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1. TPS report We’re scratching our heads over Emergency Medical Services changing its name to Toronto Paramedic Services, giving it the same acronym as Toronto Police Services.

2. Inspiring words MP Adam Vaughan explains why a photo of a homeless woman called Cat, who was murdered, hangs on his office wall.

3. Big Brother: Season 2 Jonathan Goldsbie unpacks the Ford brothers’ strengths and weaknesses, and what it means to the October 27 election.

4. Shockingly normal After years of bizarre twists in the Rob Ford story, the news that he has cancer is even more unsettling because it’s so relatable.

5. And then... Rob Ford releases an audio statement supporting his brother’s run for mayor just hours before undergoing chemotherapy. Normal returns.

THE WEEK IN TWEETS “Thank you for the overwhelming support. I’m still in a bat cave of disbelief over the Polaris Prize.”

@TAGAQ, Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq, on winning the $30,000 music prize for her album Animism.

“Even though competitions can surely be futile, thinking about the number of people who bought @tagaq’s Animism today makes me happy.”

40 JENNIFER CASTLE 40 Best new music Toronto folkie’s newest album is her strongest yet 42 More local releases from artists we love

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10 People’s March Climate turning point? 16 Ford re-entry It’s a shitshow 12 Dear Olivia Open letter to left’s hope 18 Immigrants museum Where did it go?

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ProArteDanza Season 2014 The stellar dance company celebrates its 10th anniversary with works by Roberto Campanella, Robert Glumbeck, Guillaume Côté and others. Fleck Dance Theatre. 8 pm. $20-$40. 416-973-4000. October 1 to4 We Day Toronto Youth movement for

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Mayoral debate Damian Abraham of Fucked Up moderates the ArtsVote debate at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Noon-2 pm. Free. artsvote.ca

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Lee Maracle The First Nations writer launches Celia’s Song in an interview with NOW books editor Susan G. Cole, plus a screening of Danis Goulet’s short film Wakening. 7:30 pm. $10. Tranzac. pages-unbound.com See more, page 58 Our Country’s Good Timberlake Wertenbaker’s acclaimed play about the founding of Australia continues at the Royal Alex until October 26. 8 pm. $25-$99. 416-872-1212.

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OCT 9 NON-GMO PUBLIC ACTION NIGHT The Toronto Non-GMO Coalition is a group of organizations from the Toronto area working together to bring awareness and effect positive change around GMO issues. They provide information to the public on health, environment and ethical issues surrounding GMOs and on organizing events to bring attention to these concerns. Member groups (i.e., Millions Against Monsanto Toronto (MAMT), No More GMOs Toronto, Toronto Seed Library and Kids Right to Know) have different focus, but share the same larger vision of a Canada without GM food. torontonongmocoalition.org Join Toronto Non-GMO Coalition Co-founders, Ramsey Affifi, Jennifer Berman Diaz and Heather Lee for an informative evening about GMO issues.

OCT 16 WILL GM CROPS FEED THE WORLD? Should we believe the claim that we need genetically modified (GM) crops to “feed the world”? Will foods like the GM “non-browning” apple and GM rice help stop global hunger?

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Time to nut up on the Fords, Toronto

Having learned early to put nothing past the Etobicoke Egomaniacs, aka the Ford brothers, it’s time to quit being such sucks, Toronto (NOW, September 18-24).

Nut up and screw being nice. I am holding strong to my loathing of all things Ford, no matter the mayor’s health. My mental health matters more.

He’s got cancer and, snap, he’s no longer an energy vampire and an Olympic-level liar?

Horsefeathers. A great husband and father? Nonsense.

Whether it’s cancer or whatever, the Fords have illustrated over and over again that every event is the same: milk it for attention. I want my city back and I want this bingo hall family to just go away.

M. Gail Toronto

Mayor’s sympathy play out of time

The Ford cancer story is going nowhere for any sympathy support.

That might be relevant if the election were a few days away rather than a few weeks. Maybe.

Josh Gould Halifax, Nova Scotia

Rob and Doug dichotomy

Jonathan Goldsbie touches on a key point in his article Big Brother: Season Two (NOW, September 18-24). That is that Rob and Doug Ford owe everything to their father: their money, their jobs, their political connections, their sense of entitlement.

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Even if growth in Mississauga has changed demand, a short length of LRT and a heavy rail track should be able to carry the load.

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Norm Kelly is no hero

gave him the confidence and experience to run and expand the family business.

Rob’s failed attempt at college might have condemned him to play the role of lesser brother, except for his success at municipal politics, which, ironically, is what Doug desires in the hope of following in his namesake’s footsteps.

Frederick W. Harrison From nowtoronto.com

Singing the praises of Rob Ford the musical

Re Susan G. Cole’s review of Rob Ford The Musical: Birth Of Ford Nation (NOW, September 19).

NOW could never like this show.

It’s not left, hipster or self-loathing enough. It’s just super-funny! Americans can laugh like this, but Canadians are too precious and so quick to be offended.

Peter Storms From nowtoronto.com

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Adam Vaughan’s First Person column The Inspiration On My Wall (NOW, September 18-24) puzzles me.

He wins the Trinity-Spadina federal by-election as a Justin Trudeau Liberal, then writes a lovely eulogy to a First Nations woman while representing a party that supports pipelines through First Nations territory.

I expected better from NOW. Lisa Browne Toronto

Re Q&A: Norm Kelly (NOW, September 11-18). Kelly got few votes when he ran to be mayor of Scarborough. As deputy mayor of Toronto he was a big joke. He betrayed Rob Ford! Wait till Doug Ford becomes mayor.

James Chow Toronto

ISIS crisis in focus

I’d like to congratulate NOW for publishing Scott Taylor’s very informative article on ISIS (NOW, September 18-24) and Iraq’s tribal power complications. [It provides] political insight into that part of the Middle East that I’m sure many Canadians weren’t fully aware of.

I have fairly conservative biases and have rarely picked up a copy of NOW in the last 20 years, so I was pleased to see some balanced mayoralty articles in addition to Taylor’s excellent piece.

I’m noticing a trend [toward less] balanced and impartial reporting in local newspapers these days, and it’s refreshing when political articles come along that don’t give you an immediate sense of where the writer’s personal opinions reside.

Having been an early supporter and advertising customer in NOW, I’d like to congratulate publisher Michael Hollett on the magazine’s longevity, maturity and his excellent stewardship. Keep up the good work.

Basil Mangano Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Linda Griffiths, the Toronto actor and playwright who died Sunday, September 21, was fierce, forthright and always ready to grow.

An accomplished playwright, she wrote Maggie And Pierre, in which she played both the ex-PM and his unruly then wife; O.D. On Paradise, in its second week when we talked to her for our cover story (page 7 of the issue); and Chronic, to name just a few.

But even as she was putting a female twist on history – Age Of Arousal dealt with the social implications for women of the invention of the typewriter – or exploring outsized characters like Gwendolyn MacEwan and Wallis Simpson, she never stopped wanting to act in other people’s plays.

Though some might think she was motivated by an actor’s perpetual need to ego-trip, Griffiths wasn’t interested in the power she got from performing. She wanted to learn from other playwrights.

“Almost everything I ever think of is in my plays. Now I’m interested in tasting some of the world I haven’t been able to explore,” she said to NOW’s Alice Klein.

Just a month after our cover story ran, Griffiths starred in John Sayles’s film Lianna as a woman coming out as a lesbian. It was one of the first movies ever to be sympathetic to a woman going through that experience. Without resorting to melodrama or any other excess, Griffiths made the character very real.

And she was always ready to listen. After I saw Age Of Arousal, I ran into Griffiths on the street and told her I had a few issues with the piece.

“Let’s have coffee and talk about it,” she said, without a hint of defensiveness or edge. She wasn’t precious at all.

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March organizer and 350.org founder Bill McKibben has shown up early.

“The world is now witnessing the fastest-growing anti-corporate campaign ever, and all of the fights trying to put a cork in the fossil fuel bottle,” he says.

He’s blown away by the turnout: “All the people who are blocking pipelines, protesting coal mines, trying to stop a clear-cut – everybody takes new energy from this incredible outpouring.” But McKibben says it’s up to world leaders to put the will of the people into action.

And while the vast majority of nations have been working to address climate change, some countries have fallen far behind. Our own sub-Prime Minister Stephen Harper is among a handful of world leaders who’ve refused to participate in the UN Climate Summit.

“Canada is a rogue nation,”

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“Money is not going to matter any more if you don’t have food to eat and the crops you need to survive. People can’t eat money.”

At the vocal assembly at the People’s Village on 11th Avenue, young activist Ta’Kaiya Blaney takes the stage to share a few words before performing her songs Earth Revolution and Turn The World Around.

As a member of the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, BC, the 13year-old activist/artist has witnessed the damage cycles of poverty has inflicted on her people.

The Sliammon First Nation is one of 20 indigenous Coast Salish tribes inhabiting Canada’s Pacific region. The Tla’amin people have a rich heritage that stretches back more than 2,000 years. Their struggle is similar to those of other indigenous nations around the world.

Blaney believes the terms of the struggle need to change.

“Many of us are angry, and many of us are going through stages of grieving and loss over our natural environment, a type of separation anxiety between Mother Earth and her children. We cannot build the future off of anger. We have to build our collective vision for the future on compassion, love and respect.”

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says McKibben. “It’s up to you guys to get rid of him.”

Wandering through the tightly packed streets, I feel like a salmon swimming upstream. It’s better to go with the flow. As I let the crowd carry me along, I see a familiar face standing in front of the Trump Tower. Amidst a swarm of admirers is Indian author/ physicist/environmental activist Vandana Shiva.

Shiva has many reasons to walk in the People’s Climate March.

“Climate havoc is already killing people in my country. Every second year now there is a disaster.”

Shiva says the legal framework to fight climate change is already in place under the UN Convention On Climate Change signed more than two decades ago.

“But corporations have subverted it.

It all comes down to greed,” she says.

“Greedy corporations and politicians taking as much as they can get while the planet and everyone else suffers.”

In the end, she says, the survival of our species will depend on whether or not governments, corporations and all people start actively placing ecology before economy.

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OPEN LETTER TO OLIVIA CHOW FROM MICHAEL HOLLETT

GAZINE NOWh MA Street, Toronto, M5B 1Y7 189 Churc

September 25, 2014 Dear Olivia, tries to hide the candidate from the public and the press and blows off debates, as he did last week just as Rob’s latest news was breaking.

Now he’s cutting back on personal appearances and getcagey with the press, ducking interviews and even ting still be our next mayor. with a daily newspaper, the Globe. And getting feuding as Not by continuing the play-it-safe tack you adopted Goldsbie barred from an event. Sound like Jonathan NOW’s has which n, maratho mayoral this in early front-runner know? we else anyone to appears that been a disaster, but by tearing up the script The truth is, Tory is like the Fords in many ways, and have written you a losing role. got a month to prove that, over and over again. you’ve exfor , heritage NDP Your attempts to downplay your telling us where you come from. We get it: immiStop ample, are both pointless and futile. Come on, Olivia, you’re Hong Kong. from grant part of the Orange Royal Family.

Show us the woman you are now: funny, feisty and dripRobby could have won, a prospect so horrible reasonable ping with attitude, ideas and energy.

Torontonians have been grabbing at Anyone-But-Rob frontForget the polish. Go for the passion, Olivia. Get excited ers passeng runner John Tory like drowning cruise ship when you speak. So what if you stumble or mispronounce looking for a life buoy. from time to time. That’s who you are, and it’s how about to ready appears A town that never elects Conservatives half the people in this city speak. Perhaps you’ve noticed – chose the former PC leader to save us from this nightmare. voters in Toronto don’t mind their mayors a little, ahem, the set Ford a letting stop to But Doug is no Rob, and it’s time rough-edged. agenda.

The radio-honed blueblood tones of Tory are the excepunthe of none has he but e, Doug might be crack-fre not the rule, in this city of immigrants. Let ’er rip, and tion, soaking fathomable appeal that pours off Rob like the sweat collect charming Chow-isms. Embrace your indepenhis shirts and suits. Peeling off $20 bills and tossing them at let’s spirit and the free-form words it can launch. dent and gaffes poor kids just isn’t as charming as making oafish Tory crack “Faith-based education; now faith-based Your talkaked gravy-so spewing while ess forgiven for begging was your best, most kick-ass of the campaign. Keep transit” ing points and catchphrases. and keep chipping away at Tory’s other pie-in-thecoming ’em Dougie’s had an early sympathy bounce in the polls, but s. promise empty sky again mouth tuous contemp once he starts opening his An off-balance Tory is your best defence. And we know he those numbers will start dropping like expletives in a cellhas plenty of quote bombs to drop. Remember his golf phone crack video. course advice for aspiring women executives? Tory can’t and you Your only hope is to make this a race between keep his private-school entitlement hidden. the Conservative, a legendar y electoral stumblebum who You’re battling a multi-millionaire dude for the hearts has a world-class capacity to implode. of a city that would have a hard time getting into It wasn’t that long ago that an Anyone-But-Tory fever and votes belongs to. He’s more comfortable in boardTory clubs the cansure-fire a for looked gripped the city as Torontonians partner, Jack Layton, showed the value of your but rooms, didate to stop his stark right-wing agenda borrowed from ns. campaig table kitchen the became Miller David named Mel Lastman. A fresh face And Tory’s starting to pander. How else to explain his champion of the people and won it all. shamelessly re-opening the Pride funding debate? He says he Back then, Miller was running a race against what seemed won’t fund it if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid participate. impossible odds. going straight from Ford Nation to Mammoliti-land.

Olivia, you should grab a few pages from Miller’s play- Hell, he’s off, Olivia, stop playing nice and play like, well, gloves So n campaig didn’t he book. He didn’t campaign safe and Chow.

Olivia scared. He was outspoken, gutsy and funny, too. Remember I’m pretty sure voters will love what they see when they those “Great Hair, Better Mayor” posters? And the broom? meet the real you, not the sanitized candidate finally I barely recognize the woman who has been running been getting – and not liking – these last few they’ve let to Time n. campaig bland and your safe, oh-so-friendly months. a broke the real Olivia out of the box. You and your team Go hard, Olivia, and smile. This city will respond to a fundamental electoral rule, spending the summer running woman who gets things done and has an inclusive scrappy lead. the like a front-runner crippled by fear of losing her deeds. driving vision The good news is Tory is feeling the heat and foolishly time to make this work, as long as the enough still There’s as ceptible sus as just He’s running a front-runner race now. up. shows Chow Olivia real you were to losing momentum, especially when Team Tory

Guess there’s no need to ask how your summer went.

Looked pretty rough from here. But politics loves a comeback story, and you’ve been handed a second chance. Everything changes because of Rob Ford’s health crisis. You can

All the best,

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Ditching debates and picking fights with the media: just when it looked like John Tory could be the mayor even progressives could get behind, he raises doubts

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hat’s eating John Tory?

The man who would be mayor, the man the polls tell us is way ahead, hasn’t seemed his usual amiable self lately.

Doug Ford’s entry into the race, now that Rob Ford is laid up in a hospital bed with a rare form of cancer, seems to have thrown the starstudded team of spinners behind Tory for a loop.

They’re taking no chances, keeping Tory under wraps and out of any situation where he could make the kind of embarrassing misstep he’s made in the past. They didn’t come this far to have Tory blow it now.

But in sports, just as in politics, playing not to lose as opposed to playing to win comes with its own hazards.

A ticker on the campaign website is counting down the days to victory. Its been a long haul.

And the closer it gets to election day, the more antsy they seem to be getting. That’s only natural when the

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horse you’re backing has been known to blow leads.

So out of sorts has Tory been that he’s not only ditching debates his peeps are claiming are rigged at the last minute, he’s also picking fights with certain members of the media.

Fostering meaningful and open civic dialogue requires a mayor who answers questions – not runs from them (Point 3 in John Tory’s 10-point Code Of Conduct released in March 2014).

First there was the freezing out of the Globe. (Tory pointedly ignored questions from a Globe reporter in a scrum last week.) The Tory camp hasn’t been happy with some of that paper’s Olivia Chow-friendly offerings of late. That was seemingly remedied on the weekend by a piece on how it all went wrong for the Chow campaign.

But the fighting with the media didn’t end there.

Last weekend the Tory camp threatened to pull the plug on dinner with Star food scribe Corey Mintz for his Fed feature when it was discovered that NOW staff

When the going gets tough, Tory loses himself. It happened the last time he ran for mayor.

writer Jonathan Goldsbie would be joining them.

Tory campaign co-chair Bob Richardson tweeted at Goldsbie to “Get a life” after a dustup on Twitter about that. Richardson apologized the next day, blaming #longcampaign #tired.

Tory’s reputation as a ditherer precedes him. But efforts to remake him into a ready-for-prime-time mayor(notice the newfound forcefulness in debate) are making him look like an arrogant asshole?

Maybe it’s the real Tory we’re now seeing – in which case we should be concerned about what kind of mayor he’ll be if he takes the reins. And whether all that talk early in the campaign about his being the only one with leadership skills to bring council together should be believed.

I will not compile an enemies list. I will use the mayor’s office to work with people, not carry on old fights (Point 6).

The Tory camp moved quickly this week to roll out a number of high-profile endorsements (a little sooner than planned) to change the channel – just in case the controversies left the impression there are internal differences of opinion in the Tory war room on strategy now that big brother Doug has replaced Rob in the race.

First, in York Mills, Jaye Robinson threw her support behind Tory. The former Ford confidante also happens to represent the city’s most affluent ward, where Rob Ford did surprisingly well in 2010.

That was followed by endorsements in Scarborough, another key battleground, from former Liberal MP John McKay and Councillor Chin Lee. On Monday night, Tory was presented by provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa at a Portuguese community meet-and-greet.

A poll released Monday, September 22, by Mainstreet Technologies suggests the Tory camp may have some reason to be nervous. The survey of 2,469 people, the largest so far in the election, suggests there may be a path to victory for Ford, albeit a very narrow one.

It notes that Tory “may have peaked too early,” and with 40 per cent support, “has little room to grow.”

Meanwhile, Ford, who’s sitting at 23 per cent support according to Mainstreet, is gaining votes from both Chow and Tory backers according to the survey, despite having participated in no debates when the poll was conducted. The kicker: “If this trend continues in the weeks ahead, he [Ford] could threaten Tory before election day.”

A Forum poll released this week suggests the gap between Tory and Ford is actually closer, around 8 per cent. Nanos, meanwhile, has Tory at 49 per cent.

A Ford win is a longer-than-long shot, of course, barring some massive screw-up on Tory’s part. And even that might not be enough to topple Tory. His support among decided voters is actually 20 points higher than his closest competitor.

How many of Chow’s votes, or Tory’s, for that matter, could conceivably bleed to Ford?

The answer to that question is “Not many.” And that makes Tory’s recent behaviour really disappointing.

The debates he dumped last week – on TTC, seniors and Island airport expansion – add up to missed opportunities. Not that he needs the votes necessarily, but if he’s to be mayor of all the people, he could start acting like it. Instead, he ran.

We’ve seen a variation on that pattern before.

When he was PC leader, Tory couldn’t make a decision to save his political life at the best of times. At the worst of times, he didn’t know when to tell his advisers to flock off.

When the going gets tough, Tory loses himself. It happened the last time he ran for mayor, in 2003: the closer he got to pay dirt, the more he tacked right, thinking that would win him votes. We all know what happened then.

Now, just when it was looking like he could be the kind of mayor even progressives could get behind, he’s given us more reason to doubt.

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Thoughtless hostilities dominated Tuesday night’s York South-Weston debate.

IT’S A COCKFIGHT Doug Ford’s ugly entry in the mayor’s race burnishes his bad rep as the only person in the city probably more divisive than his brother Rob By BEN SPURR

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oug Ford took part in his first mayoral debate on Tuesday, September 23, and there was only one word for it: ugly.

It was an appearance that burnished the Etobicoke councillor’s credentials as

perhaps the only person in the city more divisive than Rob Ford, but most of the nastiness came from the crowd, not the candidates.

Much of the baying among the 400 people packed into the York Memorial Collegiate Institute auditor-

ium at Keele and Eglinton came from Ford Nationals who’d come to shout at the candidates with the thoughtless hostility usually reserved for a highstakes cockfight. They greeted Doug’s entrance with a deafening roar.

But John Tory and Olivia Chow had their own cheering sections, and all three candidates had to periodically talk over heckling to make themselves heard.

It was the kind of night that made you think this election might not be decided by a rational assessment of each candidate’s policies.

Through a veil of tears and shattered civic optimism, we bring you the highlights: Turfed About 20 minutes into the affair, Iola Fontino, who came dangerously close to inciting an anti-gay riot at Ford Fest, was escorted out by police when she refused to stop shouting about Jesus and the Pride parade. The debate had to be stopped until the commotion died down.

All transit all the time No matter the question, the candidates repeatedly steered the debate back to transit, the single biggest policy issue of this election. When asked about garbage collection, gay rights, jobs or crime – even a murder committed earlier that day – they responded by talking about transit.

Ford and Chow both took every opportunity to attack the SmartTrack plan underpinning front-runner John Tory’s campaign. Ford called it the “BackTrack plan” and claimed to be “the only candidate” proposing subways. (In fact, both his rivals support a downtown relief line, at least to some degree).

Chow has seized on the fact that part of Tory’s proposed rail line runs through an inhabited neighbourhood and is warning that her rival would cut a Godzilla-like swath of destruction through Weston. “How many homes is he going to bulldoze?” she asked. “How many community centres, health care centres and libraries is he going to wipe out?” continued on page 20 œ

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livia Chow was enthusiastic. “A city of the world deserves a mu­ seum that tells its story, so that visitors and resi­ dents can learn about our diversity, opportunity and ongoing transfor­ mation,” she said.

John Tory was also passionate. “A lot of the communities we think of as newcomers have in fact had a pres­ ence here for 100 and 150 years,” he observed. “So I think we have to reach out and we also have to bring the heritage in, and maybe do it in the form of a museum.”

David Soknacki, who had yet to drop out of the mayor’s race, hedged.

He said he couldn’t honestly promise to come up with the “$25, $50 mil­ lion” required for such an initiative.

At the August 21 Heritage Toronto mayoral debate, candidates were asked what they would do to promote the city’s diverse cultural histories and whether they would support the establishment of a Toronto museum.

What none appeared to realize, however, was that four years ago council approved a project that would satisfy them all: a low­cost public museum devoted to chronic­ ling Toronto’s immigrant history.

At the final meeting of the 2006­ 10 term, council unanimously voted to “dedicate the currently vacant third­floor mezzanine of City Hall for use as the ‘Ward’ Gallery of Immi­ gration,” a tribute to the early Jewish, Italian and Chinese neighbourhood that stood for a century in the Bay­ and­Queen area where the building is now.

Councillors directed staff to launch a community engagement process and strike an advisory com­ mittee to refine the concept and raise both public and private money.

Two months later, Rob Ford was

elected mayor, and the project mys­ teriously disappeared.

And today, rather than showcas­ ing graphic displays, touch screens and artifacts documenting Toronto’s immigrant history, City Hall’s third­ floor mezzanine is home to 15 plastic Christmas trees, seven large coat racks, three spare lecterns, a pair of old TV sets and many, many excess stanchions. It remains closed off to the public.

So what happened?

“What do you think happened?” asks Rita Davies, the city’s former head of Cultural Services, who auth­ ored the council report.

Well, if you talk to Howard Moscoe, the former Ward 15 (Eglinton­Law­ rence) councillor who spearheaded the proposal prior to his 2010 retire­ ment, he’ll tell you it’s merely in sta­ sis. “We’re biding our time and wait­ ing for Mayor Ford to disappear,” he says in late August.

He points out that the city already commissioned a study from Lord Cultural Resources, the price of which he pegs at $45,000. The Toron­ to­based company is the world stan­ dard­bearer for museum consulting and has worked on the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and the just­opened Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Lord produced a 35­page report on the “Ward” Gallery of Immigration

Rob Ford’s City Hall “was a very hostile environment in which to grow beautiful things.”

Elizabeth Street in 1913, on land that is now near Nathan Phillips Square.

that included an estimated timetable for completion (16 months) and breakdown of costs ($785,000, plus minor building retrofits). A copy is housed at the Toronto Reference Li­ brary.

“The ‘Ward’ exhibition will intro­ duce Torontonians and tourists to ‘the Ward’ as geographic location, as neighbourhood in transition, as home to diverse and changing com­ munities and as lens to view the lar­ ger immigration story of Toronto,” the report says.

Over the latter half of the 19th cen­ tury and first half of the 20th, the Ward was home to successive waves of immigrants as well as black fugi­ tives escaping slavery in the U.S. The gallery’s sections would be Growth Of A City And A Neighbour­ hood; The Changing Face Of Toronto And “The Ward”; and The Rise Of Modern Toronto And The End Of The Traditional “Ward.”

“We will ultimately raise the funds to do it,” Moscoe says, “but we have to wait for Rob Ford to leave. The admin­ istration is all paralyzed because of the mayor, you understand.”

He expresses confidence that Councillor Kristyn Wong­Tam, whose Ward 27 (Toronto Centre­Rosedale) includes City Hall, remains commit­ ted to the project. Moscoe believes it will swing “into high gear after the election, once we have a mayor that’s more receptive.”

Wong­Tam doesn’t exactly agree.

“I wouldn’t say that that’s an inaccurate statement,” she says with characteristic diplomacy, but then explains that the project is no longer being actively pursued.

Wong­Tam says because funding hadn’t been earmarked for the gal­ lery, it never got off the ground. She’s instead been focused on helping to update and make relevant Toronto’s continued on page 20 œ

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current portfolio of historic sites, including the possible transformation of the Mackenzie House on Bond into a museum of social justice; located near the former site of the Ward, it would incorporate content related to it, she says.

That doesn’t quite explain how a project could vanish after council explicitly instructed staff to proceed.

But Davies, who abruptly parted ways with the city in mid-2012, is happy to explain. She now runs her own cultural consultancy and relishes the freedom to act outside the reach of anyone who might mete out retribution for her candour.

