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3. A history of misery Gaza is half the size of Toronto and home to eight refugee camps. Our by-the-numbers account of the challenges faced by Palestinians brings the conflict home.

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The Stranger (SATYAJIT RAY)

6:15pm

4:15pm

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The Adversary (SATYAJIT RAY)

The Middleman (SATYAJIT RAY)

Sleepwalk (DRIVER)

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The Music Room (SATYAJIT RAY) Company Limited preceded by Rabindranath Tagore

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The Coward and the Holy Man

An Enemy of the People

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Yojimbo (SEQUELS) The Philosopher’s Stone

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Only Lovers Left Alive (JARMUSCH)

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The Golden Fortress

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The Limits of Control

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller introduced by Vilmos Zsigmond

queer outlaw cinema free exhibition: queer outlaw cinema (bent lens) the godfather part ii (new release – 4k digital restoration) night moves (new release)

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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

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For a Few Dollars More (SEQUELS)

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Before Sunrise (SEQUELS)

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back psych-pop crew play Lee’s Palace. Doors 9 pm. $20.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

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Molson Amphitheatre. 7 pm. $49.50-$299. TM. And Aug 4.

holiday by taking in this spectacular show of treasures from the Chinese palace. On view at the ROM to Sep 1. $24.50-$27. rom.on.ca

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Luminato performance of Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof, you’ll want to see this free outdoor screening of Wim Wenders’s brilliant doc about the choreographer. David Pecaut Square. 9 pm. tiff.net

West-based performance and musical festival kicks off tonight and runs to Aug 17. $15-$20, passes. Various venues. summerworks.ca

hiROShiMa/nagaSaki cOMMeMORaTiOn With peace

theque’s retrospective opens with M*A*S*H tonight. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox. $12.50. tiff.net

pop chanteuse comes to Massey Hall. 8 pm, all ages. $69.50-$89.50. LN. Red dOOR gaLa Family shelter fundraiser with live bands, wine, cheese and auction. 7-10 pm. $25. Musideum. thereddoorgala.weebly.com

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directs Diego Matamoros and the Soulpepper company in Molière’s comic masterpiece.

Final preview before tomorrow’s opening. 7:30 pm. To Sep 20 at the Young Centre. $5$89. 416-866-8666.

veteran English post-punks return. Danforth Music Hall.

Doors 7 pm. $37.50-$45. LN. aS Y OU Like iT Canadian Stage’s outdoor production of Shakespeare’s comedy continues at the High Park Amphitheatre. 8 pm. To Aug 30. Pwyc ($20-$25 sugg). canadianstage.com

goes for blood at the High Park Amphitheatre. 8 pm. To Aug 31. Pwyc ($20-$25 sugg). canadianstage.com SanaTORiUM Work on your issues at Pedro Reyes’s psychotherapeutic art installation.

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It’s often said that Israel is an army with a state rather than a state with an army.

An indication of the disproportionality of the weapons of the opposing forces would help your readers understand one reason why the casualties (dead and wounded) are also hugely disproportionate.

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goes out to the Palestinian civilian casualties.

Why can’t we just get along?

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Ashamed to have voted for Rob Ford

After this display of odious bigotry caught on video at Ford Fest (NOW, July 26), I’m almost ashamed to admit that I like and respect Rob Ford and even voted for him in the last election. I planned to vote for him again in October, but now that hinges on how he responds to the actions of lowlifes like Ron “Renerdra” Banerjee who claim to be members of Ford Nation.

I hope His Worship denounces the venomous bigotry in no uncertain

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Hundreds on both sides of the war in Gaza marched on Queen’s Park and the Israeli Consulate on the weekend.

Although skirmishes reportedly broke out on Sunday, Saturday’s demonstrators were peaceful.

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terms and sends a clear message that such crap will not be tolerated.

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Dollars to doughnuts and voting for Ford

After much sober thought and perhaps the realization that their excuses were bogus, the Fords might accept the LCBO’s refusal to grant a licence for Ford Fest after Friday’s events.

Alcohol would only have made matters worse. Feel sorry for the vet caught in the crossfire, as he deserves more respect than the other “gentlemen” on the video.

Unlike many in Ford Nation, I will actually review the various candidates’ resumés and be persuaded by “done its” rather than free doughnuts when I vote in the upcoming election Ian Byers Toronto

City’s bureaucracy feeding Ford duplicity

Re Ford Fest Not A Campaign Event, City Says (NOW, July 18). Here again we see the astounding duplicity and, yes, genius of the Fords in action, separating off one aspect of their lives – the political – to engage in a just-plain-folks activity that promotes them politically. I can’t believe that our bureaucracy allows this.

Brian Young Toronto

As for Smith’s musings on anal sex, he might also be surprised to learn that many straight men and women partake in anal play, while not all gay men enjoy it.

Instead of trying to tell him what sexual acts are “perversions,” Smith’s dad should have taught him that as long as it’s between consenting adults, it’s not really anyone’s business.

No one is asking Smith to engage in acts he’s not interested in. That doesn’t mean he has the right to pass judgment on people who have sex that’s consensual and hurts no one.

Dan Gurfinkel Thornhill

Much ado about MuchMusic

Re Music’s Over At Much (NOW, July 24-30). At this point, good riddance.

I grew up on MuchMusic, too. But it’s full of awful programming.

I’ll always miss seeing Treble Charger and 54-40 music videos.

“She lieeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss to me.”

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Grassy Narrows hunger strike Who Grassy Narrows elder and former chief Steve Fobister Sr. What Press conference Monday, July 28, announcing his hunger strike (since then changed to a fast) demanding justice for survivors of mercury poisoning in the northern Ontario band. A pulp and paper mill owned by Dryden Chemicals dumped an estimated 9,000 kilograms of mercury into the local river system between 1962 and 1970.

Why He receives $250 a month in compensation, which buys half what it did when payments started in 1986. “The government talks, stalls and dodges, but they won’t look me in the eye and say sorry for making me sick, and they won’t give my people the health care and support we need,” he says.

Worth seeing

Toronto Does Her Bit: The Home Front In The Great War, an exhibition on life here during World War I, at the Market Gallery.

“THERE’S A STRONG SENSE OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN THIS COMMUNITY. IT’S VERY HARD [FOR PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES] TO EVEN GET A FOOT IN THE DOOR–” IDIL BURALE,

one of a group of loosely affiliated young progressives of colour trying to break the right-wing stranglehold in northwest Etobicoke .

the week in numbers Justice denied

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association study Set Up To Fail: Bail And The Revolving Door Of PreTrial Detention found in its review of Toronto courts that “black accused were much more likely to be remanded to custody before trial than offenders from other racial backgrounds.”

Other sobering numbers revealed in the report, released July 23:

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SUN down with Israel at Gaza rallies What were Sun News Network newsies doing sporting Ts with Canadian and Israeli flags and the words “Telling the Truth” at last weekend’s demos at Queen’s Park? The network isn’t saying publicly, despite a minor tempest about it on Twitter.

The TTC, meanwhile, is reviewing Sun footage of a man at Saturday’s protest wearing what appears to be a TTC janitor’s shirt and caught on camera saying, “We will kill all Israel.”

5 WAYS TO READ THE LATEST FORUM POLL SUGGESTING ROB FORD HAS PULLED EVEN WITH OLIVIA CHOW AND JOHN TORY IN THE MAYORAL RACE 1. Ford has peaked. His support in a three-way race with Chow and Tory is actually 1 per cent lower (27) than it was in the previous Forum poll. Room to grow: next to zero.

2. As long as Karen Stintz stays in the race, Ford has an outside shot. If, that is, Stintz can take enough female votes from Chow and moderate conservative votes from Tory.

3. Summer polls can be notoriously unreliable. A Nanos poll taken the first week in July showed Tory seven points ahead of Chow and 18 points ahead of Ford.

4. It ain’t a dead heat. Six out of 10 voters still think Ford should resign.

5. Chow may be slipping. Both the Forum and Nanos polls show her support and approval ratings on a slightly downward trajectory.

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Notice of Participation at a Commission Meeting The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) will hold a meeting on October 1–2, 2014, during which the CNSC Staff Report on the Performance of Uranium and Nuclear Substance Processing Facilities: 2013, and the CNSC Staff Report on the Performance of Uranium Mine and Mill Facilities: 2013 will be presented. These reports summarize the CNSC’s assessment of the safety performance of uranium and nuclear substance processing facilities, as well as uranium mines and mills, for 2013. This meeting will update the Commission on safety and compliance information for these facilities and provide an opportunity for members of the public to file written submissions.

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October 1–2, 2014 CNSC Public Hearing Room, 14th floor 280 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario As set by the agenda published prior to the meeting date

The public is invited to comment, in writing, on these meeting items.

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The CNSC staff reports will be available after August 11, 2014, upon request to the Secretariat. The agenda for the meeting will be available after September 16, 2014, on the CNSC website, at nuclearsafety.gc.ca. c/o Louise Levert Secretariat Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission 280 Slater St., P.O. Box 1046 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5S9

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QUEERUPTION AT FORD FEST A man grabs a sign from an activist’s hands and the crowd goes wild. The word “faggot” finally flies. By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE caring about facts. To contrast what he says with observable reality is to miss the point: for him and his followers, truth is derived from conviction.

His adherents’ collective certitude has never seemed more coherent than it does here. They know what they stand for and are prepared to defend it, not intellectually but through passion.

Marginalized mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson, desperate for attention and with little to lose, trots in atop a horse. She’s met by thunderous boos; one woman calls her a “stupid bitch.” Her small entourage of red-clad supporters look like Star Trek extras ready to be picked off.

“It actually wasn’t as bad as I was expecting,” Thomson says later. “Nobody fought us, nobody threw anything hard at the horse.”

More than most, she’s aware of the dark side of Ford Nation, where anger is channelled into devotion and then

BREAKING FORD NATION’S COLOUR CODE Black supporters at Ford Fest deliver a grim message: all politicians look down on black people, but at least Rob Ford offers a hamburger and a little attention

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I set out for Ford Fest on July 25, the latest in a series of public picnics held

by Mayor Rob Ford, with a mission: to engage black Ford supporters, and only them, in conversation about our mayor’s consistent expressions of anti-black racism.

Many of the hundreds gathered at Thomson Memorial Park in Scarborough were people of African and Caribbean descent.

But of the 30 or so I spoke with, very few were willing (or able) to problematize Ford’s use of the word “nigger,” his description of blacks as “fucking minorities” or his claim

back out as anger again. She accused the mayor of being high on drugs and sexually assaulting her at a time when such a charge was somewhat less plausible. And for that she faced the particular kind of wrath in which misogyny intersects with zealotry.

The Queeruption folks, however, aren’t prepared for the worst-case scenario. The half-dozen activists, who arrive after Thomson has left, wear rainbow leis and carry signs on colourful paper: “Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid,” “Ford #1 Hater,” etc.

The Ford Nationals are amped up.

“Ford! Ford! Ford! Ford!” A few dozen gradually congregate around the protesters and attempt to drown out their interviews with the media by shouting pro-Ford slogans.

When Iola Fortino – an anti-gay activist who two weeks earlier called Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam a “fucking faggot” at City Hall – steps in, the implicit becomes explicit.

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that no one has helped black people more than him.

A middle-aged woman named Sheila, who attended with her husband, Roy, bristled at my questions.

“He’s not racist,” she said emphatically. “The people don’t like him, so they would say anything about him.”

I asked if those who reported Ford’s language had simply made it up.

“Yes, they would do that,” Sheila quickly responded.

A young man named Mark and his friend Steve were similarly eager to explain away Ford’s bigotry.

Said Mark, “I use the same words and I’m black, so how am I going to knock him for it?”

When I asked if white people have licence to call blacks “nigger,” he said, “It depends on what context they use it in.”

“If there’s anger behind it, then there’s a problem,” Steve added. Does he believe Ford’s “fucking minori-

Pride, which is equivalent to Sodom and Gomorrah, he is speaking for the silent majority!” she proclaims. “He’s not for the homos! He’s for families!”

The crowd roars, and some among them give her high-fives. If homophobia was previously the undercurrent, it’s now the electric charge. Bigoted taunts join the “FORD NATION!” growls.

Rob Ford is not for the homos!

He’s for families!

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There are people who cry when they encounter Rob Ford. Out of happiness.

For some, his presence triggers a gush of emotion, as though they have come face to face with something overwhelming and profound that non-believers could never understand.

This is often termed a “rock-star” reception, including by the Fords themselves – but, with few exceptions, it’s difficult to name a musician whose mere proximity regularly elicits such responses from fans over the age of 25. Ford is, if anything, more of a religious figure around whom his fans’ cosmology revolves.

At Ford Fest on Friday, July 25, ensconced in a white tent and granting an audience to those who lined up for hours in Scarborough’s Thomson Memorial Park, Ford is not so much the king of Ford Nation as its pope.

He offers straightforward answers to difficult questions, not knowing or

“Do you discriminate against other phobias?” a man keeps yelling from the side, apparently thinking he’s on to some grand hypocrisy.

“God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!” shouts another. He will later repeat it as though it means something.

Louder and louder they grow, the mob mentality taking hold. While there are a few like Fortino who might act this way on their own, it’s doubtful that most would. You can see them gaining power and licence from each other.

“Go home! Go home! Go home!”

In 2012, a different group of queer activists contemplated a similar intervention at Ford Fest, which that year was held in the Ford family’s Etobicoke backyard. Once they arrived, they had second thoughts, sensing it wouldn’t be a safe space.

This time the activists hold their ground against the horde. One keeps arguing through a megaphone. Their

Desmond Cole (right) talks race with Ford National William.

ties” comment betrayed anger?

“That’s his opinion,” he said. “And technically speaking, that’s what we’re considered as: minorities.”

Mark added, “Maybe he meant minorities in an economic sense. I’m sure everybody else in politics is using even more derogatory words. It’s just not publicized.”

Kevin, who came across the city from Etobicoke with his wife and young children, said he’s supported Ford since his early days on city council. His son clung to his leg and listened as I asked about Ford’s discriminatory remarks.

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After a 10-minute buildup, the “That went a lot more violently confrontation turns physical when a than I thought would happen,” Liberman grabs a sign from an activist’s ado says shortly afterward. “We were hands and tears it to pieces. The not expecting people to physically crowd goes wild. harm us. We thought, ‘Sure, maybe The word “faggot” finally people [will] be miffed to have emerges, from Ron BanerLGBTQ people around.’” jee, best known for conBut nothing like this. ducting anti-Muslim acAsked how familiar tivism under the she was with Ford Fest, banner of a “group” she says, “Well, to be called Canadian Hindu candid, this is my first Advocacy. rodeo. I’m an out and nowtoronto.com proud person and an LGOne protester is shoved, prompting elderBTQ community organizly veteran, Ford fan and curer. These people do not scare rent Ward 18 candidate Jim Mcme, and they are not gonna start Millan to jump to his aid, weeping at scaring me now. So I’m not leaving the outburst of violence. “You don’t until I want to.” do that! We’re Rob Ford people! We Staying is a matter of principle. don’t do that!” he pleads in a quivBut so it is, too, for Ford’s disciples ering voice. at large, people cast aside in their Cameras capture Banerjee putting own ways who have finally found a his hand around the neck of an older symbol from which to draw power. man draped in a rainbow flag.

Even when he’s no longer mayor, The tide rises and falls as Skip they will still love him.

Tracer, the Ford Fest house band, And because he is no longer maymake their way through Sweet Caroor, they will be more enraged than line and You Sexy Thing. Eventually, ever.

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school,” he offered. “I say it’s more ignorance... a lack of knowledge. Rob Ford probably doesn’t know the meaning of the word. People use it as a friendly term.”

Kevin added that the media are out to get Ford “because he opposes gay marriage,” a stance the teacher said he appreciates.

The unwillingness among Ford’s black supporters to confront his racism seems extremely nuanced and strategic. As black Canadians, they’ve experienced racism first-hand and know how badly it stings. When these folks deny, obscure or ignore Ford’s racism, they’re delivering a grim message: all politicians look down on black people, but at least Ford will occasionally grace them with the privilege of his presence.

Everyone who spoke with me suggested that our politicians and the system they serve are generally corrupt and specifically racist or indifferent toward black people.

Such low expectations of public

service make Ford a hero for offering his black supporters a hamburger and a little attention. A woman who gave her name as Flavour told me passionately, “I’ve been living in Scarborough for many years, and this is the only mayor I’ve ever gotten to shake hands with.”

This sort of desperation and insecurity would be comic if it weren’t so consistent among the blacks I interviewed.

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Ford may not be perfect (I heard this at least a dozen times), he may even be racist sometimes, but he performs token positive gestures toward blacks that others won’t, and that’s good enough for many.

Those I spoke with sounded resigned to some racism in politics. For them, Ford’s divisive brand represents an awkward but acceptable compromise. Despite the deep disillusionment among black people about our status in this city and country, it is naive to assume that we are universally intolerant of antiblack racism.

Black Torontonians are, we cannot forget, facing a disproportionately grim set of social and economic circumstances: as children we’re more likely to be kicked out or suspended from school; as adolescents we’re the targets for non-investigative stops by police; as adults we’re less likely to find good jobs. Many blacks identify with Ford as victim, as someone whose behaviour is over-scrutinized, and they jump on his bandwagon.

The consequences of black disillusionment played themselves out in a powerful way at Ford Fest. While I conducted interviews, a group of LGBTQ protesters arrived at the picnic.

A large and angry throng of Ford supporters, including many black people, taunted the queer protesters and chanted at them to “go home.”

This is civic engagement Fordstyle, and the mayor has employed the same rallying cry against black people in different circumstances.

Only two years ago, he used a shooting in Scarborough to make the racebaiting suggestion that the city deport people convicted of gun crimes.

This is how Ford repays the unwavering loyalty of his black supporters, but many of them are too caught up in his game of patronage to fight back.

I did meet a couple of dissenters. A man named Andrew said he was loyal to Ford and agreed with those who said his bigotry has been taken out of context. But when I asked if black people who support Ford should still condemn his language, he gave a reply I hadn’t heard all evening.

“Definitely [they] should. Because there is a racial boundary. We came from very far, and some wounds never heal. So because of who he is, it’s not right even for him to say it, even though I support him.”

A woman named Josine spoke with me just after her daughter had her photo taken with Rob’s brother Doug, who’d been working the crowd for hours.

Her response to the Ford brothers’ repeated comments that no one has helped black people more than the mayor? Josine wrinkled her nose and said, “They haven’t done anything for our community… but I don’t know anything.”

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Chief’s attempt to stake his reappointment on Yatim shooting report too little too late. The board announced Wednesday it would not renew his contract. By ENZO DiMATTEO nd just like that, it’s over. Bill Blair is no more as Toronto police chief.

At NOW press time Wednesday, July 30, came the shocking news: the Police Services Board will not be renewing his contract. Blair will be out officially as of April 2015.

“After considerable discussion related to the Toronto Police Service’s continuing need for organizational renewal, the Board has decided not to renew the employment agreement of Chief Blair,” the statement reads.

Was last Thursday’s press conference at police headquarters announcing the recommendations in former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci’s report Police Encounters With People In Crisis the last straw?

At times it felt like a turning point in the history of local policing.

For the first time, it seemed police and advocates of the mentally ill were singing from the same hymn book on an issue that has tormented both. The event had the solemnity befitting the occasion.

Then reality intruded on the proceedings when media asked the chief about the timing of the report’s release, almost a year to the day after 18-year-old Sammy Yatim was shot on a Dundas streetcar by officer James Forcillo and only days after it was revealed that Yatim’s family had filed suit against the department.

A reporter ventured that Iacobucci’s report had “handed Officer Forcillo a defence.” (A June preliminary hearing committed the officer to stand trial on a second-degree murder charge.)

The chief responded that there had been no effort to speed up the report’s release, which was supposed to be ready in June.

But last week wasn’t just the anniversary of Yatim’s death; the Friday after the press conference, July 25, marked a personal deadline for Blair – the date by which he was to let his civilian overseers on the Police Services Board know if

he’ll be seeking an extension of his contract. The board had until August 25 to advise the chief whether it would be renewing his contract. We know how that turned out.

Thursday’s presser looked very much like a dress rehearsal for an unprecedented third term.

For Blair, there was loads of unfinished business.

On his watch, a string of controversies has caused alarm for both supporters on the left and critics on the right.

The G20 mayhem was the most spectacular of these, but indiscriminate “carding” of young black men and lingering questions about the perhaps botched investigation of Mayor Ford’s alleged ties to drug dealers have also eroded confidence in Blair’s leadership.

The promise of progressive policing he rode into office on has all but evaporated, his commendable efforts to bring more visible minority recruits into the fold aside. He’s was staking his professional future on another reform of police culture vis à vis people in crisis.

He made that point in dramatic fashion at the press conference, holding Iacobucci’s document aloft and emphatically stating, “This is not a report that will gather dust. It is a report that will gather momentum.” The sound of camera shutters filled the room.

Blair said later in video posted on the force’s website that “our goal has to be zero deaths.” Apparently, it was too little, too late.

Iacobucci’s report certainly covers all the bases: the need for more Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams, body-worn cameras for cops, training that emphasizes de-escalation techniques and communication rather than force.

But the ex-justice warned that there may be privacy and “resource issues that may prove to be difficult” in outfitting cops with cameras.

In fact, not much in Iacobucci’s report hasn’t been recommended repeatedly in the past.

Better police training and the need for the force to be more selective in its recruitment have been the subjects of coroners’ reports on the deaths of the mentally ill for more than a decade.

It’s not just talk, Blair stressed. The force will immediately act on one of the report’s key recommendations by setting up a special advisory committee to oversee the implementation of Iacobucci’s proposed changes.

And the chief announced that he would assign one of his most senior officers, Deputy Chief Mike Federico, to the file – not to “abrogate” his own responsibilities, Blair added a little defensively, but to ensure that, as he put it, “this organization doesn’t take its eye off the ball.”

However, it’s worth noting, as some police reformers did last week, that Federico, who’s in charge of the force’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Units, has long resisted the idea advocated by mental health experts – and now by Iacobucci – that MCITs be first responders in incidents involving people in crisis. Perhaps he’s come around on that.

In the end it proved another ass-covering exercise for a chief who must have surely known he was on the way out.

Blair leaves a spotty record, his vaunted commitment to community policing never really acted on.

While he seemed to enjoy the support of the Police Association, his backing in the rank-andfile was always questionable, At the Police Services Board, there was an attempt by the chief’s supporters to silence vicechair Michael Thompson, one of Blair’s harshest critics, with a code-of-conduct complaint. That complaint was only days ago withdrawn. Blair seemed to have enough of the board on side to win reappointment, but the damage done by Blair to the public’s trust proved a trickier proposition for the board to reconcile.

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NEW RENT MONSTER Sweden-based realty giant plots gentrification through the back door in neighbourhoods across the city By BEN SPURR

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here is a new corporate landlord in Toronto, and experts say the city has never seen anything like it.

Akelius., a Swedish-owned company, says it’s offering a new style of modern rental living. But tenant advocates are warning that its aggressive pursuit of higher rents is threatening to distort the city’s already unaffordable housing market – and push lower-income residents out of their communities.

So far, media coverage has focused on Akelius’s four buildings in Parkdale, where tenants claim the company is neglecting repairs in a bid to force them out.

But the impact of Akelius, which owns $7.3 billion worth of property in Sweden, Germany, the UK and Canada, goes far beyond a single neighbourhood.

Since entering the Toronto market in 2011, it has bought up 2,100 units in 31 properties across the city, from Weston to Birch Cliff, Lawrence Park to Regent Park. It has stated it plans to buy 10,000 units in Canada in the next few years.

Tenants all over the city tell the same story: the company moves in, embarks on major upgrades to some parts of the building but neglects basic repairs in their units. Superintendents who live on site are replaced by a phone number that’s little more than a black hole for residents’ complaints.

Soon enough people start moving out, and Akelius renovates their vacated units to rent them out at a higher price.

“Their profit model is based on putting out longterm tenants, renovating units and jacking rents,” says Cole Webber of Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS). While most corporate landlords who buy properties are happy to simply accept rent from the existing residents, “Akelius has come in with a plan to bring in a more affluent type of tenant.”

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per cent more than the company’s average rent at the beginning of the year.

At a July 23 meeting of at Metro Hall attended by about 50 Akelius residents from across the city, Alireza Anvari described the company as “a monster.”

When the firm took over his mid-rise at 160 Huron, near College and Spadina, he said it immediately began replacing the balconies but stopped taking out the garbage, replacing burnt-out light bulbs and fixing washing machines. “When they bought the building, the services immediately dropped,” he said.

Anvari organized a tenants association, and after putting pressure on Akelius, he’s seen some improvements.

But the new management was too much for Sean Sicard. In December he moved out of his $1,000-amonth junior one-bedroom at 160 Huron. He now pays $100 more for an apartment at College and Dovercourt, and he accuses Akelius of “play[ing] the system to push people out.”

An 80-year-old Parkdale tenant who only gave his name as Jerry witnessed similar changes at his building at 99 Tyndall. He says that when Akelius bought the property, it started giving eviction notices to people who were one or two days late with their rent.

Akelius has started renovating vacant units, but has done nothing to fix the peeling ceiling in his apartment. “Repairs are non-existent,” he says. “It’s useless to ask for anything.”

There are rules that are supposed to protect tenants from profit-hungry landlords. Each year the provincial government sets a guideline that limits how much more they can ask tenants to pay. For 2014, it’s .8 per cent.

But there are at least two major exceptions to the guideline, and Akelius has exploited them both. First, a Mike Harris-era law known as “vacancy decontrol” allows landlords to raise the rent on units as much as they like after tenants move out. Critics have long wanted this changed, since it provides a huge financial incentive to evict low-income tenants.

Akelius by the numbers 11 of 31

Number of its properties for which Akelius has applied for an above-guideline rent increase this year.

392

Number of its 2,100 units Akelius has converted to more expensive “Akelius First Class.”

39% more

Amount new tenants paid for leases in Akelius buildings at the end of 2013 compared to average Akelius leases at the start of the year.

Second, landlords can apply to the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) for an above-guideline rent increase if they can show their taxes increased steeply or they made a substantial investment in building repairs or security measures.

Geordie Dent, executive director of the Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations, says there are normally between 100 and 150 applications for above-guideline rent increases in Toronto every year. This year Akelius has applied to increase the rent above the limit at 11 buildings, more than a third of its properties.

“This one landlord in a year is now accounting for almost 10 per cent of all the [applications for] aboveguideline rent increases,” says Dent. “In my experience I’ve never seen a landlord act this aggressively.”

Akelius’s applications are still pending, according to the LTB, but the company has reportedly told tenants at one of its Parkdale properties that they could end up paying 4.1 per cent more, five times greater than the provincial guideline.

In some cases, Akelius is arguing the increases are justified because it has invested in repairs such as upgrades to common areas, elevators, landscaping and facades. But tenant advocates say these projects mask neglect of basic maintenance that residents are entitled to.

“Tenants aren’t getting their own maintenance done but are getting hit with increases,” says FMTA organizer Kelly Bentley.

Ben Scott, asset manager for Akelius, says the improvements it’s making are more than cosmetic, and include vital work like replacing roofs and handrails.

Since taking over property management from subcontractor Briarlane two months ago, he says Akelius has addressed 96 per cent of service requests.

Asked about tenants feeling they’ve been pushed out, Scott says, “Our focus is on adding value to the buildings we manage.”

He doesn’t deny that the company’s plan is to renovate and charge more for vacated units, but says, “they’re priced competitively based on their location, size and quality, and reflect current market rate.”

The last thing Toronto needs, say housing advocates, is more “first-class rental living” of the kind Akelius is offering. According to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, all over the city rents are on the rise, and vacancies, affordable or otherwise, are increasingly rare.

Last year the vacancy rate in the GTA was 1.7 per cent, down from more than 4 per cent a decade ago.

The only part of the city where vacancies were up was central Toronto, but only because rents there have become so expensive that “prospective tenants likely looked elsewhere,” according to a CMHC report. Between 2012 and 2013, rents downtown jumped 3.7 per cent.

Parkdale councillor Gord Perks fears that Akelius’s incursion into areas like Parkdale, one of the few neighbourhoods where lower-income people can still make rent, will only accelerate the transformation of downtown into the preserve of the well-off.

“I’m very concerned that one of the last places where there’s private, affordable rental in Toronto is being squeezed out,” says Perks.

Individually, there’s not much tenants can do to combat ever-increasing rents. But Akelius tenants are starting to organize; already buildings have formed tenant committees, and people from different buildings are starting to talk to one another.

In May, Parkdale residents marched on Akelius headquarters on Niagara carrying documentation of uncompleted repairs and demanding the company withdraw its application for an above-guideline rent increase. At the PCLS meeting, there was even talk of a rent strike.

Webber says better legislative protection for tenants is needed, but in the meantime their best hope is to join forces with other renters across the city. The pressures of gentrification aren’t only affecting people living in Akelius buildings.

“It’s not going to be enough for Akelius tenants to take this all on,” he says.

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and tomorrow, 1-4 pm. $6, stu $4.80, family $15. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). mississauga.ca.

Cathedral bluff Paddle tour An 18K stand-up paddle board tour from Kew Balmy Beach to Bluffers Park. 10 am-4 pm. $79. Preregister oshaosha.ca. in the footstePs of Charles diCkens Literary detective walk. 3-5:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, child $15. St Lawrence Market middle door, 93 Front E. Pre-register 416-923-6813. kensington foodies roots tour Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 10 am-1 pm. $50, stu/ srs $45, child $35. Starts at 350 Spadina. Preregister 416-923-6813.

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gardens of song Outdoor concerts by an

eclectic roster of popular artists in the garden.

Rain or shine. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. in the danCe With Yendi PhilliPPs Dance classes with the Miss Jamaica Universe and TV host. 7:30-8:45 pm. $20-$22. O.I.P Dance Centre, 190 Richmond E, Studio A. inthedancefitness.com. rlive MusiC labs Join musicians in interactive workshops exploring the relationship between science and music. Tue & Thu at noon & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Market 707 farMers Market Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Thursdays from 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

1914-1918 in MeMoriaM Ceremony marking the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War with a military Honour Guard, music and speakers. 7:30-9 pm. Free (tickets required).

Varsity Stadium, 299 Bloor W. Pre-register firstworldwar.utoronto.ca/in-memoriam. organiC Wine tasting Niagara-grown biodynamic and organic wine tasting. Q&A with local wine expert Paul DeCampo.

7-8:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. Karma Food Co-op, 739 Palmerston. Pre-register manager@karmacoop.org. river run 2014 Grassy Narrows First Nation creative run/walk and rally to raise awareness of mercury poisoning in their territory.

Noon. Free. Starts at Grange Park, Beverley south of Dundas. freegrassy.net.

sCottish CountrY danCing in the Park

Dancing to live music by Scotch Mist. 7 pmdusk. Free. Edwards Gardens, SW corner Lawrence and Leslie. rscdstoronto.org. tastY thursdaYs Live world music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events.

rtoronto botaniCal garden’s organiC farMers’ Market Local produce, bread,

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CoCkfight (Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption) Live performance and taping of the Kat Sandler play. 7 pm $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/event14054535795363382.

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

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The annual commemoration of the atomic blasts that ended the Second World War – and changed the world – comes at a wrenching time: war in Ukraine and the reemergence of Cold War politics.

Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow joins Project Ploughshares’ Cesar Jaramillo for a talk and lanand more. Year-round Thursdays 2-7 pm (indoors in winter). Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

Yoga Outdoor classes for all levels. 6:307:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Friday, August 1

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Peter n’ Chris (The AMY Project) Sketch comedy by Chris Wilson and Peter Carlone.

