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1. Dear Olivia Publisher and editor Michael Hollett vents his frustration with mayoral candidate Olivia Chow’s campaign and encourages her to take more risks in the final stretch. 2. Who’s Tory now? Just when it seemed like progressives could get behind John Tory, he’s dodging reporters and skipping debates.
38 MUSIC 38 The Scene Jennifer Castle, Bryan Ferry, Fucked Up, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 40 Interview Tennis 42 Club & concert listings 44 Interview Banks 45 Interview Kiran Ahluwalia 46 T.O. Notes 50 Albums
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58 Underwater action Climate change meets everyday life in Lars Jan’s human aquarium, plus all the must-see installations at the all-night art party, complete listings and more Photo by Michael Watier | Annie Saunders of Holoscenes
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10 News briefs HudBay protest; 16 F-word Redefining feminism Nik Beat R.I.P. 18 Police story Cop union takes aim at 12 Ford Fest Glory days are gone board chair 14 El Mo closing Curtains for fabled club 22 Election lies Mayoral polygraph test
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Re Michael Hollett’s Open Letter To Olivia Chow (NOW, September 25October 1). Unfortunately for Chow, people now vote against can didates instead of for candidates in elections. In this mayoral race, people are voting against the Fords and have decided to back John Tory. Ideas, promises, visionary leadership don’t count any more. It’s all about get ting rid of somebody. And we won der why nothing ever gets done. Gary Brigden Toronto
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Thank you for publishing Scott Tay lor’s excellent article on the Cana dian government’s decision to send troops to fight ISIS in Iraq (NOW, September 1824). It’s time for Western leaders to confront the reality of the beast they have created in the Middle East, Kosovo and elsewhere. Michael Pravica From nowtoronto.com
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Alannah Myles, Jamyz Bee and Lynn Crosbie were among locals mourning the death last week of long-time CIUT Howl host, poet and singer/songwriter Nik Beat, aka Michael Barry. “He had a voice like a jar of panty remover,” wrote Crosbie in a poem posted on her website. Read Robert Priest’s appreciation at nowtoronto.com.
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At Ford Fest, the gruff older brother of your favourite oafish antihero proves a less compelling character By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE ord Fest is usually pretty easy to de scribe. The family’s occasional pub lic tributes to itself can be captured with a few of the following words: entertaining, energetic, rowdy, sur real, dubious, violent and fun. But the Saturday, September 27, edition at Islington and Dixon is quite a bit harder to characterize. I could tell you it was bleak, because Doug Ford, not his comparatively likeable brother Rob, is now the one running for mayor. I could tell you it was sombre, be cause Rob’s illness meant he could put in only a brief appearance. I could tell you it was wearying, because both the hosts and the few thousand guests who showed up seemed to be going through the motions. None of that, however, conveys the feel of Ford Fest Etobicoke 2014. Here are five suggestions for ways to grasp it: 1. As a reflection of the landscape Ford Fest took place in a small field atop a hill over looking a Walmart, Scotiabank and payday loan cen tre. The Sears Outlet Store’s gargantuan white bunker loomed large in the background, not so graciously shar ing the property with a political family hawk ing its own set of flawed wares. The store’s rusted water tower seemed un impressed. The vast flatness of North Etobicoke stretched off into the distance as planes soared overhead to prettier locales. The parking lot, twice the size of the field, was accessible by car from both major cross streets. Those arriving by transit from the south found themselves forced to jaywalk through several lanes of traffic. A pungent dumpster greeted them at the entrance. To the west, a grassy, damp hydro corridor pro vided cover for Line 9, the Enbridge pipeline that will soon carry bitumen east from the Alberta tar sands. Patches of dirt marked recent integrity digs in tended to ensure that the cracked pipe remains fit for service. Activists blockaded the site in July. To the north, the only real sign of life: an extended strip mall of Hakka and kebab restaurants that stayed lively long after dark.
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2. As a darker, grittier reboot of Ford Nation Doug Ford needs Ford Nation to believe it’s not in thrall to just one person, that it’s committed to a lar ger, more abstract premise that can withstand spora dic recasting and shifts in approach (and his brother’s cancer diagnosis). Doug needs Ford Nation to believe that Ford Fest isn’t, in fact, about Rob but, rather, a grander cause and brand. That it’s more a celebration of ideals and tropes than of a single personality. His take on the lead role is markedly different from his predecessor’s, and Saturday’s Ford Fest adapted to the new tone: harsh, unforgiving and remote. It featured all the trademark trappings: free bur gers, amusement rides, the familiar Mayor Ford (The World Will Remember) theme song. But there was lit tle of the typical charm. 3. As one-half of a Godfather montage Many people use analogies with violence and war to discuss the experience of illness. When Rob took the mic, he described his past staredowns with alcohol and drug addiction, and his current encounter with cancer, in terms that were vivid in their specificity. “I had a guy,” he told the crowd in a 10minute speech, “I had a guy that I was looking [at] in the mirror every morning and saying, ‘You know what? I can’t beat this guy.’ Wherever I went, that guy was there. And he was beatin’ me every time. So you know what? I took that guy out the back. And I took care o’ him. There was one less guy that we have to worry about now!” The crowd went wild. “So, folks, we got that straightened out, we’re going down the right path. And a couple weeks ago, the doc tor came up to me and said, ‘Rob, we got a bit of a prob lem.’ I said, ‘What’s that, Doc?’ He said, ‘You know that guy that you took around the back, that you took care of a few months ago?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I know that guy I looked [at] in the morning every day.’ He says, ‘You got someone bigger and badder than that.’ I said, ‘Who is that guy?’ And he said, ‘Cancer!’ I said, ‘Really, eh? You know what? Go tell Cancer that I’m gonna put him where I put that guy in the mirror two months ago!’” The mayor clearly appeared ill but looked better than feared.
It seldom bodes well for a spinoff when the highlight is a cameo by the original’s star.
4. As an unremarkable TV spinoff All the things that made the earlier Ford Show a hit are still there in theory: the same creative team, the same silly catchphrases, the same deft blend of satire and farce. Yet they now don’t exceed the sum of their parts; the new show lacks the heart and the chemistry that made the previous one a success with audiences, if not critics. The gruff older brother of your favourite oafish antihero has proven to be a less compelling character. The longtime fans give it a shot and try to get into it. The diehards keep the faith through the likely sea son finale. But it seldom bodes well for a spinoff when the highlight of the pilot is the surprise cameo by the original’s star. 5. As Uncle Moe’s Family Feedbag (as suggested by @jessehawken) Doug Ford’s affection for voters is authentic only so far as it’s reciprocated. He likes being liked, but he’s not so big on doing the liking. He will stand and smile and pose and soak up all the adoration you have to of fer, but unlike his brother, nothing in his bearing sug gests that this comes naturally. He acts less as himself and more as the person he thinks he now has to be. It’s a pantomime of his broth er. In The Simpsons episode Bart Sells His Soul, bar tender Moe Szyslak attempts to tap into a broader cus tomer base by reopening his eponymous tavern as a kitschy family eatery. Wearing a perpetual forced grin, he awkwardly refashions himself as a lovable restaurateur who is not at all bitter, not at all repulsed by children. But the indignities mount and Moe’s patience with other humans wears thin. He ultimately loses his cool, cusses out his customers and brings the whole enter prise to the ground. 3 jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie
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music’s over at el mo Fabled Spadina rock spot immortalized by surprise Stones performance was also an important incubator for city’s punk and queer party scenes
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This time it looks like it might really be the end. The historic El Mocambo has gone through more owners than anyone can count over the decades, but if it is transformed into a giant computer store in a couple of months, as is widely rumoured, it will be the final chapter of what is arguably Canada’s most famous live music club. Granted, most of that fame is due to the Rolling Stones’ surprise 1977 appearance – and what may or may not have happened in the back room with Maggie Trudeau. Immortalized on the Stones’ Love You Live, it will forever be the moment most associate with those iconic neon palms. But reliving the classic rock glory days of the distant past was the last thing on the minds of the vast majority of regulars hitting all-ages punk shows in the mid-90s. We were there to see bands like Suckerpunch play amped-up punkabilly, the Sinisters slashing themselves onstage like Iggy Pop, and Armed and Hammered’s hardcore mayhem. If we did want to feel nostalgic about the place, we looked to legendary early appearances by Blondie, the Ramones, Devo and Joan Jett. The club couldn’t have been making much money: ownership changed regularly. Nevertheless, the niche carved out by bookers like Jeff Cohen (now coowner of the Horseshoe and Lee’s Palace) and William New made the El Mo a vital part of the 90s underground scene. Along with the punk shows, the rest of the alternative music spectrum found a place as well. On any given night you could get psych rock, alt-country, shoegaze and even hip-hop and techno parties,
both of which struggled to find receptive venues at the time. That past lent the room an air of authenticity that only comes with time. No amount of reclaimed barn wood and vintage knick-knacks can make your contemporary hipster dive feel like an institution. When Dan Burke took over in 1998, he knew better than to drastically change the El Mo’s identity, but recognized that it needed new energy. Burke was a former award-winning journalist who’d left that career after losing himself in the drug scene he was reporting on. He’d stumbled into booking and had already made a name for himself for his wild personality and the edgy acts he brought in. Garage-rock-influenced bands like the Deadly Snakes and emerging international bands like the White Stripes and the Zoobombs started playing the El Mo more often. Burke also saw the potential in an offbeat concept brought to him by late visual artist/activist/DJ Will Munro: a monthly queer rock ’n’ roll party called Vaseline. That event would become such a huge success that Munro had to change the name to “Vazaleen” from the original spelling copyrighted by the petroleum jelly maker. It was one of the few places where queers of all genders would mix with their straight friends. Vazaleen also played a big role in the early careers of artists like Peaches and the Hidden Cameras, while helping blaze a path for queer culture out of the gay village and into the west end. The monthly Britpop and mod night Blow Up also kept the El Mo busy during that era. Burke’s dramatic departure (he got arrested), marked the beginning of the club’s descent. His plan to move the El Mo’s famous sign around the corner to the former Ted’s Wrecking Yard was quashed by the city, which argued that clubs aren’t allowed on College (despite the fact that Ted’s had been running there for years). When Abbas Jahangiri bought the club in 2001, everything changed. He renovated radically, stripping away much of the raw rock ’n’ roll charm. He tried to transform the upstairs into a dance studio, but later turned it back into a live room, even briefly hiring back both Burke and New to book the second floor. Much as the Jahangiri period has been maligned, especially in indie rock circles, the El Mocambo played an important role hosting more DJ events, once again providing a home for shows that had trouble getting booked in more prestigious rooms. When Jahangiri sold the building to focus on his missionary work in 2012, people hoped the new owners, Cadillac Lounge’s Sam Grosso and 99 Sudbury’s Marco Petrucci, would restore some of its glory. Restoring the famous neon sign was a great first move. But the planned revival didn’t take off. Behind the scenes, the partners weren’t agreeing on a direction, and the situation devolved from there. It was no secret that Grosso was trying to find a new partner, but no one bit. While Yvonne Matsell initially carried on as booker, Grosso soon took over those duties. Unfortunately, booking a club the size of the El Mocambo is very different from signing acts for the Cadillac Lounge, and it remained empty more often than it featured hot new bands. Still, it’s strange that the best offer so far is from a computer shop, according to the rumours. Even though the building needs some major renovations, you’d think the liquor licence alone would attract a serious offer. Toronto is hurting for live venues that size, and given the current regulations on nightlife, it would be next to impossible to build one and get it licensed. Unless something miraculous happens, it’s too late to save the El Mocambo. It was probably never going be a rock ’n’ roll club again, but I want to believe that some heroic benefactor will come to its rescue at the last minute. Still, if this is the end, we’ve had some really great times. Let’s hope, as Grosso’s hinted, the sign will stay. 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles
EL MO’S GREATEST HITS 1946 At El Mocambo’s official opening the famous neon palm sign lights up for the first time. March 4, 1977 The Rolling Stones, billed as the Cockroaches, play a surprise show later immortalized on Love You Live. The opening act is April Wine, who squeeze their own concert album, Live At The El Mocambo, out of their performance. March 6, 1978 Elvis Costello records Live At The El Mocambo. August 3, 1978 Blondie perform. Photos of the show later appear in Don Pyle’s Toronto punk photo book Trouble In The Camera Club. July 12, 1979 The Ramones perform. Tickets cost $7.50. December 9, 1980 U2 make their first Canadian appearance. July 20, 1983 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble record Live At The El Mocambo. 1993 Elvis Monday begins five-year run after starting at the Beverley in 1984. The weekly showcase is still going across town at the Drake after 30 years. June 1998 Dan Burke takes over booking. January 2000 Influential queer punk party Vaseline launches, then changes name to Vazaleen after legal threats from the petroleum jelly maker. April 26, 2000 Zoobombs record Bomb You Live. November 4, 2001 Abbas Jahangiri takes over and converts the second floor into a dance studio. July 2012 Sam Grosso and Marco Petrucci take over. Squabbles over what direction to take ensue. November 6, 2014 The last show, with an unremarkable roster of bands. Compiled by Benjamin Boles
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From left, Lena Dunham, Beyonce and Emma Watson are redefining feminism.
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ow, look who wants to be a feminist: Beyoncé, Emma Watson, Lana Del Rey. I sure as hell don’t want to stop them from claiming the term. A zillion Beyoncé fans staring at the word as it glows on her stage set? Bring it on. But as celebrities leap onto a bandwagon they used to avoid like crazy, I’m fascinated by how they’re defining the f-word. Does it mean anything any more? Caitlin Moran recently checked into town to promote her new book, How To Build A Girl (Harper Avenue). She’s happy to call herself a feminist but in a recent Toronto Star interview explained why young women aren’t so willing to label themselves that way. “One of the things that have put young women off feminism is thinking that specifically means wearing dungarees, being angry at men, being a lesbian and shaving your hair off,” she says. “Of course that’s not feminism at all. It is simply the belief that women should be equal to men.” Days later, Emma Watson, the articulate new UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, urged young women not to think of feminism as man-hating but as simple respect for gender equality, something men should care about, too. Good on her. That’s another zillion young women influenced by a celebrity they admire. The important thing about both Moran’s and Watson’s statements is that they engage a new generation. But engage in what? Let’s tease out Moran’s statement, starting with the bit about dungarees. Okay, we don’t wear jeans all the time, but feminists do question a fashion world that celebrates women who, when they stand in profile and
stick their tongues out, look like zippers. And we do want to analyze a billion-dollar beauty industry that sucks away women’s bank accounts. That’s why I take Lena Dunham seriously. In her new book, Not That Kind Of Girl (Doubleday), she talks about body issues, and she makes sure her TV show, Girls, is in-yourface about them. As for the lesbian issue, it’s worth mentioning that many of the deepest thinkers of feminism’s second wave were lesbians, often because, by living outside the heterosexual paradigm, they were able to help say exactly how gender inequality works. But is gender equality enough? It matters when it comes to work: women still don’t earn equal pay for work of equal value, and domestic responsibilities are not considered worthy of payment at all. (Were men equally involved in housework, this wouldn’t be a problem). Or when women’s opinions aren’t taken seriously. But I don’t want blue and pink to be equal. I want to shop at children’s stores where blue and pink don’t mean boys and girls. Let’s break out of those rigid sex roles (and, by the way, who said there were only two genders?) that deform males as much as females. Boys can cry, girls can lead. You see what I mean. None of this is intended to discourage women from embracing their inner feminist. But it does make me
I don’t want blue and pink to be equal. I want blue and pink not to mean boys and girls.
want to bring back the hyphen. I’m referring to that much-mocked 80s tendency to string a series of words together to define an identity – as in socialist-lesbian-feminist with an eco twist. When Moran says man-hating lesbians wearing dungarees are not feminism at all, I give her the benefit of the doubt and assume she means that isn’t her personal definition. Because really there isn’t just one feminism, any more than any of us can claim only one identity. We see ourselves in many ways, some of them contradictory. Me, I’m a radical feminist, lesbian mother – and sports fan, to name just a few. And for the record, I believe manhating is a waste of time. Get men involved in eradicating rape culture – it warps them, too. Get them to see their stake in feminist ideas. Encourage them to do like California state senator Kevin de León, who tabled a sexual assault law designed for college campus judicial hearings – just signed by governor Jerry Brown – that radically rewrites the meaning of consent. It shifts the standard of consent from whether a person says no to whether all parties say yes. Silence – drunken or otherwise – is not consent. In championing the bill, de León talked about concern for sisters, daughters and nieces on campus. Of course, men ought to care about sexual assault, whether or not they have daughters, but if it’s a useful argument for getting them to give a damn about violence against women I’m for it. So Watson may not have had the most radical vision when she addressed the UN on September 20, but the De Leon bill is exactly the kind of action she yearns for – and we need.
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COP BOSS TAKES AIM Double-barrelled PR offensive targets Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee and threat of budget cuts By BEN SPURR As momentum for a major shakeup of the Toronto Po lice Service (TPS) appears to be growing, the union representing Toronto’s cops has launched a pair of “communications strategies,” one of them mocking the head of the force’s civilian oversight board. In response to what he describes as the “myths be ing peddled around police issues,” Toronto Police As
sociation (TPA) president Mike McCormack an nounced the plans in the September issue of union magazine Tour Of Duty. “The policing profession has the dubious honour of being bombarded daily with ‘absurd’ and often misin formed, biased and inflammatory comments from bureaucrats and public officials,” McCormack wrote.
Toronto Police Association head Mike McCormack says popular criticisms of police practices, including lucrative paid duty jobs and overtime, are grossly oversimplified.
“It speaks volumes about what the union thinks of transforming policing.”
