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This week’s NOW Magazine aptly touches on our mayor’s recent epiphany wherein he blissfully chanced upon the notion that “you can’t put a price on democracy” (NOW, August 2228). Truth be told, this maxim, or more so aphorism, has been (re-)conceived and touched upon recurrently for over two millennia, i.e., whenever the topic of politics was broached by a gown- or toga-clad party within certain social circles. Hence, it’s sheer happenstance (I
hate using the belaboured term “serendipity,” as it’s simply a river in India) that the muses momentarily alighted on our fearless leader’s mental faculties out of the blue one fine day. Yet be assured his handlers will henceforth milk this newfound motto relentlessly, and brazenly market said epiphany as Robbie’s own personal catchphrase come election time. Interestingly, last Thursday’s Star ran a page-8 article on long-time NDP supporter (and nonagenarian) Joy Tay lor, who apparently had her own wonderful epiphany to the effect that, to quote her, “You can’t put a price on honesty.”
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Although she wasn’t subsequently lauded for it (in the same vein as our fearless leader), you can imagine what Ford’s camp could do with that one. William Gouzelis Toronto
Preaching to empty pews on Ford? Enzo DiMatteo asks, “Is it going to take protests in the streets to hold Ford accountable?” (NOW, August 2228). Why doesn’t he organize one and find out? He will also find out whether his almost weekly anti-Ford columns have a wide loyal readership and whether he has enough influence to motivate them to join his one-man protest Or has he been preaching to almost empty pews in his anti-Ford church all this time? G. Lee Toronto
On justice for Sammy Yatim vs Rob Ford Enzo DiMatteo is right to keep attention focused on the bottom-feeding sleazebags who comprise at least part of Rob Ford’s inner circle. He suggests that large street protests might be needed before we “get justice from cops... like the [Sammy] Yatim shooting.” Despite Constable James Forcillo now facing a second-degree murder charge, the only thing Yatim has so far received from Toronto police is the gravest of injustices imaginable. Robert McBride Toronto
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I was with letter-writer D. Hebert until the closing statement, “Take that, Russia!” (NOW, August 22-28). It is not Russia that people should be against in the Sochi Olympics boy cott, but Vladimir Putin. I don’t think it was what Susan G. Cole intended (NOW, August 15-21), but I keep reading comments with animosity mistakenly directed toward Russia and Russians. It’s a dangerous use of language, even if it’s meant as a synecdoche of the whole-for-the-part variety. I’m surprised that NOW included that closing line in the pull-quote in the print edition. I expected more from a publication that seems so cognizant of the subtleties of language. Tomás Rosado Toronto
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Susan G. Cole’s review of The Rascals: Once Upon A Dream (NOW, August 22-28) had to be one of the worst ever. Anyone who’s old enough to remember the Rascals will agree that this show was nothing short of magnificent. Cole referred to “meaningless moments from the band’s past.” These were some of my favourite highlights. Most of the audience enjoyed themselves immensely. Very few of us wanted to hear about the “relationship between the members” or the time spent by Eddie in a coma. We mostly wanted to hear the music and have some fun. We did both. If Cole wants theatre complete with flashy costumes and lavish dance numbers, then perhaps she should attend The Wizard Of Oz. Steven Van Zandt and all four of the Rascals even took the time to chat, pose and sign autographs before the show. How many of the so-called “talents” of today do you think would bother to do the same? Tom Vassal Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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Let’s put the Epic cronut burger food poisoning outbreak at the CNE in context. Will it make you sick to your stomach to know it’s just the tip of the iceberg? 79 Number of confirmed cases of people felled by food poisoning in the cronut case. 1,750 Number of cases of food-borne illness reported annually to Toronto Public Health – a 30 per cent drop since 2002. Problem is, for each reported case, 227 are not reported, according to TPH. 437,000 Estimated number of people affected by food poisoning every year – that’s one in six Torontonians. Read John Semley’s story at nowtoronto.com
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Locals behind a small container garden in the parking lot of the former 14 Division headquarters on Harrison have been told by the city’s real estate division to remove it ASAP or lose it. Apparently, the warning was prompted by a neighbour who complained about the garden, which has sprouted an impressive array of veggies, not being up to property standards. Area councillor Mike Layton, who’s trying to bring the sides together, would like to see the parcel turned into a park where a community garden could be planted.
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A new mural inside the world-famous concrete rainbow tunnel that’s been a DVP scene stealer for 40 years was formally unveiled in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, August 23.
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The worst thing for democracy the city’s ever seen. Was Councillor Doug Ford blaming communists (again) for his mayor brother losing yet another council vote? We can think of a few worse things for democracy than council opting to appoint someone rather than hold a costly by-election to fill Doug Holyday’s recently vacated seat in Etobicoke Centre. The Ford brothers always resort to the blame game when they don’t get their way. But what’s really got them freaked is the prospect of Chris Stockwell, the former Etobicoke councillor and house speaker when he served as PC MP for Etobicoke Centre, winning the seat. The animus goes back to 1998, when Stockwell whopped the Fords’ poppa, Doug Sr., for the PC nomination. These days they’re on opposite sides on the big question rankling conservatives: whether Tim Hudak should stay on as PC leader. Stockwell is a cheerleader, whereas Doug wants Tim’s job.
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On the eve of his incendiary showcase at NXNE in 2006, King Khan – party animal, philosopher and purveyor of R&B grooves – described how his 10-piece band became the epitome of psychedelic soul. Since then he’s been to hell and back, as he explains in a Q&A in this week’s issue (see page 42). But he’s far from done. On his new disc, Idle No More (yes, the reference is intended), he’s added a conscious edge, proving he’s more determined than ever to make the party political.
[Frontlines] Steven Staples on why it’s the moment for diplomacy in Syria The atrocities in Syria are horrifying. The UN has put the total death toll at 100,000. That means thousands of civilians killed, millions fleeing for safety and now hundreds more potentially felled by poison gas. It’s easy to understand Canadians’ desire to respond to these events and find some means to assist the Syrian people suffering in a twoyear-long civil war. This compassion, this longing to make things better is what makes Canadians special – we believe we can play a positive role in the world. But our desire to help is being turned into a call for war. Those pushing for missile strikes seem incognizant of the inherent complexities of the conflict or the historic lessons learned from past wars in Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere. The military does not always provide a solution. Certainly the images from Syria are tragic, the ever-growing casualty figures awful, and the alleged use of chemical weapons an alarming transgression of international law. People want to strike against President Bashar Hafez al-Assad, but this leaves the West backing murky anti-government forces comprising
secular rebels and jihadist fighters. The opposition forces have little unity and in some cases are terrorizing each other. Ironically, military intervention against Assad would inevitably aid anti-Western Islamist groups. We need only look to our own recent history to know that armed assaults rarely deliver desired results. In Afghanistan, for instance, our mission drew our country into a decade of war, which cost billions of dollars, the lives of more than 150 soldiers and many times more Afghans, leaving that country no better off today than it was a decade ago. In Libya, the West deposed strongman and former business partner president Muammar Gaddafi only to leave the Libyan people in a gangland state run by violent criminals and warlords. Consequently, the weapons of that conflict spread across the region, where they were used by Islamists to destabilize neighbouring Mali, a country with strong connections to Canada. Over the next few weeks, the drums of war will beat loudly. But let’s remember what we’ve learned: military action has inevitable
unintended consequences that invariably affect civilians, neighbouring countries and the lives of intervening forces. There are other choices. Canada can make a difference at the humanitarian level right now, without waiting for other countries. We’ve made a contribution to aid the flood of refugees, but more is needed. Syrian- Canadians are willing to help their families come here until the
Steven Staples is president of the Rideau Institute. news@nowtoronto.com
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Former Disney kid Miley Cyrus is the talk of the VMAs after a badass performance at the awards show had pop critics blushing. Read Julia LeConte’s take on why Miley gets the last laugh at nowtoronto.com.
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A new PETA ad blitz on GO Transit says going vegan would end world hunger. The ad points out that it takes up to 13 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of meat. That’s a lot of grain that could otherwise go toward feeding people.
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We need only look to our recent history to know armed assaults rarely deliver desired results. war is over – we need to look at ways to reunite families. And our government should use the space created by international indignation over the possible use of chemical weapons to intensify its diplomatic efforts, pressuring Assad’s ally Russia for a ceasefire. Let’s take action, but let’s make sure it’s not the wrong kind. The risks are too great to make a very bad situation even worse.
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The Durham cop behind the anonymous tweets calling Ontario Ombudsman André Marin a douchebag and terrorist has been identified as a senior officer with the force. He allegedly used another officer’s information to create the Twitter account.
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What Another bad morning to be a cyclist in Toronto When Friday, August 23, 7:55 am, at 1220 Dupont, just west of Dufferin How Looks like a sideswipe, according to witnesses on the scene. Police have a different version. They say the 19-year-old recovering from life-threatening injuries in hospital was crossing Dupont when he was hit by a Jeep.
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The PQ’s Charter of Quebec Values banning all religious headwear is “for our culture, our freedom,” according to leader Pauline Marois.
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The strike by 40 workers at Toronto’s Plaza Hotel enters week 13. According to the Steelworkers Union, working conditions at the hotel on Wilson have deteriorated since it was purchased in 2009. Almost half the rooms now serve as accommodation for people on public assistance.
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SHOCK VALUE Liberals’ plan to give front-line cops tasers may be good for optics in Sammy Yatim shooting, but it’s bad for policing policy By ENZO DiMATTEO
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he inside of court room 1 at the Cor oners Courts on Grosvenor has seen its share of tears. Juries have made hundreds of recom mendations on the need to improve police training, especially when it comes to dealing with the mentally ill, who are disproportionately repre sented among the victims of police killings. Since 2004 alone, there have been 12 inquests into police shooting deaths. On Tuesday, August 27, Minister of Community and Correctional Ser vices Madeleine Meilleur stood un der the white light that dominates
the ceiling to announce that the gov ernment would allow police forces across the province to extend their use of tasers to all frontline officers. Right now, only senior officers and tactical units are trained to carry them. It was an odd scene. Ostensibly, the presser was called in response to the police shooting death of Sammy Yatim, although the minister denied that. Meilleur said the ministry is continually reviewing its use-of-force guidelines to ensure that they’re “current, relevant and evidence-based.” She said an announcement had been planned for June but for some unspecified reason hadn’t happened.
The timing may have been coinci dental – the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police has been calling for officers to be equipped with tasers since 2007 – but for the Liberals it was also convenient. The Wynne government has a volatile situation on its hands. A To ronto cop charged with second-de gree murder. A freaked public. And powerful police unions flexing their muscles in public. That was quite an in-your-face performance, for exam ple, by Toronto police union lawyer Peter Brauti in front of the University Avenue courthouse last week. He’s the hired gun representing Constable James Forcillo, the officer charged in the Yatim shooting. He practically
declared, in not so many words, that there is more video (presumably from the camera in the streetcar where the shooting took place) that will exonerate his client. A deft play by the Libs, on the one hand responding to the public out cry over the Yatim shooting, and on the other giving themselves some political cover – for now. Where we’ll be a year from now, when emotions are not so raw, is any body’s guess. The wheels may already have started turning in the Crown at torney’s office to make the case that a trial in the Yatim case wouldn’t be in the public interest – that justice
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would be better served by a coroner’s inquest so we can all make sure this doesn’t happen again. At police headquarters at 40 College, the public relations machine has been going full bore since the shooting. Chief Bill Blair finished a round of one-on-ones with T.O.’s ma jor news outlets just this week. The commensurate amount of contrition was shown. The Toronto force has al ready declared its full support for more tasers. Apparently, they’re not so cash-strapped that they can’t find the $10 mil it will cost. But the Yatim shooting can’t be swept under the rug that easily. It was caught on video. Three pops. Six pops.
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And the buzz from a taser. That’s as real as it gets. Is giving frontline cops more weapons the answer to averting future such tragedies? Every time there’s a po lice shooting, the answer seems to be to give cops more power, not less. What is it about police training that’s causing deadly mistakes to be made over and over again on the street? Meilleur stressed that expanded use of tasers would come with in creased reporting provisions and en hanced “scenario-based” training for cops on interactions with people with mental health issues. She referred to the “growing body of independent research showing few er significant injuries than other force
options” and talked of all the stake holders who’d been consulted, in cluding the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. The CCLA, however, which has been calling for tougher use-of-force standards for tasers, issued its own statement condemning the govern ment plan just as the minister was speaking. The group says tasers should only be used in “extreme cases... to pre vent imminent harm or death.” Indeed, whether tasers are “less le thal” is a matter of opinion. Com pared to guns, maybe sometimes. But experience shows they’re prone to misuse, more likely to be fired against unarmed individuals –
about three-quarters of the time, to be exact – even though less lethal op tions like pepper spray and expand able batons are also available to po lice. In Toronto, half of the annual 200 or so taser encounters involve emotionally disturbed people. The perception that tasers are saf er than guns persists. But the techno logy and risks associated with taser use are more clearly understood now than they were a decade ago when they first started being deployed to forces in Canada. U.S.-based manufacturer Taser In ternational has acknowledged safety concerns. In 2009, the company is sued new guidelines warning police to avoid chest shots, ahead of re
search showing a risk of death from cardiac arrhythmia. While the number of deaths from tasers in Canada is relatively small (one or two a year), in the U.S., where more police forces rely on them, a pattern of misuse is emerging. Am nesty International has called for their outright ban, saying the taser abuse it has documented by police in Canada amounts to cruel and un usual punishment. In 2005, the Police Services Board put on hold its plan to distribute tas ers to more than 400 front-line uni formed officers over concern about use of the weapons on emotionally disturbed people. Toronto police officers approved
to carry tasers receive minimal training: an eight-hour crash course that includes “theoretical compon ents, practical scenarios as well as a practical and written examina tion.” Clearly, a taser would not have saved Yatim. One was on the scene that night, but it was only used by a senior officer after Yatim had been felled by eight bullets from For cillo’s gun. The no-force option seems to have been the only one not con sidered in the Yatim confrontation. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo
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Protesters take cause of clear-cuts and mercury pollution Bat y JONATHAN GOLDSBIE Grassy Narrows to premier’s nabe By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE In Michael Haneke’s 2005 movie Caché, a success ful French television presenter finds himself re ceiving videotapes containing footage of the front of his house. His search for answers leads him to reconnect with an Algerian man he knew as a boy, forcing him to confront a childhood whose echoes he had long ago repressed. The film is generally taken as an oblique parable about efforts to bury memories of France’s violent
colonial past – and what happens when that past almost literally comes home to roost. On Sunday, August 25, a neon-hued marching band paraded to the home of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Drums are common at protest marches, but there were brass and woodwind con tingents, too. In its colourful, cacophonous exu berance, the pageant was downright Seussian. A protest at a person’s home is an inherently ag
“We entered into a process with Ontario, but it hasn’t been meaningful.” J.B. Fobister, Grassy Narrows spokesperson
gressive tactic, especially when there’s no direct connection between the dwelling and the issue be ing protested. But bridging the vast psychic chasm between Wynne’s Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton house and a community sitting 1,300 kilometres to the northwest was precisely the point. * * * Grassy Narrows is approximately as far from To ronto as Memphis, Tennessee, is. Near the Mani toba border, a bit north of Kenora, the First Nation community of 1,000 is now in its sixth decade of suffering from mercury poisoning. “The provincial government is acting like an os trich and burying its head in the sand on this whole problem,” local MPP Patrick Reid told the CBC. That was in 1970. The Dryden paper manufacturer responsible for the toxic discharge cut off its pollution of the river that year and ceased operations in 1976. But mer cury remains present in the fish that serve as a key element of Grassy Narrows’ diet and culture, and will continue to be present for quite some time. This poisoning comes to Grassy Narrows in ad dition to the more common litany of problems in flicted on Canada’s First Nations by a colonial rela tionship that was (and perhaps still is) at best clueless and at worst genocidal. When the public broadcaster did a 40-yearslater follow-up, the despair and frustration were palpable, expressed not just by interview subjects but by the reporter himself. Peter Wall closed his piece: “So another journal ist comes and another journalist goes….” * * * From October 20, 2011, until she stepped down to run for her party’s leadership just over a year later, Kathleen Wynne was both the minister of Munici pal Affairs and the minister of Aboriginal Affairs. When Grassy Narrows members and allied ac tivists held a “fish fry” at Queen’s Park in June 2012, continued on page 20 œ
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News that Honest Ed’s, with its glowing bulbs and groan-worthy puns (“Come in and get lost!”), will be surrendered to the changing fortunes of the real estate market is generating talk about how to preserve some element of its venerable presence and the character of the city itself. Is there any way to keep a piece of the store, which is as much a symbol of Toronto as the CN Tower and has defined Bloor and Bathurst for over 60 years, for future generations? The first thing that bursts to mind as a possible heritage relic is, of course, the display of popping lights. But at the city’s Museum Services branch, chief curator Wayne Reeves has his doubts about storing the massive signage.
“Signs like those advertising Honest Ed’s and Sam the Record Man are – or were – important features of Toronto’s commercial streetscape. We have some store signs in the collection,” he says, “but none approach the scale or landmark status of [Honest Ed’s].” Included in the city’s museum are classic signs from Rotman’s Hat Shop, the Queen’s Hotel, Queen’s City flour, Borax Soap and Soap Powder and a number of others. Such items aren’t just the remains of a building, he suggests, but elements of the city’s bygone character. Still, “the practicalities of collecting, storing and exhibiting very large signs like Honest Ed’s would be very challenging for any museum. Our
recommendation would be to try to preserve such objects in situ, the same way that historic building facades are incorporated into redevelopment projects.” (Currently, the fate of one such object, the Sam the Record Man sign, is still being negotiated between Ryerson and the city all these years later, though the university had promised it would grace a spot on Yonge or Gould.) Russell Lazar, who for over five decades has been Honest Ed’s mana ger, is realistic and not exactly cheerleading the marquee’s transition to immortality. The sign, he says, has been flashing for almost a quartercentury. “People have wonderful
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feelings and thoughts about that sign,” he says, but “it’s only on two or three hours a day. The circuitry behind it is very brittle.” It was original ly erected in 1984, he says, to correct irregularities in the building. That Vegas-style glitz, Councillor Mike Layton reminds me, wasn’t the original store sign. “It’s the second or third they’ve had up.” One option for saving it would be to pursue a heri tage designation for the building itself – the only route available through the city for enshrining the storefront. But Layton isn’t enthusiastic about this. “What you’d essentially be doing is putting heritage on big box,” he says, “and the only other people that’ll move in will be Walmart.” Nonetheless, he sees the outlines of a good idea in preserving some of the store’s features. “I think there’s some merit to saying there’s an architectural [issue] there, like the facade features. Is there some essence of it that could be preserved? Can it be moved? These are the things we’re going to have to look at.” Layton says he’d rather see something spectacular there than another large retail outlet. “Is there a public space that can be incorporated into the site?” he asks. “People start dreaming a little bit, and that’s something we should be encouraging.” According to Stephen Young, pres ident of the Toronto Public Space Initiative’s board of directors, “cultural waypoints are hugely important to Toronto and our sense of place.” While he admits the maintenance
and hydro costs of the lighted sign would be significant factors in any preservation discussion, he thinks safeguarding the history of the intersection is essential. Keeping the building itself intact, if repurposed, he says, might be one approach – perhaps an Artscape- esque series of artists’ workshops. “If the Ontario Heritage Act designation had already been done,” Young says, “perhaps we’d be in a better spot. “The city should engage with the Mirvish family and find a solution to preserve the building,” says Young. “Toronto would be poorer to see this go, and I hope somebody steps up and that we’ve learned from the Sam’s [the Record Man] experience.” The sign itself, he says, must be kept on site if saved. “Otherwise, it will likely be lost to the whims of private development.” Ultimately, Layton, having grown up in the Annex community defined by Honest Ed’s, is optimistic. He plans a fall workshop to kick off discussion of the corner’s future. “If we can start thinking about what the whole area needs, it will set the parameters that any new owner who steps in will have to abide by. It is a very significant site, and there is significant potential for it to be something great.” As for Lazar, in a perfect world he’d like to see Honest Ed’s iconic bulbs suspended above the Lake Shore – a tribute to marvel at and remember. “Wouldn’t it be wonderful?” he asks. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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Wynne came out to meet them. “The ministry and the band’s leadership have accused each other of not returning calls, but Wynne saw the fish fry as an opportunity to reset discussion on the establishment of an inter-ministerial panel to explore mercury poisoning in the Wabigoon River system,” wrote the Kenora Daily Miner And News. “She envisaged a table where her ministry will sit alongside the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of the Environment and Grassy Narrows to reel in solutions.” Wynne is now premier, and the Grassy Narrows-Ontario Working Group is now a thing that exists. But whether it will lead to real change is another matter entirely. “We’re disappointed [that] we entered into a process with Ontario to try and work on a relationship – and work through those issues around logging – and there hasn’t really been a meaningful engagement. It’s still one-sided,” J.B. Fobister tells me on the phone from Grassy Narrows. He’s 57 and has lived there his whole life. “They’re still pushing to continue with business as usual.” The logging problems concern the persistent issuance of permits by the Ministry of Natural Resources. Beyond the mercury poisoning, Grassy Narrows has been devastated by decades of clear-cutting. It is the site of the longest-running blockade in Canadian history. And certain lands are the subject of Keewatin v. Ontario (Natural Resources), an epic and precedent-setting legal case; Grassy’s application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court is currently under review. “The way they want to resolve all our problems,” says Fobister of the province, “is to engage us with other First Nations and form a partnership with industry, and log with the same conditions: clear-cutting, large volumes, no recognition of rights and so on.”
In June of this year, Grassy Narrows and several other groups wrote to Wynne to ask that the province, as a “good faith” gesture, stop handing out logging permits. They say they never heard back. On August 22, Grassy Narrows, Amnesty International, Greenpeace Canada and other heavy hitters released a joint statement calling for such a commitment from Wynne. And so, three days later, this was the thrust of the event outside her house: good first steps, now back it up with action. * * * The protest is playful, lighthearted and counterintuitively positive in its tone. On its lead banner, in place of a leaf on a Canadian flag, is Blinky the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons. Some 75 people head north up Yonge from Roehampton. The music echoes through the stores and restaurants as midtowners pop out to see what’s up. I grew up in this area, and until now never realized the sudden ap pearance of a marching band was precisely what was missing. We turn onto a side street (whose name the premier’s staff later scold me for tweeting) and continue east until we arrive at a handful of houses guarded by a dozen bicycle cops. The activists spend 45 minutes outside playing music, dancing and listening to speeches. Judy DaSilva, joining us from Grassy Narrows via a phone hooked to an amplifier, remarks that it’s “really good to hear those drums.” The joyousness softens the action’s potential hostility. While the protest was still taking place, the minister of Aboriginal Affairs issued a statement assuring us that, no, they haven’t forgotten about Grassy Narrows and that the working group is going quite well, thank you. “Both the community and the province have been very pleased on the progress of the [working group] tables,” David Zimmer is quoted. (“I’m a little upset that he says that,” Fobister tells me. “We’re not happy.”) As for the logging, the release says Natural Resources works “closely with representatives of Grassy Narrows First Nation to address their interests and concerns.” But they also “recognize this will be a longer-term process.” While outside the premier’s house, organizer Syed Hussan puts things more bluntly. “She’s talking at the table, but they’re issuing permits in the back,” he says, “and we simply cannot allow that.” 3 jonathang@ nowtoronto.com @goldsbie
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Is removing picnic tables and discouraging users the solution to danger in Masaryk Park? By ABIGAIL PUGH Does the city believe an empty park is a better park? It sounds like a strange question, but, then, Parks, Forestry and Recreation’s moves in Masaryk Park seem pretty bizarre themselves. It all began last winter when Masaryk Friends, one of scores of such fledgling groups being set up across the city, was established up to lobby and fundraise for the tiny green space. Masaryk has a history of litter problems, crime and hardcore drinking. The small half-hectare site near Queen and Lansdowne suffers light and wind problems because of the massive high-rise on its west side. Yet it’s the biggest and best we have in South Parkdale. The first order of business for the Friends, of which I’m a member, was to organize a “safety audit.” The frigid evening tour last March included local councillor Gord Perks, Parks general supervisor Peter White, plus a Parks safety specialist and Masa ryk’s local supervisor. The city reported the next day to the Friends that the park suffers from “sightline, isolation and entrapment issues.” Many recommendations were made: opening it up to the street for better access, enclosing the children’s area, better lighting, better orientation of park benches and better policing. Underlying – and undermining – this community-city teamwork was the fact that, however unsafe, Masa ryk is not in line for any of the city’s current 10-year capital plan funding. The recos were just recos. Masaryk’s supervisor, receptive to the Friends, made sure the community got a few small but hope-inspiring tokens this summer: new sand for the playground, fresh paint for a bench, a shed, better cleanup, and two new picnic tables for a new total of three. More benches also seemed to be in the works. It was generally understood that even though capital wasn’t available to make big changes like widening the pinch-point entryway, the park could be made more appealing in modest ways. On Saturday, August 17, something horrible happened: at 5:30 pm a 15-year-old girl was sexually assault ed in the park. The Friends sent an email to the
city on August 22: “The sexual assault… reveals serious safety issues that have yet to be dealt with in the park. In light of this recent incident we need things to be moving a lot faster.” White’s response mentioned none of the recommendations from the safety audit, nor did it promise any extra capital for infrastructural change. Instead, he oversaw lots and lots of removals. Now the shrubbery is gone, and the “berm,” a cute little hill put there to make the park attractive, has been flattened to bare earth. (It was, by the way, not possible to hide behind it.) White also promised, “We will be removing a bench and two picnic tables for the time being as they encourage the loitering behaviour that we are trying to prevent.” The work is not yet completed, so the furniture is still there awaiting its move to storage. I just visited, and each bench and table was being used to its max by moms, kids and their backpacks. The thing is, the Friends lobbied hard for those extra picnic tables. (We’re still waiting for the benches.) So we responded to White: “Removing two of the picnic tables and a bench from the park would mean that only one bench would remain for all the users of the park. We have been promised five new benches since the spring. When will these be installed?” We haven’t yet received an answer, but it has to be asked: is removing comforts and discouraging users of public spaces really the solution to danger? And would subtracting amenities be allowed in an area with more park advocates and wealthier users? Dave Harvey, director of Toronto Park People, which works with 100 park friend groups, the city and other partners, is clear that negative changes aren’t the answer. “A key compo nent for public safety is ensuring a welcoming, active park for the com munity. Staff need to work with the friends of Masaryk Park and the com munity to respond to their positive ideas.” When I ask Parks spokesperson Rob Andrusevich about the wisdom of making the park less hospitable, he reiterates what we already know: “A number of people were doing things they shouldn’t be doing” at Masaryk. Asked if it’s fair to make people – old people, parents – stand or sit on the ground, he expresses the hope that the
community will “understand that these steps are being taken for the benefit of everyone.” In other problematic parks, he says, the city has demonstrated that temporarily removing furniture caused the wrong sort of people to “move on.” For the park users of South Parkdale, that’s as good as it gets for the foreseeable. 3 Abigail Pugh is a member of Masaryk Friends. news@nowtoronto.com
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Death Café is like Fight Club where the first rule is don’t talk about death By JACOB SCHEIER MONDAYS 12:30-1:30PM
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After her 14-year-old son killed himself, people didn’t know what to say, recalls Christie. We’re drinking coffee, eating cake and talking about the last thing many of us want to talk about: death and dying. We are here, 50 strong, in Mount Pleasant Cemetery’s Visitation Centre, August 21, for the monthly meetup called Death Café. These special conclaves date to 2011, when web designer Jon Underwood began organizing them in his London, UK, basement. Since then, they’ve spread across England, Wales, Italy, Australia and North America. Like Christie, I lost someone close to me earlier than I ever expected to. My mother died of cancer when I was 20. My friends and I were in university or starting our first real jobs. Our lives, in a way, were just beginning, and the last thing most of us wanted to do, or maybe knew how to do, was speak about extinction. Though in my experience, at least, older people are no more comfortable with the topic. It all kind of reminds me of the film Fight Club. The first rule in our culture seems to be “Do not talk about death.” The second is “Do not talk about death,” and the third is…. “People just don’t have the opportunity to explore this process we all have to go through,” volunteer host Fran Brunke tells me. She’s training to be a life cycle celebrant, meaning someone who cooperatively creates personalized ceremonies. She spe cializes in funerals, and was drawn to the Café after her husband’s death from a prolonged illness just under a year ago. To stir conversation, we take turns choosing cards with statements like “Death makes life meaningful (Viktor Frankl) – agree or disagree?” Organizers of any given Death Café
“franchise” have a lot of freedom, though to use the name certain principles need to be adhered to: meetings have to be free of charge and of ideology; they need to be tolerant of all races, genders, religions and sexual orientations; and there needs to be cake or a similar treat on offer, because eating is not only comforting, but also life-affirming. It’s also important to distinguish these meetings from bereavement support groups or therapy. As Café organizer Linda Stuart puts it: “Death Café is not so much about planning your death as about planning your life.” To underscore this philosophy there are whiteboards and markers throughout the room with the words “Before I die I want to….” written on them. As the conversations come to a close, one of the hosts reads aloud the things on the list, which range from the very specific “Run the Disney Dopey and Goofy Marathon 100-plusK race” to the more abstract “Live without fear.” The two hours have flown by, surprisingly, despite the heavy things I’ve heard – like the mother accepting her terminally ill 12-year-old’s decision to forgo another blood transfusion, or the wife giving her husband permission to die. I’ve never had conversations like these, I realize, sipping my coffee, glancing out the window at the gathering dusk. We’ve spoken about these matters as we might discuss the lives and deaths of characters in a novel or film. It reminds me of what I tell my creative writing students about crafting a good story: the stakes need to be high. At Death Café, it feels like we’re recognizing what good stories everyone has to tell. The stakes couldn’t be higher. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 You seem primed
Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 “The works
to act like a ram, the astrological creature associated with your sign. I swear you have that look in your eyes: the steely gaze that tells me you’re about to take a very direct approach to smashing the obstacles in your way. I confess that I haven’t always approved of such behaviour. In the past, you have sometimes done more damage to yourself than to the obstruction you’re trying to remove. But this is one time when the head-first approach might work. There is indeed evidence that the job at hand requires a battering ram. What does your intuition tell you?
must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” said the painter Joan Miró in describing his artistic process. I recommend a similar approach to you in the coming weeks. Identify what excites you the most and will continue to inspire and energize you for the foreseeable future. Activate the wild parts of your imagination as you dream and scheme about how to get as much of that excitement as you can stand. And then set to work, with methodical self-discipline, to make it all happen.
Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 I’m Gonna Be
in the coming week involves your being more instinctual and natural and primal than usual. I have a picture of you in my mind climbing trees and rolling in the grass and holding bugs in your hands and letting the wind mess up your hair. You’re gazing up at the sky a lot, and you’re doing spontaneous dance moves for no other reason than because it feels good, and you’re serenading the sun and clouds and hills with your favourite songs. I see you eating food with your fingers and touching things you’ve never touched. I hear you speaking wild truths you’ve bottled up for months. As for sex? I think you know what to do.
(500 Miles) is a raucous love song by the Scottish band the Proclaimers. In the chorus, the singer declares, “I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles / To fall down at your door.” In 2011, a Chinese woman named Ling Hsueh told her boyfriend, Liu Peiwen, she would marry him if he took the lyrics of this song to heart. In response, lover boy embarked on a 1,000-mile hike to the distant city where she lived. His stunt seems to have expedited the deepening of their relationship. The two are now wed. In accordance with your current astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to consider the possibility of being a romantic fool like Liu Peiwen. What playfully heroic or richly symbolic deed might you be willing to perform for the sake of love?
Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 My vision of you
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The Japanese word
senzuri refers to a sexual act of self-love performed by a man. Its literal meaning is “a hundred rubs.” The corresponding term for the female version is shiko shiko manzuri, or “ten thousand rubs.”
Judging from the astrological omens, I’m guessing that the applicable metaphor for you in the days ahead will be shiko shiko manzuri rather than senzuri. Whatever gender you are, you’ll be wise to slowww wayyyy down and take your time, not just in pursuit of pleasure but in pretty much everything you do. The best rewards and biggest blessings will come from being deliberate, gradual, thorough and l eisurely.
Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 “A beginning is
the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct,” wrote science fiction author Frank Herbert. I urge you to heed that advice. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will oversee the germination of several new trends in the coming weeks. Future possibilities will reveal themselves to you. You will be motivated to gather the ingredients and formulate the plans to make sure those trends and possibilities will actuallyhappen. One of the most critical tasks you can focus on is to ensure that the balances are righteous right from the start.
Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 The online Time Travel Mart sells products you might find handy in the event that you travel through time. Available items include barbarian repellant, dinosaur eggs, time tra vel sickness pills, a centurion’s helmet, a portable wormhole and a samurai umbrella. I have no financial tie to this store. So when I recommend you consider purchasing something from it or another
company with a similar product line, it’s only because I suspect that sometime soon you will be summoned to explore and possibly even alter the past. Be wellprepared to capitalize on the unexpected opportunities. (Here’s the Time Travel Mart: http://826la.org/store.)
Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 Mystic poets find the divine presence everywhere. The wind carries God’s love, bestowing tender caresses. The scent of a lily is an intimate message from the Holy Beloved, provoking bliss. Even a bowl of oatmeal contains the essence of the Creator; to eat it is to receive an ecstatic blessing. But those of us who aren’t mystic poets are not necessarily attuned to all this sweetness. We may even refuse to make ourselves receptive to the ceaseless offerings. To the mystic poets, we are like sponges floating in the ocean but trying very hard not to get wet. Don’t do that this week, Scorpio. Be like a sponge floating in the ocean and allowing yourself to get totally soaked. Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 James
Caan is a well-known actor who has appeared in more than 80 movies, including notables like The Godfather, A Bridge Too Far and Elf. But he has also turned down major roles in a series of blockbusters: Star Wars, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now. I present his odd choices as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Don’t sell yourself short. Don’t shrink from the challenges that present themselves. Even if you have accomplished a lot already, an invitation to a more complete form of success may be in the offing.
Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “What a
terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real,” says a
character in one of Miranda July’s short stories. I’m offering similar advice to you, Capricorn. The “something real” you would get by sacrificing “something wonderful” might seem to be the more practical and useful option, but I don’t think it would be in the long run. Sticking with “something wonderful” will ultimately inspire breakthroughs that boost your ability to meet real-world challenges.
Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “There is
more truth in our erotic zones than in the whole of religions and mathematics,” wrote the English artist Austin O. Spare. I think he was being melodramatic. Who can say for sure whether such an extreme statement is accurate? But I suspect it’s at least a worthy hypothesis for you to entertain in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The new wisdom you could potentially stir up through an exploration of eros will be extensive and intensive. Your research may proceed more briskly if you have a loving collaborator who enjoys playing, but that’s not an absolute necessity.
Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 “This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.” So says a character in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance Of Being Earnest. I could envision you speaking those words sometime soon. Plain old drama could creep in the direction of passionate stimulation. High adventure may beckon, and entertaining stories might erupt. Soon you could find yourself feeling tingly all over, and that might be so oddly pleasant that you don’t want it to end. With the right attitude – that is, a willingness to steep yourself in lyrical ambiguity – your soul could feed off the educational suspense for quite a while. Homework: What was your last major amazement? What do you predict will be the next one? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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Caribbean Tales Film Showcase
Celebration of films from the Caribbean diaspora, with screenings and networking events. Harbourfront C entre, 235 Queens Quay W. caribbeantales-events. com. Sep 4 to 14 Hispanic Fiesta Celebration of Spanish and Latin American arts, music, food and culture, with more than 300 local, national and international performers. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. 416-2409338, hispanicfiesta.com. Aug 30 to Sep 2 Hot & Spicy Food Festival Hot and spicy food, music, dance and an Iron Chef competition. Most events free. Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 30 to Sep 2
Toronto African Film & Music F estival Screenings, concerts,
fashion shows, a marketplace and the African Ball and awards show. $30 family pass. Various venues. torontoafricanfilmmusicfest.com. Aug 30 to Sep 1
Toronto International Fetish Film Festival Non-judgmental,
sex-positive films about the fetish world, including Da Kink In My Lair, Behind The Whip and SM Judge. $15, adv $12. Big Picture Cinema, 1035 Gerrard E. b igpicturecinema. com. Aug 29 to Sep 1
continuing Canadian National Exhibition
The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, celebrity chef demos, parades, the Air Show, a midway, rides, competitions and much more runs to Sep 2. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com. To Sep 2
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Thursday, August 29
Benefits
Friends With Benefits (Brain Tumour Fdn of
Canada) Comedy night dedicated to Bill Reoch with performances by Allana Reoch, Kirsten Rasmussen, Ghost Girls and others. 8 pm. $12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. Taste The World (Stop Community Food Centre) Enjoy lunches prepared by local chefs. Noon-2 pm. Various prices. ING Café, 221 Yonge. networkorange.ca/events.
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from Hello! Canada fashion/beauty editor Julia Seidl. 7-8 pm. Free. Sherway Gardens, Queensway and Hwy 427. 416-621-1070. Art Spin Guided art tour on bikes and season closing party. 7 pm. Free (check website for meeting place). artspin.ca. Arts Market Year-round indoor artisans market featuring art, jewellery, photos, clothing, crafts and more. Wed-Fri noon-6 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-6 pm Free. 1114 Queen E. 647-9977616, artsmarket.ca. rCanadian National Exhibition The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, celebrity chef demos, parades, the Air Show, the midway, rides, competitions and much more runs to Sep 2. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides
extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com.
rChocolate-Making Workshop for all ages.
8 pm. $82. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. Pre-register kaeli@chocolatetales.ca. rCreating Video Games 101 Seminar where participants make an arcade game using Game On 2.0 software. 3:30-6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. Dancing On The Pier Live bands, social dancing and instruction. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Disarm The Cops! Youth for Socialist Action forum with speakers including U of T student activist Ben Rostoker. 7 pm. $2. OISE, rm
2-212, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca. Ecstatic Dance Move however you wish within a sacred space every week. 7:30-9:30 pm. $10. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. tribaldancecommunity.com.
Expose The Trans Pacific Partnership –
Stop The Secretive Power Grab Rally to demand an end to secret TPP negotiations. 12:30 pm. Free. U.S. Consulate, 360 University. facebook.com/events/523608867714286. Kensington Foodies Roots Walk Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 9:30 am-1 pm. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35. Red Pole with Black Cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.
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A Night Out With Sierra Club Meet other
local environmentalists and professionals. 7-9 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. ontario. sierraclub.ca. rNighthawk Count Adults and youth 10 and up help count common nighthawks as they begin their southern migration. 6 pm. $2-5 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. North York Farmers’ Market Thursdays through Oct, 7 am-2:30 pm. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. toronto.ca. Psychiatry: An Industry Of Death Citizens Commission on Human Rights exhibit with documentaries, artifacts and displays of psychiatry’s most harmful treatment devices and information on mental health patients’ rights. To Aug 30, 11 am-8 pm. Free. 788 King W. cchrcanada.org. Sake Brewery Tours Brewery tours take place Thursdays (5 pm), and Saturdays and Sundays (1 & 4 pm). $15. 51 Gristmill Lane. ontariosake.com. Summer Wine Jam Wine tasting, food and music by DJ Sam Fleming. 7-11 pm. $55. Airship 37, 37 Parliament. i yellowwineclub.com. Tasty Thursdays Live music and food from the grill through the summer. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/ special_events.
WORN Loves Jeanne: A Conversation With Jeanne Beker The fashion icon discusses
fashion as art, personal expression and a way of life with WORN fashion journal’s SerahMarie McMahon. 7 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. bit.ly/13MGRkT. Yoga In The Park Outdoor yoga class. 6-7 pm. Free. Dufferin Grove Park by the flags, Dufferin S of Bloor. mykula.ca. Yoga In The Town Square Yoga practice Tue & Thu 7-8 pm. Free. Shops at Don Mills Town Square, 1060 Don Mills. shopsatdonmills.ca.
Writers’ Group Workshop with writing exercises. Noon-1:30 pm. Free. Sanctuary Church, 25 Charles E. 416-922-0628 ext 506.
Saturday, August 31
Events
African Entertainment Awards Awards presentation, live performances and afterparty. 6 pm. $30-$50. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 647-970-5541, aeawards.ca. Antique Market Outdoor market. 10 am-4 pm. Free. 1492 Kingston (rear). 416-690-6210, eastendantiques@outlook.com. Balmy Beach O Course Test your
rWoofjocks The canine performance team demonstrates popular canine sports. To Sep 2, 11 am-5 pm. Free. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.
Sunday, September 1
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Air Show Cruise (Cancer Recovery Fdn) Cruise the harbour and watch the Snowbirds perform. 12:30 pm. $65. Yankee Lady IV, 539 Queens Quay W. 905-477-7743.
Events
The Art Of Storytelling Performances by Lordquest, L the 12th Letter, Vital, Adria Kain
Myths And Legends Walking Tour Tour ex-
ploring myths and legends about High Park. 10:30 am. Free. Benches across from Grenadier Restaurant. highparknature.org. Sunday Scene Tour of exhibitions led by Francisco-Fernando Granados. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. Unifest Launch of Uninfor, Canada’s newest union, with a Labour Day celebration featuring musical performances by Stars, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Sister Says and others. 6:30 pm. Free. Nathan Philips Square, Queen and Bay. newunionconvention.ca.
Monday, September 2
Events
Balfolk Dances West-
stamina at a military-style obstacle training course. 9 am. $20. Balmy Beach, foot of Beech. Pre-register theocourse.com. CrushStock 70sinspired event for people who want to make sex-positive, like-minded friends. 10 pm. $10 (flower power dress code). Club 120, 120 Church. club120. ca. rIt’s A Kid’s Life Experience the life of a 1920s and 30s child through music, dance, games and more. 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.
ern European folk dance with instruction. 7 pm. Pwyc ($5 sugg). El Cafecito Espresso Bar 3 Westmoreland. 416-6237752, emilynstam.com. Labour Day Parade The annual parade celebrating the strength and solidarity of workers gets rolling at 8:30 am at Dundas and University, travels W along Queen to Dufferin and S to the CNE. Free (includes free admission to CNE). theex.com.
Rally To Improve Birth On Labour Day Rally to call attention to the health care crisis around Ontario maternity care. 10 am-noon. Free. Queen’s Park. facebook.com/ events/542941122425740.
Junction Farmers’ Market
Sorauren Park Farmers’ Market Mondays 3-7 pm,
L ocal, sustainably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Free.
Along The Front ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Front and Jarvis. rom.on.ca.
Drake Trivia Play a game of trivia. 8 pm. $2. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.
rFairmount Park Farm Market Vendors,
live music, kids’ activities, a wading pool and more. Wednesdays 3-7 pm. Free. 1725 Gerrard E. 647-929-2968. John Street Farmers’ Market Organic, local produce, fair trade coffee, art and more plus live music Wednesdays to Oct 30, 3:30-7 pm. Free. Courtyard at 197 John. facebook.com/ JohnStreetFarmersMarket. Montgomery’s Inn Farmers’ Market Organic fruit and vegetables, cheese, bread, ethically-raised meat, honey and more. 2-6 pm. Free. 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. Reveal Me Virgin vixens and pro peelers perform a burlesque show. 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com. Toronto Music Garden Tours Guided tours of the garden’s unique design and history take place at various times through Sep 18. Free. 479 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.
Are You Ready To Be Freddie For A Day?
more by Canadian artists and artisans, plus live music. To Sep 2, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. artfestontario.com.
(AIDS Committee of Toronto) Freddy Mercury birthday celebration with music and dance performances, a best costume/moustache contest and more. 8 pm. $20, adv $15. Gladstone, 1204 Queen W. freddieforaday. com. Girls Night Out (Look Good Feel Better) Monthly fundraiser with mini-facials and makeovers. 4-9 pm. $20. Murale, 20 Marie Labatte. 416-384-1858, shopsatdonmills.ca.
Common Respiratory Diseases & Smoking Cessation Health talk. 1 pm. Free. Toronto
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Artfest At The Distillery Fine Art & Craft Show Painting, photography, sculpture and
Health talk. 1 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. sarah. cunningham@uhn.ca.
Wednesday, September 4
Thursday, September 5
Events
Understanding Our Digestive System
Davisville Farmers’ Market Tuesdays through Oct 8, 3-7 pm. Free. June Rowlands Park, Davisville and Mount Pleasant. appletreemarkets@gmail.com. East York Farmers’ Market Tuesdays 9 am- 2 pm. East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell. tfm.ca. Occupy Economics Discussion on stopping trade agreements that put profits over people and environment. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. o ccupyeconomics.ca. School Night! Spoken word master class with artist-in-residence Lillian Allen. 7 pm. $6. Go Lounge, 1718 Queen W. 416-588-7529. Stonegate Farmers Market Tuesdays through Oct 8, 4-7 pm. Stonegate Plaza, 150 Berry. stonegatefarmersmarket.ca.
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Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. 416-603-5800 ext 6475. Critical Mass Ride Group bike ride through the downtown last Fri of every month. 6:30 pm. Free. Meet at Bloor and Spadina. facebook.com/groups/2246288900. DJ Deep Fried Fridays Local DJs spin music outdoors plus deep-fried treats. 7-9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Drop-In Clay Class Explore the potential of working with clay every Fri. 6-8 pm. $15, stu/ srs $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. Lobsterfest Cruise Enjoy a traditional East Coast lobster dinner while cruising the harbour aboard the Mariposa Belle. 7 pm. $99. mariposacruises.com. Sherway Farmers’ Market Ontario-grown and locally produced foods, every Fri to Oct 25, 8 am-2 pm. Sherway Gardens, 25 the West Mall, NE parking lot. sherwaymarket.com. Toronto FC Soccer TFC play New England Revolution. 7 pm. $43-$89. BMO Field, 170 Princes’ Blvd. torontofc.ca.
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Green P Lot, 385 Pacific. junctionmarket.ca. Power Tours Interactive guided tour of the current art exhibitions. 4 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. 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. rWeekend Family Fun At The Bata Kids 3 to 9 try on shoes, go on a treasure hunt and more. Sat 11 am-4 pm, Sun noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca. Weston Village Farmers’ Market Saturdays through Oct 26, 7 am-2 pm. Weston GO Parking Lot, 39 John. westonvillagebia.com. Withrow Park Farmers’ Market Organic and ecologically farmed produce and prepared foods. Saturdays 9 am-1pm. Free. 725 Logan, S of Danforth. w ithrowpark.ca.
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AGO: 1st Thursdays Interactive art night with a video chat with artist Ai Weiwei, live music by Fucked Up, Chinese rock DJ set by Jon Campbell and more. 7 pm. $12, adv $10 (w/ video chat $17-$20). Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/first-thursdays. and others. 8 pm. $10-$15. Measure Bar, 296 Brunswick. knownunknowninc.com. The Grange ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Dundas and McCaul. rom.on.ca. rKortright Organic Farm Learn to make soil and take home a pot with seeds ready to grow. 1 & 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Kort right Centre for Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-8322289. Leslieville Farmers’ Market Meat, dairy, fish, baked goods, fruits and veg offered by local producers every Sunday till Oct 27, 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com.
year-round. Sorauren S of Dundas. westendfood.coop. Toronto Pig-Save Fest Celebrating pigs with free veggie dogs, vegan desserts, animal art, music, an auction and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Stanley Park, Wellington and Walnut. facebook.com/events/108808385964364.
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Cards Against Humanity Weekly Play the party game for horrible people. 8 pm. Free. Cardinal Rule, 5 Roncesvalles. goo.gl/vGOG13. Cinema Now Panel presentation on the shift from disc to digital. 11 am-noon. Free. Yonge-
Creating Toronto: The Story Of The City In Ten Stops Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 6:30 pm. $20, child $12. Location upon registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.
Guess Who Got Engaged? Ladies In The City Engage With Politics Panel discussion
with three change-making local women plus a mix-and-mingle. 7 pm. $10. 543 Richmond W, ste 101. guesswhogotengaged.eventbrite. com. Secular Rosh Hashonah Humanistic Jewish New Year celebration, with a blowing of the shofar, readings, poetry, music and more. 10:30 am. $50, stu/unwaged $25, child $20. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416789-5502. 3
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March for a fair economy in the Labour Day parade September 2.
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A laugh for the brain
Brain tumours can strike people of all ages, and no matter how old the patients, they need support. That’s where the Brain Tumour Foundation comes in. Hear comics at the Friends With Benefits funder at the Comedy Bar tonight (Thursday, August 29), including Marshall Lorenzo, Ghost Girls and the always entertaining Kirsten Rasmussen. 8 pm. $12. 945 Bloor West. comedybar.ca.
Women get organized
Guess Who Got Engaged? isn’t quite what it sounds like. Don’t think ring; think placards, leaflets and lobbying. The event aims to lure more young women into political activity by celebrating three change-makers: Toronto Environ-
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Unionists have been saying it loudest, and now lots of academics are backing them up – austerity and cutbacks only stall economic recovery. Team up with the union movement on its annual Labour Day Parade and back the message that we need an economy that works for us all. The march gets rolling at 9:30 am, Monday (September 2), at Dundas and University and travels west along Queen to Dufferin and then south to Lamport Stadium. labourcouncil.ca.
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At Playa Cabana Hacienda, owner and chef Dave Sidhu serves up a braised beef short rib tostada (clockwise from left), a carnita taco with seared pork belly and tomatillo avocado pico, churros poutine with marshmallows and peanut salt, and popcorn shrimp with arbol chilies and toasted sesame crema.
Playa III beats original The tasty tacos aren’t cheap, but at least the decor isn’t dumpy By STEVEN DAVEY PLAYA CABANA HACIENDA (14 Dupont, at Avenue Rd, 647-352-6030, playacabana. ca/14-dupont, @PlayaCabana) Complete meals for $50 per person, including tax, tip and a mojito. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 5 to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on second floor, tight seating. Rating: NNN✺
If you’ve ever watched an episode of American Pickers and wondered who would pay big money for a bunch of beat-up old restaurant and garage signs that don’t necessarily work, a trendy taqueria like Playa Cabana Hacienda is your answer. The multi-level Mexifusion trat’s full of them, some neon-lit, others with their burnt-out bulbs left artfully intact, all looking like they fell off the back of a truck driving down some reimagined Route 66. The only things missing are a few tumbleweeds and a wind machine. And then there’s the music. Think Electric Mud and Bar Isabel are a bit on the noisy side? That’s nothing compared to Billy Ocean’s Caribbean Queen cranked through a bass bin. It’s like 80s night at Buddies all over again, only louder and less stylishly dressed. Owner/chef Dave Sidhu’s short
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tapas carte is just as fashionably eclectic. He sends out a dozen tempurabattered popcorn shrimp ($12) in a retro cast-iron skillet ready for an Instagram close-up. He shreds slowbraised short ribs over blue-corn tostadas dressed with crumbled queso and slivered radish ($8), all optionally splashed with house red or green habanero hot sauce. Compared to Grand Electric, where most are $3.50 a pop, Playa’s tacos are considerably more expensive, in particular the jerked lobster ($12). Lightly battered scallops
get paired with purple pickled jicama, while seared Korean kalbi beef with citrusy Asian slaw pays tribute to the L.A. food truck scene. Sautéed zucchini blossoms in a Cuban-style onionand-tomato sofrito on a slice of melted Oaxacan cheese are more mess than is worth the bother (all $6 per taco). But who notices such trivialities when you’re pounding $90 shots of Gran Patrón tequila to the Human
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League. Don’t You Want Me Baby, indeed. As for dessert, stick with the cheeky churros poutine with miniature marshmallow “curds” and cajeta caramel “gravy” ($9) over mushy horchata fritters ($8). Your enjoyment of this third Playa all depends on where they seat you. Knowing the month-old joint’s reputation as Toronto’s current resto du jour, we make online reservations under a fake name for an early table on Cabana’s deck, only to be told when we show up that it’s booked for an event. After being steered to a cramped table ringed with churchbasement stacking chairs on the dark second floor – aka Siberia – we’re reluctantly seated on the near-empty first floor. When we leave 90 minutes later, there are only two other occupied tables. Still, the latest edition is an improvement on the original Playa down the road, the somewhat dumpy cantina that became a local cause célèbre once a certain Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by for a burrito and a bucket of Coronas. Speaking of the Alist, has Hacienda had any recent celebrity sightings? Justin Bieber? Mick Jagger? The Ikea monkey? “Drake and Laurence Fishburne were in last week,” says Sidhu. “We have a low-key private room on the third floor, and they like it up there.”
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Big Crow
176 Dupont, at St George, 647-3420580, roseandsonsbigcrow.com, @roseandsons Ex-Drake chef Anthony Rose rebounds with a year-round backyard barbecue located behind his popular Rose and Son diner. Where else will you find picnic tables, shareable church-social plates and the occasional passing freight train? Best: retro Shrimp Louie salads with shredded iceberg, sliced avocado, hard-boiled egg and a handful of Quebecois cocktail shrimp in Thousand Island dressing; uncut jerk chicken wings with grilled pineapple splashed with coriander hot sauce; smoked Cornish hen in garlicky pesto; whole grilled rabbits with buttery hot sauce; on the side, baby red potato salad with grilled cremini mushrooms; grilled corn salad with crumbly feta-like queso and crema fresca; to finish, profiterole-like s’mores ice cream sandwiches with roasted marshmallows. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $40), including tax, tip and a Mai Tai. Average main $18. Open Thursday to Sunday 11 am to close, Monday to Wednesday 5 pm to close. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: three steps at door, three steps to washroom. Rating: NNNNz
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97 Harbord, at Robert, 647-748-7199, thrandco.com, @thrandco The crew responsible for the impossibly hip Harbord Room switch gears with this, dare we say it,– family-friendly cantina in the old Messis. Genuinely welcoming service, an unobtrusive soundtrack of golden oldies and
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Curt Martin’s shareable neo-Ital carte ensure full houses. Best seats in the house: the two semi-circular red leather banquettes in the window. Best: beef-heart tartare with olive relish and dehydrated duck yolk; thin-crusted pizzas dressed with nettles, potato, pancetta and a runny freerange egg; papardelle with fresh garden peas and spring favas in a light, lemony cream; garlicky black squid ink spaghetti alio e olio-style with charred squid and bottarga; poppyseed lemon cake topped with toasted marshmallow brittle and buttermilk ice cream. Complete dinners for $50 per person, including tax, tip and an Aperol spritzer. Average main $21. Open for dinner Monday to Thursday 5 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNz
Pub Grub Amsterdam BrewHouse
245 Queens Quay W, at Lower Simcoe, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse.
com, @AmsterdamBH With it’s 350-seat patio right on the lake at Harbourfront, this cavernous warehouse should be a tourist trap. Instead, it’s a gastro-pub worthy of those of us who actually live here. An unexpectedly competent kitchen, quick service and great optics will make us return, but only when they can the annoying AM top-40 muzak they insist on inflicting on customers. Best: thin-crusted pizzas dressed with house-made beerwurst sausage, roasted garlic and wild mushrooms drizzled with a syrupy stout reduction; hefty house-ground brisket burgers with bacon, cheddar and beer-battered onion rings sided with sweet potato frites; to finish, root beer floats with vanilla bean ice cream and deep-fried Oreo cookies. Complete dinners for $45 per person (lunches $35), including tax, tip and a house-brewed beer. Average main $18. Open Sunday to Tuesday 11 am to midnight, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to 1 am, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 2 am. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNz
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Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene October. The stylish space also comes Taco talk, take two Koreatown’s no stranger to Mexican food. Look no further than the longrunning success of Tacos El Asador, not to mention the imminent arrival of Playa Cabana as Barrio Coreano at Bloor and Euclid. But Carlos and Carolyn Solis’s seven-month-old La Burrita (735 Bloor West, at Shaw, 416-8582563, laburrita.ca, rating: NNNN) gives both a run for their money. And then some. While the low-key cantina’s lineup features the usual tostados and quesadillas, it’s the dozen-plus tacos that d eserve attention, in particular the slow-braised beef cheek and tongue versions (all $2.90). Their toppings make all the difference: chopped raw Spanish onion, fresh coriander and tricoloured squiggles of crema fresca, and both mild tomatillo and chili de arbolhot sauces. See for yourself starting Saturday (August 31),when a coupon from their flyer gets you a free taco through the end of September.
Mercanti to the core The winner of NOW’s latest pizza survey, Kensington Markets’s Pizzeria Via Mercanti will be opening a second location in the new YWCA Centre at Elm and Elizabeth in early
with a 60-seat terrace and a state-ofthe-art kitchen, the only thing missing a wood-burning oven. “I’ll be installing my own,” says Mercanti’s Romolo Salvati. “The last time I brought one over from Italy, I ordered two!”
Bristol stomp The Bristol Yard’s UK-centric Davy Love and Andrew Hudson are taking over the kitchen at the Northwood (815 Bloor West, at Crawford, 416846-8324) for a month of Quebecoisthemed suppers starting September 7. The event runs Thursday to Saturday to the end of the month. Love and crew promise twisted takes on pea soup with triple-smoked bacon ($6), traditional tourtière and reverse-engineered poutine (both $8), the latter consisting of french fries stuffed with gravy and cheese curds. “We had a lot of explosions before we got them right,” laughs Love.
No mo’ After a 17-year run, Momo’s Middle Eastern café and bakery on Harbord has called it quits. Affable owner Mohamed Abu-Taah says he wants to try something new but he’s not sure exactly what. SD “Retire maybe,” he jokes.
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The Cocktail Parlor at Storys 11 Duncan, 416-367-5151, storysbuilding.com Located on the second floor of the 170-year-old Storys building, the newly opened Cocktail Parlor is destined to set the scene for many a glitzy affair this TIFF. The latest joint venture of powerhouses Charles Khabouth (Ink Entertainment) and Hanif Harji (Icon Legacy Hospitality), who already have King West destinations Weslodge and Patria under their designer belts, the Cocktail Parlor at Storys channels the building’s era of origin in a wondrous den of anachronisms united in one stunning space. Exposed brick and delicate mouldings merge elegantly with mechanical metal structures, plush charcoal leather banquettes and gold accents. Who wouldn’t want to sip classy
cocktails out of vintage crystal in a steampunk salon tickled by nouveau opulence and old-school glamour? The sprawling drinks list – a whimsical narrative of 66 libations, categorized by spirit – is ingeniously designed as a 1920s periodical, complete with original artwork, faux adverts and boozy aphorisms from famous drinkers like Bukowski, Fitzgerald and Sinatra. The cocktail program, brainstormed by bar managers Elan Marks and Weslodge’s Wes Galloway, features cocktails on tap, an absinthe drip and a well of bitters, plus countless homemade tinctures, syrups, infusions and liqueurs, from roasted blueberry vodka to tobacco tincture.
“It’s very big and very ambitious,” says Galloway of the cocktail program. “If you’re going to go overboard, you need to back it up with a great experience.” If you’re lusting for a unique kind of luxury to bring summer to a close, Cocktail Parlor’s the spot. You won’t find any half-assing here. Washrooms: Downstairs Patio: No Check out: A daily happy hour from 5 to 8 pm, with special cocktails and snacks by executive chef Stuart Cameron. Hours: Wednesday to Friday 5 pm until late, Saturday 7 pm until late (for now – soon to change)
Signature drink
The Cavendish
This spiced whisky concoction, a favourite of bartenders Wes Galloway and Chanel Wood, is an adaptation of an old-fashioned. Price: $16 2 oz Maker’s Mark bourbon ½ oz Edmond Briottet Crème de Banane 6 drops cinnamon tincture 4 drops clove tincture
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5 dashes Angostura bitters Stir and strain into an old-fashioned glass with a large ice cube. Garnish with a dehydrated spiced banana chip.
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Double Cross Vodka The Drake (1150 Queen West, 416-531-5042, thedrakehotel. ca) presents its list of Down the Line cocktails for TIFF (available September 5 to 15). For those 11 days, sip drinks inspired by 70s rock icons and the legendary London underground scene of yore till 4 am.
EFS, aka Everything’s for Sale (647 King West, 416-477-5460, efstoronto. com), a 5,000-square-foot space catering to luxury-clubgoing types, officially opens Friday (August 30), just in time for TIFF. The Cage (292 College, thecage292.com), boasting budget drink specials and nightly DJs, is now open seven days a week from 8 pm on.
