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1. T.O.’s Duck Dynasty Doug Ford’s Friday press conference looks more like a shameless, trashy TV show on A&E than anything the Kennedys would do.

2. In like a lion Rob Ford’s illness is no joke, but it’s also the right time for him to make his exit.

3. Ford out Rob Ford shocks the city with news that he’s withdrawing from the mayoral race because of an abdominal tumour.

4. Ford in Doug shocks no one by announcing that he’ll replace his brother in the contest.

5. Election Guide 2014 Our ward-byward maps shed light on the demographics for each ward, who’s running for council, the hyper-local issues and voter turnout in 2010. We’ll continue to update them until October 27.

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See more, page 63 Living Colour Influential 90s funk-metal group take over the Opera House. 7:30 pm. $28.75. TF. Jethro Tulin Porgera Alliance activist talks about the org’s fight against Toronto-based Barrick Gold in Papua New Guinea. 7 pm. Free. Harvest Noon Café.

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Dionne Brand The gifted writer launches her new novel, Love Enough, at District Oven. 6 pm. Free. anotherstory.ca. September 25.

Black Lips (pictured) Will opener King Khan out-sweat/out-party the herky-jerky Atlanta flower punks? Head to the Phoenix to find out. Doors 8 pm. $23.50. RT, SS, TF. September 25.

Fucked Up The hardcore hometowners hit the Horseshoe, with Vag Halen on night one at 9 pm and with Alvvays on day two at 1 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. September 26 and 27.

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See more, page 70 Mike Birbiglia The standup and storyteller performs two shows at JFL42. 7 and 9:30 pm.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre. $49-$129 passes. jfl42.com

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Anthony Bastianon’s new show based on our world-famous mayor continues at the Factory to Sep 28. 8 pm. $35-$40. 416-5049971.

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Stevie Wonder Motown legend plays the ACC November 25. $66.50-$169.50. On sale Monday (September 22). TM. Arkells Hamilton indie rockers added extra dates due to high demand (November 27-29). Danforth Music Hall. $23.50-$39.50. TM. On sale now.

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Doug Ford the Keyser Söze of #TOpoli

So instead of the bumbling, naive puppet Rob Ford running for mayor, we now have the manipulative evil puppet master stepping out of the shadows (NOW, September 12). Doug Ford is the Keyser Söze of municipal politics.

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Doug hitting all the right notes – for now

Doug Ford’s formal announcement he’s running for mayor (NOW, September 13) is about as disciplined as Doug will get in message and tone during this campaign. He hit all the right notes.

But of course there’s a prepared trope for such speeches. He’s not that disciplined all the time, though, and when he slips, it’s either nasty, mendacious or random.

Michael Jones From nowtoronto.com

Let province pay for Tory’s SmartTrack

Very good Rob Salerno article penetrating John Tory’s SmartTrack (NOW, September 11-17).

In Tory’s smartest-guys-in-theroom SmartTrack railway universe, the track is smart and the always-ontime trains are intelligently electric.

But the voter/taxpayer, who one way or another pays for its out-of-thisworld cost, is dumb as a barrelful of old track spikes.

Torontonians should leave Metrolinx to figure out – and pay for – the

“ Instead of the bumbling puppet running for mayor, we have his manipulative evil puppet master.”

Liberal-mandated electrification of GO’s rail network. But Tory’s plan would run taxpayers right into the middle of that very complicated and sure to be super-expensive project.

SmartTrack, like the Ford/Tory-supported Scarborough subway, is highpriced transit candy. Smart suckers would be wise to beware!

Robert McBride Thornhill

TIFF rap

TIFF is now over, and I was lucky to see many international films that will probably never get to Toronto cinema screens. Reviewers seemed more focused on Hollywood movies that will open soon in local cinemas.

The current price for single tickets is unaffordable for the average Torontonian, especially those from immigrant communities.

TIFF has also done away with special package prices for seniors, and those who buy the lowest-price packages have to wait till everyone else has chosen and then get the leftovers.

TIFF says it’s a charity! Well, let charity start at home.

Tony Souza Toronto

New sex laws worse than people know

Re Government Sexploitation,

by Robert Fisher (NOW, September 11-17). Under C-36, adult ads cannot be carried by third parties – publishers or website hosts – so sex workers

Fords treat Ward 2 like their fiefdom

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The Ford clan is treating Ward 2 like their feudal little kingdom (NOW, September 15).

They have so little regard for the election process that three members of the family running for office swapped positions at the very last minute.

Kinda makes you think they get their political strategy from Vladimir Putin.

Theo Lagakos Toronto

FROM THE ARCHIVES November 11, 1982 Mann puts the alt in Altman Ron Mann, Toronto filmmaker and point man for movie distributor FilmsWeLike, can put a political spin on just about anything.

When we talked to him for our cover story in 1982 (we were all of 20 pages back then), he was launching Poetry In Motion, his documen-

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tary tracking bards from Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs to the New Wave they influenced.

It was a political film, Mann insisted, because poets, the voices of dissent, are always at odds with their culture.

Since then, Mann’s completed 12 other docs – including Grass (about pot), Go Further, featuring Woody Harrelson living off the grid, and Know Your Mushrooms (psychedelics included).

His newest pic has yet another cul-

tural outlaw at its centre in the person of maverick filmmaker Robert Altman.

Mann’s essential strategy for his doc Altman involved asking the director’s collaborators how they defined the term “Altmanesque.” He also mined over 400 hours of archival footage – much of it related to the filmmaker’s unique creative process – to make it seem like Altman is telling his own story (see review, page 72).

Mann obviously loves an iconoclast, and has the filmography to prove it.

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can’t put out our own ads unless the carrier is willing to break the law.

And sex workers can’t have a driver or body guard because no one is allowed to provide services to another person in the context of a commercial enterprise that offers sexual services for money. It’s far worse than people seem to understand.

Julie Grant From nowtoronto.com

Mixing up “Israeli” cuisine with politics

Re Fat Pasha’s “Israeli” cuisine (NOW, September 11-17). Schmaltz, latkas and pastrami are Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewish) foods invented and enjoyed long before the state of Israel existed.

The Manischewitz company was founded in Cincinnati and remains in New Jersey. Za’atar is a Palestinian spice mixture enjoyed by Palestinians with Israeli citizenship in Gaza and the West Bank. That doesn’t make it Israeli. In fact, Israeli cuisine doesn’t exist – it’s a fusion cuisine made up of numerous Jewish and Arab cultures.

Reena Katz Toronto

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The parallel John Greyson would like to make between Gaza and Toronto in his short film Gazonto (NOW, September 4-10) is missing a few details. One is the fact that Toronto has nothing like the 1988 Hamas Covenant, which pledges to obliterate Israel and establish an Islamic state instead.

Another is that if the government of Toronto intended to wage war against its neighbours, it would first build shelters to protect its civilian population instead of using all its funds for rockets and tunnels.

As for the video games that raised Greyson’s ire, hopefully Torontonians would not embark on suicide missions against their neighbours and record video farewell messages meant to inspire would-be imitators. Yes, Mr. Greyson, that is the planet we live on.

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Big Brother: SeaSon 2 In Doug Ford’s world, his brother owes everything he has to him; for Rob it’s the other way around

By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE

D

oug Ford’s tragedy is that he doesn’t like people but very much wants to be liked. He craves approval and wants to be your friend, regardless of how little he thinks of you.

Rob Ford’s tragedy is that he does like people but doesn’t care whether he himself is liked. He craves acknowl­ edgement and wants to pose for a photo, regardless of how little you think of him.

In Doug’s world, other people are nuisances, enemies or ob­ stacles to goals – things standing in the way of self­ac­ tualization. To Rob, other people make his life worth living – he derives purpose from being able to help them.

Now that Mayor Rob Ford is running for council and Councillor Doug Ford is running for mayor, it’s worth re­examining how the two of them differ, and what each means to the other.

The brothers’ bond swirls with love and contempt; they regard each other with awe and resentment.

“Doug Ford believes that Mayor Ford owes every­ thing he has to him, and vice versa,” wrote police detec­ tives investigating the mayor, paraphrasing a statement from Mark Towhey, the mayor’s ex­chief of staff.

Doug both admires and looks down on his younger brother’s capacity for compassion.

In the spring of 2012, actor Christopher Morris inter­ viewed Doug for a theatre piece about city council.

“Would there ever be any possibility of maybe shad­ owing you for some of your day?” Morris asked. (NOW

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recently obtained a transcript of the interview, which it has independently verified.)

“I don’t mind,” Doug said, before voicing his amaze­ ment at Rob’s dedication. “Rob, this guy goes non­stop.

I call him – ‘Where are you?’ I swear to God, he [says], ‘Oh, I’m cuttin’ down some guy’s tree.’ At 8 o’clock at night! ‘What are you doing cutting down a friggin’ tree or whatever?’ ‘Well, I have the Parks people here and this old guy can’t get his tree down.’ Stuff like that.

“You can follow me around for Friday and see the constituents. I would do that.”

“Would that be all right?” Morris asked again.

“Yeah,” Councillor Ford said. “The constituents are kinda boring.”

Later in the interview – upon giving another ex­ ample of Rob having gone well out of his way to assist someone – Doug explained the political utility of his brother’s compulsion.

“What Rob doesn’t realize [about] little Miss Jones, he doesn’t realize that she has five children that have 10 grandchildren that told all their neighbours that this Rob Ford guy came from Etobicoke to pick up her gar­ bage. And then the neighbour tells a neighbour, and all of a sudden the story starts going down the road.”

What’s remarkable isn’t that Doug Ford sees helping constituents as a means to an end, but that he appar­ ently views Rob as too simple to do the same.

Mayor Ford, meanwhile, has said of his brother, “The guy is 10 times smarter than anyone I’ve ever met.”

Even taking into account the Fords’ penchant for exag­ gerating figures by a factor of 10, it’s significant praise.

Of course, it’s not as though Rob is a guileless man­ child whose good deeds are exploited by an ambitious older brother. Goodness knows he’s used various

Only with the other’s skills could the Ford brothers become the ideal heir they think their late father wants them to be.

people to satisfy his own various appetites.

But the dynamic is instructive for considering their effectiveness as a political unit – and their identities as sons possessing distinct talents who have always com­ peted for the same limited pool of filial affection.

Only with the other’s skills can they become the ideal heir they think their late father wants them to be.

In this respect, the Ford family situation isn’t ter­ ribly unusual.

And like many family dynamics, it’s easily disrupted by an intrusion of illness that causes a re­evaluation of such relationships.

Torontonians, in a way, have their own family rela­ tionship with Mayor Rob Ford.

Some regard him as a sainted patriarch, while many resent him as a (figurative) abuser.

His sudden admission to hospital for treatment of a tumour disturbs these comfortable categories. For those who love him, he’s no longer infallible. For those who don’t, he’s no longer just a villain but a victim as well.

The challenge is to take ownership of our compli­ cated feelings. To view the circumstances in political terms is to deny his humanity. To view the circum­ stances in human terms is to dismiss his politics.

It’s not fair to see a person as just a means to an end, and it’s not fair to see a person as just an object of pity either. People, even Rob Ford, are more complicated than that and possess their own agency. It’s okay to be conflicted.

On Tuesday, September 16, Doug Ford briefly spoke to the Globe and Mail about his mayoral campaign. “I just want to get over this little hurdle, and we’re going full steam ahead right now.”

The “little hurdle” is his brother’s health.

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Five questions answered on Doug Ford’s dramatic entry into the mayoral race

By ENZO DiMATTEO CAN DOUG FORD WIN? Lots would have to happen for Doug to pull that off. Does he stand a better chance than Rob, even if he lacks little bro’s touch with the masses?

That’s a different consideration.

Municipal victories are all about money and organization, and Doug has mad bread compared to his rivals, John Tory and Olivia Chow, whose respective war chests are considerably lighter after campaigning for the last six months.

Doug, coming into the race at the end, has the full $1.3 million limit allotted a mayoral candidate to spend.

That buys a lot of campaign literature and radio and TV ads. You can bet he’s been in touch, too, with a few of those Bay Street boys pouring money into Tory’s campaign. They’ll be hedg-

ing their bets just in case. It’s like that in politics.

Already we’re beginning to see the outlines of a council slate forming around Doug’s bid.

On the day he registered to run, so, too, did John Nunziata and Chris Stockwell. The former is a Liberal MP and older brother of current council speaker Frances, a staunch Ford supporter. The latter is the former PC speaker of the House under Mike Harris the Fords unsuccessfully endorsed him to fill the council seat vacated by Peter Milcyzn when he ran for the Liberals in the last provincial election. Giorgio Mammoliti has

also come out for Ford. A few more council incumbents are waiting in the wings. We can also expect a hospital-bed plea from Rob to vote for Doug at some point.

And then Rob may get better in time to help big bro on the campaign trail.

HOW DOES DOUG’S ENTRY CHANGE THE DYNAMICS? The optics have certainly changed. Doug’s first photo op formally announcing his candidacy was a carefully choreographed affair at his mom’s place, surrounded by family.

Now that there’s no Rob to kick around any more, a few of those small-l and big-L Liberal votes parked with Tory may be thinking about shifting to Chow, or so goes one theory. But as long as Doug’s poll numbers stay up in the 30 per cent range, there’s little chance of that happening.

Which is why the Tory camp is spinning the narrative that Doug is the more dangerous flip side of the Ford coin.

Missed in that story lines is the

number of conservatives, hardcore or otherwise, Doug may be able to chisel away from Tory’s base. The new spin among true-blue Conservatives is that Tory is really Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne’s candidate. There’s even a Facebook page.

Well, Tory does have former Wynne chief of staff Tom Allison running his campaign. And his SmartTrack proposal to electrify GO lines looks a lot like a continuation of the Liberals’ Big Move transit plan – and maybe, too, the first step in a strategy for provincial transit agency Metrolinx to absorb the TTC into the regional transit system. But that’s another story.

NOW THAT THE PRESSURE IS ON, WILL JOHN TORY FALL FLAT ON HIS FACE? Hard to imagine Tory blowing a double-digit lead, despite his past propensity to lay an egg at the most inopportune time. He has some very smart people around him. But he is showing signs of blinking, even running a little scared. He was in attack mode as soon as Doug announced he was running.

And then he ducked three debates at the 11th hour, he says because of scheduling conflicts (not that anybody will remember that six weeks from now). But shouldn’t he be building good faith with Toronto voters? With six weeks left in the campaign, most would say it’s a little early for Tory to

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Expect more of the same peekaboo campaign in the coming weeks to minimize his chances of a cock-up.

ELECTION REPORT CARD: FOCUS ON THE ARTS

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?

Each week until the October 27 election, NOW will evaluate the mayoral candidates’ platforms on key issues. This week: arts and culture.

Conspiracy theories abound. They always do with the Fords. The pathological lying has warped our sense of reality.

When news broke last Wednesday, September 10, that Rob Ford had been admitted to hospital with a possible tumour, more than a few weren’t buying it.

The Fords have tried to change the channel before. And they’re not above playing the victim card when it suits them. Indeed, a couple of the

Whether it’s shelling out $339 for Madame Butterfly on opening night at the Four Seasons Centre or catching a pwyc all-ages show at a dive bar on Dundas, the arts are a big part of life for residents of all backgrounds, as well as being a driving force for the economy. So which candidate has the best plan to boost Toronto’s creative capital?

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mayor’s staunchest allies in the press (that would be Sunsters Sue-Ann Levy and Joe Warmington) suggested the press had something to do with the tumour that has landed Ford in the hospital.

Ford even delivered a Jack Laytonlike message of hope in his statement withdrawing from the mayoral race.

Ahead of the biopsy report, we’re hearing about the dire prospects facing Ford, yet he continues to work from his hospital bed.

The sympathy cup runneth over, but rest assured that what we’re witnessing is the disintegration of an administration that’s been in free fall for the better part of two years.

DID THE FORDS KNOW THE MAYOR WAS SERIOUSLY ILL MONTHS AGO? Ford has reportedly been experiencing pain for as much as three months, which would mean while he was still in rehab. Did he and his doctors know then? Did Ford decide to try and tough it out?

Truth is, it was always the plan for Doug to run in the event of an emergency or if Rob fell off the wagon.

There was no secret about that. A domain name was mysteriously registered back in May. Doug has said publicly that he was interested in running.

Remember his shit-eating grin when he took Rob’s seat in the council chamber and someone taped his name on Rob’s nameplate?

This time, plain old life had more to do with recent events than the Ford brothers’ masterminding. It was a perfect storm that brought Rob Ford to office. And a perfect storm is blowing him out.

Fate is a mofo, as it were.

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DOUG FORD

As of press time, the elder Ford brother had yet to release a campaign platform. But it makes sense to evaluate him on the performance of Mayor Rob Ford’s administration, of which Doug was an integral part.

The admin initially tried to gut arts funding but eventually backed off, although highly regarded culture director Rita Davies was pushed out for resisting the proposed cuts. Despite this, cultural funding did surprisingly well under the Fords.

In 2014, arts expenditures are expected to reach $22.25 per capita or $58.2 million, $13 million more than the year before Ford took office. That’s well on the way to ramping up arts spending to $25 per resident, an important goal that council first set in 2003.

But while Doug has boasted that no mayor has put more money into the arts than his brother, the Fords really can’t take a lot of credit. The increase in per capita funding was driven almost entirely by a grassroots campaign to fund arts through a billboard tax, which Rob Ford voted against as a councillor.

Doug was at least consistent in backing the $25 per capita target, which is more than can be said for the mayor – in June 2013, Rob voted against giving $7 million to major cultural organizations like Pride, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Doug voted in favour. Both Fords also championed the creation of a Toronto music office and music city alliance with the city of Austin.

Doug’s criticism of the theatre CEOs salaries was at least partly vindicated when a small-scale spending scandal was uncovered at the Sony Centre earlier this year.

THE SCORE Decent, but mostly in spite of the Fords’ efforts rather than because of them.

city-owned properties into arts venues, and examine tax incentives to encourage landlords to sell or rent space to artists.

Instead of having council approve funding to arts programs every year, Tory wants to switch to a multi-year funding model that he says would give organizations greater certainty about where their money is coming from.

THE SCORE Tory has been meeting with the arts community in recent months, and it shows.

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Chow’s arts platform endorses the $25 per capita target and the music office proposal. She says she would pay for the latter’s $500,000 annual price tag by indexing the billboard tax to the rate of inflation.

Aside from that, her platform is thin on details. She pledges to “ensure access to affordable, sustainable cultural spaces” like the Artscape program at Wychwood Barns, for example, and to “promote our cultural sector as key pillar of our economy.” She also promises to make “the mayor’s office an active participant” in boosting the arts, but she doesn’t say exactly how she would go about all of this.

THE SCORE Incomplete. Some in the arts community say they’re waiting to hear more from Chow before the election.

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Like the other candidates, Tory supports the $25 per capita funding target and also backs the creation of a music office. But his platform goes further than the other candidates’.

Although he’s running on a low-tax platform, he says he would look into expanding the billboard tax or new similar source of arts funding.

His plan also includes a proposal to appoint a “creative economy champion” who would serve as liaison between the creative sector and the mayor’s office.

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It was well known that Islamic extremists with links to al Qaeda have been actively involved in the threeyear-old Syrian civil war. However, as long as the al-Nusra Front and other fanatical splinter groups were targeting those forces loyal to embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the West was prepared to turn a blind eye.

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Things suddenly took on a whole new perspective when the newly renamed ISIS swept through Iraq in June, driving away the Americantrained and -equipped Iraqi Army with ease, capturing vast tracts of central Iraq, including Mosul, the country’s second-largest city.

Not only did the Iraqi Army flee without a fight, but it also left behind the vast arsenal the U.S. had provided. Within a few hours of the fall of Mosul, ISIS fighters could be seen brandishing all sorts of U.S.made heavy weaponry and driving through the city streets in spanking new captured military vehicles.

Further complicating the geopolitics is the fact that central Iraq is also home to a Sunni Arab minority that was the base of support for former president Saddam Hussein. During Saddam’s 30-year rule, he pointedly gave the Iraqi minorities – Sunni Arabs, Christians, Yazidis, Sabians, etc – preferential treatment at the expense of the Shiite majority. Following the U.S. invasion and execution of Saddam, the simple principle of democracy led to the election of a Shiite prime minister.

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Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has committed a small force to act as advisers to Kurdish militia that controls Iraq’s largest oil field.

al-Maliki was pressured by the withdrawing American political advisers to adapt a conciliatory approach to the Sunni Arabs. However, this being the Middle East, Maliki chose instead to completely marginalize the Sunnis and drastically reduce their political influence. While the vast majority of Iraq’s Sunnis are secular moderates, the draconian policies of Maliki’s government have pushed them into supporting ISIS. The core membership of ISIS forces operating in both Iraq and Syria is estimated to be no larger than 30,000, including a large number of foreign fighters drawn from North America and Europe who are eager to martyr themselves in a holy war.

However, ISIS enjoys the moral if not military support of Iraq’s Sunnis, who see ISIS as their potential saviour from the Shiite majority.

The Canadian government demonstrated its own naïveté and ignorance when it announced that our troops would act as advisers to Kurdish militia. The three northern provinces of Iraq have been independent of the central Baghdad authority since the first Persian Gulf War, when the badly defeated Saddam was forced to cede the territory. In the wake of the ISIS crisis, the Kurdish militia took advantage of the Iraqi Army’s collapse to move south and claim the vital oil fields of Kirkuk. With that economic resource firmly in their grasp – Kirkuk produces 40 per cent of Iraq’s oil – the Kurdish regional government has now declared that it will hold a referendum on full independence from Iraq.

The key to defeating ISIS in Iraq lies in the international community’s ability to ensure that minority rights for Sunnis are fully restored. If that is achieved, Sunni moderates will disassociate themselves from ISIS extremists – as they did during the U.S.-led surge in 2006 – and help defeat the terrorist threat. Canada’s decision to send advisers to assist the Kurds will in no way help defeat ISIS. It will be very awkward for Canada to be on the ground helping the Kurds achieve long-sought statehood, because neighbouring Turkey vehemently opposes Kurdish independence. In the 1990s, Turkish security forces successfully battled Kurdish separatists in eastern Turkey. That brutal conflict claimed the lives of an estimated 30,000 people. The remnant of Kurdish separatists, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), remains in refuge in northern Iraq, which is soon to be declared Kurdistan.

The declaration of an independent Kurdistan will no doubt reignite the separatist militants in Turkey. Turkey is, of course, Canada’s NATO ally.

Given the complexity of the Iraq mosaic and the extremely dangerous consequences, one has to question why Canada’s leaders felt it necessary to plunge our troops into the equation.

3 Scott taylor is a former Canadian infantry soldier, founder of esprit De Corps magazine, author and documentary filmmaker. he has made 21 trips to iraq as a war correspondent. in September 2004, he was held hostage for five days by ansar alislam, the al-Qaeda-linked forerunner of iSiS. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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s I prepare to take my seat in Parliament, someone is on my mind. I can see her face; it’s her voice that I can’t hear any more, except in my memory.

In late 2000, a year after my father died, I had moved comfortably into his job at Citytv. I was on Queen West in the midst of shooting a story when a man rushed out of a building and knocked on the window of the truck I was sitting in.

“I have something for you. Come with me – I’ve been waiting for you.”

He pulled me out of the vehicle and into the past. He took me inside a nearby health clinic and disappeared behind a door; when he came back, he was holding a large photograph of a woman with a beaming smile.

“It’s for you. It’s Cat.” It was one of those moments in life when an act of kindness breaks your heart and heals it at the same time, when somebody gives you something and all you can feel is loss. But it wasn’t bittersweet. There wasn’t a hint of bitterness in what had just happened.

The photograph was of Mary. Her nickname was Cat. Or maybe her name was Cat and someone had re-christened her Mary. Much was unknown about this woman with the beaming smile. Despite the smile, a lot of sadness was etched in her hard, weathered face. But the smile was what you noticed first. It’s what everyone noticed first, until it was taken from us all.

I first met Cat on Queen Street. She huddled in a doorway, sometimes sleeping, often drinking; sometimes she wasn’t there at all. She often disappeared for long stretches and then reappeared as if nothing had changed. You could walk by without noticing her just as easily as you could walk by a lamppost or a spilled cup of coffee. But once you noticed her, she had a way of noticing you. She’d smile an unforgettable smile, a smile I was now remembering as I looked at the photograph I was holding. continued on page 20 œ

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THE INSPIRATION ON MY WALL The black-and-white image had clearly rescued her smile, but it had also saved her face. Her black hair, black as black in the picture, framed her with abandon. It hinted at rage, unruly not untamed. The photo captured her face in detail you could get lost in.

I’d passed Cat several times before I ever said hello. She panhandled almost as an afterthought and had never actually asked me for money.

I’m not sure what I’d have done if she had. Would a couple of quarters help her or hurt her?

Over time, her smiles and my hellos made us neighbours – not the kind you borrow a cup of sugar from, but neighbours like the old man down the street who stops sweeping the sidewalk when you walk by and you nod good morning to as a thankyou while you rush for the streetcar.

No name. No language. No touch. Just a nod and a courtesy exchanged in the rhythm of city life that becomes more familiar with repetition.

That’s how it was. I didn’t hear her voice, or begin to learn her story, until my father put pen to paper one day.

My father wrote a weekly column for the paper. More often that not it was how I’d check in with him if I hadn’t seen him for a while. On this particular morning, he wrote about Cat. He didn’t know whether to call her Cat or Mary. He’d stopped to talk to her about being homeless. She said she wasn’t really homeless. He talked to her about living on the street. She said she didn’t live on the street either.

Sometimes her boyfriend had beaten her up and the street was where she ran to feel safe. Sometimes a couple of beers led to a bottle of something else and then a brown bag with something else again and she was just sleeping it off. Sometimes she couldn’t sleep it off. Sometimes she’d just ride it out for days. Whatever it was she was running from, Cat just seemed to land back on Queen.

My father asked what she did when she wasn’t there. The answer was surprising. She was a volunteer at a homeless shelter. It seemed clear: she either wasn’t taking care of anything, or she was taking care of others, but she somehow hadn’t figured out how to take care of herself. She was aware of the painful humour of it all.

My father followed her to the shelter where she volunteered and talked to her co-workers. She was a mystery to them as well. Alcohol could explain the pattern, but not the cause.

Mary didn’t talk about it, and neither did Cat. The smile masked it all.

Her life had obviously been hard, but it was as though talking about it would only make it harder. The secret was safe even if at times she wasn’t.

My father’s article had no photograph, but the picture of her life was

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so vivid, I knew exactly who he was writing about.

His article made the argument that this goodness, this person, needed a home, deserved our attention, warranted a response. It didn’t matter what put her on the street, but because it was our street, it was our responsibility to make sure she didn’t stay there. Didn’t die there.

But she did. Cat’s is one name on the long list of murdered or missing indigenous women.

I finally met her just weeks before she died, perhaps only a few nights before she was murdered; certainly not in her last hours, but close. I, too, was doing a story on homeless people.

A politician had suggested we arrest people living on the street. It was winter, and I’d set out ask folks sleeping in the cold what they thought of the idea. I didn’t recognize her. She wasn’t in her usual doorway; she was bundled up in a sleeping bag and coat, wet snow hard started to puddle around her. It was late at night. If I’d recognized her, I probably wouldn’t have asked to interview her. After all those moments of silent acknowledgement, it would have been strange to start conversing now. She was groggy, didn’t look up, asked me who I was and why I was talking to her.

“I’m Adam Vaughan....”

Her head shot up.

“Who? Vaughan? Do you know Colin Vaughan?”

“Yeah, he’s my dad” There was a pause.

“He’s a nice man. Hey, can you tell him I’m still trying? Tell him I’m not drinking all the time. I’m not doing well. Don’t tell him that. Tell him I’m still trying like I promised. Tell him it’s good. I’ll get better. Tell him I still work at the shelter.” And then she laughed to herself. “Tell him the sandwiches are still terrible.” She laughed again.

I didn’t interview her. I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. It suddenly had become too personal. I had no way of knowing it, but I would never see her again.

The next time I heard about Cat, she was dead. Whatever she was running from had caught up with her.

She died on the street.

The last time I told this story was at my father’s funeral. The man who gave me the photograph that night on Queen had heard the story. And for that brief moment the woman with the smile was alive again. My father was, too.

As I take a seat in Parliament, I’m thinking of my dad. I’m thinking of that photograph. I’m thinking about that smile that is still a mystery to me.I’m thinking about Cat, or Mary.

Her picture hangs in my new office in Ottawa. He was my dad, she was his friend, and now there is work to do.

