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1. The Hilarious House of Fordenstein We have video of Rob Ford’s truly odd tour through his City Hall haunted house.

2. Sun sets on Ford Mayor’s badmouthing of tabloid scribe is the latest sign of a testier relationship between the daily and its favourite son.

3. The new Zapruder film We found video footage of the now infamous Rob Ford drink-toss incident.

4. Rhum’s no fun The island-inspired card at Rhum Corner is easy on the wallet but hard to love.

5. Going pro We look at the wages of fame for video-gamers who go pro.

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PLAYWriGHTS CANADA LAUNCH NOW’s Jon Kaplan and Susan G. Cole host readings by playwrights – Jordan Tannahill, Linda Griffiths and more – launching new works in print at Buddies. 7 pm. Free. ­playwrightscanada.com.

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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 Broadway’s calling star Ramin Karimloo, so don’t miss him in this production of the musical phenom.

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Ticketmaster snafu caused his OVO Fest performance to be sparsely attended, the British electronic singer/songwriter is back at the Kool Haus. Doors 8 pm, all ages. $30. RT, SS, TF. thor: the dark world Hunky Chris Hemsworth bangs his giant hammer in this sequel to the Marvel hit, also starring Natalie Portman and Tom Hiddleston. Opening weekend.

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As Paul Weinberg correctly points out, the message of all groups was “much the same: raise social assis­ tance rates significantly and implement a $14-​an-​hour minimum wage.”

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There must be room for a multitude of voices and approaches in raising awareness and facilitating both participation and action to end poverty in our city and province.

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“ People living in poverty are as diverse as the organizations that strive to amplify their voices. ” Why emphasize the poverty divide?

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However, I do want to point out an error in the article. It says single people on Ontario Disability Support Program receive $1,800 per month.

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Re Sun Sets On Ford (NOW, October 24-​30). In radio it’s all about ratings, ratings, ratings. So long as the Ford brothers are bringing in the numbers, their show on Newstalk 1010 is safe.

As for Ford’s tiff with Joe War­ming­ ton, the Toronto Sun columnist is getting a taste of his own medicine.

Last August he showed up unannounced on my doorstep with a camera­man trying to get confidential information I had already told him on the phone I would not give.

Hizzoner and the Scrawler are having a lovers’ quarrel. They’ll kiss and make up when they’ve milked the publicity.

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Bay Street has had enough of Ford

The real question is not whether the Toronto Sun has had enough of Mayor Rob Ford but whether Bay Street has. That question may have been an­swered by Karen Stintz’s announcement that she will run for mayor in 2014.

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Bending transgender imagination

I was not sure which was the most infuriating statement (to use S. Bear Berg­man’s description of the “hetero­ normative gay men and lesbians” who call bullshit on him) in heteronormative lesbian Susan Cole’s profile of Bergman (NOW, October 24-​ 30).

Then I read Cole’s review of Bergman’s book and I had my winner: “It could only have written by a trans person.”

Since transgenderism is all about imagination (Bergman imagines he isn’t female, that a vagina is a male organ, that a “husband” could bear a child), I was shocked and appalled that Cole believes authors cannot im­

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Enbridge’s Line 9 pipe violates Charter

As a delegate of the Enbridge Line 9 pipeline reversal hearing at the National Energy Board, I want to inform you of the following evidence that was presented (NOW, October 24-​30).

Bitumen is a solid. It is asphalt. As it moves, it vibrates due to variants of mass. It will be under pressure, creating a vortex effect. It will be heated, but external factors such as ice, water or heat will create thermal pressure.

Seismic areas in Ontario and Quebec pose even greater increased risks.

The existing line crosses over the Finch subway station, goes by York University and under the fire station across the street from the campus where 55,000 people go to school.

There has never been a Crowndesignated consultant to facilitate dis­cussions with First Nations, despite the fact that Line 9 passes through 18 First Nations territories.

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Another young female cyclist killed under a truck’s wheels on a bike path that was no longer (NOW, October 24-​ 30). As the bodies of the fallen pile up, what does city council have to say? Ford & Co. have shown a complete disregard toward cycling deaths.

The coroner’s reports recommend “putting truck guards over the wheel hubs” so cyclists have a greater chance of survival if they do fall.

Studies in Denmark show that pro­viding segregated bike lanes beside roadways reduces cycling deaths by 35 per cent. That’s why the Ontario Chief Coroner’s Cycling Death Review determined that 100 per cent of cycling fatalities were preventable.

This shit has got to stop. As a member of Cycle Toronto, I’m outraged that cyclists are needlessly sacrificed on unsafe roads when we all know bike lanes save lives. Fuck, I hate this city right now.

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Taking a flyer on pro-​Palestine ads

Why is Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East paying the TTC to run its ads about the Israel-​ Palestine conflict (NOW, October 22) on buses and trains? Why not drop flyers to all the TTC riders? It would be cheaper.

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Out of the blocks McQuaig launches Love Letter To Toronto Centre video; is winning sign wars in the have-not south end of the riding.

Hot button McQuaig is playing up the fact that Freeland’s from Alberta and only recently moved back to the country after working a decade in New York; income inequality, an odd issue to be sucking up all the oxygen in one of the toniest ridings in the country but where the line between rich and poor is clearly drawn here south of Gerrard.

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Another of Ezra Levant’s on-air rants gets the network in trouble with the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

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That might seem an odd thing to say given how her political career has at times seemed too charmed for words.

But let’s be frank. With Stintz, it’s been easy to read as ambition those rare moments when she’s shown political courage. It’s like that sometimes with Stintz.

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the kind of launch spinmeisters might call a knockout.

Stintz couldn’t have asked for a better rollout. Finally, a fair-haired daughter for all of Toronto to fall in love with – just the right combination of street smarts and North Toronto sensibility. Someone with presence and class.

And god knows we need a little of that after three years of rock star Rob Ford.

And then... Stintz opened her mouth. “I believe in the fiscal agenda of Rob Ford,” she said, reminding us that, where she’s concerned, it’s foolish to entertain great expectations.

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It was as if confetti had fallen from the ceiling in the council chamber. A whole city rejoiced.

Finally, someone not afraid to give Ford his comeuppance.

It was easy back then to believe she could muster up some progressive bona fides, especially in the glow of the flattering public opinion polls that followed.

Perhaps it’s dangerous to expect too much from politicians in general and Stintz in par­ ticular.

Doing the politically expedient thing has

Artisan Communications Inc. Karen Stintz’s “prince of darkness” – the guy who took Dalton McGuinty to the promised land with successive election wins – is back from BC, where he was part of the team that led Christy Clark’s Libs, seemingly out of nowhere, to victory in the recent provincial election. Can he take Stintz over the top because he believes in her or did he end up with the gig because he craves a challenge? The temptation to work on one of the most impor­tant political races in the country may have been too strong to pass up for Guy, who, if he can win this, will cement his reputation as one of the best political fixers in the business.

been her modus operandi ever since she rushed onto the scene in 2003. Stintz didn’t get into politics to change the world. She got into it to win.

And for her, the winning came too easy, right from the start. She responded to an ad in a community newspaper from a ratepayers group looking for a candidate to fight the Minto Towers development at Yonge and Eglinton. Surprise! She won – defeating respected veteran Anne Johnston, who had been instrumental in the compromise that allowed the towers to go ahead.

In 2009 there was the dust up over voice lescontinued on page 20 œ

Warren Kinsella, bon vivant, lawyer, political consultant The longtime Liberal backroom boy has been linked to Olivia Chow’s not yet official campaign, but it’s unclear if he’ll be on board. Kinsella presents a dilemma for folks close to Chow, who have been careful to emphasize the vision thing in background discussions about Chow’s running. Kinsella, on the other hand, is a bare-knuckle brawler. Some Libs lay Sandra Pupatello’s loss in the Liberal leadership race at his feet. He was so nasty to some folks, the theory goes, that it turned off candidates who might have otherwise been inclined to support her.

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Detroit’s renewal problem is how to integrate those sidelined – same as Toronto’s.

find myself hating Toronto. Hating the way market capitalism defines its built form and the status quo its ambitions. Hating the way its problems of race and class are so often ignored by indifferent polit­ icians who beat the com­passion and creativity out of their peers. Hating the way our infrastructure is planned according to cultivated regional grievances, and the way so much of our media actively rallies the stupid.

I think this is new for me. But placing all of the blame on Mayor Rob Ford seems far too easy and likely unfair.

He’s a manifestation of the anger, laziness and my­opia that exist inside all of us – for some he’s the ve­hi­cle, for others the target – like a science fiction energy ball that feeds off negative emotions.

I hate that, reflecting on him, I find myself sympathe­ tic to the concept of elitism: the idea that you should know something about something before being put in charge of it. * * * “I’m very much aware of who’s on the periphery, very much aware of [property] pricing and [the question of] how do we build the urban life that’s inclusive, that’s di­ verse, that’s reflective of multi-faceted lifestyles and that doesn’t criminalize a black community or black city,” said Charity Hicks, speaking at October 25’s Toronto + Detroit: Drivers For A Healthy City symposium at the Carlu.

“Detroit as a region is having significant problems with race and class cleavage. Significant. And it would be against the truth to claim any other thing.”

I might have considered this a straw man – that anyone would be incognizant of issues of race and class in Detroit of all places – if I hadn’t heard people profess such oblivious­ ness that very morning.

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“In Detroit there are two worlds: the one owned by the creative class and the one that’s being ­ignored.”

Charity Hicks control of an emergency manager appointed by the governor who has effectively subsumed the powers of both its city council and school board.

“What’s the relationship between the local com­mu­nities and city coun­ cil and [emergency manager] Kevyn Orr?” Wong-Tam asked.

“Actually, our democratic institu­ tions have been destroyed,” remarked Hicks in the casual way people dis­ cuss traumatic experiences whose shocks they’ve long since absorbed.

She described the feeling of despair among citizens in the face of an un­ elected manager laying off civil ser­ vants en masse.

“What do Detroiters do? How do you take back your city?” asked WongTam. “They join the resistance,” Hicks said. They are reimagining their city and themselves outside the bounds of the forces that have brought them to the brink. * * * Since Rob Ford became mayor, every city of Toronto press release has end­ ed with the following boilerplate: “Toronto’s government is dedicated to de­livering customer service excel­ lence, creating a transparent and ac­ countable government, reducing the size and cost of government and build­ing a transportation city.”

An era of austerity is a ter­ rible time to come of age. To­ ronto is reaching new heights of prosperity in a period when the very idea of public investment is under attack.

We have all the advantages a society has ever had, and yet we dig ourselves in, turn away from those parts of the city that good fortune has not touched and go to war with anyone who wish­ es to use government for a great­er purpose than main­ taining basic services.

“I cannot look at the city

of Toronto without thinking about access, equity and justice,” said WongTam, speaking on a Toronto + Detroit panel about democracy, economy, infrastructure and politics. She in­ sisted that all these is­sues must be examined through the lens of jus­ tice.

“There has to be an incredible para­digm shift and a shift of cultural values if we’re gonna build a city [where] people have quality of life re­ gardless of what neighbourhoods they’re in.”

A city needs to be a project. A gov­ ernment has to aim for something higher than its own eradication.

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by E.R.A. Architects and Spacing Maga­zine, it’s no surprise that a Wong-Tam speech about the value of taxes is met with much cheering and applause. But just as there’s no real reason why the right should have a lock on “fiscal responsibility,” there’s no reason that “quality of life” must remain the domain of the left.

“Our success has got to be meas­ ured collectively: I’m only successful if everyone around me is successful, and that really speaks to the quality of democracy that we have,” said Wong-Tam. “And that’s the kind of dem­ocracy I’d like Toronto to have, that Canada should have, that De­ troit should have and America should have.”

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was our strongest season ever, so you’d imagine back on home turf we would get a little love.

A full house at our game at Downs­ view Park October 19 would certainly have been a start. Toronto’s all-star roller derby team, CN Power, was fresh­ly back from September’s Wo­ men’s Flat Track Derby Association’s playoffs in Oregon, where we placed 32nd out of 150 international teams.

We’d certainly faced down our demons in Oregon, lacing up against some of the strongest play­ers in the sport – women like Atlanta steamroller Wild Cherri who launched me off my feet and sent me face-​first into the crowd with a brick wall of a hit.

But here we were back in Downsview playing to about 300 ticketed fans, likely our lowest attendance in a year of low turnouts – down from sellout crowds of more than 1,000 at our peak in 2009.

So what happened? Is the honeymoon with roller derby now over, four years after the fledgling sport got the Hollywood treatment in Drew Barrymore’s Whip It? Or is there a more complex answer having to do with the fact that the derby is getting less campy and more athletic – and audiences want sexed-up entertainment in their female sports?

To be sure, most of us still wear make­up, and most uniforms in the Toronto Roller Derby league are tight, but themed team costumes are being overtaken by athletic outfits in breath­able fabrics. Punny names like Tara Part and Lady Gag-​Ya are still the norm, but cultural and rule changes are altering the game: it’s become more strategic, with block­ers often trapping and holding opponents instead of yesteryear’s big collisions

(although those do still happen if the moment presents itself).

The rules are complicated: blockers must stay within 20 feet of the pack, and jammers score a point for each opponent they pass but can only get a maximum of five each lap.

As strategies evolve, a new rule set comes out each year, making the fine points hard to follow for casual fans.

Still, it’s frustrating for the skater-​ owned league to be in a financial slide when its all-stars have become one of the city’s most successful sports teams.

“People will drop hundreds of thou­sands of dollars on bad teams,” says the org’s Amie “Speedin Hawking” Sergas, a member of the league’s finance committee. “We have people playing their asses off and winning, yet we can’t back that in our city.”

At the University of Regina, Larena Hoeber, a prof at the Centre for Kine­ siology, Health and Sport, thinks she can account for some of the slippage.

When women are portrayed more as spectacles than as athletes the sport attracts het­ero­sexual men, she argues. The less flashy, the fewer men watch. “Women’s beach volleyball, to get audiences, emphasized the beau­ ty side of it,” says Hoeber, noting that in some volleyball leagues women are required to wear bikinis, a push, she says, that also occurred in soccer but didn’t catch on. “In the Women’s National Basketball Association and sports like tennis, they’re really trying to emphasize the athleticism.”

To stay relevant in the long term, derby would do well to play it straight if it wants to avoid comparisons to sports like Lingerie Football, she says. “If you want a spectacle, you watch wrestling.

If you’re hoping to emphasize it as a real sport, it unfortunately just takes time.”

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Research, she points out, shows that most women still become fans through the men in their lives – the implication being that if sports organizers can tailor pitches to women,

they have a better chance of building a loyal fan base interested in the personalities and skills of players.

One sports org that clearly grasps this is the Canadian Women’s Hockey League. They get 500 to 700 people at their games, and its audience, unlike Toronto Roller Derby’s, is on the upswing.

Commissioner Brenda Andress says her league is careful to pitch to wo­men spectators and their families.

“It’s affordable, fun and entertaining,” she says, noting that the CWHL’s ticket price is $10. (ToRD admission is $18, advance $12.) “It’s a very different sport than the men’s game. Ours is about speed, finesse and skill. You can bring your kids; you won’t see fighting, and you will have contact with Olympic and national players.”

But this strategy doesn’t necessarily shed light on the roller derby dilemma, given the game’s strong roots in the queer com­munity. Many female fans like the playfulness as much as the men do. If anything, going mainstream runs the risk of alienating our base – which could well explain some of the decline the league is experiencing already.

In the end, no matter how many spectators are cheering in the seats, the league plans to just going to keep rolling. Says Sergas, “If we can change ourselves culturally within the league to not have to play publicly, we’d all get to play the game more.

I’m in my fifth year; I don’t care if anyone comes to watch me.”

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sons on the public dime as a prelude to a possible mayoral run. But Stintz was getting ahead of herself; she had neither the chops nor the experience to be chief magistrate. That was obvious to everyone except her.

She got in bed with the “responsible government” cabal that lined up against Miller just because. She lost touch with her roots, too, criticized for being too developer-friendly by the same folks who got her elected.

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The word “unprincipled” pops up in conversations with Stintz’s council colleagues, even those who like her kick-ass attitude.

Before the Great Scarborough LRT Flip-Flop she took part in to curry favour in the vote-rich burb, that to convert the Scarborough RT to a subway, there was the One City transit proposal that came out of nowhere, catching by surprise and offending many fellow councillors with whom

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she’d built trust (or so it was thought) during the Transit City debate.

For some political observers there are perhaps one too many negatives for Stintz to be seen as a true unifying force at City Hall.

Maybe we shouldn’t read too much into it, but did you notice? John Parker was the lone member of council to endorse her candidacy. How many more can Stintz count on?

After the SRT debacle, Stintz moved quickly to reaffirm the commission’s support for LRTs on Finch and Sheppard. But Ford has declared he’ll make converting those lines to subways the main plank of his 2014 campaign. Will Stintz follow his lead?

The groundwork may have already been laid on that front – her peeps have been eager to let it be known that the push for subways is also coming from Scarborough members of the Liberal caucus.

And what about the proposed expansion of the Island Airport? Stintz came out against Porter’s proposal to fly jets out of it when it was initially floated. But she voted “yes” to study the proposal. Was she just being strategic so as not to appear knee-jerk?

Back in 2003 she voted for a fixed link to the airport.

Now she’s got what she’s always wanted: a shot at the top job, along with some of the best hands in the business on her campaign team.

Some people still think Stintz has something to offer. Many of us have been guilty of that in the past.

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NDP MP Those close to her stress that there’s no campaign – yet. But there’s a lot of thinking going on about how to repackage the NDP MP from street organizer to stateswoman. She’s just finished writing her memoir, which won’t be released till the end of January, with a book tour scheduled to follow.

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My Ed’s Reno Memo to the new owners of our famous warehouse: I want a dill garden with that theatre

By ASHLEY BOTTING When my shopping list includes a plastic Buddha, a fitted sheet, a TV stand, soup and a bra of comedic proportions, there’s only one place to go (if I want to sidestep my pity for Wal-

mart greeters).

That’s Honest Ed’s. This week we learned that the new owner of the property is Vancouver-based Westbank Properties, which recently

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brought the Shangri-La Hotel to Toronto. So the looming question is, what will become of our garish Annex baby, that Escher maze of beautiful crap? I know she needs to grow up, but will the choices made for her be good ones?

For what it’s worth, here’s my advice to the Westbank power people: Gut the store but leave its skin and sexy sign intact, and fill the inside with retail space mixing corporate and local merchants. Build condos on top; Bloor and Bathurst is coveted terrain, and, sure, the company deserves a return on its investment.

A small theatre would also be nice and befit the Mirvish tradition. And green space so Annex hippies can grow their dill. Yes, such a scenario would suit me just fine.

I want to live in a Toronto that knows her own story. I want her to proudly display the layers of her tale to the lucky people who come here for the first time, and to point out the buildings that nobody would build

today because they’d be too impractical, expensive and sturdy for our short-sightedness. I want to say things like, “This was once a great hub of communication known as a post office.”

Next time you’re in New York City, walk the High Line. It’s a great exam­ ple of using the bones of something considered obsolete to build an inspired space. What was once an abandoned stretch of elevated railroad is now almost 18 blocks of city park.

That stretch could easily have been turned over to shopping. Instead, it’s a fully accessible, raised platform from which locals and tourists can overlook a city that celebrates its cracks instead of painting over them. I know train tracks aren’t buildings, but we can poach an idea or two from a town whose evolution you can see just by looking both ways to cross the street.

So, Mr. Westbank Properties, I implore you: keep Honest Ed’s, well, hon­est. When you ask for our opinions, please listen, as we’ve loved the

store longest and want to see whatever’s there thrive. We accept that we have to let her go, but can you just remember her special significance?

What works for a financial district hotel or condos on King isn’t going to work north of Queen, so keep that in mind. Despite the fact that the word “heritage” doesn’t appear on any of the building’s documents, can you just do the right thing and jot it down at the top as a reminder?

In 100 years, when the water wars are raging, the world’s eyes are going to be on Canada, so I’d like Toronto to look her best and be more than glass towers and historical plaques. Let’s leave a few gems that will show off her wisdom.

And, if nothing else, can you please leave Markham Street alone? I’ll need to numb my fear of change with several beers at the Victory Café.

P.S.: If anyone mentions “free turkeys” to you, that’s a real thing, and you should do it, too.

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Video of the peculiar drink-​throwing hits you in the face, you don’t expect incident involving Mayor Rob Ford it, right?” briefly surfaced online last week, In a scrum on June 17, Councillor only to be taken down a day later.

Ford said that liquid from the drink A demo reel put together by Os­sing­ had hit the mayor, and its acidic conton Creative and posted to the To­ronto tent had stung him. “Obviously the marketing company’s website on Ocjuice had acid in it, because it was tober 23 captured the moment when a burning his eyes.” woman lobbed a drink in the vicinity If the recently surfaced video, which of the mayor during the Taste Of Little lasts less than four seconds, is played at full Italy street festival on June 15. speed, the cup is almost invisible. But in Ossington Creative’s Kent Plummer slow motion, the drink can be seen sailing recorded the incident while shooting a behind the mayor as he speaks with a short campaign-​style video commissmall crowd of people. It appears to land a sioned by the mayor’s office. Called short distance behind him.

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CineCuba Festival of Cuban films includ-

ing Mandela & Fidel, Veinte Años and Operation Peter Pan. Passes $49, VIP seats $10 (plus 200 free passes to each screening). Royal Cinema, 608 College. 416-7850291, ­cinecuba.ca.

Nov 1 to 5 Dark Comedy Festival Gilbert Gottfried, Big Jay Oakerson, Dave Attell and others perform in this festival focusing on the edgier side of comedy. $20-$60, pass $99.

Various venues. d ­ arkcomedyfest.com.

Nov 1 to 9 Gamercamp Games festival featuring an art exhibition on videogame ninjas, PlayStation4 previews, a board game café and more. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. ­gamercamp.ca.

Nov 1 to 3

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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, date, time, price, venue name, address and contact phone number, email or website. Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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Thursday, October 31

Benefits

Book Sale (University of St Michael’s College) Talk on the work of artist Dora de PederyHunt (today 6 pm, $20) and a book sale today to Nov 1, 8:30 am-8 pm; Nov 2, 10 am-2 pm.

Free. John M Kelly Library, 113 St Joseph. 416926-1300 ext 3475.

International Diaspora Film Festival

Films from around the world that look at diversity and culture exchange with a focus on female directors. $12, adv $10, stu/srs $8. Carlton Cinema (20 Carlton) and Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex). ­diasporafilmfest.com.

Nov 1 to 5 Pomegranate Film Festival Films from ­Armenia and by Armenians abroad including Jack Topalian and Atom Egoyan. $10$15, passes available. Hamaz­kayin Theatre (50 Hallcrown Place) and Regent Theatre (551 Mt Pleasant). ­pomegranatefilmfestival.com.

Nov 6 to 10 Reel Asian Film Festival Contemporary cinema by international and Canadian East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $10-$20. Various cinemas. ­reelasian.com.

Nov 5 to 16

Events

Famous Jewish Trials Lecture by author

Gerald Ziedenberg. 7:30 pm. Free. Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview (Thornhill). ­templeharzion.com.

George Brown College Open Door Event

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

Impressionism In Music Lecture by Rick Phillips of Sound Advice. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

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

Peter Langille. 7 pm. Free. University College, room 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

The Photography Of Arthur S Goss & The Curatorial Process Lecture by Blake Fitz­

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gerald and John Bentley Mays. 8 pm. $10.

Toronto­Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. ­torontocameraclub.com.

Festival Of Images And Words Celebration of Latin American art and culture in Canada, featuring film, theatre, art, talks, music and more. Various venues and prices. ­festivalofimagesandwords.ca.

To Nov 9

Friday, November 1

Benefits

International Festival Of Authors

Art Show Toronto (Masai girls of Tanzania) A show and sale of art helps send Tanzanian Masai girls to school. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 1-8 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. theartshowtoronto.ca.

Close Shave Movember Party (Movember Canada) Star Trek improv with the Dandies, musical comedy duo Debs & Errol, burlesque

by Red Herring and Bianca Boom Boom and more. 8 pm. $10-$15. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. brownpapertickets.com/event/449884.

Readings, talks, interviews and round tables with more than 100 authors.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

To Nov 3

Si-Si Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival

Gamercamp, with an art ­exhibition, game previews and more, begins November 1.

Film screenings. $5-$10. Various venues. ­festivalofimagesandwords.ca/si-si-cine.

To Nov 2

Events

BLESSED UNREST IN THE FOUR DIRECTIONS Conversation celebrating the groundswell of transformative responses to earth devastation, with speakers including Diane Longboat of Mohawk Six Nations and Ghandian activist Madhu Suri Prakash. 7 pm. $20, stu/unwaged $15. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. tlc.oise. utoronto.ca.

Forgotten Fortress: Returning To Lower Nubia Soc for the Study of Egyptian Antiqui-

ties lecture by Laurel Bestock. 7 pm. Free. U of T, 5 Bancroft, rm 142. toronto@thessea.org.

Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, popup food and more on the theme of climate/ culture. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

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

Manhunt Toronto Play a game of radical hide-and-seek in the park and streets. 9 pm.

Free. Woodbine and Kingston. facebook.com/ manhunttoronto.

Of Presidential Mistresses, Holocaust ­Survivors And Long-Lost Ancestors: ­Secrets In Our Blood Lecture by author Law-

rence Hill. 8 pm. $30, stu/srs $20. Royal Conservatory of Music, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

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Playing With Strangers All-genders workshop with Mollena Williams. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934.

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. w ­ earejose.org.

Wheat Belly – Live! Talk by author William Davis on how the changed components of modern wheat contribute to common health problems. 7 pm. $40-$80. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. i­ deasfestival.ca.

Whisky Live Sample scotches, bourbons, Canadian whiskies and others from around the world. 6:30-10 pm. $85, VIP $115 (from 4 pm).

Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square. ­whiskylive.com/canada/79/toronto-2013.

Saturday, November 2

Benefits

Giant Book Sale (Bloor Street United Church)

More than 3,000 titles, DVDs, CDs and more.

10 am-4 pm. Free. 300 Bloor W. ­bloorstreetunited.org.

Heart Of Fashion (North York General Fdn) A fashion show, entertainment by Karl Wolf, cocktails and gourmet food. $250. Shops at

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Don Mills Town Square, Don Mills & Lawrence. ­heartoffashion.ca.

Events

Animals That Hoot And Howl Meet a live

owl and learn how to howl like a coyote. 7 pm.

Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905832-2289.

Bead & Jewellery Fair Demos, classes, handmade jewellery, beads from around the world and more. Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. $7. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. ­torontobeadsociety.org.

Every Day Is An Atheist Holiday Talk by author Penn Jillette. 7 pm. $20. U of T Medical Sciences Blg, 1 King’s College Circle. ­cfipennjillette.eventbrite.com.

Green Renovations Workshop Learn how to increase your property value and reduce your energy bills. 10 am-4 pm. $20. City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen W. Pre-register ­windfallcentre.ca/energy/events.

How To Feed A Family Seminar on getting kids involved in food prep with authors Ceri Marsh and Laura Keogh. 11 am-noon. Victorinox Swiss Army, 95A Bloor W. Pre-register 416-929-9889.

Junction Farmers’ Market Local, sustain-

ably produced fresh foods. Saturdays 9 am-1 pm. Free. Junction Train Platform, 2964 Dundas W. junctionmarket.ca.

5LGBT Comedy Writing Workshop Paul Bellini teaches the history of queer comedy, drag/camp, political correctness, gender and stereotyping. Today and tomorrow noon-4 pm. $110.75. Humber Lakeshore Campus, 3199 Lake Shore W. Pre-register 416-6756622 ext 3449, hilary.higgins@humber.ca. rMarvelous Mammals Hike with a naturalist to look for mammals in the forest. Today and tomorrow 1 & 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

Meditation Introductory class. 7 pm. Free.

Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. ­meditationtoronto.com.

Phoenix Poetry Workshop Read your poem for feedback and provide feedback to others.

2:30-4:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. ­phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca.

Playing On (And Over) The Edge All-genders workshop with Mollena Williams. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934.

Purl Posse Social knit, crochet and corking gathering. 2-4 pm. Free. Gibson House, 5172

Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Queen West Triangle Community Fair Exhibits and presentations on community groups and local projects. 2 pm. Free. Gallery Room, 99 Sudbury. 416-392-7012.

The Really Really Free Market Community space for sharing clothes, toys, music, furniture, artisan goods, services and more. 4-5 pm. Free. Campbell Park, S of Dupont, W of Lansdowne. rrfmarket.blogspot.ca.

Sustainable House Tour Take a tour of the LEED Platinum Archetype sustainable house.

11:30 am, 1:30 & 3 pm. Kortright Cente, 9550 Pine Valley (Kleinburg). Pre-register 416-6616600 ext 5241.

5Totally outRIGHT! Leadership program for young gay/bi guys 18 to 29 on safe sex, antioppression, body image and more. Free. See website for details. ­acttoronto.org/to. rWild Sage Press Launch party for children’s books by Bruce Rice and Wendy Winter, and Fannie Kahan and Sharon Kahan. 2:30 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s 427 Bloor W. ­wildsagepress.biz.

Writing The City Workshop on writing for online and social media with Shawn Micallef and other authors. 2-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-396-8910.

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Uprisings are everywhere as global citizens take on the destruction of our eco-systems, military build-ups and threats to indigenous peoples. OISE’s Transformative Learning Centre, a department devoted to global change via a consciousness shift, hosts Blessed Unrest In The Four Directions, a conversation between wisdom leaders rooted in their cultures. Participants are Diane Longboat, a Mohawk from Six Nations, Pauolo Wangoola of Mpambo, a village-based higher learning institution in eastern Uganda, Ireland-born educator Eimear O’Neill, and Madhu Suri Prakash, author of Escaping Education: Living As Learning Within Grassroots Cultures. Friday (November 1), 7 pm. $15/$20. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor West. tlc.oise.utoronto.ca.

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Sunday, November 3

Benefits

Porridge For Parkinson’s (Parkinson’s research) Chefs including Jamie Kennedy, Donna Dooher and Joanne Yolles make breakfast. 10 am-12:30 pm. $125. Vaughan Estate, 2075 Bayview. porridgeforparkinsons.ca.

Re-Launch And Fundraiser (Mary Pitawan­ akwat Fund for Children) Music by Faith Nolan, Marilyn Lerner and David Wall. 4 pm.

Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. winchevskycentre.org.

Events

Cancer Research Community forum. 1-5 pm.

Free. Sheraton Hotel, 123 Queen W. ­researchcancer.ca.

5 Broken Cameras Film screening and discussion on non-violent resistance in a West Bank village threatened by Israeli settlements. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/­danforth.

The Flies We Despise Illustrated lecture by ROM curator Doug Currie. 2:30 pm. Free.

