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1. Perked off Councillor Gord Perks calls latest subway proposal a whole lot of counterproductive “chestthumping.”

2. Unanswered questions Enzo DiMatteo looks at five questions nobody’s asking about the Sammy Yatim shooting.

3. Eastbound and slightly up Ontario transportation minister goes rogue on Scarborough subway.

4. Crosstown traffic Speaking of which, this new subway plan could delay plans for the Eglinton LRT. 5. Just plane wrong City accused of bias in Porter expansion study.

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works probing the meaning of street art hang at the new Verso Gallery to Sep 28. Free.

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DeerHunter The perpetually shape-shifting indie rockers play the Phoenix. Doors 8 pm, all ages. $20. RT, SS, TF.

rockers with a knack for making great videos as well as songs headline the Danforth Music Hall. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $15.50-$19.50. RT, SS, TM. insidious: chapter 2 Sure, TIFF’s going on, but if you want some mindless scares that aren’t in the Midnight Madness program, go see this ­sequel to the haunted-family pic. Opening day.

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MARGARET ATWOOD Canuck icon talks about her new book, MaddAddam, at Indigo Manulife. 1 pm. Free. Indigo. ca/events. washed Out The Sub Pop oneman band brings his chillwavy new LP to the Opera House.

Doors 8 pm, $20. PDR, RT, SS, TW. ICE RIDE FOR THE ARCTIC Greenpeace hosts a mass cycling anti-climate-change happening. 1 pm. Free. Allan Gardens greenpeace.org/iceride.

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their new novels at a This Is Not A Reading Series event at the Gladstone. 8 pm. $5/free with book purchase. tinars.ca.

Scout Niblett Word is the British singer/songwriter’s ­recent shows have been jawdroppingly intense. See for yourself at the Silver Dollar.

Doors 8:30 pm. $11.50. RT, SS.

their intimate new album, the transgender pop-folk musician plays two shows in one night.

Gladstone. 7 and 10 pm. $12$15. EB. the best brothers Daniel MacIvor’s two-hander about very different siblings continues in previews at the Tarragon. 8 pm. To Oct 27. $21$53. 416-531-1827.

edy fest invades the city with performances by Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, the cast of Family Guy and others. To Sep 28 at various venues. $69-$299 (passes). jfl42.com.

fresh meat Robert Keller

hosts this showcase of new comedy talent, the precursor to the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. Second City.

8 pm. $12. 416-343-0011.

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Shadowy men on a shadowy planet Juno-winning

instrumental Canrockers play their third of four Thursday nights this month at the Dakota. 7 & 9:30 pm. $20. TF.

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CHRIS HEDGES An evening with the progressive writer and activist. 7:30 pm. $20. Bloor Street United Church. canadiandimension.com. pig Brendan Healy’s pro­ duction of UK writer Tim ­Luscombe’s controversial play about three gay couples continues at Buddies in Bad Times.

To Oct 6. 8 pm. Pwyc-$37. 416975-8555.

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photo­grapher kept to herself all her life close at Stephen Bulger. Free. 416-504-0575.

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1 of Tony Kushner’s epic plays the Young Centre. 7:30 pm. $5-$68. 416-866-8666.

Scarborough transit ­debate The community

thrashes out the transit options: subway or LRT? 2 pm.

Free. West Scarborough Community Centre. wsncc.org.

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hip-hop pioneer celebrates the 25th birthday of his iconic debut with Classified, k-os and Kardinal Offishall at Massey Hall. 8 pm. $30-$69. RTH. Take back the night March against violence against women. Community fair 4 pm; dinner 5 pm; rally 6 pm; march 8 to 9:30 pm. Free. Central Neighbourhood House. ­takebackthenighttoronto.com.

The Junction Music Festival

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Free. thewordonthestreet.ca.

TAKING IT BACK OCAP sponsors a march for housing rights and raised welfare rates. 3 pm.

Free. Allan Gardens. ocap.ca.

laris winner gets announced, and this year’s short-listers – including Zaki Ibrahim, Metric and METZ – perform. 8 pm.

The Carlu. $50. TF.

Montreal indie musician plays with Paper Beat Scissors at the Piston. 8 pm. 416-532-3989. we can be heroes Second City’s latest revue – one of its strongest – continues tonight. $15-$29. 416-343-0011.

vey of the defiant Chinese artist’s work, continuing to Oct 27 at the AGO. $12.50-$25 . 416979-6648.

Pet Shop boys The English electro duo are always on our minds. Now they’re at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $49.50-$99.50. SC.

Macho member’s cool collages are at Narwhal Projects to Sep 29. 647-346-5317.

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Diana Local quartet with buzz for days bring saxy back at the Great Hall. 8 pm, $10. TW.

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When we started NOW magazine 32 years ago this week on September 10, 1981 – determined to be a fresh, progressive voice – daily newspapers were in crisis, young readers were abandoning the format, and the concentration of press ownership was making a media-consuming public and champions of diverse opinion nervous.

Flash forward three decades and an entire generation of young people have never bought a daily newspaper, and a dwindling handful of companies divide up the media spoils in this country and worldwide.

Even the alternative newspaper business has been infested with chain ownership, and one-time powerhouses like New York City’s Village Voice and L.A.’s Weekly chafe and shrink under ineffectual remote control.

But miraculously, Toronto’s NOW Magazine has emerged as the largest, most successful alt newsweekly in North America, and maybe the world, with a circulation of 110,000 copies and 409,000 readers weekly, and over 1.5 million monthly total views online at nowtoronto.com.

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Take your city back, Toronto

As Gord Perks says, Minister of Transportation Glen Murray’s compromise plan for a two-stop subway extension in Scarborough cannot proceed without approval from council, which voted for three stops (NOW, September 5). But these need to be paid for.

After Murray ridiculed Rob Ford’s authorship of this mess, Ford responded by bellowing, “Subways!

Subways! Subways!” and “Promise made. Promise kept!”

Ford opposes light rail transit, which runs on its own right-of-way, because he thinks it will block traffic.

So he scuttled a paid-for, partly built, system for Scarborough and put Toronto behind the financial eight ball.

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Ford needs to be removed.

A compliant appeals court already handed Ford a loophole to get out of his conviction for conflict of interest.

Ford could have been arrested for drunk driving if a report had been made to police that he was standing loaded next to his Cadillac at Taste Of The Danforth.

Ford has no interest in the citizens of downtown Toronto, nor is he trying to help the little guy in the burbs.

He’s just engaging in ploys to get reelected, regardless of the cost to the city. Take your city back, people.

John Kneeland Toronto

Short on Closed Circuit

I was amused by Andrew Parker’s petulant review of Closed Circuit (NOW, August 29-September 4). “The characters simply show up, say who they are, what they do and describe the plot.” Well, uh, no.

Beyond that, NOW remains steadfastly independent, a handmade media company still owned and operated by Alice Klein and Michael Hollett.

Sure, we’d like to take some credit, but a part of our great good fortune has been to operate in one of the most dynamic and exciting cities on the planet. Even as we find ourselves enduring the folly of a disastrous mayor, this city’s engaged citizens refuse to give up, continuing to fight to preserve and develop the remarkable experiment in urbanism that is Toronto — the envy of the world.

T.O.’s dynamic and risk-taking arts scene gives us an exhilarating amount of creativity to cover as we seek to offer our readers a universe of exciting arts choices.

Parker did succeed in making me LOL as I read “[b]y the time the contrived final act lurches around, it’s welcome because the characters finally stop talking to make way for some actual action.”

Awww, not enough action? Too much talking? Sounds like my kind of film!

Perhaps Parker prefers the monstrous cultural hegemony perpetrated upon moviegoers in the form of summer actioners from Marvel Comics? Audiences do include adults who enjoy a movie where people talk.

Kate Lawton Toronto

Canadian film flam

John Semley writes, “But believe it or not, plenty of people come to TIFF to see Canadian films” (NOW, August 29-September 4). Too bad that rarely translates into people wanting to see them in theatres post-TIFF. The stigma against Canadian movies will take time, effort and multiple

And with over 150 cranes in the sky, Toronto is a city that loves living downtown – or coming here to play. Our retail isn’t buried in chains but features a dynamic mix of independent outlets, standalone businesses like NOW Magazine itself.

These have been great supporters over the years because they see for themselves the effectiveness of advertising in the paper, a cost they always cover by more customers in their stores. Reaching an engaged and active readership has been the payoff for their faith.

While big media try to cut costs and replace local writers in news and arts with nationwide reporters, NOW remains committed to developing, employing and publishing dozens of local journalists and artists. A city this exciting deserves nothing less.

Giving you, the people of Toronto, the magazine and digital choices you deserve has been our honour and obligation. We look forward to at least 32 more years of being dazzled and amazed by your innovation, determination and passion.

Thank you, Toronto. It continues to be our pleasure to serve you all.

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success stories to overcome. It will also take Canadian distributors crafting better promotional campaigns to help find audiences, instead of following a release template that hasn’t historically worked.

But for that to happen, Telefilm Canada would need to put pressure on Canadian distributors to up their game. Unfortunately, Telefilm has given in to them time and again, so don’t hold your breath.

JP From nowtoronto.com

Porter paradox

Are you kidding? Denouncing Porter Airlines and its wish to extend the runway at Billy Bishop in your Barometer (NOW, September 5-11), only to then sell the Toronto Port Authority a full-page ad two pages away? Not my idea of standing behind a principle. So do you wish to look like you care, or is it the money you really want? Please decide and let us know.

Aaron Keele Toronto

Jack Layton shocker

Letter-writer Andrew van Velzen calls the Jack Layton memorial “nauseating” (NOW, August 29-September 4). Get real, buddy! Toronto is “lousy” with statues of our famous.

Lock Hughes Toronto

Labour Day parade’s Communist conspiracy

I wrote to you two years ago when I witnessed Toronto’s Labour Day parade being led by blackshirts who demanded to “Make Toronto Toryfree.” This year I did not see anyone trying to ban the Conservative party, but I did witness 10 or so persons demonstrating on behalf “the Cuban Five,” who may have been collaborators of the Communist dictatorship of Cuba.

Paul Cerar Toronto

Getting local with cocktails

I love your Drinks column’s focus on spirits at the LCBO and your reviews of the best and most creative cocktail bars. But couldn’t your recipes have ingredients available in Ontario?

The Director’s Cut (NOW, September 5-​11) sounds great, but I won’t ever really know, since Yellow Chartreuse isn’t available at all LCBOs. Furthermore, I’m not sure if anyone aside from a cocktail professional would have boutique bitters or orange blossom water.

How about some local cocktail ingredients?

Jeremy Murray Toronto

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Finding peace in this ­community garden

Thank you for publishing our story regarding our continuing struggle with Toronto Real Estate Services with respect to our parking lot container community garden behind 14 Division (NOW, August 29-​September 4).

The latest word from Councillor Mike Layton’s office is that the city will extend the garden up to September 15, after which they will remove anything left. We have started our own cleanup by removing containers that are no longer needed.

Prior to next season we hope to take what steps are needed to continue gardening at the present site with the blessings of the city.

Danni Stor Toronto

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I’d like to debunk some myths and potentially irresponsible information that was provided to readers about forest management in Adria Vasil’s Note To Self: The Paper Guide, (NOW, August 22-​28).

Firstly, Ontario is a world leader in sustainable forest management. Forest certification, regardless of the logo, assures independently verified and responsible forestry. Also, profes­sional foresters work to the highest ethical standards to put long-​term forest health ahead of economic values when managing forests for a wide range of consumer products.

I would like to personally invite NOW Magazine staff, and anyone interested in participating in an honest and open discussion about forestry, to attend Without Wood: Why Do We Cut Trees? on September 24, 7 to 9 pm, at Hart House Theatre ($10$20). This event will feature a facilitated panel discussion among forest management experts sharing the facts about forestry, with solid science and without bias. Please bring your questions and concerns.

Carla Grant Executive Director Ontario Forestry Association

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Cyclist Andrew Fisher says the mayor forced him off his bike on Dundas last week. According to Fisher and several witnesses on Twitter, the rear of Ford’s Cadillac SUV brushed up against him at a stoplight.

Number of First Nations represented by the Union of Ontario Indians, one of a number of First Nations advocacy groups to have their funding cut recently by the federal Ministry of Indian and Northern Affairs.

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And the winners of the 2013 Toronto Urban Design Awards are... we can’t tell you.

They’re embargoed until 8 pm Wednesday, September 11, and we’re on the street before that. But until then you can admire one of the leading contenders in the Small Open Spaces category: the Dundas Street West Parkettes. Ooh. Aah.

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WHAT Light The Queer Torch, International Day Of Solidarity For LGBT Equality.

WHEN During the march down Yonge Street, Sunday, September 8, 6 pm.

WHY Global kiss-in to protest Russia’s anti-gay laws ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

The avant-garde architect behind OCAD’s groundbreaking flying tabletop design is getting guff from wellheeled north Torontonians who say his Alaska condo slated for Yonge and Strathgowan is a “retread” of his OCAD design. Ouch.

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The feds took in $3 billion more in EI premiums than they paid out in benefits in 2012. HarperCons don’t believe in spreading the wealth.

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The old Eastern Avenue bridge is one of several abandoned links spanning the lower Don. Built in 1933, it was abandoned in 1964 when Eastern was moved slightly north to connect to the newly built Don Valley Parkway.

[Frontlines] Susan G. Cole on rape culture infecting young women on campus Just when we thought the St. Mary’s University pro-​rape cheer bellowed out during frosh week was becoming old news, here come UBC students with the same chant in a similar context days later.

Just for the record, the chant goes like this: Y is for Your sister O is for Oh so tight U is for Under age N is for No consent G is for Grab that ass Not much ambiguity there.

This kind of thing has been going on for decades on campuses across the continent. The guys in engineering flaunted their misogyny in the 70s; the boys at Queen’s hung “No Means Yes” signs out their dorm window during Sexual Assault Awareness Week in the 80s.

But what’s bugging me most about the St. Mary’s incident is the number of women happily chanting along. At UBC, the co-​chair of frosh week is a young woman, Jacqueline Chen, who blithely assured everyone that the chant has been a feature there for years and that they at least had tried to keep it private. Big help.

Feminists like me have been wringing our hands over the sexual abuse epidemic, some of us saying it’s time to get men involved in what we used to call women’s issues – kudos to the White Ribbon campaign for taking it on. But it’s obvious that we need to start winning women into the anti-​ rape fold as well.

During the 80s, when I was travelling the country debating Screw Magazine publisher Al Goldstein on Cana­ dian campuses about the meaning of pornography, almost all the women in the audience grasped my concerns

about the impact pornography has on creating a rape culture.

Over the past five years, I’ve been doing a similar series of debates with porn star Ron Jeremy on American campuses. Fully half the audience is made up of women, almost all of them porn fans anxious to get Jeremy to sign their breasts.

I am aware that many women disagree with my stance that pornography is a political problem. They also consider censorship deeply problematic – so do I, by the way. But when feminists were going through the sex wars in the 80s, so-​called pro-​sex women were interested in some kind of conversation and definitely took seriously the issues surrounding violence against women.

It’s obvious that we need to start winning women into the antirape fold as well.

What’s going on in 2013? Why are we so obviously losing this battle, not only with men but with women?

Maybe Gloria Steinem is right that female students are always more conservative than their male counterparts.

It’s only when they get more life experience – of the glass ceiling, of the prevalence and consequences of sexual assault – that women become more radicalized. Men, on the other hand, become more conservative when they move into their roles of ­authority and power.

Whatever the case, things are not changing as fast as they should.

Anybody notice that there was ­another sexual assault on the York ­University campus last week?

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For Tim Hudak’s PCs, it was an inauspicious start to the fall session of the legislature, what with all the headlines about finance critic Peter Shurman’s firing after it got out that he’d billed taxpayers for a questionable $20K housing allowance. Weirder still were the excuses on behalf of Shurman by conservative media types. Sun columnist SueAnn Levy found the criticism of Shurman “rather­unfair and disrespectful, considering Shurman was commemorating the Jewish New Year.” Oy. No PC muck-up is too big for Levy to excuse away. The question everybody’s asking: what did Tim know and when did he know it? Shurman says the ­expense was cleared by Hudak – although Shurman told Tory he only gave the leader a “heads-up.” Hudak denies approving the allowance, although some in the party believe he did but is denying it because Shurman got caught. Does that mean he should resign as PC leader? Admittedly, the latenight statements issued by his office on the Shurman matter look suspicious.

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Porter’s Red Baron poised to strike again how Robert Deluce has managed to lay exclusive claim to 87 hectares of the most valuable real estate on the water is a bit of a mystery By ENZO DiMATTEO

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hat is it about Robert Deluce, anyway?

Just how has the high-​f lying Porter Airlines tycoon managed to turn the waterfront Island Airport into his private domain? It’s supposed to be a public asset, paid for by taxpayers’ dollars. And a valuable one at that, worth a couple of billion by some estimates.

Now he’s got designs on the entire waterfront. Deluce’s plan to extend the Island Airport’s main runway by a couple of football fields at either end so he can fly jets out of it has all of a sudden gotten bigger.

Deluce now says he needs to add another 64 metres of runway to land those sleek CS100s he’s planning to buy from Bombardier. He contends the addition will make the already “whisper-​quiet” jets even quieter. Well, that’s a plane load of BS. The flight paths of the CS100s will actually disturb the entire waterfront.

Could be me, but Deluce’s Island Airport gambit is resembling the fast one casino developers tried to pull.

As in that offensive, Deluce is pulling every trick in the book to push his monster plan on the waterfront – bought-and-paid-for “studies,” specious public opinion surveys and false promises of pots of gold in eco­no­mic stimulus at the end of the runway.

Look, up in the sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a front group headed by a former Ontario PC party researcher to pump Deluce’s plan and create the illusion of broad public support.

Some of the same lobbyists involved in the backroom wheeling and dealing during the casino feeding frenzy (here’s looking at you, Jamie Besner) have been logging time with councillors behind closed doors. Count ’em: six pages documenting meetings with councillors since Ap­ril.

City Hall mandarins have been enlisted in the cause, too. Deputy city manager John Livey can feign surprise all he wants, as he did after locals walked out of the first consultation at Fort York last week. The dia­logue set up by the city is, as with the casino debate, structured to effect a certain result that’s not favourable to waterfront communities. Or am I reading too much into the city’s pamphlet on the consultations, which takes pains not to men­tion any negative impacts of an expanded airport?

It’s all a hoax, of course. But who’s to say Deluce won’t get away with his plans?

The province stepped in to wake To­ronto from its casino nightmare. But don’t count on the feds to do likewise in this case. Since Porter first took flight in 2006, Deluce has been successfully greasing wheels to push ahead his pricontinued on page 23 œ

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By ADAM GIAMBRONE Once more with feel­ ing. Transportation Minister Glenn Mur­ ray’s as­tound­ing press conference on Sep­tem­ ber 4, where he offered up yet an­other Scar­ borough subway scen­ ario ­– a $1.4 billion plan for a two-stop route fol­ lowing the SRT – was made without consult­ Approvals: Date: Signature: Prod Artist: ing the eventual own­ er Proofreader: and operator, the TTC. Acct Mngr: Acct Dir:So get ready for a re­ Studio Mngr: play of an already frus­ Studio Mngr: Copywriter: trating debate.

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The minister would have won more credibility if he’d gathered reporters last week to provide an update on scheduled networked projects for Scarborough and Toronto, confirming they were proceeding.

How about some reassurance that the Sheppard LRT running from Don Mills to Morningside and the U of T Scarborough Campus will actually be restarted after construction was cancelled in 2010 at a cost of close to $200 million? Or that a rapid transit line linking Malvern to the Scarborough Town Centre is still on the table?

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If the province is truly interested in moving people, it could start by restoring the operations fund­ing it cut from the TTC several years ago. This missing cash is the reason for the worst-​ever crowding on vehicles and for people being left at the curb, and why many bus routes no longer run from 6 am to 1 am.

With a little funding of new buses on the province’s part, and an agreement to restore TTC operations funding, Scarborough would finally be tra­vel-​friendly within a year, espe­cial­ly if new express buses were added and reliability guaranteed. The sub­ way, on the other hand, would take 10 years plus to study, plan, design and build – if it survived budget cuts or changes in government.

The province could also hasten Metrolinx’s long-term plan to run GO trains in Scarborough every 15 min­utes instead of the current 30. In­terestingly, GO trips take 25 to 30 min­utes, half the time a subway takes to get downtown, though there would have to be improvements in local routes to ensure more people could make the link easily.

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Mu­rray’s subway plan, stretching 6 km from the Bloor-Danforth line terminus to Scarborough Town Centre, would do little to improve travel in the area, which often requires two bus trips and long waits. That’s because he’s proposing only two stops, at Lawrence West and Scarborough Town Centre. True, Murray said later there could be more – but only if the feds or the city cough up for pricey new stations. Don’t bank on that.

As it is, his funded route doesn’t even connect with the Sheppard LRT. So much for an integrated network. Murray’s underground, in fact, would have three fewer stops than the ex­isting SRT (McCowan isn’t really a use­ful stop) and four fewer than the LRT plan.

And the topper is, his proposal only shaves three to four minutes off the average hour and 10 minutes it takes from most of Scarborough to bus to the Kennedy or an SRT station, go west to the Yonge subway and then south to the core.

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TIFF ZOOMS IN Jailed filmmakerJohn Greyson takes film fest spotlight By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE As the 38th annual Toronto International Film Festival heads into its second week, one of the city’s most influential filmmakers heads toward his fifth week in the Cairo prison cell he shares with 39 others.

Thankfully, the one happening is not conducting itself in isolation from the other.

TIFF as an organization has a mixed record when it comes to relevant political action. When directors find themselves censored or persecuted in their home countries, TIFF often issues press releases affirming support for free expression and solidarity with those punished for exercising it.

On the other hand, when the festival chose Tel Aviv as the focus of its inaugural City To City program in 2009, organizers seemed genuinely taken aback that some viewed the selection as controversial.

The director who pricked TIFF’s awareness in that case was John Greyson, who pulled his short from the festival in protest. That year, TIFF became as much a subject of disagreement as it has ever been, the dispute expressed in duelling letters signed by different groups of nota-

bles who either criticized or applauded the festival’s decision.

Now Greyson is once again responsible for TIFF having to turn its attention away from itself. This time, however, he’s not the activist but the subject of the activism. * * * On August 16, Greyson and Tarek Loubani, a Londonbased physician who teaches at Western University, were arrested by Egyptian authorities after apparently entering a police station to ask for directions. Although it is believed the pair may have been in violation of the country’s curfew law, they have not been charged with any

offence. Authorities, however, have implausibly insinuated that they were involved in an effort to attack a police station.

Even more troublingly, the Egyptian bureaucracy seems in no hurry to let them go. They were on their way to Gaza, where Loubani hoped to provide medical assistance and Greyson to make a documentary about it.

Canadian consular officials and the lawyer hired by their families have thus far been unable to expedite their release.

According to Greyson’s sister Cecilia Greyson, the two are sharing a cell with 38 other detainees (including teachers, doctors Visit tarekandjohn.com and a Sign the petition at fork- lift change.org/freetarekandjohn operContact the Egyptian Embassy in Ottawa to demand their immediate release: 613-234-4931, 613-234-4935 and egyptemb@sympatico.ca

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ator) that has one tap and one toilet.

“In 21 days,” she wrote in an online update last Friday, “they have been allowed into the outside courtyard only once, for 30 minutes.”

The campaign she’s running with a coalition of supporters has garnered dozens of statements of support from a broad swath of individuals and organizations. And one of the first was from TIFF: “John is a long-time friend of TIFF, and we are concerned for his wellbeing and hope that he can quickly return to Canada safe and sound,” the statement reads. * * * On September 4, the night before TIFF’s opening gala screenings, actor/ director Sarah Polley showed up at the Toronto Film Critics Association cocktail party with a fistful of buttons bearing a simple message: “#FreeTarekandJohn #TIFF13.”

This became a news story in itself.

“It got painted as my own personal campaign, like I had gone out and made the buttons all by myself,” Polley tells me. “But it’s actually a really big group of us.”

Polley asked TIFF programmers to wear the buttons and mention the two when introducing films.

“I know they’ve been doing really great work, like going to parties and giving them out at cocktails,” she says. (Atom Egoyan mentioned the pair while introducing his film

Devil’s Knot, but it’s less clear whether programmers have been discussing them in their intros.)

“We hope no opportunity will be lost to take advantage of having so many eyes on the festival,” Polley says. “And so far all signs have been great that that’s what [TIFF organizers are] doing.”

Cecilia Greyson concurs that TIFF has been “100 per cent” behind the campaign. “Which is wonderful; we’re very grateful for that.”

TIFF helped organize the September 10 press conference at the Lightbox and distributed an advisory for the event through its own media channels.

The release carried both the #FreeTarekandJohn and TIFF logos at the top.

Among the speakers were Egoyan, novelist Michael Ondaatje, documentary great Alex Gibney and Lightbox artistic director Noah Cowan representing TIFF. They released a letter of support with more than 300 signatures from high-profile film, literary and academic figures, including Noam Chomsky, Colin Firth, Alice Munro, Charlize Theron, Judith Butler and Mike Leigh.

As TIFF’S Cowan explained, “We find the expression of ideas, the creation of art and even the idea of festivals are impossible when our artists are in jail.”

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Fat in food is a polarizing thing. As a cook and food writer, I’ve always been interested in the love-​hate relationship consumers have with fat – gourmet oils, butter, lard and the deep fryer – and how lost professional kitchens would be without it.

Toronto has 7,000 restaurants churning out thousands of litres of waste fats. I wonder, are we doing enough with all that waste culinary oil?

The best use for it, I’m guessing, is cleaner fuel for diesel vehicles, but after all these years of environmen­ talists promoting the concept, how much of the stuff is actually igniting engines? Difficult to answer, actually. What we know for sure is that Ontario is way behind in pushing the bio­diesel envelope. More on this in a minute.

Lots of folks aspire to power their vehicles with used cooking oil. That’s what James McKinnon, owner of Dan­gerous Dan’s in Leslieville, did a few years back. The restaurateur filled up an old beater of a die­sel VW with his own used and filtered fryer oil. “I ran the thing for about 15 months on about 80 per cent fryer oil. It was great advertising; when I drove it, the exhaust smelled like fries and wings!”

But he couldn’t just pull up at biodiesel stations and fill ’er up!

Of course, many of our diesel engines (we’re talking trucks, buses, some VWs, Mercedes-​ Benzes, BMWs, 2014 Chevrolet Cruzes, etc) are already running on some form of biodiesel – to a tiny extent.

The federal Renewable Fuels Strategy mandates 5 per cent renewables in the gasoline pool and 2 per cent in the diesel pool.

So we’re already filling up with at least a little bit of this greener fuel, but we could be doing much more with all that used fryer oil.

One problem is that governments aren’t motoring along quickly enough on the biofuel front. The rules for biodiesel content call for an average of 2 per cent nationally, meaning individual provinces can set their own rules, and Ontario hasn’t.

When the Liberal government tabled its budget a few months back, it promised a stakeholder consultation to discuss higher standards for diesel – meaning a possible boost in the almost 160 million litres of biodiesel used by Ontarians per year.

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The province now refines 110 million litres of biodiesel annually, most of that from oil seed crops, agricultural and forestry waste and animal fats from abattoirs. In fact, spent oil and grease from food operations, a commodity known as “yellow grease,” is estimated to make up only about 26 per cent of all biodiesel in Ca­nada.

Some players are skeptical about the possibility that Ontario will develop diesel content rules above federal levels. Steve Anthony of the firm Methes, which refines biodiesel from used food grease, points out that some provinces have already surpassed federal levels. (BC, for exam­ ple, mandates 5 per cent biodiesel con­tent in fuel).

“We are five years late in Ontario,” says Anthony.

There seems to be little data on how much of the used culinary grease picked up by collection companies gets turned into biodiesel. There are only four bio​fuel plants in the province that refine used oil, and a few more are under construction.

Even eco-​aware food purveyors might be surprised to find out where their grease goes. One senior director of a major food outlet that churns out 19,000 kilos of perfectly re-​claim­able grease a year recently told me about his company’s green initiatives, explaining how the used oil from his fleet of fryers is being picked up and converted into biofuel.

Or that’s what he honestly thought anyway. Turns out that a chat with the firm he deals with, one of the few big players in the industry, reveals that most spent grease is being rout­ed back into the food chain as livestock feed.

There’s a big ick factor in feeding exhausted fats to food animals, and many reasons for humans to be concerned about eating meat containing second-

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Some players in the sector are very careful not to abet the practice of turning old fat to feed. Steve Hyman, founder of Green Planet Bio-​Fuels, for example, researches the processors who buy the oil his company collects to ensure it doesn’t end up feeding farm animals.

He started the business in 2008, when he was a cook. “I had an old die­ sel Jetta,” he tells me. “I’d arrive at work with three-quarters of a tank of diesel and then get the dishwasher to help me fill it up with old deep-fryer oil. Then I started finding customers to collect oil from.”

In four years, he’s gone from a couple of restaurants to over 900, with three vacuum collection trucks.

He picks up 30,000 litres a week, but he’s still a small player in an industry dominated by a few big operators and a handful of little ones. “It’s very competitive,” he says.

It’s important to know how much used food oil we’re squandering; environmentalists believe recycled biofuels like used grease or agricultural waste are preferable to corn-​based ethanol and other crops planted especially for fuel on land that ought to grow edibles.

As Ian Bruce of the David Suzuki Foundation says, “If we are to effect the greenhouse gas reduction we need to by 2050, we have to run all our vehicles on mostly biofuels – whe­ther from agricultural and forestry waste, culinary grease or sec­ ond-generation biofuel crops like switchgrass, which grows on margi­ nal land not suitable for food – starting now.”

There’s no question that there’s much more demand for an ethical form of biodiesel than actual product. Paul Sawtell, coowner of 100km Foods, would like to run his delivery trucks on the stuff, but he can’t find places for his ve­hi­cles to fuel up. “There

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are more little co-​ops popping up, but they’re still too few and far between to be practical,” he says.

As for McKinnon, he’s starting again. “I’ve got an old Canadian Army Iltis now, and I plan on doing the engine conversion from diesel to biodiesel this time.” Conversion costs between $1,000 and $2,000.

According to Andrea Kent of the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association, all diesel car makers guar­antee that their engines, even without

conversion, can take up to 5 per cent biodiesel. Many makers, particularly of newer cars, guarantee up to 20 per cent. (We’re talking die­sel, folks; not the gasoline most of us use.)

All this shows how far we’re lagging. Meanwhile, if I wanted to run

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my car on say, 90 per cent biodiesel, I’d have to know someone willing to share their spent food grease – and I’d have to put up with smelling like a burger joint on wheels.

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Amount of diesel fuel used in Ontario: 8.5 billion litres Amount of biodiesel fuel used in Ontario: 160 million litres Percentage of biodiesel in Canada made from yellow grease: 26 Number of restaurants in Toronto: 7,000 Estimated amount of waste cooking oil produced per year in ­Canada: 140,000 tonnes Estimated amount of restaurant trap grease (captured before going down the sewer) produced per year: 200,000 tonnes Estimated amount of waste fats generated by large fast-food outlets per year: 4,200 kg U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service annual report, 2013; University of Western Ontario faculty of engineering final report, Industrial And Commercial Fats, Oils And Greases, 2011; Canadian Renewable Fuels Association

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The quiet little secret here is that the plan po­tentially foists close to $1 billion in infrastructure updates onto the city. This probable off-loading comes as Toronto struggles to pay for the upkeep of the TTC, whose state-of-good-repair costs represent over half of our capital budget and net debt.

The TTC, for example, would likely be forced to move up the date for its $500 million signal upgrade to the Bloor-Danforth line. The system is al­ready close to 50 years old and can’t handle the operations necessary if Bloor-Danforth needs to ac­ com­mo­date more trains for the extension’s new ridership.

As well, cost projections appear ar­tificially low since they don’t include the price of six to eight new trains to service the extension. The thinking is obvious: why buy new vehicles when the TTC will have a few extra old­er ones around because of the ar­ri­val of many new Toronto Rocket trains?

Problem is, these are intended to re­spond to new ridership over the coming decade. Now the city could be on the hook for an estimated quarter-billion more for new trains.

That’s not the only budget pressure: a Scarborough subway extension would use up existing capacity at Greenwood’s subway barn. New cars to be purchased in the

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This subway offering should be viewed with a high degree of skepticism because the proposed routing would very likely require substantial­ly more cash than $1.4 bil.

The idea of running the subway along the SRT route in an old hydro corridor looks thrifty at first glance, but it’s a very complicated affair.

Besides the fact that Kennedy station would likely need to be moved and totally rebuilt at a cost of an estimated $200 million (because the curve connecting the existing subway to the SRT line is too tight for sub­ways), there’s the little problem that subway cars are heavier and wid­­er by 2 feet than SRT vehicles.

That means the SRT’s elevated sections would have to be made into tunnels and an existing short underground corridor be re-​engineered. Look for trouble ahead if digging starts: Highland Creek runs along part of this route and would make tunnelling difficult and expensive.

These changes would likely make the project more expensive by up to several hundreds of millions of dollars, meaning it might be entirely un­do­able without extra funding. Thing is, we wouldn’t know for sure what we were dealing with for at least a couple of years, until environmen­tal and engineering assessment studies were well under way.

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Eglinton E LRT Plan SUBWAY Plan approved by council SUBWAY Line proposed by Glen Murray coming years due to ridership growth already necessitate a new yard, but with a Scarborough line, construction would probably have to start five to ​10 years earlier than expected at a likely cost of upwards of $500 million. Not something to look forward to, since the TTC is already short $2 billion in maintenance budgets over the next 10 years.

Transit riders need confidence in the whole network and the government’s commitment to it. If in the next decade all Scarborough gets out of this mess is two new subway stops, a real opportunity will be lost.

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Bike couriers talk strike action against a uniquely bad industry By TODD AALGAARD Can you picture the city’s bike couriers putting down their kickstands and walking off the job?