She says city staff had been working to develop a larger, more ambitious Museum of Toronto, and when that got put on hold,

Moscoe came up with the idea to do a “capsule version.”

“But in the new term of council, after the election, there was just no appetite for any… uh, anything,” Davies says. “I was basically trying to keep the museums budget from being decimated, which was a plan at one time. So there was just no political support for anything like that. It was just not possible. There was no environment for that to be nurtured in.”

She can’t recall whether its fizzling out was an act of self-censorship on her division’s part or the result of direct external factors.

“But I do know that it was a very hostile environment in which to grow beautiful things.”

Her priority was the Fort York visitor centre and making sure it didn’t fall victim to the same Fordian impulses that killed the site’s proposed pedestrian bridge. (The visitor centre had its grand opening last weekend.)

Davies says she had very few discussions with Mayor Ford’s staff, which was different from her experience with the two previous mayors. She recalls that Mark Towhey, then Ford’s director of policy and strategy, “used to glare at me when he saw me at council.”

(Asked for comment on this, Towhey responded, “Who is Rita Davies?”)

She, like Moscoe, expresses hope that such a project might be revived in the post-Ford era.

“I would think Olivia Chow would be very sympathetic to that kind of museum,” she says. “Years ago I met with John Tory to talk about the Museum of Toronto, and he was very supportive.”

And if there’s once again a Ford in the mayor’s chair?

Moscoe is unruffled.

“Well,” he says, “the Ward’s been gone a long time. It can wait another four [years], I suppose.”

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What about the Cayman Islands?

Doug Ford repeatedly claimed that Toronto has “the lowest tax rate in the entire world.” This doesn’t sound like it’s true, and it isn’t. A 2014 KPMG study found that Toronto has the most competitive corporate tax rate among 51 international cities included in that particular study, but that’s not the same thing.

Ugliest moment The most explicit mention of Rob Ford’s crack cocaine scandal came late in the debate when Chow, fielding a question about how she would sell the city abroad, talked about being disappointed at seeing the mayor “on the front page” last November. “It was not a good reputation,” she said.

Confronted with even this muted criticism of the mayor’s admitted misdeeds, the pro-Ford contingent became apoplectic. One man shouted, “Go home, Olivia! Back to China!”

To her credit, Chow kept calm. “I wish Rob Ford a speedy recovery,” she said. “That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about having the experience, having the energy to sell this city.” After the debate, she told reporters she hadn’t heard any racist remarks.

The bodyguard You can’t teach loyalty, and apparently you can’t teach proper debate etiquette either. The mayor’s former director- of-logistics- cum-bodyguard, David Price, who was last seen quality-control-testing the doors at a Georgetown GO station, was in the audience, and he was fired up. He repeatedly shouted at Tory until police reportedly had to ask him to sit down and stop heckling.

Walking a fine line on gay pride When asked if they would attend the Pride parade if they were elected mayor, without hesitation both Chow and Tory said yes.

Ford, on the other hand, said, “I believe in equal rights for everyone” but

pointedly, and despite repeated prodding from his opponents, would not commit to actually marching in the parade.

Tory falls into Ford’s trap Ford probably scored the biggest rhetorical coup of the night when, in an effort to expose Tory’s lack of experience at City Hall, he quizzed the former Ontario PC leader on the municipal committee system. Tory unwisely played along.

First Ford asked which standing committee was responsible for city purchasing. Tory didn’t know, but said, “I’ll find that out the first day

The Ford contingent became apoplectic.

One man shouted, “Go home, Olivia!

Back to China!” there.” Ford then asked how many standing committees there are at City Hall. Tory, clearly guessing, said, “I think there are five.” (The correct answer is seven).

To the whooping delight of Ford supporters in the crowd, Doug held up his Blackberry and suggested Tory “phone a friend.”

“You can call the mayor and ask him how many standing committees there are,” he quipped.

Duelling millionaires Throughout the night Ford tried to depict Tory as an out-of-touch elitist who has never had to work for his success. “I know you’re used to getting everything handed to you with a silver platter,” Ford said at one point, accusing Tory of “parachuting” into plum jobs by using family connections.

Tory shot back with a veiled reference to Ford’s inheriting of the family label business, and followed up with a criticism of the councillor’s dismal council attendance record. Ford was absent for 53 per cent of votes this year. “I know you’ve had nothing given to you,” Tory said sarcastically.

“But the bottom line is this, Doug: when I’ve had any job I’ve had, I’ve at least shown up to work.”

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On Thursday evening, September 18, a flotilla rallied against Porter Airlines’ plan to extend the runway at the Island airport to accommodate jets.

Much like the rest of Toronto, the waterfront is congested. Kayakers, canoeists, stand-up paddle boarders, sailboats, yachts, ferries and water taxis dance a tight water waltz, while geese, swans, cormorants and seagulls do their thing, and all the while planes fly in and out.

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Why The privatization logic behind Stephen Harper’s move to raise postage prices and end home mail delivery will further erode public services and union jobs.

Next steps Petitions, a door-to-door campaign and lawn signs to make saving Canada Post an election issue.

Secret weapon Seniors. They like home mail delivery and voting. According to StatsCan, voter turnout in the last federal election was highest, at 82 per cent, among those 65 to 74.

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Thursday, September 25

Benefits

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AbAndoned (The Daughter Project) Exhibit

Festivals this week

Filmi – South ASiAn Film FeStivAl Show-

case of South Asian cinema from Canada and the world. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. filmifestival.org.

Sep 25 to 28 SmAll World muSic FeStivAl Os Tropies, Kobo Town and other world music concerts plus Zakir Hussain in conversation. $20-$40.

Small World Music Centre, 180 Shaw, and other venues. smallworldmusic.com.

Sep 25 to Oct 5

Events

AlliAnce FrAnçAiSe SeASon lAunch The

French arts and culture org launches its season of events with a party. 6 pm. Free. 24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.ca.

AuStrAliA by bicycle Film screening, live music and more. 6:30 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. ianevans.ca. cAnAdiAn inveStor conFerence Talks on speculative and direct investments and strategies and macro trends. Today and tomorrow. Pre-register for free, $20 at the door. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. cambridgehouse.com.

creAtive thinking: A 21St century SucceSS Skill Interactive speech by Gerard J Puccio.

6:30 pm. Free (tickets required). Ryerson Library, 350 Victoria. Pre-register bit. ly/1tK3rsI.

diS-orientAtion: FeAr oF An Active cAmPuS Alternative student orientation high-

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

glAdStone hotel PlAQue PreSentAtion

Celebrate the 125th anniversary of the city’s oldest continously operating hotel. 7 pm.

Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. Preregister heritagetoronto.org. gluten-Free dieting Talk. 6 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120.

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Talk on work in Luxor by egyptologist Andrew Bednarski. 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 the pros and cons

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of 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 cicscanada.com. mAnhunt toronto Games played in parks and streets. Today and tomorrow 9 pm. Free.

See website. meetup.com/UrbaniGames. 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.

PoP hiS rocket BJ workshop. 7:30-9:30 pm. $20. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

5Queer SWing dAnce beginner clASS No partner or experience necessary. 6:45-7:30 pm. $6. 519 Church Centre. swinginout.ca.

SAlon Soiree Textile printer Yasmine Louie talks about her design process. 6:30-8:30 pm. $4. Contemporary Textile Studio Co-op, 401 Richmond W, studio 109. textilestudio.ca.

SeculAr roSh hAShonAh Humanistic Jewish New Year celebration, with blowing of the

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toronto PAleStine Film FeStivAl Features, shorts and documentaries plus panel discussions with Palestinian directors and actors.

Art Gallery of Ontario Jackman Hall (317 Dundas W), TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and other venues. tpff.ca.

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Church (365 College) and other venues. saintstephens.ca.

To Oct 7 JFl42 comedy FeStivAl Performances by Seth Meyers, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, Mantown, Nikki Glaser, Andy Kindler, Sara Hennessey and others.

Various prices and venues. jfl42.com.

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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 Stephen-in-the-Fields

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

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shofar, readings, poetry, music and more.

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

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

A SPirited AFFAir Culinary shindig celebrating beer, wine and whisky set in the Victorian 1860s and “Rat Pack” 1960s. 7 pm. $80.

Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. Pre-register 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca. 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.

toronto’S greAt WAr Attic Bring your WWI stories and treasures to share and have them uploaded to the Canadian Encyclopedia website. 6:30 pm.

Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416392-6915.

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Goodfellas Gallery, 1266 Queen W. digitalimprint.ca. the Food court SociAl (Augmented Education 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. Pre-register 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.

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Friday, September 26

Benefits

All For love (Village of Love Canada) Baritone Francis Wong performs songs from opera and Broadway. 7:30 pm. $20. College Street United Church, 454 College. villageoflovecanada.org.

Events

Acrylic PAinting: tiPS And trickS Culture

Days event with Maggie Doswell demonstrating techniques for painting. 2-5 pm. Free. Leaside Library, 165 McRae. on.culturedays.ca. bAking And SWeetS ShoW Food trends, demos, competitions, classes and more. Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am-6 pm. To Sep 28. $15, srs/stu $10.

Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon. canadasbakingandsweetsshow.com. beginner bdSm Workshop with Ducky Doolittle. 7:30-9:30 pm. $20.

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

rculture dAyS At the librAry

Comedy, dance, music, theatre, literature and visual arts activ-

ities at 40 branches. Today and tomorrow.

Free. Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge and other branches. on.culturedays.ca.

11 WelleSley mArket Outdoor marketplace with handmade goods and food. 11 am-5 pm.

Wellesley west of Yonge. pushfoodforward. com/11wellesleymarket. euroPeAn dAy oF lAnguAgeS Sample language classes plus live music and a raffle 5-8 pm. Free. Goethe-Institut, 100 University, North Tower. europeandayoflanguages.ca. gout Health talk. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-603-6475, sarah.cunningham@uhn.ca. hogtoWn hoedoWn Live music, square dancing and instruction. 8 pm. $10-$15, kids $7.

Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. facebook. com/HogtownHoedown. midnight mrkt Pop-up night of music, street-style food and vendors. 9 pm-1 am. $5.

2nd Floor Events, 461 King W. facebook.com/ midnightmrkt. netiP mAyorAl debAte Debate on issues affecting the South Asian community. 5-7 pm.

Free (RSVP). George Vari Engineering & Computing Centre at Ryerson, 245 Church. Preregister netipmayoraldebate.eventbrite.ca. not FAr From the tree Laura Rensborough talks about the city’s fruit tree project. 7 pm.

Free. West End YMCA, 931 College. 416-5369622, westendtalks.wordpress.com. rSteelPAn With Suzette Culture Days workshop. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Dufferin/St Clair Library, 1625 Dufferin. 416-393-7712.

Saturday, September 27

Benefits

bAnd on the run (United Way) Listen to pop/

rockers WestLake play live on a chartered streetcar with an 11 pm stop at Betty’s for eats. 8 pm. $20. Russell Carhouse, 1433 Queen E. 416-727-0790, westlaketheband.com.

5mASS-Queer-Aid 2 (Supporting Our Youth) Masquerade dance party with music by Lobodotcom and A.Generalist. 10 pm. Pwyc. Beaver, 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768, facebook. com/events/795122143873811.

100,000 PoetS For chAnge (Red Door Family Shelter) Stories by Duke Redbird, spoken word, live music, improv, burlesque and more. 4-9 pm. Free/pwyc. Smiling Buddha, 961 College.

416-519-3332. urbAn rodeo bbQ (Evergreen Brick Works) Top chefs prepare BBQ classics, plus silent and live auctions, a mechanical bull, music by CATL, games and more. 7:30 pm. $150. 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

WAlk to end cAnine cAncer (OVC Pet Trust Fund) Fundraising walk. Noon (registration 10:30 am). Donation. Kew Beach, E of Lee. facebook.com/endcaninecancer.

Events

AnnuAl yArd SAle Community sale. 9 am-1 pm. St John’s Anglican Church West Toronto, 288 Humberside. sjwt.ca.

Art oF the FemAle orgASm Workshop with Ducky Doolittle. 7:30 pm. $20. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. the clergy ProJect Catherine Dunphy talks about the org that works with former clergy/ religious leaders who do not hold supernatural beliefs. 1:30-3 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 3-311. humanisttoronto.blogspot.ca. clothing rePAirAthon Bring one to three items of clothing to be repaired by volunteers.

11 am-3 pm. Free. University of Toronto

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eDwarDs garDens anD The ToronTo BoTanical garDen Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am. Free/pwyc. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. heritagetoronto.org. eTsy: MaDe in canaDa Local designers show.

10 am-4 pm. Free. MaRS Centre, 101 College. facebook.com/events/282213831957879.

For The righT To exisT, resisT & overcoMe – $hile: 130+ years oF MiliTary occupaTion in Mapuche TerriTory Film screening and talk in memory of the fallen in the permanent uprising. 6 pm. Free/pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W. wccctoronto.wordpress.com.

FroM worlD war i To ToDay: 100 years oF iMperialisT BarBarisM For workers revoluTion To sweep away The capiTalisT orDer worlDwiDe Trotskyist League/Spartacus

Youth Club Forum event. 7 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 3311. 416-593-4138. rFêTe De la culTure Screening of French cartoons plus paintings in the gallery as part of Culture Days. 2-4 pm. Free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.ca.

The greaT canaDian sToMpBox show Musicians can try out guitar effects pedals using an amp profiler with pro headphones. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Nice Rack Canada Showroom, 262 Carlaw, unit 110-B. facebook.com/ greatcanadianstompboxshow. grown gaMes nighT Childhood board games, card games and team games for adults. 8:30 pm. $20, adv $15. Empire Banquet Halls, 246 Brockport. growngamesnight. eventbrite.com.

heaDs up conFerence: going BeyonD The playing FielD Find out about research and

news in the field of brain injuries and concussions. 9 am-noon. Free. St Michael’s Hospital, Paul Marshall Lecture Theatre, 30 Bond. Preregister injurypreventionsmh.ca. hiDDen Treasures in norTh roseDale Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm (heritage plaque presentation 1 pm). Free/pwyc. Chorley Park, 245 Douglas, at Glen Rd. heritagetoronto.org.

high park Fall clean-up oF oFF-leash area

Latex gloves and garbage bags provided, bring water and a snack and dress appropriately. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Meet at Dog Hill, Colborne Lodge Drive. k9@highpark.org.

hisTory oF The John sTreeT rounDhouse

Presentation. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Railway Museum, 255 Bremner. trha.ca. a hurDle To success Symposium to discuss the experiences of indigenous and racialized students engaged in post-secondary athletics.

9 am-4 pm. Free (RSVP req’d). U of T Scarborough Campus, 1095 Military Trail. Pre-register ahurdletosuccess.eventbrite.ca. kensingTon FooDies rooTs Tour Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50. 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. koerner hall Free For all Acoustic performances from noon to 3 pm, amplified performances 5 to 8 pm. Free. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. rcmusic.ca. lapBanD coFFee group Meetup for people who have had lapband surgery and anyone wanting more info. 2 pm. Free. Timothy’s Coffee, 425 Bloor E. tomander@bell.net. rlaTin DruMMing workshop Culture Days event with congas, bongos, bass drums and more. 3-4 pm. Free. Hillcrest Library, 5801 Leslie. on.culturedays.ca. learn coMpuTer gaMe Design Intro to the basics of coding. 10 am-noon. Free. Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000.

leT’s Talk: a workshop in coMMunicaTion

& perspecTive Become a better listener, communicator and problem solver. 1-4 pm. $25.

Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register centraleglinton.com. a look aT huMBer college’s conTeMporary collecTion Public art tour as part of Culture

Days. 12:30 and 4:30 pm. Free. L Space Gallery, 21 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. humberart. eventbrite.ca. rMccorMick park FesTival Grand opening of the new containter park café, live music, bouncy castle, crafts and more. 11 am-2 pm.

Free. 66 Sheridan. mccormickpark.ca. rMeaDowvale TheaTre Doors open Culture Days performances, kids’ activities and art displays. 1-4 pm. Free. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo (Mississauga). mtix.ca.

MeMories oF The FuTure Walking tour of North York and of Robert Hengeveld’s Gibson

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author Laila El-Haddad on food, identity and resistance. 2 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. Pre-register tpff.ca. rTree Days All-ages event to help plant trees in the neighbourhood. 9 am-noon. Free (space limited). U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail. Pre-register tdtreedays.ca.

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

BoyDen ouTwarD BounD

Joseph Boyden explores themes related to the journey toward selfdiscovery in the natural world in his Canada Reads-winning novel, The Orenda. On Monday (September 29), 7:30 pm, Boyden talks about his book in a fundraiser for Outward Bound, the charitable org that’s been inspiring youth through outdoor programs since 1969. $45-$50. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor West. outwardbound.ca/ boyden

harper agenDa on sex

National Newspaper Award-winning journalist Antonia Zerbisias offers up some smart, straight talk House exhibit led by the artist as part of Culture Days. 2 pm. Free/pwyc. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Minerals rock Young Toronto Mineralogists Club talk about their favourite specimens. 3-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Mospeaker acaDeMy Big Day Mini-conference on adding humour to public speaking skills. 9 am-4 pm. $110-$166. Downtown Jam, 83 Kincort. Pre-register momondays.com.

opera exchange: verDi’s FalsTaFF anD The sTaging oF coMeDy Canadian Opera Co short

performance and panel discussion. 1-4 pm. $20. Edward Johnson Bldg, Walter Hall, 80 Queen’s Park Cres. Pre-register 416-363-8231. rpainTing wiTh science Hands-on visual arts activites Culture Days event. 10 am-4 pm.

Free. U of T, 80 St George. puebloscience.org.

5roBerT giarD: TowarDs The parTicular

Curator’s tour of the exhibit with Scott Rayter.

2 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca. salsa Dancing workshop Culture Days event with Miko Sobreira sharing his Salsa dura style. 11-12:30 pm. Free. Flemingdon Park Library, 29 St Dennis. on.culturedays.ca.

Tollkeepers’ annual Book sale Buy books and support the Community History Project.

Noon-4:30 pm. Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca.

ToronTo anTique & vinTage MarkeT Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $10.

Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’. torontoantiqueandvintagemarket.ca.

ToronTo roller DerBy BaTTle For The BooT seMi-Finals Gore-Gore Rollergirls vs Chicks

Ahoy and the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad vs the South Simcoe Rebel Rollers.

Doors 4 pm. $18, adv $12. Downsview Park Bunker, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.

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’s greaT war aTTic Bring your WWI stories and treasures to share and have them uploaded to the Canadian Encyclopedia website. 1:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Zion Schoolhouse, 1091 Finch E. 416-395-7435.

527 Dresses: annual cD/Tg DeBuTanTe’s

Ball Party for the community to dress up and celebrate who they are. 6:30 pm. $100.

Best Western Primrose Hotel, 111 Carlton.

Pre-register 27dressesparty.wix. com/27dresses. rTynDale Fall FesTival Family fun entertainment including games, bouncy castles, dunk tank, face painting, live music and more. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Tyndale College , 3377 Bayview. 120.tyndale.ca/events/ homecoming. unpluggeD expo 3 Celebration of geek culture with anime, cosplay, sci-fi and video games, guests and more. Today and tomorrow. $20-$35. Chestnut Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut. unpluggedexpo.com. yiMBy: yes, in My BackyarD Social space for people and groups involved in locallydriven community development to gather, exchange strategies and ideas and imagine the future of our city. 11 am-4 pm. Free. U of T Schools, 371 Bloor W. yimbytoronto.org.

on the federal government’s attack on sex work at Don Heights Unitarian Congregation on Sunday (September 28). Was the Harper government’s response to the Supreme Court decision striking down Canada’s prostitution laws all about holding onto the Tories’ evangelical base out west?

Free. 10:30 am. 18 Wynford. donheights.ca

sip anD sow

Snack on sumptuous soups and support a group devoted to feeding the hungry when Soupalicious takes over Wychwood Barns on Sunday (September 28). Restaurants including Magic Oven, George and One Love Vegetarian, caterers and celebrities

Sunday, September 28

Benefits

seven crowns TaTToo chariTy arT aucTion

(Art City in St James Town) Fundraising auction of works by Canadian tattooists. 8 pm.

Free admission. House of Moments, 388 Carlaw. contact@sevencrownstattoo.com. soupalicious (Plant a Row, Grow a Row) Local restaurants, caterers, chefs and celebrities cook up soup to support veggie gardening and food sharing. Noon-4 pm. $12-$22, kids $5-$8.

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416535-0240, soupalicious.ca.

Events

The annex Flea Vintage and handmade

goods. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Honest Ed’s Parking Lot, 581 Bloor. annexflea.com.

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.

BriTish hoMe chilD Day Celtic fiddlers, Irish and Highland dancing, speakers and more. 11 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416736-1733, blackcreek.ca.

Discover hiDDen ToronTo scavenger hunT

Teams answer trivia and solve clues about Hogtown history. 2-4:30 pm. $30. Yorkville/U of T area. Pre-register urbancapers.com. 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. rFaMily sunDays Drop-in art projects for parents and kids. 2-4 pm. $5/$20 family. Art Works Art School, 238 Jane. 416-766-0662.

The grange Guided ROM walk. Meet in front of AGO, Dundas and McCaul. 2 pm. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. rom.on.ca.

The harper governMenT’s aTTack on sex workers Service followed by a talk by An-

tonia Zerbisias. 10:30 am. Free. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, 18 Wynford. 416444-8839, donheights.ca.

inprinT collecTive aT The arTisT MarkeT

Printmaking demos in both relief and screen printing as part of Culture Days. 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Ratio, 283 College. inprintstudio.ca. keeping you in sTiTches Knitting and crochet social as part of Culture Days. 2-4 pm. Free.

Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. leslieville FarMers’ MarkeT 9 am-2 pm.

Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen/Eastern). leslievillemarket.com.

5lgBT Dance Salsa and bachata classes for queer & trans folk. $15 drop-in. U of T MultiFaith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com. liBerTy village FarMers MarkeT Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca.

More Than an islanD: a Bicycle Tour oF ToronTo islanD Heritage Toronto tour. 2 pm. $25. Location provided on registration. Preregister heritagetoronto.org.

rpeDesTrian sunDays in kensingTon MarkeT Enjoy music, street theatre and more on streets that are closed to traffic. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, Augusta and College. pskensington.ca.

Monday, September 29

Benefits

Joseph BoyDen: ouTwarD BounD lecTure

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Schools, 371 Bloor W. repairathon.com. rDoors open MarkhaM Check out historic and modern sites. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Varley Art Gallery, 216 Main, and other venues. doorsopenmarkham.com.

Doors open Mississauga Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N. bit.ly/1ynMYfV.

(Outward Bound charitable initiatives) The author of The Orenda talks about his book.

Proceeds support aboriginal youth, women survivors of violence and others. 7:30 pm. $45$50. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. outwardbound.ca/boyden.

MaD aBouT MargareT’s (Margaret’s Housing & Community Support Svs) Speech by author Ann Dowsett Johnston and cocktail reception.

6-8:30 pm. $150-$200. George, 111 Queen E. 416-463-1481, madaboutmargarets.ca.

Trivia & speeD DaTing FunDraiser (Citizens with Disabilities Ontario) Speed dating for charity. $20. The Firkin on Yonge, 207 Yonge.

Pre-register justidateevents@gmail.com.

Joseph Boyden boosts Outward Bound on September 29.

concoct eats in support of Plant a Row, Grow a Row (growarow.org), which promotes veggie gardening and food sharing. Noon-4 pm. $12$22, kids $5-$8. 601 Christie. 416535-0240, soupalicious.ca

Events

arTsvoTe Mayoral DeBaTe Damian Abraham

recipe For vicTory – a greaT war FooD syMposiuM Explore the history of domestic and military food and beverages during the Great War. 10 am-4 pm. $75. Historic Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. 416-392-6907, fortyork.ca.

sahTain! TraDiTional palesTinian Brunch

Screening of short film Resistance Recipes and brunch as part of the Toronto Palestine Film Festival. 11 am-1 pm. $20. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. Pre-register tpff.ca. rsaMBa DruMMing For kiDs Drop-in workshop. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz.com.

seconD chinaTown FooD Tour & harvesT Moon FesTival Guided walking tour. 10 am-1

pm. $35-$50 (includes dim sum). 393 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

TasTing palesTine Toronto Palestine Film Festival presents a conversation with journalist/

moderates a debate on the role of arts and culture in Toronto, its impact on the economic health of the city and the role that artists play in city building. Noon-2 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. artsvote.ca.

5explain yourselF 2.0: coMpulsive acTs

Hardworkin’ Homosexuals celebrate the launch of a book about Sky Gilbert’s works with a performance cabaret featuring Gilbert, Donnarama, Gavin Crawford and others. 7:30 pm. $3. Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca. inTroDucTory MeDiTaTion Learn three easy techniques. 7 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-539-0234.

living liFe To The FullesT: an inTroDucTion To nichiren BuDDhisM Seminar on improving our lives by unearthing unlimited wisdom.

6:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-654-3211.

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.

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Mo Mondays Motivational event that’s a

cross between open-mic comedy and TED talks. 5:30-10 pm. $20, adv $10. Hard Rock Café, 279 Yonge. momondays.com/toronto.

RestoRing Balance Talk on dizzyness and vertigo. 10 am. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge, Beeton Auditorium. 416-395-5577. a theRMoMeteR FoR the Mind Michael Meagher explains the online brain test that looks at memory and cognitive health. Noon.

Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge, Beeton Auditorium. 416-395-5577. toRonto swing dance society West Coast swing lesson and practice. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. tRue stoRies told live Five people tell true stories without notes. Doors 7:15 pm. Free.

The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439, facebook.com/events/742142975845756.

voices FoR change: woMen RedeFining innovation Panel discussion with women’s

rights activists and social innovators. 6-8 pm.

Free. MaRS Centre, 101 College. Pre-register matchinternational.org/voices-change-2014.