The first strategy, “Just The Facts,” was rolled out in August in response to a Toronto Star article about pro posals to streamline the force, and involved sending “fact sheets” to media. The second, a “satirical poster campaign” dubbed “Absurd Is The Word,” takes aim at Toronto Police Ser vices Board chair Alok Mukherjee’s suggestion that it may not be necessary to equip all officers with fire arms and that civilians could be trained to handle some calls. The first of the posters, which appeared on the cov er of this month’s Tour of Duty, misattributes a quote to Mukherjee about “taking guns away” from officers (the phrasing was actually a Star reporter’s). The ac companying text reads: “All in favour of disarming our cops… raise your hands.” Below it is a photo of a man in an orange prison jumpsuit holding both his arms in the air, suggesting that only criminals would support taking guns from cops. McCormack says the posters weren’t necessarily meant for public consumption. They will appear in police units as well as on the TPA website and Face book page. Mukherjee is not amused. He says the attack “speak[s] volumes about what the association thinks of the idea of transforming how policing is done.” Councillor Pam McConnell, who sat on the police board from 2003 to 2010, says the poster campaign is a sign that the TPA sees the conversation about mod ernization as a threat. “The association still thinks of it as a we/they, bad guy/good guy” kind of thing, she says. The feud between the TPA and the board chair comes amid fresh debate over what kind of police ser vice Toronto should have and how much the public should be paying for it. A series of highprofile shoot ings has led to calls for officers’ use of force to be cur tailed, and politicians are ramping up pressure to re duce police spending. The board’s decision to let Chief Bill Blair go when his contract expires in April has continued on page 20 œ
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been widely seen as a consequence of his unwillingness to aggressively pursue cost-cutting reforms. Successive administrations have failed to control the force’s spending. Between 2001 and 2011, Toronto’s gross police budget expanded from $592 million to $974 million. Over the same period, crime decreased 17.1 per cent and violent crime fell 14.8 per cent. The costs of policing are also increasing faster than those for other city services. In 2011 the force accounted for 10.4 per cent of the city’s budget; in 2014 it accounted for 11.4 per cent, with TPS expenditures hitting $1.1 billion. In a mayoral campaign lauded for its straight talk, now-withdrawn candidate David Soknacki warned that policing costs are the “largest single challenge” to the city’s budget. Unless they are brought under control, Soknacki says, we will be unable to “afford to build the city we want.” Toronto’s force isn’t the only one under scrutiny. A study released this month by conservative think tank the Fraser Institute found that Canadians everywhere are paying more for law enforcement even as crime across all major categories is declining. Mukherjee, now in his eleventh year on the board, argues that the force is too reliant on armed, uniformed officers who command high salaries. He asserts that a maximum of 30 per cent of police work now involves fighting crime, while the rest is dealing with calls like domestic disputes and people in mental distress that could be better handled by people trained in areas other than traditional gun-and-badge law enforcement. Mukherjee has plenty of data to back him up. According to police documents, only 23 per cent of officers’ service time is spent on “Priority 1”
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emergency calls. Twenty-one per cent is spent on calls like domestic incidents, personal injuries and people in emotional distress. A 2011 Ernst & Young report found that 227 TPS positions of the total uniformed complement of over 5,000 officers didn’t require police training, powers of arrest or the use of a firearm, and that hiring civilians to do those jobs would save $3.7 million a year. “It’s not possible to deal with the issue of the economics of policing simply by making some superficial changes,” Mukherjee says. “We need to rethink everything that we do.” He says the TPA’s poster campaign signals “a refusal to engage in a debate.” Over coffee at NOW’s offices, McCormack defends the posters, arguing that disarming part of the police force is “just not a reality.” He says that while officers are dispatched to many incidents that may not initially involve criminality, “there’s a potential for disorder or criminality” in most cases. In McCormack’s view, popular criticisms of po-
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lice practices, including lucrative paid duty jobs and the shift structure that sees the city pay for 28 hours of police work every 24 hours, have been grossly oversimplified. He stresses that the TPA is not opposed to reducing costs – he cites as an example the decision to farm out booking and forensic identification jobs to civilians. The TPS is also coming out of a three-year hiring freeze. But the timing of the TPA’s campaign is no coincidence. Next spring, the TPS will get a new chief, and the board looks certain to pick a leader who shares Mukherjee’s vision of a revamped force. That change in leadership will coincide with the expiry at the end of 2014 of the force’s collective agreement, which represents a chance to renegotiate the salaries and benefits that make up 89.1 per cent of the police budget. The outcome of the political battles that unfold over the coming months will play a big role in determining what the force looks like in a few years’ time. Councillor Michael Thompson, vice-chair of the Police Services Board, warns that it will be tough to negotiate a cheaper contract, especially given the provincial arbitration system that many blame for inflating police contracts across Ontario. Thompson should know. As Rob Ford’s point man on the policing file, his attempts to rein in the budget were hamstrung by the 11.4 per cent pay raise over four years the city negotiated with the TPA in 2011. Thompson describes reforming the police force as a Sisyphean struggle. “You’ve got a big ball that you’re carrying [up the mountain], and somehow you think that as you move further, it becomes lighter. It becomes heavier, quite frankly.” 3 bens@nowtoronto.com | @BenSpurr
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ELITISM LIE DETECTOR TEST
Doug Ford has declared class war on John Tory, calling him an elitist who’s had everything handed to him on a silver platter. Ford wants to live with the common people, even if he is a millionaire 20 times over. Who’s the real folk hero in the mayor’s race? Hint: it’s the only woman in the contest. Compiled By ENZO DiMATTEO DOUG FORD
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Got Daddy’s name and runs the Ford family label business; won his Ward 2 council seat riding brother Rob’s coattails; mid-level hash dealer back in the day.
Ford family real estate holdings totaling some $10 million; president of Deco Label, with estimated annual sales in the tens of millions; is pretty much bankrolling his candidacy. Ride Lincoln Navigator SUV.
Manse (estimated value $1.7 million) in Princess-Rosethorn neighbourhood of Etobicoke; Muskoka cottage bigger than most people’s homes; several Florida vacation properties.
Likes to throw $20 bills at poor people every time he gets a chance; donates his $100,000 councillor salary to community groups, but is that charity or vote-buying? Wanted to line the port lands with yacht club and high-end retailers; running to preserve the Ford family political legacy.
Thinks anyone who criticizes his mayor brother is a racist (see the shirtless jogger incident); has never asked Rob to explain that “kikes,” “wops” and “niggers” tirade; claims to have nothing against gays – he just won’t participate in the Pride parade; would like autistic kids to stay indoors.
Blueblood who traces his lineage to 1780s Nova Scotia lieutenantgovernor; grew up with the trappings of old money: private school, partner at prestigious family law firm straight out of university. His old man was a trusted adviser to the Thomson family of media empire fame.
Bay Street millionaires club. Still serves on the Rogers board of directors. Was a consummate backroom boy involved in Brian Mulroney’s and Kim Campbell’s campaigns before he decided to vy for political office. Ride 2000 Lexus SUV, but professes a special affinity for Jeep Cherokee.
Stylish Bloor and Bedford condo; Lake Simcoe cottage.
Conspicuous presence at beer fests big and small; in a naked appeal to Ford Nation, he showed up in a Leafs jacket for a one-onone with Globe reporter in Jane and Finch early in the campaign.
Winner of the Black Business and Professional Association’s Diversity Award in 2011; as head of CivicAction pushed transit and investment in priority neighbourhoods; says would pull funding for Pride if QuAIA is allowed to participate.
Daughter of Hong Kong immigrants who grew up in St. James Town having to watch every penny. Father worked odd jobs delivering pizza and driving cab; mother worked as a seamstress, a maid and in a hotel laundry.
Resigned her seat in Parliament, and lost the $163,700 yearly salary that goes with it, to run for mayor. Copped a book deal in the lead-up to her mayoral run. Ride Her bike when she’s not taking the TTC.
Stornoway, official residence of the leader of the opposition, for a short time before her late husband, NDP leader Jack Layton, died. Still lives with her mom in the house on Baldwin she shared with Layton. Lived in co-op before that.
Got her political start championing school nutrition programs. Represented one of the most diverse areas of the city as councillor and later MP since 91.
The only member of a visible minority among the top mayoral contenders; only woman; only one for whom English is second language, making her the target of racist attacks from Ford supporters. Named one of the top 25 immigrants to Canada by Canadian Immigrant magazine in 2012. enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo
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Johnny Cash TribuTe (Street Soccer Canada) NQ Arbuckle, Ron Hawkins & Steve Singh, Danny Greaves, 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 at all stages of life and work celebrates with guest 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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Blanche via installations, performances by Anandam Dance Theatre and Ame Henderson, live music by Tim Hecker and more. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/firstthursdays.
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Talk on how social innovators are using co-op enterprises. 8:30-10:30 pm. $10. Centre For Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. eventbrite.ca deFianT spaCes: disorienTaTion 2014 Alternative frosh week events include talks on decolonization and Indigenous communities (noon2 pm), and building resistance to the PanAm Games (7-9 pm). See website for details. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. diso-uoft.tumblr.com. gmo omg Non-GMO movie night film by Jeremy Seifert about how GMOs affect our kids, the planet and freedom of choice. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. The gourmeT games Taste award-winning wines, learn advanced cooking concepts and discover food/wine pairings. 6:30-10 pm. $80. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. Pre-register gourmetgames.ca.
naTive adverTising: Journalism’s saviour or sellouT? Discussion on the
line between editorial and advertising content with Jill Borra (the Globe and Mail), Scott White (Postmedia) and Cathrin Bradbury (Star Media). 6:30 pm. $30, stu $15. TMX Broadcast Centre, 130 King W. Pre-register cjf-native-advertising.eventbrite.ca. okToberFesT German-style dishes, beer made in-house, a traditional Oom-Pah Pah band and more To Oct 4, 11 am-midnight. Amsterdam BrewHouse, 245 Queens Quay W. 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse. com.
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ToronTo Zombie run 2014 undead unleashed (The Respiratory Therapy Society of
Ontario, Respiratory Therapists Without Borders, Kiwanis Intl) Chilling zombie-infected 5k adventure run course. Pledges. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. undeadunleashed.com.
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Festivals this week
rmarkham Fair Demolition Derby, mid-
way rides, live music by Dear Rouge, kids’ entertainment and more. $15, kids $5. Markham Fairgrounds, 10801 McCowan. markhamfair.ca. Oct 2 to 5 sCoTiabank nuiT blanChe The all-night contemporary art experience features visual and sound art, installations, perform-
should parkdale have a CommuniTy legal CliniC? Public forum. 6 pm. Parkdale Library,
1303 Queen W. parkdaleagainstpoverty@ gmail.com. Tbg organiC Farmers’ markeT Local produce, bread, meat, cheese, honey, gardeners’ advice clinic and more. Thursdays 2-7 pm (indoors in winter). Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. To do warm up parTy Pre-fest event featuring a talk by Khalil Jamal and a peek at the 2015 Toronto Deisgn Offsite Festival. 6:30-10 pm. $10. Gallery 44, 401 Richmond W #120. warmuptodo2015.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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Business meeting at 7:30 pm, talk by author Terry Reardon on Canada in WWII at 8:15 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. wtjhs.ca. wrongFul ConviCTion day Event to increase public awareness of wrongful convictions and talk about change in the criminal justice system. Lecture 3:30 pm, reception 5:30 pm. Free (lecture at capacity). See website for details. Law Society of Upper Canada, 130 Queen W. aidwyc.org/wcd-2014. yiddish vinkl Jack Kuper, author of Child Of The Holocaust, talks about his experiences and buffet lunch. Noon. $20. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com.
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Foundation) Concert for citizen engagement with environmentalist David Suzuki, poet Shane Koyczan,
ances and more along city streets, store fronts and alleyways, from Sat 6:53 pm to sunrise Sun. Free. scotiabanknuitblanche.ca. Oct 4 to 5
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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-theFields Church (365 College) and other human rights activist Stephen Lewis, music by Barenaked Ladies, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida and others. $51.25-$175.75. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. ticketmaster.ca. ghosT walks aT exhibiTion plaCe (United Way) Paranormal tours of the grounds every Fri in Oct. 7-9 pm. $20. Starts at General Services Building, 2 Manitoba. Pre-register 416263-3658.
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alZheimer soCieTy oF ToronTo Choir Ten-
week choir for individuals in the early stages of dementia and family caregivers. No singing experience necessary. Free. Music Therapy Centre, 1175 Bloor W. Pre-register alzheimertoronto.org.
CalamiTy Corners: dundas-College-lansdowne Bike/pedestrian safety memorial
walk. 6:15 pm. Free. Meet at corner of Dundas & Lansdowne. 416-593-2656. deFianT spaCes: disorienTaTion 2014 Alternative frosh week events include workshops to explore ideas around prison abolition (noon-2 pm), and community-based research (3-5 pm). See website for details and to pre-register. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, and other venues. diso-uoft.tumblr.com.
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Screening of the 1986 Spike Lee film. 7 pm. Free. Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph. facebook. com/events/283610088513056. generaTion Jobless Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4 sugg. OISE, rm 5-280, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca. good Jobs summiT National dialogue between students, workers, government, employers, community groups and unions on creating good jobs, now and in the future. To Oct 5. Free. Mattamy Athletic Centre, 50 Carlton. Pre-register goodjobssummit.ca. The inTerneT’s own boy Screening of the film about the programming prodigy followed by a Q&A with director Brian Knappen-
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Toronto designers, food vendors, vintage treasures, live music and DJ. 8 pm-1 am. Free. 198 Walnut, unit 7, in the back laneway. facebook.com/bellwoodsblockparty. CroCheTing world reCord Challenge Join an attempt to set a world record for most people crocheting. Crocheted squares will be donated to Street Knit. 7-10 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. w-ant.ca/2014/09/mostpeoplecrocheting. douglas James CoTTrell Launching The Compleat New Age Health Guide with a lecture and healing event. 1:30 pm. $40. Holiday Inn Downtown, 30 Carlton. Pre-register 905393-5104, douglasjamescottrell.com.
venues. saintstephens.ca. To Oct 7
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. To Oct 5 ToronTo palesTine Film FesTival Features, shorts and documentaries plus panel discussions with Palestinian directors and actors. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas W). tpff.ca. To Oct 3
eCo-house Tour: sTraw bale open house
berger. 7-10 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George, rm 2117. diso-uoft.tumblr.com. inTro To absTraCTion Drop-in workshop to experiment with painting and mixed media techniques. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Art Works Art School, 238 Jane. Pre-register 416-766-0662.
manhunT ToronTo: ChurCh-wellesley village Urban games played in parks and
streets. 9 pm. Free. See website for locations. meetup.com/UrbaniGames. opera ConneCT: madama buTTerFly Canadian Opera Company performance excerpts and Q&A. 12:15 pm. Free. First Canadian Place Waterfall Stage, King and Bay. coc.ca. seCular yom kippur Humanistic Jewish New Year celebration with readings, poetry, music and more. 7:30 pm. $50, stu/unwaged $25, child $20. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-789-5502, winchevskycentre.org. Teen gaming drop-in Test your skills and have some fun with the PS3. 4-6 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-3955710, torontopubliclibrary.ca. wwe live! Wrestling with superstars including John Cena, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and others. $20 and up (ticketmaster.ca). Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place. ticketmaster.ca.
york region youTh-senior ConneCTion program Youth earn volunteer hours and
learn from the older generation, while seniors learn simple computer skills. Six-week program to Nov 7. 4:30-6 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Markham South, 7220 Kennedy, Unit 8. Pre-register 905-479-7926 ext 3201.
Saturday, October 4
Benefits
kensingTon kiTTypanTs Fundraiser (Providing pet healthcare for seniors on a fixed income) Laura Hubert Band, Bill Wood & the Woodies, B.F.G.’s, Roula Said, Nomadica and Om Lalia Belly Dancers, a First Nations menu and more. 7 pm-midnight. $15. Scadding
View a home promoting energy conservation and natural building. 10 am-2 pm. Free. 168 Glen Manor Dr W. greenenergydoorsopen.ca. eid ul-adha prayers and CelebraTion Community celebration. 9 am. Free/donations. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. rFall Colours CelebraTion Guided fall colour walk, sustainable house tours and selfguided activities. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289. german walk Guided tour of places in the city with German connections led by Bruce Bell. 11 am-1:30 pm. Free. Berczy Park 35 Wellington E. Pre-register canada.diplo.de.
green energy doors open in ward 13
Green13 tour of venues using green energy in the neighbourhood. 9:45 am. Free. Starts at 60 Heintzman. green13toronto.org. green energy open doors The Conservation Council of Ontario presents a tour of the Robertson Building’s green wall, rooftop garden and solar panels. 1-3 pm. Free. 215 Spadina Ave. 416-533-1635, weconserve.ca. rgreenpeaCe iCe ride Bring your bike, skateboard or rollerblades to a group ride to help save the Arctic. Learn about climate change and green energy solutions. All ages and abilities welcome. Noon. Free. Greenpeace Office, 33 Cecil. iceride.org. hands-on Japanese rope bondage Workshop with Midori. 7:30 pm. $70/pair (sliding scale available). Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com. haunTed ToronTo sCavenger hunT Triviabased team competition. 7-9:30 pm. $30. Meet in front of the Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-8952378, urbancapers.com. hurriCane haZel Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Old Mill subway, Old Mill Trail at Bloor W. heritagetoronto.org.