Rating: NNN Why: It just wouldn’t be a proper TIFF without waterfalls of vodka, but why not stray from the usual suspects and try something new? With a name evocative of a film noir plot twist – but actually a nod to the Slovakian coat of arms – Double Cross is creamy, clean and very easy to drink indeed. Price: 750 ml/$59.95 Availability: LCBO 272666
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Rating: NNNN Why: Celebrity beer puns aside, a single sip of Great Lakes’ Belgianstyle IPA will enlighten you as to the parallels between an idolized film and fashion icon and a local beer. Both are sophisticated as hell, originally hailing from Belgium. Best enjoyed in the company of a little black dress… or tux. Price: 650 ml/$5.95 Availability: LCBO 356055
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Rating: NNNN Why: Star-spangled affairs call for Champagne, Champagne and more Champagne. Made from 100 per cent Pinot Noir, this rich bubbly is packed with complexity: red and bitter fruits and tannic acidity with a touch of funk. Grab a value pack of Liqui-Gels, XL sunglasses and maybe one of those Evian face spritzers, because you’re going to have a few flutes.... Price: 750 ml/$43.95 Availability: Vintages 340372
WHAT WE’ RE DRINKING TONIGHT
St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur
This French liqueur is as elegant as it looks, the ideal liquid accoutrement for late-summer after-parties. Occasionally referred to as “bartender’s training wheels” because everything it touches tastes so fucking great, St-Germain is a magical addition to bubbly, gin, tequila, vodka, mineral water, et al. Stay classy, Toronto. LCBO 180695, 750 ml/$49.95
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TIFF tuxed
Drop-dead gorgeous red carpet dresses are great, but we’ve got our eye on smart, swanky (let’s pretend we’re
Dolce & Gabanna maroon velvet tuxedo jacket ($1,898, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com).
Lanvin purple velvet tuxedo suit ($3,695, Harry Rosen).
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Movie Poster Warehouse
1875 Leslie, unit 17, 416-391-0133, movieposter.com Shelly Candel estimates she has over a million film posters in her Leslie and York Mills warehouse and retail space. The oldest batch is from the 30s, including bills for the John Ford comedy Steamboat Round The Bend and the French version of the Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney buddy flick Stablemates. Every month, another 1,000 titles get added to the stacks, and if one of them is for a new superhero release (the most recent Ironman, for example), you can bet it will be a bestseller. In an era when movie marketing often depends on viral online campaigns to build audience buzz, it’s interesting to dig through Candel’s collection to see how the medium has evolved. The design for 1967 spaghetti western Up The MacGregors is full of plot-spoiling details, while Roger Kastel’s
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iconic artwork for Jaws evokes the same tension as the movie’s score. Once you’ve chosen your posters, you can have them mounted on site in classic black frames for $39 to $60. Movie Poster Warehouse picks: Kastel’s design for The Empire Strikes Back ($68) mimics the composition of the bill for Gone With The Wind; a life-sized Harry Potter stand-up is $57.75; a rare, deco-inspired Rocketeer piece is a pricier buy at $472.50. Look for: MPW also buys unwanted collections, especially theatrical posters not already listed on its website. Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm, Saturday 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday 11 am to 5 pm. 3
Paul Smith black tuxedo suit ($1,450, Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333, and others, holtrenfrew. com).
celebs and not paying) formal jackets for this year’s fest.
style notes The week’s news, views and sales Harry’s fall hits
Lab navy blue tuxedo suit ($995, GotStyle, 62 Bathurst, 416-2609696, and other, gotstylemenswear. com).
Smythe women’s boy blazer with gold buttons ($595, Holt Renfrew). 3
wewant… Spinning Film Reel table lamp If you want everyone who visits your pad to know how big a film buff you are, this one-ofa-kind lamp should do the trick. Made with vintage movie reels (that actually spin and have film on them), it’s scaled perfectly for the fanciest home theatre but looks equally smart next to wherever you sit and perch your laptop on your gut. $660, Kendall & Co.,, 227 Carlton, 416-363-9914, kendallandco.ca. 3
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A few weeks ago the folks at Harry Rosen (82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com) whetted our appetites for fall with a preview of their autumn menswear offerings. Standout buys include exclusive New Balance sneakers from the higher-end Made in UK lineup plus a sweet pair of Margiela runners in miniature pyramidstud leather. Also on the way for October is a collection of five pocket squares illustrated by Canadian artist Gary Taxali.
Trove treasures This month’s new arrivals at Trove (2264 Bloor West, 416766-1258, and others, trove. ca) include a great lineup of apparel, footwear and accessories. From the clothing rack, try on Vero Moda’s openweave sweaters in bright shades and more neutral hues. Then slip into a pair of electric blue pumps by newto-Trove label Vince Camuto. Finish things off with a Two Tree Designs messenger in heavyweight canvas, priced at $40 a pop.
Lunch time If Ecoholic Adria Vasil’s Test Lab column in last week’s issue inspired you to get an eco-friendly reusable food container, start your search at new litterless lunch store Fenigo (1199 Bloor West, 647827-9878, fenigo.com). The Bloordale Village shop is packed with reusable water bottles, picnic baskets and snack totes, all available in colourful prints and solids.
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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL
TOXIC KISS With new research out on the heavy metals in lipsticks, it’s time to take a closer look at what your beauty brand may be glossing over
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Maybelline/L’Oréal A recent U of California Berkeley study on heavy metals like cadmium and aluminum in lip glosses and sticks didn’t reveal brands, but the U.S. Food and Drug Admin’s 2012 lead tests on lipsticks did. Though all 400 tested came up positive, some L’Oréal and Maybelline shades topped the list. Health Canada allows 10 parts of lead per million in cosmetics; the FDA permits .1ppm for candy. Campaign for Safe Cosmetics wants a .02ppm cap. $10. Score: N
BURT’S BEES LIP SHIMMER Poor Burt’s been caught with higher traces of lead on its lips a couple of times. Burt’s says, “All minerals that come from the earth have the potential to contain trace elements of lead,” adding that the company’s “working to identify, minimize and even eliminate trace elements of lead from our products.” If it’s lip tints you want, look for Hurraw! (vegan) or T.O.’s Living Libations, both of which get their subtle hues from plants. $5.99. Score: NN
GREEN BEAVER PLENDICIOUS S In terms of green cred, this gloss deserves a perfect score for being made in Canada using certified organic (even Canadian-grown) ingredients, and for testing every batch for heavy metals, ensuring they come in under .001 parts per mil – pretty damn clean for a mineral-pigmented product. It’s also quite richly tinted for a gloss, but loses points for being sticky. $4.99. Score: NNN
ZUII/PURE ANADA Okay, Zuii ain’t cheap, but it’s by far the longest-lasting certified organic lipstick around. From Australia, so not local. Zuii gets its minerals “extensively tested” for heavy metals, but like others, can’t claim to be totally lead-free. If it busts your budget, check out Canada’s largely organic Pure Anada, which has been cleared for lead below .1ppm in the past. Both at Big Carrot. zuiiorganic.com, pureanada.ca. $24 and $12. Score: NNNN
100% PURE LIP GLOSS This may be the only full cosmetics line that gets its colour from fruit and plants. Tech nically, only shimmery colours contain mica (which can be tainted with lead and alumi num). But everything’s made on the same machinery, so the California firm doesn’t claim its products are mica-free. Non- shimmery glosses are the safest pick, but only some have certified organic ingredients. Check labels. Quite sheer. 100percentpure.ca. $21. Score: NNNN
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coordinator, Field to Table Schools program Are our politicians putting their money where their mouth is on healthy food in schools? Canada is one of very few G20 countries that isn’t committed to federal support for a student nutrition program. We’re fortunate to have municipal and provincial funding, which combined provides close to 20 per cent of the amount needed to support almost 700 programs across the city. But we’re still falling short, and only reach about a third of students. You’ve had 10,000 kids go through the Field to Table Schools — have
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healthy food. I just bought veggies from your new School Grown vendors at my local farmers’ market. What sparked this latest social enterprise? We’re trying to move toward covering costs for our school market gardens and creating a more financially sustainable project. Also, selling to restaurants (like the George Brown Chef School and stores (like the Hogtown Cure) and at farmers’ markets has provided a meaningful context for our student farmers’ work. They’re committed to their work because they know the food is going to be bought and eaten. Just when we thought farming was old-school, your Whole 9 Yards project showcases some crazy innovation. We definitely love the old-school soil, seed and sun, but a little innovation goes a long way. We have a small tin-
ker shop in the basement of FoodShare where our resident engineers and builders experiment and test ideas. Our File-A-Sprouts – old filing cabinets turned into sprouting boxes – are a great way to grow in the classroom. We’ve helped set up a classroom with a lettuce- and herb-growing fish farm stocked with 300 tilapia, and our bicycle-powered blenders have given new meaning to “enjoying the fruits of your labour” for students who can now drink their greens as part of a smoothie they’ve blended with their own energy. Some say local food doesn’t always have a lower carbon footprint than imports. What’s FoodShare’s take? One issue is how much energy it takes to produce something that wouldn’t naturally grow in our climate. Does it make sense to be heating hothouses for winter tomatoes? Maybe not. The good news is that urban farmers are able to take a less energy-intensive
Storex DuraTech Binders
Back-to-school shopping for binders? These brightly bound plastic note organizers try to lock your green vote by telling you they’re 100 per cent recyclable, but that’s a dodgy claim with random plastics. Sorry, the city doesn’t want these mystery plastic things in your blue box at the end of the school year. You and the planet would be way better off with cardboard binders made of 100 per cent recycled paper that you can confidently pop in the recycling bin once they’re worn out.
pproach by making use of the a urban heat island effect and growing with innovative systems. FoodShare’s on-site greenhouse is completely off the grid. Our school sites can produce into late fall and winter simply because the city is a few degrees warmer, and we use low-tech options like up-cycled cold frames and low tunnels. As we see more temperature extremes, sustainable urban farming systems will continue to flourish, and may also help mediate these weather extremes. How has Canada’s approach to food changed since FoodShare’s founding in 1985? The food movement has made great strides increasing both food consciousness and food access, but at the same time we know there are still folks who can’t afford to shop at farmers’ markets or organic grocers. Many don’t have regular nearby access to good, healthy food, and too many children have inadequate access to healthy food during the school day. We need to focus strategically on food justice as a priority.
Get your copy of Adria Vasil’s latest book, Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good – in bookstores everywhere!
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HUNX AND HIS PUNX at the Hard Luck Bar, Thursday, August 22. Rating: NNN
As if the musky ventilation at Hard Luck Bar wasn’t reason enough, Hunx and His Punx main man Seth Bogart opened Thursday’s show by threatening to walk if at least 10 people didn’t immediately remove their shirts. One person obliged, and the grinning California trash rocker sheepishly admitted his bluff had been called and launched into a set heavy on punchy cuts from their hardcore-leaning Street Punk album. The moment foreshadowed a few nagging disconnects throughout the 30-minute show – between the sound guy and the loose-sounding foursome, and between the audience and a raspy but peppy Bogart. Dressed in a black Peggy Noland jumpsuit covered in rock band logos, he bounced, bitched and stripped his way through the set, occasionally passing the mic to bassist Shannon Shaw, whose throaty wail was particularly convincing on the incendiary Don’t Call Me Fabulous. By the too-quick-to-arrive end, Bogart was clad in blue bikini briefs and had inspired most of the crowd to mosh. They were all still clothed, though at least one dude in the front apparKEVIN RITCHIE ently whipped out his dick.
WORLD DOMINATION 4 at the Opera House, Friday and Saturday, August 24 and 25. Rating: NNN
A rap battle hangs on every syllable. So it was unfortunate that on the second night of World Domination 4, presented by Toronto’s premiere rap battle league, King of the Dot, there were sound issues. While spectators on the floor were attentive and respectful, those loitering around the bar weren’t as quiet as they had been on night one. The mics were also inconsistently audible, so each match required a test drive before the first of three rounds.
Luckily, the 18 day-two competitors brought their A game (as had the 16 battlers on day one), which made it worth the ear strain. Over the course of the weekend, Charron vs DNA, Arsonal vs Dizaster and Young Gattas vs Bonnie Godiva (KOTD’s first female battle) were among the most memorable, and the serious level of lyrical talent mostly balanced out the tournament’s cheesier WWE-like aspects. The finale pitted the bravado and delivery of Nova Scotia’s Pat Stay against the less showy but equally inspired wordplay of defending champ Arcane from Hamilton. His lines like “Sloppy bars, this ain’t Patrick’s day/Sloppy bars, this Saint Patrick’s Day” couldn’t sway the judges, who ultimately crowned Stay the new king. JULIA LECONTE
MELANIE BRULÉE at the Cameron House, Sunday, August 25. Rating: NNN
At the final performance of her month-long Cameron House residency, Toronto-based Melanie Brulée wowed the audience with her multiple stage personas. Clad in a black dress and cowboy boots, she transformed from sultry pop star to classic cabaret singer, covering Edith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose with the French diva’s signature rapid vibrato and melodrama. Her two-hour set contained plenty of original songs as well, mostly folk ditties touching on archetypical country music themes: sucky ex-boyfriends, old flames, etc, rounded out with quirky adaptations like a Piaf-style take on Britney Spears’s Toxic and a Nancy Sinatra-channelling rendition of Bang Bang (He Shot Me Down). Brulée plans to travel to Paris for a two-month research project that will result in her first all-French album. On Sunday she previewed what that album might sound like. Passionate and raw, her SAMANTHA EDWARDS voice sounds best in cabaret’s native tongue.
THE REPLACEMENTS with IGGY & THE
STOOGES as part of RIOT FEST at Fort York ñ Garrison Common, Sunday, August 25.
Rating: NNNN Twenty-two years since their last live performance, the Replacements founding singer/guitarist Paul Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson reunited at the second Toronto edition of Riot Fest. The Replacements have always stood in opposition to the self-serious pomp that lionizes underground heroes as rock stars decades after their heyday. Regardless, there was an unmistakable air of occasion as foreign media crowded the photo pit and fans held their breath. The band wryly undercut it immediately, tearing into a typically loud and sloppy set, still playing the same surly self-saboteurs from the Minneapolis basement punk scene. Westerberg forgot whole verses to favourites like I Will Dare, merged their songs with piss-take covers and even took requests, gloriously fumbling through gender-bending love ballad Androgynous. When they launched into classics like Bastards Of Young, audience members belted out choruses with collective all-in-this-together satisfaction. But Westerberg was happier to troll the adoring crowd, donning a Habs jersey to lead his band through an encore version of the Broadway show tune Everything’s Coming Up Roses and IOU – a song inspired by Iggy & the Stooges, who’d performed just before. Iggy was as spry as ever, bouncing around the stage and into the crowd, howling like a banshee and inviting audience members to “fucking dance with the Stooges.” If not for the reunion, they surely would have grabbed the most attention.
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robert delong L.A. drummer finds a new palette with live instruments, looping and a Wii controller By benjamin boles
Robert delong at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (August 31), 10 pm. $12. TW.
The electronically assisted one-manband format used to be a tough sell, but Robert DeLong seems especially suited to crossing over commercially. Originally a drummer, the Los Angeles-based performer loops a grab bag of live instruments in real time, coaxes hypnotic melodies out of hotwired video game controllers and also sings a maddeningly catchy pop song. Waving a Wii remote around onstage and fiddling with old joysticks might have helped get him some early attention, but they aren’t just visual gimmicks. “I’ve been to so many electronic shows by artists that I like and still not had any idea what’s actually going on up there,” DeLong admits, still groggy from a week of gigs in Europe and South Africa. “But I will only use a tool when it makes sense: I’m not that great a keyboardist, and I’m probably more familiar with the controllers on a flight
simulator game. It’s kind of taking advantage of the muscle memory you already have, but for music.” It’s a natural progression from DeLong’s more traditional music chops. “I’d always played drums – initially in jazz and later in indie rock and folk bands – but this was a new palette for me. I was always a computer nerd and already messing around with electro nic production in various ways.” Despite the joysticks, his work has little in common with the retro lo-fi 8-bit sound associated with the chiptune scene’s rewired antique electro nics. DeLong’s music is more like what the Postal Service might sound like after encountering contemporary EDM DJs at a rave. Turns out, that’s not far from the truth. “My girlfriend brought me to a ravey event in Los Angeles about four years ago,” recalls DeLong. “I’d always dismissed a lot of dance music as repetitive, but once you see it in a live setting you understand it a lot more.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles
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tickets Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Rozzi Crane Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), tonight (Thursday, August 29) Go for powerhouse singer Clarkson. Torq Percussion Quartet Toronto Music Garden (475 Queens Quay West), tonight (Thursday, August 29) Works inspired by the elements. Bry Webb Toronto Botanical Garden (777 Lawrence East), tonight (Thursday, August 29) Arresting tunes by ex-Constantine. Phedre, Petra Glynt, Kenpark Beaver (1192 Queen West), Friday (August 30) Woozy pop experimentalists.
Badbadnotgood, Brendan Philip Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage (235 Queens Quay West), Friday (August 30) Hip-hop jazz at Hot & Spicy food fest. Cadence Weapon Yonge-Dundas Square, Friday (August 30) Alt rap by a poet laureate. Regina the gentlelady, Jenna Syde, Tynomi Banks, DJs the Robotic Kid, John Caffery Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (August 30) Disco party Mighty Real relocates. Robert DeLong Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (August 31) See preview, page 39.
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Keys N Krates TIFF Down The Line Launch Party Drake Hotel Lounge 9 pm, $10. September 5. Four Tet, Invisible City DJs The Great Hall 10 pm, $15-$20. PDR, RT, SS. September 6. Weaves, DJ Brendan Canning
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Kubrick II: A Clockwork Orange Party Adelaide Music Hall 10 pm, $20, adv $17. NT. September 6. Coliseum Parts & Labour. September 6. Savages Opera House doors 9 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF. September 12. Down With Webster Happy Fest Concert Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, free. September 14.
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Elgar Cello Concerto Roy Thomson
Hall 8 pm, $33-$145. RTH. September 18 and 19. Andria Simone Album release party El M ocambo 8 pm. September 19. Still Life Still The Garrison. September 20. Mushy Callahan Tattoo Rock Parlour. S eptember 20. Comanechi, Ell V Gore Silver Dollar $8. RT, SS. September 27.
The Musicians in Ordinary, Hallie Fishel, John Edwards
Concert For Michaelmas St Basil’s Catholic Church 7:30 pm, free/pwyc. musiciansinordinary.ca. September 28.
Schooner, Doctor Ew, Julian Brown Sneaky Dee’s. September 29.
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Oh Land The Great Hall $tba. Septem-
ber 30.
Beyond Creation, Archspire, Necrodios, Mulletcorpse, Ischemic Comfort Zone doors 9 pm. October 5.
Flatbush Zombies, Dillan Ponders, Bodega Bamz, Jimmy B
Wrongbar doors 8 pm, $20. PDR, RT, SS, TF. October 13.
Two Door Cinema Club, St Lucia & Peace The Danforth Music Hall all ages, $35-$55. RT, SS, TW. O ctober 15.
Black Milk, Quelle, DJ Sober
Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $22. PDR, RT, SS, TF. October 15.
Deltron 3030 (Del the funky homosapien, Dan the Automator, Kid Koala, Itch)
hoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, P $24.50. PDR, RT, SS, TF. October 16.
Power Trip, Terror, Counterparts, Code Orange Kids, Vehement Serenade Wrongbar. October 19.
Janelle Monae The Electric Lady
Tour Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $25. LN, RT, SS. October 19. The Lonely Forest Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. October 19.
House of David Gang, Friendlyness & the Human Rights
Peter Tosh Tribute Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $10. TW. October 19. Au Revoir Simone Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. October 20.
Depeche Mode, Bat for Lashes Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (September 1) Brooding electronic futurists. Stars, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Les Colocs and others Nathan Phillips Square (100 Queen West), Sunday (September 1) Unifest concert for new union Unifor.
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ADALINE, FEVERS, BARBUDOS, THE BEACHES Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (September 3) See Fevers preview, page 44. ROBYN HITCHCOCK, KATE BOOTHMAN Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Tuesday and Wednesday (September 3 and 4) English psych-folk icon plays twice.
September means digging out the fuzzy flannel and work socks, so the timing couldn’t be better for Mudhoney’s Lee’s Palace show. Though the Seattle kings of grunge are coming up on their 25th anniversary as a band, their latest record, Vanishing Point, proves they haven’t taken their feet off the gas despite a fiveyear gap between releases. It’s being celebrated for its stillpissed-off, acerbic tunes steeped in the band’s trademark superfuzz. And unlike their rock peers who seem to find reasons to celebrate something every year, singer/guitarist Mark Arm says Mudhoney aren’t doing anything special for their upcoming milestone besides playing shows – always riotous, hugely fun affairs. If you’re looking for more, check out last year’s excellent I’m Now: The Story Of Mudhoney documentary. Monday (September 2) at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), doors 8 pm. $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.
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THEEDREAM, MASHROU' LEILA, LOCAL NATIVES, SHUGGIE OTIS, YELLOWMAN VS. JOSEY WALES, BERNIE WORRELL W/ FRED WESLEY, CHALI 2NA, CAKES DA KILLA, SSION, THE DODOS, SUUNS,
LOU DOILLON Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 20.
EXAMPLE Phoenix Concert Theatre
doors 7 pm, $17.50. LN, RT, SS. October 22.
LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, TESTAMENT, HUNTRESS
Sound Academy $38-$52.50. RT, TF. October 23 (second show; also October 22 at Kool Haus). LINDI ORTEGA The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $20. LN, RT, SS. October 24.
CYNDI LAUPER, HUNTER VALEN-
TINE She’s So Unusual Tour Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $45-$75. LN, RTH. October 27. LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS, KC ROBERTS & THE LIVE REVOLUTION, SOUL MOTIVATORS, DJ JOHN KONG, FARBSIE FUNK Hal-
loween Funk Bash Phoenix Concert Theatre $tba. October 31.
HANNAH GEORGAS, SAM CASH & THE ROMANTIC DOGS, LOUISE BURNS The Great Hall doors 6:30 pm,
DOROTHY MOORE, PORTUGAL.THE MAN, COLIN STETSON, TIM HECKER, MAJICAL CLOUDZ, PIERRE PERPALL, WHITEHORSE, PATRICK WATSON, LEIF VOLLEBEKK, CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, MATIAS AGUAYO, FAT TONY, BRENDAN CANNING, DIANA, PYPY, AROARA, L E G E N D A R Y P I N K D O TS, TEAM ROCKIT, MOZART'S SISTER, J E N N Y H V A L , C O U S I N S , E M P RESS OF, WILD NOTHING, TYPHOON, C A L V I N L O V E , C O MANECHI, PLUS 350 MORE
$17.50. LN, RT, SS. November 2.
HOW TO DRESS WELL, JESSY LANZA The Garrison doors 8 pm,
P O P M O N T R E A L . C O M
$15. RT, SS, TF. November 2. DIXIE CHICKS Long Time Gone Tour General Motors Centre (Oshawa) doors 7 pm, all ages, $59.50$89.50. LN. 1-877-436-8811. November 8. CHERIE CURRIE Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 12. TEMPLES Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 20.
THE SKATALITES, THE BEATDOWN
Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 22.
KEITH URBAN, LITTLE BIG TOWN, BRETT ELDREDGE Light The Fuse Tour Air Canada Centre $tba. January 24, 2014.
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album feature
KING KHAN & THE SHRINES
King Khan & the Shrines are known in Toronto for their wild, sweaty live show, which they’ll bring to the Horseshoe on October 26. Until now, they’ve been happy to deliver that on record, too. But in the six years since the Montreal-reared, Berlin-based garage rocker last led his psychedelic soul orchestra into the studio for a proper LP, Khan’s been through mental institutions, personal tragedies and band breakups. Not that it’s stopped him from celebrating. His new album, Idle No More (Merge), addresses personal crises alongside the indigenous rights movement of its title and says, hey, maybe partying will help. By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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Why did you decide to name this album Idle No More? Originally I was going to call the album Of Madness I Dream, but then I started hearing about all the great things going on with Idle No More and was really saddened by the lack of attention the movement was getting. So I reached out to the organizers and asked permission to use the name for my album in hopes of spreading the good word. Growing up in Montreal, two of my best buddies were Mohawk, and back in the day I would stay with one of them on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve whenever my father kicked me out of the house. I had some great times with those two friends, one of whom, Jayson Montour, sadly passed away a few years ago. He was truly one of the greatest punk rockers when I was growing up, and in fact I wrote the song So Wild on the new record about him and [Memphis punk rocker] Jay Reatard, whom I also lost around the same time. You live in Berlin, and your new label, Merge, is in the U.S. Are people there familiar with the movement? Every journalist I have talked to about the record thus far has had no clue about what Idle No More is, and I’m definitely proud to spread the good word. The civil rights movement has been a huge inspiration to me since I was a kid. Back then it seemed that popular music and revolution went hand in hand. Nowadays it seems pop music’s main mission is to dull the senses and praise mediocrity. This is your first new album with the Shrines in six years. Why did you wait so long? It was a real roller coaster. I lost three great brothers – one to cancer, one to drugs and one to suicide. I basically lost my mind, lost sense of everything. It took two years of psychiatric wizardry in a mental hospital in Berlin and the love of my family to finally rise out of the ashes. Hitting one of the lowest lows in my life, I did not know if I would be able to continue even making music. I had an explosive breakup with Mark Sultan [BBQ of the garage rock duo King Khan & BBQ Show], I shaved my head and joined a Buddhist monastery in Korea for a week, which turned out to be run by female monks. Looking back, I guess I did go down in flames. Luckily, I came back. It was finally after about two years of being in a daze that I learned how to adapt to the medication. The song Darkness crept into my mind, and suddenly I felt confidence again. The album started taking shape and kind of documented a very great healing that occurred. My life was saved by rock ’n’ roll. The Shrines have a reputation as a wild party band. Is it challenging to use that platform to tackle personal demons and promote civil rights? Lots of great soul music was both revolutionary and great party music. I feel that this album really captures the conquering of certain demons that nearly made me lose everything. The past few years put things into perspective, and I truly feel blessed and somehow protected. When I say I feel like the luckiest man, I truly mean it. 3 music@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto
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Idle No More (Merge) Rating: You have to hand it to Arish Ahmad “King” Khan. Years of personal tragedy, spiritual crises, mental illness and political strife (see Q&A, above) could have caused him to quit. Instead he used it all to sharpen his perspective and arm himself with a whole new arsenal of material to attack with funk and soothe with soul. Idle No More is a refined version of the Shrines, sure, but only insofar as you can call a nine-piece band with layers of wah-wah guitar, strings and horns refined. Inspired by revolutionary protest soul music that arose during the civil rights era, Idle No More (named after the Canadian indigenous rights movement) smoothes out some of the bawdier aspects of the Shrines’ former garage-psych without losing the fundamental humour or good vibes. It’s a more introspective, political and mature sound, but no less fun. King Khan still wails with the best of them, like a crazed James Brown fed on decades of punk and garage rock. Top track: Born To Die RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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Thursday, August 29 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Canadian National Exhibition Frankie
Avalon 7:30 pm.
Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk/soul)
doors 11 pm.
The Garrison AA Wallace, Valerie Dour, Coronado. ñ Graffiti’s Anne Lindsey 8 pm, Cris Batosh 4
to 7 pm.
Hawaii Bar DO! 9:30 pm. The Hideout Don Campbell (rock) 11:30 pm,
Jetcoaster 10:30 pm, Three Seasons & the Move 9:30 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Omhouse (pop) 10 pm. Horseshoe Hairy Holler, the Socials, the Kerouacs, Long Range Hustle. Karla’s Roadhouse Jam Tommy Rocker Band 8 pm. Lake Affect Lounge Freedom Train (rock). Lee’s Palace Rise of the Lion, Second Pass, Trove. Molson Amphitheatre Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Rozzi Crane doors 6 pm, all ages. Parts & Labour Kicking Spit. The Piston Hue (pop rock) 9 pm. Silver Dollar Surinam, Mexican Slang, Walk North, Prosimii 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. Supermarket Chris Hau, Danielle Knoll, Tallan M.D. Toronto Botanical Garden Summer Music Series Bry Webb (indie rock singer/ songwriter) 7 pm. Yonge-Dundas Square Siren Music Fest Cody Simpson (singer/songwriter) 6 pm.
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Rivoli Acoustic & Interactive Series Part III Todd Clark, Christian Bridges, Donñ ovan Woods doors 8 pm. The Sister Local 164 (old-time music). Tranzac Southern Cross Bluegrass Thurs-
days Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm. The Wailers Amai Kuda & Y Josephine, Ruth Mathiang 8 pm. Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.
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Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Alleycatz Where Music Meets Art Daniella Watters 9 pm. Berkeley Street Theatre Canadian Stage Block Party: Jazz Jam Caribou members, DJ Pick a Piper 9 pm-midnight. Direct Energy Centre Wine Garden CNE Beverly Taft, Adrean Farrugia, Nathan Hiltz, Artie Roth 1 to 5 pm. Gate 403 Linda Carone Jazz Band 9 pm, Andre Brewster Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro George Evans (jazz/cabaret crooner) 8 pm. Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Richard Underhill 5 to 8 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Parc-X Trio 9:30 pm, Worst Pop Band Ever (jazz) 6:30 pm. St James Gazebo Music In St James Park Combo Royale (old-time jazz) 7 to 9 pm. Toronto Music Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Elemental TorQ Percussion Quartet 7 pm.
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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
& Co Resto Bar Space Thursday Manzone & Strong, Emerson Tavares. ñ Andy Poolhall Beatdown DJ Pablo & weekly
guests (house/techno/downtempo/hip-hop/ soul) 10 pm. Annex Wreckroom Get Up! DJ Serious, Supernaturalz Crew (hip-hop) 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar Mainfest Lounge Bear Clan, Anzola, Josh Grant, 2nd Son (original electronic bass music) 10 pm. Camp 4 Switched On Pammm, DJ Peter Merriman (indie rock/campus radio jams) 10 pm. Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Canadian DMC Battleground Total Eclipse, DJ Vekked, DJ Law and others doors 9 pm. The Garrison The Cantina UHaul Katie Stelmanis 9 pm.5 Goodhandy’s T-Girl Parties DJ Todd Klinck.5 The Steady Cafe & Bar The Dirty Hustle DJ Blackcat (R&B/reggae/house/hip-hop/soca/ old & new school) 10 pm. WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht) 10 pm.
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Friday, August 30 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Alleycatz Ascencion (rock). Beaver Phèdre, Petra Glynt, Kenpark (experimental/rock) doors 10 pm. ñ The Brawley Kimberley Wetmore Band
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
Drake Hotel Underground Vibrosis, DJ
Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron 8 pm. Cameron House Rooster Davis 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 to 8 pm.
Cameron House Back Room David Elliott 8
to 10 pm.
Canadian National Exhibition International Bldg The Creole Choir (Haitian sounds from Cuba) 3 & 6:30 pm.
Canadian National Exhibition Midway Stage Canadian Blues Caravan Chuck Jackson,
Steve Strongman, Robin Bank$, Johnny Max 8 pm. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar David Hustler & the Trustworthy (indie/folk/rock) 9 pm. Go Lounge Acoustic Open Mic Signe Miranda 8:30 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Boulevard Tent Dancing On The Pier The Ricardo Barboza ñ Band (salsa/meringue/bachata) 7 to 10 pm. Hot Box Puff Lounge Unplugged Open Mic 9
pm.
