. FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. 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 Heidi Brander, Laura Di Labio, Emma Hunter, Zachary Pearse, Sara Hennessey, host Andrew Johnston and more. 8:30 pm. Free. Slack’s, 562 Church. facebook.com/LaughsAtSlacks. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ James Hammond and host Brian Ward. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Dave Martin, Ted Morris, Dom Pare, Becky Bays, Clifford Myers, Dave Code, Taylor Erwin, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. 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. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Shannon Laverty. To Aug 12, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

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Opening ISLAND SOUL Harbourfront Centre presents an arts and culture festival ñ unit102 presents with dance by Caribbean Folk Performers and the Jouvay mas spectacle by Theatre Archipelago. Aug 3-6, see website for schedule. david mametʼs Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. oleanna JUNIOR COMPANY PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE &

Ballet Jörgen presents students from the intensive program and professional dancers. Aug 3 at 5 pm. Pwyc. George Brown College, 160 Kendal, Bldg C, room 126. 416-961-4725.

neil labuteʼs Continuing Tuesday, August 7 in a dark dark DUSK DANCES presentshouse outdoor dance FALL 2012 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. featuring Zata Omm Dance Projects, the ñ 605 Collective, Lua Shayenne & Co, Bageshree SKETCH COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli preVaze and tiger princess dance projects. Runs sents Matt Shury’s Big Show w/ MC ñ to ave Aug 5, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Withrow aug 8 – sept 1 at unit 102bytheatre, 376 dufferin Shury, Rick & Chuck, videos Jeff Leeson Park, and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332unit102tix@gmail.com, Queen W. tickets: info:725 Logan. duskdances.ca. www.unit102theatre.com

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Seguin, Adam McFawn, Kris Bonaparte and more. 8 pm. $10. Grotto Lounge, 647 College. comedylounge.ca. READY, SET, LAUGH! See Thu 2. WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Allyson Smith, Rob Rubin and Bryan Hatt. To Aug 4, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 2.

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Molotov, Jill Knight, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Unlike Iran, India or Japan, Canada doesn’t immediately jump to mind when we think “rich textile traditions.” Nevertheless, the museum’s curators deepen our appreciation of our woven, hooked and sewn heritage by juxtaposing the work of 10 contemporary Canadian artists with Canadian clothing and domestic textiles from the collection. The frugality required to survive in a harsh environment, reflected in rag rugs and quilts that used every precious fabric scrap, resonates in contemporary collage practices,

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KATHLEEN EDWARDS AT HILLSIDE When Kathleen Edwards lets loose in concert, the results are something to behold. This performance on the opening night of Hillside Festival 2012 is proof. GASLIGHT ANTHEM TURN IT ON See the New Jersey rockers open their raucous set with Great Expectations from their 2008 record The 59 Sound. SARAH GADON ON FRENCH FILMMAKING Watch University of Toronto grad and recent Cronenburg muse Sarah Gadon talk about her love of French cinema.

while outdoorsy animal imagery receives strange or whimsical 21st-century reinterpretations. Both themes are at work in Grant Heaps’s quilt-sized deer banner made of tiny un-seamed fabric squares tenuously held together by horizontal and vertical stitching, its technique and scale giving a mass-produced image a fresh spin. It shares a room with Graeme Patterson’s wistful DIY stop-motion animation in which a deer and monkey make the artist’s now abandoned Saskatchewan hometown into their playground, and Lydia and Raymond Scott’s farm-animal hooked rugs whose backstory (which we learn from the museum’s customary scholarly wall tags) about the loss of their New Brunswick farm belies their cuteness. Aboriginal artist John Henry Fine

Years Of Designing The Ballet, to Sep 2. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Rule Britannia!, to Sep 16. Connections: British And Canadian Studio Pottery, to Dec 30. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Douglas Walker, to Aug 18. Ron Benner, to Sep 30. 7 Hart House. 416978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Fashionality, to Sep 3. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA trans/FORM; The Shape Of Things, to Aug 12. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Freedom Of Assembly, to Sep 2. Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E;

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Grant Heaps’s Stag revisits a kitschy Canuck image.

Day achieves a similar effect by constructing his stuffed-toy-shaped dog and bunny out of pieces of rough sinew-sewn rawhide. Jérôme Fortin’s Self-Portrait, collaged paper strips hanging over a dowel, echoes a ceinture fléchée (the braided red sash worn by Quebec voyageurs), while Jason McLean’s travel memento, a laminated map of North America ornamented with transit passes, bounces off a quilt commemorating a family’s 19th-century journey from Scotland.

Ruth Schueing mixes diary with domesticity in eight jacquard-woven cotton squares that transform GPS maps and personal data into the world’s most conceptually rich dish towels. Amidst all the warm winter woolens, Michael Snow’s video of billowing cabin curtains and Barbara Todd’s quilt and prints based on beach pebbles give Dreamland a cottagey feel that makes it a fine summer show. 3

Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905844-4402. ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE The DIY Body Project, to Aug 12. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. POWER PLANT Tools For Conviviality; Dissenting Histories, to Aug 26. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. Small Skills, Special Effects: Unusual Chinese Works Of Art, to Feb 3, 2013. Todd Ainslie; C Carnival: From Emancipation To Celebration, to Feb 24, 2013. Jane Ash Poitras; Sovereign Allies/Living Cultures: First Nations Of The Great Lakes, 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 OF CANADA Dreamland: Textiles And The Canadian Landscape, to Sep 30. Perpetual Motion: Material Re-use; Portable Mosques, to Sep 3. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. VARLEY ART GALLERY (Da bao) (Take-out) to Sep 3. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511. 3

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In Anthony Bidulka’s new mystery, Dos Equis, my favourite gay Saskatoon private investigator, Russell Quant, is back for another fun romp. Not to imply that murder is fun. In fact, this case turns out be one of Quant’s most disturbing yet. As the title suggests, the action takes place in Mexico, on the sun-drenched Costa Grande, where a burnt-out Quant is enjoying the end of a year-long, self-imposed sabbatical at a friend’s beach house. A frantic call for help from an old nemesis and fellow P.I., and the reality of having just turned 40, send Quant back to snowy Saskatchewan with new resolve. The plot line is fast-moving and seductive, but it’s the endearing protagonist who gets you hooked. Quant is a

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In their labour of love, Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano hired people they could trust for Ruby Sparks.

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Adorable real-life couple Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano discuss their smart romantic fantasy By NORMAN WILNER RUBY SPARKS directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie

Faris, written by Zoe Kazan, with Kazan, Paul Dano, Chris Messina and Steve Coogan. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release. 103 minutes. Opens Friday (August 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62.

Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano are being cute. In fairness, they can’t help it. The real-life couple – who respectively appeared in Revolutionary Road and There Will Be Blood, among others, and played pioneers in Meek’s Cutoff – have been locked in the Thompson Hotel all day doing press for their movie Ruby Sparks, and they’re doing their best to keep things interesting for themselves. Right now, that means fussing over a button that’s popped off Dano’s pants in a way that feels like I’ve intruded on a private joke. “These are my favourite pants!” Dano says, sounding distressed. “Zoe, what am I gonna do?” “I’m gonna sew these back on for you,” Kazan says in a fake-motherly tone, asking for a sewing kit. “These are supposed to be nice pants,” Dano mutters under his breath. After a moment, they get back into character as Hollywood professionals, talking about the tricky nature of their new project. Written by Kazan for herself and Dano, Ruby Sparks is a magic-realist romance about a struggling author (Dano) who writes his dream girl (Kazan) into being. The concept is so delicate that it’s amazing to see it brought to the screen intact – but that speaks to the care both Kazan and Dano have exercised in telling the story. “In a weird way,” Kazan says, “Paul was the first per-

