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2. Footwork’s last dance Adelaide West club Footwork took its last bow this past weekend. But it’ll be back.

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5. Robo cop-out Maybe if more councillors stood up to him, the mayor wouldn’t be such a bully.

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the Writers’ Trust Prize (The Eliot Girls), discusses publishing issues at IFOA. $18. 2 pm, Harbourfront Centre’s Studio Theatre. ifoa.org.

Cyndi Lauper Flame-haired pop star plays Massey Hall, with Hunter Valentine. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $45-$75. LN, RTH. Pedestrian Sunday Check out the last car-free Kensington fest of the year. Noon-7 pm.

Free. College and Augusta. ­pskensington.ca.

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by taking in the return of the hilarious adaptation of the cult horror flick. Randolph until Dec 22. 3 pm. $19.99-$69.95. evildeadthemusical.com. andras schiff Brilliant pianist Schiff plays Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations and Bach’s Goldberg Variations. 2 pm.

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ner reads from The Luminaries at IFOA. $18. 8 pm. Harbourfront Centre’s Lakeside Terrace. ifoa.org.

Melt Banana Speedy, noisy cult favourites from Japan come to Lee’s Palace. Doors 8 pm. $15-$18. RT, SS, TF.

we can be heroes Second City’s latest revue – one of its strongest – continues in a ­limited run. 8 pm. $15-$29.

416-343-0011. +KILL JOY’S CASTLE Last chance to see Allyson Mitchell’s ingenious feminist spin on all things scary at AGYU off-site (303 Lansdowne), 4-8 pm. 416-7365169, ­theagyuisoutthere.org.

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Don’t forget your earplugs. 7 pm, all ages. $45. LN, RT, SS. the double TheatreRUN’s Dora Award-winning adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella gets a remount. 8 pm. To Nov 24 at the Tarragon Extra Space. $13-$53. 416-531-1827.

Night two of the World DJ Championship Finals pits the former Will Smith turntablist against our local boy wonder, plus more. Virgin Mobile Mod Club. 9 pm. $10. TW. LES MISERABLES Star Ramin Karimloo is heading to Broadway, so don’t miss him in this 25th-anniversary production of the musical phenom. Princess of Wales. 1:30 and 7:30 pm. $35-$130. mirvish.com.

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Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. ifoa.org. +Drake The hip-hop star celebrates his number-one album with a sold-out show at the Air Canada Centre. Miguel opens. 7 pm. $76.75-$126.75.

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singer stunned at the Polaris Prize gala. Now she’ll surely dazzle the Adelaide Music Hall.

Doors 8 pm. $15. NT, RR, SS. +all is lost Robert Redford could get his second Oscar nomination for playing an old man lost at sea. Opening day.

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+cream of comedy The annual competition to find the ­funniest new comic or comics happens tonight at the Second City. $15. 8 pm. ­secondcity. com.

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by Tails, Light Fires, Himalayan Bear, Adverteyes and DJ Cryptkeeper. Monarch Tavern. Doors 8 pm. $7. ­wavelengthtoronto. com.

A UN PEACE SERVICE Peace ­researcher Peter Langille talks about an initiative to get the UN peace-focused. 7 pm. Free.

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dance troupe bring their show based on the country’s culture and mythology. 8 pm. $40$105. Sony Centre. TM. LISA MOORE Giller and Writers’ Trust short-lister discusses East Coast writing with Michael Crummey, Mark Medley and Chad Pelley at IFOA. 8 pm. $18.

Brigantine Room. ifoa.org.

Braids The Montreal art rockers switch from the Blk Box Theatre to the Great Hall.

Same address, so you shouldn’t get too confused. Doors 9 pm. $13.50. RT, SS, TF.

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perts Tzeporah Berman, Emily Hunter and NOW’s Ecoholic Adria Vasil host a panel. 7:30 pm. $10. Convocation Hall. earthday.ca/­beyondgreen.

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Horseshoe show celebrates garage rocker’s Idle No More.

Doors 9 pm. $19. HS, RT, SS, TF. Night of dread Clay & Paper Theatre hosts parade and rituals. 4 pm. $10 or pwyc. ­Dufferin Grove Park. ­clayandpapertheatre.org.

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ings author, Helen Humphreys and Cynthia Flood talk about craft at IFOA, hosted by NOW’s Susan G. Cole. $18. 4 pm.

Harbourfront Centre’s Studio Theatre. ifoa.org.

PhÈdre The gold-dusted genre-bending local act throw a party at a warehouse near King and Strachan, with Petra Glynt and others. 10 pm. $7$10. ­facebook.com/­ phedreamour.

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Musical artists and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association should be build­ ing bridges with the survivors of po­ lice violence and oppression, not fur­ ther legitimizing the police and giving them a PR boost with a “friendly” hockey game (NOW, October 17-23).

Saturday’s game was shame­ful and should have been cancelled.

Police violence during the G20 wasn’t an anomaly. Sure, it was more large-scale than usual, but police bru­ tality and impunity are business as usual, as people from poor, racialized and other marginalized commu­nities know all too well. Until the cops stop killing kids, racially profiling people and beating the shit out of activists, any attempt to build bridges with them will be burning bridges with us.

There’s no such thing as “dialogue” when oppression is still going on and when one side has all the power.

PR stunts like this are not new.

The police are constantly trying to whitewash themselves instead of changing their behaviour or taking responsi­bility for their crimes.

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Whether it’s organizing a basket­ ball tournament in a poor commun­ ity or sending a friendly an­ thropomorphic squad car to schools, police violence and impunity are al­ ways accompanied by propaganda ef­forts to try to build “community re­lations.” Nathan Lawr and the CCLA are now complicit. Congrats.

Patrick Clohessy Toronto

Kanye West’s fashion faux pas

Julia LeConte writes of Kanye West: “I guess some people despise his ego.

But I think a lot of people can’t stand him because Kanye has the courage to say the hard thing, unfiltered” (NOW, October 17).

He may be stating the truth, but he’s not necessarily saying it for the reasons you’re suggesting. The prob­ lem is, every “hard thing” he says is filtered through his own ego. He’s mad about racism in the fashion world because it means he can’t get what he wants. Is he angry about ra­ cism in NASCAR? Well, he doesn’t care about auto racing, so no.

I don’t think it’s an “injustice” that he doesn’t get to be an important fashion designer. Not all of us who want something really badly and put to join our fourteenth ininvites ouryou 10,000 hours get annual to have that thing just because.

Perhaps the fashion world is right and his designs just aren’t very good; perhaps he’s right and his awesome ideas are getting shot down because he’s black. Either way, I wouldn’t blame any fashion house for choosing not to work with him. He’s too vola­ tile.

If he’s really so dead set on fash­ ion design, why does he have to at­ tach himself to a prominent label?

He sure­ly has enough money to put where his mouth is; why not hire his own people, put his own name on it and do it himself? Because that’s not really what he wants.

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Regarding Cops Let Fly On Ford (NOW, October 10-16). Something tells me the characters around the mayor aren’t spooked at all by whatever tac­ tics the police are using.

There’s obviously an unsavoury element very close to or inside City Hall that shouldn’t be there at all, and the fact that it’s still evading appre­ hension by our municipal constabu­ lary is starting to stink.

James P. From nowtoronto.com

Ford throws taxpayers under the subway

Rob Ford might not throw a friend like his “good guy” buddy Alexander Lisi under a bus. But the mayor did somehow manage to toss a fully-

“ There’s an unsavoury element very close to City Hall , and the fact it’s still evading apprehension by our constabulary is starting to stink. ” paid-for-by-the-province Scarbor­ ough LRT under a $1 billion Torontotaxpayer-funded subway (NOW, Oc­to­ber 10-16).

Does it feel like supposed fiscal con­servative Ford is going off the rails on a crazy (subway) train?

Robert McBride Thornhill

For Porter, it’s Pearson or bust

We are getting a rail link from Union Station to Pearson Airport. So driv­ ing from downtown to the Island Airport might eventually (very like­ ly) take longer than taking the Air­ port Express to Pearson (NOW, Octo­ ber 3-9).

Indeed, during rush hour, the Gar­ diner Expressway, Queens Quay and Lake Shore are as congested as the 401.

So Porter Airlines should move up to the grown-ups’ airport now that it wants to spread its wings – and oper­ Subscribe to the ate out of Pearson and enjoy the com­ fort of a rail link connection from Union Station.

This is the “civilized” way to travel in any major city: a rail link to a major airport on the outskirts.

And by the way, this would leave the downtown quieter and free of ex­ tra traffic congestion and air pollu­ tion.

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This resto rant might get loud

I am fed up. New restaurants and bars open up, are refurbished and the sound levels go up and up.

Would you believe, according to our very own Ministry of Labour, 90 per cent of all bar and restaurant staff work in environments consid­ered too noisy?

There seems not to be a single ar­ chitect in the land who understands the value of sound-absorbing sur­ faces. Restaurant architects insist on hard ceilings, hard tables, hard walls and glass. Not a chance of sound miti­ gation here. Secondly, sound systems may be good, but do they have to be turned up so high?

Even the most upscale places seem to be bent on ruining not only our hearing but also our dining experi­ ence. You didn’t notice? Get your hear­ ing checked.

Bengt Lindvall Toronto

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The problem with bike lanes on Bloor

Councillor Mike Layton predicts that it will require “a delicate conversa­ tion” to balance the concerns of busi­ ness owners and the needs of cyclists on a proposed Bloor bike lane (NOW, October 21). Yeah, good luck with that.

In Toronto, bike lanes are the defi­ nition of a zero sum game. The one thing I don’t get is why lanes are being proposed on both sides of the road.

Do what Montreal does. Put eastwest bike lanes together on one side of the street and leave the other for park­ ing and traffic.

As proposed, the cars parking would have to navigate through the bike lane to get back into traffic.

Dale Barbour From nowtoronto.com

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The deplorable ­Stephen Harper

Just when I think Stephen Harper and his lackeys can’t sink any lower, I read that he’s sought advice on how to lim­ it entry into Canada of those most in need. I find it deplorable.

Unfortunately, Harper has made it abundantly clear that he values mo­ ney, war and jails as effective tools of control.

Melanie Horsman Toronto

John Baird yells “fire” at the UN

Foreign Minister John Baird’s recent performance at the UN was almost childish. Iran a threat to global secur­ ity?

The minister should have told the UN in simple English instead of col­ ourful rhetoric. When was the last time Iranian troops violated inter­ national borders or Iranian bombers destroyed cities in neighbouring coun­tries?

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The Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals bestows an Award of Excellence on the city thanks to new heritage protection policies in the Official Plan. We’ll resist the temptation to remark snarkily on the city’s woeful record when it comes to heritage. Enjoy.

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Another week, another non-story dominating City Hall. This time it’s a Parks and Rec worker allegedly copping Zs on the job. Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti allegedly had the photographic evidence. The mayor’s office scrambled to call a press conference so His Worship could express his outrage. Sound familiar? Indeed, it was just like that freak-out of the mayor’s a few weeks ago over the spending of $75,000 to replace the chairs in the members’ lounge. The mayor later announced that the employee responsible “is no longer with the city,” which left the mistaken impression that person was dismissed as a result of the chair purchase. Great spin for Ford Nation. Only the employee in question was let go because of a recent reorganization in the purchasing department.

WHAT Another cyclist, this time a 25-year-old woman, dies after a collision with a truck.

WHEN 7:20 am, Wednesday, October 16, at Spadina and Dundas.

WHY The police press release says the woman was riding “in the curb lane, in the bicycle area” when she came into contact with a trailer being pulled by the truck. But as can be seen in the photograph, the bike lane that used to be on this stretch of road has been erased. The death marks the third of a cyclist in recent months.

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The assembling of land along Yonge between Gould and Gerrard continues with the sale of the Yonge Street Mission building to a private equity firm. According to Retail-Insider.com, plans for a shopping mall may be afoot.

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The Japantown mural project at Queen and Claremont, featuring the work of six up-and-coming Japanese-Canadian artists, “aims to give the Japanese community a physical presence in the downtown,” says creative director Ken Galloway. A film is also in the works. This month marks the 25th anniversary of Brian Mulroney’s acknowledgement of the injustices committed against Japanese-Canadians during World War II.

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The TTC has rejected ads from the Montreal-based, pro-Palestinian Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), citing the Canadian Code of Advertising Standards. TTC spokesperson Brad Ross says, “The proposed ads make statements that are unsupported by evidence and/or rulings by international courts [that] may lead to hatred or violence against a specific group: Israelis and/or Jewish people.” Ross says the group can appeal staff’s decision to the TTC’s advertising review working group. In Vancouver, CJPME reports the ads have been vandalized at stations where they were displayed. Ben Spurr’s story at nowtoronto.com

There’ll be no fare breaks for the poor or free rides for seniors during peak hours, the TTC says in a recently released report, owing to the fact that the anticipated losses in revenue would be too much for the overcrowded, underfunded system to bear.

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THE LINE STOPS HERE Plan to pump tar sands oil through T.O. pushes resource invasion conflict beyond the indigenoussovereignty bubble

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tanding on the back of a flatbed U-​Haul, Vanessa Gray reached the climax of her speech.

“The indigenous people have been through genocide after genocide, and we are still here!” she announced to the many hundred people crowding Roundhouse Park. Their cheers echoed off the condos to the east.

Saturday, October 19’s rally of opponents to the Line 9 expansion project was large and diverse, occupying intersections of environmental, social and economic justice. One prominent theme – and a source of visceral anger at the Enbridge proposal to increase capacity and reverse the flow of an aging oil pipeline that stretches from Sarnia to Montreal – was that First Nations people are tired of being fucked over, especially by variations on the same centres of power that have been fucking them over for centuries.

But just as the G20 gave middleclass white Torontonians a taste of what young black Torontonians ex­ per­ience on a regular basis, the Line 9 project extends beyond the indi­ge­ nous-sovereignty bubble into which resource extraction issues of­ten get relegated. The pipeline blows through the north part of Toronto: along the 401 in Etobicoke and then just above Finch from Jane on east, cutting across the Humber, Don and Rouge

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Rivers. A spill into any of them (or any other watershed) could easily trickle into Lake Ontario and wreak havoc with our drinking water. And the proposed increases to the quantity and pressure of the material pass­ing through the pipe would prob­ably not make the arrangement any safer.

Unbeknownst to the protesters, they were inadvertently set up atop the Toronto Railway Museum Minia­ ture Railway, whose 7.5inch-​gauge track snakes through the park. Organizers cleared a path for the little train, and it chugged its way through the throng, steam shooting from the locomotive.

People cheered; it was carrying children, not oil.

Three rainy, cold hours of speeches and performances were punctuated by the train’s occasional intrusions, always heralded by its piercing “choo-​choo.”

On the previous Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the National En­ergy Board (NEB) held public meetings to receive input on Enbridge’s proposal. The marathon sitting at the south building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (across the street from the park) was supposed to culminate on Saturday with reply submissions from Enbridge. But late Friday night, the NEB issued a bulletin:

Enbridge’s rebuttal would be postponed to an undetermined future date and location. For the activists, it was a kind of victory. * * * I have seldom encountered a bur­eau­ cratic entity whose opacity rivals that of the NEB. The same way the Ontario Municipal Board keeps development attorneys in business, the NEB supports a parallel industry of energy lawyers.

of petro­chemistry become a potential matter of life and death.

Enbridge wants to ​reverse the line’s flow so it can ship oil eastward from Alberta’s tar sands and the U.S. Bakken region in Montana and North Dakota to refineries in Quebec. The company also wants to increase the permitted capacity of the line from 240,000 barrels a day to 300,000 (though its recent throughput averages only 64,000) and to be allowed

preparedness leaves something to be desired.

A July 2010 leak from Enbridge’s Line 6B in Marshall, Michigan, was a source of particular concern: a pipe of the same material and vintage as Line 9 ruptured and spewed dilbit into the Kalamazoo River, resulting in the worst on-​land oil spill in U.S. history. (The cleanup is ongoing.)

In its May 2013 assessment of Enbridge’s handling of the incident, the

That’s pretty slim for an emergency plan if oil is gushing into a waterway for four hours while the ­response crew is fighting traffic on the 401.

City of Toronto Lawyer Graham Rempe Participating in a hearing requires applying several months in advance for intervenor status; the board must be satisfied that you have relevant ex­pertise to contribute and/or a par­ ti­cular stake in the decision.

Attending a hearing involves navigating a gauntlet of private security and police who dutifully guard a small auditorium sparsely populated by individuals half-​listening to speech­es on the finer points of petrochemistry. Of course, when it comes to the daily transport of hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil through densely populated and environmen­ tally sen­sitive areas, the finer points

to move diluted bitumen (dilbit) through the pipe, which was built in 1976. In the event of a spill, dilbit can be more difficult to clean than tradi­ tional crude, as it doesn’t tend to float on water.

Through the three hearing days in Toronto and four prior hearing days in Montreal, the NEB heard from 41 groups, individuals, companies, First Nations and governments concerning the proposed changes and potential conditions the NEB might attach to any eventual approval. Many ar­ gued that information being offered

by Enbridge was inconsistent or inadequate and that their emergency

NEB found that in the 17 hours after receiving signals that something was amiss, “Enbridge repeatedly misinter­ preted a series of alarms, did not follow approved procedures and at­ tempt­ed to restart the line twice while still unaware of the rupture.”

The Ontario Ministry of Energy quot­ed this passage in its surprising submission on Line 9, which – despite its inclusion of brief statements of support for the economic principles involved – expressed deep skepticism with regard to the pipeline and Enbridge’s ability to respond to spills. Approval of its proposal, they argued, should be contingent on the results of

a third-​party review of Enbridge’s own engineering assessment and on hydrostatic testing of the pipe’s integrity. The ministry’s further recommendations include that the company be required to take out a U.S. $1 billion insurance policy (the coverage is currently only $685 million) and “conduct annual emergency response exercises” with any interest­ed municipalities.

But where the province paid token heed to potential economic benefits and explored its critical misgivings at length, Unifor did the oppo­site.

The new union formed from the recent merger of the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers enthusiastically expounded on the new energy sector jobs that would be created, while giving short shrift to the various unanswered questions. “We haven’t done the hard digging into those issues,” lawyer Steven Shryb­man told the board, according to the transcript.

But like the province, the city of To­ronto did its research. Solicitor Graham Rempe cited damning excerpts from the U.S. Transportation Safety Board’s report on the Kalamazoo spill, which concluded that there had been “a systemic deficiency in the company’s approach to safety.”

Rempe complained of Enbridge’s lack of emergency procedures speci­ fic to cities or subways. He pointed out that the line not only runs under a stairwell at Finch station, but also will intersect with the new Univer­ sity-Spa­dina subway extension.

“Ultimately, the advice is, as we’ve heard, simply secure the area and assist with evacuation if need be. Well, that’s pretty slim if it’s supposed to constitute an emergency plan,” he said in the transcript. “And it contains no discussion at all of what may need to get done if oil is gushing into a waterway for four hours while the Enbridge response crew is fighting traffic on the 401.” * * * Amanda Lickers spoke for over two hours on Friday, past the meeting’s stated 6 pm end time. The board didn’t dare cut her off.

The young Seneca woman representing Rising Tide Toronto began by picking apart Enbridge’s engineering reports, contrasting the pressure rates at which they predict ruptures may occur with the pressures they want to run through the pipeline.

She unpacked Enbridge’s jargon about the frequency of false negatives (undetected cracks or “crack-​ like features”) in the portions of line they’d excavated for examination.

She read a letter from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, which put the issue in the context of “environmental violence”: “indigenous women and children often bear the brunt of [the] negative consequences of resource extraction,” with toxic effects that last generations.

Approval of the project, she read, would send the message that indi­genous people “are disposable and it is worth it to risk our lives and well-being.”

As she spoke, the room swelled.

Calling the Line 9 proposal an “act of

imperialism” would surely have no sway with a panel composed of energy industry professionals – but the auditorium gradually filled with Idle No More supporters and allies with whom such statements do reso­nate.

As people arrived in response to a Facebook call-​out to attend in soli­ dar­ity with the Elsipogtog First Nation (whose own opposition to resource extraction in New Brunswick had flared up the previous day), the crowd came to mimic the rising tenor of Lickers’s speech.

People were applauding. Cheering.

Even heckling the board members. It was as though a buried current had come alive.

A song was performed during a break. A round dance spontaneously formed, encircling the room with linked arms.

When the meeting resumed, the board members granted Lickers’s request that her friends be allowed to present an honour song for the peo­ ple of Elsipogtog. The board members even cracked a smile when, upon citing a passage from a treaty, she said, “That’s King George’s words, yo.” It built and built.

“And this application,” she thundered, “is an invitation to social conflict. It is an invitation to self-​defence and a beckoning to land defence.”

The room erupted. A standing ovation. Cheers of “NO LINE 9! NO LINE 9!” Another round dance. Flags came out. The board members were hustled away under police protection.

Later that night, the NEB put out its statement calling off its Saturday sitting. “The end of today’s hearing raised concerns with respect to the security of participants.”

NEB staff seemed to do their honest best to help humans integrate into an inhuman process. At a certain point, however, integration is no longer sufficient.

For a brief period on Friday afternoon, in a stuffy corner of the Convention Centre, a kind of sovereignty was achieved.

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Arguably, Ford doesn’t need the City Hall press corps. He’s been able to talk over all their heads while duck­ing their questions, thanks to his Sunday radio show on CFRB. But there, too, the static is getting louder after last week’s highly publicized fall­ing out between the mayor and for­mer executive committee mem­ber Paul Ainslie over the Scarborough subway.

Ainslie has filed a formal complaint with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) over remarks made by the mayor and his bro­ther, Councillor Doug Ford, on their October 13 show.

But his complaint goes further, calling on the CBSC to pull the plug on the Fords’ show for using it as a platform for what he calls “blatant political campaigning.”

The CBSC, an industry watchdog, doesn’t actually have the power to push the Fords off the air. But it does require broadcasters to follow the rules set out in the Canadian Associa-

All in all, the Sun has been much more inclined to make excuses for the Ford administration than to criticize.

And Ford has used his access to the paper’s largely uncritical coverage to freeze out the rest of the City Hall press corps, most of whom have had to rely on time-consuming access-toinformation requests to get hold of the most basic information, including the mayor’s daily schedule.

His media playbook borrows heavily from the one writ by the Republi­ cans in the U.S. – who claim the me­ dia have a liberal bias – and that of his fishing buddy Stephen Harper in Ottawa, whose own relationship with the Fourth Estate has been characterized by outright contempt. It wasn’t a slip when the mayor called members of the press “maggots.”

Last week, the PM barred reporters from covering his address to the Conservative caucus before the Throne Speech.

When photographers and television cameras, Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington which were allowed into the meeting betion of Broadcasters’ Code of Ethics. cause they don’t actually ask quesClause 6 talks about “the full, fair tions, re­spond­ed by boycotting the and proper presentation of the news” event, the PM’s spinners turned their being “the prime and fundamental protest into a fundraising opportunresponsibility” of broadcasters. ity, emailing party members to acThe Fords’ show was cited last year cuse the “Ottawa me­dia elite” of sinkby the CBSC for disparaging remarks ing to a “new low.” made by Conservative windbag Da­ The only news org not to break the vid Menzies about former Ford may­ boycott? Sun Media – yes, the same corp for whose Sun News Network oral rival George Smitherman’s being openly gay and possibly engag­ing the PM’s former director of comin high-risk sexual behaviour. munications, Kory Teneycke, is tryIs CFRB still willing to go through ing to win life-saving man­datory carsuch embarrassments? riage privileges in cable packages. Its Back then the station was owned unabashed promotion of the Conservative cause has made Sun Media by Astral. It has since changed hands and is now owned by Bell Media, a very valuable ally.

But at its flagship paper in the big which also owns CTV, CFTO and the Globe and Mail and whose brand of smoke there’s been a shift in coverage of things City Hall-related since con­servatism is decidedly more small-c than the Tea Party variety esJames Wallace was replaced as editorpoused by the Fords. in-chief by Wendy Metcalfe, and Ford The Globe, coincidentally, was the booster Sue-Ann Levy was moved up recent subject of an Ontario Press the street to cover Queen’s Park. That Coun­cil complaint over its use of 10 after a major Sun Media shake-up in anonymous sources in an exposé on July. The Sun’s coverage of fave son Ford has had a more skeptical tone Doug’s drug-dealing exploits as a 20-something. since then.

The Council dismissed that comThe paper was first to report a jailplaint, along with another against house stabbing’s link to the ongoing the Star over its reporting of the Ford Ford crack video scandal. The tabloid crack video. followed that up with another excluOn the radio show Sunday, Octosive: that death threats made against the mayor by his sister’s long-time ber 20, Doug called the Press Council partner back in January 2012 may a “kangaroo court.”

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(reduce poverty 25 per cent within five years) to participate in ongoing dialogue with the government.

The Liberals have certainly made it their game to set up task forces and feedback processes. Currently, the Minimum Wage Advisory Panel is seek­ing input by November 7. Consultations are also ongoing around the second phase of the province’s poverty reduction strategy – a process clouded by the failure to meet a five-year target set in 2008. The Liberals did not succeed in their much-​heralded commitment to reduce by 25 per cent the number of Ontario children in poverty by 2013 – to shrink the number from 419,000 by 1o3,000.

Instead, only 47,000 children had their lives significantly improved, according to government stats, mostly through the Child Tax Benefit and an increase in the Ontario Child Tax Credit.­ Clarke doesn’t see the point in participating in the Ministry of Commu­nity and Social Services’ new round of info-seeking on poverty. “[The consultations] have tended to legitimize the government and foster this ongoing myth that sooner or later they are going to get around to doing something about the problem,” he says.

While social assistance rates have increased under the Liberals (in September new rules raised the amount recipients could earn without clawbacks and upped welfare for singles 3 per cent a month), Clarke points out that if rates are measured against inflation, people on benefits ($626 month­ly for singles on welfare, $1,800 for those on ODSP) are actual­ly poorer today than they were under Mike Harris. “People are consid­erably worse off because of the economic changes, and they are worse off because of deliberate, wilful government policy,” says Clarke.

But some think there’s more to be gained by encouraging the Liberals to be more courageous. Policy expert John Stapleton from the 25-in-5 Network wants to “cut a bit of slack” for the government. He believes it was essentially the recession that got in the way of poverty reduction.

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Can the grassroots trust the Wynne government after missing targets? By PAUL WEINBERG It was an afternoon of tactical contrasts. On a bright, crisp autumn day last Thursday, October 17, two protests with distinctly different com­mu­nications strategies targeted the same government failure on poverty.

At noon, OCAP, along with reps from OPSEU and CUPE and members of Put Food in the Budget, headed down to the minister of finance’s office at Col­lege and University, where they chanted “Raise the rates” and made fiery speeches against Liberal austerity preoccupations.

An hour later, a more subdued expression of dismay about the 12.9 per cent of Ontarians living in poverty took place in Queen’s Park. There, Stitching Our Safety Net, a coalition of 30 groups from Social Planning Toronto to St. Stephen’s Community House and the Christian Resource Cen­tre, displayed a huge quilt illus­trat­ing in pictures and text the unravelling of social services and income support in Ontario.

The styles surely differed, but the message was pretty much the same: raise social assistance rates signifi­cant­ly and implement a $14-an-hour minimum wage.

Nonetheless, centrifugal forces have fractured the anti-​poverty constituency as participants spar over what to put on the A list – a housing subsidy, a bigger food allowance, income questions and/or dis­abil­ity is­ sues. And there’s definite­ly not a lot of togetherness over what approach to take to the Liberal government.

“It is not very often that all the groups come together and fight to­geth­er,” says Naomi Berlyne, co-coor­ dinator at House­link and a Stitching Our Safety Net organizer, admitting that the movement is essentially splintered over differing priorities.

Then there’s the matter of how to deal with government consultations. OCAP’s John Clarke is very critical of the willingness of groups like the 25-in-5 Network

TOP FIVE POVERTY FACTS 12.9% Ontarians living below the poverty line $626 What single people on welfare live on monthly 25% Food bank users in downtown T.O. with a university education or above 40% Food bank clients in the GTA who have gone hungry at least once a week due to lack of money 21% Toronto youths who are ­unemployed Vital Signs 2013; Daily Bread Food Bank 2013 Profile Of Hunger In The GTA; Commission For The Review Of Social Assistance Report, Wellesley Institute

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Enough to grasp that the mostly secret deal isn’t very pretty when it comes to Toronto’s ability to make decisions benefiting residents.

Here’s the good, the bad and the worrisome.

1 CLIPPING T.O.’S WINGS With the city and its agencies like the TTC and Hydro spending billions an­ nually, there’s a lot of money up for grabs. Will CETA cut into our ability to use that purchasing power to cre­ ate local economic development?

The danger is that provisions in the pact could prohibit city contracts perceived to favour local companies over those from afar. It’s easy to fore­ see measures by the city to ensure the purchase of local food, for ex­ ample, falling afoul of CETA clauses.

In fact, the deal insists any con­ tracts worth more than $310,000 for provinces, $630,000 for utilities at any level of government, and $7.5 million for construction, again at any level, must be fully open to EU bids.

Similarly, the legality of T.O. poli­ cies in effect since the 19th century, like the fair wage stipulation ensur­ ing that city contracts pay decent wages, may be questioned if it can be shown they impede competition.

2 TRANSIT PURCHASES: A MIXED BAG Transit vehicles are the most im­ portant in terms of total contract size for local procurement, and, since the 60s, formal or informal provisions

have insured that these investments create jobs locally and are partially built with parts supplied nearby.

Over the last decade, for example, TTC purchases of buses and rail cars have resulted in more than 7,500 person-years of directly and indirect­ ly created good-paying Canadian jobs. Over the next decade, local spending on new subway cars, street­ cars and buses can be expected to create roughly another 8,000 years of jobs.

In 2008, the TTC initiated a policy requiring a minimum of 25 per cent Ca­nadian content for all rail purchas­ es and in 2009, it extended this to require 30 to 40 per cent for buses, depending on the kind of bus.

Happily, the Canada-EU deal as it appears now allows the province and city to retain that 25 per cent for rail.

But the pact could deeply impinge on transit in other situations. One of these has to do with the campaign resi­dents are waging to get the TTC and Metrolinx to invest in local eco­ no­mic development, jobs and train­ ing in neighbourhoods near new LRTs and their associated mainten­ ance facilities.

The Toronto Community Bene­fits Network is pushing for a community benefits agreement with Metrolinx to ensure that locals get a boost from the $8.4 billion invested in Scarbor­ ough transit and the Eglinton LRT. This agreement is not fully imple­ mented, but it is unclear to what ex­ tent these kinds of projects will be al­lowed under the new trade pact.

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There have been concerns in particular that CETA would lead to the privatization of municipal services like water. (The EU, in fact, has protocols requiring open bidding for many government services, from water and sewer provision to transit.)

These fears prompted city council to adopt a motion by Councillors Glenn De Baeremaeker and Kristyn Wong-​Tam in March 2012 requesting that the province issue a clear, per­ manent exemption for Toronto from CETA, and that it protect the powers of municipalities.

Unfortunately, a general exemption was not negotiated. But it appears that much of what most concerned councillors was taken off the table. Indeed, assurances have been given that the city won’t be forced to privatize services like water. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is even supporting the deal.

But there are still huge unknowables in this mystery pact. That 44-​ page summary leaves a lot to the imagination.

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At the Income Security Advocacy Centre legal clinic (a member of the 25-in-5 Network), Jennefer Laidley thinks even the 47,000 number “shows some progress” – though she cautions that those children are prob­ably from families formerly “on the edge or a bit below the poverty line” and not the most destitute.

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NAFTA did in Ontario’s manufacturing sector in the late 80s and 90s, so we don’t have that to fret about. It seems CETA will have a more limited effect on Toronto because Canada’s trade relationship with Europe is worth only a fraction of the value of our trade with the U.S.. Only 10.6 per cent of Canada’s imports come from the EU, and the EU presently buys 8.4

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per cent of our exports. Most of the new relationship will involve highvalue goods and services coming in­ to Canada in exchange for our com­ mo­di­ties or specialized goods.

Yes, we might see cheaper cheese and wine, but most imports will be in the luxury department: pricey cars and appliances. And don’t look for airline bargains or cheaper cellphone costs; travel and telecommunications are specifically not the focus of this agreement.

5 PROGNOSIS IFFY

The government wants us to believe this deal will create 80,000 new jobs and a $12 billion increase in the GDP. But past promises surrounding trade agreements have never quite been realized. While GDP has grown since NAFTA, speeding up the shift away from manufacturing to services, Canadians have seen no gains in purchasing power in the last two decades, and income disparity has increased significantly.

Trade agreements tend to drive pro­duction to the lowest cost jurisdiction, and have helped reduce middle-class jobs and repress wage gains here. And if predictions hold true that 50 per cent of the increase in exports resulting from the agreement will be in services and not actual goods, most new jobs will be at the high end of the spectrum. This is good for GDP numbers and expensive restaurants downtown, but not for those struggling to get a job beyond minimum wage.

The government promises CETA will increase trade by 20 per cent, but as past pacts show, simply increasing transactions doesn’t guarantee generalized prosperity. Don’t buy the hype.

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former dean of social work at Ryerson University and a member of Poverty Free Ontario. He says that if the Ontario Liberals were serious they would be investing substantial resources in taking the province from a two-digit poverty rate jurisdiction to a single-digit one, as recommend­ ed by the United Nations. In Norway, for example, the rate is 5 per cent.

“We are not going below 10 per cent, so what happens is we get mar­ gi­nal improvements proclaimed as triumphs. But when you go from 13.3 down to 12.9 [as Ontario has], it is not an achievement,” he says.

Meanwhile, poverty experts await further changes recommended in last year’s social assis­tance review.

One prevailing fear surrounds the pro­posal to merge the Ontario Disability Support Program with welfare. At the Ministry of Community and Social Services, Charlotte Wilkin­ son main­tains there are no plans to amal­gamate the two despite “significant speculation and even misinformation.”

Let’s just say frontline agencies are keeping an anxious watch.

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

Pension Funds, Unions And Working Class

Strategies Workshop on the economic crisis and the attack on pension & retirement benefits. 3:30-6 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst.

Pre-register kevin.skerrett@gmail.com.

ReOrientations: A Retrospective On The Works Of Richard Fung Film screenings

For Halloween listings, see page 37.

Thursday, October 24

Benefits

Operanation: A Night Of Temptation

PEN Canada Benefit: Stephen King/Owen King/Andrew Pyper (PEN Canada) Stephen

King talks about his new novel, Doctor Sleep, and Owen King discusses his debut novel, Double Feature, with author Pyper as part of International Festival of Authors. 8 pm. $100.

Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­ifoa.org.

Toronto Firefighter Calendar Launch Party (Fire Fighter Cancer Research Fund)

Meet the city’s hottest fire fighters. Doors 7 pm. $5. ARIA Entertainment Complex, 108 Peter. facebook.com/torontoffc.

Events

Authentic Apologies Conflict resolution workshop. Noon-1:30 pm. Free. Hart House S Sitting Room, 7 Hart House Circle. ­harthouse.ca.

Crime, Crafts, Critters And Christians: ­Living Through The 19th Century Lecture.

7 pm. $12. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

Finances Matter: Maximize Your Retirement Income Info session. 6:30 pm. Free.

Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7692.

George Brown College Open Door Event

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

Get Crafty! Drop-in workshop. 11 am-1 pm.

Free (materials provided). Hart House Reading Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452.

Haim Goldenberg The mentalist performs interactive mind games and more. 8:30 pm (dinner 6:30 pm). $35-$65. Paintbox Bistro, 555 Dundas E. ­haimgoldenberg.com.

Camp 14: Total Control Zone screens at the JAYU Human Rights Film Festival.

Festivals this week

Global Cabaret Festival Dance, music and theatrical cabaret shows featuring more than 150 of Canada’s leading performing artists. $25, adv $22, stu $15; passes $63$120. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­globalcabaret.ca.

Oct 24 to 27

ifoa.org. See festival guide, page 62.

Oct 24 to Nov 3 Jayu: Human Rights Film Festival Films with a focus on North Korean human rights issues, plus Q&As with filmmakers and speakers. $10-$20, passes $30-$70. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. jayu.ca.

Oct 25 to 27

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osophy. $15, stu $10. ­easternbreeze.ca.

To Oct 29 Festival Of Images And Words Celebration of Latin American art and culture in Canada, with film, theatre, art, talks, music and more. Various venues and prices, see website. ­festivalofimagesandwords.ca.

To Nov 9

Si-Si Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival

showcase featuring performers from Toronto and around North America. $10-$20. Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W) and other venues. ­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

To Oct 26 Eastern Breeze Film Festival Short and midlength films of all genres from around the world that contain an eastern taste or phil-

Films include Panopticon, Historias De Futbol, El Mural, Anita and more. $5-$10. Various venues. festivalofimagesandwords.ca/ si-si-cine.

To Nov 2 Toronto After Dark Film Festival Horror, sci-fi, action and cult films. $13, stu $12. ­ Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. ­torontoafterdark.com.

To Oct 25

How To Look At Paintings Talk by arts pro-

sor Judy Singer. 7 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120.

What Can Time-Use Data Tell Us? Talk by prof Bill Michelson. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

plore environmental issues and develop strategies for change. To Oct 27. $35. U of T St George Campus. ­earthday.ca/­ beyondgreen.

It’s Time For A Reality Check: Pipelines And Petrostate Politics In Canada Talk by

Friday, October 25

International Festival Of Authors

Readings, talks, interviews and more with authors including Joseph Boyden, Catherine Bush, Lauren B Davis, S Bear Bergman, Elizabeth Ruth, Shani Boianjiu, Douglas Glover, Andrew Pyper and Seth plus an Alice Munro tribute night.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W.

fessor Judy Singer. 7 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5156.

Impressionism In Music Lecture by Rick Phillips of Sound Advice. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674. environmentalist Tzeporah Berman. 4:30 pm. $20. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. ­sustainabilitynetwork.ca.

Nature Photography lecture by Raymond Barlow. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com.

5Queer Art In The City Fruit Loopz Art and Mentorship projEct evening of art and performance to kick off programs for LGBTQ*2s youth. 6:30 pm. Free. Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne. ­soytoronto.org.

Resilience Thinking: What The Arts Can Learn From Environmentalism Talk by

arts leader Kenneth J Foster. 7 pm. Free.

OCAD U, rm 190, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca.

5Swingin’OUT LGBT swing dance and beginners lesson. 6:45 pm. $6. 519 Church Community Centre. s­ winginout.ca.

The Visual Language Of Art: How To Look At Paintings Talk by artist and profes-

Big City Improv Festival Improv comedy

Benefits

Celebrity Dinner Party (Homes First) Buy a

ticket for dinner in the homes of local celebrities including Toronto Star food columnist Corey Mintz and MP Olivia Chow. $150. Preregister online at ­homesfordinner.ca.

Events Art Toronto Art

expo showcasing 110 galleries from 13 countries, plus panels and presentations. To Oct 28. $18, stu/srs $14, child 12 and under free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. ­arttoronto.ca.

Communicating With Healthcare Providers Health talk. 1 pm.

and discussions. Today and tomorrow. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor W). munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/ events.

Sci Fri: Risk – What Are You Afraid Of? A look at the science of fear for youth 14 to 19 with stormchaser George Kourounis. 6 pm.

Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills.

416-696-1000.

Sherway Farmers’ Market 8 am-2 pm.

Sherway Gardens, 25 the West Mall, NE parking lot. sherwaymarket.com.

The Tax Free Tour Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-214, 252 Bloor W. ­socialistaction.ca.

Tom Eccles: Curating Collections Curator talk. 6 pm. Free w/ Art Toronto admission.

Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. ­arttoronto.ca.

Toronto Cares! Vigil For The Figueroa Family Vigil to protest the deportation of El

Salvador activist José Figueroa. 4 pm. Free.

CBSA Offices, 1 Front. wearejose.org.

Toronto In Film Fiona Luck talks about how the city has inspired local and international filmmakers. 2-4 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710.

The Wearable Art Show Clothing, jewellery and accessories created by 40 Ontario artists. Today 10 am-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $10. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture. ­thewearableartshow.com.

ZoomerLife Conference Exploring new ideas in health, wellness, longevity and radical life extension. 8:30 am-6 pm. $99. CBC Broadcast Centre, Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. 416216-6316, zoomerlife­conference.ca.

Saturday, October 26

Benefits

Amazing Pace (Lung Assoc) Urban race for athletes and amateurs. 8:30 am-2:30 pm. $25. Madison Avenue Pub, 14 Madison. ­theamazingpace.ca.

Fall Sale (Humbercest United Church) Clothing, footwear, accessories, gifts and more. 9-11:30 am.

Free. 16 Baby Point.

416-767-6122.

Beyond Green Youth Summit Delegates ex-

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Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-603-6475.

Delicious Food Show Best in cooking, food and entertaining. Today 11 am-10 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Oct 27, 10 am-6 pm. $20, srs $18, stu $10. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. ­deliciousfoodshow.com.

Hogtown Hoedown Old-time square dance with instruction and a live band. 7:30 pm. $15, stu/underemployed $10, kids $7.

Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. facebook.com/hogtownhoedown.

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(Canadian Opera Co) Opera party with entertainment by the Sam Roberts Band. $150.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. ­operanation.ca.

Paradigm Shift Celebration (The Paradign Shift Project) Benefit party to celebrate five years of making educational documentaries that inspire social change. 6 pm. $45, adv $35. Shamba Foundation, 48 Yonge. ­theparadigmshiftproject.org.

Movie reviews Movie times Rep cinemas

festivals • expos • sports etc.

How to find a listing

Art Toronto Opening (Art Gallery of Ontario) The art expo kicks off with a fundraising preview night. 6:30 pm. $200. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. a ­ rttoronto.ca.

Charity Photo Auction (Dignity in Focus) Auction of photos themed around the concept of dignity. 7 pm. $50, adv $40. Airship37, 37 Parliament. toronto.plusacumen.org.

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teller/columnist Judah Leblang giving his take on ­middle age. 5 pm. $10 or pwyc. Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, 34 Isabella. ­facebook. com/events/566105593458854.