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Q+A Naomi Klein

By ADRIA VASIL

starting from the premise that we should try to respond in the way that changes our economic model the least.

They’re constantly touting green growth and climate action that’s good for business. If you look at the discourse coming out of the UN Summit in New York City [this week], it’s all about this [approach]. That’s another form of denialism – economic denialism.

You found some big green groups not just figuratively sleeping with the enemy but drilling with them, too.

I came across a story from 2003 on how the Nature Conservancy [the largest green group in the world, operating in 35 countries], after being given land, had decided to drill [there] for gas. I found that pretty shocking, but also really telling. This is a green group that has all kinds of partnerships with fossil fuel companies and has defended fracking. This thinking that polluters are going to be our partners – that we can do this without friction or conflict – has been guiding our approach to climate change for a couple of decades.

Over that period, our emissions have gone up 61 per cent. It’s time for another approach.

CAPITALISM VS. CLIMATE There’s no averting your eyes when you read Naomi Klein.

The internationally recognized author, journalist and activist has a way of shoving our faces into the darkest corners of capitalism.

In her latest, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate, Klein turns the spotlight on the carnage inflicted by free-market fundamentalism and its “war against life on earth.” Klein issues a “civilizational wake-up call,” but first, she says, she had to wake herself up.

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You confess that you denied climate change for longer than you care to admit.

Hard denial is Donald Trump saying, “This isn’t happening because it’s cold outside.” I didn’t deny climate change, but I was still in a kind of state of denial, looking away, and I think that’s the state most of us are in. I wasn’t engaging with the issue; I was outsourcing it to the big green groups that were supposed to be dealing with it. I thought it was too complicated and just kind of tuned out.

That’s the denial we need to address.

We’re all guilty of that. How do we get people to look climate change in the eye without feeling helpless?

What we look away from isn’t just the crisis, it’s the lack of political response to it. We will really only be able to look when we see a path forward that’s inspiring. That’s why it’s so heartening

that a new climate movement is finding its voice; there’s a convergence of the fossil fuel divestment movement and frontline communities dealing with the impacts of a fossil-fuel-based economy.

You bring up an inconvenient truth that hardcore conservatives may actually understand the significance of climate action more than liberal “warmists.”

I spent a fair bit of time with the hardcore deniers at the Heartland Institute.

They’re dead wrong about the science, but they understand that if the science is true, it presents a fundamental challenge to our growth-based economic system. The people who are in some of the most powerful positions in the environmental movement, particularly in the United States, have consistently advocated an approach to climate change

What other approach?

Let’s try leaving fossil fuel in the ground instead of emitting it, offsetting it, trading it or trying to find another form of fossil fuel like natural gas. Let’s actually switch our economy to decentralized renewables. That doesn’t mean crashing the economy, but it is a challenge to the hyper-profitable model of fossil fuels. The good news is that the profits stay in communities. That’s the model we’re starting to see in places like Germany, which has encouraged hundreds of new energy cooperatives and publicly controlled utilities. This is inspiring.

If the free trade dream has become a climate nightmare, how do we untangle ourselves from trade deals? How realistic is that?

Free trade deals are standing in the way of some good green policies. Ontario was taken to the World Trade Organization by Japan and the EU, which claimed that buylocal production requirements in our Green Energy Act discriminate against Japanese and European technology. It’s extraordinary. We’re knocking down each other’s windmills when we’re supposed to be moving toward renewable technology.

The problem in Ontario is that the Canadian government didn’t defend Ontario policy. It could have aggressively stood up to the WTO, but instead it caved, for obvious reasons: it’s basically an extension of the oil and gas industry, which sees all of this as competition.

At this point Canadians are told they have to choose between jobs and the planet.

That’s a false dichotomy. If we took the $1.3 billion spent by the federal government on fossil fuel subsidies and put it into a green economic transition, whether it’s renewables, public transit or energy efficiency, we would create six to eight times as many jobs. This past week, Merrill Lynch issued a report describing Canada’s loonie as a petrocurrency and talked specifically about the collapse in manufacturing employment because of the petroleum boom.

Yeah, it’s creating some jobs, [but] it’s destroying far more. This is how oil dependency works: it kind of destroys everything around it, and then people become more dependent.

Mulcair, Trudeau and, of course, Harper are all pro-oil-sands. So how should Canadians vote next year?

Trudeau and Mulcair are both failing to chart a future for Canada that doesn’t involve our continuing to be a climate criminal. They have both picked their pipelines and are cheering for them.

Now is the time for them to hear from their supporters, loud and clear, that this is not acceptable.

The Blockadia Rising movement is increasingly relying on indigenous people to be the legal barrier to high-carbon projects. Empowered alliance or “extractive” relationship?

As governments try to push through high-risk projects without local consent, it is becoming clear to more

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I’ll admit I silently rejoiced when I found out Naomi Klein was taking on climate change. You know if this woman tackles a subject, she’s going to skewer the shit out of anyone screwing humanity in the shadows. And she does, nailing everyone from our oilslicked politicians and green billionaire messiahs all the way to the green movement itself (and its behind-thescenes sellouts), leaving the reader slack-jawed and spellbound.

The odds may be stacked against her social-justicesteeped Marshall Plan to save the earth, but so too, argues Klein, were the odds of abolishing slavery.

This Changes Everything is guaranteed to inspire a whole generation to join the resistance movement and push for change from a place of love for the only AV planet we’ve got.

JOIN THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH people that indigenous land rights – if backed by muscular mass movements – are the most potent legal barrier. But there is a risk of those rights being seen simply as a kind of useful tool by green NGOs, not as part of a broader anti-colonial movement fighting for real sovereignty. It’s crucial to recognize that a debt is owed to indigenous peoples for past and ongoing land theft. Only when that is recognized will there be the resources to build good economic alternatives to extraction.

You say it’s not an anti-fossil fuel movement but a pro-water movement.

Water is the uniter of all of these movements against fracking, openpit mining, tar sands pipelines and

It’s time to rise to the challenge of saving our planet. Be part of the Toronto People’s Climate March, starting at 1 pm in Nathan Phillips Square on Sunday (September 21).

The same day, the People’s Climate Forum kicks off Sustainable Canada Dialogues at 9:30 am at Ryerson’s Ted Rogers School of Management (55 Dundas West).

tankers. What animates communities is the threat to their water system.

It’s also what binds us together in really powerful ways.

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Benefits

Gallery hOp Gala dinner & auCtiOn (Can-

adian Art Fdn) Gala event. 6 pm. $600.

Guvernment/Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. canadianart.ca/galleryhop. a mOvie niGht in the park (Ontario Health Coalition) Screening of Poor No More and a discussion with Natalie Mehra and Linda McQuaig. 8-10 pm. Free, donations appreciated.

Phin Avenue Parkette, 115 Condor (near Donlands station). onatriohealthcoalition.ca.

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mentary about the campaign to ban singleserve plastic bottles in a Massachusetts town, followed by Q&A. 6:30 pm. $11. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. planetinfocus.org.

exOtiC apple tastinG and bOOk launCh

Taste apple varieties and learn about easy-togrow trees. 7-9 pm. $5 donation. Cho-cosol 1131 St Clair W. slowfood.to. 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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Festivals this week

Canada’s Walk Of fame festival Performances by Dean Brody, Matthew Good and Jay Baruchel, Burton Cummings and more to celebrate Canadian artists. From $39.

Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. canadaswalkoffame.com.

Sep 18 to 20 franCOphOnie en fete French music and arts festival featuring performances by Les Cowboys Frignants, Amadou Kienou and many others plus workshops. $10-$35, some events free. Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst), Alliance Française (24 Spadina) and the Distillery District. francophonie-en-fete.com.

Sep 18 to 21 Jfl42 COmedy festival Performances Seth Meyers, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Mantown, Sara Hennessey, Andy Kindler and others. Various prices and venues. jfl42.com.

Sep 18 to 27 rOn COmmOn GrOund Multidisciplinary arts and cultural festival includes music, dance, storytelling, digital theatre, visual arts, crafts food and family friendly activities. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Historic Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. toronto.ca/fortevents.

Sep 20 to 21 Shows, all-star battles, panel discussions, workshops an awards ceremony and more. $20-$45. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tuds.gadfly.ca.

Sep 24 to 28

frOm menaCinG tO hiaWatha: tOrOntO island and its peOple in the 18th & 19th Centuries Talks by Max King, M Jane Fairburn and Donald Smith. 7 pm. Free. Ward’s Clubhouse, Toronto Island. firststorytoronto@gmail.com. manhunt Games played in parks and streets.

Today and tomorrow. 9 pm. Free. See website for locations. meetup.com/UrbaniGames.

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haunted tOrOntO sCavenGer hunt Trivia-

based team competition. 8-10:30 pm. $30.

Meet in front of 273 Bloor W. Pre-register 416895-2378, urbancapers.com. kensinGtOn kraWl Walking tour with tastings from area eateries. Today and tomorrow 11:30 am. $55. Bellevue Square, Augusta and Wales. Pre-register savourtoronto.com.

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continuing COmmffest film festival Art and films about

issues that affect communities. Various prices. Rainbow Cinemas (80 Front E) and other venues. commffest.com.

To Sep 20 eCO-art-fest Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, an exhibit and more. Wed to Sun, 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, dramatic readings, poetry and more explore the intersection of religious faith, artistic practice and social justice. Free/pwyc-$15. Saint Ste-

market 707 farmers market 3-7 pm. Free.

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

meet the resistanCe tO barriCk GOld Short film followed by discussion with Jethro Tulin of the Porgera Alliance in Papua New Guinea, about the campaign against the world’s largest mining company. 7 pm. Free. Harvest Noon, 16 Bancroft. protestbarrick.net.

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dhuC 60th anniversary Gala (Don Heights Unitarian Congregation) Dinner and musical entertainment by Three Docs and a Dame. 6 pm. $50. 18 Wynford, suite 102. Pre-register 416-444-8839.

phen-in-the-Fields Church (365 College) and other venues. saintstephens.ca.

To Oct 7

manifestO festival Of COmmunity and

Culture Art, dance, music, fashion, educational workshops, film and hip-hop culture with graffiti art by SKAM, a 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.

To Sep 21 tOrOntO beer Week This celebration of craft brewing includes tastings, a brew cruise on the River Gambler, brewing demonstrations, homebrew contests and more.

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

To Sep 20

5nude GhOsts: allen GinsberG, General idea and the fOrmatiOn Of Queer erOs Lec-

ture on Ginsberg’s art in its socio-political context by Jonathan D Katz. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free.

University College, rm 140, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca.

5Queer sWinG danCe beGinner Class No partner or dance experience necessary. 6:457:30 pm. $6. 519 Church Community Centre. swinginout.ca.

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family activities and guest speakers. 5-7 pm.

Free. CRC, 40 Oak. 416-363-4234, crc@tcrc.ca. sCienCe rOCks! Music playground for adults to check out live performances, interact with exhibits and more. 7 pm. $15-$18. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. small business netWOrk Talk by Filip Ivanovski, developer of the Gametime Scoreboard.

6:30-8 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674. sOurdOuGh breadmakinG WOrkshOp Learn to make a whole wheat sourdough loaf. 6:308:30 pm. $5 sugg. Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston. Pre-register manager@karmacoop.org. tai Chi Try the first class for $5. 6:25 pm. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com. tbG OrGaniC farmers’ market Local produce, bread, meat, cheese, honey, gardeners’ advice clinic and more. 2-7 pm. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

WOmen and ClOthes Launch for a collection of stories about women and how they feel about what they put on themselves. Bring 5 items of laundered clothing to swap with others (unclaimed items donated to Sistering).

7-9 pm. Free. Gravity Pope, 1010 Queen W. typebooks.ca.

Friday, September 19

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the COlin & deb made-up shOW (Glebe Road

United Church) Benefit improv and sketch comedy show with Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath. 7:30 pm. $25-$40. 20 Glebe E. gleberoadunited.org. defty aWards Gala (Canadian Cultural Society of the Deaf) Awards for deaf performing artists in the fields of drama, poetry, comedy and more. 7 pm. $100. Deaf Culture Centre, 34 Distillery. Pre-register deafculturecentre.ca.

With author Donna Kakonge. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000. maitreya lOvinG kindness tOur Exhibition of sacred Buddhist relics from India, Tibet, Korea and China. To Sep 21. Free. Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre, 40 Titan. tcccgc.org.

OntariO universities’ fair Talk with senior faculty and representatives from 21 Ontario universities. To Sep 21. Free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre South Bldg, 222 Bremner.

416-585-8000, ouf.ca. stuff yOu shOuld knOW Live show and podcast taping with hosts Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark of the website HowStuffWorks. 7 pm & 10 pm. $22.50 (ticketfly.com). Royal Theatre, 608 College. stuffyoushouldknow.com. taste lOCal Wine and pie tastings. 5-9 pm. $10. 1095 Queen W. lcbo.com/events.

WritinG a ya series Interactive writing workshop. 1-3 pm. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. Pre-register 416-393-7720.

Saturday, September 20

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Pledges/$25 same-day reg fee. Etienne Brulé Park, Old Mill and Bloor. Pre-register diabeteshopefoundation.com. friends fOr life Walk Weekend (Ontario SPCA) Fundraising walk for people and their dogs to help support animals in need. 10 am-3 pm. Pledges. OSPCA Provincial Office, 16586 Woodbine (Newmarket). bit.ly/1qPfvJW. OssinGtOn COmmunity fun raiser (Ossington Community Assoc) A cabaret show, live music, a live auction and dance party. Doors 7 pm. Pwyc. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. ossingtoncommunity.wordpress.com. tWeed ride tOrOntO (Bikes Without Borders) Cyclists don vintage-inspired clothes for a ride followed by high tea and a party. 2:30 pm. $20. Starts at Trinity Bellwoods Park, 790 Queen W. Pre-register tweedridetoronto.com.

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art, Creativity, & spirituality WOrkshOp

Short centreing exercises, silent time to create followed by a time of optional sharing. 1-4 pm.

Free. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, 18 Wynford. donheights.ca. behaviOural intervieW skills Workshop for new immigrants. 9:30 am-2 pm. Free. Centre for Immigrant & Community Services, 3850 Finch E. Pre-register 416-293-4565 ext 113, cicscanada.com. breath WOrk & meditatiOn Workshop. 1:302:30 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-3920511 ext 225.

CarfaC supreme CelebratiOn Closing party for the conference for visual artists, featuring the presentation of the Visual Arts Advocate Award. Open to all. 8 pm. Free. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. facebook.com/ events/337304903117551.

CCO shOreline Cleanup Join Conservation Council of Ontario members and friends to help clean up the park. 1:30-4 pm. Free. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. shorelinecleanup.ca. rCentreville’s amusinG raCe Trivia-based family scavenger hunt. Today and tomorrow.

Free w/ admission. Centreville Amusement Park, Centre Island. centreisland.ca.

de-STreSS YoUr life Weekly course. To Nov 15.

10:10 am-10:55 am. First-class drop-in/trial $5. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com. dUndaS weST Sidewalk Sale 10 am-10 pm.

Between Lansdowne and Shaw. duwestbia@ gmail.com. rfall feST 2014 Ethnic food, entertainment, arts and crafts, face painting and more. 11 am-2 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Services, 7220 Kennedy, unit 8 (Markham).

Pre-register welcomecentre.ca. froM wwi To iSiS – iMperialiSM: war & reVolUTion Presentation and discussion on

the era of modern imperialism hosted by the International Bolshevik Tendency. 7 pm. Free.

OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 3-310. 416-923-6641, bolshevik.org. gallerY hop 2014 Guided gallery tours and talks and a panel discussion. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, Queen West, Parkdale and the Junction. canadianart.ca/galleryhop. go gloBal expo Info on opportunities to study, work, volunteer or live overseas. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free. Mattamy Athletic Centre, 50 Carlton. letsgoglobal.ca. hUMBer hiSToriCal walk Reenactment of the first day of governor John Graves Simcoe’s 1793 journey up the Toronto Carrying Place. 9 am. Free. Meet at parking area next to gas station, 8 South Kingsway. 416-767-7633. inTrodUCTorY MediTaTion Learn three easy techniques. 1 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-539-0234.

JCMh flea MarkeT Vintage clothes, records, housewares, handmade goods and snacks for sale. Noon-7 pm. Free. Junction City Music Hall, 2907 Dundas W. 416-368-1368.

JUnCTion MUSiC feSTiVal Music on five outdoor stages featuring the Sadies, Kashka, the Beauties, Chameleon Project and many others, food and more. Free. Dundas W at Keele and area. junctionmusicfestival.com.

MiCroBirTh Film screening and discussion. 7 pm. $10. St. Matthews Clubhouse, 450 Broadview. jen.elliott@rogers.com.

MirViSh Village Sidewalk Sale Vintage and new finds, food, live music and more. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. Markham Street, west side of Honest Ed’s. mirvishvillagebia.com.

MiTzVah TeChniQUe Workshop on postural re-education. 2-3 pm. Free. Eglinton W & Allen Rd area. Pre-register mitzvahtechnique.ca.

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. Preregister 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. okToBerfeST Ceremonial keg-tapping, German folk music and entertainment, food and more. 2-11 pm. $30. Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. steamwhistle.ca. rpioneer harVeST feSTiVal Mennonite and Pennsylvania-German festival, with candledipping demos, apple pressing, cheese-making and more. 11 am-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca.

reprodUCTiVe JUSTiCe: eQUal aCCeSS now

Rally for reproductive health care for all and to demand that the Conservative government enforce the Canada Health Act. 11 am. Free.

Ryerson University Lake Devo, Victoria and Gould Streets. arcc-cdac.ca. roUge park walkS Guided walks in the urban wilderness. Today and tomorrow 9:30 am, 12:30 & 2 pm. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike. rSUper SleUTh SepTeMBer Kids 5 to 12 train as detectives, hunt for clues, look for fingerprints, solve the case and more. $60 for all four sessions. Scarborough Historical Museum, 1007 Brimley. Pre-register 416-338-8807.

Swap don’T Shop CloThing Swap parTY

Bring your unwanted clothes to swap with others plus on-site alternations. Noon-4 pm. $5. IndustREAL Arts Room, 688 Richmond W. swapdontshop@gmail.com.

SYMphonY of The Soil Canadian Organic Growers doc screening and Q&A. 7 pm. Free.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. cogtoronto.org.

Take BaCk The nighT ToronTo Fight to eradicate violence against women and children.

Community fair (4:30-6:30 pm), rally (6:308:30 pm) and march (8:30-9:30 pm). Free. 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church. takebackthenighttoronto.com.

TollkeeperS’ annUal Book Sale Buy books and support the Community History Project in preserving this site. Today & tomorrow, noon4:30 pm. Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca.

ToronTo SalSa praCTiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5 pm, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.

ToronTo VinTage CloThing Show Vintage

and retro clothing, accessories and jewellery.

10 am-5 pm. $10. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. torontovintageclothingshow.ca.

The Town of York & The war of 1812 Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. St James Park, King and Church. heritagetoronto.org.

UnflUoridaTe Me Peaceful assembly and march. 11 am-3 pm. free. City Hall, 100 Queen W. endfluoridetoronto.com.

VoiCe MoVeMenT TherapY Workshops with vocalization, movement, imagery and the unconscious for psychological and emotional discovery. 10 am-5 pm. $125, adv $100. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. iavmt.org. rweSTern BeaCheS CoMMUniTY daY Great Shoreline Clean-Up event, open house at Joy Oil Station, tours, kids’ activities and more. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Sunnyside Beach and Joy Station area, Lake Shore W at Ellis. highpark.org.

world laTin danCe CUp QUalifierS & MaSQUerade Ball Watch a dance competition

followed by a night of live music and dancing.

7 pm. $20-$25. Oplenac Hall, 895 Rangeview (Mississauga). 416-876-7727, latinenergy.ca.

one daY for peaCe (Amnesty International)

Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. leSlieVille farMerS’ MarkeT 9 am-2 pm.

Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward. leslievillemarket.com. rThe leSlieVille flea Outdoor flea market with a variety of vintage, salvaged and upcycled goods. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen E. leslievilleflea.com. liBerTY Village farMerS MarkeT Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca. life drawing SeSSionS Sketch from live models. 2:30-5:30 pm (30-min break in the middle). $10. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com.

ManifeSTo feSTiVal: SUMMiT Singer/songwriter Ryan Leslie is the keynote at this event that includes panel discussions and workshops for artists. Noon-7 pm. $10 adv. George Brown Waterfront Campus, 51 Dockside. Preregister mnfstosummit.eventbrite.ca. parkdale Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca. people’S CliMaTe forUM Mini-conference on science-based policies to help us transition to more sustainable development. 9:30 am-2

Concert with Ania Soul & the St Royals, Dean West, Alissa Vox Raw and others. 8 pm. $15.

Revival, 783 College. onedayforpeace.com.

Events

Bird walkS aT ToMMY ThoMpSon park

Guided nature walk. Bring snacks and binoculars. 8-11 am. Free. 1 Leslie, south of Commissioners. 416-661-6600 ext 5770.

The danCe of d/S Workshop on the dom/sub dynamic. 5:30-7:30 pm. $25 sliding scale.

Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

The don ValleY: a BiCYCle ToUr froM TodMorden MillS To lake onTario Heritage To-

ronto tour. 1:30 pm. $25. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. 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. food TrUCk feST onTario Vendors include Food Dudes, Curbalicious and more. $10-$45.

Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. 416-3149900, foodtruckfest.ca.

The word on The STreeT Booklovers’ heaven

featuring author readings, magazine exhibits, comic arts, kids’ programming, workshops, panels and entertainment. 11 am-6 pm. Free.

Queen’s Park Circle, Queen’s Park south of Bloor. thewordonthestreet.ca. rYoUTh arTS SpaCe laUnCh International Day of Peace event with a moment of silence, activities led by community artists, speeches, performances, a marketplace and more. 4-8 pm. Free. Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes. childrenspeacetheatre.org.

Monday, September 22

Events

all ThaT gliTTerS: a liTUrgY for The renUnCiaTion of gold The destructive effects

of mining and how to symbolically divest ourselves of gold are the topics of this service. 2 pm. Free. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. saintstephens.ca.

diS-orienTaTion – fear of an aCTiVe CaMpUS

Alternative student orientation highlighting issues of social justice and freedom of expression. To Sep 26. Free. York University, 4700 Keele. diso2014.opirgyork.ca.

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Free. Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000. fUTUre of ToUriSM (Planterra Fdn) Conversation about how travellers and travel companies can make the world a better place to live and explore with Bruce Poon Tip, Daniel Houghton and others. 6:45 pm. Free/pwyc.

Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208, futourism.org. hiSTorY MaY Be freedoM Discussion on Nicholas Ferrar and the Little Gidding Church.

7:30 pm. Free. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. saintstephens.ca. inTrodUCTorY MediTaTion Learn three easy techniques. 7 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-539-0234.

Male BodY iMage SUpporT groUp Weekly meeting for men struggling with weight, diet and image issues. 6:30-8 pm. Sheena’s Place, 87 Spadina Rd. sheenasplace.org.

MaYoral deBaTe on diSaBiliTY iSSUeS Find out which candidate will make the city more accessible and inclusive. Real-time captioning, ASL interpretation and attendant care available. 1-3:30 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. Pre-register 416-392-0335, effie@ scaddingcourt.org.

10 rUleS for happY non-MonogaMY Workshop with Andrea Zanin. 7:30 pm. $25 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

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

Yoga Tree open hoUSe New studio opening features free classes all day. 9 am-9 pm. Yoga Tree, 123 Dundas W. yogatree.ca.

Tuesday, September 23

Benefits

BUTTerflY ClaSSiC golf ToUrnaMenT (Geneva Centre for Autism) Full course, four-person team scramble tournament followed by a BBQ lunch, cocktail reception and silent auction, awards, dinner and more. 8:30 am. $400.

Angus Glen Golf Club, 10080 Kennedy (Markham). Pre-register autism.net/golf. woMen BUild 2014 (Habitat for Humanity GTA) Join other women to help fight poverty and build a home for a family in need. Sep 2327 in Brampton (8600 Torbram). Min $500 raised. Pre-register womenbuildgta.ca.

Events

Yoga Try out the first class of this weekly

1-hour practice. 11:15 am. $5. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-3920511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com.

YoUTh opera laB An interactive drama workshop, backstage tour and viewing a working rehearsal. For ages 16-24. 5-9:30 pm. Free.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. Pre-register coc.ca/YOL.

Sunday, September 21

Benefits

rBUnfeST! (Rabbit Rescue) A bunny spa,

glamour photo shoot, veterinarian advice and more. 11 am-4 pm. $7. Bob Rumball Centre for the Deaf, 2395 Bayview. bunfest.ca.

rCeleBraTing 10 YearS of SonShine and BroCColi (Rock n Stroll at Mt Sinai Hospital)

The children’s musical group Sonshine and Broccoli perform. 10 am-noon. $15, family 4-pack $50. St Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst. 1-800-838-3006.

girlS on filM x The Keyhole Sessions presents

a debaucherous all-cameras event. 1:30-4:30 pm. $125. Dundas West car repair shop, address w/ ticket. thekeyholesessions.com. giVing peaCe a ChanCe International Day of Peace celebration with a screening of short peace-oriented films, vegetarian/vegan refreshments and discussion. $16. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. vowpeace.org/event/4687. rharVeST feSTiVal Crafts, outdoor tours, live music, tastings and more. Noon-4 pm. Free.

Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.

The howardS of high park Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Meet at Tenant Farmer Cottage. heritagetoronto.org. inTerfaiTh SYMpoSiUM & ConCerT International Peace Day event with panel discussions, supper and music by diverse choirs. 2-9 pm. $10-$30, symposium free. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen E. embracepeace.ca. kenSingTon CUlinarY adVenTUre Answer trivia questions and complete taste challenges. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Kensington Market.

pm. Free (RSVP). Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School, 55 Dundas W. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/12844124121.

poST a leTTer SoCial aCTiViTY ClUB: BaCk To SChool Letter-writing at a historic post office.

1-4 pm. Free (pwyc stationery). Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide E. pal-sac.com.

reading The don: loST riVerS poeTrY walk

Poets Maureen Scott Harris, Maureen Hynes, Anita Lahey, Nick Power and Dilys Leman walk along the Lower Don and read its history. 11 am. Free. St Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450 Broadview. torontogreen.ca/news/events.

ToronTo CliMaTe MarCh March in solidarity with hundreds of thousands in NYC and around the world. 1 pm. Free. Starts and ends at Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. facebook.com/torontoclimatemarch.

ToronTo garliC feSTiVal Talks by farmers, chefs and health experts, taste-judging, cooking demos, a film screening and more. 9 am-5 pm. $5, kids free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. torontogarlicfestival.ca.

The arT of reCeiVing SerViCe Workshop on

server/served relationships. BDSM experience not required. 7:30-9:30 pm. $25 sliding scale.

Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

CoMiC BookS and graphiC noVelS Group online course taken at the library through Coursera. To Nov 4, Tuesdays 6-8:30 pm. Free.

Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000.

CYBer haCking: an inSide look Learn how to protect yourself from cyber hackers. 6:458:15 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535.

loUiS kaplan in ConVerSaTion wiTh MarCUS Boon Exploring the meaning and use of

photography in Beat culture with a focus on Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and William S Burroughs. 7 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca. oSTeoporoSiS Health talk. 1-2 pm. Free. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. 416-393-7650. continued on page 26 œ

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The feds are undermining health care, favouring private interests and promoting austerity measures that threaten the system. The Ontario Health Coalition fights back by sharing info and encouraging its 400-plus member orgs to get engaged in policy making. Support the OHC at Movie In The Park, Thursday (September 18), when the doc Poor No More screens, followed by a discussions with OHC director Natalie Mehra and author Linda McQuaig.

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Jethro Tulin leads a discussion at U of T’s Graduates Students Union about Porgera Alliance’s years-long efforts against T.O.-based Barrick Gold’s Papua New Guinea mine project on Thursday (September 18). A short film precedes Tulin’s talk. The Alliance has been fighting the forced evictions of thousands who live within the company’s Special Mining Lease area. Reports by both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reveal that Barrick security abused villagers. Barrick has finally admitted to gang rapes at the mine by company security. Free. 7 pm. 16 Bancroft. protestbarrick.net

October 2nd, 6:30 - 9:00 PM Free. Pilot PMR, 250 the Esplanade. PrePWA Board Room, 200 Gerrardpm.

St. E., 2nd Floor register eventbrite.ca/e/12552772681.