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son to believe in this. It’s been really helpful for me to have him there to tell me, ‘Yes, this is good. Keep going.’ And also, he’s a lot savvier a businessman than I am a businesswoman…. Paul was probably the first person to say, ‘We need to retain control of this.’ So in that way I feel like he’s as much a parent to this as I am.” Asked whether she specifically tailored her script to herself and Dano, Kazan seems almost surprised that they ended up starring in it. “It was never ‘What can I showcase of us.’ It was always about Calvin and Ruby,” Kazan says. “And when I first showed it to Paul and he said, ‘You’re writing this for us, aren’t you?’, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah. I am.’ But it hadn’t even occurred to me because I just saw them so clearly [as individuals].” The trick, the couple agrees, was putting Kazan’s script – and their performances – in the hands of filmmakers they knew they could trust. In this case, that was Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who’d given Dano a breakout role in their last feature, Little Miss Sunshine. “John and Val, if we were lucky enough to get them, we [wouldn’t] have to say anything to them,” says Dano. “They know what kind of film it should be, and they know us.” “The first round of notes that I got from Jonathan and Valerie were so on point,” Kazan says, “steering the script in a direction that I couldn’t even imagine it going in, but the perfect direction. That’s when I was like, ‘Oh, there’s no worry here. There’s only trust here.’” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm

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ñ(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) Rating: NNNN Ruby Sparks feels like the best Woody Allen movie Woody Allen never made – a clever magic-realist romantic fantasy centred on an author (Paul Dano) so infatuated with his newest character that he literally brings her into being. Specifically, she turns up in his house, wondering what he wants for breakfast. The dream girl is played by Zoe Kazan, whose adroitly constructed screenplay spends exactly as much time as it needs (and not a second more) to establish the stranger-than-fiction conceit, using Ruby’s fantastical origins as a springboard to consider relationships in general, the impossibility of ever finding a perfect partner and the myth of the manic pixie dream girl. Dano and Kazan are terrific (as are supporting players Chris Messina and Steve Coogan in small but essential roles), and directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris avoid the twee flourishes that often made their previous picture, Little Miss Sunshine, feel like an overlong sitcom. This one’s a tougher sell, but it’s so much better for NW it.

Lauren Greenfield’s brilliant doc begins as a look at conspicuous consumption, then evolves into something that plays with our sympathies. Jackie Siegel is a buxom 40-something former beauty queen raising seven children with her septuagenarian husband, David Siegel, owner of a multi-million-dollar time-share business. When we first meet them, they’re constructing a 90,000-square-foot estate modelled on Versailles. Then the economic crisis hits and their empire and home life begin to crumble. Filming over three years, Greenfield captures remarkable moments – everything from manipulative real estate pitch sessions to shopping sprees – and talks with the Siegels’ overworked, clearly exploited employees. A former photographer, Greenfield has a great eye for the telling detail, like the shit left behind by the family’s various animals, or the eerie embryo of the half-completed mansion. Jackie is a completely compelling character, bust-revealing outfits and all: smart, generous, addicted to shopping and – as much as we might be skeptical – totally in love with a man who once joked that when she turned 40 he’d replace her with two 20-yearGLENN SUMI olds. Jackie Siegel poses with two of her princesses.

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Kirby Dick wants to make you angry. In his new documentary The Invisible War, the filmmaker – whose credits include Sick: The Life & Death Of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist; Outrage and the Oscarnominated Twist Of Faith – examines the institutional plague of rape within the American military, a crime both enabled and covered up by the fiercely protective closedranks mentality within the service. We sat down when he brought the film to Hot Docs earlier this year; for much more of our conversation, please play the online audio clips.

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I noticed a woman’s voice asking questions off-screen. That’s your producer Amy Ziering, right? Amy did all the interviews with the survivors. We felt it would be a safer way to approach these interviews, with both women and men. And I think she did a phenomenal job. In some ways I feel like these interviews are the soul of the film. And there are a lot of them – most docs would centre on two or three subjects, but you’ve got dozens. We wanted to include so many people in the film so [viewers] would look at it as a systemic problem, not as a problem that happens to one, two, three, four or five people. What struck us as we did these interviews, over and over and over… the details were different, but it was basically the same arc. These people really believed in serving the country, had relatives in the military, had wonderful experiences initially, particularly in boot camp, and then were assaulted. They had the courage and the belief in the system to come forward and report it, and then the whole system turned on them. The lack of support for these soldiers is really awful. Not only do they lose their careers, they lose this profound trust and belief in a military they really loved. And the psychological damage is unbelievable; I’ve never really encountered anything like it. That’s why I think these interviews were so important – it’s kind of like Twist Of Faith. Until you see the pain and the damage that these incredible people are going through, you don’t really understand how significant this issue is. You’ve screened the film for politicians and military leaders in Washington. How are they responding to it? Most leaders want to protect their troops. They want to take care of their troops. But they’ve looked at it in terms of statistics, and when they see these soldiers speaking [personally] like this, it really changes things. I’ve always thought of this as a film to change policy as well as a film to educate the public. For both Amy and me, it just became this NORMAN WILNER personal cause.

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Having confronted an abusive Catholic priest in Twist Of Faith and closeted anti-gay lawmakers in Outrage, director Kirby Dick addresses another obscene abuse of authority in The Invisible War, about the culture of rape within the U.S. armed forces. Dick and producer Amy Ziering open with the statistic that approximately 20 per cent of women in the military have been sexually assaulted while serving – and proceed to show how that’s possible, depicting a culture of alpha-male entitlement further enabled by a military structure that blames the victim and discourages the filing of complaints. (A rape victim can be charged with adultery if her rapist is married.) It’s an infuriating work. The testimonials from assaulted servicewomen and men – most powerfully from Coast Guard petty officer Kori Cioca, still struggling with chronic pain from a blow to her head during her assault and nightmarish PTSD – should be screened in every recruiting office Abuse victim Elle shares a NW in America. thoughtful moment in front

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Jones Forever CELEStE aND JESSE FOREvER (Lee Toland Krieger).

93 minutes. Opens Friday (August 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNNN

If I had to describe Rashida Jones in a single word, I’d go with “underused.” The writers on Parks And Recreation still don’t know quite what to do with her after four seasons, and movies like The Big Year, I Love You, Man and Our Idiot Brother perpetually cast her as a wife, girlfriend or fiancée without much regard for her charming screen presence and snappy comic timing. Jones has solved this problem by creating a breakthrough role for herself. Celeste And Jesse Forever, which she co-wrote with actor Will McCormack, is a bittersweet comedy about exes (played by Jones and Andy Samberg) who haven’t quite figured out how to disconnect from one another. The script smartly captures the fluid dynamics of a breakup, as well as the confusion and awkward-

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Mixed feelings GIRLFRIEND BOYFRIEND (Yang Ya-Che). 106 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNN

The ambitious, occasionally affecting Taiwanese love story Girlfriend Boyfriend is framed as a film about political rebellion. Opening with a scene involving two sisters spearheading a playground dress code protest, it aims to connect such grade school rabblerousing to Taiwan’s grander history of revolution and resistance. After its tone-setting intro, the film snaps back 30 years, tracing a love triangle comprised of Mabel (Guey Lunmei), Aaron (Rhydian Vaughan) and Liam (Chang Hsiao-chaun). It follows their relationship from their days as high schoolers printing leaflets through the 1990 Wild Lily Student sit-in and into adulthood, when their passions have cooled considerably. Yang does

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360 (Fernando Meirelles). 110 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (August 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NN

After the disaster of Blindness, director Fernando Meirelles attempts to recover with something more upbeat and hopeful. Low-key drama 360 follows a series of very different people through various encounters, one after another, ultimately drawing a larger picture of humanity. This contemporary reworking of La Ronde travels from Europe

ness that spill over to the former couple’s friends – one of whom is played by co-writer McCormack. And director Lee Toland Krieger slyly situates the action within Los Angeles hipster culture without being entirely beholden to it. The movie’s nicely self-aware on almost every level, right down to its deployment of slo-mo montages and musical flourishes that are remarkably similar to those used in Beasts Of The Southern Wild – here used to highlight Celeste’s self-absorption. And Jones is simply terrific as a conflicted, confused young woman just beginning to realize she isn’t as okay with moving on as she first thought. This is a great dramatic performance; don’t let the rom-com packaging fool you. NORMaN WILNER

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(D: Len Wiseman, 118 min) Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel star in this partly made-in-T.O. remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi actioner about memory and reality, inspired by a Philip K. Dick story.

Hope SpRingS (D: David Frankel, 100 min) Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a middle-aged couple who work on their marriage with a therapist (Steve Carell) in this comedy by the director who helmed The Devil Wears Prada.

DiaRy of a Wimpy KiD: Dog DayS (D: David Bowers, 94 min) The latest in a line of charming grossout movies based on the children’s book series hits the screen while kids are still out of school.

Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg are a revelation as Celeste and Jesse.

a fine job outlining the romantic currents coursing between the three, muddling the flows of desire as they fall in and out of love with one another. (A hallucinatory sex scene in which the three seem to copulate simultaneously is particularly intoxicating.) The opportunistic use of politics is problematic, the Wild Lily rallies serving as little more than a romantic backdrop for a doomed love affair. The three principals give strong performances, especially given the complex emotional material and criss-crossing sexual allegiances. But the film is more an ode to lovesick rebels than to rebellion. JOHN SEMLEY

Meryl Streep stretches her comedy muscles in Hope Springs.

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to America and back again, which allows Meirelles and cinematographer Adriano Goldman to make the most of locations in London, Paris, Vienna and the U.S.; they even make the Denver airport look pretty. Admirers of the late Anthony Minghella’s last film, Breaking And Entering, will recognize the gauzy vibe (and Jude Law). Those who weren’t moved by Minghella’s empathetic insistence that everyone is connected will find Meirelles’s version even more affected and insubstantial. Some performances stand out: Anthony Hopkins brings a magnetic kindness to his handful of scenes as a father finally coming to terms with his daughter’s disappearance, and Rachel Weisz – who won an Oscar for her performance in Meirelles’s The Constant Gardener – is sharply conflicted as a woman seeking romantic clarity. But Peter Morgan’s screenplay proves as frustratingly diffuse as 2010’s Hereafter – and even more simplistic, in the end.

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(Marc Webb) gives the franchise a fresh start, though the key story points are still the same: highschool 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 3D webswinging 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 SpiderMan feel pretty amazing indeed. Garfield’s awkward, self doubting Peter is very different from Tobey Maguire’s wideeyed wonder, and the lay ers 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, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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 ac tion set piece; in other words, it’s as batshit crazy as its title promises. 105 min. nnnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Alison Klayman) follows the efforts of the infamous Chinese artist and dissident to make art and trouble (sometimes simultan eously). While preparing for a show at the Tate Modern, he also conducts an investi gation into the construction of Chinese schools collapsed by the Sichuan earth

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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 sixyearold Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), who narrates in a voice that’s meant to be simple yet pro found, the movie establishes a hazy, dream like state. Its early movements have a powerful, intuitive sort of energy, and Wal lis 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 sup porting character is a caricature of brusque

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documentary and half dramatic feature, starring Jack Black as Bernie Tiede, a belov ed mortician in Carthage, East Texas, who did something very, very bad. Conceptually, it’s pretty involving for the first halfhour or so, but director Linklater’s talkingheads 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

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resourcefulness, some literally killing them selves for the sake of homesteading. They’re not human beings, they’re narrative devices. It probably worked a lot better on stage, where Hushpuppy’s squalid, danger ous environment was largely left to the im agination; here, confronted with the horrible reality of the postapocalyptic Bathtub, you just want these morons to get the hell out. 93 min. nn (NW) Grande - Yonge, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a firstrate cast that in cludes Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson. They play assorted British retir ees who get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager. 124 min. nnn (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 prin cess bristling at what she perceives as con stant criticism from her mother (Emma Thompson) while her father (Billy Connolly) brokers an uneasy peace. When Merida re fuses 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 per sonal. Lifting elements from Disney and Studio Ghibli, directors Andrews and Chap man have constructed an entirely new myth – rooted in Scots mysticism, human pride and a very relatable motherdaughter conflict – and built a gorgeous movie around it, filled with spectacular visuals, inventive action sequences and a passion ate heart. See it before people spoil it for you. 93 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton

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(Lee Krieger) 93 min. See review, page 61. (NW) Opens Aug 3 at Yonge & Dundas 24

coSmopoLiS (David Cronenberg) adapts Don DeLillo’s 2003 tale of a financial wizard’s (Robert Pattinson) personal and professional meltdown during an endless limo ride across Manhattan. The film glides along on dreamy inertia, with characters popping up for random conversations before vanishing from the narrative. The result is more interesting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment. 108 min. nnn (NW) Carlton Cinema the dArk knight riSeS (Christopher

Nolan) is less a movie than a colossus, an unstoppable force crashing into your summer, bent on destroying all challengers. Everything’s inflated for spectacle, with the simplest of dialogue scenes thrumming with nervous energy, and filmed with large format IMAX cameras wherever possible for added bombast. But where Nolan’s first two Batfilms felt nimble and restless, The Dark Knight Rises is encumbered by its own selfimportance (and its unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement). When he con centrates on the action – a thrilling midair prisoner extraction, the villain Bane’s assault on Gotham’s financial heart, a mas sive climax that plays out on more levels than Inception – Nolan is in total control. And he can deliver a final flourish like no body 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 Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

diAry of A Wimpy kid: dog dAyS (David

Bowers) 94 min. See Also Opening, page 61. Opens Aug 3 at 401 & Morningside, Beach

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FIRST POSITION (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 look-alike, 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

GIRLFRIEND BOYFRIEND (Yang Ya-che) 106 min. See review, page 61. NNN (John Semley) Opens Aug 3 at Kennedy Commons 20

HEADHUNTERS (Morten Tyldum) is an

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) Yonge & Dundas 24

JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE (Bob Hercules) is a well-researched

but unremarkable doc about one of America’s premier dance companies. Founded in 1956 by Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, artistic as well as personal partners for much of their lives, the troupe became a distinctly American ballet company, hiring many American choreographers and reflecting the times in works that, based on generous rehearsal and performance clips, were way ahead of their time. The Joffrey was also revolutionary for its diversity, hiring performers of different shapes and colours, all trained in ballet but stretching themselves to work in different styles. Narrated with understatement by Mandy Patinkin, the film tracks the company’s artistic and financial ups and downs, but there’s little tension or artfulness, making it of interest mostly to dance aficionados. 82 min. NNN (GS) 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. Copious concert footage shows her hard work and the candy-coloured, fairy tale universe she or her marketers have constructed, but we never get a clue about why she relates to this faux fantasy or what it’s feeding in her fans. An interview with

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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

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THE HUNGER GAMES (Gary Ross) adapts Suzanne Collins’s futuristic novel about a young girl – an excellent Jennifer Lawrence – who must participate in a televised fightto-the-death spectacle. The cast is great and the film looks terrific, but it sanitizes the material in what could have been a devastatingly dystopic film event. A missed opportunity. 142 min. NNN (SGC) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (Steve Mar-

tino, Mike Thurmeier) is showing its age with gags that are prehistoric. After 10 years, the Ice Age movies have exhausted their characters and whatever charms they had, leaving this fourth instalment scrambling for material and feeling laboured. Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Diego the sabre-tooth tiger (Dennis Leary) and Sid the dim-witted sloth (John Leguizamo) are now faced with Pangaea breaking apart into continents, separating them from their herd. The plot hinges on natural forces, but Continental Drift seems overly schematic, as if written by a boardroom who hit all the predictable notes. Kids won’t mind the familiar elements, but adults will be bored and puzzling over which of the bland new creatures are voiced by Drake or Nicki Minaj, who are here as a ploy to show that Ice Age can still be hip instead of extinct. 94 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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

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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, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge Distributed By Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada Co. Suite 302-106 Front Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5A 1E1. All Program Content © 2011 Mythic Productions Inc. All rights reserved

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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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(Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of adrenaline, glee and wise-assery. That’s mostly due to director and co-writer Whedon, whose ability to render large, distinct casts of characters is exactly what’s required for a movie of this scale. Everything that happens is grounded in who these people are, not what they can do. And he’s the first filmmaker to crack the problem of the Hulk. Some subtitles. 143 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Wes Anderson) might be Anderson’s purest work yet – a tender tale of longing and melancholy as seen through the eyes of a handful of people on an isolated (fictional) island off the coast of New England in September 1965, when two 12-year-old pen pals (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) run off together. It’s also one of the saddest comedies you’ll ever see, though that’s not a criticism. 94 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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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(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

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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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre thE QuEEN of vErsaillEs ñNNNNN

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the fun out of Chris D’Arienzo’s funny, frisky and decidedly self-aware jukebox musical put on by a bunch of friends in a Los Angeles theatre back in 2005. Now it’s a great big expensive Hollywood musical, so we’re supposed to take it halfway seriously. Malin Ackerman gives a spectacular comic performance as a Rolling Stone reporter who succumbs to Tom Cruise’s aging sex cowboy rocker, but she’s operating independently of the rest of the machine. 122 min. NN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20