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Ghost walk. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416923-6813. iMposed ignoRance Panel discussion about the evidence and methodology that Ottawa uses to base its policies. 6-8 pm. Free. Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place.

Pre-register bit.ly/imposedignorancetickets.

BReakFast at Bing Gain tips to improve your online business strategies. 9:30 am. Free (space limited, RSVP). Microsoft Canada, 1950 Meadowvale Blvd (Mississauga). Pre-register greenlotus.ca/breakfast-microsoft-bing. caRRot city Urban agriculture in Toronto workshop. 7-8:15 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535. insights aBout the ukRaine cRisis FRoM a stay in the caucasus Lecture by Matthew

Light. 4-6 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. living Meditation Class for all levels. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

loyalist ReFugees - non-MilitaRy ReFugees in QueBec 1776-1784 Presentation by military

historian and author Gavin Watt. 7 pm. Free.

St. David’s Towers, Community Room, 51 Donlands. 416-921-7756, uelgovsimcoe.org.

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 Fresh local produce, food trucks and music. 11 am-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca.

Women welcome. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626. the stop’s Food FoR thought Discussion on income equality and out health with Gary Bloch, Trish Hennessy and Kwame McKenzie.

6:30-8 pm. $30. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. Pre-register thestop.org.

Radio onstage talk with astronaut Jeremy Hansen, scientist Bill Nye and others. 7:30 pm. $10. U of T Convocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle. brownpapertickets.com. wRite now: wRiting in canada today Discussion with Wayson Choy, Emma Donoghue and Emily Pohl-Weary. 7:30 pm. $10. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

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Panel discussion looking at ways to weave stories of cultural diversity into the broader narrative of Toronto. 7-8:30 pm. Free (RSVP).

Toronto Reference Library, Atrium, 789 Yonge. heritagetoronto.org/culturalheritage. toRonto coMic JaM Jam with indie artists on making comics. Bring your own pencils/pens.

7:30 pm. Free. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E, upstairs. meetup.com/Toronto-Comic-Jam. toxins in ouR lives Talk by Liz Rice of EnviroHealth Presentations. 1-2 pm. Free. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. 416-393-7650. tuRnout toRonto Civic engagement fair for community organizations and citizens. 4-7 pm. Free. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. facebook.com/events/554260458019498.

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ploration are part of this outdoor lecture series under the Mount Pleasant bridge. 8 pm.

Free. Meet at Church St & Park Rd at 7:45 pm. facebook.com/events/265287896928399.

MayoRal deBate Candidates debate with moderator Kym Geddes. 6 pm. Free. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. ybba.org. curator Paul Atterbury. 6:30-8 pm. $20. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. occupy econoMics Workshop on competition in economic theory. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca. solutions FRoM the gRound up Talk about foot, knee and hip pain. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511.

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NQ Arbuckle, Ron Hawkins & Steve Singh, Sam Cash, Whitney Rose and others perform at this benefit. Doors 9 pm. $15, adv $12.50. Horseshoe, 370 Queen W. ticketfly.com. tiMes change 40th anniveRsaRy (Times Change Women’s Employment Service) The agency that helps women celebrates with speakers, live entertainment and a silent auction. 6:30-9:30 pm. $60. Shamba Foundation, 48 Yonge, suite 1200. timeschange.org.

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caReeRs in accounting Networking event for new immigrant job seekers. 4-5:30 pm. Free.

Centre for Immigrant & Community Svs, 3850 Finch E. Pre-register 416-293-4565 ext 0.

5childRen 404 Amnesty International doc screening and discussion. 6:30 pm. $11. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. aito.ca. the chinese in toRonto Riverdale Historical Society presentation by author Arlene Chan.

6-7:30 pm. $4. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com. connect with youR tRue selF Intro to meditation. 12:10-12:50 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660. coping tips FoR caRegiveRs Workshop for people taking care of an elderly relative or friend. 4-6 pm. Free/pwyc. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. Pre-register 416-595-9618.

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Blanche via installations, performances and more. 7 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/firstthursdays.

native adveRtising: JouRnalisM’s saviouR oR sellout? Discussion on the line between

editorial and advertising content with Scott White (Postmedia), Jill Borra (the Globe and Mail) and Cathrin Bradbury (Star Media). 6:30 pm. $30, stu $15. TMX Broadcast Centre, 130 King W. Pre-register cjf-native-advertising. eventbrite.ca. we day toRonto Event celebrating the youth movement for global change with speakers and performers. Free for students and educators. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. Pre-register weday.com.

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1 Unisex Chuck Taylor All-Star rubber sneaker ($65, converse.com) 2 John Varvatos Collection cap-toe leather boots ($898, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com) 3 Cybranet boot ($140, Aldo, 332 Yonge, 416-596-1390, and others, aldoshoes.com) 4 Blundstone 1431 Burgundy Rub ($199.95, Australian Boot Company, 698 Queen West, 416-504-2411, and other, australianboot.com) 5 Palladium Morace boot ($130, Little Burgundy, 220 Yonge, 416-2600497, and others, littleburgundyshoes.com)

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To market, to market artsy online shopping destination Etsy hosts 23 pop-up marketplaces across Canada on Saturday (September 27). Lucky us, the Toronto version is the flagship marketplace, with 135 local etsy sellers converging on MaRS (101 College) from 10 am to 4 pm to show their wares and mingle with shoppers. another Toronto location pops up at OCAD University’s Great Hall (100 McCaul, second floor) from 11 am to 5 pm. etsy.com/ca/ madeincanada

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we love seeing local businesses go all natural, so kudos to Waxon Waxbar for taking the leap and introducing a new line of organic beauty products.

One of our favourite secrets for soothing skin post-hair-removal and preventing winter dryness is the store’s signature BodyShot.

Made in Canada, the newly formulated body oil is a concoction of organic coconut, avocado and arnica oils that works wonders.

Bonus: BodyShot can double as an after-sun treatment and mosquito repellent due to its citrus scent ($28 for 8 oz, 120 Adelaide West, unit R11, 416-551-7929, and other, waxon.ca).

Northbound Leather, our favourite local destination for all things… well, leathery, unveils its 18th annual fashion show featuring nine original mini-collections of period-inspired designs on October 25, 9 pm.

Titled Scandal, the fetish festivities go down at Sound Academy (11 Polson), with tickets $50 in advance and $60 at the door. Tix are sold at Northbound Leather (586 Yonge, 416972-1037, northbound.com).

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Post Market (facebook.com/ thepostmarket) returns on Sunday (September 28) at the Great Hall (1087 Queen west) with a slew of awesome homegrown lines. Check out the likes of Violet Crown Vintage, the Chief Salvage, Province Apothecary, the Leather Atelier, the Health Nut and more from 10 am to 5 pm. No charge for admission. 3

store of the week Le Château

220 Yonge, 416-979-3122,and others, lechateau.com You may remember Le Château as the store where you shopped for semi-formal dresses in high school. Or you may remember John Lennon and Yoko Ono wearing the brand’s velour jumpers during their headline-grabbing Montreal bed-in in 1969.

Le Château is as historic as it comes in Canadian fashion, but somewhere along the line, the brand got bogged down in the fast-fashion craze.

Not any more.

The last few years have seen the chain rebrand and focus on quality, grown-up clothes, many of which are actually made in Canada (unlike the wares of some other ethically suspect Canadian brands we could name).

Shopping at Le Château isn’t going to break the bank. Cardigans start around $40, and outerwear hovers around the $100 mark. It even offers a premium made-in-Italy shoe collection that runs about $150 a pair.

Not just for the ladies, the brand has recently put considerable effort into its menswear collections. Guys can pick up 100 per cent wool suits for about $350 or wool blend blazers for around $150. This is the young working professional’s dream store.

Le Château picks Le Château designed the men’s and women’s clothing, footwear and accessories for indie Canadian flick After The Ball. To celebrate, it’s made the after The Ball collection available for purchase online and in stores this fall.

Look for The accessories. From hats to sunglasses to jewellery, this is the spot to buy affordable baubles that look like high-priced designer wares. The selection is almost overwhelming, and there’s definitely something for everyone.

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FREE YOUR RIDE: the car-sharing guide IN HONOUR OF THIS WEEK’S UN CLIMATE SUMMIT, CONSIDER DITCHING YOUR CAR FOR GOOD AND SHARING WHEELS INSTEAD. THERE’S A CAR-SHARE SERVICE ON NEARLY EVERY CORNER. LET’S SEE WHICH SERVICE ROCKS THE BLOCK.

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by Avis Budget Group) claims to have more cars in Toronto than anyone else (roughly 550 in total), which makes it an even greater shame that it offers no electric models and only 15 hybrids. Tsk, tsk. There are lots of plan options, including a $65 annual membership fee and rates starting at $9.25 per hour on weekdays (lower if you prepay $50 a month). Plus, people as young as 18 can join through a university plan.

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Technically, these guys have the greenest fleet of all – nothing but super-compact Smart Fortwo Cars (which greenercars.org ties with the Honda Insight hybrid a little behind the Toyota Prius). These pint-sized cars can be mega-handy if you only need wheels one way, sort of a like a self-driven taxi to the other end of town or home after a big grocery or beer run. But the price is nearly twice that of conventional car-sharing services: $15 per hour plus tax.

However, you can rent by the minute, and there’s no annual fee, just a one-time $35 sign-up charge.

Don’t expect trunk space.

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It’s been 16 months since the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh killed 1,100 and injured 2,500 workers, and to date only one Canadian retailer, Joe Fresh, has coughed up any coin toward the promised $40 million trust fund for workers.

In an open letter released last week, more than 50 human rights, religious, union, women’s and student groups called on the Canadian government to not only donate to the

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Of its 300 cars, Autoshare has nearly 50 hybrids (mostly Priuses and Honda Insights), plus a sprinkling of electrics like the Nissan Leaf. Like Zipcar, the service has lots of plan options, but rates are often somewhat cheaper (a $45 membership will start you at a $9.25 per hour weekday rate, with $0 deductible options) and Autoshare helps you build an insurance record (not that you need one if you’re giving up ownership.) You’ve got to be 21 to sign up. The company used to be marketed as “100% Canadian and locally owned,” but Autoshare’s now been bought out by rental giant Enterprise.

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This teeny-tiny operation may have only seven locations (one happens to be right across the street from my house), but it wins brownie points for being the only locally owned, nonprofit car-sharing cooperative. It’s run by the same peeps who offer Options for Homes, which helps fund greener condo ownership, and Options for Green Energy, which is coming out with solar bonds. The cool thing is they’re open to new location requests, and you and your neighbours can sign up for a “neighbourhood car.” There’s currently only one hybrid; the rest are mostly compacts. Annual membership is $50, and rates start at $9 per hour.

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Slash your carbon footprint further by opting for two wheels instead of four.

Bike Share Toronto (formerly known as Bixi) sells a 24 hour-pass for just $7 (cheaper than car-sharing for an hour).

Or you can buy a subscription for $18 per month or a mere $90 for a year. We’re still waiting for bike stations to bust out beyond the Ossington-to-Parliament, Front-to-Bloor boundaries, but the service is nonetheless pretty awesome for short-term downtown trips (the first 30 minutes are free) and saves you the worry of getting your bike ecoholic pick nicked.

fund but also to pressure Canadian companies manufacturing in Bangladesh to open their wallets.

Governments from seven EU countries have already publicly pushed retailers and brands from their respective countries to donate generously to the fund. Many of those brands, including H&M and Gap, had no direct ties to Rana Plaza, but, as the letter states, “they recognized their shared responsibility” for Bangladeshi working conditions and “the urgent need of the victims and survivors of the Rana Plaza tragedy.” So far, Canuck companies such as HBC, Lululemon and Reitmans have yet to recognize that.

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To date, only about half the $40 million promised has been donated to the fund managed by the International Labour Organization.

Says Lynda Yanz, director of the Maquila Solidarity Network, “If we fail to fill this funding gap, many of the survivors who can no longer work and families of those killed at Rana Plaza could face a future of abject poverty.”

GREENWASH OF THE WEEK AMIE NATURALLY KIND MOISTURIZER

A STAY ON PALM OIL RAINFOREST CLEAR-CUTS They may not know it, but it’s been a good week for Borneo orangutans, Sumatran tigers and other Southeast Asian species threatened by palm oil plantation encroachments on their habitat. Five of the world’s largest palm oil companies have just agreed to suspend forest clearing for a year while they figure out how to meet recent zero-deforestation commitments.

The announcement comes as an ever-expanding list of big-name brands (Procter & Gamble, L’Oréal and most recently Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts) all agreed to go beyond flawed sustainable palm certifications and move toward 100 per cent traceable, conflict- and deforestation-free palm oil. That means avoiding “high-carbon stock,” including old-growth forests.

Without curbs on greenhouse-gasunleashing clear-cuts, it’s predicted that Indonesia’s palm-linked CO2 emissions could soon exceed those of Canada’s oil sands.

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This pretty British brand has recently popped up in local drugstores, advertising itself as veganfriendly and “bursting with high-quality naturally derived plant extracts.” If Amie really wants to be “naturally kind” to animals, it may want to ditch the cyclopentasiloxane. It’s a slippery ingredient. Environment Canada was in the process of labelling siloxanes a danger to the environment when industry lobbyists complained and the toxic label was revoked. Also, Amie advertises that it’s free of petrochemicals and petro-derived mineral oil, but the nylon-12 in here is definitely made from fossil fuels. Rather than correcting the labels, I say upgrade the ingredients.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 It’s no secret. The wealthy 1

per cent of the population has been getting progressively wealthier. Meanwhile, the poor are becoming steadily poorer. I’m worried there is a metaphorically similar trend in your life. Am I right? If so, please do all you can to reverse it. Borrow energy from the rich and abundant parts of your life so as to lift up the neglected and under-endowed parts. Here’s one example of how you could proceed: for a while, be less concerned with people who think you’re a star, and give more attention to those who accept and love your shadow side.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job,” says Bill Gates, the world’s secondrichest man, “because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” That’s good counsel for you right now, Taurus. You’d be wise to get in touch with your inner lazy bum. Let the slacker within you uncover the least stressful way to accomplish your difficult task.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there is no need for you to suffer and strain as you deal with your dilemma.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 If you don’t identify and ex-

press your conscious desires, your unconscious desires will dominate your life. I will say that again in different language, because it’s crucial you understand the principle. You’ve got to be very clear about what you really want, and install a shining vision of what you really want at the core of your everyday life. If you don’t do that, you will end up being controlled by your habits and old programming. So be imperious, Gemini. Define your dearest, strongest longing and be ruthlessly devoted to it.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Henri Cartier-Bresson (19082004) was an influential French photographer, a pioneer of photojournalism who helped transform photography into an art form. In 1986 he was invited to Palermo, Sicily, to accept a prize for his work.

The hotel he stayed in seemed oddly familiar to him, although he didn’t understand why. It was only later he discovered that the hotel had been the place at which his mother and father stayed on their honeymoon. It was where he was conceived. I foresee a comparable development on the horizon for you, Cancerian: a return to origins, perhaps inadvertent; an evocative encounter with your roots; a reunification with an influence that helped make you who you are today.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 With expert execution, musician

Ben Lee can play 15 notes per second on his violin.

Superstar eater Pete Czerwinski needs just 34 seconds to devour a 12-inch pizza. When Jerry Miculek is holding his rifle, he can get off eight crack shots at four targets in a little more than one second. While upside-down, Aichi Ono is capable of doing 135 perfect head spins in a minute. I don’t expect you to be quite so lightning-fast and utterly flawless as these people in the coming weeks, Leo, but I do think you will be unusually quick and skilful.

For the foreseeable future, speed and efficiency are your specialties.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 As the makeup artist for the

film Dallas Buyers Club, Robin Mathews had a daunting task. During the 23 days of shooting, she had to constantly transform lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto so that they appeared either deathly ill or relatively healthy. Sometimes she had to switch them back and forth five times a day. She was so skilful in accomplishing this feat that she won the Academy Award for best makeup and hairstyling. Her budget? A meagre $250. The film was a shoestring indie production. I’m naming her your inspirational role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. I believe that you, too, can create magic without a wealth of resources.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “I am a seed about to break,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her poem Three Women. That’s how I see you right now, Libra. You are teeming with the buoyant energy that throbs when a seed is

ready to sprout. You have been biding your time, gathering the nourishment you need, waiting for the right circumstances to burst open with your new flavour. And now that nervous, hopeful, ecstatic moment is about to arrive. Be brave!

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 The English verb “cicurate”

is defined as “to tame or domesticate” or “to make mild or innocuous.” But it once had an additional sense: “to reclaim from wildness.” It was derived from the Latin word “cicurare,” which meant “to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” For your purposes, Scorpio, we will make cicurate your theme, but concentrate on these definitions: “to reclaim from wildness, to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” In the coming weeks, you will be exploring rough, luxuriant areas of unknown territory. You will be wrangling with primitive, sometimes turbulent energy. I urge you to extract the raw vitality you find there and harness it to serve your daily rhythm and your long-term goals.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “You can exert no in-

fluence if you are not susceptible to influence,” said psychologist Carl Jung. Extrapolating from that idea, we can hypothesize that the more willing and able you are to be influenced, the greater your influence might be. Let’s make this your key theme in the coming weeks. It will be an excellent time to increase your clout, wield more authority and claim more of a say in the creation of your shared environments. For best results, you should open your mind, be very receptive and listen well.

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corn. Your current dilemmas are more useful and interesting than any that you have had for a long time. If you can even partially solve them, the changes you set in motion will improve your entire life, not just the circumstances they immediately affect. Of the several dividends you may reap, one of my favourites is this: you could liberate yourself from a messed-up kind of beauty and become available for a more soothing and delightful kind. Here’s another potential benefit: you may transform yourself in ways that will help you attract more useful and interesting dilemmas in the future.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Alan Moore is the British

author who wrote the graphic novels Watchmen and V For Vendetta. He is now nearing completion of Jerusalem, a novel he has been working on for six years. It will be more than a million words long, almost double the size of Tolstoy’s War And Peace and 200,000 words bigger than the Bible. “Any editor worth their salt would tell me to cut two-thirds of this book,” Moore told the New Statesman, “but that’s not going to happen.” Referring to the author of Moby Dick, Moore adds, “I doubt that Herman Melville had an editor. If he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: ‘Cut to the chase, Herman.’” Let’s make Moore and Melville your role models in the coming week, Aquarius. You have permission to sprawl, ramble and expand. Do not cut to the chase.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 For a long time, an Illinois writer named ArLynn Leiber Presser didn’t go out much. She had 325 friends on Facebook and was content to get her social needs met in the virtual realm. But then she embarked on a year-long project in which she sought face-to-face meetings with all of her online buddies. The experiment yielded sometimes complicated but mostly interesting results. It took her to 51 cities around the world. I suggest we make her your inspirational role model for the coming weeks, Pisces. In at least one way, it’s time for you to move out of your imagination and into the real world. You’re primed to turn fantasies into actions, dreams into practical pursuits.

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food Casing the joint Mario Carmine Garisto wants you to know why the sausage he sells at his new shop, Sorella Toronto (2763 Dundas West, 647-773-2582, sorellatoronto.com, @sorellatoronto) is so tasty. It’s because he uses a century-old recipe passed down by his great-grandmother from the southern Italian region of Calabria.

The recipe could be older; he doesn’t know. His pork sausages are so good, a customer told him that her vegetarian daughter couldn’t resist them.

Though the precise recipe remains a family secret, Garisto is happy to show us what goes into the creation of a quality sausage.

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Owner Mario Garisto (clockwise from top left) butchers and grinds quality pork rump; mother Pina has the tricky job of controlling the flow into the casing; father Ben measures, twists and cuts the links.

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While sausages are usually known as a dumping ground for trimmings and scraps, Garisto only uses pork butt.

“Pork butt is marbled very well, with no gristle,” he says. “The fat, the white parts, is pliable and can be rendered easily. In cheap sausages, the fat is hard and has to be ground more finely.”

He spends two hours butchering a box of six pork butts, removing the veins, tendons, bones, silver skin and excess fat until the butt has an approximate ratio of 85 per cent meat to 15 per cent fat.

He gets the pork from Bloorcourt’s Nosso Talho (1042 Bloor West, 416-531-7462,nossotalho. com). “I used to work there, and the Portuguese know their meat.”

The ground pork is then weighed and divided into three batches, for mild, hot and Garisto hot.

Salt and chili flakes are the only other ingredients added to the mix. More than two decades ago, Garisto’s mom and aunt spent many nights trying to translate their grandma’s pinches and handfuls of spice into actual measurements.

That old recipe card they wrote is still kicking around.

Here’s Garisto’s tip on determining how much actual meat is in your sausage: see how much it shrinks when it cooks. Fillers like oil, water and bread crumbs cook off or shrink, leaving just the meat. If the sausage shrinks to half its size, that’s how much meat was there to begin with.

“We always get compared to supermarket [products] or street meat, because people always buy sausages based on price,” he says. “I consider that an insult. I’m trying to show how Italians do it.”

Sausage casings, the stretchy layer of a pig’s intestine, are washed three to four times to remove the salt solution they’re stored in before the hand-cranked sausage extruder is brought out. It’s been in the family longer than the 30-year-old Garisto.

The casing is slipped over the extruder tube and filled with seasoned pork. When the sausage is 5 inches long, the casing is twisted.

Each batch yields about 170 sausages, which sell out fast, so he recommends calling ahead to reserve them. (They’re $10 for four.)

Grinding The meat is then fed through an electric grinder, though Garisto puts the gauge to a higher setting so the ground meat comes out coarser rather than as a fine paste.

“You almost want to be eating chunks of meat, and it should fall apart when you eat it,” he says.

The reason? Seeing and tasting little chunks of pork takes the mystery out of mystery meat.

Refrigerating Garisto mixes the batches by hand and then refrigerates them for 20 minutes to help the meat bind. But first he cooks up a bit from every batch to make sure it’s seasoned properly.

Testing Once the sausages are filled, some are cooked up again for a second test. “Hey, you get hungry,” he says. Taste-testers from neighbouring businesses love him for this.

Most of the sausages

are reserved for wholesale, though a few are set aside to be cooked up and served on a bun for a small lunch crowd ($6 with a drink).

Cleaning At the end of the day, the whole shop is disinfected. Machines are taken apart to be washed, cutting boards are scraped off, the stove is sprayed down, scales are wiped and the fridge is cleaned inside and out.

Everything also has to be disinfected when Garisto is making sausages with a different kind of meat to prevent cross-contamination.

“Cleanliness around food is extremely important, and you have to do it 100 per cent every time,” he says.

“You might not be able to tell if I give it 98 per cent, but I’ll know, and that’s when your business will be in trouble.”

From start to finish, the entire process takes four hours.

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Brothers Sam and Ben Gundy of Olliffe, best known as one of the “five thieves” shops in Summerhill, took over the old Sausage King booth in the St. Lawrence Market and now sell more than 60 links of lamb, pork, chicken, turkey and game. The English breakfast sausages are especially tasty.

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CUMBRAE’S The popular butcher shop with multiple locations – as well as chef fans, including Jamie Kennedy – makes classic and special varieties, like a pork, beef,

rapini and Parmesan combo and a link mixing pork, prosciutto, apple and apple brandy. Check the store’s social feeds for sausage of the day. A Queen West outpost opened just this month.

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Too lazy to cook your own sausages? This spacious bratwurst and beer hall serves more than two dozen traditional, vegetarian/vegan and game sausages (kangaroo or guinea fowl, anyone?) on a bun with a side of crispy fries.

We’re partial to the boerewors (beef and coriander), and a lighter version, the chicken sausage with peppers and chili powder.

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Opening

The Tempered Room, a patisserie and catering space from French chef Bertrand Alépée, is now open at 1374 Queen West (at Brock) in what was once the Brown Sugar Bakery. Alépée is best known as co-owner of fine-dining bistro Amuse-Bouche (now Beast) and a member of the Group of Seven Chefs collective. Follow his Instagram account (@thetemperedchef) for copious shots of what’s coming out of the kitchen, including éclairs of different flavours, sticky pain aux raisins and quiches.

Toronto’s second Whole Foods has opened in North York (4771 Yonge, at Sheppard, wholefoodsmarket.com). For the rest of the week, 1 per cent of sales is donated to a local organization.

Closing

Yours Truly, the little restaurant that caused a positive stir when it opened about two years ago at 229 Ossington, closes for good on September 30. Known for its delicate, pretty plates, Yours Truly goes out with a 20-course, $200-ahead tasting menu that includes wine and cocktail pairings.

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Italian restaurant Campagnolo (832 Dundas West, at Euclid) stays open seven days a week starting September 29, just in time for temperatures to drop and to satisfy our craving for a big bowl of spaghetti all’amatriciana.

New menu chef Trish Gill of the Dock Ellis is upping the food offerings at the Emmet Ray (924 College, at Dovercourt), renowned as the place for brown juice; its whisky list is probably the city’s most extensive. Now on offer: a gnocchi poutine, a cheese plate with bannock, house-baked breads, and octopus with nduja and tomatoes. All come with suggested whisky KL pairings, naturally.

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WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!

The Botanist Islay Dry Gin This Islay gin can rumble with the best. The brainchild of Bruichladdich (and the brand that helps keep the distillery afloat while the whisky matures), it’s called The Botanist because two horticultural experts weighed in on which 22 indigenous island botanicals should be steeped in this full and finessed gin. (Traditional ingredients like juniper, cassia bark and coriander are part of the recipe, too.) Slow-simmered in an old pot still distiller Jim McEwan fondly calls Ugly Betty, the outcome is a beautifully structured and aromatic gin best appreciated straight.

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856 College, 647-547-9827, thecaledonian.ca The best pubs have purpose and personality. Warm and convivial, they’re places where everyone – young, old or from out of town – feels welcome to stay a while and return the next day.

Authenticity – which contributes heftily to the vibe of a true public house – has become watered down and washed away by corporate pretenders in the interest of making a buck or a billion.

A queen among Toronto’s pubs, the hyper-Scottish Caledonian is the antithesis of those ubiquitous, hollow hell holes dishing scrawny, overpriced chicken wings and domestic beer.