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tory course. 6 pm. Free. MaRS Discovery Centre Auditorium, 101 College. Pre-register marsdd.com/entrepreneurship-101.

EVERyTHING yOu WANTED TO KNOW ABOuT CEO David Miller talks about the World WildSTATISTICS Workshop. 7-8 pm. Free. North York life Fund’s projects including oil spill research Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535. in the arctic and oceans and freshwater manHIRE CANADA Job fair and training expo with agement. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Toronto Reference recruiters, resumé critiques and career conLibrary, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7131. sultants. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Mississauga ConSOCIAL JuSTICE AND OuR VOTING SySTEm Denvention Centre, 75 Derry W. hirecanada.ca.

People AIDS Foundation nis Pilon and Dennis Toronto Raphael talk about how With LIVING mEDITATION Class for all levels. 7-8:30 our voting system affects our quality of life, 200 Gerrard St. E., pm.

2nd Fl.Ralph Thornton Free.

Centre, 765 Queen health and social justice. 7-9 pm. Free. Metro E. 416-392-6810.

Hall, 55 John. fairvotetoronto.ca.

Toronto, ON M5A 2E6 NORTHWORDS Writers Joseph Boyden, Noah www.pwatoronto.org Richler, Rabindranath Maharaj and others talk about their expedition to Labrador in this film screening and discussion. 7-8 pm. Free. North mOTHERS ARE STARzz (Four Villages CommunYork Central Library Auditorium, 5120 Yonge. ity Health Ctr Healthy Women, Healthy Babies Pre-register 416-395-5639. program) Shannon Butcher and Lori Cullen NOTHING ACCOmPLISHED: OuR WAR IN AFand the Jazz Generation orchestra perform.

GHANISTAN Science for Peace lecture by John 8-10 pm. $30-$35. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas Duncan. 4-6 pm. Free. University College, 15 W. 416-531-6604, 4villageschc.ca.

King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

NuTRITION TIPS FOR SENIORS Talk by a representative of Toronto Public Health. 6:30-7:30 CANCER, DIABETES, ALzHEImER’S: WHAT DO pm. Free. Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 EgTHEy ALL HAVE IN COmmON? Talk by herbalist linton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000.

Morwenna Given. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Auditorium, 789 PAGES uNBOuND: THOmAS KEENAN AND ANN Yonge. 416-393-7131.

CAVOuKIAN Computer security expert Keenan and privacy expert Cavoukian discuss priDOuG FORD IS my CO-PILOT: HOW A CRACKvacy and big data. 7 pm. $10. Gladstone HoSmOKING mAyOR CHANGED THE GAmE FOR tel, 1214 Queen W. pages-unbound.com.

CRISIS mANAGEmENT PR experts John O’Leary and Christopher Eby and Crazy Town author POP HIS ROCKET BJ workshop. 7:30-9:30 pm.

Robyn Doolittle discuss crisis managment. 6-8 $20. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-

Wednesday, September 24

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Linda McQuaig talks health care September 18. register 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

ROuGE PARK WALKS Guided walks in the urban wilderness. 9:30 am. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike.

RyERSON’S FARmERS mARKET Local produce, food trucks and music. 11 am-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca.

SINGLE DADS, SEPARATED DADS, DIVORCED DADS Q&A and support group meeting.

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

VEGECuRSION Walking tour with vegetarian and vegan tastings. 6:15 pm. $75. Location TBA. Pre-register savourtoronto.com.

upcoming Thursday, September 25

Benefits

THE FOOD COuRT SOCIAL (Augmented Educa-

tion Program) Enjoy food prepared by chefs from the best T.O. restaurants including Mark McEwan and Lynn Crawford. 7-11 pm. $150.

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. Preregister thefoodcourtsocial.com.

NIGHT FOR RIGHTS AFTER PARTy (Journalists for Human Rights) Live performance by Dragonette, silent auction, DJ party and more.

9:30 pm. $75. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay, 8th floor. picatic.com/Night4Rights2014.

Events

ALLIANCE FRANçAISE SEASON LAuNCH The French arts and culture org launches its season with a party. 6 pm. Free. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca.

CANADIAN INVESTOR CONFERENCE Industry analysts, hedge fund managers, trends forecasters and finance celebrities cover speculative and direct investments and strategies and macro trends. Today and tomorrow. Preregister for free, $20 at the door. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. cambridgehouse.com.

GODS, TOmBS AND TEmPLES RESuRRECTED

Who’s the Greenest of them All?

TEA has released a Green Action Agenda for candidates.

Learn more at torontoenvironment.org/vote2014

Activists fighting sexual assault hit the road Saturday (September 20) in the annual Take Back The Night event. A community fair gets under way at 4:30 pm, followed by a rally at 6:30 and march at 8:30 pm, when a loud contingent of women takes back the streets.

Free. 519 Church. takebackthenighttoronto. com

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Egyptologist Andrew Bednarski talks about archaeological work in Luxor over the past 3 years. 7-9:30 pm. $10-$25. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. Pre-register godstombstemples. eventbrite.ca.

IF I HAD A ROCKET LAuNCHER Workshop with songwriter Jon Brooks on protest music, polemic and prayer in songs. 7 pm. Free. Trinity College, 6 Hoskin. saintstephens.ca. mAKING CAREER TRANSITIONS Workshop for new immigrants. 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. Centre for Immigrant & Community Services, 3850 Finch E. Pre-register 416-293-4565 ext 0, cicscanada.com. mAyORAL DEBATE ON THE ENVIRONmENT Toronto Environmental Alliance hosts an event to find the greenest candidate. 6:30-9:30 pm.

Free/pwyc. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. Pre-register torontoenvironment.org.

SECuLAR ROSH HASHONAH Humanistic Jewish New Year celebration, with blowing of the shofar, readings, poetry, music and more.

10:30 am. $50, stu/unwaged $25, child $20.

Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416789-5502, winchevskycentre.org.

THEASTER GATES The Chicago artist talks about community projects that engage with the public. 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $8. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

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Learn how three professionals in the communications business parlayed their educations into careers in journalism, marketing and public relations – and find out where to study so you can pursue similar opportunities. Compiled by KEVIN RITCHIE

Russ Martin Staff writer, Marketing Magazine I’m on the social media beat at Marketing, a trade magazine owned by Rogers. I write primarily about social media marketing and digital marketing. I also run our Twitter account, so I have some social media management responsibilities as well.

I went to Ryerson for journalism – specifically online journalism, a course that allows you to finish your fourth year with an online-specific focus.

I started in the magazine program and then moved into online, where I was taught by Wayne MacPhail, an excellent professor. Who you get as a professor can be the luck of the draw. I was fortunate to have someone who was forward-thinking. We did a lot of the things that I do now, like

using the internet as a research or promotional tool.

I started writing for a community newspaper, the Carman Valley Leader in southern Manitoba, when I was 16. I was on the student staff at the Winnipeg Free Press, which had a quarterly student section. We were in charge of the content and the editorial meetings.

The work I did while studying led to a permanent job – I worked with Marketing part-time while I went to school. My advice would be to start pitching yourself as soon as possible, because school gives you the rules, but other things you learn on the fly. I didn’t do coding, which I ended up learning in my last position at Post Media. I’ve picked up technical things in the workplace that we didn’t touch on in school.

I really enjoy interacting with readers. When I run social media for the magazine, I get to have real conversations with them. Sometimes you fix their problems, and that’s been unexpectedly rewarding.

I went to Ryerson for journalism – specifically online journalism. Who you get as a professor can be the luck of the draw. I was fortunate to have someone who was forward-thinking. We did a lot of the things that I do now, like using the internet as a research or promotional tool.

Expect long hours. Some days we publish 20 stories online, but we are still part of a print cycle so we have long hours during production weeks.

Problem-solving becomes important when you’re dealing with content management systems.

You have to get over the hurdle of not knowing what you’re doing, and it has to be okay not to know. An increasing amount of time is devoted to formatting stories, embedding videos and sizing pictures correctly. You have to know a little bit of Photoshop, a little code, a little bit of everything.

Whatever skill sets I’m not using at work I’m developing on a freelance basis. I recap TV shows, which is a completely different writing style than business news. I don’t want to lose the voice I developed over the years, so I try to write for different publications. I wrote a little thing for the Walrus last spring that was personal and heartfelt, something you hardly ever do in business news.

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After high school, I completed my BA in media, information and technoculture at the University of Western Ontario in London. I also did a certificate in writing, and after that went straight into a post-graduate certificate in public relations at Humber College.

My undergrad program taught me time management skills and the balance between social life and academia. A lot of critical thinking skills came out of my time at Western.

From there, I wanted to take what I’d

From day one, we were encouraged to stop thinking like students and start thinking like professionals. And we were treated like colleagues by our professors. It was a different way to learn than I’d experienced in my undergrad studies.

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Knowing how to work with people requires a different kind of training. At Humber we were encouraged to participate and become part of the discussion – not just be told the answers but come up with them on our own. From day one, we were encouraged to stop thinking like students and start thinking like professionals. And we were treated like colleagues by our professors.

It was a different way to learn than I’d experienced in my undergrad studies.

The media landscape is always changing, and the professors pushed more current examples so we could understand not so much the traditional

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PR they themselves practised, but digital and social media strategies. All these tools allow for companies to have a direct conversation with customers. We were taught how to start conversations and build relationships.

The exposure to so many different types of people is the best part of the job. You are the eyes and the ears of the organization. You need to know what’s going on all the time. I interact with all different staffers. There are 8,000 staff at the hospital, so in one day I can interact with nurses, students, the surgeon-in-chief and the chief of research.

A good PR person is patient. You have to understand a client’s needs and ask a lot of questions to learn what they’re looking for. You put yourself in the client’s shoes: maybe they are having a stressful day and can’t explain what they’re looking for. You have to be empathetic.

You work under constant pressure from your clients. As production coordinator, I’m the link to in-house designers, clients, the print shop. It’s about working with all these stakeholders and making sure everyone is happy.

I didn’t realize how broad public relations is, and how applicable to so many different fields.

When I started my post-grad, I had no idea I would be working at a hospital. I use a wide variety of skills: writing, design, negotiation, business development. The program didn’t just teach me hands-on writing and PR skills; it also taught me the soft skills all employers expect from any entry-level employee.

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Melissa Couto Sports reporter and editor, Canadian Press I work primarily on the desk at Canadian Press, editing copy that comes in. I also do some writing for our print, online and radio columns and, every once in a while I go out on assignment, whether it’s covering a Blue Jays game or a press conference. I also contribute a weekly column for Bob Elliott’s website, CanadianBaseballNetwork.com.

I went to the University of Western Ontario in London for my undergrad in general arts and a master’s in history. At a Blue Jays game, I struck up a conversation with some fans behind me who had a friend who’d taken the sports journalism program at Centennial College. Afterwards I did some research, called the school and found out what it was all about. I decided it was a good fit for me: I’d been learning to write for the past five years in university and really like baseball, so I thought maybe I could put these things together.

I’m not a baseball player myself, but I have three older brothers who played, so I was involved in the sport and learned to love it through my brothers’ experiences. I was five and six years old when the Blue Jays won the World Series, a time in Canada when kids were really starting to like baseball.

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In school, we focused on writing for an online audience, which means shorter stories and getting to the point more quickly. We also did podcasts and video features to insert into articles. At the end of the program I interned at the Toronto Sun and saw first-hand how a newspaper operates. I was thrown into the fire during that internship – they got me to cover every major sport, even the Grey Cup in Toronto.

Growing up, you always read Bob Elliott if you’re a baseball fan, and I met Bob through the program on the spring training trip. I formed a good working relationship with him, and he was a big part of my getting the internship at the Toronto Sun. A good sports reporter should be outgoing.

That was something I battled with because I’m pretty shy, and it takes courage to go up to an athlete and start a conversation. It helps to have a desire to do well. You can go into a scrum and get a story, but you’ll have the same story as everybody else. Your paper will want that story, but it’s those one-on-one interviews that lead to the best pieces.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 These horoscopes I

write for you aren’t primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I’m doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I’ll pose three pertinent questions. 1. What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen? 2.

What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want? 3. Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon?

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 The old Latin

motto Gradu diverso, via una can be translated as either “Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride” or “Going the same way, but changing your pace.” I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus. By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You are headed in the right direction. But you need to shift your approach a bit – not a lot, just a little. You’ve got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 For years, Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, ovalshaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden. Then, one day, George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable four-and-a-half-billionyear-old meteorite. With this as our subtext, Gemini, I’m asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that is more precious than you imagine. Now is a favourable time to find out and make appropriate adjustments in your behaviour.

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proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you.

You may think I’m so far off the mark that you will stop reading my horoscopes. But I’m willing to take that risk, and I’m prepared to admit that I could be wrong. But I don’t think I am wrong. So here’s what I have to say: There is a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the “medicine” that will heal the wound. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically. You can’t afford to be too literal. I’m not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The prestigious New England Journal Of Medicine published a study with a conclusion we might expect to see in a tabloid newspaper or satirical

website. It reported that there is a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Those countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have also produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested?

Maybe, the report concluded. Since it is especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility?

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 I rarely waste my

time trying to convert the “skeptics” who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They’re often as dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I’m in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the Crawford Perspectives, a highly rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis. Or I might quote the wealthy financier J.P. Morgan, who testified that “millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.” That brings us to my main point, Virgo: The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker. Take advantage!

entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favourite posse, ensemble or organization. How is the group’s collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts?

Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone’s individual goals synergize with the greater good. Are you familiar with the Arabic word “taarradhin”? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win – a reconciliation in which no one loses face.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The good news is that America has more trees than it did 100 years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated oldgrowth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favour established quality over novel quantity.

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Lauren’s Closet Ponte knit dress ($150, Le Chateau, 220 Yonge, 416-979-3122, and others, lechateau.com)

Line Knitwear Sinclair cardigan ($499, Body Blue, 199 Danforth, 416-703-7601, and other, bodyblue.ca)

JOA knit skirt ($60, eLuxe, eluxe.ca)

store of the week Le Tablier Blanc online shop letablierblanc.com I can’t stop looking at local retailer Le Tablier Blanc’s seemingly endless online collection of cool knickknacks and things I never knew I wanted.

The shop popped up in Kensington Market’s funky Blue Banana Market (250 Augusta) in 2009 and expanded into the digital world last year.

Its e-commerce site has grown into one of the best places around for quirky gift and decor finds. Its wares are reasonably priced – perfect for cash-strapped condo dwellers and those seeking affordable hostess gifts.

The site is easy to navigate.

Search by category or price point (starting at under $15!).

Shipping’s free on Canadian orders over $100; otherwise it’s $8.50 within Ontario.

Look for Cheeky finds like Frozen Smiles ice cubes that grin back at you ($10.50), bacon holiday ornaments ($10) and Fuck You, Gym soap ($5). More practical shoppers will love their stock of Gentlemen’s Hardware products like bicycle repair kits ($28.50) and vintage bicycle bells ($20).

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Tie one on for Nuit Blanche Local menswear designer Philip Sparks holds a popup bespoke bow tie workshop at his Ossington store (162 Ossington, 647-3481827, philipsparks.com) to celebrate Nuit Blanche.

Stop by on October 4 from 7 pm to midnight to put in a custom order and have it cut and stitched on the spot.

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The city’s east-end design district gets its first contemporary design festival on Saturday (September 20). Local and international artists team up with design stores along King East for special installations and offers.

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Paper lovers rejoice It’s that time of year again: the Japanese Paper Place holds its warehouse sale, with tons of discontinued and overstock items for the paper-obsessed. Stop by September 26 from 2 to 8 pm and September 27 from 10 am to 4 pm at 77 Brock (416-538-9669, japanesepaperplace.com). 3

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1| Wild garlic flowers

Found in woodlands, these beautiful white flowers – not to be confused with the similar-looking but poisonous lily of the valley – yield the same kind of sweet and sharp, watery taste found in green onions and leeks.

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Related to mint, perilla leaves have a hint of anise flavour and are popular in Korean cuisine.

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Dubbed “white man’s footprint” (seriously) for its ability to thrive in soil that’s been trampled and dug up (fields and roadsides are particular hot spots), the bitter leaves of wild plantain are best eaten raw when they’re young and tender.

Older, larger leaves get fibrous and tough.

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These little pods give a major wallop of garlicky flavour followed by a peppery aftertaste, so much that eating just one seed by itself is like eating a clove of raw garlic.

They were planted years ago in the chef’s garden and have come back on their own every year since.

5| Wild red sorrel pods Juicy green apple is the first thing that comes to mind when biting down on the seed pod of the sorrel plant.

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This plant with feathery, fern-like leaves grows alongside roads, fields and in waste areas. Said to treat a variety of illnesses from colds to menstrual pain, yarrow is considered a weed and has a bitter, hoppy taste.

Sometimes used as a substitute for actual lemon in baking, these leaves give hardcore locavores a way to infuse food with a lemony scent without buying imported lemons.

Bangerter’s favourite ingredient since he started cooking here are the petals of this orange flower, which have a bitter, citrusy flavour not unlike orange peel. He pairs them with scallops.

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These delicate, edible white flowers were named after England’s 18th queen and for their resemblance to lace. They bloom from spring to fall and can commonly be found growing wild in open fields and ditches, where they are considered weeds.

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Five different kinds of mint sprout on the grounds, and they have to be isolated in planters and borders or the herb, considered a weed by home gardeners, will quickly take over.

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Dill leaves are common, but rarely do you see the herb’s flowers, which look like little bursts of fireworks. (Gardeners typically pluck off the flowers so more leaves will to grow.) Bangerter likes using the fragrant yellow flowers that taste just like dill leaves for a burst of colour.

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Found in meadows and roadsides, these daisies are considered weeds, but the whole plant can be eaten.

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The Trident

When it comes to cocktails, sherry adds a definite je ne sais quoi. The odd and compelling Trident (based on 1:1:1 Negroni proportions, a difficult balance) was created by Robert Hess, author and one of the founders of the Museum of the American Cocktail, who claims it’s one of his most successful drinks. Peach bitters bridge any small gaps between the headstrong main ingredients.

1 oz dry sherry 1 oz Cynar 1 oz akvavit 2 dashes peach bitters Stir all ingredients and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with a lemon twist.

That’s stout Sherry makes a comeback Fortified wine sheds its old-school reputation By SARAH PARNIAK Once upon a time, sherry was the coolest kid on the block. Everyone wanted to be around her, soaking up her seductive singularities, elegance and quirky charm. She was one of a kind and in demand – the life of every 19th-century cocktail party and roaring barroom.

But then she fell out with the in crowd. Once the star of classic cocktails from cobblers to punches, flips and possets, sherry suddenly woke up abandoned and weathered on a dusty shelf with over half a century’s hangover. Her shove from grace had much to do with that old hag circumstance, who blighted most of Andalusia’s vines with phylloxera in the late 1800s and reduced trade with some of the famous Spanish wine’s most enthusiastic markets.

But everything old doesn’t stay outdated. Slowly but steadily, sherry is reclaiming street cred as an aperitif, food pairing and cocktail ingredient.

Its range of infectiously delicious styles, incred-

ible complexity and insane value are establishing fino (and related manzanilla), amontillado, oloroso and Pedro Ximenez wines on Toronto cocktail lists.

Cozy up to Chanel Wood’s bar at Rasa (196 Robert, 647-350-8221, rasabar.ca) for a few Texas Guinans (Pedro Ximenez sherry, bourbon, Amaro Sibilla, green Chartreuse and cardamom bitters, $15).

It’s pretty much impossible for me to visit Geraldine (1564 Queen West, 647-352-8815, geraldinetoronto.com) without having at least one of bar manager Michael Mooney’s super-tasty Mayflowers (fino sherry, silver rum, apricot liqueur and Peychaud’s bitters, $11). .

The P.X. I Love You at Rush Lane (563 Queen West, 416-551-7540, rushlaneco.com), an intricate mix of amontillado sherry, cachaça, umeshu (Japanese plum liqueur), Aperitivo marmalade and lemon, $13, has all the lip-smacking attributes of dessert without being too sweet.

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Black ñMikkeller

Rating NNNN Why With an alcohol content on a par with most fortified wines, this rich, desserty imperial stout from strange and wonderful Danish brewer Mikkeller is as viscous as black gold and pretty damn smooth considering its beastly 18.1 per cent ABV. Keep an eye out for this (and other Mikkeller releases) in the next few weeks. Why not grab an extra bottle for the cellar? It’s not going off any time soon.

Price 375 ml/$9.65 Availability LCBO 371906

Amager Bryghus Imperial Stout

Rating NNN Another bold Danish brew with well-done whiffs of coffee, cocoa, smoke and booze. Its 10.5 per cent ABV is noticeable. It finishes with a dry, bitter slap – more aggressive than playful. I’d classify this brew as worth trying and, depending on your tastes, maybe even worth returning to.

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Wellington Imperial ñ Russian Stout

Rating NNNN Why I have a soft spot for Wellington (partly because it’s the country’s oldest independently operated craft brewery, partly because it’s from my hometown, Guelph).

This full, chocolatey stout is a seasonal fave.

Price 473 ml/$2.95 Availability LCBO 296269

TASTING NOTES Whisky wonders

Whisky nerds, take note: two awesome drams have been released just in time to warm your bones. A limited release of the Balvenie Doublewood 17 Year Old (750 ml/$199.95, Vintages 280099), an enriched version of the popular Balvenie Doublewood 12 Year Old, is up for grabs at select Vintages boutiques. If you’re into incredibly delicious Japanese whisky, splurge on a bottle of Nikka Taketsuru Pure Malt 17 Year Old (700 ml/$116, LCBO 367540).

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There’s no better way to celebrate the local harvest than a trip to wine country. Grab a $40 Discovery Pass, part of the Niagara Wine Festival, for weekend tours of eight wineries until September 28, and explore award-winning Niagara wines, food pairings and educational seminars. More info online at niagarawinefestival.com/discovery-passexperiences.

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Rating: NNNN Friday night’s Ooohh Baby Gimme Mores’ album release party had pretty much everything you could want in a punk show: spirited chants of “O-B-G-Ms” before the band appeared, audience participation antics from song one, a few tambourines, crowd-surfing galore (including lead singer/guitarist Densil McFarlane, whilst playing guitar), a male fan twerking onstage, another guy rushing bassist Joe Brosnan and kissing him, and so much sweat that drummer Colanthony Humphrey and keys/synths player Jemuel Roberts eventually went shirtless.

All the while, the Toronto fourpiece cranked out boisterous dancepunk-meets-garage with enough melody to nod at Arctic Monkeysesque British indie rock. Part of that latter sound is thanks to McFarlane’s vocals, which are sufficiently abrasive for the genre but have rock-star polish and personality.

The band’s got charisma in spades – more than you’d expect from a group that was mostly unknown before their NXNE show in June, when Budweiser announced it’d be sending them to play Jay Z’s Made In America festival later in the summer.

Bud also funded their debut fulllength, whose songs, like Pill, Ijustwannaluvuallthetime and King Stay The King had the Rivoli crowd moshing for the OBGMs’ hourish set.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week SPOON, HOW TO DRES WELL,

ñKEVIN DREW and JEREMY GREENSPAN as part of SUPER-

CRAWL FESTIVAL on James Street (Hamilton), Saturday, September 13.

Rating: NNNN Hard to believe Hamilton’s little-festival-thatcould, Supercrawl, a celebration of the city’s burgeoning revitalization and artistic scene, is already into its sixth year. And with a stellar musical lineup smartly mixing top local and international talent, it’s no wonder plenty of GTAers make the trip to take in the free festivities.

James Street, a main downtown artery, was closed off and packed it with four stages, food trucks and art installations, with steady crowds all weekend. However, How to Dress Well’s bedroom jams struggled to connect with a sparse audience on the main stage. Mayor of indie rock nation Kevin Drew brought some of the usual BSS bombast to his life-affirming anthems with his killer six-man backing band, but the best moments came when the relentless guitar arsenal

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took a back seat on quieter interludes: the indelible opening piano chords of Lover’s Spit and a raw, vulnerable acoustic take on Superconnected.

Four Tet’s last-minute cancellation gave local DJs, including Junior Boys’ Jeremy Greenspan, a chance to take to the decks instead – an apt replacement given Supercrawl’s focus. The strip spilled over with bodies as Austin indie-rockers Spoon closed out Saturday night with a solid if unshowy set, riding high on their brand-new alTABASSUM SIDDIQUI bum.

WINDHAND at CODA, Sunday, September 14. Rating: NNN

Richmond, Virginia, psychedelic metalheads Windhand drew a large Sunday-night crowd for their first-ever Toronto show, likely based on the strength of 2013’s majestic Soma, which made many best-album-of-the-year lists last December (including NOW publisher Michael Hollett’s).

The five-piece played their slow-churning tunes with energy and passion (so much hairwhipping!), but something was lost in translation

from record to stage – namely dynamics and atmosphere. The set was a one-dimensional, undulating wave of sludgy, down-tuned 4/4 riffs, with Dorthia Cottrell’s cheerless intonations cresting overtop. The way the vocals and guitars closely follow each other is a unique element, each taking turns leading the other.

The turned-to-11 volume could’ve been partly to blame for the lack of variety. The staticky sonics and feedbacky solos heard on record couldn’t cut through. But the loudness also made the locked-in heaviness powerful. Many of the doomier riffs – and some terrific cymbal-dancing at the end – got the crowd solemnly nodding and swayCARLA GILLIS ing. No encore, though.

CHARLES BRADLEY and JOSS STONE at Massey Hall, Monday, September 15.

Rating: NNN During the first half of Monday night’s Soul Explosion, barefoot British singer Joss Stone covered her face in faux modesty (people really weren’t cheering that much), talked about shak-

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ing her “tushie,” cooed in the ear of a security guard and paced the stage with a coffee mug telling anecdotes about chick flicks.

Her songs, too, despite her chosen genre, were pretty soulless. For someone with a voice as incredible as hers (think the depth of Adele with the range of Céline), it’s a crime that she didn’t throw in a well-known cover.

Charles Bradley made up for the schmaltz with one-of-a-kind authenticity. Between his six-piece band’s fantastic instrumentals and the long, jammy intros at the end, there weren’t a hell of a lot of Bradley songs. (Notably absent: Why Is It So Hard?) But what the Brooklyn-via-Gainesville funk and soul troubadour – who came to fame very late in life – delivered was heartfelt and, frankly, inspiring.

From his opening number, Heartaches And Pain (a song about his brother passing away), to the last tune, Bradley left it all onstage: gyrating his hips, carrying the mic stand like a cross, dipping into the crowd to dole out powerful hugs, wailing his signature James Brown screeches. JL

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DEAFHEAVEN, NO JOY, INDIAN HANDICRAFTS Opera House (735 Queen East), Friday (September 19) Black metal and shoegaze loudness.

SMIF-N-WESSUN, DJS NUMERIC AND DALIA, TED DANCIN’ Revival (783 College), Friday (September 19) See preview, page 42.

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, AGAINST ME! Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday (September 19) Soaring alt rock and fiery punk.

OUGHT Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), Friday (September 19) Experimental Montreal post-punk.

MUTUAL BENEFIT Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (September 20) Jordan Lee’s soft, layered folk-pop.

SHONEN KNIFE, HABIBI, MEXICAN SLANG, BB GUNS

Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (September 20) Japanese poppunk legends.

MANIFESTO: LIVE AT THE SQUARE w/ Bishop Nehru, Ryan Leslie, Tanika Charles & Slakah the Beatchild, Saukrates, King Reign and others Yonge-Dundas Square, Saturday (September 20) Annual hip-hop-focused youth fest.

BLOOR OSSINGTON FOLK FEST w/ Brendan Canning, AroarA, the Highest Order, Julie Doiron, Fiver, Pink Moth and many others Christie Pits Park (750 Bloor West), Saturday and Sunday (September 20 and 21) Dynamite music on the grass.

TY SEGALL, LA LUZ Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Sunday (September 21) Prolific garage fuzzster.

THE WEEKND, SCHOOLBOY Q, JHENÉ AIKO Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (September 21) R&B star comes home.

SAM SMITH Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Sunday (September 21) British soul singer/songwriter.

THE QUEER SONGBOOK ORCHESTRA Music Gallery (197 John), Sunday (September 21) See preview, page 50.

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Junction Music Festival

Hip west-end neighbourhood the Junction gets even hipper in late September thanks to the one-day Junction Music Festival. Bars, restaurants, cafés, salons, bike stores and myriad other small businesses in and around Dundas West and Keele host musicians of every stripe.

