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I have always found Olivia Chow to be sincere in responding to every­ body about everything! Maybe Tor­ ontorians identify themselves with the idiotic Rob Ford rather than someone refined. John Tory is only leading because, although he is a man with a wishy­washy platform, all the men who are not drug addicts can identify with him. It’s been a long time since a woman got into power in this all­boys club.

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Re In The End, The System Worked (NOW, September 4­10). Sometimes I wonder, given our experience with Rob Ford, whether the choice of mayor should be made by council instead of voters at large. The string of Metro chairs provided the best and most consistent political leadership, end­ ing with Alan Tonks. Toronto isn’t a

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He’s now in Toronto with his new film, Nightcrawler.

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September 5, 2014. Diehard fans await the arrival of Bill Murray at TIFF’s world premiere of St. Vincent at the Princess of Wales Theatre.

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WHY Another architectural and cultural gem lost. Closed by the Harris government in 1995 and sold by the ROM to the University of Toronto in 2009. U of T announced plans on Tuesday, September 9, to build a cultural centre and Jewish museum on the site.

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Unable to put questions about her leadership to rest after triggering the last provincial election – and losing three Toronto seats – NDP leader Andrea Horwath announced the hiring of new chief of staff and principal secretary Michael Balagus on Tuesday, September 9, ahead of a leadership review in November. Balagus, a former chief of staff and campaign director for former Manitoba premier Gary Doer, served more recently as CEO/ CAO of the Ontario Nurses’ Association.

THE WEEK IN NUMBERS

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Average number of people nightly in Toronto homeless shelters in August – a 9 per cent increase since Ford was elected.

Paul Benoit, who showed up at Rob Ford’s campaign headquarters in a Rob Ford mask (and ended up getting assaulted) in his own words to NOW on why he did it: 1. “The intent was Jimmy Kimmel-style humour.”

2. “I thought it would be really funny.”

3. “I’m deeply offended that he’s in second place.”

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Length of rapid transit lines opened in Toronto over the last 10 years, despite the fact that we have the country’s highest annual number of transit rides per capita: 133.

Everyone’s favourite mayor-who-might-have-been announced he was withdrawing from the mayoral race late Tuesday, September 9, apparently discouraged by his failure to raise the tenor of the race.

What he said in his official statement about his goodbye: “While we fought this as a campaign of ideas, we’ve also heard from voters who’ve told us that removing Mayor Ford is their top priority.”

What he told NOW on why he entered the race in 2013: “People don’t see everything in terms of wedge issues.”

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When Norm Kelly acquired Rob Ford’s non-statutory powers – and half of his staff – at the height of the crack scandal, he received those privileges almost by default. But earning the moral authority to wield them was his own subsequent achievement.

He saw the various constituencies the mayor had alienated – council colleagues, the public service, the media, entire segments of the population – and took active steps to reach out to them.

Approaching the end of his term as deputy mayor, Kelly invited reporters to his office to conduct exit interviews last week.

Seated next to a large portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie, the first rebel mayor of Toronto – and the man to whom Ford compared himself during his inaugural speech to council in 2010 – Kelly spoke to NOW on September 3.

You really like being deputy mayor.

I do. I’m gonna miss it!

You were appointed deputy mayor mid-summer of last year.

And say the events of the fall hadn’t happened, you would have just been…

Ceremonial.

You probably wouldn’t have had as much fun, would you?

Well, I ran twice for the mayor’s office in the city of Scarborough in 85 and 88. I tend to believe that a split vote denied me the opportunity of being the mayor. But I’ve often wondered, in retrospect, just what kind of mayor would I have been – and, I think, not a bad one.

You’re sort of getting to do the thing you’ve always kind of wanted to do?

Yeah.

What was the highlight of the term for you?

As chair of the Parks Committee, the Occupy Toronto park situation.

There were people on Ford’s team who just wanted to get rid of them.

“Get ’em out now. Move ’em on.” I asked people to reserve judgment.

I went down. Walked through it.

Talked with ’em. Tried to get a sense of what was going on. And one thing I noticed was that once you got a block away, you wouldn’t know it was there. So my advice was, “Take it easy. Roll with it.” And that’s the advice the city chose to take.

Afterwards, the highlight was the reattachment of the gay and alternate-lifestyle communities to life here at City Hall. I think that either

ignoring them or not cooperating with them wasn’t fair. You know, we had that struggle over the flying of the flag, and the mayor said no. I said yes. The mayor and I had different perspectives on it. Mine prevailed.

We reached out and we met the leadership of the various communities.

We made them welcome here at City Hall in the deputy mayor’s office.

Were you surprised when people began to relate to you as though you were the mayor?

The first step in all of this was to open the office to the media. Up until then, it was Rob bulling his way through a crowd of media. Or him running away and the media chasing him. The first thing I did was to engage the media. And the second step, right up front, was to engage my colleagues on council.

[St. Paul’s councillor] Josh Matlow remembers coming into a committee meeting and me doing a fistbump with him. I did that deliberately. I wanted people to know that I was there to work with them.

Do you think you’ll miss the spotlight?

It’s not the spotlight. The spotlight sometimes is a drag. My wife loves... you know the Groupons?

She’ll say, “Oh, I found a Groupon for this little restaurant; why don’t we go there? I’ve googled it and it looks terrific.” So you go out to a restaurant and when you walk in the heads come up. They follow you as you go in. And while you’re sitting there, people come over and chat with you.

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ELECTION BAROMETER

Can Paula Fletcher hang on? Will Mikey continue the Ford family dynasty in Etobicoke North? Is the jig finally up for Giorgio Mammoliti?

Eleven council contests to watch for your #TOpoli fix Compiled by NOW staff Ward 2 Etobicoke North

The Ford brothers deny having Kennedyesque ambitions to create an Etobicoke political dynasty, but how else to explain the fielding of their 20-year-old nephew, Michael Ford, to replace Doug?

Many City Hall observers suspect Mikey is just keeping the spot warm in case Rob’s next drug-and-booze-fuelled meltdown knocks him out of the mayor’s race. But that would have to happen before the September 12 registration cutoff. The best bet to topple Ford so far: Andray Domise, a media-savvy financial planner who’s been launching devastating critiques of the Ford brothers’ neglect of Etobicoke North’s racialized communities.

Key number: East Indians, the top ethnic group of origin, make up 12 per cent of the ward’s population.

Ward 7 York West

The jig may be up for Giorgio Mammoliti. Between conflict-of-interest allegations, an audit of his campaign expenses and a scathing integrity commissioner’s report into an illegal $80K fundraiser, he seems ripe for defeat.

Truth is, the mayor’s right-hand thumb is a media whore, unabashed opportunist and the mouthpiece for some of the most vile attacks unleashed by the Ford crew when they were throwing their weight around at City Hall like high school bullies. Seven candidates have signed up to run against him, including 2010 challenger Nick Di Nizio, the early front-runner according to one Forum poll.

Ward 9 York Centre It’s a rematch between incumbent Maria Augimeri and Ford lackey

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(oops, didn’t see that banana peel) Gus Cusimano, who challenged the 2010 results in court and lost.

Augimeri has more political savvy than critics give her credit for. She beat out council boy wonder Josh Colle to win the TTC chair, and survived Ford’s attempts to kick her off the Toronto Community Housing board. Question is, will she be weighed down by bad feelings lingering in the ward from her handling of the 2008 Sunrise propane station explosion? Key number: One-third of all families here are headed by a single parent.

Ward 16 Eglinton-Lawrence

It’s a free-for-all to replace Karen Stintz, who gave up the seat to run for mayor and pulled out of that race, too. So far, 11 candidates have registered, including former Stintz adviser John-Pierre Boutros, who would seem to have the inside track and notably broke with the former TTC chair on her support for the Scarborough subway. Development issues matter for voters here freaked by condo intensification messing with the sanctity of their “established” midtown ’hoods. Key number: more than half the ward’s 53,000-plus residents live in single detached homes.

Ward 17 Davenport

When Rob Ford minion Cesar Palacio was first elected in 2003, he beat the NDP-backed Alejandra Bravo by 791 votes. In 2006’s rematch, Palacio’s margin of victory narrowed to 281. Bravo sat out the 2010 race but is now back for a third try in a Davenport that’s changed from Liberal fortress to swing riding.

Good news for Bravo: she stands to gain support from her former boss, Councillor Joe Mihevc, who represents the ward immediately east.

Bad news: Saeed Selvam, cofounder and director of the SPARK Initiative, is also running and going after many of the same voters as Bravo.

Ward 18 Davenport

In 2010, Ana Bailão took the seat by a comfortable margin against the well-liked assistant (Kevin Beaulieu) of the not-so-well-liked outgoing councillor (Adam Giambrone). And distinguished herself as an advocate of affordable housing after a rocky period propping up the Ford regime.

In early 2013, she pled guilty to drunk driving after police spotted her without her headlights on, and it emerged that she’d been drinking with casino lobbyists at the Thompson Hotel.

Harvard-educated lawyer Alex Mazer, a founder of grassroots municipal policy initiative Better Budget TO and a former policy director for Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan, is positioning himself as the “progressive candidate.” Key number: Portuguese speakers make up 20 per cent of the ward.

Ward 24 Willowdale

True to form, 23-year incumbent David Shiner waited till last week to file his papers. He’s never been in a hurry in the past to reclaim his seat.

That may be because he got bored with municipal politics around the time of his failed run for the provincial PCs in 2007. Shiner didn’t give up his council seat to run, but he’s largely been going through the motions ever since.

His claim to fame this term: headlines he made with Giorgio Mammoliti over the sweetheart rent deal both were able to cop for midtown apartments from money-bags property management firm Greenwin. Key number: Chinese, Cantonese and Mandarin speakers make up 30 per cent of the ward’s population.

Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth

Paula Fletcher edged out rightleaning broadcaster Liz West by just 259 votes in 2010.

Fletcher and West are headed for a rematch, but this time high-profile activist Jane Farrow is also in the mix.

The beloved queer activist and founder of Jane’s Walk (named after Jane Jacobs), who served as Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon’s executive assistant, could conceivably divide the left, handing West a victory, or the anti-Fletcher vote, handing Fletcher a victory.

Notable: West’s endorsements include songster Ron Sexsmith and Triumph bassist Mike Levine.

Ward 32 Beaches-East York

First-time councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon was initially perceived as a lightweight at City Hall more interested in baking treats for her colleagues. However, she gradually found her voice.

It looked like McMahon would breeze to re-election, but in early September Sandra Bussin, the former Millerista she trounced in 2010, suddenly registered for a rematch, blaming McMahon’s inexperience for “the unabated and unreasonable development throughout the ward.”

Upon leaving politics, Bussin turned to real estate. A billboard asking “Time for a fresh start?” alongside her name and photo has loomed over the Queen and Woodbine intersection since spring.

It should be a good show.

Ward 36 Scarborough Southwest

This oblong-shaped ward stretching along the shore of Lake Ontario is relatively well off compared to the rest of Scarborough.

It’s been represented for the past four years by rookie councillor Gary Crawford, a friendly-faced conservative who served on Rob Ford’s executive committee and, when he wasn’t busy painting a portrait of Ford for the mayor’s mother, worked to boost arts funding.

But Crawford only took 25 per cent of the vote in 2010, and two of the candidates who ran last time around are having another go, including second-place finisher Bob Spencer, a progressive former Toronto District School Board trustee.

Ward 44 Scarborough East

Ron Moeser has yet to register, and it’s unclear if he will before the September 12 cutoff. He’s been absent from City Hall for much of the term due to health problems, but he’s tweeting up a storm lately and sent out a flurry of newsletters, leading to speculation that the 22-year councillor is priming for another run.

He’s no lock to win; he only took the 2010 election by 1 per cent, and he’s done little to better his chances in the past four years. There are 11 other candidates vying to represent this affluent ward in the far east, including former City Idol candidate and provincial NDP hopeful (before she was swept aside for Adam Giambrone) Amarjeet Chhabra, who supported Scarborough-Guildwood Liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter in the provincial election.

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John Tory’s “Londonstyle” surface rail plan promises to cut travel times by 30 minutes from the burbs.

SMARTTRACK’S BIG LEAP

A 10-kilometre stretch of John Tory’s surface rail plan along Eglinton West has already been blocked by condo and townhouse development By ROB SALERNO

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as mayoral front-runner John Tory’s signature SmartTrack transit plan drawn up looking at outdated maps?

SmartTrack proposes 22 stations along two existing GO Transit lines running from the airport corporate centre in Mississauga west of Kipling to Unionville in Markham in the east.

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proposing has never been successfully tried before – there are two potentially larger obstacles. A drive along Eglinton West, or a ride on the 32 bus, reveals these problems clearly.

The Tory camp says 90 per cent of SmartTrack’s 53-kilometre route would be on existing GO Transit lines (the actual number is closer to 80 per cent). But approximately 10 kilometres would have to be built in a completely new right-of-way along Eglinton west of Weston Road. The stopper: much of that land, known

“We’re seeing all the problems that happen when you design transit on an envelope.”

as the Richview corridor, was transferred to Build Toronto in 2012, and has since been sold to developers who’ve been busy building condos and townhouses on it.

In this stretch, a brand new condo sits at the northeast corner at Royal York and Eglinton. Cranes are currently building a massive complex on the northwest corner at Widdicombe Hill along the right-of-way near Kipling, while more townhouses are being advertised for the northeast corner.

Build Toronto is also advertising three huge blocks of the corridor for sale between Royal York and Islington. The city-run corporation confirms that the city has retained only a 4.2-metre-wide strip along the corridor for future road widening and sidewalk improvements.

Amanda Galbraith, a spokesperson for Team Tory, refused to acknowledge that the Richview corridor is unavailable or to answer whether tunnelling through this section of the route would be achievable within the estimated $8 billion cost. She says engineering and cost projections will happen after the election.

“We’ve always stated that for a complex project of this size, engineering will be required to lay out the exact alignment of the entire track. This includes land which is held by Build Toronto, the city of Toronto, etc.

The key to SmartTrack is that it will be built without disrupting traffic on Eglinton Avenue,” says Galbraith in an email.

Similarly problematic is SmartTrack’s proposed path through the Mount Dennis neighbourhood. Eglinton is too narrow here to accommodate a rail line on the surface without demolishing homes.

The community fought hard and won against Metrolinx’s plans to demolish homes here to build the Eglinton Crosstown terminus, which is part of the Transit City plan, at Weston Road. It’s unlikely to roll over for another transit scheme.

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plan proposes running service every 15 minutes. By contrast, the TTC runs subway trains every two to three œcontinued from page 14 minutes on Yonge during the moraround neighbourhood objections, ning rush. but transit expert Steve Munro says SmartTrack would also run paraltunnelling would be prohibitively lel to and less than 2 kilometres from expensive, in part due to the new Egthe proposed Scarborough subway linton Crosstown station that sits up McCowan, which Tory also supunder the existing tracks. ports. The two modes would likely “That curve is not going to be an cannibalize each other’s ridership. easy one,” Munro says. “If you went On this, both Munro and Miller down a long way, it commits you to agree. building an expensive deep-bore “The decision to convert the LRT to tunnel. You’d have to start digsubway was a one-off in absence ging the tunnel someof other possibilities. In where south of Eglintparticular, the idea of on.”

SmartTrack wasn’t on He adds that “the the table,” says Mildemand out there ler. “I think you do simply does not have to re-evaluate justify the cost of a what you want to do fully grade-separatwith the Scarbored operation.” That’s ough subway. Is it why any plan to go made redundant by west along Eglinton this other route that has always been bus raphas a much bigger geoid transit or LRT, Munro graphic scope? Is it cost-efsays, citing studies done in Condo at Royal fective?” the 1980s and more re- York and Eglinton But team Tory maintains sits smack dab in cently for Transit City. that the subway and Smartcorridor slated for Which raises the ques- SmartTrack, where Track can coexist, even tion: why build it at all?

Build Toronto is without any completed The city already has an also selling off land studies to back up the need approved (but not funded) for future for both. development. plan for continuing the “We will have a detailed LRT line along Eglinton ridership study, but exWest. Since SmartTrack includes only press rail and local-service transit two stops in Etobicoke, the LRT would operate side by side in major cities provide better local service. around the world,” says Galbraith.

But at least one transit expert says Mayoral candidate David Soknacki tunnelling might be worth it if ridersays SmartTrack leaves parts of Scarship studies – which a spokesperson borough over-serviced, while others, for Tory’s campaign says will be up to like Malvern, remain under-serMetrolinx to complete – indicate that viced. the demand is there.

Says Soknacki, “We’re seeing all Eric Miller, of the University of Tothe problems that happen when you ronto’s Transportation Research Indesign transit on the back of an enstitute, believes growth of the downvelope. We would be far better [off] town core and Mississauga have offering competitive visions to fichanged travel patterns so much nance what’s already approved.” that ridership numbers may be highMiller suggests that an election er than 1980s studies predicted. campaign may not be the best time But more questions arise on the to debate the merits of new transit eastern portion of SmartTrack, where infrastructure.

Tory proposes to run trains to Ken“There’s a real danger that one nedy Road on the Unionville GO line. could end up locking into a bad idea This portion of the line is meant to because it’s won the day,” he says. serve Markham and Scarborough “Clearly, there’s a political element while relieving some of the congesbecause we’re spending public motion on the Yonge subway. ney, but there has to be a more techMiller suggests that it could shave nical evaluation of why it makes a significant number of riders off the sense, and an election campaign isn’t Yonge line if service were provided the best place to do that.”

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53 kilometres Total length of the SmartTrack network – 90 per cent of which would run on two existing GO lines operated by provincial transit agency Metrolinx 22 Number of stops stretching from the Airport Corporate Centre on Matheson in Mississauga (just west of Kipling station) to Unionville in Markham 200,000 Estimated ridership per day – about half of the daily ridership on the Bloor-Danforth line 30 minutes Average estimated commute time on SmartTrack to Union Station from the northwest and northeast suburbs, which is roughly 10 to 20 minutes less than on the current subway network $8 billion Estimated price tag, one-third to be borne by the city. The real figure would likely be higher, since the proposed route through Mount Dennis and Richview in the west would require possibly tunnelling or elevated track

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of being at the centre of political life in an exciting city.

When did Mayor Ford first approach you about succeeding Doug Holyday as deputy mayor?

It was a couple of days before we made the announcement [at Ford Fest in early July 2013].

So the first part of the crack scandal had already happened. What did you think when he approached you, and how did you decide to take him up on that offer?

“He needs help.”

Were you worried at all that your accepting his appointment would be seen as condoning his behaviour?

I remember at the first scrum that I had, just outside his office, I said, “I’m not gonna comment on his personal life. I’m gonna focus on stuff that’s going on at City Hall.” I really felt that I had something to offer. And if not me, who?

You didn’t worry that it would be seen as tacit support for someone who had various unaddressed issues?

No, I just felt that I would be put in a position where I would hopefully have his ear.

Did you, you think?

Um, he’s very much his own guy. And

I certainly gave him my best advice, politically and personally. Privately.

Candidly and directly. On a number of occasions.

What do you think it says that after all he’s been through and all he’s put the city through in the last few years, he’s still polling respectably in the mayoral race?

The city’s changed. I think political scientists and historians are going to be mining this administration for a long time to come. The focus will not only be on Ford, but on his supporters, and that symbiotic relationship between the two that was just as unexpected as it was unprecedented.

What do you know now that you didn’t know four years ago?

That it’s important to understand the team aspect of politics. Even though in the municipal order there’s a more pronounced individualism, an independent voice and vote, you still have to create a sense of team: a certain set of common values, common goals.

How did you discover that you could just talk to someone here and have them light up City Hall in whatever colours to honour one cause or another?

By accident! I remember one day asking, “Who controls the lights?”

And we phoned around, we found out. “Okay, if I ask for these lights to be on, would that be okay?” “Sure.”

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PROSTITUTION

“It has given me the freedom and courage to do some things I had only dreamt about,” Emily Marie

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Whereas the Parliament of Canada has grave concerns about the exploitation that is inherent in prostitution and the risks of violence posed to those who engage in it.

The phrase above is the first paragraph in the preamble of Bill C-36, The Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act, the Conservative government’s new legal framework for the sex work industry. It jibes with the idea that prostitution is, in toto, an exploitative activity.

Yes, there are women, and men, who engage in sex work who are not in the industry voluntarily, who are being kept in it by a pimp or a “boyfriend,” who have suffered abuse as children and who have been trafficked. It is, absolutely, our duty as a society to try to protect these people.

But not all of those working in the sex work industry fit that characterization.

Sophia Kiss is articulate and soft-spoken.

She has been working as an escort for five years. She made the decision on her own to enter the business and sought out another working escort to mentor her on how to approach it.

She gets tested regularly for sexually transmitted infections and pays taxes. The Canada Revenue Agency has a classification, 812990, for escorts.“I do enjoy what I do. It’s fun. I get to meet interesting people,” she says.

ed right to security of the person.

By restricting how they can communicate with potential customers and barring them from working indoors and from hiring security personnel, the laws were putting prostitutes in an unnecessarily dangerous position. The court said that while prostitution is in itself a somewhat risky job, the government could not make it more risky.

Ms. Emily Marie greets you on her website with a radiant smile. She is college-educated and was employed as a licensed practical nurse before becoming an escort four years ago, working out of her Victoria condominium. She wants to continue working as an escort for as long as she can.

“It has given me the freedom and courage to do some things I had only dreamt about,” she says.

While C-36 bans third-party advertising, sex workers will still be permitted to advertise their own services on their own websites. But even this freedom may be compromised. Websites must be hosted on a server that is connected to the internet. That hosting is typically done by a third-party hosting company. According to an official with the Justice Department, the web-hosting company may be subject to prosecution if it does not take reasonable steps to ensure that the content of the website meets the requirements of the bill.

Hosting companies are unlikely to want to take on that risk or respon-

sibility, so will in all probability de­ cline to host websites for escort ser­ vices, effectively making the ban on advertising absolute.

But the advertising aspect of the law can only be enforced if the adver­ tising originates in Canada and if the person(s) responsible for the advertis­ ing are resident in Canada. Bruce Ry­ der, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, points out that “Ca­ nadian law can’t be enforced beyond our borders.”

These limitations on communica­ tion and advertising are likely to be challenged when the new law comes into effect. The ban on advertising will have the effect of undoing their ability to work indoors by forcing sex workers onto the street to find cli­ ents. The limitations on places of communication will further push them into back alleys and other in­ herently more dangerous areas, which runs counter to the require­ ments laid out in the Supreme Court decision.

Bill C­36 is patterned after the so­ called Nordic approach first enacted in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Ice­ land. Under this model, the selling of sexual services is legal, but the pur­ chase of those services is not. The model does not work; prostitution still goes on in these countries.

Opponents of legalized prostitu­ tion point to trafficking of women for the purpose of forcing them to work in the sex industry. However, whether increased trafficking num­ bers in Germany and elsewhere are the result of an actual increase or of greater investigation of trafficking is unclear. The Justice Department of­ ficial I talked to admits, “I don’t know that anybody is ever going to be able to say definitively it’s one or the other.”

The government says it considered other alternatives, but how seriously?

It seems clear that the long­range goal of eliminating prostitution was determinative from the beginning.

Why couldn’t we take a more ma­ ture approach that requires licensing and “in­call” locations to be subject to inspection by municipal health department officials, much like res­ taurants and tattoo parlours?

Sex workers, agencies and brothels would be required to keep a record of customer contact information so, in the event that a sexually transmitted infection (STI) were detected, custom­ ers could be contacted to receive health checks and treatment.

“I would really appreciate that, ac­ tually,” says Kiss. “There have been no laws about screening, and there should be.”

A more progressive legal frame­ work would give police time to con­ centrate their efforts on finding and prosecut­ ing those who do truly exploit and traffic in humans for sex.

Tina is university-educated, with a degree in sociology.

She isn’t ashamed of her

work. “All my clients have their own reasons for utilizing my services, but I know, at the end of the day, I have made their lives better and leave them smiling.” Tina say she looks forward to the day when she can charge HST for her services.

Oren Amitay, a registered psychol­ ogist and instructor in human sexu­ ality practising in Toronto, says it is certainly possible for women and men to go into sex work voluntarily and to enjoy what they do.

“They feel empowered by their sexuality. They’re not afraid of sex; they see it as a means of commerce.

They actually enjoy sex,” he says.

“Even in 2014, some people still have a hard time wrapping their heads around [the idea that] women may actually genuinely enjoy knowing they’re giving someone else great sexual pleasure.”

Whereas the Parliament of Canada recognizes the social harm caused by the objectification of the human body and the commodification of sexual activity….

The above passage is the second paragraph in the preamble to Bill C­36. This statement builds on the falsehood of the first paragraph. The Supreme Court has ruled in other cases that the government cannot legislate morality. In order to be criminalized, an activity must be truly harmful to the whole of society, interfering with the way society needs to function. Murder, assault and theft are examples of such activ­ ities.

In a brief to the Standing Commit­ tee on Justice and Human Rights, sex work researcher John Lowman of Simon Fraser University’s School of Criminology writes, “Prohibitionists selectively assemble evidence to suit their political agenda, ignoring any­ thing that contradicts it.”

He goes on to say, “Ultimately, the people who will suffer most if Parlia­ ment passes Bill C­36 are the ones prohibition always victimizes: survi­ val sex workers who cannot find an alternative way to make a living, and the sex workers who do not want to find an alternative, preferring to take advantage of their sexual capital ra­ ther than working long hours for me­ diocre wages.”

It is our duty as a society to protect and assist those who are being ex­ ploited and victimized. There are better ways to do that than Bill C­36, a priggish strategy based on false as­ sumptions and a slanted morality. 3 Robert Fisher is a commercial photographer and freelance writer based in Oshawa. A longer version of this story appears at nowtoronto.com. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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RACE RETROSPECTIVE

NAZI NOBODY William John Beattie, Canada’s would-be Führer, captured a nation’s attention with his antics, just like a certain mayor we know By BERNIE FARBER Septuagenarian William John Beattie is no longer the enfant terrible of Canada’s racist movement.

But at a time when drunks, fraudsters and crack smokers can hold the highest municipal office, it is surely a public service to expose people like Beattie.

Driving along Highway 35 toward Minden in mid-July, my wife and I stopped to gas up the car. There, I spotted a copy of the Minden Times, and an article jumped out at me about Beattie running for deputy reeve in the quiet cottage country town.

Many won’t remember him, but back on April 20, 1965, only 20 years after the horrors of the Holocaust and on the anniversary of Hitler’s birth, the blond-haired, blueeyed punk founded the Canadian Nazi Party (later renamed the National Socialist Party) and announced that he would be Canada’s new Führer. With few resources and a handful of soulmates, including partner David Stanley (who later renounced Nazism), he turned his dream into a frightening reality.

A hurricane of protest erupted.

Toronto in 1965 was home to some of the pitiably few who had survived Hitler’s brutality. The Canadian Jewish Congress at first tried to downplay the threat.

But as Beattie planned his first public rally for May 30 of that year at Allan Gardens, enraged survivors were unwilling to accept the quiet diplomacy of the CJC, which was working with city officials to stop the spectacle. They took matters into their own hands.

An anti-Nazi group had already been formed. Known as N3 (referring

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to Newton’s third law, that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction), its avowed aim to confront Beattie and Stanley and deny them a public platform. Reports from news sources of the day placed the crowd at close to 5,000.

Undaunted, Beattie arrived in full Nazi regalia, and despite the presence of dozens of Toronto police officers, was immediately set upon. Police rushed Beattie into a waiting police wagon and drove him away from the angry crowd.

A group of young people who had made the unfortunate fashion decision to wear leather jackets to the park that day were not so lucky.

Such was the tenor of the times.

The CJC, fearing more such riots, took matters into its own hands, hiring private investigator John Garrity to infiltrate Beattie’s group. Garrity had already been hired by N3, but decided he couldn’t work with them because they were too extreme.

Thanks to Garrity, who became a trusted Beattie confidante, the Ozlike curtain shielding the Canadian Nazi Party was torn away. Garrity wrote an exposé for Maclean’s in October 1966 entitled I Was A Spy For The Canadian Jewish Congress.

Garrity describes Beattie as “unemployed, bereft of funds” and basically homeless. His supporters numbered fewer than 50. Beattie was a nobody who had captured a nation’s attention with his Hitler-loving antics.

In his book about postwar Canadian Jewry, Delayed Impact, Franklin Bialystok wrote: “The Nazis were ‘misfits’ but the most visible part of a growing right-wing movement in Canada which... could represent a threat to our national stability.”

Beattie didn’t totally disappear. He spent six months in jail for daubing swastikas on the gateposts of prominent Jewish leaders in Toronto, pursuing his charade well into the 1970s.

He reappeared in the late 1980s in Minden, this time as the host of an “Aryan fest” on his property.

At the height of a resurgence of neo-Nazism, thanks to groups like the Heritage Front, he attracted over 200 Nazi skinheads and dozens of OPP officers.

That was the last of Beattie’s romance with public neo-Nazism – until he decided to run for deputy reeve because he’s angry about a water tower project that went over budget.

3 Bernie Farber is a former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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Thursday, September 11

Benefits

MicroSkillS charity Golf tournaMent

(MicroSkills programs for women) Play a round, mingle and make new connections.