At this haven for Scottish expats, locals and habitual pub- goers, everything from the food and drink to the service is totally on point. (Note: there’s haggis and it’s delicious.) It’s a place with soul and a bit of feistiness. Signs supporting the Scottish referendum were proudly posted in the window during my last visit.

The Caledonian has major clout with Scotch lovers for its shimmering wall of single malts and blends – over 200 bottles, some of which are highly exclusive. A fancy plaque beside the door proclaims it the official and first Canadian Ardbeg Em-

bassy, and six of the Islay distillery’s lauded whiskies are poured here, like the hard to find Alligator and Uigeadail.

The extensive Scotch menu, categorized by region – Highlands, Speyside, Lowlands, Campbeltown, Islands and Islay – contains comprehensive tasting notes. If owner Donna Wolff is around (as she often is, greeting familiar patrons and charming soon-to-be regulars), have her suggest a dram depending on your tastes.

The beer list is heavy on motherland offerings (Scotch ales and stouts dominate), but a few local brews are available for those committed to Canadian beer.

Creep the Facebook page for special events like live traditional music (pipes played by men in skirts), seminars and tastings hosted by Scottish distillers, and monthly Women & Whisky nights.

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runs somewhere between chronic and acute, and Guyana’s gorgeous El Dorado rums sit in my top tier. This eight-year-old Demerara offers amazing value and versatility; bold and not too sweet, it’s as enjoyable neat as it is in cocktails.

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THE WEEKND with SCHOOLBOY Q and JHENÉ AIKO at the Molson Amphitheatre, Sunday, September 21.

­ ating: NNN R r&B crooner the Weeknd, aka Abel Tesfaye, played his largest Toronto show to date, closing out the Molson Amphitheatre’s summer season with his king of The fall mini-tour alongside openers rapper Schoolboy Q (making a high-energy local debut) and singer Jhené Aiko.

Tesfaye’s added a few new songs to the set – including remixes of Beyoncé’s drunk in Love and Ty dolla $ign’s or Nah – and his sculptural dreads are now an essential part of his brand identity. But the banter, lurid theatrics and high-octane sound are the same, just upsized. dressed in a bulky flak jacket, the singer and his three-piece band reconfigured the hazy melancholia of his studio recordings with rock ’n’ roll vigour.

The band and Tesfaye’s deceptively sweet falsetto sounded immense. machine-gun drum rolls thundered and rattled while increasingly hardcore fetish imagery of nude women flashed across a giant screen.

After a while, the sameness in the Weeknd’s boyish brooding was as overwhelming as the production. His music tends to oscillate between minimalism and noise, and though technically impressive, by the time the set ended with a singalong of new song often, it felt anti kevin ritChie climactic.

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UNLOCKING THE TRUTH at the Opera House, Thursday, September 18. ­Rating: NNN

many people have their eyes on Unlocking the Truth thanks to their novelty factor: three eighth-grade New Yorkers play ambitious rock as seen on YouTube and get signed to a $1.7-million-dollar deal with Sony. The curious came out early to catch their set opening for late80s rock-funk-metal fusionists Living Colour, whose members eagerly introduced the band like beaming fathers, saying how proud they were to “pass on the torch.”

Step back from the story and adorability quotient and you’ll see that, well, these are eighth-graders with serious chops but who still have a ways to go in the songwriting and vocals departments. Wiry, bespectacled bass player Alec Atkins stalks the stage like a praying mantis, Jarad Dawkins surprises with his double-bass-drum dexterity, while über-serious Malcolm Brickhouse lets speedy guitar solos fly. elements of metal come through in the boys’ technical abilities and plentiful song section changes, but the plainish, unhooky vocals bring things closer to alt rock, and the songs tend to plod and blend together. one thing is for sure, though: they’ve got plenty of Carla Gillis time to deliver on their very tangible promise.

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SAUKRATES, KING REIGN, FAIZA and many others as part of MANIFESTO at Yonge-Dundas Square, Saturday, September 20. ­Rating: NNN

The midsection of Saturday’s marathon Manifesto concert at Yonge-Dundas Square featured an endless wave of local talent surging on and off the stage while the sun blazed. it would’ve been nice if the headliners who came on later – r&B singer Ryan Leslie, rapper Bishop Nehru and 18-year-old singer/ emcee Raury – had been Toronto natives, too, given the community spirit of the youth-focused festival. But during the 11-hour show, we got plenty of T-dot’s best-kept secrets, some for only 10 minutes.

While it’s great to spread the love around, we wanted to see more of throwback r&B singer Faiza and her plaid-clad backup dancers, as well as neo-soul-channelling Allie (supported by Gillian and Giselle Mapp), who delivered some of the sweetest-sounding vocals of the day. Saukrates and King Reign paired up for slightly longer (20 minutes), loosening up a slightly screw-faced crowd with i Wish i knew Natalie Portman (Saukrates’s song with k-os). oh, and there was fine dJing throughout the entire day by Chef’s Julia leConte Plate, Junia-T and LordQuest’s collaborative project.

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nesday to Sunday (September 17 to 21) R ating­: NNNN on friday night, Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) transformed mile end’s St-Michel Church into a new-wave dance club, quite the feat considering the awkward, too well lit space.

The next day, local record label Arbutus hosted its now-annual day party in its hip warehouse HQ. Backed by a cellist, violinist and a drummer, Lydia Ainsworth’s elegant synth lines accompanied her soaring pop vocals, which would’ve been even more impressive if she’d had live backup singers instead of a malfunctioning laptop.

Cali-rocker Ty Segall’s raucous sold-out show Saturday night was a lesson in the dos and don’ts of crowd-surfing. do: crawl onto the stage and catapult yourself into the sweaty masses at the climax of it’s over. doN’T: scissor-kick those lifting you. on Sunday, beloved mTL indie pop band the Unicorns banged through their 2004 breakout album as well as a couple of rarities for the fan boys and girls out there. A truly magical experience for those who’ve been waiting eight years to see the band headline samantha edwards again.

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BLACK LIPS, KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Thursday (September 25) Frenetic garage punk.

JENNIFER CASTLE, ERIC CHENAUX, DJ HVYWTR The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Thursday (September 25) See cover story, page 40.

FUCKED UP Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday and Saturday (September 26 and 27) w/ Vag Halen and New Fries on Friday, and Alvvays and s.h.i.t. on Saturday.

CHROMEO, WAVE RACER Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Saturday (September 27) Montreal-made electro-funk-disco.

DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH & AFRIKA BAMBAATAA Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (September 27) Hip-hop legends.

WISH, ANAMAI, KEN PARK White House (277.5 Augusta), Saturday (September 27) See preview, page 38.

ZEUS Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (September 27) Modern classic rock five-piece.

JOEY BADA$$ Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Sunday (September 28) Constantly touring teen rapper.

UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS, DANAVA Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Sunday (September 28) See preview, page 48.

EMA Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Tuesday (September 30) Noise-folk singer/songwriter.

LYKKE LI, MAPEI Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Tuesday (September 30) Swedish indie pop.

SHOVELS & ROPE Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday ( September 30) See preview, page 44.

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NQ Arbuckle, HArlAN PePPer, roN HAwkiNs & steve siNgH, DANNy greAves, FiNNy MccoNNell, DeviN cuDDy, wHitNey rose, sAM cAsH AND otHers Johnny Cash Tribute Night:

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time being), Toronto fans can catch songs from the Japanborn, London-based experimental band’s newest album, III (Stolen), when Bo Ningen bring it to Sound Academy while opening for Brit rockers Kasabian. (Note: Savages contributed to III, too.)

Expect trippy psychedelics, noisy guitars, propulsive rhythms, vocals that swing from meditative to manic, and lots and lots of whipping long black hair.

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PuP Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13 adv. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 15.

AlyssA reiD, virgiNiA to vegAs Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $17.50. TF. November 20. luciNDA williAMs, keNNetH briAN bAND Massey Hall 8 pm, all ages, $39.50-$69.50. LN, RTH. November 20. gAzelle twiN, DooMsQuAD Tattoo doors 9 pm, $15. INK. November 21.

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Thursday, September 25 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Jee Jee & James 9 pm. cAmeron House BAck room Fanette, Drone-

Doctor, Patrick Grant, Sara Wilkinson. tHe DAnfortH music HAll The Drums, Beverly doors 7 pm, all ages.

DrAke Hotel unDergrounD Album release show Valery Gore, Animalia (avant-pop) doors 8 pm.

DrAke Hotel lounge The Digs (funk) 10 pm. glADstone Hotel meloDy BAr Bush Whacked: A Kate Bush Tribute Night Allysin Chaynes, Fay Slift, Igby Lizzard, Judy Virago and others (music/burlesque show) 8 pm.

HorsesHoe Single Mothers, Solids, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Crow Town doors 8:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce The Dandy Warhols, Bonfire Beach, Wish doors 8:30 pm. See Wish preview, this page. mAssey HAll Bryan Ferry, Dawn Landes doors 7 pm, all ages. orBit room Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan tribute).

PAintBox Bistro Wild T 8 pm.

PHoenix concert tHeAtre Black Lips, King Khan & BBQ Show doors 8 pm. tHe Piston Graeme Kennedy, Kelly McMichael & the Gloss, Green & Gold 9 pm.

Press cluB Redsteps 9 pm. s.H.i.B.g.B’s Kicker (punk). soutHsiDe JoHnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. tAttoo Independent Music Awards Decade Party Jeffery Straker, Sarah Smith, Eh440, Philly Moves, Sumo Cyco 8:30 pm. toronto centre for tHe Arts Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Laura Fernandez, Joel Battle 7:30 pm.

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DAkotA tAVern The Double Cuts & the Jay Swinnerton Band 9 pm, Kevin Breit 7 pm.

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Fuego Lento Payadora Tango Ensemble noon. tHe greAt HAll Pink City record release Jennifer Castle, Eric Chenaux, DJ HVYWTR doors 8 pm. See cover story, page 40. grossmAn’s Sandi Marie 9:30 pm.

HABits gAstroPuB Wonderfest Series Arlene Paculan 9 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe Hannah Naimann 10 pm, Vivienne Wilder & Sideshow Joe 7:30 pm. tHe locAl Jay Aymar 9 pm. lou DAWg’s Open Mic Night 9 pm.

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Getting over stage fright, one band at a time By SAMANTHA EDWARDS WisH with zones, AnAmAi and ken PArk at the White House Studio Projects (277.5 Augusta), Saturday (September 27); and opening for tHe DAnDy WArHols with Bonfire BeAcH at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Thursday (September 25). 8:30 pm. $33. HS, RT, SS, TF.

What’s one way to overcome shyness and a fear of public speaking? Start your own rock ’n’ roll band.

Kyle Connolly seems pretty cool and relaxed when we meet for coffee in Kensington Market, but he was the kind of kid who would physically shake when forced to give presentations in school. As a musician, he’d give away his songs because he was too nervous to sing live.

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“I was playing in all these bands where I was kind of the second guy: the second guitar player, the second bassist,” he says.

But even as he recorded and toured with Beliefs, co-fronted by his best friend and long-time collaborator, Josh Korody, and Elk, his old high-school band from St. Catharines, he continued writing his own psych pop songs alone in his bedroom, slowly accumulating enough material for a full-length album.

Last year he decided to take the frontman plunge.

“I knew I had to put a band together,” he says.

He enlisted Emily Bitze (of Milk Lines, another band Connolly plays in) as bassist and Peter Gosling (of Decades) as the drummer. For good measure he added Korody, whom he first met when he was 16.

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WAylA BAr Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave/70s/80s) 10 pm.

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Most of Wish’s self-titled debut, out on Hand Drawn Dracula, was recorded live off the floor in just two days, which meant no two-takes, no overdubs, no toiling over guitar solos. “I wanted it to be spontaneous. I wanted there to be mistakes,” says Connolly, adding that plenty of “fuck-ups” are barely concealed in the layers of reverb and distortion.

And although Connolly’s toured Europe with Beliefs and is already at work on Wish’s sophomore release, the stage fright hasn’t left him completely.

“I’m still awful at stage banter,” he says, chuckling. “I have to close my eyes when I sing because I don’t want to look at the crowd.”

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JENNIFER CASTLE CALLS PINK CITY UNSETTLING AND TRANSIENT. WE CALL IT HER BEST RECORD YET.

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ike everyone else with ears and taste, Jennifer Castle is a fan of Joni Mitchell. Comparing the two, however, will piss her off.

“I listened to Blue like everyone else. I was a teenager in a truck before. I mean, god, I sang my heart out to that shit.”

But Jennifer Castle is Jennifer Castle, creator of Pink City, her fourth record, which came out September 2 on Idée Fixe. She’s doing her own thing.

“I’ve read a few things about this album that liken it so much to Joni Mitchell, which is crazy,” she says over red wine at busy Junction bar the Hole in the Wall.

“Joni Mitchell’s alive! She’s living her life out! A) She’s the Joni

Mitchell. B) Every white JENNIFER woman who’s released a folk CASTLE record out of Toronto is the at the Great Hall new Joni Mitchell. So it’s not (1087 Queen even a compliment – it’s more West), Thursday like a sexist bitch slap.”

(September 25), The comparison, she pos- doors 8 pm. its, is a symptom of a larger $12.50. RT, SS, TF. problem.

“There are amazing women of colour working in this city who don’t get a ready comparison.

They’re doing the most incredible music, and of course the one who is white and has, like, the pretty voice or something – that’s all you hear.”

Plus, a lot of men have influenced her work, too – something critics tend to ignore. “Conversationalists in songs have always lit my fire,” she says of some of her heroes: Robert Johnson, Paul Simon, Neil Young.

Pink City is conversational, too, in an abstract way. If you struggle to interpret the songs, it’s because they’re open to interpreta-

tion. The lyrics are written stream-of-consciousstyle, so each sentence only has to follow the one before.

“The thoughts are very transient; that’s how I like to write. It’s just about moving through.

Not owning anything or sticking around on an idea too long,” she says.

The 32 minutes of music sink deeper under your skin and into your psyche with each listen.

Ten blues-inflected, loosely structured, sweetly sung folk tunes played on guitar or piano, with myriad local collaborators adding exquisite flourishes: Ryan Driver’s flute, Brodie West’s sax, Michael Davidson’s vibraphone. Revered American singer/songwriter Kath Bloom blows her harmonica.

Academy Award-nominated composer and violinist Owen Pallett arranged the strings on four songs that were recorded by the Czech FILMharmonic (the same orchestra that did the last Arcade Fire album and Pallett’s own Polarisshortlisted project).

By JULIA LeCONTE

Pink City is inarguably beautiful, and yet there’s something not far beneath the surface, something not perfectly pretty that prevents you from getting fully comfortable.

“I’ve heard people say, ‘It seems kind of unsettling.’ Well, that’s about right. I’m very unsettled,” says Castle.

“But unsettling is not dark to me, it’s not ornery. We live in a very unsettled culture, rich or poor. Socially, we’re like dogs who can’t find the right place to lie down. But I welcome that unsettling vibe to the music because at least then I know, as any sort of chronicler at all, that the sentiment is unsettled. There’s something not right.”

During this very long talk that goes by very fast – on account of Castle being an opposite-ofunsettling person to be around – we discuss a lot of things that aren’t quite right: politics, capitalism, patriarchy.

But first things first.

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and eventually in Mississauga and Orangeville.

She was obsessed with poetry from age 12. She bought a guitar at 18 just before taking off to London, England, where she got her start playing with British folkies at a historic folk bar – an old bomb shelter-like cellar tavern called Bunjies, now closed.

After a year and a half there and a stint in Vancouver, she returned to Toronto for university and, soon after, discovered the Tranzac Club’s improvisational music community.

That was the beginning of Castle’s deep immersion in the local scene; she’s worked with everyone from the Constantines to Fucked Up and Isla Craig.

And now, all these years later, some of those Tranzac players – and lots of those Toronto scenesters – have contributed to Pink City, the record she produced with long-time collaborators David Clarke and Jeff McMurrich at McMurrich’s Kensington Market recording studio, 6 Nassau.

So, why the discomfort?

“As a lyricist, I’m untroubled. I’m just going through it. But as a person living in Canada right now, I’ve been very upset,” she explains.

“The transient writer draws on the upset feelings I have toward being Canadian right now. Maybe the songs don’t make sense as a whole, but I’ll drop in things that are of the here and now. As much as I wanted lightness, or to talk about whatever happened to be going on, I made sure to drop these insidious notes – like cave paintings.”

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Some of those troubling issues are the tar sands (“one of the most irresponsible environmental decisions on the planet”), Idle No More, feminism, the government’s disregard for aboriginal women, our society’s lack of old women bestowing wisdom on younger generations.

“I left songs off the record. The songs I did put on were thematic in that they all felt like the person in them has questions, or the ‘I’ in the song has questions and isn’t exactly stoked about the state of things.”

Even the back cover art was chosen to convey discontent: Castle stands cross-armed and unsmiling in an incompatibly pink blazer.

“That’s not how I really am – but that’s not what it was about. It was about capturing this feeling that is not happy. I wanted to feed that lyrical undertone visually instead of having a picture of a ‘folk person.’ I don’t even know what that would be.”

Pink City garnered rave reviews here and abroad, including a five-N one in this magazine (her second in a row – almost unheard of).

That praise isn’t a new thing. Her first record, a 2006 live recording she didn’t initially intend to release, got lots of love from the Canadian media, local record stores, the Toronto Public Library and even a radio station in Paris.

Since her third album, when she switched from her Castlemusic moniker to her given name, she’s had an American record company, No Quarter, working for her south of the border. But with the attention come the well-meaning but annoying comparisons and other shortsighted attempts to fit her into a specific box.

“Sometimes I’ll read a review by a man and it’s all like, ‘This song is all about romance’ and ‘This song is obviously about a breakup,’ and they’re constantly putting me in this romantic female trope. You hear what you want to hear. I never feel like I have a

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romantic muse. I’m never detailing a relationship.”

Femaleness and gender, she says, don’t drive her music. “In fact, I feel most androgynous when I’m writing,” she says. “I don’t really see the merit in personality-sharing when there is so much happening in the community that makes my little life feel insignificant.”

Yet, ironically, as the title suggests, Pink City is her most “female” record yet.

“My [feelings] are more than ever informed by the experience of being a woman on the planet, a woman in the city. When I announced the record, I was like, ‘It’s a girl.’ You know, I’ve never had that feeling for other records.

“My best friends are guys – I goddamn love them. But it’s nice to talk about my own perspective as a girl.

I was a tomboy growing up, so I never would have admitted that; when I was a girl I was busy emulating British pop stars – and they were guys. I’m not really a tomboy any more. I’m a fucking girl. God. It’s taken me 37 years to feel comfortable with that.”

Being “a girl” doesn’t mean sunshine and romance, though. On Pink City, it means being on the road and sleeping on floors. It means wishing she could get the hell out of here for a while and go to Europe. It means having to labour as a gardener to support her music career and her family. Everyday life shit.

“I always felt like my passport to the world was a boy’s passport; a girl’s passport didn’t get you the same places. Now I feel like my passport is a woman. Female passport. If I can’t go everywhere, then I’m going to go down talking about the places I can’t go. Because I’m not interested now in going anywhere that I couldn’t go.”

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Pink City (Idée Fixe) Rating: We’re lucky Jennifer Castle is a Torontonian – we get to add more of her tunes to our city’s canon.

Despite lyrics about movement, travel and separation, Castle’s voice is more grounded than ever on her third studio album. Critics are right to note that she conjures Joni Mitchell in her vocal agility on songs like Sailing Away, but they do her a disservice by dwelling on the comparison or focusing on her ethereal, reverb-drenched pipes.

It’s hard to say what’s better here: the heady rush of hooky flute (care of Ryan Driver) swirling with pedal steel on feisty country rocker Sparta, or the album’s many intimate piano- and guitar-driven songs.

Castle has always left threads hanging in her work, but this times it always sounds intentional. She’s conversational, and playful when things threaten to become too melancholy (throat-clearing, water trickling, footsteps). Throw in some elegant, economical strings arranged by Owen Pallett and touches of harmonica, vibraphone and sax and you’ve got the best 32 minutes of music you’ll hear anytime soon.

Top track: Sailing Away SARAH GREENE FROM THE SEPTEMBER 4 ISSUE OF NOW.

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Absolutely Free. (Arts & Crafts) Rating:

Back in 2012, when Absolutely Free formed in the wake of DD/MM/YYYY’s abrupt breakup, the Toronto trio likened their new songwriting approach to building a ship in a bottle. It would be precise, patient, and full of restraint, a contrast to the high volumes they pumped out as their former math-rock outfit. Now, two years later, the band is finally releasing their self-titled debut. They stuck to their word.

Produced by Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk, Absolutely Free. blurs the lines between psychedelia and krautrock, employing mellow synths, prophetic heavy drumming, cyclic organs, found field recordings and calming three-part harmonies. The album swells, twists and turns, but rather than feeling helplessly meandering – a pitfall of the genre – it has an organic pacing that naturally starts and ends with each song.

Seeing Absolutely Free live is a visceral, physical experience. But hearing them on recording, where repeated listens bring out new layers – a whispered backing harmony, a glimpse of a sun-soaked synth line – suggests that perhaps headphones are the ideal medium.

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Amani (Culvert/ Universal) Rating: Saukrates’s latest EP makes you wish he’d give us a little more than guest spots on records we love by Maestro and Shad a little more often. (In 15 years, the Scarborough emcee only has two full-lengths under his belt.)

Opening track Kingdom Come has a

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golden-age hip-hop vibe, with mashed-up classical strings that somehow make it sound totally new. The title track finds the emcee playing both interviewer and interviewee. Three of the four songs are produced by Rich Kidd, the clear highlight being #FYEO’s chopped-up vocal samples and R&B hook that wouldn’t be out of place on a Boyz II Men album. Soxx’s delivery is flippantly Kanye-like on the track – “Sorry guy, she’s mine, I lied” – and it totally works. Final track The Big Bang is the most lyrically aggressive and, even though I could live without the references to the worst TV show ever, makes you feel like he can go in a littler harder. Where’s the rest of the album?

Top track: #FYEO JULIA LeCONTE

ELECTRIC YOUTH Innerworld (Last Gang) Rating: NNN Toronto’s Electric Youth first broke out in 2011 with their massive hit song A Real Hero, the catchy mono-beat anthem of Ryan Gosling’s silent, lethal brooding in Drive. Three years later, the duo – producer Austin Garrick and vocalist Bronwyn Griffin – have finally released their debut full-length. Fittingly, classic films inspired plenty of songs on Innerworld (the band cites City Of God, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Videodrome), and that cinematic atmosphere is ever-present.

While it’s a noble follow-up, it doesn’t quite capture the energy of that maiden single. Every song is easy on the ears, but the tunes also blend into the background fairly easily. Still, Garrick’s lush, mesmeric soundscapes have a rhythmic blend of sprightly synth lines and drum machines, while Griffin’s pleasant vocals provide structure and a human touch throughout.

Top track: Runaway Electric Youth play the Hoxton November 18.

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For years, people have said to me, ‘You are so much like Billie Holiday,’ says Johnson and “My response has been ‘No, I am because of Billie.’

On the 14 songs on this album Johnson infuses Because Of Billie with her idol’s spirit.

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Road warriors get menacing on latest release By SARAH GREENE SHOVELS & ROPE with JOHN FULLBRIGHT at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (September 30), 8 pm. $20. RT, SS, TF.

The titles of the tracks kicking off Charleston, South Carolina, bluesy folk duo Shovels & Rope’s sophomore album, Swimmin’ Time (Dualtone), seem ominous – The Devil Is All Around, Bridge On Fire, Evil. The music, too, sounds suitably menacing at times.

The pair have augmented their scrappy drum and guitar parts with heavier distortion and organ.

But Cary Ann Hearst, on the horn along with her husband and musical partner, Michael Trent, explains that there’s a contrast between the toughness of the music and the tenderness of the lyrics.

Evil, for example, is a song about sadness, loss and misunderstanding.

“The relationship between the little

girl and the guy is perceived as being salacious,” she says. “But she’s a little ugly girl no one likes who feels sorry for this man [who] can’t control his bouts of rage. At the core of the song are a couple of Boo Radleys trying to help each other survive in a world in which everyone is suspicious of them.”

Trent, who produced the record at the couple’s home studio, with Hearst as assistant engineer, says the heavier sound reflects their live evolution. “If you go back and listen to O’ Be Joyful [from 2012], we play those songs quite differently live. It wasn’t really a conscious decision, just the way we ended up playing them after playing them hundreds of times,” he says. “When we went into this one, it was more about matching the energy of what we do live.”

Not that the new songs are finished evolving.

“Right now we’re learning how to play these songs from Swimmin’ Time, and by the end of this tour they’ll probably sound completely different,” says Trent. “We like to play around a lot with rearranging songs live.”

They’re consummate road warriors – Hearst reckons they each had at least 10 years of music under their belts before they combined their careers in the late 00s – and still love touring.

“We learned a long time ago to live in our own little bubble that protects us. We don’t like to talk about our marriage, because it’s not the point: the main thing is to come out the end of our online thisCheck thing old, out married, with a lot of kids and not a whole lot of scars from the music business,” says Hearst.

“We really ain’t got time for that, and we don’t need those kinds of problems.”

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Don’t fuck with Tanya Tagaq.

Not only did the artist give the most arresting performance at the 2014 Polaris Prize gala at the Carlu on Monday night, September 22, but she also used her acceptance speech to encourage everyone to eat and wear seal, adding, “Fuck PETA” for good measure. (The animal rights organization called her out for her now infamous “sealfie” – a picture of her baby and a seal she posted on Twitter.)

“People should wear and eat seal as much as possible, because if you can imagine an indigenous culture thriving and surviving on sustainable resource, wearing seal and eating it, it’s delicious and there’s lots of them,” said the artist, onstage with her daughter after the night’s host, actor Jay Baruchel, announced the winner to loud applause.