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Michael Hollett NOW editors pick a trio of @m_hollett this week’s can’t-miss events Alice Klein Tammy Marquardt, Romeo Phillion, @aliceklein CYCLE FOR SUZUKI Ron Dalton: the list of the wrongfully Get active in more ways than one at convicted Canadians is a Susan G. Cole the Homegrown Park Crawl, a long one. On Thursday benefit@susangcole for the David Suzuki Foun(October 2), the group dation on Sunday (October 5). at the forefront of Supporters canDiMatteo walk, bike or canoe Enzo their struggle for jusbetween four city parks along the @enzodimatteo tice, the Association former Garrison Creek corridor in Defence of the while learning about Suzuki’s Normmore Wilner Wrongfully Conessential work aimed a saving the @normwilner victed (AIDWYC), planet. There’s music, art and food, marks the first antoo. 10 am to 5 pm. Free (food tickGlenn Sumi nual Wrongful ets $5 each). Check in at Christie Pits @glennsumi Conviction Day Park, Bloor and Christie. at the Law Socidavidsuzuki.org/parkcrawl Julia LeConte ety of Upper @julialeconte WRONGFUL CONVICTION DAY Canada, 130 Donald Marshall Jr., Guy Paul Morin, Queen West. Robertson DavidKate Milgaard, Steven Truscott, Civil rights @katernow WEST TORONTO RIDE FOR RENEWABLES Bike Sarah Parniak ride from Steamwhistle to the Junction, tour@s_parns ing prominent and hidden renewable energy installations. Noon. Free. Steam Whistle from page 24 œcontinuedBen Brewing, 255 Bremner. Pre-register online at Spurr sustainabilityontario.ca. KENSINGTON FOODIES ROOTS TOUR Celebrate @benspurr food connected with the immigrant waves. Sunday, October 5 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50. 350 Spadina. Pre-regisJonathan Goldsbie ter 416-923-6813. Benefits MASTER CAI TCM WORKSHOP Traditional ChiHOMEGROWN PARK CRAWL (David Suzuki Fdn) @goldsbie nese medicine course. Today and tomorrow 9 Walk, bike or canoe between four city parks
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am-5 pm. $280-$395. Xiaolan Health Centre, 88 Prince Arthur. Pre-register 416-538-8262, xiaolanhealthcentre.com. MURDER AT THE ROM SCAVENGER HUNT Solve the clues and crack the case. 1-3:30 pm $30. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. NUIT BLANCHE The all-night contemporary art experience features visual and sound art, installations, performances and more along city streets, in buildings, store fronts and alleyways, from 6:51 pm to sunrise Sun. Today and tomorrow. Free. scotiabanknuitblanche.ca. OKTOBERFEST Music by the Honeyrunners, the Mandevilles, German bells and dancing, food and more. 6 pm-2 am. $25. Mill Street Brew Pub, 55 Mill. 416-681-0338. PARENT CONFERENCE Meet community groups and find out how to help your preteen/teenagers in areas of academics, health, employment and volunteer opportunities. 1:30-3:30 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-393-7653. PHOENIX POETRY WORKSHOP Bring six copies of your poem, read it out for feedback and listen and give feedback to others. 2:30-4:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca. POP-UP FARMERS MARKET Come meet the farmers that grow your food and pick up veggies with dirt still on them. 10 am-3 pm. 198 Walnut. albionhillscommunityfarm.org. ROUGE PARK WALKS Guided walks in the urban wilderness. Today and tomorrow 9:30 am, 12:30 & 2 pm. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike. SISTERS IN SPIRIT VIGIL Vigil to honour the lives of missing and murdered aboriginal women across Canada. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Allan Gardens, Carlton and Sherbourne. nwrct.ca. STUDY AND GO ABROAD FAIR Seminars and info on university and postgraduate options at home and abroad. Noon to 5 pm. Today and tomorrow. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. studyandgoabroad.com. TORONTO DISABILITY PRIDE MARCH Action to bring recognition of the struggles and value of disabled people. 1-4 pm. Free. Starts at Queen’s Park and ends at 99 Gerrard E. torontodisabilitypride.wordpress.com. 5TORONTO QUEER ZINE FAIR Check out a space for traditionally marginalized voices in the zine community. Fair 11 am-7 pm, reading 9-11 pm, dance party from 11 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. torontoqueerzinefair. tumblr.com. TORONTO SALSA PRACTICE No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.
Adria Vasil @ecoholicnation Sabrina Maddeaux @SabrinaMaddeaux
along the former Garrison Creek corridor and enjoy music, art and food. 10 am-5 pm. Free (food tickets $5 ea). Starts at Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. davidsuzuki.org/parkcrawl.
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THE ANNEX Guided ROM walk. Meet at west
corner of ROM on Bloor. 2 pm. Free. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca. THE ART OF FEMININE DOMINANCE Workshop with Midori. 5:30 pm. $35 (sliding scale available). Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.
BUILDING A GREAT BIKE CITY IN TORONTO
Screening of David Chernushenko’s film Bike City, Great City, talk by Dutch expert Dick van Veen and discussion. 7-9:30 pm. $10-$15. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. tcat.ca/node/2371.
rCELEBRATE THE JEWISH HARVEST FESTIVAL
Outdoor community Sukkes celebration with stories, music, sukkah-decorating, games and more. Bring a blanket and picnic lunch. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. mwstoronto.org. DESIGNING TORONTO’S OPEN SPACES Illustrated talk by architects James Brown and Kim Storey. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Bldg, 73 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org. EARL BALES PARK TREE TOUR LEAF-led tour and info on the Adopt-A-Park-Tree program. 2:303:30 pm. Free. Earl Bales Community Centre, 4169 Bathurst. Pre-register yourleaf.org. ECO-HOUSE: STRAW BALE OPEN HOUSE Natural homes tour. 10 am-4 pm. Free. 168 Glen Manor Dr W. naturalbuildingcoalition.ca. AN ENCHANTED EVENING Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm. Free/pwyc for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. rHIGH PARK HARVEST FESTIVAL Crafts, music, horse and wagon rides, the Metis Fiddler Quartet and dancers, local food and more. Noon-4:30 pm. Free. High Park Children’s Garden and Colborne Lodge. 416-392-6916. KENSINGTON CULINARY ADVENTURE Trivia questions and taste challenges. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Kensington Market. Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. LESLIEVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET Meats, baked goods, fruits, veg and dairy from local producers Sundays to Oct 26. 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com. 5LGBT DANCE Salsa and bachata classes for queer and trans people. $15 drop-in. U of T Multi-Faith 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.
lawyer James Lockyer and professor Tim Moore lecture at 3:30 pm; reception 5:30 pm. aidwyc.org
FROM FERGUSON TO T.O.
African-American writer, professor and MSNBC political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry heads up a discussion with educator GraceEdward Galabuzi and lawyer Kike Roach on race, politics and scholarship after the Ferguson riot at the Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas West. Wednesday (October 8), 7-9 pm, part of Ryerson’s Social Justice Week. Free. ryerson.ca/socialjustice U.S. prof Melissa Harris-Perry talks race politics on October 8.
LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS Sketch from live models. 2:30-5:30 pm. $10. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com. LOST FIRST CHINATOWN FOOD TOUR Trace the origins of the city’s original Chinatown. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50 (includes food). Meet at 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. MILNE HOLLOW Heritage Toronto/LEAF walk. Meet at picnic tables. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Parking Lot, Old Lawrence Avenue, Lawrence east of the DVP. yourleaf.org. ON THE TRAIL OF BIG CATS: TIGERS, COUGARS AND SNOW LEOPARDS An evening with Na-
tional Geographic wildlife photographer Steve Winter. Sun 2 pm, Mon and Tue 8 pm. To Oct 7. $19.50-$79.50. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. OPEN MIC Musicians, storytellers and poets welcome. 7:30 pm. Free. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com. rSAMBA DRUMMING FOR KIDS Drop-in workshop. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz.com. SUNDAY MORNING BIRD WALK Guided walk to identify resident and migratory birds. 8-11 am. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. tommythompsonpark.ca.
SURPRISING SUBURBIA: A BUS TOUR OF NORTHERN ETOBICOKE Heritage Toronto tour. 1 pm. $40. Location provided on registration. Preregister heritagetoronto.org. 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. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.
Monday, October 6 ANOTHER COMMUNITY MATTERS Discussion about neighbourhood changes, housing, development and more. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Eastview Neighbourhood Community Centre, 86 Blake. 416-392-6810. COMPLETE STREETS FORUM Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation conference on designing streets for all users with speakers, workshops and more. $175-$325. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. Pre-register tcat.ca. CONTROL & DOMINANCE MOVES WORKSHOP
Rope Dojo elective workshop with Midori. 7:30 pm. $70/pair (sliding scale available). Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.
INCONVENIENT INDIANS: REFLECTING ON THE PAST IN CANADA’S FUTURE Lecture by author/
scholar Thomas King. 6:30-9 pm. Free. Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas W, TRS-1067. ryerson.ca/socialjustice. INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY RALLY Idle No More Toronto Round Dance to honour murdered and missing Indigenous women as part of Ryerson Social Justice Week. Noon-1 pm. Free. Ryerson Pond, Gould and Victoria. ryerson.ca/ socialjustice. 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. NEW MUSIC 101 Arraymusic and author Martha Baillie combine musical and literary
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narratives. 7-8 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. marthabaillie.ca.
5Queer Kinship: Allen GinsberG, bArbArA rubin And underGround CinemA of The 1960s Intro by Ara Osterweil and a screening
of Rubin’s Christmas On Earth. 6-8 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca. 5rAinbow ToAsTmAsTers The LGBT Toastmasters club holds an open house. 6:30 pm. Free. Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. rainbow.toastmastersclub.org. ToronTo swinG dAnCe soCieTy West Coast swing lesson and practice. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. TrAmpoline hAll Mini-lectures hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5-$6. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.
Tuesday, October 7
nowtoronto.com Everything Toronto
Benefits
ArT wiTh heArT (Casey House) Auction of contemporary Canadian art, raising funds for compassionate HIV/AIDS care. 5:30 pm. $175. Carlu, 444 Yonge. artwithheart.ca. love food fesT (Action Against Hunger)
Alexandra Feswick, Rodney Bowers and other top chefs re-invent their favourite childhood dishes and cook up awareness around child malnutrition. 6-9:30 pm. $125. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. lovefoodgivefood.ca.
TAKinG ACTion on youTh menTAl heAlTh in eduCATion (local family) Live music by Joanna
Moon, Yoser Rodriguez Trioand others plus a silent auction to raise funds for a local famiy dealing with the cost of mental health issues. 6:30 pm. $30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. eventbrite.ca/e/12137727269.
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by The lAKe booK Club volume vii Authors
share their process, back story and inspiration. Four sessions include Dec 9, Jan 20, 2015 and Feb 24, 2015. 7 pm. $80 for four evenings. Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. 416-338-7255, assembly@toronto.ca. CAnCer sCreeninG: The biG Three Toronto Public Health talk about getting screened for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer. 1-2 pm. Free. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. 416-393-7650. CAndleliGhT yoGA Hatha yoga, beginner to intermediate, open to all. 5:30-6:30 pm. $10. 477 Richmond W, #709. Pre-register meetup. com/yoga-for-everybody-Toronto.
Crisis mAnAGemenT in GovernmenT: The 9/11 TerrorisT ATTACKs Public talk with for-
mer minister of transport David Collenette. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free (RSVP). George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church. Pre-register ryerson.ca/ce/crisismgmt. fAshion for reAl life Jeanne Beker moderates a discussion on the impact of adaptive design on fashion, with Izzy Camilleri, Barbara Turnbull and others. 7 pm. $45, stu $25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister 416-586-5797. fund your smAll business ideA Learn about small business loans from ACCESS Community Capital Fund. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. Pre-register 416-396-8943.
GlobAl dAy for deCenT worK publiC TAlKs Discussion on the impact of the austerity agenda on the postsecondary sector (10:30 am), making good jobs a reality (noon), and rights for transnational labour (2 pm). Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. ryerson.ca/socialjustice.
hAunTed yorKville, u of T & Queen’s pArK
Ghost walk. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813. i Am femen Cinema Politica screening of a doc about a Ukrainian women’s rights activist followed by discussion on LGBTQ and feminist activism in that region. 6:30 pm. $2-$10 sugg donation. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. cinemapolitica.org/bloor.
leArn how To wriTe CreATive non-fiCTion
Workshop and discussion with author Donna Kakonge. 6:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. 416-393-7686.
life on The line: women sTriKe AT eATon’s 1984-5 Act2 Studio perform the Patricia Mc-
Dermott play marking the 30th anniversary of the department store strike. 7-9 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould, SCC 115. ryerson.ca/socialjustice. new musiC 101 Arraymusic and author Martha Baillie demonstrate the complementary nature of musical and literary narratives. 7-8 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. marthabaillie.ca. The oTher side TAlKbACK Facilitated talk and Q&A with writer/actor Bob Martin. 7 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540. reAl CiTy mATTers: GrowinG pAins Panel discussion on how to make Toronto better with grassroots activists and members of community organizations. Everyone welcome. 7 pm. Free. Revival, 783 College. torontoist.com/realcitymatters.
roCK her world – exQuisiTe pleAsures for women Workshop with Midori, all genders
welcome. 7:30 pm. $35 (sliding scale available). Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com. sTArTup fAshion weeK Forum, conference, runway show and closing party for fashion entrepreneurs. To Oct 9. $25-$200. Bitmaker Labs, 220 King W, and other venues. Pre-register startupfashionweek.com/events.
Wednesday, October 8
Benefits
deClininG primATe populATions (Borneo
Orangutan Society Canada) Lecture by Colin Chapman on declining populations and the role of climate change and forest dynamics. 7 pm. Pwyc ($10-$20 sugg). George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-978-2651, orangutan.ca.
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Events
Cwse open house & orienTATion Find out
about lectures, film screenings and more at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education. 4-6 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-225. oise.utoronto.ca/cwse.
endAnGerinG life: The rACed poliTiCs of Gender in An AusTrAliAn CAse of The CriminAlizATion of exposure To hiv Talk by visit-
ing scholar Barbara Baird. 3-5 pm. Free (RSVP). York University, 4700 Keele. Pre-register cfr.info.yorku.ca.
from ferGuson To ToronTo: exAmininG rACe, poliTiCs And sCholArship Lecture by
Melissa Harris-Perry plus respondents GraceEdward Galabuzi and Kike Roach. 7-9 pm. Free. Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas W, TRS-1067. ryerson.ca/socialjustice.
inTernATionAl CriminAl lAw on TriAl: An AssessmenT Science for Peace lecture by Ja-
mie Rowen. 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. loTion bAse lAb Workshop on making aromatherapy base creams. 7-9 pm. $10/pwyc. Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston. Pre-register 416-534-1470, manager@karmacoop.org. nhl fACe-off Hockey and music festival for fans with NHL alumni, guest appearances, prizes, bands, screening of games. Noon-11 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. nhl.com. rouGe pArK wAlKs Guided walks in the urban wilderness. 9:30 am. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike. ryerson fArmers mArKeT Fresh local produce, food trucks and music. 11 am-3 pm. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca.
sinGle dAds, sepArATed dAds, divorCed dAds Q&A and support group meeting.
Women welcome. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626. ToronTo lifesTyle mArKeT Pop-up shop with local and international brands and music performances. To Oct 12. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontolifestylemarket.com. The wAlrus TAlKs resilienCe Talks on how cities and communities build themselves to thrive through difficult times by poet Mustafa Ahmed, People for Education’s Annie Kidder, WWF Canada’s David Miller and others. 6:30 pm. $20. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. thewalrus.ca/the-walrus-talks-resilience.
upcoming
Thursday, October 9
Benefits
mAKer shAKer (Ontario Crafts Council) Mar-
tini-themed fundraiser. 7:30-11 pm. $50, adv $45, stu $20. Artscape Wychwood Barns. 601 Christie. craftontario.com. orienTAl ruG TrAdiTions (Textile Museum of Canada) Lecture by textile art expert Daniel Walker followed by a reception. 6:30 pm. $45. 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321, danielwalkertmc.eventbrite.com. shine on! (Project Sunshine Young Patrons’ Circle) An event inspired by fable and fairy tales includes a silent auction, food, music and more to benefit children facing medical challenges. 8 pm. $100. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. Pre-register shineontoronto.com.
Events
ArTsideouT Multidisciplinary student-run
arts festival with concerts, film screenings, art exhibits, performances and more. 11 am11 pm. Free. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail. artsideout.ca. Gender & The CiTy: A mAyorAl debATe Live debate hosted by Denise Balkissoon. 7-9 pm. Free. YWCA Toronto, 87 Elm. Pre-register surveymonkey.com/s/genderTO.
hAunTed KensinGTon, ChinATown & The GrAnGe Tour Ghost walk with a multicul-
tural twist. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25. Meet at 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.
inTerroGATinG inTerseCTionAliTy And
buildinG AlliAnCes Lunch and learn discussion with Angela Robertson and Ellen Hibbard. Noon-1:30 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould, SCC 115. ryerson.ca/socialjustice. represenTATions of islAm in mAinsTreAm mediA Lecture by journalist Rick Salutin. 7
pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca.
The seCreT sAuCe of enTerprisinG enGos
Workshop for ENGOs looking to move beyond grant dependence. 8:30 am-4:30 pm. $100. Sustainability Network, 215 Spadina. Preregister sustainabilitynetwork.ca. women’s CAnAdiAn Club Talk by Lorna Marsden. 2 pm. $10. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416-463-3405. 3
food It’s an unusual love story with a business twist:
a nurse with gluten, dairy, and soy intolerances meets a chef who can’t eat fish, nuts, basil, mushrooms and cinnamon. They get married and open a food shop called Feast (881 Queen West, 647-350-188, thisisafeast.com, @thisisafeast) catering to people allergic to ingredients like wheat, peanuts and soy. While some call food intolerances a health fad, owners Neil Lomas and Wendy Zeh see their kitchen as a haven for kids who can’t be in the same room as a peanut. Here’s how they navigate the finicky process of cooking for allergy suffers.
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Can’t eat things like peanuts, wheat or soy? Feast is the shop for you. By KARON LIU
At Wendy Zeh and Neil Lomas’s Feast, people with allergies feel safe.
The entire shop and kitchen is free of what Health Canada considers to be the most common allergens: eggs, dairy, peanuts, seafood, soy, tree nuts and wheat. To prevent cross-contamination, the duo has brought in new kitchen equipment, tells customers to finish any foods that contain nuts outside and buys only from 30 or so suppliers who are free of cross-contamination during their whole production process. The shop is also working on excluding the other common allergens listed on the government site: mustard, sesame and sulphites. The latter is a preservative commonly found in beer and wine, canned and frozen vegetables, vinegars and condiments.
