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PET SHOP BOYS UK electro duo perform at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $49.50-$99.50. SC.

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Jets on the waterfront a tipping point Hats off for standing up to the Toronto Port Authority-​Porter Airlines coalition (NOW, September 12-​18).

Residents who spend so much time helping to mould a new neighbourhood have worked hard with all levels of government and developers to bring about positive change on the waterfront for current and future resi­dents and visitors. These same peo­ple are considered a nuisance and impediment to the goals of Porter and the TPA. Expanding the Island Airport to ac­commodate jets may be the tipping point between a world-​class water­front experience and a noisy walk along a billion-dollar upgrade

by Waterfront Toronto.

This is no longer the boutique airport the city accepted in a tripartite

agreement, but rather one of the 10 busiest in the country.

There seems to be no opposition other than citi­zen groups and NOW Magazine!

Ray Ferris Toronto

Airport noise? What airport noise?

Letter-​writer Nicole Stoffman laments the “noise from landing jets” at the Island Airport and wishes for “a peaceful waterfront [that] is a plea­sant escape from the traffic, heat and noise of downtown” (NOW, September 5-12).

Especially throughout the summer, Harbourfront west of Yonge is full of people, traffic and the noise they make. If she wants the respite she seeks, she might try the Leslie Street spit.

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Eric Trimble Toronto

Who’s afraid of ­Robert Deluce?

Congratulations on the excellent arti­cle on Porter Airlines and its ill-​ advised expansion plan for the Island Airport.

You bring to light ex­act­ly what’s been going on and how important it is to stop Robert Deluce.

We are in danger of losing the city’s most valuable resource. The other media seem afraid to tell the truth. I thank you for doing so.

Leah Lambert Toronto

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A salute and thank-you to the organizers of the Light The Queer Torch rally and march for the International Day Of Solidarity For Global LGBT Equality on September 8 (NOW, September 12-​18). Kudos.

It was amazing to meet so many people concerned about other queers in other countries who are otherwise forgotten. Impressive!

Barry Dennison Toronto

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Adam Giambrone made some very good observations in Subpar Subway (NOW, September 12-​18). I wish he had made them more strongly in his recent by-election campaign.

If Scarborough is to get a subway extension, it should be done the right way. The Glen Murray plan and the fawning Metrolinx endorsement are definitely not the right way.

The sad thing is that this is just another example of the province interfering with Toronto transit planning.

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When Robert Dziekanski died after being tasered in the Vancouver airport, we learned the phrase “excited delirium,” an emotional display for 9/17/13 2:19 PM

which professionals deem tasering an appropriate calming and controlling measure.

If anyone at the scene of the police shooting of Sammy Yatim was dis­ play­ing a state of excited delirium (NOW, August 29-​September 5), it was the officer dispensing the violence, Constable James Forcillo.

John-​Paul Warren Toronto

Chemical weapons pretext for the West

Letter-​writer Julian Bynoe needs to get real (NOW, September 5-​12). The hypocrisy of the U.S. denouncing the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemi­ cal weapons is stunning.

The U.S., not Syria or anyone else, is historically the most prolific user of chemical weapons in the history of our planet. Anyone remember white phosphorus in Fallujah, deplet­ed ur­ anium in Iraq, Agent Orange in Viet­ nam?

There is no such thing as a “hu­man­ itarian intervention.” The current manufactured furor is, as always, a pretext for the West to use its military might in its own interests. Period.

John Wilson Toronto

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Are you really suggesting that there was something heroic or admirable about filmmaker John Greyson’s at­ tempt to stop the Toronto Interna­ tional Film Festival from showcasing Tel Aviv in its 2009 inaugural City To City spotlight (NOW, September 1218)?

His shameful actions smacked of censorship, hypocrisy and hubris in his arrogant declamation of what films the festival should be allowed to show.

Greyson is hardly the friend of the festival that TIFF proclaims him to be, nor is the festival being inconsistent in now agitating for his release. Due to his past actions, I cannot bring myself to sign any of those petitions demand­ ing his immediate release.

Shlomo Schwartzberg Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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I met with the assistant once more, and we exchanged emails, but my MP showed no interest in solving any of these problems even though many of them fall under what one would see as typical NDP concerns.

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Mike Hudema on the risky business of pipelines It’s been another spill-​filled summer in the spill-​prone province of Alberta.

With the province averaging more than two oil spills a day over the past 37 years, much information is MIA. But what we know is truly alarming. Here’s a recap of just five such events this summer.

The hot season kicked off with one doozy by Apache Canada in Zama City in the northeast. Measuring a whopping 9.5 million litres, it was one of the largest leaks in provincial history, but one the government thought the public didn’t need to know about. Alberta kept it secret.

It only came to light after a local resident reported it to a television station. By the time the story broke, 60,000 barrels of industrial waste water had spilled. The Dene Tha, on whose territory the accident happened, said “Every tree or plant died” in the area touched by the toxic water.

There’s a culture of secrecy in which spills aren’t made public.

Then there was Plains Midstream.

Plains gained notoriety in 2011 when its Rainbow pipeline released 4.5 million litres of oil into the hamlet of Little Buffalo. Residents developed headaches and stomach problems.

The same company was responsible for a spill that saw 475,000 barrels of oil go into the Red Deer River in June 2012, putting the drinking water of tens of thousands of Albertans at risk.

The company’s most recent spill was this summer’s 950 barrels of condensate. While this is smaller than some of its others, condensate is full of cancercausing chemicals.

Legacy’s pipeline rupture in Turner Valley was a sour gas leak, a deadly, highly toxic substance.

Pennwest’s spill in Little Buffalo was originally reported to be 5,000 litres of oil but was later amended to include 400,000 to 600,000 litres of industrial waste water.

Our final spill was by Enbridge, which seems to have one every summer. This one leaked 750 barrels of light synthetic crude into a wetland and lake. (Besides pipeline fractures, Alberta is still dealing with four to six spills from an in-​situ site on Beaver Lake Cree territory.)

These all shed light on the culture of secrecy in which leaks aren’t made public, damage is hidden and pictures never released. Conclusion: Alberta is in no posi­tion to push its pipelines to new jurisdictions.

Mike Hudema is a Greenpeace Canada climate and energy campaigner.

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Friends of the Greenbelt, Environmental Defence and Toronto Environmental Alliance launch the Love The Ravines campaign aimed at getting Torontonians into our river valleys. Look for special coverage in next week’s print edition of NOW.

Diane (left) and Tessanne break it down at Jane-Finch at one of several rallies held across Toronto last weekend to raise the minimum wage.

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Much has been made of her star power, but can the lefty author who preaches income equality win a seat for the federal NDP on the home turf of the Liberal elite in Rosedale? We’re about to find out.

McQuaig won theNDP nomination in a three-way race September 15.

CITY-BUILDING

The University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design officially launches the Global Cities Institute, which promises to be “a fair broker of information and creative, evidence-based solutions and a catalyst between industry [and] government.”

CITYSCAPE

Spruce Court Cooperative in Cabbagetown, the city’s first, is what Toronto’s affordable housing used to look like in the early 20th century. The 100th anniversary of the Eden Smith creation, noted for its human scale, was commemorated earlier this month with a plaque from Heritage Toronto.

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The Toronto Port Authority is blaming a financial squabble with the city for delays to repairs to the ship channel bridge on Cherry. The bridge, closed since last November, reopened to a single lane of traffic this week, some three months later than scheduled.

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CRACK SCANDAL

Rob Ford released a Youtube video last week to commemorate another summer of living dangerously, further cementing his status as rock star mayor. What we learned: He can be a sweet guy (oh, if only!) He has a pretty good right foot for soccer. Can’t drum worth a damn. The mayor’s handlers have been spending an inordinate amount of time buffing his image lately. Is it part of a PR offensive before the next bomb in the crack scandal drops? Read John Semley’s take on the clown prince’s self-promo at nowtoronto.com.

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The Hells Angels are back in town. Vroom. The outlaw motorcycle gang booted from its former fortress/digs on Eastern in 2007 after an OPP raid are flying their colours on Carlaw, where they’ve opened a storefront operation selling Ts and all things Hellish. Local councillor Paula Fletcher assures us that authorities will be keeping close watch. The gang’s roots in Ontario go back only about a decade. Remember former mayor Mel Lastman’s famous handshake with a club member that sparked an online effort by the PR-savvy bikers to appear like a bunch of good ole boys? But according to York U’s Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime And Security, the group has been linked to organized crime activities in recent months, including a corruption scandal in Quebec, the pot trade in BC and Italian Mafia families in Canada and the U.S.

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When NOW reviewed Katrina Onstad’s debut novel in January 2006 and talked to her later in the year in our cover story (nowtoronto.com/archive), we knew she was a writer to watch. Her new novel, Everybody Has Everything, is on the short list for this year’s Toronto Book Awards. Onstad appears at Word On The Street on Sunday (September 22) at 11:30 am and 3:30 pm. For more on the literary fest, see page 74.

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While picking through my bag, the friendly court officer came upon my audio recorder. “Media?” he asked. Yes. “What are you here for?” “Rob Ford,” I said.

As soon as he expressed confusion, I realized I’d sort of given away the game. On Thursday, September 12, the Ontario Court of Justice at 1911 Eglinton East was the site of a hearing on an application to unseal a warrant relating to the Project Traveller gang bust. It wasn’t about Rob Ford – not in the literal sense.

But of course it was. There is exactly one reason why those not themselves charged in the June raids are interested in seeing the information used to obtain the warrants for the operation (the ITOs), much of it from wiretaps: the belief that somewhere, buried among thousands of pages, is some reference to the mayor.

Applying for the ITO pertaining to a particular search warrant issued on May 31 are the Toronto Star, represented by Ryder Gilliland, and the Globe, CBC, Sun Media, Postmedia, the Canadian Press, Global and CTV, jointly represented by Peter Jacobsen.

In the best-case scenario, the information would rain down like a waterfall and we’d learn the precise nature of Ford’s connection to alleged gun runners and drug smugglers and exactly what police knew about the alleged crack video. (Several outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported in mid-June that police first learned of the video from the Traveller wiretaps.)

But Canadian law, the Ontario justice system and Ford’s own astonishing luck have instead combined to produce something closer to a worst-case scenario: this line of inquiry may soon reach a dead end.

On Monday, Justice Philip Downes agreed with the Crown’s submission that the vast majority of the information being sought (that is, the precise evidence police swore before a judge to obtain each search warrant) should remain secret. More specifically, he ruled that to disclose the contents or existence of particular wiretaps would be a crime punishable with jail time.

This, generally speaking, is the law in Canada concerning wiretaps, but the lawyers for the applicants argued (unsuccessfully) that one of the Criminal Code’s prescribed exemptions applied: that because the wiretap info had been shared with a judge for the purpose of obtaining a warrant, it had been deployed in the course of a judicial proceeding and therefore had become public. Referring to numerous precedents, however, Downes concluded that the process of obtaining a search warrant is not a judicial proceeding but rather a component of a criminal investigation.

According to Gilliland, the judge’s decision on the wiretap issue takes 90 per cent of this ITO out of play.

Of course, for police to carry out an operation on the scale of Traveller, they need quite a lot of warrants.

And in a landmark 1982 case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the public’s right to scrutinize the operations of its justice system extends to the right to view the contents of search warrants that have already been executed – albeit subject to certain limitations.

But in practice, gaining access to these files is neither

simple nor easy. In fact, it can be downright hellish.

To request to view a warrant, you have to give – at minimum – the date it was issued and the address of the property it granted police permission to search. At first, the media outlets could only nail down one, so that was all they were formally seeking in court.

Certain there were more, their law yers wrote to an associate chief justice of the Ontario Court, who told them there were four (including the one they’d already found).

Then courts administration contacted them the next week to say, whoops, there were actually 15 others. And then, in court last week, Crown Attorney Jeffrey Levy presented a chart of 36 relevant search warrant packets. Each packet could contain multiple warrants and multiple ITOs; Levy said there were 88 or so in total, amounting to over 2,500 pages.

All 36 have been sealed from public view. Section 487.3 of the Criminal Code lays out a handful of circumstances under which a judge may do so.

Gilliland explains in an interview that for two-thirds of the packets, the Crown is relying on the aforementioned law against the disclosure of wiretaps. For each, “we don’t know whether [that represents] a small portion or a large portion,” he says. “And for a lot of the other ones, there are confidential-informant arguments, and those are pretty rock-solid.”

Of the 2,500 pages, there may end up being very few that don’t require significant, if not total, redaction.

On top of that, those portions that are released will, at the request of the media’s lawyers, be placed under a publication ban. If not for such, the lawyers for the accused could credibly object to even minimal disclosure, as it could affect their clients’ right to a fair trial.

It’s now up to the eight outlets to decide which of the other packages they wish to pursue. On Monday, the Crown gave the applicants an address associated with each of the packets on the chart. The news orgs now have sufficient information to file applications for the sealing orders to be terminated or, more likely, amended so as to withhold only those parts that absolutely cannot be disclosed.

Practically, though, they can’t ask for all of them at once. In court, Crown Attorney Levy stressed that it takes a very long time for his office to properly review and edit each one for release. Given that these are supposed to be public documents by default – and that it took three months just to find out how many there are – this is a rather considerable barrier to access.

In a break at the hearing, I ask Jacobsen whether he thinks someone is stonewalling or the justice system is simply overwhelmed and disorganized.

“I don’t know whether they’re overwhelmed and disorganized to this extent – it would strike me as quite serious if they are – or if they’re just stonewalling,” he says. I do know that originally the Crown asked for six months to have the return of this one application. That’s what they asked for in front of the justice on July 2. He said, ‘No, that’s just not justified.’ So you can draw your own conclusion.”

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Trippy rail ride I’d give up the right to vote to be able to take the streetcar to Lake Simcoe again By SHEILA GOSTICK There it is, a sight destined to quicken the heart of any streetcar nut: the classic PCC, followed by the antiquey tram named for designer/en­gineer Peter Witt.

I trot after the two vehicles almost involuntarily, like a dog on an irresistible scent. The squeal of streetcar wheels turning on steel track induces in me a sort of ecstatic reaction regular people reserve for private

con­gress with another mere mortal.

The occasion is the September 15 celebration of a century of streetcar service on St. Clair. As part of it, I board the Peter Witt, which is like a trip to a cottage – all woody and win­dowy. In the old days, in fact, there used to be street­car service to Lake Simcoe. I’d give up the right to vote to regain such a democratic plea­sure.

Then the iconic PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) vehicle pulls away, and I chase after it. But the driver, wearing an old uniform and hat, sees me and motions me on. A spe­cial day indeed!

This was the streetcar of my childhood, the maroon-and-cream beauty that emerged from the Bingham Loop as I crossed the border from Scarborough to Toronto at Victoria Park while walking to Catholic school on Kingston. The fare was determined by height. Tall for my age, I be­came an adult in Grade 4.I was ready to quit school and become a streetcar driver.

Trips to my grandmother’s were long journeys with butter rum Lifesaver candies.

This 62-year-old car, one of only two left here, has a ceiling of dreamy light turquoise. Turquoise in Toronto? It’s almost beyond belief. Since I’m surrounded by experts, I can just ask. That blue went beigey in 1972 or 73. The trim and metal seat legs are painted a teal that matches exactly the 1960s Beatles suit I’m wearing.

There are no ads on this car. It’s my idea of heaven. I just want to ride it forever.

The fact that the ride is free throws people waiting for a usual streetcar. It’s wonderful to be on a track unblocked by private vehicles. The PCC, the elegant result of a collaborative design effort amongst North Ameri­can cities including ours, gets a chance to open up and make that rum­bling sound that can only be heard when she’s really rolling.

“She” seems correct. A curvy St. Louis-​built body with restful little round lights softly glowing inside. I remember the horror of the hard-edged, harshly lit, ugly new things that are soon to be replaced after wearing out, as chintz does. They go around with their mechanical bits all sticking out, a macho affront to the modest and enduring PCCs. Our old fleet was sold to Cleveland, Philadelphia, Cairo, Alexandria and other places. I once caught one in San Francisco, accidentally crashing a meet­ing of streetcar freaks plunging up and down fantastic hills. continued on page 21 œ

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t may be impossible to predict what will happen at the Ontario PCs’ policy convention in London this weekend. So fractured is the state of the party led by Tim Hudak that at this point anything is possible, especially after the recent bang-bang demotions of high-​profile MPPs Peter Shurman and Randy Hillier.

But it seems probable that calls for a vote to amend the party constitution to allow a vote on Hudak’s leadership will fizzle. Who among the increasingly vocal dissenters will risk showing their hand and invoking the wrath of the leader’s office?

The inescapable truth for Hudak, however, is that the PCs are in disarray. Internecine battles left over from the 2009 PC leadership contest are still raging. The firing of Shurman and Hillier from his shadow cabinet have inflamed hostilities. Hillier, a former leadership candidate, put Hudak over the top in 2009.

Now there’s talk of the growing Reformatory wing of the party represented by Hillier, et al., making a break from the PCs – nutty, but in one way almost inevitable. The brain trust behind Hudak, the Mike Harris­es and Tom Longs, have been trying to rein in the gorillas in their midst since Tim took over. The firings of Shurman and Hillier suggests the placating has come to an end. Maybe Hudak has grown a few. It’s hard to know for sure, since his recent actions have been pushed by his struggle for political survival.

Some in the PC ranks think all the talk of replacing Hudak is crazy when an election is likely only six months away. Some believe a major rebranding is needed instead to sell Hudak to the skeptical masses.

Why, former PC leader John Tory, the man Hudak replaced, prescribed just that the other day on his radio show.

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Hudak’s talk of chain gangs and “foreign workers” during the 2011 elec­tion did the party no favours, Tory opined. Time for Tim to move to­ward the political middle. Easier said than done. The more strident he got, the more Hudak’s numbers went up in the dying days of the 2011 campaign. Was that just a coincidence?

But John Tory is an odd one to be offering that advice to Hudak. His own attempts to move the party to the centre when he was leader led to his getting turfed.

And Hudak himself was part of that coup.

The PCs aren’t just at war with themselves; they have an identity crisis, too. Maybe that’s why voters don’t get Hudak, say he’s wishy-​washy and seems not to stand for any­thing. He doesn’t know himself. Or maybe he’s just not believable no matter what he says.

On Monday, September 16, the PC leader was absent from the legislature during ques­tion period. He was in Thunder Bay releasing his latest white paper, on a jobs strategy for the north. The economy is the new Tory talking point, strange as that sounds. A focus on the bigger picture is a shift for a party that’s tended to glom onto min­u­tiae and may have spent too much time on Grit scandals rather than articulating what it would do in power.

The economy was also the topic du jour for Hudak’s new point man, Monte McNaughton, during the us­ual media scrums after question period. But earlier, inside the legislature, it was the same old fare: a slew of questions for the government on ru­ral issues. That’s an odd tack for a party that’s supposed to be thinking about winning urban votes if it’s to form the next gov­ ernment.

It’s hard, looking down from the press gallery, not to be struck by how overwhelmingly white, middle-​ aged and angry the PCs have become.

When you talk to rank-and-file members these days, the word “desperate” is used a lot to describe how much they want to get back in power. There’s a distinct feeling of entitlement, as if the Libs have had their chance and now it’s the PCs’. But more than a decade after the Mike Harris glory days, the party’s still in opposition despite con­stant Liberal scandals.

Worse for the PCs, a jump from third to the pre­mier’s job by NDP leader Andrea Horwath (as Harris did) is more likely than a Hudak win.

In polls, he’s consistently the most unpopular party leader, but Hudak has been reluctant to take the blame for that. The folks around him would rather spin dastardly tales of party president Richard Ciano, Nick Kouvalis’s business partner, “undermining” the leader or trying to stab Hudak in the back.

The leader’s camp has reason to be wary. After all, they ran John Sno­be­len against Ciano for the party presi­dency and lost. Ciano also controls the party executive that imposed a ceiling on Hudak’s campaign spending a few months back and is now letting the question of his leadership be put to a vote.

But Hudak’s crew is only half-right about Ciano. He may have his eye on the top job, but only later. Right now he’s happy to act as the stalking horse for Doug Ford – yes, the irrepressible brother of the mayor of Toronto, who’s made no bones about wanting to be PC leader.

Is it a coincidence that Ford Fest is happening this weekend, when most dedicated Tories should be in London developing policy for the next election?

Word is, a few hundred fewer delegates will show up at the convention than attended the last one. Good news for Hudak, maybe, but it’s also indicative of the fact that many have lost faith.

Hudak’s handling of the Shurman and Hillier affairs may endear him to some voters, but to PC party members the episodes look like one big set-up orchestrated by the same Harris cabal that made Hudak leader in the first place.

Officially, Hillier was fired for breach of caucus confidentiality after the Star got hold of an email he sent caucus colleagues three months ago. In it Hillier ­expressed concern over unnamed “senior party officials” pushing a private member’s bill (coincidentally tabled by Mc­Naugh­ton) that might put the PCs in line for big donations from con­ struc­tion giant EllisDon. The bill would allow the company to hire non-unionized workers.

Hillier says he didn’t leak the email. And at first, Hudak didn’t seem in a big hurry to quell the suggestion that the PCs are in the pocket of Big Construction, waiting two continued on page 24 œ

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OVER RUNNYM It was supposed to be a barbecue with a few supporting visitors, but by the morning of Saturday, September 14, word had spread.

By barbie time, the event in the parking lot of Runnymede Collegiate, conceived as a modest response to anti-gay vandalism in the area, became an all-out, almost-400-strong Pride celebration strewn with the same rainbow flags that had recently been defaced across the street on Jane.

It all started about two and a half years ago. Someone in the west end is troubled by the colourful Pride flags that festoons the home of Sarah Jean Harrison and her partner, Pascal Murphy, both Ryerson faculty, on Jane just south of Dundas.

First a bumper sticker with an exhortation to “Celebrate diversity” was torn from their car’s rear fender. That was just the start of a persistent spate of vandalism.

Then two rainbow flags with the word “Peace” in white lettering were torn from their poles and disappeared.

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but not the vandalism. The long-running offensive also involved hate graffiti, hurled dog feces and the slashing of their vehicle’s rear tires in late August.

“We’ve decided we’re not going to let hate rule the neighbourhood,” Murphy tells NOW. “We’re passionate allies of the queer community, and we’re standing up to say this is crap and it’s going to end.”

He points out that three other neighbours have reported defaced and missing rainbow paraphernalia. The couple have handed out several rainbow flags in defiance of the vandals.

MPP Cheri DiNovo told Saturday’s gathering that these events mark a particularly ugly moment in an otherwise LGBT-friendly neighbourhood. Twelve years ago, she reminded the crowd, one of Canada’s first legalized gay marriages was performed just blocks away at the Emmanuel-Howard Park United Church where she was pastor.

Ward 13 councillor Sarah Doucette, who also attended, was stunned this had happened in her area. “I couldn’t believe it!

Maybe I’m naive,” she told NOW, “but I thought we were living together in, well, almost peace and harmony.”

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A fellow passenger says he sees Mayor Ford waving at us – from his Cadil­lac. The driver calls the stops him­self. This trip feels human, which is old-fashioned.

Somewhere along the line, some TTC drivers took up the antisocial atti­tude of cops, and passengers be­ came suspects. The mayor hates street­cars. So did General Motors and all the gas and tire industries that con­spired to wipe out the vehicles across North America.

The driver here says some of To­ ronto’s PCCs came from the southern U.S. and had holes drilled for signs rele­gating “negroes” to the back.

“Thank god for Rosa Parks,” he says.

After the ride, I reluctantly walk to Wychwood Barns, where streetcars re­sided when the area was practically countryside. There is a display of old notices indicating that crowding and foot-draping have always been prob­ lems. A severe art allergy precludes my lingering in this rehabilitated showplace; I just want back on that ve­hi­cle.

Streetcars are the reason I drink.

From the patio/corral of a certain anti-​establishment at the bottom of Roncesvalles, I can be near the spot where they turn around. Suspended above the intersection of Roncey and Queen is a veritable spider’s web of trolley lines.

I have a suggestion for the hotel on the corner, formerly the Edgewater, now a nondescript place with a red banner, “HoJo,” which to worldly me suggests rooms that rent by the halfhour: why not capitalize on the loca­ tion smack in the centre of all those streetcars turning into the yard?

Call it Streetcar Nuts Hotel and mar­ket it internationally. What ordi­ nary guests might call a disturbance would be a source of joy to those who’d travel anywhere for a fix of true romance – streetcars running around your room all night long. 3

Still, she was elated by the gather­ ing and the fact that it happened at a high school with the principal’s en­ thu­siastic support. It was he, she says, who got the permit for the affair.

Doucette feels the “Peace” Pride flag hanging in an upstairs school window, signed by students, says everything about how to stem hate.

So, too, does the participation of fam­ ilies and children at the barbecue, some draped in capes made from Pride flags.

There’s a reason, say Murphy and Harrison, they fly their flags so prom­inently across from the school: they were the victims of vandalism, but students are often victims of homophobic bullying.

“How many times is the phrase ‘That’s so gay’ said in a high school?”

Murphy asks. “Our hope is that if [gay students] hear that, at least they news@nowtoronto.com can look out the window, see the flag and say, ‘There are places that are in­ clusive for me even if I’m not feeling that right now.’”

While police haven’t announced any leads in their investigation, Sat­ ur­day’s party, says Doucette, will like­ly prove the tipping point. “Any time [neighbours] see somebody sus­ picious, Search they’re going be watching bytorating, genre, price, now. This event has brought the com­ neighbourhood, review & more! munity together. And that’s what this ward is all about.”

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Minimum rage

Is Ontario-wide push for $14 minimum wage good for the economy? By BEN SPURR The mood outside Dufferin Mall on the afternoon of Saturday, September 14, is festive, with an Afro-​Brazilian drum band banging out songs, kids playing carnival games and free popcorn and samosas for the crowd of about 60.

It looks more like a street party than a protest, but the message of the event, part of an action stretching across a dozen Ontario cities, is serious enough. Poorly paid workers and their supporters have gathered to demand an increase to the provincial minimum wage, which has been frozen at $10.25 since 2010.

At pay that low, advocates say, the province’s 534,000 full-​time minimum-wage labourers are living 19 per cent below the poverty line. A

bump to $14 an hour would allow them to climb 10 per cent above it.

“It’s not enough to live on. We’ve got people trying to decide whether to pay the rent, buy food or get new clothes for their kids. It’s simply impossible,” says Edward Lantz of ACORN, part of a coalition that includes the Workers Action Centre, the Toronto and York Region Labour Council, OCAP and six others.

In addition to the $3.75 raise, parti­ cipants are asking the province to tie the minimum wage to inflation. Ontario is one of only three Canadian jurisdictions without a formula for determining regular wage increases to reflect the climbing cost of living.

The protests come as the province’s special advisory group is holding hearings on the wage regime across the province. The six-​person panel – which includes representatives from labour, business and academia – is expected to release its findings by early 2014.

But the opposition NDP says further study is extraneous and that a higher minimum wage is overdue.

The party’s poverty critic, Parkdale-​ High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo, says the party isn’t yet ready to commit to a figure. Still, “we are absolutely supportive of keeping the minimum wage at a level where people can survive and live without going to food banks,” she says.

Despite the common stereotype, those stuck with poverty wages aren’t just teenagers working summer jobs, says the Workers Action Centre’s Sonia Singh. Many are older and have families, and are also disproportionately wo­men, immigrants and people of colour.

The country’s largest private-sector union believes that these low-­​ ­income earners wouldn’t be the only

TOP FIVE REASONS FOR A MINIMUM WAGE BOOST

1. Minimum wages have been frozen for three years at $10.25 per hour while consumer prices have increased by over 7 per cent.

2. Relative to average wages and average hourly productivity, minimum wages are significantly lower today than they were in the 70s.

3. Almost half of all employees in the GTA work at precarious jobs with irregular and inadequate hours.

4. The living wage benchmark for a family of four in Ontario is two full-​time breadwinners earning $18 an hour.

5. An increase will generate more spending power and economic growth.

Source: Unifor’s submission to Ontario’s Mini­ mum Wage Advisory Panel, by Jim Stanford and Jordan Brennan

ones to benefit from an increase in the minimum wage. In a submission to the provincial panel earlier this month, economists with newly created labour giant Unifor argued that better pay at the bottom would have a “trickle-​up impact” on higher-paid workers as well.

“There are people in a lot of jobs where the employer sets the wage not at the minimum, but in relation to the minimum,” explains Unifor economist Jim Stanford. “They’re try­ing to get a certain calibre of work­ er, a certain level of stability or re­ten­ tion, and to do that they know they have to pay $3 above the mini­mum, continued on page 24 œ

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or maybe $5 above. So those workers will get a raise as well whenever the minimum wage goes up.”

Stanford says an across-​the-​board pay raise would help counteract one of the most detrimental after-​effects of the 2008 downturn. Although eco­ nomies across North America are recovering, he argues, most of the jobs coming back are low-​paid positions in service and retail sectors. Frustration with these so-​called McJobs led to unprecedented strike action by U.S. fast food workers in August.

“We’re seeing a labour market that is increasingly producing lousy jobs: low-​wage jobs, precarious jobs, part-​ time jobs, contract jobs,” Stanford says. “It’s not going to get any better unless we put in place rules and struc­tures to force it to get better.”

Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Pol­ icy Alternatives, believes Queen’s Park has no choice but to raise the min­imum wage – it’s just a matter of when and by how much. She contends that doing so would benefit employers as well as employees. Simply put, if workers make more, they will buy more, she says.

“It’s often said that businesses create jobs. Well, in fact, it’s consumers who create jobs,” Yalnizyan says. “If you raise the minimum wage, then [workers] will have more purchasing power. That is primarily what propels our economy.”

“If you keep throttling purchasing power, particularly of the people who are buying the cheapest stuff out there, you’re going to lose your sales.

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weeks to lower the boom.

Why the delay? That might have something to do with the fact that two-​thirds of the PC caucus didn’t both­er to show for the vote on McNaughton’s bill when it passed sec­ ond reading in June – and Hillier joined the NDP in opposing it. Talk about bucking the leader.

As with the Hillier storm, something got lost in the media translation of the firing of Hudak’s finance critic, Peter Shurman, only days before. The Thornhill MPP got pinched by the Globe for billing taxpayers $20K for a housing allowance reportedly used for a Bay Street condo after he’d moved out of his home riding north of Toronto to live in Niagaraon-the-Lake.

Shurman says Hudak cleared the allowance. The part of the story that got less traction and was revealed

It’s that simple,” she says.

The Retail Council of Canada declined to comment for this article.

But the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, while cautioning against sudden jumps in the minimum wage, supports tying it to the Consumer Price Index in order to keep pace with inflation.

That would “bring predictability to the process” and “allow businesses to plan for increases in their labour costs,” said OCC president Allan O’Dette in a release last week.

Outside Dufferin Mall on Saturday, the colourful logo of low-​wage retailer Toys “R” Us in the background, Estina Sebastien gets emotional when she talks about struggling to make ends meet on $10.25 an hour. She put herself through a year of schooling to earn her certification as a personal support worker, but she has only been able to find part-​time work and now splits her time between two temp agencies.

“I’m almost in tears now because it’s depressing. Living like this, peo­ ple will tell you that they can suffer from mental health issues,” says Sebas­tien, who immigrated to Cana­ da six years ago and has two children aged 16 and 20. “My choice is to deny myself everything. I make do with the basic bare things in order to give my children.”

Sebastien’s friend Julia McDonald is in a similarly tough place. She does factory work, and she says it’s a strain even for a single person like her to survive on a stagnant minimum wage when the price of daily necessities continues to rise.

“It’s ridiculous, because every year the landlord increases the rent, TTC increases its fare,” she says. “You can’t even afford to buy groceries.”

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days later: Shurman planned to run for MPP closer to his new digs in Niagara in 2011, but Hudak insisted he run again in Thornhill, a seat vulnerable to the Libs, which is why Shur­ man broached the issue of an allowance in the first place.

For Hudak, it’s starting to feel like the battles that marked his pr­ede­ces­ sor’s demise. Live by the sword....

There’s also the matter of Newmarket-Aurora MPP Frank Klees, the other MPP who, along with Hil­lier, supported a vote on Hudak’s leader­ ship. He’s gone silent on the question, but he was rumoured to be considering resigning after the PCs’ bad showing in recent by-elections.

Thinking is he would come back later and take an­other run at the top job.

Klees came second to Hudak in 2009.

How the PCs could get to a 54-​seat majority – they have 37 seats now – is hard for even the most hardcore Conservatives to see. In fact, polls suggest more Tories are less inclined to vote for Hudak. The PCs would actually lose a handful of seats if an election were held today.

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Thursday, September 19

Benefits

City Of The Sun God: Amarna And Its Rulers, Akhenaten And Nefertiti (ROM’s an-

cient Egyptian and Nubian 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

Art Class Learn how to create a still life. 6:308:30 pm. $10. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Preregister avagaia@yahoo.ca.

Book Ends South Treasures & Good Books Sale First editions, signed, rare, antiquarian

and collectible books. Today 10 am-8 pm; ­tomorrow 9:30 am-5 pm; Sep 21, 9 am-4 pm.

Thu $2, Fri-Sat free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. friendssouthchapter@­ torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Dancing On The Pier Live bands, social dancing and instruction in dances from around the world. 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

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. f­ airvote.ca.

Embracing Change: From Fear To Evolution Philosophy seminar. 7:30 pm. $25, adv

$20, stu $15. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. toronto.newacropolis.ca.

George Brown College Open Door Event

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

Get Crafty! Button-making workshop. 11 am-1 pm. Free, (materials provided). Hart House Reading Room, 7 Hart House Circle.

416-978-2452.

How Passion Ignites Success In The Kitchen

Seminar with chef/author John Plako and food consultant Rose Reisman. 7 pm. $15.

Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts, 300 Adelaide E. pchoudhury@fayeclack.com.

Inside Insite Talk on how supervised injection sites transform lives and communities. 6:30 pm. Free. Dalla Lana School of Public Health Auditorium, 155 College. 647-222-4420.

Intro To Creative Writing IFOA creative writing class with novelist Brian Francis for beiginners and recreational writers. To Oct 22, 6:30 pm. $226. York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Register 416-9734760, ifoa.org.

Mira Nair The Salaam Bombay! director discusses the craft of filmmaking and the tug of competing

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Festivals

Saturday, September 21

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this week

Garage Sale (Meighan Manor/Salvation

Army) A garage sale and barbecue support seniors’ care. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Meighan Manor, 155 Millwood. 416-481-9449.

Walk-A-Thon (Settlement Assistance and Family Support Svs) 9 am. Donation. Scarborough Town Centre, 300 Borough. twitter. com/SAFSSWallkathon.

Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Music by

Pick a Piper, Memoryhouse, Bidiniband, the Golden Dogs, Catl and others. 2-9 pm. Free.

Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W, ­bloorossingtonfolkfestival.ca.

Sep 20 to 22 Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Performances by Burton Cummings, Serena Ryder, Maestro Fresh Wes and others. Various prices. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. ­canadaswalkoffame.com.

Sep 19 to 21 rFrancophonie En Fete French music festival featuring Cindy Doire and others plus workshops. Various prices. Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst), David Pecaut Square (55 John). ­francophonie-en-fete.com.

Sep 19 and 20 JFL42 Comedy Festival Performances by Colin Quinn, Anthony Jeselnik, Janeane Garofalo, Bill Burr and others. Various prices and venues. jfl42.com.

Sep 19 to 28 Manifesto Music, visual arts, dance, fashion, food, literature and spiritual arts festival, with performances by Souls of Mischief, Thugli, Eternia and others.

Yonge-Dundas Square and other venues. themanifesto.ca.

Sep 19 to 22 Oktoberfest In The Square Live music, German delicacies, an Oktoberfest keg and more. Free admission. Shops at Don Mills, Don Mills at Lawrence. shopsatdonmills.ca.

Sep 19 to 22 On Common Ground Mobile music, dance, giant puppet theatre, storytelling, a kids’ zone and more with the Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Jane Bunnett & Carnivalissimo, Clay & Paper Theatre, Dusk Dances and others.

Free. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416worlds felt by immigrants. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Mississauga, rm 110, 3359 Mississauga. utm.utoronto.ca/snider-lecture.

North York Farmers’ Market Thursdays 7 am-2:30 pm. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. toronto.ca.

Reality, Truth And Conscious Light Video introduction to the life and teaching of Adi Da Samraj. 7 pm. First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair W. a ­ didam.ca.

The Road To Palestine Talk by writer/activist Ted Schmidt. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Save Toronto’s Waterfront No Jets T.O. holds a town hall meeting to

Events

AwesTruck Food truck rally with snacks,

drinks and more. 2-8 pm. $10 & $25. Fort York, 100 Garrison. torontofoodtrucks.ca.

Bike Pirates Equinox Party DIY party leaving from 1292 Bloor W. 7:30 pm. info@­ bikepirates.com.

Canada Braai Day Celebration of South African food and culture. Noon-8 pm. Free. Distillery District Ibiza Patio, 55 Mill. braai.ca. rCentreville’s Amusing Race Families engage in kid-friendly challenges and trivia. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Centreville Amusement Park, Centre Island. centreisland.ca.

Descendants Of Fire Screening of the Mapuche film The Deceit and a panel discussion on 40 years of anti-colonial, anti-authoritarian and revolutionary resistance. 7:30 pm. Free.

Harvest Moon Cafe, 16 Bancroft. ­wccctoronto.wordpress.com. rFall Migration Learn about migrating birds and butterflies. Today and tomorrow 1 & 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

The Fitness Battles Fitness competition designed to get high-risk youth off the steets and into the gym. 3-5 pm. Free. CircuitFIT, 542 Mt Pleasant. circuitfit.com.

Souls of Mischief take the Yonge-Dundas Square stage at the Manifesto fest.

Fest Social justice through film, faith and

392-6907, toronto.ca/fortevents.

Sep 21 and 22 Pan American Food Festival Experience the diversity of 41 countries in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean through food, art, music and folklore. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Sep 20 to 22

forums. Screenings, workshops and discussions. $10-$20; pass $25-$40 (workshops extra). Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton School and Innis Town Hall. tciff.com.