6:30 & 8 pm $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/event14054535795363382.

Events

buddhisM leCtures Diamond Way Buddhism

presents talks by Thure Svane-Dupont. Friday: From Tibet To The West, Sat: Buddhist Wisdom. 7:30 pm. Today and tomorrow. $15 each, $25 for both. Twisted Yoga, 509 Bloor W. diamondway.org/toronto. deeP fried fridaYs DJs spin every Fri and local chefs provide food. Free. Harbourfront

as you like it + titus andronicus as you: TUE, THU, SAT titus: WED, FRI, SUN

tern lighting ceremony Wednesday (August 6), 6:45 pm, in Nathan Phillips Square. Performances by Yakudo Drummers and Toronto Gospel Choir. hiroshimadaycoalition.ca

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You can dance if you want to. Or you can just drink up the sights and sounds of Caribbean Carnival Toronto’s Grand Parade along Lake Shore.

The hours-long odyssey of costume Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. eManCiPation daY: freedoM Words Readings by authors and performers Mutendei Akhaya Nabutete, Fiona Clark and others followed by a reception and exhibit by the Ontario Black History Society and Archives of Ontario. 2-5:30 pm.

Queen’s Park, University north of College, rm 230.

Pre-register admin@blackhistorysociety. ca.

and colour is the showcase of Carnival. It starts at 10 am Saturday (August 2) inside Exhibition Place.

Free, ticketed seats $5-$30. torontocaribbeancarnival.ca

get fired uP

Sure, there’s another parade happening this weekend. But if you’re looking for something a bit less flashy, take the ferry over to the Ward’s Island Fire Parade, a celebration of light and dark that features puppets, lanterns, stilt performers and a live band. Friday (August 1) at 8:30 pm. Pwyc. shadowlandtheatre.ca tiff PoP-uP Movie night Local food, beer,

wine and cider followed by a screening of Chocolat under the roof of the historic Kiln building. 6:30 pm (film starts at 8 pm). Free.

Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

Ward’s island fire Parade Celebration of light and dark in the unique Toronto Island landscape featuring a community parade with puppets and lanterns accompanied by stilt performers and a live band. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. Ward’s Island, Toronto Islands. shadowlandtheatre.ca.

Saturday, August 2

Benefits

baker’s dozen (The AMY Project) Live per-

formance of the Adam Francis Proulx puppet play. 2 pm $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/event14054535795363382.

bruCe trail hike-a-thon kiCk-off PartY

(Bruce Trail Conservancy) Launch for a month-long hiking fund-

Murder mystery team scavenger hunt for adults. 1-3:30 pm $30. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register online at urbancapers.com.

Phoenix PoetrY WorkshoP Read your poem for feedback and provide feedback to others.

2:30-4:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca. the reallY reallY free Market Community space for sharing clothes, toys, music, furniture, artisan goods, services and more. Bring items before 3 pm. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Campbell Park, 195 Campbell, near Lansdowne & Wallace. rrfmarket.blogspot.ca. rogers CuP tennis Pros from the men’s tour compete for the championship. To Aug 10. $20 and up (free Aug 2-3). Rexall Centre at York U, 1 Shoreham. rogerscup.com. saturdaY life draWing session Live models every Saturday. All skill levels. 9:30 amnoon. $12. Rebellion Gallery & Art Academy, 914 Eastern. 416-469-1777. toronto salsa PraCtiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5 pm, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. rvoCal PlaY Family friendly vocal improvisation workshop for all ages and levels. 2-3 pm. $5-$8. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw, Studio 106. Pre-register maychook.com/ vocalplay.

What is gnosis? Learn teachings and practices, drawn fromthe world’s great spiritual traditions, that help us to achieve our full potential as human beings. 10:30-11:45 am.

Free. Gnostic Cultural Centre Meeting Room, 2088 Lawrence W. meetup.com/GnosticCultural-Centre-Toronto.

Sunday, August 3

Events

brains, Words & voiCes Poetry recitation

contest with pre-1975 poems recited from memory before an audience for a cash prize.

6:30 pm. Turotino, 109 Niagara, buzzer #007. therotarydial.ca/brainswordsandvoices.

ChinatoWn: then and noW Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 2:30 pm. $20.

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

Christie Pits filM festival – tWister Outdoor film screening at sunset (approx 9 pm).

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Free or pwyc. Christie Pits, Bloor and Christie. christiepitsff.com.

DIstIllery sunDAy MArket Juried art market. Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com.

HeArt of toronto Guided ROM walk exploring the city halls and more. 2 pm. Free. Doors of City Hall, Queen and Bay. rom.on.ca.

IntroDuctIon to buDDHIsM Course on the theory and practice of Buddhism. 2 pm. $5 sugg. KSDL Tibetan Buddhist Temple, 7 Laxton. 416-653-5371. leslIevIlle fArMers’ MArket Meats, dairy, baked goods, fruits and veg offered by local producers Sundays, 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com. leslIevIlle fleA Vintage, furniture, antiques, salvaged and upcycled goods and more. 10 am-5 pm. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, leslievilleflea.com. lIberty vIllAge fArMers MArket Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca. seconD cHInAtown fooD tour Check out a Chinese bakery, grocery shops and more and learn about the upcoming Harvest Moon Festival. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50 (includes snacks). 393 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. sunDAy serenADes Dance to swing, jazz and big band music. To Aug 17. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. toronto.ca. ukulele sunDAys Intro class. 12:30-1 pm.

Free. Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen W. 416-504-5444.

Monday, August 4

Events

cAbbAgetown AnD tHe ceMeterIes Heritage/ nature hike with Toronto Field Naturalists.

1:30 pm. Free. Sumach and Winchester. torontofieldnaturalists.org. eMAncIpAtIon DAy: freeDoM MArkers

Simcoe Day event with speakers, marching units, black history exhibit and Mas Camp exhibit. 1 pm. Free. Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416867-9420. fArM cIty fArMers MArket Fruit and veg, homemade spices and more. Mondays 4-8 pm. SE corner of Bathurst and Niagara. 416392-0335.

Tuesday, August 5

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confessIons of A reDHeADeD coffeesHop gIrl (World Vision) Live performance of the

Rebecca Perry play about a witty barista. 7 pm $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/ event14054535795363382. swAy4pAy (Ste-Emilie Skillshare) Party with Michiko, DJ Superstar Kenneth North and DJ Zahra spinning reggae, hip-hop and remixes.

10 pm. Pwyc. Beaver, 1192 Queen W. 416-5372768, tinyurl.com/sway4pay.

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tHe ItAlIAn Job Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

5lgbt sAlsA clAsses Salsa and bachata classes for queer and trans people and their allies.

6:30-9:30 pm. $70 for seven-week session, stu

$35. $15 drop-in for single class. Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. Pre-register lgbtdance. club@utoronto.ca.

plAy tHe pArks luncH tIMe concert serIes & fItness clAsses Zumba fitness classes and live

music. Noon to 12:50 pm, to Aug 26. Free. Trinity Square Park, 10 Trinity Square. downtownyonge.com/playtheparks. rsuMMer cIneMA @ fort york Outdoor showing of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park.

Screening at approx 9 pm. Free. Fort York, 100 Garrison. scotiabank.com/outdoormovies. rsuMMer DAnce serIes COBA-Collective of Black Artists presents family friendly Acro summer dance classes outdoors. 5-6:30 pm.

Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. info@ cobainc.com. tAI cHI Outdoor class. 6-7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. t-sHIrt surgery for teens Bring an old shirt and transform it into a wearable work of art.

4-5 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-395-5710.

Wednesday, August 6

Benefits

beyonD survIve, tHrIve! (The Gatehouse) Electronic dance music party to raise funds for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. 9 pm. $20-$25. Opera House, 735 Queen E. eventbrite.com/e/12191925377.

MytH of tHe ostrIcH (519 Church Street Community Centre) Live performance of the play. 7 pm $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic. com/event14054535795363382.

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beIng In tHe worlD: ArtIstIc perspectIves on nAture AnD culture Panel discussion

with Penelope Stewart, Diane Borsato, Panya Clark Espinal and moderator Jenn Law. Artist led-tour 6:30 pm, panel 7 pm. Free. Koffler Gallery, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. kofflerarts.org. colD Iron Is A tItAnIc coMeDy Screening of the absurd art film, followed by noise art band Burning Iceberg, and paintings and sculptures by art duo Wesley Rickert and Kathleen Reichelt. 8 pm. Pwyc. Art Zoo Studio, 1 Wiltshire, unit 132. 253469.com. free flIcks: kIssIng JessIcA steIn Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. fresH weDnesDAys Live music and a farmers’ market every Wed to Aug 27. 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events.

HIrosHIMA-nAgAsAkI coMMeMorAtIon – preventIng cAtAstropHIc HArM: froM DespAIr to Hope Performances by the Yakudo

Drummers, the Raging Grannies, Toronto Gospel Church Choir and others, a lantern ceremony and talks by Cesar Jaramillo of Project Ploughshares and peace activist/survivor Setsuko Thurlow. 6:45 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. hiroshimadaycoalition.ca.

legAcIes gAIneD, legAcIes lost? Symposium looking back at 40 years of preserving Toronto’s built heritage. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Toronto Reference Library Atrium, 789 Yonge. Preregister heritagetoronto.org/builtheritage. leslIe log House tour Drop-in guided tours of the original home. 1-4 pm. $6, stu, $4.80, family $15. Leslie Log House, 4415 Mississauga (Mississauga). bit.ly/1s3X6Kc. pArkDAle Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca. plAy tHe pArks luncH tIMe concert serIes & fItness clAsses Cardio dance from noon to

12:50 pm with live music. Free. College Park Courtyard, 444 Yonge. downtownyonge.com/ playtheparks. reveAl Me burlesque Red Herring Burlesque show with virgin vixens and professional peelers. Doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com. ryerson’s fArMers MArket Fresh local produce, food trucks and music. Every Wed 11 am-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca.

suMMer MovIes for teens: pItcH perfect

Drop-in screening. 3-5 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. unDer tHe stArs Outdoor film screening of the film Short Term 12. At dusk. Free. Outside Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas E). regentparkfilmfestival.com. yogA MeDItAtIon Kundalini class. 6 pm. Free.

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Artfest toronto Arts and crafts show with live music. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. artfestontario.com.

Aug 2 to 4 Dusk DAnces Dance performances in the park feature choreographies by Peter Chin, Sylvie Bouchard, Julia Aplin and others. 7 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, S of Danforth between Logan and Carlaw (see website for Dusk Dances performances outside Toronto). duskdances.ca.

Aug 4 to 10 IrIe MusIc festIvAl Party with Alison Hinds, Richie Spice, Etana and others. Free.

Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival.com.

Aug 1 to 4 rIslAnD soul Music, dance, film, food and more from the Caribbean. Free.

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

Aug 1 to 4 rJAMbAnA Mighty Sparrow, Cocoa Tea and others perform at this family fest that also features international foods, kids’ activities, travel and health info kiosks and

more. 1 to 9:30 pm. $10-$15, VIP $20-$40 (available at ticketgateway.com). Markham Fairgrounds, 10801 McCowan. jambana. com.

Aug 3 to 4 ovo fest Music festival with headliner Drake and Outkast. $49.50-$299.50. Molson Amphitheatre, 909 Lake Shore W. ticketmaster.ca.

Aug 3 to 4 velD MusIc festIvAl Performances by Armin Van Buuren, Calvin Harris, Zedd, Gramatik, Iggy Azalea, Ingrosso, Nero, Dannic, Oliver Heldens and others. $225$305. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. veldmusicfestival.com.

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summer celebration of all things Caribbean, featuring calypso and soca music, the King and Queen of the Bands competition, Junior Carnival, live music and the annual parade along the lakeshore. Various prices, many events free. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

To Aug 3 eco-Art-fest Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, an exhibit and more.

Wed to Sun. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery.

416-644-1019, no9.ca.

To Sep 21 rfestIvAl koMpA Zouk Creole culture festival with performances by Boukman Eksperyans, Exile One and many others, plus food demos, dance workshops, art exhibits, kids’ activities and more. Various venues. fkzo.ca.

To Aug 4 open roof festIvAl Live music by indie bands followed by a film screening at sundown every Thursday evening. $15. 99 Sudbury. openrooffestival.com.

To Aug 14 sounD trAvels Festival of sound art with a soundwalk, indoor and outdoor performances, installations, workshops, a symposium and more. Concerts pwyc-$15, symposium $40/$70, intensive $175, youth camp $75. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. soundtravels.ca.

To Aug 23 toronto suMMer MusIc festIvAl International classical music festival with performances by the Emerson String Quartet, Beatrice Rana, Orion String Quartet, Sondra Radvanosky and many others plus master classes. $10-$590. See website for venues and schedule. torontosummermusic.com.

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CRACKING THE NUT: HOW ECOFRIENDLY IS YOUR COCONUT WATER?

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SWEAT, HEAT, HANGOVERS – THEY MAY ALL DRIVE YOU TO HYDRATE WITH A BOTTLE OF POTASSIUM-RICH COCONUT WATER. BUT WHAT ARE YOU REALLY SWALLOWING? GRACE

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This Jamaican brand isn’t exactly the purest, diluting most of its coconut water with regular water and adding sodium metabisulfite and sugars to the majority of its cans. They do have a couple of preservative-free and 100 per cent coconut water options now at least. You’ll mostly find this in cans, and there are no claims that they’re BPAfree. However, it also comes in Tetra Paks (made of paper, BPA-free plastic and foil, though only the paper part of the carton gets recycled according to the city of Toronto).

SCORE: N

You know coconut water has hit the big leagues when Coca-Cola (owner of Zico) and Pepsico (owner of O.N.E and Naked) start snatching up brands. Zico gets its coconuts from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia, O.N.E, from multiple countries including the Philippines. Earlier this summer, Greenpeace warned the Philippine Coconut Authority to stop dousing plantations with controversial neonic pesticides, poisoning beneficial insects and birds.

Both brands offer 100 per cent coconut water, but neither is organic or fair trade, which is a shame considering that the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says coconut farmers live in extreme poverty.

SCORE: N

The reigning king of coconut water, having cornered 69 per cent of the U.S. market, Vita Coco bottles 1.5 million coconuts from all corners of the globe every day. No doubt the company (which earned $250 mil last year) can afford fair trade certification so all its workers are guaranteed a bigger cut of the profits. Ditto for organic certification. Its global supply chain expansion plan includes building roads and clean drinking water access in Sri Lanka and funding a hospital and children’s education in the Philippines. Sold in Tetra Paks.

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In discussions around tap versus bottled, municipalities like Toronto often argue that tap water is more vigorously regulated than the plastic-encased stuff you get at the store. That may be the case, but a new report card still slaps the feds with an F for poor national drinking water protection.

According to Ecojustice, Canada has the strongest water standards in the world when it comes to limiting 24 substances in tap water like weedkilling glyphosate (the stuff in Monsanto’s Roundup). But even those are voluntary. We still lack binding water standards that are uniform across the country.

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It’s a lovely October evening in 2007.

My wife Kate and I are trying not to mark the anniversary of a death in the family. We don’t want to stay home with our thoughts, and we’ve heard about this guy selling smoked meat out of the Monarch Tavern. We know that if that doesn’t distract us, nothing can.

So we walk the 20 minutes or so to

the Monarch, talking about everything but the thing in the back of our minds, and then we get there and find a table. This is before Zane Cap lan sky hired proper help, so he’s doing everything himself.

He’s a whirlwind of activity, making sandwiches, cycling through baskets of fries and baking that knish thing he makes that’s exactly the

mid point between the potato-ball Toronto variant of the dish on which I was raised and the pastry-shell New York version. The knish thing is fantastic.

As it turns out, a smoked meat sandwich and a pint of beer can paper over a hole in your heart, at least for an hour or so. And though we don’t continued on page 22 œ

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really get to talk to Zane that night, we make sure to say hi on the way out and tell him how much we liked the food.

Over the next few months, we return to the Monarch whenever the mood strikes – always making sure to walk there and back, even in winter, in order to convince ourselves we’re burning off enough calories to justify the meal. (Hey, everyone lies to themselves about something.) And we get to know Zane, who tells us about his plans to open his own place – a real deli, like the ones he grew up with.

Zane and I are around the same age, and grew up going to many of the same places with our parents and grandparents. Coleman’s Delicatessen at Bathurst and Lawrence was one we both loved, and I’ve always believed that Zane modelled his College West delicatessen after it. Caplansky’s is what Coleman’s would have become had it moved with the times instead of staying fixed in its 1950s aesthetic.

It’s a bright, welcoming space built to invite people into the deli experience whether or not they share the cultural reference points. (Caplansky’s has more windows than any other deli I’ve ever visited.) And unlike other delis, Caplansky’s has already shown a willingness to evolve.

He’s remodelled it once already, shift-

Caplansky faves include the Leo (below), a brunch that includes smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and schmaltzy onions, and the famous smoked meat sandwich served with a kosher dill pickle.

ing the bar to the back of the house to make room for a deli case.

(Oh, right, the bar. Name another deli that has four craft beers on tap along with the seltzer and Vernor’s.

One of them, Deli King, is a bespoke collaboration with the Barley Days brewery. The day I finally convince Zane to import Cel-Ray, I may achieve nirvana.)

The menu keeps expanding, Zane broadening his offerings to include non-meat choices that aren’t just lip service to the concept (Kate and her mother both swear by The Leo, an all-

day brunch option composed of lox, scrambled eggs, onions and a perfect bagel), while the more deli-centric dishes just keep getting more and more interesting. Smoked meat led to smoked turkey, and from there to the sliced salami known as versht (served with mustard and red onions; insist on challah instead of rye).

I have consumed it all. Beet borscht, meat loaf plates, massive tuna salad sandwiches, the Caplansky Burger (80 per cent ground chuck, 20 per cent smoked meat). My current usual is the Honest Lawyer – smoked turkey and kishka (don’t ask) piled on toasted challah, doused in gravy and accompanied by more fries than is probably necessary.

You become a regular in stages. (Unless you’re Geddy Lee, in which case you get a dish named after you, like, the second time you come in.) I’ve brought family there, conducted two different Hot Docs interviews there, been part of a National Post panel about Jews and baseball – with apologies to my brother Mike, who knows a lot more about that particular Venn diagram than I do – and insisted that a bunch of film critics decompress there when it turned out we all had a couple of hours free during TIFF. I met the author David Sax there, buying my (second) copy of his excellent book Save The Deli, in which Zane

figures somewhat. I’ve hung out at the Sunday-night storytelling sessions started up by Michael and Marilla Wex to reconnect the deli with its function as a communal hub. I knew I was a regular the time I was enlisted to tally up the points for one of Zane’s latke cook-offs. That’s trust.

And somewhere along the line, Zane achieved his goal. The deli – his deli – has become an essential element of my neighbourhood. He himself has become a proper player in the city’s Jewish culture, from his enthusiastic TV presence to his principled decision to sponsor a screening at this year’s Toronto Palestinian Film

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Your creative output will be abundant if you keep sowing each new “crop” in a fertile situation where it is most likely to thrive.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Maybe your

grandparents are dead, or maybe they’re still alive. Whatever the case may be, do you have a meaningful or interesting connection with them? Is there anything about their souls or destinies that inspires you as you face your own challenges? Or is your link with them based more on sentimentality and nostalgia? In the near future, I urge you to dig deeper in search of the power they might have to offer you. Proceed on the hypothesis that you have not yet deciphered some of the useful messages you can derive from how they lived their lives. Explore the possibility that their mysteries are relevant to yours.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 The prolific American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) wrote 32 novels. In those pages, he crammed in almost 1,100 quotations from Shakespeare. What motivated such extreme homage? I suspect he regarded Shakespeare as a mentor, and wanted to blend the Bard’s intelligence with his own. I invite you to do something similar, Gemini. What heroes have moved you the most? What teachers have stirred you the deepest?

It’s a perfect time to pay tribute in a way that feels self-empowering. I suspect you will benefit from revivifying their influence on you. tual poet named Homer who wrote the ancient Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey? Or was “Homer” a fictitious name given to several authors who created those two masterworks? Whatever the case may be, we know that Homer plagiarized himself. The opening line of Book XI in the Iliad is identical to the opening line of Book V in the Odyssey: “Now Dawn arose from her couch beside the lordly Tithonos, to bear light to the immortals and to mortal men.” So should we be critical of Homer? Nah. Nor will I hold it against you if, in the

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The Earth has been

around for almost 4.6 billion years. But according to scientists who study the fossil records, fire didn’t make its first appearance on our planet until 470 million years ago. Only then were there enough land-based plants and oxygen to allow the possibility of fires arising naturally. Do the math and you will see that for 90 percent of the Earth’s history, fire was absent. In evolutionary terms, it’s a newcomer. As I study your astrological omens for the next 10 months, I foresee the arrival of an almost equally monumental addition to your life, Leo. You can’t imagine what it is yet, but by this time next year you won’t fathom how you could have lived without it for so long.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In the nights to

come, I expect you will dream of creatures like fiery monsters, robot warriors, extraterrestrial ghosts and zombie vampires. But here’s the weird twist: They will be your helpers and friends. They will protect you and fight on your behalf as you defeat your real enemies, who are smiling pretenders wearing white hats. Dreams like this will prepare you well for events in your waking life, where you will get the chance to gain an advantage over fake nice guys who have hurt you or thwarted you.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 It’s fine if you want to turn the volume all the way up on your charisma and socialize like a party animal. I won’t protest if you gleefully blend business and pleasure as you nurture your web of human connections. But I hope you will also find time to commune with the earth and sky and rivers and winds. Why? You are scheduled to take a big, fun spiritual test in the not-too-distant future. An excellent way to prepare for this rite of passage will be to deepen your relationship with Mother Nature. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 You are hereby excused from doing household chores and busywork, Scorpio. Feel free to cancel boring appointments. Avoid tasks that are not sufficiently epic, majestic, and fantastic to engage your heroic imagination. As I see it, this is your time to think really big. You have cosmic authorization to give your full intensity to exploring the amazing maze where the treasure is hidden. I urge you to pay

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way is one of New York City’s main streets. It runs the length of the island of Manhattan. But hundreds of years ago it was known by the indigenous Lenape people as the Wickquasgeck Trail. It was a passageway that cut through stands of chestnut, poplar and pine trees. Strawberries grew wild in fields along the route. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your own life, Sagittarius? I think there is: a modest, natural path that you will ultimately build into a major thoroughfare buzzing with activity. Part of you will feel sad at the loss of innocence that results. But mostly you’ll be proud of the visionary strength you will have summoned to create such an important conduit.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The heav-

enly body known as 1986 DA is a nearEarth asteroid that’s 1.4 miles in diameter. It’s packed with 10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum, meaning it’s worth over $5 trillion. Can we humans get to it and mine its riches?

Not yet. That project is beyond our current technology. But one day I’m sure we will find a way. I’m thinking there’s a smaller-scale version of this scenario in your life, Capricorn. You know about or will soon find out about a source of wealth that’s beyond your grasp. But I’m betting that in the next 10 months you will figure out a way to tap into it, and begin the process.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “I just sort

of drifted into it.” According to author Gore Vidal, “That’s almost always the explanation for everything.” But I hope this won’t be true for you any time soon, Aquarius. You can’t afford to be unconscious or lazy or careless about what you’re getting yourself into. You must formulate a clear, strong intention, and stick to it. I don’t mean that you should be overly cautious or ultra-skeptical. To make the correct decisions, all you have to do is be wide awake and stay in intimate touch with what’s best for you.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Members of the industrial band Skinny Puppy are upset with the U.S. military. They discovered that an interrogation team at America’s Guantánamo Bay detention camp tortured prisoners by playing their music at deafening volumes for extended periods. That’s why they sent an invoice to the Defense Department for $666,000, and are threatening to sue. Now would be a good time for you to take comparable action, Pisces. Are others distorting your creations or misrepresenting your meaning? Could your reputation benefit from repair? Is there anything you can do to correct people’s misunderstandings about who you are and what you stand for?

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CREATING TORONTO: THE STORY OF THE CITY IN TEN STOPS Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. Today, Aug 14 and Aug 28, 6:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. rFUNG LOY KOK TAOIST TAI CHI INTERNATIONAL AWARENESS DAY Tai chi demos, a dragon dance, drumming, a parade and more. 9 am-2:30 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

HAUNTED KENSINGTON, CHINATOWN & THE GRANGE TOUR Ghost walk with multicultural ghost stories. Today, Aug 14 and Aug 28, 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Meet at 350 Spadina (red pole w/ black cat). Pre-register 416-923-6813.

SUNNYSIDE BEACH CLEANUP Blue Flag Canada cleanup. Gloves and garbage bags

5ALTERNA QUEER MUSIC FEST Performances by Elek Smilla, Jamieson Eakin, Ted Scarf, Anna Gutmanis and Amy Campbell. 8 pm-midnight. Free. Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

EMOTIONAL HEALING, BIRTH AND THE STARS Slide show on astrological archetypes in the human psyche and more. 6-8 pm. Free. Origo Books, 49 Lower Jarvis. 416703-3535.

GHOSTS, GREASEPAINT AND GALLOWS Walking tour of jails, public hanging squares and vaudeville theatres. Today, Aug 15 and Aug 29, 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). Meet at St Lawrence Market, 93 Front E, middle door. Pre-register 416-9236813.

A GLOBAL MEDITATION FOR PEACE Largest meditation gathering in history with Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein, India Arie and others. 11:30 am. $49-$79. Westin

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5-7 pm. Sunnyside Beach, 1755 Lake Shore W. blueflag.ca/savethebeach.

TORONTO QUEER ARTS AND CULTURE FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY The festival kicks off with a party with three DJs. 9 pm.

No cover. Bar with No Name, 1602 Dundas W. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

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Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Sq. eventbrite.ca. rGRANGE FESTIVAL ENVIRONMENTAL FAIR Family event w/ magicians, a farmers’ market, games, performance by Pollutia and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Grange Park, Beverley south of Dundas. universitysettlement.ca.

HAUNTED TORONTO SCAVENGER HUNT Scavenger hunt through the city’s most haunted places. 8 to 10:30 pm. Today and Aug 22. $30. Meet in front of the Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. urbancapers.com.

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rBY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Summer full moon walk by the Humber River. Start and finish at LambtonHouse. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 9 pm. Free.

Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas W. lambtonhouse.org.

ETSY ROADTRIP Handmade treasures, local music, food and pop-up shops. 11 am-7 pm. Distillery District, 55 Mill, Trinity Square. etsyroadtrip.tumblr.com. rGOWER PARK PLACE COMMUNITY FAIR Kids’ activities, a yard sale, barbecue and more. Rain or shine. 9 am-2 pm. Free.

Garden Courtyard, 10 Gower. 416-288-8140.

MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY: WHERE SOLDIERS REST IN PEACE Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Cemetery front gates, Yonge N of St Clair. heritagetoronto.org. rMUAY THAI EXHIBITION Family-friendly event with athletes and Thai dinner. 6 pm. $15, dinner $5. New Energy Muay Thai, 1480 Kingston. newenergymuaythai.ca.

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The release of a new 4K digital restoration of The Godfather: Part II inspires TIFF Cinematheque to launch one last summer series: Second Coming: Cinema’s Greatest Sequels, screening great films and their equally respected followups over the course of the month.

Selections include Frankenstein and The Bride Of Frankenstein, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, Batman and Batman Returns, Evil Dead and Evil Dead II, A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, and The Hustler and The Color Of Money, the only double bill not directed by a single filmmaker.

The logic is flawed since half of these pairings are but two-thirds of a trilogy, but this way we can all pretend The Godfather: Part III doesn’t exist, and that’s fine by me.

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registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.

5QUEER WEST FILM FESTIVAL Screenings as part of the Toronto Queer Arts Festival. 6-10 pm. $5/pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

REIKI HEALING Talk and healing class.

1-2:30 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. thehealingteam.org.

REPAIR CAFE Get broken household items, clothing, furniture and computers repaired and learn how to do it yourself. 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. repaircafetoronto.ca. rSKATEBOARD FESTIVAL Festival to celebrate Scarborough’s first indoor skateboard facility, with competitions, BBQ, live art, demos and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Malvern Community Rec Centre, 30 Sewells. mfrc.org.

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AND WE KNEW HOW TO DANCE: WOMEN IN WORLD WAR I Screening of the NFB documentary the entry of 12 Canadian women into the male worlds of munitions factories and farm labour. 2 pm. Free.

Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. admin@lambtonhouse.org. rCHESSFEST Games and programs on the history of chess for all ages and levels. Free.

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

DOWNTON ABBEY TEA Learn about the upstairs and downstairs stories of the Harris and Sayers families and their staff. 3-5 pm. Today, Sep 7 and Oct 5. $15. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N, Mississauga. bit.ly/1g5BK5p. rEXPORING SELF-PORTRAITURE Summer photography camp for girls. To Aug 15.

9 am-4 pm. $297, adv $247. Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, 101 Spruce. Pre-register eventbrite.ca.

HIGH PARK RESTORATION SITE MAINTENANCE Help uncover plants in a restoration site. Tools provided.

10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Grenadier Cafe, 200 Parkside. highparknature.org.

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ARTFEST TORONTO Arts and crafts show with live music. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. artfestontario.com.

Aug 29 to Sep 1 rASHKENAZ FESTIVAL Global Jewish cultural festival with music, dance, films and family events. Free and ticketed events. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, and other venues. 416-973-4000, ashkenazfestival.com.

Aug 26 to Sep 1 rBUSKERFEST (Epilepsy Toronto) International street performers’ festival with aerialists, magicians, clowns, comedy, music and more. Thu-Sat noon-11 pm, Sun 11 am-8 pm. Free (donations to Epilepsy Toronto). Yonge from Queen to College and surrounding areas. torontobuskerfest.com.

Aug 21 to 24 rCANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, an acrobatics show, the Flying Wallendas, celebrity chef demos, parades, the Air Show, the midway, rides, food trucks and much more. $14-$18, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com.

Aug 15 to Sep 1 CARIBBEAN TALES FILM FESTIVAL Celebration of films from the Caribbean diaspora with screenings and networking events. Royal Cinema, 608 College. caribbeantales-events.com.

Sep 2 to 13 rEXPRESSIONS OF BRAZIL Festival of arts, culture and culinary events. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 8 to 10 FESTIVAL OF SOUTH ASIA Street festival with stage performances, interactive booths, arts and crafts, and more. Noon-11 pm. Free. Gerrard between Coxwell and Glenside. festivalofsouthasia.com.

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rHISPANIC FIESTA Celebration of Spanish and Latin

American arts, music, food and culture featuring more than 300 local, national and international performers.

Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. hispanicfiesta.com.

Aug 29 to Sep 1 rHOT & SPICY FOOD FESTIVAL Culinary delicacies, hot rhythms and spicy grooves. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 15 to 17 rIRIE MUSIC FESTIVAL MISSISSAUGA Richie Stephens, David Rudder and others perform, plus visual arts, spoken word, kids’ activities and more. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 301 Burnhamthorpe W. iriemusicfestival.com.

Aug 23 to 24 rJERKFEST Festival with live music, dance, a kids’ zone, So You Think You Can Jerk cooking competition and more. Free. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn. jerkfestival.ca.

Aug 9 to 10 rKULTURA FILIPINO ARTS FESTIVAL Live performances, an interactive art exhibiiton, Filipino marketplace, culinary competition and more. Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie), Kapisanan Centre (167 Augusta) and other venues. kapisanancentre.com/kultura.

Aug 7 to 10 rMOSAIC South Asian heritage festival, with films, a music fest, art, bazaar, food and more. Fri 6-11 pm, Sat 11 am-11 pm. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. facebook.com/Mosaic.Mississauga.