Well, they probably can’t yet either.

That’s why Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 104 is putting a war chest together – all the better to embolden the bike-mounted workhorses in a sector that hovers somewhere near fast food standards.

And perhaps that’s being charitable. “We’ve been helping couriers go after employers who have ripped them off, fired them or treated them in a manner you won’t see at a McDonald’s,” one union report reads.

On Friday (September 13), the Toronto-based local is putting the rubber to the road, so to speak, hosting a strike fund benefit to take a difficult organizing drive to the next level.

It’s not just that couriers have nowhere to take grievances against their bosses, the 150 to 160 com­pa­ nies that employ about 150 bike cour-

iers. It’s that the state of Toronto’s courier industry is uniquely, especial­ ly bad, akin to the Wild West, says Kevin Barnhorst, president of CUPW 104.

“We’ve had a union certification since 2011,” he says, describing a long, difficult process to get that far. Origi­ nally, because courier services are a postal service of a sort, attempts at unionizing were regulated at the federal level.

The courts, however, disagreed – costing the Toronto Courier local its initial federal certifications at three companies. Then two other attempts at provincial certification fell through before a third and final effort ultimately succeeded. “We’ve had one cer­tification or the other for about three years now,” says Barnhorst. Today, Quick Messenger Service remains the only certified bargaining unit; 20 messengers are pre­sently represented by the local.

“Union membership is available to any courier in Toronto,” Barnhorst adds, “but in order to be part of a certified bargaining unit, a member’s workplace must be organized and win a certification vote.”

Despite those baby steps toward la­bour enfranchisement, “there’s been no meaningful movement on our core demands,” he says. The current state of bike messenging is no better than it was at the beginning.

“Across pretty much the entire same-day courier industry,” Barnhorst tells NOW, “workers are classified as independent contrac­tors.”

Some average a 10-hour day, and none have enough leverage to advocate on their own behalf.

Employers, it seems, make use of Toronto’s two-wheel warriors as a sort of indentured labour. “They are committed to this model,” Barnhorst says. “This has been industry standard for, what, 30 years?”

“We frequently make less than minimum wage,” he says. “We get no vacation pay, no stat holiday pay.

Most couriers aren’t covered by WSIB.” Despite all their legwork, most lack the protections that those in less physically demanding jobs can expect, like overtime or even basic dismissal stan­dards.

But this weekend, the hard-fought drive reaches critical mass. (Pun in­ tend­­ed.) A funder at Steelworkers Hall aims to raise cash for any labour walkout to come and features such bands as the Idaho Stop, named after the contentious cycling technique that treats a stop sign as a yield.

With the slogan “Stop the sweatshop on wheels” and cash in reserve, the union hopes to put muscle behind its demands. “A lot of couriers just don’t get a lot of love from big organizations, from bureaucracy, from government, from anyone,” Barnhorst says. “It’s a pretty downtrodden segment of the population.”

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vate venture at the supposedly pub­ licly owned air­port.

The guy running the show in Ot­ tawa, Stephen Harper, is supposed to be a free marketeer. Ditto for his fish­ ing bud, the mayor of Toronto.

Yet for the better part of the last dec­ade, Deluce has had a near mono­ poly on running the airport, with tens of millions of dollars in capital improvements and subsidies all paid for by you, dear taxpayer, to keep his business a growing concern. Oodles have been spent on a new terminal and other improvements.

Admittedly, the airline industry is one of the most heavily subsidized.

But how Deluce has laid ex­clusive claim to 87 hectares of the most valu­ able real estate on the water – while kicking out the competition – is a bit of a mystery. But not entirely.

His political connections run deep.

Deluce is a regular at both Liberal and Conservative fundraisers. He’s part of the powerful syndicate run­ ning the city. Some 60 per cent of the folks using his airline are doing so on business.

The fact Bay Street investors have sunk tens of millions into Porter has assured political support.

It’s worth reminding ourselves of that fact. Waterfront residents have been right to frame the airport de­ bate as a fight between the needs of the biz class and those of residents.

Deluce’s flight plans couldn’t have been achieved without friends on the Toronto Port Authority, the arm’s-​length federal agency charged with overseeing the business of the harbour. The TPA has tied its future to the success of the airport. Without it, there’s arguably little need for the Authority – the business of boats isn’t exactly booming.

The TPA’s board of directors is stacked with Harper appointees. It claims it’s not taking a position on Porter’s expansion plans. Also ac­ cording to the TPA, not a cent of tax­ payers’ money is being spent on the pedestrian tunnel now under con­ struction to make the Porter experi­ ence more con­venient.

But that’s not what the PM said at a Conservative BBQ in Toronto a couple of weeks back. According to him, dol­ lars are flowing to that project from taxpayer coffers.

Would it be a stretch to say the TPA has been running a protection racket for Porter? The hijinks and questions

of conflict of interest have been many, to say nothing of the millions in property taxes the TPA has refused to pay the city.

Their marriage of interests dates back to the cancellation of the bridge to the airport in the Miller days. De­ luce then sued the city and the feds, claiming lost revenue, and eventual­ ly settled out of court. There was no legal obligation on the part of the federal government to com­pen­sate Deluce, according to bridge op­po­ nents. No binding agreement had been signed, they argued.

But Deluce got a tidy $20 million, with which he bought the Island Air­ port terminal. Now he’s trying to save his business, the theory in some circles goes, with his jets propo­sal.

(The airline hasn’t published its pas­ senger load numbers since word of its proposed expansion came out in April.)

While the focus has been on the supposed economic benefits of De­ luce’s plan, less time has been spent calculating the costs to the water­ front. Or the billions in public funds already poured into parks, beaches and public spaces along the water’s edge. To say nothing of the 300-​plushectare Toronto Island park.

Air Canada VP Derek Vanstone calls Porter’s proposal “a play to fur­

ther entrench its ability to use the Toronto City Airport exclusively and to the exclusion of others.”

Vanstone says any decision by coun­cil to approve Porter’s request “should be subject to review by the Competition Bureau.”

He calls Porter’s “pursuing policy changes and infrastructure improve­ ments for its sole enjoyment unpre­ cedented [and] inconsistent with in­ter­nationally accepted airport man­age­ment practices and govern­ ance. That’s why no airport in the world operates in this manner.”

In its submission to council, Boe­ ing takes issue with Porter’s tying its expansion plans to the purchase of Bombardier CS100s.

Boeing VP Bill Glover points out that the World Trade Organization’s Agreement On Trade In Civil Aircraft precludes “inducements of any kind to the sale or purchase of civil air­ craft from any particular source which could create discrimination against [other] suppliers.”

But Deluce has an old friend in his corner should he encounter too much turbulence.

Lisa Raitt, the former TPA CEO and current Halton MP, has recently been promoted to Transportation Minis­ ter by the PM. Some in Ottawa politi­ cal circles are whispering her name as a possible replacement for Harper.

It was Raitt who was part of the sweetheart settlement with the feds that gave Deluce the seed mo­ney for his airline dreams. His blue-​skying may not be over yet.

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AND EVENTS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013 Provocative, relevant, and full of surprises, the ROM offers programming to engage the mind and feed the soul.

EXPLORE: Mesopotamia

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World renowned experts bring the ancient civilization Babylon, and beyond, to life in this engaging series.

Complementing the special exhibition Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World, presented by RSA Insurance, explore the ancient Mesopotamians’ extraordinary innovations and their impact on our lives today.

They’re back, starting October 22!

Registration is now open.

Tickets per lecture: $25, Members $22, Students $18

ROM courses and workshops cover a wide range of topics from ancient cultures to fashion, biodiversity and more, and combine expert teaching with the Museum’s collection of awesome artifacts.

Sign up today for a unique, fun, and immersive experience in the most inspirational classroom in the city.

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September 12 - Timothy Harrison Lions, Temples and Tablets on the Plain of Antioch: Assyrian Imperialism on the Mesopotamian Periphery September 26 - Christopher Woods New Light on an Administrative Device from the Dawn of Writing in the Ancient Near East

October 26, 1 PM - 3 PM $80, ROM Members $72 Discover how ROM conservation experts preserve ancient museum artifacts and learn how to conserve your own treasures.

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October 10 - Richard Zettler Old Excavations and New Tricks: Rediscovering the Royal Cemetery of Ur

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November 7 - Irene Winter Gold! Divine Light and Shine in Ancient Mesopotamia

For 24 hours, join ROM curatorial staff, other experts and volunteers and help document all living things in Rouge Park, exploring our awesome biodiversity along the way!

November 21 - Francesca Rochberg Foresight, Forecasting, and the Future in Ancient Mesopotamia December 4 - Paul-Alain Beaulieu Conférence sur la Mésopotamie : Regards de l’historien sur la chute de Babylone en 539 av. J.-C. Note: This lecture is presented in French.

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October 19, 7 – 8:30 PM Keynote Event: “The Looting of the Iraq Museum”, a conversation with Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and Dr. McGuire Gibson.

September 14 – 15, 12 PM – 12 PM Free. Location: Rouge Park

FACT OR FICTION October 2 Game 6 PM, Dinner 8 PM Support the ROM at one of Toronto’s most important – and popular – fundraisers! Visit www.rom.on.ca/support-us for more information and to purchase tickets.

ROM OUT & ABOUT Last Wednesday of the month, 7 – 8:30 PM Location: Foxes Den, 1075 Bay St. Drop in. Free.

September 25 – Textiles and Fashion Trivia Night October 30 – Halloween Trivia Night

October 20, 11 AM – 4 PM Preserving the Art & Archaeology of Mesopotamia Tickets (Symposium & Keynote Event Combo): $80, ROM Members/Students: $75 Tickets (Keynote Event only): $60, ROM Members $55, Students: $40 Visit www.rom.on.ca/mesopotamiasymposium for details and to register.

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ADULT PROGRAMS

daily events meetings • benefits

Free. CBC Building, 250 Front W. cbc.ca/live.

Cycle Toronto Meet-Up 8 pm. Free. Handlebar, 159 Augusta. thehandlebar.ca.

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Info on courses and how to apply. Free. GBC St James Campus, 200 King E. georgebrown.ca.

Hands Off Syria! Talk by Syrian Marxist and activist Kamil Shami. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2211, 252 Bloor W. marxist.ca.

How to place a listing

Talk by professor Paul Dekar. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

Nerd Nite Toronto Third Anniversary Presentations on medical marvels and pinball. 8 pm. $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-9238137, torontonerdnite.com.

Thursday, September 12

No More Talk About Poverty – It’s Time For Action Join OCAP to picket the Liberal “pov-

No More Silence – Eat, Drink, Dance, Decolonize! (No More Silence/Families of Sisters in Spirit) Community dinner with talks and a screening of the trailer of Colleen Cardinal’s documentary The Sixties Scoop. 7 pm. Bass­ line Music Bar, 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513.

Premium Beer Experience (Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund) Taste selections from local and craft breweries. 6 pm. $17-$25. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. beerexperience.ca.

erty reduction” consultation. 11:30 am. Free.

519 Church Community Centre. f­ acebook. com/raisetherates.

5Swingin’OUT LGBT swing dance club with a beginners lesson & dancing. 6:45 pm. $6. 519 Church Community Centre. swinginout.ca.

3D Printing For Total Beginners Workshop.

6:30-9:30 pm. $49. Draft Print 3D, 26 Soho. hotpopfactory.com/workshops/.

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Events

Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth.

416-466-2129.

Friday, September 13

Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport Review

Attend a workshop and share your views on potential changes at the airport with city staff and technical consultants. 6 pm. Free. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place.

CBC Live At TIFF Live taping of an interactive show with author Lawrence Hill. 12:30-1 pm.

Dance Readings Art galleries

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Movie reviews Movie times Rep cinemas

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from Queen to Dundas. ­polishfestival.ca.

Sep 14 and 15 rUkrainian Festival Street festival with live music and dance, a parade, kids’ activities, buskers, dance lessons, sports, films and more. Free. Bloor West Village btwn Jane and Glendonwynne. ­ukrainianfestival. com.

Sep 13 to 15

Martin Luther King: A Global Perspectve

Panel discussion with Workers’ Action Centre rep Sonia Singh and others. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. w ­ orkersassembly.ca.

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All listings are free. Send to: listings@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Daily Events, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, including participants, time, price, venue, address and contact phone number (or e-mail or website if no phone available). Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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Animal Rescue Rocks! (Noble Dog Rescue)

Music from Jon Long Band, J’Nai, Teresa Hart and others. Doors 7 pm. $20, adv $15. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. ticketfly.com.

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Festivals this week

Commffest Film Festival Screenings of

films about issues that affect communities. $5-$15. Rainbow Cinemas (80 Front), Malvern Library (30 Sewells). c­ ommffest.com.

Sep 12 to 15

Faith, Art And Activism Mini-Festival

Sacred music, outdoor services, talks on art and faith, a panel discussion with novelist Maggie Helwig, readings, a blessing of the animals and more. Various venues. ­saintstephens.ca/faith-art-and-activism.

Sep 14 to Oct 5 rKorean Harvest Festival Korean Thanksgiving celebration with song, dance,

martial arts, food and more. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. 416-395-7582.

Sep 14 and 15 Liberty Village Art Crawl Works by more than 40 artists and artisans, live music, a DJ, activities, prizes and more. Free. Linear Park (on Liberty near Lamport Stadium) and Liberty Village Park. ­libertyvillageartcrawl.com.

Sep 13 and 14 Piece Of Mine Festival Black theatre playwrights including Amanda Parris, Motion and Sebastien Heins showcase work in development. $10, pass $25. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. p ­ ieceofminefest.com.

Sep 13 to 15 rRoncesvalles Polish Festival Polish and international music, midway rides, food and a polka party. Polka party $5 (St Cas­imir’s Church), street festival free. Roncesvalles

Caribbean Tales Film Festival Celebration of films from the Caribbean diaspora.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ­caribbeantales-events.com.

To Sep 14 St Clair Centennial Celebration A historic drawing exhibit, storytelling, antique streetcar rides, walking tours, a scavenger hunt, silent films and more. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie) and various venues on St Clair from Bathrust to Lansdowne.­­­atthebarns.org.

To Sep 15 Toronto Indie Film Festival Independent, micro-budget and no-budget films from North America. $8. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. film-fest.ca.

To Sep 14 Toronto International Film Festival

Red carpet premieres, short films, TIFF Docs, kids’ programming, parties, director discussions, art exhibits and more. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and other venues. tiff.net/­thefestival.

To Sep 15 TUFF – Toronto Urban Film Festival Silent one-minute films screen on subway platforms across the city. Free with TTC fare. ­torontourbanfilmfestival.com.

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Local Strike Fund) Music from Abdominal and the Obliques, Dan Greer and others. 7:30 pm. $20, working couriers $10. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. dandyhorsemagazine.com/blog/tag/ toronto-courier-local.

Events

CBC Live At TIFF Live taping of an interactive

birds and butterflies. Today and tomorrow 1 & 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley & Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg).

905-832-2289.

Gluten Free Expo Speakers, chefs, product samples and vendors. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $12-$15, under 10 free. Metro Convention Centre S Bldg, 222 Bremner. ­glutenfreeexpo.ca.

Heads Up Conference Find out about the latest research in the field of brain injuries and concussions. 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. St Michael’s Hospital, 209 Victoria. Pre-register 416-864-5312, headsup­conference.com.

daily show with Dragons’ Den star Arlene Dickinson and CBC Sports personality Scott Russell. 12:30-1 pm. Free. CBC Building, 250 Front W. cbc.ca/live.

Film Talk: World Film Locations Discussion on film locations in Berlin, Toronto and Tokyo.

5 pm. Pwyc. Goethe-Institut, 100 University. goethe.de/toronto.

Jane Austen Fashion 101 Three-session evening on Regency fashion. 7-10 pm. $10/session, stu $7; 3 sessions $25, stu $15. St Barnabas Anglican Church Hall, 361 Danforth. ­janeaustendancing.ca.

Market 707 For Mental Health Youth mental health awareness event with a battle of the bands, a sound-off video booth, street food, info and more. 5-9 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org.

Secular Yom Kippur Humanistic Jewish New Year celebration with blowing of the shofar, readings, poetry, music and more. 7:30 pm. $50, stu/unwaged $25, child $20. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-789-5502.

Team scavenger hunt for adults. 1-3:30 pm. $30.

Bloor & Avenue Rd. Preregister ­urbancapers.com. rPirate School 101 Kids learn treasure-hunting skills and embark on an adventure.

1-4 pm. $45. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416338-8807.

Saturday, September 14

A Poor People’s History Of East Downtown ­Toronto Ontario Coali-

Benefits

Freedom Walk (free-them) Walk to raise awareness of human trafficking and funds for victim rescue and support. $12, under 18 free.

Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. Preregister freethemwalk.ca.

InboundCon (Centre for Social Innovation) Marketing conference on company web sites with industry experts. $35-$95. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register inboundcon.com.

Junction Night Market (Junction Farmers Market Food Voucher Program/The Stop Community Food Centre) Local food and beer. 7-11 pm. Free admission (food/beer $5). ­Junction Train Platform, 2960 Dundas W. ­junctionmarket.ca.

Jane & Finch Street Party For A $14 Minimum Wage Jane

pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Mea­dow­ vale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

Young Tree Care Workshop. 10 am-noon.

Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough. Preregister 416-704-6617.

Sunday­, September 15

Benefits

Ride4RealFood (West End Food Co-op/PARC/

FarmStart) Scenic bike rides (30-115K) and a picnic for food security. Ride $60; picnic $20$30, kids $12. McVean Farm (free shuttle from Kiping subway at 11 am & 12:30 pm, returns 3:30 & 5 pm). Pre-register ­westendfood.coop/ content/ride4realfood-2013.

Finch Action Against Poverty street party with entertainment, food, prizes and more. Noon-4 pm.

Free. SE corner Jane and Finch. Info at goo.gl/vEUqF3.

claimed Materials Workshop. Pwyc ($15 sugg). Karma Co-Op, 739 Palmerston. Preregister 416-534-1470.

Cabbagetown Tour Of Homes Self-guided tour of Victorian homes. Noon-4 pm. $30. cabbagetowntourofhomes.ca.

Cider City Live music, Ontario craft cider, workshops and more. Noon-5 pm. $5, kids free. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416392-6910. rCreative Science Sundays: Paper Jewellery Transform paper into beautiful accessories. 1 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

St Clair West: The Growth Of A Streetcar Suburb Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/

pwyc. St Clair W at Wells Hill. ­heritagetoronto. org.

­Surprising Suburbia: A Bus Tour Of Northern Etobicoke Heritage

­Toronto three-hour bus tour. 1 pm. $40, child $20.

Location provided upon registration. Pre-register ­heritagetoronto.org.

Toronto Beer Quest Teams of two solve clues, take photos and reach the finish line to win prizes. Noon. $40/team. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. tbq4.­ eventbrite.com.

Toronto Ice Ride Greenpeace group bike ride to help save the Arctic. 1 pm.

Free (wear an Arcticthemed animal costume).

Allan Gardens, Gerrard & Jarvis. ­greenpeace.ca/iceride.

Murder At the ROM Scavenger Hunt

tion Against Poverty walking tour of how “skid row” came to be established. 11 am.

Free. Corner of Dundas & Sherbourne. ocap@ tao.ca.

rWard 18 Community BBQ Food, games and entertainment. 1-3 pm.

Free. Dufferin Grove

on the crisis and what we can do to fight back.

Noon. Free. OISE, rm 8200/01, 252 Bloor W. austerityandyouth.wordpress.com. rBain Co-Op Centennial Celebration The housing co-op holds a street festival with a pow wow, kids’ activities, a hula jam, street hockey, eco-fair, music, dance, tours and more.

10 am-11 pm. Free. 100 Bain (SW corner Withrow & Logan). b ­ ainartscollective@gmail.com.

Contra Dance Beginners class and dancing to live music by Anne Lederman and Tom Leighton. 7 pm. $12. St Barnabas Anglican Church Hall, 175 Hampton. tcdance.org.

Descendants Of The Don: Gordon And Helliwell Architects Heritage Toronto walk.

11 am. Free/pwyc. Summerhill subway. ­heritagetoronto.org.

Eco Chase Scavenger hunt through the city with an environmental focus. $40. Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. ecochase.ca. rFall Migration Learn about migrating

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Mexican Independence Day Celebration

Street corner fiesta with a mariachi band, Mexican dancers and avocado giveaways.

From 6 am. Free. Bay and Wellington.

Shared Mobility And Public Transit: Partners For The 21st Century CarSharing Assoc

conference. Today and tomorrow. $275. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. conference. carsharing.org.

Simply Raw Cuisine Cooking class. 7-9:30 pm. $70. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. Pre-register 416-466-2129.

Wisdom Healing circle and dinner. 5:30 pm. $60. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spa­dina. wisdom-healing-circle.eventbrite.ca.

Tuesday, September 17 Candice Breitz: From A To B And Back Again

The Berlin-based South African artist lectures on her work. 6:30 pm. Free. OCAD University, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca.

Gold Fever Mining Injustice Solidarity Network screening and panel discussion with San Miguel Ixtahuacán community member Aniseto Diaz Lopez. 7 pm. $8. Royal Cinema, 608 College. eventbrite.ca/event/8137490453.

I Am So The Boss Of You: Running Your Family Like A Business Talk by author Kathy

Buckworth. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660.

INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING IFOA creative writing class for beginners and recreational writers with novelist Brian Francis. Learn the fundamentals and tools for getting published. To Oct 22, 6:30 pm. $226. York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4760, ifoa.org. sion. 6:15 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. green13toronto.org.

5Self-Care For Anxiety: A Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach Workshop. 6-9 pm.

Free. U of T Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina. Pre-register ­paulinehwang.ca/anxietyworkshop.

Annual Flower Show Scarborough Garden

Austerity, Youth & The Low-Wage Economy: Why Is Capitalism In Crisis? Day school

Balfolk Dances Western European folk dancing with instruction. 7 pm. Pwyc. El Cafecito Espresso Bar 3 Westmoreland. 416-623-7752.

Great Books: Middlemarch Prof Deborah Heller discusses George Eliot’s book. 2-4 pm.

Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. Preregister 416-395-5440.

Karma: Friend Or Foe Seminar on Buddhist concepts. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697.

Queen Of The Sun: What Are The Bees Telling Us? Green 13 film screening and discus-

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& Horticultural Soc flower show. 2-4 pm. Free.

Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. rApplicious Fall Festival Applegrove Community Complex apple-themed festival with entertainment, activities and food. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen E. 416-461-8143, applicious.ca.

Events

Wednesday, September 18

Port Lands Sensory Walk Walk

Africa Through The Hollywood Lens

along the Martin Goodman Trail. 10 am-noon. Free. SE corner Cherry Street Bridge (north of ­Unwin). ­portlandswalk.com.

rPuppy And Kitten­Week-

end Learn what you need to know about getting your first pet. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. Pre-register pawsway.ca.

Scarborough Transit Debate Community debate on transit options. 2 pm. Free. West Scarborough Community Centre, 313 Pharmacy. wsncc.org.

SF/Anime Flea Market Sci-fi, anime and genre merchandise. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. friendsofmerril.org.

Toronto Indie Arts Market Indie vendors of art, food, fashion, comics, music and more.

10:30 am-4:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontoindieartsmarket.com.

World Rhino Weekend Learn about rhinos and their habitats, and their role in the environment. Today and tomorrow 9:30 am-4

Terry Fox Run (cancer research) Non-com-

petitive community 10K run, walk, jog, bike, wheel or ride. 9 am-1 pm. Pledges. High Park (and other locations). t­ erryfox.org.

Park (red tent), Dufferin S of Bloor. a­nabailao. com.

Wychwood Plus ROM walk. 2 pm. For location and tickets, call. 416-586-5799.

ARTbus Tour Bus trip to view exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton and Oakville Galleries.

11:30 am-5 pm. $10. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. Pre-register artbus@­oakvillegalleries.com. r5Back To School Family Picnic LGBTQ Parenting Network holds a picnic with games and snacks. 11 am-2 pm. Free. Withrow Park, 725 Logan. ­lgbtqparentingnetwork.ca.

Monday, September 16

Events

Build An Outdoor Worm Bin Using Re-

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Storybook Confidential (Small Print Toronto literary programs for kids) Literary luminaries including James Grainger, Evan Munday, Ania Szabo and Liz Worth read stories they wrote as kids, plus tattoo art and music. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. smallprinttoronto.org.

­ MREF presentation and discussion on global A development. 6:30 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-961-6981, ­eventbrite.ca.

Bill Shannon The artist, dancer and performer gives a talk (today 6:30 pm) and a performance (tomorrow 4:30 pm). Free. OCAD University, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca.

Crisis Call Screening of a doc on the police shooting of psychiatric survivor Edmund Yu followed by a discussion with director Laura Sky and others. 6 pm. Free. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. 416-393-7653.

Donato Esposito: Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Artist As Collector Lecture by curator/au-

thor Esposito. 7 pm. $15, stu $10. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Fall Harvest Party And Cook-Off Ryerson students celebrate fall with garden tours, workshops and free local organic food. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Gould btwn Victoria and Church. Pre-register homegrownharvest. eventbrite.com.

Green Drinks Toronto Meet other greenminded folks for discussion. 5:30-8 pm. Free.

Grace O’Malley’s, 14 Duncan. Pre-register greendrinks.org/on/toronto.

There isn’t an author alive who doesn’t have a story about being encouraged to write by someone who mattered. That’s what Small Print Toronto is about. The org stages interactive literary programs to inspire kids to discover how stories work. At its Storybook Confidential funder Monday (September 16), hear authors and editors including James Grainger, Evan Munday and Ania Szado, read stories they wrote as kids, and enjoy tattoo art, music and more. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West.

7:30 pm. Pwyc. smallprinttoronto.org.

Poor people’s east-​end history

Where exactly will all the poor go when the prettifying of Toronto’s east downtown finally finishes? Here’s a chance to see how those without resources have been steadily shunted out of this ’hood. People’s historian Gaetan Heroux of OCAP leads a walking tour tracing changes in the area from the poorhouse in the 1830s to unemployed organizing a century Occupy Economics Discussion on austerity policies and why they don’t work. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ­occupyeconomics.ca.

The NIGHT MARKET Farm-fresh produce, locally made cheese and breads, restaurant pop-ups and food trucks and more. 5-10 pm. 99 Sudbury. ­nightmarketto.com.

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Thursday, September 19 City Of The Sun God: Amarna And Its Rulers, Akhenaten And Nefertiti (ROM’s ancient Egyptian and Nu-

Minimum wage needs a lift

Several orgs, including the new power union Unifor, are pushing for an all-​important $14 minimum wage. This Street Party hosted by Jane/Finch Action Against Poverty boosts the effort in an afternoon of entertainment.

Saturday (September 14), noon to ​ 4 pm. Free.

Corner Jane and Finch. jfaap. wordpress.com.

Ania Szado reads some of the first stories she ever wrote September 16. bian collections) Talk by Amarna Project director Barry J Kemp. 7 pm. $25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-586-5797.

Events

Building Better Lives and Communities Symposium with a keynote address by professor John Helliwell.

1-6:30 pm. $50, stu $30. MaRs Collaboration Centre, 10 College. Pre-register cifar.ca/betterlives.

Democracy Day On The Danforth March from Broadview station for a talk by MP Craig Scott on the NDP proposal to make every vote count equally in federal elections. 6:30 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. fairvote.ca.

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Woolrich camouflage jacket ($575, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com).

Hudson Byron field camo jeans ($275, hudsonjeans.com).

Rudsak camouflage wallet ($95, 315 Queen West, 416-595-9661, rudsakstore.com).

Camo chameleon Paradoxically, it won’t be hard to spot fall’s ubiquitous camouflage prints

Wallace & Barnes camo sweatshirt ($182, J.Crew, Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 416-977-0941, and others, jcrew.com).

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The week’s news, views and sales Laing launches menswear After seasons of men lusting after many of the pieces in Jeremy Laing’s (jeremylaing.com) womenswear collections, the Toronto designer debuted his first full garment lineup for guys during New York Fashion Week on Sunday. Also new for spring 2014 is a footwear collaboration with Los Angeles-based LD Tuttle and a print partnership with painter Julia Dault.

Last call for Louboutin This summer’s Christian Louboutin exhibition at the Design Exchange (234 Bay, 416-363-6121, dx.org) has been a smash hit, and you only have till Sunday (September 15) to see the red-soled extravaganza for yourself. Highlights include a carnival-style swing hung with pillows topped with striped stilettos and metallic platforms, and a pair of sparkly peep-toes worn by Miss Piggy. A set of floweraccented heels on display were the first style whose bottoms were painted rouge.

store of the week Spectacle 18 Rack House, 416-363-5300, spectaclelovesyou.com If you visited the Distillery District over the summer, you know the neighbourhood is on the grow, with new condo towers climbing to the sky and a fresh batch of restaurants and shops filling the retail spaces in their glass podiums.

One of the most recent openings is Spectacle, which moved from its original spot on the main Trinity Street drag to an airy storefront around the corner on Rack House Mews.

The upsized square footage is reflected in the frame selection, with over 1,000 pairs of optical and sunglasses on display alongside a collection of vintage optician instruments and signage. Peep the Rolf line of wooden pieces that come packed in geometric veneer cases, or Grey Ant’s awesome statement styles.

The store also carries the Rudy Projects line of sport eyewear for cyclists.

Spectacle picks picks: The St. Germain model from the in-house Taru & Koli collection has a rounded, vintage shape, $385; we’re mad for Moscot’s khaki and black sunnies, $295; a classic pick is Ray-Ban’s Clubmaster in black or tortoise, $180 to $182.

Look for for: An eye doctor’s office opening inside the store this month.

Hours: Monday to Saturday 11 am and 7 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm.

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Pont Neuf peek Seven of Canada’s top emerging labels are featured on new online style boutique Pont Neuf (pontneufboutique.ca). The brand lineup includes Blak.i (love their slouchy, sheer “boyfriend shirt”), Dreamboat Lucy (think perfect print picks like cocoon coats and floral trousers) and Sarah Duke (we’re mad for her houndstooth wool maxi skirt!). Also look out for Nicole Campre, Tissh by Gloria Lee, Malorie Urbanovitch and Bano Eemee.

Bark bite Time to brush up on your tree talk to take in the newest exhibition on now at MADE (867 Dundas West, 416-607-6384, madedesign.ca). The show is called Cambium and that term refers to “the live layer of tree tissue just below the bark.” Arborist and designer Joel Harrison-Off exposes it on eastern white cedar and then splits the logs before lighting them from within, creating a creepy, forested feeling. Check out the installation for yourself until October 12.

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Rock star Rock out with the Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt, a T-shirt with a built-in electronic guitar. You can actually play all the major chords, strum, crank the volume on the mini-amp to 11, adjust the tone knob and totally melt the faces of everyone around you. $31 from Thinkgeek.com

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Phillip Lim for Target For many shoppers, Target’s biggest draw is the retailer’s designer collaborations, and this fall’s partnership with American talent Phillip Lim has their hearts predictably palpitating. The 75-piece lineup, launching Sunday (September 15), includes lots of smart clothes, but the bags are the collection’s blockbusters. We bet this gold mini-purse ($34.99) lasts less than a New York minute.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

It’s the second-most-traded commodity after oil, and most of it is sweatshop swill passed off as sustainable. How does your cup hold up?

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FOLGERS/ MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PODS Buy mass-produced, pesticide-laced monoculture coffee beans picked for a couple of bucks a day, then packaged in landfill-clogging disposable plastic pods and you’ve pretty much got the least sustainable mug o’ joe going. Toronto doesn’t accept any brand of coffee pods in recycling bins, no matter what your podmaker says, so consider all disposable Tassimo/Keurig/ Nespresso bevvies your foe. $8.99/12 pk.

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The double-double giant makes eight out of 10 cups of coffee produced here. Corporate Knights calls the chain “a quiet leader in sustainability” for offering a bagged coffee option sourced from small farmers, which critics say sidesteps tougher third-party organic and fair trade criteria.

Dock another point for Tim’s past undermining of T.O.’s efforts to collaborate on fully recyclable coffee cups. $7.69/343 gm.

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Starbucks says most of its coffee is grown “responsibly,” according to its internal C.A.F.E. standard, dissed as weak. A recent Christian Science Monitor investigation had trouble tracking farmers who actually benefited from C.A.F.E. on the ground. You can buy a bag of certified organic or certified fair trade, but they don’t combine the two or sell them brewed. At least Starbucks has been working toward a fully recyclable cup. $12.99/lb.

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Greenwash of the Week SMARTKLEAN LAUNDRY BALL You may have spotted this plastic disc being talked up for its ability to replace detergent and reduce packaging, all without water pollution. The problem is that the microbeads inside release antimicrobial nano-silver particles, killing bacteria, yes, but nano-silver is also toxic to fish downstream. In fact, the effect of nano-silver in lakes is being studied at the now famous Experimental Lakes Area up north. For greener, packaging-free washing, look for soap nuts instead.

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Top-of-the-line certified fair trade/organic and tasty, too.

A good-to-the-last-drop choice when you’re in a mainstream grocery store, for sure.

But these BC do-gooders lose a point for not being roasted locally. Both independently owned and fully certified. $16.99/lb.

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Jack up your java’s green quotient – look for beans that are fair trade/organic and roasted locally, like Merchants or Alternative Grounds. Merchants also carries off-grid solar-dried Café Solar beans as well as “cause coffee’’ that fundraises for orgs like the Jane Goodall Institute, Evergreen and the Stop, along with green beans you roast at home at temps less polluting than mega-roasteries. $15/lb or $16.95/lb for cause coffee.

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Certified Organic No chemical pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, mostly shade grown and bird-friendly, but no safeguards or wage standards for workers.

Certified Fair Trade Grown in smallscale co-ops by fairly paid workers; some sustainability policies in place, but not as green as organic.

Shade Grown The traditional way of growing beans under a canopy of trees, providing habitat for pestcontrolling birds and beneficial insects. It’s the opposite of monoculture mega-plantations that grow beans in full sun, soaking up lots more water and pesticides.