8:30 am. $150. Richmond Hill Golf Club, 8755 Bathurst. Pre-register microskills.ca/golf.

Festivals this week

rbloor weSt villaGe toronto ukrainian feStival Street festival with live music

and dance, a parade, kids’ activities, buskers, a sports zone, films and more. Free.

Bloor West Village, between Jane and Glendonwynne. ukrainianfestival.com.

Sep 12 to 14 coMMffeSt filM feStival Art and films about issues that affect communities. Various prices. Rainbow Cinemas (80 Front E) and other venues. commffest.com.

Sep 12 to 20

eden MillS writerS’ feStival Readings by

adult, young adult and children’s authors including Lynn Coady, Miriam Toews, Anne Michaels, David Adams Richards, Terry Fallis and others.

truth & reSponSible JournaliSM benefit

Events

conSuMinG paSSionS Art curators discuss how art and faith have the power to both discourage and promote consumerism. 7 pm. Free.

Trinity College, 6 Hoskin. saintstephens.ca. haunted kenSinGton, chinatown & the GranGe tour Ghost walk with multicultural

the literary war: poeMS, MeMoirS and novelS about the firSt world war Talk by

journalist Sandra Martin. 7-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge.

Pre-register 416-395-5639.

Manhunt toronto Games played in parks and streets. Today and tomorrow. 9 pm. Free.

Details online at meetup.com/UrbaniGames.

Market 707 farMerS Market 3-7 pm. Free.

Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

5Queer SwinG dance beGinner claSS No partner or experience needed. 6:45-7:30 pm. $6. 519 Church Comm Centre. swinginout.ca. the Sachau boat yardS Heritage talk by Elsa Ann Pickard. 7:30 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. 416-767-5472. toronto the Good Mayoral candidates have been invited to this party to celebrate the city and mingle with people who are passionate about design and democracy. 7-11 pm. Free.

Distillery District Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill, bldg 58. torontothegood.org. tree tenderS volunteer traininG Course for people who want to help tend our urban forests. To Sep 18. $70. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-413-9244 ext 14, yourleaf.org/tree-tenders-registration. woMen’S canadian club Talk on the 2015 Pan Am Games by Karen Hacker. 2 pm. $10. St Andrew’s Church, 117 Bloor E. 416-463-3405.

Friday, September 12

Events

church Street caper ScavenGer hunt

Trivia-based team competition. 7-9:30 pm. $30. Meet at Church & Wellesley. Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. deMentia hack Teams of developers, designers, and health professionals work on improving care around dementia. To Sep 14. $30, stu free. The Digital Media Zone, 10 Dundas E. Pre-register hackernest.com/dementiahack.

GhoStS, GreaSepaint and GallowS Walking tour. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). 93 Front E. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

(Laura Robinson Defense Fund) Live jazz by Ella Martin and a silent auction to support the journalist being sued by John Furlong. 7 pm. $35. St Simon the Apostle Church, 525 Bloor E. laurarobinsondefensefund.org.

ghost stories. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25. Meet at 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. iMprove iMMunity naturally Tips for the cold and flu season. 6-7 pm. Free. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. livingcityhealth.com.

listings index

Eden Mills Community Centre, 108 York, near Rockwood. edenmillswritersfestival.ca.

Sep 11 to 15

ManifeSto feStival of coMMunity and culture Art, dance, music, fashion, work-

shops, film and hip-hop culture with graffiti art by SKAM, the Regent Park DJ rumble, headliners Bishop Nehru and Ryan Leslie and more. Various prices, some free events.

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

Sep 17 to 21 the one More niGht feStival Encore performances of stage shows by Death Ray Cabaret, Panfish Productions and others. $10. The Box Toronto, 89 Niagara. theboxtoronto.com/ festival.html.

Sep 11 to 14 rronceSvalleS poliSh feStival Polish and international music, folklore, vendors, food and a polka party at St Casimir’s Church. Polka party $5, street festival free. Roncesvalles from Queen to Dundas. polishfestival.ca.

Sep 12 to 14 Sate feStival Indonesian trade and culture show featuring food, handmade crafts, music and dance performances and more.

Free. Novotel Vaughan Centre, 200 Bass Pro Mills. satefestival.com.

Sep 13 to 14 toronto beer week This celebration of craft brewing includes tastings, a brew cruise, demonstrations, homebrew contests and more. Various venues, see website for locations and event schedule. torontobeerweek.com.

Sep 12 to 20

The​Ukrainian​Festival​features​​ dance,​music​and​more.

iSM and the SocialiSt Solution Film screening followed by discussion. 6:30 pm. Ryerson U Oakham House, 63 Gould. 416-461-0304. livinG city health open houSe Live music, art exhibition, chair massages, raffles and more. Today 4-7 pm; tomorrow 11 am-2 pm.

Free. 120 Eglinton E. livingcityhealth.com. neu in kanada? Info for German newcomers.

7-9 pm. Free. Martin Luther Church, 2379 Lake Shore W. Christian.Ceconi@rogers.com. reMbrandt and the life of chriSt Anne Thackray talks about the artist’s use of the bible for inspiration. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

SwinG dance open houSe Toronto Swing Dance Society performances and lessons.

7:30 pm. $5. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. treehouSe talkS Short talks by expert speakers. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. treehousetalks.com.

Saturday, September 13

Benefits

aidS walk for life (ACT Toronto) Fundraising

walk and community fair. Fair and registration 11 am; walk 2 pm. Pledges. Yonge-Dundas Square. aidswalktoronto.ca. art aGainSt aidS (Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research) Queen West Art Crawl hosts a party with DJ John Caffery, body painting by Human Canvas Project and more. 9 pm. $35$40. 99 Sudbury. bit.ly/canfarXqwac. kidney walk (Kidney Fdn of Canada) A walk in the park raises funds for people living with kidney disease. 11 am. Donation. Thomson Memorial Park, 1005 Brimley. kidneywalk.ca. teaM up for SickkidS (SickKids) Play basketball, soccer or volleyball. 11 am-5 pm. $20 to play, $5 to watch. Ultra Sports Centre, 1510 Birchmount. Pre-register 647-300-3757, fb.me/TeamUpForSickKidsSportsEvent. toronto 5k (SickKids Fdn) Timed run/walk starting and ending in the park. 8 am. $50$60 plus pledges. Winston Churchill Park, St Clair and Spadina. Pre-register toronto5k.com.

Events

ballrooM dancinG for beGinnerS 1:30 pm.

First class $5. Central Eglinton Comm Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511 ext 225. biG uSed book Sale Thousands of books in all subjects. Today 11 am-6 pm; tomorrow noon5 pm. $1-$3. The Village Healing Centre, 240 Roncesvalles. villagehealing.ca. bloGpodiuM Event for design and lifestyle bloggers with workshops and more. 8 am4:30 pm. $199 and up. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. blogpodium2014.eventbrite.ca. rcentreville’S aMuSinG race Trivia-based family scavenger hunt. Today and tomorrow.

Free w/ admission. Centreville Amusement Park, Centre Island. centreisland.ca. elephant in the attic openinG party Gallery launch with live music, exhibits, lectures, a dance party and more. 8 pm-2 am. Free. 1596 Dundas W. facebook.com/elephantintheattic. fall harveSt exchanGe Swap tips, stories and surplus produce with fellow gardeners.

11 am-3 pm. Free. Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston. 416-534-1470.

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

Lawrence West at Ralph, heritagetoronto.org. kenSinGton foodieS rootS tour Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50. Meet at 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Murder at the roM ScavenGer hunt Solve the clues and crack the case. 1-3:30 pm $30.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. nba nation Autograph session and Q&A with Morris Peterson, a 3-point contest, a slam dunk showdown, a wheelchair basketball demonstration, prizes and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Scarborough Town Centre, 300 Borough. facebook.com/NBACanada. poSterS for chanGe Art and activism workshop. 10 am-5 pm. $45. Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre. Pre-register agmpostermaking.eventbrite.ca. repair café Get broken household items, clothing and computers fixed by volunteers.

10 am-2 pm. Free. Skills for Change, 791 St Clair W. repaircafetoronto.ca.

Sf/aniMe flea Market Sci fi, anime and genre merchandise. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Refer-

continuing caribbean taleS filM feStival Films from the Caribbean diaspora with screenings and networking events. Royal Cinema, 608 College. caribbeantales-events.com.

To Sep 13 eco-art-feSt Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, exhibits and more. Wed to Sun, see website for times. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-644-1019, no9.ca.

To Sep 21 faith, art and activiSM feStival Live music, outdoor services, talks on art and faith, poetry and more explore the intersection of religious faith, artistic practice and social justice. Free/pwyc-$15. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church (365 College) and other venues. saintstephens.ca.

To Oct 7 new GroundSwell feStival Nightwood Theatre’s annual festival of new works by women featuring workshop productions, play readings, talks and more. Plays $22.60, other events pwyc. Nightwood Studio (suite 315) and Dancemakers (suite 313), both at 9 Trinity (Distillery District). 416368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net.

To Sep 14 toronto international filM feStival This year’s edition of TIFF features red carpet premieres, short films, parties, a street festival on King West, director discussions, art and more. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and other venues. tiff.net/thefestival.

To Sep 14 tuff – toronto urban filM feStival North America’s largest commuter film festival features silent one-minute films on subway platforms across the city. Free with TTC fare. torontourbanfilmfestival.com.

To Sep 15 ence Library, 789 Yonge. friendsofmerril.org.

SwanSea & lM MontGoMery tour Literary detective walk. 3-5:30 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). Meet at Runnymede subway station.

Pre-register 416-923-6813. 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. try rinGette! Chance for girls to try out the sport. Bring skates, helmets and gloves. 5:156:30 pm. Free. Centennial Park Arena, 56 Centennial Park Rd. etobicoke-ringette.com.

Sunday, September 14

Benefits

beacheS terry fox run (Terry Fox Fdn)

Routes from 5-10K. Registration 8:15 am, run 9 am. Pledges/donations. Woodbine Bathing Change House, south of Lake Shore, east of Coxwell. terryfox.org. ride4realfood (West End Food Co-op/PARC) Scenic bike rides from 35-115K for food security in the city and a family picnic. 9:30 am.

Etienne Brule Park, 13 Crosby. Pre-register tinyurl.com/ride4realfood2014. rterry fox run wilket creek (Terry Fox Fdn) Routes from 2 to 10K for runners, walkers and cyclists. 8:30 am-2 pm. Free/donations. Wilket Creek Park, 1100 Leslie. facebook.com/events/672555639491479.

Events

affordable houSinG iS everyone’S riGht

Screening of film Sukkah City, talks by Rabbi Tina Grimberg and Councillor Joe Mihevc, info on Sukkahville 2014 and a panel discussion. 7 pm. $5 sugg donation. Congregation Darchei Noam, 864 Sheppard W. darcheinoam.ca. artbuS Bus tour to view exhibitions at the Justina M Barnicke, Mississauga and Oakville galleries. Noon-5 pm. $10. Starts at 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register 905-844-4402 ext 27, artbus@oakvillegalleries.com. bellS on yonGe Group ride with police escort to promote safe cycling. Ends at City Hall along with Bells on Bloor, Bells on Danforth and other group rides. Leaves at 12:15 pm, Bikestock event starts at 2 pm. Free. Meet at Yonge at Hendon. bellsonyonge.ca.

bikeStock Group ride to demand safe streets for cycling, ending with a rally at City Hall (2 pm). Various start times and venues, see website for details. cycleandsole.com. bird walkS at toMMy thoMpSon park

Guided nature walk. 8-11 am. Free. Foot of Leslie. 416-661-6600 ext 5770.

bloor/GladStone library neiGhbourhood

Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. St Anne’s Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone. heritagetoronto.org. rcity cider – not far froM the tree Cargo bike races, orchard tours, preserving demos, live music, fresh apple cider and more. Noon-5 pm. $8-$10, under 12 free. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. notfarfromthetree.org.

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Ulyssean Society presentation by writer/ musician Margaret Stowe. 2 pm. Free. Knox College, 59 St George. ulyssean.on.ca. an enchanted eveninG Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm.

Free/pwyc for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. hiGh park fall reStoration plantinG Fall planting session. Tools provided. 10:30 am12:30 pm. Free. Meet at Grenadier Cafe, 200 Parkside. highparknature.org.

the hoMe ec (biG outdoor) kitchen party

Demos on preserving food, local chefs, a popup grocery store and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. how well do we underStand iSrael? Panel discussion with Merav Michaeli, Ari Shavit and JJ Goldberg. 1-5 pm. Free. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. Pre-register nifcan.org. #nextto Mayoral debate Candidates Olivia Chow, Rob Ford, David Soknacki and John Tory debate, plus short platform presentations by Klim Khomenko, Morgan Baskin and Mattew Crack. Noon. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. reiki healinG claSS Presentation and healing demonstration. 1:30-3 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. thehealingteam.org. rSaMba druMMinG for kidS Drop-in workshop. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz.com.

Second chinatown food tour Visit a Chinese bakery, grocery shops and more and learn about the upcoming Harvest Moon Festival. $35-$50 (includes dim sum). 393 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. then and now Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. 2 pm.

Free. 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. toronto bicycle MuSic feStival Starts at Allan Gardens and ends at Christie Pits with live music in the parks and during the group rides in between. Noon-6 pm. Free. Jarvis and Carlton. torontobicyclemusicfestival.com. urban fruit treeS workShop 1-4 pm. $30.

Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Preregister evergreen.ca.

Monday, September 15

Benefits

woMen build 2014 (Habitat for Humanity

GTA) Join other women to help fight poverty and build a home for a family in need. Sep 1521 in Scarborough (950 Brimley), Sep 23-27 in Brampton (8600 Torbram). Min $500 raised.

Pre-register womenbuildgta.ca.

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alcohol Talk on why women and seniors are

at higher risk for problems. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. baSic incoMe Report on the idea of an income paid to all without condition or work requirement. 7-9 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810, basicincome.ca. the biG tranSit Mayoral debate Hear what the candidates have to say about transit issues that matter to you. Co-hosted by the Ryerson Student Union and TTCriders. 5-6:30 pm. Free/ pwyc. Ryerson University, 245 Church. Preregister eventbrite.ca/e/12423118883. cyber-SeniorS Film screening and talk. 3:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416395-5577. introductory Meditation Learn three easy techniques. 7 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-539-0234.

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The battle to end the AIDS epidemic is far from over. Two events Saturday (September 13) aim to raise funds and awareness so we can bring the disease to its knees. The AIDS Walk For Life, benefiting ACT Toronto, takes off from YongeDundas Square. Fair and registration from 11 am, walk 2 pm.

Pledge at aidswalktoronto.ca. Then party that night at Art Against AIDS, featuring DJ John Caffery, body painting

by Human Body Canvas and more. Funds go to the Canadian Foundation For AIDS Research. $35-$40. 99 Sudbury. bitly/ canfarXqwac John Caffery spins on September 13 at Art Against AIDS.

Learn To BeLLy Dance Try the first class for $5. 5:30 pm. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com.

MaLe BoDy IMage SupporT group Weekly meeting for men. 6:30-8 pm. Sheena’s Place, 87 Spadina Rd. sheenasplace.org. poST a LeTTer SocIaL acTIvITy cLuB Letterwriting social. 7-10 pm. Pwyc for stationery.

Wise Bar, 1007 Bloor W. pal-sac.com.

TTcrIDerS’ MayoraL DeBaTe

Are you a public transit user? Sixty per cent of respondents to a recent Forum Research poll said they’d vote for the mayoral candidate with the best transit plan. Find out who that is at TTCRiders’ Big Transit Mayoral Debate on Monday (September 15), 5-6:30 pm, in Ryerson University’s Sears Atrium, 245 Church. This debate will be like no other: NOW senior news editor Enzo DiMatteo is moderating. Register at eventbrite.ca/e/12423118883.

WoMen BuILD haBITaT

Sorry, guys, this one’s for women looking to get their reno fix and help fight poverty at the same time. On Monday (September 15), Habitat for Humanity GTA starts a week-long home-building project (it runs till September 21) at 950 Brimley in Scarborough for a family in need. No hammer required – just a little lifting and perspiration for the cause.

Pre-register online at womenbuildgta.ca. reSToraTIve yoga Weekly class. 7:30 pm. $5

first class. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com. a revoLuTIon In The hearT Talk on the Catholic Worker movement with James Loney.

7:30 pm. Free. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. saintstephens.ca.

SocIaL MeDIa anD WeB ServIceS For SMaLL BuSIneSS Talk on free and low-cost services.

7-8 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. Pre-register 416-395-5440.

ToronTo SWIng Dance SocIeTy Swing lesson and practice. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

Tuesday, September 16

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Wednesday, September 17

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InSpIre & InForM (Human Rights Watch)

Learn about HRW’s work (11:30 am-2 pm) and watch the film The E-Team (2 pm). $50 (incl lunch). Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-322-8448, canada@hrw.org.

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Sample beer and find causes to offer your skills to at this networking event. 7 pm. $12.

Beer Academy, 75 Victoria. volunteertoronto. ticketleap.com/craftyourchange.

agIng anD MenTaL heaLTh Workshop. 6:307:30 pm. Free. Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000.

gIrLS nIghT ouT: The genIuS oF MarIan

Lecture on the shoes found at Vindolanda. 5 pm. Free. Galbraith Bldg U of T, 35 St George, rm 303. aiatoronto.ca.

(Alzheimer Society of Toronto) Film screening and discussion. 6:30 pm. Pwyc donation.

Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. Preregister 416-640-6327, uniiverse.com.

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can We Do conFLIcT BeTTer? Mediation

workshop. 7 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com. cape horn & SouThern paTagonIa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Merit Travel, 408 King W. 416-345-9726, merittravel.com.

FeLDenkraIS Try the first class for $5. 7:35 pm.

Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com.

In QueST oF paraDISe: accoMMoDaTIng DeaTh In ISLaM Talk on Muslim attitudes to-

ward burial and artifacts. 7 pm. $20, stu $15.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister 416-586-5797, rom.on.ca.

The LaTeST on aLzheIMer’S DISeaSe Presentation by the Alzheimer’s Society. 1-2 pm. Free.

City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. 416-393-7650.

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green DrInkS SocIaL & MeeT The canDIDaTeS

Monthly social for environmentally minded folks. Mayoral candidates have been invited to attend. 6-10 pm. Free. Grace O’Malley’s, 14 Duncan. greendrinks.org/ON/Toronto. haTha yoga Try the first class for $5. 6:25 pm. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com.

LIvIng MeDITaTIon Class. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

MInDFuL yoga Workshop. Pwyc/sliding scale.

Six Degrees 204 Spadina, 2nd floor. Pre-register 416-866-8484, pokeme.ca. overeaTerS anonyMouS Panel of speakers disucss how they lost 100 lbs and kept it off.

7:30-8:45 pm. Free/pwyc. St George’s United Church, 35 Lytton. 416-588-6134.

SIngLe DaDS, SeparaTeD DaDS, DIvorceD DaDS Q&A and support group meeting.

Women welcome. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626.

SoLIDarITy raLLy WITh caMBoDIan gar-

MenT WorkerS Stand with workers fighting for decent wages. Noon. Free. Starts at H&M, 427 Queen W. workersunitedunion.ca.

TheSe WaLLS WILL FaLL! No One Is Illegal protest concert for #MigrantStrike with Rosina Kazi and others. 8 pm. Free. Cloud Gardens, 14 Temperance. endimmigrationdetention.com.

upcoming Thursday, September 18

Benefits

gaLLery hop gaLa (Canadian Art Fdn) Art

party. 6 pm. $600. Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. canadianart.ca/galleryhop. a MovIe nIghT In The park (Ontario Health Coalition) Screening of Poor No More and a discussion. 8-10 pm. Free, donations appreciated. Phin Avenue Parkette, 115 Condor (near Donlands station). onatriohealthcoalition.ca.

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FaLL hoMe ShoW Innovative products and ideas, decor and reno tips from experts and celebrity appearances. Today 11 am-9 pm; tomorrow 11 am-9 pm; Sep 20, 10 am-9 pm; Sep 21, 10 am-6 pm. $12-$15, adv $12; srs/stu $10$13. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place, 195 Princes’ Blvd. fallhomeshow.com.

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MayoraL DeBaTe on ToronTo’S WaTerFronT Candidates Olivia Chow, John Tory,

Rob Ford and David Soknacki discuss airport expansion, urban renewal and more. 7-9 pm. Free. Harbourfront Community Centre, 627 Queens Quay W. yqna.ca. neW DIrecTIonS In InDIgenouS cIneMa Toronto Palestine Film Fest panel on themes related to Aboriginal and Palestinian film.

7-9 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. facebook.com/events/751008118292743. no SWeaT yoga Mid-day boost you can do in office clothes. 12:15-12:45 pm. Free. Living City, 120 Eglinton E. livingcityhealth.com. occupy econoMIcS WorkShop Introduction to Piketty’s ‘Capital in the 21st Century’.

6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. info@occupyeconomics.ca. urBan BaT WaLk Learn which species are at risk in this hike for adults and kids age 8 & up. 8-10 pm. $2-$5. High Park/Grenadier Cafe. 416-392-1748, highparknaturecentre. com.

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Creatures that slither and squirm are enjoying a high-fashion moment, but are you brave enough to wear them?

J. Crew for Buglife T ($52, 110 Bloor West, 416-968-7117, and others, jcrew.com)

Yasmin Everley Little Rhino Beetle silver ring ($89.52, Bottica, bottica.com)

Tateossian London spider cufflinks ($215, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com)

Serpentwine palm cuff ($75, Jenny Bird, jenny-bird.com) Emma Cook beetle bug jacquard pencil skirt ($672.50, Intermix, 130 Bloor West, 416-925-0111, intermixonline.com)

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Local indie accessories boutique Zane, formerly A2Zane, is the go-to spot when you want something new to show off on your shoulder. The longtime Queen West favourite recently opened a second location in Yorkville.

The shop looks more like a gallery than your typical retail store– backpacks, totes and clutches for men and women line the walls like pieces of art, gleaming under bright white lights. Minimalist decor is all you need when the products do all the talking.

Zane’s merchandise isn’t cheap but is high-quality. A purse I bought there three years ago, an edgy Vlieger & Vandam number, shows no signs of wear and tear.

Not just a bag destination, the shop also carries watches, jewellery, socks, scarves and sunglasses.

Zane picks Two of the hottest pieces in store are the Mackage Tanner bag ($495) and the Daniel Wellington St. Andrew watch ($250).

Look for Zane’s ample selection of pieces by homegrown talent, including musthave bag brands Hoi Bo, Mackage and Ora, alongside jewellery queen Jenny Bird.

Hours Monday to Wednesday 11 am to 7 pm, Thursday and Friday 11 am to 8 pm, Saturday 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm.

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I have hair extensions that are near impossible to brush when tangled, but this little miracle worker parted them like butter. In fact, the bristles are made with vulnerable colour-treated hair, weaves and extensions in mind.

The Compact Styler is perfect for long days that turn into long nights, or hair that needs a lot of upkeep. Just pop it in your purse – its removable cover protects the brush’s teeth from all guck in your bag ($25, Sephora, 220 Yonge, 416-595-7227, and others, sephora.com).

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OPTICAL ILLUSION: the eyeliner guide LOOKING FOR A LITTLE EYE-POPPING DRAMA? YOU MIGHT BE APPLYING MORE THAN YOU BARGAINED FOR. WHICH PENCILS WEAR WELL WITHOUT SMUDGING YOUR GREEN CRED? REVLON, L’ORÉAL, COVERGIRL, PUR MINERALS Oh, sure, drugstore eyeliners will include a few natural ingredients like beeswax and castor oil. Most, however, contain unsustainable petrochemicals as well as aquatic toxin cyclopentasiloxane and, very often, estrogenic preservatives like butyl and propyl parabens. The biggest greenwasher of the bunch, Pur Minerals, contains all of the above. Its eyeliner, like that of most makeup brands, contains pigment-rich mica, a mineral dogged by child labour controversies in India, where most mica is mined. L’Oréal supplier Merck says it now does monthly mica mine audits in India.

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TRADITIONAL KAJAL/KOHL Around the world, many women get that sultry dark-eyed look from kohl, aka kajal, aka surma, aka tiro. But beware: the stuff can contain “large amounts of lead,” according to the U.S. FDA, and has been linked to some lead poisoning cases in children. It all depends on what ingredients are used to make it. Ground up galena (or lead sulfide) is definitely ill-advised and often unlisted. Others use the soot from burnt herbs. A bunch of brands imported from India, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been detained in the U.S. and recalled in Canada in recent years. While a lot of mainstream American and Euro makeup brands now say they sell “kajal” eyeliners, they’re really just referring to a shade and haven’t been part of the recalls.

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ZUZU LUXE LIQUID Sometimes I feel like I’d have an easier time performing open-heart surgery than applying liquid liner. But of all the natural liquid eyeliners I’ve tried, ZuZu’s is by far the best-performing. It’s water- resistant, vegan – made mostly of minerals in a water/veggie wax/jojoba oil base – and the brush makes smooth application pretty effortless (not so for Sante’s liquid liner). Comes in fun colours, too. ZuZu says it tests to confirm that lead contaminants fall below Health Canada’s 10 parts per million cap.

To top it off: all its mica comes from Colorado, avoiding child labour concerns. $15 SCORE: NNN

VAPOUR ORGANIC, ZUII ORGANIC It’s rare for even health store makeup to be certified organic. Zuii and Vapour are two exceptions. Vapour cosmetics are made in New Mexico at a windpowered plant and are all 70 per cent organic.

It has stricter heavy metal testing policies than most (Vapour’s come in below federal standards, under 1 ppm).

It gets its mica via Merck, which does monthly mine audits in India.

None of its minerals are irradiated. Zuii Organic is also high in certified organic content. It ships from further away (Australia) but says it does not source mica from India. $22, $25 SCORE: NNN

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MARIE NATIE Hard to beat a locally made eyeliner with high organic content. This Canadian beauty company offers a madein-Toronto, all-natural cosmetic collection, including lovely eyeliners. The base is greener than many bigname natural eyeliners like Dr. Hauschka. It contains organic jojoba oil and beeswax as well as candelilla wax, but isn’t so oily that it smears and melts away like many others. This stick’s actually got decent staying power. Its mica is mined in the U.S., and it’s free of controversial palmoil-derived ingredients, too. Nothing shady here. marienatie.com. $15 SCORE: NNNN

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DIY OF THE WEEK HOMEMADE POWDERED EYELINER Who says you have to rely on beauty counters for makeup? Online DIYers will tell you to make your own with activated charcoal from the supplements aisle (the kind people take for upset stomachs). Empty a capsule into a small jar, dampen an angled makeup brush, dip it in the powdered charcoal, then apply to your lash line. Only problem is some brands like Source Of Life actually use coal in the mix – not good when mountaintops are often blown off to get at it. Swiss Natural won’t tell us what’s in its charcoal. Nature’s Way makes it with coconut shells but only sells it on U.S. websites. Probe before you buy.

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CANADA TOPS IN GLOBAL FOREST LOSS Sometimes being in first place is a bad thing. Consider, for instance, reports that Canada’s now ranked number one in the world at hacking apart pristine forests.

Recently released satellite mapping from global forest watch shows that since 2000, Canada’s led the way on splintering the planet’s last re-

maining “intact” virgin forests, thanks in large part to oil and gas development.

Add to that the increasing ferocity of climate-change-linked wildfires ripping up Canada’s canopy and threatened species like the woodland caribou are at greater and greater risk.

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Canadian beekeepers are fighting to recoup major losses they say have been brought on by bee-killing neonic pesticides. Last week, two of Ontario’s largest honey producers launched a proposed class action lawsuit against pesticide makers Bayer CropScience and Syngenta AG Canada.

In court documents, plaintiff Sun Parlor Honey explains it should be able to make 300,000 pounds of hon-

ey from its 2,000 hives, but between 2006 and 2013, it had losses of over $2 million in beehives and honey thanks to damage from neonicotinoid pesticides. The second plaintiff, Munro Honey, says it’s lost over $3 million in hives and honey.

They’re suing for $450 million in damages on behalf of all of Canada’s apiarists.

Health Canada has acknowledged current neonic use isn’t “sustainable”

but it has so far sidestepped calls from beekeepers to ban the pesticides.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 In the 2000 film

Cast Away, Tom Hanks plays an American FedEx executive who is stranded alone on a remote Pacific island after he survives a plane crash. A few items from the plane wash up on shore, including a volleyball. He draws a face on it and names it “Wilson,” creating a companion who becomes his confidant for the next four years. I’d love to see you enlist an ally like Wilson in the coming week, Aries. There are some deep, messy, beautiful mysteries you need to talk about. At least for now, the only listener capable of drawing them out of you in the proper spirit might be a compassionate inanimate object that won’t judge you or interrupt you.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 As far as I

know, there has been only one battleship in history that was named after a poet. A hundred years ago, the Italian navy manufactured a dreadnought with triple-gun turrets and called it Dante Alighieri, after the medieval genius who wrote the Divine Comedy. Other than that, most warships have been more likely to receive names like Invincible, Vengeance, Hercules or Colossus. But it would be fine if you drew some inspiration from the battleship Dante Alighieri in the coming weeks. I think you will benefit from bringing a lyrical spirit and soulful passion to your expression of the warrior archetype.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 If you go to a

7-Eleven convenience store and order a

Double Big Gulp drink, you must be prepared to absorb 40 teaspoons of sugar.