Sep 20 to 22 Yogapalooza Oudoor yoga festival with movement, meditation, music, belly dance, martial arts, Bollywood grooves and more.

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

Sep 21 and 22

Sommet/Mandingue/Summit 2013: West African Dance & Drum Festival Perform-

ances, films, workshops, an African marketplace and more. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. 647-557-3449, ­baobabarts.ca.

Sep 25 to 29 Sweets And Treats Festival Entertainment by the Silver Elvis and others, a kids’ fun zone, photos with cartoon characters and more.

Free admission (proceeds to SickKids). Sugar Beach, 11 Dockside. sweetsntreats.ca.

Sep 21 to 22

continuing Faith, Art And Activism Mini-Festival

Sacred music, outdoor services, talks, panels, readings, blessing of the animals and more. St Stephen-in-the-Fields (103 Bellevue), Trinity Chapel (6 Hoskin) and other venues. s­ aintstephens.ca/faith-artand-activism.

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Toronto Cornerstone International Film talk about why jets on the ­waterfront are bad for Toronto. 6 pm. Free. Direct Energy Centre Exhibition Place. n ­ ojetsto.ca.

The Supranational Corporation Talk by prof Laura Westra. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

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

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Events

Symposium: Building Better Lives and Communities Symposium led by an expert

panel, 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.

Vegetarian Weekday Meal Lecture. 7 pm.

Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

What Ails The Muslim World? Talk by ­columnist Haroon Siddiqui. 6 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. ­noorculturalcentre.ca.

Women’s A Cappella Women learn to sing a cappella with the Toronto Accolades. 6:45 pm.

Free. Earl Bales Community Centre, 4169 Bathurst. ­torontoaccolades.com.

Your Wow Factor: Stand Out, Build ­Revenue, Get More Clients And Close Deals Career workshop. 5:30-9:30 pm. $35, adv $25. North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge. f­ acebook.com/ events/150902425111267.

Chris Hedges Talk and panel discussion with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author/activist.

7:30 pm. $20. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. canadiandimension.com.

Hogtown Hoedown Old-time square dance with instruction and live music by All Day Breakfast. 7:30 pm. $15, stu/underemployed $10, kids $7. Trinity St Paul’s ­Centre, 427 Bloor W. facebook.com/­ hogtownhoedown.

Leslie Creek And Tributaries (Bain Creek, Wood Duck Creek) Lost rivers walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Chester subway. 416-593-2656.

Rightswatch Conference Canadian Civil

Liberties conference on civil liberties and democracy in the digital age. Today 6 pm; tomorrow 9 am-5 pm. $50, stu/unwaged $20. Ryerson U, Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas W. Pre-register ccla. org/rightswatch2013.

Sherway Farmers’ Market Ontario-grown and locally produced foods, every Fri 8 am-2 pm. Sherway Gardens, 25 the West Mall, NE parking lot. sherwaymarket.com.

Writers’ Group Workshop with writing exercises. Noon-1:30 pm. Free. Sanctuary Church, 25 Charles E. 416-922-0628 ext 506.

standing The Current Nuclear Crisis Panel discussion with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Greenpeace Canada’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil and others. 7 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. angela@cleanairalliance.org.

Gallery Hop 2013 Self-guided gallery tours, talks, a magazine launch and more. 11 am.

Free. Details canadianart.ca/­galleryhop.

Global March For Peace And Unity Grassroots effort to organize a peaceful global march for peace and unity on International Day of Peace. 1 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. gmpu.org.

Go Global Expo Info on working, volunteering and studying abroad. Today and tomorrow. Free. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. ­letsgoglobal.ca.

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Join conservation groups to help clean up the beach. 10 am. Free (free lunch). Woodbine Beach, foot of Woodbine. Pre-register ­shorelinecleanup.ca.

Historic Architecture In Eastern Weston

Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc.

Bus stop near Lawrence W at Ralph St. ­heritagetoronto.org.

Humber Historical Walk Join lieutenant governor John Graves Simcoe in reenacting the first day of his 1793 journey up the Toron­ to Carrying Place. 9 am. Free. Parking area S of 8 Kingsway (Rousseaux Site). 416-767-7633.

International Peace Day Celebration for peace in the world. 5-7 pm. $20. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). ­rotarypeaceday2013.eventbrite.ca.

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Introduction To West Indian Genealogy

An introduction to the principles of West Indian genealogical research led by U of T professor Pooran Bridgelal. 10 am-3 pm. $30.

North York Library, 5120 Yonge. ­torontofamilyhistory.org/courses.html.

Junction Farmers’ Market Local, sustainably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 8:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Green P Lot, 385 Pacific. junctionmarket.ca.

Light Up Bloordale Community barbecue (3-5 pm) and lantern festival (5-7:30 pm). Free.

MacGregor Playground, 346 Lansdowne. ­aragon.ca.

Mini Maker Faire Show and tell of do-ityourself invention and technology including robots, fire machines and 3D printing. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5:30 pm. $4-$12.50.

Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­makerfairetoronto.com.

Oktoberfest Ceremonial keg-tapping, entertainment, pretzels, sausage and more. 2-11 pm. $25. Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. steamwhistle.ca.

Parkdale Night Crawl Art crawl with selfguided and guided tours, performances, live painting, storytelling, a flea market, 70s roller disco and more. 8 pm-midnight. Free. 20 venues along Queen from Dufferin to Roncesvlles. ­queenwestartcrawl.com. rPawsWay Open House Learn about courses including K-9 Manners and get your questions answered by experts. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca. rPioneer Harvest Festival Mennonite and Pennsylvania-German festival, with candledipping demos, apple pressing, cheese-making and more. 11 am-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. rPirate School 101 Kids learn treasurehunting skills and embark on an adventure.

1-4 pm. $45. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807.

Queen West Art Crawl An outdoor art show and sale, guided walks, talks, a nightcrawl and more. Today and tomorrow. Free. Queen between Bathurst and Roncesvalles. ­queenwestartcrawl.com.

Relaxation & Light Workshop with Swami Samayananda. 10 am-4 pm. $100, stu/srs $75.

St Andrew’s Church, 75 Simcoe. yasodhara. org.

Remembering Rumi II Evening of sacred poetry, music and whirling with Coleman Barks. $40. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. info@lucsculpture.com.

Take Back The Night Toronto Community fair (4-6 pm), dinner (5-6 pm), rally (6-8 pm) and march (8-9:30 pm) against sexual violence. Free. Central Neighbourhood House, 349 Ontario. takebackthenighttoronto.com.

Tied In A Knot Documentary screening and presentation on bride-seeking regions of India. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. workersassembly.ca/node/222.

Toronto FC Soccer TFC play Sporting Kansas City. 4 pm. $29-$77. BMO Field, 170 Princes’ Blvd. torontofc.ca.

Toronto Salsa Practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30 or 5:30 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. rWINDFEST Kite-making workshops, music and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Woodbine Beach, 1675 Lake Shore E. w ­ indfest.to.

Withrow Park Farmers’ Market Organic and ecologically farmed produce and prepared foods. Saturdays 9 am-1pm. Free. 725 Logan, south of Danforth. withrowpark.ca.

Sunday, September 22

P.I. Of The Navy (oceanic sea turtle conservation) Fundraising comedic whodunit with ­Bobbie Knauff, Allison Dore and others. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100 Ossington. 416-915-6747.

Toronto Wheelchair Relay Challenge

(Spinal Cord Injury Ontario) Wheelchair relay.

9 am. Ontario Place Parking Lot #2, 955 Lake Shore W. ­torontowrc.org.

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rCelebrate The Jewish Harvest Festival

Outdoor community Sukkes celebration with stories, music, sukkah-decorating, games and more. 11 am. Free. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. m ­ wstoronto.org.

Designing A City For Bicycles Talk by Albert

Laneway bike Tour – Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy, Queen West 11 am. Free. SW

c­ orner Trinity-Bellwoods Park and Gore Vale. info@graemeparry.com.

Leslieville Farmers’ Market Meat, fish, dairy, baked goods, fruits and veg by local producers Sundays 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com.

Lessons In Non-Monogamy: What Have We Learned So Far? Workshop with Andrea

Zanin. 5:30-7:30 pm. $25. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934.

New Israel Fund Of Canada Symposium

Symposium on the challenges facing Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with social ac-

garlic as an aphrodisiac, taste-judging, cooking demos, a farmers’ market and more. 9 am-5 pm. $5, kids free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

War, Invasion And Occupation: Fort York, Toronto, And The American Invasions Of 1813 Heritage Toronto walk. 1 pm. Free/pwyc.

Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. ­heritagetoronto.org. rThe Word On The Street Author readings, magazine and literacy exhibits, comic arts, a kids tent, workshops, panels and entertainment with authors including Joseph Boyden, Joy Fielding, Thomas King, L marie Adeline and Anthony De Sa. 11 am-6 pm. Free.

Queen’s Park Circle, Queen’s Park S of Bloor. thewordonthestreet.ca.

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Joseph Boyden/Wayson Choy/Terry Fallis/Lee Maracle/Kyo Maclear/Nino Ricci

(Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East) Reading. 7 pm. $30, adv $25. Friends’ House, 60 Lowther. 416-781-2437, cjpme.org.

A Night For Sick Kids (SickKids) Gala evening of dance. 8 pm. $54. Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre. markhamtheatre.ca.

Paws In The Park (Toronto Humane Soc) Walk to support sick, injured and abandoned animals. 9 am. $50 min pledges. From Woodbine Park (Lake Shore and Coxwell) to Ashbridges Bay Park. pawsinthepark.com.

and musican Jack Garson entertains. 2-4 pm.

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

Solidarity For Climate Fast A screening of the film How To Boil A Frog and letter-writing for climate action supports climate fasters in Ottawa. 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. ­climatefast.ca.

Tuesday, September 24 Cards Against Humanity Weekly Play the party game for horrible people. 8 pm. Free.

Cardinal Rule, 5 Roncesvalles. goo.gl/vGOG13.

Davisville Farmers’ Market Tuesdays 3-7 pm. Free. June Rowlands Park, Davisville and Mt Pleasant. appletreemarkets@gmail.com.

East York Farmers’ Market Tuesdays 9 am2 pm. East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell. tfm.ca.

Karen Kain The prima ballerina discusses her career with dance writer/critic Michael Crabb.

6-8 pm. $45-$50. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

Nature School Conference Keynote Address Talk on the growing movement to

green school grounds. 7 pm. $20, stu $10.

George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. ow. ly/oUsuh.

Occupy Economics Discussion on how globalization killed good jobs. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca.

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AIDS Walk For Life (ACT Toronto) Fundraising walk and community fair in support of AIDS research. Fair and registration 11 am; walk 2 pm. 11 am. Pledges. Church and Maitland. aidswalktoronto.ca.

Music And Laughter Stand-up comedian

Only Option? Lecture by Ed Broadbent. 6:30 pm. Free. Ryerson U Vari Engineering Centre, 245 Church, rm ENG-103. msiemiatycki@­ politics.ryerson.ca.

Storytelling Molly Sutkaitis recounts stories from her life and offers advice to those wanting to share their own stories. 6:30 pm. Free.

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

Toronto Parks And Trees Foundation Riverdale Historical Society lecture by Jayne Fry. 6 pm. $5. St Matthew’s Bowling Club, 450 Broadview. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

Tree Tenders Volunteer Training LEAF course for people who want to gain knowledge and skills to tend our urban forests. To Oct 1. $70. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-413-9244 ext 14, yourleaf.org/tree-tenders-­registration.

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Koehl on how designing a city for bicycles and not just for cars contributes to social justice.

10:30 am. Free. Unitarian Fellowship of North­west Toronto, 55 St Phillips. 416-7619375.

An Enchanted Evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6 pm. Free w/donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234.

Fun In The High Park Nursery Join in seed collecting, transplanting, weeding, digging and more. 10:30 am. Free. In front of Grenadier Cafe, High Park. highparknature.org.

tivist Dan Avnon, professor Sara Horowitz and others. 1-5 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. meetingchallenge.eventbrite.ca.

Sacred Stones & Steeples Guided ROM walk.

2 pm. Free. NE corner Church and King. 416586-8000, rom.on.ca. rSukkahville 2013 Display of architecturally unique sukkahs, music by Klezconnection, kids’ activities and more. Noon-4 pm (display on till Sep 24). Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. s­ ukkahville.com.

Laneway walking Tour – Queen West, Trinity-Bellwoods And Little Portugal 1

gathering, march and action. 3 pm. Free. Allan Gardens Park, Carlton and Jarvis. ocap@tao. ca. rToronto Garlic Festival Talks on growing

pm. Free. Outside Pizza Pizza, Queen and Bathurst. info@graemeparry.com.

Taking It Back: Housing, Shelter, Safe Space Now Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Monday, September 23 Conscious Aging Discussion with Swami

Samayananda. 7 pm. $30, stu/srs $20.

Wonder­Works, 79A Harbord. yasodhara.org.

Disorientation – Gender Revolt Alternative student orientation highlighting issues of social and environmental justice. To Sep 27.

Free. U of T campus. d ­ isorientation2013.com.

The Films Of Robert Altman, David Lynch And Steven Spielberg Panel discussion with

critics Kevin Courrier, Adam Nayman and Shlomo Schwartzenberg. 7 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

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

Without Wood: Why Do We Cut Trees?

Panel discussion on forest management and how forests support Ontario’s economy with Jamie McRae of McRae Lumber, forestry manager Malcolm Cockwell and others. 7 pm. $20, stu $10. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. oforest.ca/withoutwood.

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Benefits

Art Of The Sizzle (Cabbagetown Community

Arts Centre) Tribute roast of Bob Rae with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, John Tory, Steve Paikin and others plus live music. 6 pm. $199. St Lawrence North Market, 92 Front E. 416-9257222, cabbagetownarts.org.

Wal-Town (This Magazine’s Red Maple Fdn) Film screening and panel discussion on whether big-box stores are compatible with sustainable urban environments. 8 pm. $15.

Tanzac, 292 Brunswick. ­facebook.com/ events/573376352722147.

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Art & Activism: The Work Of Ai Weiwei

Panel discussion with contemporary Chinese art specialists including Meng Yeu and Jenny Purtle. 7 pm. $12, stu $8. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Entrepreneurship 101 Lecture for starting a business, 6 pm. Free. MaRS Disvoery Centre Auditorium, 101 College. ­marsdd.com. rFairmount Park Farm Market Live music, kids’ activities and more. Wednesdays 3-7 pm. Free. 1725 Gerrard E. 647-929-2968.

Female Ejaculation And The G-Spot Workshop with Shannon Bell. 7:30-9:30 pm. $30.

Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934.

Freelance Survival Series Canadian Media Guild seminar on succeeding as an independent content producer. 9:30 am-4:30 pm. $150.

Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register cmg.ca.

Hatha Yoga Five-week course introduces older adults to light stretches and exercises. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington.

Pre-register 416-395-5440.

John Street Farmers’ Market Organic, local produce, fair trade coffee, art and more plus live music Wednesdays 3:30-7 pm. Free.

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Montgomery’s Inn Farmers’ Market Organic fruit and vegetables, cheese, bread, ethically-raised meat, honey and more. 2-6 pm.

Free. 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. rMotorized Toy Car Challenge Students learn and develop new designs for electric gear-driven toy cars at an 8-week program. $10. CICS Immigrant Resource Centre, 2330 Midland. Pre-register 416-292-7510 ext 134.

The Night Market Farm-fresh produce, locally produced cheeses, breads and meats, restaurant pop-ups, artisan wares and more.

5-10 pm. 99 Sudbury. ­nightmarketto.com.

Opera Connect/Star Talks: Ben Heppner

Canadian Opera Company presents the tenor talking about his role in the 20th-century opera Peter Grimes with Richard Ouzounian.

7 pm. Free (must RSVP). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca/appelsalon.

Hart House Debates Rm, 7 Hart House Circle.

Pre-register harthouse.ca/events.

Toronto Scrabble Club Scrabble games for all skill levels every Wed. 6:30 pm. $4. Earl Bales Community Centre, 4169 Bathurst. ­torontoscrabbleclub.com.

Why Forests Matter A multidisciplinary discussion on the state of forests and their influence on society. 6:30 pm. $8-$12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 1-800-465-8005, ­natureconservancy.ca/events.

Women And Toronto’s Official Plan Teachin about how the city’s official plan impacts the lives of women. 6:30 pm. Free. Metro Hall, rm 303, 55 John. ­maybemecampaign.ca.

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50 Years Of The Drums (Juvenile Diabetes

Research Fdn) Vito performs jazz, blues and rock with guests. 9 pm. Pwyc. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. veets.50.com.

Rainforest Of Reading (Ecojot GIVE Program) Fundraising concert to provide books to children in developing countries, with performances by Marla Zinger and CU Sunday. 7 pm. $20. 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736, ­ecojotgiveconcert.eventbrite.com.

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes (White Ribbon Campaign) Men (and women) walk in high heels to raise awareness and funds to end ­violence against women. Noon-2 pm. ­Pledges. Yonge-Dundas Square. Pre-register ­walkamiletoronto.org.

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trends in online fundraising and network with your peers. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. Pre-register aia.artez.com.

Caregiver Stress Workshop for people caring for an elderly parent, spouse, relative or friend. 4-6 pm. Free. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. familyservicetoronto.org.

The Coup In Egypt: End Of Islamic Civilization Or Beginning? Talk by author Eric Walberg. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­beitzatoun.org.

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This House Welcomes The Decline Of U.S. Hegemony Student debate. 6:30 pm. Free.

High-heel-shod men support the White Ribbon Campaign September 26.

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A SAFE WORLD FOR WOMEN Rape-​friendly frosh chants are a sure sign that ending violence against women is unfinished business. So time to refocus. Take Back The Night, Saturday (September 21), dedicated this year to First Nations victims of male violence, heads out at 8 pm after a fair, dinner and rally starting at 4 pm. The happening is Explore Mesopotamia: New Light On An Administrative Device From The Dawn Of Writing In The Ancient Near East Lecture by

Christopher Woods. 7 pm. $25, stu $18. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom. on.ca.

Falling In Love With The Earth Talk by prof Stephen Scharper. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

The Human Egg Trade Café Scientifique discussion. 6:30 pm. Free. Measure, 296 Bruns-

free, and everyone’s welcome. Central Neighbourhood House, 349 Ontario. takebackthenighttoronto.com. And on September 26 from noon to 2 pm, the White Ribbon Campaign enlists high-​ heeled men to Walk A Mile In Her Shoes. Pledges welcome. Yonge-​Dundas Square. ­walkamile­toronto.org.

WRITERS FOR MIDEAST PEACE Thinking people everywhere are

wick. noveltechethics.ca/events/105.

Iidex Canada Design and architecture exposition and conference. Today and tomorrow 9 am-6 pm. $25, (free before Sep 12). Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes Blvd, Exhibition Place. Pre-register iidexcanada.com.

The Lessons Of Chile: 40 Years After The Coup Talk by Camilo Cahis, Fightback editor

and son of Chilean exiles. 6 pm. Free. York U Accolade W Bldg, rm 106, 4700 Keele. ­facebook.com/events/436757373110131.

­ esperate to ease the seemingly ind tractable Middle East conflict, none more so than Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, an org committed to finding a lasting non-​ violent solution. Head to Friends House, 60 Lowther, on Sunday (September 22), 7 pm, for Truer Words, in which six of Canada’s most gifted authors – J­ oseph Boyden, Wayson Choy, Terry Fallis, Lee Maracle, Kyo Maclear and Nino Ricci – read from their books to support this essential group of committed activists. $30, adv $25. 416-​781-​2437, cjpme.org.

CHRIS HEDGES SOUNDS OFF

Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. writer Chris Hedges, author of The World As It Is: Dispatches On The Myth Of ­Human Progress and other books, is a progressive with divinity school training and an unvarnished view of corporate power and the war machine. He regularly relays his thoughts on Truthdig.com, but on Friday (September 20), at 7:30 pm, he’ll pour forth at the Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor West. $20. ­canadiandimension. com.

5The New Wave Info night for young men and women curious about BDSM. 10 pm. Free.

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

TEDXToronto Conference includes speaker series on the theme The Choices We Make, mental health advocate Mark Henick, aboriginal business leader Gabrielle Scrimshaw, social worker Deboah S Berlin-Romalis and body language expert Mark Bowden. $150. Royal Conservatory of Music, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. Pre-register tedxtoronto.com. 3

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T.O.’s theatre scene is one of the world’s most admired, and our post-secondary schools offer courses in theatre arts to match it.

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I work as the education and audience enrichment coordinator at Factory Theatre, where I’m also a member of the box office bar and front-of-house staff.

I also work at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, where I’m a member of the patron services staff. I am also an ­actor, writer and producer. I’ve just launched my own company, Two ­Juliets, with a partner.

I got my bachelor’s degree at the University of Guelph, where I majored in drama and minored in social psychology. I then went to Humber College for the theatre performance program for two years but did not graduate.

My experiences at Guelph really prepared me to work as an arts administrator. I write study guides, communicate with teachers and prepare workshop materials for university and high school students. The program is a good combination of practical and theoretical work – writing essays, understanding script analysis and how to look for motifs.

Critical thinking is pushed at Guelph.

All our plays at Factory this season are premieres, and when you’re working as an education coordinator, it’s up to you to figure out how to find different curriculum materials. Our first show this season tackles Alzheimer’s and family relationships. How do you take that subject and make it relevant to a 16-​year-​old in a family studies class?

When I applied to Guelph I didn’t think I would be continuing in theatre. I’d loved theatre in high school but I

thought, “I’ll take a whole bunch of stuff in first year and see what happens.” I ended up taking more and more theatre classes and wound up with social psychology credits, which complement theatre arts very well b ­ ecause theatre is all about understanding people. It helps to know how to work in a group and not get into a fight.

School opened my eyes to how wide the world of theatre is. It’s not just about the actor: you can be an actor-​ writer, actor-​director, prop builder. It’s a lot more complicated than I first thought. Guelph opened my eyes to production, and then at Factory arts admin became this whole other world. I never would’ve thought while taking my first zoology class in Guelph that I’d be working as an arts administrator at Factory Theatre.

The toughest thing is the inconsistent schedule. I can’t have one job because I won’t make enough money to survive. Trying to find a way to make it all work is the hardest thing.

As the education and audience enrichment coordinator, I love the school matinees. For a lot of high school ­students, it’s their first time seeing a stage show in a theatre space. When the lights are down and there’s a light transition and everyone gasps, it’s the most exciting thing.

You can see in their eyes how much it means to them.

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Spencer Charles Smith Playwright/performer, Straight Camp

My theatre company, Straight Camp, is specifically for queer artists making queer work. We did a show called Spoon in this year’s Fringe Festival, directed by Sky Gilbert, and now we’re working on a new show called Collective Creation.

I’m also pretty much the in-​house research assistant for Buddies. Anyone who needs something researched comes to me because I’m obsessed with anything that has to do with queer theatre.

I did my undergrad at Brock University in St. Catharines from 2007 to 2011. I studied theatre but my focus was dramatic literature. Then I went to U of T to do my master’s in theatre, which I used to further research queer theory and theatre.

Spoon started as my thesis at Brock; I took it to U of T for my M.A. and then staged it at this year’s Fringe. So what started as an academic project ended up as a theatrical production.

I’m constantly inspired by queer theorists.

Spoon is heavily influenced by Judith Butler, whom I discovered at Brock. What I read at school has infused my creative process. On another level, Brock was very much about making your own opportunities. The department itself put on one or two musicals but I was also part of a ­musical theatre company that put on shows every year. We had to do everything: fundraising, marketing, sets.

I benefited from putting on those productions from scratch. When you come to Toronto, the only way people see your work is if you produce it. You can’t wait for somebody to stumble upon you and give you resources, especially at the beginning.

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I worked on Spoon for three years and it was the biggest risk I ever took, artistically and personally. I’m one of the co-​owners of Glad Day Bookshop, so we staged it in the third-​floor space.

It was my very first site-​specific play and it was about failure, so I told myself, “It’s okay to fail! It’s all about failure!” By the end of the run we were doing sold-​out shows, so I feel I have something important to say and that people are into it.

Keeping busy is important because you never know who’s watching. And it’s important to go see theatre. The only way to do theatre is to see theatre and meet the people making theatre, so you can put your name in the back of their heads. The theatre community is pretty gracious, and its members ­offer a great deal of their own time, but you have to do the same.

Good playwrights need to be honest.

The kind of playwrights and performers I like are people who are not afraid to look bad or ugly and are focused on telling the truth. I admire risk-​takers, especially queer artists, who are making themselves vulnerable.

They connect to me the most, and my heart melts.

Alexander Wanuch

Lighting technician, Cirque du Soleil My department on the touring show Dralion is responsible for the set-up and teardown of all the electrical and lighting aspects as well as operating spots and lighting equipment during ­performances.

I studied theatre production at Humber College. Before that I com­pleted a degree in film production at York University.

I realized while completing my film degree and working a little bit in the industry that I was much happier doing live performance. The challenges were way more appealing to me.

There’s a much bigger connection to the work because it’s something we create every night. I found film a little bit too much of an abstraction – breaking the job down into tiny pieces.

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Specifically, Humber’s program tends to involve newly devised productions, so we were always engaged in a creation process more than a rehearsal process when we developed a show for the season.

The technical needs were always changing, and that helped me develop a very dynamic work ethic.

At Cirque du Soleil, the essence of the show remains the same, but the shows evolve over time. From night to night there might be changes to the act or technical changes we need to address.

The hardest part of my job is moving a large-scale show

at the pace we go. Transporting gear across conti­nents can be very tough on it, and a lot of equipment needs repair or maintenance before we can set up. It can be a time crunch to get the show up and running.

The best lighting technicians have strong theoretical knowledge. Working with electricity can be very dangerous if you don’t understand how to do it safely. On a touring show, you have to be adaptable and easygoing so you get along with everyone on the tour. It may be hard work, but if you’re passionate about it, it’s enjoyable hard work.

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Alexander Wanuch largely theoretical and didn’t cover a lot of technical skills, but it did show me that I enjoyed lighting and electrics.

I knew I wanted to continue doing that, but with a skill connected to live production.

Live entertainment tends to be very interdisciplinary.

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ALGONQUIN COLLEGE (Ottawa) ­Theatre arts: $1,305/term (plus fees). ­algonquincollege.com BROCK UNIVERSITY (St. Catharines) Applied theatre, drama in education, performance, production and design, theatre praxis: $6,277/ year. brocku.ca CAMBRIAN COLLEGE (Sudbury) Theatre arts – technical production: $3,577/year. ­cambriancollege.ca FANSHAWE COLLEGE (London) Theatre arts: $2,148/year; theatre arts – technical production: $2,243/year; technical costume studies: $2, 268/year. fanshawec.ca GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE (Toronto) Commercial dance studies program: $7,330/three semesters; dance performance preparation program, dance performance studies program: $5,013/year; general arts and science – introduction to performance arts careers: $3,672/ year; theatre arts program: $4,908/year; fashion techniques and design: $3,775/year. ­georgebrown.ca HUMBER COLLEGE (Toronto) Theatre performance: $5,825/year; theatre production: $4,150/ year. humber.ca LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY (Sudbury) Theatre arts: $6,388/year. laurentian.ca McMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton) Theatre and film studies: $5,791/year (plus fees). ­mcmaster.ca

ONTARIO COLLEGE OF ART AND ­DESIGN (­Toronto) Industrial design, ­environmental ­design, material art and design, integrated media: $6,604/year. ocadu.ca QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY (Kingston) Stage and screen: $6,858/year. queensu.ca RYERSON UNIVERSITY (Toronto) Performance dance, performance acting, performance production: $6,972/year; fashion design: $6,908/ year. ryerson.ca SENECA COLLEGE (Toronto) Acting for camera and voice: $5,617/year; fashion arts: $3,539/ year. senecac.on.ca SHERIDAN COLLEGE (Toronto) Bachelor of arts – theatre and drama studies: $5,865 (fees paid to U of T); technical production for theatre and live events: $4,415/year; performing arts preparation: $4,388/year. sheridancollege.ca UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (Guelph) ­Theatre studies: $3,255/semester. uoguelph.ca UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA (Ottawa) Theatre: $3,168/year. uottawa.ca UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Toronto) Drama: $5,865/year. utoronto.ca UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO (Waterloo) Drama, speech communication: $5,900/year. ­uwaterloo.ca UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (London) Drama and English: $7,090/year. uwo.ca YORK UNIVERSITY (Toronto) Theatre, dance: $6,713/year (plus fees). yorku.ca

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Workout extremism

High-intensity interval training rocks for the time-pressed By elizabeth bromstein I recently starting running again af­ ter having a kid. And it is the worst thing ever.

Trying to build up endurance after well over a year off is a huge pain. So far, I’m nowhere near that runner’s

high that makes it all worthwhile.

And the weight isn’t exactly melting off either.

Not that I’m supposed to care about that, people keep insisting.

“You should just bask in the glory of

your post-​baby body....” Oh, shut up.

I’m informed that high-​intensity in­terval training (HIIT) can really help ramp up my fitness. But what exactly is it, and will it really make me lithe again?

What the experts say “HIIT training can be executed in many ways. The goal is to raise the heart rate for a predetermined time, then allow it to lower again for a set amount of time. The classic example of Tabata [the method she uses] is to get on a stationary bike, increase the tension so you’re at your max output for 20 seconds, then decrease it and pedal for 10 seconds at no tension. Then ­increase again for 20 seconds at full throttle, and rest again – and so on for 8 sets. This should be gruelling! Your legs will be depleted. Great results will be achieved when it’s paired with weight training and an eating plan.

Start at 20:20 and then reduce the amount of rest time as capacity in­ creases. The [program] is great for those who don’t have 45 minutes to spend on a treadmill and for building

more lean muscle.”

CASSANDRA HOPE, fitness and nutri­ tion expert, Toronto “People have to be realistic. The way to control fat and weight is through what you put in your mouth, not ­exercising. Changes from exercise are relatively small compared to those from nutrition. To burn even 300 calo­ ries takes a high pace. And 300 calories is just a little more than a doughnut.

That said, interval training can be ef­ fective. Take an individual who puts on 20 pounds from age 20 to 40 – that’s about a teaspoon of sugar a day. It adds up over time. If you can enhance energy expenditure by a small amount daily or a few times a week, it’s signifi­ cant. For the individual who only has 20 minutes three times a week, inter­

astrology freewill

by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “If Taylor Swift is

going to have six breakups a year,” ob­ served comedian Bill Maher, “she needs to write a new song entitled Maybe It’s Me.” He was referring to Swift’s habit of using her romantic misadventures to stimulate her lyric-writing creativity. With that as your prompt, Aries, I’ll ask you to do some soul-searching about your own intimacy issues. How have you contributed to the problems you’ve had in getting the love and care you want? What unconscious behaviour or conditioned responses have undermined your romantic satisfaction, and what could you do to transform them? The next eight weeks will be prime time to revolutionize your approach to relationships.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Philosopher

Alan Watts used to talk about how the whole world is wiggling all the time.

Clouds, trees, sky, water, human beings: everything’s constantly shimmying and jiggling and waggling. One of our prob­ lems, Watts said, is that we’re “always trying to straighten things out.” We feel nagging urges to deny or cover up or elim­ inate the wiggling. “Be orderly,” we com­ mand reality. “Be neat and composed and predictable.” But reality never obeys. It’s forever doing what it does best: flickering and fluctuating and flowing. In accord­ ance with astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to rebel against any nat­ ural tendencies you might have to fight the eternal wiggle. Instead, celebrate it.

Rejoice in it. Align yourself with it.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Author Elaine

Scarry defines “the basic impulse under­ lying education” as follows: the “willing­ ness to continually revise one’s own loca­ tion in order to place oneself in the path of beauty.” Consider making this your ­modus operandi in the coming weeks, Gemini. Always be on the lookout for signs that beauty is near. Do research to find out where beauty might be hiding and where beauty is ripening. Learn all you can about what kinds of conditions attract beauty, and then create those ­conditions. Finally, hang around people who are often surrounded by beauty. This approach will be an excellent way to ­further your education.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Life is either al­ ways a tightrope or a featherbed. Give me the tightrope.” So declared writer Edith Wharton. But she was an Aquarius, and more temperamentally suited to the tightrope. Many of you Cancerians, on the other hand, prefer to emphasize the featherbed mode. I suspect that in the next nine months, however, you will be willing and even eager to spend more time on the tightrope than is customary for you. To get primed for the excitement, I suggest you revel in some intense featherbed action in the coming weeks.

Charge up your internal batteries with an extra-special deluxe regimen of sweet self-care.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Half of a truth is better than no truth at all, right? Wrong! If you latch on to the partially accurate story,

val training is valuable, though it can be uncomfortable or unsafe for a lot of people. When small amounts of interval training are compared to large amounts of traditional cardio, improvements are similar.”

MARTIN GIBALA, chair, department of kinesiology, McMaster University, ­Hamilton “We did studies where we incorpor­ ated the use of HIIT within a balanced exercise program, and we saw some fantastic differences – better decreas­ es in body weight and body fat. We were surprised that it worked so well on abdominal fat. If you work out at a slower pace, you do burn a higher per­ centage of fat than carbohydrates. The problem is, you burn far fewer calories than if you go hard. I would include

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you may stop looking for the rest of the story. And then you’re liable to make a premature decision based on insufficient data. The better alternative is to reject the partially accurate story and be willing to wait around in the dark until the com­ plete revelation comes. That may be ­uncomfortable for a while. But when the full truth finally straggles in, you will be very glad you didn’t jump to unripe ­conclusions.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 A Chinese entre­

preneur named Nin Nan dreamed up a unique way to generate capital: he sold dead mosquitoes online for a dollar apiece, advertising them as useful for ­scientific research and decoration. Within two days, he received 10,000 orders. Let’s make him your patron saint and role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. May he inspire you to come up with novel ways to stimulate your cash flow. The planetary omens suggest that your origin­ ality is more likely than usual to generate concrete rewards.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 “The most import­ ant thing is to find out what the most ­important thing is,” wrote Shunryu Suzuki in his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.

That’s your assignment for the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to find out beyond any doubt what the most import­ ant thing is. Meditate naked an hour a day. Go on long walks in the wildest places you know. Convene intense con­ versations about yourself with the people who know you best. Create and sign a

HIIT with other exercises. To do it right, you have to go pretty darn hard. Most people have trouble pushing themselves that way, and it’s disrup­tive to the muscle tissue. People shouldn’t be doing this every single day. Good nutri­ tion trumps exercise every time.”

MICHAEL ORMSBEE, professor, depart­ ment of nutrition, food and exercise ­sciences, Florida State University, Talla­ hassee “We had a group of college-​age f­ emales train every other day for seven sessions. They completed a four-​ minute interval on a bike, then took a two-​minute break, for a total of 10 intervals. After two weeks, we saw a significant improvement in their ­aerobic capacity. Before and after the training, we had them cycle at a mod­

contract with yourself in which you vow to identify the experience you want more than any other experience on earth. No waffling allowed, Libra. What is the single most important thing?

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 Sometime in the next nine months you may feel moved to embark on an adventure that will trans­ form the way you understand reality.

Maybe you will choose to make a pilgrim­ age to a sacred sanctuary or wander ­further away from your familiar comforts than you ever have before. Right now is an excellent time to brainstorm about the possibilities. If you don’t feel ready to ­actually begin your quest, at least formu­ late a master plan for the magic moment when you will be ripe.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 In the in­

digenous culture of Hawaii, “mana” refers to a spiritual power that may abide in people, objects and natural locations. You can acquire more of it by acting with in­ tegrity and excellence, but you might lose some of it if your actions are careless or unfocused. For instance, a healer who does a mediocre job of curing her patients could lose the mana that made her a heal­ er in the first place. I believe that similar principles hold true for non-Hawaiians. All of us have an ever-shifting relationship with the primal life force. What’s the cur­ rent state of your own personal supply, Sagittarius? It’s time to make sure you’re taking full advantage of the mana you have been blessed with. Your motto: “Use it or lose it.”

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Have you been getting enough? I doubt it. I think you should sneak a peek into the hiding place where your insatiable cravings are stored. If you’re brave enough, also take a look at your impossible demands and your unruly obsessions and your sup­ pressed miracles. Please note: I’m not

erate intensity for about an hour. After two weeks, we saw that they were burning about 36 per cent more fat during that moderate-​intensity ride.

HIIT does not burn more fat. When we work at a higher intensity, our muscles rely mainly on burning carbohydrates.

But interval training burns a lot of calo­ ries in a short time. We found that metabolism is up for a few hours after doing HIIT. We did muscle biopsies and saw a significant improvement in the level of fitness in the muscle. It’s also a good idea to mix up your workouts.”

JASON TALANIAN, exercise and sports science department, Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

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suggesting that you immediately unleash them all; I don’t mean you should impul­ sively instigate an adventure that could possibly quench your ravenous yearnings.

But I do believe you will benefit from be­ coming better acquainted with them. You could develop a more honest relationship, which would ultimately make them more trustworthy.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Don’t tape

your thumbs to your hands and stalk around pretending to be a dinosaur. Don’t poke three holes in a large plastic garbage bag and wear it as a tunic while imagining that you are a feudal serf in a post-apoca­ lyptic, sci-fi dystopia. Don’t use a felt-tip marker to draw corporate logos on your face to show everyone what brands of consumer goods you love. To be clear: I would love you to be extravagantly cre­ ative. I hope you will use your imagination in novel ways as you have fun playing with experimental scenarios. But please exercise a modicum of discernment as you wander way outside the box. Be at least 20 per cent practical.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic,” says the poet Marty McConnell.

That’s good advice, Pisces – not just in regards to your intimate relationships, but about all your other alliances, too. If you’re seeking a friend or consultant or business partner or jogging companion or new pet, show a preference for those creatures who look at you like maybe you are magic. You ­always need to be appreciated for the sweet mystery and catalytic mojo you bring to your part­ nerships, but you especially need that acknowledgment now.