Bird-Friendly A specialized label developed by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center. It means your java is 100 per cent organic and shadegrown, with fair labour practices. Ten cents per pound goes to the center’s research and conservation programs.

Rainforest Alliance Certified A watered-down version of organic/fair trade, though confusingly Rainforest Alliance sometimes certifies to organic standards as well. Heads up: these guys allow their label on bags with as little as 30 per cent certified coffee, but they’re supposed to say that. Found on some Nabob, Timothy’s, Second Cup coffees.

nature notes QUIET IN THE COURT Up until last year, any citizen or organization with something to say at a hearing on a large infrastructure project like, say, a pipeline could submit a comment.

You know, Democracy 101: permit public input. Now, beefed-up government requirements mandate that critics be “directly affected” by a project, effectively excluding input from green organizations. The good news – enviros are pushing back. Last week, the Oilsands Environmental Coalition, which includes the Pembina Institute and the Alberta Wilderness Association, made headlines by argu-

ing in court that Alberta is unfairly blocking them from a tar sands hearing. Last month, BC-based ForestEthics Advocacy went a step further and sued the government of Canada for violating its Charter rights. Tell your MP you support efforts to strike down the 2012 legislation limiting public participation in hearings as unconstitutional.

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California’s Center for Environmental Health tested shampoos, shower gels and bubble baths for coconutderived cocamide DEA, a carcinogen that’s legally required to come with a warning label in that state. In all, 98 were caught with cocamide DEA on their hands, including shampoos

by Organix, Lush, Paul Mitchell, Moroccanoil, Shikhai, Palmer’s and American Crew.

CEH has filed a lawsuit against four companies and sent legal notices to over 100 others. For more info, see ceh.org.

High-fives to Ontario for finally releasing its cycling strategy, a 20-year vision to boost bike lanes and safety with the aim of making Ontario the top-ranked Canadian province for cycling.

Okay, yes, it’s big on hopes and dreams and thin on dollars and details. But Transpo Minister Glen Murray promises to toughen up laws against, say, whacking cyclists with car doors. Let’s hold him to that. No word on whether the province will step up to keep municipal bike-sharing programs like T.O.’s struggling Bixi afloat or if Bloor-Danforth will finally get the lane we so badly need. To sign a petition for both, go to cycleto.ca.

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “A good story

should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart,” wrote Chuck Palahniuk in his book Stranger Than Fiction. From what I can tell, Aries, the sequence is the reverse for you. In your story, the disruption has already happened. Next comes the part where you laugh. It may be a ­sardonic chuckle at first, as you become aware of the illusions you had been under before the jolt exposed them. Eventually I expect you will be giggling and gleeful, eternally grateful for the tricky luck that freed you to pursue a more complete ­version of your fondest dream.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Taurus musician David Byrne was asked by an interviewer to compose a seven-word autobiography. In response, he came up with 10 words: “unfinished, unprocessed, uncertain, unknown, unadorned, underarms, underpants, unfrozen, unsettled, unfussy.” The coming days would be an excellent time for you to carry out similar assignments. I’d love to see you express the essential truth about yourself in bold and playful ways. I will also be happy if you make it clear that even though you’re a work-in-progress, you have a succinct understanding of what you need and who you are ­becoming.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 The French word “sillage” means “wake,” like the trail created behind a boat as it zips through water. In English, it refers to the fragrance that remains in the air after a person wearing perfume or cologne passes by. For our purposes, we will expand the ­definition to include any influences and impressions left behind by a powerful presence who has exited the scene. In my astrological opinion, Gemini, sillage is a key theme for you to monitor in the coming days. Be alert for it. Study it. It will be a source of information that helps you make good decisions.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Cataglottism” is a rarely used English word that has the same meaning as French kissing – engaging in liberal use of the tongue as you make out. But I don’t recommend that you incorporate such an inelegant, guttural term into your vocabulary. Imagine yourself thinking, while in the midst of French kissing, that what you’re doing is “cataglottism.” Your pleasure would probably be diminished. This truth applies in a broader sense, too. The language you use to frame your experience has a dramatic impact on how it all unfolds. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with this principle. See if you can increase your levels of joy and grace by describing what’s happening to you with beautiful and positive words.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 This is Correct Your

First Impressions Week. It’s a perfect time for you to re-evaluate any of your beliefs that are based on mistaken facts or superficial perceptions. Are you open to the possibility that you might have jumped to unwarranted conclusions? Are you willing to question certainties that hardened in you after just a brief exposure to complicated processes? During Correct Your First Impressions Week, humble examination of your fixed prejudices is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. PS: This is a good time to reconnect with a person you have unjustly judged as unworthy of you.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 This is a good

time to free yourself from a curse that an immature soul placed on you once upon a time. I’m not talking about a literal spell cast by a master of the dark arts.

Rather, I’m referring to an abusive accusation that was heaped on you, perhaps inadvertently, by a careless person whose own pain made them stupid. As I evaluate the astrological omens, I conclude that you now have the power to dissolve this curse all by yourself. You don’t need a wizard or a witch to handle it for you. Follow your intuition for clues on how to proceed. Here’s a suggestion to stimulate your imagination: visualize the curse as a dark purple rose. See yourself hurling it into a vat of molten gold.

have an objective existence that’s independent of our feelings about it? Or is the truth a fuzzy, convoluted thing that resembles a stream of smoke snaking through an underground cavern? Does it have a different meaning for every

mind that seeks to grasp it? The answer, of course, is both. Sometimes the truth is a glittering diamond and at other times it’s a stream of smoke. But for you right now, Aquarius, the truth is the latter. You must have a high tolerance for ambiguity as you cultivate your relationship with it.

It’s more likely to reveal its secrets if you maintain a flexible and cagey frame of mind.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 It’s a good time to

indulge in wide-open, high-flying, anything-goes fantasies about love – IF, that is... IF you also do something practical to

help those fantasies come true. So I encourage you to dream about revolutionizing your relationship with romance and intimacy – as long as you also make specific adjustments in your own attitudes and behaviour that will make the revolution more likely. Two more tips: 1.

Free yourself from dogmatic beliefs you might have about love’s possibilities. 2.

Work to increase your capacity for lusty trust and trusty lust.

Homework: What’s the part of yourself that is least evolved and needs most transformation? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 The current chapter

of your life story may not be quite as epic as I think it is, so my advice may sound melodramatic. Still, what I’m going to tell you is something we all need to hear from time to time. And I’m pretty sure this is one of those moments for you. It comes from writer Charles Bukowski: “Nobody can save you but yourself. You will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. They will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. But don’t, don’t, don’t. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning, then this is it. Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving.”

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 The cosmos

hereby grants you poetic licence to be brazen in your craving for the best and brightest experiences... to be uninhibited in feeding your obsessions and making them work for you... to be shameless as you pursue exactly and only what you really, really want more than anything else. This is a limited time offer, although it may be extended if you pounce eagerly and take full advantage. For best results, suspend your pursuit of trivial wishes and purge yourself of your bitchy complaints about life.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 At the last

minute, Elsa Oliver impulsively cancelled her vacation to New York. She had a hunch that something exciting would happen if instead she stayed at her home in England. A few hours later, she got a message inviting her to be a contestant on the UK television show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? In the days and weeks that followed, she won the equivalent of $100,000. I’m not predicting anything quite as dramatic for you, Sagittarius.

But I do suspect that good luck is lurking in unexpected places, and to gather it in you may have to trust your intuition, stay alert for late-breaking shifts in fate and be willing to alter your plans.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “The only thing standing between you and your goal,” writes American author Jordan Belfort, “is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” I don’t entirely agree with that idea. There may be other obstacles over which you have little control. But the bullshit story is often more than half the problem. So that’s the bad news, Capricorn. The good news is that right now is a magic moment in your destiny when you have more power than usual to free yourself of your own personal bullshit story.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Is the truth a

clear, bright, shiny treasure, like a big diamond glittering in the sunlight? Does it NOW september 12-18 2013

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Pork and egg pie with vegetable mash and pea and mint salad, prepped by co-owner/chef Joel MacMillan, and the cowboy sausage plate are hits at his and co-owner/chef Melissa daSilva’s eatery Me and Mine.

Simple innovation Me and Mine does wonders with its veggie-friendly card By STEVEN DAVEY No bad thing that. A complimentary starter of grilled watermelon doused with salt and lime is the very essence of summer. Three deliciously simple carrot croquettes paired with nutty sunflower tahini ($5) are models of restraint when compared to the 47-ingredient platters of yore.

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The last time we checked in with Joel MacMillan, he was helming the kitchen at Zocalo, where his wildly creative “broken-bread sandwiches” helped make the laid-back Junction Triangle café NOW’s runner-up restaurant of the year for 2010, second only to Woodlot.

Together with long-time sous Melissa daSilva, he’s just launched Me and Mine on the nascent West College resto strip. While the vegetarian-friendly carte is as innovative as ever, it’s not nearly as extravagantly plated.

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mini-pancakes ($15), a clever play on blini, sour cream and lox. Sided with roasted grape tomatoes and sprouted chickpea salads, wedges of toasted jalapeño cornbread pudding come topped with fabulously cheesy kale torte ($12).

MacMillan’s terrific cowboy pork ’n’ beef sausages show up alongside a retro cauli-cheese bake, a handful of pickled cherries and an al dente green bean and wilted watercress salad, while his minced pork and quail egg pie comes saddled with mashed root veggies and minty garden peas (both $13).

Turn any of them into brunch for 2 bucks with the addition of a conventionally poached runny egg.

Or come back for those eggs on the weekend over house-cured pork belly, grilled scallion salad, St. John Bakery toast spread with sticky tomato jam and roasted salt ’n’ malt vinegar home fries ($15).

And don’t skip the apple, cheddar and rosemary galette ($10 with salad) in the same buttery whole wheat crust as the pork pie if you like your

sweet a little savoury.

But enough of our usual bafflegab.

How would they describe what they do?

“We’re just trying to be a neighbourhood restaurant,” says MacMillan. “We want people to come back for the food.”

That shouldn’t be a problem.

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freshdish Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene The Real Jerk is finally reopening in a new location at Gerrard and Carlaw.

Eighteen months after being evicted from their long-running location at Queen and Broadview, the Real Jerk (842 Gerrard East, at Carlaw, 416-463-6055, therealjerk. com, @RealJerkToronto) has found a new home in Johnny K’s now-defunct Playpen.

“It fell into our laps,” says the Jerk’s Ed Pottinger. “It wasn’t on the market, but we knew somebody who knew somebody. It’s been a long process. I’m only starting to exhale!”

The new 135-seat Jamaican joint is scheduled to open as early as next weekend.

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Hanif Harji’s name is associated with some of the most successful resto-lounges around – regular cash-spinners like Blowfish, Nyood, Westlodge Patria, the latSubscribe to and NOW’s ter two in partnership with club king Charles Khabouth. But after six years, his Kultura never got off the ground, the victim of a difficult

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at Jarvis, 416-363-9000), a tequila cantina dedicated to Mexican and Spanish tapas. We smell ’spensive SD tacos à la Playa Cabana.

location, indifferent food and zero scenesters. Watch him reinvent the three-storey venue on Sunday (September 15) as Olé Olé (169 King East,

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Tuck into grilled chicken wings with coriander hot sauce at Big Crow.

blueberry Sno-Cones. Complete dinners for $25 (lunches $15), including tax, tip and a beer. Open Monday 11 am to 4 pm, Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations accepted.

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

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: NNNN✺

Caribbean HUMMINGBIRD 1276 Queen E, at Alton, 647-748ñ 3004, thehummingbird.ca, @humming-

halloumi and sauerkraut sandwich on multigrain ($8.50).

That flaming Greek cheese also shows up on Vicki’z Pro Bowl ($10.50), an impressive heap of fettucini tossed

Excellent vegetarian fettucini at Vicki’z features very tasty grilled halloumi.

with roasted peppers, sun-dried tomatoes and olive oil. Sadly, a liver-cleansing tonic of beetroot and grapefruit juice ($4) is just too vile to finish even if it does come in a cute Mason jar with a SD bendy straw. pers and leeks in an aggressive cumin gravy spiked with whole cloves of garlic and star anise. Complete dinners for $20 per person, including tax, tip and a Canada Dry. Average main $15. Open Monday to Saturday 3 pm to 1 am. Reservations accepted. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: short step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN 3

Uighur SILK ROAD 438 Horner, at Beta, 416-259-9440 ñ There are several things you need to

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Best: retro salads with shredded iceberg, sliced hardT.O’s food & avocado, drink scene. boiled egg and a handful of Quebecois nowtoronto.com/ cocktail shrimp in Thousand Island dressing; uncut jerk chicken wings with grilled newsletters 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

Though she’s located a couple of doors down from Sneaky Dee’s, Vicki’z (421 College, at Bathurst, 647-344-3305 Rating: NNN) isn’t interested in the latenight party crowd.

Instead, her two-month-old vegetarian café caters to a health-conscious clientele looking for wallet-friendly alternatives to hamburgers and nachos.

But because most do takeout, few get to experience Vicki at her best.

In lieu of a no-doubt recyclable polystyrene box, eat-in customers get her “famous” fava bean dip (aka foul, $6) in tall glass bowls dressed with chopped ripe tomato and a drizzle of garlicky tahini alongside grilled pita wedges on the same white rectangular plates that Susur Lee uses. However, her “traditional” falafel ($6.50) wrapped in nontraditional whole wheat tortillas deserves a better side than crappy frozen french fries. Far better to go with the crinkly sweet potato fries that come with the grilled

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know before making the trek to the GTA’s sole Uighur restaurant. Unless you arrive just as the doors open, you’ll need a reservation, and even then it’s only good for an hour. Park directly in front of the resto or risk the wrath of the neighbours. If you don’t like lamb, you’re screwed. And unless you go as a group, be prepared for leftovers. Best: grilled lamb kebabs dusted in cumin; tender on-the-bone lamb shank in clear broth thick with chopped parsley, green onion and Thai bird chilies; made-to- share platters of the kitchen’s celebrated handmade lasagna-like laghman noodles layered with chicken, pep-

Restaurant openings, reviews & foodie news birdTO Conveniently located fromdirectly T.O’s food & drink scene. across the street from the Leslieville Beer nowtoronto.com/newsletters Store, Otis Creary’s island-inspired bistrocum-take-away breathes new life into tradition-bound Caribbean cuisine. Best: to start, saltfish and ackee bruschetta on house-baked bammy flatbread; aggressively spiced jerk chicken over local greens with sliced avocado, baby grape tomatoes and caramelized plantain croutons in thyme-scented balsamic vinaigrette; deli-

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Old Fashioned

If you haven’t caught wind of the latest and best excuse to drink American whisky, September is National Bourbon Heritage month, the ideal time to demystify one of the simplest (and most abused) classics – the Old Fashioned. Back in 19th century America, an eyeopening mixture of liquor, bitters, sugar and water was a popular morning pick-me-up – the ­original cocktail (it’s suggested that the word comes from consumption at the cock’s crow). Since this has become one of the most ubiquitously request­ed tipples in Toronto, you might as well learn how to mix one at home.

1 sugar cube 3 dashes Angostura Bitters ¼ oz of carbonated water 2 oz bourbon (select a sharper bourbon like Buffalo Trace to counterbalance the sugar, or sub a good rye whisky) Saturate the sugar cube with bitters and water in a double rocks glass and muddle well. Add bourbon and ice and give a good stir to mix and dilute. Garnish with a thick orange twist. To be avoided at all costs: muddling fruit salad into a glass of whisky and calling it an Old Fashioned.

American goods Our neighbours to the south may make some dubious

decisions about life and politics, but, hot damn, do they ever know their drink. God bless America’s booze.

Home of the Brave

589 King West (upstairs), 416-366-2736, thehotb.com Elevation of the everyday is done well at the recently opened and crazy-popular Home of the Brave, team La Carnita’s take on blue-collar American food and beverage.

Where else in the city can you munch pistachio-sprinkled fried bologna stacked on a house-made milk bun and wash it down with an obscure classic cocktail?

Kudos to HOTB for taking a fresh ­design approach – part industrial workshop and part diner with a low-key, trendy vibe. Praise Jesus (see what happened there?) someone got on the Americana tip, ­because we fear we may slip into mild catatonia at the sight of more reclaimed barnboard, antlers and flannel plaid.

The 18-seat marble bar is the first thing you find when you cross the border into HOTB territory, and it’s the best place to plant yourself and begin working through the drinks list, which features house and vintage American cocktails along with a “guest book”

Signature drink The Honeymoon $12 In Vintage Spirits And Forgotten Cocktails (a must-read for cocktail enthusiasts), Ted Haigh, aka Dr. Cocktail, calls the Honeymoon “smooth, balanced, nuanced and urbane,” pretty much nailing its character.

This recipe, first published in 1917, is one you don’t see around too often, so get down to the HOTB and thank them by ordering one.

2 oz Calvados ½ oz Benedictine ½ oz Cointreau ½ oz fresh lemon juice Shake and fine-strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist if you please.

Colonel E.H. Taylor Straight Rye Whiskey (Frank-

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of rotating recipes contributed by bar manager Taylor Corrigan’s mixologist pals stateside.

Try the Wizard of Oz (Cynar, sherry, lime and orange bitters) by Alex Renshaw of Chicago’s Drumbar, or Corrigan’s elegant Tombac Tippler (Tequila Tromba, rose liqueur, Chartreuse, grapefruit bitters). All cocktails go for a reasonable $12.

Naturally, there’s plenty of Ameri­ can beer – PBR tallboys ($5), bottles of Anchor Steam and Brooklyn Lager ($7) and Ommegang Hennepin on tap ($8). But don’t you dare leave without sharing a cup of spiked slush (bittered Jack and Coke or a rummy Zombie for$7), ideally with someone cute, through two straws.

Hours: Monday to Wednesday 5 to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am. Closed Sundays. Opening soon for lunch and takeout.

Patio: None, but grab a seat at the open window overlooking King West.

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fort, ­Kentucky) Rating: NNNNN Why: If we’re to believe the trend forecast, rye’s the new bourbon.

It’s a pity straight rye whiskies rarely appear on LCBO shelves, but gems like this make stalking Vintages on a weekly basis worthwhile. Produced by Buffalo Trace Distilleries, this complex, robust whisky is glorious in spirit-forward cocktails – especially Manhattan variations like the Red Hook and Remember The Maine.

Price: 750 ml/$79.95 Availability: Vintages 326959, very limited

tasting notes Events, bar openings & closings, new releases and more Cask Days tix on sale now

Grab tickets now for Cask Days Craft Beer Festival, October 19 and 20 at Evergreen Brick Works (550 Bayview, 416-5967670). In its ninth year, Cask Days 2013 features hundreds of cask-conditioned Canadian brews plus an international spotlight on UK ales. $29.96 for each of the three five-hour sessions, at caskdays.com.

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The Hopera returns for Toronto Beer Week

Celebrate Toronto Beer Week at the Hopera with master cicerone Mirella Amato. On September 19, 7 pm, at Habits Gastropub (928 College, 416-533-7272), this year’s evening of beer and song showcases performances by four opera singers while offering samples of local craft brew from Spearhead, Beau’s, Flying Monkeys and ­Amsterdam. $36.40 at beerology.ca.

Cloudline Pinot Noir 2011

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Price: 750 ml/$23.95 Availability: Vintages 159970

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(Cooperstown, New York) Rating: NNNN Why: Don’t despair the seasonal shift – Ommegang’s all-weather Farmhouse Saison is there for you. It’s brewed with grains of paradise, coriander, ginger and orange peel, and our instincts tell us it should get cozy with gin. Pair with spicy foods or try it in a cocktail, like Home of the Brave’s bourbonbased ’Tis The Saison ($12).

Price: 4 x 355 ml/$12.95 Availability: LCBO 359117

Perrier x Andy Warhol marks brand’s 150th anniversaire

Iconic bubbly H2O Perrier is releasing a limited number of bottles with label designs based on early 80s art by Andy ­Warhol. Now you can parade around town with a bottle of “pop art.” Très chic.

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Photos by KATHRYN GAITENS & MICHAEL WATIER Julia Roberts flashes her trademark smile on the August: Osage County gala.

Nicole Kidman arrives right on time for The Railway Man red carpet.

Brad Pitt ups the A-list quotient at 12 Years A Slave premiere.

Keira Knightley turned heads at the Can A Song Save Your Life? premiere.

Sandra Bullock enjoys a successful launch at the Gravity gala.

Matthew McConaughey flashes his Texas charm on the Dallas Buyers Club red carpet.

Hugh Jackman adds his Aussie scruff to Prisoners premiere.

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Michael Fassbender looks sharp on the 12 Years A Slave red carpet.

Benedict Cumberbatch looks smart before The Fifth Estate gets its world premiere.

Mila Kunis heats up the Third Person premiere.

Michael C. Hall grins for the Kill Your Darlings fans.

Lupita Nyong’o adds elegance to the 12 Years A Slave premiere.

Tom Hiddleston proves he can sign autographs and pose for pics on the Only Lovers Left Alive red carpet.

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Alicia Vikander knows how to work The Fifth Estate gala crowd.

Taylor Swift enjoys herself at the One Chance premiere.

Jennifer Garner sells the “come hither” look on the Dallas Buyers Club red carpet.

Saoirse Ronan looks dramatic for the How I Live Now opening.

Jude Law has a few things on his mind before the Dom Hemingway premiere.

Jessica Chastain glows before the screening of The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby.

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Sarah Paulson smiles before the 12 Years A Slave opening.

Jared Leto lets his hair down for the Dallas Buyers Club red carpet.

Jake Gyllenhaal flashes his baby blues before the Prisoners screening.

Glenn Close chills out before The Big Chill’s 30th anniversary screening.

NOW cover boy Chiwetel Ejiofor and guest smile before the 12 Years A Slave premiere.

Olivia Wilde shows star quality at the Third Person premiere.

James McAvoy brings shaggy chic to The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Him And Her opening.

Metallica rock the Metallica: Through The Never red carpet.

Catherine Keener smiles at the Can A Song Save Your Life? premiere.

James Franco flashes his usual grin before his film Child Of God premieres.

Josh Brolin looks serious before the Labor Day opening.

Jesse Eisenberg lets himself be photographed at the Night Moves opening.

Scarlett Johansson glams up the Don Jon red carpet.

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Little Dawson is all grown up. James Van Der Beek smiles at the Labor Day premiere.

Daniel Radcliffe looks spiffy at the premiere of Kill Your Darlings.

Matthew Crawley – oops, Dan Stevens – walks the Fifth Estate red carpet.

Mia Wasikowska stays cool at the Only Lovers Left Alive carpet.

The elegant Liane Balaban seduces The Grand Seduction fans.

Juliette Lewis walks the August: Osage County red carpet.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt oozes cool at the Don Jon preem.

Ben Foster and Robin Wright pair up for the Kill Your Darlings opening.

Don McKellar and Kim Cattrall walk the Grand Seduction red carpet.

Toni Collette always looks fantastic.

Enough Said, right?

Taylor Kitsch looks chill at The Grand Seduction premiere.

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Colin Firth smiles for his fans at The Railway Man opening.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is obviously having a ball at the Enough Said premiere.

Terrence Howard grins for the Prisoners fans.

Tracey Fairway strikes a pose at the Enough Said opening.

Not quite there yet, Kate Winslet arrives at the Labor Day gala.

If summer is the season for stadium tours and outdoor festivals, fall is the serious music aficionado’s time to buckle down, don the headphones or drop the needle. 2013 is no different. Major albums, important tours and awaited comebacks are nigh.

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rae spoon a revealing NFB Doc and a heartbreakingly honest album ­explore an artist’s roots and embrace new ideas about gender

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ae Spoon seems unrufflable. Three Gladstone bum about growing up in Alberta, since there wasn’t acdropped Skype calls into a conversation, tually a lot of electro­nic music in my childhood,” laughs Ballroom the musician laughs off the disruptions September 18 Spoon, fresh off a performance at Seattle’s Bumbershoot and suggests we switch to the hotel room’s festival. land line.

“I tried to keep it closer to the genres I was exposed to.

Things weren’t always this way, however. Christian contemporary music. Gospel music. Folk. But I proWhen Spoon was a queer teen­ager stuck in an cessed the sounds electronically, and there are some samples, so evangelical Pente­costal household in Calgary it’s not totally not an electro­nic album.” lord­ed over by a paranoid-schizophrenic father, The focal point is Spoon’s high, light voice, beckoning like the the smallest distur­bances triggered panic. clarion they (Spoon prefers the gender-neutral, third-person Raised to believe the end times were nigh, pronoun) used to dread hearing as a kid. Sometimes it’s bright Spoon had anxious bouts whenever, say, a heater and understated, other times layered and briefly fluttering. It turned on, ima­gining the sound to be a trumpet signalling the delivers the sweetest melodies. It hides behind nothing. appearance of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Same goes for the lyrics. In Amy Grant, Spoon wishes they’d “If you were gay and led a gay life, you were not going to be known about Freddie Mercury when he was still alive rather protected,” Spoon recalls. than the Christian pop singer of the title. In I Can’t Tear It From This detail about the transgender indie singer/songwriter Me, we learn about the grandmother who taught Spoon how to comes during the documentary-musical My Prai­rie Home, hit- love and to sing their way through things. Cowboy, meanwhile, ting theatres this November. Directed by Chelsea McMullan and is the most vulnerable song ever written about acting tough in produced by the National Film Board’s Lea Marin, the film ex- order to impress someone. plores Spoon’s childhood through a fantastically original blend That song opens the film, with the diminutive Spoon bravely of musical sequences, on-the-road footage, first-person inter- walking through a Calgary diner full of truckers and old-timers, view and stunning cine­ma­tography. strumming a guitar and singing. The rugged customers stare As ambitious as it is, it’s just one – the final – part of a larger back with indifference, judg­ment, curiosity and amusement. years-in-the-making project that also includes a short story col- You sort of fear for Spoon, but you’re also completely comlection Spoon published last fall and an album, also called My pelled.

Prairie Home, released on Saved by Vinyl in August, which gets a And with that, the chief conflict comes into view. Someone two-show launch party at the Gladstone on Wednesday. like Spoon, outside the traditional gender binary, flummoxes (at The album takes a step back from Spoon’s last few Polaris best) and enrages (at worst) many people. How can a person Prize-nomi­nated adventures in electronic-pop, zeroing in on dress like a “boy” but sing like a “girl” and identify as a “they”? gospel and folk in its first half before moving into rock and Acceptance requires the embracing of a fairly new idea: that grunge, paralleling Spoon’s real-life musical journey. gender is fluid, irrelevant, something to let go of. Maybe there’s “I thought it would be disingenuous to write an electronic al- no such thing as a voice that sounds female, or an outfit that

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reads male. We’re all a mix of both.

Spoon met McMullan six years ago, while working on one of the di­rec­tor’s earlier documentaries, Deadman, for which Spoon wrote the score. McMullan had a profound reaction to hearing Spoon’s singing voice for the first time.

“My whole body began to tingle, and I felt a sense of nostalgia and longing. When we began collaborating and they slowly opened up and told me their story, I realized their history is all in their music. Rae carefully wraps secrets in their melodic voice.”

Hence, the documentary-musical approach.

The way Spoon remembers it, the idea for My Prairie Home first arose out of a discussion the two had in 2010 about the musician’s perceived lack of marketability, a criticism Spoon sometimes receives when applying for music video funding. (“Maybe I am unmarketable,” Spoon says, “but there’s also definitely some transphobia going on.”)

“My intention for the film was to create a biography of a feeling. I want the audience to understand in a visceral way what it’s like to be Rae Spoon,” McMullan says. “I have so much respect for them as an artist. I don’t think there are too many artists out there like Rae, who have total autonomy over their work. They don’t play the industry game. They just sing it out and let the music speak for itself.”

Also, Spoon’s story has no shortage of narrative conflict: fireand-brimstone childhood; family mental illness; being queer in cowboy country; gender and genre confusion – Spoon spent 10 years in Vancouver identifying as male and playing country music.

Then there’s the bullying that be­gan when Spoon started a relationship – interracial, at that – with a girl at their high school.

In the film’s most powerful section, Spoon and the ex reunite for the prom they never had.

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“That was the most surreal thing,” Spoon says. “Having the prom we never went to. We couldn’t go to ours.

Things were very violent. I don’t think either of us went to graduation either.

Because you’re not out to your parents. What if someone yells something at you when you’re walking across the stage? We couldn’t take the risk.”

And yet the tone of the film and songs is anything but bitter.

“Well, I didn’t want to make music or write a book or be in a film that was full of rage,” Spoons says. “Because maybe I have my share of rage, but I don’t think it necessarily makes for the best art for communicating with other people, you know what I mean?

And that’s why it’s better we filmed it when I was near or in my 30s.”

These days, Spoon, who lives in Montreal, seems content, calm and clear about who they are. Even constant life on the road as an underpaid, overworked indie musician hasn’t taken its toll. (Down-to-earth, comical Spoon says their trick for staying sane is to not drink, get lots of sleep and eat all the time.)

Still, a sense of tension remains.

Spoon’s father, from whom the entire family is now estranged, remains a menacing presence in both the film and in their life, showing up unex­ pect­edly at shows, watching in silence and then escaping into the night. And the gender stuff trips peo­ple up daily.

“Other people decide for me what I am,” Spoon says with a shrug. “That’s still happening every day, which is kind of funny. Like, I don’t know when I go for dinner if I’m a boy or girl or what. I only find out when peo­ple use a word or, I don’t know.... I never know.

But I’m more relaxed about it now. I kind of breathe through it.”

McMullan says that while her films aren’t overtly political, she’d love it if this one started a conversation about gender. “Since meeting Rae, my perspective on it has totally shifted. I would love for an audience to experience a similar shift, or at least have their preconceptions challenged.”

Does Spoon ever regret making so much of their life public?

“I think the hardest thing about the whole project was that, because I’ve been dealing with issues with my family, you can feel like the more at­ tention you pay to that and the more public you are about it, the more you’re drawing the conflict back to you.

“But songwriting is the way I process things most effectively. And when you’re a performer, your job is to communicate. Already, I’ve had a lot of people telling me they had similar childhoods. And it’s a valuable thing for queer youth to have lots of examples of what you can grow up to be. You can be trans or gay or retire from gender completely.

“So it was a risk that was difficult, but I’m glad I took it.”

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drake the weeknd Air Canada Centre ­October 24

WATAIN

Opera House ­October 12

Massey Hall ­ October 17 Like horror movies? A Watain show is the musical equivalent. And beware the stench: animal blood features prominently in the controversial Swedish black metallers’ shows, as do skulls, red candles, pitchforks and other satanic accoutrements. But don’t let all that distract you from their remarkable music. Watain have proved their mettle (metal?) on four albums, and their new fifth one, The Wild Hunt (Season of Mist), stands out for its hellishly furious tone, flurries of arpeggiated riffs and downright beautiful atmospherics. Plus, unlike on previous releases, Erik Danielsson frequentCarla Gillis ly switches up his vocal style. $23. TF.

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t•dot titans Drake and the Weeknd are inextricably linked. You may have first heard the latter, aka Abel Tesfaye, on Drake’s song Crew Love from his last album, Take Care. You may have first seen the elusive, media-shy Tesfaye perform at Drake’s OVO Fest two years ago.

You may be aware of the alleged feud, and the purposefully public burying of the hatchet via first an Instagram shot, second the Weeknd’s performance at this year’s OVO and third a Drizzy verse on Live For, the third single on Tesfaye’s long-anticipated studio debut, Kiss Land (Universal), which came out earlier this month.

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Massey Hall. And now that Kiss Land has proved Tesfaye is not just a flash in the pan, or should I say three flashes – his mixtape trilogy, Trilogy, was one of the best musical projects of 2011 – we can set our sights on the September 24 release of Drake’s third full-length, Nothing Was The Same.

We’ve already heard two drastically different singles, Started From The Bottom and Hold On, We’re Going Home, whose only similarities are complete radio ubiquity (I won’t say overplay) and earworm infectiousness.

Despite a surge of haters (some time between 2010’s Thank Me Later and 2011’s Take Care, unabashed Drake-loving became less cool than, say, unabashed Jay Z-loving), Drake continues to kill his city with kindness. In release after release, he shows a knack for coining phrases that quickly b ­ ecome vernacular, and for not just capturing the musical zeitgeist, but shaping it.

Judging by the office reaction to my squeal upon hearing the date of Drake’s Toronto ACC show, not everyone is aware that October 24 is also Drizzy’s 27th birthday. For he’s a jolly good fellow, that – try as they may – nobody can deny. $45-$75. LN (The Weeknd); $76.75$126.75. TM (Drake). Julia LeConte

Kiss Land (Universal) Rating: Enigmatic Toronto figure the Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, goes the distance on his studio debut. It’s a mere 10 tracks, but each is teased out and milked dry.

On Love In The Sky, he laments that he’s “always in a rush, ain’t no time to fuck slow.” Kiss Land, then, must be his ­delayed orgasm.

Tesfaye’s songwriting continues to be mature and intelligent – whether he’s playing with multiple meanings of the word “professional” on the opener or waxing poetic on the seven-and-a-half-minute confessional title track. He’s not just singing about the trappings of celebrity; he’s analyzing his own sometimes bad behaviour, which he simultaneously ­regrets and unapologetically repeats.

Production-wise, Kiss Land is slightly more polished but no happier than its predecessor, 2011’s despair-filled, drugfuelled Trilogy. It’s peppered with interesting details like the background chants on Adaptation, samples of thunder and rain, and a Drake verse on Live For. Throughout, it blends big strings with sporadic beats and a fair amount of 80schannelling electronica. Still, Tesfaye hasn’t compromised his unique comingdown sound: there’s nothing you’ll hear blasting at a dance party, though the fantastic Wanderlust comes close.

Oh, and his voice. That delicious falsetto. Even seven and a half minutes isn’t long enough.

