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FAN eXPO The four-day ComiCon blitz, where Stan Lee and others do their cult celeb thing, begins today. 2 pm. $25-$95. fanexpocanada.com.

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The big-voiced, love-scorned pop idol plays the Molson Amphitheatre. 7 pm. $24$133.50. TM. AShkeNAz FeSTiVAl The fest of new international Jewish music and art kicks off today at Harbourfront Centre and other locations. ashkenazfestival.com.

and spoken word artist brings his band, Guantanamo School of Medicine, to Lee’s Palace. 8 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. +SuSAN SWAN Canuck novelist launches The Western Light in conversation with sports writer Bob Duff at Annex Live. 6 pm. Free. 416-929-3999. +TWO geNTS Shakespeare in the Ruff’s new adaptation of the Bard’s Two Gentlemen Of Verona is at Withrow Park until Sep 2. Pwyc (sugg $15). shakespeareintheruff.com.

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Public eNeMy The pioneering hip-hop legends perform at Sound Academy. 8 pm. $25.

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Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté’s experience aboard the International Space Station closes today. Free. Thompson Landry Gallery. thedistillerydistrict.com. lAbOur dAy PArAde Join the annual celebration of the union movement and its campaign for social and economic justice.

9:30 am. Free. Queen and University. labourcouncil.ca.

Georgia rapper hits the Phoenix. 8 pm. $31. PDR, RT, SS, TM. The crucible Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem witch trials – written during the McCarthy era – continues at the Young Centre to Sep 22.

7:30 pm. $5-$68. 416-8668666.

themed group show is at OCAD’s Onsite Gallery to Oct 6. Free. 416-977-6000. diViNe FiTS The new Spoon/ Wolf Parade/New Bomb Turks indie supergroup plays Lee’s Palace. 8 pm. $20. HS, RT, SS, TM.

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the opening of the new comedy club. $10-$12. 10 pm.

Lower Ossington Theatre. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Wkd beAch PArTy Wind down the summer at Sugar Beach with DJ sets by Juan Maclean, Matthew Dear, Pat Mahoney and others. $25.

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criTicAl MASS ride Group bike-athon through the downtown highlights sharing the road. 6:30 pm. Free. Spadina and Bloor. cuFF The duke The alt-country rockers play Yonge-Dundas Square as part of Indie Fridays.

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Re Getting Our Biking Groove Back (NOW, August 16-22). The strategies to accommodate and expand cycling in Toronto, reiterated in the above-mentioned article by Adam Giambrone, however creditable, haven’t achieved the objective of integrating cycling as alternative transportation in our urban infrastructure.

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Re Blood On The Tracks (NOW, August 2-8). Every year, warmer weather in Toronto brings more news of pedestrian and bike accidents on our roadways. Every news report is worded [so as to generate] sympathy for the pedestrian/cyclist. Often, the following phrase is added: “No charges will be laid against the motorist.”

By now, Torontonians have come to realize that that means the pedestrian/cyclist was at fault. I deeply empathize with the pain/loss the victims and/or their families are subjected to, but I grow tired of the “wagon jumpers” who then stage protests and shoot off at the mouth, blaming motorists for the lack of road safety.

Every day I see pedestrians jaywalking. Every day I also witness cyclists turning left at intersections from the right-hand lane, crossing three-way intersections on red lights and turning right at intersections despite the car in front of them not having completed its turn.

All these moves are liable to get you killed, and yet people continue to act in the foolhardy expectation that they “deserve respect” from the motorist behind the wheel. I feel the same way about the issue of crossing the streetcar rails. Follow the rules of intersection crossing and your own common sense: dismount and cross on foot. Until non-motorists take 100 per cent responsibility for their safety, I worry that these injuries and fatalities will continue to dominate our summer news.

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Diesel train whine

Re Rush To Rail Link (NOW, August 1622). If the province establishes a solid deadline for electrifying the George-

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They’re giving me a headache with all this whining. This is all needless delays because some people forgot what happens when you live beside a railway line. Oh, right, trains happen!

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Condos replace our heritage

I’m amazed that there were no online comments on My Hidden Toronto (NOW, August 9-15). No, wait – I’m not.

My experience is that citizens and city alike don’t care much about Toronto’s history, and they certainly don’t care about its buildings.

Adam Giambrone’s article makes excellent points about the erasure of historical places and the ways city politicians could change that. Will they? Not with the condo boom that just goes on and on and on, I’m guessing. I’ve travelled extensively, and Toronto is unique in that it is a major cosmopolitan city that doesn’t preserve its heritage.

When I was a student, young Torontonians lived in unique apartments in old houses in quaint neighbourhoods that were different from one another.

Now they live in condos. With few exceptions, every major intersection looks the same.

Remember what Queen and Ossington used to look like? Sure, it wasn’t pretty, but really, another condo forest, another Shoppers?

Penelope Keith Toronto

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Several months ago I started an online petition to ask that industrial wind turbines be placed along the GTA shoreline from Hamilton to Oshawa. There are several reasons why this would make sense.

But when it comes to McGuinty’s wind energy policies, enviro groups and the media fall strangely silent.

Rural Ontarians are immediately labelled NIMBYs and traitors to the planet for opposing wind turbines.

This is hardly the case. We just think it’s time for the GTA to step up to the plate.

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up. Kind of hard to “forget” 14 big gar­ bage containers. The previous week, the first week of the new, great priva­ tized service, they came a day late.

The new service didn’t bother mak­ ing a trip to deal with their shoddy work, and why would they? It’s a pri­ vate company, and the bottom line, not a clean city, is what’s going to count.I wouldn’t be surprised if it sits there until the next garbage pickup day. In the meantime, new garbage is being added to this mess, and by next week, well, I don’t want to think about it.

This never happened when the city was picking up the garbage.

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This morning at 9 am I heard the sound of a garbage truck and thought for sure it was one of those spanking new trucks coming to haul it away.

Alas, it was the city workers doing their job, picking up the garbage at Randy Padmore Park.

Ruth Warner Toronto

Privatized pickup gets pass

Re Privatized Garbage Pickup A Dis­ aster From Day One (NOW, August 9­15). Has anyone noticed that the new guys picking up the garbage are much better? They don’t drop any junk on the street.

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Okay. Maybe it’s not that pathetic.

But I was expecting more than planters and a few makeshift patios in the Big Smoke’s latest shot at worldclass status.

Don’t get me wrong. Celebrate Yonge, the month-long “pedestrianization” of the Gerrard-to-Queen stretch of Toronto’s iconic main street, is a worthwhile effort.

Local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam deserves credit for bringing businesses together. It’s not an insignificant step forward for a town whose idea of celebrating public space on Car Free Day is to close one block of downtown to traffic for lunch hour.

And after the Empress Hotel fire that gutted a historic landmark had Yonge merchants wondering about the street’s future, it’s nice to see people lingering and not just passing through.

But if this is the new ideal when it comes to city-building, the so-called “high modernism” of “flexible streets” where everyone must be accommodated, including cars, I’ll need more convincing. It’s hard getting used to the idea of being close enough to traffic on those aforementioned patios to suck in their exhaust.

Strikes me as a tad half-assed not to have closed the whole area off to vehicular traffic. Delivery concerns of area businesses could easily have been addressed by leaving the east-west corridors between Queen and Gerrard

open to cars and trucks.

It also doesn’t make business sense.

The more feet on the street, the more potential dinero for local merchants, or so goes one theory of economic geography.

This particular stretch of Yonge would seem a natural for a peeps-only zone, especially during the summer months. For starters, it’s not heavily used by cars to get to and from downtown. Bay, University and Jarvis are far busier. Yonge-Dundas Square sits roughly in the middle. Gould, at the entrance to Ryerson’s campus, is already a pedestrian zone.

But Wong-Tam says it was never the idea with Celebrate Yonge to create a pedestrian mall. A more modest goal was set: to “enhance the experience” of people on Yonge, to get folks “feeling the street” again, she says. And there would be no next year if local merchants couldn’t take away something from this experience.

Still, not a bad starting point for a revitalized Yonge, which, let’s face it, has lost some of its lustre.

The good news: Celebrate Yonge is still evolving as a concept. The folks who brought us the John Street redo have been dispatched to see what magic can be worked here.

Here’s looking forward to a bigger and better celebration next year. enzom@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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The two-year sentence meted out on Friday, August 17, by a Moscow court to ski-masked rebels Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova for their punk prayer cathedral protest was just plain off the charts. Within hours of the sentencing, Pussy-supporting freedom-lovers took themselves to the Russian Consulate at Bloor and Church. Get the full story at nowtoronto.com.

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Jack Layton: so not forgotten

It’s been one year since we lost the former NDP leader and his influence is as strong as ever as the inspirational celebration in City Hall Wednesday attests. And now this headstone, under a tree at Toronto’s Necropolis Cemetery on Winchester, with the likeness sculpted by Olivia Chow, will likely become a sacred zone where those charged with the Jack-mission meet to change the world. For a full report on Wednesday’s fete and a compilation of NOW writings on Layton, see nowtoronto.com.

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While the pylons and dirt piles signal the birth of Sherbourne’s new separated bike lane, the folks at 8-80 Cities have published the results of a Chicago department of transportation study of what they deftly call “protected’’ lanes, and, hey, it’s just what we figured. Segregating cyclists from traffic in some form increased ridership in Washington, DC, by 40 per cent and in NYC by 28.5 per cent.

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Oceans of distress

Revelations about Marineland’s treatment of its sea creatures are stunning, but we always knew mammals shouldn’t be stuffed into tanks. Meanwhile, Bob Timmons of Sea Shepherd Ontario is petitioning city council to stop Ripley’s from capturing sand tiger sharks for its aquarium, set to open next to the CN Tower. Ripley’s boasts of its accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, whose Canuck affiliate was supposedly overseeing Marineland. Uh-huh.

The amount of sweet cherries, apricots, plums, crabapples, elderberries, etc, picked so far this year by Not Far from the Tree. The group, which plucks neglected fruit from homeowners’ trees, then shares it with them plus shelters, food banks and volunteers, teams up with Growing for Green and LEAF on Saturday ( August 25) at 10 am for a tour of edibles in the urban forest that imparts some foraging know-how.

We have a council and mayor who can’t figure out where the city is going

Councillor Gord Perks on how the city manager’s call for an acrossthe-board spending freeze shows that no one in charge has any sense of priorities.

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Nuit Blanche, clever as ever at the art of location, features a symposium inspired by the Wim Wenders film Until The End Of The World, exploring the “very concept and reality of endtimes.” As in bye-bye, planet and all consciousness of it. Where will we bid our sad world adieu? Uh, City Hall council chambers, actually.

Barometer Ending an Occupation

B’nai Brith has a bird when the United Church general council votes, after a seven-hour debate sprinkled with prayers, to boycott goods from Israel’s illegal settlements on the West Bank. Nice move.

Freeing info

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, facing extradition to Sweden on sexual misconduct charges and ensconced in Ecuador’s London embassy, raises transparency-seekers’ spirits by calling for an end to the “war on whistle-blowers.’’

No more tears

Dufferin Grove gets sleepy

A number of locals – kids, families, the whole bit – pitched 20 tents in Dufferin Grove Park Friday night, August 17, for a sleepover to protest budget cuts and a city bureaucracy that they say is ruining unique programming.

With reduced staff come fewer community dinners and less use of the spectacular outdoor pizza oven. Does the city really want to trash our most interesting park experiment?

from the archives February 3, 2000

Is Seán Cullen a singer, a musical theatre artist or a comic? When NOW spoke to him in 2000, it was hard to say. His singing trio, Corky and the Juice Pigs, had broken up, and he was set to do stand-up at the Raising The Roof fundraiser (page 55 of the issue). It’s still hard to peg him. He launched his successful podcast, The Seánpod, last year and appeared onstage in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. He’s a 2012 Canadian Comedy Awards nominee for best taped live TV performance and best podcast.

Check out our Q&A with Cullen this week on page 59.

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Johnson & Johnson trumpets a phase-out of potential carcinogens, formaldehyde, alcohol, phthalates, triclosan and parabens from baby products by late 2013 and from adult products by the end of 2015. A little late, yes?

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Basic economics

The mayor who says he’s too busy to stop reading at the wheel refuses a driver this week, calling it a waste of taxpayer money, thus showing he’s incapable of cost-benefit analysis.

The Bank of Canada The central bank ditches an Asian face on our new $100 bill because of focus group reaction. Many nuances to this tale. The bottom line? Forget focus groups.

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Greenpeace is raising Fukushima worries about Ontario Power Generation’s proposal to keep outdated Darlington reactors going until 2055. Tell the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to put these babies out to pasture.

Mental health advocates have high hopes for new inquest following three police shootings in a year and a half.

Police under fire

Will review of killings inspire a new role in cop training for psych survivors? By BEN SPURR It’s a shocking stat: three people with mental health issues shot dead by Toronto police in the span of 18 months.

Something’s terribly wrong, and now the Ontario coroner’s office wants to get to the bottom of it.

Last week, the office announced it was launching an inquest into the deaths of Reyal Jardine-Douglas, Sylvia Klibingaitis and Michael Eligon, who were all killed in standoffs with officers.

No date for the inquest has been set, but when it’s concluded the coroner is expected to make recommendations on how police are trained to deal with what the force terms “emotionally distressed persons.”

And once again, Toronto’s mental health community is on high alert, eager to press the point that officers are under-equipped for this aspect of their work.

Anita Szigeti, a lawyer and mental health advocate, is cautiously optimistic that because the probe will examine more than one incident at the same time, there will be more impetus for systemic change.

“We’ve had decades of individual inquests into similar deaths. Despite those, and despite strong recommendations coming out of each of them, these unfortunate tragedies continue to occur,” Szigeti says.

Key to any changes in police policy, she says, will be finding ways for officers and people suffering mental health problems to interact outside of crisis situations. She believes the three recent deaths were partly fuelled by mutual fear and distrust between cops and people in the mental health system, a problem that will only be exacerbated by the trio of shootings.

“It’s a fear on both sides,” she says.

“The general public holds a lot of prejudice toward people from the mental health system, and police are members of that public and presumably hold many of the same prejudices,” says Jennifer Chambers, coordinator of the Empowerment Council, an organization representing patients at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. The group is seeking standing at the coroner’s inquest.

“The research shows that the best way to address prejudice is to have actual contact with the people about whom they hold these stereotypes,” Chambers says.

Some of that has already been accomplished, thanks to the Police Services Board. In response to the death of Otto Vass at the hands of four officers in 2000, the board established a standing sub-committee on mental health which includes psychiatric sur vivors and experts.

In April the board also ordered an internal review of policy on interactions with the mentally ill; that review is still ongoing.

“We want to get to the safest situation for everyone, and we’ll cooperate with anyone who is moving in that direction,” says police spokesperson Mark Pugash.

“It would be incredibly arrogant to suggest there’s no room for improvement or no lessons to be learned.”

He points out that people with personal experience in the mental health system help design the relevant parts of the curriculum for the mandatory recertification program all officers must take every year, and speak directly to cops as part of their retraining.

Strategies to de-escalate inter-

actions with people in psychological distress form “one of the largest chunks” of the two-day program, says Pugash.

While mental health advocates have praised these efforts, Szigeti says other police forces have done more. In response to the killing of Joseph Dewayne Robinson in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1987, that city’s police department created crisis inter vention teams (CITs) of specially trained officers that are first on the scene for calls involving people in psychiatric distress. The force has seen significant decreases not only in unnecessary arrests of people facing mental health challenges, but also of injuries to officers.

CIT officers undergo 40 hours of instruction that includes visits to mental health facilities and intensive personal interactions with psychiatric survivors. Szigeti says that faceto-face contact is invaluable.

“Getting these two communities together to decrease the fear – that is critical in our view,” she says.

Toronto has its own crisis intervention program, two-person teams consisting of an officer and a mental health nurse. But because the nurses aren’t trained in police tactics, Toronto’s CITs are never used as first responders. And they operate in only 11 police divisions and are available only between 1 and 11 pm, because the nurses, supplied by local hospitals, are in short supply.

Some activists have insisted that these teams need to play a first-onthe-scene role.

Pugash says the force wants to expand the CITs throughout the city but has no plan at this time to use them as first responders.

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The flood of refugees out of Syria is just one aspect of a war that neither side will win in the short term.

No easy angle on this war

When it comes to the Free Syrian Army, T.O.’s Syrian activists discover they’re on different pages By PAUL WEINBERG As the last of the UN monitors leave Syria in despair, Toronto partisans of Syrian democracy are struggling to find their own common ground.

The morphing of the 17-month uprising from civil disobedience to civil war hasn’t been easy for those favouring Egyptian- rather than Libyanstyle regime change. And that’s put activists on dramatically different pages when it comes to assessing the meaning and consequences of the Free Syrian Army.

On the one hand, there’s Toronto law yer Hind Kawabat, a Syrian who until the conflict prevented it divided her time between Canada and Damascus and is currently leading conflict resolution efforts in Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.

Despite her background in teaching peaceful alternatives, Kawabat finds herself unreservedly supporting the armed resistance to Bashar al-Assad’s government, which revved up in the spring when defecting Syrian soldiers turned their guns on the military.

“Yes, I’m against taking up arms, but you have to do it to defend yourself,” says Kawabat, who is nonetheless aware of human rights reports of abuses, kidnapping and torture by the Free Syrian Army. “I support them when they defend civilians and respect the code of conduct,” she emails from Turkey.

She opposes military intervention by non-Syrian forces and believes the best thing activists can do is work to reconcile the various religious and

ethnic groups, including Alewites and Christians, many of whom support Assad, and the majority Sunnis.

“What we try to do now, because we know that the war is out of our hands, is to work with civil society.

We are getting ready for the day after [the regime falls]. I worry about the Alewites, because they are going to pay the price for Assad; they are so poor and are in the villages,” says Kawabat, who is herself Christian.

Meanwhile, Toronto-based S.L. Rahman of Together for a Free and Democratic Syria, laments that the non-violent option was frustrated by forces alien to the mass citizen uprising. (For security reasons, Rahman prefers not to give her first name or town of origin.)

The non-sectarian and multi-eth-

nic protests across Syria this spring, she maintains, represented the best vehicle for political change, despite the repression, and would in the end have overthrown Assad in a way that minimized damage to people, property and the country’s infrastructure.

Instead, she says, armed oppositionists assisted by the Islamists, Saudis and Qataries have “hijacked” the revolution, and she worries they will take over the country and impose a government intolerant of minorities.

Despite her support for civil resistance, the former instructor in nursing and life sciences at a university in Syria admits protesters can’t stay in the streets any more, in part because of unidentified snipers who started

firing on government troops in the midst of peaceful demonstrations.

This happened in her own town, she says.

Many in the Free Syrian Army, the loose coalition of groups leading the insurrection, are “not even Syrians,” or are local unemployed youth given guns and looking for adventure, she charges.

Civilian resistance coupled with dialogue would eventually have prevailed, she insists. “If it would have taken another five years to achieve a better Syria, that would have been okay. Are we just looking to change the regime, or do we want to build a better country? The project is not to get rid of Assad and put in another authoritarian regime.”

The repercussions of armed conflict also worry York U Middle East expert Saeed Rahnema, only his concerns are more geopolitical. “It will be even longer and more dangerous than the [1974-1991] Lebanese civil war. You haven’t seen anything yet,” he warns.

Rahnema points to the proxy players – Iran, Hezbollah and Russia supporting Assad, and Saudi Arabia, jihadists, Qatar and Turkey backing the rebels – all of whom, he says, played a major role in scuttling the efforts of UN special envoy Kofi Annan to diplomatically ease out the ruling Assad family.

“It’s unfortunate that the U.S. and its allies, shortsightedly, are helping the Saudis and jihadists in their proxy war against the regime mullahs in Iran,” he adds.

Diplomacy, he says, represents Syria’s last chance before it plunges into a horrible, bloody civil war. “My main point is that while the brutal Assad regime should be ousted to prevent a protracted civil war, it should be done through diplomacy,” he says.

But Paul Kingston, director of U of T’s Centre for Critical Development Studies, doubts Assad’s exit was ever in the cards, and maintains that the war will have no quick finish, given the “dynamic stalemate” between pro- and anti-Assad forces.

“Neither side is hurting, because they both have resources and elements of support. Neither is going to be able to win in the short term.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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Wanted: a Quebec spring for T.O.

With campuses reopening, student leaders hope to rouse debt-ridden Ontario students to some collective indignation By HALLA IMAM Another academic year, another crop of students facing another round of bank loans.

With Ontario university students owing an average $26,000 upon graduation ($13,000 for those attending colleges), the big question is whether last spring’s student strike in Quebec will have any spillover effect on campus politics this fall.

While strikers in Montreal took to the streets again this week, last month as part of their Solidarity

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Tour they visited Toronto campuses to give tactics tutorials. At Ryerson’s Student Centre, local activists eager for action here, given that tuition in Ontario is the highest in the land, wore their red squares and took in the advice.

The message was essentially twofold: the strike didn’t come out of thin air, but was the result of two years of organizing; and Quebec’s form of student government – designed around departments, across

schools, and based on mass meetings – was key to the action’s vast participation.

Jérémie Bédard-Wien, a spokesperson for CLASSE, the largest of Quebec’s student federations, explains in a recent interview that instead of a single-bodied student government overseeing a campus as a whole, power is spread among department associations, allowing for a closer relationship between elected reps and students.

“In Ontario, a small group of students decides for the majority. If you change this structure and make it more accessible so people can have their opinions heard, they will finally be able to come together.” It’s the only way a student body of 50,000 is going to find common ground.

“A lot of student unions are bureaucratic organizations,” he says.

It’s a concept campus leaders here are anxious to explore.

“They made it clear: there is no

magic formula,” says Melissa Palermo, education VP in Ryerson’s student union.

“What happened in Quebec wasn’t overnight. We need to get the word out to student bodies, and we need to do so by uniting the different faculty and departcontinued on page 18 œ

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Wanted: a Quebec spring for T.O. ment unions. The commitment in Ontario is definitely here,” she says.

Alastair Woods, VP of campaigns and advocacy in York’s Federation of Students, draws similar conclusions.

Speaking some time after the meet­ ing, he says, “There needs to be more opportunity for students to connect.

By giving more power to depart­ ments, we can hear the needs of stu­ dents specifically. It’s our role as elected officials to work as a central­ ized body while keeping channels of support and discussion with various departments open,” he says.

The Ryerson meeting also saw a lot of discussion about the role of mass meetings, where whoever shows up affects the making of Quebec student association policy, and how different this is from the culture in Ontario.

But student reps are clear that the relative quiescence on Ontario cam­

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The Quebec strike was successful because of the democratic structure of student unions.

puses doesn’t just reflect differing governance styles – it also has to do with the fact that students here face much more difficult economic cir­ cumstances and higher tuition than their Quebec soeurs and frères.

At the height of the Quebec upris­

ing in May, Sandy Hudson, then chair of the Canadian Student Federation Ontario, explained that it isn’t apathy but economic obstacles that keep students here from contemplating strike action.

“The reality is, when our tuition is

tario students aren’t disengaged; they’re scared. “With tuition nearly three times that in Quebec, not many can a spend month away from the classroom,” he says.

Students here “are victim to manu­ factured distractions.” He’s referring to the Ontario Liberals’ 30 per cent tuition rebates, which the govern­ ment says will benefit students from families with incomes under $160,000. Student leaders insist that only a fraction of students will qual­ ify for them. Such tinkering, they suspect, is a part of a divide­and­con­ quer strategy and in the end a cover­ up for chronic fee increases.

“We need to hold our leaders ac­ countable,” says Woods. “The grants and rebates disguise what is really happening. Tuition is continuously increasing, and the provincial gov­ ernment is unfairly punishing stu­ dents for pursuing a higher educa­ tion.”

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Thursday, August 23

Benefits

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, Don Mills and Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca.

Forever young FundrAiser (Cystic Fibrosis Canada) Comedy by Mike Rita, music by Vanessa Ferraro and DJ Michael ‘Tuga’ Joss. 9 pm.

Pwyc- $5-$15. Our House, 214 Ossington. facebook.com/events/343261589086804. hAnds ACross the Continent (Burlesque Hall of Fame) Fundraiser with performances by Cherry Typhoon, Coco Framboise, Tanya Cheex and others. 9:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. burlesquehall.com. loCAlly grown (Harvest Noon) The Green Society Campaign presents local musicians performing to raise funds for the café. 9 pm.

Pwyc ($10 sugg). The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. facebook.com/events/341562059258314.

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BeAutiFul girl initiAtive Teenage girls meet in a safe and friendly environment to discuss issues and challenges. 4 pm. Free. Polycultural Immigrant and Community Svs, 3363 Bloor W. beautifulgirltoronto.wordpress.com.

Bloody york: Crime And punishement tour

Guided walking tour. Weekly Thu 5 pm and Sat 1 pm. $15. Flatiron building, 49 Wellington E. Pre-register muddyyorktours.com. rCAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, the midway, rides, a talent competition and much more. To Sep 3. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com. dAnCing on the pier Join the Dancing on the Pier house band and learn global dance trends.

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

An evening with will tuttle – time to wAke up! Lecture by the pianist/composer and author of The World Peace Diet. 7:30 pm. $10 sugg donation. Koffler House, 569 Spadina. facebook.com/events/400758689988517. rFAmily Fun Kids’ activities and a family movie under the stars. 8 pm. Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, 4169 Bathurst. toronto. ca/parks/events/zukerman-theatre.htm. rFAn expo Comic book expo, with celebrity guests including Stan Lee and Gillian Anderson, Q&As, costumed characters, workshops and more. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Aug 25, 10 am-7 pm; Aug 26, 10 am-5 pm. $25-$95. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. fanexpocanada.com. hAnds oFF the sChool house shelter Rally, meal and march to stop the closure of the homeless shelter. 5 pm. Free. Moss Park,

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AshkenAz FestivAl Jewish and Yiddish cultural celebration, with Israel’s Yemen Blues, Shadowland Theatre, art by Ira Moskowitz, the Ashkenaz parade and more. Most events free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 28 to Sep 3 rthe Bridging FestivAl Family-friendly arts and environmental fest includes an outdoor film screening, music, dance, poetry, an eco-scavenger hunt and more.

Fri 7-9 pm, Sat 10 am-5 pm. Free. East Scarborough Storefront, 4040 Lawrence E and area. 416-698-7322, scarborougharts. com/bridge-festival-2012.

Aug 24 to 25 rBuskerFest International street performers festival with aerialists, magicians, clowns, comedy and juggling lessons, featuring Silver Elvis, Alakazam the Human Knot, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra and others. Free (donations to Epilepsy Toronto). St Lawrence Market neighbourhood (Front E from Jarvis to Yonge). torontobuskerfest.com.

Aug 23 to 26 CAnAdiAn Comedy AwArds & FestivAl

Performances by Jape, Heidi Brander, Catch 23, Falcon Powder and many others, plus the awards gala hosted by Alan

Queen E and Sherbourne. 416-925-6939, facebook.com/events/474679085894487.

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Day camps for kids three to 17 include culinary arts, glee club, digital media and more. To Aug 31. $195-$875. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/camps. lgBt BowlerAmA Join Get Out Canada for a game. 7 pm. $20. Thorncliffe Bowlerama, 45 Overlea. getoutcanada.com.

Queer Feminist reAd dAting Speed dating for queer feminists who appreciate literature. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744. tAsty thursdAys Live music and food from the grill. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. toronto.ca/special_events/ thursdays/index.htm. toronto ghost tour Learn about the city’s haunted buildings and spooky stories. ThuSat at 8 pm to Oct 27. $29. Meet at Old City Hall, Queen and Bay. Pre-register tourguys. ca/toronto-tours/toronto-ghost-tour.

12-hour zine mAChine workshop extrAvAgAnzA Do-it-yourself zine making

plus drinks, food and music. 6-10 pm. Pwyc.

Rustic Owl Café, 993 Bloor W. 12hrzinemachine.com. volunteer in lAtin AmeriCA Cuso International info session for Spanish-speaking professionals interested in volunteering in Latin America. 6:30 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-478-4089. youth video BootCAmp Youth 13 to 19 get hands-on experience with the camera, lighting, sound and editing, with artist John Caffery, plus a day-long video mashup with Videodrome. To Aug 24, 10 am-4 pm. $299.

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rtAiwAnFest Cultural festival featuring music by the O-Kai Singers, films, dance, a stewing competition, kids’ activites and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 24 to 26 toronto turkish FestivAl Music, folk dance, art, food, handcrafts, a parade and more. Free. City Hall (100 Queen W) and David Pecaut Square (55 John). torontoturkishfestival.org.

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Thicke. $13 per show, pass $30; Best of the Fest $37-$50; awards show $50. Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W) and other venues. canadiancomedy.ca.

Aug 23 to 26 mods n’ roCkers Vintage motorcycle and scooter festival featuring burlesque shows, a group ride, rockabilly music and more. $25.

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AlohA toronto (Sick Kids & Surfers Healing

Camp) Beach party with Izzy Paskowitz, Garrett McNamara and other Hawaiian surfers.

Stand Up Paddle challenge, surf movies, DJs and live entertainment. To Aug 26, Fri from 7 pm, Sat from 9 am, Sun from 10 am. Free.

Woodbine Beach, Lake Shore E near Woodbine. Pre-register alohatoronto.com. lCCA AnnuAl FundrAising pArty (Latino Canadian Cultural Association) Music by Santerias, Reverb and DJ NoLoVes plus an auction of visual art, short film and more. 9 pm. $10. Lambadina Lounge, 875 Bloor W, upstairs. lccatoronto.com. miss BlACk BeAuty CAnAdA (Sickle Cell Anemia org SCAGO) Benefit pageant with performances by Gina Lee, Robert Chambers and others. 7:30 pm. $30-$50. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. missblackcanada.com. the penny Art workshop & sAle (The Yellow Door) Immortalize the vanishing penny by making or buying creative penny art. 2:15-5 pm. Free. 6 St Joseph. 416-923-8836. polAris prize peep show (MusiCounts) Performances by guest DJs, raffles and more. 7 pm. $25, adv $20. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. ticketweb.ca.

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Aug 24 to 25 rrAndom ACts oF hoop Basketball festival with a free throw competition, skills & drills competition and 2-on-2 challenge and more. Free. Various outdoor courts. courthawk.com.

Aug 25 to 26 band Vibonics, poet Zohra Zoberi and others, a live art performance, film screenings and a marketplace. 5 pm. Free. Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. mississaugaartscouncil.com.

FAke prom 2012: enChAntment under the seA Dress-up dance party mimicking a high

school graduation dance, with a band, interactive photo booths, contests and more. 9:30 pm. $30, adv $20 (ticketweb.ca). Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. fakeprom.com.

the ghosts oF the university oF toronto

Guided walking tour. Weekly on Fri 7 pm, Mon and Wed 10 pm. $15. S side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register muddyyorktours.com.

rinCrediBent’s mAgiC & Comedy CirCus

Interactive show of laughs, magic and circus feats. Times tba. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. indo-pAk Friendship show Performance by Bollywood actor/singer Ali Fazar, Indian singer Shweta Pandit, Shiamak Davar Dance Group and others. 8 pm. $45 and up. Hershey Centre, 5500 Rose Cherry (Mississauga). mybindi.com.

JunCtion design CrAwl See innovative design displays and exhibits, participate in installations, hear live music and more. 7-11 pm. Free.

Various venues along Dundas west of Keele. junctiondesigncrawl.com.

ColleCtor’s nights Museum tour and

tips on collecting Inuit art, plus wines and hors d’oeuvres. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art Gallery, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Pre-register miagallerycollectorsnight. eventbrite.com. rCreAte, enJoy And CeleBrAte Mississauga Arts Council celebrates its 30th anniversary with performances by indie rock

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miss pAkistAn world 2012 Beauty pageant hosted by Faiza Zafar and Ahmed Nizam. $100. Red Rose Convention Centre, 1233 Derry E (Mississauga). 416898-2016.

Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, the midway, rides, a talent competition and much more. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex. com.

To Sep 3 open rooF FestivAl International films, documentaries, indie music acts and more every Thu on the patio. $15. Amsterdam Brewing Co, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com.

To Aug 23 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. Preregister soundtravels.ca.

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angutan interpretive station, a keeper talk and artwork by an orangutan. To Aug 26, 9:30 am6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

unAppreCiAted ConneCted streets: dundAs west – howArd pArk Ave Urban ecology

walk. 6:45 pm. Free. Meet at College and Lansdowne. 416-593-2656.

