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NOW’s negative rants about Rob Ford over the years that so angered me ended up being truer and more soothsaying than I could have ever imagined (NOW, November 7-13). I have more problems with the mayor’s denials and lies than I do with his cracksmoking.

His public drunkenness made me think of him as a regular guy and mayor of the people. But now I realize he was lying to the people he pretended to party with.

He went from having my respect to my sympathy to my absolute disgust.

What a shame.

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“I love being mayor. I love my job,” said Mayor Rob Ford when he apologized for lying about smoking crack.

Mr. Mayor, you love your job because you have been able to attend to your personal interests on company time.

I don’t buy any of what you’re peddling. Your net effect on this city has been negative, divisive, embarrassing and ultimately very costly. No, Rob Ford. Party on your own time, not on my dime.

Jackie Balazsovits Toronto

Media need to stop pussyfooting around

Why so soft on the mayor of Toronto?

“He’s a lying, crack-smoking public drunkard?”

How about serial lawbreaker (drug user, issuer of death threats, driver un­der the influence, public drunkard)?

How about obstruction of justice (refusal to meet with police investigating a criminal matter)?

How about soon-to-be-released confirmation that he is a homophobe and racist?

How about the possibility of his be­ ing charged as an accessory to murder?

Stop pussyfooting around and tell it like it is. We already know he considers the media maggots, so please show us that you really do have some backbone.

Robert Scott Toronto

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I have moved past disgust and have reached empathy where Rob Ford is concerned. I hope I am not alone in this.

If I had a minute alone with him in an elevator, I’d say, “Get your priorities straight. Being mayor is not more important than being a father, husband, brother and son. You have the opportunity to teach your kids about mak-

ing tough choices. Do the right thing for them and resign.”

Marisha Roman Toronto

Blame amalgamation, says ex-councillor

The implosion of Mayor Rob Ford is the ultimate manifestation of the utter failure of Toronto’s amalgamation.

The capricious, spiteful and negative determination of then premier Mike Harris to implement the mega-city despite overwhelming opposi­tion has vaporized political accounta­bility.

My two terms as a councillor in the old city of Toronto were the high points of my life. The political structure of the old city allowed me to help govern an urban entity that had evolved over many decades to become what the late Peter Ustinov referred to as “New York run by the Swiss.” And he didn’t mean Etobicoke, Scarborough or North York.

The current chaotic and rampant overdevelopment would never have been allowed. Important political decisions were made locally. City gov­ernance was small enough to be ap­ proachable. Public participation was facilitated and meaningful; citi­zen input was genuinely sought and evaluated.

I sense that Toronto is on the verge of a massive seizure.

Howard J. Levine Toronto

the mayor with a pipe in one hand and a donut in the other, with the words “Get off of my driveway.” Other kids at school are singing songs, making poems about the mayor smoking crack, and if that isn’t insane enough….

Out comes the second video with the most vile, gruesome language [and what seems] to be a death threat.

On video. I am trying to ensure that my kids do not see this. How are parents talking to their kids about this?

This is a prime opportunity for par­ ents, caregivers and young adults to take a good look at who’s running things in our city, province and country. We can’t afford to be apathetic, and when we vote we should really think about it.

Deborah Schneider-Gagne Toronto

“ Why so soft on the

mayor of Toronto? ‘He’s a lying, crack-smoking public drunkard?’ How about the possibility he’s an accessory to murder? ”

What will our kids think?

With the media, general public and politics abuzz about the whole controversy, allegations now admitted to in the Rob Ford scandal, I think we missed one part of the population that has something to express about it: our children. How are our kids seeing this whole ordeal unfold?

My kids, aged 10, 8 and 4, all heard about it, and not just from their parents, adult family members and the news.

I find it ironic that the mayor’s very own behaviour is not more of a concern to his kids and wife. How about all the kids of Toronto? There are many, I’m sure, asking some of the same questions that my kids asked: “What is crack?”

“Why is the mayor so mean to people?”

“Why is Rob Ford still mayor?”

My oldest child drew a picture of

Our too-high estimation of politicians

I don’t care if politicians use controlled substances in their free time as long as it doesn’t interfere with their job. For a profession held in such low regard by most people, we sure do have high expectations for the conduct of politicians in their pri­vate lives. While we’re at it, let’s also find out if they cheated on their spouses.

Maybe people who use illegal drugs shouldn’t be allowed to vote; surely, if politicians can’t use drugs, then the people electing them to power shouldn’t use drugs either.

I definitely don’t think anyone has the right to call for a politician’s resignation for being accused of breaking a law, especially in regard to a victimless crime. Let the legal system decide if they’re guilty or not. We still live a in democracy, right?

Andrew Cichocki Toronto

Ford family problems

Excellent writing by all on Rob Ford and family, but my favourite was Norm Wilner’s Everything’s Not Going To Be Okay (NOW, November 7-13).

The Ford family’s skill seems to be raising to the level of their incompetence each and every family member.

Rob apparently surpassed his level of competency in high school.

Betty Ann McKenzie Toronto

Apology mayor hasn’t made yet

Re Rob Ford: “Sorry I got elected, but I was hammered.”

Ron Metella Toronto

Criticizing the chief hypocritical

Saying police Chief Bill Blair went too far by stating his personal opinion about seeing the mayor smoking crack in a video, Doug Ford called on the chief to step down for being “poli­ tical” and “judge, jury and executioner.”

With the Fords, it never seems what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If a city worker is found asleep on the job, whether on a break, suffering from an illness or whatever, it doesn’t matter.

No excuses, he should be fired, says Rob Ford. If that’s not a better example of “judge, jury and executioner,” I don’t know what is.

Frank Hannan Toronto

Consequences of drug use go beyond mayor

I am extremely disappointed by the revelations about the mayor smoking crack, particularly be­cause my mother and I have both been victims of drug crimes.

I suffered five burglaries on Carlton near Parliament while a crack house operated across the road. My 86-yearold mother’s house in the Law­rence and Bathurst neighbourhood was broken into last month. Her lifetime accumulation of me­men­tos and valuables was stolen by thieves who used a crowbar to remove the door frame.

If it were simply a matter of personal choice and private behaviour, I wouldn’t be writing to tell you this, but when the consequences of the use of crack cocaine invade the privacy of others and result in loss of property and threats to life, it is impossible to remain silent.

Jake Peters Toronto

Check Rob’s DNA

Some years back, a scallywag ticket scalper presented himself as (perhaps) the offspring of the late Harold Ballard. Your Ford cover convinces me that DNA testing on the Ford fam­ily should commence immediately.

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The Toronto Police Services Board signals its intention to restrict street checks, aka carding. Policing reformers who want the practice stopped altogether say it overwhelmingly targets young people of colour. A special meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 18, 5 pm at City Hall to receive public input.

ONTARIO PLACE

The closed waterfront park moves a step closer to revitalization. LANDinc, the firm behind Governors Island Park in New York City, and West 8 are chosen as the design team to revamp the three-hectare space.

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MATTAMY CENTRE

The former Maple Leaf Gardens, the hockey palace Conn Smythe built, is recognized by Heritage Toronto with a plaque and ceremony today (Thursday, November 14) at 2 pm followed by a free public skate at 3 pm.

HORSE AND BUDDY

Face-to-face at Ricoh Coliseum during the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Saturday, November 9. More animal crackers at nowtoronto.com.

FIRING BLANKS CITY HALL WATCH

An Ontario court has shot down the HarperCons’ three-year minimum sentence for gun possession, declaring the law “cruel and unusual punishment.” Justice Minister Peter MacKay was quick on the trigger with a response, declaring that the government brought in the provision “because Canadians need to know that those who commit serious or repeat offences will not have the opportunity to repeatedly threaten their safety.” But as the court pointed out, the change will have no impact on people convicted of criminal conduct with a gun.

Who Don Valley East Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong What Former Rob Ford ally who penned the council motion asking the mayor to take a leave of absence.

Why Speculation is that he wants to be mayor. However, the real reason behind his attempted Ford coup may be more complicated: to support his friend and political mentor, John Tory, who’s once again musing loudly about running.

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BY-ELECTION BLOTTER

A photo of NDP Toronto Centre candidate Linda McQuaig taken with late Venezuela president Hugo Chávez as part of researching her terrific It’s the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil And The Fight For The Planet was being passed around by her critics last week. But hey, what’s worse? That or a 2008 column written by Lib challenger Chrystia Freeland, in which former U.S. VP candidate Sarah Palin is described as a “feminist role model?” Check out the great Toronto Centre by-election debate at Jarvis Collegiate on Wednesday (November 20) at 7 pm.

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SANTA CLAUS PARADE

To the horror of parents across the city, our crackhead mayor says he’s attending this year’s festivities with bags of candy canes, despite recent revelations of his drug use and calls for him not to spoil the kids’ fun. Two things you can do if he does: turn your back; throw the candy back.

JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S SEX APPEAL

A women-only fundraiser billed as a “ladies night” out with the Liberal leader ends up turning into an embarrassing tempest.

What was supposed to be a private event ends up being open to reporters. See? No hanky-panky.

TAR SANDS REGS

“There might be a coat hanger left in my closet,” Rob Ford when grilled by councillors Wednesday, November 13, on whether he’s come clean on everything.

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Documents released to Greenpeace under access to information laws reveal high-pressure tactics being employed by oil and gas giants to force the Alberta government to back off its plan for a carbon tax of 94 cents per barrel on tar sands crude. The current charge is 10 cents.

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Philippines Climate Change Commissioner Naderev Sano couldn’t hold back the tears as he fingered global warming as the culprit in Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded. Hundreds of thousands are displaced, and the death toll is 2,275 and rising. And here’s Cana­da blithely adding to the planet’s misery with planned tar sands expansion. The feds will match donations for disaster victims. Give generously at redcross.ca or humanitariancoalition.ca.

[Frontlines] Zach Ruiter on Toronto’s nuclear problem It was the best-kept secret for the longest time, but a series of protests and meetings over the last year have finally brought GE-Hitachi’s uranium processing plant at Lansdowne and Dupont out into the open.

Now the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has decided to hold a public meeting December 10 and 11 at the Holiday Inn Yorkdale to review the operation, which processes uranium powder into the nuclear fuel pellets used in CANDU reactors.

The purpose of the meeting, according to the CNSC, “is not to reopen the licensing process or to discuss reasons for renewing the GE-Hitachi licence in 2010, but to update the commission with information on the safety and compliance of the facilities’ current operations and provide an opportunity for interested persons in the community to be heard.”

So at long last, locals will be able to get the details on a facility continuously trucking uranium in and out on residential streets.

The commission has asked depu­ tants to speak only about the plant, and not about environmental, political or ethical concerns regarding the rest of the nuclear fuel cycle – a limitation that will likely be difficult for many.

There’s a lot of transparency to be accomplished. A September 2013 Ministry of the Environment report on the uranium content of soil in the adjacent neighbourhood concludes that all readings except two were lower than Ontario uranium background levels of 2.5 parts per million, and all met the residential guideline of 23 parts per million.

But a CNSC report in October found clear contamination: samples above background levels, ranging from 4.7 to 21.2 ppm – very close to the residential limit though well under the much high­

er commercial soil guideline of 33 ppm.

It’s disturbing to realize that, as a CNSC spokesperson explains, “any ura­ nium contamination in soil (above ­natural background levels) occurs through air emissions.”

The release limits set by CNSC are notoriously liberal; GE-Hitachi’s licence allows for the annual release of a maximum of 760 grams of uranium wastes into the air and 9,000 kilos into the sewer system. GE-Hitachi claims to release only a fraction of these amounts, which gives the public the impression that their release in a densely populated city is acceptable.

GE-Hitachi CEO Peter Mason says

At long last, locals will get details on uranium being trucked through residential streets. the doses received by the public result in “practically zero health impacts.”

But with differing test results and little citizen participation, how can the public judge if the information is reliable?

The precautionary principle tells us we have a safety case against GEHitachi, but the only real mechanism for shutting it down is sheer public oppo­sition. Going door to door in the community, it’s easy to put a smile on people’s faces when we tell them, “You can have your Erin Brockovich ­moment, too!”

How can you take action? Send a letter to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (interventions@cnsc-ccsn. gc.ca) before the November 15 deadline indicating that you wish to make a presentation at the December meeting. It’s up to all of us to keep our communities clean.

Zach Ruiter is a documentary filmmaker and ­organizer with Idle No More and Marineland ­Animal Defense.

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By ENZO DiMATTEO Guys in fancy cars with suitcases full of money. Phone calls to Dixon-area gangsters, allegedly made on behalf of the mayor, threatening to take people out. A video of the mayor, obviously out of his mind on drugs, threatening to kill someone.

These are the latest strands in the seemingly never-ending Rob Ford crack video saga, scandal – whatever you want to call it. Are you paying attention, Toronto?

Or were you one of the hundreds waiting in line in the City Hall Rotunda on Tuesday, November 12, for your autographed Robbie Bobbie bobblehead doll? They were selling for $20 a pop to support the good works of the United Way, but a few were soon up for sale on eBay. One was going for $238.

These days it’s hard to know who’s laughing with the mayor and who’s laughing at him.

Big brother Doug, the councillor from Ward 2, calls him “the most honest politician in Canada,” which may not be saying much in the heat of the Senate scandal swirling around the mayor’s fishing buddy in Ottawa.

Then again, it depends how you define honesty. If it’s about telling the truth, then Doug’s dead wrong.

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The mayor is a fabulist. But he’s honest to a fault when it comes to living by his own rules – on that there’s no argument. Ford has no shame.

He showed up at the Remembrance Day ceremony on Monday even though some vets openly questioned the appropriateness of his attendance. He wore his chain of office, which was enough to cause the heads of editorialists over at the Globe to explode.

The chain symbolizes “the responsibilities, authority and dignity which are attached to the office of the Chief Magistrate.” There’s been little of either, as the paper rightly pointed out.

Ford was booed. He let it be known afterwards, as he was tailed to his office by a supporter – one of a number who’ve been conspicuously lingering around press scrums at City Hall shouting support off-camera – that he’s “not going anywhere, guaranteed.”

That was duly noted by the press in tow, to whom he wasn’t speaking that day. Cocksure words for

someone facing censure from left, right and centre on council this week.

His office announced later that the mayor will also be at the Santa Claus Parade on Sunday, November 17, tossing candies to the kiddies.

Ford would have been wise to skip the parade, given last week’s crack admission and everything that followed.

He claims to care for his own children but seems to think nothing of the negative impression his appearance will make on other people’s kids. But, then, Ford has never cared what other people think. * * * When video of the mayor’s murderous rant surfaced on Thursday, November 7, Ford seemed genuinely floored in front of reporters outside his office, at a loss for words before he issued another of those apologies for making “mistakes.” He offered no details about where the video was shot or what precipitated his outburst. He was obviously “inebriated,” but that’s all he’d say. Ford likes playing victim.

Perhaps we’re reading too much into his threatening to “kill that fucking guy…. I’m telling you it’s first-degree murder…. He dies or I die, brother.” Per-

haps it was all just bluster. Perhaps the mayor was just getting his Hulk Hogan on, as some of his friends in the media claimed. (The Hulk comparison may not be the best one, given the compromising situations Hulk’s been seen in on video.)

But it seems unlikely the mayor’s tirade was just a performance, given everything we now know about the company he keeps as well as the darker details of his life, thanks to police surveillance of his “friend,” alleged drug dealer Alexander Lisi.

His family took it seriously enough. It took only a few hours for the mayor’s rarely seen sister, Kathy, and mother, Diane, to appear on CP24 to defend him. That rare interview took place in the Ford matriarch’s home in Etobicoke, with Stephen LeDrew.

It has to go down as one of the worst attempts at damage control in history. A few Ford-friendly conservatives even took to Twitter to express their horror as it unfolded on screen.

Kathy’s checkered past with heroin addiction and associations with KKK and Mob types is well known.

Her ex, Scott MacIntyre, had his leg mysteriously shattered in jail recently while serving a term for threatening the mayor in a 2012 incident allegedly involving drugs.

Family members, including Ford’s mother, have counselled him to quit drinking so much. It’s never worked.

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DEMONIZING DEMOCRACY

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he reason Mayor Ford is unfit for office is not just that he has personal problems he must fix up.

It’s that he has proven himself to be a democracydevouring despot at heart

By ALICE KLEIN

Folks, I’m warning you, there’s a new threat looming at City Hall.

Listen up to all the solemn talk about rehab and Rob dealing with his “problem.” Is this scandalous situation really about something as ordinary as addiction and its redemption?

No way. That’s just another pernicious new storyline that simply doesn’t fit the crime.

I understand why the chorus of experts witnessing the Ford affair latch on to the familiar substance abuse drama. It’s so clearly a major player in the cast of insidious characters now on the city stage. Of course Rob Ford is dangerous both to himself and others. But rehab doesn’t cut it as an endgame. Even forcing him to step down doesn’t do justice to the situation at hand.

So let’s just get this straight. The fact that the mayor smokes crack cocaine is bad, but it isn’t the reason he’s unfit for public office. The fact that he lied about it and trashed and vilified

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those who did their jobs and reported the facts is far more central to the real issue. Though he masquerades as an Everyman, Ford’s sense of personal entitlement is so gigantic that he believes he has the right to bend reality itself to his needs and wishes. There are no rules for Rob. This is the recurring pattern we see looping endlessly around his every twist and turn.

That is why what we’re seeing must be named and remembered: Ford’s tenure has been a ruthless and consciously wrought assault on democracy itself. We need to make a teachable moment out of this for our own sake and for those who come after us.

As mere mortals, we can hardly make sense of the unrelenting weirdness and sorrow that’s blowing out our synapses as we try to follow the unfolding Ford crime epic. (Until last week, we naive souls thought the word “bird” – now known to be a low-status gangsta – referred to a winged creature of the wild.)

His time in power has absolutely opened the Hell portal under the city of Toronto.

To do the Devil’s work, all he had to do was lie and cheat with authority and consistency. That came naturally. He bought his own personal power by pretending that the collective project of government is a trivial money-waster and the only thing that matters is the money in your own personal pocket. He preached that answers to complex human problems are so very simple. The Devil is in the details.

You know the city’s reached a new level of debasement when shots of young kids visiting the mayor’s office actually make your skin crawl. Thanks to Ford, every nine-year-old in Toronto is talking about crack cocaine. That’s evil and a fitting symbol for how close to impos-

sible it is to measure the times and ways that his behaviour has transgressed the bounds of decency.

But it all goes much deeper into the way that both Fords have successfully used malicious falsification and threats to undermine the very cosmology of democracy we all take for granted. That is what brought them to political power and has helped keep them there.

Don’t get me wrong. I love all the compassion being expressed by good-hearted people from all over the political spectrum and the media who see this addiction demon wreaking havoc on a fellow being and graciously want to save him or, better, see him save himself.

This is the kind of politics that values forgiveness and offers help to those in need, no matter who they are. I cherish that and hope we come out of this nightmare with a new commitment to exactly those principles.

But we cannot continue to let our kindness be the means through which we are manipulated into cooperating with a new diabolical cover-up plan. Denial is not an option.

Yeah, if Ford had just been exposed as a liar about his crack-smoking, it would have been bad. But that’s nothing compared to what we’re dealing with.

We’re talking about a mayor whose every word has been a lie. His gravy train campaign was a lie. Remember the KPMG report that revealed no widespread extravagance, only possibilities for city-wrecking cuts to services?

His boast of saving taxpayers money? Another fabrication. The city’s “net” budget has actually kept increasing under Ford, from $3.58 billion in 2011 to $3.71 billion in 2013. He just added a useless $85 million to our tab in sunk

costs when he ditched the Scarborough LRT plan in favour of a subway. Not to mention the tax increase and unfunded liability that his subway plan is imposing on Torontonians.

His promise to stand up to gangs and guns and keep the city safe on the many tragic occasions when violence has exploded on the streets is beyond painful to recall.

His whole political life is a fib, including whether he even shows up at work or not. But worse, he and his brother have undermined every institution, rule, procedure or individual that has stood in the way of their countless transgressions.

Ford has unleashed bully robo-calls to sabotage those who don’t do his bidding on council. He was found to have violated election spending laws. He has disparaged the city’s integrity commissioner for exposing his use of public office for private fundraising.

His brother has demeaned the medical officer of health and undermined the authority of the chief of police. The list is exhausting.

And worst of all, they have both incessantly used their authority to insult the integrity of the news media for doing their job of informing the public and reporting these facts.

The reason Mayor Ford is unfit for office is not just that he has personal problems he must fix up. It’s his insatiable hunger for power by any means necessary. In his unbounded feeding of that appetite, he has proven himself a democracy-devouring despot at heart.

That is the truly dark force he has unleashed on the city and the already fragile political culture of the country.

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Our mayoral debacle has me banging my head against the wall. It’s an emotional roller coaster: sweet validation at the top (“He’s copping to the crack!”) and frightened rage at the bottom (“He thinks he’s covered himself, and what if he has?).

The elected/electorate relationship has turned abusive, and we the taxpayers get to play beaten spouse and outraged bystander at the same time.

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If this were a Hollywood script, our elected representatives would at last coalesce across the left-right spectrum to come up with a deus ex machina to redeem Toronto from its racist, homophobic, hammered ’n’ high chief exec.

Seduced by that fantasy, last week I e-begged my councillor, Gord Perks: “…the ‘left’ must come forward and show leadership in asking that this corrupt, mendacious administration

be ended as soon as possible.”

The day Ford conceded that he had, after all, smoked crack, I tried again, this time with the sense of impotence so many of us now feel: “You could have been in the vanguard, but instead, like so many councillors in our scared-to-speak-the-truth city council, you took the expedient PR route.”

Then came Perks’s reply, right to the point: “Many people are asking

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“Many people are asking me to work to remove Mayor Ford from office. To the core of my being, I believe it should not be up to elected officials to remove each other from office.”

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Later in that email, which eventually ran in the Huffington Post, Perks invited us to “count to 10” and realize that the rage and denouncements of the populace are part of the ignorant, anti-government upswell that got Ford elected in the first place.

(There should be a word, other than “ouch”, for that feeling you get when you’ve resorted to distressed imperatives and then get pegged as part of the problem.)

Perks isn’t alone in keeping quiet on resignation, by any means. Councillor Shelley Carroll made clear last week, “The voters choose the mayor, and unless there are criminal charges it is difficult to remove a politician from office. I believe that is a very good thing.”

On socialistproject.ca, York prof Stefan Kipfer uses a great term for the problem councillors on the left are taking on: scandalized politics.

He writes that scandalization doesn’t benefit social progress – despite how tempting it is to use it as leverage – because although “the air seethes with schadenfreude about the powerful… this resentment often remains passive: private rather than collective, and focused on… personalities [such as] ‘the politician’ or ‘the city worker’… not social forces like the state, the ruling class, patriarchy or white supremacy.”

Scandalized times are actually apathetic times, because rage “quickly morphs into cynicism: the sense that getting politically involved is useless….”

Perks would concur. His email ends by suggesting we channel our

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By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE Rob Ford.

Indeed.

What can we do about him?

Well, there’s laughing and crying, but you knew that already.

No, I mean, like, to get rid of him?

Ah. Can council remove him?

No. Can the province remove him?

In theory, yes – the province can pass pretty much any law it wants with regard to municipalities. But it’s not gonna take the bait here. Needless intervention in politically charged municipal shitshows isn’t really this government’s thing (except when it comes to transit).

I’ve heard that if he’s convicted of a crime, he loses his seat?

No. Seriously?

The province previously said it was more open to getting involved if Ford was convicted, but they’ve now concluded that it’d be undemocratic to do so. In any case, there’s nothing in law that kicks out a member of council if he or she is convicted of a crime.

Municipal lawyer John Mascarin brings up the case of Councillor Ana Bailão, who was charged in October 2012 with driving over the legal blood-alcohol limit. She pled guilty in January and kept her seat.

Oh, yeah…

It’s because she received no jail sentence. “Not even, like, three days’ imprisonment,” says Mascarin, “because that would’ve ousted her, and that’s what normally happens on minor offenses.

They’ll do anything but get any jail time, because then they’re booted from office.” continued on page 22 ➼

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Lately, I’m feeling pretty proud to be a print journalist.

For months Ford Nation bought the mayor’s claims that the Toronto Star had made up all that stuff about the infamous crack video and his issues with substance abuse. Those “maggots,” as he referred to reporters during his now defunct radio show, were the ones to blame.

Turns out there is a video, Ford’s in it, and, yes, the mayor gets into “drunk­en stupors.”

Why were so many people so sure that Kevin Donovan and Robyn Doolittle, two journalists prepared to put their reputations on the line, were making things up to advance a vendetta against Ford?

I think it’s because in the age of the internet and the 24-​hour news cycle, the concept of journalism has been seriously wat­ered down. Blowhards babble their right-​wing opinions on Fox, and that’s considered news.

Bloggers can say whatever they want online without any accountability.

CP24’s Stephen LeDrew gives cravenly soft in­er­views like the one with Ford’s sister, Kathy, and mother, Diane. To feed the never-​ending demand for news, insignificant things get blown way out of proportion.

Under these circumstances, you can forgive misinformed media consumers for believing that print journalists can’t be trusted either.

The truth is, those of us in the print media have very high standards, and they’ve been met consis­ tent­ly throughout this improbable saga.

Consider how long it took for the well-​known secret of Ford’s alcohol ab­use to be made public. We’ve discussed his substance issues around NOW’s editorial board table ever since he was elected mayor.

Why didn’t we report it? I mean, we’re pretty fearless. We’ve Photoshopped the mayor in some controversial images – all of them in keeping with the long-standing tradition of political cartoons – and delivered hard-​hitting critiques of the chief magis­trate’s policies. We even found his cottage during Pride weekend.

But we couldn’t bring ourselves to out the mayor as a juicer.

That’s because it’s a given that you can’t print that kind of thing unless you have on record at least two sources who’ve stood cheek by jowl with Ford when he’s been hammered at public events. And that didn’t happen until the infamous Garrison Ball last spring, when the Star reported that a very refreshed Ford was asked to leave the party.

Naysayers went ballistic because the sources weren’t identified, when unnamed sources are ac­tual­ly a mainstay of investigative jour­ nalism. Remember, the Watergate investigation would never have got off the ground without Deep Throat.

But unnamed doesn’t mean unvetted. Editors have to know who the players are, and reporters have to be accountable. Their jobs depend on it.

If anything, recent events should give the public renewed trust in journalism. continued on page 26 ➼

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So you don’t lose your seat if you’re convicted of a crime, but you do lose your seat if you go to jail?

Yes. As per the City Of Toronto Act, “A member of city council is disqualified from holding office if, at any time during the term of office of that member, he or she” would not be eligible to vote if a municipal election “was held at that time.” (The Municipal Act, which applies to all other Ontario municipalities, has the same clause.) The moment you cease to be an eligible voter, you’re disqualified from holding office and your seat is declared vacant.

Because people in jail can’t vote?

Exactly. Ontario’s Municipal Elections Act specifies that “a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution” is barred from voting in municipal elections.

That makes sense.

No, actually it doesn’t. The Canada Elections Act says that “every person who is imprisoned in a correctional institution serving a sentence of two years or more” is prohibited from voting in federal elections. But the Supreme Court struck down that section in 2002, and the chief electoral officer has declined to enforce it ever since. And Ontario’s Election Act sets out no restrictions on prisoners voting in provincial elections. So in Ontario, inmates can take part in federal and provincial elections but not in municipal elections.

Why? “I assume it is because no one has brought a [court] challenge,” Freya Kristjanson, who practices municipal law, writes in an email.

Wouldn’t some municipalities with larger correctional facilities end up having a disproportionate prison vote?

Probably not. Current federal and provincial rules have inmates vote by special ballot, with their poll determined by where they lived prior to incarceration.

Huh. Well, what if the mayor, say, gets arrested in a bar fight and is kept in a cell until morning?

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Nope. It has to be imprisonment “pursuant to a conviction,” says Mascarin. “Not just jailed overnight because they’re holding you.” He offers the example of the G20. “If you had a council member out there and he was put in a holding tank with everybody – that wouldn’t qualify, in my view.” It has to be imprisonment as a sentence that flows from a conviction.

So he’d lose his seat as soon as he’s sentenced to jail time?

No. It’s when a person starts serving that sentence.

But couldn’t a case be tied up in appeals for years before a person ever sets foot in a correctional facility?

Yes. What sort of things might Rob Ford be charged with?

Ahahahaha. You’re not tricking me into libel territory.

Is imprisonment really the only legal mechanism to pry a municipal representative out of office between elections?

Well, no. If you break the Municipal Conflict Of Interest Act without meeting that law’s definition of a good excuse, you’re out. This time last year, a judge dismissed Ford from office for doing exactly that, but a Divisional Court panel later overturned that decision on appeal. The Municipal Elections Act also sets out forfeiture penalties for certain violations and corrupt practices that amount to having cheated to get in office in the first place. But though auditors found many “apparent violations” of the law in Ford’s campaign finances, the Compliance Audit Committee declined to pursue charges against him.

What now?

We wait for the conclusion of Project Brazen 2, the police investigation of the mayor, which could result in charges beyond those already laid against Sandro Lisi and Jamshid Bahrami.

How long will that take?

How should I know?

And until then?

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out­rage into political work.

He adds, in a phone interview on Tuesday, November 12: “I am angry that there are people living in squa­ lid conditions because we don’t have affordable housing, but I don’t try to fire the head of community housing.

I’m not a police officer or a judge. I have certain powers ordinary mem­ bers of society don’t have, but in or­ der to use those powers I have to have

“If no action is taken I feel the message we send to our children is that lying is fine when it suits you, there is no need to apologize unless you are caught and that bullying those who disagree with you is expected.”

constraints put on me so I don’t misuse them.”

In this high-​minded universe (Perks keeps company with Adam Vaughan, Mike Layton, Shelley Carroll and others), we don’t scheme about regime change but instead work toward structural change.

I still believe it’d be pretty in­ human not to want to – and feel free to – yell our pain from the rooftops.

Plus, what if right-wing councillors for far more cynical reasons succeed in getting the mayor into rehab – or out altogether – and then claim the moral high ground?

Grateful to have these meaty am­ bi­guities to work with (a nice break

from being scandalized!), I collect in­ sights from my street’s Facebook page, the Dufferin Grove listserv and the Brockton Neighbours Yahoo group: do folks think a call for the mayor to resign is necessary or un­ democratic? Responses fly.

Some agree with Perks: “The mayor was elected by a sub­ stantial majority, and this drama

should play itself out until the next election.”

“Whether he retains the title of mayor is almost ir­ relevant. He has lost the ability to govern.”

Others disagree: “[This is] a dangerous rationalization of Rob Ford’s behaviour disguised as intellectual discourse.

This is not complicated.”

“Councillor Perks’s response is ar­ ticulate, but the time for theories and counting to 10 is long past.”

“If no action is taken I feel the mes­ sage we send to our children is that lying is fine when it suits you, there is no need to apologize unless you are caught and that bullying those who disagree with you is expected.”

One neighbour ended his response on a note he perhaps thought was rhe­torical: “He’s the subject of a ma­ jor criminal investigation that touch­ es on drug dealing, murder, extor­ tion. Does anyone really believe he’s going to be able to survive this politi­ cally?”

For many of us, this tweaks deep, justifiable worry. What we’d have thought far-fetched before the Ford years suddenly seems horrifyingly possible.

Thanks to thoughtful conversa­ tion with my neighbours and my coun­cillor, I can better cope with this hell, knowing that forbearance has a logical point and isn’t just virtue for virtue’s sake.

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We will all end up paying an economic price for the mayor’s lack of integrity By adam giambrone The president of the Board of Trade said it best last week in the midst of the Rob Ford disaster: the city no longer has a “Marketer in Chief.”

Yes, Toronto continues to function on a day-to-day basis despite our discredited chief magistrate. The problem is long-term: turning into the butt of a worldwide joke could cut dangerously into the city’s prosperity. It’s a strange turn of events for a mayor who electioneered on his business smarts, uses fiscal responsibility as his calling card and deems himself a champion of job creation.

Will we all end up paying the economic price for Ford’s lack of integrity?

To answer this, I surveyed a sample of local financial players, including an investment consultant, a hotel

manager, a trade commissioner and people connected to Invest and Build Toronto.

None was comfortable speaking on record, but their collective conclusion was clear – if this crisis continues and the city is perceived to have an enduring leadership deficit, investment decisions could be affected.

We are, after all, a metropolis dependent on enterprises outside our boundaries, and reliant to a lesser extent on tourism and talented immigrants.

Businesses and clever people have many opportunities in places other than here, and while most financial decisions are driven by nuts-and-bolts analyses, there is always a drive to quantify future risk factors.

Toronto has reasonable taxes, an educated workforce, good proximity to markets and decent infra-

The mayor’s travails are creating a sense of crisis and instability that’s no good for business.

structure, but Ford’s travails are creating a sense of crisis and instability, and the longer that goes on, the more unat­tractive we become.

Objectively, the mayor’s activities – from murderthreat rants to drunken stupors – should not affect investments, but there are always factors in decisionmaking, my sources say, that aren’t based only on hard facts.

One compared Toronto to Italy, where former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi became a block to the influx of large-scale capital. Compa­nies worried about the government’s ability to rise above dis­trac­tions to make long-term decisions.

The case of Japan also came up. Political infighting and the government’s failure to work with opposi­tion forces led to continuous instability over the last 20 years along with neglect of reforms to keep the country competitive, an issue now being corrected.

The fact that the Board of Trade – which has egged on the mayor in his privatization battles and backed his push for low property taxes for businesses – would ex­press its nervousness about the spectacle Ford has become underlines the problem.

National and provincial governments set economic policy, while municipal ones establish local enabling mechanisms. So if councils are paralyzed, the services that business depends on can go into decline. And for all its collective intelligence, Toronto’s council is stuck when it comes to many issues. That’s partly because our low-functioning mayor isn’t able to unite various factions for the sake of effective decision-making. The worst thing for government is treading water – think the dysfunctional LRT/subway debate.

It’s impossible to know where the Ford situation will go next. But it’s conceivable that the longer he stays at the helm and the more likely his re-election, the iffier Toronto’s economic climate will be.

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I just hope my media associates don’t abuse it, specifically by going over­board on castigating Ford for his substance abuse. That reeks of the zero-​tolerance policies that have helped ram American prisons, and of the just-​say-​no ideologues who lie about the substances they denounce and marginalize the millions of peo­ ple who partake in recreational drugs.

I frankly don’t care if Ford smokes pot or crack and if he likes his liquor a little too much. So what if he uttered a string of angry obscenities while he appeared to be totally lit up in the video that surfaced last week?

It seems to me that stuff is important only if it interferes with the job he was elected to do.

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dium to greet his constituents.

I don’t care what’s in the pipe he’s smoking in the much-publicized video. I want to see the video so I can hear him utter the homophobic and racist comments that make him un­ fit for public office.

I do care that he lies, attacks the press (an essential democratic institution) and skips out on the work we pay him to do so he can hang out with hooligans.

So hats off to the journalists who reported on the original “crack” video that associates Mayor Ford with gangsters. But, please, stay focused on his alleged con­nections to serious crime and stop getting so charged up over his substance abuse.