Top track: Wanderlust JL

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Lamb of God’s two October shows in support of last year’s decent Resolution album (Epic/Roadrunner), their seventh, will be a chance for the Virginia thrashy metal band to let off steam. After all, their troubles haven’t ended with singer Randy Blythe’s release from a Czech prison and acquittal on manslaughter charges related to a fan’s death at one of their concerts. Last week they were banned from ­Malaysia after Islamic officials ­declared their music “blasphemous.” Will they ever catch a break?

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Concert Season Begins!

KOERNER HALL’S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Mary Chapin Carpenter and Shawn Colvin

Joe Sealy with Jackie Richardson, Arlene Duncan, and Ranee Lee

THURS., OCT. 17, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

SAT., OCT. 19, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Jazz pianist and JAZZ.FM91 radio host Joe Sealy is joined by three of Canada’s finest jazz vocalists and an all-star band to kick off the celebration of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan with new arrangements of songs they made popular.

Acclaimed songwriters, multiple Grammy award winners, and long-time friends share the stage as an intimate duo.

Chris Thile

David Broza and Yemen Blues

FRI., OCT. 25, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

SAT., OCT. 26, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

“Chris Thile is special in an already special circle.”

(Huffington Post) The mandolin virtuoso and composer is giving rise to a new genre of contemporary music. Thile will perform works from his new Bach recording, as well as his own compositions.

Soulful singer, songwriter, and guitarist David Broza is often referred to as the “Israeli Springsteen.” Picture Blind Willie Johnson collaborating with North African trance musicians, or Stevie Wonder incorporating Yemenite chants, to imagine the funk infused groove of Yemen Blues.

Presented in association with Ashkenaz Festival.

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Taj Mahal Trio Vusi Mahlasela Fredericks Brown featuring Deva Mahal WED., OCT. 30, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

“One of the enduring figures in American blues,” (Rolling Stone) Taj Mahal shares the stage with South African legend Vusi Mahlasela, and Fredericks Brown with Taj's daughter Deva Mahal.

Vesuvius Ensemble and The Sicilian Jazz Project SAT., NOV. 2, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

Travel to Naples and Modica for an evening of traditional Italian music and Mediterranean jazz.

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Bruce Hornsby THURS., NOV. 14, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

Thirteen-time Grammy nominee Bruce Hornsby has successfully ventured into jazz, classical, bluegrass, and pop/rock, and his albums have sold over 11 million copies worldwide. This performance features Bruce, a piano, and all the songs you know and love, from “The Way It Is” to “Mandolin Rain” and “Every Little Kiss.”

SAT., NOV. 9, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

Three skillful and creative composers defy every rock/classical music cliché.

Hear Nicole Lizée’s 2012: Triple Concerto for Power Trio and Orchestra (Fantasia on Themes by Rush), and new pieces by Dan Deacon and Bryce Dessner.

Ramsey Lewis Quintet with Cécile McLorin Salvant SAT., NOV. 16, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

Chicago jazz legend Ramsey Lewis is “one of the great musicians of his generation.” (The New York Times) “Ms. Salvant has it all.” (The New York Times)

Anoushka Shankar SAT., NOV. 23, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL

Nitin Sawhney has said that no one embodies the spirit of innovation more evidently than Anoushka Shankar.

In this performance, Shankar performs songs from her newest CD, produced by Sawhney. “She’s making her own unique mark on the world.” (Harper’s Bazaar) Presented in association with Small World Music.

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BASIA BULAT

Those who attended Basia Bulat’s performance at the Art Gallery of Ontario in January were spellbound by her collaboration with projectionthe ist Stephanie Comilang, who Polish Combatants complemented the singer/ Hall songwriter’s poignant tunes October 10 & 11 with artful imagery.

The evening’s interplay between light and dark carried over to the artwork for Bulat’s new album, Tall Tall Shadow (Secret City), to be released September 30. Apt, given her songs’ penchant for balancing melancholy and hope.

That lyrical bent came into sharp focus last year when Bulat lost a dear friend shortly before recording her third full-​length with ­Arcade Fire multi-​instrumentalist­Tim Kingsbury and producer Mark Lawson (The Suburbs). She put aside the songs she’d

at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (September 14), 9 pm. Free. At Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), October 16, 9 pm. $10. RT, SS, TW. At Silver Dollar/Comfort Zone (486 Spadina), October 31. $12.50. RT, SS.

TEENANGER Don’t call Teenanger a garage rock band. Or a garage punk band. Or a ­garage anything band.

First off: the Toronto fourpiece jams in the Rehearsal Factory on Richmond in a basement space upholstered with show posters and patched-up carpet samples, not a garage. Second:

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any traces of the swingier garage sensibilities that led 2011’s Give Me Pink and lingered on last year’s Frights have been totally purged on their latest long(ish) player, the lean, mean 22-minute Singles Don’t $ell.

“You’d figure that in 2013, after so many years of people reinventing themselves, they’d be able to handle a slight change,” says drummer Steve

Sidoli. “But they still can’t! It’s like, ‘Huh? What is this? You got rid of your Telecaster?’ We wanted to convey a message: Wake up, garage nerds! We’re deviating!”

These days, straying by going electro has become de rigueur, with plenty of indie bands capitalizing on the popularity of dance music to court new fans.

Teenanger’s going the other way – getting nastier, punkier, sounding more like themselves, whether or not it $ells. Even their album release show is free.

“Sometimes money comes to you and sometimes it doesn’t,” says guitarist Jon Schouten.

“We’re not gonna be like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re making so much fucking money.’”

Instead, Teenanger seem more ­concerned with contributing to and active­ly cultivating (via their own label, Telephone Explosion) Toronto’s underground rock music scene, slowly chipping away at the hardened egos of too-cool showgoers who pay a $10 cover just to stand with their arms defiantly crossed. They’ve even started a sister label to issue music on cassette.

“It’s too expensive to put music out on vinyl,” says Schouten, “whereas if we sell 20 tapes we’re happy.”

Sidoli’s eyes light up, imagining an even more boldly anticommercial future. “Let’s start a label where everything we put out is on Memorex CDs from Shoppers Drug Mart.”

JOHN SEMLEY

been writing; instead, out poured a new batch, raw and personal.

“It took me a while to understand that I wanted to create something honest and beautiful that other people would see something of their own experiences in,” the singer ­explains.

For a songwriter accustomed to couching emotion in narratives, standing behind such personal ­expressions proved a challenge, ­especially when the musical arrangements became more unembellished to match.

“The songs that I connect to and that have influenced me the most are those where whoever’s writing or singing is very open,” Bulat says.

She recalls an encounter with country-​folk legend Emmylou Harris at Daniel Lanois’s Harvest Picnic concert

earlier this month: “She said, ‘Go to left field – you’ll never regret it.’

“I hope that’s where I’m headed. I was afraid at first of maybe disap­ pointing people by ‘changing’ [with this record], but I think I’ll always sound like me.”

Surrounding herself with a close-​ knit family of musicians, including brother Bobby on drums, has helped her stay true to her sound.

Bulat quips that she’s not quite sure how everyone’s going to fit onstage during her upcoming record-​ release­concerts at the retro Polish Combatants Hall – especially since there might be some special guests in the mix.

“The hometown shows are going to be really fun,” she beams. “We’re going to bring a little bit of joy.” $20. RT, SS. tabassum siddiqui

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In the video for the song You Can’t Help It off their upcoming Torontorecorded­debut joint album, Colours (Tin Angel), Devon Sproule and Mike O’Neill are cradling old-fashioned phones and writing tunes together.

In fact, the long-distance collaborators (he’s in Halifax, she’s in Austin) composed almost the entire record ­remotely, though in real life they ­favoured more modern technology: emails, texts and MP3s.

“We almost never talked,” says Sproule, who met O’Neill through her Low-Key Karaoke project (in which she spliced together videos of herself doing covers with videos of other people singing harmonies).

Initially, Sproule was unfamiliar with O’Neill’s music – either his solo albums or his work with indie rockers

the ­Inbreds. “He sent me a link to [his solo album] Wild Lines after [contributing to] Low-Key Karaoke, saying, ‘I’m a musician, too,’” she says, “and we ­exchanged past records.”

Their rapport as pen pals soon led to a joint tour and musical collaboration. “He was so excited about sending me ideas, I didn’t realize until later that he wasn’t writing them all right at that moment,” says Sproule. “He has a stockpile of awesome ideas that he hasn’t released.”

O’Neill’s initial version of You Can’t Help It, for example, was inspired by the fictionalized relationship between Mozart and Salieri in Amadeus, but Sproule made the song more universal and accessible.

“It was intimidating to rewrite, because his version was sort of finished,” she says. “But it didn’t make quite enough sense to me. I had the balls to change it, and he was really psyched about it.” SARAH GREENE 10 pm. Pwyc

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Arctic Monkeys It’s time to start listening to Arctic Monkeys again. With this week’s release of AM, the ever-evolving British indie rockers are five albums deep. A departure from the band’s garage rock beginnings, AM boasts heavy bass lines, making it sexier and even more addictive than previous offerings. Lead singer and chief lyricist Alex Turner conjures an after-midnight haze in which drunk dials and booty calls culminate in heartbreak and longing.

This is a very sexy album. What sound did you have in mind for AM? We put a song out about a year ago called R U Mine? We were experimenting a little more with vocal production and contemporary R&Bsounding backing vocals and melodies.

I read that Dr. Dre was an influence. Were you listening to rap while w ­ riting?

We always are really. It was even an influence on the first record, but I guess it wasn’t so conspicuous. There’s a bit of that 70s rock ’n’ roll thing to it as well. It’s a clash between colours from both those rainbows.

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What’s your process for writing lyrics?

It’s sort of like waiting for a delivery. You know when you get a window, like between 3 and 5 someone’s going to deliver your dishwasher? I wait for a window and hope something will come to me. This time I had a dartboard set up in me back garden. I’d throw a dart and it would help me arrive­at conclusions for lyrics.

How did recording punk-rock poet John Cooper Clarke’s I Wanna Be Yours come about?

He was one of my inspirations when I first picked up a pen. We had a demo, like a drumbeat and a bass line on a 4-track recorder, and I was just sitting there one day and started singing I Wanna Be Yours. I thought, why not do someone else’s lyrics for a change?

Why did you choose to record the album in L.A.?

We’ve been living there for this past year, so it kind of just made sense. We got a long-term lease on a cheap studio that was a bit banged up and we learned to love the place. We went out to the Joshua Tree to get the juices flowing.

That’s a very special place for us now – magic in the desert.

Do you have a favourite song from AM? I’m quite happy with the words on Arabella. That may be me finest hour lyrically on this new album.

But it’s hard to pick a favourite kid. Diana Cina

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Remember back in the mid-2000s when trendy band names weren’t sans vowels or rendered in caps-lock, but long and whimsical? The Brooklyn-based Clap Your Hands Say Yeah sure do, and they’re reliving those glory days this fall with a quick and dirty North American tour. They’ll play tunes from their new EP, Little Moments, an electro-pop collection that swaps guitar for the most basic synth lines, and from their upcoming full-length due this January, plus classics from their 2005 debut. The band’s downsized from five members to two, so it will be interesting to see how they recreate their sound live.

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arcade fire

Arcade Fire’s last album, 2010’s The Suburbs, turned them Release into arena-rocking Grammy date: winners, but part of their October 29 charm is that they’ve never lost their gawky, approachable demeanour. Still, that hasn’t stopped the Montreal indie darlings from playing the enigmatic 21st-century hype game this time around. My inquiry into new album details gets do know (at press time): it’s probredirected three times before ending up in the inbox of a Universal rep who ably called Reflektor, might be a double album, is maybe produced stays mum, leaving me to ­follow the

by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murshadowy trail of @-replies, blurry Inphy and gets released October 29 stagrams, salsa club show ­reports Richard Trapunski on Merge. and disco-Bowie song leaks. What we

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Scottish four-piece Franz Ferdinand’s fourth album, Right Kool Haus Thoughts, Right Words, Right October Action, is earning the indie 24 rockers lots of positive press, and with big choruses and punchy guitars, it’s no wonder. The most interesting thing, however, is their return to the pep-step sound of the eponymous ­album that broke them.

Not that the sonic territory explored on their 2005 and 09 releases wasn’t welcome, but having just 11 songs of that original upbeat, beloved-by-radio dance rock simply wasn’t enough. $38.50, HS, RT, SS, TF. Julia LeConte

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Garrison September 13

Beat musician Zachary Shigeto Saginaw, aka Shigeto, who is from Ann Arbor, recently moved back from Brooklyn to Michigan – home of his Ghostly International label. Fitting, considering Detroit’s rich history with electronic music.

But Shigeto’s sound isn’t East Coast-specific. He wouldn’t, for instance, be out of place in Flying Lotus’s L.A.-based Brainfeeder crew.

His new album, No Better Time Than Now, released last month, is actually

more otherworldly than earthly: jazzy, intensely pretty electro that is bass-music-influenced without being a slave to an unrelenting beat. In 2012 he played 180 shows, so we’re assuming he’s well-practised for Friday’s Garrison gig.

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Hamilton Supercrawl

September 12 to 14 Torontonians don’t tend to like travelling outside the city for a festival (this summer’s Grove Festival, for instance, was forced to relocate from ­Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort York), but Hamilton’s Supercrawl may be the antidote. The free threeday street fest gives us plenty of reasons to jump on the Go Train: Fucked Up, Yo La Tengo, METZ, Chelsea Light Moving, Passion Pit, Joel Plaskett, the Sadies.

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Junction Music Festival

various venues, S ­ eptember 21 The perennial up-and-coming (and formerly dry) Dundas West neighbourhood squeezes out the last bit of summer just before the first day

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of ­autumn. Five outdoor stages and a number of bars, restaurants and cafés play host to twangers Cuff the Duke, throwback rockers Zeus, Polaris-nomi­nated R&B experimentalist Zaki Ibra­him, roving Gypsy punks Lemon Bucket Orkestra and others beaming with west-end pride. ­thejunctionmusicfestival.com.

Souls of Mischief

A Tribe Called Red

This was an especially busy year for summer music festivals in Toronto, but the colder weather and shorter days aren’t about to spell the end of the fest season.

Bloor Ossington Folk Festival

various venues, September 20 to 22 Both “Ossington” and “folk” are a bit of a stretch for this multi-genre festival that takes place predominantly in Christie Pits park (plus a few nearby patios). Local sweethearts Julie Doiron and catl fall loosely under the folk banner, but the festival also gives us hip-hop (Grand Analog), liquid electro-rock (Pick a Piper) and rootsy Afrobeat (Minotaurs). ­bloorossingtonfolkfestival.ca.

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various venues, September 19 to 22 Now in its seventh year, Manifesto celebrates hip-hop as an inclusive, multi-faceted cultural movement.

This year’s Yonge-Dundas Square blowout features Souls of Mischief celebrating their 20th anniversary alongside quick-rising Def Jam soulstress Jhené Aiko, plus visual art, a dance party courtesy of Montreal powerhouse DJ ­Poirier, a producer showcase, community awards and whatever else fits under the umbrella. themanifesto.ca.

Music Gallery, October 11 to 20 Experimental music that doesn’t neatly fit into a genre tends to get classified as “new music,” but this year’s X Avant takes that even further by focusing on “urban abstract music,” a multilingual, multidisciplinary jumble mimicking the sounds of Toronto itself. If that seems kind of heady, well, it is. But if you’re open to taking a chance on a six-hour “slowmotion rave” courtesy of FLUX Quartet or an A/V collaboration between Polaris-shortlisted electronic pow wow artists A Tribe Called Red and Inuit beatboxer/throat singer Nelson Tagoona (a co-presentation with ImagineNATIVE), then this is the perfect fall p ­ rogram for you. musicRICHARD TRAPUNSKI gallery.org.

Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ/producer Ryan Hemsthe worth has had an amazHoxton ing year, and it’s about to October get even better on Octo4 ber 22 when he releases his debut album, Guilt Trips (Last Gang). He’s already got a reputation for unpredictably in favour of vocal collaborations and switching up his sound, but this relaid-back, organic textures. lease will see him eschewing some of benjamin boles $15, PDR, RT, SS. the colder club beats he’s known for

shad

Canada’s most famous rapper of all time. (“It’s not something you wake up expecting,” he says of that surprise win.)

And Flying Colours might be his best yet. ­Singles Stylin’ and Fam Jam are full of cutting social commentary and cultural celebration delivered with Shad’s characteristic humour­. Progress is “a In June, Shad popped up in a Boiler sketch of the last 50 years” delivered Room freestyle-rap ­cypher during epic-style in two parts over seven minNXNE. In July he was named host of utes. The semi-autobiographical He this month’s Polaris Prize gala. In Say She Say is one of the saddest August he performed at Grand love songs in hip-hop, hitting Opera Analog’s Drake Hotel show. close to home for any first-halfHouse This flurry of Toronto October of-the-80s baby. ­activity by the Vancouver19 But Shad’s got a little work to based emcee, born Shadrach do before the release. On SepKabango, felt very anticipatember 23, he co-hosts the Polaris tory… like, hmm: aren’t we Prize gala. due for an album soon?

“I’m not great at talking without a Sure enough, Flying beat in the background,” he quips.

Colours (Black Box), his “But I think the fact that it’s the Polaris fourth full-length, streets – it’s a lot of community October 15, though it’s people I know already very much done already.

– makes it a lot easi“That’s the worst part,” er.” says the emcee in a ToJudging by his ronto hotel lobby. “You freestyling have to put it out into skills, we the world before you think he’ll be feel like it’s done, so fine. Best reyeah – counting down familiarize himthe days.” self with the No need for anxsetting. In 2014 iety. he may find His last album, after all, himself on the 2010’s TSOL, was shortshort list. listed for the Polaris Prize.

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Wednesday, September 25

KT Tunstall, Brian Lopez The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $32.50. LN. Mo Kenney, Rachel Sermanni Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $22.

Serena Ryder Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Massey Hall 8 pm, $34.50-$79.

RTH. Still Life Still The Garrison.

Chali 2NA, Kayo Adelaide Music Hall doors 8 pm, $25. NT. David Myles, Tim Chaisson Enwave Theatre 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. Har Mar Superstar, Purple, Serb Superb Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $10.50.

HS, RT, SS. Pet Shop Boys Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50$99.50. SC. Stereophonics The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $36.50. LN, RT, SS. Travis, Rathborne Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $30-$45. RT, SS, TM.

Saturday, September 21 Jenn Grant Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. Julie Doiron, Pick a Piper, Memory­house, Sandman Viper Command, Grand Analog, Minotaurs, Alex Lukashevsky Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Christie Pits Park Main Stage 1 to 9 pm.

Local Natives, Wild Nothing Kool Haus doors 8:30 pm, all ages, $26.50. RT, SS, TF. Maestro Fresh Wes, Classified, k-os, Kardinal Offishall Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival: Symphony In Effect Massey Hall 8 pm, $30-$69.50. RTH. Michael Rault, Loose Pistons, NLP, the Benefit of the Free Man Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, adv $7. RT, SS. The Sadies, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet The Garrison 9 pm.

Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Logic Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $39.50-$69.50.

ACC, LN. Sandro Perri, Jennifer Castle First Thursdays: Nuit Blanche Kickoff Art Gallery of Ontario $12-$15.

Thirty Seconds to Mars, New Politics Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $35. LN, RT, SS.

wave Theatre 9 pm, $19.50-$29.50. RTH. Jenny Hval Rivoli doors 9 pm, $13.50. RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, September 28 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Forgotten Rebels Rockpile doors 8 pm, all ages. RT, SS, TW. Helloween, Entropy & Coldsteel

Opera House 7:30 pm, all ages, $39.50. TF. Iron and Wine, Widowspeak Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $30-$40. RT, SS, TF. Jack Johnson From Here To Now To You Tour Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.90-$69.90.

Okkervil River, TORRES Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8:30 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TF.

Sunday, September 29 Daughter Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20.50. RT, SS, TF. Wavves, King Tuff & Jacuzzi Boys Opera House doors 7 pm, all ages, $19. RT, SS, TF.

Thursday, September 26

Monday, September 30

DIANA, Empress Of The Great Hall 8 pm, $10. TW. MOE The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $25. RT, SS, TW.

Korn, Asking Alexandria Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $42.50$57.50. LN. Oh Land The Great Hall 8 pm, $15. LN.

Friday, September 27

Atlas Genius, Family of the Year, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $22.50. LN. Cyril Hahn, Ryan Hemsworth, Henry Krinkle Focus Fridays The Hoxton 10 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS. The Misfits Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $40. TW. Nine Inch Nails, Explosions in the Sky, Tension 2013 Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $66-$112.75. TM. Obits Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, October 5 Blitzen Trapper Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Sunday, October 6 Tricky, Royal Canoe Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TF.

Monday, October 7 Hawkwind, Perhaps Virgin Mobile Mod Club 7:30 pm, $24.50. TF.

Austra Phoenix Concert Theatre 9 pm, $25. TW. Comanechi, Ell V Gore, Chico No Face, Sissy Boy Silver Dollar 9 pm, $8. RT, SS. Daniel Romano En-

Tuesday, October 8 Deicide, Broken Hope, Disgorge, Necronomicon No Salvation Tour Annex Wreckroom 7 pm, $25. RT, TF. J Cole, Wale What Dreams May Come Tour Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50-$69.50. RTH. And Oct 9.

Wednesday, October 9 Surfer Blood, Team Spirit Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Thursday, October 10

Monday, September 23 The Legendary Pink Dots Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF. Zaki Ibrahim, Metric, METZ, Purity Ring, A Tribe Called Red, Whitehorse, Young Galaxy Polaris Gala Carlu $50. TF.

Tuesday, October 1 Action Bronson & Danny Brown 2 High 2 Die Tour The Danforth Music Hall 8 pm, $43.25.

TM. Alejandro Escovedo, Shelby Lynn An Evening Of Stories & Songs Winter Garden

Tuesday, September 24 The Dodos, Cousins Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Michael Feuerstack, Paper Beat Scissors The Piston.

Friday, October 4

Action Bronson lands at the Danforth music Hall, October 1.

Basia Bulat Polish Combatants Hall doors 8:30 pm, all ages, $20. RT, SS, TF. BB King Massey Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$129.50.

RTH. Deer Tick Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $22.

HS, RT, SS, TF. Islands The Garrison doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. Mother Mother CASBY Awards Sound Academy edge.ca/casbys.

Friday, October 11 Basia Bulat Polish Combatants Hall doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $20. RT, SS, TF.

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Bassnectar, Koan Sound Sound Academy doors noon.

Boy Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TF. The Darcys Adelaide Music Hall doors 8 pm, $20. NT, SB, SS. adelaidehallto.com/ event/the-darcys.

Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Acacia Strain, Battlecross Phoenix Concert Theatre 7 pm, all ages, $24.

Lee Ranaldo & the Dust Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $16.50. RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, October 12 Billy Talent, Anti-Flag Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $44.50-$70. LN, RT, SS. The FLUX Quartet X Avant VIII: This Is Our Music: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No 2 Music Gallery 6 pm, $30, adv $20, all-access pass $100. SS. Murray A Lightburn Adelaide Music Hall.

Watain, In Solitude, Tribulation Opera House 7:30 pm, all ages, $23. TF.

Sunday, October 13 The 1975 Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $17.50. LN, RT, SS.

Tuesday, October 15 Black Milk, Quelle, DJ Sober Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $22. PDR, RT, SS, TF. CocoRosie Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $24.50. RT, SS, TF, UE. Father John Misty Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $21.50-$29.50.

RT, SS, TF. Leif Vollebekk Rivoli 9 pm, $15. RTH.

Wednesday, October 16 Bonobo, Paul Basic Sound Academy 8 pm, $23.50. TW. bonobomusic.com.

Deltron 3030 (Del the funky homosapien, Dan the Automator, Kid Koala, Itch) Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $24.50. PDR, RT, SS, TF. Fuck Buttons Wrongbar $12. PDR, RT, SS. Fuzz, CCR Headcleaner & Teenanger Parts & Labour The Shop doors 9 pm, $10. RT, SS, TW. Unknown Mortal Orchestra Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Thursday, October 17 Delorean Horseshoe.

Fiona Apple & Blake Mills Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50$69.50. LN. Frightened Rabbit, Augustines Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TF. Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin Music Mix Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $35-$85.

Rose Cousins, Laura Cortese Dakota Tavern.

The Weeknd, Anna Lunoe, Banks Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $45-$75.

LN. And Oct 19 and 20.

Friday, October 18 Cancer Bats, Bat Sabbath Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Fidlar, the Orwells Hard Luck Bar doors 8:30 pm, all ages, $13. RT, SS, TW. Ian Anderson Thick As A Brick 1 & 2 Massey Hall 8 pm, all ages, $49.50-$89.50. RTH. Justin Rutledge Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $25-$35. RTH. Man Man Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, October 19 Janelle Monáe The Electric Lady Tour Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $25. LN, RT, SS. Ken Mode, Full of Hell Sneaky Dee’s doors 7 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. Shad Opera House doors 8 pm, all ages, $18-$28. PDR, RT, SS, TM. Skydiggers All Of Our Dreaming 25thAnniversary Concert Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50.

A Tribe Called Red, Nelson Tagoona, MAMA The Beat: X Avant New Music Festival/­ ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Blk Box Theatre doors 9 pm, $25, adv $20. SS.

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If you want to avoid the hordes at the Sound Academy and Air ­Canada Centre, check out these four acts ­sooner rather than later.

WEEKEND: Pop-conscious goths Not to be confused with Toronto’s own slow jammer, the Weeknd, this Brooklyn via San Fran five-piece purveys West Coast post-punk. Their sophomore album came out this summer, but it’s better suited for the colder months: it’s noisy, cathartic and evokes lurking shadows.

Weekend play October 25 at the ­Garrison, $12.

PETRA GLYNT: Psychedelic ­serenader

Petra Glynt, née Alexandra Mackenzie, is Toronto’s answer to Grimes. Her distorted psychedelic sound is sample-based, punctuated

Zappa Plays Zappa Roxy & Elsewhere 40th Anniversary Tour Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50$89.50. LN.

Sunday, October 20

Ab-Soul, Joey Bada$s, Chevy Woods, the Underachievers, Pro Era, Jimmy B, DillanPonders The Smokers Club Tour Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $31.50. RT, SS, TF. Au Revoir Simone Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. The Men, Purling Hiss Horseshoe $13.50. PDR, RT, TW.

Tuesday, October 22

Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Testament, Huntress Kool Haus 6 pm, all ages, $38. TF. Simple Minds Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50-$89.50. LN.

Wednesday, October 23 Emm Gryner Enwave Theatre 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Testament, Huntress Sound Academy $38-$52.50. RT, TF.

Thursday, October 24 Drake, Miguel Would You Like A Tour Air Canada Centre 7 pm, $76.75-$126.75. TM. Franz Ferdinand Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $38.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Lindi Ortega The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $20. LN, RT, SS. Rival Sons Phoenix Concert Theatre

Tuesday, October 29 Angel Olsen

Melt Banana Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. Steve Earle & the Dukes, the Mastersons Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $35-$64.50. RTH.

Wednesday, October 30 Taj Mahal Trio, Vusi Mahlasela, Fredericks Brown w/ Deva Mahal World Blues Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $45-$85. smallworldmusic.com.

Thursday, October 31

by bellowing vocals and raging tribalesque drums that will shake your bones.

Petra Glynt plays Sunday (September 15) at Holy Oak, $5.

SCOUT NIBLETT: Lo-fi love songs

Seven albums deep, the ever-nimble Scout Niblett is still writing emotionally raw songs that will draw you in even while she plots to murder a cheating lover overtop grungy guitar riffs.

Scout Niblett plays Tuesday (September 17) at the Silver Dollar, $11.50.

ANGEL OLSEN: Drawling darling

After touring the summer festival ­circuit, Angel Olsen is back at smaller underground clubs, a change that suits the Missouriborn, Chicago-based songstress’s emotional, twangy voice. Angel Olsen plays September 26 at the Drake Underground, $13.50.

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doors 8 pm, $20.50. RT, SS, TF. Sam Roberts Band w/ Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio artists Operanat10n: A Night of Temptation Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 9 pm, $150. ­operanation.ca.

Friday, October 25 Josh Groban, Judith Hill In The Round Tour Air Canada Centre doors 7 pm, all ages, $47.50-$107.50. LN. Sloan Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 8 pm, $50-$55.

Saturday, October 26 Brian Wilson, Jeff Beck, Al Jardine & David Marks Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 8 pm, $64-$188. LN, TM. Eric Burdon Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50$69.50. RTH. King Khan & the Shrines Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $19. HS, RT, SS, TF. Rusko, Roni Size, Friction, Dynamite MC FreakOut! Sound Academy doors 10 pm, $30. TW.

Sunday, October 27 Cyndi Lauper, Hunter Valentine She’s So Unusual Tour Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $45-$75. LN, RTH. Toro Y Moi, the Sea & Cake Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Monday, October 28 KMFDM Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8:30 pm, $27.50. RT, SS, TF.

The Highest Order, Digits, Soupcans, Ell V Gore, Teenanger, Michael Rault, Biblical and more Death To T.O. 3 Silver Dollar & Comfort Zone $12.50. RT, SS. Johnette Napolitano Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TF. Lee Fields & the Expressions, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Soul Motivators, DJ John Kong, Farbsie Funk Halloween Funk Bash Phoenix Concert Theatre $tba.

Friday, November 1 Bon Jovi Because We Can – The Tour Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $26-$236.50. TM. Braids, Hundred Waters New venue.

Original tickets honoured. The Great Hall doors 9 pm, $13.50. RT, SS, TF. Crystal Antlers Silver Dollar doors 9 pm.

Matthew Good, Gentlemen Husbands Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$59.50. LN.

Saturday, November 2 Drive-By Truckers, the Old 97’s Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TF. Hannah Georgas, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Louise Burns The Great Hall doors 6:30 pm, $17.50. LN, RT, SS. How to Dress Well, Jessy Lanza The Garrison doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. Sparks Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $30. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Sunday, November 3 Kreator, Overkill, Warbringer Legends Of Thrash Tour Opera House 6:30 pm, $33.75-$77.50. TF.

Monday, November 4 Death Angel, 3 Inches of Blood, Battlecross, Revocation, Diamond Plate Opera House 6:30 pm, $22.50. TF. The Pretty Reckless, Heaven’s Basement Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $22.50. LN.

Tuesday, November 5 Kate Nash Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF. MY BLOODY VALENTINE Kool Haus 8 pm, $45. LN, RT, SS.

Wednesday, November 6 Chris Cornell, Bhi Bhiman Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $46-$76. RTH. The Eagles History Of The Eagles Tour Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $45-$219. LN, TM. Jessie Ware, the Invisible Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $25. LN.

Friday, November 8 Sebadoh Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, November 9 Destroyer, Pink Mountaintops The Great Hall doors 8:30 pm, $15.50. RT, SS, TF. Hanson Anthem World Tour The Danforth Music Hall 7:30 pm, all ages, $39.50. TM. Protest the Hero, Architects, the Kindred and Affiance Sound Academy.

Sunday, November 10 James Blake Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $30. RT, SS, TF.

Tuesday, November 12 Cherie Currie Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm,

Maestro Fresh Wes plays Canada’s Walk Of Fame Fest, September 21. $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. GWAR, White Chapel, Iron Reagan & Band of Orcs Phoenix Concert Theatre 7 pm , $29. IE, TF. Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar The Yeezus Tour Air Canada Centre $tba.

Wednesday, November 13 John Legend, Tamar Braxton Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $49.50-$99.50. LN, TM. Sleigh Bells Phoenix Concert Theatre EMB, PDR, RT, SS, TW.

Thursday, November 14 Bruce Hornsby Music Mix Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $40-$85.

Saturday, November 16 The Gertrudes Drake Hotel 8 pm.

Tuesday, November 19 Crocodiles, Wymond Miles Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Wednesday, November 20 Fates Warning Virgin Mobile Mod Club 7:30 pm, $23.50. TF. Paramore, Lights, Hellogoodbye Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, all ages, $24.50-$49.50. ACC, LN.

Thursday, November 21 Blind Boys of Alabama Flato Markham Theatre 8 pm, $84-$89.

Ronnie Hawkins Massey Hall 8 pm, $71-$88. RTH.

Friday, November 22 Born Ruffians The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $18.50-$20. RT, SS, TM. The Cowboy Junkies, Sarah Harmer, Skydiggers, Jason Collett, Hawksley Workman, Reid Jamieson, Martin Tielli, Harlan Pepper and others The Kennedy Suite Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $39.50-$69.50.

RTH. Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$199.50. RTH.

Sunday, November 24 Mac DeMarco The Hoxton PDR, RT, SS, TW.

Monday, November 25 Cults Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Shannon & the Clams Silver Dollar doors 8:30.

Tuesday, November 26 Béla Fleck & Brooklyn Rider Music Mix Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $45-$85.

Friday, November 29 Ian Tyson, Corb Lund An Evening Of Cowboy Stories & Song Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$49.50. RTH.

Saturday, November 30 Pink Air Canada Centre $55-$120. LN, TM. And Dec 2.

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FRESH TRACKS

DIVAS DELIVER Six major pop stars are at it again.

Kops More music than is humanly listenable arrives this fall, brought to you by pop princesses, rap royalty and psych-rock stars . Clear some space on your iPod.

BRITNEY SPEARS, title TBA. Release date: September 17 (lead single).

Britney is entering her Kylie years.

Producer Jean Baptiste teased the Toxic singer’s new single – reportedly titled Werk Bitch – by tweeting RuPaul’s Supermodel video, signalling a power play for the gay anthem songbook.

The Cryogenic Comeback Kid

CHER, Closer To The Truth.

Release date: September 24.

I’m trying hard to pretend this oftdelayed comeback isn’t happening, but apparently label exes are not.

(Or not hard enough.) The newspaper wig Cher wears in the Woman’s World video is what we in the Critics’ World like to call an “interesting failure.”

Twerk Killah

MILEY CYRUS, Bangerz.

Release date: October 8.

A slang word is not allowed to jump the shark until Miley Cyrus has farted it into next Wednesday on live TV. First “twerk,” then “molly” and “turnt.” I will happily light the match near her ass for “ratchet,” “selfie” and “cronut.” She should just call the album Ratchet Selfie Cronut.

Shady Larry

KATY PERRY, Prism. Release date: October 22.