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(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) 103 min. See interview and review, page 58. (NW) Opens Aug 3 at Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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row) can’t really compete with the headier, more thoughtful lo-fi sci-fi of Another Earth and Sound Of My Voice. But as a hipster rom-com about people trying to shake off their pasts to make present-day connections, it’s a pretty satisfying tale about a trio of journalists (Jake Johnson, Aubrey Plaza, Karan Soni) on the trail of an eccentric physicist (Mark Duplass, of The League and Your Sister’s Sister) who claims he’s building a time machine. Everyone in the movie is chasing something they’ve lost, and Plaza and Duplass find real chemistry in their little hesitations and averted glances. The gentle growth of their relationship is pushed aside by an ending that overreaches badly, but it’s nice while it lasts. 94 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

salMoN fishiNg iN thE yEMEN (Lasse Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to one another while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously. 112 min. NN (NW) Mt Pleasant savagEs (Oliver Stone) stars Taylor Kitsch

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-THE -THE NEW NEW YORK YORK TIMES TIMES fine dancers, eye-pleasing in every way. She plays an aspiring professional dancer, while he’s the co-founder of a flash mob dying for Justin Bieber-like YouTube hits. They team up to organize exquisitely choreographed (and logically impossible) protest routines meant to revolutionize the art into something political. The revolution in the title is actually ironic, since the movie is all about conformity to commoditization. We’re watching a franchise incorporate street dances, after all. The movie doesn’t just sell out, it does so with an admirably bold face that says revolution is good, especially when it’s corporate-sponsored. 106 min. NNN (RS) 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 YorkNOMINATED AWARD dale, Yonge &®Dundas 24 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry shows us FROM ACADEMY

DIRECTOR KIRBY DICK(Sarah Polley) takes a the Chinese artist and dissident as take thiS Waltz INVISIBLEWARMOVIE.COM a man, not a symbol. 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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manic neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley) on a road trip to look up Dodge’s old girlfriend before everything ends. Making her directorial debut, screenwriter Scafaria (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist) has constructed an intriguing, effects-free take on the apocalypse genre, shifting nimbly between dark comedy and outright despair. She’s great with her actors, too; Carell and Knightley are excellent, and Connie Britton, Patton Oswalt, T.J. Miller and Gillian Jacobs pop up for memorable cameos. Any similarity to Don McKellar’s Last Night – which envisioned a similarly lo-fi apocalypse back in 1999 – is entirely coincidental. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

director Polley’s relatively conventional Away From Her. Emotional realism is paramount in this story of a young wife (Michelle Williams) considering an affair with a neighbour (Luke Kirby). The playful exchanges between Williams and her distracted husband (Seth Rogen, excellent) will have some squirming, but that’s what intimacy looks like from the outside. And the film takes an impressionistic approach to familiar Toronto locations: characters drift through a deserted, early-morning Kensington Market, have emotional breakdowns on the Scrambler at Centre Island or stop by an unlikely drum circle at the Trinity Bellwoods dog park. I’m not sure Polley accomplishes what she’s reaching for in the final movement, but she’s reaching for it, and that makes all the difference. 116 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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. NN (RS) Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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

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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 ToTaL RecaLL (Len Wiseman) 118 min. See

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TRishNa (Michael Winterbottom) transplants 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. NN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Varsity 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, once a reliable source of outrageous laughs, who opens her humble home to a CFO-turned-witness (Eugene Levy). Perry’s movies were never very good, but they were never this bland. 114 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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

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(Jeffrey Schwarz) documents the life of Vito Russo, who died from AIDSrelated 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 pre-Stonewall 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) boasts a talented cast, but comedy is as rare a sighting here as UFOs are on Earth. The suburbanites played by Ben Stiller and company respond to a local murder by forming a neighbourhood watch patrol that, instead of chasing minorities, has to battle intergalactic invaders. The few laughs hinge on witty criticisms of race relations and suburbia. But even at its best, it’s eclipsed by Joe Cornish’s vastly superior Attack The Block, which explored similar sociopolitical and extraterrestrial terrain. The choppy, tangential feel makes you wonder whether lastminute cuts were made after the Trayvon Martin tragedy, which instigated the title change from Neighborhood Watch. After all, the last thing you’d want from a studio comedy about white men on a power trip is too much relevance. 98 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale WhaT To exPecT WheN yoU’Re exPecTiNg (Kirk Jones) offers vignettes that

portray exactly what the title suggests. Some stories ring surprisingly true, particularly Elizabeth Banks’s on-point depiction of a pregnancy from hell, yet for all the wisdom it may impart, the film would rather resort to immature humour for kicks, with gags so forcibly contrived that the movie seems like it’s going through labour to deliver them. 110 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30 3

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The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu-tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:40 The Dark knighT rises (PG) 1:10, 4:30, 8:00 thu 5:05, 9:05 Fri, tue 11:00 late Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri, tue 11:10 late hope springs (14A) Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40 TeD (14A) thu 3:40, 9:35 Fri, tue 12:55, 3:40, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45 sat-mon, Wed 12:55, 3:40, 7:15, 9:30 ToTal recall (14A) 1:05, 3:40, 7:05, 9:35 Fri, tue 11:50 late The WaTch (14A) thu 1:20, 3:55, 7:10, 9:30 Fri, tue 1:20, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25, 11:30 sat-mon, Wed 1:20, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25

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The Dark knighT rises: The iMax experience (PG) thu 12:00 3:40 7:20 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:30, 1:10, 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 4:50, 5:20, 5:50, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:40, 8:30, 9:30, 10:20 Magic Mike (14A) thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 11:10 FriWed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:45 Marvel’s The avengers 3D (PG) thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:20 Fri-tue 12:45, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Wed 3:15, 10:30 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 12:45, 3:20, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40, 11:00 proMeTheus 3D (14A) thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:15, 11:20 Fri-tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 12:40, 3:30, 10:00 savages (18A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:40, 2:20, 3:40, 4:30, 5:10, 6:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:20, 10:10, 10:50 The WaTch (14A) thu 12:40, 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:05, 3:05, 4:35, 5:35, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:40

varsity (ce)

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304

VIP SCREENINGS

BeasTs of The souThern WilD (PG) 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 11:55, 3:25, 6:55, 10:25 Fri-Wed 11:50, 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 ruBy sparks (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 1:20 4:00 7:50 10:30 FriWed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20

yonge & DunDas 24 (ce) 10 DunDas st e, 416-335-5323

aBrahaM lincoln: vaMpire hunTer (14A) thu 1:55 4:50 7:50 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 The aMazing spiDer-Man: an iMax 3D experience (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 12:00, 1:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30, 11:00 Fri, mon-tue 2:50, 3:30, 6:00, 6:40, 9:05, 9:45 sat-sun 11:35, 12:15, 2:50, 3:30, 6:00, 6:40, 9:05, 9:45 Wed 2:00, 2:50, 6:00, 9:05 The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Brave (PG) thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30 Brave 3D (PG) 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 thu 12:25 mat celesTe anD Jesse forever Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 cockTail (PG) thu 2:20, 5:50, 9:15 DerangeD 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sat-sun 11:40 mat Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) 12:45, 2:00, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:10, 9:30, 10:25 sat-sun 11:30 mat gf Bf Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 hope springs (14A) Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri, mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00 sat-sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 2:25 4:50 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 sat-sun 11:30 mat JaWs (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:30 kaTy perry: parT of Me 3D (PG) thu 2:15 4:40 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 sat-sun 11:50 mat kyaa super kool hain huM (14A) 3:35, 6:40, 9:55 satsun 11:55 mat MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) thu 2:00 Fri, mon-Wed 2:10 sat-sun 11:40, 2:10 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD 3D (G) thu 4:25, 7:10 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Men in Black 3 (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Moving Day thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 ruBy sparks (14A) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 safeTy noT guaranTeeD (14A) 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 thu, sat-sun 12:20 mat snoW WhiTe anD The hunTsMan (PG) thu 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 sTep up revoluTion (PG) 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 satsun 11:35 mat Take This WalTz (14A) thu 9:45 TeD (14A) thu 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:35, 5:40, 7:15, 8:15, 9:55, 10:55 Fri, mon-tue 12:35, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00,