The Nunavut-raised, Manitobabased throat singer’s extraordinary album, Animism – a mostly wordless adventure in throat singing, experimental strings, electronic beats and Northern

field recordings – triumphed over mainstream mega-acts (Drake, Arcade Fire) as well as lower-profile artists like Basia Bulat and Jessy Lanza.

Most of the shortlisted artists performed a song or two from their records for the AUX.TV-streamed show, with a few notable exceptions: Drake (who was playing a show in Hollywood with Lil Wayne), Arcade Fire and Yamantaka // Sonic Titan (though members of both were in the house) and Timber Timbre, who weren’t present. Mac DeMarco threw out the formula and played a tune from an older album.

Tagaq was in celebration mode, dancing to the evening’s house band, Dwane Gretzky, at the afterparty. She wasn’t the only short-lister committed to the wee hours: an inebriated DeMarco had a few security warnings, removed his camo overalls for nude dancing and, once re-robed, managed to crowd-surf a very uncrowd-surfable dance floor. Kudos.

Shad was there, too, but kept his clothes on.

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Uncle Acid And the deAdbeAts with dAnAvA at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Sunday (September 28), doors 8 pm. $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

If you’ve only been exposed to Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats’ music, you’ve probably only picked up on a fraction of the Cambridge, England, psych metal band’s darkness.

Sure, the apocalyptic guitar onslaught nods to Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath, a band they had the honour of touring with last year. And the lyrics evoke Alice Cooper creepiness enhanced by atmospheric recordings and Kevin Starrs’s high-register vocals. But Starrs is just as influenced by the Kinks, the Beatles and the Ronettes.

“I wanted to do something that was a balance between light and dark,” he says during a late-night call to his London home. “The idea of mixing heavy dark riffs and dark lyrical content with

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melodic two- and three-part harmonies, I thought that was a unique way to make music.”

The imagery, though, is a mind-trip to a more evil realm. A visit to their website reveals the band’s fucked-up side: a murder and serial killer obsession, video of dancing naked ladies and orgies, gory violence toward both men and women, and other things straight out of B movie exploitation films. In this world of intense political correctness, it’s all a bit startling.

“That’s true, but turn on the news and all you hear about is murder and death and destruction,” explains Starrs, “so we’re just reflecting that in a more concentrated, violent way. But we’re not endorsing serial killers or anything. That’s the fictional aspect of it, which comes out of my love of horror movies.”

Has anyone ever made a fuss?

“It’s funny you should say that. We did a European tour recently and had

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visuals on a screen behind us. Footage from the Vietnam War, Bloody Sunday in Ireland, the Kent State massacre.

Really horrible things. But there was also footage of topless women, and a woman wrote to us about that. I find it strange that she took offence at that rather than the other things. If people are offended by nudity, it’s a bit weird to me.”

Listen to the band’s three fulllengths, especially 2013’s stellar Mind Control (Rise Above), a mightiersounding and even more tuneful beast than their 2012 breakthrough, Blood Lust, and the ultra-rare Volume 1, and you’ll discover tenderness beneath the evil. Starrs’s vocals, for one, are far too melodic to be menacing.

“That’s the idea. If the Devil were to make music, I think he’d make it in a way to lure you in rather than with some sort of extreme death metal.” 3 carlag@nowtoronto.com | @carlagillis

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clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 39

Four seasons Centre For tHe perForming arts Falstaff Rehearsal Canadian Opera Com-

pany 6:30 pm.

gerrard art spaCe The Muted Note Scott Thomson Quintet (music/dance) 8 pm.

grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 Cameron House BaCk room John Craigie w/ The Sandy Pockets.

Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake 4:30 pm.

C’est WHat The Boxcar Boys (old-time) 3 pm.

FuLL oF Beans CoFFee Kids Open Stage 2 to 4 pm. gLadstone HoteL meLody Bar Kristin Lindell (folk/blues) 9 pm. grossman’s Dirty Sweat (blues) 10 pm.

HaBits gastropuB Crooked House Road (folk) 9 pm.

HumBLe Beginnings Christine Gaidies (singer/songwriter) 12:30 to 2:30 pm. tHe LoCaL Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

LuLa Lounge Salsa Saturday Jorge Maza Y Tipica Toronto, DJ Alberth Moreno (Cuban) 10:30 pm. maCkenzie’s annex Rebas Open Mic Myke Mazzie 2 to 6 pm. revivaL Small World Music Festival Calypso Rose & Kobo Town doors 8 pm. st BarnaBas CHurCH Ulster Accordion Band 3 pm. st niCHoLas angLiCan CHurCH Acoustic Harvest: Kingsville Folk Festival Discovery Night Mati Haskell, JK Gulley, the Oh Chays doors 7:30 pm. tranzaC main HaLL Album launch All Day Breakfast Stringband, Frank & Max Evans 8:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Sandro Perri 10 pm, Scott B Sympathy 6:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

array spaCe CD release Debra Brody 8 pm.

By tHe Way CaFe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm.

CHaLkers puB David Occhipinti Trio 6 to 9 pm. edWard JoHnson BuiLding Culture Days

Recital Caroline Cole (harp) 7:30 pm.

80 gLadstone CD release show Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 8 pm. tHe FLying Beaver puBaret Broadsway Heather Bambrick, Julie Michels, Diane Leah 7 pm.

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HugH’s room Jane Bunnett & Maqueque

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royaL Conservatory oF musiC koerner HaLL Koerner Hall Free For All: Culture Days

event (sign-up format; 5-minute sets) noon to 3 pm and 5 to 8 pm. seven44 Climax Jazz Band 4 to 7 pm. tartistry Elizabeth Martins Group, Birds of a Feather, 10 am Guys, Fair Trade 10 am-6 pm. toni BuLLoni Genevieve Marentette, Mark Kieswetter (jazz) 9 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

Beaver Mass-Queer-Aid 2 benefit for Supporting Our Youth DJs Lobodotcom, ñ A.Generalist (masquerade and dance party) 10 pm.

BLaCk eagLe SIN DJ Mark DeMarko (tribal/ tech/electro house) 10 pm.5

SWING, BATTA BATTA

SPOTTED

Fans of Buck 65, born Rich Terfry in Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia, know that the Toronto-based emcee and CBC Radio 2 Drive host once had his heart set on a career in baseball and was scouted by the New York Yankees as a 16-year-old. After a knee injury thwarted his plans, he turned to music. But sometimes life gives you a second chance. Over the weekend, Terfry got to throw out the ceremonial pitch at the CubsDodgers game in Chicago’s Wrigley Field. “The voices of a stadium full of people saying ‘Ooooooh!’ – I had dreamed of hearing that sound my whole life,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “That sound was the best part of the whole thing. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.”

Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee having dinner with friends at DaiLo on College on Saturday night; politicians, Olympic gold medallists, music heroes and everyone else (Olivia Chow, Adam van Koeverden, Sarah Harmer) at the Polaris Prize gala on Monday night; Quebecois DJ Tommy Kruise spinning at StayWoke’s weekly Tuesday night party at Tattoo.

Showcase Glen Hornblast 8 pm, Jewish Brunch Buffet The Gyspy Jive Band 11 am. grossman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 10 pm.

HoLy oak CaFe Ozere (folk) 7:30 pm.

HugH’s room Underground Railroad Music Festival – North Meets South: Old Songs For A New Day Zakiya Hooker, Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley and others 1 pm.

HugH’s room Cheryl Wheeler 8:30 pm. tHe LoCaL Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban son) 9 pm, Sarah Jane Scouten 5 pm.

LuLa Lounge Sunday Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza 11 am. mCgradies tap and griLL Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. st JoHn’s united CHurCH World Music Sunday Amanda Martinez (Latin jazz/soul) 10:15 am. tranzaC soutHern Cross Gathering Sparks Singalong Soiree Eve Goldberg, Sam Turton, & Jane Lewis 7:30 to 9:30 pm, Fraser & Girard 5 pm, Michael Laderoute 3 pm.

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array spaCe Toronto Improvisers’ Orchestra

CeLt’s puB Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness

Visible (gothic/dark alt/retro) 10:30 pm.

CLinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (sixties soul & rock & roll) 10 pm.

CoaLition Lounge United Saturdays Matthew Byrnes doors 10 pm.

Coda Matthew Dekay, Nature of Music, Jeff Button, Night Vision.

CraWFord upstairs Ice Cold Dranks DJ Ry-Fi 9 pm.

CraWFord doWnstairs Back In The Day DJ Law (video dance party) 9 pm. douBLe douBLe Land Ital, DJs Doldrums, Guy Dallas 8:30 pm. drake HoteL Lounge DJ Dougie Boom 10 pm. drake HoteL underground itzsoweezee Tom Wrecks, DeMiggs 11 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Serious 10 pm.

FLy 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 tHe garrison A Man Called Warwick, Monsieur Villanova 10 pm. tHe great HaLL SUBSPACE: Heavy Metal Fetish Ball DJ Saucy Miso & DJ Johnny Extreme. guvernment Aly & Fila, Manzone & Strong, Mark Oliver (6-hour set) doors 10 pm.

HarLem West BaCk patio Fly Lady Di (R&B/ house/hip-hop/trap/funk) 11 pm. on tHe rox Fancy 7.0 Lucky Charms Edition Black, Chiney, Jester, Lindo P.

tHe piston Juicebox (indie electro/rock) 10 pm. rivoLi Footprints 12-Year Anniversary DJs

Jason Palma, General Eclectic, DJ Ruby Jane doors 10 pm. tHe savoy Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. sound aCademy Nervo, Overwerk 10 pm. tattoo Basement Donate two items of clothing to get in free. Häus DJ Dom Ds, Angelo Nitz and others (hip-hop/pop). veLvet underground Panic: Duran Duran Spotlight DJ Lazarus (retro party) 10 pm.

WHite eLepHant Bar Toastr: party for women and their friends DJ Sticky Cuts, Neill MacLeod 9:30 pm.

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KENNEY ñMONNNN

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Hip-hop BUCK 65 NeverLove (Warner)

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Syro (Warp) Rating: In the 13 years since his last Aphex Twin release, Richard D. James became a dad and moved to the country but never stopped working on music. You don’t get the sense that the gap came from insecurity, though; his long-awaited comeback album is as confident and distinctly Aphex Twin as any album in his highly influential career. He has nothing to prove, and that translates into one of his most consistently pleasurable albums. Syro showcases the more melodic, accessible aspects of his sound, but it’s still so defiantly weird that it never seems like pandering.

Fatherhood and country life have led to some changes: gone are the abrasive textures and the goofier end of his whimsical approach to synthetic acid funk. There are occasional winking nods to the rave era, but nothing related to the present-day EDM landscape. Nevertheless, Syro is more futuristic than retro, given the idiosyncrasies of his sound. The skittering electro-jazz rhythms, classical melodic complexity and mind-bending liquid acid funk are so unique that the closest comparisons you can make are to other Aphex Twin albums.

Top track: XMAS_EVET10[120][thanaton3 mix] BENJAMIN BOLES

Rating: NNN Only Buck 65’s unique combo of wellearned respect (the Toronto-based artist has been making alt-hip-hop albums for 20 years), complete unselfconscious commitment and legitimate lyrical talent could make something as thematically depressing as NeverLove work.

Buck’s been very vocal about his “divorce” album, and it doesn’t pull any punches. Songs like That’s The Way Love Dies, Love Will Fuck You Up and Only War evoke Jason Segel’s pathetic character in the beginning of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

And yet it’s not altogether a downer, and lots of that’s to do with his (comforting?) husky delivery. Buck reels off clever, very funny rhymes in a deadpan way that sounds more like quick spoken word than mainstream rhyme-spitting. The album wins when the production is experimental and weird, like on opener Gates Of Hell, or whimsically melancholy, like on Only War. Even Super Pretty Naughty – Buck’s bigroom-dance-meets-Aqua electro song – sort of works in a so-bad-it’s-good way.

It’s funny, anyway.

There’s only one real stinker here – Heart Of Stone. The whiny hook is nearly unlistenable.

Top track: Only War JULIA LeCONTE

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Testament (Turnstile) Rating: NNN The second solo outing from ex-Girls singer/songwriter Christopher Owens stays with the cheery vibes of 2012’s Lysandre but swaps pastoral twee for fullthrottle Americana.

The album is a heartfelt foray into classic country of the George Jones variety that Owens embraces with studious and slick production (helped by producer Doug Boehm) full of rollicking riffs, gospel diva histrionics and achy-breaky balladry that markedly contrasts with the artist’s grungy image and delicate delivery.

Things get interesting when the genre’s earnest conventions are at odds with his secular pragmatism. “No lord above to set me free / I keep my burdens right here with me,” he sings on effusive opener My Troubled Heart. And on Stephen, he values familial love over divine love. Mostly, however, The New Testament is big on cutesy love songs – Key To My Heart, Nothing More Than Everything To Me – designed for universal appeal. They’re perfectly produced but less captivating than the moments of emotional specificity.

Top track: Stephen Christopher Owens plays the Mod Club October 1.

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In My Dreams (New Scotland/Pheromone) Rating: What stands out most on Mo Kenney’s second album is the directness of her lyrics, which reveal the Halifax singer/ songwriter’s cruel side in matters of love.

In opening track I Faked It, she sings, “I’m not sorry that it hurt when I took your heart apart, because I liked it.” In perfect pop gem Telephones, “You know as well as me we’re not in love…. If I had another lover, could I keep you on the side?” She drops f-bombs everywhere and sugarcoats nothing.

Think what you like about that approach to life – even fictionally, through songs – but it comes across as bold, confident and fierce. Those words also describe Kenney’s voice, a loud, husky alto reminiscent of Kim Deal’s and Sharon Van Etten’s, while her fingerpicking guitar style brings Elliott Smith’s to mind. The 10 songs are fully fleshed out but never dense, thanks to Joel Plaskett’s intelligent production work. And variety is the spice in Kenney’s work. She moves easily between pop, blues and folk.

Top track: Telephones Mo Kenney plays the Great Hall on November 7.

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Hold It In (Ipecac) Rating: After 30-odd years, dozens of lineup changes and 96 billion releases, the Melvins don’t even seem like a band. It’s like the Melvins are more a lab for trying stuff (any kind of stuff) out, a weirdo altmetal Xanadu.

So, no surprise that ex-Butthole Surfers Paul Leary and JD Pinkus would find safe haven there. Hold It In has Pinkus’s bass holding down the rhythm section with drummer Dale Crover, while Leary adds wailing sonic texture to King Buzzo’s chug-a-lug riffs. On paper, the team-up promises a kind of abrasive, gross, brown metal mashup, a suspicion seemingly confirmed by jokey song titles like Bride Of Crankenstein and Piss Pisstofferson.

But somehow, it’s their most accessible release in ages. The Melvins hit the riffheavy heights of their foundational 90s records while freewheeling into plenty of experimentation (like chimes and accordions on The Bunk Up) and straight-up curiosities. And Eyes On You is probably the best surveillance-state banger of the year.

Top track: Eyes On You JOHN SEMLEY

PERFUME GENIUS ñ NNNN

Too Bright (Matador/Beggars) Rating:

As Perfume Genius, American singer/ songwriter Mike Hadreas has become synonymous with dark and emotionally heavy piano dirges that are as vulnerable as they are elegant.

His third album contains many such songs, but also ratchets up the drama with help from co-producer Adrian Utley of Portishead, whose battery of vintage synths and creepy sound effects turns the underlying anger in Hadreas’s beautiful ballads in bluntly confrontational directions.

Flamboyance, in particular, becomes a weapon of intimidation. The lyric “No

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family is safe when I sashay” from glammed-up lead single, Queen, is not only the album’s most quotable, but sums up Perfume Genius’s increasingly unapologetic ethos. It’s one of many soul-baring diversions – the transcendental howl interrupting the fingersnapping soul of Fool, the subtle vocal menace of I’m A Mother, the screeching urgency of Grid – that Hadreas is able to pull off because his conviction is so palpable.

Top track: Fool Perfume Genius plays the Virgin Mobile Mod Club on October 4.

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RICH AUCOIN Ephemeral (Bon-

sound) Rating: NNN To understand Rich Aucoin, you need to take in his over-the-top live shows, which marry a DIY multimedia experience with an interactive focus that blurs the line between audience and performer. Capturing that on an audio recording is next to impossible, and when removed from that context, his tunes begin to feel like vehicles for convincing club crowds to play silly games with giant parachutes rather than serious songs. On Ephemeral, though, Aucoin is feeling more introspective than usual, which gives his electro-bubblegum sound a slightly more emotionally weighty undercurrent.

Years of living on the road have made the artist miss seeing his old friends in the flesh, but that wistful melancholy is mostly hidden under singalong choruses and distorted synth riffs. Songs about feeling homesick shouldn’t feel like rock anthems, but so much of Aucoin’s identity is based on his live persona that he can’t seem to escape writing for that setting. Nevertheless, the slightly more sombre edge of the new material should help make his future performances more nuanced.

Top track: City I Love BB

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Commune (Sub Pop) Rating: Anonymous Swedish psych purveyors Goat delve deeper into spiritual corners on their follow-up to 2012’s acclaimed World Music. Commune starts with the single peal of a church bell that reverberates into Talk To God, an archetypal Goat song with its hypnotic polyrhythms, repetitive groove, guitar lines both spidery and thunderous, and chanting female singers. You can imagine the group in their elaborate masks and face paint hopping and dancing around a bonfire Burning Man-style.

And yet things never get cheesy, despite the inclusion of a sampled lyric about being “a positive force in the constant creation of evolution.” Variety abounds thanks to several affecting instrumentals, ever-changing instrumentation and guitar tones that range from Iommi thick to Hendrix wah-wah to clean Bombino-like hypnotism. Male and female vocals trade off on Goatchild, the hippiest of the nine tracks, while Hide From The Sun has a delightfully sick fuzz guitar solo mashed against feather-light sitar lines.

Each song unfolds unhurriedly – the type of music that makes you dance into a state of cathartic calm rather than frenzy.

Top track: Hide From The Sun CG

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Even when it breaks into pieces and ends, a 21-year love relationship is something to celebrate. Playwright Lois Fine does just that with Freda And Jem’s Best Of The Week, an honest and often raw exploration of how love and divorce can redefine a family and each individual within it.

Freda (Diane Flacks) and Jem (Kathryn Haggis) meet in a club, fall in love and have two children before their partnership begins to unravel.

The story is universal, but Fine finds the characters’ uniqueness by including details about their upbringing. Jem in particular, a self-described butch dyke, delivers a number of moving monologues about her formative years.

Haggis has a commanding presence, and she adeptly exposes Jem’s tough exterior and inner vulnerability. Although the script reveals less about Freda, Flacks makes her fully

Buscema (left), Musi, Letwin, Zigler and Goodhand fight till the bitter end in Retreat.

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realized. The disintegration of the relationship gets told largely through Freda’s point of view, and Flacks shows all the pain and confusion leading up to the end. The pair have real chemistry. The audience feels their initial emotional spark, followed by a disconnect so harsh it’s like a phone line gone dead in a storm.

Fine’s script offers an even-handed portrayal of both characters’ emotions. It also contains some really funny lines. However, some of the dialogue delivered by the kids, although well performed by Stephen Joffee and Sadie Epstein-Fine (Fine’s real-life daughter), feels less realistic and too adult.

Director Judith Thompson’s dramaturgical influence can be felt most viscerally during the family arguments. Her staging, however, appears awkward at times – the kids in particular end up lying down a lot.

Camellia Koo’s square, bare set with its various levels offers an intriguing juxtaposition to the complex emotional fallout happening onstage.

Singer/songwriter Lorraine Segato’s original music enhances scenic transitions. Her voice in live performance is haunting and resonant.

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Kathryn Haggis (left) and Diane Flacks fall in and out of love in Freda And Jem.

The fall season is in full swing – check out these reviews of new shows

Retreat roars RETREAT by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha). At the Storefront Theatre (955 Bloor West). Runs to September 28. $20-$25. secureaseat.com. See Continuing, page 56. Rating: NNNN

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In the savage satire Retreat, prolific playwright Kat Sandler delivers a swift kick to the pin-striped ass of the corporate world. It’s as smart as it is funny.

Four interns at a prestigious firm are dropped off at a rural corporate retreat where they’re told only one will emerge with a full-time job. Soon they’re schem-

ing, lying and conniving to get their dream job, barely kept in check by a high-strung camp counsellor named Candace (Kat Letwin) who’s got a thing for awarding badges.

Sandler, who also directs, has great fun with the script’s Apprentice meets Survivor meets Hunger Games premise. The actors are terrifically cast, Nicole Buscema and Justin Goodhand fleshing out their alpha figures with convincing arrogance and entitlement, and Michael Musi and Mara Zigler infusing their nerdy counterparts with believable wiliness.

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All the script’s elements – from one character’s allergy to the mention of some unusual fauna in the area – pay dividends. And vivid use is made of the woodsy set, by Sandler and Claire Hill.

The play runs a little long, and the beginning and end could use tweaking, but good luck finding a more entertaining show this week featuring promising young actors and a timely GLENN SUMI anti-corporate message.

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by William Shakespeare (Kadozuke Kollektif/Bad New Days). At Zuke Studios (1581 Dupont). Runs to September 28. $35. See Continuing, page 56. Rating: NNN

With all the mind-bending twists of Rob Ford’s term as mayor, it’s easy to understand the appeal of Shakespeare’s early study in political skullduggery. In Richard III, the title character (Lee McDonald) directs a covert string of bloody, relentless schemes to seize and maintain power.

Adapted and updated (but with the original’s epic length intact), the action is set in a dystopian, modernist gothtinged metropolis that, thanks to the prevalence of leather trench coats, PVC pants and secret-service-style assassins wearing matching Wayfarers, feels not unlike like The Matrix.

The most intriguing elements in this production are the set, designed by Vladimir Kovalchuk and director Tatiana Jennings, and accompanying projections by Montgomery C. Martin.

Eight benches of varying length on the otherwise austere stage are rearranged by the cast for an impressive range of uses. Moving the benches in meticulously choreographed sequences, they construct hallways, prisons, mazes and tents, as well as abstract shapes that reflect the opulence and anxiety of the courtiers.

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stage, the benches also form a screen for some of Martin’s black-and-white projections. Most of the time these show prerecorded video of the characters, but the coolest trick Martin deploys is the projection of digital “snow” – like black-and-white TV static – over the entire white-walled space.

The effect is beautiful and disorienting (“trippy” is probably the best descriptor), and ominous when paired with sound designer Dylan Stavenjord’s dark and noisy industrial beats.

The acting and dialogue fail to achieve the same level of success as the design. Muttered modern turns of phrase that punctuate long passages of Shakespeare’s verse sound awkward

and jarring, and at times the cast struggle to convey the meaning behind their cryptic lines.

This isn’t a problem when the action is unfolding. Scenes where two assassins stalk their victim, or when a fallen courtier contemplates his impending death sentence, or as Richard prepares for battle, are as emotionally engaging as they are visually compelling.

But more static sections of courtly exposition drag on. This is exacerbated by the show’s nearly four-hour length, which isn’t essential (Shakespeare in the Ruff did a great 90-minute version of the play last summer), and the stunning design can only hold your attenJORDAN BIMM tion for so long.

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BIRTH by Tom Arthur Davis (Pandemic The-

atre). In a future society where people don’t age or die, the government must regulate childbirth. Opens Oct 1 and runs to Oct 18, Wed-Fri (and Oct 18) 7:30 pm. $25. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227, uniiverse.com/pandemictheatre.

BLOODy FAMILy by Philip McKee and Tanja Jacobs (Theatre Centre). This adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy The Oresteia looks at a family ripped apart by idealism. Previews Sep 26. Opens Sep 27 and runs to Oct 5, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$30. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

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Immerse yourself in the world of The Blues with this innovative concert/theatre hybrid.

(Mirvish/Seabright Productions). Wills performs a unique blend of comedy with no talking and drama without words. Runs in rep with Julie Madly Deeply. Previews Oct 1.

Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 19, see website for schedule. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

JULIE MADLy DEEPLy by Sarah-Louise Young (Mirvish/Seabright Productions). Young performs a musical solo tribute to Julie Andrews.

Runs in rep with The Boy With Tape On His Face. Previews Sep 30. Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 19, see website for schedule. $25-$79.

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

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Bustamente (Aluna Theatre). Cold reading of the script by Aluna’s artists and audience volunteers. Sep 26 at 7:30 pm. Free. 1 Wiltshire, unit 124. alunatheatre.ca.

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(Persona Interonto). Music, comedy, art and more. Sep 26 at 7:30 pm. $15 sugg donation.

Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue. facebook.com/events/335284636637777.

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(Hardworkin’ Homosexuals). A launch party for a book about Sky Gilbert’s works includes a performance cabaret featuring Gilbert, Donnarama, Moynan King, Gavin Crawford and others. Sep 29 at 7:30 pm. $3. Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca.

PAPRIkA FESTIVAL COFFEE HOUSE (Paprika Festival). Meet artists and learn about opportunities at the fest, plus a special performance of Stigma. Sep 28, from 1 to 3 pm. Free. Theatre

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THE BOOTLEggER’S WIFE by Victoria Murdoch (Savory Entertainment). This historical drama tells the story of Bessie Starkman, who joined with her lover Rocco Perri to build Canada’s biggest rum-running operation. Sep 26-28, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. bootleggerswife.com.

COWBOy MOUTH by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith (Theatre Hera). A man goes on a sexand drugs bender with a girl who wants to make him a star. The related Disease of Perception art show is open 1 hour before curtain. Sep 25-28, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $20. The Box, 89 Niagara. eventbrite.ca/e/13118534891.

ESCAPE FROM HAPPINESS by George F Walker (Alumnae Theatre). A bizarre event in a dysfunctional family prompts an incident of brutality in this dark comedy. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for-1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. gAy PLAy DAy: LgBTQ THEATRE FESTIVAL (Gay Play Day). Short plays and solos by LGBTQ writers, including Josh Downing, Warren Wagner, Megan Hutton and others. Sep 26-27, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm. $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley, Studio. gayplayday.blogspot.ca.