Northrop­Frye Bldg, rm 003, 73 Queen’s Park. ­torontofieldnaturalists.org. rFun Science For Kids Activities for kids six to 12. 3 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. ­royalcanadianinstitute.org.

Grassroots Financial Management Tools for Change workshop. 1-4 pm. $20-$50. OISE, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register eventbrite.com/ event/8001098501.

Henry Scadding: Bi-Centenary (1813-1901), Don River (Queen Street) To Riverdale Park

Urban ecology/heritage walk. 11 am. Free.

Queen and River. 416-593-2656.

Hookerson-Blough Auction Auction of vintage goods and antique finds plus cocktails and snacks. Noon. Free. Mrs Huizenga, 28 Roncesvalles. 416-533-2112.

How We Make Movies Screening of Canadian film The Disappeared and discussion with star Shawn Doyle and producer Ralph Holt. 6:15 pm. $9.50, stu $7, srs $6. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-598-5454.

The Need To Feed: Lydia Lunch Live Evening with the writer, actress, singer and art terrorist. Doors 6 pm. $20 (dinner not included).

Steady Café & Bar, 1051 Bloor W. ­lydialunchlive.eventbrite.ca.

The Old Book And Paper Show Vintage postcards, movie posters, comic books, pulp fiction, old advertising and more. 10 am-4 pm. $8, kids free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. antiqueshowscanada.com.

One Story At A Time Holocaust Education Week opens with screenings of films by authors whose memoirs of surviving the Holocaust have been made into films. 7:30 pm.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Exhibition Place. ­holocausteducationweek.com.

PoC In BDSM Communities All-genders workshop. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35. Come as You Are,

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NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington.

Pre-register 416-395-5720.

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

lyst, specialist in peace and conflict studies and director of Global Common Security i3, speaks on The Initiative For A UN Emergency Peace Service at a meeting hosted by Science for Peace. The core idea is to facilitate creative mediation and rid the world of dubious military strategies. Not a moment too soon. Tonight (Thursday, October 31), 7 to 9 pm. Free.

Room 179, University College, 15 King’s College Circle, U of T. scienceforpeace.ca.

upcoming Thursday, November 7

Benefits

Art Attack! (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

Performances by Shawn Hitchins, visual art curated by Chris Ironsides, plus Keith Cole’s Rock Hudson Memorial Tuck Shop. $100 and up. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

Grand Fiesta (Project Somos Children’s Village) Behind-the-scenes videos and stories from the Project Guatemala TV show, performances, Latin music, an auction and more.

7 pm. $70, adv $50. Castlefield Theatre, 2492 Yonge. somosgrandfiesta.eventbrite.com.

Read Africa Ball (CODE) African music, art, a silent auction and more. 7 pm. $75. Distillery District Fermenting Cellar, 9 Trinity. ­readafricaball.com.

MOVEMBER MOVEMENT It’s November – time for all those new moustaches sported by guys raising awareness about prostate and testicular cancer. Support Movember Canada, the org responsible for the strategy, at the Close Shave Movember Party, featuring improv troupe the Dandies, comedy duo Debs & Errol and burlesque acts Red Herring and Bianca Boom Boom at the Black Swan (154 Danforth) Friday (November 1), 8 pm. $10-$15. facebook.com/ events/624533984238145.

493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934.

Pro Wrestling Main event showdown with Colin Delaney vs Josh Alexander plus firstround matches. 2:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Rockpile East, 2787A Eglinton E. wrestlersunion.ca. rSamba Drumming For Kids Drop-in workshop for kids of all ages. 11 am-noon. $10.

Drum Artz Centre, 27 Primrose. ­drumartz. com.

Social Media For Social Change Tools for Change workshop. 1-4:30 pm. $20-$50. OISE, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register eventbrite.com/ event/8120503645.

Monday, November 4

Benefits

Designer Clothing Sale (Gilda’s Club) Jeanne Beker and friends donate new and gently used designer clothing and accessories to help those touched by cancer. 6-8 pm. Free.

Gilda’s Club, 24 Cecil. g ­ ildasclubtoronto.org.

Events

Film Noir (Part One): The Long Goodbye

Film clips and a lecture by film critic Kevin Courrier. 7 pm. $11.25, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

God Of Carnage Behind-the-scenes discussion with Studio 180 theatre artistic director Joel Greenberg. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Meditation Introductory class. 7 pm. Free.

College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-5390234, meditationtoronto.com.

Modern Man Men’s fashion and consumer show with runway shows and exhibits on current and future trends. To Nov 10. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. modernman.ca.

The Post-Holocaust Story: The Impact On The Second Generation Holocaust Educa-

tion Week presentation by psychotherapist Pearl Goodman. 1:30 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 40 Covington. Register 416-3955440.

Michael G. O’Brien

big3

­amrefcoffeehouse.eventbrite.com.

Hiking In Nepal Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free.

Adventure Travel Co, 48 King W. ­atcadventure.com.

Jane Austen Dance Illustrated talk on the history of Regency dance, demos and a dance session. 6:30 pm. Free.

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

Mothering, Embodiment & Adult Learning Seminar. Noon. Free. OISE,

rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W. oise.utoronto. ca.

The New Arctic: Beauty, History, Challenges Digital slide lecture by

photographer Robert Shechter. 6:30 pm. $20. Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. 416-922-2060.

5Older Lesbians Book Club Discussing Carol Anshaw’s novel Year Of Wonders. 1:30 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. 647-235-0843.

Toronto Diabetes Symposium

Presentations and one-on-one sessions with health professionals.

5:30-9 pm. Free. ­Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. diabetes. ca/­toronto_expo.

Events

Diane Longboat pension manager Patrick Longhurst and financial planner Jason Pereira. 6:45 pm. Free.

North York Civic Centre, committee rm 3, 5100 Yonge. Pre-register 416-368-5222.

Wednesday­, N ­ ovember 6

Benefits

A Night At The Races (Screen Colons Canada) Wear your best hat to this cocktail fundraiser. 6 pm. $150. Turf Lounge, 330 Bay. screencolons.ca/events.

Events

Create A Public Artwork Cast a personal

memento to become part of a public art installation in North York. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 40 Covington. 416-8671501 ext 224.

Making Decisions In Your Garden Etobi-

coke Horticultural Soc talk and meeting.

8 pm. Free. Lambton

Surrender to an age of bravery and honour

Events

East York Farmers’ Market 9 am-2 pm.

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

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Generating Rights For Communities Harmed By Mining Talk by professor Liisa

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

Get Crafty! Make mirror-back button compacts at a drop-in craft workshop. 11 am-1 pm. Free (materials provided). Hart House Reading Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9782452.

The Great Canadian Laughing Championships Presented by Albert Nerenberg, creator

of the hit movie Laughology. 7 pm. $15-$20.

Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. hey@laughology.info.

Inspiration: Creative Photography Projects Lecture by Andre Gallant. 8 pm. $10.

­Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. t­ orontocameraclub.com.

Julie Mehretu Artist talk. 7:30 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

Looking Back: Honouring Remembrance Day In Canada Talk by major Leo Phillips of

the Royal Canadian Air Force. 7 pm. Free.

North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416395-5660.

Myth Making: Zombies, War And The Art

Of Advertising Salon-style talk on how perspectives on movie monsters, pitching products and war have evolved from the 1920s to today. 7 pm. $8, stu $5. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. rPajama Press Fall Launch Children’s books launch and art show. 6-9 pm. Free.

PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. Pre-register ­pajamapress.ca.

Tuesday, November 5 broadcast of the Giller Prize awards, authors, raffles and more. 7 pm. $35, adv $30. CBC ­Studio 40, 250 Front W. ­gillerlightbash.com.

WEARABLE ART SHOW (The Believe To Achieve Organization) Ryerson student showcase. 6 & 9 pm. $15. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. wearableartshowu2.brownpapertickets.com.

by Irene Winter. 7 pm. $25, stu $18. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

7:30 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. ­royalcanadianinstitute.org.

Impressionism And Cubism Talk by art history professor Judy Singer. 7 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5156.

Workshop with artist Ian Keteku. 7 pm. $6.

Bar 1718, 1718 Queen W. janketeku.com.

Trampoline Hall Mini-lectures by Amy Langstaff, Kim North, Sam Cotter and Derek Leebosh. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.

Giller Light Bash (Frontier College) Live

Explore Mesopotamia: Gold! Divine Light And Shine In Ancient Mesopotamia Lecture

Ignorance And Evolution: The Science Of Women And Men, Sex And Work Lecture.

School Night! Spoken Word Master Class

Benefits

AGO 1st Thursdays Interactive art night, with performances, pop-up bars, art-making, artist and curator tours, talks and more. 7:30 pm. $12, adv $10. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/1stthursdays.

Board Games Night All ages play board games with others. 5:30-8 pm. Pwyc. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Bookbuzz Mix-and-mingle and book sale with women fiction writers including Samantha Stroh Bailey and Chantel Guertin. 7-9 pm.

Free. The Crest, 794 St Clair W. bookbuzz2013. wordpress.com.

1.888.WE.JOUST | MEDIEVALTIMES.COM 10 Dufferin St., Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3

Vampires Vs Zombies Salon-style talk on

how perspectives on movie monsters, pitching products and war have evolved from the 1920s to today. 7 pm. $8, stu $5. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.

Your Future-Our Future: Pensions Today And Pensions Tomorrow Discussion with

Kingsway Jr Middle School, 525 Prince Edward. gardenontario.org/site.php/etobicoke.

Raising The Bar: Improving Mental Health Care In Africa Presentation and discussion

with Athena Madan of Grand Challenges Canada and others. 6:30 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. RSVP at

Some Great Idea: Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics And The Invention Of Toronto Talk by Grid editor Edward Keenan. 7

pm. Free. Morningside Library, 4279 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-395-5720.

Stalin’s Holocaust Talk by David Abramowitz. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Cafe, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com.

Tailings Of Warren Peace, A Social Justice Thriller Evening of social justice storytelling, readings, music and food. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­beitzatoun.org.

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It’s the best time in a long time to drink in Toronto.

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In this special bar feature, we highlight some of the city’s key drink trends and the best spots to make the most of them.

Kick off with cocktails, which have become part of our leisure lexicon. Sophisticated drink lists have become requisite in most bars and the thirst for classics like old-fashioneds and Manhattans has hit fever pitch.

Now that we know how quality cocktails should taste, we want to imbibe unique concoctions. Creative and craft ingredients, often locally sourced, are in demand, be they components of a cocktail or a pint of microbrew.

Speaking of which, beer culture is exploding in Ontario, too. More drinkers are eschewing the watered-down dribble of mass-produced suds for charismatic, locally brewed IPAs, farmhouse ales and sours.

For an unsexy moment, bars got super-serious, with unsmiling mixologists pontificating on the history of bitters and wine geeks snickering at requests for Pinot Grigio. Fortunately, we’re settling down and realizing that drinking sucks when it’s elitist and should be, above all, a good time. Accordingly, more and more spots are championing fun and relaxation.

How the hell are we supposed to keep up with all these drinking trends? By fortifying our constitutions courtesy of delectable bar snacks, of course. Thanks to a number of kitchens pumping out small plates till 2 am, it’s never been so easy to eat better later.

Amidst all this booze-related activity, we’re also going back to basics. Hospitality is at a premium, and the industry’s best are balancing the roles of comedian, matchmaker, educator and curator of memorable experiences.

There are a slew of excellent reasons to drink up, T.O. The short order: get your ass out on the town and see for yourself.

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PAUL TILL

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923 Dundas West, 416-792-7511 hoofcocktailbar.com The Hoof’s pristine cocktail joint’s vibe is like a speakeasy in plain sight.

The most recent drinks list – a collaborative effort between owner Jen Agg and bar manager David Greig – deserves a timely (and extended) visit.

The menu’s almost as fun to read as it is to drink through – almost. Classics like the Vieux Carré, daiquiri and Martinez are mixed memorably and presented in vintage crystal.

An all-round excellent stop for excellent drinks.

Hours Daily 6:30 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility Five steps at entrance; steps down to washrooms.

THE HARBORD ROOM3 89 Harbord, 416-962-8989 theharbordroom.com

THR’s reputation for mastered classics has been running strong since it opened almost six years ago. Regular diners, cocktail enthusiasts and industry folk line up along the glossy wooden bar to sip through co-owner Dave Mitton’s signature list and soak up the charm oozing from the adorable pink room. Order your preferred old-school cocktail – Manhattans and Negronis are perfect here – or try a reworked classic like the Toronto Sour ($14) made from Canadian rye whisky, lemon and maple syrup with a float of Norman Hardie’s Cabernet Franc.

Hours Daily 5:30 pm to close.

Accessibility 3 steps at entrance; washrooms in basement.

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Dave Mitton mixes up the classics at Harbord Room.

This members-only cocktail den roosts incognito above its sister establishment, Sidecar, which is also known for killer cocktails. A Prohibition-era speakeasy vibe prevails. The drinks are stiff and expertly executed by perfect gentlemen Robin Kaufman and Oliver Stern, while oldtimey chanteuses coo in the background. House rules dissuade the use of cellphones, so you can enjoy unparalleled classics and topranking house tipples in peace while gazing at one of Toronto’s most beautiful back bars. Wavering on committing to the (worthwhile) annual fee? Give TTS a trial run by ingratiating yourself with the Sidecar crew.

Hours Daily 6 pm to close.

Accessibility Members gain access to the second floor via College entrance; newcomers inquire politely via Sidecar or online.

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1INDIE ALE HOUSE

BAR VOLO

587 Yonge, 416-928-0008 barvolo.com One of the founding fathers of the Toronto craft beer scene, Bar Volo is not resting on its laurels (or hops). Known for curating one of the best beer lists in town – consistently full of rarities and one-offs – the Morana family opened Volo 25 years ago, overseeing its gradual transformation from Italian restaurant to craft beer kingdom.

The Volo crew just co-hosted their ninth annual Cask Days festival featuring hundreds of cask-conditioned ales from over 100 Canadian microbreweries. If you don’t dawdle, there may be some delectable leftovers in your future.

Hours Monday to Thursday 2 pm to 2 am, Friday to Sunday noon to 2 am.

Accessibility Entrance barrierfree; washrooms in basement.

Casey Fiorio pulls the brews at Hole in the Wall.

1HOLE IN THE WALL

2867 Dundas West, 647-350-3564

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Craf t Bee r BAR HOP

391 King West, 647-352-7476 barhopbar.com Voted best draught selection in Ontario at the recent 2013 Golden Tap Awards, Bar Hop is a go-to for anyone seriously – or mildly – interested in beer. Always bustling with thirsty hordes, the 36 taps and two casks pump a rotating selection of local, international, rare, collaborative and seasonal brews.

If you fancy a killer combo of malted goodness, request a whisk(e)y flight to pair with your pint ($11 to $13); there’s a fair selection of brown spirits nestled above the Hop’s taps. Oysters are a buck a shuck on Tuesdays – otherwise known as the perfect excuse to get cozy with a pint of stout.

Hours Monday to Friday noon to 2 am, Saturday and Sunday 4 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility 3 steps to entrance; washrooms in basement.

Enter this Junction local, quite literally, through a door-shaped hole in the wall at the end of an outdoor hallway. You can usually locate it with relative ease by tracking the stream of smokers pouring out and packing back in.

Once in the long, narrow refuge, belly up to the bar and order your chosen poison, be it craft brew, cask ale or cocktail. An eclectic, friendly and all-around awesome spot with live music most nights, it’s the kind of bar where hours feel like minutes.

Hours Monday to Saturday 4 pm to 2 am, Sunday noon to 2 am.

Accessibility Entrance barrierfree; washrooms on main floor.

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With a spotlight on English and Belgian styles and a basement full of resting barrels, Indie Ale House is making a splash in the local craft beer scene. An experimental approach has led to collaborations with local and international breweries like Toronto’s Bellwoods and Italy’s Bruton. The spacious brew pub, warmed by wood and leather accents, attracts locals and beer enthusiasts seeking house staples and specialties like the Broken Hipster Belgian Wit, Instigator West Coast IPA and Ralph’s Nuts hazelnut and chestnut Saison (collabo with House Ales). Satisfy your Indie addiction at their beer store, where you can sign up for the Growler Club to access special brews on a monthly basis.

Hours Tuesday to Thursday noon to 1 am, Friday and Saturday noon to 2 am, Sunday noon to 10 pm, Monday 5 pm to midnight.

Accessibility Entrance barrierfree; washrooms on main floor.

PAUL TILL

2876 Dundas West, 416-760-9691 indiealehouse.com

1602

1HITCH 1216 Queen East, 647-352-7781 hitchlimited.com

1602 Dundas West @1602DundasWest

Named for literary icon and infamous imbiber Christopher Hitchens, this Leslieville local is indeed a fine place to drink the waters of inspiration. Owner Doug Tiller, who also runs Mercury Espresso down the street, built his bar to reflect his living space, which speaks volumes about how comfortable his home must be. Settle on fussfree whisky cocktails (old-fashioneds, Manhattans and sours) or a handful of local taps and wines, then kick back and linger for a few to do Hitch proud.

Hours Thursday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am, Sunday to Wednesday 5 pm to midnight.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms on main floor.

At the chilled-out bar with many names (a chalkboard propped up in the front window changes nightly depending on the whims of management) the shelves are beginning to buckle under whisky weight. A multitude of Scotch and bourbon bottles – one of T.O.’s more extensive but lesser-known whisk(e)y selections – beckon from the bar, daring you to resist their charms. Further insight into 1602’s awesomeness: the dimly lit bar is routinely full of regulars sipping spirits, beer and cocktails, remixing the soundtrack of classic tunes with their laughter.

Hours Daily 6 pm to close.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms in basement.

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Reuben Looyenga serves drinks on the popular Drake One Fifty patio.

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At the Drake’s trendy new financial district adjunct, you can escape the office for a calibre of cocktail you can’t mix from the stash squirrelled away in your desk. Styled by British designer Martin Brudnizki, the stunning room draws on an eclectic mix of influences – postmodern, pop with hints of deco, and luxe 50s diner. Oh, and art – there’s art everywhere. The cocktail list reflects those contexts while being typically Drake-onian and trend-conscious. It opens with low-octane offerings like The Suppressor #21 (Cynar, barolo chinato, sherry and orange bitters, $13) and Sandy De Almeida’s No Country For Old Men (Carpano Antica, fernet, lemon and Pernod, $12) and rounds out with fruity session options like the Sherry Cobbler (Oloroso, sugar, citrus and seasonal berries, $11) and boozy splurges like the Baller Manhattan (Colonel E.H. Taylor rye, Carpano Antica and bitters, $25).

Hours Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 5 pm to 2 am, Sunday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 1 am.

Accessibility One step at entrance; washrooms on main floor.

1564 Queen West, 647-352-8815 geraldinetoronto.com

NORTHWOOD

815 Bloor West, 416-846-8324 northwoodto.ca This cozy café and cocktail bar is nestled on an otherwise fallow strip of Bloor beside Christie Pits. Subtle Victoriana – a wrought iron cage encasing the back bar, brick and blackpainted walls and flickering candlelight – sets a relaxed and romantic vibe in which to enjoy bar manager Ana Wolkowski’s seasonal cocktails.

Try the Lady Grey Sour, a house favourite mixed with tea-infused rye, lemon and black pepper ($10), or take Shelter From The Night – cedar-infused rye with Fernet, peppercorns, apple and lemon ($11). Northwood is also a purveyor of fine caffeinated beverages; get a second wind courtesy of the shiny espresso machine before delving deeper into your cups.

Hours Daily 10 am to 2 am.

Accessibility One step at entrance; washrooms downstairs.

Parkdale got a whole lot classier when Geraldine, with glistening white tiles, elegantly curved marble bar, copper oyster bed and vintage absinthe drip, moved into the ’hood. Barman Michael Mooney’s cocktail list is introduced with sage words from Humphrey Bogart: “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” But being left behind won’t happen here. Between lovely house cocktails like the Grand Amber (Bulleit, Averna, Grand Marnier, orange blossom water and bitters) and the Antoinette (Citadelle gin, lavender syrup, orange bitters and grapefruit zest, both $10) and the warm, attentive and attractive staff, Geraldine will make your night.

Hours Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 6 pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 6 pm to 2 am. Closed Tuesday.

Accessibility Entrance barrierfree; washrooms on main floor.

PAUL TILL

Midfield sommelier and co-owner Christopher Sealy knows his grapes.

1MIDFIELD 1434 Dundas West, 647-345-7005 midfieldwinebar.com With its understatedly glorious wines and superb hospitality, the Midfield has my vote for classiest wine bar in town. Co-owners Christopher Sealy and Giuseppe Anile serve an eclectic range of world wines in astonishingly accessible fashion in their space reminiscent of a pareddown Italian taverna. Sealy, a wellloved sommelier with an enormous reservoir of wine knowledge, hosts occasional classes highlighting various varietals, styles and terroirs. Details online.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms downstairs.

5SKIN + BONES

980 Queen East, 416-524-5209 skinandbonesto.com The first lesson’s on the wall at Leslieville’s Skin + Bones, where the wine grape family tree developed by the University of California has been artistically and comprehensively reimagined. Your education continues as you settle somewhere in the sprawling space and order one of three rotating wine flights (three 2-ounce compact expeditions into terroir, style or varietals). Note that the perch of choice for chatting up the friendly, knowledgeable staff is the long, wooden bar facing the wine fridges, the Enomatic and the charcoal wall primped with glittery Riedels. Co-owner Harry Wareham (Ja-

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cobs & Co., Pizza Libretto) says the international wines are served based on their “textbook” expressions or eccentric character, which makes this a go-to for those looking to learn. The elegant list, shaped by sommelier Peter Boyd, isn’t cheap but offers selections in 3 or 6 ounce pours.

Questions, no matter how dumb, are answered kindly and informatively.

Hours Sunday to Thursday 5 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to midnight; closed Monday.

Accessibility Entrance barrierfree; washrooms on main floor.

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ARCHIVE

909 Dundas West, 647-748-0909 archive909.com At Archive, owned by sibling duo Josh and Joel Corea, there’s only one way to describe the service and consumption of wine: incredibly laid back. Cicchetti (Venetian-style bar nibbles) are served till late, providing guests with the best possible excuse to spend some quality time with 30-plus wines by the glass (reasonably priced from $8 to $14). Local wines are heavily repped – half the list is devoted to Ontario – with Old World appearances from Greece, Portugal, Spain, France and Italy.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Access Entrance barrier-free; washrooms in basement.

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THE BEST BARS IN TORONTO 7SALT 225 Ossington, 416-533-7258 saltrestaurant.ca Technically a wine bar, Salt’s got more than a fine selection of Portuguese vinhos. Barman Nick Kennedy mixes mai tais ($14) with homemade orgeat (which he makes with roasted almonds and orange-blossom water) and pops bottle-carbonated cocktails for $12 (the Sparkling Aperitivo tastes like a Negroni went to bed with a creamsicle – in a good way). Kennedy is always tinkering with new territory – from a charred cedar Manhattan he pansmokes in front of you ($14) to house-made bitters showcasing local flavours. Stay tuned for the fruits of a (still incubating) leather-aged cocktail program and a bone-marrowwashed vermouth.

Hours Sunday to Thursday 6 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility One step at door; washrooms in basement.

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PAUL TILL

924 Queen West, 416-536-8963 ursa-restaurant.com

Salt’s Paul Kapridov pours for Ian Gibson (left) and Peter Ferderber.

Bar Chef co-owner Frankie Solarik transforms cocktails with his housemadeinfused concoctions.

Ursa’s bar program, led by GM Robin Goodfellow, is an extension of the restaurant’s wildly creative and visionary kitchen.

A glance at the cocktail list – categorized by classic, modern and seasonal options – reveals Goodfellow’s penchant for crafted ingredients. He makes his own vermouth, crème de violette, limoncello and amer, a long-lost liqueur made from meticulously zested Seville oranges and featured in his Shaw Cocktail ($15).

Goodfellow employs culinary techniques like sous vide for infusions and is currently incubating a house-made amaro flavoured with herbs grown in Ursa’s backyard garden.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility Two steps at entrance; washrooms in basement.

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7BARCHEF 472 Queen West, 416-868-4800 barcheftoronto.com

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Frankie Solarik’s signature approach to mixology has garnered BarChef, co-owned with Brent VanderVeen, a widespread reputation. Craft components and quality spirits star, and house-made bitters, syrups and infusions are used to mix some of the city’s most inventive drinks. Accommodating a range of tastes, the menu offers crowdpleasers like the basil daiquiri (coconut rum, basil, lime, pineapple, honey and black pepper syrup) and slow sippers like the Backwoods Boulevardier (Backwoods-infused bourbon, sweet vermouth and Campari, both $13). The modernist section gets playful on the molecular level – mojito “ravioli” and beach essence join spiced rum, lime and vanilla in the Sailor’s Mojito ($25). The pièce de résistance is the Vanilla Hickory Smoked Manhattan ($45), smoked to order in a bell jar.

Hours Tuesday to Friday 6 pm to close, Saturday 8 pm to close, closed Sunday and Monday.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms in basement.

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At Rhum Corner, snack on a dish of legumes with goat and sip Danielle Flawn’s Rum Bucket made with Haitian rum.

926 Dundas West, 647-346-9356 rhumcorner.com Jen Agg and husband Roland Jean’s newly opened Haitian joint is the closest you’ll get to a tropical rum-and-snack shack without having to book a flight. Order a plate of curried goat and a side of salty-sweet fried plaintain to hold you while you dip into delectable rums under the easy-going gaze of Jean’s cheeky Barbancourt mural. On offer are hyper-addictive booze slushies (the pina colada is a tropical journey in your mouth), frescos (rhum agricole and fruit syrup over crushed ice) in adorable copper mugs, and the best damn rum and cokes in town.

Hours Thursday to Monday 6 pm to 2 am; closed Tuesday and Wednesday.

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T.O.’s pioneer of late-night gourmet nibbles, 416 Snack Bar is designed for post-work decompression, but patrons linger in the compact space for hours, often finding themselves, snacks in fist, sipping craft beer and excellent wines by the glass till last call. A rotating menu of small plates ($3-$12) inspired by Toronto’s multicultural cuisine – Trini doubles, spicy tuna hand rolls, steak tartare, an all-Canadian cheese board – renders a bigger, cutlery-dependent meal unnecessary. Arrive early if you fancy a seat; this place is rammed every night of the week. Ask to peek at the underexposed but epic wine list if you’re looking for something extra-special.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

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BAR ISABEL

797 College, 416-532-2222 barisabel.com In Spain you’re a freak if you indulge in dinner before 10 pm. At Isabel, you have a much better chance of securing a seat after 10 pm. Ah, the pleasures of authenticity. Post-dinner service (the full menu is available until 11:30 pm during the week and till midnight on weekends), a

slightly abbreviated late- night menu rolls out, giving you the option of feasting on boquerones ($9) and whole octopus ($59) till 2 am. Cocktails mixed by Mike Webster (the Drake) and Josh Lindley (Rock Lobster) make tasty accompaniments.

There’s plenty of beer and wine, too.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms in basement.

ODD SEOUL 90 Ossington

Odd only in the best of ways, Ossington’s afterdark snack stop peppers traditional Korean with Philly flavour, a nod to sibling co-owners Leemo and Leeto Han’s (of Swish by Han) heritage and American upbringing. To eat: habit-forming tempura prawns, squash poutine, bulgogi cheese steak and probably the most craved fried rice in Toronto (snacks are in the $5 to $7 range). To drink: creative cocktails like the Snow White (gin, sake, yuzu jam and lemon) and False Dawn (Auchentoshan, breakfast tea syrup, grapefruit and lavender, $11) or a concise and interesting list of beers and wines.

Hours 6pm to close.

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13030 3030 Dundas West, 416-769-5736 3030dundaswest.com Gone are the days when pounding back drinks and trying to get laid were the only activities facilitated by bars. Not that there’s anything wrong with those pastimes, but it’s always nice to diversify. Negroni-fuelled pinball tourneys can count as foreplay. Between six vintage pinball tables, stacks of retro board games and frequent shows held on the cavernous back stage, you won’t get bored at 3030. Order from 16 local taps or have barman and bourbon aficionado Lucas Twyman fix you a cocktail.

Hours Tuesday to Friday 1 pm to close, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to close.

Accessibility Entrance barrier-free; washrooms on main floor.

GET WELL 1181 Dundas West getwellbar.com

Get Well feels like a cozy and cavernous retro basement but on the first floor.

There’s plenty to distract from power drinking – a wedge of classic videogame tables like Pac Man, Space Invaders and Tetris can be attacked in the back along with pinball machines to fuel supremacy matches. A dozen local beers from Muskoka, Niagara Oast House and Flying Monkeys along with Get Well house brews like Get Well Porter and Pinball Wizard A.P.A.

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Who can’t get down with bowling? It’s communal, it’s competitive and it’s fun, even when you kind of suck at it. The upside of the Ballroom? You don’t have to hike to the far reaches of the city to pin down a lane for a few hours.

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THE RIVOLI

332 Queen West, 416-596-1501 rivoli.ca Can you call yourself a Torontonian if you’ve never shot a game of pool while knocking back beers at the Rivoli? It’s debatable. Operating for 30 years, the Rivoli’s second-floor pool lounge is home to 11 tables, a jukebox, a pinball machine and a bar – all you and a few friends need to get by. Hourly rates are reasonable: $6 before 6:30 pm and $10 into the evening. Add $18 pitchers of Amsterdam Blonde or Big Wheel and a few shots of Jameson to the equation and you’ve got a quintessential Queen West experience.

Hours Daily noon to close.

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Cabbagetown café gets creative with a generally underappreciated dish By Steven Davey SCULLERY (200 Carlton, at Sackville, 647-​748-​5000, thescullery.ca, @The_ Scullery) Complete meals for $20 per person, including, tax, tip and an iced tea. Average main $9. Open Wednesday to Friday 7 am to 7 pm, Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 5 pm, Monday 7 am to 7 pm. Closed Tuesday, some holidays. Reservations accepted. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN

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Like Rodney Dangerfield and the upper house of Parliament, salads get no respect.

Oh, sure, they’re always there, lurking on the plate like some afterthought drizzled in dressing, forever the supporting player and rarely the star. The Scullery looks set to change all that.

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town café expecting cheap heaps o’ mesclun straight out of the box. Instead, find a dazzling roster of main-​sized combos that includes creamy green lentils with lean Danish bacon and sour cherries in a tart citrus vinaigrette finished with stinky Gorgonzola blue cheese.

Brilliantly charred Brussels sprouts arrive under a blanket of shaved parmigiano and toasted hazel­nuts, their sweet bal­samic vin­ai­grette the perfect foil for the fa­mous­ly bitter baby cabbage. And an im­pres­sive pile of blackened corn, ripe to­m­ato, fresh basil and pickled red onion squeezes the last drop out of summer (all $7.50/$10.50 for two/ $12.50 for three). They almost should come with a simple green salad.