But what will be an even greater challenge to your body is the sheer amount of fluid you will have to digest: 50 ounces. The fact is, your stomach can’t easily accommodate more than 32 ounces at a time. It’s true that if you sip the Double Big Gulp very slowly – like for a period of three and a half hours – the strain on your system will be less.

But after the first half-hour, as the beverage warms up, its taste will decline steeply. Everything I’ve just said should serve as a useful metaphor for you in the coming week. Even if you are very sure that the stuff you want to introduce into your life is healthier for you than a Double Big Gulp, don’t get more of it than you can comfortably hold.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 If you surrender

to the passive part of your personality, you will be whipped around by mood swings in the coming days. You will hem and haw, snivel and procrastinate, communicate ineptly and be confused about what you really feel. If, on the other hand, you animate the proactive side of your personality, you are likely to correct sloppy arrangements that have kept you off-balance. You will heal rifts and come up with bright ideas about how to get the help you need. It’s also quite possible you will strike a blow for justice and equality and finally get the fair share you were cheated out of in the past.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 In his 1982 martial

arts film Dragon Lord, Jackie Chan experimented with more complex stunts than he had tried in his previous films.

The choreography was elaborate and intricate. In one famous sequence, he had to do 2,900 takes of a single fight sequence to get the footage he wanted.

That’s the kind of focused attention and commitment to detail I recommend to you in the coming weeks, Leo – especially if you are learning new tricks and attempting novel approaches.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In 1786, Jacques

Balmat and Michel Paccard were the first explorers to reach the top of 15,781-foot Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border.

They were hailed as heroes. One observer wrote that the ascent was “an astounding achievement of courage and determination, one of the greatest in the annals of mountaineering. It was accomplished by men who were not only on unexplored ground but on a route that all the guides believed impossible.” And yet today, 228 years later, the climb is considered relatively easy for anyone who’s reasonably prepared. In a typical year, 20,000 people make it to the summit. Why am I bringing this to your attention? Because I suspect that you are beginning to master a skill that will initially require you to be like Balmat and Paccard but will eventually be almost routine.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Those who invoke the old metaphor about the caterpillar that transforms into the butterfly often

omit an important detail: the graceful winged creature is helpless and weak when it first wriggles free of its chrysalis. For a while, it’s not ready to take up its full destiny. As you get ready for your own metamorphosis, Libra, keep that in mind. Have plans to lie low and be selfprotec tive in the days following your emergence into your new form. Don’t try to do loop-the-loops right away.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Scorpios are currently the sign of the zodiac that is least likely to be clumsy, vulgar, awkward or prone to dumb mistakes. On the other hand, you are the most likely to derisively accuse others of being clumsy, vulgar, awkward or prone to dumb mistakes. I recommend that you resist that temptation, however. In the coming week, it is in your selfish interest to be especially tactful and diplomatic. Forgive and quietly adjust for everyone’s mistakes.

Don’t call undue attention to them or make them worse. Continue to build your likeability and fine-tune your support system. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 You have cosmic permission to be bigger than life and wilder than sin. You have a poetic licence to be more wise than clever. And you should feel free to laugh longer than might seem polite and make no apologies as you spill drinks while telling your brash stories. This phase of your astrological cycle does not require you to rein yourself in or tone yourself down or be a well-behaved model citizen. In fact, I think it will be best for everyone concerned if you experiment with benevolent mischief and unpredictable healing and ingenious gambles.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 For over

2,000 years, Chinese astronomers have

understood the science of eclipses. And yet as late as the 1800s, sailors in the Chinese navy shot cannonballs in the direction of lunar eclipses, hoping to chase away the dragons they imagined were devouring the moon. I have a theory that there’s a similar discrepancy in your psyche, Capricorn. A fearful part of you has an irrational fantasy that a wiser part of you knows is a delusion. So how can we arrange for the wiser part to gain ascendancy? There’s an urgent need for you to stop wasting time and energy by indulging in that mistaken perspective.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Squirrels

don’t have a perfect memory of where they bury their nuts. They mean to go back and dig them all up later, but they lose track of many. Sometimes trees sprout from those forgotten nuts. It’s conceivable that on occasion a squirrel may climb a tree it planted years earlier. I see this as a useful metaphor for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. You are on the verge of encountering grownup versions of seeds you sowed once upon a time and then forgot about.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 On a German TV show, martial artist Jackie Chan performed a tough trick. While holding a raw egg in his right hand, he used that hand to smash through three separate sets of four concrete blocks. When he was finished, the egg was still intact. I see your next task as having some resemblances to that feat, Pisces. You must remain relaxed, protective and even tender as you destroy an obstruction that has been holding you back.

Can you maintain this dual perspective long enough to complete the job? I think you can.

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BEER-LOVERS, UNITE! BARS ALL OVER TOWN ARE CELEBRATING BEER WEEK WITH EVENTS AND TASTINGS, WHILE LOCAL BREWERIES RELEASE THEIR LONG-AWAITED FALL BEERS. OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE OFFERS A TASTE OF WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DRINK. FIVE CAN’T-MISS EVENTS AT THE BEER WEEK BLITZ TORONTO BEER WEEK 2014 at over 60 venues from Saturday (September 12) to September 20. torontobeerweek.com

Five years ago, a group of passionate pros teamed up to bring us Toronto Beer Week – nine days of beer dinners, craft crawls, brew cruises, tap takeovers, launches, releases, awards ceremonies and ample opportunities to pick the brains of Ontario’s best brewmasters – over pints, naturally.

Hundreds of events will go down during TBW, but here are a few you can’t overlook without catching a severe case of FOMO.

THE BEER EXPERIENCE When Thursday (September 11), 6 to 11 pm Where Berkeley Church and Field House, 315 Queen East, berkeleyfieldhouse.com What Kick off TBW with the full package. The Beer Experience reflects the contemporary landscape of all things malted and hopped, including cooking and cocktailing with beer.

The real draw is the extensive showcase of brand new seasonals and collaborative brews by some of the province’s best – some created specifically for this event.

TORONTO CRAFT BREW CRUISE When Saturday (September 13), 11 am to 1 pm (3:30 and 8 pm sailings sold out) Where The River Gambler, 333 Lake Shore East, 416-364-6999, rivergambler.ca What For the inaugural Craft Brew Cruise, 12 of Ontario’s most lauded breweries feature one-offs and rarities to enjoy while chugging around Lake Ontario (in a double-entendre kind of way). More info at torontocraftbrewcruise.com.

DRINKIN’ THE DANFORTH… DRY When September 14, 2 to 9 pm Where Kicks off at the Wren, 1382 Danforth, 647-748-1382, thewrenondanforth.wordpress.com What Soak up the Danforth on TBW’s epic crawl. Grab pints at seven different bars with the brewers and staff of Great Lakes, Sawdust City, Beau’s and Left Field. Includes Q&A’s with the brewers, drink specials at each stop, one-off brews and lots of giveaways.

GOLDEN TAP AWARDS When Wednesday (September 17), 5 pm Where Beerbistro, 18 King East, 416-8619872, beerbistro.com What Democracy at its finest, the Golden Tap Awards gala names what Ontario has collectively deemed the best breweries, beers, bars and brew pubs.

Samples from breweries including Great Lakes, Nickel Brook, Amsterdam, Hop City, Indie Ale House and more will be available. Best of all, it’s free and open to the public – so get out and mingle with the industry folk. More info (and voting!) at goldentap.com.

TORONTO BEER RUN When September 21, 11 am Where Mill Street Beer Hall, 21 Tank House, 416-681-0338, millstreetbrewpub.ca What Drag yourself out of bed and run off your TBW hangover with a tour of four Toronto breweries… hair of the dog included.

Hit Mill Street, Amsterdam Brewhouse, 3 Brewers and Steam Whistle on the 11.5-kilometre run. You won’t have to worry about refreshments along the way.

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FALL BEER 101 e B eau ’s Th eer B Tom Green

Stout

Now a term for silky (often nitrogenated) ales of British origin made from heavily roasted malt, the term “stout” was once liberally used for any stronger-tasting beer.

Explore sub-styles like creamier, nuttier oatmeal stouts, full-bodied lactose-laced milk stouts and old-school Irish stouts: whatever you choose usually has a distinct coffee character ending in an acidic snap. Dry stouts are a great (and traditional) excuse to get your oyster on – the brininess of those mollusks pairs magically with this creamy, bitter beer.

Drink: Beau’s Tom Green Beer (milk stout) (LCBO 365627, 600 ml/$4.85)

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Brown ale

We’re barrelling toward sweater weather, so take note: few pints are as comforting on a chilly day as brown ale. Yeah, the colour isn’t brilliant, but in this case brown is far from boring. These nutty, malt-forward brews are considered by many flavour experts – brewers, chefs and cicerones – to be among the most foodfriendly.

Drink: Black Oak Nut Brown Ale (LCBO 362806, 650 ml/$4.95) Left Field Eephus Oatmeal Brown Ale (available on tap) Newcastle Brown Ale (LCBO 12047, 500 ml/$2.90)

Keefe’s Irish Stout, Granite Brewery (available at the brewery and on tap around T.O.) The Poet Oatmeal Stout, New Holland Brewing (LCBO 381145, 4 x 355/$13.95)

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American pale ale

Crisp, hoppy and distinctly Murcan (as opposed to sweet and malty British-style), APAs are all-weather brews that work nicely as a seasonal bridge. Fragrant and quenching, APAs typically aren’t as aggressively hopped as their West Coast IPA counterparts.

Drink: Collective Arts Rhyme & Reason (LCBO 363465, 6 x 355 ml/$13.95) Muskoka Harvest Ale (LCBO 173641, 750 ml/$8.95) Anchor Liberty Ale (LCBO 270454, 6 x 355 ml/$14.15)

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Burning leaves and heavy knits, harvest vegetables and Oktoberfest – it’s pumpkin beer time! Festively tailored, autumnally spiced and (dare I say) successfully gimmicky, pumpkin brews utilize the abundance of the season.

Ranging from reservedly vegetal to over-the-top supermarket pumpkin pie, they all cut straight to the core of our North American nostalgia like a small child carving her first jack-o’-lantern.

The distinction between porter and stout, as with many beer styles, is open to interpretation. Porters are generally brewed from less heavily roasted malts than stouts, with a higher percentage of chocolate malt – less bitter coffee, more mocha.

Porters originated in 17thcentury London, where they were supposedly the preferred beer of those indispensable individuals who carried stuff from point A to B.

Barrel-aging remains a tradition essential to styles like Flanders Red and cask-conditioned ales, but craft brewers have recently begun experimenting with resting beer in barrels that once contained wine, spirits or cider, as is the case with the Great LakesAmsterdam collab EZRA farmhouse ale. Results vary from rich and whisky-tickled to tartly infected (in a good way).

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Great Lakes Brewery Saison Dupump (LCBO 362814, 650 ml/$5.95)

Bellwoods Lost River Baltic Porter or Bounty Hunter Strong Porter with coconut and vanilla (available at the brew pub and occasionally in the bottle shop)

Cameron’s Deviator Doppelbock Bourbon Barrel (LCBO 363887, 650 ml/ $10.95)

Grand River Brewing Highballer Pumpkin Ale (LCBO 132753, 500 ml/$3.95) Southern Tier Pumking (LCBO 182287, 650 ml/$7.65)

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Indie Ale House Breakfast Porter (available on tap at the brew pub and around town, occasionally in the Indie bottle shop) Les Trois Mousquetaires Porter Baltique (LCBO 244376, 750 ml/$9.15)

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Amsterdam Brewery releases special brewer’s reserve casks all week, including the Full City Double Tempest aged in Buffalo Trace barrels with Hawaiian Kona coffee, and a two-year-old batch of Goedemorgen Golden Ale (aged with brett in Flat Rock Chardonnay barrels).

Ola Dubh Special Reserve 12 Years Old (aged in Highland Park single-malt whisky casks) (LCBO 107672, 330 ml/$6.20)

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Oktoberfest

Ah, lager, the golden child of the critical beer-drinking masses. Traditionally cellared to undergo a second, cool-temp fermentation with lagerspecific yeast (distinguishing it from the ale clan), the classic Bavarian style bestowed its cool storage formula on the Märzen. Brewed in March, this sweet, malty but crisp fall beer is traditionally the first to be guzzled at Oktoberfest, Germany’s famous celebration of sausage and lederhosen.

Drink: Beau’s Night Märzen, part of the Oktoberfest mix pack 2014 (LCBO 399089, 4 x 600 ml/$24.00) Mill Street Oktoberfest, part of the Autumn Harvest Sampler (LCBO 313916, 6 x 355 ml/$13.45) Hofbräu Oktoberfestbier (LCBO 84889, 500 ml/$3.10)

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Historically hailing from the medieval German town of Einbeck (which developed a reputation for its strong beers), these dark, malt-driven lagers are made for cool-weather sipping. Their pronounced caramel character is mediated by hops and softened by a portion of wheat.

Once used as liquid bread by fasting monks during Lent, bocks end up on the stronger side due to their high malt content. If you like your beer extra-strong and rich, reach for a doppelbock – the traditional goat logo on both is usually a dead giveaway.

Drink: Cameron’s Rye Bock (LCBO 374736, 650 ml/$4.95) Aventinus Ice Bock (LCBO 58875, 500 ml/$5.60)

IPA

Easily the most coveted craft beer style, India pale ale has an infinite number of spinoffs – IPAs of every shade (black, white, red), flavour and strength. Once upon a time in the 18th century, boatloads of beer were exported to colonial India from Britain to quench East India Company staff. It’s speculated that brewers favoured well-hopped, higher-alcohol pale ales because they wouldn’t spoil as quickly in the heat. (Let’s hear it for hops, nature’s preservative.) Be they face-eviscerating West Coast styles with astronomical IBUs or of the milder, more balanced British variety, IPAs are everywhere, all the time.

Drink: Keep an eye out for Great Lakes’ Thrust!, not yet at the LCBO but at various venues through the fest Black Oak 10 Bitter Years (LCBO 337014, 650 ml/$6.50)

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Barley wine

Seasonal fortification can come in many forms – strategic extra-strata of fat, overpriced downy parkas or rib-sticking, off-thehydrometer brews. With an ABV hovering around 10 per cent, it’s no mystery why this complex, burly British ale has been making a comeback – especially in the colder months. So when the north starts to show its true, hideous colours again, curl up on a bearskin rug in front of a crackling fire (or simulation of such) and pop a bottle of barley wine.

Drink: Bush Pilot Stormy Monday (LCBO 329359, 750 ml/$12.75)

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FUEL YOUR BEER BUZZ WITH INFORMATION AND TASTINGS AT THESE LOCATIONS Where C’est What (67 Front East, 416-867-9499, cestwhat.com) When September 12 and 13 What C’est What’s 26th annual celebration of great local beer kicks off Toronto Beer Week with four dozen examples of small brewery innovation.

This year the focus is on showcasing harvest ales and seasonal beers.

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Where C’est What (67 Front East, 416-867-9499, cestwhat.com) When September 16, 7-8:30 pm What Doug Pengelly, C’est What’s first assistant brewer and a local craft beer icon, leads a discussion (and beer tasting) on the topic of nano-breweries.

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Where Victory Café (581 Markham, 416-516-5787, victorycafe.ca) When September 13 , from 5 pm.

What Mill Street celebrates Ontario Craft Beer Week with an Oktoberfest sausage roast on the patio.

Price Free Where Beer Academy (75 Victoria, 416-366-1786, beeracademy.ca) When September 16, 7 pm What Craft Your Change gives young professionals an opportunity to learn about 15 great causes, enjoy delicious craft beer and find out about volunteering in one night.

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BIGGER AND BETTER BELLWOODS The old factory at the corner of Dupont and Dovercourt is set to become the second home of Bellwoods Brewery. The popular Ossington brew pub, which can barely keep its retail shop stocked due to growing demand, hopes to eventually increase its yield by almost 75 per cent with the new facility.

BREWING IN THE EAST END Louis Cifer Brew Works, a new Danforth brew pub (with planned retail outlet) by the folks behind Cabbagetown’s Stout Irish Pub, is slated to open this fall. This means even more great beer spots for T.O.’s eastsiders. Check louisciferbrewworks. com for updates.

LIBERTY VILLAGE GETS ROCKED Calgary-based Big Rock Brewery plans to move into Liberty Village sometime next year. A largescale brew pub in Lib Vill sounds about right.

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THE BRICKYARD GROUNDS 1289 Gerrard Street East, 416-465-4444 | BrickYardGrounds.com The Brickyard Grounds is located in the heart of Bricktowne, Leslieville. Enjoy an authentic historical charm with modern touches. Scratch Made Hearty Comfort Foods; Peameal Breakfast Brioche, Pulled Pork, Pulled Chicken, BYG Reuben & Veggie Sandwiches. Take a Rotisserie Chicken Home along with Smokey Espresso BBQ Sauce.

Enjoy a Latte or a pint of Craft Beer from Left Field,

Beau’s or Steam Whistle. Prefer a glass of wine? Vine Land Estate’s has privately labeled a Chardonnay and Cabernet for the BYG. Drop in any day of the week.

September 18th from 6pm to 9pm sample some Local Craft Left Field Brew and meet the Left Field Crew.

Good to know: Saturday & Sunday Brunch. Must Try our Mason’s Breakfast – Poached Egg on Savoury Waffle topped with Hollandaise served with Maple Baked Beans & German Onion Sausage.

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This small microbrewery in the Junction neighbourhood produces small batch ales in a variety of styles using only the finest ingredients, and tasty meals made with the same attention to quality and flavour as the beer. Freshly made beer is also available for takeout from the onsite beer store.

If you’re tired of bland mass-produced food and beer, come visit us. There’s no frozen pub food or light beers at The Indie Alehouse!

Everything possible is made in house.

12 taps with rotating seasonal Ales made on site.

MAINS: Gourmet Mac ‘n’ Cheese, Assorted Stone Oven Pizzas, House Ground Burgers, Wednesday after 5:00 is ALL house smoked BBQ menu.

UPCOMING: look for us pouring beer at the Junction Flea on Sept 14 (junctionflea.com), and at the Junction Music Festival on Sept 20 (thejunctionmusicfestival.com).

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IN THE HEART OF CABBAGETOWN! 21 Local Taps Over 120 Craft Beers Hand Pumped Cask Conditioned Ale MAINS: Death by Double Cheeseburger, Black & Blue Burger, Black Bean Veggie Grill • All the classic Irish Food including Irish Stew, Fish & Chips & Lighter Fare

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THE VICTORY CAFE 581 Markham St. (Mirvish Village), 416-516-5787 | victorycafe.ca | #victorycafe_TO The Victory Cafe, known to locals as The Vic, can be of our hard-working and friendly staff. Enjoy a pint found in Toronto’s renowned Mirvish Village. At The from our casks or any of our Ontario craft and Vic, we are passionate about community. We support micro-brews on tap with a delicious locally sourced local artists, farmers and brewers and host blues and meal. Please ask our staff to complement jazz bands from Toronto and the surrounding your meal with one of our fine beers— community. Come to our beautiful English style pub we love to do that for you here and enjoy the laid-back atmosphere and the service at The Vic! HOURS: Mon-Fri, 1pm-2am | Weekends, 11am-2am BEER: The largest selection of Ontario craft beer, with 30 local brands on tap, 2 casks in rotation daily and 75 varieties of bottled beer

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“My favourite part is the collar, because there’s this chunk of meat that’s stuck between the bones, and when it gets fried it gets really gooey and sticky.”

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TWIST AND TROUT CHEF NICK LIU’S SPIN ON HEAD-TO-TAIL DINING PRODUCES ONE OF DAILO’S MOST BEAUTIFUL PLATES By KARON LIU

In the last two years, chef Nick Liu’s DaiLo (503 College, 647-341-8882, dailoto.com, @DaiLoTO) restaurant has gone through location changes, partnerships and, yes, a name change. One thing that has remained throughout is this show-stopping, crispy whole fried trout ($30) that’s a must-try. The chef shows us how he makes (and eats) it: THE IDEA “I worked at a place in Sydney called Longrain where they used to do a whole fried barramundi, which is Australia’s national fish,” says Liu. “It’s deboned, fried and then reassembled.

Whole fish is a Chinese staple, but I’d never seen it prepared like that.”

THE TROUT “Originally, I made the dish with pickerel because its taste and texture are the closest thing to barramundi that I could find locally. I then switched to trout, which worked better than the pickerel or the barramundi because, when fried, the trout’s bones are much more brittle, so the whole fish becomes edible.”

THE PREP Liu takes out the inedible fin bones and the rib cage of the fish, which usually weighs 1.5 to 2 pounds. He filets it, removes the bones and slices the flesh into bite-sized strips. These filet

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pieces, along with the remaining carcass, are dredged in cornstarch and deep-fried. He then reassembles the fish on the plate. Julienned green onion, chili, coriander, lime leaves and fried basil are added as garnish along with what he calls an Asian nut crumble made of bits of fried almonds, garlic and ginger.

THE THAI SALT Everything that’s fried on the menu is dusted with this finishing salt. “I roast star anise, dried chili, white and Szechuan peppercorns, cinnamon, cloves and coriander seeds with salt, which gives it a great perfume,” he says. “I pulverize it into a dust and add a touch of sugar to get a salty-sweet aroma.”

THE SAUCES “I see the dish as a take on the classic fish and chips, and with that you need a dipping sauce like mayonnaise,” says Liu. He starts with a mayonnaise mixed with green curry and then there’s also a nam jim sauce, a popular tangy Thai condiment. Liu’s version has garlic, palm sugar, coriander root, chili, lime juice and fish sauce ground in a mortar and pestle. There’s also a caramelized soy glaze made from ginger, garlic, peppercorns, onion, chili, star anise and orange zest steeped in soy sauce and caramelized sugar.

EAT IT ALL “I love seeing how adventurous the diner is by looking at how much of the fish comes back,” he says. “Sometimes, even the cheeks get eaten along with the crispy meat bits on the spine or plates come back with just a small pile of bones.”

“My favourite part is the collar, because there’s this chunk of meat that’s stuck between the bones, and when it gets fried it gets really gooey and sticky,” says Liu. “It’s the most delicious and fatty part. Anything that is cooked close to the bone has so much more flavour.”

Fish cheeks are the silkiest part of the fish, and moms would traditionally save these parts for their kids.

The tiny bones of the tail are fried to a brittle crisp, so they shouldn’t be much of a choking hazard. (Still, proceed with caution.) Since the tail does not have much meat, it’s like eating the batter straight up.

Typically left as a dare, the eyes are nothing to be grossed out about.

“There isn’t much flavour,” says Liu. “They taste like the rest of the trout, but maybe with a bit of crispiness and sliminess at the same time.”

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BANH MI BOYS The Chau brothers struck gold when they took the banh mi sandwich they grew up eating and added unconventional ingredients. Crispy pork belly, fried chicken and duck confit appear in cheap but delicious banh mi and steamed bao that have helped Torontonians take note of Vietnamese cuisine.

399 Yonge, 416-977-0303; 392 Queen West, 416-363-0588, banhmiboys.com, @BanhMiBoys

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LITTLE SISTER Chef Michael van den Winkel’s IndonesianDutch feast, the rijsttafel, gained such a following at Quince that he and partner Jennifer Gittins have opened this cozy snack bar devoted to Indonesian bites like satay skewers, tamarind braised pork and fried rice.

2031 Yonge, 416-488-2031, littlesistertoronto.com, @littlesisterto

Israeli

FAT PASHA The Manischewitz vermouth on the drinks menu says it all at this resto with a whimsical take on Israeli cooking by local mensches chef Anthony Rose and co-chef Kevin Gilmour. Bubbie-approved plates of schmaltz fried rice, latka platters with pastrami salmon and rib-eye steak with za’taar butter give new life to this age-old cuisine.

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THE CURE, THE NATIONAL, THE FLAMING LIPS and many more as part of RIOT FEST at Downsview Park, Saturday and Sunday, September 6 and 7.

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Rating: NNNN For its third Toronto edition, Riot Fest expanded to larger and muddier surroundings.

Local dance-punk duo Death from Above 1979 appeared right at home on Downsview Park’s big stage on day 1, showing off blazing new tracks with a cocksure swagger. Later, the Flaming Lips’ symphonic pop was augmented by gigantic mushroom costumes and confetti. The Cure’s headlining set began quietly with nicely textured songs like Fascination Street. At times, the British post-punk legends sounded too languid, but

Robert Smith’s pipes were near perfect, and hits like Pictures Of You got welcome jammy treatments.

On Sunday, those who traversed the sundrenched parklands to the tiny Rebel Stage were rewarded. Philadelphia grit rockers Restorations, for example, powered through equipment malfunctions for a boisterous set. Moody rockers the National hit the Riot Stage late in the day, playing their fifth Toronto show in the last 15 months. With a picturesque sunset as backdrop, lead singer Matt Berninger paced the set like a caged lion. Their relentless touring schedule has made for a slick performance – Berninger screamed through Squalor Victoria before effortlessly transitioning into the sweetly crooned, delicate love tune I JOSHUA KLOKE Need My Girl.

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BRY WEBB and THE WEATHER STATION at the AGO, Thursday, September 4. Rating: NNN

It was fitting that the AGO chose SappyFest to co-curate this month’s First Thursdays. After all, the music festival’s home base is Sackville, NB, the adopted hometown of iconic Canadian painter Alex Colville, whose works are currently on display at the gallery.

Up first was Toronto’s the Weather Station, the folk-rock project of Tamara Lindeman. Backed by a full band, her vocals oscillated between plaintive and sweet as she expertly plucked away at her electric guitar. She said one song was about “traffic” and another about “trying to grow a garden in the city” – two ordinary topics that would have excited Colville. Unfortunately, the natural reverb of the cavernous Walker Court was a constant threat, and she was often drowned out by nearby conversations.

Bry Webb, lead vocalist for the Constantines, also battled the acoustics, but his gravelly voice fared better against the competing noise. Backed by local guitar-and-drums duo the Providers, Webb kept his set upbeat with classic Canrock ’n’ roll, often veering toward sad dad rock. When Webb said that Zebra, a sentimental acoustic song from his debut solo folk album, was about strong, empowered women, he acknowledged it’s a theme central to ColSAMANTHA EDWARDS ville’s work.

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Rating: NNNN The third edition of Mansion’s Otherland series of parties at Tattoo showcased seminal Belgian electronic label R&S, featuring the imprint’s NYC rave pioneer, Joey Beltram, playing alongside up-andcoming UK producers Lone and Tessela. After an eclectic opening set by Jokers of the Scene, the audience was clearly excited to catch Lone’s live A/V performance. Unfortunately, he hadn’t really worked out good ways of transitioning between his songs, and his projections were less impressive than those Mansion’s in-house team typically do. Some great tunes, but not much of a performance.

Later, Tessela quickly proved why a pair of turntables is usually a more effective way of presenting dance music, with an adventurous and cleanly mixed set of minimal techno, broken beat and acid house references. Beltram’s closing slot also made a great case for traditional vinyl DJing, and although his hard-as-nails bangin’ techno sound occasionally felt a bit dated, the dance floor was clearly responding to the intense energy and aggression.

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DANNY BROWN, LUNICE, A-TRAK, LE1F and others as part of FOOL’S GOLD DAY OFF at Muzik, Saturday, September 6. Rating: NN

Muzik seemed like an odd venue for Fool’s Gold Day Off. But the outdoor pool patio was actually pretty idyllic. The sun was out, the crowd small, the stage über-accessible.

Unfortunately, the nightclub was hell-bent on fun-policing. After a sweet and sweaty set by one of our fave rappers, Le1f, who won over the crowd with party-starting tracks like Wut, and a crowd-pleasing house and hip-hop set by A-Trak, the powers that be lowered the volume considerably for hip-hop DJ Lunice – annoying, since he was playing the best/most current rap songs (and it was still only 6 pm).

The turned-down vibe continued for headliner Danny Brown’s 30-minute set. You could barely hear his vocals. Man, was he givin’ er, trying his best to be enthusiastic, but inexplicably, the venue felt the need to flank him with four security types, including two stonefaced staffers in white polos nearly touching his sides.

Meanwhile, turquoise-uniformed workers pushed their way into the crowd whenever someone so much as dropped a beer can, sweeping debris into dustbins. Over by the pool, bathing-suit-clad female staff shivered in the cool weather.

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Thursday, September 11 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

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cAvern BAr Alex Beraldo, the Sun Harmonic, Jaded Etiquette 9 pm. cloAk & dAgger PuB The Gnarly Ones (instrumental surf rock) 10 pm. drAke Hotel Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift doors 8 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe The Living Daylight Stringband (old time) 7:30 pm, Delta Will & the Formalists (rock) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe CD release The Dirty Nil, Dead Tired, Wish 8:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce Jay Brannan, Sook Yin & Adam. lulA lounge Yasgur’s Farm (soul/jazz-rock) 10 pm, the Detours (rock) 8 pm. orBit room The Tristones (R&B/rock).