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WATERWAYS WALK H20 consciousness has never been deeper, which is why protection of this precious resource from development, oil spills and industrial contamination is now a major political issue. But how well do you know our own local waterways? The Lost Rivers folks host From Sherbourne Common To The New Corktown Common Park, an exploration of water as a commons. Discover the lost shoreline of Lake Ontario, the mouth of Taddle Creek, the Don delta and more. Sunday (October 27), 2 pm. Free.

Sherbourne Common, Queens Quay East at Dockside. ­lostrivers.ca.

SEPARATE OIL AND STATE From coast to coast, no matter is more contentious than the oil biz.

Examine all the ramifications of this most privi­leged industry at Pipelines Open The Doors! (­Mosaic Interfaith Out of

the Cold shelters) Roots/rock concert with Derek Christie, Bill Colgate and others. 8 pm. $25. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811.

Women Making Waves (Trinity-St Paul’s Building Fund/KAIROS) Roots concert with Nancy White, Anne Walker, Soozi Schlanger and others. 7:30 pm. $15. Trinity-St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435.

Events

Chantal Pontbriand: The Contemporary, The Common Indespensible Links In A Global World Curator talk. 3 pm. Free w/ Art Toronto admission. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. arttoronto.ca.

Coin Show Dealers and an auction. Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-3 pm. $7, under 16 free. Hyatt Regency, 370 King W. ­torex.net.

Community Fall Fair Games, a clothing boutique, jewellery, bake table and more. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Manor Road United Church, 240 Manor E. ­manorroadunitedechurch.com.

Drum Circle 101 Five-week freestyle drumming workshop for beginners. 2:30-4:30 pm. $50 (or $15/class). Long & McQuade, 935 bloor W. Pre-register ­ripplerhythm.com.

Faith, Justice And Arts Open House Performances by Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, salsa dancers, displays and more plus a roots music concert (7:30 pm). 10 am-4 pm. $15.

Trinity-St Paul’s, 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435.

Feldenkrais Introductory session. 10:30 am-noon. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. Pre-register 416-406-0054.

the hidden history of workplace resistance: u.s. autoworkers speak out Dis-

cussion with UAW shop floor activists Gregg Shotwell, Scott Holdieson and Sean Crawford. 1 pm. Free. United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. workersassembly.ca.

Judy Rebick An afternoon with the writer, activst and feminist. 1:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 5-260, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca.

Lost Creeks Of Scarborough Bluffs Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Kingston and Warden. 416-593-2656.

Navigating Conflict Resolution Tools for Change workshop. 1-4 pm. $20-$50. OISE, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register eventbrite.com/ event/­7986049489.

Neighbourhood Walking Tour With Shawn Micallef Learn about your neigh-

bourhood or discover a new one with the author of Stroll. 2 pm. Free. Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth. 416-396-8910.

Ooh La La! Market Handmade indie art, craft, design and vintage-inspired pieces. Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free.

Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. oohlalamarket.ca. rRiverside Walkfest Urban walks for city adventurers include a fitness/dog walk, kiddie costume parade walk, cooking demos, kids’ activities and more. 9 am-6 pm.

Free. Riverside District (btwn DVP and Queen Street bridge). Pre-register

And Petro­state Politics, featuring Tzeporah ­Berman, leader of the largest civil dis­obedience action in Canada’s history, the Clayoquot Sound anti-logging blockade. Berman, exec director of PowerUp, campaign director of ForestEthics and strategic adviser to all manner of green causes, shares her secrets on the art of eco success today (Thursday, October 24), 4:30 pm. $20.

Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. ­sustainabilitynetwork.ca.

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rPedestrian Sundays In Kensington ­Market Celebrate summer with music,

street theatre and more on streets closed to traffic. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, Augusta and College. pskensington.ca. rSamba Drumming For Kids Drop-in workshop for kids of all ages. 11 am-noon. $10.

Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. ­drumartz.com.

Science And Forensic Investigations Of Aircraft Crashes Royal Canadian Institute

lecture. 3 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. ­royalcanadianinstitute.org.

Toronto Cold Reads Writers bring new works for actors to read, with readings from Kate Hewlett’s work. 7 pm. Measure, 296 Brunswick. torontocoldreads.com.

Tzeporah Berman talks about her eco-activism October 24.

Russia’s passed anti-gay legislation and Toronto’s stage artists are mad as hell about it. Excerpts from works by passionate playwrights including Daniel MacIvor, Ronnie Burkett and Catherine Hernandez are performed Sunday (October 27), 8 pm, at Actors’ Fund of Canada benefit Wrecking Ball #15: For Russia With (Gay) Love, which is turn-

ing into a full-on artistic protest of the Russian agenda. The Fund offers emergency financial aid to cultural workers in need due to illness, injury or other circumstances. The doubleduty event takes place at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Pwyc. 416975-8555, ­thewreckingball.ca.

riversidewalkfest2013.eventbrite.com.

The Super Awesome Zine Fair Local illustrators show their art and zine work. 10 am-6 pm. Free. Nook Collective, 156 Augusta. theawesomezinefair@gmail.com.

Toronto FC Soccer TFC play Montreal Impact. 4 pm. $43-$89. 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.

Towards A Self-Caring Society Panel discussion with Filberto Penados of Institute for Sustainable Int’l Studies and U of T Caribbean Studies prof Arnold Itwaru. 10 am-5 pm. Free.

William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. Register arnold.itwaru@utoronto.ca.

Weston Village Farmers’ Market 7 am-2 pm. Weston GO Parking Lot, 39 John. ­westonvillagebia.com. rWhat Trees Are These? Family nature walk.

1 pm. $2-$5 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 40 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

Widows’ Wellness Day All-day forum with speakers. 9 am-5 pm. $125. Islington Golf Club, 45 Riverbank. Pre-register ­widowswellnessday.com.

Withrow Park Farmers’ Market 9 am1pm. Free. 725 Logan, south of Danforth. ­withrowpark.ca.

Fall Flowers & Bonasi Flower show with

Wood Utilization: The Maple Leaf Forever Tree Tour Learn how the maple tree is

being given a second life. 10 am-noon. $5 sugg. Maple Cottage, 62 Laing. y­ ourleaf.org.

Young Voices Writers Conference Workshops on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, script writing and journalism for teens 12 to 19. 10 am. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

bonsai and ikebana demos. Noon4:30 pm. $5, kids free. Japanese Canadian Cultural C ­ entre, 6 Garamond.

416-441-2345.

From Sherbourne Common To The New Corktown Common Explore the

idea of water as a commons and discover the lost shoreline of Lake Ontario.

2 pm. Free. Meet at Sherbourne Common, Queens Quay E and Dockside. lostrivers.ca/walkschd.htm.

Girls Got Kicks Illustrated talk by author Lori Lobenstine on the beauty and diversity of female sneaker fiends. 1 pm. $14, adv $10. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

High Park Buckthorn Busting

Monday, October 28

Benefits

The Inside Affair (Gastrointestinal Soc) Performances, dinner, talks and more. 5:30 pm. $200. Fermenting Cellar, 28 Distillery Lane. ­badgut.org.

Events

The Gravitational Pull Of Bernice Trimble

Behind-the-scenes discussion about an upcoming production of the play by Beth Graham. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. introductory meditation Class. 7 pm.

Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. ­meditationtoronto.com.

New Finnish Grammar European Book Club meeting led by Diego Marani. 6:30 pm.

Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron.

Pre-register 416-921-3802.

Stress Management Through Restora-

tive Meditation Drop-in class. 7 pm. Free (bring your own yoga mat). Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood. 416-394-5247.

Tuesday, October 29

Benefits

Book Sale (University of St Michael’s Col-

lege) Talk on the work of artist Dora de Pedery-Hunt (today 6 pm, $20) and a book sale.

Today 6-9 pm; tomorrow 8:30 am-8 pm. Free.

John M Kelly Library, 113 St Joseph. 416-9261300 ext 3475.

Raise The Roof

Help remove the invasive shrub from the park. 10:30 am-2:30 pm.

Free. Grenadier Café, High Park. ­highparknature.org.

If I Ruled T.O. Youth empowerment experience with politicians, community leaders and celebrities. 10 am-9 pm. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. 416-5794804.

(­Toronto Friends of Refugees) Music by LAL, Samba Elegua, Solar Scenery and

Julia Dault: Coming To

Surrender to an age of bravery and honour

Walk, Roll, Run (Variety Village) 5K run,

Conscientious Objection To War – A Fundamental Right For All? Talk by UN

­ uman rights rep Rachel Brett. 1 pm. Free. h Friends House, 60 Lowther. ­rightsaction.org.

tect Peter Richardson. 6 pm. $5. St Matthew’s Bowling Clubhouse, 450 Broadview. ­riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

Occupy Economics Workshop on prime minister Harper’s strategy and how to counter it. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. info@occupyeconomics.ca.

The StreetKnit Project Put your needles together and help keep someone without a home keep warm this winter. 7 pm. Free.

Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7692.

True Story Join in telling original 10-minute stories, or just watch. 7:30 pm. $5. lemonTree creations, 196 Spadina (lower unit). ­lemontreecreations.ca.

Vietnam: Through The Lens Travel talk.

6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. ­atcadventure.com.

The Wind In The Willows And Children’s

Fiction Lecture on how illustrations in subsequent editions transformed the novel into a children’s classic. 6:30 pm. $15. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

Wednesday, October 30

Benefits

Evolution (TIFF education initiatives)

Opening celebration for the exhibition David Cronenberg: Evolution with a sneak peek at the show. 9 pm. $160. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/cronenbergparty.

Moms Rock (War Child Canada) Performance

by Chantal Kreviazuk and a cocktail reception. 6-9 pm. $200 & $300. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­warchild.ca.

Events

All Women. One Family Law. Know Your Rights Family law education for women.

9:15 am-5 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. ­doorsteps.eventbrite.ca.

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

Documenting Kensington Market Kensington Market Historical Soc presentation. 7 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. kmhs.ca. rFairmount Park Farm Market 3-7 pm.

Free. 1725 Gerrard E. 647-929-2968.

Islamic History Month Series Lecture on Islam and science. 6:30 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. ­noorculturalcentre.ca.

John Street Farmers’ Market 3:30-7 pm.

Free. Courtyard at 197 John. facebook.com/ JohnStreetFarmersMarket.

Montgomery’s Inn Farmers’ Market 2-6 pm. Free. 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

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Events

From Meeting Houses To Modernism: ­Riverdale Churches Presentation by archi-

Talk by successful entrepreneur and cofounder of Dig It Apparel Claudia Harvey. 7 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. Pre-register 416-394-5247.

Table Hockey Tournament Compete to be crowned the Toronto champion. 7 pm. Free.

Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 Yonge. Pre-register cold-fx.ca.

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

Vaccines Lecture on vaccinations. 7 pm.

Free. Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane. 416394-1014.

Sunday, October 27 wheelchair race and walk/roll for individuals with disabilities. 9 am (rain or shine). $45, adv $40. Variety Village, 3701 Danforth.

416-699-7167, ­walkrollrun.ca.

5The Wrecking Ball #15 (Actors’ Fund of Canada) Work by queer and allied playwrights from across the country including Ronnie Burkett, Catherine Hernandez and Daniel MacIvor performed by local actors to protest Russia’s new anti-gay legislation. 8 pm. Pwyc.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, ­thewreckingball.ca.

The Yonge Gogos Literary Tea (Stephen Lewis Fdn) Lawyer-turned-author Robert Rotenberg reads from his book Stranglehold.

2 pm. Pwyc. Loretto College, 70 St Mary. 416485-0753, ­grandmotherscampaign.org.

$5. Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview (Thornhill). ­templeharzion.com.

Crowdfunding 101 Discussion on the basics of crowdfunding with HiveWire cofounder Asier Ania. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-3955535.

East York Farmers’ Market 9 am-2 pm.

East York Civic Centre, 850 Coxwell. tfm.ca.

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Thursday, October 31

Events

1.888.WE.JOUST | MEDIEVALTIMES.COM others. $18, adv $15. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dun-

­America Artist talk. 3 pm. Free w/ Art To-

ronto 10 admission.

MetroSt., Convention Centre, Dufferin Exhibition 255 Front W. ­arttoronto.ca.

Leslieville Farmers Market 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (btwn Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com.

Metro Jazz Society Monthly meeting.

2:30-6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. ­torontojazzsociety.ca.

5One Man’s Journey Through Middle

Ages Living Soulfully Toronto presents story-

das W.Toronto, ­tofriendsofrefugees.ca.

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Events

Anarchosyndicalism: The Other Union Tradition Screening of Together We Win

about the IWW campaign to organize Starbucks and a talk by Marc Young. 7 pm. Free.

OISE, 252 Bloor W. ­torontothebetter.net.

Clouds As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

Elizabeth Leggie talks about the landscapes of William Turner and John Constable. Noon.

Famous Jewish Trials Lecture by author Gerald Ziedenberg. 7:30 pm. Free. Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview (Thornhill). ­templeharzion.com.

The Initiative For A UN Emergency Peace Service Talk by senior research associate

Peter Langille. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

The Photography Of Arthur S Goss & The

Curatorial Process Lecture by Blake Fitz­ gerald and John Bentley Mays. 8 pm. $10.

Toronto­Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. ­torontocameraclub.com.

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food&drink Laid-back Rhum Corner (clockwise from left) offers simple fare like the accra appetizer and braised goat over polenta.

Rhum runs cold Island-inspired card is easy on the wallet but hard to love By Steven Davey RHUM CORNER (926 Dundas West, at Bellwoods, 647-346-9356, rhumcorner.com) Complete dinners for $35 per person, including tax, tip and a frozen daiquiri. Average main $11. Open Thursday to Monday 6 pm to 2 am. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday, some holidays. No reservations. Licensed.

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That might have something to do with the month-old Corner’s co-own­ er, Jenn Agg, she of the various Hoofs.

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tinues to pack them in next door, but when the combined Hoof Raw Bar and resuscitated Café proved less suc­ cessful, she pulled the plug on them in June to make way for Rhum Corner, a casual Haitian spot dedicat­ed to “cheap and tasty food, fun drinks and buckets of rum.”

With more than 40 high-octane exotic marques listed on the mirror behind the bar, she certainly got the last part of the equation right. But while it is cheap, Hoof executive chef Jesse Grasso’s short islandinspired carte

leaves a lot to be desired.

Take house-baked patties stuffed with shredded salt fish and minced peppers ($4 each) that wouldn’t be out of place at Kensington’s Patty King at half the price. Or pasty malanga fritters ($5 for five) that get most of their

kick from a light mayo-like dip. Only the simply listed “salad” – a cle­ver mix of sliced avocado and watercress in a mustardy grapefruit vinaigrette ($8) – hints at any Hoof in­gen­uity. But it’s not very authentic, is it?

“Not even a little bit,” says Grasso.

There are traditional mains like griot, its sous-vide cubes of fatty pork marinated in orange juice, then sautéed with sweet pepper strips over reg­ulation rice ’n’ beans, a few smashed plantain tostones on the side.

A somewhat similar-looking plate turns out to be braised osso-bucostyle turkey legs on a bed of rice infused with earthy djon-djon mushrooms (both $11). A jar of fiery cabbage picklese (think kimchee meets sauerkraut) provides additional heat.

Pan-fried red snapper, shrimp and more stir-fried peppers on that same ’shroomy rice ($12) taste mostly of lime. And our guess is cream of wheat until chef informs us that his coconut-scented cubes of goat ($11) come plated on a pool of polenta.

Slices of sweetly caramelized plantain and scoops of dense house-made coconut ice cream ($6) bring things to a rather muted close.

How would Grasso describe the menu?

“It’s just simple food.”

Maybe so, but sometimes simple isn’t enough.

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Big Crow’s peanut butter and jam pork chop may not sound like a brunch dish, but who cares?

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From Little Italy to Old Montreal, my food tour in Montreal began in Quartier des Spectacles, a cultural centre of public art, students and gourmet cuisine.

My first dinner was like finding love in an unlikely place at La Societé Des Arts Technologiques (SAT) Foodlab (Labo Culinaire) with chefs Michelle Marek and Seth Gabrielse. A fantastic pairing of buttery and delicious Province-themed steak and greens.

Finding snacks in Montreal is as easy as picking up a rock and throwing it haphazardly in any direction! Fou D’Ici , St. Viateur bagel, a melange of spiced nuts from Les Noix du Marché, and why not a chunk of Québec sheep’s milk cheese from Bergerie La Moutonnière, to name a few.

Culinary options are found in the Mile End, the Plateau, Old Montreal – which are packed with middle-to-high end outposts, complete with Edison bulbs and reclaimed

A brunch to Crow about Here it is, just past 11 this positively balmy Saturday morning and the faithful are already lined up outside the upper Annex’s Rose and Sons.

We’ve never understood the attraction, finding the room claustrophobic, the service rushed and the mid-morning menu by former Drake executive chef Anthony Rose predictable. But next door at his terrific Big Crow (176 Dupont, at St. George, 647-748-3287, ­roseandsonsbigcrow.com, @roseandsons, rating: NNNNN), his latest brunch is much easier to stomach.

For starters, the heated and awningcovered backyard patio is virtually empty. And the lack of a crowd makes the kitchen quick. Within moments of arriving, we’re laying waste to a honk­in’ grilled slice of Thuet Bakery sourdough dressed with banana, Nutella and dulce de leche ($5) and mugs of ­instant Max-

barn wood. I went to Old Montreal for smoked jerky and an intensely floral house-made Ninja IPA at Les Soeurs Grises microbrewery.

What is most compelling is that even in the most isolated areas, there is still something for the hungry self-proclaimed “foodie” masses. Montreal even has a snack bar where young kids play 90s hip hop all night and serve shared plates and bourbon cocktails at SuWu. A highlight of Montreal’s gastronomy scene is their restaurant week, MTL a Table, from Nov 1-11.

More than 125 restaurants are offering three courses at one of three prix fixe: $19/$29/$39 This is an awesome deal as some of the city’s best restaurants are participating. You could never get a 3-course meal for that low a price otherwise. www.tasteMTL.com

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“It reminds me of sitting around a campfire,” laughs Rose.

His bacon and eggs also recall the great outdoors, now translated as ­ridiculously thick rashers of smoky, sweet Perth County pork belly, a pair of over-easys and a side of garlicky grilled broccoli ($14). Pepperoni-like sausage ’n’ beans get paired with more eggs, Memphis-style cornbread rife with duck fat and a shower of crunchy raw scallion ($13).

But it’s his peanut-butter-and-jam pork chop ($16) that steals the show, a great slab of smoke-scented pig finished with salted Norfolk County peanuts and house-made sour-cherry jam.

Side it with a bowl of chef’s outrageously cheesy “soft and sexy” grits ($4) and go home one very happy SD camper.

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Serve it with an easy-to-assemble charcuterie platter and see how it brings out the delicate herbs and spices.

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Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene Locavore guiding light Jamie Kennedy has announced he will be reviving his much-loved Church Street Wine Bar on a permanent basis at the Gilead Café (4 Gilead Place, at King East, 647-288-0680, jamiekennedy.ca, @­ChefJKennedy). Expect à la carte dinner service to begin December 5, on offer Tuesday to Sunday from 5:30 pm. Needless to say, reservations are r­ ecommended.

Get got Though Jon Polubiec’s Come and Get It (170 Spadina, at Queen West, 647-344-3416, comeandgetit.ca, @­comeandgetit416) pop-up serves up its last Hawaiian pork belly poutine on Friday (October 25), the offbeat snacketeria resurfaces come late November in the soon to be defunct Mavrik wine bar on Queen

West at Euclid. Polubiec promises a similar portable lineup, with the addition of late-night libations.

Talkin’ Balkan Over in Leslieville, Dusan Varga of Rakia Bar (1402 Queen East, at Greenwood, 416-778-8800, ­rakiabar. com, @­RakiaBarTO) reveals that his Serbian cocktail lounge has annexed the like-minded Croatian Hrvati Bar on Euclid just north of Bloor in Korea­town. Let’s hope for a peaceful transition.

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Contemporary Drake One Fifty

150 York, at Adelaide W, 416-363-6150, drakeonefifty.ca, @thedrakehotel Thursday night at the Chase? We laugh. This cavernous spinoff of the Drake Hotel in the financial district has been wall-to-wall suits since the get-go. Executive chef Ted Corrado’s very upscale takes on comfort food, an arty vibe and servers who actually smile make reservations mandatory, especially at lunch and when the market closes.

Best: blistered ’n’ salted shishito peppers and cherry tomatoes; substantial 8-ounce cheeseburgers layered with pickled red onion, bibb lettuce, Perth County bacon and Russian dressing sided with chunky seasalted fries; Swiss Chalet-style rotisserie chicken with fries, coleslaw and biscuits; to finish, apple crumble pie with house-made vanilla ice cream. Complete dinners for $75 per person (lunches $45), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $28/$22.

Open Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to midnight, Thursday 11:30 am to 1 am, Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 5 pm to 2 am, Sunday and holidays 5 to 11 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Rating: NNNz

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60 Richmond E, at Church, 647-9309517, hawthorneto.ca, @hawthorneto Cowbell owner/chef Mark Cutrara resur­ faces at this under-appreciated bistro in the downtown core. A locally sourced seasonal carte, rock-bottom prices and polished service deserve a larger audience.

Those standing in line for tables at the very similar Richmond Station two blocks away, take note. Best: shareable starters like quinoa salad with roasted eggplant, garlic and goat feta in a VQA Riesling vinaigrette; pan-seared Lake Erie perch with crispy polenta fries and caper-rich sauce gribiche; chicken liver mousse “brûlée” with caramel sauce and stewed blackberries; larger plates like grass-fed beef-cheek ravioli; smoky Memphis-style side ribs with roasted fingerling potatoes in chicken schmaltz; preserved cherry panna cotta with candied ginger. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $28), including tax, tip and a glass of VQA wine. Average main $18/$12. Open for lunch Monday to Friday 11 am to 3 pm, and for dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations

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Sandwiches Hey Meatball!

912 Queen E, at Logan, 647-340ñ 6439, heymeatball.com, @TeamHeyMeat-

ball One-time Rosebud and Citizen owner/ chef Rodney Bowers moves slightly downmarket with an upscale takeaway devoted entirely to meatballs, whether naturally raised Rowe Farms beef or pork, free-range Gasparro’s chicken, or house-made vegan veggie. Slick design, creative sides and a kid-friendly card mean lineups come suppertime. Also: 719 College, at Crawford, 416-546-1483. Best: the signature Rodfather sandwich, three hefty ‘balls on grilled ’n’ pressed Boulart Bakery baguette finished with classically simple tomato sauce and powdered parmigiano; the Eastender sub, a Newfie take on the Halifax donair with shredded slow-braised roast beef, smoked provolone cheese and grilled poblano peppers; retro macaroni and cheese; old-school spaghetti and meatballs, both in adult and small-fry portions; chopped salads of pickled carrot and radicchio over organic greens; cheesy sautéed Brussels sprouts. Complete meals for $18, including tax, tip and a house-made soda. Average main $12. Open daily 11 am to 9 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free. ­Rating: NNNN 3

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“It’s made it more accessible.

People who would never order Scotch are ­ordering this full-flavour cocktail and loving it,” she said.

Robin Goodfellow, manager and bartender at Ursa (924 Queen West, 416-5368963, ursa-restaurant. com), agrees.

“As long as it stays true to the spirit and you’re not masking it, you can enjoy Scotch however you see fit. A bartender can help people enjoy Scotch whisky in ways that they didn’t think they were capable of,” he said.

Goodfellow’s Dirty Gentleman

($14) – Bowmore 12, housemade ginger brandy, cinnamon-bay leaf syrup and lemon juice – is so well received that Ursa is now one of the top sellers of Bowmore in the province.

He notes that Scotch cocktails can be a gateway to the enjoyment of naked Scotch whiskies, acquainting palates with a medley of approachable and unfamiliar flavours.

Scotch is so much more than your grandfather’s dram or a suit’s status sip; maybe all the convincing you need is a sublime concoction.

Try these Scotchy delights, too.

Vincent Pollard’s Last Chance For The Slow Dance at the Belljar (2072 Dundas West, 416-535-0777, ­belljarcafe.com): Auchentoshan 12, Cointreau, Amaretto and Benedictine garnished with a lemon zest ($12).

Brad Gubbins’s Smoking On Crusade at SpiritHouse (487 Adelaide West, 647-277-1187, spirithousetoronto.com) combines 16-year-old Islay whisky with gin, muddled pineapple, honey syrup, lime and egg white ($16).

Dave Mitton’s Smoke Stack Lightnin’ at the Harbord Room (89 Harbord, 416-962-8989, theharbordroom.com), a blend of Bowmore 12, fresh lemon, rhubarb, agave and ginger ($16).

Pinot Noir T h e U lT im aT e Food Wine Pinot’s smooth texture and light body make it an excellent match with rich seafood dishes like roast salmon.

scotch is in the mix It may sound counter-intuitive, but Scotch-based cocktails might be the new big thing Although there are a few familiar classics – think Blood and Sand, Rob Roy and Hot Toddy – Scotch is traditionally served neat or with a respectable spot of dilution.

With the whisk(e)y boom going full tilt and public thirst and knowledge broadening, bartenders are mixing more premium spirits to please their guests’ individual preferences, and Scotch is inspiring a slew of contemporary cocktails.

Purists may sputter and balk at the irreverent addition of citrus or bitters, but the consensus among ­Toronto bartenders

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Rating: NNN Why The “official ghost brew” for All Hallows is full of rich malt balanced with a bit o’ fruit and bitterness. Who knows what terrifying curse you’ll incur if you don’t suck back a Spooks on Devil’s Night?

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Rating: NN Why You may like this if you were in the 0.5 per cent of kids who got giddy over finding black licorice in their Halloween loot. Otherwise, you may be left confused and screwfaced. Maybe absinthe and beer were never meant to mingle.

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Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin Ale Rating: NNN Why Brooklyn’s Pumpkin Ale is an island­worth visiting in the ocean of leering jack-o’-lanterns dominating shelves this month.

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Barchef (472 Queen West, 416-8684800, b ­ archeftoronto.com) has released a book written by bar whiz Frankie Solarik with a forward by Grant Achatz of Chicago’s Alinea. A classy chronicle of the drinks that put the now-famous Toronto bar on the map, The Bar Chef: A Modern Approach To Cocktails is available at bookstores ($29.99, HarperCollins).

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From the macabre to the magical, bring your Halloween costume to life with these haunting makeup finds 1. Mix MAC’s Chromacake ($30, 363 Queen West, 416-979-2171, and others, maccosmetics.com) with water and apply for a highly pigmented opaque finish.

2. Use NARS’s hyper-saturated Eye Paint ($29, Sephora, 131 Bloor West, 416-513-1100, and others, nars­cosmetics.ca) to channel your inner Cleopatra and create the perfect cat eye.

3. Kryolan’s luminous UV-Dayglow Spray ($9.98, Complections, 110 Lombard, 416-968-6739, global.kryolan.com) shines extra-bright under black lights and washes out easily the next morning.

4. Essie nail polish in Wicked ($9.99, Shoppers Drug Mart, 388 King West, 416-597-6550, and others, essie.com) suits all skin tones and is DBP-, toluene- and formaldehyde-free.

5. Create scars, tattoos and just about anything else you can think of with MAC’s Acrylic Paint ($25), part of a ­limited-edition collection by legendary SFX artist Rick Baker.

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If so, this 5 week series of essential information will help guide you through the process from start to finish.

Week 3 - Making the offer!

Once you’ve found your perfect home, you’re now ready to make an offer. Keep in mind that once your offer is accepted, an Offer to Purchase is a legally binding agreement between you and the vendor. Along with your mortgage agreement, this is one of the most important documents you’ll sign.

The Offer to Purchase locks you into the conditions of the purchase, so it’s important that your interests are protected by discussing your Offer to Purchase with your lawyer or notary, prior to signing.

Here are some basic steps you can take to arrive at a price range and other terms that make sense.

• Your proposed purchase price: There is definitely some research involved to help you make an offer the seller is likely to accept without paying more than you have to for your home.

• Closing date This is the date you will take possession of the house (usually 30 or 60 days from the date of the agreement). This is generally outlined by the seller but you can always request a shorter or longer date. Consider a date that will allow you a comfortable amount of time to conclude your financing and complete any repairs and painting before you have a house full of furniture.

Negotiating… make sure what you’re asking for is fair and equitable.

Consider doing a Comparative Market Analysis that compares the home you’d like to purchase with nearby homes that have similar characteristics which are currently on the market or have recently sold. Consider whether it’s a buyer’s market or seller’s market, how many days the house has been on the market, competition (your’s and the seller’s) and if you can, find out what the seller’s priorities and motivation to sell is.

• A list of items in the house – often called chattels to be included in the purchase price. For example, make a list of the items you’d like included such as appliances, window coverings, and certain furniture items that might be negotiated into the purchase price.

• Amount of your deposit This is usually expressed as a percentage of the sale.

• Financial details You’ll need to consider how the balance of the purchase price will be paid which was covered in detail last week when we discussed mortgages.

• Time period for which the offer is valid Setting a time frame of approximately 48 hours is the norm but this can vary depending on various factors including the competition and the seller’s availability.

• Conditions of the offer You might want to make your offer conditional on arranging for financing, a building inspection, or the results of a survey. Make sure the offer can be cancelled if any of your conditions are not met and always put a time limit on the conditions. Keep in mind that a firm offer – one with no conditions – is usually more attractive to the vendor.

But remember that you need to feel comfortable with the offer yourself.

Negotiating – the seller will either accept your offer, reject it or make a counter offer based on things like price, closing date or other conditions.

While receiving a counter offer may be unsettling, know that your real estate agent has plenty of experience to help you. Some good tips for negotiating are to make sure what you’re asking for is fair and equitable; be polite and collaborative; hold fast to your “needs” and be flexible on your “wants”; and know when to walk away no matter how hard that may be.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “I’m greedy,” says

painter David Hockney, “but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life.”

According to my analysis, Aries, the cosmos is now giving you the go-ahead to cultivate Hockney’s style of greed. As you head out in quest of adventure, here’s an important piece of advice to keep in mind. Make sure you formulate an intention to seek out thrills that educate and inspire you rather than those that scare you and damage you. It’s up to you which kind you attract.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 French philoso-

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 “I had tended to view waiting as mere passivity,” says author Sue Monk Kidd in her memoir.

“When I looked it up in my dictionary, however, I found that the words ‘passive’ and ‘passion’ come from the same Latin root, pati, which means ‘to endure.’

Waiting is thus both passive and passionate. It’s a vibrant, contemplative work....

It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely.” This is excellent counsel for you, Gemini. Are you devoted enough to refrain from leaping into action for now? Are you strong enough to bide your time?

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Venice is to the

man-made world what the Grand Canyon is to the natural one,” said travel writer Thomas Swick in an article praising the awe-inciting beauty of the Italian city. “When I went to Venice,” testified French novelist Marcel Proust, “my dream became my address.” American author Truman Capote chimed in that “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because even if you don’t make a pilgrimage to Venice, I expect that you will soon have the chance, metaphorically speaking, to consume an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Take your sweet time. Nibble slowly.

Assume that each bite will offer a distinct new epiphany.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Do you have any in-

terest in reworking – even revolutionizing – your relationship with the past? If so, the coming weeks will be an excellent

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Murakami. Now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for your cruise through the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle.

When you first arrive, you may feel blind and dumb. Your surroundings might seem impenetrable and your next move unfathomable. But don’t worry. Refrain from drawing any conclusions whatsoever. Cultivate an empty mind and an innocent heart. Sooner or later, you will be able gather the clues you need to take wise action.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 “As a bee seeks

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Have you thought about launching a crowdfunding campaign for your pet project? The coming weeks might be a good time.

Have you fantasized about getting involved in an organization that will help save the world even as it feeds your dreams to become the person you want to be? Do it! Would you consider hatching a benevolent conspiracy that will

nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere,” advises the Tibetan Buddhist holy text known as the Dzogchen Tantra. That’s your assignment, Virgo. Be a student 24 hours a day, seven days a week – yes, even while you’re sleeping. (Maybe you could go to school in your dreams.) Regard every experience as an opportunity to learn something new and unexpected. Be ready to rejoice in all the revelations, both subtle and dramatic, that will nudge you to adjust your theories and change your mind.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 Don’t you wish your friends and loved ones would just somehow figure out what you want without you having to actually say it?

Wouldn’t it be great if they were telepathic or could read your body language so well that they would surmise your secret thoughts? Here’s a news bulletin: IT AIN’T GOING TO HAPPEN! EVER! That’s why I recommend that you refrain from resenting people for not being mindreaders, and instead simply tell them point-blank what you’re dreaming about and yearning for. They may or may not be able to help you reach fulfillment, but at least they will be in possession of the precise information they need to make an informed decision.

serve as an antidote to an evil conspiracy? Now is the time. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to build alliances.

Your specialties between now and December 1 will be to mobilize group energy and round up supporters and translate high ideals into practical actions.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 In 2008, writ-

er Andrew Kessler hung out with scientists at NASA’s mission control as they looked for water on the planet Mars.

Three years later, he published a book about his experiences, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, And My 90 Days With The Phoenix Mars Mission.

To promote sales, he opened a new bookstore that was filled with copies of just one book: his own. I suggest that you come up with a comparable plan to promote your own product, service, brand or personality. The time is right to summon

extra chutzpah as you expand your scope.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Right now you

have a genius for escaping, for dodging, for eluding. That could be expressed relatively negatively or relatively positively.

So for instance, I don’t recommend that you abscond from boring but crucial responsibilities. You shouldn’t ignore or stonewall people whose alliances with you are important to keep healthy. On the other hand, I encourage you to fly, fly away from onerous obligations that give you little in return. I will applaud your decision to blow off limitations that are enforced by neurotic habits, and I will celebrate your departure from energy-draining situations that manipulate your emotions.

Homework: Imagine you get three wishes on one condition: They can’t benefit you directly, but have to be wished on someone else’s behalf.

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Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 Scorpios are obsessive, brooding, suspicious, demanding and secretive, right? That’s what traditional astrologers say, isn’t it?

Well, no, actually. I think that’s a misleading assessment. It’s true that some Scorpios are dominated by the qualities I named. But my research shows that those types of Scorpios are generally not attracted to reading my horoscopes.

My Scorpios tend instead to be passionately focused, deeply thoughtful, smartly discerning, intensely committed to excellence, and devoted to understanding the complex truth. These are all assets that are especially important to draw on right now. The world has an extraordinarily urgent need for the talents of you evolved Scorpios.

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pher Simone Weil described the following scene: “Two prisoners in adjoining cells communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.” This muted type of conversation is a useful metaphor for the current state of one of your important alliances, Taurus. That which separates you also connects you. But I’m wondering if it’s time to create a more direct link. Is it possible to bore a hole through the barrier between you so you can create a more intimate exchange?

time to do so. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you attempt any of the following actions: 1. Forgive yourself for your former failures and missteps. 2. Make atonement to anyone whom you hurt out of ignorance. 3. Reinterpret your life story to account for the ways that more recent events have changed the meaning of what happened long ago. 4. Resolve old business as thoroughly as you can. 5. Feel grateful for everyone who helped make you who you are today.

ecoholic Changing of the guard

When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

Chris Chaplin/WWF-Canada

WHILE Fossil fuel protests RAGE across the country, a trio of new leaders recently took the helm at THREE enviro orgs. WHAT green plans DO THEY HAVE up their sleeves?

DAVID MILLER, president and CEO, World Wildlife Fund Canada Resumé Former mayor of Toronto, initiator of T.O. climate change plan, lawyer advising green businesses.

Plans for shaking things up?

Canada has a unique opportunity to show the world how a country that values its natural spaces can take a smart approach to industrial and urban development. WWF will help lead the conversation with a focus on climate change and the issues ­facing oceans and fresh water. Whether it’s the oil sands or other oil and gas development, we need a national strategy to deal with the resulting ­carbon emissions.

What keeps you up at night?

The magnitude of our challenges. Ca­na­da needs a conservation plan with the same scope and scale as our resource development agenda.

In trying to make corporations more sustainable, WWF’s also been accused of greenwashing them in the process. How do you respond?

Relationships with business have to be carefully constructed, but if they meet sustainability goals, I’m all in favour. Working with business drives change on the scale and at the pace our planet needs. WWF-Canada has been part of Canada’s Forestry Stewardship Council. Similarly, Loblaw’s commitment to sustainable seafood has helped transform the industry. We will continue the science-based work of developing solutions and bringing leaders and influ­encers from across sectors and party lines to the table.

What’s on your wish list?

I want to be able to go canoeing and drink the water, unfiltered, just like I could on my first canoe trip in 1972. I want to make sure special places like the Great Bear Sea, the High Arctic archipelago, the Great Lakes and the Bay of Fundy – remain healthy. I want us all to act together to face the single biggest threat to all species and spaces: climate change.

Guilty pleasure?

Toronto FC. What are you reading now?

Fire and Ashes, by Michael Ignatieff.

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TIM GRAY, exec director, Environmental Defence

JOANNA KERR, exec director, Greenpeace Canada

Resumé Former exec director, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society-Wildlands League; conservation director, CPAW; program director, Ivey Foundation.

Plans for shaking things up?

ED works on issues that impact people’s daily lives.

I will continue that legacy. I’m also keen to work with companies to show that protecting the environment is smart business. The prime minister has huge op­por­tunities to lead on integrating the envi­ronment and the economy. I look forward to encouraging him if he ever has me over for dinner.

What keeps you up at night?

Worrying we won’t create the political and ­social space for smart solutions. Then I get up, have a coffee, connect with people making a difference and know we will create a better future.

You helped implement the historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, which is badly stalled. Are industry-NGO alliances doomed to disappoint?

NGO-industry collaborations can work. The Boreal Forest Agreement is still being implemented, and I believe it will produce conservation outcomes. And the Forest Stewardship Council is an industry-ENGO collaboration. We need to go into these collaborations with our heads up and power behind us. Done wrong they can be greenwashing; done right they can leapfrog over government gridlock.

What’s on your wish list?

Developing mechanisms to pay more for things we don’t want (toxins, carbon pollution, water degradation) and get more of what we do want (like income).

If we did this, the economy would help drive environmental protection Guilty pleasure? Red 1988 Saab 900 Turbo convertible. I bike and walk everywhere in the city, but I love my old Saab for escaping with the top down.

Reading now? Feral, by George Monbiot. It’s about restoring wildness to make ecosystems more productive for both nature and civilization.

Resumé Policy director, Oxfam Canada; exec director, Association for Women’s Rights in Development; chief exec, ActionAid International in Johannesburg Plans for shaking things up?

I want to find solutions to environmental problems and inequality; they are deeply intertwined. Empowered citizens will change this world. We don’t have to make a false choice between the economy and the environment. Climate change absolutely has to be solved in our lifetime. So whether through diplomatic engagement or peaceful confrontation, science and truth have to speak for themselves.

Greenpeace has sometimes been seen as male-­dom­ inated. Actually, the enviro movement as a whole has been accused of being a white man’s game. Does the movement have to become more i­ nclusive?

Rachel Carson, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Tzeporah Berman, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Elizabeth May – I have so many heroines! But the movement is not as diverse as it could be. Like the natural world, where biodiversity ensures resilience, a more diverse movement will be [better at] developing the multitude of solutions needed.

What keeps you up at night?

That’s an easy one – let me count the ways. The dearth of debate on the future of the environment, energy and the economy. Canadian’s increasingly appalling reputation internationally. Loosening environmental oversights. The fact that more and more activism is becoming criminalized, let alone silenced.

What’s on your wish list?

That Canadians 1) take responsibility for the damage we are doing globally; 2) connect the dots, follow the money and speak truth to power; and 3) have the courage and creativity to sustain this fragile planet, defend our precious oceans, forests and the Arctic and lead an inspiring energy revolution.

Guilty pleasure? Red wine and Mexican food.

Reading? Fierce Conversations, by Susan Scott. Apparently, all change is led through conversations. 3

nature note BIG SUGAR AND SPICE OUTED Lots to celebrate in anti-GMO news this week. A Mexican judge ordered the suspension of GMO corn trials, the Hawaiian island of Kauai voted in a groundbreaking GMO disclosure bill, and a lawsuit by Washington’s attorney general forced the Grocery Manufacturers of America to come clean about just who’s funding their anti-labelling lobby. Nestlé, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg’s and Pepsico were some of the usual suspects spilling millions into the “GMO-labelling will cost ya” war chest – as they did in California. No doubt the now-public list will spawn renewed calls to boycott all of the above antilabelling brands, as well as a few names that didn’t make the original list, including Ocean Spray, Welch’s and Clorox – yes, that last one leads straight to Burt’s Bees. Spice king McComick – which offers organic herbs – also fell on the “no” side of the lobby.

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Thursday, October 24 BIRTH OF FRANKENSTEIN This site-specific play fuses Mary Shelley’s gothic novel with the dramatic circumstances that inspired her to write it. Runs to Nov 3, Tue to Sat 8 pm. $30, stu $20. Saint Luke’s United Church, 353 Sherbourne, Parlour. litmustheatre.com.

CAPTAIN’S WAKE Captain Morgan’s Black Spice Event. Grace O’Malley’s, 14 Duncan. gracies.ca.

DINE HER This interactive zombie comedy looks at how gentrification strips neighbourhoods of life. To Oct 26, Thu to Sat 7 pm. $50 (dinner & show). George Street Diner, 129 George. dineher2.eventbrite.ca.

EVIL DEAD – THE MUSICALThe musical based on the film franchise returns home for its 10th anniversary. Previews To Oct 27, Thu to Sat 7 and 10:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. Opens Oct 29 and runs to Nov 26, Tue to Thu 8 pm, Fri to Sat 7 and 10:30 pm (and Oct 31), Sun 3 pm. No show Oct 30. $19.99-$69.95. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. evildeadthemusical.com.

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JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE Talk by 19th-century literature professor Michael Johnstone. 7 pm.

Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

HALLOWEEN FILMS Kid Dracula: FW Murnau’s 1922 film Nosferatu, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 7 pm.

