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Metro Convention Centre.

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RioT FeST The talent-stacked punk rock festival takes over Fort York. Gates at noon, $39.50. RT, SS, TM. riotfest.org.

band kicks off two nights at the Danforth Music Hall. 7 pm, all ages, $25-$35. RT, SS, TM. +vS vS vS MoveS in The 9-member collective make Art Metropole’s window their home in a savvy installation, to Sep 22. 416-703-4400.

jam band brings its worldbeat-influenced sound to Lee’s Palace. 8 pm, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. no GReaT MiSChieF The Tarragon kicks off its season with a revival of David S Young’s adaptation of the Alistair MacLeod novel. In previews (opens Sep 19). 8 pm. $21-$53.

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Madonna Madge brings her big-production live show to the Air Canada Centre for a two-night stand. $62.75-$374.

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David Berlin talks about his book The Moral Lives Of Israelis: Reinventing The Dream State. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun. beitzatou.org. kiSS, MoTley CRue It’s a glam rock double bill at the Molson Amphitheatre. 5:30 pm, $26.50-$120.50. TM.

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Gaia Photo exhibit tracing Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté’s experience aboard the International Space Station continues until Sep 3. Free.

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While I applaud [Ben Spurr’s] overview, forgive me for voicing deep skepticism about the province’s latest inquest into the police shooting deaths of mentally ill people (NOW, August 23-29). We live in a police culture of “shoot first, then refuse to answer questions later.”

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I enjoyed Enzo DiMatteo on Yonge’s Timid Celebration (NOW, August 2329). Unfortunately, enhancing the pedestrian experience in this city is going to be a real challenge. I live on Jarvis between Earl and Wellesley.

There’s non-stop traffic day and night, not to mention the speeding. You can’t have a window open for more than five minutes. I sleep with earplugs. On Saturday night, the air stank. Whatever bit of traffic not flowing down Yonge because of the month-long Celebrate Yonge has now been diverted to Jarvis.

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Benefits of school debt The majority of Ontario students simply don’t want a Quebec-style strike (NOW, August 23-29), and hopefully student representatives in Ontario won’t ignore that majority as leaders in Quebec did. A debt of $26,000 seems large only when devoid of context. That amount can buy a poorly

Regarding your Barometer item Ending An Occupation (NOW, August 2329). Israel’s communities in Judea and Samaria are not “illegal.” In fact, under any set of laws and according to all non-anti-Semitic declarations (here I am excluding such “truth seekers” as Iran, Syria and your un-newspaper), these long-standing, well-established communities and neighbourhoods are very much legal.

It’s really easy to spout the leftist line. It’s a lot harder to get your facts right. You do readers a disservice and embolden hate-mongers such as the minority cabal that pushed through their hateful resolution to boycott Israel at the United Church’s council.

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So many cyclists here are clearly enthusiastic about creating a cyclingfriendly city. And yet your cycling community needs to have great determination, especially considering the opposition it faces.

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I’ve also read of a local politician who wants to ban cyclists from a street following a tragic and unnecessary death involving streetcar tracks, and – on your own letters page – the view of one resident who suggests that as no drivers are convicted when cyclists are killed, the cyclists must be at fault (NOW, August 23-29). Barmy!

Despite these negative attitudes, I’m confident Toronto will become a cycle-friendly city. It’s clear these callous voices that shrug unconcernedly when a cyclist is hurt or killed are in a shrinking minority.

From an Englishman cycling this fantastic country: Good luck, Toronto!

Patrick Chester Toronto

Rogers tech difficulties Why does Rogers make phone and cable users sign elaborate multi-year contracts but refuse to guarantee a full day’s work to those who install its products?

Over the past few years, Rogers has contracted out thousands of technician jobs in a bid to drive down wages and working conditions. Paid on a piece-work basis, installers have limited seniority rights, receive no overtime and are not guaranteed work.

Sometimes they sit for a full day with almost no work.

Imagine if Rogers allowed consumers the same terms. Cable subscribers could decide on an hourly basis if they wanted to use (and pay for) their TV services.

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His speech to the CAW last week wasn’t the first time he’d raised the issue. Last year at the Empire Club he urged assembled business leaders to invest their surpluses. After cutting corporate tax rates, finance ministers Jim Flaherty and Dwight Duncan also voiced their frustration with Can­ adian business for investing too little in the economy.

It’s important to recognize that this half a trillion didn’t just fall from the sky into corporate coffers, but was the result of slow wage growth, high pro­ fits, corporate tax cuts, rising house prices and slow rates of business cap­ ital investment The flip side of the growth of un­ precedented corporate surpluses and the resulting growing cash hoards is record rates of household indebted­ ness – a major threat to our economy.

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that’s unlikely to work either.

Turning over excess cash to share­ holders, as Carney urged companies to do if they won’t invest it in machinery and equipment, wouldn’t help much either. While pension funds might benefit, much of that money would go to the wealthiest in society and would only lead to less economic stimulus (as they’re less likely to spend).

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MR. FORD GOES TO COURT

SKYLINE KISS Councillor Mike Layton joined Brett Tryon, a coordinator with Environmental Defence, in holy matrimony on the Toronto Islands Saturday, August 25. Mazel tov.

This we gotta see. The mayor goes before a judge next week to respond to allegations that he knowingly violated the Municipal Conflict Of Interest Act by voting that he should not have to repay $3,150 donated by lobbyists (and solicited with City Hall stationery) to his football charity. Hizzoner wouldn’t be in this fix if he’d paid the measly sum, as the integrity commissioner ordered him to – like, six times.

GRANDSTANDING INSTEAD OF BARGAINING

Thousands of teachers showed up at Queen’s Park, Tuesday, August 28, to tear a strip off “education premier” Dalton McGuinty. The preem’s teacher wage freeze legislation (the Putting Students First Act), backed by the obliging Conservatives, is aimed at showing he can knock unions around as good as any neo-con. No matter that bargaining between the boards and elementary teachers hadn’t even begun in most areas, and that high school teachers were offering a two-year wage freeze. No fair negotiations here.

McGuinty’s too busy sucking up to Tory voters in the Vaughan and Kitchener-Waterloo by-elections. What’s a leader who puts democratic rights at risk for short-term gains? Disgusting.

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Looks like Bill C-38, the Conservative megabill, has nabbed its first victim: the Canadian Environmental Law Association and Sierra Club Canada have been forced to withdraw applications for judicial review of permits issued by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission that allow Bruce Power to export radioactive waste through the Great Lakes to Sweden. The Harperites’ new law means no enviro assessment is required for this type of project.

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Four cycling deaths in four weeks – a stunning indictment of current street planning. Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC) gathered at Bloor and Spadina with the iconic white bike on Tuesday, August 28, and bowed their heads for a moment’s silence to mourn an unnamed 18-year-old killed at Kingston Road and Lawrence.

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Is Ontario Canada’s Third World?

After 17 years of combined Lib/Tory rule, here we are with a new report from the Ontario Common Front, a coalition of labour and community orgs, entitled Falling Behind. The news isn’t pretty. Ontario has the country’s largest increase in income inequality, the second-highest increase in poverty rates and the poorest funding for public services.

Maybe the IMF will chip in?

THE YOKE’S ON US Overzealous bylaw officers, eat your hearts out. A new doc/mockumentary

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from the archives March 24,1983

Though Mary Margaret O’Hara has always been by far the most reclusive of the fabled O’Hara clan – she’s the sister of onetime club operator Marcus and comedy and movie star Catherine – we were able to sit down with the gifted singer when she fronted the Go Deo Chorus (page 7 of the issue). She’s since gone solo, releasing the iconic Miss America album in 1988, and today is involved in so many projects, including a collaboration with cellist Peggy Lee, it’s hard to keep up. She plays a gig at the Rochester alongside Lee and long-time collaborator Rusty McCarthy this week.

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CITYSCAPE

Women everywhere Code Pink protesters bring their vaginas... uh, we mean female genitalia costumes to the Republican Convention in Tampa to protest the neo-con war on abortion and other women’s rights.

Social housing tenants Toronto Community Housing launches an $11-million, two-year repair blitz, though truth be told it’ll cost $751 million to clear all outstanding work orders. Nice start, but years late.

The fight against dirty trains

The bluffs and Rouge Park give Scarborough majesty, but its the burb’s diversity that will shape Toronto’s future.

Junction Triangle Mothers Against Diesel hosts a potluck today (Thursday, August 30) at Perth Square Park, plus a group phone-in to the preem’s office expressing frustration that the province isn’t junking diesel on the Georgetown corridor.

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Walmart dissers Leslieville-Riverdale locals may have fought off a giant Walmart south of Eastern, but look what’s heading to nearby Gerrard Square. The Target takeover of Zellers was bad enough, but now we find Target gave leases to 39 outlets of cutthroatpricing Walmart.

Zoo creatures Rumours are afoot that the board of the Toronto Zoo, which receives $11 mil a year from the city, is pondering selling or leasing the facility to a private interest. With all the Marineland news, do we really want to chance that?

Reining in banks The Canadian Bankers Association tells the federal Department of Finance the banks don’t want the new external complaints body mandated by the feds investigating “systemic” problems – only individual customer grievances. Wonder what’s worrying ’em.

Burb on the edge Scarborough may have a rep problem, but it’s poised to become a leading cultural force

By ADAM GIAMBRONE

This summer’s gun violence again brought our former inner suburbs into the news as the alleged source of urban troubles. Once again, Scarborough got special mention.

But Scarborough, which represents a third of Toronto’s land mass, is a fascinating place and could, with a bit of help, become the most dynamic part of the city.

Not only is it the most diverse part of the most diverse metropolis in the world – two-thirds of its population is foreign-born – but it’s also expanding, amazingly, at twice the speed of the downtown core.

Today’s Scarborough is predominately the creation of its history: the last half-century of policies accentuated by recent population growth, aging neighbourhoods without sufficient reinvestment, and big reductions in programs because of budget cuts.

The region received its name courtesy of Elizabeth Simcoe, the wife of lieutenant governor John Graves Simcoe, in the late 18th century. It reminded her of the town of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, and the bluffs made her think of the cliffs near her home.

For much of the next 150 years, Scarborough likely resembled its namesake in both its ethnic makeup and its composition – a group of small, rural hamlets serving area farms.

You can still see glimpses of the old Scarborough, but you have to look carefully. Check out the Scarborough Historical Museum in Thomson Memorial Park, named for the family granted the land in 1798, whose descendants donated it to the city. It depicts life in the 1800s and Scarborough’s “rural roots, and two centuries of immigration.”

Scarborough’s marshlands and forests are among the few areas in southern Ontario that haven’t changed since the arrival of Europeans.

The Scarborough Archives at 6282 Kingston Road occupy the site of the recently restored W.J. Morrish General Store, constructed in 1891, which remarkably served the residents of Highland Creek until 1967.

The surge of immigration in the mid-1960s fired the rapid growth of what would become Toronto’s inner suburbs. That decade also saw the construction of large rental housing buildings, often in empty fields.

By the late 60s, new factories and the Don Valley Parkway connection to the 401 meant that Scarborough not only had good jobs but also a commuter car link to the downtown.

Along Kingston Road just north of Eglinton, a mid-century retail strip seeming frozen in time typifies postwar Scarborough.

Starting in the 1970s, the provincial and federal governments funded new public housing projects. Whereas former waves of immigrants early in the century had settled in Toronto’s core, in the 70s and 80s large numbers of new Canadians moved into the inner suburbs. But the borough, later the city of Scarborough, was slow to react to its growing population, as were other areas, and fell behind in needed social infrastructure like libraries and community centres. These weren’t built with the same dedication as they had been in the city’s core to serve earlier waves of immigrants.

Similarly, while the TTC implemented major bus expansion in the area in 1972, Scarborough’s urban planners encouraged a traditional suburban form: strip malls and car reliance. The pattern established after the war – large isolated towers in relatively low-density locations – was allowed to continue.

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Changing core beliefs

City needs to rethink its planting policy. Trees aren’t just good for the soul – they’re part of food security By WAYNE ROBERTS The drought that is parching the harvest in several of the world’s most productive breadbaskets is the summer’s hottest global food story – and chillingly accompanies the season’s hottest archaeological finding.

Archaeology, by the way, no longer relies on digging for pottery and bones in caves and valleys. It can also use computer-generated climate models, and one of these has allowed desk scientists to break one of the great historical mysteries of the Western hemisphere: the sudden collapse of the Mayan empire of Central America roughly 1,300 years ago.

Turns out, according to U.S. climate modeller Benjamin Cook, that chopping down the region’s forests to grow corn and burn lime to make cement-style blocks for temples caused a drought.

Once the region lost its dark forest canopy, which absorbed the sun’s heat, that heat bounced back into the atmosphere, evaporating the clouds that used to drop the rain needed for an empire entirely dependent on corn.

History seems to be repeating itself for the second of the Western hemisphere’s great empires entirely dependent on a food supply centred around corn and an energy system bent on deforestation.

But what I saw in Honduras last week confirms there is life after plantation-style fields of corn. It just takes a complete rethink of the idea that forests are about wilderness and fields are about food.

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Viewing trees as food sources adds value and puts a new spin, on Toronto’s poorly funded tree-planting programs.

preciation, which looks really old, comes from groups like T.O.’s Not Far from the Tree, which views trees not just as a way to relate to nature but as actual food security providers.

I saw evidence of the proposition that a tree can produce as much food as a small garden in the mountain ranges around Yorito, Honduras.

If Yorito, a two-hour drive north of the capital, gets on the tourist map for forest gardens, it will be the town’s first exposure to the wider world. The nearby mountain villages I visited are another two-hour lurching jeep drive over rib-crunching dirt and gravel roads. (Note to self: never berate high-quality country roads again.)

In Yorito I meet one of the town’s leading microentrepreneurs, Nelba Velasquez, who offers us and other visitors excellent meals in her living room restaurant, much of the food from her quarteracre forest garden.

The first thing I notice in that garden is that the temperature drops about 5 degrees, not just from the shade of the trees but also the from the evaporation of cool water from broadleaf trees. Here, in one overgrown parcel of land, is a beautiful and scrumptious answer to climate chaos, hunger and the chronic-disease pandemic created by deficiencies of micronutrients suffered by rich and poor alike.

Here is my count of what fits in her backyard besides a hammock, a clothesline, a baking oven for bread, a catchment basin for rainwater, two heaps of Japanese-style super-powered compost called bokachi, a woodpile, a raised-bed vegetable garden and a showroom for landscape plants: four avocado trees, two specimens of two different kinds of guava trees, a papaya tree, a mandarin orange and

a lemon tree, a tree bearing yellow Nanci berries for juice, a plum tree, 60 coffee plants, a tamarind and an allspice tree.

Did I almost forget to mention 10 varieties of banana?

The entire garden is organic and requires no ploughing, which keeps all the carbon stored by trees and in the soil intact, a powerful measure to mitigate global warming.

Velasquez attributes this diversity to a personality quirk. “I always want to diversify everything.

My hands are in everything,” she says.

She’s also on the local public health board and is treasurer of her local “CIAl” (farmer research team), which promotes seed diversity as a tool of empowerment for low-income communities. Forest gardens and fruit trees sprout among the hilltops dominated by beans and corn wherever CIAl chapters flourish.

This kind of growing is, I believe, also the next big thing in North America’s local food movement.

Seattle claims to have done it first. The folks in Toronto tending the apples, plums, apricots and sweet cherries in the Ben Nobleman Community Orchard are on the same page. And viewing trees as food sources adds a distinct value and puts a new spin, and new responsibility, on Toronto’s poorly funded tree-planting programs.

As my solar engineer friend Greg Allen likes to say, we don’t need a prophet to lead us out of the wilderness; we need a prophet to lead us back to the wilderness.

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Trouble in strikeland

The election in Quebec has divided student leaders — kill the strike and back the PQ or press on?

By JESSE ROSENFELD

MONTREAL – Student unrest may have triggered Premier Jean Charest’s fall election call, but that doesn’t mean the activists who led it agree on how to approach the September 4 provincial vote.

As the salvation of their semester hangs in the balance and the political elite they soundly rejected try to woo them into giving up protests for ballots, students are divided over whether to make Quebec ungovernable or try to change the government.

The thousands-strong casseroles in Montreal’s streets vowing to strike on have had mixed fallout. While 30,000 university students have voted to keep their departments and faculties at Quebec’s main universities closed, and picket lines are now re-emerging in defiance of Bill 78, the protest is mostly over for CEGEP and many university students who have voted to return to class.

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“Students find themselves more at home with protests in Greece and Chile than they do with the national question,” Jérémie Bédard-Wien, CLASSE spokesperson

test law – are being skirted by the main party leaders, who instead are preoccupied with the sovereignty issue.

“The national project in Quebec isn’t the great social project it was in the 1970s,” Jérémie Bédard-Wien, spokesperson for CLASSE (the largest striking student federation) tells me outside a Concordia University auditorium on the sidelines of the federation’s congress.

“In that sense it’s absolutely normal that students find themselves more at home with [anti-austerity protests in] Greece and [student strikes in] Chile than they do with the national question,” he adds. In fact, he says, the sovereignist debate at the centre of the election has been absent from the general assemblies.

Instead, they are splitting over whether the election can resolve the impasse. A discussion back in July with CLASSE rep Jeanne Reynolds in a St. Denis café presaged this now-apparent fracture. “The possibility of a strike during an election is really weird,’’ she said,

“because you are not directing your strike to any one government, but against the electoral system. This might work in university, but in CEGEPs it might not, because a lot of students are more attached to political parties.”

While CLASSE has decided not to encourage its members to vote, but is instead calling for increased protest pressure, the two other major student federations (which historically have ties to the Parti Québécois) are mobilizing their members to vote against the Liberals.

For Léo Bureau-Blouin, former president of FECQ (a federation representing college students) and now a star PQ candidate, the election is the way to reunite Quebec, and the party is the way to do it.

“The social divide in Quebec has been created by 10 years of Liberal government,” he says. “Now we have an election to resolve them.”

Describing his candidacy as evidence that social protests can channel de-

mands into the National Assembly, he argues that the PQ is committed to cancelling the 75 per cent tuition hike, the crackdown law (formerly Bill 78) and health care user fees.

“I’m not looking for global revolution.

I’m trying to deal with these central social issues,” he adds.

With the PQ pushing a nationalist theme and focusing on linguistic and ethnic politics, and the left-wing Québec Solidaire short of a significant breakthrough, the debate over election positioning has consumed the movement.

I attended a general assembly of 75 philosophy students at the U of Montreal on August 17 and watched the discussion over whether to suspend strike action or continue class pickets. While a few participants argued forcefully that it’s pointless to strike over an issue the election intends to resolve, the vote, after four hours, went to those who wanted to keep up the strike.

But at many colleges and universities, the same long, winding debate ends in the decision to wait out the election in the classroom. Some votes aren’t carved in stone; while over 2,500 U of M students voted to keep classes shut, a second philosophy GA the following week reversed the strike mandate.

Differing approaches to the election were clearly on parade when tens of thousands demonstrated in Montreal on August 22 at a CLASSE-hosted protest.

As the mostly young crowd, dotted with various courting politicians, wound through the downtown toward the old port under a beating sun, the chants calling for direct democracy and continuing the strike were met by stern calls to punish the Liberals at the polls and signs saying “I vote.”

The tone was very different from the mass night marches and mega-rallies that railed against the way politics is done in Quebec.

Now, just ahead of the polls, the question debated in the street is. can the discontent that has shaken Quebec be resolved through a changing of the guard?

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How can you not feel compassion for Michael Bryant, the former attorney general whose life was changed forever three years ago when he was involved in the car accident that killed cyclist Darcy Allan Sheppard?

Easy. Just read 28 Seconds, his repellent account of his life before, during and after the tragedy. It’s a

shameless exercise in self-promotion designed to rehabilitate his reputation.

I’m not talking about the central 28 seconds of the story, those moments when Bryant and Sheppard had their fatal encounter, an account that doesn’t entirely satisfy.

It’s the rest of the book that’s so

Darcy Allan Sheppard, much mourned by cyclists, shouldn’t have been a target in Bryant’s book.

grossly self-serving. Don’t be fooled by the early chapters confessing his years addicted to alcohol. (He’d been sober for three years before the accident.) We’re supposed to get the impression that Bryant can relate to Sheppard – both were alcoholics, after all. Never mind that the boozefuelled Bryant became a high-pow-

ered lawyer, entered politics, got a big-deal cabinet post and had his eye on the premiership, while Sheppard pedalled the streets as a bicycle courier.

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izing Sheppard, racking up accounts from others who had been attacked by him and making the most of the cyclist’s battle with booze and drugs.

On the one hand, he argues that the criminal justice system let Sheppard down, that many missed opportunities for intervention might have set him on the right course. On the other, when Bryant describes his own dealings with police and the courts before the charges were dropped, the book reads like a tirade against Sheppard himself.