There are daily entrees such as the Middle East/West fusion of roasted bone­less, skinless chicken breast tossed

with peanuts and kissed with saffron and rosewater, or a classic-​with-​a-​twist sausage ’n’ apple quiche (both $12.50 with one salad). Sandwiches are just as adventurous, most notably the tasty mix of fatty prosciutto, fresh figs and pesto with “mixed leaves” – aka lettuce – on eight crusty inches of Ace Bakery baguette ($7). And don’t leave without an old-​school cinnamon bun or scone (both $2.95).

Only a takeout turkey and rice soup ($6 “with bread”) disappoints, and that’s only because said bread turns out to be little more than two tiny croutons.

Beautifully wrapped in white paper and tied with twine, mind.

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With its exposed brick and cast-off furniture, Cabbagetown’s Cafune (194A Carlton, at Ontario, 647-7487884, cafune.ca, @CafuneTO, ­rating: NNN) looks like almost every other caffeinated café in town. Dig a little deeper and you’ll discover there’s more to this laid-back Brazilian eatery than just coffee beans.

You find fishy baked cod cakes ($3.95 for four) as well as daily soups like the ubiquitous butternut squash ($3.25) – hey, it’s that time of year! – and heart of palm salads tossed with spinach and cashews in passion fruit vinaigrette ($6.25). Though we doubt we’ll be back for the bland pinto bean and chorizo Feijão Tropeiro stew on plain white rice, we’ll happily return for Cafune’s South American spin on shepherd’s pie, its traditional spuds replaced with creamy mashed cassava (both $7.95 with soup or salad).

Or maybe we’ll grab a pressed Bauru sandwich on a kaiser layered with thinly sliced roast beef, ripe tomato and melted mozzarella ($6.95) and a wedge of housebaked cinnamon coffee cake ($3.25) to go. But no visit to cozy Ca­fune’s complete without a plate of ambrosial baked-to-order pão de queijo cheese puffs (75¢ each). You’ll easily inhale a six-pack on the spot.

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Blink and you’ll miss Under the Table (568-B Parliament, at Wellesley, 647-3511533, rating­: NNN). You’ll be sorry you did.

Down a flight of stairs in the basement of an anonymous Cabbagetown Victorian, Betty Ann and Kimberly Simpson’s subterranean takeaway might not have the highest of profiles, but it certainly aims to please. Don’t see something you like on the lengthy island-inspired menu?

Ask for it and they’ll make it. You don’t get that at Canoe.

A regular named Michael wanted meat loaf, so they gave him a filler-free version made with pricy ground Angus beef and sided it generously with mashed potatoes, made-from-scratch gravy, sweetly caramelized onion strings and a whack of properly steamed al dente veggies ($14).

Another known as Hunnie request­ed Betty Ann’s jerk chicken as a salad, so chef obliged with an impressive pile of ripped romaine, grilled pineapple, sliced mango, dried cranberries and candied walnuts topped with shards of her rightly “famous” fowl. She even does a mean jerk chicken poutine (both $11).

There are daily specials like spaghetti Bolognese ($8) and a very good creamcheese-stuffed French toast finished with raspberry purée ($9). The only things missing are tacos.

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Best: to start, complimentary grilled watermelon wedges dusted with sea salt and squirted with lime; “cowboy” pork ’n’ beef sausages with baked caulicheese, pickled cherries and green bean and wilted watercress salad; minced pork ’n’ quail egg pie with mashed root

veggies and minty garden peas; at brunch, house-cured pork belly with grilled scallion salad, St John Bakery toast spread with sticky tomato jam, and roasted salt ’n’ malt vinegar home fries; savoury apple, cheddar and rosemary galette. Complete meals for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a pint of local microbrew.

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@roseandsons Former Drake executive chef Anthony Rose revives his ambitious pop-up barbecue concept on a tented ’n’ heated Annex yearround backyard patio down an alleyway next to the train tracks. Close your eyes and you could be sitting round a campfire in Muskoka. Best: grilled Thuet Bakery sourdough dressed with banana, Nutella and dulce de leche; peanut-butter-andjam pork chops with salted Norfolk County peanuts and house-made sour cherry jam; smoky-sweet Perth County pork belly sided with overeasy eggs and garlicky grilled broccoli; to share, “soft and sexy” grits swirled with melted butter; to drink, steamin’ mugs of instant Maxwell House coffee. Complete brunches for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a root beer. Average main $15. Open Thursday to Sunday 11 am to close, Monday to Wednesday 5 pm to close.

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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

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.

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Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food scene Wine time The Scullery, Cafuné and Under the Table aren’t the only new beaneries in Cabbagetown. The crew responsible for upscale pizza spot F’Amelia have just launched a wine bar cleverly dubbed Extended F’Amelia (8 Amelia, at Parliament, 416-3230666, famelia.com, @fameliaristo) in the space right next door. Look for a dozen or so wines by the glass or bottle, a short tapas-style carte and a curbside patio come summer.

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Over in Little India, the now-licensed Lazy Daisy (1515 Gerrard East, at Coxwell, 647-341-4070, lazydaisyscafe.ca, @LazyDaisysCafe) has introduced dinner service Thursday through Saturday. Owner/chef Dawn Chapman promises small, locally sourced plates – beef ’n’ chorizo meatballs in mole sauce, smoked trout and horseradish pâté with baby Yorkshire pudding – and an allSD VQA wine list.

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The ubiquity of look-alike fast fashion makes it easy to forget the best clothes are also works of art. Trust idealistic Ryerson students to remind us with their second annual Wearable Art Show. See creative clothes fashioned from a variety of unexpected materials, and support charity while you’re at it. All proceeds benefit the Believe to Achieve Organization. Tuesday (November 5), 6 and 9 pm, at the Berkeley Church (315 Queen East). $15 from wearableartshowru.brownpapertickets. com or at the door.

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Despite an abundance of talent, Canadian designers have a hard time getting support from national retailers. The Bay takes a much-needed step in the right direction with the new Brika pop-up shop.

What began just a year ago as two young women’s ambitious e-commerce venture is now a physical treasure trove of homegrown goods located in The Bay’s flagship store.

Brika is the retail version of the farm-to-table movement, making sure shoppers know exactly who and where their purchases come from. Read the stories behind the goods on tablets as you browse through one-of-a-kind crafts and eco-conscious eccentricities from more than 40 Canadian artisans. Your move, Holt Renfrew.

Brika picks: Owners Kena Paranjape and Jen Lee Koss can barely choose between all their handpicked babies, but especially love Creative Director Clothing interactive Ts for kids made from 100 per cent organic cotton ($35) and Twill and Print organic suede clutches ($65).

Look For: Fun Canadiana stocking stuffers like Henderson Dry Goods canoe ornaments ($22.50/set of three) and Freshly Printed’s edible species of Ontario tea towel ($25).

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GRETA CONSTANTINE COCKTAIL DRESS It’s tricky finding a good cocktail dress, one that’s not so cheap it falls apart after a few washes and not so pricey you have to be a telecom heir to afford it. Canadian label Greta Constantine finds the perfect middle ground with their Cici/O cocktail dress in a brilliant electric green that won’t get lost in the crowd. This is a one-shouldered statement dress in a classic silhouette that won’t shock your mother. $995, TNT, 87 Avenue Road, 416-975-1810, and others, gretaconstantine.com.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

CRACKED AND CONFUSED: WHO’S LAYING YOUR EGGS? T After a secret video outed abuses at a major egg supplier, how do you know your omelette is ethical?

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BURNBRAE Recent hidden camera footage exposed animal rights abuses at two Burnbrae supply farms in Alberta (see below). Burnbrae has since suspended egg purchases from the farms shown, but the video raises questions about the ethics of run-of-themill battery cage conditions for conventional egg-layers.

Hens are tightly confined in wire cages with 67 to 69 square ­inches per bird (the size of a sheet of paper), with no nest, perch or access to the outdoors. Burnbrae’s new “Nestlaid” eggs come from hens given perches and a nesting area in a “furnished cage environment.” $4.20/ dozen Score: N

ROWE FARMS Rowe’s regular eggs now come from the larger “enhanced caged housing envi­ ronment” standard in Europe (where battery cages are banned), with perches, scratch pads and nests – and 110 square inches per bird. Rowe’s Green Valley-brand eggs come from free-run hens in large open-concept­barns. Both groups of hens are exposed to eight hours of darkness (unlike industrial egg operations) and are fed no animal by-products, though their feed isn’t GMOfree. Rowe says it’ll soon be selling certified ­organic (GMOfree) eggs. $4.85/dozen for Green Valley Score: NNN

PC ORGANIC/NATUREGG ­ORGANIC Conditions in large certifiedorganic­egg facilities are pretty standardized. Both these supermarket brands use certified-organic­, GMO-free feed and house hens in freerun open-concept barns on an industrial scale, with a minimum eight hours of darkness and a maxi­mum of six birds per square metre. Organic standards for ­organic eggs outlaw dead mammal/avian feed as well as antibiotics.

While organic hens are supposed to have some sort of access to the outdoors, neither PC nor Naturegg (Burnbrae) claims to raise hens on pasture. $7.19/dozen Score: NNNN

Cagey connection Footage of nasty stuff at Egg farms Puts McDonald’s in the fryer An undercover W-5 investigation into Cana­dian egg farms, aired October 18, has sent the egg industry scrambling and McDonald’s dodging calls to ban the use of eggs from battery-caged hens in its McMuffins.

Graphic hidden-camera footage by Mercy for Animals Cana­da was filmed last summer at facilities housing up to 120,000 hens each. It shows thousands of birds – some injured, some dead – crammed inside filthy wire cages, and workers violently smashing the heads of chicks (a practice known as “thumping”) and bagging them in plastic while some are still alive.

Turns out the two Alberta egg farms caught on tape supply Burnbrae, the

country’s largest egg brand. Burnbrae also happens to be McDonald’s sole supplier of eggs, though it says no Alberta eggs go to the Golden Arches.

McDonald’s and Burnbrae both issued statements saying they’re firmly committed to animal welfare. Says McD’s: “We b ­ elieve animals should be free from cruelty, abuse and neglect – abuse is never tolerated in our supply chain and McDonald’s has strict policies concerning the treatment of animals that our suppliers must adhere to.” The chain didn’t explain how it enforces these policies, and McDonald’s didn’t respond to Ecoholic’s request for an interview.

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ORGANIC MEADOW These certified organic cluckers live on mixed farms of the Old MacDonald variety.

They’re housed in open-concept barns but are mostly out on pasture until temps plummet. Most hens live in flocks of about 500; the largest is 3,200. Their feed is vegetarian, apart from the bugs they munch in the field. Farmerowned cooperative. $5.79/dozen Score: NNNNN

of operations Stephane Perrais says McDonald’s should not be getting eggs from battery-caged hens. The practice is banned in California, New Zealand and Europe, where Perrais notes that McDonald’s took a leadership role in switching to free-range eggs. Here in Cana­da, 98 per cent of hens are still wedged in battery cages.

The chair of Egg Farmers of Cana­da released a statement insisting the conditions shown are an unfortunate anomaly. “I have visited hundreds of Cana­da’s more than 1,000 egg farms. I have never seen hens treated in the manner shown. I share in the public’s response to the video. The images are unacceptable. However, I object to any perception that this is in any way common, tolerated or representative.”

But is anyone watching the henhouse to know for sure? There are no federal regulations on how to raise farm animals, so at this point voluntary guidelines put out by the industry-run National Farm Animal Care Council are all there is. The NFACC’s code of practice, for instance­, recommends giving hens 67 square inches each, about the size of standard school notebook. It also okays cervical dislocation, aka thump­ing, and live grinding of “nonsalable” chicks.

Jamie Cooney, CEO of Rowe Farms, says the sights in the video are more common than the industry is letting on.

He notes that the free-run industry as a whole has a 5 to 10 per cent mor-

SMALL FLOCK’S DELIGHT As guilt-free as eggs get. This cooperative of Amish farmers raises hens in small flocks of 100 to 500 birds in tents on pasture. Weather permitting, tent doors are left open. These happy hens eat grass or organic GMO-free grain and veggie scraps, with full access to nest boxes and perches – though the eggs themselves are not certified organic. When the World Society for the Protection of Animals visited, there was no evidence that hens were pecking each other the way free-run hens have been known to. Pastured Nutri Spring Eggs are also a top pick. From $7.99/dozen at Big ecoholic pick Carrot Score: NNNNN

tality rate from aggressive birds turning cannibalistic, though he says Rowe’s meat poultry barns have almost a zero per cent mortality rate because they provide plenty of food and keep the lights dim to reduce agitation. Adds Cooney, “Consumers want $2.50 eggs; then we’re horrified when we see what’s involved in making them at that price.”

Speaking of cheap eggs, MFA Cana­ da is calling on McDonald’s Canada to step up and ban battery cages. To nudge the mega-corp in the right ­direction, go to eggmcmisery.ca.

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

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Between Greenpeacers chaining themselves to Vancouver’s Kinder Morgan pipeline terminal, local Line 9 rallies and swelling solidarity with Mi’kmaq anti-fracking protests, it’s been a bustling month in fossil fuel resis­tance. But the expression of dissent most unsettling to the Conservatives has to be the Fort McKay First Nation’s withdrawal from Alberta’s Joint Oil Sands Monitoring (JOSM) ­program.

The federal-provincial program, first announced in early 2012, was touted as proof Canadian officials were taking serious steps toward ade­quate enviro oversight. On October 8, the Fort McKay First Nation, a community 60 kilometres downstream from Fort McMurray, walked away from JOSM, calling it “a frustrating and futile process.’’

“Communities like ours and other First Nations have thoughts on what should be monitored, to what intensity when and where, and that hasn’t entirely been factored in,” Dan Stuckless, Fort McKay’s ­environmental affairs manager, tells Ecoholic.

Stuckless says JOSM itself was doing sound research, pointing to the recent study on rising levels of mercury in local bird eggs. But it’s not clear whether both levels of government will be required to act on such findings. Asks Stuckless, “When you get information that’s concerning or requires some management decision to be made – will they actually be made?”

Word is, both the province and feds are now scrambling to keep Fort McKay at the table. If the feds can’t prove they’re taking First Nations input into account, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has said it would consider leaving, too. If this happens, the program would lose what it desperately needs to placate prospective bitumen buyers in the U.S. and Europe: legiti­macy.

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No sweet treat Sweeteners are flavoured by controversy By elizabeth bromstein

What’s a diet soda lover to do? Or a coffee junkie with a sweet tooth?

There’s been so much noise about the dangers of artificial sweeteners lately that people watching their calories and blood sugar have their heads spinning.

Coca-Cola even took out ads declar­ ing that aspartame’s safety “is supported by more than 200 studies over the last 40 years.” Yes and no.

How do we make sense of the conflicting data?

What the experts say “The only sweetener that caused any cancer was saccharine, and that was specific to male rats. Aspartame defin­ itely doesn’t cause cancer, and the data so far looks good for sucralose (Splen­ da). The experiments that found a link between cancer and aspartame and sucralose have been examined by regulatory agencies and scientists all over the world. They were not well designed experiments, and the authors have refused to disclose important details. Aspartame is the safest. I know exactly how it’s metabolized – it’s turned into stuff your body encounters every day.”

ERIC WALTERS, College of Pharmacy, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, author, The Sweetener Book, Chicago, Illinois

“Aspartame has caused cancer in three independent studies and in our opin­ ion should not be on the market. The lab conducting the studies has been criticized; we have looked at those criticisms, and the vast majority are without merit. We’re seeing tumours in two different animal species, at multiple sites. The results are very compelling. We tell people to be cautious about sucralose. Acesulfame K is another we recommend consumers avoid. The best choice is to cut back on both sugar and artificial sweetener intake. Drink seltzer. Put a little juice in the seltzer, or in your water.”

LISA LEFFERTS, senior scientist, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC

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“Our paper discussed human studies that assess the risk of diseases in people who drank one diet soda per day compared to those who did not.

Those studies indicated that risks for stroke, heart disease and type 2 dia­ betes were higher in diet soda drink­ ers, even when family history, dietary intake and body weight were consid­ ered. The paper also talked about data that demonstrated that animals given artificially sweetened diets gain ex­ cess weight and show difficulties in regulating blood sugar. The data suggest that over the long term, consuming even one diet soda a day may contribute to risks of negative outcomes.

Normally, a sweet taste in the mouth means sugar and energy is going to en-

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Once, when I was

hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of mouldering wood and floral sweetness.

Let’s make this scene your metaphor of the week, Aries. Here’s why: A part of your life that is in the throes of decay can serve as host for a magnificent bloom. What has been lost to you may become the source of fertility. Halloween costume suggestion: a garbage man or cleaning maid wearing a crown of roses.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 What don’t you like? Get clear about that. What don’t you want to do? Make definitive decisions.

What kind of person do you not want to become, and what life do you never want to live? Resolve those questions with as much certainty as possible. Write it all down, preferably in the form of a contract with yourself. Sign the contract. This document will be your sacred promise, a declaration of the boundaries you won’t cross and the activities you won’t waste your time on and the desires that aren’t worthy of you. It will feed your freedom to know exactly what you like and what you want to accomplish and who you want to become. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you ­really are.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Are you up for an experiment? Not just on Halloween, but for a week afterwards, be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops

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into your mind, bare your teeth and growl, “Get out of here or I will rip you to shreds!” If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a torch and sword, screaming, “Begone, foul spirit, or I will burn your mangy ass!” Don’t tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt-trip you. “I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated!” is what you could say, or “I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity!”

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Are you ready to be amazed? Now would be an excellent time to shed your soul’s infantile illusions... to play wildly with the greatest mystery you know... to accept gifts that enhance your freedom and refuse gifts that don’t... to seek out a supernatural encounter that heals your chronic sadness... to consort and converse with sexy magi­ cal spirits from the future... to make love with the lights on and cry when you come. Halloween costume suggestion: the archetypal LOVER. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Some people in your

vicinity are smouldering and fuming. The air is heavy with emotional ferment. Conspiracy theories are ripening and rotting at the same time. Hidden agendas are seeping into conversations, and gossip is swirling like ghostly dust devils. Yet in the midst of this mayhem, an eerie calm possesses you. As everyone else struggles, you’re poised and full of grace. To what do

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we owe this stability? I suspect it has to do with the fact that life is showing you how to feel at home in the world no matter what’s happening around you. Keep making yourself receptive to these teachings. Halloween costume suggestion: King or Queen of Relaxation.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 Unification should be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. Anything you do that promotes splicing and blending and harmonizing will get extra help, sometimes from mysterious forces working behind the scenes.

The more you work to find common ground between opposing sides, the stronger you’ll feel and the better you’ll look. If you can manage to mend schisms and heal wounds, unexpected luck will flow into your life. To encourage these ­developments, consider these Halloween disguises: a roll of tape, a stick of Krazy Glue, a wound that’s healing, a bridge.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 What do you think you’d be like if you were among the 1-percent-wealthiest people on earth? Would you demand that your government raise your taxes so you could contribute more to our collective well-being? Would you live simply and cheaply so you’d have more money to donate to charities and other worthy causes? This Halloween season, I suggest you play around with fantasies like that – maybe even masquerade as an incredibly rich philanthropist who doles out cash and gifts everywhere you go. At the very least, imagine what it would be like if you had everything you

ter the digestive system, and the body releases hormones like insulin and GLP-1 in preparation. Artificial sweeteners cause confusion since they are not followed by energy or sugar. As a result, the anticipatory responses get smaller, since the body cannot predict whether calories and sugar will arrive. Over time, this could contribute to overeating and poorer regulation of blood sugar levels.”

SUSAN SWITHERS, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana “A number of major reviews show there is nothing toxic in any diet sweetener. Recent studies by two groups – the Harvard one and ours, both with major cohorts – showed that all the adverse effects on weight or cardio metabolic problems linked with diet sweeteners were found be­ cause half the people who use diet sweeteners consume a very poor diet.

The lingering issue is if diet sweetener use increases desire for other sweeteners, but there is no evidence of this to date.”

BARRY POPKIN, department of nutrition, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health, Chapel Hill “Aspartame is the one I would caution against most, more than sucralose. needed and felt so grateful that you shared your abundance freely.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 What if you had

the power to enchant and even bewitch people with your charisma? Would you wield your allure without mercy? Would you feel wicked delight in their attraction to you, even if you didn’t plan to give them what they want? I suspect these questions aren’t entirely rhetorical right now. You may have more mojo at your disposal than you realize. Speaking for your conscience, I will ask you not to desecrate your privilege. If you must manipulate people, do it for their benefit as well as yours. Use your raw magic responsibly.

Halloween costume suggestion: a mesmerizing guru; an irresistible diva; a stage magician.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 I had a

dream that you were in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? You were like the character played by George Clooney after he escaped from a prison chain gang. Can you picture it? You were wearing a striped jailbird suit, and a ball and chain were still cuffed around your ankle. But you were sort of free, too. You were on the lam, making your way from adventure to adventure as you eluded those who would throw you back in the slammer. You were not yet in the clear, but you seemed to be en route to total emancipation. I think this dream is an apt metaphorical depiction of your actual life right now. Could you somehow use it in designing your ­Halloween costume?

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 I invite you to try the following exercise. Imagine the most powerful role you could realistically attain in the future. This is a position or niche or job that will authorize you to wield your influence to the max. It will give you the clout to shape the environments you share with other people. It will

Studies on stevia look like it has po­ tentially helpful effects, but it hasn’t been well studied. [Still], if I were to pick a sweetener, I would pick stevia.

The sugar or honey in your coffee or tea, unless you’re overdoing it, is not the problem. It’s not going to cause obesity or diabetes in most people, even if you’re using it every day. If you’re eating sugar in the form of candy bars, more harm is done. It’s about limiting the sugar you’re using.

You don’t have to stop cold turkey.”

DAVID DENIS, naturopath, Toronto “We have found that mice, when given a choice between very sweet artificial sweetener and less sweet sugar solutions, will eagerly choose the former. However, in a state of hunger, the same mice will develop a very strong attraction for the sugar solutions, to the point of ignoring the non-caloric ones. Cells in the brain that produce the neurotrans­ mitter dopamine do not respond to sweet solutions unless they contain calories from sugars. Dopamine is a chemical signal fundamental for sensations and actions associated with rewards. Thus, brain cells involved in reward and feeding habits seem more interested in how energetic sweet solutions are rather than how sweet or aromatic they may other­ wise be.”

IVAN DE ARAUJO, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, ­Connecticut

allow you to freely express your impor­ tant ideas and have them be treated seriously. Let your imagination run a little wild as you visualize the possibilities. Incorporate your visions into your ­Halloween costume.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 In the course

of earning a living, I have worked four different jobs as a janitor and six as a dishwasher. On the brighter side, I have performed as a songwriter and lead singer for six rock bands and currently write a syndicated astrology column. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Aquarians are primed to cultivate a relationship with your work life that is more like my latter choices than the former. The next eight months will be a favourable time to ensure that you’ll be doing your own personal equivalent of rock singer or astrology columnist well into the future. Halloween costume suggestion: your dream job.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Author Robert

Louis Stevenson loved the work of poet Walt Whitman, recommending it with the same enthusiasm as he did Shakespeare’s. Stevenson also regarded Whitman as an unruly force of nature, and in one famous passage, called him “a large shaggy dog, just unchained, scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.” Your assignment is to do your best imitation of a primal creature like Whitman. In fact, consider being him for Halloween. Maybe you could memorize passages from Whitman’s Leaves Of Grass and recite them at random moments.

Here’s one: “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.”

Homework: Meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding what’s outworn. In that light, what’s the best death you’ve experienced? Freewillastrology.com

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Thursday, October 31 ALIEN VS PREDATOR Space Thursday’s party

with music by DJs Addy and Andy Warburton. 10 pm. Adv $15, more at the door (ticketpicket.com/alienvspredator). & Co, 295 Enfield, Mississauga.

ASYLUM DJs Cesar Caballero, Jad Ad and She Said Dance. Doors 10 pm. Cabal Lounge, 782 King W. facebook.com/djcesarcaballero.

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, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $30, stu $20. Saint Luke’s United Church, 353 Sherbourne, Parlour. litmustheatre.com.

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

Bands the Penske File, the Anti Queens, Dirty Jeans and Sparrows play. 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 with Kilometre and others performing. 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. 3 Bands the Highest Order, Digits, Soupcans, Ell V Gore, Teenanger, Michael Rault, Biblical and others play. $12.50 (rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com) Silver Dollar & Comfort Zone, 486 Spadina.

EVIL DEAD – THE MUSICAL The musical based on the film franchise returns home for its

10th anniversary. Runs to Dec 22, Thu-Sat 7 & 10:30 pm, Sun 3 pm (see website for other times). $19.99-$69.95. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. evildeadthemusical.com.

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

FRANKIE FOO HALLOWEEN PARTY. 10 pm.

Grossman’s Tavern, 379 Spadina. grossmanstavern.com.

FREAK FEST Bands Braincell, Graveyard, Axeminister and others play this all ages show.

Doors 7 pm. DC Music Sound Stage, 360 Munster. dcmusic.ca.

FRIGHT PARTY Sheezer plays this frightening party. Doors 8:30 pm, $15, adv 12.50. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. Tickets at rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com and ticketfly.

FREAKSHOW DJs 4Korners, DJ Outlaw, DJ Dattabass, Scott Scratch and others perform.

Aria, 108 Peter. freakshow2013.com.

FUNK SPECTRUM THURSDAYS: FUNKY HALLOWEEN BASH Babalao Stereo Club and DJ General

Eclectic play. 9:30 pm. $10. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 4 16- 840-0501.

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

plus 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, Soul Motivators, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, DJ Brendan Canning and Farbsie Funk perform. Doors 8 pm. $25. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne (kopsrecords.ca, playderecord.com, rotate. com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketweb.ca).

GHOSTING Cameltoe play rock and top 40 at this Halloween party. 10 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lakeshore W. 416-521-6302.

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.

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

HALLOWEEN Bands the Rabid Whole, the Joy Arson, October Sky and Blind Race play. 8 pm.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca.

HALLOWEEN Evan Kuhn and DJ Raz play. 9 pm,

$5 without costume. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. alleycatz.ca.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONCERT Music by the Capitol Beat, Christian Bridges and the Backtracks with prize for best costume. 9 pm, $8$10. Measure, 296 Brunswick. measureto.ca.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY 8 pm. No cover.

Emmet Ray Bar, 924 College. 416-792-4497.

HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA Max Woolaver plays for partiers here. 8 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. fretimescafe.com.

HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES Rock music. 10 pm.

The Hideout,484 Queen W. thehideouttoronto.com HALLOWEEN FILMS AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Dead Ringers 6:30 pm, Ginger Snaps 8 pm, The Exorcist 9:05 pm, The Changeling 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 HOWL Jacky Bouchard, Richard Whiteman and Kurt Nielson play jazz. 7 pm. $5. Reservoir Lounge, 52 Wellington E. reservoirlounge.com. continued on page 44 œ

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rHalloween Star Party Creepy constellations tour, a kids’ costume parade and more.

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 Jazz Party Anthony & Mary Pa-

nacci, Mike Downes and Kevin Dempsey perform. 7:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar, 21 Old Mill. 416-236-2641.

HALLOWEEN MAKE-UP & PHOTOGRAPHY Have the final touches put on your little ones by a pro makeup artist. Reserve for appointments from 3-6:30 pm. From $10. Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst. 647-390-3178.

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

Halloween Party Musicians Whitney Rose, Ferraro and others perform. 10 pm. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. thecameron.com.

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

Halloween Random Play, Random Goth

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

Halloween Rock Show Bands Stark Naked & the Fleshtones, Unbelievers, California Death Rays and the Lizard Jamboree play. 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.

HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Van Leer, the Rave, Stagelings and the Soul Instigators play this party.

Costumes optional. 9 pm. Mélange, 172 Main.

416-686-6485.

HALLOWEEN SPOOK SHOW Candy, prizes, Halloween-themed trailers, obscure oddities, scary shorts, chills and thrills. 9 pm. $5. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theroyal.to.

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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. rHAUNTED HIGH PARK Spooky grounds tours, legends and ghost stories for families with kids eight and up. 7 pm. $12.50, child $7.50.

Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916.

HAUNTED KENSINGTON, CHINATOWN & GRANGE Discover the Chinese Hungry Ghost

Festival and which stores and cafes are haunted. 6:30 pm. $25, srs/stu $18, child $15. Red pole w/ black cat, 350 Spadina. Preregister 416-923-6813.

Haunted Toronto Halloween Urban scavenger hunt for adults. 7 pm. $30. ­urbancapers.com/haunted-toronto.

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HELLOWEEN: THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT FROM DUSK TILL DAWN DJ Richard Silas, DJ Kali X, Safari Boys & Nick James, Jeff Breen vs Chris Bosno, Karlene Oliver play. Doors 10 pm. Ryze, 423 College W. ticketzone.com.

HORROR SHOW DJs Hot Mouth, Stereotro-

nique and Mikey Wilson spin at this costume party with art direction by the Young Offenders, plus snake handlers, a headless horseman, go-go dancers photo booth and more. $10.

Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, northerntickets.com House Party Costume bash with Diggy the DJ. 10 pm. $10. Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca.

INDIE88 HALLOWEEN BLOOD DRIVE Local musicians and the public are welcome to make a life-saving donation, enjoy some music and prizes. 2-6 pm. Canadian Blood Services, 67 College. indie88.com.

IN PACE REQUIESCAT Three operas based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe are presented as part of this Halloween-themed event. 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.

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

KOALAWEEN Toronto Australia New Zealand club Halloween party. 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross, 292 Brunswick. tranzac.org.

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

LIFTED Halloween dance party. 10 pm. The Piston, 927 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

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

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, 418 Church. facebook.com/ events/1423898731162641.

MONSTER BASH Picture The Ocean and Fay Blais play roots and folk rock at this costume party. 9 pm. $8, $6 with costume. The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. thepaintedlady.ca.

NIGHTMARE: A HALLOWEEN PRIX FIXE Fivecourse prix fixe dinner with drink. Costumes encouraged. 8 pm (reservations required).

Me & Mine, 1144 College. 416-535-5858, ­facebook.com/meandminetoronto.

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 plsu costume prizes. $30. Universal Grill, 1071 Shaw.

416-588-5928, universalgrill.ca.

NIGHT OF THE DEAD DJ Soundboy and costume prizes at this haunted space. EFS, 647 King W. 416-477-5460.

NIGHTS OF THE UNDEAD Interactive paintball zombie attack. To Oct 31, 8 pm-1 am. $25.

Sgt Splatter’s Paintball, 54 Wingold. 416-7810991.