Inspired by Robyn (an opener on her California Dreams Tour), Perry spent time in Stockholm working with Swedish producers Klas Åhlund and Bloodshy and Avant on her (early90s-music-inspired?) third LP. Fingers crossed for a minimal spokenword house track.

The Minor Key Diva

CELINE DION, Loved Me Back To Life. Release date: November 5.

Dion has promised to park the power ballad histrionics in favour of minorkey melodies, dubstepy breakdowns, husky vocals and a cover of Stevie Wonder’s Overjoyed featuring Stevie Wonder. Fingers crossed for a minimal spoken-word house track.

LADY GAGA, ARTPOP. Release date: November 11.

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Who says the music biz is hurting?

At least one local vinyl purveyor seems unfazed by both the worldwide economic slide and the industry’s difficulty selling music to the internet generation. Records are, after all, so hot right now.

KOPS, Toronto’s oldest independent record store, bustling at 229 Queen West, is opening up shop in the Annex, at 592 Bloor West. The new digs come complete with a performance space.

Music to our ears. JULIA LECONTE

YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN UZU (Paper Bag).

Release date: October 29.

The Gay Club Queen

If her Jeff Koons name-checking single Applause is any indication, Lady Gaga’s admirable but losing battle against mediocrity on the pop charts continues. Fortunately, the song titles on her upcoming ARTPOP album (MANiCURE, SexDreams, Swine) bode KEVIN RITCHIE extremely well.

TOP OF THE KOPS

Toronto-Montreal experimental music and performance art collective Yamantaka//Sonic Titan have a vision as big as their sound.

Their debut, 2011’s YT//ST, turned heads with its astonishing “nohwave” blend of metal, J-pop, noise rock, operatic vocals and prog, which they perform in kabuki and noh theatre-style costumes enhanced by endearingly homemade props.

According to core member/drummer Alaska B, who also engineers and produces their albums in her Toronto basement, their follow-up, UZU, centres on the mythological character Mazu, Chinese goddess of the sea, who has visions and can swim unnaturally well for a human.

“At one point her father and brother are fishing at sea and she goes into a trance state where she sees their ship capsize in a storm,” Alaska explains over the phone. “In

her vision she manages to swim out and save her brother but has to let her father go because there is no way to save both of them.”

In the aftermath, Mazu’s grief prompts her to leave human society.

“There’s a recurring theme of heartbreak and not belonging that goes from the beginning to the end of the record,” Alaska says. “The various songs have different narratives in them but are all based around an underlying theme of the whirlpool or vortex in the ocean.”

That goes for the title, too, which roughly translates to whirlpool or eddy in Japanese. Alaska compares an ocean vortex to a black hole, where gravity is so deep no light can escape.

“In the ocean, you have similar occurrences. Only recently they’ve managed to get footage of these vortex sinkholes that suck anything down, so if any ship came across them it would sink. The whole album deals with the concept of drowning CARLA GILLIS in emotion.”

MAZZY STAR Seasons Of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour). Release date: September 24.

After reconvening a few years ago for 2011’s Common Burn/Lay Myself Down single, California psychedelic alt-rockers Mazzy Star release Seasons Of Your Day, their first album in 17 years, on their own label.

Hope Sandoval’s signature soft croon hasn’t changed, nor has the pace of the music (slow), and the songs sound grittier, darker and more sadly bluesy than ever. Near the end, the late, great Bert Jansch appears on Spoon, a guitar duet with David SARAH GREENE Roback.

HAIM Days Are Gone (Columbia/Sony). Release date: September 30 Sisters Este, Alana and Danielle Haim gigged around Los Angeles for six years before figuring out how to record music that sounded like the reverb-drenched, early-80s-AMradio-pop-meets-90s-R&B-girlgroup-harmonies they heard in their heads. Hence the title of last year’s Forever EP. A year later, their longawaited debut album, Days Are Gone, arrives full of luminous and accessible pop tunes that, if there is any justice, will end up on the radio. One of the year’s best pop albums.

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dates to remember September 17 Jack Johnson From Here To Now To You (Bushfire) Islands Ski Mask (Manqué) The Darcys Warring (Arts & Crafts) Gwar Battle Maximus (Metal Blade) MGMT MGMT (Columbia) Mark Lanegan Imitations (Vagrant) The Gertrudes Neighbourhood (Apple Crisp) Placebo Loud Like Love (Universal) Said The Whale Hawaii (Hidden Pony) Sisu Blood Tears (Mono Prism) The Roots and Elvis Costello Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note) Yoko Ono Take Me To The Land Of Hell ­(Chimera) The Sadies Internal Sounds (Outside) The Naked And Famous In Rolling Waves (Universal) The Dirtbombs Ooey Gooey Chewy KaBlooey (In the Red)

September 24 Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe (Glassnote) Cher Closer To The Truth (Warner) Deer Tick Negativity (Arts & Crafts) Drake Nothing Was The Same (Universal) Elton John The Diving Board (Capitol) Icona Pop This Is... Icona Pop (TEN) Internet Feel Good (Odd Future) Kings Of Leon Mechanical Bull (RCA) Mazzy Star Seasons Of Your Day (Rhymes of an Hour) Metallica Through The Never OST (Blackened) Marine Dreams Corner Of The Eye (You’ve Changed) Willie Nelson To All The Girls (Legacy) Sting The Last Ship (Cherrytree/ Interscope) Oh Land Wish Bone (Federal Prism)

Quasi Mole City (Kill Rock Stars) The Blind Boys Of Alabama I’ll Find A Way (Sony Masterworks) Yuck Glow & Behold (Fat Possum)

October 8 Anna Calvi One Breath (Domino) Miley Cyrus Bangerz (RCA) Alex Chilton Electricity By Candlelight (­Bar None) Tony Dekker Prayer Of The Woods (­Nettwerk) Pup Reservoir (Royal Mountain/Universal) Pusha T My Name Is My Name (GOOD/Def Jam) RJD2 More Is Than Isn’t (Electrical Connections) Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals (Mom Pop)

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September 30 Danny Brown Old (Fool’s Gold) Haim Days Are Gone (Columbia) Pins Girls Like Us (Bella Union)

October 1 Brendan Canning You Gots 2 Chill (SQE/Draper Street) The Deep Dark Woods Jubilee (Six Shooter) Dr Dog B-Room (Anti-) Fuzz Fuzz (In the Red) Joan Jett Unvarnished (Blackheart) Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience Part 2 (RCA) Melt-Banana Fetch (A-zap) Moby I nnocents (Mute) Phedre Golden Age (DAPS/Discos Tormento)

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience Part 2 drops October 1.

ASAP Mob TBA (RCA) Black Milk No Poison, No Paradise (Fat Beats/Computer Ugly) Cass McCombs Big Wheels And Others (­Domino) Cults Static (Columbia) Linda Thompson We Won’t Be Long Now (Pettifer Sounds) NoBunny Secret Songs: Reflections From The Ear Mirror (Goner) Paul McCartney New (Universall) Pearl Jam Lightning Bolt (Monkeywrench/Republic) Shad Flying Colours (Black Box) The Avett Brothers Magpie And The Dandelion (American) Tim Hecker Virgins (Kranky) TLC (Epic/LaFace)

October 22 CFCF Outside (Paper Bag) Katy Perry Prism (Capitol) Sepultura The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart (Nuclear Blast)

October 29 Los Campesinos! No Blues (Wichita) Moonface Julia With Blue Jeans On (­Jagjaguwar) Minor Alps Get There (Barsuk) Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio 2 (Blue Note) Skeletonwitch Serpents Unleashed (­Prosthetic) The Arcade Fire (Merge) Yamantaka//Sonic Titan UZU (Paper Bag)

November 1 Celine Dion Love Me Back To Life (Columbia)

November 5 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (Universal) James Blunt Moon Landing (Atlantic) M.I.A. Matangi (N.E.E.T./Interscope/Virgin) Stryper No More Hell To Pay (Frontiers) Midlake Antiphon (ATO)

November 11 Lady Gaga Artpop (Interscope)

November 12 Cate LeBon Mug Museum (Wichita) Heidecker & Wood Some Things Never Stay The Same (Little Record) Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet Under The Covers Vol 3 (Shout!)

November 26 Future Honest (Freebandz/Epic/A1)

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the scene Shows that rocked Toronto last week PATTI SMITH AND HER BAND at Massey Hall,

ñFriday, September 6.

Rating: NNNN There is the expectation of greatness at a Patti Smith show, the palpable sense that even as the long-tressed, dark-dressed singer recites poetry about the dead and delivers another monotone onechord dirge, the night will soon burst open, trembling with Big Message and big emotion.

Over two-plus hours, Smith’s set slunk toward the payoff. She thundered during the songs, frequently spitting on Massey Hall’s sacred stage, and was sweet-as-pie cordial in between. She and long-time guitarist Lenny Kaye caught Jim Jarmusch’s film at TIFF the previous night, she said before introing My Blakean Year with a comical ode to Nicole Kidman.

Kaye, also the legendary Nuggets anthologist, gave mid-set shoutouts to 1953’s Jazz At Massey Hall album, the Paupers and Luke & the Apostles before launching into some deep-cut garage rock, while Smith danced in the crowd. We got Banga offerings and songs left off the list when she was here earlier this year.

And then there we were, drowning in the ecstatic power of Because The Night, Pissing In A River, Rock N Roll Nigger, Gloria and her passionate cries against invading Syria.

“You are fucking free!” she shouted. “This is no movie! This is CARLA GILLIS your life!”

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song that’s as much a Toronto tribute as it is a heartbreaking love poem. In so many ways, it represents what Ohbijou’s farewell show meant to their fans and friends.

Their final show before an indefinite hiatus spanned four hours and three sets. Ohbijou played nearly everything from their eightyear discography and were joined onstage by Snowblink, Nils Edenloff of Rural Alberta Advantage, Rolf Klausener from the Acorn and Gavin Gardiner from the Wooden Sky. Between sets, their friends performed their favourite Ohbijou tunes, and when she introduced the last song, Mecija screamed, “Let’s make this feel like a house party!” Their fame has propelled them beyond a basement band, and yet, with Mecija shredding guitar surrounded by her friends, it felt like a party back on Bellwoods SAMANTHA EDWARDS Avenue.

MICHAEL BOLTON, RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

AND DANIEL LANOIS at a private Forest Hill ñ residence, Sunday, September 8.

Rating: NNNN How many times in a lifetime do you get to lounge in the sunshine in a lush backyard and watch Michael Bolton serenade two auction winners with his 1991 version of When A Man Loves A Woman?

Exactly once. Such was the scene at Paul Haggis’s fifth annual Artists For Peace And Justice Fundraiser for youth in Haiti. Bolton can poke fun at himself (see Jack Sparrow) but also takes his art very seriously, pouring every drop of earnest emotion into that Grammywinning hit. Ending the afternoon with Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma was interesting (I would have preferred How Am I Supposed To Live Without You), but the two earlier acts more than compensated.

Anyone who’s seen a Daniel Lanois performance knows the se-

rene effect the prolific producer has. Now I’m convinced that pedal steel guitar should always be heard wafting over a body (or swimming pool) of water. The resulting blissful reverb was tranceinducing, until our adopted Torontonian songwriter Rufus Wainwright woke us from that reverie with a perky rendition of Out Of The Game.

On a day when charity was the main focus, it’s impressive how well APJ curated the lineup. Creating the right vibe for a crowd is tricky, but they did that on Sunday with excellent care. JULIA LECONTE

TYLER, THE CREATOR at Sound Academy, Sunday, September 8. Rating: NNN

When Tyler, the Creator took the Sound Academy stage, he used his time wisely, shifting seamlessly through material from the four years since he exploded, reminding us that an artist exists behind his loud persona, caps lock Twitter rampages and sometimes unrepeatable lyrics.

He balanced his material well, performing something for everyone in the wide-ranging, all-ages crowd. While lyrics from his most recent studio album, Wolf, were screamed back at him, VCR – from self-released debut Bastard – was met with surprise and delight.

The summery sweet Bimmer was a highlight, as was IFHY. Performing with Odd Future member Jasper Dolphin as hype man and backed by DJ Taco Bennett, Tyler allowed his supporting cast to shine – Bennett with a solid opening DJ set, Jasper with his verse from Odd Future track Oldie. From grabbing a fan’s phone and posting a Tyler selfie to Instagram to racing offstage to change into a pair of shorts, Tyler maintained the trademark feel of an Odd HOLLY MACKENZIE Future/Tyler show: anything goes.

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SAVAGES Opera House (735 Queen East), tonight (Thursday, September 12) Mega-intense British post-punk.

DEERHUNTER Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), tonight (Thursday, September 12) Ambient, arty, punky five-piece.

SHIGETO, BEACON, HEATHERED PEARLS, MYMANHENRI The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (September 13) See preview, page 48.

TYGA Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Friday (September 13) Hotel California hip-hop tour.

BLOOD CEREMONY, BIBLICAL, CAUCHEMAR Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (September 14) Flute-tinged doom metal.

TEENANGER, CELLPHONE, COMET CONTROL Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (September 14) See preview, page 44.

CHVRCHES, XXYYXX Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Sunday (September 15) Scottish electro-pop.

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING, SPEEDY ORTIZ Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (September 15) See preview, page 49.

ARCTIC MONKEYS Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Sunday (September 15) See Q&A, page 46.

MAJICAL CLOUDZ, MATTHEW E DUFFY Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Tuesday (September 17) Brooding electronic pop.

SCOUT NIBLETT Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Tuesday (September 17) English lo-fi singer/songwriter.

RAE SPOON Gladstone Melody Bar (1214 Queen West), Wednesday (September 18) See cover story, page 40.

PERE UBU Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Wednesday (September 18) Experimental groove rock.

EAMON MCGRATH, CAMP RADIO, MIESHA & THE SPANKS Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Wednesday (September 18) Toronto-via-Edmonton folk-punk.

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Thursday, September 12 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Antler Room The Wheatkings (rock)

9:30 pm.

Savages play the Opera House September 12.

Dakota Tavern Shadowy Men on a

Planet 7 & 9:30 pm. ñShadowy Dazzling Restaurant Liive Thursdays: ñInti­mate & Interactive Andreena, the Recipee, Omar ‘Oh!’ Lunan, DJ Smartiez, DJ

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron 8 pm.

El Mocambo Mark Kroos (acoustic) 8 pm, all

Lissa ­Monet doors 8 pm.

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Drake Hotel Underground EP release party

Free Times Cafe Songwriters’ Circle Of Jerks

Vibonics (R&B/funk/roots) 8 pm.

Firkin on King Full Tilt (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

Grossman’s Robin ‘Kid Hawk’ Hawkins 10 pm.

Habits Gastropub Katie Morley (piano pop/ singer-songwriter) 9 pm.

The Hideout Dustin Jones and the Rising Tide 10:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Sing Leaf, Memorex, Ben Whiteley (pop) 10 pm.

Horseshoe The Blue Stones, Micronite Filters, Heartbeat Hotel, Culture Reject 9 pm.

Karla’s Roadhouse Jam Tommy Rocker Band 8 pm.

Opera House Savages (post punk) doors 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Deerhunter doors 8 pm, all ages.

Silver Dollar The Spoofs, Seraphic Lights, Borders, Stacey doors 8 pm.

The Sister Kitchen Orchestra.

Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

Tranzac Main Hall Nerd Nite 7 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Dr Draw (classical/ funk/pop) 8 pm.

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Melting Pot, Big Name Actors, Nick Verona, David Hustler 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s The Responsibles 10 pm.

Harbourfront Centre Boulevard Tent Dancing On The Pier The Ricardo ñ Barboza Band (salsa/meringue/bachata) 7 to 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Lost Girl (old-time) 7:30 pm.

Horseshoe Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room Texassippi Soul Man Danny

Brooks & the Brotherhood, Mitchell Wilson.

The Local Hannah Naiman (old-time) 9 pm.

Lola Brian Cober Double Slide 9 pm.

Mélange Open Mic Jam Karen Lee Wilde.

Monarchs Pub Jerome Godboo 9 pm.

3030 Dundas West Mara & the Marigold,

Ptarmigan, the Medicine Hat (folk) 8 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Mimi Osvath 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

Trump Hotel Emerge Discovery Bar Sara London, Brett Kingswell 4:30 to 6:30 pm.

Village of Yorkville Park Film Festival Musicians In The Park Jamie Ruben Trio 4 to 7 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Where Music Meets Art Daniella

Watters 9 pm.

Cafune Kyla Charter, Chris Adriaanse, Henrique Matulis (Brazilian jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Drake Hotel James Ferraro, Babe Rainbow, D’Eon (experimental electronic) doors 11 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Finders Keepers (jazz/funk/ rock) 9 pm.

Gate 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Jeffrey Hewer Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Daniel Barnes Groove Trio 8 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Bob DeAngelis 5 to 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Thursday Night Jazz Party Alana Bridgewater, Joe Sealy, Alison Young 7:30 pm.

Palais Royale Jazz Goes To The Movies: Unison Benevolent Fund Benefit Concert Don Francks, the Hollywood North Little Big Band, Barbra Lica, Anthony Terpstra & His Band, Colin Hunter, Pam Hyatt, Amy McConnell, Sam Broverman & the Sparklettes (swing dance/ lindy hop) doors 7 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

Rex NOJO 20-Year Anniversary Neufeld/ Occhi­pinti Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm.

Toronto Music Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Bach At Dusk Kate Bennett Haynes (cello) 7 pm.

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& Co Resto Bar Space Thursday MC Flipside, Jason Neyra.

Annex Wreckroom Get Up! DJ Serious, Supernaturalz Crew (hip-hop) 10 pm.

BassLine Music Bar Grenzfall Farrukh &

Radek (German techno/dubstep).

Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (rock) 10 pm.

EFS Untitled Thursdays Soundbwoy doors 10 pm.

The Garrison The Cantina UHaul Katie Stelmanis 9 pm.5 Goodhandy’s T-Girl Parties DJ Todd Klinck.5 Handlebar Strawberry Sandwiches (hip-hop) 10 pm.

Sound Academy Moment Of Clarity Tour Zedd, Oliver, Alex Metric doors 9 pm.

WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht) 10 pm.

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Alleycatz Ascencion (rock).

Annex Wreckroom Obey the Brave, Expire,

No Bragging Rights, Beheading of a King doors 6 pm, all ages.

The Antler Room Malachi Crunch (alt rock) 9:30 pm.

Blk Box Theatre Goldroom (synthpop trio).

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Cadillac Lounge The Blue Demons, the

Greasemarks.

Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Hollerado, the Zolas, Pup (rock) doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ Drake Hotel Phaeleh doors 8 pm.

El Mocambo Dumpstaphunk, After Funk (New Orleans funk) doors 8 pm.

Flamingo’s Enzo Simone (oldies/60s/surf) 9:45 pm.

The Garrison Shigeto, Beacon, Heathered Pearls, Mymanhenri 9 pm. See preview, page 48.

The Hideout No Fixed Address, Brooke Nicholls 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe ASoul (soul) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Time Giant, Lad Classic, Class X, Black Stone Hearts 9:30 pm.

Kool Haus Hotel California Tour Tyga (rap/hip-hop) doors 7 pm.

Linsmore Tavern St. Practice Day Party Wee Tin Can (Irish rock) 9 pm.

Lola Music City North Damian Yonge 8 pm.

Opera House Chuxx (hip-hop) 8 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Cher Lloyd, Fifth Harmony doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Rasputin Vodka Bar Odd Soul (funk/soul/

R&B) 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill David Macmichael

(power pop) 9 pm.

Rockpile Twiztid doors 7 pm.

Silver Dollar Record release Raccoon Wedding, Language Arts, the Folk, Major Tune Up doors 9 pm.

The Sister Wayne Omaha, Two Minute Miracles, Moo. Sneaky Dee’s Greg Dawson Fundraiser Part 2 Cunter, Dilan Dog, Brutal Youth 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Kat House (rock) 10 pm.

3030 Dundas West Rock-A-Billy Shake-Up 12 The Alistair Christl Trio, Christian D and the Hangovers, DJ Rockin’ Dave Faris, DJ Dr Velvet doors 9 pm.

TJ’s Pub & Grille David Bacha Band (rock).

Tranzac Southern Cross St Dirt Elementary School Band w/ Myk Freedman (indie/ experimental) 10 pm, Glen Hall, Ken Aldcroft & Joe Sorbara 7:30 pm.

Velvet Underground Big Ticket TruPaz, J Shiltz, MindBender, Left Field Keele, M.O., Haviah, DJ Law, G5CU (hip-hop) 10:30 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Animal Rescue Rocks! Noble Dog Rescue Benefit Jon Long Band, Tommy Gun, Symphony Grind, Simple Damned Device, Mothers Green, Donna Mar & the Reed Effect, Full Circle, Teresa Hart, J’Nai and others doors 7 pm.

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Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival Crazy Voda Band, Do Vira Jazz Band, Boyan Choir, Lira Trio, Colors Duo, Zirka Band and others 5 to 11 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Bryan McPherson, Alex Headley & the Budget Band, Whitney Pea (indie folk rock) 7:30 pm.

Cameron House Front Room Sean Conway (country/blues/western swing) 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Dakota Tavern Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Blues & Trouble (blues) 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe King Creep w/ Cary, Dev & Nick 8:30 pm.

Gate 403 Laura Hubert Blues Band 9 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar We Walk the Line (Johnny Cash tribute) 9 to 11 pm.

Grossman’s Snake Oil Johnson.

Hugh’s Room Friends of the Fiddler’s Green.

Lula Lounge Cafe Cubano (salsa) 10:30 pm, Crazy Voda (polka/Latin) 8 pm.

Rivoli Video/single release show Graydon James & the Novelists, Beams, Rachael Car­diello and Her Warm Electric Band, Jon Davis (folk rock) doors 9 pm.

St Casimir’s Church Roncesvalles Polish ­Festival: Polka Party The Polka Family Band, John Gora, Ed Guca 8 pm.

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Alex Tait Trio (jazz) 7 pm.

Gate 403 Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro MC2 9 pm.

Old Mill Inn Fridays To Sing About! Irene Atman Trio 7:30 pm.

Placebo Space The Jessica Stuart Few (jazz/folk) 9 pm.

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The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

Kevin Breit & FolkAlarm (experimental) 9:45 pm, Chris Gale Quartet (jazz) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Subtle Blend Anzola, Yuri, Acute Perception (house).

Castro’s Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm.

Cinema Nightclub Toronto Film Festival Mark Knight, Andy Warburton doors 10 pm.

Club 120 Underwear Party DJ Jay&J 10 pm.5 Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Stuck On Stupid Skratch Bastid, DJ Fase, Dougie Boom doors 11 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours 10 pm.

Footwork Luv This City Jelo, Damn Kids, Quim, Mike Conradi.

Handlebar HugLife DJs Totally Ok (dance party) 10 pm.

The Hoxton Focus Fridays DJ Shadow 10 pm.

Maison Mercer TIFF Jerome Isma-Ae 10 pm.

Nyood Nyood Fridays DJ Mensa (electro/hip-hop/house/R&B) 10 pm.

Parts & Labour No No Pony (Ginuwine’s Pony every hour on the hour) 10 pm.

La Perla Dis-HER-tation Edition DJs Max Mohenu, Penhall, omgblog.com (disco/ house) doors 10:30 pm.

The Piston Synthesexer (synth dance party).

Sneaky Dee’s Pull Up. Tryst Tryst Fridays DJ Maltese.

Uniun Factory Fridays Nicky Romero, Vicetone, Manzone & Strong 10 pm.

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The Hideout The Beggars 11 pm, CD release

Alleycatz Soular (R&B/soul/funk).

The Antler Room Alter Eager (funk/rock) 10 pm, Cottage Brew (pub rock) 4:30 pm.

Baltic Avenue Ark Analog, Digits. ñ Bovine Sex Club Phantom Trace, Starfall, ­Liquor Pigs.

Detour Bar The Harvest Tour Dub Kartel &

Killawail, Deadhorsebeats (reggae/punk/hiphop/dancehall/ska) 11 pm.

The Duke Live.com Keep the Faith (Bon Jovi tribute).

Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre

Happy Fest Concert Down With Webster doors 6 pm, all ages.

Brothers of North, Fires Of (indie rock).

Here Below 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Hot Planet (electro) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Blood Ceremony, Biblical, Cauchemar doors 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Diane Lee Clemons 8:30 pm.

Karla’s Roadhouse Captain Snorkel (rock/ R&B) 9:30 pm.

Lee’s Palace Walk the Moon, Magic Man doors 9 pm.

Lola Fuck Ya 9 pm.

May Cafe Freedubstar (roots/rock/reggae) doors 8:30 pm.

Opera House STRFKR, Small Black, Feelings doors 8 pm.

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3030 Dundas West Toronto Custom Guitar Show Opening Night Roger Marin Band 9:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Village of Yorkville Park Film Festival ­Musicians In The Park Attila Fias Duo 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Array Space Shaken Or Stirred: New Music

And Martinis Thin Edge New Music Collective (experimental) 8 pm.

Cafune Artur Miranda, Henrique Matulis, Andre Bessa, Martinha Brito (Brazilian jazz) 8 to 10 pm.

Chalkers Pub Mike Murley Trio 6 to 9 pm.

Gate 403 Six Points Jazz Orchestra 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz) 9 pm.

Metropolitan Community Church Two Of A Kind Concert Series Sterling Jarvis & Heather Bambrick 8 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar Sam Heineman (piano) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Old Mill Inn Jazz Masters Chase Sanborn Duo 7:30 pm.

Paul’s Churrasco The Tavares Trio/Botos (jazz/Latin) 7:30 to 11:30 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill New Music Night Roger Dory (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm.

Rex Joel Haynes 9:45 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Powerade Centre A Voice For Padre Pio In The World: benefit concert for stem cell ñ research at Casa Sollievo Hosptial in Italy Mi-

chael Bolton, Al Bano, Ricchi e Poveri and others 8 pm.

Reposado Bradley & the Bouncers, Rob n’ Bob Power Duo. Rex Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7:30 pm, Danny Marks (pop) noon.

Rivoli Paul Irvine & His Soulless Young Devils, Paige Cora doors 7 pm.

Rivoli Slyde, Fallen Heirs doors 11 pm.

Rockpile Mad Child & Slaine (hip-hop) doors 7 pm.

Silver Dollar Record release Teenanger, Cellphone, Comet Control 9 pm. See preview, page 44.

The Sister Wayne Omaha, the Dinner Is Ruined, Jack Breakfast.

Southside Johnny’s Kat House (rock) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

TJ’s Pub & Grille Playback (50s-70s).

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

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Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival Crazy Voda Band, Boyan Choir, Lira Trio, Chervoni Maky Vocal Ensemble, Millenia Band, Zirka Band and others 11 am to 11 pm.

Cameron House Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 6 to 8 pm.

Cameron House Front Room CD ­release Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs 10 pm, Ferraro 8 pm, Big Tobacco & the Pickers 6 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

Dominion on Queen Peter Karp & Sue Foley (blues) 9 pm.

Dora Keogh Songbird And Friends (folk) 9:30 pm.

Du Cafe Open Mic 3 to 7 pm, all ages.

Free Times Cafe Singer/Songwriter Night Will Gillespie, Colin Gibson, Myke Mazzei 8:30 pm.

Gate 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Al Lerman (blues/roots) 9 to 11 pm.

Grossman’s Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroad 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Adam Solomon Trio (African blues/jazz) 9 pm.

The Local Rebecca Everett, Jerry Leger and the Situation (country folk) 9 pm, Arthur ­Renwick (blues) 4 pm.

Lula Lounge Orquesta Fantasia (salsa) 10:30 pm.

Rex Jerome Godboo 3:30 pm.

Roncesvalles Village Roncesvalles Polish

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Cinema Nightclub Neon Carnival DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Diggy the DJ (hip-hop) doors 11 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar DJ Chris Cruz (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm.

Footwork Honey Dijon, Jonathan Rosa, Mike Gleeson, Graham Plant doors 10 pm.

The Garrison Chronologic 10 pm.

Guvernment Spin Saturdays DJs Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong (house/electro/trance/techno).

Parts & Labour Breakfast! DJs RVM, Shemca (hip-hop/electro/soul) 10 pm.

Rivoli Loft Bump N’ Hustle DJ Paul E Lopes, DJ Mike Tull (soul/funk/hip-hop/disco/house) doors 10 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.

Supermarket Do Right Saturdays DJ John Kong 10 pm.

Toika Xplisit Website Release Party DJ Xplisit, DJ Grouch (R&B/house/top 40/reggae/soca/ disco) 10 pm.

Tryst Trysted Saturdays DJ Marky D. Wrongbar Oliver $ 10 pm.

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Adelaide Music Hall The Mavericks doors 8 pm.

The Antler Room Graham Playford (Southern rock) 4:30 pm.

Black Swan Keep Calm And Get Rid Off Jeff!

Fundraiser for Jeff Cottrill’s UK Mini Tour High Heels Lo Fi, Kirsten Sandwich 7 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Chvrches, XXYYXX 7 pm.

Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch The Cosmotones 11 am to 3 pm.

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Handlebar Ghost Cousin, Heavy Set Quartet 8 pm. ñ The Hideout Don Campbell 10 pm, Dan

­Gagnon Acoustic 2 to 6 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Acoustic Open Stage & Jam Nicola Vaughan 3 to 6 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Trevor Barton, Teen Tits Wild Wives, Petra Glynt (psych) 9 pm.

Horseshoe Chelsea Light Moving, Speedy Ortiz doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 49.

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Phoenix Concert Theatre Saxon, Fozzy,

­Halcyon Way 7 pm.

Rivoli Sean Leon, G Milla, Luu Breeze (hip-hop) doors 9 pm.

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Sound Academy Dropkick Murphys, the ­Mahones 7 pm, all ages.

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Aspetta Caffe Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm.

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

The Black Cat Rebas Open Mic David

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Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival Crazy Voda Band, Boyan Choir, Lira Trio, Chervoni Maky Vocal Ensemble, Millenia Band, Zirka Band and others noon to 7 pm.

Cameron House The Double Cuts 10 pm, Smoky Tiger 6 to 8 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am-3 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Union Duke (bluegrass/ alt-country) 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room 8 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Jeff & Debbie Currie 2 to 4 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic Family Brunch (bluegrass) 10 am-2 pm.

Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic ­Sundays (jazz/folk/world) noon to 3 pm.

The Local Kristine Schmitt and Her Special Powers, Whitebrow (dark country swing/ spook) 9 pm, James McKie (fiddle) 5 pm.

Lula Lounge Jorge Maza Cuban Duo (Cuban son/salsa) 1 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sunday Open Mic 9 pm.

Rex Tara Davidson Duo 7 pm.

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Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

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Village of Yorkville Park Film Festivals Musicians In The Park Donald Guinn Trio 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar Open Jam Porter 9:30 pm.

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Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room The Best Of Chopin & Rachmaninoff Adam Osinski (piano) 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro A Month Of Sundays David Sereda (jazz/cabaret) doors 11:30 am.

Rex Aimee Butcher 9:30 pm, the Satin Dolls 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church CD ­release The Sanctuary Wrecks (progressive instrumental/pop) 7:30 pm.

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Club 120 POZ TO DJ Relentless 8 pm.5 Graffiti’s Black Metal Brunch 11 am-4 pm.

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Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, James Sloan (indie) 9:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Queen Kwong (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm.

The Hideout Big Otter Creek (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Corsets, Suzie’s Alibi, Retro Circuit 8:30 pm.

The Hoxton Charli XCX, Kitten, Little Daylight, LIZ 8 pm.

Soho House Polaris Music Prize Salon 7 pm.

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Cloak & Dagger Pub Alun Piggins (folk) 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe Open Stage Mondays Jon Travis 7:30 pm.

Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.

Handlebar Just Funnin Edwin Hubble 9 pm.

The Local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/traditional country) 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (New Orleans blues) 8 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Yonge-Dundas Square Lunchtime Live Wilderness of Manitoba (folk) 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar Composers’ Collective (jazz) 9 pm, Alex Fournier Quartet (jazz) 7 pm.

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band w/

Terra Hazelton 9 pm, Tom McGill (piano solo) 5 to 8 pm.

Kitch Luke Vajsar’s Hypnotic Lounge Series (solo bass) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Euphonia (classical) 8 pm.

Rakia Bar Bohemian Monday Jazz Jam Laura Marks Trio w/ Mark Kieswetter, Brendan Davis 8 to 11 pm.

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hard luck • $ 18.50 advance

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jaMSquid the breaking lakes ready the prince

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lee’s palace • $ 24.50 advance

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sun SEptEmbER 22

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thurs

fri

bon jovi tRibute

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diScO knigHtS

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horseshoe • $ 11.50 advance

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sat OCtObER 5 $ lee’s palace • 18.50 adv

king tuff & jacuzzi boys

bass drum of death tuesday OCtObER 8 lee’s palace • $ 15.00 advance

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opeRA HouSe • $ 22.00 adv

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Horseshoe Chelsea Wolfe, True Widow doors 8:30 pm.

Lee’s Palace The Selecter (ska) doors 8 pm.

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Hugh’s Room Motherzz are Starzz Shannon Butcher, Barbra Lica & Jazz Generation (jazz) 8:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Richard Whiteman Trio 9 pm.

The Harp Pub Johnny Max Band 8 to 10 pm.

The Hideout The Undercovers (rock) 10:30 pm.

Horseshoe The Commoners, Devon Coyote,

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Lee’s Palace Pere Ubu (groove rock) doors 8 pm.

Opera House Anathema, Alcest, Mamiffer 7 pm.

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Venue Index Adelaide Music Hall 250 Adelaide W. Air Canada Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. & Co Resto Bar 295 Enfield Place (Mississauga).

905-808-2112.

Andy Poolhall 489 College. 416-923-5300.

Annex Wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

The Antler Room 146 Front W (down the alley).

Array Space 155 Walnut. 416-532-3019.

Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333.

Baltic Avenue 875 Bloor W. 647-898-5324.

BassLine Music Bar 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513.

Black Bear Pub 1125 O’Connor. 416-752-5182.

The Black Cat 3513 Dundas W. 647-430-8530.