Aug 15 to 16 ROUNDHOUSE CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Ales, lagers, and seasonal and experimental beers from local producers, plus gourmet food trucks and performances by indie bands. Noon-7 pm. $25, adv $20 (benefits Toronto

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Rail Heritage Museum). Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. craftbeerfest.ca.

Aug 9 to 10 rSCARBOROUGH AFRO-CARIBBEAN FESTIVAL A celebration of diversity with dance and musical performances, food, a kids’ area, vendors and more. Noon-8 pm.

Free. Albert Campbell Square at Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough. scarboroughafrocaribfest.com.

Aug 23 to 24 SCARBOROUGH TOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL Jazz musicians including Michael Shand, Kalabash, Coldjack, Liberty Silver, Waleed Kush African Jazz Ensemble and many others perform. Free. Albert Campbell Square, 150 Borough. scarboroughtownjazzfestival.com.

Aug 8 to 10 SUMMERWORKS THEATRE FESTIVAL Juried theatre festival with plays, concerts, art and more. $15, passes $40-$120, some free events. Various venues. summerworks.ca.

Aug 7 to 17 rTAIWANFEST Festival of music, art, dance and food. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 22 to 24 rTASTE OF THE DANFORTH Festival of Greek culture with Mediterranean food, live music and dance, interactive activities and more. Free. Danforth from Broadview to Jones. tasteofthedanforth.com.

Aug 8 to 10 TORONTO BEER WEEK This celebration of craft brewing includes tastings, a brew cruise on the River Gambler, brewing demonstrations, homebrew contests and more.

Various venues, see website for locations and event schedule. torontobeerweek.com.

Sep 12 to 20 5TORONTO QUEER ARTS AND CULTURE FESTIVAL Queer poetry, film screenings, cabaret, dance and music performances, and more. Various prices, some events free. Various venues. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

Aug 7 to 16 rYOGAPALOOZA Family-friendly outdoor yoga festival with movement, music and meditation. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Aug 16 to 17 rYORK-EGLINTON INTERNATIONAL STREET FESTIVAL Live music and dance performances, dance demos, a carnival, food, kids’ activities and more. Free. Eglinton West from Marlee to Dufferin. internationalstreetfest.com.

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upon registration. heritagetoronto.org. rKAIN KALYE: FILIPINO STREET EATS COMPETITION Top chefs go head-to-head with their interpretations of regional Philippine roadside cuisine. Noon-7 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. kultura. ca.

KENSINGTON CULINARY ADVENTURE Uncover history, folklore, graffiti and street foods in an urban scavenger hunt where you answer questions and do taste challenges. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Pre-register urbancapers.com.

LOST FIRST CHINATOWN FOOD TOUR Trace the origins of the city’s original Chinatown. Today and Aug 31, 10 am-1 pm. $35$50 (includes food). Meet at Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

METALWORKS INSTITUTE OPEN HOUSE Info on art classes and campus tours. Today and Sep 7, 1-4 pm. Free. Metalworks Institute, 3611 Mavis (Mississauga). 905-2794000.

NATURE & FEMININE WELLNESS WORKSHOP Women gather to support each other and learn techniques to create balance in life and experience nature as a form of selfnourishment. 1-4 pm. $25. Rouge Valley Nature Reserve. Pre-register 905-626-1773, poramor.ca.

NATURE’S BEAUTY SHOW Toronto Japanese Garden Club presents ikebana displays, bonsai demos and a flower show.

Noon-4:30 pm. $5, children free. Momiji Senior Centre, 3555 Kingston.

416-444-3702.

SACRED STONES & STEEPLES Guided ROM walk of religious buildings along Church, with snacks. 2 pm. $30. Pre-register 416-586-5799.

THE TREES OF QUEEN’S PARK Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. NE corner College and University. heritagetoronto.org.

Monday, August 11

CITIZENSHIP MENTORING CIRCLE Study the Discover Canada guide with trained volunteers in a group setting. Mondays to Oct 27. 6-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-588-6288 ext 220.

A HEALTHY AGING BRAIN Emily Nalder talks about contributing factors to a healthy brain such as diet, sleep and exercise habits. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

5MAKING A STAGE FOR OUR STORIES Dance conference and showcase celebrating LGBTTIQQ2S experiences in dance and movement. To Aug 16. Pwyc. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register illnana-dcdc.com/dance-conference-2014.

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Today and Sep 9. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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ARGONAUTS FOOTBALL The Argos play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 7:30 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca.

BUILD WINNING BUSINESS WEBSITE Learn the secret formula and free tools used in building effective business websites. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. Pre-register 416-396-8943.

HAUNTED YORKVILLE, U OF T & QUEEN’S PARK Ghost walk. Today and Aug 19, 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

IRON CHEF FOR TEENS Teens age 12-19 compete to create food masterpieces. 4-5 pm.

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The only problem with SummerWorks is trying to see all the good productions during its 11 days.

Theatre, music, live art and dance shows from Toronto and across the country are included under the juried fest’s big umbrella.

Lots of these look to be strong, including works by festival favourite Cliff Cardinal, Evalyn Parry, the Bicycles and Maggie MacDonald, Quebec artists Étienne Lepage and Frédérick Gravel, Will Eno, Erin Fleck, Jonathan Seinen, Alex Eddington, Allison Cummings, M. NourbeSe Philip and Guy Sprung.

In Kafka’s Ape, Sprung’s adapted a Kafka story whose central figure, an intelligent ape named Redpeter, delivers a lecture on his evolution into a human mercenary.

August 7 to 17 at various west-end venues. summerworks.ca.

Dance fever

Apart from snagging an invite to someone’s cottage, one of the highlights of summer in Ontario is Dusk Dances, which travels to various provincial parks bringing the magic of move-

ment to people of all ages.

This year’s edition is one of the best, and includes new choreography by Sylvie Bouchard, Peter Chin, Milan Gervais and Sis Robin Hibbert, as well as revivals of works by Kate Franklin and Meredith Thompson and Julia Aplin that appeared previous seasons.

From Monday (August 4) to August 10 in Withrow Park. Evening performances include dance classes before the shows begin. 416504-6429 ext 89, duskdances.ca.

The Bard’s fairy tale

You don’t often get to see a staging of Shakespeare’s late play Cymbeline, and you surely haven’t seen Cymbeline’s Reign, inspired by Henry Brooke’s 18th-century adaptation, which cuts some the original characters.

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Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416395-5710, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

KICKOFF & KICKSTART YOUR BUSINESS Network and hear experts discuss financing and legal options for start-ups. Event includes pre-game field tour & tickets to the Argos game. 5:30 pm. $33. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. Pre-register kickoffkickstart.eventbrite.ca.

QUIETLY INTO DISASTER Green 13 film screening and discussion with Angela Bischoff of Clean Air Alliance. 7 pm. Free. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. green13toronto.org.

TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, August 13

Withrow Park with its unique take on the play.

Brendan McMurtry-Howlett directs a cast that includes Hume Baugh in the title role, with Kaitlyn Riordan, Jesse Griffiths, Melee Hutton, David Patrick Flemming, Andrew Joseph Richardson and Victor Dolhai.

Performances from August 12 to 31. shakespeareintheruff.com.

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FREE FLICKS: IN A WORLD... Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm).

Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000.

PHANTOMS, PLAYERS AND PUNDITS WALK Haunted walk of the Financial and Entertainment districts. Today and Aug 27, 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15.

Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

SUMMER NETWORKING BASH Network with more than 1,300 business owners and professionals. 12:30-9 pm. $60, adv $45. Atlantis, Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore Blvd W. summernetworkingbash.com.

THEN AND NOW Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. Today 6 pm; Sep 14, 2 pm; Oct 12, 2 pm. Free. In front of the ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

WHY SLASH APART A MUMMY? DEATH & DESTRUCTION AT LA REAL, PERU Find out why people bundled their dead into mummies – then ripped them apart – 1,400 years ago. 6:30 pm. $15. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321.

5ZANELE MUHOLI: FACES AND PHASES Tour of an exhibition of photos representing black lesbian and queer identity led by curator Gaëlle Morel. 6 pm. Free.

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Diego Matamoros, one of Soulpepper’s best performers, takes on the title role in Molière’s masterful Tartuffe, playing the pious hypocrite who gulls the rich Orgon and insinuates himself into the man’s household.

One of the great comic roles in Western theatre, Tartuffe is a sanctimonious fraud bent on maintaining his hold on Orgon through claims of religiosity while doing his best to seduce the man’s wife, Elmire.

Directed by regular Soulpepper guest Laszlo Marton, the production also features Oliver Dennis, Raquel Duffy, Brenda Robins, Gregory Prest and William Webster along with members of Soulpepper Academy.

Performances begin August 7 and run to September 20. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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rSAIL-IN CINEMA Toronto Port Authority outdoor film festival with two-sided floating movie screen set atop a barge in Toronto Harbour to be viewed by land or boat. Family-friendly event. To Aug 16. Free. Sugar Beach, 25 Dockside. sailincinema.com.

Friday, August 15

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If you think Fort York Garrison Common is strictly for folksy singer/songwriters and earnest indie rockers, you’ll want to be there when Mad Decent – the Diplo-helmed Philly via L.A. record label – throws down with hip-hop, electronic music and combos thereof.

Red-hot Chicago emcee Chance the Rapper headlines, fellow Windy City trap DJs Flosstradamus spin, plus local turntablists Zeds Dead and Toronto electro-hip-hop remix band Keys N Krates are on the bill, too. Oh, and a set from the über-producer and EDM hitmaker label head himself, of course.

August 15 at Fort York Garrison Common (100 Garrison). TW. maddecentblockparty.com.

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Riot Fest’s lineup is a rock lover’s dream. The biggest and buzziest bands descend on Downsview Park for the Toronto stop of this multi-city rager.

(We get first dibs before the festival migrates to Chicago and

Denver.) International giants like the Cure, the National and the Flaming Lips are making the trip, while Metric, City and Colour and Billy Talent rep the local scene.

The all-ages fest takes place September 6 and 7 at Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall). TF. riotfest.org.

Gold standard

Sherbourne Common is a recently refurbished, slickly designed, still criminally underused public space at the foot of Sherbourne on the waterfront. Good thing, then, that it’s finally getting some action. Fool’s Gold Day Off swings through town on its only Canadian stop, bringing the label’s top acts for a one-day show.

Montreal-bred super DJ A-Trak, eccentric Detroit rapper Danny Brown and New York rising alternative hip-hop star Le1f are among the bold names.

September 6 at Sherbourne Common (61 Dockside).

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to do list œcontinued from page 33

Saturday, August 16

AGGIE’S WILDFLOWERS Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. heritagetoronto.org.

THE DESIGNER’S CLOSE Fashion show and networking event of work by local designers. Black tie event. $30 (eventbrite.ca).

The Uptown Loft, 2464 Yonge. designerscloset@gmail.com.

PEACE LEADERSHIP SUMMER CAMP Peacemaking skills camp for women 15 to 35. Today and tomorrow. Toronto Island.

Pre-register vowpeace.org. r5PFLAG GAY DAY AT CANADA’S WONDERLAND Family-friendly day with live entertainment by Lucas Silveira and DJ Lady Coleco, all-you-can-eat picnic buffet and access to all rides. Dinner 6-7 pm. Tickets at PFLAG Canada Kiosk (8 am-2 pm). $46-$52.

Canada’s Wonderland, 9580 Jane. bit.ly/1mwmDUt. QUILTS AT THE CREEK Outoor show of more than 150 traditional and modern quilts. Today and tomorrow. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca.

SWANSEA & LM MONTGOMERY TOUR Literary detective walk tracing places and folks the author met in Toronto. 3-5:30 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). Meet at Runnymede subway station. Pre-register 416-9236813.

Sunday, August 17

ABUSE: SURVIVAL STORIES Day of testimony from three survivors, spoken word poetry and a creative group exercise. Noon.

Free. Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes. abusesurvivalstories.com.

ARGONAUTS FOOTBALL The Argos play the BC Lions. 7:30 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca. rTHE LESLIEVILLE FLEA Outdoor flea market. Today & Sep 21, 10 am-5 pm. Free.

Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen E. leslievilleflea.com.

MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Yonge entrance (N of St Clair). rom.on.ca.

MURDER AT THE ROM Scavenger hunt for adults. 1-3:30 pm. $30. Meet outside Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416895-2378, urbancapers.com.

REMAKING TORONTO: ANIMALS AND OFFICE TOWERS IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am.

Free/pwyc. Commerce Court North, 25 King W. heritagetoronto.org.

TORONTO ISLAND PADDLE TOUR A 15K stand-up paddle-board tour from Budapest Park to Toronto Island. 11 am-3 pm. Today and Sep 14. $59. Pre-register oshaosha.ca.

TOWN TO PARK: AVENUE ROAD TO ROSEHILL RESERVOIR Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. NW corner of Avenue Rd & St Clair. heritagetoronto.org.

Monday, August 18

rSUMMER DANCE SERIES COBA-Collective of Black Artists presents family-friendly summer African dance classes outdoors.

5-6:30 pm. Today and Aug 25. Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. info@cobainc.com.

Tuesday, August 19

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

INCENTIVEWORKS Education and trade show event for the meetings, incentive travel and special events industry. Today and tomorrow. From $99. Metro Convention Centre, North Bldg, 255 Front W. incentiveworksshow.com.

SILVER SENDOFF: R&D (Gallery TPW) Funder and farewell party for the Dundas W art gallery, which is moving. 6 pm. Free. Gallery TPW, 1256 Dundas W.

Wednesday, August 20

THE ANNEX Guided ROM walk. Meet at west corner of the ROM on Bloor. Today 6 pm; Oct 5, 2 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

ART OF YOGA Kundalini yoga and meditation surrounded by art. 7-8 pm. Pwyc. Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre. artofyogaagm.eventbrite.com.

FREE FLICKS: FUNNY GIRL Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

3D PRINTING FOR TOTAL BEGINNERS Workshop to learn the basics of digital fabrication. 6:30-9:30 pm. $49-$132 (eventbrite.ca). Hot Pop Factory, 215 Spadina, suite B05. Pre-register hotpopfactory.com/workshops.

Thursday, August 21

Benefits

rBUSKERFEST (Epilepsy Toronto) Inter-

national street performers’ festival with aerialists, magicians, clowns, comedy, music and more. Thu-Sat noon-11 pm, Sun 11 am-8 pm. To Aug 24. Free (donations to Epilepsy Toronto). Yonge from Queen to College and surrounding areas. torontobuskerfest.com.

Events

PACKING A HEALTHY LUNCHBOX Workshop on preparing healthy and eco-friendly lunches. 7 pm. Free. Fenigo Toronto, 1199 Bloor W. 647-827-9878.

SCIENCE ROCKS! Music playground for adults 19+ to check out live performances, interact with exhibits and more. Today and Sep 18, 7 pm-midnight. $15-$18. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

TORONTO INDIE ARTS MARKET Fashion, crafts, small press, food and more from local artisans and makers. 7-11 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontoindieartsmarket.com.

Saturday, August 23

ALONG THE FRONT Guided ROM walk of the old town of York. 2 pm. Front and Jarvis. rom.on.ca.

THE BOYS OF HARBORD COLLEGIATE AND THE GREAT WAR Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette, 843 Bathurst. heritagetoronto.org. rDESIGNING TORONTO: A PLAYFUL TOUR OF TORONTO’S FASHION DISTRICT Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour for kids seven to 12 and their families.

2:30 pm. $10, child $8. Location given on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.

GRENADA DAY Celebrating 40 years of independence with arts and crafts, foods, performances and more. Free. Coronation Park, 2700 Eglinton W. grenadaday.com.

MAX WEBSTER BOOK RELEASE PARTY Max Webster Fan Club event with performances by Park Eddy, Universal Juveniles and an All Star jam. New Martin Popoff book, CDs, art, photos and more available. 9 pm.

Grossman’s, 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. rRAISING ARTISTS Parent-and-child painting workshop. All supplies provided.

10 am-noon. $50. Trinity Community Recreation Centre, 155 Crawford. Pre-register 647-427-0920, creative@raisingartists.ca. rRASTAFEST Arts and kulcha festival with performances by dub poet Cherry Natural, musicians Jah Cutta, Jahsmin Daley, Iyah Yant Drummers and others, plus kids’ activities. 9 am-11 pm. $10 adv $7. Downsview Park, Keele and Sheppard. rastafest.com.

Sunday, August 24

Benefits

rPAWS IN THE PARK (Toronto Humane

Soc) Family-friendly pet walk with canine mini-makeovers, microchip clinic, face painting and more. 10 am-2 pm. Donations.

Woodbine Park, Coxwell and Lake Shore E. pawsinthepark.com.

Events

CABBAGETOWN NORTH Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. NE corner Parliament and Winchester. rom.on.ca.

THE ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. Simcoe Park, east of CBC Bldg (250 Front W). heritagetoronto.org.

SUNDAY POP-UP MARKET Market featuring local vendors and DJs. Noon-5 pm.

Free. Le Dolci, 1006 Dundas W. 416-2623400.

THE YORKVILLE MUSIC SCENE OF THE 1960S Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 10 am. $20. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.

Monday, August 25

GAIA VOICE: SINGING CIRCLE FOR WOMEN Four-day workshop with Leah Salomaa. To Aug 28, 2-4:30 pm daily. St Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone.

Pre-register leahsalomaa.com.

GREY TO GREEN CONFERENCE Green Roofs for Healthy Cities and others hold a conference on the economics of green infrastructure. Today and tomorrow. $30$399. Eaton Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard W. Pre-register greytogreenconference.org.

TOMMY BOY Outdoor film screening. 8 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Tuesday, August 26

MOTORCYCLE MEETUP Ride to southern coast of Ontario, ports and points.

Everyone welcome. 7 am-4:30 pm. Free.

Tim Hortons, 152 Park Lawn. meetup. com/GTA-Free-Rider-Motorcyclists/ events/195059042.

Wednesday, August 27

JESSICA LINDSAY PHILLIPS The dealer/ collector talks about her passion for antiquities, memorabilia and tribal arts. 6:30 pm. $25. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321.

SUMMER MOVIES FOR TEENS: SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD Drop-in screening. 3-5 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Thursday, August 28

rFAN EXPO CANADA Gaming, horror,

comics, sci-fi and anime event with appearances by Matt Smith, William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Stan Lee, Adam West and others, portfolio reviews, autograph sessions and more. To Aug 31. $25-$40. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. fanexpocanada.com.

U OF T PLANETARIUM SHOW Learn about galaxies, planets and life in the universe. 7 & 8 pm. $5. Astronomy Building, 50 St George. universe.utoronto.ca/public-planetarium-shows.

Saturday, August 30

rWESTON IDOL FINALS Finals for all contestants as part of the Weston Multicultural Festival. 7 pm. Little Ave Park, 22 Little, Weston. westonvillagebia. com.

Sunday, August 31

CABBAGETOWN SOUGH – OLD & NEW Guided ROM walk with snacks. 2 pm. $30. Pre-register 416-586-5799. rPEDESTRIAN SUNDAYS IN KENSINGTON MARKET Celebrate summer with music, street theatre and more on streets closed to traffic. Noon-7 pm.

Today, Sep 28 and Oct 26. Free. Kensington Market, Augusta and College. pskensington.ca.

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Take in the beauty of the waterfront and pick up a pretty little something for yourself when the Leslieville Flea sets up shop at Harbourfront Centre’s North Exhibition Common (235 Queens Quay West) on Sunday (August 3) from

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10 am to 5 pm. The market is one of the city’s best destinations for vintage, salvage, upcycled and handcrafted wares. leslievilleflea.com.

Show some Initiative

Check out The Style Initiative’s inaugural pop-

up boutique from Tuesday (August 5) to August 10 at Pop404 (404 Adelaide West). The boutique features summer styles by six Toronto clothing and jewellery designers, including Tara Campbell of Oddbird Designs and Mandy Armstrong of Mandala Designs. Visit face-

Clover Canyon patterned crop top ($220, Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor West, 416922-2333, and others, holtrenfrew.com)

Haller crop top ($48, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 744 Queen West, 647-381-1439, and other, coalminersdaughter.ca)

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This hand-dyed dress from local label Mäsha Apparel is the grownup, elegant version of the tie-dye you loved as a kid. Abstract splashes of rich magenta and soft green add a pop of colour without screaming “Look at me!” But people will look at you, because this dress is just that pretty. Made from ecofriendly bamboo jersey, it’s supersoft. Bonus: it also makes a beautiful and comfortable maternity dress ($80, mashaapparel.com).

design and architecture firm Gensler on the community-oriented space, which features a custom workshop for designing personalized bags, handmade bicycle art installations and access to bike tools like pumps and extra tubes.

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store of the week Primaala

803 Dundas West, 416-360-1479, primaala.com

It’s disappointingly hard to find plus-size clothing that doesn’t resemble a muumuu or something from a 90s Sears catalogue. You might be shocked to know there are only 17 stores across the GTA that even carry options for plus-size women.

Primaala, a destination for women sizes 12 to 24, is determined to change that.

Owner Rachel Holt founded the store in March after seeing and hearing the fashion frustrations of larger women. She initially dreamed up the concept in 2004, and spent years researching and learning about garment construction before taking the plunge into entrepreneurship. She knows her stuff.

Primaala is welcoming and offers up styles that are trendy and flattering.

Chandeliers and a suede couch up the glam factor, while racks boast a mix of designer European imports, premium denim and Canadian-designed accessories such as Opelle Hangbags.

Primaala picks Holt suggests the Staples faux fur coat ($365) and Eileen Fisher asymmetrical hem organic linen sweater ($305).

Look for Carmakoma, a Denmark-based line exclusive to Primaala, that offers some of the most fashionable clothing for the 12+ demographic. Check out their Allium leggings ($223) made of coated cotton that looks cool and feels comfy.

Hours Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 7 pm, Saturday 11 am to 5 pm, Sunday noon to 4 pm.

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Three things to drink to beat the heat Framboise ñLindeman’s

chill out!

You look parched. A few cold cocktails should help you get through the dog days of summer. Whether you’re on a cocktail crawl or playing bartender at home in your bathing suit, the options for fun and refreshment are anything but limited.

Spiked slush

Spiked slush is an unbeatable summer treat, popping up on T.O. drink lists because a) it’s nostalgically awesome and b) brain freeze never felt so fantastic.

Home of the Brave (589 King West, upstairs, 416-366-2736, thehotb.com) churns all sorts of sexy slush behind the wood. No-joke Zombies and Jack & Cokes have made appearances in the past, but the slushified Last Word (gin, maraschino, green chartreuse, lime, $10) takes the crown.

The tart and zesty daiquiri (rum, lime, sugar, $7) at Rhum Corner (926 Dundas West, 647346-9356, rhumcorner.com) is the furthest thing from big-box blended daiquiris. Take it to the next level with a daiq-ed up rum and coke (rum and coke topped with a daiquiri swirl).

Craving some slush on a lazy hot afternoon?

Make a low-maintenance granita by pouring hard cider into Tupperware and sticking it in the freezer for an hour. Agitate every 20 minutes for texture and – voilà! – cider snow.

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Take a long, tall drink

True refreshment – the kind that perks up the senses and curbs perspiration – usually comes in a tall, ice-stacked vessel. Play how-manysips-till-you-get-to-the-bottom with these quenching cylinders.

Maybe the only classic concoction that rivals a G&T for summer supremacy is a proper Tom Collins (gin, fresh lemon and lime, sugar and soda). Grab one on the intimate, breezy rooftop of the Beverley Hotel (335 Queen West, 416-493-2786, thebeverleyhotel.ca), courtesy of bar manager Aja Sax. The County Cocktail’s (798 Queen East, 416-781-4743, thecountygeneral.ca/cocktail) Veronica Saye mixes the spicy, super-quenching Town Tart (El Dorado 5 year old, spiced raisin syrup, lemon, ginger beer, $12), a house twist on the Dark N’ Stormy, kept cool with a long stick of ice.

If there are any agave distillates left in the liquor cabinet post-National Tequila Day, put them to good use in an El Diablo (2 ounces reposado or blanco tequila topped with 3 ounces ginger beer and drizzled with crème de cassis in a tall glass with a squeeze of lime).

Crush the heat

Drinks on chipped ice are the natural enemy of the humidity monster looming over Toronto summers. Drink grown-up snow cones steadily to beat dilution; straw mandatory.

Have Geraldine’s (1564 Queen West, 647-

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Rating NNNN Why Think sweet and sour raspberry soda with a mild alcohol content (2.5% abv). This Belgian fruit lambic is lovely as a post-dinner treat shared amongst friends. Not the kind of bottle you want to attack solo; its deep, juicy flavours are best appreciated in small doses.

Price 750 ml/$9.85 Availability LCBO 365718

Hang out with pal Tom Collins on the Beverley Hotel rooftop.

352-8815, geraldinetoronto.com) bar manager, Michael Mooney, fix you a frosty Lew Field (La Clandestine Absinthe, fig syrup, fresh mint and bitters over crushed ice, $18), served in a julep cup for an enduring chill.

Those with adventurous palates should put John Bunner’s Boxer Julep (Carpano Antica, Fernet Branca, citric acid, salt bitters, sugar, mint, $14) at Yours Truly (229 Ossington, 416533-2243, yours-truly.ca) high up on their todrink list.

T.O.’s no Kentucky, so we won’t catch shit for mixing juleps outside of Derby Day. Muddle a few generous sprigs of mint with a teaspoon of rich simple syrup (2 sugar:1 water, give or take, depending on your sweet tooth), add 2 ounces of bourbon and top with crushed ice and more aromatic mint. Not a fan of dark spirits? Gin julep it is.

At-home fruit infusions

Preserve the flavours of summer with simple at-home fruit infusions. Chop up some of your favourite fruits – strawberries, pineapple, melon, mango, cherries – stuff them into a clean mason jar, cover with a neutral spirit like vodka, screw a lid on and play a worthwhile waiting game. Once the booze has soaked up enough flavour (this can take anywhere from under a week to a month, depending on the fruit and your preference), you’ll have a signature spirit to use in pineapple daiquiris, strawberry 75s or whatever you please.

L’Orangeraie rosé vin de Pays d’Oc

Rating NNN Why Chalk it up to affordability, pervasiveness or a bit of both, but this rosé keeps ending up in my glass this summer, and that’s fine with me.

Elegant, fruity and dry, it’s got all the trimmings of an everyday summer wine.

Price 750 ml/$10.75 Availability LCBO 279661

No. 1 Cup ñPimm’s

Rating NNNN Why Who needs secondrate sangria when it’s pretty much always Pimm’s o’clock? Traditionally mixed with sparkling lemonade (try Fever-Tree brand) and seasoned with slices of orange, strawberry and cucumber and mint sprigs, Pimm’s is Britain’s favourite summer cup… or jug.

Price 750 ml/$27.95 Availability LCBO 282277

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dining guide REL A XED DINING

ARCHEO 31 Trinity Street | 416.815.9898 | archeo.ca

OYSTER HOUSE

Archeo, located at the north entrance of the Distillery District offers an Italian inspired menu featuring upscale comfort food with seasonally selected ingredients. Thin crust pizzas, a selections of pasta dishes and sandwiches provide great value for lunch. Featuring a well-balanced wine list, Archeo is also the perfect choice for business and pre-theatre dinner when you want to impress. High yellow

pine ceilings, exposed brick walls and the reclaimed timber bar and tables are the perfect blend of contemporary style and historic tradition.

Large scale photographs of on-site heritage architecture by artist Steven Evans are novel room dividers lending the large openconcept room a sense of relaxed intimacy.

MAINS: Sandwiches & Paninis, Pizza & Flatbread, Risotto, B.C.Chinook Salmon

APPETIZERS: Eggpland & Mushroom Bruschetta, Grilled Octopus, Baccala Fritters

PURE SPIRITS OYSTER HOUSE & GRILL 17 Tank House Lane | 416.361.5859 | purespirits.ca

FRENCH BISTRO

Continually recognized as one of the best restaurants for seafood in Toronto, Pure Spirits is located in the Distillery District on a pedestrian only walkway where the floralladen patios will allow you to relax as if on vacation while still in the city. Nearly one hundred years ago, when temperance societies and prohibition ruled America, it was from this very room that the whiskey barrels began their

clandestine journeys across the lake and around the world.

Today, while more refined spirits are served up, people come for the ambience and amazing food, particularly the fresh fish and oysters flown in from across North America and abroad... everyday!

MAINS: Salmon, Tuna, Pickerel, Halibut, Ribs, Pappardelle with Lobster

APPETIZERS: Fried Calamari, Black Kingfish Sashimi, Po’boy, Gumbo

CLUNY BISTRO & BOULANGERIE 35 Tank House Lane | 416.203.2632 | clunybistro.com

MEXICAN CUISINE

Cluny Bistro & Boulangerie, which opened mid-July, is the Distillery District’s entry into the wonderful world of Modern French inspired food with a twist. Casual and fun with vibrant music and a breathtaking design - this is not your parents’ French Bistro! The menu begs you to share items with the table, allowing you to try the many amazing flavours being presented by Chef Paul Benallick.

From Salt Cod Donuts, Roasted Duck Poutine, Spicy Salmon Tartar and, of course Steak Frites the menu will call you to visit over and over. Cluny’s Patisserie (open daily at 8am) will indulge you with house made macarons, profiteroles, crepes and still warm house made bread.

MAINS: Pulled Duck And Rhubarb Salad, The Cluny Double Bacon Cheese Burger

APPETIZERS: Crisp Sesame Baked Asparagus “Frites”, Roasted Duck Poutine

ELCATRIN DESTILERIA 18 Tank House Lane | 416.203-2121 | elcatrin.ca Authentic and Modern Mexican Cuisine; the atmosphere is fun and lively with great food and service. One of the most impressive artistic features is a hand-painted 20’ x 50’ mural that you can study while sipping on inspired cocktails from one of the best lists in the city. Chef Le Calvez relocated to Toronto from Mexico City, and his fond connection with his homeland is evident in the fresh flavours his creative cooking so spectacularly showcases. Special mention goes to the

Ceviche de Atun (citrus cured tuna/watermelon), Tacos Baja (haddock with chipotle dip), Costilla Corta en Mole Negro (beef short rib) and memorable tableside-prepped Guacamole. The impressive patio set off a pedestrian-only walkway with brightly coloured custom furniture warmed by an open-air cauldron of fire that will whisk you away on a mini vacation.

MAINS: 7 Course Tasting Menu, Ceviches, Burrritos, Tacos

APPETIZERS: Sopa De Tortilla, Queso Frito, Pastelito de Cangrejo

EVENT SPACE

DISTILLERY EVENTS unique venues - in house catering - picturesque settings 51 Mill St, #202 | 416.203-2363 | distilleryevents.com We create memorable events. We offer a number of truly unique spaces and venues that you can choose from. We can accommodate just about any size or type of event – from intimate cocktail parties for a few dozen people to world class soirées and sit-down dinners for 400. The one common element our events have is that people talk

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North america’s biggest caribbean carnival is here! spice up your loNg weekeNd with these sizzliNg-hot eveNts. Compiled by JULIA HOECKE and KATARINA RISTIC Thursday, July 31

Events

BACCHANAL THURSDAY ELECTRIFIED Performances by Soca Sweetness, White Bwoy, Jester, Jrdyrt, DJ Ritz, DJ Stephen and Jeff Jam. Luxy Nightclub, 60 Interchange Way, Vaughan. 416-806-3383.

BLACK CARNIVAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY Presentation on the history of the Caribana festival by professor Rinaldo Walcott. 6:30 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

CARIBANA WARM UP DJ B-Ware, DJ Capone, Blax Dun D Place, DJ Cirius and others. $5 guestlist till 11:30 pm. Gravity Soundbar, 296 Richmond. 416-564-0639.