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ing Rob publicly would?

The bizarre, Dr. Phil-style public intervention was clearly aimed at Ford Nation, some of whom by now are beginning to have their doubts about Rob. * * * Ford has lived by the axiom that a day is a lifetime in politics. And no one knows that better. Whatever the controversy, there’s always another day to make people forget or to change the channel.

That’ll be harder now that he’s lost

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his bully pulpit, his Sunday radio show on Newstalk with brother Doug.

That was the other bomb dropped last week.

The station issued a short statement saying CFRB and the Fords had “mutually agreed” to part ways. The statement was unsigned.

For Ford, there was nothing more to gain from doing the show. He needs to get out of the spotlight. But it’s also true that fatigue had set in at the station. According to one insider, “Some hosts were of the opinion enough is enough and it was time to stop the circus. Besides, what more could the Fords say that hasn’t been said yet?”

More importantly, listeners were growing weary. Keeping the Fords on board would be particularly risky during the all-important fall ratings season, currently under way. Reaction to CFRB’s announcement on its website seems to confirm that sentiment. Commenters were almost una­ nimously in favour of can­celling the show. * * * On Tuesday, November 12, allies who only last week were saying Ford’s tenure was becoming untenable said there was a new spring in the mayor’s step. Must be the personal trainer/ driver he’s hired.

A few well-placed leaks that sound like they came from older brother Doug suggested that the mayor was, as the Sun put it, “ready to receive help.” It’s doubtful that help will involve rehab, however. Ford has had a drinking problem for years.

And checking himself in somewhere might make him look weak to supporters. Ford’s conservative credo mandates that if there’s any pullingup-by-your-bootstraps to be done, the mayor will do it himself, his own way.

Besides, who’ll remember all this fuss a year from now? Certainly not the average folks at home who can’t be bothered with the blow-by-blow.

There’s still too much confusion about what’s going on – just ask the folks behind Karen Stintz’s campaign for mayor. Maybe we are all too consumed with the details of the scandal.

What’s next? Ford may be further isolated by council if it strips him of his powers. Still, Ford’s base seems to be mostly intact if Forum’s latest poll is to be believed. It’s not. The more telling fact in that poll is that twothirds of voters wouldn’t vote against their local councillor if asked to by Ford.

He’s playing the long game, but time is not on his side. More revelations are bound to come out. On Wed­nesday, while council was debating a motion to force Ford to take a leave of absence, a judge ordered the release of additional information related to the arrest of his alleged drug dealer, Lisi. That information includes transcripts of police interviews with the mayor’s former senior staffers.

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Toronto WordSmiths Writing group for youth 16-29. 5:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. facebook.com/­towordsmiths.

Trunk Show All-sustainable, Ontario-made fashion and accessory sale. 6-9 pm. Fashion Takes Action Distillery Disctrict Showroom, 15 Case Goods Ln, #202. t­ essbarbieri.com.

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Bigger, Better And Multiples: Orgasms For Everyone Workshop. 7 pm. $33. Good for

Her, 175 Harbord. 416-588-0900.

A Boy And His Camera: The Art Of Spontaneous Photography Lecture by Steve Levinson. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com.

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Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival

Shorts and features that touch on mental illness and addiction, plus panel discussions, exhibits and more. $12 or pwyc ($2 min). TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and Workman Hall (651 Dufferin). ­rendezvouswithmadness. com.

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Party Together To Build Together (Project Katebi Clinic and School) Fundraising party. 7 pm. $50. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ­eventbrite.com.

5Toronto Bent Beauty Supreme (Rainbow Railroad) A busted beauty pageant hosted by Keith Cole supports LGBTQ refugees. $10.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. bentbeauty. eventbrite.ca.

Talk by nutritionist Allison Jorgens. 2 pm. $10.

St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor W. 416463-3405.

Intro To Body Language Workshop. 7-9 pm. $37.50-$50. FitzGerald Building, 150 College, room 139. Register learnbodylanguage.net.

Layers Of Leaside Illustrated talk on the history of Leaside. 7 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. 416-767-5472.

Natural Care For Colds And Flu Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth, rm 212. thebigcarrot.ca.

FRemixed Fashion Show Flare Magazine and the Remix Project fashion show finale with live remixes of Christmas songs. 6 pm.

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FSanta’s Closet Craft and fine art sale. To Nov 14 noon-8 pm. Free. Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, 225 Confederation. 416-396-4026.

Say Cheese, Say Cheers Seminar on pairing artisanal cheeses and craft beers. 7 pm. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Jane and Steeles. Preregister 416-667-6295.

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from more than 20 countries reflecting the excellence, innovation and diversity of European cinema. Free. Royal Cinema, 608 College. ­eutorontofilmfest.ca.

Nov 14 to 27 Veggielicious Celebration of gourmet vegetarian cuisine with prix-fixe menus at restaurants and bakeries throughout the city. ­veggielicious.ca.

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celebrating young professionals who volunteer in the arts, with music by Saidah Baba Talibah and the Soul Proprietor. 8:30 pm. $150. Carlu, 444 Yonge. ­thearnoldparty.com.

The British Isles Show Appearances by Coronation Street actors, entertainment, retail goods and more. Today 11 am-7 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Nov 17, 10 am-5 pm. $15, stu/srs $12, kids free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. britishisles­showcanada.com.

Consciousness, Creativity And Music Talk

by GZA/Genius. 6 pm. Donation. U of T Earth Sciences Centre, 33 Willcocks. falakmujtaba@ hotmail.com.

The Decline Of War Forum led by author and journalist Gwynne Dyer. 7 pm. $10, stu $5. JJR Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

Education For Activists Conference Sessions on surveillance and the state, revolutionary youth movements, the U.S. Democratic Party and more. Today and tomorrow 6 pm. $4/session, weekend $10. OISE, rm 2-214, 252 Bloor W. ­socialistaction.ca.

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

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

Talk on landscape as a way of seeing in the 19th century. 7 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca.

Gourmet Food & Wine Expo Sample food, wines, beers and spirits from around the globe. Today 6 pm; tomorrow 2-10 pm; Nov 16 noon-10 pm; Nov 17 noon-6 pm. Thu $40, Fri & Sun $20, Sat $25. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. foodandwineexpo.ca.

The Industrial Diet In Three Meals Talk by prof Tony Winson. 7 pm. Free. U of T, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

European Union Film Festival Films

Valerie Matteau: Bringing “Old News” Into The Twenty-First Century Art lecture.

A Crisis Through Lenses (Syrian Canadian

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and Nahnda Garlow. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Thursday, November 14 Fdn for Humanity) Screening of short films portraying the harsh reality of the Syrian conflict. 6:30 pm. $10. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. scfhbloor.eventbrite.com.

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Two Row Times – Indigenous Resurgence And Grassroots Media Talk by Jon Garlow

Noon. Free. Ryerson Image Centre, 2nd fl, 122 Bond. ryerson.ca/ric.

Women And The War Of 1812 Presentation by history professor Jane Errington. 7 pm. $5, stu/srs $3. Parliament Interpretive Centre, 265 Front E. Pre-register 416-212-8897.

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­Festival Contemporary cinema by international and Canadian East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $10$20. Japanese ­Canadian Cultural Centre (6 Garamond), Richmond Hill Centre for the Perform­ing Arts (10268 Yonge). ­reelasian.com.

To Nov 16 Regent Park Film Festival

Screenings, panel discussions, installations and performances the economic crisis and the attack on pension and retirement benefits. 3:30-6 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register kevin.skerrett@gmail.com.

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.

Saturday, November 16

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The Crystal Soiree (New Beginnings Support Program) Black tie dinner and dance with a performance by Divine Brown. 6:30 pm. $200. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. ­eventbrite.ca/event/4014884628 East Rotary Club Arts & Crafts Sale (Out of the Cold & other programs) Live music, face painting, artisan creations and a draw. 10 am5 pm. Free.

Eastminster United Church,

310 Danforth. ­torontoeastrotary.com.

FHoliday Magic (Canadian Fdn for AIDS

Rsearch) Music by singer-songwriter Sarah Slean and a holiday tree-lighting ceremony.

5-6:30 pm. Free (donations appreciated). Village of Yorkville Park, Cumberland and Bellair. bloor-yorkville.com/holiday_magic.

MOVEMBER TO REMEMBER (Movember Fdn) Comedy benefit featuring Niles Seguin, David Mesiano, Barry Taylor, Joel Buxton and host Anthony Ciardulli. 10 pm. $15. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. ­stachelaughs.com.

Party In The Stacks (Toronto Public Library) After-hours party with music by DJ Fathom and DJ Gee Wizz, a magician, temporary tattoos and more. 9 pm. $125. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. hugh-hush.ca.

Quebec Square Dance (Justin Elie School of Music in Verrettes, Haiti) Square dancing with Quebecois music and a silent auction. 7:30 pm. Donation. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. 416535-3847.

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FBaby, It’s Cold Outside Baby Point

holiday open house event with tours, carriage rides, Santa photos and more.

10 am-11 pm. Free. Jane from Lessard to Monteye, and Annette from Jane to Windermere. ­babypointgates.ca.

FrChristmas At Black Creek Taffy pulls, gingerbread cookie decorating and more. To Dec 23. Wkdays 9:30 am-4 pm, wknds 11 am4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. rCorn Husk Dolls Workshop for adults and kids 10 and up. 11 am-2:30 pm. $10. Toll­ keeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. ­tollkeeperscottage.ca.

FFestival Of Smalls Sale of original artworks in gift sizes. To Dec 24. Free (art $55$250). Art Interiors, 446 Spadina Rd. ­artinteriors.ca.

Flogging Workshop. 3-6 pm. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

FHolly Berry Fair Crafts, books, baking, a silent auction and more. 10 am-3 pm. Free.

Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough. ­hollyberryfair.com.

Indie Literary Market Books from literary presses and magazines plus the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Noon-4:30 pm. Free.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ­meetthepresses@ gmail.com. 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. 1 pm. Free.

Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. ­meditationtoronto.com.

The Mental Illness Happy Hour Live podcast recording with Scott Thompson. 4 pm. $12.

Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin. ­mentalpod.com.

Murder at the ROM Urban Capers scavenger hunt for adults. 1 pm. $30. Meet at Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-8952378, urbancapers.com.

My Inordinate Fondness For Beetles Lecture by Arthur Evans. 1:30 pm. Free. ROM Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register ­ontarioinsects.org.

Open Streets Summit Discussion on how Toronto can use existing city streets to encourage active and healthy living with 8-80 Cities director Gil Penalosa and others. 10 am. Free.

Ryerson U, Room ENG130, 245 Church. Preregister openstreetssummit.eventbrite.ca.

Purl Posse Social knit, crochet and corking gathering. 2-4 pm. Free. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Socialism And Feminism Talk by author Abbie Bakan. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­beitzatoun.org.

5Totally outRIGHT! Leadership program for gay and bi guys 18 to 29 on safe sex, anti-oppression and body image. Free. See website for details. Register ­acttoronto.org/to.

The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs By A.

Wolf Story mob event. Some time between 1 and 4 pm. Free. Location released 24 hrs prior to event. s­ torymobs.ca.

Understanding Your Credit Report & Credit Score Learn how to improve your cred-

it score and check for fraud. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746.

The Vision Board Gala Discussions on women’s finances, relationships and health with Live Your Passion author Melyssa Moniz.

4-8 pm. $99. Phantages Hotel, 200 Victoria. ­tvbgala.eventbrite.ca.

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A Very Sketchy Day (Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary) Sketch comedy marathon with Winston Spear, Amy Lester, Adam Bailey and many others. Noon-midnight. $5. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. cedarrow.org.

Yogathon For Unity (Only Now Exists) Charity yogathon. 1-5 pm. $10. Dovercourt Boys & Girls Club, 180 Westmoreland. Preregister ­onlynowexists.org/yogathon.

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Block Copolymer Architectural Materials For Addressing Today’s Challenges Royal

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

Gluten Free Garage Gluten-free marketplace with speakers, sampling and food trucks. 10 am-4 pm. $10, kids free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­glutenfreegarage.ca.

Immigrant Women’s Small Business Expo

Workshops, guest speakers and exhibits. 8:30 am-5 pm. Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. immigrantsmallbizexpo.ca.

Leslieville Flea Antiques, furniture, salvage, vintage, records and handcrafts. 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Jimmy Simpson Recreation Centre, 870 Queen E. ­leslievilleflea.blogspot.ca. rPower Kids: Coining Currency Workshop inspired by Micah Lexier’s work I Am the Coin.

3-5 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4949. rSamba Drumming For Kids Drop-in workshop for kids of all ages. 11 am-noon. $10.

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

Frsanta claus parade The holiday parade of floats, bands, clowns and more kicks off at 12:30 pm (Bloor and Christie), heads east on Bloor to University, south on University to Wellington and east to St Lawrence Market.

Free. thesantaclausparade.ca.

FTis The Season Show & Sale Jewellery,

knitwear, remedies, cards, healing crystals, ceremonial rattles and more. 2-6 pm. Free.

Bain Co-op Community Centre, Logan and Sparkhall. 416-686-2297.

Monday, November 18

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Circle Of Friends (Canadian Cancer Soc) Fashion show and private shopping experience. 7 pm. $250 (includes $50 gift card). Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor W. ­cancer.ca.

Phony Party (Kids Help Phone) Interactive cocktail party. 7:30 pm. $12-$15. LoftRaum, 66 Gerrard E. phonyparty.eventbrite.ca.

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Andrew Hunter & Paul Butler The curator and artist talk about the Power Plant exhibition Micah Lexier: One, And Two, And More Than Two. 7 pm. $15. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-973-4000.

The Enigmatic Genius Of Robert Altman

Film clips and a talk by critic Kevin Courrier. 7 pm. $11, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. ­mnjcc.org.

Georgian Bay: Conserving What Matters

Nature Conservancy talk on the geography of Georgian Bay Huronia. 7-9 pm. $10. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. Pre-register skifivewinds.org/content/2013seminar.

Making A Welcoming City Toronto urban design charrette for city builders. 6:15 pm.

Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635.

Meditation Introductory class. 7 pm. Free.

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

Party In The Library Get a sneak preview of the new Koffler Gallery. 6:30-11 pm. Free.

Koffler Centre at Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. ­kofflerarts.org.

Sacred Sex, Tantra And Beyond Workshop.

7 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. 416588-0900.

Toronto Dollar Supper Club Dinner and a talk on housing for homeless people with mental illness. 6 pm. $30 (Toronto Dollars).

Hot House Café, Church and Front. ­Reserve supperclub@torontodollar.com.

Women At The Top Of Their Game Junior League of Toronto panel with justice Gloria Epstein, Olympian Rosie MacLennan and

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War is hell, we know, but its impact on kids is especially diabolical. A series of short films focusing on the conflict in Syria screens at A Crisis Through Lenses tonight (Thursday, November 14) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor West). Proceeds go to the Syrian Canadian Foundation for Humanity, a nonprofit org that helps to coordinate medical, psychological and financial assistance to young victims in Syria and refugee camps in neighbouring countries. 6:30 pm, $10. ­scfhbloor. eventbrite.com.

GO PLAY ON THE STREET

We’re way behind in redesigning our thoroughfares so they’re useful for more than the almighty car.

Here’s a chance to get creative: the Open Streets Summit: Getting More Out Of Our Streets features Gil Penalosa, exec director of 8-80 Cities, New York City Bike Share’s Dani Sim­ons, T.O. chief medical officer David McKeown and others. others. 7 pm. $20, stu free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. jlt.org.

Tuesday, November 19

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Hope-Inspiration Cirque (Fertile Future) An evening of cirque acts supports fertility preservation for cancer patients. 7 pm. $125.

Castlefield Event Theatre, 2492 Yonge. ­fertilefuture.ca.

Kosherlicious (Mazon Canada) Music by David Warrick & Dave Young, a cake-decorating contest, silent auction and kosher delicacies help feed the hungry. 6 pm. $95. Roy Thomson Hotel, 60 Simcoe. mazoncanada.ca.

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East Africa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 48 King W. atcadventure.com.

Kink 201 Workshop on ropes, restraints and flogging for fun. 7 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. 416-588-0900.

Not Criminally Responsible Screening of John Kastner’s documentary and discussion with MP Olivia Chow and others. 6 pm. Free.

Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. Preregister oliviachow.ca/ncr_film.

Is there hope for a planet so rife with armies and animosities? To answer that, you need a global grasp of military structures and political power. Who better to weigh in than Gwynne Dyer, an internationally syndicated analyst based in London. He speaks on The Decline Of War Friday (November 15) at 7 pm. $10, stu $5. JJR Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. s­ cienceforpeace.ca.

Gwynne Dyer gives a lecture about war on November 15.

Biological Urbanism Exhibition tour with cancer stem cell biologist Ian Clarke. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite [at] OCADU, 230 Richmond W. ­terreform.org.

Commerce, Consecration And Community: The Paradox And Promise Of Burning Man Talk by professor Robert Kozinets.

7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

Hart House Art Tours Tour of Hart House’s Canadian art collection. Free. Hart House Information Hub, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-2452.

How To Achieve A Calm And Natural

Birth Seminar. 6:30 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. Pre-register 416394-5247.

Hygiene Hypothesis Talk. 7 pm. Free. Jane/ Dundas Library, 620 Jane. 416-394-1014.

Investigating The Social Relations Of Community Service Provision: Scholarship For Change Seminar. Noon. Free. OISE,

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

Land Rights: From Turtle Island To Palestine Idle No More presentation. 7 pm. $10 or

Neil Turok. Noon. $89. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay. ­ramsaytalks.com.

The Walrus Talks Philanthropy Talks by Mustafa Ahmed, Margaret Atwood, Samantha Nutt and others. 6:30 pm. $20, stu $15.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. ­thewalrustalksphilanthropy.eventbrite.com.

War And Myth-Making 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.

Wednesday, November 20

Musical Practice To Help With Aging And The Brain Lecture by researcher Aline Mous-

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Girls Who Believe (Girls Inc Charity) Meredith Shaw, Molly Thomason & Ladies of the Canyon perform. Doors 6:30 pm. $20, adv $14. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. ­ticketbreak.com/ event_details/6712.

Women For Women’s Luncheon (Women’s College Hospital Fdn) Panel discussion on breast cancer research with Andrea Martina, Amy Verner and others. 11:15 am. $195. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. ­womenforwomens.ca.

Art As Survival Lecture by sculptor Antony Gormley. 7 pm. $28, stu $20. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

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pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun. org.

Lexicon Performance Salon Community cabaret with performances by poet Andrea Thomson, musician David Celia and others. 6 pm. Free. Daniels Spectrum, Artscape Lounge, 585 Dundas E. diasporadialogues.com.

Live! Ammunition! Pitching contest for screenwriters and filmmakers. 5:30 pm. $10.

Revival, 783 College. Pre-register courses@­ raindancecanada.com.

Mars Project Screening of the documentary about rapper Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart’s life with schizophrenia and Q&A with director Jonathan Balazs. 6:30 pm. Free. Danforth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth. 416-393-7783.

The Power Of The Human Mind To Shape Our Future Talk by Perimeter Instit director

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Saturday (November 16), from 9:30 am. Free. George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church, rm ENG130. ­ward27news. ca.

sard. 1:30 pm. $7.50. Wagman Centre, 55 Ameer. 416-785-2500 ext 2267.

Responsible Rug Making: The Fair Trade/ Quality Connection Presentation on the art

of fair trade rug making with Creative Matters co-funder Carol Sebert and creator Reto Aschwanden. 6:30 pm. $20, stu pwyc. Textile Museum, 55 Centre. Register 416-599-5321.

Steamy Sex For Couples Workshop for heterosexual couples. 7 pm. $60/cpl. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. 416-588-0900.

Theaster Gates The Chicago-based sculptor/ urban planner talks about his recent work. 7 pm. $20, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Water Power Or Re-Built Nuclear? Discussion with Jack Gibbons of Ontario Clean Air

Alliance. 7 pm. Free. OISE, 8th fl, 252 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/1419222181640430.

upcoming Thursday, November 21

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Eat.Art.LOVE. (Leave Out Violence) Youth anti-violence fundraiser featuring a silent art auction, music and food. 7 pm. $80. Extension Room, 30 Eastern. eatartlove.com/tickets.

From The Heart (Canadian Shaare Zedek Hospital Fdn) Evening celebrating humanitarianism, featuring an interview with Homeland executive producer Gideon Raff. 8 pm. $80, stu $36. Beth Tzedec Congregation, 1700 Bathurst. fromtheheartsz.ca.

Survive! Picture An End To Sarcoma Cancer (Sarcoma Cancer Fdn) Cocktail party. 6:30-

10 pm. $75-$250. Burroughes Building, 639 Queen W. sarcomacancer.ca.

12 Trees G Party (Gardiner Museum) Auction of holiday trees decorated by designers, plus inaugural Canadian ceramic art auction. 6:3010 pm. $200, adv $150. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

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Creative Knitting And Fibre Arts Workshop with knitter/spinner Cathy Thomson. Today and Dec 19, 5-7 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. Pre-register 416396-3975.

Explore Mesopotamia: Foresight, Forecasting And The Future In Ancient Mesopotamia Lecture by Francesca Rochberg. 7

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

Get Crafty! Gift-topper and giftwrapping workshop. 11 am-1 pm. Free (materials provided). Hart House Reading Room, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452.

LGBT Equality Litigation In The Carib5 bean Panel discussion with Caribbean AIDS

lawyer Maurice Tomlinson and others. 12:30 pm. Free. Osgoode Hall Law School Ignat Kaneff Bldg, rm 1014, York U, 4700 Keele. ­envisioninglgbt.com.

Resilience Challenge: Are Your Designs

Ready? Lecture. 6:30 pm. Free. John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, 230 College, rm 103.

416-978-7003, d ­ aniels.utoronto.ca.

The Visual Language Of Art Talk on abstract expressionism by art history professor Judy Singer. 7 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5156.

Whither Well Being: How Secure Can You Be? Talk by David Harries. 7 pm. Free. U of T,

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Bloggers on fire Apparently fashion blogging isn’t just about free swag. Marissa Anwar of Chic Darling and a team of popular bloggers host Spark Sessions, the country’s first-ever fashion and beauty blogger conference, on Saturday and Sunday (November 16 and 17) at the Centre for Social Innovation (720 Bathurst, 416-979-3939).

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’Tis the season for shopping! Spread the love and support over 30 local designers and artists at the Souvenir pop-up sale, Friday to Sunday (November 15 to 17) at Milk Glass Co. (1247 Dundas West, 416-536-6455).

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Tree town The 12 Trees G Party is not, in fact, a bad 90s hip-hop Christmas album. It’s the kick-off gala to celebrate the Gardiner Museum’s 25th annual 12 Trees Of Christmas showcase. This year’s theme is “All things G,” like giving back, glamour, the Gardiner… you get the idea. The trees are decorated by local designers including Hilary Farr and Michelle Mawby. Thursday, November 21, 6:30 to 10 pm at the museum (111 Queens Park, 416-5868080). Tickets are $200 at gardinermuseum.on.ca.

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“Addiction is a disease of lack and isolation, of disconnection. We have to provide a sense of wholeness. Alcoholism is a mind disease with physical and spiritual manifestations. Yoga will bring you into a state of calmness and get you connected to your body and breath. When you meditate, you practise mastery over the mind. A person in addiction is dominated by their mind.

Yoga and meditation are one of the cornerstones, along with 12-step programs and other modalities.”

TOMMY ROSEN, yoga teacher, founder of the Recovery2.0 online conference, Los Angeles

Stuck on booze?

If you’re lushing to excess, meds, AA, yoga and pot all have their place By elizabeth bromstein Ah, sweet booze. Homer Simpson once called it “the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”

Nothing wrong with a little drinkypoo now and then – hell, even every day. But if you regularly imbibe to ex­ cess, are having trouble maintaining a job or relationships or are, say, an elected official who finds yourself at the centre of a scandal after getting

caught on camera smoking crack in a drunken stupor, there’s a good chance you might need some help.

Not sure if you’ve got a problem?

Do the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s self-​eval­ uation at rethinkingdrinking.niaaa. nih.gov. If you do decide you need help, there are myriad options. Search till you find what works for you.

What the experts say “Along with counselling, acupuncture and, if needed, serious intervention, I recommend niacin, high-dose vitamin C, zinc and chromium. Niacin is impor­tant for brain chemistry.

Vitamin C neutralizes the oxidative stress caused by excessive drinking.

Chromium stabilizes blood sugar, important because of all the sugars in alcohol. It helps manage the lows from withdrawal. Zinc is depleted with excessive alcohol consumption, and supplementation prevents deficiency and helps manage withdrawal symptoms. Passionflower helps bring calm.”

MUBINA JIWA, naturopath, Toronto

“Our study found that Gabapentin, used for pain conditions, was as positive or more for drinking outcomes as FDAapproved treatments. It also had benefits for disruptive changes in sleep and mood among those quitting or reducing drinking. That’s novel. Those changes, plus the craving to drink in early recovery, can trigger a ­return to drinking. The available treatments for alcoholism are rarely prescribed. While disulfiram and naltrexone both have warnings of potential liver damage, Gabapentin is not meta­bolized in the liver. This is another advantage­.”

BARBARA MASON, professor, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California

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“FDA-​approved medications include ­disulfiram, which makes you sick if you drink, naltrexone, which blocks opioid receptors, and acamprosate, which acts on the brain’s glutamate receptors.

They don’t work for everybody. Those who attended AA and had behavioral therapy did slightly better than those on meds. The more options the better the chance you’ll find something that works. Some alcoholics cannot be helped. Heavy drinking is five or more drinks per day for males, and four or more for females. Some people should absolutely never take another drink; others can. Less than 10 per cent of those with problems seek treatment.”

RAYE LITTEN, division of recovery research, NIAAA, Bethesda, Maryland

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 There’s something

resembling a big red snake slithering around in your mind these days. I don’t mean that literally, of course. I’m talking about a big red imaginary snake. But it’s still quite potent. While it’s not poisonous, neither is it a pure embodiment of sweetness and light. Whether it ends up having a disorienting or benevolent influence on your life all depends on how you handle your relationship with it. I suggest you treat it with respect but also let it know that you’re the boss. Give it guidelines and a clear mandate so it serves your noble ambitions and not your chaotic ­desires. If you do that, your big red snake will heal and uplift you.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 In my astro-

logical opinion, almost nothing can keep you from getting the love you need in the coming days. Here’s the only potential problem: You might have a mistaken or incomplete understanding about the love you need, and that could interfere with your recognizing and welcoming the real thing. So here’s my prescription: keep an open mind about the true nature of the love that you actually need most, and stay alert for the perhaps unexpected ways it might make itself available.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 “People fall so in

love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind,” asserts novelist Chuck Palahniuk.

Your assignment, Gemini, is to work your ass off to fall out of love with your pain.

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your subconscious mind that the suffering it has gotten so accustomed to has outlived its usefulness. Tell your deep self that you no longer want the ancient ache to be a cornerstone of your identity.

To aid the banishment, I recommend that you conduct a ritual of severing. Tie one side of a ribbon to a symbol of your pain and tie the other side around your waist.

Then cut the ribbon in half and bury the symbol in the dirt.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “You can look at a

picture for a week and never think of it again,” said painter Joan Miró. “You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life,” he added. The coming days are likely to bring you none of the former kind of experiences and several of the latter, Cancerian. It’s a numi­ nous time in your long-term cycle: a phase when you’re likely to encounter beauty that enchants you and mysteries that titillate your sense of wonder for a long time. In other words, the eternal is coming to visit you in very concrete ways.

How do you like your epiphanies? Hot and wild? Cool and soaring? Comical and lyri­ cal? Hot and soaring and comical and wild and cool and lyrical?

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 There’s a new genre of erotic literature: dinosaur porn. E-books like In The Velociraptor’s Nest and Ravished By The Triceratops tell tall tales about encounters between people and prehistoric reptiles. I don’t recommend you read this stuff, though. While I do be-

lieve that now is a good time to add new twists to your sexual repertoire and explore the frontiers of pleasure, I think you should remain rooted in the real world, even in your fantasy life. It’s also impor­ tant to be safe as you experiment. You really don’t want to explore the frontiers of pleasure with cold-blooded beasts.

Either travel alone or else round up a warm-blooded compassion specialist who has a few skills in the arts of inti­macy.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 The saxifrage is a

small plant with white flowers. It grows best in subarctic regions and cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. The word “saxifrage” is derived from the Latin word saxifraga, whose literal meaning is “stone-breaker.” Indeed, the plant does often appear in the clefts of stones and boulders. In his poem A Sort Of A Song, William Carlos Williams celebrates its strength: “Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.” I nominate this darling little dynamo to be your metaphorical power object of the week, Virgo. May it inspire you to crack through blocks and barriers with subtle force.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 You’re not being swept along in a flood of meaningless distractions and irrelevant information and trivial wishes, right? I’m hoping that you have a sixth sense about which few stimuli are useful and meaningful to you, and which thousands of stimuli are not. But if you are experiencing a bit of trouble staying well grounded in the midst of the fren­zied babble, now would be a good

“Cannabis can be a psychoactive substitute [for alcohol]. People looking to get relaxed and feel euphoria can get that from cannabis. As well, it helps with the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. I did a study where we gave methamphetamine users medical cannabis; it was interesting that the levels of alcohol and methamphetamine use remained extremely low. This flies in the face of the gateway theory. We started to wonder if maybe cannabis isn’t a gateway drug, but an exit drug.

We have a problem with binge drinking on campuses. I’m hoping that if students use cannabis instead, we’ll see those rates start to drop.”

AMANDA REIMAN, school of social welfare, University of California, Berkeley “The Sinclair Method uses naltroxone or nalmefene [while continuing normal drinking.] Until the SM, there was no cure for alcoholism. Once the addiction

time to take strenuous action. The universe will conspire to help you become extra-stable and secure if you resolve to eliminate as much nonsense from your life as you can.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 Sweetness is

good. Sweetness is desirable. To be healthy, you need to give and receive sweetness on a regular basis. But you can’t flourish on sweetness alone. In fact, too much of it may be oppressive or numbing. I’m speaking both literally and metaphorically: To be balanced you need all of the other tastes, including saltiness, sourness, bitterness and savouriness.

From what I understand, you are headed into a phase when you’ll thrive on more bitterness and savouriness than usual. To get an idea of what I mean, meditate on what the emotional equivalents might be for bitter tastes like coffee, beer and ­olives, and for savoury tastes like mushrooms, cheese, spinach and green tea.

was learned in the brain, it remained for life. The only way to deal with it was to abstain, but 85 to ​95 per cent of people relapse within the first year. David Sinclair discovered the alcohol deprivation effect: once alcohol is removed from lab animals and humans who drink compulsively, the craving increases until they relapse or binge. [With the SM], you take the medication one hour before drinking, for the rest of your life. Over three to four months, the cravings and drinking level go down. The best way to de­tox is to gradually drink less, little by little each day.”

ROY ESKAPA, author, The Cure For ­Alcoholism, Tel Aviv “The task is to help people tolerate ­uncomfortable emotional states, because addiction has been medicating those. It’s important to identify what triggers the client to want to drink and develop strategies for dealing with that. Addiction is a coping mechanism. Treatment might include 12-step meetings, finding a sponsor, seeing a therapist. Our founder used to say he wanted people to transfer their dependency from chemicals to people.

We use stress management, relaxation training, exercise, ­nutritional counselling and life skills.”

PENNY LAWSON, clinical manager, Bellwood Health Services, Toronto

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the reason that such circumstances banish artificiality.” Think of the relief and release that await you, Capricorn: an end to pretending, a dissolution of deception, the fall of fakery. As you weave your way through extraordinary circumstances, you will be moved to act with brave authenticity. Take full advantage.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “I have your

back” is an American expression that could also be rendered as “I’m right behind you, ready to help and defend you” or “I’m ready to support you whenever you’ve got a problem.” Is there anyone in the world who feels that way about you?

If not, now would be an excellent time to work on getting such an ally. Cosmic conditions are ripe for bringing greater levels of assistance and collaboration into your life. And if you already do have confederates of that calibre, I suggest you take this opportunity to deepen your symbiotic connection even further.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 When you

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Over 100 countries

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 In his utopian novel Looking Backward, American author Edward Bellamy wrote a passage that I suspect applies to you right now: “It is under what may be called unnatural, in the sense of extraordinary, circumstances that people behave most naturally, for

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procrastinate, you avoid doing an impor­ tant task. Instead, you goof off, doing something fun or simply puttering around wasting time. But what if there were a higher form of procrastination?

What if you could avoid an important task by doing other tasks that were somewhat less important but still quite valuable?

Here’s what that might look like for you right now: you could postpone your search for the key to everything by throwing yourself into a project that will give you the key to one small part of everything.

around the world celebrate a holiday called Independence Day, memorializing a time when they broke away from another nation and formed a separate state. I encourage you to create your own personal version of this festival. It could commemorate a breakthrough moment in the past when you escaped an oppressive situation, a turning point when you achieved a higher level of autonomy, or a taboobusting transition when you started expressing your own thoughts and making your own decisions with more authority.

By the way, a fresh opportunity to take this kind of action is available to you. Any day now might be a good time to declare a new Independence Day.

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BRIGHT IDEAS INCANDESCENT After a century of lighting up our lives, it’s time the classic incandescent bulbs got the boot. Sorry.

They’re seriously inefficient, wasting most of their energy as heat, and no matter what the package says, 1,500 hours isn’t really a “long life.” As of January 1, 75- and 100-watt incandescents will be MIA, but lower wattages will have until the end of 2014 to clear out. No hoarding, please. $1.50/4.

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EDISON BULB These vintage throwbacks are all the rage, but will the nation’s hipsters get to keep their retro incandescents come ban time? Officials say if they’re under 250 lumens (as are all the Edisons I spotted at Cana­dian Tire), yes, they’re exempt.

Now these aren’t exactly efficient, but you can get more life for your buck if you look for Edisons that advertise a lifespan of 3,000 hours. $10/1 Score: NN

HALOGEN Tungsten halogens are a type of incandescent, and the bulbshaped ones were going to be phased out. Alas, it looks like Canada will be harmonizing with the U.S. and letting halogens stay. You can even get the ­exposed raw filament feel of retro ­Edisons if you like. They’re supposed to burn for 2,500-3,000 hours, though Noma’s seem to burn out fast. The feds say bulb-shaped halogens should be at least 28 per cent more efficient than conventional bulbs. Mercury-free. $5.99/2 Score: NNN

GREENWASH OF THE WEEK RAW ESSENTIALS When I first spotted a skin care brand called Raw Essentials in a drugstore, I got a little excited. Then I noticed that only the “active ingredients” are raw (“never heated above 115° ”). Flip the product over and you’ll see that the body oil may have sesame oil and grapeseed oil (which can contain traces of pesticide residue), but the very first ingredient is a synthetic oil derived from propane. Wait! Back up!

Doesn’t the marketing material say Raw Essentials doesn’t use synthetic ingredients? It also says these products don’t contain petroleum, but lo and behold, there are plenty of petrochemicals in them.

Slippery stuff.