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

522 King W. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com.

RANDOM PLAY, RANDOM HALLOWEEN All 70’s and 80’s creepy ghoulish tunes, horror movies, and a performance by Jenna Syde and DJ Mathieu. 10 pm. No cover. Wayla, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW 7 & 10 pm screenings. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.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. l­ owerossingtontheatre.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 Thea­ tre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org. 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.

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The 13th 9:30 pm. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. revuecinema.ca.

SCARY MOVIES Dial M For Murder 3D 7 pm, The Exorcist: The Director’s Cut 9 pm. Fox Theatre, 2256 Queen E. foxtheatre.ca.

SKARYOKE Halloween party with host Pam. 9 pm. Linsmore Tavern, 1298 Danforth. 416466-5130.

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. sheezer Halloween Party All female Weezer cover band 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 spin 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 and a No Pants Halloween dance with Pretty Penny and Red Zeppelin plus flappers, gangsters and ghouls. 9 pm. $5-$10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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5STEERS & FEARS HALLOWEEN HOEDOWN Gay party with Dani Nash and Fluffy Souffle. Dakota Tavern, 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579.

SUCKER Various odd characters grieve in their own way in a small town crushed by a whimsical 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 31 $15 w/ costume. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

SUPERSTITIOUS MINDS Adrian Wills’s documentary on superstition airs at 9 pm. CBC’s Doc Zone. cbc.ca.

THE SWINGING WINGDING 5.0 NIGHTMARE ON COLLEGE STREET Music, comedy, puppetry, a

costume 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.

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. To Oct 31. $5 sugg. Elephant Shoes, 1342 Bloor W. michaelmackid@teksavvy.com.

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.

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8 pm, $16.95. Cinema Nightclub, 135 Liberty. uniqlifestyle.wantickets.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. Runs to Jan 25. Free. Doris McCarthy Gallery, U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail. utsc.utoronto.ca/dmg.

YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU’RE DEAD Various stories of tortured spirits unable to pass to the next world are told. Runs to Oct 31, daily

at 7 and 9 pm. $25-$35. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. theatrelab.ca.

Friday, November 1 A DRINK FOR THE LIVING, A TOAST FOR THE DEAD Open mic with Leanne Haze. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. ­freetimescafe.com.

Day Of The Dead Party Reposado, 136 Ossington. reposadobar.com.

Debauchery DJS Ortemy, Vamos, Elanmyles, RomanK, IKY, DIMK, Timo spin 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.

GHOSTING Cameltoe play rock and top 40 at this Halloween party. 10 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lakeshore W. 416-521-6302.

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 prizes. $15 before midnight w/ costume. 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.

MURDER AT THE BREWERY Dress up and participate in an interactive “mingle mystery” show. 7 pm. $35 (benefit for Somaly Mam Fdn). Junction Craft Brewery, 90 Cawthra. Pre-register torontomurdermystery.com. rPHANTOMS, PLAYERS AND PUNDITS WALK Ghostly tour and tales of Financial and Entertainment district bldgs. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15.

Old City Hall (front steps), 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. 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 two-floor 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/.

Saturday, November 2 COSTUME PARTY DJs Dynamo, Badnutbeats and

Squidlid spin. Doors 9 pm. $10, $8 w/ costume. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca.

DAY OF THE DEAD Costume prizes, bartending shows, drink sampling, food and a DJ. 10 pm. El Catrin, 18 Tank House Lane, Distillery District. elcatrin. ca. rDAY OF THE DEAD Traditional Mexican celebration with musicians, Aztec dancers, visual arts, food and more. Today and tomorrow 4-10 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­diadelosmuertoswychwood@gmail.com. rDAY OF THE DEAD/EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Celebrate the Mexican festival of the ancestors by helping make an altar. 1-3 pm. Free (bring a photo or drawing of a loved one). Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7692.

Dead Cupcake Zombie Outbreak Fetish Dance Party DJ Prospero and DJ Lazarus spin. 10 pm, $5-

$10. Neu+ral, 282 Augusta. ­facebook.com/events/​ 526551497410957.

HALLOWEEN FILMS AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Scanners 1 pm, The Fly 7 pm, Altered States 10 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 Reitman Square. tiff.net.

Horror At The Drive-In: King West Massacre Festival DJ Undercover spins. 10 pm. $17.Cinema Nightclub, 135 Liberty. ­uniqlifestyle.wantickets.com.

Motown Party: Monster Mash DJs Magnificient,

Bret Millius and Rev Throwdown. $5-$10. 751 Queen W. goodkids.ca.

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NEXT DOOR, FUTURE ñ and MIGUEL at the Air Canada Centre, Thursday, October 24.

Rating: NNNN When a superstar performer tries to pump up an audience by rhyming off local highway exits, it’s going to be a really good or a really bad night.

If that superstar is Drake, it’s probably safe to bet on the former.

“I can take that 401 west and exit at Hurontario!” the ever-charming hometown hip-hop hero told the the Air Canada Centre on Thursday night as 905ers shrieked in ecstasy.

Drake was in town to perform his latest critically acclaimed hit album

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and celebrate his 27th birthday on his Would You Like A Tour? arena tour.

During the nearly two-hour show, he performed every track off his new record, Nothing Was The Same, a smattering of recent hits as well as a mini-set with opener Future including Tony Montana and Same Damn Time.

For his big entrance, Drizzy rose up in front of a large video screen and performed the first verse of NWTS opener Tuscan Leather in silhouette, head bowed solemnly. A circular stage encased his three-piece band, and above it hung a matching circular lighting rig in a symmetrical effect that recalled the War Room set from

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A spotlight beamed down, and Drake sprang to life and breezed through Take Care cuts Headlines and Crew Love before doubling back to wrap up Tuscan Leather’s third verse.

By now, Drake is a relaxed pro on stage. He seems to rely less on backing tracks when singing lead than he has in the past, and nicely carried pop hit Hold On, We’re Going Home. When R&B singer Jhené Aiko joined him to sing From Time and Come Thru, he sang sweetly but couldn’t resist flipping the latter song’s outro into an opportunity to shamelessly flirt.

Toward the end of the set, he boarded a circular catwalk that floated up to

the 300 level to do his “I see you baby girl” routine, in which he points out individual concertgoers, including his family, friends, producers Boi-1da, Noah “40” Shebib and a high school teacher he called “the greatest lady in the world.”

While there were no T-dot-exclusive birthday guests or major surprises à la OVO Fest, the giant love-in vibe he’s consistently able to evoke felt like KEVIN RITCHIE something special.

MARINE DREAMS with ALVVAYS and BABY EAGLE at Izakaya Sushi House, Thursday, October 24. Rating: NNN

In what turned out to be a wonderfully

stacked bill, Marine Dream’s Ian Kehoe celebrated the release of his band’s sophomore record, Corner Of The Eye, in the back room of Izakaya Sushi House, where sake and beer flowed freely. (As the Attack in Black alum joked, it was like playing Toronto and Japan on the same night.)

Flanked by a giant lit-up sign reading “Izakaya,” Kehoe and company, including Tamara Lindeman on harmony vocals, worked through the songs on their intensely poetic and melodic disc, reminding the appreciative crowd that the songs and the night were all about love.

The band was breaking in a brandnew guitarist and seemed loose and

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ALVVAYS were in top form, and Molly­Rankin’s intense, raw roughness – she said she was drunk – just made their catchy songs more potent.

It’s time for a proper record release and a headlining tour for that band.

It was also a great night for Marine Dreams’ labelmate Baby Eagle (aka Steve Lambke of Constantines), whose opening set of soft-spoken and at times profoundly beautiful songs commanded pin-drop silence SARAH GREENE from the crowd.

july talk at the Dakota Tavern, Friday, October 25.

Rating: NNN On July Talk’s debut album, the contrast between Peter Dreimanis’s deep growl and Leah Fay’s candy vocals are striking. At Friday’s record-release show, the lead singers’ yin and yang was even more pronounced.

Dreimanis is a slightly unhinged straight man (think a liberated, singing version of Boardwalk Empire’s Nelson Van Alden) paired with his flirtatious, whisky-swilling counterpart

– who stole the show whether she was releasing a bouquet of balloons into the crowd, unsteadily hanging off Dreimanis’s back or cooing her lines on standouts Paper Girl, My Neck and Having You Around.

Dreimanis’s animal vocals can be a little over-the-top, but credit to the venue’s sound: even when both singers were quite obviously wailing full blast, there was never a lick of feedback or muddiness. Both voices were crystal clear, as were Dreimanis’s and Ian Docherty’s blistering guitars.

The Dakota was a fitting setting for the five-piece’s bluesy Americana indie ­rock. Dreimanis and Fay seemed to think the room’s vibe was mellow, urging everyone to ramp their energy up.

But the intimate, low-ceilinged basement felt appropriate for a duo who met across the street at the CommunJulia LEconte ist’s Daughter.

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While Berghain’s Saturdaynight party often lasts till Monday morning (yes, Monday, not Sunday), most Toronto crowds these days head home shortly after the booze stops flowing at 2 am. Unfortunately, that meant that just as Fengler shifted from dreamy atmospheric vibes to pounding techno, the room was already starting to thin out.

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in living colour Samantha Edwards sees herself in phèdre. It’s about time. ground comments to realize I looked different.

Maybe it made sense that I never saw versions of myself around town, but I never saw myself in the media either. In high school I loved indie music but clocked only a few examples of Asian women. There was Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but then there was Weezer’s fetish for half-Japanese schoolgirls – pickup-line fodder for the rest of my life.

Over Skype, I learn that Aliermo and I shared similar experiences. “I grew up without any real relatable role models, seeing only straight, white men in the media all the time,” she says.

She tells me she feels a social responsibility to be an ambassador not only for Asian women, but for women in general who want to break into the male-dominated field of rock.

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Aliermo’s nearly 90-year-old lola (the Filipino word for “grandma”), for example, starred in Aphrodite. Or take the book of collages that accompanies

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them. So when I read Mejica’s post, I suddenly felt ashamed. Am I just as bad as those misguided but well-intentioned Belgian fans? Was it wrong to feel attached to their music because the band has Asian members?

I don’t think so. It exemplifies why it’s so hard to talk about race in Cana­ da – because it’s difficult to tell if it’s more or less politically correct to mention race in the context of music.

As a half-Japanese, half-white woman who spent the first 18 years of my life feeling like The Other, I can’t help but notice race and feel a sense of relief and pride when I see Phèdre or Ohbijou.

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the band’s recent album, Golden Age (Daps), which prominently features photos of Asian women. Or their song Ancient Nouveau, inspired by Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike.

It’s not that Phèdre see themselves as a cultural project making race-based music (whatever that means). The duo are simply cognizant that they’re in a position where they can tell their own personal stories along with those of groups underrepresented in pop culture.

“We’re just taking all of our influences, parts of our identity, our ideals, and putting it out there. When we do make cultural references or representations, it’s not our main focus. It’s our attempt to normalize it,” says Aliermo.

And that’s an important thing for a society that prides itself – in fact, has built an identity around – its cultural mosaic.

Much was made, for example, of the lack of racial diversity on this year’s Polaris­short list. Many quickly pointed to A Tribe Called Red and Zaki Ibrahim – and I agree that those musicians, by their mere existence, subvert mono­ chromatic notions of indie­music.

But despite our best intentions, we end up lumping these acts together, and that can be harmful to their musi­ cal identity and self-worth.

Enter Ohbijou – or should I say farewell. (The band played their last show in September.)

When I first moved to Toronto in 2007, I fell in love with the orchestralpop band. I loved lead vocalist Casey Mejica’s sweet, soft vocals and the band’s robust sound. And full disclosure: I loved that Mejica was Filipina.

But after eight years together, they called it quits. In a blog post on the band’s website, Mecija said she grew frustrated with descriptions of Ohbijou’s sound as multicultural or world music – “a slippage of reading raced bodies.”

She bemoaned the time two fans in Brussels said they could hear the Asian influence in her music (they’re a pop band making pop songs, plain and simple), or the time a radio host introduced the band as “multi-culti,” a term that made the non-white band members feel like Others.

For me, pointing to the band’s mixed race didn’t seem problematic – it was a fact that brought me closer to

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Braids, Hundred ­waters The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (November 1) See Braids preview, page 60.

JOel Plaskett, Bill Plaskett The Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Saturday (November 2) Son and father folk-rock.

Jessy Lanza, How To Dress Well The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), ­Saturday (November 2) See Jessy Lanza preview, page 55.

The Black Dahlia Murder, Skeletonwitch, Fallujah, Noisem Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Saturday (November 2) Melodic death metal.

Phèdre, Petra Glynt, Datu, Ken Park, DJ Bennyben Warehouse space (35 Strachan) ­Saturday (November 2) See Phèdre preview, page 50.

Chance the rapper­ The Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), M ­ onday (November 4) Jazz- and soul-sampling hip-hop.

My Bloody Valentine Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay), Tuesday (­November 5) Original shoegazers.

jeff stuart & the hearts, the fairmounts, modern twist, gin city miracles Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (November 5) See Jeff Stuart & the Hearts preview, page 62. kidkoala,shortkut,turnstylez RedBull Thre3style World DJ Championship Finals Night 1 The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Tuesday (November 5) Turntable showdown.

The Eagles Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), ­Wednesday (November 6) Soaring Los Angeles soft rock.

Yamantaka // Sonic titan The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Wednesday (November 6) Crashing, beautiful experimentalism.

Jazzy Jeff vs. skratch bastid, Starting from scratch, four color zack, hedspin RedBull Thre3style World DJ Championship Finals Night 2 Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Wednesday (November 6) A-list DJ showcase.

Jeff Stuart & the hearts Supermarket (268 Augusta), ­Wednesday (November 6) See preview, page 62.

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If you missed the British singer/songwriter’s first Canadian show back in April, you’re in luck.

Jessie Ware, whose 2012 debut, Devotion, received an enthusiastic NNNNN review, and landed on our critics’ year-end top 10 lists, is upgrading six months later from the intimate Opera House to the decid­edly larger but still-small-enough-to-get-up-close-and-personal Phoenix Concert Theatre.

Her voice and presence (large enough for festival audiences), paired with an intimate vibe (just as suitable to the bedroom) has already gained the Londoner some impressive fans.

Building on high-profile 2011 collabs with fellow Brits – SBTRKT on Right Thing To Do and electro-soulman Sampha on Valentine – Ware added a duet with New Yorker A$AP Rocky in 2013: a tender remix of her most famous tune, Wildest Moments.

Paired up or solo, her sound is futuristic soul peppered with club beats, sold heartbreakingly well with unfaltering, haute style. (Probably unintentionally, she helped popularize the current sophisti­-pop trend.)

Now go already. One more ­album or big-name co-sign and she’ll be in seated venue – or Sound Academy – territory.

Wednesday (November 6) at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), doors 7 pm, all ages. $25. LN.

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USS, Head of the herd Edgefest

­Uniun November 1.

Sneaky Dee’s November 7.

hormoans, we’re doomed, helsynki, lightning for legs

Silver Dollar 9 pm, $7. November 8. manteca Monarch Tavern 8:30 pm, $10$15. manteca-music.com. November 10. been trill The Hoxton 10 pm, $15. TW. November 12. cut copy The Danforth Music Hall 8 pm, $41.25-51.50. TM. November 15.

anamai, ostrich tuning, hells

EP release Holy Oak Café doors 8:30 pm, $5-$7.

November 15.

Beach fossils, kurt vile Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS. November 17. andria simone & her band Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $10. November 20.

Young Galaxy The Hoxton 7 pm, $18.

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Jagwar Ma The Great Hall 10 pm, $15.

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J­ ingle Bell Concert Series: Dean Blundell’s Christmas Fest Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. ­December 6.

Daley The Great Hall doors 7 pm, $15. LN, RT, SS. December 7. paul kalkbrenner Phoenix Concert Theatre 10 pm, $25. TW. December 7.

Blackalicious Adelaide Music Hall $25 adv. NT, RT, SS. December 7.

The Toronto symphony ­orchestra A Christmas Carol Family Concert Roy Thomson Hall 3 pm, $20-$65, child $16.50-$33. ­December 8.

The ontario philharmonic, ­richard Margison (tenor)

­ essun Dorma! The Great Songs of Italy Royal N Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $40-$60. o ­ ntariophil.ca. D ­ ecember 10. andy kim and others Andy Kim

Christmas Show Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $30. RT, SS, TM. D ­ ecember 11.

Walk Off The Earth Edgefest Jingle Bell Concert Series Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $26.50-49.50. RT, SS, TM. December 12. two hours traffic Farewell Tour Lee’s Palace December 12.

Three Days Grace Edgefest Jingle Bell Concert Series Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$59.50. RT, SS, TM. ­December 14.

Toronto Symphony orchestra

Handel’s Messiah Roy Thomson Hall $33-$105.

RTH. December 17, 18, 20, 21 at 8 pm, and ­December 22 at 3 pm.

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Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50-$49.50.

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Death from above 1979 The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $33.50$39.50. RT, SS, TM. D ­ ecember 26.

Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt Acoustic Evening Massey Hall 8 pm, $50-$75. RTH. ­February 1. kings of leon Mechanical Bull Tour Air Canada Centre LN. F­ ebruary 26.

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Bruce Hornsby THURS., NOV. 14, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Drawing from a vast wellspring of American musical traditions, Bruce Hornsby’s albums have sold over 11 million copies worldwide. This concert features Bruce, a piano, and all the songs you know and love, from “The Way It Is” to “Mandolin Rain” to “Every Little Kiss.”

“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 and classical music cliché and boundary! Hear Nicole Lizée’s 2012: Triple Concerto for Power Trio and Orchestra (Fantasia on Themes

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Anoushka Shankar SAT., NOV. 23, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Hear Anoushka Shankar perform songs from her newest CD, Traces of You, produced by Nitin Sawhney.

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Béla Fleck and Brooklyn Rider TUES., NOV. 26, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL “A virtuoso of the banjo, Béla Fleck has been pushing the boundaries of his instrument for over 30 years.”

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Rokia Traoré WED., NOV. 27, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL “An extraordinary voice,” (Times) “that can flit between beautifully soothing to uncontrollably impassioned in an instant,” (The Guardian).

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

(The New York Times) “Ms. Salvant has it all.”

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Art of Time Ensemble: Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band FRI., NOV. 29, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Canadian pop icons Steven Page, John Mann, Andy Maize, and Craig Northey re-invent Sgt. Pepper through newly commissioned arrangements from pop, jazz, and classical composers.

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Quick, name a city that’s a mecca for electronic music.

Most people would probably come up with Berlin, Detroit or London. Perhaps a few would say Montreal or Toronto.

But what about Hamilton? The Hammer’s best-known musical exports tend to be The Edgefriendly bands (Arkells, the Reason), drummers (Rush’s Neil Peart, I Mother Earth’s Christian Tanna) or producers (Daniel Lanois).

Not that the city’s proclivity for rock fazes electro-R&B artist Jessy Lanza.

“People in Hamilton are so proud, especially the rock bands that come out of there,” she says, wearing a Tiger-Cats sweater when I meet her in a Montreal park to discuss her debut album.

(She’s there for the Pop Montreal music festival.)

“Another thing about the Hamilton music scene is that you can do what you want and people won’t be judgmental.”

The former Concordia jazz performance student planned to become a teacher before meeting fellow Hamiltonian Jeremy Greenspan, one-half of the Junior Boys. The other half, Matt Didemus, is her best friend’s brother, so the two women were regulars

at the synth-pop duo’s shows.

Besides helping to write and produce the album, Greenspan also played early versions of Lanza’s songs to Steven Goodman, founder of London-based electronic label Hyperdub, who agreed to put it out.

Drawing on disparate and eclectic influences including Detroit techno, 70s soft rock duo Seals and Crofts and R&B hitmaker The-Dream, Pull My Hair Back has Lanza breathily cooing over a stark, minimalist background of blips and burbling synths. Like most of the best dance music, the lyrics are straightforward and unfussy, which she explains was a conscious decision.

“I have bad anxiety about writing lyrics, and I hate really laboured ones,” she says. “I don’t think of myself as a singer particularly, so when I was doing the vocals I tried to treat it like a textural layer in the music.”

The attention the record has received has led to multiple collaboration offers, but Lanza is focusing solely on her upcoming European tour.

“Because the project is me and Jeremy, there’s this assumption that I’m just a singer. If I start doing guest vocals all the time, I’m just going to affirm that belief.”

Without missing a beat, she adds, “There’s no support on this tour – it’s just me.” music@nowtoronto.com

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this week How to find a listing

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.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing

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Arts Piano Virtuoso Series: Keyboard Conjurers – Rameau & Debussy Ilya Poletaev (harpsichord/piano) noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm, Jazzforia w/ Claire Riley 5 to 8 pm.

Jane Mallett Theatre The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Adi Braun Quartet (jazz) 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Russ Little (trombone) 5 to 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Amy’s Arms, Dr Draw, Brainfudge Trio (jazz/folk/pop) 8:30 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

The Rex Andrew Boniwell (piano) 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Carmina Burana Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Drake Hotel Johnette Napolitano, Kate

Boothman (Concrete Blonde singer/bassist) doors 8 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Arkona, BattleSoul, Valfreya, Tsargrad 8 pm.

Lake Affect Lounge Disco Bash Shugga 8 pm.

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

Wrongbar The Pick Brothers Band 9:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (rock) 10 pm.

EFS Untitled Thursdays Soundbwoy doors 10 pm.

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).

Friday, November 1 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Air Canada Centre Because We Can – The Tour Bon Jovi 7:30 pm.

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

The Danforth Music Hall The Head & The Ballet Allan Rayman (trap/rock/ the Heart, Thao & the Get Down Stay hip-hop) doors 9 pm.

Down, Quiet Life (folk rock) doors 8 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie Joe Mama’s Blackburn, DJ Carl Allen (blues/ Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. soul/R&B) 9 pm.

DC Music Theatre CD release party F-one the Relish Bar & Grill The Trollblazers 7:30 pm. don (hip-hop).

Tranzac Southern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Flamingo’s Enzo Simone (oldies/60s/surf) Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

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The 460 Biipiigwan, Demonic Possessor, Cafune Bruce Harvey, Bill Prouten, Henrique

Matulis 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

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Eyeswithoutaface, Stay Here, Ischemic doors 8 pm.

The Garrison Lucius, Alpenglow (folk rock) 9 pm.

The Great Hall Braids, Hundred Waters doors 9 pm. See Braids preview, page 60.

The Hideout The Cover Boys (rock) 11 pm, the Second Sons (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Dan Griffin doors 9 pm.

Joe Mama’s The Grind, DJ Carl Allen (Motown/soul/R&B) 10 pm.

Johnny Jackson Till The Break Of Dawn (top 40/hip-hop) 10 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Phil Naro & Herve Bassett, Michael Banks (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Lola Our Shotgun Wedding 8 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Richie Spice, Bescenta, Artist M, DJ Chocolate & Patrick Roots (reggae) 8 pm.

Rancho Relaxo People We Know Lint, Cosmic Huge, the Muckabouts, Newsmen (rock/ experimental) 9 pm.

Rivoli Indie Night Lancecape, Lyve, EQ doors 9 pm.

Rockpile Snak the Ripper (hip-hop) doors 8 pm, all ages.

Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Climate/Culture Gavin Hope (R&B/soul/pop) 7 to 11 pm.

Silver Dollar Crystal Antlers, the Highest Order, the Two Koreas doors 9 pm.

Velvet Underground RedD Monkey, Adaptive Reaction, Hatley, Demifrog doors 8 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Poliça, Marijuana Deathsquads doors 8:30 pm.

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Cameron House Kayla Howran 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Deandra.

Dominion on Queen Swamperella (cajun/ zydeco) 9 pm.

Dora Keogh Lucas Stagg, Cleave Anderson, Dan Alac 9 pm.

Grossman’s Sandie Marie 6 to 9 pm.

The Hole in the Wall Ken Yoshioka Trio (blues) 10 pm.

Lula Lounge Tipica Toronto (salsa) 10:30 pm, Cafe Con Pan (Mexican/folk) 8 pm.

Massey Hall Matthew Good, Gentlemen Husbands doors 7 pm, all ages.

The Piper’s Pub & Grill Davi Rockit & Michael Titherington, the Allnighters Blues Duo 9:30 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9:30 pm.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Jesse Cook (nouveau flamenco) 8 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Conservatory Theatre Chansongs Anique Granger & Emilie Clepper, Rick haworth 8 pm.

The Sister Record release Buckshot Bebee, Edgar Breau.

Tranzac Southern Cross Rachael Cardiello & the Warm Electric Winter Choir w/ Tyler Ashton 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things 5 pm.

Valentina Evaristo (Cuban Trova) 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Betty Oliphant Theatre David Eagle And The Art Of Interactive Electronics New Music Concerts Ensemble 8 pm.

By The Way Cafe After Dinner Jazz Chris Adriaanse & Liam Stanley Duo 8 pm.

Dominion on Queen Havana to Toronto (afro-cuban jazz) 9 pm.

Gallery 345 A New Heritage Michele Bogdanowicz, Ernesto Ramirez, Rachel Andrist 7:30 pm.

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Bistro Music Series Terri Croft, Jonathan Lo (violin, cello) 6:30 to 9 pm.

Gate 403 The Mike Field Jazz Quintet.

Grossman’s Combo Royale 10 pm.

Hart House Arbor Room Jazz At Oscar’s Gabriel Palatchi Band 9 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Adi Braun Quartet (jazz) 9 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Fridays To Sing About Amy McConnell Trio 7:30 pm.

The Rex Galaxy Orchestra 9:45 pm, Artie Roth Group 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Carmina Burana Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

794 Bathurst Hobo, Matador, Justin James, Matte Blakk doors 10 pm.

Brassaii Love Me Till I’m Me Again DJ Undercover 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 Dirty Sexy Party DJ Cajjmere Wray 10 pm.5

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Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Elementary Bordello, Rynecologist & Meech doors 11 pm.

Fly Fly POP! DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 Guvernment/Kool Haus When Dance Did Nice 13: Girls Flex Edition DJ Tyrone, Flatline, Black Reaction, P-Plus, Kid Kut, Mista Presto (80s/90s/early Y2K/reggae/hip-hop/ R&B/soca/dancehall).

The Hoxton Focus Fridays Justin Martin, Dusky, George Fitzgerald 10 pm.

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

The Painted Lady DJ Frank Phantastik Johnson 10 pm.

The Piston Building Blocks DJ General Electric 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (classic rock & roll).

Sneaky Dee’s Pull Up. Tryst Tryst Fridays DJ Maltese.

UNIUN Anniversary Party DJ Fedde Le Grand.

WAYLA Bar DJ Mark Falco (top 40/house/ tech) 10 pm.

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794 Bathurst Savant, Jelo doors 10 pm.

Air Canada Centre Because We Can –

The Tour Bon Jovi 7:30 pm. ñ Alleycatz Lady Kane.

The Danforth Music Hall Joel Plaskett, Bill Plaskett 8 & 9:30 pm. ñ The 460 Rob Moir, Ian Blackwood doors 9 pm.

The Garrison Jessy Lanza, How to Dress Well, doors 8 pm. See Jessy Lanza ñ preview, page 55.

The Great Hall Hannah Georgas, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Louise Burns ñ doors 6:30 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Black Lady Soul, Bowes/Mor-

ningstar, Sky of Sound, Slaves to the Groove doors 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Yorkville Artists Be-In Reunion Festival Fundraiser Mike McKenna, Pete Otis, Keith McKie, Fergus Hambleton & Rick Fruchtman, Edward Bear, George Olliver, Ken Whiteley, Pat Little, Klaas van Graft, Cathy Young and others doors 7 pm.

The Hideout The Beggars (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Rulers of the Moon, 1992 Toronto Blue Jays, Loi Do, Convoys, Skirt Chasers (post-punk/indie) doors 9 pm.

Joe Mama’s Shugga, DJ Carl Allen (funk/Motown/soul/R&B/top 40) 10 pm.

Lee’s Palace Sparks doors 9 pm.

Linsmore Tavern The Big Crush (rock/ blues) 9:30 pm.

Lola Music City North The Fight 8 pm.

Monarch Tavern The Harmonauts, the Soul Bhoys DJs (ska/reggae/old-school R&B/mod).

Opera House IRemember 7-Year Anniversary Luciano, Jesse Royal (reggae) doors 10 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Drive-By Truckers, the Old 97’s (alt country rock & roll) doors 8 pm.

Pogue Mahone The Better Half 8 pm.

The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

Silver Dollar Widowspeak, Pure Bathing Culture, Church doors 9 pm.

Sound Academy Reggae By The Pier Anthony B & Family 8 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Kat House (rock/top 40) 10 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club The Black Dahlia Murder, Skeletonwitch, Fallujah, Noisem doors 5 pm, all ages.

The White House Gay, the Carnivores, the Beverlys doors 9 pm.

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Cameron House Sean Conway (country/

blues/western swing) 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm, Sue & Dwight 3 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Return for Refund.

Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Pretty Archie (country/bluegrass) doors 6 pm.

Du Cafe Open Mic 3 to 7 pm, all ages.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Richard Keelan 1 to 4 pm.

George Ignatieff Theatre Balkania Orchestra (folk/classical/jazz) 8 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Voodoo Walters & the Rhythm Method (blues) 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Madcats (blues) 10 pm.

Habits Gastropub Art & Woodhouse (singers/songwriters) 9 pm.

Karla’s Roadhouse Scarborough Live Music Lovers!.

Lula Lounge Changui Havana (salsa) 10:30 pm.

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A braid is formed by intertwining strands – but at least three segments are needed for a proper plait. Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that even though atmospheric indie electro crew Braids went through turmoil after losing a member following their well-received debut album, Native Speaker, they find themselves now tighter than ever as a trio.

During the writing of their new record, the electronic-tinged Flourish//Perish (Flemish Eye), singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston, drummer Austin Tufts and bassist Taylor Smith parted ways with keyboardist and long-time friend

Katie Lee after disagreements arose over the direction the music was taking.

“We just wanted to push ourselves and have a really creative writing experience,” a tired but chatty Standell-Preston explains over the line from the airport en route to a tour stop in Halifax. “There was that desire not to do something we’d done before, and some of us were pulling in the other direction and had a hard time with all that change.

“It’s a challenge not to feel really saddened about it and wish things had gone differently.

We had to endure a lot, but we put everything on the line to be in the band and finish the record.”

Change came not only through the split, but also in the simple act of growing up. Only in

their early 20s, the group relocated to Montreal from their native Calgary prior to releasing their debut in 2011. A Polaris Prize nomination and 18 months of touring later, they took to the studio for a year to write and record – time they needed to process their quick rise and their own personal journeys, including Standell-Preston’s 2012 side project, Blue Hawaii, with her thenpartner, Alex Cowan.