KING AND QUEEN COMPETITION Caribbean Carnival Toronto presents male and female costumers parading for the titles. 7 pm-midnight. $30-$35. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Friday, August 1

CARIBANA WEEKEND: TRINIDAD & JAMAICA DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief and DJ Smartiez. $25. Hush Lounge, 303 Queen W. gqhenderson.com.

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL: JAB JAB J’OUVERT Music by Talpree, Lava Man,

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Skinny Fabulous, Bunji Garlin, Fayann Lyonns, Problem Child, JW & Blaze, ASA Banton, Mr Leggs, Tommy G and G Bolo. 10 pm to 4:30 am. $40-$60 (ticketgateway. com). Wilson Avenue Outdoor Arena, 1677 Wilson. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

ENTRE PINCEAU ET ENCLUME/BETWEEN COLOUR AND ANVIL Festival Kompa Zouk presents Haitian art with paintings by Hilomé José and Lafortune Felix, and iron sculptures by Serge Jolimeau. Today 7-10 pm; tomorrow noon-8 pm; Aug 3 noon-8 pm; Aug 4 noon-6 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, Marilyn Brewer Community Space, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

HIGH NOON Day cruise floating party.

Boarding at noon. $50. Enterprise 2000, 242 Cherry, Pier 34. ticketgateway.com.

ISLAND SOUL: FESTIVAL KOMPA-ZOUK Edwin Yearwood and Krosfyah and House of David Gang perform. 8 pm. $20-$30.

Harbourfront Centre, Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000.

PURE...THE DAY CRUISE Caribana bacchanal party with DJs Spice, Soca Sweetness, Jester and MeJustik. Boarding at 1 pm, cruising 2 to 6 pm. $45. River Gambler, 333 Lakeshore. ticketgateway.com.

REGGAE EXPLOSION Stone Love, Spex,

Chris Mikes, Strong and Renegade Squad perform at this Caribana party. $10 before 11:30 pm, more later. luxyclub.ca. rRIP THE RUNWAY: KIDDIES’ EDITION Costumed child and teen models walk the runway to soca music. 6-9 pm. Centennial Recreation Centre, 1967 Ellesmere.

647-519-3932.

SOUL KITCHEN: CARNIVAL EDITION Music by Jester, Spoonz and Kid Kut. 10 pm.

Skybar @ the Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045.

SPIRIT OF CARNAVAL Ballet Creole celebrates its 25th anniversary in this abstract story drawing from street art with live musical accompaniment. 8-8:45 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Saturday, August 2

CARIBANA PARTY Gage, Tristan Fievstar, Razor B, Eyesus, Alicia Cinnamon, Kerri French, Don Million, Fire Lion, Nitro, Magnum Force, DJ Superstar and others perform. Adv $30. Blue Diamond Hall, 21 Toryork. reggaemania.com. rCARIBBEAN CARNIVAL GRAND PARADE Dance along Lake Shore as masqueraders and steelpan bands parade from Exhibition Place to Sunnyside. 9 am-6 pm.

Free along Lake Shore Blvd ($5-$35 inside Exhibition Place). torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL TORONTO: SUMMER SLAMM Bunji Garlin, Fayann Lyonns & the Viking Band, Destra, Iwer George, JW & Blaze, Ki, Drupate, Major Lazor, Lava Man and many others perform. Gates open at 8:30 pm, show at midnight. $40-$45. Wilson

Avenue Outdoor Arena, 1677 Wilson. ticketgateway.com.

CARNIVAL SATURDAY: STAMPEDE Reggae, soca, dancehall, calypso, hip-hop and more with Lindo P, Fatkat Ent, Tasha Rozez & Chris Dubbs. Doors 9 pm. $15-$20 (playderecord.com). Classic Lounge, 30 Beverly Hills. reggaemania.com.

DEF JAM PARTY Party with Fabolous, DJ Self, DJ Koles, Firekid Steenie and others.

Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. inktickets.com.

DOLLARS DOLLARS: THE CARIBANA FLOSSING AFFAIR Party with Stone Love, Military, Nitro Da CD Sound and No Limit Sound. $27. Throne Nightclub, 200 Advance. 647-767-2650.

FESTIVAL KOMPA ZOUK DJAKOUT NIGHT 10 pm. $40, adv $30. Macedonian Church Banquet Hall, 76 Overlea. fkzo.ca.

HEATWAVE: CARNIVAL SATURDAY Reggae performers Ammoye, Tasha T & Blessed. 10 pm. $15 adv. Rivoli, 334 Queen W. ticketfly.com.

IRIE MUSIC FESTIVAL Jamaican reggae artist Richie Spice performs at 9:30 pm.

Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. ISLAND SOUL House of David Gang, Cultural Guru Steelband and Joy Lapps Project perform. 3 to 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

ISLAND SOUL LATE NIGHT JAM: JAMAICAN SOUNDS Ricky Turbo, Moss Man, Johny Black, DJ Chocolate and Choppa Choppa play this affair. 10:30 pm. $5.

Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

JAMAICAN SOUNDS Panel discussion on

the legacy of Jamaican music coming out of Toronto in the past 40 years. Panelists include David Dacks, Patrick Roots, Ricky Turbo and DJ Chocolate. 7-8 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

JEANS PARTY DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief and DJ Smartiez play R&B, soca, hip-hop and reggae. $25. Hush, 303 King W. 416-704-5487.

JERK JAM DOWN COMPETITION Judge which of the dishes offered by local chefs will win the title for most mouth-watering jerk chicken in T.O. 7-9:30 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, South Orchard Tent, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. rKIDS STEEL PAN WORKSHOP Joy Lapps, Princess of Pan, leads an interactive workshop for kids. 3:30-4:15 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, South Orchard, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

LEGENDS OF SKA Screening of the documentary on the music of Jamaica focusing on 1962-66 vintage and contemporary concert footage. Q & A w/ ska legends Herman Sang, Jo Jo Bennett, and Roy & Yvonne.

5-6:45 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. harbourfrontcentre.com.

THE MAIN EVENT: HD EDITION Celebrate Carnival Saturday with Bunji Garlin, Fay Ann Lyons, Machel Montano, Farmer Nappy, Patrice Roberts, Kerwin du Bois and Ravi B & Karma. 8 pm. $60-$85. International Centre, 6900 Airport. 810-634-4151, maineventtoronto.com. rMOKO JUMBIE: DANCING SPIRITS OF TRINIDAD WORKSHOP Hands-on elemencontinued on page 42 œ

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We are excited to present the TD Irie Music Fest.

Celebrate world culture and let the sounds and rhythms of your music bring us all together.

August 1-4, 2014 at Nathan Phillips Square

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Wind Up YOUR MIXTAPE FOR CARIBANA WEEKEND. GRAB THE TUNES, THEN GO HEAR THEM LIVE.

Whether they’re officially affiliated with Caribbean Carnival Toronto or not, the August long weekend brings a slew of musicians into the spotlight – from the island nations, from the Caribbean communities in our own city, and bandwagoners who just want to party.

4. Reggae Warrior, House of David Gang 1 The title track on the last album from one of Toronto’s premier classic reggae bands. Stick with the original or try the Ed Solo & Stickybuds drum ’n’ bass remix.

House of David Gang play Island Soul at Harbourfront’s WestJet Stage (235 Queens Quay West), Friday (August 1), 8 pm, $20-$30; Saturday (August 2), 3 pm, Redpath Stage, free; and Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Sunday (August 3), 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF.

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1. Roll It Gal, Alison Hinds 1 From the Queen of Soca’s debut album. One of the most infectious choruses of the aughts.

Alison Hinds plays the Irie Music Festival at Nathan Phillips Square (100 Queen West), Friday (August 1), 9:30 pm. Free. iriemusicfestival.com.

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tary introduction to the traditions of Moko Jumbie, stiltdancing spirit of the forest. Today 2-5 pm; tomorrow 1-4 pm; Aug 4, 1-4 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, North Orchard, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

STAMINA Mr Killa, Ki, Fay Anne Lyons, Mighty Sparrow, Bunji Garlin and others. $35-$40 (ticketgateway.com).

Wild Water Kingdom, 7855 Finch W. 416-898-3535.

SUMMERSPLASH Party with Kranium, Steenie, Black Reaction, Infamous, Whitebwoy and others. adv $20 (playderecord.com). On The Rox, 1600 Steeles W. 416586-0380.

Sunday, August 3

rBEYOND DE LIME Dusk to dusk party. Price tba. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. caribanatoronto.com.

CARIBANA SUNDAY AFTER-PARTY Host Kwame, Carlos & Pedro and Wan Luv and DJs Dave Campbell, Paul E Lopes and Mike Tull. $15. Tattoo, 567 Queen W. hotstepper.com.

CARIBANA WEEKEND: HIPHOPNOTIQ DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief and DJ Smartiez. Adv $20. Hush Lounge, 303 King W. 416-704-5487.

CARNIVAL ISLAND Music by Destra, Crazy, Drupatee and others, dancing, food and more as part of the Caribbean Carnival festivities. 11 am-9 pm. $10-$20. Olympic Island, Toronto Islands. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. rFESTIVAL KOMPA ZOUK TORONTO DAY Children’s games, dance and musical instrument workshops, costume show, cooking demonstrations, concert featuring Boukman Eksperyans, J-Perry, Nux, Dinh N’guyen and others. Noon-11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. fkzo.ca.

HOT STEPPER SUNDAYS & WHAT IT IS Caribana Sunday after-party with DJs Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull and Dave Campbell. Doors open 9 pm. $15. Tattoo, 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488.

ICON: DESTINATION YYZ Music by DJ Starting from Scratch, Jester, Soca Sweetness, Lindo P, Renegade Squad, Kid Kut and Brenton B, plus host Lamman Rucker. 10 pm. $25. Product Nightclub, 364 Richmond W. ticketgateway.com.

IREMEMBER X DUTTY: SIMMER DOWN Shai and Choppa Chop play reggae in celebration of Caribana. $10. Revival, 783 College. 416-535-7888. rIRIE FESTIVAL DANCE IMMERSION SUMMER SHOWCASE Beyond Sound Empijaha, Esie Mensah, Caribbean Dance Theatre, Manding Foli Kan Donis and

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Tsingory Dance and Music of Madagascar perform.

4 pm. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival.com.

KOMPA ZOUK FESTIVAL/ISLAND SOUL: LATE NIGHT PARTY DJ Moet spins for dancers here. 11 pm. $5. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

N.A.K.E.D Champion Squad and Noah with DI Powa at this reggae party. On The Rox, 1600 Steeles W, Vaughan $20-$40. oshawn.com.

SKA ISLAND PARTY Music by Prince Perry and King Kong 4, island style food, dancing and more at this all ages party. 5 pm (live music from 8 pm). Toronto Island Marina, 89 Queens Quay W. fb.me/6BsoKmfmu 5TRIBAL COUNCIL BALL 2 AND URBAN JUNGLE: FEVER DJ Blackcat spins for competing dancers, followed by DJs Pleasure, Lady Supa and Nino Brown playing dancehall, soca, calypso, urban house with guest Jully Black hosting this dance party. Army, jungle, combat, print and sexy threads encouraged. 9 pm. $10-$20. Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca.

Monday, August 4

CARIBANA HANGOVER MC Crazy Chris hosts this day and night party with music by Whitebwoy, Infamous, John J, FireKid Steenie, Worm and others.

Adv $15. Guvernment Skybar, 132 Queens Quay E. 416-944-9850.

CARNIVAL BOAT CRUISE Music by DJ Starting from Scratch, Germaine King, Ian Andre Espinet and others. Noon-5 pm. $40. Aurora Borealis, 1 Queens Quay East, pier 27. 416-293-4812.

FESTIVAL KOMPA ZOUK: A CREOLE EXPLOSION Featuring performances by Exile One and Sandy Gamma Band. 6 pm. $40, adv $35. Jamaican Canadian Centre, 995 Arrow. 416-301-5279 or 647-7833655, fkzo.ca.

ISLAND SOUL: TOBAGO DAY Tobago Heritage Drummers and dancers, Princess Adana, Gerard Balfour & Ricardo Seales and others perform all day from noon. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

TOBAGO DAY DOUBLE FEATURE Cinematic look at Tobago history and daily life with screenings of Tobago 1677 and Nine Feet Of Rope 1-3 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. 3

2. Happiest Man Alive, Machel Montano 1 This newish cut from the Trinidadian soca giant stipulates that happiness is the true measure of success. We couldn’t agree more.

Machel Montano plays the International Centre Arrow Hall (6900 Airport, Mississauga), Saturday (August 2), doors 8 pm. $60-$85. maineventtoronto.com.

3. I’m On One, DJ Khaled 3 New Orleans-born, Miami-based DJ Khaled has a zillion singles, but seeing as it’s OVO weekend, why not go with the one featuring Drake?

DJ Khaled hosts the Sunday Blocko at Skybar (Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay East), Sunday (August 3), doors 2:30 pm. $20-$60. caribanatoronto.com.

5. Done D Party, Fay-Ann Lyons 1 This Trinidadian soca star often collaborates with her husband, Bunji Garlin, who’s also in town. One of her recent tunes, Done D Party, is misleading: she plays three times this weekend, so the party never ends.

Fay-Ann Lyons plays Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Jab Jab J’Ouvert , Friday (August 1), 10 pm to 4:30 am, $40-$60; and Summer Slamm, Saturday (August 2), 8:30 pm, showtime midnight, $40-$45, both at Wilson Avenue Outdoor Arena (1677 Wilson); Stamina at Wild Water Kingdom (7855 Finch West), Brampton, Saturday (August 2), 9 pm to 3 am, $40-$50; and the Main Event: HD Edition at International Centre Arrow Hall (6900 Airport Road), doors 8 pm, $60-$85. JULIA LeCONTE

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FRIENDLY RICH & THE LOLLIPOP PEOPLE, VIVA MEXICO MARIACHI, GREGORY PEPPER and THE SILVER HEARTS at the Horseshoe, Thursday, July 24.

­Rating: NNN Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People do bombastically theatrical musical numbers that push past the boundaries of making sense into the terrain of entertaining absurdity. at the release party for Bountiful (rich’s tenth cD), the artist seemed intent on demonstrating that idiosyncratic stagecraft is old hat for him. He roped the audience into an improvised dance involving the “snowman” and “crotch rot,” and everything he touched became a prop, making it slightly surprising when he actually played his instruments (clarinet and guitar).

The band kept throwing the audience sonic curve balls – a long, droney trombone solo by Steve Ward, creepy looped breathing noises – between blasting through klezmer lines and dance tunes. With song titles like Penis Suitcase, it’s perhaps a blessing that we

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couldn’t make out the words. each of the three openers proved sympathetic to rich’s vision in different ways: the Viva Mexico Mariachi ensemble played dramatic party music, conveying joy through sadness; Gregory Pepper, alone without his Problems, emphasized eccentric lyrics; while Peterborough’s Silver Hearts – another sprawling, orchestral folk-rock band – were the highlight of the night and should have played a longer set. sarah greene

NAT BALDWIN at the Monarch, Thursday, July 24. ­Rating: NNN

The solo work of Dirty Projectors bassist Nat Baldwin is gorgeously understated and subtle, showing how strangely ethereal an acoustic upright can sound in the right hands. While he sometimes plays with a band and a drummer, for this Toronto appearance he performed alone, wrapping his wistful vocals in shimmering bowed harmonics. or rather, he attempted to perform alone while an overly enthusiastic fan drummed along arrhythmically in the front row with his hands

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APB and RAZ FRESCO as part of UNITY FESTIVAL at YongeDundas Square, Saturday, July 26. ­Rating: NNN

Beck Motley and Bon Voyage, collectively known as APB (or the Airplane Boys) are fresh off a raucous sold-out performance at the mod club – a career high for the Scarborough-bred duo. on Saturday, they were clearly still basking in the glory of that show.

Still, the Unity Festival’s transient crowd was a challenge. They overcame it by jumping in and rapping directly in the faces of attendees, sending smartphones aflutter.

Part of aPB’s charm is their unabashed sincerity. They closed with their newest single, Scarborough Kids, an overcoming-the-odds anthem that unified the diverse audience. earlier, 19-year-old Toronto emcee Raz Fresco demonstrated the bag of performance tricks that have bolstered his reputation thus far. For example: known for his soulful 90s revivalism, he spat confidently over a melody of Southern beats from the crunk golden era, including like a Pimp and You Don’t Want Drama. The artist saved the best for last, teasing a new track from an upcoming jordan sowunmi release featuring woozy production and a grimy bass line.

until Baldwin politely asked him to stop midway through the gig. unfortunately, the disruptive audience member’s eventual ejection from the venue cast a weird vibe over the show and distracted from the experience. Baldwin’s cover of arthur russell’s a little lost was still haunting – and his own compositions translated quite well to the stripped-down arrangements – but it would have been easier to appreciate in a theatre setting

than competing with the din of a bar.

Had he brought the full band with him on this tour, the songs would have cut through the chatter and commanded the attention they deserve. benjamin boles

CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! at Harbourfront Centre, Friday, July 25. Rating­: NNNN

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Toronto singing crew Choir! Choir!

Choir! have been playing all kinds of gigs lately: prestigious ones (accom-

panying Tegan and Sara at the Junos) and really cool indie ones (nXne’s 159 manning backyard barbecue). on Friday night, a crisp summer breeze carried their voices at Harbourfront Centre. led by Nobu Adilman, who conducts, and Daveed Goldman on acoustic guitar, the posse of about 60 singers harmonized through a well-curated set of universally loved tunes (Sweet caroline) mixed with the bandleaders’ lesser-known favourites (elliott Smith’s needle In The Hay). adilman and goldman have perfected their comedic timing: “How many people like Blur? How many people like oasis? Well, you oasis people can suck it,” for example. casual, playful and obviously having a blast, the choir especially impressed with a serene rendition of Hallelujah and the Smiths’ There Is a light That never goes out. They seemed slightly short of breath at times, but the difficult arrangement of a novel take on Blur’s girls and Boys was fantastic and well executed. julia leconte NOW july 31 - august 6 2014

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l Spx is private, mysterious and beautif u l ly inscrutable.

For anyone familiar with her music as Cold Specks, this will come as no surprise.

Her Polaris-shortlisted debut effort, I Predict A Graceful Expulsion, was folk music heavily indebted to spirituals and rhythm & blues. Spx called it “doom soul” on her Facebook page, and critics pounced on the genre classification.

Today, at Luna Café on Dovercourt, her look matches that album’s elegant austerity: photoshoot-ready black dress, tights and platforms, black hair pulled back, muted red lipstick slicked on a carefully doled-out killer smile.

She’s warm but reserved. Conversational but not entirely comfortable. She laughs often but does not gush or giggle. She sometimes withholds.

“People are fuckin’ nosy,” she says after lunch plates have been cleared. It’s the most deliberate- and forthright-sounding Spx has been in the past half-hour. And the only time she curses. She doesn’t sound annoyed, but I wonder for a second if she’s cheesed with me for asking about her pseudonym.

“I named the project Cold Specks, and I know a lot of singer/songwriters who have band names. I only did it because I didn’t want to make folk music the rest of my life, and I always

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knew the project would expand and grow. I also didn’t feel comfortable attaching my name to it.”

But people started asking, so she came up with something. Al is “kinda” a nickname she had, and it’s as close as we’re gonna get to the real thing. “I make art. That’s just one aspect of me. I don’t want it to define me. I don’t allow it to define me.”

It’s easy to see why not. Her music has led to a lot of confused speculation about her person.

When I Predict was released in 2012, the year after Adele’s pop-soul explosion, and maybe because she had been living in the same town, Cold Specks was heralded as a less polished, more raw, Canadian counterpart. Except she wasn’t singing about romantic heartbreak. The songwriting was deeply poetic, wise, full of doubt and longing and rife with the kind of Christian language found in gospel music.

As well as earning her the “next big thing” tag, the album sparked a big conversation over the artist’s relationship with religion. Was she leaving her faith? Going through a period of agnosticism?

Maybe, but not in the way people thought.

Spx grew up in Etobicoke and Brampton without formal musical training (she took two guitar lessons as a kid, then quit). At 16 or 17 she discovered she could sing. It’s nearly impossible to believe that raspy, quavering alto lived untapped inside her so long.

Her family is Muslim, from Somalia. Most people’s theological assumptions were off the mark.

“Perhaps someday Cold Specks will confidently turn her face toward a loving God who blesses her – and us all,” said one Christian web-

site. “And if so, may her uniquely haunting and gut-wrenching songs play on.”

Well, they got the “uniquely haunting” thing right.

“The first music I started listening to was soul music, which comes from gospel music.

But I’m not particularly religious. I mean, it’s not that I’m not religious, it’s just I’m not a Christian; I’ve never been a Christian. My parents immigrated from Mogadishu. I do like gospel music, but it’s not because of the religious things the people are singing about; it has more to do with how they’re singing.”

The first record is autobiographical, but by the time she got around to touring it (relentlessly), that phase was long over.

“I kind of felt like a bad actress, in a way,” she says.

Not this time. On August 26, Spx will release her anticipated follow-up, Neuroplasticity, on Arts & Crafts.

“The first record was recorded over a 12-day period. This one was made over a six-month period, and I think the time I gave myself allowed it to be beautifully complete,” she says.

Taken aback by the scrutiny after such an honest, intimate release the first time around, Spx told NOW in a 2012 interview that her next record would draw less on personal experience.

Did she succeed?

“Some of it’s pretty vague; some of it’s pretty damn obvious. I’m not a very playful writer, so I’m not sure I completely achieved that,” she says.

“With the first record there’s definitely some emotional cohesiveness. But the first line on the second record is ‘Dance darling, don’t shuffle,’ and the last line is ‘I’ve got an unrelenting desire to fall apart,’ so it’s an emotionally confused record.”

As the title Neuroplasticity suggests, there has been a hefty shift in sound.

“I thought it implied an aesthetic change. It refers to a creative rewiring process. Thematically, the record is still fairly dark. There are points where I’m very clearly talking about exist when I was off tour. I’d been travelling things that have occurred in my life. But sonicso much and looking for a city to exist in. I ally, it’s fuller, it’s playful, it’s a much more exthink it probably reflects that,” she explains pansive sound than the first. I was a little frusnoncommittally. I can tell I’m not getting trated with the sparseness of the first record, so much more out of her on this particular I did make a conscious decision to alter that.” subject.

In the winter of 2012/13, she hunkered down But it’s not meant to be transparent. in a Somerset cottage, then spent six months in “There’s no need to be spilling everya Montreal studio finishing the job, working thing. No reason to lay it all out for stranwith Jim Anderson, who gers,” she says. produced her first record in Spx now lives in London – “If it ain’t broke, COLD SPECKS at the Drake Montreal. But the last don’t fix it” – and now plays (1150 Queen West), Thursday couple weeks here have bass and synths in her band (July 31), 8 pm. $14. (Sold out.) rekindled her relationalong with Tim D’eon (guiship with Toronto, tar) and Loel Campbell thedrakehotel.ca. where her family is. (drums).

“I’m falling in love The edgier, louder, lusher follow-up is more with it again,” she says. “I’ve successfully reflective of her record collection (Swans, Bill overcome my hometown syndrome.”

Callahan, Scott Walker, Portishead, Massive AtBut Spx won’t be here, or anyplace, for tack). A Formal Invitation is a prog rock song, long. A fall tour follows Neuroplasticity’s rewhile Let Loose The Dogs has new wave sheen. lease. After an initial period of stage fright, Lead single Absisto runneth over with clashing she’s figured out a way to make live shows drums. work for her.

There is still Christian language. Her voice is “To be honest, I don’t really look into the still vulnerable yet stoic, unshakable yet fracrowd or pay attention to what they’re dogile. Simple, plunked-out piano lines and sad, ing. I kind of switch off and get in the zone,” muffled horns harken back to her debut. But she says. overall, the instrumental heaviness now But offstage, she is thinking about her lismatches the weight of her lyrics and the ache of teners. The last track of Neuroplasticity, A her delivery.

Season Of Doubt, is intentionally slow and I mention that a lot of the song titles signal stripped down. departure, uncertainty or an aversion to com“I decided to give ’em what they wanted mitment: Exit Plan, Let Loose The Dogs, Absisto at the end of the record. It’s the song that’s (meaning to withdraw, or go away from), A Seathe most like the first one. It’s deeply person Of Doubt. sonal,” she says.

“I found myself trying to figure out how to “I just thought it would be nice to have a moody broken ballad at the end. Thought it was fitting.”

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clubs&concerts JACK WHITE, BENJAMIN BOOKER Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Thursday (July 31) Chart-topping garage-blues.

COLD SPECKS Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Thursday (July 31) See cover story, page 44.

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Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Saturday and Sunday (August 2 and 3) See Michael Brun feature, page 48.

MACHEL MONTANO, PATRICE ROBERTS, FARMER NAPPY, BUNJI GARLIN, FAY ANN LYONS AND OTHERS International Centre Arrow Hall (6900 Airport, Mississauga), Saturday (August 2) Caribana Main Event: HD Edition.

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NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, NICOLE ATKINS Sony Centre (1 Front East), Thursday (July 31) Goth-post-punk legend.

BAS, THE 6TH LETTER Tattoo (567 Queen West), Thursday (July 31) See preview, page 54.

OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, MATT ANDERSEN & THE MELLOTONES, DEL BARBER Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Thursday (July 31) Punk-informed traditional bluegrass.

MODEST MOUSE, KEVIN DREW, MIMICKING BIRDS Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Friday (August 1) Rousing, spiky indie rock.

VELD MUSIC FESTIVAL w/ Armin Van Buuren, Nero, Waka Flocka Flame, Calvin Harris, Knife Party & Zedd, Michael Brun & others

TEMPLES, SPIRES Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (August 2) Mop-topped psych-pop. !!!

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (August 3) Indie disco-dance.

OVO FEST w/ Outkast, Drake Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday and Monday (August 3 and 4) See preview, page 51.

THE KOOKS, CLARA NOVA Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Monday (August 4) Rambunctious Britpop.

KINGS OF LEON, YOUNG THE GIANT, KONGOS Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Tuesday (August 5) Southern-tinged rock and roll.

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ALISON HINDS

You’re familiar with the Queen of Soul.

The King of Pop. The King of Rock ’n’ Roll. If you don’t yet know the Queen of Soca, Alison Hinds, it’s time to get caught up. The London-born, Barbados-bred artist – yes, there’s room on the island for more than one diva – has just two studio albums (the most recent 2010’s Caribbean Queen) but is still one of the foremost performers in her genre.

We love the singer for her party-starting singles like The More You Get and her A-list collabos with Shaggy and her male soca counterpart Machel Montano, but our favourite thing about Hinds is her badass feminist messages, exemplified best in her calypso-fied anthem Roll It Gal. Nathan Phillips Square (100 Queen West), Friday (August 1), 9:30 pm.

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Beres Hammond, Tarrus riley, maxi PriesT, mr Vegas and oTHers Redemption Toronto Reggae Festival Sound Academy Parking Lot 2 to 11 pm, $60-$100, two-day pass $100. torontoreggaefest.com. August 16 and 17.

Hooray for earTH The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. August 19.

Jully Black, lazyBones, alysHa Brilla, craig sTickland and oTHers Meet Me In Africa Fundraiser For Mama Jane’s Orphanage In Tanzania Speakeasy 21 9 pm, $30. August 20.

magic sHoPPe, THe VeldT, THe HigHesT order, B-17 Optical Sounds CineCycle $10.

August 23.

Pregnancy scares, TV freaks, PelVic floor, souPcans S.H.I.B.G.B’s 9 pm, all ages, $10.

September 7.

muTual BenefiT Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. September 20.

BoBan & marko markoVic orkesTra Small World Music Festival Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $30. SWM. September 26. desTroid, flux PaVillion, uz, TerraViTa Safe In Sound Festival Kool Haus 10 pm, $30. INK. September 26. ema Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. September 30. eTHan JoHns Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS, TF. October 3.

Barenaked ladies, cHanTal kreViazuk, raine maida David Suzuki’s Blue Dot Tour

Massey Hall 8 pm, $39.50-$79.50. October 3.

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daVid gray Massey Hall doors 7

pm, $55-$75. RTH, TM. October 7.

Tom Wilson A Family Gathering Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30$32.50. HR. October 10. sTeVe gunn Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. October 15. somo Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $25-$105.50. LN. October 21. faT WHiTe family, Jeffrey leWis Hard Luck Bar $12. TW. October 22.

Ben frosT Wavelength And Burn Down The Capital Garrison doors 9 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. October 24. dum dum girls Opera House doors 8 pm, $21.50. RT, SS, TF. October 26. ligHTs The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $35. LN. October 27. dry THe riVer Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 1.

BroTHer ali, BamBu, dJ lasT Word Tattoo doors 8 pm,

$18.50. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM. November 5.

Prof louis & THe croWmaTix Hugh’s Room 8:30

pm, $22.50-$25. HR. November 16.

QuinTron and miss PussycaT

Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS,

TF. November 19.

skinny PuPPy, VnV naTion Sound

Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $43.50$48.50. RT, SS, TF. November 28.

Blonde redHead Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $21.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 29. o-ToWn Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $26.50. RT, SS, TF. December 8.

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air canada cenTre Jack White, Benjamin Booker doors 7 pm. ñ alleycaTz Yonge Verve Series.

Berkeley sTreeT THeaTre Intermission Vol 3: Victory/Vice Brendan Canning, ñ the Double Cuts, the Great Grantsby doors 8 pm.

college Park courTyard Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & Fitness Classes Turbo Street Funk (funk) noon. douBle douBle land Schooly Eskobar, Chris Fernandez, Sandy Pearlman, Chris Brooks and others (hip-hop) doors 8:30 pm. drake HoTel Cold Specks. See cover story, page 44.

HorsesHoe The Split Squad (Michael Giblin, Clem Burke, Keith Streng, Josh Kantor, Eddie Munoz), Arson, Tongue Fu doors 8:30 pm.

THe JuncTion kiTcHen and Bar Soul Condition 8 to 11 pm. kensingTon lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm. lee’s Palace 10 O’Clock People, Roncy Boys, I Hate Todd, Red Falcon White Lightning.

99 sudBury Open Roof Festival: Outdoor concert & film screening series Jill Godin (singer/songwriter) doors 7:30 pm. orBiT room Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan tribute) 10 pm.

PauPer’s PuB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm.

THe PisTon The Capitol Beat, Christian Bridges 9 pm. riVoli Kennedy Cult, Graeme Kennedy, Cyprian, Gdansk doors 8:30 pm.

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sony cenTre for THe Performing arTs Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nicole Atñ kins 8 pm. souTHside JoHnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

TaTToo Last Winter Tour Bas, the 6th Letter (hip-hop) 9 pm. See preview, page 54. ñ 3030 dundas WesT Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk, Whiskey Epiphany 10 pm.

Virgin moBile mod cluB Canadian Air Guitar Championship: Right To Play Canada Benefit 8 pm.

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asPeTTa caffe Open Mic El Faron 8 pm.

Bar radio Kristine Schmitt & her Special

Powers (bluegrass) 10 pm. cameron House The Double Cuts 10 pm, C&C Surf Factory 8 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm.

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caMeron house back rooM Kill Mathilda midnight, Cardboard Crowns 11 pm, Gammage 10 pm. dakoTa Tavern Animal Parts 9 pm.

echo beach aT MoLson aMPhiTheaTre Old Crow Medicine Show, Matt Anderñ sen & the Mellotones, Del Barber doors 6 pm, all ages.

eMMeT ray bar Don’t Worry Darlin w/ Shan-

non Hoff (folk/country) 9 pm. free TiMes cafe Jtensha, Will Gillespie (folk/ songwriter/rock/alt). kraMer’s Ken Yoshioka (blues) 7:30 pm.