Go ahead – confess your addictions, tell us about your encounter with the justice system, explain all the changes you’re going through. But let Darcy Allan Sheppard rest in peace.

Were Bryant truly a golden boy devastated by tragedy and chastened by the experience, he would have slipped away from the spotlight, done some soul-searching and devoted himself to a life of community service.

Instead, he’s made his book and its release into public relations exercises. Remember, Bryant got himself a communications consultant (read publicist) before he hired his lawyers and before Sheppard’s body was cold.

At least he’s not in it for the money.

Some proceeds from the book go to the Pine River Foundation for adolescent mental health. But none will go to Sheppard’s father. In fact, as of last week, since the accident, he hasn’t reached out to him – ever.

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In the 90s these problems were exacerbated by the Harris Conservatives’ cutbacks, and the chaos that followed amalgamation in 1998 crippled municipal government for years.

Today’s Scarborough is changing rapidly and has a proud identity.

New libraries, services and condo developments are urbanizing the burb.

Its individual neighbourhoods, from Malvern to Guildwood, are unique, and there’s a lot to attract visitors, from history to good food and some

of the best nature within easy reach.

Sheppard East and the Arab supermarkets on Lawrence East offer shopping and restaurants influenced by the ethnocultural mix of the area: Caribbean, Tamil, Pakistani and Filippino. Scarborough is also a hub for the GTA’s Chinese community.

The beautiful Rouge River Valley’s forests and marshland are among the few areas left in south-central Ontario that have been virtually untouched by development since the arrival of Europeans. And it’s reachable by public transit.

Toronto has to help Scarborough lose its negative reputation, because with better services and decent transit links, it wouldn’t be surprising if it became one of the city’s leading cultural forces.

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out perishables like milk or yogurt if they still smell and taste fresh. Trust your senses.

Case in point: for a Mexican street corn recipe, I recently used up per­ fectly fine organic sour cream that happened to be four weeks beyond its best before date. Of course, I didn’t mention this to my germaphobe pal who ate at our place that night.

Shop like a European. Pick up smaller quantities of food every cou­ ple of days instead of buying a week’s worth at once. It helps prevent over­ buying. And try writing down meal plans to keep track of exactly what you’ll need.

Be honest with yourself. If you hate leftovers and/or your leftovers have a habit of turning into science experiments before you get a chance to eat them, cook less. Or freeze ’em.

Check out my Ecoholic column (nowtoronto.com) on how to freeze all kinds of produce to eat 100­mile all year round.

But what do you do with stale, wilt­ ed or spoiling foods once they’re on the verge? Some are no­brainers.

Bruised bananas are great in shakes or pancakes. Wilted veggie scraps make the best soups and stock.

Oven-dried stale bread can become croutons and bread crumbs.

Every culture has tons of waste­ minimizing lessons, really. Take a page from the French and stop being so prudish about mould.See blue stuff creeping around your cheese?

No sweat, just cut an inch off around it and keep eating. In Italy, stale bread is dolled up in all kinds of different ways. If it’s rock hard (but mould­free), you can soften it with a little milk, add cheese, tomatoes and basil and bake it in the oven.

If it’s stale but still chewable, try making a panzanella salad: you

By ADRIA VASIL basically toss good stale bread (no sliced crap, please) with the juice of fresh tomatoes, red wine vinegar, roasted red peppers, anchovies, cap­ ers and basil. Drool.

My Indian girlfriend taught me how to use up older cream by making super-easy paneer or ricotta.

Heat it on the stovetop, and once it starts boiling, squeeze in lots of lem­ on juice until it curdles. Strain it through cheesecloth and voilà: cheap and tasty DIY cheese.

Got leftover rice? Wander into Chinatown and you’ll find stir­fries made with day­old jasmine rice. To refresh any old rice, just crack an egg into it. Leftover pasta? Crack a few eggs into it and turn it into a frit­ tata (with some cheese, olive oil, maybe mushrooms, onions).

My mom will tell ya any old fruit that’s no longer tantalizing, like apples, pears, berries and plums, can be made into a yummy compote or fruit stew. Simmer it with some sugar and cinnamon, a little water or juice and use it on ice cream or toast, sort of like a fresh jam.

What about bits you’d never think to eat? All sorts of peels can be rubbed on your face to different ef­ fect. Rub banana peels on warts, poi­ son ivy or psoriasis; avocado skins on dry skin as a nourishing mask; or­ ange peels on acne or on teeth as a whitener.

Veggie peels can multi­task, too.

Sure, most peelings can be stockpiled in your freezer for, well, stock, but what about trash like corn husks?

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If you’ve got a juicer, organic watermelon rinds make a delicious and super-nutritious juice loaded with blood­vessel­relaxing citrulline.

And don’t toss those onion skins – they’re loaded with anti­inflamma­ tory quercetin, so make sure you throw them into that crock pot or stockpot.

Craft-heads can also have some serious all-natural fun dyeing fabrics with onion skins.

However, I don’t recommend playing around with questionable meat or fish. If it’s about to expire, you can freeze it for later use. Last night’s leftover fish makes divine fish stew. Celebrating with lobster or crab? Fry up the shells after cooking, add water and wine and make a stock you can freeze and use later.

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tion of local and international Caribbean cinema with screenings, workshops and Q&As. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/ summer, caribbeantales-events.com.

Sep 4 to 15 inTerseCTion 2012 Festival of groundbreaking musical artists including Bang on a Can All-Stars, Contact and Jim Hartley, plus multimedia concert Ambient – The Music Of Brian Eno. Free-$40. Gallery 345 (345 Sorauren), Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge) and Yonge-Dundas Square. contactcontemporarymusic.ca/ intersection.

Aug 31 to Sep 2 rmuslimFesT 2012 Muslim art, culture and entertainment, featuring performances by Junaid Jamshed, Baba Ali and others, plus food and more. Free. Celebration Square, 300 City Centre (Mississauga). muslimfest.com.

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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.

For my own beneFiT (Princess Margaret Hospital) Comedy fundraiser with the New Humourists and guests. 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. formyownbenefit.com. reaDy, seT, laugh! (SickKids Foundation) Allages collection of sketches, songs and improv with partial proceeds benefiting SickKids. Today and tomorrow at 1 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

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Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.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.

TasTy ThursDays Live music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free.

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

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Five short-listed finalists pitch their idea for making the universe more awesome. 7 pm.

Free. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

ToronTo ghosT Tour Learn about the city’s haunted buildings and spooky stories. Thu-Sat 8 pm to Oct 27. $29. Old City Hall, Queen and Bay. Pre-register tourguys.ca/toronto-tours/ toronto-ghost-tour.

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To Sep 3 brazilian Day CanaDa FesTival Events include music by Jorge & Mateus and Thiago Correa, a street fair, family day, flag raising and an art exhibit. Most events free. YongeDundas Square, Nathan Phillips Square and other venues. braziliandaycanada.ca.

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ToronTo’s pasT aT The sCaDDing Cabin Author Darryl Withrow talks about the carved boxes created by prisoners rounded up after the 1837 Rebellion. 6 pm. Free w/ CNE admission. Scadding Cabin, 25 British Columbia. raymonts@sympatico.ca. ryiDDish vinkl: reCorDing arkaDy genDler Christian Dawid presents excerpts from

his CD and discusses his project to collect, document, arrange and record Gendler’s work.

Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com.

Friday, August 31

Benefits

FiesTa laTina (2012 Nuestra América Forum)

DJ D’Boyz and MC Spin play merengue, salsa, cumbia and more, plus an open mic. 8 pm. $10 sugg donation. Fuzion 99, 810 St Clair W. 647210-9725.

The penny arT workshop & sale (The Yellow Door) Immortalize the vanishing penny by making or buying creative penny art. 2:15-5

rCanaDian naTional exhibiTion The

Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, the midway, rides, games and much more runs through Labour Day. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com.

To Sep 3 sounD Travels Festival of sound art.

Concerts $10-$15. soundtravels.ca.

To Aug 31 pm. Free. 6 St Joseph. 416-923-8836.

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arTFesT ToronTo Painting, photography,

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

CbT/TT/ChasTiTy Demo Workshop for men and women, with Master Tony. 11 pm. Free.

Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

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.

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. heaDaChes anD migraine Health talk. 1 pm.

Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register sarah. cunningham@uhn.ca.

rinCreDibenT’s magiC & ComeDy CirCus

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

Japan Dolphins Day Rally to raise awareness of the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. Noon. Free. Consulate-General of Japan, 77 King W. facebook.com/events/ 383167135080113.

106 & york urbanarTs FesTival Performances by JD Era, Shi Wisdom and others plus visual art. 5 pm. $5. Yorkwoods Theatre, 1785 Finch W. facebook.com/106andyork.

QueerioT ToronTo Weekend of anti-capitalist fun for anti-authoritarian queer and trans folk. To Sep 2. Bahen Centre, 40 College. queeriotto.tumblr.com. remembering DarCy allen shepparD Memorial and mass ride marking the third anniversary of the death of the cyclist at the wheel of Michael Bryant. 5 pm. Free. Bloor and Avenue Rd. facebook.com/groups/ 188515707947914.

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beyonD Lost rivers walk. 6:45 pm. Free. Dundas and Sorauren. 416-593-2656.

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Guided walking tour. Weekly Thu 5 pm and Sat 1 pm. $15. Meet at Flatiron Gooderham building, 49 Wellington E. Pre-register muddyyorktours.com. rCanaDian naTional exhibiTion The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, the midway, rides and much more continues to Sep 3. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com.

CapTure The Flag Urban game, similar to tag or hide-and-seek. 8 pm. Free. Meet outside Main subway station. manhunttoronto. wordpress.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

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Sage Cafe, 166 McCaul. 416-340-7345. 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.

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Saturday, September 1 aikikai 40Th anniversary seminar Aikido seminar with international speakers including Obata Shihan and Tanaka Shihan. Today and tomorrow 1 pm. $110 (free public demo Sep 2, 1 pm). Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345. rair show lunCh Cruise Cruise the harbour, enjoy lunch and watch the show. To Sep 3,

Storytelling from diverse cultural traditions.

Weekends to Oct 28. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. arT & perFormanCe Tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. rCanaDian inTernaTional air show Aerial presentations, flyovers, stunt flying and more.

Today, tomorrow and Sep 5, 12:30 pm Free w/ CNE admission. Exhibition Place. theex.com.

The really really Free markeT Community space for sharing clothes, music, furniture, toys, artisan goods, services and more. 10 am-6 pm. Free. Campbell Park, S of Dupont W of Lansdowne. rrfmarket@gmail.com. reiki healing Introductory class. 1 pm. Free.

World’s Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward. thehealingteam.org.

ToronTo salsa praCTiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30 or 5:30 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.

Towers Tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. rvulTure awareness Day Learn about these birds and participate in educational games. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

The yiDDish CommuniTy oF melbourne A talk on Australian-Jewish history by Yiddish teacher Freydi Mrocki is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Sunday, September 2 rblaCk-FooTeD FerreT Day Learn how this species came back from the brink of extinction. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

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.

The experienCes oF The FirsT Jews in souTh ameriCa anD The yiDDish immigranT experienCe A talk by Argentinian Yiddish teacher

Avrohom Lichtenbaum is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 1 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

inQuisiTion To inTerneT: The musiCal worlD oF The porTuguese marranos A lec-

ture by Sephardic specialist Judith Cohen is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 6 pm. Free.

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

The Jews oF inDia A presentation by educator Ann Samson is part of the Ashkenaz Festival.

4:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. lgbT running group Join Get Out Canada for a group run. 9 am. Free. Church Street Jr Public School, 83 Alexander. getoutcanada.com. rmarkeT sunDays in kensingTon Celebrate the car-free streets of the market. Free. Kensington Market, College and Augusta. pskensington.ca.

newspaper CommuniTy garDens in parkDale anD losT weTlanDs Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen and Brock. 416-593-2656.

plingo! Mashup of bingo and Plinko with priz-

es. $5. Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. saCreD sTones & sTeeples Guided ROM walk.

2 pm. Free. NE corner Church and King. 416586-8000, rom.on.ca.

rsailors, sirens & kings: a ChilDren’s aD-

venTure in song A childen’s music workshop with Guy Mendilow is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 1 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

ToronTo laneway bike Tour Bike tour of laneways in Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy and Queen West. 11 am. Free. NW corner Gore Vale and Queen. info@graemeparry.com.

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ToronTo Laneway Tour Walking tour of

laneways in Queen West, Trinity-Bellwoods and Little Portugal. 1 pm. Free. Outside Pizza Pizza, Queen and Bathurst. info@ graemeparry.com.

yiddishkeiT: Jewish VernacuLar and The new Land A talk by editor Paul Buhle is part of

Ashkenaz Festival. 3 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Monday, September 3 From The Jewish FoLk choir To The mormon TabernacLe choir A talk by folk music

icon Jerry Gray is part of the Ashkenaz Festival.

5 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

hearTburn as hisTory: TradiTionaL ashkenazi Food A talk by author/Yiddish racon-

teur Michael Wex is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 3 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Labour day Parade The annual parade celebrating the strength and solidarity of workers gets rolling at 9:30 am at Queen and University, travels W along Queen to Dufferin and S to the CNE. Free (includes free admission to CNE). theex.com.

The LasT oF The oLd Guys A discussion on the link between older and newer generations of klemzer musicians, with jazz pianist Pete Sokolow, is part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 1 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rLesLey simPson: yuVi’s candy Tree Simpson reads for kids six to 10 from her new children’s book, as part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 1 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rmusic circLe For babies & ToddLers Marky Weinstock introduces kids to Hebrew and Jewish classics through songs and activities, as part of the Ashkenaz Festival. 2 pm. Free.

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

Thread-by-Thread: a deconsTrucTinG miLiTarism (un)sewinG circLe Part mourning

ritual and part meditation on militarism and

global industrialization through a task-based performance. 1-4 pm. Free. Fort York, 100 Garrison, outside the gates. helenevosters.com.

ToronTo isLands by VoyaGeur canoe Paddle across the harbour. Noon. $30. Harbourfront Canoe & Kayak Centre, 283 Queens Quay W. 416-993-4224, canoetoronto.com.

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cinema PoLiTica Screening of the documentary Portraits Of Resistance, about the politics of art and activism, followed by Q&A with filmmakers and artists. 6:45 pm. $2-$5 sugg donation. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. cinemapolitica.org/bloor. makinG ToronTo senior FriendLy Consultation on creating a strategic plan for the city, with councillor Josh Matlow. 1:30 pm. Free.

Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511 ext 228. 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.

TV TriVia niGhT Saved By The Bell and Degrassi Junior High back-to-school edition. 7 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

Hospital fundraisers are usually pricey affairs, but the Ready, Set, Laugh! event that kicks in $1 a ticket to the SickKids Foundation comes with a gloriously reasonable price tag. Plus, it offers an allages collection of sketches, songs and improv courtesy of the great Second City, in the troupe’s own venue at 51 Mercer.

Tonight and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday, August 30 and 31). $14, family pack $48. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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Dolphins have complex emotions, are self-aware and are among the most intelligent of mammals, but that won’t stop the town of Taiji, Japan, from capturing them for zoos and slaughtering them for food. Join a protest on Japan Dolphins

Wednesday, September 5 GranGe Prize PubLic Launch ParTy Join the shortlisted artists and jurors to celebrate the art prize with video projections, a DJ party and more. 6:30 pm. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, Walker Court, 317 Dundas W. thegrangeprize.com. rom & iTs neiGhbours Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Bloor doors. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

ToronTo music Garden Tours Tours of the garden’s unique design and history, led by a botanical guide happen Wednesdays 11 am and Thursdays 5:30 pm. Free. Starts at the west end of garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontobotanicalgarden.ca.

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Thursday, September 6 bindaas: indian and israeLi Fusion Net-

working event for Indian and Jewish young

professionals featuring music by Shy Ben Tzur and the Rajasthani Gypsies. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. Tryst Nightclub, 82 Peter. sizedoesntmatter.com/bindaas.

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U of T’s Rotman School of Management hosts a Social Media Debate on the effects of the online networking revolution. Arguing the positive side is Don Tapscott, author of 14 books including Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business And The World.

Against is Andrew Keen, CNN columnist and author of Digital Vertigo: How Today’s Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing And Disorienting Us. CBC’s Matt Galloway keeps the peace. September 6 at 5 pm. $29.99. 105 St. George. Preregister rotman.utoronto.ca.

can register to vote in the upcoming federal elections. 8:30 am-4:30 pm. Free. City Hall Lobby, 100 Queen W. 416-535-0396. insiTe TaLks: charLes c Thomas Stephen Fowler leads a talk on the publisher. 6:30 pm.

Free. Onsite [at] OCADU, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite.

LGbT uLTimaTe Frisbee Join Get Out Canada for a game. 7 pm. $10. Moss Park, Queen and Sherbourne. getoutcanada.com. on screen moVie niGhT Outdoor screening of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. 8 pm. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. mississaugacelebrationsquare.ca.

The sisTine secreTs Lecture by author Roy Doliner about the hidden symbols in the

Matt Galloway hosts a debate on the impact of social media on revolution, September 6.

chapel’s ceiling. 7:30 pm. Free. Joseph D Carrier Art Gallery, Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence W. Pre-register 416-638-1881 ext 4249, kofflerarts.org. sociaL media debaTe Author Don Tapscott and CNN columnist Andrew Keen present their views on the effects of the online social revolution, with moderator Matt Galloway. 5 pm. $29.99. Rotman School of Management, 105 George. Pre-register rotman.utoronto. ca/events/default.asp. yiddish VinkL Yiddish poems by Shimen Nepom and poems set to music by Charles Heller. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch).

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FASHION’S NIGHT OUT 411 TIFF kicks off next Thursday, September 6, but that evening also happens to be the date of Toronto’s first Fashion’s Night Out (fashionsnightout.com). The citywide shopping party was launched in New York City in 2009 to help its retail industry recover from the Great Recession, and it’s since spread to cities around the world. Since Toronto’s event is going head-to-head with the Film Festival, arguably our biggest cultural and attention-stealing initiative, we figure it needs all the boosting it can get, so here are four picks for shopping ops to hit. Mark your calendars.

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Online retailer eLUXE (eluxe.ca) opens up its entertainment district headquarters (355 Adelaide West) from 7 to 11 pm for DJ sets, sweets and featured Price fashion by Smythe and Rebekah Price.

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The champers is compers at Fuzz (701 Queen West, 647-748-3899, fuzzwaxbar.com) and so are eyebrow waxes with the purchase of any product from I Love My Muff, PFB Vanish, Merben Brushes and more between 6 and 11 pm. Stella and Dot jewellery will also host a trunk show.

THE BAZAAR BY RAC BOUTIQUE A whole host of shops and designers gather in the Burroughes Building (639 Queen West) for The Bazaar organized

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927 Queen West, 647-352-8115, ruepigalle.ca There’s a whole world of red-carpetworthy jewellery out there that goes beyond the blingy bits and bobs you usually see on the most swagged-out celebs. Necklaces can be made from recycled pop-bottle plastic moulded to look like flower petals with sea sponge centres, or fashioned by tightly coiling nautical rope and then stringing the tubular lengths with fine sterling silver rings.

“The value of jewellery isn’t just in the material, but also in the time it takes to make it,” says Isabelle Fish, whose Trinity-Bellwoods accessory boutique, Rue Pigalle, sells both of the above (by Stefano Poletti and Eleanor Bolton respectively) and specializes in designers who make show-stopping pieces incorporating otherwise humble materials. “When you wear it, you’re

wearing a part of the artist.”

That material-mashing philosophy also translates into Rue Pigalle’s other finishing touches, like clutches created using ornate kimono textiles, and high-top sneakers made not with canvas but with vintage silk scarves.

Rue Pigalle picks: A Hemma Artigues necklace features semi-precious stones and crystals strung on clear plastic cord, $250; a Noritamy bracelet is multiple sterling silver bands half-dipped in black car paint, $295; the silk scarf sneakers are by Soisire Soiebleue, $250.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 I’m afraid your

vibes are slightly out of tune. Can you do something about that, please?

Meanwhile, your invisible friend could really use a tarot reading, and your houseplants would benefit from a dose of Mozart. Plus – and I hope I’m not being too forward here – your charmingly cluttered spots are spiralling into chaotic sprawl, and your slight tendency to overreact is threatening to devolve into a major proclivity. As for that rather shabby emotional baggage of yours: would you consider hauling it to the dump? In conclusion, my dear Ram, you’re due for a few adjustments.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Is happiness

mostly just an absence of pain? If so, I bet you’ve been pretty content lately.

But what if a more enchanting and exciting kind of bliss were available?

Would you have the courage to go after it? Could you summon the chutzpah and the zeal and the visionary confidence to head out in the direction of a new frontier of joy? I completely understand if you feel shy about asking for more. You might worry that to do so would be greedy, or put you at risk of losing what you have already scored.