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Candlelight tour of the neighbourhood. 7:309:30 pm. Free. Starts at Streetsville BIA, 280 Queen S. villageofstreetsville.com.

Saturday, August 25 rAFriCAn Arts And Culture FestivAl Drum-

ming and dancing in the African Savanna Trail with Akan Youth Duo Drummers. 1 & 3 pm.

Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

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

BACk-to-sChool heAlth FAir Screening and health info, entertainment, food, prizes and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Rexdale Community Health Centre, 21 Panorama Ct. 416-744-0066 ext 222. rCmCp FAmily Fun FestivAl Musical performances, workshops, arts and crafts, a bouncy castle, community displays and more. 10 am-5 pm. Free.

Trinity Bellwoods Park, Queen and Strachan. cmcp.ca.

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Docents Gone WilD Performance artists, thespians, drag queens and comedians lead guided performance tours through the hotel.

1 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. eDible tree tour LEAF tour of edible treats from our urban forest. 10 am. $5 sugg. Ben Nobleman Park, across from Eglinton West subway. yourleaf.org. elGin & Winter GarDen tours Guided tour of the historic double-decker theatre. 7 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. 189 Yonge. 416-314-2874.

Gta rollerGirls The G-STARS take on Hammer City Roller Girls Eh! Team. 7 pm. $15, adv $12, under 12 free. Ted Reeve Bubble, 175 Main. gtarollergirls.com.

John street Farmers’ market Organic, local produce, fair trade coffee, art and more. 9 am-1 pm. Free. Courtyard at 197 John. facebook.com/JohnStreetFarmersMarket.

Junction Farmers’ market Local, sustainably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 8:30 am12:30 pm. Free. Green P Lot, 385 Pacific. junctionmarket.ca. lGbt PaDDle boarDinG Join Get Out Canada for a paddlin’. 5:30 pm. $55. Sunnyside Beach, Lake Shore at Parkside. getoutcanada.com. nba 3X Interactive fan experience including a 3-on-3 tournament, slam dunk and threepointer contests. Today 8 am-7 pm; tomorrow 8 am-6 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. nba3xcanada.com.

PDbc 24-hour PaDDle The Pickering Dragon Boat Club try to set a Guinness World Record for the longest distance travelled by dragon boat over 24 hours. Opening and closing ceremonies today and tomorrow at noon.

Free. Progress East Frenchman’s Bay Park, 650 Front (Pickering). pdbc.ca/club/events.html.

Queen West WalkinG art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. salsa in the city sQuare Toronto Cuba Day celebration with live performances by Pablo Terry and Sol de Cuba, Afro-Cuban dance by Iyá Iré, Cuban food and more. 1-8 pm. Free.

Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. ccfatoronto.ca. so you think you can... Write a Play?! reaDinG Budding storytellers read their works

created in playwriting workshops. 1 pm. Free.

Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts & Culture, 167 Augusta. kapisanancentre.com. rtoronto mela South Asian summer fest with music, dance, drama, art, henna art, food and more. Noon-9 pm. Free. Albert Campbell Square, 150 Borough. mybindi.com. toronto roller Derby Semifinals with the Death Track Dolls vs the Nickel City Knockouts. 6:30 pm. $18, adv $12. Bunker, Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby. com. toronto salsa Practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. toronto’s rebel Tour reliving the events leading up to Toronto’s Rebellion of 1837. 11 am. $15. SE corner Queen and Yonge. muddyyorktours.com. toWers tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

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

suPPort raPe crisis centre

In a year when the rape rate has stayed steadily high and police tell women that dressing provocatively makes sexual assault their fault, the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural Women Against Rape remains essential. TRCC/ MWAR is a grassroots women-run collective that provides nonjudgmental peer support to survivors of sexual violence and works to eradicate violence against women and children. Keep the org going at the Riddims Of Resistance fundraiser Sunday (August 26) at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West). Performers include Rosina Kazi of LAL, Amai Kuda, Jamaias DaCosta and more. 9 pm. $5-$50, sliding scale.

416-532-1598.

WithroW Park Farmers’ market Organic

and ecologically farmed produce and prepared foods. Saturdays 9 am-1pm. Free. One block S of Danforth, between Carlaw and Logan. withrowpark.ca.

Sunday, August 26

Benefits

riDDims oF resistance (Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape) Music by Rosina, Amai Kuda, Jamaias Da Costa and others. 9 pm. $5-$50 sliding scale.

Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

Events

aDobo masters cook-oFF + kultura live!

Kapisanan Philippine Centre presents a cook-off hosted by comic Ron Josol, live music and a Filipino mini-market. Noon-6 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. kapisanancentre.com. culture & camPus tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. an enchanteD eveninG Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. Free w/donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234.

Fire on the Water All-ages swim-in (lake and pool) and dance party featuring installations, dance performances, DJs, live music, art and more. 2 pm-midnight. Free. Sunnyside Bathing Pavilion and Beach, 1755 Lake Shore W. fireonthewater2012.wordpress.com.

hiGh Park restoration site maintenance

Help remove invasive species from the park.

10:30 am. Free. Grenadier Café, High Park. highparknature.org. historic GarDen tours Guided tour of six acres of restored gardens. Sun and Wed 1:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.

rinuit anD First nations Festival PerFormance Demos of porcupine quill work, dream

catchers, horn bracelets, mini-drums and more. 1-3 pm. Free w/admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. lGbt runninG GrouP Join Get Out Canada for a group run. 9 am. Free. Church Street Jr Public School, 83 Alexander. getoutcanada.com. the 99 market Local produce, baked goods, art, crafts, fashion, food sampling and more.

Free. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury. ca/99mrkt-2. rPeDestrian sunDays in kensinGton Celebrate the car-free streets of the market.

Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, College and Augusta. pskensington.ca.

PlinGo! Mashup of bingo and Plinko with prizes. $5. Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca.

roseDale valley antiQue market/salvaGe shoP Multi-dealer market. Every Sunday. 9

am to 5 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. 416-469-2557. st James’ cemetery Guided ROM walk. 2 pm.

Free. 635 Parliament, N of Wellesley. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

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Good ideas sure can spread. Now Kensington Market will be car-free every Sunday afternoon till the end of September, and we can thank the once-a-month Pedestrian Sundays people for showing the way. Soak up the market ambience, walk the roadways and add to the numbers so we can convince a reluctant city that it ought to take a chance on other street closures. Sunday (August 26), noon to 7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, between College and Dundas. pskensington.ca.

WeeDinG out the unWelcome Locals have been busy for years restoring High Park’s endangered habitat, the black oak savannah, a remnant of the sand prairie systems that used to cover much of southern Ontario. Now

Monday, August 27 binGo & DrinkinG Play for prizes and fun.

8:30 pm. $3/card. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

DraWinG From the moDel Life drawing sessions with a model. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810. lGbt soFtball tournament Join Get Out Canada for softball. 7 pm. Jackman Public School, 474 Ontario. getoutcanada.com.

rsWalloWinG clouDs Dance anD literacy ProGram Four-day workshop for kids 9-12

with dancers, musicians and authors, leading up to a performance showcase. 10 am. Free.

Pape/Danforth Library, 701 Pape. Pre-register 416-393-7727. trans Film screeninG Screening of the documentary Regretters, followed by a discussion.

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

Tuesday, August 28

Benefits

the tutu ProJect auction (National Ballet of

Canada/DX Youth Education Programming) Onstage discussion with Karen Kain and Caroline O’Brien, plus an auction of 56 pieces made by top artists and designers Julie Moon, David Dixon, VAWK and others. 6 pm. $20. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. dx.org/auction.

Events

city cinema: hush...hush, sWeet charlotte

Outdoor film screening. 8 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca. el contrato Film screening and panel discussion on the struggles of Latin American farm workers. 7 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. doctoronto.org.

rkiDs’ scavenGer hunt at the leGislative assembly Kids six to 12 explore the historic

grounds through an outdoor scavenger hunt, weekdays through Aug 31. 10:30-11:30 am.

Free. Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park. Pre-register tourbookings@ontla.ola.org. lGbtQ GarDeninG GrouP Monthly group to learn and make new friends. 5 pm. Free. Access Alliance, 3079 Danforth. 416-699-7920 ext 405. runninG Free! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. Every Tue to Sept 30. 6 pm.

Free. CAMH Bell Gateway Bldg, 1001 Queen W. Pre-register Andrea.Reynolds@camh.ca. a tribute to chava rosenFarb Tribute to the novelist, featuring Mitch Smolkin, Theresa Tova and others. 7:30 pm. $10. Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda, 100 Elder. yiddishvinkl.com.

Wednesday, August 29

Benefits

Walk For smiles (Starlight Children’s Fdn)

Walk to raise funds for the foundation’s programs. 9 am-1 pm. Pledges. G Ross Lord Park, Finch W and Dufferin. starlightcanada.org.

Events

cabbaGetoWn Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free.

LAL’s Rosina Kazi plays at the Riddims Of Resistance funder for the Rape Crisis Centre on August 26.

it’s the season for removing the invasive species that threaten the milkweed, serviceberry, Indian grass and all the other indigenous growth belonging to our bioregion. Join the Elite Invasive Squad’s conquest of intruders like garlic mustard on Sunday (August 26), 10:30 am. Free.

Grenadier Café, High Park. highparknature.org.

NE corner Parliament and Spruce. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

Drake trivia Play a game of Trivia. 8 pm. $2.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

DroP-in clay class A class for all skills levels happens weekly. 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. Wed and Thu throughout the summer. 10:30 & 11 am, noon, 1 & 2 pm.

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

Free Flicks: voter’s choice – karate kiD, rocky, ruDy or billy elliot Outdoor film

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

Fresh WeDnesDays Live music and a farmers’ market. Noon. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events/ wednesdays.index.htm.

Grate canaDian GrilleD cheese cook-oFF

Four top Canadian chefs compete for grilled cheese glory. 11 am. Free w/ CNE admission.

Direct Energy Centre Hall A, Exhibition Place. allyouneedischeese.com/grilledcheese.

it’s never too late: FinDinG that sPecial someone Guidance on confidence building

and more with Elaine Mitchell, author of Silver Fox: A Dating Guide For Women Over 50. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington.

Pre-register 416-395-5440. manaGinG menoPause Health talk by naturopathic doctor Kate Whimster. 7 pm. Free.

Main Street Library, 137 Main. 416-393-7700. toronto music GarDen tours Tours of the garden’s unique design and history, led by a botanical guide, happen Wednesdays 11 am to Sep 26 and Thursdays 5:30 pm to Sep 13.

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

upcoming Thursday, August 30 art sPin Guided art tour on bikes. artspin.ca. artFul@saGe Interactive art history talk. Free.

Sage Cafe, 166 McCaul. 416-340-7345. caPture the FlaG Urban game similar to tag or hide-and-seek. 8 pm. Free. Main subway station. manhunttoronto.wordpress.com.

FirGrove community back to school bbQ

Celebration of community initiatives to distribute donated school supplies and scholarships to local youth. 4:30 pm. Free. Firgrove Community Learning Center, 5 Needle Fir Way. 416-981-4922. lGbt yoGa in the Park Join Get Out Canada for outdoor yoga. 7 pm. Free. 474 Ontario. getoutcanada.com.

ryiDDish vinkl: recorDinG arkaDy GenDler Clarinetist Christian Dawid presents ex-

cerpts from his CD and discusses his project to collect, document, arrange and record Gendler’s work. Noon. $18 (includes lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com. 3

BACK TO SCHOOL While you’re hitting the books, you can eat well, shop right and look great without breaking the bank.

Here’s how.

school uniform Tech essentials

Let the artists have their MacBooks and the accountants their HPs. The Alienware M14x laptop is built for gamers, so it’s chock full of power to keep the graphics running smoothly. $1,099.99 from Dell, dell.ca This 7-inch, Kobo Vox Colour eReader has WiFi to check Facebook and Twitter, download Android apps and surf the web. It also holds books, apparently. $179 from Indigo, chapters.

Our first-day-back fashion guide is guaranteed to get you classready no matter what your clique.

By ANDREW SARDONE

Preppy? Shop Joe Fresh.

Canuck fast fashion go-to Joe Fresh’s fall lineup is loaded with colour-block sweaters, scholastic cords and other proper picks perfect for putting together a preppy look. Cream blouse ($37), pleated skirt ($34), yellow cardigan ($19) and black-and-white heels ($79, all Joe Fresh, 589 Queen West, 416-703-3419, and others, joefresh. com).

Don’t miss: Crisp denim from Body Blue (199 Danforth, 416-7787601, and other, bodyblue.ca) and the polo lineup at Fred Perry (964 Queen West, 416-538-3733, fredperry.com).

Nerdy? Shop Brooks Brothers Flatiron

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Located on the edge of U of T at Bloor and St. George, Brooks Brothers’ newest Toronto shop remixes the line into a look perfect for stylish brainiacs. V-neck sweater ($142), blue striped shirt ($46 on sale), striped bow tie ($42 on sale), chinos ($98), belt ($170) and Red Wing boots ($300, all Brooks Brothers Flatiron Shop, 262 Bloor West, 416-925-5878, brooksbrothers.com). Ferm Living molecule set ($90, Studio Brillantine, 1518 Queen West, 416-536-6521, studiobrillantine.com).

Don’t miss: Eyewear finds from Hakim Optical (128 Hazelton, 416924-5600, and others, hakimoptical.ca) and Optic Zone (33 Jarvis, 416-362-3937) with a little white tape added to the bridge for full nerdy effect.

Tech essentials The Beats by Dre Solo HD headphones from Dr Dre come in eight colours to guarantee they don’t clash with your outfit. $199.99 from Best Buy, bestbuy.ca

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BACK TO SCHOOL STYLE Slacking?

Shop Lavish & Squalor

Not as keen to hit the books as the rest of our student lineup? Lavish & Squalor has fresh fall options like waffle knit henleys and comfy slacks that will make you feel like you’ve barely fallen out of bed. Insight jean jacket with knit sleeves ($175), Dockers Khakis henley ($79), WeSC mustard jeans ($94.50), olive Vans sneakers ($89.99) and Herschel rugby stripe backpack ($90, all Lavish & Squalor, 253 Queen West, 416-5994779, lavishandsqualor. com). Urbanears Zinken headphones ($160, Sonic Boom, 782 Bathurst, 416532-0334).

Don’t miss: Great T-shirts and laid-back vintage from Public Butter (1290 Queen West, 416-535-4343, thepublicbutter.com).

Sporty?

Shop North Star Don’t feel like sporting school colours? The retro revival of Canadian outfit North Star means you can still look appropriately athletic on the field (or wherever you play). North Star varsity jacket ($395), “Je Me Souviens” T-shirt ($30), grey sweatpants ($75) and blue high tops ($95, all northstarsportswear.ca). Wilson CFL replica football ($17.99, Canadian Tire, 65 Dundas West, 416-979-2025, canadiantire.ca).

Don’t miss: Hoodies, sneakers and knapsacks from Puma (shop.puma.ca).

Tech essentials

Tech essentials

The Jawbone Big Jambox, the best Bluetooth speaker, frees you to veg out on more than one couch. You might have to get up to use the washroom, but you can at least bring your music with you. $299.95 from Carbon Computing (772 Queen East, 416-535-1999, carbonation.com

With a reinforced case, a cage protecting the Lenovo ThinkPad T420 hard drive and a fingerprint reader, this laptop rolls with the punches no matter what environment you’re in. $552 from Best Buy, bestbuy. camusic with you.

It’s compact, but the Satellite U840W 14.4-inch Ultrabook’s 21:9 display ratio clearly mimics movie theatre screens, and the Harman Kardon speakers further engulf you in a world where you can avoid roommates. $1,099 from Future Shop, futureshop.ca

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BACK TO SCHOOL STYLE Artsy?

Shop 69 Vintage If you treat your closet like your canvases, mashing up as many colours, textures and prints as possible, 69 Vintage’s eclectic clothing and accessory options are a great way to go. Vintage stripe sweater ($40), red blouse ($45), printed pants ($45), camera bag ($40), bracelets ($20) and leather sandals ($40), all 69 Vintage, 1100 Queen West, 416-516-0669, 69vintage.com). Portfolio case ($19.95, Curry’s, 490 Yonge, 416-967-6666, and others, currys.com).

Don’t miss: The whimsical finds at Black Daffodil (3907 Dundas West, 647-726-9400, blackdaffodil.ca), killer kicks from Balisi (650 College, 416532-1074, and others, balisi. com) and Heel Boy (773 Queen West, 416-362-4335, heelboy.com), and Tryst Lingerie (559 Queen West, 647-430-0994, and other, trystlingerie.com) innerwear as outerwear.

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With the performance of a DSLR but half the size and weight, the Sony Alpha NEX5N shooter also lets you extensively edit photos right in the camera. $699.99 from The Sony Store, sonystyle.ca Those with an appreciation for music and design will love the JBL On Air Wireless iPhone dock. Don’t want to dock your iPhone? Then stream music wirelessly using Apple AirPlay. $249 from Bay Bloor Radio, baybloorradio.com TO_TRC_NOW_ad_08-2012_001 8/14/12 11:08 AM Page 1

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Student life essential: The parking lot! Right when I finish class, I run to my car and go. I need to study at home.

Who: Jennifer Tanney (bachelor of science, nursing) Back to school tip: For mature students it’s hard to balance work and life. It’s important to reach out to your peers and create a community within your program that you can lean on.

Student life essential: A Tim Hortons card.

Who: Daniel Drak (fashion communications) Back to school tip: Prepare awesome stories about your summer adventures.

Student life essential: You only need two things to survive: beer and a smartphone.

Who: Raymond Salaber (photography) Back to school tip: Keep your school supply shopping simple.

You don’t need a lot of things, just notebooks, pencils and pens.

Student life essential: My handmade journals. I didn’t take lot of notes in high school, but keeping track of everything is really hard. It’s become part of my practice now.

Who: Adrian DiStefano (general arts) Back to school tip: My first week back, I make sure my laptop is up to date with the newest software.

Student life essential: A JanSport backpack I bought at Luggage City.

6|U of T Who: Margio Rana (art history) Back to school tip: Plenty of sleep.

Student life essential: I like the blocked-off street beside Sid Smith Hall with the outdoor patio. U of T is so scattered, it’s nice to have a place to meet.

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Who: Andrew Racknor (jazz studies) Back to school tip: Commit yourself. I’ve already started practising a few hours a day.

Student life essential: There’s a coffee place near campus called Tatsu’s. Everyone goes, even the teachers. It’s sort of the spot.

Who: Samantha Montanaro (recreation and leisure) Back to school tip: Car-pool with friends.

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Student life essential: Having a good relationship with all your teachers.

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Housewares Good Egg

267 Augusta, 416-593-4663, goodegg.ca Kensington Market’s go-to kitchen gear spot also stocks some great options for students who aren’t planning on consuming a steady diet of mac ’n’ cheese and Mr. Noodles through the fall term. Check out the colourful selection of lunch containers and utensils, plus lots of great cutting boards, pots, skillets and enamelware in single-serving up to family-dinner sizes.

For first-years, owner Mika Bareket recommends Arthur Potts Dawson’s Eat Your Vegetables from her cookbook stacks. It’s packed with easy vegetarian and meat-eater recipes using affordable ingredients.

Good Egg picks: Skin even the most delicate veggies with a wide Swissmar peeler, $5; Ironwood’s cutting board works as well for chopping as for serving up a baguette and Brie spread, $25; Lodge’s cast iron skillet set will last long past graduation, $90.

Hours: Daily 11 am to 6 pm.

MORE HOUSEWARES TIPS Ecoexistence (766 St. Clair West, 416-652-0808, ecoexistence.ca) The Futon Store (442 Bloor West, 416-533-4940, thefutonstore.net) Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor West, 416-537-1574) Ikea (1475 Queensway, 416-646-4532, and other, ikea.ca) Leon’s (255 Bremner, 416-642-0630, and others, leons.ca) Neat (628 Queen West, 416-368-6328, neatspace.ca) Shelter (885 Caledonia, 416-783-3333, shelterfurniture.ca) Solutions (2329 Yonge, 647-430-8749, solutions-stores.ca) Tap Phong Trading Co. (360 Spadina, 416-977-6364) Umbra (165 John, 416-599-0088, umbra.com) Urban Outfitters (235 Yonge, 416-482-8220, and others, urbanoutfitters.com)

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books Art Metropole

1490 Dundas West, 416-703-4400, artmetropole.com Art Metropole’s old location on King West was an established magnet for shoppers hunting for books and multiples, but its new storefront at the corner of Dundas and Dufferin has already upped its visibility. It’s impossible to miss with its industrial shelving, vintage tables and picture rails full of creative zines, posters, pamphlets, editions, anthologies and more.

Looking to start collecting art on a student budget? Art Metropole stocks lots of multiples priced under $10.

Art Metropole picks: Flip through Learn To Read Art, by Lawrence Weiner, from an exhibition hosted with Printed Matter at the Basel Art Fair in 1991, $40; Judgment And Contemporary Art Criticism is a compilation of essays looking at recurring questions in contemporary art, $20; Nothing is for sale from the Jimmy Limit spring/summer 2012 catalogue, $40.

Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11 am to 6 pm.

MORE BOOKSTORE TIPS A Good Read (341 Roncesvalles, 416-538-2665) Another Story (315 Roncesvalles, 416-462-1104) Balfour Books (468 College, 416-531-9911, balfourbooks.com) BMV (471 Bloor West, 416-967-5757, and others) Book City (1430 Yonge, 416-926-0749, and others, bookcity.ca) Chapters (142 John, 416-595-7349, and others, chapters.indigo.ca) Circus Books and Music (866 Danforth, 416-925-6116, circusbooksandmusic.com) Function 13 (156 Augusta, 416-840-1010, function13.ca) Re: Reading (548 Danforth, 647-347-8733, rereading.ca) Toronto Women’s Bookstore (73 Harbord, 416-922-8744, womensbookstore.com) Type (883 Queen West, 416-366-8973, and other, typebooks.ca) World’s Biggest Bookstore (20 Edward, 416-977-7009)

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Hours: Monday to Wednesday 10 am to 8 pm, Thursday and Friday 10 am to 9 pm, Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm.

MORE SUPPLIES TIPS Above Ground Art Supplies (74 McCaul, 416591-1601, and other, abovegroundartsupplies. com) Cubeshops (11 Baldwin, 416-260-0710, cubeshops.com) Curry’s (283 Dundas West, 416-585-9292, and others, currys.com) FedEx Kinkos (505 University, 416-979-8447, and others, fedexoffice.ca) Grand & Toy (180 Bloor West, 416-928-0213, and others, grandandtoy.com) Midoco (555 Bloor West, 416-588-7718, and other, midoco.ca) Staples (542 Keele, 416-762-2816, and others, staples.ca)

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530 Bloor West, 416-324-8333, and other, outerlayer.com If you go through a lot of notebooks in a semester, consider going the green route with Canadian-based line Ecojot from Outer Layer. Not only are they made using recycled paper, but for every journal sold, the company donates one to a child in need.

Other back-to-school options at one of the city’s favourite stationery shops include Hachi silicone pouches that make great pencil cases, and lots of cards perfect for kissing up to teacher. There’s also a second, similarly well-stocked location at Queen and Portland.

Outer Layer picks: Sym makes sharp printed canvas lunch bags, $29.95; a ninja figure is actually a 4GB USB flash drive, $29.95; pens don’t come much more svelte than the slim Bobino model from Kikkerland, $5.95.

772 Queen East, 416-535-1999, carbonation. com If you’re computer shopping for a fresh tablet, desktop or laptop, watch Carbon Computing’s website. That’s where the Riverside area Apple specialist announces price drops on clearance systems that might be entirely useful for student purposes. On offer now are very limited quantities of MacBook Air ($929 to $1,129) and Pro ($1,129 to $2,399) notebooks.

Besides its selection of computers, accessories and displays, Carbon carries a great selection of printers, software and previously owned options.

Carbon Computing picks: A used 17-inch iMac at the store’s Kitchener-Waterloo location is $429.95; you can pick up a Xerox colour laser printer for $179; an iPad 2 can be yours for as little as $419.

Hours: Monday to Wednesday 9 am to 6 pm, Thursday and Friday 9 am to 8 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm.

MORE ELECTRONICS TIPS Active Surplus (347 Queen West, second floor, 416-593-0909, activesurplus.com) Apple Store (Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 647-2580801, apple.ca) Bay Bloor Radio (Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor West, 416-967-1122, baybloorradio.com) Best Buy (65 Dundas West, 416-642-8321, and others, bestbuy.ca) Canada Computers (366 College, 416-926-0107, canadacomputers.com) Computer Systems Centre (275 College, 416927-8000, csctoronto.com) Filtech Computer (439 Spadina, 416-204-9904, filtechcomputer.com) Future Shop (10 Dundas East, 416-971-5377, and others, futureshop.ca) Henry’s Toronto Superstore (119 Church, 416868-0872, henrys.com) The Source by Circuit City (Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin, 416-516-2225, and others, thesource.ca)

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Rating: NNN Patio To food snobs, the all-you-can-eat buffet is an affront to the very concept of gastronomy, a slap in the face for those who value quality over quantity.

That’s not the case at Spring Sushi, the cavernous three-week-old resto on top of the AMC where you can stuff yourself silly for as little as $14.99. The first thing you notice in the 260-seat room – after the panoramic view of Dundas Square – is the absence of steam tables. Instead of picking through dodgy stodge, customers send their order to the kitchen via an iPad located on every table so that everything’s guaranteed to be as fresh as possible.

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Even the pineapple in fried rice is the real deal.

Sadly, the kitchen’s attempts at Thai dishes are best avoided, including an over-salted beef satay and an achingly sweet pink pad thai that makes ice cream for dessert unnecessary.

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1 | Hot Yam!

33 St George, at College, hotyam.ca.

Don’t call this weekly café in U of T’s International Student Centre a restaurant. It’s a student-run vegan co- op, please! But where else will you find substantial lunches made from locally sourced organic ingredients – creamy potato salad with silken tofu followed by coleslaw in dilled dressing and green beans in basil pesto, with Ontario peaches in syrup and flaxseed cornbread to finish, say – for a $4 donation? Still out of your price range?

The first Wednesday of the month, the Yam! is pay-what-you- can. Don’t do lineups? Bring your own takeout container and cutlery and go to the front of the queue.

Lunch Wednesday noon to 2 pm only, starting September 19. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free.

Mine Chinese food, a student staple, at Gold Diamond.

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We’ve gone to month-old Gold Diamond (346-348 Spadina, at St. Andrew, 647-748-6888, rating: NNN ) in the former Bright Pearl for deeply discounted Chinese. Our charmingly bashful server is repeating the English names of the dishes we’ve checked from the dim sum list to make sure she’s got our order right when she hesitates on the last word of pan-fried seafood roll with laver.

“It’s seaweed,” say I, who navigates menus for a living. “The Japanese call it nori.”

She returns a few minutes later with a plate of what appears to be deep-fried sushi, three somewhat battered seaweed cylinders stuffed with remarkably firm shrimp. The shrimp in both the har gow and chive dumplings are also nicely textured, as are strangely tender tentacles of squid.

Baked egg custard tarts come appropriately flaky.

Sadly, shiu mai are more mushy meatball than pork dumpling, stirfried sticky rice with sausage seems greasy, and fried daikon radish cakes lack their usual fishy pong (all $2.10 Monday to Friday 9 am to 11:30 am and 1:30 to 3 pm, otherwise $2.70 to $4.80).

After we’ve packed up our considerable leftovers, our shy server reappears with menu in hand and points at #77 under noodles.

Our pleasure: “Vermicelli.”

2 | Kinton Ramen

51 Baldwin, at Beverley, 647-7488900, kintonramen.com.

The lineups at this 30-seat Japanese noodle house are so unruly, management has had to post rules of conduct, our favourite #5: “We may not be able to seat you if we run out of soup.” Hope they don’t. These massive bowls of house-made ramen dressed with blow-torched pork belly and runny- centred eggs ($9.50 to $10.80) are some of the best around. Noodle knowhow: make sure to lift your bowl and drink every last drop of the complex broth; it’s considered an insult to the chef not to do so.

Lunch daily 11:30 am to 3 pm. Dinner Sunday to Thursday 5 to 10:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to midnight. Licensed.

Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

3 | GinGeR

212 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-977-

8778; 695 Yonge, at Charles, 416-966-2424; 355½ Yonge, at Elm, 416- 694-3278; 521 Bloor W, at Borden, 416-536-3131; 546 Church, at Wellesley, 416- 413-1053; 252 Carlton, at Parliament, 416-923-7979; 1985 Queen E, at Waverley, 416- 6943278; 1226 King W, at Dufferin, 416-5368668, gingercuisine.ca.

With several convenient locations scattered across the city, this family-run cafeteria offers a ridiculously inexpensive carte of Vietnamese meal-in- one soups ($5.50 to $7.95) and Thai-style stir-fries with an emphasis on veggies and seafood ($6.50 to $13.50). Best bang for the buck: flaky banh mi baguettes filled with grilled beef, pork, chicken or tofu and sweetly pickled vegetables (all $3.50), hot sauce optional. And they deliver!

Daily 11 am to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free (Queen W).

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76 Gerrard E, at Church, 647-349-3294, loudawgs.com.

When NOW recently named the best rib joints in the GTA, this student boozer close to Ry High came in a surprising third behind big hitters Stockyards and Buster Rhino’s, not what you’d expect from a bar with abandoned brassieres hanging from the ceiling.

Don’t let the ladies’ underwear and the “blooz” on the sound system put you off. Stay for meaty racks of dryrubbed St Louis-style ribs ($12.95

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504 Bloor W, at Bathurst, 416-5374417, ghazale.ca.

661 College, at Beatrice, 416-534-7441; 78 Wellesley E, at Church, 416-922-4417; 3180 Lake Shore W, at Southdown, 416-2524417, ghazale.ca For more than a decade, the Ahmad family has been dishing up inexpensive Lebanese home cooking geared for the cash-strapped from a small take-away located just under the marquee of the Bloor Cinema. Despite the limited seating, regulars come for hefty made-to- order falafel in whole wheat pita lashed with tahini and hot sauce ($3.79), and mix ’n’ match veggie mezes like grape leaves stuffed with rice and chickpeas and massive cabbage rolls in tomato sauce (both $2.99).

Sunday to Wednesday 9 am to 3:30 am, Thursday to Saturday 9:30 am to 4:30 am. Unlicensed.

Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms (Bloor W).

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half/ $22.95 full) sided with stellar pork ’n’ beans, seriously spicy coleslaw and mashed sweet potatoes with apples in maple syrup (all $2.99) that could double as dessert.

Daily 11 am to 4 am once school’s in session. Licensed. Access: nine steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

6 | Pizza GiGi

189 Harbord, at Borden, 416-5354444, pizzagigi.ca.

The pizzeria that put NOW Magazine on the cover of virtually every newspaper on the planet a few years back, this oldschool delivery joint still bakes one helluva pie, thick- crusted (none of yer fancy-pants thin- crust here) party-starters piled with enough retro toppings like pepperoni, green pepper and pineapple ($22.75 18-inch) to feed a frat house. Can’t make up your mind? Go with several slices from more than a dozen options. Be sure to ask for extra “oregano” (wink wink).

Daily 4 pm to 4 am. Unlicensed. Cash only.

Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement.

7 | Salad KinG

340 Yonge, at Elm, 416-593- 0333, saladking.com.

Now in much larger digs just around the corner from its original location, Ernest and Linda Liu’s stylish 160-seat Thai trat may not be one of the most authentic kitchens in town, but it’s certainly one of the tastiest, something the crowds that pack this second-storey resto from opening till close will agree. And who’s to argue with kaffir-scented lime chicken with snow peas, red peppers and chilies ($8.25) or vegetarian Evil Jungle Prince ($7.50) when you can adjust the heat using the King’s legendary chili chart, one chili indicating “nice” while 20 “may cause stomach upset?”

Monday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday 11 am to 11 pm, Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday and holidays noon to 9 pm.

Closed some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

8 | aKRam’S SHoPPe

191 Baldwin, at Kensington, 647351-3116, akramsshoppe.com.

After closing for a planned two-month renovation that ended up taking three years, Akram and Hiyam Dow’s Middle Eastern grocery-store-slash- cafeteria comes back better than ever. And what’s not to love? Falafels in whole wheat pita pockets come dressed with a garden’s worth of veggies and spicy pickles ($1.99), pizza slices get layered with spinach and haloumi cheese ($2.99), while small bowls of vegan lentil soup ($2) are sure to kill any imminent winter chill. Carnivores are also in for a treat: all the lamb the Dows grill for their kebabs ($3) comes from trendy Sanagan’s across the steeet!