With Canada’s light bulb crackdown fast approach­ing, which bulbs will keep your green cred burning brighter longer?

Petrostate politics Tzeporah Berman on how economic policy is being made in the oil patch, not parliament Tzeporah Berman is an enviro champ with one fierce CV. Perhaps best known for her leadership role in BC’s Clayoquot Sound logging blockades of the early 90s, she went on to found ForestEthics, where she won knockout rounds against corps like Victoria’s Secret and Home Depot, all in the interests of old-​ growth forests.

Over the last several years, her practised tactical gaze has fallen on the fossil fuel biz. Berman, author of the recent autobiog This Crazy Time, spoke on Pipelines And Petrostate Poli­tics on October 24 at the Centre for Social Innovation. Here are the highlights.

COMPACT FLUORESCENT Yes, these mascots of the modern green movement are up to 75 per cent more ­energy-saving than ye ­olde classics and are supposed to last 10,000 hours. But there’s been a lot of griping about wonky lighting hues, dimming woes, electromagnetic sensitivities and the stress of mercury cleanup if the bulb breaks.

Keep in mind, not all CFLs are created equal: Philips, Sylvania and Feit are lower in mercury than most, and some are shatter-resistant. $9.99/2 Score: NNNN

TAR SANDS FAKE-​OUT “Not long ago my son told me that he’d seen on TV that ‘the oil sands were all fixed. They just pat the earth back into place and all the trees and but­ter­f lies come back.’

We keep hearing that great strides are being made in reclamation.

‘We’re going to make a lake dis­ trict out of toxic ponds! A forest out of old mines!’

“So how many toxic ponds have been rehabilitated? Zero. How much land has been successfully reclaimed? Less than 1 per cent.

Yet we are bombard­ed with multi-​ million-​dollar ads about the oil sands being ‘green’ – as toxic as peanut butter. This is peacetime propaganda.”

REGULATION NO-​SHOW “I was shocked when I found out that there are no laws governing the most toxic pollu­tants, like naphthenic acid (NA). Both Al­ berta and Envi­ron­ment Canada acknowledge that NA is the pri­ mary source of toxicity in the oil sands, but facilities are not re­ quired to re­port how much they release. Most Canadians would also be horrified to know there are no regulations limiting the amount of fresh water that oil companies can withdraw from our wildest rivers.”

CARIBOO AND CANCER “Canada’s tar sands are located under one of the last intact forests on earth. To access the oil, intact boreal forest is being logged, riv­

ers moved or buried and peat scraped away. The size and scale of this project is staggering. The result is the loss of focal species like woodland caribou, which have declined in the region by 50 per cent in the last 10 years.

“Canada is now home to 170 square kilometres of toxic tail­ ings ponds. Close to 300 million litres of toxic water are dumped every day into unlined pits, with only earth dams holding toxins back from some of the wildest riv­ ers left on the planet. The govern­ ments’ own reports show that these dams are leaking up to 3 million litres a day. The result is rare cancers in downstream com­ munities and tumour-​ridden fish in First Na­tions communities.”

TAR SANDS’ GASSY SECRET “Environment Canada projects that oil sands emissions will more than double over the next decade.

Already, the oil sands are the sin­ gle reason Canada isn’t meeting its climate pollution commit­ ments. Growth of the oil sands effec­tively cancels all the good ef­ forts of Canadians to reduce pol­ lution.”

STAND UP TO BIG OIL “Companies have the technology to eliminate the need for new tail­ ings lakes, to signifi­cant­ly reduce GHGs through carbon capture and storage, to drastically cut the amount of acid­ifying emissions.

Further im­prove­ments can be made, but they require the gov­

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LEDs Okay, these puppies used to cost a day’s salary and emit less light then a cellphone, but things have changed. You can now get a good 60-watt equivalent in a pretty bulb shape from $10. LEDs are at least 80 per cent more efficient than incandescents, plus they last 20 to 25 times longer than halogens – from 25,000 to 100,000 hours making them cheaper in the long run. Dimmable and mercury-free. Philips makes some good ones in nice warm tones. From $10/1 Score: NNNNN

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ernment have the chutzpah to stand up to Big Oil, to actually govern, to regulate.”

SLOW IT DOWN “Ultimately, we need to slow pro­ duction down and phase it out, because we will not be able to avoid runaway climate change unless we keep the oil in the ground.

The pace is too fast for respon­ sible development, and let’s not forget that 71 per cent of all oil sands investors are foreign. We have a precious and dangerous re­ source – we need to make sure we use it to benefit Canadians. Our nation­al laws, budget and policies are being designed in the oil patch.”

HOPE IN A PIPE “The spiderweb of pipelines being pushed down our throats is the best thing that ever happened to the climate movement. It’s a tan­ gible focus, with clear timelines, and it happens in people’s back­ yards. This is a tipping-​point mo­ ment. I’m encouraged to see people standing up across the country.”

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“It’s kinda like when you put on a really good dress and you feel like, ‘This is supposed to be for me.’ It’s the same thing when you walk into a condo – you have to feel at home.”

The balance of work and play was also a central consideration for Toth.

The 28-year-old advertising account supervisor often puts in long hours at her King and Portland office but values an active social life. Being able to walk to work and close to her favourite

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Upon signing on the dotted line for a unit in DNA Lofts in May, her first order of business was to maximize the 599-square-foot space by knocking out the island separating the kitchen and den to create a more open feel. She also built a small pantry into the corner of the kitchen for extra storage and a shelving unit in her bedroom closet.

Toth then let her creativity loose and added personal touches, wallpapering the damask feature wall behind her bed, breathing new (hot pink) life into an old chest of drawers and continued on page 38

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adding to the ever-evolving picture wall in the living room.

“It makes me feel like I’m coming home to something new and exciting every day,” she says. “I’m proud that I live here and that I own it. It’s a nice feeling of personal accomplishment.”

Wish list “I wanted a place with a separate bedroom because I value the privacy, and for me a good bathroom was a huge selling point,” she says. “Coming home from work and being able to relax by taking a bath – it’s amazing.”

Planned budget “I came in right on budget,” she says. “I’ve been renting for the last seven years and, after crunching the numbers, decided that adding a few hundred dollars a month onto my expenses to be able to own something just made sense.”

Unit price $341,000 in May 2013 What she got A south-facing 599-square-foot one-bedroom/ one-bathroom plus den apartment, plus patio.

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food&drink Chantecler chef Jonathan Poon preps Caesar salad and fried chicken; fish wraps are a dim sum favourite.

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Brock, 416-628-3586, restaurantchantecler.ca, @ChanteclerTO) Complete lunches for $40 per person, including tax, tip and a cocktail. Average main $10. Open for lunch Sunday 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. Dinner Sunday to Wednesday 6 to 11 pm, Thursday and Friday 6 pm to midnight, Saturday 6 pm to 1 am. Bar nightly till close.

Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating­: NNNNN

Is there a more cerebral local chef than Chantecler’s Jonathan Poon?

Who else would ditch his critically

acclaimed carte six months into the Parkdale beanery’s existence for ontrend ssam-style lettuce wraps? And then there’s the innovative East-West fusion tasting menu he only offers once a week, so popular it sells out months in advance. But brunch?

“I like to think of it as Sunday lunch,” says Poon of his recently introduced dim-sum-inspired lineup.

“We’ve had people sit down, look at the menu and walk out.”

Fools! Instead of the inevitable French toast and eggs Benny, they could have been tucking into Poon’s signature iceberg lettuce cups stuffed

with ground pork, shredded oysters, roasted seaweed and what appears to be deep-fried larvae but turns out to be puffed ’n’ grilled wild rice ($4). The squeamish might want to stick with a silver tray of his impossibly light do­ nuts spread with lemony grapefruit custard ($5 for four) instead.

True to its Spadina roots, a mess of steamed Cantonese shrimp on a bed of smoky cellophane noodles tossed with garlic oil and a few raw scallions ($8.50) shows up on a cheap plastic plate. They’re followed by a gorgeous pewter bowl brimming with dessertsweet congee swirled with shredded

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chicken breast, free-range egg and slightly frazzled garlic ($8) and a trio of exceptionally creamy pan-seared turnip cakes studded with lap cheong sausage and finished with spicy house-made XO sauce ($6.50).

Poon pays tribute to the Egg McMuffin with Chantecler’s Fancy Muffin ($12), a meaty sage-scented pork patty on a white-bread English muffin dressed with cheddar cheese, a fried egg, house-cured pork belly ba­ con and a splash of HP-like tonkatsu sauce, all sided with a heap of cheesy ripple chips. A serrated knife makes sharing a snap. Spring for a side of deep-fried hash browns and a packet of Heinz ketchup ($2.50) for the full greasy-spoon effect.

“You can’t just be fancy for the sake of it, especially at lunch,” says Poon.

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@roseandsons Former Drake executive chef Anthony Rose revives his ambitious pop-up barbecue concept on a tented ’n’ heated Annex year-round 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-and-jam pork chops with salted Norfolk County peanuts and housemade sour cherry jam; smoky-sweet Perth County pork belly sided with overeasy eggs and garlicky grilled broccoli; pepperoni-like sausage ’n’ beans with eggs, Memphis-style cornbread and crunchy raw scallion; 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

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807 Gerrard E, at Logan, 416-792-9043, hammersmithsbrunch.com, @_hammersmiths Ex-Drake pastry chef Brittany Peglar and former Czehoski chef Colin Reed’s retro-fitted diner in the eastside nabe that’s not quite Riverdale or Leslie­ville – Riverville? Lesliedale? – might look like it’s not quite finished, but it’s clearly a labour of love. Best: to start, Peglar’s exceptional blueberry scones with house-made black currant jelly, honey from a nearby hive and optional bone-marrow butter; specials like sautéed duck-leg confit with sliced and fried duck eggs; asparagus three ways – steamed and dressed in miso and scallion, as a salad with green beans and arugula in pommery mustard vinaigrette or as a fabulously frothy mintgreen mousse. Complete brunches for $25 per person, including tax, tip and an iced tea. Average main $12. Open for weekend brunch 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. A la carte menu Monday and Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 3:30 pm. Closed Tuesday, some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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1120 College, at Dufferin, 647-3527322 The Pomegranate and Sherzade’s Daniele Schrage and Ali Fashrashrafi bring Persian sophistication to one of the last ungentrified corners on the west side. An unusual menu, helpful service and massive portions lead to repeat visits. Forget dessert. The only thing you’ll need after dinner is a nap! Best: to start, Zeitoon Parvar­deh, a vegetarian caviar-like spread thick with crushed walnuts, pomegranate paste and tangy green olives; mains like Dizi Sangi, a humongous stew of lamb shank and chickpeas served two ways, first as strained broth then mashed on toasted barberry bread along with creamy yogurt, scallion and pickled eggplant; Kolleh Pocheh, a curried soup strewn with sundry sheeps’ heads, hooves and tongues finished with pickled garlic, raw red onion and fresh lemon; to drink, strong Turkish coffee. Complete lunches/brunches for $20 per person, including tax, tip and a steaming glass of chai. Open Wednesday to Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. No reservations. Licensed.

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BUY A VOWEL Anyone who remembers the longgone Beverley Tavern may be somewhat taken aback by the Beverley ­Hotel (335 Queen West, at Beverley, 416-493-2786, thebeverleyhotel.ca, @­beverleyhotelTO, rating: NNNN), the chic new “it spot” that’s just launched within spitting distance of the legendary dive. What better way to check it out than brunch?

Instead of the tavern’s quarts of Black Label, we’re knocking back fourbuck Caesars made with bacon-infused bourbon in a long, stylishly appointed room that looks like a fashion show is about to begin. Our all-in-black server returns with a linen-wrapped basket of pastries – cinnamon-dusted donuts, cheesy biscuits, warm cornbread ($5 small/$10 large) – and exFabarnak and Hawthorne chef Eric Wood’s unusually tasty Caesar salad ($6), its regulation romaine and bacon replaced with leafy kale and air-dried tomatoes.

The so-called Breakfast Bone ($14) follows. Imagine a halved veal shin complete with deliciously rich marrow topped with a pair of poached quail eggs on a bed of fry-bread salad tossed with raw spinach and grilled cubes of honey-drizzled pork belly. For another six bucks, the chef will even throw in a shot of Four Roses bourbon that you drink from the bone.

“It’s surprisingly popular with middle-aged ladies,” says a baffled Wood.

Those challenged by consonants will appreciate the BVRLY burger, 6 ounces of grass-fed chuck on an eggy Fred’s bun dressed with tomato jam, sautéed wild mushrooms and a wedge of deepfried cheese ($16 with fries), while traditionalists may balk when they discover that their southern-fried chicken ’n’ waffle sandwich ($12 with salad) is made with Eggos.

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Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene Shop shut Whereas it once took months for a new restaurant to find an audience, in these accelerated times if a new spot isn’t a huge hit straight outta the box, it ain’t likely ever gonna happen. Such is the case with exAuntie and Uncle David Ginsberg’s White Squirrel Snack Shop.

Launched six months ago near Spadina at 507 Queen West, just down the block from Banh Mi Boys and the Burger’s Priest, the trendy take-away has already called it quits. Watch for the crew behind Parkdale’s Parts & Labour to take up the slack with the imminent P & L Burgers. Here’s hoping they open

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A Toronto resto pio­neer, Alnoor Sayani of Lahore Tikka House (1365 Gerrard East, at Highfield, 416-406If you’ve ever wanted to check out indie 1668) has died from heart failure at rockers Sloan up close and personal, 48. His landmark east-side eatery you get your chance on November 29 (another NOW Readers Poll winner) when Caplansky’s (356 College, at continues to operate under family Brunswick, 416-500-3852, caplansky. management. com, @caplansky) hosts a benefit conAt the top of the Annex, the venVEGAN MEALS featuring: cert at the diner in aid of Movember. erable Indian Rice Factory at Du• INJERA - GLUTEN FREE BREAD The show starts at 10 pm and also feaand Howland has been shutALLpont DISHES tures an appearance by the recent • ORGANIC TEFF FLOUR AVAILABLE tered after 43 year. Owner Aman NOW Readers Poll-winning Thunderin’ Reservations recommended this coupon ­Patel announced the news last Thelma food truck. There are only 100 With Expires Dec. 31, 2013. weekend via his Twitter ­account. SD tickets, and they cost $100 each, with

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Try it in cocktails like the Toronto (with Fernet-Branca and bitters).

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Indecision tends to get the best of me when settling on a drink, and the overwhelming variety available in this city doesn’t help (not that I’m complaining).

It’s not rocket science, I know, but there are so many variables to consider. Even once the basics (beer, wine, liquor) are established, questions loom: cheap or craft beer, or cheap craft beer? Wine, then. But VQA or French? Okay, it’ll be a cocktail. Do I stick to my old faithful or take a chance on something new?

Half the time my head starts swimming before I’ve had a single drop.

Hi-Lo, Riverside’s latest, is my new middle ground – a place where I can drink without over-thinking it.

Co-owners Erik Joyal and John Sinopoli (Ascari Enoteca, Table 17) and Gavin Holmes have opened a bar with a rock ’n’ roll vibe and a straightforward mandate: something for everyone.

“We wanted to create a little space that is appealing to most,” said Holmes. “I used to say that the Avro [shuttered earlier this year] was like a community centre where people drink. That’s what we’re trying to do here.”

Three taps pour $6 pints of Dos Equis, Beau’s and Blanche de Chambly; bottles from Southern Tier, Rogue and Dieu du Ciel keep company with standard wash like Labatt 50 and Heineken. Cash-strapped? Grab a tall boy of PBR and a shot of Jameson for $10.

Don’t expect a tumbler of plonk at Hi-Lo; the wine list is tight and thoughtful.

House cocktails ($12) rotate seasonally. Pop in before the sweet-tart sparkler of Ontario peach shrub and Prosecco and the Spiced Sazerac (bourbon, house-made cinnamon sarsaparilla bitters and Becherovka) change guard.

Jars of house-made pickles ($3) and spicy fried chickpeas ($2) are like crack for those slipping into a drunken stupor.

Hours: Monday to Saturday 5:30 pm to 2 am. Closed Sundays.

Accessibility: One step to entrance, washrooms on ground floor.

Signature drink Hi-Lo’s Seasonal Sparkler ($12) shifts according to what the bartenders deem weather-appropriate. A house -made shrub (preserved fruit vinegar) of Ontario peaches topped with sparkling wine is light, refreshing and autumnal.

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Rating: NNNN Why This silky, layered Spanish liqueur is named for its 43 ingredients, primary among them vanilla and citrus. Although it’s a top seller in its native land, you don’t find Cuarenta Y Tres in these parts often. So unless you’re desperate to justify a trip to Spain, scoop a bottle now and store it in the freezer to beef up the viscosity.

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MY BLOODY VALENTINE at Kool Haus, Tuesday, November 5. Rating: NNNN

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Two things are usually guaranteed at My Bloody Valentine shows: ear plugs and mixed reactions. While the former did materialize at their Kool Haus show – the bright yellow foam plugs were available free of charge – it felt like everyone there was basking in the legendary shoegazers’ wicked noise.

From their respective sides of the stage, Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher opened with Loveless’s Sometimes. It was quite a few decibels lower than expected, which meant we could actually hear the slow, warbling guitar lines filtered through a menagerie of effects pedals.

For the next 90 minutes, the band played their “big hits” from Loveless, Isn’t Anything and mbv, their self-released LP from earlier this year. The set cascaded from the loud and disarming (Wonder 2) to the soft and perfectly distorted (Only Shallow).

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After his third attempt at the intro to gauzy pop song Thorn, Shields abandoned it altogether, throwing his guitar to the side of the stage.

They closed with their go-to finale, You Made Me Realise, an otherwise ordinary noisy pop song that’s interrupted by a grinding white noise section – which clocked in this time at over seven minutes. SAMANTHA EDWARDS

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TITAN at the Garrison, ñ Wednesday, November 6.

Rating: NNNN After opening with gentle, operatic Atalanta, which also opens UZU, their recently released album, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan dove into UZU’s louder, heavier numbers, employing Japanese fans, face paint and dark outfits to up the emotional ante. In the past, such props sometimes stole the spotlight, but Wednesday night at the Garrison it was the music that held our attention.

The Montreal/Toronto experimental rock five-piece are masters of balan-

LONG WINTER at the Great Hall, Friday, November 8.

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Rating: NNNN Last year Toronto hardcore punk mainstays Fucked Up launched the pwyc Long Winter concert series at the Great Hall, with music, dance, film screenings, multimedia art, author conversations, food vendors and more. Thanks largely to its tightly curated music lineups and anything-goes spirit, the events warranted a second edition.

While Damian Abraham & Co. sat this one out, there was plenty of local talent taking over the venue’s top two rooms plus the Blk Box Theatre in the basement and adjacent restaurant the Samuel J. Moore. Guelph dub-influenced rock veterans King Cobb Steelie and Rheostatics founder Dave Bidini’s new outfit, Bidiniband, performed, but the highlights were noisier newcomers like mosh-pit-inducing punks Cellphone and appropriately named dronemongers Doomsquad. Kontravoid and Prince Nifty’s late-night electronic sets got bodies moving.

Vish Khanna’s faux late-night talk show featured a projection of the Toronto skyline as a backdrop, a house band and guests Zaki Ibrahim and Sebadoh’s Lou Barlow; there was also an arcade room and a performance piece by MAX MERTENS Henri Fabergé.

cing soft and loud, sadness and fury, melody and rhythm, the familiar and the new. Tunes lost some power due to singer Ruby Kato Attwood’s head cold, but Ange Loft picked up the slack.

The co-vocalist/percussionist has emerged as the band’s most electrifying performer, sporting a jacket with YT//ST studded into its back, occa-

sionally putting on an imposing headdress, adding wailing backups informed by her Kahnawake heritage, destroying a sleigh bell and generally kicking ass for an hour, especially on kinetic single One. The set flew by too quickly, and the encore – which included a handful of gems from the debut album – left us wanting more. Why aren’t they playing CARLA GILLIS bigger venues?

MARK SEYMOUR with MIKE MARLIN at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Saturday, November 9. Rating: NNN

Mark Seymour, frontman of legendary Australian rockers Hunters & Collectors, is used to playing stadiums. So Saturday’s Virgin Mobile Mod Club show – with fellow guitarist Cam McKenzie – was unusually intimate.

The two played songs from Seymour’s solo covers album, Seventh Heaven Club, including the Pogues’ Lorelei, and showed Canadian love with a version of the Band’s It Makes No Difference.

The at times blinding light show was incongruous with the acousticguitar heartlandy rock, and there wasn’t a clear rollicking highlight that pushed the loyal crowd over the edge. But it was a schooling in guitar chops and vocal harmonies, and Seymour’s decades of rock stardom make him an effortlessly

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confident performer; he carried each tune with Springsteenesque aplomb.

Plus, he threw in some Hunters & Collectors classics for the diehards, including a pretty rendition of Throw Your Arms Around Me in the encore.

Classic British self-deprecation peppered opener Mike Marlin’s sorrowful baritone songs, which swung between ditties about things like slamming his co-worker’s head in a photocopier and darker, more opaque heartbreakers. He definitely deserves more attention on this side of the AtJulia LeConte lantic.

Destroyer with pink mountaintops at the Opera House, Saturday, ­November 9. ­Rating: NNN

Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar walked onstage promptly at 10:45 pm with a set list and a red acoustic guitar. A lone amp sat on a black wooden school chair, and a single mic stand was posi­tioned at centre stage.

The stripped-down set-up was a contrast to last year’s Opera House show, where he played alongside a big band in support of 2011’s Kaputt.

There was no threat of being overshadowed by a phenomenal backing band, but also no help bringing his experimental artsy rock to life. An ambitious approach, but as we saw with opener Pink Mountaintops, easy to fumble.

Thankfully, the always enigmatic Bejar engaged the audience from start to finish, and his wonderfully nasal, quirky voice shone without other sonic distractions. The focus of each of his songs was on his cadence and tone, the poetic way his lyrics ­effortlessly float out of his mouth.

While the audience listened attentively (annoyed concertgoers shushed the chatterers) you couldn’t help feeling that some of the electricity of ­Bejar’s songs was stifled by the bare SE stage.

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If James Blake is intimidated by the i­ ncreasingly large venues he’s playing, you definitely couldn’t tell Sunday night. The 25-year-old Mercury Prize winner’s career has been on an upward trajectory since bursting on the scene in 2009, and that’s reflected in the confidence and comfort he projects onstage. Even when his mic shorted out, he seemed unshaken and simply shifted gears to perform the rest of the song as a jammy instrumental.

If you’ve seen Blake before, there weren’t many surprises. It’s still impressive that he and his two-man band are able to recreate the intricate post-dubstep ballads live without resorting to backing tracks, but in a

room this big, the nuances of what’s actually going on are harder to appreciate. And while we’re glad that Blake is happy and in love, his heartbreaking earlier material sounds odd when sung ­cheerfully.

Nevertheless, had he not set the bar high at previous Toronto appearances, we would have been much more excited by this one. Benjamin Boles

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The band played all kinds of hits: Queen Of Hearts, The Other Shoe, Son The Father, fat guy anthem I Hate Summer. The evening’s big showpiece was the group’s latest zodiac-themed single, Year Of The Dragon, which moves between punk, prog and Ride The Lightning-era Metallica riffs over the course of about 15 minutes.

Hearing it, it was hard to think of another contemporary rock band so insistent on challenging assumptions not just about themselves, but about the relationships between whole genres of music. When I was in high school, you were liable to get sacked in the balls for admitting you liked King Crimson at a hardcore show.

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“We’re not really depressing,” says Deep Dark Woods singer/songwriter Ryan Boldt over coffee in Toronto’s west end.

Sure, many of the songs on their fifth album, Jubilee (Six Shooter), are melancholic and full of regret – tales of rambling, cheating and travelling down lonely roads. And, yeah, two of the band members – Boldt and new guitarist Clayton Linthicum – live together in the ominously named town of Mortlach, Saskatchewan.

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The record is lush-sounding (sometimes recalling the Band), but Wilson suggested they play a couple of songs in a more restrained manner closer to Boldt’s home demos.

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Had William New known he would spend 30 years booking and hosting Elvis Mondays, he might have thought a little bit more about the long-running indie showcase’s name.

It’s become a Toronto institution, a vital testing ground for new acts. But originally it was just a place for New’s post-punk band, Groovy Religion, to hone their skills.

“I did a three-night weekend at the Beverley Tavern with my band and randomly called it the Elvis Presley Memorial Beatfest. The gig went well, so they asked us to do a weekly and we kind of got stuck with the name.”

Over the years, Elvis Mondays went from being a Groovy Religion residency to an open-format night where musicians could try out new ideas in front

together and hanging out, driving each other crazy sometimes but bonding a lot more,” says Mason.

“It was probably the first time in seven years we were in a place where all we had to do was play music,” adds Boldt. “During supper or afterwards we’d play whole songs on acoustic guitars. We haven’t done that since our first tour, when we were excited 22-year-olds who just wanted to play music all the time.”

Boldt and Linthicum have a brotherly vibe and co-wrote three of the songs on Jubilee. But all that togetherness still leaves room for disagreement.

I ask if they draw inspiration from their lives, or if the tunes are mostly fictional.

“It’s a bit of both really,” says Boldt, coyly. “It’s fictional for me,” says Linthicum. Everybody laughs.

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of their peers and where young bands could get their first club experience.

No cover, but also no pay, so the level of talent varies widely, which is kind of the point.

“It’s a loose indie showcase. I seldom say no to bands, but it’s also not an open stage. I like to have it booked about a month ahead of time, although lately it’s been more like a couple of weeks.”

It’s where Peaches, Ron Sexsmith and Billy Talent played early gigs, along with literally thousands of lesser-known acts. And this is actually its second run at the Drake Hotel, after spending a few of the early-90s grunge years there when West Queen West was decidedly less upscale.

For the 30th anniversary, each Monday in November features reunion shows by many of the early regular performers, including Groovy Religion for the finale on November 25. Nostalgia aside, New stresses that the night has taken on a life of its own since the beginning.

“I’m older now, and people my age aren’t necessarily looking to play just for the sake of playing on a Monday night,” he says. “So without the young blood, it would have gone by the wayside long ago.”

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Sultans of String with the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra

FRI., NOV. 29, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Canadian pop icons Steven Page, John Mann, Andy Maize, and Craig Northey re-invent Sergeant Pepper through newly commissioned arrangements from pop, jazz, and classical composers.

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Regina Carter and Nnenna Freelon SAT., DEC. 14, 2013 8PM KOERNER HALL Nnenna Freelon “has long been regarded as a direct descendant of the great jazz singers of the past.” (USA TODAY) MacArthur genius Regina Carter integrates jazz, funk, Motown, African, and soul music.

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He might be fuzzy on the exact date, but Martin Sorrondeguy remembers the details of the first Toronto show he played with his band Limp Wrist like it was yesterday.

“It was around 12 years ago. The first time we played El Mocambo, it was one of the Vazaleen parties that Will Munro organized. There was a lot of dancing and DJs and a little bit of everything,” says the singer over the phone from his home in San Francisco.

Munro – Toronto activist, artist, DJ and promoter, who died from brain cancer in 2010 –actually took the cover photo for band’s first LP in the bathroom that night.

The El Mo’s had a facelift since then, but Sorrondeguy – who’s back in town this week for the Not Dead Yet hardcore festival – remains the same guy who started not one, but two of the genre’s pioneering groups.

Before Limp Wrist, he founded Los Crudos – one of the

States’ first Spanish punk bands – after moving to Chicago from Uruguay with his family. They tackled topics affecting the Latino community including racism, xenophobia and economic inequality.

When they broke up, Sorrondeguy started Limp Wrist, a group that became known for addressing gay youth culture and identified as part of the “queercore” punk movement.

The frontman is happy with the changes he’s seen between then and now. “There’s definitely a way larger queer presence, and I’m noticing a lot more trans people at shows,” he says. “Things have shifted as far as the queer punk scene goes: there’s a lot more visibility, and that’s amazing.”

Limp Wrist’s upcoming show is a one-off (Sorrondeguy lives with guitarist Scott Moore, while bassist Andrew Martini resides in Brooklyn and drummer Paul Henry in Boston), but he’ll continue to make music (he also sings in Needles which is playing Not Dead Yet as well) and put Needles, out a follow-up to his 2012 photography book, Get Shot.

On top of that he writes reviews for San Franciscobased punk magazine Maximum Rocknroll and runs his own record label, Lengua Armada Discos.

“I’m always scheming in my head with new projects,” he says. “Whatever I can do to keep my hands dirty.”

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Evening Hymns, Andy Shauf Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, November 14) Heart-squeezing experimental folk.

Lady Horseshoe (370 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, November 14) R&B, hip-hop and 60s soul mix.

The Deep Dark Woods, ­Michael Rault Adelaide Hall (250 Adelaide West), ­tonight (Thursday, November 14) See preview, page 53.

Not Dead Yet Festival w/ Limp Wrist, Iron Age, Left for Dead, Mind Eraser, Kremlin and others Various venues, tonight to Sunday (November 14 to 17) See Limp Wrist preview, page 55.

Cut Copy Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), ­Friday (November 15) Australian synth pop.

The Sadies Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (November 15) Twang rockers launch new album.

Mammoth Cave Anniversary Bash w/ B.A. Johnston, Ketamines, Voicemail, Average Times, Start Something Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday ­(November 15) Rock party led by quirky Hamiltonian.

Brendan Canning, Dinosaur Bones Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (November 16)

Broken Social Scenester goes solo.

Grand Analog, JMSN Wrongbar (1179 Queen West), ­Saturday (­November 16) Soulful, jazzy local hip-hop.

James Vincent McMorrow Opera House (735 Queen East), ­Saturday (November 16) Popular Dublin singer/songwriter.

Gary Clark Jr. , the Wild Feathers Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Monday­(November 18) Bluesy psych rock guitarist.

Elvis Monday 30th Anniversary Show w/ Amoeba Quiche, Mamabolo, Tony Malone and others Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Monday (November 18) See preview, page 53.

High on Fire, Kvelertak, Doom Riders Opera House (735 Queen East), ­Monday (November 18) Oakland stoner metal.

Fates Warning, Cauldron, Halcyon Way Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), ­Wednesday (November 20) Progressive metal legends.

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Asylum Vikings, Skinny Fabulous, Porgie & Murda, Shi Wisdom, Glenn Lewis, Musiq Soulchild, DJs Jester, Spoonz, Kid Kut and others The Sur Music Festival Gu-

vernment PDR, TG. ­surmusicfestival.com. November 22.

Deer Tracks, Falls, Devah String Quartet Silver Dollar 9 pm, $7. TF. Novmber

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April Wine Q107 Jingle Ball Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $15. TM. November 29.

Megan Bonnell, Donovan Woods Drake Hotel doors 7 pm, $10. November 30.

Andrew Austin, Brad Fillatre, Mike Celia, Mandippal, Maneli Jamal, After Runnymede Light For

The Flight Thyroid Cancer Canada benefit C’est What 6:30 pm, $15. ­December 1.

Blackie & the Rodeo Kings Hugh’s Room. December 3.

Lowell Drake Hotel doors 7:30 pm, $10. ­December 3.

Continuum Ensemble, Marion Newman Nuyaml-il Kulhulmx/Singing The

Earth Wychwood Theatre 8 pm (film screening 7 pm), $10-$30. 416-924-4945, continuum­ music.org. December 4 and 5.

The Gryphon Trio Jane Mallett Theatre 8 pm, $10-$55. December 5.

Mars Hotel , the Gratefully Dedicated Sound System Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 9 pm $20, adv $15. ­marshotel. eventbrite.ca. December 7.

Tosca Opera House doors 8 pm, $37.50. LN, RT, SS. December 7.

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November 19 is the release date for It’s A Big World Out There (And I Am Scared), a 12-inch record on Matador. Wakin cuts Never Run Away, Snowflakes Are Dancing and Air Bud get the reprise treatment, while two others – described as “bedroom psych� and a “fingerpicked earworm� – are brand new.

Since Wakin came out in April, the Philadelphia lo-fi singer/songwriter and former War on Drugs member has also released the Jamaica Plain EP with Sore Eros and recruited Montreal’s Vince Nudo, formerly of the headbanging Priestess, on drums.

So expect lots of longhairs when Vile & his Violators open for Brooklyn indie rockers Beach Fossils.

Sunday (November 17) at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), doors 8:30 pm. $14.50. HS, RT, SS.

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Dog Day CineCycle December 14.

Brad Harrison, Dan Douglas, James Ervin, Ewan Divitt, Pat Blanchard, Alex Duncan, Erasmus Hilland, Doug Burrell ­BrassAckwards: Rises Again

3030 Dundas West doors 7 pm, $10-$20.

416-535-4193. D ­ ecember 15.

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm,

$45.65. RT, SS, TM. ­January 16.

Yuck The Garrison doors 9 pm, $15. RT, TF. ­January 17.

The Strypes Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $15. LN, RT, SS. January 20.

Weekend The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. RT, SS, TF. January 21.

St Lucia When The Night Tour The Hoxton 8 pn, $15. EMB. January 23.

JD Samson & Men The Garrison 8 pm, $15. TSW. January 26.

Kodaline Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $21. RT, SS, TW. February 8.

The Wood Brothers Drake Hotel doors 7 pm, $22.50. LN, RT, SS. February 25.

Paul Simon & Sting On Stage Together Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $63$268. LN, TM. March 1.

White Denim Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. March 3.

Hedley, Classified, USS Wild Live Tour Air Canada Centre LN. March 27.

Miley Cyrus Bangerz Tour Air Canada Centre $39.50-$89.50. LN. March 31.

Mogwai The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $25.50-$29.50. RT, SS, TM. May 13.

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Thursday, November 14 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Cadillac Lounge The Porchdog Choir (roots/

R&R) 9 pm.

The Central Cherry Suede 10 pm, Will Black 6:30 pm.

Clinton’s The Effens, Meeko Cheech, Dear

Black Wolf, Faiyaz & the Wasted Chances doors 9 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub Redbrick (rock/folk) 10 pm.

Dakota Tavern Flash Lightnin’ w/ Little Foot Long Foot 10 pm, Graydon James & the Young Novelists, Gabrielle Papillon (roots rock/singer/songwriter) 7 to 9 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Dark Star Orchestra (Grateful Dead tribute band) doors 8 pm, all ages.

Drake Hotel Underground Evening Hymns, Andy Shauf doors 8 pm.

Firkin on King Mondo Bizarro 9:30 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Nekrogoblikon.

The Hideout No Fixed Address (rock) 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Carey Oakey (pop) 10 pm.

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Horseshoe Lady (70s soul) doors 8:30 pm. ñ Lee’s Palace Twin Forks, the Treasures doors 8:30 pm.

Living Arts Centre Breathe Again Tour

Danny Fernandes, Eleven Past One 7:30 pm.

Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Yasgurs Farm (60s & 70s soul and jazz-rock covers) 9:30 pm.

Opera House Dir En Grey, Dagoba doors 7 pm, all ages.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin II 8 pm.

Rivoli CD release Angela Saini, Brad Fillatre, Serena Pryne & the Mandevilles, Joy Phillips doors 8 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Music Mix Bruce Hornsby 8 pm.