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medicine for you to try, Gemini. It’s advice from the writer Thomas Merton.

“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns,” he wrote, “to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.” It’s always a good idea to heed that warning, of course.

But it’s especially crucial for you right now. The best healing work you can do is to shield your attention from the din of the outside world and tune in reverently to the glimmers of the inside world.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 I dreamed you

were a magnanimous taskmaster nudging the people you care about to treat

themselves with more conscientious tenderness. You were pestering them to raise their expectations and hew to higher standards of excellence. Your persistence was admirable! You coaxed them to waste less time and make longrange educational plans and express themselves with more confidence and precision. You encouraged them to give themselves a gift now and then and take regular walks by bodies of water.

They were suspicious of your efforts to make them feel good, at least in the early going. But eventually they gave in and let you help them.

he sought advice from psychologist Carl Jung. After a few sessions with her, Jung told her father that she was schizophrenic. How did he know? A telltale sign was her obsessive tendency to make puns, many of which were quite clever. Joyce reported that he, too, enjoyed the art of punning. “You are a deep-sea diver,” Jung replied. “She is drowning.” I’m going to apply a comparable distinction to you, Libra. These days you may sometimes worry that you’re in over your head in the bottomless abyss. But I’m here to tell you that in all the important ways, you’re like a deep-sea diver. (The Joyce-Jung story comes from Edward Hoagland’s Learning To Eat Soup.)

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 In the spirit of Sesame Street, I’m happy to announce that this week is brought to you by the letter T, the number 2, and the colour blue.

Here are some of the “T” words you should put extra emphasis on: togetherness, trade-offs, tact, timeliness, tapestry, testability, thoroughness, teamwork and Themis (goddess of order and justice). To bolster your mastery of the number 2, meditate on interdependence, balance and collaboration. As for blue, remember that its presence tends to bring stability and depth.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 No false advertising this week, Scorpio. Don’t pretend to be a purebred if you’re actually a mutt, and don’t act like you know it all when you really don’t. For that matter, you shouldn’t portray yourself as an unambitious amateur if you’re actually an aggressive pro, and you should avoid giving the impression that you want very little when in fact you’re a burning churning throb of longing. I realize it may be tempting to believe that a bit of creative deceit would serve a holy cause, but it won’t. As much as you possibly can, make outer appearances reflect inner truths.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In the creation

myths of Easter Island’s native inhabitants, the god who made humanity was named Makemake. He was also their fertility deity. Today the name Makemake also belongs to a dwarf planet that was discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune in 2005. It’s currently travelling through the sign of Virgo. I regard it as being the heavenly body that best symbolizes your own destiny in the coming months. In the spirit of the original Makemake, you will have the potential to be a powerful maker. In a sense, you could even be the architect and founder of your own new world.

Here’s a suggestion: look up the word “creator” in a thesaurus, write the words you find there on the back of your business card, and keep the card in a special place until May 2013.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 In Chris-

tian lore, the serpent is the bad guy that’s the cause of all humanity’s problems. He coaxes Adam and Eve to disobey God, which gets them expelled from Paradise. But in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, there are snake gods that sometimes do good deeds and perform epic services. They’re called Nagas. In one Hindu myth, a Naga prince carries the world on his head.

And in a Buddhist tale, the Naga king uses his seven heads to give the Buddha shelter from a storm just after the great one has achieved enlightenment.

In regards to your immediate future, Sagittarius, I foresee you having a relationship to the serpent power that’s more like the Hindu and Buddhist ver-

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 When novelist James Joyce began to suspect that his adult daughter, Lucia, was mentally ill,

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Carroll’s book Through The Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that she is an expert at believing in impossible things. She brags that there was one morning when she managed to embrace six improbable ideas before she even ate breakfast. I encourage you to experiment with this approach, Capricorn. Have fun entertaining all sorts of crazy notions and unruly fantasies.

Please note that I am not urging you to actually put those beliefs into action.

The point is to give your imagination a good workout.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I’m not ne-

cessarily advising you to become best friends with the dark side of your psyche. I’m merely requesting that the two of you cultivate a more open connection. The fact of the matter is that if you can keep a dialogue going with this shadowy character, it’s far less likely to trip you up or kick your ass at inopportune moments. In time, you might even come to think of its chaos as being more invigorating than disorienting. You may regard it as a worthy adversary and even an interesting teacher.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 You need more magic in your life, Pisces. You’re suffering from a lack of sublimely irrational adventures and eccentrically miraculous epiphanies and inexplicably delightful interventions. At the same time, I think it’s important that the magic you attract into your life is not pure fluff. It needs some grit. It’s got to have a kick that keeps you honest.

That’s why I suggest that you consider getting the process started by baking some unicorn poop cookies. They’re sparkly, enchanting, rainbow-coloured sweets, but with an edge. Ingredients include sparkle gel, disco dust, star sprinkles – and a distinctly roguish attitude. Recipe is here: tinyurl.com/UnicornPoopCookies.

Homework: Forget about “Less is more” for now.

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Stuffed chicken wings with peach cobbler cocktail await, while Kirk Loftman preps the spicy baby back ribs for patrons dining on the secondfloor patio at Museum Tavern.

Bemelmans spirit Fine Museum Tavern has multiple links to the fabled hot spot By STEVEN DAVEY MUSEUM TAVERN (208 Bloor West,

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at Avenue Road, 416-920-0110, museumtavern.ca) Complete dinners for $65 per person (lunches $40), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $28/$18. Open Monday to Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm. Bar till close. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrierfree. Patio. Rating: NNNN

990 and the Bellair Café as well. With a pedigree like that, the new joint’s sure to be seriously slammed come TIFF. But here it is a sunny Friday afternoon and we’ve got the Tavern’s second-storey terrace overlooking the ROM and the Royal Conservatory virtually to ourselves. Imagine club king Charles Khabouth’s nearby La Société minus the botox ’n’ spray tan crowd and one-third the size. We like.

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Foodies of a certain age can’t help but grow noshtalgic whenever long-gone Hogtown restos like Fenton’s, Three Small Rooms or Paul’s Deep Sea Shan-

tung come up in conversation.

Perhaps the most fabled beanery of them all was Bemelmans, that glamorous Manhattan-style saloon on Bloor at Bay famous for serving eggs Benedict well past midnight. After an impressive 17-year run, the Studio 54 of Toronto fizzled out in 1994.

That party spirit is alive and well at Museum Tavern, no surprise when you learn that the six-week-old Yorkville brasserie is helmed by brothers Kyle and Glen Kristenbrun. Their dad, Tom, was the major-domo behind not only Bemelmans but Bistro

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freshdish Museum Tavern co-owner Kyle Kristenbrun shows off the stuffed chicken wings; spicy baby back ribs (inset) are also a hit.

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Tamworth pork chops over fingerling potato salad ($27) and focus on what ex-L’Unità chef Stephen Gouzopoulos calls “classics.”

That translates as the Tavern’s substantial double cheeseburger, two cor rectly cooked-to-order prime beef patties in the Burger’s Priest fashion on a house-baked egg bun dressed with local aged cheddar, lettuce, onion and a sauce appropriated from the Big Apple’s legendary Shake Shack (mayo, mustard, ketchup and chopped-up pickles, if you’re taking notes). A pile of terrific twicecooked frites and a snappy fennel slaw complete this very meaty main ($16).

Though it’s listed on the menu as a “small plate,” chef’s playful spin on the pub grub cliché that is the Buffalo chicken wing is hardly Lilliputian. First, he batters them in cornflakes, then stuffs them with double-smoked bacon and stinky blue cheese before serving them with buttery hot sauce, dilled mayo and a handful of heirloom carrot sticks ($16).

The kitchen sends out baby back ribs ($18) with the warning that they’re “sticky and “spicy.” No argument here, as their Asian-inspired honey-garlic glaze lodges in our dental work and their garnish of slivered Thai chilies causes a coughing fit. Quite tasty otherwise.

And what’s a contemporary carte without tostadas ($12 for two), especially if they’re perfectly seared whitefish piled with marinated cab-

Hole in one If you thought Paulette’s in Leslieville was pushing it by charging $2.75 for a donut, wait till you see what one goes for at the newly minted Glory Hole (1596 Queen West, at Sorauren, 416-420-5169).

Whether Parkdale’s prepared to pay four bucks for a fancy-pants fritter – albeit with lemon pie filling and meringue topping – remains to be seen.

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two) layered with shredded duck confit and strafed with Sriracha reference David Chang’s Momofuku by way of Queen West’s Banh Mi Boys (and deliciously so), while the house’s chopped salad in plum vinaigrette ($8 small/$12 large) will be a hit with those who like their beets raw and finished with fried shallots.

Only the Mexican street corn ($22) and fried strawberry pie ($11) are flops, the former a bowl of grilled

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The 80-seat room is sure to charm the A-list, from its retro copper ceiling overhead to its deeply padded banquettes under bum. Why, they’ve even hung the old Bemelmans sign over the bar. Somebody wake up Conrad and Babs. The 80s are back!

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After an 11-year run, the Hot Box Café (191A Baldwin, at Augusta, 416-203-6990, hotboxcafe.ca) is temporarily closing on September 15, because the building has been sold. Watch for the pot-postive joint to resurface at owner Abi Roach’s nearby Roach-O-Rama (204 Augusta) in time for next year’s patio season. The old space is set to become the second outpost of Portland Street’s Jimmy’s Coffee.

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Ex-Stockyards head cook Rachel Pellett and partner Heather Mee parlay a successful catering business into downtown’s best new weekend brunch spot. The café’s minimal weekday lineup’s not too shabby either, most notably their exemplary retro baked goods and not-to-be-missed $1 bags of potato chips. Foodie fact: the site of the original Pusateri’s, circa 1963. Best: to start, those fabulously flaky biscuits sided with blueberry-peach preserves and whipped honey butter; the same biscuits as eggs Benedict with house-smoked peameal, poached eggs and a hollandaise infused with whipped cream; the Hangover burger, a sage-spiked patty made of ground Beretta Farm’s pork sausage dressed with local cheddar, house-cured bacon and a house-baked bun and sided with skinny thyme-flecked frites worthy of Jamie Kennedy; a breakfast poutine of said terrific frites topped with bacon, cheddar, hollandaise and two poached ’n’ deep-fried eggs. Open daily 9 am to 4 pm.

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Bridal party Corpse Corpse Bride Bride revives revives Jewish Jewish folk folk tale at Ashkenaz Ashkenaz Festival Festival By

By JON JON KAPLAN KAPLAN

Paul Lampert and Niki Landau say their near-wordless Corpse Bride takes a different direction than Tim Burton’s.

THE CORPSE BRIDE adapted by Niki Landau, directed by Paul Lampert, with Jennifer Balan, Colin Doyle, Richard Greenblatt, Evelyn Hart and Sarah Orenstein. Presented by Theatre Panik and Harold Green Jewish Theatre as part of the Ashkenaz Festival at the Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West). Tonight (Thursday, August 30), 8 pm, Saturday (September 1) at 5 pm and Sunday (September 2) at 1 pm. $25-$30.

416-973-4000.

His wedding day is usually one of the happiest in a man’s life. But what if he marries the wrong woman?

And what if she’s not even alive?

That’s what happens to the naive Pinkel in The Corpse Bride, Niki Landau’s adaptation for Theatre Panik of the Jewish folk tale. After several workshop stagings, the show is being presented in association with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre as part of this year’s Ashkenaz Festival.

If the plot sounds familiar, you probably know the Tim Burton film based on the same story. Similar, but not quite.

“When I was doing my master’s in theatre at York, I had to work on a folk tale with my students,” recalls Lan-

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dau, “and I came upon this story. It was less than a page long, but something about the imagery and the possibility of staging it as a piece of physical theatre attracted me.

“When I returned to work on it a year or two later, I discovered that Burton was filming the same folk tale.

Though I’d already researched the period and had great ideas for characters, I decided that if he kept the important Jewish content I wouldn’t go any further.”

But Burton’s movie went in a different direction – Landau and director Paul Lampert, who have never seen

the movie, call its setting Victorian England – and the pair started devising a stage version of the story.

“I wrote a 40-page short story to flesh out the narrative and characters for the actors and Paul, with an emphasis on the mystery of why no Jewish girls were being born in the villages of Nur and Sut, where much of the action takes place.”

After a workshop in 2007, Landau and Lampert realized the story couldn’t be put onstage as it was.

“What we then decided to do was to reconceive it using a movement vocabulary,” says Lampert. “We watched

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Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. oandefest.weebly.com.

THE CORPSE BRIDE (Theatre Panik/Harold Green Jewish Theatre). A young groom accidentally weds a corpse in this darkly comedic spin on Yiddish folklore, presented as part of the Ashkenaz Festival (see story, this page).

Aug 30-Sep 2, Thu 8 pm, Sat 5 pm, Sun 1 pm. $25-$30. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT by Peter Colley (Lighthouse Festival Theatre). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy.

Opens Aug 30 and runs to Sep 15, see website for schedule. $27-$33. 247 Main, Port Dover.

1-888-779-7703, lighthousetheatre.com.

THE ODDS AND ENDS FESTIVAL (Newborn Theatre). Short plays by under-30 playwrights including Mariana Gurgis, Natalie Kaye, Rachel Ganz, Brendan Bowles and others. Aug 30-Sep

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THE PENIS PROJECT 2 (Michael Mackid /Amy

Lou Taylor). Over 20 visual artists and comedic, musical and drag performers celebrate all things phallic. Aug 31 at 10 pm. $7. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Continuing APPRENTICE TO MURDER (Mysteriously Yours...

Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit features corporate back-stabbing and boardroom intrigue. Runs to Sep 15, Fri-Sat and some Thu; dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

a lot of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and drew on silent film as well as Yiddish theatre of a century or more ago.”

The Polish-born Lampert has worked extensively in movement theatre, and for the 2010 workshop of The Corpse Bride he also blended in the idea of the rhetorical gesture – the actors using a large physical style to emphasize a point or an emotion.

The tale, now told almost entirely without words – though there are title cards as in silent movies – focuses on the arranged marriage of the stubborn Gumpcha, spoiled because she’s the only young Jewish woman in the region, and the innocent Pinkel, who’d rather be a scholar than a husband.

Add several dozen villagers, an army of Cossacks and a corpse determined to hold onto the man who inadvertently pledges his love to her and you have an absorbing tale enriched further by John Gzowski’s klezmer-influenced score.

But there are deeper questions at play, too, and Landau wants to explore them.

“The Jews have a way of talking about what you do when the past and the present have been more horrible than anyone expected and you sense that down the road things will be getting worse rather than better.

“How do you create an existence out of that, have a reason for going on? And for young people like Pinkel and Gumpcha, how can you love someone else, since people are flawed and the world is imperfect?”

The answer, the play suggests, is to make a choice and find a new kind of faith.

“I find the Jewish outlook helpful here,” adds Landau. “Not only is there a sense of tragedy, but also a sense of humour in looking at the tragedy.

What else is there to do but laugh at ourselves and our situation?”

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ARABIAN TALES (Little Red Theatre). This play for ages four and up presents a variety of fun and culturally diverse adventure stories. Runs to Aug 31, Mon-Fri 1:30 pm. $11, child $9.

Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston.

416-533-8848.

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) BABES IN SPACE: IN 3-DD (Red Herring Productions). Star Trek vs Star Wars burlesque show with Nasty Canasta, Obskyura and more. Runs continued on page 38 œ

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Royal flush Soulpepper gives Bulgakov’s allegorical political satire a first-rate production By JON KAPLAN THE ROYAL COMEDIANS (MOLIERE) by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soul-

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416-866-8666. Rating: NNNN

The truism that history repeats it­ self gets a dramatic, poignant twist in The Royal Comedians (Molière), Soviet playwright Mikhail Bulgakov’s look at the life of another theatre writer, Mo­ lière.

Its sweeping scope takes in Mo­ lière’s marriage to the young Ar­ mande, his adoption and training of the ragamuffin Zacharie, quar­ rels with the clergy, encounters with royalty and, as an underlying theme, the power of theatre to touch the mind and the emotions.

Though the play is set in 17th­ century France, The Royal Comed­ ians echoes Bulgakov’s own career in the 1930s. The Frenchman worked under the patronage of the Sun King, Louis XIV, until one of his best­known plays, Tartuffe, was taken as an attack on the clergy. Bulgakov was protected by Soviet leader Josef Stalin but had trouble getting his plays – includ­ ing this one – produced.

Director László Marton’s Soul­ pepper production, which adds scenes from the French master’s own works to Bulgakov’s script, draws the connection explicitly through its design, notably Vic­ toria Wallace’s costumes. When the actors perform Molière’s works, they’re in period clothing;

offstage, they and those around them are in 1930s clothes.

Lorenzo Savoini’s clever set, in which chandeliers descend from the ceiling for Molière’s perform­ ances, has a touch of French farce, a forced perspective showing us a dozen or more doors through which performers enter and exit.

But the doors can also turn into entrances to cubicles (or possibly interrogation rooms) in an im­ personal bureaucratic govern­ ment office, with Kevin Lamotte’s harsh lighting dehumanizing the space even further. Richard Fer­ en’s sound design adds another sinister touch.

Though Bulgakov’s script is oc­ casionally choppy in its second­ act narrative, the production is first­class. Diego Matamoros is a king of actors, and as Molière he inhabits the playwright/actor with a splendour that fills the the­ atre; he’s especially fine in the se­ lections from Tartuffe, The School For Wives and The Imaginary In­ valid.

Through Matamoros’s per­ formance we appreciate Molière’s ego and appetite as well as his tal­ ent, understand his machinations while we see his big heart and philosophical cast of mind.

The actors around him – includ­ ing the talented graduating mem­ bers of the Soulpepper Academy – give him great support.

The Royal Comedians has the stamp of quality theatre, a blend of the special and the everyday.

It’s all the richer for that combina­ tion.

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William Webster (left) and Diego Matamoros elicit laughs and tears.

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to Aug 30, Thu & Sun 8 pm. $20-$25. Revival, 783 College. babesinspace3dd.eventbrite.com.

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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $36-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. NNN (GS)

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. To Sep 5, Wed-Fri 7 and 9:30 pm. $50, stu/srs $30. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416915-6750, 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. 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. 416-8668666, 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.

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. $20. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102tix@gmail.com.

MASS AppEAL by Bill C Davis (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). A bisexual seminarian’s past haunts him in this comedic drama. To Aug 30, Thu 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.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, Thu-Sun 8 pm.

Pwyc ($20 sugg), 14 and under free. High Park Amphitheatre, Bloor W and Parkside. canadianstage.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) MIND READER (Bobby Motta). Mentalist Motta performs a weekly interactive show.

Indefinite run, Wed 8 pm. $15. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. bobbymotta.com.

ODYSSEO (Cavalia). This entertaining followup to 2003’s equine escapade Cavalia features some Cirque du Soleil glitz, a bit more hunky human flesh and some jaw-dropping production values. The horses are the stars, galloping, clearing fences and performing in unison, sometimes with brave riders jumping over them (and in one eye-popping case, under them). Runs to Sep 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29.50-$119.50. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. 1-866-999-8111, cavalia. net. NNN (GS) 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 8 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. To Sep 30, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. vitaltheatre.ca.

THE ROYAL COMEDIANS by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). This play looks at the

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with John Cleland and Tamara Podemski, vanishes this weekend. life of French dramatist Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, aka Molière (see review, this page). 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. 416866-8666, 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 to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) 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 rich, 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 (see review, page 39).

Runs to Aug 31, Sun-Fri 7:30 pm. $42, srs/ youth $30, preview $20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. volcano.ca. NNNN (JK) TWO gENTS (Shakespeare in the Ruff).

Setting this early Shakespeare comedy (it’s an adaptation of The Two Gentleman Of Verona) in the Canadian prairies circa 1880, and adding a new, less misogynistic ending, this young and ambitious company make wonderful use of the park surroundings to convey a sense of magic and fun. Runs to Sep 2, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($15 sugg). Withrow Park, 725 Logan. 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 in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves.

We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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home in this musical. Runs to Sep 1, see website for times. $40, stu $20. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

THE BEST BROTHERS by Daniel MacIvor (Stratford Festival). Two very different brothers learn about each other and their mother after her death. Runs in rep to Sep 16. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

BLuE SuEDE SHOES: MEMORIES Of THE kINg by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the songs of Elvis Presley. Runs to Sep 1, see website for times. $40, stu $20. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

THE CLOCkMAkER by Stephen Massicotte (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A man is drawn to a married woman who brings a broken clock to his shop. Runs to Sep 8, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $30-$32, stu $16. Firehall Theatre, 185 South St, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

COME BACk, LITTLE SHEBA by William Inge (Shaw Festival). A couple who married young confront their past and future 20 years later when a woman rents a room in their home.

Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35-$90, stu mats $24.

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

CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A bogus claim of infidelity leads a king’s daughter to risk everything for love. Runs in rep to Sep 30. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca.

THE DEvIL WE kNOW by Cheryl Foggo and Clem Martini (Blyth Festival). A pair of black teen sisters at home alone must deal with a dangerous stranger in 1940s Saskatchewan.

Runs to Sep 1, see website for schedule. $30$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

ELEkTRA by Sophocles (Stratford Festival). Elektra and her brother seek vengeance against their mother and stepfather for the murder of their father. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25.

Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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

Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. fRENCH WITHOuT TEARS by Terence Rattigan (Shaw Festival). Young men come to France to improve their language skills but get distracted by women in this comedy. Runs in rep to Sep 15. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

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

HEDDA gABLER by Henrik Ibsen (Shaw Festival). A headstrong new bride wreaks havoc on all around her to keep her checkered past secret. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

HELEN’S NECkLACE by Carole Fréchette (Shaw Festival). A visitor looks for her lost necklace in a Middle Eastern city scarred by a recent war. Runs in rep to Aug 31. $50. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-

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HENRY V by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). England’s new king invades France in this epic drama. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $49$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

HiRScH by Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson (Stratford Festival). Actor Alon Nashman and director Paul Thompson’s portrait of John Hirsch, the talented, complicated director who for a time ran the Stratford Festival, pulls no punches; the show reveals Hirsch’s caustic, irascible side as well as his passion for and insight into theatre. Nashman is mesmerizing as he takes the audience from the Hungarian-born Hirsch’s loss of family in the Holocaust to his successes and tribulations on Canadian and international stages. Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) HiS GiRL FRidAY adapted by John Guare (Shaw Festival). This comedy is based on Howard Hawks’s 1940 film and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s play The Front Page. Runs in rep to Oct 5. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

JOHNNY ANd JuNE by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical revue pays tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter. Runs to Sep 1, see website for times. $40, stu $20. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. draytonentertainment.com.

LASt OF tHE REd HOt LOVERS by Neil Simon (Showboat Festival Theatre). A middle-aged man tries for an extramarital fling in this comedy. Runs to Sep 1, see website for schedule. $29, srs/mats $26, stu $23. The Roselawn Centre, 296 Fielden, Port Colborne. 1-888870-8181, showboattheatre.ca.

LittLE SHOp OF HORRORS by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A flower shop clerk raises a plant that feeds on human blood in this musical. Runs to Sep 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27-$32, stu $16. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

LOOkiNG by Norm Foster (Globus Theatre).

Four middle-aged singles look for love in this comedy. Runs to Sep 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Aug 25 & 30 at 2 pm. $27.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon.

1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com.

A MAN ANd SOME WOMEN by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). Sowerby’s unknown little gem of a play is an early feminist work, but on the surface it’s about the liberation of a man from servitude to his demanding, manipulative wife and sisters. The Shaw ensemble is expert at suggesting the emotional subtext of the play and, under Alisa Palmer’s direction, the strength of the writing shines through. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr (Classic Theatre Festival). A recently divorced couple are forced to spend the night together in this comedy. Runs to Sep 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $21-$30. Mason Theatre, 13 Victoria, Perth.

1-877-283-1283, classictheatre.ca. tHE MAtcHMAkER by Thornton Wilder (Stratford Festival). A materialistic merchant hires a matchmaker to find him a wife in this comedy.

Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. tHE MELViLLE BOYS by Norm Foster (Drayton Entertainment). Two brothers’ plans for a guys getaway change when they meet two sisters in this comedy. Runs to Sep 1, see website for times. $40, stu $20. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. tHE MiLLiONAiRESS by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). The richest woman in England and an Egyptian doctor fall in love, but have conflicting family obligations. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com.

MiSALLiANcE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival).

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

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

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

MucH AdO ABOut NOtHiNG by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Stellar performances by Ben Carlson and Deborah Hay as the warring Benedick and Beatrice anchor director Chrisopher Newton’s warm-hearted show.

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Unusual opera gets your heart racing By JON KAPLAN A SYNONYM FOR LOVE music by

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George Frideric Handel, libretto by Deborah Pearson (Underground/Opera/ Volcano/Classical Music Consort). At the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West). Runs to August 31. See Continuing, page 38. $42, under 30 and seniors $30. 416-5384436 or volcano.ca. Rating: NNNN

You’ve probably never had a cardio workout listening to opera, unless you’re plugged into an iPod while on the treadmill.

But A Synonym For Love, a striking Underground/Opera production presented by Volcano Theatre and Classical Music Consort, will have you running from room to room and up and down stairs at the Gladstone Hotel as you follow partners Clori (Tracy Smith Bessette) and Theresa (Emily Atkinson) and Clori’s new lover, Phil (Scott Belluz).

Deborah Pearson’s libretto takes a 1707 Handel cantata that features two shepherds in love with the same flirtatious shepherdess and gives it a distinctly modern twist; open relationships and degrees of faithfulness are part of her emotionally complex tale.

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Calgary with Theresa, a one-woman woman, has gotten involved with Torontonian Phil and comes here to have a tryst with him at the Gladstone. Theresa follows to spy on the pair, determined to wreak havoc if necessary.

For the first and last sections of the play the audience, invisible witnesses to the characters’ loves and losses, sits in the hotel ballroom watching the tale play out. For the middle half-hour, viewers split up to follow one of the characters.

The ending is bittersweet, the characters realizing in a final trio the difficulties of being in love and not sure how to satisfy everyone involved.

The production, directed by Ross Manson and conducted by Ashiq Aziz, is exhilarating, and not just because of the exercise involved.

The three singers, two sopranos and a countertenor, are emotionally and dramatically committed to their roles, though Smith’s diction isn’t always clear.

Manson’s direction is often inventive, especially when he has characters intersect with each other in the middle section.

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Emily Atkinson’s Theresa spies on her cheating lover at the Gladstone.

tra, finely led by Aziz, gets as much of a workout as singers and audience; look for them in various combinations all over the Gladstone, including the green roof next to the fire escape.

A Synonym For Love is Handel for today, a love story without a resolution, told with a modern sensibility and gorgeous melodies. It’s the most original show in town.

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watch isn’t very funny. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Stratford Festival). A young pirate apprentice must choose between love and duty in this comic operetta. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29.

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

PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival). An actor deals with people vying for his attention in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

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

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

ST. FRANCIS OF MILLBROOK by Sky Gilbert (4th Line Theatre). A farm boy’s interests worry his parents in this coming-of-age story about growing up gay in rural Ontario. Runs to Sep 1, Mon-Sat 6 pm. $26-$30. Winslow Farm, 779 Zion Line, Millbrook. 4thlinetheatre.on.ca.

STORM WARNING by Norm Foster (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). A quiet war vet meets a brash music writer in 50s northern Ontario in this romantic comedy. Runs to Sep 8, see website for schedule. $30, mat $27, stu $14. 302 Bridge, Port Stanley. portstanleytheatre.ca.

TROUBLE IN TAHITI by Leonard Bernstein (Shaw Festival). This one-act opera looks at the 1950s American dream through the eyes of a seemingly perfect couple. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $32. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

WANDERLUST by Morris Panych and Marek Norman (Stratford Festival). This musical comedy is based on the life and poems of Robert Service. Runs in rep to Sep 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN by Clark Gesner (Stratford Festival/Schulich Children’s Plays). Who says this show doesn’t belong on a Stratford stage? Sure, the original charming, low-fi staging has been thrown out for big production numbers, but the cast is almost always winning and, just as importantly, the kids in the audience loved it. Maybe in later years they’ll ask their parents to bring them to see some Shakespeare. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) 3

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ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 30.

COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents a

stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. 416-488-3976.

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

Thursday, August 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Paul Morrissey, Mark Bennett and host Alastair McAlastair. To Sep 2, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

FOR MY OWN BENEFIT The New Humourists present a monthly comedy benefit for Princess Margaret Hospital. 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. formyownbenefit.com.

ductions presents four improv directors at the mercy of the audience. Thursdays at 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540.

LAUGH SABBATH presents stand-up w/ SQUARA! (Sarah Ford and Sara Hennessey).

9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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.

THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN: 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends and guests. 8 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! Second City presents its fall 2012 revue ñ featuring new sketches, songs and improv.

Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm (plus Sat 10 pm). $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Andre Arruda. To Sep 2, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

with Ron Sparks and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Nile Seguin, Winston Spear, Diana Love, Dave Martin, Chris Prepos, Ben Beauchemin, Rose Giles, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 30.

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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HIRUT HOOT: POST-CANADIAN COMEDY AWARDS EDITION Hirut Fine Ethiopian ñ Cuisine presents Kevin MacDonald, Eddie

Della Siepe, Zabrina Chevannes, Martha O’Neill, Pete Zedlacher, Ali Hassan and host Scott McCrickard. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth.

416-551-7560.

THE MARY-JANES OF COMEDY Vapor Social presents Deborah Etta Robinson, Diana Love, Rose Giles, Rhiannon Archer, Rachelle Elie and hosts the Sues. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647765-4422.

THE PANEL SHOW MegaShark Productions presents a comedy quiz show w/ Ron Sparks, Jim Kim, Chris Leveille, host David Tichauer and others. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

PASSION COMEDY Passion Lounge presents a monthly comedy show. 9 pm. $5 or pwyc.

1220 Danforth. 416-999-0654.

READY, SET, LAUGH! See Thu 30.

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SKETCH COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Cheap Smokes, ñ Primo, Chris Locke, the Dick Mime, Newsdesk

Friday, August 31

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 30.

Sunday, September 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 30.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons

present weekly sketch comedy w/ guest ñ hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu

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YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 30.

Wednesday, September 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Joey Elias, Alex Brovedani, Heidi Brander, Luke Gordon Field, Suneet Luthra, Yan Krupnik and host Scott White. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY AT THE OSSINGTON presents Tim Polley, Chris Locke, Darryl Orr, Jess Beaulieu, Tom Henry, David Dineen-Porter and hosts Sara Hennessey, Jeremy Mersereau and Greg Alsop. 9 pm. Pwyc. 61 Ossington. 416850-0161.

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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS LIVE: CAMPAIGN 1: THE LEGEND OF T’RANNAH Bad Dog Theatre

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. baddogtheatre.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Danny Dillabough and host Ben Beauchemin. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Jeff Faulkner, Jon Miller, Hannah Hogan, Michael Morrison, Becky Bays, Troy Stark, Dom Pare, host JoAnna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 30.

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THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic

and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

CORNER COMEDY Not My Dog presents weekly stand-up w/ host Hannah Hogan and more. 8 pm. Free. 1510 Queen W. notmydog.ca.

THE SHISHA SHOW Naughty Nadz presents stand-up w/ headliner Todd Van Allen, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. Free.

1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

Tuesday, September 4 THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS Second

City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. To Sep 25, 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

Opening ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL Harbourfront Centre presents an arts and culture festival inñ cluding Avia Moore, Klezmer Contra Dance,

Dance Panorama and more. Aug 30-Sep 3, see website for schedule. Most events free. 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

REVEAL ME Red Herring Burlesque presents virgin vixens and professional peelers. Sep 5 at 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

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Oh, Jerusalem JERUSALEM: CHRONICLES FROM THE HOLY CITY by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly), 320 pages, $24.95 cloth. Rating: NNN

Few can pull off the graphic novel travelogue. But Quebec’s Guy Delisle is a pro at turning his trips into gorgeous comics of world capitals sizzling with political tension.

Fresh off the acclaim of Pyongyang, he turns to another fractious city in this report on his year-long sojourn in Jerusalem.

It’s the true story of his work as a cartoonist while accompanying his wife, who works for Médecins sans Frontières. Thanks to that point of en-

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try, Delisle’s perspective isn’t limited to that of a tourist, but instead reveals the Palestinian-Israeli conflicts you might come across working for a frontline NGO. Thing is, he does a lot of waiting for things to happen, just like, you know, in real life.

His insights are often clearly based on authentic encounters, as when homeless boys kiss his hand when approaching him, or the moment on Remembrance Day when everything comes to a halt in Jerusalem, at airports and on the street. Delisle doesn’t usually declare his feelings about such things, instead letting readers come to their own conclusions about the wonders and weirdness of life in Israel.

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Get this travelogue to learn about Jerusalem’s multiple personalities, as frustrating as they may be. You might never look at Israel – or graphic novels – the same way again.

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SUNDAY POETRY: NUESTRA AMERICA Poetry, music, performance and art circle. 11:30 am2:30 pm. Free. Ellington’s Café, 805 St Clair W. e_sundaypoetry@yahoo.ca.

Thursday, August 30 EMILY GIFFIN Signing copies of her new novel, Where We Belong. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

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MAHLIKAH AWE:RI/SERAFINA Poetry and

spoken word plus an open mic. 7:30 pm. $6 and up. Free Times Café, 320 College. cytopoeticevents.com/wordspell.

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Storefront sit-in Vs Vs Vs check into Art Metropole By DAVID JAGER VS VS VS MOVES IN at Art Metro-

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Art Metropole, the brainchild of Toronto art collective General Idea, has been an internationally acclaimed artist-run centre promoting conceptual art and media projects since 1974.

Visitors to its King West location treasured the space as a repository of wildly original and eclectic artifacts: artist publications and pamphlets, vinyl and multimedia, installations and multiples, and the ever-present rack of artist-designed T-shirts.

Metropole recently moved to Dundas West and is celebrating with an in-house residency by VS VS VS, a local artist collective who share

space in a port lands warehouse.

It’s both an installation and a kind of occupation – the collective of nine people are living in the front window until September 22. They plan to build the living space gradually, while making sculptures, multiples, drawings and videos. Visitors are welcome to stop by, and collaboration is encouraged.

Since their moving party on August 18, they’ve been busy installing some essential amenities, such as a library, and plan to eventually add a work station, sound system (with record library), loft bed and TV displaying multimedia and video works.

They’ve used the recently installed sewing machine to make sigils that look like pirate flags for each group member. The flags, which can be raised or lowered on tiny strings in

MUST-SEE SHOWS ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS Sound

sculpture (Sound Travels Festival): Alexandra Gelis, to Sep 29 (Sats 10 am-noon).

601 Christie. 416-392-7834.

BAND GALLERY Painting: Chiko Chazunguza, to Sep 16. 823A Bloor W. 647-7014323.

BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY

Painting: Betty Goodwin, Sep 7-Oct 29, reception 6-9 pm (RSVP) Sep 7. 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110.

CONTACT GALLERY Installation (TIFF Future Projections): Luther Price, Sep 6-Oct 6. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Francisco Castro, Sep 6-Oct 6, reception 6-8 pm Sep 6. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

DRAKE HOTEL Video (TIFF Future Projections): Peaches, Sep 6-16.

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1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

GALLERY AT 129 OSSINGTON Painting: Michael Cho, to Sep 29, reception 7-10 pm Sep 6. 416-532-1310.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Video (TIFF Future Projections): Ming Wong and Liang Yue, Sep 6-16.

Photos: Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen, to Sep 30.

Being Scene group show, to Oct 28. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Contemporary Japanese Crafts, to Oct 13 (Mon-Fri, some Sats). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Sculpture: Allyson Mitchell, Sep 6-30, reception 6-9 pm Sep 6.

1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

LONSDALE GALLERY Photos/sculpture: Joan Kaufman and Jim Hake, Sep 6-Oct 14, reception 7-10 pm Sep 6. 410 Spadina Rd. 416487-8733.

Vs Vs Vs members make themselves at home in the front window of Art Metropole.

the main window, are hoisted to signal the presence of members in the collective space.

Last Sunday night, the live-in was in full swing. I caught them close to midnight, after they’d just finished screening the Serbian movie Black Cat, White Cat. The ambience was convivial and relaxed. Their bookcase, already graced with volumes on home improvement, survivalism and philosophy, was complete. Their newly made bunk bed stood against the wall. Some members were readying for bed.

LOOP GALLERY Painting: Linda Heffernan

and Ester Pugliese, to Sep 23, reception 2-5 pm Sep 8. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581.

ONSITE [AT] OCADU Letter Rip! Art, Words And Toronto, to Oct 6. 230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 327.

OZ STUDIOS Video/photos (TIFF Future Projections): Sook-Yin Lee, Sep 6-16, reception 7-11 pm Sep 6. 134 Ossington. 416-7925511.

NARWHAL PROJECTS Echo Dell: A Gathering Of Elemental Energies group show, to Sep 15. 2988 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

PAUL PETRO Morley Shayuk, Sep 7-Oct 6.

980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

RED HEAD GALLERY Peter Dykhuis, to Sep 22, reception 2-5 pm Sep 8. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654.

SANDRA AINSLEY Glass: Dale Chihuly, Sep 8-Oct 31, reception 5-8 pm Sep 8. 100 Sunrise, unit 150. 416-214-9490.

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Prize, to Jan 6, panel 3-6 pm Sep 7 ($8-$12). $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm.

317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

AGYU Imaginary Homelands, Sep 12-Dec 4, reception 6-9 pm, bus from OCADU, 6 pm Sep 12. 4700 Keele. 416-736-5169.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Rita McKeough, to Oct 27. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM Rule Britannia!, to Sep 16.

Emerging Artist People’s Choice Awards, to Oct 7. Joanne Tod, Sep 7-Nov 11. $12, stu $6, srs $8. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

MOCCA Jeroen Eisinga, to Sep 16. Jamelie Hassan and Guy Ben-Ner, to Oct 14, reception 8-10 pm Sep 7. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

ROM Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. Kelly Richardson, Sep 6-16. Carnival, to Feb 24. $15, stu/srs $13.50. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Dreamland, to Sep 30. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm.

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FAKE PROM featuring DOUGIE BOOM, SHIT LA MERDE and the FORD PREFECTS at Palais Royale, Friday, August 24.

Rating: NNN For 10 years, Fake Prom was an annual freaks-and-geeks-friendly, indiespirited party complete with DJs, a live band, a Fake Prom king and queen and a fake dating service.

It all came to an end last night with an Enchantment Under The Seathemed send-off at Palais Royale featuring appearances by Fake Prom’s 2004 band, the Ford Prefects, and DJs Dougie Boom and Shit La Merde.

Musically, the night was all about time travel, jumping from 90s Britpop to Be My Baby and Lollipop, to Elvis Costello, Tiffany and Adele. So basically, if you went to high school any time over the past six decades, there was something for you to dance to.

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day, August 24. Rating: NNNNN Fans will tell you Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band put on one of the best live rock shows you’ll ever see in your life, but it’s hard to grasp what they mean until you actually experience it yourself. Springsteen doesn’t need lasers, fireworks and elaborate set designs – the peak of his show comes when the venue turns on all the blindingly bright house lights at curfew. Instead of leaving the stage, the band just takes that as a signal to ramp the energy up another notch. And then they continue playing for 45 more minutes (after already playing for three hours non-stop before that).

Other superstars justify playing the

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exact same set each night because of the need to sync everything up to the video and light show. Springsteen, on the other hand, takes requests and makes every song sound new. At times, the extended jamming felt a bit exhausting, but that’s still far more exciting than session musicians lifelessly playing along to backing tracks. Bruce is definitely still the Boss. BENJAMIN BOLES

MATTHEW DEAR, PAT

MAHONEY, LEE FOSS, ñ SOUL CLAP and many more,

as part of the WKD BEACH PARTY at Sugar Beach, Saturday, August 25. Rating: NNNN

There’s been a lot of talk this summer about the huge numbers of young fans coming out to festival gigs by the new generation of young dance music performers like Skrillex, but the resurgence in popularity of electronic music is also being seen in other demographics. There’s a growing crossover between audiences who are part of the younger brostep crowd and the established house and techno scenes, which is making talent-stacked all-day events

like Saturday’s WKD Beach Party increasingly commonplace.

This mix might mean a few more kids with tacky Jersey Shore-inspired haircuts dancing to LCD Soundsystem’s Pat Mahoney’s DJ set of obscure disco and soulful house, but the best parties have always drawn diverse crowds of people who wouldn’t ordinarily hang out together.

Musically, all the acts dropped some great tunes, but headliner Matthew Dear made the biggest impression.

While his albums are increasingly straight-up synth pop, as a DJ he’s still got the ability to turn in a strippeddown, raw techno set that walks the line between experimental and sexy. BB

FIRE ON THE WATER

with VENUS X, D/J RUPñ TURE, POIRIER, MAGA BO,

DOS MUNDOS, LUCIE TIC, TORRO TORRO & M.A.M.A. at Sunnyside Pavillion, Sunday, August 26. Rating: NNNN

Fire On The Water, a day-long beach/ pool jam at Sunnyside Pavilion, was conceived as a family-friendly, conviv-

ial thing with art installations, DJs and the Uma Nota drummers. But it was as much about reclaiming public space as it was about giving us a daytime event in the vein of NYC’s hip MoMA PS1 courtyard parties. It was also the perfect way to celebrate the last heady days of summer.