“It’s so interesting having the band as this constant in our lives as everything has been changing,” she says. “It’s really crazy. We’ve done so much as a band, and we all want to do some things outside of the band, but it’s nice knowing that anchor exists.”

While the three are excited to be back on the road to breathe new energy into their studio

creations, touring life is hectic: Standell-Preston notes that she’s only been home for maybe a month and a half in the past year, and the band’s schedule is jam-packed until the end of next summer. But they’re finding eager ears wherever they go, with fans bringing them everything from their favourite jellybeans to handmade signs at shows.

“Sometimes it feels like your life is planned out for you, and it’s important to take a step away from that and look at what you want it to be,” Standell-Preston says. “Until recently, I never really thought about the music as something I was giving to people, but I’m realizing that it’s an exchange. It feels like we’re doing something bigger than ourselves.” music@nowtoronto.com

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Fans will certainly lap up the chugging A Life Embossed, a tirade against the Ontario government’s decision to ban pit bulls, but the song (like many) ends up being about as deep as a paint-by-numbers picture (“It’s not a single type or a single gloss / but they’re singled out at half the cost”). With manic lead guitars, Volition is more menacing than past releases, yet four albums in, it would be nice to see them stretch their creative muscles.

Top track: Mist Protest the Hero play the Sound Academy November 9.

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FUTURE OF THE LEFT How To

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Blame Confusion (independent) Rating: NNNNN Like the most esteemed Italian chefs, Montreal’s Solids understand that simple is best. The guitar/drums duo’s debut fulllength pulses with Japandroidsesque, end-of-the-world momentum, each song packing a concise sonic punch. Harnessing the spark of invigorating opener Over The Sirens, it maintains fuzz and fun over 10 tracks of driving verses and uplifting choruses.

For guitarist Xavier Germain-Poitras

and drummer Louis Guillemette, Solids is a break from their more technically demanding hardcore act, Expectorated Sequence. But the scorching, precise Cold Hands and the Monster-era-R.E.M.inspired Not Complaining are proof that you don’t need to be overly elaborate to ensure quality musicianship. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that they keep their foot on the pedal for 37 minutes. A nod to their 90s college-radio predecessors, Blame Confusion is one of the best Canrock albums of 2013.

Top track: Over The Sirens JOSHUA KLOKE

Stop Your Brain In An Accident (Prescriptions) Rating: NNN A friend once called Mclusky, the Welsh post-hardcore band fronted by Andy “Falco” Falkous, current frontman for Welsh post-post-hardcore band Future of the Left, “too high school.” It’s a fair criticism.

Mclusky – and to a lesser extent Future of the Left – managed to harness sarcastic adolescent anger. They’re mad like you were mad in high school, when everything in the goddamned world seemed like parts of a broad conspiracy in place to piss you off.

On their fourth full-length, Future of the Left have barely moved past this juvenile sneering, railing against Kim Kardashian, the Apple Store and menstrual blood, all on the embarrassingly bad Singing Of The Bonesaws alone.

They can still rage, summoning plenty of singalong anger on Donny Of The Decks and Things To Say To Friendly Policemen.

But their targets feel more academic. The record even has a song called The Male Gaze, for god’s sake. Call it Falco Goes To College.

Top track: Donny Of The Decks JOHN SEMLEY

sprawling art-funk grooves, and they picked the right producer in DFA’s James Murphy to pull it off. It’s not a perfect record, but nothing this ambitious was ever going to be.

Top track: Reflektor BENJAMIN BOLES

Rock/Pop ARCADE FIRE Reflektor

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(Merge) Rating: NNNN With David Bowie’s cameo on the title track, it seems like Arcade Fire are thumbing their noses at critics who might accuse them of ripping him off. But while it has plenty of Bowie references, Reflektor actually has much more in common (both structurally and sonically) with the disco/ reggae/punk of the Clash’s 1979 masterpiece double album, London Calling.

Both epics find formerly underground bands struggling to come to terms with mainstream acceptance, and following their impulses to make more danceable music that pulls from a wider set of influences than they were previously known for. When Reflektor’s Caribbean elements come to the fore, for example, the resemblance to the Clash’s reimagining of Jamaican dub is even more apparent.

Their trademark stadium-friendly indie anthems have mostly been replaced by

FRANKIE ROSE Herein Wild (Fat Possum) Rating: NNN The opening guitars on Frankie Rose’s third solo album trick you into thinking the Brooklynite might be looping back to her garagey indie rock days (she was an original member of Crystal Stilts and Dum Dum Girls). Not so. Except for the dissonant pep of Heaven, Rose’s careful vocals float among bittersweet synths for 37 minutes of dreamy Cure- and Banglesevoking pop.

Lead single Sorrow has driving-music zip. Unfortunately, it sounds a lot like Minor Times, which sounds like Question / Reason. An exception to the overall sameness is The Depths, whose 80s-moviesoundtrack synths unearth memories of a rolling TV stand and a dark classroom.

The record’s climax is a sombre one: the minor chords and delicate strings of Cliffs As High make for the album’s saddest and most powerful moments. Rose’s genre is dream pop, and this tune is a slumber you don’t want to wake up from.

Top track: Cliffs As High JULIA LECONTE PROTEST THE HERO Volition

(independent) Rating: NN After the Whitby four-piece Protest the Hero cut their ties with Underground Operations and Vagrant, the prog metal dudes’ rabid fan base successfully raised

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(Universal) Rating: NNNN Producer/pianist Robert Glasper’s followup to Black Radio starts with robotic Daft Punkesque vocals over subtle, jazzy piano, and ends with the record’s various guests mic-checking. Its symbolic of the whole record: restrained genre-blurring with an A-list cast of collaborators.

Black Radio 2 falls a note short of its Grammy-winning predecessor, but just shy of spectacular is still damn good.

Most notably, the jazz dial has been turned way down – a pity, as Black Radio 1’s jazz/hip-hop clash was invigorating.

Straight-up R&B is much easier to come by. But just as the album starts to settle into a low-energy, soulful lull, Anthony Hamilton’s near spiritual love/gospel song Yet To Find induces heart spasms. There are fewer covers this time (just one, Jesus Children) but no shortage of incredible moments, like Brandy’s chesty register on What Are We Doing, Snoop Lion and Lupe Fiasco’s socially aware verses on Persevere

and an inspiring voice-over on Common’s album standout, I Stand Alone.

Top track: I Stand Alone JULIA LECONTE

they come mostly from the gentle pushing and pulling between noisy claustrophobic anxiety and melancholic tranquility.

Virgins is not a particularly pleasant listening experience, but it is undeniably emotionally powerful, and a worthy addition to his impressively unique catalogue.

Top track: Live Room BB

Metal SKELETONWITCH Serpents

Unleashed (Prosthetic) Rating: NNN Skeletonwitch make brutal albums. Their fifth one doesn’t add any new elements but manages to take the aggression up yet another notch. Songs go by in a flash, built on chunky two-guitar riffage, pummelling speed metal drumming that never lets up, and Chance Garnette’s death metal TIM HECKER Virgins screech-growl.

(Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN The bits that stand out most are the When NOW last talked to Tim Hecker, the brief – very brief – moments when the Montreal experimental electronic musiOhio five-piece slow the pace, let a clear cian told us that Virgins would be “less guitar lead sail over the fray (Beneath bombastic” and more of a “fabric weaver’s Dead Leaves, From A Cloudless Sky) or alalbum” than his previous full-length, low some beauty through, like the melan2011’s Juno-winning Ravedeath 1972. choly intros to Unending Everliving and These hints were mostly confusing at the More Cruel Than Weak. time, as the heavily processed church orMostly, though, the barely 30-minute gan drones of his last record were anyalbum is a non-stop rager. Blade On The thing but bombastic, and what the hell is Flesh smacks nicely of 80s Bay Area a “fabric weaver’s album” anyway? thrash, the black-metal-tinged title track It all makes sense once you hear Viris the most relentless, while vigorous bass gins. This time around, Hecker builds lines and speedy uplifting riffs carry Unaround recordings of small live ensembles, wept into a surprisingly melodic bridge. giving him a lot more little sounds and Ten years in, Skeletonwitch are a pretextures to work with than before. Plus, cise, commanding machine that shows no much of the songs’ momentum and sign of breaking down. movement depends on how he weaves Top track: Unwept these elements together. The “less bomSkeletonwitch play the Virgin RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Oct31Bruce__V 13-10-25 5:21 PM Mobile Page 1 bastic” part isn’t quite as obvious, as there Mod Club on Saturday (November 2). are still plenty of dramatic moments. But CARLA GILLIS

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella The Double gets a thrilling adaptation by TheatreRUN, who more than live up to their name with this fast-moving, funny and psychologically complex production.

Lowly government clerk Golyadkin (Adam Paolozza) is stewing in his humiliation over unrequited love and problems at work when he sees a more attractive, outgoing and successful doppelgänger supplanting his life.

This surreal premise might seem more conducive to film, which has unlimited special effects capabilities. (In fact, Richard Ayoade recently debuted a new movie version at TIFF, starring Jesse Eisenberg.) But this ingenious production makes great use of a double bass and good old-fashioned theatricality to evoke Golyadkin’s unravelling world.

Co-creator Arif Mirabdolbaghi acts both as musician and narrator, setting up scenes with words and using the varied tones of the bass to underscore Sobretodo Jr. (left), Wynveen, Doiron and Proszowski deliver a fine Birth.

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Litmus Theatre’s Birth Of Frankenstein is about bringing newborns into the light, both those of flesh and blood and those of the imagination.

After Litmus’s success with Matchbox Macbeth, company members Adri­ano Sobretodo Jr., Matthew Tho­mas Walker and Claire Wynveen have collaborated on a piece that began with Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein but developed into a look at her life as well, a story as fascinating as the narrative of Victor Frankenstein’s desire to uncover the mystery of life.

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Mary (played by Wynveen): her wellread parents, her stepsister, Jane (­Tosha Doiron), and the poets Shelley (Sobre­todo) and Byron (Adrian Pro­szow­ski). The poets and sibs become a polyamorous quartet in Swit­ zer­land, where a dare from Byron prompts Mary to write Frankenstein.

Until then, she’d been afraid to write down her waking dreams, several of which are part of the play’s action, believing that words on paper could never capture their flavour.

While the biographical material might be somewhat confusing for those not familiar with the historical figures, the scenes from the novel – intentionally paralleled with incidents in Mary’s life – are spellbinding in their narration and staging.

The venue, a church parlour, conjures up just the right atmosphere as curtains blow in the breeze, music (composed and played by Mariel Marshall) sets the mood and charac-

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ters pop in and out through the room’s many doors.

The actors give full-blooded performances in their multiple roles, whether engaged in a mini-orgy or ­staging the chilling tragedy that envelops Victor and his family.

Director Walker keeps the action mov­ing quickly, knowing when to put the metaphoric spotlight on Mary and when to direct our attention elsewhere.

This might be the dimmest-lit production you’ve ever seen, with only a few candles and low-intensity stage lights illuminating the large room.

But designer Patrick Lavender makes up for that with his use of shadow play, especially in the last section.

The high contrast between the black shadows and the white walls or sheets onto which they’re projected is excitingly stark and theatrical, throwing this tale of the intermingling of life and death into high relief.

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key moments. There are times when he and his instrument morph into a mirror reflecting Golyadkin’s movements back at him, and occasionally the bass even mimics the clerk’s beloved Clara (think of the instrument’s curves).

Director Paolozza uses the first half of the play to establish Golyadkin and his world, which includes a series of shopping trips to suggest the man’s vanity. There’s fine work by Viktor Lukawski, who plays various characters, from Golyadkin’s mocking servant to his pretentious, overbearing boss. for their money. Cute and nerdy jokes generate solid chuckles, and a few hilarious moments (no spoilers here) set off show-stopping waves of laughter.

This humour is expertly woven through more disturbing material Munch (clockwise, from top left), Van Wieren, Shields, Moss and Trithardt bite into savagely good script.

After wowing SummerWorks audiences with Delicacy, an intense drama about Toronto’s swinger scene, writer Kat Sandler keeps the hits coming with a new dark comedy about coping with loss.

The macabre storyline – just in time for Halloween – follows a pair of 20-something siblings, Beth (Jessica Moss) and Jamie (Andy Trithardt), both dealing oddly with the accidental death of their parents. Beth has become a wannabe vampire (but is struggling to acquire a taste for blood), and Jamie has decided to convert to Judaism and become a rabbi. Sharing their parents’ large old house, the siblings engage in quirky ribbing that soon leads each to question the other’s trans­formation. Their schism soon involves Beth’s mysterious, middle-aged tenant, Constance (Astrid Van Wieren), and teenaged mall goth Aenth (G. Kyle Shields).

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The second act features even more bravura scenes, as when Paolozza, aided by André du Toit’s atmospheric lighting, plays Golyadkin and voices his double (Lukawski), who responds like a ventriloquist’s dummy. And in one dream sequence, Paolozza’s Golyadkin becomes a stand-up telling jokes and singing songs about doubles.

Ken Mackenzie’s set is used brilliantly, a simple screen helping to create one of the show’s most amusing effects, worthy of something from vaudeville or Looney Tunes. GLENN SUMI about exsanguination, lost children and the grieving process, culminating in some emotional and seriously moving scenes about evolving notions of family and identity. At times, audible sobs from the audience were converted to laughs and back again in a matter of seconds.

Directing the action at a quick clip, Sandler uses the realistic and densely decorated living room and kitchen set well. One surreal element, a full-sized camping tent that Jamie sets up in the living room, is employed in novel ways, especially as a makeshift confessional.

The cast is uniformly strong, and Trithardt generates believable sibling chemistry with Moss and titillating sexual tension with Van Wieren’s oddball widow. Aside from the main storyline, a recurring gag involves Carter (Colin­Munch), a hopelessly insensitive lawyer who constantly stumbles over his poor choice of words while visiting bereaved families. Munch dials up the awkward and cringe-inducing dialogue to the max, creating an unlikely breakout character that could easily be spun off into another comedy.

While Delicacy proved that Sandler could keep a serious drama funny, Sucker shows that she’s also able to make a weirdo comedy profoundly meaningful. This impressive range puts her among T.O.’s most intriguing JORDAN BIMM new playwrights.

Opening Alligator Pie (Soulpepper). Adapted from

the children’s poems of Dennis Lee, this family-friendly production celebrates imagination and invention. Opens Nov 3 and runs to Dec 1, see website for schedule. $23, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca.

Dirty Butterfly by Debbie Tucker Green (Bound to Create Theatre/Obsi­ dian Theatre). This drama explores voyeurism, power and guilt by confronting the collateral damage of domestic abuse and racial economic divide. Previews to Oct 31. Opens Nov 1 and runs to Nov 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25, preview $15, Nov 10 pwyc. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. ­boundtocreate.com.

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (George Brown Theatre School). A politician is caught between private shame and public scandal in this social comedy. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 16, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat (and Nov 13) at 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12 stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

Moss Park by George F Walker (Green Thumb Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille). A young couple with a baby struggle to make ends meet in this dark comedy. Previews Oct 31-Nov 2. Opens Nov 4 and runs to Nov 16, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, ­passemuraille.on.ca.

Social Security by Andrew Bergman (Encore Entertainment). An artsy Manhattan couple must deal with the wife’s mother while other family dramas play out in this comedy. Opens Nov 1 and runs to Nov 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28-$29.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio. encoreshows.com.

Taking Sides by Ronald Harwood (Stage Centre Productions/Chicken Coop Theatre). The conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic serves as a Nazi cultural asset but also uses his position to save hundreds of Jewish musicians from death camps. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 9, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 647-8313980, ­stagecentreproductions.com.

Time Stand Still by Donald Margulies (Leroy Street Theatre). A journalist couple who are in sync when on dangerous assignments struggle in a more domestic environment. Opens Nov 5 and runs to Nov 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$25. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. ­leroystreettheatre.com.

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). The romantic comedy begins with a shipwreck and ends with marriages, reunions and revenge. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 23 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, u ­ ofttix.ca.

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ley (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective). Two couples are haunted by their past, present and future in this semi-surrealist comedy about revenge. Opens Oct 31 and runs to Nov 9, TueSun 8 pm. $20. Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO by ­ ozart (Opera Atelier). At the Elgin TheM atre (189 Yonge). Runs to November 2. $38$166. 1-855-622-2787, operaatelier.com.

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There’s lots of humour in Mozart’s ­Abduction From The Seraglio. It was apparently the composer’s most popular opera during his lifetime, and Opera Atelier’s Marshall Pynkoski sees the work as firmly belonging in the commedia dell’arte tradition.

Fair enough, but the director’s idea of humour, heavy-handed and rarely funny, weighs down much of the light plot.

Belmonte (Lawrence Wiliford) is left behind when his beloved Konstanze (Ambur Braid), her maid, Blonde (Carla Huhtanen), and his servant, Pedrillo (Adam Fisher), are kidnapped by the Turkish pasha Selim (Curtis Sullivan).

The captives are secured in Selim’s palace and guarded by Osmin (Gustav ­Andreassen), who’s taken Blonde for his own. Selim wants to make Konstanze a member of his harem, too, but she’s staunchly committed to Belmonte.

The plot involves the rescue of the three, with comic complications and a final show of magnanimity on the pasha’s part.

The music, with “Turkish” sounds (mostly from percussion instruments), is played with a keen lightness by Tafelmusik under conductor David ­Fallis. It’s also generally well sung,

Previewing Aladdin by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (Disney Theatrical Productions/Mirvish). A young sultan tries to get his hands on a magical oil lamp in this musical. Previews Nov 1-20. Opens Nov 21 and runs to Jan 5, 2014, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat SatSun and Wed 1:30 pm (see website for more shows). $35-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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Opera Atelier’s Abduction looks great, but it’s not very funny.

though Andreassen’s Osmin could have a darker tone and more commanding weight. However, Jeanette Lajeunesse Zingg’s elegant choreography is always welcome.

Tenors Wiliford and Fisher are nicely contrasted in tone, Wiliford growing in stature and voice as the evening goes on. But their acting hijinks under Pyn­ koski’s unsubtle direction are hammy and often tedious.

In contrast, the women create full characters, adding warm feeling to the business they’re asked to do and making the comedy part of their nature.

Both sopranos soar delightfully into the vocal stratosphere, fearlessly and

impressively tossing off Mozart’s high notes.

Huhtanen is the perfect flirtatious soubrette down to her little toe, ­always holding the audience’s attention. Braid’s just as fine, a tall figure who knows how to clown one moment and be elegant the next. The composer gives her two long, contrasting but equally fiendish arias back to back, and you get the sense that Braid could ­reprise them as soon as she’s finished.

And as usual in an Opera Atelier production, the design is first-rate: Gerard Gauci’s rich sets and Margaret Lamb’s colourful costumes, lit by Bonnie JON KAPLAN ­Beecher.

deals with how to connect to others without relinquishing one’s individuality, no matter how outrageous it might be.

Drinking in Murk’s (Tim Walker) bar on a slow Monday night are his trou­ bled girlfriend, April (Caitlin Driscoll), and two other women, Denise Savage (Diana Bentley) and Linda (Melissa D’Agostino). Tony (Nick Abraham), who was once involved with Linda, is a later visitor who finds himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between Denise and his ex.

Shanley’s writing is filled with sharpedged dialogue as funny as it is revela-

tory about these five people – all 32 years old – feeling trapped in their lives and wanting change. They’ve known each other since their days together in Catholic school. They might not know how to reach out to one another, but they’re all poetically eloquent in express­ing, often in a rush of words, their needs and fears. Phrases and ideas flow out of them as from a fountain.

Sarah Kitz’s crisp, first-class production gives each of the five a chance to shine. Bentley’s Denise, the virgin who doesn’t want to be alone, and D’Agos­ tino’s Linda, who’s known too many lovers and now is rejected by Tony because he wants to date ugly women, are focused and fierce. Some of the play’s best episodes are the comic but intense confrontations between the pair, especially when they fight over Tony.

Walker and Driscoll provide an intentionally unsettling and surreal tone at the start: he, ghostly and staring wide-eyed at the audience, bangs drinks onto the bar in a kind of shellgame roulette, while she catatonically reacts to what he’s doing.

Tony’s as lost as the others, and Abraham gives us a sense of his yearning, but in Shanley’s otherwise strong writing there’s an amorphous quality to the man’s needs compared to that of the others.

Shanley’s script is ultimately about the idea of change. Without it, he suggests, we can’t help but be caught in a JON KAPLAN limbo of our own making.

Melissa D’Agostino (left), Diana ­Bentley, Nick Abraham and Tim Walker get lots of laughs in Limbo.

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by Beth Graham (Factory Theatre/Obsidian Theatre). A woman with three adult children learns that she has early Alzheimer’s and seeks her daughter’s help to exit on her own terms. Previews Nov 2-6. Opens Nov 7 and runs to Dec 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm (except Nov 3 at 7 pm). $23-$45. 125 Bathurst. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

The Valley by Joan MacLeod (Tarragon Theatre). A freshman drops out and returns home after a traumatic arrest in this drama about mental illness, parenting and law enforcement. Previews Nov 6-12. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Dec 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Nov 16, 23, 30) at 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13, Nov 6 pwyc. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, ­tarragontheatre.com.

One-Nighters Angel In The Night by Joanna Halpert Kraus (Medina Theatre Ensemble). A staged reading of the drama about courage, compassion and heroism is part of Holocaust Remembrance Week. Nov 4 at 7:30 pm. Free. Temple Sinai Congregation, 210 Wilson. m ­ edinatheatre. blogspot.ca.

El Portero De La Estacion Windsor by Julie Vincent (Festival of Images and Words). Teatro Norte – Sur performs a staged reading of the play about an Uruguayan man escaping to Canada after the 1973 coup. Nov 6 at 7 pm. $8, stu/srs $5. Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview, York Hall. festivalofimagesandwords.ca.

A Fertile Imagination by Susan G Cole (The W.O.W. Project). This evening of queer women’s theatre features a reading of Cole’s play followed by discussion. Nov 4 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Videofag, 187 Augusta. f­ acebook. com/wowprojecttoronto.

The Fish Eyes Trilogy by Anita Majumdar (nightswimming). This funder for the company features dinner and Majumdar performing her dance-theatre trilogy about the lives of three young Canadian women.

Nov 1 at 6 pm. $100. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, #316. nightswimmingtheatre.com.

Marina Antoinette: The Encore (RiaToss Productions). Remount of this show fusing live music, performance art, dance and fashion, based on the tragic rise and fall of French queen Marie Antoinette. Nov 3 at 9 pm. $20.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. ­marinaantoinetteencore.eventbrite.ca.

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Launch (PLCNP). NOW’s Jon Kaplan and Susan G Cole host a night of readings by Keith Barker, Joan Burrows, Linda Griffiths, Jordan Tannahill and Jenny Young & Gordon Bolan.

Nov 4, doors 6:30 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. facebook.com/ PLCNP. A Report To An Academy by Franz Kafka (Novo’s Productions). An ape who has learned to act like a human describes his struggle for identity in this monologue about animal trafficking. Nov 5 at 7 pm. $22. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

Reveal Me (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Nov 6, doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

The Saucy Senorita (Toronto Operetta Theatre). This operetta based on a zarzuela by Ruperto Chapi celebrates the music, song and dance of Madrid. Nov 3 at 2 pm. $46-$63.

Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3667723, stlc.com/1636.html.

HThe Swinging Wingding 5.0: Nightmare on College Street (Elliott Loran/Jeff Insell).

This night of music, comedy, puppetry and live performance features Christel Bartelse, Jenni Walls, Adam Proulx and others. Oct 31 at 6 pm (dance party from 9 pm). Free. Wild Indigo Martini Bar, 607 College. ­facebook. com/events/165875846939685.

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(­Harold Green Jewish Theatre). This concert celebrating the Irving Berlin songbook features Brent Carver, Camilla Scott, Sheila McCarthy and others. Nov 3 at 7:30 pm. $60-$99.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416733-0545, ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

The Trial of David Suzuki by Laurie Brown (Cape Farewell/Donnelly Law/ROM Contemporary Culture). The scientist is put on trial for decrying the fossil fuel economy in this live theatre and public engagement project. Nov 6 at 8 pm. $50, stu $35. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797, rom.on.ca.

The Ultimate Sacrifice by Cheryl Nembhard (Kingdom Buzz). An ex-gang leader battles thugs and his own demons in a quest to break the cycle of violence in his neighbourhood.

Nov 2 at 7:30 pm. $30-$40. Global Kingdom Ministries, 1250 Markham. k­ ingdombuzz.org.

Continuing Abduction From The Seraglio by WA Mozart (Opera Atelier). Two men plot to rescue their girlfriends from an Ottoman Pasha in this opera (see review, this page). Runs to Nov 2, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm. $38-$166. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. operaatelier.com. NNN (GS) All Our Happy Days Are Stupid by Sheila Heti and Dan Bejar (Suburban Beast). A vacation in Paris becomes a nightmare for two families in this irreverent critique of the pursuit of happiness. Runs to Nov 3, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Videofag, 187 Augusta. ­allourhappydaysarestupid.eventbrite.ca.

HBirth Of Frankenstein adapted by the company (Litmus Theatre). This sitespecific production fuses Mary Shelley’s g ­ othic novel with the dramatic personal experiences that inspired her to write it (see review, page 66). Runs to Nov 3, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $30, stu $20. Saint Luke’s United Church, 353 Sherbourne, Parlour. litmustheatre.com.

NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Nov 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $32-$60. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. africantheatre.org.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Theatre Erindale). A small town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft in 1692 Massachusetts. Runs to Nov 3, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre at UTM, 3359 Mississauga Rd N, Mississauga. 905-569-4369, ­theatreerindale.com.

The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Tarragon Theatre/TheatreRUN). A government clerk tries to fit in with a grotesque society in this multidisciplinary adaptation of the novella (see review, page 66). Runs to Nov 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (GS) HEvil Dead – The Musical by Christopher Bond, George Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris (Starvox Entertainment/Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment). The musical based on the Evil Dead film franchise returns home for its 10th anniversary. Runs to Dec 22, TueThu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7 and 10:30 pm (and Oct 31), Sun 3 pm. $19.99-$79.99. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. e ­ vildeadthemusical.com.

HExhibition (Les Coquettes). The company’s annual Halloween show features an art-themed cabaret of dance, cirque, live music and elements of burlesque. Runs to Oct 31, Thu 7 and 10 pm. $20-$35. R ­ evival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

Le Fa Le Do by Luc Moquin (Théâtre français de Toronto/Théâtre de la Catapulte). An archivist finds an old tape of a woman singing Fado music and enters a world of political intrigue in his quest to find her. Runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $28-$57, some pwyc/rush available. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-5346604, ­theatrefrancais.com.

Farther West by John Murrell (Soulpepper).

Soulpepper’s revival of Murrell’s 1982 drama about a prostitute searching for independence in late 19th century Canada is only partly successful. There are some good performances, particularly by Matthew MacFadzean and Kyra Harper, and the production is beautifully designed and paced. But the lead role is more symbol than character, and Tara Nicodemo adds nothing special to it. 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. 416-8668666, ­soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) From The Prairies With Love (Loonatic Fringe). This James Bond-inspired spoof cabaret features circus, comedy, magic and music

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The Downstage, 798 Danforth. ­savageintoronto.com. NNNN (JK)

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Singular Sensation: A Music Theatre Open Mic (Jennifer Walls). Sing showtunes with a

live band and see previews of upcoming works at this weekly show. Mon 10 pm. Free.

Statler’s, 487 Church. 416-922-0487.

HSucker by Kat Sandler (Blood Sweat & Blood Collective). Various odd characters grieve in their own way in a small town crushed by a whimsical tragedy in this Halloween-themed play. (See review, page 66.)

Runs to Nov 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Nov 6), Sun 2 pm (and Nov 9). $20, Oct 31 $15 w/ costume. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) HThe Woman In Black by Stephen Mallatratt (Lower Ossington Theatre). An estate lawyer tries to exorcise demons from a case involving a mysterious widow in this ghost story. Runs to Dec 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm (no shows Nov 3-13). $39-$49. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

HYou Can Sleep When You’re Dead by Glyn Bowerman, David Brock, Omar Hady, Graham Isador and Kat Sandler (TheatreLab). Various stories of tortured spirits unable to pass to the next world are told in the setting of the historic house. Runs to Oct 31, daily at 7 and 9 pm. $25-$35. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. ­theatrelab.ca.

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by veteran Fringe artists. To Oct 31, Thu 8 and 10 pm. $10. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. ­facebook.com/events/1391732427727550.

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Humber Theatre). A naive prince’s goodness leads to disaster in this workshop stage adaptation of the novel. Runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Humber Studio Theatre, 300 Birmingham. 416-675-6622 ext 3080, ­humber.theatre@humber.ca.

I Love Lucy – Live On Stage by Kim Flagg and Rick Sparks (Mirvish). Packaged as a live taping of two episodes of I Love Lucy, complete with perky period commercials and song and dance numbers, this is a show for worshipful fans only. Still, if you close your eyes, Sirena Irwin’s Lucy, Bill Mendieta’s Ricky and Joanna Daniels’s Ethel sound reasonably like their TV counterparts. Runs to Nov 3, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $49-$89. Royal Alexandra ­Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. NN (JK) HIn Pace Requiescat (Opera 5). Three ­operas based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe are presented as part of this Halloweenthemed event. Runs to Oct 31, Thu 7:30 pm (followed by costume contest and dance party). $30, stu $25. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. o5inpace.eventbrite.ca.

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, Tue-Sat 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) Magic At The Winchester (Abracadabaret).

James Alan hosts a weekly live magic show with guests. Runs to Dec 29, Sun 7 pm. $15.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar, 51A Winchester. ­abracadabaret.com.

The Nefarious Bed And Breakfast by DJ Sylvis (Monkeyman Productions). Heroes, evildoers and superpowers collide at a retired villain’s B&B in this comic book-inspired play.

Runs to Nov 9, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. monkeymanproductions.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. $20, stu/srs $18. 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 and 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. 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. Rating: Table Manners NNNN; Living Together NNN; Round And Round The Garden NNNN (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 to create a seamless evening of storytelling. Runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu $18. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Rehearsal Hall. 416-368-3110, ­glasswater.ca.

Puppet Up: Uncensored (WestBeth Entertainment/Mirvish). Puppets from the Jim Henson Alternative company are used in this mashup of puppetry and improvised comedy for adults (see review, page 70). Runs to Nov 3, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 4 pm. $19$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) 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.

HThe Rocky Horror Show (Toronto Youth Theatre). Youth perform the musical based on the 70s cult film. Runs to Nov 2, Sat 2 pm. $35, stu $26.25. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org.

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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 man having a terrible day. Meanwhile, Jan Caruana proves she’s got great range in two scenes involving a precocious girl. Even the less successful sketches are sharply directed, and the set and musical design help enhance the scenes. Not to be missed. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Jason Rouse. To Nov 3, Thu-Sun 8 pm (plus FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE BAR presents a weekly open-mic w/ rotating hosts. 9:30 pm. Free.