Second Cup Roger ‘Pops’ Zuraw 5 pm.

Silver Dollar Blue Daven Code, Old James,

Riley Szulc, Art, Detest 8 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Not Dead Yet 2013 ­Kremlin, ­Criaturas, Life Form, Violent Future, Born Wrong doors 8 pm.

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

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Icon for Hire doors 6 pm, all ages.

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Adelaide Hall The Deep Dark Woods, ­Michael Rault doors 8 pm. See preview, ñ page 53.

Alleycatz Evan Kuhn (acoustic singer/song-

writer).

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron 8 pm.

Cameron House Corin Raymond 10 pm, Jay Harris 6 pm.

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Cameron House Back Room The Zilis, Fever City & the Honey Runners.

Castro’s Lounge Jerry Leger & the ­Situation (folk/rock/country) 9 pm.

C’est What !DO! (drum & organ) 9:30 pm.

Dominion on Queen Wee Folk Club 7 pm.

Free Times Cafe Songwriters Circle Of Jerks 8:30 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Victor ­Monsivais Bossa Tres 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Responsibles 10 pm.

Hart House Arbor Room Stages Music Series Crook, the Captain Andrew Bootstring Band 9:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Lost Girl (old-time) 7:30 pm.

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Amelia Curran 8:30 pm. ñ Joe Mama’s Blackburn, DJ Carl Allen (blues/

soul/R&B) 9 pm.

The Local David Celia (singer/songwriter) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge CD release Damian Yonge (pop singer/songwriter) doors 6:30 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Joanne Morra 7 to 9 pm.

Reposado The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

Stones Place CD release party Jerome Godboo, Eric Schenkman, Gary Craig 9 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Songs We Write, Covers We Love 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jimmy James 10 pm.

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Cafune Neil Tatay, Henrique Matulis (jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Edo Beverly Taft Trio (jazz) 7 to 10 pm.

Habits Gastropub Arlene Paculan (jazz/pop) 8 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Daniel Barns Jazz Trio 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Renee Rosnes Quartet (modern piano jazz) 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Denny Christianson (trumpet/flugelhorn) 5 to 8 pm.

Metropolitan United Church Noon At Met Patricia Wright (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm.

Musideum Vlada Mars (piano) 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Jazz Masters The Heillig Manoeuvre 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

The Rex Paul DeLong’s Bucket of Fish Orchestra 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Grenzfall Farrukh &

Radek (German techno).

Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (rock) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge DJ DB Cooper doors 11 pm.

EFS Untitled Thursdays Soundbwoy doors 10 pm.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Parties DJ Todd Klinck.5 Happy Child Party Machine DJ Caff (new jack swing/rap/reggae) 10 pm.

Midpoint Nintendo Thursdays (80s Vs 90s).

The Piston Juice, Mara & the Marigold 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/hiphop).

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Switch Toronto Scared Stiff Kick Off Party

Earnest Eliot, Apple Scratch doors 10 pm.

Troika Vodka Boutique Magik Thursdays DJ Magik Mike 10 pm.

WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (70s/80s) 10 pm.

Friday, November 15 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Adelaide Hall The Big Sound (classic soul/

Motown) 10 pm.

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

Blue Goose Tavern The Swingin’ Blackjacks (rockabilly/blues) 9 pm.

Bovine Sex Club The Stanfields, the Town Heroes doors 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

The Central Newsman, Triple Arcade 10 pm, MB10, Rickshaw, the David Rubel Quartet 5:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Graham Playford 10 pm.

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The Danforth Music Hall Cut Copy 8 pm. ñ Eton House Honey Badgers (rock) 8 pm. country) doors 8:30 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Parkside

Drive (rock) 9 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Not Dead Yet 2013 Mind Eraser, Mammoth Grinder, Neeñ dles, Warthog, Violent End, Absolut, Abyss doors 7:30 pm.

Bernadette Connors (rock) 10.

Holy Oak Cafe EP release Anamai, Ostrich Tuning, Hells doors 8:30 pm.

Horseshoe Mono, Majeure (rock) doors 9 pm.

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

Lee’s Palace CD release The Sadies doors 9 pm.

Lola Chris Lord Ideal 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Sepultura, ­Unearth, Kataklysm, Anciients, Dark Sermon 7 pm. CANCELLED. Refunds available at point of purchase.

Rivoli Young the Giant doors 8:30 pm.

Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Let’s Dance Aion Clarke (R&B) 7 to 11 pm.

Sanderson Branch Library Make Some Noise Light Fires 8 pm.

Silver Dollar Mammoth Cave ­Anniversary Bash B.A. Johnston, ­Ketamines, Voicemail, Average Times, Start Something 9 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Not Dead Yet 2013 Circle Takes the Square, Lord Snow, Fucking Invincible, La Luna, Fox Moulder, Mighty Atom doors 7:30 pm.

Sonic Boom Kensington In-Store Anamai 2 pm.

Sound Academy Mac Miller, Choo Jackson doors 8 pm, all ages.

Spoke Club Aria Tesolin (pop) 8 pm.

Velvet Underground Lily Frost, the 8 1/2s, Rotary Dial, Pins & Needles 8 pm.

Videofag 1 Year Anniversary Vivek Shraya (pop) 8 to 10 pm.

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Cameron House Freeman Dre 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alliance Française Downtown Cabaretchanson: Café Piaf Pandora Topp (songs of Edith Piaf) 7:30 pm.

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

Carlu The Arnold Party Saidah Baba Talibah, the Soul Proprietor (jazz/soul) doors 8:30 pm.

Erotico Level Two Broadway, Here I Come Cabaret Men of Forte: the Toronto Men’s Chorus 8 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Shawn Desman,

Mash (party anthems) 10 pm.

Fly Fly POP! DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 Gladstone Hotel Ballroom Toronto Bent Beauty Supreme: Busted Beauty Pageant DJs Joe Blow & Sigourney Beaver 10 pm.

Goodhandy’s Guilty Pleasures DJ Lissa Monet 10 pm.5 The Hoxton Focus Fridays Moon Boots 10 pm.

Opera House Projek: DUB FX DUB FX, Vilify, Hydee.

The Piston Rebel Hop (funk/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm.

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

The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm.

Throne Nightclub Shottas Reunion Spragga Benz, Louie Rankin, Fire Kid Steenie, Renegade Squad, DJZee and others doors 10 pm.

iSH doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

Wrongbar Not Dead Yet 2013 Limp Wrist, Omeagas, No Tolerance, Vixens, Manipulation, Ancient Heads, Anti-Vibes doors 6 pm. See preview, page 55.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Blue Goose Tavern Danny B’s House Party The Danny B Band (blues harp) 3 to 6 pm.

Cameron House Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm, Kirty 6 pm, Sue & Dwight 3:30 pm.

Cameron House Back Room The Histrionics.

Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shout-

er) 4:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Dominion on Queen The Chaser Band (blues) 8:30 pm.

Drake Hotel The Gertrudes (experimental folk jam band) 8 pm. ñ Free Times Cafe Tony Giorno 8:30 pm.

Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Satur-

794 Bathurst The Migration Tour Scale

days Peter Mathieson 1 to 4 pm.

ñthe Summit, the Reign of Kindo, Jolly doors 5:45 pm.

lo Berardinucci (crooner classics/jazz) 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Westwood Concerts Michael Westwood, Gregory Millar (clarinet, piano) 7:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Renee Rosnes Quartet (modern piano jazz) 9 pm.

Musideum Diane Roblin & Reconnect (jazz) 8 to 10 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Fridays To Sing About Carol McCartney Quartet 7:30 pm.

The Rex Dave Neill Quintet 9:45 pm, Artie Roth Group 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Conservatory Theatre Korngold’s The Silent Serenade

7:30 pm.

Temple Sinai Congregation Voices From The Whirlwind Holocaust Education Week The Temple Sinai Ensemble Choir, Toronto Jewish Folk Choir, Upper Canada Choristers 9 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church The Odd (But ­Lovely) Bird Nadia Mackie Jackson, g27 ­Chamber Orchestra (bassoon) 8 pm.

Winter Garden Theatre Emilie-Claire ­Barlow, Bill McBirnie (jazz) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Emmet Ray Bar For The Music Lover DJ Pie &

Saturday, November 16

Habits Gastropub Ori Dagan (jazz) 8 pm. ñ Hart House Arbor Room Jazz At Oscar’s Car-

The Hideout Stone the Radio (rock) 11 pm,

Cameron House Back Room Elissa Barclay.

Mountain 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s Dirty Sweet 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room Stan Rogers Tribute James Keelaghan, Ariel Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Paul Langille, Mary Kelly, Evalyn Parry 8:30 pm.

The Paddock Sugar Brown (blues) 9 pm.

P.K. Creek Around The World In One Night (world music) 8 pm.

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

St Stephen-in-the-Fields Church Album ­release Dinah Thorpe (singer/songwriter) doors 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Bret Higgins, Josh Van Tassel, Robbie Grunwald, Alexsandar Gajic 10 pm, Avesta Nakhaei 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

Valentina Evaristo (Cuban Trova) 8 pm.

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The Garrison The White Buffalo (rock/­

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Free Times Cafe Steve Vincent, Marcus & the

BassLine Music Bar Very Rvre Chrave, Goon, Riotboys, Gngrn (trap/house/dubstep/dnb) 10 pm.

Brassaii Love Me Till I’m Me Again DJ Undercover 10 pm.

Bunda Lounge Keith Worthy, Basic Soul Unit, Jason Ulrich 10 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm.

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

Drake Hotel Underground Obey City Druid Cloak, Deebs doors 11 pm, Deptford Goth, Solar Year (experimental pop) 7:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm.

Adelaide Hall The Reason, Thee Attacks, Zerbin 8 pm.

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

Comfort Zone CD release Eytan Tobin, Coronado, Most People, Dirty Inputs, DJs Adam Harding & Zach Nash 9 pm.

Dakota Tavern The Royal Crowns 10 pm, Erika Werry & the Alphabet 7 to 9 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Mazzy Star doors 7 pm.

Eton House Phoenix 5 (rock/dance) 8 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Not Dead Yet 2013 Iron Age, Boston Strangler, the Repos, Weekend Nachos, Gag, Concrete Asylum, Wrong Generation doors 8 pm.

Hard Rock Cafe Zeppelinesque (Led Zeppelin tribute) 9 pm.

The Hideout Wednesdays Engine (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Great Bloomers, Wish doors 9 pm.

Hot House Cafe Ho Ssy (psychedelic dubstep).

Izakaya Sushi House Midnight Malice, Metalian, Call of the Wild, Droid (metal) 4 pm (all ages) and 9 pm (19+).

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

Lee’s Palace Brendan Canning, Dinosaur Bones doors 9 pm. See album review, page 64.

Lola The Mad Housewives 9 pm.

Measure Mixtape release party Scratch.

Pogue Mahone The Royz Band 8 pm.

The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

Rivoli Head of the Herd, Glorious Sons doors 8 pm.

Round Saxsyndrum (electro-jazz), Pick a Piper, Loopsy Dazy doors 9 pm.

Seven44 Climax Jazz Band (traditional jazz) 4 to 7 pm.

Silver Dollar Record release Chico No Face, Dirty Frigs, the Kostanzas, Beds 9 pm.

Sound Academy LZ Discography Series: Led Zeppelin Four Michael White & the White doors 8 pm.

FVillage of Yorkville Park Holiday Magic Sarah Slean, the Rosedale Day School Choir 5 to 6:30 pm.

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Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Girma &

Amanta (Ethiopian music w/ a twist) 8 pm.

Hugh’s Room Stan Rogers Tribute James Keelaghan, Ariel Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Paul Langille, Mary Kelly, Evalyn Parry 8:30 pm.

The Local Mr Rick & the Biscuits (bluesabilly trio) 9 pm.

Mambo Lounge Evaristo (traditional Cuban music) 8:30 pm.

Opera House James Vincent McMorrow Doors 8 pm, all ages.

Relish Bar & Grill Cadre (roots/blues) 9:30 pm.

Southside Johnny’s The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4 to 8 pm.

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St Nicholas Anglican Church Robinson Hall Ken Whiteley & Dennis Pendrith, Diem LaFortune (roots) doors 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Hatley Edmonds

10 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Velvet Underground EP debut Dylan Hennessy (singer/songwriter) 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Cafune Henrique Matulis (Brazilian jazz) 8

pm.

C’est What The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad

jazz) 3 pm.

Chalkers Pub Robi Botos Trio 6 to 9 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar The Jazz

Forge (jazz) 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Kohen Hammond Quartet (jazz) 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall The Fame Which Posterity Gives: Songs of Dowland for his 450th Birthday The Musicians in Ordinary (17th-century English songs) 8 pm.

Jane Mallett Theatre Britten’s America Adam Sherkin (piano) 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Renee Rosnes Quartet (modern piano jazz) 9 pm.

May Cafe Jazz Series (curated by Brownman) 8 pm.

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When Mayor Ford jetted down to Texas to sign the AustinToronto­Music City Alliance Agreement, ­vowing to make Toronto a music capi­tal, I’m sure he didn’t have this in mind: he’s spurred a flurry of ­creative expression, not because of that political effort but, rather, as a result of the crack-smoking scandal and his recent admission. We chose three particularly good musical tributes to Rob Ford.

Ian, by SHIT! (Derek Christoff & MMac) Available on SoundCloud, Ian is possibly the most on-point Rob Ford song ever, because it’s sung from the POV of the man himself. (The title is a reference to the Ford soundalike who called in to AM 640 talk radio.)

“In a way, Ford’s more hip-hop than anything. Like when 50 Cent first came out. Rob Ford is the 2003 50 Cent of City Hall,” says SHIT! MC Derek Chris­toff, who’s better known as D-Sisive.

“Ford is super-street. Hardcore muscle who sincerely doesn’t give a fuck…. I hate that my city suffers, but it’s entertaining in a surreal sort of way.”

most of the song is actual un-manipulated Ford quotes, reminding us just how ridi­culous the whole scenario really is. The video ends with a rare moment of Ford honesty, however unintentional: “After some of the stuff that you guys have seen me… and the state I’ve been in? It’s a problem.”

Julia LeConte

Rob Ford (Tom Ford Freestyle), by Lyve Kaos Everyone claims to be the first to swap “Tom Ford” for “Rob Ford” in Jay Z’s current hit song, but who’s to say? Toronto-based rapper Lyve Kaos posted this on YouTube three months ago: after the video reports, before the admission but right when Jay Z’s latest album dropped.

This freestyle isn’t so much a politi­cal tirade as a chance for Kaos to drop some verses over a Timbaland beat and throw a few jabs at the mayor.

“I moved up here from south Florida (what I thought was the most corrupt area in North America) 18 months ago and was completely fascinated with the headlines Mayor Ford was making,” says Kaos.

Rob Ford Crack Remix, by DJ Steve Porter DJ Steve Porter’s confessional YouTube Rob Ford mashup (again, to the Tom Ford beat) might be the catchiest, funniest and, let’s face it, saddest.

Porter isn’t even Canadian (he’s originally from Massachusetts), and

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Music Gallery Britten’s Baroque Aradia ­Ensemble 8 pm. ñ Musideum Rooms (piano trio) 8 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar DJ Blancon (soul/hip-hop) 10

pm.

Fly Fly Saturdays DJ Mark Falco, DJ Quinces doors 10 pm.5 The Garrison Turning Point A Man Called Warwick, Monsieur Villanova doors 10 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe DJ Sandro Perri (rarities) 10 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre ñ The Piston

Dave Field Trio 7:30 pm.

Paul’s Churrasco The Tavares Trio/Botos (jazz/Latin) 7:30 to 11:30 pm.

Reposado Bradley & the Bouncers (swing).

The Rex Mike Downes Quartet 9:45 pm, Elmer Ferrer Group 7 pm, Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall The Priests, Patricia O’Callaghan 8 pm.

Datsik 9 pm.

Love Handle (electro funk) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/ club).

Ryze Frankie Knuckles, Mark Falco, Tricky Moreira (house).

Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.

Supermarket Do Right Saturdays DJ John Kong 10 pm.

Hall TD Jazz: Celebrating Dinah & Sarah

Sunday, November 17

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Jazz Masters

ñ Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Ramsey Lewis Quintet, Cécile McLorin ­Salvant 8 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Conservatory Theatre Korngold’s The Silent Serenade

7:30 pm.

Workman Arts Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival: Music In Film Justin Haynes (score for film The Devil’s Needle) 6 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

794 Bathurst Catz ’N Dogz & Noir Jamie Kidd, Koki. ñ The Ballet All Vinyl Everything DJ Mensa,

Agile & Mista Jiggz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/ house/disco/funk/soul) doors 10 pm.

BassLine Music Bar Re: Work Killowatts/­ Disaster, Ben Marchal, Hans Ohm (deep house/tech house).

Black Eagle Uncle Dickie and others (deep house/techno/disco) 10 pm.5 Bloor/Gladstone Library Hush Hush Afterhours Party DJ Fathom, DJ GeeWizz doors 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Dance Party DJ Spinson (old school/underground hip-hop) 11 pm.

Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Quatro Conor Cutz & Rouge doors 11 pm, Star Slinger doors 8 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Fase (hip-hop) doors 10 pm.

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Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Central People We Know Palindromes,

Noise Floor, the Intermission 9 pm, Brian Moon Trio 5:30 pm.

C’est What David Leask (pop/roots) 3 pm.

Dakota Tavern Hot Rock (members of Blue Rodeo, the Beauties and Flash Lightnin’ play the Stones) 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch The Cosmotones 11 am to 3 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar CD release OOZAKAZOO (pop/folk duo) doors 3 pm.

The Hideout Don Campbell (acoustic rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Beach Fossils, the Holiday Crowd doors 8:30 pm.

Massey Hall Tedeschi Trucks Band 8 pm.

Rivoli Acoustic show The Stanfields, the Town Heroes doors 8 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Not Dead Yet 2013 Left for Dead, Impalers, Column of Heaven, Gas Rag, Snakecharmer doors 7:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Cadillac Lounge The Danny B Blues Band

7:30 pm.

Cameron House Brent Diablo 10 pm, Rye & Fairy Tales 7 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Paul Reddick (blues/roots harmonica) 4 to 7 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub Steve Gleason (folk/ pop) 9 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2

pm.

Dominion on Queen Dirty Dishes (country/ bluegrass/gospel) 3:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Phildel, Lyon (singer/songwriters) doors 7 pm.

Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm.

Eton House Whiskey Jack (bluegrass/coun-

try) 8 pm.

Free Times Cafe Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room 8 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full Of Beans ­Sundays David Crighton 2 to 4 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic

Family Brunch (bluegrass) 11 am to 2 pm.

Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room Midge Ure 8:30 pm.

Kingston Rd United Church RPR (Steve Ritchie, Al Parrish, Rob Ritchie) (formerly Tanglefoot) 7:30 pm.

The Local Everlovin’ Jug Band 9 pm, Lost Girl (old-time) 5 pm.

Lola Nick Picking w/ Doug 3 to 7 pm.

Lula Lounge Generous Hearts Fundraiser Andy De Campos & the Ipanema 10-Piece Band, Guinomar Campbell, Hugo Pilo, Luanda Jones and others (Brazilian samba/bossa nova) 7 pm.

Opera Bob’s The Ole Fashion 9 pm.

The Paddock Rhonda Stakich Project (singer/ songwriter) 8 pm, Betty M Jackson (blues) 2 pm.

Placebo Space Singer Songwriter Circle 7 to 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sunday Open Mic 9 pm.

Rose & Crown Music City North Open Mic 9 pm.

Sotto Voce Wine Bar Sunday Music Session Open Mic. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm, Alaniaris 3 pm, Quebecois Jam 1 pm.

Village Vinyl Sunday Session The Barrel Boys (bluegrass) 2 to 5 pm.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

& Mark Kieswetter (jazz) 2 to 5 pm.

Music Gallery A Soldier’s Tale (concert/theatre piece) 8 pm.

Musideum Reggae Impressionism Jason Wilson 8 pm.

Opticianado Thompson Egbo-Egbo (piano) 1 to 4 pm.

The Rex Melissa Stylianou 9:30 pm, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm., Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall O Gamelan Esprit Orchestra, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan 8 pm.

St Michael and All Angels Church Clarinet

On Wychwood The Wychwood Clarinet Choir & Wychwood Clarinet Youth Choir 3:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Peggy Lee, Lina Allemano & Ryan Driver 7:30 pm.

ñ Upper Canada College Laidlaw Auditorium Mooredale Youth Orchestra 3 pm.

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His voice sounded like it was breaking when he sang his timeless songs, he told dated, absurd jokes between tunes, and he blew the crap out of his harmonica. Two weeks ago (October 28), Toronto lost a great – and secretive – songwriter in Sam Larkin, 69, a fixture at both Fat Albert’s coffee house and the Tranzac open stage, who passed away after a long battle with liver disease.

On December 9, Larkin’s songs – including much-covered Mirabeau Bridge, Future Trouble and Night Melts Chains – will be remembered at a star-studded tribute at Hugh’s Room featuring Ron Sexsmith, Michael Johnston, Kurt Swinghammer, Anne Bourne, Kyp Harness, Eric Newby, Paul Linklater, Robert Priest, Don Kerr and more. The Tranzac is also planning a tribute to Larkin in the new year that will coincide with the launch of his Bob Wiseman-produced posthumous album, tentatively titled The One That Falls In Love.

Up, up, indie away!

Fans of local radio station Indie88 will be happy to know that last week the CRTC approved its request to up its signal mojo across the GTA. The effective radiated power (ERP) will increase from 532 to 2,100 watts, while average antenna heights will be decreased from 328 to 281 metres.

Yep, sounds pretty technical to us, too. What matters is that you’ll be able to hear your favourite indie tunes loud and clear.

Right To play

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Local hardrock five-piece Diemonds have run into some hard luck south of the border.

After a stop in Chicago, their tour van’s engine exploded and the brake lines were shredded before band member Tommy Cee finally steered to an all-things-considered safe stop in “Buttfuck Nowhere, Illinois.”

Getting the van back in business will be an expensive affair, so while they’re holed up in an Illinois hotel, the band is urging fans to pick up some merch at diemonds.net/store.

Support the cause! Who knows? It could be your T-shirt that puts their show back on the road.

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METRO TORONTO CONVENTION CENTRE

Diemonds in the rough

On Monday (November 18), the Darcys visit the first of six high schools in their Play In School music campaign.

The local art rock quartet will visit Rosedale Heights School for the Fine Arts before travelling to Richmond Hill, Etobicoke, Sutton West, Kitchener and, finally, Newmarket on December 2.

Giving underage music lovers a chance to see them live for free, the series will also include workshops and aims to drum up support for public school music programs.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

TORONTO, ON APRIL 19, 2014

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Ontario artists won big at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, held Sunday, November 10, in Calgary.

In fact, Toronto had more winners than any other Canadian city, snagging seven big awards in total.

Justin Rutledge took home contemporary album of the year for Valley­ heart; Jorge Miguel nabbed world solo artist; both the instrumental group of the year and Pushing The Boundaries awards went to Jaron Freeman-Fox & the Opposite of Everything; the Good Lovelies scooped two prizes as well – ensemble of the year and vocal group; and Jaffa Road won for world group.

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nov 25 no cover

sat november 23

wed november 20

NO COVER

$13.50 advance

$15.00 advance

$10.00 adv

monday • no cover

fri november 22

single mothers the motorleague • brutal youth

nov 16

with

w/ the beatdown

$23.50 adv

nov 18

final toronto show!

legendary JamaiCan ska & reggae

nov 22

friday

saturday

mUStaRD plug

aRON D’alESiO

Saidah BaBa taLiBah

miles

dec 07

Cd release

mon shoeless monday

tues

of broken soCial sCene

nov 19

$20.00 adv

2nd floor of lee’s palace 10:00pm — 2:30am thursday • no cover

hark + dinosaur bones tues

nov 15

alternative rock dance club

• Doors 9:00pm

the LOne

BeLLOw

adam harden & the lost stones NEw NOblES

lazybones west hammock daylight for dead eyes ShOtgun ryan

tues

nov 26 no cover

aofie o’donovan

eLiSSa BarcLay second pass 5.00 @Door broken sons the BayOnetteS

thurs

fri

$15.00 adv

$10.00 @Door

nov 28

wed

nov 27 $

nov 29

(the tragically hip) greg bell + pete murray

the FaSt rOManticS the shakedown autumn canon

Adv Tickets @ TickeTfly.com • Ticketmaster.ca • Rotate This • Soundscapes • H-Shoe front Bar fri NOVEmbER 22 @ danforth music hall $ 18.50- $ 20.00

advance • all-ages

tues DECEmbER 10 lee’s palace • $ 25.50 advance

DECEmbER 12-14 horseshoe • 24.50- 28.50 adv $

$

thurs NOV 28 • sound academy • $25.00 adv ga • $39.50 adv vip

ROyal thUNDER

anti-mortem + public animal

(full band!)

h’shoe 66th birthday Celebration!

tuesday DECEmbER 3 @ sound academy

frank turner

arbouretum + jennifer castle with DEViN CUDDy baND

horseshoe $ 27.50

advance

friday

opera house

DECEmbER 20

advance

$ 18.00

hugh cornwell

december 15 • $ 18.50 adv

thurs DECEmbER 12 lee’s palace • $ 15.00 adv

january 15 • $ 25.00 adv

darkside adv

johnny flynn

lee’s palace • $ 15.50 advance

annual x-mas bash

december 27 • $ 11.50 adv

led zeppelin 2

fri DECEmbER 13

NOVEmbER 29 • $ 22.50 adv

jOSEph aRthUR DECEmbER 4 • $ 10.50 adv

(stranglers)

january 22 •

with jUly talk

DEC 20-21

lee’s palace

$ 13.00

ElEphaNt StONE

$23.50 adv Ga (all-ages) • $37.50 adv VIp (19+) + $1.00 charity Fee • edgefest Jingle Bell concert

wednesday

DECEmbER 11

LakeS

wed DECEmbER 4 lee’s palace • $ 15.50 advance

wiTH blessthefall + defeater

& thE SlEEpiNg SOUlS

$ 23.00

lee’s palace • 15.00 advance

BeSnard

wednesday NOVEmbER 27 @the phoenix • $ 20.50 advance StiCk tO yOUR gUNS SUCh gOlD ROttiNg OUt hEaRt tO hEaRt mon DECEmbER 9 lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

fri november DECEmbER 29 $

saturday NOVEmbER 23 @phoenix concert theatre • $ 15.00 advance

sat DECEmbER 14 lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

tues DECEmbER 31 lee’s palace • $ 22.50 advance

bare mutants hOwe geLB cate lebon

adv • all-ages

saturday

devin cuddy band + the old salts

NOVEmbER 30 horseshoe $ 12.00

advance

fEbRUaRy 6 horseshoe $ 12.50

advance

tuesday NOVEmbER 19 @drake hotel • $ 13.00 advance

sat NOVEmbER 23 drake underground • $ 12.00 adv

saturday NOVEmbER 16 drake hotel • $ 15.00 adv

mon NOVEmbER 25 silver dollar • $ 11.50 adv

jaNUaRy 21 • $ 12.50 advance

tOgEthER pangea

horseshoe • $ 10.50 advance

thursday

DECEmbER 12 • $ 17.50 adv

fEbRUaRy 18 • $ 10.50 adv

thurs DECEmbER 5

friday jaNUaRy 17

silver dollar • $ 13.50 adv

with milk

lines

thurs jaNUaRy 16 @hard luck • $ 13.50 adv • all-ages

balance & composure

jim jONES horseshoe • $ 13.50 advance

wiTH harrison

sat DECEmbER 14

EV REE wUhN

aLLiSOn weiSS + pj BOnd

with CORy bRaNaN

REVUE

NOW november 14-20 2013

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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar DJ Decibel’s Bass Music Party Jane Shorthand & Garth Algar, Amanda Raygun, DJ Decibel (electro/glitch/bass).

Bovine Sex Club Metal Health 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Watch This Sound (rare vintage ska/reggae/dub) 9 pm.

The Red Light 80s Dance Party 9 pm.

Monday, November 18 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones 9 pm.

Danforth Music Hall Gary Clark Jr, the Wild Feathers doors 7 pm, all ages. ñThe Drake Hotel Underground Elvis Monñday 30th Anniversary Show Amoeba Quiche, Tony Malone, Scott B Sympathy,

Uforia, Mama­bolo doors 9:30 pm. See ­preview, page 53.

Drake Hotel Lounge The St Royals (soul/ Motown/R&B) doors 10 pm.

The Hideout Big Otter Creek (acoustic rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Dahlias, Shikha, Rebecca Everett & the Dead Ringers.

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

The Piston England in 1819, Donalyn, Future History, the Stormalongs 10 pm.

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Cameron House Weatherstone 10 pm, O Frontera 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Bookworm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub Alun Piggins (folk/pop) 9 pm.

Dakota Tavern Jerry Leger (country/folk/

rock) 9 pm.

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

Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Midge Ure 8:30 pm.

The Local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/

country) 9 pm.

Magic Oven Queen E Magic Mondays Open

Jam Shahi (soul/R&B/jazz/funk) 9 pm to midnight.

Monarch Tavern Ventanas (flamenco/Balkan/Sephardic music) 9 pm.

The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

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

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar Riverrun 9 pm, David Blake

Trio (jazz) 7 pm.

Kitch Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

Lola The Big 3 (ragtime/jazz) 6 to 9 pm.

Musideum Canadian Icons Bill Bridges, Lew Mele, Joe Macerollo 7 pm.

On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm.

The Rex John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Mazzoleni Hall Musicians From Marlboro 7:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall UnCovered: Sting & The Police Jackie Richardson, Thom Allison, Sara Farb, Jordan Till and others 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

jazz) 8:30 pm.

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (ret-

ro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, November 19 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Central The Fairest and Best, Hello Companion 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Laura Stevenson doors 8 pm.

The Duke Live.com Live Jam Night 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10

pm.

Hard Luck Bar Album release Skynet.

Heliconian Hall David Occhipinti & the Camera Ensemble 8 pm.

The Hideout Jeans Off Duo (acoustic rock) 10

pm.

Horseshoe Bookie’s New Music Night Prins

Polo, Hermijervill, Hjaltalin.

Joe Mama’s Jeff Eager (funk/blues/soul) 6:30 to 10:30 pm, all ages.

Lee’s Palace Crocodiles, Wymond Miles (rock & roll) doors 8 pm.

The Piston The Dahlias, Seraphic Lights, the Great Machine 9 pm.

Rivoli Spooky Ruben’s Dizzy Playground Live!

The Roncy Boys (variety show) doors 8 pm.

Sound Academy The Warning Signs Tour Timeflies, Chiddy Bang, Cash Cash 7 pm.

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Cameron House Back Room Christian Bridges Band 11 pm, Jon Travis & Train Electric 10 pm , Carl Lorusso Jr 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge blueVenus (singer/songwriter) 10 pm, Hometown Bluegrass 8 pm.

C’est What The Parlour Brothers (alt/country/rock/roots) 9:30 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Pub The Barrel Boys (bluegrass) 10 pm.

Dakota Tavern The Matineé, Jane’s Party, Rival Boys 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge Memphis Tuesdays Young Running (country) doors 10 pm.

Free Times Cafe Music City North Caitlin Burgess, Melanie Peterson, Sue Séguin Sings (folk) 8:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room CD release Stephanie Cadman 8:30 pm.

The Local Noah Zacharin 9 pm.

Nocturne Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Circle of Jerks 9:30 pm, The Usual Suspects 7 to 9 pm.

Tranzac Main Hall Wool & Howl (indie folk) 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Axis Gallery & Grill The Junction Jam Derek Downham 9:30 pm.

Cameron House Friendly Rich 10 pm, Sarah Jane Scouten 6 pm.

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Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/

Array Space Audiopollination Watson Jennison, Colin Fisher, Barry Lypton, ñ Branko Dzinovic, Alan Bloor, Michael Lynn and others (improvised music) 8 pm.

Dominion on Queen Hot Club of Corktown Django Jam 8:30 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Chamber Connections: Brahms Artists of the Glenn Gould School noon to 1 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Seamus Blake & Bryn Roberts (modern jazz) 8 pm.

Nocturne Drum Circle 8:30 pm.

Rakia Bar Bohemian Night Jazz Jam Laura Marks Trio w/ Adrean Farrugia, Ross MacIntyre 8 to 11 pm.

The Rex Dave Young Quintet 9:30 pm, Fern Lindzon (jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith (jazz) 9 to 11 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross The Ken McDonald Quartet 10 pm, Jay Danley’s Ethio-Jazz Project 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Tech Tuesdays Techster

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Bloke & 4th Swank Tuesdays.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck

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Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

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Cadillac Lounge Rock & Soul Wednesdays Ghetto Hicks (rock/blues) 9 pm.

The Central Jim Amar 9:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Andria Simone & Her Band doors 8 pm.

Hard Luck Bar LetLive.

The Harp Pub Johnny Max Band 8 to 10 pm.

The Hideout Don Campbell Band (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Temples, Invasions, the Auras doors 8:30 pm. See album reviews, page 64.

Joe Mama’s Soul Sessions Alana Bridgewater & Rich Grossman 6:30 to 10 pm, all ages.

Lola Open Stage Wednesday’s Child 8 pm.

The Painted Lady Video premiere Alysha Brilla & the Brillion Dollar Band 7 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Fates Warning, Cauldron, Halcyon Way 7:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Paul Reddick (roots/blues

harmonica) 10 pm, John Antoniuk (singer/ songwriter) 6 to 8 pm.

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

College Street Bar

Mozayic (Afro-Carib/R&B/soul) doors 8:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Sunparlour Players, Kate Rogers.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 7:30 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler (folk) 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe Where Have All The Folk Songs Gone Singalong Sue & Dwight, Michelle Rumball (50s & 60s folk singalong) 8 pm.

The Great Hall Girls Who Believe Fest Benefit for The Charity Girls Inc Meredith Shaw, Molly Thomason, Ladies of the Canyon doors 6:30 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room CD release Jadea Kelly, Don Brownrigg 8:30 pm.

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The Local Whitebrow (spooky folk) 9 pm.

Opera House Tori Kelly (singer/songwriter) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Sasha Chapin &

Jesse Laderoute 10 pm, Nancy Dutra (altcountry) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Mediterranean Stars (fusion jazz) 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Identity Shirantha Beddage Quartet 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Seamus Blake & Bryn Roberts (modern jazz) 8 pm.

Mezzetta Lorne Lofsky & Kieran Overs 9 pm.

Paintbox Bistro Arecibo (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

The Rex Shuffle Demons 9:30 pm, Worst Pop Band Ever (jazz ) 6:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Beethoven And Strauss Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

Yorkminster Park Baptist Church Britten At 100 Toronto Mendelssohn ñ Choir, Toronto Children’s Chorus, Festival Orchestra 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Wednesday DTM, ­Dynamic (hardcore).

Crocodile Rock 911 Wednesdays DJ Perry

(top 40/dance) 9 pm.