The Local Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party (folk/blues/country) 8 pm. Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm, Jammin’ Danny Blu 3 pm. Lula Lounge Jewel Ackah, Adam Solomon African Blues & Jazz Trio 8:30 pm. Mélange Open Mic Jam Karen Lee Wilde. Nathan Phillips Square Tasty Thursdays: Bollywood Fusion 12:30 to 2 pm.
Canadian National Exhibition Bandshell Walk Off the Earth 7:30 pm. ñ Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.
Howmuchistoomuch (pop/funk) doors 6:30 pm. El Mocambo Album release party Brothers of North, South of Bloor, Professor doors 9 pm. Failte Irish Pub Julian Taylor Band 10 pm. Graffiti’s Paul Martin 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage Hot & Spicy Food Fest Badbadnotgood ñ 9:30 pm, Brendan Philip 8 pm.
The Hideout The Disco Rebels (rock) 11 pm, Maps (rock) 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Crhymes & Moves (rock/pop) 10 pm. The Hoxton Been Trill 10 pm. Lake Affect Lounge Whiskey Epiphany (acoustic rock/folk/blues). Lee’s Palace The Fifths, Crown Town, There There Indigo. Lola Shitkicker 8 pm. Nocturne CD release Divid Hawk (hip-hop/ rock). Parts & Labour Highness, Laureate, Blackbelt. Relish Bar & Grill David Macmichael (power pop) 9 pm. Rex Soul Stew (retro/funk/disco/rock) 9:45 pm. Rivoli Sound Battle Royale Tehu, Fresh Kils, Memorecks, Supa83, Silas, Notes to Self, DJ Tactiks doors 9 pm.
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Shops at Don Mills Music In The Square Aion Clarke (pop/R&B) 7 to 10 pm.
Silver Dollar Modern Twist, the Gringods,
Liam Mackenzie, Vic Songwriter 9 pm. The Sister F.O.D. Southside Johnny’s Pop Cherry 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross The Ryan Driver Quartet 10 pm. Trinity Square Park Play The Parks Noon Tunes Heavy Weights Brass Band noon. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Lawson 8 pm, all ages. Yonge-Dundas Square Indie Fridays Cadence Weapon 8 to 10 pm.
Castro’s Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You
Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm. Club 120 Underground Peepshow DJ Sexy Pants 10 pm.5 Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Nana doors 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Stuck On Stupid DJ Fase, Dougie Boom doors 11 pm. Emmet Ray Bar Joints! DJ Serious, DJ Numeric (hip-hop/R&B/funk/soul/disco) doors 10 pm. Fly Pop! Fridays DJ Avs & Scarlett Bobo doors 10 pm.5 Footwork Nathan Barato doors 10 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival: DJ Deep Fried
Benares Historic House On The Verandah
Fridays – Deep-Fried Soca II DJ Dr Jay de Soca Prince 7 pm. Hot Box Puff Lounge Frydayz: Big Spliff Hiroshi (old-school reggae). Li’ly Halfway House DJs Mattyson, Soapy, ssugg, the Goons (funky house) 10 pm. The Piston Shindig! (60s soul/R&R) 10 pm. 751 MusicSheBlogged Cerebral Scrub?, Chachi on Acid, Fuckhawk, Summer of ’92 doors 9 pm. Supermarket Soop! It’s Good For You! DJ the Soul Proprietor & the Nightbox DJs 10 pm. WAYLA Bar Full Frontal DJs Devon Sheffield (top 40/house/electro) 10 pm. Wrongbar Mighty Real Jenna Syde, Tynomi Banks, Regina the Gentlelady, DJs the Robotic Kid, John Caffery (nu-disco/ disco-house/classic disco/bass) 10 pm.
Direct Energy Centre Wine Garden CNE
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Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron 8 pm. Cadillac Lounge Catfish Blues. Cameron House Nick Teehan 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 to 10 pm, David Celia 6 to 8 pm.
Cameron House Back Room Luke Austin. Free Times Cafe Maneli Jamal & Braeden McMillan 9 pm.
Lula Lounge Changui Havana (salsa) 10:30 pm. Molson Amphitheatre Zac Brown Band (alt
country/folk) doors 6 pm, all ages.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental Outdoor Concert deVah 7:30 pm.
Beverly Taft, Adrean Farrugia, Nathan Hiltz, Artie Roth 1 to 5 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge Rubix (jazz) doors 7 pm. Gate 403 Mighty Tusk Band 9 pm, Noam Lemish Trio w/ Miles Wick 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s Frankie Foo 10 pm. Island Cafe Long Weekend Community Arts Fest Gabriel Palatchi (Latin jazz). The Jazz Bistro George Evans (jazz/cabaret crooner) 8 pm. Lula Lounge Eric St Laurent Trio (jazz) 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Amanda Tosoff Trio 7:30 pm. Playful Grounds Jazzforia doors 8 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Annex Wreckroom Reunion: The 2 The Beat
10-Year Anniversary D.A.V.E. the Drummer, Deko-Ze, Lee Osborne, D-Monic 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar Scissors Fawn Big Canoe, DJ Shirley Sokes Yoon (house/ disco).
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Alleycatz Ascencion (rock). Cadillac Lounge Frank Bang & the Secret
Stash 10 pm.
Canadian National Exhibition Bandshell
Theory of a Deadman 7:30 pm. The Central Bad Weather 2:30 pm.
Christie Lake Conservation Area Greenbelt Harvest Picnic Daniel Lanois, ñ Emmylou Harris, Whitehorse, the Arkells,
Pegi Young & the Survivors, Trixie Whitley, Harlan Pepper, Rocco DeLuca, Basia Bulat gates 11 am. Comfort Zone Talamyus, Eclipse Eternal, Will of the Ancients, Pagan Ritual, Grim Mars (black metal/viking metal) doors 9 pm. Failte Irish Pub Julian Taylor Band 10 pm. Graffiti’s Taxichang 4 to 7 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival: Sauce Rock
Grey Kingdom 7:30 to 8 pm, Sauce Rock 7 pm.
The Hideout The Soul Kicks (rock) 10:30 pm. Horseshoe Release Party The Auras, the Dis-
raelis, Sun Stone Revolvers, the BB Guns 9 pm.
Karla’s Roadhouse Back to Back (classic rock)
9:30 pm.
Linsmore Tavern Midnight Lights 9:30 pm. Living Arts Centre African Entertainment
Awards Sweet Maria Blandine, Dynamq, Kim Davis, Eldee, Kelly Hansome, K9 & others 6 pm.
Manifesto Community Projects Basement M.A.R.S. HQ: A Random Party
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Blake Carrington, Christian Bondzie, Allan Rayman, Brisk in the House doors 10 pm. May Cafe Freedubstar (roots/rock/reggae) doors 8:30 pm. Molson Amphitheatre WHAM BAM Robin Thicke, Avril Lavigne, Classified, Mocha, Nikki Williams, Shawn Desman, DJ Clymaxxx 5 pm. NTB Lounge Open Mic Chameleon w/ Shawn Sage 9:30 pm. Rancho Relaxo Canadian Turbojugend Nights Dogs, Copstabber, Canadian Denim, Sluts on 45, Kill Sid (punk/rock) 9 pm. Reposado Bradley & the Bouncers, Rob n’ Bob Power Duo. Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Rivoli Indie Night Big Name Actors, Stacey Y Band, Redbrick, I Hate Todd doors 9 pm. Silver Dollar The Sea Monsters, Madvarks, Everloving Jugband, Black Spruce doors 9 pm. The Sister Keys to the Studio. Southside Johnny’s Speakeasy (classic rock) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. TJ’s Pub & Grille Straight Shooter (rock/country).
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The Black Cat Rebas Open Mic Surprises Never Cease 1 to 4 pm. Cadillac Lounge Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm. Cameron House Kayla Howran 8 to 10 pm, Colonel Tom 6 to 8 pm. Cameron House Back Room Whitebrow, Combo Royale 10 pm. Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm. Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am-3 pm. Dominion on Queen The Ronnie Hayward Trio (beatnik hillbilly music) 4 to 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Paco & Kara, Saro Nova (folk/ rock/spoken word) 7:30 pm. Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival Canailles ñ (Cajun bluegrass) 9:30 pm, Lemon Bucket
Orkestra (gypsy party punk balkan-klezmer) 8 to 9 pm, Swamperella (cajun/zydeco) 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival Mexico Amigo Mariachi 9 to 9:30 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Zone 5 Hot & Spicy
Food Festival Mexico Amigo Mariachi 6-7 pm.
Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Adam Solomon Trio (African blues/jazz) 9 pm. ñ Kehillat Eytz Chaim Azalea (alt country)
10:30 pm, all ages.
Lake Affect Lounge Jerome Godboo, Douglas Watson, Conor Gains.
The Local Tich Maredza Trio (contemporary
Zimbabwe roots) 8 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 4 pm. Old Nick Kim Jarrett, Jennifer Brewer (folk/ rock) 9 pm. Pancho y Emiliano Cafe Con Pan (Mexican folk) 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Jamzac 3 pm. Village of Yorkville Park Summer Music In The Park Sean Dawhaniuk Trio 1:30-4:30 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Direct Energy Centre Wine Garden CNE
Beverly Taft, Denis Keldie, Tony Quarrington, San Murata 1 to 5 pm. Gate 403 Mr Rick’s Tin Pan Jazz Band 9 pm, Eliza Pope Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s Caution Jam 10 pm, The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro George Evans (jazz/cabaret crooner) 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Fred Duligal Trio 7:30 pm. Relish Bar & Grill New Music Night Samantha Clayton (jazzy indie) 9:30 pm. Rex Project Rex 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7 pm, Bob Cary Orchestra w/ Vincent Wolfe 3:30 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Andy Poolhall Top Player Launch Party Dirty Dale, James Drummond, DJ Medley (house/ hip-hop). Annex Wreckroom Drum N Bass 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar Bassline Bonanza LivelyO.nes & Gabriel Grunner, Canada Thrust (Afrodisco/hard house) 6 pm. Black Eagle DJ Neill Macleod (electro/funk/ tribal/rock) 10:30 pm.5 Club 120 Crush Flower Power DJ Johnny B Goode 10 pm.5 Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Itzsoweezee Tom Wrecks & DeMiggs doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Fase (hip-hop) doors 10 pm. Emmet Ray Bar DJ Serious (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. Fly Labour Bear Weekend: Pitbull! Bears Behind Bars DJ Deko-Ze, Mark Falco doors 10 pm.5 Footwork Dixon doors 10 pm. Guvernment Spin Saturdays DJs Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong (house/electro/trance/techno). Holy Oak Cafe Essence Brown (R&B) 10 pm.
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Fevers are a very Canadian band. They come from towns large and small, they’re bilingual, they live in the capital. They’ve also embraced a genre of music – electro indie rock – in which Canadian bands currently thrive, though they arrived there in a roundabout way. “For us it was totally by accident,” says guitarist/vocalist Colin MacDougall, fresh off the Fevers 24-hour album release party in Ottawa. “I’d been playing in the rock genre for a while and I was eager to try something out, but all I knew was indie rock.” Fate had him playing on the same soccer team as British expat Jim Hopkins, now the band’s bassist and programmer, who was expert at producing beats and samples on his
Magpie Taproom Pressure Drop Jason Palma
10 pm.
Nocturne Human Canvas (electro/trap). The Piston Fast Times! (80s party) 10 pm. Product Nightclub All White Everything. Rockpile DDrive. Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.
Supermarket Do Right Saturdays DJ John
Kong 10 pm.
Velvet Underground PANIC – The Ultimate
Retro Party: Spoons vs Images In Vogue Spotlight DJ Lazarus 10 pm. WAYLA Bar Pop Machine Shane Percy & DJ Aural (pop) 10 pm. Wrongbar Robert DeLong (dance/electronic) 10 pm. See preview, page 39.
Sunday, September 1 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
The Brawley Robbie Lane & the Disciples (pop/R&B/blues) 5 to 9 pm. Cadillac Lounge Rock N Roll Brunch. Cameron House The Double Cuts 10 pm. Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch The Cosmotones 11 am to 3 pm. Graffiti’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm, Black Metal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. The Hideout Take With Audio (acoustic rock) 10:30 pm, Dan Gagnon (acoustic rock) 2 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Acoustic Open Stage & Jam Nicola Vaughan (rock) 3 to 6 pm. Karla’s Roadhouse Linda (pop) 3 to 6 pm. Molson Amphitheatre The Delta Machine World Tour Depeche Mode, Bat for Lashes 7:30 pm, all ages. Nathan Phillips Square Unifest Stars, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings, Sister Says, Les Colocs, DJ Hedspin 6:30 to 11:30 pm. Seven44 SundayNightLive: Labour Day Edition DRU, Andreena Mill, Shahi Teruko, the Plaitwrights doors 7:30 pm.
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. The Black Cat Rebas Open Mic David Crighton 1 to 4 pm.
Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am-3 pm. Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. Emmet Ray Bar Graham Playford (folk) 9 pm. Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival Spicy Strings w/ Kevin Laliberte 12:30 to 1:15 pm.
Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage Hot &
Spicy Food Festival Okavango: An African Orchestra 9:30 pm, Femi Abosede & the Culture Force Band 8 pm, Pacific Curls 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
computer. The two “musically hit it off,” wrote a few songs and eventually took guitarist Martin Charbonneau and drummer/percussionist Mike Stauffer into the fold. For a while it was MacDougall’s voice on the demo tracks, but the group soon realized they needed “a voice.” They found it in bilingual singer/songwriter Sarah Bradley, a Sudbury transplant, after Charbonneau met her at a Franco-Ontarian music festival. In possession of more than an ethereal, Andrea Corr-like croon, Bradley leant the group creative diversity. “Sarah’s a great songwriter herself, so this last record was a collective process. Her songs came on and my songs came on and it all came together,” says MacDougall. Fevers, however, are very much a fivesome. For their debut LP, No Room For Light (independent), they holed up in a cottage an hour north of Ottawa to write and make working demos before linking up with producer Laurence Currie and recording in their home city as well as Toronto.
Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic Sundays (jazz/folk/world) noon to 3 pm. Horseshoe Pegi Young & the Survivors (singer/songwriter) doors 8 pm. Lula Lounge Jorge Maza Cuban Duo (Cuban son/salsa) 1 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sunday Open Mic 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. Winchester Kitchen & Bar Open Jam Porter 9:30 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Direct Energy Centre Wine Garden CNE
Beverly Taft, Mark Kieswetter, Reg Schwager, Neil Swainson 1 to 5 pm. Rex Gabriel Palatchi (Latin jazz) 9:30 pm, Tara Davidson Duo 7 pm, Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Tranzac Southern Cross The Woodchoppers Association 10 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, Composers’ Workshop 2 pm. Village of Yorkville Park Summer Music In The Park Cascabel Duo (Latin jazz) 1:30 to 4:30 pm.
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Annex Wreckroom Kutski, Gabbo, DAMO, Mike P doors 10 pm.
Aria Complex Bare Naked Patio Party Maltease noon.
Castro’s Lounge Watch This Sound (rare vintage ska/reggae/dub) 9 pm.
Club 120 Juicy DJs Blackcat & Hotknife 10 pm.5 Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors
10 pm.
Drake Hotel Underground Alixander III, On Vacay, DJ Caff, DJ Fathom doors ñ 10 pm. Footwork Chus & Ceballos doors 10 pm. Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage
Hot & Spicy Food Festival:Pan Fried Afrika DJ Deemaks, Jamilah Malika 7 to 9:30 pm. Holy Oak Cafe DJ Platinum Travel Reward Miles (gospel/R&B) 9 pm. Measure The Known Unknown: The Art of Storytelling DJ Lissa Monet, DJ Starven Marvin 8 pm. Nocturne Fetish Film Festival Closing Party (sexy rock). The Piston Midnight Applauders: What It Is! Kwame Younge & DJ Dave Campbell (soul/ house/soca/funk/reggae) 10 pm. Stella Borealis Remember De Bacchanal: Soca Of De 90s boarding noon. Sunnyside Pavilion Sunset Session Morgan Geist, DJs Felix & Gani, Mischief & Frankie, Richard Brooks, Sam Melkic, Ron Allen, Nuno, Jessica Cho, Paul Revered doors 5 pm.
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Thrilled to embrace a new-wave digital sound, the band keeps a foot in traditional songwriting, too. “It’s important that in general all the songs are able to stand alone, so you could sing them around a campfire. They still have a good song structure, a good vocal hook, a melody.” Hence that massive Ottawa party – where the band played three shows in 24 hours, ranging from stripped-down acoustic to full-blast dance-rock. (Their album lies in the middle – nuanced indie-electro that’s dancey on one track and rock ’n’ roll on another.) Their tour won’t be quite as intense but will have them travelling across eastern, northern and southern Ontario for six shows in eight days. “This will be our first time cramming ourselves into a van, bringing tents and sleeping on people’s lawns,” says MacDougall, before adding with a laugh, “We love each other now as a band…. We’ll see at the tail end of it.” 3 julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte
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Centre Island Electric Island Summer Finale Tale of Us, Joel Mull, Joy Orbison, ñ Chaim, Gera Vs Arron Santos, Deadly Vanity 1:30 to 10 pm.
Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon
(retro 70s/80s) 10 pm.
Monday, September 2 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Cameron House Weatherstone 10 pm. Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones 9 pm.
Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor Band
(rock singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The St. Royals (soul) doors 10 pm. The Hideout Big Otter Creek (acoustic rock) 10 pm. Lee’s Palace Mudhoney (grunge rock & roll) doors 8 pm.
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El Cafecito Espresso Bar Western European
Folk Dancing Dance Tune Learning Workshop 7 pm. Free Times Cafe Open Stage Monday 7:30 pm. Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.
Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage Hot & Spicy Food Festival Babalao
Tuesday, September 3 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Cameron House Run with the Kittens (rockabilly punk/surf psychedelic folk punk) 10 pm.
Casa Loma Summer Music: A Night At The
Opera NARIA (opera-pop) 7 pm.
Drake Hotel Underground Robyn Kate Boothman doors 8:30 ñHitchcock,
pm.
Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm. The Hideout Jeans Off Duo (acoustic rock)
10:30 pm.
Holy Oak Cafe Texture & Strange Robotix (math pop) 9 pm. Horseshoe Nu Music Nite Adaline, Fevers, Barbudos, the Beaches 9 pm. See Fevers preview, page 44. Tranzac Southern Cross Collette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
Axis Gallery & Grill The Junction Jam Derek
Downham 9:30 pm.
Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays
Drake Hotel Lounge Memphis Tuesdays The Unseen Strangers doors 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Jeff Lang 8:30 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Steven Raiken (fingerstyle guitar) 7 pm.
Village of Yorkville Park Summer Music In
Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/
Stereo Club 5 to 6 pm, Salsotika 3 to 4 pm.
On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (New Orleans blues) 8 pm.
10 pm.
The Park Peter Smith Trio 1:30 to 4:30 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Jazz/Classical/Experimental jazz) 8:30 pm.
Dominion on Queen Hot Club Of Corktown
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Django Jam 8:30 pm. The 417 Lounge Jazz Jam Pat Murray 8-11 pm. Rex Jazz Jam Alex Ernewein Trio 9:30 pm. Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith (jazz) 9 to 11 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Peripheral Vision (jazz) 10 pm.
Fairbanks Jr.
8 pm.5
Kitch Luke Vajsar’s Hypnotic Lounge Series
(solo bass) 9 pm. Rex The Jazz Mechanics Big Band 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. Seven44 Advocats Big Band (bop/mambo/ swing/swoon) 7:30 pm.
Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. Bovine Sex Club Moody Mondays Douglas
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck
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T.O. Music Notes
TIFF: More Than Films
TIFF and parties go hand and hand, which often puts music in the spotlight during the 10-day fest. One of the most anticipated events is Festival Music House, now in its fourth year and produced by the Arts & Crafts record label. This year synth pop reigns supreme, with Dragonette, Diamond Rings, Nightbox and Rich Aucoin all making appearances. Rock comes via the Darcys and Mother Mother, Latin music via Alex Cuba, funk via Maylee Todd, bluescountry via July Talk and alt R&B via Michael Rault. The acts are spread over two days, September 8 and 9, at the newly opened Adelaide Hall (250 Adelaide West). festivalmusichouse.com. Unfortunately, these shows are not open to the public. The upshot: visiting filmmakers, pro-
ducers and directors get the opportunity to see local music and give some of your best-kept (for now) local secrets worldwide exposure.
island in the sun
Thought summer festival season was over? Not quite. The Island Café – everyone’s favourite Wards Island refuelling station – presents the second annual Long Weekend Arts Festival this Labour Day long weekend. Friday kicks off with a night of food, drink and jazz music starting at 5 pm. Sunday night’s headliners are local cover heroes Dwayne Gretzky, while Monday starts early with an all-white-attire brunch affair and finishes with an evening show by Ivy Mairi, Matthew Bailey and special guests. torontoislandcafe.com.
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sept 04
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october 5 • $ 18.50 adv
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$ 15.00
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blood Ceremony biblical cauchemar sat
sept 06
the beaches caged animals sept 15 • barbudos sept SoniC youth’S thurSton Moore fEVERS 07 aDaliNE chelsea
sun
$8.00 @Door
monday • no cover
the auras SUN StONE
fri
tues
REVOlVERS bb gUNS DiSREaliS
aug 31
october 20 • $ 20.00 adv
december 10 • $ 25.50 adv
no cover
the advancing LOw LiveS pacha MaMa
lower voices hill valley lightning $5.00 @Door andrew MicheLin thurs dani nash sept patrick 05 $5.00 brealey band @Door rattlesnake choir
sat
saturday
with DaN gODliN
november 22 • $ 23.50 adv
sept 02
thE RathbURNS SONS Of REVElRy
october 18 • $ 18.50 adv
november 19 • $ 13.50 adv
mon ShoeleSS MonDay
go diana
october 16 • $ 15.00 adv
unknown mortal orchestra
hairy holler the socials the kerouacs long range hustle
bENhUR
uK goth roCK
$20.00 adv
hOLLywOOd SinS fiNgERS x stealing patience
$6.00 @Door
$8.00 @Door
friday
sept 05
sat sept 07 • $17.50 adv
aug 29
aug 30
thurs
social strife
thurs
fri
DallaS/nyC inStruMental FuSion
burning the day $10.00 six side die @Door if looks could kill
alternative rock dance club 2nd floor of lee’s palace 10:00pm — 2:30am
$20.00 adv
Crown town there there IndIgo sat
fri sept 06 • $34.50 adv
great hall • $ 15.00 advance PreSentS
dundasa 80 + Jerusalem In my heart friday sept 20 @ hard luck • $ 13.50 adv
the creepshow
september 11 • $ 13.00 adv
dirty
bEaChES september 17 • $ 10.00 adv
houses october 25 • 12.00 adv $
disappears
Adv Tickets @ TickeTfly.com • Ticketmaster.ca • Rotate This • Soundscapes • H-Shoe front Bar
sunday SEptEmbER 8
THuRSdAy september 12 @ opeRA HouSe • $ 20.00 advance
savages volcano phoenix • 22.50 advance $
choir featuring
justin vernon of bon iver
thurs SEptEmbER 19 @ horseshoe •
$
15.00 advance
• album release party •
JUNiOR battlES + thE mOtORlEagUE + CUNtER
sun SEptEmbER 29 $ opera house • 19.00 adv • all-ages
& thE hONEybEaRS with piCkwiCk thursday
king tuff & jacuzzi boys
NOVEmbER 28 sound academy
25.00 adv ga • $39.50 adv Vip
$
tuesday OCtObER 8 @ phoenix • $22.50 advance
september 12 • $ 20.00 adv
october 9 • $ 22 adv • all-ages
boyce
avenue DRiVE by november 2 • $ 29.50 adv
uK 1980’S “too MuCh PreSSure” SKa legenDS
phoenix • $ 23.50 advance
river
lee’s palace • $ 21.50 adv
september 29 • $ 20.50 adv
TueSdAy september 17 @ lee’S pAlAce • $ 29.50 advance
sat SEptEmbER 28
okkervil
MataDor uK PoSt PunK
thurs SEptEmbER 19
tRUCkERS & old 97’s
monday OCtObER 28
november 5 • $ 20.00 adv
pHoenix • $ 27.50 advance
blessthefall defeater
kate nash november 27 • 20.50 adv story so far $
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clubs&concerts ñ
Array Space Weasel Walter, Tom Blan-
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Reposado Gord C’s Alien Radio. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (R&B/new jack swing/funk/reggae) 10 pm.
THURSDAY AUGUST 29
Wednesday, September 4
CURTAS RYERSON
Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Amsterdam Bicycle Club So Smõthe (urban
(FROSH WEEK)
soul).
Drake Hotel Underground Robyn Hitchcock, Kate Boothman doors 8:30 ñ pm.
FRIDAY AUGUST 30 LIVE NATION PRESENTS
Hard Luck Bar Tyler Hilton doors 8 pm, all
LAWSON
ages.
SATURDAY AUGUST 31 & SUNDAY SEPT 1 Presented by LANDMARK EVENTS
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
The Harp Pub Johnny Max Band 8 to 10 pm. The Hideout The Pat Wright Band (rock)
10:30 pm, League of Rock 7 pm. Lee’s Palace Snarky Puppy. Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s (jazz funk fusion) 7:30 pm.
LAURA MVULA LUCY ROSE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12
DR DRAW 722 COLLEGE STREET themodclub.com
upcoming Thursday, September 5 Alex Pangman, Russell deCarle, Kathryn Rose & others Eighth Annual Patsy Cline Birth-
R&B).
Canadian Jazz Quartet, Dave Dunlop
Cadillac Lounge Kayla Howran Band 9 pm. Dakota Tavern Eamon McGrath, Gramercy Riffs, Lake Forest Band. ñ Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam
Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler (folk) 9 pm. Graffiti’s Joanne Mackell (folk) 5 to 7 pm. Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic 8 pm. Horseshoe Andrew Michelin (singer/song-
LIVE NATION presents
Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck
8 pm.5
day Show Lula Lounge doors 7:30 pm, $15. AroarA Album release Music Gallery doors 7 pm, $15, adv $12. SS.
7:30 pm.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Folk/Blues/Country/World
Alleycatz Citysoul (swinging blues/vintage
EMBRACE presents
carte, Peter Evans, Charity Chan, CCMC (Paul Dutton, John Oswald, John Kamevaar, Michael Snow), Chamber Panic Deluxx (Seb Shinwell, Cory Latkovich, Karen Ng) doors 8:30 pm. BassLine Music Bar Acid Jazz Amanda Davids, Shai Locke 10 pm. Castro’s Lounge The Mediterranean Stars (fusion jazz) 8 pm. Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (twang jazz instrumental trio). Rex Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm. Rex William Carn (jazz trombone) 9:30 pm.
writer) 8:30 pm. Hugh’s Room Martin Joseph. Island Cafe Summer Concert Series Max Kelly (wild banjo folk) 7 to 9 pm. Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm. Silver Dollar Crazy Strings. Tranzac Southern Cross Josh Cole, Brodie West, Ryan Driver, Nick Fraser 10 pm, Katie DuTemple 7:30 pm.
New video every friday
Thursdays At Five Kama 5 to 8 pm, free.
Chris Hale, Ed Hanley Musideum 8 pm, $20. Christina Cruise, Habibi Space Thursday & Co Resto Bar.
The 8-bit Warriors Cartridge Classics 3030
Dundas West doors 8 pm, $7.
Esmerine, Dundasa 80 (Sandro Perri & Craig Dunsmuir), Saltland, Jerusalem In My Heart A Night In Toronto The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.
Face to Face, the Salads Sounds Of Anarchy Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TM. Flume, Touch Sensitive Opera House doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS, TW. Freddie For A Day: Freddie Mercury birthday celebration and AIDS Committee Toronto benefit Gladstone Hotel 8 pm, $20, adv $15. freddieforaday.com. Fucked Up First Thursdays Art Gallery of Ontario 7 to 11:30 pm, $15. Jerome Godboo Toronto Blues Society Presents/CD release Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar 9 pm. Keys N Krates TIFF Down The Line Launch Party Drake Hotel Lounge 9 pm, $10. Marty Oakes Trio Film Festival Musicians In The Park Village of Yorkville Park 4 to 7 pm, free. Psyche Tongues, Walrus, Sheepman, Thom Huhtala Rivoli doors 9 pm. Sam Amidon Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $15, adv $12.
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Da-
kota Tavern 7 & 9:30 pm, $20. TF. And Sep 12, Sep 19 and 26. Snarky Puppy Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Superhuman Happiness, Os Tropies The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $10. The Toronto All-Star Big Band Dancing On The Pier: Hot Harmony Groups Harbourfront Centre Boulevard Tent 7 to 10 pm, free. Vance Joy Drake Hotel.
Friday, September 6 Alex Pangman Rex 9:45 pm. Art Department, Nitin, Sam Haze Toronto
Film Festival Cinema Nightclub $19-$39.
Venue Index Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-4816865. Amsterdam Bicycle Club 54 the Esplanade. 416-864-9996. & Co Resto Bar 295 Enfield Place. (Mississauga). 905-808-2112. Andy Poolhall 489 College. 416923-5300. Annex Wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. Aria Complex 108 Peter. 647-2282434. Array Space 155 Walnut. 416-5323019. Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-7250693. Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. BassLine Music Bar 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513. Beaver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. Benares Historic House 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). 905-615-4860. Berkeley Street Theatre 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110. Black Bear Pub 1125 O’Connor. 416-752-5182. The Black Cat 3513 Dundas W. 647430-8530. Black Eagle 457 Church. 416-4131219. Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. The Brawley 1184 The Queensway.
416-251-0288. Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. Camp 4 1173 Dundas W. 416-5466780. Canadian National Exhibition 210 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3800. Casa Loma 1 Austin Terrace. 416-9231171. Castro’s Lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. The Central 603 Markham. 416-9134586. Centre Island Toronto Islands. Christie Lake Conservation Area 1000 Highway 5 W (Dundas). 905-6283060. Club 120 120 Church. Comfort Zone 480 Spadina. 416975-0909. Dakota Tavern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. Dance Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598. Direct Energy Centre 100 Princes Blvd, Exhibition Place. Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. Dora Keogh 141 Danforth. 416-7781804. Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-5315042.
Duffy’s Tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416628-0330. El Cafecito Espresso Bar 3 Westmoreland. El Mocambo 464 Spadina. 416-7771777. Emmet Ray Bar 924 College. 416-7924497. Failte Irish Pub 201 City Centre Dr (Mississauga). 905-276-2212. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. Footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-9133488. The 417 Lounge 417 Danforth. 647352-4300. Free Times Cafe 320 College. 416-9671078. The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416519-9439. Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-5882930. Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Go Lounge 1718 Queen W. 416-5887529. Goodhandy’s 120 Church. 416-7606514. Graffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-5066699. Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-9777000. Guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens
Box Tiger Rivoli. Coliseum Parts & Labour. Darwin Deez Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12.