1952 Danforth. sssuperfly@hotmail.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.

KISS THE DOG Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe in a new revue inspired by psychedelic art and experiences. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents PRIMO, Alex Nussbaum, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Tom Henry, James Hartnett & Aaron Eves, Eddy Boxty and hosts Sara Hennessey & Steph Kaliner. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Absolute Comedy See Thu 31.

BRENDON WALSH Dark Comedy Festival pre-

sents the comic in a live show. 9 pm. $20. The Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. ­ticketweb.ca.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

CLOSE SHAVE 2: THE NEXT GENERATION The Dandies present a Holodeck Follies style of show w/ guests Debs & Errol, Fratwurst, Red Herring Burlesque, Wordburglar and others. 8 pm. $10-$15 (proceeds to Movember Canada).

Black Swan, 154 Danforth. facebook.com/ events/624533984238145.

DAVE ATTELL Dark Comedy Festival presents the stand-up in a live show. 9 pm. $38-$60.75, festival pass $99. The Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth. e ­ mpirecomedylive. com.

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puppet up: uncensored by Brian Henson and Patrick Bristow (WestBeth Entertainment/Mirvish). At the Panasonic (651 Yonge). To November 3. $19-$79. 416-872-1212, ­mirvish.com. See listings, this page. Rating­: NNNN

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Brian Henson (producer and Jim’s son) helped create the work with character comic Patrick Bristow (Google him – you’ve seen him before), who also acts as director and genial host, helping to introduce scenes, elicit audience participation and choose which of the improvising puppeteers take part in a segment.

FIRST FRIDAYS Joel West presents Ashley Moffatt, Andre Arruda, Dan Bingham, Matt Henry, Scott Dell, Blaine Smith, MC Caitlin Langelier and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. redrocketcoffee.com.

GERRY DEE Yuk Yuk’s West presents the comic/actor in a live show. To Nov 2, FriSat 8 pm. $39. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416967-6425, ­yukyuks.com.

LEGIONS OF SKANKs – LIVE PODCAST Dark Comedy Festival presents Big Jay Oakerson, Luis Gomez, Dave Smith and Dave Attell. 11:45 pm. $20, festival pass $99. Royal Cinema, 608 College. ­empirecomedylive.com.

Puppet Up: Uncensored WestBeth ­Entertainment and Mirvish present a mashup of puppetry and improvised comedy for adults (see review, this page). To Nov 3, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 4 pm. $19-$79.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, ­mirvish.com. NNNN (GS)

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and a cabaret drag number by Gabriel. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight@ gmail.com.

These short-form scenes have a set pertly evokes the tone of each sketch premise, but the subjects and themes at the keyboard. are fuelled by crowd suggestions. The The improvs are punctuated by a show I attended included a bedtime couple of recreations of classic scenes story about a trip to Ikea involving diarby the late Henson and Frank Oz that rhea (expect lots of scatological offerprove that great comedy is universal ings) and a theme song/opening credit and timeless. number to a James Bond-like film Because most of our attention is on about canoes in which Jesus Christ was the colourful and beautifully designed the villain. puppets (my favourites being a growlThe improvisers are first-rate, coming dog and a bespectacled nerd), ing up with punchy lines (and in the there’s not much time to appreciate case of the Bond bit rhyming the performers. But their improvised lyrics) on the spot and manipulines range from okay to clever to peelating their puppets for your-pants hilarious. a camera that projects By its very nature, each show in them onto two giant the brief run will be different. screens. There’s But if you like comedy, the terrific use of Muppets or simply seeing depth and pergreat imaginations at spective and, in a play, pull whatever couple of scenes, strings you have to and some amusing buy a ticket.

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Michael Oosterom (left), Brian Henson Musical direcand Tyler Bunch bring tor Willie Etra exedge to puppetry.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents weekly comedy featuring rotating shows: The Duel, The Invasion, The Rewind, The Main Event. 9:30 pm. $5.

St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416-6377427.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 31.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 31.

MONKEY TOAST The Tite Group presents the improvised talk show w/ the ñ Monkey Toast Players, host Ron Tite and

guests. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Puppet Up: Uncensored See Fri 1.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents headliner Gilson Lubin, Pat MacDonald, Danny Polishchuk and host Bryan O’Gorman. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416Absolute Comedy See Thu 31.

551-6540, ­comedybar.ca.

BIG JAY OAKERSON Dark Comedy Festival THEATRESPORTS FALL TOURNAMENT Bad Dog presents the comic storyteller in a live Theatre presents the improv competition. To show. 11 pm. $20, festival pass $99. Comedy Dec 14, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­empirecomedylive.com.

Bar, 945 Bloor W. b ­ addogtheatre.com.

THE BRADY PROJECT The Flying Beaver Pub- We Can Be Heroes See Thu 31. aret presents comedy by Heidi Mole dediYuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 31. cated to the classic TV series. To Nov 2, Saturdays 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY Second City presents the BRENDON WALSH Dark Comedy Festival preStand-Up 101 Grad Show featuring new comsents the comic in a live show. 9 pm. $20, ics w/ host Jim McAleese. 1 & 3:30 pm. $5. ­festival pass $99. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. Evening show, see Thu 31. 2335 Yonge. 416­empirecomedylive.com.

486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

Gerry Dee See Fri 1.

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THE PLAYGROUND Playful Grounds presents weekly open-mic comedy w/ hosts ñ Kris Siddiqi and Melissa Story. 9 pm. Free. 605

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College. 416-645-0484, playfulgrounds.com.

PUPPET UP: UNCENSORED See Fri 1.

SIMON KING Dark Comedy Festival presents

the unfamous comic in a live show. 9 pm. $20, festival pass $99. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. empirecomedylive.com.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

WE CAN BE HEROES See Thu 31.

THE WOODBRIDGE WISE GUYS JB Ricordi presents Italian comedy w/ Sandra Battaglini and others. 8 pm. $20. Yuk Yuk’s Vaughan, 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 31.

“EXCELLENT WORK FROM A BLUE-CHIP CAST – Toronto Star

Monday, November 4 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Pete Zedlacher, Fraser Young, Sara Hennessey, Ali Hassan, Mark DeBonis, Trixx, Perry Perlmutar, Mike Rita, Aisha Alfa, Evany Rosen, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents a weekly show w/ hosts Chris Allin and Brian Ward. 8 pm.

Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

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Claudia Moore stretches herself in Escape Artist.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents the Winnipeg

Comedy Festival Showcase Night w/ host Ryan Dennee. 8:30 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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.

LES IMPROBABLES Supermarket presents a biweekly show with competitive improv comedy en français. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416840-0501, ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com.

MEGA CRAZY CRAZY FRENZY! presents standup w/ Marty Topps, Jess Beaulieu, Tom Henry, Brandon Hackett, Lauren Mitchell, Ben Beauchemin, and hosts Matt Collins & Jeremy Woodcock. 9 pm. Free. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents an open mic w/ Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts.

TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents monthly comedy in the style of a 70s cable access program w/ Sara Hennessey, Inessa Frantowski, Steph Kaliner, Tony Ho and Tim Gilbert. 9 pm. $5. 61 Ossington. 416-8500161, theossington.com.

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TONY HINCHCLIFFE, JESSE JOYCE & TERRY CLEMENT Dark Comedy Festival presents comic/

roastmaster Hinchcliffe in a live show with guests. 9 pm. $20, festival pass $99. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. empirecomedylive.com.

WE CAN BE HEROES See Thu 31.

Wednesday, November 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Jesse Joyce, Adam McFawn, Anthony Ciarduli, Joshua Elijah, Max Magas, Tim McDonald and host Ryan Dennee. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CANADIAN COMEDY FESTIVAL SHOWCASE WEEK Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents various

acts vying for festival spots. To Nov 10, WedSun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts. 9:30pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.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.

HUMP NIGHT Fionn MacCool’s presents weekly open-mic stand-up w/ host Andy King. 9 pm. Free. 1867 Yonge. 416-484-1867.

MIKE LAWRENCE Dark Comedy Festival presents the comic/podcaster in a live show. 8 pm. $20, festival pass $99. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Stan Ferguson and headliner Chuckie Dorkins. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

TONY HO’S PEAK FALLS Bad Dog Theatre presents dark improvised mini-series about a small town with a demonic secret. To Nov 13, Wednesdays 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

WE CAN BE HEROES See Thu 31.

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Partial Escape ESCAPE ARTIST by Susanna Hood, Christopher House, Paul-André Fortier and Apolonia Velasquez and Ofilio Sinbadinho (MOonhORsE Dance). At Dancemakers Centre for Creation (9 Trinity). To November 2. Pwyc-$25. 416-504-6429 ext 66, moonhorsedance.com. Rating: NNN

As you enter the theatre for Escape Artist, the house lights are up but the performing area is in shadow, and Claudia Moore is already on the dance floor, executing some moves or perhaps warming up. That’s a fitting image for an artist who, at 60, remains as active as ever.

She and her production company, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre, commissioned four choreographers from different generations to create solos for her, and while there’s not much range in the program, she is always watchable.

Susanna Hood’s Beside You opens with promise, contrasting Moore’s natural elegance – a red blouse sets off her beautifully long arms – with the fierce animal energy contained in her lithe body. There’s a spare use of props and costumes, and movement that

LISTINGS Opening

ELEVEN ACCORDS Toronto Dance Theatre and Harbourfront NextSteps present ñ Christopher House’s choreographic counter-

point to minimalist composer Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 9, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$40, stu/srs/mat $20-$34. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-967-1365, tdt.org.

FIRE OF ANATOLIA Mustafa Erdogan presents the Turkish dance group performing dances based on ancient mythology and cultural history. Nov 1 at 8 pm. $40-$105. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-8727669, ticketmaster.com.

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evokes traditional masculine and feminine behaviour – nice to see a fluttering hand represent an old-fashioned fan. But Hood needs an editor. The piece loses tension and soon comes to resemble a series of improvisatory exercises.

Christopher House’s Archival Feints is more cohesive. Here Moore is the seductress, the grande dame, posing like a model and working her way through some ballet positions. A final sequence in which one of her feet taps steadily while she runs her hand through her hair could be a statement: I’m not going anywhere, folks.

Paul-André Fortier’s Broken Lady takes us into a poetic universe where Moore could be the heroine of a Virginia Woolf novel – restlessly navigating her space, longing for something unspoken as a mysterious apocalyptic event occurs around her.

My favourite is the final piece, Sylph(a), by Gadfly’s Apolonia Velasquez and Ofilio Sinbadinho. Clad in a white dress, Moore appears younger than ever as she joyfully sculpts an entire universe out of the air with her limbs, all to the shimmering, lyrical piano music of John Lang.

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TAJ Sampradaya Dance Creations presents the epic story of the Taj Mahal told through theatre, dance and visual design. Nov 1 at 8 pm. $59-$64. Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham. 905-305-7469, markhamtheatre.ca.

Continuing ESCAPE ARTIST MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents an evening of solos performed by Claudia Moore from choreographers Paul-André Fortier, Christopher House, Susanna Hood and Gadfly (see review, this page). 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. NNN (GS) 3

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Taut tale illuminates post-war Vienna By SUSAN G. COLE THE CROOKED MAID by Dan Vyleta

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War morally compromises just about everyone. That’s the theme of Dan Vyleta’s Giller-shortlisted quasi-mystery set in 1948 Vienna as the Cold War is about to take hold.

Anna Beer is returning from Paris to Vienna to be reunited with her psychiatrist husband, Anton, whom she left when she discovered he was having a gay affair. On the train, she meets teenager Robert Seidel, on his way home from school after his stepfather has fallen to his death, possibly at the hands of Robert’s stepbrother, Wolfgang.

Both travellers find that everything has changed. The Seidel house, overseen by Eva, the crooked maid of the title, is a wreck; Robert’s mother is hooked on drugs; Wolfgang’s wife is pregnant; and Wolfgang himself is a prisoner about to be tried.

Anna’s husband is nowhere to be found, and their apartment has been seconded by Karel, an

opportunist who says he got the key from Anton, whom he befriended in a Soviet POW camp. A stranger in a red scarf is roaming the streets, apparently casing the Seidel household.

All the characters wrestle with ethical dilemmas or personal demons. The Seidels co-own a factory they bought – maybe stole – from a Jewish partner. Anna has a strange attraction to young Robert. Karel appears to be perennially on the take. And the orphan Eva seems not to know the meaning of loyalty. They’re all slippery, many of them actually slimy.

As Wolfgang’s trial unfolds and Anna attempts to find her husband, the two stories begin to intersect via more than a few coincidences that stretch the reader’s credulity. But Vyleta’s so skilled at propelling the narrative forward that they’re easy to live with.

And he has the Viennese atmosphere down: not just the war-ravaged streets and the traumatized people who haunt them, but the paranoia of communities burdened by guilt and pressed by opposing political forces.

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READINGS THIS WEEK STILL TO COME AT IFOA Thursday, October 31 I indicates International Festival Of Authors

events. All events take place at Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, and are $18 (stu/ youth under 25 free) unless otherwise noted.

416-973-4000, ifoa.org.

CATTON & RUPERT THOMSON Catton and Thomson are interviewed by ñ Ben McNally. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

IELEANOR

IDOUGLAS COUPLAND Reading and interviewed by Bert Archer. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

ITHE JOURNEY PRIZE: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF CANADA’S NEW WRITERS, WITH YANN MARTEL Readings by Elizabeth Hay, Pasha Malla,

Alistair MacLeod, Martel & others. 8 pm. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

IPHILIPP MEYER/ANDREW PYPER/CK STEAD/ CARSTEN STROUD/DW WILSON Reading. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

Friday, November 1 IKEVIN BARRY/CRAIG DAVIDSON/PAUL HARDING/COLUM MCCANN/CK STEAD Reading. 8

pm. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org BILL BRYSON The travel writer talks about his new book, One Summer: America, 1927. 7 pm. $30 (incl book). Trinity St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. indigobillbryson.eventbrite.ca.

ICATHERINE BUSH/RODGE GLASS/MARY NOVIK/MEG WOLITZER Reading. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

IGEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE/CYNTHIA FLOOD/ AMINATTA FORNA/DOUGLAS GLOVER/CHARLOTTE GRAY Reading. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

IMICHAEL CRUMMEY/LISA MOORE/ CHAD PELLEY/MARK MEDLEY Roundtable

ñ talk on Eastern philosophies. 8 pm. ifoa.org.

LOREN EDIZEL Reading and launch for The Ghosts Of Smyrna. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

IYOUNG IFOA: FRANK VIVA/ERIC WALTERS

Reading by children’s authors. 10:30 am. $5, $14 w/ bookplate-making workshop. ifoa.org.

Saturday, November 2 ITHEODORA ARMSTRONG/KEVIN BARRY/ DOUGLAS GLOVER Roundtable discussion on the merits and complications of the short story form. 2 pm. ifoa.org.

ILINWOOD BARCLAY/GEORGE PELECANOS/ JARED BLAND Roundtable discussion on the

challenges of the crime genre. 5 pm. ifoa.org.

ITAMARA FAITH BERGER/CRAIG DAVIDSON/ MATHEW HENDERSON/DW WILSON Round-

table talk on the new writing. Noon. $18.

IS BEAR BERGMAN/ALISON WEARING/SUSAN G COLE Roundtable discussion on the queer

We’re buzzed about books…

writing experience. 11 am. ifoa.org.

IDENNIS BOCK/RODGE GLASS/ELIZABETH RUTH/MARY SWAN/MICHAEL WINTER Reading.

1 pm. ifoa.org.

Buzzed about kicking off the holiday reading season…

IJUSTIN CARTWRIGHT/LOUISE DOUGHTY/ AMINATTA FORNA/CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW

And we want to get buzzed with you!

IGEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE/JIM LYNCH/ANNE MICHAELS/RUPERT THOMSON Reading. 2 pm.

Roundtable discussion on death, war and violence in fiction. 4 pm. ifoa.org.

On November 7th, 2013, please come join us for a “Mix and Mingle” at The Crest - 794 St. Clair Ave W, Toronto • 7 – 9pm Enjoy a FREE Pink Stiletto signature drink, delicious snacks, and incredible bargains on signed books, all while chatting with some of the hottest names in women’s fiction!

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IWARREN CLEMENTS/LOUISE DOUGHTY/LISA MOORE/CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW Reading. 11

am. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

IANTHONY DE SA/DON GILLMOR/CHARLOTTE GRAY/WAYNE GRADY Reading. Noon. ifoa.org.

IMARGARET DRABBLE Interview by Eleanor Wachtel. 1 pm. $18. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

FLOOD/HELEN HUMPHREYS/ MEG WOLITZER/SUSAN G COLE Roundñ table discussion on trusting the muse. 4 pm.

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IMICHAEL IGNATIEFF Reading and discussing his new book, Fire And Ashes, with David Miller. 4 pm. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

ITRIBUTE TO ALICE MUNRO With Margaret Drabble, Colum McCann, Miriam Toews, host Douglas Gibson and others. 8 pm. $25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

Lisa Moore The Authors Festival continues through Sunday (November 3), and there are outstanding writers still to appear. Among the many highlights: Booker winner Eleanor Catton reads tonight (Thursday, October 31) at 8 pm, Giller and Writers’ Trust short-lister Lisa Moore joins a round table of East Coast authors Friday (November 1) at 8 pm, and Meg Wolizter sits on a panel hosted by NOW’s Susan G. Cole probing the issues of craft on Saturday (November 2) at 4 pm. Plus the Alice Munro tribute, Guy Gavriel Kay, Andrew Pyper, Elizabeth Ruth and more. See Readings, this page.

Sunday, November 3 IS BEAR BERGMAN/JOWITA BYDLOWSKA/WAYSON CHOY/ALISON WEARING

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Reading as part of International Festival of Authors. 11 am. ifoa.org.

IDENNIS BOCK/JANIE CHANG/PAUL HARDING/JIM LYNCH/FARZANA DOCTOR Round-

table discussion on making the past relevant in contemporary fiction. 1 pm. ifoa.org.

IKRISTA BRIDGE/CHRIS EATON/CHAD PELLEY/ MATHEW HENDERSON Reading. 3 pm. ifoa.org.

IJOWITA BYDLOWSKA/ANN DOWSETT JOHNSTON/SIRI AGRELL Roundtable discussion on writing about addiction. 3 pm. ifoa.org.

IJUSTIN CARTWRIGHT/ELIZABETH RUTH/ MARY NOVIK Roundtable talk on rewriting

Monday, November 4 KEITH BARKER/JOAN BURROWS/LINDA GRIFFITHS/JORDAN TANNAHILL Playwrights Canada book launch with readings. Doors 6:30 pm.

Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. playwrightscanada.com.

CAROLYN BENNETT/ALAN RESNICK/KATHRYN LANDON/JOSH MORRIS/MAGGIE O’BRIEN Read-

ing. 7:30 pm. Free. Gurts Yogurt & Bakery, 283 Roncesvalles. 647-725-2138.

DENNIS BOCK/LYNN COADY/CRAIG DAVIDSON/ LISA MOORE/DAN VYLETA Readings by Giller

Prize Finalists. 8 pm. $15 and up. RCM Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. scotiabankgillerprize.ca.

DJ MCINTOSH/ROSEMARY MCCRACKEN/TERRI

history in historical fiction. 3 pm. ifoa.org.

FAVRO/LISE DE NIKOLITS Reading. 7 pm. Free.

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

IMICHAEL CRUMMEY/WAYNE JOHNSTON/ PETER ROBINSON Roundtable talk on the im-

Tuesday, November 5

portance of setting in fiction. 3 pm. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

ILAUREN B DAVIS/ANTHONY DE SA/DON GILLMOR/WAYNE JOHNSTON Reading. 11 am. ifoa.org.

ICHRIS ETON/BERNICE EISENSTEIN/ANNE MICHAELS/SETH Roundtable discussion on the

influence of technology and other people on their work. 1 pm. ifoa.org.

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR MEMOIRS Launch for books by Michael Kutz, George Stern, Elsa Thon and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-322-5928, holocaustcentre.com/Opening-Night.

IGUY GAVRIEL KAY Reading from and discussing his new novel, River Of Stars, with James Grainger. 1 pm. ifoa.org.

IHARI KUNZRU/AMANDA LEDUC/MARY SWAN Roundtable discussion on faith and

religion in fiction. 11 am. ifoa.org.

ICOLUM MCCANN/PHILIPP MEYER/GEORGE PELECANOS Roundtable discussion on leading

men. Noon. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

GILLER LIGHT BASH (Frontier College benefit) Live broadcast of the Giller Prize awards, authors, raffles and more. 7 pm. $35, adv $30. CBC Studio 40, 250 Front W. gillerlightbash.com.

DON GILLMOR Talking about his book Mount Pleasant. 12:30 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610.

Wednesday, November 6 GEOFF BERNER Launching his book Festival

Man: Sex, Drink And Accordions with musician/author Dave Bidini. 8 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

FARZANA DOCTOR/MARIA MEINDL Reading. 5 pm. Free. OISE, rm 22-212, ñ 252 Bloor W. oise.utoronto.ca/cwse.

ANN IRELAND Talking about her new novel, The Blue Guitar, with novelist ñ Michelle Berry. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639.

JIM VERBURG Launching his artist book

0/, Divided/Defined, Weights, Measures, And Emotional Geometry. 6 pm. Free. Art Metropole, 788 King W. 416-703-4400.

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John Marriott scrapes glass into precise lines and gemometric configurations in Crosscurrent.

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Dysphoria on wry Marriott makes you laugh and think By DAVID JAGER JOHN MARRIOTT at gallerywest

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Consisting of what he calls “middle” works – a reference to being in mid-

career – John Marriott’s show Afterimages addresses past decades’ art movements, from Fluxus to our current age of post-everything. Borrowing cheekily from conceptualism’s and minimalism’s astringency, he makes work that tempers serious-

ness with dry and dysphoric wit.

Distillations is made with broken glass, arguably a material that evokes riots and chaos. In this series of rigidly formalist paintings, he scrapes the glass into precise lines and geometric configurations that are then glued onto raw brown canvas.

Marriott clearly enjoys going against his own grain, underscoring amusing cognitive dissonances that spring up between materials, cultural eras and art movements.

Crosscurrent, his riff on Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, is a good example.

Marriott Photoshops the spiral earthwork created by the deeply process-oriented Smithson, the epitome of ecological rectitude, into the @ symbol.

It’s less a lampoon of Smithson than a larger statement on how contemporary culture freely co-opts and distorts whatever falls within its digital purview. Seeing Smithson’s magnum opus so glibly transformed makes you chortle and then gives you pause. To emphasize the irony, a tiny spiral @ made in ground glass stands on a plinth before the transformed image.

If Marriott is taking the high seriousness of his borrowed genres down a notch, however, he is not simply going for a dismissive punchline. The wry laugh behind his conceptual deadpan is designed to make you think, not smirk.

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Michael Abramson, Untitled (American Indian Movement: Lakota Indians), Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA, gelatin silver print, 1973. Reproduction from the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University. Courtesy of the Ryerson Image Centre.

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Nov 27 ($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). Self-Portrait: As I Think Of Myself, to Dec 8. Marina Abramovic and Ulay, to Dec 15. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

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. Playing Favourites II: Geometry (Textures), to Jan 3, 2014. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416363-6121.

DORIS MCCARTHY GALLERY You Cannot Kill What Is Already Dead Group Exhibition, Oct 31-Jan 25, 2014. 1265 Military Trail. 416-2877007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sculpture: 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.

MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Kim Dorland, to Jan 5, 2014. Karine Giboulo, to Jan 26, 2014. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA TIFF Future Projections: David Cronenberg: Transformations, to Dec 29. Through The Eye, Nov 2-Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture: Bart Hanna Kappianaq, to Oct 31. Sculpture/prints/textiles/ceramics/jewellery from the collection, ongoing (Collectors Nights Fri 7-9 pm, $10). $5, stu/srs $3. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-6401571.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE BioART: Contempor-

ary Art And The Life Sciences, to Feb 2, 2014. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-6961000.

THE POWER PLANT More Than Two; Micah Lexier, to Jan 5, 2014. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Mesopotamia: Inventing Our World, to Jan 5, 2014 ($27, srs/stu $24.50; Fri after 4:30 pm $23, srs/stu $20).

Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12, 2014. Faces To Remember: Chinese Portraits Of The Ming And Qing Dynasties, to Feb 23, 2014. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Elena Malkova, Nov 6-Dec 15, reception 6-8 pm Nov 6. (ImagineNATIVE): Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art., to Dec 15. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA reDesign 3013: Knoll Textiles, 6:30-9 pm Nov 6 ($55-$65).

Farandole: Perspectives On Western Canadian Métis Culture, to Nov 17. Ancestry And Artistry: Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Jan 12, 2014. Telling Stories, to Apr 13, 2014. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE A Thousand Works In Eighty Spaces: The Art On Campus Program; Lutz Dille, to Nov 14. Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism, to Mar 8, 2014. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-9781838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Moving Side And Forward: A Journey Through The Collection of York University; Excavations, to Jan 12, 2014. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-4779511.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS H Halloween-related event ART INTERIORS 20th Annual Festival Of

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AWOL GALLERY SpeakEasy Fall Art Fair, Oct 31-Nov 10, reception 7-10 pm Nov 1. 76/78 Ossington. 416-535-5637.

BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY Painting/sculpture: Eric Fischl, to Nov 30. 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110.

BAU-XI PHOTO Michael Wolf, to Nov 23, reception 2-4 pm Nov 2. 324 Dundas W. 416977-0400.

HBEIT ZATOUN Video: Models Of Reality: The Robot-Cam Chronicles, 8 pm Oct 31.

Painting/video installation: Bruce Parsons, to Nov 10. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

BERKELEY CHURCH Ryerson University Wearable Art Show, 6 & 9 pm Nov 5. 315 Queen E. 416-361-9666.

CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE 85th! group show, to Nov 1. 500 Church. 647-435-5858.

GALLERY 44 Photos (ImagineNATIVE): Tyler Hagan, to Nov 23. Photos: Melissa General, to Jan 4, 2014. 401 Richmond W, unit 120.

416-979-3941.

GALLERY TPW Video: Wu Tsang, to Nov 16, Feelings group reading 7 pm Nov 5. 1256 Dundas W. 416-645-1066.

GALLERYWEST John Marriott, to Nov 7. 1172 Queen W. 416-913-7116.

JULIE M. GALLERY Gideon Tomaschoff, to Nov 24. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626.

MKG127 Joy Walker, Tom Koken, to Nov 16.

1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

HMONIKER GALLERY Dark Arts II: An Art Exhibition On The Fringe group show, 7-11

pm Oct 31. 452 Richmond W. 647-699-8803.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Stephen Appleby-Barr, to Nov 9. 451 King W. 416205-9000.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U Multimedia: Terreform ONE, Nov 6-Feb 22, 2014, lecture 6:30-8 pm Nov 6, reception 8-10 pm Nov 6. 230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 327.

PROPELLER CENTRE FOR THE VISUAL ARTS Painting: John Kokkinos, to Nov 10, reception 7-10 pm Nov 1. Painting: Gerry Paul, Nov 1-10, reception 7-10 pm Nov 1. 984 Queen W. 416504-7142.

RED HEAD GALLERY Mixed media: Gillian Iles, Nov 6-30. Margie Kelk, to Nov 2. 401 Richmond W, unit 115. 416-504-5654.

ST JAMES CATHEDRAL Sacred Stitches Exhibit, to Nov 1. 65 Church. 416-364-7865.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX David Cronenberg: Evolution, Nov 1-Jan 19, 2014. 350 King W. 416599-8433.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Tintype Studio, to Nov 2. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.

TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH The Art Show Toronto Benefit for Tanzanian Masai Girls Education, Nov 1-2 Fri 4-9 pm, Sat 1-8 pm. 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435.

SUSAN HOBBS The Room And Its Inhabitants group show, to Nov 23. 137 Tecumseth. 416504-3699.

YYZ Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum) and Hanna Hur, to Nov 30. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

XPACE Betrayal Of The Proper Medium group show; Lili Huston-Herterich, to Nov 9. Anuta Skrypnychenko, to Nov 15. 303 Lansdowne.

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ten by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, with Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. 117 minutes. A Remstar release. Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

The first thing you notice about Matthew McConaughey is how healthy he looks.

“There was only one way to go,” jokes the actor when asked about gaining back some 40 pounds of the 47 he lost for his demanding role in Dallas Buyers Club.

He plays Ron Woodroof, a real-life womanizing Texas cowboy who in the 1980s became an unlikely AIDS activist after he was diagnosed with HIV and given 30 days to live. McConaughey, who’s bulked up to 200 pounds for some roles, got down to an emaciated 135 for the film.

“The body’s more resilient than we give it credit for,” he says, tanned and toned in a T-shirt during interviews for the film’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

“It can rebound, and you’re reminded of that, especially after a woman gives birth.”

Speaking of which, the actor’s had a career rebirth lately, giving astonishing performances in indie films like Magic Mike, Mud and Killer Joe. Even his recent Hollywood outing, The Lincoln Lawyer, found him in fine form. After years of lightweight movies – remember all those terrible rom-coms with Kate Hudson? – he’s reinvented himself.

He’s a star who’s become an actor.

“I’m enjoying and loving acting more than I ever have,” he says in his laid-back Texas drawl. He credits his family for letting him work without blinders. His wife, he says, gives him the psychological space not to look in the rear-view mir-

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ñ(Jean-Marc Vallée) Rating: NNNN After a terrific series of performances in 2012, Matthew McConaughey astonishes as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, straight Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS treatment activist in the mid-1980s after being diagnosed with HIV and told he had 30 days to live.

Unable to withstand the side effects of AZT, which he buys illegally, he hits upon a scheme of importing a cocktail of drugs – unapproved in the U.S. – first from Mexico, then from other countries. He sells them to other AIDS patients whose lives are then extended, and changes from a bigoted redneck to a man of compassion and purpose, fighting the FDA to get the drugs allowed.

McConaughey, his body emaciated, is almost unrecognizable, but his charm and passion shine through, and he gets lots of support from Jared Leto, whose dignified transsexual Rayon provides a lovely contrast to Ron, and Jennifer Garner’s concerned doctor.

Although the pace wavers near the end, director Jean-Marc Vallée does a fine job with the difficult material, which spans years and countries.

Expect major acting nominations GS come awards season.

Expect Leto (left) and McConaughey to get some awards-season love.

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“And if anything, kids help the job I do,” he says. “They remind you that we’re playing make-believe. They remind you to be goofy as hell if you want to. That frees up the instrument and gets you to have fun. Even the hard work is fun.”

Not all of it was fun, however. Some scenes in Dallas Buyers Club show him more emotionally naked than we’ve ever seen him before. How tough was it to go to that place?