Black Swan 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537.

Blk Box Theatre 1087 Queen W. Bloor West Village Bloor between Glendonwynne and Jane.

Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717.

Cafune 194A Carlton. 647-748-7884.

Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

Castro’s Lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272.

C’est What 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

Chalkers Pub 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

Cinema Nightclub 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888.

Cloak & Dagger Pub 394 College. 647-436-0228.

Club 120 120 Church.

Dakota Tavern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579.

Dance Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598.

The Danforth Music Hall 147 Danforth. 416778-8163.

Dazzling Restaurant 291 King W. 416-506-8886.

Detour Bar 193.5 Baldwin.

Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893.

Dora Keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

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

Du Cafe 885 O’Connor. 416-752-2233.

The Duke Live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302.

Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre 909 Lake Shore W. 416-260-5600.

EFS 647 King W. 416-477-5460.

El Mocambo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.

Emmet Ray Bar 924 College. 416-792-4497.

Eton House 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Firkin on King 461 King W. 416-979-5464.

Flamingo’s 385 the West Mall. 416-913-9258.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567.

Footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488.

The 417 Lounge 417 Danforth. 647-352-4300.

Free Times Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078.

Full of Beans Coffee 1348 Dundas W. 647-347-4161.

Gallery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781.

The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930.

Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Goodhandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514.

Graffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699.

Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000.

Guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045.

Habits Gastropub 928 College. 416-533-7272.

Handlebar 159 Augusta. 647-748-7433.

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

The Harp Pub 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga).

905-274-3277.

The Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine 2050 Danforth.

416-467-4915.

Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753.

The Hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321.

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

Island Cafe Ward’s Island.

The Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299.

Kama 214 King W. 416-599-5262.

Karla’s Roadhouse 4630 Kingston. 647-352-7780.

Kitch 229 Geary. 647-350-4550.

Kool Haus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045.

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

Linsmore Tavern 1298 Danforth. 416-466-5130.

The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

Lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Maison Mercer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777.

May Cafe 876 Dundas W. Mélange 172 Main. 416-686-6485.

Metropolitan Community Church 115 Simpson. 416-406-6228.

Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833.

Monarchs Pub 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352.

Musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323.

Nawlins Jazz Bar 299 King W. 416-595-1958.

Nyood 1096 Queen W. 416-466-1888.

Oasis Aqualounge 231 Mutual. 416-599-7665.

Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641.

Opera House 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313.

Palais Royale 1601 Lake Shore W. 416-533-3553.

Parts & Labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

Paul’s Churrasco 839 College St. 416-532-2777.

La Perla 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855.

Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne.

416-323-1251.

The Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

Placebo Space 2877 Lake Shore W. Powerade Centre 7575 Kennedy S (Brampton).

905-459-9340.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre 190 Princes’ Blvd.

416-263-3293.

Rakia Bar 1402B Queen E. 416-778-8800.

Rancho Relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366.

Rasputin Vodka Bar 780 Queen E. 416-469-3737.

Relish Bar & Grill 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664.

Reposado 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474.

Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

Rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699.

Roncesvalles Village Roncesvalles and Wright.

Rose & Crown 2335 Yonge. 416-487-7673.

Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

The Sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090.

Soho House 192 Adelaide W. 416-599-7646.

Sound Academy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625.

Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416521-6302.

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 73 Simcoe.

416-593-5600.

St Casimir’s Church 156 Roncesvalles. 416-532-2282.

Supermarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-271-0016.

3030 Dundas West 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736.

TJ’s Pub & Grille 2012 Lawrence E. 647-344-6297.

Toby’s Famous 411 College. 416-925-9908.

Toika 471 Richmond W. 416-868-6452.

Toronto Music Garden 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

Trump Hotel 325 Bay. 416-306-5800.

Tryst 82 Peter. 416-588-7978.

Uniun 473 Adelaide W. 416-603-9300.

Velvet Underground 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688.

Village of Yorkville Park Cumberland and Bellair.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663.

WAYLA Bar 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar 51A Winchester.

416-323-0051.

Wise Guys 2301 Danforth. 416-694-2005.

Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

Yonge-Dundas Square Yonge & Dundas. 416979-9960.

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Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s (jazz funk) 7:30 pm.

Rivoli CD release Ken Yates & Liz Longley,

Jesse Gold, Rehan Dalal doors 8 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s What’s Poppin.

Tranzac Southern Cross Greenway Blvd w/ Derek Christie 10 pm, Michael Laderoute w/ Jim Layeux 7:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Alleycatz Citysoul (swinging blues/R&B).

C’est What Sarah MacRae (singer/songwriter) 7 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub The Alistair Christl Trio

(rockabilly/folk) 10 pm.

Dakota Tavern Eamon McGrath, Camp Radio, Miesha & the Spanks.

Dominion on Queen Ukulele Jam 7:30 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler (folk) 9 pm.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Minxy’s Country Mixup Sara Minx (country) 7:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Where Have All The Folk Songs Gone Sue & Dwight, Michelle Rumball (50s & 60s folk singalong) doors 7 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic 8 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Norvaisa (folk) 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room CD release Ventanas (flamenco/ Balkan/Sephardic music) 8 pm.

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Island Cafe Summer Concert Series Matthew Bailey 6 to 8 pm.

The Local Noah Zacharin (virtuoso guitar) 9 pm.

Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Zé Fuá, Salviano Pessoa, Luciano Porto Chorro Trio (forro/chorro) 8 pm.

Silver Dollar Crazy Strings, Kaleigh Mason & the Outlaw Project Band doors 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

BassLine Music Bar Acid Jazz Amanda Davids, Shai Locke (acid jazz/soul/funk) 10 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Mediterranean Stars

(fusion jazz) 8 pm.

Gallery 345 The Art Of The Piano Kara Huber 8 pm.

Gate 403 Leigh Graham Jazz Duo 9 pm, ­Anslem Douglas 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Richard Whiteman Trio 9 pm.

Monarch Tavern Album release party Manteca (world-jazz) 8:30 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio 7 to 11 pm.

Placebo Space Open Jazz Jam 8:30 pm.

Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (twang jazz trio).

Rex Dave Young/Terry Promane Octet 9:30 pm, Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Elgar Cello Concerto ­Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

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BassLine Music Bar Acid Jazz Night Amanda Davids & Shai Locke (acid jazz/soul/funk) 10 pm.

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album reviews about a timeless performer not bending to current musical fads. If it ain’t broke….

Top track: The Beginning John Legend plays the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts November 13.

JULIA LECONTE

Pop/Rock JF ROBITAILLE Rival Hearts (Sparks) Rating: NNNN Right from the first song – a confident ballad as much about the people and streets of Montreal as it is about a woman – it’s clear that JF Robitaille’s third album is his strongest yet.

Rival Hearts is full of sax, brass and electric guitar textures that make you want to listen repeatedly, especially to the first half. There are bloopy, buzzy synth sounds, too, but only in places where they serve the song or act as a bridge between tracks. Kudos to Robitaille for choosing a band – Tavo Diez de Bonilla, Andy Magoffin (also co-producers) and J.J. Ipsen – so well suited to his bittersweet, poppy songs.

It seems that since 2011’s Calendar, Robitaille has had a chance to let his influences (there are hints of Belle and Sebastian in Dead Letters) percolate into a sound all his own.

Top track: Dead Letters SARAH GREENE

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Singles Don’t $ell (Telephone Explosion) Rating: Reviewing Teenanger’s last record, Frights, for a publication that no longer exists, I said it was “probably the best Canadian rock record since CPC Gangbangs let Mutilation Nation loose in 2007.” So this pretty much makes the band’s latest the best Canadian rock record since Frights. Maybe there’s a detour through METZ’s self-titled debut. Maybe.

This is a swift 22-minute kick in the ass, a record that has Teenanger purging any last rumblings of 2010’s Give Me Pink. If Frights buried its most formidable banger, Bank Account, at the

end of the album, first track Singles Don’t $ell kicks things off in a hurry, one of those album-making hits that’s so goddamned good, you just keep listening to it over and over before finally attending to the rest of the record.

From start to finish, Singles is a pounding, mean, intermittently paranoid (Teenanger, Surveillance) record crammed with sneered lyrics, lashing rhythms and coiling feedback riffs.

Top track: Singles Don’t $ell Teenanger play the Silver Dollar Saturday (September 14), Parts & Labour October 16 and the Silver Dollar/Comfort Zone October 31.

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R&B

JOHN LEGEND Love In The Future

(Sony) Rating: NNN The Beginning, the first song on John Legend’s fourth album, is about hopeful clean-slate love, yet the track is sonically mournful. It’s a change from his previous releases – they started with toe-tappers – but it’s remarkably affecting, reminiscent of his defining song, Ordinary People.

The disc feels on the long side – he could lose the schmaltzy, dragging You & I (Nobody In The World) completely – and is not in the same league as his magnificent 2004 debut, Get Lifted. But Love In The Future, boasting production and writing credits by Kanye West, still has plenty of beautiful moments: Legend’s voice shines on All Of Me; Bobby Caldwell’s Open Your Eyes sounds like it was written for him; and the disco-infused, Rick Ross-assisted (wisely and restrainedly the only rap feature) Who Do We Think We Are delights.

Overall, this sounds like classic John Legend. There is something wonderful

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WILLIS EARL BEAL Nobody

Knows (Hot Charity) Rating: NNN A year after Hot Charity released Willis Earl Beal’s self-recorded song sketches as his debut, the enigmatic Chicago songwriter finally gets his chance to show what he can do in a proper studio. Nobody Knows is a more complete, fleshed-out version of Beal’s vision, replacing his former no-fi folk with ominous, gritty blues and soul (not to mention a guest spot by Cat Power), but it’s still a work-inprogress.

Beal continues to frustrate: his hyperself-aware attempt to present himself as a grizzled, world-weary hobo (à la Tom Waits) at times verges on self-parody, especially considering he’s still in his 20s. But that frustration is part of his appeal. Beal is so obviously talented, you’re constantly rooting for him to transcend his first-year-

philosophy-student existentialism and reach his potential. Fittingly, the best moments showcase his voice: breathtaking, virtuosic, powerful but also raw and untrained.

Beal is playing the long game, but sometimes an incomplete project is more satisfying than a fully formed artifact.

Top track: Everything Unwinds RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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2 CHAINZ B.O.A.T.S. II: MeTime (Universal) Rating: NNN A year after his last full-length came out, prolific purveyor of puerile punchlines 2 Chainz is back with its sequel. The Billboard charts are hardly wanting for trendy strip-club bangers, but the Atlanta emcee’s inspired silliness has a way of transcending the onslaught of sexual euphemisms. Mannie Fresh-produced assclapping anthem Used 2 is a prime example. A reworking of Juvenile’s Back That Azz Up, it’s a catchy singalong that boasts the year’s most gloriously crass chorus: “I still fuck ’em like I used to / I need to put that shit on YouTube.”

Sonically, B.O.A.T.S. II is slightly more adventurous than its predecessor thanks to Pharrell’s funky summer jam Feds Watching and the EDM-influenced Netflix, a Diplo-Fergie tag team. 2 Chainz likes to offset the raunchy with the heartfelt, but when the tone shifts to earnestly autobiographical, he sounds derivative.

Closer Outroduction is a blatant rip-off of one of Kanye West’s epic confessionals, and So We Can Live’s old-school/newschool switch-up recalls Kendrick Lamar’s dichotomous m.A.A.d. City.

Top track: Used 2 KR

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MGMT (Columbia) Rating: NNN

JANELLE MONÁE The Electric Lady

(Wondaland/Warner) Rating: NNN Tuxedo aficionado Janelle Monáe earned a rep as resolutely genre-averse with her sprawling debut, The ArchAndroid, part of an ongoing series of concept records about her android alter ego.

This time she focuses on exploring different facets of R&B, but the results are mixed. Billed as a prequel to The ArchAndroid, The Electric Lady lingers on questions of blackness, femininity and queerness in songs like the funky female/gay anthem Q.U.E.E.N., a collab with Erykah Badu.

The album is split in two: Suites IV and V. Suite IV is full of winking lyrics, hardedged rhythm guitar, power vocals and finger-snapping jams that take listeners on delightful, unexpected diversions with satisfying guest turns by Prince, Miguel and Solange. By comparison, Suite V’s ballads sound overly conservative. Perhaps Monáe’s obsession with crafting an iconic image is making her more self-conscious and dull even as her songs become more personal. Whatever is driving her interest in self-identity is obscured by overwrought conceptualism and confused by a push to sound more slickly commercial.

Top track: Give ’Em What They Love feat.

Prince Janelle Monáe plays the Kool Haus October 19.

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Edmonton church, Scotland is ethereal without being melancholy, calm but not pokey, gentle yet assured. A Grizzly Bear influence is evident in the careful textures, baroque chord progressions and soft, layered vocals. Healed Eyes brings Kings of Convenience to mind, while Auntie Anne has a jazz-prog Field Mouse vibe.

A few songs are overly long, but the surprises are plentiful. Like the deft fingerpicking on An Old Song and the stunning piano intro on closer Take On Another One, which mines jaunty 60s psych pop well enough to make you check whether it’s a cover. (Apparently it’s not.)

Top track: Take On Another One Ghost Cousin play the Handlebar Sunday (September 15), the Cameron House Monday (September 16) and Rancho Relax Tuesday (September 17).

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Considering it’s only 44 minutes long, MGMT’s self-titled third album feels much lengthier. This is partly due to the dense layers and constantly shifting textures, but it’s also a result of the abrasive digital distortion shrouding the psych-pop jams, making it a tiring listen even at its most melodic. Anyone hoping for a repeat of the mutant accessibility of Kids gave up long ago, however, so subtly annoying may have been what they were going for.

And if the noise doesn’t scare you off, there are a lot of delicate details waiting to be discovered.

The album comes with a trippy DIY CGI video that’s as steeped in abused digital processing as the music and definitely helps bring it all together. Like the songs, it’s classic psychedelia, but made with modern technology. The playful tone of the visuals helps remind the listener that the music, too, doesn’t have to be taken so deadly seriously.

Top track: Alien Days BENJAMIN BOLES

GHOST COUSIN Scotland (Old Ugle) Rating: NNN Edmonton four-piece Ghost Cousin have already toured from the Prairies to Atlantic Canada a couple of times, and they do it again in support of their debut fulllength, with three Toronto shows this week.

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“Pass-holders essentially build and program their own festival,” explains Praw.

3. GO BEYOND THE BIGGEST FONT Family Guy Live unites the main cast of the lowbrow cartoon – Seth MacFarlane, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and Alex Borstein – for a live reading of an episode, plus a musical performance backed by a 40-piece orchestra. It’s sure to be a grand spectacle of poor taste, but Praw admits he’s hoping it’ll be a Trojan Horse for the other acts on the bill.

The supposed “second tier” is

COMEDY PREVIEW

How to plan JFL42

stacked with comedians primed to headline similar festivals in no time.

Beyond big-name veterans like Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron and Colin Quinn, Bill Burr is a rising superstar with a show-stealing role on Breaking Bad, former SNL writer (and Stefon creator) John Mulaney is a constant rumour for TV hosting gigs, and Hannibal Buress is a go-to opener for Dave Chappelle.

JFL42 has also tapped into Toronto’s comedy scene (with help from crowdsourced suggestions), and the pass is designed to let you take a chance on those up-and-comers without worrying about the price.

Picnicface members Mark Little and Kyle Dooley are proving their hilariousness beyond their viral Powerthirst video, while local treasure K. Trevor Wilson has been handpicked by Silverman to open her show.

If you still haven’t made up your mind, there are videos of every performer at JFL42.com to help you decide what to sample.

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Some of JFL42’s highlights include Mark Little (left), The Family Guy Live and Sarah Silverman.

Be organized, check out smaller acts... and get the last laugh By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI “Welcome to the world’s most complicated comedy festival,” Todd Barry deadpanned at last year’s JFL42, summing up the general sentiment leading up to the event.

In an ambitious attempt to reinvent its flagship Toronto fest as something other than Montreal Just For Laughs’ tamer sibling, organizers created a pass scheme that provides a jam-packed smorgasbord of comedy for both broad fans and behind-thescenes podcast junkies.

The multiple pricing options, byzantine system of credits and check-ins and schedule of 42 “things” takes some explaining, but it works if you can crack the code.

So here’s how to get the most out of JFL42’s second edition, taking place

September 19 to 28 at venues across Toronto. jfl42.com.

four shows, maybe more.

1. CHOOSE THE RIGHT PASS

Director of programming Robbie Praw says he’s taken fan feedback seriously.

This year JFL42 has reduced its reliance on smartphones and the requirement to sign into Facebook, but it’s still heavily into social networking.

Checking in at a show earns your credit back, simultaneously letting you see more comedy and turning you into an unpaid social marketing flack.

With no central festival hub, the internet is the primary source

Stay with me here. This year’s festival has three high-profile headliners: Aziz Ansari (September 27), Sarah Silverman (September 20) and Family Guy Live (September 28). A $69, $99 or $129 regular festival pass gets you a seat for one of those three shows, while a $199 or $299 deluxe pass (depending on where you want to sit) gets you into all three.

Any one of those passes also nets you four credits that you can use to reserve tickets for any of the other 42 things. After you use one, you can check in and get that credit back.

So every pass is good for at least

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

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Thursday, September 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Joe

Bronzi w/ Martha O’Neill and host Franco Taddeo. To Sep 15, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY High on Trees and Puff Mama present the comic, actor and podcast show host in a live show. To Sep 14, Thu-Sat 9 pm. $20. The Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761, brownpapertickets. com/event/447896.

GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE BAR presents a weekly open-mic w/ rotating hosts. 9:30 pm. Free.

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1952 Danforth. sssuperfly@hotmail.com.

KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly show. 9 pm.

Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Todd Graham, host James Hartnett and others.

9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

NOT MY DOG COMEDY presents a weekly open mic w/ host Hannah Hogan. 8:30 pm. Free.

Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. facebook.com/ notmydogtoronto.

WE CAN BE HEROES Second City’s latest revue – inspired by the idea that our society’s quickly going to hell – is one of its sharpest in a while. Newcomer Connor Thompson scores big laughs playing everything from a literal bat man to a blind lifeguard, while Craig Brown channels his inner Chaplin as a balding man having a terrible day. Meanwhile, Jan Caruana proves she’s got great range in two scenes involving a precocious girl. Even the less successful sketches are sharply directed, and the set

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Not to be missed. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $24$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Howie Miller. To Sep 15, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, September 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 12.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly im-

prov pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY See Thu 12.

TEH INTERNETS QUIZ SHOW Comedy Bar presents the monthly panel/quiz show w/ Lisa Amerongen, Zoe Daniels, Ian MacIntyre, Peter Hill and host Tom MacKay. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle pre-

sents stand-up w/ Eddie Della Siepe, Joel Buxton, Diana Love, Hunter Collins, Blayne Smith, Robby Hoffman, Julia Bruce, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com.

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.

WE CAN BE HEROES See Thu 12.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 12.

Saturday, September 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 12.

CHRISTINA PAZSITZKY See Thu 12.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET presents head-

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theatre listings How to find a listing

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

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook

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

Opening DINE HER by Bruce Hunter (Realspace Theatre).

This interactive zombie comedy looks at how gentrification strips neighbourhoods of life.

Opens Sep 16 and runs to Sep 23, nightly at 7 pm. $39.95 (dinner & show). George Street Diner, 129 George. dineher.eventbrite.ca.

THE FOURSOME by Jane Ford (Sterling Studio Theatre). Secrets emerge when three upscale women add a young heiress to their tennis quartet in this dark comedy. Previews Sep 17.

Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 28, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20, preview $15. 163 Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP by Neil LaBute (Leach & Levy Productions). Secrets from their past emerge as siblings clean out the sister’s cottage retreat. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22.50. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER by John Osborne (FeverGraph Theatre Company). The female-centred company presents its take on this play about four people crippled by their ideas of societal and interpersonal oppression. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20 stu/srs $15. Ten 93 Queen W, 1093 Queen W. 416-277-5075, fevergraph.com.

PIECE OF MINE FESTIVAL (Natasha Adiyana Morris). Showcase of works in development by black playwrights, including Amanda Parris, Araya Mengesha and Sebastien Heins. Sep 13-15, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6:30 pm. $10, pass $25. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston, Theatre. pieceofminefest.com.

SHOREDITCH MADONNA by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Three Seeds Productions). Visual artists living in London’s East End seek meaningful relationships and meaningful work. Opens Sep 13 and runs to Sep 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu rush $5 (Wed & Sun). The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. redonetheatre.com.

STROLLING PLAYER by Richard Willis and Heidi Reimer (Red Sandcastle Theatre). From falling off the stage to falling in love, Willis recounts the ups and downs of an actor’s life (see story, this page). Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 22, Thu-

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The Player’s the thing

Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411.

TENDERPITS/REVENGE OF THE POPINJAY by Anthony Johnston (AnimalParts Theatre Co). A young gay wizard goes from Canada’s wilderness to NYC, and a young gay rapper gets fame as a serial killer of heterosexuals in this double bill. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 15, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $18. Videofag, 187 Augusta. animalparts.org.

THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare (UC Follies). The Roman emperor is brought down by his colleagues in the classic tragedy presented outdoors. Opens Sep 13 and runs to Sep 21, Thu-Sat. $10, stu/srs $8.

University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Quadrangle. 416-978-8849, ucfollies.org.

Veteran thespian remounts his solo show about the acting life

By GLENN SUMI

Previewing PIG by Tim Luscombe (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Three gay couples push ñ the boundaries of their relationships through

acts of emotional domination, sexual submission, compulsion and violence. Previews Sep 14-18. Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 6, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

One-Nighters

Richard Sheridan Willis was born in Shakespeare’s hometown. So of course he became an actor.

THE BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL (Les Femmes Fatales/Dainty Box). Good girls, bad girls, cheerleaders and PTA moms feature in this burlesque revue. Sep 12 at 10 pm. $12. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel. com/event/les-femmes-fatales.

BRAINSTORM: MAGIC, SUGGESTION & PSYCHOLOGY (Gabriello Pitman). Pitman performs an

interactive show. Sep 14 at 10 pm. $12-$15.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth. shows.gplive.me.

DR. DRAW AND THE STRANGE PARADE (Dr. Draw). This multi-arts performance features live music, painting, circus arts and more. Sep 12 at 8 pm. $20-$25. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. drdraw.ca/tickets.

SST COLLECTIVE BBQ (Sterling Studio Theatre).

This funder for the company features live and DJ music, performances, kids’ games, food and more. Sep 14 at 5 pm. $5. 163 Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

TORONTO MONOLOGUE SLAM: TIFF EDITION

(TMS). Up-and-coming actors deliver performances in front of a panel of judges. Sep 15, doors 2:30 pm. $5-$10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W, Underground. toslam.com.

Continuing ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS I & II by Tony Kushner (Soulpepper). Kushner’s ambiñ tious, 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,

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STROLLING PLAYER by Richard Sheridan Willis and Heidi Reimer, directed by Robert Richmond, with Willis. Presented by Red Sandcastle Theatre (922 Queen East).

Opens tonight (Thursday, September 12) and runs to September 22, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. 416-845-9411.

One of the nicest surprises at the recent Toronto Fringe was catching the final performance of Strolling Player, Richard Sheridan Willis’s spellbinding account of a life devoted to theatre.

There were maybe a dozen people in the audience – somehow the show hadn’t generated a lot of buzz. But we were captivated by Willis’s tales of famous acting partners (a then-unknown Daniel Day-Lewis, a very wellknown Richard Burton), love and heartbreak on the road, and his deep, abiding passion for Shakespeare, whose words act as segues connecting the various stories.

Strolling Player’s genesis began when Willis, who was born, appropriately enough, in the Bard’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon (both his parents were in theatre), applied for Canadian residency several years ago.

“I had to list everywhere I’d travelled and worked from the age of 18, and I thought, ‘Do I take

this seriously?’” says Willis a week before the show’s remount at Red Sandcastle.

“I’m an actor, and I work all over the place all the time. So that was a huge undertaking.”

But he trudged through three decades of memories, piecing together a chronology of productions and countries. Then a gig reading Shakespeare in an art gallery got him to combine the Bard’s words and his own stories.

At a workshop at Factory 163 in Stratford, Ontario, he brought on board Canadian writer Heidi Reimer (also his wife), who helped marry the Bard with his stories, and hired director Robert Richmond. Gradually, the show emerged.

Willis is very candid about the literal ups and downs of the business – one minute you’re performing at the White House for George Dubya and Laura Bush, the next you’re falling off a stage in an Oscar Wilde play – and doesn’t shy away from discussing his personal life.

“I used to be reticent and shy, but in my later years I find it’s easier to be honest and truthful,” he says. “I talk about relationships in a positive way. I don’t name people. And I think people identify with the stories. Being on the road is tough. This year I’ve been away from my family for six months.”

About that family: one of Strolling Player’s most touching sections deals with his finding love with Reimer.

“I didn’t expect to fall in love ever again,” he says. “Part of me thought the idea was ridiculous. We had a long courtship, most of it done through writing. She was studying in Toronto, and I was out on the road and living in New York City. Then she visited New York, I visited Toronto, and that was it.

Eventually we had to pick a place, and my instinct told me to settle in Toronto.”

Willis first came to T.O. in 1996 in a West End production of The Master Builder. A couple of years ago, he starred in the UK import The Railway Children. Most of his local work is in TV and film.

“It’s funny being an actor in another country,” he says. “It can be very difficult. I remember Geraint Wyn Davies stayed at my house in England in the 1990s. He’d done Henry V at Stratford [Ontario], and I’d seen his Hamlet, which was brilliant. The Royal Shakespeare Company should have snapped him up, but they didn’t.

“I’m not complaining,” he says, “It’s just the way it is.”

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THE LOUDEST SHOW ON EARTH The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Lea Delaria and Maggie Cassella in an exploration of queer existence.

7 & 9 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-3476567, ­brownpapertickets.com/event/450453.

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HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents

J­ ustin Sanchez, Rachelle Elie, Jesse Owens, Ali Kabiri, host DK Phan and others. 8 pm. Free.

229 College. ein-stein.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.

SAY WHA?! Sara Bynoe Entertainment presents readings of some of the worst writing ever published w/ Toby Berner, Ashley Botting, Diana Frances and others. 7 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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.

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Monday, September 16 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Pete Zedlacher, Fraser Young & Chris ñ Locke, Patrick Haye, Jeff Leeson, Jess Beaulieu,

Lars Classington, Heidi Brander, MC Julia Hladkowicz and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV T.K.O.! Big City Improv Festival presents 16 teams in an improv competition. 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy. 9 pm.

Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

DAWN PATROL Comedy Bar presents Candice Gregoris, Darryl Orr, Helder Brum, Marissa Gregoris, Richard Ryder and Sarah Grange. 8:30 pm. $7. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

FRESH MEAT Tim Sims Encouragement Fund presents a showcase of new talent w/ host Robert Keller. 8 pm. $12. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents a rotating crew of hosts, 10 comics and a pro headliner. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents ­Gilson Lubin, Graham Kay, Sarah Ford, Eric Andrews, Darryl Orr, Simon Rakoff, Ryan Belleville and hosts Steph Tolev and Nick ­Flanagan. 9 pm. Pwyc.

Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents a weekly pro comic show w/ hosts Chris Allin and Brian

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416-977-1900.

Tuesday, September 17 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. f­ acebook. com/skinofmynuts.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 12.

WEST END GIRLS: 4-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW WEG presents all-girl stand-up ñ w/ Christina Walkinshaw, Martha Chaves,

Christi Olson, Daniela Saioni and others. 7 pm. $10-$15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. westendgirls.ca.

THE WILD CARD Top Shelf Comedy presents 4 pros, 4 lottery spots and one first-timer w/ hosts Chris Allin and Brian Ward. Tuesdays 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. 416-9676425, ­yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, September 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ headliner Jon Fisch, Alex Crawford, Michelle Christine, Adam Jamal, Eli Jakeman, Sean McKiernan and host Anthony P DeVito.

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.

CORKTOWN COMEDY: THE CRAZY CANUCKS SHOW Corktown Productions presents

­ andro Veri, Nesha Davis, Ali Badshah, host S Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free.

Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, ­corktowncomedy.com.

THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR C’est What presents a stand-up showcase. 9:30 pm. $10. 67 Front E. cestwhat.ca.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ host Blayne Smith and headliner Troy Stark. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SOCIAL WEDNESDAYS Seven44 presents a variety night with comics, live music and DJs, this week w/ Al Val, Dave Merheje and Allyson June Smith. 9 pm. $5. 744 Mt Pleasant. 416489-7931, ­seven44. com.

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dance listings Opening Arabesque Fall Gala Arabesque Dance

Company presents more than 200 student and company belly dancers. Sep 14 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Estonian House, 958 Broadview.

416-920-5593, arabesquedance.ca.

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­ ewton Moraes Dance Theatre presents N Afro-Brazilian and contemporary dance to

celebrate the company’s 15-year anniversary and showcase Brazilian culture. Runs to Sep 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, child $10.

Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. ­newtonmoraesdancetheatre.com.

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Darryl Tracy presents contemporary dance with choreographies

by Yvonne Coutts, Sylvain Emard, Ginette Laurin and Heidi Strauss, performed by Tracy and Strauss. Runs to Sep 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. vital-signs.­eventbrite.com. 3

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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, 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.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin, Herbert and Dorothy Fields (Civic Light Opera Co). This musical portrays the life of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Runs to Sep 22, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28.

Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall.

416-755-1717, musictheatretoronto.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.

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. $40-$110. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, catsto.com. NN (GS) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (Echo Productions). A teen grows up in a culture of extreme youth violence and endures the state’s reform program. Runs to Sep 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$35.

Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. ­echoproductions.ca.

Lady Julie by Natalie Feheregyhazi (Apuka Theatre/Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter). Natalie Feheregyhazi’s adaptation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie, in which the upper-class title character becomes sexually and emotionally involved with her father’s valet, gets an intimate and close-up period staging in the Campbell House Museum kitchen. Making explicit the show’s sexual violence toward women, the production features a trio of powerful, honest performances under Rod Ceballos’s direction. Runs to Sep 14, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $20. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. ­apukatheatre.com. NNNN (JK) Memory In The Mud (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of

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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.

Next To Normal by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt (Lower Ossington Theatre). This rock musical looks at how a suburban family copes with mental illness. Runs to Sep 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Pinkalicious, The Musical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. To Sep 29, Sun, see website for times. $30-$40.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, pinkaliciousthemusical.com/ toronto.

YouTopia by Bruce Barton (Vertical City). A woman and a computer that runs her life must adapt as their world literally crumbles in this interdisciplinary play about the bonds of humans and technology. Runs to Sep 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15.

Glen Morris Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. totix.ca.

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Graeme ­Somerville and Nicole ­Underhay are surefooted in Shaw.

Out of Town 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, stu/srs $20$55. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, s­ tratfordfestival.ca.

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.

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 27. $49-$135, srs $41-$66, stu $29.

Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest.com.

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton breathes new life into Wilde’s comedy of Victorian manners, using bold design touches that underscore the play’s themes and create intimacy on the large Festival Theatre stage.

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Is a good deed done by a morally reprehensible person still good?

That’s a central question in Shaw’s Major Barbara, one of the playwright’s most cleverly argued scripts and one that’ll have you often questioning your loyalties over the course

of a good production.

Director Jackie Maxwell’s version for the Shaw Festival is certainly that, given the performances of its three leads: Nicole Underhay as Barbara, Graeme Somerville as her academic fiancé, Adolphus Cusins, and Benedict Campbell as her estranged father, Andrew Undershaft.

The key conflict in terms of this trio is that Barbara is an officer in the Salvation Army and her father is a major munitions manufacturer whose work by nature is intended to blow humankind to kingdom come. When Barbara’s superior (Jenny L. Wright) accepts a donation from Undershaft,

you’ll smile at the musical choices, which range from Chopin to Katy Perry. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55.

Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-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.

Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her arms dealer father clash in this play about idealism (see review,

this page). Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-5117429, ­shawfest.com. NNN (JK) 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. 1-800-567-1600, ­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 dir-

MAJOR BARBARA by George Bernard Shaw (Shaw). At the Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Runs in rep to October 19. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24$55. 1-800-511-7429. See Out of Town, this page. Rating: NNN

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who defines his religion as “millionaire,” she loses faith in the Army’s means to its end, if not its goals.

Underhay, always a delight to watch onstage, makes us warm to a woman who begins in a state of spiritual security – her conversion of the surly, violent Bill Walker (James Pendarves) is a little dramatic gem – before moving on to disillusionment and finally belief, again, when she finds a new humanitarian calling.

Somerville, who grows from a tentative innocent in the midst of commanding, opinionated figures, and Campbell, whose humour is always tinged with the sardonic, are just as strong. Like Underhay, they give a clear reading of the text and the contrasting arguments Shaw puts forward.

Campbell is especially deft at allowing us to see, later in the play, a side of Undershaft that makes him more sympathetic, not quite the Machiavelli or Mephistopheles Cusins half-humorously labels him when the pair argue. In fact, the debates between the two men often seem more central to the production than those between father and daughter.

None of the three is simply a talking head; they’re fully developed characters whose emotions are as potent as their arguments.

Some of the other roles aren’t as fully fleshed out, either in the writing or the performing, but Laurie Paton’s Lady Britomart Undershaft, the socialite forced to raise three children without the help of a husband, is equal parts magisterial and droll. JON KAPLAN ector 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 drama about intolerance and vengeance (see review, page 72). Runs in rep

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twined narratives.

Director Antoni Cimolino weaves those tales together in a handsome and generally successful production set in 1930s Italy, with Mussolini’s ominous blackshirts in all the public scenes. Douglas Paraschuk’s sets, Charlotte Dean’s costumes and Robert Thomson’s lighting are a pleasure throughout, but I wish Cimolino had made more effective use of the period; too often it’s simply the backdrop.

In this world of elegant suits and coffee houses, the merchant Antonio (Tom McCamus, always a rock-solid

performer) is asked by young Bassanio (Tyrell Crews) for a loan so he can woo the well-to-do Portia (Michelle Giroux).