Reg Hartt’s Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416603-6643.

HALLOWEEN HAUNT Ten horrific mazes including The Ruins and Sci-Fi House, scare zones, live shows, hair-raising rides, undead spirits and monsters lurking in the shadows. Not recommended for children. To Oct 27. $35$45. Canada’s Wonderland, 9580 Jane, Vaughan. canadaswonderland.com/haunt.

HALLOWEEN MOVIE Screening of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s freakout film House. 7 pm. Free.

The Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor W, 2nd flr.

Pre-register jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php.

5KILL JOY’S KASTLE: A LESBIAN FEMINIST HAUNTED HOUSE Guided tours of an immer-

sive art installation with gender-queer apparations, ball-busting bitches and happy-ashell spinsters created by artist Allyson Mitchell. To Oct 30, 4-8 pm daily (or by appt).

303 Lansdowne. theagyuisoutthere.org.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE George A Romero’s 1968 zombie film is performed in an interactive stage adaptation. Runs to Oct 27. $23-$80. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson.

416-504-7529, nightofthelivingdeadlive.com.

NIGHTS OF THE UNDEAD Interactive paintball zombie attack. To Oct 31, 8 pm-1 am. $25. Sgt Splatter’s Paintball, 54 Wingold. 416-781-0991.

THE RELUCTANT RESURRECTION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Arthur Conan Doyle kills off the Sher-

lock Holmes character but is then haunted by his ghost in this comedy-mystery. Runs to Oct 26, Thu to Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $17.

Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston.

416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW A newly engaged couple stumble upon a freaky castle in this classic rock musical. Runs to Nov 10, Thu to Sun 8 pm. $39-$49. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Toronto Youth Theatre perform the musical based on the 70s cult film. Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $35, stu $26.25. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org.

SCREEMERS Indoor scream park with haunted attractions, a skull castle, house of cards, monsters and more. To Nov 2, 7 pm-midnight. $25-$30. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. screemers.ca.

SUCKER Various odd characters grieve in their own way in a small town crushed by a whim-

sical tragedy in this Halloween-themed play.

Runs to Nov 9, Thu to Sat 8 pm (and Nov 6), Sun 2 pm (and Nov 9). $20, Oct 27 pwyc, Oct 31 $15 w/ costume. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL Horror, sci-fi, action and cult films. Today and tomorrow. $13, stu $12. torontoafterdark.com.

WILDSOUND FEEDBACK FILM FESTIVAL presents short films. Second act program is rated R and includes horror films. 7 pm. $4.

Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca.

WITCHY ART Group show of art based on the idea, history and concept of the witch by Jocelyn Allen, Kit Currie, Tsukiko Keogh, Michael Ratt, Jenn Attwells and others. Various hours. To Oct 31. $5 sugg. Elephant Shoes, 1342 Bloor W. michaelmackid@teksavvy.com.

YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE DEAD Various stories of tortured spirits unable to pass to the next world are told in the setting of the historic house. Opens today and runs to Oct 31, daily at 7 and 9 pm. $25-$35. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. theatrelab.ca.

ZOMBIE & MONSTER MAKEUP WORKSHOP PreHalloween workshop with special effects makeup artists Ryan Louagie (Evil Dead: The Musical) and Stuart Conran (Shaun Of The Dead). 6-8:30 pm. $80. CIMU College of Makeup Art & Design, 110 Lombard. Preregister 416-968-6739, complectionsmakeup.com.

Friday, October 25 ATTACK OF THE MINIONS HALLOWEEN DJ

4KORNERS. Doors 10 pm. Adv $20. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. marqueemedia.com.

CAPTAIN’S WAKE Captain Morgan’s Black Spice event. Woody’s, 467 Church. woodystoronto.com.

DIABLO HALLOWEEN BALL DJs Deko-Ze, Danny D, The Hammer, Alan Aguero, Tony Monaco,

Armo Kidd, Profit, Jermz, Figo, Capital J, Red Lion, Kimi and others at this 7 rooms, 7 sounds, all access party. Doors 10 pm, $35, tickets at inktickets.com. Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. diablohalloweenball.com.

THE DUDEBOX IS FUCKING DEAD IV: CARWASH OF DOOOOM DJ James Redi spinning hip-hop,

candy, crazy costumes. 10 pm. $10. Planet Carwash, 689 King W. facebook.com/ events/700289023334174.

FORT YORK AFTER DARK Take a lantern tour of the grounds and hear stories about the history of the fort. Today and tomorrow 7:30 pm. $12.50. Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food and more on the theme of trick or treat. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

GHOSTS, GREASEPAINT AND GALLOWS WALK

Ghost walk of jails, a public hanging square and vaudeville theatres. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). St Lawrence Market, 93 Front E. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

HALLOWEEN BASH The Matadors and Ripcordz play. Doors 9 pm. Adv $15 (Rotate This, Soundscapes). Hard Luck Bar, 772 Dundas W.

HALLOWEEN FILMS The Rocky Horror Picture Show screens at. 11:30 pm. Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

HALLOWEEKEND Cash prizes for best costume, sexiest costume and best couple. Today, tomorrow and Oct 31. Blue Suede Sue’s, 75 Watline, Mississauga. bluesuedesues.ca.

HANGMAN’S BALL HALLOWEEN PARTY RueMorgue presents a costume party with live entertainment including Violation of Violet, One Arm Bob, Geek in a Cage and Dr Black’s Plastic Surgery Disasters. Doors 9 pm. $25.

Courthouse, 57 Adelaide E. rue-morgue.com. rHAUNTED HIGH PARK Spooky grounds tours, legends and ghost stories for families with kids eight and up. Today, tomorrow and Oct

31, 7 pm. $12.50, child $7.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916.

HAUNTED TORONTO HALLOWEEN Urban scavenger hunt for adults. Today and tomorrow and Oct 30 to 31, 7 pm. $30. urbancapers. com/haunted-toronto. rKREEPY KORTRIGHT A haunted maze, frightening forest walk, scary activities, a bonfire and more. Today and tomorrow 6-9 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

PHANTOMS OF THE ORGANS Costumed Halloween howl with organists John Tuttle, Patricia Wright and others. 10 pm. Free (donations to student organizations appreciated).

Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331 ext 26.

360 SCREENINGS Immersive horror film experience. Today 7 & 11 pm; tomorrow 2 & 7 pm. $40-$60. Secret location to be disclosed 24 hrs in advance. 360screenings.com.

Saturday, October 26 5BIG DADDY HALLOWEEN DJ Chris Steinbach.

No cover. Woody’s, 467 Church. woodystoronto.com.

CAPTAIN’S WAKE Captain Morgan’s Black Spice event. Tara Inn, 2365 Kingston. 416266-6200.

CHRONOLOGIC MONSTER MASH 9th annual Monster Mash party. Doors 9 pm. $15, adv $10. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

5CRUSHT.O. Halloween Nerdy ghouls, sexy zombies and mountable ghosts. 10 pm. $10.

Club 120, 120 Church. facebook.com/idtapthattoronto.

DEATH BY DISCO: KING WEST MASSACRE FESTIVAL 9 pm, $16.95. Brant House, 522 King W. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com.

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Nightclub, 364 Richmond W. ­productnightclub.com.

East End Halloween Party 10 pm. Dominion on Queen, 500 Queen E. ­dominiononqueen.com.

FANGORIA’S RETRO-MORTIS HALLOWEEN PARTY

Dance till you’re dead at this retro rock, electronic & new wave dance and costume party.

9 pm. 3030 Dundas W. facebook.com/ events/695427387149597.

5Fly Halloween DJs Theresa, Shawn Riker and ghoulish go-go boys shake their tails for dancers here. 10 pm. Fly, 8 Gloucester. ­flynightclub.com.

Folk Halloween Al Jawala, Lemon Bucket Orkestra and MAZ perform at this Balkanklezmer-gypsy party punk superband party. 8 pm. $20-$25. Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. brownpapertickets.com.

FreakOut! DJs Rusko, Roni Size, Friction, 12th Planet, Bad Company, Dynamite MC. Doors 10 pm. $30. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. ticketweb.ca.

FREAK SHOW Contortionists, acrobats, fire artists and more. 9:30 pm. $25-$40. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. westofcontra.com.

GHOSTS OF THE BLOODY FEUD & OTHER HAUNTING TALES Ghastly tales and live music with

storyteller Nan Brien. 7:30 pm. $20. Mont­ gomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. rGhost Walks Guided candlelight hikes through “active” historic buildings. Various times. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. Pre-register 416736-1733.

GRINDHOUSE GHOULIES! Skin Tight Outta Sight and Great Canadian Burlesque revue with a tribute to celluloid sleaze. Doors 8 pm. $20, adv $15. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. grindhouseghoulies13.eventbrite.ca. rHALLOWEEN CUPCAKE DECORATING Twohour class for all-ages to learn to make spooky shapes including pumpkins, ghosts, witches and more. 10 am-noon. $80. Le Dolci, 1006

Dundas W. 416-262-3400, ledolci.com. rHalloween At Kortright Guided walk in the woods to learn about superstitions, Halloween bats, owls and other natural lore. Today and tomorrow 1 & 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

Halloween Costume Party Driver plays at this party from 8 pm. No cover. Pogue Mahone, 777 Bay 416-598-3339.

HALLOWEEN DANCE 1950s soul revival band The Mercenaries play. Doors 8 pm. $10.

Ward’s Island Clubhouse, Toronto Island. themercenariesband.com. halloween films The Act Of Killing 4 pm, 30 Ghosts 9:15 pm and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 11:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com. rHalloween Night Hike Explore the haunting side of nature. 6:30 pm. $8, under 3 free.

High Park Nature Centre, 40 Parkside. Preregister highparknaturecentre.com.

Hallowe’en Party DJ TheVinylDen plays from 9 pm. No cover. Habits Gastropub, 928 College. 416-533-7272.

Halloween Party 9:30 pm, $5-$10. Linsmore Tavern, 1298 Danforth. l­insmoretavern.com.

Halloween Special David Squillace, the Junkies, Jonathan Rosa and Conz & Wonka DJ this costume party. 10 pm. $25 (residentadvisor. net). Annex Wreckroom, 794 Bathurst.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Costume party with Lady Kane and DJ Mike playing funk, soul, R&B, disco and top 40. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. ­alleycatz.ca.

Horror At The Drive-In: King West ­ assacre Festival 10 pm, $16.95. Cinema M Nightclub, 135 Liberty. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com.

5HotNuts Halloqween Party Area 69 Alien invasion with performances by Fay Slift, Miss Fluffy Souffle, DJs das hussy & Produzentin.

10 pm, $8-$10. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. ­facebook.com/events/584853861579372. rHowling Hootenanny An apple sling-

shot, haunted maze, Dracula magic shows, trick-or-treating and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416736-1733. rJUNCTION PUMPKINFEST Pumpkin carving, pumpkin-themed activities and more. 2-6 pm. Free. Junction Train Platform, Dundas West and Pacific. thejunctionbia.ca.

LUNACY CABARET – DEVIL’S NIGHT This vaudeville-style cabaret features clown, circus, comedy, burlesque, music and more. 9 pm. $20-$25. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. lunacycabaret.com.

rMONSTER AND FANTASY CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL Paintings, prints, statues, T-shirts,

jewellery, literature and more with a Halloween theme. Today 11 am-6 pm, tomorrow noon-5 pm. $5, kids free. The Downstage, 789 Danforth. facebook.com/mafcaf.

MASQUERADE BALL (East End Children’s Centre benefit) Evening of magic and mystery. 7 pm. $25 (come in your favourite disguise).

East End Children’s Centre Kimbourne Site, 200 Wolverleigh. eventbrite.ca/­event/­7039277669.

Monster Mash Chronologic Edition with Goin Steady DJs. $15, adv $10. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

MURDER AT THE ROM Urban Capers presents a Halloween scavenger hunt for adults. 1 pm. $30. Meet at Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. rNight Of Dread Clay & Paper Theatre community parade and celebration to banish our darkest fears, with stilt walkers, musicians, dancers and more. 4 pm. $10 or pwyc. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. ­clayandpapertheatre.org.

Phunk’d Halloween Bash DJs Double AA, RA, RKS. 10 pm, $20. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

Saints & Sinners Halloween Party DJ Jed Danson. 10 pm, $15. UNIUN, 473 Adelaide W. uniun.com.

Silent Hill Halloween Fetish Ball DJ Saucy

Miso, DJ Jason Warmuffin, IwasCured Flesh Hook suspension show, horror photo booth, costume prizes and more. Doors 10 pm, $20$30. Opera House, 735 Queen E. subspacelive.ca.

SILVER SNAIL COMIC SHOP HALLOWEEN BASH

Music by DJ Misty and DJ Dustin, with prizes for costumes. 7 pm. $25. Andrew Richard Designs, 571A Adelaide E. silversnail.com.

rSIR JERRY’S SCARED SILLY HALLOWEEN SHOW AND DRESS UP All-ages show with children’s

entertainer Sir Jerry and stage characters, dancing girls, rock and roll and music hall influences. 1 pm. $5, family of four $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

5Sissyboy Hissyfit Fag-o-ween Edition DJ Vivek Shraya and DJ Orange Pekoe, candy, hunks and gay stuff at this costume party. 11 pm, $5. Beaver, 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. slaughterhaus Marcel Fengler, Gingy, Box of Kittens, Martin Fazekas, Jeremy Glenn, Mike Gibbs and R&D play this hallowed party of house and disco. 10 pm to 5 am, $20-$30 (tickets at Play De Record, Rotate This, Soundscapes, Ticketfly). 99 Sudbury. rSPIRIT WALK Tour through downtown alleys and laneways to discover some of the city’s haunted buldings. 7 & 7:30 pm. $12.50, child $10.50 (for ages eight to 15). Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915.

Suma & Promise’s Monstrous Halloween Warehouse Party DJs Biome, Globular,

Spyne, Jonah K, Zum ONe, Kristian Sunflower, Derek Plaslaiko, Roozbeh & Ben and others.

10 pm, $40. Centre of Gravity West, 213 Sterling. ilovepromise.com.

360 Screenings Immersive horror film experience. Today 7 & 11 pm; tomorrow 2 & 7 pm. $40-$60. Secret location to be disclosed 24 hrs in advance. 360screenings.com.

Thriller DJs Krewella, Bingo Players, Seven Lions and Candyland at this costume party with prizes.10 pm, $55. Guvernment/Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. inktickets.com.

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PARADE Death Day celebration and zombie walk, with music by the Independents, a costume contest, vendors and more in support of the Heart & Stroke Fdn. Meet at noon, parade 3 pm, show 5 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. Pre-register at ­torontozombiewalk.ca.

TRICKS, TREATS & BEATS ARE WHAT IT IS! Funky costume-friendly soulful jam with DJ Dave Campbell. 10 pm. $5-$10. Bunda Lounge, 1108 Dundas W. bundalounge.ca.

Two Face: King Street Massacre Halloween Festival 10 pm, $16.95. Cobra Lounge, 510 King W. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com.

Villains & Super Vixens Halloween Party

Costume party with prizes. 10 pm, $15. Cube, 314 Queen W. cubetoronto.com.

THE WALKING DEAD, THE MUSICAL EDITION

Special Features presents a musical improvised episode of the TV show. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan Comedy, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. ­facebook.com/events/413060275462181.

THE WEIRDEST WILD Halloween dinner show exploring the mystery and sybolism of death through wild animals. 6:30 pm. $75. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

VOX DJs Lawrence and Shoe. Doors 10 pm $5.

Doors 10 pm, $5. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. facebook.com/VOXToronto.

Werewolves of London DJs Mizz Brown and Paul G. 10 pm. $5. Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen W. partsandlabour.ca.

ZOMBIE BRUNCH Brains and eggs skillet, Not Actual Brain skillet, Smokin’ Bloody Ceasar and other ghoulish treats. 11 am-4 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Zombie Wrestling Wrestling, burlesque acts, music by Kill the Messenger, prizes and more.

8 pm. $15. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ­fightbrand.ca.

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Prevention & Intervention benefit) Family Halloween party cruise aboard the Captain Matthew Flinders with a monster mash, costume contest and more. 1-4 pm. $15. Preregister boostspooktacular.eventbrite.ca. rCABBAGETOWN GHOST TOUR Tour ghostinhabited houses in Cabbagetown, hear stories and greet a ghost. 7 pm. $5, fam $10 (bring a flashlight). NE corner Winchester and Parliament. cabbagetownpa.ca.

DANCE DANCE PARTY PARTY All-women, alcoholfree dance party. 3:45 pm. $8. Mad for Dance, 263 Adelaide W. ddpptoronto@gmail.com.

EXHIBITION Halloween show featuring an artthemed cabaret of dance, cirque, live music and elements of burlesque. To Oct 31, Thu and Sun 7 & 10 pm. $20-$35. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

rFAMILY SUNDAYS: DAVID BOWIE THEMED HALLOWEEN EVENT Dress up in wacky cos-

tumes like David Bowie, watch 80s film Labryinth, make a zanyo outfit, create an album cover, Let’s Dance karaoke and more.

1-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago. net/family-events. halloween films Birth Of The Living Dead 7:15 pm, The Act Of Killing. 9:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com. rHIGH PARK PUMPKIN FLOAT Carve a pump-

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kin, light it and set it to sail on the wading pool. 4-6 pm. $2.50/pumpkin. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. 416-392-6916.

HORROR REMIX: HALLOWEEN Screening of 80s triple features Hack-O-Lantern, Night Of The Demons and Hollowgate, fun extras, shorts and puppet MCs Cheesecake and Thundercap.

9 pm. Free w/ $5 snackbar voucher. Royal Cinema, 608 College. horrorremix.com/­ halloween.html.

House Of Horrors DJs Joe Ghost and Jed Harper. No cover with costume before 11:30 pm. UNIUN, 473 Adelaide W. uniun.com.

IN PACE REQUIESCAT Three operas based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe are presented as part of this Halloween-themed event. Opens Oct 27 and runs to Oct 31, Wed, Thu and Sun 7:30 pm (closing night followed by costume contest and dance party). $30, stu $25. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. o5inpace.­eventbrite.ca.

rKIDVILLE HALLOWEEN (Nellie’s Shelter

benefit) Spooktacular party with costume prizes, face painting, balloon-making, Halloween crafts and a Rockin’ Railroad concert.

2-4 pm. $20, parents free. 3420 Yonge. 416483-7070, kidville.ca. rMonster Dash (Holland Bloorview Children’s Hospital benefit) Spooky adult and kids’ 5- and 10K runs. 5-10 pm. $23-$68. Holland Bloorview, 150 Kilgour. monsterdash.ca.

5Monster Mash Monster Bash fundraiser and costume party for the upcoming release

of Monster Mash: The Movie. 8 pm, $5. Henhouse, 1532 Dundas W. henhousetoronto.com.

THE RUNNING DEAD Zombie-infested 5K obstacle course run. Check-in 11 am, zombies without make-up 9:30 am, race at noon. Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview. ­zombieruntoronto.com. rTORONTO WEST HALLOWEEN FEST (St Joseph’s Health Centre benefit) Fun run through Swansea neighbourhood, costume parade on Bloor and family party with the Royal Jelly­ bean Band and more. Noon-3 pm. Bloor W at Armadale. torontowesthalloweenfest.ca.

VAMPYR Screening of the 1932 Carl Theodor Dreyer film and other shorts. 8 pm. $5. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. super8porter.ca/­ CineCycle.htm.

Voodoo Halloween Weekend DJs Charlie B, Dattabass and Jig. Time Nightclub, 81 Peter.

416-581-1118.

WITCHES CREEK, SCARBOROUGH BLUFFS Lost rivers Halloween walk. 1 pm. Free. Victoria Park and Kingston. 416-593-2656.

Monday, October 28 Blacklist: Macabre 10 pm. Thompson Hotel 1812 Bar, 550 Wellington W. kleenevents.ca.

GHOST TOUR OF THE ELGIN AND WINTER GARDEN THEATRE CENTRE Learn about the history

of the complex and hear tales of the alleged ghosts and spirits that are said to inhabit the building. 7 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. 189 Yonge.

416-314-2871.

halloween movies – Birth Of The Living Dead at 9:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

YOU’RE NEXT Screening of the 2013 Adam Wingard film. 9 pm. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theroyal.to.

Tuesday, October 29 HALLOWEEN PARTY Art-rockers Half Past Four,

Bolus and I.M. Brown play this costume party.

Doors 8:30 pm. $10. The Piston, 937 Bloor W. halfpastfour.com.

HAUNTED YORKVILLE, U OF T AND QUEEN’S

PARK Ghost walk. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

SKULLIANS SPOOKTACULAR Music from the Nefidovs, Loaded Dice and the Nasties. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

Wednesday, October 30 CAPTAIN’S WAKE Captain Morgan’s Black

Spice event. &CO Resto Bar, 295 Enfield. 905808-2112.

Devil’s Night Concert with Die Mannequin, 40 Sons, City & the Sea, Crow Town. Doors 8:30 pm, $18, adv $15. (rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com). Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen W. continued on page 42 œ

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halloween films House Of Wax 3D 7 pm,

and The Shining. 9 pm. Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E. foxtheatre.ca. halloween films Roman Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby 7 pm, An American Werewolf In London at 9:30 pm. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. revuecinema.ca. halloween movies 30 Ghosts screens at 8:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

Halloween Party Mineta and Fat As Fuck perform. 9 pm. The Piston, 937 Bloor W. thepiston.ca.

Halloween Party Cherry Slyde, The Unchained and Waxmen perform. 9 pm. $5.

Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla, 200 Bathurst. cherrycolas.com.

Hell’s Night Drag superstar Sharon Needles brings her PG-13 Tour to Toronto with transsexual Amanda LePore, dancers and more.

Doors 9 pm, $25 (Tickets at priape.com, rotate.com). Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne.

Les Nuits: BSI DJ Undercover spins. Doors 10 pm. Brassaii, 461 King W. kleenevents.ca.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING MISFITS DEVILS NIGHT PARTY Dead Celebrity Status, So Sick Social

Club and Fiction Issue perform. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

5PUNK ROCK BINGO (Will Munro Memorial Fund for Queers Living with Cancer benefit) Bingo games are followed by a haunted house

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Top up with ginger ale and a splash of pomegranate juice and stir. Use cola if ginger ale is not available.

1. 1 ½ OZ. OF CAPTAIN MORGAN® BLACK SPICED RUM 2. GINGER ALE 3. SPLASH OF POMEGRANATE JUICE party with DJ Triple-X. 9 pm. No cover. The Beaver, 1192 Queen W. facebook.com/­ punkrockbingotoronto.

REQUIEM FOR A DREAM! THE HALLOWEEN DRAG MUSICAL This musical show celebrates all that

is magical, powerful, haunting and sacred. Oct 30 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ­facebook.com/events/433517536765146.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK An estate lawyer tries to exorcise demons from a case involving a mysterious widow in this ghost story. Runs to Dec 1, Thu to Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm (no shows Nov 3 to 13). $39-$49. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

YOU CANNOT KILL WHAT IS ALREADY DEAD

Group show of art based on the paranormal and undead with a focus on the zombie phenomenon. Opening reception and curator’s talk Oct 30, 5-9 pm. Runs to Jan 25. Free. Doris McCarthy Gallery, U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail. utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg.

Thursday, October 31 Boo Bash DJ Seven and DJ DSmooth spin. 10 pm. Nyood, 1096 Queen W. 416-918-6064, info@roundtableent.ca.

BURLY CALLING LAUNCH/HALLOWEEN PARTY

The Penske File, The Anti Queens, Dirty Jeans and Sparrows. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

CAPTAIN’S WAKE Captain Morgan’s Black Spice event. Pacific Junction, 234 King E. pacificjunctionhotel.com.

CHARITY COSTUME PARTY DJ Bowza spins 90s

old school, R&B, hip-hop and top 40 at this benefit for TCHH.org (which provides rehab care, training and education to orphanages, and a clinic and school for disabled children).

9:30 pm. $20 in costume, $30 for two in costume. canadahelps.org.

Church Street Is Closed To The Living DJ Mark Falco spins. No cover. Woodys, 467 Church. woodystoronto.com COSTUME PARTY EP release for We Are French, Kilometre and others perform. Prizes for best costume. Doors at 9:30 pm. No cover. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

Dark Arts II: An Art Exhibition On The Fringe Group show, 7-11 pm. 452 Richmond W. 647-699-8803.

Day Of The Dead Halloween DJs Dimitri

Vegas & Like Mike, Otto Knows, Wolf Pack and Joe Ghost spin. $29. Muzik, 15 Saskatchewan. ticketmaster.com.

Death To T.O. 3The Highest Order, Digits, Soupcans, Ell V Gore, Teenanger, Michael Rault, Biblical and others. $12.50 (rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com) Silver Dollar & Comfort Zone, 486 Spadina.

FREAK FEST Braincell, Graveyard, Axeminister and others play this all ages show. Doors 7 pm. DC Music Sound Stage, 360 Munster. ­dcmusic.ca.

Funk Spectrum Thursdays: Funky Halloween Bash Babalao Stereo Club and DJ General

Eclectic . 9:30 pm. $10. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416- 840-0501.

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GARRISON GRAVEYARD Halloween Party Punk, metal and noise rock with DJ Mike Crossley.

Ghoulish projections. No cover. 10 pm. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439, ­garrisontoronto.com.

Get Crafty! Make DIY Halloween disguises at a drop-in craft workshop. 11 am-1 pm. Free, materials provided. Hart House Reading Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452.

Get Freaky Halloween Funk Bash Lee Fields & the Expressions, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Soul Motivators, DJ Brendan Canning and Farbsie Funk. Doors 8 pm. $25. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne (­kopsrecords.ca, playderecord.com, rotate. com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketweb.ca).

HALLO-WEEK Night of fright house party with over-the-top decor and a costume contest. 10 pm. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

Halloween We Are French perform, a costume contest and more. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

Halloween The Rabid Whole, The Joy Arson, October Sky, Time Giant and Blind Race. 8 pm.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca.

Halloween Costume Concert The Capitol Beat, Christian Bridges and The Backtracks perform. Prize for best costume. 9 pm, $8$10. Measure, 296 Brunswick. measureto.ca.

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7:30 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Halloween Thriller Jazz with Brownman. 8 pm. $10-$15. May Cafe, 876 Dundas W. Halloween Video Dance Party DJ Law plays this event. $5. Seven44, 744 Mt Pleasant. 416489-7931.

HALLOWEEN FILMS AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Dead Ringers 6:30 pm, Ginger Snaps 8 pm, The Exorcist 9:05 pm, The Changeling screens at 11 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 Reitman Square. tiff.net.

HALLOWEEN HOUSE PARTY Diggy the DJ plays this costumed house party with spooky cocktails, jack-o-lanterns, tricks and candy. 10 pm-2 am. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Halloween Jazz Party Anthony & Mary Panacci, Mike Downes and Kevin Dempsey. 7:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar, 21 Old Mill.

416-236-2641.

Halloween Party 9 pm. The Local, 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

HALLOWEEN PARTY Live Arts Incubator Hub 14 benefit costume and dance party. 9 pm. $19. lemonTree Creations, 196 Spadina. hub14.org.

Halloween soul Party Odd Soul play. Doors 9 pm. Pwyc. Winchester Kitchen & Bar, 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051.

Halloween You! A Slow Scary Riot For new Zombie Kanada Tails, Light Fires, Hima-

layan Bear, Adverteyes, and DJ Cryptkeeper.

Doors 8 pm, $7. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. wavelengthtoronto.com.

Hart House Of Horrors Double-decker Halloween party with crystal balls, palm readings, horrors flicks, a seance and music by DJ Caff. 9 pm. $17, adv $12. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca.

Horrorshow Hot Mouth, Stereoronique and Mikey Wilson play. 8 pm. $10. Adelaide Music Hall, 250 Adelaide W. northerntickets.com.

House Party Costume bash with Diggy the DJ. 10 pm. $10. Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca.

JACK-O-SLICE (Second Harvest Food Bank benefit) Sushi chefs carve pumpkins to create innovative jack-o-lanterns. Audience votes for winner through donations. 5-7 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Liberty Halloween Halloween playground costume party with international and local DJs. 9 pm, $25. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. libertyhalloween.com.

MIGHTY REAL Igby Lizzard performs live at this costume party with DJs John Caffery & the Robotic Kid playing disco, nu disco, house and beastly bass. Doors 9 pm. $5. The Marquis,

Halloween Random Play, Random Goth

70s & 80s ghoulish tunes. 10 pm. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

Halloween Rock Show Stark Naked & the Fleshtones, Unbelievers, California Death Rays and the Lizard Jamboree. 9 pm. $8. Horseshoe, 370 Queen W. horseshoetavern.com.

Halloween Special Kyla & the Co play at 9:30 pm. Firkin on King, 461 King W. 416-979-5464. rHalloween Star Party Creepy constellations tour, kids’ costume parade and more.

NIGHTMARE ON DUPONT STREET Three-course prix fixe Halloween menu with Bloody Mary shrimp cocktail, Pagan’s harvest salad, Silence of the Lamb shank and more. Costume prizes. $30. Universal Grill, 1071 Shaw. 416-5885928, universalgrill.ca.

Pimp & Ho Players Ball: King West Massacre Festival 9 pm, $16.95. Brant House,

522 King W. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com. rSCAREOKE Karaoke with kids and costumes from 6 to 9 pm, adults only from 9 pm. Free.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Scary And Dirty Dr Draw plays violin to deep house. BassLine Music Bar, 865 Bloor W. 416732-7513. sheezer Halloween Party All female Weezer coverband performs. Doors 8:30 pm. ($15 at the door, adv $12.50 (rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com). Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W.

snake charmer: King West Massacre Festival DJs Delirious and Armo Kidd. 10 pm, $16.95.

Cobra Lounge, 510 King W. clubzone.com.

SPOOKY SPEAKEASY Prohibition-era haunted speakeasy with burlesque performers Loretta Jean and Laura Desiree, No Pants Hallowe’en dance with Pretty Penny and Red Zeppelin, candlelights, flappers, gangsters and ghouls.

9 pm. $5-$10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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The Vue, 195 Galaxy Blvd. 416-839-5694. rMimico Pumpkin Parade Say farewell to Halloween at a jack-o-lantern parade. 6-8:30 pm. Free. 2445 Lake Shore W. facebook.com/ mimicopumpkinparade. rPUMPKIN WALK Bring your jack-o-lantern for a spooky walk. 5-9 pm. Free. Vine Parkette, Dundas W at Quebec. junctionbia.ca.

REDRUM A Shining-themed Halloween party with Daft Punk tribute band playing a twofloor experience with DJs, a hedge maze recreation, creepy corridors and more. 9 pm. $25 (ticketfly.com). Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

Smithfits Halloween DJs Mark Pesci, Scott Wade, Scott Waring and Katy Goodman play punk, new wave and Brit pop. Photo booth and costume contest. 10 pm. $10. Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen W. facebook.com/­ groups/83723434224/.

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tume contest, raffles and more at this gathering of artists and art lovers. Variety show and cocktail party 6 pm, dance party 9 pm. No cover. Wild Indigo Martini Bar, 607 College. facebook.com/events/165875846939685.

Thriller Night The McFlies perform from 8:30 pm, $20-$22.50. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. hughrooms.com.

Twin Peaks Songbook The Sandy Pockets play at 9:15 & 11 pm. Pwyc. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

WHERE’S MY MONEY? Two couples are haunted by their past, present and future in this semi-surrealist comedy about revenge. Opens today and runs to Nov 9, Tue to Sun 8 pm. $20.

Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, unit 5. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

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Day Of The Dead Party Reposado, 136 Os-

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Debauchery DJS Ortemy, Vamos, Elanmyles, RomanK, IKY, DIMK, Timo at this party. Doors 10 pm. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. ­kaboompromotions.com.

Halloween Show MORRE play 70s, hard rock and world music. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. leespalace.com.

GOOSEBUMPS HALLOWEEN CHILLS Reggae and soca DJs Whitebwoy, Soca Sweetness, Dr Jay, Fire Kid Steenie, MarXman, Jeff Jam and Infamous. Candy bag giveaways and costume

rDAY OF THE DEAD Traditional Mexican celebration with musicians, Aztec dancers, visual arts, food and more. 4-10 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­diadelosmuertoswychwood@gmail.com.

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It’s once again that time of year when musicians, DJs and promoters spend extra time, money and brainpower to creatively dress up what they normally do with high-concept hilarity and/or simulated gore so you, the revellers, feel comfortable showing up in a ­Halloween costume.

To help you decide which party to crash, we’ve gone the extra kilometre to pluck five Halloween soirées from our listings and rate their concepts based on camp and gross factors.

Thursday, October 31

Saturday, October 26 HotNuts Halloqween at Area 69 at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), 10:30 pm. $8/$10.

Slaughterhaus Halloween at 99 Sudbury and the Gym at 99 Sudbury, 10pm. $25/$30. PDR, RT, SS, TF.

Chronologic Monster Mash at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), 9 pm. $10/$15.

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When a dress-up party does Halloween, it better be next-level. The deephouse-loving neo-drag entities behind HotNuts are keenly aware of this; hence, the comprehensive list of sci-fi costume ideas on the Facebook event page, ShE.T., Crocs Circles and Queen Amidildo among them. Miss Fluffy Souffle and Fay Slift are on the bill.

Camp factor High Grossness High

The crew behind electronic music fest Foundry is importing Marcel Fengler, a resident at fabled Berlin techno club Berghain, to headline a slaughterhouse-themed pig roast (or cheese grill­in’ if you’re veg). Nine local DJs including Andycapp, Jeremy Glenn, Mike Gibbs, R+D and Gingy are also on the menu.

Camp factor Low Grossness High

Borrowing the concept from sister party Chronologic, Goin’ Steady DJs Matt Cully and Louis Calabro will play music from 1890 to 2013 in chronological order at their ninth annual Monster Mash. Art director Adam Belanger, who worked on the David Cronenberg: Evolution exhibition, is on decorating duties.

Camp factor High Grossness Medium

Death To T.O. 3: A Halloween Cover Show at Silver Dollar/Comfort Zone (486 Spadina/480 Spadina), 8 pm. $12.50. RT, SS, SD.

Halloween You! Sexy Monster: A Slow Scary Riot For New Zombie Kanada at Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton), 8 pm. $7.

If Donita Sparks, Ralf Hütter and Roky Erickson are your kinda Halloween costumes, this epic cover show featuring 15 local bands dressed as their tastemaking rock ’n’ roll forebears is where you’ll want to be. Halloween: the one night local bands unabashedly embrace their influences.

Camp factor High Grossness Low

Local indie band Tails headlines Wavelength’s Halloween edition as Tails (from the Crypt). We hope this leads to a festive parenthesis-band-naming trend that will eventually sweep all of indie rockdom: (Tones on) Tails and (the Cat o’ Nine) Tails and (Top Hat, White Tie and) Tails, etc. Himalayan Bear, Light Fires and Adverteyes round out the bill.

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ñHall, Thursday, October 17.

Rating: NNNN On the first of three tour-ending Toronto stops, a young Massey Hall crowd went shriek-wild for local sensation Abel Tesfaye, the alternative R&B singer who goes by the name of the Weeknd. And for good reason. Tesfaye displayed stage presence and charisma we haven’t seen on previous outings.

In front of a three-piece band and flashing screens simulating a Tokyo streetscape, Tesfaye owned tracks from his brand new album, Kiss Land.

But they couldn’t compete with tunes from 2012’s Trilogy – especially those from his House of Balloons mixtape.

“We gonna be playing the muthafuckin’ classics tonight!” he said before swooping into Glass Table Girls.

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show’s highlights: the moment a slomo version of What You Need flipped dramatically into Professional, when High For This morphed into The Party & The After Party. Throughout, he channelled Michael Jackson in both his spin moves and his honeyed, unfaltering falsetto.

“Can I get sexy for you, Toronto?

Can I get on top of you, Toronto? Can I make you come three times, Toronto?” he asked. As evidenced by this show, the Weeknd is talented, willing and JULIA LECONTE eager to please.

PUP with BIG DICK and PKEW PKEW PKEW (GUNSHOTS) at Sneaky Dee’s, Thursday, October 17. Rating: NNNN

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From their relatives in the crowd to lead singer Stefan Babcock’s early birthday shout-out to his dad, PUP’s record release show felt like a family affair, albeit with cheap beer and sweat-drenched singalongs. And to

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week help celebrate their debut album, the band known formerly as Topanga brought along friends: Ottawa’s unfortunately named Big Dick and Toronto brothers-in-shit-disturbing-arms PKEW PKEW PKEW (gunshots).

PUP’s songwriting is what separates them from the pack, what makes them different from every other four-piece in the city playing punk songs in shitty bars. The destinations visited in their lyrics are a CBC Radio host’s wet dream – Montreal, Yukon, the Don Valley – and the tunes are buoyant, albeit with occasional undercurrents of melancholy and regret. Then there’s Lionheart, whose pop-punk “whoa-oh-oh” gang chorus reverberated through the room.

And just in case you thought they were taking themselves too seriously, Babcock climbed atop members of the audience’s shoulders for a raucously sloppy cover of the Beastie Boys’ SaboMAX MERTENS tage.

SHAD at the Opera House,

ñSaturday, October 19.

Rating: NNNN Even though Shad lives in Vancouver, Saturday’s sold-out Opera House gig felt like a hometown show.

In front of an impenetrable crowd and backed by a DJ and a bass player, the rapper kicked of with Intro: Lost and Stylin’ from his latest album, Flying Colours, before dipping briefly into the back catalogue with Yaa I Get It – early evidence of a show full of nostalgic surprises.

While flashier rappers might have trotted out a host of collaborating MCs, Shad did his typical classy one-up.

We lost it when the Lenny Kravitz sample kicked in for It Ain’t Over, but went apeshit when a live saxophonist appeared, outshining Shad’s own far-out electric-guitar-playing earlier on Rock To It.

Other highlights: a singalong to Rose Garden, a dance party to Fe Sum Immigrins, and bars upon bars upon bars of a cappella brilliance that included jabs at both Drake and the mayor.

The “Shad, Shad, Shad” chanting started before he’d even left the stage, necessitating a couple of encores. As usual, he relied on the strength of his discography, the wit of his wordplay and the fact that his poetry doesn’t play second fiddle to a club beat – with JL outstanding results.

JANELLE MONÁE at the

Kool Haus, Saturday, Octoñ ber 19.

Rating: NNNN In the seconds before Janelle Monáe hit the Kool Haus stage, we were warned by an “orderly” dressed in a white lab coat – like everyone in the singer’s seven-piece band (background vocalists not included) – that Monáe was going to “funk us up.”

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managed 95-minute set of R&B and soul jams, Monáe manipulated every inch of the stage. Whether she was grooving her way through Electric Lady, shouting out to our “mamas, grandmas and aunties” on Ghetto Woman or mixing in a Jackson 5 I Want You Back cover, the crowd was in the palm of her bright-yellow-manicured hand.

If Monáe had said “Jump,” we would have asked “How high?” But just before closing out with her second encore, Monáe asked us to “get low.”

Hushing the room, motioning toward the ground and bringing the venue to its knees (literally), Monáe stalked the crowd as if we were prey, getting up close and personal before remixing the traditional stage dive by calmly floating over the crowd’s fingertips during an extended version of Come Alive.

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clubs&concerts hot KING KHAN & THE SHRINES, HELL SHOVEL, WISH Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (October 26) Wild, sweaty garage rock orchestra.

ERIC BURDON Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (October 26) Rock & Roll HoF singer/songwriter.

DAVIDE SQUILLACE, THE JUNKIES, JONATHAN ROSA, CONZ & WONKA Halloween Special Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst), Saturday (October 26) DJ dance party in Footwork’s new digs.

MARCEL FENGLER, GINGY, BOX OF KITTENS, MARTIN FAZEKAS, JEREMY GLENN, MIKE GIBBS, R&D Slaughterhaus 99 Sudbury, Saturday (October 26) See preview, page 45.

TORO Y MOI, THE SEA & CAKE Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Sunday (October 27) Lo-fi synth-pop experimenter.

MELT-BANANA, BRIAN TENTACLES, FOXMOULDER Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (October 29) Lightning-fast Japanese noise rock.

STEVE AOKI, WACKA FLOCKA, BORGORE, DIRTYPHONICS Sound Academy (11 Polson), Tuesday (October 29) See Steve Aoki preview, page 52.

DRAKE, MIGUEL, FUTURE Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), tonight (Thursday, October 24) See Drake preview, page 54.

MARINE DREAMS Izakaya Sushi House (294 College), tonight (Thursday, October 24) Melodious guitar pop.

FRANZ FERDINAND Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), tonight (Thursday, October 24) Dance-inducing post-punk revivalists.

SAM ROBERTS BAND W/ CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY Operanat10n: A Night of Temptation Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, October 24) Canrock star meets the COC. ZAKI IBRAHIM, BRENDAN PHILIP Adelaide Music Hall (250 Adelaide West) Friday (October 25) Canadian alt-R&B/soul star.

THE BELLE GAME, BEAR MOUNTAIN Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Friday (October 25) See preview, page 50.

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Hailing from Iqaluit, the five-piece combine rock, reggae and throat singing (courtesy of band member Nancy Mike) on their debut album, Nunavuttitut.

There’s also a strong accordion-heavy, western component they call “Inuktitut country swing.”

Lead singer Andrew Morrison croons over beats in both English and Inuktitut, painting a portrait of northern life and embracing controversy along the way. (Dear PETA, for example, challenges the organization and “environmental propaganda.”)

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SHAKURA S’AIDA An Acoustic Evening Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $34, adv $30. November 28.

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LUCAS, TREVOR & TARA MACKENZIE, THE WATCH Heart Of Saturday Night: A Tribute To Tom Waits Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30, adv $25. November 29.

DANKO JONES, ALERT THE MEDIC, DAVID HUSTLER, THE TRUSTWORTHY Adelaide Music Hall $25. NT, RT,

SS. November 30.

FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS, JULY TALK Edgefest Jingle Bell

Concert Series Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $23.50-$37.50. RT, SS, TF. December 3.