CLaMPorT sTadiuM Caribbean Carnival Toronto: King & Queen Show 7 pm to midnight.

LinsMore Tavern John Findlay Explosion (blues/jazz) 9 pm.

The LocaL gesT Jeff & Noah 8 pm.

The LocaL The Sandy Pockets 9 pm.

LoLa Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

LuLa Lounge Break On Through Gillian Nic-

ola, Earth Messengers, the Marwills (rock/ blues/soul) doors 8 pm.

MéLange Blues Night Johnny Cox 9 pm.

Monarchs Pub Blues Thursdays The Jack de Keyzer Band 8 pm.

ToronTo Music garden Summer Music In The Garden: Panache! Panache Quartet (female fiddling supergroup) 7 pm.

Tranzac souThern cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm, Dan McKinnon (blues) 10 pm. unicorn Pub Fiction (country).

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GAtE 403 Paul Llew-Williams & the Brickhouse Trio 9 pm, Peter Campbell Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. hArBourfron t cEn trE BoulEvArd tEn t

Dancing On The Pier: Swingin’ Through The Ages – The Last 40 Years Of Big Band Hits Toronto All-Star Big Band 7 to 10 pm. hElicon iAn hAll Toronto Summer Music Festival Nico Dann’s Rhododendron (modern jazz) 5 pm. thE JAZZ Bistro Brian DeLima Quartet 9 pm.

KAMA Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ John MacLeod (trumpet, flugelhorn) 5 to 8 pm.

MusidEuM Glen Hall & Bernie Koenig (improvised) 8 pm. rEPosAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rEsErvoir loun GE Aprés Work Series Beverly Taft & Her Swell Fellas 7 to 9 pm. thE rEx Dave Young Sextet 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

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Oldies 990 (oldies rock covers) 9:30 pm.

Dog Fashion Disco, Like Animas, (U) The Band doors 7:30 pm. horsEshoE Addington County Revue, the Key Frames, Oxford Blue, Blackwood Honeybees. iZAKAyA sushi housE Drofnosura, Altarus, Ischemic (doom/sludge/death metal) doors 8:30 pm.

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Tickets available at ticketweb.ca, Rotate This, Soundscapes and Play De Record.

For info visit www.embracepresents.com.

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michael brun Breakout Haitian artist among VELD’s EDM superstars. By BENJAMIN BOLES

MichAEl Brun with cAlvin hArris, MArtin GArrix, Kn ifE PArty & ZEdd, iGGy AZAlEA and many more, as part of vEld fEstivAl (day two), at Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Sunday (August 3), 11 am. $225.44-$305. veldmusicfestival.com.

Growing up in Haiti gave Michael Brun a unique perspective on EDM. While most people first experience dance music at parties, for many years Brun could only imagine what an electronic bass drum feels like coming out of a big sound system.

“There aren’t really any clubs in Haiti,” Brun explains from his current home in Miami. “Everything I heard was through friends, not at events.”

It wasn’t until he went away to military school in Indiana that he began to commit more seriously to producing electronic music.

But that wasn’t because living in America gave him much better access to clubbing.

“I wouldn’t really say there was that much electronic music in Indiana either. It was more that I had time to do other things after school, and music was the one hobby I really enjoyed.”

Some of the tunes he posted on the internet started getting buzz on the blogs, which led to bigger gigs when he’d return home to Haiti in the summers – there weren’t many other local DJs competing for opening slots when promoters began bringing international talent. Soon he found himself signed to EDM superstar Dirty South’s label, Phazing, and playing the global festival circuit.

Not bad for someone who’s only been DJing professionally for a year and a half. And through his new label, Kid Coconut, he’s already paying it forward.

“Growing up in Haiti there were very few ways to get my music out to the public. I want to provide some kind of outlet for other up-and-coming artists who don’t really have an audience and want to be able to expand their reach – like Dirty South did for me.”

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rivoli Full Circle Stay Out Late, Elcee, Jahkoy, YT!, Gmilla, Sean Leon, ñ Tremayne, Scott Free, Jape, DJ Seven, DJ

Hustlegirl (hip-hop) doors 9 pm. rocKPilE The Agonist, Caym, Desolaterage (metal) doors 8 pm, all ages. roGErs cEn trE Where We Are Tour One Direction doors 5 pm. s.h.i.B.G.B’s Cro Mags, Enforcers, Long Knife, Hassler & Wild Side 8 pm. southsidE John n y’s Cameltoe (rock/top 40) 10 pm. trin ity squArE PArK Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & Fitness Classes Tracey Gallant Trio (soul/rock) noon. villAGE of yorKvillE PArK Summer Music In The Park Endless Summer Duo 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

Cwilson AvEn uE outdoor ArEn A Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Jab Jab J’Ouvert Talpree, Lava Man, Skinny Fabulous, Bunji Garlin, Fayann Lyonns, Problem Child, JW & Blaze, ASA Banton, Mr Leggs, Tommy G, GBolo 10 pm to 4:30 am. yon GE-dun dAs squArE Indie Fridays KC Roberts & the Live Revolution 8-10 pm.

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cAMEron housE Kayla Howran 10 pm, Lucas Stagg 6 pm.

dAKotA tAvErn Samantha Martin & the Haggard (alt country) 9 pm. dorA KEoGh Kyp Harness & the Chemical Valley Cowboys (folk/country). frEE tiMEs cAfE Arturo Rojas (folk/Latin) 8:30 pm.

GrossMAn ’s Combo Royale 10 pm, Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm.

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stAGE Island Soul: Festival Kompa Zouk Ontario Edwin Yearwood & Krosfyah, House of David Gang (soca) 8 pm. thE holE in thE wAll Ken Yoshioka, Kenmi Chank (blues).

Lou Dawg’s Live Acoustic Blues/Funk/Soul Night 10 pm.

LuLa Lounge Changui Havana (salsa) 10:30

pm, Eliana Cuevas (bolero/Latin jazz/Mexican) 7:30 pm.

MusiDeuM Music India Summer Series Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell, Ed Hanley (sitar, tabla) 8 pm.

Cnathan PhiLLiPs square Irie Music Festival Alison Hinds (calypso/soca) 9:30 pm. the rex Chuck Jackson (blues) 9:45 pm. tranzac southern cross Snaggle.

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Benares historic house On The Verandah Summer Concerts 7:30 pm.

eDwarD Johnson BuiLDing waLter haLL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Russia After Revolution Jonathan Crow, Martin Beaver, Paul Coletti, Marc Coppey, Angela Chang 7:30 pm. heLiconian haLL Toronto Summer Music Festival Carol Gimbel, Pemi Paull (viola) 5 pm. the Jazz Bistro Brian DeLima Quartet 8 pm. oLD MiLL inn hoMe sMith Bar Brian Dickinson Trio 7:30 pm. the rex Lester McLean 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

BunDa Lounge Sunset Fridays DJ Jessica Cho. cLassic Lounge Vybz Friday Soul Vibes, Em-

pire Sound (reggae/dancehall/soca/R&B/hiphop) doors 10 pm. coDa Tech Simon Doty, Deko-Ze, Jayforce, Carson & Elsonne.

Drake hoteL unDergrounD Y2K The Millenium Dance Party DJ Matt Roan, DJ Marco Morales.

CguvernMent skyBar Soul Kitchen: Carnival Edition Jester, Spoonz, Kid Kut 10 pm. the hoxton Gesaffelstein doors 10 pm.

Chush Lounge Caribana Weekend: Trinidad & Jamaica DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief, DJ Smartiez (R&B/soca/hip-hop/reggae). the Piston Building Blocks (soul/R&B/hiphop) 10 pm.

Criver gaMBLer Pure...The Day Cruise DJs Spice, Soca Sweetness, Jester, MeJustik. rivoLi PooL Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). the savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm.

3030 DunDas west DJ WhatsHerProblem? (all vinyl retro dance party). tota Lounge Album launch party Chilli Banks, Gremlinz b2b Rumbleton, DJ Ghaleon, Russy Badmon (jungle/drum & bass). wayLa Bar Superstar DJ Mark Falco (top 40/ house/electro) 10 pm.

Saturday, August 2 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

aLLeycatz Lady Kane.

CBLue DiaMonD haLL Gage, Tristan Fives-

tar, Eyesus, Razor B, Alicia Cinnamon, Kerri French, Don Million, Fire Lion, Nitro, Magnum Force, DJ Superstar and others. cavern Bar Lilly Mason, Garret Olson 10 pm.

Downsview Park VELD Music Festival Armin Van Buuren, Ingrosso, Nero, Bingo Players, W&W, Dannic, Oliver Heldens, Num de Strip, Mark Oliver, Waka Flocka Flame, Brillz, CAKED UP, Milo & Otis, Sliink, OVERWERK, Hatras, MC Flipside gates 11 am, all ages. gLaDstone hoteL BaLLrooM Dick Rodan, Norway, 5th PROJEKT, Modern Sands (psych rock) doors 9 pm. harD Luck Bar Macabre, Incantation 8 pm. horseshoe Hospitality, Frankie Cosmos, Porches doors 9 pm. See album review, page 55. iMPeriaL PuB Das Rad, Cellphone, Battlewulf 10 pm.

CinternationaL centre arrow haLL The Main Event: HD Edition Machel Montano, Patrice Roberts, Farmer Nappy, Bunji Garlin, Kerwin Du Bois, Fay-Ann Lyons, Ravi B & Karma doors 8 pm. king’s BeLLy Gary 17’s Acoustic Showcase & Open Stage Trevor Jones (roots pop) 8:30 pm.

Lee’s PaLace Temples, Spires doors 9 pm.

MéLange Hip-Hop Night Reel (rap trio) 9 pm. rePosaDo Bradley & the Bouncers (swing).

CrivoLi Heatwave: Carnival Ammoye, Tasha T, Blessed doors 9 pm. rogers centre Where We Are Tour One Direction doors 5 pm.

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Silver Dollar The Saffron Sect, Brent Randall & his Rainbow Twangers, the ñ Red Plastic Buddha, Annie & the Honks.

SouthSiDe Johnny’S The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4-8 pm.

Cthrone nightclub Dollars Dollars The

Caribana Flossing Affair Stone Love, Military, Nitro Da CD Sound, No Limit Sound. velvet unDergrounD Alexy doors 8 pm. virgin Mobile MoD club Bear’s Den (folk rock) doors 7 pm.

CWilD Water KingDoM Stamina Bunji Garlin, Mr Killa, Ki, Fay-Ann Lyons, Mighty Sparrow and others.

CWilSon avenue outDoor arena

Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Summer ñ Slamm Bunji Garlin, Fayann Lyonns & the Vi-

king Band, Destra, Iwer George, JW & Blaze, KI, Drupatee, Major Lazor, Lava Man, Whitebwoy, DJ Myles and others (reggae/soca/salsa) gates 8:30 pm, showtime midnight.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

bar raDio Chris Staig (roots) 4 pm, Sugar Brown (blues) 10 pm. caMeron houSe Luke Bill 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm.

pm.

Dora Keogh Al Wood Band (blues) eve, Trad-

itional Irish Music Session Debbie Quigley & Patrick Orceau 4 to 7 pm.

Cexhibition Place Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Grand Parade 9 am to 6 pm.

Free tiMeS caFe Russell Leon Band (folk/songwriter/rock) 8:30 pm.

centre reDPath Stage Island Soul Joy Lapps Project 6:15 ñ to 7 pm, Cultural Guru Steelband 4:30 to 5 CharbourFront

pm, House of David Gang 3 to 4 pm. lula lounge Salsotika (salsa) 10:30 pm.

Cnathan PhilliPS Square Irie Music Festival Richie Spice 9:30 pm.

Portobello Words And Music Harpin’ Norm Lucien, Jim McCuaig, Mark Ripp 1:30 to 4:30 pm. tranzac JamZac (folk) 3 pm. village oF yorKville ParK Summer Music In The Park David Leask (Celtic soul) 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

by the Way caFe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm. eDWarD JohnSon builDing Walter hall

Toronto Summer Music Festival: TSM Mentors & Fellows Jonathan Crow, Martin Beaver, Paul Coletti, Marc Coppey, Angela Cheng 4 & 7:30 pm. groSSMan’S The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

CharbourFront centre WeStJet Stage

Island Soul Marcia Griffiths (reggae) 9:30 pm, the Mountain Edge Roots N Culture Band 8 pm. the Jazz biStro Brian DeLima Quartet 8 pm.

Mount PleaSant ceMetery viSitation centre Music At Mount Pleasant Métis Fiddler Quartet 5 to 6 pm.

MuSiDeuM Tribute To Sarah Vaughan Jordana Talsky (jazz) 8 pm.

olD Mill inn hoMe SMith bar Alexis Baro

Quartet 7:30 pm. the rex Howard Moore & the Vipers 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7:30 pm, Laura Hubert Band 3:30 pm, Chris Kettlewell noon.

CSt cleMent oF ohriD catheDral MaceDonian banquet hall Festival Kompa Zouk Djakout 10 pm.

tranzac Southern croSS Robert Diack (jazz) 10 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

anDy Poolhall Major Rajer DJs Billionaire, Ballistik, Mickehy D, O-God (house.hip-hop/ reggae/remixes) 10 pm. aria coMPlex Starstruck Saturdays: Dance With The Devil. baSSline MuSic bar Let There Be House DJs Toronto Hustle, Dirty Dale, Void Music & the Dynasty Network 10 pm. celt’S Pub Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness Visible (gothic/dark alternative/retro) 10:30 pm.

CclaSSic lounge Carnival Saturday: Stam-

pede Lindo P, Fatkat Ent., Tasha Rozez, Chris Dubbs (reggae/dancehall/soca/calypso/ol skool/hip-hop/R&B) doors 9 pm. clinton’S Shake, Rattle, Roll Bangs & Blush (60s rock/pop/soul) doors 10 pm. club 120 Mad-Brass Heroes DJs Dopamyne, Cynex, Lady Bass, Evilize, Fallout, Shok (hardstyle/hardcore/hard dance) doors 10 pm.5 coDa Unofficial Veld After Party Greg Gow, Jonathan Rosa, Mike Terra, Casualties of Sound, IAMBE. the garriSon Chronologic Goin’ Steady DJs (doors 10 pm).

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Sounds Ricky Turbo, Moss Man, Johny Black, DJ Chocolate, Choppa Choppa 10:30 pm. the hoxton Jagwar Ma doors 6:30 pm.

ChuSh lounge Caribana Weekend: Jeans Party DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief, DJ Smartiez (R&B/ soca/hip-hop/reggae).

CKool hauS Def Jam Party Walshy Fire, DJ Self, DJ Koles, Firekid Steenie, DJ Capone, MC Crazy Chris. lou DaWg’S DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hi-hop) 10 pm. the PiSton With It (60s mod dance party) 10 pm.

Poetry Jazz caFe DayDream DJ Jennifer Loveless, DJ Deep 2:30 to 7:30 pm. rivoli Pool lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/ club) doors 9 pm. the Savoy Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm.

751 Motown Party 6-Year Anniversary Pooyan, Fawn BC, Laura Desire, Brett Cameron, Reverend Throwdown.

SuPerMarKet Do Right! Saturdays DJ John Kong, MC Abs (funk/soul/hip-hop) 10:30 pm. tattoo Häus Donate two pieces of clothing to get in free.

3030 DunDaS WeSt Curse These Metal Hands (Britpop/hip-hop/Bowie). tiMe nightclub Time Sundays DJ Wikked, DJ Dattabass, JG, Scotty Scratch. velvet unDergrounD Panic: Echo & the Bunnymen Spotlight DJ Lazarus 10 pm.

Wayla bar Daddy Next Door DJ Dwane Minard, Mike B (house) 10 pm.

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• S ATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6 • THE CURE BILLY TALENT RISE AGAINST THE FLAMING LIPS DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 • BRAND NEW • PAUL WELLER • AWOLNATION • BRING ME THE HORIZON TAKING BACK SUNDAY • THE AFGHAN WHIGS • ALKALINE TRIO • GLASSJAW BOB MOULD • NEW FOUND GLORY • CIRCA SURVIVE • MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA • TITLE FIGHT BAD SUNS • C ITIZEN • MOUNTIES • PENTIMENTO • BRONCHO • L AURA STEVENSON THE BEACHES • SOMOS • THE BOTS • LITTLE BIG LEAGUE • TRIGGER HAPPY

• S UNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 • CITY AND COLOUR METRIC THE NATIONAL SOCIAL DISTORTION DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE STARS • THE HEAD AND THE HEART • DROPKICK MURPHYS • DIE ANTWOORD TOKYO POLICE CLUB • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS • THURSTON MOORE • BUZZCOCKS CLUTCH • LUCERO • LEMURIA • PUP • NOSTALGHIA • RADKEY • RUBBLEBUCKET THE HOTELIER • RESTORATIONS • SAY YES • SEAWAY • WOUNDS • DEAD TIRED

cherry cola’S rocK n’ rolla Sinful Sundays

Burlesque doors 9 pm.

DoWnSvieW ParK VELD Music Festival Calvin Harris, Knife Party & ZEDD, Marñ tin Garrix, Tommy Trash, Adventure Club,

DVBBS, Blau, Michael Brun, Manzone & Strong, Iggy Azalea, Gramatik, Feed Me, Gritz, Savoy, What So Not, DJ Green Lantern, the Sour DJ gates 11 am, all ages. See Michael Brun preview, page 48. hanDlebar Nite Comfort Processor & Brian Schirk (noisy electronic) doors 8 pm. hirut Fine ethioPian cuiSine Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3-6 pm.

horSeShoe !!! (Chk Chk Chk) doors 8 pm. ñ lee’S Palace Groundation, House of David

Gang (roots/reggae) doors 8 pm.

MolSon aMPhitheatre OVO Fest Outkast 7 pm. See preview, page 51 Cnathan PhilliPS Square Irie Music Festival Etana (reggae) 9:30 pm. orbit rooM Horshack (classic rock hits) 10 pm.

Phoenix concert theatre The Winery Dogs, Heavens Fire, Suckershot doors 7 pm. rivoli A FellowShip doors 8 pm.

S.h.i.b.g.b’S Power Trip, Mammoth Grinder, Hounds of Hate & Willing Victim 8 pm, all ages.

CSounD acaDeMy Fire Fete Bunji Garlin (reggae/soca) doors 10 pm.

SouthSiDe Johnny’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

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blacK bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. brigaDoon reStaurant Open Jam Murphy’s

Law (rock/top 40) 4 to 8 pm. the cage 292 Jam Phil Hood 10 pm.

DaKota tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Dora Keogh Traditional Irish Music Session Patrick Ourceau 5 to 8 pm.

DuFFy’S tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues). eMMet ray bar Graham Playford (folk/songwriter/rock/roots) 9 pm. groSSMan’S Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

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CharbourFront centre WeStJet Stage

Kompa Zouk Festival/Island Soul Boukman Experyans 9:30 pm, Djakout 1 8 pm, J-Perry 7:30 pm, Exile One Band 1:30 to 2:15 pm.

CharbourFront centre reDPath Stage

Kompa Zouk Festival/Island Soul NUZ, Vietzoukeur 7 to 8 pm, Fonksyon, Woodney Pierre 3 to 4 pm, Tamsir Seck (Senegalese drumming and dance) noon. linSMore tavern Sam Taylor & the East End Love (blues/rock) 5 to 9 pm. lou DaWg’S Gospel Choir Southern Brunch noon. lula lounge Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza Group (salsa) 11 am.

CMarKhaM FairgrounDS Jambana One World Festival Mighty Sparrow, Jully Black, JC Lodge, Exco Levi, Pluto Shervington, Marcia Griffiths, Leroy Gibbon and others 1 to 9 pm.

McgraDieS taP anD grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm.

ColyMPic iSlanD Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Carnival Island Destra, Crazy, Drupatee (soca/calypso) 11 am to 9 pm.

SuPerMarKet Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. tranzac Southern croSS The Woodchoppers Association 10 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, No Angels Dancing (Allison Cameron & D Alex Meeks) 1 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

Free tiMeS caFe Brunch The Horables (jazz/ klezmer) 11 am, 1:15 pm.

groSSMan’S New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

the local geSt Sunday Jazz Sherie Marshall,

Mike Cado, Artie Roth 4:30 pm.

Mel laStMan Square Sunday Serenades Bob Cary Orchestra 7 to 9:30 pm.

ParaDiSe bar & billiarDS Jazz Jam The Unit 4 to 8 pm. the rex Pram Trio (jazz) 9:30 pm, Dan Fortin Quartet 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

cube rooFtoP Hot Stepper Sundays DJs Mike Tull & Paul E Lopes doors 4 pm.

CharbourFront centre brigantine rooM

Kompa Zouk Festival/Island Soul: Late Night Party DJ Moet (kuduro/house/zouk) 11 pm.

ChuSh lounge Caribana Weekend: HipHopNotiq DJ Phat Kat, DJ Chief, DJ Smartiez (R&B/soca/hip-hop/reggae).

Con the rox Naked: Toronto Carnival Champion Squad, Noah with Di Powa (remix/ reggae).

CProDuct nightclub Icon: Destination YYZ DJ Starting from Scratch, Jester, Soca Sweetness, Lindo P, Renegade Squad, Kid Kut, Brenton B. 10 pm.

Crevival IREMEMBER & DUTTY: Simmer Down Shai, Choppa Chop (reggae) doors 10 pm.

Ctattoo Caribana Sunday After Party DJ Dave Campbell, Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull 9 pm.

Monday, August 4 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

the DanForth MuSic hall The Kooks, Clara Nova doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ groSSMan’S No Band Required 10 pm.

horSeShoe Shoeless Mondays Death Party Playgound, Tom Frelek Band.

MolSon aMPhitheatre OVO Fest Drake. See preview, page 51.

Sauce on the DanForth The Out of Towners (soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm.

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the central Dylan Ryche, Donovan Raitt, Dallas Sutherland.

Free tiMeS caFe Open Stage Mondays Montgomery Brown 7:30 pm.

the garriSon Tiny Ruins doors 8 pm.

CharbourFront centre reDPath Stage Island Soul: Tobago Day Princess

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Adana (reggae-infused R&B) 4 to 5 pm, Gerard Balfour & Ricardo Seales 12:30 to 1:15 pm.

CharbourFront centre WeStJet Stage

Island Soul Calypso Stars & OCPA 5 to 7 pm, Tobago Heritage Drummers & Dancers 1 to 2 pm.

CharbourFront centre boulevarD tent

Island Soul Afro-Pan Steel Orchestra 3 to 4 pm.

CJaMaican canaDian aSSociation Festival Kompa Zouk: A Creole Explosion Exile One, Sandy Gamma Band 6 pm.

CMarKhaM FairgrounDS Jambana One World Festival Cocoa Tea, Blakk Rasta, Steele, Long Shen Dao, Donnett Thompson-Hall, Miss P, Jay Harmony, Real 3D and others 1 to 9 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Simcoe is Lord, Karen Ng & D Alex Meeks 7:30 pm.

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AVA: AUBREY’S Vth ANNIVERSARY Toronto’s own celebrates five years of crowdshocking performances

By STEPHEN DU MANOIR In any other city, the mayor’s annual party would be a celebration of the city as a cultural force, and the biggest hip-hop festival a controversial event with potential for bizarre spectacle and worst behaviour. In Toronto, it’s the very reverse thanks to October’s Very Own, Aubrey Drake Graham.

OVO Fest (not to be confused with Ovu-Fest, a pagan fertility celebration that happens every solstice somewhere in Oregon) comes back for its fifth birthday this weekend with sky-high expectations. The return of Outkast to a Toronto stage for the first time in more than 10 years should be enough to attract every fiend from here to Halifax, but Drake’s penchant for surprise guest stars has put the hype for this weekend’s show over the top.

A lot of ink has been spilled on who might appear (Iggy? Macklemore? David Soknacki riding a burro?), but the show’s almost perfect record so far might have spoiled fans. How can Drizzy top himself, given what we’ve already seen? Here are three of the most iconic moments so far, and how he might supersede them.

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Eminem and the still hyphenated Jay-Z show up unannounced at the first OVO in 2010. The presence of the kings lets the whole world know this is an event (and kid) to watch.

How to top it Get some real royalty onstage. Prince just celebrated the 30th anniversary of Purple Rain. I bet it would take about three seconds of Let’s Go Crazy before the crowd obliged.

In 2011 Stevie Wonder takes to the keys and in a halfhour, almost completely uninterrupted set reminds everyone that you don’t get to use the stage name “Wonder” without keeping your chops sharp.

How to top it Find someone with an even more boastful nom de plume. Get Joey Bada$$, give him a keyboard and let him destroy it with a lead pipe while he raps. (I don’t think he plays.)

Better yet, make it Notorious B.I.G. The only thing more impressive than a blind man making everyone see would be making Life After Death a real thing.

The white-hot Nicki Minaj arriving for a Young Money love-in in 2012, calling Drake her husband while they duetted on some of their biggest label hits.

How to top it Don’t settle for one token female: get all the women you can. Rihanna. Erykah. Missy. Lauren. Azealia.

Mary J. Bey. Wasn’t it Drake who said Girls Love Beyoncé, after all?

OVO Fest with Outkast, Drake and special guests at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday and Monday (August 3 and 4), 7 pm. $49.50-$299.50, LN, TM.

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BaS with The 6Th leTTer at Tattoo (567 Queen West), Thursday (July 31), 9 pm. $15. INK, TM. When it came time for Queens rapper Bas, born Abbas Hamad, to release his latest project, Last Winter (Dreamville/ Interscope), the up-and-coming emcee and his close friend, hip-hop star/ Dreamville head J. Cole, had some decisions to make.

“We just did an Interscope deal and we wanted to really make a statement,” says Bas (pronounced with a long “ah” sound) over the phone from his hotel room in Vancouver – a recent tour stop where the Dreamville crew have spontaneously decided to record.

“Me and Cole would talk…. ‘It’s not a mixtape – there’s no freestyles, it’s all original work, I’m not rapping on other people’s beats, so let’s just call it what it is.’ It’s an album even if people aren’t necessarily ready for an album from me just yet. But we would have sold ourselves short naming it a mixtape.”

The project coasts along on the chillest of summertime beats, matched in serenity by the fluidity of the rapper’s flow – indebted a little to his mentor, but individual nonetheless.

The hilarious promo video Dreamville made for the project – a spoof of ESPN’s 30 For 30 documentary series

with the tagline “An album from a n--ga who ain’t got a lot of fans yet” – was characteristic of what separates them from other hip-hop collectives.

“Our main objective is to put classic projects together. It’s not about the posturing that’s typical in hip-hop,” says Bas. “We just really believe in the road.

Cole was signed two years before his first album came out. Those two years he’s going city to city – it’s like a campaign trail. As far as image, we’re not concerned about it, cuz that stuff is not real. Other people do it for perception, for social media, for the internet.”

Bas started by tagging along with Cole, making music on the road and observing. Then, over multiple tours, he slowly built his live skills, going from performing one song to 15-, 30and 45-minutes sets, until now, his headlining tour.

That practice also honed his craft.

“When you watch a live show every night, you take in the moments that the crowd really responds to and anticipates,” he says. “That changes how you write songs, because you have to write those moments into the songs.”

There won’t be any inside jokes to make about album two. Bas – and his fans – have arrived.

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album reviews

JEREMIH AND SHLOHMO No

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Pop/Rock TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS Hypnotic Eye (Warner)

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Sullivan is the softest and most Trouble sombre, while on the opposite end of the (Merge) Rating: spectrum, I Miss Your Bones – impressiveBrooklyn trio Hospitality’s debut album ly tracked live – is almost Spoon-like in its stood out for its upbeat melodies, imvivacity, propulsive momenpressionistic lyrics and a tum and unusual phrasing. touch light enough to verge It’s Not Serious will appeal on twee. Those things are into Belle & Sebastian fans, tact on their follow-up, but while the murky, late-hours newfound shades of grey dance-floor vibe of Last make it more complex and Words brings Bon Iver to striking than album one. mind.

Without ever growing Hospitality clearly draw heavy – they rarely rely on from and work within the distortion – softly crooning indie rock spectrum, yet find ways to singer/guitarist Amber Papini, bassist make the elements add up to something Brian Betancourt and drummer Nathan uniquely satisfying.

Michel offer up 10 songs full of space Top track: Last Words and nuance while still delivering hooks OC_NOW_ July2014_Layout 1 2014-06-30 2:38 PM Page 1 Hospitality play the Horseshoe Saturday aplenty.

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Rating: NNN Many of the songs on Hypnotic Eye – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 13th album – would be right at home on the band’s Greatest Hits or 1979’s Damn The Torpedoes. None of them are as immediately catchy or memorable, and perhaps that’s to be expected. But Petty and Co. are at ease and doing what they please.

The bandleader himself calls this a “straight hard-rockin’ record,” but there’s actually a fair amount of variety, from the crunchy onslaught of opener American Dream Plan B to the speedy jazz-tinged surf rock of Fault Lines, the mellower piano blues of Full Grown Boy and soft bossa nova of Sins Of My Youth.

Petty is charismatic on Red River, which also has the most winning chorus. Listen to the band as it drops out, then comes back in after a wailing guitar solo on Power Drunk – you can actually hear Petty count everyone back in. Then there’s the long closer, Shadow People (sounding more than a little like Refugee), ending with an eccentric, quiet coda.

Top track: Red River Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers play the Air Canada Centre August 26. SARAH GREENE

R&B PARTYNEXTDOOR PARTYNEXT-

DOOR TWO (OVO Sound) Rating: NNN The second song on PARTYNEXTDOOR’s self-produced second project is a rare break from his electro-skittery norm: the track Sls’s piano-driven melody, soulful backup ahhing and finger-snap vibe – filtered through characteristic woozy distortion, of course – is the closest thing Party’s got to a Boyz II Men ballad.

But he’s got another thing in common with 90s vocal groups: tender lovin’ care.

Unlike his debut, Party is as much about the ladies as he wants them to be about him. He still loves strippers, but he’s also reflective, remorseful, aware in his own still obscene way. “I promise to love you and obey,” he croons on Thirsty, before more unsavoury proclamations. Another highlight: the return of smooth sax interludes – delightfully at odds with his posturing, often crude lyrics.

Unfortunately, Party hasn’t kicked all his bad habits. Drake’s alt-R&B protege is a singer who sometimes slow-raps. Too bad that his singing and speaking voices – his sound in general – are so startlingly like Drake’s that sometimes you wonder who is actually on the mic: mentor or mentee.

Top track: Sls JULIA LeCONTE

More (Wedidit) Rating: NNN After their successful collaborative track Bo Peep (Do U Right) in 2013, L.A. electronic artist Shlohmo and Chicago R&B crooner Jeremih (he of Birthday Sex fame) are back with an entire EP of sexy co-pros.

Shlohmo provides the beats and breaks; Jeremih the quietly purred-out vocals. The former is allowed to experiment, subtly shifting soundscapes, while the latter’s mostly confined to repeating the same lustful lines, e.g. “I wanna fuck you all the time,” on Fuck You All The Time Remix. Not that it doesn’t require skill.

Sensing his place amidst the slow-burning electro pulse is a testament to Jeremih’s restraint. Knowing when to turn it up – more emphatically asserting himself with repetitions of “I’m gon’ do you right” on Bo Peep – is just as important.

The whole thing is enjoyable if not deeply impactful. The goal is to make us feel some typa way – but only Let It Go (Jeremih goes for broke, Shlohmo conjures dramatic 90s synths) really gets under your skin. track: Let It Go Top track JL

collaborator No I.D. – reveals an enlivened emcee, the same forceful voice who gave us classic albums such as Be and Like Water For Chocolate.