“If someone tells you you’ve got 30 days to live, you go through fear, desperation, denial,” he says. “Rage was the main emotion I had to deal with. And then Ron gets slowly isolated from friends, work, everything, just on his own island, stuck with himself.

“What I learned is to not make it hard. Relax, and don’t tell yourself you need to cry. Relax and try to express.”

McConaughey was a fan of Canadian director JeanMarc Vallée’s film C.R.A.Z.Y., and while preparing for the film the actor was adamant that Woodroof not be turned into a do-gooder white knight.

“The story’s ripe for that moment and we’ve all seen it in the movies,” he says. “The guy goes: ‘Who was I, and what have I become?’ It would have been false, bullshit. If you stayed with [Ron’s] anarchy, with the bigoted bastard, the guy out for self-preservation, the crusader and activist would be revealed.”

He sees a parallel in the unlikeable character Paul Newman plays in Hud, one of his favourite films.

“Here’s a character who from the beginning to the end doesn’t change,” he says. “Whether you like him or not, you respect him by the end of the story.”

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New York City-based writer/director Lucy Mulloy spent years in Havana researching Una Noche, her feature debut and the openingnight film at this year’s International Diaspora Film Festival.

That kind of investment is no guarantee of verisimilitude, but I suspect that if you were to watch Una Noche without knowledge of its author’s origins you’d spot no trace of First World condescension or naïveté.

Unwilling to toil their youth away for a pittance in the kitchen of Havana’s Hotel Nacional, Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) and Elio (Javier Núñez Florián) opt for other means of making ends meet – and making a break for it. They steal, sell sex and trade their few possessions on the black market in hopes of acquiring inner tubes, a GPS and an old motor, the essentials needed to cross the 90 miles of ocean that separate Havana from Miami.

When Raul finds himself wanted by police, the friends accelerate their plans, but complications deepen once they realize that Elio’s twin sister has been following them around during their preparations. Should Elio bring her along?

Is the risk of perishing at sea worth the chance of a new life abroad?

The sociological conditions in Una Noche reflect a nuanced understanding of the deprivation and perpetual hustle that characterize life for so many of Cuba’s citizens. The near-palpable sense of desperation, however, knows no JOSÉ TEODORO cultural boundaries.

Dariel Arrechaga (left), Javier Núñez Florián and Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre find themselves in deep waters.

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Keanu Reeves

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DUDES, I’M A DIRECTOR! Keanu Reeves has a very Keanu Reevesian way of responding to things.

In answer to a question (admittedly a long, sort of rambling one) I ask him during TIFF about whether his directorial debut, Man Of Tai Chi, is meant to directly address the evacuation of spirituality and the intensification of violence in contemporary martial arts, Reeves offers a simple “Uh, yeah.”

That flat, mimbo-ish cadence that’s stoked Reeves impressions for nearly 30 years makes it obvious that Keanu Reeves, director, is very much the same Keanu Reeves we’ve come to expect: weird, funny, oddly unknowable, a Hollywood sensei possessed of a rare tranquility, the sort of guy who dances to the beat of his own drum.

With Man Of Tai Chi, in which he also co-stars as a ruthless fight promoter, Reeves’s catalogue of odd career choices continues. While it might not seem that strange for the guy who helped re-energize martial arts films in Hollywood via the super-popular Matrix trilogy to make a fight movie of his own, Man Of Tai Chi (a co-production of Chinese, Hong Kong and U.S. backers starring stuntman Tiger Chen) is anything but a surefire hit.

For one thing, it relies on tai chi, a martial art better known in the West as a light cardiovascular fitness regimen than a fists-of-fury method of self-defence. But for Reeves, tai chi proved naturally cinematic.

“There are so many things about tai chi that are fantastic for drama,” he says. “It deals so much in opposites

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REVIEW MAN OF TAI CHI (Keanu Reeves) Rating: NN Man Of Tai Chi poses the question, if Keanu Reeves isn’t generally regarded as a particularly gifted actor, why would anyone let him direct others? What’s the old expression – “Those who can’t do teach”?

Matrix stuntman Tiger Chen (whose character is also named Tiger Chen) plays a tai chi student drawn into an underground fight club by a ruthless promoter (Reeves) who promises he’ll make enough money to save his master’s decaying temple.

The fights, choreographed

by Yuen Woo-ping, crack sufficiently. But the backdrops (mostly empty pits and drab offices) are lame. Ditto the stiff dialogue, one-dimensional characterizations and saggy plot, which packs in limp romance and an underdeveloped police sting arc.

Reeves’s enthusiasm for martial arts and his relish for playing the bad guy are admirable, maybe even a bit infectious. But he hasn’t channelled his wide-eyed, childlike enthusiasm into a worthwhile movie.

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and contrast: the idea of hard force and soft force, about taking someone’s energy, or giving energy, the idea of light and dark, yin and yang.”

Indeed, Man Of Tai Chi lays out the whole good/evil, yin/yang dichotomy with the obviousness of the white hats and black hats of old Holly wood westerns. He and Chen are even dressed in black and white respectively on the film’s poster.

Beyond the dualities of tai chi, and martial arts more broadly, Reeves found inspiration for his film across the spectrum. Man Of Tai Chi, he says in a another perfectly Reevesian turn of phrase, “took a lot of cinema.”

His fixed shots were influenced by Michael Haneke, his more elaborate moving shots by “Italian cinema.” His film also employs “jump cuts, triple cuts, crossing the line” and scenes with no cuts at all.

Listening to Reeves describe his movie is like listening to an excitable film school student rattling off the glossary from Bordwell and Thompson’s Film Art: An Introduction. His enthusiasm is contagious and electric even if his film is as interminably flat as his inflection.

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ALL THE WRONG REASONS written and directed by Gia Milani, with Karine Vanasse, Kevin Zegers, Emily Hampshire and Cory Monteith. A Pacific Northwest release. 119 minutes. Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

Of the four actors who star in All The Wrong Reasons, only Karine Vanasse and Emily Hampshire have accompanied it to the Toronto Film Festival.

Kevin Zegers is off prepping the Mortal Instruments sequel, and Cory Monteith died after ingesting a combination of heroin and alcohol in July, making Gia Milani’s East Coast indie film one of the Glee star’s final performances.

Monteith’s death has cast a pall over Vanasse and Hampshire’s press day, since it’s impossible to discuss the movie without acknowledging the actor’s absence.

“I think this has been very eyeopening in terms of the media,” Hampshire says, seated next to Vanasse at a wobbly table in a boardroom at the Intercontinental Hotel. “A lot of people today have been like, ‘I hate that I have to ask this question, but I have to’ – and you have to, because that’s the story.”

“And at the same time,” says Vanasse, “you’re like, ‘But is it okay to want to shift it back to the movie?’

That’s what we’re here for.”

Monteith saw the final film, explains Hampshire.

“We went to a screening, and a week later …” she shrugs.

Vanasse, who like Monteith was a late addition to the cast, would rather celebrate her co-star’s work than talk about his death.

“You just want to tell people, ‘Look what he’s done!’” she says. “He challenged himself. He was doing all the promotion for the next season of Glee, this ultra-popular show, but he chose to do this small Canadian film. [And now] his fans and the industry can see what he could have done, all the potential he had.”

“And the movie is like a celebration of him, too,” Hampshire says. “I think the work he does in this movie is a testament to how talented he was.”

Not that Monteith’s the only actor doing good work in All The Wrong Reasons. I have issues with the script and the pacing, but all four actors give strong performances.

“Gia drew real human characters that weren’t just your stock kind of person,” Hampshire says. “So I felt like that work was pretty much done for me.”

Vanasse says the bleak surroundings – a crappy department store, a shabby apartment – helped her get into character.

“When you look at this film, it’s real,” she says. “The offices aren’t polished.”

“It looks like a shitty office,” Hampshire laughs, “because it was a shitty office. We shot in a real Zellers.”

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ALL THE WRONG REASONS (Gia Milani) Rating: NN The everybody-hurts multi-character dramas of Vancouver’s Carl Bessai find their East Coast analogue in writer/director Gia Milani’s tale of four sad Frederictonians who all work at the same department store.

A young woman (Karine Vanasse) who runs the security monitors can’t bring herself to be touched. Her frustrated husband (Cory Monteith, in one of his final roles), the store manager, falls into an affair with a surly cashier (Emily Hampshire), while a recent amputee (Kevin Zegers) has just started work as a store detective.

It’s only a matter of time before the two most broken souls drift toward each other, but Milani takes two full hours to play out a story that could have fit into a NW short.

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Pogo’s punk power The Last Pogo Jumps Again (Colin­Brunton, Kire Paputts). 203 minutes.

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Documentaries don’t come more hardcore than The Last Pogo Jumps Again.

Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts have turned Brunton’s enduring short doc The Last Pogo – which captured the Horseshoe’s final punk showcase in 1978 – into the cornerstone of a three-and-a-half-hour record of Toronto’s 70s punk scene.

I don’t know how this will play for people who didn’t grow up with that world in the background, but it certainly worked for me as an unapologetically nostalgic wander through T.O.’s underground history, with cultural figures like Ron Mann and Nash the Slash serving as our present-day guides.

Is it too long at 203 minutes? Yeah, probably. A documentary half this length would be just as definitive. But somehow the epic running time didn’t wear on me as I feared it would. I can never get enough of the Ra­ mones and the Sex Pistols, and Teenage Head, the Viletones, the B-Girls and the Ugly deserve their moment in the sun.

And, of course, the music holds up. You really can’t go wrong with those Norman Wilner three chords.

Historic 1978 punk showcase at the ’shoe gets its due.

International fest gathers some of the best (and the rest) of Asian cinema REEL ASIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL from Tuesday (November 5) to November 16. Various venues. $10-$20. reelasian.com. See Indie & Rep Film, page 90.

Good Thing The Kirishima Thing (Daihachi Yoshida, Japan). 103 minutes. Wednesday (November 6), 8:30 pm, AGO Jackman Hall. Rating: NNNN

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Winner of Japanese Academy Awards for best picture, director and editing, The Kirishima Thing is a rewarding ensemble drama of the sort we rarely see over here.

Told out of sequence, Daihachi Yo­ shida’s film follows a student body sent reeling by the news that popular kid Kirishima has quit the volleyball team. It’s as though someone has died, which creates a vacuum in the school’s social structure – only nothing’s really changed, and no one knows how to react. Fortunately, one student (Ryuno­ suke Kamiki) is obsessed with finishing a zombie movie, and this allows for a strange sort of catharsis.

Daihachi’s time-jumping structure makes the culturally specific story emotionally accessible, giving us a sense of how powerfully Kirishima (who never appears in the film) affects his fellow students both by his presence and his absence.

If you only catch one film at Reel Asian, this would be a good choice.

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Dark shadows TALES FROM THE DARK: PART 1 (Simon Yam, Fruit Chan, Lee Chi-ngai, Hong Kong). 114 minutes. Screens November 8, 8 pm, at the Royal. Rating­: NNN

This trilogy of Hong Kong ghost stories adapted from Lilian Lee’s series of horror novels features some solid performances even if the subject matter

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isn’t very original.

Actor Simon Yam makes an awkward transition to director in the first chapter, about a grizzled, underemployed man (Yam) who stoops to stealing funerary urns and extorting money from surviving family members. Explosive sound effects and quick cuts to dolls make the shocks cheap and unearned.

The second film is much better.

Superstar Tony Leung Ka-fai plays a fortune teller who uncovers a plot involving the ghost of a schoolgirl. Leung and Kelly Chen as a fellow medium exhibit crack comic timing even if the plot seems like an afterthought.

And the final work is the best. An old woman (Susan Siu) helps people wreak vengeance on their enemies by symbolically hitting paper images of their nemeses. It’s brief but atmospheric, and Siu delivers a layered, fascinating performance as a woman who doesn’t realize the implications of her actions when a pale-faced woman (Dada Chan) asks for her help. GLENN SUMI

Fine Farah Farah Goes Bang (Meera Menon, USA).

93 minutes. November 9, 4 pm, Royal.

Rating: NNN

character; all three leads seem like real people even when they’re dealing with fairly rote personal issues. The plotting is another story – the pacing is sluggish in the midsection – and the period setting doesn’t feel as essential as it should.

But road movies are about friends on a journey, and on those terms Farah NW Goes Bang works well enough.

Stop Believin’ Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (Ramona S. Diaz, USA). 113 minutes. Some subtitles. November 9, 7 pm, Royal. Rating: NN

How do you return your aging band to its former greatness without your distinctively bombastic lead singer? You find a sound-alike on YouTube, bring him on board and just keep chugging along, which is how Journey replaced Steve Perry as its lead singer with Filipino rocker Arnel Pineda in 2007.

There’s almost certainly an interesting documentary to be made about this story – you could spend an hour on the cynicism alone – but Don’t Stop Believin’ ain’t it. Director Ramona S. Diaz simply assembles rock star clichés (Have you heard? It’s a long way to the top!) and hangs everything on the stranger-than-fiction sight of Pineda fronting a classic rock band.

He seems like a decent guy, but he’s either too humble or too careful to say anything interesting on camera. Even the band’s most dedicated fans will have a hard time staying focused for two solid NW 3 hours.

In this road movie set during the last weeks of the 2004 U.S. presidential election, three young women (Nikohl Boosheri, Kiran Deol, Kandis Erickson) drive from California to Ohio trying to raise awareness about the Kerry-Edwards­ campaign – and maybe talk the awkward Farah (Circumstance’s Boosheri) into losing her virginity.

Meera Menon’s directorial debut, cowritten with producer Laura Goode, impressFarah Goes Bang goes the distance. es with its sense of

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Hi-Ho gets low marks HI-HO MISTAHEY! (Alanis Obomsawin). 100 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (November 1) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 88. Rating: NN

Revealing the disparity in Canada’s education system, Alanis Obomsa­win’s doc means to inspire change. Unfortunately, the film’s flat pacing, scattershot focus and lack of an affecting protagonist also inspire apathy.

The Attawapiskat First Nation’s children freeze in infested portables after their school is torn down because of land contamination. A new building is one of the basic needs the community is denied. Obomsawin surveys the community, the abysmal conditions and the campaign for education funding inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a teenager whose activism was cut short by a fatal car accident.

Posthumously, Koostachin is the only figure who stirs emotion. None of the other talking heads – the locals, teachers and politicians – get enough screen time to leave an impression, d ­ espite their desperate hopes.

For an issue-driven film that very clearly has an agenda (with very good reason), the film only tangentially touches on other social issues that affect First Nations education. Poor facilities are not the sole reason for dropout rates.

The film’s very direct, foreseeable goal ­creates a sort of tunnel vision, while other social issues are merely wielded for one commendable purpose.

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Well-meaning Hi-Ho Mistahey! only inspires apathy.

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Even the fabulous Naomi Watts can’t save this terrible biopic.

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Dreary Diana DIANA (Oliver Hirschbiegel). 113 minutes.

Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating:

NN Voracious paparazzi, meanie royals, forbidden love and a main character who’s the most famous woman in the

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world. How can a movie with all that be so mind-numbingly dull?

Blame the writer, for starters.

Though it toys with the princess’s ­manipulative tendencies in intriguing ways, Stephen Jeffreys’s script centring on the love affair between Princess Diana (Naomi Watts) – separated from Prince Charles – and surgeon Has-

nat Khan (Naveen Andrews) is laden with clichés. “I’m a princess and I get what I want.” Really.

And is the press ever-present or not? Diana appears to be able to come and go from Khan’s apartment with almost no one noticing.

Blame the director, too. When the ferocious media do descend, Oliver Hirschbiegel wastes the chance to make them terrifying and fails completely to convey Diana’s sense of being caged and harassed. Strangely, given that this comes from the maker of Downfall, the pacing is deadly, and we spend way too much time watching cars go in and out of Diana’s compound.

Don’t, however, blame Watts. As the people’s princess, the always watchable Oscar nominee does the best she can in a bad situation, recalling the tilt of Diana’s head and her flirtatiousness with admirable accuracy.

But she cannot save this disaster.

Not even the most committed royal SUSAN G. COLE watcher will go for it.

Economist Robert Reich delivers complex ideas in layman’s terms.

Well stuffed Free Birds (Jimmy Hayward). 91 minutes.

Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating:

NNN A Thanksgiving-themed talking turkey movie was inevitable. Almost all other holidays have been exploited for children’s animated films, and the tale of a sentient turkey who hates the annual feast was too obvious to ignore.

Thankfully, Free Birds features just the right combination of clever behindthe scenes-talent and well-cast voice actors to deliver a surprisingly enjoyable bit of family fluff.

Owen Wilson voices Reggie, a smart turkey who wants more from life than to be someone’s main course. Fortunately, he’s selected by the president to be the annual pardoned turkey and spends a few weeks eating pizza and

The Disappeared (Shandi Mitchell). 90 minutes. Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating­: NN I’m sure putting The Disappeared into theatres a week after All Is Lost sounded like a good idea. Everyone’s already talking about J.C. Chandor’s seafaring survival thriller; why not offer a modestly budgeted Canadian drama about men on the ocean?

Sadly, writer/director Shandi Mitchell’s project doesn’t hold a candle to the Robert Redford vehicle.

A work of limited dramatic vision, it’s about the disintegrating dynamic among six fishermen trying to reach shore in two dinghies after their boat goes down in the North Atlantic.

Supplies are limited. The outlook is bleak. The captain is kind of a dick, and he has a pistol. All of these things will come into play before the credits roll, because this is that sort of movie.

Mitchell just sets up conflict and has her actors – among them Billy Campbell, Shawn Doyle and Ryan Doucette – bark it out, breaking up the terse arguments with long, searching shots of the horizon.

The static nature of the drama could work really well on stage. But as a movie, The Disappeared is a slog.

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Billy Campbell (left) and Ryan Doucette try to stay afloat in The Disappeared.

Time wasted

90 minutes. Opens Friday (November 1).

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INEQUALITY FOR ALL (Jacob Kornbluth).

This engaging and informative primer on economic inequality in the world’s wealthiest nation is essentially a oneman show. Thankfully, that man is ­affable economist Robert Reich, who served in the Ford and Carter administrations, was secretary of labour under Clinton and currently lectures at ­Berkeley.

A stubborn optimist and gifted speaker capable of communicating complex ideas in layman’s terms, Reich analyzes 80 years of U.S. financial history. His conclusions are incontrovertible, alarming and hardly surprising: salaries for corporate executives are through the roof, while most of their

nautical drama

About Time (Richard Curtis). 123 minutes. Opens Friday (November 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NN

employees haven’t seen their wages increase in decades; it’s the evaporating middle class – not the rich – who buy stuff and create jobs; the postwar economy was stronger because it supported higher education and unions; lobbyists are satanic.

Director Jacob Kornbluth accents Reich’s lecture with images of Americans at work, interviews with frustrat-

ed families of all political stripes and effective motion graphics. In one especially clever sequence, a line graph turns into a suspension bridge.

Can a film like Inequality For All ­actually instigate change? Beats me.

But anything that increases awareness without feeding into dunderheaded partisan bullying can only be a good JOSÉ TEODORO thing.

relaxing in the White House. Then tough guy turkey Jake (Woody Harrelson) shows up, claiming to have been destined from childhood to find Reggie and go back in time to stop the first Thanksgiving. Weirdly, there’s a time machine in the White House, so that actually happens. Soon Reggie and Jake are back in early America fighting off Pilgrims to take their ­ancestors off the menu.

The plot is executed with surprising wit by Pixar veteran director Jimmy Hayward as well as co-writer Scott Mosier. The pop culture humour is a step above the usual postShrek reference pool (especially the Bill And Ted-flavoured time travel gags), and the voice actors have been

cast for comedic talent rather than name recognition.

Indie animation studio Reel FX can’t quite manage Pixar-quality visuals, yet finds a simple, playful aesthetic that suits the tone. Free Birds is a pleasant distraction that should please kids without boring parents, and that’s really all you can ask of a talking ­turkey picture.

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About Time is another of Love Actually writer/director Richard Curtis’s sappy, what-a-wonderful-world romantic comedies. This one’s about a goofy Brit (Domhnall Gleeson) with the ability to travel back within his own lifetime to redo things as he sees fit who falls for a lovely American (Rachel McAdams). (You can make a fantastic first impression if you can try it over and over.)

The gimmick doesn’t affect the plot in any meaningful way, but it does give Curtis’s sappiest, cheesiest impulses free rein: when a scene goes awry, he simply starts it again and takes it in a different direction, usually with a different pop song on the soundtrack.

Gleeson and McAdams are charming, and Bill Nighy is delightful as always as Gleeson’s father, but About Time is so insistently, explicitly mani­pulative – and so wilfully blind to the moral implications of its hero’s actions for the lives of the people around him – that it says more It’s About Time Rachel about the filmmaker’s machinations McAdams starred in a than perhaps he intends. NORMAN WILNER good movie. This isn’t it.

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(D: Gavin Hood, 114 min) Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld star in this screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel.

Last Vegas Owen Wilson’s Reggie ­considers ­gobbling up a slice.

(D: Jon Turteltaub, 105 min) Oscar winners Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline play 60-something guys taking part in a bachelor party in Vegas. The Hangover for seniors?

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Alison Lees-Taylor and Roy Abramsohn chew up the ­scenery in savage satire ­Escape From Tomorrow.

Playing this week but it doesn’t have to; it’s just one hell of a good movie. Writer-director Chandor’s follow-up to his economic horror movie Margin Call is 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 by a shipping container somewhere in the Indian Ocean; All Is Lost follows him over eight days as he attempts to steer the damaged vessel through nightmarish weather to rescue in commercial shipping lanes. 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. 106 min.

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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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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, 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

reproducing so much of this toxic material?

90 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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The Phantom Menace still has its defenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

ENDER’S GAME (Gavin Hood) 114 min. See

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Opens Nov 1 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 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 emotional one. What a pointless, bloody waste. 96 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 bleeds the fun out of this simple concept, steering the movie toward camp before it finally veers off into its own shallow grave.

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THE COUNSELOR (Ridley Scott) is a thriller

about an unnamed El Paso attorney (Michael Fassbender) whose world collapses into chaos when a drug deal in which he’s mixed up goes south. The entire second half is devoted to screenwriter Cormac McCarthy’s self-indulgence, as various supporting characters deliver monologues to Fassbender’s counselor explaining that he can do nothing to get himself off the karmic freight train. In the hands of another director, some fun could be had with this; I almost wish the Coens had seen this script while developing Burn After Reading. Scott doesn’t do fun, though; he does beautiful and bleak, which The Counselor certainly is. But it’s also stultifyingly dull and thick-witted, playing out its inevitabilities like a tabloid journalist flipping through a selection of crime scene photos. Yes, it’s all very ugly.

What was the point again? 117 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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Directors Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky explore the effects of human industry on the natural world in this gorgeously filmed, occasionally whimsical doc with a grim eco message.

Alfonso Cuarón’s awe-inspiring space thriller stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as stranded astronauts who must find their way home. Make sure you see it on a huge screen.

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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 on 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, Canada Square, 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

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fairy tale mythology inside out. It was shot on location at Disney theme parks by a crew posing as tourists. 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. 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 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 filmmaking. 90 min.

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Escape Plan (Mikael Håfström) is nothing

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, Scotiabank Theatre

ñ15 Reasons to Live

(Alan Zweig) features interviews with people who have discovered a philosophy that gives their life purpose, meaning and ultimately happiness. Some vignettes are more watchable than others, and with 15 stor-

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And director Zweig also includes two of his own reflections, both of which are poignant and heartfelt. 83 min. NNNN (GS) 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 in-

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ñGood Ol’ Freda

(Ryan White) tracks Freda Kelly, who ran the Beatles’ ­official fan club through the band’s 11year history while working as a secretary first for manager Brian Epstein and then for the Beatles themselves, never flaunting 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) Kingsway Theatre

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(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, co-

written 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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Griot (Volker Goetze) profiles Senegalese

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Featuring commentary from a handful of scholars and other musicians, including the great U.S. jazz pianist Randy Weston, Griot also serves as a very basic 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. The result is a very modest cinematic effort that frequently reaches the transcendent. Subtitled. 82 min. NNN (Jose Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre

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Trotta) tracks the fallout from politi­ cal 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

Hi-Ho Mistahey! (Alanis Obomsawin) 100 min. See review, page 78. NN (RS) Opens Nov 1 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Inequality for All (Jacob Kornbluth) 90 min. See review, page 79. NNN (Jose Teodoro) Opens Nov 1 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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 - Steeles, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Jeff

Tremaine) spins off Johnny Knoxville’s longtime old-man-makeup character Irving Zisman into a Borat-style mix of hidden camera pranks and simple storytelling. There’s no social satire, but the combination of Knoxville and 8-year-old Jackson Nicoll’s public pranks with intergenerational-bonding road comedy tropes provides a healthy balance of sweetness and hilarity. The movie plays like a vintage John Hughes comedy with Jackass interludes and works far better than the concept suggests it should. It’s still unapologetically idiotic and vulgar, but by making gentle stabs at maturity and increasing secret prankster Spike Jonze’s creative involvement, Bad Grandpa suggests that this crew just might be able to continue acting like jackasses into their 40s. 90 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carl-

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Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Lee Daniels) is

one big black history lesson featuring great 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, Kingsway Theatre

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Metallica: Through the Never – An IMAX 3D Experience (Nimród Antal) awk-

wardly sutures a fictional narrative onto performance footage from a Metallica concert. A roadie (Dane DeHaan) is dispatched on a fetch quest during the concert. That plot’s ostensible tension between protesters and riot police is totally bogus. It’s also distracting, especially when director Antal’s concert footage is so crisply choreographed.

(Even the 3D works.) 92 min. NNN (JS) Interchange 30

ñMuscle Shoals

attempt by the Oscar-winning director of In A Better World to lighten up. A young cou­ ple are set to marry in breathtaking Sorrento, Italy, where the groom’s father (Pierce Brosnan) connects with the bride’s mother (Bier regular Trine Dyrholm). Bier does occasionally find the fun – especially in the character of the father’s insufferable sisterin-law – and injects a surprising queer element, but unfortunately, she brings little else to a genre that could really use a shakeup. Some subtitles. 116 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant

Machete Kills (Robert Rodriguez) brings back Danny Trejo’s nigh-indestructible Mexican avenger for another gritty, selfaware 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) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre

(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, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage is a live broadcast of the celebration

of the renowned theatre, with archival footage and a cast of 100 (including Ralph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Benedict Cumberbatch and others) onstage. 135 min.

Nov 2, 4:45 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das (Jeremy Frindel) sketches the jour-

ney of kirtan singer Krishna Das from his Long Island roots to his spiritual awakening in India, to fame, concert tours and Gram-

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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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Parkland (Peter Landesman) turns key

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Thor Freudenthal) is a cheaper, looser and much sillier sequel to 2010’s The Lightning Thief, in which our demigod hero (Logan Lerman) and his friends sail into the Bermuda Triangle to find the Golden Fleece. Stanley Tucci is a genius choice for Dionysus, and Nathan Fillion’s Shatneriffic cameo as Hermes is worth the price of a ticket on its own.

100 min. NNN (NW) SilverCity Mississauga

my nominations. Findel’s serviceable profile 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. It would have benefited from fewer generalizations about enlightenment and more engagement with the material world. 74 min. NN (Jose Teodoro) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Refn) reunites Winding Refn with his Drive star, Ryan Gosling, for an empty revenge thriller. It’s too well made to be dismissed out of hand. Gosling is giving a real performance, and the director crafts every shot with a rich, simmering beauty – but dear god is it slow, and dear god is it pointless. Some subtitles. 90 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox 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

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sonality as his character’s bland design. 92 min. N (GS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) stars Hugh

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, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

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)

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The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Fun – Hyde Park Live is a high-def broad-

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cast of the rock band’s triumphant reunion concert performed for over 100,000 fans in London’s Hyde Park. 120 min.

Nov 4 at Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge; Nov 4-5 at 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 Douglas Booth and True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld, this may be the worst screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic ever made. 122 min. N (NW) Kingsway Theatre

Runner Runner (Brad Furman) is prac-

tically a photocopy of the recent Paranoia, a thriller cynically and obviously structured to allow the resourceful working-class hero (Justin Timberlake) to 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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney

(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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

The Summit (Nick Ryan) covers the deadly trek up K2 (the world’s second-highest peak) that claimed the lives of 11 moun-

taineers in August 2008. With a mix of interviews, archival footage and sporadically thrilling recreations, Nick Ryan’s doc sets out to clear up some of the confusion about what happened. The film parses all the gaps in testimony and conflicting accounts, but much of the uncertainty is due to the fact that the witnesses were dangling from a mountain in frigid conditions with very little oxygen while under constant threat of avalanches. 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 mountain itself.