THIS CENTURY, NICK SANTINO & THE NORTHERN WIND, BRIGHTER BRIGHTEST, FRIDAY NIGHT TREND, THE DAKOTA Hard Luck Bar doors 7 pm, $13.50. TF. December 4.

TRAILER PARK BOYS Edgefest Jingle

Bell Concert Series Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $39.50-$59.50. TF. December 4.

NO JOY The Garrison doors 9 pm, $10.50.

RT, SS, TW. December 6.

THE CULT Electric ’13 Tour Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $34.50-$54.50. RT, SS, TM. December 7.

KOOL G RAP & AZ Rockpile doors 8 pm, all ages, $40. TW. December 11.

DANNY MICHEL The Great Hall 9 pm, $25. RTH. December 20.

LARA FABIAN Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 8 pm, $62.25-$134. SC. January 13.

DARKSIDE Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $25.

RT, SS, TF. January 15.

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Dark Pop

The belle game Vancouver band embraces tough love from Canadian indie forebears By SamaNtha Edwards

THE BELLE GAME with Bear Mountain at the Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Friday (October 25), doors 7 pm. $12.50. RT, SS, LN.

Andrea Lo remembers listening to Broken Social Scene in high school, and all the raw, teenage emotions now forever linked to their songs.

Those feelings came rushing back earlier this month when Lo – now 25 – and her Vancouver-based band the Belle Game took up residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where BSS members Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin are mentors.

“One evening Kevin performed Superconnected, and my Grade 12 heart just swelled up,” gushes Lo over the phone from Central Park in New York City.

The Belle Game honed their sound on their debut album, Ritual Tradition Habit (Boompa), released this past spring, and its dark orchestral pop featuring Lo’s powerful vocals has already made them critical darlings. But collaborating with Drew and Spearin was both enlightening and educational.

“Working with those guys really challenged us to let go of the structured way we write, and allowed the creative process to proceed more naturally,” says Lo. “We’d be in our rehearsal space in the Centre and Kevin would walk in and be like, ‘You guys are talking too much. You need to play. Talk less. Play more.’”

The tough love was appreciated. “It was beneficial to be there, in the sense that we had authority figures for two weeks, people to cut the bullshit between us and tell us how it is,” Lo says.

The band had planned to work on new material, but achieved a lot more spiritually and psychologically, something Lo has been working at for the past few years.

On Ritual Tradition Habit she sings about her own history of self-defeating behaviour and thought patterns – a therapeutic experience she didn’t even realize was happening.

“It was a very subconscious process. After I had written everything, I was like, ‘Whoa, I guess I needed to get that off my chest.’

“Ritual Tradition Habit mostly talks about coming to a point in your life where you recognize you’re at a fork in the road and it’s a matter of making a choice: Do you stay in your comfort zone or do you branch out, look inward, change your surroundings and push yourself to become more?” music@nowtoronto.com

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Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, online at nowtoronto.com, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

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Thursday, October 24 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

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Tour Drake, Miguel 7 pm. See Drake ­preview, page 54.

Alleycatz The Community Soul Project The Community Soul Project.

Bovine Sex Club The Sole Pursuit, Chuck Coles doors 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Kirin J Callinan doors 8 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Ghetto Hicks (rock/blues) 9 pm.

Firkin on King Sandra & Ed Show 9:30 pm.

Flato Markham Theatre Roch Voisine 8 pm.

The Garrison Album release show 1990Future, Viva Mars, Black & Blues doors 9 pm.

Hart House Arbor Room Stages Music Series Mississauga Circuit (indie rock) 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds, CATL, Meanwood doors 8:30 pm.

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Lake Affect Lounge Freedom Train (rock/top 40) 8 pm.

Lee’s Palace The Blast Processors, Super Gui-

tar Bros, Epic Game Music, Press Start 2 Play (videogame music live).

Linsmore Tavern The Wholigans (Who tribute) 9 pm.

The Local Jordan Faye and the Grey Owls ­(indie roots) 9 pm.

Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Rival Sons, Damn Truth doors 8 pm.

The Piston CD release Delta Will, the Cautioneers, Claude Munsun 9 pm.

Revival CD launch Kelly & the Kellygirls doors 7 pm.

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

Supermarket Funk Spectrum Thursdays: Heart & Stroke Foundation Fundraiser The Deep House Project, DJ Jason Palma 9:30 pm.

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

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Cafune Kim Ratcliffe & Henrique Matulis (jazz/bossa nova) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Cameron House Rucksack Willies 10 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Crowe.

The Central Elliot Smith Tribute Show Alex

Pulec, Anton Hyginus, Carlo Meriano, Adam McNeill, David Backshell 10 pm.

C’est What The Fight (indie rock & roll) 9:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Dani Nash, Steve Brockley Band 10 pm.

The Great Hall Lindi Ortega (singer/ songwriter) doors 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Cougars in America (alt/ folk) 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Tribute To The Music Of New York Micah Barnes w/ Daniel Barnes & Russ Boswell, Billy Newton Davis, Gavin Hope

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Joe Mama’s Blackburn, DJ Carl Allen (blues/ soul/R&B) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge CD release Cloé Bernard, Eddie Paton (Latin jazz/folk-pop) 8 pm.

Monarch Tavern Double CD launch Kim Beggs, Don Kerr, Karyn Ellis (Yukon folk roots) 8 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Brian Macmillan 7 to 9 pm.

Royal Cinema Griot Film & Concert Tour Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze (world music) 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.

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Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall CD launch University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra, Mike Murley 7:30 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Operanat10n: A Night of ñ Temptation Sam Roberts Band w/ Canadian

Opera Company Ensemble Studio artists 9 pm.

Gallery 345 Airs Chanté’s Miriam Khalil, ­Julien Leblanc (soprano, piano) 7:30 pm.

Gate 403 Paul Ilew-Willians & the Brickhouse

Trio 9 pm, Rebecca Binnendyk Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Jerry Bergonzi, the Brian Dickinson Trio (modern jazz) 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Dave Caldwell 5 to 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Thursday Night Jazz Party Maureen Kennedy, Reg Schwager, David Restivo 7:30 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

The Rex Ernesto Cervini & Turboprop 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Brahms Symphony 2 ­Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto ­Symphony Youth Orchestra 2 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall New Era Launch Esprit Orchestra, Teng Li (viola) 8 pm.

Steinway Piano Gallery Sunny Choi (contemporary solo piano) 7 to 8 pm, all ages.

York University Accolade East Bldg Tribute Communities Recital Hall David Lidov:

Recent Compositions Erika Crino, Vania Chan,

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FRI., OCT. 25, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Hear the mandolin genius who first won awards as part of the Grammywinning trio Nickel Creek perform works from his new Bach recording and his own compositions.

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Taj Mahal Trio Vusi Mahlasela Fredericks Brown featuring Deva Mahal WED., OCT. 30, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL “One of the enduring figures in American blues,” (Rolling Stone) Presented in association with Batuki Music and Small World Music.

“Fantasia on Themes by Rush” with the KitchenerWaterloo Symphony SAT., NOV. 9, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Three incredibly skillful and creative composers defy every rock/classical music cliché: Nicole Lizée, Dan Deacon, and Bryce Dessner of The National.

Ramsey Lewis Quintet with Cécile McLorin Salvant SAT., NOV. 16, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Chicago jazz legend Ramsey Lewis is “one of the great musicians of his generation.”

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SAT., NOV. 2, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Travel to Naples and Modica for an evening of traditional Italian music and Mediterranean jazz.

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electro house DJ, producer, founder of Dim Mak Records Some DJs stay in the booth, in the zone. Not Steve Aoki. His live show has stuff like champagne showers, an inflatable raft on which he floats out into the sea of fans, a whole cake that he lobs into the crowd. He’s back in Toronto Tuesday (October 29), bringing Aokify America to the Sound Academy along with guests Atlanta rapper Waka Flocka Flame, Israeli dubstep specialist Borgore and French electro band Dirtyphonics.

And if you thought 2012’s Deadmeat tour stop at the Kool Haus was major, this one will really take the (whole) cake.

What sparked the Waka Flocka partnership? I think a lot of people had you pegged as more of a Kid Cudi guy.

Trust me, me and Cudi have talked about touring together. It’s just always timing.

I love him to death. When I saw Waka Flocka’s YouTube videos, I was floored. He’s a really wild performer, so it fits with my whole vibe and energy. We’ve done six shows together, and he’s crushing it. There might be some hip-hop fans out there, but the EDM fans candied up and dressed to the nines, they know his songs, so it still crosses over.

We wrote a song together for my album that I finished while I was on the bus.

I’ve been playing that one on tour, and it’s a really big banger for me. We actually decided to close out the entire night with it.

Your Deadmeat tour visuals were pretty spectacular. I can only assume Aokify America will be similar.

This is Deadmeat 3.0. I’m breaking out something I call Neon Future technology, which is one of a kind. I wouldn’t say it’s jerry-rigged, because there’s a lot of complexity. But literally we’re evolving and making the LED, the neon and the technology on all of these appendages I’m wearing better as we go along. It’s new shit no one’s ever done, and it’s setting everything up for my album Neon Future.

Next year when I properly tour Neon Future it will be a more advanced show on that level, but right now it’s about maximizing the fun and energy. I’m still doing my cakes and bringing out the raft and engaging with the audience, but I’m bringing out something a lot more sophisticated.

When is Neon Future coming out?

We’re speculating spring, but I’m not done yet. When I released [my last album] Wonderland, it took me three years to be happy, and I wrote every song specific to the album. In this case I’ve written almost double the amount of songs because I like to have options and then release others as singles. I’ll be working on the bus.

There’s a lot of strings to be tied up before I set a release date.

Do you like releasing music in album format? It’s not totally necessary for your genre.

It’s not necessary at all, but I come from a label background. I’ve been running Dim Mak since 96, and before I was putting out dance music I was signing artists and gearing them up for their albums. Plus, I was in rock bands, where our glory came from finishing albums. So it’s just part of my DNA. I want to have these collections that signify a period of time. I look back on Wonderland and everything about each song was specific to that period. And this album is very specific to what I think is important and significant now.

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STARTED FROM… OCTOBER 1986

TAKE A SHOT FOR HIM! CELEBRATING 27 YEARS OF HEADLINES, TRUST ISSUES AND POETIC JUSTICE.

BY HOLLY MACKENZIE

October 1986 Canadian hip-hop is forever altered when Aubrey Drake Graham is born in Toronto.

December 2004

Aubrey Graham becomes Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi: The Next Generation, a role he’ll play until January 2009.

October 2007

Early 2008

Second mixtape, Comeback Season, drops on Drake’s bday. Drake becomes the first unsigned Canadian to have a video featured as a New Joint of the Day on BET.

Lil Wayne is given some of Drake’s music by Jas Prince. He wastes no time flying Drake to Houston. Drake becomes part of Young Money. Unofficially.

June 2010

August 2010

Drake’s debut album, Thank Me Later, is released and goes to No. 1 on Billboard.

DRAKE with FUTURE and MIGUEL at the Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), tonight (Thursday, October 24), 7 pm, all ages. $76.75-$126.75. TM.

Tonight, the Would You Like a Tour? stadium show hits the Air Canada Centre. Not by accident, it falls on Drake’s 27th birthday. While Canada’s greatest hip-hop export has had a huge five years, superstardom didn’t happen overnight. Here, a look at some of the biggest moments (good and bad) that helped turn Aubrey Drake Graham into the one we call Drizzy.

October 2001

February 2006

Jimmy Brooks gets shot by Rick Murray, ends up in wheelchair, a role Drake will play forever.

First mixtape, Room For Improvement, drops. “Aubrey” is lost, and Drake is born. Not surprisingly, this happens on Valentine’s Day, befitting the next-gen emotionally mature rapper.

February 2009

July 2009

Drake releases third mixtape, So Far Gone.

Best I Ever Had serves as the first single and goes on to be nominated for two Grammys.

Drake falls onstage while performing with Wayne. Immediately, Jimmy Brooks memes take over the internet.

Kanye West directs the music video for Best I Ever Had. (Note: this did not prove to be the best work he’s ever done.)

December 2010

OVO Fest #1 (surprise appearances by Jay Z and Eminem).

March 2011

GQ cover #1 (of three).

Drake is the mag’s Man of the Year.

Drake hosts the 2011 Juno Awards but loses the rap recording of the year award to Shad’s TSOL.

August 2011

October 2011

November 2011

August 2012

OVO Fest #2 (surprise appearances by J. Cole, the Weeknd, Nas and Stevie Wonder).

Drake hosts, performs and makes fun of himself on Saturday Night Live.

Drake releases The Motto. YOLO – the phrase of a generation – is born.

OVO Fest #3 (surprise appearances by 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, A$AP Rocky and Meek Mill).

February 2013

August 2013

Drake’s second album, Take Care, wins the Grammy for best rap album.

OVO Fest #4 (surprise appearances by TLC, Diddy and Mase, and God himself, aka Kanye West.)

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September 2013 Nothing Was The Same is leaked a week ahead of its September 24 release date. (It still goes to No. 1 on the Billboard charts.)

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October 2013 Drake plays 27th birthday at his beloved ACC. The crowd goes wild. (No lie.)

Drake is announced as Toronto Raptors “global ambassador.” Attends press conference without socks while seated beside Mayor Rob Ford.

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GOODHANDY’S T-Girl Parties DJ Todd Klinck.5 MIDPOINT I Hate My Job (80s Vs 90s).

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop).

WAYLA BAR Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard

BROCKTON COLLECTIVE Album release Invasions, Wicked Witches, Dirty Frigs doors 8 pm.

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

THE CENTRAL Gatwitch Live In Aid Of Lose To Win Linda Wallace, There There Indigo, SpookyFish, thatboyrichie, Grief 9:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL Maintenance Request Form 6 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL The Belle Game, Bear Mountain doors 7 pm. See preview, page 50.

EL MOCAMBO Vibonics, the Jerry Cans, Sheldon Holder, Biopic doors 9 pm.

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

THE GARRISON Disappears, Weekend, Aim Low doors 9 pm.

JOE MAMA’S The Grind, DJ Carl Allen (Motown/soul/R&B) 10 pm.

KOOL HAUS AIDSbeat Rock & Roll Circus CANFAR benefit Collateral Attack, the Gavelheads, the Good Alibis, the Insecurities, SoSumi, the Redactions doors 8 pm.

LAKE AFFECT LOUNGE Iain Leslie Band 8 pm.

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Linsmore Tavern The Wholigans (Who trib-

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Lola Blood Orange 8 pm.

Opera House The Orb doors 8 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Mayday Parade, Man Overboard, Cartel & Stages & Stereos doors 6 pm, all ages.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Sloan 8 pm. ñ Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Trick

or Treat MAZ (jazz/world music fusion) 7 to 11 pm.

Silver Dollar Record release show Seraphic Lights, the Folk, Broken Bricks, B-17 doors 9 pm.

The Sister Massey Harris, the Volunteers.

Southside Johnny’s Tamin’ Thunder (rock/ R&B/dance) 10 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club CD release Nik Turner, Sons of Otis, Hedersleben 8 pm.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar Thunderfunk (funk) 10 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Air Canada Centre In The Round Tour Josh Groban, Judith Hill (singer/songwriters) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Cameron House Nick Teehan 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Dakota Tavern Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Swamperella (cajun/ zydeco) 9 pm.

General Motors Centre Reba, Gord Bamford (country) 7:30 pm, all ages.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Tilda & the Flats, Pamela Brennan.

Hugh’s Room Carlos del Junco & the Blue Mongrels 8:30 pm.

Lula Lounge Cafe Cubano (salsa) 10:30 pm.

The Paddock Sugar Brown Blues Band 9 pm.

Press Club Colin Gibson & Will Gillespie (singer/songwriters) 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Music Mix Chris Thile 8 pm.

The Sixth Street Pub Lucas Stagg (acoustic

roots/rock) 7 pm.

Valentina Evaristo (Cuban Trova) 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

By The Way Cafe After Dinner Jazz Chris Adriaanse & Liam Stanley Duo 8 pm.

Enwave Theatre What Is Sacred Jackie Richardson, Choir 21, Gregory Hoskins, Benjamin Bowman, Thomas Wiebe, Art of Time Ensemble 8 pm.

Gallery 345 6 degrees of separation Thin Edge New Music Collective (experimental) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Mr Rick’s Tin Pan Jazz Band 9 pm, Noam Lemish Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Laura Fernandez Trio (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

Harlem The Mike Field Jazz Quintet.

Hart House Arbor Room Jazz At Oscar’s Kevin Laliberte Quartet 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries Barbara Fris, Susan Tsagkaris, Stuart Graham, Derek Kwan, Nataliya Lepeshkina and others (Wagner & Verdi) 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Jerry Bergonzi, the Brian Dickinson Trio (modern jazz) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Adam Solomon Trio (African blues/jazz) 8 pm.

May Cafe Art Of The Trio Brownman Electryc Trio 9 pm.

Metropolitan United Church Phantoms Of The Organ John Tuttle, Thomas Gonder, Patricia Wright, David Simon, Angus Fung, Sarah Svendsen, Josh Ehlebracht and others (organ) 10 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Fridays To Sing About Patricia Murray Trio 7:30 pm.

Paintbox Bistro Gruvoria (jazz) 8 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

The Rex Kelsley Grant 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Winter Garden Theatre Matt Dusk, Kellylee Evans, Eleanor McCain 8 pm.

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oct 24

tues october 29

vIdeo game musIc LIve!

The BLaST prOceSSOrS preSS STarT 2 pLay $10.00 epic GaMe MuSic @Door Super GuiTar BrOS fri

oct 25 $8.00 @Door

$15.00 advance

sat november 2 $30.00

adv • Los angeLes

an evenIng wItH

Gypsy Ghosts

$10.00 adv

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

thurs october 24 $13.50 advance

sun october 27 $14.50 advance

new oRLeans foLk Roots

bRiaN tENtaClES fOxmOUlDER thurs october 31 $12.50

adv • HaLLoween

cRamps/gun cLuB punk!

wed november 6 $25.50

catl + meanwood

friday

friday october 25 $10.00 @Door

adv • san fRancIsco

the standstills the Glorious sons the schomberG fair The kerOuacS

saturday

monster

mash

weezer tribute

chronoloGic edition

patty cakes + unfinished business

‘sHake some actIon’ sIRe RecoRds Rock & RoLL Legends

HaLLoween Rock paRty

thurs november 7

fri

nov 01

morre oyane dj shado

$15.50

adv • post-HaRdcoRe

sat october 26

monday • no cover

$15.00 @Door

annuaL HaLLoween BLowout

mon november 11 • $10.50 adv

thE aURaS + b-17s

wed

oct 30

devIL nIgHt!

$15.00 adv

& the pink monkey birds

goIn’ steady present

oct 26

alternative rock dance club thursday • no cover

maladies of adam stokes fox & the moon wilD ChilD sat

• JAPAn

pink Wine + meeko cheech

hURRay fOR City& thE SEa thE Riff Raff

thE DESlONDES

40 sons

mon sHoeLess monday

fri

no cover

$10.00 adv

oct 28

BrinG Me The auThOr FerMenTed OranGeS flak n birds

nov 01

ex-aRkeLLs

wed nov 06 • $9.00 adv

yOu wOn’T

the sprinG standards thurs november 7 $13.50 advance

tues

oct 29

5th projekt black stone boreal sons hey lucy band no cover

The waLkerviLLeS tyler kyte

1992 toronto 8.00 blue jays lOi DO oct stark naked rulers of the moon 31 and the the skirt chasers & the shrines 8.00 fleshtones CONVOyS hell shovel + wish $19.00 advance

mon nov 04 • $10.50 adv

sat

nov 02

reuben and the dark saturday november 9 $15.50 advance

saRgent House touR

$ @Door

thurs

65daySOFSTaTic

bUllEtpROOf tigER

NO COVER

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$ @Door

ttng mylets

Adv Tickets @ TickeTfly.com • Ticketmaster.ca • Rotate This • Soundscapes • H-Shoe front Bar november 25 • $ 20.00 adv

cults

sun OCtObER 27 @ the phoenix • $20.00 adv

november 29 • $ 15.00 adv

BeSnard LakeS december 7 • $ 15.50 adv

plaNEt

smashers

the sea & cake

december 14 • $ 20.00 adv

cancer bats RED faNg december 31 •

$ 22.50

fri NOVEmbER 1 $

• horseshoe tavern •

mod club • $ 16.50 advance

great hall • 13.50 advance

november 10 • $15.50 adv

marijuana deathsquads

with hUNDRED watERS

ShjipS mono

pOLica braids wOOden fri NOVEmbER 8 @horseshoe • $ 20.00 advance

november 15 • $15.00 adv

fri NOVEmbER 8 @opera house • $ 22.00 adv 90s IndIe Rock Legends featuring Lou BaRLow of dIno JR!

SAT november 16

december 11 • $ 23.00 adv

spacehog sponge

fri NOVEmbER 1

lee’S pAlAce • $ 15.00 adv

mountaintops

bRENDaN CaNNiNg DiNOSaUR bONES

thursday NOVEmbER 14 @lee’s palace • $ 17.50 advance

fri NOVEmbER 22

saturday

NOVEmbER 9 the great hall $ 15.50

advance

destroyer

with pink

lee’s palace • $ 10.50 advance

thurs OCtObER 31

fri DECEmbER 13

leagues johnette future islands napolitano dieGo Garcia fri NOVEmbER 1 joseph arthur bare mutants CatE lEbON With alpenGlow

lee’s palace • $ 18.50 advance

the drake • $ 22.50 advance

concrete Blonde’s

THuRS october 24 @ dRAke undeRgRound • $ 10.50 advance

november 8 • $ 12.50 adv

the

sadies

november 13 • $ 11.00 adv

lee’s palace • $ 15.50 advance

annuaL x-mas BasH

TueSdAy november 19 @ lee’S pAlAce • $ 13.50 advance

november 29 • $ 22.50 adv

the garrison • $ 13.00 advance

lucius fri NOVEmbER 1 $

december 4 • $ 10.50 adv january 21 • $ 12.50 adv

sat NOVEmbER 2 $

crocodiles CRyStal jessy silver dollar • 10.50 adv

fri nov 8 @ parts & laBour • $10.50 adv

mon nov 25 @ silver dollar • $11.50 adv

the garrison • 10.00 adv

lanza aNtlERS jEREmy gREENSpaN highESt ORDER with

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a wiLheLM scream the lone november 23 • $15.00 adv

i SEE StaRS

tues NOVEmbER 12

bRaVE StatiON lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

$ 22.50 adv • all-ages

adv

november 10 • $ 15.50 adv

fri NOVEmbER 15

NOVEmbER 12 opera house •

lee’s palace • $ 23.50 advance

elliott brood sat NOVEmbER 9

tuesday

bellow

• horseshoe tavern •

kiRiN j CalliNaN beach disappears fossils wiDOwSpEak temples november 17 • $14.50 adv

fRidAy october 25 @ THe gARRiSon • $ 12.50 advance

Weekend + aim loW

SATuRdAy november 2 @ THe SilveR dollAR • $ 12.50 advance

november 20 • $11.50 adv

pure bathinG culture + church

november 7 • $ 13.50 adv

travis Garland tENNiS hOLOGraMS

tues NOVEmbER 5 silver dollar • $ 10.00 adv

BuRgeR RecoRds paRty

november 10 • $ 16.00 adv

december 8 • $ 12.50 adv

cOMeT cOnTrOL + pOw wOwS sat dec 14 @ silver dollar • $13.50 adv

mon NOVEmbER 11 horseshoe • $ 10.00 advance

the most loyals suitcase sam & the suits

thurs NOVEmbER 14 horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

november 28 • $15.00 adv

paUl lanGlois

(the tragically hip) november 30 • $12.00 adv

the strumbellas

• horseshoe tavern •

sat NOVEmbER 16 horseshoe • $ 1o.o0 advance

great blOOmERS with

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SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Bourbon Daisy 10 pm.

WRONGBAR Fred Falke, Tourist.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAFUNE Andre Valerio & Alheli Pimienta 8 to

10 pm.

lease & 20th anniversary concert Jughead (folk/roots/motor-grass).

FULL OF BEANS COFFEE Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Steve Raiken (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm.

GATE 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm, Bill Heffernan, Lucas Stagg Band 5 to 8 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Cindy Church 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Whoa Nellie! (swingabilly) 9 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 4 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Lula All-Stars (salsa) 10:30 pm, Rainbow Songs (children’s music) 11 am.

MAMBO LOUNGE Evaristo (traditional Cuban music) 8:30 pm.

PANCHO Y EMILIANO Peter & Alma Hit The Road Art Exhibit closing Rosy Cervantes, Carla Cassanova & the Latin Train, Paulina Derbez 6 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL World Music David Broza & Yemen Blues

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RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING

ARTS Open The Doors! Benefit concert for Mosaic Interfaith Out Of The Cold Shelters in York Region Derek Christie, Bill Colgate, Cadre, Edgewood 8 pm.

RIVOLI Heathers doors 6 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR The Famines.

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CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Beyond the Cage, Creep Echo 9 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Jack Marks (country/ folk) 10 pm, Whitney Rose 8 pm, Colonel Tom 6 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL Dave Patten (singer/songwriter) doors 8 pm.

EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS The Wholigans doors 9 pm.

HANDLEBAR Sport, Stuck Out Here, Tyler Daniel Bean, New Armour doors 9 pm.

HORSESHOE King Khan & the Shrines, Hell Shovel, Wish doors 9 pm.

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Kelly, Brian Vollmer, Carl Dixon , Darby Mills, Lee Aaron, Nick Walsh, Russ Dwarf (hard rock/metal) doors 8 pm.

RELISH BAR & GRILL New Music Night Muscle Souls (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

THE REX Danny Marks (pop) noon.

DAKOTA TAVERN Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

DORA KEOGH Root Magic (blues) 9 pm.

DU CAFE Open Mic 3 to 7 pm, all ages.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Uncorked album re-

80S dance party

THE CITY’S LARGEST LIST OF 100% AGAVE SPIRITS!

MASSEY HALL Eric Burdon 8 pm. ñ PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Metal On Ice Sean

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The Pie Guys & Mary McKay 4 to 8 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Big Rude Jake (blues shout-

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LAKE AFFECT LOUNGE Homeless Band 8 pm,

Saturday, October 26

fri oct 25

Sat dJS tWeed + Sarah leBon oct 26 + Special gueStS tues oct 29

BRASSAII Love Me Till I’m Me Again: Toronto FSHN WK HD Homme 10 pm.

CABAL LOUNGE Forever Young Mista Jiggz (80s new wave/retro/pop/R&B/hip-hop/house/ reggae) doors 10 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm.

CLUB 120 Grown & Sexy DJ Lissa Monet, Blackcat, DJ Pleasure 10 pm.5 DANCE CAVE Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE DJ Essence Brown (R&B/soul) 10 pm.

THE HOXTON Focus Fridays Shlohmo, Salva, Nick Melons 10 pm.

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

PARTS & LABOUR No No Pony (Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’ every hour/old school/hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm.

THE PISTON Shindig! (early R&B/soul) 10 pm.

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (classic rock & roll).

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

Back to the nitty gritty dJS Splattermonkey – general eclectic – douBle k R&B Motown Mod Ska Soul

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JOE MAMA’S Shugga, DJ Carl Allen (funk/Mo-

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 25

HOT BOX PUFF LOUNGE Hotrox & Gene-One

(freestyle).

8 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Bear Band 4 to 8 pm.

ST NICHOLAS ANGLICAN CHURCH Acoustic Har-

vest: Healing Garden Benefit Musicfest Laura Smith, Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters, Wendell Ferguson, John Sheard, David Woodhead & Don Reed 8 pm.

TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH Women Making Waves: A Folk-Roots Concert About Water in support of the TSP Building fund and Kairos Nancy White, Anne Walker, Soozi Schlanger, Jessa Koerber, Robyn Hamlyn, Eve Goldberg 7:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CHALKERS PUB Nancy Walker, Ted Quinlan, Shirantha Beddage, Kieran Overs, Ian Wright 6 to 9 pm.

ENWAVE THEATRE What Is Sacred Jackie Richardson, Choir 21, Gregory Hoskins, Benjamin Bowman, Thomas Wiebe, Art of Time Ensemble 8 pm.

GALLERY 345 The Art Of The Piano Katarzyna Musial 8 pm.

HELICONIAN HALL CD release Brian Katz (solo guitar) 7:30 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO Jerry Bergonzi, the Brian Dickinson Trio (modern jazz) 9 pm.

T.O. MUSIC NOTES STUPIDLY HAPPY

Finally! After years of being passed over by Toronto theatres, Canadian writer Sheila Heti’s musical All Our Happy Days Are Stupid has found a home at Videofag (187 Augusta) in Kensington Market.

The Jordan Tannahill-directed project featuring music by Destroyer frontman and New Pornographer Dan Bejar explores the pursuit of happiness via two families vacationing in Paris. Henri Fabergé stars in a large, talent-packed cast, and the show runs from tonight (Thursday, October 24) to November 3.

TORONTO BUZZ New York-based internet hype machine BuzzFeed posted an item Monday titled Proof That Toronto Makes The Best Music, posing the question “What if Toronto had its own music festival?” and insinuating our superiority over Montreal and NYC. On the fake festival poster, headliners Neil Young, Rush, Feist and Drake (in that order) appear in big, bold letters along with smaller nods to Metric, the Weeknd, Broken Social Scene (and Brendan Canning) and K’naan.

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No matter. We know we’re tops.

KHEM CHURCH Cameron Ross, Terry-Ann

Wederburn (gospel/jazz) 7 pm.

MONTGOMERY’S INN Musical Matinee The Neapolitan Connection, Stanislaw Vitort, Zhenya Yesmanovich 3 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR Sam Heineman (piano) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Jazz Masters Don Thompson Trio 7:30 pm.

PAUL’S CHURRASCO The Tavares Trio/Botos (jazz/Latin) 7:30 to 11:30 pm.

REPOSADO Bob Bradley & the Bouncers, Rob n Bob Power Duo. THE REX Humber Faculty 9:45 pm, Justin Gray’s Rubix 7 pm, Bob Cary Orchestra 3:30 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Brahms Symphony 2 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Sym-

phony Youth Orchestra 2 pm.

ST ANNE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Ride By Nights Toronto Children’s Chorus 3 pm.

THAT CHANNEL STUDIO Breathe! An Improv Sound & Movement Experience WindhorSe MuSic Rising (improvised music and dance) 7:30 pm.

TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS GEORGE WES-

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YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Global Cabaret Festival: Dennis Lee’s Lost Songs Of Toronto Waleed Abdulhamid, John Millard, Patricia O’Callaghan 9:30 pm, Dido & Aeneas 21st Century Remix Ken Aldcroft, Mike Follert, Mary-Katherine Finch, Matthew Fong, Larissa Koniuk, Patricia O’Callaghan, Zorana Sadiq

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and others 9:30 pm, Brief Lives William Webster, Katherine Hill, Terry McKenna, Larry Beckwith 8:15 pm, Rebel Rebel – The Whole Shebang Cabaret – STONED the Young Centre City Choir, Patricia O’Callaghan, the Sam Cash Band 7 pm, Subway Stations Of The Cross Ins Choi 5:45 pm, The Music Of David Bowie Russ Boswell, Davide Direnzo, Steve Hunger, John Southworth, Kurt Swinghammer, the Yonge Centre City Choir and others 4:30 pm, Brief Lives 3:15 pm, Dennis Lee’s Lost Songs Of Toronto 3:15 pm, Oh Canada Songbook Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell, Alana Bridgewater, Ed Hanley, Bryan Humphreys, Levon Ichkhanian, Retrocity, Denzal Sinclaire, the Young Centre City Choir 2 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Black Eagle Leather Night DJ Neill MacLeod (tech/house/tribal/retro/rock) 10 pm.5

Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar DJ Serious (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. gallerywest Awks (teen dance party) 8 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Sandpaper Tango (new wave/ post punk) 10 pm.

Li’ly DJ Lissa Monet.

Magpie Taproom Pressure Drop Devon Irie, Guv’nor General, Chuck Boom.

The Piston Fast Times (80s dance party) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club).

Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.

Supermarket Do Right Saturdays DJ John

Kong 10 pm.

Tryst Trysted Saturdays DJ Marky D.

Sunday, October 27 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Annex Wreckroom Orange Goblin, Holy

Grail, Lazer/Wulf doors 7:30 pm (venue changed from Opera House).

The Central Sarah Wilkinson Tribute Night 9 pm.

College and Augusta Kensington Rocks/ Pedestrian Sundays Bunchofuckingoofs, Gmen, Punching Nuns, Terminals 1 to 6 pm.

Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch The Cosmotones (old school rockabilly) 11 am-3 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Toronto Does Toronto Mary Margaret O’Hara, Sandro Perri, the Weather Station, Alex Lukashevsky, David Como, Prince Nifty 9 pm.

Horseshoe Spirit Family Reunion & Hurray for the Riff Raff, the Deslondes doors 7 pm.

Lake Affect Lounge The Meteors, Michael Danckert 4 to 8 pm.

Massey Hall She’s So Unusual Tour Cyndi Lauper, Hunter Valentine doors 7 pm, all ages.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Toro Y Moi, the Sea & Cake doors 8 pm.

Rose Theatre Patrick Lamb (funk) 8 pm, all ages.

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The Assembly Hall Family concert & CD re-

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Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Cameron House My Mess Melissa Lauren 7 pm.

C’est What Mark Ripp 7 pm, Cadre (roots/

bluesroots) 3 pm.

Crooked Cue Jim Hurst (bluegrass) 2 pm, all ages.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full of Beans Sunday Matinee Steve Raiken (singer/songwriter) 2 to 4 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic Family Brunch (bluegrass) 10 am-2 pm.

Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room Ken Whiteley’s Matinee Gospel Series Sharon Riley, the Laws, David Wall.

The Local Young Running (indie folk) 9 pm, Ivan Rosenberg (dobro/roots) 5 pm.

Lula Lounge Jorge Maza Group (Cuban) 1 pm.

Opera Bob’s The Ole Fashion 9 pm.

Placebo Space Singer Songwriter Circle 7 to 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sunday Open Mic 9 pm.

Rose & Crown Music City North Open Mic 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Array Space Xpressions Concert Dim Sum

E­ nsemble (world music on Chinese instruments) 4 pm.

Aspetta Caffe Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm.

Dominion on Queen Beverly Taft, George Westerholm, the York Jazz Ensemble 5 to 8 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar The New Tropical Punch (Carib jazz) 9 pm.

Gallery 345 Bright Angel: Contemporary Works For Clarinet, Piano And Voice Midori Koga, Kimberly Cole, Lindsay Kesselman 8 pm.

Gate 403 Brandon Wall Trio 9 pm, Karl Silverira Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Grossman’s New Orlean Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Hart House Great Hall Sunday Concert Everett Hopfner (piano) 3 pm.

Hugh’s Room The International Singing Star ‘Aura’ Mark Eisenman, Steve Wallace, Terry Clarke, Paul Hoffer, James Rohr 8:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Ray Jessel (cabaret/musical theatre) 7 pm, A Month Of Sundays Brunch John Alcorn & David Restivo (jazz/cabaret) 12:30 pm.

Kingston Rd United Church Vonnegut & the Slaughterhouse Orchestra Slaughterhouse Orchestra (songs that explore Vonnegut novels such as Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast Of Champions, Hocus Pocus) 7:30 pm.

Lula Lounge CD launch Ron Davis 8 & 9:30 pm.

Morgans on the Danforth Terra Hazelton 2 to 5 pm.

Musideum Brownman 8 pm.

Orbit Room The Kingsley Ettienne Trio (jazz/ blues) 3:30 to 7 pm.

The Rex Random Access 9:30 pm, Sammy Jackson 7 pm, Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Roy Thomson Hall Massed Military Band Spectacular 2 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Yuja Wang (piano) 3 pm.

Windsor Arms Hotel Courtyard Café Fern Lindzon (jazz) 11 am to 2 pm.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts

The Global Cabaret Festival: Brief Lives William Webster, Katherine Hill, Terry McKenna, Larry Beckwith 8:15 pm, Dream A Little Dream – Music For The Child Inside Sophie Milman, Paul Shrofel 8:15 pm, The Judgment Of Paris Patricia O’Callaghann, Tom Allen, Kevin Fox, Lori Gemmell, Bryce Kulak 7 pm, Subway Stations Of The Cross Ins Choi 5:45 pm, The Global Cabaret Festival Jackie Richardson & Micah Barnes 5:45 pm, The Whole Shebang Cabaret – STONED 4:30 pm, Dream A Little Dream – Music For The Child Inside 3:15 pm, Brief Lives 3:15 pm, Bob Dylan Songbook Jamie Drake, Bret Higgins, Amanda Leblanc, Miranda Mulholland, Andrea Nann, Andrew Penner, James Quinn 2 pm,The Judgment Of Paris 2 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Bovine Sex Club Metal Health 9 pm.

Graffiti’s Black Metal Brunch 11 am-4 pm.

Monday, October 28 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays The

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Cosmotones 9 pm.

Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Dora’s Explorers (roots/pop) 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday Bring Me the Author, Fermented Oranges, FlaknBirds 9 pm.

Lola The Big 3 6 pm.

Parts & Labour Wot? Tour Mike Donovan (psych/garage rock) 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre KMFDM (90s alt goth) doors 8:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Picture the Ocean 10 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Pat Maloney,

Dan Howler & Oxford Blue.

The Central Music Mondays The Willing, Hojin Jang Standard Jazz Quartet, Zoe Henderson, Brian Jantzi 6 pm.

Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.

Hawaii Bar Will Gillespie w/ Colin Gibson 9:30 pm.

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

Old Nick Kim Jarrett, Elana Harte (folk rock) 7:30 pm.

The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

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

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar David Buchbinder Trio (jazz) 9 pm, Anthony Rinaldi Quartet (jazz) 7 pm.

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band w/

Terra Hazelton 9 pm, Jay MacDonald Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Timothy Collins & Joanne Nugas (world jazz) 7 pm.

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Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 9 pm. ñ Lula Lounge Euphonia (classical) doors 7 pm.

Old Mill Inn Jazz.FM91 Sound Of Jazz Concert

Series: Artie Shaw Tribute Ross Wooldridge (clarinet) 8 pm.

On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm.

Rakia Bar Bohemian Monday Jazz Jam Laura Marks Trio w/ Bernie Senensky, Ross MacIntyre 8 to 11 pm.

Red Sandcastle Theatre Jill’s Living Room Jill Léger (musical theatre open mic) 8 to 10 pm.

The Rex John McLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Seven44 GTA Swing Band (classic big-band jazz) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (ret-

ro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

The Piston Junkshop (new wave/post punk/ indie electronic) 10 pm.

Reposado Mezcal Monday DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, October 29 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Central Ugly Feelings, No Pussyfooting, Clawpaw doors 8 pm.

C’est What Paint, the Anti-Queens 9 pm.

Dakota Tavern Mark Berube, the Brothers

Landreth, Ian Kelly, Tia Brazda 10 pm.

The Duke Live.com Live Jam Night.

Grossman’s Open Mic Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Steven Foster’s Icelandia (pop) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite 5th Projekt, Black Stone, Boreal Sons, Hey Lucy Band 9 pm.

Joe Mama’s Jeff Eager (funk/blues/soul) 6:30 to 10:30 pm, all ages.

Lee’s Palace Melt Banana, Brian Tentacles, Foxmoulder (Japanese noise rock) doors 8 pm.

ñ Taproom Greg MacPherson (rock). ñMagpie Massey Hall Steve Earle & the Dukes, the Mastersons doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ The Painted Lady Ababe Tuesdays: Indie

Music Showcase 9 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Axis Gallery & Grill The Junction Jam Derek Downham 9:30 pm.

Cameron House Friendly Rich 10 pm, ­Graham Playford 6 pm.

Gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm.

The Local Natasha Bouchard (folk pop) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Raise The Roof: Toronto Friends of Refugees benefit LAL, Samba Elegua, Jewstice League, Solar Scenery, Upper Eche (world/hip-hop/jazz/experimental) 7 pm.

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Nocturne Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm.

Chalkers Pub Girl’s Night Out Jam Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm.

Dominion on Queen Hot Club of Corktown Django Jam 8:30 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing

Arts Chamber Music Series: Eternal Vienna Julie Hereish, Michel-Alexandre Broekaert (cello, piano) noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Mike Rajna Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro CD release Jordana Talsky (jazz/pop) 8 pm.

The Rex Donny Hathaway Gospel Tribute Michael Dunston, John Johnson, Dave Young, Mark Kelso 9:30 pm, Richard Whiteman 6:30 pm.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith (jazz) 9 to 11 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church City Of The Mind Talisker Players (chamber music) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Bloke & 4th Swank Tuesdays.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck

8 pm.5

Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Sneaky Dee’s Watch Out! DJ Brodie John

(hardcore/emo/pop/punk/metal) 10 pm.

Sound Academy Aokify America Tour Steve Aoki, Wacka Flocka, Borgore, Dirtyphonics 7 pm. See preview, page 52.

Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

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Wednesday, October 30 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Black Swan Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Cadillac Lounge Wednesday Rock & Roll Round-Up The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues).

Dakota Tavern Sunparlour Players, Brothers Landreth.

The Harp Pub Johnny Max Band 8 to 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Mike Tobin & Skillet (pop) 10 pm.

Joe Mama’s Soul Sessions Alana Bridgewater & Rich Grossman 6:30 to 10 pm, all ages.

Lola Open Stage Wednesday’s Child 8 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s What’s Poppin.

3030 Dundas West Ghost Bus Tour Animal Nation, Kyprios.

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Alleycatz Citysoul (swinging blues/vintage R&B).

The Central Fox and the Moon, Chika Bus-

ton, Lucas Penner 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 7:30 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler (folk) 9 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Open Mic 8 pm.

The Local Boxcar Boys (gypsy/jazz/klezmer/ folk) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Victor Jara tribute Proyecto Altiplano (Chilean/folk) 7 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s 7:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall World Blues Taj Mahal Trio, Vusi

Mahlasela, Fredericks Brown w/ Deva Mahal (African music celebration) 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

By The Way Cafe After Dinner Jazz Chris Adriaanse & Liam Stanley Duo 8 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Mediterranean Stars (fusion jazz) 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing

Arts Chamber Music Series: Britten @ 100 Canadian Opera Company Orchestra noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Trio 9 pm, Timothy Collins Jazz & Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm.