Without ready money at hand, Antonio borrows it from Shylock (Scott Wentworth), disdained by the Christians – notably Gratiano, Bassanio’s friend, played by the excellent Jonathan Goad – for his religion as well as his lending practices.

The story takes a while to find its focus because of the number of plot lines that ultimately come together, but the key actors are always compell­ing.

Cimolino doesn’t downplay the play’s humorous elements, though some are more successful than others. The scenes involving Portia and her various suitors have the feel of a warm drawing-room comedy, and Giroux is excellent at getting laughs. But the more clownish elements, despite the efforts of Victor ­Ertmanis and Ron Pederson as father and son, have a heavy-handed feel.

Giroux moves believably into a more serious mood when she and ­Sophia Walker as her companion, ­Nerissa, don men’s clothes and best Shylock in court, where he claims a pound of Antonio’s flesh for the unpaid debt.

Wentworth is a sympathetic and complex Shylock, at first playing with children on the street and clearly devoted to his daughter, Jessica (Sara Farb), who runs off with Lorenzo and converts to Christianity.

It’s easy to understand his anger in the first act, and only when he steadfastly refuses to show any leniency to Antonio does he lose at least some of our sympathy. But we don’t reject him entirely, since there’s so much anti-Semitism in the powerful court scene and we see how utterly he’s JON KAPLAN crushed at its end.

Oct 12. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32.

Firehall Theatre, 185 South, Gananoque.

1-866-382-7020, 1000islands­playhouse.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-onthe-Lake. 289-868-9527, r­ ockyhorrorniagara. 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, s­ tratfordfestival.ca.

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.

The Three Musketeers by Peter Raby (Stratford 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). Judith Thompson’s play pits Elora, a fighter for the rights of the disabled who herself is in a wheelchair, with Julian, a euthanasia advocate. The dramatic rub here is that the two fall in love, dramatically complicating their arguments. The writing, especially

the monologues, is up to Thompson’s high standards, but some of the other scenes are less strong. Lucy Peacock grounds the production as the passionate Elora. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu/srs $20-$55. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, ­stratfordfestival.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 grown-up 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. 1-800-567-1600, ­stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett (Stratford Festival). Beckett’s most famous play features Stratford’s best pairing of the season: Stephen Ouimette and Tom Rooney as Estragon and Vladimir, passing the time on a wilderness road they can’t seem to leave. They capture the comedy and seriousness in the script, as does Randy Hughson’s downtrodden Lucky; too bad Brian Dennehy’s Pozzo only comes to life in the second act.

Runs in rep to Sep 26. $49-$120, stu/srs $20$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, ­stratfordfestival. ca. NNNN (JK) 3

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to Oct 18. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, ­stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Othello by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director Chris Abraham’s production picks up on the speed suggested in Shakespeare’s narrative, making the tale of jealousy, suspicion, manipulation and murder move at a breakneck pace. The cast, especially Dion Johnstone in the title role and Graham Abbey as the deceitful Iago, give the text a strong emotional reading. In rep. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, ­stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Our Betters by W Somerset Maugham (Shaw Festival). Maugham’s little-known 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

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You can record, videotape, photograph and do a ton of other things to document a situation. But you can never be sure whether you’ve discovered any actual truths.

That’s the theme of Catherine Bush’s deftly rendered tale about a

LAUNCHING THIS WEEK If the Twilight series inspires you – or if you just like scary stuff – you’ll want to check out Liisa Ladouceur’s How To Kill A Vampire: Fangs In Folklore, Film And Fiction ($14.95, ECW). The horror specialist and journalist, who writes about all things inhabiting the dark side, looks at how the bloodsuckers have been vanquished over time – and almost every culture has had its own method. She also dispels some of our assumptions: not all vampires like to feed off humans, ya know.

Ladouceur launches How To at the Dog & Bear on Tuesday (September 17). See Readings, page 74. SGC

seasoned journalist trying to get to the root of a story about a man accused of child sexual abuse.

Sara is charmed by an African children’s circus while on assignment in Copenhagen, prompting her to suggest to a filmmaker in T.O. that she make a documentary about them. When, on a tour of Australia, members of the circus refuse to return to their home in Ethiopia, accusing circus director Raymond Renaud of physical and sexual abuse, Sara doesn’t know what to think and tries to investigate.

Bush (The Rules Of Engagement) is fascinated by the factors that can mess with Sara’s judgment. Sara can’t really be sure of anything. She herself was falsely accused of a crime – and let down by her friends during the legal proceedings – and may be too influenced by that experience.

After a Toronto performance by the troupe early in the story, she’d

driven Renaud from Toronto to Montreal so he could deal with an emergency. Is she now objective enough to handle the

story? And her own moral compass is pretty wonky, given that she’s having a long-term affair with a man whose wife is battling cancer.

Later on, the children retract their sexual abuse allegations but stick to their story regarding other kinds of hardship in the circus. But is that because those are the only provable incidents that might expedite their immigration applications?

Hard to tell about any of it, which

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Bush not only writes vividly about Toronto and Africa, evoking the kids’ gymnastic talents with great energy, but she gets to the heart of journalism’s essential dilemmas, too.

SUSAN G. COLE Bush launches the book alongside Douglas Glover at the Gladstone on Tuesday (September 17). See Readings, page 74. She also appears at the International Festival of Authors October 26 and November 1. IFOA.org. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, September 12 ROY MCMURTRY Talking about his book Memoirs And Reflections with the Toronto Star’s Barbara Turnbull. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saturday, September 14 ACCOUNTS OF MURDER AND MAYHEM Readings

by crime writers Michael Walton, Jill Downie, Meg Howald and others. 1 pm. Free. Du Café, 885 O’Connor. words@samcraw.com.

ANDREW C JAMES Signing copies of his new book, Bird Words: Inspirational Thoughts For Everyday Life In 140 Characters Or Less. 1 to 4 pm. Free. Chapters Square One, 189 Rathburn. chapters.indigo.ca.

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Sunday, September 15 MARGARET ATWOOD Talking about her new novel, MaddAddam. 1 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. indigo.ca/events.

JIM CHRISTY Launching his poetry book This Cockeyed World. 3 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

CONTESTED LAND, CONTESTED MEMORY: ISRAEL’S JEWS AND ARABS AND THE GHOSTS OF CATASTROPHE Launch for a book by Jo Roberts.

3 pm. Free. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. facebook.com/events/417479568372627.

MARJORIE DOYLE Reading from A Doyle Reader: Writings From Home And Away. 4 pm. Free.

Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

EDEN MILLS WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Readings by adult, YA and children’s authors including Marie Claire Blais, Michael Winter, David W McFadden, Joseph Boyden and Ania Szado.

Noon-6 pm. edenmillswritersfestival.ca.

RICHARD HARRIS Reading from and signing copies of his new novel, A Father’s Son. 1-5 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. 416-595-7349, chapters.indigo.ca.

SUNDAY POETRY Poetry and an open mic.

11:30 am. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-652-9111.

Tuesday, September 17 LIISA LADOUCEUR Launch for How to Kill A Vampire. 8 pm. Dog & Bear, 1100 Queen W. 647-352-8601.

LOVE AND ACCUSATION: CATHERINE BUSH AND DOUGLAS GLOVER The authors are

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Post books editor Mark Medley. 8 pm. $5.

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

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Already garnering an international reputation for his work, former Team Macho member Jacob Whibley has his first solo show, called Just A Conspiracy Of Cartographers, Then? at Narwhal’s Junction location.

Like many of his contemporaries, Whibley’s aesthetic roams freely across the modernist terrain of the last century, borrowing and quoting whatever fills the need. Here, his focus is on assemblage and collage, and there are echoes of Kurt Schwitters and Kazimir Malevich in the show’s cool and painstakingly constructed formalist works on paper.

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Soloists In A Fugue, he uses the backs of found maps, the first dating to 1886. Those barely visible maps come through as faint backgrounds to visual exercises in restraint. Every piece contains a line or shape typed on a manual typewriter, a piece of a drawing and a found scrap that carries a human marking. Whibley mines these elements with admirable creativity and precision, drawing out interesting irregularities in the materials.

Whibley plays a very subtle game with colour and texture, using the faded palette of antique paper to compose tonal harmonies that are intriguingly pleasant.

That rigour explodes into vibrancy in The Recent History Of History, Parts 1 and 2, composed of scraps and leftovers. Bits of detritus gather into swirling knots of density and colour, veer into lines, stagger and then burst into other loosely tangled clusters. These arrangements seem to be

Jacob Whibley can show restraint, but With Red Wedge has a potent vibrancy.

inspired by the complex, chaotic configurations of our current communications systems, and they are beautiful.

Whibley’s visual understanding and diversity are almost unsettling in their quiet strength.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS Reading/Interview JOSEPH BOYDEN (Canada), The Orenda Interviewer: Matt Galloway

$10/FREE for supporters, students & youth Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org

AGO Ai Weiwei, to Oct 27 ($25, sr $21.50, stu $16.50; Wed after 6 pm $12.50). ñ Marina Abramovic and Ulay, to Dec 15. Aimia

Photography Prize nominees, to Jan 5, 2014, artist talk 7 pm Sep 12. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Wael Shawky, to Dec 1. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Red, Green, Blue ≠ White, Sep 18-Dec 1, reception 5-8 pm (bus from Mercer Union, 6 pm) Sep 18. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga. 905-828-3789.

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, to 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, to Oct 15. An Te Liu, to Nov 11. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm discounts. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Bouchra Khalili, to Oct 27. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

MOCCA Camille Henrot, to Sep 15. David Cronenberg: Transformations, to Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Kelly Jazvac (Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore E); Surface Tension (Centennial, 120 Navy), Sep 15-Nov 17. 905-844-4402.

ROM BIG, to Oct 30. Mesopotamia, to Jan 5, 2014 ($27, srs/stu $24.50; Fri after 4:30 pm $23, srs/stu $20). Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12,

Shape Shifter group show, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 6-9 pm Sep 12. 45 Ernest. 647346-9082.

BAIN CO-OP 100@100, 10 am-11 pm Sep 14. 100 Bain. 416-463-0829.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Video: Nicholas and Sheila Pye, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 5-8 pm Sep 12. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CENTRE SPACE Chih-Chien Wang, Sep 12Oct 12, reception 6-8 pm Sep 12. 65 George. 416-323-1373.

CLINT ROENISCH Sylvain Bouthillette, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 7-9 pm Sep 12. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593.

DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Shannon Bool, Sep 12-Oct 19, reception 6-8 pm Sep 12. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Sculpture: James Carl, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 6-8 pm Sep 12. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Textiles: Alika Cooper, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 6-8 pm Sep 14.

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

MKG127 Dean Drever, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 5-8 pm Sep 12. 1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, Sep 12-Oct 11, reception 6-9 pm Sep 12. 131 Ossington. 416413-9555.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Vivian Maier, to Sep 14. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

SUSAN HOBBS Kevin Yates, Sep 12-Oct 12, reception 7-9 pm Sep 12. 137 Tecumseth.

416-504-3699.

VERSO Photos: Julie Jenkinson, to Sep 28. 1160 Queen W. 416-533-6362.

WARC Installation: Camille Turner, Sep 14Oct 19, reception 2-5 pm Sep 14. 401 Richmond W. 416-977-0097.

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RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art., Sep 18-Dec 15. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Oct 13. Farandole: Western Canadian Métis Culture, Sep 18-Nov 14; Telling Stories, Sep 18-Apr 13, 2014, reception 6:308 pm Sep 18. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Lutz Dille, to Nov 14.

Framing Narratives, to Mar 8, 2014. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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INUMBER NUMBER CWC D: Donovan Marsh w/ S’dumo Mtshali, Presley Chweneyagae. South Africa. 96 min. Sep 12, 6 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 13, 11:30 am Scotiabank 4; Sep 14, 9:15 pm Scotiabank 13. Rating: NNNN

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Undercover cop Chili (Mtshali) is so disillusioned by police corruption that he decides to turn criminal and take part in a robbery. But soon word gets out in the gang of colourful thieves that one of them is a traitor, and the stakes rise when Chili’s police pal and best friend (Chweneyagae) is kidnapped.

Obviously working on a limited budget, Marsh successfully mixes up thrills and laughs, and gets spirited, sometimes over-the-top performances from his cast.

There are plenty of plot holes, but what adds depth is a message about poverty and crime in a changing South Africa, an idea that’s slightly contradicted by a GLENN SUMI gutless final scene.

A FIELD IN ENGLAND WL D: Ben Wheatley w/ Reece Shearsmith, Michael ñ Smiley. UK. 90 min. Sep 13, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 14, 9 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NNNN

After Kill List in 2011 and Sightseers and The ABCs Of Death last year, British maverick Wheatley returns to the festival with his oddest work to date, which is really saying something.

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Shot in widescreen black-and-white by Laurie Rose and edited by Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump, it’s alternately beautiful to behold and utterly assaultive. But it would have been better placed in Midnight Madness, where the audience is ready to freak out NORMAN WILNER right along with the movie.

American Dreams In China (clockwise from top left), Cold Eyes, iNumber Number and A Field In England are all worth seeing this final TIFF weekend.

COLD EYES GALA D: Cho Ui-seok, Kim Byung-seo w/ Han Hyo-joo, ñ Jung Woo-sung. South Korea. 118 min. Sep 13, 9:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 14, 5:15 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 15, 2:45 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NNNN

Applications to Seoul’s police surveillance unit should go up after the release of this entertaining and gripping thriller about Ha Yoonju (Han), a brilliant young recruit who helps her colourful team track a gang of thieves adept at avoiding detection by the city’s many cameras.

After a bravura opening sequence that works on several levels, directors Cho and Kim keep the action clear and build the stakes for all involved – Ha, her hardened boss (Seol Kyung-gu) and the coolly sadistic criminal James (Jung) – until a heart-pounding climax set in the subway tunnels.

They’re especially good at weaving in and out of the city’s stalls and alleys as the cat-and-mouse dynamics shift GS and change.

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AMERICAN DREAMS IN CHINA GALA D: Peter Ho-sun Chan w/ Deng Chao, Huang ñ Xiaoming. Hong Kong/China. 110 min. Sep 14, 9:15 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN

Three young men meet in school, all of them desperate to get to America. Cheng (Huang) comes from a poor village, Meng (Deng) wants to follow in his welleducated parents’ footsteps, and carefree Wang (Tong Dawei) loves U.S. culture. Only Meng gets his visa, but his English is too poor to get him beyond busboy status, so he returns to Beijing, where his friends are operating a popular English-language school in an abandoned factory.

Eventually, with the help of online courses, they attract millions of students and a lot of money but face copyright infringement suits from American interests.

Expertly shot by Christopher Doyle, the script skilfully builds each of the three main characters – all extremely well played – and their tense relationships and gives a vivid sense of how China has changed since the early 80s.

It’s being pitched as the Chinese Social Network, but it says way more about the Chinese way of life than Aaron Sorkin’s script says about America. And it’s not about rich kids who just get SUSAN G. COLE richer.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Noomi Rapace (left) and Rachel McAdams don’t exhibit much Passion.

erotic thriller

Same moves Passion (Brian De Palma). 102 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 13). For venues and times, see Movies, this page.

Rating: NN

After the nervy and original experiment of Redacted, Brian De Palma retreats to safer, sillier ground with this overheated erotic thriller.

Luridly adapted from Alain Corneau’s 2010 thriller Crime D’Amour, Passion casts Rachel McAdams as Christine, a sharkish marketing execu-

COMEDY

Dull Family THE FAMILY (Luc Besson). 110 minutes.

Some subtitles. Opens Friday (September 13). For venues and times, see Movies, this page. Rating: NN

This forgettable and not very funny comedy floats on the charm of stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones, and is propelled by director Luc Besson’s skill with the camera and editor’s scissors.

The titular family – played by Pfeiffer and De Niro, with Dianna Agron and John D’Leo as their teen daughter and son – are living in Normandy under the witness protection program, personified by the not-watchful-enough eye of a federal agent (Jones).

The tight-knit clan are mutually supportive of each other’s

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tive, and Noomi Rapace as her far more talented underling, Isabelle.

When Christine steals her clever new idea for a smartphone campaign, Isabelle pushes back, triggering an esca­lating war of upstaging and humil­ iation that eventually leads to murder – while allowing De Palma to indulge his habit of lifting key images and musical elements from half a dozen filmmakers, including himself.

McAdams and Rapace – who costarred in Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, though they shared no scenes – aren’t the most convincing of rivals. Corneau put together a much

more convincing power dynamic in Crime D’Amour with Kristin Scott Thomas dominating Ludivine Sagnier.

Here, Rapace looks like she could put McAdams through a wall without breaking a sweat.

But De Palma doesn’t care about that stuff; he’s in it for the chance to orchestrate elaborate camera moves and editorial flourishes straight out of a 1970s giallo. The plot and his actors are the last thing on his mind.

At TIFF last year, De Palma loyalists defended Passion as a return to form. I assume that was just out of habit.

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criminal activi­ties. Mom blows up the local grocery store in a fit of pique, daughter secures her social position with beatings, son runs rackets in high school, and dad opts for escalating violence in his quest for clean household water.

With few jokes and action that’s no more bizarre than in any gangster flick, there’s little to give the movie a comic edge.

Besson keeps the pace lively but only generates excitement in the climax, when the mobsters who’ve been hunting our heroes show up for a final shootout that’s played largely as a straightforward thriller.

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Insidious: Chapter 2 (D: James Wan, 105 min) James Wan scored a huge hit earlier this summer directing The Conjuring, one of the scariest films in years. Now he’s back with a sequel to his 2010 domestic creeper, Insidious. Leads Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne return... along with some nasty ghosts.

Opens Friday (September 13).

Embargoed. See review September 13 at ­nowtoronto. com/­ movies.

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Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro: don’t invite this Family over.

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(Joshua Oppen­ heimer, Christine Cynn) plays its ­intriguing premise for maximum impact, offering 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. It burns itself into you. Subtitled.

115 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

Adore (Anne Fontaine) stars Robin Wright and Naomi Watts as Roz and Lil, best friends who get sexually involved with each other’s adult sons. Sound creepy? It is. Set in a sleepy seaside town in Australia, it’s also very beautiful. I finally gave up on figuring out who to root for and just kept wishing I could have one of their beachside homes. The dialogue is surprisingly pedestrian, given that it’s by Christopher Hampton. But though it’s based on a short story by Doris Lessing, the narrative fails even more ­miserably. It depends on the characters ­inhabiting a hermetically sealed environment. They carry on their unconventional affairs for a full three years. Lil’s husband has died, and Roz’s is teaching in Sydney, but doesn’t anybody else notice? Where is their community? Don’t the boys have any friends? I’m with Roz’s husband (Ben Mendelsohn), who wonders why Roz and Lil aren’t sleeping with each other.

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ñBefore Midnight

(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 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.

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ñBig Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

(Drew DeNicola, Olivia Mori) celebrates the cult rock band with the most exhilarating music – and the most depressing story. Formed in Memphis by Alex Chilton and Chris Bell in 1971, Big Star released two albums featuring music of such complexity, artistry and exuberance that they should have been dubbed the next Beatles. DiNicola and Mori do their best to give the band the recognition it deserved while not backing away from the complex, complicated lives of Chilton and Bell, covering decades of false starts and tragic endings through interviews with the band’s friends and family and copious archival footage. And then there’s the glorious, glorious music. In the end, it’s all that really matters. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ñBlackfish

(Gabriela Cowper­ thwaite) looks at the case of Tilikum, a 550-kilo bull orca who attacked a SeaWorld trainer in 2010. The film offers a psychological profile of Tilikum and, in turn, of the humans who want to keep animals in captivity, then widens 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 into globalization by selling whales to poorly equipped parks across the globe. 83 min. NNNN (JS) Kingsway Theatre

The Attack (Ziad Doueiri) is almost a crowd-pleasing portrait of a suicide bomber. Amin (Ali Suliman), a respected Arab-­ Israeli surgeon whose comfortable life is shattered when his beloved wife attacks a café strapped with a bomb, heads to Palestine to find out how she became radicalized. Most of the characters function as types espousing ideologies, but Suliman’s terrific performance gives the film weight as something more than a broad political allegory. Subtitled. 99 min. NNN (JS) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, ­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 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. The film’s exploration of the difficulty of accomplishing something original inside the inflexible apparatus of popular music proves absorbing. 96 min. NNN (JS) Kingsway Theatre

Olivia Wilde and Jake ­Johnson get close in Drinking Buddies­.

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ñBLUE JASMINE

(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, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

CLOSED CIRCUIT (John Crowley) uses every

legal and paranoia thriller cliché in the book, but its repetitive exposition is even worse than its predictability. Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall, along with a great supporting cast, are wasted in this laborious tale of two barristers and former lovers who dig too deeply into the motives behind a London marketplace bombing. In a film where everything is told, never shown, the contrived third act, when there’s actually something going on, comes as a relief. 110 min. NN (AP) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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.

112 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE FAMILY (Luc Besson) 110 min. See

review, page 76. NN (AD) Opens Sep 13 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

DRINKING BUDDIES (Joe Swanberg) stars Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson as co-workers at a Chicago brewery who are uncommonly close, to the point where it may concern their significant others (Ron LivingFLU (Kim Sung-su) is a Korean disaster ston, Anna Kendrick). The bid for mainmovie that starts out strong but falters stream attention means mumblecore direcabout halfway through, once director Kim tor Swanberg has to tone down his usual loses interest in the progress of an avian fondness for graphic sexuality and blunt superflu raging through the Seoul suburb of language; Drinking Buddies feels like a Bundang and narrows the focus to a handmuch safer work than his ful of one-dimensional Nights And Weekends characters running around and Autoerotic. But it’s inside a quarantine zone not an uninteresting EXPANDED REVIEWS while politicians yell at one, and Wilde is parnowtoronto.com each other about responticularly strong as a sibility in one of those big woman too busy orshiny war rooms. There are a couple of chilldering the next round to figure out why she ing images, but this is a movie that’s much keeps making the wrong choices. 90 min. more interested in manufacturing cheesy NNN (NW) emotional beats and increasingly unlikely Carlton Cinema connections between its heroes in order to ELYSIUM (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually iden- pander to the lowest common denomintical, plot-wise, to District 9, the director’s ator. It starts out as Contagion but winds up wildly overrated 2009 debut. In 2154, Matt as Outbreak. Subtitled. 122 min. NN (NW) Damon’s Max is a factory worker from the Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Yonge & favelas of Los Angeles who’s given just days Dundas 24 to live after absorbing a lethal dose of radiFRUITVALE STATION (Ryan Coogler) ation. The tech on orbiting space station recreates the last day in the life of Elysium can cure him in seconds, but access Oscar Grant before his death at the hands is restricted; to get a set of forged papers, of a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop early on Max agrees to a dangerous kidnapping scheme that ends up with him carrying New Year’s Day 2009. Played winningly by information in his brain that the station’s Chronicle’s Michael B Jordan as an inautocratic secretary of defence (Jodie Fosstinctively helpful person actively trying ter) will stop at nothing to retrieve. As in to put his troubled past behind him, Grant District 9, all the sociopolitical stuff is just is allowed to be a complex, multi-faceted an excuse to reduce humans to goo and individual – an imperfect son, boyfriend smash large things into other things. Fans and father who came to a violent, unof that film’s spectacular carnage and necessary end because of a combination garbled political posturing will doubtless of factors – institutional racism being a find Elysium even more meaningful and relpretty big one. Writer/director Coogler evant and stuff. I would politely remind you isn’t out to paint Grant as a martyr as that The Phantom Menace still has its demuch as to create a three-dimensional fenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN study. The fact that the film arrives on the (NW) heels of the George Zimmerman verdict 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cinejust drives his point home all the more plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Misbrutally. 95 min. NNNN (NW) sissauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Canada Square, Yonge & Dundas 24 Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, GETAWAY (Courtney Solomon) feels like the opposite of the increasingly over-complicated Fast & Furious features. It’s nothing but essential parts, barrelling from one chase sequence to another with no time for distractions. Ethan Hawke stars as Brent Magna, a former race car driver sent speeding around Sofia, Bulgaria, at the behest of the all-seeing villain (Jon Voight) who’s taken his wife hostage. That’s basically the entire story; Magna goes where he’s told at high speed, while the entire Sofia police force tries to run him off the road. Director Solomon makes sure the pace never flags and holds our attention with complex multi-camera coverage, and Hawke does just the tiniest bit more acting than necessary for a genre piece. 90 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre, 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

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500 years after the conquistadors, Goldcorp Inc. unearthed a massive mine in Guatemala, driven by the age old lust for gold.

(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.

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most 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 actor in Wong’s films) 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

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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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(Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon) is a goofy romp about an expectant couple who move into a crappy old New Orleans house and almost immediately find themselves in a paranormal vortex that seems focused on their unborn child. Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb are the would-be parents who buy a crumbling manse as a fixer-upper only to discover its history is a little more clouded than they’d been told. (The locals call it the Maison Du Sang.) And no sooner have they moved in than Bibb starts acting all

Rosemary Woodhouse, much to the consternation of her loving husband. It’s as much of a joke machine as A Haunted House or Scary Movie V, but here the jokes are actually funny. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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.

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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.

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INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (James Wan) 105 min. See Also Opening, page 76.

Opens Sep 13 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, 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 JOBS (Joshua Michael Stern) is like The

Social Network without social commentary, character development or much fun. In this charmless bullet-point biopic, Ashton Kutcher plays the titular titan of industry as a relentlessly bullying prick. The dialogue is 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, Queensway, Varsity

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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (Lee Daniels) 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 worldchanging 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.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Joss

Whedon) is an eminently appealing modern-dress adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy of romantic errors, knocked out in 12 days during downtime on Whedon’s 2012 monster Marvel’s The Avengers. It doesn’t MAN OF STEEL (Zack Snyder) starts as a quite solve the problems inherent in transclever reworking of Richard Donner’s 1978 lating a very static play to the screen, but Superman, right down to the first sight of it’s populated by such charming actors – our hero in his super-suit about an hour into especially Angel stars Amy Acker and Alexis the picture. Then the bad guys show up, and Denisof as squabbling should-be lovers Beathe whole thing collapses into ugly, violent trice and Benedick and Avengers stalwart spectacle. Certain further actions demonClark Gregg as Leonato – that you probably strate a shocking disregard for 75 years of won’t mind. As Don Pedro and Claudio, the character’s history – though they’re Dollhouse veterans Reed Diamond and Fran entirely in line with the might-makes-right Kranz turn out to have the best handle on ethic that seethes beneath much of director the dialogue, and Riki Lindholme offers the Snyder’s work. 143 min. NN (NW) best reading of “Here, man, I am at thy Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre elbow” I’ve ever heard. Whedon’s Much Ado won’t set the box office on fire, but of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (Dan Scancourse that’s not why it exists. It’s a labour lon) throws a conceptual curve ball, of love, and the affection with which it’s dropping John Goodbeen produced is contaman’s hulking furball gious. 108 min. NNN (NW) Sulley and Billy CrysRainbow Market Square EXPANDED REVIEWS tal’s one-eyed imp

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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE AUDIENCE Unassuming teenager Clary (Lily Collins) ENCORE is a high-def broadcast of Peter discovers she’s part of a secret world of Morgan’s play chronicling Queen Elizabeth sorcerers, vampires and werewolves all II’s (Helen Mirren) private meetings with searching for a lost chalice that will bestow Britain’s prime ministers over six decades. ultimate power on anyone who drinks from 180 min. it, or something. Mostly, Clary’s caught beSep 12, 2:30 pm, at Yonge & Dundas 24 tween a hunky warrior (Jamie Campbell ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (Morgan SpurBower, like Robert Pattinson without the lock) is a portrait of the manufactured Britself-awareness) and her nerdy pal (Robert ish boy band One Direction that straddles Sheehan, doing his best Jay Baruchel). Spells the line between blind endorsement and are cast and swords are crossed, but it’s all piss-taking. On a fabricated-for-film campvery mechanical and noisy; somewhere ing trip, for example, Louis Tomlinson (or around the fifth self-important speech, I was it Liam Payne?) wonders what would realized no one was actually saying anyhave happened if just one of them hadn’t thing of import. Collins does a nice job of turned up for his X-Factor audition (where grounding the story in Clary’s immediate Simon Cowell cleverly plucked them out concerns, but by the epic climax she’s just and grouped them together). His painfully shouting plot points like everybody else. earnest conclusion is that each lad is inte130 min. NN (NW) gral to 1D’s success. Amid concert footage 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carland squeaky-clean behind-the-scenes ton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliantics, the only compelling moments inseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park volve the boys’ families and a question de16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, serving of its own documentary: Can parQueensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow ents still parent when their children reach a Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity fame and wealth way beyond their own? 90 Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Oldman) to get close to a techno legend (Harrison Ford) and steal his game-changing 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.

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Passion (Brian De Palma) 102 min. See ­review, page 76. NN (NW) Opens Sep 13 at Carlton Cinema

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(Aaron Yeger) 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

Vin Diesel isn’t Riddick-ulous in sci-fi action sequel. min. NN (Julia LeConte) 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

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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) Carlton Cinema

Our Nixon (Penny Lane) taps 400 reels of

home movies taken by Richard Nixon’s ­closest associates – special assistant Dwight Chapin, chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and domestic affairs adviser John ­Erlichman – during his presidency. Later interviews with the three aides (before ­Erlichman and Haldeman died) assess events while these movies roll. Unfortunately, not all the material is gold, mainly because the gang couldn’t shoot straight, and there’s a ton of repetition; we don’t have to see the White House gardens five times. The White House tapes figure prominently – Nixon’s homophobic rant is especially wild – but I’m not sure why this film mentions neither the Watts and Detroit riots that so powered Nixon’s paranoia nor the 1970 nationwide student strike that ­followed the Kent State shootings. 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. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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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

Paranoia (Robert Luketic) is an espionage

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

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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 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 clunky script feels like a first draft, and Cook communicates as little personality as his character’s bland design. 92 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, ­Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Red 2 (Dean Parisot) sticks to the same formula that made the 2010 original a foolishly entertaining sleeper hit. Bruce Willis, 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 Riddick (David Twohy) is the kind of low-

stakes, hyper-violent trifle that a Hollywood built on PG-13 compromise can’t really stomach. Vin Diesel’s convict-cumgalactic-overlord is double-crossed and ­marooned on an abandoned planet populated by deadly reptilian predators. In order to escape, he triggers a beacon alerting two duelling gangs of mercenary bounty hunters. The plan is to pick off enough of them so he can hijack one of their ships and blast back to his home planet. For all its hardnosed silliness, and even its flip misogyny (Katee Sackhoff appears as a self-possessed mercenary only so she can later be bedded

by Diesel’s burly superman), Riddick is solid B-movie filmmaking. If you’re susceptible to this kind of thing, there’s plenty of fun to be had. 119 min. NNN (JS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scar-

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Sudeikis) recruits a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and the weird kid next door (Will Poulter) to pose as his family so he can smuggle drugs over the border in an RV – and does as little as possible with it. And that’s a real disappointment, given the talent assembled.

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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) Scotiabank Theatre

(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 THE WORLD’S END trouble. You can’t help (Edgar Wright) but enjoy the ride. completes Wright and Some subtitles. 109 co-writer/star Simon EXPANDED REVIEWS min. NNNN (NW) Pegg’s unofficial trilogy nowtoronto.com 401 & Morningside, begun with Shaun Of Coliseum Mississauga, The Dead and Hot Fuzz Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town by following five old friends (Pegg, Nick Centre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity MisFrost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman sissauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 and Eddie Marsan) who reunite at 40 to recreate the epic pub crawl they began UNFINISHED SONG (Paul Andrew Wil– but never finished – as teenagers. But liams) is a shameless bid for tears, but it just as the old gang isn’t what it used to succeeds because of the extraordinary be, neither is their sleepy village of Newwork of its cast. Terence Stamp is a revelation, grief-stricken, angry and lost, as a ton Haven, and the nature of the threat grumpy Brit trying to please his terminally raises the stakes well beyond the personill wife (Vanessa Redgrave) by joining her al. Pegg is terrific as the dissolute, barely ragtag seniors’ choir. Beautiful. 93 min. functional alcoholic determined to recapNNN (SGC) ture his former glory at any cost, and his Mt Pleasant co-stars (particularly Frost and Marsan) do a fine job of hinting at decades-old THE VENICE SYNDROME (Andreas Pichler) wounds just waiting to reopen. Funny shows that moonlit gondola rides and and moving, it’s a fitting bookend to quaint shops have been replaced by multiShaun, though this time the ending national stores and enormous cruise ships doesn’t quite land as well as it could. 109 that clog the port and unleash hordes of min. NNNN (NW) tourists. Focusing on a dozen long-time 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlinhabitants, Pichler shows why the city’s ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress population is dwindling, and while the Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, film’s a touch repetitive, it’s hard not to Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, feel sympathy for the natives losing their Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, evocative city to uncontrolled capitalism.