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PAuPer’s PuB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. tHe Piston Lips, the Mercy Now 10 pm. silver dollAr Jay Snider, Autumn Stones, A Rebours 8:30 pm. smiling BuddHA Monomyth, Nap Eyes, New Fries, Deliluh 9 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. toronto centre for tHe Arts Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Kevin Kane, Bryan Potvin 7:30 pm. trAnzAc mAin HAll A Man of Two Minds, Lost Refuge 6 pm. trAnzAc soutHern cross Võlur 10 pm. virgin moBile mod cluB Sonata Arctica, Delain, Xandria 7:30 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

BAr rAdio Tracey Gallant (blues) 9 pm. cAmeron House Corin Raymond 6 pm, Ferraro 10 pm.

cAstro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situtation (folk/rock/country) 6 pm.

tHe flying BeAver PuBAret Jane Ford 8 pm. free times cAfe Songwriter’s Circle Of Jerks

Vedette (folk/songwriter) 8:30 pm. grossmAn’s The Responsible 10 pm.

HABits gAstroPuB Wonderfest Series Arlene Paculan 9 pm.

HugH’s room Poor Angus. tHe locAl gest Open Mic Porter, Kayt Lucas Band 9 pm. tHe locAl Michael Peters (bluegrass) 9 pm. lou dAwg’s Open Mic Night 9 pm. monArcHs PuB Blues Thursday The Kat King’s. relisH BAr & grill Sherman & Lee (blues/ folk) 6:30 to 9 pm. rivoli Henry Taylor CD release Whitney Rose, Lucas Stagg, Henry Taylor and the Long Horse Rangers, Tanya Philipovich doors 8:30 pm. toronto music gArden Summer Music In The Garden: Zolla! Tiina Kiik (accordion) 7–7:30 pm.

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trAnzAc soutHern cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

By tHe wAy cAfe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm. emmet rAy BAr Bossa Tres (jazz/Latin/swing/ gypsy) 9:30 pm. tHe JAzz Bistro Micah Barnes & His Trio 9 pm. kAmA Thursdays At Five All-Star Canadian Jazz Quartet, Bill McBirnie 5-8 pm. reservoir lounge Beverly Taft and her Swell Fellas 7 to 9 pm. tHe rex Parc-X Trio 9:30 pm, October Trio 6:30 pm.

3030 dundAs west The Wintergarten Orchestra (big band swing) 8 pm. villAge of yorkville PArk Donald Guinn Trio 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

BundA lounge TBT DeeJay Nana (hip-hop/ R&B/trap) 10 pm. cABAl lounge Resident Sessions Jeff Button, Rafwat & Chorniy, Cosmic JD, Graham Plant 8 pm. clinton’s Throwback Thursdays (90s hip-hop & pop) doors 10 pm. cluB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 cluB 120 diner DJ Jason Cleveland 9:30 pm.5 coAlition lounge Co-op Alixander III (live), CHOBO (live), Dragun (DJ set) doors 10 pm. crAwford DJ Downunda, host Miss Olivia and Kermit 9 pm.

HArlem Because You Are A Star The Invincible DJ Carl Allen 7 pm. wAylA BAr Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave/70s/80s) 10 pm.

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With Special Guest Lonnie Holley

Friday, September 12 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz North of 7 Band 9:30 pm. cAstro’s lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 6 pm.

cAvern BAr The Good Naughts, Yukon Trails

OCTOBER 30 AT 8PM

doors 9 pm.

cHerry colA’s rock n’ rollA Savanah, Last Bullet, the BallroomBabies doors 9 pm. cHurcH of tHe Holy trinity Pauletta Pearson Washington 7:30 pm. drAke Hotel Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift doors 8 pm.

MASSEY HALL

ñecHo BeAcH At molson AmPHitHeAtre Majical Cloudz doors 7 pm, all ages. ñLorde, tHe gArrison EP LP Record release show Teenanger, Crosss, the Beverlys, DJ ñ Michelle Williams, Andrew Winkler 9 pm.

ON SALE TOMORROW AT 10 AM

HArd luck BAr Joyce Manor doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

HArlem Dan McLean Jr (soul) 7:30 pm.

HorsesHoe Glass Animals, Rome Fortune,

November 9

Danforth Music Hall Doors 7PM - Show 8PM - All Ages

NORTH Tickets alsoAMERICAN available TOUR at Rotate This and Soundscapes.

Tickets also available at Rotate This and Soundscapes.

Petra Glynt doors 9 pm. izAkAyA susHi House PPOP Presents Fun Fact, Dirty Church, Fifth and Main 9 pm. lee’s PAlAce The Growlers doors 8 pm. linsmore tAvern Tim Bovaconti Band (pop/ rock) 9:30 pm. monArcHs PuB Classic Rock Fridays The McDonald Rush Band.

music gAllery CD release Grey Lands. ñ oPerA House Sun Kil Moon doors 8:30 pm.

orBit room The Arsenals (ska).

PAintBox Bistro Soul Stew (R&B/funk) 9 pm. rAncHo relAxo Interstellar Intellect Tour

Pyrrhon, Gigan, Artificial Brain (death metal). rivoli The OBGMs Album Release Party The oOohh Baby Gimme Mores, Pkew Pkew Pkew (Gunshots), Hot Kid, Champion Lover doors 9 pm. silver dollAr RLMDL, Programm, Nyssa, Jaunt, Sugarcub 9 pm. smiling BuddHA Wavelength 615 Presents: Construction Vol. 8 WTCHS, Hollowphonic, Pink/Brown, Sasha Chapin doors 9 pm, all ages. sneAky dee’s Bordeen, TEDD, Volume Academy doors 9 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s Cameltoe (rock/top 40) 10 pm.

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JUST ANNOUNCED!

tickets ROBYN HITCHCOCK, EMMA SWIFT Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Thursday to Saturday (September 11-13) Surrealist singer/songwriter x three.

THE DIRTY NIL, DEAD TIRED, WISH Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (September 11) Hamilton punks’ album release.

ALIXANDER III, CHOBO, DRAGUN Coalition Lounge (349A College), Thursday (September 11) Live and DJ house sets.

LORDE, MAJICAL CLOUDZ Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Friday (September 12) Auckland pop singer/songwriter.

TEENANGER, CROSSS, THE BEVERLYS AND OTHERS The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (September 12) Local punk and doom.

THE OOOHH BABY GIMME MORES, PKEW PKEW PKEW, HOT KID, CHAMPION LOVER Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (September 12) Garage-party-punk album release.

TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2015 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE ON SALE TOMORROW AT 10AM HOW TO DRESS WELL Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Friday (September 12) Ambient PBR&B. DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH, THE DARCYS, LOWELL Opera House (735 Queen West), Saturday (September 13) Indie88’s birthday.

CHET FAKER Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Saturday (September 13) Australian electronica.

WINDHAND, ALL THEM WITCHES CODA (794 Bathurst), Sunday (September 14) Virginia doom crew.

CHARLES BRADLEY, JOSS STONE Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Monday (September 15) Old-school soul-funk singer.

ISAIAH RASHAD, TRE MISSION, TASHA THE AMAZON, DILLON PONDERS Revival (783 College), Wednesday (September 17) Manifesto’s Sound Select party.

INDIE ROCK

The War On DrugS The War on Drugs and Toronto are in love. When the Philly haze-rock band hit the Phoenix next week, it’ll be their third appearance here this year. Their Horseshoe show in April sold out so fast that a second one got added, and five months later, tickets sold equally fast for their September 15 show at a much bigger venue.

That’s all thanks largely to Lost In The Dream – the follow-up to 2011’s acclaimed Slave Ambient – which filters Adam Granduciel’s take on Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Spaceman 3 and Dire Straits through his Dylanesque wheeze and blistering guitar lines. Downbeat yet uplifting, the music is misty with organ texture, melodically melancholy, vibrant with six-string colour and propelled by motorik live and programmed drumming.

Hope you were lucky enough to snag tickets, cuz the live show always delivers, Granduciel dropping Torontocentric references aplenty and, at the April Horseshoe show, a superb cover of John Lennon’s Mind Games.

At the Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Monday (September 15), doors 8 pm. $26. RT, SS, TF.

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3030 DunDas West Philly Moves (hiphop) 10 pm. ñ tranzac Main Hall A Man of Two Minds,

Lost Refuge 6 pm.

tranzac soutHern cross John Russon 10 pm.

Virgin Mobile MoD club How to Dress Well doors 7 pm. ñ Wrongbar Big Ticket Scratch BeatBox, Mic

jusT aNNOuNced coMet control, MonoMytH, naP eyes Junction Music Festival 3030 Dundas West 10 pm. September 20.

JenniFer castle The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS. September 25. robert HooD (as FloorPlan), eFeDeMin, azari & iii, gingy Otherland Tattoo 10 pm. September 26.

yacHt, WHite Fang, Digits The Hoxton doors 6:30 pm, $14. RT, SS, TW.

September 26.

Gutz, AntiFrantik, Dusty Wallace, MO Littles, Beauge, Tiggz, DJ Law (hip-hop[) 10 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

axis gallery & grill Voodoo Walters & the Rhythm Method (blues) 9:30 pm. caMeron House Front rooM David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, Fraser Melvin Blues Band 10 pm. caMeron House back rooM Dave Clark, Stonetrotters.

Free tiMes caFe Sherman & Lee 8 pm. grossMan’s The Fullerton with Neil Chapman 10 pm.

Holy oak caFe Max Kelly (old time) 10 pm.

HugH’s rooM Ron Nigrini 8:30 pm. lula lounge Cuba Libre Friday Cafe Cubano, DJ Suave (salsa) 10:30 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Mark Martyre

(covers/originals) 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

Village oF yorkVille Park Kenny V Duo

11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ experimental

by tHe Way caFe Patio

Jazz Tzevi Sherman Experience 8 to 10 pm.

tHe Flying beaVer Pubaret Songs I Never Got To

Sing Gary Krawford (musicals) 7 pm. gallery 345 Die Reise: The Journey Charlotte Knight, Erika Reiman, Michele Jacot 7:30 pm.

Habits gastroPub Chelsea McBride Group (jazz) 9 pm. iMPerial Pub AldcroftBanks-Oelrichs, Aaron Leaney’s BORD A BORD Trio 9 pm. continued on page 44

T.O. Music NOTes SHAKING UP THE FILM FEST

Movie stars aren’t the only A-listers in town this week.

One documentary getting its Canadian premiere brought hip-hop royalty here, too. Shake The Dust follows the inspiring young breakdancing and hip-hop communities in struggling neighbourhoods in countries around the world (Yemen, Cambodia, Colombia and Uganda).

After being approached by the film’s director, Adam Sjöberg, Queensbridge, New York, rap legend Nas not only immediately signed on to executive produce, but was also creatively involved in post-production (and not surprisingly, contributes to the soundtrack). On the night of September 5, he raced from a Ryerson frosh show on Toronto Island to a private screening of the

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Dayglo abortions Hard Luck Bar doors 9 pm, $10. TS.

ticketscene.ca/events/11409. September 27. tiM Hecker First Thursdays Art Gallery of Ontario. October 2. enseMble Polaris Back To The Future 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts 8 pm, $25, stu/srs $15, child $10.

416-588-4301, be-mused.ca/node/1468. October 3. bruce Peninsula, Del bel, Delta Will Wavelength Polish Combatants Hall doors 8 pm, $12-$15. RT, SS, TF. wavelengthtoronto.com. October 3. nick Jonas Lee’s Palace 8 pm, $29.50. LN. October 6. s.P.y., tHe brookes brotHers SIM12 Guvernment October 10. blaze bayley, PHantoM, sPeWgore, laugH at tHe Fakes Indie Week Hard Rock Cafe doors 8 pm, $15-$20. TF. October 17. ty Dolla $ign In Too Deep Tour Guvernment. October 24.

HayDen, Feist, saraH HarMer, MeMbers oF tHe national First Annual Dream Serenade Benefit Concert Massey Hall October 25.

cHrissie HynDe Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $35.50-$75.

RTH, TM. October 30. usHer The UR Experience Air Canada Centre.

November 2.

MaJical clouDz First Thursdays Art Gallery of Ontario.

November 6. kiM cHurcHill, Mo kenney The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TF. November 7. sallie ForD, crookeD Fingers The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. November 8. tV on tHe raDio Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8:30 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TF. November 12. still boys, zoo oWl, bataille solaire Music Gallery 8 pm, $12-$15. SS. November 22. culture club Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

November 24. run tHe JeWels, ratking, DesPot Danforth Music Hall.

November 26. crosss, Freak Heat WaVes, boyHooD, neW Fries Smiling Buddha 10 pm, $10. November 28. lagWagon, sWinging utters Opera House doors 8 pm, $26. RT, SS, TF. November 28. trans-siberian orcHestra The Christmas Attic Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm. TM. December 3. tHe rural alberta aDVantage Danforth Music Hall. December 18.

Maroon 5 Air Canada Centre. March 16, 2015.

OPERA HOUSE • $20.50 ADV

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30 PHOENIX • $23.50 ADV PHOENIX • $20.00 ADV ATL VICE REC’S GARAGE PUNK! CAROLINA ALT COUNTRY

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BLACK SUN KIL LIPS

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Nas at the Everleigh with George Veron, founder of WE-DIFR

After running popular Queen West nightspot the Rivoli for 32 years, owners Andre Rosenbaum, David Stearn and Jeff Strasburg sold it on September 8. Sarah Henning, a long-time employee, Jenna Wood and Jessica McHardy are taking over.

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Though new proprietors certainly mean changes for the venue, the great history of live shows is something they’re not messing with.

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TUE

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NO COVER

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THU

• HORSESHOE • $15.00 ADV

$17.50 ADV

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The Jazz BisTro Micah Barnes and His Trio 9 pm.

LuLa Lounge World/Jazz Fridays Yami &

Marito Marques (jazz/African) 7:30 pm. oLd MiLL inn hoMe sMiTh Bar Russ Little Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

The rex Amina Figarova Sextet 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Subtle Blend: Producer

WITH: JAYMES YOUNG FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! EARLY SHOW ADDED: ALL AGES / 19+

CLEAN BANDIT w/ LIZZO

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VINTAGE TROUBLE SEP 23 :: LEE’S PALACE

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

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UP ALL NIGHT

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WILL SPARKS

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SEP 19 :: MAISON MERCER

4 AM LAST CALL!

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TOVE LO w/ LINUS YOUNG

SEP 28 :: THE HOXTON

OCT 02 :: THE PHOENIX

SEP 13

CHET FAKER

SEP 19

DR. HOOK FEATURING RAY SAWYER

OCT 02

CONSTANTINES 2ND SHOW OCT 03!

OCT 04

54-40 & GRAPES OF WRATH

OCT 16

BIG WRECK 2ND SHOW OCT 17!

OCT 21

FLYING LOTUS

OCT 24

THE GLITCH MOB

OCT 29

THE PRESETS W/ SAINT PEPSI

OCT 30

RAC W/ THE KNOCKS

NOV 07 A TRIBE CALLED RED NOV 11 PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT

OCT 09 :: DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

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OCT 10 :: DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

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DEC 1 DEC 5

DILLON FRANCIS FLOSSTRADAMUS

DEC 19

THE HOLLY SPRINGS DISASTER 2ND SHOW DEC 20!

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PROTEST THE HERO

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VICETONE

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strip-club pop soundscapes. At nearly 90 minutes, the tape desperately needs some quality control. Still, Gucci’s at his best on Laundry Mat, using a monotone flow that highlights his deft economy of words; and Take My Life featuring Quavo, where he dejectedly recalls the poverty that led to his drug-dealing empire.

Top track: Take My Life JORDAN SOWUNMI

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Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop) Rating: NNNN When you just need some fun fuzz rock in your life, King Tuff, aka Kyle Thomas, always hits the spot. This is especially true of his new album, an insouciant blend of polished gems and lo-fi experimental ditties emphasizing the Vermont musician’s weirdness.

Each song is built on dazzling, thickly distorted guitar riffs and solos. Thomas’s love-them-or-hate-them vocals – sneering, wheezy, bratty – take up more space this time around, and the addition of truly soulful backup singers brings some semblance of emotion into the game.

The songwriting is above all playful.

Insane intros start most songs. Chaotic

guitar experiment Radiation and wickedly tender ditty I Love You Ugly sit alongside the Marc Bolanesque Beautiful Thing and catchy standout Headbanger, whose dynamite chorus (again, those backup vocals!) makes your soul soar. Meanwhile, Eyes Of The Muse, with its chiming AM-radio guitars and superbly crafted bombastic arrangement, reminds you that Thomas, like Ty Segall (who guest drums on Headbanger) and Mac DeMarco, is far more talented than his don’t-give-ashit, goofball-slinging-an-axe image would lead you to believe.

Top track: Headbanger King Tuff plays the Horseshoe on October 14.

CARLA GILLIS

THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA Between Colours (Pheromone)

Pop/rock

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phone Explosion) Rating: NNNN With each release, Toronto’s Teenanger have been moving incrementally further away from their garage rock roots, and on their newest release they sound more like an undiscovered late 70s punk band. You might argue that the distinction isn’t that clear, since early punk was inarguably heavily influenced by garage, but the difference lies in the robotic brutality of the rhythms, the raspy edges and gleeful ugliness of the guitar tones and the confrontational bratty snarl of the vocals.

At only eight songs, E P L P goes by in the blink of an eye – an effective serving size for this kind of adrenaline-fuelled trash rock. Despite that short running time and no-frills approach, there’s a surprising amount of sonic diversity, including a sax solo, what sounds like a sprinkling of synths, spoken word samples and some shimmering 80s-inspired guitar textures, all of which fit into the mix better than they ought to, making for a sound somewhere between early new wave and noise rock.

Top track: Think About It Teenanger play the Garrison Friday (September 12) BENJAMIN BOLES

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Rating: NNN If you were familiar with local act the Wilderness of Manitoba from their earlier dreamy folk incarnation, you might be a tad surprised by the group’s latest effort, which makes its more rockist intentions clear right from synth-bolstered lead track Big Skies.

Guitarist/keyboardist/lead vocalist Will Whitwham is the sole remaining member from the original lineup, now joined by co-vocalist and violinist Amanda Balsys and bassist Wes McClintock in a lean trio that focuses more on rhythm and texture than on the Fleet Foxes-style harmonies that dominated the band’s previous work.

The more upbeat sound – Rush’s Alex Lifeson even throws down one of his trademark searing guitar solos on Shift – suits TWoM’s evolution, but harmonies remain their strong suit: the songs featuring Whitwham’s soft croon paired with Balsys’s lilt work best, like lead single Leave Someone, with its hummable chorus. The placid vocal approach doesn’t always match the new sound, however, the Balsys-fronted tunes evoking 90s-era Lilith folk-rock.

Top track: Leave Someone The Wilderness of Manitoba play Lee’s Palace October 16.

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The Physical World (Last Gang) Rating: NNNN When Death from Above 1979 broke up in 2006, the buzz behind their 2004 debut album was still building up steam. Given the mini-riot that erupted at their first reunion show, it seems their fan base actually grew while they were on hiatus, so

it’s smart that they didn’t mess with their formula.

The duo never felt that “dance punk” really applied to them, and that term does feel very early-00s now. Nevertheless, the opening song, Cheap Talk, quickly settles into a groove best described as disco metal, or possibly “Motörhead get funky.”

As the album progresses, elements of prog and sludgy stoner metal riffage demonstrate a broader sound and seem geared to bigger stages than the small punk rooms they’re used to. Sebastien Grainger’s vocals show the benefit of spending the last few years touring with quieter bands, and listen closely for the subtle analog synth touches Jesse Keeler’s added behind his trademark wall-of-fuzzbass sound.

Top track: The Physical World BB

INTERPOL El Pintor (Matador) Rating: NNN Each song on Interpol’s El Pintor – their comeback album after a four-year break and their first without bassist Carlos Dengler – is what we’ve come to expect from the New Yorker indie rockers: postpunk goth drama, intricate bass lines, rigid drums that keep it all in check.

On opening track All The Rage Back Home, singer Paul Banks (who’s also taken over bass duties) moans his signature monotone drawl before erupting with energy the likes of which we haven’t experienced since their sophomore album, Antics. On Same Town, New Story, it’s the same type of vocal delivery over throbbing drums and piercing guitar. El Pintor seems to follow this formula to a T, so eventually every track starts blending into the others.

The songs are excellent in their own right, but when they’re all lined up, Interpol start seeming like a one-trick pony.

Top track: All The Rage Back Home Interpol play the Kool Haus November 18.

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Hip-hop GUCCI MANE The Brick Factory Vol

2 (1017 Brick Squad) Rating: NNN Though Gucci Mane has been in prison since last September and will likely remain there until 2016 following a federal gun conviction, it hasn’t slowed the prolific emcee down. In fact, he’s made the most of his downtime, releasing over half a dozen mixtapes and collaborative albums in the last 12 months.

On his latest, 27-track release, Gucci stays in his lane, using his inventive flow to rap d-boy tropes over utilitarian trap beats. The emcee has a knack for teaming up with Atlanta’s new generation of vocal stylists, and many of them (Migos, Young Thug, Peewee Longway) feature prominently here, adding levity over melodic

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bare-bones ballad It’s Cold In This House.

The songs are more sparsely written than they’ve been in the past, even as Earle draws from a familiar well of imagery: rain and snow, trains, burnt photographs.

But it’s a sad irony that just as Earle has hit his stylistic stride – beautiful, pedalsteel-soaked country and poppier soul – he’s writing fewer tracks that’ll floor you.

There’s not much hope in his songs – that includes the title track – but he’s good at meditating on being low. “I’m not drowning,” he sings on Picture In A Drawer, “I’m just seeing how long I can stay down.”

Top track: Today And A Lonely Night SARAH GREENE

TRICKY Adrian Thaws (False Idols/

!K7) Rating: NN Tricky’s 1995 debut, Maxinquaye, and follow-up Pre-Millennium Tension were two of the best and most influential albums of their era. But since then, he’s repeatedly tried (and mostly failed) to prove he can do more than the grim, claustrophobic experimental hip-hop he’s loved for. It’s understandable that he doesn’t want to endlessly repeat his 90s triumphs. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears he stopped listening to new music sometime around that period, so instead of a modern sound, he’s produced a shittier copy of himself.

Using his birth name for the album title supposedly means “You don’t really know me,” a more appropriate statement from an angsty teen than from a 46-year-old father of two. The production often seems thin, cheap and dated. The random blasts of hard rock guitar are tacky and irritating, and some of the lyrics are just dreadful.

While there are occasional flashes of brilliance on this 10th studio album, the missteps far outnumber the bright points.

Top track : I Had A Dream BB

G-UNIT The Beauty Of Independence (Caroline/G-Unit) Rating: NNN The Beauty Of Independence is a solid if unspectacular return to form for G-Unit six years after the East Coast collective released their last album. This time they have a new member and a massive chip on their shoulder as they return to a rap industry that’s been drastically altered since label strife and personal problems shelved the group in 2008.

Overall, second-stringers Tony Yayo and Kidd Kidd shine brightest. The latter tries out a variety of approaches, his best a snarling and scornful delivery on Digital Scale. Yayo, meanwhile, is most successful on Dead A Pussy Nigga, bending his flow into something atypically playful.

Still, the album’s peak comes from GUnit overlord 50 Cent on Changes, which features the emcee’s trademark singsong rhymes on the hook and an impassioned verse where he recounts the dissolution of his long-time relationship with Interscope.

The song harkens back to one of 50’s best songs, Many Men, and shows the kind of emotional complexity we haven’t seen from him in a while.

Top track: Changes JS

Folk JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Single

Mothers (Vagrant) Rating: NNN His label says he’s married and recently sober, but the only hint of new-found domestic contentment on Justin Townes Earle’s fifth album is peppy rock ’n’ roller My Baby Drives.

Beyond that, Single Mothers is stacked with the kind of soulful, desperately lonely ballads that Earle is known for, songs like Today And A Lonely Night and the

Dance

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In A Dream (DFA) Rating: DFA Records stalwarts the Juan MacLean (Juan MacLean and frequent collaborator Nancy Whang) open their first proper long-player in five years with A Place Called Space – a proggy, Moroderesque epic with a dramatic introduction that turns wistfully reflective as outer space becomes a metaphor for inner emotional emptiness.

It’s a good primer for what’s to come: studiously produced synth jams infused with melancholic New Romanticism and mixed with rock ’n’ roll bombast. Best known for club singles like Happy House, MacLean has always been more house-/ techno-oriented than his disco-obsessed DFA labelmates, and In A Dream plays like dance music for fans of prog rock.

Sparkling arpeggios and sublime atmospherics undercut the loneliness and desperation in MacLean and Whang’s singing (the latter’s is the stronger of the two’s), giving tension to the confident and frequently beautiful production.

Top track: Running Back To You KEVIN RITCHIE

Metal EARTH Primitive And Deadly (South-

ern Lord) Rating: NNN Drone doom heavies Earth have inopportunely released a new record of ambling, circuitous feedback riffs while metal fans are still lost in the depths of Pallbearer’s Foundations Of Burden. How are we supposed to make room for From The Zodiacal Light when we still have those other tunes stuck in our heads?

But the band can hardly be blamed for poor timing. Riffs are riffs, and there are plenty of riffs to go around, and around, and around. Primitive And Deadly has fuzz lord Dylan Carlson delving back into the coiled, halfway-abstracted guitar purring that’s made Earth synonymous with the drone doom micro-genre.

With twanging riffs echoing across the entire record, Earth continue the westerninfluenced sonic sculpting that began with 2007’s Morricone-inspired The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull. On tracks like There Is A Serpent Coming, the lyrics slide into boring, bad Jim Morrison pseudo-mysticism. But it’s satisfying enough to nod off to, even if it confirms suspicions that the band peaked at Pentastar.

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Toronto’s got a heap of music festivals in the spring and summer: starting with CMW and NXNE and continuing non-stop until Riot Fest in early September. But there’s plenty to look forward to this fall before we start getting excited about the third instalment of Long Winter coming in mid-November.

Bloor ossington Folk Festival September 19-21

The good folks behind Bloor Ossington Folk Festival have done it again: three days of free music in and around Christie Pitts while it’s still nice enough to sit on the grass. The neighbourhood festival’s fourthyear lineup includes Julie Doiron and the Wrong Guys, Brendan Canning, AroarA, Fiver, Eamon McGrath, Shotgun Jimmie, Baby Eagle and many others.

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September 18-21 Toronto’s non-profit, youth-powered hip-hop culture fest is also just around the corner. Culminating in the massive, eighth annual free showcase concert Live At The Square (Yonge-Dundas Square, September 20), headlined by Bishop Nehru, Raury and Grammy nominee Ryan Leslie, the fest also includes Red Bull Sound Select, a program to break emerging artists. The free-withRSVP concert headlined by Isaiah Rashad and featuring Tre Mission, Tasha the Amazon and Dillon Ponders goes down at Revival on September 17.

JaMes st. supercrawl (HaMilton) September 12-14

If you’re up for a bit of a field trip, consider hitting Hamilton’s James St. Supercrawl – a highly strollable free street fest with sets by Spoon, Fourtet, the Arkells, Charles SARAH GREENE Bradley, A Tribe Called Red, Rich Aucoin, Bry Webb and others.

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Opera House, October 7 Talking to Sharon Van Etten, you get the sense that her “life” and “music-making” are distinctly different things, although the latter certainly wouldn’t exist without the former.

On a short break from touring her powerful fourth album, Are We There (Jagjaguwar), the singer/songwriter says she’s glad to have some time off to “live a little bit.”

After she finishes the day’s scheduled interviews, she’s excited to go to the gym and then make some dinner.

In the eye of a storm of critical praise, late-night talk show appearances and constant touring that began in earnest with 2012’s Tramp, she sounds slightly weary.

The emotional devastation of her songs – Are We There charts the breakup of a long-time on-and-off relationship, brought on in part by her heavy touring schedule – has to take an additional mental toll.

“I am so broken when I start writing demos. It’s very stream-of-conscious. I let myself go and it doesn’t even make sense. People are hearing me figure out what’s going wrong with myself,” she says from her management’s New York City office.

“I have a lot more emotional distance from the songs [after performing them for a few months] – enough so that I’m not a wreck performing them – but I still feel them very much.”

Van Etten produced the album on her own (the National’s Aaron Dessner helped out on Tramp, Brian McTear on her 2010 release, epic) and went for a more bandcentric approach.

“One of the lessons I’ve learned through making records is that I don’t want to bury the songs. My strength is the melody, and the more layers you add, the more they take away from that. Sometimes layering guitars sounds cool, but I want to hear the instruments come in. I want to hear the melody and harmony and beat. I went for a step above minimal.”

For ballad I Know, which showcases a truly heartwrenching vocal performance, she wanted to record the piano and vocals together to achieve the necessary depth of feeling. A grand piano was required to adequately isolate the two instruments, so she gathered up a small group of friends for support and headed to Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady in Greenwich Village.

“I was naked – emotionally,” she clarifies, “and then three of my friends watching me through the glass sing this really intense song... in hindsight, it’s really funny.”

For someone who admits that songwriting is therapy for when she’s going through hard times, I wonder what happens if she gets happy?