Mezzetta Klezmology Jonno Lightstone, David Mott & Nick Fraser 9 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio 7 to 11 pm.

Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. The Rex Donny Hathaway Gospel Tribute Michael Dunston, John Johnson, Dave Young, Mark Kelso 9:30 pm, Morgan Childs Group 6:30 pm.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Hospice Richmond Hill benefit Jacques

Israelievitch & the Richmond Hill Festival Orchestra 7:30 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church City Of The Mind Talisker Players (chamber music) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck

8 pm.5

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Uzu (Paper Bag) Rating: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s much-anticipated second album does not disappoint. It’s got all the heavy rhythmic power, noisy experimentalism (so much cymbal-crashing!) and distorted dissonance of the first one, plus plenty of devastating beauty. Ruby Kato-Attwood’s emotional, operatic voice is more upfront in the mix, and set against sad, elegant piano lines it brings the chills on opener Atalanta, the psych-rock Whalesong, the two-part Seasickness and closer Saturn’s Return.

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In Our Nature ( Warner) Rating: Blue Rodeo’s 13th studio full-length is everything you’d expect a new Blue Rodeo release to be: comfortable yet well worn, like the favourite denim jacket you bring out at the same time every year.

At worst, a plaintive and lethargic approach – particularly on the title track – slows their stride. (Sparseness doesn’t suit this seven-piece.) Yet these moments are few; the 14-track, hour-long effort never wanes for long. The bluesy swagger of Wondering and the jangly momentum on Mattawa, complemented by Greg Keelor’s heartening vocals, are as purposeful as anything BR’s released in the last decade. And there are tender moments, too, like on You Should Know, where Jim Cuddy doles out gentle paternal advice.

In Our Nature exemplifies the unique sound the band has been honing for 26 years, and the long road has proved invigorating, rather than exhausting, for Keelor, Cuddy and Co. Top track: New Morning Sun Blue Rodeo play Massey Hall February 19.

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itionally complex throughout, and each song rolls seamlessly into the next. They expand their sound with a touch of hardcore on Hall Of Mirrors, start the party with chant-heavy first single One, based on a traditional Iroquois song, and possibly overindulge their weirdness on Bring Me The Hand Of Bloody Benzaiten, essentially a drum solo filled out with ambient sounds.

Drummer/keyboardist Alaska B’s production acts as a sixth member, unprettying the sweetness when necessary and filtering everything through a cacophonous artpunk filter.

Top track: Seasickness Part 1 & 2 Yamantaka // Sonic Titan play the Garrison on November 7.

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KAY My Name Is Kay (Universal) Rating: NNN It’s been two years since Cape Breton’s Kay Boutilion burst forth with her giant hair bows and rap single My Name Is Kay. The title track is the most hip-hop her long-time-coming debut fulllength gets, however. The rest is much more dancey, full of progressive house beats, catchy girl/boy-group hooks (Bus Stop) and late-90s-Robyn/early-00sKylie-esque dance pop (Alive).

Strangers, first released in 2012, boasts the sole rap feature – Kay turns former cocaine dealer Pusha T into a Nelly-like teddy. His appearance here is impeccably timed, seeing as Pusha’s recent My Name Is My Name album has made him the rapper du jour.

Immediately likeable, MNIK doesn’t necessarily gain greater meaning or complexity from repeat listens. That doesn’t mean you won’t play it again and again, though. It’s a pop album with no glaring duds – just a 40-minute honest-to-goodness dance party.

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Julia With Blue Jeans On (Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN The simplest approach can be the bravest.

For instance, making an album with only two ingredients: voice and piano. For it to work, the musicianship needs to be masterful, the songwriting elevated, the singing effortless, and the delivery earnest without veering into cheesy.

On his third LP as Moonface, Spencer Krug, formerly of Sunset Rubdown and Wolf Parade, achieves this. A far cry from the piano-tinkling heard in formulaic modern pop, Krug’s ivories are often filmic (Barbarian), or musical-theatre enough to evoke Hugh Jackman or Julie Andrews singing amidst a mountainscape (November 2011).

Modern lyrics overlay the 10 classical tracks full of arpeggios, trills and sweeping key changes. It’s an album of love songs in major keys, where Krug’s musical direction seems to have been con fuoco (with fire), con spirito (with spirit) and always, always, affettuoso (with feeling).

Where can we buy the sheet music?

Top track: Your Chariot Awaits JULIA LECONTE

KATY PERRY Prism (Universal) Rating: NNN Amidst reports that she would adopt a more grown-up sound, Katy Perry kicked off the campaign for her fourth album by

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releasing a video of herself setting her signature blue wig on fire. For the most part she’s incinerated the old Katy on Prism, abandoning the brazen, Peewee’s Playhouse-style sexual innuendo of 2010’s Teenage Dream album for earnest songs about self-actualization.

Instead of “I wanna see your peacock-cock-cock,” the overwhelming sentiment is “I’m the one defining who I’m gonna be.” It’s an understandable reaction to a kid-friendly image, but Perry’s ballads are so unadventurous and heavy-handed (chiming U2 guitars and slow-building, reverbed drums), they start to feel like caricature anyway.

Her approach works better on the feel-good half of the album made up of top-notch roller-disco anthems. Prism’s best moments hearken back to Escapade-era Janet Jackson (Birthday), Stock Aitken Waterman-era Kylie (Walking On Air), Is It Good To You-era Heavy D (This Is How We Do) and Daft Punk’s Digital Love (International Smile).

Top track: Birthday KEVIN RITCHIE

PEARL JAM Lightning Bolt

(Monkeywrench) Rating: NNN Pearl Jam has been touring relentlessly and producing dependable albums for the last 20 years, but on their tenth fulllength studio release, Eddie Vedder and Co. have come to a striking realization: they won’t be around forever.

Mortality is a pervasive theme, meaning there’s a noticeable lack of plaintive uptempo rockers and more sprawling, brooding numbers. Mike McCready’s guitar solos mostly take a backseat to the band’s meaty rhythm section, and, sure, some of the 12 tracks are victims of awkward construction.

But Lightning Bolt resonates, especially the band’s jarring (if kind of clichéd) conclusions: you’re only as good as the person you love (the touching ballad Future Days), you shouldn’t let anyone tell you how to live your life (the persistently hooky Getaway). Finally, haunting standout Pendulum proves that life isn’t as

easy as you once imagined it to be. If any band knows, it’s Pearl Jam. But they’re still plugging away.

Top track: Pendulum JK

sionist Roman Tome and bassist Brian Kobayakawa) gets experimental, things get deep, dark and interesting. Like on A.J. Goddard Shipwreck, featuring harmony vocals and piano by Bob Wiseman.

Top track: A.J. Goddard Shipwreck Kim Beggs plays a double CD release party with Karyn Ellis at the Monarch Tavern tonight (Thursday, October 24).

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Electronic RYAN HEMSWORTH Guilt Trips (Last Gang) Rating: NNN Halifax-bred, Toronto-based DJ/producer Ryan Hemsworth has rapidly risen to fame, initially on the strength of his remixes (both authorized and bootlegged). In that forum, his wildly eclectic KIM BEGGS Beauty And style is a strength, allowing him to take Breaking (independent) the approach that best suits the source Rating: NNNN material. On his first album, he applies Kim Beggs’s voice lures you in with its that method to his own songs and ememotive melancholy before you’ve had ploys a large cast of collaborators to time to absorb the fact that she’s a forconstantly shift the mood. midable songwriter.

Fans of his ambient hip-hop and The Yukon-based singer wrote most of blissed-out impressionist R&B will be the songs on her fourth album over the more pleased with Guilt Trips than those course of a few Februarys (she was parwho prefer his clubby side. At times it ticipating in fawm.org, aka “February Alseems like he’s trying too hard to prove bum Writing Month”), which helps exhis versatility, and the revolving door of plain the themes of water – in all its vocalists only adds to the compilationpermutations – and inhospitable weathof-singles feel. But that’s been Hemser. She also sings about relationships, worth’s thing since the beginning, so it grief and that old country favourite, shouldn’t be a surprise. Plus, better for drinking. (Not Only, Only From The Whisan emerging artist to occasionally reach key’s a contender for best drinking labeyond his abilities and falter than to ment in recent history.) play it safe.

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Vesuvius Ensemble and The Sicilian Jazz Project SAT., NOV. 2, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Travel south to Naples and Modica for an evening of traditional Italian music and Mediterranean jazz, care of tenor Francesco Pellegrino, guitarist Michael Occhipinti, bassist Roberto Occhipinti, singer Dominic Mancuso, and more.

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The Authors Festival remains one of the world’s most prestigious literary events. But when Stephen King headlines, the writer of the TV series The Wire is on the slate and you’ve inaugurated a special program for writers under 40, you’re definitely aiming to shed the 10-day event’s image as a major snob fest. Not to say the icons aren’t here – Margaret Atwood, Wayson Choy and Alistair MacLeod are all on the program. It’s just that the 34th instalment’s range is wider than ever. Let NOW’s guide – with interviews, reviews and more – direct you to the best of the fest.

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS­ at Harbourfront Centre venues (see IFOA listings, page 70), ­October 24 to November 3. $18, PEN Canada Benefit $100, Alice Munro Tribute $25. 416973-4000, ifoa.org.

October 24 The annual PEN benefit in support of writers silenced for their political views presents Stephen King and his son Owen King, interviewed by Canada’s own genre king, Andrew Pyper. 8 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre.

October 25 Non-fiction scribes up for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize – Thomas King (The Inconvenient Indian), J.B. MacKinnon (The Once And Future World) and Andrew Steinmetz (This Great Escape) – read from their shortlisted works. 8 pm, Studio Theatre.

October 29 It’s role reversal time, when ex-federal Liberal leader Bob Rae asks The Agenda host Steve Paikin about his new book, Paikin And The Premiers, based on conversations aired on TVO. 7 pm, Studio Theatre.

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October 31 The Journey Prize, Canada’s premier short story award, turns 25 this year, and IFOA celebrates by gathering writers who have contributed to the iconic Journey anthologies. Hear Steven Galloway, Elizabeth Hay, Miranda Hill, Alistair McLeod, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore and Alissa York talk about how short stories kick-started their careers. 8 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre.

November 1 What is it about East Coast writers?

Maritimers Chad Pelley, Michael Crummey and Writers’ Trust fiction and Giller­finalist Lisa Moore answer that question. 8 pm, Brigantine Room.

November 2 The reality of being queer is changing everything about the family. Alison Wearing, S. Bear Bergman and Susan G. Cole, who also moderates, discuss the ways their unique experiences have transformed their ideas about family. 11 am, Studio Theatre.

October 26 Determined not to let the fest be only a celebration of established authors, IFOA has initiated the Brave New Word series focusing on up-and-coming talents­. Diversity reigns at a round table with Shani Boianjiu, Sahar Delijani, Anthony Marra and Abdellah Taïa.

Noon, Brigantine Room.

October 27 Which has more impact on narrative – form or idea? Nadeem Aslam, Jami Attenberg, Peter Bagge and Sam Lipsyte share their thoughts. The range here is huge – Bagge’s a graphic novelist, and Aslam writes about war-torn Afghanistan – so the discussion has great potential. Noon, Brigantine Room.

October 30 Need a crash course on how to write?

Learn from some of the best when Humber School for Writers teachers Wayson Choy, Hari Kunzru, Francine Prose, Richard Scrimger and Olive Senior talk about the process from start to finish. 9 pm. Studio Theatre.

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November 3 Justin Cartwright, Mary Novik and Elizabeth Ruth, all authors delving into historical issues, talk about the challenges of rewriting and respecting ­history. 3 pm, Studio Theatre.

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the best of the fest

October 28 The five finalists for the Governor General’s Award – Joseph Boyden (The Orenda), Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries), Colin McAdam (A Beautiful Truth) Shyam Selvadurai (The Hungry Ghosts) and Kenneth Bonert (The Lion Seeker) – read from their shortlisted works. 8 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre.

Blown Away By Boyden author interview

IN HIS sensational novel THE ORENDA, literary hero joseph boyden blends compassion and brutality in unsettling ways By SUSAN G. COLE JOSEPH BOYDEN reading as a Governor Gen-

“I look at [Prime Minister] Harper as my enemy, but you can’t make true progress unless you get past the one-​dimensionality of that relationship.”

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eral’s Award finalist, Monday (October 28), 8 pm, Fleck Theatre; and speaking with other alumni at the UBC Anniversary Celebration, Tuesday (October 29), 8 pm, Brigantine Room. ifoa.org.

At a rammed book launch for another author, Joseph Boyden is making his way through the crowd to talk to me. Slowly. It has to be slowly, because he’s constantly being stopped by his admirers. People just want to touch his sleeve.

The Canuck novelist – Giller winner in 2008 for Through Black Spruce – is a literary rock star. He’s charisma­tic, moves almost like a dancer and, when you talk to him, makes you feel like you’re the most important person in the room.

No wonder that an hour and a half after his Word On The Street reading, there were still 50 fans lined up to talk to him, clutching their copies of his already bestselling The Orenda.

“It’s really great that these days peo­ple want to buy your book and read and talk to you. How can I say no?” he says, speaking on the phone a few weeks later in his Scottishinflect­ed accent – he’s part Scottish, Irish and Anishnabe – from his home in New Orleans.

As he graciously gives face time to anyone who wants it, it’s obvious that ego isn’t an issue.

“Being in a big family has taught me the danger of getting a big head,” he assures me.

“It’s not considered right. Besides, there’s not enough oxy­gen in the room, you know.”

Generous with his time, generous with his accolades. There’s a reason he’s wearing a Tribe Called Red T-shirt for the NOW photo shoot.

“They’re the bomb,” he says enthu­ siastically. “They bridge the contemporary and the traditional in a way no one’s ever seen before, making tra­ditional culture hip for young au­diences – and not just aboriginal audiences. That’s what I want to do with

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ñ(Joseph Boyden, Penguin) Rating: NNNNN The genius of Joseph Boyden’s novel about the epic mid-17th-century conflict between the Hurons and the Iroquois – with the Jesuits wedged in between – is that it makes vivid the human capacity for both terrifying violence and profound compassion.

The story is told from three points of view: Iroquois teen girl Snow Falls, who is captured by the Hurons; Huron warrior Bird, who has stolen the girl in revenge for the death of his family at the hands of her tribe; and Jesuit priest Christophe, who’s been taken captive

by Bird at the same time.

Boyden taps into some of what we know, including the devastating ill­nesses the European invaders brought to the Americas. But though he’s meticulously accurate about the native people’s spiritual and creative gifts, he refuses to romanticize them (his descriptions of their war practices are grisly) and will not demonize the crusading Christians, plainly admiring their religious commitment.

The characters are rich – their complicated emotions surprise them almost as much as they do the reader – the language robust and the story painful yet beautiful.

The Orenda is nominated for the Governor General’s Award but failed to make the Writers’ Trust and Giller short lists. I can’t SGC imagine why.

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my writing – bridge the gap between cultures that don’t necessarily see eye to eye.”

You can see that passion for connection in his GG-nominated The Orenda. In early 17th century Onta­rio, in the era of Champlain, three people – a captured Iroquois teen girl, her abductor from a hostile Huron tribe, and the Jesuit priest he’s also taken – gradually develop a grudging respect for each other that erodes their mutual distrust.

“I set out knowing I wasn’t going to present a rosy picture of three cultures singing to the sunset, because I knew that historically that wasn’t how it was,” says Boyden. “But I’m a peacemaker. I’ve always been the one who wants to resolve issues rather than inflame them and that’s where I am in this novel.”

It’s a value he takes personally.

“I look at [Prime Minister] Harper as my enemy, but you can’t make true progress unless you get past the one-dimensionality of that relationship.”

Boyden has a similar perception of his education. Born in Toronto, he was taught, fittingly, given his prota­gonist priest, by Jesuit teachers at Bre­beuf College School.

“I did everything in my power to get kicked out of that school. I even cut my hair in a mohawk knowing that Brebeuf was tortured to death by the Mohawks. The authorities had to get the message. But I look back now and realize how passionate they were about teaching. And that my personal development and attention to detail didn’t come from nowhere.”

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THE LUMINARIES

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Rating: NNNN During the gold rush of the 1860s, a Scottish lawyer arrives at the port town of Hokitika, New Zealand, and interrupts a meeting of 12 men in a hotel room. Each of the dozen has a relationship to three strange events: the discovery of a fortune in a drunk’s home, the sudden departure of an ­infamous ship’s captain, and the disappearance of the town’s wealthiest man.

As the novel unfolds, the men give their version of what’s happened, introducing us to the book’s key character, the charismatic prostitute Ann Wetherall, and unravelling – sort of – the mystery.

The story is ingeniously structured, deeply influenced by astrology – the 12 main characters each represent a sign, for example.

And the style is like that of a 19th-century novel, both in terms of the language and the synopses that open each chapter.

At over 800 pages, The Luminaries is a bit too long, but it’s completely absorbing, at times mesmerizing. In the hands of Eleanor Catton, even the most complex structure can’t get in the way of the storytelling.

No wonder it won the Booker SGC Prize this year.

Surprise prizewinner Eleanor Catton says The Luminaries may be long but it defies literary snobs By SUSAN G. COLE ELEANOR CATToN reading as a Governor General’s Award finalist on Monday (­October 28), 8 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre; reading Tuesday (October 29), 8 pm, Lakeside Terrace; in conversation with Rupert Thomson, October 31, 8 pm, Lakeside Terrace. ifoa.org.

What’s it like being the youngest writer ever shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize? According to The Lu­ mi­naries author Eleanor Catton, who spoke to NOW before the Booker ceremony, it’s not all big fun.

“I’m not quite drowning, though it’s been pretty overwhelming,” the New Zealander allows, speaking on the phone from her publisher’s office in London, England, before the win­ ner was announced. “It’s a shock to move into a realm where when I say something people don’t like, they’ll attack it. People don’t usually care about my opinions.”

The problem’s only going to get big­ ger now that she’s won the Booker.

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Catton accept­ed the award wear­ ing a dress by iconic New Zealand de­ signer Kate Sylvester.

“It’s covered in stars,” she says, “in keeping with the book.”

And in keeping with her status. We called her a star in the making when we named her debut novel, The Re­ hearsal, the best book of 2010. Now she’s a full-fledged supernova.

And suddenly the Kiwis want to own the Canadian-born author, who moved to New Zealand when she was 6.

“There was actually an explosion of outrage in New Zealand when I was shortlisted for the Governor Gen­eral’s Award,” she laughs.

The book getting all the jury love is an ingeniously plotted mystery whose 12 main characters represent arche­ types of the zodiac and whose second­ ary figures represent the pla­nets. It’s written, she says, in conformance with the golden ratio. Part 1 is half the book, and each part following is half the length of the part before it.

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There are other schematics to the narrative too complicated to get into.

In fact, listening to Catton talk about them is a head-spinning experience.

But the book itself is wholly acces­ sible even if its length may be intimi­ dating. She suggests that’s because she treats her large cast of characters as humans, not as props. As for the length, 830 pages, she admits there’s been some resistance.

“I didn’t know it was going to be that long. As a consequence of writing in the 19th-century style, it became as long as a 19th-century no­vel.

“I know a lot of people are turned off by the length, but I hope it’s not a difficult book. A lot happens, and it’s essentially a mystery; your desire to find out what happens speeds up the reading experience. I like to think it reads more like one of the longer Harry Potter novels than a dense Tho­mas Pynchon novel.”

Paradoxically, alongside the grum­ blings about The Luminaries being too long comes the critical complaint

that it’s not literary enough. Cat­ ton has no patience with the charge.

“It’s a plotted novel, and people are quite snobby about plot. It’s as if the more that happens in a book, the more lowbrow it’s per­ ceived to be. If nothing very much changes in a book, it’s seen as more literary.

“What bothers me about that is that it’s almost conservative in an aris­tocratic sense, that people whose lives are still, prisma­tic or crystalline are worthier of being written about than people whose lives are active.” susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

crime fiction

Dark Double THE DOUBLE by George Pelecanos (Little,

Brown), 292 pages, $29 cloth. Rating­: NNN

He’s got producer and writer for the brilliant HBO series The Wire among his credits, so I was pretty heated up about George Pelecanos’s new thriller.

It’s a fine book – edgy, atmospheric, complex of plot – but it didn’t take me to new heights.

The Wire was genius at making its audience like people who did really nasty things to other people, and at illuminating the thin line separating the good guys from the bad. In The Double, Pelecanos tackles the same theme of darkness and light, but with much of the nuance missing.

Main man Spero Lucas is an exmarine recently returned from Iraq, settling back into his rapidly gentrify­ ing hometown of Washington, DC. His special talents have landed him a job as an investigator for a criminal law­ yer, and he has a lucrative sideline finding and returning missing prop­ erty.

Lucas is hired by woman who’s been swindled out of a valuable paint­ ing – The Double – by a sexy con art­ ist. Meanwhile, he’s landed in a hot affair with a married woman who’s making his head spin. Lucas is a seek­ er of conflict, a man who continues to embrace his warrior nature after the war is over for him.

There’s lots of violence – these guys like their guns! – but it’s mostly of the him-or-me variety, and Lucas, not without his charms, never stops ask­ ing what the difference is between himself and the criminals he kills.

Pelecanos is a seasoned writer, and The Double is a fast-paced, engrossing action thriller, with dialogue equal to the finer moments of The Wire.

Maybe it’s a matter of heightened an­ ticipation not being fulfilled, but nothing brought me to the point where I found myself empathizing with the characters in quite the same LESLEY McALLISTER way.

Pelecanos sits on the A Life In Crime panel November 2, 5 pm, at the Brigan­ tine Room, and on the Leading Men panel November 3, noon, at the Fleck Dance Theatre.

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originals to their aboriginal enemies.

“There isn’t that much of it, only a few pages,” Boyden points out, openly concerned that a reference to this brutality will turn people off. “But it was the elephant in the room and I had to address it if I was going to write this book properly. The Wendat [an Iroquois tribe] and Haudenosaunee [Hurons] did practise torture against each other, but it wasn’t an everyday occurrence.”

The Spanish Inquisition, he points out, was going on at the same time, so it wasn’t just these “noble savages” doing violence; cruelty is a human trait.

“But why did they torture each other? The Europeans tortured to belittle and punish and demand, but the Huron and Iroquois practised it for opposite reasons. ‘I torture you to honour you. I see something you have, something I desire that I want to consume. So if I torture you and you don’t scream, you will live forever.’

“The violence is about creating a

three-dimensional world. We’ve had enough romanticizing going on.

We’ve got the old stories – The Last Of The Mohicans, Black Robe.”

He isn’t buying the idea that Idle No More gets better traction if First Nations are idealized.

“Idealization is shortsighted. As soon as outsiders get into the trenches or go to the communities, they see the garbage flying around and the poorly made houses. They don’t see the warmth and beauty and the intelligence of these people. You can romanticize First Nations, but then as soon as the reality hits you, the first thing you want to do is run.

“The way to make things right is to look at them as realistically as you can.”

Boyden thought he was writing about history, and it’s only in hindsight that he sees the contemporary resonances.

“Look at how the environment and the economics can’t be separated from each other. Look at the tar sands and how we want to build our economies on the back of the environment.

Then look at the fur trade. It was wiped out because they wiped out the animals in the chase for profits.

“That’s exactly what we’re doing now with the tar sands.” susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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BEAR BARES ALL S. BEAR BERGMAN WRITES LOUD AND PROUD ABOUT HIS RADICAL FAMILY IN A SERIES OF MOVING AND ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS By SUSAN G. COLE S. BEAR BERGMAN Reading Sunday (October 27), 2 pm, Brigantine Room and November 3, 11 am, Studio Theatre; part of the Rewriting The Rules Of Family panel, with Alison Wearing and Susan G. Cole, November 2, 11 am, Studio Theatre. ifoa.org.

S. Bear Bergman – trans dad married to a trans man, proud Jew, in a polyamorous relationship and bent on remaking the family – has his own road show. He’s performing a stage work based on several stories in his new book, Blood, Marriage, Wine And Glitter.

His audience includes members of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), LGBT readers, bubbies and zaidies, pierced-up and tattooed trans kids, curious hets and a few fundamentalists.

Take a guess at who gives him the hardest time.

“By far the most hostility comes from heteronormative gay men and lesbians,” he says while driving down the highway to his next gig in Connecticut. “They’re white, upper and middle class, mostly monogamous and infuriated that I’m talking about my family, that I’m out and trans, that my husband, who’s transexual, had our baby, that I am sex-positive and polyamorous and that I’m giving all of homosexuality a bad name.”

He may be a dangerous transgressive to some, but he’s also one of the most accessible queer writers around. That’s because he writes with burning intensity and an authenticity that makes his autobiographical stories resonate emotionally.

It wasn’t always that way. He tried writing as if it were a performative exercise in queerness until a college teacher told Bergman she could sniff the fakery.

Get real, she said.

“So now I tell it just exactly how it is for me in the moment. I won’t try to make it more clear or less clear, more trans or less trans. If I have a point to explicate, I’ll do it, but I won’t pin a political agenda on a good story if they don’t match.”

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new book is to celebrate his unusual family, which includes a known donor (he calls him the spuncle), and so three sets of grandparents, various fairy godmothers and lesbian aunts whom he calls sparkles, all of whom make up a community that gives him great joy.

He passionately believes in being “out” – whether he’s talking about himself or anybody else. In his essay Dear Parents Who Have Written Me, he urges those with queer kids not to keep them closeted because they fear gay life is hard. A kid who’s bullied at school but loved at home grows into a more whole adult than the child who tries to fit in while keeping a secret.

And Bergman himself feels entirely free.

“When I write about my family, someone might respond, ‘Oh god, yes, that’s exactly what I have,’ or, ‘Oh god, yes, that’s exactly what I want,’ or ‘Oh my god, that’s a teeming hive of perversion’ in a bad way.

“But I don’t have to care what they think. I just have to talk about the issues.” susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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SUSPENSE

WOMAN REBEL: THE MARGARET SANGER STORY by Peter Bagge (Drawn & Quarterly),

DOCTOR SLEEP by Stephen King (Scrib-

80 pages, $21.95 cloth. Rating: NNN

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A quick search of Margaret Sanger biographies on Amazon nets over 500 results. Chances are none of those works is as lively and colourful as Peter Bagge’s recent graphic biography.

The dark-minded alternative comics legend, who found acclaim in the 90s and 00s for his Hate series, keeps the pace brisk over the course of 80 pages. He had no choice, given how action-packed Sanger’s life was.

Born in 1879, she was a nurse and mother before becoming a birth control activist, educator and founder of Planned Parenthood. She also kickstarted the creation of the birth control pill when she was in her 70s.

Woman Rebel is no unbiased bio.

Bagge clearly adores and admires his subject, but he doesn’t shy away from the controversies that plagued Sanger in her lifetime, in particular the dire effects on her family of her dedication to the cause.

Even then she comes across as sympathetic – a woman ahead of her time doing, not always gracefully, the difficult work of carving out a path for and bettering the lives of future generations of women.

Sometimes the book feels like a breakneck-speed, blow-by-blow account of Sanger’s work and personal life. (The latter half focuses on her myriad lovers – of both genders.)

And it’s unlikely to sway her detractors.

But it will hopefully introduce Sanger more thoroughly to a new demographic. And Bagge keeps the humour quotient high, the dialogue curt and snappy and his drawing style warped and bendy, so things always stay interesting.

Little boys grow up. Sometimes their nightmares do, too.

In Doctor Sleep, Stephen King returns to Danny Torrance, the youngster with “the shining” in the book of the same name. Now he’s an adult, struggling with alcohol like his father, and still troubled by the visions he had years before at Colorado’s snowy, ghost-filled Overlook Hotel. Working these days as a hospice attendant in small-town New Hampshire, he helps seniors pass over at the end of their lives.

His world becomes connected with that of Abra (it’s hard not to think “cadabra”), a child with extraordinary psychic powers. She’ll remind you of other King creations, youngsters and teens with supernatural abilities, such as Charlie McGee in Firestarter or Carrie.

Just as cook and fellow shiner Dick Hallorann helped the young Danny, the older Dan becomes teacher and defender of Abra, who’s pursued by a group called the True Knot who travel in RV caravans and resemble harmless polyester-clad retirees but feed vampire-like off the psychic energy of children like her. Its leader is the very cunning and very dangerous Rose the Hat. Though he sometimes spins out his narratives to excessive length, King always tells an engrossing story, with occasional references to earlier works. You’ll likely see where this one is going about a fifth of the way in, but it’s easy to stay with it because of its welldrawn characters and, just as fans would want, occasional moments of grisly and supernatural thrills.

In the Bagge review BLOOD, MARRIAGE, WINE AND GLITTER (S. Bear Bergman) Rating: NNN Written in a unique and refreshing voice, S. Bear Bergman’s third collection of essays again mines his experience as a trans man but focuses on how he and his community are changing the family.

Bergman enjoys a passionate and open relationship with his live-in husband, has radical ideas about the meaning of chosen family and is a practising Jew – quite the fascinating combo.

He writes about everything from why he likes dogs to the sweet gifts he buys his hubby and the pleasures of parenting. Not all of that material works, though What They See, which could have been written by any parent panicked that his child is being too disruptive, is terrific.

Bergman is most effective when he talks specifically about his queer self. His defence of the term “gay marriage” gives feminists like me – who wonder WTF is going on with all the gay weddings – a ton to think about.

His rage when his son, who has long hair, is called “it” is palpable in What Is It. The ode to a diesel femme in the story of the same name is a warm love letter. And Sharon Who Never Visits is a heartbreaker.

It could only have written by a trans person. When Bergman leads with his specific identity, he really SGC shakes things up.

CARLA GILLIS

Peter Bagge reads Saturday (October 26), 2 pm, at the Studio Theatre, and participates in the Shape Shifters round table Sunday (October 27), noon, in the Brigantine Room.

Shining on ner), 531 pages, $34.99 cloth. Rating:

JON KAPLAN

King and his son Owen King headline the PEN Canada benefit, with Andrew Pyper moderating, tonight (Thursday, October 24), 8 pm, in the Fleck Dance Theatre.

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memoir

Brilliant Lives The book of my lives by Alek­san­ dar Hemon (Farrar Straus Giroux/ Raincoast), 214 pages, $29 cloth.

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Aleksandar Hemon’s first book of non-fiction is as complex and entertaining as his novels and short stories.

The Book Of My Lives is a series of personal essays that form a loose sort of memoir reflecting the various lives Hemon’s lived up until now:

Bos­nian child, bohemian layabout, so­cialist shit-disturber, American im­migrant, husband, father, artist.

Born in Sarajevo, he was on a month-long trip to the U.S. when war broke out there, essentially stranding him in a new country where he could barely speak the language, although he knew lots about American culture.

The essays don’t follow a predictable path – they hop around in chronology, for instance – but the range of topics is intriguing. And Hemon has a poet’s eye for the unifying symbol.

Playing in a regular pickup soccer game in his adoptive city of Chicago lets him discuss the differences between immigrants and locals. And a description of his paltry meals during his mandatory service in the Yugoslav People’s Army leads to reflections on borscht and the pleasures and pains of family dining.

Because of the format, there’s some repetition. And it’s odd that there’s no account of Hemon’s learning to write and publish in English.

(When he first started out in the U.S., he couldn’t write fiction in any language.) But each self-contained essay is readable – even the breezy love letter to Chi­cago that will accompany me the next time I visit the Windy City.

Two chapters are outstanding. In

Home of the brave

one, he reflects on a former beloved lit professor who went on to become the right-hand man of Serbian Democratic Party president Radovan Ka­ rad­zic, the Butcher of Bosnia.

And the poignant final essay chro­ nicles a family tragedy. Devoid of sentimentality but full of rich detail, Hemon manages here to capture a dark moment in his life while showing how storytelling lets us make sense of such things.

Apropos for one of the finest storyGLENN SUMI tellers around.

Hemon reads Friday (October 25), 8 pm, in the Brigantine Room, and talks with Eleanor Wachtel on Saturday (Oc­tober 26), 1 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre.

Used to be the International Festival of Authors was a literary snob’s wet dream. You couldn’t get on to the slate unless you were over 50, boasted a long list of publishing credits and had won some heavyduty awards.

But organizers have loosened up in a big way, mostly in an effort to expand their audience.

Thrillers and mysteries now get their due – note Stephen King at the PEN Canada Benefit – and ­graphic novelists are being taken ­seriously, too.

The festival is actively seeking younger audiences in particular, offering free tickets to students and book-lovers under 25. This year, IFOA turns its attention to younger writers as well, introducing the Brave New Word slate of authors under 40, some bringing their first books.

Among the participants are

Nadeem Aslam, a Pakistani-British writer whose The Blind Man’s Garden is about two brothers in post-911 Afghanistan and Pakistan; Shani Boianjiu, who writes about women in the Israeli army; and Sahar Delijani, whose novel stems from her having been born in Iran’s Evin Prison.

Abdellah Taïa is the first Moroccan and Arab to write openly about his homosexuality.

Krista Bridge scored a spot on the Writers’ Trust fiction short list with her debut novel, The Eliot Girls.

Oh, and this year’s Man Booker winner, Eleanor Catton, also comes to the fest as part of the program. (See interview, page64.)

And that’s just a few of the Brave participants.

This may be IFOA’s 34th instalment, but just because you’re over 30 doesn’t mean you can’t inno­ SGC vate.

WINNER 2013 Toronto Book Awards

“To Toronto, for giving me what I’ve been looking for: a home.”

–KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE in the dedication of his book, INTOLERABLE

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Pull Quotes ANDREW PYPER

author of The Demonologist, moderating a discussion with Stephen King and Owen King, tonight (Thursday, October 24), 8 pm, at the annual PEN Benefit, Fleck Dance Theatre; on the Heroes And Demons panel Saturday (October 26), 4 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre; reading October 31, 8 pm, Studio Theatre.

Stories

Clear talent CLEAR SKIES, NO WIND, 100%

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JOWITA BYDLOWSKA

by Théodora Armstrong (­Astoria/House of Anansi), 304 pages, $22.95 paper. Rating: NNNN

author of Drunk Mom, reading November 3, 11 am, Studio Theatre; on the Messages From The Bottle panel, November 3, 3 pm, Brigantine Room.

Théodora Armstrong creates characters who stay with you long after their stories end.

In her debut short story collection, the first published through House of Anansi’s new Astoria short fiction imprint, the Vancouver writer focuses on kids or young adults at complicated stages in their growing up. Sometimes hard-to-take changes in their family lives are to blame. Sometimes the conflict comes from within.

In Whale Stories, an angry young boy newly moved into a bed-andbreakfast run by his mother digs a deep hole on the nearby beach in an attempt to catch a wild animal. In The Spider In The Jar, a timid boy’s dis­covery of a cave leads to a powerful moment of self-realization. The astonishing Mosquito Creek evoca­ tive­ly depicts the slowly dissolving friendship of two teenage girls in the throes of puberty.

Family is the focus, and troubled adults aren’t entirely left out of the picture. A father tries desperately to reconnect with his teenage daughters in Fishtail, which comes to a surprising finish. In the 60-plus-page The Art Of Eating, a drug-addled chef comes to terms with first-time father­hood, a story that proves Armstrong would have no trouble tackling long fiction if she likes.

All these stories, which are much darker than they first appear, have a clarity of language and resonances in well-observed details. The boyfriend in Mosquito Creek, for example, never has any fruit in his house, a subtle, telling indication of his single mother’s frazzled state.

Much love for the West Coast’s natural beauty is on display. Each setting is lovingly evoked through a softfocus, almost dreamlike filter. Best is Armstrong’s knack for delivering the CARLA GILLIS perfect final line.

WAYNE JOHNSTON author of The Son Of A Certain Woman, reading November 3, 11 am, Brigantine Room; on the Finding Your Place panel, November 3, 3 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre.

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If a biopic were made about you, what would the title be?

And who would star?

(Fantasize away!)

Why? De-Shan Does Derivatives (like Debbie Does Dallas, except slightly less nudity), starring, if American, Demi Lovato or Natalie Portman; if Canadian, Christine Nelson or Avril Lavigne; if Argentinian, Jimena Píccolo or Solange Verina; if Israeli, Shani Yitzhari, Nofar Moor, Lina Mahul, Yuval Dayan or Marina Maximilian SHANI BOIANJIU Blumin.

The title would be just that, Why?, starring a number of people playing me at different stages of my life: William Shatner, Neve Campbell, Justin Bieber, Jill Hennessy, Michael J. Fox, ­Michael Cera, Michael Ironside and ­Ellen Page. I’d ask Ken Finkleman to ­direct, assuming I had that kind of control, which would have to be the case. Who else would ever produce SAM LIPSYTE such a movie?

author of Little Cat, on the Love Is A FourLetter Word panel Sunday (October 27), 5 pm, Brigantine Room; on the New Writing panel, November 2, noon, Lakeside Terrace.

SHANI BOIANJIU author of The People Of Forever Are Not Afraid, on the Front Lines panel, Saturday (October 26), noon, Brigantine Room; and at the We Are Not Afraid event Sunday (October 27), 1 pm, Lakeside Terrace.

SAM LIPSYTE author of The Fun Parts, reading Friday (October 25), 8 pm, Brigantine Room; on the Shape Shifters panel Sunday (October 27) noon, Brigantine Room.

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Describe your book in a tweet.

A professor of Milton goes in search of his lost daughter, convinced she’s been abducted by a demon from Paradise Lost.

ANDREW PYPER Someone said I was good at breaking my own heart: read Drunk Mom #notjustformoms #addiction.

JOWITA BYDLOWSKA Disfigured boy meets mother. Falls in love with her. Mother in love with sister-in-law. Church none the wiser. Yet. What to do.

WAYNE JOHNSTON Little Cat: Disturbed porn for the ­masses. To be read on the toilet. Girl grist.

TAMARA FAITH BERGER I’m a book written by a person who wishes 2 know ALL about U-How R U feeling? What are U thinking NOW? Please find that person, who’s alone.

SHANI BOIANJIU

TAMARA FAITH BERGER

Théodora Armstrong takes part in UBC’s Anniversary Celebration on October 29, 3 pm, and in the Short Break round table on November 2, 2 pm.

Both in Harbourfront’s Brigantine Room.

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The Jewish Dump, starring the altqueer porn star Arabelle Raphael.

TAMARA FAITH BERGER Fearmonger: The Andrew Pyper Story, starring Michael Shannon. Not because he looks like me, but because he’s about the only actor I know who could make the act of writing look involving on screen.

ANDREW PYPER

My book would feel trapped in a tweet, frightened, reduced. It might ask for a glass of water.

SAM LIPSYTE

Is Twitter the end of the English language or a book promoter’s dream?

Neither. It’s Twitter.

WAYNE JOHNSTON I dislike Twitter. I tell myself I just have a different brain, a long-distance kind of brain – but perhaps this is just insecurity on my part. Because look at Joyce Carol Oates tweeting, giving in to the modern world. Perhaps Oates is ambidextrous in her thinking: right hand, novels; left hand, Twitter.

JOWITA BYDLOWSKA It’s like a new baby: funny and inter­esting to watch grow, but ultimately another mouth to feed.

ANDREW PYPER

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If they named a cocktail after you, what would it be called? And what would the ingredients be?

The Psychological Thriller. 3 ounces bourbon over ice and half a tab of ANDREW PYPER acid. Mix well.

Serenity. Or Higher Power. Serenity: Water with cucumber. Higher Power: HP Sauce with water.

JOWITA BYDLOWSka

It would be called the Double Ujay. It would consist of Redbreast Irish whiskey, cognac and blueberry extract.

WAYNE JOHNSTON

Weirdest book-signing moment.

A woman asked me to inscribe a book to her son and then told me she wasn’t going to let him read it.

SAM LIPSYTE A book collector asked me to write out the entire first page of the novel along with date, place and signature.

I’m more than happy to sign books, but that felt like detention. (I did it, of course, as I lack the capacity to say no.)

ANDREW PYPER A young woman who grew up with alcoholic parents and who herself was an alcoholic felt compelled to tell me that she never blamed her parents for what happened. She said she couldn’t afford the book but came to give me support because she heard someone on the radio giving me a hard time. I’ve never cried that hard in public. She did, too. We were both a mess. Then an elderly couple whose daughter was dying of alcoholism overheard us and bought the book for her.

JOWITA BYDLOWSKA A man asked me to write, “Dear Mary, will you marry me?” on his copy of The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams. I did. He turned, handed the book to a wo­ man, fell to one knee and showed her what I’d written.

She turned and walked away.

WAYNE JOHNSTON

It’s 10 minutes before your Authors Festival event. What’s on your mind?

Is my fly zipped all the way up?

ANDREW PYPER

Stop thinking. Also: I hope they serve Serenity tea at this joint.

JOWITA BYDLOWSKA Don’t be nervous – it’s not as if this is the IFOA. WAYNE JOHNSTON Numbers, languages, countries and ­human beings.

SHANI BOIANJIU

Advice for David Gilmour If you think sexism and narrowminded­ness are nifty marketing angles, they really aren’t.

ANDREW PYPER

He wouldn’t read my advice anyway, now, would he?

JOWITA BYDLOWSKA

Congratulations to the winner of the inaugural TELUS Newcomer Artist Award: Saye Sky Visit neighbourhoodartsnetwork.org

A Vision Award Partnership An agency of the Government of Ontario.

Relève du gouvernement de l’Ontario.

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international FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS

FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS event listings international festival of authors through November 3 at

Harbourfront Centre venues. Readings/interviews/talks/round tables $18, stu/yth under 25 free; Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists $25, PEN Canada benefit $100, Young IFOA $15; 10-ticket pass (readings, interviews and round tables only) $120. Brigantine Room (BRG), Lakeside Terrace (LST) and Studio Theatre (SDT), 235 Queens Quay West; Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West (FDT). 416-973-4000, ifoa.org.