HOLD MOMMy’S CIgARETTE (Shelley Marshall). Marshall performs her solo dark comedy about life, mental illness and survival. Opens Oct 1 and runs to Oct 28, 8 pm every day. $20. The Full Bawdy Loft, 290 Carlaw, unit 202. 416-821-1754, holdmommyscigarette.com.

LIFE, DEATH AND THE BLUES by Raoul Bhaneja (Theatre Passe Muraille/Hope and Hell Theatre). Autobiography, interviews and live music explore the power, passion and meaning of the blues in this concert/theatre hybrid.

Previews Sep 25-28. Opens Sep 30 and runs to Oct 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm (and Sep 30), mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$38. 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca.

THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall (Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival). Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a young woman working at the motel on the eve of his murder. Previews Sep 27-30. Opens Oct 1 and runs to Oct 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $15-$35, Tue pwyc. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416531-1402, obsidiantheatre.com.

PAST PERFECT by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto). A woman pursues an epic love affair, but finds heartache. In French, some shows w/ English surtitles. Previews to Sep 25. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 5, WedSat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $28$57, Wed pwyc, Sat rush $20. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. theatrefrancais.com.

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PARIDE ED ELENA by CW Gluck (Essential Opera). The epic love story of Paris and Helen of Troy is told in this Italian opera. Sep 27 at 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. essentialopera.com.

PAVING NEW PATHS: EQUITY IN THEATRE (Playwrights Guild of Canada). Launch of a new initiative to redress gender inequities in the theatre sector with walks and talks. Sep 27 from noon to 5 pm. Free. Trinity Bellwoods Park, 790 Queen W. eit.playwrightsguild.ca.

QUEERCAB (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

The monthly open-mic night for youth features music, spoken word, stand-up, drag and more. Oct 1 at 8 pm. Pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

STARRY NOTIONS (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Ryan G Hinds begins his residency at Buddies with a cabaret backed by a trio of musicians. Sep 28 at 8 pm. $15. 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

THE STRAY DOG SALON (Soulpepper Cabaret Series). Mongrel mix of music, poetry and theatre with David Sereda, David Gray, Colleen Allen and Anne Michaels. Sep 27 at 8:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. youngcentre.ca.

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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. Runs to Oct 4, Sep 22-27 and 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

in this drama. Runs to Oct 4, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, aromastheplay.com.

THE BOOK OF MORMON by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (Mirvish).

Two naive missionaries go to a volatile region in Uganda in this 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. 416-872-1212, mirvish.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. Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

FREDA AND JEM’S BEST OF THE WEEK by Lois Fine (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

This play about a lesbian couple and their kids looks at how queer culture approaches family issues (see review, page 53). Runs to Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

NNNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) 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). In this dark, glittering musical, Hedwig (Ephraim Ellis), a transgender rocker from East

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Berlin, moves to the U.S. seeking love and recognition. Staged as a nightclub act and backed by a four-piece band and a shy drag performer named Yitzhak (Kit Boulter), the tempestuous story of Hedwig’s life is told through monologues interspersed with Steven Trask’s fabulous glam-rock songs. Ellis has the manic energy and singing chops to deliver, and Boulter’s Yitzhak makes a big impact with strong body language and soaring vocals. Runs to Sep 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $50. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. NNNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde (Hart House Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this farcical satire.

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pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca.

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. $60-$160, stu/srs/child from $50. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. NNNN (GS)

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THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. by Alan Menken and

Doug Wright (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Disney Broadway production is adapted for younger audiences. Runs to Oct 5, Fri 7 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2:30 pm. $30-$50. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare (Single Thread Theatre Company). The romantic comedy gets a site-specific staging.

Runs to Sep 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. singlethread.ca.

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The quasi-narrator is Margaret Atwood (Lisa Horner), another egregious characterization, a man-hating harridan obsessed with her own ego who opposes the Fords’ attempt to close ROB FORD THE MUSICAL: BIRTH OF A libraries because it’s bad for her bank FORD NATION by Brett McCaig and account. Huh? Anthony Bastianon (McCaig Regan ProHer song, A World Without Art, atductions). At Factory Theatre (125 Bathtempts to give her a more human, culurst). Runs to September 28. $35-$40. turally aware dimension, but it doesn’t 416-504-9971, robfordthemusical.com. undo the character assassination.

See Continuing, page 56. Rating: NN On the other hand, Rob is a threeYou can see why the credimensional character: endearators of Rob Ford The ing, not very bright, with a Musical think their clear vision of saving the show-must-go-on taxpayers’ money and mentality doesn’t zero understanding disrespect the ailof why his popularity ing mayor: this is is circling the drain. a love letter to The only meaningful the mayor and an relationship is beattack on just tween Rob and his about everyone brother. Transgression The show sucks, but else.

Sheldon Bergstrom is raises the mayor’s conexcellent as Rob Ford.

Using a Wizard Of sciousness slightly, but Oz/Christmas Carolyou have to endure a ton of type premise, it sends Rob homo- and transphobic jokes to Sheldon Bergstrom) on an ex(Sheldon get there. tended dream when he’s knocked out The humour is low more than broad in a collision with a TV camera. He’s (yes, there’s an Auschwitz joke), and visited by black trans ghost Transgresthe music forgettable except for Rob’s sion (Andrew Broderick), who’s supsignature song, Man Of The People. posed to help him change his ways.

The smartest tune is Rob and Doug’s Along the way we meet an unholy duet, called Fuck You, which actually trinity: the Police Chief (Sheldon gets the brothers’ attitude toward Davis), weaselly journalist Eddie (Daneveryone who doesn’t agree with iel Greenberg) and crusading – against them.

Rob, that is – lawyer Ruby (Marisa McIt’s all delivered well enough by a Intyre). The trio’s hellbent on taking game cast, supplemented by real-life Rob down from the first day of his video clips of the mayor. I’d call the term. show glorified dinner theatre were it Plainly, Brett McCaig is a loyal citinot for Bergstrom’s exceptional perzen of Ford Nation. Eddie is a silly boy formance. Showing shame at his with erectile dysfunction, and the weight, pain at his rejection and love Chief is a bully buffoon. In real life it’s for his brother, Bergstrom could elicit Doug Ford (Justin Bott) who’s the sympathy from even the most combully, but there’s not much of that mitted Rob-hater. here.

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Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun & Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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.

RETREAT by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha). Four interns fight to the death to turn their unpaid positions into real jobs in this satire (see review, page 53). Runs to Sep 28, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20-$25.

The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. NNNN (GS)

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based on text by William Shakespeare (Kadozuke Kollektif/Bad New Days). Performance and film are combined to explore the passion, violence and disaster that surrounds the three York brothers (see review, page 54). Runs to Sep 28, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $35. Zuke Studio, 1581 Dupont. zuke.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm)

the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. NNN (JK) TWIST & SHOUT (Famous People Players).

Memories of juke boxes, drive-in movies and early rock ‘n’ roll are part of this all-ages blacklight theatre show. Runs to Oct 25, see website for schedule. $40-$65. 343 Evans. fpp.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. Runs to Sep 28, Sat 12:30 and 2:30 pm, Sun 2 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)

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tianon (McCaig Regan Productions). The mayor ruffles the ruling elite and goes on a journey from rock star to rehab to redemption (see review, page 55). Runs to Sep 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$40. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, robfordthemusical.com. NN (Susan G Cole) 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

American Buffalo, starring Brandon Thomas (left) and David Lafontaine, is all in until Oct 4.

Opening Dancing presents a multi-generational interactive dance performance as part of Culture Days. Sep 26 at 6 and 7 pm. Free. Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. dancematters.ca/ Culture_Moves_You.html.

ELSEWHERE Harbourfront NextSteps and DanceWorks present dancers from Heidi Strauss’s adelheid company exploring how what happens to us leaves traces on our bodies, our gestures and the space between. Sep 25-27, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $19-$37. Harbourfront

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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 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. 1-800-5117429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) KING LEAR by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore makes a human figure – a king who’s easy to relate to. Most of the cast surrounding him is just as strong, which helps the audience feel that we go on an eventful and harrowing journey with the characters. Despite some flaws, the show’s power is undeniable. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67.

Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) THE SEA by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival).

Bond’s striking blend of bizarre comedy and unsettling drama, set in a British seaside village dominated by a sharp-edged society woman, gets a strong staging by director Eda Holmes and the excellent Shaw acting ensemble. Fiona Reid captures both the dragon-like and the sympathetic sides of the woman, and Patrick Galligan is just as fine as an increasingly paranoid draper. In rep to Oct 12. $35$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 3

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PROARTEDANZA SEASON 2014 Harbourfront NextSteps presents choreographies by Roberto Campanella, Guillaume Côté and others. Oct 1-4, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20-$40.

Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

SERIES 8:08 Culture Days edition of the monthly choreographic performance workshop with Marie France Forcier, Heather Stewart, Candice Irwin and others. Sep 28 at 4 pm. Free. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. series808.ca.

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KISS & CRY Charleroi Danses and Canadian Stage present an interdisciplinary show that uses film, dance and words on a miniature set to look at what happens to those that disappear from our lives. Opens Oct 1 and runs to Oct 5, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, Sun 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, canadianstage.com.

THE MUTED NOTE Susanna Hood and Scott Thomson perform music and dance based on the poetry of PK Page. Sep 27 at 8 pm.

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Thursday, September 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 Headliner David Acer w/ host Andrew Evans. To Sep 27, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm. $10-$15 or JFL42 pass. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, jfl42.com.

THE ALTERNATIVE SHOW JFL42 presents Andy Kindler hosting w/ nightly guests.

To Sep 26, Thu-Fri 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

CORRAL’S CORRAL Corral Blue presents improv, puppets and more w/ Dave Pearce, Paul Bates, Kerry Griffin and others. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

CRONUTS & COMEDY Moniquea Marion presents improv, music, tarot cards and more w/ Kevin Matviw, Ashley Comeau, Lara Johnson, Chelsea Larkin, Mark Little, Ann Pornel, Ari Leask and others. 10 pm. Free. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com.

DANIEL DUGAR JFL42 stand-up show. To Sep 27, Thu 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22 or JFL42 pass. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? The Interventionists present a night of improv. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG DeAnne Smith at 7 pm, Graham Kay & Sara Hennessey at 9 pm, Emily Heller at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR MANTOWN at 7 pm, Johnny Pemberton at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Joe DeRosa at 7 pm, DeAnne Smith at 9 pm, Ron Funches at 11 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Brody Stevens at 7 & 9 pm, Mark Forward at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Rivoli, 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

JUNKYARD DUKES Izakaya Sushi House presents sketch comedy w/ Allison Hogg & host James Hartnett. 9 pm. Pwyc. 294 College. 416551-6264.

KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly pro/am show w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Sara Hennessey, Tim Gilbert, James Hartnett, Tom Henry, host Marty Topps and more. 8 pm. $5.

945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

PAUL F TOMPKINS JFL42 presents the comic in his new solo show Crying And Driving. 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

PETE HOLMES JFL42 stand-up show by the comic/podcaster. To Sep 26, Thu 9:30 pm, Fri 7 & 9:30 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. jfl42.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS Second City presents its fall mainstage revue, in previews, opens Sep 28. Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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SIRIUS XM’S TOP COMIC W/ JON DORE JFL42 presents headliner Dore alongside ñ finalists Darcy Michael, Dan Taylor, Chantel

Marostica, Tom O’Donnell, Adrian Cronk, Pat Thornton, Faisal Butt and Steve Coombs. 7 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. jfl42.com.

STONED UP COMEDY Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Cafe, 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990.

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in the Cabaret Space every night during the comedy festival. To Sep 27, 10 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, jfl42.com.

TWO CATS COMEDY presents pro and amateur comics w/ host Jackie Pirico. 8 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397.

Friday, September 26 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 See Thu 25.

THE ALTERNATIVE SHOW See Thu 25.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic

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

CHRIS D’ELIA JFL42 stand-up show by the comic/podcaster. To Sep 27, Fri 9:30 pm, Sat 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

DANIEL DUGAR See Thu 25.

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FAMILY SLIDES – FAMILY PROTRAIT EDITION

Underground Cafe presents comics sharing family slides and stories w/ Patrick Hakeem, Marito Lopez, Tim Nasiopoulos, Zabrina Chevannes & Todd Graham and hosts Phil Luzi & Sandra Battaglini. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125.

GOOD NEWS, TORONTO Korri Birch presents a live-news parody show w/ comics and improvisers. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/GoodNewsTorontoTheShow.

HIRUT HOOT: GRAND RE-OPENING SHOW Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents stand-up w/ Todd Graham, JJ Liberman, Jennifer McAuliffe, Cleve Jones, Camille Cote, Dean Young, Lee Anne Stewart, Rose Giles, Chris Finn and host Scott McCrickard. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth.

416-551-7560.

IMPROV GAMESHOW Weekly Whose Line-inspired competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG Johnny Pemberton at 7 pm, Matt O’Brien & Christina Walkinshaw at 9 pm, DJ Demers at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ COMEDY BAR Joe DeRosa at 7 pm, Johnny Pemberton at 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). 945 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE GARRISON Brody Stevens at 7 pm, Ron Funches at 9 & 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 1197 Dundas W. jfl42.com.

JFL42 @ THE RIVOLI Emily Heller at 7 pm, Mark Forward at 9 pm, Joe DeRosa at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). 332 Queen W. jfl42.com.

JOE ROGAN JFL42 The actor/comic and UFC commentator performs. 10 pm. $45.50-$129.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.com.

PETE HOLMES See Thu 25.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 25.

TRU42 See Thu 25.

THE UNEMPLOYABLES Jamie O’Connor presents stand-up w/ guest comics. 10 pm. $5. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com.

WANDA SYKES JFL42 presents actor/ comic and Comedy Central star in a live show. 7 pm. $45.50-$129. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.com.

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Saturday, September 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY & JFL42 See Thu 25.

THE BENSON MOVIE INTERRUPTION JFL42 presents comedian Doug Benson live ñ commentating a screening of Ivan Reitman’s

1979 film Meatballs alongside guest comics.

9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

BROAD CITY JFL42 presents web series turned Comedy Central show stars Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. 9:15 & 11:30 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

BRODY STEVENS JFL42 stand-up show. 7 & 9 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, jfl42.com.

CHRIS D’ELIA See Fri 26.

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

CRACK ME UP COMEDY Rose Theatre presents headliner Marc Trinidad. 8 pm. $15-$20. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

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DANIEL DUGAR See Thu 25.

DOUG BENSON JFL42 presents Benson hosting

a podcast w/ surprise guests. 4:15 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. jfl42.com.

80S SLASHER IMPROV SHOW Alicia Douglas, Janet Davidson, Chris Leveille and others. 11 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

IMPROV DROP-IN TSC presents a weekly class and show w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. The Social Capital Studio, 115 Danforth. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com.

IMPROV LEAGUE: GAME 4 Four troupes go head-to-head in a shortform improv competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

JFL42 @ BAD DOG Johnny Pemberton at 7 pm, Emily Heller at 11 pm. JFL42 pass ($49-$129).

875 Bloor W. jfl42.com.

JOE DEROSA JFL42 stand-up show. 7 & 9 pm.

JFL42 pass ($49-$129). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, jfl42.com.

THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents its monthly show, w/ Rob Pue, Peter Anthony, Matt & Wayne, Troupe Name Pending, Fratwurst, host Jim Kim and others. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook. com/TheJokeboxComedyLounge.

NEIL RHODES: THE FIRST 39 YEARS Free Times Café Birthday comedy show w/ Scott Belford, Mark DeBonis, host Ali Hassan, MC Shirley Whalen, Rhodes and others. 7 pm.

Pwyc. 320 College. 416-967-1078, facebook. com/events/1542599642630600.

ONE FACE, ONE RACE COMEDY SHOW Clearway Group Stand-up featuring Angelo Tsarouchas and Frank Spadone. 7:30 pm. $50. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 25.

RON FUNCHES JFL42 stand-up show by the actor/comic. 7 pm. JFL42 pass ($49$129). Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. jfl42.com.

SETH MEYERS JFL42 presents actor/ comic and former SNL guy in a live show. 7 & 10 pm. $55.50-$129. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. jfl42.com.

TRU42 See Thu 25.

THE UNSUNG SEQUEL Special Features Musical Improv presents an improvised musical sequel to your favourite movies. 8 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. specialfeaturesimprov. wordpress.com.

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Sunday, September 28 ABSOLUTE COMEDY The Stand-Up 101 Grad Show w/ host Ted Bisaillion. 3:30 pm/ $5.

Headliner David Acer w/ host Andrew Evans.

8 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE The Nubian Disciples present the monthly show w/ Benjamin Valentine, Martha Chaves, Kerby Darius, Mike Rita, Adam Jamal, Randi Komi, Daniel Dugar, host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

BONSPIEL! IS... HAVING A MILLER! Bonspiel! Theatre presents a three-act comedy cabaret w/ guest former mayor David Miller. 9 pm. $10. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. bonspieltheatre.com.

COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others.

8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca.

CRIMSON WAVE COMEDY Jess Beaulieu and Natalie Norman co-host a feminist-friendly, LGBTQ-positive stand-up night w/ Robby Hoffman, Catherine McCormick, Camille Cote,Jordan Cohen and others. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

THE EPIC NERD SHOW Empire Comedy Live presents Nile Seguin, Mark Little, Dave Atkinson, Bobby Knauff, Luke Gordon Field and others. 7 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents Round 6 w/ host Jill Knight and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

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MAGGIE AND SHANNON TWO HAND REACH AROUND The Flying

Beaver Pubaret presents comedy, stories and more by Shannon McDonough and Maggie Cassella.

7:30 pm. $15-$20.

488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

MAZ JOBRANI

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a comic who’s performed for the King of Jordan. 6:30 & 9:30 pm. $40-$60. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. rhcentre.ca.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 25.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Monday, September 29 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Diamondfield presents John Hastings, Bobby Knauff, Michelle Shaughnessy, Christophe Davidson, Massimo, Nigel Grinstead, Leny Corrado, Dom Pare, MC Chris Locke & others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562.

HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900.

MIXED COMPANY Alan Kliffer presents actors paired with improvisers, w/ Colin Mochrie, Scott Thompson, Linda Kash, Paula Brancati and others. 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

200% VODKA Longform improv with the Social Capital Rep Company and guest hosts. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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Tuesday, September 30 THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents standup hosted by Kyle Andrews & Selby Nixon w/ weekly guest comics. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 25.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

SOCAP STUDENT NIGHT Longform improv w/ players of the Social Capital Repertory Program. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, October 1 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Pro-Am Night w/ JJ Liber-

man, Joel West, JP Hodgkinson, Karen Mitton, Matt Watson, Moe Ismail, headliner Andrew Evans and host Scott White. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present the monthly improvised Star Trek variety show w/ stand-up Mayce Galoni and sketch from Fratwurst. 8 pm. $8. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

THE JAMES LIPTON JAM Improv Actors Studio presents a showcase by teachers and students. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE The Flying Beaver Pubaret Tall tales competition w/ host Paul Bellini and others. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standup. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 25.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub Open-mic stand-up w/ host Daniel Bordman and headliner Randy Komi. 8:30 pm. Free.

2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339.

YUK YUK’S Stand-up

by Dom Pare. To Oct 5, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

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Paul F. Tompkins hits JFL42 September 25.

art PAINTING

Reid’s savvy subversion Painter relishes putting grotesque spins on pleasing styles By DAVID JAGER

Hyacinths And Thistles reflects Lauchie Reid’s predilection for destabilization.

LAUCHIE REID at Narwhal Contem-

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porary (2104 Dundas West), to October 4. 647-346-5317. Rating: NNNN

Founding Team Macho member Lauchie Reid graces Narwhal with new, deliciously idiosyncratic paintings. Painstakingly crafted in the classical idiom, Reid’s works subvert staid portraiture with dissonant elements that hint at hidden historical and social narratives.

He delights in upending pleasant period pieces with elements of the grotesque and the hidden. For instance, his lovely white-capped portrait of a figure in a blue tunic recalls the soft palette of a Vermeer, but the face is a hideously disfigured and eyeless mask reminiscent of Gary Oldman’s character in Hannibal. This is part of the destabilizing magic of Reid’s paintings.

By blending hints of pop with elements of fantasy and classical art, he neatly pulls the rug out from under us.

A group portrait of Victorian women wearing scold’s bridles tells its

story bluntly. The devices, which prevented their wearers from speaking, were used on poor, outspoken women whose tongues were feared and seen as troublesome.

Team Macho has worked extensively with collage, and Reid’s paintings mashing up past and present

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGA KHAN MUSEUM In Search Of The Artist, to Nov 16. The Garden Of Ideas: Contemporary Art From Pakistan, to Jan 18. $15-$20. 77 Wynford.

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA The Sahmat Collective: Art And Activism In India Since 1989, to Oct 19. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Alex Colville, to Jan 4, 2015 ($16.50-$25). Before And After The Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to 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.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Is Toronto Burning?

1977/78/79, to Dec 7. 4700 Keele. 416-736-5169.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Falsework ; Furnishing Positions, to Dec 7. UTM, 3359 Mississauga N. 905-828-3789.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Politics Of Fashion/Fashion

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MUST-SEE SHOWS COOPER COLE GALLERY Georgia Dickie and John Riepenhoff, to Oct 11. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

CRAFT ONTARIO GALLERY Textiles: Fate, Destiny And Self-Determination, to Sep 27. 990 Queen W. 416-925-4222.

DE LUCA FINE ART Sculpture: Faith La Rocque, to Oct 11. 217 Avenue Rd. 416-537-4699.

DIVISION GALLERY Painting: Graham Gillmore, to Oct 18. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082.

GALLERY 44 Susana Reisman, Colin Miner, Lili Huston-Herterich and Maggie Groat, to Oct 18, brunch talk noon-2 pm Sep 27. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

GALLERY 1313 City Building group show, Oct 1-12. Painting/photos: Shinya Kumazawa, Jane Theodore and Bill Filiou, to Sep 28.

Of Politics, to Jan 25, 2015 ($14 -$18.50). 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Lois Andison, to Nov 8, reception/artist talk 5-9 pm Sep 25.

UTS, 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award, to Oct 14. $8-$12. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

GIBSON HOUSE Memories Of The Future, to Nov 9. 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Why Can’t Minimal, to Oct 19. This Area Is Under 23 Hour Surveillance, to Jun 30. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

MOCCA TDB; Mark Soo, to Oct 26. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke, to Jan 4 (Centennial, 120 Navy); Aleesa Cohene, to Jan 5 (Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore E, Oakville). 905-844-4402.

POWER PLANT Julia Daul, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Shelagh Keeley, to Jan 4. 231 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Painting: Mel-

anie Authier, to Oct 11. 133 Tecumseth. 416554-4112.

GLADSTONE HOTEL State Goods, print series launch 7 pm Sep 26. Gladstone 125 THEN/ NOW/NEXT, to Oct 5, reception 7-9 pm Sep 25. Hard Twist 9 – Fibre Optics, to Dec 28.

Daytrip group show, to Sep 28. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GOETHE-INSTITUT Photos: Maria Sewcz, to Oct 10. 100 University, N tower. 416-593-5257.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Surburbia; Outskirts; Suburbed; Making Arrangements; Strip Mall Architecture group shows; photos: Robert Burley, reception 6-10 pm Sep 26, Sep 27-Dec 28. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

INTERACCESS Mean Time To Upgrade, to Nov 22. 9 Ossington. 416-532-0597.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY John Kissick and Sam Mogelonsky, to Oct 11. 86 Miller. 416504-9515.

LE GALLERY Drawing/painting: Nicholas De

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = This could change your life NNNN = Brain candy NNN = Solid, sometimes inspirational NN = Not quite there N = Are we at the mall?

can be seen as another form of appropriation. In his fierce self-portrait in a classic 18th-century ball gown, a ferret skull in his hands, he wears his contradictions proudly, following their dream logic wherever it may lead.

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Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24. Fashion Follows Form; Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan 25. 14.50$16; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9-$10. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Sam Cotter, to Oct 26. Dispatch: War Photographs In Print; Harun Farocki, to Dec 7. Public Studio, to Dec 19. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Urban Fabric: Portraits Of A City, to Jan 11. $6-$15; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE AA Bronson, to Nov 15.

Allen Ginsberg and Robert Giard, to Dec 6. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Sculpture: Kim Adams, to Jan 11, 2015, ARTbus tour 11:30 am-4:30 pm (see Gibson House) Sep 28. $5, stu/srs $4.

216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511.

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Complete art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings Genova, to Sep 28. 1183 Dundas W. 416532-8467.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Drawing/installations: John Scott, to Oct 11. 451 King W. 416-2059000.

MKG127 Gwen MacGregor, Ken Lum and Roula Partheniou, to Oct 11. 1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Painting: Adrian Williams, Sep 25-Oct 18, reception 6-9 pm Sep 25. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Prints: Daryl Vocat, Jeannette Nguyen and Sean Caulfield, to Oct 18. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-5048238.

PAUL PETRO Morley Shayuk and Shelagh Keeley, to Oct 4. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874.

PREFIX Theaster Gates, talk 7:30 pm Sep 25 ($12). Photos: Judy Natal, to Sep 30. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357.

VTAPE Video: Su Rynard, to Oct 11. 401 Richmond W #452. 416-351-1317.

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Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

COLIN MOOERS Launching Imperial Subjects: Citizenship In An Age Of Crisis And Empire. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org DIONNE BRAND Book launch. 6-8 pm. Free.

District Oven, 842 College. anotherstory.ca LAUREN OLIVER Signing for the new adult novel Rooms, a tale of family, ghosts, secrets and mystery. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 1950 the Queensway. chapters.indigo.ca PAUL VERMEERSCH Launch for Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something. 7-9 pm.

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DAVID CRONENBERG Interview with Geoff Pevere, Q&A and signing for his novel, Consumed. 7-10 pm. $32. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. eventbrite.ca/e/12935675955.