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day 1 to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Access: seven steps to counter, washroom barrier-free.

only. Access: 27 steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

372 Bloor W, at Walmer, 416-9216787; 138 Dundas W, at Elizabeth, 416205-1155; 522 Yonge, at Maitland, 647340-2112; 4860 Yonge, at Sheppard, 647-345-1871, kenzoramen.ca.

Daniel and Jane Park’s Tokyo- centric noodle house may not be top of the heap now that Kinton – and upcoming Vancouver imports Raijin and Santouka – have muscled onto the ramen scene. But Kenzo has something Kinton doesn’t attempt: tonkotsu ramen, the creamy pork-bone soup NOW once likened to “liquid pork chops.” They’ve also added miso and shoyo versions (all $9.95).

Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

99 Yorkville, at Bellair, 416920-2108, coffeemillrestaurant.com.

Back in the 60s, this venerable Hungarian restaurant was the Drake of its day, a casual spot where both students and academics lingered over nourishing bowls of goulash ($6.50) and strong cups of Viennese coffee finished with whipped cream ($2.50) well into the night. Little wonder Margaret Atwood, Peter C. Newman and Barbara Amiel are regulars.

Monday to Thursday 10 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to midnight, Sunday and holidays noon to 11 pm. Licensed.

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536-5966.

Food doesn’t come much bigger than this.

Take the schnitzel platter ($39.95). Billed as enough for two, it could easily keep a four-person bobsled team happy. The Matterhorn of a meal arrives at table on a wooden cutting board groaning with doughy spaetzle, home fries and pickled beets layered with two schnitzels – one breaded, the other battered, both deepfried – and a spiral of sausage, the lot pierced by a pair of wooden-handled steak knives. You’ll need them, if only to fend off your fellow diners here at the last of the Hungarian goulash houses.

Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Cash only.

Access: barrier-free, washrooms upstairs.

13 | Coffee mill

12 | HaRveSt noon

16 Bancroft, at Spadina Circle, 416-978-5247, harvestnoon.com.

A spinoff of Hot Yam!, this student-run vegan co- op café on the top floor of U of T’s Graduate Student Centre shares a similar socially minded philosophy. Witness locally sourced $5 meal deals like spicy stuffed bell peppers sided with organic microgreen salad, house-baked bread and bean dip. Save the planet – bring your own plate and cutlery.

Monday to Friday 10 am to 2 pm, lunch from 11:30 am till it sells out. Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Cash

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14 | PHo PaSteuR

525 Dundas W, at Spadina, 416-351-7188.

It’s certainly not the most glamorous room in town – grim fluorescent lighting, bare formica tabletops, a radio tuned to the vapid pop of the day – but this openround-the- clock Vietnamese soup kitchen more than makes up for it with its pho. We recommend the #06 Pho Tai Nam ($8.75 large), a heaping bowl of pure comfort thick with enough aromatic broth, rare roast beef, fatty brisket and chewy rice stick to keep you stuffed halfway to next Thursday.

24/7. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: steep ramp at door, washrooms on same floor.

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40 St George, at Russell, first truck north of College on the west side.

Although there are several cheap Chinese food trucks parked along U of T’s main drag, only this long-running operation offers grub that tastes significantly better than the styrofoam containers it comes in.

No-nonsense stir-fries like Cantonese chow mein with chicken and black bean sauce or sweet ’n’ sour pork belie their $3.95 tax-inclusive price tag.

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DuMplings 15 | Mother’s

421 Spadina, at College, 416-217-2008, mothersdumplings.com.

No longer an obscure hole-in-the-wall, Zen Feng and family’s Chinese dumpling house deserves its wider audience. Show up early if you expect bargain-friendly plates like their signature da-lu noodles – a great whack of hand-pulled mein in smoky sesame broth with ground pork and baby bok choy ($7.99) – without the obligatory lineup.

Daily 11 am to “around” 10 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only.

Access: barrier-free.

16 | Caplansky’s

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

Zane Caplansky’s retro resto’s roots run deep. Located at the top of Kensington Market and just west of Spadina, this always busy 60-seat eatery harkens back to legendary and long- gone local delis like Switzer’s and the Bagel. See the proof in thickly sliced and alarmingly fatty house-smoked brisket on Silverstein rye spread with spicy mustard and bubie-approved knishes in smoked meat gravy (both $8).

Monday to Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm, holidays 10 am to 8 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Patio.

17 | harborD Fish & Chips

147 Harbord, at Borden, 416-925-2225.

The menu at this tiny south Annex bunker claims that its $24.92 takeout special feeds two. Judging by its size – three fillets of Atlantic haddock in relatively grease-free batter, two tubs of creamy coleslaw, a half- dozen packets of commercial tartar sauce and a veritable mountain of hand- cut chunky fries – we’re guessing Rob and Doug Ford. That leftovers are guaranteed goes without saying.

Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm, Saturday and Sunday noon to 10 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

18 | urban herbivore

64 Oxford, at Augusta, 416-927-1231; 220 Yonge, at Dundas, 416-847-1007; 967 College, at Dovercourt, 416-515-8885, fressenrestaurant.com.

Local eco-minded vegan mini- chain known for its DIY salad bowls – lentil-studded quinoa topped with steamed squash, carrots and yams in spicy curried coconut milk, sided with crostini and purple cabbage coleslaw (all $11.25), perhaps? – and massive breakfast-sized muffins ($2.79). Martha would approve.

Daily 9 am to 7 pm (Augusta and College); Monday to Friday 10 am to 9 pm, Saturday 9:30 am to 7 pm, Sunday and holidays 11 am to 6 pm (Yonge). Unlicensed.

Access: four steps at door, no washrooms (Augusta); barrier-free (College/Yonge).

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141 Harbord, at Brunswick, 416-966- 6955; 330 Front, at Peter, 416-596-8880, fliptossthai.com.

If the menu at this Southeast Asian takeaway looks awfully familiar, that’s because owner/chef Sushen Sun used to cook at Salad King back when it was still on Gould. Thus, ketchup-free pad thai bursting with shredded chicken breast, raw scallion and crushed peanuts ($8.29) and a Bangkok take on vegetarian chop suey replete with broccoli and baby corn ($6.79). Better yet, unlike the King, they deliver!

Monday to Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday noon to 10 pm, Sunday 4 to 10 pm. Delivery same hours. Closed holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, no washrooms.

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20 | koM Jug yuen

371 Spadina, at Nassau, 416-977- 4079.

Handily located next door to Grossman’s, this dirtcheap Cantonese cantina has been a favourite of the fiscally challenged since the draft- dodging 60s. And while new owners have boosted the prices somewhat – that famously $4 barbecued pork fried rice is now a whopping 5 bucks – they’ve wisely left the dingy room’s plastic lanterns and psychedelic wallpaper alone.

Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to 1 am, Tuesday 11 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 4 am. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, washroom in basement.

Academically Inclined

1 | sChool

70 Fraser, at Liberty, 416-588- 0005, schooltoronto.com.

Not only is ex-Xacutti chef Brad “Spiceman” Moore’s Liberty Village resto decorated in classroom kitsch – blackboards on the wall, clocks stuck at half-past 3, an apple on every table – but the menu comes on a clipbard as well. Shame no one’s dressed like a Catholic schoolgirl. And while School’s insanely popular no-reservations weekend brunch is a mob scene, show up every Tuesday through Thursday after 5 pm for Schoolicious and get any three courses on the dinner card for $30.

Monday 8 am to 4 pm, Tuesday 8 am to 10 pm, Wednesday to Friday 8 am to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 9:30 am to 4 pm, dinner Saturday to 11 pm.

Closed some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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2 | CheFs’ house

215 King E, at Princess, 416- 415-2260, thechefshouse.com.

One of the biggest hits of both Summer- and Winterlicious, the flagship of George Brown’s chef program is one of the biggest bargains in town any time of the year. In a high-tech room that looks like the set of some Gordon Ramsay TV show, students not only cook the food – four- course $30 prix fixe lunches like the inevitable beet salad followed by seasonal soup du jour, soy-braised pork belly with spaetzle and browned butter pie – but serve it as well. And because grades are being handed out, everyone’s on best behaviour.

Monday to Friday for lunch with seatings from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm, dinner 6 to 8 pm. Closed Saturday, Sundays, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

3 | gallery grill

7 Hart House Circle, at Wellesley, 416-9782445.

If the ’rents are footing the bill for your higher education, a swanky lunch or brunch at chef Suzanne Baby’s luxe resto in historic Hart House might be better payback than nachos at Sneaky Dee’s. Under the vaulted arches, nibbling on the likes of grilled veal sweetbreads on wild mushroom toasts, they’re sure to be convinced they’re getting their money’s worth.

Need we add that reservations are essential?

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Urban planning is more complex than ever before. While the environmental pressure’s on, and community demands are intensifying, planners must understand resources of all kinds and the extent to which our space is dwindling. They need people skills, too, to deal with diverse experts and interests.

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ur department is responsible for playing a masterdeveloper role in the waterfront. My role is to lead our proposal calls so development partners can get on board, and to work with them to implement the master plan.

My undergrad degree was in sociology, my master’s in planning, both at the University of Toronto. I took an urban sociology course that deepened my interest in cities and how they grow, and that turned into a broader interest in the relationship between the built environment and quality of communities and people’s daily lives.

The most interesting thing about the planning program at U of T was that it attracted students with diverse academic backgrounds. That forces you to think about things from multiple perspectives, which is very similar to the way you have to think once you’re working as a planner in the field.

The parts of my schooling that have been most valuable had less to do with specific job training than with professional skills like research, dealing with the public and report writing. The U of T program balances research and academic work with the development of professional skills, so your paper is

structured more like a professional report than a thesis. You learn to write based on a specific planning problem that needs to be addressed.

Public speaking has become increasingly significant now that I’m in the director role. Eventually, every planner has to do some public speaking, and when you work for a public agency like Waterfront Toronto, people are always interested in what we do and want to hear more about what we’re working on.

Once you start working, there’s a very steep learning curve, and that can be very intimidating, particularly because planning school generally doesn’t focus on the day-to-day things you do in a professional practice. When people first start, they may end up working in a different city or a different field than they thought they were going into when they finished school. I had to go work in Manchester, England, which I knew nothing about. It was sink or swim, but luckily it turned out for the best.

When you’re thinking about land use planning, you must be willing to travel, to think critically about your own city and the lessons to be learned from other cities. It’s very important to keep an open mind.

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y work centres on environmental issues related to land use and planning. That covers a number of areas, but primarily I work on the city’s green building policies and green building tools that are used through the planning process, as well as the Green Cities green roof program, including the green roof bylaw.

I did my undergrad work at the University of Guelph in international development, with a focus on the bio­ physical environment and a minor in environmental studies. I did my mas­ ter’s in planning at the University of Toronto, with a focus on environmen­ tal policy.

I’ve always felt connected to nature, and I like to be outside. I became aware of climate change as the defining issue we’re going to face in the future during my undergrad studies. Learning about the science of it triggered my desire to understand the connections between development and climate change. Be­ ing able to see connections is a very important part of being an environ­ mental planner.

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be able to map out how you’re going to get where you eventually wind up.

Experience you can get from smaller pieces of work may lead you to your end goal.

I had several jobs after graduation that put me on a very odd path. When I was doing grad work at U of T, I worked with an environmental non­ profit in Washington, DC. Then I worked for a planning publication, Novae Res Urbis, for a year, which brought me back into the planning field. I started doing research con­ tracts again, and they all gave me pieces of experience that led to my job at the city of To­ ronto.

A good planner is persistent.

Be open to acquiring knowledge in an array of areas and be able to make connections between those fields. Being aware of issues in many areas and bringing them together is our primary role – connecting the people who have expertise in water with the people who have exper­ tise in climate change adapta­ tion or urban design.

There’s a steep learning curve mov­ ing from the academic and non­profit world to a career in government. One of the challenges is accepting that as a new planner your work exists within a political context. You work for an elect­ ed body that makes the decisions.

Sometimes the decision­makers go beyond what you could possibly hope for and push you further than expected and you’re pleasantly surprised.

Other times they may make decisions you don’t endorse.

It is all part of the learning process.

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work as the community economic development coordinator at Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC). I’m establishing a community land trust, a mechanism that allows for shared ownership in the form of a community garden, for example.

It’s a really exciting project because I’ve been working with so many practitioners – community development officers, social planners, community organizers, for example – who challenge the status quo.

I specialized in social planning and community development at U of T after I did an undergraduate degree in policy studies at Chuo University in Tokyo.

My interest in planning took hold during my first year of undergrad. I took a great international development course that tried to bridge the gap between theory and practice. I went to Sri Lanka, where we visited many different NGOs and international development agencies. It was there that I became interested in urban planning issues in big cities like Colombo and the gap between policy and what’s actually happening on the ground in community development.

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nomic development, environment planning and urban design. The program was a great way to connect with practitioners working in the field.

A good social planner has the ability to understand neighbourhood challenges and local conditions within broader policy contexts, but it’s also important to have the sensitivity and capacity to respond to the diverse needs and conflicting interests of community members. That’s because impacts of policy and planning are felt differently by different populations.

Housing isn’t just about where you want to build housing; it’s also about social policy issues such as income support and labour market conditions.

I enjoy every moment of my job, which constantly demands creative conversations with practitioners. When we take action together, it’s really exciting. I like transforming a very basic and abstract idea like establishing a community land trust into an actual organization.

It’s not a visible thing, but I can feel it becoming more and more real each day.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Do you know

what a controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has accumulated too close to wooded areas.

With less fuel around, bigger fires are not as likely to ignite accidentally and turn into conflagrations. I encourage you to use this as a metaphor for your own life, Aries. How? First, identify a big potential problem that may be looming on the horizon. Then, in the coming weeks, get rid of all the small messes that might tend to feed that big problem. Make sure it’ll never happen.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Jungian story-

teller Clarissa Pinkola Estes advises us to take good care of the untamed aspects of our nature. “The wild life must be kept ordered on a regular basis,” she writes. One way to do this is to keep our uncommon and unruly ideas clear and organized. It’s also important to give them respect, and understand that they’re crucial to our spiritual and psychological health. How are you doing in this regard, Taurus? What’s your relationship with the untamed aspects of your nature? According to my reading of the omens, now is prime time for you honour and nurture and cultivate them.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 By my astrological reckoning, you’re not nearly wet enough right now. I recommend that you take immediate and intensive steps to remedy the situation. There should not be anything about you that is high and dry; you need to soak up the benefits that come from being slippery and dripping. If you’re suffering from even a hint of emotional dehydration, you should submerse yourself in the nearest pool of primal feelings. For extra credit, drink deeply from the sacred cup that never empties.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 In the 16th cen-

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According to some historians, he once said, “I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.” This is the kind of attitude I recommend that you adopt in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Tailor your language to the people and creatures you’re speaking to. Address them on their own level of consciousness, respecting their limitations and appealing to their particular kind of intelligence.

Of course, this is always a good policy,

but it’s especially important for you to observe now. Fluency and flexibility will be rewarded in ways you can’t imagine.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Would you like to en-

hance your relationship with money? If so, do you have any specific ideas about how to do it? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to identify and implement those ideas. Let me make an initial suggestion: keep your magical thinking to a minimum, but don’t stamp it out entirely; a small amount of frisky fantasizing will actually boost the likelihood that your more practical intentions will achieve critical mass. Here’s another tip: imagine the presents you’d get for people if you had some extra cash.

Stimulating your generous urges may help motivate the universe to be generous to you.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 A guy I know

was invited to hang one of his paintings in a New York gallery – on one condition. It had to be a piece he created on the spot, in the gallery, on the day the show opened. That would be way too much pressure for me to handle. I need to spend a long time on the stuff I make, whether it’s music or writing. I’ve got to fuss over every little detail as I constantly edit and refine and add layers. What about you, Virgo? Could you quickly come up with some new wrinkle or fresh creation that would show the world who you really are? I’m guessing we will soon find out.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 If you’ve been reading my horoscopes for a while, you know I’m not a decadent cynic who thinks “no pain, no gain” is the supreme formula for success. On the contrary. I think it’s quite possible to enjoy tremendous growth spurts when you’re happy and healthy. Pleasurable events can be great learning experiences. Joy and freedom may activate potentials that would otherwise remain dormant. Having said that, I want to make a suggestion that may seem at odds with my usual approach, even though it’s not. For the next two weeks, I encourage you to explore the necessary power of decay. Harness the archetypes of breakdown and dissolution as you put an end to things whose time is up. This work is key to your future rejuvenation and renaissance. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 I’m going to ignore the Urban Dictionary’s more modern definitions of the word “yeast” and stick to the original meaning: an agent of fermentation that brews alco-

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holic drinks and makes bread dough rise. Metaphorically speaking, Scorpio, you should be like that for your gang or crew or tribe. I urge you to stir up group morale. Provoke deeper thought and stronger feelings. Instigate some bubbly new trends and effervescent interactions. Be yeasty!

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Sussex is

a county in southeast England. Its official motto is “We wunt be druv,” which is Sussex dialect for “We won’t be pushed around.” It’s not bad as mottoes go, I guess. There’s power in announcing to the world that you’re not going to allow anyone to manipulate you or bully you. But I’d like to see you come up with a more robust battle cry for yourself, Sagittarius – one that doesn’t focus on what you won’t do, but rather on what you will do. It’s an ideal astrological moment to articulate your driving purpose in a pithy formula that will give you strength whenever you invoke it.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “Most

people consider global warming something of a mixed blessing,” wrote Aaron Sankin on Huffington Post. “On one hand, there’s ocean acidification, deserts gobbling up wide swaths of farmland and the massive die-off of the innumerable species unable to cope with the effects of the world’s rapidly rising temperature. But, on the other hand, you’ll be able to wear shorts for literally the entire year.” Sankin is being deeply sarcastic, of course. Let’s make his satire a jumping-off point as we consider some sincerely worthwhile trade-offs you might want to implement in your own sphere. Would you be willing to sacrifice a trivial comfort for a new privilege? Would you shed a small pleasure to gain a much bigger pleasure? Might you divest yourself of a pocket of resentment if in doing so you’d attract a cleansing epiphany?

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I don’t expect your travels in the coming weeks to be like a smooth luxury cruise in a stretch limousine. Your route is not likely to be a straight shot through breathtaking scenery with expansive views.

No, my dear Aquarius, your journeys will be more complicated than that, more snakey and labyrinthine. Some of the narrow passages and weedy detours you’ll need to navigate may not even resemble paths, let alone highways.

And your metaphorical vehicle may resemble a funky old 1967 Chevy pickup truck or a forklift bedecked with flowers. It should be pretty fun, though.

Keep in mind that your maps may only be partially useful. pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 In medieval times, you didn’t need a priest to get married, nor did you have to be in a church or recite a set of vows. You didn’t even have to round up witnesses. All that was required was that the two people who wanted to be wed said “I marry you” to each other. Those three words had great power! In the coming days, Pisces, I’d love to see you draw inspiration from that lost tradition. Your assignment is to dream up three potent declarations that, while not legally binding, express the deepest and most loving intentions you promise to be faithful to in the coming years.

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Thinking drinking How to booze and not lose By elizaBeth Bromstein Ah, back to campus. The excitement of learning, the crunch of fall leaves, the puddles of puke outside the kegger....

Let’s face it, some celebrants of the new academic year are going to make total asses of themselves. So the thing is, if you’re going to drink away some of your OSAP money, at

least do it with dignity.

To party and booze it up successfully, you need strategy and respect for the effects, both short-term and long-, of imbibed substances.

How are you going to knock it back in a healthy way? And what’s your plan for the dreaded morning after?

What the experts say “Wine, beer and straight liquor are the best choices. Stay away from coolers and alcohol mixed with pop or juice, which add extra empty calories.

Drinks made with tomato juice, like Bloody Marys and Bloody Caesars, are high in sodium. Frozen drinks like daiquiris and margaritas are often made with flavour mixes that include a ton of refined sugar, artificial colours and preservatives. If you plan to drink several glasses of alcohol in one evening, try alternating an alcoholic beverage with a glass of water to prevent dehydration.”

AVIVA ALLEN, nutritionist, Toronto “There’s no magic bullet for hangovers, but replenishing lost fluids and electrolytes and taking easy-to-use energy (glucose), along with aspirin, works well. Sports drinks or water with toast and honey or jam can help, as well as drinking water or Gatorade before going to sleep. Drinking alcohol to relieve a hangover will make things much worse later. If you drink often, avoid painkillers that contain acetaminophen. There is evidence that at high doses with alcohol it can cause liver damage. Alka-Seltzer has been used for decades to neutralize an overacidic stomach. Eating greasy foods doesn’t work the way people think.

However, eating food, greasy or not, does slow the absorption of alcohol.”

JOHN BRICK, alcohol research scientist, author of The Doctor’s Hangover Handbook: The Intelligent Person’s Guide To Curious And Scientific Facts About Alcohol And Hangovers, Yardley, Pennsylvania

“A whisky shot has the same antioxidant effect as the recommended daily dose of vitamin C. Gallic acid [which has anti-viral and anti-fungal properties] occurs in wood. Some gets into whiskies that are aged in oak barrels. Scotch, since it is aged in toasted barrels, will probably have more. But the main antioxidants in whisky and brandy are the copper, manganese and iron ions, which can change their charge. We need all the antioxidants we can get, so by all means drink good whisky and brandy in moderation.

‘Good’ means a well-known and respected brand. We recently looked for some metals in gin and found none. I suspect the same is true of vodka.”

GORDON TROUP, physicist, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

“Young people should not drink for their health, but for the social effects: feeling better, relating better to people.

The diseases that alcohol prevents or reduces the risk of are those that affect older people: heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes. These aren’t what we worry about in 20-year-olds. If you are older, the most important thing is not whether you drink beer or a glass of wine, but that you do it in moderation, a drink or two, and do it every day as a pattern and only when you eat.

You get good cholesterol from whisky, and wine has 500 other ingredients other than alcohol, all of them very helpful. But again, any protection young people get is probably minimal.”

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In the five years since it was introduced, SummerWorks’ music series has risen enough in stature and acclaim to rival the theatre programming. This year, organizers decided to bridge the gap, pairing musicians with artists from other disciplines for a set of oneof-a-kind performances.

In his collaboration with dance artist Ame Henderson, Toronto-via-Nova Scotia rapper Buck 65 (aka Rich Terfry) took the “one of a kind” idea seriously, delivering songs he’d never or rarely played live over his 20-odd-year career. Terfry has a tendency to fall too comfortably into his unwavering signature flow, but this nearly two-hour performance offered plenty more for the audience to focus on.

An arsenal of performers mirrored and multiplied his unmistakable dance moves, rode bikes around the stage, popped balloons and tossed paper airplanes from the balcony. Each song

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was presented differently, and some landed better than others. Still, the experimentation made for the kind of spontaneous spark-filled experience that typifies the best live music.

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MY MORNING JACKET

at Echo Beach, Wednesñ day, August 15.

Rating: NNNNN My Morning Jacket are still one of the best touring acts around. Perhaps their Kentucky origins, slightly homogenous fan base or beards-and-guitars aesthetic are what relegates them to the pastoral, quaint domain of Southern, roots and country rock (a fact that was lampooned in an MMJ-centric episode of American Dad).

But it makes more sense to view them as far-out stoner rockers, quick with the funk and prone to meandering, mesmerizing riffs that are more eclectic than twangy. Frontman Jim James, a furry space cadet, continually referred to the year-old outdoor venue as “historic Echo Beach,” endearing himself to the hordes of gathered lifers.

And the Beach’s sound design enabled MMJ’s psychedelic tendencies to slip loose, like the traded falsetto harmonies between James and guest Kathleen Edwards on Golden, the swirling sax solo in Dondante, the Billy Joel-indebted piano lines in Dancefloors. Even the choir-like chorus line of Holding On To Black Metal seemed to rise from the crowd.

James stalked the stage, hood up, like a gaucho Jon Snow, bouncing off the drum risers and teasing out guitar solos as reedy and carnal as his distinctive voice. The pace was perfect: two hours of billowing builds and few quiet, acoustic moments. ANUPA MISTRY

NU SENSAE at Parts and Labour, Wednesday, August 15.

Rating: NNN On their Sundowning LP, Vancouver punk trio Nü Sensae infused their hardcore fury with dreamy drones and melodies. In concert, the emotional experience is decidedly less varied: the band is taut, intense and loud.

Taking the stage just after midnight, they quickly locked in and kept the allages punk kids bashing about for 30 minutes. Those who chose to remain stationary seemed mesmerized by Daniel Pitout, whose precise speedfreak drumming was the most visceral and captivating aspect of the show.

Singer Andrea Lukic, meanwhile, zigzagged between shrieks and menacing coos over her growling bass and Brody McKnight’s squalling guitar.

Nü Sensae are one of those bands that manage to look as aloof as their sound is aggressive. Perhaps they were in mid-tour mode, but they set up, performed and bid farewell with an almost mechanical efficiency that was satisfyingly ferocious but also someKEVIN RITCHIE what anticlimactic.

YOUNG RIVAL at Yonge-Dundas Square, Friday, August 17.

Rating: NNN This edition of Indie Fridays – Virgin Mobile’s free weekly summer concert series at Yonge-Dundas Square – fea-

tured Hamilton rockers Young Rival, who first got our attention back in the early 2000s under their old name, the Ride Theory. Since switching their name in 2007, signing with Sonic Unyon and shedding one member, the three-piece have earned a solid rep for their radio-friendly blend of loud, bluesy rock ’n’ roll.

The band took a few songs to find their groove on the large Y&D stage, and the large, eclectic crowd – consisting of fans, tourists and curious passersby – seemed to respond better to their fuzzy 60s garage fare than to their more straight-ahead bored-vocalist indie rock. (Think later Stills or early Strokes.)

They could have offered more visual dynamics to match the energy of their crunchy power chords, but the band still managed to entertain with their high-octane cover of Nothin’ by 60s Toronto band the Ugly Ducklings.

Watch for Young Rival’s new record, Stay Young, to drop on Sonic Unyon in JORDAN BIMM October.

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Global dance music

DJ/Rupture Can sonic tourism become musical fair trade?

By ANUPA MISTRY

DJ/RUPTURE with VENUS X, POIRIER, MAGA BO, Torro Torro, Dos Mundos and others at Sunnyside Pavilion (1755 Lake Shore West), Sunday (August 26), 2 pm to midnight. Free.

Jace Clayton knows something about mixing disciplines. He’s a journalist, radio show host and a prolific trawler for left-field sounds, but he’s probably best known as NYC-based DJ/Rupture.

The anything-goes approach to work and genre makes him a suitable headliner for Fire On The Water, a multidisciplinary, summer’s-end pool party happening Sunday at Sunnyside.

Well-versed in cumbia, the popular Latin American 2/4 stomp, he’ll play alongside global bass nonconformists like Venus X, a Harlem-reared DJ known for her scene-collating Ghe2o Goth1k parties, Montreal soca and dancehall enthusiast Poirier and local “pan-Latino” DJ crew Dos Mundos.

“I’m an idealist about music and music’s possibilities,” says Clayton. “So I’m very interested in collaborating with others, and I have an enormous curiosity and desire to shake things up.”

Clayton, who didn’t grow up in a particularly musical household, says it was a bootleg compilation cassette of Japanese noise called Eat Shit Noise Music that got him engaged with music and poking into its stranger

pockets. Almost 10 years ago, before the 24/7 hyper-saturation of internet culture began, he launched the now well-known blog Mudd up! after discover­ing that “there were blogs posting about African music in English – and you could download it!”

Though Clayton, who recently developed a set of “Sufi” plug-ins for Ableton Live based on the North African musical scale, is clearly not a techno­phobe, he does have reservations about the internet’s omnivorous propensities – especially concerning the consumption of sounds like baile funk or reggaeton rendered temporarily cool by the Western music press.

“You can download 5 gigabytes of kuduro if you want to, but does it tell you anything about the situation in Angola?” he says, referring to the ­authoritarian stasis in the southern ­African nation.

His plug-ins expand the arsenals of Western producers, but Rupture wants to open-source the software so it’s compatible with what northern African musicians use. It’s like musical fair trade, enabling responsible sonic excavation.

“There’s a lot of social data that’s missing,” Clayton says. “Like, who is making this music, how are people dancing to it, what are the beefs surrounding it?”

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clubs & concerts hot Open ROOf festival w/ Bruce Peninsula Amsterdam Brewery (21 Bathurst), tonight (Thursday, August 23) Outdoor film screening and bands. steve pOltz C’est What (67 Front East), tonight (Thursday, August 23) See preview, page 47.

BuskeRfest w/ the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kim Churchill, Motion Device and many others St. Lawrence Market (Front between Yonge and Jarvis), Thursday to Sunday (August 23 to 26) See preview, page 54. fake pROm 2012: enchantment undeR the sea w/ the Fake Prom Band, DJ Dougie Boom, Shit La Merde Palais Royale (1601 Lake Shore West), Friday (August 24) Prom-themed indie dance party.

Om unit, sinjin hawke Great Hall Black Box Theatre (1087

Queen West), Friday (August 24) Forward-thinking bass music. wkd Beach paRty w/ Lee Foss, Matthew Dear, Soul Clap, Juan Maclean, Pat Mahoney and many more Sugar Beach (25 Dockside), Saturday (August 25) All-day outdoor dance party on the waterfront. fiRe On the wateR: BatheRs Of the wORld unite! w/ Venus X, DJ/Rupture, Poirier, Torro Torro and many others Sunnyside Pavilion (1755 Lake Shore West), Sunday (August 26) See preview, page 45. whitehORse Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Tuesday (August 28) Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland. jellO BiafRa & the guanta­ namO schOOl Of medicine Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor), Wednesday (August 29) Pioneering hardcore punk legend.

tickets

pop/Rock

BRuce spRingsteen & the e stReet Band

There aren’t many other rock musicians who can put on a stadium show like the Boss. Springsteen has been playing some of the longest sets of his career on this tour and still somehow leaving fans hungry for more. This is the largest version of the E Street Band ever to tour, although the absence of founding member saxophonist Clarence Clemons will surely be felt. To get you in the mood, the Horseshoe Tavern is hosting a pre-show BBQ in the afternoon.

Rogers Centre (1 Blue Jays Way), Friday (August 24), doors 7:30 pm. $35-$115. 416-870-8000.

Just announced 2 chainz Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm, $31. PDR, RT, SS, TM. September 4.

BRanvan3000 Phoenix Concert The-

atre 9 pm, $25. PDR, RT, SS, TW. bv3.ca. September 6.

ali shaheed muhammad TIFF Opening Weekend Cheval. September 8.

legOwelt Overdrive: TIFF – Galapagos

lee fields & the expRessiOns, the sOul mOtivatORs, dj jasOn palma Opera House doors 9 pm, $22.50.

TW. October 5.

jOss stOne The Soul Sessions Tour Sound Academy 8 pm, all ages, $32.50. RT, SS, TM. October 9.

del BaRBeR Canadian Songbook Rivoli doors 8 pm, $19.50. October 10.

Drake Hotel Underground 11 pm, $10. September 8.

the skydiggeRs Glenn Gould Studio 8

julie dOiROn and the wROng guys The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $10.50.

Ben giBBaRd Danforth Music Hall doors

pm, $34.50. RTH. October 13.

RT, SS. September 13.

7:15 pm, all ages, $25.50-$35. TM. October 14.

aRiane mOffatt Virgin Mobile Mod

Ben fOlds five, kate milleR­ heidke Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages,

Club 7:30 pm, $16. TW. September 13.

lily fROst, lOu canOn Rivoli 8 pm,

$tba. September 15.

aRt depaRtment Cinema Nightclub.

September 14.

peaches Overdrive: TIFF Drake Hotel Underground 9 pm, $10. September 14.

kOde9 Wrongbar 10 pm, $12.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. September 19.

$37.50. RT, SS, TM. October 15.

alanis mORissette Sound Academy 8 pm, all ages, $42.50. RT, SS, TM. October 15.

BRaithwaite & whiteley Glenn

Centre 7 pm, $39.50-$79.50. TM. October 25.

Wrongbar $10. PDR, RT, SS, TW. September 21.

Betty lavette Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$49.50. RTH. November 1.

Big k.R.i.t. Phoenix $tba. PDR, RT, SS. Sep-

the weeknd Sound Academy doors 8

wide mOuth masOn Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 29.