In addition to live performers and artists, the fuss was helped along by a premier lineup of tropical bass DJs: locals M.A.M.A, Lucie Tic, Torro Torro, and Dos Mundos, Montreal’s Poirier, and flown-in attendees Maga Bo, D/J Rupture and Venus X. The Uma Nota drummers – who started their samba stomp down below before storming the upstairs dance hall – had revellers peaking, but Venus had them truly beguiled with her Latin-meets-dembowmeets-hardstyle-meets-Rihanna mix.

Booming bass wafted from the dance hall to the packed beach and patio below. Too bad it took until the last weekend in August for the pavilion to host its most hectic event yet. “It’s busier today than Canada Day and Caribana combined,” our server told ANUPA MISTRY us.

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DIVINE FITS INDIE SUPERGROUP

Better to be labelled a supergroup than just another side project By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI DIVINE FITS with HOODED FANG at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Wednesday (September 5). $20, adv. $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.

It’s about midnight on a Friday night in Montreal and diminutive dive bar Il Motore is packed with people eager to catch a first glimpse of Divine Fits, the new group started by Spoon frontman Britt Daniel and former Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs principal Dan Boeckner.

Edging their way through the crowd from the back bar, politely excusing themselves as they go, the two indie rock luminaries trade anticipation for informality, then alternate guitar, bass and vocal duties, tinkering with sound and arrangements on the fly and addressing audience members by first names.

Only the third-ever show for the brand new band and a homecoming for Boeckner, it’s hardly the meteoric clash of egos or the big-name, big-venue cash grab the union might suggest, but that hasn’t stopped many from saddling Divine Fits with one of rock

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and roll’s ultimate backhanded compliments: supergroup.

“I’ll take supergroup over side project,” Boeckner says a few weeks later over the phone.

He’s referring to the Handsome Furs, his recently halted husband-wife electro-rock duo. Launched after Wolf Parade, the group was considered secondary to the earlier band until it finally and definitively eclipsed it.

Divine Fits, his new collaboration with Spoon’s Daniel and New Bomb Turks drummer Sam Brown, is already getting similar treatment. They actually came together based on their similar aesthetics – a swaggering, stripped-down economy that somehow blends AC/DC and Kraftwerk – but most journalists approach them by way of their impressive resumés. Us included.

“There’s a line in NOW’s review of our record [A Thing Called Divine Fits (Universal)] that says the songs sound like they’re left over from our previous projects,” Boeckner says. “It’s funny – I actually did have a bunch of songs left over from Handsome Furs,

but I went through some heavy emotional shit when that band broke up, so when we finally got together in a room to record, I decided to start from scratch.”

He’s referring, obliquely, to the romantic and musical demise of his Handsome Furs partnership with Alexei Perry. When your band is also your marriage, “breakup” means more than just puting down your guitar.

Divine Fits gives Boeckner something new to talk about, but he can’t leave his old band behind just yet. Their 2011 album, Sound Kapital, now finds itself on the short list for the Polaris Prize. Boeckner says he’ll likely attend the gala but won’t play, and though he feels validated by the acclaim, his focus is squarely on the new band.

“None of us wanted to go into this saying we were going to jettison every personal aesthetic we’d developed over the last 10 years,” he says. “But Divine Fits isn’t Wolf Parade, it’s not Handsome Furs and it’s definitely not Spoon.”

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2 CHAINZ at the Phoenix (410 Sher­ bourne), Tuesday (September 4), 8 pm. $31. PDR, RT, SS, TM.

For a man who increasingly seems like hip­hop’s best­connected rapper, 2 Chainz is resolutely self­sufficient when it comes to recording.

“I’m an only child. I don’t have any best friends. I have a strong, strong conscience and I feel like that talks to me and I listen to it,” he says over the phone from a tour stop in Baltimore.

“There are some things I connect with.

I pray a lot. I’m very spiritual. “[The music] I make I can organically tell like what it’s like due to the fact that I take myself out of my body,” he continues. “I become a fan. I become the listener. I won’t be me for some time and I’ll just listen to a few things like that, and that’s how I get the feel for a record.”

Though 2012 has been his breakout year, the 35­year­old, 6­foot­5 College Park, Georgia native (born Tauheed Epps) has been making music for more than a decade. He was known as Tity Boi (a family nickname meaning spoiled brat) as part of the Ludacris­ affiliated duo Playaz Circle, which scored a hit in 2007 with the Lil Wayne­assisted song Duffle Bag Boy. Last year he renamed himself 2

Chainz and released a constant stream of music that culminated in his debut album, Based On A T.R.U. Story, enter­ ing the Billboard 200 album chart at number one.

Though he describes himself as a lone wolf insomniac tirelessly working in his mobile studio while on tour for the past year, he’s had some help in his rise to the top of the charts. Memor­ able cameos on Kanye West’s summer jam Mercy and Nicki Minaj’s hood an­ them Beez In The Trap solidified his rep as a skilfully inane MC, and numerous guest spots on singles for everyone from Justin Bieber to Jadakiss pro­ pelled him to hottest rapper of the moment status.

Doing it all, however, has its down side. He records from 10 pm to 6 am and thus doesn’t sleep much – an issue he addresses on T.R.U. Story track Ghetto Dreams, a moment of personal candour in an album top­loaded with no­brainer club bangers.

“In 09 when I was on tour with Lil Wayne, seeing him go from stage to the booth and already being a success­ ful artist and having a million shows and tons of money made me, like, ‘Who the hell am I to own a studio and not go hard every day?’” he says.

He lives on the road and wouldn’t have it any other way, despite owning

an awesome­sounding pad in Atlanta.

“I probably stayed in it maybe 10 times – maybe. That’s pushing it,” he says. “I had an interior decorator do the whole house. I had it landscaped.

It’s 22 acres, and I have a saltwater pool. I’ve never even put my toe in it.”

On Based On A T.R.U. Story, he large­ ly stuck with Atlanta producers like Drumma Boy, Mike Will and Bangla­ desh so as not to alienate long­time fans of his Southern trap rap sound, but branched out into R&B with croon­ ers The­Dream and Mike Posner – a direction he wants to explore further.

“I’ve actually talked to [R&B funk,neo­ soul singer] Maxwell on the phone, and he’s a huge fan,” he says. “I’m like, ‘Yo! My aunt loves you, fool!’ So I gotta work with him.”

In a genre that thrives on conflict, 2 Chainz has been able to work with everybody. Asked if his self­sufficient ethos is integral to his popularity, he demurs.

“People call me and that’s basically it. I don’t have a problem with any­ body,” he says insistently. “You need to interview the other parties and see where the interest came from, because sometimes 2 Chainz is just sitting in his studio working. That’s all. And a lot of good things came out of that.”

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clubs & concerts hot tickets

Acoustic Addiction w/ Ewan Dobson, Dylan Hennessy, Aaron Millett, Sharon Nutzati Supermarket (268 Augusta), tonight (Thursday, August 30) See preview, page 52. indie FridAys w/ Cuff the Duke Yonge-Dundas Square, Friday (August 31) Scrappy alt-country.

MAseo, skrAtch BAstid Revival (783 College), Friday (August 31) De La Soul DJ spinning hip-hop.

GreenBelt hArvest Picnic w/ Feist, Emmylou Harris, Daniel Lanois, Gord Downie and the Sadies, Sarah Harmer and many more Christie Lake Conservation Area (1000 Highway 5 West, Dundas, Ontario), Saturday (September 1) Out-of-town roots festival.

never ForGive Action 8th AnniversAry w/ DJ Agile, DJ Mensa, DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia, Ted Dancin’ Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), Saturday (September 1) Classic hip-hop party.

MAyA JAne coles, nitin, JeFF Button, GerA Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (September 1) UK tech house DJ/producer. lABour oF love w/ Laidback Luke, 12th Planet, Ferry Corsten, Paul Van Dyk, Dirty South and many others Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Saturday and Sunday (September 1 and 2) Giant dance party.

PuBlic eneMy Sound Academy (11 Polson), Sunday (September 2) Pioneering hip-hop legends. dennis Ferrer Sunnyside Pavilion (1755 Lake Shore West), Sunday (September 2) Deep house under the stars.

2 chAinz Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (September 4). See preview, page 45.

BeAutiFul tool (MAry MArGAret o’hArA, PeGGy lee) The Rochester (423 College), Tuesday (September 4). See preview, page 50. divine Fits, hooded FAnG Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Wednesday (September 5) See preview, page 44. del Bel, MinotAurs, BABy eAGle, snAilhouse The Piston (937 Bloor West), Wednesday (September 5) Lush, cinematic indie pop.

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Kinnie Starr, niL, Sigrun SteLLa, JP Saxe Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7

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Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, page 54, for venue addresses and phone numbers.

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= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) = Queer night

(folk/rock/country) 9 pm.

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7.

Champagne (Aussie folk/blues/roots) 7-9 pm. eton HouSe Keith Jolie (folk) 7:30 pm.

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HArBourfront centre WeStJet StAge SoundClash Winners’ Showcase Chloe ñ Charles, Progress & the Rebel Alliance 8 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Careers in Science, Buddy

Boiler HouSe Louis Simao Trio (Brazilian jazz)

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Margaret Stowe (vocals, guitar) 7:30 pm. gAte 403 Aimee Butcher Jazz Band 9 pm, Pete Eastmure (jazz piano solo) 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.

Holy oAk cAfe Sammy Jackson (jazz) 10 pm. rex Mario Starnino Quartet 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

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HorSeSHoe CD release The Bloody Five, Bootleg Glory, London Swagger, Artful Vandelays, Levon 9 pm.

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AlleycAtz Lady Kane.

Bovine Sex cluB Belle’s Bovine Nights. cAdillAc lounge CD release Joel Battle, Dave

Borins doors 9 pm. cAmeron HouSe Fedora Upside Down 10 pm. cAnAdiAn nAtionAl exHiBition Herman’s Hermits, Paul Revere & the Raiders 7:30 pm. c’eSt WHAt The Executives (rock) 9 pm. cHerry colA’S rock n’ rollA Pray for Minge doors 9 pm. clinton’S Indie Machine & Exhale This Is Me as a Woman, Bass Lion, Colour Color doors 9 pm. drAke Hotel underground Late July, Mystery Skulls (pop rock) doors 8 pm. el mocAmBo Milky Tide Space Dusters, Sulphur City, RedD Monkey doors 9 pm. grAffiti’S Prophets n’ Losses 8 pm.

HorSeSHoe Guttermouth, Permanent Bastards doors 8:30 pm. lee’S PAlAce Euphonic Sound Fundraiser. tHe locAl Jake Chisholm Outfit. molSon AmPHitHeAtre Roxette, Glass Tiger, DJ Kim Clarke Champniss 8 pm. oPerA HouSe Korpiklaani doors 6:30 pm, all ages. tHe PAinted lAdy Silence the Fury, Picturesound 9:30 pm.

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free timeS cAfe Christian Bridges 8:30 pm. grAffiti’S Jeff Oussoren, James Thomson,

Ken Yoshioka 5-7 pm. groSSmAn’S Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm.

HABitS gAStroPuB Ben Payne (folk) 9 pm.

HArBourfront centre Ashkenaz Festival: Music In The Garden Lerner & Moguilevsky Duo (klezmer/tango/jazz) 7 pm.

HugH’S room Robbie Antone’s Blues Machine w/ Brian Cober 8:30 pm. lolA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. lulA lounge Album launch Ruben ‘Beny’ Esguerra doors 8 pm. monArcHS PuB Delta Blues Thursdays The Jack de Keyzer Band 9 pm. nAtHAn PHilliPS SquAre Tasty Thursdays: Harambee Africa! Afrafanto & the Tich Maredza Band noon to 2 pm.

PASSion lounge Jabez Stone 9 pm. tHe SiSter Sean Pinchin.

SuPermArket Acoustic Addiction Ewan Dobson, Dylan Hennessy, Aaron Millet, Sharon Nutzati 7:30 pm. See preview, page 52. toronto muSic gArden Summer Music In The Garden: Klezmer En Buenos Aires Marcello Moguilevsky, Cesar Lerner (klezmer) 7 pm. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS Ed & Neil Pearlman (Scottish folk/fiddle) 9:30 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

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SutrA/Souz dAl PUSH Thursdays Deep End & Christian K (house/hip-hop/disco/future bass) 10 pm.

Friday, August 31 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Lady Kane.

Annex Wreckroom Rather Rude Logan D, Sicknote, MC Herbzie, Capital J 10 pm.

tHe BAllroom Indy Rock Showcase Chicken N

Waffles (rock/dance) 10 pm.

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

BenAreS HiStoric HouSe On The Verandah Concert Age of Reason 7:30 pm.

Boiler HouSe Lester McLean Trio (soul/funk/ pop) 8 pm.

lou dAWg’S ryerSon Jeff Eager (soul/funk/

Motown) 4:20 pm.

mcgrAdieS tAP And grill Steve Madden & the Prime Rockers 10 pm. monArcHS PuB Classic Rock Fridays The Knockouts 10 pm.

PHoenix concert tHeAtre The Cult, Gloryhound, Murder of Crows. rivoli CD release Grand Theft Bus, Flicker State doors 9 pm.

Silver dollAr Crosss, Hussy, Ostrich Tuning, Dilly Dally doors 9 pm.

SoutHSide JoHnny’S Cross-Eyed Mary (60s & 70s pop rock) 10 pm. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS The Ryan Driver Quartet (indie powerpop) 10 pm. yonge-dundAS SquAre Indie Fridays Cuff the Duke 8 to 10 pm.

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Shiraz Ensemble w/ Pedram Khavarzamini 8 pm. cAmeron HouSe Hootenanny 10 pm, Patrick Brealey (folk rock/roots) 8 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. free timeS cAfe Sharron Katz & Jim Cornell 8:30 pm. gAte 403 The Fried Angels (blues) 9 pm. glAdStone Hotel melody BAr Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm. groSSmAn’S Frankie Foo 10 pm.

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BrASSAii Love Me Till I’m Me Again PG-13. cAStro’S lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm. clinton’S Jamz Andy & Ty (80s/90s/00s) doors 10 pm. croWn BAr & lounge Crown Fridays DJ Mix & Match, DJ Nishe. drAke Hotel underground Itzsoweezee 2 Year Anniversary GrandTheft, Thugli, Demiggs doors 11 pm. drAke Hotel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. tHe duke live.com DJ Dr Spin. fly Dance Camp DJ Mark Falco.5 footWork Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm. fuzion 99 Fiesta Latina: Benefit for Nuestra América Forum DJ D’Boyz, MC Spin (merengue/salsa/hip-hop/cumbia/bachata) 8 pm.

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Luxy NightcLub T.G.I. Fridays DJ Spex, DJ

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Our hOuse bar DJs AdamandEve, Cristian & Hynes (deep-tech groovy house) 10 pm. the PaiNted Lady DJ Frank Phantastic Johnson 10 pm.

ParLOur DJ Mr Stylus & DJ Mumbles (house) doors 10 pm. the PistON Shindig! (Motown vs Stax vinyl battle) 10 pm. revivaL Maseo (aka Plug 3 from De La Soul), Skratch Bastid. sOuNd academy Gatecrasher: The Global Sound System Daniel Kandi, Solarstone, Arnej, Tenishia, Protoculture, Tomas Heredia, Kris Shaw doors 10 pm. suPermarket 3 The Hard Way DJs Paul E Lopes, Sean Sax, Scott C (funk/soul/house/ Afrobeat) 10 pm.

WayLabar Mash The Fuck Up DJ DaVinci 10 pm.

WrONgbar DJ Toronado Wallace 10 pm. yOrkWOOds Library theatre York Urban Arts Festival JD Era, Rich Kidd, Shi Wisdom, JD Keyz 6 pm.

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aLLeycatz Lady Kane. christie Lake cONservatiON area

Greenbelt Harvest Picnic Feist, Emmylou ñ Harris, Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade, Gord

Downie & the Sadies, Sarah Harmer, Jesse Cook and others gates 11 am. dOmiNiON ON QueeN Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm. the duke Live.cOm Band Warz, Diva Fever (top 40). graffiti’s Taxi Chain 4 to 7 pm. harbOurfrONt ceNtre Ashkenaz Festival Opa! (kelzmer/pop/reggae/ska/ funk/rock) 11 pm, Socalled 9:45 pm. hemiNgWays Rehka Patel (acoustic rock) 10 pm. hOrseshOe Life Blown Open, Time Giant, Golden Gate Graves, Bastard Sunshine, Alley Beat Grind 9 pm.

Lee’s PaLace Take the Apple, Ashes ad Dawn. the LOaded dOg Still Sunday (70s-90s rock) 9 pm.

LOu daWg’s Jeff Eager (funk/Motown) 10 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

camerON hOuse Whitney Rose (country) 8 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm.

castrO’s LOuNge Big Rude Jake (blues) 4:30 pm.

dakOta taverN My Darling Clementine. free times cafe Patrick Dravasi & Karen Rauh 7:30 pm.

gate 403 Sugar Brown & the Fish Market

Blues Band 5 to 8 pm.

gLadstONe hOteL meLOdy bar Country Saturdays Mr Rick & the Biscuits 9 pm. grOssmaN’s The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm. harbOurfrONt ceNtre Ashkenaz Festival Opa! (kelzmer/popreggae/ska/funk/rock) 11 pm, Global Shtetl Cabaret Aviva Chernick, Jaffa Road, David Buchbinder, Shye Ben Tzur, Basya Schechter, Guy Mendilow 10 pm, Finjan (klezmer) 8 pm, The Klezmer Shul Veretski Pass (klezmer/Eastern European folk) 7 pm, Rexite On The Radio: The Golden Age Of Yiddish Music Mitch Smolkin 6 pm. the LOcaL Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

LOu daWg’s Mississippi Delta Blues Brunch Pat Wright 1 to 4 pm.

LuLa LOuNge Yani Borrell & the Clave Kings, DJ Emiliano (salsa) 10:30 pm. rebas café & gaLLery Open Mic David Crighton 1 to 4 pm. reLish bar & griLL New Music Night Marc Sepic (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm. three mONkeys Latin Salsa Band 9:30 pm. traNzac sOutherN crOss Don’t Worry Darlin’ (country rock) 10 pm.

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Arturo Sandoval 7:30 pm. gate 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. the LOcaL Fred Spek’s Camp Combo (hipster vaudeville) 10 pm.

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clubs&concerts

LOu daWg’s ryersON Mike C (acoustic blues/ rock/funk/reggae) 10 pm, Southern Brunch & Soulful Sounds The Irene Torres Soul Duo 1 to 4 pm. rivOLi CD release party Luke Nicholson, Jadea Kelly 9 pm. siLver dOLLar Kill Machine, Kurvi Tasch, the Monrrows, These Animals doors 9 pm. sOuNd academy Rock N Blues Fest Johnny Winter Band, Edgar Winter Band, Rick Derringer, Kim Simmonds doors 6 pm. sOuthside JOhNNy’s Cameltoe (rock/top 40) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

3030 duNdas West The Super Funk Soul Party The Harmonauts, DJs Splattermonkey, Cozmic Cat (ska/reggae) doors 9:30 pm.

beautifuL tOOL: mary margaret O’hara aNd Peggy Lee at the Rochester (423 College), Tuesday (September 4), 7:30 pm. $15. 416-603-8884.

Canadian cult singer Mary Margaret O’Hara is in the middle of a flurry of activity, which comes through in her flowing, rapid-fire speech when she calls me from Montreal to discuss Beautiful Tool, her collaboration with renowned Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee.

The two musicians met at a UFOthemed cabaret called Longest Night in Whitehorse late in 2010. “And then she started to phone me,” says O’Hara, calling Lee a real go-getter. “She said, ‘Will you do something at the PuSh festival in Vancouver in 2012?’”

While both women are improvisers, they have different approaches to music: “I love doing free improv,” says O’Hara, “but [Lee] likes a little bit more structure. I like starting from nothing,

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Their PuSh performance in January backed by Vancouver musicians J.P. Carter (trumpet), Ron Samworth (guitar), and Dylan van der Schyff (drums) was O’Hara’s first show in Vancouver.

The same group – with the addition of O’Hara’s long-time collaborator Rusty McCarthy, who played guitar on O’Hara’s 1988 (and only) album, Miss America – play with Lee and O’Hara in Toronto at the Rochester and the following day at Guelph Jazz festival.

“I wanted to have some fun, because we haven’t had a chance to play together since the PuSh festival,” says O’Hara, “so I thought, ‘Let’s do a show.’” (The group will play some of Lee’s songs, a handful of songs off Miss America, new material by O’Hara and some covers, maybe even a Chemical Brothers song).