Drop Lounge Mercredi@Drop DJs Shanelle Williams, Boots Boogie & Bones Mcleod.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck 8 pm.5

The Hoxton Nightmares on Wax 9 pm. ñ Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (live guitar

soundtracks).

venue index 794 Bathurst 794 Bathurst. 416-5360346.

Adelaide Hall 250 Adelaide W. Air Canada Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

Alliance Française Downtown 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014.

Array Space 155 Walnut. 416-532-3019.

Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333.

The Ballet 277A Ossington.

BassLine Music Bar 865 Bloor W. 416-7327513.

Black Bear Pub 1125 O’Connor. 416-7525182.

Black Eagle 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Bloke & 4th 401 King W. 416-477-1490.

Bloor/Gladstone Library 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

Blue Goose Tavern 1 Blue Goose. 416-2552442.

Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-5044239.

Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730.

Bunda Lounge 1108 Dundas W.

By The Way Cafe 400 Bloor W. 416-9674295.

Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717.

Cafune 194A Carlton. 647-748-7884.

Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-7030811.

Carlu 444 Yonge. 416-597-1931.

Castro’s Lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-6998272.

The Central 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

C’est What 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

Chalkers Pub 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

Cloak & Dagger Pub 394 College. 647436-0228.

College Street Bar 574 College. 416-5332417.

Comfort Zone 480 Spadina. 416-9750909.

Crocodile Rock 240 Adelaide W. 416-5999751.

Dakota Tavern 249 Ossington. 416-8504579.

Dance Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416532-1598.

The Danforth Music Hall 147 Danforth.

416-778-8163.

Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416368-6893.

Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Drop Lounge 760 College.

Duffy’s Tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416-6280330.

The Duke Live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-4635302.

Edo 484 Eglinton W. 416-322-3033.

EFS 647 King W. 416-477-5460.

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

Erotico 461 Church.

Eton House 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Firkin on King 461 King W. 416-979-5464.

Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-3638231.

Free Times Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078.

Full of Beans Coffee 1348 Dundas W. 647-347-4161.

The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635.

Goodhandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514.

The Great Hall 1087 Queen W. 416-8263330.

Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000.

Habits Gastropub 928 College. 416-5337272.

Happy Child 1168 Queen W. 647-748-1559.

Hard Luck Bar 772a Dundas W. Hard Rock Cafe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636.

The Harp Pub 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277.

Hart House 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9788849.

Heliconian Hall 35 Hazelton. 416-9223618.

The Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915.

Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-3452803.

Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753.

Hot House Cafe 35 Church. 416-366-7800.

The Hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321.

Hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416-5316604.

Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front E. 416-3667723.

The Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-3635299.

Joe Mama’s 317 King W. 416-340-6469.

Kama 214 King W. 416-599-5262.

Kingston Rd United Church 975 Kingston. 416-699-6091.

Kitch 229 Geary. 647-350-4555.

Lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

Living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000.

The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

Lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-5880307.

Magic Oven Queen E 360 Queen E. 416703-3555.

Mambo Lounge 120 Danforth. 416-7787004.

Massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255.

May Cafe 876 Dundas W. Measure 296 Brunswick. 416-477-5645.

Metropolitan United Church 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331.

Mezzetta 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687.

Midpoint 1180 Queen W. 647-895-4171.

Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton. 416-5315833.

Morgans on the Danforth 1282 Danforth. 416-461-3020.

Music Gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080.

Musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-5997323.

Nocturne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178.

Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641.

On Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417.

Opera Bob’s 1112 Dundas W. 416-536-5585.

Opera House 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313.

Opticianado 2919 Dundas W. 416-6042020.

The Paddock 178 Bathurst. 416-504-9997.

Paintbox Bistro 555 Dundas E. 647-7480555.

The Painted Lady 218 Ossington. 647-2135239.

Paul’s Churrasco 839 College St. 416-5322777.

Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251.

The Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

P.K. Creek 255 Dundas W (Mississauga).

905-306-1999.

Placebo Space 2877 Lake Shore W. Pogue Mahone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339.

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Rakia Bar 1402B Queen E. 416-778-8800.

The Red Light 1185 Dundas W. 416-5336667.

Relish Bar & Grill 2152 Danforth. 416425-4664.

Reposado 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474.

The Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-787-8811.

Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

Rose & Crown 2335 Yonge. 416-487-7673.

Round 152A Augusta.

Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-8724255.

Royal Conservatory of Music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

Ryze 423 College. 416-868-0303.

Sanderson Branch Library 327 Bathurst.

The Savoy 1166 Queen W. 416-499-9386.

Second Cup 4850 Dundas W. Seven44 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931.

Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090.

Sonic Boom Kensington 201 Augusta.

416-901-8854.

Sotto Voce Wine Bar 595 College. 416536-4564.

Sound Academy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625.

Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302.

Spoke Club 600 King W. 416-368-8448.

St Michael and All Angels Church 611 St Clair W. 416-653-1424.

St Nicholas Anglican Church 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-691-0449.

St Stephen-in-the-Fields Church 103 Bellevue.

Stones Place 1255 Queen W. 416-5364242.

Supermarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

Switch Toronto 55 Colborne. 416-9019990.

Temple Sinai Congregation 210 Wilson.

416-487-4161.

Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-271-0016.

Throne Nightclub 200 Advance (Brampton). 905-793-9989.

Toby’s Famous 411 College. 416-868-6297.

Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

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

Troika Vodka Boutique 95 King E. Upper Canada College 200 Lonsdale.

416-488-1125.

Valentina 61A Bellevue. 647-748-1828.

Velvet Underground 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688.

Videofag 187 Augusta.

Village of Yorkville Park Cumberland and Bellair.

Village Vinyl 2925 Lake Shore W. 416809-6625.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club 722 College.

416-588-4663.

WAYLA Bar 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

Winchester Kitchen & Bar 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051.

Winter Garden Theatre 189 Yonge.

416-314-2901.

Wise Guys 2301 Danforth. 416-694-2005.

Workman Arts 1001 Queen W. 416-5834339.

Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

Yorkminster Park Baptist Church 1585 Yonge. 416-922-1167.

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(independent) Rating: NNNN Toronto’s Freedom Writers, a collective of mainstay emcees from across the GTA – Theo 3, Frankie Payne, Tona, Adam Bomb and Progress – plus their DJ/producer Big Sproxx, have delivered an aptly named debut. Calmly as it’s delivered, there’s an urgency to their unrelenting social criticism, which is fully committed to over 17 tracks and never veers into clichés.

Over boom-bap beats and classic 90s production – brass flourishes and 70s funk and soul snippets abound – Freedom Writers cover Toronto street life, international politics, issues of gender and race.

A few highlights: Ian Kamau’s visceral feature on I’ll Be Waiting; Ayah’s pop-R&B vocals on Soldier; Nothing – an appreciation of life in the face of less than ideal circumstances. The disc really takes off on Off The Pig, weaving careful anti-cop verses with Kanye’s “Fuck the police that’s how I treat ’em” from All Falls Down, a jazzy bass line and protester chants – the beginning of the record’s strong final third that ends on a super-high note: Freedom, featuring Mathematik.

Top track: Off The Pig Freedom Writers play Measure Bar Saturday (November 16).

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Shelter Song/Colours To Life (Fat Possum) Rating: NNNN Neo-psychedelic pop band Temples have been together barely a year but have already been called the best new band in Britain by some of the country’s biggest rock stars (Noel Gallagher, Johnny Marr, Robert Wyatt). Even considering the hype the English tend to heap on fledgling bands, few could deny that Temples have something going on.

The sprawling Colours To Life from their debut North American 7-inch oozes hazy melodies, a memorable chorus and the kind of inventive, gauzily layered retro-future studio production that Tame Impala have perfected. Shelter Song has a chiming Paperback Writerly guitar riff and heads down a path of intertwined-vocal psych groove.

Upfront hooks and drum-thumping fun prevent the young Kettering four-piece from ever getting lost in the fog of studio trickery, swirling atmospherics and longwinded jams. Also sweet? Singer/guitarist James Edward Bagshaw is a dead ringer for Marc Bolan.

Top track: Shelter Song Temples make their Canadian debut at the Horseshoe, Wednesday (November 20).

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Rating: NNN Despite Lady Gaga’s lofty talking points, the fusing of art and pop on Artpop has resulted in a lot of familiar dance-pop, more artful in its campiness than its musical innovation.

For starters, it is her perviest album to date. We get not just an oddly incongruous R. Kelly duet (Do What U Want), but zany arena anthems referencing masturbation (Sexxx Dreams), submission (G.U.Y.) and pig play (Swine), too.

If larger ideas are embedded in these songs, they’re drowned out by Gaga’s gargantuan production, but the overall cheeky tone is a welcome departure from Born This Way’s self-righteous Bible talk.

While that album revelled in classic rock, Artpop largely imports over-the-top symphonic rock flourishes into electronic music, piling on new wavey spoken word, pre-chorus power ballading and industrial breakdowns.

The songs are full of memorable choruses and unpredictable twists and turns that veer toward a personal denouement, the straight-forward but gratingly oversung piano ballad Dope.

Top track: Sexxx Dreams KR

LINKIN PARK Recharged (Warner) Rating: NN There’s a built-in redundancy to a Linkin Park remix album. Their music already sounds like hard rock that’s been tweaked by a knowledgable 15-year-old on his first laptop, and I’m fairly certain that dozens (if not hundreds) of bootleg remixes of their songs already exist on YouTube, mashed up against MMA highlights and PG-rated clips from True Blood. (Note: we’re not bothering to verify that.)

That said, Recharged boasts all the familiar highlights that have made Linkin Park one of the few bands immune to the record industry’s collapse: Mike Shinoda’s tight (albeit conventional) little rap couplets interspersed with Chester Bennington’s polyp-inducing vocals across 12 remixes from their previous albums, plus two versions of new track A Light That Never Comes.

The rest of the band must have been busy elsewhere, since producers like Rick Rubin, Steve Aoki and Dirtyphonics take control of the backing tracks.

Top track: A Light That Never Comes (Rick Rubin Reboot) STEPHEN DU MANOIR

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Chill (Draper Street/SQE Music) Rating: NNN If you’re used to seeing Brendan Canning busting out blistering guitar solos with Broken Social Scene or dropping deep cuts in his DJ sets around town, the gentle, languid quality of his aptly named

second solo album might come as a surprise. But anyone who’s followed the career of this local scene veteran knows he’s always had a keen ear for melody, from his indie pop days with By Divine Right and Len. At first, the minimalist acoustic guitar and Canning’s murmured vocals sound almost nonchalant, but his deft playing and nuanced arrangements elevate tracks like However Long and Bullied Days, which sets Snowblink singer Daniela Gesundheit’s starlit vocals to an equally ethereal pedal steel backdrop. He might be making music on his own, but these laid-back tunes bring to mind lines from Canning’s earlier canon: “Drop that phone / Sleep on the floor / Dream about me.”

Top track: Bullied Days Brendan Canning plays Lee’s Palace Saturday (November 16). TABASSUM SIDDIQUI

SEBASTIEN GRAINGER Yours To

Discover (Last Gang) Rating: NNN From the shirtless cover image to the use of Ontario’s provincial slogan, it’s clear that Sebastien Grainger isn’t taking himself too seriously on his new solo LP. Intrinsically associated with Toronto’s music scene – through his music as one half of dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 and various other collabs – Grainger recently relocated to Los Angeles with his wife, and Yours To Discover sees him exploring these new horizons. It might be his most overtly pop record to date, but there’s plenty of crunch here to satisfy long-time fans. (See the pealing guitar solo midway through Let’s Move To NYC.) The highlight by far is Going With You, a synth-heavy firecracker of a track with a jubilant chorus that makes it the anti-Hold On, We’re Going Home.

There are a few clunker lyrics – Grainger’s at his strongest when he’s singing about making love, not having sex – but overall it’s a worthy record from an artist who refuses to make the same one twice.

Top track: Going With You MAX MERTENS

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Rating: NNN Toronto five-piece Invasions play a type of music that is in fact more closely associated with the movies: western surf rock with oodles of mariachi. It screams Tarantino soundtrack.

Ballad Of The Faithful begins with classic standoff music; the catchiest tune, Rosy, borrows from pop- and garage-rock; and Born On A Wave evokes Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet’s Having An Average Weekend.

Doused in reverb, the album is always jaunty and fun, if not terribly varied from one track to the next. Without singing, it would still be interesting, but Alex Zen’s vocals (like Bob Dylan’s on Rainy Day Women, but less whiny) add an interesting layer. Lyrics are straightforward, and it would be cool to see the band try for an epic storytelling song – something they might consider for LP number three. In the meantime, Invasions make the kind of music you know will be great live: let’s bring western mariachi surf rock back where it belongs, in the clubs!

Top track: Rosy Invasions play the Horseshoe Wednesday (November 20).

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“Many people still think gay actors can’t play straight parts. You never hear that straight actors are too straight to play certain roles.”

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Damien Atkins stands out Brilliant actor/writer unveils gay ­history’s hidden dramas

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ot many artists agree to open up rehearsals to the prying eyes of a journalist. Yet it’s a few weeks before The Gay Heritage Project goes up and Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir have let me be a fly on the wall for about an hour while they finesse the work.

There’s a sense of freedom, discovery and raucous fun in the room as the actors – all in mid-career and very good friends – run lines, revise sections and quiz each other about their own history and gay history in general. They’ve got nothing to hide.

Who’s your gay hero? Which Golden Girl are you? What does the term “gay heritage” mean to you?

The tall and thin Atkins – his email address has the word “skinny” in it – steps forward during his turns and answers: “k.d. lang.” “Rose.” “I don’t know.”

Atkins is wearing a red Angels In America T-shirt from Soulpepper’s recent revival in which he played the central role of Prior Walter in a devastating performance that will surely earn him another Dora Award nomi­nation next spring. (He’s already got two statues.)

Occasionally he tosses off an aside in a guttural Aussie accent

– he moved from Australia to Edmonton at three. But mostly he’s serious, diplomatic, charmperformed by Damien Atkins, ing and – a quality he shares Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir, with the best actors – incredibly directed by Ashlie Corcoran. vulnerable. No surprise to audiPresented by the GHP Collective ences who have seen him in in association with Buddies in shows like Real Live Girl, The Bad Times (12 Alexander). PreGlass Mena­gerie and The Imviews from Sunday (November portance Of Being Earnest.

17), opens November 21 and “I’ve always thought vulnerruns to December 8, Tuesdayability was part of the job,” he Saturday 8 pm, matinees Satursays a few days later at the Refday-Sunday 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. erence Library’s ground-level 416-975-8555, café. “My favourite actors – ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Brent Carver, Nancy Palk, Mi­ chelle Monteith, Seana McKenna, Kristen Thomson – can all express that. I think acting is learning how to cultivate empathy, being awake in the world and having compassion.”

I’ve asked to meet in a place that has history for him. When Atkins first moved to Toronto from Edmonton, in 1996 – he’d just performed in Canadian Stage’s Into The Woods and thought he’d try the city for a year – he came to this library every day to

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study scripts and leaf through files on theatre companies like Shaw and Stratford, to pore over old programs, lists of actors and reviews and articles. His goal back then was to work at the Shaw Festival, which he did for a season.

“I was so frightened by the city I could barely walk,” he says.

“But I’m practical and believe in hard work. I made sure I had seven monologues ready – two for Shaw, two for Stratford, two Canadian pieces and one other contemporary work.”

You want a sense of his ambition and work ethic? When he decided he was ready to do an Oscar Wilde play, he set up a pitch meeting with Soulpepper’s Albert Schultz in which he cast himself as The Importance Of Be­ing Earnest’s Algernon and sug­gest­ ed who in the company could play the other roles. Eventually he got an audition and won the role. Ditto Angels In America, which he calls “the richest, most beautiful ex­per­ience of my life. Albert gave me the biggest gift anybody’s ever given me.”

That time he didn’t have to audition.

The Tony Kushner play has special significance for him because it was one of the works – Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart and Randy Shilts’s And The Band Played On were the others – that convinced him, at age 17, to come out in Edmonton.

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Atkins is no stranger to queer work. His first theatrical calling card was his solo show Miss Chatelaine, about a young prairie boy’s gay upbringing juxtaposed with events in k.d. lang’s life. He did the Fringe circuit with it and mounted it several times in Toronto. Later on, he questioned gender roles and stereotypes in the musical solo Real Live Girl.

But he’s never wanted to be pigeonholed. He started off in musicals, then went to Stratford to learn how to do Shakespeare. While there, he wrote the play Good Mother, starring Seana

McKenna, to prove he could write more than solo shows.

“I’ve always known I had to chart my own course,” he says over a hot chocolate. “All of my career has been about defining myself and not letting anyone else do it for me. I’m a character actor. And the joy of being a character actor is resisting definition.”

Even so, he’s candid about how TV and film can be limiting.

“If you do a good funny gay character, they want you to do it over and over,” he says. “You can get into sticky situations when the writ-

ing’s not good. I auditioned once for a role in which a really smug gay guy gets verbally abused over and over. I had no desire to sit there and be called a bunch of names people called me in high school.”

But he also admits there are creative people in the business who cast him in non-stereotype parts. He’s played his fair share of rapists.

“Apparently people look at my face and think, ‘He doesn’t look like a rapist,’ so therefore I’d be good as one.”

And in the film Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley hired him to play a bitchy aquafit instructor.

“You could infer that the character was gay, but to me it didn’t matter if he was gay or not.

He was an asshole. That’s how I played him, anyway.”

He has strong feelings about homophobia in the theatre community, and in The Gay Heritage Project he’s written a scene – which may not make it into the final version – chronicling what he hates about being a gay actor.

“Many people still think that gay actors can’t play straight parts,” he says. “You never hear that straight actors are too straight to play certain roles. If you’re gay, there’s this belief that you have intrinsic behaviours you can’t overcome, even though we are actors and acting is what we do.

“Now,” he continues, “I have less of an issue if you want to say someone’s too effeminate to play a part, or they have a feminine energy. You can work on that for an audition, try to bring out different qualities. If you tell them they’re too gay, there’s nothing they can do. And that’s enraging.”

When I ask why he thinks revivals of plays like The Normal Heart and Angels have been so successful here and in the U.S., he gets philosophical.

“Both those works came out of the heart of darkness, in the midst of the AIDS epidemic,”

“I auditioned once for a role in which a really smug gay guy gets verbally abused over and over. I had no desire to sit there and be called a bunch of names people called me in high school.” he says. “I think it takes a long time for a community to turn and face the chasm and start to recover. Now we can look back and think, ‘Okay, where are we now? What has happened? What still needs to be done?’”

During the run of Angels, he was shocked by the people who asked whether it was a period piece and questioned its relevance.

“We don’t question what’s still relevant about The Glass Menagerie,” he says. “It’s a classic and very much of its time, and yet it’s so deftly written that it reveals larger truths. What’s the difference with Angels? I think there’s something homophobic about that question. Yes, the face of AIDS has changed, but it hasn’t gone away.

Two million people die every year because they can’t afford AIDS drugs.”

He’s got a busy 2014, starting with Canadian Stage’s production of the edgy musical London Road, continuing with a piece he’s developing with Crow’s about his interest in UFOs, and then the Factory adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Beatrice & Virgil. And Soulpepper just announced an Angels return in the summer.

While he’s doing very well professionally and personally (he’s been with his Gay Heritage Project co-creator Kushner for more than five years), he’s also learning to think in broader terms.

“Although there is autobiography in The Gay Heritage Project, it really is more about locating the self in a larger body, about seeing more fully our community and trying to honour some of the diverse elements in it,” he writes me later in an email to clarify a point.

“Keeping awake to everything that is wrong in the world might make you an angry person, but I think it also reminds you to care about people other than yourself, it keeps the ego in check and opens the door to a kind of grace.”3 glenns@nowtoronto.com | @glennsumi

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New show mines social justice issues By JON KAPLAN THE SACRIFICE ZONE by Suzie Miller, directed by Jacquie P.A. Thomas, with Ciara Adams, Joel Benson, Pam Patel, Michelle Polak and Michael Spence. Presented by Theatre Gargantua at Factory Theatre Studio (125 Bathurst). Opens tonight (Thursday, November 14) and runs to November 30, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees November 16 and 30 at 2 pm. $22-$25, stu $19. 316-504-9971.

Theatre productions are often unveiled after being rehearsed for only a few weeks.

That process doesn’t work for Theatre Gargantua artistic director Jacquie P.A. Thomas, who for the past two decades has averaged a show (she calls each a cycle) every two years, with intensive workshops and rewrites along the way.

The company’s 10th work, The Sacrifice Zone, is a collaboration with Australian/British troupe The Uncertainty Principle, led by Suzie Miller, who wrote the piece about the personal and societal aftermath of a disaster in an industrial town where natural resources are mined.

While the mining company apologizes for the accident and offers compensation to those affected by it, two workers, each of whom lost a partner, demand a full inquiry and refuse the money.

“I met Suzie two years ago, when we were both observing Robert Lepage’s

company in Quebec,” recalls Thomas, a recent recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. “When I talked about my intention to create a show about social justice, she told me she was a human rights lawyer. It was a bit of worlds colliding, and we decided to collaborate.”

Over the next while, there were a number of workshops, both in Canada and Australia; the time difference between the countries meant Skype calls had one of them up very late or very early.

“Gargantua’s process is a collective one,” explains the director. “We throw ideas into the centre of the group, swish them around and see what comes out. We often start with personal stories and anecdotes, which gives the company a strong relationship to a production.

“Sometimes the stories may literally be worlds apart but bring up the same issues. For example, performer Ciara Adams taught music in Fort McMurray, and her memories of life in an oil sands town was one of the elements that fed into The Sacrifice Zone.

“Costume designer Sheree Tams’s family was from a Welsh mining community, and her relatives were run out of town when one of them was blamed for an explosion that caused several deaths. The tragedy shut down the mine and the town.”

But stories aren’t the whole tale.

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MOSS PARK by George F. Walker (Green Thumb Theatre). At Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace (16 Ryerson). To November 16. $15-$32.50. 416-504-7529. See Continuing, page 72. Rating: NNN

George F. Walker’s new sequel to his 1993 young adult drama Tough! drops in on 20-somethings Tina (Haley McGee) and Bobby (Graeme McComb) two years later to find them separated, still struggling with poverty, but now negotiating a possible reconciliation.

It’s not Walker’s darkest or most profound play, but his signature gritty realism and knack for finding absurd hu-

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mour in desperate situations is ably delivered in this quick 65-minute blast.

Like Tough!, Moss Park takes the form of an extended discussion between Tina and Bobby as they hash out their hopes, fears and dreams to determine if there is any way to make their relationship work.

For Tina, who’s taking care of their two-year-old daughter, Holly, and also facing eviction from her mother’s lowrent apartment, their relationship chances are a matter of numbers: can Bobby – carefree and seemingly unemployable – get serious about adulthood and land a stable job that earns enough to cover rent, utilities and food every month?

McGee is fascinating to watch; her painfully self-aware character oscillates

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Gargantua’s Jacquie P.A. Thomas prefers the “slow-cooker method” of making theatre.

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Physicality and design are as important as text in a Theatre Gargantua show; all the elements engage the audience’s imagination.

“Music, movement and visuals – both the set and the use of multimedia – are tools we use to shape the narrative and fill in the blanks. Sometimes they support what’s being said, sometimes they intentionally subvert it, but they all work toward connecting viewers viscerally with the material.”

And what does the title mean?

“It resonates in several ways,” says Thomas. “The phrase refers to a neighbourhood next to a toxic site where the environment is being destroyed and so, on a number of levels, are the

people who live and work there. But there’s also the idea that all the characters are questioning what they’re willing to sacrifice for what they want in life.

“That line of tolerance becomes more lenient, I think, when the stakes grow higher.”

All these aspects of a production can only intensify in what Thomas calls “a slow-cooker method. Ideas need time to settle, be tried out and grow, and sometimes we toss out our initial thoughts. There’s no substitute for that kind of development and support to dig in and find out what we really want to say about a topic.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

Graeme McComb and Haley McGee struggle with adulthood in Moss Park.

between condescendingly seeming “so over” Bobby and his foolish antics and vulnerable moments when lust and love get tangled and confused with her economic need for his companionship.

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Theatre Collective). This take on Strindberg’s play about class, sex and gender roles sets the piece in post-WWII England. Previews Nov 14.

Opens Nov 15 and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10-$20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. redonetheatre.com.

ANNIE (TYA) by Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (Young People’s Theatre). The red-haired orphan seeks a place to call home in this musical. Opens Nov 14 and runs to Dec 29, see website for schedule. $22-$35. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

HEAVEN ABOVE, HEAVEN BELOW by Linda Griffiths (Theatre Passe Muraille/Duchess Productions). Two decades after dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a man and woman run into each other at a friend’s wedding. Previews Nov 14-16. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Dec 7, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

IS HE DEAD? by Mark Twain (Amicus Productions). An artist fakes his death to get out of debt in 19th-century Paris. Opens Nov 14 and runs to Nov 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Nov 23) 2 pm. $22, srs $20, stu $18. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. amicusproductions.ca.

LES ZINSPIRES 2.0 (Théâtre français de Toronto). Shows written by high school students and performed by pros will be presented in French with English surtitles. Nov 20-22, Fri and Wed 7 pm. $25, youth $18, limited pwyc Wed. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

MATURE YOUNG ADULTS by Wesley J Colford (Aim for the Tangent Theatre). Ex-lovers reunite in the park in this play about love in the Facebook generation. Previews Nov 19. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 24, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat

cingly come across as a slow-witted loser, but that’s a slight flaw in this otherwise very realistic production.

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for emphasis; an extended pause near the play’s midpoint is held to just the right length to let the preceding fireworks resonate.

Contributing to the realistic rendering of the Moss Park neighbourhood is a great set by designer Martin Conboy that uses a chain-link fence to constrain the characters to the front quarter of the stage, materially mirroring the invisible social and economic barriers they both face. Bits of garbage – a discarded mattress and a wooden loading pallet – nicely symbolize the modest goals of a home and a job so frustratingly out of reach.

While it might not stand with his most celebrated works, Moss Park is an enjoyable hit for Walker junkies jonesing for a fix, and a worthwhile think piece for the high school crowd.

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When their formidable 55-year-old mother, Bernice (Karen Robinson), tells them she has early Alzheimer’s, the three Trimble children react in different ways. Extroverted oldest sibling Sara (Lucinda Davis) angrily calls for a second opinion. The quiet youngest, Peter (Peyson Rock), quickly slips away.

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her mom, complaints about her bossy, baby-obsessed sister and the occasional contrived passage comparing her family to orbiting pla­nets. This latter material seems less about a character’s interest in science than a playwright’s desperate need to give her play symbolic or metaphysical weight.

Gordon is given so much to do – telling us backstories, setting up scenes and literally mixing the ingredients of yet another overbaked symbol – you’d think there’d be a character for her to play. Iris works as a temp and seems to like it. What made her avoid long-term commitments? Who knows?

The actor brings an energetic cheerfulness to the part, but that never brings Iris into focus. Davis is marginally better as the alpha sibling, and Rock gives a quiet dignity to his scenes.

But it’s Robinson who anchors the play with her scenes depicting Bernice’s steely pride and unfaltering will. One particular episode at a party will wrench your heart.

Philip Akin does what he can with the script, making good use of Camellia Koo’s imaginative set dominated by two towering shelves filled with Bernice’s beloved salt and pepper shaker knick-knacks. And he uses Andrew Smith’s lighting design to hint at areas outside of Bernice’s kitchen.

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Sat-Sun 4 pm. $15, preview pwyc. Videofag, 187 Augusta. ­aimforthetangent.com.

Oberto, Conte Di San Bonifacio by Giuseppe Verdi (TrypTych). A story of jealousy, revenge and betrayal is performed in Italian with projected translation. Nov 16-17 at 7:30 pm. $35, srs $25, stu $10. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2737 Bayview. 416-970-2709, ­tryptych.org.

Othello by William Shakespeare (Go Play Producing). This gender-swapped version of the classic tragedy looks at what would happen if women held all the power. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 24, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu $10. Zuke Studio, 1581 Dupont. ­goplayproducing@gmail.com.

Picasso At The Lapin Agile by Steve Martin (Trinity College Dramatic Society). Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein discuss the art of physics and the physics of art in a 1904 Paris bar. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 23, WedSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15, stu $10. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. u ­ ofttix.ca.

Pieces Of Me (A New Musical) by Deon Denton (Promise Productions). A seemingly perfect marriage starts to crack. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32.50, srs $27.50, mat $20 adv or pwyc at the door. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, ­promiseproductions.ca.

Play Reading Week (Tarragon Theatre).

Works in progress by Diane Flacks, Anna Chatterton, Maria Milisavljevic and others get staged readings. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm. Free. 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. 416-531-1827, ­tarragontheatre.com.

Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare BASH’d). The company presents their stripped down, immersive adaptation of the classic tragedy. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Nov 23, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 4 pm. $15-$20.

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3030 Dundas West. ­shakespearebashd.com.

A Room Of One’s Own adapted by Patrick Garland (Bloomsbury Collective). This interactive production lets the audience explore the world of Virginia Woolf. Previews to Nov 14. Opens Nov 15 and runs to Nov 24, WedSat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. aroomofonesown.ca.

The Sacrifice Zone by Suzie Miller (Theatre Gargantua/The Uncertainty Principle). Issues of responsibility arise as two people deal with loss and the consequences of their pursuit of justice (see story, page 69).

Opens Nov 14 and runs to Nov 30, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 16 and 30 at 2 pm. $22-$25, stu/ srs $19. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio.

416-504-9971, ­theatregargantua.ca.

Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare (Jaybird Productions). An all-female cast performs the classic comedy. Opens Nov 14 and runs to Nov 30, Thu-Sat 8 pm (except Nov 30 at 2 pm), Sun 2 pm. $20-$22, stu/srs $13-$15.

1803 Danforth. j­aybirdproductions.ca.

Winners And Losers by Marcus Youssef and James Long (Crow’s Theatre/Canadian Stage/Theatre Replacement/ Neworld Theatre). Youssef and Long perform a staged converstaion and play a game that looks at capitalism and its impact on relationships (see story, page 71). Opens Nov 14 and runs to Dec 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, ­canadianstage.com.

You Said Love by Noah Davis (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective). Two couples blur the lines between friendship, love and lust. Previews Nov 19. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20. Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, #5. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

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WINNERS AND LOSERS created and performed by Marcus Youssef and James Long, directed by Chris Abraham. Presented by Crow’s Theatre/Theatre Replacement/ Neworld Theatre at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Opens tonight (Thursday, November 14) and runs to ­December 8, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, ­matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm, SaturdaySunday 2 pm. $22-$49. 416-368-3110, ­canadianstage.com.

It’s the kind of game you might play on a long road trip to stave off boredom: one person names a person, place or thing, and the other determines if it’s a winner or a loser.

Devised by Vancouver-based wri­ ters/actors Marcus Youssef and James Long, the game provides the structure for their rapid-fire 90-minute “staged conversation” where they attempt to slot everything from microwave ovens to Goldman Sachs to Rob Ford into one of those two categories.

Some­times consensus is instant, but more often disagreement launches poi­gnant, personal and far-ranging de­bate.

“The game started off as a writing warm-up exercise that Marcus and James would play while developing a show,” explains director Chris Abraham, who’s squarely in the “winner” category thanks to his Dora Award and Sim­i­novitch Prize wins this year.

“But they soon realized that the warm-up game was more interesting than the script, and it became the show.”

After debuting last year in Vancou­ ver, Winners And Losers has racked up piles of praise across Canada and Europe for the way their simple backand-forth provokes deep questions about our Manichean political discourse and the zero-sum nature of capitalism.

“Is human competitiveness natural or cultural? Is it good or bad for us?

The show asks us to look at these questions,” explains Abraham. “The other

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thing we’re exploring is this recent cultural tendency to deal with complexity by reducing it to binary categories of winner and loser. Does competition taken to its logical extreme end in genocide?”

However, the show is not about sim­ply shoving the idea of competition into the “loser” category.

“A countervailing argument in the show is that if love isn’t taken out of the equation, competition can actual­ ly be incredibly creative.”

While the subjects debated change every night based on what the actors want to discuss or feel will resonate with the audience, consis­tent dyna­ mics and features that Abraham helped craft give the performance a dramatic build.

“The show has random and improvised elements, but it’s not very different from the work I’d normally do directing, say, Shakespeare. There are increased risks as the play develops; there’s an evolution that brings the top­ics of discussion closer to the bone.

In rehearsals we talk about character, about intensions, actions, playing things for real, obstacles – sometimes I even had to play referee.”

Abraham admits that the constant intellectual sparring has taken a toll on the two actors.

“It requires a certain mental and spiritual hygiene for them to endure performing this show. Inevitably, one of the consequences is a kind of intimacy, but callouses get built up, too.

It’s a complicated show to live with for both of them. Part of what is so moving is that they constantly pro­voke each other to be more truthful about themselves. I think that’s one of the biggest challenges, sitting across from someone night after night who’s committed to holding your feet to the fire.

“They’re risking their sanity, and sometimes it’s my job to remind them of the line between fiction and reality.”

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Aladdin by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman,

Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin (Disney Theatrical Productions/Mirvish). A sultan tries to get his hands on a magical oil lamp in this musical.

Previews to Nov 20. Opens Nov 21 and runs to Jan 5, 2014, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh (A Lasting Dose

Productions). Sexual awakening and jealousy threaten the relationship of two misfit teens.

Previews Nov 20 at 7 pm. Opens Nov 21 and runs to Dec 1, Thu-Sun 7 and 9 pm. $20. Oz Studios, 134 Ossington. 416-576-3178, ­brownpapertickets.com.

The Gay Heritage Project by Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn and Andrew Kushnir (The GHP Collective/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). The creators explore the notion of gay heritage. (See cover story, page 66.) Previews Nov 17-20. Opens Nov 21 and runs to

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One-Nighters Comedy In Canada: Who’s Laughing Now?

(The Company Theatre). This funder features Colin Mochrie, Jonny Harris, Jayne Eastwood and host Seamus O’Reagan. Nov 18 at 6:30 pm. $150. Aird & Berlis, 181 Bay, suite 1800.

416-568-2466, companytheatre.ca.

Lunacy Cabaret – Party Animals (Zero Gravity Circus). Clown, circus, comedy, burlesque and more. Nov 16 at 9 pm. $20-$25. Centre of

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Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. lunacycabaret.com.

Opérafest (Atelier S). This evening features arias, scenes and ensembles from the repertoire of Grand Opera. Nov 15 at 8 pm. $25-$30, stu/srs $20-$25. First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair W. 416-927-9105, atelier-s.org.

Continuing Alligator Pie (Soulpepper). Lee’s clever rhymes and insightful stories spring to ñ life in this delightfully tuneful, infectious pro-

duction, featuring Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross, whose fine chemistry and music-making on recognizable and found instruments will delight audiences of any age. You’re sure to walk out of the show with a big smile on your face.

Runs to Dec 1, see website for schedule. $23, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, ­soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) The Chosen adapted from the book by Chaim Potok (TEATRON Theatre). Two boys from different Jewish backgrounds become unlikely friends after a bitter baseball game between their two schools. Runs to Dec 1, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio. ­teatrontheatre.com.