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PRIDE (Matthew Warchus). 120 minutes. Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNNN

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Made in the crowd-pleasing spirit of Billy Elliot and based on a true story, Pride tracks the attempts of a grassroots organization of gays and lesbians based in London to support striking mineworkers against Margaret Thatcher’s vicious regime. Of course, the small-town miners aren’t sure they’re interested.

The pic, directed by stage veteran Matthew Warchus, taps some familiar tropes – closeted people, coming-out stories, flamboyant queers (a potent Dominic West, for example) teaching uptight miners to loosen up – but that just ups the pleasure factor.

The actors are excellent, especially Ben Schnetzer as the activists’ charismatic leader, whose pro-union politics meet resistance from an LGBT community on the cusp of the AIDS crisis. No surprise that Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy are also good as union supporters.

It gets a bit too warm and fuzzy – bordering on manipulative – at the end, but this is an important story proving that activists with ingenuity can SUSAN G. COLE build improbable political coalitions.

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Ben Schnetzer (standing) inspires LGBTQ activists to support the miners against Thatcher in Pride.

If you’re a Nick Cave fan, you’ll love this unusual doc.

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Forsyth, Jane Pollard). 97 minutes. Opens Friday (September 26).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNNN

I’m not sure whether 20,000 Days On Earth is a documentary, an essay film or a work of complete fiction. I do know I enjoyed it, so it doesn’t really matter.

Co-written by directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard with their subject Nick Cave, the film takes the form of a conventional profile of the Australian-born musician, now in his mid-50s and living in Brighton, England.

But it’s not long before we realize it’s more of a stylized representation of Cave’s life, following him over the

course of a single impossible day.

He wakes up at home in Brighton, has lunch with his collaborator Warren Ellis, records a song with him in France and then performs with the Bad Seeds at the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

In between, Cave drives around with the actor Ray Winstone, former Bad Seeds bandmate Blixa Bargeld and singer Kylie Minogue Nick Cave is what you’d call a multi-tasker. His – or his imagined versions of songs appear on soundtracks, he scores entire them, anyway – and chats about films, he writes screenplays. He even acts a little. He brings all those skills to a single project his life and work.

Whether you go for it depends in 20,000 Days On Earth. Here are five other largely on your own opinion of features that are considerably better for his Cave’s career and persona, which involvement. has evolved over the decades from 1. Wings Of Desire (pictured above) (1987) “apocalyptic town crier” to 2. The Proposition (2005) “gentlemanly murder balladeer.”

3. Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead (1988) As 20,000 Days On Earth dem4. The Assassination Of Jesse James onstrates, he’s still bemusedly

By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) picking himself apart and putting 5. The Scream franchise (left)(from himself back together, just to keep 1996) NORMAN WILNER busy.

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Denzel redo THE EQUALIZER (Antoine Fuqua). 131 minutes. Opens Friday (September 26).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNN

A pulpy big-screen update of a barely remembered 80s TV series repackaged as a slick, sadistically violent revenge thriller, The Equalizer reunites the ever-formidable Denzel Washington with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua.

Weirdly, the real inspiration is one of

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Washington’s collaborations with the late Tony Scott. The Equalizer is basically a redux of Man On Fire, with Washington’s former black-ops specialist Robert McCall murdering swathes of Russian mobsters after an assault on a teenage sex worker (Chloë Grace Moretz).

Scott’s frenetic ultraviolence is replaced by Fuqua’s more Steadicam-friendly sadism, but the same basic beats play out: bad guys do

bad thing, good guy does worse things in response. Up until the overheated climax, it’s even reasonably entertaining.

Fun fact: this was a Gala presentation at TIFF, making it the first time big-ticket audiences at Roy Thomson Hall have seen a man killed by a corkscrew to the brain. NORMAN WILNER Denzel delivers a nasty look in The Equalizer.

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Hungarian rhapsody THE NOTEBOOK (János Szász). 108 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNN In János Szász’s The Notebook, Hungary’s wartime horrors under Nazi occupation are experienced through the eyes (and journal) of two young boys. Free of any artificial sweetening or light touches, their narration, often punctuated by potent expressionistic visuals, is as dark as ash and often tortuous to follow.

The nameless twins (András and Lázló Gyémánt) are abandoned at their estranged, abusive grandmother’s home as the war rages and a nearby concentration camp turns the sky grey. The grandmother (Piroska Molnár), whom they refer to as “the witch,” keeps them occupied with hard labour to earn their meals. She refers to them as “the bastards.”

While most of the violence taking place around them happens offscreen, its effects are vivid. In response to the eroding humanity around them, the boys make an early, conscious decision to withstand pain by hardening their bodies and their souls, their eyes deadened.

Committed to calcified emotions, the film and characters often feel dramatically inert. The boys’ innocence is lost in the opening reel, but Szász keeps the film going with moments that are haunting and provocative.

The twins’ first sexual encounter is a standout, ushering in the death of childhood by occurring hand-in-hand with murder. And still they don’t RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI flinch.

Ulrich Thomsen (left), László and András Gyémánt: war is hell.

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border drama

Feel the pain... again FRONTERA (Michael Berry). 103 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NN

Set on the border between the U.S. and Mexico, Frontera is a low-budget everybody-hurts picture about characters whose lives are touched by an accidental death in no man’s land.

Like Paul Haggis’s Crash, it features some very good performances in the service of a fuzzy moral about understanding; like Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, it’s willing to forgo logic and credibility for big moments in which we realize how these people are connected to one another.

Ed Harris is quietly excellent as a rancher coping with an unexpected loss, and Michael Peña is pretty great as a migrant worker whose inherent decency has a way of putting him on the losing side of every confrontation.

But their fine work (and Joel Ransom’s stunning cinematography) is undercut by a script that prefers happenstance to character development, NORMAN wILNER and an ending that makes no emotional sense whatsoever.

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Beautifully packaged THE BOXTROLLS (Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi). 96 minutes. Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: NNNN

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The Boxtrolls are ghoulish-looking, sewer-dwelling creatures whose behaviour resembles that of both Toronto’s raccoons (they rummage through trash) and Despicable Me’s Minions (they mumble and build stuff). And, of course, they are the most adorable things in the latest stop-motion animation feature from Laika, the studio that both tickles and scares the shit out of kids with films like Coraline and ParaNorman.

The real monsters, the humans, live above ground in a fictional town resembling Versailles. The rulers spend everything on fine cheese, a running gag that never loses steam, while a ghastly social-climbing villain (voiced by Ben Kings­ ley) hopes to win their favour and some cheddar by exterminating the boxtrolls, who he claims are eating babies.

The boxtrolls do have a Mowgli-like human child among them, Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright), who leads the critters in their antic, occasionally frightening and consistently hilarious bid for survival.

This is a children’s movie that thinks very highly of its audience, with sly meta-gags, rich visuals and periodic sombre conversations about what constitutes evil. The film’s charm never wears thin. Make sure you stay through RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI the credits.

Mark Myers (second from right) doesn’t deliver.

documentary

Dull Delivery DELIVERY (Mark Myers). 92 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating:

NN The moronic doc Delivery illustrates the middle-class North American Caucasian male’s capacity for denial and distraction.

After he finds out his wife is pregnant, music video director Mark Myers decides not to address his fears about impending fatherhood. No, instead he challenges himself and a few of his

buddies to confront another fear: stand-up comedy. And he’s gonna film the process. Cuz, you know, why help out your wife when you can find something else to obsess about, right?

The film’s set-up is so stupid that for

the first half I thought I was watching a mockumentary. The presence of actual comics like Russell Peters, Trevor Boris and Marc Maron sounding incredulous to an unseen interviewer only increased my suspicion.

Myers shows us no reason why he’s interested in comedy or any aptitude in editing together his and his pals’ journeys with the comics’ advice.

But the lead-up to and filming of their performances at amateur night at Yuk Yuk’s is handled skilfully, and it’s moderately entertaining to watch these ordinary guys transform themselves when holding a mic. GLENN SuMI

Korean wank job MOEBIuS (Kim Ki-duk). 89 minutes. Opens Friday (September 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 62. Rating: N Moebius is the latest offering from Kim Ki­duk, the Korean psychosexual extremist who’s given us such selfconscious provocations as The Isle, Bad Guy and Pieta.

This one’s a ponderous, preposterous drama about a father (Cho Jaye­hwon) and son (Seo Young­ju) undone by infidelity, mutilation, perversion and shame.

Kim tweaks his usual mixture of genital-centric Seo Young-ju and horror and slow-motion sadism by depriving his charLee Eun-woo: hard to take. acters of dialogue – the actors must emote through stern looks, grunts and the occasional scream – and, for no evident reason, by having Lee Eun­woo play both Cho’s manhood-obsessed wife and his empathetic mistress. Maybe she’s the only actor who could fall backward while flashing her underwear in precisely the way Kim liked.

A subplot involving various unmanned characters who practise a painbased form of masturbation briefly offers an intriguing, Cronenbergian angle on the story, but Kim repeats it so often it becomes too silly to take NORMAN wILNER seriously.

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HEcTOR AND THE SEARcH FOR HAPPINESS (Peter Chelsom). 114 minutes. Opens

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The Skeleton Twins is exactly the same as dozens of film-festival indies that drift into commercial release. It’s fine, and thanks to the actors there are moments when it’s considerably more than fine, but it’s totally by the numbers.

Written by director Craig Johnson and Black Swan’s Mark Heyman, the film is a modest dramedy starring Saturday Night Live veterans Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as Maggie and Milo, siblings helping each other through a rough patch in their lives.

Michael Peña (left), Lorél Medina and Eva Longoria go on a familiar journey in Frontera.

Funny people Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader get serious.

Wiig and Hader aren’t the only comic performers embracing serious roles here; Modern Family’s Ty Burrell appears as a figure from Milo and Maggie’s past, and Luke Wilson plays Maggie’s perpetually affable husband.

There isn’t a weak link in the cast – Hader is especially strong as a man de-

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When he realizes he’s not happy with his successful practice and his devoted girlfriend (Rosamund Pike), a psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) decides to travel the world in search of the secret to personal fulfillment.

Adopting the same gentle tone as French psychiatrist François Lelord’s source text, Hector And The Search For Happiness is a white-people-problems movie that’s horribly tone-deaf to its subject matter as its wide-eyed hero processes the suffering of others (a sex worker in Beijing, gun thugs in Africa) into simplistic life lessons.

The movie isn’t even willing to let Hector look inside himself long enough to confront his defining trauma, hinting at a childhood tragedy but Simon Pegg never following through on it. The English have a will make you NORMAN wILNER word for this: codswallop.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 69.

ALTMAN (Ron Mann) takes an

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appropriately cockeyed approach to its subject, asking a number of the late director’s collaborators – among them Lily Tomlin, Michael Murphy, Julianne Moore and Bruce Willis – to define the term “Altmanesque,” then illustrating their answers with stories of his innovative filmmaking methods. 95 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Steeles

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(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min.

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(Jason Stone) is an interesting, idiosyncratic take on the chilly police procedural, with a nicely spiky Susan Sarandon as a detective investigating a creepy murder in rural Fort Dundas, Ontario. It’s remarkable what a little care and attention can do for a genre picture.

108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(John Michael McDonagh) follows an Irish priest, Father James (Brendan Gleeson), who’s told he’ll be murdered in a week’s time. But this isn’t a mystery; rather, it’s an inquiry into the whole village’s crisis of faith – and by extension, Ireland’s. And it’s great. 101 min.

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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 expository dialogue, characters and situations that go nowhere and terrible acting. 112 min. N (GS) Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway

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(James Ward Byrkit) is set at a dinner party at a nice suburban house in northern California just as a comet is passing by the Earth. When the power goes out, eight friends are stuck in the dark. The film is about their responses to each new stage of their problem, and how the choices they make affect their relationships. I cannot wait to see it again to figure out how the pieces fit together.

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LOVE IS STRANGE DR. CABBIE A long-term couple (Alfred Molina and John Lithgow) get married, but when one man loses his job, they’re forced to live apart in this gentle drama by Ira Sachs, director of the gay-themed Keep The Lights On.

All these kids can’t believe The Maze Runner – based on the bestselling YA novel – got such lousy reviews. Judge for yourself.

A New Delhi doctor (Vinay Virmani) moves with his mom to Canada and ends up running an illicit clinic in the back of his taxi.

It’s a lively comedy with a strong premise and timely theme.

(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, Colossus, Grande Steeles, Scotiabank Theatre

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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,

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DR. CABBIE (Jean-François Pouliot) is a

lively comedy with a strong premise, brisk pace, appealing cast and timely theme.

When a newly minted Delhi doctor moves to Canada, where his credentials aren’t recognized, he finds himself running an illicit clinic in the back seat of his taxi. 104 min. NNN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Woodside Cinemas, Yonge & Dundas 24

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.

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(Doug Liman) is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens – an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly selfaware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. And Emily Blunt is great. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

THE EQUALIZER (Antoine Fuqua) 131 min.

See review, page 59. NNN (NW) Opens Sep 26 at 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE EXPENDABLES 3 (Patrick Hughes) is

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) Colossus

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(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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñFINDING VIVIAN MAIER

(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) Kingsway Theatre, Regent 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) Scotiabank Theatre

FRONTERA (Michael Berry) 103 min. See review, page 60. NN (NW) Opens Sep 26 at Carlton Cinema 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 continued on page 64 œ

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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) 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/cowriter Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Peter Chelsom) 114 min. See review, page 60. NN (NW) Opens Sep 26 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, 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, body-painted maniacs. 98 min. NN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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newlyweds Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) to her family’s lakeside cabin, where bad things happen.

Working with ideas similar to David Cronenberg’s in The Fly, director Janiak infuses squishy body horror and other Bmovie elements into a study of young lovers coping with an inexplicable illness.

Check it out, but maybe not as a date movie. 87 min. NNNN (NW) 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

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(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) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, SilverCity Fairview leT’s Be cops (Luke Greenfield) depends

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, 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.

The pacing of the picture is strangely slack, but Aniston and Hawkes are a pleasure to watch together. 99 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ñloVe is sTraNGe

(Ira Sachs) tracks lovers George and Ben, superbly played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, who are forced to live separately when they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment. Sachs lets small gestures evoke the intimacy the two men miss so desperately. You won’t be on the edge of your seat, but you will get drawn in by the characters and their dilemmas. 94 min.

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lucy (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

maGic iN The mooNliGhT (Woody Allen)

is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s

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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

Matthew BourNe’s sleepiNg Beauty is a high-def screening of Bourne’s Gothic take on the classical ballet. 115 min.

Sep 28, 12:55 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge; continuing from Sep 26 at Yonge & Dundas 24 the Maze ruNNer (Wes Ball) adapts a YA

dystopia series about boys trapped in a mysterious area surrounded by a maze.

It’s monotonous, nonsensical, virtually humourless and oppressively grey. It only exists to set up the next one. 113 min. N (NW) 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 &

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Metro MaNila (Sean Ellis) is a Sundance

award winner about poverty and desperate action in the Philippines, following a farmer who moves his family to Manila and is ground down by the unforgiving metropolis. The exoticism and poverty porn in early scenes are merely a slick way to reduce social drama to a genre gimmick. This is actually a heist thriller posturing as something important. 115 min. NN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

MoeBius (Kim Ki-duk) 89 min. See review, page 60. N (NW) Opens Sep 26 at Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 71)

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(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

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Mr. peaBody & sherMaN (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of 3D animation. The genius dog and his adopted son visit textbook figures like Marie Antoinette, King Tut and Leonardo Da Vinci while giving history a zany spin.

The father-son story is a strained framework for their lighthearted, rib-tickling episodic adventures, which retain the cartoons’ fun and humour. 92 min. NNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

ñNight Moves

(Kelly Reichardt) is a low-key, high-stakes thriller about three activists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) who come together to blow up a dam in the Pacific Northwest, and what happens in the aftermath of that operation. Layered with social insight, dense character detail and genuine tension, it’s like micro-Michael Mann. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

Night traiN to lisBoN (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre No good deed (Sam Miller) 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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Szász) 108 min. See review, page 59. NNN (RS) Opens Sep 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

the NoveMBer MaN (Roger Donaldson) is a rote espionage thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as a world-weary spy chased through the former Soviet Union by his former protege (Luke Bracey). If you’ve never seen one of these movies before,

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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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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 Scar­ borough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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couple Annie and Jay (Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel), who try to spice up their stale sex life by making a sex tape, which somehow gets forwarded to the tablets of a small group of friends, including Annie’s prospective employer (Rob Lowe). It’s an okay time-waster with a few big laughs, more small ones and a lot of unfunny scenes of people yelling in panic. 95 min.

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than Liebesman) is an overblown superhero adventure that tries to get by on bombast but too often it feels like an orgy of in-your-face 3D and a loud, oppressive score supporting bargain-basement plot, characters and big action set pieces. Four turtles and a rat mutate and develop martial arts skills to battle the evil Foot Clan and its plan to dominate New York. 101 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Shawn Levy) features a familiar premise – family reunites at a funeral – but director Levy’s got such a great cast (Jane Fonda as the matriarch, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll and scene-stealer Adam Driver as the children), he’s able to spin it into a pleasurably unpredictable comedy. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promen­ ade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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 ser-

ies of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Queensway, Varsity

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(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) is basically just a toy box full of wonderful things, a sequel to Lord and Miller’s self-aware TV adaptation that levels up accordingly, with terrific chases and fights that stay grounded in the contrast between Channing Tatum’s gung-ho energy and Jonah Hill’s nervous hesitation.

Stay for the credits. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

a walk aMONg The TOMbsTONes (Scott

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) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cine­ plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scar­ borough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rain­ bow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silver­ City 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

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(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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AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 3:55, 9:35 BEFORE YOU KNOW IT (14A) Thu 1:40, 6:35 BELIEVE ME Fri-Wed 1:50, 6:55 THE BOXTROLLS Fri-Wed 1:45, 3:55, 6:40, 9:00 THE CALLING (14A) Thu 4:05, 9:10 DELIVERY Fri-Wed 2:00, 7:00 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 1:45 4:15 6:45 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 11:30 late THE F WORD (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:05 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 4:10, 9:20 Sat 4:10, 9:20, 11:30 Mon 4:10 FILMI SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Fri 6:30 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:30 Sun 4:00, 6:30 FORT BLISS (18A) Thu 1:25, 7:05 FRONTERA (14A) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri, Tue 1:25, 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 Sat 6:35, 9:10 Sun 1:25, 6:35, 9:10 Mon 1:25, 4:00, 9:10 Wed 1:25, 6:35 HALLOWEEN (14A) Wed 4:00, 9:15 HONEYMOON Thu 4:20, 9:25 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 1:50, 6:55 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 11:25 late A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) 1:15, 3:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:50 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 9:30 SNOWPIERCER (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:05 SOUTH ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Thu 6:30 TORONTO FILM SOCIETY Mon 7:00 WALKING WITH THE ENEMY (14A) Thu 1:25, 6:50

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

THE BOXTROLLS 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00 Sat, Tue 11:55 late DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 12:35, 3:15, 6:45, 9:05 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:35, 9:15 Sat, Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:35, 9:15, 11:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) 12:25, 3:30, 6:55, 9:25 Sat, Tue 11:40 late THE MATRIX (14A) Sun 4:00 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:20 Sat, Tue 11:35 late NO GOOD DEED Thu 12:30, 2:30, 4:30 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon, Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat, Tue 12:20, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30, 11:50 Sun 12:20, 7:15, 9:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) 12:40, 3:25, 7:05, 9:35 Sat, Tue 11:35 late

10:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Mon 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Tue 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 4:50, 5:20, 6:30, 7:45, 8:10, 9:30, 10:40 Sun 1:45, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:20, 6:30, 7:25, 8:10, 9:20, 10:15 Mon 1:45, 2:30, 3:00, 4:35, 5:20, 6:30, 7:25, 8:10, 9:20, 10:15 Tue 1:45, 2:30, 3:00, 4:35, 5:20, 6:10, 7:25, 8:10, 9:10, 10:15 Wed 1:45, 2:30, 2:50, 4:35, 5:20, 5:45, 6:10, 7:25, 8:10, 9:00, 10:15 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu-Sat, Tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:40 Mon 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:35 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 LUCY (14A) Thu-Sat 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:20 Sun-Tue 2:50, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Mon 2:00, 4:20, 9:50 Tue 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:50 Wed 1:40, 3:55 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 2:30, 4:50 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00 Tue 2:20, 4:40 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 7:20, 9:40 Sun-Mon 7:10, 9:35 Tue 7:00, 9:20 Wed 7:10, 9:50 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:05 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Sun 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon 1:30, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Tue 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:40, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:40, 2:15, 4:20, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Sun-Mon 1:40, 2:10, 4:15, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:25, 10:05 Tue 1:40, 2:10, 4:15, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:30, 10:05 Wed 1:50, 2:10, 4:20, 4:50, 6:55, 7:25, 9:30, 10:00 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 9:20

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 6:45, 9:15 Mon 6:45, 9:15 ALTMAN (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 7:00, 9:20 COHERENCE (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 7:15, 9:30 Fri 12:20, 3:15, 4:50, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:15, 4:50, 9:30 Sun 2:45, 4:50, 7:30, 9:30 Mon 7:30, 9:30 Tue 1:00, 3:15, 5:00, 9:30 Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 9:30 METRO MANILA (18A) Thu 12:00, 2:45, 6:45, 9:15 Fri 12:40, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45 Sun 2:40, 5:00, 9:40 Mon 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:00 THE NOTEBOOK (LE GRAND CAHIER) (14A) Fri-Sun, TueWed 12:15, 3:00, 7:15, 9:45 Mon 7:15, 9:45

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BOYHOOD (14A) 1:05, 4:40, 8:15 Wed no 8:15 THE DROP (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Mon 1:00, 3:35, 10:00 Wed 1:00, 3:35, 9:45 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:25 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:25, 10:10 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 PRIDE (14A) Fri, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 2:10 4:50 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 THE TRIP TO ITALY Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Thu 1:25 3:50 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 PRIDE (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 THE TRIP TO ITALY Thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:10, 8:50

THE F WORD (14A) Fri 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50 THE GIVER (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:00 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:50 Fri 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:20 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:20 Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat-Sun 11:15 NIGHT MOVES (14A) Thu 6:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 3:45 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 11:15, 9:35 SatSun 9:35 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:15 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 10:30, 4:45 Fri-Wed 5:30 WALKING WITH THE ENEMY (14A) Fri-Wed 4:45

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE)

MT PLEASANT (I)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

THE BOXTROLLS 3D Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:35, 8:55 Sat-Sun 3:35, 5:55, 8:15 THE BOXTROLLS Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50 Sat-Sun 1:15 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 6:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:00, 9:35 BUT ALWAYS (PG) 7:15, 9:50 Fri 1:45 mat, 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat, 4:30 DAAWAT-E-ISHQ (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Tue 10:20 Wed 7:40, 10:20 DAVID BOWIE IS (PG) Thu 1:55, 7:30 Fri, Tue 4:20, 9:30 Sat 12:55, 7:00 Sun 6:00 Mon 1:45 Wed 1:45, 9:45 DIAL M FOR MURDER IN 3D (PG) Thu 9:30 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:55 Sat 4:20 Sun 1:10 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 THE DROP (14A) Thu 2:10, 3:15, 4:40, 5:45, 7:05, 8:45, 9:40 Fri 2:05, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:40 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:30 E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (PG) Thu 4:30 THE F WORD (14A) Thu, Wed 10:15 Fri 2:20, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Tue 7:40, 10:15 FINDING FANNY (PG) Thu 7:55, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Sat 6:50, 9:20 Sun 3:40, 6:10, 8:55 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:25 Fri, Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:25 Sat-Sun 12:50, 2:30, 4:20 Mon-Tue 2:45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 7:20, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:40, 7:20, 8:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 5:30, 7:10, 8:30, 10:05 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:50 KHOOBSURAT (G) Thu 3:05, 6:40, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:05, 6:05, 9:05 LET’S BE COPS (14A) 7:35, 10:05 Fri 2:25 mat, 4:55 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:20 mat, 4:55 MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY Fri, Tue 1:45, 6:45 Sat 4:20, 9:30 Sun 12:55, 8:15 Mon 3:50, 8:30 Wed 4:20 THE MAZE RUNNER: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 3:25, 4:00, 4:15, 6:15, 7:00, 9:00, 9:45, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:25, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30, 9:45 Sat 12:30, 12:45, 1:30, 3:25, 3:45, 4:15, 6:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30, 9:45 Sun 12:30, 12:45, 1:30, 3:25, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30, 9:45 MY LITTLE PONY EQUESTRIA GIRLS: RAINBOW ROCKS Sat 11:15 Sun 3:30 Mon 6:30 NO GOOD DEED Thu 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 8:00, 10:10 THE PIRATES (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 STEPHEN FRY LIVE: MORE FOOL ME Wed 7:30 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:35, 6:30, 7:25, 9:30, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:55, 3:00, 4:35, 6:00, 7:25, 9:00, 10:25 Sat 1:10, 3:00, 4:35, 6:00, 7:25, 9:00, 10:25 Tue 1:55, 3:00, 4:35, 6:00, 7:25, 7:40, 9:00, 10:25 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:45, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 9:05 Sat 9:15 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

VIP SCREENINGS

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE)

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

FRANK (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 4:30, 9:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

THE BOXTROLLS 3D Fri 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sat-Sun 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 THE BOXTROLLS Fri 3:10 Sat-Sun 12:45 Mon-Wed 2:30 DAVID BOWIE IS (PG) Thu 7:30 Sat 12:55 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40 Mon-Tue 1:25, 4:00, 6:40 Wed 4:00 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:40 Fri, SunWed 1:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:25, 10:15 FriSun 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY Sun 12:55 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:35, 6:50, 9:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:15 Wed 2:15, 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:15 NO GOOD DEED Thu 2:40, 4:55, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:30 STEPHEN FRY LIVE: MORE FOOL ME Wed 7:30 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:50 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

Metro West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

THE BOXTROLLS 5:20, 7:30, 9:10 Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:10 mat BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:40 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:00 THE EQUALIZER (18A) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:10 mat THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri, MonWed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 4:10 6:50 9:15 FriWed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I)