On Nobody’s Smiling, a reference to the Chi’s gang violence epidemic, Common goes out of his way to incorporate that city’s new era of street rappers. The Neighborhood features 20-year-old gravel-voiced emcee Lil Herb going bar for bar with the vet, offering perspective from a fearful young man trapped by his surroundings, while on Hustle Harder, Dreezy’s arrogantly detached flow shines.

On No Fear, Common inhabits the voice of an enraged Chicago drug dealer, deftly avoiding overt preachiness.

On the closer, Rewind That, the artist examines the forces that have pulled him away from Chicago. His voice sounds mournful and troubled – like a man still trying to reconcile the choices that brought him away from a home he so fiercely wants to protect.

Top track: The Neighborhood JORDAN SOWUNMI

SOULJA BOY King Soulja 3

Metal KOBRA AND THE LOTUS High Priestess (Titan) Rating: NNN Kobra Paige has vocals straight out of the Bruce Dickinson school of metal: powerful, epic, soaring, both low in her chest and able to scale insane heights. The Calgary native’s vibrato could shake concrete, and her execution is note perfect throughout Kobra and the Lotus’s third album.

The songwriting goes for broke, too.

Dazzling, virtuosic guitar solos draw from power metal, and sometimes the riffs nod to classic metal (see the thrashy Willow).

Though militaristic themes abound – song names include Warhorse, Soldier, Battle Of Wrath – the lyrics are more personal (and religious?) than old-school Maidenesque medieval D&D. It’s a dense style that has little breathing room, zero subtlety and a stiffness to the rhyme and metre. It takes itself more seriously than the acts KATL are opening for at the Molson Amphitheatre, but the band could never be accused of lacking ambition or being shrinking violets.

Top track: High Priestess Kobra and the Lotus play the Molson Amphitheatre on August 12 with KISS and Def Leppard.

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Hip-hop COMMON Nobody’s Smiling (Def Jam/ARTium) Rating: NNNN ñ In the last few years, Chicago-bred, New York-based rapper Common’s acting career has become his main hustle. His latest – entirely produced by long-time

(SODMG) Rating: NNN Seven years, one platinum record, one gold record and half a billion YouTube views into his career, Soulja Boy has nestled into a comfy spot on the mainstream’s periphery. But this year he’s played an integral role in songs by two of rap’s biggest artists – Drake’s We Made It and Nicki Minaj’s Yass Bish Yasss – which have brought the 24-year-old (!) emcee back to the forefront.

The Atlanta-based emcee is a competent mimic – most effectively aping the styles of Lil B and Gucci Mane. Here, on songs like Hustlin’ and Soulja, he takes cues from current cadence tastemakers Migos, who show up to steal the show on Gas In My Tank.

Soulja Boy’s willingness to experiment is one reason he’s been so successful, so it’s fitting that the album’s highlights come when he takes his flow to extremes.

On Come Try It, he uses Auto-Tune to float on a sparkly Zaytoven beat, elongating his vowels in a way that sounds both volatile and defiant.

Top track: Come Try It JS

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BEND THE RIVER So Long Joan Fontaine (independent) Rating: NNN Like Toronto’s Bruce Peninsula, Bandloving Haligonian septet Bend the River make soulful folk-rock lush with atmospheric backup vocal swells care of Norma MacDonald and Becky Siamon, whose voices blend beautifully.

On their second album, the group try out more ambitious arrangements, speeding up, slowing down and going nuts with organ and tambourine solos. Yet sometimes their efforts sound meandering; Ronok Sarkar’s voice and songs often work best when the band keeps things simple and nostalgic, as on stripped-down highlight Half Of My Love.

BTR do country rock well on fast-paced The Hunter In Me – the only song with banjo – while Assassins, with its slow, soft chorus, is most melodic. MacDonald takes lead vocals on torchy This Heart Of Mine, and RJ Donovan sings Dear Old Jackson.

Top track: The Hunter In Me SG

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Jason Trucco, to Aug 16. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

CART IN TRANSIT Confluence: Shifting Perspectives Of The Caribbean, to Aug 29. TTC subway screens. artintransit.ca.

ART SPIN Bike tour, 6:30 pm Jul 31 ($5).

Meet at Canoe Landing Park (Dan Leckie and Fort York). artspin.ca.

Salah’s salon Queer collection captures an era By DAVID JAGER OVER THE RAINBOW: SEDUCTION AND IDENTITY at MOCCA (Museum

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of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen West), to August 17. 416-3950067. Rating: NNNN

A sampling of the immense art collection of Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex is the focus of MOCCA’s summer exhibition in honour of WorldPride. A collection with a very queer bent, it includes photographs, prints, drawings and paintings by Stephen Andrews, Justine Kurland, Betty Goodwin, Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Andy Warhol, Attila Richard Lukacs and Andy Fabo, to name a few.

Cineplex president Bachir has been a voracious – some would say obsessive – art collector for close to three decades and has acquired an amazingly broad range of works. This show

follows the informal, close-grouped salon-style placement of Bachir’s palatial condo, with dense stacks of images from floor to ceiling.

It’s easy to be overwhelmed. There are instantly recognizable fashion and celebrity images by Ritts and Leibovitz. The unforgettable Vanity Fair cover of kd lang in 40s drag being shaved by Cindy Crawford is here, as well as the equally incredible Leibovitz shot of a naked and painted Keith Haring.

Bachir’s Warhol collection includes earlier, lesser-known portraits of New York drag queens, an interesting look at a visual style that has since become universal.

Then there are Canadian contemporary art stars like Lukacs, represented here by the classically South Asian-themed Coo Coo Ka-choo, Mr. Robinson. Fabo’s iconic self-portraits, an attempt at a meditative decon-

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA The Sahmat

Collective: Art And Activism In India Since 1989, to Oct 19. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photography; Geoffrey Farmer, to Sep 7. Matthew Barney, to Sep 28. Scott McFarland, to Aug 10. Before And After The Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to Nov 25. Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. Manasie Akpaliapik, to Jun 30, 2015. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to Aug 31.

255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

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DESIGN EXCHANGE Tapas: Spanish Design For

Food, to Aug 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, to Sep 1. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Rebecca Belmore, to Aug 9. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION

Charles Edenshaw, to Sep 21. $15, stu/srs $12.

10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA Over The Rainbow: Seduction And Identity; Par Amour/Paramour, to Aug 17. Jim Naughten, to Aug 18.

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Empty rooms NO SAFE HOUSE by Linwood Barclay (Doubleday), 453 pages, $22.95 paper.

Rating: NN

Linwood Barclay’s new thriller, No Safe House, has lots going on actionwise, but not so much when it comes to the other part of the formula: characterization.

His hero of choice is your average suburban dad, in this case high school teacher Terry – the kind of guy who pays his parking tickets on time and puts the safety of his family front and centre.

It’s a follow-up to Barclay’s last mystery, in which Terry and his

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family suffered a horrific ordeal that has bound them to a gangster operating in the nondescript American town where they live.

Terry’s wife has a seriously bad case of PTSD, and his teenage daughter is acting out. When the bad boy she’s been hanging out with goes missing, leaving a trail of blood,

CANADIAN LESBIAN AND GAY ARCHIVES

Attila Richard Lukacs’s Coo Coo Ka-choo, Mr. Robinson shines in Over The Rainbow.

struction of queer identity, dominate one wall. Andrews’s series of gay porn star portraits manage to be at once sombre and cheeky.

This show is replete with glamour,

rainbows, celebrity and lots of beefy physiques, but as a whole it points to something more nuanced and broader: the portrait of a cultural era.

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952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART The Matchbox Gallery: A Retrospective, to Oct 1. $5, stu/srs $3.

207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, to Aug 30. Gairloch (1306 Lakeshore E), Centennial (120 Navy). 905-844-4402.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE The Science Of Rock ’N’ Roll, to Oct 26. $22, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

THE POWER PLANT Pedro Reyes, Vasco Araújo and Akram Zaatari, to Sep 1.

231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24, 2015. Fashion Follows Form: Designs For Sitting; Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan

25, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE What It Means To Be Seen: Photograph And Queer Visibility; Zanele Muholi; Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay; Judy Ruzylo and Wynne Neilly, to Aug 24. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA To See And Be Seen: T-shirts From The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Ying Gao; Telling Stories, to Sep 1. The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles And Preservation, to Sep 21. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre.

416-599-5321.

VARLEY ART GALLERY The Story Of Canadian Art: As Told By The Hart House Art Collection, to Sep 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511.

she’s implicated big time.

It’s a good enough story, trotting along at a respectable pace, with a nice twist that balances the otherwise predicable ending.

But the characters are either uninteresting (Terry) or clichéd, like the gangster dying of cancer who wants to make things right with his stepdaughter. And to add insult to injury, there’s a body dump at, yes, a pig farm.

Like Barclay’s previous books – there’s one about a dominatrix working out of a split-level – No Safe House

goes into the shadowy world that lies beneath the idyllic surface of the suburban dream. It also attempts to show just how far a father will go to save his family. Sadly, it comes across more as parody than reality. The prose is far from deathless, and co-

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Imaging Home: Resistance, Migration, Contradiction; Queer And Muslim: Samra Habib, to Oct 5. Tue-Thu 7:30-10 pm, Fri 11 am-2 pm or by appt. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755.

CLINT ROENISCH First The Pleasure Then The Thesis group show, to Aug 15. 190 Saint Helens. 416-516-8593.

DE LUCA FINE ART Painting: Kathryn Bemrose, to Aug 23. 217 Avenue Rd. 416537-4699.

GLADSTONE HOTEL 10 X 10 Photography Project, to Aug 17. Prints: Bambitchell, to Aug 31. 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635.

CHARBOURFRONT CENTRE Festival Kompa Zouk: Hilomé José, Lafortune Felix, Serge Jolimeau and Emeraude Michel, Aug 1-4. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY The Secret To Living group show, to Aug 16. 74 Miller.

416-537-3125.

KOFFLER GALLERY Installation: Penelope Stewart, to Aug 31, artist’s tour/panel 6:30 pm Aug 6. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 647-9250643.

MULHERIN Painting: Balint Zsako, to Aug 15. 1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

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Painting: Ianick Raymond, to Aug 9. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U Getting Rid Of Ourselves group show, to Oct 11, walking/ reading group 6-8 pm Aug 5. 230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 265.

PAUL PETRO Second Time Around group show; Julie Beugin, to Aug 9. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY RKG Third Anniversary, to Sep 6. 172 St Helens.

416-289-8855.

XPACE I Am A Monster group show, Aug 1-29, reception 7-11 pm Aug 1. 303 Lansdowne. 416-849-2864.

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incidences rack up faster than you can say “barbecue.”

Despite the car culture that acts as one of the book’s themes, this is a decidedly pedestrian read.

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, July 31 THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED Poetry and cabaret with JP Larocque, Amoeba Starfish and host Brenda Clews. 7-9:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. thebeautifulandthedamned13@gmail.com.

POETIC JUSTICE 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY Poetry

readings. 8 pm. $5. Baby Huey, 72 Ossington. facebook.com/events/526003777528774.

Sunday, August 3 BRAINS, WORDS AND VOICES Poetry readings.

6:30 pm. Pwyc. Tutorino, 109 Niagara (buzzer 007). therotarydial.ca. events@nowtoronto.com

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OUT-OF-TOWN THEATRE REVIEWS

Double Dreams Two bold shows at Stratford emphasize different aspects of Shakespeare’s masterpiece By JON KAPLAN

Sarah Afful (left), Dion Johnstone, Mike Nadajewski and Trish Lindström move from anger to reconciliation in powerful A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Stratford). At the Festival Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to October 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: A

CHAMBER PLAY BY WILLIAM ñ SHAKESPEARE

(Stratford). At the Masonic Concert Hall (15 Church, Stratford). Runs to September 20. $70-$90. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Rating: NNNN

Artistic director Antoni Cimolino’s shaking up Stratford in a way that hasn’t happened in decades. And that’s a good thing.

For a sense of that breaking of crusty tradition, you only have to look at the two stagings of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream currently running, one directed by Chris Abraham at the Festival Theatre and the other by Peter Sellars at the Masonic Concert Hall.

Neither fully succeeds, but each tackles a familiar play with a fresh eye, interpreting a classic in an unexpected way.

Abraham sets the Dream in the

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context of a gay wedding, with the bridegrooms (Josue Laboucane and Thomas Olajide), silent characters, given a garden-party performance of the play as a present by their friends and guests. Just as the couple is untraditional, so is the casting: the quartet of lovers (among them, Bethany Jillard, Liisa Repo-Martell and Mike Shara) includes a female Lysander (Tara Rosling), so the queer content sits within the storyline as well as outside it.

Even more striking is having Evan Buliung and Jonathan Goad alternating as fairy rulers Oberon and Titania.

Their work, the show’s highlight, honours the text and the fairies’ tense but sexy relationship; the casting adds even more of a theatrical frisson.

The four lovers are all good, as is Stephen Ouimette’s Bottom, who begins as a barbecue king and, stagehog that the character is, successfully mines the play’s humour in every one of his scenes.

But the director keeps much of the action in the realm of low comedy, including lots of falling into the onstage pond and a food fight. That kind of slapstick is part of the piece, but leaning on it so hard over-

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shadows the work’s poetry, Jonathan Goad’s another (right) Oberon of the enchants fairy queen Evan Dream’s Buliung and joys.

Stephen While Ouimette in the A Midsummer mainNight’s Dream. stage production emphasizes laughs, the outside-thebox presentation at the Masonic Hall goes in the opposite direction.

If Shakespeare had attempted to write something like Sartre’s No Exit, the result would look a lot like Sellars’s interpretation of the Dream, subtitled A Chamber Play.

Rather than being onstage, Abigail DeVille’s set is above us, a ceiling full of detritus; it’s as if we were in some backwater where castoffs have accumulated for millennia.

In a sense we are caught in a timeless place, for the characters in this production – played brilliantly by

NNNNN = Standing ovation

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Sarah Afful Afful, Dion Johnstone Johnstone, Trish Lindström and Mike Nadajewski – exist in a hellish limbo, unable to extricate themselves from tangled relationships in which no one gets what she or he wants.

Eventually we realize that these four are becoming the play’s many characters.

But though we hear Shakespeare’s words, they emerge from a different

NNN = Recommended, memorable scenes

world than any we’ve seen before. There’s hardly any comedy, Sellars instead stressing the play’s darkness and a tone of anger that defines the first 90 minutes of this near-twohour production. It takes some getting used to, and at times I thought the point was made too often.

But the result is that we start to listen to the familiar lines differently.

The story the four play out is one of unrequited desire and explosive resentment, a daisy chain of sexual and emotional wants that never ends.

Then, in the scene where the four lovers awaken in the morning, the tone starts to lighten and they begin working toward a reconciliation and rebirth.

Sellars’s take on the Dream won’t be to everyone’s taste, and if you don’t know the play at all I’m not sure it will mean very much to you.

But I’ve rarely experienced its combination of intelligence, bravery and adventure at Stratford.

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Opening A Closer WAlk With PAtsy CliNe by Dean Regan (Drayton Entertainment). This musical revue looks at the life and untimely death of the country star. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Dec 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. School-

house Theatre, 11 Albert, St Jacobs. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. hollyWood siNgs by David Rogers (Drayton Entertainment). This revue celebrates great musical moments in film. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Aug 23, see website for schedule. $25$42. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. iNto the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (Randolph Academy). Characters from fairy tales reunite in a musical about wishes and consequences. Opens Jul 31 and runs to Aug 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. randolphacademy.com. the little MerMAid Jr. (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Disney Broadway production is adapted for younger audiences. Opens Aug 2 and runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule.

From $30. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

MACbeth by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Square). Ambition leads to murder and mayhem in this outdoor performance.

Opens Aug 5 and runs to Aug 21, Tue-Thu 7 pm. Free. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Garden Square, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

A MoVeAble beAst (Volcano Theatre/Crooked Figure Dances/the Moveable Beast Collective).

This opera-theatre production uses fine art, experimental film, music and dance to tell a story of identity without uttering a single word. Aug 1-3, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. Pwyc.

Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. volcano.ca.

1,000 MoNkeys PlAyWritiNg FestiVAl (Red Sandcastle Theatre). Readings of plays created in 24 hours by playwrights who were locked in the theatre over the weekend. Aug

dance listings Dance​troupe​ Mapou​Ginen​ bring​it​to​ Harbourfront’s​ Island​Soul​ weekend.

One-Nighters

bAker’s dozeN by Adam Francis Proulx (On

Stage on Demand). A puppeteer transforms one puppet into twelve jurors and one man’s future rests in their hands. Aug 2 at 2 pm. $5.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/ event14054535795363382.

CoCkFight by Kat Sandler (On Stage on Demand). Live performance and taping of the play about three brothers who try to find their fortune by training a rooster to fight.

Jul 31 at 7 pm. $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/event14054535795363382.

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CoNFessioNs oF A redheAded CoFFeeshoP girl by Rebecca Perry (On Stage ñ on Demand). An anthropology grad observes

3-4, Sun 8 pm, Mon 2 pm. Pwyc. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com. rhiNestoNe CoWgirl by Leisa Way (Globus Theatre). This musical tribute salutes the songs and sayings of Dolly Parton. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Aug 16, see website for schedule. $28.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. globustheatre.com. roMeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Company). The tragic tale of ill-fated young love is presented outdoors. Pwyc. Jul 31, 7 pm, at Etienne Brulé Park (Bloor W at Riverside). Aug 1-3, Fri-Sun 7 pm, at Montgomery’s Inn (4709 Dundas W).

416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca.

64 high: A FAN-MAde MusiCAl by Jaclyn Enchin and Jennifer Enchin (Jazz Squared Theatre). Supermario Bros Mario and Luigi try to fit in with the cool kids in high school in this musical. Jul 31-Aug 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm. Pwyc.

The Box Studio, 89 Niagara. facebook.com/ events/246651798792118. solt 2014 oPerA WorkshoP (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre). The opera training program presents workshop productions of Vanessa (S Barber & G Menotti), The Magic Flute (WA Mozart) and Madame Butterfly (JL Long & D Belasco). Opens Aug 1 and runs to Aug 10, see website for schedule. $28, stu/srs $22 per show. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416366-7723, solt.ca. stAg ANd doe by Mark Crawford (Blyth Festival). Two engaged couples want to use the same venue on the same day in this comedy.

Opening dusk dANCes presents outdoor dance featuring choreographies by Peter Chin, ñ Sylvie Bouchard, Sis Robin Hibbert, Milan Ger-

vais, Kate Franklin & Meredith Thompson and Julia Aplin. Opens Aug 4 and runs to Aug 10, daily at 7:30 pm, mat Thu and Sun at 2 pm (live music starts 30 mins before show). Pwyc ($10 sugg). Withrow Park, 725 Logan (south of Danforth). 416-504-6429, duskdances.ca. dusk dANCes hAMiltoN HCA Dance Theatre presents outdoor dance featuring choreographies by Myriam Allard, the Throwdown Collective, Denise Fujiwara, Julia Aplin and

Julia Garlisi. Jul 31-Aug 2, live music from 7 pm, dance at 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Bayfront Park, north of Waterfront Dr. 905-5284020, duskdances.ca. cirie FestiVAl suMMer shoWCAse Dance Immersion presents Beyond Sound Empijah, Manding Foli Kan Don, Carribbean Dance Theatre, Esie Mensah and Tsingory Dance. Aug 3 at 4 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. iriemusicfestival.com. cislANd soul Harbourfront Centre and Festival Kompa Zouk presents Ballet Creole, Dance Caribe, Melorize, Mapou Ginen and others in performances and dance workshops. Aug 1-4, see website for schedule. Free.

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14 and runs in rep to Sep 21. $40-$90. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. st ANNe’s reel by Gil Garratt (Blyth Festival).

A man returns to a small town for his mother’s funeral and locks horns with his father.

Previews Aug 6-7. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth.

1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

Previews to Jul 31. Opens Aug 1 and runs to Sep 6, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth.

1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. test driVe by Dave Carley (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A man goes on an extraordinary test drive once a decade in this play that spans 50 years. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Aug 24, Tue-Sun 6:30 pm, mat Fri 1:30 pm. $15-$30. Rosehall Run Vineyard, 1243 Greer, Wellington. festivalplayers.ca.

Previewing

ANtoNy ANd CleoPAtrA by William Shake-

speare (Stratford Festival). Passion engulfs the Egyptian queen and the Roman ruler in this classic tragedy. Previews Aug 3-13.

Opens Aug 14 and runs in rep to Sep 28. $50$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. the beAux’ strAtAgeM by George Farquhar (Stratford Festival). Two men try to restore their ruined fortunes by pursuing wealthy women. Previews Jul 31-Aug 14. Opens Aug 15 and runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

ChristiNA, the girl kiNg by Michel Marc Bouchard (Stratford Festival). The Swedish queen battles conservative forces that oppose her lifestyle and her plans to modernize the country. Previews to Aug 13. Opens Aug

humans in the coffee shop where she works.

Aug 5 at 7 pm. $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/event14054535795363382. the dog PouNd (Globus Theatre). The Bad Dog Theatre Company presents an interactive improvised show for kids ages 6 to 12. Aug 2 at 11 am. $12. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com.

Myth oF the ostriCh by Matt Murray (On Stage on Demand). One mother confronts another about their teenagers’ relationship after finding a letter. Aug 6 at 7 pm. $5.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. picatic.com/ event14054535795363382. reVeAl Me burlesque (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Aug 6, doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

WArd’s islANd Fire PArAde (Shadowland Theatre). This celebration of light and dark features a community parade with puppets and lanterns accompanied by stilt performers and a live band. Aug 1, gather at 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Ward’s Island, Toronto Islands. shadowlandtheatre.ca.

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AdVeNtures iN sluMberlANd (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world features puppets, music, masques and more. Runs to Sep 1, Wed-Sat 11:11 am, 12:12, 1:11 and 2:22 pm (weather permitting). Pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. frolick.ca.

ANiMAl NAture by David Anderson, Tamara Romanchk, Anna Sapershteyn, Maria Woszinska (Clay & Paper Theatre). Creature characters and giant puppets search for the way home on a journey to the edges of the earth.

Runs to Aug 17, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($10

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sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org.

Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play.

Runs to Aug 3, see website for schedule. $49$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

DinosAur Zoo Live (Erth Visual & Physical/ Mirvish). Large-scale dinosaur puppets and other creatures bring to life the prehistoric world in this all-ages theatrical presentation.

Runs to Aug 3, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 6:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 11 am and Sat-Sun 3 pm. $25-$35. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

HigH Life Lee MacDougal (Beyond The Round). Dark comedy about four morphine addicts and an attempted bank robbery.

Runs to Aug 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, 2 mat Sat. $19.75. Scotiabank Studio Theatre, 6 Noble. highlifetoronto.bpt.me.

HorseCApADes (Canadian National Exhibition). Riders and horses perform barrel racing, trick riding and hip-hop dressage, plus an interactive program with the horses. Runs to Aug 14, daily from 11 am to 2 pm (no show Aug 2). Free. CNE Horse Palace, Exhibition Place, 15 Nova Scotia. theex.com.

THe imporTAnCe of Being eArnesT by Oscar Wilde (Guild Festival Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this comedy. Runs to Aug 10, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $25, srs $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Greek Theatre. 416915-6750, guildfestivaltheatre.ca.

A miDsummer nigHT’s DreAm by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Square).

Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this outdoor performance. Runs to Jul 31, TueThu 7 pm. Free. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Garden Square, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. pinkALiCious THe musiCAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Sep 28, Sun 1 pm (no show Aug 10, 17 & 24). $30-$40.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

sHAkespeAre in HigH pArk: As You Like iT

(Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The comedic, family-oriented offering at this year’s Shakespeare in High Park finds two courtly cousins fleeing to the forest under false identities. This vibrant treatment is filled with original acoustic folk songs, and with strong performances from the ensemble, is entertaining and accessible to all ages. Runs to Aug 30, Thu, Sat and Tue 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. canadianstage.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm)

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AnDroniCus (Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The “tragedy” instalment in Canadian Stage’s summer Shakespeare slate, this revenge thriller follows the disintegrating life of Titus, a veteran Roman general at odds with the Goth queen, Tamora.

Drawing on aesthetics from ancient Rome and imperial Japan, director Keira Loughran

offers a delightfully unsettling take on the Bard’s bloodiest play. Runs to Aug 31, Fri, Sun and Wed 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) sLeuTH by Anthony Shaffer (Rose Theatre). A mystery writer calculates revenge against his wife’s younger lover. Runs to Aug 9, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. spAmALoT by Eric Idle, John Du Prez and Neil Innes (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Monty Python-based musical retells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

Runs to Aug 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

super-Diviner: A psYCHiC performAnCe BY rm vAugHAn (Outside the March Theatre

Company). Multimedia artist and author RM Vaughan will perform occult-based readings for visitors. Runs to Jul 31, Tue-Thu from 6:40 pm (approximately). Free. Videofag, 187 Augusta. videofag.com.

Out of Town ALiCe THrougH THe Looking-gLAss adapted by James Reaney (Stratford Fesñ tival/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Alice en-

ters a world of wonders through her livingroom mirror in this version of Lewis Carroll’s book. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

Arms AnD THe mAn by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

BArD’s Bus Tour: THe TempesT by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Group). The classic play is presented outdoors (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Some performances include workshops, chats and other events, and some include the Food Of Love a cappella concert series. Runs to Aug 17.

Pwyc. Various venues in Southern Ontario, see website for more details. 416-703-2773, driftwoodtheatre.com.

THe BiCYCLe operA projeCT (The Bicycle Opera Project). Bicycle-commuting singers perform contemporary opera in this travelling show. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule, prices and venue details. bicycleopera.ca.

BiLLY BisHop goes To WAr by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson (Blyth Festival). The WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical. Runs to Aug 15, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com.

CABAreT by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is darker than many, with fine performances

by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s Berlin. Don’t miss it. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. nnnn (JK)

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THe CHAriTY THAT BegAn AT Home: A ComeDY for pHiLAnTHropisTs by St John Hankin (Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home.

Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

CrAZY for You by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival).

A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this musical set in the 1930s. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

Do You TAke THis mAn? by Sarah Quick (Globus Theatre). A woman deals with the realities of commitment in this drama. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $28.50, stu $20.

Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com.

HAY fever by Noël Coward (Stratford Festival).

An eccentric family and their house guests spend a weekend together in this comedy.

Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. i’LL Be BACk Before miDnigHT by Peter Colley (Drayton Entertainment). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42.

King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. draytonentertainment.com.

THe imporTAnCe of Being eArnesT by Oscar Wilde (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Wealthy bachelors lead double lives until their lies catch up with them. Runs to Aug 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32.

Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque.

1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. juno AnD THe pAYCoCk by Sean O’Casey (Shaw Festival). Political and financial unrest afflict a family in 1920s Dublin. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mat $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. king joHn by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The English king defends his throne against the rival claim of his nephew. Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. king LeAr by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore makes a human figure – a king who’s easy to relate to. Most of the cast surrounding him is just as strong, which helps the audience feel that we go on an eventful and harrowing journey with the characters.

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some flaws, the show’s power is undeniable.

Runs in rep to Oct 18. $50-$135, stu/srs $20$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) kiTCHen rADio by Marion de Vries and David Archibald (Blyth Festival). A lonely wife lives through the female country stars she listens to in this musical comedy. Runs to Aug 9, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-8625984, blythfestival.com.

A LoveLY sunDAY for Creve Coeur by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). Four women ponder their future on a warm June day in this Lunchtime one-act production. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. mAn of LA mAnCHA by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh (Stratford Festival).

This 1960s musical about Don Quixote author Cervantes has one legitimate hit, The Impossible Dream, but a weak book and middling production don’t help sell it to today’s audiences. Still, Tom Rooney is terrific as Cervantes/Quixote, as is the winning Steve Ross as his servant in the play’s real and fictional worlds. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nn (Susan G Cole) A miDsummer nigHT’s DreAm by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy (see review, page 58). Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnn (JK)

A miDsummer nigHT’s DreAm: A CHAmBer pLAY by William Shakespeare ñ (Stratford Festival). Two couples pass an in-

tense night of confusion and transformation in this version of the romantic comedy (see review, page 58). Runs in rep to Sep 20. $70$90. Stratford Masonic Concert Hall, 15 Church, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) moTHer CourAge AnD Her CHiLDren by Bertolt Brecht (Stratford Festival). A woman sells goods to soldiers across 17th-century wartorn Europe (see review, this page). Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnn (GS) THe mounTAinTop by Katori Hall (Shaw Festival/Obsidian Theatre). Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a young woman working at the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his murder. Runs in rep to Sep 7. $50-$60. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com.

THe pHiLADeLpHiA sTorY by Philip Barry (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans are complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy reporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com.

THe pHiLAnDerer by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). In this early Shaw comedy, the title character is caught between two women, one cool and calculating, the other passionate and unpredictable. The actors in this triangle – Gord Rand, Marla McLean and Moya O’Connell – are scintillating, and director Lisa Peterson’s

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decision to use Shaw’s original ending gives the production a surprising seriousness. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. nnnn (JK) rADio :30 by Chris Earle (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A voice actor wrestles with his conscience while recording a radio ad in this dark comedy. Runs to Aug 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 2 pm. $15-$30. Mount Tabor Playhouse, 2179 County Rd 17, Milford.

1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca.

THe roCkY Horror sHoW by Richard O’Brien (Something-Something Productions). A couple find a freaky castle in this rock musical. Runs to Oct 11, Sat 8 pm. $30. Corks’ Theatre, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 289-668-0482, somethingsomethingproductions.ca. romeo & juLieT by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Company). The tragic tale of ill-fated young love is presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 3, Tue-Sun 7 pm. Pwyc.

Various venues in Southern Ontario, see website for details. humberrivershakespeare.ca. run for Your Wife by Ray Cooney (Drayton Entertainment). A taxi driver tries to keep his two wives from finding out about each other in this comedy. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. draytonentertainment.com.

THe seA by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival). A 1900s English village reacts to one of its own being lost at sea in this mix of politics and comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. sunDAY series (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). This weekly performance showcase includes theatre, comedy, storytelling and more. Runs to Aug 24, see website for times and program details. $15-$30. Huff Estates & Winery, 2274 County Rd 1, Hallowell.

1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca.

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THe TempesT/THe TWo genTLemen of veronA by William Shakespeare (St. Lawrence

Shakespeare Festival). The story of the magical desert island and the romantic comedy are presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 16, see website for schedule. $28-$30, Wed mat $20, under 14 free. Kinsmen Amphitheatre, 1 Water W, Prescott. 613-925-5788, stlawrenceshakespeare.ca.

TWisT AnD sHouT: THe BriTisH invAsion by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute celebrates the tunes of the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, the Kinks and others. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

WHen We Are mArrieD by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed when three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

WiCHiTA LinemAn by Leisa Way (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the pop and country songs of Glenn Campbell. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

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Complete listings at nowtoronto.com.

out-of-town theatre review

Mixed Mother moTHer CourAge AnD Her CHiLDren

by Bertolt Brecht, translated by David Edgar (Stratford Festival). In rep at the Tom Patterson Theatre until September 21. $20-$135. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. See Out of Town, this page.

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The Stratford Festival’s theme this year of “madness: minds pushed to the edge” finds full expression in Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage And Her Children, an iconic anti-war play that gets a strong, if slow-to-catchfire production.

Written by Brecht in response to the rise of fascism, the episodic play recounts the experiences of the

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eponymous figure (Seana McKenna), who profits from selling goods during the Thirty Years’ War of 1618-1648.

In 12 scenes that span as many years, with dates and locations introduced by placards, the archetypal matriarch loses her children to some aspect of the war and yet keeps on truckin’ with her vendor’s cart.

The play’s coldness is intentional; Brecht asks us not to empathize with the characters but to focus on the themes.