ROse cOusins Glenn Gould Studio 8

teenage kicks Lee’s Palace doors 9

pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 5.

change Of heaRt Horseshoe doors 9

pm, $12. RT, SS. October 5.

smashing pumpkins Air Canada

pm, $34.50. November 2, 3 and 4.

pm, $29.50. RTH. November 3.

annie lennOx, angelique

kidjO Hope Rising! Benefit For The Stephen Lewis Foundation Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$179.50. RTH. November 7. melissa etheRidge Massey Hall 8 pm, $35-$100. RTH. November 7.

chilly gOnzales Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50. RTH. November 8. the sOuljazz ORchestRa, dj jOhn kOng CD release party Wrongbar.

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$129.50. RTH. November 18.

gilBeRtO gil Massey Hall 8 pm, $29.50-$79.50. RTH. November 19.

Old man luedecke Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. November 22.

jenn gRant, cuff the duke Win-

ter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50. RTH. November 24.

wOmen’s Blues Revue Massey Hall 8 pm, $25-$55. RTH. November 24.

aRetha fRanklin Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$199.50. RTH. November 30.

the BiRthday massacRe Virgin

adam cOhen Trinity St. Paul’s Church 7

SS, TM. September 19.

willis eaRl Beal Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $15.50. RT, SS. October 1.

itzhak peRlman, ROhan de silva Roy Thomson Hall 2 pm, $29.50-

Off!, the spits, dOuBle nega­ tive Wrongbar $19. TW. October 23.

mR muthafuckin’ exquiRe

pm, $10. RT, SS. September 29.

$29.50. RTH. November 15.

Raffi Belugagrads Concert Roy Thomson

pm, $32.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. October 25.

white aRROws The Garrison doors 8:30

Rivoli doors 8 pm, $19.50. November 14.

the Once Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm,

Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. October 19.

kendRick lamaR, aB­sOul, jay ROck Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $31. RT,

tember 24.

jeRemy fisheR Canadian Songbook

Hall 2 pm, $27.50-$55. RTH. December 2.

Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, all ages, $18.50.

HS, RT, SS, TM. December 6.

Blind BOys Of alaBama Go Tell It On The Mountain: Christmas Show Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $39.50-$69.50. RTH. December 7. danny michel & the magnifi­ cent seven Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50. RTH. December 8.

pentatOnix Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, all ages, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 9. simian mOBile discO Wrongbar. De-

cember 14.

tOny Bennett Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$169.50. RTH. February 8.

ladysmith Black mamBazO Roy

Thomson Hall 8 pm, $39.50-$69.50. RTH. February 22.

whitehORse Massey Hall 8 pm, $19.50$49.50. RTH. March 2.

SINGER/SONGWRITER

STEVE POLTZ Storytelling in songs, and also in between them

By SARAH GREENE

STEVE POLTZ at C’est What (67 Front East), tonight (Thursday, August 23), 9 pm. $20.

416-867-9499.

“I have no plan in life and no plan onstage,” admits San Diego-based, Nova Scotia-born songwriter Steve Poltz, on the road on the East Coast touring his ninth solo album, Noineen Noiny Noin (Arrival).

He’s talking about his unconventional, often hilarious performances, which include storytelling and stream of consciousness in addition to songs and have earned him a cult following.

But he could just as easily be referring to the spontaneous approach to recording that saw the former Rugburns frontman and Jewel collaborator working in Halifax with Joel Plaskett on his last album, 2010’s Dreamhouse, and with producer/drummer Malcolm Clark in Perth, Australia, this time around. (Noineen Noiny Noin is a reference to the first year Poltz toured

down under.)

“I was on tour opening for Bob Evans, and [Malcolm] asked me to come in and do a couple of songs,” Poltz says. “Next thing I knew we were making this record, and it’s a double record.”

The album covers the spectrum of psychedelic rock, folk, country and soul, employing rhythmic drums, backup vocals, organ and a touch of horns.

A prolific songwriter, Poltz didn’t stop there. “I actually have a whole other record done from Austin,” he says. That one was recorded during SXSW earlier this year with Lars Goransson, who mixed and mastered Noineen Noiny Noin.

It should come as no surprise that travel is a recurring theme in Poltz’s songwriting (he sings about Slovenia and Croatia on the new album), but he can also spin a great yarn or get deeply personal. He calls it “truth mixed with bullshit” (his word for fiction).

That said, Poltz’s wild and unpredictable shows aren’t for everyone.

“I’m kind of awkward about the shit I talk about [at shows],” he says. “There are no boundaries, and what I say can be offensive to some people. But for me, no subject is off limits.”

Case in point, at a recent gig in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Poltz scared away a fan’s friend after going on a tangent about pot-smoking, ball-scratching guys delivering a waterbed.

“I say a prayer to whatever my idea of god is before I go onstage,” he explains. “And I pray to just be myself. I don’t pray to be good. I pray to let me be totally honest. So when I come onstage being honest and myself, naturally it makes people uncomfortable.

“Art is not for everyone. If some people are actively not liking what you’re doing, you’re probably on the right path.”

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Thursday, August 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

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

AmsterdAm Brewery Open Roof Festi-

val: Outdoor Film And Music Series Bruce ñ Peninsula 7:30 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Black Phoenix Orchestra. cAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition The Magic

Of Motown The Spinners 7:30 pm. the centrAl The Red Boy: Thursday Throwdown 9 pm. dAkotA tAvern CD release Joshua Cockerill’s Animal Parts, Tarantuela (alt-country/indie folk) 10 pm. el mocAmBo Christian Hansen, the Black Fever, Dinosaur Dinosaur doors 9 pm. the GArrison Soi Disant, Tia Brazda, the Folk, the Tiger Cats 9 pm.

GlAdstone hotel melody BAr Run with the Kittens, Barry Lyndon, Sid Alaistar 9 pm.

GrAffiti’s Jeff Oussoren, James Thomson, Ken Yoshioka 4-6 pm. hArd luck BAr Tigers Jaw, Turnover, Junior Battles, Young Statues, PJ Bond (indie pop) doors 7 pm. the hideout Mad June, Rouletta, Kid Richards, Diamond Bones 10 pm. horseshoe Pre Bruce Springsteen TO Show Party: Warchild Canada Benefit Tommy Youngsteen (members of Sam Roberts Band, the Trews & Stars, Stills alumni play Petty/ Young/Springsteen tribute) 10 & 11:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce The Shrugs, Buccaneers, Civil, Jimmy Stone. the locAl Nichol Robertson & his Boogaloo Boys. 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). rivoli Six Side Die, Hotel Royal, Adrian Pain & the Dead Sexy 8:30 pm. silver dollAr Brian Olive, Sphinx, the Speaking Tongues, Lordy Lordy doors 9 pm. sneAky dee’s Color Morale.

sony centre for the PerforminG Arts Dead Can Dance doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ sound AcAdemy Rik Emmet doors 8 pm. southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm.

velvet underGround Kevin Brathwaite, Sheldon Holder, Juice (funk).

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

AsPettA cAffe Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. cAstro’s lounGe Jerry Leger & the Situation

(folk/rock/country) 9 pm. c’est whAt Steve Poltz (alt-folk) 9 pm.

See preview, page 47. clinton’s Heavy Soul Delta, the Kerouacs, the Hollowbodies and others doors 9 pm. emmet rAy BAr Patrick Brealey (folk rock/ roots) 9 pm. eton house Keith Jolie (folk) 7:30 pm.

GrossmAn’s Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm. hArd rock cAfe SocialHR Camp Toronto Tweetup Ariana Gillis (folk/blues/country/ world) doors 6 pm. huGh’s room Rags & Rhythms, Global Bollywood CD release Bageshree Vaze, Vineet Vyas, Chris Gartner, Kevin Laliberte, Sundar Vishwanathan, Jaron Freeman-Fox 8 pm. lolA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. lulA lounGe CD release Travis Murphy, Seizure Salad (pop/folk/experimental) 8:30 pm.

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Cosentino 9 pm.

PAssion lounGe Jabez Stone 9 pm. st lAwrence mArket BuskerFest The

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kim Churchill, Motion Device and others noon to 10 pm. See preview page 54. toronto BotAnicAl GArden The Edwards Summer Music Series Sarv Ensemble 7 to 8:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Boiler house Louis Simao Trio (Brazilian jazz)

8 pm.

dominion on Queen Cabaret 375 8 pm. the flyinG BeAver PuBAret Julie Michels 7:30 pm.

GAte 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9

pm, Jill Peacock Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GlAdstone hotel A Synonym For Love: An Underground Opera Emily Atkinson, Scott Belluz, Tracy Smith-Bessette 7 pm. hArBourfront centre Dancing On The Pier Pablo Terry & Sol de Cuba, Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 pm. nAthAn PhilliPs sQuAre Tasty Thursdays QuiQue Escamilla (Latin jazz/reggae/rock) noon to 2 pm. rex Don Menza & Sam Noto 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. somewhere there studio Claude Witmann 8 pm. toronto music GArden Summer Music In The Garden: Songs For Cello Rufus Cappadocia 7 pm.

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chevAl Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/ club anthems). ePiPhAny restAurAnt & lounGe Epiphany Thursdays DJ DLimit (Afro/dancehall/hip-hop/ old school/soca).

GoodhAndy’s T-Girl Parties.5 insomniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lou dAwG’s ryerson Goodtimes DJ GoodTimes 9 pm. the PAinted lAdy Soul Sonic DJ NV (hip-hop/ funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 9:30 pm. rivoli uPstAirs Riv ‘ER DJ Plan B (hip-hop). sutrA/souz dAl PUSH Thursdays Deep End & Christian K (house/hip-hop/disco/future bass) 10 pm. wAylABAr Outlet (electro) 10 pm.

Friday, August 24 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Uptown.

AsPettA cAffe Celia Opera, Xenia Vakova

(pop/folk) 7 pm. the BAllroom BPM Krew (dance rock) 10 pm.

BAr itAliA uPstAirs Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm.

Boiler house Organic Funk (funk/soul/pop) 8 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Midnight Malice, Call of the Wild. cAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition Don McLean 7:30 pm. cAstro’s lounGe Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. the centrAl Get Blown 9:30 pm, Sam GrundyGlynn 7 pm. drAke hotel underGround Video release party Muneshine (hip-hop) doors 8 pm. el mocAmBo Post Springsteen Party Joe U’rso & Stone Caravan. hArBourfront centre Taiwanfest Pin Kuan (Mandarin pop star) 8:30 pm. hArd luck BAr Metalian, Black Moor, Tiger Star, Borrowed Time, Demontage doors 8 pm. holy oAk cAfe Swiss Dice & Progfucker (rock) 10 pm. horseshoe CD release Whale Tooth, Paint Movement, BB Guns doors 9 pm. horseshoe Bruce Springsteen Pit GA BBQ 1:30 to 7:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce Emerson St Rhythm Band, the Flow, Muso. lou dAwG’s ryerson Jeff Eager (soul/funk/ Motown) 4:20 pm. mississAuGA celeBrAtion sQuAre Create, Enjoy And Celebrate Vibonics, Wali, Gabriela Rodgers, Carla Casanova & Sierra, the Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 pm. monArchs PuB Classic Rock Fridays Michael Danckert 10 pm. of A kind Fago.Sepia, the Bulletproof Tiger, Elos Arma, Earth at Night, This Is Me As a Woman 6 pm. old nick Eyeswide (acoustic rock) 8 pm.

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Saiyan, Lady Bass, Velociraver 9 pm. parts & LabOur The Snips, Rad Habits (punk) 10 pm. rancHO reLaxO Fort York, Wilmott Redd, the Flying Museum Band, Ryan Hacker doors 8 pm. rex Eric St Laurent Trio (jazz) 9:45 pm. rOgers centre Wrecking Ball World Tour Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 7:30 pm. tHe sister Red Revue. sOutHside JOHnny’s Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood tribute) 10 pm. tranzac sOutHern crOss lightsweetcrude (indie pop) 10 pm, Ben Veneer, Mimi Osvath, Abigail Lapell 7:30 pm.

Virgin MObiLe MOd cLub Dead and Divine doors 6 pm, all ages. yOnge-dundas square Indie Fridays Raoul & the Big Time 8 to 10 pm.

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benares HistOric HOuse On The Verandah

Concert Antonio Piretti – TOZ 7:30 pm. c’est WHat Jessica Blake (folk) 8 pm. gLadstOne HOteL MeLOdy bar We Walk the Line (Johnny Cash tribute) 9 pm. grOssMan’s The Fried Angels (blues) 10 pm.

HarbOurfrOnt centre Taiwanfest Wild Harvest Music of Taiwan 4 pm.

HugH’s rOOM The Al Lukas Band: Evening Alchemy 8:30 pm.

LOLa Danny Blu Acoustic Jam 3 to 7 pm.

LOu daWg’s Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm.

LOWer OssingtOn tHeatre CD release Kevin

Wong 8 pm.

LuLa LOunge Salsa Night Sonido Cubano, DJ Suave, Giovanni Torres 10:30 pm.

pJ O’brien irisH pub Paul & Aideen (Celtic & contemporary ).

rebas café & gaLLery Tim Harwill (12-string troubadour) 7 to 9 pm.

La reVOLuciOn Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. st LaWrence Market BuskerFest The

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kim Churchill, Motion Device and others noon to 11 pm. See preview, page 54.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

tHe fLying beaVer pubaret Gabi Epstein (cabaret) 8 pm. gate 403 Valeria Matzner & Sabor Latin Jazz Band 9 pm, Ian Sinclair Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. gLadstOne HOteL A Synonym For Love: An Underground Opera Emily Atkinson, Scott Belluz, Tracy Smith-Bessette 7 pm.

LuLa LOunge Andy De Campos, Great Bob Scott 8 pm.

OLd MiLL inn Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Adrean Farrugia Trio 7:30 pm.

OpticianadO Kingsley Etienne Trio (B3 jazz) 7 to 11 pm. rex Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

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Somewhere There STudio Leftover Daylight

Series Robert Kingsbury, Dylan Hillier 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Annex wreckroom 90s Party (alt rock/pop/ hip-hop) 10 pm.

BrASSAii Love Me Till I’m Me Again PG-13.

BuddieS in BAd TimeS TheATre Fuck U Fridays

DJ Triple-X, DJ Matt Sims 10:30 pm.5 cASTro’S Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm. cLinTon’S Fuck It Bangs & Blush (80s/90/00s) doors 10 pm. drAke hoTeL underground Edumacation DJ Fase doors 11 pm. drAke hoTeL Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. drop Muhfukn Fridays DJ Turt McGurt, DJ Professor Melé, DJ Malaise (hip-hop/electro/ Moombahton/mashups/dubstep) doors 10 pm. emmeT rAy BAr DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

FLy Fly Campus: Back To School Special DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall).5 FooTwork Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm.

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Unit, Sinjin Hawke.

Funkin’ Fresh Fridays George Williams (house/breaks).

LAmBAdinA Latino Canadian Cultural Association Fundraising Event Santerias, Reverb, DJ NoLoVes. Luxy nighTcLuB T.G.I. Fridays DJ Spex, DJ Chris Michaels, Mark Strong.

The pAinTed LAdy DJ Frank Phantastic Johnson 10 pm. pALAiS royALe Fake Prom 2012: Enchantment Under The Sea The Fake Prom Band, DJs Dougie Boom & Shit La Merde 9:30 pm. preSS cLuB SHAG DJ Madame Hair (British rock n’ roll) 9:30 pm.

SAviAri TeA + cockTAiL Lounge re:Freshed DJs Sessions, Spinner, Lilee doors 9 pm.

SunnySide pAviLion Roxy Reunion DJs Felix & Gani, Richard Brooks, Blueprint & Moreno, Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull, Jason Palma, Nav & John Kong doors 9 pm.

SupermArkeT Course Of Time First Year Anniversary Party DJs Tropicool, Mr Charlton and Gray Moonen.

ToTA Lounge Fascinated Fridays The PayBack Crew, DJ Ef Sharp, James St Bass (funk). wAyLABAr Shag Retro Party DJ Cory Activate 10 pm. wrongBAr Summer Mixtape Sessions Volume Three Pezzner, Mike Gleeson &

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Saturday, August 25 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

ALLeycATz Groove Marmalade.

ASpeTTA cAFFe Frailfragment, Sherry Seager,

Shaalone, Blues & Trouble, Rob Cayer, Brian Hotton 3 to 10 pm.

BoiLer houSe The Better Half (pop/rock/soul) 8 pm.

Bovine Sex cLuB Saint Alvia, the Resurrects.

cAnAdiAn nATionAL exhiBiTion BAndSheLL

Trooper, Poor Young Things 7:30 pm.

The cenTrAL upSTAirS Alanna Matty 6 pm.

The cenTrAL Flawless Logic (pop) 10 pm, Alter Kaker 6 pm. comForT zone Vodnik, Schizoid, the Shroud of Gaia, After Life, Evilution, 4Wardens (death metal/digital hardcore) doors 8:30 pm. downSview pArk RastaFest House of David Gang, Mighty Diamonds, Echo Minott, Jah Kettle, Tréson, Donna Makeda, Iniffa and others 1 to 10 pm.

The duke Live.com Band Warz. eL mocAmBo Nerd Noise Night/Fan Expo 2012 Wordburglar, Kirby Krackle, Brental Floss, Radkus & Helena, More or Les, Megashaun, Peter Project, Jesse Dangerously, Killah Tape (hip-hop) 8 pm. horSeShoe Topanga, Dangerbird, Army Girls, Sandman Viper Command doors 9 pm.

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Lee’S pALAce Riddims Of Resistance: A Benefit

For The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape M Jazz, Brescia, Bloodbeard, Evalyn Parry, Rosina, Amai Kuda, Jamaias Da Costa, Sonny B and others 9 pm.

The LocAL Sarah DeCarlo 10 pm.

Lou dAwg’S Jeff Eager (soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm.

Lou dAwg’S ryerSon Southern Brunch & Soulful Sounds The Irene Torres Soul Duo 1 to 4 pm.

Lou dAwg’S ryerSon Mike C (acoustic blues/ rock/funk/reggae) 10 pm. oLd nick Eyeswide (acoustic rock) 8 pm. rex Rich Brown’s Rinse the Algorithm 12:45 am, Lester McLean Trio 9:45 pm, Danny Marks (pop) noon.

ShopS AT don miLLS Summer of 69 Band 1 to 4 pm.

The SiSTer realzombiesneverdie, the Sketch, the Guzzlers.

SouThSide Johnny’S Kat House (rock/top 40) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

cASTro’S Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues) 4:30 pm. dominion on Queen Lucian Gray & Sarah Rogo Blues Band 9:30 pm.

Free TimeS cAFe Suitcase Sam, Montgomery Brown 8 pm.

gLAdSTone hoTeL meLody BAr Country Saturdays Steve Ketchen & the Hanksters (country) 9 pm.

groSSmAn’S The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm. hArBourFronT cenTre Taiwanfest Yen-J 9:30

pm, Our Children, Our Voice O-Kai Singers (a cappella) 5:30 pm, Wild Harvest Music of Taiwan 4 pm. hiruT Fine eThiopiAn cuiSine Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm. hugh’S room Eric Sardinas & Big Motor, David Rotundo 8:30 pm.

LAke AFFecT pATio BAr Jerome Godboo, the Pie Guys 4 pm.

The LocAL Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

Lou dAwg’S Mississippi Delta Blues Brunch Pat Wright 1 to 4 pm.

LuLA Lounge Salsa Night Conjunto Lacalu, DJ Gio 10:30 pm. nAThAn phiLLipS SQuAre Toronto Turkish Festival Group Sila, Ottoman Military Band, Mavi Yildiz Dance Group, Cemalettin Kurtoglu, Evren, Tuluyhan Ugurlu noon to 10 pm. pJ o’Brien iriSh puB Paul & Aideen (Celtic & contemporary ). reBAS cAFé & gALLery Open Mic David Crighton 1 to 4 pm. reLiSh BAr & griLL Robert Chorney & David Lovegrove 9:30 pm.

ST LAwrence mArkeT BuskerFest The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kim Churchill, Motion Device and others 11 am to 11 pm.

See preview, page 54.

TrAnzAc SouThern croSS Sean Mayes (family concert) 8:30 pm, Joe Hall 6:30 pm.

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Blue Dot Gallery Anniversary Jazz Concert

Series Heather Bambrick & Trio 6:30 pm.

Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm, Uncle Herb 5 to 8 pm. olD Mill inn Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Richard Underhill Trio 7:30 pm. rex Melissa Boyce 7 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet 3:30 pm.

Sony Centre for the PerforMinG artS Il Volo 7:30 pm. the Venue Gallery Synesthesia No 1 FAWN (music and opera collective) doors 7 pm.

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annex WreCkrooM Saturday Nights At Wreckroom DJ Rick Toxic 10 pm.

Blue SueDe Sue’S Addicted To Saturdays DJ

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Clinton’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Sixties Dance Party doors 10 pm.

CoBra lounGe Stereotype Rasek, Navid Kichi, Aaadil.

Drake hotel unDerGrounD Broken English Famou$ Players doors 11 pm.

Drake hotel lounGe DJ Jr Flo doors 10 pm. eMBaSSy Bar Pressure Drop DJs Chuck Boom, Guv’nor General, Morningside 116 (roots/ reggae/rub a dub/ska/dancehall). eMMet ray Bar DJ Gerald Belanger (ol’skool house) 10 pm. fly DJ Mark Anthony, DJ Shawn Riker doors 10 pm.5 footWork WKD Beach Afterparty doors 10 pm.

GooDhanDy’S Naked Dance DJ Sexy Pants doors 8 pm.5 GuVernMent So Long Summer Illegal Alien, King the MC, DJ JC, MC Veecee & Fire Kid Steenie. holy oak Cafe DJ Essence Brown (R&B) 10 pm. inSoMnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). keatinG Channel Gramatik, Rollin’ Cash, Skank Honto, Cosmic Cat (electronic) 9 pm. luxy niGhtCluB Upscale Saturdays DJ Danny D, DJ Gino, Deejay Toma, DJ Mechon. the PainteD laDy Salazar 10 pm.

PartS & laBour BrassTacks D!ggy the DJ (classic hip-hop) 10 pm.

PreSS CluB Soulvation DJ Northern Belles (Motown/R&B) 10 pm. reViVal Midnight Mix: For The Love Edition P-Pulse, Wristpect, J-Class, Lissa Monet, Illiment, Ononymous, JB Allen, Big Philly and others doors 7 pm.

SaViari tea + CoCktail lounGe Foundation Meets Soul DJs Kevin Laverty, Uncle Funke, General Eclectic (foundation reggae/blue beat/ska/rare groove).

SuGar BeaCh WKD Beach Party Lee Foss, Matthew Dear (DJ set), Soul Clap, Juan Maclean (DJ set), Pat Mahoney (DJ set). 1 to 10:30 pm.

SuPerMarket Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal 10 pm.

Sutra/Souz Dal The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). toika United Electronic Audio Workers Of Toronto DJ Ad-ver-sary.

VirGin MoBile MoD CluB UK Underground DJ MRK, Tigerblood (dubstep/indie/electro/rock) 10 pm.

WaylaBar Pop Machine 10 pm.

CaMeron houSe The Cameron Brothers Band

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CaStro’S lounGe Cash on Demand (Johnny Cash covers) 4 pm.

Clinton’S Unplugged The Old Salts 8 pm.

Dakota taVern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

Duffy’S taVern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. eMMet ray Bar Country & Blues One-Day

Music Festival Dunlop Brothers, Porter Boyd, Dani Nash, True Romantics, Alistair Christl, Box Full of Cash and otherss 3 pm to midnight.

GlaDStone hotel MeloDy Bar Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm.

GroSSMan’S Blues Jam The Nationals 10 pm. harBourfront Centre Taiwanfest: Our Children, Our Voice O-Kai Singers (a cappella) 2:30 pm. hirut fine ethioPian CuiSine Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. the loaDeD DoG Open Stage Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. the loCal Hamstrung String Band 9:30 pm. lola Nick Pickin’ 3 to 7 pm. lula lounGe Cuban Son Duo noon.

MCGraDieS taP anD Grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. nathan PhilliPS SQuare Toronto Turkish Festival Group Sila, Ottoman Military Band, Mavi Yildiz Dance Group, Cemalettin Kurtoglu, Evren, Tuluyhan Ugurlu noon to 10 pm.

PreSS CluB Stiegl Sundays The Belle Regards (folk) 10 pm. reBaS Café & Gallery Sunday Matinee Mark Martyre (covers/originals) 1 to 4 pm. reliSh Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm.

SMilinG BuDDha davybaby & the Saddle Bag Minstry 8 pm.

SPiritS Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 7 pm. the St laWrenCe Market BuskerFest The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Kim Churchill, Motion Device and others 11 am to 8 pm. See preview, page 54.

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CanaDian national exhiBition Last Night Of The ‘Canadian’ Proms Elmer Iseler Singers, the Band of the Royal Regiment of Canada 7:30 pm. the flyinG BeaVer PuBaret Stacey Maroske 7:30 pm.

Gate 403 Brownman Akoustic Trio 9 pm, Kristine Au Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

GlaDStone hotel A Synonym For Love: An Underground Opera Emily Atkinson, Scott Belluz, Tracy Smith-Bessette 7 pm. the GrayDon PuB Sax Appeal On The Patio Gerry Stewart, Tiffany Costa 3 to 6 pm.

GroSSMan’S New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm. orBit rooM Kingstley Ettienne Trio (Hammond B3 organ) 3:30 to 7 pm. rex Marika Galea 9:30 pm, Alex Goodman Quartet 7 pm, Freeway Dixieland Jazz 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

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DoMinion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. the GarriSon Crosswires Intensive Care, the Battle of Santiago 10 pm. the loCal Jordan Faye (pop) 10 pm, Kimberly & the Collect Callers 5 pm. lula lounGe Outside the Mind (spoken word/ hip-hop) 7 pm.

MolSon aMPhitheatre Big Ticket Summer Concert Bridgit Mendler, Allstar Weekend, R5, Ross & Riker Lynch, Tyler Medeiros, Mimoza Duot, Veronica doors 4 pm. the PainteD laDy Punk Sundays Sids Kids 7:30 pm.

SouthSiDe Johnny’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

WinCheSter kitChen & Bar Porter.

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Earl Bales Park Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre Tuesday Night Live Shul of Rock (rock

& roll renditions of Jewish music) 7 pm.

The Garrison Mars, New Hands 9 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Alex Lukashevsky (pop) 9 pm.

Horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite The Punching Nuns, the Papermaps, Litttle Barrie, Secret Suburbia 9 pm.

Lee’s Palace Duchess Says.

Magpie Cafe Waterbodies, Elos Arma, Thousand Young, Alex Goyethe, the Kindest Man doors 7 pm.

The Painted Lady Brainfudge 10 pm.

Parts & Labour Go Diana, MJ Cyr, Me & My Rhythm Box 7:30 pm, all ages.

Fires of Mammon doors 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm.

The Central Jam Night 10 pm.

Drake Hotel underground Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge The Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm.

Grossman’s No Band Required.

Hard Luck Bar Old James, Prophet 8 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Headless Thompson Gunners 9 pm.

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Lou Dawg’s Fat Tuesdays Irene Torres & the

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Rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm, Amanda Tosoff Trio 6:30 pm.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt & Chris Smith 9 pm.

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Nathan Phillips Square Fresh Wednesdays Andrea Koziol 10 am to 2 pm.

Silver Dollar High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass jam) 9 pm.

Trane Studio Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (songwriter open mic) 8 pm.

Tranzac Alex Goyetche (folk/pop) 7:30 pm.

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The Central Meagan De Lima Quintet (jazz) 9:30 pm.

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It’s 10 pm on a Tuesday, and the corner of Church and Wellington is packed.

Over the heads of revellers, surreptitious flask-sippers and confused patiositters, a tuba, a violin and a megaphone peek out, the muffled sounds of energetic Ukrainian folk barely audible over handclaps, percussion and audience chants.

It’s not where I expected to be when I arranged to meet up with the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, but it’s hardly out of the ordinary for the band’s 14 members. I’d met up with Toronto’s selfproclaimed “only Balkan-klezmerGypsy-punk super-band” at Bloor and Spadina, but we’d somehow ended up in the midst of a hundreds-strong celebration – part public space intervention, part fire-spinning, street-dancing block party – commemorating the ninth anniversary of the great Toronto blackout of 2003.

“We love to play for people when they’re not expecting it,” says mohawked fiddler/bandleader Mark Marczyk. “Venues and festivals are fun, but what’s really awesome is getting people who aren’t saying, ‘I’m going to a folk festival to listen to folk or to a jazz festival to listen to jazz,’ but ‘I’m going to work and there’s a group of people having fun and celebrating life. I should be doing that, too.’”

Just as likely to be found marching outside a venue as inside it, the band updates the traditional sounds of Eastern European music with a modern punk edge, breaking it out of its specialized niche and bringing it to the

FOLK PUNK

THE LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA The “Balkan-klezmer-Gypsy-punk super-band” prefer the streets to the stage

By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

streets of Canada.

They’ve mostly done this from a position of relative obscurity, though they recently won some internet fame when a video of them playing a spontaneous Gypsy folk tune aboard a delayed Air Canada flight spread to the pages of Gawker, CNN and Fox News.

That flight, taking them to Romania for a tour, was only a small part of their adventure. In the three weeks prior to leaving, they’d raised $15,000 for the trip through street busking, and then, after playing 15 shows in two weeks, went home with a letter from the Canadian embassy in Romania hailing

them as “cultural ambassadors” and “crusaders for diversity and respect.”

“We’re not about representing Canadian culture so much as the Canadian open mind,” says flamboyant moustached accordionist Tangi Ropars (originally from Brittany, France).

FridAy september 28

punch brothers

Advance Tickets @ TickeTmAsTer.cA or 1-855-985-5000 HorsesHoe FronT BAr • soundscApes • roTATe THis

NoNesuch Bluegrass folk

sun october 14

sat october 20

cat dan mangan ben

elliott brood wintersleep thursday october 25 danforth music hall • 32.50 - 39.50 adv • all-ages $

$

rural alberta advantage friday noveMber 9

yeasayer

danforth music hall • $ 22.50 adv • all-ages

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afghan the phoenix • $35.00 adv

the phoenix • 19.50 advance

danforth music hall • $25.50 - $29.50 adv • all-ages

music@nowtoronto.com

wed october 3

$

sunday october 21

“We’re not just about sharing and mixing different cultures, but also learning about other cultures and respecting their traditions. We want to create a circle of creative energy.”

3

danforth music hall $25.50

kool haus • $34.50 adv • all-ages

- $35.00 adv • all-ages

power gibbard

friday

noveMber 9 the phoenix • $20.00 advance

whigs jens lekman

crocodiles

thursday october 4 @ the phoenix • $20.00 advance

tues deceMber 11 phoenix concert theatre

sat october 20 @ the phoenix

(of death cab for cutie)

debut solo album “former lives” out october 16 benjamingibbard.net

claremont, ca • merge records • $18.50 advance

with Matthew e. white

$18.50

advance + $1 charity fee for corus feeds kids & the daily Bread foodBank • all-ages

wednesday september 5

tuesday

september 18

@ lee’s palace • $20.00 advance • merge records

great hall •

Advance Tickets @ TickeTmAsTer.cA or 1-855-985-5000 HorsesHoe FronT BAr • soundscApes • roTATe THis britt daniel oF spoon dan broeckner oF wolf parade / handsome furs & sam brown oF new bomb turks Featuring

tues september 18 @ lee’s palace •

AntiBALAs $

20.00 adv

new york city daptone • aFrobeat

sat september 29 @ lee’s palace •

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

dinOSaur jr.

wednesdAy

september 26 @ the phoenix $ 19.00

advance • all-ages

propagandhi

saturday october 13

With the

BeSnard lakeS CoMeBACk kiD Burning Love

tues october 16 @ sound academy

$ 15.50

adv

wild

nothing with diiv

phoenix concert theatre • $24.00 advance +FF

$ 20.50 advance ga • $ 30.50 advance vip 19+ • all-ages

papa

maRk kozelek 20.00 advance • san Fran • ex-red house painters

tuesday

october 2 great hall • 15.00 adv

“In The CITy” “sTarT” “a Town Called MalICe”

october 17 lee’s palace 29.50 advance

$

hard luck • 11.50 advance

sun september 2 sneaky dee’s • $ 12.50 advance

tiGeRS Jaw atlas moth

juniOr BattleS + turnOVer yOung StatueS + pj BOnd

alter of plagues + thantifaxeth

thurS Sept 13 @ Silver dollar • $9.00 adv

thurs september 13

lee BainS iii & the glory fires tueS Sept 18 @ Silver dollar • $11.50 adv

garrison • $ 10.50 adv • all-ages

tueS Sept 18 @ partS & labour • $10.50 adv

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

jOhn k.