Thursday, October 24 8 pm Stephen King/Owen King/ Andrew Pyper (FDT).

Friday, October 25 8 pm Kelly Braffet/Aleksan-

dar Hemon/Sam Lipsyte/ Grazyna Plebanek reading (BRG).

8 pm Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize Finalists panel discussion with nominated writers (SDT).

8 pm Eric Schlosser reading and interviewed by Tim Cook (LST).

Saturday, October 26 11 am Janet E Cameron/Fiona

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Kidman/Mary-Rose Maccoll/ Alice Mcdermott in a round table

discussion of the tools of time and place in storytelling (LST).

11 am Gordon Korman Young IFOA (FDT).

noon Shani Boianjiu/Sahar Delijani/Anthony­Marra/Abdellah Taia in a round table discussion of conflict

at home and in foreign lands (BRG). noon Isabel Greenberg reading and talking about her graphic novel (SDT).

1 pm Aleksandar Hemon reading and discussing his work (FDT).

2 pm Peter Bagge/Seth reading and interviewed by Brent Bambury (SDT).

2 pm Viola Di Grado/Mieko Kawakami/Stephane Michaka in a round table discussion of the role the authors played in the translation of their work (LST).

4 pm Kelly Braffet/Thomas Enger/Owen King/Andrew Pyper in a round table discussion of the navigation of good and evil in life and literature (FDT).

4 pm Warren Clements/Beatriz

Hausner/Christine Mcnair/ Peter Norman/james scoles read-

ing from and discussing their work (BRG).

4 pm Marathon Reading with festival authors and surprise guests reading short snippets of their work (LST).

4 pm Darryl Sterk/Wu Ming-Yi/Rui Zink in a round table discussion of translation (SDT).

8 pm Nadeem Aslam/Sahar Deli-

jani/Anthony­Marra/Peter Norman/Francine Prose reading (BRG).

8 pm Jami Attenberg/Tom Barbash/Catherine­Bush/Beatriz Hausner/Kim Scott reading (SDT).

8 pm Andrew Preston Charles Taylor Prize talk (FDT).

Sunday, October 27 11 am diane flacks/erin moure/

michael mucz/audrey tarasuk

and other Kobzar Literary Awards finalists discussion (LST). noon nadeem aslam/jami attenberg/peter bagge/sam lipsyte in a round table discussion on whether form or ideas dictate narrative (BRG). noon Diego Marani/Abdellah Taia/Rui Zink/Martha Baillie in a round table discussion on whether form or ideas dictate narrative (SDT).

1 pm David Bezmozgis & Shani Boianjiu Bezmozgis is interviewed by Boianjiu (LST).

2 pm S Bear Bergman/Fiona Kid-

man/Mary-Rose MacColl/Alexander Maksik/Alice McDermott

reading (BRG).

2 pm Krista Bridge & Perrine Leblanc discussing the differences between writing and publishing in Ontario and Quebec with Marc Côté (SDT).

3 pm Tom Barbash/Jean-Marie

Blas De Robles/Thomas Enger/ Christine McNair/Carsten Stroud reading (LST).

4 pm Kazushige Abe/Mieko Kawakami discussing contemporary literature in Japan with Ted Goosen (SDT).

5 pm Tamara Faith Berger/Jean-

Marie Blas De Robles/Lewis DeSoto/Grazyna Pleba­nek in a

round table discussion of love, sex and art in their writing (BRG).

5 pm Rachel Kushner discussing her work with Rodge Glass (LST).

beth W ­ ennick Young IFOA (BRG).

5 pm Kevin Barry discussing his creative process (SDT).

7 pm Amy Grace Loyd & Margaret Atwood Loyd reads from and discusses her debut novel with Atwood (SDT).

8 pm Anne Carson discussing her work with Helen Guir (FDT).

8 pm krista bridge/lynn coady/ cary fagan/colin mcAdam/lisa moore/alison pick Rogers Writers’

Trust finalists reading (BRG).

8 pm Margaret MacMillan & Charlotte Gray MacMillan reads from and discusses her book The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 with Gray (LST).

9 pm wayson choy/hari kunzru/

francine prose/richard scrimger/olive senior/antanas sileika/miriam toews discussing the

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3:30 pm Publishing Keynote And Interview Publisher Ursula Mackenzie is interviewed by Quill & Quire editor Stuart Woods (BRG).

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Tuesday, October 29 10:30 am Lesley Livingston/Evan Munday Young IFOA (BRG).

7 pm Steve Paikin interviewed by Bob

Rae (SDT).

5 pm Nadeem Aslam discussing his creative process with Rodge Glass (SDT).

8 pm theodora armstrong/jo-

seph ­boyden/steven galloway/ wayne grady/ann ireland/ania szado sharing anecdotes and accolades (BRG).

8 pm Margaret Atwood/Sarah Dunant/Rachel Kushner reading (FDT).

8 pm Eleanor Catton/Isabel

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8 pm Douglas Coupland reading and interviewed by Bert Archer (BRG).

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hay/miranda­hill/alistair macleod/pasha malla/yanN martel/lisa moore/alissa york Jour-

ney Prize discussion (FDT).

8 pm Philipp Meyer/Andrew

Pyper/CK Stead/Carsten Stroud/DW Wilson reading (SDT).

Friday, November 1 10:30 am Frank Viva/Eric Walters Young IFOA (BRG).

8 pm Kevin Barry/Craig David-

son/Paul Harding/Colum McCann/CK Stead reading (FDT).

8 pm Catherine Bush/Rodge Glass/Mary Novik/Meg Wolitzer reading (LST).

8 pm George Elliott Clarke/Cynthia Flood/Aminatta Forna/ Douglas Glover/Charlotte Gray reading (SDT).

8 pm Michael Crummey/Lisa Moore/Chad Pelley/Mark Medley in a round table discussion of Eastern philosophies (BRG).

Saturday, November 2 11 am S Bear Bergman/Alison Wearing/Susan G Cole in a round table discussion of the queer writing experience (SDT).

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1 pm Chris Eton/Bernice Eisenstein/Anne Michaels/Seth in a round table discussion of the influence of technology and other people on their work (SDT).

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YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME by Tommy Taylor (Praxis). At Daniels Spectrum, Aki Studio Theatre (585 Dundas East). Runs to October 26. $25, stu/srs $22.

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by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Runs to November 16 in rep with Table Manners and Living Together. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22.

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Round And Round The Garden provides the bookend narrative for Alan Ayckbourn’s three-part The Norman Conquests, in which a planned dirty weekend involving a shaggy librarian and his sister-in-law breaks open the troubled but comic nature of their dysfunctional family.

In Ayckbourn’s skilful scripts, as characters leave one scene, they enter another play and continue the action.

When Annie (Laura Condlln) calls off the weekend, Norman (Albert Schultz)

is understandably upset. Annie has already enlisted her brother and sister-inlaw, Reg and Sarah (Derek Boyes and Fiona Reid), to care for their demanding elderly mother, and the leaked news of the liaison brings in Norman’s wife, Ruth (Sarah Mennell), and catches up Annie’s inarticulate would-be suitor, Tom (Oliver Dennis).

Each play highlights different characters, and in Garden it’s the turn of the dense Tom and waspish Ruth. The show’s highlight is their scene together, in which Ruth tries to hint to Tom that Annie’s interested in him and he misunderstands, thinking it’s Ruth who’s fallen for him.

Garden also tells the audience more about Ruth, and Mennell brings into sharp focus a woman who’s on the sidelines in the other plays. Admitting that her incorrigible, “oversized, unmanageable dog” of a husband is an irritation “like mild athlete’s foot,” Ruth reveals both a tart view of her marriage

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rescue their girlfriends from an Ottoman Pasha in this commedia dell’arte opera. Opens Oct 26 and runs to Nov 2, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $38-$166. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-622-2787, operaatelier.com.

ALL OUR HAPPY DAYS ARE STUPID by Sheila Heti and Dan Bejar (Suburban Beast). A vacation in Paris becomes a nightmare for two families.

Opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Videofag, 187 Augusta. allourhappydaysarestupid.eventbrite.ca.

AMIGO’S BLUE GUITAR by Joan MacLeod (UC Follies). A Salvadoran refugee fleeing torture moves in with a draft dodger and his family in Canada. Oct 24-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

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and later her affection for the womanizing Norman.

Norman still drives the action, and Schultz knows just when to be charming and when to be annoyingly whiny; his smile manages to be endearing and lecherous simultaneously. No wonder another character calls him “strangely engaging.”

Much of director Ted Dykstra’s production, buoyed by a strong cast, is quite funny. They all know what notes to hit in a play often structured as a series of two-hander scenes, in which people start speaking at cross-purposes and get farther and farther away from understanding each other as their exchanges progress.

While you’ll get a full evening of laughs with Garden, seeing the other two plays in tandem with it will make the comedy even richer.

For a review of Table Manners and Living Together, see nowtoronto.com/ JON KAPLAN stage. formances by Danny Gaudreault, Henri Louis Chalem, Lynn Lu and Mathieu Bohet. Oct 2527, performances Fri-Sat 8 pm, artist talk Sun 3 pm. $10/pwyc, Sun free. Theatre Centre PopUp, 1095 Queen W. performanceart.ca.

BRIEF LIVES by Patrick Garland (Global Cabaret Festival/Toronto Masque Theatre). Stories and songs of old London are performed in this show based on the book by John Aubrey. Oct 25-27, Fri-Sun 8:15 pm, mat Sat-Sun 3:15 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120).

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

CITY OF THE MIND (Talisker Players).

Graham Abbey reads selections from Charles Dickens, Nora Ephron and others alongside live music in a tribute to cities. Oct 29-30, Tue-Wed 8 pm. $35, srs $25, stu $15.

Trinity St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

COMA by Jude Idada (AfriCan Theatre Ensemble). A woman lies in a coma in a Nigerian hospital while her daughter and grandson argue over whether to pull the plug. Previews Oct 30 at 4 pm (pwyc) Opens Oct 30 and runs to Nov

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The best political theatre rouses and entertains you while it makes you think. Tommy Taylor’s You Should Have Stayed Home does just that.

Based on his experiences during the G20 Summit in 2010, and the subsequent piece he wrote on Facebook, the show takes the form of a diary, recounting not just what Taylor did and what happened to him that weekend but also, on a subtler level, chronicling his growth into a politically aware person.

He’d never been to a rally before, but Taylor went on the Saturday afternoon to the free speech zone in Queen’s Park, quite a distance from the G20 meeting, and felt a sense of community and solidarity springing up around him.

He returned that evening with his girlfriend and another guy, hoping to share that warmth, but was caught up by chance with hundreds of others at a police barricade in front of the downtown Novotel. Carted off and locked up for hours in that infamous east-end de-

tention centre, he saw that things seemed as chaotic and unclear for those in charge as for those being held.

The show could be presented as a stand-and-deliver monologue, but director Michael Wheeler gives it theatrical life, setting it in Scott Penner’s enclosure that stands in for the 10-by20-by-8-foot screened cage, complete with doorless Porta-Potty, that held Taylor and 40 other men for most of the night. Kimberly Purtell’s lighting and Thomas Ryder Payne’s ominous sound design add to the show’s increasingly and intentionally claustrophobic feel.

The open and affable Taylor is more than a reporter, though, and it’s a fine stroke to have him introduce himself and chat with audience members before the show. It engages them in a personal way that makes the story he tells more powerful, dealing as it does with questions of humanity and a sense of an individual’s place and rights in our world, a world we often think is inviolable.

The events surrounding the G20 meeting may be history, but it’s a history we shouldn’t forget. And Taylor doesn’t allow us to do so, for a coda to the script (originally staged at SummerWorks 2011) brings us up to date and reveals that neither attitude shifts nor apologies from those in power are easy JK to come by.

Tommy Taylor recounts his disturbing experiences during 2010’s G20 Summit.

3, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $32-$60. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. africantheatre.org.

DIDO AND AENEAS – 21ST CENTURY REMIX

(Global Cabaret Festival). The opera is re-imagined with bluegrass, fiddle, pop and South Indian classical music. Oct 24-26, Thu 8:15 pm, Sat 9:30 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

H DINE HER by Bruce Hunter (Realspace Theatre). This interactive zombie comedy looks at how gentrification strips neighbourhoods of life. Oct 24-26, Thu-Sat 7 pm. $50 (dinner & show). The George Street Diner, 129 George. dineher2.eventbrite.ca.

H EVIL DEAD – THE MUSICAL by Christopher Bond, George Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris (Starvox Entertainment/Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment). The musical based on the film franchise returns home (see Q&A, page 75). Previews Oct 24-27, Thu-Sat 7 and 10:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. Opens Oct 29 for an indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7 and 10:30 pm (and Oct 31), Sun 3 pm. No show Oct 30. $19.99-$79.99. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bath-

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urst. evildeadthemusical.com.

THE NEFARIOUS BED AND BREAKFAST by DJ

Sylvis (Monkeyman Productions). Heroes, evildoers and superpowers collide in this comic book-inspired play. Previews Oct 2526. Opens Oct 29 and runs to Nov 9 , Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. monkeymanproductions.com.

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PLETELY DIFFERENT (Global Cabaret Festival).

The usually raucous cabaret artist performs an acoustic show. Oct 26-27, Sat 7 pm, Sun 4:30 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

SPOON RIVER CABARET (Global Cabaret Festival). A forgotten town comes back to life in this music and poetry cabaret. Oct 24-27, Thu-Sat 8:15 pm, mat Sat-Sun 5:45 pm and Sun 3:15 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

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Not far enough FARTHER WEST by John Murrell (Soul­ pepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (50 Tank House). To November 9. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22 .

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Titters of audience laughter aren’t exactly the response you want for a tragedy, but on opening night there was no mistaking the sound of chuck­ les during the clunky final scenes of Farther West, Soulpepper’s revival of the 1982 John Murrell play.

That’s a shame, because there’s plenty of meaty material in the work about May Buchanan (Tara Nicodemo), a Canadian prostitute in the late 19th century who heads west in a search for independence. The play’s depiction of a Grace Lynn Kung (left) and Kate ­Corbett are strong and stylish.

woman wanting to live life on her own terms brings to mind other strong characters, like Mérimée and Bizet’s Carmen.

After a stunning and very symbolic opening nude tableau featuring May and a john (William Webster) in postcoital slumber, the play proceeds to chronicle May’s stint in a Calgary bro­ thel with an assortment of other working women, from the jaded, seen-it-all Violet (Kyra Harper) to the simple Nettie (Christine Horne, slightly miscast).

Among May’s admirers are a cop named Seward (Dan Lett), who’s torn between duty, morality and lust, and a poetic, free-spirited Yankee named Shepherd (Matthew MacFadzean), who wants to own her.

Both are obsessed enough to pursue her at all costs, but we never get a sense of what it is about May that attracts them. She’s more symbol than character. And while the role has at-

Mixed styles YUKONSTYLE by Sarah Berthiaume (Cana­dian Stage). At the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Runs to October 27. $22-$49. 416-3683110. See Continuing, page 75.

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tracted many fine Canadian actors – among them Martha Henry and Nora McLennan – Nicodemo doesn’t infuse

the role with anything special.

Better are Harper, whose caustic pronouncements tell us a lot about her

fears of getting older, and especially MacFadzean, who brings a swagger and spontaneity to his line readings that feels authentic, especially in the first act and the start of the second.

Lett fares worst of all, especially near the end. It’s he who elicits those unfortunate chuckles. Director Diana Leblanc hasn’t found a way to make sense of his melodramatic actions.

Otherwise, the play is beautifully paced. Astrid Janson’s set uses a painted scrim to carefully evoke two settings – muddy Calgary (complete with onstage river) and the more congested Vancouver – while Graeme Thomson’s lighting brings harsh daylight and lurking shadows to life.

And appropriate for a show in which personal freedom is at stake, the fight scenes – helmed by fight director Simon Fon – are handled with real drama, something that’s missing from GLENN SUMI the central performance.

A raven flies through Yukonstyle, keeping the troubled past alive and fanning a tense present with its black wings.

Sarah Berthiaume’s tough yet lyrical play follows the lives of four characters in snowbound 2007 Whitehorse. The world of roommates Garin (Ryan Cunningham), a young Métis man, and Yuko (Grace Lynn Kung), a secretive Japanese woman, changes when Yuko invites Kate (Kate Corbett), a pregnant teenage drifter who’s been travelling back and forth across Canada on a bus, to stay with them.

Meanwhile, as the trial of Robert Pickton plays out in the media, Garin tries to find out from his sick father (François Klanfer) the truth about his native mother, who left him as an infant. The trial’s TV coverage becomes part of the production’s soundscape, providing a chilling note that goes be-

yond the cold weather outside.

The raven, a traditional aboriginal trickster figure who offers uncomfortable truths, ties the stories together.

Director Ted Witzel has cleverly incorporated the wily bird into his staging, occasionally turning the younger characters into speakers possessed by the prescient spirit, mimicking its head movements and speaking in an amplified, emotionless voice.

Using metaphor and magic realism, Berthiaume aims to get to the heart of her characters, their needs and the emotional realities they don’t want to face or utter. Gillian Gallow’s set, Bonnie Beecher’s lighting, Richard Feren’s sound design and Cameron Davis’s projections blend the everyday and the mysterious seductively.

The cast is strong, especially Corbett, whose naive, racist, self-centred Kate is

the action’s catalyst. Unapologetic in the out-there fashion in which she deals with the world, she’s impulsive in action and speech. She has a heart but no internal censor. Her striking reflection on suicide and tattoos near the end of the play is an unsettling yet comic piece of writing .

Despite the impact of the production, the script has problems, including some overwritten sections toward the end. Garin’s internal monologue as he watches a group of native women outside a liquor store needs editing, and the conclusion has a truncated feel.

Still – as in The Flood Thereafter, the other Berthiaume play presented by Canadian Stage this fall – Yukonstyle’s poetic monologues, with their repeated imagery and phrasings, are the script’s most memorable parts. They’ll JON KAPLAN haunt you for days.

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Subway Stations Of The Cross by Ins Choi (Global Cabaret Festival). A homeñ less vagabond delivers a message from God

in Choi’s performance of songs and spoken words. Oct 24-27, Thu 8:15 pm, Sat-Sun 5:45 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (passes $63-$120).

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­globalcabaret.ca.

HSucker by Kat Sandler (Blood Sweat & Blood Collective). Various characters grieve in their own way in a small town crushed by a whimsical tragedy. Opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Nov 6), Sun 2 pm (and Nov 9). $15-$20, Oct 27 pwyc. The Storefront ­Theatre, 955 Bloor W. ­secureaseat.com.

HThe Woman In Black by Stephen Malla­ tratt (Lower Ossington Theatre). An estate lawyer tries to exorcise demons from a case involving a widow. Opens Oct 30 and runs to Dec 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm (no shows Nov 3-13). $39-$49. 100A Ossington. lower­ossingtontheatre.com.

HYou Can Sleep When You’re Dead by David Brock, Glyn Bowerman, Omar Hady, Graham Isador and Kat Sandler (Theatre­Lab).

Stories of tortured spirits unable to go to the next world are told in the historic house.

Opens Oct 24 and runs to Oct 31, 7 and 9 pm daily. $25-$35. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. ­theatrelab.ca.

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and guilt by confronting the collateral damage of domestic abuse and racial economic divide.

Previews Oct 30-31. Opens Nov 1 and runs to Nov 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25, preview $15. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. ­boundtocreate.com.

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Aluna Cafe: El Nogalar (Aluna Theatre).

Reading of El Nogalar by Mexican playwright Tanya Saracho (in English). Oct 28 at 7:30 pm.

Free. 1 Wiltshire, unit 123. ­alunatheatre.ca.

The Barb & Laurie Show (Encore Entertainment). Barb Scheffler and Laurie Hurst perform a musical theatre cabaret. Oct 26 at 8 pm. $25. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. encoreshows.com.

Cabaret, Comedy & Coffee Talk (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Ryan G Hinds hosts with guests Carla Collins, King Flare and Elliott Loran. Oct 25 at 9 pm. $10$15. 488 Parliament. brownpapertickets.com/ event/474832.

Chris Tsujiuchi’s Monthly

­ aurice Ravel circa WWI. Oct 27 at 2 and 7 M pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival pass $63-$120).

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­globalcabaret.ca.

HLunacy Cabaret: Devil’s Night (Zero Gravity Circus). This vaudeville-style cabaret offers clown, circus, comedy, burlesque and more.

Oct 26 at 9 pm. $20-$25. ­Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. ­lunacycabaret.com.

Making Love In A ­Canoe (Kyle Golemba/ Adam White). Golemba and White perform in this release party for their musical theatre CD. Oct 28 at 8 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander, Cabaret. 416-975-8555.

HNight Of Dread (Clay & Paper Theatre). Puppets, stilt dancers and others parade in an interactive exploration of fear.

Oct 26, parade assembles at 4 pm, departs at 6 pm. Pwyc. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. ­clayandpapertheatre.org.

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Operanat10n: A Night Of Temptation (Canadian Opera Company). This COC ñ gala features a live collaboration between the Sam Roberts Band and stars of the COC Ensemble Studio, a party and more. Oct 24 at 9 pm. $150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. ­operanation.ca.

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Wars (Driftwood Theatre). Performers read from Ian Doescher’s book imagining Star Wars if it had been written by the Bard. Oct 28 at 8 pm. $25. Whistler’s Grille, 995 Broadview. driftwoodtheatre.com.

Stalwart Women and Tempestuous Men: A Reading Of Two Early Canadian Plays (Theatre Double Take). Readings of Lake Doré by JE Middleton and The Second Lie by Isabel Ecclestone MacKay. Oct 29 at 8 pm. Pwyc. The Box Studio, 89 Niagara. theatredoubletake.com.

Strange Sisters (Buddies in Bad Times).

Queer women and trans folk performance showcase, featuring Alvis Parsley, Juliet November, India Davis and others. Oct 25 at 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Toronto Cold Reads (TCR). Actors read new works. Oct 27 at 8 pm. Free. Measure, 296 Brunswick. ­torontocoldreads.com.

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ing Dave Deveau, ­Ronnie Burkett, Catherine Hernandez, Daniel MacIvor, Sonja Mills and others. Oct 27 at 8 pm. Pwyc (proceeds to Actors’ Fund of Canada). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. thewreckingball.ca.

You’re Doing Great! A BoldFaced Lie (Sharon Spell). Spell performs a show about her parents’ death Oct 29 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. s­ haronspell.com.

Continuing Stockings For The Ladies ­Attila Clemann (Harold Green ñby...And Jewish Theatre/Rustwerk ReFinery).

Based on the true story of two Canadian soldiers who helped survivors of BergenBelsen concentration camp, ­Clemann’s play is often moving, though some of the plot elements aren’t well set up. Brendan McMurtry-Howlett gives a bravura performance, playing some 20 characters, including the freed inmates, depicted as puppets whose words are as lyrical as their appearances. Runs to Oct 24, Thu 8 pm. $30-$60.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

NNNN (JK) The Best Brothers by Daniel MacIvor (Tarra-

(The Flying Beaver Pubaret).

Tsujiuchi performs a cabaret with special guests. Oct 27 at 8 pm. $10$15. 488 Parliament. ­brownpapertickets.com.

HGrindhouse Ghoulies 8: A Halloween Spooktacular (Skin Tight Outta Sight/ Great Canadian Burlesque). The troupes and guests present a tribute to celluloid sleaze. Oct 26 at 9 pm. $15-$20.

Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. ­grindhouseghoulies13. eventbrite.ca.

The Judgment Of Paris

(Global Cabaret Festival).

This mix of musical cabaret, history and storytelling looks at Claude Debussy and

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raphers Christopher House, Susanna Hood, Paul-Andre Fortier and Gadfly. Opens Oct 25 and runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20; Oct 31 pwyc (free in costume). Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. 416-504-6429 ext 66, ­moonhorsedance.com.

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choreographies by Patrizia Gianforcaro, Ruth Levin, Marie France Forcier, Maria Victoria Mata, Valerie Calam, John Ottmann and others. Oct 24-26, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. York University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele, McLean Studio. 416736-5888, dance.finearts.yorku.ca. ­ oronto Dance Theatre presents a sneak peek T at the upcoming show and talk with the choreographer. Oct 28 at 7 pm. Free. Winchester

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dance listings Opening Escape Artist MOonhORsE Dance ­Theatre presents an evening of solos ñ performed by Claudia Moore from choreog-

gon Theatre). MacIvor’s crowd-pleaser follows two siblings who, after the tragicomic death of their mother, bicker over her funeral plans while avoiding the petty rivalries and jealousies that have plagued them all their lives. Dean Gabourie directs the play with a minimum of fuss, bringing out MacIvor’s unique blend of laughs and genuine emotion, and the actors (MacIvor and John Beale) are skilful. But the play feels slight. Runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$53. 30 Bridgman.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (GS) HBirth Of Frankenstein adapted by the company (Litmus Theatre). This site-specific production fuses Mary Shelley’s gothic novel with the dramatic circumstances that inspired her to write it. Runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $30, stu $20. Saint Luke’s United Church, 353 Sherbourne, Parlour. ­litmustheatre.com.

La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Director John Caird’s production of the familiar warhorse takes the professions of Puccini’s bohemians literally, which means painter Marcello dabs paint onto the set and poet Rodolfo takes notes on his girlfriend Mimì’s illness. The result is a fascinating, if occasionally cool, version of the opera, with lived-in performances by the leads and dramatic playing by the COC orchestra, helmed by Carlo Rizzi. Runs to Oct 30, see website for schedule. $12-$365. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (GS) The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Tarragon Theatre/TheatreRUN). An anxious government clerk tries to fit in with a grotesque society in this multidisciplinary adaptation. Runs to Nov 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

Farther West by John Murrell (Soulpepper). A prostitute seeks independence from male control in 1800s Canada (see review, page 73).

Runs to Nov 9, see website for schedule. $51$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) The House Of Yes by Wendy MacLeod (Last Priority Productions). A dysfunctional family passes a tense Thanksgiving when the oldest son arrives with his new fiancée. Runs to Oct 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-8459411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

I Love Lucy – Live On Stage by Kim Flagg and Rick Sparks (Mirvish). Be a member of the studio audience in this adaptation of the 50s TV show. Runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun and Wed 2 pm (no show Oct 31). $49-$89.

Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com.

Kuwaiti Moonshine/By A Thread by Tim C Murphy/Diane Flacks (Sterling Studio Theatre). One-act plays about a Canadian bootlegger in Kuwait and an anxious performance artist. Runs to Oct 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20. 163 Sterling, unit 5. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

The List by Jennifer Tremblay (No Exit Thea­ tre). A woman neglects a neighbour’s request, inadvertently causing her death. Runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $16-$20. Artisan Factory, 344 Westmoreland, #104G. ­thelist2013.com.

Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). This 25th-anniversary production of the popular musical is dominated by Ramin Karimloo, whose ex-con Jean Valjean grows in complexity and depth and delivers some transcendent moments, even if he’s too young to pull off the final scenes. He’s surrounded by lots of talent and a handsome production that’s majestic yet intimate, with stirring new orchestrations that add extra fire to this dramatic musical. Runs to Dec 22, TueSat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm (see website for exceptions/extra shows). $35$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS)

val presents a showcase of all the award nominees, the awards presentation and a party. Oct 26 at 9:30 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, ­youngcentre.ca.

The Whole Shebang Cabaret – STONED The Global Cabaret Festival presents ñ music, dance, theatre, poetry and more cen-

tred around Danny Grossman’s work Higher with Andrea Nann, Kate Alton and others. Oct 26-27, Sat 7 pm, Sun 4:30 pm. $22-$25, stu $15 (festival passes $63-$120). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

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HNIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD LIVE by Trevor Martin, Dale Boyer and Christopher Bond (Nictophobia Films). George A Romero’s 1968 zombie film is performed in black and white in this interactive stage adaptation. Runs to Oct 27, see website for schedule. $23-$80. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, nightofthelivingdeadlive.com.

NO ROMANCE by Nancy Harris (Toronto Irish Players). Various characters confront their innermost secrets in this play set in three separate acts.. Runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18, Oct 24 $10 or pwyc.

Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.com.

THE NORMAN CONQUESTS by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). In a trio of interconnected plays (Table Manners, Living Together, Round And Round The Garden) all presented in different parts of a country house, Ayckbourn looks at an intended extramarital fling and the effects it has on an extended family. A talented cast gets most of the scripts’ laughs, though the touch of sadness underlying the relationships could be better evoked and at times the rhythms could be smoother. (See review of Round And Round The Garden, page 72). Runs to Nov 16, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. Table Manners NNNN / Living Together NNN / Round And Round The Garden NNNN (JK) PETER GRIMES by Benjamin Britten (Canadian Opera Company). The outsider in an English fishing village can’t avoid the tragedy that dogs him in Britten’s best-known opera, given a first-class production by the COC and directed by Neil Armfield, who rightly makes the village folk as strong and vibrant a ‘character’ as the title figure. Johannes Debus conducts a thrilling reading of the score, which captures the unpredictability and splendour of the sea itself. Runs to Oct 26, see website for schedule. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNNN (JK) PRAYERS FOR THE NEW WORLD by Laura Cockburn-Tulk (Glasswater Theatre). The scripts of Cockburn-Tulk’s Confessions and Gone Home are woven together using music and movement. Runs to Nov 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Oct 26 and Nov 2 at 2 pm. $25, stu $18. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. glasswater.ca.

PUPPET UP: UNCENSORED (Mirvish). Puppets from the Jim Henson Company are used in this mashup of puppetry and improvised comedy for grown-ups. Runs to Nov 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 4 pm (no show Oct 31). $19-$79.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. mirvish.com.

HTHE ROCKY HORROR SHOW by Richard O’Brien (Lower Ossington Theatre). A newly engaged couple find a freaky castle in the classic rock musical. Runs to Nov 10, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $39-$49. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

A STORY BEFORE TIME by Drew Hayden Taylor (Kaha:wi Dance Theatre/the Banff Centre).

Original music, dance and theatre bring this Onkwehonwe (First Nation) creation story to life. Runs to Oct 24, see website for schedule. $15-$24. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

VENUS IN FUR by David Ives (Canadian Stage).

Ives’s two-hander is part theatre industry send-up, part sexy/funny look at the origins of sadomasochism and part critique of gender power shifts through the ages. It’s also a bravura acting showcase, which is where this production is a bit of a letdown. As Vanda, a streetwise, struggling New Yawk actor who tries to convince a playwright (a fine Rick Miller) she’s right for a role, Carly Street is skilful, disciplined and watchable, but she never disappears into any character. Runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (GS) YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME by Tommy Taylor (Praxis Theatre). Taylor performs his show about his arrest and detention during the G20 summit in 2010. Actors and community members will play the role of other detainees (see review, page 72).

Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-2 pm. $25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 1-800-204-0855, praxistheatre.com. NNNN (JK) YUKONSTYLE by Sarah Berthiaume (Canadian Stage/Faculty of Fine Arts, York University). Three unlikely roommates endure the winter while the Robert Pickton murder trial plays out on TV (see review, page 73).

Runs to Oct 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (JK) 3

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RYAN WARD Actor, Evil Dead – The Musical

Put down that chainsaw, open up your Necronomicon and get ready to visit the bloodiest, toe-tappingest cabin in the woods. Evil Dead – The Musical, the Toronto-born show based on the Sam Raimi cult horror films, is back with more gore. This new production, complete with original cast member Ryan Ward in the lead role of Ash, holes up at the Randolph Theatre until right before the holidays. And don’t forget there are two shows on Halloween. See Opening, page 72.

It’s been almost exactly 10 years since you guys first unleashed Evil Dead – The Musical here in Toronto. Did you think it would have such, um, legs?

No idea. I was just a nerdy fan of the movies and thought doing it as a musical would be fun. I was shocked when I got the part, even more shocked when the script was actually good, and was totally floored the night after the eastern seaboard blackout (when we officially opened in the theatre) that there was a lineup around the block for the show.

Why revisit it now, and what’s new?

Because it’s the 10th anniversary of Toronto’s favourite home-grown musical, baby. What’s new? Plenty… which I am legally forbidden to reveal. So you’ll just have to buy a ticket and find out, won’t you?

Message to people going to one of two Halloween shows?

There will be blood.

Message to people sitting in the Splatter Zone?

Also: blood.

Best remedy for removing fake blood?

Nothing! Because it’s not fake, it’s real demon blood imported from Hell.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha! You’ll need an exorcist to get that out, you bastards!

You were also in the off-Broadway production. How do New York audiences differ from Toronto audiences?

Toronto audiences are the wildest. Of everywhere I’ve been with the show (New York, Montreal and just recently Philadelphia), Toronto audiences are always the loudest, the most raucous and they seem to know all the lines. It’s the only place where the words “This is my boomstick!” come close to inciting a riot. This is Toronto’s show.

Weirdest post-show encounter?

There are so many it’s difficult to choose, actually. There was a guy who seemed to think I really was Ash. I think he may have drunk too much fake blood, as he’d been sitting in the Splatter Zone.

There’s a photo of you and Bruce Campbell from the original Evil Dead films (and many others). What’d he think of the show?

Bruce is a fan and big supporter. He’s been very helpful to me doing the show, and to the creators when they were first trying to secure the rights.

And how important was it to get film director Sam Raimi’s blessing?

Very. We couldn’t have done it if he hadn’t given the green light. I think he saw something of himself in those bright-eyed young kids just trying to put on a show, as we all were so many years ago.

Thoughts on this year’s Evil Dead sequel?

You can’t remake something that was perfect the first time. Please, Hollywood, no more.

Why haven’t we seen you much on local stages?

I’ve been making movies, like the feature I directed and also star in called Son Of The Sunshine, which was nominated for a Genie Award (now the Canadian Screen Awards). Available at your local video store, iTunes – even your local library for all you bookworms out there in movieland.

What’s next?

I’m shooting a new feature film called Pure Science Fiction. It’s about a young architect who begins to see his own past and future lives.

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Cream of Comedy ­nominees Monday (October 28), Second City

Want to spot up-and-coming comedy talent? Check out the finalists for the Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award. Now in its 18th year, the award – named after the late, great sketch comic – has a terrific record of introducing us to future stars, among them previous noms or winners Gavin Crawford, Debra DiGiovanni, Jessica Holmes and Nathan Fielder. Past nominee (and former NOW cover boy) Pat Thornton hosts the gala Cream Of Comedy event on Monday (October 28) at the Second City. See Comedy Listings, this page.

How would you describe your comedy?

Brandon Ash Mohammed: Voluptuous ebony diva floating down the Nile while snatching weaves and sassing the gods.

Nigel Grinstead: Third draft.

Franco Nguyen: It’s about 6 feet tall, with black hair and glasses.

Diana Bailey: Weird, biting, sexual.

The Weaker Vessels (Jeff Clark): It’s like when you go to the dentist and your mouth feels numb and you don’t know how it’s actually happening but you’re kind of liking it.

serve? That question is fraught with a sense of Westerner entitlement and we are uncomfortable subscribing to such stereotypes. But probably because we’re funnier than everyone, ever.

Why do you deserve to win?

Bailey: To make up for a lot of losses.

The Weaker Vessels (Lance Byrd): De-

Comedy hero?

Mohammed: Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes, Margaret Cho.

Why don’t you deserve to win?

Bailey: Careful. Once you open that can of self-doubt, it doesn’t close. But honestly, the real reason is that everyone else is better.

The Weaker Vessels (Nadine Djoury): Because there are starving kids in ­Africa.

comedy listings How to find a listing

Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue.

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

Thursday, October 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Frank Spadone w/ Dred Lee and host ñ Jason Harper. To Oct 27, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm,

Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL Comedy Bar presents Bad Dog’s 63 South (7 pm, free), plus shows by Instant Theatre Company, K$M, Dog Shepherd, Illusionoid, Face Off, Thirsty! (midnight, free) and others. Mainstage 7, 8 & 10 pm, Cabaret Space 8:30, 10:30 pm & midnight. $10, festival pass $40-$60. 945 Bloor W. ­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL presents the D&D Mashup Show. 9 pm. $10, festival pass $40$60. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. ­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

HIGH CLASS NUTTERS Skin of My Nuts Comedy presents a weekly show w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. $5. Jerome’s Cucina + Bar, 596 College. facebook.com/­skinofmynuts.

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.

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

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EDITION LoveTO Comedy presents Diana Bailey, Natalie Norman, Amanda Day, Sara Hennessey, Julia Hladkowicz and host Borana Makri. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Mike Harrison. To Oct 26, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Friday, October 25 Absolute Comedy See Thu 24.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL Comedy Bar pre-

sents Bad Dog’s 63 South (7 pm, free), plus shows by Jet & Holly, Last Action Movie, Plan B, Aeropuerto, the Polecats and others. Mainstage 7, 8 & 10 pm, Cabaret Space 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $10, festival pass $40-$60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL presents the Enchantment Under the Sea, followed by a free dance party. 11 pm. $10, festival pass $40$60. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. ­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

CARLA COLLINS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the actor/comic in a live show. 7 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com.

COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents a stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. camsplace.net.

HIRUT HOOT Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents JJ Liberman, Phil Luzi, Becky Bays, Blair Streeter, Arthur Simeon, host Marcel St Pierre and others. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-5517560.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents weekly comedy featuring rotating shows. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416-637-7427.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 24.

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Diana Bailey

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If you weren’t in comedy, what would you be doing?

Nguyen: As a child I was forced to be a classically trained basketball player. So

probably the starting point guard for the Raptors.

Mohammed: Ghostwriting for Lil’ Kim or being the captain of a twerk team.

Grinstead: Worrying less about what my horoscopes say.

Bailey: Probably going back to teaching preschool.

The Weaker Vessels (Colin Sharpe): Taking cellphone pictures of “lazy” city, TTC and Canada Post workers, because we would have nothing better to do with our empty, hobbyless lives.

The Weaker Vessels (Allan Cooke): Boy band. Nadine would have to get the

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tine, Peter Aterman, host Dean Young and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

Nguyen: Dave Chappelle, Hannibal ­Buress, Gene Abella.

Bailey: Maria Bamford. When I found out I would be opening for her, I had to excuse myself from class to cry.

The Weaker Vessels (Allan Cooke): Chris Morris, Fry and Laurie, Dylan Moran and once a rather loud man at a party who really got things going.

Grinstead: More of a vigilante.

Absolute Comedy See Thu 24.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL Comedy Bar pre-

sents shows by Mean People, Bearded Men, Big Bang, Girl Talk, Moist Theatre, License to Krill and others. Mainstage 8 & 10 pm, Cabaret 8:30 & 10:30 pm. $10, festival pass $40$60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

THE BRADY PROJECT The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents comedy by Heidi Mole dedicated to the classic TV series. To Nov 2, Saturdays 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET presents headliner Joel West, Alexa Hazel, Adam Albanese, Sam Burns, Shannon Abel, Ben Beauchemin, Tyler Stein, MC Caitlin Lengelier and others. 8 pm.

Pwyc. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. ­redrocketcoffee.com.

DAVID CORNEL Soup ‘n Such Cafe presents a comedy show benefit for Trails Youth Initiative. Show 8 pm, doors/dinner from 6 pm. $25$30 (includes buffet). 2285 Dundas W. 416916-4131, soupnsuch.net.

MARILLA WEX – LOST AND FOUND The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the British-born ­actor/stand-up in a solo show. 9 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com.

THEATRESPORTS FALL TOURNAMENT Bad Dog Theatre presents the improv competition. To Dec 14, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. b ­ addogtheatre.com.

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Special Features presents a musical improvised episode of the TV show. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan Comedy, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. ­facebook. com/events/413060275462181.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 24.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 24.

Sunday, October 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Second City presents the

Stand-Up 101 Grad Show featuring new comics w/ host Ted Bisaillion. Evening show, see Thu 24. 3 pm. $5. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHICKA BOOM Free Times Café presents a female comedy/variety show w/ Jenna Rocca, Zabrina Chevannes, Lianne Mauladin, Briana Templeton, hosts Laura Bailey & Jess Beaulieu and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 320 College.

416-967-1078.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents Brian Armstrong, Akshay Sharma, Michelle Chris-

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NUBIAN DISCIPLES ALL BLACK COMEDY ­REVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents ñ the monthly show w/ headliner Jason Rouse,

Ernie Vicente, Keith Pedro, Matt Henry, Kris Bonaparte, host Kenny Robinson and others.

8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, ­yukyuks.com.

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. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

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Monday, October 28 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents ­Debra DiGiovanni, Matt O’Brien, Andrew ñ Johnston, Rob Bebenek, Patrick Hakeem, Mark Heath, Ali Hassan, Tim Golden, MC Alex Nussbaum and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE COMEDY CABARET Dave Code & Matthew Sarookanian present Nick Beaton, Justin Laite, Joel Buxton, Amanda Day, Mike Mcgregor, headliner Matt O’Brien and host Code. 8 pm.

Free. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com.

CREAM OF COMEDY The Tim Sims Encouragement Fund presents Tim Sims Award nominees Brandon Ash Mohammed, Franco Nguyen, Diana Bailey, Nigel Grinstead, the Weaker Vessels and host Pat Thornton. (See Q&A, this page.) 8 pm. $15. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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Tuesday, October 29 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.

MODEL CITIZENS OF COMEDY Measure presents Tim Golden, Nick Beaton, Steve Patrick Adams, Graham Kay, headliner Laurie Elliot and hosts Claire Stollery & Darryl Orr. 9 pm. $5. 296 Brunswick. 416-477-5645.

PAINT C’est What presents the indie band’s weekly gig with comedy sets by Andrew Ivimey, Bryan Hatt, Tommy Power, Todd Van Allen and others. To Oct 29, Tuesdays 9 pm. $6. 67 Front E. cestwhat.ca.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Sonic Espresso Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad

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What do your parents think of your career choice?

Nguyen: My mom doesn’t know about it. When I head to open mics, I leave the house dressed as Batman just to throw her off.

Grinstead: They ask, “What does pro bono mean?”

The Weaker Vessels (Nadine Djoury): They don’t care as long as I’m married.

But I’m not married, so they’re pretty pissed.

If you win, how will you spend the $5,000 prize money?