Dirty Butterfly by Debbie Tucker Green (Bound to Create Theatre/Obsidian Theatre). An abused woman lives in a London tenement between two neighbours: one listens voyeuristically to the violence, the other becomes angry with the woman for her acceptance of the situation. A fine cast and Jack Grinhaus’s meticulous direction make this emotionally demanding tale an absorbing hour of theatre, one that touches on many emotional notes and ends with the possibility of change. Runs to Nov 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki S ­ tudio Theatre. ­boundtocreate.com.

NNNN (JK) Donors by Brandon Crone (safeword). A sperm donor meets his 18-year-old son, then more kids surface. Runs to Nov 17, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $18. Hub 14, 14 Markham. secureaseat.com/donors.

The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Tarragon Theatre/TheatreRUN). This adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella makes inventive use of a double bass (played by musician Arif Mirab­dol­baghi), a screen and three bearded actors to tell the story of a lowly government clerk (director Adam Paolozza) who sees a more attractive, outgoing and successful doppelgänger supplanting his life. It’s rich in theatricality and humour, with some sequences recalling a superb vaudeville or Looney Tunes routine. Runs to Nov 24, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, ­tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (GS) Evil Dead – The Musical by Christopher Bond, George Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris (Starvox Entertainment/Jeffrey Latimer Entertainment). The homegrown musical based on the splatterific cult horror films gets a 10th anniversary production that’s chock full of intentional stupidity and silliness. Excessive mugging mars the first act, but there are lots of surprises (and better songs) in act two. Ryan Ward reprises his role as the stiff, chainsaw-wielding Ash. And the directors have found some inventive ways to illustrate fake stage blood. Runs to Dec 22, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7 and 10:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $19.99-$79.99. ­Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. e ­ vildeadthemusical. com. NNN (GS) Exmas by Debbie Deer (Nicole Pena). Exes from different backgrounds and sexual orientations learn that they are all connected at an epic Christmas dinner. Runs to Nov 24, Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $18, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

FireWorks (Alumnae Theatre).

Plays by Norman Yeung, Joan Burrows and Shirley Barrie are presented, plus playwright talks and roundtables. Runs to Dec 1, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20/show, pass $50; some pwyc shows. 70 Berkeley. ­alumnaetheatre. com.

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help (see review, page 70). Runs to Dec 1, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23-$45. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre. ca. NN (GS) An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (George Brown Theatre School). A politician is caught between private shame and public scandal in this social comedy. Runs to Nov 16, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12 stu $7.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, ­youngcentre.ca.

Journey’s End by RC Sherriff (The Empty Room). This drama tells the story of Allied soldiers on the front lines in 1918 France. Runs to Nov 24, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. The Artisan Factory, 116 Geary. ­journeysend.eventbrite.ca.

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (Unit 102 Actors Co). The Roman emperor is brought down by his senators. Runs to Nov 30, WedSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, mat pwyc. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. ­unit102theatre.com.

Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). This 25th-anniversary production of the popular musical is dominated by Ramin Karimloo, whose ex-con Jean Valjean grows in complexity and depth and delivers some transcendent moments, even if he’s too young to pull off the final scenes. He’s surrounded by lots of talent and a handsome production that’s majestic yet intimate, with stirring new orchestrations that add extra fire to this dramatic musical. Runs to Feb 2, 2014, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) Moss Park by George F Walker (Green Thumb Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille). A young couple with a baby struggle to make ends meet (see review, page 69). 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. NNN (Jordan Bimm) 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.

Table Manners NNNN; Living Together NNN; Round And Round The Garden NNNN (JK) The Session by Tien Providence (Things Fall Apart Theatre). A young woman is forced to undergo a psychiatric assessment and relive memories. Runs to Nov 17, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. thingsfalling­apartevents.wordpress.com.

The Stronger Variations (Theatre @ York). A physical version of Strindberg’s play about a meeting between a wife and a mistress. Runs to Nov 16, daily 7:30 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $17, stu/srs $12. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio. 416-736-5888.

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). The romantic comedy gets a staging. Runs to Nov 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 23 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9788849, u ­ ofttix.ca.

The Valley by Joan MacLeod (Tarragon Theatre). A freshman drops out and returns home after a traumatic arrest in this drama.

Runs to Dec 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragon­theatre.com.

The Woman In Black by Stephen Mallatratt (Lower Ossington Theatre). An estate lawyer tries to exorcise demons from a case involving a mysterious widow. Runs to Dec 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $39-$49.

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Dana ­Gingras’s New ­Animal takes flight at the ­Enwave.

Al Khaima Arabesque Dance Studio presents

12 belly dance soloists performing in an Arabian tent. Nov 16 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 1 Gloucester. 416-920-5593, arabesquedance.ca.

CoexisDance 58 presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Nov 16 at 8 pm. $10. Array Space, 155 Walnut. ­coexisdance.wordpress.com.

Danzas Sagradas Ritmo Flamenco Dance & Music Ensemble and Harbourfront NextSteps present dance inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, choreographed by Anjelica Scannura. Nov 1516, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $25-$30. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Hi-Fi Dancemakers presents dance inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring, created and performed by Xenia Benivolski, Robert Abubo, Benjamin Kamino, Ellen Furey and others. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Nov 24, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 ­Trinity, studio 313. ­dancemakers.org.

New Animal DanceWorks and Harbourfront NextSteps present choreography

by Dana Gingras featuring the 605 Collective reclaiming their animal bodies in order to become human. Nov 15-16, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $18.75$37.25. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. ­moonhorsedance.com.

Ryerson Dances Ryerson Theatre School presents works by Louis Laberge-Côté, Marie Josée Chartier, Apolonia Velasquez, Ofilio Portillo and Vicki St Denys, performed by ­students. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Nov 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18, stu $14.

Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-9795118, ­r yersontheatre.ca.

The Tea Room Sisters of Salome present a belly dance showcase with live music and more. Nov 15 at 7 pm. $20-$40. Dominion on Queen, 500 Queen E. shakemyday.com/SOS. A Tribute To Menaka Thakkar Menaka Thak­kar Dance Company and Nrtyakala – Academy of Indian Dance present an evening of celebration, tribute and performance.

Nov 16 at 7:30 pm (reception from 6 pm). $40$65. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Numbers KOKUS Productions presents a dance-theatre piece about a girl’s journey through WWII and the Holocaust. Nov 15-17, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. ­numbersproduction.com.

woman trapped in a constructed room, in a world of shifting rules. Runs to Nov 17, ThuSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu $20, Sun pwyc.

The Citadel, 304 Parliament. a ­ delheid.ca.

Swan Lake The National Ballet of Canada presents James Kudelka’s choreography of the Tchaikovsky ballet. Runs to Nov 17, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu, Sat and Sun 2 pm. $25-$244. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-3459595, national.ballet.ca.

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Thursday, November 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Ward Anderson

and Allison Dore w/ host Matt Watson. To Nov 17, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

BEERPROV: THE DRAFT Jim Robinson presents up-and-coming improvisers competing in elimination games. 9:30 pm. $12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/BeerProv.

COMEDY AT THE SISTER Funny 820 and Junction Brewery presents Judy Croon, Sandra Shamus, Matt Disero and Derek Edwards. 9 pm. Pwyc.

The Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

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EDDIE IZZARD: FORCE MAJEURE WORLD TOUR WestBeth Entertainment presents

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Nov 16, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $45-$74. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, ­masseyhall.com.

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.

KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly show. 9 pm.

Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

THE MCCOMEDY SHOW: OBLIVIOUS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Michael McLean and Shannon McDonough w/ guests Paul Bellini, Shelley Kidwell, Marilla Wex, Lola Drewery & Angela Maiorano-Thurston. To Nov 15, Thu-Fri 7 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com/event/502882.

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.

THE SCOTTISH SHOW Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents Allan J Park, Des McLean and Patrick Rolink. 8 pm. $13. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, ­yukyuks.com.

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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 ON TOUR Rose Theatre presents Fresh Princes Of Brampton w/ Keith Pedro, Ali Rizvi Badshah and Jazz Mann. 8 pm. $25. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, ­rosetheatre.ca.

Friday, November 15 Absolute Comedy See Thu 14.

BEERPROV: MAIN EVENT Jim Robinson presents

the monthly improv competition. 10:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/ BeerProv.

CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure World Tour

See Thu 14.

THE MAIN EVENT Top Shelf Comedy presents a

pro headliner and supporting acts each week.

9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. ­facebook.com/TopShelfComedy.

The McComedy Show: Oblivious See Thu 14.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 14.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Derek

­ eguin. To Nov 17, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun 8 S pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Saturday, November 16 Absolute Comedy See Thu 14.

Eddie Izzard: Force Majeure World Tour

See Thu 14.

IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING Gilda’s Club

ñGreater Toronto presents a comedy and music benefit w/ Colin Mochrie & Brad Sher-

wood, Nikki Yanofsky, ­Jessica Mitchell, Dr Eugene Draw, host Ron James and others. 7:30 pm. $50-$300. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, ­itsalwayssomething.ca.

MATT BRAUNGER Empire Comedy Live presents the actor/comic in a live standup show. 8 & 10:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­empirecomedylive.com.

MOVEMBER TO REMEMBER 905 Productions present a benefit for the Movember Foundation featuring Niles Seguin, David Mesiano, Barry Taylor and Joel Buxton. 10 pm. $15. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. ­stachelaughs.com.

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PERFECT 10 COMEDY PRESENTS: THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Perfect 10 presents Sandra

Battaglini, Faisal Butt, Nick Reynoldson, Monty Scott and Daniel Woodrow. 9:30 pm. $15$20. The LOT Comedy Club, 100 Ossington.

­facebook.com/events/650258661661466.

THEATRESPORTS FALL TOURNAMENT Bad Dog Theatre presents the popular improv competition. To Dec 14, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. ­Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­baddogtheatre.com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 14.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Fri 15.

Sunday, November 17 Absolute Comedy See Thu 14.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein

presents Vanessa Purdy, Megan Myke, Matt Collins, Rachel Resnik, Sam Feldman, host Jennifer McAuliffe & others. 8 pm.

Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

JUICE CUP: AFRICA VS. THE WEST INDIES Ritz Caribbean ñ Foods presents a comedy battle w/

Arthur Simeon, TRIXX, Jay Martin, Jean Paul, hosts Mark Strong & Jemeni and others. 9 pm. $40 $ up. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. ­juicecomedytoronto.com.

LADY TAPES COMEDY SHOW Comedy Bar

presents stand-up comics Jess Beaulieu, Catherine McCormick and Natalie Norman doing

a live comedy taping. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

THE PLAYGROUND Playful Grounds presents weekly open-mic comedy w/ hosts Kris Siddiqi and Melissa Story. 9 pm. Free. 605 College. 416-645-0484, ­playfulgrounds.com.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly show w/ guests. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. t­ hesketchersons.com.

A VERY SKETCH DAY Sketchy the Clown presents a 12-hour comedy marathon in support of Cedar Row Farm Sanctuary w/ host Sketchy, Adam Bailey, Winston Spear, Gord Oxley, Amy Lester, Rachelle Elie, Joel West and others. From noon to midnight. $5. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. ­cedarrow.org.

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Colin Mochrie takes part in two funders, It’s Always­Something on Nov 16 and Comedy In Canada on Nov 18.

Monday, November 18 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Mark Forward, Casey Corbin, Bryan Hatt, ñ Barry Taylor, Monty Scott, Jon Steinberg, Dan Bingham, Massimo, MC Matt O’Brien and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests.

9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

COMEDY IN CANADA: WHO’S LAUGHING NOW? The Company Theatre presents a ñ funder w/ Colin Mochrie, Jayne Eastwood,

Jonny Harris and host Seamus O’Reagan. 6:30 pm. $150. Brookfield Place, 181 Bay, Aird & Berlis, Suite 1800. ­companytheatre.ca.

IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents 10 comics, a pro headliner and rotating hosts every week. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, ­imperialcomedy.com.

THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Katharine Ferns, Ben Bankas, the Birch Street Crooners, Interrobang! and host Filip Jeremic. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­facebook.com/TheJokeboxComedyLounge.

THE TOURNAMENT Top Shelf Comedy presents an amateur comic competition decided by audience votes, plus a pro comic pre-show & headliner. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. ­facebook.com/TopShelfComedy.

Tuesday, November 19 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.

FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents a stand-up show w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. ­juliacomedy.com.

LES IMPROBABLES Supermarket presents a biweekly show with competitive improv comedy en français. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416840-0501, ­ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com.

THE OTHER DOPE SHOW Vapor Social presents weekly open-mic stand-up. 9 pm. $5. 896 College. 647-765-4422.

SKETCH COM-AGGEDON The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the preliminary rounds of the sketch competition, featuring 48 troupes. To Nov 21, Tue-Thu 8 & 9:30 pm. $8-$12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­torontosketchfest.com.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

SPOOKEY RUBEN’S DIZZY PLAYGROUND LIVE!

Hi-Hat Recordings presents a stage version of the TV show w/ Spookey’s live band, sketch comedy, videos and more. 9 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. spookeyruben.net.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 14.

THE WILD CARD Fox & Fiddle presents a mixed lineup of booked pros and random lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every week. $4/ show. 224 Richmond W. y­ ukyuks.com.

Wednesday, November 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Evan Carter, Alex Brovedani, JJ Liberman, Jill Knight, Sean McKiernan, Xerxes Cortez and host Todd Van Allen. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up with rotating hosts Joel Buxton, Mikey Kolberg, DJ Demers, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Steve Patrick Adams & Jordan Foisy. 9:30pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com.

QUEER AS FUCK Host Catherine McCormick presents a biweekly LGBT open mic, w/ Laura DiLabio, Shannon McDonough, Christi Olson, Brian Finch, Robby Hoffman and others. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor W. facebook.com/groups/507494629324893.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Hannah Hogan and headliner Jennifer McAuliffe. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

Sketch Com-Aggedon See Tue 19.

THE SPOTLIGHT Top Shelf Comedy presents a weekly show. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. f­ acebook.com/TopShelfComedy.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 14.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Graham Chittenden. To Nov 23, Wed-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Vondra 79 comes across as part farce, part horror.

PAINTING

Vondra vaunted Nudes are idiosyncratic in good ways By DAVID JAGER KAREL VONDRA at Jet Fuel Coffee

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Jet Fuel is a fitting rock ’n’ roll venue for this retrospective of the enigmatic paintings of Karel Vondra, a Czech émigré who came to Hogtown in the 70s. It comprises nearly 30 paintings he produced feverishly in the last 35 months, arranged on the shop’s signature red walls in the order in which they were created.

Vondra fixates on nudes, stretched and contorted against receding backgrounds of hallucinatory geometric patterns. The figures are sinewy, rendered with an almost impasto earthiness in a dark, smudgy palette. The backgrounds, however, are all glossy, shimmering fields that could be imprisoning or framing their subjects.

The wealth of influences is equally disorienting. The mannerism of early Lucian Freud and Otto Dix informs the figures and their often grotesque posturing, but at the same time they have a dreamlike aloofness that re-

calls surrealist painter Paul Delvaux.

Their framing in highly abstracted surreal mazes is equally unsettling but contributes to their palpable energy. They resemble media figures unleashed on digital screens: nearly real but awash in invisible tension.

This is evident in the show’s most ambitious painting, Vondra’s untitled variation on Manet’s Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe. The central female nude retains her serenity but is holding

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO David Bowie Is, to Nov 27 ($30, srs $26.50, stu $21.50, Wed 6-8:30 pm $15). ñ Theaster Gates, artist’s talk 7 pm Nov 20 ($20,

stu $17). Aimia Photography Prize, to Jan 5.

Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Wael Shawky, to Dec 1. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Playing Favourites II: Geometry (Textures), to Jan 3. $10, stu/srs $8.

234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Nurielle Stern, Nov 14-Jan 5. Faience, to Jan 5. Animal Stories, to Jan 12. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s

books STORIES

Douglas Glover always pushes the envelope. Every story in Savage Love is outrageous, creating farce – and something beautiful – out of human foibles.

Sexual passion features prominently, no surprise given Glover’s lusty preoccupations. The title story is an entertaining portrayal of a love tri-

angle in which two men can’t resist competing with each other.

Shameless, the story of a teenage girl’s obsession with a butcher’s son, turns into a meditation on pornography, violence and serendipitous sex. Pointless, Incessant Barking In The Night, the last story and one of the best, is a rollicking tale of infidelity and redemption.

In Glover’s world view, love can be very dangerous. A boy in Crown Of Thorns becomes so hopelessly in thrall to his babysitter that his mental health suffers. And many of the stories put lovers in perilous situations.

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WHEN BROTHERS SPEAK Spoken word with Taalam Acey, Andrew Tyree, Ian Keteku and others. 8 pm. $37-$57. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, stlc.com.

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Glover doesn’t shy away from brutality either. Opener Tristiana is an operatic tale of two mid-19th-century lovers who become serial killers after they survive a devastating winter freeze. Call it Natural Born Killers After The Snowstorm.

But even when his characters behave appallingly, Glover keeps a light touch. The exception is A Flame, A Burst Of Light, about the terrible wages of the War of 1812, which seems not to belong in the collection.

The rest of these stories have either a needling quality or the elements of a comic romp. The Lost Language Of Ng is a hilarious all-out send-up of academic values, complete with fake footnotes.

The inventive language makes everything – even the ludicrous Uncle Boris Up In A Tree, about a way dysbrary, 40 Orchard View), 7 pm (Taylor Library, 1440 Kingston). Free. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, November 20 SUSAN DELACOURT 7 pm. North York Central

art@nowtoronto.com

bon 14: Climate Is Culture, to Feb 2.$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; Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art., to Dec 15. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Farandole: Western Canadian Métis Culture, to Nov 17. The Art Day Project, Nov 20-24. Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Jan 12. Telling Stories, to Apr 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism, to Mar 8. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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LAUNCHING THIS WEEK Bad-boy culture vulture R.M. Vaughan has been speaking – and writing – his mind for years, whether as a playwright for Buddies in Bad Times or an art critic for the Globe and Mail. He’s outraged people – specifically about an exhibit in Antwerp by artists from Vancouver – to the point where one hater in an email compared him to Hitler. That explains the title of his essay collection, Compared To Hitler ($21.95, Tightrope), which covers everything from the iconic Vazaleen underground parties to the biases of most critics, all from Vaughan’s unique queer point of view. He launches the book Wednesday (November 20) at Buddies. See Readings, this page. SGC functional family, and A Paranormal Romance, an exercise in speculative fiction – believable. Some paragraphs are so gorgeously vivid, I wanted to read them twice. The micro-stories in the middle of the book strike me as incomplete flashes of brilliance Glov-

er couldn’t bring himself to discard.

But the rest of the tales are riveting.

This is the kind of audacious work our literary juries should be acknowledging. Where were they on this one?

SUSAN G. COLE Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

THURSDAY, NOV. 21 7:30PM 231 Queens Quay West Toronto

Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639.

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GARRY THOMAS MORSE/DANIEL CANTY AND OANA AVASILICHIOAEI/LOLA LEMIRE TOSTEVIN

undercurrent of sheer terror.

A serene nude of our embattled mayor, Rob Ford, is positively indescribable.

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ANNE MICHAELS AND BERNICE EISENSTEIN 1:30

TODD BABIAK 12:30 pm (Northern District Li-

Saturday, November 16

7 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. talonbooks.com.

HARSHA WALIA Book launch. 7 pm. Free.

Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-921-0368.

Launch with David Bezmozgis, Anne Michaels, Sang Kim and others, plus dinner. 6:15 pm. $60. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. Reserve

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Something More Than A Succession Of Notes, to Dec 20. 7 Hart House.

416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN Kim Dorland, to Jan 5.

Karine Giboulo, to Jan 26. $15, stu/srs $12.

10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA David Cronenberg: Transformations; Through The Eye, to Dec 29. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT More Than Two; Micah Lexier, to Jan 5. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM Mesopotamia, to Jan 5 ($27, srs/stu $24.50; Fri after 4:30 pm $23, srs/stu $20).

Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12. BIG, to Jan 26. Car-

Tuesday, November 19

CHERCOVER Reading. 6:15 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

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Park. 416-586-8080.

pm. $25 sugg. Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. Pre-register 416-504-8222 ext 243.

TOTALY UNKNOWN WRITERS FESTIVAL Non-fiction stories by new writers. Doors 6:30 pm. $5/pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

RM VAUGHAN Launching his book Compared To Hitler in a discussion with Russell Smith and others. 7 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

ALAN WEISMAN 7 pm. $15-$35. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca.

THE STORIES THAT ARE GREAT WITHIN US Book

launch with Austin Clarke, Barry Callaghan, Katherine Govier and others, plus dinner. 6:15 pm. $60. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. Reserve the.exile.writers@gmail.com.

an iPhone, while a male figure, also nude, reclines, his head nearly erased in a violent way reminiscent of Francis Bacon. A showgirl in a large cocktail glass replaces the emergent female figure in the background of the original. It would all be farcical if it didn’t also contain an

ART INTERIORS Festival Of Smalls, to Dec 24. 446 Spadina Rd #203. 416-488-3157.

BAU-XI Painting: Hugh Mackenzie and Steven Nederveen, to Nov 23. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600.

COOPER COLE Drawing: Marc Bell, to Nov 30. Painting: Todd James, to Dec 7. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

DIVISION GALLERY Mixed media: Nicolas Baier, to Dec 21. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082.

GALLERY 44 Photos: Tyler Hagan, to Nov 23. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

GALLERY HOUSE Truth, Light & Matter group show, to Nov 23. 2083 Dundas W. GALLERY TPW Video: Wu Tsang, to Nov 16, artist’s talk/screening 7 pm Nov 17. 1256 Dundas W. 416-645-1066.

KOFFLER GALLERY We’re In The Library group show, Nov 19-Jan 19, reception 5-9 pm Nov 19. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 416-636-1880.

MARK CHRISTOPHER Photos: Bart Synowiec, Nov 15-Dec 20, reception 7-10 pm Nov 15. 1594 Queen W. 416-705-3052.

MERCER UNION Photos: Geoffrey Farmer, to Jan 14. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: William Fisk, Nov 14-Dec 14, reception 6-8 pm Nov 14. 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

PAUL PETRO Janet Morton and Amy Bowles, Nov 15-Dec 21, reception 7-10 pm Nov 15. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

RED HEAD GALLERY Mixed media: Gillian Iles, to Nov 30. 401 Richmond W, unit 115.

416-504-5654.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX David Cronenberg: Evolution, to Jan 19 ($15, stu $12, Tue $5). 350 King W. 416-599-8433.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Painting: Olivia Boudreau, to Dec 22. Painting: Annie Macdonell, to Nov 17. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

TYPOLOGY PROJECTS Video: Lyla Rye, Nov 19-Dec 14. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw.

Reading/Interview AMY TAN (USA), The Valley of Amazement Interviewer: Eleanor Wachtel

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SHORT TERM 12

ñ(Destin Daniel Cretton) Rating: NNNN Expanded from his 2008 short, Destin Daniel Cretton’s terrific first feature is a powerful, deeply felt character study of a young therapist (Brie Larson) at a California facility for disturbed children whose own issues come rushing to the surface when she meets a particularly troubled new intake (Kaitlyn Dever).

Cretton creates a dramatic environment that’s fraught with emotional tension, but doesn’t milk it; the explosions of feeling seem natural rather than calculated, the result of totally believable interactions between the adults and the kids.

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Brie Larson and Keith Stanfield tackle tough issues with truth in the powerful Short Term 12.

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Director used his experience working at a facility for at-risk kids to make his feature debut By NORMAN WILNER they were cool; they were things I heard from the mouths of people who had gone through them or knew somebody who had gone through something like them.”

Cretton and his actors make those events Destin feel not just authentic but electric and alive Daniel in Short Term 12. There’s an immediacy that Cretton feels almost disturbingly intimate, as if we’re glimpsing things too private to be shared.

“I’m more interested in creating an authentic scene, a truthful scene,” he says. “I mean, everything in this movie hinges on the performances, so I just feel so lucky as a director to have found this cast. Somehow, even with only three weeks to cast, we found one perfect person for every [role].”

Cretton is just as impressed with the work of veteran actors like Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr., “who’ve been acting their whole lives,” as he is with relative newcomers like Kaitlyn Dever and Keith Stanfield, who play the aforementioned Jayden and Marcus.

“What I was most impressed with was how empathetic they were toward the real people their characters were representing and the real situations our movie was representing,” he says. “They wanted to find that truth. So there weren’t any director tricks going into it. It was just talking about the real emotions their characters were going through.”

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SHORT TERM 12 written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton,

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Destin Daniel Cretton has spent a long time living with the characters who populate his directorial debut, Short Term 12.

The Hawaiian-born writer/director first tackled the combustible mixture of personalities and emotions at a California facility for at-risk kids in 2008, in a short film inspired by the two years he spent working at a similar institution.

“That experience was life-changing on so many levels, and something that just stuck with me until this day,” Cretton tells me a few days before Short Term 12 has its Toronto premiere at the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival.

“I went to film school after working there, and that was my way of organizing those questions and experiences I had.”

After the short won the jury prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Cretton set to work developing the material as a feature, interviewing other people who’d worked at similar facilities to better structure a larger narrative.

“I asked them to tell me stories – whatever came to mind – and a lot of those became [character] storylines,” he says. “The Marcus storyline was taken straight from a story somebody told me; the Jayden storyline was a combination of different stories. They’re not things that I just made up because I thought

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TOP 5 MOVIES ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE AND MENTAL ILLNESS

Here are a few other fine movies about young adults facing serious therapy time.

1. IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (2010) 2. ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980) 3. AGNES OF GOD (1985) 4. THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (2012) 5. SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961) See expanded article at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY

Revolutionary architect Jan Gehl explores what urban landscapes could look like by 2050, in this critical examination of the way we build and use our cities.

Insightful and hilarious, Alan Zweig’s award-winning film surveys the history of Jewish comedy, exploring what it means to be Jewish. Director Q&As— Friday, November 15 & 16.

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Witness how humans are drawn to water in this visually-sumptuous film directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. Director/producer Q&A—Saturday, November 16.

Voted #1 by audiences at Hot Docs 2013, Muscle Shoals explores a tiny town in Alabama to see how it turned Mick Jagger, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Bono and more into stars.

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Jewish comic Shelley Berman will make you laugh... and then cry.

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WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY (Alan Zweig).

90 minutes. Opens Friday (November 15).

For venues and times, see Movies. page 80. Rating: NNN

Geoffrey Rush, Sophie Nélisse, Brian Percival Actors and director, THE BOOK THIEF Brian Percival is talking Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nélisse about his new movie, The steal some time Book Thief, when he’s inter­ together in The rupted by his actors. Geof­ Book Thief. frey Rush, the genial Austra­ lian star of Shine and The King’s Speech, has fumbled review his way into the interview THE BOOK THIEF (Brian Percival) suite because ­Sophie Rating: NN Nélisse, the 13-year-old Que­ The Book Thief reframes the Second becois who broke out in World War as a coming-of-age story about a young German girl. It’s a great 2011’s Monsieur Lazhar, is idea on the page – specifically, in wearing his glasses.

Markus Zusak’s experimental young After a moment of fussing, adult novel – but it doesn’t work nearly everyone is seated and set­ as well onscreen.

When we first meet her in 1938, tled in to talk about the mov­ ie, a World War II drama told 10-year-old Liesel (Monsieur Lazhar’s Sophie Nélisse) is illiterate and from the perspective of a traumatized, newly arrived at the young German girl (Nélisse) home of childless couple Hans and her adoptive parents, (Geoffrey Rush) and Rosa (Emily Watson). Over the next six years she Hans (Rush) and Rosa learns many things about good and (­Emily Watson).

The key relationship in the film is the bond between Sophie’s and Geoffrey’s characters Liesel and Hans. Did you two rehearse heavily before shooting, or find it in front of the cameras?

GEOFFREY RUSH Before shooting it was probably only 10 days to two weeks.

SOPHIE NÉLISSE Yeah.

RUSH But that’s pretty standard.

Mostly you do the scenes you can do because they’re set in a room or whatever – you can’t do her arriving in a car. You can talk about that and

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evil, a number of them from the sickly young Jewish man (Ben Schnetzer) Hans and Rosa are hiding in their basewent.

The problem is in the resolutely mass-market execution, which insists on treating this brutal period in German history as a delicate fairy tale.

Director Brian Percival has helmed a lot of Downton Abbey episodes, and it shows in The Book Thief’s odd propriety, where the bombing of a city street results in rows of unblemished corpses. A movie about the Holocaust can’t be afraid of confronting its own NW message.

what it means, but they make much more sense when you’re actually on the backlot and you’ve got snow and you’ve got a car and you’ve got background people.

But you shot a lot of the quieter, confined material in Hans and Rosa’s house first.

RUSH We were [shooting] in the kitchen for, like a month, so when we went on to the street scenes, it was kind of refreshing to find out that other dimension to the town, because we were just looking at our family.

Liesel ages seven years over the course of the film, going from child to teenager. Sophie made The Book Thief at 12. How do you sell that transformation?

BRIAN PERCIVAL When she was doing a scene where she was 10, she acted like a 10-year-old, and when she’s doing a scene where she’s 15, she acts like a 15-year-old. That was quite remarkable. That’s just Sophie playing that, that’s not me saying “Oh, she should do this that way.” It’s all Sophie.

NÉLISSE That was so fun to play, because I could do it in all these different styles – my clothing and my hair. I think when I had to play 10 or 13 I would just act younger, how I acted two or three years ago, or even how my sister acts [now]. And then when I act 16... I think when you’re young, you wanna be older, so you just imagine yourself older.

RUSH I remember going into the makeup van, even before we started shooting, and Soph had already done her makeup and camera tests and everything. And they had a little chronology of the looks, because her hair length became a kind of good visual motif. In two hours you’re jumping from 1938 to 44 or something. And I found it remarkable. It [started with] a 10-year-old girl and then we suddenly saw the story and at the end she looked 16, like a young woman. Great actress.

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In this survey of North American Jewish comics, T.O. filmmaker Alan Zweig isn’t really sure of his themes. Is it about whether Jews define American humour, what makes Jews funny or where Zweig himself fits in now that he’s married a non-Jew? Even his subjects appear baffled by his mission, many of them asking some variation on “What did you say this movie is about?”

Whatever its mandate, it’s mainly a film about male Jewish comics. Of his scores of subjects, only two are women, and Judy Gold hammers away

at that sexist chestnut, her horrible Jewish mother. Where’s Sarah Silverman, Sandra Bernhard, Fran Drescher?

If you can dredge up archival stuff on Jackie Mason, you can find footage of Joan Rivers.

And too bad Zweig couldn’t land interviews with the heavy hitters of his own generation – Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Gary Shandling.

Still, When Jews Were Funny is a very entertaining survey of guys who know funny, compelling enough to take the Best Canadian Feature award at TIFF 2013. Howie Mandel, Mark Breslin and David Brenner, for example, are very smart, and almost all of them get laughs.

Especially fascinating are the interviews with older pros Norm Crosby, Jack Carter and Shelley Berman, all of whom deny their humour is Jewish.

Then Berman sings an old Yiddish song that’ll make you verklempt. SUSAN G. COLE

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Gary Entin’s Geography Club might not be the edgiest look at coming out and acceptance in high school, but its sweet spirit captures the feel and tone of Brent Hartinger’s young adult novel.

Clean-cut sixteen-year-old Russell (Cameron Deane Stewart) seems to be falling for Kevin (Justin Deeley), the school’s star quarterback. When Min (Ally Maki) catches them kissing, she secretly invites Russell to something called the Geography Club, which turns out to be a gay and lesbian support group with a dull name to discourage others from joining.

Things get complicated after Russell’s best friend, Gunnar (scene-stealer Andrew Caldwell), drags him on a couple of double dates with girls. And then Kevin persuades Russell to join the football team so they can hang out without anyone questioning their friendship. Once he’s popular, will Russell deny his new queer friends?

The film takes a soft approach to bullying and internalized homophobia, but Entin never resorts to caricatures.

The characters react to situations believably, the outsiders aren’t all saintly, and the adults and antagonists are credible.

The one disappointment is that even with Stewart (who was in Pitch Perfect), Glee’s Alex Newell (who’s got a great running gag about being bisexual) and Hairspray’s Nikki Blonsky in the cast, there’s no musical sequence. We all know gays like big production numbers, GLENN SUMI right?

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film festival reviews

European Union Film Festival

Calvin And Hobbes comics ­continue to attract new readers.

documentary

Fan letter Dear Mr. Watterson (Joel Allen Schroeder). 89 minutes. Opens Friday (November 15). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNN Alcan Highway goes the distance at EU Film Fest.

Sampling Europe’s best There are no breakthroughs, but this year’s lineup is decent By NORMAN WILNER European Union Film Festival

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from tonight (Thursday, November 14) to November 27 at the Royal Cinema.

Subtitled. eutorontofilmfest.ca. See Indie & Rep Film, page 90. Rating: NNNN

Every autumn, the European Union Film Festival takes over the Royal for two weeks, offering Toronto audiences a sampling of cinema from every country on the Continent – and Ireland, too. All non-English films are subtitled, and admission is free, first come first served.

This year’s slate doesn’t appear to have a must-see TIFF title like The White Ribbon or A Prophet, or even last year’s alluring Byzantium, but there are some enjoyable selections.

In dry German comedy Oh Boy (Friday, November 15, 6:30 pm), disaffected law school dropout Niko’s (Tom Schilling) entire world collapses around him in slow motion. He’s broke, his driver’s licence is suspend­ ed and he can’t get a decent cup of coffee anywhere… and those are just the first woes of his day. The blackand-white cinematography and di­ rec­tionless urban-millennial prota­ gonist might suggest a Teutonic

Fran­ces Ha, but writer-director Jan Ole Gerster has other angles to explore.

From Finland comes the documen­ tary Alcan Highway (Saturday, November 16, 4:30 pm), director Aleksi Sal­menperä’s engaging portrait of Hese Tonolen, a fiercely inde­pendent Finn determined to drive an aging truck and Airstream trailer from ­Ala­ska to Vancouver. It premiered at Hot Docs earlier this year, so if you missed it there, catch up now.

Belgium’s Bullhead is a strong entry.

Michaël R. Roskam’s Bullhead (No­ vember 23, 9 pm) might seem familiar; it was Belgium’s foreign-language Oscar submission in 2011, losing to A Separation, and has been available on disc for a while. But it never got a Toronto theatrical run, meaning this could be the last big-screen shot for

Matthias Schoenaerts’s tour-deforce performance as a steroidshooting cattle farm­er whose sordid deal with the “hormone mafia” leads him into a world of hurt.

Not all the selections are winners, mind you. This year’s Netherlands film, Jackie (November 22, 8:30 pm), has the distinction of being one of the worst movies I saw at last year’s Toronto Film Festival – an achingly saccharine family drama about twin sisters (Black Book’s Carice Van Hou­ten and her real-life sister Jelka) who travel from Holland to America when a woman (Holly Hunter) in a New Mex­ico hospital is identified as their birth mother.