SamSOn (the weakerthans)

thurs september 20 lee’s palace • $ 12.50 advance

julie rich dOirOn aucoin

nobunny the sidekicks the soft moon with BAD sports

& the wrong guys

Sat SeptemBer 22 @ drake • $11.50 adv

thursday october 4 great hall • $ 15.00 advance

jOhn k. trapped under ice SamSOn

Sat OCtOBer 6 @ hard luck • $13.50 adv

sunday

september 23 lee’s palace • $ 15.00 advance

the

heaVy

Friday october 5 @ 918 bathurst • $22.50 adv • all-ages/dry show

perfume genius nick Waterhouse monday october 8 @ great hall • $13.50 advance • san Francisco

Fri september 7

$

rOn pOpe

$

lee’s palace • $ 12.00 advance

september 21 • $ 20.00 adv

grimes september 28 • 15.00 adv white COwBell OklahOma october 5 • 10.00 adv teenage kicks october 9 • 15.00 adv wax tailor october 10 • 10.00 adv octopus proJect october 18 • 16.50 adv the sea & cake october 21 • 16.50 adv aC newman october 24 • 18.00 adv heartless bastards october 25 • 29.50 adv swans october 27 • 14.50 adv father john misty november 8 • 15.50 adv gallows november 9 • 15.00 adv dan deaCon november 16 • 15.00 adv the superfriendz november 20 • 20.00 adv ...trail of dead november 23 • 20.00 adv rezillios $

$

$

$

mod club • $ 15.50 advance

sat september 22

wed september 12

mono horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

mon september 17

Wye oak horseshoe • $ 12.50 advance

chris brokaw

baltimore • merge records

sat september 15

mon Sept 24 @ horSeShoe • $11.50 adv

tues august 28 • $10.00 @door

dutcheSS SayS wednesday

august 29 20.00 advance

$

fundraiser

thurs september 6 • $10.00 adv

led zeppelin 2

• hOrSeShOe taVern • september 21 • $ 20.00 adv

hot snakes october 5 • 12.50 adv change of heart october 9 • 12.50 adv Jd mcpherson october 12 • 10.00 adv metz october 14 • 10.00 adv cheap girls october 17 • 15.00 adv menomena october 18 • 21.50 adv Jon spencer blues explosion october 25 • 15.00 adv ladyhawk october 26 • 15.00 adv pack ad october 29 • 10.00 adv milo greene $

$

$

$

$

BoB Log iii Dry the river

lily fRoSt

$

$

sat september 29

Friday september 28 @ horseshoe • $12.50 advance wITh

nightbox bravestation

helio sequence november 23 • 11.50 adv other lives

monday october 1

Friday october 12

$

$

$

$

$

horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

w/ lou cannon

tueS Sept 25 @ garriSon • $12.00 adv

$

$

$

november 11 • $ 15.00 adv

david bazan november 12 • $ 10.00 adv

wide mOuth tyLer wiLLis hey maSOn hiLton BeALe oCeAn! sat september 29 annex wreckroom • $ 15.50 adv

drake hotel • $ 15.50 advance

$

great hall • $ 15.00 advance

Jimmy Stone Radio Show

Fri august 24 • $10.00 @door

emerSOn St. rhythm Band the flOw muso

Fri august 31

• $8.00

@door

thurS auguSt 23 • $15.00

mC jazz • SOnny B brescia bloodbeard eValyn parry

pOlarity matCh fOr the CuriOuS treeStar frenemy

10.00 @ door • locAl rock

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

Friday august 24 horseshoe • 10.00 advance $

tramps like us!

wed august 29 • $4.00 @door

tWo SetS @ 10:00 & 11:30 of tom petty • neil young bruce springsteen

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

topanGa

tues september 11 • $22.50 adv

thurS SeptemBer 27 • $12.50 adv

sat august 25 • $8.50 adv

take the apple aSheS at dawn RuSted Root jon & roy

leespAlAce.com

friday auguSt 24 • 1:00pm-7:30pm

tommy e street canada bbq whale youngsteen team blackbird tOOth Warchild canada preSentS

- $50 sliding scAle

toronto rape crisis centre Benefit

sAT september 1 $

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

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

sATurdAy august 25 $5.00

headleSS thompSon GunneRS

alternative rock dance club

jello biafra

euphonic sound

W/ COttOn jOneS

juLiA hotLer

$

ex dead kennedys w/ CLAss AssAssins & the guantanamO SChOOl Of mediCine + enDprogrAM

THursdAy august 23

$

mon august 27 • shoeless • no cover

8:00pm (Sun-wed) 8:30pm (thurSday) 9:00pm (fri & Sat) the shrugs Civil Jimmy stone

saturday

october 13 opera house • 20.00 adv

$

the rivoli

concerts at

THurs august 23 • $6 @door

koffin kats

with flatliners + dead to me

wednesday

thurs august 23 $

dogs

$

$

with

street $

wednesday october 3 @ great hall

two gallants lagwagon streetlight jason manifesto coLLett from the jam 17.50 adv

$

THursdAy

september 20 horseshoe • 13.50 adv • all-ages

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

sept 5 • Divine Fits sept 15 • Lucy Bell sept 18 • Antibalas

with army girls sandman viper command + dangerbird

desperate executives

cd release

paint movement + bb guns

thursday august 30 • $13.50 advance • so-cal punk

guttermouth with permanent bastards + ivs

sat september 1 7.00 adv • local alternative

$

Life bLown open time giant goLden gate graves bastard sunshine aLLey beat grind

mon SeptemBer 10 • $10.50 adv

caspian

tuesday august 28

the punching nuns the papermaps little barrie secret suburbia Friday august 31 8.00 adv • alternative rock

$

London swagger bootLeg gLory bLoody five artfuL vandeLays levon thurS SeptemBer 13 • $12.50 adv

larry & his flask

Friday september 14

$ 15.00 advance

vetiver

horseshoetavern.com

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

with

habibi

sept 8 • Bloodshot Bill sept 12 • Mono sept 20 • street Dogs

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Johnny winter BAnd, edGAr winter BAnd, rick derrinGer, kim simmonds Rock N Blues

Fest Sound Academy doors 6 pm, $44.50.

lAidBAck luke, pAul vAndyk, hArdwell, ferry corsten, mAnzone & stronG, JAytech, mArk oliver, the 12th plAnet And others Labour Of Love Guvernment/Kool

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Venue Index

AlleycAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

AmAdeus 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245.

AmsterdAm Brewery 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882.

Annex wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

Artists’ GArden co-operAtive 345 Balliol.

AspettA cAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. the BAllroom 145 John. 416-597-2695.

BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621.

BenAres historic house 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). 905-6154860.

Beth emeth synAGoGue 100 Elder. 416-635-1876.

BlAck BeAr puB 1125 O’Connor. 416-752-5182.

Blue dot GAllery 55 Mill, bldg 47. 416-487-1500.

Blue suede sue’s 75 Watline (Mississauga). 905-890-0690.

BoAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218.

Boiler house 55 Mill. 416-203-2121.

Bovine sex cluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

BrAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730.

Buddies in BAd times theAtre 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. cAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. cAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition 210 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3800. cAptAin mAtthew flinders 207 Queens Quay W, Pier 6. 416-2030178. cAsA lomA 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171. 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. chevAl 606 King W. 416-363-4933. clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. coBrA lounGe 510 King W. 416-361-9004. comfort zone 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. downsview pArk 35 Carl Hall. 416-954-0544. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. drop 292 College. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. the duke live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. eArl BAles pArk 4169 Bathurst. 416-395-7873. el mocAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emBAssy BAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. epiphAny restAurAnt & lounGe 4000 Steeles W. 416-802-4077. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. the flyinG BeAver puBAret 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. free times cAfe 320 College. 416-967-1078. the GArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

GAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930.

GlAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GoodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514.

GrAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the GrAydon puB 235 Queen St S (Mississauga). 905-997-8333. the GreAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330.

GrossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000.

Guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. hArBourfront centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luck BAr 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302. hArd rock cAfe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. the hArp puB 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277. the hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. hirut fine ethiopiAn cuisine 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. hollywood on the QueenswAy 1184 Queensway. 416-251-0288. holy oAk cAfe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. huGh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907.

Footwork doors 10 pm, $25. PDR, RT, SS, TW. mitch smolkin Ashkenaz Festival: Rexite On The Radio: The Golden Age Of Yiddish Music Harbourfront Centre 6 pm, free. my dArlinG clementine Dakota Tavern. opA! Ashkenaz Festival Harbourfront Centre 11 pm, free. ronnie hAywArd Dominion on Queen 4 to 7:30 pm, free. socAlled Ashkenaz Festival Harbourfront Centre 9:30 pm, free. veretski pAss Ashkenaz Festival: The Klezmer Shul Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Room 7 pm, $15-$18. HF. ashkenazfestival.com.

Sunday, September 2 AAron BensoussAn Ashkenaz Festival Harbourfront Centre 5 pm, free.

the ABAyudAyA Ashkenaz Festival Harbour-

front Centre 7 pm, free.

Amy lewis, Jen cAlder, JAmes mulvAle All Strung Up Acoustic Night The Flying Beaver Pubaret 7:30 pm, $5 suggested.

Ashkenaz Festival: Canadian Cabaret Harbourfront Centre 10:30 pm, free.

the AtlAs moth, Alter the plAGue, thAntifAxeth Sneaky Dee’s doors 7 pm, $11.50. RT,

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BAsyA schechter Ashkenaz Festival: Songs Of Wonder Enwave Theatre 7 pm, $20-$25. HF. ashkenazfestival.com.

BoB Bossin Ashkenaz Festival: Songs And Stories Of Davy The Punk Harbourfront Centre 2 pm, free. chAmpAGne chAmpAGne, the knux Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS. chris lieBinG, suBfrActAl, lee osBorne Footwork doors 10 pm.

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over Beams, but unfortunately the songwriting is just okay, and the arrangements often bury the best sonic details. It’s when he forgets about emulating pop structure and goes for a more experimental dancefloor vibe on songs like Get The Rhyme Right that Beams comes alive, although the glitchy synth ballad Ahead Of Myself proves he can write a relatively straightforward pop tune, too.

Top track: Ahead Of Myself Matthew Dear DJs the WKD Beach Party Saturday (August 25) at Sugar Beach.

BENJAMIN BOLES

album of the week

NNNN ñDAN DEACON

Side B is more peculiar – one continuous track of shape-shifting moodiness subdivided into four. Propulsive bombast slowly gets overtaken by choral voices that cascade into a bleepy-bloopy comedown. Then it grows again, epic with percussion and violins, morphing into throbbing distortion before subsiding.

Using hardly any words at all, Deacon conveys the freedom, triumph and catharsis that can come from a journey across ever-changing yet familiar terrain. Spend time with this.

Top track: Crash Jam Dan Deacon plays Lee’s Palace November 9.

CARLA GILLIS

America (Domino) Rating: The geography of America inspired Dan Deacon’s aptly titled newest opus. Specifically, the quirky electronic musician drew from places in and around his hometown of Baltimore, but also landscapes he saw while crossing the country during his frequent bouts of touring.

The nine-track, largely instrumental album oscillates between exuberant, driving soundscapes and calmer, minimal symphonic moments, both playing off each other in an exquisitely paced dynamic. Side A will get you on the dance floor, particularly the joyous and melodic True Thrush.

Pop/Rock

WILD NOTHING Nocturne (Captured

Tracks). Rating: NNN In 2010, Wild Nothing’s Gemini album came out of nowhere to provide the summer soundtrack 80s nostalgiaphiles had been waiting for. On its follow-up, Jack Tatum makes the obvious progression and takes his one-man bedroom project into the studio, beefing up his genteel jangle with live drumming and electronic instrumentation.

Despite solid production, the pop appeal of Nocturne doesn’t quite transcend its 80s influences as well as Gemini’s joyous, rough-hewn charms did. Overall, the mood is much more pensive, the pop

hooks and emotional sentiment less striking, the intention more calculated. But if the honeymoon is over, there’s still much to love about Wild Nothing’s washed-out brand of bubblegum.

The wispy melody and vocals on upbeat opener Shadow have the pleasant feel of a feather brushing your ears. Only Heather’s doe-eyed swooning will have your feet up in the air as you thumb through Bop magazine on your princess canopy bed, while the groovier bass lines and languid guitar on the album’s latter half – particularly The Blue Dress – take a darker turn that unashamedly nods to Disintegration-era the Cure.

Top Track: Only Heather Wild Nothing play the Great Hall September 18.

KEVIN RITCHIE

ñWHITEHORSENNNN

The Fate Of The World Depends On This Kiss (Six Shooter) Rating: Whitehorse, the duo project of married couple Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, seemed like a sideline at first, but the collaboration has resulted in some of the best material of either artist’s career.

Since they perform without a backing band, they use looping pedals and a variety of instruments to flesh out the songs in their live shows, and they’ve carried that minimalist experimental roots strategy over into their recorded work.

The Fate Of The World is their second album together, and you can tell they’ve been honing their approach. A little bit of the quirky lo-fi charm of their live show has been lost, but those textures are just window dressing for their obvious chemistry. Their voices blend in a way that makes you picture them constantly singing together at home while doing chores.

Some moments sound like straight-up country, but it’s the unexpected left turns that make this project exciting, like when Jane shifts from a twangy Link Wray western feel to a slinky laid-back disco groove.

Top track: Devil’s Got A Gun Whitehorse play the Dakota Tavern Tuesday (August 28).

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MATTHEW DEAR Beams (Ghostly Inter-

national) Rating: NNN Matthew Dear is among the very small handful of musicians who’ve been able to successfully straddle the techno and pop worlds. Beams, his fourth full-length, finds Dear moving further to the pop side, but in a gloomy mood. Much of the album recalls LCD Soundsystem’s most overtly Bowie/Eno-inspired moments, but that’s likely just a case of shared influences. And while Dear and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy are both studio wizards, the former tends to operate more in the robotic world of samplers and sequencers compared to the warm live band feel of the latter’s work.

There are great production touches all

DIVINE FITS A Thing Called Divine Fits (Universal) Rating: NNN Britt Daniel (Spoon) and Dan Boeckner (exHandsome Furs/Wolf Parade) and New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown are Divine Fits. I don’t know the circumstances surrounding the union, but this debut is definitely divided into Daniel songs and Boeckner songs. And anyone hoping for a radical departure from the sparse, clinical new wave sounds they often tend toward will be disappointed; this is as synthy as it comes.

Boeckner’s offerings fare better than Daniel’s in this context. He brings impassioned, sometimes yearning vocals to songs like For Your Heart, and the arrangements are more fully realized. For his part, Daniel contributes some solid lyrics and decent melodies, but his tunes often feel unfinished.

It’s hard to shake the notion that the songs are leftovers from the songwriters’ other bands. If Divine Fits turns out to be more than just a passing phase, maybe the members will drive each other out of their comfort zones.

Top track: Civilian Stripes Divine Fits play Lee’s Palace September 5.

JOANNE HUFFA BLOC PARTY Four (Frenchkiss) Rating:

NNN

When Bloc Party debuted with Silent Alarm in 2005, they were one of a handful of bands cast in a Gang of Four-inspired mould: dance rock with a jagged edge, jittery rhythms that move your feet, liberally described as “angular.” Many bands lived and died with the fad, but Bloc Party stuck it out by changing up their formula, alternately experimenting with electronic overtones and tender balladry.

Sidestepping persistent breakup rumours, they return to remind us that there’s still one side of dance rock they haven’t tried: rock. On Four, Bloc Party turn up their amps and tune down their guitars, while singer Kele Okereke, who

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presumably got dance out of his system with his solo album, The Boxer, embraces his inner Bruce Dickinson.

3x3 finds him alternately hissing and belting, Octopus features Thunderstruckstyle fret-tapping, and Coliseum, strangely, sounds straight out of the grunge playbook. It’s hard not to wish they’d just return to what made them famous in the first place.

Top track: Octopus Bloc Party play the Danforth Music Hall September 10 and 11.

RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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This Is How We Swim (Shuffling Feet) Rating: NNNN On her sophomore album, This Is How We Swim, local singer/songwriter and multiinstrumentalist Lisa Bozikovic lingers on recurring themes – dreams, water, weather and intimacy – over quiet and moody piano-, Wurlitzer-, moog- and synthdriven pop.

Written on the Toronto Islands and coproduced by Sandro Perri, it’s a subtle, sensual and demanding listen, full of slow, sad and dark moments but not without surprising twists and turns – Felicity Williams’s airy backup vocals on Waterfall and Bozikovic’s lyrical elevation of quotidian chores on Midnight Ice, for example.

Luckily, strings and woodwinds aren’t overdone; Bozikovic’s songs are emotional enough as is. Oddly, she’s funkiest when tackling grief (No Monument), and the record seems to drift apart in less structured songs toward the end.

That said, Bozikovic’s voice is womanly, powerful and very comforting. Perfect listening material for when the weather cools and you need some comfort.

Top track: Midnight Ice Lisa Bozikovic’s CD release, September 7 at the Music Gallery.

SARAH GREENE

R&B

ROCHELLE JORDAN P R E S S U R E (independent) Rating: NNN Minimal R&B seems to have replaced dancehall as the sound of Toronto. It suits this city’s restless, young creatives: a slick, sensual, scaled-back hybrid of the heavyhanded synths and hi-hat-addled rap flooding pop radio.

From the fold emerges local singer Rochelle Jordan. P R E S S U R E is her second free LP (after last year’s ROJO), written by Jordan and producer KLSH. Despite fitting neatly within the trend, Jordan isn’t trying to be like her male contemporaries. She uses a hot aesthetic – filtered drums, wubby bass – to pursue her own style of brighter, decidedly unsleazy R&B. On the title track, the demure, controlled cadence of Aaliyah is the likelier comparison. (Plus, KLSH often tips to Timbaland in his production.) The perky synths on Touch bring out some Kelis, and throughout, Jordan’s tone turns syrupy and warm like Amel Larrieux.

Though she still needs to establish a firmer individual identity, P R E S S U R E indicates that Jordan’s on the brink of wider success.

Top track: Losing ANUPA MISTRY

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It’s a big week for comedy, with the Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival, the opening of the edgy LOT Comedy Club and a new Second City show. In these Q&As, five funny folks show why they scored coveted CCA noms.

By GLENN SUMI

Ron Sparks

THE CANADIAN COMEDY AWARDS AND FESTIVAL from tonight (Thursday, August 23) to Sunday (August 26), at various locations. $13, festival pass $30. Best Of The Fest show $37-$50, awards gala $50. canadiancomedy.ca. See Comedy Listings, page 63.

Ron Sparks Nominee, best male stand-up, best one-person show (The Newsdesk With Ron Sparks), best film (The Trial), best radio program (The Debaters – Fast Food) You’re nominated for a whopping four CCAs. Is it “an honour just to be nominated” or is that crap?

It’s an honour just to be nominated.

The crap comes later that night, when you’re crying at home, alone, and your parents refuse to take your calls.

Any ideas about what to rename the CCAs? The Raptors got their name from the most popular movie at the time – clearly not a mistake. So the CCAs should do the same thing and call themselves The Jason Bournies.

Who’s your stiffest competition for best male stand-up?

By stiffest I assume you mean “most arthritic,” so I’m going to have to go with Pete Zedlacher.

One of your nominations is for The Newsdesk. So: Peter Mansbridge or Lisa LaFlamme?

To get news from? Mansbridge. To date? Mansbridge.

Anything you’re dying to ask host Alan Thicke?

Yes: When is Animal Crack-Ups coming back?

Sparks performs Newsdesk With Ron Sparks Friday (August 24) at the Comedy Bar, and Saturday (August 25) at the Best Of The Fest show at the Bathurst Street Theatre.

Seán Cullen

Ryan Belleville

Nominee, best podcast; best taped live TV performance (The Debaters – Tea vs. Coffee, Too Many TV Channels)

Nominee, best performance by a male (TV – Almost Heroes)

Rob Norman (from Mantown) Nominee, best improv troupe

Who’s your stiffest competition for best podcast?

I fight depression, mostly.

If there were a comedy troupe called Womantown, who’d be in it?

Probably Chun Li (speed), Toni Morrison (occult/ghost specialist), Athena (goddess, wisdom and war) and Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire (ringer).

If you guys win, which one of you will give the longest acceptance speech?

Rob Baker will introduce us, then Adam Cawley will thank everyone who needs to get thanked. Bob Banks will interrupt and tell a story about something he saw as he walked over to the awards. Jason DeRosse will thank us for allowing him to be in the troupe. I’ll try to thank physics. And then everyone will make fun of me until we’re forced from the stage.

Anything you’re dying to ask host Alan Thicke?

“How does your hair do that?”

Mantown perform Friday (August 24) at the Comedy Bar.

Ryan Belleville

Seán Cullen We’ve already got the Junos, Geminis and Genies. Any ideas about what to rename the CCAs? The Unwieldy Objects.

Suggested new name for the CCAs? How about Rabies? That way when my parents ask how I did at the awards I can say, “I didn’t get any Rabies this year.” And everyone will say, “Good for you!” That’s taking a negative and turning it into a positive. Like being single and telling everyone you want to be alone because you’re taking some “me time.”

Rob Norman

You’ve been nominated for many awards before. Is it “an honour just to be nominated” or is that crap?

It is an honour to be nominated, but kind of an insult when you lose.

You’ve also appeared on podcast nominee Illusionoidpod. Did you try to sabotage the episode?

I tried to sabotage Illusionoid, but it was so bad already I feared any meddling would result in improvements.

Anything you’re dying to ask host Alan Thicke?

“So Alan, how Thicke is it?”

Pussy Riot: thoughts?

Only feelings. Tinglings. And some stiffness.

How does it make you feel when people get the accent in Seán wrong?

I forgive the first time.

Second time a slap.

Third time full-on evisceration.

Cullen tapes his podcast, The Seanpod, Saturday (August 25) at the Comedy Bar and appears at the awards gala on Sunday (August 26) at the Concert Hall of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

New name proposals for the Canadian Comedy Awards?

How about “The Only Thing You Will Use This For Is To Pad Your Visa Application For The U.S. Awards”?

Who’s your biggest competition?

Jesus. That guy is really popular.

All the nominees for best TV show how have been cancelled. What’s going on?

We were too funny to be handled. Also, I’m pretty sure it’s a sign of the apocalypse.

You’re also part of the lineup of Saturday’s opening show at the city’s newest comedy venue, the Lower Ossington Theatre Comedy Club. How are you going to inaugurate it?

I’m going to do Jeff DunStacey McGunnigle

ham’s act, but with even newer, more racist puppets!

What would you like to say to the awards host, Alan Thicke?

“I know what you did. If you want me to stay silent, it’s gonna cost you.”

If you win, who will you not thank?

Alan, unless he pays up.

Belleville headlines the opening of the LOT Comedy Club (100 Ossington), Saturday (August 25) at 10 pm and midnight. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Stacey McGunnigle Nominee, best female improvisor Key to improvising?

Giving 100 per cent when it’s going great and 150 per cent when it’s going horribly. That and vodka.

You’re part of the new Second City cast and opening your first mainstage revue next week. What’s going through your mind now?

The main thing is “How late is Dominos open?” The second is “Dear god, I hope everyone laughs and has the best time.”

Favourite part in the new show?

I love the big characters, the physicality and a particular windbreaker that I find breathtakingly beautiful.

If you win, who will you not thank?

The hairstylist who agreed to perm my hair at 16.

Anything you’re dying to ask host Alan Thicke?

What’s Leonardo DiCaprio’s email?

Proposed new name for CCAs? The Pumas.

McGunnigle performs in Second City’s We’ve Totally (Probably) Got This, now in previews, opening Tuesday (August 28). secondcity.com.

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Great Gents TWo geNTs by William Shakespeare, adapted by Andrew Joseph Richardson, Jonathan Seinen and Brendan McMurtry-Howlett (Shakespeare in the Ruff). At Withrow Park. To September 2.

Pwyc ($15 sugg). 416-367-1652. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNNN

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Claire Calnan (front), Kawa Ada and Christine Horne helped heat up the award-winning Iceland.

summerworks festival wrap-up

What sizzled

solo shows and monologue plays highlight one of the best fests in memory By JON KAPLAN and GLENN SUMI Despite what the song says, one isn’t the loneliest number.

At least not at this year’s SummerWorks, where solo performances and monologue-based productions were the big winners in terms of festival prizes, houses and critical acclaim.

A highlight of the fest, in fact, was Mani Soleymanlou’s One/Un, a poignant show in which the Montrealbased writer/performer explored his heritage and journey from Iran to Paris to Canada.

Other first-class one-person shows included Cliff Cardinal’s wrenching yet comic Huff, Johanna Nutter’s warmhearted My Pregnant Brother and Astrid Saalbach’s Pietà, featuring a superb performance by Tamsin Kelsey.

Other excellent productions, like Nicolas Billon’s Iceland and Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus, featured several actors but gripped audiences through the use of monologues.

Running from August 9 to 19, the expanded 22nd annual SummerWorks featured live art, music, performance and 41 theatre productions, drawing an audience of over 20,000 to the Queen West strip between Bathurst and Dufferin.

Many of the works were dark in narrative and theme. Both Ajax (Por Nobody) and Big Plans featured castrations and other bloody episodes, while characters in Breath In Between and Big Plans advertised on the internet for someone who wanted to be killed; both ads succeeded.

At the closing night party, artistic producer Michael Rubenfeld presented several juried prizes and the NOW Audience Choice Award.

The outstanding production prize, a slot in next year’s festival, went to Outside the March’s Terminus, directed by Mitchell Cushman. Iceland won the Contra Guys Award for outstanding new performance text; two SummerWorks founders, Benj Gallander and Ben Stadelmann, support the prize.

The National Theatre School Award for design went to 2b theatre’s When It Rains, while the Buddies in Bad Times Vanguard Award for risk and innovation went to Cardinal for Huff, with Kitchenband’s Petrichor taking honourable mention. The Canadian Stage Award for direction went to Tanner Harvey for Big Plans; Jeremy Taylor, author of Big Plans and director of My Pregnant Brother, picked up the Theatre Centre Emerging Artist Award.

Iceland, directed by Ravi Jain, received the NOW Audience Choice Award.

Sometimes there was so much talent on display that the jury recognized several artists. MotionLive in association with cric crac collective snagged the RBC Arts Professional Award for Aneemah’s Spot, while honourable mentions went to Aislinn Rose for Fierce Monsters and France, Or The Niqab and to Renna Reddie for Iceland.

Mani Soleymanlou’s One/ Un was a one-of-a-kind look at identity.

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The Spotlight Award, given to a featured performer, was split three ways: Ron Pederson (Extinction Song), Tamsin Kelsey (Pietà) and Terrence Bryant (Terre Haute).

Here’s NOW’s annual list of the best of the fest: OUTSTANDING NEW PLAYS: Iceland; Huff; Breathe For Me; One/Un; When It Rains OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS: Terminus; Iceland; Breathe For Me; France, Or The Niqab; Big Plans; When It Rains; Terre Haute; Medicine Boy; Dumbo Squid; Huff; One/Un; My Pregnant Brother; Pietà; Ajax (Por Nobody) OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES: Johanna Nutter (My Pregnant Brother); Ron Pederson (Extinction Song); Tamsin Kelsey (Pietà); Rosemary Dunsmore and Jonathan Widdifield (Haunted); Antonio Cayonne and Stewart Legere (I, Animal); Clinton Walker (A Thousand Words); Monica Dottor (Petrichor); Cliff Cardinal (Huff); Mani Soleymanlou (One/Un) OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLES: Iceland; Terminus; Ally & Kev; Breath In Between; Breathe For Me; France, Or The Niqab; Violent Be Violet; Dutchman; A Song For Tomorrow; When It Rains; Big Plans; Terre Haute; Ajax (Por Nobody); Medicine Boy; Aneemah’s Spot; Dumbo Squid; The Hearing Of Jeremy Hinzman OUTSTANDING DIRECTION: Mitchell Cushman (Terminus); Ravi Jain (Iceland); Brendan Healy (Breath In Between); Sarah Garton Stanley (Pietà); Ed Roy (Breathe For Me); Philip Akin (Violent Be Violet); Gein Wong (A Song For Tomorrow); My Pregnant Brother (Jeremy Taylor); Tara Beagan (Medicine Boy); Anthony Black (When It Rains); Sabryn Rock (Dutchman); Alistair Newton (Terre Haute); Zack Russell (Ajax (Por Nobody)); Karin Randoja (Huff); Richard Greenblatt (The Hearing Of Jeremy Hinzman) OUTSTANDING DESIGN: Akiva Romer Segal (Ally & Kev); Amy Keith and David DeGrow (Pietà); Nick Blais and Richard Feren (Terminus); Nick Bottomley, Christian Barry and Leesa Hamilton (When It Rains); Jane Dunlop and Jeremy Powell (Ajax (Por Nobody)); Joseph Pagnan, Gareth Crew and John Gzowski (Dark Locks) 3

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NNNN = Sustained applause

Brendan McMurtry-Howlett and Shakespeare in the Ruff deserve a ton of credit. Not only have they successfully rebooted outdoor Shakespeare in the east end, but they’re also running an apprenticeship program for teenagers and have booked a solid companion music series to entertain audiences before the play begins. And all this in their first year!

In Two Gents, their version of Two Gentlemen Of Verona, one of the Bard’s earliest comedies, the company takes two bold risks: the courtly love quartet has been shifted from Italy to the Canadian prairies circa 1880, and the ending has been rewritten (using lines from other Shakespeare plays and sonnets) to avoid what some scholars consider a misogynistic twist.

In the hands of another company, changes this big could be disastrous.

But here the period update adds a nice folksy charm that’s carried throughout, and the new ending feels right when it arrives; while much more equitable, it

Park yourself at Withrow to see Two Gents.

never feels overbearing.

Director McMurtry-Howlett makes wonderful use of the park space. Two giant trees frame the playing area, and actors sneak behind them to change costumes or make their entry. Since there is no back wall, characters sometimes wander off into the distance and can be seen carrying on their business far off in the park – one of many magical touches.

The ensemble does a great job of physically conveying the content of Shakespeare’s dense and flowery verse (no performance feels like a recital), but David Patrick Flemming’s perpetually frustrated servant Speed is particularly well honed, scoring the biggest laughs.

Since they’re already giving Shakespeare In High Park a run for its money, let’s hope this ambitious young company becomes a summer fixture. jorDAN biMM

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Opening ArAbiAN TAles (Little Red Theatre). This play for ages four and up presents a variety of fun and culturally diverse adventure stories.

Opens Aug 27 and runs to Aug 31, Mon-Fri 1:30 pm. $11, child $9. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. 416-533-8848. bAbes iN spAce: iN 3-DD (Red Herring Productions). The Star Trek vs Star Wars burlesque show returns with Nasty Canasta, Obskyura and others. Opens Aug 26 and runs to Aug 30, Sun and Thu 8 pm. $20-$25. Revival, 783 College. babesinspace3dd.eventbrite.com. buskerFesT (Scotiabank). The outdoor performance festival features European street theatre, aerial arts, dance, music, clown and more by Funny Bones, Cirque Mechanics, Pancho Libre, Alakazam and many others. Aug 23-26, Thu-Fri noon to 11 pm, Sat 11 am to 11 pm, Sun 11 am to 8 pm. Pwyc (donations to Epilepsy Toronto). St Lawrence Market District, Front E between Yonge and Jarvis.

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MAss AppeAl by Bill C Davis (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). A bisexual seminarian’s past haunts him in this comedic drama. Aug 29-30, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

MATure YouNg ADulTs by Wesley J Colford (Aim for the Tangent Theatre). Exes reunite in the park where their love first bloomed in this workshop production. Aug 23-25, Thu-Sat 8 pm. Pwyc. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Far Studio. aimforthetangent@hotmail.com.

A MiDsuMMer NighT’s DreAM by William Shakespeare (Mississauga Youth Theatre). The classic comedy about the tug-of-war between dreams and reality is performed entirely with flashlights. Aug 23-26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Maja Prentice Theatre, 3650 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-949-6499.

TrAce (FADO Performance Art Centre/RDP).

This performance installation by Tristan R Whiston and Moynan King transforms a private story into a performative experience.