HS, RT, SS, TF.
Dave Caldwell Quartet Hot Summer, Cool Jazz Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 pm. Four Tet, Invisible City DJs The Great Hall 10 pm, $15-$20. PDR, RT, SS. Heather Bambrick, Julie Michels, Diane Leah, Ricky Yorke Broadsway The Flying Bea-
ver Pubaret 7 pm, $25, adv $20. And Sep 7. James Murphy The Hoxton 10 pm, $25. PDR, SS, TW. Jayme Stone Music Gallery.
Jessie Andrews, Bones, Rynecologist, Meech Elementary Drake Hotel doors 11 pm,
$10.
Mayer Hawthorne, Superhumanoids The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $25-$30. RT, SS, TM. The Mission UK Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $34.50. HS, RT, SS. The Pack A.D. Yonge-Dundas Square 8 to 10 pm, free. Patti Smith & her Band Massey Hall doors 7:15 pm, all ages, $49.50-$79.50. RTH, TM. Riggadale, DJ S-Mart, SL.Y Sound Of The Underground Vol. 2 Detour Bar doors 10:30 pm. f acebook.com/ events/615476765164281. Ron Nigrini Hugh’s Room $20-$22.50. Tiff Merritt Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TF. Weaves, DJ Brendan Canning Kubrick II: A Clockwork Orange Party Adelaide Music Hall 10 pm, $20, adv $17. NT.
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Wintergarten Orchestra w/ Ted Atherton Dominion on Queen 4:30 pm.
Quay W. 416-973-4000. Hard Luck Bar 772a Dundas W. The Harp Pub 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277. Hawaii Bar 989 Dovercourt. 416-7867880. The Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-4387664. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-3452803. Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-5984753. Hot Box Puff Lounge 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990. The Hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-4567321. Hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416531-6604. Island Cafe Ward’s Island. The Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-3635299. Kama 214 King W. 416-599-5262. Karla’s Roadhouse 4630 Kingston. 647-352-7780. Kehillat Eytz Chaim 89 Centre. 416-250-0177. Kitch 229 Geary. 647-350-4550. Lake Affect Lounge 1 Port E (Mississauga). 905-274-8223. Lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-5321598. Li’ly 656 College. 416-532-0419.
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Linsmore Tavern 1928 Danforth. Living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000. The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-5356225. Lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416588-0307. Magpie Taproom 831 Dundas W. 647-350-8305. Manifesto Community Projects 37 Bulwer. 647-436-8404. May Cafe 876 Dundas W. Measure 296 Brunswick. Mélange 172 Main. 416-686-6485. Molson Amphitheatre 909 Lake Shore W. Nathan Phillips Square 100 Queen W. Nocturne 550 Queen W. 416-5042178. NTB Lounge 2878 Lake Shore W. 416-251-5551. Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-2362641. Old Nick 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. On Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417. Pancho y Emiliano 200 Augusta Ave. 416-925-8454. Parts & Labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. The Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-5323989.
Hue
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SHindig!
dJs Splattermonkey Fri Special k – general eclectic aug 30 R&B - Motown - Mod - Ska - Soul
FaSt timeS
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JunkSHop preSentS W/ dJs JeekS & tWeed
PoStPunk – new wave – GaRaGe
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Saturday, September 7
daily @ 4pm bbq menu
Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 pm.
Birds of Chicago (JT Nero, Allison Russell) Toronto Bicycle Music Festival Grange Park 3:30 pm. torontobicyclemusicfestival.com. Dancecrasher Monarch Tavern free. Dayglo Abortions Rockpile doors 7 pm, $15. TW. Deathfix, Pinback Lee’s Palace.
Diggy the DJ, DJ Tophey Caulford, DJ Bryan Sloot Bellwoods Block Party Honey
bea D esign Hive 1 to 7 pm, free. facebook. com/bellwoodsblockparty. And Oct 5. Eliana Cuevas Paintbox Bistro 8 pm, $20$45.
Gurf Morlix, Oh Susanna, Michael Occhi pinti, Lester Young, Roxanne Potvin, Scott McCord & the Bonafide Truth Horns, Jadea Kelly & Burke Carroll, Samantha Martin & the Haggard Get Yer
Ya-Yas Out: Rolling Stones tribute Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30, adv $25. High Winds New Music Night Relish Bar & Grill 9:30 pm. Il Volo, Nikki Yanofsky Molson Amphi theatre 8 pm, all ages, $44.50-$99. LN.
Joey Llanos, Groove Institute, Dave Campbell, Lou Gorbea, DJ Cyclist, Pooyan Tribute Party Revival doors 10 pm,
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$15-$20.
Laura Mvula Virgin Mobile Mod Club. Michael Franti & Spearhead The Danforth
Music Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $32.50. LN, RT, SS. Michael White & the White Led Zeppelin II Sound Academy doors 8 pm. 3
THE DAKOTA TAVERN
ROOFtOp
tiki bar open
3LAU The Hoxton 10 pm, $15. PDR, SS, TW. Alexis Baro Quartet Hot Summer, Cool Jazz
Thu Aug 29 7-9pm Daniel Champagne
tHu aug 29
The Swingin BlaCk JaCkS Fri Aug 30 10pm SamanTha marTin & The haggarD Sat Aug 31 new! SaTurDay BluegraSS BrunCh 10pm rooSTer DaviS 10pm
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fri aug 30
hIghNEss
Sat aug 31
frIday august 30
LaurEatE • BLaCKBELt saturday august 31
WhItE gIrL
dJs PatrICK MCguIrE & ItsMattLaNgILLE
w/umberhulK
Sun Sept 1
11-3pm
The BluegraSS BrunCh
10pm laBour Day SunDay parTy
Wed Sep 4
10pm
eamon mCgraTh
with gramerCy riffS + lake foreST
FatalitY & shotGun Cure
tHu Sept 5
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+ DJ Fathom on the tiKi DeCK
METAl HEAlTH:
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CoLIsEuM
Sun Sep 1
w/the CarDinal Dream, Zealots Desire
tueS Sept 3
frIday sEPtEMBEr 6
11-3pm
+ DJ ian blurton
LIKE RIVALS
raP froM 1993-2013 MoNday sEPtEMBEr 2
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Thu Sep 5
7-9pm ShaDowy men on a ShaDowy planeT orCheSTra & TaxiDermy Co.
the PinK & blaCK attaCK Presents
CORPORATION (reunion)
10pm ron hawkinS & Do gooD aSSaSSinS
MEISHA ANd THE SPANX w/sPhinX
249 OssingtOn Ave (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com
542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com
saturday sEPtEMBEr 7
Pay day
dJs IsosCELEs & stEW INNEs hIP hoP & BEyoNd coming soon: tuesday september 17
Playful Grounds 605 College. 416-645-0484. Product Nightclub 364 Richmond W. Rancho Relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. Relish Bar & Grill 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. Reposado 136 Ossington. 416532-6474. Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-5961908. Rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416504-6699. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. Seven44 744 Mt Pleasant. 416489-7931. Shops at Don Mills 1090 Don Mills. 416-447-6087. Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. The Sister 1554 Queen W. 416-5322570. Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416603-3090. Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. St James Gazebo King & Church. The Steady Cafe & Bar 1051 Bloor W. Stella Borealis Pier 27, Yonge & Queens Quay. Sunnyside Pavilion 1755 Lake Shore W. 416-531-2233.
Supermarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-2710016. TJ’s Pub & Grille 2012 Lawrence E. 647-344-6297. Toby’s Famous 411 College. 416-925-9908. Toronto Botanical Garden 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. Toronto Music Garden 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-9238137. Trinity Square Park 10 Trinity Square. 416-338-2609. Village of Yorkville Park Cumberland and Bellair. Virgin Mobile Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. The Wailers 726 St Clair W. WAYLA Bar 996 Queen E. 416-9015570. Wild Water Kingdom 7855 Finch W (Brampton). 416-369-9453. Winchester Kitchen & Bar 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051. Wise Guys 2301 Danforth. 416694-2005. Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416516-8677. Yonge-Dundas Square Yonge & Dundas. 416-979-9960.
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album reviews
A move like that carries the risk of diluting their personality, but the Swedes have stepped it up in the songwriting department. Meditations is a monster of a song, its repeated one-word “Destruction!” hook itself bigger than anything on their last album. The synths are still there, but mostly as texture. Maybe Forever will move the band members out of their parents’ basements. Top track: Meditations RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
album of the week
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Colored Sands (Season of Mist) Rating: NNNN Death metal fans are spoiled for choice this fall, between Carcass’s long-awaited Surgical Steel (the pioneering British band’s first record since 1996) and Colored Sands, the first record from Quebec’s Gorguts since 2001’s From Wisdom To Hate. The problem with Gorguts and its only remaining original member/guiding intelligence, Luc Lemay, is that they’ll probably never top 1998’s game-changing Obscura. That record invested death metal’s howling intensity with legitimately avant-garde sensibilities. (Lemay
credited himself, pompously, with “artistic direction” on that album.) On Colored Sands, Lemay seems more interested in musical interplay and dynamics than in re-bottling Obscura’s out-there factor. Most songs push well into the seven-minute range, and The Battle Of Chamdo is a straight-up orchestral composition recorded with a string quartet. Taken all together, it’s a rousing record fit for serious-minded death metal fans convinced of the genre’s capacity to produce art – not just pained expression. Top track: An Ocean Of Wisdom JOHN SEMLEY
A Quiet Evening At Home (Six Shooter) Rating: NNNN Nick Buzz first got together in the early 90s, when Martin Tielli filled in for Mary Margaret O’Hara on a Joni Mitchell tribute album with Hugh Marsh, Jonathan Goldsmith and Rob Piltch. In 1996, they released their debut album, Circo. Fast-forward nearly two decades and the avant-rock improvisers have finally reconvened for a sophomore record. Though the first couple of tracks seem to be at odds with the album title – dancey opener The Hens Lay Everyday delights in absurd digital details and references Talking Heads and the Beach Boys; This Is Not My World is a buzzy, synth- and bass-heavy paranoid blues tune – every song is different. Sea Monkeys evokes childhood memories through music-box sounds and lyrical wonder, while the title track – with sax squawks and nonsensical talking – is at once pastoral, electronic and eccentric. Notably absent are drums, which make the occasional stomps, handclaps and percussive use of guitars exciting. Top track: Sea Monkeys SARAH GREENE
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HOLOGRAMS Forever (Cap-
tured Tracks) Rating: NNNN Holograms’ debut album stood out in the suddenly crowded field of indie rock/ punk crossover acts by marrying tense post-punk melodies to danceable synths, though its lean, lo-fi mix seemed like it might sentence the band to under-theradar status. Perhaps spurred on by the success of fellow Scandinavian punks Iceage and Lower, Holograms have beefed up that wiry sound, moving the synths out of the way of behemoth fist-raising choruses.
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WILDLIFE’S NEW ALBUM “...ON THE HEART” IN STORES AND IN ITUNES NOW
KING KRULE 6 Feet Beneath The Moon (True Panther/XL) Rating: NNN In recent years, it seems like younger musicians (and filmmakers, for that matter) increasingly prefer to incorporate all of their influences – no matter how superficially disparate – into a postmodern style (invariably labelled “genre-defying”) rather than adhere to accepted conventions of, say, folk, rock or R&B. Londoner Archy Marshall is one such act. On his debut full-length, the 19-yearold prodigy entwines Django Reinhardt jazz guitar riffs, J. Dilla-style sampling, post-punk and post-pubescent Tom Waits howling into a singular aesthetic that is consistent and compelling even when his songwriting is not. More like a sketchbook than a songbook, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon apparently includes songs written when Marshall was 12. It’s a meandering, angsty and deceptively gritty chronicle of the wonder years, but on repeat listens his guttural, conversational drawl and textured production seem to camouflage some seriously sentimental feelings. That interesting tension takes the album beyond aesthetic exercise and toward epic self-mythologizing territory. Top track: A Lizard State King Krule plays Wrongbar September KEVIN RITCHIE 11. JONATHAN RADO Law And Order (Woodsist) Rating: NN When Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado announced his solo debut, it sounded like it would be a low-stakes respite from the live-blogged train wreck of his main gig. Then touring member and songwriting partner Elizabeth Fey, Sam France’s girlfriend, wrote a revealing Tumblr post that alleged it was recorded behind the band’s back and without their consent. Welcome to the world of buzz band drama, where even a recorded-at-home-on-an-8-track album comes embroiled in controversy. It’s funny that Foxygen have become such a hype/backlash lightning rod, given the breezy, retro-tinged nature of their music. Like their concerts, Rado’s solo album is as frustrating as it is infectious. Songs like Seven Horses, Hand In Mine and the shuffling Booker T-evoking instrumental Dance Away Your Ego hit the kind of familiar, nostalgic, winsome notes that would sound at home on a Wes Anderson soundtrack. But then hissy distorted drones like Looking 4a Girl Like U and I Wanna Feel It Now!!! come along and send you scrambling for the next groove. Fun and charming in places, barely listenable in others. RT Top track: Hand In Mine
FRANZ FERDINAND Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (Domino/Sony BMG) Rating: NNN Franz Ferdinand’s fourth album is that very rare record that forces the listener to dance around his or her bedroom on first listen. It’s so immediately likeable and unapologetically upbeat, in fact, that it definitively recalls the Glaswegian foursome’s eponymous 2004 debut, which launched them into the post-punk revival of the early to mid-2000s as well as the greater indie rock mainstream. The overt similarity to that first album is not a bad thing. RTRWRA neatly combines those familiar chantable choruses, punchy guitars, pleasant harmonies and simple, clever lyricism – all in all, a great vehicle for that smooth, too cool croon of singer Alex Kapranos. Over 35 minutes, the album shakes around tempos and moods, whether funky on Evil Eye, brassy on standout Love Illumination or sped up and punky on Bullet. The Universe Expanded dips into mournful breakup territory, emotionally stirring enough to pull you, however briefly, away from the party. Top track: Love Illumination Franz Ferdinand play The Kool Haus October 24. JULIA LECONTE
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SUPERCHUNK I Hate Music
(Merge) Rating: NNNN “I hate music – what is it worth?” That question, sung at the beginning of Me & You & Jackie Mittoo, gives Superchunk’s 10th album (their sequel to 2010’s Majesty Shredding, which followed a nine-year hiatus) both its title and theme. The answer, informed by mid-life doubts after years spent in dingy rock clubs and crammed into smelly vans, isn’t so much provided lyrically as implied musically. As fuzzy, upbeat and yearningly anthemic as the sounds of their 90s heyday (if not more so), I Hate Music defiantly stares the indie rock lifestyle in the face and shouts, “I do it because it’s fun, goddamn it!” There’s no reason to question Superchunk’s dedication. When they’re not playing underdog cult heroes themselves, singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance run Merge Records, loyal home to Arcade Fire and Spoon. But it’s primordially satisfying and kind of touching to see the band still committed to the loud guitars, big hooks and fistraising catharsis of their best stuff. There’s no better way to describe the music than impeccably Superchunky. Top track: Me & You & Jackie Mittoo RT
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JUICY J Stay Trippy (Sony/Taylor Gang) Rating: NN If the trope “write what you know” applies to rap, then Juicy J must spend a hell of a lot of time in strip clubs. The whole thing isn’t about disrespecting women, though. Some songs merely weave the misogyny around simple-pleasure narratives: popping molly, making money. On his third solo record, the Three 6 Mafia rapper signed to Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang is “getting high like he’s 18.” At 38, though, it’s not super-amusing, like J is the hip-hop Peter Pan refusing to grow up among a crew of younger emcees. Production, shared by J, Young Chop and Mike WiLL Made-It among others, at times subtly nods to the menacing beats of early Three 6 Mafia but is otherwise bland. Wax lazily and predictably samples Freda Payne’s I Get High; Smokin’ Rollin’ does better, working a sample of the Weeknd’s High For This into the mix. The best beat lends a trippy, outer-space quality to an otherwise inane Trey Songzassisted ode to ass-clapping, Bounce It. Top track: Smoke A Ni**a JULIA LECONTE
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Eyes on the prize Director brings classic yet rarely produced Fortune And Men’s Eyes to life By JON KAPLAN
Stefan Dzeparoski says the play’s outsider characters could be four terrorists or illegal immigrants.
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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed
even today, 50 years after it was written, Herbert’s play reflects patterns and situations we’re still dealing with.” Rocky seems the toughest of the four, but Dzeparoski sees him as only trying to be the cell’s dominant alpha male. Queenie, he notes, is a “jester in this really weird palace, someone who knows everything and plays the fool to survive. After a gang rape, Mona separates body and spirit, mind and emotion, and is the character most alienated from him/herself. “But it’s Smitty, the absolute innocent, who has the play’s major dramatic arc, slowly embodying the jail’s principles of social behaviour. He’s transformed from an ingenuous character, not just in literal terms but also spiritually and emotionally, into an evil man.” Despite the sharp-edged material and language, there’s a fair amount of humour in the script. “The laughs, though, come from fear,” suggests the director. “The comedy helps these four young people stay alive. By poking fun at each other, they somehow acknowledge to each other their humanity, that they exist for themselves and the others.” By the way, don’t expect a traditional production. There won’t be a simple jail cell, and Dzeparoski handles the script’s fifth character, a bent guard, in an unusual fashion. “Aesthetically, I’m interested in using design to reinforce the narrative, as I did for Gruesome Playground Injuries [which included chained torsos constructed of bubble wrap]. The visual aspect of theatre is important; it’s another narrative, not just there to set a certain physical geography, but to help us tell the characters’ hidden, inner stories. “Our prison is a merger of the four characters’ different perspectives on the situation they find themselves in. I want to suggest how their views affect them, and make that visible to the audience. “Traditional prison walls and beds,” he says, smiling, “aren’t part of the concept.”
FORTUNE AND MEN’S EYES by John Herbert,
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directed by Stefan Dzeparoski, with David Coomber, Julian DeZotti, Cyrus Faird and Alex Fiddes. Presented by Birdland Theatre at Dancemakers Studio (9 Mill, studio 313). Previews Sunday (September 1), opens Tuesday (September 3) and runs to September 8, 8:08 pm. $20-$29. totix.ca or brownpapertickets.com.
Birdland Theatre’s made its reputation on a trio of American plays: The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, Assassins and Gruesome Playground Injuries. Now the company tackles its first Canadian script, the classic and rarely produced Fortune And Men’s Eyes. John Herbert’s play, involving a quartet of men in a prison cell, is for many a gay story – a brave focus when it was written in 1963. Two of the four characters are overtly queer, and all engage in homosexual acts. “But I am more interested in the individuals here than in seeing it as just a gay work,” says Birdland resident director Stefan Dzeparoski. “Instead, I’m looking at the spiritual, intellectual and emotional conflicts that arise from the prison’s rigid structure. “I think Herbert was concerned with the idea of the individual versus society, and what he explores is what happens when you strip people of all that makes them human. What is it that they retain to define themselves? What happens when you are denied the freedom to be who you are in the way that you want?” He’d find similar themes, says Dzeparoski, if the four were terrorists or illegal immigrants. At the play’s start we meet macho Rocky, in-your-face queer Queenie and shy, effeminate Mona. The naive Smitty becomes their cellmate and, over the course of the play, changes in ways that aren’t pleasant. “They are all in different ways labelled as ‘other’ because they don’t fit into a conventional structure or system. In other words, they’re sentenced not only to prison but also to a life with no future. Either you have to alter or you’re lost. “Their prison cell is a microscopic reflection of society’s inner workings, and
Opening FORTUNE AND MEN’S EYES by John Herbert (BirdLand Theatre). The degradation ñ and brutality of prison life is seen through the eyes of a new inmate and his cellmates (see story, this page). Previews Sep 1. Opens Sep 3 and runs to Sep 8, Tue-Sun 8:08 pm. $20-$29. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. birdlandtheatre.com. LADY JULIE adapted by Natalie Feheregyhazi (Apuka Theatre/Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter). A noblewoman lets loose with the hired help in this adaptation of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Previews Aug 29. Opens Aug 30 and runs to Sep 14, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm (no show Sep 10). $20, preview pwyc. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. apukatheatre.com. NEXT TO NORMAL by Brian Yorkey and Tom
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Kitt (Lower Ossington Theatre). This rock musical looks at how a suburban family copes with mental illness. Opens Aug 29 and runs to Sep 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.
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REVEAL ME (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and pro peelers perform, including Kitty Kerosene, Beaver Galore, Lucky Minx and MC Daytona Bitch. Sep 4 at 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com. WHEN IT ALL FALLS DOWN by Natalie Miller (MT Promoters). Following a murder in her neighbourhood, a young woman struggles to make choices and stay true to herself. Aug 30 at 7 pm. $25-$30. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-7878811, mtpromoters.wix.com/wiafd.
Continuing ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world features puppets, music, masques and more. Runs to Sep 2, daily at 11 am, noon, 1, 2, 3 and 4 pm (weather permitting). Pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. frolick.ca. ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS I & II by Tony Kushner (Soulpepper). Kushner’s ambitious, two-part epic follows the intertwined lives of seven people in 80s New York City who are forced to deal with the fallout of Reagan politics and AIDS. Looking at moral, spiritual, sexual and emotional realities that resonate beyond the play’s time period, Angels is both thought-provoking and very funny. It’s one of the most important plays of the past 50 years,
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and director Albert Schultz’s production, featuring a strong cast and filled with memorable moments, is a fine one. Runs to Sep 28, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) Anton In Show Business by Jane Martin (Danka Scepanovic/Rhizoma Productions/GO Play Producing). Female actors pursue their dream of performing a Chekhov play in Texas. Runs to Sep 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu $15, mat $10 Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, #5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com. Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and works through the transition to adulthood in this adult musical puppet show. Runs to Sep 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$60. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, avenueq.ca.
Babes In Space: Where No Man Has Gone Before (Red Herring Productions). Spaceships and sequins collide in this burlesque revue. Runs to Aug 29, Thu 8 pm. $17-$45. Revival, 783 College. babesinspace4.eventbrite.ca.
Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Nu Musical
Theatricals/Classic Theatre Project/Starvox Entertainment). Lloyd Webber’s hit based on whimsical TS Eliot poems is one of the most head-scratching successes in musical theatre history. And this production, cramped on a narrow stage and featuring an uneven cast, doesn’t do it any favours. Director Dave Campbell tries to take some of the action out into the audience, and talented singing actors like Michel LaFleche, Michael Donald and Neesa Kenemy execute their numbers with feline flair. But even with ALW’s melodic gifts, the show fades quickly from memory. And speaking of Memory, Ma-Anne Dionisio’s version of the tune is a definite low point. Runs to Sep 22, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm (no shows Sep 3-8). $40-$110. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, catsto.com. NN (GS) The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley (Toronto Monologue Slam). A woman deals with her alcoholic father and an ex-boyfriend who seduced her sister. Runs to Aug 31, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20, stu $15. Loft 159 Studio Theatre, 1159 Dundas E. comedream. eventbrite.ca. Memory In The Mud (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of brick makers, POWs and transients who spent
time at the Brick Works. Runs to Oct 14, see website for schedule. $10, child $5. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca/ whats-on/memory-in-the-mud. The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare (Ale House Theatre). A merchant and a lender enter into a grisly contract. Runs to Aug 31, Wed-Sat 7 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15 adv; or pwyc at the door. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, facebook.com/AleHouseTheatreCompany. 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 29, Sun, see website for times. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, pinkaliciousthemusical.com/toronto. Richard III by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Ruff). This enchanting outdoor production tackles one of the Bard’s darkest tragedies about an ambitious royal who tries to murder his way to the throne. Fast-paced action from director Diane D’Aquila and a captivating and sometimes comical performance from Alex McCooeye in the title role help create late summer theatre magic. Runs to Sep 1, Thu-Sun 7 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, 725 Logan. shakespeareinthe ruff.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm)
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Shakespeare In High Park: Macbeth (Can-
adian Stage). Director Ker Wells dials up the gore in his bold, blood-drenched staging of the dark tragedy. In the title role, Hugh Thompson looks badass in a skunk-beard goatee and is great in the numerous well-choreographed fight scenes, but during his soliloquies he lacks some of the subtlety to forge a strong empathetic connection with the audience. The austere set lacks the touch of enchantment that visitors to the Dream Site have come to expect, but that’s a minor quibble. This is a new kind of Dream experience, one closer to nightmare. Runs to Sep 1, Fri and Sun 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. canadianstage.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm)
Shakespeare In High Park: The Taming ñ Of The Shrew (Canadian Stage). This fun ñ and stylishly flashy filmic take on the Bard’s complicated comedy about an aggressive suitor’s attempt to mould an heiress into submission has its contested gender politics critically remixed by director Ted Witzel. The performances are strong, and the spot-on soundtrack of modern pop cuts anchors the action, resonating powerfully with the play’s themes of excess and sexism. Runs to Aug 31, Thu and Sat 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. canadianstage.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) Ted & Lisa (Ted Hallett/Lisa Merchant). The secrets of suburbia emerge in this improvised play with audience participation. Runs to Aug 30, Fri 8:30 pm. $5. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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Out of Town Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (Shaw Festival). The past and present collide when scholñ ars living in an English country house learn
The relationship between Lucy Peacock and Nigel Bennett’s characters isn’t always easy to digest.
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Uneven Thrill THE THRILL by Judith Thompson (Stratford). At the Studio Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to September 22. $35-$90, srs $35-$55, stu $20-$25. 1-800-567-1600. See Out of Town, page 53. Rating: NNN
Judith Thompson’s The Thrill explores the way seeming polar opposites attract. The chemistry in that attraction isn’t perfect, but there’s still enough excitement to strike dramatic sparks. Wheelchair-bound Elora (Lucy Peacock), a successful lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, is a self-described “crip,” disabled from birth, who fights passionately for the rights of the physically challenged while joking about bedpans. She meets Julian (Nigel Bennett), an author whose bestselling book about his sister’s degenerative disease and eventual death argues for compassionate euthanasia. Now the head of McGill Univer-
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sity’s bioethics department, Julian has influence that Elora hopes to tap into by working with him to focus public attention on what she calls the “gulags,” those nursing facilities that are supposed to improve residents’ lives but actually are deadly to their spirits as well as their bodies. Rounding out the story are Elora’s gay nurse, Francis (Robert Persichini), and Julian’s elderly mother, Hannah (Patricia Collins), who’s querulous, irritable, needy and soon bound for a seniors’ home. Though the two central figures are inspired by real people, Thompson has them not only argue their points of view but also unexpectedly fall in love, a sometimes tricky plot device that adds a theatrical push-pull to their relationship but isn’t always successful. Though her monologues are always exciting, Thompson’s two-character exchanges are less gripping, in part because the growing closeness between Julian and Elora isn’t resonating. Julian’s character lacks Elora’s richness, and Bennett’s performance
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is somewhat two-dimensional. Peacock, though, is magnificently flamboyant, as Elora is meant to be, a fighter who won’t give up on her cause even when her feelings take a more reflective turn. The actor’s expressive face, darting eyes and richhued voice are part of the character’s power. Like Julian, Francis needs filling out, though Persichini gives him a sharp-tongued but loving comic side, making him a caregiver whose consideration never flags. Collins is the perfect Hannah, a blend of venom, despair and sarcasm when she’s with her successful, world-travelling son, and often most engrossing when she’s lost in her fantasies. Director Dean Gaborie shapes the action with care, though the production could have more warmth. In the end, this is a play about compassion for the lives and rights of others, a consideration not stemming from pity but from an empowering awareness of our inescapable interJON KAPLAN connections.