She laughs. “When I’m not writing, it’s because I’m hanging out with my friends or boyfriend or family or going exploring and actually experiencing life. So I will be living and having a good time and doing other things than music. I definitely don’t want to do it forever. I’ll write always, and sharing it is to help other people. But there are other ways I can help people.”

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Electronic phenom Dan Snaith took a whole new approach on his latest album.

The result?

His most personal record to date is emotionally conflicted, sonically soulful and just plain awesome.

by Julia LeConte

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CARIBOU t’s the month of June, and I’m under a cloud. Short with my bar­ istas in the morning, sullen with my colleagues by day, killing more boxed wine than I’d care to admit at night. My relation­ ship is unravelling, and I’m mostly miserable.

So when Can’t Do Without You, the lead single off Caribou’s sixth studio album, Our Love (due October 7 on Merge), lands in my inbox on June 3, I pounce. Dejected and disillusioned, I latch onto the track’s deep house warmth, the slowly building synths gradually expanding toward climax, the earworm vocal loops that seem to circle the drain of my clobbered heart.

I’m therefore surprised when, the night before my inter­ view with the man behind the moniker, Dan Snaith, I find a Pitchfork review comparing the song’s effect to endorphin­rushing narcotics. “It sounds as if Snaith is giddily celebrating the life­affirming love invoked by his next LP’s title,” the critic – who, I conclude, must be in some honey­ moon phase of romantic courtship – goes on to say.

Huh. Over the phone from his basement (aka music lab) in London, Eng­ land, Snaith sheds light on this dichotomy.

“My main experience with love, in all of these different manifesta­ tions, is that joyousness and melancholy in one’s life are right next door to each other all the time,” he says.

“I’ve had friends who have been terribly sick and passed away right as my daughter was learning to speak, and that’s an exhilarating time. For songs like Can’t Do Without You, or ones with few words, I wanted both sides. There is a sense of dependency in that song and of just being stuck – it’s a loop – joined together, whether it’s entirely functional or partially functional, and there’s something melancholy about that.

“But people are entirely welcome to read it as a straightforward dec­ laration of connection. That’s what I want: that texture and richness of contradictory nature to live side by side in the music. That was the idea.”

At this point, any Caribou idea is a pretty sure bet. He’s been remark­ ably versatile through multiple genres, dabbling in minimalist electron­ ica, Krautrock, shoegaze and jazz on early records. His 2007 foray into sunny 60s psych pop, Andorra, won him the Polaris Music Prize. But his curveball into house­ and techno­inspired dance music for 2010’s critic­ ally beloved Swim album marked a chapter he wanted to explore in more than just nine songs.

“Swim felt like unfinished business. It wasn’t an attempt to capture some essence of music I loved from the past. It was the first one where I’d really carved out my own little bit of musical territory. I felt like I was opening a door to a bunch of different ideas and a new chapter. Our Love is a continuation of those ideas. It feels like a sibling to Swim, and it also feels like my most personal record.”

Our Love is definitely a companion to its predecessor, but it’s also de­ cidedly more soulful.

“One of the things that’s wonderful about soul music generally, whe­ ther it’s classic soul or contemporary R&B, is that it manages to get a bittersweet sentiment that marries happiness and melancholy. You can have a piece of music that’s two minutes long and at the same time invig­ orating and heartbreaking.”

Hence, Can’t Do Without You. Snaith had originally intended the album to pay a larger debt to R&B, and although elements of the genre remain, he says he wound up eschew­ ing the keyboard synths and clipped drum programming that are so popular right now.

“In some ways I’m glad it didn’t end up being that record, because that’s the sound of the moment even more than when I was working on it,” he says. “The record warmed up a lot as I was making it – more rich­ sounding, deeper­sounding textures.”

The original idea left its mark, though, evidenced by the warped stut­ tering vocal samples, woozy bass lines and beats that nod to hip­hop.

Though it’s strange to say about an artist who has consistently con­ nected with music lovers since releasing his first album in 2001 as Mani­

toba (before a litigious punk rocker forced him to change his name to Caribou a few years later), Our Love is the first time Snaith actively thought about how fans would receive his material.

Swim reached audiences Snaith had never considered (luxe clubgoers and fans of the FIFA video game on which it was featured, for example) and entirely flipped his approach.

“I went from just making music for me and disappearing into this lit­ tle world of sounds I could make for myself to thinking about music that was explicitly for everybody who was going to hear it. When I was record­ ing, I’d think about making that figurative distance between me and the person listening as short as possible.

“Swim was more of a miasmic thing that floated around the listener.

My voice was hidden in lots of layers of reverb and effects, and all the sounds were manipulated. For this one, because I wanted to have a sense of directness and closeness, everything is much more focused.”

Despite the new approach, he went to work on the new record in the very same way the Dundas, Ontario, native has done since moving to London in 2001 for his PhD in mathematics (yes, he’s also a genius in the more conventional way, too): in his basement with “synthesizers, a drum kit, a computer and a pile of records.”

Snaith culled the 10 finished songs from 800 to 900 tracks or track ideas, enlisting his friend Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) to help edit.

Snaith also brought on Canadian friends: composer/violinist/every­ thingman Owen Pallett – who was once his roommate during a rehearsal stint in Toronto – and electro­R&B artist Jessy Lanza, whose native Ham­ ilton now incorporates Snaith’s hometown.

Pallett was an adviser for the entire album, a musical kindred spirit for Snaith to bounce ideas off, and he composed violin riffs for four tracks.

Lanza, meanwhile, co­wrote and sang on alt­R&B song Second Chance.

Both contributors happen to be up for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize for their respective albums.

“I don’t know who to cheer for,” Snaith says, laughing. “Both of their albums are amazing. I guess Owen’s already won it, so my instinct is to cheer for Jessy.”

Smart thinking, as the two will be spending the fall together as Lanza opens for Caribou on their European and North American dates over the next three months.

“She’s going to be playing with us and singing the song she wrote for the record. Apart from that, the strength of the show is that it’s not a new band – we’ve got all that accumulated experience together.”

Caribou’s touring outfit consists of drummer Brad Weber, John Schmersal on bass and vocals, Ryan Smith on guitar and keyboards, and Snaith himself on a second drum kit, singing and playing keys.

“There’s four of us onstage obviously,” says Snaith. “But there’s lots of technology as well. We’re all connected to one another – playing key­ boards and pushing buttons that control different things in the arrange­ ment and the mix. It allows us to both sound like a band and not sound like a band if we want to.”

The last tour stop happens to be in Toronto, something especially ex­ citing since the last time Caribou was scheduled to play here in 2012, while touring with Radiohead, the fatal Downsview Park stage collapse forced them to cancel.

“Even though I haven’t lived in Toronto for a long time, it feels like a homecoming. Other guys in the band do live in Toronto, and so many of my friends are there. I can’t wait.”

Toronto, in turn, has shown Caribou a lot of love, near universally praising each release and frothing in anticipation of every new one.

Given the accolades, does Snaith ever worry about his ability to deliver?

“Once the record’s done, I’m usually pretty confident about it,” he says.

“But there’s always the sense that I have this relationship with music – and that might just disappear someday, you know? Most musicians worry that one day they just won’t be able to do it any more, and that adds a bit of ur­ gency – of wanting to make music that I’m excited about.”

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SHOWS IN THE 6IX Hip-hop’s past, present and future are coming to town

THE PIONEERS

Grandmaster Flash and his Furious Five had the first politically fuelled rap hit with The Message.

Afrika Bambaataa founded the Universal Zulu Nation. Together, the groundbreaking 1970s-onward Bronx DJs were part of a movement that invented a genre. See them spin The Lost Art Of Hip-Hop at the Phoenix, September 27.

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THE MELIGROVE BAND

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Four years have passed since the Meligrove Band released Shimmering Lights, and many thought the end had come for the Sloan-loving Toronto indie pop band.

But invigorated fifth album Bones Of Things, out November 18 on We Are Busy Bodies, shows off their strongest songwriting to date and imaginative production by José Contreras of By Divine Right. Unlike Shimmering Lights, it’s guest-free aside from singer/guitarist Jason Nunes’s sister Bernice singing on one song. They celebrate their comeback – and Nunes’s birthday – with a reCARLA GILLIS lease party at the ’Shoe.

It’s the 20th anniversary of Sloan’s beloved sophomore record, Twice Removed, and the Toronto-based foursome are still digging the number two, following up 2011’s The Double Cross with a new double album, Commonwealth (Yep Roc).

Meant to be listened to as four standalone sides on vinyl, Commonwealth plays up each member’s strengths and interests, with playing-card-themed suites by Jay Ferguson (diamond), Chris Murphy (heart), Patrick Pentland (clubs) and Andrew Scott (spade). But even while showing off their diversity, the songwriting vets keep it tightly and delightfully together.

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The Great Hall, September 25

Stellar since the mid-2000s when she was going by Castlemusic, Jennifer Castle just keeps getting better. The Toronto songwriter released Pink City (Idée Fixe), her sophomore record under her own name, on September 2 to already snowballing and far-flung acclaim.

Given the album’s travel theme, it seems appropriate that it’s garnering her widespread attention.

Elegant while remaining intimate and grounded, Castle’s crystal-clear vocals are augmented by fresh sounding string arrangements (care of Owen Pallett) and splashes of harmonica, jazz sax, vibraphone and flute.

SARAH GREENE

THE LEGEND

Nas’s 1993 debut, Illmatic, holds up as the quintessential, defining landmark album for East Coast rap. He brings his Time Is Illmatic tour to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on October 8.

THE SUPERSTARS

Hip-hop eventually spread to the other coast and north of the border. California’s Top Dawg Entertainment no. 2 emcee, Schoolboy Q, plays the Molson Amphitheatre with local alt-R&B royalty the Weeknd and L.A. singer Jhené Aiko on September 21.

THE FUTURE

They’re not yet household names, but you wouldn’t guess it from the kids in bucket hats who know every one of their bars by heart. NYC teenager Joey Bada$$ throws back to the golden age at the Guvernment on September 28; Mississippi Def Jam signee Big K.R.I.T. shares the bill with ATL collective Two-9 at Tattoo on October 10; and Charlotte, North Carolina, emcee Deniro Farrar plays Tattoo with Denzel Curry JULIA LECONTE on October 17.

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BAHAMAS

Danforth Music Hall, November 5 Bahamas is Afie Jurvanen. We knew that already, but on his third album, Bahamas Is Afie (Universal), the Toronto multi-instrumentalist and songwriter spells it out for us.

Jurvanen intended for the album, recorded in Don Kerr’s home studio, to be more traditionally folky, and that comes across in stripped-down acoustic guitar parts, gospel backups and refreshingly intimate vocals.

But he couldn’t resist some sonic experimentation: electric guitar feedback, fun effects and a sprinkle of disco found their way in.

SARAH GREENE

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TEENaNgER

The Garrison, September 12 Toronto punk rockers Teenanger sound like their name: bratty, pissed off and full of hormones. Their 2013 album, Singles Don’t $ell, received a rare 5N rating from NOW, so it goes without saying that we’re excited about E P L P (Telephone Explosion), their new eight-song release, which as the title implies falls somewhere between a full LP and an EP. Alongside the snarling vocals and trashy guitars we’ve come to expect, they’ve also snuck in a sax solo. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Funk-metal pioneers Living Colour headline, but the metalcore trio of NYC 13-year-olds is where it’s at.

September 18 at Opera House

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September 19 at the Opera House

THE DIRTY NIL

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September 23 at the Opera House

Like their punk rock forefathers, Hamilton’s the Dirty Nil – formed as high schoolers in 2006 – have risen through the ranks with a string of hard-hitting, surprisingly catchy (and melodic!) 7-inches and split EPs. While they work on their first major release, the trio will heave their raucous live show into the faces of angsty teens across North America.

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THE RuRaL aLbERTa aDvaNTagE

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But it turns out that the howling wolves, prowling bears and solitude ended up being way more creepy than peaceful, a mood reflected in songs like To Be Scared and TerriBENJAMIN BOLES fied.

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Cambridge psychedelic doom that’s been described as Alice Cooper meets Sabbath.

September 28 at Lee’s Palace

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GUITAR TRIPPIN’ The War on Drugs

Adam Granduciel’s hazy, guitarzippy Baltimore indie rock.

Monday (September 15) at the Phoenix

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Psych rock slabs from former Quest for Fire players, with Halifax shoegazers Monomyth in the opening slot.

September 20 at 3030 Dundas West

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The Wilderness of Manitoba reinvent themselves on each album, and the band’s latest, Between Colours (out September 16 on Pheromone), is no exception. Never have the Toronto trio sounded so poppy, their new Canadian-atmospheric-folk-meetsStereolab vibe a far cry from the vocal folk harmonies of their 2011 debut, Hymns Of Love & Spirits. The concept of Colours is day-and-night: the sunny, fast-moving pop of Day Side gives way to a folkier Night Side, but not without some theremin from Michael Phillip Wojewoda and a guitar solo from Rush’s Alex Lifeson. Another new trick? They used three drummers to achieve their novel sound: Tom Bona, Marito Marques and Howie Beck.

SARAH GREENE

Precocious axe-slingin’ spark plug who compulsively releases albums.

September 21 at the Danforth Music Hall

aBsoluTely free

Horseshoe, September 13 “Slow and steady” might be the motto of Toronto experimental rock outfit Absolutely Free. It’s been two years since they released their debut single, UFO, and other than a few shows here and a pool-party EP release there, the band’s been pretty mum.

Next month, the trio return with their self-titled debut album, a sprawling collection that mashes psych-Krautrock expeditions into four-minute earworms. The band’s other motto? Good things SAMANTHA EDWARDS come to those who wait.

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Anthemic fuzz riffs set against sneering vocals.

October 14 at the Horseshoe

sTeve gunn

Hypnotic picker and mellow singer with new album on the way.

October 15 at the Drake Underground

Temples Buck 65

Danforth Music Hall, November 21 Twenty-plus years after he released his first cassette, Nova Scotiaborn, Toronto-based alternative rapper Buck 65 adds a new studio full-length to his deep catalogue. Out on Warner, the album – aptly titled Neverlove (ouch!) – is emotionally raw and unabashedly autobiographical, depicting the rapper’s painful recent divorce. A Canadian tour kicks off in November, and anyone who purchases a ticket gets a JULIA LECONTE free digital download of the project.

For those who prefer the kaleidoscopic end of the psych rock spectrum.

October 21 at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club

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Mary Timony’s Cheap Trickian power-pop trio.

October 27 at the Horseshoe

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Local alt-country singer/songwriter whose fret skills awe.

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Zeus

Lee’s Palace, September 27 On Zeus’s new album, Classic Zeus (out now on Arts & Crafts), the Toronto four-piece mix more modern elements and textures into their Beatlesesque harmonies and retro pop songcraft. The 60s and 70s references are still plentiful, and they still clearly love warm analog tones, but they’ve turned down the blasts of fuzzed-out guitars heard on 2012’s Busting Visions. Catch the always strong live act as they trade instruments and rock out.

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Danforth Music Hall, November 27, 28 & 29 Shooting hoops on an outdoor court near Beverley and Dundas, Arkells lead singer Max Kerman talks about his adopted city of 10 years, Hamilton, their latest album, High Noon (Universal), and debating politics in the tour van with his bandmates – guitarist Mike DeAngelis, drummer Tim Oxford, bassist Nick Dika and keyboardist Anthony Carone. But the conversation keeps steering back to our current pursuit. “You gotta read my piece. I’m a journalist myself!” he says, laughing, before recounting the time he drove from L.A. to Lawrence, Kansas, to cover Andrew Wiggins’s first college game for Sportsnet.

That article came just after the guys finished recording High Noon in L.A. with a new producer, Tony Hoffer, late last October. The result, the group’s third full-length, is their slickest yet – straight-up aggro rockers alongside joyous Elton John-channelling piano pop songs and 80s-new-wave-inspired tunes. The common denominator? Every one of ’em sounds like a single.

“I’ll be listening to something a little more solemn or sparse, like Sea Change by Beck,

and I’ll be like, ‘Oh, this is what we need to do!’” says Kerman. “I’ll say, ‘We need way more ballads, guys!’ and then we just get carried away and it turns into High Noon.”

If their Toronto shows earlier this week – Richard Branson’s fundraiser for homeless youth and a Red Army TIFF party – are any indication, High Noon packs a wallop live.

But these aren’t empty pop anthems.

Arkells share certain sonic similarities with Bruce Springsteen, and also his flair for championing the working class. Steeltown’s specific set of challenges and triumphs surface throughout the record.

“We listen to a lot of podcasts in the van, more so than music, often, and there’s a lot of downtime for reading,” says Kerman. “Income inequality, who has power and privilege – those are things I find really interesting, and weaving them into songs just felt natural.”

Heroes of Hamilton, sure. But Toronto audiences can’t get enough either. Embrace has announced a third show date this fall, due to overwhelming demand. Combined with more U.S. dates that month, November’s looking pretty good for the Arkells. Plus, it’s the start of JULIA LeCONTE ball season.

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CONCERT CALENDAR THE SEASON’S BEST SHOWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 ED SHEERAN, RUDIMENTAL Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $56.75. TM.

LIVING COLOUR, UNLOCKING THE TRUTH Opera House 7:30 pm, $28.75. TF. THE WATCHMEN Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $27.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. And Sep 19.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

DEAFHEAVEN, NO JOY, INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Opera House doors 8 pm,

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THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, AGAINST ME Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 KING TUFF Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 BASTILLE Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $34.50-$42.50. LN, TM.

EMA Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS,

STEVE GUNN Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF.

KASABIAN, BO NINGEN Sound Acad-

$33.50-$45.50. RT, SS, TF. OUGHT Hard Luck Bar doors 8 pm, $12. RT, SS, TF.

emy doors 7 pm, all ages, $25.50-$40. TM. LYKKE LI, MAPEI Kool Haus doors 8 pm, $35. RT, SS, TF. SHOVELS & ROPE Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF.

WHITE FENCE, KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD The Garrison doors 8

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

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MUTUAL BENEFIT Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. TWIN SHADOW Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 SAM SMITH Kool Haus 8 pm, $47.50. TM. TY SEGALL, LA LUZ The Danforth Music

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THE WEEKND, SCHOOLBOY Q, JHENÉ AIKO Molson Amphitheatre 7:30 pm, $38-

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ROYAL CANOE, THE ELWINS Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS, TF.

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TEMPLES, THE DISTRICTS Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TF.

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BIG FREEDIA Just Be Free Tour The Hoxton doors 9 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF.

CAT POWER Danforth Music Hall doors 7

pm, $36. LN, TM. NAS Time Is Illmatic Tour Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 6 pm, all ages, second show doors 10 pm, $59-$79. TM.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 AB-SOUL Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, all ages, $26.50. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 27

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

AMON AMARTH, SABATON, SKELETONWITCH Sound Academy 7

pm, all ages, $33.50-$48.50. TF. BIG K.R.I.T., TWO-9 Tattoo doors 9 pm, $27. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM. CLOUD NOTHINGS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. ESPERANZA SPALDING Queen Elizabeth Theatre 8 pm, all ages, $49.50. TM.

$13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

KIM CHURCHILL, MO KENNEY The

Great Hall doors 8 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TF.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26

Rivoli 9 pm, $15. RTH.

of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $40-$90.

DOUG PAISLEY Horseshoe doors 9 pm,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 9 pm, $17. HS, RT, SS, TF.

THUS OWLS, MICHAEL FEUERSTACK

BRUCE COCKBURN Royal Conservatory

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

COURTNEY BARNETT, SAN FERMIN, MIKHAEL PASKALEV Lee’s Palace doors

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9

TANYA TAGAQ, DOOMSQUAD

doors 9 pm, $15.50. RT, SS, TF. SINÉAD O’CONNOR Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50-$79.50. RTH. TY DOLLA $IGN In Too Deep Tour Guvernment.

DUM DUM GIRLS Opera House doors 8 pm, $21.50. RT, SS, TF. JESSIE WARE The Great Hall $tba. LN.

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ARCH ENEMY, KREATOR, HUNTRESS, STARKILL Opera House doors 6 pm, all

ICEAGE, FATHER MURPHY Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

The Lost Art Of Hip-Hop Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, $34. PDR, RT, SBA, SS. FUCKED UP, ALVVAYS, S.H.I.T. Horseshoe doors 1 pm, all ages, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. ZEUS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $17.50.

JOEY BADA$$ Guvernment doors 8 pm, $25. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM. LILY ALLEN, MR LITTLE JEANS Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $35-$55. LN, RT, SS. UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29

PERFUME GENIUS Virgin Mobile Mod

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8

DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH & AFRIKA BAMBAAATAA, SOUL MOTIVATORS

FLEETWOOD MAC On With The Show

CHER Dressed To Kill Tour Air Canada

FUCKED UP, VAG HALEN, NEW FRIES

Flyer Tour Kool Haus doors 8 pm, $36.50.

INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

DUBFIRE, THE JUNKIES CODA doors 10

CHROMEO, WAVE RACER Frequent

The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $20. TF. THE WOODEN SKY Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. And Oct 18.

Sound Academy 7 pm, all ages, $27.50$48.50. TF.

doors 8 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TF.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

SATAN, CASTLE, MIDNIGHT MALICE

WITHIN TEMPTATION, AMARANTHE

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, SUICIDE SILENCE, CHELSEA GRIN, ALTERBEAST Opera House doors 7 pm,

Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. YACHT, WHITE FANG, DIGITS The Hoxton doors 6:30 pm, $14. RT, SS, TW.

doors 9 pm, $27. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

cert Theatre doors 8 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TW. BEACH HOUSE Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $32.50. RT, SS, TF. And Oct 4.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

pm, $35-$40.

DENIRO FARRAR & DENZEL CURRY, RICH KIDD The Bow Down Tour Tattoo

BANKS The Goddess Tour Phoenix Con-

MONDAY, OCTOBER 6

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

Carlu polarismusicprize.ca.

SINGLE MOTHERS, SOLIDS Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF.

CONSTANTINES, COUSINS Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. And Oct 3.

TIM HECKER First Thursdays Art Gallery of Ontario. $15, adv $12. 416-979-6648.

Club doors 7 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF.

$23.50. RT, SS, TF.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

BASIA BULAT, MAC DEMARCO, JESSY LANZA, OWEN PALLETT, SHAD, TANYA TAGAQ Polaris Music Prize Gala

BLACK LIPS, KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm,

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$tba.

ZAKIYA HOOKER, GEECHEE GULLAH RING SHOUTERS, DIANA BRAITHWAITE & CHRIS WHITELEY AND OTHERS Underground Railroad Music

Festival: North Meets South: Old Songs For A New Day Hugh’s Room 1 pm, $27.50-$30.

$17.50. RT, SS, TF.

TRUST, CRATER Danforth Music Hall

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

WHITECHAPEL, UPON A BURNING BODY, GLASS CLOUD Opera House.

ALT-J, MIKKY EKKO Kool Haus

doors 8 pm, all ages, $39.50. LN.

EX HEX, SPEEDY ORTIZ Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 From Top: Unlocking The Truth, Jessy Lanza, EMA, Banks, Big Freedia, Tanya Tagaq.

HOZIER, JAMES BAY Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $20. LN, TW. SLOWDIVE, LOW Danforth Music Hall doors 8:45 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TF.

Deniro Farrar

TICKET INDEX

HS – HORSESHOE • INK - INK ENTERTAINMENT • LN – LIVE NATION PDR – PLAY DE RECORD • RT – ROTATE THIS • RTH – ROY THOMSON HALL/GLENN GOULD/MASSEY HALL • SC – SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS • SS – SOUNDSCAPES TCA – TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • TF – TICKETFLY TM – TICKETMASTER • TW – TICKETWEB

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 RYAN ADAMS Massey Hall 8 pm, $29.50$69.50. RTH, TM.

TV ON THE RADIO Phoenix Concert The-

atre doors 8:30 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TF.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 JADEA KELLY The Canadian Songbook Rivoli 9 pm, $15. RTH.

TROOPER Richmond Hill Centre for the

Performing Arts 8 pm, $55-$60.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 JOHN FOGERTY Songs From Creedence Clearwater Revival 1969 General Motors Centre $tba. LN, TM.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 JILL BARBER & MATTHEW BARBER

The Canadian Songbook Massey Hall 8 pm, $19.50-$49.50. RTH. RYAN HEMSWORTH Sucker For Punishment Tour Opera House 10 pm. TW.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17

SEPTEMBER 16 Adam Cohen We Go Home (Universal) Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain (Metal Blade) D-Sisive The Great Mr. Nobody (The Desolate Collective) 50 Cent Street King Immortal (Universal) The Juan MacLean In A Dream (DFA) Lia Ices Ices (Jagjaguwar) Lowell We Loved Her Dearly (Arts & Crafts) Moonface City Wrecker (Jagjaguwar) Shellac Dude Incredible (Touch & Go) Spencer Burton Don’t Let The World See Your Love (Dine Alone) This Will Destroy You Another Language (Suicide Squeeze) Tweedy Sukierae (dBpm) The Wilderness of Manitoba Between Colours (Pheromone)

SEPTEMBER 23

BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Sony Centre

for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, $55$135. LN, TM. And Nov 18.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 INTERPOL Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages. RT, SS, TF.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 CHLOE CHARLES & KAE SUN Hugh’s Room $20, adv $18.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 BUCK 65 Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $29.50-$34.50. TM.

JULIAN CASABLANCAS & THE VOIDZ

Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages, $27.50. LN.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 DIVINE BROWN, DIANA BRAITHWAITE, ANDRIA SIMONE, SHAKURA S’AIDA, REBECCA HENNESSY, SUZIE VINNICK, BRANDI DISTERHEFT, MORGAN DOCTOR, COLLEEN ALLEN, CARRIE CHESNUTT, LILY SAZZ Women’s Blues Revue Massey Hall 8 pm, $25-$55.

RTH.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 CARIBOU, JESSY LANZA Danforth

Music Hall doors 7 pm, $20-$22.50. RT, SS, TM. CULTURE CLUB Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 GORDON LIGHTFOOT The Canadian Songbook Massey Hall 8 pm, $32.50$99.50. RTH. And Nov 27 to Nov 29.

RUN THE JEWELS, RATKING, DESPOT

The Danforth Music Hall.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 DEATH, OBITUARY, MASSACRE Swamp Leper Stomp 14 Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $28.75. TF.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 CROSSS, FREAK HEAT WAVES, BOYHOOD, NEW FRIES Smiling Buddha 10 pm, $10.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 ARKELLS Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $23.50$39.50. RT, SS, TM.

BLONDE REDHEAD

Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $21.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

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Alt-j This Is All Yours (Canvasback) (September 22) Bonnie Prince Billy Singer’s Grave: A Sea Of Tongues (Drag City) Christine Fellows Burning Daylight (ARP) The Drums Encyclopedia (Arts & Crafts) Goat Commune (Sub Pop) Imelda May Tribal (Verve) Julian Casablancas + the Voidz Tyranny (Cult) King Tuff Black Moon Spell (Sub Pop) Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Cheek To Cheek (Columbia/Interscope/Streamline) Laetitia Sadier Something Shines (Drag City) Leonard Cohen Popular Problems (Sony) Lights Little Machines (Universal) Perfume Genius Too Bright (Matador) Saukrates Amani (Culvert/Universal) SBTRKT Wonder Where We Land (Young Turks)

SEPTEMBER 30 Bryan Adams Tracks Of My Years (Universal) Buck 65 Neverlove (Warner) Electric Wizard Time To Die (Spinefarm) Electric Youth Innerworld (Last Gang) Fashawn The Ecology (Mass Appeal) Jeremih Late Nights: The Album (Universal/Def Jam) John Southworth Niagara (Tin Angel) Lucinda Williams Down Where The

Spirit Meets The Bone (Highway 20) Meshuggah The Ophidian Trek (Nuclear Blast) Mo Kenney In My Dreams (Pheromone) Prince Art Official Age (and Plectrumelectrum) (Warner) The Rural Alberta Advantage Mended With Gold (Saddle Creek) Weezer Everything Will Be Alright In The End (Republic) Witch Mountain Mobile Of Angels (Profound Lore) Yelle Complètement Fou (Kemosabe)

OCTOBER 7 Bass Drum of Death Rip This (Innovative Leisure) Caribou Our Love (Merge) Bonobo The North Borders Tour Live (Ninja Tune) Ex Hex Rips (Merge) Flying Lotus You’re Dead! (Warp) Johnny Marr Playland (Warner) Minus the Bear Lost Loves (Dangerbird) Moist Glory Under Dangerous Skies (Universal) Oh Susanna Namedropper (Sonic Unyon) Orange Goblin Back From The Abyss (Candlelight) Peaking Lights Cosmic Logic (Weird World) Steve Gunn Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors) Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold: Songs From The Vault (Warner) Tinashe Aquarius (RCA) The Barr Brothers Sleeping Operator (Secret City) Yellowcard Lift A Sail (Razor & Tie) Zola Jesus Taiga (Sacred Bones)

OCTOBER 14 Absolutely Free Absolutely Free (Lefse) Ani DiFranco Allergic To Water (Righteous Babe) Bob Seger Ride Out (Universal) Foxygen ...And Star Power (Jagjaguwar) Frazey Ford Indian Ocean (Nettwerk) The Game Blood Moon: Year Of The Wolf (Blood Money) Jessie J Sweet Talker (Republic) Kele Trick (Lilac) Mark Lanegan Band Phantom Radio (Vagrant) Melvins Hold It In (Ipecac) Obliterations Poison Everything (Southern Lord) Pharmakon Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones) Stars No One Is Lost (ATO) U2 Songs Of Innocence (Universal) (October 13)

Charli XCX Sucker (Asylum/Atlantic) Cold War Kids Hold My Home (Downtown) Diana Krall Wallflower (Universal) Elliott Brood Work And Love (Paper Bag) Hey Rosetta! Second Sight (Sonic/Warner) Ice Cube Everythang’s Corrupt (EMI) Sleater-Kinney Start Together (Sub Pop) T.I. Paperwork: The Motion Picture (Grand Hustle/Columbia) Thurston Moore The Best Day (Matador)

OCTOBER 28 At the Gates At War With Reality (Century Media) Lil Wayne Tha Carter V (Cash Money/Young Money/Universal) Lagwagon Hang (Fat Wreck Chords) Ought Once More With Feeling (Constellation) Run the Jewels RTJ2 (Mass Appeal/E1) Taylor Swift 1989 (Big Machine – October 27) Unearth Watchers Of Rule (Metal Blade)

NOVEMBER 4 Deerhoof La Isla Bonita (Polyvinyl) Dirty Beaches Stateless (Zoo Music)

NOVEMBER 11 And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead IX (Dine Alone) Foo Fighters Sonic Highways (RCA – November 10) Swingin’ Utters Fistful Of Hollow (Fat Wreck Chords) 2:54 The Other I (Bella Union)

NOVEMBER 18 Meligrove Band Bones Of Things (We Are Busy Bodies) Savages & Bo Ningen Words To The Blind (Pop Noire/Stolen – November 17) TV on the Radio Seeds (Harvest)

NOVEMBER 24 Eminem Shady XV (Shady/Interscope)

DECEMBER 9 Faith No More Motherfucker (Ipecac)

OCTOBER 21 Jessie Ware Tough Love (Cherrytree/Interscope) The Budos Band Burnt Offering (Daptone) Caught on Tape Full Bleed (Northern Spy) NOW september 11-17 2014

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precocity; the Performer (Mike Ross), with all that that word implies; the Perfectionist (Steven Sutcliffe), an offshoot of his performing and recording; and the Puritan (Brent Carver), the reclusive figure at the end of his life.