This year’s highlights include psych rockers Comet Control (who also open for Kevin Drew at Adelaide Hall on Friday, September 19), surf rockers Luau or Die, singer/songwriter Lucas Stagg, post-punks Two Koreas, reggae purveyors House of David Gang and rockers the Towers to name a few.

But they really knock it out of the park with the Junction Train Platform Mainstage, where you can catch the Sadies, KASHKA, Ark Analog, Teenage Kicks, BEAMS and a bunch of others from noon onward. Best? It’s free and all-ages. And the forecast has sun for Saturday.

At various venues around Dundas West and Keele, Saturday (September 20), all day.

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MotoponY The Cave doors 7:30 pm, $10.50 adv. RT, SS. October 20.

Rah Rah Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 23.

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MasseY hall Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Burton Cummings & Band 8 pm.

MusiDeuM David Krystal w/ George Koller, Gord Sheard, Mark Kelso, John Johnson 8 pm. ontaRio science centRe Science ROCKS! – Just The Hits Steve Cropper & Jonny Rosch 7 pm. opeRa house Living Colour, Unlocking the Truth 7:30 pm. oRbit RooM Oakland Stoke (Tower of Power tribute). the painteD laDY aBabe Music: BabeFest The Celebration Army, Steven J Cogdell, Hot Peach, Big Name Actors (indie rock) doors 8:15 pm. paupeR’s pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. the piston Piper Hayes, Carmela Antonio, Joy Philips doors 8 pm. silveR DollaR Amber, Olga Korsak, Twin Smith, Belle Ayre doors 8 pm. sMilinG buDDha Blowfly, New Horizzzons doors 9 pm. sneakY Dee’s The Great Sabatini, Godstopper, Teethmarks, Demonic Possessor doors 9 pm. southsiDe JohnnY’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. tattoo Young Rising Sons doors 9 pm. toRonto centRe foR the aRts Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Angela Saini, Spencer Burton 7:30 pm. tRanzac southeRn cRoss Fabiano Credidio, Mike Scarlett & Graham Ko 10 pm.

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On the third Friday of every month for almost eight years, rap enthusiasts have honed their skills on the mic at Hip-Hop Karaoke.

And as it has for five years straight, the ultimate showdown caps off the summer. Last month’s semi-finals narrowed the field to 10 emcees, who face off Friday at the event’s usual haunt, Revival.

It’s not just amateur hour, though. Brooklyn duo Smif-N-Wessun (aka Tek and Steele) have come north to judge and perform, too.

In anticipation of the event, we asked five rappers to tell us about their ultimate karaoke jam. Some of them couldn’t pick just one. enjoy bouncing off other emcees Tek, Smif-N-Wessun onstage. I’ll go with Crooklyn DodgRoad To The Riches, Streets Of New York ers or Ante Up… or Flava In Ya Ear and On The Run, by Kool G Rap; and (Remix) if I get to do Busta’s verse.”

Children’s Story, The Moment I Feared [Yes, Shad, you do.] and La Di Da Di, by Slick Rick Shad plays the Polaris Music Prize “Damn, yo. There’s no easy or wrong gala at the Carlu on Monday (Sepanswer for this question. I say that tember 22) and Massey Hall on because I am a fan of hip-hop and March 27, 2015. there are so many super-dope artists and songs that I would enjoy performing or seeing performed at karaoke – imitating their movements and all. But long and short, I’m gonna have to give up to two of my favourite emcees, being Kool G Rap & Slick Rick.”

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Nice & Smooth “I like the way he says ‘Classius Clay’ instead of ‘Cassius Clay.’ That’s hiphop; hip-hop’s not perfect. And it’s just a dope track to sing.”

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Tasha the Amazon Ready Or Not, by the Fugees “Every verse is stylistically so different, so you can show off a bunch of different styles, and then the whole building would sing along with you on the hook, cuz it’s epic.”

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Ben Spurr @benspurr Just ahead of of Abel Tesfaye’s (aka the Weeknd) Molson Amphitheatre show on Sunday (September 21) comes news that the downtempo R&B Jonathan singer is the recipient of this year’s Allan SlaightGoldsbie Award from Canada’s Walk of Fame. The award recognizes young @goldsbie musicians making waves internationally – Drake won in 2011, Melanie Fiona in 2012 and Carly Rae Jepsen in 2013 Adria Vasil takes place October – and comes with a $10,000 honorarium.

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harrison Local artist turns SoundCloud fame into a record deal

By BENJAMIN BOLES harriSon opening for com TruiSe and Survive at CODA (794 Bathurst), Thursday (September 18), 9 pm. $13. TW.

About two and a half years ago, a charmingly earnest email came my way from an aspiring 17-year-old Toronto musician named Harrison, who specialized in what he called “future funk.”

But unlike other novice musicians looking for coverage, the artist – whose real name is Harrison Robinson – had a SoundCloud page full of surprisingly high-quality slow house and moody hip-hop tracks that already had an impressive amount of plays. Too bad the fact that he was underage and suffered from intense stage fright meant he had no gigs at the time to build a story around.

Since then, Robinson’s gradually overcome his nerves and started performing regularly. His internet fan base continues to grow at an impressive rate: a song he posted just three months ago has passed 70,000 listens, while a remix from

six months ago has over 120,000.

He’s not so impressed by his internet stats, though.

“You can have lots of SoundCloud plays, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re anything,” Robinson says.

“I couldn’t tell you where [the attention] is coming from. No one reached out to me and told me they were writing about me. I can see the statistics of where the plays are coming from, and a lot of them are from Japan. That could be legitimate plays, or some of it might be bots. I swear I didn’t pay for any bots, though!”

But that internet momentum has translated into something more tangible: he’s just signed a contract with Last Gang to put out his official debut album. Releasing on an established label means he’ll have Nas at the Everleigh to drastically cut back on sampling, witheconGeorge Veron, but changes in the internet founder of WE-DIFR omy had already pushed him in that direction.

“Because SoundCloud is monetizing now, they’ve been taking things down like crazy. I love sampling funk, but if I’m going to get in trouble for it I’m not going to do it.”

Not to worry, though. Robinson’s older stuff will always have a home, and you might still be able to get your hands on it.

“I do still have a folder of all my funk edits that I’ll just give to people.”

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the queer songbook orchestra Classic tunes come out of the closet By KEVIN RITCHIE

THE QUEER SONGBOOK ORCHESTRA at the Music Gallery (197 John), Sunday (September 21), 8 pm. $15-$25. SS, Glad Day Bookshop.

A Toronto chamber pop ensemble is cleaning out the closet’s music section.

On Sunday, the 12-piece Queer Songbook Orchestra will perform pop classics in the vein of the Great American Songbook with a focus on the material’s queer backstories.

The tunes fall into two categories: those written by closeted writers and songs with particular significance to closeted queers. QSO bandleader Shaun Brodie’s ultimate goal is to amass a library of music that has shaped LGBT experiences, both communal and personal.

The group’s inaugural performance was at Kensington Market gallery Videofag in March and featured new arrangements of Joe Meek’s Telstar, Cole Porter’s Love For Sale and Stevie Wonder’s Never Dreamed You’d Leave In Summer. The upcoming performance will mix songs from the first show with new additions including the Smiths’ Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want and Billy Strayhorn’s Day Dream.

“I’ve always had a fascination with the concept of the closet, and the way we as kids navigate that time and that idea of self-preservation and surviving it,” explains Brodie, who came out at 21 while studying classical music at the University of Victoria. “Music means so much, and these songs connect to you when you feel like you have nobody to talk to.”

For Brodie, a session trumpet player for the Hidden Cameras, Basia Bulat and Dan Mangan, one such song is Dusty Springfield’s Son Of A Preacher Man, recorded

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in 1968. He loved it growing up, but didn’t realize why until much later.

“I never would have acknowledged it at the time, but whenever the song would come on the radio it would work its way around my denial,” he says, adding that he hopes to add the song to the QSO repertoire.

“It gave me some kind of excitement to imagine I was the female voice in it. I really wanted to be Dusty, but I wouldn’t admit it.”

The group also delves into hits with little-known queer histories, like Rodgers and Hart’s Blue Moon.

Lorenz Hart, the hard-drinking lyricist of the seminal American songwriting duo, wrote some of the greatest love songs of all time in the 1920s and 30s. He was known to be gay, but his romantic life remained a secret, and he died in the closet at 48, apparently without ever having found a lasting love.

Brodie has also partnered with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives to give the QSO’s research, stories and recordings a permanent and publicly accessible home. That affiliation also gives the project charitable status.

Future performances will venture out of the closet into classic and modern queer anthems, musicals, Canadian artists and perennial gay favourites like Madonna and Dolly Parton. Audience members are also encouraged to contribute.

“I don’t want it to be all about the hard times and tragic stories of people who never got to live outside the closet and drank themselves to death,” says Brodie.

“I want it to be representative of the community as a whole, to be able to tell these stories from different angles.”

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eMMet rAy BAr Circles (jazz) 8 pm. gerrArd Art sPACe Riverrun (electro-chamber jazz) 3:30-4:30 pm.

grossMAn’s The New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 pm.

the JAzz Bistro CD release Cat Conner Trio 7 pm. the loCAl gest Sunday Jazz ZIMZUM (soul/funk) 4:30 pm.

MusiC gAllery The Queer Songbook Orchestra 8 pm. See preview, page 50. ñ the rex Jay Boehmer Jazz 9:30 pm, Ken Aldcroft’s Hat & Beard 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

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toronto Centre For the Arts george Weston reCitAl hAll Arabian Nights Toronto Symphony

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Monday, September 22 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

CArlu Polaris Music Prize Gala Basia Bulat, Mac DeMarco, Jessy Lanza, Owen Pallett, ñ Shad, Tanya Tagaq 8 pm.

CAstro’s lounge Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones (old-school rockabilly) 6 pm. grossMAn’s No Band Required 10 pm. hArd luCK BAr GBH, the Chosen Ones, the Class Assassins doors 8 pm.

KitCh Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

Metro hAll dAvid PeCAut sQuAre Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Karl Wolf, Matthew Disero, Shawn Hook, Jessica Mitchell, Jeffrey Straker, Ill at Will and others noon to 9 pm. orBit rooM Jordan John (blues/R&B/funk). sAuCe on the dAnForth The Out of Towners (soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm. tyPe BooKs Burning Daylight poetry book and album launch w/ musical performance Christine Fellows 7-9 pm. See album review, page 54.

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CAMeron house Sarah Jane Scouten 6 pm, Thelonious Hank 9 pm.

CAstro’s lounge blueVenus (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. dorA Keogh Open Stage Dr. Jingles, James Sloan 8 pm to midnight.

Fort yorK gArrison CoMMon On Common Ground Festival 11 am to 6 pm. the loCAl Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/

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Lou Dawg’s RyeRson Open Mic Night Don Campbell 9 pm.

MusiDeuM Quique Escamilla (Latin) 8 pm.

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eMMeT Ray BaR Trevor Giancola Trio 9 pm,

Danny Oore, Andrew Downing, Matt Fong, Evan Cartwright (jazz quartet) 7 pm. oLD MiLL inn Ranee Lee 8 pm.

The Rex John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

TRiniTy coLLege Faith, Art & Activism Festival: Sacred Music In A Sacred Space (chanting from Eastern and Western churches) 12:15 pm.

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Pop/Rock U2 Songs Of Innocence (Universal/ Island) Rating: NNN U2’s “it’s already on your iPhone” thing comes across as creepy and intrusive, like some pushy guy at a party who won’t leave you alone. Then again, if all we had LOWELL We Loved Her Dearly whenever M.I.A.’s Paper Planes starts to talk about was the music, there playing. Lowell can pen sassy electro pop (Arts & Crafts) Rating: NNNNN wouldn’t be much to say. Maybe creating numbers like Cloud 69 – where an onAfter much ado, and about a year of a diversion was the point. slaught of keyboards, synths and drum steady performing on the local scene, Songs Of Innocence is a decent latemachines are haunted by 23-year-old Toronto-via-Calperiod U2 album and should satisfy fans, her one-woman gang vocals gary indie pop singer (soon to although it’s unlikely to win the band – or The Bells, where a be indie pop star) Lowell many new ones. Much of it sounds like an seemingly simple xylodrops her debut full-length. It imitation of the younger bands that have phone-like melody is gradwas worth the wait. imitated them. But that photocopy-of-aually buried under her soarWe Loved Her Dearly photocopy feeling doesn’t seem intening, girlish pipes. proves she can write both tional and makes too many of the songs She’s also got an uncanny sultry, melancholic slow blandly interchangeable. ability to write catchy pop burners that make Lana Del The Danger Mouse contributions hooks for songs on heavy Rey seem like a ray of sunbreath new life into the formula, but he’s subjects ranging from LGBT shine (I Killed Sara V., Summertime) and not given a big enough role. Much of the rights to rape. A chameleon with an endlegit party anthems that compel us to material seems focus-grouped to death, less stream of alter egos and the vocal scream absurd lyrics like “Money hey! but there are enough flashes of pop chops to pull them all off.

Money woo!” the same way our hands genius to keep things interesting: soaring Top track: I Killed2014-09-11 Sara V. SAMANTHA EDWARDS automatically turn into assault weapons RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Sept18_Kiran.qxp__V 3:05 PM Pagesingalong 1 choruses, the Edge’s arsenal of futuristic guitar sounds, surprisingly funky nods to their new wave roots.

Top track: The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) BENJAMIN BOLES

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Los Angeles-based four-piece Wand contribute to the revitalized psych rock genre with their debut album out on Ty Segall’s Drag City imprint. It’s got the light touch of Tame Impala (or the Zombies) without the pronounced studio inventiveness, the hooks of Temples without the overt 60s retro-ness, and some fat guitar tones that counterbalance Cory Hanson’s airy vocals with sweet heaviness. (Hanson has spent time in Pangea, Meatbodies, WHITE and Mikal Cronin’s band.)

Things gets off to a pleasant, somewhat meek start, but bongo-touched Clearer soon stands out for its forceful, head-turning melodies, while multi-part Fire On The Mountain (I-II-III) – effortlessly moving from psych sprawl to metal to folk – suggests some prog-tinged ambition hiding inside the band’s jean jacket sleeves. Flying Golem has hooks, propulsive stomp and trippy synths, the last of which are always high in the mix and also make Strange Inertia a standout.

Top track: Fire On The Mountain (I-II-III) Wand play Smiling Buddha on Friday (September 19).

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City Wrecker (Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN If you’ve ever ruined a city for someone, or had one ruined for you, the title track on

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Moonface’s latest EP hits home. But the artist (real name Spencer Krug) doesn’t need to bank on shared experience, so pretty are the piano chords anchoring the tune and so astute the naked prose he turns into poetry.

Krug’s last LP, Julia With Blue Jeans On, was strictly him and the ivories. This fivesong EP continues in that vein, though The Fog adds synths to the mix without spoiling the record’s overall stark, wintry effect. (It was made in Helsinki, which also provides much of the setting.) City Wrecker isn’t the same thrilling emotional rollercoaster Julia is, though that’s not his fault: Krug recently moved from Finland to Vancouver Island (presumably post-breakup).

Overall, it could use more joyous highs to balance out the lows. But still, his classical piano chops mean there’s never a dull moment – even with eight- and 10-minute tracks.

Top track: City Wrecker JULIA LeCONTE

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This Is All Yours (Warner Canada) Rating: NNNN The average indie rock band doesn’t focus on vocals nearly as much as alt-J. The first song on their second album is a complex, gorgeous experiment in vocal harmony and counterpoint, largely wordless (or with indecipherable lyrics), with slowly building soft synths and sparse drums.

Later on, the Celtic-tinged Warm Foothills has utterly unexpected girl/boy vocal trade-offs.

The Leeds art rockers take risks throughout, as they did on their Mercury Prize-winning debut, An Awesome Wave.

Melodies are unpredictable, and eccentricity is the name of the game. Left-field interlude Garden Of England is all chirping birds and pan flutes, while first single Hunger Of The Pine includes a sample of Miley Cyrus singing “I’m a female rebel” from her song 4X4.

It’s a hushed and gentle album – high vocals, quivering strings, soft-plucked guitars – but that quality frequently gives way to something assertive with hardedged drums and epic layers. It’s a mix of Radiohead etherealness, Yeasayer-like dub-pop and pastoral folk à la Fleet Foxes.

The departure of founding member guitarist/bassist Gwil Sainsbury hasn’t left them uninspired.

Top track: Pusher Alt-j play Kool Haus on November 11.

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Hip-hop P. REIGN Dear America (RCA)

Rating: NNN “Bitch, I started as your favourite rapper’s shooter,” says P. Reign on Realest In The City – a sly way for the 28-year-old Scarborough native to trumpet his close ties to Drake. That connection pays dividends on Reign’s Dear America EP: the mixtape boasts a star-studded lineup of guests, including Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Future, PARTYNEXTDOOR and the boy himself – who contribute with varying degrees of success.

On DnF featuring Drake and Future, Reign is swallowed whole by a yearning Drake verse. On Chickens, featuring Waka Flocka Flame, Reign shows technical profi-

ciency and a gift for the kind of pokerfaced trap talk that dots his discography.

But the standout song on the EP is the only one with no guests at all. You Know showcases the emcee’s vocal chops through a singsong hook on a hopeful, reflective and surprisingly tender track.

Top track: You Know JORDAN SOWUNMI

R&B JHENÉ AIKO Souled Out (Universal) Rating: NNN It wasn’t until a fully tatted, hard-spitting Southern emcee sat me down and urged me to listen – closely – that I fully appreciated Jhené Aiko. Turns out she’s not only a rapper-whisperer (fans include Drake and Kendrick Lamar), but her early releases – initially pretty but samey – reveal emotional depth and sonic staying power on repeat spins.

That continues on her debut fulllength, a heartbreak-to-healing concept album where Aiko’s mellow, silken pipes sail on dreamy PBR&B production. Helmed by a handful of producers like Thundercat and No I.D., the songs blend neo-soul, hiphop and electronica into downbeat, loosely structured soundscapes. It’s nice to see Aiko atypically solo (Common provides the only rap feature), but more variety would be welcome.

Still, Aiko’s a refreshing female figure: romantic waffler, single mother, stoner.

On Lyin King, she doles out lyrical sass with the bite of a rapper, while W.A.Y.S finds her characteristically philosophical over semi-sunny guitar-plucking and echoey drums – the record’s best beat.

Top track: W.A.Y.S Jhené Aiko plays the Molson Amphitheatre with the Weeknd and Schoolboy Q on Sunday (September 21).

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Burning Daylight (Arp) Rating: For her sixth album and first book of poetry, Winnipeg-based folk-pop songwriter Christine Fellows immersed herself in the North, conceiving the song cycle on a Yukon drive between Whitehorse and Dawson City. The accompanying poetry – as well as collages by Alicia Smith – came out of an NFB trip to Igloolik, Nunavut.

Inspired by American author Jack London (Fellows borrows the title of his 1910 novel, Burning Daylight), the record describes an incredibly harsh landscape: frostbite and drowned dogs; the importance of provisions and dry matches; the resilience of Northern women.

Like the Spartan landscape she describes, Fellows’s music is appropriately austere, antique yet avant-garde, and quietly theatrical. Her piano, pump organ, uke and melodeon are backed by a couple of cellists/multi-instrumentalists, plus touches of horn and percussion and lots of backup vocals. There’s a palpable sense of running on Call Of The Wild that contrasts with To Build A Fire’s low, heavy chords and the plaintive beauty of the opening title track.

Top track: Feu De Joie Christine Fellows launches Burning Daylight Monday (September 22) at Type Books West.

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PREVIEW 10

Now that it’s cooler outside, the theatres are sizzling with edgy indie plays, raunchy stand-up and ethereal dance. Here’s your guide to what to see in the dark.

artists to watch

Regardless of a show’s quality, there’s always someone who stands out: an actor, dancer, director. Here are a group of people you’ll definitely be discussing at intermission. By JON KAPLAN and GLENN SUMI

WHO EDA HOLMES, director WHAT Helms Raoul Bhaneja’s Life, Death And The Blues, a look at the power and passion of that musical form (Theatre Passe Muraille, September 25 to October 19; 416-504-7529), and Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, a Shaw remount that’s part of the Mirvish season (Royal Alexandra Theatre, November 4 to December 14; 416-872-1212).

WHY Since she’s been directing at the Shaw Festival, we haven’t seen much of Holmes’s work here in Toronto. She’ll bring her talent with text and movement to Bhaneja’s blend of live music and interview, and to Stoppard’s fascinating look at language, science and characters living centuries apart in an English country house.

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WHO GUILLAUME CÔTÉ, dancer/choreographer WHAT Dancer in Nijinsky (Four Seasons Centre, November 22 to 30; 416-345-9595); and choreographer, Fractals: a pattern of chaos (Fleck Dance Theatre, October 1 to 4; 416-973-4000) WHY If you missed John Neumeier’s full-length work about Ballets Russes legend Nijinsky when the National Ballet of Canada mounted it in March 2013, you’ve got another chance. Try to see it with Côté, whose staggering interpretation of this role – part comic tragedian, conflicted queer man and mad artist – will only have deepened since. And don’t miss the return of the danseur noble’s choreography for ProArteDanze’s season, a hypnotic ensemble piece that proves he’ll have another career after he hangs up his dance shoes.

WHO CONNOR THOMPSON, writer/performer

WHO SÉBASTIEN HEINS, writer/performer WHAT Presents his one-man show, Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera, as part of b current’s afteRock Plays at Buddies in Bad Times (October 10 to 25; 416-975-8555).

WHY Heins has been a fine supporting player in Outside the March’s Mr. Marmalade and Vitals. The National Theatre School grad shines on his own in Brotherhood, which blends original music and physical theatre in a tale of two bros “living the Hip Hop Life.”

Heins gets to show off his facility with R&B, rap, soul, funk and gospel.

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WHAT Writer/performer, Rebel Without A Cosmos, the new Second City revue (opening September 28 for a limited run; 416-343-0011).

WHY In any Second City cast, you need a solid straight guy type – the one to play those windbag dads and blustery old-school bosses. Think Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd or, more recently, Kerry Griffin. Thompson finds reserves of angst, anger and just plain silliness in that archetype, whether he’s playing a legally blind lifeguard delivering an improvised water safety seminar (in his debut revue, We Can Be Heroes) or a hapless subway rider caught up in a flash mob (in the recent Sixteen Scandals). See him now in the new Second City show before some sitcom comes knocking.

WHO SUE MINER, director

WHO CLAIRE ARMSTRONG, actor

WHO ANDREA NANN, performer

WHAT Directs Young People’s Theatre Christmas show, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic James And The Giant Peach (November 24 to December 21; 416862-2222).

WHY One of the veterans of the indie theatre scene, Miner guided two fine productions earlier this year, Ring ’Round The Moon and Fringe hit Three Men In A Boat. She can create a sense of fun for performers and audiences alike, sure to be useful in Dahl’s tale of a young boy who fights his tyrannical aunts and travels with some magically transformed garden insects. Expect a show that’ll appeal to children as well as their parents.

WHAT Performs in a pair of shows, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker (presented

by Red One Theatre and Theatre Brouhaha, October 23 to November 9), and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (presented by Red One, December 10 to 21).

Both are at the Storefront Theatre (955 Bloor West; secureaseat.com).

WHY After a stunning, Dora-nominated turn as Miss Julie last year, Armstrong takes on roles in a pair of contrasting plays: Churchill’s fantastic tale of an centuries-old fairy who pursues two teenage mothers, and Albee’s realistic, hard-hitting drama, playing the timid Honey, miles away from her passionate turn in the Ibsen.

WHAT Actor/dancer in The Four Horsemen Project (Volcano, Crooked Figure Dances/Global Mechanic and Soulpepper at the Young Centre, November 6 to 22; 416-866-8666) WHY Is it theatre? Dance?

Performance art? Labels are so not relevant, dude, especially when the show is as inventive and playful as this homage to the legendary Canadian sound poets of the 1970s. Nann, always a striking and spontaneous dance artist, gets to move, groove and vocalize to the poems along with Jennifer Dahl, Naoko Murakoshi and Graham McKelvie. The work made our top 10 theatre productions list in 2007. Can’t wait to see it again this fall.

WHO LISA RYDER, actor

WHO MEGHAN LINDSAY, opera singer

WHO ALISON LAWRENCE, playwright

WHAT Performs in Helen Lawrence, a film/theatre hybrid created by artist Stan Douglas and TV director Chris Haddock, set in 1940s Vancouver.

(Bluma Appel, October 12 to 15; 416-368-3110).

WHY Once a mainstay of the local theatre scene, Ryder took a break from the stage in the early 2000s to move to Vancouver and play the kickass Beka Valentine in Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda on TV. She should bring her characteristic strength, glamour and charisma to the title role, a noirish femme fatale who gets involved in a complex plot that involves gambling, war, sexual ambiguity and, of course, murder.

WHAT Performs the title role in Alcina, Opera Atelier’s first full-scale staging of a Handel work (Elgin Theatre, October 23 to November 1; 1-855-6222787).

WHY Having impressed audiences and critics in Atelier productions of Don Giovanni, Armide and most notably Der Freischütz, Lindsay tackles the difficult music and tricky characterization of a sorceress who bewitches men, notably the knight Ruggiero, to keep them in thrall. With her ravishing voice and dramatic skills, the soprano will win over her audience both male and female.

WHAT Author of The Thing Between Us, which follows the relationship between two women over the course of their lives (presented by the mcguffin company at the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace, October 2 to 19; 416-504-7529).

WHY After several years of not being produced on the Toronto stage, Lawrence (bittergirl, The Catering Queen) offers a pair of shows that feature strong female characters: The Thing, with bittergirl partner Mary Francis Moore, Randi Helmers and Emily Hurson under Aaron Willis’s direction, and the Next Stage’s Piece By Piece, in January.

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A good sense of Schumer A few years ago, JFL42’s Amy Schumer was just another road comic. Then she roasted Charlie Sheen and landed a TV sketch series that showcased her ballsy feminism. Now, on the eve of her Judd Apatow-directed film, superstardom beckons. By GLENN SUMI

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week into the ALS ice bucket challenge, a video appeared of comic Amy Schumer standing in her un­ der wear next to an ice bucket.

She reached in and, in­ stead of ice, brought out a big can of New England clam chow­ der, which she proceeded to pour over herself. “i know it’s for a great cause, but people’s videos were annoying me, because it’s such a narcissistic act: ‘Here i am! Doing God’s work!’” she says with self­ righteous glee on the phone from Manhattan. “So i didn’t want to do it. but when someone challenges you, it’s sort of fucked up not to do it. i painted myself into a corner.”

After her publicist convinced her, she began brain­ storming ideas with her sister.

“My mind immediately goes to the most disturbing place,” she says. “i wanted to be even more disturbing than what i did. it was quick. We posted it and started sending it around. i think i made it my own.”

You could say the same about her comedy career. in a few years, Schumer has catapulted from a solid stand­up – edgy observations about sex and relation­

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ships contrasting with her snub­nosed, nice­girl image – to someone with even more versatility and crossover po­ tential than a Sarah Silverman or chelsea Handler.

She begins work soon on season three of the smart, funny and this year Emmy­ nominated TV series inside Amy Schumer, and recent­ ly wrapped shooting on Trainwreck, the new Judd Apa­ tow film she wrote and stars in. “it’s a hard­R comedy,” she says about that film, slot­ ted for a summer 2015 release. “There’s a crazy­unique cast: everyone from Tilda Swinton and Daniel Rad­ cliffe to Method Man and Lebron James. it seems so random. bill Hader plays ‘my man’” – she says the phrase with a downtown swagger. “i just watched a really rough cut, and it was hilarious. i think it’s going to be special.” consider what the Apatow­produced bridesmaids did for Kristen Wiig and you get an idea of where Schu­ mer could be, career­wise, this time next year.

Let’s hope she taps into the same kind of hilariously awkward truths she exposes in her sketch series, broadcast here on the comedy Network. in a sketch in the pilot episode, a woman and man have very different takes on their one­night stand: presented by JFL42 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (1 Front East), Friday (September 19), 7 pm.

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“There have always been funny women around, and funny women making a great living at standup.”

she’s choosing what kind of cake to serve at their wed­ ding, while he’s playing video games with his bro and can’t remember her name. in another sketch, a group of attractive New York women greet and compliment each other, but none of them can take the praise. When the last woman does accept a compliment, they all pro­ ceed to kill themselves.

“These things all come from the media,” says Schu­ mer about that latter sketch, one of the most famous.

“A woman’s worth has always been determined, first and foremost, by how she looks – in our culture any­ way. And i’m doing my part to change that.” call it third­wave feminism through laughter.