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and more related to this year’s onstage productions. Runs to Oct 20, see website for details. Various prices and venues. Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Garrison’s Garage by Ted Johns (Blyth Festival). Unexpectedly stuck in a small town, a tax official thinks he’s uncovered a scam. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $22-$34, youth $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. Guys And Dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (Shaw Festival). A bet leads to romance in this musical comedy. Runs in rep to Nov 3. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (Shaw Festival). A woman learns that one of her party guests is her husband’s mistress in this satire on Victorian morals (see review, page 53). Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (GS) The Light In The Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel (Shaw Festival). A protective mother must make a choice when her daughter falls in love during a 1950s Italian vacation. Runs in rep to Oct 13. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. Little Red Riding Hood (Something-Something Productions). The fairy tale gets a modern adaptation in this family show. Runs to Sep 29, Sun 2 pm. $10, child $5. Corks Winebar & Eatery, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. somethingsomethingproductions.ca. Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her arms dealer father clash in this play about idealism. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Mary Poppins by Richard Sherman, Robert Sherman and Julian Fellowes (Drayton Entertainment). This musical is based on the PL Travers book and the 1964 film. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $20-$45. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. draytonentertainment.com. Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller (Stratford Festival). This drama looks at the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). With its multiple narratives and dark humour, Shakespeare’s play about mercy, justice and forgiveness can be difficult to stage. But director Martha Henry’s production is mostly a winning one, especially in its handling of the central plot involving a seemingly upright judge (Tom Rooney), the young innocent who kindles his lust (Carmen Grant) and the mysterious, controlling duke who connives to make everything right (Geraint Wyn Davies). Runs in rep to Sep 28. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A merchant and a lender enter into a grisly contract in the classic tale of intolerance and vengeance. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Munsch Ado About Nothing (Theatre by the Bay). This family-friendly mix of singing, dancing and audience participation is based on the stories of Robert Munsch. Runs to Aug 31, Mon-Sat 10:30 am. $8. Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop W, Barrie. 705735-9243, theatrebythebay.com. Oliver! by Lionel Bart (Drayton Entertainment). This musical is based on Charles Dickens’s novel Oliver Twist. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $20-$45. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. Othello by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Resentment leads to lies, jealousy
about the people who lived there in 1809. Runs in rep to Sep 7. $50. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Blithe Spirit by Nöel Coward (Stratford Festival). The ghost of his first wife pesters a novelist and his new spouse in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 20. $49-$120, srs $35-$55, stu $20-$25. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story by Alan Janes (Drayton Entertainment). The life and career of the rock pioneer are celebrated in this musical revue. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $20-$45. Dunfield Theatre Cambridge, 46 Grand S, Cambridge. 1-855-3729866, draytonentertainment.com. Crazy For You by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Theatre by the Bay). A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this 30s musical. Runs to Aug 30, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $23. Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop W, Barrie. theatrebythebay.com. Enchanted April by Matthew Barber (Shaw Festival). Seeking to escape post-WWI gloom and boredom, two English housewives go on vacation in Italy. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Faith Healer by Brian Friel (Shaw Festival). Three characters tell different versions of the same story in this Irish drama. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. Falling: A Wake by Gary Kirkham (Blyth Festival). A couple get attached to the body of a man after an airplane explodes above their isolated farmhouse. Runs to Sep 7, see website for schedule. $22-$34, youth $15. Phillips Studio, 209 Dinsley, Blyth. b lythfestival.com. Fiddler On The Roof by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Stratford Festival). A Jewish patriarch in Russia clings to tradition in a changing world in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 20. $49-$135, srs $41-$66, stu $29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The Forum (Stratford Festival). Readings, cabarets, debates, tours, improv, workshops
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Wilde (Shaw). At the Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Runs in rep to October 19. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24$55. 1-800-511-7429. See Out Of Town, page 52. Rating: NNNN
I’m pretty sure a Katy Perry song has never before blared at the end of a play at the Shaw Festival. But when Firework, her rousing anthem about selfconfidence, is cranked out during the final moments of Lady Windermere’s Fan, it’s a fitting capper to a novel production that has lots of flash, sizzle and smoke beneath its deceptively controlled surface. Director Peter Hinton has transformed Oscar Wilde’s witty comedy of Victorian manners into something thrillingly contemporary. The plot – about the eponymous young woman (Marla McLean) who believes her husband may be having an affair – could seem quaint to today’s jaded sensibilities. But Hinton and his talented enand violence in the classic tragedy. In rep. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20$55. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Our Betters by W Somerset Maugham (Shaw Festival). Maugham’s littleknown 1915 comedy-drama about a group of American heiresses who have bought their way into European society puts a clever, stylish twist on the age-old theme of money not guaranteeing happiness. In the hands of director Morris Panych, it’s wildly entertaining stuff full of sexual indiscretions and bittersweet truths, with first-rate performances by Laurie Paton, Catherine McGregor, Neil Barclay and Claire Jullien as the society woman manipulating everyone. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. NNNN (GS) Peace In Our Time: A Comedy by John Murrell (Shaw Festival). Murrell’s adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s Geneva is a blend of satire and slapstick that explores international diplomacy and justice after the First World War, though it has clear contemporary resonance under Blair Williams’s direction. Too bad the farcical approach takes the sting out of characters like Hitler and Mussolini. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24$55. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNN (JK) The (Post) Mistress by Tomson Highway (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A postal worker shares her small town’s gossip and secrets in this solo musical comedy. Runs to Sep 14, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Firehall Theatre, 185 South, Gananoque. 1- 866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. Prairie Nurse by Marie Beath Badian (Blyth Festival). Two nurses from the Philippines come to rural Saskatchewan in 1969 in this comedy. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $22-$34, youth $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com. The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (Something-Something Productions). A couple find a freaky castle in this rock musical. Runs to Sep 28, Sat 7:30 pm. $30. Corks Winebar & Eatery, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 289-868-9527, rockyhorrorniagara.com. Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Young lovers are thwarted by their feuding families in the classic tragedy. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Sadie Flynn Comes To Big Oak by Norm Foster (The Garage Door Players). A small-town buzzes when a husband-killer who’s served her time comes to start a new life. Runs to Aug 31, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $25.50-$47.50. Gravenhurst Opera House, 295 Muskoka S,
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semble breathe fresh life into it. That all begins in the production’s opening moments, when the play’s women emerge onstage in all their pretty outfits, coyly fanning themselves. Nice touch. Also effective is an important scene in the first act in which Hinton has some patrons at a ball freeze in tableaux while others speak their dialogue. This underlines the artificiality of the situation and creates intimacy, something that’s difficult to do on the large Festival Theatre stage. The occasional use of forced perspective in Teresa Przybylski’s elegant set also accomplishes this. Other stylistic touches don’t succeed as well, like projecting lines of the play’s text onto a scrim. These feel too much like “important quotes” you have to discuss in an English essay. The leads, with one exception, are superb. Martin Happer is a sympathetic Lord Windermere, Tara Rosling a glamorous and passionate Mrs. Erlynne (the other woman), and Gray Powell, as Lady Windermere’s friend and frustrated suitor Lord Darlington, makes Wilde’s cleverest lines pop. Gravenhurst. gravenhurstoperahouse.com. Sexy Laundry by Michele Riml (Globus Theatre). A middle-aged couple look for the old spark during a romantic weekend trip. Runs to Aug 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $27.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. g lobustheatre.com. Sorry... I’m Canadian by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). An RCMP officer weaves together history, humour and political satire in this musical comedy. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $20-$45. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. Taking Shakespeare by John Murrell (Stratford Festival). A cynical old professor and the student she’s tutoring awaken to the power of words. Runs in rep to Sep 27. $35-$90, stu/srs $20-$55. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, s tratfordfestival.ca.
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ford Festival/Schulich Children’s Plays). Young swashbucklers protect the French king in this all-ages adaptation of the Dumas novel. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The Thrill by Judith Thompson (Stratford Festival). A disabled lawyer/activist confronts an advocate for the right-to-die movement, with unexpected consequences (see review, page 52). Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu/ srs $20-$55. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, s tratfordfestival. ca. NNN (JK) Tommy by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff (Stratford Festival). It has a wonky narrative arc – two parts the relentless abuse of the eponymous boy, unable to speak, see or hear since he was traumatized at age four, and one part Tommy’s cure, his vault to superstardom as a pinball wizard and subsequent rejection of fame. But the production, under Des McAnuff, is so gorgeous, thanks to Sean Nieuwenhuis’s spectacular projections, that you almost don’t notice. And the cast is excellent, especially Kira Guloien and Jeremy Kushnier as Tommy’s parents, Steve Ross as wicked Uncle Ernie and Paul Nolan as the bully Cousin Kevin. The weak link is Robert Markus as the grownup Tommy, who can’t convey the vacancy of the sense-deprived lad and lacks the charisma to convince us he could mesmerize audiences as a pop culture hero. But the refrain ‘See me, feel me, touch me, heal me’ does bring a tear to the eye. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $52-$175. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) Trifles (Shaw Festival). Two marital mysteries – Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and Eugene O’Neill’s A Wife For A Life – are presented as part of the Lunchtime One-Acts series. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $32. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. s hawfest.com.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rebecca Feldman,
William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Overachievers vie for the championship in this musical comedy. Runs to Aug 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1000islandsplayhouse.com. Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (Stratford Festival). Two men pass the time while waiting for the arrival of a third in this absurdist drama. Runs in rep to Sep 26. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. 3
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Thursday, August 29 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Bennett w/ Pete Zedlacher and ñMark host Alastair McAlastair. To Sep 1, Thu 8:30
pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY BAR PODCAST Comedy Bar presents a weekly recording show. 11 pm. Free. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. COMICAL: VOLUME 12 Comedy Bar presents stand-up w/ Chris Allin, Nigel Grinstead, Chris Robinson, Dave Merheje, headliner Eddie Della Siepe and host Michael Flamank. 9:30 pm. $8-$10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: AN EVENING OF COMEDY IN SUPPORT OF THE BRAIN TUMOUR FOUNDATION Allana Reoch presents a benefit dedi-
cated to the memory of Bill Reoch w/ Kristen Rasmussen, Marshall Lorenzo, Templeton
Philharmonic, Ghost Girls and host Stephanie Tolev. 8 pm. $12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE BAR presents a weekly open-mic w/ rotating hosts. 9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. sssuperfly@hotmail.com. KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly show. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com. NOT MY DOG COMEDY presents a weekly open mic w/ host Hannah Hogan. 8:30 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. notmydog.ca.
PRINCESS POLLY AND THE WORLD’S SMALLEST NINJA Second City presents an all-ages sketch
revue. To Aug 29, Thu 1 pm. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. TRUST US Kai Benson and Rush Zilla present stand-up, w/ Nigel Grinstead, Dylan Gott, Zabrina Chevannes, Andrew Barr and headliner Marito Lopez. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WE CAN BE HEROES Second City presents a new collection of sketches, songs and improvisations inspired by the world around us. TueThu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm (and Sat 10 pm). $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Hunter Collins. To Sep 1, Thu and Sun 8 pm, FriSat 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.
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stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. camsplace.net. HIRUT HOOT Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents Eddie Della Siepe, Ian Sirota, Jason Schlesinger, Herb Irving, Nile Seguin, Kristeen Von Hagen, Mark Walker and host Scott McCrickard. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560. THE MARY-JANES OF COMEDY Vapor Social presents Adrienne Fish, Jen McCauliff, Catharine McCormick, Karen Mitten and host Jess Beaulieu. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647-765-4422. PUPPET SHOW PARTY Sex T-Rex presents their puppet show Bendy Sign Coffee, plus opener MC Freddie Rivas and music by the Honeyrunners. Doors 8 pm. $10-$15. F’Coffee, 641 Queen E. facebook.com/FCOFFEE641. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents weekly comedy featuring one of the following shows: The Duel, The Invasion, The Rewind, The Main Event. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416-637-7427.
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anish Anwar and Riotwire.com present up & D coming comics in a battle to become All Stars. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. brownpapertickets.com/event/429059. TORONTO, I LOVE YOU Bad Dog Repertory Players present an improvised romantic comedy based on stories of our city. To Aug 30, Fridays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 29. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 29.
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AARON & FRIENDS Major Biggz presents headliners Brandon T Jackson and Spoken Reasons w/ Aaron Lewin, Marlon Palmer, Jordan Sowunmi and Ramy Hakeem. 7:30 pm. $25. John Bassett Theatre, 255 Front W. t icketweb.ca. Absolute Comedy See Thu 29. COMEDY At The RED ROCKET Red Rocket Coffee presents Phil Luzi, Michael Moses, Samantha Loney, Dave Healy, Nitish Sakhuja, Joel
West, host Josh Betcher and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 1364 Danforth. redrocketcoffee.com. MOMICS Comedy Bar presents Ian Sirota, Kelly Fanson, the Sues, Zabrina Chevannes, Kris Siddiqi and host Melissa Story. 9 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE SAL & SANDY SHOW The LOT Comedy Club presents Kristeen von Hagen, Martha Chaves, Aisha Alfa, Dave Merheje, hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli and others. 9:30 pm. $20. 100 Ossington. lotstandup@gmail.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 29. WHEDONESQUE Bad Dog Theatre present an improvised re-imagining of three of Joss Whedon’s most beloved shows. 8, 9 & 10 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 29.
Sunday, September 1 Absolute Comedy See Thu 29. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic
and original sketch and trademark improvisation. To Sep 2, Sun 7:30 pm, Mon 8 pm. $24, stu $15; Mon all tickets $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. IAN BAGG Empire Comedy Live presents the Sirius XM host in a live stand-up show. 7 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE PLAYGROUND Playful Grounds presents weekly open-mic comedy w/ hosts Kris Siddiqi and Melissa Story. 9 pm. Free. 605 College. 416-645-0484, playfulgrounds.com. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly show w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 29.
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Monday, September 2 The Best Of The Second City See Sun 1. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-8157562.
ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Open Mic Night w/ headliner Chris Locke and MC Dylan Gott. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham and guests. 9 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. THE OTHER DOPE SHOW Vapor Social presents weekly open-mic stand-up. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647-765-4422. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Sonic Espresso Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 10:30 pm. Free. 60 Cecil. facebook. com/skinofmynuts. STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT Emmet Ray Bar presents a monthly show. 8 pm. Free. 924 College. 416-792-4497, t heemmetray.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 29. THE WILD CARD Top Shelf Comedy presents 4 pros, 4 lottery spots & a first-timer w/ hosts Chris Allin & Brian Ward. 8:30 pm. Free. Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every week. $4/show. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
Wednesday, September 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/
headliner Nile Seguin, James Kersley, Kevin Hesari, Katharine Ferns, Peter Aterman, Sebastian Fazio and host Ryan Maglunob. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts Joel Buxton, DJ Demers, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Mikey Kolberg, Steve Patrick Adams and Jordan Foisy. 9:30pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com. AN EVENING OF MAGIC AND COMEDY The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Jason Palter. 7:30 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/event/445249. SOCIAL WEDNESDAYS Seven44 presents a variety night with comics, live music and DJs, this week w/ Brie Watson, Big Norm and Keith Pedro. 9 pm. $5. 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-4897931, seven44.com. TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents Steph Kaliner, Sara Hennessey, Sandra Battaglini, Phil Luzi, Chris Locke, Kathleen Phillips and Jeremy Mersereau. 9 pm. $5. 61 Ossington. sarahennessey.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 29. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Mike Wilmot. To Sep 8, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3
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Verso, a new gallery tucked behind mid-century modern store In Abstracto, is patterned on similar mixeduse gallery and design retail spaces in Germany and South America. Its inaugural exhibit, 36 Hours In Uruguay & Berlin Street Art, features the photographic work of Toronto’s Julie Jenkinson. Deeply grounded in graphic design – she creates wallcoverings and fabrics, too – she has a knack for finding synchronicities of colour and form in the jumble of urban surfaces. Her studies of Berlin graffiti are primed for bold visual contrast and drama. In Fist, the dialogue between a stark white building and a raised train track is punctuated by a single yellow graffiti fist. Bird Lips With Two Ice Creams shows a birdlike creature in sneakers counterbalanced by a small Banksyesque figure in the top right corner.
If street art suffers from its borderlessness, Jenkinson pulls it tight again within a frame, adding a discipline and tension that, paradoxically, let the original marks speak louder. Her gift for seeing order in chaos is shown most vividly in her studies of Uruguayan city walls. Here, the intentional hand of the graffiti artist is replaced by abstract textures and surfaces. In Teatro Bastion, partially eroded words in bright red stand out on a rough wall. That bright red pulls your eye to some patches of blue and green on the distressed black-and-white
Oct 27 ($25, sr $21.50, stu $16.50; Wed ñ after 6 pm $12.50). Light My Fire: Portraits, to
Oct 20. Marina Abramovic and Ulay, to Dec 15. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. DESIGN EXCHANGE Christian Louboutin, to Sep 15 ($25, stu/srs $18). DXUncrated, to Oct 31. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Wafaa Bilal, Sep
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Pessl power NIGHT FILM by Marisha Pessl (Bond/Random House), 489 pages, $34 cloth. Rating: NNN It’s easy to see why this thriller is getting such big buzz. It explores how people develop unhealthy obsessions with pop culture figures, and Marisha Pessl goes way beyond the usual lengths thriller writers go to make such fixations credible. Disgraced investigative journalist Scott McGrath is still licking his wounds after being sued by horrormeister Stanislas Cordova. Sensing that elements of the reclusive filmmaker’s shocking films may have been based in a terrifying reality, he’d made one too many statements suggesting the director was dangerous. When Cordova’s daughter Ashley is found dead in a warehouse, McGrath, despite his professional travails, can’t
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concrete, making you wonder if you’re looking at remnants of posters or an incredibly subtle collage. Jenkinson transforms corners of the city into concise meditations on pure visual experience. Grittiness never looked so sharp. 3 art@nowtoronto.com
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resist looking into what the cops have called a suicide. Soon he’s gathered evidence that Cordova and his film team are fiendish devil-worshippers. Pessl’s tendency to overwrite is at times almost laughable. She’s never met a simile she didn’t like. A chandelier hangs like a jellyfish – really? Artificial aspects of the narrative will have your eyes rolling so fast you’ll get dizzy. McGrath inexplicably accepts assistance from two people after chance encounters, and the revelation at the end of the book emerges from a move McGrath could have made way earlier. But Night Film is nevertheless hugely absorbing, and Pessl’s added creative elements to the story – screen grabs from Cordova fan sites, repros of printed materials, Cordova memorabilia – that make this thriller unique. Best of all, her portrait of the possibly depraved filmmaker is meticulously drawn. Characters – especially McGrath and a prof who’s a Cordova specialist – expound on his oeuvre in such deep detail, you’d think a filmography actually exists.
chives At Forty, Sep 1-Oct 3. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211. NARWHAL PROJECTS Melissa Fisher and Chris Boni, to Aug 29. 2988 Dundas W. 647-346-5317. PARTS GALLERY Painting: Kim Atlin, to Sep 8. 1150 Queen E. 416-465-8500. RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Elaine Whittaker, Sep 4-28. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654. RIVOLI Photos: Antonio Lastoria, Sep 1-Nov 9. 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY Gallery artists, to Sep 7. 1267 Bloor W. 416-2898855. STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Poster Party group show, Sep 4-30, reception 7-11 pm Sep 4. They Came From Within: Canadian Horror Movies, to Aug 31. 255 Bremner. 416-362-2337. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Vivian Maier, to Sep 14. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Heather Bedell, Sep 3-30. Terry Gambarotto, to Aug 31. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999. TOWER AUTOMOTIVE BUILDING Fourth Annual Art Spin Exhibition, Aug 29-Sep 1, bike tour 6 pm, reception 7 pm-1 am Aug 29. 158 Sterling. artspin.ca. TWIST GALLERY Martha Weber and Andris Piebalgs, Sep 4-27. 1100 Queen W. 416-588-2222.
Jesse Harris and Sarah Nasby, Sep 4-28, reception 7 pm Sep 4. 1490 Dundas W. 416-703-4400. ATELIER RZLBD Painting: Mohsen Rifaat, to Sep 19. Bayview Village, 2901 Bayview, unit M1. 416-223-1900. DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Douglas Coupland, to Sep 7. 188 St Helens. 416-5381880. DE LUCA FINE ART The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse group show; painting: Jonathan Bolyki, to Aug 31. 217 Avenue Rd. 416-537-4699. THE EAST GALLERY Southeast Asia, Figuratively Speaking group show, to Oct 6. 334 Dundas W. 416-705-4331. GALLERY ARCTURUS Placed group show, to Oct 19. 80 Gerrard E. 416-977-1077. GLADSTONE HOTEL Painting: Jane Duncan, Aug 29-Sep 3, reception 7-10 pm Aug 29. Dominique Fung, to Aug 31. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. JAPAN FOUNDATION Tohoku Through The Eyes Of Japanese Photographers, to Oct 6. 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600. KOFFLER OFFSITE Installation: Iara Freiberg, to Oct 27. Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, 9 Queen Quay W. 416-636-1880. McCAUL ART GALLERY Town Musicians Of Ojae group show, to Sep 1. 63 McCaul. MILES NADAL JCC The Ontario Jewish Ar-
3-Oct 19. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Kathy Venter, to Sep 15. RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, Sep 3-Oct 15. Faience In 17th And 18th Century France, to Jan 5, 2014. $12, stu $6, srs $8; discounts Fri 4-9 pm. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. McMICHAEL CANADIAN Edward Burtynsky and Ansel Adams, to Sep 29. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA TIFF Future Projections: Camille Hen-
rot, Sep 5-15; David Cronenberg: Transformations, Sep 5-Dec 29, reception 8-10 pm Sep 4. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Auto-Motive, to Aug 31. Gairloch Gnds, 1306 Lakeshore E; Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402. POWER PLANT Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art; Jimmy Robert, to Sep 2. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Sebastião Salgado, to Sep 2. Mesopotamia, to Jan 5, 2014 ($27, srs/stu $24.50). Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12, 2014. $15, stu/srs $13.50; discounts Fri 4:308:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.
TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Shine, to Sep 2.
Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Oct 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. U OF T ART CENTRE A Thousand Works In Eighty Spaces; Lutz Dille, Sep 3-Nov 14. Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism, Sep 3-Mar 8, 2014. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3
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LAUNCHING THIS WEEK Even if you’re a well-schooled progressive who admires Karl Marx’s political perspective, you may not think his Communist Manifesto is still relevant 150 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution. Enter Ernesto Raj Peshkov-Chow, who’s reimagined that groundbreaking work in The New Commune-ist Manifesto ($11.95, Fernwood), applying Marx’s ideas to environmental sustainability and economic democracy. And just in case you’re not sure what you think of that original version, it’s included in this book. Peshkov-Chow launches The New Communeist Manifesto at Beit Zeitoun on Monday (September 2). See Readings, this page. SGC The book’s app at nightfilmdecoder. com is also cool. And the story gets pretty creepy. No surprise that it’s soon to be a major motion picture. The last chap-
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thought can change the world and signs copies of her book Dear Cole, Never Say Never. 6 pm. Free. Origo Books, 49 Lower Jarvis. origobooks.com.
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Destroying cars and other fun
Toronto-born director totalled more than 130 cars in making the fast-moving and complex thriller Getaway By NORMAN WILNER GETAWAY directed by Courtney Solomon, written by Sean Finegan and Gregg Maxwell Parker, with Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Rebecca Budig and Jon Voight. A Warner Bros. release. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (August 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60.
Courtney Solomon is getting ready to drive away for a while. “I’ll probably take at least a month off,” laughs the Toronto-born director, who’s come home to promote his new action thriller, Getaway. “I’ve been literally working non-stop on this. It looks like just an action movie or whatever, but it’s really been a Herculean task to make, with all those cameras and all that footage to sift through. It was like doing three movies.” By his own estimation, Solomon has spent 21 months working on Getaway, which stars Ethan Hawke as a former racing driver forced to steal a tricked-out Shelby GT500 and zoom around Sofia, Bulgaria, to save his kidnapped wife from an all-seeing tormentor. Selena Gomez co-stars as a young woman who tries to carjack Hawke and ends up becoming his unwilling co-pilot. “What I saw from the beginning was this interesting concept that’s essentially Phone
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Booth meets Saw,” Solomon says. “There’s this guy in control of these two people’s lives, and they’re in this claustrophobic environment, which is just this car. And the car drives through this whole city, so it’s a sort of contrast to the claustrophobia.” Solomon also wanted to make a movie about surveillance, so he had the villain trick out Hawke’s Shelby with nine tiny cameras whose feeds become part of Getaway’s visual strategy, along with street cameras and more conventional set-ups. “The average was 27 [cameras] on every take,” Solomon says. There are 630 hours of source footage; it would take you 33 days, 24 hours a day, to watch every daily from this movie – with no bathroom breaks, no food breaks, nothing. My editors figured that out.” But the number of cameras pales next to the tally of cars wrecked during the shoot. “We actually destroyed 130 cars,” Solomon says. “We had a whole graveyard of cars. They were sold for parts and scrap at the end.” Getaway is a movie about momentum, and it doesn’t have time for anything that isn’t absolutely essential. There are maybe five speaking parts, and most of the characters don’t even have time to say their names. Gomez is billed
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only as The Kid, Jon Voight as The Voice. “That’s gonna work with some people, and that’s gonna bother some people, quite frankly,” Solomon acknowledges. “I think some people need that anchor, you know? We [adjusted] the bar in this movie. Certainly, we went back to the classics of this type of movie in the way we crafted it, but then we did this more advanced thing: ‘Okay, we’re just going. And we’re gonna throw out some conventions.’ People sometimes love their conventions.” The success of The Fast And The Furious films has proven that people love to watch cars move at high speeds. And Getaway has plenty of that, thanks to a team of some 45 Bulgarian stunt drivers. “We couldn’t do the stuff we did anywhere in North America,” Solomon says. “These guys just want to give you their best. You’re holding your breath because you’re pushing them for their best, but if anything goes wrong you’re gonna wear it forever.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision
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FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY “Captivating.” – The New York Times A portrait of Tomi Ungerer, a controversial illustrator of children’s books, protest posters and erotica. Director will participate in Skype Q&As on Friday, August 30, and Saturday, August 31. AUG 30–SEPT 5, select dates and times
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Flu (Kim Sung-su). 122 minutes.
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(Brad Bernstein). Some subtitles. 98 minutes. Opens Friday (August 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NNNN
Brad Bernstein’s doc captures the mischievous wit and fierce intelligence of a subject who’s hard to pin down. Alsatian-born artist Tomi Ungerer lived through Nazi rule (childhood drawings chronicled early atrocities), emigrated to Manhattan in the 50s to work in advertising and soon
became a beloved children’s book author/illustrator. In the 60s, he designed in-your-face political protest posters that still have a visceral power. After the American literary community shunned him because of erotic works like the ahead-of-its time Fornicon, he moved to Nova Scotia and then to Cork, Ireland. Talking heads include fellow writer/artists Maurice Sendak and Jules Feiffer, but the real treat is the highly articulate and amusing Ungerer himself, whose outsider status gives him a fascinating perspective on social and political changes. Bernstein’s imaginative visual touches enhance rather than detract from the film, a must-see for anyone involved GLENN SUMI in art and design.
In the much stronger first half of Kim Sung-su’s Korean blockbuster Flu, a shipping container filled with illegal immigrants proves the perfect breeding ground for a mutated version of bird flu that spreads like wildfire through the Seoul suburb of Bundang. Among the one-dimensional types caught up in the ensuing panic are a virologist (Su Ae) and a first responder (Jang Hyuk) who’d met earlier when he pulled her from the wreckage of her car. He ripped her skirt, so she hates him; it’s that kind of movie. Also, she has a young daughter (Park Min-ha) whom the movie insists is adorable. Until everyone winds up in a military quarantine camp, Flu moves quickly enough to gloss over the sketchy characterizations and increasingly improbable coincidences that keep bringing people together. But by the second half, the movie reduces itself to our heroes ducking in and out of plastic tents while politicians yell at each other about responsibility in one of those big shiny war rooms. Kim manages to produce a couple of chilling images, but he’s much more interested in manufacturing cheesy emotional beats for an audience that’ll swallow anything. It starts out as Contagion but winds up as Outbreak. NORMAN WILNER
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Nix to Nixon The key element in this pic about Rich ard Nixon’s closest aides is the 400 reels of home movies they took during his presidency. Later interviews with the Nixon associates who took the footage – special assistant Dwight Chapin, chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic affairs adviser John Erlichman (before the latter two died)
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One note one direction: This is us (Morgan purlock). 90 minutes. Opens Friday S (August 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NN
This Is Us, the latest behind-the-scenes pop tour doc, tells the story of five middle-class British kids and their catastrophic rise to fame in the manufactured band One Direction. Straddling the line between blindly endorsing them and hanging the wideeyed boys – now aged 19 to 21 – out to dry, Morgan Spurlock’s portrait e xposes almost enough to make you wonder if he’s taking the piss.
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Toxic shock évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, J eremy Newberger). 91 minutes. Opens Friday (August 30). For venues and times, See Movies, page 60. Rating: NNN
Long before Glenn Beck, Jerry Springer and Fox News began polluting the TV airwaves, there was Morton Downey Jr., the chain-smoking, obnoxious TV host who exploited his audience’s anger, berated his guests and was characterized by a big gaping cartoon mouth. This informative yet work-
thriller signer Karl Lagerfeld and Nobel laureate Günter Grass. We learn little about the eccentric man himself, however. A rare moment of comedy comes when one of his pens leaks in his shirt pocket. But watching him go from the beginning of a project to the end with photographer Joel Sternfeld teaches us everything about his aesthetic and philosophy, which, in this digital age, comes across as oldfashioned but r efreshing. GLENN SUMI
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Yak fest Closed Circuit (John Crowley). 110 minutes. Now playing. For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NN
Closed Circuit uses every legal and paranoia thriller cliché in the book, but what’s even worse is that it constantly explains its threadbare premise in achingly boring detail.
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– assess events while these movies roll. Unfortunately, not all the material is gold, mainly because the gang couldn’t shoot straight. Footage of Nixon’s historic China foray is decent, but there’s a ton of repetition – we don’t have to see the White House gardens five times. The White House tapes figure prominently – Repetitive doc about Nixon Nixon’s won’t win much support.
homophobic rant is especially wild – but I’m not sure why this film deals neither with the Watts and Detroit riots that so powered Nixon’s paranoia nor the 1970 nationwide student strike that followed the Kent State shootings. Unless the crew thought neither of those things was important, which means they weren’t the most politically astute aides a president has ever had. But it’s great to see current Secretary of State John Kerry as a young Vietnam Veteran Against the War addressing a mammoth peace march in Washington. SUSAN G. COLE
On a fabricated-for-film camping trip, for example, Louis Tomlinson (or was it Liam Payne?) wonders what would have happened if just one of them hadn’t turned up for his X Factor audition (where Simon Cowell cleverly plucked them out and grouped them together). His conclusion, so earnest you could hug him, is that each lad is integral to 1D’s success.
Lead heartthrob Harry Styles is curiously quiet during these moments of self-adulation, as if he more than the others might be aware of their expiry date and interchangeability. The boys’ resistance to choreographed dancing, combined with their often stiff performances, makes the film’s abundant same-same concert footage a snooze. The story’s complete dearth of conflict doesn’t help matters. The only compelling moments involve the boys’ families and a question deserving its own documentary: can parents still parent when their children achieve fame and wealth way beyond their own? Scenes like Zayn Malik’s mother calling to thank him for the house he bought her are sweet, but like the band itself, too contrived to appreciate. Julia LeConte
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Joe McCarthy’s. C oming up the middle manlike doc takes us through Dowis comic Chris Elliott, a fan who later ney’s (no r elation to Robert) rapid rise parodied Downey savagely on the and spectacular fall. The privileged son Letterman show. of a famous singer, he hobnobbed with The main commenters are a number the Kennedys before turning conservaof producers from Downey’s show, tive. He was also a wannabe musician, who reveal details about his bizarre so much of his life seemed an atbehaviour on and off set – including tempt to outdo dad. a massive lie he manufactured The trio of directors have asabout being assaulted by skinsembled an eclectic crew of talkheads. ing heads, including (on the Interviews with Downey’s right) Pat Budaughter and footage of the chanan and man in the final stages of (on the left) cancer fail to humanize him. Stanley He was ahead of his time, Crouch, who at but is that really someone point comthing to celebrate? pares his bullyMorton Downey Jr. GLENN SUMI ing tactics to shows his stripes.
Barrister Martin (Eric Bana) and s pecial defender Claudia (Rebecca Hall) break protocol by partnering up on “the case of the century,” defending the suspect in a highprofile London marketplace bombing after the original Eric Bana (left) and Ciarán Hinds talk... and talk... and talk.
prosecutor mysteriously committed suicide. When it turns out their client might have secret government ties, things get dangerous for the lawyers, who find themselves under surveillance. It’s sad to see such a great cast (including standouts Jim Broadbent and Ciarán Hinds in thankless authority roles) saddled with repetiCheck outlaborious, our online tive expository dialogue. Characters simply show up, say who they are, what they do, and describe the plot. By the time the contrived final act lurches around, it’s welcome because the characters finally stop talking to make way for some actual action. But ANDREW PARKER it’s too little too late.