Homework: Unleash an outrageous boast about how you’re going to pull off a certain feat that you’ve ­previously lacked the chutzpah to attempt. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

NOW september 19-25 2013

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Financial district suit spot Garrison Bespoke (26 Wellington East, 416-5662041, garrisonbespoke.com) is launching a custom shirt subscription service for top-addicted shoppers. For $250 per month, a fresh, crisp button-down made to your measurements will arrive at your home or office. You can request specific styles based on upcoming occasions or holes in your wardrobe.

DENIM ON TOP Chambray shirts with unique details and jean tops in special washes are fall’s most hype-worthy blues.

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You have until Sunday (September 22) to score some swanky autumn rainwear from Canadian jacket brand Trout’s online pop-up shop on etail site eLuxe (eluxe.ca/ troutrainwear). Three styles called Biwa, Humboldt and Gila are up for grabs, and all feature lots of inside pockets and reversibility in double-faced cotton. The lineup, designed in T.O. and stitched up in Vancouver, ranges from $535 to $630.

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Also making news in online shopping is flash sale site Gilt’s (Gilt.com) new personalized promo feature. The web store keeps track of your clothing and accessory preferences and generates daily deals tailored to your taste, sizing and brand preferences. The discount ops disappear after 24 hours, when a new round of specials spring ups.

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1. Gap stud-shoulder shirt ($74.95, 60 Bloor West, 416-921-2225, and others, gapcanada.ca).

2. 7 for All Mankind grey chambray shirt ($198, Body Blue, 724 Queen West, 416-703-7601; 199 Danforth, 416-778-7601, bodyblue.ca).

3. Philip Sparks patchwork chambray shirt ($220, 162 Ossington, 647-348-1827, philipsparks.com).

4. H&M embroidered denim shirt ($34.95, 1 Dundas West, 416-593-0064, and others, hm.com).

5. H&M western jean shirt ($34.95).

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Now Hewson and his partner, Ruth Promislow, have launched their own e-shop where you can browse and click your way through late summer staples like French terry blazers, golf pants in floral prints and multicoloured plaids and zebra motif T-shirts. The best news is that none of the

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ecoholic

When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

What’s the deal with beauty seals?

In honour of National Organic Week, we’re probing organic labels where they’re sorely lacking: in the body care aisle. Who’s workin’ the green angle fair and square?

ORGANIC While it’s against the law to call food organic unless it’s certified, that still ain’t the case for body care in Canada. At least in the U.S., USDA allows body care to use its organic seal. Voluntary standards from the Competition Bureau aren’t policed.

Several brands (Nature’s Gate, Jason, Giovanni, Aubrey’s) had to drop the word “organic” from their packaging when Whole Foods in the U.S. barred beauty brands that call themselves organic unless they can prove they’re 95 per cent or more. Case in point: Africa’s Best Kids Organic.

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ECOCERT ORGANIC This Euro label raises eyebrows.

While 95 per cent of the product has to be of natural origin, the total ­formula can be as little as 10 per cent organic content by weight. Sounds low since water and minerals (not organic) can make up the other 90 per cent. Other seals don’t tally water in their count. Confusing.

The Organic Consumers Association sued Ecocert in 2008 for being way more permissive than USDA organic standards, though the label weeds out GMOs, nano particles, animal testing, heavy metals and fake scents, and mandates eco-​ friendly manufacturing. Case in point: Druide, Organic Wear.

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NATRUE Like Ecocert, these guys, also Europe-​based, have a seal for products certified as natural and another for those with ­organic content. Actually they have two organic seals: a Natrue Organic Cosmetic seal means a body care item is 95 per cent or more organic, and a Natrue Natural Cosmetics With An Organic Portion logo indicates that at least 70 per cent of natural/naturally derived plant/ animal ingredients are organic.

Like USDA, they exclude water in their total percentage count.

No GMOs, petrochems, fake scents/dyes, animal testing ­allowed. Case in point: Weleda, Lavera.

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MADE WITH ORGANIC INGREDIENTS This wording is technically only allowed on the front label if a shampoo or toothpaste is made with 70 to 94 per cent organic ingredients. That’s the rule under the USDA system anyway. If you see this wording on an American product that isn’t 70 per cent certified organic, tell the USDA. No such enforcement on Canadian products, sadly. Case in point: Avalon ­Organics.

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retail giant steps in where governments won’t to restrict toxic products

Nivea Pure & Natural lip balm Not sure how Nivea defines “pure and natural,” but ­apparently the words can describe a host of petro­ chemicals and dodgy BHT (an allergenic preservative toxic to aquatic life) despite the package’s claim that the product’s “100% free of ­preservatives.”

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Behold the power of the people.

Last week Walmart sent shock waves across the world of consumer goods when the company announced it would work toward ousting nearly 10 chems of concern from cleaners and personal care products on its shelves. And that’s just the high-​ priority kickoff list.

The move is the latest in a string of mega-​proclamations from manufacturers, and now retailers, trying to convince an increasingly leery public that their products are safe. The last decade has seen a major rise in

product warnings from coalitions like the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and orgs such as Envi­ronmental Defence, the ­Environmental Working Group and the Center for Environ­ mental Health.

Just the kind of “negative environmental and social impact” that Walmart says it developed its sustainable chemistry policy to minimize. “Walmart customers,” according to the policy doc, “expect products that are safe, affordable and sustainable.”

Okay, so the retailer has yet to disclose what’s on its list of restricted substances, but the announcement has already elicited a wave of cheers.

In a statement, Janet Nudelman, co-​founder of the U.S.-​ based Campaign for Safe ­Cosmetics, says, “Walmart’s ­decision to banish cosmetics and cleaners made with toxic chemicals will revolutionize the

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Thing is, the company is providing no firm dates on eliminating these ingredients, saying only that by 2018, brands will have to flag these high-priority chemicals on their packaging.

Of course, it helps that major manufacturers are already working on whittling down their red-​flagged ingredients.

Days before Walmart’s news, Procter & Gamble said it would eliminate antibacterial triclosan as well as the last of the controversial phthalates lacing its scented products by 2014.

Last year, Johnson & Johnson announced it would curb an extensive list of chems of concern from its adult lines by 2015. This after giving in to a boycott by health practitioners pushing J&J to get rid of formaldehyde-​ ­releasing preservatives and ­carcinogenic by-product 1,4-​ ­dioxane in baby products.

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USDA Organic This seal is designed for foods that are 95 per cent or more ­organic, so if you spot it on shampoo or soap, you know it’s nearly edible (though I wouldn’t recommend swallowing, say, saponified coconut oil, no matter how well certified it may be). Yes, organic activists say the corporate lobby is trying to sneak iffy synthetics into the other 5 per cent, but this is still the top seal you’ll spot on body care. Case in point: Dr. Bronner’s, Niko Organic.

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The announcement that they would declare triclosan a toxin and call for a voluntary phase-​ out sometime this fall would certainly have helped spur corporate triclosan-​ditching. But the feds don’t prohibit phthalates in personal care items (just in toys), and deem 1,4-​dioxane safe as a by-​product (it can’t be added intentionally).

While the government failed to mandate ingredient lists on cleaning items, Walmart will ­demand all cleaners sold in it stores post ingredient lists ­online by 2015.

I’m not sure all of this can ever make Walmart sustainable, but if consumers are indeed leveraging cleanup action by PR-​ sensitive companies before the feds even have breakfast, I say shoppers of the world unite.

Urge Walmart and brands to go further. And tell MPs to get ahead of industry and put the precautionary principle first.

Get your copy of Adria Vasil’s latest book, Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good – in bookstores everywhere!

Health Canada’s Pest Man­ agement Regulatory Agency is bringing in new rules for the 2014 planting season to help protect bees. The PMRA did some testing and found that about 70 per cent of dead bees sampled tested positive for residues of neo­ nico­tinoids, a class of insecti­ cides increasingly fingered in global bee deaths. Says the PMRA, “We have con­ cluded that current agricul­ tural practices related to the use of neo­nicotinoid-​treated corn and soybean seed are not sustainable.” While it keeps evalu­ating the com­ mon pes­ticide’s impact on long-​term bee health, the PMRA will require warnings on pesticide packages, use of dust-​reducing­lubes and “safer seed planting prac­ tices.” The move’s been her­ alded as a step in the right direction, but it falls short of the EU’s decision to place a two-​year ban on three popu­ lar neonicotinoids while they study the substances.

FREE OUR SCIENCE

Picture it: a Canadian jour­ nalist calls Envi­ronment Can­ ada or Fisheries and Oceans and gets an interview with a government scientist.

Sounds banal, but it’s no longer permitted under Harper’s communications overhaul, and scientists took to the streets on September 16 to protest. They rallied in T.O. and other Canadian ­cities to “maintain evidence-​ based decision-​making through the support of sci­ ence in the public interest.”

Biologist Katie Gibbs, exec direc­tor of Evidence for De­ mo­cracy (E4D), says, “Good science, when coupled with good decision-making, is what keeps our water and air clean, keeps us healthy, keeps our food safe and is the engine of economic de­ velopment.” E4D’s calling for open communication on pub­licly funded science.

Sounds like a no-brainer to us.

food&drink Thoroughly modern Millie Arrivederci, ramen. And you, too, taco. Your days as downtown’s food fads du jour are over.

Or they are if Carson Leung and Christinn Hua have any say.

They’ve just launched Millie Creperie (161 Baldwin, at Spadina, 416-​977-​1922, milliecreperie.com, @milliecreperie, Rating: NNNN) in Kensington Market, a way-​cute take-away dedicated to the Tokyo street food known as the Harajuku crepe.

“I didn’t like crepes until I had one in Japan,” says Hua. “I always

High-end Greek Trinity’s takes on taverna fare are tasty but can be pricey By Steven Davey TRINITY TAVERNA (1681 Lake Shore East, at Northern Dancer, 416-698-3456, trinitytaverna.com, @TrinityTaverna) Complete dinners for $100 per person (lunches $50), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $40/$25. Open daily for lunch 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, dinner 5 to 11:30 pm.

Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNZ

Next to “automatic gratuity,” are there any two words on a restaurant menu more terrifying than “market price”?

You see them occasionally on the cartes of expense-account boîtes like

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Canoe or Splendido next to dishes called Lobster Extravaganza or Full-Frontal Lobe Of Foie Gras, the phrase the resto equivalent of “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”

There are 14 items on Trinity Taverna’s dinner listed as market price, all of them seafood.

This will certainly come as a surprise to anyone who remembers this sprawling new Greek cantina on the lake from its previous incar-

nation as the Boardwalk Pub. Not that they’d recognize it, replaced by a jaw-droppingly gorgeous 600seat resto-lounge that would look more at home on South Beach than Woodbine Beach.

Sitting under a trellis with the light reflecting off the water this neartropical Sunday afternoon, it’s hard to imagine we’re still in Toronto – until the 90-decibel thud of generic house music kick in.

It beats Zorba and his zither, I suppose.

“I’ve lost half my hearing since I started working here,” laughs our affable server.

Since we’re sticking to dishes with actual prices next to them, we start with a trio of blackened banana peppers ($9) that are spicy only in

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Trinity Taverna specializes in Greek dishes like calamari (clockwise from left), the Ontario lamb gyro, octopus (a sparse portion) and grilled Mediterranean sea bass – all to be eaten on the beautiful patio.

Millie makes smoked salmon crepes crispier than the French.

found French crepes soggy and boring.”

Millie’s crepes are anything but.

Shaped like ice cream cones and crispier than expected, they come both savoury and sweet. Of the former, we narrowly prefer the smoked salmon, cream cheese and pickled red onion combo ($7.95) with an extra shot of spicy mayo over the so-​called Rabbit Food mix of spinach, ripe tomato and shredded cheddar ($4.95).

Devotees of Dairy Queen will appreciate Millie’s Japanese Special Crepe, with house-​made green tea gelato, sliced strawberries and whipped cream, and her playful spin on a ­banana split (both $6.75).

You can also cut the crepe and order them as parfaits layered with crunchy cornflakes and finished with chocolate Pocky ­antennae ($5.95).

All terrific stuff, but who’s Millie?

“We named the café after the classic mille feuille crepe,” says Hua. “But so many people keep asking me if I’m Millie, I’m thinking SD of changing my name!”

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name, finished with a crumble of salty feta and a splash of superior olive oil. Two smallish tentacles of grilled octopus ($15 lunch/$19 dinner) follow in a sticky-sweet balsamic reduction that recalls cough syrup.

Some bread would be good.

Ex-MBCo chef Pierre Restivo sends out a tasty take on the lowly gyro ($16/$18), here a tangle of both slow-

Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene Pan Am snacking

Watch for a new outfit called Brooklyn Tavern (brooklyntavern.ca) to launch in the space come November.

Since every new restaurant in town seems to be called Something-orother Kitchen – Harvest Kitchen, Hudson Kitchen, Dundas Park Kitchen, not to mention Frank’s Kitchen, Miss Country Kitchen and Mildred’s Temple Kit­chen – we’re surprised they didn’t go with Brooklyn Kitchen.

David Laurence

The culinary diversity of the North and South American continents is cele­brated this weekend at the first-ever Pan American Food Festival at Harbourfront Centre. The three-day event starts Friday (September 20) and features cooking demos by Frida’s José Hadad, Bloom’s Pedro Quintanilla, La Cocina de Dona Luz’s Luis Barreto and a host of others. Admission is free.

For more info: panamfoodfest.com.

same fish has a market price of $32 per pound for up to 3 pounds, minus the sides. And we really want to try the loukoumades – those addictively delish Greco Timbits drizzled in honey ($12) – but are informed they’re not available because either “they’re a fall dessert” or “we took them off the menu because no one ever ordered them.”

Just as well as they’re $3.50 for a baker’s dozen at the new Athens Pastries next door.

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including tax, tip and a pint of local microbrew. Average main $13. Open for lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 5 pm, dinner Thursday to Saturday 5 to 11 pm. Weekend brunch 10 am to 5 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNN

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245 Queens Quay W, at Lower Simcoe, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse. com, @AmsterdamBH With it’s 350-seat patio right on the lake at Harbourfront, this cavernous warehouse should be a tourist trap. Instead, it’s a gastro-pub worthy of those of us who actually live here. An unexpectedly competent kitchen, quick service and great optics will make us return, but only when they can the annoying AM top-40 muzak they insist on inflicting on customers. Best: thin-crust ­pizzas dressed with house-madeto beerwurst sausage, Subscribe NOW’s roasted garlic and wild mushrooms drizzled with a syrupy stout reduction; hefty houseground brisket burgers with bacon, cheddar and beer-battered onion rings sided with sweet potato frites; to finish, root beer floats with vanilla bean ice cream and Newsletter deep-fried Oreo cookies. Complete dinners for $45 per person (lunches $35), including Restaurantbeer. openings, tax, tip and a house-brewed Average reviews & foodie news11 from main $18.

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10 Temperance, at Yonge, 647-348-7000, thechasetoronto.com, @thechaseTO Melissa daSilva and Much more accessible than the snootier Joel MacMillan helm ’n’ suit-ier Chase upstairs, this beautifully veggie-friendly renovated ground-level space and curbMe and Mine. side terrace in the heart of the downtown core focuses on sustainable seafood, something its all-day menu foolishly forMe and Mine gets to mention. Stick to the right side of it 1144 College, at Dufferin, 416-535and you might get out of here without 5858, meandmine.ca Zocalo’s Joel MacMilrobbing a nearby bank. Best: breaded Lake lan and Melissa daSilva resurface at this Erie pickerel over caper-rich tartar sauce, low-key West College café. Easy on the walradicchio slaw and dehydrated veggie let, their versatile veggie-friendly carte chips; hefty Cumbrae beef burgers moves effortlessly from brunch to lunch to dressed with PEI cheddar, pickled jalapeño dinner, all spectacularly plated. Best: to and parsley aioli, perfectly executed frites start, complimentary grilled watermelon on the side; southern-fried chicken with wedges dusted with sea salt and squirted openings, reviews & foodie house-baked cheddar buns, hot-sauce with lime; “cowboy” pork ’n’ beef sausagesRestaurant butter from and savoy cabbage finished with baked cauli-cheese, pickled cherries news T.O’s foodslaw & drink scene. with provolone; for dessert, lime curd anand green bean and wilted watercress salgel food cake with toasted marshmallow ad; minced pork ’n’ quail egg pie with meringue. Complete meals for $55 per permashed root veggies and minty garden son, includng tax, tip and a glass of wine. peas; at brunch, house-cured pork belly Average main $25. Open Monday to Friday with grilled scallion salad, St John Bakery 11:30 am to 1 am, Saturday 5 pm to midtoast spread with sticky tomato jam, and night Sunday 5 to 10 pm. Closed holidays. roasted salt ’n’ malt vinegar home fries; Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: savoury apple, cheddar and rosemary galbarrier-free. Rating: NNNz ette. Complete meals for $30 per person, 3

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The third annual Toronto Garlic Fes­tival returns to the Brick Works on Sunday (September 22). The allday tribute to the stinky rose includes a ­ ppearances by chefs like La Palette’s Brook Kavanagh and Gilead Café’s Jamie Kennedy, screenings of Les Blank’s Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers and garlic galore. Admission is $5, and shuttle buses run to the site every 10 minutes from just north of Broadview subway station. For more info: torontogarlicfestival.ca. SD

After several delays, Drake One Fifty (drakeonefifty.ca) at York and Adelaide will finally open its doors to the public on October 2.

The downtown annex of the westside boutique hotel promises a similar menu to the origi­nal, a 94-seat

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Fare well roasted and crispy lamb dressed with caramelized “French” shallots, salsastyle tomato relish and tzatziki and wrapped in a grilled whole-wheat pita of no particular provenance. And his braised ’n’ stewed veal-cheek moussaka – described on the menu as a “Sunday lunch dish” ($18/$32 for two at dinner) and this being Sunday lunch – layered with eggplant caviar, creamy scalloped potatoes and a classic béchamel bests any currently available on the Danforth.

At lunch, a bland tranche of Mediterranean sea bass comes sided with very good chunky frites and a heap of wilted Swiss chard. At dinner, the

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WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW

WHAT WE’ RE DRINKING TONIGHT

Highland Park 10 Year Old

Evenings are sneaking up on us, and even sunny days have an autumnal edge.

The signs are easy to read – it’s Scotch season. Highland Park whiskies are lauded for their quality, and the latest release carries the standard. A nose of honeyed porridge and floral citrus is backed by whiffs of dried fruit and smoke. Honey and smoke follow on the palate with a warm, lingering nuttiness thanks to the time this whisky spends aging in sherry casks. Sweeter and more approachable than some peated Scottish single malts, it responds nicely to a spot of water.

Price: 750 ml/$59.95 Availability: LCBO 334029

Märzen Attacks!

Belljar Café’s Vincent Pollard

Belljar Café

2072 Dundas West, 416-535- 0777, belljarcafe.com When Geoff McPeek decided to open a coffee shop on a barren strip of Dundas West four years ago, he envisioned a gathering point for his friends to fuel their creative inclinations.

Considering his extensive background in the arts – McPeek has worked in music, film, editing and publishing – it wasn’t a stretch to name his spot for Sylvia Plath’s novel (also the name of a band he played in for years).

Historically, coffee houses were the glue that inspired intelligentsia and brought activists together, but taverns and bars were where ideas flowed freely as social inhibitions dissolved and spirits ran high.

If you’ve got the means, McPeek figured, you might as well offer the best of both worlds.

Over the past few months, he and his wife, Lisa Kannakko, have extended the Belljar’s bar, built an adorable back patio, hired a booze wizard and opened their doors to the night.

The understatedly eclectic space transitions fluidly from daytime hangout to sundown haunt. Beautifully illuminated with vintage fixtures and candlelight, the Belljar can frame a stimulating discussion or a pensive drink to a killer soundtrack. (Night or day, the playlist kicks ass.)

Cocktails by drinksmith Vincent Pollard are delicious – his Run Come Save Me ($10), a bewitching mixture of Fernet Branca, reduced Mexican Coca Cola and fresh lemon, may be one of the best things I’ve tasted all year.

Modestly priced wine, beer and snacks are available, but the cocktails are the quickest path to liquid epiphany.

Hours: The bar operates daily 5 pm to close.

Patio: A partially covered wooden oasis complete with heating lamps and blankets, so you don’t have to be patio-shy as the weather cools.

Washrooms: On the main floor, at the back.

Signature drink Run Come Save Me ($10) After travelling to Argentina, where the unofficial national drink is fernet and Coke, Vincent Pollard began fooling around with variations. He reduces Mexican Coca Cola, made with real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, which softens the herbal blow of the pungent Italian bitter and lends a creamy texture. Both Fernet lovers and skeptics will adore this cocktail.

1½ oz Fernet Branca 2 oz Mexican Coca Cola reduction (Mexican Coca Cola is available at most Latin stores; reduce by half) ½ oz fresh lemon juice* ¼ oz simple syrup Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled rocks glass. Garnish with a thick lemon twist. *Pollard recommends subbing ¾ oz Meyer lemon juice for the last two ingredients if you can find it… and afford it.

Märzens, the signature brews of Oktoberfest, were traditionally brewed in March and lagered in underground cellars before the steamy summer months could complicate the brewing process. Oktoberfest is about emptying the cellar to make way for new brew, so get in the spirit and slosh some amber liquid around in an oversized stein.

Mill Street Oktoberfest Beer Rating: NNN Why: This malt-forward, lightly hopped Märzen with hints of molasses and caramel makes up half of Mill Street’s Autumn Harvest Sampler.

Not particularly assertive, but goes down easily – and that’s really all we’re looking for in a ’fest beer, isn’t it?

Price: 6 x 355 ml/$13.45 Availability: LCBO 313916

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Beau’s Nightmärzen Oktoberfest Lager

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Märzen

Rating: NNN Why: Crisp, approachable autumn drinking in the most festive of packages. Lingering hops tack an inviting finish onto a fairly mild body smattered with fruit and caramel. Prost!

Price: 600 ml/$4.35 Availability: LCBO 250753

Rating: NNNN Why: This rarer style of Märzen is brewed at the historic Schlenkerla monastic tavern in Bamberg, Germany.

Barley malt is smoked over beechwood fires, resulting in a baconforward beer with lurking molasses. Gorgeous with rich cured meats and smoked cheeses.

Price: 500 ml/$3.25 Availability: LCBO 409110

TASTING NOTES EVENTS, BAR OPENINGS & CLOSINGS, NEW RELEASES AND MORE Oktoberfest gift packs Prep for Oktoberfest with gift packs from popular Ontario breweries Beau’s and Steam Whistle. Beau’s has released a four-bottle preview of seasonal beers –Smokin’ Banana Peels, Two Weeks Notice, Mr. Hyde and Oktobock (4 x 600 ml/$24, LCBO 360081). While Steam Whistle is not releasing an Oktoberfest brew – they’re all about sticking to their signature style – you can enjoy your Torontonian pilsner in a celebratory stein this autumn (2 x 500 ml/$14.95, LCBO 292862).

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With three days left in Toronto Beer Week, there’s still plenty of time to explore Toronto through your beer glass. Hit up the third annual TBW Beer Crawl hosted by Spearhead Brewing, which kicks off at the Victory Café (581 Markham, 416-516-5787) Saturday (September 21) at 5:30 pm, and soothe your head the next morning with a Beer Brunch from 11 am to 2:30 pm at Amsterdam BrewHouse (245 Queens Quay, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse.com).

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LOUISE BURNS at the ñ Drake Underground, Tuesday, September 10. Rating: NNNN

To best enjoy Tuesday night’s bill of synth-heavy Vancouver bands, you had to surrender to both acts’ relatively withdrawn, slow-burning vibe.

Louise Burns’s reverb-drenched Nicksian vocals rang out loud and clear over her melancholy, noir-pop Midnight Mass songs, which stuck close to the album versions. Her decision to play in near darkness, however, had a distancing effect.

Headliners Lightning Dust, expanded from a duo to a four-piece, righted this immediately with an illuminated stage and light-coloured clothes. They grooved, interacted and handled a loud heckler/friend with grace while delivering the greatest hits from their three albums.

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The songs retained a stripped-down quality due to electronic drums and a ratio of three synths to one barely used acoustic guitar. They swung between downtempo electro and danceable synth rock that let the eager crowd cut loose.

Like Burns’s, Amber Webber’s vocals are everything. The singer, also a member of Black Mountain, as is keyboardist Joshua Wells, reined in her dramatic vibrato, offering it up at choice moments, like on the achingly beautiful ballad Agatha, which featured a guest CARLA GILLIS cellist.

KING KRULE at Wrongbar, Wednesday, September 11.

Rating: NNN It felt like something special was happening at Wrongbar. A last-minute venue change from the Drake (the event sold 400 tickets in no time) gave King Krule’s first Toronto show even

more buzz than the ginger-haired, 19-year-old British singer is used to. A couple of people even tried to get in with counterfeit tickets.

Ambling onstage with little fanfare at around 10:20 pm toting a bright white electric guitar, Krule, aka Archy Marshall, fixed his penetrating stare and let loose the moaning howl that, so far, has garnered more attention than his songwriting.

Backed by a three-piece band, Marshall worked his new album, 6 Feet Beneath The Moon, as well as songs from his first EP. The soul/blues/jazz/rock tunes translated well, sounding less PBR&B and more like jazzy jam sessions. The record’s lead single, Easy Easy, inspired an emphatic clap-along.

Maybe it didn’t live up to the hype, but Marshall has the raw tools – distinctive voice, intense gaze, uncategorizable sound – to become a very com-

pelling performer once he has a few JULIA LECONTE tours under his belt.

TEENANGER at the Silver

Dollar, Saturday, Septemñ ber 14.

Rating: NNNN Teenanger’s Twitter bio reads: “Toronto band aspiring to one day become a gang of aging criminals who need one last score to retire on a tropical island.”

Well, their latest album, Singles Don’t $ell, is more The Godfather than Ocean’s Eleven: snarling, brutish punk rock whose impact is like that of a stallion’s severed head in someone’s bed.

Aligned with their anti-consumerism outlook, Saturday night’s record release show at the Silver Dollar was free, and the venue quickly filled up with friends, family and other bands.

They’ve cut their teeth playing shows for years with some of the city’s best acts, and it shows: lead singer

Chris Swimmings leered and lithely danced while guitarist Jon Schouten, bassist Melissa Ball and drummer Steve Sidoli remained locked into their instruments. They rounded out the new, more tightly coiled material with songs from their 2012 album, Frights, and Swimmings’s rallying cries of “I’ve got teen anger” inspired a mosh pit that divided the room in half.

Local acts Cellphone and Milk Lines completed the bill, guaranteeing that the crowd got more good music than MAX MERTENS they (hadn’t) paid for.

SAM CASH & THE ROMANTIC DOGS at the Cameron House, Saturday, September 14.

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At times Cash and the Dogs seemed cramped on the smallish stage, yet judging by their energy, they likely could’ve set up shop in the bathroom and still thrown down with gusto. Cash wore his heart on his sleeve, sporting a hearty smile all night. Their new record is described in the liner notes as “largely a love letter to Toronto – and to a few girls.” Those girls were well represented up front, singing along en masse to nearly all the new mater­ial.

The band’s CBC-approved rock ­married a healthy balance of grit and emotion, and eventually a few old(er)timers joined Cash’s young fans near the stage, especially when the set leaned on his obvious classic rock Joshua kloke ­influences.

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Manifesto w/ Souls of ­Mischief, Jhené Aiko, Notes to Self, Elaquent, Poirier and others Various venues, tonight, Thursday, to Sunday (September 19 to 22) Festival of community and culture.

Peter Hook & the Light, El Ten Eleven The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), tonight (Thursday, September 19) Ex-Joy Division/New Order bassist.

Serena Ryder Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday ­(September 20) See preview, page 50.

Mo Kenney, Rachel Sermanni Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), ­Friday (September 20) Joel Plaskett-approved singer/songwriter.

Nick Fraser Quartet w/ Tony Malaby Tranzac Southern Cross (292 Brunswick), Friday (September 20) Textural experimental jazz.

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The Archives, Mad Ones, Billie Dre & the Poor Boys, the Dying Arts Horseshoe $10. September 27.

Union Duke, the Howling Video

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September 27.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Choir!Choir!Choir! Homegrown

Park Crawl: benefit for David Suzuki Foundation’s Homegrown National Park Project From Christie Pits to Bickford Park to Fred Hamilton Park to Trinity Bellwoods Park. Christie Pits 11 am to 4 pm. davidsuzuki.org/parkcrawl. ­September 29.

Guitar Wolf, Coathanger, Coward Hard Luck Bar doors 7:30 pm,

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Our Founders, Heartbeat ­Hotel, Bad Channels, DJ Keith Chenier Wavelength: CD release The Piston doors 9 pm, $8. RT, SS, TF. ­wavelengthtoronto.com. October 3.

Bloodshot Bill, Brave Little Toaster, Sea Monsters, Suitcase Sam & the Suits Horseshoe 9

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Mano Le Tough, My Favorite Robot, Gera Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (September 21) See My Favorite Robot preview, page 46.

Zaki Ibrahim, Metric, Purity Ring, A Tribe Called Red, Metz, Whitehorse, Young Galaxy Carlu (444 Yonge), Monday (September 23) Polaris Prize gala.

Michael Feuerstack, Paper Beat Scissors The Piston (937 Bloor West), Sunday (September 24) Sophisticated low-key folk.

Pet Shop Boys Sony Centre (1 Front East), Wednesday (September 25) English synth-pop pioneers.

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The Junction Music Festival w/ Zeus, Cuff the Duke, Zaki Ibrahim, Union Duke, John T. Davis and others Various stages on Dundas West between Indian Road and Quebec, Saturday (September 21) See Zaki Ibrahim preview, page 52.

Maestro Fresh Wes, Classified, k-os, Kardinal Offishall Massey Hall (178 ­Victoria), Saturday ­(September 21) See Maestro preview, page 48.

Vista Chino, Black Pussy Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (September 21) Kyuss renamed and sans Josh Homme.

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The Sounds Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $21. LN, RT, SS. October 17.

Suuns, We Are Wolves Adelaide Music Hall doors 8 pm, $15. NT, RT, SS. October 19.

The Belle Game, Bear Mountain Drake Hotel doors 7 pm, $12.50. LN, RT, SS. October 25.

Seraphic Lights Record release show Silver Dollar doors 9 pm. October 25.

Heathers Rivoli doors 6 pm, $12.50. LN.

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My Bloody Valentine Kool Haus

doors 7 pm, all ages, $45. LN, RT, SS. November 5.

Church of Misery, the Gates of Slumber, Against the Grain Hard Luck Bar 8 pm, $18. TF. November 8.

Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar

Air Canada ­Centre 7:30 pm, $51.75-$162.25.

TM. ­November 12 and 13.

DUB FX, Vilify, Hydee Projek: DUB FX Opera House $20-$25. TW. November 15.

Mazzy Star The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $32.50-$47.50. LN, RT, SS. November 16.

High on Fire, Kvelertak, Doomriders Opera House 7 pm, $20.

TF. November 18.

Slayer, Gojira, 4Arm Ricoh Coli-

seum doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50-$69.50. RT, SS, TM. November 21.

Great Big Sea General Motors Centre doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$84.50. LN. November 28.

Hayden, Doug Paisley, Reuben & the Dark The Danforth Music Hall

doors 7 pm, all ages, $32.50-$39.50. LN, RT, SS. November 30.

Half Moon Run, Thus:Owls

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $18.

LN, RT, SS. November 30.

Halestorm, Red Light King, Stars in Stereo Opera House 7 pm, all ages, $21.50. TF. December 3.

Planet Smashers, Mustard Plug, Fundamentals Lee’s Pal-

ace doors 9 pm, $15.50. RT, SS, TF. December 7.

Monster Truck Touriosity Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $36.25.

LN, TM. December 20.

Connie Kaldor Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30, adv $27.50. January 4, 2014.

JAY Z Magna Carter World Tour Air Canada Centre $tba. LN, TM. January 27, 2014.

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The Sadies

The Sadies just dropped a new ­album, Internal Sounds (Outside), on Tuesday, September 17 (see our review on page 58), but that’s not the focus of their weekend show at the Garrison with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet.

Instead, the twang-loving local rock bands join forces to perform Alice Cooper’s 1971 album Love It To Death. Kinda random but lotsa awesome. The bands initially learned the songs for a joint Hillside Festival workshop in July, in tribute to departed Shadowy Man Reid Diamond, whom the Sadies’ Dallas Good has replaced on bass.

If you can’t make it (or if tickets sell out before you get there), you can still catch Shadowy Men at the Dakota for two more Thursdays in September. And the Sadies will presumably announce a proper album launch party very soon.

Saturday (September 21) at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), 9 pm. $10.

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Free Times Cafe Joy Phillips 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s Thrill Harmonic 10 pm.

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Dancing On The Pier The Ricardo Barboza Band (salsa/meringue/bachata) 7 to 10 pm.

Horseshoe Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room History: The First 25 Years CD/ DVD release James Keelaghan, David Woodhead (acoustic) 8:30 pm.

The Local Michael Peters (folk/rock) 9 pm.

Lola Brian Cober (slide) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Havana D’Primera (Cuban Latin dance band) doors 7 pm.

Mélange Open Mic Jam Karen Lee Wilde.

Tranzac Southern Cross Gunner & Smith, Emily Jill West 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Cafune Ted Quinlan, Henrique Matulis ­(Brazilian jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Earl Bales Community Centre The Toronto

Accolades (a cappella) 7 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

Ernest Balmer Studio Tapestry Briefs: ­Composer-Librettist Laboratory Carla Huhtanen, Krisztina Szabo, Keith Klassen, Peter McGillivray (16 new operas written in 10 days) 7:30 pm.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Ilana Waldston (jazz/comedic tunes) 7:30 pm.

Gate 403 Annie Bonsignore and Dunstan Morey Duo 9 pm, G Street Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Hopera: An Evening Of Craft Beer And Song (operatic arias, trios and duos) 7 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Album release David Darling, Debbie Danbrook, Chris Gartner 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz ­Quartet, Mike Malone 5 to 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Thursday Night Jazz Party Luis Mario Ochoa, Hilario Duran, Roberto Riveron, Rosendo Chendy Leon 7:30 pm.

Placebo Space Drumhand (percussion/world

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Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

Reservoir Lounge Beverly Taft & Her Swell Fellas 7 to 9 pm.

Rex CD release Griffith/Hiltz Trio 9:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Elgar Cello Concerto ­Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Annex Wreckroom Get Up! DJ Serious, Supernaturalz Crew (hip-hop) 10 pm.

BassLine Music Bar Reggae Dub Flava

­(reggae/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 Measure Manifesto Festival Launch Party: Common Thread Poirier, DJ NaNa, DJ L’oqenz 9 pm.

WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht) 10 pm.

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Alleycatz Dust in Jones & the Rising Tide.

Annex Wreckroom Shining, Fragile Existence 8 pm.

The Antler Room Riff Raff (alt rock) 9:30 pm.

Clinton’s Vegas, Maybe Refuge, Streetlight

Marathon, Goldcard.

Dakota Tavern Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet 7 & 9:30 pm. ñ Drake Hotel Lounge Boot Knives (rock)

doors 11 pm.

El Mocambo Album release party ­Andria Simone (soul/R&B) 8 pm. ñ Firkin on King Paul Price & Co 9:30 pm.

The Hideout The Last True Gentlemen, Bastard Sunshine, the Lad Classic (rock) 9:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Prince Nifty & Weaves (pop/ rock/psych) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Album release The Flatliners, ­Junior Battles, the Motorleague, Cunter doors 8:30 pm.

The Hoxton Peter Hook & the Light, El Ten Eleven doors 9 pm.

Karla’s Roadhouse Jam Tommy Rocker Band 8 pm.

Lee’s Palace Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Pickwick (soul/R&R/blues) doors 8:30 pm.

Massey Hall Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Burton Cummings & Band 8 pm.

Parts & Labour Lantern, Soupcans, Spray Paint (punk/grunge) 9 pm.

The Piston Good Conduct, Church.

Rockpile Morning Fame (rock/pop).

Silver Dollar Motor Goat, the Almighty Rhombus, Blimp Rock doors 8:30 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Korrupt, IRN, Hoopsnake, ­Teleportoise, Goatface Killa, DJ Metal Health 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

3030 Dundas West Melissa Murphy, the Vare (9 pm).

Unicorn Pub Robin Hawkins & the Royals (indie alternative blues rock) 9:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/ World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam/Mic El Faron 8 pm.

Cameron House Mike Lynch 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 to 8 pm.

Cameron House Back Room

Morningstar.

Cloak & Dagger Pub Whisky River (folk/bluegrass) 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen The Wee Folk Club 7 pm.

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Friday, September 20 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ADELAIDE MUSIC HALL Manifesto Festival and Foundry Present: The Beat Producer ñ Showcase Sango, Oddisee, Elaquent, Sunclef,

Lancecape, DJ mymanhenri doors 9 pm.

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

THE ANTLER ROOM Mondo Bizarro (pop/rock) 9:30 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB KJ Jansen, Jenn Fiorentino, Brutal Youth.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Album release Tim Bovaconti (pop) 8:30 to 11 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM The Golden Dogs.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL KT Tunstall, Brian Lopez doors 7 pm, all ages.

DOMINION ON QUEEN East End Rockabilly Weekend The Royal Crowns, Israel Proulx, Marty Allen & the Cadillac Cowboys, DJ Rockin’ Dave Faris doors 8 pm.

FIRKIN ON KING Halfway To St Patrick’s Day Bash Good Little Robot.

FLAMINGO’S Enzo Simone (oldies/60s/surf) 9:45 pm.

THE GARRISON Record release party Still Life Still 9 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Swingin’ Blackjacks (rockabilly blues) 10 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR The Creepshow, Hellbound Hepcats, Skullians & Adams Mind doors 9 pm.

THE HIDEOUT The Cunninghams (rock) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE The Retrievers, Jamsquid, the Breaking Lakes, Ready the Prince doors 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Disco Knights, Crush, Mr Krator.