It’s hard not to think of

Seana McKenna shows pluck as Mother Courage.

the corporate profiteering and exploitation of war and disaster recounted in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine while watching the story unfold.

A director’s job is to make the play involving without being too cerebral, and Martha Henry has largely succeeded. Her actors deliver their lines with clarity and commitment. Ben Carlson and Geraint Wyn Davies are especially fine

as contrasting characters – one a chaplain, the other a cook – smitten with the titular mother.

And Carmen Grant is terrific as the mute daughter, Kattrin, whose defiant drumming in the penultimate scene – a precursor to Gunter Grass’s percussion-obsessed boy? – is a highlight.

McKenna handles the huge demands of the title role with skill, leading her wagon along every inch of the Tom Patterson’s thrust stage and letting us imagine her ambiguous character’s conflicting emotions.

If the journey is a bit of a slog, it’s because the anti-war message isn’t as fresh as it must have been 75 years ago. Not as fresh, but just as relevant. gLenn sumi

COMEDY ALBUM REVIEWS

Stand-up supremacy Four super Canadian comics get loads of laughs in new albums By GLENN SUMI

Simeon’s smarts ARTHUR SIMEON NNNN ñ Kampala-born stand-up (and former

Born And Raised (Comedy Records) Rating:

NOW cover dude) Arthur Simeon continues his trek to stardom with the release of his first album, which does a fine job of capturing his strengths.

Simeon addresses his background off the top, milking the phrase “For just a dollar a day...” every Westerner knows from charity infomercials, then sarcastically calling out a smug female Lululemon employee who’s just come back from “helping out” in Uganda.

It’s a great bit fuelled by anger and pride, and where he goes with it – he’s not above selling out his country to get laid – makes it even funnier.

Simeon is also a shrewd chronicler of the modern dating scene, whether he’s talking about trying to pick up women at the gym or recounting one of the most foolproof breakup excuses ever.

He wisely saves his bit about black men, cunnilingus and African hunger until near the end. It gets the biggest laugh.

Unfortunately, there’s some filler on the album, including an extended joke about a soap opera that goes nowhere.

And I’m a little disappointed he didn’t include his jokes about how other comics make fun of Africa, or a traumatic trip with pals to African Lion Safari.

But this is a great introduction to one of the smartest stand-ups around.

Riotous Rakoff SIMON RAKOFF ñ The cover of Simon Rakoff’s

Surrounded By Idiots (independent) Rating: NNNN

sents headliner Keith Pedro, Mike Rita, Robby Hoffman, Ben Bankas and Daniel Woodrow.

10:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 31.

comedy listings How to find a listing

Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue.

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-364-1168 or mail to Comedy, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, producer, comics, brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/ info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

If your free listing requires a correction, send info to: fixevents@nowtoronto.com.

Thursday, July 31 BIG BAD WOLF (VS LORD UNDERWEARFACE VON

SCHTINKER) Second City presents a family musical that takes a new look at a fairy-tale character. To Aug 29, Wed-Thu 1 pm. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

CONSENSUAL SNACKS Comedy Bar presents a comedic variety show hosted by Cassie Moes dedicated to treats found in a goody bag. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W, Cabaret Space. 416-5516540, comedybar.ca.

ITTC: SUMMERCLAM The Social Capital presents improv meets WWE wrestling with Rob Norman, Carmine Lucarelli, Jamie O’Connor and others. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Nick Flanagan, Bob Kerr, James Hartnett, Stacey McGunnigle, Steve Patrick Adams, Tom Henry, host Sara Hennessey and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

THE RECEPTION Comedy Bar presents a sketch comedy party w/ Ned Petrie, Parker & Seville and Marty Topps. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

SILLY APOLOGIES The Social Capital presents improv w/ The Apologists, sketch with Tat’s So Whatever and more. 9:30 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

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Surrounded By Idiots shows the comic in full face-palm mode. It and the title sum up his act very well. Rakoff’s the middle-aged Jewish guy who makes fun of the stupidity around him.

Turns out there’s a lot to satirize, starting with the entertainment industry. The opening bit about putting people in witness protection programs in Canadian showbiz so they’ll never be heard of again is razor sharp.

And thanks to his anti-sports rant, I’ll never hear ACC ticket-sellers’ cries of “Who needs Leafs’ tickets?” the same way again.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS Second City’s funniest revue in ages draws on our anxiety ñ about the schizophrenic weather, our crack-

Sunday, August 3 BREAKING BALLS Dylan Mandlsohn leads an

smoking mayor and the urban/suburban split in surprising and inventive ways. Director Chris Earle has a great ear and sharp sense of drama and he knows how to get the best from his stellar cast, who shine – especially in two contrasting sketches about young dudes (played by the women) and middle-aged women (played by the men). Don’t miss it. To Aug 10, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS)

afternoon of laughs in a fundraiser for Toronto’s Trampoline Dodgeball UDC team. 1:30 pm. $20. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com.

COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others.

8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 31.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Friday, August 1

Monday, August 4

CIVIC HOLIDAY The Social Capital presents a

narrative improv show in three parts w/ Ben Ball, Jon Bernstein, Caleigh Le Grande, Colin Sharpe and others. 8 pm. $8. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

COMEDY KAPOW! Club 120 presents a show.

7:30 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 31.

ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents

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Aisha Alfa, Charlie Demers, Ali Hassan, Tim Nasiopoulos, Marc Hallworth, Steve Patrick Adams, Barry Taylor, Rhiannon Archer, MC Ryan Belleville and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm.

He’s got solid material about his Jewish heritage, including clever jokes about brises and alcohol, Jesus’ sarcasm and the particular syntax of firstgeneration Jewish immigrants that makes them sound like Yoda.

But his strongest stuff comes at the end, when he delineates the differences between men and women and showcases his character skills. An extended bit set in caveman times is the final word in Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus humour.

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WE farted (independent) Rating:

WE farted combines the talents of John Hastings and Dylan Gott, two excellent comics who, though quite young, have enough material separately for their own albums.

The production has problems: the sound levels are uneven, and for some reason they trade off after each joke, meaning it’s hard to build any rhythm.

But the jokes stand on their own.

The major revelation here is Gott, who completely nails his persona as an overweight, late-20s, underachieving slacker.

Some of his best material is about eating in fast food restaurants: staring down a McD’s cashier when ordering four sandwiches, theorizing why Burger King doesn’t have mirrors in its $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562.

HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900.

200% VODKA The Social Capital presents a weekly show by the Black Swan Comedy Rep Company. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, August 5 ALTDOT COMEDY OPEN MIC Rivoli preMC Michelle Shaughnessy, headñsents liner Rob Pue and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 31.

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.

Saturday, August 2 BEGGAR’S CANYON: GUARDIANS OF ANOTHER

GALAXY Comedy Bar presents geeky sketch comedy with Beggar’s Canyon, Mike & Ted, and Amanda Brooke Perrin. 10 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-4060880, redrocketcoffee.com.

DAVE AND FRIENDS Comedy Bar presents Dave Merheje, Sandra Battaglini, Phil Luzi, Patrick Hakeem, Nick Reynoldson, and Pat Burtscher. 9 pm. $20, adv $15. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST EPISODE Fan Fiction The Show presents an improv show w/ the Sushi Boys and the Weaker Vessels. 10 pm. pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. facebook. com/events/514591645309774.

IMPROV DROP-IN The Social Capital presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

THE LONG WEEKEND SPECIAL Perfect 10 preNNNN = Major snortage

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SOCAP REP PROGRAM PLAYER NIGHT The Social Capital presents players of the Social Capital Repertory Program coached by Jan Caruana, Jerry Schaefer and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com.

TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents comedy styled as a 70s cable access show w/ Jess Beaulieu, Sandra Battaglini, DJ Demers, Katie Ford, Diane Flacks & hosts Steph Kaliner & Sara Hennessey. 9 pm. Pwyc.

61 Ossington. theossington.com.

YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present the

monthly improvised Star Trek variety show w/ Kraken Not Stirred, Heather & Brie and Korri Birch. 8 pm. $8. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, Social Capital. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

JILL KNIGHT’S COMEDY FARE Jill Knight presents a weekly show w/ guest comics. 9 pm.

Free. Parlour, 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666, knighttimecomedy.com.

A LAUGH A MINUTE Club 120 presents standup, sketch & improv w/ transsexual comedian Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm. Free.

120 Church. club120.ca.

MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standup. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele.

NIGHT OWL COMEDY JAM The Dandies present an improv jam w/ guests and and audience sign-up. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 31.

SPONSORS The Social Capital presents half-drunk, half-sober improv w/ Lisa Merchant, Rob Norman, Cameron Algie, Leigh Cameron and others. 9:30 pm. pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com.

VEST OF FRIENDS Imperial Pub presents David Dineen-Porter, Rebecca Kohler, Ned Petrie, Mike Kellett, Sarah Lesh, sketch from Parker & Seville and the Two Sues plus headliners Vest Of Friends. 9 pm. $10. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com.

YUK YUK’S presents Mike Rita. To Aug 10, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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washrooms, getting banned from one restaurant for botching a dirty joke.

Gott, who’s got a modest vibe with flashes of anger lurking beneath, knows what he must look like, and some of the best jokes re-enact physical scenarios. The image of him in his underwear eating beans out of a can and taunting a cat is one for the ages.

Hastings has great focus and energy that work well onstage. Unfortunately, that’s not evident here; he seems a little arrogant. When he stumbles over a few words, he recovers but doesn’t always undo the damage.

He wisely ends with a brilliant joke about nerds ambushing a children’s reading of The Hobbit, and the two comics share the mic at the end for a bonus track recounting their first time performing.

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Director asked his interview subjects to define “Altmanesque” By NORMAN WILNER ALTMAN directed by Ron Mann. Screens Friday (August 1), 7 pm, at TIFF Bell Lightbox, in advance of COMPANY MAN: THE BEST OF ROBERT ALTMAN, August 8 to 31. $12.50. See Indie & Rep Film, page 72. tiff.net.

Ron Mann’s new documentary, Altman, examines the life and career of the late filmmaker Robert Altman through the prism of a single word. Neat trick, that.

Mann’s doc, a teaser for TIFF Cinematheque’s upcoming Altman series Company Man, asks a number of the late director’s collaborators – among them Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Michael Murphy, Julianne Moore and Bruce Willis – to define the term “Altmanesque,” and then illustrates their answers with a story about his innovative filmmaking methods.

It’s a lot of fun, even if it’s not exactly what Mann’s American backers wanted.

“They thought I’d lost my mind, because I’d filmed [people like] Williams and Tomlin and only used nine seconds of them,” he laughs, sitting on a couch in his Toronto office. “I just asked them one question.”

The documentary, which gets a regular release this fall, is the result of a request from the director’s widow, Kathryn Reed Altman, who introduces it with Mann Friday night.

“She called me and said, ‘I’d love for you to make this movie,’” Mann says. “It was a challenge. She asked

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me what I wanted to do, and I said, ‘I don’t know. The process is organic, and I’ll come up with something.

But I’ll tell you one thing: I’m not gonna fuck up.’ That kept me up for two years in the middle of the night.”

Mann had seen Altman around – they were both at Cannes in 1978, where Mann snuck into Altman’s press conference for 3 Women – but the two filmmakers never met.

“The closest I ever got to Bob was on the same letterhead: we were both on the advisory board for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws,” Mann recalls. “I used to see these memos, and it was Robert Altman, Hunter S. Thompson and me. Good company, on paper.”

With Kathryn Altman’s endorsement, Mann started digging into his subject, interviewing friends and family and discovering that Altman had left not one, but two massive archives, divided between collections in Los Angeles and Detroit.

“I went to UCLA and found a lot of behind-the-

Doc on Robert Altman screens before next week’s TIFF Cinematheque retrospective.

scenes [reels] he had shot that never were released,” Mann says. “And at the University of Michigan, I looked at where Bob was interviewed for his movies.

He had a publicist, there was an itinerary, so it became like a trail around the world to find the actual interviews he gave. There were about 400 hours of material in the end.”

As a result, Altman speaks for himself more often than not, explaining the technical choices and philosophy that resulted in his glorious widescreen movies, bursting with rambunctious action and detail even as they tell carefully crafted stories.

“I love his metaphor of film as sandcastles,” Mann says. “You get together with a bunch of your friends, the tide comes in and washes it away, and it’s just this idea remaining. It’s almost ephemeral.

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Weary Woody MaGiC in The MOOnliGhT (Woody Allen). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (August 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: nn Woody Allen is getting tired – or old.

Maybe he should make a movie about that, something soulful, something that has at least a whiff of authenti­ city. A slight piece like Magic In The Moonlight is just plain lazy.

This 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t even remotely funny. And although it’s supposed to be a movie about ideas – reason versus passion, rationality versus faith – it’s intellectually sloppy.

When Stanley’s old friend Howard (Simon McBurney) begs him to save a family he knows from succumbing to

Dave Bautista (left), Zoe Saldana and Groot (voiced

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This is the thing about the Guardians Of The Galaxy: they’re assholes, but they’re going to save the universe whether we like it or not. You might as well let them.

The latest Marvel Studios world-beater, Guardians Of The Galaxy is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to stop a maniacal zealot called Ronan The Accuser (Lee Pace) from wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him.

And because it’s been handed to director/co-writer James Gunn (of the crazy-ass indies The Specials, Slither and Super), it’s easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel to date.

There’s a peripheral connection to the Avengers project, but Guardians is deliriously, insanely its own thing, possessed of an idiosyncratic, strangely intimate sense of humour and a magnificently diverse cast, all of whom find exactly the right tone of low-key commitment.

Chris Pratt becomes a movie star maybe three minutes into his screen time as space doofus Peter Quill, snatched off Earth in 1988 and bopping around

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deep space exactly like you’d expect a kid who’d grown up on James T. Kirk and Han Solo would.

Zoe Saldana gives “living weapon” Gamora a reflexive ferocity that softens as she comes to trust her new allies. And wrestler Dave Bautista has great presence and surprising comic timing as vengeful, insistently literal heavyweight Drax The Destroyer.

But it’s not just the principal cast – which includes delightful voice work by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel as the odd-couple team of Rocket Raccoon and Groot the talking tree – that’s so on point.

Gunn fills every role with someone great: John C. Reilly! Glenn Close! Peter Serafinowicz! Karen Gillan! Gregg Henry! Even Michael Rooker slides effortlessly into the action as the cobalt-blue bounty hunter who abducted Quill from Earth 26 years ago, giving his lines a wiseacre swagger that means they practically form word balloons over his head.

Gunn somehow gets them all to find the reality in their absurd situations, which is what makes Guardians feel like a proper Marvel movie. Even the fate of the universe ultimately boils down to someone’s trust issues – as it ought to, I suppose.

And the bizarre tone that threatened to send his previous films out of balance isn’t a problem here. A movie about a guy who fights blue space crazies by teaming up with a talking raccoon and a 9-foot tree can never get too weird.

Everything fits. It’s so much damn fun.

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Sophie, an American spiritualist (Emma Stone), Stanley can’t resist heading to the family’s mansion in the south of France to expose the fraud. But then he starts suspecting that Sophie’s connection with the afterlife is real and begins to fall for her.

The pic is wrapped in a gorgeous package thanks to cinematographer Darius Khondji and costume designer Sonia Grande. The performances are fine, especially by Eileen Atkins as Stanley’s wise aunt – a late scene between her and Firth is the only piece of decent writing in the whole thing – and the always watchable Stone.

Normally, I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Stone. But halfway through, I realized I was too bored to care.

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Anyone who was riveted by Anita Hill’s testimony to the Senate committee hearing on Clarence Thomas’s appoint­ ment to the Supreme Court should see this film. Her ordeal was worse than you remember. If you missed that 1991 media event, see it, too. You can’t ima­ gine how bad it was.

A panel of white, privileged legisla­ tors – including infamous womanizer Ted Kennedy – badgered, berated and humiliated respected law professor Hill as she testified with unbelievable calm, day after day, that she had been sexually harassed by Thomas. Commit­ tee chair Joe Biden (yes, the current VP) led the charge and refused to call cor­ roborating witnesses. Thomas’s ap­ pointment was eventually approved.

Hill became a sought­after leader and lecturer on sexual harassment.

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Opens Friday (August 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN Boobs are everywhere in Dana BenAri’s debut documentary, Breastmilk.

But the movie’s not all that titillating.

Ben-Ari follows a group of new mothers from various socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds as they navigate the choices around breastfeeding.

In talking-head interviews, they open up about challenges like not being able to produce milk or unsupportive family members. Doctors and professors weigh in on our culture’s fraught relationship with lactating breasts.

While Ben-Ari does an admirable job of covering many aspects of this topic, the film soon sags under the sheer amount of information and number of characters.

Breastmilk is at its best when the director departs from standard documentary interviews and playfully films engorged breasts leaking and spurting.

These scenes, shot against a black background and scored with classical music, strike an intentionally cheeky note, but most importantly also bring milky mammary glands out in the open. As one man says of breastfeeding, it’s not that’s he’s against it, he’s just lived “a lifetime of never seeing it.”

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Generic soul Get ON UP (Tate Taylor). 138 minutes.

Opens Friday (August 1). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN James Brown biopic Get On Up is like a wiki-movie on the Godfather of Soul; it’s got very little soul of its own.

That’s too bad, since Chadwick Boseman, who previously brought Jackie Robinson to the screen in 42, does stellar work. He delivers a precise impersonation of Brown’s gravelly voice and eccentric moves, and even lends emotional weight to the few scenes that deserve it.

However, Boseman’s role feels more like a series of bullet points than an organic character. The movie hastily runs through Brown’s hellish upbring-

ing as an orphan in Georgia, with scenes that could have been spliced into Django Unchained, and his violent, drug-addled behaviour in his senior years, with career highlights in between.

By covering Brown’s life in broad, familiar strokes, director Tate Taylor (of The Help) and writers Jez and JohnHenry Butterworth fail to dramatize the moments and qualities that made Mr. Dynamite stand apart. And that generic treatment suggests Brown is just another Ray or Dreamgirl.

Early stretches shake things up by erratically jumping between timelines seemingly without rhyme or reason.

It’s chaotic but somehow fitting, given Brown’s unpredictability.

But that disorder is the movie’s only vestige of personality.

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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) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 70.

ALIVE INSIDE (Michael Rossato-Bennett) is

more of an infomercial than a movie, following the efforts of social worker Dan Scott’s Music And Memory project to give elderly sufferers of dementia some comfort through their favourite songs. Oliver Sacks discusses the theory behind the treatment, but the sight of these people reviving says everything much more simply. 73 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ANDRÉ RIEU’S 2014 HOMETOWN MAASTRICHT CONCERT is a high-def perform-

ance by the acclaimed violinist. 180 min.

Aug 2, 12:30 pm, and Aug 6, 6:45 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24; continuing at Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Freida Mock) 84 min. See review, page 64. NNNN (SGC) Opens Aug 1 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

BEGIN AGAIN (John Carney) is Once writer/director John Carney’s return to the feature-length music video gimmick. Just call it Twice. This time around the tunes drown out a lacklustre drama. Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley are remarkable as a washed-up music exec and the talent he discovers, respectively. Their chemistry makes shared scenes truly sing. But while Carney manages a few rousing musical numbers, the rest of the film hits too many unbearably false notes. 104 min. NN (RS) Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 BELLE (Amma Asante) spins the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, daughter of an 18th century British naval officer and an African slave, into a historical biopic that aspires to more complexity than its lavish costume-drama packaging will allow. 104 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

AND SO IT GOES (Rob Reiner) is a pleasant diEXPANDED REVIEWS version designed for maBORGMAN (Alex van nowtoronto.com ture audiences. Michael Warmerdam) stars HaDouglas and Diane Keadewych Minis as the ton play neighbours who wife of an upwardly mobile, detestable, band together when he’s put in charge of self-important bigot (Jeroen Perceval). She a granddaughter he never knew existed. invites the enigmatic title character into Douglas relishes the role, and Keaton is her perfect home only to become an unwinning as a wannabe lounge singer who witting participant in its destruction. Van can’t get through a single song without Warmerdam uses the elusive Borgman as recalling her recently deceased husband the catalyst in his allegorical indictment of and breaking into tears. 94 min. NNN (SGC) the Dutch ruling class. The movie is Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, marred only by a heavy-handed endgame.

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NNNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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CITIZEN KOCH (Carl Deal, Tia Lessin) sets

itself up as an exposé of right-wing billionaires Charles and David Koch, brothers who’ve bankrolled aggressive attacks on progressive American politics. But directors Deal and Lessin (Trouble The Water) get more drama by talking to the citizens whose lives the Kochs are determined to manipulate. 90 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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Shooting over 12 years, Richard Linklater captures the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane, a real find).

Ambitious, honest and illuminating, it’s one of the best films of the year.

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Steve James tracks not just the stellar career of film critic Roger Ebert, but also his illness and death in a cleareyed and affectionate doc James began filming four months before Ebert died.

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Much better than 2011’s reboot, this pic has a solid story, complex characters and great acting. The mo-cap to make Andy Serkis and others into apes is staggering.

(Matt Reeves) is the real reboot of the Apes franchise, harvesting the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never looking back. Where the last one paid lip service to ape/human ethics and rushed through its character development to get to what it thought audiences wanted, Dawn is willing to put in the work, with complex characters on both the human and primate sides. Some subtitles. 130 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview DriveIn, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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starring Eric Bana as Bronx cop Ralph Sarchie, a combination of Father Karras and Lt. Kinderman who comes to believe a demonic force is responsible for a string of domestic incidents. It’ll make millions.

Some subtitles. 115 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Richard Ayoade) is as indebted to the collected works of Franz Kafka, Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski as it is to the Dostoevsky story about a meek office drone (Jesse Eisenberg) unhinged by the arrival of a successful, articulate man who looks exactly like him. It’s arch, weird and very, very funny – like watching an entire Bulgarian film festival in a single sitting. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Doug Liman) is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens – an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly selfaware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. And Emily Blunt is great. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

FADING GIGOLO (John Turturro) stars Woody Allen as Murray, pimp to part-time flower arranger Fioravante (director Turturro). It’s an homage to Allen’s films, with its jazz-based soundtrack, offbeat Jewish humour and the requisite an ick factor, thanks to a borderline offensive set-up between working boy Fioravante and an Orthodox Jewish widow (Vanessa Paradis). But who could believe Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara couldn’t get a threesome together without paying a male third party? 98 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (Josh

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Boone) is a faithful and heartwrenching adaptation of John Green’s bestseller about the star-crossed romance between teen cancer survivors Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort). Director Boone paces the film beautifully and gets inspired performances. Elgort sells the idealized Gus with a magnetic charm and soulful vulnerability, and Woodley never tries to make Hazel lovable or even attractive, which of course makes her both. Bring kleenex. 125 min.

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(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier, constructing a compelling portrait of a mysterious artist who refused to be seen. Unknown to the world until codirector Maloof happened to acquire her negatives at auction, her raw, poetic street photography conveys a distinctive view of the everyday. She may still be enigmatic, but thanks to this consistently intriguing doc, she and her work form a fascinating picture. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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(Lucía Puenzo) is an appropriately creepy what-if drama about an encounter between a 12-year-old girl (Florencia Bado) and fugitive Nazi Josef Mengele (Álex Brendemühl) in Patagonia circa 1960. It plays like a finely rendered short story, forgoing jolts for a long, unpleasant shiver of understanding. Subtitled. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

GERONTOPHILIA (Bruce LaBruce) is queer

provocateur LaBruce’s latest, a coming-ofager that revolves around a young man named Lake’s thing for seniors. If his romance with 81-year-old Mr. Peabody initially seems like an attempt to needle conservatives, LaBruce surprises with a warmth and tenderness that carries the central relationship beyond fetishism. 82 min. NNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

GET ON UP (Tate Taylor) 138 min. See

review, page 65. NN (RS) Opens Aug 1 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñGODZILLA

(Gareth Edwards) finally gives the King of the Monsters a summer movie worthy of his stature, taking guidance not just from Jaws and Jurassic Park but from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind as well. This is a movie that values wonder as much as horror. It’s exhilarating and so damn satisfying, especially in IMAX 3D. 123 min. NNNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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and trusts – among them Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton – and running riot. And when moments of genuine emotion pierce that perfectly constructed artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

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(James Gunn) 122 min. See review, page 64.

(NW) Opens Aug 1 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, EXPANDED REVIEWS THE GRAND SEDUCRainbow Promenade, TION (Don McKellar) is nowtoronto.com Rainbow Woodbine, Scoan English-language tiabank Theatre, SilverCity remake of Jean-François Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity YorkPouliot’s 2003 comedy Seducing Dr. Lewis, dale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 with the action transposed from rural Quebec to a depressed Newfoundland HERCULES (Brett Ratner) brings the Rush harbour community. Director McKellar is Hour trilogy and X-Men: The Final Stand less interested in belly laughs than in gendirector’s signature mediocrity to the erating a constant hum of contentment, sword-and-sandal genre. It’s sluggish and which works very nicely. 115 min. NNN bland; the only sequence that stands out (NW) has Hercules and the Thracian army Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Rainbow battling a few hundred bald, bearded, Market Square body-painted maniacs. 98 min. NN (NW)

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ñHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2

(Dean DeBlois) expands the world of the original by introducing a new villain and a new element of the hero’s backstory. But its greatest strength remains the relationship between Jay Baruchel’s Hiccup and his mute but amazingly expressive dragon Toothless. Dragon 2 is at its best when it just leans into that. 102 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

I ORIGINS (Mike Cahill) finds writer/director Cahill working in a slightly different vein than in his lo-fi debut, Another Earth.

Michael Pitt plays a research scientist led to the woman of his dreams (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) by a series of apparently random occurrences. It’s a weird, layered and strangely playful movie. See for yourself. Some subtitles. 113 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Varsity IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski) follows

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novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish.

The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed.

Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance – and it’s drop-dead gorgeous.

Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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JERSEY BOYS (Clint Eastwood) sucks. The

original stage version cannot be as lifelessly realized, as jarringly overacted, as narratively clumsy or as musically inept as the film producer-director Eastwood has made of it. This is a turgid, exaggerated, painful experience, crushingly dull at two and a quarter hours and utterly tone-deaf to the rhythms of its own music. 134 min.

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ñLIFE ITSELF

(Steve James) explores Roger Ebert’s life and legacy with tremendous affection. But it doesn’t shy away from the ugliness of Ebert’s death, which gives James’s documentary its real power. Like the man himself, it’s unfailingly honest and profoundly insightful.

120 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Blade Ranger (voiced by Ed Harris) chops to it in Planes: Fire & Rescue.

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LUCY (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE LUNCHBOX

(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

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ñMALEFICENT

(Robert Stromberg) applies the Wicked formula to the Sleeping Beauty story, with Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the sprite-turned-avenger who lays a curse on the princess in the neighbouring kingdom. It’s spectacular to look and puts a glorious twist on the kiss, but kids may find it too scary. Big fun, but definitely for grown-ups. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñMANAKAMANA

(Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez) puts a static camera inside a cable car travelling high over Nepal’s Trisuli Valley to record passengers passing the time on the 10-minute trip between the Manakamana temple and the village below. As a meditation on the way human beings fill the silence – or choose not to – it’s an amazing accomplishment. Subtitled. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ñA MASTER BUILDER

(Jonathan Demme) is an film of Wallace Shawn’s recent translation and adaptation of the Ibsen play, shot largely in close-ups with small digital cameras pressing in on the struggles playing out on the faces of the actors (among them Shawn, Andre Gregory, Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce). It’s a work any theatre fan needs to see. 127 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) is a high-

def screening of a reunion of the five surviving members of the British comedy troupe. 170 min.

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ñA MOST WANTED MAN

(Anton Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counterintelligence with elegance and grace. In a final, masterful lead performance, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer tracking a Chechen Muslim (Grigory Dobrygin) through Hamburg.

Director Corbijn uses clear visual strategies to show us the hows, wheres and whys of the story even before we understand what’s really at stake. And the centre of his movie is Hoffman, watchful and worried and vulnerable and alive.

Some subtitles. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of 3D animation. The genius dog and his adopted son visit textbook figures like Marie Antoinette, King Tut and Leonardo Da Vinci while giving history a zany spin.

The father-son story is a strained framework for their lighthearted, rib-tickling episodic adventures, which retain the cartoons’ fun and humour. 92 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ñOBVIOUS CHILD

(Gillian Robespierre) is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Jenny Slate as a Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart. Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

PALO ALTO (Gia Coppola) is for the most part a gentle, thoughtful study of California teenagers (Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer) struggling to define themselves by figuring out what they will and won’t do.

Points off for Nat Wolff’s caricatured, obnoxious turn as the hero’s best friend, though. 100 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (Roberts Gannaway) is an economy flight as far as animated movies go but one that will elicit few complaints. There’s little in the way of bells and whistles in the workmanlike story, characters and visual design, yet the result is a satisfactory kids’ toon about Dusty the crop-duster’s transition from racer to firefighter that does a fine job saluting the real people on the job. 84 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rain-

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(Bong Joon-ho) takes a supremely ridiculous premise – 17 years after an attempt to curb global warming freezes the planet, the only life left on Earth is jammed aboard a constantly speeding train where a few dozen people living in steerage plot to overthrow their upper-class masters a dozen cars ahead – and turns it into a gripping, thrilling and utterly credible adventure. See it with a crowd. Some subtitles. 126 min.

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TAmmy (Ben Falcone) is co-written and produced by star Melissa McCarthy (Identity Thief), who once again plays a trashy, foul-mouthed terrorist against civility. But here she drops those luxurious f-bombs opposite Susan Sarandon in a road movie that tries to be a sensitively wrought dramedy. You have to admire McCarthy for the gamble, even if it isn’t entirely successful. 97 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 ThiNk like A mAN Too (Tim Story) takes

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The Privileged (Leah Walker) is an un-

inspired psychological thriller starring Joshua Close (late of the Fargo TV series) as a young lawyer drawn into a power game with his boss (True Blood’s Sam Trammell) at a cottage. Competently made, but no surprises whatsoever. 79 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

The Purge: ANArchy (James DeMonaco)

advantage of Kevin Hart’s box office clout by promoting his character, Cedric, from comic relief to the sequel’s narrator, focal point and vacuous black hole that sucks up all the air in the room from the film’s couples. 105 min. N (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre

TrANSformerS: Age of exTiNcTioN

(Michael Bay) is a gargantuan screech of white noise and spinning metal. The action sequences overwhelm the narrative and obliterate the senses. Some subtitles. 166 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) is basically just a toy box full of wonderful things, a sequel to Lord and Miller’s self-aware TV adaptation that levels up accordingly, with terrific chases and fights that stay grounded in the contrast between Channing Tatum’s gung-ho energy and Jonah Hill’s nervous hesitation. Stay for the credits. 112 min.

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ñuNder The SkiN

(Jonathan Glazer) stars Scarlett Johansson as a beautiful alien who drives a white van around the grey, drab roads of Scotland to pick up single men and mysteriously dispense with them. While this sounds like some cheesy sci-fi thriller, it touches on alienation, charity and even the human condition. The harsh, rugged landscape, Johansson’s restrained performance and Mica Levi’s hypnotic, disturbing score will all bore their way into your subconscious.

108 min. NNNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema

wAlkiNg The cAmiNo: Six wAyS To SANTiAgo (Lydia Smith) is a spectacular

snore, tracking a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela, delivering more bromides than a 19th-century apothecary.

It is good to look at, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what you’re after.