In her typical fashion, O’Hara downplays her co-leading role in Jem Cohen’s feature film Museum Hours, which screens at TIFF (September 9, 11 and 14). “I think I’m just going to be walking down the street, maybe saying a few lines,” she says. (She hasn’t seen the film yet).

Cohen also had a hand in arranging the collaboration that recently brought O’Hara to Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio to work with Constellation Records’ Thierry Amar, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto (members of Vic Chesnutt’s band) and Australian drummer Jim White of Dirty Three.

Though she insists that this is not a new Mary Margaret O’Hara record – not yet, anyway – and that the musicians were “just getting to know each other,” she’s effusive about the fledgling project. “They are so open,” she says. “That was the best part.”

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fingerstyle guitar

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ewan dobson Being internet-famous is a mixed blessing

By BENJAMIN BOLES

Ewan Dobson at Supermarket, tonight (Thursday, August 30), 7:30 pm. $10. 416840- 0501. And at Free Times Café, September 14, 8 pm. $8. 416-967-1078.

Toronto instrumental guitarist Ewan Dobson’s homemade YouTube videos have amassed well over 10 million views over the past few years, but you rarely see his name in the club listings, and few local bookers have any idea who he is.

Unlike local synth punks Crystal Castles (who also first made their name on the internet and whose sound is also often compared to video game music), Dobson has little hope of crossing over into the hipster world, unless that crowd suddenly develops an appreciation for mind-bogglingly complex acoustic guitar fingerpicking.

“Some people think that just because something is big on the internet, it’s big everywhere, but when you travel you realize that it all depends on where it lands,” Dobson says.

“Touring the U.S. can be hit or miss, but when I did the UK it was bi-

zarre because some of the shows had a rock-star feel. It kind of caught me off guard.”

It was the quirky video for the song Time 2 that caught the net’s attention.

It features Dobson, wearing what appears to be a lampshade on his head, playing an awe-inspiring acoustic impression of electronic trance music.

Thanks to its novelty, it got posted everywhere, which led to viewers discovering the rest of his unique heavy metal/video game/classical/bluegrassinspired compositions.

Considering that Time 2 is currently sitting at over 9 million views, you have to wonder why he doesn’t focus completely on reworking big-room dance music for acoustic guitar.

“I’ve considered that, but from what I’ve seen, when artists deliberately try to milk something, it doesn’t always get the most favourable results, especially if the purpose is to generate sales.”

Nevertheless, things have been going well enough that he’s been able to cancel his ODSP benefits, which he’s been relying on for most of his life after being diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD and schizoaffective disorder in his teens.

While originally reluctant to talk about his struggles with mental illness, he realized after playing a Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada event that being open about it might be helpful to others.

“There’s a lot of stigma about mental illness, but people have no idea what it really is. There’s so much fear of the unknown. Sometimes people’s minds just work differently.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/benjaminboles

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for – he often sings in a low near-whisper and throws in echoey whistle solos – but the uninterrupted groove of the band and Wax’s unflashy delivery shows he’s about more than being weird.

A gentleness comes through in the melody of Body Black / Body White and D. Trevlon cover Tears From The Moon, but Wax’s quirkiness is still evident – take the spacey synth on The Water, for example, or the long, jammy fade-out on PB. Top track: Black Bells Wax Mannequin plays the Piston on September 6.

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Pop/Rock NNNN ñSTARS

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Devotion (PMR) Rating: Adele. Emeli Sandé. Lianne La Havas. The UK is a diva factory, churning out an endless stream of prodigious vocal stunners. Jessie Ware is simultaneously of this ilk and not: she lacks their histrionic bombast and forced universality. Her closest peer might be Katy B: they both translate the sounds of their club music mentors into cutting-edge pop. But while Katy B is blood-red climax, Ware is the tangled 4 am release.

Her debut is a sonic amalgam of dusky 80s R&B and pristine 90s Brit soul.

It’s lush, sophisticated pastiche, best epitomized by debut single Running. It’s also wistful and fervently romantic, unearthing memories of eyes locked through a sea of bodies and too-silent goodbyes. Wildest Moments is wired for radio play and one of the year’s best love songs.

Coyness and girlish pretense have no place in this woman’s story. “I need your love,” she purrs over the title track’s dubsteppy swing, and on the Julio Bashmore-produced shuffle 110%, “Feel free to touch me.” Such command sets her apart.

Top track: Wildest Moments ANUPA MISTRY

The North (Universal) Rating:

On their sixth full-length, the Stars haven’t drastically reinvented themselves, but somehow the hooks and sounds seem much bigger and better than before. The synth pop bits are lusher than ever, and when the band rocks out, the results are bombastic and unexpectedly aggressive without clashing with their delicate melodies. You can hear references to New Order and the Smiths and, on the more modern end of the spectrum, some of the electronic elements evoke M83. More than anything, though, they sound confident and self-assured.

It’s hard to put your finger on why this collection of songs works so well. Did they buy some new synthesizers or just learn to master the ones they had? Maybe it was just a case of being more inspired. Whatever the reason, this batch of 80s-popinspired tunes is packed with earworms and remarkably filler-free. They’re still not the most fashionable band around, but is that something you really care about?

Top track: Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It Stars open up for Metric November 24 at the Air Canada Centre.

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THE SHEEPDOGS (Warner) Rating: NNN

It’s nearly impossible to write about the Sheepdogs without mentioning their handy rags-to-riches narrative. After making three albums in relative obscurity, the hairy, bell-bottomed Saskatoon road warriors rose to prominence by winning a fan voting contest to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, handily garnering a major label record deal in the process.

That, of course, should be secondary to the music, but since their fourth album (their first since the win) is co-produced by Austin Scaggs, who wrote their star-making Rolling Stone cover feature, it’s kind of hard to ignore. Like their previous LPs, this self-titled album is chock full of all the dinosaur rock signifiers the magazine still stubbornly holds dear: rootsy harmonies, analogue instrumentation and mid-tempo riffs.

The record’s other producer, however, is Pat Carney, drummer of the Black Keys, a band whose own meteoric rise was propelled by their willingness to blend some modern production into their backwardslooking aesthetic. And indeed, there are a few minor formula tweaks, many of them straight out of the Black Keys playbook.

Feeling Good, for instance, with its fuzzy tone, handclap rhythm and funky flavour, is a clear echo.

Top track: Laid Back The Sheepdogs headline Echo Beach on September 15.

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No Safe Home (Cargo) Rating: Hamilton’s Wax Mannequin has moved toward his folkier side on his sixth album.

No Safe Home, a cohesive and mellow, almost miniature, album, begins with the nostalgic, descending bass line of Black Bells and returns to the same theme for a reprise near the end.

It’s a subtler approach than he’s known

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THE FRESH & ONLYS Long Slow Dance (Mexican Summer) Rating: NNN Due to their cross-collaboration, furiously prolific output and San Francisco residency, the Fresh & Onlys are often grouped with the impressive new crop of garage rock revivalists, but that feels a bit off base. As they evolve, the quartet gets more meticulous in the studio, and this, their fourth LP, feels like their most polished yet.

There are hints of 60s melodies – surf licks and Spectorfied girl group harmonies – but the influence of 80s and 90s college rock is much more pronounced. Songs like 20 Days & 20 Nights are reminiscent of the Smiths and Magnetic Fields, bands that combine self-conscious melancholia with bright, jangly guitar rhythms. It helps that lead singer Tim Cohen is gifted with an expressive baritone that easily lends itself to any style the band tries on, but their subtly complex guitar rhythms and melodic hooks do just as much heavy lifting.

Top track: Yes Or No The Fresh & Onlys play Parts & Labour on November 14.

RT KITE HILL Rest & Run (independent) Rating: NNN Kite Hill is Toronto singer/songwriter Ryan Carley, whose stripped-down solo shows highlight his mesmerizing keyboard skills and hushed vocals. Other times the lineup expands to include percussion, wind, voices and string players. On his debut full-length album, he employs the latter approach, and the result is a heavily orchestrated, dramatic work of sensitive baroque pop with many beautiful moments.

Pensive melancholy underlies the 12 compositions, a few of which are instrumentals or almost instrumentals, with voices not coming until the end (A Great Noise, When You’re A Kid And You’re Scared). But there’s hopefulness in the melodies, lyrics and swelling orchestration, a combination that evokes a folkier Arcade Fire or a gentler Dan Mangan.

As effective as the full arrangements are, a less-is-more approach might’ve helped set the songs apart from each other a little more. The album’s such a smooth listen, in fact, that you might not notice it coming to an end and then starting over again.

Top track: The Open Air Kite Hill play the Music Gallery on September 7.

CARLA GILLIS THE OFFSPRING Days Go By (Sony) Rating: NN The Offspring’s 90s charm was their ability to blend driving “whoa oh oh” hooks with a healthy Gen X sense of irony and detached self-loathing. In 2012, somehow still active into their 28th year, they still use that template but have lost the snotty, sarcastic edge.

At best, the songs on their ninth album are bland recreations of their past successes; they haven’t lost the ability to write melodies that stick in your head. But when the songs are bad, they’re really, really bad. Like, hide your face behind your hands bad.

OC Guns, for instance, is an attempted reggae song that reduces the genre to

caricature. Cruisin’ California (Bumpin’ In My Trunk), meanwhile, is as cringe-worthy as the title. Over cheesy Europop beats, it recasts singer Dexter Holland as the awkward, unaware white guy he once gleefully mocked, “rapping” the word “caboose” with a baffling lack of irony.

Top track: Secrets From The Underground The Offspring play Echo Beach Sunday September 2.

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Cabin Fever (New West) Rating: Edmonton country musician Corb Lund struggled with a breakup, writer’s block and family death and illness in the three years it took him to write his seventh album, but has turned out one of his most enjoyable listens to date.

Brilliantly bleak but humorous lyrics take centre stage, including immaculate, loving descriptions of antique pistols, goth girls, vintage motorbikes and a gravedigger’s life. (Also a convincing argument for why life is better when lived in the presence of cows.)

The album breezily incorporates rockabilly, blues, out-on-the-range balladry, country & western, swinging rock and even some yodelling. The apocalyptic Gettin’ Down On The Mountain, meanwhile, chugs ahead on a badass groove.

Live-off-the-floor production with almost no overdubs lends a powerful raw quality. Lund and his Hurtin’ Albertans band sound like they’re getting half-lit, though their stellar chops and Lund’s brilliantly simple songcraft rein things in.

The deluxe version includes an acoustic version of the album that’s even looser.

You can hear people laughing and drinks being spilled.

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The Seer (Young God) Rating: Swans’ 12th album is the most terrifying volley yet from one of the most brutal bands on the planet. They make death metal seem like the soundtrack to a Disney film and yet somehow sidestep most of the expected methods of exploring evil in music. Michael Gira describes this gruelling two-hour epic as the “culmination of every previous Swans album,” and while he’s prone to hyperbole, the statement rings true.

This isn’t cartoon horror. It’s more like a stark, unflinching meditation on the darkness that’s inside all of humanity. Helping Gira out is an all-star cast of collaborators including Yeah Yeah Yeahs vocalist Karen O, members of Akron/Family, Mercury Rev, Low and many others, but the sound has little in common with any of their main gigs.

The Seer will definitely raise the band’s profile, although its sheer intensity and ugliness may scare people away. On the other hand, sitting through the whole thing even once is enough to leave a permanent mark on the listener.

Top track: Mother Of The World Swans play Lee’s Palace October 25. BB 3

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Lost children IN MY MOTHER’S ARMS (Atea Al Daradji, Mohamed Al Daradji). 92 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 31) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Times, page 66. Rating: NNN Lost children are a potent symbol of the ravages of war in this unspeakably sad documentary about an Iraqi orphanage.

In Sadr City, one of the country’s most dangerous areas, 32 boys live in a two-room house that Husham and five other volunteer caregivers have turned into an orphanage.

Shot over several months, the doc reveals the impact of this trauma – especially on young Saif, who saw both parents killed in an explosion – while Husham attempts to raise funds for the orphanage, which has no state support.

Though sketchily shot, the film has spectacular moments, especially when the older boys try to help the younger ones with their schoolwork and when a theatre artist is enlisted to get them to open up.

But the landlord has evicted them, threatening the future of a few dozen of Iraq’s 5-million-plus young orphans.

SUSAN G. COLE Devastating.

Traumatized orphan boys seek inspiration in the doc In My Mother’s Arms.

COMEDY

Wrong number

Phone sex comedy arrives years too late and feels like a forgettable TV pilot FOR A GOOD TIME, CALL… (Jamie Travis).

86 minutes. Opens Friday (August 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60.

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For whatever reason, watching attractive women say dirty words has enough appeal to have launched a few successful businesses.

At one point, that could have been fodder for a subversive comedy, but not in a world where cable TV thrives

HORROR

Boxed in THE POSSESSION (Ole Bornedal). 92 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (August 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NN The Possession is a well-told but only mildly scary Exorcist knock-off with a couple of okay twists in its highly predictable story.

First, the heroic parent of the possessed child is not the mother, the genre norm, but the unhappily divorced father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). This provides a psychological subtext for the increasingly hostile doings of the little girl (Natasha Calis)

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on the seven words that used to be banned from broadcast. This story of an uptight prude (Lauren Miller) forced to live with an outgoing floozy (Ari Graynor) who teaches her the joys of female friendship and phone sex is now the stuff of sitcoms.

Despite its Sundance pedigree and supposed shock value, Jamie Travis’s feature debut feels like a forgettable TV pilot that puts two wildly different girls into a crazy situation to see what happens. The leads are charming

enough to give the inoffensive filth a heart, but Justin Long’s wisecracking gay best friend is a comedy stereotype, while cameos by the likes of Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen as pervy customers are desperate ploys for attention.

Admittedly, it’s all swiftly paced and light enough to pass the time. You’ll leave feeling momentarily satisfied but ultimately ripped off, much like when using a certain phone service.

who’s being taken over by a demon in a box. Second, the demon comes out of the Judaic, not Christian, tradition, which puts a different spin on the mandatory

occult exposition and climactic exorcism.

Director Ole Bornedal achieves a couple of striking images, but the visual horror, both atmospheric and visceral, most often relies on the standard creeping camera and spooky music. That’ll only take you so far when the camera is creeping up on a box.

The actors, including Kyra Sedgwick as the bitter mother, give solid but unspectacular performances.

If you like child-in-peril horror – and who doesn’t? – you’d be better off renting last year’s Clive Owen shocker, Intruders, which amps up the fear factor considerably, or go old-school with Lucio Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery, which cranks it up to 11.

Madison Davenport (left) and Kyra Sedgwick deliver a few okay twists.

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Partial Match THE MATCHMAKER (Avi Nesher). 112 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 31).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NNN The Matchmaker is an awkward but occasionally affecting coming-of-age drama about a teenager (Tuval Shafir) who spends a transformative summer working for a shady matchmaker (Adir Miller) in 1968 Haifa.

The kid’s story is fairly generic: our young hero alternately bristles at his apprenticeship and lusts after a friend’s sexpot cousin (Neta Porat). But the world of matchmaker Yankele gives the film a tragic subtext that keeps us watching even when the film’s at its most banal.

A Romanian Jew who survived the Nazi camps, Yankele is part of

an unacknowledged underclass who must bear both their physical and emotional scars and the judgment of Israelis who suspect them of collaborating with the Germans. (How else could they have made it out?)

Director Avi Nesher spent years churning out crappy straight-to-video action and horror movies – Timebomb with Michael Biehn, Doppelganger with a pre-comeback Drew Barrymore – and his exploitation background can be felt in the uncertain pacing and particularly in its objectification of Porat.

Even so, it’s encouraging to see him trying to make a film that actually says or means something.

It’s a good path to be on; here’s hoping his next film is even better.

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103 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 31). For venues and times see Movies, page 60. Rating: nnn

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From the storyline to the poster, The Bullet Vanishes seems like a Hong Kong homage/rip-off of the recent Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movies. As far as unofficial foreign-language remakes go it’s pretty good, boasting production values that match Hollywood blockbusters’ and enough twists on the formula to avoid charges of plagiarism.

Lau Ching-Wan stars as the eccentric detective Bao, who physically puts himself through the victim’s predicaments to solve crimes. He’s been teamed up with cocky young inspector Guo (Nicholas Tse) and assigned to a series of killings attributed to the ghost of a murdered factory worker. As the body count rises, the cops become

(D: Matthew Diamond, 88 min) Brought to you by the same folks who created the Teletubbies, this flick about colourful creatures who look for magic balloons should appeal to young children – or stoned university students.

The cast includes Christopher Lloyd, Cary Elwes and Jaime Pressly.

Opened Wednesday (August 29).

Nicholas Tse shows that unofficial remakes are elementary.

targets, with shootouts and fisticuffs ensuing.

Director Law Chi-Leung knows the genre, creating a creepy 1930s Shanghai that supports the supernatural element and spicing up his set pieces with techniques like shooting flashbacks as if they were silent films.

Lau and Tse do their reluctant-partner thing well enough to ground the film and compensate for the hysterical cardboard villainy of the factory owner and his goons. The action comes in controlled, choreographed bursts, and the mystery is carefully crafted, with Phil Brown genuine surprises.

The Oogiloves: not coming soon to TIFF.

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Alcoholics Anonymous founder William G. Wilson, and his wife, Lois, share a moment in Bill W. 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

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(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)

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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 quarter 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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, 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.

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THE APPARITION (Todd Lincoln) looks like it

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.

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ran out of money and lost its writer before it finished shooting. How else to describe the jumble of disconnected imagery, plot lines and characters that go nowhere and the most anticlimactic final scene (given away in the misleading trailer, not to mention the poster) of any recent horror film?

Twilight’s Ashley Greene and Gossip Girl’s Sebastian Stan play Kelly and Ben, a young couple taking care of her mom’s big old subBEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Benh urban home in a bizarrely deserted neighZeitlin) is an allegorical drama about the bourhood. Unbenownst to Kelly, Ben’s earspirited, predominantly black inhabitants of lier involvement in a paranormal a fictitious New Orleans district known as experiment has unleashed some entity that “the Bathtub”, seen through the eyes of sixbegins by moving dressers around and year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis). graduates to spreading a particularly nasty The early movements have a powerful, inform of mould in corners and under floortuitive sort of energy, and Wallis is terrific, boards. Every element of Todd Lincoln’s but think about what you’re watching for debut film feels derivative, from the even two seconds and the whole thing colGrudge-like effects to lapses into caricature. 93 min. the Paranormal AcNN (NW) tivity-like furniture TIFF Bell Lightbox EXPANDED REVIEWS rearranging. It’s a THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD pastiche of hoary nowtoronto.com HOTEL (John Madden) is a clichés, like the middling, manipulative movie opening credits of that’s saved by a first-rate cast that inThe X-Files expanded to feature length. 82 cludes Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom min. N (GS) Wilkinson. They play assorted British retirCanada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliees who get lured to a once glorious, now seum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglindilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a ton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress spirited but scattered manager. 124 min.

Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, ScotiaNNN (GS) bank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCanada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange City Yorkdale 30, Kingsway Theatre THE AWAKENING (Nick Murphy) casts RebBILL W. (Kevin Hanlon, Dan Carracino) is an ecca Hall (The Town, Please Give) as a paraearnest, straightforward and oddly unnormal debunker summoned to a remote involving portrait of William G. Wilson, who Cumbrian boarding school in 1920, where a helped change millions of lives via Alcoholstudent has apparently been frightened to ics Anonymous, which he founded in the death by a ghost. Of course, the truth turns 30s. Combining talking heads (AA members out to be far more complicated. As the Old

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of all ages deep in shadow) and competent period recreations, the directors bring out some of the key moments in the organization’s history and shed light on horrific early medical theories, debates about the idea of a higher power and even a pre-civil rights integration issue. It’s not a great documentary, but the man – flawed and always uneasy about becoming the figurehead for the organization – and his message are very important indeed. 104 min. NNN (GS) 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 finds new angles on the Bourne mythology, making nearly every player complicit in awful things at some level even if they think themselves above reproach. And Renner makes a great action hero, slipping into the role of Aaron Cross just as smoothly as Damon made Bourne his signature character. There’s life in this franchise yet.

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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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE BULLET VANISHES (Law Chi-Leung) 103 min. See review, page 58. NNN (Phil Brown) Opens Aug 31 at Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE CAMPAIGN (Jay Roach) stars Will

Ferrell 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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matic middle-school memories that adults have safely tucked away. Based on the Jeff Kinney book, it follows young and scrawny Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon) as he stumbles way down the popularity ladder in his first year at middle school. 91 min. NNN (RS) Interchange 30

Nolan) is less a movie than a colossus, an unstoppable force crashing into your summer, bent on destroying all challengers.