Allergy vs. Intolerance
Part of Zeh’s job is to cut through a lot of the misinformation surrounding this new wave of sensitivities to everything. “A food allergy is an actual reaction where the body sees the food as a harmful substance. A severe reaction includes difficulty breathing, hives, an itchy tongue and the throat closing up. It can be life-threatening,” she says. “Intolerance is something that isn’t as easily digestible so you’ll get symptoms like gas, bloating or headaches.” She recommends going to a doctor for allergen testing rather than self-diagnosis. continued on page 31 œ
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3 Charles Street East, 416-935-0240 | wishintoronto.com | facebook: /WishRestaurant Chef Pauline Agnew is a firm believer that atmosphere and delicious food are essential to a pleasant dining experience. Never pretensious, her menu changes regularly offering seasonal dishes like malt braised short ribs with creamy hominy corn grits, braised veg, house made horseradish & parsnip crisps. But regulars can always count on the scrumptious blue crab cake with Blue Crab Cake with Tomatillo Salsa & lemon aioli, Malt Braised Short Ribs with Creamy Hominy Corn grits, Braised
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tomatillo salsa & lemon aioli which have been a staple for years. Renda Abdo (legendary 7 West and Smith, the hip eatery on Church) has made Wish a ‘must’ at Yonge & Bloor for loyal and new clientele alike. Its charming, shabby chic style is minimal in design but maximum in appeal! Veg, House Made Horseradish & Parsnip Crisps, Challah french Toast with Blueberries & Caramelized Bananas (photo)
McGuGan’S FIne ScottISH Pub
1058 Gerrard St. East @ Jones, 416-901-9859 | mcgugans.com McGugan’s is perhaps the best gastropub this side of the Don. It walks the line between being a solid neighbourhood local and a destination for Scots looking to claim their stake in a city full of Irish pubs. On tap are a dozen beers, mostly local craft products and staples like Tennants and Guinness. The food is comforting and classic pub fare with the usual pot pies, curry and burger as well as massive buttermilkbattered chicken wings. The Roast Beef Sannie —
thin-sliced beef served on a yorkshire pudding bun — is a must-try. This wee East end gem has live music every Friday and two of the best backyard patios in the city — a flower-festooned ground-level 60-seater and a rooftop bar with a big-screen TV, as well as a giant indoor TV. Our fully heated patio means you can cozy up under the autumn sky and never feel the chill!
gOOD TO KnOW: live Music every friday, Outdoor Rooftop Patio TV, Open until 2am
CAfé DINER
Hank’S
91/2 Church Street (north of Esplanade), 416-504-2657 | hanks9church.com Hank’s is a cafe diner in the St. Lawrence market area. It’s hip, upmarket vibe offers an ideal respite from the bustle of downtown. Menus are home-style and well executed. Notable are the various Eggs Bennies and the 2-Hander Sandwiches on thick, grainy bread. Hank’s espresso is some of the city’s best. The all-day breakfast is certainly a hit with the market crowd and creative types who want to
get some business done over a casual meal. Hank’s also works well to grab a latte and a homemade baked good. Take out is available but recommend eating in. A very cool and relaxing spot that is a sure hit for weekday brunch/lunch and weekend brunch. Morphs nicely into modish event space in the evenings. Fully Licensed.
gOOD TO KnOW: Must try dishes include Hank’s famous Breakfast Poutine with Hollandaise and soft poached egg in place of the usual gravy. get your lipitor Rx ready!
ITALIAN CuISINE
aPrIle baMbIna cucIna
1054½ Gerrard Street East | 647-352-6969 | aprilebambina.com Walk into Aprile’s and step back in time to the classic Mom and Pop Italian. From the red vinyl kitchen chairs and to the vintage Italian American Album covers on the wall, the whole feel is familiar and homey kitsch. And that homey goodness extends to the food! For starters, try the grilled Caesar with pancetta. Pizzas are made using “00” flour imported from Italy to ensure a light, tasty crust. There are the classic offerings as well as
pizzas like pear, walnut, gorgonzola or an impeccable wild mushroom. You’ll also find traditional pastas done well with the standout being a rigatoni with slow cooked beef cheek, burnt butter and pinenuts. A boutique selection of beers including Peroni is offered. Aprile’s wine list is simple, well-chosen and very affordable. Perfect for casual date night or a family meal.
gOOD TO KnOW: Wednesday is $40 date night — grilled Caesar salad to share, choice of any pasta and any pizza, followed by a tiramisu to share for dessert. Tuesdays — enjoy half price featured bottles of wine.
WINE BAR
tHe WIne bar
9 Church Street (north of Esplanade), 416-504-9463 | 9church.com Wine Bar is the original wine and tapas venue in Toronto. The locally-sourced menu of sharing dishes changes monthly with every menu designed to create a broad palate of taste experiences. Wine pairing options abound. Roughly 25 different wines are available by the glass and plenty of those options are economically priced. The full wine list is 350 bottles long and features some rare and
eccentric finds. Wine Bar is the ideal venue for intimate dinners or engaging with your dining companions. Notable for its cozy, carefree ambience and its friendly low-key Chef’s bar, which serves as both entertainment and the ideal conversation starter!
gOOD TO KnOW: Menu changes monthly. Mondays — no Corkage fee. Tuesday — $5 Wine features
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Fresh dish
Manager Liz Brownlee works the Feast counter.
The tried-and-true gluten-free and vegan bakery branched out from the Junction to open a second spot in Kensington Market this summer.
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The almighty coconut
The coconut is perhaps the most versatile ingredient at the shop. The flesh is flaked and smoked to simulate bacon bits. It’s not bacon, but it does have a charming sweet smoky flavour. Coconut flour, oil, shortening and milk are used in pastries. The shop sells bottles of coconut amino, coconut sap that tastes like a fruitier version of Worcestershire sauce that’s used as a soy sauce replacement. “We put that shit on everything at home,” Zeh says. Coconut nectar, also in bottles, is made from coconut sap, which has a similar consistency and taste (albeit with a tangy aftertaste) to caramel.
Pocket pies Their cinnamon buns (free of wheat, dairy and eggs) rival anyone’s and have that perfect sticky-sweet mouth feel that’s improved by their vegan buttercream frosting. The sandwich bread avoids the crumbly and dry syndrome that usually plagues gluten-free breads. 3054 Dundas West, 647-352-2975; 244 Augusta, 647-350-2975, bunners.ca, @BunnersBakeShop
THE LONGEST YARD
The family-friendly pub’s kitchen is peanut-free, meaning you can knock back suicide wings by the pound without worry (well, about the peanut part, at least). The larger-thanaverage burgers, which come with fries, weigh in at 7 ounces, and the lasagna is made in-house. Plus, the neighbourhood restaurant hosts regular game-viewing parties and kid-friendly events during holidays, including American Thanksgiving. 535 Mt. Pleasant, 416-487-6468; 3313 Bloor West, 416-239-9484, thelongestyardrestaurant.com
JAPANESE IZAKAYA
These little Pizza Pop-shaped pastries ($5 to $7) are made from seven different flours including rice, potato, chickpea, coconut and tapioca, mixed with a coconut shortening rather than butter. There are three mainstay stuffings: a vegan option made from turtle beans, cumin, curry, parsnips, celery, onion, garlic and ginger; one with beef, parsnip, carrot and tarragon; and another with jerk chicken and green onions spiced with cloves, cinnamon, garlic and nutmeg.
Cake donuts
“Donuts are really important to Canadian culture, so we make ours vegan,” says Zeh. “We do a baked cake donut ($3 to $3.50) using a combination of flours like rice, chickpea, tapioca and potato. We’ve taken out the eggs and added in applesauce for moisture and coconut oil for some of the fat.”
Vegan butter
“Most of the dairy-free butter out there tastes like margarine,” says Zeh. “We wanted to make something that melts, you can sauté vegetables with, spread on toast or stir into risottos and pastas.” Lomas combines coconut milk, olive and coconut oils, apple cider vinegar, flaked Maldon and Himalayan pink salts, and sunflower lecithin, an oily, gel-like emulsifier used to hold everything together. The result is a creamy, slightly salty and, yes, rich and buttery spread with a hint of nuttiness.
The biggest news this week – maybe this year – is the opening of 24-hour American chain Denny’s at 121 Dundas West (at Bay). Grand Slam breakfasts for everyone! Butter Chicken Roti has opened a second location in the short-lived Burger Bass spot at 1076 Queen West (at Dovercourt). Try the masala fries – they’re surprisingly good. Up at Yonge and Eg, a place called Korean Cowboy has popped up at 2368 Yonge (at Helendale). Owned by Sam Lee, the proprietor of Bi Bim Bap Stone Bowl Riceteria, the new place is primarily a bar, with Koreaninspired snacks such as lettuce wraps, stir-fried chicken rolled in panko and roasted garlic flakes, pork Know of any openings or closings, or want to tell belly infused with coffee and cocoa, us how this FEST late burst of ST summer MAFP14-001 ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM ANNONCE FOOD • INFO: / GL weather is ruinKorean•barbecued pork ribs •and stir- • LOVEyour experience? Email PUBLICATION: NOW MAGAZINE • VERSION: ANGLAISE • ing FORMAT:pumpkin-spiced 3.833’’ X 5.542’’latte • COULEUR: CMYK • fried cut-up dogs and vegetables. food@nowtoronto.com. LIVRAISON: 26 SEPThot • PARUTION: 29 SEPT
Sunflower butter
As an alternative for people who cannot eat peanut or almond butters, the shop makes its own sunflower butter. Sunflower seeds are roasted, then sprinkled with smoked sea salt and ground with coconut oil and sweet coconut nectar. Think of it as a chunky, slightly sweet spread with a much lighter nut taste than peanuts.
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While coffee isn’t at the top of the list of allergens, people trying to cut down on caffeine (or the 2 pm coffee jitters) should give this a sip. The shop roasts and brews cocoa beans like coffee beans, yielding a bittersweet drink ($3.50 a cup) with a deep chocolate aroma. It’s a sophisticated version of hot chocolate without the sugary buzz and stomach-churning heaviness of milk. Try buying a cup in place of coffee in the morning. Wendy Zeh’s pocket pies at Feast contain no wheat flour or butter.
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Fresh City Farm’s little downtown pop-up produce stand at 369 King West (at Blue Jays Way) has closed for the season, thus making everyday grocery purchases just a tad less fun for the rest of the year. A “For Lease” sign has appeared in the storefront previously home to fancy hot dog spot Let’s Be Frank (689 King West, at Bathurst). It was aways intended as a pop-up, but I never saw anyone eating there. The lowly ballpark wiener continues its struggle to win the same kind of respect as the hamburger. Verona, the Italian restaurant (335 King West, at Peter) at the end of “restaurant row” in the Entertainment District, has closed. Perhaps this will give another eatery a chance to break the area’s touristy reputation.
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IT’S THE ICING ON THE CAKE!
This nut-free Leslieville bakeshop just released a batch of fall-themed cupcake flavours like spiced apple cider, candy corn and pumpkin with cinnamon cream cheese. The cute shop also sells cookies, shortbreads, squares, tarts and even dog treats. 1238 Queen East, 416-469-4973, itstheicingonthecake.ca
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RAMEN & IZAKAYA RYOJI
690 College St., 416-533-8083 | ryojiofcanada.com MAFP14-001 Ann_Love Food Fest.indd The first Oversea “Canada” entry for a Japanese chain, Ryoji Toronto is a dark, bustling place with a surprisingly large modern cluster of dining rooms—once you push past all the young Japanese in the bar area up front. Though the house-made ramen is the highly touted draw here—you can tast home made recipe fresh noodle— the appetizers steal the show. The sinfully rich Rafute, a chunk of stewed fatty pork, melts in your mouth; Beef Steak, grilled ruby-red steak, is reason alone
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to get the chef’s-choice appetizer plate. The frenetically complex hodgepodge of the Tonkotsu ramen, a bowl of noodles with Spicy miso, black garlic oil, and ivory slices of Berkshire-pork, is a revelation. Our Ramen is produced by Ippudo NY (ippudony.com) and our Izakaya Menu is produced from Yours Truly’s sue chef (yours-truly.ca)
GOOD TO KNOW: Starting October 1st, Ryoji will be closed for lunch Monday to Friday. NOW october 2-8 2014
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WHAT TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!
Tequila Ocho Plata
Talkin’ tequila Expert Tomas Estes honours agave
Tomas Estes
The consumption of agave spirits in our country, let alone our city, has always been minuscule in comparison to the truckloads of vodka, whisk(e)y and beer we down annually. But Toronto’s agave scene, boosted by Ossington staple Reposado Bar, has been ripening over the past two years, advancing the concept that Mexico’s distinguished spirit is best sipped, not shot with a wince, a wedge of lime and a flood of regrets. Growing interest has brought a raft of premium agave spirits to market, finally augmenting the pathetic selection of brands Ontarians once
had to choose from. One of the latest and greatest to hit the LCBO is Tequila Ocho. The line of single-estate tequilas (the 2013 vintage blanco, featured this week, is available in Ontario for the first time) is a partnership between Tomas Estes, one of two international tequila ambassadors officially recognized by the Mexican government, and legendary third-generation distiller Carlos Camarena. Ocho’s mission is to reflect a sense of place: agaves are grown and harvested on family-owned ranches, roasted and fermented using hypertraditional methods and distilled in
small, single-ranch batches. Sipping the final liquid is a contemplative (and limited) experience. “The whole blueprint of Ocho is to make it as agave-forward as we can,” Estes said during a tasting in Toronto last week. “Tequila is a product of the earth, a product of nature, and we at Ocho try to respect that.” One of the most influential and inspiring characters in the world of agave spirits, Estes opened his first Mexican restaurant and tequila bar, Café Pacifico, in Amsterdam in 1976 and has since owned and operated bars all over the globe, including London’s recently opened El Nivel. He’s also written an excellent (but
hard to find) book on his lifelong infatuation, aptly entitled The Tequila Ambassador (Diffordsguide). He has been drinking tequila for almost 50 years, since he snuck down to Baja California on weekends as a SoCal boy to party with his pals. He’s been serving and spreading the agave gospel of tequila, mezcal, raicilla and bacanora for almost four decades, and his passion translates into his product. In a zeitgeist where the terms “craft” and “artisanal” are treated so loosely that they’re starting set off bullshit detectors, Ocho keeps it real by being less brand than bottled philosophy.
Rieslings on the rise Nothing like a few bottles of delicious Riesling to celebrate the harvest. Hit Vintages for these local treats. Flat Rock Riesling 2013
Rating NNN Why This off-dry VQA Riesling is just peachy. Sweet stone fruit is grounded by fresh-squeezed acidity and a good hit of rocks – which is really just a mildly contentious way of saying I enjoy its integrated minerality. Price 750 ml/$16.95 Availability Vintages 43281
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Terroir – the French term applied to the unique set of characteristics expressed by place – is not limited to wine. One sip of Tequila Ocho proves it. The entire line of tequilas developed by third-generation distiller Carlos Camarena and The Tequila Ambassador author Tomas Estes champions single-estate tequilas. The agaves used at Ocho are cultivated in Los Altos de Jalisco before being roasted in the traditional way in clay ovens and undergoing open fermentation in wooden vats. The finished products are intensely flavourful, individual tequilas that truly reflect their environment and vintage. Currently available (though in limited quantities), the Ocho Plata from Rancho Los Fresnos (2013 vintage) is a lively blast of agave and citrus, with a lingering cocoa-tinged dryness tasting of plant and earth. Price 750 ml/$79.95 Availability LCBO 373258
TASTING NOTES Gaslight fires up
There’s a rad new addition to late night Bloordale called the Gaslight (1426 Bloor West). Megan Jones (Reposado) and Tim Pritchard (the Communist’s Daughter) have opened on the otherwise bar-starved stretch near Bloor and Symington, so locals need thirst no more.
Taste Ontario
Looking for something to drink on Thursday (October 2)? Try Taste Ontario at the Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), a walkaround tasting featuring over a hundred wines from top Ontario winemakers. 6:30 to 9 pm, $65 online at vintages.com/events/ tasteOntario_event.shtml.
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HAWTHORNE FOOD & DRINK
60 Richmond Street East (just west of Church), 647-930-9517 | hawthorneto.ca Local. Seasonal. Sustainable. Our chefs put a spin on modern comfort food using fresh seasonal ingredients from Ontario’s agricultural bounty. Classic techniques are used to transform simple dishes into the extraordinary. The menu changes frequently but the result is always the same — Delicious! Hawthorne is the enterprise arm of the Hospitality Workers Training Centre.
When you eat at Hawthorne Food & Drink you’re participating in an age-old tradition that sees hospitality as a meaningful two-way relationship. We provide a great food experience, you support training for good jobs in Toronto’s hospitality industry. LUNCH: 11am - 3pm M-F DINNER: 5pm - 10pm T-S
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744 Gerrard St East, 416-462-9965 | batifole.ca
ETHIOPIAN CUISINE
Hailed as the best french cuisine in Chinatown East, Batifole offers up a menu teaming with classic comfort foods from the south of France. Duck rillettes, brandade de morue, cassoulet royale, souflees and an extensive wine offering take front and centre in the cozy dining room that has been
Riverdale’s hidden gem for over 10 years. Fresh and exciting things are always being cooked up under the hand of new chef-owner Pascal Geffroy that are sure to delight.
MAINS: Cote de Veau farci au Fromage de Chevre Frais Jambon Cru et Sauce Marsala
Appetizers: Melange de Terrine Maison et ses Condiment, Moules Mariniere ou a la Provencale
Come see what we’re all about! Bon Appetit!
LALIBELA
869 Bloor W 416-535-6615 & 1202 Danforth | 416-645-0486 This fabulous culinary experience awaits you! Make sure you visit Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant known for its exotic cuisine, unique taste and delightful traditional Ethiopian hospitality. Delicious meat and vegetable dishes include lamb, chicken, beef and a meat/veggie combo for the best of both worlds!
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THE EMPANADA COMPANY
122 Fortieth St. Etobicoke | 647-435-5003 | empanada.ca The Empanada Company has been around for some time now, supplying empanadas for retail and wholesale. This restaurant offers up over 15 types of empanadas large and mini as well as traditional and nouveux flavours. Chilean Beef, Grilled vegetable and goat cheese and braised beef short rib are some of the favourites. An assortment of the mini empanadas are always a hit for any party or gathering. Gluten-free Top Selling Items: BRAISED BEEF SHORTRIB EMPANADA, AVOCADO FRIES, GLUTEN FREE VEGAN EMPANADA
tamales, avocado fries (YES!.. fried avocados) and warm crispy churros are just some of the delicious Latin treats Empanada Company has to offer. FIRST PLACE 2014 – Best Tamale Pan AM Food Festival FIRST PLACE 2013 – Best Empanada Ritmo y Color Latin Festival
OUR DESSERT: CHURROS Crispy fried spanish doughnuts sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and served with dulce de leche.