LOLA Blood Orange 8 pm.

MASSEY HALL Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Serena Ryder 8 pm. See preview, page 50.

RANCHO RELAXO TWM Finnegan’s Wake, Bonwit Teller, Graeme Lang, Steady Hills 9 pm.

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RANDOLPH THEATRE Francophonie En Fete Damien Robitaille, Lily Frost.

RELISH BAR & GRILL David Macmichael (power pop) 9 pm.

REVIVAL Hip-hop Karaoke: 4th Annual Competition Black Moon, Tara Chase, Ennis Esmer, Paul E Lopes, Abdominal, More or Les, DJs Numeric, Dalia and Ted Dancin’ doors 9:30 pm.

RIVOLI Aria Tesolin (pop) doors 7 pm.

RIVOLI Summit Series, Long Lots, Rockford doors 10:30 pm.

ROCKPILE Who Made Who, Sandman.

SEVEN44 Chicken & Waffles Band, Phat Kat (R&B/soul/funk) doors 10 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Fever City, Billie Dre & the Poor Boys, the Dead Projectionists, the Lunes doors 9 pm.

THE SISTER The Whirly Birds, the Aura’s.

SNEAKY DEE’S The Ballroom Babies, Aukland, Ted-D, Hisland 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Freedom Train (rock/ top 40) 10 pm.

STUDIO EVENT THEATRE GirlPower Wannabe, DJ Aristotle (Spice Girls tribute band) doors 10 pm.

TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR CD release Mushy Callahan 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS JM Farr (indie) 7:30 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Keith Jolie (folk) 8 pm.

BALTIC AVENUE Bloor Ossington Folk Festival

Sailboats Are White, Prosimii, Township, Dutch Toko 9 pm to 1 am.

BEIT ZATOUN Akasha Five (Persian-Canadian fusion) 8 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

C’EST WHAT Boxcar Boys, Kristine Schmitt and her Special Powers doors 7 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Tempting Murphy 45:60 A Musical Celebration 8 pm.

GATE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Pan American Food Festival Luis Mario Ochoa & Cuba Tradicional Sextet 10 pm, Café Con Pan (son jarocho) 9:30 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Mo Kenney, Rachel Sermanni 8:30 pm.

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LINSMORE TAVERN The Twangsters (country)

9:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Havana D’Primera (Cuban Latin

dance band) doors 7 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Herbert Grönemeyer (singer/ songwriter) doors 8 pm.

SAVING GIGI Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Taylor Knox, Jessy Bell-Smith, Stephanie Cameron, Greg Smith, Omhouse, Ginger St Germain 5 to 11 pm.

STUDIO 835 Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Menalon, Kira May 8 to 11 pm.

3030 DUNDAS WEST Gram Parsons International Tribute Concert Dani Nash, Jerry Leger, the Key Frames, Ray Harris & the BSOBs, Jacques & the Valdanes, GT Harris & the Gunslingers, Lucky Mike & the City Slickers 8 pm.

YELLOW CUP CAFE Azalea (alt country) 8 pm all ages.

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MY FAVORITE ROBOT Toronto DJs focus on songs for their first album as a trio By BENJAMIN BOLES

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Rubix (jazz) doors 7 pm.

ERNEST BALMER STUDIO Tapestry Briefs:

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Composer-Librettist Laboratory Carla Huhtanen, Krisztina Szabo, Keith Klassen, Peter McGillivray (16 new operas written in 10 days) 7:30 pm.

THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET From Thornhill To Broadway Brittany Kay & Jenny Weisz (Broadway tunes) 7 pm.

GALLERY 345 CD release Greg Byers, Victoria Yeh, Violet Fusion (solo jazz cellist/bassist/ vocalist) 8 pm.

GATE 403 Sam Broverman Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

HABITS GASTROPUB Robert Scott Trio 8 pm.

HARLEM The John Collin Band (jazz) 7:30 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO Mandy Lagan (jazz/pop) 9 pm.

MAY CAFE Brownman Electryc Trio 8 pm.

OLD MILL INN Fridays To Sing About! Michael Dunston Trio 7:30 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX Frank Lozano 9:45 pm, Chris Gale Quartet (jazz) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Nick Fraser Quartet w/ Tony Malaby 10 pm.

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BASSLINE MUSIC BAR Profound Aaron Bradley, Carlos Fuerte (funky house).

BETTER LIVING CENTRE Avicii all ages.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You

Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm.

CLUB 120 Y’All Ready For This? DJs Nik Red & San Fran 10 pm.5 CREATURES CREATING Wavelength: Musique Electronique Zoo Owl, Ylangylang, Telephone Maison, Hazy (Trafalgar) Mystique, Bile Sister doors 9 pm.

DANCE CAVE Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Racks & Bands DJs Vanity Muscles, Johnny Hockin doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR For The Music Lover DJs Pie & Mash (reggae) 10 pm.

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ELECTRONIC

MY FAVORITE ROBOT with MANO LE TOUGH, GERA at Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (September 21), 10 pm. footworkbar.com.

Toronto electronic trio My Favorite Robot’s new album, Atomic Age (No. 19), is technically their second, but in some ways it’s their debut, seeing as it’s the first to feature James Teej alongside founders Jared Simms and Voytek Korab.

“We were still in the infancy of figuring out what we wanted to do in our production style on our original debut in 2009, not to mention Teej not being in the mix at that point,” explains Simms over pints of beer.

“When I look back, I’m proud of it, but this one feels much more like a cohesive album than a collection of tracks, and more representative of what we’re about.”

Fans of the trio’s DJ sets and club singles may be surprised at how poporiented Atomic Age is, especially since it’s being released by their friends at No. 19, the Toronto house label co-owned by Art Department’s Jonny White.

Many of the songs have more in common with Radiohead than with club music, although the low-end thump and frequency-tweaking serve as reminders that this is still a trio of DJs who also run their own electronic label under the same name.

“We wanted to make it more song-based, and not necessarily as tracky.

When you’re doing singles and EPs, those are more DJ-centric, but we all grew up with albums being important to us, and we wanted this to be more representative of all the music we’re into.”

Considering how song-focused Atomic Age is, it follows that they’d promote it with live gigs. For now, it doesn’t make sense to construct a band, as the music wasn’t written or recorded in a conventional format. But that could change in the near future.

“We’re DJs, and Atomic Age was produced as a studio album, but our next big project is to develop a live show.

“We don’t just want to do a boring laptop show. We want to make the next album with performing in mind.”

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Maestro Fresh Wes is aging gracefully. I don’t mean physically – though few would put him at 45 – but musically.

“I promised myself two things,” the Scarborough-bred rapper born Wes Williams says of his 25th year in Canadian music. “One, I’m never going to be a grumpy old man on the hip-hop tip; two, I’m not going to be Samuel L. Jackson on a skateboard.”

Which is to say, he’s going to let the kids be kids. “If they want to pop mollies and they’re ‘on one,’ that’s what the young cats do. Picture me rapping about that – ‘I’m on one,’” he laughs loudly at the thought.

These days, Williams is in the midst of final set list changes and rehearsals for something decidedly more mature: his Saturday night Massey Hall show as part of the three-day, three-show Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival, for which he’ll be joined onstage by Classifed, k-os, Kardinal Offishall, Shad, Lights and more – most of whom contributed to his latest album, June’s Orchestrated Noise.

The concert requires a lot of prep and serious downtime. So much so that the night of our interview, when his sister, DJ Mel Boogie, texts to see if he’s going to make it to Big Daddy Kane’s Kool Haus show, he has to decline even though he’s a big fan.

“It’s so funny – the last time I ever performed in a concert hall was Christmas Eve 1989, opening up for Big Daddy Kane. How cool is that, that the week before the Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Big Daddy Kane is here tonight?”

That year, Williams had the first-ever Canadian top 40 hip-hop hit, the now iconic Let Your Backbone Slide, breaking him into the American-dominated field and garnering him the “godfather of Canadian hip-hop” title.

Another coincidence: Burton Cummings performs at the festival two days before. (Williams famously sampled Cummings’s song These Eyes on his last major radio

hit, 1998’s Stick To Your Vision.)

Or not. “The universe doesn’t have coincidences.

Things happen when they’re supposed to happen,” he says.

“It seemed natural. I put out the Black Tuxedo EP; it got nominated for a Juno – how cool is that? I put an album out the next year, it happens to be the 25th anniversary of when I came out. And then it’s the Walk Of Fame Festival. It’s a blessing, I thought that was fresh.”

Fresh and refreshing. Williams is far from jaded, as excited about the younger generation of emcees as he is about his own.

Among Canadians, he’s most inspired lyrically by Shad and Adam Bomb. And at a recent video shoot, he was borderline giddy at the prospect of discussing Kendrick Lamar’s then just-dropped Control verse.

That kind of unaffected, naked enthusiasm – to study bars, to dissect rap songs, to hear new releases – is rare anywhere these days, let alone among hip-hop pioneers.

That paved-the-way tag, however, is not something he’s completely comfortable with. “If it wasn’t me, it would have been someone else,” he says more than once.

Williams hasn’t been a constant Canadian hip-hop presence, focusing for years on other pursuits, including acting in a bunch of Canadian TV shows (he currently stars on CBC’s Mr. D).

It’s been a very long time, for instance, since his last studio album (2000’s Ever Since). But it doesn’t look like we’ll have to wait another 13 years. This particular comeback has been met by critical acclaim and a lot of industry love.

“I’m working on the next one right now!” he says.

So can we expect something new every couple of years, as per the industry’s current accepted pace?

“I don’t know about all that, but I have some good music coming out,” he says with another big laugh.

“I have to make up for lost time.” julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Pan American Food Festival DJ Jimmy Sauve 6:30 pm.

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HOLY OAK CAFE Sandpaper Tango (new wave/ post punk) 10 pm.

THE HOXTON Focus Fridays Matthew Dear,

Clouds 10 pm.

NYOOD Nyood Fridays DJ Mensa (house/ electro/hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR The Truth DJs Seven:30, Danthraxx (trap/hip-hop) 10 pm.

THE PISTON Rebel Hop (reggae/ska/soul/funk/ hip-hop) 10 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Pull Up. TRYST Tryst Fridays DJ Maltese.

WAYLA BAR Le Kif Kif DJ Sticky Cutz (top 40/ reggae/house) 10 pm.

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INDIE ROCK

SERENA RYDER Headlining Massey Hall is a dream come true By JULIA LECONTE

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

THE ANTLER ROOM Paddy Townsend Band (alt

rock) 10 pm.

BALTIC AVENUE Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Public Animal, By Divine Right, ñ Little Foot Long Foot 9 pm to 1 am.

CAMERON HOUSE Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, the Golden Dogs 10 pm. ñ CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA Camel Joe,

Raised Emotionally Dead.

CHRISTIE PITS PARK MAIN STAGE Bloor Ossington Folk Festival Julie Doiron, ñ Pick a Piper, Memoryhouse, Sandman Viper

Command, Grand Analog, Minotaurs, Alex Lukashevsky 1 to 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN The Rizdales 10 pm.

DAVID PECAUT SQUARE Francophonie En Fete Amélie et les Singes Bleus, Le R, Welcome Soleil, Jaffa, Fojeba, NJacko Backo & Kalimba Kalimba, Donné Roberts, Ariko, Les Voix du Coeur noon to 7 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN East End Rockabilly Weekend Rayburn Anthony w/ the Shakedown Combo, Tennessee Voodoo Coupe, the

HellBent Rockers, DJ Lincoln Bee Kool doors 8 pm, Matinee and Hot Rod Show The Ronnie Hayward Trio 2 to 5 pm.

DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND Michael Morley, Tom Carter, Beard Closet 9 pm, all ages.

THE DUKE LIVE.COM The Keynotes (top 40 tribute) 10 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Kat Edmonson doors 8 pm.

THE GARRISON The Sadies & Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet performing Alice Cooper’s Love It To Death, TV Freaks, Lagato Vipers 9 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Beggars Banquet 10 pm.

HARLEM Irene Torres & Joshua Price (soul) 7:30 pm.

THE HIDEOUT Shawn Brady & the Electric Blood Band (rock) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Record release Ladies of the Canyon, Taylor Knox & the Old Salts doors 9 pm.

IZAKAYA SUSHI HOUSE Pop Punk Goes Acoustic 2 Survay Says, Grade School Grit, Calla 7 pm.

THE JUNCTION INDIAN GROVE STAGE The Junction Music Festival Zeus 9 pm, Cuff the Duke 8 pm, Zaki Ibrahim 7 pm, Soul Motivators 5 pm, Lemon Bucket Orkestra 4 pm.

See Zaki Ibrahim preview, page 52.

THE JUNCTION PACIFIC STAGE The Junction Music Festival Derek Miller & the Bliss Fiasco 9 pm, Annabelle Chvostek, Joel Schwartz 7 to 8 pm, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party 6 pm, Irene Torres & the Sugar Devils 5 pm, Air Marshall Landing, Christian D & the Hangovers, Cassava Latin 1 to 4 pm.

THE JUNCTION MAVETY STREET STAGE The Junction Music Festival Friday Night Trend 7 pm, Eastborough 6 pm, Elos Arma 5 pm, Persian Rugs 4 pm, Stormalongs, Emily Jill West 1 to 3 pm.

THE JUNCTION ALLEYWAY JAM SPACE The Junction Music Festival Projector Jam 7 pm.

THE JUNCTION MCMURRAY AVE STAGE The Junction Music Festival Dirty Penny 9 pm, Junction City All Stars 4 pm, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party 6 pm, Jake Chisholm noon.

KARLA’S ROADHOUSE Valerie & the Dream Catchers (rock/R&B) 9:30 pm.

KOOL HAUS Local Natives, Wild Nothing doors 8:30 pm, all ages.

LEE’S PALACE Jenn Grant, Jim Bryson (indie pop) doors 9 pm.

LINSMORETAVERN Nikki Fierce (indie rock) 9:30 pm.

SERENA RYDER at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday (September 20), 8 pm. $34.50-$79.50. RTH.

It’s been a good year for Serena Ryder. First there was the Juno Award for adult alternative album of the year. Then the MMVA for rock/alternative video of the year. Her song Stompa was on Grey’s Anatomy, and she played The Tonight Show.

But possibly most impressive in this era of free music, her sixth studio album, Harmony (Universal), went platinum.

“I feel blessed about that and really excited that this record’s been the most successful, because I’ve had the most fun making it,” she says over the phone from a tour stop in Omaha, where she’s opening for One Republic.

“I think the reason it’s connected with so many people is that I connected with myself when I was writing it. I

was very, very selfish about the entire record. I wanted to record different kinds of music and styles that I’ve always loved singing and listening to.”

She also wanted to record it at home, so she did that – in her Toronto backyard studio.

“It was basically a dream-come-true record for me,” says Ryder.

Another dream? Headlining Massey Hall, which she’ll do for the first time on Friday.

“Every time I’ve been there or played there with other people, it’s always been the highlight of my year. It sounds wonderful and it’s beautiful, and as a musician who does this as my life, it’s amazing to find a venue that’s just perfect.

“The history of it and who’s played there before... It’s an important place for Canada.” julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

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ZAKI IBRAHIM Polaris Prize nominee brings her global idea back to Toronto

By HOLLY MACKENZIE

ZAKI IBRAHIM at the Junction Music Festival (Dundas West and Keele), Indian Grove Stage, Saturday (September 21), 7 pm. Free. thejunctionmusicfestival.com.

When Zaki Ibrahim talks music, you sense she’s creating as she speaks. You can feel the wheels turning as she figures out how to explain her style and influences.

The Canadian-born singer/songwriter currently calling South Africa home has globe-spanning roots (Dad is South African, Mom from the UK) and says her travels inspired her wide-ranging, all-encompassing debut album, Every Opposite (Pirates Blend).

“I like to keep things moving and utilize the time [in each place] as best I can,” she says. “It’s interesting. The people I’m working with just happen to be strewn across the world, from different places. It’s a global idea.”

That idea is reflected in a project that successfully combines hip-hop, dubstep, R&B, soul, dance and pop. After spending much of the past decade in Toronto, Ibrahim con-

siders it a homecoming of sorts whenever she returns, and feels the album also reflects the city where she grew into her own musically.

“There is that celebration of cultures and histories,” Ibrahim says of Toronto’s diversity. “It’s a really nice thing to be a part of. It reflects my life right now – my life until now as a global citizen, that part of my personality.”

The singer was elated to hear she’d been shortlisted for the Polaris Prize (the winner-announcing gala goes down Monday, September 23), and will be fitting in as many shows as she can while she’s here (until November), including this weekend’s 2nd annual Junction Music Festival.

Her onstage goal? To jolt her audience with an emotional gut check they weren’t expecting when they walked through the door.

“I enjoy all the reactions,” she says. “Every town, every city, every venue has a different vibe, and I appreciate all of them. I hope to hit something or touch on something that hasn’t been touched on, just to kind of disturb it a bit.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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FREE TIMES CAFE Andrea Gauster, Jamie Flegg 8 pm.

GATE 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm.

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HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Adam Solomon Trio (African blues/jazz) 9 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE All Day Breakfast String Band (old time) 7:30 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Rita Chiarelli 8:30 pm.

THE JUNCTION TRAIN PLATFORM STAGE The Junction Music Festival Union Duke 7:30 pm, Young Running 6:30 pm, Chris Staig 5:30 pm, Dan Gooch 4:30 pm, Cautioneers, Bard from the Club 2:30 to 3:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Ron Leary (singer/songwriter) 9 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 4 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Conjunto Lacalu (salsa/Cuban sonora) 10:30 pm.

MÉLANGE The Beaches Blues Fest Jazzforia (bluesy jazz) 9 pm.

MULLIGAN’S PUB The Fried Angels (blues) 9 pm.

THE PADDOCK The Don River Blues Band.

RANDOLPH THEATRE Francophonie En Fete Mes Aieux, Swing (neo-traditional folk) 8 pm.

RELISH BAR & GRILL New Music Night James Clark Institute (folk/pop/rock) 9:30 pm.

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OLD MILL INN Jazz Masters Alastair Kay Trio 7:30 pm.

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HOLY OAK CAFE Nite Flights DJ Sandro Perri 10 pm.

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REVIVAL Midnight Mix DJs P-Plus, J-Class, Grouch & Yosvani (violin) (hip-hop/R&B/ mashups/electro on 4 turntables) 10 pm.

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CAMERON HOUSE The Double Cuts 10 pm, Smokey Witt 7 to 9 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN East End Rockabilly

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THE HIDEOUT Sabrina Fallah, Half Hour City, Lumber Junk (rock) 9:30 pm, Dan Gagnon (acoustic rock) 2 to 6 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Astral Swans (pop) 9 pm.

THE HOXTON Saves the Day, Into It. Over It, Hostage Calm (pop punk) 7 pm.

KARLA’S ROADHOUSE Jay & Shannon (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Aaron Carter doors 8 pm.

NEU+RAL Bile, the Rabid Whole (industrial metal) 8 pm.

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T.O. MUSIC NOTES 7-INCH SPLITS

If you’re waiting with bated breath for Monday (September 23)’s Polaris Prize Gala at the Carlu, where the best Canadian album of the year will be announced, here’s something to tide you over. The purchase of any of the 10 short-listed albums at select retailers will net you a free limited-edition split 7-inch single that pairs up two nominated acts (with the exception of Godspeed You! Black Emperor).

The coloured-vinyl combos look like this: Tegan and Sara and A Tribe Called Red; Zaki Ibrahim and Whitehorse; Purity Ring and Colin Stetson; Metric and Young Galaxy. METZ get one all to themselves. Participating Toronto-area stores include Sonic Boom, Soundscapes and HMV. And if you can’t afford the $50 gala ticket, the event airs live on Aux.tv and SiriusXM channels, beginning at 8 pm.

ICE, ICE, BABY

Sorry to report that Metal On Ice is not, in fact, an Ice Capades-style touring show with metal bands on skates.

It is, however, the coming together of six of Canada’s best vocalists to record a new EP. An accompaniment to Sean Kelly’s Metal On Ice: Tales From Canada’s Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Heroes (Dundurn Press), the Metal On Ice record will include new versions of hit songs from Brian Vollmer (Helix), Carl Dixon (Coney Hatch), Darby Mills (Headpins), Lee Aaron, Nick Walsh (Slik Toxik) and Russ Dwarf (Killer Dwarfs) as well as an original track, called (you guessed it) Metal On Ice. The best part of the deal? Fans who make a monetary pledge via PledgeMusic can attend the Coalition Music Studios session going down Sunday (September 22). Don’t fret if you miss out; the CD release party follows October 26 at the Phoenix. For details, visit metalonice.com.

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DAKOTA TAVERN Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

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FREE TIMES CAFE Idol School Showcase 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

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GROSSMAN’S The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Pan American Food Festival The Arsenals (ska/ rocksteady/pop) 3 to 4 pm.

HARLEM Open Mic & Poetry Slam Dwayne Morgan 7 pm.

HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Open Mic Sundays (jazz/folk/world) noon to 3 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Rant Maggie Rant.

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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.

ROSE & CROWN Music City North Open Mic 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

TORONTO BLUES SOCIETY GARDEN Blues In The Garden Sugar Brown 2 to 5 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Double CD release Harrington & the Uplifters 10 pm, Gathering Sparks Eve Goldberg, Sam Turton & Jane Lewis (folk) 7:30 pm, Marianne Girard (folk) 5 pm, Michael Laderoute 3 pm.

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CLUB 120 Stacked Sundays DJs Fresque, Ovi M, Aadil (tech house/house/techno/tribal) 11 am to 3 am.5 GRAFFITI’S Black Metal Brunch 11 am-4 pm.

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CARLU Polaris Gala Zaki Ibrahim, Metric, METZ, Purity Ring, A Tribe Called Red, ñ Whitehorse, Young Galaxy 8 pm.

Composer-Librettist Laboratory Carla Huhtanen, Krisztina Szabo, Keith Klassen, Peter McGillivray (16 new operas written in 10 days) 2 pm.

GALLERY 345 Art Of The Piano Thomas Alexander (classical/pop/avant) 3 pm.

GATE 403 Jazz Forge 9 pm, Jeff Taylor and the SLT 5 to 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S New Orlean Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

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Drake Hotel Lounge Memphis Tuesdays

Craig Stickland (alt-country) doors 10 pm.

Free Times Cafe Open Stage Mondays Dave Plank 7:30 pm.

Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.

Hawaii Bar Will Gillespie (singer/songwriter/ folk/roots) 9:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room Peter Case 8:30 pm.

The Local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/traditional country) 9 pm.

Lola Calliope’s Nest – Women’s Open Stage 6 to 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (New Orleans blues) 8 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar Geoff Young (jazz) 9 pm, Dave Chan Trio (jazz) 7 pm.

Gallery 345 The Art Of The Piano: A Musical

Journey Through Spain Martin Soderberg (classical) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band w/ Terra Hazelton 9 pm, Chris Reid Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Kitch Luke Vajsar’s Hypnotic Lounge Series

(solo bass) 9 pm.

Rakia Bar Bohemian Monday Jazz Jam Laura Marks Trio w/ Bernie Senensky, Duncan Hopkins 8 to 11 pm.

Rex Composers Collective Big Band 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Seven44 GTA Swing Band (classic big band jazz) 7:30 pm.

Yonge-Dundas Square Lunchtime Live ­Elizabeth Shepherd (jazz) 12:30-1:30 pm.

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Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Bovine Sex Club Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon

­(retro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

Tuesday, September 24 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Cameron House Friendly Rich 10 pm, ­Miranda Mulholland 6 to 8 pm.

Clinton’s The Smoking Flowers (alt country/rock).

Dakota Tavern The Albertans. ñ The Duke Live.com Live Jam Night.

The Garrison Typhoon, Radiation City 8 pm.

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Partycat, Stick to Your Guns.

The Hideout Jeans Off Duo (acoustic rock)

10:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Luke Kuplowsky, Cameron

Whitesell, Lilman (pop/rock) 9 pm.

Horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Sunfields, Say Yes, Odd Years, Dust Adam Dust doors 8:30 pm.

Lee’s Palace The Dodos, Cousins (indie rock) doors 8 pm.

Monarch Tavern Nat Baldwin, Justin Walter, Omhouse (Dirty Projectors member) doors 8 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Trivium, DevilDriver, After the Burial, Sylosis doors 7 pm, all ages.

The Piston Michael Feuerstack, Paper Beat Scissors 9 pm.

Silver Dollar The Thinly Veiled Double ­Entendres, Tofu Stravinsky, Hot Peach, Emmy Rouge doors 8 pm.

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Downham 9:30 pm.

C’est What Oliver Pigott (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm, Kirby 7 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub The Barrel Boys (bluegrass) 10 pm.

Free Times Cafe The Bombadils Rye & Fairytales 8 pm.

Gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Elephant Revival, Mike & Ruthy 8:30 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Gary 17s Open Stage 9 pm.

The Local Mike Celia 9 pm.

3030 Dundas West Songwriter Nights Muscle Souls, Noel Johnson, R Shelley, Haley Stark 8 pm.

Tranzac Tiki Room Toronto Folk Singers Club 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm.

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The 417 Lounge Jazz Jam Pat Murray 8 to 11 pm.

Gate 403 Andy Malette (piano) 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Michel Berube 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Usual Suspects (jazz) 7 pm.

Rex Nadje Noordhuis Quartet 9:30 pm, Ar-

buckle 6:30 pm.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith (jazz) 9 to 11 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

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Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck

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Reposado Gord C’s Alien Radio.

Sneaky Dee’s Watch Out! DJ Brodie John

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Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff

(R&B/new jack swing/funk/soul/reggae) 10 pm.

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Cameron House Back Room Wolfshirt ­ ecords Family Hour We Were Heads, Les R ­Expulses, Krill(Ma), the Northern Empties doors 9 pm.

Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Video release Random Order (reggae/ska/rock) doors 9 pm.

Comfort Zone Calvin Love, Rival Boys, Gold Pony doors 9 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Stereophonics doors 7 pm, all ages.

Enwave Theatre David Myles, Tim Chaisson 8 pm.

The Harp Pub Johnny Max Band 8 to 10 pm.

The Hideout Thee Empty Hours (rock) 10:30 pm.

Horseshoe Har Mar Superstar, Purple, Serb Superb, Lizzo (pop/R&B) doors 8:30 pm.

Izakaya Sushi House The Bicycles, Heaven for Real, Purple Butt 9 pm.

Lula Lounge CD release party Chris Bottomley and Brainfudge (funk/rock/reggae/jazz) doors 7:30 pm.

Parts & Labour Pop. 1280, Mexican Slang, Mimico (goth punk) 9 pm.

The Piston Sheldon Holder, Jointpop 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s (jazz funk ­fusion) 7:30 pm.

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Alleycatz Citysoul (swinging blues/vintage R&B).

Cloak & Dagger Pub Blair Harvey (folk/pop) 10 pm.

Dakota Tavern Album launch Steven Taetz,

Rob Szabo, Mike Evin, James Robertson and others (roots/folk/pop) 7 pm.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 7:30 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Peter Boyd (blues) 9 pm.

Gate 403 Howard Willett Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm.

The Great Hall Tom Odell (singer/songwriter), Jane’s Party doors 8 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic 8 pm.

The Local David Baxter (hurtin’ honky tonk) 9 pm.

Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Bastille 9 pm, all ages.

Silver Dollar Crazy Strings (bluegrass) doors 9 pm.

Tranzac Tiki Room Comhaltas Irish Slow ­Session 7:30 pm.

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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.

Gate 403 Melissa Pisarzowski Jazz Band 9 pm.

The Jazz Bistro CD release Don Naduriak Quintet (Latin jazz) 9 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio 7 to 11 pm.

Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (twang jazz instrumental trio).

Rex Nadje Noordhuis Quartet 9:30 pm, Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Perlman Plays Tchaikovsky Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman (violin) 8 pm.

Tartu College Trio Estonia 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Trevor Giancola (jazz) 7:30 pm.

U of T Scarborough Campus Trio Estonia 1 pm.

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where the band covered the Viletones classic Screaming Fist, but what’s impressive is how well the record contains that energy on 27 anxious minutes of wax.

Two is bursting with in-the-red treble, crunchy riffs and brash yet tuneful vocal cord abuse courtesy of David O’Connor (check his phlegmy cough at the end of Phone), but it’s also tight, refined and fun.

You can practically feel their saliva hitting your face.

Top track: Rewind RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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Nothing Was The Same (Universal) Rating: “How much time is this nigga spendin’ on the intro?” Drake asks on Tuscan Leather, the opening track on his third studio album, Nothing Was The Same. Over six minutes, in fact, every one of them worth it, as Toronto’s very own spins lyrical webs, manipulates the hell out of a Whitney Houston sample and provides us with a four-part blueprint for the solid bars, sharp yet seamless tempo changes and you-fancy-huh production that follow.

Lyrically, Drake’s on his game for NWTS’s entirety, whether he’s reinventing a Mo Money Mo Problems verse, spewing literal T.O. references or subtly jabbing other rappers (yes, including Kendrick). And as always, it’s personal to the point of melodrama: distance from Nicki Minaj, burying the hatchet with Dad, poor treatment in high school, countless windows into relationships with various women.

But for all its insight into Drake’s romantic mind, his relentless ambition, his self-congratulation, his 90s pop culture refer-

ences, this isn’t Drake at his most exposed. We’ve seen him go deeper (Look What You’ve Done), more depressing (Marvin’s Room) and more vulnerable (Successful).

Production-wise, however, it’s his most mature, and frankly, most beautiful (see the Sampha feature on Too Much). Drake’s right hand, Noah “40” Shebib, is just showing off at this point – almost to a fault. The album is so preciously executed, there’s hardly anything durable enough to kick around onstage. (It’s a good thing Drake’s accumulated a number of anthems.) Brash, building beats from Take Care are replaced by subtle laptop sounds and other chill-inducing flourishes, like the murky piano on Wu-Tang Forever, the 80s disco throwback on Hold On, We’re Going Home or a speeding car on the DJ Dahi-produced Worst Behaviour, an album standout.

To say “nothing was the same” might be a stretch, but certainly the record mines enough new sonic territory to make it Kanye-like in its evolution. Hometown boy’s made good, again.

Top track: Tuscan Leather Drake plays the Air Canada Centre October 24.

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Pop/Rock THE ALBERTANS Dangerous Anything (Ernest Jenning) Rating: NNN Judging by the Albertans’ third album, the Vancouver-based synth pop musicians are getting comfortable enough in their skin to head in weirder, more minimalist directions. Compared to their hookier previous efforts, these 10 songs sound disturbed and off-balance.

Pitch-shifted first single Casual Encounters, about showing up at a bar to meet friends who never arrive, has a detached creepiness reminiscent of locals Trust. Invisible Fortress turns toward the industrial, a bit incongruous but also a nice break from Joel Bravo’s overwhelmingly breathy singing. Experimental, sparse Waterbeds is a precursor to closer Black Moon, which slowly unravels into ominous nothingness.

Poppier fare, jangly guitars and covocalist Alison Yip’s sturdier vocals are sprinkled throughout, including on strong second single Jason, lending variety and lightness. But the overall emptied-out, eve-of-the-apocalypse vibe stays consistent. It’s intriguing, but you also keep waiting for something more to happen.

Top track: Jason The Albertans play the Dakota Tuesday (September 24) and the Horseshoe October 1.

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Two (Schizophrenic) Rating: It’s hard not to revert to clichés when writing about Hamilton’s TV Freaks, because all the appropriate adjectives – loud, snotty, fast, pissed-off – tend to be used to describe punk itself. But that’s often the mark of a good punk release: as archetypal as those qualities seem, they’re not easy to translate outside a sweaty, beersprayed basement, let alone over a fulllength (hence why there are so many classic punk singles and so few LPs).

You can get a taste of their frantic, unhinged live show at nowtoronto.com,

OKKERVIL RIVER The Silver Gymnasium (Maple) Rating: NNN Okkervil River’s seventh album is set in Meriden, New Hampshire (population 500), home of lead singer Will Sheff. The year is 1986 or thereabouts, putting Sheff at age eight or so, depending on the track.

The songs are like campfire storytelling, capturing perfectly the simple ups and magnified downs of a rural upbringing.

Sheff is a capable autobiographer, and the sometimes Counting Crows-like rambling narration seems like the kernel of a novel, or maybe a musical. The tunes are all pleasant: Down Down The Deep River has peppy backup vocals evoking Tom Petty, while synths lend electronic interest to the brassy Stay Young. On the whole, the band’s country-leaning indie rock pulses along for 49 minutes at a decent clip. But there’s no sense of the throat-tightening despair and palpable rage the band has shown at its best (2005’s Black Sheep Boy). Walking Without Frankie’s anxious beat comes close to that emotional urgency but falls just short. If this is to be a musical, it’s missing its Memory.

Top track: Walking Without Frankie Okkervil River play the Phoenix September 28.

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Warring (Arts & Crafts) Rating: Earlier this year Arts & Crafts celebrated its 10th anniversary with the two-day festival Field Trip, which featured performances by the likes of Broken Social Scene and Feist.

Toronto’s Darcys are the clear heirs to the record label’s throne post-BSS, though if they’re feeling that pressure, they haven’t shown it yet.

Building on the momentum of their winding first album and last year’s dark reinterpretation of Steely Dan’s classic Aja, Warring offers more of the hardworking group’s heavily textured post-rock. Just when you think you have their sound pinned down, there’s the gorgeous piano ballad The Pacific Theatre halfway through, followed by the surprisingly danceable Pretty Girls. If you need proof of lead singer Jason Couse’s vocal talents, look no further than the closing seconds of 747s, which feels almost like a gospel confession.

With Warring, the Darcys aren’t merely content to be one of the best rock bands in Toronto. Ambition looks good on them.

Top track: The Pacific Theatre The Darcys play Adelaide Music Hall on October 11.

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Internal Sounds (Outside) Rating: Part of the Sadies’ charm lies in the fact

that whomever they collaborate with, they always sound like the Sadies. Somehow, though, on this self-produced album, they’re more Sadies-like than ever.

Songs feel like they might have been recorded any time since the band formed nearly two decades ago: the record kicks off boldly with the jangly psychedelic garage rock of The First 5 Minutes, and there are nods to noisy college rock intermixed with Byrdsy alt-country throughout.

Thematically, many of the lyrics chart circular journeys – both individual and within relationships – and the song titles reflect that concept with references to the past and future, beginnings and endings. The closer, We Are Circling (featuring Buffy Sainte-Marie), acts as a coda, binding the whole concept together, underlining the sacredness of family, community, music-making and the passage of time.

Top track: We Are Circling The Sadies play an Alice Cooper tribute with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet at the Garrison Saturday (September 21).

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Blues ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ROOTS Wise Up Ghost (Blue Note)

Rating: NNN One of the founding fathers of new wave punk and a Philadelphia hip-hop band?

Dig a little deeper into the respective histories of Elvis Costello and the Roots, though, and you’ll understand why this record works. Costello has always dabbled in other genres, and drummer ?uestlove is a music nerd to the core who knows when to rein in his band and when to play to others’ strengths.

There are some missteps – the ballad Tripwire feels out of place in the general uptempo pace, and in (She Might Be A) Grenade, Costello lazily compares a girl to an atomic bomb (didn’t Green Day already do this?) – but when the album works, the band and the singer/songwriter sound more invigorated than they have in years. Refuse To Be Saved is straight-up funk, and Wake Me Up is an urgent call to arms.

It would have been interesting to hear Black Thought’s dexterous rhymes on some songs here, but thankfully Costello doesn’t rap either.

Top track: Refuse To Be Saved MM

House HOT NATURED Different Sides Of The Sun (Warner/FFRR) Rating: NNN The debut album from house/techno producers Jamie Jones, Luca C and Lee Foss and singer Ali Love arrives on the heels of records by Daft Punk and Disclosure that proved it’s possible to make crossover music without compromising artistic and production quality.

Different Sides Of The Sun looks back to warmly melodic Chicago house and minimalist Detroit techno of the late 80s for inspiration, but it emphasizes lyrically led tracks. Incorporating analog percussion and instrumentation over satisfyingly thick grooves, Hot Natured compose an intergalactic soundscape for soulful hooks and R&B-style staccato singing.

It’s hard to find fault with the pristine production, but at 15 songs, the LP’s lyrics, focused on simple, visceral delights, start to feel one-note. Fortunately, a few guests switch up the mood. Azari & III singer Starving Yet Full’s gritty turn on People Change adds some much-needed rawness, and Róisín Murphy brings her cool complexity to the standout Alternate State.

Top track: Alternate State KEVIN RITCHIE

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AZIZ ANSARI

Forget about Raaaaaaaandy and Fat Cousin Harris. The Parks and Rec star and JFL42 headliner just wants to discuss finding love.

Oh, and where to find a memorable meal. By JASON RICHARDS AZIZ ANSARI performing at JFL42 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (1 Front East), September 27 at 7 and 10 pm. Passes $69-$299. JFL42.com.

Comic Aziz Ansari is haunted by his own jokes.

He can’t get through an interview without having a journalist ask him for the latest on his chubby cousin Harris or the status of his relationship with Kanye West – both references to hysterical bits in his starmaking 2010 debut special, Intimate Moments For A Sensual Evening.

These days, Ansari wants to be known for more sophisticated mater­ial than tales of getting wild for the night with Yeezus.

But the ghosts of his breakthrough first act keep chasing him.

During the recent Comedy Central roast of James Franco, Ansari’s fellow comics zeroed in on his friendship with Kanye. He actually seemed more offended that they dredge up his old material than at the ra­cist Indian jokes directed at him all night.

And fans and journalists still bring up Raaaaaaaandy, his stand-up character from Judd Apatow’s 2009 movie Funny People, who was rumoured to be getting his own spinoff at one point.

“I did that character for Funny Peo­ple,” he says, “and I haven’t done anything with it since then. I did it just for that movie.”

Ansari clearly wants to put all that behind him. His new focus is love in the 21st century, with big questions like “How does romance work in the age of texting and social media?”

Ansari, who turned 30 in February, says the subject has been weighing on his mind.