8:00, 9:30, 10:30 sat-sun 11:30, 12:35, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40

midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:05 sat-sun 1:05, 3:40, 6:20, 8:55 Brave (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:00 sat-sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 kaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:25 Magic Mike (14A) Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 sat-sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 4:15, 6:20, 8:50 Fri, monWed 4:40, 7:30, 9:35 sat-sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 people like us (14A) thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri, mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 sat-sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 savages (18A) thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 sat-sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 sat-sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, monWed 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 sat-sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:40, 9:00

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, Wed 7:00 sun 4:20 mon 4:20, 7:00

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heaDhunTers (14A) 7:00 Fri-sat 9:00

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The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 10:20 Brave (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri-tue 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:55 Wed 2:00, 3:10, 6:10, 6:50, 9:50, 10:30 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri-tue 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 hope springs (14A) Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:00 Fri-tue 12:20 Wed 12:40 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:15, 8:35 Fri-tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Magic Mike (14A) thu 10:45 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-tue 12:40, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 TeD (14A) thu 12:30 3:00 5:40 8:20 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 11:00 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-tue 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 The WaTch (14A) thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-tue 1:00, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25, 10:50 Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:30

Metro

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The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15

TeD (14A) thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45

kingsWay tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

The BesT exoTic MarigolD hoTel (PG) thu 5:00 FriWed 7:00 The inTouchaBles (14A) 3:00 Moonrise kingDoM (PG) thu 7:15 Fri-Wed 5:00 proMeTheus (14A) 9:10 Take This WalTz (14A) 1:00

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 1:25 4:35 7:45 10:55 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:35, 7:45, 11:00 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 7:10 10:15 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:20 Brave (PG) thu 12:20 Fri-Wed 12:45 Brave 3D (PG) thu 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 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 Fri, sun-Wed 12:15, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:00, 5:50, 6:40, 7:20, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:55 sat 11:20, 12:15, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:00, 5:50, 6:40, 7:20, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:55 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 hope springs (14A) Wed 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 1:50, 4:10 Fri 2:10, 4:40 sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:40 sun-tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:40 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 10:05 kaTy perry: parT of Me (PG) thu 1:15, 4:00, 10:30 FriWed 9:10 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) 1:40, 4:20, 6:45 thu 9:10 sat 11:10 mat Magic Mike (14A) thu 2:30 5:15 8:00 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 thu-Fri, Wed no 12:00 savages (18A) thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 sesaMe sTreeT presenTs: folloW ThaT BirD sat 11:00 sTep up revoluTion (PG) thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) thu 12:35 3:05 5:35 8:05 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 TeD (14A) thu 12:40, 3:15, 5:55, 8:30, 11:05 Fri, sun-Wed 12:25, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 sat 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00 sat-tue 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 7:00, 7:50, 10:10, 10:50 The WaTch (14A) thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 FriWed 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 The Dark knighT rises (PG) 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 thu 1:30 mat, 5:00, 9:00 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:50, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15 hope springs (14A) Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu-tue 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 9:15 Wed 1:00, 3:55, 7:05, 9:15 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) 1:05, 4:00 thu 7:00, 9:15 sTep up revoluTion (PG) 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 TeD (14A) 7:05, 9:45 thu 1:20, 3:50 mat ToTal recall (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 The WaTch (14A) 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40

east end BeacH cinemas (aa) 1651 queen st e, 416-646-0444

The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:15, 3:25, 3:55, 7:10, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:40, 10:15 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri, mon, Wed

1:00, 3:15, 6:50, 9:30 sat-sun, tue 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:35 Fri, mon, Wed 1:40 sat-sun, tue 12:40 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 Fri, mon, Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 sat-sun, tue 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 TeD (14A) thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 The WaTch (14A) thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, mon, Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 sat-sun, tue 1:10, 4:00, 7:30, 10:05

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

The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 The aMazing spiDer-Man (PG) thu 8:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 The Dark knighT rises: The iMax experience (PG) 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:45 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 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 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:45, 10:15 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 1:00, 3:40 Fri-Wed 12:15 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 sTep up revoluTion (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20 sTep up revoluTion 3D (PG) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:40, 10:20 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 2:15, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 8:15, 10:30

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

360 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 BeasTs of The souThern WilD (PG) thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Brave (PG) thu 12:35 Fri-Wed 2:10 Brave 3D (PG) thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 hope springs (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 The inTouchaBles (14A) 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD (G) thu 1:55 Fri-tue 1:55, 4:20 MaDagascar 3: europe’s MosT WanTeD 3D (G) thu 4:20, 6:45 Magic Mike (14A) thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-tue 6:50, 9:30 savages (18A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Take This WalTz (14A) thu 9:10 TeD (14A) 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 To roMe WiTh love (PG) thu-tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Trishna thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 The WaTch (14A) thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 FriWed 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20

silvercity FairvieW (ce)

FairvieW mall, 1800 sHePParD ave e, 416-644-7746 The aMazing spiDer-Man 3D (PG) thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 Brave (PG) thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50 Fri-tue 12:00 The Dark knighT rises (PG) thu 12:00, 2:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri, sun-tue 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:55 sat 11:10, 12:15, 2:40, 3:45, 6:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:55 Wed 2:00, 3:15, 6:10, 6:50, 9:50, 10:30 Diary of a WiMpy kiD: Dog Days (G) Fri-tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 hope springs (14A) Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:15, 10:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:10 Fri-tue 12:30 Wed 2:10 continued on page 68 œ

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ai WeiWei: never sorry (14A) thu-sun, tue-Wed 2:30,

NOW august 2-8 2012

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Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Tue 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:55 MAgIc MIke (14A) Thu 10:20 SeSAMe Street PreSentS: follow thAt BIrD Sat 11:00 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 teD (14A) Thu 12:05, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 totAl recAll (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 the wAtch (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 FriTue 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:15, 3:10, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:55 Wed 2:00, 3:10, 6:10, 6:50, 9:50, 10:30 DIAry of A wIMPy kID: Dog DAyS (G) Fri-Tue 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:25 Sat 12:00 Wed 1:15 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 3:45, 7:25, 9:55 SAvAgeS (18A) Thu 12:05, 3:05, 10:35 SeSAMe Street PreSentS: follow thAt BIrD Sat 11:00 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 teD (14A) Thu, Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 Fri, SunTue 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 totAl recAll (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:40, 2:20, 4:30, 5:10, 7:20, 8:00, 10:10, 10:50 Sat 11:30, 1:40, 2:20, 4:30, 5:10, 7:20, 8:00, 10:10, 10:50 Wed 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20 the wAtch (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 FriTue 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:15 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:15, 6:00, 6:50, 7:15, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:15, 1:45, 3:45, 5:15, 7:15, 8:45, 10:45 Wed 1:45, 3:20, 5:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:35 DIAry of A wIMPy kID: Dog DAyS (G) Fri-Tue 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 hoPe SPrIngS (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) 1:15 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu-Tue 3:30, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD (G) Thu 12:30, 2:45 SAvAgeS (18A) 10:50 Thu 1:50 mat, 4:50, 7:50 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 teD (14A) Thu-Tue 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Wed 2:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 totAl recAll (14A) Fri-Tue 1:00, 2:20, 4:00, 5:05, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Wed 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:05, 6:50, 8:00, 9:30, 10:40 the wAtch (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 FriTue 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Wed 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35

august 2-8 2012 NOW

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:25, 7:35, 10:40 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:15 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:00 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:15 BrAve 3D (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 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 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 1:00, 2:45, 3:45, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:45, 9:15, 10:15, 10:50 Sat 11:30, 12:15, 1:00, 3:00, 3:45, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:45, 9:15, 10:15, 10:50 Mon, Wed 1:00, 2:45, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 DIAry of A wIMPy kID: Dog DAyS (G) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:25, 4:45 Fri-Wed 12:45 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 kAty Perry: PArt of Me (PG) Thu 9:50 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD (G) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:00, 6:45 Sat 11:15, 1:35, 4:00, 6:45 Mon, Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:45 SAvAgeS (18A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:25, 10:25 Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:15 SeSAMe Street PreSentS: follow thAt BIrD Sat 11:00 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:05 teD (14A) Thu 12:20, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Mon, Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 totAl recAll (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45, 2:20, 4:30, 5:05, 7:20, 7:55, 10:10, 10:45 Mon, Wed 1:15, 2:05, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:25