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heimer, Christine Cynn) plays its i ntriguing premise for maximum impact. Directors Oppenheimer and Cynn offered former Indonesian death squad leader Anwar Congo and his associates the chance to re-enact their crimes onscreen, filtered through the tropes of musicals or thrillers or any other genre they might choose. The results are mesmerizing – and not just because of Congo’s self-aggrandizing and utter lack of remorse. The cameras bring out the worst in all concerned, who think nothing of singing and dancing about mass murder. It’s no wonder Errol Morris and Werner Herzog got behind this movie when it premiered at TIFF last year. It lands right in the centre of their lifelong obsessions, while feeling utterly original and unique. It burns itself into you. Sub-
titled. 115 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre
The Attack (Ziad Doueiri) is almost a crowd-pleasing portrait of a suicide bomber. Amin (Ali Suliman) is a respected ArabIsraeli surgeon whose comfortable life in Tel Aviv is shattered when his beloved wife (Reymond Amsalem) attacks a café strapped with a bomb, killing 17 people. Looking for answers, Amin heads to Palestine to find out exactly how his wife became radicalized. The Attack feels a bit stuffily like an old novel of ideas, in which most of the characters function as types espousing their respective ideologies with narrow literalness. The exception is Amin, whose emotional life becomes believably upturned as he snoops around his wife’s secret life. Suliman’s terrific hangdog performance gives the film weight as something more than a broad political allegory. Subtitled. 99 min. NNN (JS) Varsity A Band Called Death (Mark Covino, Jeff
Howlett) delves in great detail into a forgotten, allegedly pioneering band: Detroit protopunks Death. A trio of black brothers – Bobby, David and Dannis Hackney – playing driving garage rock influenced by the Who and Alice Cooper, Death didn’t fit easily into the Motor City music scene of the time, where black musicians were expected to churn out soul and R&B singles. Even their name was a tough sell. They were doomed to obscurity. Those not predisposed to like this kind of music may find claims of Death’s significance hard to swallow, but the film’s exploration of the difficulty of accomplishing something original inside the inflexible apparatus of popular music proves absorbing all the same. 96 min. NNN (JS) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(Richard Link later) may be the best picture of the year, and it shouldn’t even exist. Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy could have
Alexandra Holden (left), writer-director Lake Bell and Fred Melamed star in the complex comedy In A World... left well enough alone, especially after the high-wire act that was their first sequel, Before Sunset. But dammit, they’ve done it again: Jesse and Celine keep moving forward, and we get to watch. 109 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre
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(Gabriela Cowper thwaite) opens like a boilerplate Hollywood thriller. Calls placed to 911 from SeaWorld in Orlando playing over the film’s opening credits set the scene of the crime: “A whale has eaten one of the trainers.” On February 24, 2010, SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau was drowned by Tilikum, a 550-kilo bull orca. Blackfish offers a psychological profile of Tilikum and, in turn, of the humans who want to keep animals in captivity. The film moves carefully from cinematic tropes (those establishing 911 calls) to an investigation of the labour economy of whale-hunting and capture, the spectacle of training them for slack-jawed tourists and SeaWorld’s move
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(Woody Allen) is dark, delves into class issues and has a powerful performance by Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, the emotionally unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who’s fleeced everyone he knows and been thrown into the slammer, where he’s committed suicide. Penniless and on the brink of a second breakdown, Jasmine heads to San Francisco from her former home base in New York to move in with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), a grocery bagger living in the Mission district with her two children from an earlier marriage. Flashbacks tell Jasmine’s story and contrast her formerly extravagant lifestyle with Ginger’s. Baldwin is terrific as the slimeball husband, and Andrew Dice Clay is surprisingly soulful as Ginger’s ex. But it’s Blanchett who’ll blow your mind. Hers is a devastating portrait of a woman losing her grip, able to flip instantly from supremely composed to twitchy to completely bonkers. Expect Oscar to come calling. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga,
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(Katherine Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall) is an exceptional documentary about Uganda’s push to make being gay a capital offence. Filmmakers Fairfax and Zouhali-Worrall present the political context – Christian zealots, inspired by their American counterparts who are losing the antiqueer battle in their own country, ratchet up the anti-gay panic. But the soul of the movie is charming and charismatic gay rights activist David Kato, who leads a legal challenge against Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone (obviously no connection to out gay Jann Wenner’s American mag), which names gays under the headline “Hang them.” Interviews with the homophobic editor are positively chilling. A shattering act of violence two-thirds into the doc ups the stakes dramatically – if you can imagine them getting any higher. But even the shock of that event cannot eclipse the inspirational power of this portrait of a courageous LGBT community partying, organizing, laughing and weeping as it fights for its life. Some subtitles. 87 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
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Icelandic director of Contraband and 2 Guns going home to tell the true story of a fisherman (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) who swam several miles back to shore after his trawler capsized, enduring six hours in the freezing North Atlantic. The ordeal is recreated entirely through practical means in an extended sequence that forms the movie’s utterly riveting midsection. But once our hero makes it back, The Deep bogs down in a fairly dull recounting of the medical community’s interest in learning how the big, out-of-shape fisherman survived for hours in conditions that should have killed him almost immediately. That stuff may well be historically accurate, but it’s not nearly as interesting as the flashes of survivor guilt we see behind Ólafsson’s eyes. Subtitled. 95 min. NNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
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THE CONJURING (James Wan) is a 70s-style tale of demonic infestation, with married demonologists trying to save a Rhode Island family from an evil spirit that came with their nice new home. Wan has fun mimicking the textures and aesthetics of movies of the period, but he’s basically just remaking his own Insidious with a few modest tweaks and a polyester wardrobe.
DESPICABLE ME 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin) has about 35 minutes of story and an hour of frickin’ minion jokes. If you love watching little tubular yellow guys run around jabbering at each other and making fart noises, this will be your new favourite thing. If you’re me, you end up with a headache and a sense that the world hates you. I did appreciate the running gag about the guacamole sadness hat, though. 98 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Yonge & Dundas 24 DRUG WAR (Johnnie To) is a com-
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plex, institutional examination of the Chinese crime world, following narcotics detective Zhang Lei (Sun Hong-lei), an inventive, committed cop who sees a chance to infiltrate a massive cartel when mid-level manufacturer Tian Ming (Louis Koo, who co-starred in the To’s Election films) pops up in hospital after a meth lab explosion. Using Tian’s knowledge of dealers and cartel heads, Zhang inserts
himself into their world as a mover of merchandise, with plans to set up a massive deal and catch the entire organization in the act. Director To splits his focus between large-scale action sequences and more intimate clashes in which his two leads game one another. And Drug War slots nicely into To’s filmography of violent, morally cloudy cops-and-robbers thrillers. It’s just that simple. Subtitled. 105 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
ELYSIUM (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually identical, plot-wise, to District 9, the director’s wildly overrated 2009 debut. In 2154, Matt Damon’s Max is a factory worker from the favelas of Los Angeles who’s given just days to live after absorbing a lethal dose of radiation. The tech on orbiting space station Elysium can cure him in seconds, but access is restricted; to get a set of forged papers, Max agrees to a dangerous kidnapping scheme that ends up with him carrying information in his brain that the station’s autocratic secretary of defence (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothing to retrieve. As in District 9, all the sociopolitical stuff is just an excuse to reduce humans to goo and smash large things into other things. Fans of that film’s spectacular carnage and garbled political posturing will doubtless find Elysium even more meaningful and relevant and stuff. I would politely remind you that The Phantom Menace still has its defenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity ÉVOCATEUR: THE MORTON DOWNEY JR.
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(Ryan Coogler) recreates the last day in the life of Oscar Grant before his death at the hands of a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop early on New Year’s Day 2009. Played winningly by Chronicle’s Michael B Jordan as an instinctively helpful person actively trying to put his troubled past behind him, Grant
In the last – and best – of the Sean Of The Dead trilogy, screenwriter Simon Pegg plays one of five pals who go out on a pub crawl and become the only hope for the planet’s survival.
In this sillier sequel to The Lightning Thief, demigod Logan Lerman sets sail to find the Golden Fleece but gets into trouble as the ship enters the Bermuda Triangle.
is allowed to be a complex, multi-faceted individual – an imperfect son, boyfriend and father who came to a violent, unnecessary end because of a combination of factors – institutional racism being a pretty big one. Writer/director Coogler isn’t out to paint Grant as a martyr as much as to create a three-dimensional study. The fact that the film arrives on the heels of the George Zimmerman verdict just drives his point home all the more brutally. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square
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interview and review, page 56. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 30 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Silver City Yorkdale
The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai) is almost half an hour shorter than the version that premiered in Berlin, and something’s definitely off. It’s clumsy in a way Wong’s films never are. Tony Leung (a frequent collaborator of Wong’s) plays Chinese martial artist Ip Man, who famously refused to collaborate with Japanese invaders in the 1930s, yet in the 50s, while teaching in Hong Kong, was shut out of his homeland when China closed its borders. The domestic version scatters that information in text screens between beautifully photographed fight sequences and occasional longing looks between Ip and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), a northern martial artist and doctor who makes an instant emotional connection with Ip but can’t act on it. You might want to seek out the Chinese Blu-ray instead. Subtitled. 106 min. NNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colos sus, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann) is just the latest movie adaptation to misunderstand F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Director Luhrmann piles on spectacle, sparkles, spangles, crystal and Jay-Z remixes, overwhelming the story and the actors. 142 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant Grown Ups 2 (Dennis Dugan) is an excuse
for Adam Sandler and his posse to loiter onscreen as adults playing hooky (art imitates life), milking money just by being present. The jokes are aimless and contrived and often lack punchlines. Sandler could very well have scribbled this mess on the back of the cheque he received to produce a sequel, any sequel – just a movie with the number two in it, the same number of times you will laugh. 101 min. N (RS) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Silver City Mississauga
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(Margarethe von Trotta) tracks the fallout from political theorist Hannah Arendt’s (Barbara Sukowa) coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. She wrote that he didn’t know how to think and therefore couldn’t make moral choices, and suggested Jewish leaders may have collaborated with the Nazis. Sukowa gives a superb performance, and Janet McTeer is a delight as writer Mary McCarthy. Some subtitles. 110 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre
The Heat (Paul Feig) is a buddy-cop movie
that works best when it simply gives comedian Melissa McCarthy room to improvise. The tremendously talented actor has a gift for abusive ramblings that combine meticulous threats, unique vocal rhythms and nuanced obscenities. She truly makes the F-word sing. The rest of the movie relies on the typical grab bag of gags, some marginally funny, others simply dumb and offensive. 117 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Tobias Lindholm) is shot with the agitated intensity of a documentary, and takes its subject from the real world, but it’s a work of fiction – and a hell of a good one at that. Writer/ director Lindholm locks us into the perspective of two Danes involved with the taking of the MV Rozen by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean somewhere off the coast of Mumbai. Cutting between the comfortable world of a Copenhagen negotiator (Søren Malling) and the increasingly unpleasant captivity of the ship’s cook
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( Pilou Asbæk), Lindholm builds a twisting, unyielding tension. The pirates are volatile, and both men are ultimately at their mercy. And as the days wear into weeks, we realize how easy it would be for them to snap and get someone killed. If recent docs about Somali piracy have made you tired of the subject, A Hijacking will wake you up again. Subtitled. 103 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(Thomas Vinterberg) shoots straight for the gut with a wrenching performance by Mads Mikkelsen. He plays a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of child abuse like a wounded doe squirming. You want to put a bullet in him just to end his suffering (and your own). Writer/director Vinterberg dives into the sensitive topic he touched on his Dogme 95 debut, The Celebration. Here he takes a more simplistic, straightforward approach to a fraught subject, allowing characters and audience to decide rather swiftly who not to believe. Yet there’s nothing simplistic about the performances. Mikkelsen and a terrific ensemble navigate complex emotions and moral quandaries in a terrain where a satisfying resolution is as hard to come by as a child who never tells a lie. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Canada Square
I Give It a Year (Dan Mazer) may not be
particularly successful as a romantic comedy, but it’s a fascinating experiment in genre subversion with a lot of solid laughs. Writer/director Mazer puts his pretty people (Rose Byrne, Rafe Spall) together in the first two minutes, flashing forward to his heroes sitting with the worst marriage counsellor in England (Olivia Colman), crabbing about the disaster their union has become. Each of the actors gets at least one unexpected, explosive comic moment – even Byrne, who usually gets stuck playing straight women. Spall is pleasantly hapless, Colman’s offhandedly hilarious, and Stephen Merchant brings such good-natured enthusiasm to the tired role of the husband’s vulgar best friend that his line readings eventually won me over. 97 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
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(Lake Bell) is a comedy set in the world of Los Angeles voice-over artists, where the daughter (Bell) of an industry legend (A Serious Man’s Fred Melamed) finds herself horning in on his territory when the producers of a youth-oriented trilogy decide they’d rather have a female voice narrate their trailer. But there’s a lot more going on than that, and In A World ... is one of the rare comedies that gets more complex as it goes along. Bell’s script embraces eccentricity and complication – and finds room for real social commentary – while allowing all the characters to have recognizable human qualities, rather than just be stick figures animated by talented actors. And giving stand-up comic Demetri Martin his first leading role as a lovelorn sound engineer was a stroke of genius; his low-key presence is perfectly suited to Bell’s more frantic energy. This is a movie of odd, unexpected delights. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity
Jobs (Joshua Michael Stern) is like The
ocial Network without social commentary, S character development or much fun. Before building the first Apples in his dad’s garage, the titular titan of industry (Ashton Kutcher) is just a smug hippy prick. Initial thrilling success is followed by the humbling: our hero is effectively pushed out of his own
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David Oyelowo fights for civil rights in Lee Daniels’ The Butler. company but eventually restored to his rightful capitalist glory. In this a charmless bullet-point biopic, the dialogue is mostly leaden exposition, the cutting and camera movement feel superfluous, and Kutcher’s emoting as he punches out lines like “We. Don’t. Stop. Innovating!” fails to amuse. 127 min. NN (Jose Teodoro) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queens way, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow) ditches most of the real-world superhero ingenuity of the original to cram in more comic book parody and shock comedy. Writer/director Wadlow follows the “darker is better” sequel model while sneaking in moments of teenage poignancy amidst the cynicism. Once again supporting characters like Chloë Grace Moretz’s pint-sized assassin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s pubescent supervillain register more than the title character, stealing scenes and then running off with the whole movie. The film’s obscene without being subversive and self-conscious with little commentary. It’s kind of a mess, but at least an entertaining one. 103 min. NN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carl ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rain bow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silver City Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Silver City Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Lee Daniels)
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makes the life of White House butler Eugene Allen – Cecil Gaines in the film – into a lesson in black history. While Gaines (Forest Whitaker) is having theoretically world-changing conversations with presidents, we’re distracted by the A-list cast – Robin Williams as Eisenhower, John Cusack as Nixon and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan. The storyline in which Gaines clashes with his son (David Oyelowo) over political values is one of the script’s many total fictions. But without them, we couldn’t watch Gaines pouring drinks for powerful white people while cops beat up his Freedom Rider son. The politics are confusing. Is it the butler who’s changing history or those kids trying to integrate the Woolworth’s counters in Tennessee? That said, this is a rousing drama with terrific performances, especially from Oprah Winfrey as Gaines’s neglected wife, Oyelowo and the sensational Whitaker. But the director of Precious and The Paperboy is decidedly domesticated here, aiming to teach and please. 132 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rain bow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Silver City Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
Man of Steel (Zack Snyder) starts as a
clever reworking of Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman, right down to the first sight of our hero in his super-suit about an hour into the picture. Then the bad guys show up, and the whole thing collapses into ugly, violent spectacle. Certain further actions demonstrate a shocking disregard for 75 years of the character’s history – though they’re entirely in line with the might-
makes-right ethic that seethes beneath much of director Snyder’s work. 143 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre
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(Dan Scanlon) throws a conceptual curve ball, dropping John Goodman’s hulking furball Sulley and Billy Crystal’s one-eyed imp Mike Wazowski – introduced as working stiffs in 2001’s Monsters, Inc. – into a snobs-vs-slobs college comedy. If DisneyPixar is hell-bent on squeezing further adventures out of existing stories, this is how to do it. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Interchange 30, Queens way, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (Harald Zwart) is an attempt to
launch a new Twilight franchise on the back of Cassandra Clare’s young-adult saga. Unassuming teenager Clary (Lily Collins) discovers she’s part of a secret world of sorcerers, vampires and werewolves all searching for a lost chalice that will bestow ultimate power on anyone who drinks from it, or something. Mostly, Clary’s caught between a hunky warrior (Jamie Campbell Bower, like Robert Pattinson without the self-awareness) and her nerdy pal (Robert Sheehan, doing his best Jay Baruchel). Spells are cast and swords are crossed, but it’s all very mechanical and noisy; somewhere around the fifth self-important speech, I realized no one was actually saying anything of import. Collins does a nice job of grounding the story in Clary’s immediate concerns, but by the epic climax she’s just shouting plot points like everybody else. 130 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carl
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Now You See Me (Louis Leterrier) counts
on its pace being so swift, its magicianspulling-heists plot so convoluted and its cast – including Jesse Eisenberg and Isla Fisher – so adorable that no one will much care about how dopey and disposable the whole affair really is. Journeyman director Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash Of The Titans) assembles the big action set pieces with crisp professionalism, but once you realize every chase is going to end with a brilliant escape or a spectacular fake-out, it all gets kinda samey. 115 min. NN (NW) Regent Theatre
One Direction: This Is Us (Morgan Spur-
lock) 90 min. See review, page 58. NN (Julia LeConte) Opens Aug 30 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding
Refn) reunites Winding Refn with his Drive star, Ryan Gosling, for an empty revenge thriller. It’s too well made to be dismissed out of hand. Gosling is giving a real performance, and the director crafts every shot with a rich, simmering beauty – but dear god is it slow, and dear god is it pointless. Some subtitles. 90 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
Our Nixon (Penny Lane) 84 min. See
review, page 58. NN (SGC) Opens Aug 30 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
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ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Jem Cohen) is a conversation piece that explores the simpatico connection between a curious Canadian (Mary Margaret O’Hara) and a slightly older guard (Bobby Sommer) at Vienna’s wonderful Kunsthistorisches Art Museum, whom she asks for directions. They wander around the museum, and occasionally outside of it, talking about the way they see art while surrounded by its endless richness and glory. And delicately, gradually, Cohen reveals the movie’s thesis, which is that art can be found in just about anything. But aside from including a docent’s lecture on the complexity of Brueghel, Cohen doesn’t push it. Instead, Museum Hours just lets you take its ideas and do what you want with them, as O’Hara and Sommer connect so naturally and easily that they barely seem to be acting at all. They look at art. We look at them. Art is where you see it. 107 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
National Theatre Live: The Audience Encore is a high-def broadcast of Peter
Morgan’s play chronicling Queen Elizabeth II’s (Helen Mirren) private meetings with Britain’s prime ministers over six decades. 180 min. Aug 30-Sep 3 at Yonge & Dundas 24; Sep 1, 12:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway
(Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas) tells the story of a woman suffering from an unspecified affliction who decides to spend a winter alone at her Oxbow Lake cottage. Except she’s not quite alone. She spots a figure wandering the wilderness that may not be quite human. It’s flesh looks dark and oily. It walks as though on cloven hooves, or like it’s suffering from lower back pain. Is it a monster, an emaciated, snowbound swamp thing? Or the woman’s double? Incorporating elements of science fiction and body horror, Lewis and Thomas’ second feature balances its seductive and abundant mysteries with a potent sense of place and character. Toronto author and actor Claudia Dey grounds this deeply enigmatic story with a central performance of emotional precision. 79 min. NNNN (Jose Teodoro) TIFF Bell Lightbox
Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro)
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plays as though it’s been pulled from a manga del Toro read when he was a child and has been trying to turn into a movie ever since. It’s an original work with the spirit of every Godzilla movie you’ve ever seen, and every giant robot fight you’ve ever imagined. And it’s a hell of a lot of fun. Some subtitles. 131 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24
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thriller set in the world of high-tech, but in no way is it actually a high-tech espionage thriller. It’s really a teen-targeted aspirational drama about a poor Brooklyn kid (Hunger Games co-star Liam Hemsworth) recruited by a mobile phone magnate (Gary Oldman) to get close to a techno legend (Harrison Ford) and steal his gamechanging new device. Luketic slaps it all together with a hack’s apathy, doing absolutely nothing with a talented supporting cast that includes Richard Dreyfuss and Lost’s Josh Holloway. The one thing you won’t see coming is Ford, who, after a decade of sleepwalking through roles, inexplicably chose this terrible movie to give an actual performance. Not that his 20 minutes of screen time justifies watching it. 106 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Yonge & Dundas 24 continued on page 64 œ
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Turbo 3D (David Soren) is, quite simply, A People Uncounted (Aaron Yeger)
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John Malkovich and Helen Mirren return as spies who can’t stay retired when a global calamity asserts itself. Like the whimsical action scenes, the entire movie is careless about logic and even suspense, coasting instead on the giddy pleasures of watching its aging stars. 116 min. NNN (RS) Scotiabank Theatre
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal) is a cheaper, looser and much sillier sequel to 2010’s The Lightning Thief. Our demigod hero (Logan Lerman) and his friends set off to find the Golden Fleece and restore the barrier that protects their wilderness sanctuary. Mostly, though, it’s a series of modestly scaled adventures in which Percy and friends old (Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson) and new (Leven Rambin, Antiviral’s Douglas Smith) encounter various Greek mythological characters as they sail into the Bermuda Triangle. This time around there’s a playfulness that makes up for the uninspired concept, both in the one-liners and the casting: Stanley Tucci is a genius choice for Dionysus, Anthony Head replaces Pierce Brosnan as the centaur Chiron, and Nathan Fillion’s Shatneriffic cameo as Hermes is worth the price of a ticket on its own. 100 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
Smurfs 2 (Raja Gosnell) taps into the ori-
is a comprehensive and emotionally charged doc that sheds light on Roma history and the horrific abuses suffered by an often-ignored population during the Holocaust. Some subtitles. 99 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre
Planes (Klay Hall) is a shameless Cars ripoff about a modest crop-dusting plane named Dusty Crophopper (voiced by comic Dane Cook) who dreams of being a competitive flyer even though he’s scared of heights. The film is so badly engineered that we know very little about Dusty or his trusty crew of aeronautical sidekicks before he’s soaring through the air in an international competition, battling flying machines from India, the UK and Mexico for the number-one spot and dispensing clichés about bullying, love and the power of friendship at each refuelling destination. Jeffrey M. Howard’s clunky script feels like a first draft; none of the jokes work. And Cook, a terrible comic, proves an even less distinguished voice actor, communicating as little personality as his character’s bland design. Carlos Alazraqui and Julia LouisDreyfus provide the only fun as a Mexican jet and the object of his affection, a sleek French-Canadian aircraft. Also amusing is Mark Mancina’s score, which includes a clever imitation of James Horner’s inspirational Apollo 13 theme. 92 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Prince Avalanche (David Gordon Green)
is supposed to be a return to indie form for the writer/director of George Washington and All The Real Girls after studio jobs like Pineapple Express, Your Highness and The Sitter, but the calculation is all too evident and he fails to make much of an effort. Relocating the Icelandic drama Either Way to 1988 Texas, he casts Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as road workers squabbling their way through a summer of street painting. The pair are good enough to hold the screen as their characters have endless existential arguments and poke their way along the road, but Green never finds a way to make those conversations interesting; it’s just an empty cycle of resentment and posturing, with the balance shifting back and forth until someone calls the other a name or throws a punch. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Yonge & Dundas 24
Red 2 (Dean Parisot) sticks to the same
f ormula that made the 2010 original a foolishly entertaining sleeper hit. Bruce Willis,
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gin story of Smurfette, the creation of evil wizard Gargamel, who was made honest by Papa Smurf and is now being held captive and plied to return to the dark side. Smurfette is the most complicated among her wholesome (read dull) and bite-sized species. That just means she has two dimensions instead of one, not enough to elevate all the 3D mediocrity in this strained, witless sequel. 105 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
insane – a CG-animated family adventure about a plucky garden snail (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) who gets to realize his dream of racing in the Indianapolis 500. None of this should work, but by the time Samuel L. Jackson repurposes one of his greatest Pulp Fiction moments as a snail’s pep talk for our tired little hero … well, damned if it doesn’t. 96 min. NNN (NW) Colossus
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(Morgan Neville) tracks the careers of Darlene Love of Blossoms fame, Merry Clayton, famous for her vocals on the Rolling Stones’s Gimme Shelter, Claudia Lennear, another Stones collaborator, and others to
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(J.J. Abrams) continues the sly reworking of the Trek timeline Abrams began in his 2009 reboot. He puts a new spin on familiar characters and situations to come up with something that manages to surprise and entertain on an epic IMAX 3D scale. More, please, soon. 132 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre
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(Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg) finds Rogen dragging visiting pal Jay Baruchel to a party at James Franco’s place just as the apocalypse hits. Rogen and long-time collaborator Goldberg have written and directed
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Unfinished Song (Paul Andrew Williams) is a shameless bid for tears, but it succeeds because of the extraordinary work of its cast. Terence Stamp is a revelation, griefstricken, angry and lost, as a grumpy Brit trying to please his terminally ill wife (Vanessa Redgrave) by joining her ragtag seniors’ choir. Beautiful. 93 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant The Venice Syndrome (Andreas Pichler)
shows that moonlit gondola rides and quaint shops have been replaced by multinational stores and enormous cruise ships that clog the port and unleash hordes of tourists. Focusing on a dozen long-time inhabitants, Pichler shows why the city’s population is dwindling, and while the film’s a touch repetitive, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for the natives losing their evocative city to uncontrolled capitalism. Subtitled. 82 min. NNN (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
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The Spectacular ñ Now
(James Ponsoldt) traces the tender romance between Georgia teens Sutter (Miles Teller) and Aimee (Shailene Woodley), who meet cute when she finds him on a lawn after a drunken night and helps him locate his missing car. They start dating – and he starts her drinking – and together they edge tentatively toward what lies beyond the end of high school, which is inevitably complicated by matters of family, grades and selfimage. And the booze doesn’t help any of that. Teller and Woodley are terrific at portraying unexpected moments of growth, and Teller particularly shines at revealing flashes of Sutter’s emotional mechanisms and then snatching them back. The Spectacular Now would be a very different movie without him. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity
after his almost-charming work as a murderous dullard in Pain & Gain. You can’t help but enjoy the ride. Some subtitles. 109 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga
probe who’s got the power within the music industry. Spectacular voices, powerful stories in a must-see doc. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
ñ2 Guns
(Baltasar Kormákur) pairs Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as Texas gunmen who accidentally steal $43.125 million dollars of the wrong people’s money and must shoot a whole lot of bad guys to get themselves out of trouble. Kormákur, who directed Wahlberg’s similarly sturdy vehicle Contraband, isn’t out to make a meathead movie: he doesn’t spin the camera around the actors unless it’s spatially necessary, and he allows scenes to unfold at a pace that lets us get a feel for the people involved. And he’s great with actors, encouraging Washington to rediscover the mojo he misplaced years ago and letting Wahlberg goof around in the Eddie Murphy/Chris Tucker role of the cocky motormouth. It’s a surprisingly good fit for him, especially
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(Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) is a richly textured coming-of-age picture about 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James), who’s dragged to a cottage for the summer by his distracted mother (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend (Steve Carell), who’s kind of a dick. When Duncan ditches them to hang out at a nearby water park, he’s befriended by the manager (Sam Rockwell), a bit of an overgrown kid himself. Faxon and Rash, who won an Oscar for co-writing The Descendants, let us understand the adults’ interactions in a way that Duncan doesn’t: Carell and Rockwell are particularly good at revealing the ways in which their characters haven’t fully grown up, and Allison Janney outdoes them both as an unapologetically boozy neighbour. Don’t wait for the DVD. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga
We’re the Millers (Rawson Marshall
Thurber) takes a reasonably interesting idea – a low-level drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis) must pretend to be a suburban dad to drive a Winnebago filled with pot into the U.S. from Mexico, recruiting a family comprised of a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and the weird kid next door (Will Poulter) – and does as little as possible with it. It’s a real disappointment given the cast and presence of director Thurber, whose Dodgeball was a great example of talented actors allowed to run with a goofy concept. Here there’s just a lot of stiff, repetitive humour in which prickly jerks bristle at pretending to be normal while unconsciously bonding. There are flashes of a weirder, funnier movie in Ken Marino’s turn as a chipper strip club boss
and Ed Helms’s as an enthusiastically amoral drug lord, but you just can’t shake the feeling that everyone else is strictly here for the money. 110 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñThe Wolverine
(James Mangold) offers a riposte to the hysteria over exploitative 9/11 imagery in summer blockbusters, opening on nothing less than Fat Man dropping on Nagaski, August 9, 1945. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is on the scene at the time of the bombing, like a superhero Forrest Gump. Decades later, our lone wolf hero is rousted out of his solitary hideout by a soldier he rescued that day, and ends up stripped of his powers and ping-ponging through an overwrought Japanese conspiracy involving ninjas, the Yakuza and an enormous adamantium samurai. Though the plot is bogged down by dizzying double crosses, the action is uniformly superb. A breathless melee atop the roof of a speeding bullet train and the late-in-the-game storming of a mountain village are memorably gripping. 126 min. NNNN (JS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale
World War Z 3D (Marc Forster) takes Max Brooks’s chilling, weirdly credible novel about a global zombie plague and dumps everything but the title and the concept, boiling it down to a two-hour action movie where Brad Pitt runs away from zombies over and over again. Some subtitles. 116 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Scotiabank Theatre
ñThe World’s End
(Edgar Wright) completes Wright and co-writer/star Simon Pegg’s unofficial trilogy begun with Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz by following five old friends (Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) who reunite at 40 to recreate the epic pub crawl they began – but never finished – as teenagers. But just as the old gang isn’t what it used to be, neither is their sleepy village of Newton Haven, and the nature of the threat raises the stakes well beyond the personal. Pegg is terrific as the dissolute, barely functional alcoholic determined to recapture his former glory at any cost, and his co-stars (particularly Frost and Marsan) do a fine job of hinting at decades-old wounds just waiting to reopen. Funny and moving, it’s a fitting bookend to Shaun, though this time the ending doesn’t quite land as well as it could. 109 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñYou’re Next
(Adam Wingard) is the product of talented horror-fansturned-filmmakers who understand exactly how the genre works and what their audience craves. Through a darkly comedic tale of a bickering family reunion interrupted by home-invading masked murderers, Wingard and co. deftly combine tones, toy with conventions, drizzle out gore and deliver shriek-inducing jump scares. 94 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 3
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FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY (14A) Fri 9:00 Sat 9:15 Sun 6:30 Mon 8:45 HOW TO MAKE A BOOK WITH STEIDL Sat, Mon 4:00 Sun 1:30 Wed 8:45 OUR NIXON (PG) Fri 4:00, 6:30 Sat, Mon 1:30, 6:30 Sun 4:00, 9:00 Tue 9:15 Wed 6:30 20 FEET FROM STARDOM (PG) Tue 7:00 THE VENICE SYNDROME Thu 3:30
CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A) Thu 1:55, 6:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 6:40 BLACK ROCK (14A) Fri-Wed 3:50, 9:20 CALL ME KUCHU (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:20 ÉVOCATEUR: THE MORTON DOWNEY JR. MOVIE Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:05 GETAWAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30 I GIVE IT A YEAR (14A) Thu 1:50 4:20 7:05 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:10 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 PARANOIA (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:00 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG) Thu 1:35, 7:15 THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 6:40, 9:10 FriWed 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 WILDSOUND FEEDBACK FESTIVAL Thu 7:00 THE WOLVERINE (PG) Thu 3:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:50 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:45, 9:10 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:15
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KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Fri-Sun 11:05 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Fri-Sun 9:05 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Fri-Sun 9:00 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Fri-Sun 11:00
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 3:00, 5:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:10 ELYSIUM (14A) 1:05, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 Sat, Tue 11:50 late JOBS (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:45 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 3:45, 9:30 Sat, Tue 3:45, 9:30, 11:45 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 Sat, Tue 11:30 late ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Thu 7:00, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:30 FriWed 1:00, 7:05 THE WORLD’S END (14A) 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:45 late
KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 12:55, 1:25, 2:40, 3:30, 4:20, 5:20, 6:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:50, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:25, 2:45, 4:05, 5:15, 6:35, 7:50, 9:20, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 4:50, 6:20, 7:40, 9:05, 10:30 MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:35 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 RED 2 (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 10:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:25, 6:15, 9:00 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:25, 9:00 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 2 GUNS (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 8:20, 10:55 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 THE WOLVERINE 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:55, 7:50, 11:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 WORLD WAR Z 3D (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:10, 3:15, 4:40, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:30, 10:35 Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:30, 3:35, 5:05, 6:00, 7:40, 8:20, 10:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:35, 3:25, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:50, 10:00
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433