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be afraid of the trend: “High-rise is actually better on a curvy girl. A lot of brands are coming out with ‘contoured waists.’ That means the higher the jean rises, the more it goes in, because most women are a little bit slimmer in the middle of the torso.” If something doesn’t fit quite right, Over the Rainbow offers free hemming on denim purchases over $175 before tax and waist alterations for $25. Proper tailoring keeps you from constantly hiking up your jeans, resulting in disastrous camel toe. Gould also recommends high-rises as an entry point for those who don’t really dig denim. “I had a woman come in who’d never worn jeans before. She was all about dresses and skirts,” recounts Gould. “She tried on a bunch and loved the high-rise. It’s easier to start with something higher and move down.” As it turns out, high-rises are also just about the easiest thing to style. You can tuck in a loose shirt, wear a crop top or rock those just-a-hint-too-short sweaters without a second thought. By the time I finish trying on a dozen or so pairs, I can’t fathom what took so long for this trend to come back. “Some people have it stuck in their heads that they hate high-rises,” shrugs Gould. “But what do they hate about them? They hold you in, you can wear anything with them and they come in every leg style. I don’t see an issue.” 3
Body Blue (199 Danforth, 416-778-7601, and other, bodyblue.ca). Over 25 years in business, with two downtown locations, Body Blue stocks some of our favourite premium lines, such as Fidelity, Paige and Hudson.
Dutil (704 Queen West, 647352-2560, dutildenim.com). This is a denim-only boutique, so you know they’re serious about getting you into a pair of jeans that fit just right. Brands include Rag & Bone, Cheap Monday, Courtshop and Nudie.
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Low-rise denim has reigned supreme since the mid-90s, but not any more. A new trend enters the arena: high-rise denim. Jeans that – gasp – meet, or even cover, the belly button. But how to pull these babies off without experiencing much-dreaded saggy “mom bum”? What about women with curves? Crucially, how do you avoid camel toe? I turn to Over the Rainbow (101 Yorkville, 416-967-7448, rainbowjeans.com), local denim staple since 1975, for help. The shop’s resident stylist, Monica Gould, hands me a stack of jeans and assures me the fit of high-rise denim has changed a lot since the 80s. “The jig is up,” she laughs. “Brands have come to terms with the fact that women have curves.” MONICA GOULD I nervously wiggle my way into a pair and, to my surprise, they fit like a dream. The higher waist is almost Spanx-like, sucking in my hips and stomach. I can actually move in these… and sit without my gut threatening to spill over or my thong waving hello to passersby. While it’s not quite on the level of J.Lo’s or Iggy’s, my modest booty looks pretty damn good. “It’s all about the pockets,” explains Gould. “With highrise jeans, you want larger pockets that are slightly inverted to mirror the curve of the behind.” Gould assures me women with hips and bellies need not
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Half-priced wine Wednesdays happen. So do breakups, birthdays and everything in between. We’re not saying drinking is the answer, but sometimes it is. So how to fool co-workers, bosses and the poor barista who sees you pre-caffeine into thinking you’re not one big, hot mess of a hangover? Get your hands on a kick-ass concealer that can KO blemishes, dark circles and the biggest of bags. Benefit Cosmetics offers a onetwo punch with It’s Potent! eye cream ($40) containing cocoa extract to boost micro-circulation and diminish circles, and Erase Paste ($32) concealer to brighten and camouflage. Use both together to maintain some semblance of dignity while nursing a coconut water in your cubicle. (Sephora, 220 Yonge, 416-5957227, and others, sephora.com) 3
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The issue of underage models has plagued the fashion industry for ages, but recent years saw a modicum of progress. The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) issued guidelines that models should be at least 16 years old, and Vogue editors worldwide agreed to stop using models under the age of 16. Apparently, Milan – and Prada in particular – didn’t get the memo. Milan Fashion Week has no age guidelines, so the luxury brand felt free to send 14-year-old Roos Abels down the runway in clothes it hopes to sell to grown women. The agency that represents Roos assured The Independent that she was only doing a couple of shows, had permission from her school and was properly chaperoned. Even if everything was kosher this time around, Prada is propagating hiring practices that have led to girls being emotionally and physically abused. Do they need to use an underage model? Are there not enough thin, beautiful girls over the age of 16? Why unnecessarily put a child in harm’s way when there are other options? Not to mention the message this sends to adult women – that we’ve passed our prime before we’ve even emerged from puberty. Weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section at nowtoronto.com.
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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL
EMERALD CITY: a green
nature notes
guide to the top mayoral candidates
CHEOL JOON BAEK
Around the globe, cities are at the forefront of a massive green shift to keep life on the planet humming sustainably. While Toronto once led the charge, we’ve fallen badly off course. Time for a reboot. How do the leading contenders for mayor rate on key green issues?
DOUG FORD
As councillor, Ford voted down environmental issues so many times it’s hard to keep count. Some of the issues he voted no to: maintaining the city’s 70 per cent waste diversion target, the plastic bag ban, keeping the Jarvis bike lanes, Community Environment Days, coughing up $5 million to prevent TTC service reductions. Ford was also one of three votes against studying the health effects of Island airport expansion. He did vote yes – to axing $7 million from the treeplanting budget. He hasn’t uttered a word about climate change plans, and was a noshow at the only green debate, hosted by Toronto Environmental Alliance on September 23. Not surprisingly, Ford scored an F on TEA’s report card. SCORE: N
JOHN TORY
This Progressive Conservative paints himself as forward-thinking on the green front. His vow to double the tree canopy budget in order to plant (with the help of “partners”) 3.8 million trees over the next decade is encouraging. But a lot of his enviro goals are of the low-hanging-fruit variety. He’d give $22 mil to monitoring energy use at city buildings with the aim of boosting conservation and says he’d revive the push for green bins in apartments. But what’s sadly lacking is a firm agenda to ready this city for costly extreme weather events like 2013’s floods. As for transit, his SmartTrack plan to use electrified GO tracks to add 22 stations around the GTA rides is a clean one, but with a risky funding plan, would trains ever leave the station? He vows to partner with business to build more separated bike lanes, but it’s unclear how many more. One thing’s clear, he’ll lose core green votes for refusing to take a stand against Island airport expansion and piping tar sands fuel across the city via Line 9. SCORE: NNN
OLIVIA CHOW
Chow’s gotten flack for not letting her lefty flag fly, but she was loud and proud about her stance on several green planks at the TEA debate. She pledged to create 200 kilometres of separated or designated bike lanes within four years (using unspent portions of the transportation capital budget) and beef up city waste diversion targets to keep a tough but doable 90 per cent out of landfill. She’d also plant 1 million trees over the next decade and make sewer-polluting companies foot the tree bill. On the transit front, she’s the only one talking about boosting capacity ASAP (10 per cent more bus service) and wants to stick with an already approved and funded LRT plan, plus, in the longer term, the congestion-cutting downtown relief line. Her lengthy “not on my watch” list includes Island airport expansion, incineration and Line 9. But where’s the inspired climate change action plan? If she really wants Toronto to be the greenest city in North America, as she said at the debate, she’s going to have to deliver stronger leadership in the face of the biggest environmental threat yet. SCORE: NNNN
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GREEN FIND OF THE WEEK ME TO WE NUNGU NECKLACE Share some love with the Me to We shop in honour of We Day, filling Air Canada Centre with thousands of young change-makers Thursday (October 2). This recycled, fair-trade brass necklace made by Kenyan women ($90) is one of the countless feel-good accessories, clothing items and school supplies offered by the socially conscious enterprise, which donates 50 per cent of profits to its sister charity, Free the Children. Check out metowe.com, metowestyle.com and its store at 223 Carlton.
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UN CLIMATE SUMMIT SPEWS HOT AIR... AND HOPE
They’ve got four minutes each. One after another, over 100 heads of state stand beneath a UN banner in New York City and tell the world, via livestream, it’s time for decisive action on climate change. Many are pleading, plenty are posturing, but nearly all of them end up testifying on how the ravages of global warming are already ripping through their nations. It feels an awful lot like a doomsday roll call. Record floods? Here. Record drought? Here. Record heat? Here, here, here. So what do world leaders plan to do about it? Last week’s UN Climate Summit wasn’t officially supposed to firm up a new global agreement. (That happens, fingers crossed, next year in Paris.) But UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was clearly hoping early-bird commitments would pump up political momentum. In poured pledges from countries big and small to go 100 per cent renewable by 2016 (go, Costa Rica!), have a fossil fuel-free economy (god speed, Iceland!) and cut emissions by 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030 (thanks for sticking to Kyoto targets, Europe). Of course, every good climate deed trumpeted in this room full of politicians needs a good fact checker. Canadian Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq takes the stage to insist her government is taking “decisive action to ensure Canada remains a leader” on climate change. Sure. France’s pledge to donate $1 billion toward the UN’s Green Climate Fund to help poorer nations combat climate change may be big news. But the $2.3 billion committed to the Fund thus far still falls well below the $100 billion a year promised since Copenhagen to developing countries dealing with the brunt of climate change. One of the most rousing speeches comes from the leader of a country that, on paper, has committed to the least at the summit but is promising big things for the year ahead. Says U.S. President Barack Obama says in his address: “The alarm bells keep ringing, our citizens keep march-
ing. We cannot pretend we do not hear them. We have to answer the call.” Despite all the hot air in the room, you can’t help but feel hopeful. The summit did succeed in galvanizing climate action from civil society and big business (see roundup below). Will it help catalyse the legally binding global climate pact the planet needs? Only if we keep the pressure on.
ROUNDUP: CLIMATE SUMMIT SIDE DEALS Last week’s climate summit gathered not just heads of state but CEOs and NGOs to jam on greenhouse gas reductions. Dozens of deals were announced. Some highlights: •Global Energy Efficiency Accelerator Platform 40 countries, 30 cities and dozens of corporations signed on to double the rate of global energy efficiency by 2030 for cars, buildings, lighting, appliances and district energy. •New York Declaration On Forests 28 governments and 35 companies joined with indigenous groups and NGOs in vowing to halve deforestation by 2020 and “strive to end it” by 2030. Notably, the second-most forested nation on earth, Brazil, didn’t sign on. But 24 of the world’s biggest palm oil producers and traders committed to work toward a zero-net deforestation goal by 2020. •Global Mayors Compact 2,000 cities link arms to beef up climate action. •Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition A group of institutional investors has teamed up with the UN to decarbonize $100 billion in investments by December 2015. •Global Divest-Invest Coalition Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced the day before the summit that it was joining a coalition of 650 philanthropists and 180 investors in pulling $50 billion from fossil fuel investments. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation
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Rating: NNNN the songs on Jennifer Castle’s new album, Pink city, sparkle with gracefully arranged instruments. At her hometown show at the Great Hall, they were stripped back to their most naked: castle took the candlelit stage alone, playing them on piano, electric and acoustic guitar – and for her encore with no accompaniment at all. the result was far from wanting, however. the tunes sounded bluesier, and her vocals were even more distinct than usual – she often hung out in a lower, huskier register that contrasted beautifully with her high trill. castle’s comedic timing was evident in a facial expression or a flick of the head, especially on back-catalogue song You Don’t Have to Be, which got laughs
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Rating: NNNN Bryan Ferry is best known as the frontman of Roxy Music, the 1970s British group that paired classic glamour with dreamy, postmodern soundscapes. His playboy image is one of supreme confidence, but his live presence – despite his floral-print louis Vuitton dinner jacket – was more low-key. After opening with crowd-pleasers Re-make/Re-
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model and Slave to love, Ferry moved to the keyboard where he spent half the show. the set list was heavy on Roxy hits, and the performance was focused on the band’s musicianship. to that end, Ferry enlisted eight youthful, energetic players. Sax player Jorja Chalmers and guitarist Jacob Quistgaard frequently took the spotlight for lengthy solos, as two background singers in bumblebeestriped numbers shimmied in synch. Ferry’s torchy cover of Robert Palmer’s Johnny And Mary, a recent collaboration with Norwegian producer todd terje, and his beloved ballad More than this received strippeddown treatments, before he closed with a high-energy run of hits including love is the Drug and Jealous Guy. kevin ritchie
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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats are a shaggy Cambridge band whose throwback rock comes carefully packaged with a set of gimmicky mysteries (stage names, reclusiveness, rumours that they don’t use gear released after 1971 and that they may be an actual cult, etc). Live, the band appeared suffocated by all that hype and cartoonish filigree. The stage at Lee’s was dim, further shrouding a band who play draped in their own hair, and appointed with staticky TVs and two big yellow electronic cat eyes flanking the drum set. Uncle Acid worked though their back catalogue, focusing on last year’s critically adored Mind Control. They were impressively tight, reflecting the hard work they’ve put in touring recently (including a plum spot opening for Black Sabbath on the European leg of their 2013 reunion tour). But the tightness wound into flatness as the sameness of the songs began to reveal itself. There were a few worthy riffs here and there – like on I’ll Cut You Down, the swelling opener of Blood Lust, their second record. But the band was bogged down by boring drumming and obnoxious, big-dick guitar solos. Pretty much john semley a one-note affair.
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SEE THROUGH TRIO CD release Array Space 8 pm, $10/pwyc. seethroughmusic.com/trio. October 25.
SHEEZER Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 30.
BLASTERJAXX, JAIME JONES, DENIZ KOYU, NICOLE MOUDABER, LOUDPVCK, SHIBA SUN, THUGLI, ADRIAN LUX Monster
Mash Liberty Grand doors 10 pm, $39.50. TW. October 31.
THE DANDY WARHOLS, THE AURAS, B17 Silver Dollar November 21.
doors 6 pm, all ages, $27.50. LN, TM. November 30.
DILLON FRANCIS The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $31. TM. December 1. GENERATIONALS, LOWELL The Garrison doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. December 5.
THE WALKERVILLES Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TF. December 6.
JESSE MARCHANT The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. December 9.
RED DRAGON CARTEL The Garrison 8 pm, $21. TF. December 10.
ASKING ALEXANDRIA, BLESS THE FALL, CHELSEA GRIN, UPON A BURNING BODY, THE FAMILY RUIN Kool Haus 6 pm, all ages,
$tba. December 12.
THE FLATLINERS Xmas Show Opera House doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $19. RT, SS, TF. December 12. WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA Annual
Xmas Party Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TF. December 19.
THE HOLLY SPRINGS DISASTER The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $20-$30. TM. December 19 and 20.
THE SCOTTISH TATTOO Music Of Scotland Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 7:30 pm, $55-$85. SC. January 29, 2015.
THEORY OF A DEADMAN, HEAD OF THE HERD The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm,
CONNIE KALDOR Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30,
SHAWN MENDES The Danforth Music Hall
HOZIER, GEORGE ERZA Massey Hall 8 pm,
$29.50-$39.50. RT, SS, TM. November 25.
adv $27.50. January 31, 2015.
all ages, $27.50-$35. LN. March 2, 2015.
ncerts SHARON VAN ETTEN, TINY RUINS Opera House (735 Queen East), Tuesday (October 7) Heart-wrenching singer/songwriter. CAT POWER, VORSHEES Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Wednesday (October 8) Bluesy sadcore. BIG FREEDIA The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Wednesday (October 8) New Orleans bounce. NAS Queen Elizabeth Theatre (190 Princes’ Blvd), Wednesday (October 8) See Archive, page 9.
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HUGH’S ROOM Guy Davis 8:30 pm. LINSMORE TAVERN Steed (alt-country roots) 9 pm. THE LOCAL GEST Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin
(blues/folk) 8 pm. LOU DAWG’S Open Mic Night Don Campbell 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa For Smiles Fundraiser for Transforming Faces The Clave Kings, DJ Jimmy Suave doors 6 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO First Thursdays Tim Hecker. ñ EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THE-
ATRE U of T Symphony Orchestra, Victoria Chung (piano) 7:30 pm. EMMET RAY BAR John-Wayne Swingtet (jazz/ gypsy/swing) 9 pm. FIRST CANADIAN PLACE WATERFALL STAGE Fernando Varela 12:15 pm.
FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE
BANKS PBR&B
Eat, sleep, sing: music’s a necessity for SoCal singer By KEVIN RITCHIE
BANKS with MOVEMENT at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Friday (October 3), 8 pm. $23.50. RT, SS, TW.
Jillian Banks has a visceral way of describing music. The way she talks, it’s up there with essentials such as the air she breathes. “I had this thought once that all these songs are born in one day,” the 26-year-old southern California native, who performs under the name Banks, explains over the phone from a tour stop in Boston. “I was making these little bodies of work that were so real to me. The day before, they didn’t exist, and now they were these breathing things in the universe that people can grasp onto. Every little particle of air could be a new song.” The album she’s referring to is her recently released debut, Goddess (Harvest/Universal), on which she unpacks feelings of fragility, anger and confusion against a restless soundscape of cavernous beats and buzzing distortion courtesy of producers including Lil Silva, Sohn and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. It arrived less than two years after she posted her first song on SoundCloud, and follows a succession of well-received EPs and media hype that landed her the opening slot on Toronto R&B star the Weeknd’s 2013 tour. Sonically, her music resembles his electronic menace, but her message of empowerment through vulnerability and her willingness to get specific in lyrics are closer to Fiona Apple – an acknowledged influence. Banks started writing music as a teenager “for my own sanity” and continued honing her craft as a psychology student at the University of Southern California, where she would steal away to a room with a piano to work on songs between classes. “I remember feeling completely helpless – I didn’t even know how to talk to express what I was feeling, and I had all this anger,” she recalls. “When I discovered music, I felt liberated.” For example, on Beggin For Thread – a song that came from feeling “comfortably crazy” – she sings about shooting her mouth off and overreacting while at the same time reminding a lover, “That’s why you wanna come out and play with me.” Such songs have had a self-actualizing effect on Banks that she articulates without delving specifically into the situations that inspired them. “Songwriting for me is not about conquering or changing any emotion,” she says. “It’s about accepting them. The hardest thing when I don’t write songs is that I’m avoiding emotion. You start feeling like gravity weighs an extra 100 pounds on your shoulders because you have all this shit in your head and won’t let it come out. With music, you can write about it, accept it and make space for it in your mind.” music@nowtoronto.com
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Brush Up Your Shakespeare U of T Opera artists noon. HOLY OAK CAFE Croque Monsieur (30s jazz) 7:30 pm. THE JAZZ BISTRO Johnny O’Neal 9 pm. OLD MILL INN Shannon Butcher Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. THE REX Mike Murley Quintet 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. ST LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Scarlatti & Granados: Iberian Inspiration Adam Sherkin (piano) noon.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
BUNDA LOUNGE Throwback Thursdays DJ NaNa 10 pm. CLINTON’S Throwback Thursdays (90s hiphop/pop) doors 10 pm. CLUB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 CRAWFORD DJ Downunda, host Miss Olivia and Kermit 9 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE DJ Tape Night 10 pm. WAYLA BAR Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.