“I’ve always talked about stuff I’m dealing with,” he says on a day off from shooting the sixth season of his NBC sitcom Parks And Recreation. “Now I’m getting old. I’ve got to find someone to love and start a family with. This is, like, scary shit!”

That anxiety forms the basis of the act he’ll be performing next weekend as part of JFL42. He discusses the minutiae of modern courtship in the age of tech, for example, when you’re waiting for someone to text you back and then see them Insta­gram­ming pictures of pizza.

There’s an interactive element as well: Ansari analyzes au­di­ence members’ text message exchanges with people they’ve met recently. This sounds terrifying, but the comedian says he’s non-threatening.

“I make it clear that I’m not a malicious person,” he says. “I’m not going to hurt their feelings.”

Ansari describes his new act as a companion to his upcoming first book, tentatively set for release in 2015.

The memoir will relay the comic’s experiences with

modern love, combined with his own research, includ­ ing interviews with academics and sociologists.

“I’m hoping I can make a very interesting book about dating and finding love in this era,” he says.

Penguin is counting on it. The publisher just paid him a $3.5 million advance for the project, a deal that’s being compared to Lena Dun­ham’s reported $3.7 million from Random House for her upcoming advice book.

Having his paycheque made public weirded him out.

“No one’s ever talked about how much money I’ve made from touring or from a show,” he says. “It seems bizarre that it’s not frowned upon to leak what someone’s getting for what­ever project.”

But for people seeking gui­dance, how relatable will this book be? I mean, c’mon. Ansari is rich and fa­mous, having spent years building a loyal following on the strength of his distinct voice – high-pitched and emphatic, with the observational comic’s gift for finding absurdity in the mundane, and a palette of internet and pop culture references his contemporaries aren’t up on.

Given his success, he can’t really be having that much relationship trouble, can he?

The comedian agrees that being on TV can work in his favour, but he insists most dating problems are uni­versal.

“I think there’s some element of [an advantage in fame], but I discount that immediately,” he says, citing a bit from his 2012 special, Dangerously Delicious, where he runs through all the possible options of approaching a cute female waiter, including trying to play the fame card. Each scenario comes off creepier than the last.

His new relationship theme makes the content of Ansari’s comedy more mature. But so is his method.

While building his act, he wanted to test it out precisely, in front of audiences like those he’d be facing in theatres across North America.

That meant avoiding the jaded crowds at comedy clubs where he could drop in to workshop new material. So he started to announce smaller shows through Twitter, but that didn’t solve the problem.

“I would announce the shows on Twitter, 200 seats or something, and it’d sell out in two seconds,” he says.

“It’s like, ‘Who are the people coming to that? Who are the people mania­cal­ly following me on Twitter?’ I don’t want just those people to come.”

Ansari finally decided to fine-tune his crowds through a questionnaire on his website (azizansari.com).

“Like, are you male, female, what’s your age?” he says. “I wanted to get a mix of people. When I do a show in To­ronto, there’s like 3,000 people – old, young, married, single, a good mix. So the goal was to recreate that in a small environment.”

I’m getting old. I’ve got to find someone to love and start a family with. This is, like, scary shit!

Those at his September 27 shows will get to see if all the focus-testing paid off. He hasn’t performed this material in a theatre the size of the Sony Cen­tre, and he’s looking forward to gauging the audience’s reaction.

Ansari is no stranger to big venues, having headlined three major North American tours. But just eight years ago the Columbia, South Carolina, native was a marketing student at NYU, performing in small clubs as a member of New York’s Upright Citi­zens Brigade Theatre. In 2007, video shorts Ansari made with friends Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel led to an MTV sketch comedy show, Human Giant.

During his rise, he famously sidestepped lucrative offers to depict ­accented Indian characters working at call centres. He’s been compared to writer/comic Mindy Kaling in that regard.

“I’ve made it pretty clear that that’s not what I’m interested in doing and that those offers don’t make it across my desk, if you will,” Ansari says.

In 2011, he played Jesse Eisenberg’s best friend, Chet, in the modest hit movie 30 Minutes Or Less.

His most enduring role, however, is that of slicktalking baller Tom Haver­ford from Parks And Recreation, a part he’s played since the show de­buted in 2009.

And success has only increased his appetite… for good food.

He once went on a three-day Tokyo food binge with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and Momofuku founder and chef David Chang for a feature in GQ. After our talk, he tells me he’ll be making a Nutri­ Bullet smoothie with kale and fruit, and a frittata.

“I’ve been really into frittatas lately,” he says.

His Dangerously Delicious stand-up special featured restaurant rec­om­mendations.

He’s looking forward to returning to Toronto’s restaurants, and shouts out Pizza Libretto on Ossington as one of his favourite spots, then quickly regrets it.

“Maybe I shouldn’t say where I like to go, because someone who’s trying to murder me will be there,” he says.

Does Ansari have any plans to connect with Drake while he’s in town?

“I don’t know if he’s around. He’s probably doing stuff for his album, but if he’s around I’ll tell him to come to the show,” he says. “I haven’t seen him for a long time.”

The rapper’s latest single, All Me, opens with a sample of the comedian’s Raaaaaaaandy character. Will Ansari be getting paid for that?

“I don’t know how that works,” he says. “I mean, I imagine since it’s from the movie and stuff I might get some sort of cheque. But I’m not going to go buy a boat with it.”

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After wowing London’s West End in the title role of The Phantom Of The Opera and its less successful sequel, Love Never Dies, the pride of Richmond Hill comes home to sing one of his other signature roles: that of Les Misérables’ Jean Valjean, the ex-con who’s chased all over France by the maniacal Inspector Javert (Earl Carpenter).

Karimloo seems younger than the men who’ve made the role famous (Colm Wilkinson, ­Michael Burgess), so we’ll see how he works as the elderly Valjean (undoubtedly better than Hugh Jackman’s screen version). He arrives with the acclaimed 25th-anniversary production of the old warhorse, which doesn’t feature the revolving set. You’ll begin hearing the people sing from September 27 at the Princess of Wales. mirvish.com.

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As engaging a dancer as she is an actor, Moore brings elegance and warmth to her stage work. A regular collaborator with Theatre Rusticle, she rejoins the company in a remount of Dinner At Seven-Thirty, a memory work inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves that uses text and movement to trace the lives of six friends from childhood to death. Her Woman From The Country is a character who chooses the natural world over civilization and later deals with the limitations of her choice. At Buddies in Bad Times, October 12 to 20. 416-975-8555.

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Atkins is currently burning up the stage as Prior Walter, the spurned gay lover living with AIDS who communes with some of the angels in Soulpepper’s revival of Angels In America, a bona fide queer classic. Coincidentally, later this fall ­Atkins looks at the idea of history and legacy in The Gay Heritage Project, which he’s created with fellow performers Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir along with historical consultant Paul Halferty. Expect something bold and theatrical and in-your-face; it’ll be right at home in Canada’s premier queer theatre. November 17 to December 8 at Buddies. 416-975-8555.

CHRISTOPHER HOUSE Choreographer

A new piece by House is always a major dance event, and this one’s doubly special. Eleven Accords marks his 20th anniversary as artistic director of Toronto Dance Theatre.

Every s­ eason he challenges the troupe with new demands, bringing in foreign choreogra­phers, mixing up their process and perform­ing styles. This work draws on the mu­sic of minimalist composer Steve Reich, which has an infectious drive and rhythm that should suit the talents of the troupe. November 6 to 9 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. 416-973-4000.

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Orenstein knows how to command a role, whether she’s playing the classics or contemporary fare. It’s a good bet she’ll increase the dramatic tension in God Of Carnage, Yasmina ­Reza’s play about the initially civilized meeting between two well-off couples trying to resolve their sons’ playground altercation. Things escalate – quickly. As ­Annette, who’s into “wealth management” and expensive shoes, Orenstein works with a strong cast that includes John Bourgeois, Tony Nappo and Linda Kash, under Joel Greenberg’s direction. P ­ resented by Studio 180, from November 23 to December 15, part of the off-Mirvish season at the Panasonic. 416-593-4225.

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In the past two years, McMurtry-Howlett has made a name for himself as artistic director of Shakespeare in the Ruff.

Local audiences first saw him in the 2007 Toronto Fringe: he was a National Theatre School student and sole performer (though playing some 20 characters) in Attila Clemann’s …and stockings for the ladies, in which a Canadian military man does his best to alleviate the pain of those just liberated from a concentration camp. The play is revived as part of the Harold Green ­Jewish Theatre season, from ­October 8 to 24 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. 1-855985-2787.

CARLY STREET Actor

The central role of Vanda in David Ives’s play-within-a-play Venus In Fur makes huge demands. It requires an actor to play both a struggling contemporary actor trying to land a part and a poised and completely confident classical performer. Nina Arianda won a Tony Award for the part a couple of seasons ago. Street should have the versatility to pull it off. She’s been on Broadway in the comedy drama Clybourne Park and recently got a Dora Award nod for Theatre 20’s inaugural outing, the musical Bloodless. The equally versatile Rick Miller – he of a thousand voices – plays the playwright who falls for Vanda, and at the helm is the always brilliant Jennifer Tarver. September 29 to October 27 at the Bluma ­Appel. 416-368-3110.

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ON THE MARC Four years after creating the WTF podcast, veteran stand-up says he finally has a career By GLENN SUMI MARC MARON performing at JFL42 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (190 Princes’), Tuesday (September 24) at 7 and 9:30 pm. Passes $69-$299. JFL42. com.

Marc Maron is living proof that you should never give up on your dreams.

A few years ago, the comic was at a low point.

He’d put in decades in stand-up, tried his hand at political talk radio and TV, written a book.

He’d made it through addiction and recovery.

But his career just wasn’t going anywhere. And then, in September 2009, he began a twiceweekly podcast called WTF With Marc Maron, a loose and intimate series of conversations with comics and other entertainers.

“I’d basically let go of the dream, and I was trying to survive,” says Maron on the phone from the garage of his L.A. home, where he continues to record WTF. “I thought my comedy career was washed up. I’d written off the possibility of doing anything. It was an outlet to keep busy.”

Now, more than 400 episodes later – the podcast gets millions of downloads a month – he’s a new man and busier than ever.

He’s got a book on the bestseller list, an IFC TV show (which, alas, doesn’t air in Canada) and is headlining two gigs at this week’s JFL42.

“I think this might be the actual beginning of my career,” says Maron. “If a career is based on finding your groove and becoming relevant and making a living, I think this might be it.”

When I suggest this is a new golden age of comedy, when entertainers can reach audiences on various platforms, he’s cautious.

“It seems like a boundary-less age of overaccessibility,” he says. “There are enough platforms and opportunities for comics to seek out and perhaps find the people who’ll enjoy them.

On the other hand, you can get pummelled by

all this access. The appetite for content and controversy really is greater than the human ability to generate either. So that’s a dangerous paradigm.”

Maron’s had virtually every major living comic on his program. Albert Brooks, he says, is a holdout, and some artists have politely turned him down – even his friend Daniel Tosh, who says he wants to keep people at a distance.

One of the show’s highlights was the coming out of his friend Todd Glass, which generated lots of attention when it aired in January 2012.

“That took a lot of planning,” explains Maron. “He’d called me months before, saying, ‘You’re the guy. I want to do it!’ He was battling with himself, building up the courage. And I was honoured he chose me.”

Since then, Glass occasionally calls him up to tell him he’s still gay.

On the subject of his own personal life, Maron’s always been candid. Remarks about his two exes have figured in his stand-up and podcasts.

He’s involved with a woman now, which he says requires some sensitivity.

“You have to negotiate things about how and what you’re going to put out there in the world,” he says. “You have to determine the line you can cross and when something becomes disrespectful or uncomfortable. But it’s always my point of view.”

Does he ever tire of using his daily life for material?

“There are some hours in the day and the week when I’m just sort of moving through life without being watched,” he says. “I eat, fill the hummingbird feeder. I do have a bit of privacy.”

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DARYN JONES Stand-up, interview host Forget those U.S. headliners. I predict Daryn Jones’s four shows will be the hit of JFL42 (September 19 and 26, the Garrison; September 20 and 24, the Drake). Ever since his gonzo days on Buzz, on through stints at YTV, MTV and now CBC (where he hosted the reality show Over The Rainbow and does segments for Hockey Night In Canada), Jones has proven the consummate interviewer: clever, relaxed and in the moment.

A terrific stand-up in his own right, Jones will talk with lots of his comedy pals, including Jean Paul, Tim Steeves, Gilson Lubin, Arthur Simeon and Pete Zedlacher. Special guests range from Elisha Cuthbert to Off The Record’s Michael Landsberg. And one night there’s even an appearance by the “Daryn Jones Dancers.”

If it’s a hit, maybe CBC will pick it up. They could use some smart programming. jfl42.com/act/ daryn-jones.

Who are you looking forward to having on your show?

I’m thrilled Elisha Cuthbert is my special guest for show #1 (Thursday, September 19, at the Garrison, 9 pm).

She’s so open and lovely and so much fun. Plus, I want to get to the bottom of that eye-rolling incident that happened during the playoffs this year (bit.ly/167YuSO). Also, Colin Mochrie drops by Show #3 (Tuesday, September 24, at the Drake, 7 pm). But he’s a total diva and needs everything scripted. So that show will be a slog for sure.

Who would you not want to interview?

Me. You’re doing God’s work, Sumi.

You’ve worked with Rick Mercer, Don Cherry and Danielle Wade (winner of Over The Rainbow). If the four of you got into a wrestling ring, what would happen?

Rick works harder than anyone I’ve ever met, so he’d be off shooting a rant with his tilty camera or something. Danielle would sing a stunning version of O Canada, and then Don would say women don’t belong in wrestling rings. Then he would hit me with an illegal starched collar and I would start to cry. (Full disclosure: I haven’t actually met Mr. Cherry, but by all accounts he is a lovely fellow.)

Ever since your Buzz days, you’ve always looked like you’re having a good time on air. Have you never thrown hissy fits?

Of course I have! Why get into showbiz otherwise? It’s the only job where you can be a total dick and people call it your “process.”

Where do you keep your Gemini Award?

I won my first Gemini for my old show, Buzz, and I have a lot of good memories from then. So I proudly keep that Gemini on my mantle. But I keep my mantle in the garage under some old paint cloths, so it evens out.

Dumbest heckle?

Maybe I’m rare in that I don’t freak out when people heckle.

I like to talk to people during my show. And then call them the C-word. Because I’m an artist.

Advice for Miley Cyrus?

Right, because she really needs my advice.

“Hey, Miley, you are rich and successful. I think I can help you be the opposite of that.”

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actor shares a complicated bromance with playwright and co-star daniel macivor By JON KAPLAN THE BEST BROTHERS by Daniel MacIvor, directed by Dean Gabourie, with John Beale and MacIvor. Presented by the Tarragon (30 Bridgman). Previews through Tuesday (September 24), opens Wednesday (September 25) and runs to October 27, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees SaturdaySunday 2:30 pm from September 22. $21-$53. 416-531-1827.

A dog may be a man’s (or a woman’s) best friend, but you can’t prove that to the siblings in Daniel MacIvor’s The Best Brothers.

There’s always been a tension between gay real-estate agent Kyle and his straight architect sib, Hamilton, but things escalate when their mother, Bunny, dies in a bizarre accident at a Gay Pride Parade. Not only do they have to deal with their bereavement, they also have to decide who’s going to take her beloved canine.

“The men are the odd couple, so different that they strike comic sparks off each other,” says John Beale, who plays Kyle to the playwright’s Hamilton. “Kyle is open and easygoing, connected to his heart, someone who allows troublesome things simply to roll off.

“In contrast, Hamilton struggles against feeling anything that originates in that organ. The fact that Kyle doesn’t fixate on things drives his super-controlling brother crazy. Of course, that rigidity backfires on him.”

On the surface, says Beale, the play is about their mother’s sudden death.

“But beneath that, it’s about going into oneself and letting go of previously held opinions and emotions.

Grieving is only part of the process.”

The season opener at the Tarragon, The Best Brothers had a successful 2012 run at Stratford, with the same cast and returning director Dean Gabourie.

The Toronto production marks award-winning Nova Scotian Beale’s local debut.

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“Daniel saw me as the tightly wound Reverend John Hale in The Crucible and thought I’d do well as Hamilton,” he says. “But when we workshopped the script at Stratford, dramaturg Iris Turcott convinced him he was miscast as Kyle, a role he wrote for himself. At that point, the actors switched parts.

“After all,” smiles Beale, “Daniel does ‘tightly wound’ so well.”

The play is a two-hander, though we also meet Bunny, played alternately by her two sons as they break the fourth wall and speak directly to the audience.

“At first I thought she was one character we both impersonated, but later I realized that each brother presents his own version of Bunny. We stopped trying to match each other’s performance but still fed off the other’s creation.

“Hamilton and Kyle both have different experiences with this wealthy, elite woman, who becomes both disconnected and distracted when her husband leaves her for a younger woman. Hamilton is caught up with her in a needy way, wanting more love from her than she could give, but Kyle can let her go more easily.”

The audience is well aware from the start that these two men lead totally separate lives, but now they’re brought into the same room to organize a funeral, write an obituary and reply to condolence notes.

“What grounds the play’s humour is the death, which is always sitting in the background. You can laugh, but every once in a while you have to remember why these very different relatives have come together.

“The result is a production that never gets too light.

It’s rather like having a helium balloon in one hand,” Beale says, floating his right arm up to the ceiling while the left plunges toward the floor, “and an anvil in the other.”

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pitre rocks on deep waters TONY AWARD NOMINEE BARES HER SECRETS IN SHOW ABOUT HER LIFE AND CAREER... SO FAR By JORDAN BIMM ON THE ROCKS written and performed by Louise Pitre, music by Pitre with W. Joseph Matheson, directed

by Jen Shuber. Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). Opens Wednesday (September 25) and runs to September 29, Wednesday-Saturday 7:30 pm, matinee Saturday- Sunday 2 pm. Pwyc-$32.50. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca.

Over three decades, Louise Pitre anchored block­ buster musicals like the Toronto production of Les Mis and the original Broadway production of Mam­ ma Mia! Now, in a big departure, she’s debuting an intimate auto­biographical solo show featuring ori­ ginal songs she penned with her part­ner, W. Joseph Matheson. It’s a revealing backstage look at her life and work.

“This was an exercise in scaring the shit out of myself!” Pitre laughs over the phone, describing the emotionally wrenching process of adapting her life story from age seven to the present for the stage.

The idea started off as a simple carte blanche in­ vitation from Theatre Passe Muraille artistic direc­ tor Andy McKim to Pitre to kick off the season with a show of her own devising.

“At first I wanted to do three concerts in rep, be­ cause I also do a lot of concerts all over the place, but then I thought, ‘That’s boring! I already do that.

I should do some original songs and then talk about them afterwards.’ But that seemed half-assed, too.

“Then I just decided to go all the way and write something totally new, and I found myself getting all ex­cited about it. It was time for a shakeup!”

So this past spring Pitre accompanied Matheson to Halifax, and while he was busy performing in a production of Legally Blonde, she holed up with a

piano in their rented house by the shore and did nothing but write, write, write.

“I had to immerse myself in it. Hiding out on the coast with only my piano wasn’t a luxury; it was a necessity to get away from all the crap that eats up your day.”

Pitre says the product is much more than a walk down memory lane; she uses her own songs to de­ scribe what it was like to do shows like Mamma Mia!, Les Mis, Applause, Beehive and Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris.

“I didn’t want the show to be self-congratulatory or a cabaret, like ‘Then I did this show, and let me sing you a song from that....’ It turned into an ex­ tremely personal story. For instance, when I talk about Blood Bro­thers, my first big role, I don’t talk about the show or sing anything from it. I talk about the time my parents came to see it, what their reac­ tion was and what that meant to me afterwards.”

For Pitre, this level of intimacy with the audience is both exciting and scary.

“This isn’t acting, it’s a performance, but I will have to work very hard at not acting. This is me.

This is not someone else’s story I’m trying to make interesting – it’s mine. And because of this it will be difficult to keep my emotions in check. I want other people to feel those things, but I can’t be losing it up there.”

After the show’s six performances, Pitre plays Miss Hannigan in Young People’s Theatre’s produc­ tion of Annie (opposite Matheson as Rooster), and then Mama Rose in Chicago Shake­speare’s produc­ tion of Gypsy.

So maybe there’ll be an On The Rocks 2 in a few years.

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Exciting actor plunges into world of stripping and dark fairy tales By JON KAPLAN

THE FLOOD THEREAFTER by Sarah Ber­thi­aume, translated by Nadine Desrochers, directed by Ker Wells, with Oliver Becker, Maggie Huculak, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, Kevin MacDonald, Patricia Marceau and W. Joseph Matheson. Presented by Canadian Stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Previews from Sunday (September 22), opens September 26 and runs to October 6, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm and Saturday-Sunday 2 pm. $22-$49. 416-368-3110.

A river runs deep through The Flood Thereafter, by rising Quebec playwright Sarah Berthiaume.

Set in a small town on the lower Saint Lawrence River, the season opener for Can­ adian Stage focuses on June, a young woman whose night­ly stripping in the local bar makes all the men watching her cry. The exception is a young truck driver, Denis, stuck in the town overnight.

Tears are an unusual reaction to a stripper, but this is the place where, 20 years ear­ lier, a fisherman rescued Grace, a drowning woman who might have been a mermaid.

And she’s June’s mother, who after her rescue slept with all the village men.

“The play reminds me a lot of the fairy tales I liked as a kid – not the Disneyfied ver­ sions, but the creepy ones with a dark warning underneath,” says Courtney Ch’ng Lan­ caster, who plays June. “As a child I didn’t know quite what they were telling me, but there was a sense of danger at their heart, whether it was the wolf’s masculine energy in Red Riding Hood or the Little Mermaid’s unstoppable desire to be human.”

Berthiaume’s play isn’t just Grimm-centric, but also draws on Greek myth. It’s no surprise, given that two characters are the husband and wife Homère and Penelope, that the narrative suggests The Odyssey’s chapter on Odysseus and the Sirens.

“Penelope, a hairdresser, weaves wigs from the hair of the village men that June wears when she strips,” explains Lancaster, a former Soulpepper Academy member who triumphed this past year in The Barber Of Seville and The Bal­ lad Of Weedy Peetstraw. “I see the wigs as protection against the men in the bar, any of whom might be June’s father.”

A poetic tale blended with magic realism, The Flood There­ after asks questions about love, relationships and familial duty. Lancaster notes that June has, other than one mono­ logue, the “most grounded, colloquial language in the play.

“Both Penelope and Grace, on the other hand, tell stories that draw on mysterious worlds and the subconscious.

When huge things happen in life, things too difficult to cope with, you need poetic language and big imagery and ideas to talk about resolving them.”

June spends much of the play “trying to figure things out around her. Since she’s the only eligible young woman in this unusual town, it’s no surprise that Grace is protective of her, and even Penelope has something of a maternal con­ cern for her. But June, who wants to know what love and sex are, can only have a warped relationship with the townsmen: they’re all attracted to her, but they realize that any one of them could be her father.”

The tale’s mystery is wrapped up in the kind of myths that offer answers obliquely.

“Our director, Ker Wells, told us early in rehearsal that stories like this are paradoxically ‘things that never hap­ pened yet always were.’ They may be hard to unravel yet hint at situations that are constant in our lives.”

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Buddies is known for starting its theatre season off with a bang. But this year’s opener, the world premiere of in-yer-face British playwright Tim Luscombe’s disturbing exploration of queer subcultures, promises to shock.

The non-​linear story follows three gay couples who represent a range of relationship types, from civil part­ ner­ships to sadist rent boys interested in seroconversion parties. Blair Williams, known for his acting and directing work at the Shaw Festival, finds himself in emotionally challenging territory playing Stevie, a dra­matist writing about a sadist who wants to infect his lover with HIV. “It was a very, very difficult read,” says Williams about his first gloss of the script. “I thought it was horrific. I

don’t understand how it can become something greater than the initial horror that strikes you, but it really has.”

With gentle yet fearless guidance from director (and Buddies’ artistic director) Brendan Healy, Williams was able to forge a connection.

“The psychological terrain is unlike any I’ve been in before. The fact that I’m playing a sadist made it initially very hard for me to find the humour, and I thought I had to be angry and cruel all the time. Brendan helped me realize that there are many different facets to these men. As a director, he’s looking to bring out the honesty, humanity and reality of the play. What does a sadist look like? What does an HIV-positive rent boy look like?

There’s no absolute.”

Williams says the dark subject mat­ter – especially the bug-​chasing elements – is designed to provoke a much-​needed conversation about the evolving subcultures around HIV/AIDS. “In the 30 years since AIDS arrived, things have changed. With drugs we can live longer, we can be a little more invisible than we were in the early

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days of the disease, but there’s still an important conversation happening at a subcultural level.

“Tim’s theory is that for some, seroconversion is about tribal acceptance. There’s an element of consanguinity in gay men sharing blood – you’re marked in the way you are in a tribe when you become a man.

There’s an element of family and of acceptance.”

Williams says the straight – and many in the gay – community don’t understand this discussion.

“They think, ‘Why would anybody want to get HIV? Why would anybody want to get seroconverted? It’s a death sentence’ and so on. Pig shows that it’s not black-and-white.”

Through this unflinching provocation, Williams hopes to foster a sense of acceptance around these new forms of love.

“I look forward to a time when hu­ man sexuality doesn’t shock, and hopefully that’s where we’re going with Pig. We can recognize the infinite varieties and not be afraid of what is within us.”

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dance inteRview with Mélanie De­mers

art in action Choreographer says all dance is political WITH A TRACE choreography by Mélanie Demers, Valerie Calam and Peggy Baker. Presented by DanceWorks and first­­­­ things­first at the Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West). Tonight (Thursday) to Saturday (September 19 to 21), 8 pm. $18.75-$37.50. 416-973-4000.

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Montréal choreographer Mélanie De­mers is often pegged as a political artist.

A dancer with O Vertigo for eight years ­before starting her own company, Mayday, Demers makes sprawling, theatrical, dark-edged works that portray strange communities of strug­gling humanity.

But like any label, the political one can chafe.

“I wanted to break free of that but am discovering it’s impossible,” she tells me after wrapping a rehearsal for her newest work, WOULD. “I’ve realized that art is political, that everything we do is political. Because we live in a place that is quite privileged, we tend to forget about it – we dwell on matters of abstraction and aesthetics and so on. But art is still a profound political choice.”

This week Demers premieres her new duet, performed by Kate Holden and Montréal’s Marc Boivin. Former Dancemakers company member Hol­den commissioned the work (as well as the score by Nova Scotia folktronica drummer Joshua Van Tassel), and Boivin has been Demers’s teacher and colleague for many years.

Both are strong technical performers capable of delivering Demers’s preferred “seamless” mix of improvised and set

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material, danced and spo­ken. Though the work is not ne­ ces­sarily about the relationship between them, Demers mentions that it’s inevitably part of the mix.

“You can’t really escape what is there,” she says, “a man and a woman on stage with issues. It’ll be interesting to see how people read it, because as much as we put energy into breaking away from the image of the cou­ple, it remains. So I wonder if I emphasize these things or go against them.” Demers laughs. “We’re still trying to figure it out.”

As I watch a run-through of WOULD the next day, everything Demers has been saying about the way she works and the work she’s made becomes clear. There is no line between the improvisations and the rest of the material; there are roller-coaster transitions between the lightness of humour and the darkness of intense physi­ cal­ity; there is virtuosity in the way things are transformed and performed. In Boivin’s large phy­sical presence and Holden’s gentle strength, Demers’s multi-layered chor­eo­graphic balancing act holds its tension.

“I’ve been interested in dance not because of the shapes but because of what is between the shapes,” she tells me.

Notwithstanding what the audience might experience, WOULD eschews overt gender or global politics for something Demers describes as more intimate.

“The piece looks at what might be,” she says. “It’s not so much about the future but about the possibilities we have in life and the choices we make with them. It’s a piece about poten­tial­ity.”

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book your tickets now

Here’s a handy list to keep track of all this fall’s big openings

September THE BEST BROTHERS See story, page 66.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER by John Osborne (FeverGraph).

At Ten 93 Queen W (1093 Queen West). To Sep 28. 416277-5075.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams (Studio BLR). At Dragon Alley (Dragon Alley Lane). Sep 19 to Oct 5. 416-364-4556.

JOE ROGAN Stand-up comic (Sony Centre, 1 Front East).

Sep 19. 1-855-872-7669.

TAPESTRY BRIEFS by Morris Panych, Julie Tepperman, Jocelyn Morlock, Patrick Arteaga and others (Tapestry New Opera). At the Ernest Balmer Studio (9 Trinity). Sep 19 to 22. ­tapestryopera.com.

PIG See story, this page.

BONE CAGE by Catherine Banks (Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle). Sep 20 to Oct 5. ­harthousetheatre.ca THE UNDERPANTS by Steve Martin (Alumnae, 70 Berkeley). Sep 20 to Oct 5. 416-364-4170.

TICK, TICK... BOOM! by Jonathan Larson (Angelwalk). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge). From Sep 21 (opens Sep 25). To Oct 6. angelwalk.ca.

THE FLOOD THEREAFTER See story, page 67.

TAINTED by Kat Lanteigne (Moyo/GromKat). At Aki Studio Theatre (585 Dundas East). From Sep 25 (opens Sep 26). To Oct 12. 1-800-204-0855, ­gromkat.com.

ON THE ROCKS See story, page 67.

CRASH by Pamela Mala Sinha (Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). From Sep 26 (opens Oct 1). To Oct 19. 416-504-7529.

DREW CAREY Stand-up comic (Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga). Sep 27. 905-306-6000.

LES MISERABLES by Boublil and Schönberg (Mirvish). At the Princess of Wales (300 King West). From Sep 27 (opens Oct 9). 416-872-1212.

THE NORMAN CONQUESTS by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Table Man-

ners: from Sep 27 (opens Oct 9). To Nov 16. Living Together: from Sep 28 (opens Oct 10). To Nov 16. Round And Round The Garden: from Sep 28 (opens Oct 15). To Nov 16.

416-866-8666.

RICKY GERVAIS – THE ONE MAN SHOW by David Andrew Brent (Brickworks Entertainment). At Lower Ossington Theatre (100 Ossington). Sep 27. notrickygervais. brownpapertickets.com.

VENUS IN FUR by David Ives (Canadian Stage). Bluma Appel (27 Front East). From Sep 27 (opens Oct 3). To Oct 27.

416-368-3110.

FUNNY GIRL IN CONCERT (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). At the George Weston Recital Hall (5040 Yonge).

Sep 30. ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

October

SEASON 2013 choreography by Roberto Campanella, Robert Glumbek and Guillaume Côté (ProArteDanza). At the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). Oct 2 to 5. 416-973-4000.

LA BOHEME by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). Oct 3 to 30. 416-363-8231.

RADIOLAB LIVE APOCALYPTICAL (Sony Centre, 1 Front East). Oct 5. sonycentre.ca PETER GRIMES by Benjamin Britten (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West).

Oct 5 to 26. 416-363-8231.

GREG PROOPS stand-up comic and podcaster (Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor West). Oct 6. empirecomedylive.com. ...AND STOCKINGS FOR THE LADIES by Attila Clemann (Rustwerk Refinery/Harold Green Jewish Theatre). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge). From Oct 8 (opens Oct 10). To Oct 24. ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

FARTHER WEST by John Murrell (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). From Oct 11 (opens Oct 17). To Nov 9. 416-866-8666.

DINNER AT SEVEN-THIRTY directed and conceived by Allyson McMackon (Theatre Rusticle/Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander). From Oct 12 (opens Oct 15). To Oct 20. 416-975-8555.

YUKONSTYLE by Sarah Berthiaume (Canadian Stage/ Faculty of Fine Arts, York University). At the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). From Oct 13 (opens Oct 17).

To Oct 27. 416-368-3110.

THE DOUBLE adapted by Adam Paolozza, Arif Mirabdol­ baghi and Viktor Lukawski (TheatreRun/Tarragon The-

atre, 30 Bridgman). From Oct 15 (opens Oct 23). To Nov 24.

416-531-1827.

I LOVE LUCY – LIVE ON STAGE (Mirvish). At the Royal Alexandra (260 King West). Oct 15 to Nov 3. 416-872-1212.

A STORY BEFORE TIME by Drew Hayden Taylor (Kaha:wi Dance Theatre/Banff Centre for the Arts, Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). Oct 16 to 24. 416-862-2222.

YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME by Tommy Taylor (Praxis). At the Aki Studio (585 Dundas East). Oct 16 to 26. praxistheatre.com.

AISHA TYLER LIVE stand-up comic. Royal Cinema (608 College). Oct 18. empirecomedylive.com BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL at Comedy Bar (945 Bloor West). Oct 18 to 26. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

LIZA & BARBRA... TOGETHER AT LAST written and performed by Jennifer Walls and Gabi Epstein (Angelwalk).

At the George Weston Recital Hall (5040 Yonge). Oct 19.

1-855-985-2787, angelwalk.ca.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FLAMENCO FESTIVAL at the Ryerson Theatre (43 Gerrard East). Oct 19-20. ­torontoflamencofestival.com.

BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN by Andriano Sobretodo Jr., Matthew Thomas Walker and Claire Wynveen (Litmus). At St Luke’s United Church (53 Sherbourne). From Oct 22 (opens Oct 23). To Nov 3. litmustheatre.com.

PUPPET UP! – UNCENSORED by Brian Henson and Patrick Bristow (WestBeth Entertainment/Henson Alternative/Mirvish). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). Oct 22 to Nov 3. 416-872-1212.

EVIL DEAD – THE MUSICAL by George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond, Frank Cipolla, Melissa Morris (Starvox/Jeffrey Latimer). At the Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst). From Oct 24 (opens Oct 29). 1-855-985-5000.

GLOBAL CABARET FESTIVAL (Soulpepper). At Young Centre (50 Tank House). Oct 24 to 27. 416-866-8666.

ESCAPE ARTIST choreography by Paul-André Fortier, ­Susanna Hood, Christopher House and GADFLY (MOonhORsE Dance Theatre). At the Dancemakers Centre for Creation (9 Trinity). Oct 25 to Nov 2. moonhorsedance.com.

STRANGE SISTERS curated by Kim Crosby (Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander). Oct 25. 416-972-8555.

ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO by Mozart (Opera Atelier). At the Elgin (189 Yonge). Oct 26 to Nov 2. ­ticketmaster.ca.

CREAM OF COMEDY Finals of the competition for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. At Second City (51 Mercer). Oct 28. timsims.com. continued on page 70 œ

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DIRTY BUTTERFLY by Debbie Tucker Green (Bound to Create/Obsidian). At Aki Studio (585 Dundas East). Oct 30 to Nov 17.

1-877-854-9708.

DESH choreographed and performed by Akram Khan (Canadian Stage). At the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Oct 31 to Nov 2. 416-368-3110.

MOSS PARK by George F. Walker (Green Thumb/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). From Oct 31 (opens Nov 4). To Nov 16.

416-504-7529.

November

DISNEY’S ALADDIN by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (Mirvish). At the Ed Mirvish Theatre (244 Victoria). Nov 1 to Jan 5. 416-872-1212.

FIRE OF ANATOLIA Turkish dance and percussion spectacle (Sony Centre, 1 Front East). Nov 1. ­ticketmaster.ca.

OLD STORIES choreography by Maxine Heppner (DanceWorks Co-Works). At Pia Bouman Scotia­bank Theatre (6 Noble). Nov 1 to 3. 416-973-4000.

THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL OF BERNICE TRIMBLE by Beth Graham (Obsidian/­ Factory, 125 Bathurst). From Nov 2 (opens Nov 7). To Dec 1. 416-504-9971.

ALLIGATOR PIE by Dennis Lee (Soulpepper).

At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Nov 3 to Dec 1. 416-866-8666.

THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE IRVING BERLIN (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge).

Nov 3. hgjewishtheatre.com.

TWELFTH NIGHT by Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle). Nov 6 to 23. 416-978-8849.

THE VALLEY by Joan MacLeod (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). From Nov 6 (opens Nov 13).

To Dec 15. 416-531-1827.

JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR: RAT PACK EDITION comedy by Darrin Rose, Tom Papa, Alonzo Bodden and Orny Adams (Just for Laughs). At Massey Hall (178 Victoria). Nov 8. 416-872-4255.

TANGO FIRE: FLAMES OF DESIRE (Show One Productions). Argentinian tango show.

At Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge). Nov 8 to 9. 1-855-622-2787.

CHRIS TUCKER LIVE 2003 Stand-up comic (Sony Centre, 1 Front East). Nov 9. 1-855872-7669.

SWAN LAKE choreography by James ­Kudelka (National Ballet of Canada). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West).

Nov 9 to 17. 416-345-9595.

A WOMAN’S WORK new choreography (Dance Matters). At the Scotiabank Studio, Pia Bouman Scotiabank Theatre (6 Noble).

Nov 9 to 10. dancematters.ca.

WINNERS AND LOSERS by Marcus Youssef and James Long (Theatre Replacement/ Neworld Theatre/Crow’s Theatre/Canadian Stage). At the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). From Nov 10 (opens Nov 14). To Dec 8. 4163683110.

ANNIE by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). Nov 11 to Dec 19. 416862-2222.

THE LIGHT BETWEEN choreography by Margie Gillis (Gillis/NextSteps). At the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West).

Nov 12 to 13. 416-973-4000.

THE SACRIFICE ZONE by Suzie Miller (Theatre Gargantua/Uncertainty Principle). At the Factory Studio (125 Bathurst). From Nov 13 (opens Nov 14). To Nov 30. 416-504-9971.

HEAVEN ABOVE HEAVEN BELOW by Linda Griffiths (Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). From Nov 14 (opens Nov 19). To Dec 7.

416-504-7529.

NEW ANIMAL choreography by Dana Gingras (605 Collective/DanceWorks). At the Enwave (231 Queens Quay West). Nov 15 to 16. 416-973-4000.

MATT BRAUNGER stand-up comic. At Comedy Bar (945 Bloor West). Nov 16. ­empirecomedylive.com.

THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT curated and performed by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir (GHP Collective/Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander). From Nov 17 (opens Nov 22). To Dec 8. 416-975-8555.

INNOVATION choreography by Robert ­Binet, José Navas and James Kudelka (­National Ballet of Canada). At the Four ­Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). Nov 22 to 28. 416-345-9595.

THE LITTLE MERMAID (Ross Petty Productions). At the Elgin (189 Yonge). From Nov 22 (opens Nov 28). To Jan 4. 1-855-599-9090.

NEEDLES & OPIUM by Robert Lepage (Ex Machina/Canadian Stage). At the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Nov 22 to Dec 1. 416368-3110.

GOD OF CARNAGE by Yasmina Reza (Studio 180/Off-Mirvish). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). From Nov 23 (opens Nov 27). To Dec 15. 416-872-1212.

JABBER by Marcus Youssef (Geordie Productions/Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). Nov 26 to Dec 7. 416-862-2222.

ONCE by Enda Walsh, Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard (Mirvish). At the Royal Alexandra (260 King West). Nov 26 to Jan 5.

416-872-1212.

PARFUMERIE by Miklós László (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House).

From Nov 27 (opens Nov 28). To Dec 21.

416-866-8666.

December

THE KIDS IN THE HALL – RUSTY AND READY Sketch comedy (TOsketchfest). At Isabel Bader (93 Charles West). Dec 4 to 7. torontosketchfest.com PROJECT L – THE WORLD THAT YOU CREATED choreography by Hanna Kiel (Human Body Expression/DanceWorks co-works).

At the Citadel (304 Parliament). Dec 5 to 7. danceworks.ca.

THE TIN DRUM adapted from Günter Grass (UnSpun Theatre). At the Aki Studio (585 Dundas East). Dec 5 to 14. unspuntheatre.com.

THE IMPULSE FESTIVAL Improvised theatre (National Theatre of the World/Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Dec 12 to 15. 416-866-8666.

THE NUTCRACKER choreography by James Kudelka (National Ballet of Canada). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). Dec 14 to Jan 4. 416-345-9595.

THE MUSICAL OF MUSICALS, THE MUSICAL! by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart (Mirvish). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). From Dec 18 (opens Dec 19). To Jan 5.

416-872-1212.

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The Company We Keep (Theatre 20).

Nora M ­ cLellan hosts a cabaret dedicated ñ to Songs Sung Too Young. Sep 22 at 7 pm. $20.

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

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

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 THE BEST BROTHERS by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). Two very different ñ brothers learn about each other and their

mother after her death in a freak accident at the Pride parade (see story, page 66). Previews to Sep 24. Opens Sep 25 and runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$53, preview $21-$25. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, ­tarragontheatre.com.

Bone Cage by Catherine Banks (Hart House Theatre). Dark poetry and humour are used to explore the despair of young adults in rural Nova Scotia. Opens Sep 20 and runs to Oct 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 5 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and

Tim Rice (Christian Performing Arts Centre).

This musical reinvents the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. Sep 21-22, Sat 7 pm, Sun 4 pm. $10. Church on the Queensway, 1536 the Queensway. 416-255-6750, itickets. com.

Killer Diction by Matti McLean (Big Picture Cinema). A man faces killer cats and zombie actors after accidentally throwing the god of death out of his theatre in this comedy. Sep 20-22, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$25.

1035 Gerrard E. guestlistapp.com/ events/179958.

Macarena Perich Rosas/Tomasz Szrama/ Gustaf Broms (FADO Performance Art Cen-

tre). Artist talk (Wed, 7 pm, free, at Hub 14, 14 Markham) and performances. Opens Sep 25 and runs to Sep 28, Wed and Sat 7 pm. $10. Collective Space, 221 Sterling, Studio 5. ­performanceart.ca.

On The Rocks by Louise Pitre (Theatre Passe Muraille). Pitre tells her story of her journey through life and love in this solo musical show (see story, page 67). Opens Sep 25 and runs to Sep 29, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, ­passemuraille.on.ca.

PIG by Tim Luscombe (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Three gay couples push the boundaries of their relationships through acts of emotional domination, sexual submission, compulsion and violence (see story, page 68). Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 6,

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The Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria. theatre20.com.

Dancing With Rage by Mary Walsh (Rose

Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Shakespeare-In-Hospitals Project Benefit

(Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective). Artists share their material and experiences performing for patients in a cabaretstyle show. Sep 20-22, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 1 pm. $10, Fri pwyc. Winchçester Kitchen & Bar, 51A Winchester. spurofthemomentshakespeare.weebly.com.

The Space Between by Simeon Taole (Cinema­toscape). A boy in South Africa longs to reunite with his childhood sweetheart in Canada in this solo show. Opens Sep 24 and runs to Sep 28, Tue-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20.

Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315. thespacebetweenstage.com.

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (Studio BLR). A punk rock couple host Stella’s sister in this adaptation that features a live band practice scene instead of the poker game (see website for band lineup). Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10.

Starts in Dragon Alley, Dragon Alley Lane, Dufferin north of College. 416-364-4556, ­facebook.com/events/210188342480254.

Tapestry Briefs (Tapestry New Opera).

Short creations by librettist/composer combos are performed, featuring playwrights Morris Panych and Julie Tepperman, composers Jocelyn Morlock and Patrick Arteaga and others. Sep 19-22, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 316. t­ apestryopera.com.

Tick, Tick... Boom! by Jonathan Larson (Angel­walk Theatre). This autobiographical musical depicts the journey that led to the creation of the Broadway blockbuster RENT. Previews Sep 21-24. Opens Sep 25 and runs to Oct 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Thu 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$55. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855-985-2787, angelwalk.ca.

The Underpants by Steve Martin (Alumnae Theatre). A housewife becomes an instant celebrity after accidentally losing her underpants in public. Opens Sep 20 and runs to Oct 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for-1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, ­alumnaetheatre.com.

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Previewing The Flood Thereafter by Sarah Berthiume (Canadian Stage/Theatre Dept @ ñ York University). An eerie daily striptease rit-

ual in a small-town bar is interrupted by a stranger’s arrival in this play evoking the sirens of ancient Greek myth (see story, page 67). Previews Sep 22-25, Sun 2 pm, Tue-Wed 8 pm. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 6, TueSat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

Tainted by Kat Lanteigne (Gromkat Productions/Moyo Theatre). Set against the backdrop of Canada’s tainted blood scandal, a family fights to stay intact when tragedy strikes. Previews Sep 25. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 12, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $27-$42. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 1-800-204-0855, ­gromkat.com.

One-Nighters Celebrity Karaoke (Renaissance Theatre). This funder for the company feañ tures, Tabby Johnson, Maja Ardal, Tony Nappo and others, a silent auction and more. Sep 22 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W, second floor. rsvp.renaissancecanada@gmail. com.

Theatre). Walsh performs her solo show featuring characters she has played over the years and scenes about pop culture and politics. Sep 19 at 8 pm. $59-$69. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

Ladies In Trouble (HH Theatre). This funder for HHT’s upcoming show features performances by Sky Gilbert, Kirsten Johnson, David-Benjamin Tomlinson, RM Vaughan and others, plus host Keith Cole. Sep 22 at 7 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com/event/ladies-in-trouble.

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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, 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. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin, Herbert and Dorothy Fields (Civic Light Opera Company). This musical portrays the life of Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley. Runs to Sep 22, 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) Dine Her by Bruce Hunter (Realspace Theatre).

This interactive zombie comedy looks at how gentrification strips neighbourhoods of life.

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. Runs to Sep 28, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20. 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. Runs to Sep 21, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22.50. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace.

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Graph Theatre Company). The female-centred company presents its take on this play about four people crippled by their ideas of societal and interpersonal oppression. Runs to Sep 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20 stu/srs $15. Ten 93 Queen W, 1093 Queen W. fevergraph.com.

Memory In The Mud (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of brick makers, POWs and transients who spent time at the Brick Works. Runs to Oct 14, see website for schedule. $10, child $5. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca/ whats-on/memory-in-the-mud.

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. 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.

Shoreditch Madonna by Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Three Seeds Productions). Visual artists living in London’s East End seek meaningful relationships and meaningful work. 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 one actor’s life. Runs to Sep 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. 922 Queen E. 416-8459411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

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. Runs to Sep 21, Thu-Sat. $10, stu/srs $8. University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Quadrangle.

416-978-8849, ucfollies.org.

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, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Glen Morris Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. ­totix.ca.

that underscore the play’s themes and ­create intimacy on the large Festival Theatre stage.

The leads, with the sole exception of Marla McLean in the title role, are excellent.

And 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, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest. com. NNNN (GS) The Light In The Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel (Shaw Festival). A protective mother must make a choice when her daughter falls in love during a 1950s Italian vacation. Runs in rep to Oct 13. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. ­shawfest. com.

LIttle Red Riding Hood (Some-

thing-Something Productions). The fairy tale gets a modern adaptation. Runs to Sep 29, Sun 2 pm. $10, child $5. Corks Winebar & Eatery, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

289-868-9527.

Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Pitting a righteous Salvation Army officer against her father, made wealthy by his munitions company, Shaw offers a series of entertaining debates on whether a morally reprehensible person can do a good deed.

Nicole Underhay in the title role, Benedict Campbell as her father and Graeme Somerville as her fiancé are excellent in director Now Weekly Jackie Maxwell’s production. Runs crop to$50-$110, 5.833stu/srs x 4.59 in rep toad Oct 19.

Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde mats $24-$55. Royal George The(Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton atre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-thebreathes new life into Wilde’s comedy of VicLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest. torian manners, using bold design touches com. NNN (JK)

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Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller (Stratford Festival). This drama looks at the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.

Runs in rep to Oct 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. ­stratfordfestival. ca.

Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). With its multiple narratives and dark humour, Shakespeare’s play about mercy, justice and forgiveness can be difficult to stage. But director Martha Henry’s production is mostly a winning one, especially in its handling of the central plot involving a seemingly upright judge (Tom Rooney), the young innocent who kindles his lust (­Carmen Grant) and the mysterious, controlling duke who connives to make everything right (Geraint Wyn Davies). Runs in rep to Sep 28. $49$120, stu/srs $20$55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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and friendship is a generally gripping producOct 12. $50-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$55. Court tion, with fine work by Tom McCamus as the House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-themerchant of the title, Michelle Giroux as PorLake. 1-800-511-7429, s­ hawfest.com. NNN (JK) tia and Scott Wentworth as Shylock, here a The Thrill by Judith Thompson (Stratford complex character who never – even in the Festival). Thompson’s play pits Elora, a fighter famous trial scene in which he demands a for the rights of the disabled who herself is in pound of flesh – fully loses the audience’s a wheelchair, with Julian, a euthanasia advosympathy. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $49-$120, cate. The dramatic rub here is that the two stu/srs $20-$55. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, fall in love, dramatically complicating their Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival. arguments. The writing, especially the monoca. NNNN (JK) logues, is up to Thompson’s high standards, but some of the other scenes are less strong.

No Great Mischief by David S Young (ThouLucy Peacock grounds the production as the sand Islands Playhouse). Haunted by stories passionate Elora. Runs to Sep 22. $35-$90, and songs of their Scottish ancestry, two stu/srs $20-$55. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, brothers seek to reconcile their past. Runs to Stratford. ­stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun & Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Tommy by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff Gananoque. ­1000islandsplayhouse.com.

(Stratford Festival). It has a wonky narrative arc – two parts the relentless abuse of the Othello by William Shakespeare (Strateponymous boy, unable to speak, see or hear ford Festival). Director Chris Abraham’s since he was traumatized at age four, and one production picks up on the speed suggested part Tommy’s cure, his vault to superstardom in Shakespeare’s narrative, making the tale of as a pinball wizard and subsequent rejection jealousy, suspicion, manipulation and murder of fame. But the production, under Des Mcmove at a breakneck pace. The cast, especially Anuff, is so gorgeous, thanks to Sean NieuDion Johnstone in the title role and Graham wenhuis’s spectacular projections, that you Abbey as the deceitful Iago, give the text a almost don’t notice. And the cast is excellent, strong emotional reading. Runs in rep to Oct especially Kira Guloien and Jeremy Kushnier 19. $49-$120, stu/srs $20-$55. Avon Theatre, as Tommy’s parents, Steve Ross as wicked 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, Uncle Ernie and Paul Nolan as the bully Cousin ­stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Kevin. The weak link is Robert Markus as the Our Betters by W Somerset Maugham grown-up Tommy, who can’t convey the va(Shaw Festival). Maugham’s little-known cancy of the sense-deprived lad and lacks the 1915 comedy-drama about a group of Amercharisma to convince us he could mesmerize ican heiresses who have bought their way into audiences as a pop culture hero. But the reEuropean society puts a clever, stylish twist on frain ‘See me, feel me, touch me, heal me’ the age-old theme of money not guaranteeing does bring a tear to the eye. Runs in rep to Oct happiness. In the hands of director Morris 19. $52-$175. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, StratPanych, it’s wildly entertaining stuff full of ford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. sexual indiscretions and bittersweet truths, NNN (Susan G Cole) with first-rate performances by Laurie Paton, Catherine McGregor, Neil Barclay and Claire Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett Jullien as the society woman manipulating (Stratford Festival). Beckett’s most everyone. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $50-$110, stu/ famous play features Stratford’s best pairing srs mats $24-$55. Royal George Theatre, 85 of the season: Stephen Ouimette and Tom Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, Rooney as Estragon and Vladimir, passing the shawfest.com. NNNN (GS) time on a wilderness road they can’t seem to leave. They capture the comedy and seriousPeace In Our Time: A Comedy by John Murrell ness in the script, as does Randy Hughson’s (Shaw Festival). Murrell’s adaptation of Berdowntrodden Lucky; too bad Brian Dennehy’s nard Shaw’s Geneva is a blend of satire and Pozzo only comes to life in the second act. slapstick that explores international diploRuns in rep to Sep 26. $49-$120, stu/srs $20macy and justice after the First World War, $55. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, though it has clear contemporary resonance RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Sept19__V 13-09-11 10:06 AMstratfordfestival.

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Jon Fisch w/ Andrew Ivimey and host Anthony P DeVito. To Sep 22, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15 or JFL42 pass (jfl42.com). Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

ANTHONY JESELNIK JFL42 presents the comic in a live show. To Sep 20, Thu 7 pm, Fri 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE BAR presents a weekly open-mic w/ rotating hosts. 9:30 pm. Free.

1952 Danforth. sssuperfly@hotmail.com.

JANEANE GAROFALO JFL42 presents the comedy writer/actor in a live stand-up show. To Sep 22, Thu-Fri and Sun 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. ­jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR JFL42 presents Mark L­ ittle & Kyle Dooley (Thu-Sat and Mon 7 pm); Jerrod Carmichael (Thu-Sun 9 pm); Set List – stand-up without a net (Thu-Mon 11 pm). TRU42 show w/ surprise guests in the Cabaret Space Thu-Sun 10 pm. To Sep 23.

JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE DRAKE JFL42 presents Sam Simmons, Ben Roy, Graham Chittenden, Jo-Anna Downey Presents featuring Mike Wilmot, Rob Pue & Darren Frost, Daryn Jones, Ivan Decker and others. See website for detailed schedule. To Sep 27, Wed-Sun 6 pm, Mon-Tue 8 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON JFL42 presents Ivan Decker, Daryn Jones (see Q&A, page 65), Ben Roy, Kurt Metzger and others. See website for detailed schedule. To Sep 23, Thu and Sun-Mon, sets at 7, 9 and 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439, jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI JFL42 presents Chris Locke, Kurt Metzger, Ben Roy, Ryan Belleville, Jo-­Anna Downey Presents featuring Nikki Payne, Brent Weinbach and others. See website for detailed schedule. To Sep 28, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun sets at 7, 9 and 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Rivoli, 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

Joe RogaN Just for Laughs presents the comic in a live stand-up show. 8 pm. $35.50-$55.50.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly show. 9 pm.

Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

NOT MY DOG COMEDY presents a weekly open mic w/ host Hannah Hogan. 8:30 pm. Free.

Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397.

SIRIUSXM NEXT TOP COMIC JFL42 presents a new comics showcase and competition.

10:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, jfl42.com.

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 and musical design help enhance the scenes. Not to be missed. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $24-$29, stu $15 (limited spaces for JFL42 pass holders between Sep 19-28, see jfl42.com). 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN JFL42 presents Ben Roy. 8 pm. $13 or JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, jfl42.com.

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Friday, September 20 Absolute Comedy/JFL42 See Thu 19.

Anthony Jeselnik See Thu 19.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly im-

prov pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COLIN QUINN JFL42 presents the comic/ SNL alum in a live show. 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

Janeane Garofalo See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ Comedy Bar See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

SARAH SILVERMAN JFL42 presents the comic in a live show in one of the festival’s marquee events. 7 & 10 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.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 19.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN JFL42 presents Left Hook Right Jab, political comedy w/ Glen Foster and Alan Park. To Sep 21, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $22 or JFL42 pass. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, jfl42.com.

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Back To School Perfect 10 Comedy presents

Bob Kerr, Daniel Woodrow, Amanda BrookePerrin, Rhiannon Archer and Craig Fay. 9:30 pm. $15-$20. The LOT Comedy Club, 100 Ossington. 416-915-6747.

BILL BURR JFL42 presents the comic in a live show. 7 & 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($69$299). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET presents headliner Daniela Saioni, Catherine McCormick, Ashley Moffat, Laura Di Labio, Nola Cooks, Rush Zilla, Avery Edison, Hannah Hogan, MC Joel West and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. r­ edrocketcoffee.com.

JFL42 @ Comedy Bar See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Rivoli See Thu 19.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 19.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Fri 20.

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HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents Silvi

Santoso, Paul Kelso, Lincoln Trudeau, Todd Graham, host Justin Laite and others. 8 pm.

Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

Janeane Garofalo See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ Comedy Bar See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Garrison See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Rivoli See Thu 19.

JO-ANNA DOWNEY FUNRAISER 3 The Underground Club presents a benefit comedy and dinner show for the local comic suffering from ALS. Dinner 7 pm, show 8 pm. $40 sugg donation for dinner & show, or pwyc.

670 Queen E. 416-450-9125, ­puffmama.ca.

THE PLAYGROUND Playful Grounds presents weekly open-mic comedy w/ hosts Kris Siddiqi and Melissa Story. 9 pm. Free. 605 College. 416-645-0484, ­playfulgrounds.com.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly show w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­thesketchersons.com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 19.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN JFL42 presents Kurt Metzger. 8 pm. $13 or JFL42 pass ($69-$299).

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, jfl42.com.

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Mark DeBonis, Laurie Elliott, Alex Pavone, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. $5 or JFL42 pass. 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

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CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub

presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy. 9 pm.

Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

CLOCKWORK [ORANGE IS THE NEW] BLACK The Dandies present an improvised narrative about privilege in today’s society, inspired by novels by Anthony Burgess and Piper Kerman.

To Oct 7, Mondays 7:30 pm. $5. Measure, 296 Brunswick. improvdandies.wordpress.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.

JFL42 @ Comedy Bar See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

JFL42 @ The Garrison See Thu 19.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents a pro comic show w/ hosts Chris Allin & Brian Ward. 8 pm. Free.

The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

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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.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR JFL42 presents Brent Weinbach (Wed 7 pm); Sean Patton (Tue-Wed 9 pm); Andy Kindler (Tue-Wed 11 pm). TRU42 show w/ surprise guests in the Cabaret Space Tue-Wed 10 pm. To Sep 25.

JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

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FORE I DIE Just for Laughs presents the legendary comic actor telling stories of his life and engaging in Q&A with the audience. To Sep 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 5 pm. $75. ­Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855622-2787, hahaha.com/johncleese.

MARC MARON JFL42 presents the podcast host/actor in a live stand-up show (see story, page 64). 7 & 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Sonic Espresso Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 10:30 pm. Free. 60 Cecil. facebook. com/skinofmynuts.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 19.

THE WILD CARD Top Shelf Comedy presents 4 pros, 4 lottery spots and 1 first-timer w/ hosts Chris Allin & Brian Ward. 8:30 pm. Free. Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

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416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts Joel Buxton, Amanda Brooke Perrin, DJ Demers, Mikey Kolberg, Steve Patrick Adams and Jordan Foisy. 9:30pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Corktown Productions presents an open-mic show w/ Francis Brian Shaw, Rose Giles, Jean Paul, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

I Seen you On Tv The National Theatre of the World and JFL42 present improv by comics seen on TV shows/ads w/ Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, Sandy Jobin Bevans, Amy Matis­yo and others. 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($69$299). Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. jfl42.com.

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JFL42 @ The Drake See Thu 19.

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JOHN MULANEY JFL42 presents the SNL writer in a live stand-up show. To Sep 26, ñ Wed-Thu 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Queen

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Sommet/Mandingue/Summit Baobab Afrikan Arts presents a West African drum and dance festival with performances, workshops, film screenings, kids’ events and more. Opens Sep 25 and runs to Sep 29, see website for schedule. Free-$20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. 647-557-3449, baobabarts.ca.

With A Trace DanceWorks, firstthingsfirst productions and Harbourfront NextSteps present work by Peggy Baker, ­Valerie Calam and Mélanie Demers (see story, page 68). Sep 19-21, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $18.75$37.50. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, danceworks.ca.

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Stages Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects presents new choreographic works by Jennifer Dallas and Tedd Robinson. Runs to Sep 21, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$20. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 647-330-1753, kemiprojects.ca.

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Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

KYLE KINANE JFL42 presents the Comedy Central star in a live stand-up show. 9 & 11 pm.

JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. jfl42.com.

MARIA BAMFORD JFL42 presents the Comedy Central star and voice actor in a live stand-up show. To Sep 28, Wed-Thu and Sat 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($69-$299). Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. jfl42.com.

MATCH GAME LIVE JFL42 and the Comedy Network present a live and uncensored game show in which competitors match answers to fill-in-the-blank questions with a panel of the festival’s comics. 10:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($69$299). Second City, 51 Mercer. jfl42.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Jonathan Wright and headliner Aaron Weingott. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

WAYWARD Bad Dog Theatre present all-­ female improv about a religious girls school.

To Oct 9, Wednesdays 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

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books

Katrina Onstad

Wor d on t h e St r e et

Book-lover’s paradise Annual lit fest features at least one of your favourite authors By susan g. Cole This year’s all-day literary love-in features nearly 150 authors of all kinds, with lots of stuff for kids, too. Wander around, peek into the tents (I’m hosting at the Great Books Marquee from 3:30 pm until the end of day), chow down at the food trucks and pay attention to these writers in parti­cular.

WORD ON THE STREET

eadings, panels and, book R tables at Queens Park Circle (University north of College), Sunday (September 22), 11 am to 6 pm. Free. ­thewordonthestreet.ca.

12:45 pm, Great Books Marquee

JOSEPH BOYDEN

3 pm, Bestsellers Stage

Swan was Giller-shortlisted for her strangely beautiful, almost experimental The Boys In Trees (reviewed at nowtoronto.com), and comes back with My Ghosts, another intricate novel about family secrets (Knopf).

Boyden has turned into Canada’s foremost aboriginal writer, snagging the Giller Prize for Through Black Spruce in 2009. His new book, The Orenda (Hamish Hamilton), again searches our nation’s soul, this time through a fictional account of a First Nations elder who connects with a sympathetic Jesuit missionary.

$10/FREE for supporters, students & youth Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org

I was knocked out by Lundrigan’s dread-filled novel, Glass Boys, which copped a spot on my top-10 books list. In The Widow Tree (Douglas & McIntyre), she again mines the roiling emotions of teenagers in the story of a trio who find Roman coins and can’t agree on what to do with them.

Barry Dempster/Don Domanski Dempster

The Writers’ Union of Canada Showcase featuring LAWRENCE HILL (Canada) Host: John Degen

launches Invisible Dogs, Domanski launches Bite Down Little Whisper. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

Matt Mernagh Reading from The Marijuana Smoker’s Guidebook. 7:30 pm. Free. Underground Club, 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761.

12 Authors Readings by Canadian Authors Assoc, Crime Writers of Canada and East End Writers’ Group members. 7 pm. Free. Victory Cafe (upstairs), 581 Markham. ­canadianauthorstoronto.org.

Friday, September 20 Chris Hedges Evening with the Pulitzer

ñPrize-winning journalist/author/activist.

7:30 pm. $20. Bloor Street United Church, 300 rhythmic presentations by Osaze, readings

Elizabeth Ruth

1:45 pm, Great Books Marquee; 5 pm, Wordshop Marquee In her politically complex novel Matadora (Cormorant), Ruth tells the story of a young woman determined to become a matador in 1930s Spain.

2 pm, Wordshop Marquee

Hard to resist the host of the Food Network’s Eat St., who hits town with Eat St.: Recipes From The Tastiest, Messiest, And Most Irresistible Food Trucks (Penguin). You know where to park yourself.

Thursday, September 19

Elizabeth Ruth

HELEN HUMPHREYS PRISCILA UPPAL

noon, Bestsellers Stage

Rhapso Prosodies – The Poetry And Paintings Of Charles Roach Book launch with september 19-25 2013 NOW

The local writer famous for messing with just about every genre returns to fiction for the first time since 1993 with The Last Of The Lumberman (Cormorant), about a man living a lie in a logging town in northern BC.

JAMES CUNNINGHAM

Bloor W. canadiandimension.com.

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3:30 pm, Great Books Marquee

Humphreys (Nocturne, HarperCollins) and Uppal (Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother, Thomas Allen), both authors of James memoirs about family Cunningham members, sit on a panel aptly named Skeletons In The Closet.

readings this week

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 25 7:30PM York Quay Centre Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto

Onstad’s deft Everybody Has Everything (McClelland & Stewart), about a woman struggling with her disinclination to have children, was one of NOW’s top 10 books of 2012 and is on the short list for the Toronto Book Award.

NICOLE LUNDRIGAN

Joseph Boyden

4:30 pm, Remarkable Reads Tent

11:30 am and 3:30 pm, Toronto Book Awards Tent

Nicole Lundrigan

Mary Swan

MARY SWAN

KATRINA ONSTAD

and music. 7 pm. $20. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. 416-538-0889.

SPEAKout Poetry Slam Poets including Myra Arahad, Breanne Chanelle, Randell Adjel and Lex Taylor battle it out for for cash prizes. 7 pm. $15. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­speakoutpoetry.com.

Saturday, September 21 Joseph Boyden Meet and dine with the au-

thor of The Orenda. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. Pre-register 416-361-0032.

Sunday, September 22 Joseph Boyden/Wayson Choy/Terry Fallis/Lee Maracle/Kyo Maclear/ ñ Nino Ricci (Canadians for Justice and Peace in

the Middle East benefit) Reading. 7 pm. $30, adv $25. Friends’ House, 60 Lowther. 416-7812437, cjpme.org.

Adam Leith Gollner/Charles Wilkins/Michael Paterniti/Charlotte Gray Authors’ brunch. 10 am. $50. King Edward Hotel, 37

King E. 416-361-0032.

Magical Evening With Canadian Authors

Readings by Claudio Gaudio, Con Cú, Caroline Vu, Ira Nayman and Nicole Chardenet. 7 pm.

Free. Habits Gastropub, 928 College. Reserve deuxvoiliers@gmail.com.

Sunday Poetry Poetry and an open mic.

11:30 am. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-652-9111.

The Word On The Street Author readings, literacy exhibits, comic arts, a kids tent, workshops and panels with authors including Joseph Boyden, Joy Fielding, Thomas King, L Marie Adeline and Anthony De Sa. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Queen’s Park Circle, Queen’s Park south of Bloor. thewordonthestreet.ca.

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Monday, September 23 Arlene Chan Launch for The Chinese Com-

munity In Toronto: Then And Now. 4 pm. Free.

Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina.

416-979-3939.

Angela Miles Launch for Women In A Globalizing World: Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity And Peace. 5:30 pm. Free.

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ProgramS and EvEntS PrESEntS

M icah Lexier: O ne, and Two, and More Than Two

frEE Opening Party Friday, 20 September, 8 – 11 Pm Celebrate the opening of the fall exhibition by the lake and under the stars with DJ Kikileaks.

A cash bar will be available.

SUnday ScEnE

Sheila Heti Sunday, 22 September, 2 Pm FREE

Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and non-fiction. She most recently published the novel How Should a Person Be?, which was named “best book of the year” by The New York Times Book Review.

Join her on a tour when she will speak about the current exhibition. artISt talk

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Micah Lexier

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Thursday, 26 September, 7:30 Pm

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2011 Toronto Friends of the Visual Ar ts Achievement Award: Sarah Milroy

Terr y Burgoyne Vic toria Jackman

Robin & Malcolm Anthony Barr y & Debra Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Paul Chapnick Rosamond Ivey Mr. and Mrs. Harr y & Ann Malcolmson

Visit thepowerplant.org for tickets or call 416.973.4000 Micah Lexier will discuss his multi-faceted artistic practice, including his solo and collaborative projects, with an emphasis on the works in the current exhibition.

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Micah Lexier in collaboration with Derek McCormack, I am the Coin, 2010. 20,000 custom-minted coins.

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OISE Peace Lounge, 252 Bloor W. inanna.ca.

PARLIAMENT STREET WRITERS’ GROUP Reading.

6 pm. Free. Parliament Library, 269 Gerrard E. 416-393-7663.

MARY SULLIVAN/MOLLY O’KEEFE/SUSANNAH KEARSLEY Reading from their genre fiction.

6:15 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. nightoutwithauthors@gmail.com.

Tuesday, September 24 MAHLIKAH AWE:RI Poetry and an open mic. 7 pm. Pwyc. Queen Gallery, 382 Queen E. facebook.com/events/614610415229996.

DAVID LEE/PAULA EISENSTEIN Reading. 7 pm.

Free. St Clair/Silverthorn Library, 1748 St Clair W. 416-393-7709.

PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: CANADA’S DEVELOPMENT NGOS FROM IDEALISM TO PROTECTIONISM Launch for a book by Nikolas

Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay. 6 pm. Free. Baha’i Centre, 288 Bloor W. 416-494-1440 ext 225.

MARIA PAEZ VICTOR Launching her book Liberty Or Death. 7:30 pm. Free. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Wednesday, September 25 CHARLOTTE GRAY Talking about her mystery

novel The Massey Murder. 1:30 pm. $25 min.

Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. 416504-8222 ext 243.

TAMARA LEVITT Launch for Happiness Doesn’t Come From Headstands. 7 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

ROBERT ROTENBERG Talking about his new crime book, Stranglehold. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA SHOWCASE Reading by novelist Lawrence Hill, and a ñ discussion on the changing face of writing in

Canada with Farzana Doctor, Eric Enno Tamm and Hill. 7:30 pm. $18, youth free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. books@nowtoronto.com

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art

Andy DeCola’s Ceremony is one of many wholly original works at Neubacher Shor.

PAINTING

DeCola delights Bold paintings create fields of pleasure By DAVID JAGER ANDY DECOLA at Neubacher Shor

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Contemporary (5 Brock), to October 5. 416-546-3683. Rating: NNNN

Organic unity doesn’t seem to be a concern for young Toronto painters.

Andy DeCola’s surreal pop sensibility is one example. His surfaces hit the eye with a cheerful wallop, but unresolved tensions are churning away inside them.

DeCola has already shown his gift for creating fields of immense visual pleasure, layering scanned bits of advertising and other mass media onto his canvases in his trademark icecream pastels. His bold juxtapositions and abstractions generally work well with his eye-popping palette.

This new series shares the same elements. Scanned images from surfing, travel and fashion magazines are seemingly applied to surfaces with the same bold colour sense and hallucinatory flatness. A new fascination with mirror images and kaleidoscopic symmetry, however, has overtaken this work, along with some

darker, murkier shades. The results are more meditative and staid.

Even so, his paintings refuse to stay put. In Ceremony, a large abstracted floral pattern, the “petals” in the background threaten to overwhelm the foreground’s wallpaper pattern, creating an eerie digital flatness. The shifting elements hold together, but barely.

In Mountains Beyond Mountains the same kind of reconstituted imagery churns into something surreally new. A stack of hats sampled from a fashion magazine is elongated into a branch-like form connected to another shape made of bold fabric patterns. These converge over a grey mountain range digitally manipulated into almost unreadable abstraction. It’s at once visually pleasing, maddening and impossible to place.

Is it pop? Is it abstract? Is he quoting Jeff Koons, Neo Rauch or Sigmar Polke? It’s all these things and none of them. While mining the visual grammar of painting over the last 30 years, DeCola forges his own vocabulary.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS A SPACE GALLERY New media: Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw, Sep 21-Oct 26. 401 Richmond W. 416-979-9633.

BAU-XI PHOTO Barbara Cole, to Sep 28.

324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

CANADIAN ART GALLERY HOP Panel 11 am (Drake Underground), tours 1-5:30 pm Sep 21. canadianart.ca/hopday.

ESP Collage/sculpture: Maggie Groat, to Oct 5. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005.

FEHELEY FINE ARTS Itee Pootoogook, Sep 21Oct 19, reception/artist talk 2-5 pm. 65 George. 416-323-1373.

GALLERY 44 Photos/installation: Susan Dobson, Matt Macintosh and Joyce Lau, to Oct 12.

401 Richmond W, unit 120. 416-979-3941.

NOW Books Editor

Susan G. Cole hosts ThE GrEaT BOOkS MarquEE

with Brian Fawcett, ann Ireland Chad Pelley and Scott Carter

Sunday, September 22 3:30 to 5:30 pm queen’s Park

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by Michelle Sagara

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GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY

Painting: Scott Everingham, to Oct 6.

1520 Queen W. 416-821-3060.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Brent Roe, Scotch Camera and Pockets Warhol, Sep 2026, reception 2-7 pm Sep 21 (benefit for Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary). Lisa Perlman, Sep 19-Oct 1, reception 7-10 pm Sep 19. Juliana Neufeld and Hannah Pertsovsky, to Dec 1. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Pan American Food Fest: Childhood: Yummy Memories, Sep 20-22. Other Worlds, Weird, Wonderscape, Between The Lines group shows, Sep 21-Dec 29. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

INTERACCESS Sound installation: Eli Keszler, Sep 20-Nov 23, reception/performance 6-9 pm Sep 20. 9 Ossington.

416-532-0597.

JESSICA BRADLEY Hadley + Maxwell, Sep 21-Oct 19, reception 4:30-7:30 pm, artist talk 5 pm Sep 21. 74 Miller. 416537-3125.

NARWHAL Collage/drawing/ sculpture: Jacob Whibley, to Sep 29. 2988 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Edward Burtynsky, to Oct 12 (also 80 Spadina, #404). 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

PARI NADIMI Photos/installation: George Legrady, Elle Kurancid and Ash Moniz, to Oct 26. 254 Niagara. 416591-6464.

P/M GALLERY Painting: Anda Kubis, to Oct 12, reception 4-7 pm Sep 21. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

PREFIX Trade Marks group show, Sep 19-Nov 23, reception 7-10 pm Sep 19.

401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL Sep 21-22, Queen btwn Bathurst and Roncesvalles. queenwestartcrawl.com.

VERSO Photos: Julie Jenkinson, to Sep 28. 1160 Queen W. 416-5336362.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO Ai Weiwei, to Oct 27 ($16.50-$25; Wed after 6 pm $12.50). David Bowie Is, ñ Sep 25-Nov 27 ($21.50-$30; Wed after 6 pm

$15). Aimia Photography Prize, to Jan 5. $11$19.50, 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.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Wafaa Bilal, to Oct 19. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, to Oct 15. An Te Liu, to Nov 11. $6-$12; Fri 4-9 pm half-price. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Bouchra Khalili, to Oct 27. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

MARKHAM MUSEUM Land/Slide: Possible Futures, Sep 21-Oct 14, see website for info on bus from MOCCA (landslide-possiblefutures. com). 9350 Markham. 905-294-4576.

MOCCA David Cronenberg: Transformations, to Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT Micah Lexier, Sep 20-Jan 5, reception 8-11 pm Sep 20. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM Mesopotamia, to Jan 5 ($24-$27). Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12. $15, stu/srs $13.50; discounts Fri 4:30-8:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Image arts students, to Oct 27. Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance.

Art., to Dec 15. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Oct 13. Farandole: Western Canadian Métis Culture, to Nov 14. $6-$15; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Lutz Dille, to Nov 14. Framing Narratives, to Mar 8. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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movies Mad about Hugh

actor interview

Hugh Jackman

Actor talks about anger, connecting with strangers and his awards-worthy performance in Prisoners

By NORMAN WILNER Prisoners directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Aaron Guzikowski, with Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrence Howard and Paul Dano. A Warner Bros. release. 153 minutes. Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84.

Hugh Jackman sits down with me a few hours before he’s due to walk the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival for Prisoners. Denis Villeneuve’s film is grim and intense, but Jackman is smiling and upbeat. In fairness, he ­always is. It’s just his nature.

Prisoners casts Jackman – fresh off his first Oscar nomination, for Les Mis­érables – as Keller Dover, a desper­ ate father who’ll do anything to get his abducted daughter back, including grabbing the prime suspect (Paul Dano) and torturing him in hopes of learning something the police couldn’t.

The movie, which placed third in the running for this year’s TIFF Peo­ ple’s Choice Award, has a few prob­ lems, but Jackman isn’t one of them; he gives a hell of a performance as a man of faith willing to become a mon­ ster if it saves his child. Oscar talk is inevitable for this kind of role, but I don’t think that’s why Jackman took the part. I think he saw something in the character of the raging Keller that he wanted to explore in himself.

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PRISONERS (Denis Villeneuve) / Rating: NNN When his young daughter and her friend vanish without a trace, a Pennsylvania contractor (Hugh Jackman) grabs the most likely suspect (Paul Dano), hides him away and prepares to beat the truth out of him.

The first two-​thirds of Denis Villeneuve’s Hollywood debut play out like an intimate metaphor for America’s response to 9/11. Jackman’s character stands in for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and the parents of the other

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abducted girl (Terrence Howard and Viola Davis) for Regular America, worried about the implications of his behaviour but willing to look the other way if it makes them feel safe again.