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THE CONJURING (14A) Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 ELYSIUM (14A) Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 ELYSIUM: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 THE FAMILY (14A) Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 GETAWAY (PG) Mon-Tue 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 Wed 2:05, 4:25, 9:55 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG) Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 RED 2 (PG) Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG) Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 2 GUNS (14A) Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 THE WOLVERINE 3D (PG) Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10:20 WORLD WAR Z 3D (14A) Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00

DR. NO (PG) 6:50 Fri, Tue 3:50 mat Mon 1:30 mat THE FAMILY (14A) 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat GOLDFINGER (PG) 9:15 Mon, Wed 3:50 mat LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 Thu, SatSun 1:00 mat PLANES (G) Thu 12:45, 3:10 Sat-Sun 1:45, 3:50 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 9:45 THIS IS THE END (18A) Thu 6:50, 9:15 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50

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THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 3:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:45 THE WOLVERINE (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:15 Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20

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BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:35, 6:20, 9:10 Mon 1:10, 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 1:50, 4:35, 9:45 THE FAMILY (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Mon 2:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Thu 2:10 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:10, 9:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 3D Wed 7:00 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 FriSun, Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05

BECOMING TRAVIATA (G) Thu 7:00 Sat 12:55 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun-Wed 10:00 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 1:40 Fri 1:20 Sat 11:05, 1:35 SunWed 1:10 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 1:05, 3:40, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 GETAWAY (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 6:50 IN A WORLD... (14A) Fri 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD Mon 6:30 JOBS (14A) Thu 9:25 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu-Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu-Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Sun, Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Mon 1:15, 4:20, 10:25 Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (G) Fri 1:40 Sat 11:30 Sun-Wed 1:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D (G) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D (PG) Thu 7:30 Fri 7:20, 9:55 Sat 7:20, 9:50 Sun 7:15 Mon-Wed 7:15, 9:50 PLANES (G) Thu 2:10 Fri 1:30, 4:20 Sat 11:25, 1:55 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:05 PLANES 3D (G) Thu 4:35, 7:00 Fri 6:55 Sat 4:25, 6:55 SunWed 7:35 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:05, 1:50, 4:00, 4:50, 6:55, 7:45, 9:45, 10:35 Fri 1:05, 1:50, 3:55, 4:45, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 Sun, Wed 12:55, 1:35, 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:00, 1:35, 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:20 continued on page 82 œ

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School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:55 Fri 4:40 Sat 2:10, 4:45 SunWed 4:10 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 2:15 Fri 1:55 Sat 11:35 Sun-Wed 1:20 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Wed 7:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 7:20, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 SunTue 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 10:20 Fri 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 3:45, 9:40 Mon-Tue 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Wed 3:45, 10:10 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 2:10, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 WWE Night of Champions - 2013 Sun 8:00

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The Attack (14A) 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat Becoming Traviata (G) Thu 7:00 Sat 12:55 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Elysium (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 Wed 4:05 The Family (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Flu (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 The Grandmaster (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:50 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:20 mat Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:30 6:30 9:50 FriWed 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat One Direction: This Is Us (G) Thu 4:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 6:20, 9:20 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 4:20 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Wed 7:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 4:15 6:55 9:55 Fri-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat The World’s End (14A) Thu 3:55, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45

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Elysium (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 The Family (14A) Fri 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Getaway (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 9:40 Sat 10:30 Sun-Wed 9:50 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Fri 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Wed 7:20, 9:55 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri 2:00 Sat 11:50 Sun 1:10 Mon-Wed 1:25 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 6:40 Planes (G) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00 Fri 1:35, 3:55 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 4:55 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 7:05 Fri 4:05, 6:45 Sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:10 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:10 Fri 1:25 Sat 12:10 Sun-Wed 1:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:40 4:15 6:55 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 11:05 mat The World’s End (14A) Thu 9:50

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Elysium (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:20 The Family (14A) Fri, Tue 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:50 Getaway (PG) Thu 5:35, 7:50 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:10 Sun 10:05 Mon, Wed 8:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:55 Fri, Tue 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 5:25 Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:15 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:15 Mon, Wed 5:30 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Sat 11:10 Sun 1:40 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 5:20, 7:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Sat 1:10 Sun 1:25 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:35 Fri, Tue 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 Planes (G) Thu 5:15 Fri, Tue 4:20 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 Sun 2:10, 4:20 Mon, Wed 5:20 Riddick (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:10 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 5:55 Fri, Sun, Tue 4:50, 7:25 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:25 Mon, Wed 6:00 The Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:45 Sun 2:20 This Is the End (18A) Thu 8:25 2 Guns (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 8:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:25 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:50, 9:45 The World’s End (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:30

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:05 Fri, Sun-Tue 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 3:55, 6:45, 10:15 Planes (G) Thu 2:45, 5:15 Fri-Wed 2:25, 4:55 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Wed 7:00 This Is the End (18A) Thu 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:00 Sun 7:15 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:35, 9:45 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 FriWed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 WWE Night of Champions - 2013 Sun 8:00

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Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 1:40, 5:00, 9:00 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 1:05, 4:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 9:00 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun-Wed 9:30 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:45 Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 The Family (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Getaway (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Mon 6:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 MonWed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:45, 7:55 Fri 6:45, 9:55 Sat 6:45, 9:50 Sun 7:10, 10:20 Mon 9:45 Tue-Wed 6:40, 9:45 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri 2:30 Sat 11:15, 12:00 Sun 12:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:00 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Planes (G) Fri 2:00, 4:25 Sat 11:00, 11:40, 2:00, 4:25 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50 Mon-Wed 4:10 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:25 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:35, 3:30, 4:30, 6:25, 7:25, 9:20, 10:15 Fri 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 2:00, 4:15, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:25, 7:25, 9:20, 10:15 Satyagraha (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 8:30 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 Shuddh Desi Romance Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu-Sat 4:20, 7:00 Sun-Wed 3:40, 6:30 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri 1:40 Sat 11:10, 1:40 Sun 1:00 2 Guns (14A) Thu 9:55 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:40, 10:25 Mon 3:45, 6:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 The World’s End (14A) Thu, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 MonWed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 WWE Night of Champions - 2013 Sun 8:00 Zanjeer (14A) Thu-Fri 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Grand Masti 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Madha Gaja Raja Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Satyagraha (14A) Thu 3:30 Shuddh Desi Romance 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat Zanjeer (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:45

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Scarborough (CE)

Coliseum Mississauga (CE)

Becoming Traviata (G) Thu 7:00 Sat 12:55 Ekstra (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 2:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:45, 9:55 The Family (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Getaway (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 6:35, 9:40 The Grandmaster (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 10:15 Fri, Mon 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 5:05, 10:25 Tue 7:40, 10:15 Wed 2:20, 5:00, 10:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:45 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Thu 1:20 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:15 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu, Sat 1:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:05 Wed 1:05

Becoming Traviata (G) Thu 7:00 Sat 12:55 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 6:40 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun, TueWed 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Mon 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 The Grandmaster (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:45, 4:15, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Mon 6:30 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu, Mon 1:50, 4:25, 9:25 Fri-Sat, TueWed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Sun 1:50, 4:25, 6:55 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Wed 2:20 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Pacific Rim 3D (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Wed 3:10, 10:10 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:15 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 2:00 4:50 7:40 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Wed 7:00

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2 Guns (14A) Thu 2:30 5:00 7:40 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:00 mat We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, SunTue 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 WWE Night of Champions - 2013 Sun 8:00

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00 Fri, MonTue 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Wed 4:40, 7:05 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 The Family (14A) Thu 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Getaway (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Fri-Sat 10:05 Sun-Wed 9:50 Grand Masti Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 9:00 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Monsters University (G) Thu 2:10 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Thu 2:25 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Planes (G) Thu 2:55, 5:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:30 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:05, 4:30 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 7:30, 10:15 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10 Sat-Sun 11:45 This Is the End (18A) Thu 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun-Wed 9:25 2 Guns (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:30 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:35 Sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Wed 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:35 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 You’re Next (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sat 6:50, 9:25 Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:10

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Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 3:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:00, 7:15, 9:45 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sun 9:30 Mon-Wed 9:35 The Family (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Fri 3:35, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 Monsters University (G) Sat-Sun 1:10 Monsters University 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50 Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Sat-Sun 12:05 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu, MonWed 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:35, 7:25, 9:55 Planes (G) Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:15, 6:35 Fri-Sun 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 MonWed 4:15, 6:35, 9:10 Riddick (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 3:30, 4:25, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Sat 12:40, 1:20, 3:30, 4:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 1:20, 3:30, 4:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 2 Guns (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 4:15, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:15, 7:20, 10:00 The Way, Way Back (PG) Thu 9:20 The World’s End (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 3:50, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 3:50, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 3:50, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

Becoming Traviata (G) Thu 7:00 Sat 12:55 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 1:40, 4:55, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 4:25, 9:30 The Conjuring (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:10 Fri 6:40, 9:20 Sat 6:55, 9:35 Sun 10:15 Mon-Tue 6:20, 8:55 Wed 8:55 Despicable Me 2 (G) Fri, Sun 1:10 Sat 11:10, 1:35 Wed 6:10 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:20 Fri, Sun 3:35, 6:10 Sat 4:00, 6:25 Mon-Tue 3:40, 6:10 Wed 3:40 Elysium (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 The Family (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 1:55, 5:00, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 1:55, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Getaway (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 8:30 Sat 9:45 The Grandmaster (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35

Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:35, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 12:25, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:35, 6:40, 8:10, 9:35, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:25, 9:35 Fri 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 2:15, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 FriSun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:25 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:25 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Fri-Sun 1:20 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Riddick (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 School Of Rock (PG) Sat 11:00 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 3:30, 6:00 Sat 4:30, 7:15 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri, Sun 1:00 Sat 11:30, 2:00 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Wed 7:00 Turbo (G) Thu 3:35 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:10 Sat 11:45, 2:10, 4:30 Mon-Wed 3:50 2 Guns (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:10 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 4:10, 7:35, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The World’s End (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 4:05, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 WWE Night of Champions - 2013 Sun 8:00 You’re Next (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri-Sun 8:50 Mon-Tue 8:40 Wed 10:15

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 Chennai Express (14A) 6:15 Fri 9:20 Sat 2:45 mat, 9:20 Sun 2:45 mat The Grandmaster (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20 The Great Gatsby (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:00 Fri 6:20, 9:15 Sat 2:50, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 3:45, 7:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:25 The Heat (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Man of Steel (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:30 Fri 6:30, 9:35 Sat 3:10, 6:30, 9:35 Sun 3:30, 6:45 Monsters University (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 Fri 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:15 Once Upon a Time in Mumbai Dobaara (PG) Thu 6:00 Pacific Rim (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25 Fri 6:40, 9:25 Sat 3:30, 6:40, 9:25 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:25 Planes (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri 4:45, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 R.I.P.D. (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35 Fri 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Sat 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Sun 2:35, 5:00, 7:40 Shuddh Desi Romance Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:30, 6:30 Mon-Wed 6:45 This Is the End (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:45 The Way, Way Back (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:40, 5:00, 7:30

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 The Family (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:25 One Direction: This Is Us (G) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20 Riddick (14A) 1:05, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 The Smurfs 2 (G) 1:10, 3:40 We’re the Millers (14A) 7:10, 9:35 Thu 1:30 mat, 4:30

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

Elysium (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:55 The Family (14A) 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:10 mat, 4:50 Tue 4:50 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 5:05 Tue 5:05 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 9:45 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 6:45 9:55 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45 mat Tue 3:45 mat One Direction: This Is Us (G) Sat-Sun 1:10 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Thu 7:25, 10:05 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Fri, Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:30, 6:55, 9:50 Tue 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Planes (G) Sat-Sun 1:00 Planes 3D (G) Thu 7:20 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 3:50, 6:45 Riddick (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 Tue 4:20 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 7:30 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:50 Tue 3:30, 6:50 This Is the End (18A) Thu 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 7:10 10:15 Fri-Wed 7:05, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00 mat Tue 4:00 mat The Wolverine (PG) Thu 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:50 The World’s End (14A) 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat, 4:55 Tue 4:55 3

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Festivals CommFfest

Rainbow Cinema, 80 Front E (RC); Malvern Library, 30 Sewells (ML). commffest.com

thu 12 -sun 15 – Films about issues that affect

communities. $5-$15, some free screenings.

Thu 12 – Penguin Island (2013) D: Rob Nichols.

11:30 am. Antarctica: A Year On Ice (2013) D: Anthony Powell. 1:15 pm. La Double Croisée (2012) D: Jean-Charles Atzeni and Je Sens Le Beat Qui Monte En Moi (2012) D: Yann Le Quellec. 3:30 pm. Jackhammer (2013) D: Michael Hanus. 6 pm. In Search Of Roubakine (2012) D: Thomas Lahusen and Susan Solomon. 8:15 pm. Four Days In Chicago (2013) D: Haskell Wexler. 9:45 pm. All at RC. Fri 13 – Phonograph Conversations (2013) D: Nick Pavone. 11:30 am and 1:30 pm. Dreamz The Movie (2013) D: Sumana Mukherjee, and Surkhaab (2012) D: Sanjay Talreja. 2:15 pm.

Beauty And The Breast (2012) D: Liliana Komo­rowska. 5:45 pm. Living As Brothers (2011) D: Kevin Fraser. 7:45 pm. We Will Riot (2013) D: Romas Zabarauskas, and The Playful City (2013) D: Ramya Jegatheesan. 9:45 pm.

All at RC. Sat 14 – Students’ Showcase: Sahasi Chori D: Erin Galey, Gorongosa Rising D: Andrew Heskett, The Sicilian Accord D: Marco Falcone, and others. 11 am to 4:30 pm (RC). The House Of Tomorrow (2011) D: Shamim Sarif, and short film Right There. Noon (ML). Motorbike Midwife (2012) D: Masumi Higashi, and Extended Family (2012) D: Jill Hodges. 2 pm (ML). Short Films: Bee Line, Ma Forêt and Baby Box. 3:15 pm (ML). Gently Whispering The Circle Back (2013) D: Beth Wishart Mackenzie. 4:45 pm (RC). Dar He: The Lynching Of Emmett Till (2012) D: Rob Underhill and One Night In March (2013) D: Robbie Coblentz. 6:30 pm (RC). It’s All About ME (2013) D: Antoine Abugaber. 8:30 pm (RC).

Sun 15 – Interfaith Programming: Showcase 1: This Is Our Time (2013) D: Lisa Arnold, The Son D: Cheryl Nembhard, and Animating The Golden Rule D: Tina Petrova. 10 am. Showcase 2: The Beekeeper (2013) D: James Durward, God And Allah Need To Talk D: Ruth BroydeSharone, and Faith In Common (2010) D: Andrew Newell. 1:30 pm. $15 each/$25 for both.

Youth And Family Programming: You’re Beautiful (2012) D: Lolade Leigh-Thompson, and short films 55 Division, Mackenzie House and St. Michael’s Public School. 11 am to 12:30 pm. $5. Remember The Land D: Alan Lissner, and Oil Calling D: Brandy Yanchyk. 1 pm. Surkhaab. 2 pm. My Mother, The Nazi Midwife And Me (2012) D: Jane Hawtin, and short film Abuelas. 4 pm. Love, Sex And Disability (2012) D: Carlo Basilone, and Posey D: Billy DaMota. 5:45 pm. Closing night film and awards ceremony: SARS: Cover Up And Aftermath (2013) D: Diana Dai. 7:30 pm. All at RC.

Caribbean Tales Toronto Film Showcase

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W (HC); York Woods LIbrary, 1785 Finch W (YW) . Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E (DS). caribbeantales-­events.com

thu 12-sat 14 – Features, shorts and docu-

mentaries by filmmakers from the Caribbean.

Free-$20. 416-598-1410.

Thu 12 – Launch party for CaribbeanTales TV. 6:30 pm. Free (HC).

Fri 13 – Kingston Paradise (2013) D: Mary

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Jackhammer delivers low blows JACKHAMMER (Michael Hanus) Rating: N TIFF isn’t the only film festival happening this week. There’s also ­COMMFFEST, which is devoted to ­exploring relevant issues affecting ­diverse communities. How Michael Hanus’s Jackhammer fits into that mandate, though, is questionable.

The lame comedy attempts to send up male strippers the way Zoolander did male models. Like shooting steroid-enhanced fish in a barrel, right? Not quite.

After aspiring theatre actor Julius (Guy Christie) gets blackballed by a crazy casting agent (Jamie Kennedy), he moves in with his older brother, known simply as Jackhammer (Hanus), a buff, tanned, mustachioed exotic dancer who soon teaches his scrawny bro the ropes. This includes buying protein powder as if it’s some hard drug from a guy named Rocko (Rob Wells of Trailer Park Boys) and Wells, and Caribbean Visions shorts Mom and Things I See. 6:30 pm. El Medico (2012) D: Daniel Fridell, and short film Jab In The Dark.

9 pm. Both screenings at HC. Sat 14 – Abo So (2013) D: Juan Francisco Pardo, and New Voices short s Unity, Hip Hop’s Next Chapter, Remebering Maroonage and others.

2:30 pm. Free. Elliot Loves (2012) D: Gary Terracino, and Queer Caribbean shorts Tickle Me Rich, Healing Power Of Jamaica and others.

6:30 pm. WRAP Party and Awards: feature film Songs Of Redemption (2013) D: Miquel Galofré and Amanda Sans, and shorts Wake Up and Stain. 8:30 pm. All screenings at HC.

Toronto Indie Film Festival Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. film-fest.ca

thu 12 -sat 14 – Film festival by and for indie filmmakers with micro-budget and no-budget films. $8, shorts blocks $4; festival pass $50.

Thu 12 – Once Upon A Time In Bolivia D: Patrick L Cordova. 6:15 pm. Shorts Block 7: The Mermaid Complex D: Adrienne Friedberg, If I Were A Bell D: Sherese Robinson Lee, and others. 8 pm. Unhappy Happy D: Rob Shaw.

9:45 pm.

Fri 13 – Return Of Sci-Fi Night: They Will Outlive Us All D: Patrick Shearer. 6 pm. Sci-Fi Shorts Block 8: Recall D: Jeff Vitkuske, Echoes D: Andrea La Mendola, and others. 7:45 pm.

Rex Kyro: Mission To Marry D: Sean O’Neill.

9:15 pm.

Sat 14 – Shorts Block 9: Knit Wit D: Andreas Trauttmansdorff, Toronto Sounds D: Victor CH Fan, and others. 6 pm. Murder Of Couriers D: Neil Brill and Thomas Macleod. 7:30 pm. Nothing Without You D: Xackery Irving. 9:15 pm.

Toronto International Film Festival Tiff Bell Lightbox, 350 King W, and other venues.

416-599-8433, tiff.net

thu 12-sun 15 – The 38th edition of one of the biggest film festivals in the world. ñ See reviews on page 75. Listings at ­nowtoronto.com/tiff or the festival website.

Toronto Urban Film Festival Various venues. torontourbanfilmfestival.com

getting exercise tips from fellow peeler Frederick (Jason Burkart).

We’re supposed to find all this funny because both Wells and Burkart are out of shape. And we’re supposed to find it really funny when Pamela Anderson slobbers all over Frederick (whom she recognizes from strip clubs) in an elevator.

The story, penned by five people (including some of the

cast), careens all over the place, planting details and then forgetting them, never building momentum.

And none of it’s funny.

The only performance of note is

by MadTV’s Nicole Sullivan, who plays a sociopath the brothers meet at a party. Her role makes absolutely no sense in the context of the film, but Sullivan bites into it with a ferocious comic intensity that is thrilling to watch.

Screens tonight (Thursday, September 12), at the Rainbow Cinema. Here’s hoping the other ­COMMFFEST films (the fest runs to September 15) are a bit more engaging.

GLENN SUMI

Director/actor Michael Hanus’s film crashes at COMMFFEST.

animation from across Canada and around the world. Films run every 10 minutes on subway platform screens all over the city.

Free w/ TTC fare. Films can also be viewed online at ­torontourbanfilmfestival.com.

j­ ustice activism. 6:30 pm. Pwyc. ­cinemapolitica.org/bloor. ­Israel: A Home Movie. 9:15 pm.

Wed 18 – Israel: A Home Movie. 4 & 8:45 pm.

20 Feet From Stardom. 6:30 pm.

Cinemas

Camera Bar

big picture cinema gerrard

sat 14 – Imagine: Vivian Maier – Who Took Nanny’s Pictures? (2013) D: Jill Nicholls. 2 pm.

Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 3:15 pm. Free.

1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

Thu 12 – Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012) D: Brad Bernstein. 7:30 pm. Dirty Drive-in Classics. 9 pm.

Fri 13 – Headcase (2012) D: Ken Simpson. 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $10.20. Tickets at ­guestlistapp. com/events/177519.

Sat 14-tue 17 – Headcase. 7:30 pm. $10.20.

Tickets at ­guestlistapp.com/events/177519.

Wed 18 – Headcase. 5:30 pm. $10.20. Tickets at ­guestlistapp.com/events/177519.

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BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 12-Sun 15 – Toronto International Film

Festival screenings.

Mon 16 – Israel: A Home Movie (2013) D: Eliav Lilti. 6:30 pm. 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 9:15 pm.

Tue 17 – Cinema Politica and 350.org present Bidder 70 (2012) D: Beth Gage and George Gage, about Tim deChristopher’s climate

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 12-Sun 15 – Toronto International Film Festival screenings.

Mon 16-Wed 18 – See website for schedule.

Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Sun 15 – Blue Jasmine. 4:30 & 7 pm.

Station. 9:15 pm ñFruitvale Mon 16 – Fruitvale Station. 7 pm. Blue Jasmine. 9 pm. ñ Tue 17 – Blue Jasmine. 7 pm. Fruitvale Station.

9 pm

Wed 18 – Blue Jasmine. 1 & 7 pm. Blackfish

(2013) D: Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 9 pm.

GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 12-wed 18 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 12-fri 13 – Life Is A Highway: Part 2.

ontario science centre

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

Sat 14-sun 15 – Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon.

Born To Be Wild. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 12 – Subversive Film Fest: screening of

films named in Amos Vogel’s Film As Subversive Art. 5 pm. The History Of Queer Cinema.

7 pm. The Films Of Aditya Shankar. 9 pm. sat 14 – Saturday Afternoon At The Movies: classic films and original cartoons. 2 pm. The Jazz Singer (1927) D: Alan Crosland. 5 pm.

The Birth Of A Nation (1915) D: DW Griffith, with score by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. sun 15 – The Battleship Potemkin (1925) D: Sergei Eisenstein. Noon. The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1921) D: Rex Ingram. 2 pm. The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1919) D: Robert Wiene. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

Mon 16 – Charlie Chaplin Film Fest. 5 pm.

Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang, with score

by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. What I Learned With LSD 3D (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 9:30 pm.

Tue 17 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2006) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Rupert Julian, with score by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. Triumph Of The Will (1935) D: Leni Riefenstahl. 9 pm.

Wed 18 – The 3D Film Fest. 5 pm. Dream Tower (1994) D: Ron Mann. 7 pm. Gilgamesh (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 8 pm.

revue cinema

400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 12 – 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 7 pm. The Way Way ñ Back (2013) D: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. 9 pm.

Fri 13 – Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. In A World (2013) D: Lake Bell. 9:15 pm. sat 14-Sun 15 – Monsters University 3D (2013) D: Dan Scanlon. 2 pm. Blue Jasmine. 4:15 & 7 pm. In A World. 9:15 pm.

Mon 16 – In A World. 7 pm. Blue Jasmine. 9 pm.

Tue 17 – Blue Jasmine. 7 pm. In A World. 9 pm.

Wed 18 – Blue Jasmine. 1 & 7 pm. In A World. 9 pm.

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Thu 12 – 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 7 pm. The Heat (2013) ñ ñ D: Paul Feig. 9 pm.

Fri 13 – Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. Fruitvale Station (2013) D: Ryan Coogler.

9:15 pm. sat 14 – Monsters University 3D (2013) D: Dan Scanlon. 2 pm. Blue Jasmine. 4:15 & 7 pm.

Fruitvale Station. 9:15 pm

the royal 608 College. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

Thu 12 – The Way Way Back (2013) D: Nat ­Faxon and Jim Rash. 7 pm. Now You See Me

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(2013) D: Louis Leterrier. 9 pm.

Fri 13-Mon 16 – The Way Way Back. 7 pm. Blackfish (2013) D: Gabriela ­Cowperthwaite. 9 pm.

Tue 17 – Mining Injustice Solidarity Network presents Gold Fever, a doc about the links between the extractive mining industry and civil unrest. Panel discussion to follow. 7 pm. $8-$10. eventbrite.ca/event/8137490453.

WEd 18 – The Way Way Back. 7 pm. Blackfish.

9 pm.

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Love Is All You Need (Sony, 2012) D:

Trine Dyrholm and Pierce Brosnan will float your boat.

Susanne Bier, w/ Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN Love Is All You Need gains more resonance than the average rom-com from its seamless blend of light comedy and poignant drama.

Ida (Trine Dyrholm) and Philip (Pierce Brosnan) meet for the first time on the way to Italy, where her daughter and his son are about to marry, but the young couple are developing a problem, and other complications arise as the wedding approaches.

Ida fears that her breast cancer still lingers, and she’s just found her husband cheating on her. Philip is stiff and distant, still angry at the world 10 years after his wife’s accidental death. But Dyrholm and Brosnan give

other films thu 12-wed 18 –

The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. c­ ntower.ca. thu 12-wed 18 – Casa Loma presents The ­Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, c­ asaloma.org. thu 12-wed 18 – The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission.

Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. hhof.com.

Thu 12 – OCAD University presents The Institute D: Spencer McCall. 6:30 pm. Free. OCAD Auditorium, 100 McCaul. apache.ocad.ca/ events_calendar/­eventdetail.php?id=5214.

Barbara Frum Library presents Lincoln (2012) D: Steven Spielberg. 2 pm. Free.

20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

HAMMER Skateboard presents Emerica’s Made skateboard video premiere. 10 pm.

Free. The Duke, 1225 Queen E. 416-698-0005, ­facebook.com/events/1376512522573621.

Fri 13 – Goethe-Institut Toronto presents Goethe Film Talk: World Film ­Locations, with Geoff Pevere, Susan Ingram and Chris MaGee in conversation and showing film clips from Berlin, Tokyo and Toronto.

5 pm. Pwyc. 100 University, 2nd floor. ­goethe.de/toronto.

Sat 14 – Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon presents Movies Under The Stars: Rise Of The Guardians (2012) D: Peter Ramsay. 8 pm. Free.

Stephenson Park, 61 Stephenson (Main & Danforth). councillormcmahon.com/events. mon 16 – Friends of the Cuban Five Committee – Toronto present On The Hillside Of The Himalayas (2006), about Cuba’s humanitarian response to the 2005 earthquake in Northern Pakistan. 6:30 pm. Free. Brampton Soccer ­Centre, 1495 Sandalwood Pkwy E. ­torontoforumoncuba.com.

Tue 17 – Green13 presents Queen Of The Sun: What Are The Bees Telling Us? (2010) D: Taggart Siegel, about the global bee crisis. Discussion to follow. 6:15 pm. Pwyc/free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. green13toronto.org.

Wed 18 – Skyworks presents Crisis Call (2003) D: Laura Sky, about police interaction with psychiatric survivors in distress. Discussion to follow. 6 pm. Free. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. 416-393-7653.

SCENE presents Summer of Free, screening of a college classic film for students. (Rain date: Sep 19.) Free w/ stu ID. Ryerson University Quad, 350 Victoria. For details and to vote: ­facebook.com/scotiabank.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mon-

grel, 2012) D: Mira Nair, w/ Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN The Reluctant Fundamentalist is wound tight from the outset, and that pays it off in the end, but in place of the average thriller’s focus on maxi­mum jolts in a good-versus-evil world, it explores East-West tensions and misunderstandings in the context of one man’s journey between two cultures.

American journalist Bobby (Liev Schreiber) interviews Pakistani university lecturer Changez (Riz Ahmed) in a Lahore café. He thinks Changez might be involved in the previous night’s kidnapping of a prominent American. The clock is ticking, and both men are in im­ minent peril: the CIA has an extraction team ready to snatch Changez, and the café is the epicentre of an about-toerupt anti-American riot.

Changez, with an agenda of his own, tells Bobby the story of his American rise via Princeton and Wall Street and

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Spartacus (Liam McIntyre), who led the slave revolt begun in season one (this is season three), is pursued with his army by the even bigger army of the brilliant, wealthy and implacable Roman Crassus (Simon Merrells). Spartacus is plagued by dissension among his friends, pirates, food shortages and a spy, but Crassus has trouble with his two aides, adolescent son Tiberius (Christian Antidormi) and Caesar (Todd Lasance), both overeager for power and glory and hating each other.

The making-of docs are short (none is longer than seven minutes) and contain nuggets of information amid the usual gushing. They cover actors’ training, visual effects, costumes, writing.

EXTRAS Six making-of docs. English, Spanish audio and subtitles.

his fall in the wake of 9/11.

Ahmed and Schreiber carry the movie with thoughtful performances, and Kiefer Sutherland stands out as Changez’s business mentor.

The half-hour making-of doc offers impressions of the shoot and some ­observations on the parallels between corporate capitalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

EXTRAS Making-of doc. English audio­.

English, Spanish subtitles.

Spartacus: War Of The Damned (An-

chor Bay, 2013) Creator: Steven S. DeKnight, w/ Liam McIntyre, Simon Merrells. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NN

Star Trek Into Darkness (Para-

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The dish on dick sheaths I’m a Savage Lovecast listener, but

I’m sending this question to your column because my boyfriend would FOR SURE recognize my voice if I called the show. I’m 25, I live in Portland, and my boyfriend and I have been monogamous for five years. His dick is of average size. It’s not small enough for him to have dealt with the emotional baggage associated with “small dicks.” Yet I’ve had sex with big dicks, and I would love to try one of those dick sheaths or extenders or whatever. But my boy­friend is a sensitive guy, and I feel like I’m going to permanently fuck up our sex life if I ask for one. How can I propose this without his feeling like his manhood is insufficient? I’ve heard you talk about how it’s best to share your kinks as if they were added bonuses – and not as if they were terminal cancers – but I can’t figure out how to talk about this without hurting his ego. Advice?

Sincerely Loves Average Man

“Getting a sheath onto her boyfriend’s dick without hurting his feelings will be a bit tricky,” said Matthew Nolan of OhJoySexToy. com. “No matter their size, lads around the world are brought up with dick insecurities.

Having said that, a dick sheath isn’t the worst thing in the world for her to bring to the table: it involves her boyfriend as a participant, and it keeps his dick in the loop.”

Matthew and his partner, Erika Moen, collabo­ratively create an informative, subversive and entertaining weekly comic that focuses on the world of sex – from sex toy reviews to interviews with people in the sex industry to sharing sex education lessons.

They research and write the text together, and Erika does all the drawing. Why comics?

“Sex education is typically very dry,” said Erika. “A wall of text about abstract concepts, and then some alien diagrams – it’s really hard to relate that information to your own body. Comics are especially well equipped to teach people about their bodies, sexual options and reproductive choices be-

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In a recent comic, Matthew gave cock sheaths a try. Cock sheaths – for those of you who haven’t visited a sex toy shop in a while – are a popular new sex toy that allows an average dude to be huge, and a huge dude to be ridiculous. They’re pliable but firm hollow dildos that a guy wears over his dick. The dude slides his hard, lubed-up dick inside the sheath, pulls his balls through a ring at the base that prevents the sheath from sliding off and proceeds to bang away at his partner’s hole(s) like a porn star.

That’s the theory anyway.

“The dick sheaths I tried weren’t the greatest thing for my partner and me,” said Matthew.

“They dull the senses and turn your dick into an unwieldy mess. Despite owning a few, my preference is to use a big dildo on my partner instead of wearing a dick sheath.”

But if it’s a dick sheath you want, SLAM, Matthew has some advice about how to get one.

“SLAM should suggest going sex toy shopping with her boyfriend,” said Matthew.

“She could tell her boyfriend she’s in a filthy mood and fancies something big.

She should put the emphasis on wanting him to give her some big-toy fucking and add that this is something you can both do together. Have him help pick out different toys – like some big dildos – while saying encouraging things like ‘Ooohh, wouldn’t you like to fuck me with this one?’ When you come across the cock sheath, add it to your cart, explaining that it would be a

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perfect sex toy solution for your mood.”

I’m going to break in here for a second: If you feel like your boyfriend might have a meltdown if you start talking about wanting something huge for a change – the implication being, of course, that he isn’t able to provide you with that something on his own (how big are his forearms?) – head to the sex toy shop without any stated agenda and see how he reacts to the cock sheaths on display.

If he recoils from them, SLAM, you might wanna steer him over to the body paints and bondage gear. But if he seems intrigued and not threatened by the cock sheaths, ask him how he’d feel about fucking you with one of those, without seeming too hugely invested in being fucked by one of those yourself.

And what do you do if you manage to leave the sex toy store with a cock sheath and a boyfriend whose ego is still intact?

“Be encouraging about enjoying the extra size and having him fuck you with toys,” said Matthew. “When it comes to the sheath, keep it jovial – laugh about it and tell him he’s sexy. A fun atmosphere can help alleviate insecurities. And by the time you’re done and dusted, you’ll know better if you prefer him with or without the sheath.”

Go to OhJoySexToy.com to see examples of Erika and Matthew’s work. Their comic about pregnancy is particularly inspired and a great resource for parents who are having a hard time explaining where babies come from. Follow them on Twitter at @PlusTenStrength and @ErikaMoen.

Lose the anti-kink guy I am a 22-year-old heterosexual

female. I may possibly be bi, but I don’t know. I really like the dick, but I am attracted to women and fantasize about fucking a pretty woman with a strap-on. I asked my boyfriend of a year if I could live out my fantasy, but he said he doesn’t want me “fucking another woman like a man.” I asked if maybe I could do this to him instead, but he said no. I like BDSM, but the most he’ll do is hold my arms down and spank me. I’ve asked for other things – bondage, nipple clamps, paddles, etc – but he says that stuff takes too much time and the bother of it “kills the mood.” I offered to set up stuff beforehand – ropes already tied to the corners of the bed, for instance – but he doesn’t want me to do that because “what if someone saw it?” Am I just being inconsiderate and selfish? Maybe I’m asking too much, but I felt that I was beyond honest about all of this before we started dating. My ex-husband (yes, exhusband – I got married at 16 and divorced last year) was never okay with any of this either and would call me a freak when I opened up about my desires – so I made sure not to hide them from my current boyfriend when we met. Now what am I supposed to do? Just drop it? Or should I talk to him? How do I talk to him?

Confused And Sexually Denied Yes, CASD, you should drop it – and by “it” I mean “him.”

You wasted five years of your life on a man who couldn’t meet your needs and sexshamed you about your perfectly ordinary, perfectly average kinks. You’ve been with this new guy for a year, and he’s revealed himself to be every bit as lazy, inconsiderate and sex-shamey as your ex-husband. DTMFA. There are tons of guys out there who would (1) be happy to indulge your kinks and (2) make lovely boyfriends and/or husbands.

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