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 10:50 Fri 12:20, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Sat-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:30 BrAve (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:45, 2:10, 3:00, 3:40, 4:30, 6:00, 6:40, 7:20, 8:10, 10:20, 11:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 12:15, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00, 10:55 Wed 1:00, 2:00, 3:10, 5:00, 6:10, 6:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:30 DIAry of A wIMPy kID: Dog DAyS (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 hoPe SPrIngS (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:30 Sat 1:40 Wed 1:00 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Wed 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 kAty Perry: PArt of Me (PG) Thu 12:30 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD (G) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 MAgIc MIke (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, SunWed 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 11:50, 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 MArvel’S the AvengerS (PG) Thu 1:10 4:20 7:35 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 SAvAgeS (18A) Thu 1:40 4:45 7:50 10:55 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 SeSAMe Street PreSentS: follow thAt BIrD Sat 11:00 SteP UP revolUtIon (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:00, 8:10, 11:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 teD (14A) Thu-Tue 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 totAl recAll (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:10, 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 8:10, 10:30, 11:00 the wAtch (14A) Thu 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:20, 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55 Wed 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

the BeSt exotIc MArIgolD hotel (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 BIllA 2 (18A) Fri-Mon 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 Bol BAchchAn (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 10:05

Fri-Mon 11:50, 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 cocktAIl (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Fri-Mon 11:40, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 gIrlfrIenD BoyfrIenD Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:15 hoPe SPrIngS (14A) Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:10, 5:15, 6:45, 8:00, 9:15 the hUnger gAMeS (14A) Thu, Tue 2:15, 5:25, 8:45 FriMon 11:00, 2:15, 5:25, 8:45 JISM 2 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 kArnAn Thu 3:45, 10:15 Fri-Mon 11:10, 3:00, 6:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:00, 6:45, 10:30 kyAA SUPer kool hAIn hUM (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 MAgIc MIke (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 MArvel’S the AvengerS (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Mon 11:45, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Men In BlAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 MoonrISe kIngDoM (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 PeoPle lIke US (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 ProMetheUS 3D (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 rock of AgeS (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Snow whIte AnD the hUntSMAn (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:15 Fri-Mon 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:15 SolDIerS of fortUne Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:25 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:25 tAke thIS wAltz (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 terI MerI kAhAAnI (PG) Thu 2:05, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 to roMe wIth love (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:15, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 tyler Perry’S MADeA’S wItneSS ProtectIon (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Mon 11:20, 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 the wAtch (14A) Thu, Tue 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 Fri-Mon 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45 Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:30

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

BIllA 2 (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:00 Bol BAchchAn (PG) Thu 3:45 cocktAIl (PG) Thu-Sun 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 MIrAttAl 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 4:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 5:10, 8:15, 11:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sat 11:00, 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn (PG) Thu 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:50 BrAve (PG) Thu 2:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20 Sat 11:55, 2:20 BrAve 3D (PG) Thu 4:50 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 the DArk knIght rISeS: the IMAx exPerIence (PG) Thu 12:30 4:10 7:50 11:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 5:00, 5:40, 6:20, 7:05, 9:20, 10:00, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 2:40, 3:15, 5:00, 6:20, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 11:40, 1:15, 2:40, 3:15, 5:00, 6:20, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:10 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:10 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 12:40 3:00 5:30 8:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 kAty Perry: PArt of Me (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 MArvel’S the AvengerS (PG) Thu 1:20 4:30 7:40 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:35, 10:50 SAvAgeS (18A) Thu 2:10, 5:15, 8:10, 11:05 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 SeSAMe Street PreSentS: follow thAt BIrD Sat 11:00 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:40 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:40 totAl recAll (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 12:50, 2:30, 3:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:10, 9:30, 11:00 Sat 11:45, 12:50, 2:30, 3:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:10, 9:30, 11:00 Wed 2:30, 3:40, 5:15, 6:30, 8:10, 9:30, 11:00

CourTney Park 16 (Ce)

110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 416-335-5323 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:10 4:15 7:45 10:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:40, 7:55, 10:55 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn (PG) Thu 6:00, 9:00 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40 Sat-Sun 11:10 BrAve 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 the DArk knIght rISeS: the IMAx exPerIence (PG) 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:30, 5:20, 6:00, 6:40, 8:10, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 2:00, 6:00, 9:40 DIAry of A wIMPy kID: Dog DAyS (G) Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 hoPe SPrIngS (14A) Wed 1:30, 4:50, 8:05, 11:00 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:40 Sat-Sun 11:30 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 9:10 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD (G) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 6:45 Fri-Tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00 Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00 MAgIc MIke (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:55, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 SAvAgeS (18A) Thu 1:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Snow whIte AnD the hUntSMAn (PG) Thu 9:10 FriWed 10:25 SteP UP revolUtIon (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 SteP UP revolUtIon 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:20, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:10, 5:20, 8:20, 10:30 teD (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 totAl recAll (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:45 the wAtch (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40

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

the BeSt exotIc MArIgolD hotel (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:40 Fri, Wed 12:35 Sat-Tue 12:05 BrAve 3D (PG) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Tue 2:35, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 hoPe SPrIngS (14A) Wed 12:30, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 Sat-Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 Ice Age: contInentAl DrIft 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD (G) Thu 12:45 Fri, Wed 12:40 Sat-Tue 12:20 MADAgAScAr 3: eUroPe’S MoSt wAnteD 3D (G) Thu 3:00 5:15 7:35 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 MAgIc MIke (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Tue 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 Snow whIte AnD the hUntSMAn (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 to roMe wIth love (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Wed 12:55, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Tue 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 totAl recAll (14A) Fri, Wed 12:40, 1:00, 3:40, 5:00, 7:15, 7:45, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Tue 12:15, 1:00, 3:10, 5:00, 7:15, 7:45, 10:00, 10:30 the wAtch (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 1:10, 3:10, 4:15, 5:35, 7:10, 8:05, 9:45, 10:25 Sat-Tue 12:40, 1:15, 3:00, 4:15, 5:35, 7:10, 8:05, 9:45, 10:25 Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45, 10:10

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

the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:55, 11:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:50, 10:55 the AMAzIng SPIDer-MAn (PG) Thu 12:40 3:50 7:00 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 BrAve (PG) Thu 12:15 Fri-Wed 12:55 BrAve 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Wed 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 the DArk knIght rISeS: the IMAx exPerIence (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:40, 7:20, 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 the DArk knIght rISeS (PG) Thu 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,

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Head Back To The Future with Christopher Lloyd (left) and Michael J. Fox at free Riverdale Park screening on Sunday (August 5).

Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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thu 2 – Prometheus (2012) D: Ridley Scott. 7

pm. Take This Waltz (2011) D: Sarah Polley. 9:15 pm. Fri 3-sun 5 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) D: John Madden. 7 pm. Prometheus. 9:15 pm. Mon 6 – Closed. tue 7 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 7 pm. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) D: Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre. 9:15 pm. wed 8 – Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present. 7 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 9 pm.

BLOOR hOt dOCs Cinema 506 BLOOR W. 416-637-3123. BLOORCinema.COm

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4 – Mr Hulot’s Holiday (1953) D: Jacques Tati. 3 pm. Free. ñsat

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Cinemas Dance (2012) D: Bob Hercules. 6:45 pm. Marley (2012) Kevin MacDonald. 9 pm. Fri 3 – Racing Dreams (2009) D: Marshall Curry. 4 pm. Kumaré (2011) D: Vikram Gandhi. 6:45 pm. Shut Up And Play The Hits (2012) D: Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern. 9 pm. sat 4 – The Song Remains The Same (1976) D; Peter Clifton and Joe Massot. 12:30 pm. Grey Gardens (1975) D: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Muffie Meyer. 3:30 pm. Kumaré. 6:30 pm. Shut Up And Play The Hits. 9 pm. sun 5 – Grey Gardens. 1 pm. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai (1984) D: WD Richter. 3:30 pm. Racing Dreams. 6:30 pm. Kumaré. 9:15 pm. Mon 6 – Racing Dreams. 1 pm. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby (2011) D: Carl Colby. 3:30 pm. Kumaré. 6:45 pm. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai. 9:15 pm. tue 7-wed 8 – Kumaré. 6:45 pm. The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby. 9:15 pm.

Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 9:15 pm. Fri 3 – Snow White And The Huntsman (2012) D: Rupert Sanders. 7 pm. The Avengers (2012) D: Joss Whedon. 9:30 pm. sat 4 – The Avengers. 1:30 & 9:30 pm. Snow White And The Huntsman. 4:15 & 7 pm. sun 5-Mon 6 – The Avengers. 1:30 & 9:15 pm. Snow White And The Huntsman. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. tue 7 – The Avengers. 6:45 pm. Snow White And The Huntsman. 9:30 pm. wed 8 – The Bext Exotic Marigold Hotel. 6:45 pm. Take This Waltz (2011) D: Sarah Polley. 9:15 pm.

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thu 2 – First Peoples Cinema: The Orator (2011) D: Tusi Tamasese. 6:30 pm.

Fri 3 – First Peoples Cinema: Dead Man

(1995) D: Jim Jarmusch. 2 pm. Summer In France: La Femme Infidèle (1968) D: Claude Chabrol. 6:30 pm. First Peoples Cinema: Jeff Barnaby: File Under Miscellaneous shorts program including The Colony (2007), From Cherry English (2004), and others. 9 pm. Director in attendance. sat 4 – First Peoples Cinema: Ten Canoes (2006) D: Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, Sioux Ghost Dance/Buffalo Dance (1984) D: William Dickson and William Heise. 1 pm. Summer In France: Le Feu Follet (1963) D: Louis Malle. 5 pm. Beefcake: Demolition Man (1993) D: Marco Brambilla. 8 pm. sun 5 – Hollywood Classics: There’s Always

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Tomorrow (1955) D: Douglas Sirk. 1 pm. A Room With A View (1985) D: James Ivory. 5 pm. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) D: Stephen Frears. 8 pm. tue 7 – Hollywood Classics: Imitation Of Life (1959) D: Douglas Sirk. 6:30 pm. First Peoples Cinema: Dead Man. 9:15 pm.

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thu 2 – The Avengers 3D (2012) D: Joss

Whedon. 6:45 pm. Savages (2012) D: Oliver Stone. 9:30 pm. Fri 3 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) D: John Madden. 7 pm. The Avengers 3D. 9:30 pm. sat 4 – The Avengers 3D. 1:30 & 9:30 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 4:15 & 7 pm. sun 5-Mon 6 – The Avengers 3D. 1:30 & 9:30 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. tue 7 – The Avengers 3D. 6:45 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 9:30 pm. wed 8 – The Avengers 3D. 6:45 pm. Intouchables (2011) D: Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano. 9:30 pm.

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CBC museum, CBC BROadCast CentRe, 250 fROnt W, 416-205-5574. CBC.Ca

thu 2-wed 8 – Continuous screenings

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. Fri 3 – Arctic Meltdown: Adapting To Change. Mon 6-wed 8 – Arctic Meltdown: Islands At The Edge.

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thu 2-wed 8 – More than 5,000 NFB films

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thu 2-Fri 3 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. sat 4 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3, 5 & 8 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 4 & 7 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. sun 5-wed 8 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5

pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

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thu 2 – Patang (2011) D: Prashant Bhargava.

2:30 pm. My First Wedding (2011) D: Ariel Winograd. 4 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World (2012) D: Matthew Lillard. 8 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 10 pm. Fri 3 – Blue Like Jazz (2012) D: Steve Taylor. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm. sat 4 – My First Wedding. 3:30 pm. To Make A Farm (2011) D: Steven Suderman. 5:30 pm. Blue Like Jazz. 7 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 9 pm. sun 5 – My First Wedding. 3:30 pm. To Make A Farm. 5:30 pm. Blue Like Jazz. 7 pm. Battle Royale. 9 pm. Mon 6 – My First Wedding. 4:30 pm. To Make A Farm. 6:30 pm. Blue Like Jazz. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm. tue 7 – Blue Like Jazz. 8 pm. Battle Royale. 10 pm. wed 8 – Blue Like Jazz. 8 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World. 10 pm.

Reg haRtt’s CinefORum 463 BathuRst. 416-603-6643.

thu 2 – O Fantasma (2000) D: João Pedro

Rodrigues. 9 pm. Nights In Black Leather (1973) D: Richard Abel. 11 pm. sat 4 – The Salvador Dali Film Fest. 7 pm. Wet Dreams Film Festival: The Dreamers (2003) D: Bernardo Bertolucci. 9 pm. The Darkside Of Porn, vintage black & white porn (1915 to 1950) set to the music of Pink Floyd. 11 pm. sun 5 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music frzom Radiohead’s Kid A & OK Computer. 7 pm. Mon 6 – Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. tue 7 – Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonderland (1951) D: Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson, with music from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. 7 pm. wed 8 – Intolerance (1916) D: DW Griffith, with music of Philip Glass and Jean Sibelius. 7 pm.

Revue Cinema

400 ROnCesvaLLes. 416-531-9959. RevueCinema.Ca

thu 2 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

(2011) D: John Madden. 6:45 pm. Moonrise

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186 sPadina ave, Basement. 647-992-4335, tOROntOundeRgROundCinema.COm

thu 2-wed 8 – Closed for renovations.

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thu 2-wed 8 – The CN Tower presents

Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 2-wed 8 – 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 2 – Open Roof Festival Outdoor Film And Music Series presents Hysteria (2011) D: Tanya Wexler. 7:30 pm. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. Fri 3 – Cultura Festival presents an outdoor screening of Rio (2011) D: Carlos Saldanha. 9 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. culturafestival.ca. Mon 4 – Movie Mondays At Brassaii presents an outdoor screening of a film selected through voting on social media platforms. 8 pm, film begins at sunset. To vote, use the Brassaii Twitter feed at @Brassaii or on Facebook. 461 King W, courtyard patio. RSVP jessica@egpr.ca. sun 5 – Movies In The Park presents an outdoor screening of Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. Screening begins at dark (approx 8:30 pm). Free. Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview, south of Danforth. moviesinthepark.wordpress.com. wed 8 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks: Movies Under The Stars presents an outdoor screening of Whip It (2009) D: Drew Barrymore. 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: The Philadelphia Story (1940) D: George Cukor. 9:15 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. torontoed.com. Climate Change Toronto presents the documentary To The Tarsands D: Jodie Martinson, about an 1,800km bike trip to Fort McMurray, Alberta. Introduced by participant Shawn Kahn to mark a worldwide fast initiative. 6:30 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. climatechangetoronto@gmail. 3

NOW august 2- 8 2012

blu-ray/dvd Friends With Kids (VVS, 2011) D:

By ANDREW DOWLER

disc of the week

Jennifer Westfeldt, w/ Westfeldt, Adam Scott. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN

Writer/director/ star Jennifer Westfeldt does a good job with her core premise, which is that life changes completely when you have kids. Forget your downtown hipster days; you’ll hang out with other new parents and talk about the kids. Three couples – herself and Adam Scott, Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig, Chris O’Dowd and Maya Rudolph – move through small New York apartments with infants and accoutrements while carrying on running conversations. It’s realistic, pleasant to watch and occasionally funny, but it’s all just background. In the central story, long-time best friends Julie and Jason (Westfeldt and Scott) see all their friends having babies and decide they want one, too. They won’t become a couple, just share parenting while each searches elsewhere for true love. This might work as pure fluff with major stars, but not here. Westfeldt is bland, and Scott comes

ñDetention

(Sony, 2011) D: Joseph Khan, w/ Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNNN

Be sure to spend some time with Detention.

Detention crams bucketloads of gags into its headlong rush, crackles with teenspeak and dead-on 90s references and has a plot that gallops far beyond its cheesy slasher comedy premise. Somebody disguised as a movie monster is slicing up the teens in suburban Grizzly Lake. Nobody gets too worked up except for an outcast girl (Shanley Caswell), who’s also pining for an amiable slacker (Josh Hutcherson), who’s dating an über-bitch cheerleader (Spencer Locke), which makes him a target for a steroid-crazed jock (Parker across as a low-rent narcissist, not believable as either responsible parent or faithful spouse. On the commentary she shares with Mad Men’s Hamm (who’s also her husband), Westfeldt giggles her way through the perils of low-budget production and the ins and outs of working with small children.