A textbook example of laissezfaire European commercial cinema, Jackie employs every cliché in the book, shamelessly stealing from Rain Man and Thelma & Louise without understanding either.

About a third of the way in, I realized that Hunter’s surly, snappish performance would be just as convincing from Tommy Lee Jones in a shag wig. This is not a compliment. normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision

Dear Mr. Watterson declares itself in its title: Joel Allen Schroeder has made a fan letter to cartoonist Bill Watterson disguised as a documentary.

Watterson, whose Calvin And Hobbes may be the most beloved newspaper strip since Peanuts, doesn’t often give interviews and never makes public appearances, so Schroeder’s celebration of his work and legacy pairs hundreds of images of Calvin and his quantum tiger pal with suitably appreciative interviews with such illustrious fans as Bloom County’s Berkeley Breathed, Fox Trot’s Bill Amend and The K Chronicles’ Keith Knight.

The first half is very awkward: Schroeder gets his subjects to narrate the action of their favourite strips, reading out panels himself or illustrating what they’re saying through onthe-nose graphics like an image of a Calvin strip turning into a postage stamp during a digression on the reduction of newspaper comics pages.

On a trip to the library in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Watterson’s hometown, Schroeder flips through old editorial cartoons with an archivist and marvels at the brush strokes.

But the doc springs to life once Schroeder takes himself out of the piece to investigate Watterson’s re­ fusal to license his characters and insistence on focusing exclusively on the daily strip. And the final movement, in which numerous cartoonists interpret the beautifully simple way Watterson ended the strip, feels just about perNORMAN WILNER fect.

dystopian drama

Teen troubles How I Live Now (Kevin Macdonald). 101 minutes. Opens Friday (November 15). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

Rating­: NN Twilight-style forbidden romance meets Red Dawn populism in this tonally inconsistent teen-oriented dystopian drama from Britain.

Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), a sullen American teenager with OCD, arrives in the English countryside to spend the summer with her step-cousins when a nuclear attack throws the country into chaos, separating them all. Her love for the eldest son ignites her desire to reunite with them.

It gets off to a subtle enough and at times almost poetic start, but only scattered moments of genuine suspense punctuate the carpet bombing of teen and war movie clichés. Both the romance and the world-building are half-baked, and the captivating Ronan can’t do much to salvage the material. The script lecherously dwells

Saoirse Ronan doesn’t look pleased to be in How I Live Now.

on her incestuous relationship and has her deliver an overly petulant interior monologue.

Director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland) shows a baffling desire to mix gritty realism (piles of dead bodies, point-blank shootings, implied rape victims escaping their vaguely ethnic captors) with ludicrous dream sequences of shirtless hunks.

The film wants to be serious, but its survivalist narrative runs aground on a tawdry romance ickier than the apocaANDREW PARKER lypse it’s portraying.

also opening The Best Man Holiday

Jackie, starring Carice Van Houten, employs every cliché in the book.

(D: Malcolm D. Lee, 120 min) The characters from Malcolm D. Lee’s solid 1999 flick The Best Man reunite for the holidays, bringing up old rivalries and romances.

Opens Friday (November 15). Screened after press time – see review November 15 at ­nowtoronto.com/movies.

Morris Chestnut (left), Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau and Terrence Howard are home for the Holiday.

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Chris Hemsworth gets set to pound the box office competition again in Thor: The Dark World.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), John Semley (JS) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 88.

About Time (Richard Curtis) is another of

Curtis’s sappy, what-a-wonderful-world romantic comedies, only now the goofy guy (Domnhall Gleeson) who falls for a lovely American (Rachel McAdams) has the ability to travel back within his own lifetime to do things over as he sees fit. 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.) 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 about the filmmaker’s machinations than perhaps he intends. 123 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñAll Is Lost

(J.C. Chandor) may not break new cinematic ground for the survival thriller in the way Gravity does, 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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All The Wrong Reasons (Gia Milani) is

an East Coast analogue to the everybodyhurts multi-character dramas of Vancouver’s Carl Bessai, following 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 new 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 one another, but writer/director Milani takes two full hours to play out a story that could fit into a short film. 119 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Marc Webb) gives the franchise a fresh start, though the key story points are still the same: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is imbued with the speed and strength of a spider after an encounter with a genetically enhanced arachnid, and driven by tragedy to become a superhero. At two and a quarter hours long, it could stand to lose 20 minutes, or add 20 more, but Garfield and Emma Stone make this Spider-Man feel pretty amazing indeed. 136 min.

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The Best Man Holiday (Malcolm D. Lee) 120 min. See Also Opening, page 79.

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(Abdellatif Kechiche) tracks university art student Emma’s (Léa Seydoux) multiyear relationship with high schooler Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos). The big buzz surrounding this Palme d’Or winner centres on the protracted sex scenes, but there’s more going on here than a whack of lesbian erotica. Kechiche shoots in intense close-up, showing people eating, showering, weeping (chronic crier Adèle is a mess of bodily fluids) in what turns out to be a unique, in-your-face exploration of intimacy and sensuousness. And it’s as much about what happens when an artist partners with someone who lacks similar aspirations. Emma works toward success as a painter, while Adèle is happy to become an elementary school teacher, to Emma’s increasing dissatisfaction. Both Seydoux and Exarchopoulos – who received a dual acting award at Cannes – are superb, and, yes, the sex is plentiful and hot. Let’s hope there’s no American remake. They’d wreck it. Subtitled. 179 min.

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ñBlue Jasmine

(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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The Book Thief (Brian Percival) 131 min.

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(Felix van Groeningen) is a curious combination of uplifting musical numbers and unapologetic misery porn, charting the progress of a musical Belgian couple’s relationship through dizzying highs and harrowing lows. Imagine Lars von Trier deciding to remake Once. Banjo player Didier (Johan Heldenbergh, who wrote the play on which the film is based) falls for Elise (Veerle Baetens), a tattoo artist with a golden voice. They fall into bed, then into a relationship; she joins the band, they get married and have a daughter. And it all goes to hell. Heldenbergh and Baetens are both fantastic, pushing themselves to uncomfortable places and letting us understand when they make terrible choices: a

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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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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A masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) dates her glam new client’s (Catherine Keener) ex (James Gandolfini) but doesn’t want to tell her in Nicole Holofcener’s edgy and beautifully written film.

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scene where Didier breaks down onstage is excruciating, as is Elise’s different but equally understandable loss of control during a hospital sequence. It’s heavy going – really, seriously heavy – but it’s worth it. Subtitled. 111 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass) stars

Tom Hanks in a fantastic performance as the eponymous skipper of the commercial vessel Maersk Alabama, which in 2009 was boarded by four Somali pirates who eventually took Phillips hostage in a lifeboat and led Navy warships on a slow-speed chase through the Indian Ocean. The actor invests a one-dimensional character with his own humanity and geniality; he gives a totally transparent performance that allows us to see when he’s blatantly lying to his captors while appearing outwardly helpful. And in the last five minutes of Captain Phillips, Hanks opens up to the camera in a way that feels almost uncomfortably intimate. The rest of the film is far more problematic, with director Greengrass applying the tense, jangled docudrama aesthetic of United 93 to another true-life hostage crisis. Some subtitles. 134 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

(Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn) is a merely okay sequel to the brilliant original. It’s visually lively and has laugh-out-loud moments, but the characters and story are flat and nothing here resembles the first movie’s surreal equation of food and shit. 94 min. NN (Andrew Dowler)

(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid1980s 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 approved. McConaughey, his body emacicontinued on page 82 œ

“A WONDER. EXCEPTIONAL, MOVING AND INTIMATE.

Honestly earns every bit of its emotional impact.”

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We were under the spell of the film and its WONDERFUL ACTRESSES.” ~

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WILL FLY A RAVISHING ROMANCE. Erotically-charged and emotionally daring…

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BEST and MOST FEARLESS Actress.” ~Richard and Mary Corliss

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IT’S UNFORGETTABLE.” ~Leah Greenblatt

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CARRIE (Kimberly Peirce) is what happens

when a director has no vision and a star gets no direction. So faithful a remake of Brian de Palma’s overheated 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel that it simply reuses huge chunks of Lawrence D. Cohen’s script, this Carrie trades de Palma’s hazy eroticism and explosive horror for a bland sleepwalk through the same material. As the neurotic wallflower who becomes a telekinetic fury, Chloë Grace Moretz does exactly what she did in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, forever looking outside the frame in the hope that someone will tell her what to do. And once Carrie turns on her persecutors, it’s all blank stares and wizard hands – a physical performance rather than an emotional one. What a pointless, bloody waste. 96 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Dear Mr. Watterson (Joel Allen Schroeder) 89 min. See review, page 79.

NNN (NW) Opens Nov 15 at Yonge & Dundas 24 Despicable Me 2 (Chris Renaud, Pierre

­ offin) has about 35 minutes of story and C an hour of frickin’ minion jokes. If you love watching little tubular yellow guys run around jabbering at each other and making fart noises, this will be your new favourite thing. If you’re me, you end up with a headache and a sense that the world hates you. I did appreciate the running gag about the guacamole sadness hat, though. 98 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

Diana (Oliver Hirschbiegel) has voracious

paparazzi, meanie royals, forbidden love and a main character who’s the most famous woman in the 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 Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews) is laden with clichés. “I’m a princess and I get what I want.” Really. Blame the director, too. When the ferocious media do descend, Hirschbiegel wastes the chance to make them terrifying and fails completely to convey Diana’s sense of being caged and harassed. The pacing is deadly, and way too

much time is spent 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. 113 min. NN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

The Disappeared (Shandi Mitchell) is a

modest-budget Canadian drama about men on the ocean, arriving on Toronto screens just in time to coast on the publicity around J.C. Chandor’s All Is Lost. Sadly, writer/director Mitchell’s project is a work of limited vision, both budgetary and drama­ tic, watching the disintegrating dynamic among six fishermen trying to reach shore in two dinghies after their boat goes down in the North Atlantic. She 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 onstage. But as a movie, The Disappeared is kind of a slog. 90 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Don Jon (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) stars

­ riter/director Gordon-Levitt as a porn-adw dicted stud who thinks porn is more exciting than the real thing – including Barbara (Scarlett Johansson, who’s terrific), his latest gorgeous but demanding conquest.

The script is sometimes super-savvy but it’s just a little too on the nose. Caution: tons of (non-explicit) porn clips. 90 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

Elysium (Neill Blomkamp) is virtually identical, plot-wise, to the director’s wildly overrated 2009 debut, and fans of District 9’s spectacular carnage and garbled political posturing will doubtless find this one even more meaningful and relevant and stuff.

The Phantom Menace still has its defenders, too. Some subtitles. 109 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

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ter And The Starship Troopers, a very expensive, very elaborately designed attempt to build a new super-franchise out of Orson Scott Card’s 1985 sci-fi novel about a gifted young boy (Asa Butterfield) chosen to save the world from an alien threat. But screenwriter/director Hood has no vision of his own, instead applying the grim aesthetic of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy to Card’s novel. We’re not allowed to enjoy or appreciate Ender’s ingenuity at winning a zero-gravity contest; we’re told his merciless calculation is Exactly What Humanity Needs. Imagine Nolan tackling The Hunger Games. You’d never get the comic relief that Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks or Woody Harrelson brought to it, which is desperately needed here. 113 min. NN (NW) 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

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an alt romantic dramedy about a masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who can’t reveal to her glamorous new client (Catherine Keener) that she’s dating the woman’s ex (James Gandolfini). It has all the qualities that make writer/director Holofcener so good: a great cast, complicated relationships and smart writing.

Louis-Dreyfus is surprisingly nuanced as the needy Eva, and fuhgeddabout The Sopranos – Gandolfini has a lovable charm as the schleppy ex. The always watchable Toni Collette is on board as Eva’s best friend. As in Please Give, Holofcener displays a clear eye for relationships between parents and teens, never using the kids as mere devices. And though she has taken a bit of the edge off the proceedings, her dialogue is as sly as ever. 93 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Randy Moore) turns Disney’s corporate

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 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale An Evening With Crystal Pite is a highdef broadcast of a dance program by acclaimed Canadian choreographer Pite. 91 min.

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The Family (Luc Besson) is a forgettable

and not very funny comedy carried by the charm of its stars and by director Luc Besson’s skills with camera and editor’s scissors. Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert 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. Some subtitles. 110 min. NN (AD) Interchange 30

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(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 stories to cram into 83 minutes, there’s no room for lots of detail. But the tales are beautifully edited and effectively shot.

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 informer hypothetically threatened by WikiLeaks’ revelations), the film is totally incompetent: sloppily framed and garishly lit, like an episode of Wizards Of Waverly Place. It has the quality of a bad TV movie rushed to capitalize on a zeitgeist it exhibits no trace of understanding. But with some luck, the scene of Cumberbatch as Assange shimmying in the neon light of a Reykjavik nightclub will find a more fruitful second life as an endlessly re-Tumbled animated GIF. 128 min. N (JS) Carlton Cinema, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Free Birds (Jimmy Hayward) finally brings audiences the inevitable talking-turkey CGI Thanksgiving comedy. Thankfully, it’s ac-

tually decent. Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson lend their voices to a pair of turkeys who travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving to take their ancestors off the menu. Pixar veteran Hayward and longtime Kevin Smith collaborator Scott Mosier deliver a surprisingly clever script packed with just enough silly slapstick for kids and pop culture references for parents to turn the dull concept into an amusing comedy.

It’s ultimately just family fluff, but at least it’s fun family fluff, and that’s really all you can ask from a talking-turkey picture. 91 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Generation Iron (Vlad Yudin) is a docu-

mentary about contemporary bodybuilding featuring the world’s top seven bodybuilders training for the title of Mr. Olympia. 106 min.

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(Gary Entin) 80 min. See review, page 78. NNNN (GS) Opens Nov 15 at Carlton Cinema

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(Ryan White) tracks Freda Kelly, who ran the Beatles’ official fan club through the band’s 11-year history while working as a secretary first for manager Brian Epstein and then for the Beatles themselves, never flaunting 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, cowritten with his son Jonás, is a triumph of psychological realism and narrative efficiency; there isn’t a wasted shot or an extraneous line of dialogue. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. One word of warning, though: even if you don’t have vertigo, the IMAX 3D version may well leave you with it. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queens­ way, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Griot (Volker Goetze) profiles Senegalese

singer and kora player Ablaye Cissoko, whose stirring collaborations with trumpet player Volker Goetze – the film’s director – have brought the griot’s musical and spiritual traditions to a global audience. Griot also serves as an 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. Subtitled. 82 min. NNN (Jose Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre

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Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson), Jenny (Amy Poehler) and Ranger (Jimmy Hayward) ruffle their feathers in Free Birds.

Grown Ups 2 (Dennis Dugan) is an excuse for Adam Sandler and his posse to loiter onscreen as adults playing hooky (art imitates life), milking money just by being present.

The jokes are aimless and contrived and often lack punchlines. Sandler could very well have scribbled this mess on the back of the cheque he received to produce a sequel, any sequel – just a movie with the number two in it, the same number of times you will laugh. 101 min. N (RS) Interchange 30

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(Margarethe von Trotta) tracks the fallout from political theorist Hannah Arendt’s (Barbara ­Sukowa) coverage of Adolf Eichmann’s trial.

She wrote that he didn’t know how to think and therefore couldn’t make moral choices, and suggested Jewish leaders may have collaborated with the Nazis. ­Sukowa gives a superb performance, and Janet McTeer is a delight as writer Mary McCarthy. Some subtitles. 110 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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) Interchange 30

Hotel Transylvania (Genndy Tartakov-

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, 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

sky) turns the overlord of the night into a nightmarishly overprotective father. Dra­ cula (voiced by Adam Sandler) throws a 118th birthday party for his daughter (Selena Gomez) at his monsters-only hotel. A backpacker (Andy Samberg) who stumbles upon the ghoulish guest house shakes things up. The film generates some laughs, but feels creepy for the wrong reasons: this Dracula isn’t merely ancient but conservatively old-fashioned. 91 min. NN (Kiva Reardon) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

How I Live Now (Kevin Macdonald) 101 min. See review, page 79. NN (Andrew ­ arker) P Opens Nov 15 at Carlton Cinema

The Human Scale (Andreas Dalsgaard)

offers reasons why major cities should shift to pedestrian-friendly design. Unfortunately, the doc itself is flat-footed, monotonously surveying rapidly growing cities and insisting that traffic should be detoured around city centres to create car-free Eurostyle social zones. There’s nothing wrong with the idea, inspired by architect Jan Gehl, of designing for people, not cars.

However, Dalsgaard’s lack of consideration for practical counter-arguments makes it far too easy for guys like Rob Ford to poke holes in the film’s arguments and ridicule its utopian goals. In its final act, the doc covers post-earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand, which aims to rebuild the city without high-rises, and suggests this could work elsewhere. Thing is, Christchurch has a population the size of Markham’s, which means the comparison, like so many in The Human Scale, carries very little weight. Subtitled. 77 min. NN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas) should appeal to sensitive literary teens going through a rebellious stage. In mid-1940s Manhattan, the lives of Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe), William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) are linked through charismatic charmer Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), who’s not a writer himself but knows how to inspire them.

Lurking in the background is David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall), a former teacher whose obsession with Carr leads to an act of violence that will change everyone’s lives. Krokidas and co-screenwriter Austin Bunn fail to find a clear perspective, and for all their characters’ talk about new art, the look of the film – and its approach to the era’s burgeoning queer scene – is pretty conservative. Radcliffe as Ginsberg feels like stunt casting, as does David Cross as his

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bouncing the pair from one effects scene to the next. The movie evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas. 105 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin Encore is a high-def broadcast of

the Met’s production of the Tchaikovsky opera, starring Anna Netrebko and Mariusz Kwiecien and directed by Deborah Warner.

244 min.

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poet father. But Foster is dryly amusing, and Hall gives the film some heart. Best is Elizabeth Olsen in the tiny role of Edie ­Parker. 103 min. NN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

Last Vegas (Jon Turteltaub) makes you

feel like you’re watching the Rat Pack cover Robin Thicke. Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline star in a bachelor-party comedy designed to capitalize on The Hangover’s success, with the added twist that the cast is – wait for it – old. And, yes, they’re pretty legendary, too. Douglas’s bachelor in his 70s staves off his mortality by marrying a girl less than half his age, the occasion for summoning his buddies to Vegas. The gags are as familiar and predictable as the routine in a seniors home; even the jokes have bunions. Yet the four Oscar winners make the most of the material. They’re so good at playing against each other, you can’t help wondering why they never worked together before and why they decided to do so now in a comedy that pays out as rarely as a slot machine. 110 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

Men In Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld) sends

Will Smith’s Agent J back to 1969 to save Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K from an alien assassin. Josh Brolin as the younger K turns out to be the movie’s best effect; he perfectly channels the cranky pragmatism that makes Jones’s performance so much fun.

The problem is that the script never gives him or Smith anything substantial to do,

(Greg Camalier) is about the musically inclined backwater town in Alabama that has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits.

They’re among the many who speak affectionately here about their time with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry. The interviews are woven together like music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. Soul aficionados will savour every beat. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, continued on page 86 œ

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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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Oil Sands Karaoke (Charles Wilkenson) focuses on five people employed in some aspect of the Fort McMurray oil sands industry who find a means of self-expression by singing at a karaoke bar called Bailey’s.

Some of them have been lured to the town by the promise of easy money, but they’re stuck in bleak or dull jobs and all of them are lonely. People come and go easily in Fort Mac, saving money to pay off debts or pursue their dreams elsewhere. Wilkinson cannily uses a radio DJ’s announcements to help structure the film, and he’s got a natural climax in a very modest karaoke competition (where the same DJ is MC). But not all the stories are equally gripping. 82 min.

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(Peter Lord) is as energetic and fearlessly goofy as anything to bear the stamp of England’s Aardman Animation, with an affable Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his jolly crew (including Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson and Anton Yelchin) sailing merrily through a series of inspired set pieces while lustily reciting some very silly dialogue. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Planes (Klay Hall) is a shameless Cars ripoff about a modest crop-dusting plane named Dusty Crophopper (voiced by comic Dane Cook) who dreams of being a competitive flyer even though he’s scared of heights. The clunky script feels like a first draft, and Cook communicates as little personality as his character’s bland design. 92 min. N (GS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) stars Hugh

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.

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Jackman as a Pennsylvania contractor who reacts to his daughter’s abduction by grabbing the most likely suspect (Paul Dano) and trying to beat the truth out of him.

Jackman’s entirely convincing as a righteous hothead, but Villeneuve’s unable to keep Prisoners from collapsing into overwrought, mildly preposterous contrivance. And there’s simply no reason this movie needed to be two and a half hours long. 153 min.

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Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Space Battleship Yamato (Takashi

­ amazaki) is an animated film about a Y space ship whose crew visits another planet to cure the ailing Earth. 136 min.

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Thanks for Sharing (Stuart Blumberg)

is a pleasant mainstream dramedy about sex addiction that follows three New Yorkers (Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad) who all attend the same support meetings.

The actors admirably try to capture their characters’ desperation and misery, but the movie isn’t really interested in that stuff. It wants everything to be a lot simpler. 112 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

Thor: The Dark World (Alan ­ aylor) is a very silly movie for all its T self-seriousness, which is why it works.

Director Taylor may not have the surprisingly graceful action sensibility Kenneth Branagh brought to Thor’s first solo outing, but he knows enough to stay out of everyone’s way, letting the actors play and the CG teams go wild depicting the universe-threatening danger that erupts on Asgard and Earth as evil elves seek to possess a destructive energy force that’s infected Thor’s mortal beloved, Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). The story is far less involving than the emotional stakes and the interplay between the characters; who’d have thought the Thor movies would be the most casually charming output of the Marvel Studios project? Chris Hemsworth continues to have sly fun underplaying Thor’s might, and the contrast of wee Portman with his brawny god continues to pay great visual dividends. And once again, Tom Hiddleston steals the picture as the unpredictable Loki, though this time Kat Dennings comes awfully close to stealing it herself as Jane Foster’s scrappy sidekick. Some subtitles. 112 min. NNNN (NW)

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Bowen) buries sincere ideas about modern love beneath frivolity, contrivance and outright foolishness. The trivial comedy, about intersecting couples re-evaluating their lives and partners, deals superficially with the challenges facing modern relationships.

There’s the middle-aged woman (a fine Amanda Tapping) who unleashes her fury on her young husband (Zak Santiago) for being a perpetual fuck-up. Then there’s the uptight, well-to-do couple (Robert Moloney and Ready Or Not’s Laura Bertram) whose affection for each other is as dry as yours will be for the film. Conversations between these couples and the single folks who orbit them rarely bother with real emotion or insight. Instead, the dialogue tries to be provocative and funny (it is not), earnestly mimicking the look-at-me writing of Diablo Cody, or worse, Paul Haggis. 88 min. N (RS) Carlton Cinema

Rush (Ron Howard) chronicles the

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ñ12 Years a Slave

(Steve McQueen) finds McQueen rebounding from the uneven Shame with this stunning adaptation of the memoir by Solomon Northup, a free American sold into slavery in 1841 and forced to spend more than a decade concealing his identity on a series of Southern plantations before he could contact his friends in the North. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a revelation as a man forced to conceal his intelligence and compassion – his very essence – in order to survive, and Benedict Cumberbatch and McQueen regular Michael Fassbender offer diametrically opposed performances as Nor­ thup’s masters over the years. Alfre Wood­ ard, Sarah Paulson and Michael Kenneth Williams make effective appearances, and producer Brad Pitt turns up as a good-natured Canadian. McQueen directs with a total lack of sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic nature of the narrative. One of the best films of the year. 133 min. NNNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Baltasar Kormákur) pairs Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as Texas gunmen who accidentally steal $43.125 million dollars of the wrong people’s money and must shoot a whole lot of bad guys to get themselves out of trouble. You can’t help but enjoy the ride.

Some subtitles. 109 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

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(Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky) feels very much like a continuation of Manufactured Landscapes, collaborators Baichwal and Burtynsky’s previous work, once again exploring the effects of human industry on the natural world – in this case, our oceans and rivers. Baichwal’s contemplative approach meshes nicely with Burtynsky’s fondness for finding geometric patterns in gargantuan constructions like dams and aquifers, and producer-cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier captures some splendid high-definition images. (Watermark may set a record for the most helicopter shots in a Canadian production.) Baichwal and Burtynsky cushion their potentially grim ecological message with philosophical digressions and moments of unexpected whimsy, which seems like an

awfully good idea right now. Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

We’re the Millers (Rawson Marshall Thur-

ber) takes a reasonably interesting idea – a low-level drug dealer (Jason Sudeikis) recruits a stripper (Jennifer Aniston), a runaway (Emma Roberts) and the weird kid next door (Will Poulter) to pose as his family so he can smuggle drugs over the border in an RV – and does as little as possible with it. And that’s a real disappointment, given the talent assembled. 110 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

When Jews Were Funny (Alan Zweig) 90 min. See review, page 78. NNN (SGC) Opens Nov 15 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Rainbow Promenade

ñThe Wolverine

(James Mangold) has Marvel’s darkest, broodingest superhero ping-ponging through an overwrought Japanese conspiracy involving ninjas, the Yakuza and an enormous adamantium samurai. Though the plot is bogged down by dizzying double crosses, the action is uniformly superb. A breathless melee atop the roof of a speeding bullet train and the late-in-the-game storming of a mountain village are memorably gripping. 126 min. NNNN (JS) Interchange 30 3

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­Cretton) 96 min. See interview and review, page 76. NNNN (NW) Opens Nov 15 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

The Smurfs In 3D (Raja Gosnell) is a bland

and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo’s comics and the 1980s animated series. The Smurfs themselves are dull and uninspired, as is the human cast, with the exception of Hank Azaria as the evil Gargamel. 103 min. NN (Andrew Parker) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Grande - Steeles,

(Haifaa Al-Mansour) tracks 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), who enters a Koran study contest so she can buy a bicycle with the winnings. The premise is sly enough – females aren’t allowed to drive in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia – and Mohammed is appealing as the young heroine, but Al-Mansour’s depiction of everyday Saudi life is what counts here.

Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

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ongoing rivalry in the mid-70s between two wildly different Formula One racers: the cold, cerebral Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) and the wildly charismatic 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. 123 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

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THE HUMAN SCALE (PG) Thu, Sat 1:30, 9:00 Fri 9:15 Sun 9:00 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Mon 9:15 Wed 8:30 WATERMARK (G) Fri 4:00 Sat 3:45 WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY (14A) Fri, Mon 6:30 Sat, Wed 6:15 Sun 3:30 Tue 3:30, 9:00

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Fri 7:00 Sat 2:00, 3:30, 5:30, 8:00 Sun 2:30, 4:30, 7:00 AWAITING ATWOOD Mon 7:00 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:25 THE DISAPPEARED Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00 DON JON (18A) Thu 1:45 Fri-Wed 4:20, 9:30 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Thu 1:20 4:05 6:55 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 ENOUGH SAID (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Sat, MonWed 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:10 Sun 6:50, 9:20 THE FIFTH ESTATE (14A) Thu 1:25, 6:40 GENERATION IRON (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:00 GEOGRAPHY CLUB (14A) Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:15 HOW I LIVE NOW (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:05, 7:05, 9:20 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 1:40, 3:55, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:35 LAST VEGAS (PG) Thu 1:45 4:15 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 OIL SANDS KARAOKE (14A) Thu 4:00, 9:00 RANDOM ACTS OF ROMANCE Thu 1:50, 6:50 Fri 1:50, 3:55 Mon 1:50, 3:55, 9:25 Tue-Wed 1:50, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25 REEL AWARENESS HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL Thu 7:00 RUSH (14A) Thu 3:55 Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:40 SUNLIGHT JR. Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:10 THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG) Thu 1:15 3:50 6:45 9:10 FriWed 1:15, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (PG) Sat 9:45 THE COUNSELOR (14A) 1:50, 4:50, 8:00, 10:50 Thu 12:50 3:35 7:40 10:50 Sat only 1:45 4:50 8:00 10:50 Mon only 1:50 4:50 8:00 10:45 Tue only 1:45 4:50 8:00 10:45 DON JON (18A) Thu-Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 8:55, 11:10 Sat 1:55, 4:20, 6:40, 8:55, 11:10 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 8:50, 11:00 Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:30, 8:45, 11:00 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 10:20 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 1:10, 2:20, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50, 11:00 Sat 12:10, 12:50, 2:25, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50, 11:00 Sun 12:10, 1:10, 2:20, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:20, 8:35, 9:50, 11:00 Mon 1:10, 2:20, 3:40, 4:40, 6:10, 7:20, 8:30, 9:50, 10:55 Tue 1:10, 2:20, 3:35, 4:40, 6:10, 7:20, 8:30, 10:30, 10:55 Wed 1:30, 2:10, 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30, 9:50 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Sat 10:00 LAST VEGAS (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 2:30, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:15 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 3:10, 5:15, 5:45, 7:50, 8:20, 10:15, 10:50 Sun 11:45, 1:40, 2:30, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:15 Mon 1:35, 2:30, 4:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Tue 12:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 2:20, 3:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15, 10:45 MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Sat 9:15 PRISONERS (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:40 Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:20, 10:40 RUSH (14A) Thu-Mon 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Tue 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 10:15 Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 THE SMURFS IN 3D (G) Sat 9:30 THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Mon 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:20 Tue 12:30, 3:15, 9:20 Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 THOR: THE DARK WORLD – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Wed 1:10, 3:55, 11:00 THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 1:00, 2:10, 2:45, 4:00, 5:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 8:45, 10:00, 11:10 Sat 12:00, 1:00, 2:05, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:10, 8:45, 10:00, 11:10 Sun 11:25, 12:00, 1:00, 2:10, 2:45, 4:00, 5:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 8:45, 10:00, 11:10 Mon-Tue 1:00, 2:10, 2:45, 3:45, 5:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 8:40, 10:00, 11:00 Wed 1:00, 1:40, 2:30, 3:40, 4:30, 5:30, 6:50, 7:40, 8:20, 10:00, 10:30

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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (R) Thu 12:05, 2:15, 3:35, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:00 Sun 2:00, 5:30, 7:05, 9:00 Mon 6:00, 8:20, 9:30 Tue 12:00, 2:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:00 Wed 12:00, 2:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (18A) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:05, 4:30, 10:30 Mon 9:45 Tue 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:20 SHORT TERM 12 (14A) Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:30, 6:45, 9:20 Mon 6:45, 9:15 Tue-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 6:45, 9:15 WATERMARK (G) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 4:00, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Sun 2:40, 4:35, 7:05 Mon 6:05 Tue 12:05, 2:30, 4:30, 4:50, 7:05 Wed 12:30, 3:00, 4:30, 7:05

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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (R) Thu 1:30, 5:15, 9:15 THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Fri 12:35, 3:30, 6:35, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 FriSun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:55, 5:00, 8:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45

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SHUTTER ISLAND (14A) Fri 9:00 Sat 6:45, 9:45 Sun 7:30, 10:15 Mon 2:00 Tue 9:45 Wed 1:30 THE SMURFS IN 3D (G) Sat 9:30 SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO Thu 3:40 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

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MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (14A) Fri-Sun 9:05 WADJDA (PG) 7:00 Sun 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Fri 7:00 Sat 9:05 Sun 4:30 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Fri 9:10 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 7:00 MUSEUM HOURS (PG) Thu 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 10:15 Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 10:10 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 AN EVENING WITH CRYSTAL PITE Sun 12:55 FREE BIRDS (G) Thu, Mon 1:40 Fri 12:50 Sat-Sun 12:00 Tue 1:20 FREE BIRDS 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 12:00, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Mon 3:50, 6:20 Tue 3:40, 6:20, 8:30 Wed 3:10, 10:30 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 7:40, 10:00 MonWed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 10:30 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:50 Sat 4:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 3:40, 9:30 Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 2:20, 5:05, 10:25 LAST VEGAS (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Mon 1:35, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 Tue 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 RUSH CLOCKWORK ANGELS TOUR (PG) Mon 7:30 THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:10, 8:00, 10:10, 10:50 Sun 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:40, 7:10, 7:30, 10:10, 10:20 Mon 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Wed 12:55, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:30

Metro

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 9:15 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 FREE BIRDS (G) Thu 4:50, 6:50 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:00 Wed 4:00 GRAVITY (PG) Thu 4:40, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:20 THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:50

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BLUE JASMINE (14A) Thu 11:45 Fri-Wed 11:30 THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (18A) Fri-Wed 6:05 THE DISAPPEARED Fri-Wed 2:40, 8:00 DON JON (18A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Wed 9:30 ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW (14A) Thu 9:35 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Fri-Wed 5:15 15 REASONS TO LIVE (14A) Thu 1:00 GOOD OL’ FREDA (G) Thu 2:30 Fri-Wed 11:15 GRIOT (PG) Thu 11:30 HANNAH ARENDT (PG) Thu 5:55 Fri-Wed 12:45 LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (14A) Thu 3:30 Fri-Wed 3:00 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:40 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:30 RUSH (14A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 7:20 THANKS FOR SHARING (18A) Thu 1:30 WADJDA (PG) Thu 5:45 Fri-Wed 1:15

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABOUT TIME (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Wed 12:35, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Thu 1:50 Fri, Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:10 Sat 1:25, 7:10 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 6:55 THE COUNSELOR (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 9:15 Fri-Sun 9:40 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Fri 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Sat 11:55, 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Sun 1:00, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Mon-Tue 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 4:00, 6:45, 10:35 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:25, 6:25, 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:45 Mon 1:45, 4:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 ESCAPE PLAN (14A) Thu 9:25 AN EVENING WITH CRYSTAL PITE Sun 12:55 FREE BIRDS (G) Thu, Sun 12:50 Fri-Sat 12:45 Mon-Wed 12:30 FREE BIRDS 3D (G) Thu 3:05, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Sun 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Mon 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Tue 12:55, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Wed 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 LAST VEGAS (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: EUGENE ONEGIN ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 PIPES & STICKS ON ROUTE 66 Thu 6:30 SAVING MR. BANKS Mon 7:30 THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG) Thu 2:55, 6:15, 9:05 Fri 6:30, 9:20 Sat 12:20, 3:10, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:25, 3:10, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Tue 12:20, 3:00, 6:15, 9:05 Wed 12:20, 3:00, 6:15, 9:05, 9:35 THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:25, 2:05, 3:35, 4:15, 4:55, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:35, 10:05, 10:35 Fri 1:00, 1:40, 2:20, 3:50, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 11:35, 1:40, 2:20, 3:50, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50 Sun 1:40, 2:20, 3:50, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50 Mon 12:55, 1:30, 2:05, 3:35, 4:15, 4:55, 7:15, 7:45, 10:05, 10:35 Tue 12:55, 1:30, 2:05, 3:35, 4:15, 4:55, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:35, 10:05, 10:35 Wed 12:40, 1:30, 2:05, 3:35, 4:15, 4:55, 7:15, 7:45, 10:05, 10:35 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 12:35, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 MonTue 12:25, 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 Wed 3:55, 6:55, 10:10

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (14A) Fri-Tue 1:05, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) 12:55, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25