Everything’s inflated for spectacle, with the simplest of dialogue scenes thrumming with nervous energy, and filmed with largeformat IMAX cameras wherever possible for added bombast. But where Nolan’s first two Bat-films felt nimble and restless, The Dark Knight Rises is encumbered by its own self-importance (and its unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement). When he concentrates on the action – a thrilling mid-air prisoner extraction, the villain Bane’s assault on Gotham’s financial heart, a massive climax that plays out on more levels than Inception – Nolan is in total control.

And he can deliver a final flourish like nobody else. The last 30 seconds very nearly had me on my feet cheering. It’s just all the stuff in the middle that needs pruning. 164 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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.

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One of the best movies of 2012 so This elegant, far, this flick about layered take on a kid (voiced by the French Revolution is told Kodi Smit-McPhee) who talks to the from the dead is a funny perspective of Marie Antoinette’s and resonant adventure that’s (Diane Kruger) unafraid to go to lady-in-waiting some serious Sidonie Laborde places.

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(Julian Napier) uses the latest technology to bring opera to the next level – not to mention a potentially new audience. And what better work to begin with than Georges Bizet’s lusty, dramatic warhorse. Christine Rice’s freedom-seeking Carmen is superb – completely in command of her sexuality.

But the real star is the 3-D, which may signal a new direction for the performing arts.

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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

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 cocoonlike limousine, nor his stilted conversations with his wife (Sarah Gadon), his head of security (Kevin Durand) or his theory consultant (Samantha Morton). The film glides along on dreamy inertia, with characters popping up for random conversations before vanishing from the narrative. The result is more interesting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment; you watch it fully aware that it wants to be deconstructed rather than enjoyed. 108 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square

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a Serbian heavy (Dragomir Mrsic) who gains a new perspective on things when he’s forced to take custody of his young daughter. It’s an ambitious set-up, but the demands of the gangster genre take over in the laboured second hour, when shootings, beatings and betrayals squeeze out thoughtful character development and insight. Subtitled. 119 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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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 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, 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

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(Benoît Jacquot) is a fleet, alluring and engrossing take on Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) and the pivotal days of the French Revolution, told from the perspective of Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux), a dutiful lady-inwaiting who recites verses from novels and fashion magazines at the queen’s whim.

Citizens may be storming the Bastille, but Sidonie’s primary fuction is to make sure the queen’s up to date on what’s chic.

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Director Jacquot rarely shows disdain for his historical players, who are humanized

by Sidonie’s compassion. His film’s as layered as the elegant attire on display.

Subtitled. 100 min. NNNN (RS) Varsity

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(Bess Kargman) is a nail-biting doc that follows a handful of aspiring ballet dancers competing in the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix, which awards international attention and lucrative scholarships. 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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ForTuNaTe soN (Tony Asimakopoulos) chronicles the bumpy relationships of the Montreal-based filmmaker with his fiancée and his Greek parents in the months leading up to his wedding, as escalating tensions and health issues bring up old demons and challenge Tony’s identity as a recovering addict. There are moments of genuine drama, and director Asimakopoulos is certainly an intriguing subject, but Fortunate Son never seems to figure out what kind of movie it wants to be; the footage just lumbers toward the wedding, with clips of the director’s Scorsese-wannabe student films inserted every time he needs to cover a transition. The aspirations to profundity are admirable, but this is really just a video diary in search of a hook. Some subtitles. 80 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Morten Tyldum) is an energetic Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief (Aksel Hennie).

When his scheme goes wrong, our hero must go on the run – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running. Director Tyldum keeps the plot twisting in a manner that feels both surprising and logical, but be warned: this is decidedly not for the squeamish. Subtitled. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Regent Theatre

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(Danfung Dennis) is a harrowing study of the human cost of the Afghanistan war that 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 he’s shot in an ambush. Director Dennis, best known as a war photographer, has a terrific “‘Bill W.’ offers a trove of information... through the life of a man whose dedication has helped others understand their own.”

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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. Seems there was somewhere to take the boots-on-the-ground doc after Restrepo and Armadillo after all. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ent 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

hiT & ruN (Dax Shepard, David Palmer) is a weird mashup of romantic comedy and carchase thriller. Charlie (Shepard, who wrote, produced and co-directed), a decent guy in witness protection, decides to risk his neck driving his girlfriend Annie (Kristen Bell) to Los Angeles for a potentially life-changing job interview. They’re pursued by Charlie’s easily flustered minder (Tom Arnold), Annie’s stalkerish 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. The stunt work’s impressive, but it’s ultimately just a distraction. This movie’s really about the conversations Charlie and Annie have when they’re not running for their lives. Real-life couple Shepard and Bell are pretty great as people who’ve been together for a year but are only just getting to know each other, but I wish Shepard had had the confidence as a writer to give them more time off the road. 100 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Martino, 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, Humber Cinema, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

iN my moTher’s arms (Atea Al Daradji, Mohamed Al Daradji) 92 min. See review, page 57. NNN (SGC) Opens Aug 31 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 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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Based on 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, Jason Clarke) whose comfortable Virginia life is threatened by the arrival of a crusading big-city lawman, played by Guy Pearce with slicked-back hair, pigeon strut and shaved eyebrows as a cartoon maniac bristling with the potential for sadistic cruelty.

The script is similarly miscalculated, framing the brothers’ love interests (Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain) in a clumsy Madonna-whore dichotomy and laying on the gangster clichés extra-thick whenever Gary Oldman’s mobster pays a visit to Franklin County. 115 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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 continent-hopping friends. Making a break for New York City by trekking across Europe, the gang joins a travelling circus that includes a sneering Siberian tiger and a sleek jaguar (Jessica Chastain, oozing sex appeal even as a cartoon animal). On their tails is a villainous animal control chief voiced by the magnificent Frances McDormand with malevolent glee. 85 min. NNN (RS) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

MadaM Butterfly 3d is a screening of Puccini’s tragic opera taped live at London’s Royal Opera House and captured in 3-D. 133 min.

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

Killer Joe (William Friedkin) is even

(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.

Matthew McConaughey steals every scene he can as the club’s cagey MC and occasional performer. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, 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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his 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, but he’s roped supposedly sensible performers into making it with him. Viewed from another angle, this could have been an amazing horror-comedy about unwitting dolts who let a tree demon into their home. Every time Hedges pours on the syrupy music and the weird life lessons about opening up and being yourself and saving the local pencil factory – yes, really, that is a plot point – you wish it were.

104 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (Matthew Diamond) 88 min.

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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 MintzPlasse) – 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

THE POSSESSION (Ole Bornedal) 92 min.

See review, page 57. NN (AD) Opens Aug 31 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(David Koepp) may not be the best movie of the summer, but it’s definitely my favourite – a strippeddown action thriller in which gung-ho bike courier Joseph Gordon-Levitt and dirty cop Michael Shannon chase each other up, down and around the west side of Manhattan for possession of a very valuable envelope. It’s pulp filmmaking at its purest, a whizzy B-movie concept elevated to greatness by Koepp’s endlessly resourceful direction and engagingly self-aware script (cowritten with his Ghost Town partner, John Kamps), a charismatic star turn by GordonLevitt and a bravura performance by Shannon, who’s the best he’s ever been – and, yes, that’s really saying something. This was the most fun I’ve had at the megaplex all year. Some subtitles. 93 min. NNNN (NW) 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, Silver-

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PROmETHEUS (Ridley Scott) follows a team of corporate explorers to a distant celestial body, where they encounter something very similar to what the crew of Nostromo found in Alien – or will find, since this film takes place a good quarter-century before that one. But Prometheus doesn’t enhance or complement the original Alien as much as it builds a video-game module onto it, a weightless digital creation that can’t hold a candle to the original’s grimy analog impact. 119 min. NN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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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 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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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 ROBOT & fRANk (Jake Schreier) features another sterling lion-in-winter turn from Frank Langella as a former cat burglar struggling with Alzheimer’s, and an utterly credible near-future setting in which advanced technology is convincingly integrated into the everyday lives of its upstate New York characters. The supporting performances are also solid: James Marsden and Liv Tyler as Frank’s well-meaning yet distant kids, Susan Sarandon as a sympathetic librarian and Peter Sarsgaard as the voice of Frank’s little helper, a robot with an amoral nature that makes it the perfect accomplice for a couple of jobs Frank’s been meaning to pull.

Jeremy Sisto turns in a gem of a cameo as a small-town sheriff who has no patience for fools but great respect for master criminals.

In fact, Robot & Frank is so good that it’s doubly awful to watch it self-destruct in the last reel thanks to a profoundly stupid and ultimately unnecessary plot twist. 88 min. NNN (NW) 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) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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row) can’t really compete with the headier, more thoughtful lo-fi sci-fi of Another Earth and Sound Of My Voice. But as a hipster rom-com about people trying to shake off their pasts to make present-day connections, it’s pretty satisfying until the overreaching ending. 94 min. NNN (NW) Regent Theatre

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 girl-

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friend (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, 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. Unbeknownst to him, bootleg copies of his albums reached South Africa, where the music inspired the nation.

South Africans thought him dead until two self-appointed Cape Town sleuths decided to resurrect the legend. Don’t google Rodriguez before seeing this doc. Its pleasures come from the enigma and the revelations to an audience as ignorant of the facts as the South Africans whose investigation is the main focus. By celebrating this unsung hero and turning people on to his music, the film aims to redeem history’s slight. 85 min. NNN (RS) Varsity

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

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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 dances, after all. 106 min. NNN (RS) 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) Mt Pleasant

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(Seth MacFarlane) is the feature debut by Family Guy creator MacFarlane, who also voices the titular knee-high teddy bear owned since boyhood by John (Mark Wahlberg). The toy-come-to-life spews quick-witted, toxic verbiage that’s guaranteed to offend with jokes about race, sexual orientation and religion, but cares when it’s this fucking hilarious? 106 min.

NNNN (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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.

NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant TO ROmE WITH LOVE (Woody Allen) has a

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, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

TOTAL REcALL (Len Wiseman) manages to

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. You’d think a movie that steals so much from Blade Runner, Minority Report, I Robot and Inception would be more exciting than this. Or at least entertaining. 118 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

2 DAyS IN NEW yORk (Julie Delpy) is osten-

sibly a sequel to writer/director/star Delpy’s 2007 dramedy 2 Days In Paris, catching up with her character Marion a few years down the road. Marion’s insouciance has curdled into whiny self-indulgence, and gags about her crass, lusty family land like bricks. Some subtitles. 96 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

THE WATcH (Akiva Schaffer) boasts a talented cast, but comedy is as rare a sighting here as UFOs are on Earth. Suburbanites form a neighbourhood watch patrol, only to discover they’re under attack by aliens. The few laughs hinge on witty criticisms of race relations and suburbia. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as good as Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block, which explored similar terrain.

98 min. NN (RS) Colossus, SilverCity Mississauga 3

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Bloor Hot Docs cinema (i) 506 Bloor st. W., 416-637-3123

Hell and Back again Fri 4:00 in My MotHer’s arMs Fri 6:45 sat-sun 6:30 Wed 9:45

carlton cinema (i) 20 carlton, 416-494-9371

Bearcity 2: tHe ProPosal Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25 tHe Best exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) 1:30, 6:50 Bill W. thu 1:20, 6:45 Fri-Wed 1:50, 7:15 tHe caMPaign (14A) thu 2:00 4:15 7:20 9:20 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:20 easy Money thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:10, 1:25, 3:55 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) thu 1:45, 4:00, 7:15, 9:25 FriWed 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fortunate son thu 4:25, 9:30 Hit & run (14A) thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:05 tHe intoucHaBles (14A) thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 FriWed 4:05, 9:35 laWless (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 ParanorMan (PG) thu 1:40, 3:50, 6:55, 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:20, 6:55 ruBy sParks (14A) Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:40 to roMe WitH love (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:05 total recall (14A) thu 4:05, 9:40 2 days in neW york Fri-Wed 4:25, 9:30

rainBoW market square (i) market square, 80 Front st e, 416-494-9371

tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:00, 3:45, 9:20 Fri 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20, 11:40 sat-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 tHe caMPaign (14A) 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:15 thu 9:15 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) thu 1:10, 4:30, 8:00 FriWed 9:00 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) 7:05, 9:25 thu 1:05, 3:40 mat Fri 11:35 late laWless (14A) thu 1:10, 3:30, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 1:10, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30, 11:45 sat-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 ParanorMan (PG) thu 3:00 5:00 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 tHe Possession (14A) 1:05, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15 Fri 11:15 late PreMiuM rusH (14A) 12:45, 3:05, 5:15, 7:30, 9:35 Fri 11:30 late

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

tHe aPParition (PG) thu 1:55, 4:10, 6:15, 8:30, 11:00 Fri 1:10, 3:45, 6:05, 8:15, 10:30 sat-tue 1:10, 3:45, 6:10, 8:15, 10:30 Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:15, 8:15, 10:30 tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:55 Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50, 10:50 tHe dark knigHt rises: tHe iMax exPerience (PG) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30, 11:00

tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) 3:15, 6:40, 10:10 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) thu 12:30 1:10 3:00 4:20 5:30 7:10 8:10 9:40 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 5:40, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 killer Joe thu 2:30 5:15 7:50 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 laWless (14A) thu 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Magic Mike (14A) thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Moonrise kingdoM (PG) thu 1:00 4:25 6:50 9:20 FriWed 1:40, 4:25, 6:45, 9:20 PreMiuM rusH (14A) 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 ProMetHeus 3d (14A) thu 12:40, 3:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 savages (18A) thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:30 total recall (14A) thu 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:50 Fri-tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05

tiFF Bell ligHtBox (i) 350 king st W, 416-599-8433

ai WeiWei: never sorry (14A) thu-sun 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Beasts oF tHe soutHern Wild (PG) thu-sun 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 coMPliance (14A) thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 Fri, sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:15, 9:30 sat 12:30, 3:15, 6:15 First Position (G) thu 1:00, 8:30 Fri-sun 1:00, 6:00, 8:30 JaWs (14A) Fri-sun 3:00, 8:00

varsitY (ce)

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304 and iF We all lived togetHer? thu 2:25, 4:40, 10:00 Fri-mon 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 tue-Wed 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 tHe Bourne legacy (14A) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 FareWell, My Queen 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 HoPe sPrings (14A) thu 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:00 tHe Queen oF versailles thu 2:05 4:30 7:00 9:30 FriWed 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 roBot & Frank (PG) 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 searcHing For sugar Man (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:45, 5:55, 8:05, 10:15 to roMe WitH love (PG) thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:55

VIP SCREENINGS

tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-tue 3:30, 6:35, 9:35 Wed 6:35, 9:35 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) thu 2:10, 5:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 2:25, 6:25, 9:55 HoPe sPrings (14A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 roBot & Frank (PG) thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50

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

tHe aMazing sPider-Man 3d (PG) Fri, tue 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 sat-mon 12:05, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 tHe aMazing sPider-Man: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 tHe aMazing sPider-Man (PG) thu 2:50, 6:00, 9:05 tHe ant Bully (G) sat 11:00 tHe aWakening (PG) thu 1:05, 3:35, 6:00, 8:50 Fri, tue 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 sat-mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 2:45 Brave (PG) thu 1:00 Fri, tue-Wed 2:55 sat-mon 12:30 Brave 3d (PG) thu 3:25, 6:00, 8:30 Fri, tue-Wed 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 sat-mon 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 tHe Bullet vanisHes 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 sat-mon 11:30 mat tHe caMPaign (14A) thu 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-mon 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 tue-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 celeste and Jesse Forever thu 1:10, 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 Fri, tue-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 sat-mon 12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 diary oF a WiMPy kid: dog days (G) thu 1:40, 4:10,

6:30 Fri-sat, tue-Wed 2:40, 4:50 sun-mon 12:30, 2:40, 4:50 ek tHa tiger (14A) 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 sat 11:10 mat For a good tiMe, call... (18A) Fri-mon 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 tue-Wed 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 Hit & run (14A) thu, Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-tue 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 HoPe sPrings (14A) thu-mon 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 tueWed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 ice age: continental driFt (PG) thu-Fri 1:50 sat-mon 11:30, 1:50 tue-Wed 4:35 ice age: continental driFt 3d (PG) thu-mon 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 tue-Wed 7:15, 9:40 Marvel’s tHe avengers 3d (PG) thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Marvel’s tHe avengers: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) Fri-mon 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 tue-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) thu 1:30, 2:30, 5:00, 6:55, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, tue-Wed 3:20, 6:05, 8:45 satmon 12:45, 3:20, 6:05, 8:45 tHe oogieloves in tHe Big Balloon adventure (G) thu 1:55 4:15 7:05 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:15, 6:25 sat-mon 12:00 mat ParanorMan (PG) thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Fri, tue-Wed 2:05 sat-sun 11:35, 2:05 mon 11:55, 2:05 ParanorMan 3d (PG) thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 FriWed 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 tHe Possession (14A) Fri 1:00, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 8:10, 9:15, 10:25 sat-mon 11:55, 1:00, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 8:10, 9:15, 10:25 tue-Wed 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 8:10, 9:15, 10:25 r2B: return to Base thu-Fri, sun-mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 tue-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 red ligHts thu 9:10 ruBy sParks (14A) thu 10:05 Fri 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 sat-mon 11:30, 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 tue-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 sHirin FarHad ki toH nikal Padi (PG) 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30 sParkle (PG) thu 1:10, 3:50, 4:05, 6:35, 9:20, 9:25 Frimon 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 tue-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 steP uP revolution 3d (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 ted (14A) 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 sat-mon 11:40 mat to roMe WitH love (PG) thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 FriWed 8:35

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

tHe aPParition (PG) thu 4:35, 7:00, 9:10 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 9:30 sat-mon 2:40, 4:45, 7:30, 9:30 tue-Wed 4:45, 7:15 tHe Best exotic Marigold Hotel (PG) thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-mon 8:50 cosMoPolis (14A) thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 sat-mon 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 tue-Wed 4:10, 6:40 Hit & run (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 sat-mon 2:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00 ice age: continental driFt (PG) thu 4:30, 6:55, 9:00 tHe intoucHaBles (14A) thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri 3:55, 6:20, 8:45 sat-mon 1:30, 3:55, 6:20, 8:45 tue-Wed 3:55, 6:20 Moonrise kingdoM (PG) thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:25 sat-mon 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:25 tue-Wed 4:30, 6:45 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) Fri 4:15, 7:00, 9:15 sat-mon 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15 tue-Wed 4:15, 6:50 tHe oogieloves in tHe Big Balloon adventure (G) thu, tue-Wed 4:40, 7:10 Fri 4:30, 6:55 sat-mon 2:30, 4:30, 6:55 to roMe WitH love (PG) thu 4:00, 6:30, 8:55 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 sat-mon 1:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 tue-Wed 4:05, 6:30 2 days in neW york thu 9:25

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 take tHis Waltz (14A) thu-sat, Wed 7:00 sun-mon 4:25 360 Fri-sat 9:30 sun-mon 7:00

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

HeadHunters (14A) thu-sat 7:00 sun-mon 4:30 saFety not guaranteed (14A) Fri-sat 8:55 sun-mon, Wed 7:00

silvercitY Yonge (ce) 2300 Yonge st, 416-544-1236

tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri, sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 tHe caMPaign (14A) thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 sat 12:35, 2:45, 5:00, 7:40, 9:50 mon-tue 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Wed 3:15, 9:50 carMen in 3d encore sat 12:30 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) thu 2:30 6:30 10:10 FriWed 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 montue 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Hit & run (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 HoPe sPrings (14A) thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, sun 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 sat 3:40, 6:50, 9:30 mon-tue 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Wed 3:50, 9:40 laWless (14A) Fri-sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 MadaM ButterFly 3d Wed 7:00 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 ParanorMan (PG) thu 1:15 Fri, sun-Wed 1:40 sat 1:20 ParanorMan 3d (PG) thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-sun 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 tHe Possession (14A) Fri, sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 mon 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 tue-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 PreMiuM rusH (14A) thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:10 sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 mon-tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35

Metro

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

tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Brave (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:15, 6:30 tHe caMPaign (14A) Fri-Wed 6:45 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) Fri-Wed 8:40 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:20 HoPe sPrings (14A) Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 ice age: continental driFt (PG) Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:40 Marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Fri-Wed 8:30 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 6:35, 9:00 ParanorMan (PG) thu 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) 5:00 tHe intoucHaBles (14A) thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 3:00, 9:15 Madagascar 3: euroPe’s Most Wanted (G) 11:45 Moonrise kingdoM (PG) 1:20 360 thu 9:15 to roMe WitH love (PG) 7:20

queensWaY (ce)