2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 CALVARY (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:10 Fri 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50 THE CAPTIVE (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:00 CHEF (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 Fri 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:50

BOYHOOD (14A) 7:00 Thu 12:45 mat CHEF (14A) Thu 5:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:45 DAVID & ME (G) Fri-Wed 7:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 12:00 Fri-Wed 12:45 FRANK (14A) Fri-Wed 10:00 IDA (PG) Thu 1:30 Fri-Wed 11:15 LIFE OF CRIME (14A) Thu 8:10 Fri-Wed 8:25 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 11:00, 3:15 Fri-Wed 1:00

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BY PETER CHELSOM PRODUCED JUDY TOSSELL DOHLE CHRISTINE TRISH DOLMAN SCREENPLAY BYBYJACOB MARIA VON ANDCHELSOM PETER CHELSOMmon & TINKER7:30 LINDSAY AMELIE V. ROSS KIENLIN MARC HANSELL KLEMENS HALLMANN BENJAMIN MELKMAN ALAN ELLIOTT ROSS FENELLA ROSS ARNOTT PRODUCERS PHIL HUNT COMPTON CHRISTIAN PRODUCERS PRODUCERS PHIL ANGERMAYER PRODUCERS PHIL HUNT HUNT PHIL COMPTON BASED HUNT ON“LE THE ROSS COMPTON ROSS CHRISTIAN “LENOVEL VOYAGE CHRISTIAN ROSS CHRISTIAN D'HECTOR ANGERMAYER OUANGERMAYER BASED LARECHERCHE BASED ONTHE THENOVEL ONDU NOVEL BASED THE “LEBASED DUVOYAGE ONTHE VOYAGE THENOVEL “LEBONHEUR” VOYAGE “LED'HECTOR VOYAGE D'HECTOR BYOUBYD'HECTOR FRANÇOIS LARECHERCHE OUBYD'HECTOR RECHERCHE LAANDRECHERCHE RECHERCHE OULELORD LAOURECHERCHE RECHERCHE DULABYRECHERCHE AND DUPUBLISHED BONHEUR” ÉDITIONS WRITTEN BYKLAUS ODILE BYWRITTEN FRANÇOIS JACOB BYJACOB LELORD FRANÇOIS LELORD DIRECTED AND PUBLISHED LELORD BYAND PETER PUBLISHED BYAND CHELSOM PUBLISHED BYPUBLISHED ÉDITIONS BYODILE ODILE JACOB JACOB ODILE DIRECTED DIRECTED BYJACOB BYDIRECTED PETER CHELSOM BYBYCHELSOM PETER PRODUCERS HUNT COMPTON ROSS CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER BASED ONNOVEL “LE VOYAGE D'HECTOR OUONDURECHERCHE LADUONBONHEUR” RECHERCHE DUNOVEL BONHEUR” FRANÇOIS LELORD BYODILE ÉDITIONS ODILE DIRECTED BYCHELSOM PETER CHELSOM PRODUCERS PHIL PHIL HUNT HUNT COMPTON COMPTON ROSS ROSS CHRISTIAN PRODUCERS CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER PHIL ANGERMAYER HUNT BASED BASED ONCOMPTON THE ROSS ONHUNT NOVEL NOVEL “LEVOYAGE VOYAGE “LECHRISTIAN VOYAGE ANGERMAYER D'HECTOR D'HECTOR OURECHERCHE LABASED OUANGERMAYER RECHERCHE LABASED RECHERCHE “LEDUBONHEUR” BONHEUR” DUONWRITTEN BONHEUR” D'HECTOR WRITTEN BYVOYAGE FRANÇOIS LAKIM FRANÇOIS LELORD DULAPUBLISHED AND BONHEUR” PUBLISHED AND PUBLISHED ÉDITIONS WRITTEN ÉDITIONS BYBONHEUR” FRANÇOIS ODILE ODILE JACOB LELORD DIRECTED DIRECTED BYBYLELORD PUBLISHED PETER BYHAEBLER PETER ÉDITIONS CHELSOM DIRECTED PETER CHELSOM RSPRODUCERS UCERS PHIL PHILHUNT HUNT COMPTON COMPTON ROSS CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER ANGERMAYER PRODUCERS BASED ONCOMPTON THE ONPHIL NOVEL THE HUNT “LETHEVOYAGE COMPTON D'HECTOR D'HECTOR ROSS OUCHRISTIAN OULARECHERCHE LAOUANGERMAYER RECHERCHE BONHEUR” BASED THE WRITTEN NOVEL BYWRITTEN “LE FRANÇOIS VOYAGE FRANÇOIS LELORD AND AND PUBLISHED BYBONHEUR” ÉDITIONS BYANDBONHEUR” ÉDITIONS DUBYBYWRITTEN ODILE JACOB JACOB WRITTEN DIRECTED DIRECTED BYLELORD FRANÇOIS PETER BYAND PETER CHELSOM LELORD CHELSOM AND BYÉDITIONS ÉDITIONS ODILE JACOB DIRECTED PETER CHELSOM PRODUCERS PHIL HUNTPHIL COMPTON ROSSROSS CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER BASED ON“LE THE NOVEL “LETHECHRISTIAN VOYAGE D'HECTOR LAHOWARD DUONNOVEL BONHEUR” WRITTEN BYOUWRITTEN FRANÇOIS AND BYDU ÉDITIONS ODILE JACOB DIRECTED PETER CHELSOM ANNOVEL OFFICIAL CANADA / GERMANY CO-PRODUCTION 11:15 sun 3:30 PHIL HUNT COMPTON ROSS CHRISTIAN ANGERMAYER BASED ONBASED THE NOVEL VOYAGE D'HECTOR OUANGERMAYER LACHRISTIAN

BY FRANÇOIS LELORD PUBLISHED ÉDITIONS ODILE JACOB DIRECTED BYBYPETER CHELSOM HECTORHUNT GLÜCK GMBH & HAPPINESS PRODUCTIONS 2013 ALL RIGHTSANGERMAYER RESERVED PRODUCERS PHIL COMPTON ROSS INC.CHRISTIAN BASED ON THE NOVEL “LE VOYAGE D'HECTOR OU LA RECHERCHE DU BONHEUR” WRITTEN BY FRANÇOIS LELORD AND PUBLISHED BY ÉDITIONS ODILE JACOB DIRECTED BY PETER CHELSOM no Good deed Thu 5:40, 8:00 Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:55, 10:05 sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:55, 10:05 sun 3:50, 5:20, 7:40, 9:45 mon 5:25, 8:25 Wed 6:10, 8:25 SUBJECT TO AN OFFICIAL CANADA / GERMANY CO-PRODUCTION Facebook.com/eOneFilms © HECTOR GLÜCK GMBH & HAPPINESS PRODUCTIONS INC. 2013 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED YouTube.com/eOneFilms CLASSIFICATION TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:40 Fri, Tue 4:45 sat 11:30, 2:20, 4:45 sun 2:20, 4:50 mon, Wed 6:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3d (PG) Fri-sat, Tue 7:20 sun 7:15 This is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:45 Fri, Tue Check Theatre Directory for Locations & Showtimes.

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a Walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 5:25, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 mon, Wed 5:35, 8:05

coliseum scarBorough (ce) scarBorough ToWn cenTre, 416-290-5217

as aBove, so BeloW (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30 Fri-Wed 4:55, 10:00 The BoxTrolls 3d Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 The BoxTrolls 1:55 sat 11:20 mat david BoWie is (PG) Thu 7:30 sat 12:55 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 dr. CaBBie (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 The equalizer (18A) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri-sat, Tue 1:00, 1:25, 4:15, 4:35, 7:10, 7:40, 10:20, 10:45 sun-mon, Wed 1:00, 3:30, 4:15, 6:35, 7:10, 9:40, 10:20 Guardians of The Galaxy (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05 Guardians of The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:10 10:10 FriWed 7:05, 10:10 huGo (PG) sat 11:00 if i sTay (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 10:05 leT’s Be Cops (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Tue 2:05, 7:20, 9:30 Wed 2:05, 9:30 MaTTheW Bourne’s sleepinG BeauTy sun 12:55 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, sunWed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 sat 11:05, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 no Good deed Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-sat, mon-Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 sun 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:25 The noveMBer Man (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 sTephen fry live: More fool Me Wed 7:30 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3d (PG) Thu 6:55 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:55, 9:40 This is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 a Walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

eglinTon ToWn cenTre (ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

The BoxTrolls 3d Fri-sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 sun 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 The BoxTrolls Fri 1:15 sat 11:20, 12:45 sun 12:40, 2:45 david BoWie is (PG) Thu 7:30 sat 12:55 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 sat 11:00, 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 sun 12:50, 3:35, 6:25 mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55 dr. CaBBie (PG) Thu-Fri, sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 sat 11:35, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 The drop (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-sat 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 The equalizer (18A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:25, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:35, 10:00, 10:45 sat 12:40, 1:25, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:35, 10:00, 10:45 sun 12:45, 1:25, 3:40, 4:20, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:20, 5:45, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 findinG fanny (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 Guardians of The Galaxy (PG) Thu 4:30 Fri-sat 1:45, 4:35 sun 1:25, 4:15 mon-Wed 4:15 Guardians of The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:15 Frisat 7:25, 10:15 sun-Wed 7:05, 10:00 heCTor and The searCh for happiness Fri-sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 huGo (PG) sat 11:00 The hundred-fooT Journey (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50 khooBsuraT (G) Thu 3:55, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 leT’s Be Cops (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-sat 10:00 sun-Wed 9:40 luCy (14A) Thu 4:35 Fri-sat 10:40 sun 9:25 mon-Wed 9:40 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:05, 5:05, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 Fri, sun 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 mon-Wed 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 no Good deed Thu 2:45, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Fri, sun 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 sat 12:15, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 mon-Wed 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 The noveMBer Man (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 9:40 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) Thu 5:00 Fri 3:00, 5:30 sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30 sun 3:05, 5:35 mon-Wed 5:30 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:05 Fri-sat 8:05, 10:40 sun 8:05, 10:30 mon-Wed 8:00, 10:30 This is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 a Walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-sat 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:45 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 Thu 10:30 Fri-Wed 7:15, 10:30 daaWaT-e-ishq (PG) Thu 3:30, 9:30 Fri 4:30, 9:30 satsun 4:15, 9:30 mon-Wed 9:30 dr. CaBBie (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 5:15, 7:30 findinG fanny (PG) Thu 6:30 Madras Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 sat-sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 siGaraM Thodu Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

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mon-Wed 9:05 The BoxTrolls 3d Fri-sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 The BoxTrolls Fri, sun 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 sat 11:55, 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 8:50 The CapTive (14A) Thu 4:40 daWn of The planeT of The apes (PG) Thu 4:05 daWn of The planeT of The apes 3d (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:45 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 dr. CaBBie (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 The drop (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 The equalizer: The iMax experienCe (18A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-sat 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 The equalizer (18A) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Fri-sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 The expendaBles 3 (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:45 The f Word (14A) Thu 4:25, 6:30 Guardians of The Galaxy (PG) 4:15 Fri-sun 1:25 mat Guardians of The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:20 FriWed 7:00, 9:45 heCTor and The searCh for happiness Fri, sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 monWed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 huGo (PG) sat 11:00 if i sTay (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-sat 1:05, 3:35, 6:40 sun 1:05, 6:40 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:35 khooBsuraT (G) Thu, mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Frisun 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 leT’s Be Cops (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 Fri, sun 1:35, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 sat 11:05, 1:35, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 luCy (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Fri 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 sat 1:05, 3:05, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 sun 3:35, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 mon 4:25, 9:00 Tue 4:25, 6:40, 9:00 Wed 6:40, 9:00 MaTTheW Bourne’s sleepinG BeauTy sun 12:55 The Maze runner: The iMax experienCe (PG) Thu 4:00 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 sat 11:20, 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 mon-Wed 4:20, 4:50, 6:55, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 My liTTle pony equesTria Girls: rainBoW roCks sat 11:15 sun 3:30 mon 6:30 no Good deed Thu 5:40, 7:45, 10:00 Fri, sun 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:05 sat 1:35, 3:35, 5:40, 7:55, 10:05 monWed 5:05, 7:10, 9:20 The noveMBer Man (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) Thu 4:10 Fri-sun 1:10, 3:55 mon-Wed 4:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles 3d (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:35 This is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, sun 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 a Walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu, mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, sun 2:05, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sat 11:30, 2:05, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20

rainBoW promenade (i)

promenade mall, hWY 7 & BaThursT, 416-494-9371 The BoxTrolls Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:25 Boyhood (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 dolphin Tale 2 (G) 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 The equalizer (18A) Thu 7:00, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:50 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 no Good deed Thu 1:10, 4:05 This is Where i leave you (14A) Thu-sun, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 mon 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 a Walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30

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Noon & 2 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm. Great White Shark. 3 pm. sun 28 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 2 & 4 pm. mon-Wed – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar.

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saT 27 – The Forbidden Films Of Bugs Bunny and friends. 7 pm. Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 9 pm. sun 28 – 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. mon 29 – The Amorphous Mind Police Factor (2014) D: Chris Minz. 8 pm.

Tue 30 – 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.

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Thu 25-sun 28 – South Asian features, docs and shorts from Canada and the world.

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Amit Gupta, and short films Late Late (2014) D: Samrat Chakrabarti, Alchemy D: Pranay Patwardhan and Kush (2013) D: Shubhashish Bhutiani. 6:30 pm.

Fri 26 – Canadian Shorts: Nobody (2014) D: Jonathan Dubsky, Kirpa (2014) D: Kiran Rai, Horrid When She’s Bad (2014) D: Firdaus Bilimoria, and others. 6:30 pm. saT 27 – Canadian Features: Rock Paper Dice Enter (2014) D: Shreela Chakrabartty and Kash Gauni, and short films If You Love Your Children (2014) D: Sanjay Patel, and Ice Cream Wallah (2014) D: Terrie Samundura, and others. 1:30 pm. Life Is Beautiful (2014) D: Manoj Amarnani, and short films Hechki and It’s About Time. 3:30 pm. Little Terrors (2012) D: Maninder Chana, and short film My Brother Karim. 6:30 pm. sun 28 – Documentary Series: The Conflicted Samaritan (2014) D: Cyrus Sundar Singh, Many Rivers Home (2014) D: Baljit Sangra, and short films Why Poverty (2012) D: Wilbur Sargunaraj, Love.Love.Love. (2013) D: Sandhya Daisy Sundaram, and others. 3 pm.

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saT 27-ocT 3 – Celebration of Palestinian cinema, music, cuisine and art. $10, stu/ ñ srs $7. Sahtain! brunch $20. TPFF-10 card $75. saT 27 – Opening night: Palestine Stereo

(2013) D: Rashid Masharawi, and short film Leaving Oslo. 7 pm (TBL). sun 28 – Sahtain! Palestinian Brunch, with a screening of short film Resistance Recipes (2013) D: Dasa Raimanova, Alicia Qandil and Yazeed Abu Khadair. 11 am. $20 (BZ). Omar (2014) D: Hany Abu-Assad, and Blued (2013) D: Rama Mari. 6 pm (CZ). mon 29 – Giraffada (2013) D: Rani Massalha, and short film Sofa Journey.

7 pm (AGO). The Road To Silverstone (2013) D: Johan Eriksson, Condom Lead (2013) D: Tarzan and Arab Nasser, and short film Message To Obama. 9 pm (AGO).

Tue 30 – Land Of The Story (2012) D: Rashid Masharawi, and Xenos (2013) D: Mahdi Fleifel. 7 pm (AGO). The Village Under The Forest (2013) D: Mark Kaplan, and short film 20 Handshakes For Peace. 9 pm (AGO).

Wed 1 – Cinema Palestine (2014) D: Tim Schwab. Director in attendance. 7 pm (AGO).

Just Play (2012) D: Dimitri Chimenti, and Smile, And The World Will Smile Back (2014) D: Al-Haddad family, Ehab Tarabieh and Yoav Gross. 9 pm (AGO).

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6:30 pm. $15. ianevans.ca. Code Black (2013) D: Ryan McGarry. 9 pm.

Fri 26 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago (2013) D: Lydia Smith. 7 pm. I Am Steve McQueen (2014) D: Jeff Renfroe. 6:30 pm. Bullitt (1968) D: Peter Yates. 8:30 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. Shadowcast presentation. 11:30 pm. saT 27 – Faith Connections (2013) D: Pan Nalin.

12:30 pm. Planet in Focus presents The Green Chain (2007) D: Mark Leiren-Young, followed by discussion. 3:30 pm. Free. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 6:30 pm. JFL42 presents The Benson Movie Interruption, screening a film (TBA) with live commentary by comics. 9 pm. jfl42.com.

triguing, unlikely ways.

Two films that premiered at TIFF 2013 use the endless crisis as background for deeper human stories.

The opening­night film, Rashid Masharawi’s Palestine Stereo (Saturday, 7 pm), is a kitchen­sink dramedy in which two young men launch a mobile P.A. system business to raise funds to emigrate to Canada after their home is levelled by a missile. Rani Massalha’s Giraffada (Monday, 7 pm), meanwhile, is a drama about a young boy (Ahmed Bayatra) caring for a giraffe at his father’s zoo after her mate dies.

Israeli air strikes are the catalyst for both narratives, but the Israelis themselves are barely acknowledged.

That conflict is abstracted to the point where its carnage might as well have been left in the wake of a natural

disaster. In these movies, the human stories unfold without any reference to politics.

For more on this, check out Tim Schwab’s Cinema Palestine (Wednesday, 7 pm), a Canadian documentary about a number of prominent Palestinian filmmakers, including Palestine Stereo’s Masharawi and Hany Abu­Assad (whose Oscar­nominated Omar gets a special screening at CineStarz in Mississauga Sunday at 6 pm), that examines the state of the emerging art.

Schwab will be part of a post­screening panel discussion along with Giraffada co­star Mohamed Bakri and documentarian Mais Darwazah, whose film My Love Awaits Me By The Sea closes the norman Wilner festival October 3.

sun 28 – Faith Connections. 12:30 & 8:45pm. Reel Asian Film Festival presents I Am: Smtown Live World Tour (2013) D: Choi Jin-sung, as part of Culture Days. 3:30 pm.

Free. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 6:30 pm.

Tue 30 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 4 pm. Children 404 (2014) D: Pavel Loparev and Askold Kurov. 6:30 pm. Faith Connections. 8:45 pm.

Wed 1 – Doc Soup presents Marmato (2014) D: Mark Grieco. Q&A w/ filmmaker to follow. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. hotdocs.ca/docsoup.

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pm. Boyhood (2014) D: Richard Linklater. 9 pm. saT 27-sun 28 – How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (2014) D: Dean DeBlois. 1:30 pm.

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saT 27 – How To Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) D: Dean DeBlois. 2 pm. Boyhood. 4 pm. Frank (2014) D: Lenny Abrahamson. 7 pm. Moebius.

9 pm sun 28 – How To Train Your Dragon 2. 2 pm.

Frank. 7 pm. Moebius. 9 pm mon 29-Tue 30 – Frank. 4 & 7 pm. Moebius. 9 pm.

Wed 1 – Call/check website for schedule.

other films Thu 25-Fri 26 – Kathryn Fasegha presents Treacherous Heart (2012) D: Kathryn Fasegha.

Thu at First Baptist Church (101 Huron); Fri at Grant AME Church (2029 Gerrard E). Both at 7 pm, $10. treacherousheart.com.

Fri 26 – Toronto Socialist Action Rebel Films series presents 5 Broken Cameras (2011) D: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-280. socialistaction.ca/rebel-films. saT 27 – Downtown Markham presents Back To The Drive-In Double Feature: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg, and Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. Gates 6:30 pm. Outdoor seating for those without a car. Free. 85 Enterprise Blvd, downtownmarkahm.ca/drivein. sun 28 – Bad Movie Night Toronto presents Inframan (1975) D: Shan Hua. 7:30 pm. Free.

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Ready to get out there I’m a 28-year-old pan-curIous marrIed

guy from the Midwest about to move to San Francisco. I’ve been with my wife for 10 years (married four), and we’ve started to explore being monogamish. I am also re-exploring my bi attractions. I’ve been thinking a lot about the opportunities for reinvention that our cross-country move might provide. My wife is GGG and fully supportive, but I still feel apprehensive about getting back out there.

I’d like to believe that I am not a complete fool at being charming when it comes to dating, but after 10 years of monogamy, I’m worried that my sex knowledge is the sex that works for my wife and me. And there’s the fact that I am very new to guys, with just one short-term M/M relationship and one terrible hookup under my belt.

Any tips for bolstering one’s confidence and making new sexual encounters as fun and unawkward as possible? Is there a resource for dating and hookups culture? I know the basics of safe-sex practices, but little of clubs, kink parties, Growlr/Tinder, etc. I want to slut it up in SF, but I don’t know where to start.

Newbie (New Bi?) Slut

“My first piece of advice for anyone opening up their relationship is to take things slow,” said Polly Superstar, co-founder and hostess of Kinky Salon, a pansexual, pan-kink, pan-everything party-space/institution in San Francisco.

“Why jump off a cliff when you can take the stairs? However supportive his wife is of his new adventures, it’s likely to bring up some unexpected emotions, so just take it one step at a time, communicate clearly and be patient with each other.”

And while your feelings and your wife’s feelings are paramount – you are each other’s primary partners, in poly parlance – the other people you hook up with have limbic systems of their own. Too many people stroll into their first sex club or kink party expecting to find a room full of human Fleshlights at their disposal and are shocked to find other human beings with desires, preferences and limits of their own. So taking it one step at a time, communicating clearly, and being patient isn’t just for you and your wife – it’s for anyone you play with, NNBS, even if you may never see them again.

As for messing around with men…

“After 10 years of monogamy with a woman, it’s not surprising he’s apprehensive about having sex with men,” said Superstar. “That’s totally normal! But I don’t believe that sexual confidence with new partners is the key to great hookups. There are a gazillion books out there teaching people techniques for self-confidence, but most of them just teach you how to be an asshole. He should just be himself and be real. Accepting that new sexual encounters can be awkward is the first step in making them less so.”

Superstar took the words right out of my mouth. Acknowledging and embracing the awkwardness is the only way to get past it. You know how a drunk never seems drunker than when he’s trying to pretend he’s not drunk?

Pretending you aren’t feeling awkward when you are makes you seem more awkward. So practise saying, “I’m new at this, I’m a little nervous, and I’m feeling a little awkward.”

Good people – people you might want to mess around with – will make an effort to put you at ease. Shitty people – people you wouldn’t want to mess around with – will do you the favour of wandering off.

But whether you want to explore with men or women, NNBS, Superstar—who has something of a bias—recommends sex parties. “They’re a great place to explore because there’s no commitment,” said Superstar. “You can meet someone, make out, fool around for a bit, and if you’re not feeling it, you can go do something else. Obviously I would recommend my event, Kinky Salon, for a newbie bi guy. We are queer-friendly and a great place to meet people. He could even bring his wife along. It’s a lot safer and more community-driven than the anonymity of a bathhouse, and there are more opportunities to flirt, make out and socialize, which are nice baby steps to take.”

To learn more about Kinky Salon – which now

hosts parties in London, Copenhagen, Berlin, New York, Portland and New Orleans – go to kinkysalon.com. Polly Superstar is the author of the new memoir Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary (sexculturerevolutionary.com). Follow her on Twitter @pollysuperstar.

Passing on pissing you are comIng to mInneapolIs next

weekend to host your HUMP! porn festival. I have tickets. Would it be possible for me to drink your piss before or after a screening?

Pervert Into Savage Sauce That wouldn’t be possible, PISS, as I have no plans to urinate while I am in Minneapolis.

How open is open? my wIfe and I are In an open relatIon-

ship. It started because my wife found flirtatious text messages I sent to a co-worker. She confronted me calmly and said she knew our sexual relationship hadn’t been great. She was not that interested in sex, as she’d gained about 50 pounds. I was still attracted to her, but I was rejected half the time. The other half, we had good sex, but nothing new or interesting.

She said she was willing to try an open relationship. I offered other solutions (porn and toys), but she said she just didn’t have the libido for it. We talked it to death before deciding we should move into (open) uncharted waters.

I had a year-long relationship with my coworker that ended when my wife and I moved. During that time, my wife never had a sexual experience with anyone else, but she started losing weight and we started having better and more frequent sex. Now I’m not looking for anything on the side. But she has embarked on sexual relationships with sev-

eral people, including threesomes with her best friend and best friend’s husband, a neighbour and a co-worker.

I know I sound like an asshole, but I am insanely jealous. I feel like she’s getting to know our new city by sleeping with everyone in the neighbourhood. Four partners in two months seems crazy to me. Do I deal with this by ending our agreement to share information about outside partners? Or do I tell her I don’t want an open relationship any more, which seems like a dick move considering my past longterm relationship and the newness of her explorations?

Other People Excluded Now It sounds like you and the wife had different ideas about what your open relationship would look like. What you were doing with your former co-worker sounds like poly-style openness – you had an ongoing emotional and sexual relationship – while what your wife is doing with her best friend, her best friend’s husband, the neighbour and her co-worker sounds more like fuck-whoever-you-want openness.

Reading between the lines, OPEN, it seems

that what really bothers you about your wife’s explorations – “sleeping with everyone in the neighbourhood” – is the potential for gossip.

Not everyone in an open relationship is comfortable being out about it; some people who aren’t sexually monogamous nevertheless wish to be socially monogamous, i.e., perceived to be monogamous, because they fear being judged or even discriminated against.

Or perhaps the issue is this: If people know your wife is sleeping around but don’t know about the open relationship, you may look like a foolish and fooled husband. Those are legitimate concerns, and your wife needs to take your feelings into consideration, and you two need to reopen negotiations. The best compromise may be for your wife to dial it back – fewer partners, more discretion – while simultaneously shifting to a DADT arrangement or, as you put it, ending your agreement to share info about your outside partners.

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