It’s a risky strategy that often works well, especially at key moments in Diana Leblanc’s production when all four figures move around The new season gets off to a great start with a kick-ass modern take on King Lear simultaneously, waving their arms as if in musical ecstasy (to Monica Dottor’s suggestive choreography), clad in Gould’s signature overcoat, scarf and cap.

But what emerges throughout the unnecessarily long show is too insistently cerebral.

Granted, Gould was a thoughtful, intellectual guy, expounding on the idea of North, why he gave up live performing for the precision of the studio and of course finding an almost mathematical beauty in his playing of J.S. Bach.

All of these subjects are touched on, but the effect is scattered: a series of Ingrid Rae Doucet (left), Shannon Taylor, Layne Coleman, notes played Sabrina Grdevich and Scott McCord show their True colours. simultaneousCarver (clockwise from top), ly rather than in Sutcliffe, Lillico and Ross are go, and gradually it becomes clear that he was elegant countervery good in Glenn. abusive to them and their dead mother. His repoint. appearance brings back memories for the sibAnd it’s difficult to find TRUE by Rosa Labordé (Criminal Theatre in lings, who all have different reactions. Whose a through line. For those unfamilGLENN by David Young (Soulpepper). At the Young association with Aluna). At Citizenry Café (982 memories are true? iar with Gould’s life, references to, for instance, Centre for the Performing Arts (50 Tank House).

Queen West). Runs to September 13. $24.

That’s the potent premise behind the a confidante named Jessie pop up several times Runs to October 4. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. 416-866criminaltheatre.com. See Continuing, page 65.

75-minute drama, a sort of modern-day spin before we learn that she was his cousin.

8666. See Continuing, page 64. Rating: NNN Rating: NNNNN on King Lear (Roy means “roi,” or king in There are lovely touches in the production, French). Some plot points shouldn’t be spoiled; especially Michael Walton’s lighting design, The legendary Glenn Gould was Labordé reveals her characters, their history Late Shakespearean tragedy meets Alzheimer’s which evokes a Moscow concert hall one momany people in his tooand dynamics with remarkable skill and grace. disease and quantum physics in Rosa Labordé’s ment, a hellish psychological nightmare the brief 50 years: musiAs a director, she gets fine, nuanced work complex play, quickly remounted in the same next. cian, composer, from all her actors, whose interactions feel ausite-specific venue it had during its sold-out But however disorganized the script, the perbroadcaster, eccenthentic and rich with subtext. Scenes switch Fringe run in July. formers are excellent, especially Carver, pitching tric. So you can see easily between past and present thanks to a One night, an older man (Layne Coleman) in his voice to sound like Gould’s, his every prowhy David Young few subtle lighting changes. pyjamas shuffles into a Queen West café carrynouncement becoming a riddle, and Sutcliffe, divides him into four Labordé also makes excellent use of every ing a piece of paper that tells whoever finds carefully monitoring his voice and gestures as if separate characters inch of Citizenry Café – inside and out. And the him who he is. Turns out he’s Roy, and the he’s watching himself. in his 1992 play finale, which hints at alternate universes, people at the café are his three daughters, Gould fans – and I’m one of them – will get Glenn. adds a touch of forgiveness to a disturbing Marie (Sabrina Grdevich), Cece (Ingrid Rae something out of this. For others, I suggest lisThere’s the story.

Doucet) and Anita (Shannon Taylor), who tening to one of his recordings first, or renting Prodigy (Jeff LilThis is a riveting, moving piece of sitehaven’t seen him in years. Also present is François Girard’s 32 Short Films About Glenn lico), all youthspecific theatre that should not be missed.

Marie’s husband, Franco (Scott McCord).

Gould, which came out the year after Young’s ful energy, enGLENN SUMI Roy’s memories of his daughters come and GLENN SUMI play premiered. thusiasm and

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Wickedly uneven WICKED by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (Mirvish). At the Ed Mirvish Theatre (244 Victoria). Runs to November 2. $36-139, $25 day-of-performance lottery.

416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 65.

Rating: NNN

The popularity of 2003’s Wicked, the musical version of Gregory Maguire’s prequel to The Wizard Of Oz, is undeniable. It’s already played Toronto several times and will again prove to be a crowd-pleaser.

Too bad this touring version doesn’t fly as high as it might, despite a strong book (with echoes and foreshadowing of the classic film) and a number of fine musical numbers.

The story centres on the changing relationship between the greenskinned Elphaba (Laurel Harris), who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda (Kara Lindsay), her enemy in the Wizard story. One’s an outsider – that’s an important theme in the show – and the other’s the most sought-after girl at school.

We also meet the Wizard (Gene Weygandt); the women’s formidable teacher, Madame Morrible (Kathy Laurel Harris (left) and Kara Lindsay show sporadic chemistry.

Fitzgerald); the initially self-impressed Fiyero (Matt Shingledecker); Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Emily Behny) and the wide-eyed, height-challenged Boq (Lee Slobotkin), smitten with Glinda.

The performers are sometimes successful, sometimes not. Slobotkin’s energetic Boq is charming and wins us over at once, and Weygandt’s Wizard conceals his subtly nasty manipulations beneath a believable allure. But Fitzgerald’s Morrible is large and loud without being either funny or scary, and Shingledecker’s Fiyero, who transforms from a comic figure to a heroic one, needs more fire.

But what matters most for the show’s success is the chemistry between Elphaba and Glinda, which only appears here sporadically, and their final duet, For Good, doesn’t resonate as it should.

Lindsay is a fine comic actor/singer with rubbery limbs. Her song Popular, in which she takes on the task of giving Elphaba a makeover, is a delight. She’s also skilled at turning the initially ditzy, self-centred Glinda, who often seems to be playing to an unseen camera, into someone who’s sympathetic toward Elphaba, with whom she initially shares a mutual antipathy.

Harris, with her own sense of comedy, is sympathetic from the start, and though her voice is strong, her showstopping number, Defying Gravity, doesn’t cause goosebumps.

The production itself still amazes, though, including the eye-popping designs of Eugene Lee (set)

and Susan Hilferty (costumes), both with touches of steampunk, and Wayne Cilento’s musical staging.

But Wicked should be more bewitching than this production.

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semi-psychotic mother, and a father and daughter try to escape the undead in this double bill. Sep 11-13, Thu 6 pm, Fri 8 pm, Sat 2:30 and 7:30 pm. $25-$40. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. bonyfiddlelive.com.

MArguErITE DurAs: LE shAgA/sAvANNAh BAy (Spiel Players/Triangle Pi Productions). A

fading celebrity rediscovers an old acquaintance and three people engage in a power struggle in this double bill. Sep 11-14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 3 pm. $15. Sidemart Theatrical Grocery, 1362 Queen E. brownpapertickets.com/event/827689.

OBEAh OPErA by Nicole Brooks (Nightwood Theatre/Culchahworks Arts Collective). The story of the Salem witch trials is told from the perspective of enslaved African women in this workshop production. Part of the New Groundswell Festival. Sep 11-14, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22.60. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. 416-944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net.

ThE ONE MOrE NIghT fEsTIvAL (The Box Toronto). Remounts of popular productions like Triple ByPass’s Savage In Limbo, sketch by Death Ray Cabaret, Beer in a Glass’s Slut and others. Sep 11-14, see website for times. $10.

89 Niagara. theboxtoronto.com/festival.html.

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Seelig (One Little Goat Theatre Company).

This play with music combines Alfred Jarry’s dadaist play Ubu Roi with the scandals of Toronto’s current mayor. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/ srs $20, Sun $15. Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. 416-915-0201, onelittlegoat.org.

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AN ENEMy Of ThE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen (Tarragon Theatre). A doctor clashes with officials who want to cover up a public health risk to protect the economy. Previews Sep 16-23.

Opens Sep 24 and runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. frEDA AND JEM’s BEsT Of ThE WEEK by Lois Fine (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). This play about a lesbian couple and their kids looks at how queer culture approaches family-making and -breaking. Previews Sep 13-17. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Our COuNTry’s gOOD by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Out of Joint/Mirvish). A lieutenant stages a play with a cast of convicts and marines on Britain’s new penal colony in 1789 Australia. Previews Sep 13-20. Opens Sep 21 and runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. continued on page 64 œ

Opening ThE BOOK Of MOrMON by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (Mirvish). ñ Two naive missionaries go to a volatile region

in Uganda in this religious satire musical. Previews Sep 16. Opens Sep 17 (at 7 pm) and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $49-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. hEDWIg AND ThE ANgry INCh by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love. Opens Sep 11 and runs to Sep 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $50.

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ILLusTrIOus (Jacqueline Hyde/Red Herring).

Hyde performs a solo show using elements of burlesque, dance, pole, aerial and film. Opening acts by Red Herring, Bianca Boom Boom and Chastity Svelte. Sep 13-14, Sat-Sun 8 pm. $15. Revival, 783 College. jacquelinehyde.com.

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A MAN Of TWO MINDs/LOsT rEfugE by Blair Mueller (Bony Fiddle Theatre Group). A man discovers his sexuality while living with his

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Susanna Fournier

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In the summer of 1922, famed “bad-girl” American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay left Paris with a secret. She spent the next two months with her mother in a secluded farmhouse near Dorset. Here is a musing of what happened.

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Obeah Opera

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Obeah Opera synthesizes the breadth of Black music into an unprecedented a cappella theatrical epic. An all-female cast animates the story of the legendary Salem witch trials from the unique perspective of enslaved African women.

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ROB FORD THE MUSICAL: THE BIRTH OF FORD NATION by Brett McCaig and Anthony Bas-

tianon (McCaig Regan Productions). The GTA mayor ruffles the ruling elite and goes on a journey from rock star to rehab to redemption. Previews Sep 16-17. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $tba.

Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, robfordthemusical.com.

WOYzECK by Georg Büchner (UC Follies). A poor soldier is driven to insanity and violence by exploitation and societal stress. Previews Sep 17 at 7:30 pm. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 27, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm (no show Sep 20). $15, stu $10, preview $7. University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Quadrangle. 416-9788849, ucfolliestheatre.ca.

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BELLE’S BOUDOIR: CASE OF THE Ex (A Platinum Production). This burlesque cabaret features Johnny B. Goode, Kensie Vicious, Dainty Box, Kelsey Slammer, Belle Jumelles and others.

Sep 13 at 7 and 9:30 pm. $15-$20. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-3476567, brownpapertickets.com/event/821380.

THE gIRL RABBI OF THE gOLDEN WEST by Jennifer Wise (MNJCC Between Stages). Reading of a play about a woman who made history by serving as a rabbi in 1895 British Columbia.

Sep 14 at 7 pm. $10/pwyc. First Narayever Congregation, 187 Brunswick. 416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

JOHN AND WALEED (Soulpepper Cabaret Series). This documentary concert traces the stories and musical traditions of John Millard and Waleed Abdulhamid. Sep 13 at 8:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca.

MINDFUL MARTINIS (Elaine Smookler). Singer/ comedian Smookler presents music and stor-

ies to help you pause and breathe. Sep 17 at 6:30 pm. $15-$20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. eventbrite.ca.

STRIP SPELLINg BEE: EVIL TWIN EDITION (SST).

This 19+ game show features contestants spelling to keep their clothes on. Sep 12 at 11 pm. $10 to watch (free for participants).

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, facebook.com/ events/1465741770341838.

A WAITER’S LAMENT: TALES FROM THE TRAY by Michael McGaraughty (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). McGaraughty performs his solo show about waiting tables in the Toronto restaurant scene. Sep 14 at 7:30 pm. $10-$15.

488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

Continuing MONDAY THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (SoulpepNIgHTS by ñ per Theatre).

A community is thrown ñ Byron Abalos, Colin into chaos by rumours of witchcraft in 1692 Massachusetts. Runs to Sep 20, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. gLENN by David Young (Soulpepper Theatre).

Two versions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations frame this look at the iconic artist Glenn Gould (see review, page 62). Runs to Oct 1, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) HAIR: THE MUSICAL by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot (Lower Ossington Theatre). Hippie youth of the 60s explore free love and flower power in the shadow of the Vietnam War. Runs to Sep 14, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 3:30 pm. $39-$70. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

KURIOS – CABINET OF CURIOSITIES by Michel Laprise (Cirque du Soleil). This steampunk-styled show is one of Cirque’s most consistent productions, where every element – acrobatic jaw-droppers, clown turns and musical sequences – feels beauti-

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Thursday, September 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Ryan

Dennee w/ Keven Soldo and host Ron Vaudry.

To Sep 14, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

MULLET’S NIgHT SHOW Jean-Paul Mullet presents a comedy variety show w/ Robin Archer, Britton Vincent, Shawn Postoff, William Nishri and others. 9 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

ONE NIgHT STAND Comedy Bar presents dates based on suggestions with Colin Mochrie, Toronto Rhythm Initiative and the Weaker Vessels. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

UNCALLED FOR Bad Dog Comedy Theatre presents scripted sketch by Anders ñ Yates, Dan Jeannotte and Colin Munch. 9:30

pm. $10. 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S presents Chris Molineux. To Sep 14, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Friday, September 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic

and original sketch and improvisation. 10:30 pm. $24, stu $18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

COMEDY KAPOW! Club 120 Diner presents skits w/ Amish Patel, Andy Fruman and Jeff Tseng. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

DOUBLE DIgEST The Social Capital Theatre presents an Archie comics-based improv show w/ Devon Hyland, Kristopher Bowman, Eric Miinch & others. 9 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

DOUBLE OH! The Social Capital Theatre presents James Bond-based improv w/ Steve Hobbs, Chris Leveille, Hayley Kellett and others. 8 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor.

416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

LEWIS BLACK: THE RANT IS DUE TOUR Live Nation presents the comic/actor in a live show. 8 pm. $25-$65. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. ticketmaster.ca.

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The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a b-day celebration w/ Chaves and others. 9 pm. $10$15. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAgE REVUE See Thu 11.

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Second City presents previews of its upcoming fall show. Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm (and Fri-Sat 10 pm). $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

THE SUFFERETTES gO TO THE MOVIES Bad Dog Comedy Theatre presents Becky Johnson and Kayla Lorette in a film festivalinspired show. 8 pm. $10. 875 Bloor W. thesufferettes.com.

TOUCH MY STEREOTYPE: DO YOU BELIEVE IN gOATS? TMS presents a new sketch revue set

in the woods, where people tell stories about the paranormal. To Sep 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $12-$15. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. touchmystereotype.com.

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Doyle, Richard Lee, Darrel Gamotin and Jeff Yung (Theatre Centre/6th Man Collective). Five guys meet up at a basketball court every week in this immersive and interactive

theatrical performance. Runs to Sep 20, ThuSat & Mon 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $25, Sun pwyc. 1115 Queen W. 416538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHINg by William Shakespeare (Single Thread Theatre Company). The romantic comedy gets a site-specific staging at the historic house. Runs to Sep 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm (no show Sep 17 and 24). $25. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. singlethread.ca.

NEW gROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL (Nightwood Theatre). The festival of new works by women features workshop productions by Nicole Brooks and Susanna Fournier, play readings, talks and more. Runs to Sep 14, see website for schedule. Plays $22.60, other events pwyc. Nightwood Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315 (and at Dancemakers, suite 313). nightwoodtheatre.net.

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. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A

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fully integrated. A couple of numbers don’t work, but the company still evokes a sense of wonder and magic, even with old-school effects like finger puppets. Highly recommended. Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5 pm, mat Sat 4:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $60-$160, stu/srs/child from $50. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. NNNN (GS) THE MISUNDERSTANDINg by Albert Camus (Lester Trips Theatre). An innkeeper mom and daughter rob and kill their guests in this contemporary take on Camus’s absurdist tragicomedy. Runs to Sep 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St George. lestertrips.tickets@ gmail.com.

Comedy Bar presents a comedy quiz show w/ Lisa Amerongen, Chris Gibbs, Kerry Griffin and Liz Johnston. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

TExAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle presents stand-up w/ Monty Scott, Tim Steeves, Jeff Elliot, Diana Love, Joel Buxton, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com.

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TOUCH MY STEREOTYPE: DO YOU BELIEVE IN gOATS? See Thu 11.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 11.

pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Comedy Theatre presents the team improv competition. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

Saturday, September 13 THE 404S: AFTER SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 The Social

Capital presents improv games and scenes w/ Mark Nguyen, Jon Lee, JJ Deogracias and others. 8 pm. $8. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor.

416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880.

DEEz LAUgHS PRESENTS: VIRgIN LUNgS 3

Derryck Birch presents Fraser Young, Hoodo Hersi, Darryl Orr, Patrick Hakeem, headliner Mike Rita & host Paul Thompson. 9:30 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. derryckbirch.com.

FAMILY SLIDES – BACK TO SCHOOL EDITION

Comedy Bar presents comics sharing family slides and stories w/ Patrick Hakeem, Alex Nussbaum, Crystal Ferrier, Sara Hennessey and hosts Phil Luzi & Sandra Battaglini. 8 pm. $12. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

IMPROV DROP-IN TSC presents a weekly class and show w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. The Social Capital Studio, 115 Danforth. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com.

IMPROV LEAgUE: gAME 2 The Social Capital presents four troupes going head-to-head in a shortform improv competition. 8 pm. $5.

154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

A LAUgH A MINUTE Club 120 presents standup, sketch & improv w/ transsexual comedian Mandy Goodhandy and others. 8 pm. Free.

Club 120 Diner, 120 Church. club120.ca.

THE LONgFORM IMPROV SHOWCASE Comedy Bar presents D’You Duo, Shots & High Fives, Coko & Daphany and Bamboo Kids Club w/ host Matt Folliott. 7 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

MICETRO Bad Dog Theatre presents competitive shortform improv. 7 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

MISSED CONNECTIONS Kliffer Entertainment presents an improvised saga based on the Craigslist personals section followed by a dance party. 10:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAgE REVUE See Thu 11.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Pat MacDonald, Monty Scott, headliner Ali Hassan and host Tim Nasiopoulos. 8:30

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TOUCH MY STEREOTYPE: DO YOU BELIEVE IN gOATS? See Thu 11.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 11.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11.

COMEDY @ THE WELL presents hosts Dred Lee

& Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: gIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents Round 6 w/ host Dena Jackson & others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAgE REVUE See Thu 11.

THE SOCAP JAM Ralph MacLeod hosts an improv jam for audience participants and guest improvisers. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

SUNDAY NIgHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

WAR PORSCHE presents storytelling & improv w/ Lara Johnson, Hayley Kellett & others. 8 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 11.

Monday, September 15 vannes, Keven Soldo, Heidi Brander, Steve Scholtz, MC Matt O’Brien and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

DAWN PATROL Comedy Bar presents queered up stand-up w/ Patrick Hakeem, Lianne Mauladin, Matt Collins, Carolyn Taylor, Ali Hassan, Catherine McCormick & Kate McKim. 8:30 pm. $7. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900.

LAUgHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Mark Little, Arthur Simeon, Evany Rosen, Ben Beauchemin, hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

NERDY TALK The Social Capital presents guest performers talking about nerdy things that make them tick and give them joy w/ host

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based on text by William Shakespeare (Kadozuke Kollektif/Bad New Days). Performance and film are combined to explore the passion, violence and disaster that surrounds the three York brothers, Edward, Clarence and Richard.

Runs to Sep 28, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $35. Zuke Studio, 1581 Dupont. zuke.ca.

ROMEO AND (HER) JULIET based on the play by William Shakespeare (Headstrong Collective/ Urban Bard). This site-specific show features a female Romeo and Juliet living in today’s Toronto. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.)

Runs to Sep 20, Fri-Sat and Wed 7:30 pm. $18$25, preview $10. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. randjto.com.

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lower Ossington Theatre).

This all-ages musical is based on the classic books of Dr. Seuss. Runs to Sep 14, Sat-Sun 11 am and 1 pm. $30-$60. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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 Sep 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

TARTUFFE by Molière (Soulpepper Theatre).

Director László Marton’s high-concept production of the 1664 comedy takes some risks with a shifting, mobile set and contemporary actors trying on period costumes. These gambles pay off in the second act. The cast, headed by Diego Matamoros’s hypocritical title character and Oliver Dennis as the wealthy man he’s conned, is generally fine, although some actors make us hear the rhymes instead of the meaning in Richard Wilbur’s verse translation. Runs to Sep 20, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) A TENDER THINg by Ben Power (Soulpepper Theatre). Power imagines what might have

Adam Ward. 9:30 pm. Free. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

200% VODKA The Social Capital presents longform improv with the Social Capital Rep Company and guest hosts. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents hosts Kyle Andrews & Selby Nixon & guest comics.

8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

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.

FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents stand-up w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8:30 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAgE REVUE See Thu 11.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents an open mic w/ Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts.

SOCAP STUDENT NIgHT The Social Capital presents longform improv w/ players of the Social Capital Repertory Program. 8 pm. Pwyc.

154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

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Wednesday, September 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNgE Rivoli presents

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Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

headliner Ron Vaudry, Anthony Ciarduli, Matt Gass, Dylan Beeson, Foad HP, Sean McKiernan, Tim McDonald & host Nile Seguin. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

ACOUSTIC COMEDY The Social Capital presents music and comedy w/ Holly Wyder and others. 8 pm. $10. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor.

416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

ALL THE WORLD’S AN IMPROV STAgE We Happy Few presents an improvised play in the style of Shakespeare w/ host Amy Zuch. 8 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

ALTERED STATES The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a comedy hypnosis show. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

CADILLAC COMEDY Cadillac Lounge presents Rob Bebenek, Pete Zedlacher, Troupe Name Pending, host Eric Andrews & more. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. 1296 Queen W. cadillaclounge.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Corktown Productions presents w/ Michael Morrison, Ryan Franklyn, Byron Collins, Rachelle Elie, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

9 TO 5 Bad Dog Comedy Theatre BDT presents an improv show for the work-

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happened if star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet had lived into adulthood. Using text from the Shakespeare play along with some other writings of the Bard, the script is a minor work, clever though not always memorable, but the luminous work of Nancy Palk and Joseph Ziegler shows us the pair’s enduring love. Runs to Oct 1, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. NNN (JK) TRUE by Rosa Laborde (Criminal Theatre/ Aluna Theatre). Three sisters are hurled back in time with the unexpected arrival of their estranged father in this play about the nature of memory (see review, page 62). Runs to Sep 13, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $24. Citizenry, 982 Queen W. criminaltheatre.com. NNNNN (GS) VOICES IN THE VALLEY by Kathleen Payne (Words in Motion). This walking outdoor play looks at three historical figures who lived in the Don Valley through three different centuries. Runs to Sep 28, Sun 2 pm (Sep 21 and 27 at 12:30 and 2:30 pm). Pwyc. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. wordsinmotion.ca.

WICKED by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (Mirvish). The hit musical about the backstory of The Wizard Of Oz returns (see review, page 63). Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$139.

Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) WITH INDIVIDUAL DESIRE by Susanna Fournier (Lady Parts Theatre). American poet Edna St Vincent Millay leaves Paris with a secret in this play about mothers and daughters. Part of the New Groundswell Festival. Runs to Sep 14, Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $22.60. Nightwood Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315. 416-944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net.

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by James Reaney (Stratford Fesñadapted tival/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Director Jillian Keiley’s staging of the classic Carroll children’s tale, adapted by James Reaney, is

ing woman w/ Leigh Cameron, Hannah Spear, Alex Tindal and others. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10.

875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 11.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Marc Hallworth and headliner Mike Kellett. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DATE The National Theatre of the World presents improvised dating moments. 7:30 pm. $25 (funder for NTOW). CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. eventbrite.ca/e/8629281413.

STRIPPROV Kliffer Entertainment presents a burlesque improv competition of the sexes.

9:30 pm. $12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S presents a special show with actor/ comedian Dave Coulier. To Sep 18, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $35. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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fun for young and old, especially with the delightful design of Bretta Gerecke, which creates a world of mirror-image Alices along with the original’s fantasy characters. Strong performances and audience participation add to the show’s playful spirit. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) 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, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 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. Despite some flaws, the show’s power is undeniable. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67.

Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK)

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BER PLAY by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Pared down to four actors by director Peter Sellars, this take on the play, in which the characters are caught in a limbo of unrequited desire, is intense, dark and almost entirely lacking in laughs. The cast is powerful, but you may not get much from the production if you don’t know the play well. Runs in rep to Sep 20. $70-$90. Stratford Masonic Concert Hall, 15 Church, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) 3 More listings online at nowtoronto.com.

dance listings Opening ARABESQUE FALL GALA Arabesque Dance

Company presents more than 200 student and company belly dancers. Sep 13 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Estonian House, 958 Broadview.

416-920-5593, arabesquedance.ca.

STABILITY IN TRANSITION Kaeja d’Dance presents the history of the inn re-imagined through dance. Sep 13-14 at 1 pm and Sat at 4 pm. Free. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113, montgomerysinn.com.

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Devilish detail THE CHILDREN ACT by Ian McEwan (Doubleday), 221 pages, $29.95 cloth.

Rating: NNN

You get the feeling that Ian McEwan wants to change professions.

To write about his characters accurately – a surgeon in Saturday, an environmentalist in Solar – he obviously does a ton of research.

Given the detail in scenes where Judge Fiona Maye, The Children Act’s main character, presides over a family court, he may as well have gone to law school.

That’s both a blessing and a curse in this new novel. His precision makes the situations credible, but all those specifics tend to slow the narrative down.

The story centres on a case in which Jehovah’s Witnesses are refusing to approve a life-saving blood transfusion for their son Adam. He’s three months short of the age of majority so legally can’t decide for himself, but the precocious boy is very articulate and very much in agreement with his parents.

The circumstances of the hearing are complicated by the fact that Fiona, in her 50s, is childless – and sometimes regretting it. And her husband has just announced that he’s about to have an affair – not a spoiler; we learn this on page two.

When she visits Adam in order to make her judgment, he becomes at-

tached to her in troubling ways.

It’s not until this encounter halfway through the book that the story gains momentum. A letter Adam writes to the judge is a stand-alone gorgeous piece of writing.

As usual, McEwan describes his settings – London neighbourhoods and architecture especially – lovingly.

But take away all that detail, the minutiae about case law and, later, the many musical elements in a concert Fiona performs for her colleagues and there’s actually not much story there.

But there is depth of feeling – and the ending will surprise you.

SUSAN G. COLE

McEwan is interviewed by Ben Lerner at Fleck Dance Theatre Wednesday (September 17).

See Readings, this page. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

MORE ONLINE

Interview clips at nowtoronto.com

IN PERSON Vivek Shraya has so much soul, he can’t contain it in one genre. She Of The Mountains ($18.95, Arsenal), the new release from the Lambda Literary Award finalist, is part poetry, part novel, part short vignette – all beautiful.