Earlier this year, she delivered a speech celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th birthday. The text went viral, and someone recently posted video of it, too. in it she describes having her confidence crushed when she went to a college “voted number one… for the hottest freshman girls in Playboy.”

She goes on to talk about having so little self­esteem that she agreed to meet a guy she had a crush on for an 8 am booty call. Then she recounts every gross, pain­ ful, nearly soul­killing detail of that experience.

And even though she learned from it, grew up, be­ came older or wiser and now loves herself and her body, an insult about how she looks from a DJ or a Twit­ ter troll can cause a setback. “i wrote it for Gloria Steinem to resonate with her

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and the people who love her,” she says. “There’s a lot of that same spirit in my stand-up, but I did enjoy getting to actually say the message without having to sneak it in there.”

That fierce attitude was there from the start of her stand-up act.

“One of my first jokes was about this guy who would always turn the lights on during sex, and I’d shut them off. And he’d say, ‘Why are you so shy? You have a beautiful body.’ And I’d be like, ‘Oh my god, that’s so cute. You think I don’t want you to see me.’”

Clearly her female-centric material is striking a chord. Yet when I ask about whether there’s ever been a better time to be a female comic, she pauses, laughs and tries to deflect the question.

“I don’t know what that means, I guess,” she says. “There have always been funny women around, and funny women making a great living at stand-up. I know the industry was surprised at the box office success of Bridesmaids. But funny women have always made things happen.”

She mentions Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg as artists she was always drawn to. (We talked before Joan Rivers passed away.)

Even with her intense schedule – she tells me she feels like she’s been “going crazy for years” and hasn’t had “a second to breathe” – she’s looking forward to a month to write and do stand-up.

“It’s something you have to keep up,” she says about performing live. “If I don’t perform for a week, I feel rusty. I love the crowds, the immediate response, the instant gratification of knowing if something you thought was funny actually is.

“I can’t imagine not doing stand-up.”

What’s evident from watching Schumer holding a mic or in one of her show’s sketches or interview segments, is just how good an actor she is. On camera, she’s better than most stand-ups-turned-thesps: Seinfeld, Louis C.K., Silverman.

She never mugs for the camera, has an openness and vulnerability about her, and actually seems comfortable playing characters rather than variations on herself.

“I’ve done plays since I was five,” she says. “I studied theatre in college and then continued with the Meisner technique. I was doing training at the same time I started stand-up, so they’re both very much ingrained in me.”

She’s also amazing on her feet. A few years ago, she was one of the lesser-known figures invited to skewer Charlie Sheen at his celebrity roast. She outshone everyone with her below-the-belt jokes, and when Mike Tyson heckled her, she gave it right back to the boxing champ – with a smile.

Schumer acknowledges it was a turning point in her career.

“If you get a chance like that, what you do with it is really important,” she says. “I never like to do just the bare minimum and get by. I think I surprised a lot of people. I haven’t watched the Tyson clip in ages, but I remember seeing it and thinking, ‘Who the fuck did I think I was?’”

Succeeding at comedy sure beats shoplifting, a habit she picked up as a teen growing up in Long Island that eventually got her arrested.

“I haven’t done it since,” she says. “I’m not really interested in Orange Is The New Schumer.”

And if the actual Orange Is The New Black asked her to guest-star in a role, what’d it be?

“Oh, I’d run the place with Crazy Eyes as my girlfriend. We’d be the bosses. But eventually she’d kill me.”

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5 more JFL42 must-sees

4. Jen Kirkman

1. Lena Dunham

No, the creator of Girls isn’t a stand-up or sketch writer, but she’s pretty damn funny, as she’ll likely prove during a Q&A with CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi about her hotly anticipated book, Not That Kind Of Girl. You’ll remember she inked a $3.5 million deal to write that. Definitely serious stuff.

September 20, Sony Centre

Kirkman – Chelsea Lately writer/round table guest, podcaster (of the highly addictive I Seem Fun) and bestselling author (I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself) – cracked NOW’s top 10 comedy shows list last year, and we can’t wait to see her casual and infectiously fun act again.

September 23, Rivoli and Garrison; September 24, Randolph

5. Mark Forward 2. Broad City Live

Web-series-turned-TV-show Broad City has Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson in a girl-on-girl bromance, trying to score weed and get laid in the mean streets of New York City. The show is so funny, we reserved our seats weeks ago, even if we don’t know what to expect from Broad City Live.

September 27, Queen Elizabeth Theatre

You can see Forward regularly at various comedy rooms in T.O. But as he demonstrated earlier this year, he’s broken through to a whole new level of funny. With two hilarious Craig Ferguson sets behind him and a gig as a judge on the new series Joke Or Choke, superstardom could be just a green card away.

September 18, 20 and 22, Comedy Bar; September 21, 24, 25 and 26, Rivoli GLENN SUMI/ KATE ROBERTSON

3. Mike Birbiglia

If you’ve only seen Birbiglia in film versions of his shows (Sleepwalk With Me), heard him on This American Life or seen him playing regular schmoes (The Fault In Our Stars, Your Sister’s Sister), you’re in for a treat. He’s one of the best comic storytellers around.

Funny and heartbreakingly honest.

September 21, Queen Elizabeth Theatre

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FALL stAgE PREVIEW You’ve got a lot of attention for this show. More than you expected?

This has been crazy. I guess people hope for this much attention, but it adds to the pressure on the actors and the production, because I suppose there is a point where it’s too much press. Can we live up to it?

What direction did you end up taking with the show?

It’s a traditional musical comedy.

But the thing we wanted to do differently was to show Ford as a more three-dimensional character instead of the cartoon he has been portrayed as so far. We try to explore the relationship between him and his brother, and the relationship between him and his brother and his father.

His relationship with his father is a very core part of who he is and what drives him. In what way are you incorporating that?

We’re just sort of addressing [the question] “How did Rob Ford become Rob Ford?” So how does someone get to that situation? What are his true relationships in life? You see him and his brother are very tight, they both went into politics, their father was a politician. You can kind of see how it all might have gone.

How do you handle the darker aspects around the fringes of the Ford story?

We’re trying to go in the Canadian fashion, the way we as Canadians deal with things: with comedy and irreverence.

Q+A BRETT McCAIG Writer, Rob Ford The Musical

Brett McCaig hoped Rob Ford wouldn’t have a heart attack before his show opened, but considered it a remote possibility. For the writer and producer of a musical comedy about the mayor, a development like that could pose a problem.

The good news is that the mayor’s heart is okay. The bad news is that, less than a week before previews of Rob Ford The Musical: Birth Of A Ford Nation, the mayor was admitted to hospital for treatment of an abdominal tumour. Two days later, he withdrew his bid for re-election and signed up to seek his old council seat instead.

This isn’t the first time McCaig’s show has required tweaking. The producers provoked a backlash when their original casting call sought people of colour to play a “transvestite” named “Tranny” who would serve as the mayor’s spiritual guide. Initially unaware that either term was offensive, McCaig says they’ve rewritten the character as a drag queen named “Transgression,” with emphasis removed from the cross-dressing aspect.

After a handful of previews, Rob Ford The Musical, starring Sheldon Bergstrom as Rob Ford and Lisa Horner as Margaret Atwood, opens Thursday (September 18) at the Factory Theatre. See listings, page 66.

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What’s the show’s general arc?

It starts when Rob Ford gets hit in the face with a camera. In [real] life, you know, he went on his rant. But in the show he gets knocked out. And then he meets Transgression, who sort of takes him through a year in his life as mayor – what he did wrong, what he could have done right, what he might have done differently.

What’s the theme or message you’re trying to put across?

The theme is a question: Did we all have a hand in this, in this craziness that some people believe has embarrassed Toronto irreparably in the eyes of the world? If we had all turned our TV sets off and hadn’t listened to it and talked about it at the water cooler endlessly and written musicals about it and all that, would it be what it is? I don’t JONATHAN GOLDSBIE know.

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THEATRE PREVIEW LIfE, DEATH & THE BLuEs

Blues brother

Musician and actor Raoul Bhaneja looks inward to explore his Indian/Irish ancestry You may have seen actor Raoul Bhaneja onstage or onscreen, but he’s also the frontman of acclaimed blues band Raoul and the Big Time.

Now he’s finally merging his talents into what he calls “a theatre/concert hybrid.” Life, Death And The Blues is an autobiographical exploration of his Indian/Irish ancestry and his relationship to blues music, told through stories and (mostly) songs. He’ll be accompanied by Juno-winning singer Divine Brown and backed by his trusty Big Time pals.

“The tricky thing about blues is that you normally don’t intellectualize it – you just play it,” says Bhaneja, whose last theatre creation was his hit Shakespeare adaptation Hamlet (Solo).

“This is subject matter that I’m very close to, so it’s weird for me. It’s not like I’m an actor doing a play about the blues [and] did some research and learned a couple of songs. It’s as much a part of my performing life as being an actor.”

Bhaneja was first approached about incorporating his music into a theatre piece by Andy McKim back in 1999, but the question of how to do this has challenged him for more than a decade.

“The play has become far more autobiographical than I ever wanted,” he says. “My whole performing life I’ve resisted doing the ‘Hey I’m a half-Indian, half-Irish guy and here’s my play about the blues.’ I’ve always wanted to be in the business because of what I can do rather than who I am or where I’m from.”

Bhaneja isn’t African American and didn’t grow up in the American South.

“I’m not someone from the roots of blues music,” he says. “I had to look into my own origin story and examine my relationship to music and to black culture. I realized that the only story I can truly be an authority on is my own, and I needed to tell it through the blues.”

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Previews September 25-28, opens September 30 and runs to October 19 at Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). 416-504-7529.

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Getting real

dance PReVIeW elseWheRe Choreographer Heidi Strauss captures life in the moment in elsewhere By KATHLEEN SMITH elsewhere choreography by Heidi Strauss, with Danielle Baskerville, Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson, Brendan Wyatt and Miriah Brennan. Presented by DanceWorks and Harbourfront Centre at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). Opens September 25 and runs to September 27, 8 pm. $19$37. 416-973-4000.

Choreographer Heidi Strauss is a scientist of human behaviour, her research lab the dance studio, her guinea pigs both performers and audience. For her latest work, elsewhere, the award-winning choreographer puts under her microscope people’s ability to affect events – and each other.

“I’m attracted to the idea of registering sensation, registering a history of living, and the context of having this bowl of experience that you carry around with you,” says Strauss. “How you are in your interactions with other people, from the smallest reactions to the most explosive feelings, sometimes comes from places that you don’t actually know you’re carrying with you.”

Strauss and her dancers (all of whom originated the project, with the exception of newbie Miriah Brennan) have been investigating this notion for almost three years. They’ll soon bring the concept to life in a series of choreographed “pathways” in which discrepancies in timing, intensity and reaction are welcome.

During a rehearsal, Strauss quietly encourages the performers to own the material they’re helping to devise, and this feeling of spontaneity is apparent.

The individual personalities and quirks of the five drive solo, duet and ensemble movement that flows, sometimes in ways that resemble flailing or combat or melting, but always with striking details – a single finger pointing up, a sudden diagonal line, a puffedout chest.

Although the studio setting here is barebones casual, by opening night the choreography will be augmented by a score from composer Jeremy Mimnagh (Strauss’s partner) and simple images projected on movable panels.

Strauss expects these to highlight rather than obscure the dancers’ decisions and intimacies.

“There’s a live-ness, a realness to what the actions are,” Strauss comments over post-rehearsal drinks. “The mix of elements is important for me, but also for the dancers to have those moments of feeling lost or heightened awareness of what’s happening or who’s in charge now. If it can feel for the dancers like a real experience, then there’s hope for it feeling real for the [audience].”

That quality of realness is increasingly essential to Strauss, a frequent choreographer for theatre projects and a resident artist at the Theatre Centre. She says she’s trying to let go of theatricality and chase the subtleties of real-life energy and interaction rather than conventional performance values.

That pursuit has influenced more recent celebrated works like Everyday Anthems, made with company members of Toronto Dance Theatre in 2013, or her own 2011 solo, still here, but it’s intensified with the creation of elsewhere.

“Dance, for me, is so much about things that are in the moment,” she says with a trademark gentle intensity that might be intimidating if she weren’t so eager to hear what you think.

“But the moment passes, and then it’s really what you bring to the next moment and the recollections and the flashbacks or the images that come to you out of something that’s already happened.

“I’m trying to move away from a theatrical directing of the piece,” she says of elsewhere, “in order to say, ‘This is where we are, this is really what’s going on.’”

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An Enemy Of The People is a play that seems designed to make Stephen Harper squirm.

Ibsen’s parable follows a smalltown doctor who uncovers an inconvenient truth: the lucrative local baths are being polluted, and could hurt people. Addressing the problem, however, will upset the economy.

Sound familiar? It certainly did to Tarragon’s artistic director, Richard Rose, when he saw this updated adaptation a year ago in Berlin.

Rose tried to snag the whole creative team for a Toronto production, including celebrated German director Thomas Ostermeier. But due to scheduling difficulties he ended up with their blessing to stage his own English version of their update. The action is switched from 1877 to present-day small-town Norway, and middle-aged protagonist Dr. Stockman (Joe Cobden) becomes instead a young man with a new family.

“The adaptation makes changes that bring issues like the oil sands, fracking, Walkerton and the cod fisheries into focus,” says Rose.

“Is democracy a principle or an economy? It seems that economy wins time and time again. One of the feelings I’ve had for years, that this play speaks to, is how interwoven the tar sands have become with the wider economy: government, taxes, people’s jobs. You can’t challenge it without challenging the whole system.”

At the heart of the play is Dr. Stockman’s relationship with his brother (Rick Roberts), an ambitious town councillor who wants to keep the potentially dangerous baths open.

“What moved me about the play is how human it is, and how we make many of our political decisions out of self-interest. A market [economy] is very simple: the numbers work or they don’t. It’s a very limited vision that doesn’t take human values into account. What about taking care of people?”

One of the biggest challenges was reworking the translated dialogue.

“It sounded a little formal when we translated it from German. A little much in the mouth, as we say. So instead of saying ‘Your newspaper always spared him,’ it’s ‘Your paper never went after him.’”

Rose hopes the timely piece packs a punch.

“I hope it stimulates debate, provokes thoughtful reflection and inspires people not to make decisions based purely on economics.”

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Now in previews, opens Wednesday (September 24) and runs to October 26 at the Tarragon. See Opening, page 66. 416-531-1827. tarragontheatre.com

THEATRE PREVIEW THE mOUnTAInTOP

The King’s speech

Orphan Black’s Kevin Hanchard evokes Martin Luther King Jr’s final hours By JON KAPLAN THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall, directed by Philip Akin, with Kevin Hanchard and Alana Hibbert. Presented by Obsidian and the Shaw Festival at Aki Studio Theatre (585 Dundas East). Previews begin September 27, opens October 1 and runs to October 19. $15-$35. 416-531-1402.

On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., working in support of striking sanitation workers, was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis motel. The event is indel­ ibly burned into the minds of many alive at the time.

Katori Hall conjectures what might have happened the day be­ fore his death in the same motel, as King gathers his thoughts, plans strategies and meets a most un­ usual maid, Camae, who gives him cause to think anew about his life and actions.

“At the start of the show, we see a very real depiction of King, with all the public persona stripped away,” says Kevin Hanchard, who plays the crusader in The Moun­ taintop, an Obsidian Theatre production that ran at the Shaw Festival before coming to Toronto.

“He’s just given his famous speech about having been to the mountaintop and seen the Prom­ ised Land, though he feels he needs to keep moving forward despite the pressure of his work.”

But the play goes beyond that, says Hanchard, whose credits in­ clude Topdog/Underdog (onstage) and the hit series Orphan Black.

“King’s on a journey, realizing that he wants to bring equality and justice not only to marginalized people of colour, but to everyone,” he says. “At this point in his career he’s championing more than civil

rights for blacks; everyone who’s poor and needy are those he’s con­ cerned about, as are the injustices of the Vietnam War.” Hanchard’s glad the play doesn’t ask him to do an impression of the famous man and recreate his mag­ netic way of captivating an audience.

King is unaware at the start that this is his last day on earth, though viewers have the hindsight of his­ tory. There are nods to King’s future – “Over my dead body,” he says at one point – and Hanchard hears a mur­ mur in the audience every night when he says those words.

“The events of the next 24 hours colour everything that’s said. I feel he knows he’s going to be killed at some point. He’s under pressure, knows the stakes have been ratchet­ ed up. There’s only one direction his journey can take him, and he has the examples of dead civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers and Malcolm X to project what might happen to him.

“He even alludes to it in the speech he made that day, saying about the Promised Land, ‘I might not get there with you.’”

Things change with the appear­ ance of Camae.

“At first she’s almost dismissible as the kind of beautiful, mischievous maid we’ve seen for years, like Flor­ ence on the TV show The Jeffersons,” he says. “She takes him and his views to task and becomes a wonderful foil for him. I see her as a kind of radical Malcolm battling King’s non­violent means of resistance. She forces him to back up what he fights for.

“The result is a wonderful pas de deux where ideas and philosophies are bandied back and forth and King realizes that she’s much more than a pretty face.”

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Diane Flacks (clockwise, left), Kathryn Haggis, Sadie Epstein-Fine and Stephen Joffe try to keep it together.

Life is a cabaret

This fall’s biggest trend is cabaret. Whether it’s a response to our short-attention-span culture or simply good value to see a bunch of diverse artists for one ticket price, expect a lot of singing and monologuing this season. Here are some highlights, old chum. By GLENN SUMI

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MARGARET ATWOOD in The Poem/The Song Atwood’s new collection of stories is currently on bookshelves, but you can see her read from her poems and those of writers like Leonard Cohen and T.S. Eliot in Art of Time Ensemble’s mashup of a program that includes singer Thom Allison, music by Franz Liszt and Andrew Lloyd Webber and more. November 7 and 8 at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre.

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CHILINA KENNEDY in UnCovered The Stratford vet is heading to Broadway soon to star in the Carole King musical Beautiful. So don’t miss her in the star-studded Acting Up Stage Company cabaret devoted to the works of Elton John and Billy Joel, with creative arrangements by Reza Jacobs. November 12 and 13 at Koerner Hall.

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October 25 and 26 at the Young Centre. 416-866-8666.

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DAVID MILLER in the Bonspiel! Cabaret Yes, that David Miller.

He’s one of the guests – along with rapper Abdominal and the Obliques – of the monthly night of interviews and improv with some of the best comics in the city (Jan Caruana, Alastair Forbes, Rob Baker and others).

Could provide a fresh (not to mention funny) take on the municipal election. September 28 at No One Writes to the Colonel. bonspieltheatre.com.

THEATRE PREVIEW FREDA AND JEM’S BEST OF THE WEEK

A fractured family Diane Flacks and Kathryn Haggis play a lesbian couple negotiating a difficult split

Lois Fine’s Freda And Jem’s Best Of The Week looks at a 20-year relationship that’s breaking up, with the squabbling parents as distraught as their two teenage kids.

Familiar story? Not quite. The parents are lesbians Jem and Freda, and their children are angry with both women and fighting to hold the family together.

The play, workshopped at SummerWorks 2011 and now opening the Buddies season, looks at the butch and femme aspects of the couple’s relationship, giving the characters a twist that’s sometimes comic, sometimes tragic.

Directed by Judith Thompson, it also features live music by Lorraine Segato.

“What I find fascinating is that it’s a real exploration of how to navigate a long-term relationship and handle its falling apart,” says Diane Flacks, who plays Freda to Kathryn Haggis’s butch Jem. “Just as importantly, it looks at what the dissolution does to the children and how everyone tries, at some level, to protect the other three.

“It’s kind of like working on monkey bars. To move forward, you have to hold tightly onto a secure bar as you reach for the next.”

“The two women were drawn together in the first place because they made each other feel special, the centre of the universe,” adds Haggis, who’s remembered for her work in Dyke City.

“Jem is a plumber, confident and proud of herself when they meet, but she’s surprised to find the sophisticated Freda interested in her. Later, she doesn’t have the emotional flexibility to sustain the partnership.”

Freda’s just as flawed, explains Flacks, though she presents a great front of having it all together.

“But in crisis, she makes mistakes, lets things go, becomes passive-aggressive.”

The kids, a boy and a girl, are just as conflicted, arguing with their parents one minute and trying to bring them back into the relationship the next.

“This is a story about love, about the kids as much as about the sexuality of the parents,” says Haggis. “Having those various viewpoints makes the show JON KAPLAN more layered, the characters more detailed.”

Opens tonight (Thursday, September 18) and runs to October 5. Buddies in Bad Times. 416-975-8555.

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opening this fall Book your tickets now for this season’s biggest theatre, comedy and dance shows Compiled by By KATARINA RISTIC

Sarah-Louise Young climbs musical mountains in Julie Madly Deeply, from September 30 at the Panasonic.

the songBook series (TPM After Hours). Oct 10. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. the art of BuiLDing a Bunker by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia (Factory Theatre). Oct 11-Nov 2. 125 Bathurst. 416-5049971, factorytheatre.ca. concorD fLoraL by Jordan Tannahill (Why Not Theatre/Suburban Beast). Oct 12-26.

Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, theatrewhynot.org. heLen LaWrence by Chris Haddock (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre/Banff Centre/NAC).

Oct 12-Oct 15. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

BuDDy! the BuDDy hoLLy story by Alan Janes (Nu Musical Productions). Oct 14-Nov 16.

Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. numu.ca. marion BriDge by Daniel MacIvor (D & T Productions). Oct 14-19. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. marionbridge.bpt.me. menoPause the musicaL by Jeannie Linders (Starvox Entertainment). Oct 14-Dec 13. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. randolphacademy.com.

BeLLa: the coLour of Love by Mary Kerr and Theresa Tova (Harold Green Jewish Theatre).

Oct 15-Nov 2. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. hgjewishtheatre.com. evita by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Lower Ossington Theatre). Oct 16-Nov 23.

100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. the BakeLite masterPiece by Kate Cayley (Tarragon Theatre). Oct 21-Nov 30. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

De coLores festivaL of neW Works

(Alameda Theatre Company). Oct 21-24.

Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-5047529, alamedatheatre.com. steLLa – Queen of the snoW by Marie-Louise Gay (Mermaid Theatre). Oct 21. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca. aLcina by GF Handel (Opera Atelier). Oct 23Nov 1. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-6222787, operaatelier.com. the skriker by Caryl Churchill (Red One Theatre Collective/Theatre Brouhaha). Oct 23Nov 9. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

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Life, Death anD the BLues by Raoul Bhaneja (Theatre Passe Muraille/Hope and Hell Theatre). Sep 25-Oct 19. 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca.

Past Perfect by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto). Sep 25-Oct 5. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

BLooDy famiLy by Philip McKee and Tanja Jacobs (Theatre Centre). Sep 26-Oct 5. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. the BootLegger’s Wife by Victoria Murdoch (Savory Entertainment). Sep 26-28. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. bootleggerswife.com. escaPe from haPPiness by George F Walker (Alumnae Theatre Company). Sep 26-Oct 11, .

Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. gay PLay Day: LgBtQ theatre festivaL (Gay Play Day). Sep 26-27. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley, Studio. gayplayday.blogspot.ca. the mountaintoP by Katori Hall (Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival). Sep 27-Oct 19. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416-531-1402, obsidiantheatre.com. the stray Dog saLon (Soulpepper Cabaret Series). Sep 27. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca. starry notions (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Sep 28. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

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JuLie maDLy DeePLy by Sarah-Louise Young (Mirvish/Seabright Productions). Sep 30-Oct 19. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, mirvish.com.

October

Birth by Tom Arthur Davis (Pandemic Theatre). Oct 1-18. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. uniiverse.com/pandemictheatre. the Boy With taPe on his face by Sam Wills (Mirvish/Seabright Productions). Oct 1-19.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

QueercaB (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

Oct 1. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. the fish eyes triLogy by Anita Majumdar (nightswimming). Oct 2. Dancemakers Studio, 9 Trinity. nightswimmingtheatre.com. the fun PaLace raDio variety shoW (Small Wooden Shoe). Oct 2-4. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. funpalace.ca. the garDen Party by Vaclav Havel (Victoria College Drama Society). Oct 2-4. Victoria College Quad, 91 Charles W. uofttix.ca. shakesPeare-in-hosPitaLs ProJect shoWcase (Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Col-

lective). Oct 2-3. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. facebook.com/events/703597069734684. the thing BetWeen us by Alison Lawrence (the mcguffin company). Oct 2-19. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, mcguffincompany.com.

We WaLk among you by the Ensemble (Artichoke Heart Collective). Oct 2-12. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. faLstaff by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Oct 3-Nov 1. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416363-8231, coc.ca.

Love vs. smut (Pressgang Theatre). Oct 4.

Handlebar, 159 Augusta. facebook.com/ pressgangtheatre. the Princess & the Pea adapted by Derek Genova (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Oct 4 -25. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

What makes a man by Jennifer Tarver (Canadian Stage/Necessary Angel). Oct 5-Nov 2.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. to kiLL a mockingBirD by Harper Lee (Young People’s Theatre). Oct 6-Nov 2. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. a BrimfuL of asha by Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre/Soulpepper). Oct 7-11. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

Piece of mine festivaL (Natasha Adiyana Morris). Oct 7-12. 918 Bathurst Arts Centre, 918 Bathurst. pieceofminefest.com.

Prisoner of tehran by Marina Nemat (Motus O Dance Theatre). Oct 8-10. Lebovic Centre for the Arts, 19 Civic, Stouffville. 905640-2322, 19onthepark.ca. afterock PLays (b current). Oct 10-25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. circLe mirror transformation by Annie Baker (Play Practice Collective). Oct 8-18. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat. com. maDama ButterfLy by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Oct 10-Oct 31.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. mariLyn – after by Nonnie Griffin (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Oct 10-19. 12 Alexander, Tallulah’s Cabaret. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Oct 23. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. ticketmaster.ca. gLoBaL caBaret festivaL (Soulpepper). Oct 24-26. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

Les ZinsPirés 3D (Théâtre français de Toronto). Oct 24-Nov 1. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais. com. my treasure isLanD!! by Karen Woolridge (Johnson Girls). Oct 24-Nov 16. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca. night of DreaD (Clay & Paper Theatre). Oct 25. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org.

30 PeoPLe Watching by nisha ahuja and Amelia Sargisson (Subtle Vigilance). Oct 25Nov 14. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. subtlevigilance.com.

Bang: Les coQuettes fareWeLL shoW (Les Coquettes). Oct 26-30. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com. sea sick by Alanna Mitchell (The Theatre Centre). Oct 27-Nov 2. 1115 Queen W. 416538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

Last Days (U of T Faculty of Music). Oct 2930. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Music Room. 416-408-0208, music.utoronto.ca. sPoon river adapted by Mike Ross and Albert Schultz (Soulpepper Theatre). Oct 29Nov 15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. eviL DeaD – the musicaL by Christopher Bond, George Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris (Starvox Entertainment). Oct 30-Nov 9. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. randolphacademy.com. nine the musicaL by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston (Victoria College Drama Society). Oct 30-Nov 1. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. murDer at the BurLesQue: ePisoDe 3 (The Social Capital/Red Herring). Oct 31. 154 Danforth. eventbrite.ca/e/12434721587.

November When We Were young: a stratforD ceLeBration (World Festival of Children’s The-

atre). Nov 1. Knox Church, 142 Ontario, Stratford. worldfestivalofchildrenstheatre.com. intimate exPeriences: the comPosers (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Nov 2. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. arcaDia by Tom Stoppard (Mirvish/Shaw Festival). Nov 4-Dec 14. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. stePhen harPer: the musicaL (James Gordon). Nov 4-5. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604, hughsroom.com. faBrik: the LegenD of m. raBinoWitZ by Wakka Wakka Productions and the Nordland Visual Theatre (Harold Green Jewish Theatre).

Nov 5-Nov 16. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. hgjewishtheatre.com.

QueercaB (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

Nov 5. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. sextet by Morris Panych (Tarragon Theatre).

Nov 5-Dec 14. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. take me Back to Jefferson by Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour (Factory Theatre/Theatre Smith-Gilmour). Nov 5-23. 125 Bathurst. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. the temPest by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). Nov 5-22. 7 Hart House Circle. harthousetheatre.ca. the four horsemen ProJect by Kate Alton and Ross Manson (Volcano Theatre/Crooked Figure Dances/Global Mechanic). Nov 6-22.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. the fun PaLace raDio variety shoW (Small Wooden Shoe). Nov 6-8. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. funpalace.ca. fuLgens anD Lucres by Henry Medwall (Poculi Ludique Societas). Nov 7-15. Convocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle. plspls.ca. nsfW by Luck Kirkwood (Studio 180). Nov 7-30. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. the Poem/the song (Art of Time Ensemble).