Friday, October 3 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BOVINE SEX CLUB EP release The Rough Boys, AMMO, Andrenechrome 9 pm.
CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Live taping show Paint, 1951, Angela Saini (rock) doors 9 pm.
CASTRO’S LOUNGE The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 6 pm.
CAVERN BAR Heavy Glow (electric rock). THE CENTRAL GTA Rocks taping show Ginger
Ale & the Monowhales, Lucid Movement Band, the Roncy Boys, the Fantasy Defender, Dylan Hennessy 8 pm. THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Constantines, Cousins doors 8 pm. DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND IIIN Erik Flowchild, Just John, Child of Exhile, Masta Myst, Christelle Meth and others (rap/hip-hop/dance/poetry) doors 7 pm. DRAKE HOTEL Ethan Johns doors 8 pm. EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Taunted by Girls 9 pm. EL MOCAMBO Great Lakes Surf Battle Fall Brawl The Blue Demons, Rocket XL5, Luau or Die, Mark Malibu & the Wasagas, the Cliff Divers. doors 9 pm. THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Boss Lady & the Coe Hill Girls 7:30 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE The Tom Glenne 5.5, Adelphia, Todd Harrison (rock) 8:30 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Doctor Ew (pop) 10 pm. HORSESHOE Bass Drum of Death, Gitar, Dirty Frigs doors 9 pm. JAM FACTORY CO Feast In The East 41 U.S. Girls, Nature, Castle If, Farragoes 9 pm, all ages. JUNCTION CITY MUSIC HALL The Beachmen (Beach Boys tribute) 8 pm. KOOL HAUS Worlds North American Tour Porter Robinson, Lemaitre 9 pm, all ages. LEE’S PALACE Beach House, Skyler Skjelset, Steve Strohmeier doors 9 pm. LINSMORE TAVERN The Lunes, Penny Benjamin, Morning Bells 9:30 pm.
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Toronto artist finds herself in labour of love By JULIA LeCONTE Kiran ahluWalia and rizWanMuazzaM QaWWali at Koerner Hall (273 Bloor West), Friday (October 3), 8 pm. $35-$85. SWM, smallworldmusic.com
Most artists can relate to Kiran Ahluwalia’s sentiments about the music biz. “Every CD, I’ve said to myself, ‘This is going to be my last because it’s so hard,’ and every tour, it’s like, ‘Oh my god, this is my last tour.’ It’s just always such an uphill battle, really. Always a struggle.” A worthy one, though. Ahluwalia has globe-spanning fans, two Junos and two Canadian Folk Music Awards. On her sixth album, Sanata: Stillness (Magenta), the opening song’s bluesrocky guitar intro collides with her classical vocals (she sings in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu), a juxtaposition that sets the scene for a record that weaves Indian classical – which she’s studied since
Massey hall David Suzuki’s Blue Dot Tour
Barenaked Ladies, Chantal Kreviazuk, Raine Maida 8 pm. Phoenix ConCert theatre The Goddess Tour Banks, Movement doors 8 pm. See preview, page 44. Polish CoMbatants hall Wavelength Bruce Peninsula, Del Bel, Delta Will (folk/pop) doors 8 pm. the roCKPile east The Misfits, Piffbreak Arcade 7:30 pm, all ages. silVer dollar Coves, San Marina, the Dead Projectionists doors 9 pm. sMiling buddha Pyres, InAeona, Volur, Bastard Sapling, Bingeninja doors 9 pm. sneaKy dee’s Hue & Gold Complex, Basements, Wanderbirds doors 9 pm. sound aCadeMy Within Temptation, Amaranthe 7 pm, all ages. southside Johnny’s Groove Marmalade (rock/top 40) 10 pm. stone lounge Album release party & concert taping Jamel Thomas, Taya Marquis, DJ Watts Is Live 9 pm. 3030 dundas West Girls Vs. Boys London’s Burning, the Merves (Blondie/the Clash/Ra-
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mones/Joan Jett) doors 9 pm.
Virgin Mobile Mod Club Tennis doors 7
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
CadillaC lounge Gram Parsons InterNational
North Lucky Mike & the Real Deal, GT Harris & the Gunslingers, Local 164, the Northern Empties, Jacques & the Valdanes, Billard Blossom, the Lost Anglers 8 pm. C’est What John Pippus (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. eton house Dale K. Jones & Her Bandit Band (R&B/country/swing) 8 pm. grossMan’s Combo Royale 10 pm, Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm. the hole in the Wall Ken Yoshioka Trio 10 pm. lou daWg’s Paige Armstrong, Pat Wright (acoustic blues/funk/soul/jazz) 10 pm. lula lounge Cuba Libre Friday Yani Borrell, DJ Suave 10:30 pm. MonarChs Pub Murder Folk Night Ryan Kamstra 10 pm. MusideuM David Watt Besley, Laurence Stevenson, George Reeves (Americana) 8 pm. PalMerston library Next Generation Series
2 Toronto Tabla Ensemble, Mitali Baruah Sarma 7 pm. riVoli Stu Larsen doors 7 pm.
royal ConserVatory of MusiC Koerner hall Small World Music Festival Kiran ñ Ahluwalia & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali 8 pm. See preview, this page.
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
array sPaCe Glenn Buhr & the Button Fac-
tory Band (jazz/avant-garde/rock/improvised) 8 pm. blaKbird Alexander Brown Quartet 8 to 11 pm.
first Canadian PlaCe Waterfall stage
Opera Connect: Madama Butterfly Karine Boucher, Andrew Haji, Clarence Frazer, Jenna Douglas (singers & pianist) 12:15 & 1:15 pm. habits gastroPub Mark Ucci Trio (jazz) 9 pm. hugh’s rooM Tribute To The Benny Goodman Sextet Ross Wooldridge, Alex Pangman (clarinet) 8:30 pm. the Jazz bistro Johnny O’Neal 9 pm. luCsCulPture Whole Kaminari, Narming Space Guitar (guitar/sitar/digeridoo) doors 7 pm. lula lounge Dave Restivo Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.
918 bathurst Centre for Culture & the
music-studying year into a music-making year, resulting in her Toronto-made 2000 debut album, Kashish – Attraction. As tough as a music career can be, the fact that she doesn’t sing in English hasn’t been a challenge. “People who are not South Asian have come up to me after concerts and said that their favourite song is this one nineminute song I used to do. I just think, ‘Oh, wow. This music is connecting with them.’ And I remember a CBC producer played that song, too. Nine minutes long!” Moments like those, and the craft itself, keep the artist – who now splits her time between New York and Toronto – motivated. “Everything else is getting harder, but the music gets easier,” she says laughing. “I get up in the morning and it’s like breathing. It’s my meditation. It’s my everything.” 3 julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte
arts Back To The Future Ensemble Polaris (Swedish musical retrospective) 8 pm. old Mill inn The Heillig Manouevre 7:30 to 10:30 pm. the rex Brenda Earle Stokes 9:45 pm, Sara Dell 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. touChé Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.
the saVoy Get Low Fridays DJ Caff (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. uniun Factory Friday: The Uncaged Tour Pegboard Nerds, Stephen Walking, Manzone & Strong doors 10 pm. Wayla bar Out And Out Fundraiser: Still Celebrating Pride Edition DJ Mark Falco (retro/top 40) 10 pm.5
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
Saturday, October 4
(house/techno) 10 pm.
pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
blaCKout lounge Black Out DJ Matlok Castro’s lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/
funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. Coda Honey Dijon, Joee Cons, Josh Karmin 10 pm. eMMet ray bar DJ Cosmonauts (hip-hop/ electronic/indie/soul) 10 pm. the hoxton Rusko, Hydee doors 10 pm. oPera house Projek: Dub FX Dub FX, Vilify, Marcus Visionary, Frase. the Piston Building Blocks DJ General Eclectic 10 pm. raVage and ruMble Flashback Fridays DJ NaNa 10 pm. riVoli Pool lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll).
air Canada Centre Postponed. Dressed To Kill Tour Cher.
alleyCatz Lady Kane. boVine sex Club Terminatour Cyanotic, the Rabid Whole.
CadillaC lounge Cocksure Lads (Britpop) 9 pm. C’est What Big Name Actors, Rotary Dial
doors 8:30 pm.
Club 120 diner Arsenals (ska/reggae) 11 pm.5 daKota taVern CD release Eugene Ripper (folk rocker/singer-songwriter) 7 pm. ñ the danforth MusiC hall 54-40, Grapes of Wrath doors 7 pm.
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Duffy’s Tavern Heavy Glow (electric rock). The Garrison Buke & Gase, Palm (rock) doors 8 pm. ñ Grossman’s Beggar’s Banquet (Rolling Stones tribute) 10 pm.
horseshoe Gloryhound, Secret Broadcast,
Luke Austin Band, Xprime.
JuncTion ciTy music hall Peeler’s Playhouse
The Dreamboats (rock & burlesque show) doors 10 pm. lee’s Palace Beach House, Skyler Skjelset, Steve Strohmeier doors 9 pm. linsmore Tavern Hot Rocks (Rolling Stones tribute) 9:30 pm. milk Glass co PPOP Presents The Holy Gasp, Elrichman 9:30 pm. mill sT BrewPuB Beer hall Oktoberfest The Honeyrunners, the Mandevilles 6 pm to 2 am. The rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.
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Bar raDio Bobby Dove & Her Band (country) 10 pm, Chris Staig & the Marquee Players 4 to 7 pm. BlakBirD Don River Blues Band 8 pm.
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For the second year in a row the David Suzuki Foundation is throwing a Homegrown Park Crawl to celebrate local food, music and nature. Happening in four parks – Christie Pits, Bickford Park, Fred Hamilton Park and Trinity Bellwoods – the event sees David Suzuki himself participate in the musical parades that move participants between the parks by foot, bike and portaged canoe. Musicians on hand include jazz collective Heavyweights Brass Band, AfroBrazilian stilt-drumming troupe MaracaTALL and percussionists Samba Squad. And there will be food galore. Things kick off at Christie Pits at 10 am, and attendees should bring their own plates and mugs. davidsuzuki.org/parkcrawl
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T.O. Music NOTes scaDDinG courT communiTy cenTre Kittypants Fundraiser Laura Hubert Band, Bill Wood & the Woodies, B.F.G.’s, Roula Said & Nomadica, Sheryl Lindsay and others 8 pm. silver Dollar The Lost Chord, the Wednesdays, the Maysides, Das Blankout doors 8:30 pm. smilinG BuDDha Signifier, Christ Complex, Buried by Lakeshore, Dawn Vally, Desolate Rage, Robot (metal/deathcore/hardcore/ thrash/punk) doors 7 pm. sounD acaDemy The Nick & Knight Tour Nick Carter & Jordan Knight doors 7 pm, all ages. souThsiDe Johnny’s Liquor Pigs, Sluts On 45 (punk) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. TaTToo Icon for Hire, Fit for Rivals, Wounds doors 5:30 pm, all ages. virGin moBile moD cluB Perfume Genius (indie rock) doors 7 pm. wronGBar Hercules & Love Affair doors 8 pm.
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calvin PresByTerian church New World
Symphony Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm. c’esT whaT The Hot Five Jazzmakers 3 pm. chalkers PuB Robi Botos Trio 6 to 9 pm. The flyinG Beaver PuBareT Daily Bread Food Bank fundraiser Alexandra Statham 9 pm. Gallery 345 Trio D’Argento 8 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. The Jazz BisTro Johnny O’Neal 9 pm. olD mill inn Bill McBirnie Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. The rex Adrean Farrugia’s Aether 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7:30 pm, Tonight @ Noon 3:30 pm. continued on page 48 œ
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Venue Index aDelaiDe hall 250 adelaide W. aiR CanaDa CenTRe 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. alleyCaTz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. amsTeRDam BReWhouse 245 Queens Quay W. 416-504-1020. aRRay sPaCe 155 Walnut. 416-532-3019. aRT galleRy oF onTaRio 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. BamPoT house oF Tea & BoaRD games 201 Harbord. 416-537-5959. BaR RaDio 615 college. 416-516-3237. BeaveR 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. BlaCk BeaR PuB 1125 o’connor. 416-752-5182. BlaCkouT lounge 1201 Dundas e. 416466-1331. BlakBiRD 812b Bloor W. 647-344-7225. Bloke & 4Th 401 king W. 416-477-1490. Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. The BRisTol 1087 Queen W. 647-716-6583. BRooklynn BaR 1186 Queen W. 416-536-7700. BunDa lounge 1108 Dundas W. CaDillaC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416536-7717. Calvin PResByTeRian ChuRCh 26 Delisle. 416-923-9030. CameRon house 408 Queen W. 416703-0811. Casino Rama 5899 Rama (Rama). 705329-3325. CasTRo’s lounge 2116 Queen e. 416699-8272. The Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598. CaveRn BaR 76 church. 416-971-4440. CelT’s PuB 2872 Dundas W. 416-766-4421. The CenTRal 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’esT WhaT 67 Front e. 416-867-9499. ChalkeRs PuB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. CheRRy Cola’s RoCk n’ Rolla 200 Bathurst. ChRisTie PiTs PaRk 750 Bloor W. ClinTon’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CluB 120 120 church. CoaliTion lounge 349a college. 416832-9331. CoDa 794 Bathurst. Come anD geT iT! 676 Queen W. 647-344-3416. CRaWFoRD 718 college. 416-530-1633. DakoTa TaveRn 249 ossington. 416-850-4579. The DanFoRTh musiC hall 147 Danforth. 416-778-8163. DouBle DouBle lanD 209 augusta. DRake hoTel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. DuFFy’s TaveRn 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. The Duke live.Com 1225 Queen e. 416463-5302. eDWaRD Johnson BuilDing 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. el moCamBo 464 spadina. 647-748-6969. emmeT Ray BaR 924 college. 416-792-4497. eTon house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. FiRsT CanaDian PlaCe 1 First canadian Pl. 416-862-8138. Fly 2.0 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426.
The Flying BeaveR PuBaReT 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. 401 RiChmonD W 416-595-5900. FouR seasons CenTRe FoR The PeRFoRming aRTs 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. FRee Times CaFe 320 college. 416-967-1078. galleRy 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781. The gaRRison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gaTe 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. gRossman’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. haBiTs gasTRoPuB 928 college. 416533-7272. hanDleBaR 159 augusta. 647-748-7433. haRD luCk BaR 772a Dundas W. haRlem WesT 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743. haWaii BaR 989 Dovercourt. 416-786-7880. The hole in The Wall 2867a Dundas W. 647-350-3564. holy oak CaFe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. hoRseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. The hoxTon 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. Jam FaCToRy Co 2 Matilda. The Jazz BisTRo 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299. Johnny JaCkson 587 college. JunCTion CiTy musiC hall 2907 Dundas W. 416-368-1368. kingsTon RD uniTeD ChuRCh 975 kingston. 416-699-6091. kool haus 132 Queens Quay e. 416-869-0045. lee’s PalaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. linsmoRe TaveRn 1298 Danforth. 416466-5130. The loaDeD Dog 1921 Lawrence e. 416901-0662. The loCal gesT 424 Parliament. 416-961-9425. lola 40 kensington. 416-348-8645. lou DaWg’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294. lou DaWg’s RyeRson 76 gerrard e. 647349-3294. luCsCulPTuRe 663 greenwood. 416-461-7936. lula lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. luxy nighTCluB 60 interchange Way (Vaughan). maCkenzie’s annex 469 Bloor W. 647340-5890. massey hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. mCgRaDies TaP anD gRill 2167 Victoria Park. 416-449-1212. milk glass Co 1247 Dundas W. 416-536-6455. mill sT BReWPuB BeeR hall 10 Rack House Mews. 416-681-0338. monaRChs PuB 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. musiDeum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. naWlins Jazz BaR 299 king W. 416-595-1958. 918 BaThuRsT CenTRe FoR CulTuRe & The aRTs 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. olD mill inn 21 old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. on Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417. only CaFé 972 Danforth. 416-463-7843. oPeRa house 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. The PainTeD laDy 218 ossington. 647-213-5239.
PalmeRsTon liBRaRy 560 Palmerston. 416-393-7680. Phoenix ConCeRT TheaTRe 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. The PisTon 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. Polish ComBaTanTs hall 206 Beverley. Queen elizaBeTh TheaTRe 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. RanCho Relaxo 300 college. 416-920-0366. RanDolPh TheaTRe 736 Bathurst. Ravage anD RumBle 1378 Queen W. 416-588-5105. ReFeRenCe liBRaRy 789 yonge. 416-395-5577. The Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. The RoCkPile easT 2787a eglinton e. 647-748-7625. Roy Thomson hall 60 simcoe. 416872-4255. Royal ConseRvaToRy oF musiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. sauCe on The DanFoRTh 1376 Danforth. 647-748-1376. The savoy 1166 Queen W. 416-499-9386. sCaDDing CouRT CommuniTy CenTRe 707 Dundas W. 416-392-0335. seven44 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931. silveR DollaR 486 spadina. 416-975-0909. small WoRlD musiC CenTRe 180 shaw. smiling BuDDha 961 college. 416-788-7586. sneaky Dee’s 431 college. 416-603-3090. sounD aCaDemy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. souThsiDe Johnny’s 3653 Lake shore W. 416-521-6302. sT laWRenCe CenTRe FoR The aRTs 27 Front e. 416-366-1656. sTone lounge 783 college. TaRTisTRy 1252 the Queensway. 647748-1818. TaTToo 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488. 3030 DunDas WesT 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736. ThomPson hoTel 550 Wellington W. 416-640-7778. ThoRoughBReD FooD & DRink 304 Richmond W. Toika 471 Richmond W. 416-868-6452. Toni Bulloni 156 cumberland. 416967-7676. ToRonTo CenTRe FoR The aRTs 5040 yonge. 416-733-9388. ToTa lounge 592 Queen W. 416-866-8878. TouChé 669 college. 416-516-9009. TRanzaC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. TRiniTy sT. Paul’s ChuRCh 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. uniun 473 adelaide W. 416-603-9300. velveT unDeRgRounD 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. viRgin moBile moD CluB 722 college. 416-588-4663. Wayla BaR 996 Queen e. 416-901-5570. WRongBaR 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.