1025 tHe queensWaY, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 tHe aMazing sPider-Man 3d (PG) thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, mon-tue 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 sat-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 1:15, 4:25, 10:30 tHe ant Bully (G) sat 11:00

tHe aPParition (PG) thu 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 Fri, mon-Wed 1:40, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 sat 11:45, 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 sun 1:55, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10, 10:25 Fri, mon-tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 sat-sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Brave (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 1:20, 3:45 sat 11:05, 1:30, 3:55 sun 1:30, 3:55 tHe caMPaign (14A) thu 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:10 sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:10 carMen in 3d (PG) sat 12:30 tHe dark knigHt rises (PG) thu 2:40, 6:40, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 1:10, 4:40, 8:20 sat-sun 1:05, 4:40, 8:20 diary oF a WiMPy kid: dog days (G) thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, mon-Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:20 sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 sun 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) thu 1:20, 2:20, 3:50, 4:55, 6:45, 7:45, 9:35, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 sat 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 sun 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Hit & run (14A) thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, monWed 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 sat 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 sun 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 HoPe sPrings (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, montue 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 ice age: continental driFt (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20 sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:50 sun 2:30, 4:50 laWless (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 sat 11:20 mat MadaM ButterFly 3d Wed 7:00 Marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 6:15, 9:20 sat-sun 6:30, 9:35 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 sat 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 tHe oogieloves in tHe Big Balloon adventure (G) thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:45, 7:55 Fri, mon-Wed 2:15, 4:30, 6:55 sat 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00 sun 2:45, 4:55, 7:00 ParanorMan (PG) thu 1:00 Fri, mon-tue 2:30 sat 12:45, 3:05 sun 3:05 Wed 2:05 ParanorMan 3d (PG) thu 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri, mon-tue 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 sat-sun 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 4:30, 7:25, 9:50 tHe Possession (14A) Fri, mon-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 sun 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 PreMiuM rusH (14A) thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri, mon-tue 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 sat 11:05, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 sun 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Wed 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 roBot & Frank (PG) thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 Fri, montue 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 sun 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 sParkle (PG) thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, mon-Wed 9:25 sat-sun 9:10 ted (14A) Fri, mon-Wed 9:45 sat-sun 10:00 total recall (14A) thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, monWed 7:40, 10:30 sat-sun 7:50, 10:35

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WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 tHe Bourne legacy (14A) thu-tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Brave (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 4:15 tHe caMPaign (14A) thu 7:15, 9:15 diary oF a WiMPy kid: dog days (G) thu 12:45, 2:50, 5:00 tHe exPendaBles 2 (14A) 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 Hit & run (14A) thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:20 laWless (14A) 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:25 Marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:35 tHe odd liFe oF tiMotHy green (G) 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 ParanorMan (PG) thu 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:20 FriWed 7:15, 12:40, 4:05 tHe Possession (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 PreMiuM rusH (14A) 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15

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THE ANT BULLY (G) Sat 11:00 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:55, 6:05, 8:15, 10:25 Fri-Wed 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 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 1:50, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:40, 6:40, 10:15 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (G) Thu 4:40 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri-Wed 1:00 LAWLESS (14A) Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15 PARANORMAN (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 1:05 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:15 THE POSSESSION (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 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 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 SPARKLE (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:25, 7:10 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:00

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COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

THE ANT BULLY (G) Sat 11:00 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:40 Sat 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:40 Mon-Tue 2:00, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 2:00, 7:05, 9:30 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:30 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Fri-Mon 9:35 Tue-Wed 9:50 CARMEN IN 3D ENCORE Sat 12:30 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:45, 9:10, 10:25 Fri-Sun 2:50, 6:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:50, 6:30, 10:00 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 1:10, 1:40, 4:15, 4:30, 7:20, 7:25, 10:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 THE HEALING Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 MonWed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:25 Fri, Sun 2:20 Sat 1:00 Mon-Tue 1:30 Wed 1:30, 4:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:30 FriSun 4:40, 7:05 Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:05 LAWLESS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 MonWed 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 MADAM BUTTERFLY 3D Wed 7:00 PARANORMAN (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri, Sun 12:55 Sat 12:00 Mon-Wed 2:40 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 THE POSSESSION (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:55, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 SPARKLE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 7:20 Mon-Tue 1:00, 7:15 Wed 1:05, 7:15 TED (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Fri-Wed 4:25, 10:05

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

THE ANT BULLY (G) Sat 11:00 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Fri-Mon 5:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:50, 9:40 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:40 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 BRAVE (PG) 1:40 Sat 11:10 mat THE BULLET VANISHES Fri-Mon 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Mon 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:40, 10:15 Fri-

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Mon 3:00, 6:45, 10:20 Tue-Wed 5:20, 9:00 Diary of a Wimpy KiD: Dog Days (G) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:35 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35 Mon 2:30, 5:00, 7:40 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:50 EK Tha TigEr (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri, Sun 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Mon 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 TueWed 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 hiT & run (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Mon 2:55, 7:45 Tue-Wed 7:05 hopE springs (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, SunMon 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 12:25, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 TueWed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT (PG) 2:20 Sat 11:50 mat JoKEr Fri-Mon 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 laWlEss (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:15, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:20, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 marvEl’s ThE avEngErs (PG) Fri-Mon 9:50 Tue-Wed 9:10 ThE oDD lifE of TimoThy grEEn (G) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Mon 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 11:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 ThE oogiElovEs in ThE big balloon aDvEnTurE (G) Thu 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 Sat 11:00, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 Mon 3:00, 5:15, 7:35 Tue-Wed 4:30, 6:50 paranorman (PG) Thu 2:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:40 Sat 11:20, 12:15 paranorman 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri, Sun 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 prEmium rush (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, Sun 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Mon 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 sparKlE (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri-Mon 10:05 Tue-Wed 9:30

ThE campaign (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 ThE DarK KnighT risEs: ThE imax ExpEriEncE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 ThE DarK KnighT risEs (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Diary of a Wimpy KiD: Dog Days (G) Thu 2:30, 5:10 Fri, Mon 1:45 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:20, 4:35, 6:40, 7:40, 9:25, 10:15 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 7:25, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 hiT & run (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 hopE springs (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT (PG) Fri, Mon 2:15 Sat-Sun 11:30 laWlEss (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 marvEl’s ThE avEngErs (PG) Fri-Mon 9:10 Tue-Wed 9:20 ThE oDD lifE of TimoThy grEEn (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:45, 6:20 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:10 ThE oogiElovEs in ThE big balloon aDvEnTurE (G) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:25 Fri, Mon 2:50, 4:55, 7:00 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:20 paranorman (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri, Mon 12:55 Sat-Sun 12:10 paranorman 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:10, 9:10 Fri-Mon 3:15, 6:35, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri, Mon 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 prEmium rush (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:30 Fri, Mon 1:20, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:50, 8:10, 10:30 sparKlE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Mon 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Mon 9:20 TueWed 9:10

WoodSide CineMaS (i)

ThE appariTion (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 8:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:35, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Mon 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Tue 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 Wed 6:00, 8:10 bravE (PG) Thu 1:30 Fri 2:00 Sat-Sun 1:10 Mon 1:15 bravE 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Mon 3:55, 7:00, 9:30 Tue 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Wed 5:10, 7:45 hopE springs (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 1:55, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Tue 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 5:40, 8:30 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Mon 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 Tue 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Wed 5:00, 7:50 maDagascar 3: EuropE’s mosT WanTED (G) Thu 1:55, 4:45, 7:05 Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Tue 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Wed 4:45, 8:40 magic miKE (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 paranorman (PG) Thu 2:05 Fri 2:20 Sat-Sun 1:00 Mon 1:55 paranorman 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Fri 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 Sat-Sun 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Mon 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 Tue 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Wed 5:20, 7:40 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Mon 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Tue 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 4:55, 8:00 prEmium rush (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:25, 8:00, 10:15 Mon 1:00, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 10:00 Tue 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 5:50, 9:00 To romE WiTh lovE (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon 1:35, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Tue 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 6:10, 8:50 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Mon 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 5:30, 8:20 ThE WaTch (18A) Thu 9:20

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18 vayasu (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 EK Tha TigEr (14A) Thu 3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 9:00, 10:30 JoKEr 4:45, 7:00, 9:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat

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

ThE amazing spiDEr-man 3D (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Wed no 7:05 ThE anT bully (G) Sat 11:00 ThE appariTion (PG) Thu 1:35, 3:45, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 Sat 1:25, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 ThE bournE lEgacy (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:00, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 bravE (PG) Thu 1:45 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:35 Sat 11:40, 12:35 bravE 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:30, 8:50 Fri-Tue 2:45, 4:55 Wed 3:35 carmEn in 3D EncorE Sat 12:30 ThE DarK KnighT risEs: ThE imax ExpEriEncE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 ThE DarK KnighT risEs (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:10, 9:45 FriWed 2:20, 6:00, 9:30 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 2:20, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:50 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 hiT & run (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:30 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 3:55, 6:30 maDam buTTErfly 3D Wed 7:00 marvEl’s ThE avEngErs 3D (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Sat 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 ThE oDD lifE of TimoThy grEEn (G) Thu 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Tue 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 sparKlE (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 9:00 Sat 11:00, 9:00 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Tue 7:20, 10:05 Wed 6:45, 9:35

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110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 416-335-5323 ThE amazing spiDEr-man 3D (PG) Fri-Mon 3:00, 6:50, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 ThE appariTion (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Mon 4:05, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 ThE bournE lEgacy (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35, 10:10 Fri, Mon 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 bravE (PG) Fri, Mon 12:30 Sat-Sun 11:45

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

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

ThE amazing spiDEr-man 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 ThE anT bully (G) Sat 11:00 bravE (PG) Thu-Mon 1:30 bravE 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 4:00, 6:45 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:45 ThE campaign (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55 FriMon 12:55, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 Tue-Wed 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 ThE DarK KnighT risEs: ThE imax ExpEriEncE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 ThE DarK KnighT risEs (PG) Thu-Mon 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 6:30, 10:00 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 7:00, 8:05, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:15, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:20 hopE springs (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:55, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT (PG) Thu 2:55 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:45 Sat 11:30

icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT 3D (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:15 Sat 1:45, 4:20, 6:40, 9:15 laWlEss (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 maDagascar 3: EuropE’s mosT WanTED (G) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Tue-Wed 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 paranorman (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:10, 6:35, 9:15 Fri, SunMon 12:35 Sat 12:10 paranorman 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 FriMon 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Tue-Wed 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 prEmium rush (14A) Thu-Mon 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:15 sparKlE (PG) Thu-Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 sTEp up rEvoluTion (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 FriMon 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 TED (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 ThE WaTch (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:30

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30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 ThE appariTion (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30 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 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 ThE bEsT ExoTic marigolD hoTEl (PG) Thu 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 Mon 2:10, 5:00, 7:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:40 ThE bournE lEgacy (14A) Thu, Tue-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 Mon 3:00, 4:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 7:45 Diary of a Wimpy KiD (PG) Fri 4:15 Sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:35 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:25 Mon 2:30, 5:05 Tue-Wed 5:05 EK Tha TigEr (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:10 Fri 6:15, 9:30 Sat 2:45, 6:15, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:25 Mon 3:10, 7:10 hiT & run (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30 Mon 2:15, 5:15, 7:45 JoKEr Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:00, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:00, 6:45 Mon 2:45, 6:45 Tue-Wed 6:45 magic miKE (14A) Thu, Tue-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 Mon 2:20, 5:15, 8:00 marvEl’s ThE avEngErs (PG) Fri 6:35, 9:35 Sat 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 7:25 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 ThE oDD lifE of TimoThy grEEn (G) Thu 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:00, 7:00 Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:00 ThE oogiElovEs in ThE big balloon aDvEnTurE (G) Thu 4:45, 7:45 Fri 4:45, 7:15, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:15 Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:00 Tue 4:45, 7:00 Wed 4:45 savagEs (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:30 Fri-Sat 6:55, 9:45 Sun-Wed 7:35

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ProMenade Mall, hWy 7 & baThurST, 416-494-9371 ThE bournE lEgacy (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:25 FriWed 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 FriWed 7:10, 9:25 hopE springs (14A) 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 laWlEss (14A) Thu 1:30 4:25 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 paranorman (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:05, 9:10 FriWed 1:25, 3:50 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 9:35 prEmium rush (14A) 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15

West grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

ThE bournE lEgacy (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sat-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:00, 7:10 ThE campaign (14A) Thu 5:35, 7:50, 10:00 Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat-Mon 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Wed 5:30, 7:45 ThE DarK KnighT risEs (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:50 Fri, Tue 6:15, 9:45 Sat-Mon 2:30, 6:15, 9:45 Wed 6:30 ThE ExpEnDablEs 2 (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Mon 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Wed 4:45, 7:20 hiT & run (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Tue 4:15, 9:30 Wed 4:15 hopE springs (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Tue 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 4:30, 7:05 icE agE: conTinEnTal DrifT (PG) Thu 4:45 Sat-Mon 2:00 laWlEss (14A) Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:10, 7:00 ThE oDD lifE of TimoThy grEEn (G) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 6:45 Sat-Mon 1:40, 6:45 paranorman (PG) Sat-Mon 1:50 paranorman 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Tue 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Wed 4:20, 6:50 ThE possEssion (14A) Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Mon 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 5:00, 7:30 prEmium rush (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Mon 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Wed 5:15, 7:40 ToTal rEcall (14A) Thu 7:05, 9:45 3

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

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The Story Of Lovers Rock kicks off the Caribbean Tales Fest September 5.

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

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

Nakache and Eric Toledano. 7 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012) D: Benh Zeitlin.

9:15 pm.

Fri 31 – Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 7pm. The Amazing Spiderman 3D (2012) D: Marc Webb. sat 1-Mon 3 – The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 1:30 & 9 pm. Moonrise Kingdom.

4:15 & 7 pm. tue 4– The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 6:45 pm.

Moonrise Kingdom. 9:15 pm. wed 5 – The Amazing Spiderman 3D. 1:30 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) D: John Madden. 6:45 pm. Moonrise Kingdom.

9:15 pm.

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festivals

thu 30 – 2 Days In New York (2012) D: Julie

caribbean tales film festival

Magic Mike (2012) D: Steven Soderbergh. 9 pm. sat 1-sun 2 – The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) D: Marc Webb. 7 pm. Magic Mike. 9:30 pm.

Mon 3 – Closed. tue 4-wed 5 – Magic Mike. 7 pm. The Amazing Spider-Man. 9 pm.

Delpy. 9:30 pm.

Fri 31 – Transcendent (2012) D: Ray Xue. 7 pm.

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9 pm. tue 4 – Cinema Politica presents Portrait Of Resistance: The Art And Activism Of Carole Condé And Karl Beveridge (2010) D: Roz Owen. 6:45 pm. Suggested donation $2-$5. cinemapolitica.org/bloor. Sushi: The Global Catch. 9:30 pm.

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ditches its golden light and soft guitar for a plunge into Victorian melodrama. Thrill to the raging storm, the bitter rivals and the helpless child clinging to the rickety suspension bridge over the gushing torrent and under the falling tree house.

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By Dan Savage

Don’t dismiss sexsomnia not sure that even You can help with

this one, but I’ll give it a shot…

My husband and I enjoy a solid, trusting BDSM relationship, and we’re both quite happy not only with our sex lives but our lives together in general. There is one issue that concerns me. Roughly twice a month, in the middle of the night, my husband will “attack” me sexually in his sleep. I use the term “attack” lightly, because the moment lasts for about 30 seconds, and generally I am able to ignore it and go back to sleep. However, there are times when I become frightened by these incidents and can’t seem to “get over it” by morning. Generally, the attacks amount to my husband groping my breast painfully and aggressively, violently digitally penetrating me, attempting to penetrate me with his penis (vaginally or orally), and/or shoving me.

He doesn’t ejaculate or anything, as it is a very short incident.

He is completely unaware of what he is doing when he does it, and I have been able to wake him up (when I have been lucid enough) as it is happening (if it lasts that long). He does masturbate in his sleep every so often (never to ejaculation), and so I’m figuring this is connected somehow. We have an active sex life, and he has assured me that he is not sexually dissatisfied, and I do believe him.

I have spoken to him about these incidents, and even though I try to laugh them off to hide my fear, he feels terrible about what he’s done. He is fully asleep

when these incidents occur, so it’s not as if he can do anything about them. I have stopped telling him when the incidents happen because I don’t want him to feel so bad about something he can’t control.

I have tried seeking advice from other places, but I am usually told to “just ignore it” or “just enjoy it.” I don’t enjoy it. I can’t ignore it. It hurts and it scares me.

Should I just ignore it and enjoy it? Is this a common problem? Is there even an answer? Am I being too sensitive?

Scared Of Stiffy “SOS’s husband has semi-regular sexsomnia, a subtype of sleepwalking,” says Jesse Bering, a psychological scientist and a regular contributor to Scientific American and Slate, “and SOS is not being too sensitive.”

Bering devotes a chapter of his terrific new book – Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? And Other Reflections On Being Human – to the phenomenon of sexsomnia.

“Involuntary sexual ‘automatisms’ occur within two hours of sleep onset, during non-REM sleep,” says Bering. “In most cases, these are harmless enough – gyrating against a pillow, vacuous masturbation. But there are also more violent and worrisome automatisms, such as those making SOS so understandably uncomfortable. In fact, there have been several high-profile rape and child abuse cases involving sexsomnia.”

Luckily, there is an answer, SOS, something your husband can do about his problem.

“The good news is that sexsomnia responds well to pharmaceuticals, so SOS’s husband should find a knowledgeable doctor who is willing to prescribe a low dose of one of the benzodiazepines (such as clonazepam) to take before bedtime,” says Bering.

But your husband is unlikely to get the help he needs if you continue to minimize the problem for fear of making him feel bad. Stop laughing these violent episodes off, SOS, and start telling him about every one. Explain to your husband that all this violent sleepfucking has left you feeling traumatized and that he has to see a doctor as soon as possible. Hearing that might make your husband feel terrible,

SOS, but these episodes are making you feel terrible. Why shouldn’t he feel terrible about them, too?

Clues for sexsomniacs i accidentallY raped mY boYfriend. I awoke to find my boyfriend rubbing up against me. After a little while, he pulled my hand, motioning for me to get on top of him to have sex, as he has done many times before. I obliged, and all was well until he apparently woke up and pushed me off of him. I did not have any indication that he was asleep, since he was an active participant the entire time and was NOT lying there like a dead fish. In the morning, he expressed his displeasure about being woken up with sex. He said he felt really violated. I apologized and explained my understanding of the situation. Now he says he feels really weird about what happened and he can’t stomach me touching him. What should I do?

Reeling After Problematic Intimate Sex Transgression You did not rape your boyfriend.

You didn’t ask me to weigh in on whether or not you raped your boyfriend, RAPIST, but I felt obligated to toss that out there.

Your boyfriend may or may not be a sexsomniac – this is just one incident – but he initiated routine (for you guys) sexual activity in his sleep, and you reciprocated.

Once he woke up and you both realized what was going on, you immediately stopped. Mistakes were made, RAPIST, but no one was raped.

As for what you should do, well, I think you should dump the guilt-tripping, blame-shifting motherfucker. But if you want to keep seeing this guy, RAPIST, you need a simple way to determine whether he’s fully awake when he seems to be initiating sex in the middle of the night.

Two or three hard slaps across the face might do the trick.

Jesse Bering has a kinder, gentler suggestion.

“In light of this experience, RAPIST may find herself feeling a bit gun-shy about any middle-of-the-night sex initiated by her boyfriend or any future boyfriends,” says Bering. “After all, how can she know

if he’s fully awake and innocently in the mood or just having another episode?

Here’s how: She should have an agreement with her boyfriend that, from now on, he will ‘flick’ his penis a few times for her by clenching his PC (pubococcygeus) muscle on initiating nocturnal sex.”

And how will that help?

“Penile flicking is an intentional action,” explains Bering, and one that cannot be performed by a sleepfucking sexsomniac at his partner’s request. “It’s a subtle, conscious signal to assure you that you’re not dealing with a lascivious zombie.”

For more of Jesse Bering, check out his website, jessebering.com. You can follow Bering on Twitter @JesseBering.

Pillow was a weapon You will no doubt get some flak for

your response to the snowboarder who needs a finger up his ass in order to come.

He stated that he is so ashamed of this practice that when he’s fucking a girl and wants to come, he pushes the woman’s face in a pillow to hide it. How could you let that little bit of mini-sadism pass without comment? I hope you will throw a comment in next week’s column to acknowledge it. You are normally so thorough in your replies, Dan! Pillow Fight You’re right, PF, I dropped the ball in that response.

BUMMED wrote that he goes “to great lengths to hide” his need for prostate stimulation, adding that he will “push [a girl’s] head in a pillow” when he fingers himself. And he was worried that the last girl he slept with must have seen him fingering himself – seen it and concluded he was gay – because she wasn’t responding to his texts.

A little addendum for BUMMED: That girl might not be returning your texts because she didn’t appreciate having her face smashed into a pillow. You can do what you like with your asshole, bro, without being an asshole.

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