Aug 24-26, Fri-Sat 7 pm, mat Sat 11 am, Sun 2 pm. Pwyc. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie, Christie Studio. performanceart.ca.

Previewing

i’ll be bAck beFore MiDNighT by Peter Colley (Lighthouse Festival Theatre). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy.

Previews Aug 28-29. Opens Aug 30 and runs to Sep 15, see website for schedule. $27-$33.

247 Main, Port Dover. 1-888-779-7703, lighthousetheatre.com.

One-nighters

creATe, eNjoY AND celebrATe (Mississauga Arts Council). This celebration of the arts features a film screening and live performance

by Kaleidoscope Chinese Performing Arts, dancer Colleen Snell and others. Aug 24, film 5 pm, stage show from 7 pm. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. mississaugaartscouncil.com. gAbi epsTeiN (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). The local performer delivers a cabaret show. Aug 24 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, pubaret.com. hANDs Across The coNTiNeNT burlesque

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HALL OF FAME FUNDRAISER (Great Canadian Burlesque). Tanya Cheex, Coco Framboise and others perform to raise funds for the Las Vegas landmark’s relocation. Aug 23 at 9:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. greatcanadianburlesque.com.

SYNTHESIA NO. 1 (FAWN Opera). Works by David Foley, Nancy Tam and other emerging composers are performed alongside an installation exhibit. Aug 25, doors 7 pm. Pwyc. Norman Felix Gallery, 627 Queen W. fawnopera. tumblr.com.

YUM SCRUM MUM (b current). This funder for the company’s summer arts program features a food carnival, youth ensemble showcase performance and more. Aug 25 at 4 pm. $30, youth $20. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie, Courtyard. bcurrent.ca.

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ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world is an adaptation of Winsor McCay’s comic strip Little Nemo In Slumberland. Runs to Aug 26, Thu-Sun 11 am, noon, 1 and 2 pm. $10 or pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock. frolick.ca.

APPRENTICE TO MURDER (Mysteriously Yours...

Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit features corporate back-stabbing and board-

room intrigue. Runs to Sep 15, Fri-Sat and some Thu; dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. mysteriouslyyours.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). Hardcore Beatles fans will find lots to enjoy in this moody, slow-moving story about the forming of the Fab Four. The script doesn’t offer much insight into anyone or anything, including the bromance between John Lennon and his friend/bass player Stuart Sutcliffe, who’s also a talented artist. But once the show finds its emotional heart, it’s absorbing enough, and the music, performed entirely by the actors, is delivered with loud, brash take-no-prisoners enthusiasm. Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $36-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) BAREFOOT IN THE PARK by Neil Simon (Rose Theatre). A free-spirited woman clashes with her uptight husband and others in 60s NYC. Runs to Aug 25, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $32-$37. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

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

ject). Three actors perform 37 plays in 97 minutes in this show performed on the garden terrace. Runs to Sep 5, Wed (and Aug 30-31) 7 and 9:30 pm. $50, stu/srs $30. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. completeworksabridged.com.

THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). Still relevant 60 years after its premiere, The Crucible is ostensibly about the Salem witchcraft trials but resonates wherever emotional and political demonization take place. Soulpepper’s mostly well-acted production captures the personal and societal ramifications of the accusations. 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. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) 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, Thu-Sun 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org.

IN A DARK DARK HOUSE by Neil LaBute (Unit 102 Actors Company). Two estranged brothers reunite and confront the abuse in their past and how to overcome it. Runs to Sep 1, Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Aug 26 at 2 pm. $20.

Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102tix@ gmail.com.

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. can-

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Indefinite run, Wed 8 pm. $15. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. bobbymotta.com.

ODYSSEO (Cavalia). This entertaining follow-up to 2003’s equine escapade Cavalia features some Cirque du Soleil glitz, a bit more hunky human flesh and some jaw-dropping production values. The horses are the stars, galloping, clearing fences and performing in unison, sometimes with brave riders jumping over them (and in one eye-popping case, under them). Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$120. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. 1-866-999-8111, cavalia.net. NNN (GS) OLEANNA by David Mamet (Unit 102 Actors Company). A power struggle ensues when a female student accuses a professor of sexual harassment. Runs to Aug 31, Fri and Wed 8 pm, mat Aug 25 at 2 pm. $20. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102tix@gmail.com.

PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Sep 9, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. vitaltheatre.ca.

REAL LIFE SUPERHERO by Steven Jackson (Minmar Gaslight Productions). This play looks at reasons why an ordinary person would put on a costume and moonlight as a crime fighter.

Runs to Aug 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $20. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. minmargaslightproductions.com.

THE ROYAL COMEDIANS by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). Director László Marton draws overt parallels between the French playwright’s 18th-century troubles with Louis XIV and Bulgakov’s in the 1930s with Josef Stalin in this striking production; interpolated scenes from Moliere’s own plays reflect on the offstage action. Diego Matamoros gives a fine performance in the title role, with Soulpepper stalwarts and young members of the company’s Academy ably supporting him.

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. NNNN (JK) 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

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THE SUNSHINE BOYS by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). Simon’s 1972 comedy about a famous vaudeville duo who grudgingly reunite for a TV special is jokey and middlebrow, but has lots of affection for show business and a moving metaphor about friendship and working relationships. Director Ted Dykstra gets deeply felt performances from veterans Kenneth Welsh and Eric Peterson, who nail most of the jokes and help suggest a lot that’s not in the script. 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) A SYNONYM FOR LOVE by GF Handel, libretto by Deborah Pearson (Volcano Theatre/Classical Music Consort). This sitespecific opera travels through the building in a modernized version of a Handel cantata about a love triangle. Runs to Aug 31, Sun-Fri 7:30 pm. $42, srs/youth $30. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. volcano.ca.

TWO GENTS (Shakespeare in the Ruff).

The company adaptats Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen Of Verona with a new ending that empowers the female leads (see review, page 60). Runs to Sep 2, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, 725 Logan, south of Danforth. shakespeareintheruff.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) WAR HORSE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish).

The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display 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, 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)

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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. Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

NNNN (JK) 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 emotional subtext of the play. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 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).

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 staging has been thrown out for big production numbers, but the cast is largely winning and the kids in the audience love it. Maybe later they’ll ask their parents to bring them to see Shakespeare. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600. NNN (Susan G Cole) 3

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Tuesday, August 28 cOMeDY On KensinGtOn Lola presents its

Thursday, August 23 aBsOLute cOMeDY presents headliner Olivia Arrington, Ali Hassan and host Mike Speirs.

To Aug 26, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

Best stanD-uP newcOMeRs Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival presents nominees Heidi Brander, Josh Williams, Steve Patrick Adams, Julie Kim, Tom Henry and host Pardis Parker. 8 pm. $13. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, canadiancomedy.ca. canaDian cOMeDY awaRDs & FestiVaL presents nominee showcases: Jape at 8 pm.

ELLAmentary at 8 pm. Falcon Powder at 9 pm. 2 Man-No-Show at 10 pm. $13 per show, festival pass $30. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W, Mainspace and Cabaret. canadiancomedy.ca.

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. 416-5516540.

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.

ROB’D iLLusiOns Revel Magic presents Rob Testa’s comedy illusion show. 7 pm. $20.

Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. revelmagic.ticketbud.com/robdillusions. tOROntO cOMeDY BRawL: seMiFinaLs Empire Comedy Live presents amateur comedians competing for a $1,000 grand prize w/ Jessica Beaulieu, Kosta Ketsilis, DJ Demers, Diana Bailey and others. To Aug 24, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $5. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts, 918 Bathurst. empirecomedylive. com.

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prov (see story, page 59). Opens Aug 28. TueSat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

YuK YuK’s DOwntOwn presents Jen Grant.

To Aug 25, Thu 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, August 24 aBsOLute cOMeDY See Thu 23. tHe Best OF tHe secOnD citY presents clas-

sic and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 11 pm. $24, stu $15. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

canaDian cOMeDY awaRDs & FestiVaL presents nominee showcases: Stop

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Ron Sparks at 8 pm. Catch 23 at 8 pm. Uncalled For at 9 pm. Hot Thespian Action at 10 pm. The Sunday Service at 10 pm. Mantown at 11 pm. $13 per show, festival pass $30. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W, Mainspace and Cabaret. canadiancomedy.ca.

ReaDY, set, LauGH! See Thu 23. tOROntO cOMeDY BRawL: seMiFinaLs See Thu 23. we’Ve tOtaLLY (PROBaBLY) GOt tHis! See Thu 23.

YuK YuK’s DOwntOwn See Thu 23.

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Robin Crossman present stand-up w/ Todd Van Allen, Diana Love, Darren Pyle, Julie Kim, Rene Robichaud and JP Hodgkinson. 9 pm.

Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. 416591-1798, thecomedycabaret.com. tHe JOKeBOX cOMeDY LOunGe Impulsive Entertainment presents Touch My Stereotype, Matt Folliott, Joel Buxton and host Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com. tHe sHisHa sHOw Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Rob Mailloux, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. Free.

1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

biweekly stand-up comedy night. 8 pm.

Free. 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

Les iMPROBaBLes Supermarket presents improv comedy. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416840-0501. sKetcHcOMeDY LOunGe Rivoli presents The Twitter Gong Show! featuring audience participation, w/ MC Mark DeBonis. 9 pm.

Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge. com. stanDinG On tHe DanFORtH Eton House presents Becky Bays, Dom Pare, Richard Ryder, Alex Crawford, Jonathan Ramcharan, Natalie Norman, Will Norris, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm.

Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. we’Ve tOtaLLY (PROBaBLY) GOt tHis! See Thu 23.

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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8:30 pm. $37-$50. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. canadiancomedy.ca.

canaDian cOMeDY awaRDs & FestiVaL presents nominee showcases: Ilñ lusionoid at 8 pm. Theatresports at 8 pm.

Script Tease Project at 9:30 pm. The Seanpod at 9:30 pm. Rap Battlez! at 11 pm. $13 per show, festival pass $30. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W, Mainspace and Cabaret. canadiancomedy.ca.

KRisteen VOn HaGen The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a solo stand-up show by the Victoria comedian and actor. 9 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. stanD uP cOMeDY @ tHe LOt Mark DeBonis and Garrett Jamieson present the opening of a new comedy night w/ headliner Ryan Belleville (see Q&A, page 59).

10 pm and midnight. $12. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. iamnotmarkdebonis.com. tOP sKetcH canaDa FinaLe Black Swan presents a sketch and improv competition w/ host Jen Littlewood. 10 pm. $10. 154 Danforth. jen.littlewood@gmail.com. we’Ve tOtaLLY (PROBaBLY) GOt tHis! See Thu 23.

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Sunday, August 26 aBsOLute cOMeDY See Thu 23. cOMeDee’s at sneaKY Dee’s presents a

stand-up showcase. 9:30 pm. Free. Sneaky Dee’s, 431 College. 416-603-3090.

HaPPY HOuR @ ein-stein presents Danielle Meierhenry, Dean Young, Brendan Pinto, Craig Hepburn, Amy Istubim, host Dave Paterson and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

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ReVue Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ Dino Archie, Trixx, MJ Heath, Cedric Newman, Crystal Ferrier, host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20.

224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks. com. sunDaY niGHt LiVe The Sketchersons present weekly sketch comedy w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons. com.

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Thicke and appearances by Colin Mochrie, Sean Cullen and others. 7 pm. $50. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W, Concert Hall. canadiancomedy.ca. we’Ve tOtaLLY (PROBaBLY) GOt tHis! See Thu 23.

Monday, August 27 aLtDOt cOMeDY LOunGe Rivoli preRyan Belleville, Arthur Simeon, ñsents Allison Dore, Rhiannon Archer, Jon Stein-

berg, Sam Farid, Dave Atkinson, Julie Kim, MC Andre Arruda and others. 9 pm. Pwyc.

332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. cHeaP LauGHs MOnDaY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. tHe cOMeDY caBaRet Chris MacLean and

Wednesday, August 29 aBsOLute cOMeDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Paul Morrissey, Elaine Dandy, Marty Flanagan, Matt Watson, Nick Burden, Sean McKiernan and host Alistair McAlistair. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. tHe Best OF tHe sHisHa sHOw Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Mike Rita, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. $5. 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905232-5577.

DunGeOns anD DRaGOns LiVe: caMPaiGn 1: tHe LeGenD OF t’RannaH Bad Dog The-

atre presents an unscripted adventure comedy based on the popular role-playing game.

To Sep 19, Wednesdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

HuMPDaY HuMOuR Muoi Nene Productions present weekly Afrocentric comedy w/ Raïs Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-5191569. siRen’s cOMeDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Selby Nixon and host Joel West. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. sPiRits cOMeDY niGHt presents Christophe Davidson, Daniel Adler, Justin Sanchez, Jeanie Calleja, Faisal Butt, Ted Morris, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm.

Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416967-0001. we’Ve tOtaLLY (PROBaBLY) GOt tHis! See Thu 23.

YuK YuK’s DOwntOwn presents Andre Arruda. To Sep 2, 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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immigrants, at-risk youth and seniors performing works created with choreographers Robert Abubo, Allen Kaeja, Andrea Nann and others. Aug 24-26, Fri-Sat 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. Free. Oakdale Community Centre, 350 Grandravine. kaeja.org. taiwanFest Harbourfront Centre presents an arts and culture festival with dance by Tijimur Dance Theatre, SumTais Dance and others. Aug 24-26, see website for schedule.

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Collage and assemblage, techniques that played a major role in 20thcentury art movements like cubism, Russian constructivism and surrealism, are still going strong in the digital age. In this entertaining show curated by Matthew Hyland, 18 contemporary Canadians, working in

media ranging from traditional cutand-paste to painting, sculpture and video, create quirky, lively mashups of art-historical and media imagery and found objects.

Some wall works get a visual charge by liberating material from a background, like Balint Zsako’s Monolith, made of skeletons from a human anatomy text, and Jennifer Murphy’s Pink Moon, a wall-filling spiral of paper fish, birds, butterflies and flowers strung together with thread.

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Zsako wittily superimposes still life and portrait elements from auction catalogues; Elizabeth Zvonar juxtaposes images from an art history textbook to comment on its Westerncentric bias.

Jason de Haan’s New Jerusalem, two huge circles built up with colourful cutouts from pulp sci-fi book covers, is an eye-popping take on futur-

istic fantasy, while Barbara Astman stays topical in photo-enlarged notebook-page collages of politicians and celebrities, spare works enhanced by shadows of works on the other side of the page.

Jacob Whibley channels mid-century graphic and architectural design in geometric collages meticulously crafted from old paper. In

MUST-SEE SHOWS ANGELL Painting: Thrush Holmes and Adrian

Williams, Aug 23-Sep 22, reception 6-9 pm Aug 23. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Mathieu Gaudet, Nadia Myre and Martha Townsend, to Aug 25. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CENTRE ISLAND Photos: April Hickox and Rafael Ochoa, to Sep 15 (islandparkworkers. tumblr.com). Sound installation: Barry Prophet, to Oct 16 (naisa.ca).

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Summer group show, to Sep 4. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

GALLERY 1313 Emerging Artists; The Toronto Walk Project, to Sep 2, reception 7-10 pm Aug 23. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

I.M.A GALLERY And He Loves Beauty group show, Aug 25-30, reception 1 pm Aug 25. 80 Spadina, suite 305. 416-703-2235.

JOHN B. AIRD The Print Show, Aug 28-Sep 21. 900 Bay. 416-928-6772.

JUNCTION DESIGN CRAWL 7-11 pm Aug 24.

Dundas W btwn High Park and Indian Grove. junctiondesigncrawl.com.

NAISA SPACE Sound Travels/FADO: Tristan Whiston and Moynan King, Aug 24-26, reception 7-9 pm Aug 24, artist’s talk 2 pm Aug 25 (pwyc); Michael Trommer and Ryo Ikeshiro, to Aug 31. 601 Christie. 416-652-5115.

OZ STUDIOS A Collection group show, Aug 23-31, reception 7-11 pm, performances

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SUNNYSIDE PAVILION Installation/performance: Fire On The Water, Aug 26 2 pm-midnight (fireonthewater2012.wordpress. com). 1755 Lake Shore W. 416-531-2233.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Being Scene group show, to Oct 28. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

KOFFLER OFFSITE Summer Special group show, to Nov 25, performance to Nov 4.

Honest Ed’s, 581 Bloor W. 416-636-1880.

LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY Summer Special group show, to Sep 2. 326 Dundas W. 416516-4440.

MILK GLASS CO Textiles/posters: Roxanne Ignatius, to Aug 30. 1247 Dundas W. 416536-6455.

MKG127 Toolkit group show, to Sep 8. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

ONSITE [AT] OCADU Letter Rip! Art, Words And Toronto, to Oct 6. 230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 327.

PIKTO Photos: Daniel Neuhaus, to Aug 31.

55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443.

QUEEN GALLERY Help Azarbayjan (silent auction for Iranian earthquake victims), to Aug 30. 382 Queen E. 416-361-6045.

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Luanne Martineau’s Saskatchewan, a sprawling, origami-like “creature” of black paper hexagons gets a subtle kick from a hint of bright-coloured braided string.

Georgia Dickie makes simple, evocative assemblages from wood and metal bits that look salvaged from a carpenter or metal smith’s workshop; Valérie Blass’s plaster – possibly two draped human forms on an inclined base from which a hand protrudes – plays with tropes of classical sculpture, and Geoffrey Farmer’s two enigmatic floor-lamp-like works feature light bulbs on sticks ornamented by poems, a hat and mysterious postcard-sized framed pictures.

In the age of Photoshop, there’s something lovely and tactile about art that relies mainly on paper, scissors, glue and imagination. (And you also get an end-of-summer stroll in the scenic Gairloch Gardens.)

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Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50).

Lisa Myers and Autumn Chacon, to Oct 28 (free). Michael Snow, to Dec 9. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Bravos: Spanish Design, to Aug 23. 60 Years Of Designing The Ballet, to Sep 2, auction/Karen Kain talk 6 pm Aug 28 ($20). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM Rule Britannia!, to Sep 16.

Connections: 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.

MOCCA Jeroen Eisinga, Aug 24-Sep 16.

Jamelie Hassan and Guy Ben-Ner, Aug 24-Oct 14. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT Tools For Conviviality; Dissenting Histories, to Aug 26, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. Todd Ainslie; Carnival, to Feb 24, 2013. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Dreamland, to Sep 30. Perpetual Motion; Portable Mosques, to Sep 3. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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Like protagonist Morley, Mary’s father, Swan’s dad was a doctor in small-town Ontario who, via phone, talked a lighthouse keeper through an operation that saved his son’s life.

But where Swan’s experience speaks most tellingly is in The Western Light’s vivid evocation of life in the 50s and its essential signifiers: the clothes, the hair, the telephone party lines and the all-out hate-on between fans of the Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Mary’s a survivor of polio – another 50s phenomenon – and talks to her leg brace, which she calls Hindrance.

She and her family, including Aunt Louisa (Mary’s mother died when she was young), live in Madoc’s Landing near Georgian Bay, on the perimeter of the town’s psychiatric hospital.

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Morley, who once helped save Pilkie’s life when his family was trapped in a lighthouse, believes he’s mentally ill due to head injuries he suffered playing hockey. He’s promised to appeal his case to the authorities, but he’s too busy caring for his patients to follow through.

The good doctor’s time management problems have a deep effect on Mary, too. In fact, though Pilkie’s a central character, the main emotional through line involves her perpetual disappointment in an absent father, a narrative thread Swan pulls to a satisfying conclusion.

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KEVIN J ANDERSON 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. chapters.indigo.ca.

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Readings by Rehaset, NuKola, Nomaan and others. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. Free. Ellington’s Café, 805 St Clair W. e_sundaypoetry@ yahoo.ca.

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Oscar Tuazon, Alloy (For Steve Baer), 2011. Courtesy the artist and Parkett Editions, Zürich.

KATHY REICHS 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55

Saturday, August 25 Village, 2901 Bayview. chapters.indigo.ca.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition with JustJamaal. 8 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. torontopoetryslam. com.

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KAYT BURGESS 3-Day Novel Writing Contest 35th-anniversary party and launch of Burgess’s book Heidegger Stairwell. 7 pm. Free.

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SUSAN SWAN – BUTTING HEADS: HOCKEY, HEROINES AND THE MAKING OF A LITERñ ARY ANTI-HERO Swan launches her novel The

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Mia Hansen-Løve is a little conflicted about her retrospective.

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lect Tout Est Pardonné, The Father Of My Children and Goodbye, First Love. Delicate, carefully observed studies of young women before and after a crucial moment in their lives, each uses a radical shift in perspective to leap forward in time and see what becomes of each woman after that turning point is reached.

“To me it’s very obvious that they make a trilogy,” she says, in English that’s better than she thinks it is.

finding a title for this trilogy. It would be easy to make a title with ‘fathers and daughters,’ but that’s not exactly what I want to say.”

If it were up to me, I’d suggest Only Forward, which speaks both to the way Hansen-Løve’s characters must push their way through shattering personal tragedies – or tragedies that seem shattering at the time anyway – and to the generational aspect of her narratives.

Tout Est Pardonné, which kicks off the series tonight (Thursday, August 23), and The Father Of My Children,

INTERVIEW WITH MIA HANSEN-LØVE DIRECTOR, TIFF SERIES FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS “They are so much connected – three portraits of young girls, about the passing of time, about the power of filming – about melancholy, in a way. They come from the same parts of me. But I have a hard time

which screens Friday (August 24), hinge on a father-daughter relationship. The third, Goodbye, First Love (Saturday, August 25), watches a volatile teenager (Lola Créton) grow up and build a new life for herself after her boyfriend (Sebastian Urzendowsky) leaves her for a Latin American walkabout.

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“I think the first two films are really about transmission in relationships from father and daughter,” she says, “and what survives the absence of the father. In the case of Goodbye, First Love, it’s a little bit different.”

Hansen-Løve will introduce all three films, as well as her Carte Blanche selection of Gérard Blain’s 1960 drama A Child In The Crowd, screening Friday (August 24).

Hansen-Løve’s films share an emotional openness and a sense of lives set adrift; that’s the melancholy she mentioned. They also end on a note of hopeful ambiguity, suggesting that the characters’ lives will continue long after the credits roll.

“I think it’s Coppola who said films are never finished; we are abandoning them,” she says. “I feel the same about the stories of my films. I don’t feel like my films are finished. I just feel like that’s the point where I choose to leave them.”

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Costume dramas are rarely as fleet, alluring and engrossing as Farewell, My Queen, Benoît Jacquot’s fresh take on Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) and the pivotal days of the French Revolution.

The film is told from the perspective of Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux), a dutiful lady-in-waiting who may be one of the people but is willfully enslaved to royalty. She is Marie Antoinette’s reader, reciting verses from novels and fashion magazines at the queen’s whim. Citizens may be storming the Bastille, but Sidonie’s primary function is to make sure the queen is up to date on what’s chic. Physical jeopardy is inconceivable to the head of state who, as history dictates, will eventually lose her head.

Sidonie races between’s the queen’s chambers, where ignorance is bliss, and the servants’ quarters, where blind panic reigns. Jacquot rarely shows disdain for the masters and servants, who are filtered through Sidonie’s watchful eye, humanized by her compassion.

He leaves judgment to the audience, who can debate class, celebrity culture, sexual morals and voyeurism, themes woven into a film as layered as the elegant attire on display.

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DANIEL ESPINOSA Director, EASY MONEY

Hell And Back Again captures tense moments like this scene of a man gathering his possessions during an assault operation in Afghanistan.

Q&A

It’s been nearly two years since I sat down with Daniel Espinosa to discuss Easy Money at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Since then, he’s directed Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds in Safe House, which opened theatrically earlier this year and is already out on disc. But back then, Espinosa was just an enthusiastic ChileanSwedish filmmaker with a smash hit Euro thriller.

You’re bringing Easy Money to Toronto with a lot of momentum behind it. It’s the biggest movie in Sweden, you’re attached to make a movie for Universal with A-list American stars, and so on. But this time last year hardly anyone knew your name. How did this happen?

We had the screening at the Berlin Film Festival, and a lot of agents and buyers, including the Weinsteins, were there. It really became a whirlwind from that one screening. Suddenly, agents were calling my house from America, and they started flying in to meet me. So I went to a coffee shop and sat there drinking coffee, trying not to look too dumb, and I’m asking [them], “What do you do, really?”

So I chose an agent and then the managers started calling.

Warner Bros. bought the remake rights to Easy Money. Will you be associated with that project?

I didn’t want to direct it. I’d done the movie, so there was no point in doing it again. For me, it’s important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. It’s like if you make a good song, somebody brilliant will find a new rhythm inside it that you didn’t even know existed, create a new emotionality out of it that you would never have grasped. To just have it remade, there’s no interest in that, but to get a good director, that would be very interesting.

The characters in Easy Money speak a number of different languages. Was it difficult to direct performances in languages you don’t speak?

We are living in a truly international world [and] we have to portray that, with those conflicts. I think that’s where modern cinema is interesting right now.

When I work with Serbs, I don’t have an interpreter; it’s interesting to lose control as a director. So you talk with the actors, you tell them what they should say – I don’t want them to make a [direct] translation, I just want them to say it in the way that would feel natural, because every language has its own rhythm. And then after the shot, I ask them, “What did you say?” And they tell me, and that’s where you get surprises: “Oh, I didn’t know he was talking about his father this time!” But that’s cool because they’re trying to invest something.

DOCUMENTARY

War wounds HELL AND BACK AGAIN (Danfung

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Dennis). 88 minutes. Opens Friday (August 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NNNN

It turns out there was somewhere to take the boots-on-the-ground documentary after Restrepo and Armadillo after all.

Winner of two prizes at Sundance and nominated for last year’s doc feature Oscar, this harrowing study of the human cost of the Afghanistan war plays out in two discrete timelines. In one, a platoon of U.S. Marines clashes with Taliban guerrillas; in the other, a few months later, Sgt. Nathan Harris struggles through the gruelling rehabilitation process after Connie and Hank Jones are part of an odd community of loners in Darwin.

REVIEW EASY MONEY (Daniel Espinosa) Rating: NN Made in 2010 and shelved by the Weinstein Company until now, Daniel Espinosa’s slick but ultimately facile thriller charts the fates of three characters working their way through Sweden’s cocaine underworld.

JW (The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman) is a humble Stockholm university student with dreams of upward mobility; Jorge (Matias Padin Varela) an escaped convict with an estranged family; and Mrado (Dragomir Mrsic) a Serbian heavy who gains new perspective when he’s forced to take custody of his young daughter.

It’s an ambitious set-up, but the demands of the gangster picture take over in the laboured second hour, when shootings, beatings and betrayals squeeze NW out thoughtful character development and insight.

Joel Kinnaman plays a student who dreams of Easy Money.

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DOCUMENTARY

Alone together DARWIN (Nick Brandestini). 86 minutes. Opens Friday (August 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

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There’s a fascination in isolation. And if you’ve ever wondered how far you’d be willing to go to escape the city, you might want to check out Darwin.

Darwin, California, is a one-time mining town in the middle of Death Valley that’s now home to 35 very distinctive souls who’ve retreated from society in one way or another, only to end up forming an odd new social network in the middle of nowhere.

Director and editor Nick Brandestini

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being shot in an ambush.

Director Danfung Dennis, best known as a war photographer, has a terrific eye; this is one of the best-looking docs I’ve seen in years. But it’s also emotionally immediate and formally accomplished, with confident transitions between the two time frames that bring us closer and closer to the struggling Harris.

Not many docs address the disconnection and culture shock that comes with a veteran’s return home, and Dennis spends a lot of the Stateside sequences watching Harris try to adjust to life off the battlefield – which involves plenty of therapy, medication and a great many attempts by his wife, Ashley, to even begin to understand what he’s going through. The awful thing of it is, neither she nor we ever NORMAN WILNER will.

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gives them plenty of room to tell their fascinating stories in their own rhythms, which may explain why he prefers the term “nonfiction” to “documentary.” He’s not documenting his subjects’ lives as much as letting them explain how they got here. Some have retreated from the world; some never wanted much to do with it in the first place.

And he breaks up the talking-head segments with footage of the community at work – including a prickly meeting of the municipal water board – to illustrate that even at the ends of the earth, it’s impossible to get away from everything. Even when you’re 1,000 miles from any other group of people, the ones around you will still NORMAN WILNER get on your nerves.

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documentary

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are best in the moments when they’re not vrooming around in cars.

Frank Langella and his mechanical sidekick are lots of fun. Shame about the ending.

A little dry biLL W. (Dan Carracino, Kevin Hanlon).

104 minutes. Opens Friday (August 24) at the Carlton. See Times, page 74. Rating:

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rom-com thriller

No Hitter

Hit & Run (Dax Shepard, David Palmer).

100 minutes. Opens Friday (August 24).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: nn

Actor Dax Shepard’s weird mashup of romantic comedy and car-chase thriller – he wrote, produced and co-directed as well as stars in it – is a pleasant but disposable picture about Charlie, a decent guy in witness protection who decides to leave the program (and risk his neck) to drive his girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell), to Los Angeles for a potentially life-changing job interview.

As our put-upon protagonists make their way along 500 miles of California freeways en route to L.A., they’re pursued by Charlie’s easily flustered minder (Tom Arnold), Annie’s stalker-

ish ex-boyfriend (Michael Rosenbaum), a pair of cops (Jess Rowland and Carly Hatter) and eventually by Charlie’s old gang, led by a dreadlocked Bradley Cooper.

Charlie’s a brilliant driver, but apparently so is everyone else, so cars spin around each other until our heroes find an alley or an open gate and make a speedy escape. The stunt work’s impressive, and it’s probably what got Hit & Run made, but it’s ultimately a distraction.

The movie’s really about Charlie and Annie and the conversations they have when they’re not running for their lives, and real-life couple Shepard and Bell are great as people who’ve been together for a year but are only starting to get to know each other.

I just wish Shepard had been more confident as a writer and given them more time off the road. nORMAn WiLnER

Shia LaBeouf and Mia Wasikowska are running on empty in Lawless.

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No ammo LAWLEss (John Hillcoat). 115 minutes.

Opens Wednesday (August 29). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

Rating: nn

John Hillcoat and Nick Cave are masters of brutality. The Australian director and screenwriter/composer who gave us Ghosts Of The Civil Dead, The Proposition and The Road specialize in grinding their heroes down to gristle in the service of an ambiguous goal.

But their new film, Lawless, doesn’t offer them the same sort of scale or operatic resonance. This one’s a simple 1930s crime picture, and the material is ill suited to the duo’s grandiose artistic aspirations. It might have made a great track on one of Cave’s murderballad albums.

Based on novelist Matt Bondurant’s family history The Wettest County In The World, it’s the true-ish story of a

family of Prohibition-era moonshiners (Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Jason Clarke) whose comfortable Virginia life is threatened by the arrival of a big-city lawman, the crusading Charlie Rakes.

The introduction of Rakes is the first hint that Hillcoat and Cave may have overreached. Played by Guy Pearce with slicked-back hair, pigeon strut and shaved eyebrows, he’s a cartoon maniac bristling with the potential for sadistic cruelty. (This is what happens when an actor trusts his director absolutely.)

The script is similarly miscalculated, trapping the brothers’ love interests (Mia Wasikowska and Jessica Chastain) in a clumsy Madonna-whore dichotomy and laying on the gangster clichés extra-thick whenever Gary Oldman’s Floyd Banner pays a visit to Franklin County.

On the upside, though, I’ve been waiting 20 years for someone to hit Noah Taylor (Shine, Lara Croft) with a shovel. So it’s got that going for it. nORMAn WiLnER

William G. Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and today his 12-step principles are used by more than 60 recovery programs in over 170 countries, altering millions of lives. This isn’t a great documentary, but the man and his message at its heart are very important indeed.

Dan Carracino and Kevin Hanlon’s Bill W. is earnest, straightforward and oddly uninvolving. Footage of the tall, lean, stern-looking Wilson (who died of emphysema in 1971) and the sound of his deadpan voice in multiple interviews fail to bring the man into focus.

The best part comes early on, when Wilson – a successful Wall Street type before the crash – struggles to bring his drinking under control, and then, thanks to a chance meeting with a high school acquaintance in a Manhattan drying-out facility in 1934, encounters the principles that would become the foundation of AA. Another turning point comes when he travels to Akron, Ohio, and meets a fellow alcoholic named Dr. Bob, who quickly puts those principles into practice.

These episodes are illustrated via period recreations, which are competently done.