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EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc English audio and subtitles.

couple of striking images but largely goes for conventional visuals. The boy’s story, repeated at various times by different people, is a surprisingly strong element of the movie. It sounds like a genuine fragment of folklore: short, plain and incomplete, but with just enough detail to tell us what the monster wants and why. The extras are brief and not particularly informative. Owen lays out the theme in a single sentence and Fresnadillo describes how an image from a different project made its way into Intruders. EXTRAS Two making-of docs, Owen interview, deleted scenes. English, French audio and subtitles.

Intruders (VVS,

2011) D: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, w/ Clive Owen, Carice van Houten. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN Intruders crafts a fresh story and a folk-tale tinged atmosphere of terror from a mix of psychological and supernatural horror elements. In present-day London, 12-year-old Mia (Ella Purnell) draws the attention of something nasty that lives in the darkness. It comes closer every night, and only her father (Clive Owen) believes her. Thirty years earlier, in Spain, a small boy (Izán Corchero) writes a story that gives birth to the thing, and then it comes for him. Not even his mother believes him. Corchero stands out in the solid, professional cast for his ability to deliver terror without hysteria, something seldom seen in this sort of shocker. Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo finds a

4.3.2.1 (Universal, 2010) D: Noel Clarke, Mark Davis, w/ Emma Roberts, Ophelia Lovibond. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NN You don’t see many crime movies, or female friendship ones, like 4.3.2.1. Four girls –

Bagley). When everybody gets Saturday detention, the crazed flashbacks, mind swaps and time-travelling bear kick in. The young cast keeps this cheery nonsense afloat with energetic, committed performances that work in the berserk scenes and the quieter, John Hughes-type moments. This is harder than it sounds. Check out Caswell’s remarks on embarrassment in the lively picture-in-picture cast and crew commentary, which offers non-stop humour, making-of stories and insights into character and direction. EXTRAS Commentary. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai subtitles. 20ish Londoners – stumble separately into the periphery of a diamond heist, but don’t really know what’s going on. They’re good friends but not always there for each other when needed and brusque about their feelings. We watch the same three days from each girl’s perspective. Shannon (Ophelia Lovibond) goes looking for someone to tell her troubles to, but gets mugged and abducted. Cassandra (Tamsin Egerton) goes to meet her online lover. Again, things go badly. Ditto for Kerrys (Shanika Warren-Markland), who thinks she’s found a place to make out with her girlfriend but ends up crashing an armed standoff in the grocery store where Joanne (Emma Roberts) works. Standard British working-class realism in the acting and visuals ground the ample action and humour, wild plot twists and liberal use of coincidence. The interviews in the making-of doc tell us little we can’t learn from watching the movie, except that directors Noel Clarke and Mark Davis split the technical and acting-related chores. EXTRAS Making-of doc. English audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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Porn patrol I have a questIon regardIng porno

graphy usage and browser histories. As a matter of courtesy to my wife (and any one else who may use our devices), I al ways clear the browser history on what ever device (computer/iPad) I may have used to view pornography. I’ve always just assumed that she doesn’t want to see Teen Anal Adventures or Lifestyles Of The Deep And Fisted when she logs onto the browser history. However, the other day, she noticed a blank browser history and berated me for “keeping secrets” from her regarding my masturbatory viewings. I thought I was following prop er etiquette by erasing the browser his tory. Now I’m not so sure. Your thoughts? Wondering Husband Always Clears Kache If your wife enjoys porn, doesn’t smutshame you for enjoying porn and wants to check out your browser history because she finds it titillating to review your recent porn picks, then stop clearing your browser history. But if your wife hates porn and smutshames you for watching porn, WHACK, then keep clearing your browser history. She’s not angry that you’re keeping secrets. She’s angry that you’re watching porn, and she’s trying to create a loselose scenario for you. Watch porn and don’t clear your browser history? Get in trouble for watching porn. Watch porn and clear your browser history? Get in trouble for watching porn. The only way you can avoid getting in trouble? Stop

watching porn. And we both know that ain’t gonna happen, right? So keep clearing your browser history, WHACK, which is the courteous thing to do. And ignore the wife when she tries to make you feel guilty about watching porn because that kind of inconsiderate, controlling, smut-shaming behaviour shouldn’t be tolerated. (My response presumes that your porn consumption is moderate, WHACK, and that you’re not neglecting the wife’s needs for emotional and sexual intimacy in favour of alone time with your laptop. If your habits are immoderate and/or you’re neglecting her, then your wife has every right to be furious – at you, WHACK, not porn.)

He’s hot, I’m bothered I’m gay and so Is my Insanely attract-

ive boyfriend. We’ve been dating for a year now. His attractiveness isn’t a prob lem… until it is. You see, he enjoys getting compliments and he gets them frequent ly from other gay guys. I love my boy friend and I’m happy when he’s happy, but the frequency with which guys make passes at him has started to make me un comfortable. I told him this, and he tells me he isn’t going to tell them to stop be cause he doesn’t see what the problem is, and that it would seem standoffish to say anything negative about these passes. He tells me that it’s not like he’s making passes back, and most of the time he in sists I’m misinterpreting an innocent interaction. These guys are actively flirt ing with my boyfriend, and he takes it as a compliment! Am I being appropriately protective or am I being a jealous douche? Scared And Protective If your friends – yours and/or his – are making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, then you have a right to be angry. Good gay etiquette dictates that friends either refrain from making passes at insanely attractive guys who have boyfriends or that they make passes at the insanely attractive guy and his boyfriend. If your friends are making the passes at your boyfriend only, or they’re making passes at him and/or you when they know your relationship is exclusive, then you and your boyfriend need to let your disre-

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spectful and/or clueless friends know that they’re being huge assholes. But there’s not much you can do about strangers making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, particularly if your boyfriend enjoys the attention – and it sure sounds like he does. You’ve got a hot boyfriend, SAP, and that has its perks. But it has drawbacks, too. Putting up with other people innocently hitting on your boyfriend – innocent because they don’t know your boyfriend is partnered, SAP, and because your boyfriend isn’t exactly exuding a fuck off vibe – is the price you’ll have to pay to be with this insanely attractive guy. Willing yourself to take these passes and your boyfriend’s clear enjoyment of them in stride, SAP, is a wiser course than allowing something that’s outside your control to become an ongoing source of conflict in your relationship.

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their guest suite and discovered a “funnel gag” sitting on the floor next to the bed. (I took a picture and did a Google images search!) My best guess is that it fell there after its last “use,” as it was on the side of the bed nearest the wall and it could have been overlooked during “cleanup.” Do I say something? What’s the “eti quette” in a situation like this? What do people use these things for?!? Guest Asks Graciously People don’t use them to “water” stubborn plants, GAG. And the proper etiquette in a situation like this is to ignore the mislaid sex toy. Leave the gag where you found it and say nothing about it to your hosts, your mutual friend or any syndicated sex-advice columnists. Whether your hosts stumble over the gag after your visit or realize it’s missing and slip into their guest suite to retrieve it during your visit, GAG, your discretion will allow your hosts to tell themselves that you didn’t discover it.

Toying around I’m a senIor In college and a lesbIan, and I have a question about strapon

etiquette. My previous girlfriend and I bought one together, and I really enjoyed being on the receiving end of it. When we broke up, she took it since she felt like she had “bonded” with it. My current GF and I have been thinking of getting one, but I’m not sure how I feel about another joint purchase. I like her a lot, but I don’t know if our relationship will last after I graduate next spring, and the prospect of having to get a new toy every time I break up with someone isn’t appealing. Would it be reasonable, as a generally receptive partner, to buy a strapon that I can bond with and ask future partners to use it? Is it selfish to be thinking of the eventual end of a relationship when shopping for toys? Seeking ToyRelated Advice Pronto A strap-on isn’t a funnel gag, STRAP. By which I mean to say…. Even if a strap-on is a joint purchase, even if it was purchased for the pleasure of the person “on the receiving end,” it’s not uncommon for the wearer of a particular strap-on – the person on the giving end – to come to regard the strap-on as an extension of her body and bond with it. Such was the case with your ex. And even if your ex had allowed you to keep that strap-on, STRAP, odds are good that your new girlfriend would also have seen that old strap-on as an extension of your ex’s body and insisted on it being replaced. My advice: go halfsies on a new strap-on – on the harness and the dildo – and one or two other sex toys of comparable value and utility. If the relationship ends, your new ex-girlfriend keeps the strap-on, you keep the funnel gag.

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