Jackman’s entirely convincing as a righteous hothead, and Villeneuve frames his performance in a manner that makes him seem like the sanest man in the room at any given moment.

But he’s unable to keep Aaron Guzikowski’s screenplay from collapsing into overwrought, mildly preposterous contrivance when the time comes to wrap things up.

And there’s simply no reason this movie NW needed to be two and a half hours long.

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“I believe our relationship to violence,” he says, “is our complete reluctance to look at it within ourselves.

It’s always an Other. I think it’s so easy to go [sighs], ‘Oh, the Middle East,’ you know? But this is in all of us, these primal urges.”

The role of Dover was an interesting choice. The character’s entire identity is built on his notion of himself as an alpha male protector – not unlike the ultra-capable Logan, whom he’s played in half a dozen X-Men projects, most recently this summer’s well-received solo venture, The Wolverine. But Logan is a fearless superhero, and Keller Dover… well, he’s neither of those things.

“To me, the title Prisoners [means] not so much that we’re all prisoners of the situation, but we are prisoners to those fears, elemental fears,” he says.

“And everything we do in life stems from that. In this situation it’s like you’re inside the jar. You get to see the morass of what their fear is, because it plays out. And you watch people unravel.”

Keller’s unravelling is the sort of performance that may shock Jackman’s diehard fans, who know him – from his jaunty Twitter account and his willingness to send himself up at any and every opportunity – as a singularly cheerful and decent person.

“I think in life and in acting I wanna experience the real stuff,” he says. “I mean, all of us act, but the authenticity that something like this provides?

It’s a chance to actually bare your soul.

And I love that on stage, too, when you can actually just go” – he pauses to exhale – “‘Here it is.’

“That’s what it’s all about, that connection,” says the Tony Award winner. “It’s amazing how you can feel this kind of elation and connectiveness with complete strangers. It can happen in a film situation; it can happen on stage.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal (left) and Hugh Jackman shift into high gear in Prisoners.

DOCUMENTARY

Fab Freda GOOD OL’ FREDA (Ryan White). 86

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minutes. Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NNNN

If they hadn’t made a movie about her, you would not believe Freda Kelly could exist.

Kelly ran the Beatles’ official fan club through the band’s 11-year history while working as a secretary first for manager Brian Epstein and then for the Beatles themselves.

In the early days, she made sure the lads signed every photograph – the boys themselves resisted using stamped signatures – and so empathized with the screaming hordes that she went the distance for them. She once gave Ringo a pillowcase to sleep

Freda Kelly never flaunted her connection with Paul McCartney and the other Beatles.

ROM-COM SPY MOVIE

Details about J.D. Salinger’s war years stand out in this tedious, overlong doc.

Fallen Star

MY LUCKY STAR (Dennie Gordon). 113 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: N

LITERARY DOC

Phony flick SALINGER (Shane Salerno). 129 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84.

Rating: NN Shane Salerno’s film about the reclusive author of The Catcher In The Rye is less a documentary than a slimy piece of publicity. Salerno has co-written a new book on the man, and apparently five new works by Salinger, who died in 2010, will be published between 2015 and 2020.

Consider this a two-hour promo for these J.D. Salinger products.

It certainly feels like a trailer at times, with soaring, bombastic music underscoring lofty pronouncements about Salinger’s genius and enduring popularity. Really, do we need Martin Sheen, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John Cusack and Edward Norton to say he’s great?

How about a few naysayers?

Some rare photos of Salinger during the Second World War – including a picture of him working on Catcher – are intriguing, as is the information that his first wife may have had Nazi roots. (Remember, Salinger was half Jewish.)

Thankfully, Salerno explores his subject’s creepy fascination with young women. Interviews with two of his idealized innocents – Jean Miller, whom he met in his 30s when she was 14, and future novelist Joyce Maynard, who lived with him for a time – provide some insight into the man’s psyche and work.

Salerno attempts no literary analysis, however, and opts for embarrassing recreations that include pretentious episodes in which a tortured, chain-smoking figure paces the room and taps into a typewriter while scenes from his life play out on a screen behind him.

As Catcher’s anti-hero, Holden Caulfield, might say: these are so GLENN SUMI phony.

Watching Zhang Ziyi hunching and preening in a strained effort to be as adorable as a cat licking her paws will make you cringe.

The once mighty international star, most familiar as the firecracker in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the tragic seductress in Wong Kar-wai’s 2046, is now working China’s middling rom-com scene, doing her best impression of Reese Witherspoon and Sex And The City’s Carrie Bradshaw.

In this pitiful prequel to 2009’s Sophie’s Revenge, Zhang plays the titular travel agent and comic book artist, a

on so she could send it to a fan.

Steadfastly loyal, Kelly never flaunted her close connection to the Fab Four, even post breakup, not telling her children about it until this doc was being made.

No surprise, she has memorabilia to die for.

Kelly’s amazing enough, but what makes the doc essential is its intimate portrait of the band, from their days playing the Cavern – when Kelly would skip out of her typing pool at lunch to see them – to the point when they came apart. It’s all seen from the unique perspective of a woman who never idolized them and basically grew up with them.

From our North American viewpoint, the Beatles were major stars expertly marketed by the savvy Epstein in swinging England.

Good Ol’ Freda makes the era look SUSAN G. COLE much more innocent. hopeless romantic who dreams of falling in love with a dapper spy. While on vacation in Singapore, Sophie’s fantasy materializes in the person of the bland David (Wang Leehom), and she gets caught up in the not so secret agent’s hunt for the world’s biggest diamond, which some nefarious types plan to turn into a WMD. The whole enterprise plays more like Inspector Gadget than The Spy Who Loved Me, with cartoonish villains and pratfall comedy that belong on Treehouse TV. American TV director Dennie Gordon serves as a hired hand who, along with large chunks of English dialogue, is meant to make the movie appeal to North American audiences.

If this dreck is what the Chinese market thinks we like, you have to wonder what kind of impression our movies make on them.

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Zhang Ziyi and Wang Leehom aren’t so Lucky in their choice of film.

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Noriko and Ushio Shinohara don’t pull any punches in Cutie And The Boxer.

Big knockout CUTIE AND THE BOXER (Zachary

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Heinzerling). 82 minutes. Subtitled.

Opens Friday (September 20) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 84. Rating:

NNNNN There are plenty of eccentric couples in the art world, but few compare to Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, the fascinating pair at the centre of Cutie And The Boxer.

One of Japan’s leading avant-garde artists, Ushio is best known for his “boxing” paintings made by punching canvases with paint-smeared gloves, and big sculptures constructed from recycled cardboard. When he moved to New York City in the 1960s, he became famous – there’s a great picture of him with Warhol – but his works didn’t sell.

In his early 40s, he met 19-year-old Japanese art student Noriko. Over the next few decades, she raised their son and became Ushio’s unpaid cook and

documentary

Little faith Unclaimed (Michael Jorgensen). 77 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NN

The theme of faith runs strongly through Michael Jorgensen’s highly problematic Unclaimed – the faith of believers, and how far people will go in the name of a cause they hold dear.

In the case of this documentary, the believer is Tom Faunce, a Vietnam veteran (and bornagain Christian) dedicated to finding American prisoners of war and bringing them home again. His cause is Dang Than Ngoc, an elderly man living in Vietnam who claims to be John Hartley Robertson, an American GI listed as missing in action after a helicopter crash in

1968. (His status was later changed to killed in action.)

Ngoc only speaks Vietnamese and isn’t terribly clear on most of the details of Robertson’s life, but he insists he is Robertson – and we’re told it’s possi­ble that his spotty memory and inability to speak English could be the result of the trauma of the crash.

Jorgensen follows Faunce as he works to confirm Ngoc’s identity, but before too long I noticed that certain essential investigative steps – like fingerprinting and DNA testing, or even researching the history of Ngoc’s claim – were being actively avoided for fear that addressing those elements would undermine Ngoc’s case, impede Faunce’s need to find the closure for others that he can’t find for himself and deny Unclaimed the upbeat ending it’s determined to have, all evidence to the contrary.

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Argo? Not Our Man in Tehran (Larry Weinstein, Drew Taylor). 85 minutes. Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NNN

When Sam Rockwell takes aim, you better look out.

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Sam’s Shot A Single Shot (David M. Rosenthal). 116 minutes. Opens Friday (September 20).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NNN

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assistant while her own work was put on hold.

The film opens as Ushio turns 80 and they’re struggling to pay the rent.

He’s three years sober, but their adult son obviously has a drinking problem.

Collectors express some interest, but no one’s buying. And Noriko begins working on a series of autobiographi­ cal drawings inspired by her relationship with her bullying, self-absorbed husband.

Director Zachary Heinzerling gets great access to the couple, whose arguments are full of buried resentments.

Look how a discussion of Steven Spielberg’s films segues to a dig about artists’ later works. And it’s great to see the power dynamic subtly change as Ushio is blocked and Noriko finds her voice.

Heinzerling cleverly mixes presentday footage with home movies, old photos and even another doc on then rising star Ushio for maximum ­emotional effect. What emerges is a ­complex, feminist look at the act of creation, but also a touching portrait GLENN SUMI of enduring love.

Watching Sam Rockwell work is always a pleasure. His live-wire presence galvanizes project after project – most recently Seven Psychopaths and The Way, Way Back. But when he decides to play against type, to turn down his natural charisma and disappear into a role… well, that’s even better.

Rockwell does exactly this in A Single Shot as John Moon, a shortsighted, trouble-prone farmhand and poacher with a busted marriage and an antiquated sense of pride. Hunting deer in the woods, Moon accidentally kills a young woman and discovers she was hiding a large box of cash. He takes it

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and hides the body, but of course she didn’t come alone.

Things do not go better from there, as a combination of repressed guilt and poor decision-making (clearly, our hero has never stumbled across A Simple Plan on cable) leads John into a series of very bad places, all of which are presented by director David M. Rosenthal as a heavy-handed cautionary tale about owning up to your mistakes and never taking things that clearly belong to someone else.

Rosenthal also encourages his supporting cast to try way too hard – ­William H. Macy pours on the Fargo skeeze as a shifty lawyer, Jason Isaacs and Joe Anderson chew scenery as pop-eyed villains, and Jeffrey Wright shuffles around like a zombie as John’s perpetually drunken friend.

But Rockwell’s so good at burrowing into his character’s torment, it’s worth watching A Single Shot for him alone.

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Given the title, you might think this Canadian-produced talking-heads look at the 1979 Iranian-U.S. hostage crisis would act as a counter to Argo, playing up the role of Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. While Tony Mendez and Taylor both show up, the focus is squarely on the history of the incident.

Those hoping Taylor would get his due as a player in the rescue will be ­disappointed, since he somehow manages to blend into the background until the second half.

But that’s appropriate, because Larry Weinstein and Drew Taylor quite rightfully concentrate on the crisis as a messy political and religious quagmire with numerous moving parts. There might not be a lot of new facts coming to light here, but the variety of voices and a fast pace make the film feel comprehensive and devoid of superfluous asides.

It also looks at how the political ­climate in Ottawa shaped the tricky process of getting American hostages out of the Canadian embassy. And ­Taylor speaks honestly about the U.S. fake-movie plan.

All of this should appeal to those critical of Ben Affleck’s Oscar-winning ANDREW PARKER film.

Ken Taylor finally gets to set the record straight.

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Bob Guccione’s story is all bark, no bite.

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Gucci smooch Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story (Barry Avrich). 96 minutes. Opens

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Slash // Producer, Nothing Left To Fear

Actor, writer, Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Famer, guitar god – now Slash can add “horror movie producer” as another a feather in his trademark top hat.

In the supernatural thriller Nothing Left To Fear, the legen­ dary Guns n’ Roses guitarist peels back the gore and guts that have come to dominate horror cinema, shooting for an old-school, Baptist Gothic feel.

How’d you go from being a fan of horror­movies to wanting to produce one?

I was given the opportunity to produce by another producer who thought I had the aptitude for it, being knowledgeable about horror movies because I’m such a fan. I don’t know anything about producing, so he ­started giving me these scripts and I absorbed them. Eventually, I got to a handful I actually liked.

Your production company is Slasher Films, so I thought this would be a slasher film. But it’s not really.

Ironically enough, “Slasher” was a good name to give it, based on my name. But what I want to do is the anti­thesis of slasher films. I think

we’ve seen a lot of variations on the slasher movie, over the past 20 years especially. I want to make movies that are more story-driven, character-driven – something with a real monster in it as opposed to just psychos running around. We’re really channelling some movies from the early 70s.

Which ones?

The main one was Rosemary’s Baby.

That was the movie that we universally thought – my partners and the director – we might want to do. It’s this slow burn, and then all hell breaks loose.

How do you feel about the current state of horror movies? You mentioned that slasher films had been kind of run into the ground. Now the

big things seems to be “torture porn.” Do you feel like genuine horror has been drained out of the genre?

A good-quality torture porn movie was Hostel. Very unnerving but very well done. If [director] Eli [Roth] set out to make people uncomfortable, he did an amazing job. So there are good ones and bad ones. There are all these gory movies focused on dismemberment, or whatever the thing is. I just want to get involved with movies that are ominous, haunting and psychologically scary. JOHN SEMLEY Listen to Slash talk about Fan Expo, April Wine and pruning actor Seymour Cassel’s pot plants in the full video interview on nowtoronto.com.

review NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR (Anthony Leonardi III) Rating: NN If only the casting of veteran character actor Clancy Brown (Highlander, Starship Troopers) were a consistent mark of quality. Sadly, not even the scowling, 40-foot tall Brown can redeem this maiden voyage from legendary rock guitarist Slash’s Slasher Films imprint.

A pastor (James Tupper) and his family move to the backwater town of Stull, Kansas, where he will lead the church. Strange visions of black-eyed ghouls begin troubling them, and it’s all too obvious that the suspiciously helpful parishioners are less than well intentioned.

Nothing Left To Fear tries for something other than the shock-and-awe stuff of much contemporary horror of the direct-to-video variety. But it swaps out one set of clichés for another: the Wicker Man-ish small-town conspiracy, the haunted house, the church that is a house of the Devil, not of God. JS None but indiscriminate fans of demonic thrillers (or Slash) need apply.

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Using archival footage and interviews with Bob Guccione’s family, friends and colleagues, Filthy Gorgeous tells the life story of the man who built the Penthouse publishing empire and a lavish lifestyle but lost it all through dumb investments – in particular, a doomed casino – and his failure to see the digital age coming.

Though this is not quite a bendover, like Brigitte Berman’s Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel, director Barry Avrich is plainly a fan. He appreciates Guccione the artist; the magazine mogul always wanted to be

a painter, signing his derivative works “Gucci,” and personally shot all those famous nudes.

As in his docs about Harvey Weinstein and Garth Drabinsky, Avrich can’t bring himself to talk to anyone who doesn’t flat-out admire his subject, which weakens the film. His failure to interview a smart feminist means the director can’t make the most of the fact that women basically ran the magazine.

Strangely, the pic doesn’t deal at all with the impact of Hustler Magazine; Larry Flynt’s rag was to Penthouse what Penthouse was to Playboy.

Skin mag aficionados will love it, and there are some poignant moments, especially from Guccione’s loyal assistant Jane Homlish and Bob Guccione Jr., but Avrich still hasn’t figured out how to create a complete portrait.

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Little golfer Kuang Yang doesn’t look like he’s having a ball.

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the short game ((Josh Greenbaum). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (September 20).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NN Pop culture about cute, ambitious kids (the ballet doc First Position, the borderline-child-pornographic TV ­series Toddlers And Tiaras) feels doubly exploitative.

First there’s the weird milking of cuteness, the Anne Geddes-ization of innocence. Then there’s that schadenfreude vis à vis parents who instill a win-at-all-costs mentality in their kids, the uncomfortable pleasure of shaking your head over how someone else raises­their children.

The Short Game draws from both these lousy streams. Structured like First Position, the doc follows a group of striving seven- and eight-year-olds and their parent-coaches (or “daddy caddies”) as they train and compete at the 2012 Kids Golf World Championships in North Carolina. A French mother reduces her kid to tears on the fairway, while an upper-middle-class American boy drills with a CrossFit ­instructor, and a South African youngster’s parents shoulder him with the responsibility of representing the ­entire ­nation.

The film has some slight insights into the post-Tiger Woods culture of golf, where young players dream of being the best in the world. But The Short Game’s thin criticism of parents pushing their children to win feels like it’s contributing to the same crummy culture it pretends to condemn. john semley

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Stale Steal The Art Of The Steal (Jonathan Sobol).

90 minutes. Opens Friday (September 20).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NN

I really want to enjoy Jonathan Sobol’s movies. But after 2010’s A Beginner’s Guide To Endings and his new Niagara Falls caper comedy, The Art Of The

Steal, I must conclude that he only has one story, and it ain’t for me.

As in the earlier film, Art mixes lighthearted caper stuff with a story of family resentments and rivalries. Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon play brothers who moonlight as ingenious art thieves, reunited after seven years apart – because one sent the other up the river when a European heist went south – to pull the scam of a lifetime.

It’s the most predictable sort of heist picture, and Russell and Dillon

coast through it on autopilot, though the action is made fitfully entertaining by an unpredictably antic Jay Baruchel as Russell’s nervous protege and the strangely wonderful team of Jason Jones and Terence Stamp as an overcaffeinated Interpol agent and his glum special adviser.

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Opens Friday (September 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: N Austenland gives Jane Austen, Keri Russell and love a bad name.

The only person Jane Hayes (Russell) has ever loved is Mr. Darcy, Austen’s fictional heartthrob. Unlucky in the ­romance department, she empties her bank account and heads to the UK to visit Austenland, “the world’s only immersive A ­ usten experience.” Soon she’s in a corset meeting colourful guests, and eventually finds herself in the middle of a Regency-style love ­triangle.

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A BAND CALLED DEATH (Mark Covino, Jeff

Playing this week 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. 111 min.

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THE ART OF THE STEAL (Jonathan Sobol) 90 min. See review, page 83. NN (NW) Opens Sep 20 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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

THE ATTACK (Ziad Doueiri) is almost a crowd-pleasing portrait of a suicide bomber. Amin (Ali Suliman), a respected ArabIsraeli 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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

BATTLE OF THE YEAR (Benson Lee) 109 min.

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(Richard Linklater) 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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(Drew DeNicola, Olivia Mori) celebrates the cult rock band with the most exhilarating music – and the most depressing story. DiNicola and Mori cover decades of false starts and tragic endings through interviews, copious archival footage and the band’s glorious, glorious music. In the end, it’s all that really matters. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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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) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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(Woody Allen) stars Cate Blanchett as the emotionally unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who moves to San Francis-

co to live with her sister (Sally Hawkins) when he’s busted. Expect Oscar to come calling on the amazing Blanchett. 98 min.

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ELYSIUM (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually identical, plot-wise, to District 9, the director’s legal and paranoia thriller cliché in the wildly overrated 2009 debut. In 2154, Matt book, but its repetitive exposition is even Damon’s Max is a factory worker from the worse than its predictability. Eric Bana and favelas of Los Angeles who’s given just days Rebecca Hall, along with a great supporting to live after absorbing a cast, are wasted in this lethal dose of radiation. The laborious tale of two tech on orbiting space stabarristers and former EXPANDED REVIEWS tion Elysium can cure him in lovers who dig too nowtoronto.com seconds, but access is deeply into the morestricted; to get a set of tives behind a London forged papers, Max agrees to marketplace bombing. In a film where a dangerous kidnapping scheme that ends everything is told, never shown, the up with him carrying information in his contrived third act, when there’s actually brain that the station’s autocratic secretary something going on, comes as a relief. 110 of defence (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothmin. NN (Andrew Parker) ing to retrieve. As in District 9, all the Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton sociopolitical stuff is just an excuse to Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Missisreduce humans to goo and smash large sauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 things into other things. Fans of that film’s THE CONJURING (James Wan) is a 70s-style spectacular carnage and garbled political tale of demonic infestation, with married posturing will doubtless find Elysium even demonologists trying to save a Rhode more meaningful and relevant and stuff. I Island family from an evil spirit that came would politely remind you that The Phanwith their nice new home. Wan has fun tom Menace still has its defenders, too. mimicking the textures and aesthetics of Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) movies of the period, but he’s basically just 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineremaking his own Insidious with a few plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mismodest tweaks and a polyester wardrobe. sissauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, 112 min. NN (NW) Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Colossus, Interchange 30, Rainbow Market Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, ScoSquare, Scotiabank Theatre tiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity CUTIE AND THE BOXER (Zachary CLOSED CIRCUIT (John Crowley) uses every

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Heinzerling) 82 min. See review, page 80. NNNNN (GS) Opens Sep 20 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

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

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 Livingston, Anna Kendrick). The bid for mainstream attention means mumblecore director Swanberg has to tone down his

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and not very funny comedy carried by the charm of stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones and by director Besson’s skills with camera and editor’s scissors. Pfeiffer and De Niro, with Dianna Agron and John D’Leo as teen daughter and son, play the titular family, living under the witness protection program but still carrying on with crime. The cast plays for likeability, not laughs. With few jokes and the action that’s no more bizarre than in any gangster flick, there’s not much comic edge.

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FLU (Kim Sung-su) is a Korean disaster movie that starts out as Contagion but winds up as Outbreak. One-dimensional characters run around inside a quarantine zone while politicians yell at each other about responsibility in one of those big shiny war rooms.

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individual – an imperfect son, boyfriend and father who came to a violent, unnecessary end because of a combination of factors – institutional racism being a pretty big one. Writer/director Coogler isn’t out to paint Grant as a martyr as much as to create a three-dimensional study. The fact that the film arrives on the heels of the George Zimmerman verdict just drives his point home all the more brutally. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Regent Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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

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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 domes-

tic version scatters that information in text screens between beautifully photographed fight sequences and occasional longing looks between Ip and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), a northern martial artist and doctor who makes an instant emotional connection with Ip but can’t act on it. You might want to seek out the Chinese Blu-ray instead.

Subtitled. 106 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, ­Scotiabank Theatre

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann) is just the latest movie adaptation to misunderstand F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel. Director Luhrmann piles on spectacle, sparkles, spangles, crystal and Jay-Z remixes, overwhelming the story and the actors. 142 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant Grown Ups 2 (Dennis Dugan) is an excuse for Adam Sandler and his posse to loiter onscreen as adults playing hooky (art imitates life), milking money just by being present.

The jokes are aimless and contrived and often lack punchlines. Sandler could very well have scribbled this mess on the back of the cheque he received to produce a sequel, any sequel – just a movie with the number two in it, the same number of times you will laugh. 101 min. N (RS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Margarethe von Trotta) tracks the fallout from political theorist Hannah Arendt’s (Barbara ­Sukowa) coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial. She wrote that he didn’t know how to think and therefore couldn’t make ­moral choices, and suggested Jewish leaders may have collaborated with the Nazis.

Sukowa gives a superb performance, and Janet McTeer is a delight as writer Mary McCarthy. Some subtitles. 110 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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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

I’m So Excited! (Pedro Almodóvar) takes a story about a Mexico-bound plane whose landing gear is disabled and makes it a social commentary about the state of Spain.

But saying so suggests the film is smarter than it is. It succeeds mostly in pushing gay stereotypes, confusing that with creating camp. Icky. Subtitled. 90 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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(Lake Bell) is a comedy set in the world of Los Angeles voice-over artists, where the daughter (Bell) of an industry legend (A Serious Man’s Fred Melamed) finds herself horning in on his territory when the producers of a youth-oriented trilogy decide they’d rather have a female voice narrate their trailer. But there’s a lot more going on than that, and In A World ... is one of the rare comedies that gets more complex as it goes along. Bell’s script embraces ­eccentricity and complication – and finds room for real social commentary – while allowing all the characters to have recognizable human qualities, rather than just be stick figures animated by talented actors. And giving stand-up comic Demetri Martin his first leading role as a lovelorn sound engineer was a stroke of genius; his low-key presence is perfectly suited to Bell’s more frantic energy. This is a movie of odd, unexpected delights. 93 min.

NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Varsity

Insidious: Chapter 2 (James Wan) might be one of the worst sequels ever made. The continued saga of the haunting of the Lambert family (headed by Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) only gets more convoluted and sillier, the scares and twists are weak and the set pieces devoid of scares. The first film is a prerequisite to know what’s going on,

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but this still makes little sense and feels perfunctory and laughable rather than ­exciting. 105 min. N (AP) 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

Italy: Love It, or Leave It (Gustav Hofer,

Luca Ragazzi) follows Hofer and Ragazzi on a road trip through Italy to decide whether they should stay or move to Berlin. The ­major entertainment value comes from watching the relationship between the two filmmakers, even though some of the ­dialogue seems scripted. Call it an anti-­ travelogue – given what’s on view, this is Tourism Italy’s worst nightmare. Subtitled.

75 min. NNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

Jobs (Joshua Michael Stern) is like The So-

cial 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, Carlton Cinema, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Kick-Ass 2 (Jeff Wadlow) ditches most of the real-world superhero ingenuity of the original to cram in more comic book parody and shock comedy. Writer/director Wadlow follows the “darker is better” sequel model while sneaking in moments of teenage poignancy amidst the cynicism. Once again supporting characters like Chloë Grace ­Moretz’s pint-sized assassin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s pubescent supervillain register more than the title character, stealing scenes and then running off with the whole movie. The film’s obscene without being subversive and self-conscious with little commentary. It’s kind of a mess, but at least an entertaining one. 103 min. NN (Phil Brown) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, ­Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale 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 world-changing conversations with presidents, we’re distracted by the A-list cast – Robin Williams as Eisenhower, John Cusack as Nixon and Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan. The storyline in which Gaines clashes with his son (David Oyelowo) over political values is one of the script’s many total fictions. But without them, we couldn’t watch Gaines pouring drinks for powerful white people while cops beat up his Freedom Rider son. The politics are confusing. Is it the butler who’s changing history or those kids trying to integrate the Woolworth’s counters in Tennessee? That said, this is a rousing drama with terrific performances, especially from Oprah Winfrey as Gaines’s neglected wife, Oyelowo and the sensational Whitaker. But the director of Precious and The Paperboy is decidedly domesticated here, aiming to teach and please. 132 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Man of Steel (Zack Snyder) starts as a

clever reworking of Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman, right down to the first sight of our hero in his super-suit about an hour into the picture. Then the bad guys show up, and the whole thing collapses into ugly, violent spectacle. Certain further actions demonstrate a shocking disregard for 75 years of the character’s history – though they’re ­entirely in line with the might-makes-right ethic that seethes beneath much of director Snyder’s work. 143 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Dan Scanlon) throws a conceptual curve ball, dropping John Goodman’s hulking furball Sulley and Billy Crystal’s one-eyed imp Mike Wazowski – introduced as working stiffs in 2001’s Monsters, Inc. – into a snobs-vs-slobs college comedy. If DisneyPixar is hell-bent on squeezing further ­adventures out of existing stories, this is how to do it. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

The Mortal Instruments: City of

Bones (Harald Zwart) is an attempt to launch a new Twilight franchise on the back of Cassandra Clare’s young-adult saga. ­Unassuming teenager Clary (Lily Collins) discovers she’s part of a secret world of sorcerers, vampires and werewolves all searching

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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 MAN IN TEHRAN (Larry Weinstein, Drew Taylor) 85 min. See review, page 80.

NNN (Andrew Parker) Opens Sep 20 at TIFF Bell Lightbox OUR NIXON (Penny Lane) taps 400 reels of home movies taken by Richard Nixon’s closest associates during his presidency.

Unfortunately, not all the material is gold, mainly because the gang couldn’t shoot straight, and there’s a ton of repetition. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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Matt Damon runs for his life in sci-fi actioner Elysium.

(Guillermo del Toro) 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 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. Not that his 20 minutes of screen time justifies watching it. 106 min. N (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

for a lost chalice that will bestow ultimate power on anyone who drinks from it, or something. Mostly, Clary’s caught between a hunky warrior (Jamie Campbell Bower, like Robert Pattinson without the self-awareness) and her nerdy pal (Robert Sheehan, doing his best Jay Baruchel). Spells are cast and swords are crossed, but it’s all very mechanical and noisy; somewhere around the fifth self-important speech, I realized no one was actually saying anything of import.

Collins does a nice job of grounding the story in Clary’s immediate concerns, but by the epic climax she’s just shouting plot points like everybody else. 130 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, PASSION (Brian De EXPANDED REVIEWS Queensway, Rainbow Palma) finds De Palma nowtoronto.com Woodbine, SilverCity retreating to safer, sillier Fairview, SilverCity ground after Redacted. In Yorkdale, Yonge & this overheated erotic thriller, luridly adaptDundas 24 ed from Alain Corneau’s 2010 Crime D’Amour, he casts Rachel McAdams as a MUSEUM HOURS (Jem Cohen) is a sharkish marketing executive and Noomi conversation piece that explores the Rapace as her far more talented underling. simpatico connection between a curious They aren’t exactly the most convincing of Canadian (Mary Margaret O’Hara) and a rivals. Corneau created a much more draslightly older guard (Bobby Sommer) at matic power dynamic in Crime D’Amour Vienna’s wonderful Kunsthistorisches Art with Kristin Scott Thomas dominating Museum. O’Hara and Sommer connect so Ludivine Sagnier; Rapace looks like she naturally and easily that they barely seem could put McAdams through a wall without to be acting at all. They look at art. We breaking a sweat. But De Palma doesn’t look at them. Art is where you see it. 107 care about that stuff; he’s in it for the min. NNNNN (NW) chance to orchestrate elaborate camera Kingsway Theatre moves and editorial flourishes straight out of a 1970s giallo. The plot and actors are the MY LUCKY STAR (Dennie Gordon) 113 min. last thing on his mind. 102 min. NN (NW) See review, page 79. N (RS) Carlton Cinema Opens Sep 20 at Yonge & Dundas 24

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ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US (Morgan Spur-

lock) paints a picture of manufactured British boy band One Direction and their catastrophic rise to success, using concert footage and squeaky-clean behind-thescenes antics. It’s hard to tell if director Spurlock’s portrait is a ridiculous blind endorsement or an entertaining piss-take.

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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, Coli-

seum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

“Part mystery, part forensic investigation, part journey to troubled pasts, part redemption song, Unclaimed is all heart.”

- James Adams, The Globe and Mail

PLANES (Klay Hall) is a shameless Cars rip-

off 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, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

PRISONERS (Denis Villeneuve) 153 min. See

interview and review, page 78. NNN (NW) Opens Sep 20 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, Varsity

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RED 2 (Dean Parisot) sticks to the same for-

mula 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) Rainbow Woodbine, 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 Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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R.I.P.D. (Robert Schwentke) crossbreeds

Ghostbusters and Men In Black, with Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds playing a grizzled veteran and wet-behind-the-ears rookie respectively, employed by the Rest In Peace Department, an afterlife law enforcement agency. Hack Schwentke’s direction is totally autopiloted. His mishmash visual schema is dominated by impossible CGI zooms and whiplash pans, like he’s playing with a souped-up version of that old Microsoft Kids 3D Movie Maker program. 96 min.

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SALINGER (Shane Salerno) 129 min. See review, page 79. NN (GS) Opens Sep 20 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, Varsity THE SHORT GAME (Josh Greenbaum) 100 min. See review, page 82. NN (JS) Opens Sep 20 at Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre A SINGLE SHOT (David Rosenthal) 116 min.

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of the Trek timeline Abrams began in his 2009 reboot. He puts a new spin on familiar characters and situations to come up with something that manages to surprise and entertain on an epic IMAX 3D scale.

More, please, soon. 132 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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SMURFS 2 (Raja Gosnell) taps into the ori-

and Aimee (Shailene Woodley), who meet cute when she finds him on a lawn after a gin story of Smurfette, the creation of evil drunken night and helps him locate his wizard Gargamel, who was made honest by missing car. They start dating – and he Papa Smurf and is now being held captive starts her drinking – and together they and plied to return to the dark side. edge tentatively toward Smurfette is the most complicated among what lies beyond the end her wholesome (read of high school, which is EXPANDED REVIEWS dull) and bite-sized inevitably complicated by nowtoronto.com species. That just matters of family, grades means she has two and self-image. And the dimensions instead of booze doesn’t help any of one, not enough to elevate all the 3D medithat. Teller and Woodley are terrific at ocrity in this strained, witless sequel. 105 portraying unexpected moments of min. NN (RS) growth, and Teller particularly shines at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, revealing flashes of Sutter’s emotional Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town mechanisms and then snatching them Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainback. The Spectacular Now would be a bow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, very different movie without him. 95 min.

SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24 Varsity THE SPECTACULAR NOW (James PonSTAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (J.J. soldt) traces the tender romance beAbrams) continues the sly reworking tween Georgia teens Sutter (Miles Teller)

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Goldberg) finds Rogen dragging visiting pal Jay Baruchel to a party at James Franco’s place just as the apocalypse hits. Rogen and long-time collaborator Goldberg have written and directed an end-of-the-world comedy that plays like a 21st century Ghostbusters, and I guarantee you won’t see the ending coming. 107 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

TURBO 3D (David Soren) is, quite simply,

insane – a CG-animated family adventure about a plucky garden snail (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) who gets to realize his dream of racing in the Indianapolis 500. None of this should work, but by the time Samuel L. Jackson repurposes one of his greatest Pulp Fiction moments as a snail’s pep talk for our tired little hero … well, damned if it doesn’t.

96 min. NNN (NW) Colossus

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Neville) tracks the careers of Darlene Love of Blossoms fame, Merry Clayton, famous for her vocals on the Rolling Stones’s Gimme Shelter, Claudia Lennear, another Stones collaborator, and others to probe who’s got the power within the music industry. Spectacular voices, powerful stories in a must-see doc. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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(Baltasar Kormákur) pairs Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as Texas gunmen who accidentally steal $43.125 million dollars of the wrong people’s money and must shoot a whole lot of bad guys to get themselves out of trouble. You can’t help but enjoy the ride.

Some subtitles. 109 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

UNCLAIMED (Michael Jorgensen) 77 min.

See review, page 80. NN (NW) Opens Sep 20 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

UNFINISHED SONG (Paul Andrew Williams) is a shameless bid for tears, but it succeeds because of the extraordinary work of its cast. Terence Stamp is a revelation, grief-

stricken, angry and lost, as a grumpy Brit trying to please his terminally ill wife (Vanessa Redgrave) by joining her ragtag seniors’ choir. Beautiful. 93 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant

THE VENICE SYNDROME (Andreas Pichler)

shows that moonlit gondola rides and quaint shops have been replaced by multinational stores and enormous cruise ships that clog the port and unleash hordes of tourists. Focusing on a dozen long-time inhabitants, Pichler shows why the city’s population is dwindling, and while the film’s a touch repetitive, it’s hard not to feel sympathy for the natives losing their evocative city to uncontrolled capitalism.

Subtitled. 82 min. NNN (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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(Nat Faxon, Jim Rash) is a richly textured coming-ofage picture about 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James), who’s dragged to a cottage for the summer by his distracted mother (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend (Steve Carell) and befriended by the manager of a nearby water park (Sam Rockwell). Don’t wait for the DVD. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

WE’RE THE MILLERS (Rawson Marshall

Thurber) takes a reasonably interesting idea – a low-level drug dealer (Jason 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. 110 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE WIZARD OF OZ: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (Victor Fleming) 101 min. See Also

Opening, page 83.