There are horrific details about early medical approaches to alcoholism – shock treatment and lobotomies were common – and it’s heartening to learn that the organization argued early on about how to deal with the concept of a higher power. There’s also a fascinating bit about whether pre-civil rights movement AA meetings should be integrated.

The enigmatic title itself is fully in the spirit of members’ anonymity.

Even after his methods had achieved success, Wilson turned down honorary degrees, a Time Magazine cover and, in 1955, relinquished leadership of AA to the members themselves. Why? He didn’t want to be seen as a god or an icon, just a man trying to stay sober GLEnn suMi one day at a time.

Alcoholics Anonymous founder William G. Wilson doesn’t come into focus, but his achievements do.

character study

Frankly flawed RObOt & FRAnk (Jake Schreier). 88 minutes. Opens Friday (August 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

Rating: nnn

Robot & Frank is a science-fiction story, but only to a point. It’s set in the relatively near future, and the movie creates an utterly credible world wherein advanced technology is convincingly integrated into everyday life.

And Frank Langella interacts with his prefabricated sidekick with the weariness of someone who’s watched these things evolve for decades and still doesn’t trust them to get anything right. It’s a good choice.

A former cat burglar, Langella’s Frank lives alone in upstate New York, and it’s starting to look like he can’t

also opening Premium Rush

(D: David Koepp, 91 min) 2012’s been a wild ride for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He was the best thing about the Dark Knight sequel. In a couple of weeks he kicks off TIFF 12 with Looper.

And in this week’s Premium Rush, he plays a bike courier being chased by a dirty cop through Manhattan. Hold on!

quite take care of himself. So his kids get him a helper robot, which of course he loathes on sight. But the robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) turns out to be pretty handy, largely because its amoral, project-oriented nature makes it the perfect accomplice for a couple of jobs Frank’s been meaning to pull.

Taking off from this ingenious premise, Robot & Frank folds in plenty of other good stuff, like Frank’s contentious relationships with his kids (James Marsden and Liv Tyler) and a more simpatico connection with an empathetic librarian (Susan Sarandon).

The movie’s so good for so much of its running time, it’s doubly awful to watch it self-destruct in the last reel thanks to a profoundly stupid plot twist. I actually cursed aloud when said twist was deployed; it’s not only ripped off from another movie, but nORMAn WiLnER utterly unnecessary.

The Apparition (D: Todd Lincoln, 82 min) Twilight vampire sibling Ashley Greene gets her first lead role in this horror flick about college students who unleash something scary. Sebastian Stan (Political Animals) also stars.

Both open Friday (August 24). Screened after press time – see reviews August 24 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt races for his life in Premium Rush.

Sebastian Stan senses something creepy in The Apparition.

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HELL AND BACK AGAIN (STC) Winner—Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2012 Official Selection, Hot Docs 2011 “Possibly the best war movie of the year.”

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Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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DARWIN (STC) Winner—Golden Eye, Best Documentary, Zurich Film Festival 2011 “Undeniable poetry.” – Variety

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COAST MODERN (STC) Official Selection, DOXA 2012 “Elegantly composed.”– The Grid

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HEARTS AND MINDS (R) Winner—Best Documentary, Academy Awards 1975 From our Essential Docs series.

SAT, AUG 25

RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE (14A) From our Rock Docs series.

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 74.

ñAi Wei Wei: Never Sorry

(Alison Klayman) lets us see the infamous Chinese artist and dissident as a man rather than a symbol, whose puckish wit allows him to make light of the darkest situations.

But we’re never allowed to forget the risks he’s taking by poking fun at a system that doesn’t have a sense of humour. Some subtitles. 91 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñThe AmAziNg Spider-mAN

(Marc Webb) gives the franchise a fresh start, though the key story points are still the same: 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. At two and a quar-

ter hours long, it could stand to lose 20 minutes, or add 20 more, but Garfield and Emma Stone make this Spider-Man feel pretty amazing indeed. 136 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ANd if We All lived TogeTher? (Sté-

phane Robelin) looks at five long-time friends who decide that living communally will help them cope with old age. Jeanne (Jane Fonda) is hiding an illness from husband Albert (Pierre Richard), who has early Alzheimer’s. Lefty Claude (Claude Rich) is too old to get arrested at a demo. And ladies’ man Jean (Guy Bedos) is still trying to get laid despite his heart condition. The story doesn’t work without Claude and wife Annie’s (Geraldine Chaplin) fabulous house in suburban Paris, but that’s presumably writer/director Robelin’s point. Got money?

You’re still gonna die. Famous farceur Richard is superb, as is Fonda as the lusty woman who connects with a young anthropologist who’s doing research on the group.

The film veers off course when it comes to the fivesome’s sexual conflicts – ah, the French! – but at its core it’s an effective ensemble piece that takes a clear-eyed look at aging. Subtitled. NNN (SGC) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

The AppAriTioN (Todd Lincoln) 82 min. See Also Opening, page 68.

Opens Aug 24 at Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

The AWAkeNiNg (Nick Murphy) casts Rebecca Hall (The Town, Please Give) as a paranormal debunker summoned to a remote

Cumbrian boarding school in 1920, where a student has apparently been frightened to death by a ghost. Of course, the truth turns out to be far more complicated. As the Old Dark House template demands, Hall has to creep around the halls of a forbidding old manse setting up little traps involving bells and powder. And because this is the 21st century, those old-school pleasures are enhanced with CG scares and musical stings so the contemporary audience doesn’t fall asleep or start texting their friends. Things get dodgy in the last reel, when director Murphy and co-writer Stephen Volk deploy a double-twist ending so convoluted it has to be explained twice. Hall very nearly sells it anyway – she’s that good – but it’s a bum note in an otherwise entertaining exercise.

107 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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”, seen through the eyes of sixyear-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis).

The early movements have a powerful, intuitive sort of energy, and Wallis is terrific, but think about what you’re watching for even two seconds and the whole thing collapses into caricature. 93 min. NN (NW) Grande - Yonge, TIFF Bell Lightbox

The BeST exoTic mArigold hoTel (John

Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a first-rate cast that includes Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson. They play assorted British retirees who get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager. 124 min.

NNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

Bill W. (Kevin Hanlon, Dan Carracino) 104 min. See review, page 68. NNN (GS) Opens Aug 24 at Carlton Cinema The BourNe legAcy (Tony Gilroy) finds

director Gilroy nicely expanding the world he co-created as the screenwriter of Matt Damon’s action trilogy, with Edward Norton as a spook spearheading the clean-up of various covert programs in the wake of Jason Bourne’s rebellion, and Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz as a super-soldier and a researcher trying to stay ahead of the bagmen. Eschewing the kinetic sensibility of Paul Greengrass’s sequels for sleeker, more carefully composed visuals, Gilroy

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(Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman) is a lovely, stirring and very funny mythical adventure about Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), a Scots princess bristling at what she perceives as constant criticism from her mother (Emma Thompson). Lifting elements from Disney and Studio Ghibli, directors Andrews and Chapman have constructed an entirely new myth – rooted in Scots mysticism, human pride and a very relatable mother-daughter conflict – and built a gorgeous movie around it. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

The cAmpAigN (Jay Roach) stars Will Fer-

rell and Zach Galifianakis as bumbling Southern politicians vying for a seat in Congress. Not all the jokes hit, but some of them are delirious fun, and Galifianakis is astonishing, morphing from a dim guy with a daddy complex to a man who understands the total corruption around him. 85 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Lee Krieger) is a bittersweet comedy about exes (played by Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg) who haven’t quite figured out how to disconnect from each other.

Jones, who co-wrote the movie with actor Will McCormack, is terrific as a conflicted, confused young woman just beginning to realize she isn’t as okay with moving on as she first thought. It’s a great dramatic performance; don’t let the rom-com packaging fool you. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Craig Zobel) is a tightly wound thriller that explores the banality of evil – complete with a drive-thru.

Inspired by the true events, it’s set in a fast food restaurant that becomes a panopticon-like prison when a mystery caller claiming to be a cop gets the manager (Ann Dowd) to detain a young female employee (Dreama Walker). The conclusion feels rushed, but Walker and Dowd’s performances ground the film in a complex moral ambiguity that’s wisely left unresolved. 90 min. NNNN (Kiva Reardon) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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coSmopoliS (David Cronenberg) is the telepod fusion of two very chilly visionaries – novelist Don DeLillo and screenwriter/director Cronenberg, who aren’t exactly stylistically simpatico, but Cronenberg might be the only filmmaker who would try to adapt DeLillo’s 2003 tale of a financial wizard’s personal and professional meltdown during an endless limo ride across Manhattan. It offers the same sort of vaguely hallucinatory, suffocating internal journey as Naked Lunch or eXistenZ. Nothing seems entirely real – not the explosive protests outside Robert Pattinson’s cocoon-like limousine, nor his stilted conversations with his wife (Sarah Gadon), his head of security (Kevin Durand) or his theory consultant (Samantha Morton). The film glides along on dreamy inertia, with characters popping up for random conversations before vanishing from the narrative. The result is more inter-

esting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment; you watch it fully aware that it wants to be deconstructed rather than enjoyed. 108 min. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 24 at Canada Square

The Dark kNighT rises (Christopher

Nolan) is less a movie than a colossus. But it’s encumbered by its own self-importance (and its unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement). When he concentrates on the action, director Nolan is in total control.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, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Nick Brandestini) 88 min.

See review, page 67. NNNN (NW) Opens Aug 24 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Diary of a wimpy kiD: Dog Days (David

Bowers) is consistent with the series formula, targeting the under PG-13 crowd with silly kiddy humour but also mature lessons about growing up. The latest travails of Greg Hefley involves a summer playing

video games and avoiding responsibilities, much to his dad’s chagrin. These movies relate to their audience without ever talking down to them, and parents can learn a few things in that regard. 94 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

are way too old for this shit. 102 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

easy moNey (Daniel Espinosa) 119 min.

farewell, my QueeN ñ NNNN

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(Benoît Jacquot) 100 min. See review, page 66.

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The expeNDables 2 (Simon West) be-

comes, in the hands of director West (Con Air), the all-star action cartoon that the Sylvester Stallone-helmed first film promised but failed to deliver. When the titular mercenaries go up against Jean-Claude Van Damme’s baddie, as in any good action sequel, this time it’s personal. Stallone, Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolf Lundgren, Jason Statham, Chuck Norris and co. slaughter extras like it’s 1985 while winking at the audience with knowing humour. It’s cheesy, overwrought, ridiculously violent, unintentionally and intentionally hilarious, just as it should be.

But let’s hope the Planet Hollywood veterans hang up their machine guns before they

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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. Director Kargman takes a frank look at costs, job opportunities, body issues, injuries and gender.

There’s lots of great dance, plus some humour thanks to one 10-year-old who balks at his stage mom. Some subtitles. 90 min.

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chronicles the bumpy relationships of the Montreal-based filmmaker with his fiancée and his Greek parents in the months leading up to his wedding. It’s a video diary in search of a hook. Some subtitles. 80 min.

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(Morten Tyldum) is an energetic Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief (Aksel Hennie).

When his scheme goes wrong, our hero must go on the run – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running. Director Tyldum continued on page 72 œ

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DELICIOUSLY UNEXPECTED ...Frank Langella is impeccable.”

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A BEAUTIFUL TALE! Langella and Sarandon bring a sparkling warmth to this “

wonderful story of friendship, family, and reconnection.”

- Jonathan Kim, THE HUFFINGTON POST

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SWEET AND THOUGHTFUL featuring a memorable and heartfelt performance from the great Frank Langella.”

- Thor Diakow, CITY-TV, Vancouver

A SMART, PLAUSIBLE AND RESONANT FILM .

Debuting director Jake Schreier, screenwriter Christopher D. Ford “

and a wry and wily Frank Langella all shine.”

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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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(Danfung Dennis) 88 min. See review, page 67.

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Hit & RuN (Dax Shepard, David Palmer)

100 min. See review, page 68. NN (NW) Opens Aug 24 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Hope SpRiNgS (David Frankel) stars Meryl Streep as a woman desperate to reignite her relationship with her emotionally remote husband (Tommy Lee Jones). But dir-

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ector Frankel, who enabled Streep’s fine comic turn in The Devil Wears Prada, is way out of his depth here, unable to get his stars on the same wavelength. I’m sure a different director could have got them working together; I’m also sure Frankel never even tried. What a waste. 100 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ice age: coNtiNeNtal dRift (Steve Mar-

tino, Mike Thurmeier) is showing its age with gags that are prehistoric. In their fourth adventure, Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Diego the sabre-tooth tiger (Dennis Leary) and Sid the dim-witted sloth (John Leguizamo) are faced with Pangaea breaking apart into continents, separating them from their herd. The plot hinges on natural forces, but Continental Drift feels overly schematic, as if written by a boardroom that hit all the predictable notes. 94 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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(William Friedkin) is a big old slice of Texas mayhem in which a Dallas idiot (Emile Hirsch) hires a hit man (Matthew McConaughey) to murder his mother for the insurance, only to see the plan almost immediately spiral out of control. McConaughey oozes genteel menace as the eponymous assassin, but Thomas Haden Church steals the picture as Hirsch’s defeated father, slouching through the action like the hapless, helpless fool he knows himself to be. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

GOODBYE FIRST LOVE

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lawleSS (John Hillcoat) 115 min. See review, page 68. NN (NW) Opens Aug 29 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre MadagaScaR 3: euRope’S MoSt waNted (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad

Vernon) is zippy, silly and antic fun with Alex the lion and his team of continenthopping 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) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Steven Soderbergh) is a brawny, brainy reworking of Flashdance inspired by star Channing Tatum’s early days as a male stripper. Soderbergh and screenwriter Reid Carolin weave a subtle commentary on various American notions of exploitation in between energetic, self-aware dance sequences. Mat-

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thew McConaughey steals every scene he can as the club’s cagey MC and occasional performer. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

and home life begin to crumble. Filming over three years, Greenfield captures remarkable moments, especially of Jackie, a compelling, if flawed, character. 100 min.

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MaRvel’S tHe aveNgeRS (Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

Red ligHtS (Rodrigo Cortés) finds the director of Buried overreaching drastically in this creeper about a pair of academic researchers (Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver) who debunk paranormal activity until a reclusive mentalist (Robert De Niro) challenges the foundations of their knowledge.

Sure, the final flourish is worthy of M. Night Shyamalan – but it’s the Shyamalan of The Village and The Happening, not The Sixth Sense. 113 min. NN (NW) 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.

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tHe odd life of tiMotHy gReeN (Peter Hedges) is the bizarre magic-realist tale of an infertile couple (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton) whose imagined, idealized child (CJ Adams) crawls out of their garden one night after a mystical storm. Viewed from another angle, this could have been an amazing horror-comedy about unwitting dolts who let a tree demon into their home.

You’ll wish it were. 104 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Chris Butler, Sam Fell) is the best animated film I’ve seen this year, a funny and resonant adventure that’s not afraid to get really, really dark. It’s the tale of an 11-year-old (voiced

by Kodi Smit-McPhee of The Road and Let Me In) whose ability to converse with the dead makes him an outcast in his New England town. But Norman’s abilities become an asset when a local legend turns out to be at least partly true, and a curse brings a quintet of Puritan zombies out of their graves. As Norman and his unlikely allies – including his spiteful older sister (Anna Kendrick) and a couple of awkward classmates (Tucker Albrizzi, Christopher Mintz-Plasse) – race to restore order, ParaNorman launches into a series of thrilling, inventive set pieces, engaging serious emotional themes while never shying away from the truly horrible implications of its mythology. This is a fantastic picture in every sense of the word.

93 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

pReMiuM RuSH (David Koepp) 91 min. See Also Opening, page 68.

Opens Aug 24 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Lauren Greenfield) is a riveting doc at ambition, greed and hubris. 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 the economic crisis hits, their empire

RoBot & fRaNk (Jake Schreier) 88 min.

See review, page 68. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 24 at Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Varsity

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(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) feels like the best Woody Allen movie Woody Allen never made. It’s a clever magic-realist romantic fantasy about an author (Paul Dano) so infatuated with his newest character (Zoe Kazan) that he literally brings her into being. Dano and Kazan are terrific, and directors Dayton and Faris avoid the twee flourishes that made Little Miss Sunshine feel like an overlong sitcom. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

SavageS (Oliver Stone) stars Taylor Kitsch and Aaron Johnson as California drug kingpins threatened when Mexican queenpin Elena (Salma Hayek) muscles in on their territory and then kidnaps their shared girlfriend (Blake Lively). Great secondary characters – Hayek, John Travolta as a corrupt cop, and Benicio Del Toro as Elena’s henchman – and Stone’s razzle-dazzle make this ultra-violent drug-war tale entertaining if you like this kind of thing. 130 min. NNN (SGC) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre SeaRcHiNg foR SugaR MaN (Malik Bend-

jelloul) introduces little-known musician Rodriguez, unravelling a mystery that nobody knew they wanted the answer to. The Detroit-based 70s folksinger never found an audience in the States and ended up fading into the shadows. Don’t google Rodriguez before seeing this doc, whose pleasures come from the enigma it constructs and the revelations it delivers. 85 min. NNN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

SoMewHeRe toNigHt (Michael Di

Jiacomo) is an urban romantic comedy about a bike messenger (John Turturro) and an agoraphobe (Katherine Borowitz) who strike up a relationship over an adult chat phone line. 85 min.

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SpaRkle (Salim Akil) is a dull remake of a 1970s movie and a swan song for Whitney Houston that falls flat. The late, great songstress delivers a stiff performance as a strict mother to musically inclined girls. Yet Houston’s mere presence, for lack of better material, still manages to be the film’s primary appeal. The soulless Motown-era musical stars American Idol winner Jordin Sparks as the titular Sparkle, a songwriter and singer constantly overshadowed by her two sisters – just as Sparks is by the much better actors Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter, who play her siblings. But everyone chokes on a screenplay that strings together clichés, atrocious dialogue and illogical plotting.

Even the musical numbers fail to take off, with the exception of Houston’s last gasp, which given the tragic circumstances leaves you waiting to exhale. 116 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Step up RevolutioN (Scott Speer) is dramatically inert but showcases bodies that are fluid, kinetic and very often aerodynamic. The revolution in the title is actually ironic, since the movie is all about conformity to commoditization. We are watching a franchise incorporate street

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dances, after all. 106 min. NNN (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

TAKE THIS WALTZ (Sarah Polley) takes a leap

into far riskier territory than writer/director Polley’s relatively conventional Away From Her. I’m not entirely sure Polley accomplishes what she’s reaching for in this tale of a young wife (Michelle Williams) considering an affair with a neighbour (Luke Kirby), but she’s reaching for it, and that makes all the difference. 116 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

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360 (Fernando Meirelles) is a low-key drama that follows a series of characters through various encounters, ultimately drawing a larger picture. Anthony Hopkins as a distressed father brings a magnetic kindness to his handful of scenes, and Rachel Weisz 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. Some subtitles. 110 min.

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THE BOURNE LEGACY

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This espionage flick expands on the world shown in the Bourne trilogy, with Jeremy Renner making a solid action hero and Rachel Weisz a believable scientist.

One of the best movies of 2012 so far, this flick about a kid (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) who talks to the dead is a funny and resonant adventure that’s unafraid to go to some serious places.

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William Friedkin directs this darkly weird film about a Texas dolt (Emile Hirsch) who hires a hit man (Matthew McConaughey, great as usual) to kill his mom for the insurance. Of course things go very wrong.

THE AWAKENING Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town) plays a skeptical woman investigating socalled paranormal activity in a 1920s boarding school.

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great cast – including Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin and a brilliant Ellen Page – and multiple storylines, so when one plot line sags, another picks things up. 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, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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take all the fun out of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 actioner, despite making virtually no changes to its twisty-turny story of a daydreaming Everyman who discovers (or does he?) that he’s really a high-level secret agent. But while director Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free Or Die Hard) spares no expense on making the 21st-century Recall slicker, bigger and louder, he’s forgotten to make it enjoyable, muting Colin Farrell’s boundless charisma, pairing him with the inexpressive Jessica Biel and locking Kate Beckinsale in autopilot action mode. 118 min. NN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Mt Pleasant, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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

THe appariTion (PG) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:10, 6:15, 8:30, 11:00

THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:35, 4:05, 4:35, 6:40, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15, 10:50 Fri, sun, tue 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:55 sat 1:00, 1:30, 4:20, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:55 mon 12:40, 1:30, 3:35, 4:40, 7:40, 10:00, 10:55 Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:55 THe Dark knigHT riSeS: THe iMax experience (PG) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 FriWed 3:15, 6:40, 10:10 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) thu 12:40, 1:15, 2:10, 3:10, 3:50, 4:40, 5:40, 6:50, 7:20, 8:10, 9:30, 10:05, 10:45 Fri-tue 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:05, 8:10, 9:45, 10:40 Wed 12:30, 1:10, 3:00, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 killer Joe thu 2:30 5:10 7:45 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 lawleSS (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Magic Mike (14A) thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 MoonriSe kingDoM (PG) thu 12:45, 3:05, 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 preMiuM ruSH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 proMeTHeuS 3D (14A) thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 FriWed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 SavageS (18A) thu 12:40, 3:30, 10:30 Fri-sat, mon-tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:30 sun 4:20, 7:15, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 3:45, 10:30 Singin’ in THe rain sun 1:00 ToTal recall (14A) thu 2:00 5:00 7:50 10:40 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:50 THe waTcH (18A) thu 1:20, 7:10

tiFF Bell ligHtBox (i) 350 king st W, 416-599-8433

ai wei wei: never Sorry thu-Fri, sun, tue-Wed 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 sat 2:30, 4:45, 9:15 mon 7:00, 9:15 BeaSTS of THe SouTHern wilD (PG) thu-sun, tue-Wed 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 mon 6:45, 9:10 coMpliance (14A) thu 1:45, 6:15, 9:00 Fri 3:15, 6:15, 9:00 sat-sun, tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:00 mon 6:15, 9:00 Wed 12:15, 3:15, 9:00 firST poSiTion (G) thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:00, 8:30 Fri, tueWed 1:00, 6:00, 8:30 sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 mon 6:00, 8:30 oSlo, auguST 31ST (14A) thu 4:00

varsity (ce)

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304 anD if we all liveD TogeTHer? thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:25, 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu-sun 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:45 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 3:15 6:45 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 farewell, My Queen Fri-Wed 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Hope SpringS (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 THe Queen of verSailleS thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 FriWed 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 roBoT & frank (PG) Fri-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 ruBy SparkS (14A) thu 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 To roMe wiTH love (PG) thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 sat-sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 2 DayS in new york thu 1:10, 3:25, 10:10

VIP SCREENINGS

THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu, sat-sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) 5:45, 9:20 sat-sun 2:10 mat Hope SpringS (14A) thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 roBoT & frank (PG) Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 ruBy SparkS (14A) thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00

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

THe aMazing SpiDer-Man: an iMax 3D experience (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 THe aMazing SpiDer-Man (PG) 2:50, 6:00, 9:05 sat-sun 11:35 mat THe awakening (PG) thu, sat-sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 1:05, 3:35, 6:00, 8:50 Brave (PG) thu, sat-sun 12:30 Fri, mon-Wed 1:00 Brave 3D (PG) thu, sat-sun 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri, mon-Wed 3:25, 6:00, 8:30 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 1:15 2:30 3:30 4:45 5:30 7:00 7:45 9:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 sat-sun 12:15 mat celeSTe anD JeSSe forever thu, sat-sun 12:35, 3:05,

5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 1:10, 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) thu 1:40, 4:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:30 ek THa Tiger (14A) 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 HiT & run (14A) Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Hope SpringS (14A) 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 thu 2:30 mat, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) 1:50 sat-sun 11:30 mat ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 4:10 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 Marvel’S THe avengerS 3D (PG) thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 sat-sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 THe oDD life of TiMoTHy green (G) thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 5:00, 6:55, 7:30, 10:00 THe oogieloveS in THe Big Balloon aDvenTure (G) Wed 1:55, 4:15, 7:05 paranorMan (PG) thu 1:00 3:20 5:40 8:00 10:20 FriWed 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 paranorMan 3D (PG) 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 sat-sun 11:55 mat r2B: reTurn To BaSe Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 reD ligHTS thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:10 ruBy SparkS (14A) thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, mon-tue 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 sat-sun 11:30, 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 10:05 SHirin farHaD ki ToH nikal paDi Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30 Sparkle (PG) thu 1:00, 2:45, 3:45, 5:30, 6:30, 9:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 4:05, 6:35, 9:20, 9:25 STep up revoluTion 3D (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 TeD (14A) 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 sat-sun 11:40 mat To roMe wiTH love (PG) thu 12:30, 3:00, 10:05 Fri-tue 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 1:50, 9:55

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

THe aMazing SpiDer-Man (PG) thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 THe appariTion (PG) 4:35, 7:00, 9:10 sat-sun 2:20 mat THe BeST exoTic MarigolD HoTel (PG) thu 3:55, 6:30, 9:05 Fri, mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 sat-sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Brave (PG) thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:10 coSMopoliS (14A) 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 sat-sun 1:50 mat Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) 4:30, 6:55, 9:00 satsun 1:55 mat THe inToucHaBleS (14A) thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, monWed 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 sat-sun 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 MoonriSe kingDoM (PG) thu 4:45 7:30 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 sat-sun 2:30 mat THe oogieloveS in THe Big Balloon aDvenTure (G) Wed 4:40, 7:10 TeD (14A) thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 To roMe wiTH love (PG) thu 4:00 6:55 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 8:55 sat-sun 1:40 mat 2 DayS in new york Fri, mon-tue 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 satsun 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 Wed 9:25

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 Take THiS walTz (14A) thu-sat, Wed 7:00 sun 4:25 ToTal recall (14A) Fri-sat 9:30 sun, tue 7:00

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

HeaDHunTerS (14A) thu-sat, Wed 7:00 sun 4:30 SafeTy noT guaranTeeD (14A) Fri-sat 8:55 sun, tue 7:00

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

THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-tue 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-tue 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 carMen in 3D encore Wed 6:00 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 2:30 6:30 10:00 FriWed 2:30, 6:30, 10:10 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20

Metro

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

THe Bourne legacy (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:20 paranorMan (PG) 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:10

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

THe BeST exoTic MarigolD HoTel (PG) thu 7:00 FriWed 5:00 THe inToucHaBleS (14A) 3:00 MaDagaScar 3: europe’S MoST wanTeD (G) Fri-Wed 11:45 Magic Mike (14A) thu 5:00 MoonriSe kingDoM (PG) thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 1:20 360 thu 9:10 Fri-Wed 9:15 To roMe wiTH love (PG) Fri-Wed 7:20

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 THe aMazing SpiDer-Man 3D (PG) Fri, mon-tue 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 sat 12:50, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 sun 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 1:15, 4:30, 9:45 THe aMazing SpiDer-Man (PG) thu 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 THe appariTion (PG) Fri-sun 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:00, 1:15, 4:05, 4:20, 7:05, 7:25, 10:05, 10:30 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:35, 6:55, 7:40, 10:10, 10:45 mon-tue 1:10, 4:15, 6:55, 7:20, 10:10, 10:25 Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15, 10:25 Brave (PG) thu 1:10 Fri, sun-tue 1:05 sat 11:20, 2:10 Brave 3D (PG) thu 3:35, 7:30 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 1:30, 3:55, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-tue 1:35, 3:50, 6:05, 8:15, 10:30 Wed 1:35, 3:50, 7:30, 9:45 carMen in 3D (PG) Wed 6:00 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 2:30, 6:45, 8:10, 10:20 Fri, mon-tue 2:40, 6:40, 10:20 sat 11:05, 2:40, 6:40, 10:20 sun 2:45, 6:40, 10:20 Wed 2:30, 6:45, 10:20 Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 Fri, sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 sat 11:35, 2:00, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 mon 1:50, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 tue 1:55, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) thu 1:15, 2:45, 3:50, 5:20, 7:00, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, sun 1:00, 2:05, 3:35, 4:40, 7:00, 7:45, 9:35, 10:20 sat 11:30, 12:55, 2:05, 3:35, 4:40, 7:00, 7:45, 9:35, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:45, 7:45, 9:35, 10:20 HiT & run (14A) Fri, sun, tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 mon, Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Hope SpringS (14A) thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 1:40 Fri, sun-tue 1:25, 3:45 sat 11:15, 1:35, 3:55 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT 3D (PG) thu 4:20, 6:50 lawleSS (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 MaDagaScar 3: europe’S MoST wanTeD (G) thu 1:05, 3:30, 5:50 nigHT aT THe MuSeuM (G) sat 11:00 THe oDD life of TiMoTHy green (G) thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, sun-tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 THe oogieloveS in THe Big Balloon aDvenTure (G) Wed 1:10, 3:20, 5:45, 8:00 paranorMan (PG) thu-Fri, sun-Wed 1:00 sat 11:25 paranorMan 3D (PG) thu, Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri, sun-tue 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 sat 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 preMiuM ruSH (14A) Fri-sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 mon-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 roBoT & frank (PG) Fri, sun-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 SavageS (18A) thu 10:00 Singin’ in THe rain sun 1:00 Sparkle (PG) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Fri, sun-tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40 sat 12:45, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 TeD (14A) thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, sun-tue 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 sat 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 To roMe wiTH love (PG) thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:10

ToTal recall (14A) thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 THe waTcH (18A) thu 10:20

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 THe Bourne legacy (14A) 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:15 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu-tue 9:00 Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) 12:45, 2:50, 5:00 thu 7:00, 9:15 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 HiT & run (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 Hope SpringS (14A) thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu-tue 12:55, 3:55, 6:50 lawleSS (14A) Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:25 THe oDD life of TiMoTHy green (G) 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 paranorMan (PG) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:20 preMiuM ruSH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15

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

THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-sun, tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 mon, Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) 2:30, 6:40, 10:10 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) thu 1:40, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Frisun, tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:20 mon, Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 HiT & run (14A) Fri-sun, tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 mon, Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Hope SpringS (14A) thu 1:35 4:00 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 paranorMan (PG) 1:50 paranorMan 3D (PG) thu 4:10 7:10 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 ToTal recall (14A) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

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

THe appariTion (PG) 4:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:20 mat THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:10, 2:00, 4:20, 5:30, 7:30, 8:45, 10:30 Fri-sun 2:00, 4:00, 5:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:00, 5:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:15 THe Dark knigHT riSeS: THe iMax experience (PG) thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 mon-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 1:00, 4:45, 6:30, 8:30, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 mon-Wed 5:00, 8:30 THe expenDaBleS 2 (14A) thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15 Fri-sun 1:40, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:30 mon-tue 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:30 Wed 4:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:30 HiT & run (14A) 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-sun 1:10 mat ice age: conTinenTal DrifT (PG) thu 12:40, 3:15 Fri-sun 1:00 THe oDD life of TiMoTHy green (G) thu-sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 THe oogieloveS in THe Big Balloon aDvenTure (G) Wed 4:00, 6:00 Sparkle (PG) thu 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 ToTal recall (14A) thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

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

anD if we all liveD TogeTHer? thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 mon-tue 1:50, 4:25, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 1:40, 9:55 BeaSTS of THe SouTHern wilD (PG) thu 10:20 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-sun 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:20 mon-tue 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 10:05 Wed 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 carMen in 3D encore Wed 6:00 Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 Hope SpringS (14A) 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 THe inToucHaBleS (14A) thu-sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 mon-tue 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:05 lawleSS (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 paranorMan (PG) thu 12:45 Fri-sun 1:00 mon-Wed 1:30 paranorMan 3D (PG) thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-sun 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:20 preMiuM ruSH (14A) Fri-sun 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 mon-tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:50 THe Queen of verSailleS thu-tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 roBoT & frank (PG) Fri-sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 ruBy SparkS (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 2:10, 9:40 To roMe wiTH love (PG) thu 1:45 4:25 7:10 9:50 FriWed 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 2 DayS in new york thu 1:55, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40

silvercity FairvieW (ce)

FairvieW mall, 1800 sHePParD ave e, 416-644-7746 THe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Frisun 1:00, 4:10, 7:25, 10:30 mon-tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 THe caMpaign (14A) thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-sat 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 sun 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 THe Dark knigHT riSeS (PG) thu 2:50, 6:40, 10:15 Fri, sun 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 sat 11:20, 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 monWed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Diary of a wiMpy kiD: Dog DayS (G) thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:30 Fri, sun-Wed 2:20, 4:45 sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:45

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The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 hiT & Run (14A) Fri, Sun 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 hope spRings (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 2:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45 Sat 12:20, 2:45 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sun 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri, Sun 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 singin’ in The Rain Sun 1:00 Ted (14A) Thu 10:00 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:55