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Roy Thomson hall Rachmaninoff Symphony 2 Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. TaRTisTRy Elizabeth Martins Group, 10 am Guys, Birds of a Feather, Fair Trade 10 am-6 pm. Toni Bulloni Ori Dagan, Mark Kieswetter 9 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
The BRisTol Dancecrasher Soul Bhoys (soul/
ska/reggae) 10 pm. CelT’s PuB Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness Visible (gothic/dark alternative/retro) 10:30 pm. ClinTon’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (sixties soul & rock & roll) 10 pm. CluB 120 Jockstrap DJ Deko-Ze 10 pm.5 CoaliTion lounge United Saturdays Matthew Byrnes doors 10 pm. CoDa Lee Burridge, Rafwat & Chorniy, 2Grams 10 pm. NDRake hoTel Never Forgive Action Mantis, DJ Numeric & DJ Dalia (hip-hop/R&B) 11 pm to 4 am. emmeT Ray BaR DJ Sawtay (soul/hip-hop) 10 pm. Fly 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 N401 RiChmonD W Nuit Blanche Party Mark E, the Black Madonna, Martin Fazekes. haRlem WesT BaCk PaTio Fly Lady Di (R&B/ house/hip-hop/trap/funk) 11 pm. holy oak CaFe Freakaholics Anonymous (funk) 10 pm. The hoxTon The Heat Tour Vicetone doors 10 pm. lou DaWg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/hip-hop). luxy nighTCluB Men Of Canada Contest doors 7 pm. The PisTon With It (mod/northern soul) 10 pm. Michael Hollett .....................................................................................@m_hollett The savoy Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. Alice Klein .................................................................................................@aliceklein Toika Nuit Blanche Party Mark E, the Black Susan G. Cole .......................................................................................@susangcole Madonna, Martin Fazekas 10 pm to 4 am. ToTa lounge Jim Edwards (tech/techno/deep). Enzo DiMatteo ..........................................................................@enzodimatteo uniun Politik, Jed Dadson doors 10 pm. Norm Wilner ....................................................................................@normwilner Wayla BaR Daddy Next Door DJs Dwayne Minard & Mike B (house) 10 pm. Glenn Sumi ............................................................................................@glennsumi
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From Christie Pits to Bickford Park, to Fred Hamilton Park, to Trinity Bellwoods Park. The DanFoRTh musiC hall The Janoskians doors 7 pm, all ages. The gaRRison Catfish & the Bottlemen doors 7 pm. hanDleBaR Nite Comfort 13 nwodtleM, the One (family), jefftheworld (electronic/experimental) doors 8 pm. haRD luCk BaR Beartooth. hoRseshoe Current Swell (indie rock/roots rock) doors 7:30 pm. lula lounge 27th Letters Fundraiser for a book by Lanre Onigibinde-Bey Raz Fresco, Reddah Redz, Rootz K, Ashley Jenelle, Denis Commie and others (hip-hop/reggae/ R&B) doors 7 pm. sneaky Dee’s Code Orange, Twitching Tongue doors 7 pm, all ages. sounD aCaDemy The Nick & Knight Tour Nick Carter & Jordan Knight doors 7 pm, all ages. souThsiDe Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. TRiniTy sT. Paul’s ChuRCh International Divas Jackie Richardson, Laila Biali, Luanda Jones, Cindy Church, Saina Singer, Patricia Cano 8 pm.
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BamPoT house oF Tea & BoaRD games Open Mic 7:30 pm.
BlaCk BeaR PuB Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. BlakBiRD Kobena Aquaa Harrison and Afrika
Djelly 8 pm.
DuFFy’s TaveRn Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm. The Duke live.Com The Ronnie Hayward
Band (rockabilly/blues) 4 to 8 pm. emmeT Ray BaR Graham Playford (folk/rock/ roots) 9 pm. The Flying BeaveR PuBaReT Toronto Songwriters’ Showcase 7:30 pm. FRee Times CaFe Unplugged Session 8 (songwriters) 8 pm, Jewish Brunch Buffet The Shpeelers 11 am. gRossman’s Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. hugh’s Room Eric Anderson 8:30 pm. kingsTon RD uniTeD ChuRCh Kingston Road Village Concert Series: Contemporary TangoTamers Payadora Tango Ensemble 1:30 pm. linsmoRe TaveRn Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (blues/R&B/funk) 5 to 9 pm. lou DaWg’s Gospel Choir Southern Brunch noon. lula lounge Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza 11 am. mCgRaDies TaP anD gRill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. small WoRlD musiC CenTRe Small World Music Festival: Cover Me Globally Donné Roberts, Aviva Chernick, Drew Gonsalves, Lisa Patterson doors 7:30 pm. ToRonTo CenTRe FoR The aRTs Jacob Moon 7:30 pm, all ages. TRanzaC CD release show The Shoeless, Soozi Schlanger doors 8 pm.
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Michael Hollett @m_hollett ODIES... Sunday, October 5 CALLING ALL TORONTO FO Julia LeConte ....................................................................................@julialeconte Alice Klein Kate Robertson.....................................................................................@katernow PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL Follow us onLOOKING TO SATISFY YOUR CRAVINGS? @aliceklein aiR CanaDa CenTRe POSTPONED. Dressed To Sarah Parniak ..............................................................................................@s_parns Twitter NOW Kill Tour Cher. Ben Spurr ..................................................................................................... aRRay@benspurr sPaCe Pony Girl, bEQUALSd, SpectrumSusan G. Cole @ nowtoronto Percussion (rock/electronic) 7:30 pm. Jonathan Goldsbie ..............................................................................@goldsbie C’esT WhaT Downtown Alternative School @susangcole Adria Vasil .................................................................................@ecoholicnation Fundraiser Garage Baby, Molly Thomason, James Clarke Institute, Ryan & Chris Bennett Enzo DiMatteo Sabrina Maddeaux ................................................@SabrinaMaddeaux 3 pm. @enzodimatteo NOW Promotions ...............................................@NOWTorontoPromo CheRRy Cola’s RoCk n’ Rolla Sinful Sundays Burlesque doors 9 pm. Wilner ChRisTie PiTs PaRk Homegrown Park Norm Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL CALLING ALL FOODIES... Crawl: David Suzuki Foundtion’s National ñ gRossman’s New Orleans Connection (jazz) @normwilner Park Project benefit Heavyweights Brass Band, LOOKING TO SATISFY YOUR CRAVINGS? 4:30 to 9 pm. MaracaTALL, Samba Squad 10 am to 5 pm. holy oak CaFe Harley Card Trio w/ Alex SamGlenn Sumi aras (jazz) 9 pm. @glennsumi The loCal gesT Sunday Jazz. musiDeum Party Music Don Naduriak (jazz Join us at OktoberFEAST piano) 3 pm. Julia LeConte The Rex Gabriel Palatchi (Latin jazz) 9:30 pm, for an unforgettable night out for a great cause! @julialeconte Baroque Orchestra Chris Pruden Group 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. KateToni Robertson Bulloni Julie Michels, Ted Quinlan (jazz) Thursday, October 16, 2014 6 pm. @katernow S Music/DJ/Lounge AL Dance Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie Street, Toronto) N A CasTRo’s lounge Watch This Sound (rare/ Sarah Parniak C Tickets: $25, VIP tickets $50 E vintage ska/reggae/dub vinyl) 9 pm. E H C @s_parns T smiling BuDDha Nuit de l’Acide (techno/psyENI trance/hardstyle). V F Spurr O 9-12 35 & Ben Monday, October 6 Follow us on Twitter NOW @nowtoronto t @benspurr c Buy your tickets today at cancer.ca/oktoberfeast UNDER? O PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL Michael Hollett ................................................ @m_hollett Kate Robertson ........................................ @katernow aDelaiDe hall Rachael Yamagata (singer/ Jonathan Goldsbie Alice Klein ............................................................@aliceklein Sarah Parniak ..........................................................@s_parns songwriter) doors 7 pm. @goldsbie Tickets CasTRo’s lounge Rockabilly Mondays The Susan G. Cole .................................................. @susangcole Ben Spurr .................................................................@benspurr Cosmotones (old-school rockabilly) 6 pm. from Adria Enzo DiMatteo ......................................@enzodimatteo Jonathan Goldsbie ......................................... @goldsbie TheVasil DanFoRTh musiC hall Jungle (R&B) $15@ecoholicnation Norm Wilner ................................................@normwilner Adria Vasil .............................................@ecoholicnation doors 7 pm. ñ DouBle DouBle lanD Dan’l Boone, New Glenn Sumi ........................................................@glennsumi Sabrina Maddeaux ............@SabrinaMaddeaux 416.964.6337 Fries, Tranz Defonce 9 pm, all ages. Sabrina Maddeaux Julia LeConte ............................................... @julialeconte NOW Promotions ...........@NOWTorontoPromo tafelmusik.org gRossman’s No Band Required 10 pm. @SabrinaMaddeaux hoRseshoe We Are Scientists, Surfer
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Blood, External Summers doors 8:30 pm. ñ lee’s PalaCe Nick Jonas 8 pm.
oPeRa house The Black Dahlia Murder, Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, Alterbeast doors 7 pm. viRgin moBile moD CluB Odesza, Ambassad-
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
ages, second show doors 10 pm. tattoo Obey the Brave, the Amity Affliction.
writer) 9 pm.
emmet ray Bar Peter Boyd & his Mutant
Castro’s Lounge blueVenus (singer/songFree times CaFe Open Stage Mondays Michael
Evans (folk) 7:30 pm. HugH’s room Don Ross, Thomas Leeb (fingerstyle guitar) 8:30 pm. Lou Dawg’s ryerson Open Mic Night Don Campbell 9 pm. musiDeum Victor Kotov (piano/duduk) 8 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
emmet ray Bar Jessica Ackerley (jazz) 9 pm,
Dan Rougeau Quartet (jazz) 7 pm. on Cue Ken Yoshioka, Naomi Motomura 8 pm. reFerenCe LiBrary New Music 101: Arraymusic, Music In the Barns 7 pm. tHe rex Gene Smith & David Braid 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. seven44 Advocats’ 10th Year Anniversary Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/swoon) 7 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
aLLeyCatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. tHompson HoteL rooFtop Blacklist Mondays
doors 10 pm.
Tuesday, October 7 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
Casino rama Redeemer Of Souls Tour
Judas Priest, Steel Panther 8 pm. ñ Castro’s Lounge The Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8 pm.
tHe CentraL James Black. CLuB 120 Diner Open Mic Shane Taylor 9 pm.5 Come anD get it! Undrcovr (funk/soul/hip-
hop covers) 10 pm. Lee’s paLaCe MXPX, Zebrahead, Allister (pop punk) doors 7:30 pm. massey HaLL David Gray doors 7 pm. opera House Sharon Van Etten, Tiny Ruins doors 8 pm. pHoenix ConCert tHeatre Seether doors 7 pm. siLver DoLLar PPOP Presents Lazy, Nasa Valley, King Creep, Pony doors 9 pm. sneaky Dee’s Into It. Over It. doors 6:30 pm, all ages.
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Mariachis (blues/country/folk/roots) 9 pm.
Free times CaFe Saro Nova, Geoff Gans, Lionel Tissot, Micah Toub 8 pm.
grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm. HugH’s room Shawn Phillips 8:30 pm. JoHnny JaCkson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop)
9 pm. LoLa Wednesday’s Child 8 pm. Lou Dawg’s ryerson Live Acoustic Vlues. tHe painteD LaDy Declan O’Donovan (Americana singer/songwriter) 9 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
aLLeyCatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. BLakBirD Richard Whiteman Trio 8 pm. Castro’s Lounge The Mediterranean Stars (jazz) 6 pm. CHaLkers puB Girls Night Out: Lisa Particelli’s GNOJAZZ Jam Session Lisa Particelli, Peter Hill, Ross MacIntyre, Louis Botos Sr 8 pm to midnight. LuLa Lounge Toronto Friends Of Refugees Community II Waleed Kush African Jazz Ensemble, Ruth Mathiang, Samba Elegua, Solar Scenery (world/jazz/hip-hop) doors 7 pm. nawLins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio 7 to 11 pm. onLy CaFé Lazersuzan (groove-based space jazz) 8 to 10 pm. tHe rex Dave Young 9:30 pm, Worst Pop Band Ever 6:30 pm. roy tHomson HaLL Dvorak: New World Symphony Toronto Symphony Orchestra 6:30 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
Beaver Birkenrock: Female Alternative Music Night 11 pm. CrawForD Connected Reggae Party 9 pm. HoLy oak CaFe Bring Your Own Vinyl 9 pm. tHe piston Lifted (body & soul dance party) 10 pm. tHorougHBreD FooD & Drink Groove Thing Wednesdays DJ Caff (R&B/new jack swing) 10 pm. veLvet unDergrounD That Hip Hop $**! DJ Heights (all eras of hip-hop) 9:30 pm. 3
BrookLynn Bar Open Mic Fun Cam Fraser 10 pm.
Free times CaFe Best Of The Open Stage Susan
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
Four seasons Centre For tHe perForming arts riCHarD BraDsHaw ampHitHeatre A
Play Of Passion Colin Ainsworth, Stephen Ralls (tenor, piano) noon. paLmerston LiBrary New Music 101: Arraymusic, Music in the Barns 7 pm. tHe rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam Chris Gale 9:30 pm, Nick Morgan Trio + 1 6:30 pm.
royaL Conservatory oF musiC mazzoLeni HaLL Mazzoleni Masters William VerMeulen 7:30 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
aLLeyCatz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun
8:30 pm.
BLoke & 4tH Swank DJ Geoff Brown doors
10 pm.