Some subtitles. 84 min. NN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

humour and appetite for pretty (and pretty meaningless) images in 2004’s Garden State. In the 10 years since, his filmmaking hasn’t matured. 110 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

wordS ANd PicTureS (Fred Schepisi) finds prep-school teachers Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche arguing whether words or pictures are the most powerful communication tool humans have evolved. The stars dive into their repugnant characters with everything they’ve got, apparently confident no one will ever see the finished product. Well, there’s always hope. 115 min. N (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

ñx-meN: dAyS of fuTure PAST

(Bryan Singer) is really just an excuse to let the all-star casts of the original X-Men trilogy and 2011’s sprightly X-Men: First Class share the same feature while the effects crew comes up with nifty new gags and suitably spectacular set pieces.

And Michael Fassbender is once again an even more charismatic Magneto than Ian McKellen. Some subtitles. 131 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre 3

wiSh i wAS here (Zach Braff) feels like

the pandering calling card of a rookie writer/director showing off all his evident style and talent by throwing everything he’s got at the screen. This dramedy about an unemployed actor struggling to be a responsible dad is actually a Zach Braff movie; he already showcased his cloying

has a bland new cast who play everyday folks scrambling to survive the annual event that legalizes murder for 12 hours, an insidious way for the rich to eradicate the poor. The budding franchise’s halfbaked, insincere critique of class warfare and the second amendment is a highminded justification for its real function: to get audiences giddy watching people mutilate each other as blood washes down the popcorn. 104 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

STRANGE PARADISE: THE CINEMA OF JIM JARMUSCH

rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a tropical fruit smoothie that won’t stop spinning in the blender. The 3D animated sequel about a pack of blue macaws dancing their way from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon jungle presents a relentless rush of bright colours impeccably choreographed to samba, R&B and show tunes. But the busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. NN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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couple Annie and Jay (Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel), who try to spice up their stale sex life by making a sex tape, which somehow gets forwarded to the tablets of a small group of friends, including Annie’s prospective employer (Rob Lowe). It’s an okay time-waster with a few big laughs, more small ones and a lot of unfunny scenes of people yelling in panic. 95 min.

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:10, 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:10 Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:45 Tue 3:40, 6:45 Wed 2:20, 5:40 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 SunMon 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Tue 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 10:00 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sat 10:05 Sun-Tue 9:50 Wed 8:35 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:30 Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:10 Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:50 Wed 3:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 8:10, 10:50 SunTue 7:30, 10:10 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:55, 10:45 FriSat 12:30, 2:00, 2:55, 3:25, 4:55, 5:50, 6:20, 7:50, 8:45, 9:15, 10:45 Sun-Mon 1:45, 2:40, 3:10, 4:40, 5:35, 6:05, 7:35, 8:30, 9:00, 10:30 Tue 1:55, 2:40, 3:10, 4:40, 5:35, 6:05, 7:35, 8:30, 9:00, 10:30 Wed 1:50, 2:40, 3:10, 4:40, 5:30, 6:00, 7:35, 8:15, 8:50, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Mon 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 HERCULES (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 10:00 HERCULES: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:35 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:10, 3:40, 4:55, 6:20, 7:30, 9:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 SunMon 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:20 Tue 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:20 Wed 1:40, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Fri-Sat 2:45, 6:35, 10:20 Sun-Tue 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 Wed 2:55, 6:20, 9:50 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 10:05 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:10 Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:35, 10:10 Wed 1:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Mon 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 1:10, 3:55, 7:20, 10:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:25

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

BOYHOOD (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 3:45, 6:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri 12:15, 2:15, 3:45, 6:00, 7:15, 9:30 Mon, Wed 12:15, 1:30, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:00, 7:15, 9:30 Tue 12:15, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 7:15, 9:30 LIFE ITSELF (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:45, 6:10, 8:45 Fri 12:00, 2:45, 5:00 Sat-Mon, Wed 12:00, 2:45, 6:15, 8:45 Tue 12:00, 2:25, 4:50 PINA 3D (G) Wed 9:00 SNOWPIERCER (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 6:25, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 3:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun, Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:00, 10:00 Mon 12:30, 3:15, 6:25, 9:00, 10:00 Tue 12:30, 3:15, 7:15, 10:00

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 AND SO IT GOES (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 1:00 2:30 4:40 6:30 8:20 10:00 FriWed 1:10, 2:30, 4:40, 6:30, 8:20, 10:00 CHEF (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:05 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 I ORIGINS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20

VIP SCREENINGS

AND SO IT GOES (PG) 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 BOYHOOD (14A) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 CHEF (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

AND SO IT GOES (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 7:35, 10:25 Fri, TueWed 1:35, 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Mon 12:00, 2:50, 6:30, 9:00 ANDRÉ RIEU’S 2014 HOMETOWN MAASTRICHT CONCERT Sat 12:30 Sun, Tue 3:15, 9:45 Mon 12:30, 7:00 Wed 2:40, 6:45 BACK TO THE FUTURE (PG) Fri 1:00, 7:00 Sat 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun, Tue 12:30, 7:00 Mon 4:15, 10:45 Wed 10:30 BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu, Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 CHEF (14A) Thu, Sat 12:40, 3:45, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, Tue 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:30, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 1:25, 4:15, 10:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 3:20 Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 12:05, 3:25, 6:20, 9:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 Sat-Mon 12:05, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 GET ON UP (14A) Thu 10:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:55, 2:25, 4:05, 5:45, 7:15, 9:15, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Sun-Mon 12:10, 2:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:00, 9:15, 10:15 GIRLS Fri, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:35, 10:30 Sat-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:05 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 6:55, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:15 FriMon 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:45, 10:45 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Mon 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:30 Sat-Mon 11:55, 3:45 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu, Sat-Mon 6:40, 9:25 Fri, Tue-Wed 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 KICK (PG) 2:30, 6:10, 9:35 LABYRINTH (PG) Thu 1:00 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00,

10:15 Fri-Mon 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:20 Tue 1:10, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:10 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 LUCY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu, Sat-Mon 12:15, 3:00, 6:00, 8:15, 10:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:45, 10:45 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 SatMon 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 10:35 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (14A) Thu 3:45 Fri 4:00, 9:45 MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Thu 6:30 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu, Sat-Mon 12:45, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:50 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) 7:15 Thu 2:05 mat, 4:50, 9:45 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:45, 3:40, 5:00, 6:00, 7:10, 8:00, 9:00, 9:50, 10:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Mon 2:15, 5:00, 8:05, 10:45 TAMMY (14A) Thu, Sat-Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Fri, Tue 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Wed 1:55, 4:35, 10:20 WISH I WAS HERE (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BELLE (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:20 CHEF (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:50 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 SatSun 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 2:00 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 7:30 GET ON UP (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Fri-Sun 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 I ORIGINS (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu 4:30 A MASTER BUILDER Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40 Fri 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40 Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:50, 7:00 SEX TAPE (14A) Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:40 SHE’S DATING THE GANGSTER Thu, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 3:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 6:30 WISH I WAS HERE (14A) Sat-Sun 1:40 Mon-Wed 2:10

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 9:20 SunMon 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu-Fri, Wed 7:00 Sat 4:30, 7:00 Sun-Mon 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

IDA (PG) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun-Mon 4:30 WORDS AND PICTURES Fri 8:40 Sat 4:30 Sun-Mon 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

ANDRÉ RIEU’S 2014 HOMETOWN MAASTRICHT CONCERT Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Fri 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 1:00, 3:40, 9:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:15 Fri-Tue 12:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 3:25, 6:30, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00

Fri-Sat 1:15, 2:00, 4:10, 4:55, 7:10, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 SunWed 1:15, 1:45, 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:35, 10:10, 10:30 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 2:00 5:00 7:50 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:25 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) 1:00, 3:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Fri-Tue 6:20 Wed 10:15 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Thu 1:50 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:30 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Tue 9:20 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 10:00

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:40 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 8:50, 9:40 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:10 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BELLE (PG) 1:40 BORGMAN (14A) Thu 9:45 CHEF (14A) 3:25, 7:05 THE DOUBLE (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 9:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 4:35 Sat, Mon, Wed 12:45 THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 2:15 GERONTOPHILIA (14A) Thu 1:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 9:45 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) 5:15 Fri-Sun 10:30 IDA (PG) Thu 3:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:45 MANAKAMANA (G) Thu 11:15 A MASTER BUILDER Fri-Wed 4:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 10:30 Sat, Mon, Wed 12:05 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 6:05 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:15 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:00 PALO ALTO (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 12:05 Sat, Mon, Wed 10:30 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Fri-Wed 11:15, 6:10 WORDS AND PICTURES 7:45

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 AND SO IT GOES (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:20, 6:50, 10:25 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:55, 6:25, 8:55 Wed 3:55, 6:25, 8:55 ANDRÉ RIEU’S 2014 HOMETOWN MAASTRICHT CONCERT Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 BOYHOOD (14A) Fri, Sun 2:45, 3:00, 6:30, 6:40, 10:15, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:45, 3:00, 6:30, 6:40, 10:15, 10:30 MonTue 12:15, 4:15, 4:20, 8:00, 8:05 Wed 12:40, 4:15, 4:20, 8:00, 8:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:20 Mon-Wed 12:55 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:45, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 8:40 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 10:15 GET ON UP (14A) Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 Mon-Tue 12:50, 4:10, 7:25, 10:35 Wed 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri 12:55, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45, 10:45 Sat 12:55, 1:15, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 12:55, 1:15, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45, 10:45 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:35, 9:15 Tue 12:45, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:35, 9:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 3:45, 4:55, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Sat 11:15, 12:40, 2:00, 3:45, 4:55, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Sun 12:40, 2:00, 3:45, 4:55, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Mon 1:45, 3:45, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 TueWed 1:45, 3:45, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15, 10:30 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 3:50, 6:30, 7:45, 9:45, 10:10 Fri 12:35, 3:10, 3:15, 5:40, 6:00, 8:10, 9:15, 10:40 SatSun 12:20, 12:35, 3:10, 3:15, 5:40, 6:00, 8:10, 9:15, 10:40 Mon 12:25, 2:55, 4:45, 5:25, 7:30, 7:55, 10:15, 10:20 Tue 12:25, 2:55, 4:45, 5:25, 7:30, 7:55, 10:20, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 2:55, 4:45, 5:25, 7:30, 7:55, 10:15, 10:25 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20 Fri, Sun 1:35, 4:00 Sat 11:10, 1:35, 4:00 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:10, 5:40 LUCY (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:20, 3:10, 4:50, 5:15, 5:40, 7:20,

8:00, 8:10, 9:50, 10:35, 10:45 Fri 12:30, 1:25, 2:50, 3:15, 3:45, 5:10, 6:00, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 8:45, 10:00, 10:55 Sat 11:05, 12:20, 2:20, 2:50, 3:15, 3:55, 5:10, 6:00, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 8:45, 10:00, 10:55 Sun 12:20, 12:30, 1:25, 2:50, 3:15, 3:45, 5:10, 6:00, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 8:45, 10:00, 10:55 MonTue 12:05, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 5:50, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:00, 9:40, 10:35 Wed 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:55, 6:30, 7:15, 7:45, 9:00, 9:35, 10:20 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 9:25 Fri-Sun 10:35 MonWed 9:15 Monty Python live (Mostly) Thu 6:30 a Most Wanted Man (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:20 Fri 1:10, 3:25 Sat 11:00, 1:10, 3:25 Sun 11:55, 1:10, 3:25 Mon-Tue 11:55, 2:10, 4:30 Wed 2:10, 4:30 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 2:30, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Sun 5:50, 8:20 Mon-Wed 6:55 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:50, 3:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 9:10, 10:35 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 sex taPe (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:35, 6:20, 8:40, 11:00 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 8:45 Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:15, 8:45 taMMy (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu 1:05 FriSun 6:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 8:25 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:50 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 MonTue 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Wed 5:00, 10:15

RainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 get on uP (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:15 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 hercules (PG) Thu 12:50 4:05 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) 1:10, 4:15 lucy (14A) Thu 1:05 4:00 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:55 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Wed 7:10, 9:45 sex taPe (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Fri-Wed 9:00

east end beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 FriWed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:30 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 lucy (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 12:30, 2:40, 6:30, 9:00 sex taPe (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10

north York Cineplex CineMaS eMpReSS Walk (Ce) 5095 Yonge ST., 416-847-0087

and so it goes (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 andré rieu’s 2014 hoMetoWn Maastricht concert Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 boyhood (14A) Fri-Wed 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 chef (14A) Thu 12:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 6:45 Sat 4:10, 6:50 Wed 1:20, 4:00 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri-Wed 1:25 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 4:20 Fri-Tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:25 the divine Move (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 6:50, 10:20 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:00 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 9:55 guardians of the galaxy: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 hercules: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:55 lucy (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:45 Monty Python live (Mostly) Thu 6:30 a Most Wanted Man (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:45 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 9:35 sex taPe (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:40, 10:10 Wish i Was here (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40

SilveRCiTY FaiRvieW (Ce)

ColiSeuM SCaRboRough (Ce)

daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 1:30 Fri-Tue 1:00 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 3:50 Fri-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 2:50 5:10 7:40 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 12:30 mat Wed 12:35 mat hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:30 lucy (14A) Thu 1:40 3:00 4:20 5:20 6:50 7:50 9:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:15, 6:50, 7:45, 9:10, 10:05 Sat 11:30, 12:40 mat Wed 12:40 mat Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:40 Sat 12:10, 2:40 Wed 12:25, 2:40 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) 5:00, 7:20 Thu 9:30 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 sex taPe (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu 3:25 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 6:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:40 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50

andré rieu’s 2014 hoMetoWn Maastricht concert Sat 12:30 Wed 6:45 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri-Tue 12:40 Wed 1:00 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:25, 10:35 Fri-Tue 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 deliver us froM evil (14A) Thu 9:40 get on uP (14A) Fri-Tue 12:50, 4:05, 7:20, 10:35 Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri 12:45, 2:00, 3:35, 4:55, 6:30, 7:50, 9:25, 10:45 Sat 11:05, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:55, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30, 10:45 Sun-Tue 12:45, 1:45, 3:35, 4:40, 6:30, 7:35, 9:25, 10:30 Wed 1:45, 3:00, 4:40, 6:00, 7:35, 9:00, 10:30 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Sun-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:10, 9:50 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:20 Sat 11:10 Wed 1:30 hoW to train your dragon 2 3d (PG) Thu 6:55 lucy (14A) Thu 2:05, 3:15, 4:30, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, SunTue 1:10, 2:15, 3:30, 4:50, 5:55, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50, 10:40 Sat 12:15, 1:10, 3:25, 4:50, 5:55, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50, 10:40 Wed 1:50, 3:15, 4:25, 5:40, 7:30, 8:05, 10:25 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 2:35 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00 Sat 1:20, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00 Wed 2:45, 5:00 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 4:55, 7:10, 9:30 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Sat 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 sex taPe (14A) Thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 she’s dating the gangster Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 think like a Man too (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 10:15 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu, Wed 2:30 Fri-Tue 2:45 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:55 Fri-Tue 6:35, 10:10 Wed 6:15, 10:10 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Tue 10:25

FaiRvieW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746

SilveRCiTY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-2052

daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Fri 1:15 Sat 12:40 Sun-Wed 1:00 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Fri 4:25, 7:35, 10:45 Sat 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 get on uP (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35 Sat 12:25, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 SatWed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 11:05, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 9:45, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 9:50, 10:30 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, SunWed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00 Fri 2:40 Sat 12:10, 2:40 Sun-Wed 1:10 lucy (14A) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 2:05, 3:05, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:40, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 12:40, 2:05, 3:05, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:55, 7:55, 9:20, 10:20 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:15 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:50 Sat 11:30, 1:50 Wed 2:45 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 4:20, 6:55 Sun-Tue 4:20, 7:00 Wed 5:05, 7:25 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Sun-Wed 3:45, 7:10, 10:00 sex taPe (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu 1:50 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 6:40, 10:20 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Tue 9:30 Wed 9:55

Scarborough 401 & MoRningSide (Ce) 785 MilneR ave, SCaRboRough, 416-281-2226

daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) 1:00 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 4:10 Fri-Tue 4:00, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 get on uP (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 12:25, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri, Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 11:40, 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 12:50, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:15 lucy (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:10, 3:10, 4:30, 5:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:05, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:50, 2:00, 3:05, 4:25, 5:25, 6:50, 7:50, 9:15, 10:10 Sat 11:25, 12:50, 2:00, 3:05, 4:25, 5:25, 6:50, 7:50, 9:15, 10:10 Wed 12:50, 2:05, 3:05, 4:25, 5:25, 6:50, 7:50, 9:00, 10:00 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:40 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 12:45, 2:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:45, 4:50 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 FriWed 7:10 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Wed 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 sex taPe (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Tue 9:30 Wed 9:15 taMMy (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu 3:20 FriWed 2:55 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:55 Fri-Tue 6:30, 9:55 Wed 6:30, 9:50 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 10:05 x-Men: days of future Past (PG) Thu 9:45

SCaRboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

and so it goes (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Sun-Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 begin again (14A) Thu 9:10 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 1:00, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00 Tue 1:30 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu, SunMon, Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sat 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 Tue 4:35, 7:40, 10:45 edge of toMorroW (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:40 Fri-Mon, Wed 9:50 Tue 10:15 get on uP (14A) Fri 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:50 Sat 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 10:05 Tue 12:35, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri 3:25, 6:30, 9:25 Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:25 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri 1:15, 2:00, 4:10, 4:55, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:45 Sat 11:10, 1:15, 2:00, 4:10, 4:55, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:05, 1:45, 3:55, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:55, 10:30 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 SunMon, Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Tue 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 kick (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:15, 9:45 Fri 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Sun-Mon 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:25 Tue 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10:20 Wed 3:35, 6:55, 10:25 lucy (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 4:50, 5:35, 7:25, 7:55, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:10, 2:50, 3:30, 5:10, 5:50, 7:35, 8:15, 10:00, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:55, 2:35, 3:15, 4:55, 5:40, 7:20, 8:00, 9:45, 10:20 Tue 12:15, 12:55, 2:35, 3:15, 4:55, 5:40, 7:20, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:55, 4:15, 6:30 Fri, Wed 2:40, 5:00 Sat 11:15, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00 Sun-Tue 12:20, 2:40, 5:00 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:15 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Mon 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Tue 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Wed 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 sex taPe (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 SunMon, Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 taMMy (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:20 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Sat 11:40 Tue 11:55 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:50, 10:25 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:05, 6:40, 10:20 Tue 3:30, 7:05, 10:40 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 x-Men: days of future Past (PG) Fri-Wed 9:30

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhuRST CiRCle, 416-299-3456

huMPty sharMa ki dulhania (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:00 Jigarthanda Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 thiruManaM enuM nikkah (PG) Thu 4:30 7:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 velaiyilla Pattathari (PG) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Thu 6:00, 9:00

GTA Regions north

ColoSSuS (Ce) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

and so it goes (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fri 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sun-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:40 daWn of the Planet of the aPes 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Sun 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:40, 10:30 deliver us froM evil (14A) Thu 9:55 get on uP (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 guardians of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 2:00, 3:25, 4:55, 6:20, 7:50, 9:15, 10:45 Sat 11:10, 12:30, 2:00, 3:25, 4:55, 6:20, 7:50, 9:15, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:45, 2:40, 4:40, 5:45, 7:35, 8:45, 10:30 Wed 2:00, 2:40, 4:55, 5:45, 7:35, 8:45, 10:30 guardians of the galaxy: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:05, 10:00 hercules (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri, SunWed 1:35, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 1:35, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 hercules 3d (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 hercules: an iMax 3d exPerience (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40 hoW to train your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50 Sat 11:30, 2:05 hoW to train your dragon 2 3d (PG) Thu 7:25 kick (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 lucy (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:50, 3:30, 5:10, 6:20, 6:45, 9:00, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:40, 1:10, 3:00, 3:30, 5:20, 5:50, 7:45, 8:15, 10:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 12:40, 1:55, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:45, 9:10, 10:10 Maleficent (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 FriWed 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 a Most Wanted Man (14A) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mr. Peabody & sherMan (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 1:30, 3:40, 6:10 Fri-Sat 12:45, 2:55, 5:05 Sun-Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:05 Planes: fire & rescue 3d (G) Thu 12:50, 2:55, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:15 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Tue 4:30, 7:25, 10:25 Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 sex taPe (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:45, 3:20, 5:05, 5:40, 7:30, 8:05, 9:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sun

1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:20, 9:55 taMMy (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20 Fri-Wed 9:30 think like a Man too (PG) Thu 8:40 transforMers: age of extinction (PG) Thu 2:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20 Sat 11:05, 2:30 transforMers: age of extinction 3d (PG) Thu 6:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 6:10, 9:50 22 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 8:10, 10:45 Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Wish i Was here (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45

RainboW pRoMenade (i)

pRoMenade Mall, hWY 7 & baThuRST, 416-494-9371 daWn of the Planet of the aPes (PG) 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 guardians of the galaxy (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 hercules (PG) Thu 1:10 4:00 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30 lucy (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 Planes: fire & rescue (G) Thu 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:10, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:10 the Purge: anarchy (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:25 sex taPe (14A) 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45

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Terry Gilliam’s The Zero Theorem isn’t the first movie that’s had to claw its way out of distribution limbo. (Hell, it isn’t even the first Terry Gilliam movie that’s faced that particular challenge.) Here are five other films that were shelved or abandoned in North America only to find their freedom – and their audience – in spite of that judgment.

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Santiago (2013) D: Lydia Smith. 4 pm. Alive Inside (2014) D: Michael Rossato-Bennett.

6:30 pm. Citizen Koch (2013) D: Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. 8:30 pm. fri 1 – Alive Inside. 4:15 pm. Anita (2013) D: Freida Lee Mock. 6:30 pm. Breastmilk (2014) D: Dana Ben-Ari. 9 pm.

Sat 2 – Alive Inside. 1:15 pm. Anita. 3:30 & 8:30 pm. Breastmilk. 6 pm.

SuN 3 – Munch: 150 (2013) D: Ben Harding. 2 pm. Alive Inside. 4:15 pm. Anita. 6:30 pm.

Breastmilk. 9 pm. moN 4 – Breastmilk. 1:30 & 8:30 pm. Anita.

4 pm. Alive Inside. 6:30 pm. tue 5 – Breastmilk. 11 am & 8:45 pm. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 1:30 pm. Alive Inside. 4 pm. Anita. 6:30 pm. wed 6 – Breastmilk. 6:30 pm. Anita. 8:45 pm.

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THE ZERO THEOREM (Terry Gilliam) Rating: NNN Don’t let anybody tell you complaining gets you nowhere.

After experiencing online backlash over the indignity of a Terry Gilliam movie going straight to disc in Canada, Mongrel Media reversed its decision and booked The Zero Theorem a two-week engagement at the Royal.

The unofficial closer of the dystopian trilogy Gilliam began with Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, the film is set in a glum near future.

Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a mathematical genius, toils in the

massive research division of an allpowerful corporation.

True to Gilliam’s lifelong fascination with chaos, Leth is working on the opposite of a grand unification theory, pursuing the idea that life, the universe and everything is ultimately utterly meaningless. He’s getting close, which is why his employer’s rivals are doing their best to distract him – or is something else going on?

The progression of the plot isn’t particularly original, but The Zero Theorem is more interested in doodling in the margins of the standard SF conspiracy thriller.

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weirdness in an increasingly bizarre series of encounters between Waltz and the likes of Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton.

And if the movie doesn’t fully congeal, I honestly don’t think it matters. Gilliam’s concocted an anarchic riot of ideas and imagery, and it’s a fun ride.

Hold off on the home version.

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4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org.

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WILDsound Feedback Toronto Film Festival presents short films including The Toons Behind The Toons, a history of music in animation films. 7 pm. Pwyc. RSVP online for seats. Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html. fri 1 – Maria A Shchuka Library presents Saving Mr Banks (2013) D: John Lee Hancock.

6 pm. Free. 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1051, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Thu only).

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11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon.

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thu 31 – GMO OMG (2013) D: Jeremy Seifert.

7 pm. The Dance Of Reality (2013) D: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 9 pm. fri 1 – The Immigrant (2013) D: James Gray. 7:15 pm. The Zero Theorem (2013) D: Terry Gilliam. 9:30 pm.

Sat 2 – The Immigrant. 4 & 7 pm. The Zero Theorem. 9:30 pm.

SuN 3 – The Zero Theorem. 4 & 9:30 pm. The Immigrant. 7 pm. moN 4 – Closed. tue 5 – The Amorphous Mind Police Factor D: Chris Minz. 7 pm. The Zero Theorem. 9:30 pm. wed 6 – The Immigrant. 7 pm. The Zero Theorem. 9:30 pm.

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The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. cntower.ca.

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Mon: Tobago 1677, and Nine Feet Of Rope.

1 to 3 pm.

SuN 3 – Christie Pits Film Festival’s Days of Summer outdoor screenings presents Twister (1996) D: Jan de Bont, and short films Blackout and July’s Wet Dreams.

At sunset (approx 9 pm). Free/pwyc. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. christiepitsff.com.

Sunday Cinema on the Island presents Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) D: Victor Erice. 9 pm (Screenings end by 11:30 pm, last ferry leaves at 11:45 pm.). $5/pwyc.

Frolick Theatre (aka Lagoon Theatre), Olympic Island, Toronto Islands. facebook.com/ groups/kinoclimateco. tue 5 – City Cinema outdoor film screenings presents The Italian Job (2003) D: F Gary Gray. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Summer Cinema @ Fort York presents an outdoor screening of Jurassic Park (1993) D: Steven Spielberg . Free. At sunset.

Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. scotiabank.com/outdoormovies. wed 6 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks Film Series presents an outdoor screening of Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) D: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. 9 pm. Free.

WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Regent Park Film Festival and Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival present an outdoor screening of Short Term 12 (2013) D: Destin Daniel Cretton. 9 pm.

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When to open up I am wonderIng when the best tIme Is to mention being in an open relationship to new girls. I’m a 27-year-old straight guy who’s been in an open relationship for six years. I often seek out extracurricular activities, but I am unsure of how to bring up my situation without doors closing. I wrote to a seduction blogger who often writes about open relationships, and his advice was to not mention it until I’ve had sex with the girl a few times and to not bring them to my apartment that I share with my girlfriend.

This feels contrary to my nature, which is very straightforward, but is it perhaps the better method? Indeed, many of my “potentials” have been scared away when they learn of my relationship status. What are your thoughts on the matter?

Straightforward Honesty Offends Potentials If your goal is to maximize the amount of pussy in your life without any regard for the feelings of the women who happen to be attached to those pussies, SHOP, then you should definitely take the advice of the PUA (“pickup artist”) blogger. But that’s only if you wanna be a huge asshole who gets tons of pussy. If you wanna be a decent dude who gets more than enough pussy – and “enough is as good as a feast,” as Mary Poppins says – then you’ll listen to me.

Tell “potentials” after the third hang/date/ whatever. Let them get to know you a bit, then spill – before fucking but after they’ve made a small emotional investment in you.

They’ll be more likely to reconsider prejudices they may have against guys in open relationships after they’ve gotten to know a semi-straightforward one and perhaps be less quick to slam the door.

But unless it’s a clear case of drunken-onenight-stand/NSA encounter, no lying by omission – no matter what the PUA/POS blogger says. Most single people up for fucking a new person not once, not twice, but a few times are seeking someone with longterm potential. There are lots of single people out there seeking sex for sex’s sake, of course, but a majority of sex-for-sex’ssake types are hoping to leverage it into something more at some point. And most single people make the quite reasonable if not always accurate assumption that the people they’re fucking are also single – otherwise they wouldn’t be fucking them, right? If you neglect to inform the women you fuck that you’re not single (you’ve got a girlfriend) or emotionally available (you’re in an open relationship, not a poly one), you are knowingly taking advantage – and needlessly! There are plenty of women out there who are in open relationships and/or poly relationships, as well as women who are looking only for sex. And while you might have to work a little harder to find these women, SHOP, you’ll have better sex with a lot less drama – and you’ll spend fewer millennia in purgatory burning off your sins.

get off, and then didn’t come. I know he really likes it when I get off, but I don’t want for us to have such a limited repertoire. My feeling is that I should not worry about my orgasms and focus on spice and variety, but I think that if we go too many times without me coming, it might be a downer for his boner, too. So which do we give preference to: variety or orgasms?

Rutting Or Undertaking Totally Interesting New Experiences?

Your “tried-and-true” repertoire may feel like a bit of a rut, ROUTINE, but it’s a successful rut. You both enjoy the sex you’re having, and you come way more often than you used to. There are worse problems – and all you need to solve your repertoire problem is perspective and patience.

You have two competing and conflicting interests: You want to come regularly (because of course you do) and you get off consistently when you stick to your routine, but you also want to shake up your routine and try new things. But trying new things – even something as low-stakes as fucking in frillier underpants – makes it difficult for you to come. My advice would be to relax and give yourself permission to not come when you’re trying something new. To stave off frustration and/or self-consciousness, ROUTINE, constantly remind yourself that new things you both enjoy will be incorporated into your routine. And when things that work for you both join the ranks of the triedand-true, you’ll be able to come while you’re doing them. This is a problem that solves itself.

And remember: You don’t have to stop doing the shit that works now. Let’s say you try

something new on Wednesday night – new kink, new locale, new hole – and you enjoy yourself but you don’t come. So the next time you have sex, ROUTINE, stick to the already “tried-and-true” stuff that gets you there consistently.

Sliding scale my best frIend has a gIrlfrIend of two years. They break up a lot, and he has slept with plenty of other girls over the last two years. I’ve had a crush on him for about three years, but I never made any advances. We did have a threesome with a girl in March – he was broken up with his girlfriend at the time – but it was all about the girl and nothing happened between us guys. He got back with his girlfriend after that. Then last month, he and I had sex with each other. We had been drinking, he initiated it, and neither of us came. It was awkward, and we didn’t talk for a week.

Then we bumped into each other and he came home with me and we had sex again.

I came this time, but he drank too much and couldn’t. Then three weeks ago, I initiated it and we did it again. This time he came. The next day, he said that the “gay sex stuff” had to stop. He said he felt like he was cheating on his girlfriend. I agreed.

But later that same night he started getting flirty with me and seemed to be on the verge of initiating again. The issue is, I still want to sleep with him. Do you think he may have freaked out about liking it too much? Could he be developing feelings? I rarely see him now, due to his hanging with his girlfriend all the time. I can tell that he’s had sex with a guy before – it slid in pretty

and I’ve been with my male partner for four years. Here’s the thing that’s been bugging me: After four years, the sex has gotten predictable. But it’s also gotten better in the sense that I orgasm a much greater percentage of the time, now that he knows my body and what I like. More orgasms for me are great, but in the service of that, we’ve fallen into a “tried-and-true” rut, which I don’t think is good. I try to switch it up sometimes, and I surprised him with some sexy lingerie last night… and I got self-conscious, started to worry about whether I’d

Maybe it would help if you told your friend that you’re not having gay sex – you’re having hot, sweaty bi sex, just without an accommodating/exonerating girl present. As for what to do….

You might wanna look around for some other guy – maybe even a gay one – who you can have a crush on and slide into. But I’m not going to push you to do that, because it’s clear that you’ve got feelings for this guy and at the very least he’s got Feelings While Drunk for you. And while I should probably scold you both for fucking around behind his girlfriend’s back, BESTS, I have a hunch that you’re a bunch of teenagers and/or very young adults. So you’re getting a pass because this kind of bullshit is often a necessary and clarifying rite of passage for kids who are still figuring out who they are, what they want, and who they can and cannot trust. But I predict that this will end badly for all involved, and you will one day look back on the bi three-ways, the gay two-ways and the way you once believed that “breaking up a lot” was evidence of a passion that could not be denied (when in actual fact it’s evidence of a couple of twats who cannot be endured) and be deeply, deeply embarrassed. But in the meantime, BESTS, enjoy sliding in.

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