Bailey: I will move out of my parents’ house. I will move out of my parents’ house. I will move out of my parents’ house.

The Weaker Vessels (Nadine Djoury): We would use it to go to festivals, make high-quality videos and record the Toronto comedy community version of Do They Know It’s Christmas.

If you were a porn star, what would your name be?

Mohammed: Hilary Muff.

Bailey: Abigail Breastlin.

The Weaker Vessels (Jeff Clark): Party of Five.

The Weaker Vessels (Nadine Djoury): ­Already am. PornHub me.

What do you think of this year’s Cream Of Comedy host, Pat Thornton?

Mohammed: He is amazing, hilarious and my future baby daddy. GLENN SUMI Kardar. 10:30 pm. Free. 60 Cecil. facebook. com/skinofmynuts.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 24.

THE WILD CARD Top Shelf Comedy presents 4 pros, 4 lottery spots and one first-timer w/ hosts Chris Allin & Brian Ward. 8:30 pm. Free.

Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

Wednesday, October 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ K Trevor Wilson, Alex Butts, ñ ­Michael Samuels, JP Hodgkinson, Mo Saleh,

Paddy Forde, Rose Giles and host Ali Hassan.

8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts Joel Buxton, DJ Demers, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Mikey Kolberg, Steve Patrick Adams and Jordan Foisy. 9:30pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­chuckleco.com.

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COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD Union Events presents an evening of ñ interactive comedy with the improv duo.

Doors 8 pm. $34.50-$59.50. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. ticketfly.com.

HCORKTOWN COMEDY HALLOWEEN SHOW

Corktown Productions presents Jill Knight, Quentin Burgess, Stuart Coakley, Nile Seguin, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free.

Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, ­corktowncomedy.com.

D&D LIVE! CAMPAIGN 3: EPIC LEVELS Bad Dog Theatre presents an improvised show based on the Dungeons & Dragons cult phenomenon. To Nov 13, Wednesdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

I SEEN YOU ON TV The National Theatre of the World presents improv by comics seen on Canadian TV shows and ads. 8 pm. $18. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W, Underground. ­thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Brendan Pinto and headliner Tim McDonald. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 ­Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 24.

THE WINTER BEACH SHOW 4 Comedy Bar presents sketch comedy featuring Peter n’ Chris, Mark Little, 2-Man No Show and Devon Hyland. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Jason Rouse. To Nov 2, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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This Halloween Toronto gets a big treat. Birthed from the fertile imagination of sculpture/installation artist Allyson Mitchell, Kill Joy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House riffs on the scary environments set up by carnivals and right-wing Christians.

Instead of the usual fears of gore and death, Mitchell plays with our queasiness around female sexuality and queer otherness.

Her maximalist, “craftivist” practice incorporating plush toys, textile crafts, soft sculptures and painted decor perfectly fits the DIY haunted house/children’s playhouse aesthetic.

A costumed cast animated the installation for the October 16 opening performance, which is open for the rest of the run for tours and occasional performances.

Mitchell walks the line between cleverly sending up some of the wackier sides of lesbian life and outsiders’ perceptions of them and at the same time celebrating women’s righteous

anger and the real need for radical activism.

The sexy fun includes a spitting bearded clam, a carpet muncher in a shag-walled grotto, a hooded figure who beckons with giant glowing fingers, a polyamory tableau and a crawlspace tunnel of love. Presiding over the Kastle’s warren of rooms is Big Trubs, a 10-foot-tall furry goddess sister of Mitchell’s Ladies Sasquatch.

The “Deep Lez” tour makes stops in the feminist past: faceless paranormal consciousness-raisers use hand mirrors to stare into their hairy vaginas, while riot ghouls and women’s studies professors confrontationally stomp around a dance floor.

A giant labrys opens onto a room of hammer-wielding ball-busters. Portraits of “straw feminists” caricature media figures who have twisted the movement’s goals.

It all ends with an opportunity for a women’s-studies-style discursive processing session, and, of course, a visit to Kill Joy’s gift shop.

It’s a wonderful, original, sweetspirited place where humourless Kill Joys get to laugh at themselves and others get an intoxicating taste of the lesbian feminist experience.

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($30, srs $26.50, stu $21.50, Wed 6-8:30 pm $15; package deal w/ Ai Weiwei tickets, extended hours Oct 19, 26, Nov 2, 8, 9 & 15 till 8:30 pm). $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BRADLEY HOUSE MUSEUM Cherished & Chosen: Women’s Clothing From The Museums Of Mississauga Collection, to Jan 12, 2014. $5, stu/srs $3. 1620 Orr (Mississauga).

905-615-4860.

CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Cindy Blazevic, Zoe Kreye and Gwenessa Lam, to Oct 30. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31, 2014. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE DXUncrated: Playing Favourites, Part II: Geometry (Textures), to Oct 31. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

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HNAISA SPACE Sounds Scary Halloween Treasure Hunt, 10 am-1 pm Oct 26. 601 Christie, studio 252. 416-652-5115.

NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Painting: Katie Pretti, Oct 25-Nov 23, reception 8-10 pm Oct 25. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

ST JAMES CATHEDRAL Sacred Stitches Exhibit, Oct 25-Nov 1. 65 Church. 416-3647865.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX David Cronenberg: Evolution, party 9 pm ($160), VIP reception 7:30 pm ($500) Oct 30, Nov 1-Jan 19, 2014.

350 King W. 416-599-8433.

WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Taking Place Group Show, performances/discussions/ music 7 pm Oct 26. 594B Dundas W. 647856-2445.

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GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sculp-

ture: An Te Liu, to Nov 11. The Art Of The Everyday: Faience In 17th And 18th Century France, to Jan 5, 2014. Animal Stories, to Jan 12, 2014. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm halfprice, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8080.

MOCCA BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, to Oct 27. TIFF Future Projections: David Cronenberg: Transformations, to Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416-3950067.

THE POWER PLANT More Than Two; Micah Lexier, to Jan 5, 2014. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Textiles: BIG, to Oct 30. 2014. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:308:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000.

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BALWANT BHANEJA Launching his book

Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage To Pakistan. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. facebook.com/events/208454085994659.

KAREN CONNELLY/NICHOLAS PENGELLEY/ROB ROLFE/HUBERT AQUIN Quattro Books fall

launch. 7:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. quattrobooks.ca.

MALCOLM GLADWELL Talking about his new book, David And Goliath. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

BERNADETTE HOOD-CAESAR Launching The Courage To Go Forward. 6 pm. Free. Consulate General of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, 185 Sheppard W. Reserve 416-432-7348.

5KEN SETTERINGTON Talking about his book Branded By The Pink Triangle. 7 pm. Free.

Leaside Library, 165 McRae. 416-396-3835.

Friday, October 25 ANDREW J SIMPSON Launching The Big Picture.

7 pm. Free. Academy of the Impossible, 231 Wallace. versustheneanderthals.com.

Saturday, October 26 DAVID SLOMA Launching his book Greyland:

D.U.M.B.s (Deep Underground Military Bases).

8 pm. $15. Lakeshore Village Artists’ Co-op Gallery, 35 Bradham Path. facebook.com/ events/168422410028886.

Sunday, October 27 DRAFT 9.1 Readings by Becky Blake, Hardish

Dhaliwal, Emily Pohl-Weary and others. 3 pm.

Pwyc. Black Swan Tavern, 154 Danforth. draftreadings.wordpress.com.

CHERYL RAINFIELD Launching her novel Stained. Noon. Free. Indigo Yorkdale, Dufferin and Hwy 401. chapters.indigo.ca.

ROBERT ROTENBERG Reading from Stranglehold. 2 pm. Pwyc (Stephen Lewis Fdn benefit).

Loretto College, 70 St Mary. 416-485-0753.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word com-

petition featuring the 2012 Up from the Roots Slam Team. 8 pm. $5. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. 416-312-3865.

Monday, October 28 CHANGING TIMES AND CHANGING LIVES IN THE CARIBBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA: TEN ORAL HISTORIES Anthology launch. 3-6 pm. Free.

York U, Founders Senior Common Rm, 4700 Keele. cerlac2@yorku.ca.

SARAH ELTON Launching Consumed: Food For A Finite Planet. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ralphthornton.org.

JAMIE MCGUIRE/ABBI GLINES/KA TUCKER/ COLLEEN HOOVER Talk, Q&A and book signing.

7 pm. Free. Indigo Yorkdale, Dufferin and Hwy 401. chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, October 29 CHRIS HADFIELD Talking about An Astronaut’s

Guide To Life On Earth. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

DAVID B GOLDSTEIN Launching his book Laws Of Rest. 7:30 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

TOMSON HIGHWAY Talking with Canadian Rep Theatre artistic director Ken Gass. 6:15 pm.

Free (tickets required). Rogers Communications Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre, 80 Gould. eventbrite.ca/event/8495621633.

CC HUMPHREYS Talking about his book Shakespeare’s Rebel. 12:30 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610.

CLARA PARKES 7 pm. Free. A Good Read, 341 Roncesvalles. 416-538-2665.

Wednesday, October 30 ANDREW J BORKOWSKI Reading from Coperni-

cus Avenue. 6:15 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. 416-396-3975.

CC HUMPHREYS/CHRISTIAN CAMERON Discussing their books on swordsmanship. 6:30 pm.

Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge.

416-395-5639, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE Lunch with the author of Intolerable: A Memoir Of Extremes. Noon. $25 w/ bag lunch. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register reviewcanada.ca/events. 3 books@nowtoronto.com

RYER S O N IM AG E C E N T RE GHOST DANCE: ACTIVISM. RESISTANCE. ART. September 18 – December 15, 2013 Tours with Guest Curator Steve Loft: November 13 & December 11, 6 PM

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ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Ai Weiwei, to Oct 27 ($25, sr $21.50, stu $16.50; Wed ñ after 6 pm $12.50). David Bowie Is, to Nov 27

stallation: Allyson Mitchell, to Oct 30.

303 Lansdowne. 416-736-5169, theagyuisoutthere.org.

ART TORONTO 100+ galleries, talks, preview 4:30-10 pm (benefit for AGO, $200-$300) Oct 24, Oct 25-28. $20, adv $18; stu/srs $14.

Metro Convention Ctr N, 255 Front West.

BAU-XI Painting: Bratsa Bonifacho, to Oct 31. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600.

BEACH STUDIO TOUR Fall 2013 tour showcases 22 artists in a variety of media, Oct 25-27. Gerrard and Kingswood area. beachstudiotour.ca.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Drawing/Sculpture: Micah Lexier, to Nov 23. 129 Tecumseth.

416-365-3003.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Dennis Burton, to Oct 30. 21 Morrow. 416532-5566.

HTHE DOWNSTAGE Monster And Fantasy Creative Arts Festival, Oct 26-27. 798 Danforth. 416-997-7018, facebook.com/MAFCAF. HELEPHANT SHOES Witch group show, to Oct 31. 1342 Bloor W. 647-726-3499.

HASHTAG GALLERY Painting: Rosalind Breen, to Oct 27, reception 7-9 pm Oct 25.

801 Dundas W. 416-861-1866.

MADE Installation: Christina Ott, Oct 24Nov 23, reception 7-9 pm Oct 24. 867 Dundas W. 416-607-6384.

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Top 5: Cronenberg Moments Try to pick the five most powerful moments in David Cronenberg’s filmography and you’ll end up with a short list of at least a dozen. Here are the five that feel most immediate, unsettling and strangely compelling. The most Cronenbergian, in other words.

1. Scanners (1981) Darryl Revok, rock star Louis Del Grande’s head explodes, and Siskel & Ebert talk about a tiny Canadian thriller on their TV show.

2. Videodrome (1983) “Long live the new flesh.”

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Watching the restored edition of David Cronenberg’s debut feature, Shivers, at TIFF last month, I was impressed by how much of the filmmaker’s core strengths were already in place.

The observational camera, thoughtful pacing and complex metaphors are all there, and there’s no sense of his condescending to the material, even though he’s making a horror picture about sex parasites that infect the residents of a posh Montreal condo. In 1974, during the tax-shelter era, a movie like Shivers didn’t have to be well paced or particularly intelligent; you just needed some

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blood and skin. But Cronenberg chose to make a proper film.

He’s been doing that ever since, and now it’s time to give him his due. Not quite 40 years after Shivers first crept onto the screen, his career will be celebrated at the Lightbox through the new year in David Cronenberg: Evolution.

TIFF hosts an exhibition devoted to exploring his films and his vision in its ground-floor gallery from November 1, supporting the show with a full retrospective of Cronenberg’s films. There’s also an online experience, Body/Mind/ Change, which allows users to wander around in a world where the disturbing sci-fi postulations of Cronenberg’s earlier work are real.

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3. The Fly (1986) “Oh. That’s disgusting.”

A quartet of creepy Cronenbergs: Videodrome (clockwise, from top left), The Fly, Crash, Dead Ringers.

revisitation. On my umpteenth rewatch of Dead Ringers last week, I noticed the way Geneviève Bujold’s neurotic actor, Claire Niveau, insists on being directed by the men in her life, forever asking leading questions so she can better compose the performance that is her off-camera existence.

I also caught the little details in Jeremy Irons’s sublime dual performances that reveal that both Mantle brothers have weak eyesight, but alpha twin Elliot is too vain to wear glasses.

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Veronica’s first glimpse of her transforming ex-lover Seth (Jeff Goldblum) – lumbering, pustulent and vomiting on junk food so he can more easily digest it – is incredibly disturbing and unbearably human.

4. Dead Ringers (1988) “And tomorrow we kick.”

In a long tracking shot, the deteriorating Mantle twins – both played

by Jeremy Irons – shuffle through the rooms of their filthy clinic.

Finally, fatally synchronized.

5. Crash (1996) Inspecting a car, fondling a scar James Ballard (James Spader) and his enigmatic sometime-lover Gabrielle (Rosanna Arquette) turn a visit to a car dealership into a private makeout session – well, almost priNORMAN WILNER vate anyway.

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to allow him to make complex, challenging projects. It’s also the film that best defines his style as a filmmaker: it’s beautiful, grotesque, elegant and ultimately mournful, sometimes all at once.

That it should also be built around Irons’s magnificent performance is almost a grace note. Of course, I could say the same thing about The Fly – and I will, when I introduce that screening on November 23.

His earlier films aren’t to be dismissed, mind you.

Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone and The Fly are alive with subtext and metaphor, as characters’ internal conflicts inevitably work themselves out physically. And his themes become much easier to understand once he starts working with actors who can handle subtext – The Brood’s Art Hindle bearing witness to his mutating lover plays very differently than Geena Davis doing something similar in The Fly seven years later.

Cronenberg handles science fiction like magic realism, introducing impossible concepts – the warring telepaths of Scanners, the glitchy telepods of The Fly, virtually everything in eXistenZ – and then playing them almost nonchalantly. I’ve occasionally wondered whether his lack of affect with regard to the fantastical is a specifically Canadian mindset. Reading Margaret Atwood’s dystopic Oryx & Crake felt a lot like watching eXistenZ for the first time. (That movie does not hold up, by the way; the stilted performances and drab visuals may be intentional, but they don’t make for an engaging repeat experience.)

His movies have the same calm, vaguely mordant demeanour as the man himself. If you don’t pay attention, you might miss the dry wit lurking inside Naked Lunch and Crash. But those films also play as tragedy, and that’s turned out to be Cronenberg’s métier.

From The Dead Zone’s Johnny Smith and The Fly’s Seth Brundle to Crash’s Catherine Ballard and Eastern Promises’ Nikolai Luzhin, things do not end well for the protagonists. Even the triumphs – Cameron Vale’s victory over Darryl

Revok in Scanners, Tom Stall’s coming home in A History Of Violence – are hard won and bloody.

I’m less certain about his most recent work. After the roundhouse punch of A History Of Violence, which circles back to his earlier films by revealing the ugly, aggressive beast hiding under the mask of Viggo Mortensen’s responsible family man, Cronenberg entered a strangely conventional period with Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, following them with Cosmopolis, an intriguing but problematic take on Don DeLillo’s novel that boils its text down to declarations rather than questions.

I guess it all depends on your definition of “conventional.” So much of Eastern Promises is ordinary to the point of being mundane, and then there’s that graphic knife battle – horrific in its intensity, and fairly confrontational in its use of the naked Mortensen.

Keira Knightley’s full-bore performance as Sabrina Spielrein posits that female sexuality is the monster inside A Dangerous Method, infecting Michael Fassbender’s Jung even as he works to understand and cage it. And Cosmopolis… well, I’m not sure what’s hiding behind Eric Packer’s nihilistic avarice, but Robert Pattinson’s wavering grin hints at untold perversity.

The retrospective also drags out Cronenberg’s lesser-known work.

Fast Company, the 1979 drag-racing picture he made because it let him indulge his fondness for cars, plays November 3; his experimental short feature Stereo screens November 16 with a quartet of shorts, and his second short feature, Crimes Of The Future, plays December 12.

If you’re in an auteurist frame of mind, focus on the outwardly normal films: the operatic flourishes of The Dead Zone and The Fly, the suffocating focus of Dead Ringers and Spider, the claustrophobic inner journeys of Videodrome, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ and Cosmopolis.

But really, try to see everything.

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A SEA CHANGE Margin Call director changes course in thrilling second film By NORMAN WILNER ALL IS LOST written and directed by J.C.

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Chandor, with Robert Redford. An eOne release. 106 minutes. Opens Friday (October 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

J.C. Chandor doesn’t want to burden you with the baggage of backstory. Or character, or dialogue. His new movie, All Is Lost, exists entirely in the moment, as a sailor played by Robert Redford struggles to keep his damaged boat afloat in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

“I don’t want to call it a procedural,” he says over the phone from New York, “but you are essentially just there – it’s like an experiential action film. By giving the audience space, because there is that space within action, meaning is created. And that meaning starts to be a very cool moment-by-moment thing.”

All Is Lost is structured as a series of challenges that Redford’s character must overcome in order to survive. The lack of dialogue means we have to watch our hero work out each new solution in his head, even in the midst of a howling storm – and it’s fascinating.

But it also means that describing it can lead to some confusion.

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Late-period Cronenberg muse Viggo Mortensen is right on target in A History Of Violence.

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REVIEW ALL IS LOST (J.C. Chandor) Rating: NNNN All Is Lost may not break new cinematic ground for the survival thriller the way Gravity does, but it doesn’t have to; it’s just one hell of a good picture.

J.C. Chandor’s follow-up to his economic horror movie Margin Call is as different a project as you can imagine. It’s a nautical story with just one character and virtually no dialogue. And it’s just as gripping, if not more so.

Robert Redford plays the never-named sailor whose boat is badly damaged in a collision with a shipping container somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Over eight days, he attempts to steer the fractured vessel through nightmarish weather to rescue in commercial shipping lanes.

Firmly earthbound and featuring a hero who strives in silence, All Is Lost plays like the anti-Gravity, right down to its rejection of backstory. Redford’s character simply exists in the moment, solving problems with dwindling supplies and doing whatever he can to prolong his life – and Chandor’s intimate, immediate direction puts us right there with him for every second of it. NW

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“I giggle when people call it a silent film, because it’s not silent at all,” he says. “We rely on sound effects more than almost any other film this year probably.”

That said, Chandor admits the comparison is valid in at least one way.

“I directed the film very much like a silent film,” he says. “Emotionally, I would tell [Redford] what was about to happen: ‘This is gonna happen, which is gonna make fear turn into perseverance,’ or whatever. I would sort of call out those cues to him, and he really was reacting to them. And of course he has that ability to communicate complex emotional transitions non-verbally, which was certainly a helpful tool in this case. But when he was having to do that, I would be yelling out to him: ‘Here comes the noise, and that means you gotta run!’

And that would allow him to react.”

Chandor says that after the dialogueheavy Margin Call – which saw him nominated for a screenwriting Oscar – he wanted to do something radically different for his second feature.

“The script is 31 pages long, and it’s very precise,” he says. “It lays out the film almost exactly: not shot by shot, but sort of action by action. It wasn’t the kind of thing where you could just throw spaghetti at the wall and hope something sticks. The film only works because it’s really taking you on this very kind of up-and-down, in-and-out journey.”

But as carefully as he constructed it, Chandor says he always knew the film would live or die on Redford’s performance.

“He’s you,” Chandor says. “He’s the audience. So as long as he felt like he was always reacting and overcoming, and all those things felt fresh, then it worked.”

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Heavy climb THE SUMMIT (Nick Ryan). 102 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

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and directed by Randy Moore, with Roy Abramsohn, Elena Schuber, Katelynn Rodriguez and Jack Dalton. A filmswelike release. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (October 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

There’s a scene early in Escape From Tomorrow where put-upon American Anydad Jim (Roy Abramsohn) and his giddy son Elliot (Jack Dalton) rumble down the tracks of the Tomorrowland Speedway at a Disney resort. Elliot jerks the steering wheel pointlessly. “This is fun, huh?” he beams. “Uh-huh,” groans dad.

Tomorrowland Speedway is Disney in a nutshell: a phony go-kart ride whose futuristic Formula One cars are mounted on a snaking track, every inch of the experience predetermined – not so much fun as a simulation of fun.

Escape From Tomorrow, a film shot guerrilla-style at a Disney resort by a digital-camera-wielding crew posing as theme park visitors, feels like a radical corrective to the suffocating standardization of the Disney experience: not only what it means to shuffle flat-footed through the theme park, but Disney’s whole purchase on America’s popular imagination. Escape From Tomorrow wrests narrative control away from the gargantuan mass media corporation, reimaging Disney’s dreamscape as a surrealist nightmare.

“Disney transcends being just another theme park,” says director Randy Moore over the phone.

“For some people it’s almost like a church. There’s this Fantasmic show, where Mickey appears at the top of a mountain in a hail of fireworks, and music swells. People watch it like they’re having a religious experience.

Grown adults are just gasping.”

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Shot on location at Disney theme parks by a crew posing as tourists, Escape From Tomorrow turns Disney’s corporate fairy tale mythology inside out. Jim (Roy Abramsohn) is a normal, middle-class American father who finds out during a family vacation to Disney World that he’s been laid off.

He hides the news from his family as he shuffles through various Disney attractions and idly stalks two giddy teenage Parisian girls.

The out-of-the-box dream vacation soon curdles into a nightmare: Jim starts hallucinating and hearing rumours of a seedy Disney underbelly, where the princesses serve as courtesans to wealthy tourists and the iconic Jumbo Disney Turkey Legs are are actually made from harvested emu meat.

Even when its various surrealist touches don’t quite hang together, Moore’s film works as an impressive – and vital – bit of guerrilla filmJS making.

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Moore has a complex relationship with Disney. His parents divorced when he was very young, and his father decamped from Chicago to Orlando. Moore visited him every summer, and made many formative trips to Disney World.

“We were there all the time,” he says. “To me it seemed like my dad lived in Disney World. When I think of him, I think of him and me in Disney World. The two are pretty much inseparable in my mind.”

Moore doesn’t talk with his father much any more. But it wasn’t until he returned to Disney World with his own children and his wife, who had no such childhood memories and ended up having a miserable time, that he began to see “the cracks in the veneer” – cracks that Escape From Tomorrow pries open into full-on fissures to illuminate the divide between what an entertainment multinational like Disney promises and what it delivers.

“When I went back there with my own family, it was a very surreal experience,” he says. “Then I started to hear stories: that there’s a secret base under the geodesic sphere in Epcot, that the turkey legs are really emu legs.

I wanted to incorporate all of that. I couldn’t stop writing once I started.”

As for Disney’s response to the shooting of a film on its property, violating any number of copyrights in the process, Moore hasn’t heard a peep. That’s a relief after the film’s Sundance premiere, when industry types wondered how the film could ever see the light of day.

“I think it’s hard to suppress anything these days,” Moore says.

“If Disney tried to bury the film somewhere, I don’t know if it’d stay buried. I’d show it out of the back of a van, holding out a donation jar.”

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In August 2008, 25 mountaineers ascended K2, the world’s secondhighest peak. Eleven never made it back from what turned out to be the deadliest expedition up the Himalayan mountain.

Nick Ryan’s doc The Summit uses interviews, archival footage and sporadically thrilling recreations, parsing gaps in testimony and conflicting accounts, to try to clear up some of the confusion about what happened. Much of the uncertainty is the result of the fact that the witnesses were dangling from a mountain in frigid conditions with very little oxygen and under constant threat of avalanches.

Unfortunately, the film does very little to clear the air, proceeding in tangents to chronicle the expedition while veering back and forth to fill in specifics about the people and the

MUSIC DOC

Real Griot GRIOT (Volker Goetze). 82 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

Rating: NNN A griot is a West African musician or oral historian, a pillar of the community whose role has traditionally involved blessing marriages and births, negotiating peace during feuds and bolstering the courage of soldiers going to war.

Senegal’s Ablaye Cissoko has expanded the griot’s profile far beyond his local borders, reaching global audiences with his transcendent singing and kora playing, accompanied by German trumpet player and filmmaker Volker Goetze.

This profile of Cissoko also serves as a

Pemba Gyalje Sherpa is on the ropes.

mountain itself. The Summit picked up an editing prize at Sundance, which you can only surmise was awarded because the film does a fine job of leaving you as confused as the people on K2.

Ryan and writer Mark Monroe do their best to accommodate multiple versions of the story, the history and general info about mountain climbing while making the narrative both gripping and tragic.

But with a load like that, it’s not surprising that The Summit comes crashing down. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI very modest introduction to West African culture and a lament for Senegal’s current economic situation.

Where countless music documentaries divide their focus to the detriment of the music in question, Goetze wisely allows Cissoko’s songs to occupy centre stage, accented by animation sequences that render performance segments or Senegalese landscapes into blurred crystals or lulling smears.

A handful of interview subjects, including the great American jazz pianist Randy Weston, weigh in on the legacy of African musical and spiritual traditions. Their commentary only scratches the surface, but Griot’s deeper messages are locked in the music itself – which you can hear live tonight (Thursday, October 24), when Cissoko and Goetze perform at the RoyJOSÉ TEODORO al.

Griot Ablaye Cissoko will string you along.

also opening The Counselor (D: Ridley Scott, 117 min) Ridley Scott’s latest concerns a lawyer who gets involved in drug trafficking.

The combo of Scott, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country For Old Men) and a cast that includes Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz and Oscar-winning couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem sounds like a no-brainer.

Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa (D: Jeff Tremaine, 90 min) Speaking of no brains... Jackass creator Johnny Knoxville plays an 86-year-old who accompanies his grandson (Jackson Nicoll) across the country. Expect lots of gross-out gags.

Both open Friday (October 25). Screened after press time – see reviews October 25 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass) stars

Tom Hanks in a fantastic performance as the eponymous skipper of the commercial vessel Maersk Alabama, which in 2009 was boarded by four Somali pirates who eventually took Phillips hostage in a lifeboat and led Navy warships on a slow-speed chase through the Indian Ocean. The actor invests a one-dimensional character with his own humanity and geniality; he gives a totally transparent performance that allows us to see when he’s blatantly lying to his captors while appearing outwardly helpful. And in the last five minutes of Captain Phillips, Hanks opens up to the camera in a way that feels almost uncomfortably intimate. The

rest of the film is far more problematic, with director Greengrass applying the tense, jangled docudrama aesthetic of United 93 to another true-life hostage crisis. Some subtitles. 134 min. NNN (NW) 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

CARRIE (Kimberly Peirce) is what happens when a director has no vision and a star gets no direction. So faithful a remake of Brian de Palma’s overheated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel that it simply reuses huge chunks of Lawrence D. Cohen’s script, this Carrie trades de Palma’s hazy eroticism and explosive horror for a bland sleepwalk through the same material. As the neurotic wallflower who becomes a telekinetic fury, Chloë Grace Moretz does exactly what she did in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, forever looking outside the frame in the hope that someone will tell her what to do. And once Carrie turns on her persecutors, it’s all blank stares and wizard hands – a physical performance rather than an

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BAGGAGE CLAIM (David E. Talbert) stars Paula Patton as a flight attendant scouring executive class for a husband. The role doesn’t afford her the opportunity to do more than smile and frown in a movie with typical rom-com baggage (contrivances, broad comedy). Writer/director Talbert relents to such clichés but isn’t confined by them. 96 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Claire Denis) is writer/ director Denis’s bloodiest, ugliest work since 2001’s Trouble Every Day, but her films have always bristled with a tension that suggests awful, awful things bubbling just under the surface. Your basic French neo-noir, Bastards is a revenge story where virtually every character seeks payback on someone for something. The ostensible hero is Marco (Vincent Lindon), a mariner who abandons his commission to come home to Paris when his niece (Lola Créton) is hospitalized. Marco embarks on an affair with the wife (Chiara Mastroianni) of the wealthy industrialist (Michel Subor) deemed responsible for Marco’s familial misery… but Marco’s not the only one with an agenda. After some clumsy chronological shuffling in the opening movement, Bastards glides sharklike through a series of increasingly awful events, foreshadowing ever greater horrors in moments of curious beauty. Never before has an ear of corn seemed quite so obscene. Subtitled. 100 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Woody Allen) stars Cate Blanchett as the emotionally unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who moves to San Francisco 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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It’s a typical underdog sports story set in the B-noy world, with a plot that trots through overly familiar steps as if it’s doing the macarena. The dancing, when it finally arrives, is epic, but with the constant cutaways, 3D shadowing and other obstructions, you won’t enjoy it. 109 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn) is a merely okay sequel to the brilliant original. The animation, colour work and 3D are all highly polished, and the film has about six laugh-outloud moments but not many small or subtle ones. The story sends young inventor Flint Lockwood and his pals back to his island home to shut down his food-making machine, now churning out food animals like shrimpanzees, tacodiles and watermelephants. The characters and story are flat, the pro-social messages are laid on with a trowel, and there’s nothing resembling the surreal subversion of the first movie’s equation of food and shit. 94 min.

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COTTAGE COUNTRY (Peter Wellington) is in the spirit of films like Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave or Peter Berg’s Very Bad Things, a black comedy with a high body count set against the picturesque beauty of Haliburton. The premise is promising, but this Canadian effort squanders it like the spoilsport who spends his time up north watching old VHS tapes. Tyler Labine stars as Todd, a pushover who plans to propose to his OCD girlfriend, Cammie (Malin Akerman), at his family’s cottage. When Todd’s obnoxious, over-the-top brother (Daniel Petronijevic) and his trashy girlfriend (an effective Lucy Punch) interrupt the romantic getaway, people get killed, bodies are dismembered and the seemingly quaint couple do a very bad job of covering things up. Lazy writing

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DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D (April Mullen) is a one-night screening of a horror comedy film about college kids who unleash a curse that causes people to kill themselves and turn into zombie demons. 88 min.

Oct 30, 7:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA & MASSIMO VIGNELLI (Kathy Brew, Roberto Guerra) re-

caps the career of design team Lella and Massimo Vignelli, whose work includes everything from graphics (including logos for American Airlines and Bloomingdale’s) to furniture, books, jewellery and architecture. Their motto is “If you can’t find it, design it.” They believe obsolescence is unethical and insist that the function of design is to improve the environment – all inspiring ideas. But none of it matters without the relationship between the two.

They’ve been partners – in marriage and business – for over 50 years. Massimo is the visionary and Lella the realist. But how did they meet? When did they recognize their affinity? Has there ever been a difficult moment between them? Certainly, the gobsmacked curators, designers and collaborators interviewed by the filmmakers aren’t going near that information. Maybe a trek back to Italy to talk to some people who knew the team in their early days could have filled in the blanks. 80 min. NNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

DON JON (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) stars writer/director Gordon-Levitt as Jon, a pornaddicted stud who can attract hot women but thinks porn is more exciting than the real thing – including Barbara (Scarlett Johansson, who’s terrific), his latest gorgeous but demanding conquest. Julianne Moore turns up as a grieving woman who could turn him around. The script is sometimes super-savvy – especially when it makes the connections between X-rated material and everyday advertising, and when it touches on family influences, like Jon’s crude dad (Tony Danza). But it’s just a little too on the nose, and it contains a ton of clips from skin flicks, which raises the question: should an anti-porn film be reproducing so much of this toxic material? 90 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ELYSIUM (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually identical, plot-wise, to the director’s wildly overrated 2009 debut, and fans of District 9’s spectacular carnage and garbled political posturing will doubtless find this one even more meaningful and relevant and stuff.

The Phantom Menace still has its defenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Nicole Holofcener) is an alt romantic dramedy about a masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who can’t reveal to her glamorous new client (Catherine Keener) that she’s dating the woman’s ex (James Gandolfini). It has all the qualities that make writer/director

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Holofcener so good: a great cast, complicated relationships and smart writing.

Louis-Dreyfus is surprisingly nuanced as the needy Eva, and fuhgeddabout The Sopranos – Gandolfini has a lovable charm as the schleppy ex. The always watchable Toni Collette is on board as Eva’s best friend. As in Please Give, Holofcener displays a clear eye for relationships between parents and teens, never using the kids as mere devices. And though she has taken a bit of the edge off the proceedings, her dialogue is as sly as ever. 93 min. NNNN (SGC) Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ESCAPE PLAN (Mikael Håfström) is nothing more than an excuse for fans to bask at the sight of 80s action titans Stallone and Schwarzenegger together onscreen. Nobody bothers building a convincing movie around this monumental occasion, where Stallone stars as Ray Breslin, a professional escape artist who teams up with Schwarzenegger’s Rottmayer to pull a Shawshank in a futuristic prison. Stallone and Schwarzenegger relish the hammy dialogue and opportunities to get up to their old tricks. Stallone gets to go all Rocky on one villain.

Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger shows that, while cracking a huge grin, he can still rip a turret gun off its mounts and hose down an army. And in a glorious moment of unified defiance, they both look directly at the camera and raise a middle finger at anyone who assumed that time has run out on these two aging heavies. 116 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale THE FAMILY (Luc Besson) is a forgettable

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.

Some subtitles. 110 min. NN (AD) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Alan Zweig) is director Zweig’s most moving and profound documentary yet. It features interviews with people who have discovered a philosophy that gives their life purpose, meaning and ultimately happiness.

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her connection, not even telling her children about it. Kelly’s amazing enough, but what makes the doc essential is its intimate portrait of the band, seen from the unique perspective of a woman who grew up with them. 86 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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Tom Hanks is spectacular as real-life Captain Phillips. years. An ex-con finds solace in balancing rocks in the Humber River. A former mountain climber survives a debilitating illness with the support of his true friends.

Some vignettes are more watchable than others, and with 15 stories to cram into 83 minutes, there’s no room for lots of detail.

But the tales are beautifully edited and effectively shot. The green and red traffic lights on Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge provide a terrific visual metaphor to open and close the film. Zweig also includes two of his own reflections, including one about his friendship with the late actor and writer Tracy Wright that is poignant, truthful and heartfelt. 83 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon) stages the

ego-clashing between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and second banana Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl). Beyond its inability to even understand WikiLeaks, flattening its importance into strained political hysterics (including a subplot involving a Libyan ­informer hypothetically threatened by WikiLeaks’ revelations), the film is totally incompetent: sloppily framed and garishly lit, like an episode of Wizards Of Waverly Place. It has the quality of a bad TV movie rushed to capitalize on a zeitgeist it exhibits no trace of understanding. But with some luck, the scene of Cumberbatch as Assange shimmying in the neon light of a Reykjavik nightclub will find a more fruitful second life as an endlessly re-Tumbled animated GIF. 128 min. N (JS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñGood Ol’ Freda

(Ryan White) tracks Freda Kelly, who 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, never flaunting

(Alfonso Cuarón) plays as both an immediate, nail-biting thriller and a stunning technological accomplishment, following two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded in orbit and cut off from mission control. It’s not science fiction – it’s set firmly in the present day, and the stakes are as intimate as they come. Cuarón’s screenplay, cowritten with his son Jonás, is a triumph of psychological realism and narrative efficiency; there isn’t a wasted shot or an extraneous line of dialogue. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. One word of warning, though: even if you don’t have vertigo, the IMAX 3D version may well leave you with it. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queens­way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Jeff

Tremaine) 90 min. See Also Opening, page 82.

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ñLe Joli Mai

(Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme) is a new 50th-anniversary restoration of Marker and Lhomme’s splendid 1963 documentary shot in Paris over the month of May 1962 – the first time since 1939 that France was not in a state of war. Marker and Lhomme, who went on to a brilliant career as the cinematographer of Army Of Shadows, The Mother And The Whore and dozens more, divide their film into two parts. A Prayer From The Eiffel Tower focuses on the city’s emotional state through personal interviews; The Return Of Fantômas considers the larger social and political moods of the

moment. You can see the first glimmers of the expressionistic essay format Marker would make his own in the decades to come. Le Joli Mai is far more structured than Sans Soleil or A Grin Without A Cat or Remembrance Of Things To Come. But it’s adventurous and inventive on its own terms, and essential viewing for the auteur’s admirers. Subtitled. 145 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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ñHannah Arendt

(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, Regent Theatre

ñIn a World...

(Lake Bell) is one of the rare comedies that gets more complex as it goes along. Set in the world of Los Angeles voice-over artists, Bell’s directorial debut embraces eccentricity and complication, and finds room for real social commentary. This is a movie of odd, unexpected delights. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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, but this still makes little sense and feels perfunctory and laughable rather than exciting. 105 min. N (Andrew Parker) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande

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performances by Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo and especially Forest Whitaker as a White House butler. But don’t expect anything like the director’s disturbing Precious or The Paperboy. Daniels is decidedly domesticated here, aiming to teach and please. 132 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

Machete Kills (Robert Rodriguez) brings back Danny Trejo’s nigh-indestructible Mexican avenger for another gritty, self-aware shoot-’em-up. This time our hero is recruited by the president of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed as Carlos Estevez) to find Mendez (Demian Bichir), a Mexican terrorist holding D.C. hostage with a missile. But things get complicated when Machete discovers Mendez is the semi-unwilling pawn of an arms dealer (Mel Gibson). The pairing of the taciturn Machete and the antic Mendez is fun for a while – it’s the Mexican Midnight Run! – but Rodriguez just lets it go on and on, through shootouts and standoffs and reversals and explosions and a protracted climax that tries to nudge the series into a completely different genre.

By the time Machete Kills ends, the promise of a third film feels less like a joke than a threat. Some subtitles. 107 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose is a

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ñMuscle Shoals

(Greg Camalier) has plenty of soul. The musically inclined Alabama backwater town has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits.

They’re among the many in this doc who speak affectionately about their time with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry, and his “peckerwood” instrumentalists. The interviews are a lot of fun, but not all the memories are peachy. With collaboration came friction also captured here. Nor does the film ignore the personal traumas Hall endured before he built his legacy. Director Greg “Freddy” Camalier weaves it all together as if he were making music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. Soul aficionados will savour every beat. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñMuseum Hours

(Jem Cohen) is a conversation piece that explores the simpatico connection between a curious Canadian (Mary Margaret O’Hara) and a slightly older guard (Bobby Sommer) at Vienna’s wonderful Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. O’Hara and Sommer connect so naturally and easily that they barely seem to be acting at all. They look at art. We look at them. Art is where you see it. 107 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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U.S. events into limp historical drama, focusing on a handful of Dallas citizens whose lives are touched by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Writer/director Landesman intertwines several plot strands: the torment of photographer Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), the confusion of Lee Harvey Oswald’s brother Robert (James Badge Dale), and the traumatized staff of Parkland Hospital, where both Kennedy and Oswald were brought after their shootings. Parkland folds them all together and renders them dull and empty, with every line of dialogue serving an expository function rather than an emotional one. Everyone is blandly effective, with the exception of Giamatti’s deeply felt Zapruder and Jacki Weaver’s painfully campy Mama Oswald. But this is never anything more than a glorified cable movie. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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ney of kirtan singer Krishna Das from his Long Island roots to his spiritual awakening in India, to fame, concert tours and Grammy nominations. The film essentially tells one story three times, that of a tormented seeker who undergoes an existential crisis, usually exacerbated by excessive drug use, only to recover his sense of purpose via faith and song. Among those who declare their deep love for Das are science journalist Daniel Goleman and legendary record producer Rick Rubin. But Findel’s serviceable profile is far from profound, asking few questions about what in Das led to so much internal strife and desperate longing for gurus. One Track Heart would have benefited from fewer generalizations about enlightenment and more engagement with the material world. 74 min. NN (Jose Teodoro) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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Jackman as a Pennsylvania contractor who reacts to his daughter’s abduction by grabbing the most likely suspect (Paul Dano), hidings him away and trying to beat the truth out of him. The first two-thirds of Villeneuve’s Hollywood debut play out like an intimate metaphor for America’s response to 9/11, with Jackman’s contractor standing in for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and Jake Gyllenhaal’s twitchy but by-the-book detective representing Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. Jackman’s entirely convincing as a righteous hothead, but Villeneuve’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 needed to be two and a half hours long. 153 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity

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ñ12 Years a Slave

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The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik) feigns originality, but deep down this rom-com is as conventional as they come and all the sillier for pretending not to be. Ryan Kwanten’s Leo falls in love with Colette (Sara Canning) on her wedding day and immediately begins to harass and stalk her, often in front of the groom. If Leo’s shameless misbehaviour is meant to push buttons, the film’s way of making everything he does cute and endearing is typical.

Kwanten and Canning are likeable as characters who get precious few moments to be sincere. They don’t dare stand out among all the rom-com clichés, from the cuddly cat to the cute kids who are wise beyond their years. 97 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Romeo & Juliet (Carlo Carlei) reduces one of the best-loved plays in the English language to a dull, dreary slog. Flatly directed

by Fluke’s Carlei on location in Italy, and recited rather than interpreted by an assortment of young actors (Douglas Booth and True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld struggle in the title roles), this may be the worst screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic ever made. I don’t blame Julian Fellowes for pasting the text of Shakespeare’s play into Final Draft and calling it a screenplay; the guy has to do something between seasons of Downton Abbey. Stealing the climactic twist from Baz Luhrmann’s stunning 1996 movie does seem like dirty pool, though.

122 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

Runner Runner (Brad Furman) is prac-

tically a photocopy of the recent Paranoia.