Opens Sep 20 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(James Mangold) has Marvel’s darkest, broodingest superhero ping-ponging through an overwrought Japanese conspiracy involving ninjas, the Yakuza and an enormous adamantium samurai. Though the plot is bogged down by dizzying double crosses,

the action is uniformly superb. A breathless melee atop the roof of a speeding bullet train and the late-in-the-game storming of a mountain village are memorably gripping. 126 min. NNNN (JS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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

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(Edgar Wright) completes Wright and co-writer/ star Simon Pegg’s unofficial trilogy begun with Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz by following five old friends (Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) who reunite at 40 to recreate the epic pub crawl they began – but never finished – as teenagers. But just as the old gang isn’t what it used to be, neither is their sleepy village of Newton Haven, and the nature of the threat raises the stakes well beyond the personal. Pegg is terrific as the dissolute, barely functional alcoholic determined to recapture his former glory at any cost, and his co-stars (particularly Frost and Marsan) do a fine job of hinting at decades-old wounds just waiting to reopen. Funny and moving, it’s a fitting bookend to Shaun, though this time the ending doesn’t quite land as well as it could. 109 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Adam Wingard) is the product of talented horror-fansturned-filmmakers who understand exactly how the genre works and what their audience craves. Through a darkly comedic tale of a bickering family reunion interrupted by home-invading masked murderers, Wingard and co. deftly combine tones, toy with conventions, drizzle out gore and deliver shriek-inducing jump scares. 94 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Scotiabank Theatre 3

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ADORE (18A) Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:10 THE ATTACK (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:05 BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A) Thu 1:20, 7:10 DRINKING BUDDIES (14A) Thu 1:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:05 Fri 1:50, 4:05, 9:30 Sat-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 1:35 4:05 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 1:45 4:15 7:05 9:25 FriWed 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 JOBS (14A) 1:20, 6:40 Wed no 6:40 LITTLE TERRORS HORROR SHORTS Wed 9:00 ONLY GOD FORGIVES (18A) Thu 3:45, 9:30 PASSION Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Tue 4:05, 9:10 Wed 4:05 REEFER MADNESS Fri 7:00 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:50, 9:20 THE SHORT GAME (G) Fri-Wed 1:45, 7:00 A SINGLE SHOT (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 FriWed 1:25, 6:50 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:55 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:35 3:55 7:00 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Thu 9:35

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

BLUE JASMINE (14A) 12:50, 3:00, 5:15, 7:15, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:40 late THE CONJURING (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:40 ELYSIUM (14A) Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:35 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 6:30, 8:50 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:05, 3:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat, Tue 1:05, 3:30, 7:05, 9:40, 11:50 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:00 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:40, 7:10, 9:45 Sat, Tue 1:10, 3:40, 7:10, 9:45, 11:45 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 PRISONERS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 6:55 Sat, Tue 1:00, 6:55, 11:45

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THE CONJURING (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 ELYSIUM: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Thu 1:50 4:30 7:15 9:50 Sun only 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:50 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 GETAWAY (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 THE GRANDMASTER (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 FriSat 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Tue 1:15, 3:40, 10:30 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 MAN OF STEEL 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon, Wed 2:50, 6:00, 9:00 Tue 2:50, 5:50, 9:00 PRISONERS (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 2:45, 4:00, 6:20, 7:20, 9:50, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 2:20, 3:20, 5:50, 6:40, 9:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 2:20, 3:10, 6:00, 6:40, 9:25, 10:05 Tue 2:00, 3:10, 6:00, 6:40, 9:25, 10:05 RED 2 (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:10, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 2 GUNS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 THE WOLVERINE 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10:20 FriSat 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 MonWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 WORLD WAR Z 3D (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 MonWed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 YOU’RE NEXT (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30

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CUTIE AND THE BOXER (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 6:45, 8:45 Mon 6:45, 8:45 FILTHY GORGEOUS: THE BOB GUCCIONE STORY (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:30, 8:30 Mon 8:30 OUR MAN IN TEHRAN (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:00, 6:30 Mon 6:30

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YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

ANCHORMAN (PG) Mon 7:00 Tue 9:40 Wed 9:30 THE ART OF THE STEAL Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35, 10:10 Sat 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:45, 10:30 Sun 12:05, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20, 10:10 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG) Fri-Tue 2:00, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Wed 3:30, 7:45, 10:25 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 Fri, MonWed 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 11:50, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 10:05 CHINATOWN (R) Sun 3:50 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:20 CORALINE (PG) Sat 11:00 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 2:10 4:50 7:25 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat EXHIBITION: MUNCH 150 (G) Sat-Sun 4:00 FLU (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 FRUITVALE STATION (14A) Thu 6:40 GENERATION IRON Fri 1:30, 6:50 Sat 12:30, 6:50 Sun 9:30 Mon 1:30 Tue 1:30, 6:30 THE HEAT (14A) Thu 7:25 Fri-Wed 7:15, 10:00 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 4:10, 5:15, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:40, 2:45, 4:10, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 12:10, 1:40, 2:45, 4:10, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD Thu 1:20 JOBS (14A) Fri 1:30, 10:10 Sat 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Tue 7:30, 10:20 Wed 10:20 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:15 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY (G) Thu 2:25, 4:55 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:35 MONSTERS UNIVERSITY 3D (G) Thu 7:25, 10:10 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:30 Fri 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 7:25, 10:25 MY LUCKY STAR (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:25 Sat-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR Thu 7:30 Sat 9:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 2:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55 Sat-Sun 1:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 PACIFIC RIM (PG) Thu-Sat 1:35, 4:30 Sun 4:30 PACIFIC RIM 3D (PG) 7:25, 10:20 PARANOIA (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:15 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:25 PHATA POSTER NIKLA HERO Fri-Wed 2:40, 6:05, 9:40 PLANES (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 6:25 Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 Sun 11:55, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 POMPEII FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM (PG) Wed 7:00 THE REMAINS OF THE DAY (PG) Thu 4:50 RIDDICK (14A) Thu-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 RIDDICK: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 A ROOM WITH A VIEW (PG) Fri 4:30 Sun 7:10 Mon 4:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:00 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Fri, MonWed 1:35 Sat-Sun 1:15 STRANGER THAN FICTION (PG) Thu 9:50, 9:55 SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 3D Sun 12:55 THIS IS THE END (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, MonWed 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Sat 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 Sun 6:30, 9:10 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 2:05 5:10 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 THE WIZARD OF OZ: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

ADORE (18A) 3:50, 6:50 Fri 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat, 9:30 THE ATTACK (14A) 4:00, 6:30 Fri 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 9:00 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) 3:30, 5:50 Fri 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 8:30 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 4:00, 6:20, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:20 EKSTRA (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40 FRUITVALE STATION (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:10 JOBS (14A) 3:40, 6:30 Fri 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat, 9:20 KICK-ASS 2 (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:50 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS (PG) Thu 6:25 Fri-Sun 6:10, 8:40 Mon-Wed 6:10 THE SMURFS 2 (G) 3:45 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat THE WOLVERINE (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20 THE WORLD’S END (14A) 4:20, 7:00 Fri 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat, 9:30

THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:40, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 7:40, 9:45 GOLDFINGER (PG) Thu 3:50, 9:15 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 3:40 6:40 9:25 FriWed 3:20, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat PRISONERS (14A) 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat RIDDICK (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:45

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

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675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

ADORE (18A) Fri-Wed 12:45 THE ATTACK (14A) Fri-Wed 11:00, 6:00 A BAND CALLED DEATH (PG) Thu 7:50 Fri-Wed 9:30 BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A) Thu 1:30 Fri-Wed 1:15 BIG STAR: NOTHING CAN HURT ME (PG) Thu 9:30 BLACKFISH (PG) Thu 6:15 Fri-Wed 8:00 DRINKING BUDDIES (14A) Fri-Wed 4:15 THE GREAT GATSBY (PG) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 11:00 HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Thu 1:20 Fri-Wed 4:30 I’M SO EXCITED! (14A) Thu 3:30 IN A WORLD... (14A) Fri-Wed 7:45 ITALY: LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT Thu 3:15 Fri-Wed 3:00 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 11:30 OUR NIXON (PG) Thu 4:45 THE SHORT GAME (G) Fri-Wed 6:20 THIS IS THE END (18A) 9:30 THE VENICE SYNDROME Thu 12:00 THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 2:30

THE GREAT GATSBY (PG) Fri-Sat 9:10 Sun 6:45 Wed 7:00 UNFINISHED SONG (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

BEFORE MIDNIGHT (14A) Thu-Sat 7:00 Sun 4:30 FRUITVALE STATION (14A) Fri-Sat 9:10 Sun, Tue 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

THE ART OF THE STEAL Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:30, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG) Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 9:45 Fri 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:30, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 1:00, 3:35, 9:45 Tue 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 9:45 EXHIBITION: MUNCH 150 (G) Sat 4:00 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 1:25 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 POMPEII FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM (PG) Wed 7:00 PRISONERS (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 MonWed 3:00, 6:40, 10:00 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 3D Sun 12:55 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50

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West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

BLUE JASMINE (14A) 3:50, 7:00, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat DR. NO (PG) Thu 6:50

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ANCHORMAN (PG) Mon 7:00 Wed 9:30 THE ART OF THE STEAL Fri 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG) Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 CLOSED CIRCUIT (14A) Thu 10:00 CORALINE (PG) Sat 11:00 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun 1:10 Sat 11:00, 1:10 MonWed 1:20 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 10:10 EXHIBITION: MUNCH 150 (G) Sat 4:00 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 IN A WORLD... (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Fri 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 12:45, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:40 NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR Thu 7:30 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 1:30 Fri 1:50 Sat 11:10 Mon-Wed 2:15 ONE DIRECTION: THIS IS US 3D - EXTENDED FAN CUT (G) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri, Sun 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Tue 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Wed 4:55, 7:35 PERCY JACKSON: SEA OF MONSTERS 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:50 PLANES (G) Thu 2:40, 5:05 Fri 2:05, 4:30 Sat 11:55, 2:15, 4:50 Sun 1:50, 4:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:05 PLANES 3D (G) Thu 7:35 Fri-Sun 7:15 Mon-Wed 7:25 POMPEII FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM (PG) Wed 7:00 PRISONERS (14A) Fri, Sun 2:30, 7:05, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:25, 6:55, 10:15 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:35, 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 SALINGER (PG) Fri, Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 THE SMURFS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:10 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 1:20 Fri-Sun 5:10 Mon-Wed 4:20 SWAN LAKE MARIINSKY LIVE 3D Sun 12:55 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 FriSun 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 THE WOLVERINE 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Fri, Sun 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 6:45, 9:45 Mon, Wed 3:45, 9:35 Tue 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:35, 7:40, 10:20

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BATTLE OF THE YEAR (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:10 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:05, 6:50 THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:30 PLANES (G) Thu-Tue 1:25, 4:15 PRISONERS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:30, 8:00 RED 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:20 RIDDICK (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 6:55, 9:35 THE SMURFS 2 (G) Thu 1:00 3:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55 WE’RE THE MILLERS (14A) 4:05, 9:40 Thu 1:05 mat, 7:05 THE WORLD’S END (14A) Thu 6:55, 9:45

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The Art of the Steal Fri 4:10, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 12:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:40, 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 The Attack (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Elysium (14A) Thu 6:55, 9:35 The Family (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 MonWed 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Flu (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:30, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Pompeii From the British Museum (PG) Wed 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Riddick (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Salinger (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 The Short Game (G) Sat-Sun 4:30 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Sun 12:55 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu-Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:20, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:20, 9:50 The Wizard of Oz: An IMAX 3D Experience Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MonWed 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 The World’s End (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:45

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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 2:10, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 1:15, 7:15, 9:55 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Exhibition: Munch 150 (G) Sat 4:00 The Family (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Tue 1:15, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 9:55 Nothing Left to Fear Thu 7:30 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 1:30 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 4:50 Sun-Mon, Wed 4:30 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:35, 10:10 Sun-Mon 7:05, 9:40 Wed 9:40 Pompeii From the British Museum (PG) Wed 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Fri, Tue 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:50, 4:25 Fri, Tue 2:00 Sat 11:25, 2:00 Sun-Mon 1:05 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri, Tue 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50

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Battle of the Year 3D (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:05 mat Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri, Sun-Tue 7:05, 9:50 Sat 7:20, 10:05 Wed 9:50 The Family (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Getaway (PG) Thu 9:50 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25

Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 9:30 Sat 10:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri 1:15, 7:15 Sat 12:30, 6:40 Sun-Tue 1:10, 7:05 Wed 1:10, 6:50 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 1:25 One Direction: This Is Us 3D (G) Fri 4:25, 10:20 Sat 3:40, 9:40 Sun-Wed 4:15, 10:10 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Planes (G) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00 Fri 1:35, 3:55 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 4:55 Prisoners (14A) Fri 2:00, 6:45, 10:15 Sat 11:50, 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 Sun 1:15, 4:55, 8:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 6:35, 10:05 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:05, 6:45 Sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:45 Fri 1:25 Sat 12:10 Sun-Wed 1:05 We’re the Millers (14A) 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 11:05 mat

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:05 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 SatSun 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Mon, Wed 8:20 The Family (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:50 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:55 Getaway (PG) Thu 8:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 5:30 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Sat 11:10, 1:45 Sun 1:45 Mon, Wed 5:40 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 5:10, 7:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Sat 1:10 Sun 1:20 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:35 Fri, Tue 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:45 Planes (G) Thu 5:20 Fri, Tue 4:10 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 Sun 2:10, 4:20 Mon, Wed 5:15 Prisoners (14A) Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:55, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 12:10, 3:30, 6:55, 10:20 Sun 3:00, 6:50, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:15 Riddick (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 6:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 4:50, 7:25 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:25 Mon, Wed 5:55 The Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:40 Sun 2:20 2 Guns (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 8:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:55 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:45, 9:40 Mon, Wed 7:35

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Ekstra (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 Elysium (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:50 The Family (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 1:25 Fri-Sat 1:45 Mon-Wed 1:40 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 4:20, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 2:05 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:20 Sun 1:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Planes (G) Thu 2:25, 4:55 Fri, Sun 2:20, 4:45 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:45 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:40 Prisoners (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 MonWed 3:30, 7:00, 10:25 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Sun 12:55 This Is the End (18A) Thu 7:15, 10:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05

Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

Anchorman (PG) Mon 7:00 Wed 9:30 The Art of the Steal Fri 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10

Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Chennai Express (14A) Thu 5:00, 9:00 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 9:30 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 The Family (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 FriSun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu, Wed 9:45 Fri, Tue 6:50, 9:55 Sat 6:40, 9:45 Sun 6:45, 9:50 Mon 9:55 Nothing Left to Fear Thu 7:30 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 1:40 Fri 2:30 Sat 11:25, 12:00 Sun 1:00 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Tue 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Planes (G) Thu 1:45, 4:15 Fri 1:50, 4:25 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:15 Sun 1:50, 4:15 Mon 4:50 Tue 4:30 Wed 4:35 Pompeii From the British Museum (PG) Wed 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Fri 3:30, 7:20, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:25, 7:25, 9:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 9:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Shuddh Desi Romance (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:30 Fri-Sun 4:20, 7:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri 1:40 Sat 11:10, 1:40 Sun 1:35 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:45, 7:00, 10:00 FriSat 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 4:10, 6:55 Zanjeer (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:50

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Grand Masti (14A) Thu-Fri 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 3:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:30 Phata Poster Nikla Hero 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Shuddh Desi Romance (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 3:45 Sat-Sun 1:00 Mon-Wed 3:30 Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30 Sat-Sun 4:15, 6:45 Ya Ya 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat Zanjeer (14A) Thu 3:45

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

Anchorman (PG) Mon 7:00 Wed 9:30 The Art of the Steal Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 2:25, 4:55, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:00 Wed 4:55, 7:45, 10:00 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:55 Exhibition: Munch 150 (G) Sat 4:00 The Grandmaster (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 1:40 4:35 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:00 Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Sat 1:35, 6:55, 9:25 Mon 1:50, 4:25, 9:25 Wed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sat 12:05, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sun 3:05, 6:00, 9:00 Wed 6:00, 9:00 Nothing Left to Fear Thu 7:30 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) 2:20 Sat 12:00 mat One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Pacific Rim 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Sat 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Sun 6:10, 9:15 Riddick (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun only 1:00 4:15 7:00 9:45 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 2:00, 7:40, 10:15 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Sun 12:55 2 Guns (14A) Thu 2:30 5:00 7:35 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 1:55 4:40 7:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:20 mat The Wizard of Oz: An IMAX 3D Experience Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 The Wolverine 3D (PG) 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 The World’s End (14A) Thu 2:10 4:45 7:15 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 The Art of the Steal Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20 SunTue 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Elysium (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Wed 1:50, 4:25, 6:45, 9:35 The Family (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Getaway (PG) Thu 9:50 Grand Masti (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 11:55, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat 6:25, 9:35 Sun-Tue 6:25, 9:20 Wed 9:20 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 2:25 Fri-Wed 1:30 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sat 4:00, 6:35, 9:30 Sun-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Planes (G) Thu 2:05, 4:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:10 Sat-Sun 11:45, 1:55, 4:10 Pompeii From the British Museum (PG) Wed 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Fri 3:35, 6:55, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:20 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 2:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50 SatSun 11:50, 2:20, 4:50 This Is the End (18A) Thu 9:25 2 Guns (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Fri 1:55, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35 Sat 11:55, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35 Sun 11:55, 4:30, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:35, 10:20 The Wizard of Oz: An IMAX 3D Experience Fri, MonWed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 The World’s End (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sat 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Wed 7:20, 9:55 You’re Next (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:10

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

The Art of the Steal Fri 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:30, 7:15, 9:45 Closed Circuit (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 9:35 Fri-Sun 9:30 The Family (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 Monsters University (G) Sat-Sun 1:10 Monsters University 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri-Sun 4:15, 6:50 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Planes (G) Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20 Planes 3D (G) Thu 4:15, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sun 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 Prisoners (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 10:00, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 12:40, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 10:00, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:00, 6:35, 8:30, 10:00 Riddick (14A) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 4:05, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:05, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 2 Guns (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 The World’s End (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 4:20, 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:50, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

Anchorman (PG) Mon 7:00 Wed 9:30 The Art of the Steal Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 12:20, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 The Conjuring (14A) Thu 10:00 Coraline (PG) Sat 11:00 Despicable Me 2 (G) Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:10 Sat 11:50, 1:10, 3:40, 6:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:10 Elysium (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:45, 6:55, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 The Family (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Getaway (PG) Thu 8:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 4:20, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 3:00, 4:35, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:45 Sat 12:25, 1:40, 3:00, 4:35, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 1:40, 3:30, 4:35, 6:45, 7:10, 9:15, 9:50 Mon, Wed 4:40, 5:10, 7:10, 7:40, 9:45, 10:10 Tue 4:40, 5:00, 7:10, 7:30, 9:45, 10:00

Kick-Ass 2 (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 6:50, 9:20 Mon 9:30 Tue 6:30, 9:00 Wed 6:30 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 12:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 MonWed 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 8:30 Sun 9:55 Mon-Wed 8:40 Nothing Left to Fear Thu 7:30 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) FriSun 1:20 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-Sun 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 8:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Prisoners (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 10:00, 10:40 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 3:40, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:00, 6:55, 8:30, 10:15 Riddick (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Mon 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Riddick: The IMAX Experience (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:30 The Smurfs 2 3D (G) Thu-Sat 3:30, 6:00 Sun 4:30, 7:25 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 The Smurfs 2 (G) Fri, Sun 1:00 Sat 12:00, 1:00 Swan Lake Mariinsky Live 3D Sun 12:55 Turbo (G) Thu 3:50 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:15 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:15 Mon-Wed 4:00 2 Guns (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:15 The Wizard of Oz: An IMAX 3D Experience Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 The Wolverine 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Sun 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 The World’s End (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Sun 8:40 Mon-Wed 8:45 You’re Next (14A) Thu 8:40

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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 Conjuring (14A) 5:05, 7:30 Fri 9:55 Sat 2:20 mat, 9:55 Sun 2:20 mat Getaway (PG) 5:30, 7:35 Fri 9:30 Sat 3:15 mat, 9:30 Sun 3:15 mat The Grandmaster (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20 The Great Gatsby (PG) Thu 7:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) 4:55, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat 2:25 mat, 9:45 Sun 2:25 mat The Heat (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:35, 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) 4:40, 7:15 Fri 9:40 Sat 2:05 mat, 9:40 Sun 2:05 mat 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) 5:15, 7:45 Fri 10:00 Sat 2:45 mat, 10:00 Sun 2:45 mat R.I.P.D. (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:35 Shuddh Desi Romance (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:45 Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:30, 6:30 This Is the End (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45 Fri 4:45, 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) 5:00, 7:30 Fri 10:00 Sat 2:30 mat, 10:00 Sun 2:40 mat

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Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 7:00 Mon 7:00 The Family (14A) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 Lee Daniels’ The Butler (14A) 6:50, 9:25 Thu 1:00, 4:00 mat Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 Prisoners (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 8:00 Riddick (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 3:40 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:35 The World’s End (14A) Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:30

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

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 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 7:00 9:55 Fri-Wed 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:55 mat Tue 4:10 One Direction: This Is Us - Extended Fan Cut (G) SatSun 1:10 One Direction: This Is Us 3D - Extended Fan Cut (G) Thu 7:30 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun, Tue 4:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Tue 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Planes (G) Sat-Sun 1:20 Planes 3D (G) Thu 7:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:25 Sat-Sun 3:50, 6:45 Tue 4:15, 6:45 Prisoners (14A) 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 4:30 Tue 4:30 Riddick (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 Tue 4:20 The Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 7:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:35, 6:50 Tue 4:00, 6:50 This Is the End (18A) 9:45 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 7:05, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Tue 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 The Wolverine (PG) Thu 9:50 The World’s End (14A) Thu 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed 9:50

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Sharknado is flat-out nuts, loonier than Sharktopus. The premise is preposterous, the non-stop action nonsensical and the climax conceived by deranged minds.

A massive hurricane hits L.A., flooding the city and carrying big sharks on massive waves, whence they chow down on stranded commuters, homeowners who think they’re safe and anyone else handy. After his seaside bar gets totalled, our hero (Ian Ziering) jumps into an SUV with his shotguntoting server (Cassie Scerbo), a buddy and a drunk and heads out to rescue his bitchy ex-wife and teen daughter.

Then the towering waterspouts kick in and sharks start to fly.

Bargain-basement effects and occa­ sional visual clunkiness only add to the fun, and Ziering and Scerbo jack it up a notch with straight-faced action hero performances.

Both the making-of doc and the ­director and cast commentary go for a

(Phase 4, 2012) D: Marcus Dunstan, w/ Josh Stewart, Emma Fitzpatrick. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN The Collection is a sequel to 2009’s The Collector, so spoilers for that movie are unavoidable in this review. If that matters to you, stop reading now.

Josh Stewart is back as Arkin, the thief who battled the booby-trap-loving masked maniac in the first film. He lost that round but escapes here only to be dragged back into the madman’s lair by a team of mercenaries committed to rescuing a kidnapped girl (Emma Fitzpatrick).

Nasty, graphic murders and torture, weird characters and weirder artwork abound, and the action whips along like a scalded cat.

A unique non-hero, Arkin is cautious and cunning, always self-interested and only rises to the occasion when driven by desperation. Stewart does

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EXTRAS Commentary, five-part making-of doc, alternate scenes. English, French audio. No subtitles.

Renoir (Mongrel, 2012) D: Gilles ­Bourdos, w/ Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret. Rating: NN; DVD package: none The visuals provide the most pleasure in Renoir. Every shot is a study in colour, composition and the golden light of the south of France. Most of the subjects are women, primarily the often nude form of Christa Theret as Andrée Heuschling, who in 1915 ­arrives to model for famed painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) at his secluded villa.

Andrée models and Renoir, though very old and crippled with arthritis, paints. Much later, Renoir’s son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) comes home to convalesce from a war wound. Eventually, Andrée and Jean become lovers.

Themes emerge: Andrée’s ambition and Jean’s aimlessness, father’s detachment from everything but painting and son’s engagement with the war.

Bouquet, Theret and Rottiers are all adept at wordlessly conveying nuanced undercurrents of emotion, but none of the themes get any big resolution. We do already know, however, that this Jean went on to direct such cinema classics as The Grand Illusion and Rules Of The Game.

Extras might have helped with the historical accuracy, but the film itself provides a fair glimpse into the father’s approach to painting and the son’s inspiration to move toward cinema.

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(HBO, 2013) D: Steven Soderbergh, w/ Michael Douglas, Matt Damon. Rating: NNNNN; Blu-ray package: NNN Embedded in the factbased love story in Behind The Candelabra are some pointed observations about celebrity and showbiz life and a portrait of thoroughgoing narcissism.

In 1977, a mutual friend introduces ordinary guy Scott Thorson (Matt Damon) to famed entertainer Liberace (Michael Douglas). The two begin an affair that gives them both emotional and sexual satisfaction. Liberace showers Scott with gifts and, in one memorably creepy sequence, remakes him in his own image. Five years later they break up over Liberace’s cheating and Scott’s drug addiction.

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Stick around for the closing credits, where Douglas’s narration will give you as perceptive a look into a narcissist’s soul as you’re likely to find.

In the making-of doc, Douglas and Damon discuss their roles, and others detail the work that went into recreating Liberace’s world.

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The Bling Ring (2013) Sofia Coppola’s fact-based tale of celeb­rity-obsessed teens who rob their idols’ homes.

World War Z (2013) Brad Pitt travels the globe looking for a cure for the zombie apocalypse.

Passion (2012) Brian De Palma directs Rachel Mc­Adams and Noomi Rapace as corporate execs locked in a vicious power struggle.

The Ward (2010) Horror movie about a young woman (Amber Heard) confined to a mental institution and attacked by a ghost.

John Carpenter directs.

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Toronto Cornerstone ­International Film Fest

The Ghosts In Our ­Machine looks at the ­invisible war on animals.

Fri 20-Sun 22 – Social justice through film, faith and forum. Screenings, workshops and panel discussions. $13-$20, stu/srs $10; pass $35-$40, stu/srs $25. (Workshops extra.)

Fri 20 – Opening night: The Son D: Cheryl Nembhard and Tim Clemens, and Notorious To Glorious D: Cheryl Weber. 7:30 pm (BM/ TM).

Sat 21 – The Pink Room D: Joel Sandvos. 6:50 pm. :58 D: Tony Neeves. 8 pm. Both at IT. Sun 22 – Free film screening (film tba). 6 pm.

The Dalit Unshackled D: Dalit Freedom Network. 6:50 pm. Girl Rising D: Richard Robbins. 7:35 pm. All at IT.

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literally surf on dolphins, just two of the film’s disturbing settings.

Marshall contrasts these scenes with beautifully shot sequences at sanctuaries where rescued animals – and McArthur herself – recover from their traumatic experiences. In other sly scenes, McArthur and supporters eat vegetarian food, photographed to look gorgeous and delicious.

The Ghosts In Our Machine isn’t as gruesome as it could have been.

Obviously determined not to go the exploitation route, the director makes her point with footage of a five-tiered truck carrying hundreds of pigs to the

abattoir, a glimpse of McArthur’s photo of skinned rabbits and a distressing – but mercifully short – sequence of cows going to slaughter.

The subtle approach may not convert all carnivores, and you might not buy the premise that animals deserve equal rights with humans.

But this is a superb example of committed filmmaking.

Screens Friday (September 20) at Jackman Hall as part of Planet In Focus’ monthly series of enviro films. See listings, this page.

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Sat 21-sun 22 – Flight Of The Butterflies.

Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

Thu 19-wed 25 – Check website for schedule.

reg hartt’s cineforum

Fox Theatre

thu 19 – Subversive Film Fest: screening of

(1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

Mon 23 – 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 24 – 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 25 – The 3D Film Fest. 5 pm. Dream Tower (1994) D: Ron Mann. 7 pm. Gilgamesh (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 8 pm.

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE

This compelling portrait of photo­ grapher Jo-Anne McArthur, whose mission is to document the invisible war on animals, bears powerful wit­ ness to the appalling conditions to which humans consign our fellow creatures.

Director Liz Marshall tags along as McArthur covertly snaps photos at a fur farm (these tension-filled sequences are made to look like incursions into enemy territory) and a theme park where entertainers

1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

Thu 19 – Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012) D: Brad ñ Bernstein. 5:30 pm. Headcase (2012) D: Ken

Simpson. 7:30 pm. sun 22 – Nothing Left To Fear (2013) D: Anthony Leonardi III. 7 pm. Headcase. 8:30 pm. mon 23 – Nothing Left To Fear. 7:30 pm. tue 24-Wed 25 – Nothing Left To Fear. 7:30 pm. Headcase. 9 pm.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema 506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 19 – Alzheimer Society of Toronto presents Alive Inside (2013) D: Michael Rossato-Bennett. 6:45 pm. Free. Pre-register at ­bloorcinema.com. Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 9 pm. fri 20 – Good Ol’ Freda (2013) D: Ryan White. 4 & 6:30 pm. Unclaimed (2013) D: Michael Jorgensen. 9 pm. sat 21 – The Venice Syndrome (2012) D: Andreas Pichler. Noon. Good Ol’ Freda. 4:30 & 9:30 pm. Unclaimed. 7 pm. sun 22 – Unclaimed. Noon & 9 pm. Good Ol’ Freda. 2 & 6:45 pm. Twenty Feet From Stardom. 4:15 pm. mon 23 – Good Ol’ Freda. 6:30 pm. Unclaimed.

8:45 pm.

Tue 24 – The Venice Syndrome. 4 pm. Unclaimed. 6:30 pm. Good Ol’ Freda. 8:45 pm.

Wed 25 – Blackfish (2013) D: Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 4 pm. Unclaimed. 6:30 pm. Good Ol’ Freda. 8:45 pm.

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2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 19 – Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody

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Allen. 7 pm. Blackfish (2013) D: Gabriela Cowperth­waite. 9 pm.

Fri 20 – In A World... (2013) D: Lake Bell. 7 pm.

Elysium (2013) D: Neill Blomkamp. 9 pm. sat 21-sun 22 – Despicable Me 2 3D (2013) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm. The Wolverine 3D (2013) D: James Mangold. 4:15 pm. In A World... 7 pm. Elysium. 9 pm.

Mon 23 – The Way Way Back (2013) D: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. 7 pm. Elysium.

9:15 pm.

Tue 24 – Elysium. 7 pm. The Way Way Back.

9:15 pm.

Wed 25 – The Spectacular Now (2013) D: James Ponsoldt. 7 pm. The Wolverine 3D. 9 pm.

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CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

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Nanny’s Pictures? (2013) D: Jill Nicholls. 2 pm. Cinderella (1950) D: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske. 3:15 pm. Free.

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films mentioned in Amos Vogel’s book Film As Subversive Art. 5 pm. The History Of Queer Cinema. 7 pm. The Films Of Aditya Shankar. 9 pm. sat 21 – 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 22 – 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

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thu 19-wed 25 – Continuous screenings

sat 21 – Imagine: Vivian Maier Who Took

463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

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1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

Thu 19 – The Way Way Back (2013) D: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. 7 pm. Blackfish (2013) D: Gabriela Cowperthwaite. 9 pm.

Fri 20-wed 25 – In A World... (2013) D: Lake Bell. 7 pm. Blackfish. 9 pm.

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

Bishop Marrocco/Thomas Merton School, 1515 Bloor W (bm/tm); Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex (IT). ­TCIFF.com

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­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 19-fri 20 – Fall Season preview.

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

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400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 19 – Epicure’s Revue: Forks Over Knives

(2001) D: Lee Fulkerson. 6:30 pm. Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen. 9:30 pm.

Fri 20 – Fruitvale Station (2013) D: Ryan Coogler. 7 pm. Pacific Rim 3D (2013) D: Guillermo Del Toro. 9 pm. sat 21 – Despicable Me 2 3D (2013) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm. The Way Way Back (2013) D: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. 4:15 & 9 pm. Fruitvale Station. 7 pm.

Sun 22 – Despicable Me 2 3D. 2 pm. Socially Conscious Geeks presents a benefit screening of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg. 4 pm. Benefit for Variety Village. $10. Tickets at ­et4charity-efbevent.eventbrite.com.

Fruitvale Station. 7 pm. Pacific Rim 3D. 9 pm.

Mon 23 – Fruitvale Station. 7 pm. The Spectacular Now (2013) D: James Ponsoldt. 9 pm.

Tue 24 – The Spectacular Now. 7 pm. The Way Way Back. 9 pm.

Wed 25 – The Grandmaster (2013) D: Wong Kar-wai. 9:15 pm.

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thu 19-wed 25 – The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. ­cntower.ca. thu 19-wed 25 – 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.

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 19 – Friends of the Cuban Five Committee – Toronto 5-Day Film Festival for the Freedom of the Cuban Five presents Like ­Angels, about Cuba’s Latin American Medical School graduates working in different countries. 6 pm. Free.

York University, 4700 Keele, Atkinson Bldg, room 004. ­torontoforumoncuba.com.

OCAD University’s Festival Of The Body presents William Kurelek’s The Maze (2011) D: David Grubin and Robert M Young. 7 pm. Free.

OCAD Auditorium, 100 McCaul, Room 190. apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/­eventdetail. php?id=5221.

Canadian Beer News and Toronto Beer Week present Beer Hunter: The Story Of Michael Jackson (2013) D: JR Richards. 7 pm. $20, proceeds to Parkinson’s research. The Rhino, 1249 Queen W. canadianbeernews.com. fri 20 – Planet In Focus monthly screening series Salon Vert presents The Ghosts In Our Machine (2013) D: Liz Marshall. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Art Gallery Of Ontario, Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. ­planetinfocus.org.

MPP Rosario Marchese, Liberty Village Residents’ Association, OPSEU and Vector Magic present an outdoor screening of Grease (1978) D: Randal Kleiser. 8 pm. Free. Liberty Village Park, 70 East Liberty. 416-603-9664.

Saint Hilary’s International Film Festival presents Free Hamid (2012) D: Beatrice Perusse, Aniversari D: Anna Petrus, Senior Drivers D: Gary W Hayes and one other film tba. 7:30 pm.

Q&A to follow. $5, child free. St Hilary’s Anglican Church, 2055 Hurontario (Mississauga).

905-279-2304, sainthilary@bellnet.ca. sat 21 – Friends of the Cuban Five Committee – Toronto 5-Day Film Festival for the Freedom of the Cuban Five presents On The Hillsides Of The Himalayas, about Cuba’s humanitarian response to the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.

1:30 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. ­torontoforumoncuba.com.

Beit Zatoun presents the documentary Tied In A Knot: Narratives From Bride Seeking Regions Of India (2013) D: Reena Kukreja, about the newly emergent phenomenon of bride buying and commoditization of the female body in India. 7 pm. Pwyc, $5 suggested. 612 Markham. b ­ eitzatoun.org.

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By Dan Savage

Sex too loud? Be louder My question is one of etiquette. My

lesbian wife and I live in an apartment.

The noise pollution between flats can be pretty bad. Anyone who lives in the building is aware of this, and keeping noise down after certain hours is a common courtesy. I wouldn’t play loud music after a certain hour, let doors slam or break out the drum kit. If any of these things happens after around 11:30 pm on a work night, I don’t think I’d feel any qualms about going around to whoever is being inconsiderate and asking them to keep it down. But what about noisy sex?

My neighbour’s girlfriend is pretty loud during sex. If the racket were being made, say, before midnight, I could bear it. It would be gross, because I think he’s slimy and he has a terrible hipster mustache, but I wouldn’t be writing to you.

I’d just cope as best I could and try to fall back asleep. But what about sex at crazy o’clock? Is it okay for us to pound on the wall and ask them to keep it down?

What’s your opinion?

Sleepy Lesbians Next Door I happen to agree with Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty, creators of the Tony Award-winning musical Avenue Q, on the subject of apartment living, thin walls and noisy sex: “You can be as loud as the hell you want when you’re makin’ love.”

Or, in this instance, your creepy neighbour with the hipster mustache and his girlfriend can be as loud as the hell they want when they’re makin’ love. But you and your wife – their annoyed neighbours – can be as loud as the hell you want when they’re making love. You can pound on the walls, SLND, make your displeasure known, scream and yell, etc.

And even if your neighbours don’t take the fucking hint and quiet the fucking the fuck down, SLND, the noise you make may bring their annoyingly loud sex to a quicker end. The females of certain species – including our own – get loud during sex, i.e., scream and yell, because it helps the males of their species climax more quickly. (Female copulatory vocalization: it is a real thing with its very own Wikipedia page. Look it up.) If his girlfriend’s vocalizations are turning your inconsiderate mustachioed hipster neighbour on, the screams of his two lesbian neighbours could push him past the point of no return.

Squicked out by the thought of giving your inconsiderate hipster neighbour an aural reach-around? Look at it this way: the quicker he comes, the quicker it’s over and the sooner you can get back to sleep.

Silence is an answer I was in a monogamous relationship with a woman for two years. We split up

and remained platonic friends. Months later, on a drunken night, we had sex. At that point neither of us had slept with anyone else. After we had sex that night, the sexual lion was out and I slept with two others (using protection, of course). Now my ex-girlfriend and I may get back together, and she has asked the question: have I slept with anyone else?

So far I’ve managed to avoid answering, and, yes, we are currently sleeping together. Do I tell her?

Blowjobs And Rights Of Privacy The failure to immediately answer certain questions in the negative is equal to an-

swering in the affirmative. Examples: “Are you gay?” “Did you fuck my sister?” “Is that your butt plug?” Any attempt to avoid answering these questions – issuing a non-denial denial (“Me? Gay? Why would you think that?”), requesting an unnecessary clarification (“You mean your sister?”), stalling for time (“Can we talk about this later?”) – serves as confirmation that, yes, you are gay and/or fucking the sister and/or the owner of that butt plug.

“Have you slept with anyone else?” is right up there with “Did you gay fuck my sister with that butt plug?” Your attempt to “avoid answering” the question was the answer to the question: Yes, you fucked other people.

So unless this woman is an idiot, BAROP, you don’t need to tell her. She knows.

Avoid nutty “admirer” Straight male here. I took a writing c ourse, and some of us students created a writing group. We meet and workshop the things we’ve been working on. One of the guys in the group is gay, and a while ago he confessed that he had very strong feelings for me. I didn’t have a problem with this, but I told him that I wasn’t into guys. The other day he sent me an email telling me there was something he wanted to discuss. We met for dinner, and he told me that despite the fact that I claimed to be straight, he felt like I had been sending him messages to indicate my interest in him. He said this

was cruel and that he felt like I was teasing him. When I asked for exam­ples, he told me that when we had originally been in class together, he noticed that I had started to dress like him, and that this was sometimes a way closeted men showed interest in other men. He mentioned that one week he had worn a red sweater, and the following week I had worn a red T-shirt. He also said that he felt like the stories I had been workshopping in our group were secretly about him. I admit I’m not the stereotypical straight guy – I have good taste in shoes and I like art – but I know what I’m into and who I want to get naked with. I never showed any interest in this guy, I never led him on, this entire thing has taken place purely in his head. I told him all this, and now he says he is hurt and doesn’t want to see me at the group. He suggested that we share the group, alternating meetings, but I refused. We’re both adults who should have the emotional maturity to handle this. Am I being too harsh?

Pulled Into Drama Closeted gay men don’t use coloured Tshirts to send messages to out gay men.

They use Craigslist.

Look, PID, Jeffrey Dahmer – aka the Milwaukee Cannibal – ate a friend of mine.

By which I mean to say: Some gay people are insane. I’m not saying you’re in danger of being drugged, raped, butchered and eaten by this guy from your writing group.

But the guy is – if your account is accurate

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– more than a little unplea­sant and a whole lot batshit. Confide in some friends in your writing group about what’s going on and be prepared to leave the group and/or form a breakaway group if Mr. Red Sweater continues to detect clues in your wardrobe. Also: Do not spend any more time alone with this guy. Someone who would accuse you of making super-secret passes at him via red T-shirts is capable of making baseless accusations about much worse.

And finally, PID, a bonus pro tip: Writers don’t need a writers’ group to write. They just need to write.

Non-monogamy study GAY AND COUPLED AND NOT MONOGAMOUS? A Savage Love reader and sex researcher is studying “relationship satisfaction among non-monogamous gay couples.” His research is focused on gay male couples who have sex with other men but not relationships with other men, i.e., not guys in poly relationships, just open ones. If you’re gay, coupled and non-monogamous but not poly and you have a few minutes to spare for science – science! – take the survey at socialsci. com/s/relationship­survey. n the Savage Lovecast, Dan speaks with O a human rights attorney on how Chelsea Manning can expect to be treated in ­prison, at ­savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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