Nov 7-8. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. artoftimeensemble.com. taLking heaDs by Alan Bennett (Precisely Peter Productions). Nov 7-23. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227, campbellhousemuseum.ca.

JiLLian Jiggs! adapted by Derek Genova (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Nov 8-29. 4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031, solarstage.on.ca.

Buyer & ceLLar by Jonathan Tolins (Mirvish).

Nov 12-30. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com. oPus by Yaron Lifschitz (Canadian Stage/ Circa). Nov 12-16. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. uncovereD: BiLLy JoeL & eLton John (Acting Up Stage Company). Nov 12-13. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W, Koerner Hall.

647-438-5559, actingupstage.com.

Burying toni by Catherine Frid (Alumnae Fireworks Festival). Nov 13-29. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. alumnaetheatre.com. human furniture by Claire Burns (Red One Theatre Collective/Triangle Pi). Nov 13-30.

The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. taPestry Briefs: Booster shots (Tapestry New Opera). Nov 13-16. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 316. tapestryopera.com. insatiaBLe sisters (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Nov 14. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. you have to earn it by Ramona Baillie and Maria Popoff (Alumnae Fireworks Festival).

Nov 14-29. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley.

416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

PauLo anD DaPhne by Ned Dickens (Theatreworks). Nov 19-Dec 7. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. theatreworksproductions.com. sPin by Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre/OutSpoke Productions). Nov 19-23.

12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. the DecharDin ProJect by Adam Seybold (Theatre Passe Muraille). Nov 20-Dec 14. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

cinDereLLa: the gags to riches famiLy musicaL by Reid Janisse (Ross Petty Produc-

tions). Nov 21-Jan 4, 2015. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-599-9090, rosspetty.com. roPe by Patrick Hamilton (Bygone Theatre/ City of Toronto). Nov 21-29. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. bygonetheatre.com.

JAMES AND THE GIANT pEACH by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Timothy Allen McDonald (Young People’s Theatre). Nov 24-Dec 21.

165 Front E. youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

LE CHANT DE GEORGES BOIvIN by Martin Bellemare (Théâtre français de Toronto).

Nov 26-30. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais. com.

RALpH + LINA by Michele Smith, Dan Watson and Christina Serra (Ahuri Theatre). Nov 2530. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416538-0988, ahuritheatre.com.

WINGFIELD UNBOUND (Dan Needles) Nov 25.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. rhcentre.ca.

THE STRONGER vARIATIONS by Allyson McMackon (Theatre Rusticle). Nov 26-Dec 7.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Soulpepper). Nov 27-Dec 27. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca.

HMS pINAFORE by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (U of T Faculty of Music). Nov 27-30.

Edward Johnson Bldg Mac Millan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. music.utoronto.ca.

KIM’S CONvENIENCE by Ins Choi (Soulpepper). Nov 27-Dec 28. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. soulpepper.ca.

INTIMATE ExpERIENCES: INTIMATELY US (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Nov 30. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

THE SHOESTRING MAGIC FLUTE by Shoestring Opera (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Nov 30. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

December QUEERCAB (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

Dec 3. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes. com.

THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Sterling Studio Theatre). Dec 3-20. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

THE FUN pALACE RADIO vARIETY SHOW

(Small Wooden Shoe). Dec 4-6. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. funpalace.ca.

LE CHAT BOTTé by Charles Perrault (Théâtre français de Toronto). Dec 6. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. theatrefrancais.com.

DONNY & MARIE CHRISTMAS IN TORONTO

(Mirvish). Dec 9-21. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com.

WHO’S AFRAID OF vIRGINIA WOOLF? by Edward Albee (Red One Theatre Collective).

Dec 10-21. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

CRISIS ON ST CRESKINS by Henri Fabergé and the cast (Henry Fabergé’s Feint of Hart). Dec 13-15. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227, campbellhousemuseum.ca.

THE SNOW QUEEN adapted by Derek Genova (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Dec 13-Jan 4, 2015. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens (Motus O Dance Theatre). Dec 14-15.

Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. 905-615-4720, mtix.ca.

INTIMATE ExpERIENCES: BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Dec 15.

12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

JERSEY BOYS by Marshall Brickman and Rick

Elice (Mirvish). Dec 17-Jan 4, 2015. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. mirvish.com.

ELIzABETH - DARCY: AN ADApTATION OF pRIDE AND pREJUDICE by Hallie Burt and Kate Werneburg (Burt and Werneburg). Dec 1821. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. campbellhousemuseum.ca.

pOTTED pOTTER – THE UNAUTHORIzED HARRY ExpERIENCE by Daniel Clarkson and Jeffer-

son Turner (Starvox Entertainment/Potted Productions). Dec 18-Jan 11, 2015. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. mirvish.com. vENUS IN FUR by David Ives (Canadian Stage). Dec 18-28. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage. com.

DISNEY ON ICE: TREASURE TROvE (Feld Entertainment). Dec 19-28. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. disneyonice.com.

THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD by David Farr (Mirvish). Dec 22-Mar 1, 2015. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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Improv Troupe. Sep 27. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. specialfeaturesimprov.wordpress.com.

ALL BLACK COMEDY REvUE Nubian Disciples monthly show w/ Kenny Robinson. Sep 28.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

THE EpIC NERD SHOW Empire Comedy Live show. Sep 28. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com.

Shaun Majumder brings laughs to the Flato Markham Theatre on Nov 26.

Cassella. Sep 28. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

SCOTT FAULCONBRIDGE Stand-up. Oct 24-25.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

THE UNSUNG SEQUEL Special Features Musical Improv Troupe. Oct 25. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. specialfeaturesimprov.wordpress.com.

ALL BLACK COMEDY REvUE Monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson. Oct 26. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

CREAM OF COMEDY Tim Sims Encouragement Fund annual show. Oct 27. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

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November

MAGGIE AND SHANNON TWO HAND REACH AROUND Shannon McDonough and Maggie

HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies monthly im-

comedy September

JFL42 Continues to Sep 27. Various venues.

See this week’s listings and jfl42.com.

DANIEL DUGAR Stand-up show. Sep 25-27. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS The Second City

dance September

CULTURE MOvES YOU! Dance Matters and YMI Dancing free Culture Days performance. Sep 26. Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. dancematters.ca/Culture_Moves_You.html.

ELSEWHERE Harbourfront NextSteps and DanceWorks present Heidi Strauss’s adelheid company. Sep 25-27. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

October KISS & CRY Charleroi Danses and Canadian

Stage present an interdisciplinary show. Oct 1-5. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, canadianstage.com.

REHEARSAL/pERFORMANCE Ame Henderson’s live rehearsals. Oct 2. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/ame-henderson.

SEASON 2014 Harbourfront NextSteps and ProArteDanza present choreographies by Roberto Campanella, Guillaume Côté and others. Oct 1-4. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

THE vELvETEEN RABBIT Ballet Jörgen presents choreography by Kathleen Rea. Oct 4-5. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. balletjorgencanada.ca.

WORLD OF DANCE International urban dance competition. Oct 4. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. worldofdance.com/tour.

WAvING IS FUNNY Contemporary dance by Tina Fushell Oct 15-18. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-988-8462.

FLYING BACH Breakdancers the Flying Steps and dancer Anna Holmström. Oct 16-19. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. roythomson.com.

60 60 DANCE TORONTO 2014 Harbourfront NextSteps presents 60 dances set to 60 oneminute pieces of music. Oct 16. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

UpLICA: A SILHOUETTE OF A DOUBT Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie present choreography

by Apolonio & Ofilio. Oct 16-25. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. colemanlemieux.com.

L’IMpLORANTE & L’éTERNEL vOYAGE Harbourfront NextSteps presents BoucharDanse and

presents its fall mainstage revue. Now in previews, opens Sep 28, indefinite run. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

GOOD NEWS, TORONTO Live-news parody show. Sep 26. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/GoodNewsTorontoTheShow.

NEIL RHODES: THE FIRST 39 YEARS Birthday comedy show. Sep 27. Free Times Café, 320 College. 416-967-1078.

ONE FACE, ONE RACE COMEDY SHOW Angelo Tsarouchas and Frank Spadone. Sep 27. Richmond Hill Centre, 10268 Yonge. rhcentre.ca.

THE UNSUNG SEQUEL Special Features Musical

Théâtre la Tangente performing works by Sylvie Bouchard. Oct 23-25. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

November TDT TRIpLE BILL Harbourfront NextSteps pre-

sents Toronto Dance Theatre performing works by Thomas Hauert and Christopher House. Nov 4-8. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

TRIBUTE TO REx The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica pays tribute to its cofounder Rex Nettleford. Nov 4. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-8727669, sonycentre.ca.

MANON The National Ballet of Canada presents Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography about a Parisian courtesan. Nov 8-16. Four

provised show. Oct 1. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

DOM pARE Stand-up. Oct 1-5. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

EAST COAST COMEDY NIGHT Stand-up, improv and music. Oct 3. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. shortweird.com.

ADAM SANK Stand-up. Oct 4. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

DARRYL ORR Stand-up. Oct 8-12. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

CRACK ME Up COMEDY Headliner Mark Little.

Oct 9. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

RITA RUDNER Live show. Oct 15. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge.

905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca.

GLEN FOSTER Stand-up. Oct 15-19. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

BIG CITY IMpROv FESTIvAL Performers from all over North America. Oct 17-25. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

YOUNG DRUNK pUNK Bruce McCulloch’s solo show. Oct 21. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. torontosketchfest.com.

BOBBY LEE Stand-up. Oct 22-23. Yuk Yuk’s,

14/15 Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145

Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca.

OLDER & RECKLESS 33 MOonhORsE Dance Theatre and Canadian Stage showcase. Nov 6-9.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. moonhorsedance.com.

SERIES 1 – A WOMAN’S WORK Dance Matters presents works featuring Lilia Leon, Sharon Harvey and others. Nov 8-9. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. dancematters.ca/tix. vOLvER A FLAMENTANGO Compañia Maria Serrano present a flamenco and tango show.

Nov 21. John Bassett Theatre, 255 Front W. mariaserrano.com.

NIJINSKY The National Ballet of Canada presents choreography by John Neumeier. Nov 22-30. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. national.ballet.ca.

SOULFUL MESSIAH Harbourfront NextSteps

CLOSE SHAvE 3: Q MEETS WHO The Dandies’ Movember benefit. Nov 1. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

MEGAN AMRAM Stand-up. Nov 7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com.

JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Gabriel Iglesias, Martin Moreno, Godfrey and Dom Irrera. Nov 13-14. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. masseyhall.com.

HOLIDAzED AND CONFUSED Seasonal sketch revue. Nov 17-Jan 1, 2015. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCH COM-AGGEDON 48 sketch troupes competing for a spot in the 2015 Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. Nov 18-22. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

SHAUN MAJUMDER Stand-up. Nov 26. Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham. 905-305-7469.

GARY GULMAN Stand-up. Nov 29-30. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com.

THE SECOND CITY GUIDE TO THE SYMpHONY SC cast and the TSO show. Nov 29-30. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. masseyhall.com.

ALL BLACK COMEDY REvUE Monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson. Nov 30. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

presents Ballet Creole’s rendition of Handel’s Messiah. Nov 28-29. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

December THE NUTCRACKER The National Ballet of Can-

ada presents the classic ballet with choreography by James Kudelka. Dec 13-Jan 3, 2015.

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

THE NUTCRACKER, A CANADIAN TRADITION Ballet Jörgen’s holiday classic. Dec 17-18. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. balletjorgen.ca.

WINTERSONG – DANCES FOR A SACRED SEASON

Harbourfront NextSteps and Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre present dance inspired by winter solstice. Dec 12-13. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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The Monday Nights guys have a ball in interactive show.

Hoop dreams

mondAy nighTs by Byron Abalos, Colin Doyle, Darrel Gamotin, Richard Lee and Jeff Yung (6th Man Collective). At the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen). Runs to September 20. $25-$30. 416-538-0988.

See Continuing, page 67. Rating: nnn This interactive show is part amateur sports memoir and part basketball skills clinic. Four actors, each deeply passionate about the cathartic, community-building potential of the game, lead teams of audience members through some basic hoops training, followed by friendly competitive drills.

The result is an intriguing look at the relationship between theatre and sports that’s ultimately heartwarming and fun if you’re not afraid to relive some gym class awkwardness (or glory, depending on your skill level) in front of total strangers.

Inspired by weekly pickup basket-

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Ephraim Ellis wigs out as Hedwig.

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John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask (Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington). Runs to September 27. $50. lowerossingtontheatre.com. See Continuing, page 67. Rating: nnnn

Last June, Hedwig And The Angry Inch took home four Tony Awards for a much lauded revival. Now the Lower Ossington Theatre, Toronto’s current bastion of Broadway musicals, has remounted its own spring production. And it, too, kicks glitterclad butt.

Set up as a raunchy nightclub act, the play employs monologues and fabulous glam rock songs to recount the life of transgender rocker Hedwig (Ephraim Ellis). The story begins in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and winds up in the U.S., where the furious and dejected Hedwig is on tour performing with backup singer Yitzhak (Kit Boulter) and a band.

As Hedwig, Ellis has the manic energy and singing chops to deliver in this difficult role. Although his portrayal

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lacks subtlety at first, he achieves emotional depth, telling stories of love and betrayal, revealing a poignant loneliness beneath the makeup, sparkly costumes and iconic blond wig.

Boulter’s Yitzhak has few lines, relying on body language to counteract Hedwig’s vitriol. She also has an excellent voice; her backup vocals help songs soar. Mike Ross’s band takes its cue from the best late-night show musicians, offering integral contributions but never outshining the star.

Director Alan Kinsella keeps the pacing strong and the action in-yourface (watch out, front row), but falters slightly in the climactic final scene when Yitzhak exits down the aisle, disrupting our focus and leaving the audience unsure where to look. Mikael Kangas’s lighting helps shift the mood quickly between rock songs and ballads.

John Cameron Mitchell’s tempestuous story still feels edgy and makes a powerful impact. Stephen Trask’s punk- and glam-rock-infused score remains timelessly stirring, and songs like Wig In A Box entice the audience to sing along.

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ball games organized by the actors in the summer of 2008, Monday Nights divides the audience into four teams, each led by one of the affable actor “captains.” The first segment features a warm-up demonstration game between the actor/captains while audience members listen to a team-specific audio program in which your captain talks about his relationship to basketball and shares some beginner tips on dribbling, shooting and passing.

Next you’re introduced to your teammates, given a nickname and guided through some warm-up exercises. The final portion is a skills competition between the four teams, culminating in some six-on-six action. At the end, points are tallied and a winner is declared, but it’s really all about having fun and getting a sense of how the simple act of putting a ball in a hoop affected these guys so much.

While introducing each portion of the competition, the actor/captains

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AmericAn BuffAlo by David Mamet (Unit 102 Actor’s Company). Three small-time hustlers try to achieve the American Dream through a poorly planned coin heist. Opens Sep 21 and runs to Oct 4, Sep 22-27, 30, and Oct 1-4, all shows 8 pm. $20-$25, pwyc Sep 24 and 30 (unit102tix@gmail.com). Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102theatre.com.

AromAs by Andrew Faiz (The Junes Company). A woman searching for her identity gains insight from an escort in a parallel realm. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Oct 4, WedSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. aromastheplay.com.

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 (see story, page 62). Previews to Sep 23. Opens Sep 24 and runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, 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 issues (see story, page 63). Opens Sep 18 and runs to Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37.

12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

The imPorTAnce of Being eArnesT by Oscar Wilde (Hart House Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this farcical satire.

Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 4, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 4 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca. nnnn = Sustained applause

Doug Wright (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Disney Broadway production is adapted for younger audiences. Opens Sep 20 and runs to Oct 5, Fri 7 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2:30 pm. $30-$50. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.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 to Sep 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. reTreAT by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha). Interns fight to the death to turn their unpaid positions into real jobs in this satire. Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 28, WedSun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

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The liTTle mermAid Jr. by Alan Menken and

roB ford The musicAl: The BirTh of ford nATion by Brett McCaig and Anthony Basti-

anon (McCaig Regan Productions). The mayor ruffles the ruling elite and goes on a journey from rock star to rehab to redemption (see Q&A, page 60). Opens Sep 18 and runs to Sep 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$40. 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. 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. 416-978-8849, ucfolliestheatre.ca.

Previewing PAsT PerfecT by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre

français de Toronto). A young woman pursues an epic love affair, but finds heartache. Performed in French, some shows with English surtitles. Previews Sep 24-25. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $28-$57, Wed pwyc, Sat rush $20. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

One-Nighters cindy church (Soulpepper Cabaret Series).

Singer Church and guitarist Steve Briggs perform a collection of songs. Sep 20 at 8:30 pm.

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(all super-nice dudes, almost to a fault) offer up brutally honest assessments of their lives and personalities.

In the spirit of good-natured trashtalk among tight-knit friends, fears of abandonment, commitment, failure and aging are raised and confronted, and then loosely enacted in the skills challenge that follows.

Since the focus is on preparing the audience to play, the show runs a little light on this kind of analysis and character development. Beyond the audio introductions and peer evaluations, it would be nice to see more of how the game changed these guys rather than just hearing that it did.

There’s also potential for some expanded critical reflection about the game itself; why competition and camaraderie on the court is so useful to them as actors.

But this is a unique and provocative piece of hybrid theatre that should score with diverse audiences.

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$20, stu $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. youngcentre.ca.

The fine ArT of The mAsque, A sAlon (Toronto Masque Theatre). This salon features informal chat and performances. Sep 22 at 7:30 pm. $15-$20. TMT Atrium, 21 Shaftesbury. torontomasquetheatre.com. ghosT of The Tree by Charles Robertson (Bottle Tree Productions). This solo show exposes the stories of seven women and the shocking secrets of their family tree. Sep 22 at 10 pm.

Pwyc. Amsterdam Bicycle Club, 54 the Esplanade. abclub.ca.

The hooP by Anthony Henhawk (lemonTree creations). A man leaves apathy behind to become a champion hoop dancer. Sep 20 at 8 pm. $15. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina. brownpapertickets.com/event/849366.

inTimATe exPeriences: meeT The comPAny (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). ñ Bruce Dow and Jeff Madden host a night of performances by recent theatre school grads in this cabaret. Sep 21 at 7:30 pm. $10-$20. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

lunAcy cABAreT: seAson 10 BlAck Tie gAlA

(Zero Gravity Circus). This vaudeville-style cabaret features clown, circus, comedy, music and more. Sep 20 at 9 pm. $20-$25. The Circus Academy, 1300 Gerrard E. lunacycabaret.com.

The musicAl firefighTer by Matthew James and Jeff Lorber (Matthew James). Firefighting heritage and fire safety is featured in this dance-theatre show. Sep 20 at 3 and 8 pm. $68-$250 (partial proceeds to the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness). Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. themusicalfirefighter.com. ouTrunning crAzy (Deborah Kimmett).

Kimmett reads from her new book and from her play Miracle Mother, plus live music. Sep 21 at 2:30 pm. $15. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. kimmett.ca. sinful sundAys (Music City North/Great Canadian Burlesque). The weekly burlesque series features Sevvy Skellington, Betty Quirk and Miss Mitzy Cream. Sep 21 at 10:30 pm.

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

Continuing 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.

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. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. cAcTus floWer by Abe Burrows (Scarborough

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Thursday, September 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 present headliner Ron Vaudry and host Nile Seguin. To Sep 21, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15 or JFL42 pass. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

DAVE ATTELL JFL42 stand-up show. 7 & 11:45 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

DAVE COULIER JFL42 stand-up show. To Sep 18, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $35 or JFL42 pass. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

EXCELSIOR! Comedy Lounge presents headliner Will Noye w/ Tyler Britton and host Kris Bonaparte. 8:30 pm. $10-$15. Vogue Supper Club, 42 Mowat. comedylounge.ca.

ILIZA SHLESINGER JFL42 stand-up show. 7 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Virgin Mobile Mod

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Second City presents previews of its upcoming fall show. Opens Sep 28. Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm (and Fri-Sat 10 pm). $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

TIM MINCHIN JFL42 presents the Aussie musical comic in a live show. To Sep 20, Thu 9:30 pm, Fri-Sat 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

TRU42 JFL42 presents surprise performances in the Cabaret Space every night during the festival. To Sep 27, 10 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

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Friday, September 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 See Thu 18.

ALMOST TOO HIP FOR YUK YUK’S JFL42

presents Mark Little and Steve Dylan w/ ñ opener Anthony Mlekuz and host Julia Hlad-

kowicz. To Sep 20, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $22 or JFL42 pass. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

AMY SCHUMER JFL42 presents the actor/ comic performing live (see cover story, page 58). 7 pm. $55.50-$129. Sony Centre for

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pm (no show Sep 24). $25. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. singlethread.ca.

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Oct 26, Sun 1 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

RICHARD III, THE PLEASURES OF VIOLENCE

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 production features a female Romeo and Juliet living in contemporary Toronto. Runs to Sep 20, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $18-$25. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. randjto.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 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) TWIST & SHOUT (Famous People Players). Juke boxes, drive-in movies and early rock ‘n’ roll are part of this all-ages black-light theatre show. Runs to Oct 25, see website for schedule. $40-$65. 343 Evans. fpp.org.

UBU MAYOR: A HARMFUL BIT OF FUN by Adam 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. Runs to Sep 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, Sun $15.

CALVINBALL’S 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW Cal-

vinball Comedy presents improv w/ 2-Man No-Show, Filthy & Squalor, Danz Altvater, Alex Tindal, Cathy Paton and Jess Grant. 10 pm. $5.

The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. facebook.com/events/1486040741634241.

FUNNYMAN FRIDAYS FunnyMan Inc presents the monthly show. 8 pm. $15-$20. Richmond Hill Centre, 10268 Yonge. funnyman.ca.

JAMIE O’CONNOR The Social Capital presents stand-up w/ O’Connor and guests. 10 pm. $5.

154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG Mike Lawrence at 7 pm, Peter N’ Chris at 9 pm, Ian Karmel at 11 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Cameron Esposito at 7 pm, Nikki Glaser at 9 pm, Iliza Shlesinger at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

THE MARY-JANES OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents headliner Rebecca Kohler, Diana Love, Zabrina Chevannes, Candice Gregoris, Ashley Moffatt, Jillian Thomas, Keesha Brownie and host Lianne Mauladin. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. maryjanesofcomedy.com.

MIKE LAWRENCE JFL42 stand-up show.

11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

NEW FACES OF COMEDY JFL42 presents characters at 7 pm (Inessa Frantowski, Jon Blair, Dan Beirne and others), stand-ups at 9 pm (Tim Gilbert, Michael Harrison, Steph Tolev and others). JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

NIKKI GLASER JFL42 stand-up show. 7 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. jfl42.com.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 18.

SHIRLEY GNOME The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the musical comedian. 11 pm. $10$20. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

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Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. 416-9150201, onelittlegoat.org.

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 musical prequel to The Wizard Of Oz has a strong book and attractive musical numbers, but this touring version doesn’t hit all the right notes in terms of the chemistry between the two leads, Laurel Harris (Elphaba) and Kara Lindsay (Glinda), though each has good moments. There’s still much to enjoy here, though not as much as in previous Toronto productions. Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36$139. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK)

TIM MINCHIN See Thu 18.

TRU42 See Thu 18.

Saturday, September 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 See Thu 18.

ALMOST TOO HIP FOR YUK YUK’S See Fri 19.

DOUBLE HEADER COMEDY NIGHT Thomas Cal-

nan presents Alex Pavone, Mike Rita, Chris Allin, Andrew Barr and Ben Miner. 8 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG Cameron Esposito at 7 pm, MANTOWN at 9 pm, Ian Karmel at 11 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR Mark Forward at 7 pm, Mike Lawrence at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Nikki Glaser at 7 pm, Iliza Shlesinger at 9 pm, the Lucas Brothers at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Iliza Shlesinger at 7 pm, Matt O’Brien & Christina Walkinshaw at 9 pm, Nikki Glaser at 11 pm. 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

LENA DUNHAM JFL42 presents the actor/ comic. 7 pm. $45.50-$129. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.com.

THE LUCAS BROTHERS JFL42 stand-up show by twins Kenny and Keith Lucas. 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. jfl42.com.

THE MOST RACES SHOW ON EARTH MRSOE presents a cultural comedy show w/ Keith Pedro, Cory Fernandez, Clayton English, Neil Bansil,

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9:30 pm. $40. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

NICK OFFERMAN JFL42 presents the actor and avid woodworker in a live show. 10 pm. $45.50-$129. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.com.

SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 18.

SLINGS AND ERRORS Epic Comedy presents an improvised comedy in the style of Shakespeare. 3 pm. $10. Second City, 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

TIM MINCHIN See Thu 18.

TRU42 See Thu 18.

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Sunday, September 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 See Thu 18.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT Ein-

Stein presents Round 6 w/ host Andy Cheng & others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG Cameron Esposito at 7 pm, Ian Karmel at 9 pm. JFL42 pass. 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR Peter N’ Chris at 7 pm, Cameron Esposito at 9 pm, Mike Lawrence at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Nikki Glaser at 7 pm, Mike Lawrence at 9 pm, Iliza Shlesinger at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

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Theatre Guild). A philandering dentist falls for his assistant in this comedy. Runs to Sep 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat pm. $20, stu/srs $17.

Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston.

416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com.

THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper Theatre). A community is thrown into chaos by accusations 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).

Young’s cerebral and unnecessarily long 1992 play divides the legendary Glenn Gould into four separate characters, and while the conceit doesn’t always work – at times the dialogue sounds like a bunch of haphazard chords rather than a series of notes in elegant counterpoint – the quartet of actors is terrific, especially Brent Carver as a reclusive Puritan figure and Steven Sutcliffe as the Perfectionist. Runs to Oct 4, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) 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 (see story, page 66). Runs to Sep 27, ThuSat 8 pm. $50. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. NNNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) 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 – clown turns, acrobatic jaw-droppers and musical sequences – feels beautifully 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. $50-$160. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. NNNN (GS) MONDAY NIGHTS by Byron Abalos, Colin Doyle, Darrel Gamotin, Richard Lee 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 (see story, page 66). Runs to Sep 20, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $25, Sun pwyc. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. NNN (Jordan Bimm) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare (Single Thread Theatre Company). The romantic comedy gets a sitespecific staging. Runs to Sep 27, Wed-Sat 8

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Immerse yourself in the world of The Blues with this innovative concert/theatre hybrid.

Out of Town ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS adapted by James Reaney (Stratford Fesñ tival). Director Jillian Keiley’s staging of the

classic Carroll children’s tale, adapted by Reaney, is 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. 1-800567-1600, 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.

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JFL42 @ BAD DOG Cameron Esposito at 7 pm, Ian Karmel at 9 pm, Mike Lawrence at 11 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR Mark Forward at 7 pm, Cameron Esposito at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Nikki Glaser at 7 pm, Iliza Shlesinger at 9 pm, JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Graham Kay & Sara Hennessey at 7 pm, Matt O’Brien & Christina Walkinshaw at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

LAUGH SABBATH AT JFL42 presents Adam Christie, Tom Henry and Tony Ho. 8 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

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JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Iliza Shlesinger at 7 pm, Mark Forward

at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

MIKE BIRBIGLIA JFL42 stand-up show by the comic/ actor. 7 & 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

THE NEXT WAVE Yuk Yuk’s and JFL42 present Hannah Hogan, Alex Wood, Tim Rabnett, Zabrina Chevannes, Marito Lopez, Kyle Hickey, Mark Heath, Bobby Knauff and Nigel Grinstead. 8 pm. $13 or JFL42 pass. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

SEcONd cITy FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVuE See Thu 18.

STILL STANdING Creative Ideals Entertainment presents headliner Brian Oliver Francis and others. 7:30 pm. $16$25. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. creativeideals.com.

TRu42 See Thu 18.

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Monday, September 22 ABSOLuTE cOMEdy & JFL42 present Debra DiGiovanni and Mark Bennett. 8 pm. $25 or JFL42 pass. Absolute ñ Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

ALTdOT cOMEdy LOuNGE Diamondfield and JFL42 present Mark Forward, K Trevor Wilson, Chris Locke, ñ Winston Spear, Matt O’Brien, Ben Miner, Tim Gilbert,

Steph Tolev, MC Bryan Hatt and others. 9 pm. $5 or JFL42 pass. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

FOuSEyTuBE Collective Concerts presents an all-ages YouTube comedy show. Doors 7 pm. $24.50-$39.50. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. ticketfly.com.