Oh, it’s set in Costa Rica rather than Manhattan and the backdrop is online gambling rather than cellphones. But everything else is awfully familiar: the unresolved issues with our hero’s dad (John Heard), the ambiguously motivated love interest (Gemma Arterton) and the surly federal agent (Anthony Mackie, who at least has a little fun with it) who’s after bigger fish than our hero. The whole thing’s structured so that the resourceful working-class hero (Justin Timberlake) can bring down the scumbag (Ben Affleck) in the expensive suits. It’s just a matter of how and when, and neither of those answers is as clever as the movie thinks it is. Some subtitles. 91 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñRush

(Ron Howard) chronicles the ongoing rivalry in the mid-70s between two wildly different Formula One racers: the cold, cerebral Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) and the wildly magnetic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth). Director Howard and superb screenwriter Peter Morgan contrast their stories effectively, getting even non-fans intrigued by the politics of commercial endorsements and the psychology of competition. The film culminates in a series of races that will have your heart pounding in time with Hans Zimmer’s propulsive score, and the camerawork makes you feel like you’re on the track. But it’s Morgan’s muscular script and the convincing, livedin performances by the two actors (boy, does that Hemsworth dude have charisma) that drive home the ideas about competition and the best way to live one’s life.

123 min. NNNN (GS) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, ­Varsity

The Summit (Nick Ryan) 102 min. See ­review, page 82. NN (RS) Opens Oct 25 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Thanks for Sharing (Stuart Blumberg)

is a conventional narrative about sex addiction that follows three New Yorkers (Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad) who all attend the same support meetings. But the problem with making a pleasant mainstream dramedy about sex addiction is that when all is said and done, you end up with a pleasant mainstream dramedy. So while it’s admirable that Robbins, Gad and particularly Ruffalo are trying to capture the desperation and misery of men locked in an eternal struggle with their own needs, Thanks For Sharing isn’t really interested in that stuff. It wants everything to be a lot simpler. 112 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñA Touch of Sin

(Jia Zhang-ke) is a sprawling drama about compromise and corruption in contemporary China.

Characters’ personal moral failings are mirrored in mine explosions and train disasters, all overseen – or ignored – by a distracted government and a contemptuous free market. A drifter (Wang Baoqiang) viciously murders three teenage thugs who try to shake him down on a remote highway; a village crank (Jiang Wu) rails against a corrupt tycoon with an obsession that erupts into spectacular violence. (“Spectacular violence” should be splashed across A Touch Of Sin’s poster; Jia doesn’t back away from the carnage of shotgun pellets or knife wounds.) But there’s more on Jia’s mind than crime drama; he’s making the Chinese version of Gomorrah, using the actions of individuals to lay bare a culture awash in venality and greed. And it’s thrilling. Subtitled. 133 min. NNNNN (NW)

(Steve McQueen) finds McQueen rebounding from the uneven Shame with this stunning adaptation of the memoir by Solomon Northup, a free American sold into slavery in 1841 and forced to spend more than a decade concealing his identity on a series of Southern plantations before he could contact his friends in the North. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a revelation as a man forced to conceal his intelligence and compassion – his very essence – in order to survive, and Benedict Cumberbatch and McQueen regular Michael Fassbender offer diametrically opposed performances as Nor­ thup’s masters over the years. Alfre Wood­ ard, Sarah Paulson and Michael Kenneth Williams make effective appearances, and producer Brad Pitt turns up as a good-natured Canadian. McQueen directs with a total lack of sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic nature of the narrative. One of the best films of the year. 133 min. NNNNN (NW) Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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 pop­ ulation 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.

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ñWadjda

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by Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker. A 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) enters a Koran study contest so she can buy a bicycle with the winnings. The premise is sly enough – females aren’t allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia – and Mohammed is appealing as the young heroine, but Al-Mansour’s depiction of everyday Saudi life is what counts here.

The sexes are divided, women’s bodies and heads must be covered in public, and schools dole out harsh discipline to keep female students in line. A subplot featuring Wadjda’s unmarried mother (Reem Abdullah, who’s excellent) and father – who has another family – echoes the theme of male privilege. But the film still manages to radiate joy. There was so much resistance in parts of Riyadh where the film is set that Al-Mansour had to hide in a van during shooting. Top marks for persistence. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Varsity

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(Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky) feels very much like a continuation of Manufactured Landscapes, collaborators Baichwal and Burtynsky’s previous work, once again exploring the effects of human industry on the natural world – in this case, our oceans and rivers. Baichwal’s contemplative approach meshes nicely with Burtynsky’s fondness for finding geometric patterns in gargantuan constructions like dams and aquifers, and producer-cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier captures some splendid high-definition images. (Watermark may set a record for the most helicopter shots in a Canadian production.) Baichwal and Burtynsky cushion their potentially grim ecological message with philo­ sophical digressions and moments of unexpected whimsy, which seems like an awfully good idea right now. Some ­subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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THE BANSHEE CHAPTER Thu 9:30 BIG BAD WOLVES (18A) Fri 9:30 CHEAP THRILLS Fri 7:00 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 7:10, 7:50, 10:00, 10:50 Sat 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 5:00, 7:05, 7:50, 10:00, 10:50 Sun 12:40, 1:40 Mon-Tue 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:45, 10:00, 10:50 Wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 6:45, 7:45, 10:15, 10:50 DON JON (18A) Thu 2:50, 5:05, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:30, 6:05, 8:25, 11:00 Sun 2:10 Mon-Tue 2:50, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 Wed 1:55, 4:10, 7:30, 10:00 ELYSIUM (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 10:45 Fri 12:45, 3:20, 6:25, 9:10 Sat 3:20, 6:25, 9:10 Sun 1:50 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 9:30 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:40, 3:45, 5:20, 7:25, 8:00, 10:10, 10:45 Fri 1:00, 2:25, 3:35, 5:15, 6:35, 8:00, 9:20, 10:40 Sat 12:45, 2:30, 3:35, 5:15, 6:35, 8:00, 9:20, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 1:20 Mon-Wed 1:50, 2:25, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:40 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 7:40 Sun 1:10 Mon-Wed 2:10, 7:10 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:55 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Sat 12:25, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 12:50 MonWed 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 4:15, 4:45, 5:15, 6:35, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:20, 8:40, 9:50, 11:00 Sat 1:40, 2:15, 4:00, 4:30, 4:50, 6:15, 6:50, 7:15, 8:40, 9:15, 9:50, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 1:30, 2:00 Mon-Tue 1:40, 2:40, 3:55, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:40, 9:10, 9:50, 11:00 Wed 1:30, 2:40, 3:55, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 6:45, 8:40, 9:10, 9:50, 11:00 GRAVITY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 10:30 Fri 1:10, 3:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 12:20, 2:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 8:10, 10:30 MACHETE KILLS (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sat 4:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE NOSE Sat 12:55 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 Fri 12:50, 4:10, 7:35, 10:50 Sat 12:35, 3:55, 7:35, 10:50 Sun 1:00 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:50, 10:10 RUSH (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Sat 12:25, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 12:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 WILLOW CREEK Thu 7:00

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

BASTARDS (14A) Thu 2:45, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 12:00, 2:15, 4:45 Sat 12:00, 4:45 Sun 4:45, 7:35 Mon 6:15 Tue 12:00, 2:45, 4:45, 9:15 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00 THE SUMMIT (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:15, 3:00, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 7:00, 9:30 A TOUCH OF SIN (14A) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:20, 3:10, 6:25 Sun 2:45, 6:15 Mon 6:25, 9:15 WATERMARK (G) Thu 12:15, 2:30, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:15, 2:30, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 2:30, 5:30, 9:50 Mon 6:45, 9:20

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 ALL IS LOST (PG) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Tue 1:35, 4:00, 6:35, 9:05 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 3:30, 7:10, 9:30 ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW (14A) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:40, 6:55, 9:10 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:15, 6:40, 8:55 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 2:50, 6:10, 9:40 RUSH (14A) Thu, Tue 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:25, 6:15, 9:10 Mon 1:35, 4:25, 10:05 Wed 1:35, 4:25

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:45, 2:00, 4:35, 5:00, 7:25, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:25, 1:15, 3:30, 4:15, 6:35, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:50, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:20 WADJDA (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 WATERMARK (G) Thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Mon 2:00, 4:20, 9:45 Tue 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 2:35, 4:55, 10:10

VIP SCREENINGS

ALL IS LOST (PG) Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:40, 3:55, 6:20, 8:45 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 RUSH (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:45, 5:00, 8:15

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

BAGGAGE CLAIM (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 4:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:35 BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3D (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:20 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 7:35, 10:20 Fri 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Tue 7:40, 10:20 Wed 10:20 BOSS Thu-Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:55 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:25, 9:30 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:35, 9:30 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 SatSun 12:15, 3:20, 6:25, 9:30 CARRIE (14A) Thu-Fri 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 2:30, 4:15, 4:55, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 CHRISTINE Fri 4:00 Sat 7:30 Sun 5:15 Mon 2:00 Tue-Wed 9:45 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:50, 4:15 Fri-Sun 2:30 Mon-Wed 1:55 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:30 DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE Thu 5:00 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 THE EVIL DEAD Mon 7:00 Tue-Wed 4:15 THE FACE READER (14A) 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat FUNNY GIRL Thu 2:00 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu-Sun 1:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:05 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:30, 2:25, 3:05, 3:45, 4:40, 5:20, 6:00, 6:55, 7:35, 8:15, 9:10, 9:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:25, 3:05, 3:45, 4:40, 5:20, 6:00, 6:55, 7:35, 8:15, 9:10, 9:50, 10:30 Wed 1:30, 2:25, 3:00, 3:45, 4:40, 5:15, 6:00, 6:55, 8:15, 9:10, 9:50, 10:30 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:25 MARNIE (PG) Sat 4:00 RIFFTRAX LIVE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Thu 8:00 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:30 Fri 1:35, 7:00 Sat-Sun 1:25, 7:00 Mon-Wed 7:00 ROMEO & JULIET Thu 6:00 RUN LOLA RUN (PG) Fri 2:00, 7:30 Sat 9:55 Sun 3:15 Mon 9:45 Tue-Wed 2:00 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:05, 7:55, 10:15 Fri 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:15 MonWed 3:10, 5:25, 8:00, 10:20 THANKS FOR SHARING (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 TOUGH AS IRON Fri, Mon-Tue 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 SatSun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Wed 1:45, 4:15, 7:55, 10:25 WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY (14A) Fri 9:30 SatSun 12:30 Mon 4:15 Tue-Wed 6:45 WWE HELL IN A CELL - 2013 Sun 8:00

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:40 Fri 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 DON JON (18A) Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:30 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

PARKLAND (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:30 PRISONERS (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 8:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:40, 8:20 Mon 4:00 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:20 ROMEO & JULIET Thu 4:15, 7:00 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 4:40, 6:45 RUSH (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00 SHE’S THE ONE Fri 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05 WADJDA (PG) Fri 3:55, 6:20, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:55, 6:20, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:45 WATERMARK (G) Thu 4:50, 7:05 Fri 4:20, 6:30, 8:50 SatSun 2:00, 4:20, 6:30, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:20

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE FAMILY (14A) Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (14A) Fri-Sat 6:50 Sun 4:25 Wed 7:00 THE WAY, WAY BACK (PG) Thu 7:00

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu, Sun 7:00 Sat 9:10

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 10:15 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 CARRIE (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:50 Fri 1:15 Sat-Sun 12:30 Mon-Tue 1:40 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:30, 9:40 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 Sat-Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 DON JON (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 10:30 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 9:20 Fri 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:55, 6:30, 9:20 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Fri 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 10:00 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 1:15, 3:35, 7:40, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE NOSE Sat 12:55 RIFFTRAX LIVE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Thu 8:00 RUSH (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:40

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:20 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 GRAVITY (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:00

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BLACKFISH (PG) Thu 2:15 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 8:00 Fri-Wed 5:05 THE FAMILY (14A) Thu 6:00 15 REASONS TO LIVE (14A) Thu 8:50 Fri-Wed 2:00 GOOD OL’ FREDA (G) Thu 5:30 Fri-Wed 5:20 HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 3:25 IN A WORLD... (14A) Thu 12:30 INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:20 ITALY: LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT Thu 12:40 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 2:10 Fri-Wed 7:00 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Fri-Wed 9:20 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 3:50 Fri-Wed 12:05 PARKLAND (PG) Fri-Wed 1:45 ROMEO & JULIET Fri-Wed 12:00 A TOUCH OF SIN (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 WATERMARK (G) Thu 4:25 Fri-Wed 3:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 CARRIE (14A) Thu 2:00, 2:40, 4:40, 5:15, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:25 Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 3:40 Fri 2:40 Sat 11:00 Sun 12:00 Mon-Wed 2:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Fri 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 DON JON (18A) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 6:35 Fri 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40 Mon 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:15, 9:15 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:50 Fri 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 10:20 Mon 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 Tue-Wed 1:50, 6:40 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 THE EVIL DEAD Mon 7:00 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:10, 2:55, 4:35, 5:20, 7:00, 7:45, 9:25, 10:10 Fri 12:55, 2:35, 3:20, 5:00, 5:45, 7:35, 8:10, 9:55, 10:35 Sat 12:15, 1:00, 2:35, 3:20, 5:00, 5:50, 7:35, 8:10, 9:55, 10:35 Sun 12:05, 12:45, 2:25, 3:10, 4:50, 5:35, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:20, 3:05, 4:45, 5:30, 7:10, 7:55, 9:40, 10:20 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 9:20 Fri 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 4:55, 5:55, 7:20, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 1:10, 2:35, 3:30, 4:55, 5:55, 7:20, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 12:55, 2:20, 3:20, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:10, 9:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:55, 2:15, 3:15, 4:40, 5:40, 7:05, 8:05, 9:30, 10:30 MACHETE KILLS (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 10:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE NOSE Sat 12:55 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 Fri 3:10, 6:45, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 3:25, 6:45, 10:10 Sun 12:05, 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Tue 3:00, 6:30, 9:55 Wed 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 9:55 RIFFTRAX LIVE: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Thu 8:00 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:10 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:30, 10:30 RUSH (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Sat 1:30, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:25, 10:20 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 10:30 Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 1:40, 4:30, 10:35 TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE (PG) Sat 11:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Fri 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 11:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7:30, 10:15 Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 WWE HELL IN A CELL - 2013 Sun 8:00

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BAGGAGE CLAIM (PG) Thu 1:05, 6:45 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 CARRIE (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:10 3:55 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 GRAVITY (PG) 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:45 MACHETE KILLS (14A) Thu 3:45, 9:25 THE RIGHT KIND OF WRONG (14A) Thu 1:15, 6:55 RUNNER RUNNER (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:40

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-1327

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:50 CARRIE (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun

88

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1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 12:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) 6:40, 9:00 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat, 4:30 Tue only 6:40 8:45 Escape Plan (14A) 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:20 Sun 1:40 mat, 4:20 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 9:30 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 SatSun 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:40 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 8:00, 10:10 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:50 mat, 5:00 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 9:25 Rush (14A) Thu 6:50

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Carrie (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 2:20, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat 1:30 Sun 1:20 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sat 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun-Wed 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Don Jon (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:00 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 MonWed 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 6:30, 9:30 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sat 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Thu 8:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 6:35 Romeo & Juliet Thu 3:40 Rush (14A) Thu 4:20 Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:35 Fri 12:50 Sat 11:20, 12:50 Sun-Wed 1:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 The Counselor (14A) Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 SunTue 2:00, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Fri 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 SunWed 1:55, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:20 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:40, 9:05 Fri 1:15, 3:20, 6:45, 10:05 Sat 3:20, 6:45, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:50, 6:30, 9:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 1:45, 6:55 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:50, 7:10 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 12:45 3:55 7:05 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Carrie (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10 Sat 12:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Escape Plan (14A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 FriWed 12:45, 7:15 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 1:50, 2:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20 Sat 11:25, 12:25, 1:50, 2:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:50, 2:40, 4:20, 5:10, 6:50, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:45 Prisoners (14A) Thu 1:30, 6:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 3:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 3:45, 10:15 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:10, 7:30 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 5:50, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:30 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:30 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:30 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Carrie (14A) Thu 5:25, 7:50 Fri, Tue 5:20, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 2:50, 5:20, 8:05, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 5:20 Fri, Tue 4:15 Sat 12:05 Sun 1:00 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 7:40 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 11:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:25, 7:45 The Counselor (14A) Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:50 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:55 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:00 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu, Mon 5:05, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:00 Fri, Tue 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 11:45, 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:05, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:20 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 8:30 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:15 Fri, Tue 6:40, 9:55 Sat 3:00, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 3:20, 6:40, 9:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 6:00 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:15 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 3:00, 6:45, 9:50 Carrie (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 2:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 2:10 Fri-Wed 1:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 3:45, 7:00, 9:30 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Mon, Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 2:40, 4:30, 5:05, 7:05, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Mon, Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Sat 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 10:25 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:30 FriSun, Tue 1:10, 2:25, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:25, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 Mon, Wed 1:50, 2:50, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:05, 9:30, 10:35 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:30, 9:50 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu 2:40, 6:10, 9:45 RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Thu 8:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 1:55, 7:10 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 She’s the One Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00 WWE Hell in a Cell - 2013 Sun 8:00

Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

Boss Thu 4:30, 8:00 Fri 3:10, 6:30, 9:55 Sat 11:55, 3:10, 6:30, 9:55 Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:30 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:55, 10:10 Fri 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Carrie (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:55, 7:35, 9:35, 10:10 Fri 3:00, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:30, 10:05 Mon 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Tue 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 2:15 Fri 1:50 Sat 11:30 Sun 1:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sun 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 Mon 4:05, 6:35, 9:00 Tue 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Tue 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Dead Before Dawn 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 Don Jon (18A) Thu 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Tue 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Enough Said (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:40 Fri 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 11:40, 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 The Evil Dead Mon 7:00 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:10, 5:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 1:40, 2:50, 4:10, 5:15, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20 Sat 11:25, 12:30, 1:45, 2:50, 4:10, 5:15, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 12:50, 2:30, 3:10, 4:55, 5:35, 7:25, 8:00, 9:55, 10:25 Mon 4:05, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Tue 4:55, 5:35, 7:20, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Wed 4:00, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:10 Fri 1:10,

2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:25, 8:20, 9:50, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:25, 8:20, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 1:50, 2:55, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:15, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:20, 5:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:10 Tue 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:15, 10:15 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:20 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:35, 4:05, 7:05 Mon 3:30, 9:30 Tue 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 1:15, 6:35 Romeo & Juliet Thu 3:40, 9:05 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Rush (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 10:30 Mon 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Tue 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 3:55, 10:05 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00 12 Years a Slave (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Sun 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Tue 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 WWE Hell in a Cell - 2013 Sun 8:00

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Boss 6:30, 9:30 Thu, Sat-Sun 3:30 mat Naiyaandi 7:30 Thu 4:30, 10:30 Raja Rani 7:15, 10:30 Thu, Sat-Sun 4:00 mat Vanakkam Chennai Fri-Wed 10:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 7:30 Carrie (14A) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:00, 7:50, 9:35, 10:15 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:00, 7:50, 9:35, 10:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) 1:40, 4:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:40 5:15 7:40 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 12:00 mat The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Dead Before Dawn 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 Don Jon (18A) 2:35, 4:55, 7:55, 10:10 The Evil Dead Mon 7:00 The Fifth Estate (14A) 1:35, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Gravity 3D (PG) 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 12:00 mat Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 11:10 mat Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:40 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 2:00, 4:20, 10:15 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 2:45, 4:25, 5:20, 7:05, 8:00, 9:30, 10:35 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 2:45, 4:25, 5:20, 7:05, 8:00, 9:30, 10:35 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:15, 10:05 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:50 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:45, 9:50 Fri, MonTue 2:15, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 Sun 2:15, 4:50 Wed 2:15, 4:50, 9:55 Rush (14A) Thu-Tue 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu 10:15 WWE Hell in a Cell - 2013 Sun 8:00

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Carrie (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sat 4:30, 6:50, 9:30 Sun-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:35 Sun-Tue 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Dead Before Dawn 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 11:55, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:35 Sun 11:55, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:00 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Fri 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:30, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Wed 1:20, 3:50, 9:45 Ishq Garaari Fri 3:35, 6:35, 9:45 Sat 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:45 Sun 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri-Sat 1:00, 1:25, 3:15, 3:40, 5:30, 5:55, 7:45, 8:15, 10:15, 10:45 SunWed 1:00, 1:25, 3:15, 3:40, 5:30, 5:55, 7:45, 8:15, 10:00, 10:30 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:05, 6:25, 9:45 Fri 3:05, 6:25, 10:05 Sat 11:45, 3:05, 6:25, 10:05 Sun 11:45, 3:05, 6:25, 9:50 MonWed 3:05, 6:25, 9:50 RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Thu 8:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:35, 6:55 R.S.V.P - Ronde Saare Viah Picho Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50

Runner Runner (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Rush (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:10 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:50 SunTue 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Shahid Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sat 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:35, 9:35, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:45, 6:30, 7:35, 9:25, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 5:15, 7:10, 8:20, 9:55 The Family (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:50 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Planes (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50 Fri 4:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 8:30 Fri 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:25, 9:50 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 12 Years a Slave (14A) Fri 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

About Time (14A) Mon 7:00 Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 4:00, 9:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 6:30, 9:10 Sun 6:30 Mon, Wed 9:10 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:35, 4:05, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:35, 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:35, 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 4:45, 5:25, 7:15, 7:55, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:20, 4:10, 5:55, 8:15, 9:35, 10:35 Sun 2:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 5:10, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 3:55 Fri, Sun 1:25, 3:45 Sat 11:05, 1:25, 3:45 Mon-Wed 3:45 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Sat 11:55, 2:15, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 The Counselor (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 1:20, 3:25, 3:55, 6:25, 7:00, 9:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:00, 6:25, 7:00, 9:15, 9:50 Dead Before Dawn 3D (14A) Wed 7:30 Don Jon (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Fri 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40 Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 9:55 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 The Evil Dead Mon 7:00 The Family (14A) Thu 3:50, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 4:20, 6:30, 9:40 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Sun 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Tue 4:20, 7:20, 9:30 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:45, 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05 Fri 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 Sat, Wed 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 9:45 Mon 3:55, 9:45 Tue 7:15, 9:45 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 9:20 Fri 1:05, 2:35, 3:25, 5:15, 6:00, 7:35, 8:20, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 1:05, 2:35, 3:25, 5:15, 6:00, 7:35, 8:20, 10:00, 10:45 Sun 12:40, 1:50, 3:00, 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 7:55, 9:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 7:55, 9:20, 10:15 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:20 The Metropolitan Opera: The Nose Sat 12:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:00

Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Thu 8:00 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 6:25 Romeo & Juliet Thu 3:40, 9:05 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 Sun 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 Rush (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:10 Mon 4:05, 6:20, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (PG) Sat 11:00 2 Guns (14A) Thu 6:40 WWE Hell in a Cell - 2013 Sun 8:00

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 2:50, 5:05, 7:15 Boss Thu, Mon-Wed 6:00 Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:30 Despicable Me 2 (G) Fri 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35 Elysium (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 Fri 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 Enough Said (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 Sat 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 Sun 2:10, 4:30, 7:00 Grown Ups 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 The Heat (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Lost for Words Thu 7:30 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:30, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:30 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30 Metallica: Through the Never – An IMAX 3D Experience (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:15 Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun 7:15 MonWed 5:00 The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15 Planes (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri 4:45, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Fri 5:00, 7:15 Sat 2:15, 5:00, 7:15 Sun 2:15, 5:00 Mon-Wed 7:15 Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 4:35, 7:00 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 2:00 MonWed 4:35 2 Guns (14A) Fri 7:20, 9:55 Sat 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 4:30, 7:25 Mon-Wed 7:00 We’re the Millers (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:20 The Wolverine (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Fri 7:05, 9:45 Sat 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 4:10, 7:05

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Captain Phillips (14A) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Carrie (14A) 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:15 The Counselor (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Mon 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Escape Plan (14A) 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Gravity (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 9:25

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

Captain Phillips (14A) 7:05, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 4:00 mat Tue 4:00 mat Carrie (14A) Thu 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Tue 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 1:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun, Tue 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 The Counselor (14A) 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat, 4:10 Tue 4:10 Escape Plan (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:15 Tue 4:15 Gravity 3D (PG) 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00 mat, 5:20 Tue 5:20 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 7:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:55 mat, 4:35 Tue 4:35 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 7:50, 10:15 SatSun 12:50, 3:05 mat, 5:30 Tue 5:30 Machete Kills (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:05 Prisoners (14A) 7:55 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 4:25 Tue 4:25 The Right Kind of Wrong (14A) Thu 7:20 Runner Runner (14A) 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:25 mat, 4:05 Tue 4:05 Rush (14A) Thu 9:55

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ H = Halloween events

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 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.

Festivals jayu: The Human Rights Film Festival tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. jayu.ca

fri 25-sun 27 – Festival of films revolving

around the issue of human rights with a focus on North Korea. $12, sru/srs $10, opening film and party $20, stu/srs $15, allday pass Sat or Sun $30, weekend pass (excluding opening night) $55, festival pass $70. fri 25 – DPRK: The Land Of Whispers (2013) D: Chrystian Cohen. Noon. Opening night: Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) D: Nicolas Bonner, Anja Daelemans and Kim Gwang Hun. 7:30 pm. sat 26 – Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2006) D: Patty Kim and Chris Sheridan. 2 pm. Juche Strong (2013) D: Rob Montz, and Seoul Train (2004) D: Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky. 6 pm. The Journals Of Musan (2010) D: Park Jung Bum. 8 pm. sun 27 – Winter Butterfly (2011) D: Kim Gyu Min. 1 pm. Our Homeland (2012) D: Yang Yong Hi. 3:30 pm. Camp 14: Total Control Zone (2012) D: Marc Wiese. 7 pm.

toronto after dark film ­festival scotiabank theatre, 259 richmond W. torontoafterdark.com

thu 24-fri 25 – Festival of horror, action, scifi and cult cinema. $13, stu $12, all-access pass $143. thu 24 – Scary Night: Willow Creek (2013) D: Bobcat Goldthwait, and short The Lamp.

7 pm. Banshee Chapter (2013) D: Blair Erickson, and short Master. 9:30 pm. fri 25 – Closing Night: Cheap Thrills (2013) D: EL Katz, and short Remember Me. 7 pm. Big Bad Wolves (2013) D: Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, and short film Corrus.

9:30 pm.

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

Thu 24 -wed 30 – Check website for schedule.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 24 – Design Is One: Lella & Massimo

Vignelli (2013) D: Kathy Brew and Roberto Guerra. 1:30 pm. Lost Years (2011) D: Kenda Gee and Tom Radford, a documentary tracing four generations of racism. 6:30 pm. Free, donations welcome, ticket reservations at lostyearstoronto.eventbrite.ca. One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das (2012) D: ­Jeremy Frindel. 9:15 pm. fri 25 – Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli. 3:15 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:30 pm.

Hsat 26 – Good Ol’ Freda (2013) D: Ryan White. 1:45 pm. The Act Of Killing

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Fung filters global concerns REORIENTATIONS: A RETRO-

SPECTIVE ON THE WORKS OF ñ ­RICHARD FUNG Rating: NNNN ReOrientations offers an intensive two days of screenings of works by the Toronto activist, author and filmmaker, as well as panels, introductions and a conversation with Fung.

The retrospective – presented by U of T’s Munk School of Global Affairs – offers a chance to gorge on decades of Fung’s video work in the presence of the artist. It’s rich, complex stuff, filtering global concerns through a personal, experimental lens.

Fung often relies on his family history for context, most effectively in 2000’s Sea In The Blood, which weaves two stories of illness – Fung’s sister’s battle with thalassemia and his lover’s battle with HIV – into a larger tapestry of travel and memory. It screens Friday at 7:30 pm with My Mother’s Place, a long 1990 (2012) D: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous and Christine Cynn. 4 pm. Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) D: Richard Fung. 7 pm. 30 Ghosts (2013) D: Sean Cisterna. 9:15 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 11:30 pm.

Hsun 27 – Good Ol’ Freda. Noon. The Venice Syndrome (2012) D: Andreas Pichler. 2 pm.

Salon Series: One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 4:30 pm. Birth Of The Living Dead (2013) D: Rob Kuhns. 7:15 pm. The Act Of Killing. 9:30 pm.

Hmon 28 – Music On Film: The Last Song Before The War (2013) D: Kiley Kraskouskas.

6:30 pm. Birth Of The Living Dead. 9:30 pm.

Tue 29 – The Venice Syndrome. 6:15 pm. Good Ol’ Freda. 8:30 pm.

HWed 30 – One Track Heart: The Story Of Krishna Das. 4 pm. Design Is One: Lella & Massimo Vignelli. 6:15 pm. 30 Ghosts. 8:30 pm.

Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 26 – Imagine: Vivian Maier Who Took

Nanny’s Pictures? (2013) D: Jill Nichols. 2 pm.

Airplane (1980) D: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

thu 24-sun 26 – Jayu: The Human Rights Film

Festival. See listings, this page. thu 24 – Nicolas Winding Refn X 2: Pusher (1996) 6:30 pm. Bleeder (1999). 9:30 pm.

Hfri 25 – Vendredi Soir (2002) D: Claire Denis. 6:30 pm. Fear X (2003) D: Nicolas Winding Refn. 8:45 pm. The Exorcist (1973) D: William Friedkin. 9 pm.

Hsat 26 – U.S. Go Home (1994) D: Claire Denis, and Claire Denis: The Vagabond (1996) D: Sébastien Lifshitz. 4:15 pm. Nicolas Windig Refn X 2: Pusher II: With Blood On My Hands (2004). 7 pm. The Exorcist. 9 pm. Pusher III: I’m The Angel Of Death (2005). 10 pm.

Hsun 27 – Reel Talk: Contemporary World Cinema. 10 & 10:30 am. Nicolas Winding Refn: Gambler (2006) D: Phie Ambo. 1 pm.

Nénette Et Boni (1996) D: Claire Denis. 3:30

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interview with his then 80-year-old mother, Rita, and 2002’s Islands, which picks apart John Huston’s Tobago-shot feature film Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison in search of Fung’s uncle Clive, who was an extra in the picture.

Fung sits down for a conversation with University of Southern California professor Nayan B. Shah on Friday at 5:30 pm, and there’s a round table discussion of his work Saturday at 3:30 pm. His video installations Jehad In Motion and Landscapes are also screening through October 29 at the Ontario College of Art and Design, where Fung holds an assistant professorship.

Saturday afternoon’s Rex Vs. Singh’s Gurpreet Johol takes part in a 1915 sodomy trial in BC. pm. Nicolas Winding Refn X 2: Bronson (2009). 6 pm. Valhalla Rising (2009). 9 pm.

The Exorcist. 9:05 pm.

Hmon 28 – The Goethe-Institut presents Crossing The Bridge – The Films of Fatih Akin X 2: Crossing The Bridge (2005).

6:30 pm. Soul Kitchen (2009). 9 pm. The Exorcist. 9 pm.

Htue 29 – Claire Denis X 2: L’Intrus (2004), and Vers Nancy (2002). 6:30 pm.

The Exorcist. 9 pm. Drive (2011) D: Nicolas Winding Refn. 9:30 pm.

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Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 24 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) D: Lee Daniels. 6:45 pm. The World’s End (2013) D: Edgar Wright. 9:30 pm.

Fri 25 – Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. Prisoners (2013) D: Denis Villeneuve. 9 pm. sat 26-sun 27 – Despicable Me 2 3D (2013) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm.

Prisoners. 4 & 9 pm. Blue Jasmine. 7 pm.

Mon 28-tue 29 – Prisoners. 6:45 pm. Blue ­Jasmine. 9:30 pm.

HWed 30 – Prisoners. 1 pm. House Of Wax 3D (1953) D: Andre De Toth. 7 pm.

The Shining (1980) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9 pm.

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GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 24-wed 30 – Continuous screenings

­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 24-fri 25, mon 28-wed 30 – Fall season preview.

ontario science centre

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 24-fri 25 – Great White Shark. 11 am and 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

Sat 26-sun 27 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 & 4 pm.

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screening program pairs Dirty Laundry, his 1996 inquiry into the “bachelor workers” of 19th century China, with Rex Vs. Singh, his experimental 2008 recreation of a 1915 sodomy trial in British Columbia.

It all wraps up Saturday night at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema with a screening of last year’s Dal Puri Diaspora, a charming documentary about the roots of the roti that traces the origins of the beloved curry wrap and its various permutations around the world, including Fung’s native Trinidad.

Much more than simple food porn, it’s an examination of the way culture is appropriated by outsiders: roti isn’t the only thing that’s been altered or mutated to suit the palate of a new audience. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Fung, which may or may not be accompanied by the sounds of growling stomachs.

Friday and Saturday (October 25 and 26) at Innis Town Hall. Full pro­gram and registration details at munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai.

Norman Wilner

mon 28-wed 30 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

Hthu 24 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D:

FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 7 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. sat 26-Wed 30 – BBC Shroud Of Turin (2008) D: David Rolfe. 4:30 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums.

7 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2012) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm.

revue cinema

400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 24 – 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 7 pm. Our Man In ñ Tehran (2013) D: Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein. 9 pm.

Fri 25 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) D: Lee

Daniels. 7 pm. The World’s End (2013) D: Edgar Wright. 9:30 pm. sat 26 – Despicable Me 3D (2013) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm. Our Man In Tehran. 4 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 7 pm.

The World’s End. 9:30 pm. sun 27 – Despicable Me 3D. 2 pm. Silent Sundays: The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Rupert Julian. 4:15 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 7 pm. The World’s End. 9:30 pm. mon 28 – The World’s End. 7 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 9:15 pm.

Tue 29 – Book Revue: The Third Man (1949) D: Carol Reed. 6:45 pm. Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 9:15 pm.

HWed 30 – Lee Daniels’ The Butler. 1 pm.

Rosemary’s Baby (1969) D: Roman Polanski.

7 pm. An American Werewolf In London (1981) D: John Landis. 9:30 pm.

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the royal 608 College. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

Thu 24 – Check website for schedule.

Hfri 25-sat 26 – Griot (2012) D: Volker

Goetze. 7 pm. All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006). 9 pm.

Hsun 27 – Griot. 7 pm. Horror Remix: Halloween. 9 pm.

HMon 28 – Griot. 7 pm. You’re Next (2013) D: Adam Wingard. 9 pm.

Tue 29-wed 30 – Griot. 7 pm.

other films thu 24-wed 30 – The CN Tower presents

Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. c­ ntower.ca.

Casa Loma presents The ­Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace.

416-923-1171, ­casaloma.org.

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 24 – Barbara Frum Library presents The Great Gatsby (2013) D: Baz Luhrmann. 2 pm.

20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

H The Japan Foundation presents Halloween Movies House (1977) D: Nobuhiko Obayashi. Japanese w/ s-t. 7 pm.

Free, rsvp. 131 Bloor W, 2nd floor. RSVP at jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php.

H WILDSound Feedback Toronto Film Festival of short films including horror films. 7 pm. $4. Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca.

The Big Carrot’s Thursday Night Lecture ­series presents a screening of Queen Of The Sun: What Are The Bees Telling Us? (2010) D: ­Taggart Siegel. 7 pm. Free. 348 Danforth. ­thebigcarrot.ca. fri 25-sat 26 – The Dr David Chu program in Asia Pacific Studies at the Asian Institute present ReOrientations: A Retrospective on the Works of Richard Fung.

Innis screenings free, BloorCinema $11. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex (IT); Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W (BC) Register online at ­munkschool.utoronto.ca/events.

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Director Shawn Levy provides an enthusiastic and informative commentary that’s full of details about the contributions of cast and crew members.

Go for the unrated version. It’s funnier and raunchier, and there’s some nudity.

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slipping away.

The shock moments are tame by today’s standards, and Génessier’s then radical experiments have long since been surpassed, but the images of Christiane linger long after the movie ends.

The disc also includes Blood Of The Beasts, Franju’s acclaimed 1949 documentary about Paris slaughterhouses. Archival interview excerpts on both movies reveal a lot about his approach to cinema. Check out his description of the scariest movie he’s ever seen.

Except for a new interview with Scob, everything in the package comes from Criterion’s 2004 DVD release, now enhanced for Blu-ray.

EXTRAS Scob interview, two Franju interview excerpts, writers BoileauNarcejac interview excerpts, two print essays. French audio. English subtitles. with a dash of Mission Impossible tossed in and most of the character elements thrown out. The cops are emotion-free pros, the crooks simple greedheads and stoners. Only a midpoint moment of mourning reveals

any humanity.

Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) runs meth labs for the Mob. An explosion in one of them puts him in the hands of drug squad captain Zhang (Sun Hong-lei). Faced with the death penalty, Choi o ­ ffers to rat out his boss, who’s on the verge of cutting a big deal with an even bigger boss. Zhang and his crew turn Choi into a double agent and go to work with high-tech surveillance gear and a double identity swap right out of the Mission Impossible playbook.

Johnnie To (Election, PTU) knows how to direct action and suspense and achieve atmosphere (here he goes for a drab realism), so Drug War bangs along delivering empty thrills until the final bloody shootout, when one striking image – a guy trying to escape with a dead cop handcuffed to his ­ankle – brings everything into focus. This a cautionary tale for criminals: you will be caught, punished and killed.

Alas, there are no extras.

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By Dan Savage

My girlfriend always responds posi-

t ively when I initiate sex with her, but she hardly ever initiates sex with me.

I’m a no-beat-around-the-bush kind of guy, but I realize that this can be a sensitive topic, and I don’t want to scare her by saying, “Please initiate sex more often!” So I do small things to coax her and let her know that I want her to initiate. I will lotion up in front of her after we shower. Or I’ll say something like “I wanted to fuck last night – maybe you can wear one of your sexy bras and thongs one day soon?” But it hasn’t worked. The only time she’ll initiate is if I haven’t initiated for a while and she’s sexually frustrated. But that can take days!

Girlfriend Rarely Initiates Naked Dance Wow, GRIND, your girlfriend is pretty fucking dense. I’m surprised she remembers to breathe in her sleep.

I mean, she actually heard you say, “I wanted to fuck last night – maybe you can wear one of your sexy bras and thongs one day soon?” and somehow didn’t realize that what you meant was “Please initiate sex more often.” And she’s seen you smearing lotion on yourself after showering and somehow didn’t realize that you wanted her to start initiating sex once in a while. Amazing. A boyfriend smearing lotion on himself – who doesn’t know what that means?

Um. Yeah. No. Sorry, GRIND, but you’re the dense one in this relationship. “I wanted to fuck last night – maybe you can wear one of your sexy bras and thongs one day soon?” does not auto-translate to “Please initiate sex more often.” The likely take-away from that statement is “I wanted to fuck last night, but the granny panties/pyjama bottoms/hazmat Spanx you were wearing were such a turnoff that I couldn’t get it up. You suck at this girlfriend shit.” And while seeing your boyfriend “lotion up” after a shower may inspire lust, it doesn’t communicate a very specific need like “Please initiate sex more often.” The only thing it communicates for sure is “My boyfriend isn’t going to put up with dry skin.”

You want your girlfriend to initiate sex more often? Tell her you want her to initiate sex more often. Trust me, GRIND, that straightforward request will display more sensitivity to your girlfriend’s feelings – and will be less crazy-making – than a potentially confidence-shredding statement like “Hey, I wanted to fuck you last night but you were wearing the wrong panties,” or the conspicuous application of skin moisturizer.

But even if you’re straight with her, GRIND, things are unlikely to change. She initiates when she’s horny/sexually frustrated, but she obviously has a lower libido than you do and gets horny/sexually frustrated at intervals that leave you frustrated. Your desire for her cranks her up, so she’s good to go when you initiate.

But she’s satisfied with less sex – she has a lower libido – and is unlikely to feel the urge to initiate as often as you would like her to r­ egardless.

truly care for this man, but I need to live my life the way I want to, and that wasn’t possible in this relationship. The problem is, he’s been leaving voicemail, texting and emailing me threatening suicide. I’ve told his mother about this, but I don’t think she’s taking it seriously. I feel horrible, but I don’t want to talk to him because I refuse to get sucked back into his problems. How can I deal with this serious threat without getting personally involved?

Single And Worried Your ex-boyfriend’s mom presumably knows her son better than you do, SAW, and she isn’t taking his threats seriously.

So it’s possible that he has a long history of manipulating people with idle suicide threats, essentially taking himself hostage to get what he wants. But if you’re worried – maybe his mother is neglectful and/or nuts – you might want to listen to Episode 364 of the Savage Lovecast (you can find that episode, and 363 others, at savagelovecast.com).

I took a question from a man whose girlfriend threatened suicide when he tried to dump her. Jill Harkavy-Friedman of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention had some excellent advice for him. Summing it up: Alert his friends and relatives, and pass the AFSP’s hotline number (1-800-273-TALK) on to them and on to the person making the threat. I would add: Don’t respond to his texts or voicemail, consider blocking his number, and forward any truly worrying emails to his mother.

No-win porn situation My girlfriend snooped on my

browser history the other day specifically to see what porn I had been looking at. I’ve told her I look at porn a few times a week, and she said she didn’t mind. She asked me what type of stuff I usually look at, and I was mostly honest.

My viewing habits are pretty vanilla except for BBW porn. It’s not my go-to, but it was what she found in my browser history the day she snooped. She had some issues, and I don’t know how to address them. I’m not more attracted to overweight women than other women, but sometimes that type just does it for me. Compounding this, my girlfriend is overweight – not on par with the wo­ men in the videos I watched – and now she’s worried that her weight is the only reason I’m attracted to her. It’s not! How can I explain this to her and put her mind at ease?

Busted Boyfriend Worries If you looked only at porn that featured conventionally attractive women – all those skinny bitches – your girlfriend would be worried that you’re not attracted to her because of her size. But she caught you looking at BBW porn, and now she’s worried that her size is the only reason you’re attracted to her. I don’t think you can win this one, BBW, but you can try saying this to her: “I like women of all shapes and sizes, honey, including yours – as you can clearly see if you look at all the porn sites I’ve vis-

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