88

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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 3:55 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:50 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:20 Free Birds (G) Thu 12:45 2:55 5:00 7:10 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 1:15 4:15 7:05 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Thor: The Dark World (PG) 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:35

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Ender’s Game (PG) 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 Free Birds (G) Fri-Sun 12:30 Free Birds 3D (G) 6:50, 9:00 Fri-Sun 2:30 mat, 4:40 Gravity 3D (PG) 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat Last Vegas (PG) 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:30 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:40 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:40, 10:20

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About Time (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 MonWed 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 The Best Man Holiday (14A) 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Fri, Sun, TueWed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 4:30, 6:40, 9:40 Mon 3:20 Ender’s Game (PG) Fri 3:50, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 1:05, 3:50, 7:35, 10:30 Sun 1:05, 3:50, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 An Evening With Crystal Pite Sun 12:55 Free Birds (G) 4:40 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 2:25, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sat 7:45, 10:15 Sun-Wed 6:55, 9:20 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin Encore Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:40, 6:55, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:00

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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 1:30, 3:40, 10:00 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:00 Sun-Wed 9:15 Free Birds (G) Thu 1:00 Fri 2:50 Sat 12:30, 2:50 Sun-Wed 1:10 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri-Sat 5:15, 7:45 SunWed 4:45, 6:55 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 Pipes & Sticks on Route 66 Thu 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 3:50, 4:35, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:10 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sun-Tue 1:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:50

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The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15

Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 12:45 3:50 6:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Fri 7:00, 9:35 Sat 6:50, 9:30 Sun, Tue 6:30, 9:15 Mon 6:30 Wed 10:35 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu, SunWed 1:00 Fri-Sat 1:50 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:30 Fri-Sat 4:20 Sun-Wed 3:45 Delivery Man (PG) Mon 9:30 Ender’s Game (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 11:25, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 9:40 Free Birds (G) Fri-Wed 12:30 Free Birds 3D (G) Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Gravity 3D (PG) Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Last Vegas (PG) Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:35, 6:35, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 Sat 11:45, 1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 5:20, 7:15, 8:10, 10:15, 11:00

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The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:20 Tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:10 Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Carrie (14A) Thu 8:15 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:40 Sun 2:10, 4:40 Mon, Wed 5:50 Tue 4:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 5:50 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:05 Fri-Sat 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Tue 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:00, 9:40 Mon, Wed 8:15 Free Birds (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:35 Fri-Sun 1:30 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 5:05, 7:45 Fri-Sun 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Mon, Wed 7:45 Tue 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 Tue 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:05, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:05, 8:00, 10:15 Tue 4:10, 8:15, 10:30 Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:30 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Tue 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:30 Fri-Sat 12:00, 1:15, 4:00, 5:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 4:00, 5:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:00 Tue 4:00, 5:30, 7:10, 10:00 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:20, 8:00 Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:00, 3:15, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 2:00, 3:15, 4:50, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:40, 7:15, 8:30 Tue 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:25

Escape Plan (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sun 10:45 Mon-Wed 9:35 Free Birds (G) Thu 1:25, 4:15 Fri-Sun 12:40 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:35 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:05, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 10:55 Sat 4:25, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 5:25, 10:30 Tue-Wed 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 Krrish 3 (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:40, 8:20 Fri 12:00, 3:25, 6:50, 10:30 Sat 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 3:25, 6:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 8:20 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Sun 12:15, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Mon 4:45, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin Encore Sat 12:00 Ram-Leela Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:35, 7:05, 10:40 Mon, Wed 4:30, 8:40 Tue 4:15, 8:10 Rush Clockwork Angels Tour (PG) Mon 7:30 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:25, 9:20 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 4:50, 5:30, 7:10, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:40, 2:15, 3:55, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:25, 8:05, 9:55, 10:20, 11:00 Mon, Wed 4:20, 4:50, 5:30, 7:10, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30 Tue 4:20, 4:50, 5:30, 7:10, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 10:40 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

All in All Azhagu Raja Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Sat 7:15, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:15 Arrambam 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Krrish 3 (PG) 3:30 Thu 6:30, 9:30 Pizza II: Villa Sat 4:00 Sun-Wed 10:30 Ram-Leela 6:30, 9:30 Fri 3:30 mat Sat-Sun 12:30 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:25, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 Sun 3:20, 6:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:05 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:55 An Evening With Crystal Pite Sun 12:55 Free Birds (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:45 Fri-Sat 2:25 Sun 12:00 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sat 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 12:45, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:35 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:20, 4:50, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:45, 1:40, 2:30, 4:40, 5:20, 7:00, 7:35, 8:10, 9:55, 10:30, 11:00 MonWed 1:30, 2:00, 4:25, 4:50, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:50

The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Sat 1:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sun 1:05, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Carrie (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu, MonWed 1:15 Fri-Sun 12:50 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:25 Fri-Sun 3:30 Mon 3:45 The Counselor (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 6:45, 10:00 Mon 6:30 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:05, 1:50, 3:55, 5:00, 6:45, 7:45, 9:25, 10:20 Fri, Sun 1:50, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 1:50, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:50, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Tue 1:05, 4:35, 7:45, 10:20 An Evening With Crystal Pite Sun 12:55 Free Birds (G) 2:05 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sun 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:40 Fri, Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:25, 5:20, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 12:10, 2:25, 5:20, 8:15, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Eugene Onegin Encore Sat 12:00 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 Rush Clockwork Angels Tour (PG) Mon 7:30 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:20, 2:40, 4:10, 5:45, 7:10, 8:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:40, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Wed 2:40, 3:50, 5:45, 6:40, 8:45, 9:30 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 2:20, 3:50, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:50 Wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323

About Time (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 Sat 1:20, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Tue 4:30, 7:35, 10:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Carrie (14A) Thu 9:30 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 1:55 Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 12:35 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri-Sun 3:05, 5:45, 8:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:35, 4:25, 6:25, 7:25, 9:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:25, 9:20

About Time (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Bhaji in Problem Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 1:25, 7:15, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 9:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu 2:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:25 Sat 12:15 Sun 11:55 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

4:50, 7:20 The Counselor (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 9:50 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:45, 8:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:35 Sat-Sun 12:00 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:55, 10:15 Free Birds (G) Thu 2:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:05, 2:15 Sat-Sun 12:05 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 6:50, 9:00 Fri 4:35, 6:55, 9:25 Sat 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:25 Sun 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:35, 6:55, 9:10 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:35, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 5:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:00, 9:35 Mon 5:00, 10:05 Tue 5:00, 7:00, 9:35 Wed 5:00, 10:00 Krrish 3 (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Fri 3:10, 6:25, 10:00 Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:25, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:25, 9:45 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Fri 1:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Mon 1:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 Pipes & Sticks on Route 66 Thu 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 Ram-Leela Fri 3:15, 6:35, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 3:15, 6:35, 10:10 Sun 12:00, 3:15, 6:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:35, 9:55 Rush Clockwork Angels Tour (PG) Mon 7:30 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:30 Thor: The Dark World – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 5:15, 10:30 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 3:45, 4:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:15, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 9:15, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 9:00, 9:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:35 Sun-Tue 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:20

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

About Time (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:55 Fri 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:55 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Sat 12:25, 2:45 Sun 12:20, 2:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15 Fri 5:15, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 5:10, 7:30, 10:05 The Counselor (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:45, 8:45 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:35, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:40, 8:45 The Fifth Estate (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:15 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 MonWed 5:15, 8:15 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:35 Fri 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 1:25, 2:45, 4:15, 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 4:40, 5:30, 7:45, 8:35 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:25 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 Planes (G) Thu 5:20 Fri 5:00 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:45 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 4:55 Mon-Wed 5:10 Prisoners (14A) Thu 4:35, 8:05 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 MonWed 4:35, 8:00 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:35 Fri 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

About Time (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 The Best Man Holiday (14A) Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:50 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 5:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Fri 12:35 Sat-Sun 12:25 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:35 Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:25, 7:45 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:25 The Counselor (14A) Thu 4:15, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:55, 7:55, 10:40 Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:25 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 Ender’s Game: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 7:25 Fri-Sun 1:30 Escape Plan (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 10:15 An Evening With Crystal Pite Sun 12:55

Free Birds (G) Thu 4:55 Fri, Sun 1:05 Sat 12:05, 1:05 Free Birds 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 3:10, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:35, 7:35, 9:45 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 Sun 1:25, 4:15, 6:35, 9:20 Mon 4:15, 6:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:35, 9:20 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:55 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 Pipes & Sticks on Route 66 Thu 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 Prisoners (14A) Thu 9:25 Fri-Sun 10:05 Mon-Wed 9:05 Rush Clockwork Angels Tour (PG) Mon 7:30 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 5:30, 8:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Sun 12:00, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 Wed 8:30 Thor: The Dark World – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:20, 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 3:50, 4:50, 6:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:50, 4:50, 5:20, 6:40, 7:40, 8:10, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:50

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 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 The Family (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 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 Insidious: Chapter 2 (14A) 5:10, 7:30 Fri 9:50 Sat 2:30 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:30 mat Krrish 3 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:30 Fri 5:45, 9:15 Sat 2:00, 5:45, 9:15 Sun 3:00, 7:00 Metallica: Through the Never – An IMAX 3D Experience (14A) Thu 5:00, 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 Ram-Leela Fri 5:30, 9:00 Sat 2:10, 5:30, 9:00 Sun 2:30, 6:45 Mon-Wed 6:00 2 Guns (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 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 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 About Time (14A) 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 Enough Said (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 Free Birds (G) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Last Vegas (PG) 1:15, 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 Thor: The Dark World (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Mon 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 When Jews Were Funny (14A) Fri-Wed 9:00

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

About Time (14A) 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat Tue 4:00 mat The Amazing Spider-Man (PG) Sat 9:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:10 Fri, Mon, Wed 6:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Tue 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Carrie (14A) Thu 10:00 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Mon, Wed 6:50 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 7:00 Tue 3:50, 6:50 Ender’s Game (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 Tue 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Escape Plan (14A) 9:55 Thu 7:05 Free Birds (G) Sat-Sun 1:20 Free Birds 3D (G) 6:55, 9:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 3:45 mat Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Hotel Transylvania 3D (PG) Sat 10:00 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (14A) 7:50, 10:15 SatSun 12:45, 3:05 mat Tue 5:30 Last Vegas (PG) 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:10 mat, 4:55 Tue 4:55 Men In Black 3 (PG) Sat 9:00 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 9:15 The Smurfs In 3D (G) Sat 9:30 Thor: The Dark World 3D (PG) Thu 6:45 7:10 9:35 10:00 Fri-Wed 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 1:50, 3:40 mat, 4:40 Tue 3:40 mat, 4:40 3

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reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

ekran polish film festival

revue cinema, 400 roncesvalles (RC); cinestarz ­cinema, 377 burnhamthorpe E, ­mississauga (CSC). ekran.ca

Fruitvale Station, starring Michael B. Jordan, looks at the life of Oscar Grant, who was shot by a transit cop in 2009.

thu 14-sun 17 – Festival of Polish film. $15$20.

thu 14 – Baczynski (2013) D: Kordian Piwo­

warski, and The Easter Crumble D: Julia Kolberger. Directors in attendance. 7 pm (CSC). fri 15 – Imagine (2012) D: Andrzej Jakimowski. 7:15 pm (RC). The Vulture (2013) D: Eugeniusz Korin. 7:15 pm (CSC). Floating Skyscrapers (2013) D: Tomasz Wasilewski. 9:15 pm (RC). sat 16 – Viva Belarus! (2013) D: Krzysztof Łukaszewicz. 4 pm. Papusza (2013) D: Joanna Kos-Krauze annd Krzysztof Krauze. 5 pm. The Fifth Season Of The Year (2012) D: Jerzy Domaradzki. 6 pm. In Hiding (2013) D: Jan Kidawa-Blonski. 7:30 pm. To Kill A Beaver (2012) D: Jan Jakub Kolski. 9:30 pm. All screenings at CSC. sun 17 – Resettlement (2012) D: Filip Antoni Malinowski. 3:45 pm. Blinky & Me (2012) D: Tomasz Magierski. 4 pm. You Are God (2012) D: Leszek Dawid. 5:20 pm. The Closed Circuit (2012) D: Ryszard Bugajski. 7:15 pm. All screenings at CSC.

european union film ­festival royal cinema, 608 college. ­eutorontofilmfest.ca

thu 14-nov 27 – Festival of films from

various EU countries. Free. ñ thu 14 – The Other Dream Team (2012) D: Marius A Markevicius. 8:30 pm.

Regent Park Film Festival through Saturday (November 16)

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The 11th annual Regent Park Film Festival continues through this weekend, offering free screenings of shorts, features and documentaries at Daniels Spectrum.

Among the highlights, Blood Relative (Thursday, November 14, 6:30 pm) finds 65_RedRoses co-director Nimisha Mukerji moving from cystic fibrosis to thalassemia, a disorder that interferes with the body’s ability to produce hemoglobin and clear iron from the blood.

Mukerji explores the condition’s impact on several people in India,

using the work of activist Vinay Shetty as a dramatic hook. It’s a compassionate and intriguing doc, though Mukerji’s wider net means Blood Relative lacks the lightning-ina-bottle immediacy of 65_RedRoses.

But that’s not a criticism, just an observation.

Likely to reverberate for more people is Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station (Friday, November 15, 6:30 pm), which recreates the last day in the life of Oscar Grant before his death at the hands of a Bay Area Rapid Transit cop early on New Year’s Day 2009.

Played winningly by Chronicle’s Michael B. Jordan as an instinctively helpful person actively trying to put his troubled

past behind him, Grant is allowed to be a complex, multi-faceted individual – an imperfect son, boyfriend and father who came to a violent, unnecessary end.

Coogler isn’t out to paint Grant as a martyr but to craft a threedimensional study of him and the people he left behind, nicely embodied by Melonie Diaz and Octavia Spencer as Oscar’s girlfriend and mother. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

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Blood Relative uses the work of activist Vinay Shetty as a dramatic hook.

fri 15 – Oh Boy (2012) D: Jan Ole Gerster.

6:30 pm. Dinner With My Sisters (2011) D: Michael Hapeshis. 8:30 pm. sat 16 – Alcan Highway (2013) D: Aleksi Salmenperä. 4:30 pm. Kuma D: Umut Dag. 6:30 pm. Volare: The Great Story Of Domenico Modugno (2013) D: Ricardo Milani. 8:30 pm. sun 17 – Bajari: Gypsy Barcelona (2012) D: Eva Vila. 6 pm. Night Boats (2012) D: Igor Mirkovic. 8:30 pm. mon 18 – A Trip (2011) D: Nej Gazvoda. 6:30 pm. Happy Funerals (2013) D: Horatiu Malaele. 8:30 pm. tue 19 – My Father’s Bike (2012) D: Piotr Trzaskalski. 6:30 pm. Dream Team 1935 (2012) D: Aigars Grauba. 8:30 pm. wed 20 – Grand Central (2013) D: Rebecca Zlotowski. 6:30 pm. Love.Net (2012) D: Ilian Djevelekov. 8:30 pm.

reel asian international film ­festival

japanese canadian cultural centre, kobayashi hall, 6 garamond (JCCC); richmond hill centre for the performing arts, 10268 yonge, richmond hill (RH). ­reelasian.com

Thu 14-wed 16 – Festival of Asian films. $12, srs/stu $10, Fri $15, srs/stu $12. thu 14 – The Great Passage (2013) D: Yuya Ishii. 7 pm (JCCC). fri 15 – Christmas Rose (2013) D: Charlie Yeung­. 7 pm (RH).

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mon 18 – When Jews Were Funny. 6:30 pm.

Muscle Shoals (2013) D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier. 9:15 pm.

Tue 19 – When Jews Were Funny. 3:30 & 9pm. Olivia Chow presents Not Criminally Responsible (2013) D: John Kastner. Q&A w/ director to follow. 6 pm. Free. Details/RSVP online at oliviachow.ca/ncr_film.

Wed 20 – Muscle Shoals. 8:30 pm.

sat 16 – Linsanity (2013) D: Evan Jackson Leong. 4:30 pm. Ripples Of Desire (2012) D: Zero Chou. 7 pm. Both screenings at RH.

regent park film festival daniels spectrum, 585 dundas e. ­regentparkfilmfestival.com

thu 14-wed 16 – Community film festival showcasing works relevant to residents of ­Regent Park. Free, reserve at eventbrite.com. thu 14 – Nobel Chor (2012) D: Suman Ghosh.

4 pm. Blood Relative (2012) D: Nimisha Mukerji. 6:30 pm. Art & Expression short films, including Farandole (2011) D: Danielle Sturk, Ina Litovski (2012) D: Andre Turpin and Anais Barbeu-Lavalette, and others. 9 pm.

Fri 15 – Behind the Scene: Workshop ­Series 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. Mumbai Cha Raja (2012) D: Manjeet Singh. 4:30 pm. Fruitvale Station (2013) D: Ryan Coogler. 6:30 pm.

Check Check Poto (2011) D: Julia Varga. 9 pm.

Sat 16 – Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes (2012) D: Dennis Jackson. 9:30 am. Regent Park Voices program: L’Allegro Movement Project (2013) D: Ella Cooper and Luminato Youth Film Crew, and short film Ride Or Die. 12:30 pm. The Visit (2013) D: Fany de la Chica. 2:30 pm. The Playful City (2013) D: Ramya Jega­ theesan. 4:30 pm. Closing night: Alias (2013) D: Michelle Latimer, and short film Roses.

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thu 14-wed 16 – Cinematic respresentation

Thu 14-wed 20 – Check website for schedule.

of mental illness and addiction with a focus on changing perspectives.$12 or pwyc (min $2 sugg), closing night $15, Workman Arts Documentary Projects free. thu 14 – Portraits of Extraordinary Minds: Workman Arts Documentary projects, short docs. 5 pm (WA). Running From Crazy (2013) D: Barbara Kopple. 6:45 pm (TIFF). Nuts (2013) D: Yann Coridan. 7 pm (WA). Sole Survivor (2013) D: Ky Dickens. 9 pm (WA). Canadian Short Film program including Jimbo (2013) D: Ryan Flowers, Anxious Oswald Green (2013) D: Marshall Axani, and others. 9:15 (TIFF). fri 15 – Alien Boy: The Life And Death Of James Chasse (2013) D: Brian Lindstrom. 6:30 pm (TIFF). Honey (2013) D: ­Valeria Golino. 9:15 pm (TIFF). sat 16 – Symposium: Youth Mental Health including screening of Warrendale (1967) D: Allan King. 10:30 am. The Naked Room (2013) D: Nuria Ibañez. 1:15 pm. The Devil’s Needle (1916) D: Chester Withey. 6 pm.

Closing night: I­ nRealLife (2013) D: Beeban Kidron. 8 pm. All screenings at WA.

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thu 14-fri 15 – Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. See listings, this page. fri 15 – Family Fridays X 2: A Monster In Paris (2011) D: Bibo Bergeron. Noon. Flying Monsters 3D (2011). 2:30 pm. Bette Davis: Of ­Human Bondage (1934) D: John Cromwell. 6:30 pm. Shivers (1975) D: David Cronenberg. 8:45 pm. sat 16 – David Cronenberg X 2: Stereo (1969) and short films. 2 pm. Bette Davis: The Letter (1940) D: William Wyler. 4:30 pm. David Cronenberg: Esixtenz (1999). 7 pm. Body ­Horror: In My Skin (2002) D: Marina De Van. 10 pm. sun 17 – Reel Talk: Contemporary World Cinema. 10 & 10:30 am. Bette Davis: All About Eve (1950) D: Joseph L Mankiewicz. 1 pm. David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers (1988). 4 pm. Body Horror: Body Melt (1993) D: Philip Brophy. 7:15 pm. mon 18 – Alexander Payne: Nebraska (2013). Director in attendance. 7 pm. tue 19 – Bette Davis: Now, Voyager (1942) D: Irving Rapper. 6:30 pm. David Cronenberg: Scanners (1981) 9:15 pm. wed 20 – Check website for schedule.

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2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 14 – 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 7 pm. Prisoners ñ (2013) D: Denis Villeneuve. 9 pm.

Fri 15 – The Toronto Beaches Children’s

Chorus presents a fundraising screening for an upcoming trip: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg. 11 am. $10.

Planes 3D (2013) D: Klay Hall. 2 pm. Rush (2013) D: Ron Howard. 4 & 9 pm. Watermark (2013) D: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. 7 pm. sat 16-sun 17 – Planes 3D. 2 pm. Watermark.

4 & 7 pm. Rush. 9 pm.

Mon 18 – Watermark. 7 pm. Rush. 9 pm. tue 19 – Watermark. 9:30 pm.

Wed 20 – Muscle Shoals (2013) D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier. 7 pm. Rush. 9:15 pm.

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506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

Thu 14 – The Human Scale (2012) D: Andreas

thu 14-wed 20 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 14-fri 15 – Fall season preview. mon 18-wed 20 – Fall season preview.

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Dalsgaard. 1:30 & 9 pm. The Syrian Canadian Foundation for Humanity present A Crisis Through Lenses, a benefit screening of short films portraying the Syrian conflict.

6:30 pm. $10. scfhbloor.eventbrite.com. fri 15 – Watermark (2013) D: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. 4 pm.

When Jews Were Funny (2013) D: Alan Zweig. 6:30 pm. The Human Scale. 9:15 pm. sat 16 – The Human Scale. 1:30 & 9 pm.

Watermark. 3:45 pm. When Jews Were Funny. 6:15 pm. sun 17 – When Jews Were Funny. 3:30 pm.

System Entertainment presents the documentary Valter (2012) D: Andrej Acin. Serbian w/ s-t. Director in attendance. $15. Tickets at ­systementertainment.com/web. The Human Scale. 9 pm.

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 14-fri 15 – Great White Shark. 11 am and 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon.

Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

Sat 16-sun 17 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 & 4 pm. mon 18-wed 20 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon.

Born To Be Wild. 1 pm.

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blu-ray/dvd disc of the week reg hartt’s cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 14 – Bijou (1972) D: Wakefield Poole. 7

pm. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit TV ­series. (1989). 9 pm. sat 16 – Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm. sun 17 – Bob Clampett 100th Anniversary Animation Celebration. 2 pm. War And Peace (1966-67) D: Sergey Bondarchuk. 5 pm. mon 18 – The Mad Magician (1954) D: John Brahm. 7 pm. The House Of Wax 3D (1953) D: André de Toth. 9 pm. tue 19 – Stanley Kubrick X 2: Fear And Desire (1953). 7 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 9 pm. wed 20 – Pepi, Luci, Bom And Other Girls (1980) D: Pedro Almodovar. 7 pm.

Anthony Wong gives a layered performance as Ip Man.

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revue cinema

400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 14 – Parkland (2013) D: Peter Landes-

man. 7 pm. Prisoners (2013) D: Denis Villeneuve. 9 pm.

Fri 15 – Planes 3D (2013) D: Klay Hall. 2 pm.

Rush (2013) D: Ron Howard. 4 pm. Ekran Polish Film Festival. See listings, this page. sat 16 – Planes 3D. 2 pm. Muscle Shoals (2013) D: Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier. 4 & 9:15 pm. Rush. 6:45 pm. sun 17 – Planes 3D. 2 pm. Village of Love presents The First Grader (2010) D: Justin Chadwick. 4 pm. $20, adv $15. 416-766-7265, ­villageoflovecanada.org/first-grader. Rush.

6:45 pm. Good Ol’ Freda (2013) D: Ryan White. 9:15 pm. mon 18 – Good Ol’ Freda. 7 pm. Rush. 9 pm.

Tue 19 – Muscle Shoals. 7 pm. Rush. 9:15 pm.

Wed 20 – Marcia De and James Boutcher present Until Death (2013) D: James Boutcher.

7:30 pm. $5. Good Ol’ Freda. 9 pm.

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Ip Man: The Final Fight (Well Go USA, 2013) D: Herman Yau, w/ ­Anthony Wong, Gillian Chung. ­Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN

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Thu 14-wed 20– European Film Festival. See listings, this page.

other films

thu 14-wed 20 – The CN Tower presents

Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. ­cntower.ca.

Casa Loma presents The ­Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace.

416-923-1171, ­casaloma.org.

The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. h ­ hof.com. thu 14 – Pleasure Dome presents A Dream Is Not A Life (2013) D: Heda Maron, and a performance by artist Jibz Cameron. 7:30 pm. $10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tallulah’s Cabaret, 12 Alexander. ­pdome.org. mon 18 – Early Monthly Segments #57 presents Family Portrait Sittings (1975) D: Alfred Guzzetti. 8 pm. $5-$10 suggested donation.

Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen W. ­earlymonthlysegments.org. tue 19 – The International Youth and Students for Social Equality presents Tsar To Lenin (1937) D: Herman Azelbank, a documentary about the 1917 Russian revolution, followed by discussion. Free. York University, 4700 Keele, Atkinson Bldg, Harry Leith Room (004). ­facebook.com/iysse.yorku. wed 20 – Toronto Public Library’s Make Some Noise program presents Mars Project D: Jonathan Balazs, a documentary about Khari “Conspiracy” Stewart and his views on being diagnosed with schizophrenia. 6:30 pm. Free. Danforth Coxwell Branch, 1675 Danforth. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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grel, 2012) D: Noah Baumbach, w/ Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner.

Rating: NNN; DVD package: none

For the first 50 minutes or so, Frances Ha is tough sledding. Despite her bubbly surface, Frances isn’t much fun to be around. She’s 27 but has the emotional intelligence of a 14-year-old; she’s needy, clingy, jealous, depressed, thoughtless – a social space case adrift in her own life. She wants to be a dancer but she doesn’t work too hard at it.

In short order, Frances ditches her boyfriend and Sophie, her best friend and roommate. She stumbles across a couple of guys to share an apartment with, but her mostly unpaid job as a dance company apprentice falls through, so she starts couch surfing and seems to be headed for a bad end.

As Frances, Greta Gerwig gives a solid, naturalistic performance that avoids overselling both her misery and happiness and lets the occasional flash of humour pass by unremarked.

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character of a real martial arts master and an evocation of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s.

Wing chun master Ip Man (1893-1972), famous for being Bruce Lee’s teacher, immigrates from mainland China to Hong Kong in 1949 seeking a better life. But the why director Noah Baumbach chose to shoot in black-and-white. If Frances Ha is to your taste, try Anna Faris’s equally worthwhile Smiley Face.

EXTRAS English, French audio. No subtitles.

Grabbers (Mongrel, 2012) D: Jon

Wright, w/ Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN Tentacled horrors fall to Earth near a small Irish island and start scarfing

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city is poor, so he reluctantly accepts a small handful of private students.

The movie takes its time exploring Ip’s world and relationships with his wife, adult son, friends and the peo­ ple he teaches; it’s the students who propel the action. Strikers battle cops. An incident in a nightclub leads to inter-school rivalry and a duel of the masters. A very cool lion dance col­lapses into a brawl. One student, a cop, embraces the ubiquitous culture of bribery while another fights for money – and both are paid by the local gang lord.

The action sustains a high sense of danger while showing off wing chun’s precise close-in moves. They contrast beautifully with the long strikes of pak hok, the rival school’s style, and make the masters’ duel elegant, fierce and funny.

Anthony Wong gives a layered performance as Ip, who says little but is clearly engaged with life and is not overly impressed with his own skills. According to the moderately informative extras, Wong spent a full year learning wing chun, and the effort pays off in his easy ability to handle long, complicated sequences of moves.

EXTRAS Making-of doc, cast and crew interviews. Cantonese, English audio. English subtitles. down the villagers, who find their only line of defence is to lock themselves in the pub and stay very drunk . The creatures can’t stand the booze.

Deadpan insults and comic drunkenness abound. Richard Coyle as the veteran island cop lurches along with a bad hangover. Ruth Bradley, teetotal-

ling newcomer and love interest, conveys giddy delight, and Russell Tovey has a dandy scene as a marine biologist hammered on home brew who’s fully aware of the looming predator but o ­ blivious to the danger.

The CG monsters are acceptably hideous, and director Jon Wright knows how to make the most of them while keeping the proceedings lively when they’re not around.

The making-of doc offers the usual overview of production, and mentions Gremlins as an inspiration, a good choice if you’re looking for a double bill.

EXTRAS Making-of doc. English audio.

English, Spanish subtitles.

Aftershock (VVS, 2012) D: Nicolás López, w/ Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt. ­Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NN If you’ve an appetite for destruction and aren’t too demanding, Aftershock is an okay time-waster.

When a massive earthquake levels an underground club in Chile, a trio of guys and the three girls they’ve picked up make it to the street and try to survive amid the chaos of panic, rioting, falling buildings and pursuit by vicious escaped convicts.

Aftershock lacks the budget for large-scale devastation, but it mounts a couple of not-bad set pieces and otherwise does fine with a breakneck pace and lots of sudden, nasty surprises.

The acting mostly consists of running, screaming and suffering. Before all that, we’re given a half-hour of light comedy and drama played in clubs crammed with dancing hotties in the lovely seaside town of Valparaiso.

Star/producer Eli Roth and director Nicolás López call Aftershock a horror movie on a shared commentary of production stories and jokes, but it’s really a disaster movie with a horror attitude.

EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, casting call prank doc. English, French audio and subtitles.

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Watch your language Why am I such a slut?

Girl, Corrupted Are you a slut?

Or are you a woman who loves sex, has a high libido and has consensual sex with a lot of willing and grateful partners? Those are all traits for which culture wouldn’t conspire to leave you feeling conflicted or compelled to slap a pejorative label on yourself – if you were a dude, gay or straight.

Don’t buy into the sexist double standards, GC. So long as your sex life isn’t negatively impact­ing your relationship(s), your health, your friendships, your family life, your classwork or your career, GC, you aren’t doing anything wrong. Don’t let shitty, sexist people make you feel like you have to slap a shitty, sexist label on yourself for the crime of enjoying sex while female.

Have fun out there, GC, be thoughtful, be safe, be considerate of the feelings of others and of your own. And remember: what works for you now – slutting around in the sex-positive/reclaiming-the-shitout-of-that-word sense, i.e., a lot of healthy and rewarding sex, a lot of happy sex partners – may not work for you always. Don’t look back on this part of your life with shame or regret if or when you elect to downsize your sex life, i.e., less sex, fewer sex partners/a lot of sex, one sex partner. Do what’s right for you, eliminate the risks that can be eliminated, mitigate the risks that can’t be eliminated, and don’t worry about what other people think.

Nice guy stole my toys I am a 24-year-old gay man living in a ajor urban centre. My question has to m

do with etiquette. One of my very good friends – I’ll call him Jerry – helped me out of a huge jam last summer. I received notice that I had to vacate my apartment while I was overseas, and Jerry volunteered to pack up my stuff and put it into storage. Needless to say, I am extremely grateful, as Jerry has saved me a huge amount of money and hassle. Recently, though, I was housesitting for Jerry while he was on vacation, and I found some intimate items of mine – a cock ring and a bottle of lube – that I thought had been lost in the move. In the interest of full disclosure, Jerry and I have fooled around before, but I find the fact that he took these items very strange, and I don’t really know what to do. Do I confront him about the items or just leave them as “payment” for helping me move? Or should I just take them back without saying anything and let him figure it out?

Unsure In Canada P.S. Your work is one of the big reasons I was able to come out to my friends and family in Grade 8.

I just wanted to thank you.

Two gay men living in the same city – two gay men with similar sexual interests (including an interest in each other) – could wind up owning two identical bottles of lube and a pair of identical cock rings. It’s unlikely, of course, and it’s even less likely that Jerry owns the exact same lube and cock ring as the lube and cock ring of yours that went missing when Jerry packed your place up. But seeing as Jerry helped you out of a jam, UIC, you should repay his kindness by either giving him the benefit of the doubt or turning a blind eye to what amounts to a little harmless perving.

Lube isn’t that expensive, and that cock ring wasn’t from Tiffany’s – or was it? – so replacing them isn’t going to ruin you.

P.S. Thanks for the very sweet postscript!

P.P.S. Assuming Jerry didn’t leave your intimate items out in plain view, UIC, that means you snooped. If you have the kind of friendship with Jerry where you can confront him about his theft, admit to your snooping and have a laugh about it – and maybe put the lube and cock ring to good use – leave him a cheeky note in the drawer where you found your inti­mate items: “I see you like my cock ring. Let me know if you want to see me in it.”

Guy pretends he’s a dyke I’ve been reading your column for

ears, and I feel like I should know your y answer by now, but I’m stumped. I’m a man. Recently I discovered Omegle, the online chat site that allows you to “talk to strangers,” and I’ve had some fun posing as a lesbian. I would talk to women my own age (mid-20s) about life, love and, of course, sex. Many times, like 99 per cent of the time, these chats included role play or sexy chat. We would both be masturbating on our respective ends, and from what I can tell, I am pretty good at writing this stuff. I want to be clear that this was just chatting. I wouldn’t trade pics, since I’m missing the goods the women I’m chatting with are interested in, and it’s certainly not fair for me to accept pics without being able to provide them. I don’t keep in touch with my chat part-

ners after our chat is over, and I am pretty sure everyone is satisfied.

Here is my question: am I an asshole for doing this? I made a post on Reddit to some real lesbians, and they clearly feel like I am an asshole. One woman told me I need help. So, believe it or not, I stopped. I do not like being an asshole.

But I can’t help wondering: Was this really that bad? It’s the internet, for goodness sake, and for all I know I am chatting with other straight dudes who are pretending to be lesbians. Isn’t some lying to be expected? And if I’m not trying to pursue these women in real life, where’s the harm?

Don’t You Know Everything, Savage?

Loath as I am to contradict the Lesbians of Reddit – which sounds like the title of a 50s lesbian pulp-fiction novel – I don’t think you’re an asshole, DYKES. If you created fake personal ads, if you actively misled lesbians who contacted you, if you sent women pics that weren’t yours in an effort to trick them into believing that you were an actual lesbian, if you strung lesbians along via email for weeks or months – if you were doing any of that shit – then you would be an asshole. But spinning out a few masturbatory fantasies on a site designed to facilitate one-on-one conversations between people who are never going to meet?

That’s not asshole behaviour. You found a way to enjoy your wannabe-lesbian fantasies without doing harm to any actual flesh-and-vulva lesbians.

And, yes, DYKES, most of the “lesbians”

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you chatted with on Omegle were other straight dudes.

When is drag offensive?

Is drag done by cisgender straight

en for “humour” problematic? I m thought drag was mostly about humour.

I am acquainted with a bi trans woman who thinks this is offensive, and at risk of further offending her, I haven’t asked why. Maybe you know? Haven’t we come a long way if straight men are comfortable enough with their sexualities to dress as women?

Not Feeling Offended

“Freedom means freedom for everyone,” as a huge asshole once said. That means straight guys who want to do drag are free to do drag, NFO, and bi trans women who want to take offense are free to take offense.

For the record: good/funny/subversive drag is a burlesque on what it means to be male, not a denigration of what it means to be female. And while gay men seem to have an innate affinity for drag, there are straight guys out there who do it and do it right. Instead of arguing with a bi trans friend who wants to police the freedom and gender expression of others, get your hands on the DVDs of An Audience With Dame Edna and invite your bi trans friend over to watch.

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