FRESH MEAT Tim Sims Encouragement Fund presents new talent competing for a spot in the Cream Of Comedy show, w/ hosts the Templeton Philharmonic. 8 pm. $15.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

JFL42 @ BAd dOG Cameron Esposito at 7 pm, Ian Karmel at 9 pm, Mike Lawrence at 11 pm. JFL42 pass. 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ cOMEdy BAR Mark Forward at 7 pm, DJ Demers at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Graham Kay & Sara Hennessey at 7 pm, Iliza Shlesinger at 9 pm, DeAnne Smith at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

TRu42 See Thu 18.

Tuesday, September 23 ALTdOT cOMEdy LOuNGE Diamondfield and JFL42 present

Rob Pue, Alex Pavone, Nile Seguin, Arthur Simeon, Julia Hladkowicz, Andrew Johnston, Mark DeBonis, DJ Demers, Mike Rita, MC Ryan Belleville and others. 9 pm. $5 or JFL42 pass. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE ALTERNATIVE SHOW JFL42 presents Andy Kindler w/ nightly guests. To Sep 26, Tue-Fri 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ BAd dOG DeAnne Smith at 7 pm, Matt O’Brien & Christina Walkinshaw at 9 pm, Joe DeRosa at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ cOMEdy BAR Tony Ho at 7 pm, Johnny Pemberton at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Joe DeRosa at 7 pm, Jen Kirkman at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

SEcONd cITy FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVuE See Thu 18.

TRu42 See Thu 18.

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Wednesday, September 24 ABSOLuTE cOMEdy & JFL42 present headliner David Acer

and host Andrew Evans. 8:30 pm. $6 or JFL42 pass. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

THE ALTERNATIVE SHOW See Tue 23.

THE cARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents the improv variety show w/ Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus & Chris Gibbs and guests Scott Thompson, Christy Bruce and Cleopatra Williams. 8 pm. $18-$20, stu $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W, Underground. septcarnegiehallshow.bpt.me. cOMEdy NIGHT AT MuSIdEuM presents bi-weekly standup, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323, musideum.com.

JFL42 @ cOMEdy BAR Tony Ho at 7 pm, Ron Funches at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON DeAnne Smith at 7 pm, Brody Stevens at 9 pm, Joe DeRosa at 11 pm. 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Emily Heller at 7 pm, Mark Forward at 9 pm, DeAnne Smith at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

JOHNNy PEMBERTON JFL42 stand-up show. 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

NEW FAcES OF cOMEdy JFL42 presents Stand-ups at 7 pm (Keith Pedro, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Tom Henry and others), Characters at 9 pm (David-Dineen Porter, Jon Blair, Kirsten Rasmussen and others). JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

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OuTRAGEOuS! WITH ROBERT KELLER: THE BAcK TO SKOOL EdITION Yuk Yuk’s and JFL42 present a queer ñ stand-up show w/ drag queen Vicki Lix and comics Cather-

ine McCormick and Caitlin Langelier. 8 pm. $15 or JFL42 pass. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

PAuL F TOMPKINS JFL42 presents Tompkins in his solo show, Crying And Driving. 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. jfl42.com.

SEcONd cITy FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVuE See Thu 18.

SIREN’S cOMEdy Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Ryan Long and headliner Che Durena. 8:30 pm. Free.

2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

TIG NOTARO JFL42 stand-up show by the comic/writer. To Sep 25, Wed-Thu 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

TRu42 See Thu 18.

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dance listings Opening duSK dANcES AT FORT yORK On Common Ground Festival

of Culture & Community presents outdoor dance featuring choreographies by Julia Aplin, Denise Fujiwara and Sylvie Bouchard. Sep 19-21 at 5 pm. Free. Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. duskdances.ca.

TudS: FESTIVAL OF uRBAN dANcE cuLTuRE Gadfly presents professional shows, all-star battles, workshops, panel discussions and more. Opens Sep 24 and runs to Sep 28, see website for schedule. $20-$45. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tuds.gadfly.ca.

Continuing REHEARSAL/PERFORMANcE Ame Henderson presents live rehearsals as part of her residency at the AGO ñ and in preparation for a Nuit Blanche event. Sep 24 from 6 to 8 pm. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/ame-henderson.

September 19, 7pm Bakka Phoenix Books 84 Harbord Street

Street parking available; parking lot located at Bloor/Bathurst. Five minute walk from Spadina subway station.

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the Middle East’s moral quagmire.

2 pm, Toronto Book Awards Tent

CATHERINE GILDINER Gildiner reads from Coming Ashore ($27.95, ECW), another instalment in her absorbing autobiography.

4:15 pm, Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent

Spread the Word

SHYAM SELVADURAI

DIONNE BRAND In Love Enough ($26.99, Knopf), one of T.O’s most gifted writers – and frequent prizewinners – weaves together the stories of four people

Park, Sunday (September 21), 11 am to 6 pm. Free. thewordonthestreet.ca

Book lovers, get ready for the city’s largest street fest devoted to all things literary. Scores of publishers, magazines and other orgs pumping the written word set up shop on the streets ringing Queen’s Park on Sunday (September 21), and authors read throughout the day. Buy books or bring the ones you have. Writers always give face time and signatures.

Here’s who and what you should keep your eye out for.

Dionne Brand

David Bezmozgis

Kat Kruger The author reads from The Night

Sunday, September 21

of stories about women and how they feel about their clothes. Bring 5 items of laundered clothing to swap. 7-9 pm. Free. Gravity Pope, 1010 Queen W. typebooks.ca.

Friday, September 19 deSCant 166: the Berlin ProjeCt launCh Party Readings by Barbara Ponomareff, Barry

Dempster, Ophelia John and George Elliott Clarke. 7-10 pm. Free. Goethe-Institut, 100 University, 2nd Floor. descant.ca.

5hot, Wet & ShaKing Queer, disabled sex educator Kaleigh Trace launches Hot, Wet & Shaking: How I Learned To Talk About Sex along with Samantha Fraser and Sophie Delancey. 7-9 pm. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/710124529061351.

SenSe-aBility BooK launCh Launching a book documenting a project providing creative and mindfulness-based programming with anti-stigma sentiments at CAMH. 7-11 pm. Free. Black Cat Gallery, 2186 Dundas W. mindfularts.ca.

SPeaKout Poetry David Delissca and up and coming artists perform at this community showcase. 7:30-10:30 pm. $10. Paintbox Bistro, 555 Dundas E. speakoutpoetry.com.

Saturday, September 20 david mitChell Reading and interview by the

author of The Bone Clocks. 3 pm. $10.

Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org; Also at a dinner and conversation event. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. Pre-register 416-361-0032.

NOW CONTRIBUTORS Stop by our table and say hi to NOW editors and writers from all departments.

Senior news editor Enzo DiMatteo Music editor Julia LeConte, associate entertainment editor stage/film Glenn Sumi Senior film writer Norman Wilner, news writer Jonathan Goldsbie News writer Ben Spurr Online editor Kate Robertson Senior entertainment editor Susan G. Cole, fashion and design writer Sabrina Maddeaux

NOW BOOKS EDITOR

SmaShmouth! Spoken word open mic w/ poet Yusra Khogali B. 8 pm. Free. Lazy Daisy’s, 1515 Gerrard E. lazydaisyscafe.ca.

Women and ClotheS Launch for a collection

The thoughtful, award-winning author hits the fest with his new novel, The Betrayers ($29.99, HarperCollins), about a disgraced politician and the people around him, all dealing with

1 pm 2 pm 3 pm 4 pm

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Events

DAVID BEZMOZGIS

11 am Noon

readings this week Is Found. 7-8 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina. 416-393-7666.

Ken Follett Presentation and talk about Edge of Eternity. 7 pm. $42 (includes book). Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/12351935973.

Sharry WilSon Book launch for Young Neil: The Sugar Mountain Years. 7-9 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

touched by politics – and race – in different ways.

1:45 pm, Amazon.ca Bestsellers Stage

Sri Lankan Canadian Selvadurai is always a charismatic presence onstage. He reads from his excellent novel The Hungry Ghosts ($29.95, Doubleday), which was shortlisted for last year’s Governor General’s Award and is on this year’s short list for the Toronto Book Awards.

Noon and 4:30 pm, Toronto Book Awards tent

MIKE FORD

see some of your favourite authors at the mammoth book blast By SUSAN G. COLE the Word on the Street at Queen’s

Shyam Selvadurai

deBorah Kimmett Book launch for Outrunning Crazy featuring readings and live music.

2:30 pm. $15. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. kimmett.ca. the magiCal evening With Canadian authorS Readings by Greg Gatenby, George

Elliot Clarke, Nik Beat, Caroline Vu, Su J Sokol and others. 7-10 pm. Windup Bird Cafe, 382 College. Pre-register 647-349-6373, deuxvoilierspublishing.com. the Word on the Street Booklovers’ paradise featuring author readings, magazine exhibits, comic arts, kids’ programming, workshops, panels and entertainment with authors Kat Kruger, Robyn Doolittle, Sean Michaels and many more. 11 am-6 pm.

Free. Queen’s Park Circle, Queen’s Park south of Bloor. thewordonthestreet.ca.

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Monday, September 22

Catherine Gildiner

the author of Cycling To Asylum. 8 pm. Free.

Handlebar, 159 Augusta. sujsokol.com.

Tuesday, September 23 art and energy Book launch by Barry Lord

and panel discussion with Ed Burtynsky, art duo Public Studio and others. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register gardinermuseum.com.

Caitlin moran 12:15 pm. Free. Indigo FCP, 100 King W. chapters.indigo.ca.

F.l. Ciano Launching Digital Wilderness, with a reading and discussion. 7:30-9 pm. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. flciano.com. larry Savage Launching his book Socialist Cowboy: The Politics Of Peter Kormos. 7 pm.

Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104, anotherstory.ca. mauriCe mierau Signing copies of Detachment: An Adoption Memoir, and in conversation with Shawn Syms. 6:30 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. freehand-books.com.

PageS unBound: margaret SWeatman, ian Weir, glen Buhr and marK medley

Onstage interview linking two books with period music and song. 8 pm. $10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. pages-unbound.com.

Su j SoKol Book launch and discussion with

1:15 to 3:15 pm: Head to the Great Books Marquee tent, where Susan G. Cole hosts a series of readings by authors including Shani Mootoo and Elyse Friedman.

Wednesday, September 24 all lit uP launCh Party Celebrating the

launch of an online platform for discovering, reading and buying Canadian lit, with readings

by Tony Burgess, Spencer Gordon, Aisha Sasha John and David Yee. 7 pm. RSVP to publicity@ alllitup.ca. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/events/695119207241369.

BiBlioaSiS’ 10th anniverSary CeleBration

MONEY CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS, BUT IT CAN BUY BOOKS...

WHICH IS PRETTY CLOSE.

Alexander MacLeod, KD Miller, Leon Rooke, Kathleen Winter, Kerry-Lee Powell and others.

Co-presented by IFOA. 7:30 pm. $10. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. facebook.com/events/654989837931987.

5an evening With Some oF your Favourite Queer WriterS Readings by Nancy Jo Cullen,

Brian Francis, Jane Byers, Maureen Hynes and Elizabeth Ruth. 6:30 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. terry FalliS Reads from No Relation followed

by Q&A. 1:30-3 pm. $25. Women’s Art Association of Canada, 23 Prince Arthur. Pre-register 416-504-8222 ext 243, writerstrust.com. events@nowtoronto.com.

Blue CoFFee Lindsay Cahill, Cynthia Gould

and Sandra Kasturi read. 8 pm. Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. bluecoffeereadingseries. wordpress.com.

ChriStine FelloWS Launching her poetry collection called Burning Daylight. 7-9 pm.

Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-3668973. exile editionS launCh Dinner and readings with Emmanuel Kattan, Marc Séguin, Diane Keating and Matthew R Loney. 6 pm. $59.50.

Windup Bird Cafe, 382 College. Pre-register admin@exileeditions.com.

greenmoxie’S Field guide to green living

Launch party for Nikki Fotheringham’s book with upcycled art, door prizes and more. 6-9 pm. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. greenmoxie.com/rsvp.

PhiliPPa gregory Lecture and book signing for the new novel The King’s Curse. 7 pm. $8, adv $5. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416924-6211 ext 143, ticketweb.ca.

ZeKi SaritoPraK Lecture and signing for his book about interfaith dialogue, Islam’s Jesus.

6-8 pm. Free (RSVP). Regis College, 100 Wellesley W. Pre-register bit.ly/1rV41GR.

Saturday, Sept. 20 3pm 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org

READING/INTERVIEW David Mitchell (UK), The Bone Clocks Interviewer: Jared Bland

$10/FREE for supporters, students & youth

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SCULPTURE/INSTALLATION

Value the venue NetherMind connects in ideal spot By FRAN SCHECHTER NETHERMIND at 128A Sterling (rear

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entrance), to September 21. artspin.ca. Rating: NNNN

Summer bike tour group Art Spin has recruited NetherMind, a recently reconstituted collective whose members pioneered installation art in Toronto in the 90s, for its annual end-of-season show.

The two groups have found an impressive location in the basement of a former flag factory, with stone walls and giant wooden beams and pillars.

Aficionados of industrial spaces, the artists use relatively simple means to maximum effect.

Near the entrance, Catherine Heard’s Votive strikes a macabre tone: a group of Styrofoam heads on poles drip red tears à la True Blood.

But the rest of the show veers into gentler, less overtly creepy territory, adding doses of dark humour to themes of nature, Canadiana and popular culture.

A short black curtain cordons off a rectangular area inhabited by John Dickson’s Space Probe, a charming

Works by Max Streicher (left), Lyla Rye and Reinhard Reitzenstein riff on Canadiana.

science-project-style solar system that includes hanging balls of yarn and rubber bands and a wooden-disc moonscape.

Reinhard Reitzenstein makes a forest of tiny cardboard Christmas trees sprout from the beams and columns, the scale and material resonating with the massive wooden sup-

ports. Mary Catherine Newcomb’s Winter Wheat also poetically evokes nature with a gracefully reclining hare hovering near the floor over a handful of grain.

Large works by Max Streicher and Lyla Rye dominate the space, their red and white colours echoing each other.

Streicher’s bulbous inflatable sculp-

ture made of vinyl billboard posters presses against the low ceiling like a pop-culture monster that won’t be contained. Rye pulls lengths of cloth printed with Canadian flags around the columns with bungee cords into a twisted, impenetrable patriotic labyrinth.

Working on a smaller scale, Tom Dean and Trevor Wheatley make magic from small pieces of wood mounted with rusty rods and vintage light bulbs that might be mistaken for MacGyvered gizmos from another era.

The artists all have solo careers, but it’s a pleasure to see their artworks bounce off one another in this extraordinary venue.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS

AGO Alex Colville, to Jan 4 ($16.50-$25).

Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to ñ Nov 25. Aimia Photography Prize, to Jan 4. $11-

$19.50, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

GARDINER MUSEUM RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, to Oct 14. $8-$12. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Why Can’t Minimal, to Oct 19. This Area Is Under Surveillance, to Jun 30. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

POWER PLANT Julia Daul, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Shelagh Keeley, reception 8-11 pm Sep 19, Sep 20-Jan 4. 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4949.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Dispatch: War Photographs In Print; Harun Farocki, to Dec 7. Public Studio, to Dec 19. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM The Eternity Code, to Sep 21.

Urban Fabric: Portraits Of A City, to Jan 11, 2015. $6-$15. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE AA Bronson, to Nov 15.

Allen Ginsberg and Robert Giard, to Dec 6, reception 6-8 pm Sep 18. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

MORE ONLINE

Complete art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings

MUST-SEE SHOWS

128 STERLING NetherMind Collective, to Sep 21 (artspin.ca). ñ ALISON MILNE Painting: Karen Kawarsky,

to Oct 10. 198 Walnut. 416-203-6266.

CANADIAN ART GALLERY HOP panel noon (AGO), tours/talks 2:30-6 pm, magazine launch party 6:30-8 pm (MOCCA) Sep 20. canadianart.ca/galleryhop CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Video: Simone Jones, to Sep 27. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

DISTILLERY DISTRICT The Sketchbook Project, Sep 18-21. 55 Mill.

GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY

Sculpture: Derrick Piens, to Oct 11. 1520 Queen W. 416-821-3060.

KOFFLER GALLERY Pardes group show, Sep 18-Nov 30, reception 6-9 pm Sep 18. 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643.

LONSDALE GALLERY Mixed media: Xiaojing Yan, to Sep 28, artist talk 11 am Sep 20.

410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733.

PARI NADIMI Jesse Colin Jackson, Sep 18Nov 1, reception 6-8 pm Sep 18. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464.

PREFIX Photos: Judy Natal, to Sep 30.

401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

NARWHAL Painting: Lauchie Reid, to Oct 4.

2104 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

PAUL PETRO Morley Shayuk and Shelagh Keeley, to Oct 4. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Duane Michals, Sep 20-Oct 18. 1026 Queen W. 416-5040575.

SUSAN HOBBS Photos: Arnaud Maggs, to Oct 11. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

WARC Installation: Lynne Heller, to Oct 4.

401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

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Audio clips for interviews with TINA FEY AND JASON BATEMAN • Reviews of THE MAZE RUNNER, CODE BLACK • Friday column • and more

actor interviews

KATHRYN GAITENS

Tina Fey & Jason Bateman

THEY’LL LEAVE YOU LAUGHING Actors chat up their ensemble movie at the Toronto Film Festival and turn their discussion into a comedy routine By SUSAN G. COLE THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU directed by

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Shawn Levy, written by Jonathan Tropper from his novel, with Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Corey Stoll and Adam Driver. A Warner Bros. release. 103 minutes. Opens Friday (September 19).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 74.

You’d think Tina Fey and Jason Bateman in person would be pretty amusing together.

You’d be right.

During their TIFF round table, Bateman and Fey, stars of This Is Where I Leave You, are bantering as if they’re doing stage shtick.

Bateman starts out thoughtful enough, commenting on how his wry, sarcastic character in the dramedy is starting to turn into something people expect of him.

“Can I chime in here?” says the diminutive Fey, surprisingly soft-spoken.

“Make sure it’s complimentary,” Bateman warns.

“When you need somebody to be the emotional centre of the piece,” Fey goes on, “there’s an intelligence he has to project, a warmth and a likeability for the audience to identify with.”

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“Jason has two of those things.”

This gets a laugh from the usually hardto-please journalists at the table.

Both actors were impressed with downto-earth icon Jane Fonda, who plays their mother.

“The most impressive thing about it is that she was a working actor and [behaved just like another] member of the ensemble,” Fey remarks. “You know what they say you’re supposed to do: ‘Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.’”

She turns to Bateman “Have you ever heard that?”

“Uh, no,” he says.

“It’s the Stanislavski method.”

“Is that the composer?”

Getting serious for a second, Bateman adds, “Fonda’s got a great spirit and no real vanity. There’s no separation between cast and crew. Everyone’s working together on the film, and she just happened to have a speaking role.”

Of all the siblings in the movie clan, Bateman says he identifies most with the character he plays.

“I like to pick parts that are closest to me.

I don’t like to break a sweat while I’m working,” he deadpans.

REVIEW THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (Shawn Levy) Rating: NNNN The premise – a family reunites at a funeral – is close to cliché, but director Shawn Levy’s got such a great cast going for him, he’s able to spin it into a pleasurably unpredictable comedy.

When her husband dies, celebrity shrink Hillary (Jane Fonda, hilarious as the over-sharing matriarch) gathers her four children to sit shiva. They don’t get along, and it doesn’t help that they’re receiving spiritual guidance from the rabbi they called Boner in school. (The scene in the ultra-contemporary synagogue is very funny).

Jason Bateman handles his role as a cuckolded husband out of a job with appropriate world-weariness. Corey Stoll (House Of Cards) does uptight very well, and Tina Fey loses the glibness and shows some emotion as the sister whose husband isn’t paying attention.

But Adam Driver, playing an overgrown child, steals the pic from all of them, managing to be both irritating and lovable. SGC

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Fey, on the other hand, liked playing a character unlike herself.

“She’s a woman who doesn’t work, which I found fascinating. The costume designer gave me a lot of jewellery to wear – like what a woman wears? – and at the end of the day, I’d be taking it off and thinking, ‘So much jewellery, like, two earrings.’”

She’s not saying where she’ll put her professional focus in future, on writing, producing or acting.

Tina Fey “I don’t have a master plan. I go thing by and Jason Bateman thing. It’s about whether this sounds like a help make movie I’d want to see, [made] with this movie people I’d like to spend time pleasurably with. If I’m gonna be spending unpredictable. time away from my family, I want to know who’s gonna be there.

“Is anyone gonna be yelling? Cuz then I’m out. Is anyone gonna be sweating off booze in the morning?

“I’m not into that either.”

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Doc about Robert Altman feels true to the master.

documentary

Ode to Altman AltmAn (Ron Mann). 95 minutes.

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Opens Friday (September 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74.

Rating: nnnn

Ron Mann’s documentary profile of revered Hollywood iconoclast Robert Altman takes an appropriately cockeyed approach to its subject.

Mann asked a number of the late director’s collaborators – among them Lily Tomlin, Michael Murphy, Julianne Moore and Bruce Willis – to define the

term “Altmanesque” and then illustrates their answers with stories of his innovative filmmaking methods.

Thanks to archival interviews, Altman serves as the narrator of his own life story. He explains the technical choices and philosophy that resulted in his glorious widescreen movies, which overflow with rambunctious action and detail while telling carefully crafted stories.

Compressing a half-century career into an hour and a half means Mann has no time to linger on any given picture – and he favours representing a number of Altman’s films with their endings, so beware of spoilers. But this is a movie for people who already know the work.

It’s going to be harder to watch the scenes about Popeye – and Robin Williams’s brief appearance as a talking head – than it was when the film first screened at the Lightbox earlier this summer.

But somehow that feels true to Altman as well; he was forever mixing highs and lows, and his best work is haunted by death. That’s life, after all. normAn WIlner

Gay drama

Love is tender loVe IS StrAnGe (Ira Sachs). 93 minutes. Opens Friday (September 19).

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When George (Alfred Molina) and Ben (John Lithgow), together for over 30 years, finally marry, their relationship can no longer be ignored by the church where George conducts the choir, and he’s summarily fired. Suddenly the couple can’t meet their apartment payments, are forced to sell and must live apart until they can find an affordable permanent arrangement.

That leaves George to live with two gay cops, while Ben has to move in with his nephew’s family.

The subtext of the film is the vicious real estate market in Manhattan – the city is one of the film’s central characters – but at its essence, the pic is about how dynamics shift and difficulties surface when people, especially the teenager Ben bunks with, have to adjust to reduced living space.

Director Ira Sachs, aided by a soothing classical music score, gives the piece a gentle tone and lets small gestures evoke the intimacy between the two men – superbly played by Molina and Lithgow – something they desperately miss when they’re apart.

The movie won’t put you on the edge of your seat, but you will not be able to resist getting drawn in by the characters and their dilemmas.

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Alfred Molina (left) and John Lithgow are superb as a long-term couple.

quantum thriller

Sci-fi surprise CoherenCe (James Ward Byrkit). 89 minutes. Opens Friday (September 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: nnnn

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So there’s this dinner party at a nice suburban house in northern California at about the same that time a comet is passing by the Earth. Phones get wonky, the internet goes down, and then the power goes out, and eight friends are stuck in the dark with themselves.

That’s the ingenious opening of James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence, a scifi-flavoured character drama in which eight actors improvise their way through a series of mind-bending complications involving glow sticks, identical handwritten notes and – possibly – the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat. It would be deeply unfair to go any further, other than to say that if you think

Emily Baldoni is part of a fascinating puzzle in Coherence.

you know what I’m talking about, you really and truly do not.

Byrkit’s feature debut makes the most of a modest budget and a very talented cast, among them Emily Baldoni, Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Nicholas Brendon – though in this reality he’s the former star of Roswell – and filmmaker Lorene Scafaria (Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World).

There are perhaps four special ef-

fects in the whole picture, but it’s not about that. Instead, Coherence is about how its characters respond to each new stage of their problem, and how the choices they make affect their relationships with one another.

It’s an immediate and gripping puzzle, and I cannot wait to see it again to figure out how the pieces fit together. normAn WIlner

intimate thriller

Shared scares honeymoon (Leigh Janiak). 87

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minutes. Opens Friday (September 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: nnnn

Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) are newlyweds driving up from Brooklyn to her family’s lakeside cabin somewhere in Canada – probably Quebec – for their honeymoon.

It’s a beautiful place, and their first day is lovely; the first night, too. The next morning, Bea is mixing up her words and forgetting that you have to batter French toast, obsessively writing her name in a notebook. Things go downhill from there.

It spoils nothing to say that Honeymoon has a genre component. Director Leigh Janiak and co-writer Phil

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Rose Leslie embarks on a haunted Honeymoon.

Graziadei are working with ideas similar to David Cronenberg’s in The Fly, infusing squishy body horror and at least one other Bmovie element into a study of young lovers coping with one’s sudden, inexplicable illness.

But Honeymoon operates almost entirely on an emotional level, as Bea deteriorates and Paul grows increasingly desperate to understand why.

Leslie and Treadaway – whom cable viewers may know as Ygritte on

Game Of Thrones and Victor Frankenstein on Penny Dreadful – are the whole show here. There are two other speaking parts, each with less than five minutes’ screen time. And though they occasionally struggle with their American accents, they hold the screen easily, shifting from a playful, sexually comfortable couple to two people absolutely terrified of each other – and with good reason.

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also opening Dr. Cabbie (D: Jean-François Pouliot, 104 min) A young doctor (Vinay Virmani) who’s emigrated from India winds up driving a cab and converting his taxi into a mobile clinic in this Toronto-set comedy.

The Maze Runner (D: Wes Ball, 113 min) James Dashner’s bestselling YA dystopia novel about a group of boys trapped in a maze comes to the big screen. Dylan O’Brien stars as the eponymous runner who makes a bid to escape.

A Walk Among The Tombstones (D: Scott Frank, 114 min) Liam Neeson plays a private investigator hired by a drug trafficker (Dan Stevens) to find out who murdered his wife in this crime mystery based on a Lawrence Block novel.

All three open Friday (September 19). Screened after press time – see reviews September 19 and 22 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Dylan O’Brien refuses to be stuck in a Maze.

For once, Liam Neeson isn’t saving his daughter.

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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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñboyhood

(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, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Royal, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñthe CAlling

(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.

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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

the CAptive (Atom Egoyan) is a clunky

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 exposi-

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tory dialogue, characters and situations that go nowhere and terrible acting. 112 min. n (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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ñthe f word

(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

ñCoherenCe

(James Ward Byrkit) 89 min. See review, page 72. nnnn

(NW) Opens Sep 19 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

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

ñdAwn of the plAnet of the Apes

(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, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

dolphin tAle 2 (Charles Martin Smith) is

a merely okay sequel to the feel-good original about an boy who rescues and rehabilitates an injured dolphin. Here the kid’s only problem is whether to accept a fabulous scholarship. It all seems forced, but the cast pumps out the charm, and swimming dolphins entrance the small fry. 107 min. nn (Andrew Dowler) 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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min. See Also Opening, page 72.

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the drop (Michaël R. Roskam) is 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 Schoenaerts).

There’s not enough plot for a feature, but I’d have happily watched another hour of Hardy playing with that puppy. 106 min. nnn (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Doug Liman) is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens – an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly selfaware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever

(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) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier, constructing a compelling portrait of a mysterious artist who refused to be seen. 83 min. nnnn (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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(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 with an enigmatic musician (Michael Fassbender, amazing even disguised). It’s really something. 95 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Royal

frAnk miller’s sin City: A dAme to kill for 3d (Robert Rodriguez, Frank

Miller) 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 wicked humour of the original being the most sorely missed aspect. 102 min. nnn (RS) 401 & Morningside, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

the giver (Phillip Noyce) is adapted with 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

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(Wes Anderson) finds director/co-writer Anderson building a magnificent playhouse, populating it with actors he knows and trusts – among them Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton – and running riot. And when moments of genuine emotion pierce that perfectly constructed artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. 100 min. nnnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

the grAnd seduCtion (Don McKellar) is

an English-language remake of JeanFrançois 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

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(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-writer 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

HERCULES (Brett Ratner) brings the Rush

Hour trilogy and X-Men: The Final Stand director’s signature mediocrity to the sword-and-sandal genre. It’s sluggish and bland; the only sequence that stands out has Hercules and the Thracian army battling a few hundred bald, bearded, bodypainted maniacs. 98 min. NN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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(Leigh Janiak) 87 min.