Keeping up with The Summit can be as difficult as climbing a mountain. 102 min. NN (RS) 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

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that stuff. It wants everything to be a lot simpler. 112 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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finds McQueen rebounding from the uneven Shame with this stunning adapta-

tion 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 Northup’s masters over the years. Alfre Woodard, 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) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

ñWatermark

(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 philosophical digressions and moments of unexpected whimsy, which seems like an awfully good idea right now. Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity 3

ñWadjda

(Haifaa Al-Mansour) is the debut feature written and directed

by Saudi Arabia’s first female filmmaker. A 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) enters a Koran study contest

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West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Thu 4:10 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Fri, Wed 3:50, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Tue 1:15,

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABOUT TIME (14A) Fri, Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 11:00, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 BARNYARD (PG) Sat 11:00 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Fri 1:15, 4:25, 7:35, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 4:25, 7:35, 10:40 Mon 1:00, 4:10, 6:30, 10:25 Tue 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 10:25 CARRIE (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 1:35, 3:55, 7:25, 10:00 Mon 7:10, 9:45 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 2:25 Fri-Wed 1:45 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Sun 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 DON JON (18A) Thu 4:15, 9:15 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Thu 9:25 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 1:50, 6:40 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 8:00, 10:35 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 THE EVIL DEAD Thu 9:30 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 FREE BIRDS (G) Fri, Mon 2:30, 4:50 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:50 Sun 12:20, 2:30, 4:50 Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:20 FREE BIRDS 3D (G) Fri 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 MonTue 1:00, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 2:15, 3:05, 4:40, 5:30, 7:05, 7:55, 10:20 Fri 2:55, 5:20, 7:00, 7:45, 9:25, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:00, 7:45, 9:25, 10:10 Mon 2:40, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:25, 9:55 Tue-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 6:35, 7:30, 9:05, 9:55 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:20, 3:15, 4:45, 5:40, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40, 10:30 Fri 2:10, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:10, 9:40, 10:35 Sat 12:50, 2:10, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:10, 9:40, 10:35 Sun 12:45, 2:10, 3:20, 4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:10, 9:40, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 LAST VEGAS (PG) Fri 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Wed 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: 50 YEARS ON STAGE Sat 4:45 OUT OF AFRICA Wed 4:00, 7:00 PRISONERS (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 9:55 THE ROLLING STONES SWEET SUMMER FUN – HYDE PARK LIVE Mon 7:30 RUSH (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:35 Fri 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 1:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Mon 12:50, 3:40, 9:35 Tue 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Wed 12:45, 9:55 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Sat 11:05, 1:00, 4:10, 7:35, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Mon 12:55, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15 Tue-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 VERMEER AND MUSIC: THE ART OF LOVE AND LEISURE Sun 12:55

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 CARRIE (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 7:00, 9:30 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:15 FREE BIRDS (G) Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 GRAVITY (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) 12:50, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:45 LAST VEGAS (PG) Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:40

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East End Beach Cinemas (AA) 1651 Queen St E, 416-699-1327

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:55 Carrie (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 6:40, 9:00 Ender’s Game (PG) Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:35 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:00 Free Birds (G) Sat-Sun 12:30 Free Birds 3D (G) 6:40, 8:50 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 4:35 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 9:40 Fri 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:20 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 8:00, 10:10 Fri 5:20, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:00 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:45

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

About Time (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Carrie (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 1:00 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 The Counselor (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:55 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:30 Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 7:45, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Free Birds (G) Sat 12:40 Sun 2:45 Free Birds 3D (G) 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Sat 2:55 mat Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:45 Fri 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 2:20, 4:40, 6:55, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:55, 9:20 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage Sat 4:45 Rush (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 12 Years a Slave (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Carrie (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 9:50 MonWed 10:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:40 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:20 Sat 11:40, 2:20 Sun, Wed 2:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:30 Mon 4:55 The Counselor (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 10:05 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 11:05, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:45 Free Birds (G) Fri-Sun 12:30 Mon-Tue 2:45 Free Birds 3D (G) 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:45 mat Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:55, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 10:10 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 Out of Africa Wed 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 9:55 The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Fun – Hyde Park Live Mon 7:30 Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure Sun 12:55

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE)

Carrie (14A) Thu, Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Wed 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-Fri, Sun-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The Counselor (14A) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:05 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Escape Plan (14A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 12:45, 7:15 Free Birds (G) Fri 1:05 Sat 12:30 Sun-Wed 1:30 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sun-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu, Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:40, 4:20, 5:10, 6:50, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Last Vegas (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:45, 10:15

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 6:00, 8:25 Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Battle of the Year 3D (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:30 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Carrie (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:55 Fri 5:15, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat 12:10 Sun 1:10 Mon 5:05 Wed 4:50 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 5:25, 7:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Mon, Wed 7:35 The Counselor (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon 5:25, 8:00 Wed 4:10, 8:00 Ender’s Game (PG) Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:05 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:55, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:20 Free Birds (G) Fri, Tue 4:20 Sat 11:20, 11:45, 12:50, 1:30 Sun 1:20 Mon, Wed 5:30 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri, Tue 5:50, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:05 Mon, Wed 7:45 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 6:10, 8:30 Fri, Tue 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:25 Last Vegas (PG) Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:55 Prisoners (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:15 Fri, Tue 6:40, 9:55 Sat 3:00, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 3:30, 6:40, 9:50

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 3:00, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Carrie (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 1:35 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Sun, Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 Mon 4:10, 10:05 Tue 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 The Counselor (14A) 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 10:25 Thu 1:45 4:40 7:35 10:30 Fri only 1:45 4:40 7:35 10:25 Sat only 1:45 4:25 7:35 10:25 Mon only 1:15 4:40 7:05 10:25 Tue only 1:45 4:40 7:35 10:25 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Free Birds (G) Fri, Tue 12:30 Sat 12:15 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 Tue 2:55, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:35 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Tue 2:50, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:50, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:05, 9:30, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 Last Vegas (PG) Fri, Tue 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage Sat 4:45 The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Fun – Hyde Park Live Mon 7:30 She’s the One Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 10:05 Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25

3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Captain Phillips (14A) 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15

About Time (14A) Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Sun 12:40,

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Mon 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Tue 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Boss Thu 4:30, 8:30 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Mon 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Tue 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:15 Carrie (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:00, 10:15 Fri 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Mon 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Tue 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Wed 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:20 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:10 Sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:10 Mon, Wed 3:55 Tue 4:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:00 Fri-Sat 7:20, 10:00 Sun, Tue 7:20, 9:55 Mon 6:20, 9:00 Wed 7:30, 10:00 The Counselor (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Don Jon (18A) Thu 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:00, 4:05, 4:50, 6:55, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:40, 4:40, 6:25, 7:25, 9:15, 10:15 Tue 4:05, 4:50, 6:55, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Enough Said (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 11:30, 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 3:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Mon 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 Tue 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 10:05 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Mon 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Tue 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 The Evil Dead Thu 9:30 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Free Birds (G) Fri 2:30, 5:00 Sat 11:40, 12:15, 2:35, 5:00 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:00 Mon, Wed 4:00 Tue 5:00 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 4:05, 5:05, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Fri 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Mon, Wed 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 Tue 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 11:55, 2:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Tue 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Krrish 3 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:10 Sat 12:10, 3:35, 7:00, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 3:25, 6:50, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:30, 8:30 Tue 3:35, 7:05, 10:35 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Mon, Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Out of Africa Wed 3:40, 7:00 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:50 Fri-Sat 6:40, 10:05 Sun, Tue 6:40, 10:10 Mon, Wed 6:30, 9:55 Rush (14A) Thu 3:25, 6:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Mon, Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Tue 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure Sun 12:55

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

All in All Azhagu Raja Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Arrambam Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Boss Thu 6:30, 9:30 Krrish 3 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Naiyaandi Thu 7:30 Raja Rani Thu 7:15, 10:30 Vanakkam Chennai Thu 10:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Carrie (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) 1:40 Thu 4:10 Sat 11:20 mat Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Tue 4:00, 6:45, 9:00 Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:00 The Counselor (14A) 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:35, 7:25 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:20, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 1:20, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:35 Wed 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:35 The Evil Dead Thu 9:30 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Free Birds (G) 2:00, 4:10, 6:30, 8:40 Sat 11:45 mat Free Birds 3D (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 11:00, 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:10 4:40 7:25 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 12:00 mat Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 11:15 mat Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 1:50, 10:20 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:45, 4:25, 5:20, 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:35, 9:55, 10:40 Out of Africa Wed 4:00, 7:00 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:40 Rush (14A) 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure Sun 12:55

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 2:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00 Sat-Sun 11:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 MonWed 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 The Counselor (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Don Jon (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 6:45 Fri 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 12:10, 2:20, 7:20, 9:50 Sun 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 Mon 2:20, 4:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sat 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:05 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Free Birds (G) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 6:20 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:30 Sat 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:30 Sun 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 Mon-Wed 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Ishq Garaari (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:25, 3:15, 3:40, 5:30, 5:55, 7:45, 8:15, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Krrish 3 Fri 3:20, 6:35, 10:05 Sat 12:05, 3:20, 6:35, 10:05 Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MonWed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 National Theatre Live: 50 Years On Stage Sat 4:45 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:05, 6:25, 9:50 Fri 3:25, 6:40, 10:10 Sat 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 10:10 Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 MonWed 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Fun – Hyde Park Live Mon 7:30 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 8:45 Sun-Wed 8:30 Rush (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

About Time (14A) Fri 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sat 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 5:15, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 The Counselor (14A) Thu 4:25, 5:15, 7:10, 8:20, 9:55 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:10, 8:20, 9:55 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 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 4:10, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 1:10, 2:45, 4:10, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 1:10, 2:30, 4:10, 5:05, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:40, 6:35, 7:15, 9:10, 9:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 MonWed 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Planes (G) Thu 4:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 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 7:25, 9:50 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

Baggage Claim (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:10 Barnyard (PG) Sat 11:00 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Carrie (14A) Thu 4:10, 5:10, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 3:45 Fri-Sun 12:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 The Counselor (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:25, 7:00, 9:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:15 Don Jon (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45

Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:15 mat Sat 11:30, 2:15 mat Escape Plan (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 The Evil Dead Thu 9:30 The Family (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Free Birds (G) 4:55, 7:15 Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:45 mat Sat 11:45, 12:30, 2:45 mat Free Birds 3D (G) Fri, Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 11:05, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:10 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:40, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 7:55, 9:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:55, 2:10, 3:20, 5:05, 6:00, 7:20, 8:20, 9:40, 10:40 Sun 12:55, 1:55, 3:10, 4:35, 5:25, 7:20, 7:55, 9:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:35, 5:25, 7:20, 7:55, 9:40, 10:20 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:25, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 1:45, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Prisoners (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Fri 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 The Rolling Stones Sweet Summer Fun – Hyde Park Live Mon 7:30 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:45 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 6:35, 9:10 Mon 4:20, 9:10 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:35, 9:10 Rush (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 Mon 3:55, 6:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 12 Years a Slave (14A) 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat

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 6:00 Despicable Me 2 (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35 Fri 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:00 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 Krrish 3 Fri 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 Sat 2:00, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 Sun 3:00, 4:30, 7:00 Mon-Wed 6:30 Lost for Words 5:10, 7:30 Fri 9:50 Sat 2:30 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:30 mat Metallica: Through the Never – An IMAX 3D Experience (14A) Thu-Fri 5:00 Sat 2:15, 5:00 Sun 2:15, 7:45 Mon-Wed 5:15, 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) Thu 7:15 Smurfs 2 (G) Thu 4:35 2 Guns (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:25 Mon-Wed 4:35, 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) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:15 The Counselor (14A) 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Ender’s Game (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Free Birds (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 9:25 Last Vegas (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 7:05 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 4:00 mat Tue 4:00 mat Carrie (14A) Thu 7:30 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat, 4:55 Tue 4:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat-Sun 12:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 7:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:55 mat, 5:10 Tue 5:10 The Counselor (14A) 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat, 4:05 Tue 4:05 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Tue 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Free Birds (G) Sat-Sun 12:30 Free Birds 3D (G) 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:45 mat, 5:00 Tue 5:00 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, 9:55 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 7:50, 10:15 SatSun 12:50, 3:05 mat, 5:30 Tue 5:30 Last Vegas (PG) 7:35, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 5:05 Tue 5:05 Prisoners (14A) Thu 7:55 Runner Runner (14A) Thu 7:00 3

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and How to find a listing

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

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 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 cinecuba

royal cinema, 608 college. cinecuba.ca

fri 1-tue 5 – Festival of Cuban films. Fest pass

$49, 200 free passes to each screening, VIP seats $10. fri 1 – Opening night: Mandela & Fidel (2013) D: Estela Bravo. Q&A w/ director to follow. 6:30 pm. Habanastation (2011) D: Ian Padron. Q&A w/ director to follow. 8 pm. sat 2 – ICAIC Cuban Film Festival presents: Veinte Años (2012) D: Joel Ortiz. 6:45 pm. El Premio Flaco (2009) D: Juan Carlos Cremata.

7:05 pm. La Luna En El Jardin (2012) D: Yemeli Cruz and Adanoe Lima. 9 pm. Boleto Al Paraiso (2010) D: Gerardo Chijona. 9:15 pm. sun 3 – Estela Bravo Retrospective: Operation Peter Pan (2011). Q&A w/ director to follow.

6:30 pm. The Excludables (1994) D: Estela & Ernesto Bravo. 9 pm. Anecodtes About Fidel (2010). Q&A w/ director to follow. 10 pm. mon 4 – Cuban Women In Film Series Day 1: El Sol Rojo En El Poniente (2009) D: Marina Ochoa. 7 pm. CWFN Short Film Series including Quorum, Derecho De Ser and Itacas. 9 pm. tue 5 – Cuban Women In Film Series Day 2: CWFN Short Film Series including Tacones Cercanos, ­Misericordia and Oracion. 7 pm.

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international diaspora film festival

carlton cinema, 20 carlton (CC); innis town hall, 2 sussex (IT). Diasporafilmfest.com.

fri 1-tue 5 – Festival of films that focus on

migration, immigration and cultural diversity by filmmakers from ethnic minorities, with this year’s focus on films from Latin America. $12, adv $10, srs/stu $8. fri 1 – Una Noche (2012) D: Lucy Mulloy. 9 pm (IT).

Sat 2 – Sathima’s Wind Song D: Daniel Yon, and short. 1 pm (CC). The New World D: JV Heusden. 2 pm (CC). Goodbye Morocco D: N Moknèche. 3 pm (CC). Marginal Road & Resiliance D: Y Ameri. 4 pm (CC). Here And There D: A Méndez. 5 pm (CC). Parviz (2012) D: M Barzegar. 6:30 pm (IT). Amor Cronico D: J Perugorría. 7 pm (CC). Just Like A Woman (2012) D: R Bouchareb. 9 pm (IT). Clandestine Childhood D: Avila. 9 pm (CC). sun 3 – Entranced Earth D: Glauber Rocha. 1 pm (CC). They Were Promised The Sea D: Kathy Wazana. 3 pm (IT). Clandestine Childhood. 3 pm (CC). Ciclo D: A Martinez. 6:30 pm (IT). mon 4 – Just Like A Woman. 7 pm (IT). Water.

7 pm (CC). Una Noche. 9 pm (IT). Amor Cronico. 9 pm (CC). tue 5 – Antonio Das Mortes D: Glauber Rocha.

7 pm (IT).

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pomegranate film festival hamazkayin theatre, 50 hallcrown Place (HT); regent theatre, 551 Mount pleasnt (RT). ­pomegranatefilmfestival.com

wed 6-nov 10 – Festival of Armenian films and films by Armenian filmmakers living

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repertory schedules

Cuban connections OPERATION PETER PAN: FLYING BACK TO CUBA (Estela Bravo) Rating: NNN Operation Peter Pan was a CIAbacked program that between 1960 and 62 separated over 14,000 Cuban children from their parents and delivered them to foster homes and orphanages in the U.S. The first half of Estela Bravo’s film – screening as part of CineCuba’s Bravo retrospec­ tive– surveys the event largely from the perspective of those children some 40 years on, while the second half follows these same subjects as they make their first official return to Cuba as a group in 2009.

Sponsored by the Catholic Church, Peter Pan was in part a response to rumours that Castro’s government planned to send Cuban children to Soviet labour camps. But Bravo’s subjects raise troubling questions about the ostensible altruistic in­ten­tions of Peter Pan’s organizers.

Why were the children granted visas but not their parents? Were the kids just Cold War pawns, victims of anti-communist hysteria? Some were separated from their families for years. Some were sexually abused by clergy running the camps where the children were held before being placed elsewhere. Most suffered some lifelong trauma.

Bravo probes only so far into these accusations, but she tells the story of Peter Pan and its fraught legacy

Fawcett. 8 pm. The Exorcist (1973) D: William Friedkin. 9:05 pm. The Changeling (1980) D: Peter Medak. 11 pm. fri 1 – David Cronenberg: Naked Lunch (1991). Q&A w/ producer Jeremy Thomas and Cronenberg to follow. 9 pm.

Hsat 2 – David Cronenberg X 3: Scanners (1981). 1 pm. M. Butterfly (1993). Q&A w/ Denise Cronenberg to follow. 3:30 pm. Q&A w/ costume designer Denise Cronenberg to follow. The Fly (1986). Q&A w/ special effects makeup artist Stephan Dupuis to follow. 7 pm. Body Horror: Altered States (1980) D: Ken Russell. 10 pm. sun 3 – Reel Talk: Sneak Preview. 10 am. David Cronenberg X 2: Fast Company (1979). 2 pm.

Videodrome (1983) 4:30 pm. Trouble Every Day (2001) D: Claire Denis. 7 pm. Shivers (1975). 9:30 pm. mon 4 – Check website for schedule. tue 5 – Vers Mathilde (2005) D: Claire Denis.

6:30 pm. Only God Forgives (2013) D: Nicolas Winding Refn. 8:45 pm. wed 6 – Check website for schedule.

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Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

31 – Dial M For Murder 3D (1954) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm. The ñ Exorcist: The Director’s Cut (1973) D: WilHThu

liam Friedkin. 9 pm.

Fri 1 – Rush (2013) D: Ron Howard. 7 pm.

Blue Jasmine (2013) D: Woody Allen.

9:20 pm. sat 2-sun 3– Despicable Me 2 3D (2013) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm. Rush. 4 & 7 pm. Blue Jasmine. 9:20 pm.

Mon 4-tue 5 – Rush. 7 pm. Blue Jasmine.

9:15 pm.

Wed 6 – Our Man In Tehran (2013) D: Drew Taylor and Larry Weinstein. 7 pm. Rush. 9 pm.

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Cuban children separated from their parents fly home after 40 years.

clearly and succinctly using a com­bination of talking heads and remarkable archival footage. Only the saccharine synthesizer score mars her film.

Screens Sunday (November 3) at the Royal as part of CineCuba. See JOSÉ TEODORO listings, this page.

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GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 31-wed 6 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 31-fri 1 and mon 4-wed 6 – Fall season preview.

ontario science centre 770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

abroad. $10-$20, gala $60, six-pack $50, festival pass $125. wed 6 – Hamshen Nation (2013) D: Lusine Sahakyan, and short Was Casanova Armenian? 7:30 pm (HT).

reel asian international film festival

art gallery of ontario, jackman hall, 317 Dundas W (AGO); innis town hall, 2 sussex (IT); isabel bader theatre, 93 charles 2 (IB). reelasian.com

tue 5-nov 16 – Festival of Asian films. $12,

srs/stu $10, opening night $20, srs/stu $15, closing night $15, srs/stu $12, centrepiece presentation $15, srs/stu $12. tue 5 – Opening night: Bombay Talkies (2013) D: Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap. 7 pm (IB). wed 6– Paper Trace shorts program including Paper Lotus (2013) D: Kai-Ting Tiffany Wu and Letters From Pyongyang (2012) D: Jason Lee. 1 pm (AGO). Unsung Voices shorts program. 6:30 pm (AGO). The Kirishima Thing (2012) D: Daihachi Yoshida.

8:30 pm (AGO).

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Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

Fri 1-sat 2 – The Last Pogo Jumps Again

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(2013) D: Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts. 7:30 pm.

Sun 3 – The Last Pogo Jumps Again. 3:30 pm. mon 4-wed 6 – The Last Pogo Jumps Again.

7:30 pm.

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506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

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3:45 & 8:30 pm. sat 2 – Spring & Arnaud. Noon, 4:15 & 8:45 pm. Inequality For All. 2 & 6:15 pm. sun 3 – Inequality For All. Noon, 4:15 & 8:45 pm. Spring & Arnaud. 2:15 & 6:45 pm. mon 4 – Music On Film: Jazz On A Summer’s Day (1959) D: Bert Stern. 6:30 pm. Inequality For All. 9:30 pm.

Tue 5 – Spring & Arnaud. 6:30 pm. Inequality For All. 8:30 pm.

Wed 6 – Inequality For All. 3:30 pm. Hot Docs Doc Soup presents The Genius Of Marian (2013) D: Banker White and Anna Fitch, a film about Alzheimer’s disease and how it affects a family. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. $15. ­hotdocs.ca.

thu 31-fri 1 – Great White Shark. 11 am and 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

Sat 2-sun 3 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 & 4 pm. mon 4-wed 6 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

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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 P­ ellatt 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.

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Sí-Sí Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival presents Jose Marti: El Ojo Del Canario (2010) D: Fernando Pérez. 7 pm. $8. York University, Centre for Excellence, Aala A200, 2275 Bayview. ­festivalofimagesandwords.ca/si-si-cine.

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Temple Sinai Congregation of Toronto presents a film about cantor Severin Weingort and his survival of the Holocaust. 10 am. 210 Wilson. templesinai.net.

Ryerson University presents The Last White Knight – Is Reconcilation Possible? (2012) D: Paul Saltzman. 1:30 pm. Free. 350 Victoria, LIB072. RSVP ryerson.ca/ce/­lastwhiteknight.

Cinema Politica Danforth presents 5 Broken Cameras (2011) D: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, an account of nonviolent resistance in a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Discussion to follow. 7:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/danforth. mon 4 – Toronto Film Society’s Monday Night Film Buff Series presents All Through The Night (1941) D: Vincent Sherman and The Big Steal (1949) D: Don Siegel. 7 pm.

Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-970-6011, ­torontofilmsociety.com.

Toronto Theatre Organ Society presents silent films Sherlock Jr (1924) D: Buster Keaton, The Immigrant (1917) D: Charlie Chaplin and Big Business (1929) D: Leo McCarthy. Live organ accompaniment by Steven Ball. 8 pm. $20.

Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. ttos.ca. wed 6 – Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival presents short films. 7 pm. Free. Varsity Cinema, 55 Bloor W. enroutefilm.com.

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Saoirse Ronan’s 200-year-old schoolgirl yearns for change in bloody good Byzantium.

Byzantium (Mongrel, 2012) D: Neil Jordan, w/

­ aoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton. Rating: NNNN; Blu-​ray S package: NNN A fresh and fascinating take on the vampire movie, Byzantium is steeped in ancient mythology and modern life, unobtrusively elegant and as rich in character as in bloodletting and beheading.

Undead Clara (Gemma Arterton) and Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) arrive in a rundown seaside town and continue on as they have for 200 years: Clara in the sex trade, Eleanor as a schoolgirl. Clara lives for the moment, while Eleanor obsesses over the past and yearns for change.

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The Conjuring (WB, 2013) D: James Wan, w/ Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson.

Rating: NNN; Blu-​ray package: NN Too much of The Conjuring comes out of the Amityville Horror playbook, but it works fine as a mainstream haunted house flick because director James Wan knows how to build to his scares and the high-​quality cast take the proceedings dead seriously.

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men in it launches a series of flashbacks told from different points of view that enrich the narrative and give it some of the flavour of the earliest Gothic novels. Director Neil Jordan has used stories-within-stories before, most prominently in The Company Of Wolves, a wonderful set of nested riffs on Little Red Riding Hood.

Arterton, Ronan and the male leads, Sam Riley and Caleb Landry Jones, all give impeccable performances but reveal little of interest in the extras’ interviews. Jordan, his producers, cinematographer and production designer do better.

EXTRAS Twelve cast and crew interviews.

English, French audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Livingston and Lili Taylor) move into an old farmhouse with their five daughters. Unexplained night ­noises escalate fast to an invisible assailant and heavy poltergeist ­action. They summon professional demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga), who diagnose a demonic possession in progress.

Taylor and Farmiga make the most of the movie’s best roles. Taylor’s wholehearted physicality pays off handsomely when the action hits its fevered climax, and Farmiga gives Lorraine a warm exterior that conceals worn-​down frailty, which in turn hides fearless determination.

The Warrens are real people (Ed died in 2006) long established as paranormal investigators. The extras try,

not very convincingly, to establish their credentials and the reality of the ­Perron case. Wan’s views on the most essential elements in a horror movie are more illuminating.

EXTRAS Perron case doc, Warrens doc, making-​of doc.

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and ­subtitles.

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Black knockoff with cops and monsters instead of secret agents and aliens. The twist is that everybody’s dead. The nasties are evil souls who’ve escaped judgment to hide on earth disguised as humans. The goodies were cops in life, drafted into the titular Rest In Peace Department on their way to the afterlife.

Our mismatched heroes are contemporary Boston detective Nick (Ryan Reynolds) and Roy (Jeff Bridges), a cantankerous Old West lawman.

They work well together, and Mary-​ Louise Parker, their boss, and Kevin Bacon, the apocalypse-​bringing baddie, up the antic quotient with eccentric performances, but the best gag in the movie belongs to James Hong and Marisa Miller, who play Nick and Roy as the living see them – an old Chinese man and a hottie supermodel.

The big, splashy set pieces provide a decent mix of laughs and thrills, but barring a couple of small moments and one hilarious foot chase, there’s little in the way of originality.

Best of the brief extras is the ana­ tomy-​of-​a-​scene doc, which details some of the production design, camera work, stunts and effects in the final shootout.

EXTRAS Making-​of doc, effects doc, stunts doc, anatomy-of-a-scene doc, gag reel, alternate openings, more.

English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

Nothing Left To Fear

(Anchor­Bay, 2013) D: Anthony Leonardi III, w/ Anne Heche, Clancy Brown. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN It doesn’t take long to figure out that the good Christian folk in an isolated village have something nasty going on, that it’s aimed at the new pastor and his family and probably features human sacrifice.

But Nothing Left To Fear spins the cliché in some unexpected directions that lead to a satisfying shocker with a quietly disturbing aftertaste.

Director Anthony Leonardi III takes time to build his characters before the gruesome plot hits high gear, and Anne Heche, James Tupper, ­Jennifer Stone and Rebekah Brandes as the targeted family create relaxed, likeable people.

Clancy Brown and Ethan Peck, a pair of suspicious locals, also play for genuine warmth, adding a moral ambiguity that ups the creep factor.

We don’t learn much from the commentary and making-​of interviews except that producer and co-​scorer Slash aspires to make intelligent horror ­movies.

EXTRAS Commentary, making-of interviews.

On Demand This Week

ON ROGERS Blood Shot (2013) A terrorist plans to nuke L.A., and only a rogue cop and a vampire can stop him.

ON bell The Purge (2013) People run amok in a near-​ future society when all laws are suspended for 12 hours.

ON iTUNES The Internship (2013) Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as unemployed salesmen who land internships at Google.

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Your sister’s keeper Two years agO I found a letter in my sister’s car informing her that the blood she gave during a charity blood drive had tested positive for HIV. I didn’t say anything to her, because it was a really bad time and I wasn’t supposed to find out, and I didn’t know what to say.

Since then, there have been a couple of times it sounded like she came close to telling me, but never did. I worry she never will. She has also recently had some health complications that raise concern about how well she’s taking care of herself, and I am concerned that she’s missing out on treatment that she should be receiving out of fear that someone in our family might find out.

(As an added complication, our family is a bunch of judgmental religious immigrant types.)

My sister and I have had a complicated relationship growing up and have really only begun to get along in the last few years. In short, our relationship is fragile, but I care for her deeply. I can’t really understand the gravity of having to live with HIV, especially being from such a family as ours, but I wish we could have her diagnosis acknowledged between us so she can know that I’m not going to stop loving her, that I respect her no less, and I want to help take care of her. I want her to feel supported, because this must be terrifying to face alone. But that means having a conversation that I’m not sure I have the right to start. What should I do?

Sensitive Issue Surrounds Treating Errant Retroviruses Your sister may not be facing HIV alone.

She could have confided in friends, she could be seeing a great HIV doc, she could be attending a support group. And if your sister were in good health, SISTER, I would encourage you to run with those assumptions, i.e., that she’s getting the help and emotional support she needs.

Because it’s generally a good idea to err on the side of respecting a sibling’s right to privacy – even if that respect is retroactive in your case – while also respecting your sister’s specific right to control who she tells about her HIV status.

But it doesn’t sound like your sister is in good health.

While it’s possible that she’s facing unrelated health problems that you’ve wrongly attribut­ed to her HIV infection – people with HIV can come down with other shit – that could be a risky assumption. You wanna show respect for your sister, of course, but you don’t wanna respect your sister to death. If there’s a chance your sister hasn’t sought treatment because she feared it would get back to your family (she’s still on your parents’ health insurance, her physician is a family friend) or because there’s some other issue that prevented her from accessing services for people with HIV (language barriers, cultural barriers), I’m going to urge you to err on the side of speaking up. Tell your sister what you know and tell her how you found out. If you don’t tell her how you learned about her HIV diagnosis – ”How did you know?” “That doesn’t matter!” – your sister will worry that rumours are spreading and other people already know. So you have to come clean about snooping.

Then tell her you love her, tell her you’re worried for her, and tell her you want to make sure she’s getting both the medical

care and the emotional support she needs to stay healthy. She may be upset that you know something she wanted to keep secret—she may be furious—but you can point to the last two years as proof that you can be trusted to keep her HIV status confidential. You can’t be trusted alone in her car with her mail, obviously, but you’ve proven to her that you aren’t going to blab about this to the rest of the family.

You define your gender I’m a youth who identifies as asexual. That isn’t my question. I was born ­female, and I’ve been binding for a while and identify as gender-neutral.

But I’m afraid to tell others that I’m gender-neutral for fear of being told I’m wrong because I wear dresses. Does wearing skirts and dresses mean I’m not gender-neutral? I just think I look better in dresses than flannel.

Gender Neutral Asexual Youth Wear whatever you like, identify however you like, and refuse to engage with idiots who think they have a right to critique, dictate or overrule your gender identity.

Get same-room sex I’ve been reading your column for years, and that helped me tremendously as my husband’s kinky side began to emerge. We have recently started flirting with the idea of “sameroom sex” with other couples. We want a couple to watch us have sex, and we

want to watch them have sex, but there would be no physical contact between the couples. But we have had a difficult time finding couples who don’t want a soft or full swap. Long story short, I have decided to surprise my husband with a prostitute who will watch and video us but not have contact with either of us. I think he will be thrilled. But I’m wondering if you have any advice on this situation. What are the dos and don’ts? I am totally naive about sex work and sex workers, and I’m also afraid I could get jealous since there would be no other man in the room for me! I should mention that we have had same-room sex with a couple and it went fairly well, but we couldn’t really perform because they kept trying to initiate a swap with us.

Help me avoid possible pitfalls!

Monogamous Voyeurs And

Exhibitionists “Surprises are generally unwelcome when it comes to sex, and especially to sex work,” says Siouxsie Q, a Bay Area sex worker as well as the creator and host of the WhoreCast (thewhore­cast. com), a weekly podcast about sex work and sex workers. “You think your husband will be thrilled by a surprise prostitute – but what if he is not?”

You’re already worried that you might not be into it: you wanna be watched by a male/female couple, but you’re only thinking about hiring a woman, and that could leave you feeling jealous and left out.

“But if you are going to hire a pro, you might as well get exactly what you want,

right?” says Siouxsie. “There are plenty of escorts who do ‘doubles’ with other escorts. Take the time to do the research and find a provider who offers doubles with a male escort or a partner – some providers even specialize in this! Communicate about it with your husband, and instead of putting together an elaborate surprise, embark on a sexual adventure together. The process of looking through ads and picking out people you both find attractive may even be fun.”

Siouxsie recommends booking at least two hours for a session like this – you don’t want to rush through your fantasy, right? – and to respect your sex worker’s quoted rate, i.e., no haggling over the hourly rate.

“When your providers arrive, communicate your boundaries and expectations clearly so everyone is on the same page,” says Siouxsie, “and you and your husband should agree in advance about either of you being able to call a ‘timeout’ mid-session in order to re-establish boundaries or talk something out. And finally, on a more personal note, this sounds like a really fun session that most providers I know would be really stoked to book! So get out there and make your fantasies come true!”

F or your Halloween treat, Dan secures sex ­advice from a mortician, at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage Send your Savage Love questions to mail@savagelove.net

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