A BAND CALLED DEATH (PG) Thu 12:15, 5:15 BLACKFISH (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:40, 3:45, 8:30 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 8:45 THE DEEP (14A) Thu 3:10, 4:50 DRUG WAR (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sun 3:15, 9:10 A HIJACKING (14A) Thu-Sun 2:15, 6:40 JAWS (14A) Fri 6:30 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 2:30, 7:00, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 6:15 ONLY GOD FORGIVES (18A) Thu 12:05, 4:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:05, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 THE OXBOW CURE (PG) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sun 12:45, 9:00
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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE ATTACK (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:25, 9:00 Fri-Mon 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:50, 2:25, 4:20, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 1:15, 2:25, 3:55, 4:50, 6:35, 7:25, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Mon 12:00, 1:15, 2:25, 3:55, 4:50, 6:35, 7:25, 9:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:00, 2:20, 4:20, 4:45, 6:50, 7:25, 9:15, 9:55 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Mon 12:10, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 FriMon 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 IN A WORLD... (14A) Thu-Mon 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:35, 9:00 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 THE SPECTACULAR NOW (14A) Thu-Fri 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Mon 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Tue-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05
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BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:15, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Tue 4:25, 6:45, 9:10 Wed 1:55, 4:25, 6:45, 9:10 JOBS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu, Sat-Mon 12:15, 3:25, 6:15, 9:10 Fri 3:25, 6:15, 9:10 Tue 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:45
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:55, 10:25 Tue-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:55, 10:25 CHENNAI EXPRESS (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 FriMon 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10
CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Thu-Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 DELICATESSEN Fri 1:30, 4:00 Sat 6:45 Sun, Tue 4:00 Mon 1:30 Wed 7:00 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 12:00 Fri 12:05 Sat-Mon 11:45 Tue-Wed 2:20 DESPICABLE ME 2 3D (G) Thu-Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:45 THE HEAT (14A) Thu 1:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:15, 10:00 HEAVENLY CREATURES (14A) Fri 6:45 Sat 9:15 Sun 6:30 Mon-Tue 9:50 Wed 1:30, 9:30 JOBS (14A) Thu-Mon 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Tue-Wed 7:15, 10:10 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 MADRAS CAFE (14A) Thu-Mon 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 TueWed 1:50, 5:45, 9:05 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) Fri 12:50 Sat-Mon 11:50 TueWed 1:30 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES – THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) ThuSun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 TueWed 6:30, 9:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE AUDIENCE ENCORE Sat 12:00 Sun 12:30 Mon 4:00 Tue 6:30 ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAI DOBAARA (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:10 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:25 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 6:45, 7:45, 9:30, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 6:45, 7:45, 9:30, 10:05 PACIFIC RIM (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:30 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00 TueWed 1:35, 4:30 PACIFIC RIM 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 7:00, 10:05 Mon 7:05, 10:05 Tue-Wed 7:25, 10:20 PARANOIA (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 PLANES (G) Fri-Mon 12:30, 2:45, 5:00 Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:00 PLANES 3D (G) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:35, 9:55 PRINCE AVALANCHE (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 THE QUEEN (G) Thu 12:45, 9:30 RUDY Sat 11:00 SATYAGRAHA Fri-Mon 12:00, 3:05, 6:15, 9:25 Tue-Wed 2:55, 6:15, 9:40 THE SMURFS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00 Fri-Sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Mon 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:20 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu, Tue 1:30 Fri 12:10 Sat-Mon 11:40 Wed 1:35 THE TERROR LIVE Thu-Mon 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 Tue 8:05, 10:25 Wed 10:25 THIS IS THE END (18A) Fri 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 11:35, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Mon 11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 7:20, 9:55 TINY TIMES 2 Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 TOMMY Fri 9:50 Sat 3:45 Sun 9:40 Mon 7:30 Tue 1:30 Wed 4:30 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:10, 2:40, 3:55, 5:20, 6:35, 8:00, 9:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:10, 2:40, 3:55, 5:20, 6:35, 8:00, 9:15, 10:40 Mon 12:00, 1:45, 2:30, 4:25, 5:10, 7:05, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:45, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:05, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30
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BAKIT HINDI KA CRUSH NG CRUSH MO? (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:55 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Fri 3:30, 5:40, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:30 Mon 1:05, 3:20, 5:40 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:40 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 4:50 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Mon 1:35, 4:00, 6:45 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45 FRUITVALE STATION (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:15 Fri 3:55, 5:55, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:25, 3:55, 5:55, 8:40 Mon 1:25, 3:55, 5:55 Tue-Wed 3:55, 5:55 THE HUNT (18A) Thu 4:10, 6:35 JOBS (14A) Fri 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10
Mon 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:25 PARANOIA (PG) Thu 7:20 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:10 Fri-Sun 6:35, 8:50 Mon-Wed 6:35 PLANES (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30 PRINCE AVALANCHE (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 Mon 1:55, 4:20, 7:05 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:05 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 4:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:50 Sat-Mon 1:15, 3:50 2 GUNS (14A) Thu 7:00 THE WOLVERINE (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45 Fri 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:15 TueWed 3:30, 6:15 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Fri 4:10, 6:55, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:10, 6:55, 9:05 Mon 1:45, 4:10, 6:55 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:55
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SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 1:25, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 GETAWAY (PG) Fri-Tue 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:40, 9:55 JOBS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:25, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri-Tue 1:00 Wed 1:45 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Tue 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Wed 4:05, 7:15, 9:30 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40 Fri-Tue 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:20, 7:25, 10:05 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 8:10, 10:30
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West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442
ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:20 4:10 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 JOBS (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:45 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:00 3:45 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50 PLANES (G) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 7:10 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) 9:35 Thu 1:10, 4:00 mat, 7:10
KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
THE ACT OF KILLING (14A) Fri-Wed 5:15 A BAND CALLED DEATH (PG) Fri-Wed 9:00 BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 5:10 BLACKFISH (PG) Thu 2:30, 7:35 Fri-Wed 7:15 THE GREAT GATSBY (PG) Thu 2:45, 8:55 Fri-Wed 2:50, 7:10 GROWN UPS 2 (PG) Thu 12:50 Fri-Wed 1:00 HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 1:30 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 5:35 Fri-Wed 11:30
A PEOPLE UNCOUNTED (PG) Thu 9:05 Fri-Wed 3:30 THIS IS THE END (18A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 9:30 THE VENICE SYNDROME Thu 4:00 Fri-Wed 11:30
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 THE CONJURING (14A) Thu 9:25 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:00 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:45 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 GETAWAY (PG) Fri, Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Sat 1:20, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Fri 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 JOBS (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:15 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 11:55, 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Tue 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) Fri, Sun 1:10 Sat 11:00, 1:10 Mon-Tue 1:00 Wed 12:55 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 MonTue 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE AUDIENCE ENCORE Sun 12:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Thu 7:45, 10:10 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:00, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG) Thu 1:35 Fri 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:05 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 7:10, 9:50 Tue 7:05, 9:45 PLANES (G) Thu 1:30 Fri, Sun 2:00 Sat 11:40, 2:00 MonWed 1:40 PLANES 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:55 Fri-Sun 4:30, 6:50 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30 RUDY Sat 11:00 THE SMURFS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:15 Sat 1:40, 4:15 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 2:00 Fri, Sun 1:40 Sat 11:10 MonWed 1:30 2 GUNS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 THE WOLVERINE 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55 Fri-Sun 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Fri, Sun 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 MonWed 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sun 9:20 Mon-Wed 9:00
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu-Tue 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Thu 7:00, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25 PLANES (G) 1:25, 4:15 Thu 7:00, 9:20 THE SMURFS 2 (G) 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) 7:10, 9:45 Thu 1:20 mat, 4:10
East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-1327
ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 7:20, 9:50 continued on page 66 œ
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
THE CONJURING (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 8:25, 11:00 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 ELYSIUM: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 GETAWAY (PG) Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 MonWed 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20
NOW AUGUST 29 - SEPTEMBER 4 2013
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Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 9:20 Mon 9:10 Tue-Wed 9:00 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:40 Mon 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 TueWed 6:40, 9:40 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:10, 10:00 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Mon 1:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 Mon 3:15, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45 Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:20 Planes (G) Thu 1:15, 3:40 Fri-Mon 1:20, 3:30, 6:50 Tue-Wed 6:30 Planes 3D (G) Thu 6:30 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 9:00 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 Tue-Wed 6:50, 9:30
North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087
Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon 2:05, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 TueWed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 The Grandmaster (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 12:40, 3:20, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:35, 7:10, 10:00 Jobs (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 National Theatre Live: The Audience Encore Sun 12:30 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Sun 12:40 Mon 1:30 Tue-Wed 3:50 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Fri-Sat 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Sun 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Mon 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Tue-Wed 6:35, 9:25 The Terror Live Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 TueWed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:55 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 You’re Next (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10
SilverCity Fairview (CE)
Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 1:30, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Getaway (PG) Fri 1:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Jobs (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:15 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 7:15, 9:45 Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:20 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu, Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu, Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 1:55, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri 2:50 Sat 12:10 Sun-Wed 1:20 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sun-Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Fri 2:10, 7:20 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 7:20 Sun-Wed 1:40, 6:50 Rudy Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 1:25, 4:15 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri 2:00, 4:35 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:35 SunWed 1:35, 4:15 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 You’re Next (14A) Thu 2:05, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 4:50, 9:55 Sun-Wed 4:20, 9:35
SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052
Elysium (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Getaway (PG) Fri 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 3:10,
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Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226
Elysium (14A) Thu, Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Tue 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 5:30, 8:10 Getaway (PG) Fri, Sun 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 12:45, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Wed 5:35, 7:50 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:15 Mon 10:10 Wed 8:25 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Mon 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Tue 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Wed 5:00, 8:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Tue 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 5:10, 8:05 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 2:50 Sat 11:15, 12:30 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri, SunTue 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 5:20, 7:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu, Sat 1:50 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:30 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Tue 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Wed 5:05, 7:35 Planes 3D (G) Thu 2:10 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:20 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 Tue 4:20 Wed 5:15 Rudy Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:20 Fri, Sun, Tue 5:20, 7:45 Sat 2:40, 5:20, 7:45 Mon 5:10, 7:40 Wed 5:55 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:40 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:40 Sat 12:10 2 Guns (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:35 Fri, Sun 3:00, 7:50 Sat 12:20, 3:00, 7:50 Mon 2:30, 7:40 Tue 7:50 Wed 8:30 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 8:00, 10:35 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Mon 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Tue 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Wed 5:45, 8:20 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:50, 9:45 Mon 6:50, 9:40 Wed 7:30 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 Tue 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 5:40, 8:15 You’re Next (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 5:30, 10:30 Mon 5:20, 10:15 Wed 6:05
Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217
Bakit Hindi Ka Crush Ng Crush Mo? (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Getaway (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 The Grandmaster (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 FriSun, Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 National Theatre Live: The Audience Encore Sun 12:30 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45 Mon, Wed 2:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 Paranoia (PG) Thu 9:30 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 2:20 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Planes (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 5:00 Mon, Wed 5:25 Planes 3D (G) 2:15 Sat 11:45 mat Rudy Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:05, 4:05 2 Guns (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00 Fri, Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:35 Sun 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30
august 29 - SEPTEMBER 4 2013 NOW
You’re Next (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 8:10, 10:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:20, 7:40, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:45, 7:55, 10:35
Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494
World War Z 3D (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:05 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:55
Courtney Park 16 (CE)
Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 TueWed 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Mon 1:30, 5:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 5:00, 9:00 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 The Conjuring (14A) Thu 9:45 Despicable Me 2 (G) Fri, Sun 1:40 Sat 11:15, 1:40 Mon 1:20 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) Thu 1:45, 4:20 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:45 Mon 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Getaway (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Mon 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Jobs (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Mon 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Madras Cafe (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Monsters University (G) Fri-Sun 1:15 Mon 2:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Mon 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 11:25, 12:40 Mon 2:40 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Mon 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 2:05, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Planes (G) Thu 2:20 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:25 Sat 11:35, 2:00, 4:25 Mon 2:10, 4:30 Tue-Wed 4:35 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:10 Fri-Sun 6:50 Mon 6:55 TueWed 7:00 Rudy Sat 11:00 Satyagraha Fri-Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Mon 1:15, 5:00, 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 8:30 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Fri-Sun 4:20, 7:00 Mon 4:15, 6:55 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:35, 4:10 Fri, Sun 1:45 Sat 11:05, 1:45 Mon 1:40 2 Guns (14A) Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 FriMon 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 9:30 Mon 9:35 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Mon 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 You’re Next (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:40
Chennai Express (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Fri 3:35, 6:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:45, 10:10 Mon 12:25, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Fri 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Mon 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 The Conjuring (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 10:20 MonWed 10:05 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Getaway (PG) Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:45 MonWed 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Jatt Boys Putt Jattan De Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 FriSun 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Jobs (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:40 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Monsters University (G) Fri, Tue-Wed 2:35 Sat-Sun 11:55 Mon 12:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri 3:25, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 9:30 Mon 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 9:15 Tue 3:25, 6:20, 9:15 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Wed 1:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Paranoia (PG) Thu 9:15 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Planes (G) Thu 2:50, 5:05 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:55 Sat-Mon 12:10, 2:20, 4:55 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:35 Fri, Tue-Wed 5:05, 7:40 Sat-Mon 2:45, 5:05, 7:40 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:45 Sat-Sun 11:55 Mon 12:20 2 Guns (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Mon 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Tue-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 You’re Next (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 Mon 2:35, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:50
Woodside Cinemas (I)
SilverCity Mississauga (CE)
1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456
Ainthu Ainthu Ainthu Fri, Tue-Wed 7:30, 10:30 SatMon 4:00, 10:30 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:30 Sat-Mon 4:30, 7:30 Satyagraha Fri, Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:15, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Thalaivaa (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:00, 7:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, TueWed 1:03, 7:00 Sat-Mon 1:00, 7:00, 10:30 Thanga Meengal Fri, Tue-Wed 4:00 Sat-Mon 1:00
GTA Regions Mississauga
Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456
Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Tue 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Elysium (14A) Thu-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 The Grandmaster (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:40, 6:15, 9:00 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:35, 2:30, 4:00, 4:50, 6:40, 7:45, 9:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Mon 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:30 Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:25 Tue 3:00, 6:00 Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Mon 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Pacific Rim 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Mon 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Tue 3:35, 6:15, 9:15 Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Paranoia (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Rudy Sat 12:45 2 Guns (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun 2:40, 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00
110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323
Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373
Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Mon 12:25, 3:30, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Monsters University (G) Thu 1:05 Fri-Mon 1:00 Monsters University 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 FriMon 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:00 FriMon 11:55 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Mon 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Planes (G) Thu 2:00 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Mon 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 2 Guns (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 The Way, Way Back (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 FriMon 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 FriMon 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 10:00
North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001
Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Mon 1:55, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 The Conjuring (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:30 Despicable Me 2 (G) Thu 12:40 Fri-Mon 1:35 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:05 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40 Mon 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Getaway (PG) Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 TueWed 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 The Grandmaster (PG) Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Jobs (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:45 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:20, 9:10
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Madras Cafe (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:35 Mon 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 TueWed 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Tue-Wed 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Sat 11:15, 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Rudy Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Mon 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:25 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:05 Sat 11:25, 1:05 Turbo (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 1:25, 4:10 Sat 11:05, 1:25, 4:10 TueWed 4:10 2 Guns (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Sat 12:15, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Mon 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Mon 2:05, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 FriMon 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:15 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:40 FriMon 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 You’re Next (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:00
Interchange 30 (AMC)
30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 6:15 Fri-Sat 6:00, 9:20 SunMon 6:00 Tue-Wed 6:30 The Great Gatsby (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri-Sat 2:50, 6:00, 9:15 Sun-Mon 3:45, 7:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri-Sat 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Sun-Mon 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 The Heat (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:35, 7:10 Man of Steel (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 6:30 Fri-Sat 3:10, 6:30, 9:35 Sun-Mon 3:10, 6:30 Monsters University (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:15 FriSat 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Sun-Mon 2:05, 4:40, 7:15 Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 6:00 Fri-Mon 2:30 Pacific Rim (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:25 Fri-Sat 3:30, 6:40, 9:25 Sun-Mon 4:00, 7:25 Planes (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri-Sat 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Sun-Mon 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Tue-Wed 4:30 R.I.P.D. (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:35 Fri-Sat 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Sun-Mon 2:35, 5:00, 8:00 Shuddh Desi Romance Fri-Sat 2:20, 6:00, 9:20 Sun-Mon 2:30, 6:30 Tue-Wed 6:30 This Is the End (18A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:45 Fri-Sat 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Sun-Mon 2:15, 4:45, 7:45 The Way, Way Back (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun-Mon 2:30, 5:00, 7:30
Rainbow Promenade (I)
Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Blue Jasmine (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:05 3:55 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Thu 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20 Planes (G) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 7:05 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 12:50 3:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:40 2 Guns (14A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:35 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:20 4:15 6:55 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35
West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590
Elysium (14A) Thu-Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Wed 7:10, 9:55 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 3:55, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 7:25, 9:55 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 7:15, 10:10 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Sat-Mon 12:40 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Fri, Tue 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Sat-Mon 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 7:45, 10:05 Paranoia (PG) Thu 9:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Sat-Mon 12:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Tue 3:30, 6:55, 9:50 Wed 7:00, 9:50 Planes (G) Sat-Mon 12:50 Planes 3D (G) Thu-Tue 3:50, 6:50 Wed 7:20 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu-Tue 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 7:05, 9:40 The Smurfs 2 (G) Sat-Mon 1:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Tue 3:55, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Mon 1:00, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 7:15, 10:00 The Wolverine (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 SatMon 12:35, 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 7:00, 10:00 The World’s End (14A) Thu-Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Mon 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 7:30, 10:10 You’re Next (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:45
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Relive some summer movie memories with E.T. (clockwise from left), Back To The Future, Jaws and Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan.
Final blast of blockbuster power Endless Summer: The Birth Of The Blockbuster from tomorrow
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(Friday, August 30) to Sunday (September 1) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listings, this page. Rating: NNNNN
Yes, TIFF’s weekend blowout of 70s and 80s pop classics, Endless Summer: The Birth Of The Blockbuster, is basically just another manifestation of the nostalgic “Hey, remember the 80s?” impulse that’s driven their mainstream programming choices of late. That said, I can’t really complain too loudly about a series that offers one last Friday-night screening of Jaws before the leaves change – and follows it with the original theatrical cut of Alien, another perfect movie – or lines up Back To The Future and Raiders Of The Lost Ark for my inner child’s ideal Saturday matinee. (The adrenaline rush keeps going with The Goonies, Top Gun and Aliens.) How to find a listing
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Festivals Caribbean Tales Toronto Film Showcase
Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-5981410, caribbeantales-events.com
Wed 4-sep 14 – Caribbean-themed films from emerging filmmakers. $20, opening gala $45. Some free screenings.. Thu 29 – Red carpet Gala. 6:30 pm. No Bois Man No Fraid (2013) D: Christopher Laird, plus short films. 9 pm.
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Toronto International Fetish Film Festival Big Picture Cinema, 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com
thu 29-sun 1 – Non-judgmental, sex-positive look at art in the fetish world. $15, adv $12. Thu 29 – Short film program including Miss D (2012) D: Stefan Blomquist, Da Kink In My Lair (2011) D: Yulia Petrauskas, The Chauffeur (2012) D: Maud Ferrari, and others. 7:30 pm. Fri 30 – Bedroom (2008) D: Jordan Canning, Bad Girl (2011) D: Bob Gerics, and I, The Other (2011) D: Brodie Higgs. 7:30 pm. Behind The Whip (2011) D: Maria Coletsis, and Mistress Superior D: David J Philip. 9:30 pm. Sat 31 – Art Of Erotica: The Outsiders (2009) D: Hilton Ariel Ruiz, and music video Fetish. 5 pm. SM Judge (2009) D: Erik Lamens. 7 pm. American Fetish (2009) D: Michael Simmons. 9 pm. sun 1 – The Heritage Of Cain (2006) D: Sebastiano Montresor. 5 pm. Modern Love Is Automatic (2009) D: Zach Clark, and short film Safe. 7 pm.
Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com
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Sunday, it’s E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, the original Die Hard and John Carpenter’s The Thing, all exquisitely produced pop touchstones with long shelf lives. (No spoilers, but it’s nice to see Star Trek II getting some big-screen play now that it’s become a key point of reference in J.J. Abrams’s reboot.) The Thing, though? As much as I love Carpenter’s sci-fi masterwork, I do have to wonder how it ended up in a series with the word “blockbuster” in its title, given that it was one of the biggest bombs of the summer of 1982.
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Thu 29 – Turkish Women Filmmakers: The Play (2005) D: Pelin Esmer. 6:30 pm. TOGA!: Bridesmaids (2011) D Paul Feig. 9 pm. fri 30 – Blockbuster x 2: Jaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg. 6:30 pm. Alien (1979) D: Ridley Scott. 9:20 pm. sat 31 – Blockbuster x 5: Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. Noon. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) D: Steven Spielberg. 2:45 pm. The Goonies (1985) D: Richard Donner. 5:30 pm. Top Gun (1986) D: Tony Scott. 8 pm. Aliens (1986) D: James Cameron. 10:30 pm. sun 1 – Blockbuster x 4: E.T.: The ExtraTerrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg. Noon. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) D: Nicholas Meyer. 2:45 pm. Die Hard (1988) D: John McTiernan. 5:45 pm. The Thing (1982) D: John Carpenter. 8:45 pm. mon 2-wed 4 – No screenings.
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Pain & Gain (Paramount, 2013) D: Michael Bay, w/ Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: none Pain & Gain’s truecrime story puts the perpetrators’ stupidity and viciousness in the foreground, but director Michael Bay shoots it in the same hyperkinetic style he perfected in the Transformers movies, which keeps the tone light and visually treats the idiots as heroes. Fuelled by a powerful sense of entitlement, fitness trainer Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) decides to kidnap a businessman (Tony Shalhoub) and enlists two fellow bodybuilders to help: ex-con and born-again Christian Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson) and novice criminal Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie). Despite inept B-movie plans, they pull the job, get the loot and dive into the high life with strippers, blow and middle-class respectability. Wahlberg, Johnson and Mackie play
light his clever deductions. But Jonny Lee Miller (as Holmes) yells them (and almost all his dialogue) in a rapid-fire, grating monotone. This is consistent with a character reimagined as a recovering addict without social skills, but it gets annoying fast. Watson, Holmes’s companion, is here refigured as a paid femaleensurer of his continued sobriety. The two begin in a mutual distaste that by mid-season has softened to respect. Watson gets considerable character development, and Lucy Liu handles the role with a brisk thoughtfulness that makes her a match for Miller’s Holmes, and far more watchable. The gloomy browns of Holmes’s cavernous apartment and the shabby police station that features prominently in most episodes add to the overall oppressive feel. On the first extras doc, A Holmes Of Their Own, creator Robert Doherty provides an interesting account of how and why he reshaped the characters. Elsewhere, Miller and Liu make revealing remarks on their roles.
the self-deluded kidnappers straightfaced, which makes the movie funnier than most comedies, even the nasty bits. Johnson’s mix of violent aggression and sincere fundamentalist piety is particularly hilarious. Too bad there’s no Bay commentary. He’s done good ones on Transformers and The Island. EXTRAS English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.
Elementary (Paramount, 2012) Creator: Robert Doherty, w/ Jonny Lee Miller, Lucy Liu. Rating: NN; DVD package: NN Much of the fun of Elementary’s update of Victorian sleuth Sherlock Holmes to contemporary New York City is lost in episodes that feel visually and verbally cramped. Some of Holmes’s cases are brilliantly baffling, most notably the multi-episodemaster criminal story that ends the season, and all high-
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mount, 1950) D: Gordon Douglas, w/ James Cagney, Barbara Payton. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: none Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye isn’t the greatest James Cagney gangster flick (that would be Public Enemy, The Roaring Twenties or White Heat), but it’s a solid noir thriller propelled by one of Cagney’s alwaysstrong performances as a thoroughly bad man. Ralph Cotter (Cagney), breaks out of jail, killing a fellow con along the way, hooks up with the dead con’s grieving sister (Barbara Payton), puts together a little gang and robs a grocery store, but gets shaken down by a pair of crooked cops. He finds a corrupt lawyer (Luther Adler, in a performance equal to Cagney’s), turns the tables on the cops and gets set to take over the town. At the same time, he’s romancing a rich man’s daughter. Cotter is violent, unpredictable, smart, daring, ambitious and a selfcentred social chameleon. Everyone thinks he’s crazy. Today, we’d call him a sociopath. Either way, he’s a fine vehicle for Cagney’s dynamic physicality and nuanced expressiveness. In the absence of extras, check out some of Cagney’s other titles. He is one of the finest actors the screen has yet produced. EXTRAS B&w. English audio. No subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com
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Paying for assertiveness I’m a cute, mostly straight, 20-somet hing, single and (safely) sexually active
woman. This happens to me pretty often: I hook up with a guy, we start fooling around and we’re both really into it. I reach down, and he’s full sail. Things progress – clothes come off, etc. – and, as is generally the polite order of things, the lady comes first. (This isn’t the problem.) I’m not aggressive, but I’m not shy. I tell a partner what I like and how to do it. He’s always happy to oblige. The thing is, after I get off, a lot of times the guy is limp. (This is the problem.) They usually express frustration and indicate that they’re very much turned on but it’s just not working. Generally after a few times, they will stop having this problem and we will end up having lots of fun. So I don’t think I’m doing anything “wrong” to kill the boners. I think maybe I’m just intimidating. In fact, I’ve been told so. Why does this happen, and how can I reduce the awkwardness? Should I talk about it or just ignore it? And should I keep trying to make him hard?
Or will that just make his dick panic worse?
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So… you go to bed with a guy, he’s at full sail, and then you inform him that you, the lady of the hookup, will be coming first. You instruct him in the art of What I Like & How You Should Do It, and by the time he’s done – by the time he gets you off – that dick has sailed. Or his dick sails are empty. Or something. Why does this happen? I have three theories…. Theory One: Lots of straight guys make it into their mid-20s without ever having encountered a sexually assertive woman, FEM. A woman who advocates for herself in the sack, who knows what she likes and isn’t too shy to ask for/insist on it, can come as a shock to a sheltered/indulged/entitled boy’s dicksystems. And while some deeply insecure guys (guys you wouldn’t wanna waste your time and your twat on anyway) may find your assertiveness offputting (or sail-emptying or dick-limpening or whatever), it may be the case that even the more secure guys you go to bed with (guys you
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ing together for one. Several times a day, in passing, he reaches his hand inside my shirt and quickly grabs a boob, and then continues on his way. I could be cooking or studying or brushing my teeth, and he just digs in there out of the blue and doesn’t usually even acknowledge me before or after. In bed, he is
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coming out when I was 20, I’ve been in a series of failed relationships and single for the last 10 years. I’m convinced I never really learned how to flirt. I get all tripped up when I see a PYT I want to talk to. Add to the mix that I was diagnosed in ’91 as poz. I’m so afraid of rejection that I don’t even try any more. I’m good-looking, outdoorsy, adventurous and free-spirited. I’m not afraid of exploring caves or rappelling off cliffs, but I’m a total wimp when it comes to interacting with a potential mate. I know there are younger guys who are attracted to older guys like myself. I’d love some advice on how to increase my mojo regarding flirting and dating. Doing It Really Trepidatiously
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very considerate and giving, GGG and all that – no complaints. I’ve tried to bring it up two or three times, but he gets offended, so I drop it. Do I have a right to prefer an offhand kiss on the forehead or something more affectionate and less boob-grabby? Is this typical for LTRs? Am I a selfish prude? Groped Too Fucking Often Before we talk about your boobs and what you can do about your asshole boyfriend – pepper spray? – can we talk about my husband’s ass for a second? It’s a spectacular ass, and I love to grab it. But my husband doesn’t like to be grabbed in certain ways, in certain places or at certain times. So I don’t grab his ass in those ways, in those places or at those times – despite how much I like to grab his ass. Because that spectacular ass of his? It’s his ass, not my ass, and he gets to decide when, where and how it gets grabbed, touched, fingered, fucked, spanked, etc. And I respect his limits because I respect him. Because he’s my partner, not my possession. Those boobs of yours? They’re yours, GTFO, and you need to communicate to your boyfriend that there are times when you want him to grab your boobs and times when you don’t want him to grab your boobs. Don’t make the mistake of framing this conversation around his feelings. You are not “bringing it up” to see how to come to some sort of understanding or compromise. You’re bringing it up to set a limit. And once that limit is set, GTFO, don’t put up with the boobgrabbing. If he leans in to grab your boob, move away, slap his hand, blast him with pepper spray – whatever it takes, in other words, to communicate your displeasure in an unambiguous manner. If he gets offended, let him. If he stays offended, leave him.
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