Weaving a romance together with a reinvention of Hindu mythology, he investigates how love brings us closer to our true selves. I’ll be interviewing him onstage at the launch Wednesday (September 17) at the Gladstone.

It’s a multimedia event. Hope Shraya sings. His voice is also great. See SGC Readings, this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK ANCE AND CRAFTING THE (R)EVOLUTION

Thursday, September 11 BLUE COFFEE Lindsay Cahill, Cynthia Gould and

Sandra Kasturi. 8 pm. Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. bluecoffeereadingseries.wordpress.com.

TINGS CHAK Launch for Undocumented: The Architecture Of Migrant Detection. 7-9 pm.

Free. Art Metropole, 1490 Dundas W. 416703-4400.

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Launch for the memoir by John Dunning and Bill Brownstein. 6:30 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

Friday, September 12 ANDREW BAILEY The comic/author reads from

his new novel, The Rite Of James Biddle. 7 pm.

Free. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. saintstephens.ca.

Launch for the book by Bonnie Burstow. 5:30 pm. OISE 12th fl, 252 Bloor W. cwse@utoronto.ca.

Saturday, September 13 EAST END POETRY FESTIVAL Readings by BAM

Toronto Youth Poetry Slam Team, Dwayne Morgan, George Elliott Clarke, Randell Adjel and Rosemary Sullivan, plus workshops and music. Noon-4 pm. Free. Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes. eastendarts.ca.

QUARTET 2014 LAUNCH Books by Sharanpal Ruprai, David Bateman, Joan Shillington and Laurie MacFayden. 2-4 pm. Free. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. frontenachouse.com/news.

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Sunday, September 14 AUTHORS’ BRUNCH Literary brunch with Clive

Veroni, Jacqueline Winspear, Joseph Kertes and Michael Harris. 10 am. $50. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. Pre-register 416-361-0032.

SUNDAY POETRY Poetry and an open mic.

Noon-2:30 pm. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. e_sundaypoetry@yahoo.ca.

Church And Horse hangs as part of the Alex Colville survey at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

BEN LERNER AND IAN MCEWAN The authors discuss their latest novels. 7:30 pm. $10. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

CHIAROSCURO READING SERIES Kat Kruger, Lisa De Nikolits, Francine Lewis and Robin Richardson. 8 pm. Free. Round Venue, 152A Augusta, 2nd floor. chiseries.com.

PAGES UNBOUND: VIVEK SHRAYA AND DAINTY BOX Multimedia performance ñ� and onstage interview with artist Shraya

and storyteller Dainty Box by NOW senior entertainment editor Susan G Cole. 8 pm. $10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. pages-unbound.com.

PETER MAY AND ERIC MCCORMACK The authors read from their latest novels. 7:30 pm. $10. Harbourfront Centre, Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

WHAT CITY IS LIKE THE GREAT CITY? Multivoice dramatic reading of the Revelation to St John the Divine as part of the Faith, Art & Activism Festival. 7 pm. Free. Saint Stephenin-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. saintstephens.ca. events@nowtoronto.com

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Yet it’s counterbalanced by great care and meticulous detail. A study for his haunting painting Church And Horse (an evocation of JFK’s funeral) shows the horse subdivided into a three-dimensional grid, with precise measurements neatly noted from nose to fetlock.

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media: Janet Werner and Ginette Legaré, to Oct 11, reception 6-9 pm Sep 11. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CIRCUIT GALLERY @ PREFIX Photos: Judy Natal, to Sep 30, reception 6-9 pm Sep 11. 401 Richmond W #124. 416591-0357.

CLINT ROENISCH Sculpture/works on paper/photos: Jason de Haan, Sep 11-Oct 18, opening 6-10 pm Sep 11. 190 St Helens. 416-516-8593.

DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Video: Mark Lewis, Sep 11-Nov 1, reception 6-8 pm Sep 11.

188 St Helens. 416-538-1880.

DE LUCA FINE ART Sculpture: Faith La Rocque, Sep 13-Oct 11, reception 6-10 pm Sep 13. 217 Avenue Rd. 416-5374699.

GALLERY 44 Susana Reisman, Colin Miner, Lili Huston-Herterich and Maggie Groat, Sep 12-Oct 18, reception 6-8 pm Sep 12.

401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

JESSICA BRADLEY Installation: Tricia Middleton, Sep 11-Nov 8, reception 6:308:30 pm Sep 11. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY John Kissick and Sam Mogelonsky, Sep 11-Oct 11, reception 6-9 pm Sep 11. 86 Miller. 416504-9515.

MKG127 Gwen MacGregor and Ken Lum, Sep 13-Oct 11, opening 2-5 pm Sep 13.

1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Drawing/installations: John Scott, Sep 11-Oct 11, reception 6-8 pm Sep 11. 451 King W. 416-2059000.

QUEEN WEST ART CRAWL Sep 13-14.

Queen btwn Bathurst and Roncesvalles. queenwestartcrawl.com.

ROBERT KANANAJ Painting: Silvia Mei and Andrea Fiorino, Sep 13-Oct 16, reception 3-7 pm Sep 13. 172 St Helens. 416-2898855.

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Sculptural Video group show, Sep 13-Oct 17, reception 6-9 pm Sep 13. 401 Richmond W #376. 416593-1332.

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BONESHAKER READING SERIES Readings by Robert Earl Stewart and Harry Giles. 7 pm.

Free. St Clair/Silverthorn Library, 1748 St Clair W. 416-393-7709.

DOMESTIC CHAOS Books that shatter domestic stereotypes are featured as Angie Abdou reads from Between and Brecken Hancock reads from Broom Broom. 7 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. typebooks.ca/posts/49.

HAIKU HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLE Bracket-style tournament. 8 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. torontopoetryslam.com.

JOHN PORCELLINO Screening of Root Hog Or Die followed by a launch/signing event with the author for his hew book, The Hospital Suite. 9:15 pm. $10. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. drawnandquarterly.com.

MARTHA BAILLIE Book launch for The Search For Heinrich Schlögel with live music by Array Ensemble. 8 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

VANESSA AZZOLI Book launch for Uncovered: The Story Of The Watchmen featuring an appearance by the band. 7 pm. Free. Motel, 1235 Queen W. eternalcavalierpress.com.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA The Sahmat Collective, to Oct 19. 300 City Cenñ tre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

AGO Alex Colville, to Jan 4 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Aimia Photography ñ Prize, to Jan 4. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free

Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded).

317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

AGYU Is Toronto Burning?, Sep 17-Dec 7, reception 6-9 pm Sep 17 (Performance Bus from OCAD 6 pm) . 4700 Keele. 416-736-5169.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Politics Of Fashion/Fashion Of Politics, Sep 18-Jan 25 ($18.50, srs/stu $14), reception 7-10 pm Sep 17 ($37.50-$50). 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, to Oct 14. $12, stu $6, srs $8. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Why Can’t Minimal, to Oct 19, reception 6-8 pm Sep 11. This Area Is Under 23 Hour Video And Audio Surveillance, to Jun 30. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

MOCCA Amie Siegel, to Sep 14. TDB; Mark Soo, to Oct 26. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke (120 Navy); Aleesa Cohene (1306 Lakeshore E), Sep 14-Jan 5, 2015, reception 2:30-4:30 pm Sep 14. 905-844-4402.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Dispatch: War Photographs In Print; Harun Farocki, Sep 17-Dec 7; Public Studio, Sep 17-Dec 19, reception 6-8 pm Sep 17. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM The Eternity Code, to Sep 21.

Urban Fabric, Sep 17-Jan 11, reception 6:30 to 8 pm Sep 17. $15, srs $10, stu $6. 55 Centre.

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U OF T ART CENTRE AA Bronson, to Nov 15.

Allen Ginsberg and Robert Giard, to Dec 6. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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Tina Fey looks confident going into the This Is Where I Leave You premiere.

Juliette Binoche glows at Clouds Of Sils Maria opening.

Jake Gyllenhaal gets pensive before Nightcrawler screens.

Jessica Chastain lights up for the world premiere of Miss Julie.

A soaked Bill Murray cracks Melissa McCarthy up on the St. Vincent red carpet.

Jason Bateman arrives for This Is Where I Leave You. Jennifer Aniston multi-tasks before the Cake premiere.

Denzel Washington grins for his Equalizer fans.

James Franco covers up his chrome dome for The Sound And The Fury premiere.

A bemused Ben Stiller hits the While We’re Young gala.

Amanda Seyfried gets giddy before the Tusk screening.

Vincent D’Onofrio checks out the crowd for The Judge.

Christopher Plummer helps sell Hector And The Search For Happiness.

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A shady Will Ferrell walks the Welcome To Me carpet.

Rene Russo puts her hands up at the Nightcrawler gala.

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Dustin Hoffman and Lisa Hoffman get a chorus of approval at Boychoir gala.

Adam Sandler glams up Men, Women & Children gala.

Robert Downey Jr. looks pretty judgmental at The Judge premiere.

Jennifer Garner answers a silly question on the Men, Women & Children red carpet.

Al Pacino and girlfriend Lucila Sola get happy at The Humbling gala.

A fan takes a selfie with Greta Gerwig at The Humbling premiere.

Iconic actor Robert Duvall assesses the red carpet looks before The Judge.

Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra hits Mary Kom gala.

John Cusack (left), Brian Wilson and Paul Dano show Love & Mercy.

Justin Long refuses to emote before The Tusk screening.

ChloĂŤ Grace Moretz lowers the average age of The Equalizer red carpet.

Adam Driver exudes cool at This Is Where I Leave You premiere.

Kristen Wiig cracks a genuine smile on the Welcome To Me red carpet.

Janet Jones Gretzky and the Great One experience The Sound And The Fury of a red carpet.

Vera Farmiga adds elegance to The Judge opening gala.

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StarWatch TIFF 2014 PHOTOS BY MICHAEL WATIER AND KATHRYN GAITENS Everything’s golden for Reese Witherspoon at The Good Lie gala.

Michael Shannon is all scruffy at 99 Homes opening.

Seasoned vets Richard Gere (left) and Ben Vereen hug it out before Time Out Of Mind.

Chris O’Dowd obviously loves his St. Vincent co-star.

Patricia Clarkson shifts into glam gear for Learning To Drive premiere.

Jon Stewart makes one fan happy at Rosewater carpet.

John Cusack will say anything to Love & Mercy crowd.

Simon Pegg is all dolled up for Hector And The Search For Happiness opening.

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Robert Pattinson pleases the Twihards at Maps To The Stars gala.

Kristen Bell glows on The Judge red carpet.

Kevin Smith shows off his love of Canada at the Tusk premiere.

Olivia Crocicchia helps launch Men, Women & Children.

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Sam Worthington squints before people dig into Cake.

Andrew Garfield and his beard help open 99 Homes.

Anna Kendrick obviously finds looking glam a piece of Cake.

Laura Dern helps sell 99 Homes.

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Funny girl Kathryn Hahn hits the This Is Where I Leave You red carpet.

Antoine Fuqua attends The Equalizer gala.

Gael GarcĂ­a Bernal waves before Rosewater premiere.

Keira Knightley has fun on The Imitation Game red carpet.

Ethan Hawke looks pensive before the Good Kill screening.

Julianne Moore lights up the Maps To The Stars opening.

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THE EDITOR MM D: Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks w/ Brooks, ñ Paz de la Huerta. Canada. 102 min. Sep 12, 9:15 am Scotiabank Theatre 3; Sep 13, 6:15 pm Scotiabank Theatre

4. Rating: NNNN Having paid feature-length tribute to crappy 80s movies with Manborg, Brooks and Kennedy turn their sights on the splatteriffic 70s and the strain of Italian horror known as giallo.

The story is appropriately kinked. When a mysterious slasher starts picking off his colleagues in spectacularly bloody ways, a film editor (co-director Brooks) with a tragic past realizes he’s not only working on a giallo, but living in one.

The Editor does its best to out-genre the genre, lovingly piling ridiculous complications and demented flashbacks on top of unconvincing dubbing, perfect genre references (Sheila Campbell is basically doing Catriona MacColl in The Beyond) and plenty of nudity and gore.

Dario Argento might not approve, but Lucio NW Fulci totally would.

The Editor revs up at Midnight Madness this weekend.

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LAGGIES GALA D: Lynn Shelton w/ Kiera Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz. U.S. 100 min. Sep 11, 3 pm Princess of Wales; Sep 12, 12:45 pm Scotiabank Theatre 1. Rating:

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NNNN After the largely improvisational projects Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister and Touchy Feely, Shelton tries her hand at a scripted feature.

Written by Andrea Seigel, Laggies is about a Seattle woman (Knightley) who freaks out at a marriage proposal and hides out at the home of a teenager (Moretz) she’s just befriended, then

finds herself drawn to the girl’s father (Sam Rockwell).

It plays like a lighter, looser spin on Joanna Hogg’s brilliant British drama Unrelated, with the aimless Knightley caught in someone else’s parent-child dynamic. But it’s no less insightful or compassionate.

Shelton gives her cast the space to develop their characters, to the point where both Jeff Garlin (as Knightley’s dad) and Kaitlyn Dever (as Moretz’s classmate) seem worthy of their own NORMAN WILNER movies.

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THE VOICES VAN D: Marjane Satrapi w/ Ryan Reynolds, Gemma ñ Arterton. U.S./Germany. 103 min. Sep 11, 9 pm Ryerson Theatre; Sep 12, 6 pm, Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating:

NNNN Small-town factory worker Jerry (Reynolds) tries to be a pleasant fellow and model employee, but darn the luck, his cat keeps telling him to kill people.

It’s best not to know anything more about The Voices, which goes to some very dark places as Jerry’s interactions with his co-workers (Arterton, Anna Kendrick) and his psychiatrist (Jacki Weaver) grow increasingly strained.

Days later, I’m still not sure if The Voices is a triumph on purpose or by accident, but however it happened, it’s a triumph. (It shows its cards a hair too early, but that just proves how otherwise perfectly calibrated it is, right?)

Reynolds is fantastic as the deeply confused protagonist, while Arterton and Kendrick do some very subtle work in the margins.

If there’s a stranger picture playing at TIFF this year, I’m not sure I want to see it. NW

Ryan Reynolds is bloody fantastic in The Voices.

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Little Terrors is frighteningly one-note.

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Little tension LITTLE TERRORS (Maninder Chana). 103 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (September 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: NN

The title misleads. Little Terrors is neither a horror comedy nor a rambunctious kids’ movie. Far from it. This sombre drama centres on a PakistaniAmerican boy raised as a strict Muslim whose father sends him at 13 to Pakistan, where a group of terrorists/insur-

family drama

Dull Dolphin DOLphIN TALE 2 (Charles Martin Smith).

107 minutes. Opens Friday (September 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: NN

Dolphin Tale 2 is a merely okay remake of the very likeable 2011 original. That film saw mopey 11-year-old Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) recover his interest in life by helping to rescue and rehabilitate a severely injured dolphin.

Now, four years later, Sawyer is still strongly bonded with the dolphin and a celebrity at the local marine animal hospital. His only problem is whether to accept a fabulous scholarship or

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Decent Drop ThE DROp (Michaël R. Roskam). 106 minutes. Opens Friday (September 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74.

Rating: NNN

Arriving in theatres barely a week after its TIFF premiere, The Drop finds Bullhead director Michaël R. Roskam playing it extremely safe for his first English-language feature.

Scripted by Dennis Lehane from his short novel Animal Rescue, it’s a crime drama about a Brooklyn bartender (Tom Hardy) drawn into a world of trouble when he rescues an abused puppy and befriends a woman (Noomi Rapace) with a threatening ex (Matthias

gents takes him and a handful of others to a wilderness camp to train as suicide bombers.

Despite a few ripped-from-theheadlines elements, director Maninder Chana doesn’t go for the journalistic exposé: a little boot camp training, a few indoctrination lectures. None of it seems nearly intense enough to build an average soldier, let alone a committed jihadi.

The characters are likewise thin. The trainers are benign fatherly types dishing out homilies as they administer severe beatings with a stern-but-fair destay with the dolphin, who’s gone into decline from lack of dolphin companionship. It’s all slightly forced and lacks the narrative flow that kept the first film bubbling along.

The entire principal cast – Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Harry Connick Jr., Kris Kristofferson and Cozi Zuehlsdorff – returns to pump out laid-back wisdom, charm and small doses of comedy that seem a little threadbare without a solid story.

Even so, ample underwater footage of dolphins swimming alone and with people makes the proceedings pleasant enough and provides mild thrills for the small fry who are the target audience. They seemed engaged, though not rapt, at a preview screenANDREW DOWLER ing.

Schoenaerts, from Bullhead and Rust And Bone).

It’s basically a murky, mobbed-up character study dressed up as a grubby thriller with an overqualified cast of imported stars; the only authentic New Yorker is James Gandolfini, in his final performance as Hardy’s cranky boss.

There really isn’t enough plot for a feature, so The Drop spends a good hour on world-building before the story really gets under way – though I would have happily watched another hour of Hardy playing with that puppy.

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Tom Hardy experiences puppy love.

meanour. It’s clear they’re utterly unscrupulous, but all we know about them are their political views. The trainee kids are one-note characters: a bully, an eight-year-old, a kid who’s developmentally delayed, and central character Samih (Armaan Kabli), who shows traces of compassion.

The neutral performances and story give only a few tiny glimpses of anyone’s inner life. Possibly, we’re meant to make up our own minds about matters, but that usually works better when we’re given something ANDREW DOWLER complex to mull over.

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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (John Erick Dowdle) isn’t very scary but offers spooky claustrophobia in the Paris catacombs as anthropologists search for the Philosopher’s Stone. The action consists of running, yelling and falling down, the supernatural elements show up late, and the tedious found-footage gimmick drags the film down. 93 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min.

NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Humber Cinemas, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jason Stone) is an interesting, idiosyncratic take on the chilly police procedural, with a nicely spiky Susan Sarandon as a detective investigating a creepy murder in rural Fort Dundas, Ontario. It’s remarkable what a little care and attention can do for a genre picture.

108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but writer/director/star Favreau is intent on delivering such a pleasurable little movie that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and you wouldn’t want him to cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

THE CONGRESS (Ari Folman) is exactly the movie director Folman wanted to make, but I can’t imagine it’s one anybody else will enjoy. It’s a spectacular mess of competing ideas, vintage cartoon imagery and dystopian sci-fi pap. 123 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

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(Matt Reeves) harvests the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never looks 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, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Yonge & Dundas 24

DOLPHIN TALE 2 (Charles Martin Smith) 107 min. See review, page 73. NN (Andrew Dowler) Opens Sep 12 at 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

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ñEDGE OF TOMORROW

(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) Scotiabank Theatre

THE EXPENDABLES 3 (Patrick Hughes) is

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THE CAPTIVE (Atom Egoyan) is a clunky

ñTHE F WORD

abduction thriller that rehashes themes from Egoyan’s earlier movies with little payoff. Egoyan and co-writer David Fraser use an unnecessarily complicated structure to tell the story, but even if the scenes were in chronological order, they would still be weighed down by clunky expository dialogue, characters and situations that go nowhere and terrible acting. 112 min. N

(Lenny Abrahamson) takes a central theme of journalist/screenwriter Jon Ronson’s work – our fascination with the unknowable – and runs with it, reimagining Ronson’s time with the 80s novelty singer Frank Sidebottom as the story of a lost young man’s experience

brings the original’s lurid, monochromatic palette with its violent splashes of red back to the big screen after a nine-year hiatus. Time has not faded Miller’s striking visuals, but the narrative is not always on target. This sequel-prequel combo once again featuring multiple hard-boiled plots has epic highs and joyless lows, the wick-

THE DROP (Michaël R. Roskam) 106 min.

the same mediocre actioner as Expendables 1 and 2, with a few fresh faces and without the jokes. This time Sylvester Stallone and his team of mercenaries are after a billionaire arms dealer. An epic climax has our heroes taking on an entire army, but as before, the middle sags badly. 126 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

(John Michael McDonagh) follows an Irish priest, Father James (Brendan Gleeson), who’s told he’ll be murdered in a week’s time. But this isn’t a mystery; rather, it’s an inquiry into the whole village’s crisis of faith – and by extension, Ireland’s. And it’s great. 101 min.

NNNN (NW) Canada Square

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FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller)

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with an enigmatic musician (Michael Fassbender, amazing even disguised). It’s really something. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

(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. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

(Michael Dowse) is a funny, charming, sharp and sweet reworking of When Harry Met Sally… with Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan as two perfectly matched people who can only be friends because she’s in a long-term relationship. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ed humour of the original being the most sorely missed aspect. 102 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

THE GIVER (Phillip Noyce) is adapted with

THE GRAND SEDUCTION (Don McKellar) is

workman-like fidelity from Lois Lowry’s forerunner of the YA dystopian genre, offering little more than a snack between Hunger Games. In a sterile futuristic society where people don’t perceive colour, several nifty ideas (some with a troubling Christian slant) play out, but the movie zips through them in a way that will only satisfy genre fans. 91 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Anderson) finds director/co-writer Anderson building a magnificent playhouse, populating it with actors he knows and trusts – among them Ralph Fiennes,

an English-language remake of Jean-François Pouliot’s 2003 comedy Seducing Dr. Lewis, with the action transposed from rural Quebec to a depressed Newfoundland harbour community. Director McKellar is less interested in belly laughs than in generating a constant hum of contentment, which works very nicely. 115 min.

NNN (NW) Regent Theatre

ñGUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/co-writ-

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er Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS LIVE – BBC PROMS 2014 is a live broadcast of a con-

cert from London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring conductor Sakari Oramo and violinist Janine Jansen. 210 min.

Sep 13, 2:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

LET’S BE COPS (Luke Greenfield) depends

entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl HERCULES (Brett Ratner) brings the Rush co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Hour trilogy and X-Men: The Final Stand Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy director’s signature mediocrity to the about two Los Angeles roommates who sword-and-sandal genre. It’s sluggish and dress up as LAPD officers for a costume bland; the only sequence that stands out party, keep the charade going for fun and has Hercules and the Thracian army wind up in a turf war with a Georgian battling a few hundred bald, bearded, gangster (James D’Arcy). The ending’s a body-painted maniacs. 98 min. NN (NW) bust, but the actors are fun. 100 min. NNN Scotiabank Theatre (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, ColiAN HONEST LIAR (Justin Weinstein, seum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Tyler Measom) profiles James Randi, Town Centre, Grande a Toronto-born magician Steeles, Queensway, and escape artist who reRainbow Woodbine, invented himself as the EXPANDED REVIEWS SilverCity Fairview, world’s premier debunker nowtoronto.com SilverCity Yorkdale, of psychics and faith healYonge & Dundas 24 ers – most famously by helping Johnny Carson disLIFE AFTER BETH (Jeff Baena) has a fantascredit Uri Geller on The Tonight Show in tic cast (including Dane DeHaan, Aubrey 1973. The man’s decency comes through Plaza, John C. Reilly and Anna Kendrick) loud and clear. 91 min. NNNN (NW) and a really good premise about a grieving Kingsway Theatre young man whose dead girlfriend returns and makes him miserable. That it fails to THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (Lasse do much with either is so damn disHallström) gives big fun to foodies. When appointing. 88 min. NN (NW) family patriarch Om Puri opens a Bollywood-style eatery in a Gallic town across Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 79) from the Michelin-approved resto owned LIFE ITSELF (Steve James) explores

by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), inRoger Ebert’s life and legacy with tense competition ensues. There are no tremendous affection. But it doesn’t shy surprises but lots of pleasures: Puri and away from the ugliness of Ebert’s death, Mirren are obviously having a gas, and it’s which gives James’s documentary its real literally a feast for the eyes. Prepare to power. Like the man himself, it’s unfailwant to eat afterwards. 115 min. NNN ingly honest and profoundly insightful.

(SGC) 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Carlton Cinema Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, LIFE OF CRIME (Daniel Schechter) follows a Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Silverpair of small-time Michigan crooks (John City Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Hawkes, Yasiin Bey) who kidnap the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a local developer IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski) follows (Tim Robbins), only to find their mark isn’t novitiate nun and orphan Anna particularly interested in getting her back. (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose The pacing of the picture is strangely aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her slack, but Aniston and Hawkes are a pleasthat her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. ure to watch together. 99 min. NNN (NW) The pair set out to find the village where Carlton Cinema Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed.

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Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

LITTLE TERRORS (Maninder Chana) 103 min. See review, page 73. NN (Andrew Dowler) Opens Sep 12 at Carlton Cinema

IF I STAY (R.J. Cutler) is a rudimentary teen romance that amplifies emotions by having the grim reaper lurk over every kiss and smile. Chloë Grace Moretz plays an awkward teen and Julliard-bound cellist whose happy memories are seen in flashbacks from her deathbed. The manipulative movie works precise calculations to turn multiplexes into Splash Works. 101 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

INTO THE STORM (Steven Quale) is a found-footage riff on Twister, presented as a documentary about that time a team of weather researchers and a few civilians were thrown together – and wrenched apart, and thrown together again – by a massive superstorm. The bare-bones approach compensates for a lot of the disaster genre’s usual shortcomings, and the CG is very convincing. 89 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre IT WAS YOU CHARLIE (Emmanuel Shirin-

ian) looks frickin’ gorgeous, thanks to ace cinematographer Luc Montpellier, but it’s otherwise a mess – a mopey, sluggish study of a suicidal doorman (Michael D. Cohen) that builds to a staggeringly obvious twist. 80 min. NN (NW)

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LUCY (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return

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

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (Woody Allen)

is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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) Kingsway Theatre

ñA MOST WANTED MAN

(Anton Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counter-intelligence 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) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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) Kingsway Theatre NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is a high-def broadcast of

the Young Vic’s acclaimed production of the Tennessee Williams play, starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby.

Sep 16, 7 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñNIGHT MOVES

(Kelly Reichardt) is a low-key, high-stakes thriller about three activists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) who come together to blow up a dam in the Pacific Northwest, and what happens in the aftermath of that operation. Layered with social insight, dense character detail and genuine tension, it’s like micro-Michael Mann. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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 NO GOOD DEED (Sam Miller) 84 min. See Also Opening, page 73.

Opens Sep 12 at 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE NOVEMBER MAN (Roger Donaldson)

is a rote espionage thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as a world-weary spy chased through the former Soviet Union by his former protege (Luke Bracey). If you’ve never seen one of these movies before, you might be intrigued by director Donaldson’s generic chase staging and fondness for CIA operators staring intently at monitors in under-lit situation rooms. 98 min. NN (NW) 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, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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) Kingsway Theatre

THE ONE I LOVE (Charlie McDowell) stars

Mark Duplass and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss as a couple who try to revitalize their relationship at a rustic retreat, only to enter something out of the Twilight Zone. The actors are engaging and the screenplay is brisk and sly – until the end, when writer Justin Lader turns a clever script into something pedestrian 91 min.

NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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) Grande - Steeles THE RAILWAY MAN (Jonathan Teplitzky)

tells the story of British Army officer Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), who was tortured by the Japanese during WWII. The film begins years later, when he meets the nurse (Nicole Kidman) who will become his wife and oversee his recovery. The fumblingly structured narrative alternates between flashbacks and Eric’s present-tense journey east to confront and befriend his chief torturer, a fascinating development barely explored. A stiflingly solemn, disappointing dramatization of an extraordinary story. 108 min. NN (José Teodoro) Regent Theatre

ROAD TO NINJA: NARUTO THE MOVIE

(Hayato Date) is an anime film involving a mysterious masked man, a young hero and a nine-tailed fox. 109 min.

Sep 11, 7:30 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview; 7:30 and 10 pm, at Yonge & Dundas 24

SEX TAPE (Jake Kasdan) tracks married

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. NNN (Andrew Dowler) Scotiabank Theatre

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (Mike Mitchell)

eradicates the bad taste of Shrek The Third with a darker and more textured adventure that puts Shrek and Fiona’s surprisingly tender love story back at the forefront of the narrative, where it belongs. If this really is the last time we’ll see these characters, this movie gives them the ending they deserve. 93 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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.

NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

SWEARNET (Warren P. Sonoda) stars the Trailer Park Boys actors as themselves.

They’re launching a web series that involves profanity, dangling male genitalia and consumption of illegal substances in a desperate attempt for laughs. The filth of the series remains, but without likeable characters or even the suggestion of emotion, it all feels empty. 112 min. N (Phil Brown) Carlton Cinema TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (Jonathan Liebesman) is an overblown superhero adventure that tries to get by on bombast but too often it feels like an orgy of in-your-face 3D and a loud, oppressive score supporting bargain-basement plot, characters and big action set pieces. Four turtles and a rat mutate and develop martial arts skills to battle the evil Foot Clan and its plan to dominate New York. 101 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE TRIP TO ITALY (Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Winterbottom reuniting for another grand tour of fine dining, conversation and deep human insight, this time knocking around a splendid series of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Queensway, Varsity

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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. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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, Kingsway Theatre

WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Abel Ferrara) reimagines Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s 2011 encounter with the New York City justice system as the unpleasant consequence of the French banker’s unrestrained debauchery. It’s like an HBO take on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with Gérard Depardieu offering a master class in acting. Some subtitles.