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

The appaRiTion (PG) Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Sat 11:40, 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:55, 6:05, 8:15, 10:25 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 2:45, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:40, 10:15 FriWed 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:40 Sat 4:55 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 FriSun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:50, 10:20 hiT & Run (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 hope spRings (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:45 Fri, SunWed 1:40 Sat 12:00, 2:25 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 1:45 Fri, Sun 12:50 Sat 12:15 Mon-Wed 1:00 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri, Sun 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri, Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 spaRkle (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, SunWed 7:10, 10:00 Sat 7:20, 10:10

Scarborough

10:10 Sat 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 spaRkle (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:25, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Ted (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 1:15, 4:00, 9:45 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu-Tue 12:50, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05

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

The aMazing spideR-Man (PG) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 The appaRiTion (PG) Fri, Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Mon, Wed 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 4:15, 6:45, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Fri, Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 bRave (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:05 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, Tue 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:45, 9:50, 10:25 Fri-Tue 2:45, 6:45, 9:20, 10:20 Wed 2:40, 6:40, 10:15 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Sun 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon, Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 ek Tha TigeR (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 1:45, 2:30, 4:25, 5:10, 7:05, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, Tue 1:40, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:00, 8:05, 9:40, 10:40 Sat 12:15, 1:40, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:00, 8:05, 9:40, 10:45 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 hiT & Run (14A) Fri, Tue 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 hope spRings (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:55, 4:20, 6:45 Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:20, 6:45 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 laWless (14A) Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 MadagascaR 3: euRope’s MosT WanTed (G) Thu 1:30 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu 1:40 4:15 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 11:10 mat The oogieloves in The big balloon advenTuRe (G) Wed 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 2:15 Fri, Tue 2:40 Sat 11:00, 12:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:30 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Mon 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri, Tue 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Mon 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 singin’ in The Rain Sun 1:00 spaRkle (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Tue 6:50, 9:45 Wed 10:10

401 & MorningSide (Ce)

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC)

785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

The aMazing spideR-Man 3d (PG) Thu 10:30 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 1:45 4:00 6:10 8:25 10:45 FriWed 1:45, 4:00, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 3:00 6:50 10:20 FriWed 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Tue 3:30, 8:20 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 12:45 3:10 5:35 8:05 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 hiT & Run (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 hope spRings (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 10:25 Wed 10:25 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 1:15 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 3:45 6:00 8:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:00, 10:40 laWless (14A) Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu 2:00 4:30 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 The oogieloves in The big balloon advenTuRe (G) Wed 1:15, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 12:45 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu 2:50 5:10 7:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 spaRkle (PG) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00

18 vayasu 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat The aMazing spideR-Man (PG) 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat The besT exoTic MaRigold hoTel (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat billa 2 (18A) Thu 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 bRave (PG) 3:20, 5:45, 8:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:00 mat The caMpaign (14A) 2:30, 3:40, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:00, 12:20, 1:15 mat devudu chesina Manushulu Thu 3:20, 6:45, 10:00 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat ek Tha TigeR (14A) 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat hiT & Run (14A) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat hope spRings (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 JisM 2 (14A) Thu-Tue 3:30, 10:20 kaRnan 6:45 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat Magic Mike (14A) 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat MaRvel’s The avengeRs (PG) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat MoonRise kingdoM (PG) 5:00, 7:20 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) 1:30, 2:45, 4:00, 5:15, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:45, 11:45 mat The oogieloves in The big balloon advenTuRe (G) Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:25, 8:50 painTed skin: The ResuRRecTion 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:40 mat people like us (14A) Thu 2:20, 7:30 Ruby spaRks (14A) 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat savages (18A) 2:00, 9:40 shiRin faRhad ki Toh nikal padi 3:20, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat

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

The aMazing spideR-Man (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 10:30 The appaRiTion (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Mon, Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 12:45, 12:55, 3:45, 4:00, 6:55, 7:10, 10:00, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 caRMen in 3d encoRe Wed 6:00 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:45, 10:25 Fri-Tue 3:10, 6:45, 9:10, 10:25 Wed 3:10, 6:45, 9:55, 10:25 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:10, 4:15, 5:10, 7:15, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:55, 1:10, 3:20, 4:15, 5:45, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 12:55, 1:50, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40 Mon, Wed 1:10, 1:40, 4:15, 4:30, 7:20, 7:25, 10:00, 10:05 The healing Thu 1:00 3:50 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Tue 1:25 Wed 6:55 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 3:55, 6:30 Sat 1:25, 3:55, 6:30 Wed 12:50, 3:20 laWless (14A) Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45 Sat 12:00 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:45,

To RoMe WiTh love (PG) 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat The WaTch (18A) Thu 5:00, 10:10

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

18 vayasu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30 mat billa 2 (18A) Thu 4:30 ek Tha TigeR (14A) Thu 3:30 5:00 7:00 9:00 10:30 FriWed 3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 9:00, 10:30 Sat 2:15 mat MiRaTTal Thu 7:30, 10:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

The aMazing spideR-Man 3d (PG) Thu-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Wed 2:30, 10:10 The appaRiTion (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:45, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:30, 3:35, 4:35, 6:40, 7:35, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 9:55, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:00, 10:05 Tue 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 9:00, 10:40 bRave (PG) 1:45 bRave 3d (PG) 4:15, 6:30, 8:50 caRMen in 3d encoRe Wed 6:00 The daRk knighT Rises: The iMax expeRience (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) 2:30, 6:10, 9:45 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 12:45, 2:20, 3:10, 4:45, 5:35, 7:15, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:50, 2:20, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 2:20, 3:15, 4:45, 5:40, 7:15, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:20, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50 hiT & Run (14A) Fri-Sat, Tue 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:40 Tue 1:50, 4:10, 6:40 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu-Sun, Tue 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Mon, Wed 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 singin’ in The Rain Sun 1:00 spaRkle (PG) Thu-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 sTep up RevoluTion (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00

CourTney Park 16 (Ce)

110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 416-335-5323 The aMazing spideR-Man 3d (PG) Thu 6:10, 9:40 FriSun 3:00, 6:50, 9:55 Mon 6:45, 9:55 Tue 3:35, 6:50, 9:55 The appaRiTion (PG) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Tue 1:50, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:55 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:25, 10:10, 10:30 Fri 12:35, 3:35, 7:00, 7:40, 10:10, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:35, 7:00, 7:40, 10:10, 10:45 Mon 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 7:25, 10:10, 10:30 Tue 1:00, 3:50, 7:05, 7:40, 10:10, 10:45 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35, 10:10 bRave (PG) Thu 3:00 Fri 12:30 Sat-Sun 11:45 Mon 3:10 Tue 1:05 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 3:10, 4:55, 5:35, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:05 The daRk knighT Rises: The iMax expeRience (PG) Thu 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 MonWed 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 Fri, Tue 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 2:40, 6:30, 10:00 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 1:40, 4:05, 6:30 Fri 1:30, 4:30 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:40, 4:30 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:10 Tue 1:35, 4:30 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:15, 4:45, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 12:45, 2:00, 3:15, 4:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:00, 3:15, 4:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Mon 2:00, 3:20, 4:35, 6:35, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Tue 1:25, 2:00, 3:55, 4:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Wed 2:00, 3:20, 4:35, 6:40, 7:40, 9:25, 10:15 hiT & Run (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Tue 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 hope spRings (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 Fri 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Tue 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:35 Fri, Tue

2:20, 5:00 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:20, 5:00 Mon 2:20, 4:45 laWless (14A) Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:45, 10:30 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu 1:05, 3:35, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 The oogieloves in The big balloon advenTuRe (G) Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:25 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 3:25 Fri 12:55 Sat-Sun 12:50 Mon, Wed 1:05 Tue 3:20 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu, Tue 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sun 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Mon 3:30, 6:15, 9:10 Wed 3:30, 6:10, 9:10 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:30 spaRkle (PG) Thu 2:50, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Ted (14A) Thu 6:55, 9:50 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 7:25, 10:20 Mon, Wed 7:30, 10:20 Tue 7:15, 10:30 The WaTch (18A) Thu 9:00

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

The appaRiTion (PG) Fri 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 bRave (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri 2:00 Sat-Sun 1:15 Mon-Wed 1:30 bRave 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:55, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 hope spRings (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:40, 4:25, 5:15, 7:05, 7:45, 9:25, 10:10 Fri 2:20, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Sat 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 2:30 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 1:35, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 MadagascaR 3: euRope’s MosT WanTed (G) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:55 Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:20 Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:05 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:45, 7:05 Magic Mike (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 1:50 Sat 1:00 Sun 1:55 Mon-Wed 2:05 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri 1:10, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 To RoMe WiTh love (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 MonWed 1:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 1:55, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 The WaTch (18A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Sat 9:45 Sun-Wed 9:20

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

The aMazing spideR-Man 3d (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 bRave (PG) Thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 1:30 bRave 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:10, 3:05, 4:35, 5:25, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:55, 2:10, 3:05, 4:35, 5:25, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:10, 2:10, 3:05, 4:35, 5:25, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55 The daRk knighT Rises: The iMax expeRience (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 12:40, 2:00, 3:10, 4:45, 5:40, 7:20, 8:05, 9:55, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:40, 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 7:00, 8:05, 9:45, 10:30 Sat 11:15, 12:40, 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 7:00, 8:05, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 7:00, 8:05, 9:45, 10:30 hope spRings (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:05, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri, Sun 12:35 Sat 12:15 Mon-Wed 2:55 ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 laWless (14A) Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 MadagascaR 3: euRope’s MosT WanTed (G) Thu 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 nighT aT The MuseuM (G) Sat 11:00 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 1:55 4:15 6:35 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:10, 6:35, 9:15 Sat 11:35 mat paRanoRMan 3d (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed

3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 spaRkle (PG) Thu 1:50 4:30 7:25 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 sTep up RevoluTion (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Ted (14A) Thu 1:45 4:40 7:35 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 The WaTch (18A) Thu 2:15 4:50 7:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15

inTerChange 30 (aMC)

30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 The appaRiTion (PG) Fri 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 The besT exoTic MaRigold hoTel (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45 Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:45 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 7:45 Fri 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 4:30, 5:15, 7:00 Fri 4:45, 7:00 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 4:45 Mon-Tue 4:45 ek Tha TigeR (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:10 Fri 6:15, 9:30 Sat 2:45, 6:15, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:25 hiT & Run (14A) Fri 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:30 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 The hungeR gaMes (14A) Thu 4:35 Magic Mike (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00 Fri 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00 MaRvel’s The avengeRs (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 7:25 Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun 7:00 Men in black 3 (PG) Thu 7:40 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00 Fri 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00 The oogieloves in The big balloon advenTuRe (G) Wed 4:45, 7:45 savages (18A) Thu 7:35 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:35 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30

rainboW ProMenade (i)

ProMenade Mall, hWy 7 & baThurST, 416-494-9371 The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 The caMpaign (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Tue 7:20, 9:20 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) 12:45, 3:00, 5:10 Thu 7:15, 9:15 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:00 9:30 FriWed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 hope spRings (14A) 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 laWless (14A) Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 paRanoRMal acTiviTy 4 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:05, 9:10 paRanoRMan (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:10 pReMiuM Rush (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15

West grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

The bouRne legacy (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 The caMpaign (14A) 5:35, 7:50, 10:00 Sat 1:05, 3:05 mat Sun 1:05, 3:20 mat cRooked aRRoWs Sat 11:00 The daRk knighT Rises (PG) Thu 4:30, 8:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:15, 9:50 Sat 11:15, 2:45, 6:15, 9:50 Sun 2:30, 6:35, 10:10 diaRy of a WiMpy kid: dog days (G) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 The expendables 2 (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, MonWed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 hiT & Run (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 hope spRings (14A) 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 1:50 mat Sun 1:30 mat ice age: conTinenTal dRifT (PG) 4:45 Sat 11:45, 2:20 mat Sun 2:20 mat ice age: conTinenTal dRifT 3d (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:10 The odd life of TiMoThy gReen (G) 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 1:40 mat Sun 1:35 mat paRanoRMan (PG) Sat 11:55 Sun 2:35 paRanoRMan 3d (PG) 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Sat 2:10 mat pReMiuM Rush (14A) 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10 mat Ted (14A) Thu 9:40 ToTal Recall (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat, MonWed 7:05, 9:45 Sun 7:30, 10:15 3

NOW august 23-29 2012

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

How to find a listing

Snap doesn’t crackle or pop

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SNAP (Carmel Winters) Rating: NN Gimmicky Irish psychodrama Snap features a ferocious performance

by Aisling O’Sullivan, but not much else.

O’Sullivan, who’s probably best known here for her roles in Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy and Tim Roth’s The War Zone, is utterly convincing as Sandra, a single mother we first encounter as she’s being interviewed about a terrible crime for which she’s still being persecuted three years later.

Smoking, cursing and glaring balefully into the lens, Sandra is little more than an exposed nerve, and O’Sullivan makes the prickly, confrontational character mesmerizing and enigmatic.

But just as Snap seems ready to go somewhere interesting, writer/ director Carmel Winters starts to undermine her own movie, abandoning her found footage to jump back in time and fill in the details of the aforementioned

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

How to place a listing

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

Cinemas BLOOR hOt dOCs Cinema

506 BLOOR W. 416-637-3123. BLOORCinema.COm

thu 23 – This Space Available (2011) D:

Gwenaëlle Gobé. 6:45 pm. Searching For Sugar Man (2012) D: Malik Bendjelloul. 9:15 pm.

Fri 24 – Hell And Back Again (2011) D: Danfung Dennis. 4 & 9 pm. Darwin (2011) D: Nick Brandestini. 6:45 pm. sat 25 – Coast Modern (2011) D: Mike Bernard and Gavin Froome. 1 pm.

Hearts And Minds (1974) D: Peter Davis.

3:30 pm. Hell And Back Again. 6:30 pm. Darwin. 9 pm. Rush–Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010) D: Sam Dunn and Scott McFadyen.

11:15 pm. suN 26 – Hearts And Minds. 1 pm. Full Metal Jacket (1987) D: Stanley Kubrick. 3:45 pm.

Hell And Back Again. 6:30 pm. Darwin. 9 pm.

MoN 27 – Hell And Back Again. 6:30 pm. Full Metal Jacket. 9 pm. tue 28 – Hell And Back Again. 6:45 pm. Darwin. 9:15 pm. wed 29 – All Balls Don’t Bounce Film Series: Knuckleball (2012) D: Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg. Q&A with director to follow. 6:30 pm. $13. Coast Modern. 9:30 pm.

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CameRa BaR

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. CameRaBaR.Ca

sat 25 – Before Sunrise (1995) D: Richard Linklater. 3 pm. Free.

CinematheQue tiff BeLL LightBOx

Reitman sQuaRe, 350 king W. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net

thu 23 – Tout Est Pardonné (2007) D: Mia Hansen-Løve. Director in attendñ ance. 6:30 pm.

Fri 24 – The Father Of My Children (2009) D: Mia Hansen-Løve. Director in ñ attendance. 6:15 pm. Un Enfant Dans La Foule (1976) D: Gérard Blain. 9 pm.

sat 25 – Summer In France: Van Gogh (1991)

D: Maurice Pialat. 1 pm. Goodbye First Love (2011) D: Mia Hansen-Løve. Director in attendance. 5 pm. Beefcake: The Running Man (1987) D: Paul Michael Glaser. 8 pm. suN 26 – Hollywood Classics: Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) D: Charles Vidor. 1 pm.

Summer In France: Le Rayon Vert (1986) D: Eric Rohmer. 4 pm. Summer In France: The Mother And The Whore (1973) D: Jean Eusache. 7 pm. wed 29 – Summer In France: Eyes Without A Face (1960) D: Georges Franju. 6:30 pm.

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fOx theatRe

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. fOxtheatRe.Ca

thu 23 – The Intouchables (2011) D: Oliver

Nakache and Eric Toledano. 7 pm. Take This Waltz (2012) D: Sarah Polley. 9:15 pm.

Fri 24 – Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012)

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D: Benh Zeitlin. 7 pm. The Amazing Spiderman 3D (2012) D: Marc Webb. 9 pm. sat 25-suN 26 – The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 1:30 & 9 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

4:15 & 7 pm.

MoN 27-tue 28 – Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 7 pm. The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 9 pm. wed 29 – The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 1:30 pm. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 7 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild.

9 pm.

gRaham sPRY theatRe

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

thu 23-wed 29 – Continuous screenings

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 23-Fri 24 – Antarctic Mission: The Great Ocean Of Ice. MoN 27-wed 29 – Antarctic Mission: The Last Continent.

natiOnaL fiLm BOaRd 150 JOhn. 416-973-3012. nfB.Ca/mediatheQue

thu 23-wed 29 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. sat 25 – WILDsound presents a free festival of short films from the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Russia, Canada and the U.S. 7 pm. RSVP wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html.

OntaRiO sCienCe CentRe

770 dOn miLLs. 416-696-3127.

OntaRiOsCienCeCentRe.Ca

thu 23-Fri 29 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 2 & 4 pm. sat 25 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3, 5 & 8 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 2 & 4 pm. suN 26-wed 29 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 1, 3 & 5 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon.

Under The Sea. 2 & 4 pm.

Stephen Moran sees things from a different perspective in Snap.

crime – which, we quickly learn, started when Sandra’s teenage son Stephen (Stephen Moran) impulsively abducted a toddler in a public park.

From there, Winters proceeds to neuter every aspect of the story she’s set up, to the point where what we’re shown at the outset doesn’t even make sense by the time the movie ends. She repeatedly dangles

awful possibilities in front of us before retreating to safer ground, unwilling to follow through on any of them.

No wonder O’Sullivan seems so furious; on some level she must have known that for all her raging, this wouldn’t amount to anything at all.

Opens Friday (August 24) at the NorMaN wilNer Projection Booth.

the PROJeCtiOn BOOth

sat 25 – Ice Age Continental Drift 3D (2012)

1035 geRRaRd e. 416-466-3636, PROJeCtiOnBOOth.Ca.

thu 23 – Moloch Tropical (2009) D: Raoul

Peck. 8 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 10 pm.

Fri 24 – Snap (2010) D: Carmel Winters. 8 pm. sat 25 – Snap. 2 pm. Urban Movie Series. 7 pm. suN 26 – Craigslist Joe (2012) D: Joseph Garner. 5:30 pm. Snap. 8 pm.

MoN 27-wed 29 – Call/check website for schedule.

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

thu 23 – O Fantasma (2000) D: João Pedro

Rodrigues. 9 pm. Nights In Black Leather (1973) D: Richard Abel. 11 pm. sat 25 – 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-and-white porn (1915 to 1950) set to the music of Pink Floyd. 11 pm. suN 26 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A & OK Computer. 7 pm.

MoN 27 – Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. tue 28 – 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 29 – Intolerance (1916) D: DW Griffith, with music of Philip Glass and Jean Sibellius.

7 pm.

Revue Cinema

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

thu 23 – The Robert Testa Magic Show. 7

pm. $20. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) D: Colin Trevorrow. 9:30 pm.

Fri 24 – Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) D: Benh Zeitlin. 7 pm. Magic Mike (2012) D: Steven Soderbergh. 9 pm.

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D: Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier. 2 pm.

Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 4 & 7 pm.

Magic Mike. 9 pm. suN 26 – Ice Age Continental Drift 3D. 2 pm.

Magic Mike. 4 & 9 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 7 pm.

MoN 27 – Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 7 pm. Magic Mike. 9 pm. tue 28 – Magic Mike. 7 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 9:15 pm. wed 29 – Magic Mike. 1 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild. 7 pm. The Intouchables (2011) D: Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano.

9 pm.

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the ROYaL 608 COLLege. 416-534-5252. theROYaL.tO

thu 23 – Woody Allen X 2: Midnight In Paris (2011). 7 pm. To Rome With Love (2012). 9 pm.

Fri 24-wed 29 – Check website for schedule.

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

thu 23-wed 29 – Closed for renovations.

OtheR fiLms thu 23-wed 29 – The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 23-wed 29 – 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 23 – Open Roof Festival Outdoor Film And Music Series presents Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) D: Benh Zeitlin. 7:30 pm. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com.

Patagonia and the Drake Hotel presents the bodysurfing film Come Hell Or High Water

(2011) D: Keith Malloy. 7 pm. Free. 1150 Queen W. RSVP to 416-861-1102 or visit facebook.com/patagoniatoronto.

On Screen Movie Nights presents an outdoor screening of Happyfeet Two (2011) D: George Miller. 8 pm. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre, Mississauga. mississaugacelebrationsquare.ca.

The Japan Foundation’s Japanese Craft Documentary Festival presents a screening of films about Japanese Craftsmen With A Difference: Izumi Ando, Metal Sculptor (6 pm) and Shingo Kojima, Cabinet Maker (6:30 pm).

Free. Doors open 15 min before screening.

131 Bloor W, 2nd floor. jftor.org.

The City of Toronto and Councillor James Pasternak present a free family fun outdoor movie night with a screening of The Lorax (2012) D: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. 8 pm.

Free. Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre, Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst. jamespasternak.ca.

Fri 24 – The Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate General of Italy present Opera In The Garden: The Barber Of Seville/Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (1973) D: Ernst Wild and JeanPierre Ponnelle. Gates at 7 pm, screening at sunset (approx 9 pm). Free. 136 Beverley St. iictoronto.esteri.it. sat 25 – The Italian Cultural Institute presents Italian Cinema Under The Stars: Scialla!/Small (2011) D: Francesco Bruni.

English s-t. Gates at 8 pm, screening at sunset (approx 9:30 pm). Free. 136 Beverley St. iictoronto.esteri.it. sat 25-suN 26 – Harbourfront Centre presents films as part of TAIWANfest. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Sat: Sing It! 1 pm. Bird Without Borders.

3:30 pm. Baseball Boys. 6 pm. Tracing The River To Its Source, and Song Of The Forest.

8:30 pm.

Sun: Yes! Taiwan’s Night Market. 2 pm.

Classmates. 4 pm. suN 26 – Family Movie Nights Under The Stars presents a screening of The Adventures Of Tintin (2011) D: Steven Spielberg. 8 pm. Free. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, Woodward between Queen and Eastern, west of Coxwell. councillormcmahon.com.

MoN 27 – Toronto Film Society Another British Invasion screening series presents The Blue Lamp (1950) D: Basil Dearden, and Tiger Bay (1950) D: J Lee Thompson. 7:30 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontofilmsociety.com.

Movie Mondays At Brassaii presents an outdoor screening of a film selected through voting on social media. 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.

The Trans Film Screening Series presents Regretters (2010) D: Marcus Lindeen. 6 pm.

Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. transfilmseries@gmail.com.

Lo-Fi Sci-Fi 48-Hour Film Challenge presents its first ever screening of short films made by participants. 7 pm. Pwyc. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. 48.lofiscifi.com.

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DOC Toronto’s Community Connections free screening series presents El Contrato (2003) D: Min Sook Lee. Director in attendance. Panel discussion about the struggles of Latin American migrant farm workers in southern Ontario. 7 pm. Evergreen Brick Works, Atrium, 550 Bayview. 416-599-3844, doctoronto.org. wed 29 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks: Movies Under The Stars presents an outdoor screening of a film selected by the audience as voters’ choice (Karate Kid, Rocky, Rudy or Billy Elliot). At approximately 8:50 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: It Happened One Night (1934) D: Frank Capra. 8:30 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. torontoed.com.

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In the mid-90s, mortician’s assistant Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) is the most popular man in a small East Texas town, despite being a little odd.

He develops a friendship with Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), a rich, mean-spirited widow. The crime that follows isn’t particularly surprising, but the town’s reaction is.

Director Richard Linklater calls the film a comedy, and this accounts for at least some of Black’s performance, though the actor turns in some credible emotion later in the movie. But Linklater also casts numerous nonactor locals from the town where the story happened, and interviews them extensively. They have such a forthright air that even a wry grin seems like the wrong response to them.

The extras clarify the movie’s relationship to the real case and give the locals time to make their various presences felt, providing the film with a weight it would otherwise lack.

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Elizabeth Banks (left) lets Jennifer Lawrence say a few words in The Hunger Games.

Payback (Mongrel,

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Donald Sutherland.

The sequel, Catching Fire, arrives in November 2013. While you’re waiting, check out Battle Royale, a much more savage approach to the same idea.

The highlight of the extras disc is a doc called Letters From The Rose Garden, which features Sutherland reading his three-page letter to Ross on character and themes and Ross’s response. I’ve never seen a better

look inside an actor’s mind.

The making-of doc runs two hours and goes into detail on everything from acquiring the book rights to opening night and subsequent grosses. This lets Ross expound in detail on everything from his philosophy of filmmaking to the reasons behind specific choices.

EXTRAS Making-of doc, five additional docs, more. English, French audio and subtitles.

sively obnoxious moron on ordinary citizens with better things to do, star Sacha Baron Cohen plays opposite professional actors who can feed him the straight lines and provide the reactions that sell the gags.

Baron plays Admiral General Alladeen, a Saddam Hussein/Muammar Gaddafi-like North African dictator with a weapons-grade uranium program. This leads him to the United Nations and a failed assassination attempt. Adrift in New York City, he falls in love with a committed antiAladeenist and scrambles to regain his position.

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deen’s murderous idiocy, non-stop insults and gross-out gags, all calculated to shock and some of them very funny.

Ben Kingsley does a perpetual slow burn as Aladeen’s adviser and wouldbe assassin, and Jason Mantzoukas’s muted delivery makes his barbs even funnier, but Anna Faris as the love interest is underused, her always hilarious space case persona dialed way back.

There’s more comedy in the extended version, which runs 98 minutes compared to the theatrical cut’s 83, but you pay the price with a saggier movie.

EXTRAS Theatrical and uncut versions, Larry King interviews Aladeen, music video, deleted and extended scenes. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

Director Jennifer Baichwal takes a few of the philosophical musings set down in Margaret Atwood’s non-fiction Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth, reduces them to a sentence or two and then uses them to set up a quartet of unrelated stories: a blood feud in Albania, the Gulf oil spill, a burglar in prison, and migrant farm workers striving for a better deal in Florida. In between, notables like former Supreme Court judge Louise Arbour offer brief remarks.

There are fine moments in the stories, notably the contrast between the burglar’s genuine remorse and Conrad Black’s absolute absence of same, but overall they lack detail and do little to explain the concept of debt.

The extras give a better taste of Atwood’s ideas, and renowned primatologist Jane Goodall offers words of hope. There’s also an illuminating scene where primatologist Frans de Waal walks Atwood through a fairness experiment involving a pair of chimpanzees.

EXTRAS Deleted scenes. English audio.

French subtitles.

ON DEMAND THIS WEEK ON ROGERS The Lorax (2012) A Doctor Seuss tale animated for small children.

ON BELL Chimpanzee (2012) Nature doc about a young chimpanzee separated from his troop in the wild.

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By Dan Savage

Exes connect? Be cool I am a college-age gay male. last

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He broke up with me, and it hurt as much as breakups do, but I got over it.

A few months later I dated another guy – let’s call him Paul – for a month. I really liked him, but he broke up with me, too. Then I found out that two days after breaking up with me, Paul started going out with Mitt. They knew I’d dated each of them. It was the end of the school year and I quickly left for vacation. The school year starts back up soon, and I’m still pissed and hurt that they are dating. Do I have a right to be?

Should I just get over myself? Should I just do my best to avoid them?

Exes Became A Couple Avoid them for now, EBAC, and get over yourself.

Gays and lesbians are about 2 to 5 per cent of the population. I’m afraid that arithmetic precludes us from hewing to the “bro code” – at least where dating friends-of-exes, exes-of-friends or exesof-exes are concerned. We simply don’t have the luxury of being as rigid about this shit as straight people do. The pickings for us are just too slim.

But you have a right to your feelings, EBAC, and you should go ahead and feel the shit out of your pissed-and-hurt feelings. Two guys dated you, both dumped you, and now they’re dating each other. That’s gotta sting. So avoid

your exes for now – why salt your wounds by hanging out with them? – but resist the urge to go to war with them. Don’t trash them on Facebook, don’t force your friends to choose sides.

Smile and nod when you see them on campus, chat politely if you’re thrown together at parties, and just generally accept their relationship with as much good grace as you can muster.

Remember: The odds that these guys will be together forever are pretty slim.

I’m not suggesting that their moreprobable-than-not breakup should delight you, EBAC, only that you might not want to burn bridges, because – college being college, gay men being gay men – you could wind up dating one or the other or both of these guys again. Or, more likely, you might want to be friends with one or the other or both of them once your hurt has burned off.

And finally, EBAC, ask yourself what you want these guys saying to mutual friends – some of whom might be gay, some of whom might be into you – if they’re asked about you. Do you want them to say you revealed yourself to be an angry and vindictive psycho when they got together? Or do you want them to say that although you were obviously hurt when they got together, you were gracious about it, and that while you weren’t the right guy for either of them, you’re a good guy and the right guy for somebody?

Stop servicing selfish ex I’m a 26-year-old queer woman. I’m

about to visit a friend who used to be my boyfriend and who has been my lover when we’ve visited each other since. Sex with him is fun for me, but it’s been life-changing for him. I’m the first person he has ever shared his kinks with: age regression/diapers/submission. He’s been ashamed of his kinks for most of his life, and I’ve been completely accepting and have helped him to get over his sense of shame. Playing this role in my friend’s life is fun, sexy and meaningful for me. My own tastes, though, are more vanilla. Some of the things that would be most satisfying to

me – cunnilingus, his being a little dominant sometimes, and, honestly, French kissing – have been absent from our sex. He says he wants to do for me whatever I want, and I’ve told him what I want as clearly as I just told you.

But he seems to have some kind of a block about actually doing those things. I’ve tried to be very positive about oral sex and not put pressure on my friend, but rather let him know how hot it is for me and how fantastic it makes me feel. But so far he just won’t do it. I’ve also let him know that I really enjoy kissing with tongue and that it’s pretty much the most arousing thing for me in the world. But he’s done very little of that, too. He’s aware of the inequality in what we’ve done for each other and acknowledges that it’s unfair that he’s “gotten away with it.” Help!

She Misses Tongue While I was on vacation last week, sex writer, activist and feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino filled in for me.

Writing the Savage Love Letter Of The Day in my absence, Tristan gave some advice to a woman in a similar situation (kinky partner being treated to first fantasy-fulfilment experiences neglecting needs of indulgent vanilla partner): “Your boyfriend has finally been able to reveal his desires and fantasies to you,” Tristan wrote. “That’s a big deal, and when it happens, many people can go through a phase of being selfish and self-centred.”

I agree with Tristan, but I would go a bit further: Your friend – your selfish, thoughtless friend – is taking advantage of you, SMT, and as he knows you well enough to sense that meeting his needs is “fun, sexy, and meaningful” for you, he figures he can keep getting away with it.

Right now, your relationship isn’t characterized by a healthy give-and-take of pleasure. You’re servicing your ex – or, to put it more charitably, you’re doing your ex a favour. The question for you, SMT, is how long you intend to go on doing him this particular favour. If the pleasure you’re taking in helping him realize his fantasies is enough, then perhaps you should keep doing him fa-

vours. But would you be writing to me about this situation if it were enough?

Keep browser private early In august, a gentleman who

signed himself WHACK wrote to you inquiring whether he should clear his browser history to keep his porn viewing from becoming known to his antiporn wife, as the wife had noticed an empty browser history and gotten suspicious. Browser clearing is an option, of course, but most browsers also have an option that allows users to browse anonymously, Dan, without retaining any history, cookies, passwords, etc.

Google Chrome calls it “Incognito,” Safari and Firefox call it “Private Browsing,” Internet Explorer calls it “InPrivate Browsing.” Turn it on before entering NSFW sites and turn if off after leaving such sites and you can build up an innocent-looking browser history without anyone seeing anything that might displease them.

Fanatic About Privacy Thank you, FAP, for writing in – and thanks to the millions of other harried husbands who wrote in to share the good news about private browsing features with WHACK. To those who accused me of sex-advice malpractice for failing to mention private browsing features in my response to WHACK: I didn’t know they existed, and for that I blame my husband. If my spouse were a smut-shaming scold who hated porn – if he were more like WHACK’s spouse – I would’ve discovered the private browsing features years ago.

To my readers: The deadline for HUMP! – my annual amateur porn contest – is just six weeks away! Details about entering HUMP!, and about the prizes (grand prize is $5,000!), can be found at humpseattle.com.

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