See review, page 72. NNNN (NW) Opens Sep 19 at Carlton Cinema

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (Lasse Hallström) gives big fun to foodies. When family patriarch Om Puri opens a Bollywood-style eatery in a Gallic town across from the Michelin-approved resto owned

by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), intense competition ensues. There are no surprises but lots of pleasures: Puri and Mirren are obviously having a gas, and it’s literally a feast for the eyes. Prepare to want to eat afterwards. 115 min. NNN (SGC) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ure to watch together. 99 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

LUCY (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale 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, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, 1:45 and 7 pm at Yonge & Dundas 24

THE MAZE RUNNER (Wes Ball) 113 min.

See Also Opening, page 72.

Opens Sep 19 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

METRO MANILA (Sean Ellis) 115 min. See

review, page 79. NN (RS) Opens Sep 19 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

A MOST WANTED MAN (Anton Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counterintelligence with elegance and grace. In a final, masterful lead performance, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer tracking a Chechen Muslim (Grigory Dobrygin) through Hamburg.

Director Corbijn uses clear visual strategies to show us the hows, wheres and whys of the story even before we understand what’s really at stake. And the centre of his movie is Hoffman, watchful

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(Pawel Pawlikowski) follows novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish.

The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed.

Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy about two Los Angeles roommates who dress up as LAPD officers for a costume party, keep the charade going for fun and wind up in a turf war with a Georgian gangster (James D’Arcy). The ending’s a bust, but the actors are fun. 100 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

LIFE OF CRIME (Daniel Schechter) follows a pair of small-time Michigan crooks (John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey) who kidnap the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a local developer (Tim Robbins), only to find their mark isn’t particularly interested in getting her back.

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hero 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, Cine­ plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scar­ borough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity York­ dale

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Some subtitles. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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(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, Kingsway Theatre

No good deed (Sam Miller) is an okay suspenser that pits a stay-at-home mom (Taraji P Henson) against a charming but homicidal escaped convict (Idris Elba) who lies his way into her house. The stars give the characters some depth, and the action zips along, but there are no big scares and no plot turns you won’t anticipate. 84 min.

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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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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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarbor­ ough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rain­ bow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silver­ City 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

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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

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

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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 super-

22 jump Street (Phil Lord, Christo-

pher 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 Frank) presents Lawrence Block’s tale of cop-turned-detective Matthew Scudder’s (Liam Neeson) hunt for a pair of psychos in the most conventional and un-thrilling manner possible. It’s all very well-made, but it takes a long time for the movie to grind its way toward its bloody finale. 114 min. NN (NW) Opens Sep 19 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promen­ ade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank The­ atre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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 151game winning streak is overlong, clichéd, and never able to bring all of its characters together into a coherent whole. 115 min.

NN (Andrew Parker) Canada Square

ñx-meN: daYS of future paSt

(Bryan Singer) is really just an excuse to let the all-star casts of the original XMen 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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BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 1:45 7:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 7:00 CHEF (14A) Thu 3:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 5:00, 9:35 THE CONGRESS (18A) Thu 7:30 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri-Wed 12:00 FRANK (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:45 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 11:30 AN HONEST LIAR (PG) Thu 2:40 IDA (PG) Thu 11:45 Fri-Wed 1:30 LIFE OF CRIME (14A) Fri-Wed 8:10 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 5:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 11:00, 3:15 Sat-Sun 3:15 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat-Sun 11:00 NIGHT MOVES (14A) Fri-Wed 6:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 4:15 Fri-Wed 3:00 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 9:45 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 6:00 Fri-Wed 10:30, 4:45

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 4:20, 9:35 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:15 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (PG) Thu 9:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 IF I STAY (PG) Thu 1:25, 6:55 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu 1:15 4:05 7:10 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 NO GOOD DEED 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:20 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:40 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:50 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:55, 9:35 continued on page 78 œ

551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

THE CAPTIVE (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 7:35, 10:10 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 4:20, 9:30 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 4:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 7:30, 10:30 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 IF I STAY (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:10 MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY Wed 7:00 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:25 Sat 11:20, 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:25 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:10 NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE ENCORE Sun 12:55 NO GOOD DEED Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 9:55 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:55, 7:00, 9:20 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 7:20 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 4:45, 7:10, 9:50 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:25, 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998

ROYAL (I)

608 COLLEGE ST, 416-466-4400 BOYHOOD (14A) 7:30 Sat-Sun 4:00 mat LIFE AFTER BETH (14A) Thu 7:00

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20

NOW SEPTEMBER 18-24 2014

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East End Beach cinemas (aa) 1651 Queen st e, 416-699-1327

The CapTive (14A) thu 7:20, 9:50 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 sat-sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 mon-Wed 7:20, 9:50 Dr. Cabbie (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 sat-sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 mon-Wed 7:15, 9:45 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 7:00 Fri 4:20, 7:10 sat-sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 mon-Wed 7:10 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) thu 9:40 Fri-Wed 10:00 The hunDreD-fooT Journey (PG) thu 6:50, 9:30 The Maze runner (PG) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:10 sat-sun 1:20 mat, 4:10 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) thu 7:05, 9:30 The Trip To iTaly thu 7:10, 9:45 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 satsun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) 7:30, 10:05 Fri 4:30 sat-sun 1:50 mat, 4:30

North York cineplex cinemas empress Walk (ce) 5095 Yonge st., 416-847-0087 The aDMiral: roarinG CurrenTs (14A) thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The CapTive (14A) thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 sun 1:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 4:00 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:20 mon-Wed 4:20 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) thu 7:00, 9:50 Frisun 7:10, 10:00 mon-Wed 7:20, 10:00 The hunDreD-fooT Journey (PG) thu 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:05, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 MaTTheW bourne’s sleepinG beauTy Wed 7:00 The Maze runner: The iMax experienCe (PG) thu 10:00 Fri-sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 The Maze runner (PG) Fri-sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 mon-tue 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 a MosT WanTeD Man (14A) thu 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 naTional TheaTer live: a sTreeTCar naMeD Desire enCore sun 12:55 no GooD DeeD thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 The noveMber Man (14A) thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:55, 10:10 The piraTes thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) 7:15 Fri-sat 1:10 mat TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles: an iMax 3D experienCe (PG) thu 3:30, 6:45 This is Where i leave you (14A) Fri-sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-sun 1:15 mat

silvercitY FairvieW (ce)

coliseum scarBorough (ce)

as above, so beloW (14A) thu 4:25, 9:40 The CapTive (14A) thu 1:35, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Fri, sunWed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Dr. Cabbie (PG) Fri, sun-tue 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 The expenDables 3 (PG) thu 1:40, 6:50 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 1:30, 4:10 Fri-tue 1:30, 4:15 Wed 1:25, 4:15 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) thu 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:50 if i sTay (PG) thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, sun-Wed 1:35 sat 11:05, 1:35 kunG fu panDa 2 (PG) sat 11:00 leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 The Maze runner (PG) 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 sat 11:20 mat no GooD DeeD thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 Fri, sun-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 sat 11:50, 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 The noveMber Man (14A) thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) thu 2:30, 5:00 Fri-Wed 4:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) thu 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:25 This is Where i leave you (14A) Fri, sun-tue 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 sat 11:25, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 sat 11:30 mat

as above, so beloW (14A) thu 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-sat, mon-tue 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 sun 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 1:35, 4:30, 9:50 The CapTive (14A) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, sunWed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 sat 11:10, 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Dr. Cabbie (PG) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 The expenDables 3 (PG) thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 1:20, 4:25 FriWed 1:10, 4:10 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) thu 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:10 The hunDreD-fooT Journey (PG) thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 if i sTay (PG) thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 kunG fu panDa 2 (PG) sat 11:00 leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:00 luCy (14A) thu 10:15 MaTTheW bourne’s sleepinG beauTy Wed 7:00 The Maze runner (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 naTional TheaTer live: a sTreeTCar naMeD Desire enCore sun 12:55 no GooD DeeD thu-Fri, sun-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 sat 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 The noveMber Man (14A) thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-sat, mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) thu 1:55, 4:25 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) 6:55, 9:35 sat 11:30 mat This is Where i leave you (14A) 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 sat 11:40 mat a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 sat 11:15 mat

FairvieW mall, 1800 sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746

silvercitY Yorkdale (ce) 3401 duFFerin st, 416-787-2052

as above, so beloW (14A) thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:20 The CapTive (14A) thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, sunWed 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 The expenDables 3 (PG) thu 7:10 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) thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00 kunG fu panDa 2 (PG) sat 11:00 leT’s be Cops (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 sat 11:20 mat luCy (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 The Maze runner (PG) thu 10:00 Fri, sun-Wed 1:15, 1:45, 3:55, 4:35, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 sat 11:10, 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 no GooD DeeD thu-Fri, sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:50, 10:15 sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) thu 1:25 3:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) 6:45 thu 9:30 This is Where i leave you (14A) thu 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) Fri 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 sun-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10

Scarborough 401 & morningside (ce) 785 milner ave, scarBorough, 416-281-2226

as above, so beloW (14A) thu 5:50, 8:20 The CapTive (14A) thu 5:35, 8:15 DaWn of The planeT of The apes (PG) Fri, tue 3:55, 6:55 sat-sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:45 mon, Wed 5:15, 8:10 DaWn of The planeT of The apes 3D (PG) thu 5:15, 8:10 Fri, tue 9:55 sat-sun 9:45 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 5:15, 7:50 Fri, tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 sun 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40 mon, Wed 5:20, 7:50 Dr. Cabbie (PG) Fri, tue 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 10:00 mon, Wed 5:50, 8:20 The expenDables 3 (PG) thu 5:25 frank Miller’s sin CiTy: a DaMe To kill for 3D (18A) thu 8:15 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 5:20, 8:00 Fri, tue 4:00, 6:50 sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:50 sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50 mon, Wed 5:25, 8:15 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) Fri-sat, tue 9:55 sun 9:50 if i sTay (PG) thu 5:20, 7:45 kunG fu panDa 2 (PG) sat 11:00 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 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 luCy (14A) thu, mon, Wed 6:10, 8:25 Fri, tue 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 sat 1:05, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 The Maze runner (PG) Fri, tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 sat 11:30, 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 mon, Wed 5:35, 8:15 no GooD DeeD thu 5:45, 8:05 Fri, tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 sun 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:55 mon, Wed 5:40, 8:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) thu 5:15 Fri, tue 4:40, 7:20 sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:20 sun 2:15, 4:40, 7:20 mon, Wed 5:15, 7:40 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) thu 7:40 Fri, tue 9:45 sat 9:50 sun 9:40 This is Where i leave you (14A) Fri, tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) Fri, tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 mon, Wed 5:25, 8:05

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scarBorough toWn centre, 416-290-5217

eglinton toWn centre (ce) 1901 eglinton ave e, 416-752-4494

as above, so beloW (14A) thu 4:55 The CapTive (14A) thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Dial M for MurDer in 3D (PG) mon 7:00 Dolphin Tale 2 (G) thu 2:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Dr. Cabbie (PG) 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-sun 2:10 mat The Drop (14A) thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 e.T. The exTra-TerresTrial (PG) thu 7:30 sat 12:45 The f WorD (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 finDinG fanny (PG) thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 sat 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 sun 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 mon 4:15, 7:10, 9:25 tue-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 frank Miller’s sin CiTy: a DaMe To kill for 3D (18A) thu 7:25 GuarDians of The Galaxy (PG) thu 4:25 Fri-sun 1:35, 4:25 mon-Wed 4:30 GuarDians of The Galaxy 3D (PG) thu, mon-Wed 7:20, 10:15 Fri-sun 7:25, 10:15 The hunDreD-fooT Journey (PG) thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:50 Fri, sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 if i sTay (PG) thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 2:30, 7:30 sat 7:30 sun 2:20, 7:15 tue 7:05 Wed 7:10 khoobsuraT Fri-sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 kunG fu panDa 2 (PG) sat 11:00 leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 mon-tue 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Wed 7:35, 10:10 luCy (14A) thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 5:05, 10:10 sat 4:30, 10:10 sun 4:55, 9:55 mon 4:55, 9:40 tue 9:40 Wed 4:35, 9:40 Mary koM (PG) thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 The Maze runner (PG) thu 10:00 Fri 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 sat 11:15, 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 sun 1:25, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 a MosT WanTeD Man (14A) thu 4:05, 9:45 no GooD DeeD thu 2:45, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Fri, sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 mon, Wed 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 tue 4:45, 7:45, 10:05 The noveMber Man (14A) thu 4:35, 7:05, 10:25 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) thu 2:40, 5:25 Fri 2:55, 5:25 sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:25 sun 2:25, 5:05 monWed 5:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3D (PG) thu-sat 7:55, 10:30 sun 7:35, 10:10 mon-Wed 7:30, 10:05 This is Where i leave you (14A) thu 9:25 Fri, sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 sat 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 montue 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Wed 4:55, 7:15, 10:00 a Walk aMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 sat 11:25, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

Woodside cinemas (i) 1571 sandhurst circle, 416-299-3456

aranManai Fri-Wed 10:30 DaaWaT-e-ishq Fri-Wed 3:30, 9:30 Dr. Cabbie (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 sat-sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45 finDinG fanny (PG) thu 4:00, 7:30, 9:30 Fri, mon-Wed 6:30 sat-sun 12:30, 6:30 Mary koM (PG) thu 3:30, 6:30 siGaraM ThoDu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 sun only 1:30 7:30 10:30 vanavarayan vallavarayan thu 10:30

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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All listings are free. Send to: 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.

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MoN 22 – The Amorphous Mind Police Factor

Manila misfire

(2014) D: Chris Minz. 8 pm.

Tue 23 – Oz/Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz

(1939) D: Victor Fleming and George Cukor w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Darkside Of The Moon. 8 pm. wed 24 – Don’t Look Back (1967) D: DA Pennebaker. 7 pm.

Revue cinema 400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. Revuecinema.ca.

Thu 18 – Calvary (2014) D: John Michael Mc-

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Thu 18-SaT 20 – Showcase of issue-oriented, community-based cinema. $5-$20.

Jake Macapagal is shooting blanks in misguided crime thriller.

Thu 18 – Commffest Kidds: One Day Every-

thing Will Be Free D: Joseph Redwood-Martinez (Cinema A); Dr. Sarmast’s Music School D: Polly Watkins. 10 am (Cinema B). Both at RC. Interfaith Series: Kawomera: Plant, Pray, Partner For Peace D: Maria Mossman, and Face Of Unity D: Adam Radly. 6 pm. Plundering Tibet D: Michael Buckley, No Love Lost D: Shekhar Bassi, and The Ring Of 1,000 Souls And Sound D: Leonard Yakir. 8 pm. All at MUC. SaT 20 – Changing The Conversation – Stop The Violence Series: Faith In The Hood D: Paul Wagner. Noon. Creature D: Stefanos Lialias. 3 pm. Spit’in Anger: Venom Of A Fatherless Son D: Kenneth Braswell. 6 pm. All above at MUC. Malvern Series: Ann Kore Moun D: Andre Vanasse, and When A Mother Lives D: Ian Roe. 12:30 pm. Well Played D: Jeremy Paul Kagan, and Uproot D: Debjita Dhar. 2 pm. Voices Across The Divide D: Alice Rothchild. 3:15 pm.

All at ML.

cinemas Thu 18-wed 24 – Check website for schedule.

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506 blooR w. 416-637-3123. blooRcinema.com

Thu 18 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To

Santiago (2013) D: Lydia Smith. 4 pm. Planet in Focus presents Salon Vert, screening Divide In Concord (2013) D: Kris Kaczor, about the campaign against single-serve plastic bottles in a Massachusetts town. 6:30 pm. $11. Code Black (2013) D: Ryan McGarry. 9 pm.

Fri 19 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 7 pm. Dr. Cabbie (2014) D: Jean Francois Pouliot. 9:45 & 11:59 pm.

SaT 20 – My Brother’s Vows (2013) D: Stephanie Weimar. 1 pm. Dr. Cabbie. 3:30 & 11:30 pm. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 6:15 pm. Live Forever: The Rise And Fall Of Brit Pop (2003) D: John Dower. 9:30 pm.

SuN 21 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 12:30 pm. Dr. Cabbie. 3 & 6 pm.

Code Black. 8:45 pm.

MoN 22 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 1 pm. David Sax – A Cure For The Munchies, featuring Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) D: Danny Leiner. Doors 5:30 pm, screening 7:30 pm. $15-$22.

Tue 23 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 4 & 8:45 pm. Code Black. 6:30 pm. wed 24 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 4 & 6:30 pm. Code Black. 8:45 pm.

METRO MANILA (Sean Ellis) Rating: NN There’s a fine low-key heist in Metro Manila, but the long, misguided set-up isn’t worth the reward. British director (and cowriter) Sean Ellis sets his Sundance award winner about poverty and desperate action in the Philippines, where a hard-done-by farmer moves his family to Manila’s bright lights in search of better opportunities.

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Thu 18 – Call/check website for schedule.

Fri 19-SuN 21 – Metro Manila (2013) D: Sean Ellis. Noon, 2:45, 6:45 and 9:15 pm.

MoN 22 – Metro Manila. 6:45 and 9:15 pm.

Tue 23-wed 24 – Metro Manila. Noon, 2:45,

6:45 and 9:15 pm.

exoticism and poverty porn in early scenes where Oscar (Jake Macapagal), his wife, Mai (Althea Vega), and their two young daughters get hustled in the mean, unforgiving metropolis.

Here, Oscar and Mai don’t come off as strong characters, but figures framed for exceptional cinematography. They scavenge through the slums, Oscar toils in slave labour, and Mai eventually ends up working in a strip club as a prostitute.

After grinding them down – essentially exploiting them for emotional gain – Ellis switches gears toward

crime thriller clichés. Oscar lands an armoured car gig and struggles with morality when the chance to cash out presents itself.

Ellis shows a talent for building suspense and making action scenes pulsate despite predictable twists and turns. His painstaking set-up for the heist is both admirable in its detail and off-putting in the slick way it uses poverty, reducing social drama to a genre gimmick.

Opens Friday (September 19) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listings, radheYaN SiMoNPiLLai this page.

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SuN 21 – The Fox Turns 100: Bugs Bunny car-

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatRe.ca

Thu 18 – The Fox Turns 100: Charlie Chaplin in

Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) D: Mack Sennett. 6:30 pm.

Fri 19 – Magic In The Moonlight (2014) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. Chef (2014) D: Jon Favreau. 9 pm.

SaT 20 – Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D (2014) D: Matt Reeves. 2 pm. Magic In

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Donagh. 7 pm. Magic In The Moonlight (2014) D: Woody Allen. 9 pm.

Fri 19 – A Most Wanted Man (2014) D: Anton Corbijn. 7 pm. Snowpiercer (2014) D: Bong Joon-ho. 9:20 pm.

SaT 20-SuN 21 – Maleficent 3D (2014) D: Robert Stromberg. 2 pm. A Most Wanted Man. 4 & 7 pm. Snowpiercer. 9:20 pm.

MoN 22 – A Most Wanted Man. 7 pm.

Snowpiercer. 9:20 pm.

Tue 23 – Snowpiercer. 7 pm. A Most Wanted Man. 9:30 pm. wed 24 – Frank (2014) D: Lenny Abrahamson. 7 pm. A Most Wanted Man. 9 pm.

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The Moonlight. 4:30 & 7 pm. Chef. 9 pm. toons. 2 to 6 pm. Magic In The Moonlight.

7 pm. Chef. 9 pm.

MoN 22 – Magic In The Moonlight. 7 pm.

Chef. 9 pm.

Tue 23 – Chef. 7 pm. Magic In The Moonlight.

9:15 pm. wed 24 – Magic In The Moonlight. 7 pm. Lucy (2014) D: Luc Besson. 9 pm.

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cbc museum, cbc bRoadcast centRe, 250 fRont w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

Thu 18-wed 24 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 18-wed 24 – Highlights of current pro-

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770 don mills. 416-696-3127, ontaRiosciencecentRe.ca

SaT 20-SuN 21 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. Noon & 2 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

Great White Shark. 3 pm.

Reg haRtt’s cinefoRum 463 bathuRst. 416-603-6643.

Thu 18 – City Girl (1930) D: FW Murnau. 8 pm.

SaT 20 – The Forbidden Films Of Bugs Bunny

and friends. 7 pm. Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 9 pm.

SuN 21 – The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 2 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 4 pm. Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 6 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

Thu 18 – Life After Beth (2014) D: Jeff Baena.

7 pm. Rue Morgue Cinemacabre Movie Nights presents the Producer’s Cut of Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers (1995) D: Joe Chappelle. 9:30 pm. 410. rue-morgue.com.

Fri 19 – Stuff You Should Know: live podcast taping. 7 & 10 pm. $22.50. ticketfly.com.

SaT 20-SuN 21 – How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) D: Dean DeBlois. 2 pm.

Boyhood (2014) D: Richard Linklater. 4 & 7:30 pm.

MoN 22-Tue 23 – Boyhood. 7:30 pm. wed 24 – Frank (2014) D: Lenny Abrahamson. 7 pm. The Black Museum presents Bodies Without Borders: Horror As Political Resistance. Lecture with film clips from 1930s/40s films like Cat People, Freaks and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde. $12-$15. theblackmuseum.com.

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The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. cntower.ca.

Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org.

The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history.

Plays daily at the top and half past each hour.

Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. 30 Yonge. hhof.com.

Thu 18 – Ontario Health Coalition and Cinema Politica Danforth present A Movie Night In The Park, screening Poor No More (2010) D: Bert Deveaux and Suzanne Babin. Discussion to follow. Free/pwyc. Phin Parkette, 115 Condor (southeast of Danforth and Jones). tdndp.ca/cinema-politica-poor-no-more.

Fri 19 – Atom Films presents a screening of short film Zephra D: Bob Gallagher. 9:30 pm.

Screenwriter in attendance. Belljar Café, 2072 Dundas W. 416-535-0777.

SaT 20 – Canadian Organic Growers presents the documentary Symphony Of The Soil D: Deborah Koons Garcia. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. cogtoronto.org.

Jennifer Elliott presents the premiere of the film MicroBirth. Discussion to follow. Doors 6:30 pm. $10. St Matthews Clubhouse, 450 Broadview. jen.elliott@rogers.com.

SuN 21 – Punk Movie Night presents the independent feature horror comedy Nuclear Neighbourhood D: Matt J Oliver. Doors 6:45 pm. $3-$5. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. facebook.com/events/812358425463333. wed 24 – U of T Art Centre and the Justina M Barnicke Gallery present The Politics And Poetics Of Visibility, screening Pull My Daisy (1959) D: Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. 6 pm. Free.

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By Dan Savage

Unicorns are in demand I’m the bIsexual everyone loves to

hate because I want to be in a poly relationship with both a man and a woman. I am a woman who is into commitment, loyalty, love, trust and honesty. I am not looking to cheat on anyone.

But I discovered after one failed marriage to a man and one long-term relationship with a woman that I want to be in a romantic, sexually committed relationship with a man and a woman at the same time. This could possibly involve threeway sex, but probably not. It is more about sharing my life intimately with both a man and a woman.

Unfortunately, I don’t know if I will ever find that perfect balance because so far all my potential serious partners have been turned off by the idea that I want to be with two people and believed that I should “get over it” and just be in a monogamous relationship with them – straight or gay. Should I keep searching?

Is what I want as valid as what other people want? If so, how do I broach the subject without turning people off?

Love Them Both You are not the bisexual everyone loves to hate, LTB. You’re the bisexual everyone is looking for. Tons of MF couples are out there desperately hunting for “unicorns,” aka bisexual women who are open to dating couples. Bisexual women open to three-way sex in the context of a committed poly triad are in particularly high demand. Anyone who reads my column knows this, LTB, and presumably you’re a reader. (You wouldn’t be writing to me for advice if you hadn’t been reading the column, right?) So either you have lousy retention skills or you’re pretending not to know how in demand you are because – consciously or subconsciously – complaining about evil monosexuals and boring monogamists is more appealing to you than actually finding what you want.

You might wanna pray on that.

Moving right along: Your wants are just as valid as anyone else’s, LTB, but we don’t all get what we want. You’ll have a better chance of finding what you want if you’re open about your wants and if you refrain from dating people who don’t want the same things you want. Seek out those couples looking for unicorns, seek out poly-identified singles, and be up-front about your wants with anyone who seeks you out.

Some people will be turned off when you broach the subject, LTB, but so what?

Those people are wrong for you. Why would you waste one moment of your time and romantic energy on people who are turned off by the idea of openness and/or committed poly triads? It’s not exactly rocket science: don’t date people who don’t want what you want and you’re likelier to wind up in relationships with people who want what you want – or more likely, you’ll wind up in relationships with people whose wants are different but come close enough to yours that you can hammer out a workable compromise.

Because there is no settling down without settling for, LTB, and that applies to bisexual and monosexuals, monogamists and polyamorists. Good luck.

meth use, group sex, using my body to get drugs from disgusting older men, etc.

Now I live with my parents, go to school part-time and have no money because I don’t work. Am I datable? I believe I’m not. What exactly do I have to offer to a potential partner? I fear if I don’t start to try dating for real that I’ll continue to repeat my previous shady behaviours.

Which I did last night, wherein I sucked five cocks and smoked a truckload of meth, although it was the first time I smoked in a year.

Gay Lost Cause Would you date you?

I realize that’s harsh, GLC, but someone who can handle a truckload of meth in one night – to say nothing of five cocks – should be able to handle a little bluntness.

Now back to the question at hand: Would you date you? If you wouldn’t date someone in the condition you’re currently in, GLC, then it’s highly unlikely that anyone else would. The idea that there are millions of single people seeking romantic relationships with train wrecks is a fantasy promoted by Hollywood. People generally look for partners who are in good working order. No one is perfect, of course, and no one who wants to be partnered seeks perfection. But you do need to have your shit together to attract someone who has their shit together. If your shit isn’t together, get it together.

You don’t have to be an Adonis or financially secure or without challenges, GLC. You just have to be on top of your problems and working to overcome them.

So maybe you’re not datable right now.

Your goal should be to make yourself datable in two years’ time. Focus on school, look for work, save your money and stay the fuck away from meth and the men who use it. Turn yourself into someone you’d be open to dating – not a perfect person, but a person in good working order, a person with his shit together – and then you’ll be datable.

Hot for hearing impaired Is It weIrd to fInd cochlear Implants

(a device for people with profound hearing loss that looks like a plastic circle implanted in their skull) attractive on 20-something guys? I don’t know if it’s because I work in a field related to audiology or because it makes them look kind of vulnerable but cool at the same time. I saw two guys in a row this week with them, and I was like, damn. Is this weird?

If not, how do I pick these boys up?

Love Implant Boys It is weird, LIB, but that shouldn’t stop you from pursuing attractive boys with cochlear implants. And you pick those boys up the same way you pick up boys who don’t have cochlear implants: you smile at them, you talk to them, you flirt with them. If you establish that the attraction is mutual, you hang out, you make out, you fuck ’em silly. You don’t necessarily have to disclose that their cochlear implants were what initially drew your eye, LIB, but be sure to tell them that isn’t the only thing you find attractive about them if you do disclose.

Follow us on Twitter NOW @nowtoronto Michael Hollett ...............................................@m_hollett Alice Klein ...........................................................@aliceklein

I’m wrItIng about the premature

ejaculation guy in last week’s column who wanted tricks for guys who are uncut and too sensitive. I’m uncut and the head of my cock was really sensitive, just like UNCUT, but my problem wasn’t premature ejaculation. As a young man, the head of my penis was so sensitive that sexual contact with anything other than my own hand was unpleasant.

Knowing I didn’t want to have an unsatisfying sex life forever, I decided to desensitize my dick. I started by keeping my foreskin retracted in the shower. At first, even water running over it was extremely uncomfortable. Then once that made enough progress, I started keeping my foreskin retracted inside my underwear for as long as I could stand it each day.

Eventually things improved to the point that sexual contact with someone else was no longer the challenge it had been.

This was a gradual process, though it was so long ago now, I couldn’t tell you if it took weeks or months. But I got to do it at my own pace and stopped once the sensitivity level was working for me.

Happy To Have A Hoodie Thanks for sharing, HTHAH. This week on the Lovecast, the perils of vibrator addiction: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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