124 min. NNN (NW) Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 79) WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (Thomas

Carter) is a botched attempt to create a faith-based Friday Night Lights. This tale of a high school football team with a 151-game winning streak is overlong, clichéd, and never able to bring all of its characters together into a coherent whole. 115 min. NN (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Queensway

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(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) Scotiabank Theatre 3

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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Mon-Tue 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Mon-Tue 1:55, 2:40, 4:30, 5:10, 7:10, 7:50, 9:30, 10:20 Wed 1:45, 2:40, 4:25, 5:10, 7:10, 9:40, 10:20 HERCULES 3D (PG) Mon-Tue 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Wed 1:35,

4:00, 6:30, 9:00 LUCY (14A) Mon-Tue 1:25, 2:10, 3:35, 4:40, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:20 Wed 1:25, 2:10, 4:40, 8:00, 10:15, 10:20 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 SEX TAPE (14A) Mon-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 2:00, 4:10, 7:35, 9:50 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Mon-Tue 1:35, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 2:30, 3:40, 5:00, 6:30, 9:10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:00 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:40, 8:20 THE CAPTIVE (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 1:35, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 THE CONGRESS (18A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 THE DROP (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:25 4:15 7:10 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:45, 10:00 THE TRIP TO ITALY Thu 2:00 4:45 7:25 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40

VIP SCREENINGS

NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Tue 7:00 NO GOOD DEED 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Sun 12:55 mat THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:10, 7:45 Mon-Wed 7:45, 10:25 THE PIRATES Fri 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:05, 6:45, 9:45 ROAD TO NINJA: NARUTO THE MOVIE (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:00 SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (14A) Fri 4:30, 9:30 Sat 7:00 Sun 9:30 Mon, Wed 4:30 Tue 1:45, 10:45 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (14A) Thu 1:55 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:10 Fri-Sun 4:10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:20 Fri 1:50, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:35, 6:50, 9:20

MIDTOWN

CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BOYHOOD (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:20 Fri 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 CALVARY (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 CHEF (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 THE GIVER (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:30 Fri 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:10 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50 Fri 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:20 Fri 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:00 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu, Sun, Wed 7:00 Fri 9:05 Sat 9:15 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

THE F WORD (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:20, 8:45 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 12:45 3:30 6:20 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 THE TRIP TO ITALY Thu 1:05 3:50 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:30, 9:05

REGENT THEATRE (I)

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE)

2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS (14A) Mon-Tue 6:55, 9:55 Wed 7:00, 9:55 AMERICAN BEAUTY (14A) Thu 4:45 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:25 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:30, 6:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:35 BUT ALWAYS (PG) Thu, Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE CALLING (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:45, 9:45 THE CAPTIVE (14A) Thu 4:30 4:55 7:20 7:30 9:55 10:30 FriWed 3:25, 4:30, 6:35, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 1:40 mat DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35 Sun 12:45, 3:45 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 7:25, 10:15 Sun 6:40, 9:55 DIAL M FOR MURDER IN 3D (PG) 7:00 Sun 12:55 mat DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:55 THE DROP (14A) 2:05, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (PG) Mon 7:30 THE F WORD (14A) 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 4:45 FINDING FANNY Fri-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 3:30, 6:35, 7:35, 9:30, 10:30 Fri 3:30, 4:25, 6:30, 7:35, 9:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:30, 4:25, 6:30, 7:35, 9:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:30 THE GIVER (PG) Thu 7:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu-Sun 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) 5:00, 8:00 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:00 MonWed 6:50, 9:50 IF I STAY (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sun 2:15 THE KING’S SPEECH Fri 1:55, 7:00 Sat 9:30 Sun 4:30 Mon 1:55, 10:15 Tue 4:15 Wed 1:55, 9:45 KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT (14A) Thu 9:40 LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS LIVE – BBC PROMS 2014 Sat 2:30 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 LUCY (14A) Thu 7:05, 9:25 Fri 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 Sat 11:55, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Sun 11:55, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 MARY KOM (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40

551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 4:30 Sun, Wed 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 THE CAPTIVE (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Mon, Wed 2:50, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Tue 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 10:30 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:40, 10:00 Sat 10:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:30, 10:30 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 IF I STAY (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:10, 7:10 Sat, Wed 7:10 Tue 2:10 LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS LIVE – BBC PROMS 2014 Sat 2:30 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Tue 7:00 NO GOOD DEED Fri, Sun, Tue 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 9:55 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:30, 5:10 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 5:10 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:00 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 8:00, 10:25

Metro

WEST END

HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

BOYHOOD (14A) 4:20, 7:40 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, continued on page 78 œ

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movie times œcontinued from page 77

9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 If I Stay (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 the November maN (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50

KingSWay TheaTre (i) 3030 Bloor ST W, 416-232-1939

boyhood (14A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 7:00 Chef (14A) Thu 3:25, 8:50 Fri-Wed 3:15, 9:30 the CoNgreSS (18A) Fri-Wed 7:30 fINdINg vIvIaN maIer (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10 fraNk (14A) Thu 7:05, 10:35 Sat, Mon, Wed 9:30 the graNd budapeSt hotel (14A) Thu 12:00 Fri, MonWed 11:30 aN hoNeSt lIar (PG) Thu 2:55 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:40 Ida (PG) Thu 11:30 Fri-Wed 11:45 It WaS you CharlIe (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 2:40 magIC IN the mooNlIght (PG) Thu 1:40, 7:05 Fri-Wed 5:15 malefICeNt (PG) Thu 5:25 mr. peabody & ShermaN (G) Sat-Sun 11:30 NIght traIN to lISboN (14A) Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 4:15 obvIouS ChIld (14A) Thu 8:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 9:30 WalkINg the CamINo: SIx WayS to SaNtIago (G) Thu 10:25, 5:25 Fri-Wed 6:00 the Zero theorem (14A) Thu 10:15

QueenSWay (Ce)

1025 The QueenSWay, QeW & iSlingTon, 416-503-0424 aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 7:35, 10:05 Sun 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 Mon 1:50, 4:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 10:15 boyhood (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:40, 8:20 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 4:30, 7:15, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 Fri 1:15, 3:40, 4:15, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:05 Sat 12:15, 12:45, 3:05, 3:40, 6:00, 6:30, 8:45, 9:30 Sun 12:35, 12:45, 3:25, 3:40, 6:10, 6:30, 9:05, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:30, 3:50, 6:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 Wed 1:10, 3:30, 3:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 dIal m for murder IN 3d (PG) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:20 Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 the drop (14A) Fri 2:20, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 7:40, 10:20, 10:25 Sat 11:35, 1:30, 2:20, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 7:40, 10:20, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 2:20, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 7:40, 10:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:20, 5:00, 7:15, 7:40, 10:10, 10:20 e.t. the extra-terreStrIal (PG) Mon 7:30 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 3:00, 6:05, 9:10 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 1:25, 4:10, 10:15 the f Word (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for (18A) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri 2:40, 3:40, 5:20, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 12:45, 2:40, 3:40, 5:20, 6:30, 7:55, 9:30, 10:25 Sun 12:45, 2:00, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 9:55 Mon-Tue 2:40, 3:30, 5:20, 6:20, 8:00, 9:20, 10:30 Wed 2:40, 5:20, 5:30, 8:00, 8:30, 10:30 ghoStbuSterS (PG) Thu 1:35 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:55 Sat 11:00, 1:50, 4:40 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 7:00, 10:00 MonWed 3:50, 6:45, 6:50, 9:50, 10:00 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 12:25, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 If I Stay (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat 11:05, 1:30, 4:05, 6:35, 9:20 Sun 1:50, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:25, 9:15 laSt NIght of the promS lIve – bbC promS 2014 Sat 2:30 let’S be CopS (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20 Fri 1:10, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 luCy (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:00, 6:25, 8:55 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:00, 6:25, 8:55 Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 NatIoNal theater lIve: a StreetCar Named deSIre Tue 7:00 No good deed Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 10:00 Mon 1:05, 3:55, 7:55, 10:25 the November maN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 4:45, 7:30, 7:40, 10:10, 10:30 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 Sat 11:30,

2:00, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:45, 4:50, 7:30, 7:40, 10:10, 10:30 Wed 3:55, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 road to NINJa: Naruto the movIe (PG) Thu 7:30 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10 Fri 1:35, 4:30 Sat 11:25, 1:55, 4:35 Sun 12:30, 3:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:35 Sat 6:55, 9:35 Sun 6:00, 8:45 the trIp to Italy Thu 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 1:50, 4:45, 7:00, 9:50 Mon 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 Tue 1:35, 4:15, 7:25, 10:40 Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 WheN the game StaNdS tall (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:40

rainBoW WoodBine (i)

WoodBine CenTre, 500 rexdale Blvd, 416-213-1998 aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 FriWed 4:20, 9:35 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 3:45 Fri-Wed 9:15 ghoStbuSterS 30th aNNIverSary Thu 1:00 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 If I Stay (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:55 let’S be CopS (14A) 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45 No good deed Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:20 the November maN (14A) 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:40 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:50

dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:40, 6:50 Sat 10:55, 1:40, 6:50 Sun 6:50 Wed 1:40 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30 Fri, SunWed 1:30, 4:10 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:10 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 FriWed 7:00, 9:45 If I Stay (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 let’S be CopS (14A) Thu 2:10 4:50 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 No good deed Fri, Sun-Tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 the November maN (14A) Thu 1:50 4:20 7:00 9:40 FriWed 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 road to NINJa: Naruto the movIe (PG) Thu 7:30 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:00 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:00

SilverCiTy yorKdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-2052

north York

aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:15 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 7:15 Sat 1:45, 7:25 Sun, Wed 1:35, 7:15 Mon 1:20 Tue 1:35 the f Word (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun, Wed 4:40, 10:15 Sat 11:10, 4:50, 10:25 Mon 4:15, 10:15 Tue 10:15 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10 Sat 1:05, 4:00 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 7:05, 10:00 Sat 6:55, 9:50 If I Stay (PG) 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 11:00 mat let’S be CopS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 luCy (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 No good deed Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu, Sat 1:20, 3:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:25, 3:55 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) 6:45, 9:30

Cineplex CineMaS eMpreSS WalK (Ce)

scarborough

East End

BeaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

the CaptIve (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:50 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:50 dolphIN tale 2 (G) 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat, 4:30 the f Word (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:45 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) 7:00 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:15 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) 9:40 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:55 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Sat-Sun 1:45 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sun 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 the trIp to Italy Thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 SatSun 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:45

5095 yonge ST., 416-847-0087 the admIral: roarINg CurreNtS (14A) 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 forreSt gump: the Imax experIeNCe (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 3:55 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:55 Mon-Wed 4:00 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:35 FriSun 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:50 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 kuNdo: age of the rampaNt (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 laSt NIght of the promS lIve – bbC promS 2014 Sat 2:30 a moSt WaNted maN (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 7:20, 10:05 Tue 4:25 NatIoNal theater lIve: a StreetCar Named deSIre Tue 7:00 No good deed Fri, Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 the November maN (14A) 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat the pIrateS 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 4:40 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:20 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS: aN Imax 3d experIeNCe (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:50

SilverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 FriWed 4:25, 9:40 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 11:05, 1:35, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 dIal m for murder IN 3d (PG) Sun 1:25 Wed 7:00

401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarBorough, 416-281-2226

aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:15 daWN of the plaNet of the apeS (PG) Sat-Sun 12:55 daWN of the plaNet of the apeS 3d (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:20, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:50 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 5:25, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:05 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 Mon, Wed 5:25 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 5:35, 7:55 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:15 Sun 10:00 Mon, Wed 8:15 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 9:55 Sun 9:35 If I Stay (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 let’S be CopS (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 luCy (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Sat 1:05, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Sun 1:05, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 No good deed Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 11:05, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:05 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15 Fri, Tue 4:40 Sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:40 Sun 2:15, 4:40 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:40 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:20, 9:50 Sun 7:20, 9:40 WheN the game StaNdS tall (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:05

ColiSeuM SCarBorough (Ce) SCarBorough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 4:15, 7:35, 10:10 Tue 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:45 the CaptIve (14A) 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 dolphIN tale 2 (G) 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:05 mat the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, SunMon, Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Sat 1:15, 7:15 Tue 1:15, 4:15 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 10:35 the gIver (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:25 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) 7:20, 10:20 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 If I Stay (PG) 1:35, 4:35, 7:05, 9:55 laSt NIght of the promS lIve – bbC promS 2014 Sat 2:30 let’S be CopS (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 luCy (14A) Thu 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Wed 10:15 NatIoNal theater lIve: a StreetCar Named deSIre Tue 7:00 No good deed Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 the November maN (14A) 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:25 mat road to NINJa: Naruto the movIe (PG) Thu 7:30 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) 1:55, 4:25 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:55, 9:35 Sat 11:20 mat

GTA Regions north

ColoSSuS (Ce) hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:30, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 11:35, 1:55, 4:30, 6:45, 9:20 MonWed 4:30, 6:45, 9:20 the CaptIve (14A) 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:00 mat Sat 11:20, 2:00 mat daWN of the plaNet of the apeS (PG) Thu 4:05 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:25 Mon-Wed 4:25 daWN of the plaNet of the apeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 7:15, 10:05 dolphIN tale 2 (G) 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:40 mat Sat 11:05, 1:40 mat the drop (14A) 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:10 mat Sat 11:40, 2:10 mat e.t. the extra-terreStrIal (PG) Mon 7:30 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 the f Word (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 9:50 Fri, Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 7:50, 10:15 Mon 10:15 the gIver (PG) Thu 4:30 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 4:45 Fri, Sun 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 4:55 Sat 11:30, 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 4:55 Mon-Wed 4:10, 4:55 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Sun-Wed 7:00, 7:35, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Tue 5:15, 10:25 Sun 4:15, 9:30 Wed 4:45, 9:45 guardIaNS of the galaxy: aN Imax 3d experIeNCe the CaptIve (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 dIal m for murder IN 3d (PG) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 dolphIN tale 2 (G) 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:40 mat Sat If I Stay (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 7:10, 11:00, 12:00, 1:40 mat 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 the drop (14A) 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:10 mat Sat 11:35, INto the Storm (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55 2:10 mat let’S be CopS (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:45, e.t. the extra-terreStrIal (PG) Mon 7:30 7:35, 10:15 Sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35, the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 10:05 the f Word (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Sun 2:50, luCy (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:35, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon 4:05, 7:45, 10:10 Tue5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:15 fINdINg faNNy Fri, Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 11:55, 2:25, mardaaNI Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 4:55, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 mary kom (PG) 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:05 mat fraNk mIller’S SIN CIty: a dame to kIll for 3d (18A) Thu No good deed Fri 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:45, 7:50 Sun 6:45 Tue 7:40 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu 4:30 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:25 the November maN (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri 2:20, guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:25, 7:20, 10:15 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, raJa NatWarlal (PG) Thu 9:40 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 5:10 If I Stay (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Fri 1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sat teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:15 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Tue teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS: aN Imax 3d experI4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 eNCe (PG) 5:05, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:35 mat Sat 12:00, 2:35 INto the Storm (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:55, 10:15 mat let’S be CopS (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, the trIp to Italy Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:10 9:55 Sat 11:25, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 5:10 Mon-Wed 5:10 luCy (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, WheN the game StaNdS tall (PG) Thu 4:50, 10:10 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 mary kom (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Fri 3:00, 6:00, 9:30 Sat 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 proMenade Mall, hWy 7 & BaThurST, 416-494-9371 a moSt WaNted maN (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Sun 1:15, boyhood (14A) 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 4:05, 6:55, 10:00 Sat 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 6:55, 10:00 No good deed Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:20, the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 3:45 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Tue 5:40, 8:00, the huNdred-foot JourNey (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 10:20 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 the November maN (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, If I Stay (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 a moSt WaNted maN (14A) 3:55, 9:30 Thu 12:45 mat, 6:50 Mon 4:45, 7:40, 10:00 Tue 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Wed 4:30, 7:10, No good deed Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 10:00 the November maN (14A) 1:05, 6:55 Thu 4:00 mat, 9:35 raJa NatWarlal (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Shrek forever after (PG) Sat 11:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:55 Fri, Sun 2:55, 5:25 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:25 Mon-Wed 5:25 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Tue 7:55, 10:30 Wed 7:55, 10:25 hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce)

rainBoW proMenade (i)

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grande - STeeleS (Ce)

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

aNJaaN (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri 10:30 Sat-Sun 7:30 fINdINg faNNy Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:30, 9:30 Irumbu kuthIraI Thu 4:30, 10:30 mardaaNI Thu 3:00 mary kom (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 6:30 pattaya kelappaNum paNdIya Thu 7:30 Sun 4:30 SIgaram thodu Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 vaNavarayaN vallavarayaN Sat-Wed 10:30

aS above, So beloW (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:05 Fri 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:25, 8:00 the CaptIve (14A) Thu 5:35, 8:10 Fri 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:10 daWN of the plaNet of the apeS (PG) Fri-Sat 3:50 Sun 3:40 daWN of the plaNet of the apeS 3d (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:10 Fri 7:05, 9:55 Sat 6:55, 9:50 Sun 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:05 dolphIN tale 2 (G) Fri 4:00, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 12:45, 3:25, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 12:45, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50 the expeNdableS 3 (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:05 Fri 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00 guardIaNS of the galaxy (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30 Fri 4:10, 6:55 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45 guardIaNS of the galaxy 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 8:15 Fri 9:55 Sat 9:50 Sun 9:45 If I Stay (PG) Thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri 4:20, 7:00 Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:20 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:15 Mon-Wed 5:45 let’S be CopS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:55 Fri 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 luCy (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:45 Fri 9:35 Sat 10:00 Sun 9:45 MonWed 8:15 the November maN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:25, 8:00 Fri 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Sat 1:25, 4:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50 plaNeS: fIre & reSCue 3d (G) Sat-Sun 1:00 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS (PG) Thu 5:20 Fri 4:15, 7:30 Sat 1:20, 3:55, 7:15 Sun 1:20, 3:55, 7:00 Mon-Wed 5:40 teeNage mutaNt NINJa turtleS 3d (PG) Thu 7:50 Fri-Sat 10:05 Sun 9:50 Mon-Wed 8:05

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September 11-17 2014 NOW

indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

How to find a listing

fri 12 – Magic In The Moonlight (2014) D: Woody Allen. 9:30 pm.

Sat 13 – Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D (2014) D: Matt Reeves. 1:30 & 9 pm. Revue renovation announcement and screening of short films. 4 pm. Free. Magic In The Moonlight. 7 pm.

Sun 14 – Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D. 1:30 & 9 pm. Magic In The Moonlight. 4 & 7 pm.

Mon 15 – Magic In The Moonlight. 7 pm.

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D. 9 pm. tue 16 – Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D. 7 pm. Magic In The Moonlight. 9:30 pm.

Wed 17 – Magic In The Moonlight. 7 pm.

Calvary (2014) D: John Michael McDonagh.

9 pm.

Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals

the Royal

608 college. 416-466-4400. theRoyal.to

commffest film festival

Rainbow cinema, 80 fRont e (Rc); malveRn libRaRy, 30 sewells (ml); metRopolitan united chuRch, 56 Queen e (muc). commffest.com

fri 12-Sep 20 – Showcase of issue-oriented, community-based cinema. $15. fri 12 – Justice In Action D: Fiona Lloyd Davies and Natsanat D: Cheryl Halpern. 6:45 pm. Justice In Action and Born In Adana D: David Hovan. 8:45 pm. Both at RC. Sat 13 – The Holding Cell D: KT Curran, The Last Ditch D: Mahi Bena, You And Me D: Eric Tsang, Collision D: Brent Gooden, and others. Noon. Shipbreakers D: Ralph Vituccio and The Glimmering Light D: David Li. 3:30 pm. Eugene’s Shot D: Franny Plumridge, My Heritage D: Philip Leung, and Living Room Revolution: The Race Dialogues D: Kate Mayer. 5:30 pm. Grey Glory and Grey Ambition both by D: Brandy Yanchyk. 8 pm.

All screenings at RC. Sun 14 – The One Who Builds D: Hillary Pierce, Building A Dream: A Brief History Of Ontario’s First Mosque D: Patrick Barfoot, and Just A Piece Of Cloth D: Rosemary Henze. 6 pm (MUC). Canterbury Tales D: John Dinwoodie and Ludovica Fales. 8 pm (MUC).

Mon 15 – Commffest Kidds: Justice In Action. 10 am (Cinema A). Through Their Eyes D: Bill Gentile. 10 am (Cinema B). Both screenings at RC. tue 16 – Commffest Kidds: The Sacred Place Where Life Begins – Gwich’in Women Speak D: Miho Aida, Eugene’s Shot D: Franny Plumridge, We All Fit D: Denise Schamens, and short film Friendship. 10 am (Cinema A). The Throwaways D: Bhawin Suchak and Ira McKinley. 10 am (Cinema B). All screenings at RC. Wed 17 – Commffest Kidds: Alberta Legacy 2 D: Hossein Shamaghdari. 10 am (Cinema A).

The Violinist D: Pablo Nicolas Raganato, and Changing Minds At Concord High School D: Susan Weiser-Finley. 10 am (Cinema B). Both screenings at RC.

caRibbean tales inteRnational film festival Royal cinema, 608 college. caRibbeantales-events.com

fri 12-Sat 13 – Films from the Caribbean diaspora. $10, festival pass $100. fri 12 – Queer Caribbean: Dal Puri Diaspora (2012) D: Richard Fung, and short films Call Me Daisy and Islands. Director Richard Fung in attendance. 6:30 pm. Best Of The Fest: Kingston Paradise (2013) D: Mary Wells, and short film Heart Shaped Box. Director in attendance. 9:30 pm.

Sat 13 – Colour Me (2012) D: Sherien Barsoum, Cricket Nation (2012) D: Stephen Young-Chin, and short film We Each Have Our Armies (2013) D: Bobby Del Rio. 2:30 pm. Forever Ever: The Killing of A Revolution (2013) D: Bruce Paddington. 6 pm. Closing night and awards: Two Smart (2014) D: Shakirah Bourne and Ricky Redman. 9 pm.

toRonto inteRnational film festival tiff bell lightbox, 350 king w, and otheR venues.

416-599-8433, tiff.net

Jake Gyllenhaal plays a creepy videographer in Nightcrawler, one of the big TIFF hits.

See review at nowtoronto.com/tiff.

thu 11-Sun 14 – The 39th edition of one

of the biggest film festivals in the ñ world. See photos, page 67, and reviews, page 72.

tuff – toRonto uRban film festival vaRious scReens on ttc subway platfoRms. toRontouRbanfilmfestival.com

thu 11-Mon 15 – A film festival for commuters, screening silent one-minute film, video and animation from across Canada and around the world. Films run every 10 minutes on subway platform screens all over the city. Free w/ TTC fare. Films can also be viewed online.

cinemas big pictuRe cinema geRRaRd 1035 geRRaRd e. bigpictuRecinema.com

thu 11-Wed 17 – Check website for schedule.

blooR hot docs cinema

506 blooR w. 416-637-3123. blooRcinema.com

thu 11-Sun 14 – Toronto International Film

Festival screenings. 112 Weddings (2014) D: Doug Block. 4 pm. Alive Inside (2014) D: Michael Rossato-Bennett. 6:30 pm. Life Itself (2014) D: Steve James. 8:45 pm.

Mon 15 – Big In Bollywood (2011) D: Kenny Meehan. 6:30 pm. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago (2013) D: Lydia Smith.

8:45 pm. tue 16 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 3:30 pm. Alzheimer Society of Toronto presents The Genius Of Marian (2013) D: Banker White and Anna Fitch. 6:30 pm.

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Wed 17 – The Globe & Mail presents Foreign Dispatches 5: Broken Cameras (2011) D: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. 6 pm. Discussion to follow. $15. My Brother’s Vows (2013) D: Stephanie Weimar. 8:45 pm.

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Being uncut not a factor I am a man who tends to ejaculate prematurely. Not all the time – but at least 50 per cent of the time. I’m good for two to three minutes and then I really have to be careful. I’ve learned to manage it and work around it (like, stop if I’m too close and eat her out to give me some time to relax, etc), but it’s still a pain in the ass. I have a theory about this: I am not circumcised. I know that circumcised cocks are more desensitized, as they tend to rub on everything all the time.

Could my problem be related to the fact that for the first 20 years of my life, the head of my cock had never been in direct contact with anything? And if not, are there tricks that exist to help me with this problem?

Unexposed Nub Could Upset Timing You’re already doing everything premature ejaculators are urged to do, UNCUT: you’re paying close attention to your arousal levels, you’re being careful not to rush past the point of no return (or past the point of “orgasmic inevitability”), you’re taking fuck breaks as needed and eating a little pussy (not recommended for gay premature ejaculators). Those are the “tricks that exist” to help guys like you, and it sounds like you’ve mastered them.

And while the heads of circumcised cocks tend to be less sensitive, UNCUT, studies of men circumcised in adulthood have found no link between circumcision and premature ejaculation. Uncut guys are no more likely to have problems with premature ejaculation, and cut guys are no less likely.

Use web to cuckold I’m a straIght, vanIlla 29-year-old woman, happily married to a kinky bi guy for six years, together for 13. He is free to sleep with other men, and I consider myself GGG – turning him on turns me on. You can do the math: I married my high-school sweetheart.

(It wasn’t planned that way – we’re not religious – we just happened to get super-lucky on the first try.) My husband has a cuckold fetish, and we role-play all the time. I would really love to make this fantasy a reality! My question is: how/where the fuck do I find someone? I don’t want to pick up some random, since I want to be as safe as possible, and I haven’t dated since I was 16. I feel completely lost. I just want to cuckold my husband! Why can’t there be an app for that?

Non-Experienced Wife Begs You You’re in luck: there is an app for married people who want to cheat on their partners – with or without their partners’ permission – and I’m pretty sure you’re already familiar with this particular app, NEWBY, as it’s been around for a while. It’s called “The Internet.”

This app can direct you to websites for cheaters (Ashley Madison), websites for kinksters (FetLife) and regular dating websites where married people in open relationships are free to advertise for new partners (OkCupid).

No sex since first date I am 62 years old, fIt, handsome and intelligent. I’m also as horny as a 17-year-old.

My committed boyfriend/partner/husbandto-be of 10 years is 41. I met him at a men’s club when he was wearing nothing but a towel, and we had great sex. We haven’t had sex since that first date. I have loved this man from that moment in the club. He is beautiful: Asian with a bit of Spanish, perfectly proportioned, athletic, smart, ambitious, creative, playful – my little brown prince. He has the most beautiful ass I have ever seen. He is from a culture that is very private and puts on a happy face – always. It’s hard for me to get inside and crack that stubborn nut. I would love nothing more than to make love to him.

Some things are impossible to put into words, and lovemaking expresses so much.

Nine Outta Ten A gay dude who fucks you once and refuses to

fuck ever again isn’t that into fucking, isn’t that into you or isn’t turned on by men he actually knows. Some gay men are aroused only by anonymous sex – you know, the kind of sex you two had on your first “date.” Some gay men overcome that sexual handicap, others don’t. If your “little brown prince” (erm) hasn’t managed to overcome it 10 years into this relationship, NOT, I doubt he ever will.

Help me with pronouns I have a couple of relatIvely close friends who prefer to use gender-neutral pronouns, which they define to be “they/them/ their.” Now, I wouldn’t have a problem with this, and I know people will often use “they/ them/their” in regular speech when they are unsure of gender or want to include all genders, but it really makes speaking English awkward; “they/them/their” are all plural, while “he/him/she/her” are singular. So for instance: “My friend Chris is going to the mall. I hope they has a good time.” The sentence is confusing. I’m okay with the idea of people being gender-neutral, but I also think following the rules of grammar is important, since language is probably the most important way of communicating.

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porn-positive woman in my 30s. But when I was still married, my husband once got out of bed while having sex with me to watch porn. He felt himself flagging, so he switched on his computer and watched porn until he got it up again. This was not one of the countless reasons I dumped the motherfucker, but I have to say that it amounted to taking a bullhorn and yelling: “You’re not sexy enough! I’d rather be sleeping with one of these porn actresses!” Is it unreasonable to ask that my partner wait with the porn until he’s done with me?

Pissed-Off Romance Ninja Your husband’s problem – your ex-husband’s problem – wasn’t porn. It was insensitivity.

And cluelessness. And selfishness. But for the record: It is not unreasonable to ask your partner to save the porn for “alone time,” PORN, and there’s no excuse for cruelty and inconsideration – about porn or anything else. But some couples do manage to incorporate porn into their “together time,” as the next letter demonstrates….

“They” can be used as a singular pronoun – Shakespeare did it – but if it makes you crazy, GGG, there’s a simple solution to your dilemma: “My friend Chris, who prefers genderneutral pronouns, is going to the mall. I sure hope Chris has a good time.”

Women like porn, too It’s not always the wIfe who dIslIkes porn. I’m a straight married guy and I don’t like porn. I’m rare, I know, but I exist. My wife started watching it about 10 years and two kids into our marriage in order to rev up her libido. But porn isn’t a source of conflict for us. She watches porn alone or she very sweetly asks me to go down on her while she watches porn on her tablet. Either I get myself off with my hand while getting my wife off with my tongue (usually what happens) or she gets so horny that she wants to be fucked (less frequent, always nice). We have good regular sex, too.

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