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become a bit repetitive. Thankfully percussionist Paul Banwatt continues to find new and exciting ways to push a song into high gear, fluidly pounding out frantically rolling beats that help propel singer/songwriter Nils Edenloff’s plaintive vocals and Amy Cole’s subtle keyboard licks. Top track: Vulcan, AB The Rural Alberta Advantage play the Danforth Music Hall December 18. BENJAMIN BOLES
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Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors) Rating: Steve Gunn’s newest album is a seamless continuation of his excellent full-band debut from 2013. Meditative and mellow, the songs float along on soft waves of intricate, hypnotic guitar lines and the Brooklyn singer/songwriter’s low, gently exhaled lyrics. There’s obliqueness to the compositions: they flow in an organic, non-traditional way yet never become overtly experimental. Call it otherworldly country blues, with elements of cosmic psych, Indian classical and Gnawa spirituals. More players were involved this time – slide guitars swoop in and out, humming organs expand the sonic palette, a steady pitter-patter of drums and smooth bass hold the ground steady beneath our feet – but this is still the Gunn show. As a songwriter, singer, guitarist and bandleader, he’s self-assured, masterful and working from his own plain. Top track: Tommy’s Congo Steve Gunn plays the Drake Underground October 15. CARLA GILLIS
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Pop/Rock LENNY KRAVITZ Strut (Sony) Rating: NNN There’s always a fear factor when you press play on a beloved artist’s late-catalogue release. Like they’ve lost themselves and started pandering to their “aging” fan base. On his 10th record, Lenny Kravitz isn’t trying to reinvent himself. Great. He’s Lenny Kravitz. He’s always made slightly psychedelic, funky rock ’n’ roll that evokes a time a decade or three ago, and it’s the same on Strut, which gives a nod to the 70s and 80s. Understandably, he’s lost a little youthful edge: there’s no defiant Mr. Cab Driver, for example. But the songs hold up. Bowieesque Sex kicks things off with ample cheek. Standout The Chamber is surprisingly new wave. She’s A Beast sounds a lot like Can’t Get You Off My Mind, from his Circus album, but is still a worthy ballad with clever wordplay (“She’s a beast / Oh yes, you are, sugar”). Oh, and badass bass-playing throughout. Losing two of the 12 tracks – a silly version of Happy Birthday and a saccharine cover of Ooo Baby Baby – would have made it even tighter. Top track: The Chamber JULIA LeCONTE THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE Mended With Gold (Paper Bag)
Rating: NNN The Rural Alberta Advantage have always rocked out more than descriptions of the “indie folk” trio would suggest. Their third album, especially, sounds like it was written with clubs full of sweaty fans in mind. Turns out that retreating to a remote cabin to write songs did not result in the kind of pastoral, mellow mood you might expect. Every delicate acoustic bit eventually turns into a big singalong crescendo, and even the most restful moments feel full of tension waiting to release. It’s a very effective formula for their live shows, but over the course of an album, the constant dynamic shifts between intimate verses and extroverted choruses
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rangements that he decided to do a concert album to document them. Unfortunately, the results aren’t nearly as compelling as they should be, and are often much more lifeless than the original versions. Part of the problem is that the album is compiled from two shows and some live radio performances, which prevents it from feeling like a proper concert recording. The musicianship is generally strong, but you don’t get much of Green’s own artistry. Stripped of the production gloss and subtle electronic tweaks, too many of the songs end up like generic jazz funk. Top track: Know You BB
Aquarius (Sony) Rating: Tinashe is a Los Angeles R&B singer whose DJ Mustard-produced debut single, 2 On, made its way up the charts earlier this year. Artfully formulaic as that 2 On beat may be, the pace and sonic atmosphere on Aquarius are diverse. Tinashe keeps one foot in the underwater, hazy vibe of au courant alt-R&B while maintaining a mainstream enough sound to blast on the dance floor. Vocally, she’s capable without getting theatrical – whether she’s restrained and breathy, as on the lead track, or showcasing her range on a ballad like Wildfire. Given the club-ready lead single, it’s surprising how slowly the album starts. Opening songs Aquarius and Bet are great mood-setting warm-ups, but Cold Sweat (over five brooding minutes) grinds the thing to a halt. Much better if Devonté Hynes’s Prince-like guitar solo outro on Bet had launched Aquarius into its fantastic midsection: 2 On; the old-school Brandyesque R&B vibes of How Many Times, featuring the new-school yaps of Future; the complicated love story of Pretend, featuring A$AP Rocky. Top track: How Many Times JL
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Singer/composer/producer/former music student Lydia Ainsworth’s debut fulllength is the result of three years spent composing and recording in bedrooms and basements in Toronto, Montreal and Brooklyn, chilling under the radar. For better and for worse, she eschews the buzz cycle that fuels so many careers these days. So Right From Real feels totally unexpected and refreshing. A one-woman orchestra, Ainsworth layers flourishing string sections (cello and violins), piano interludes, startling synth lines and primal drumming with her graceful, spellbinding vocals, which she samples until they’re unrecognizable. Whenever it gets too neat and tidy, she throws it off balance, inserting an off-kilter beat or glitch effect. This is experimental pop music that will appeal to both the fickle indie crowd and the mainstream. Currently playing loft parties in Montreal, Ainsworth is likely to play Massey Hall one day. Top track: Hologram SAMANTHA EDWARDS
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Live (Ninja Tune) Rating: NN When it came time to tour Bonobo’s 2013 studio album The North Borders, Simon Green hired a bunch of live musicians to help reinterpret his mellow jazzy house grooves and downtempo breakbeats. So enamoured was Green of the new ar-
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PRINCE Art Official Age (NPG/Warner) Rating: NNN Earlier this year, Prince finally resolved his career-upending legal dispute with Warner Bros. in a deal that saw him reclaim ownership of the masters to his back catalogue. The last 18 years have been an exasperating time to be a Prince fan, as his anti-major-label and anti-internet stance inspired contrarian moves like distributing his last album, 20Ten, exclusively through European print publications. His 34th album – released simultaneously with his band 3rdEyeGirl’s PLECTRUMELECTRUM – is as easy to listen to as it is to legally purchase in North America. It’s a flirtatious and often funny R&B record full of smooth synth funk and love balladry that has the light-hearted giddiness of a first date. Once you get past the air-horn headache that is opener Art Official Cage, the album settles into a pleasant rhythm that plays up His Purpleness’s knack for whispery weightlessness and deep grooves. Clouds manages to be both anti-cloudcomputing and anti-drugs without seeming anti-fun, while This Could Be Us recalls the sweetness (but not the blunt sexuality) of bedroom ballads like Insatiable. The harder synths and beats on U Know and Funknroll, meanwhile, flirt with chilly atmospherics reminiscent of recent rap and R&B production trends. That said, Art Official Age is classic Prince and easily the stronger offering compared with the unnecessary blues rock of PLECTRUMELECTRUM. (See review below.) Top track: U Know KEVIN RITCHIE 3RDEYEGIRL PLECTRUMELECTRUM
(NPG/Warner) Rating: N Recorded with his three-piece band 3rdEyeGirl, PLECTRUMELECTRUM has a heavy, live-off-the-floor sound in contrast with Art Official Age’s levity and studio precision. Songs like the title track and AINTTURNINROUND seem to exist solely as showcases for the band’s bland tightness, which results in excessive and datedsounding rock ’n’ roll wankery. Elsewhere, garishly affected, shouty rapping on BOYTROUBLE is as annoying to hear as PLECTRUMELECTRUM’s all-caps song titles are to read and write. The pace eventually slows in the album’s latter half, of which the playful TICTACTOE (“Like a bunch of blind people playing tic-tac-toe / Who knows where the zeros and the xes go”) is the lone winner. It actually feels better suited to Art Official Age. This album belongs chained up in the vaults. Top track: TICTACTOE KR
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Between friends New play explores women’s lives over three decades By JON KAPLAN THE THING BETWEEN US by Alison Lawrence, directed by Aaron Willis, with Randi Helmers, Emily Hurson and Mary Francis Moore. Presented by the mcguffin company at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (16 Ryerson). Previews Thursday (October 2), opens Friday (October 3) and runs to October 19, Wednesday to Saturday 7:30 pm, matinees Saturday and Sunday (except October 4) 2 pm. $30, srs $25, matinees pwyc, preview $20. 416-504-7529.
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two women over a period of 35 years. Written by mcguffin’s Alison Lawrence, the production features co-producer Mary Francis Moore, along with Emily Hurson and Randi Helmers. At its centre are Linda Small (Hurson) and Shannon (Moore), whom Linda’s parents take in when the two are youngsters and Shannon’s mother is euphemistically “resting.” Manipulative, eager for attention and prone to lying, Shannon insinuates herself into her foster family’s life, confusing Linda, the good girl who always wants to do the right thing. “Though the company has been around for over 15 years, producing shows like bittergirl and The Catering Queen, its focus was reinforced recently when I saw dozens of productions as a Dora Award juror,” recalls Lawrence.
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“As an audience member I felt surrounded by women who weren’t seeing their lives onstage. They were the ones buying the tickets, but often not seeing themselves depicted there. “That realization was a reminder that what I want to write about is women’s relationships with other women. Men are in some of my plays, but women are at the heart of the scripts.” That’s true in The Thing Between Us, which tackles the thorny question of what binds some people together even when they don’t always get along. How far
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do compassion and affection take us when we have real problems with those closest to us? “Alison originally called the play Shannon, but as we talked about it, we realized that it’s Linda who never leaves the stage,” says Moore, a director as well as an actor. “It’s her memories we’re shown, and she spends the play wondering what kind of relationship she has with Shannon, who remains in Linda’s daily existence and head for decades. She’s why Linda can’t move on in some areas of her life.” Originally, Moore wasn’t going to play the role, but the two producers realized that the character was difficult to make sympathetic and that Moore could make it work. “She feels like a culmination of all the characters I’ve ever played,” admits Moore. “It’s terrifying at times, but I’ve come to feel protective and loving of her. I remember when we created bittergirl” (a show about being dumped and getting over it, which Lawrence and Moore wrote and performed with Annabel Fitzsimmons), “director Michael Waller kept telling us to make our stories more extreme, because those far-out things really happen.” The two artists suggest that everyone has a figure like Shannon in their past, if not their present. “The play explores what it is that makes us keep going back to those people who do terrible things and drive us crazy,” nods Lawrence. “There has to be an appeal, a charm or something that makes us have them in our lives.” Moore accounts for Shannon’s deceit and tricks by seeing her as a child who has to deal with horrible things that happened earlier in her life. When we meet her, she’s trying to figure out how to fit into a new family given the tools she has. “As an adult, she’s still a child; she has no survival skills. But I have compassion for her and want to tell her story properly. It would be easy to make her sinister or Machiavellian, but I don’t think that’s the real Shannon.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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(Stage Centre Productions). A man discovers that his spinster aunts are serial killers in this black comedy. Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 5 and 11 at 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-299-5557, stagecentreproductions.com. THE BOY WITH TAPE ON HIS FACE by Sam Wills (Mirvish/Seabright Productions). Wills performs a unique blend of comedy with no talking and drama without words. Runs in rep with Julie Madly Deeply. Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 19, see website for schedule. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. A BRIMFUL OF ASHA by Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre/Soulpepper). An Indo-Canadian man learns that his Indian vacation is a wife-seeking scheme by his parents. Opens Oct 7 and runs to Oct 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed & Sat 2 pm. $25-$55. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca. CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION by Annie Baker (Play Practice Collective). Personal dramas emerge when four lonely New Englanders enroll in a community theatre course. Opens Oct 8 and runs to Oct 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. FALSTAFF by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Falstaff’s life of pleasure comes crashing down when he attempts an ill-ad-
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How gratifying to see a revival of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Coun try’s Good on the 25th anniversary of its premiere, helmed by the original director, Max StaffordClark. It’s a stunning script; a memorable indie version was mounted here more than a decade ago by Daryl Cloran and Theatrefront. Unfortunately, not everything works in this current production. Based loosely on Thomas Kennealy’s novel The Playmaker, it’s set in 18thcentury Australia’s first penal colony. Well-meaning British lieutenant Ralph Clark (Nathan IvesMoiba) decides to put on a play starring a rogue’s gallery of prisoners, some illiterate, most terrified of the whip and the noose. Clark’s officer colleagues doubt the wisdom of this experiment, and at first the prisoner actors bicker among themselves over petty details. But soon it’s clear the act of putting on a play – in this case the Restoration comedy The
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vised seduction scheme. Opens Oct 3 and runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $12$339. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. The Fun Palace Radio VaRieTy Show (Small Wooden Shoe). Historical vaudevilles and revues are mashed up with radio and TV shows, contemporary theatre and podcasts with actors, comics, musicians and storytellers. $12. Oct 2-4, Thu, 8 pm, at Junction City Music Hall, 2907 Dundas W; Fri 8 pm, Sat 4 pm, at Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. funpalace.ca. The GaRden PaRTy by Vaclav Havel (Victoria College Drama Society). A young man tries to get a job by crashing a garden party in this absurd play staged outdoors. Oct 2-4, Thu-Sat 7 pm. $7, stu/srs $5. Victoria College Quad, 91 Charles W. uofttix.ca. 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. Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 19, see website for schedule. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. Piece oF Mine FeSTiVal (Natasha Adiyana Morris). Showcase of works in development by black playwrights. Opens Oct 7 and runs to Oct 12, see website for schedule. $10-$15, passes $25-$50. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts. pieceofminefest.com. The PRinceSS & The Pea adapted by Derek Genova (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Prince Tommy must choose between two princesses in this musical show for ages 3 to 10. Opens Oct 4 and runs to Oct 25, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2 pm. $16. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca. PRiSoneR oF TehRan by Marina Nemat (Motus O Dance Theatre). This multidisciplinary performance combines dance with Nemat reading from her memoir. Oct 8-10, Wed and Fri 7 pm. $25-$30, stu $12.50-$15. Lebovic Centre for the Arts, 19 Civic, Stouffville. 905640-2322, 19onthepark.ca. RaPid eye MoVeMenT by Laura Mullin and Chris Tolley (Expect Theatre). Artists from the Emerging Inter-Arts Ensemble perform a dance-theatre piece as part of Nuit Blanche. Oct 4-5, Sat 7 pm to Sun 7 am. Free. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. expect.org.
ShakeSPeaRe-in-hoSPiTalS PRoJecT ShowcaSe (Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Col-
lective). Cabaret-style show where artists share their material and experiences performing for patients. Oct 2-3, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $10. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, facebook.com/events/703597069734684. The ThinG BeTween uS by Alison Lawrence (the mcguffin company). This comedic psychodrama looks at the relationship between two women over a lifetime (see story, page 52). Previews Oct 2, opens Oct 3 and runs to Oct 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (no mat Oct 4). $30, srs $25, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, mcguffincompany.com. we walk aMonG you by the Ensemble (Artichoke Heart Collective). Desperate to save his son, a doctor performs experiments in an abandoned hospital and encounters an otherworldly creature. Opens Oct 2 and runs to Oct 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$25. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.
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People’s Theatre). Racial injustice in Depression-era Alabama is seen through the eyes of a child in this adaptation of the novel. Previews Oct 6-8. Opens Oct 9 and runs to Nov 2, see website for schedule. $15-$30. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. whaT MakeS a Man by Jennifer Tarver (Canadian Stage/Necessary Angel). Four actors portray different aspects of the life and songs of poet/singer Charles Aznavour. Previews Oct 5-8, Sun and Tue-Wed 8 pm. Opens Oct 9 and runs to Nov 2, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $15-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com.
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gente). Artist Camille Claudel struggles with mental illness, an ill-fated affair and her desire to be heard. Oct 3 at 8 pm. $25-$30. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca. The FiSh eyeS TRiloGy by Anita Majumdar (nightswimming). This funder for the company features snacks and Majumdar per-
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forming her dance-theatre trilogy about the lives of three young Canadian women. Oct 2 at 7 pm. $35. Dancemakers Studio, 9 Trinity. nightswimmingtheatre.com.
liFe on The line: woMen STRike aT eaTon’S 1984-5 by Patricia McDermott (Act II Studio).
This historical play about the 6-month strike is presented as part of Ryerson University’s Social Justice Week. Oct 7 at 7 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould, SCC 115. ryerson.ca/socialjustice. liTTle SPRouTS: SPlaSh ‘n BooTS (Rose Theatre). The Treehouse TV group perform a high-energy family musical. Oct 4 at 1 and 3:30 pm. $17.50. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. loVe VS. SMuT (Pressgang Theatre). This evening of storytelling features dating tales from Sam Mullins, Jill Welsh, Glyn Bowerman, Faisal Butt and Graham Isador. Oct 4 at 8 pm. $10. Handlebar, 159 Augusta. 647-748-7433, facebook.com/pressgangtheatre. The MaSk MeSSenGeR’S (Faustwork Mask Theatre). Silent masks are brought to life with expressive physicality in this all-ages show. Oct 4 at 5 pm. $8-$15. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca. PeeleR’S PlayhouSe (Dolly Berlin). Burlesque by Aviva the Mirage, DD Star, Sassy Ray and others. Oct 4 doors 10 pm. $10. Junction City Music Hall, 2907 Dundas W. dollyberlin.com. SinFul SundayS (Music City North/Great Canadian Burlesque). Weekly burlesque series with El Toro, Dolly Berlin and others. Oct 5 at 10:30 pm. Pwyc. Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla, 200 Bathurst. dollyberlin.com.
FReda and JeM’S BeST oF The week by kuRioS – caBineT oF cuRioSiTieS by Lois Fine (Buddies in Bad Times TheMichel Laprise (Cirque du Soleil). This ñ ñ atre). Freda (Diane Flacks) and Jem (Kathryn steampunk-styled show is one of Cirque’s
Haggis) meet in a club, fall in love and have two kids before their partnership begins to unravel, forcing them to deal with the personal and familial fallout of a broken home. Haggis exposes Jem’s butch exterior and inner vulnerability, while Flacks’s Freda evolves from giddy lover to a relationship barometer. Throughout, their chemistry remains strong. Original songs performed live onstage by Lorraine Segato enhance the emotional impact, and Judith Thompson’s direction helps Fine to powerfully mine autobiographical elements. Straight or queer, this is a universal story about the many challenges of longterm love. Runs to Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$37. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, 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) hold MoMMy’S ciGaReTTe (Shelley Marshall). Marshall’s autobiographical solo show about three generations of a dysfunctional family deals with mental illness, suicide and cancer. Tough subjects, but Marshall – as good a performer as she is a writer – confronts them with honesty and humour. The details feel authentic, and you can see the humanity beneath even the most embittered character. The ending, which breaks the fourth wall, provides a lovely moment of grace and acceptance. Runs to Oct 28, 8 pm every day. $20. The Full Bawdy Loft, 290 Carlaw, unit 202. 416-821-1754, holdmommyscigarette.com. nnnn (GS) The iMPoRTance oF BeinG eaRneST by Oscar Wilde (Hart House Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this farcical satire. Runs to Oct 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca.
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most consistent productions, where every element – clown turns, acrobatic jaw-droppers and musical sequences – feels beautifully integrated. A couple of numbers don’t work, but the company still evokes a sense of wonder and magic, even with old-school effects like finger puppets. Highly recommended. Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5 pm, mat Sat 4:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $50-$160. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. nnnn (GS) liFe, deaTh and The BlueS by Raoul Bhaneja (Theatre Passe Muraille/Hope and Hell Theatre). This concert/theatre hybrid combines autobiography, interviews and live music to explore the power, passion and meaning of the blues. Runs to Oct 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$38. 16 Ryerson. 416504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. 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. The MounTainToP by Katori Hall (Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival). Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a young woman working at the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his murder. Runs to Oct 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$35, Tue pwyc. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416-531-1402, obsidiantheatre.com. ouR counTRy’S Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Out of Joint/Mirvish). A lieutenant puts on a play with a cast of convicts and marines on Britain’s new penal colony in 1789 Australia (see review, page 53). Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. nnn (GS) PaST PeRFecT by Michel Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto). A young woman pursues an epic love affair, but finds heartache. In French with English surtitles for some shows (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Oct 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $28-$57, Sat rush $20. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com. nnn (JK) PinkaliciouS The MuSical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).
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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, ThuSat 8 pm. $20-$25 (unit102tix@gmail.com). Unit 102, 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. BiRTh by Tom Arthur Davis (Pandemic Theatre). In a future society where people don’t age or die, the government must regulate childbirth. Runs to Oct 18, Wed-Fri 7:30 pm (and Oct 18). $25. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. uniiverse.com/pandemictheatre. Bloody FaMily by Philip McKee and Tanja Jacobs (Theatre Centre). This adaptation of an ancient Greek tragedy looks at a family ripped apart by idealism (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Oct 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20$30. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. nnnn (JK) 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 religious satire musical. Runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $49-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. an eneMy oF The PeoPle by Henrik Ibsen (Tarragon Theatre). A doctor clashes with officials who want to cover up a public health risk to protect the economy (see review, this page). Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. nnnn (JK) eScaPe FRoM haPPineSS by George F Walker (Alumnae Theatre Company). A bizarre event in a dysfunctional family prompts an incident of brutality in this dark comedy. Runs to Oct 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for1, Sun pwyc. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.
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Intense Ibsen an eneMy oF The PeoPle by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Florian Borchmeyer (Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman). Runs to October 26. $27-$53, some $15 rush. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. See Continuing, this page. Rating: nnnn
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The Tarragon opens its season with an exciting production of a rarely staged Ibsen play, An Enemy Of The People. The company’s artistic director, Richard Rose, impressed by a production at Berlin’s Schaubühne Theatre, has mounted his own version of Florian Borchmeyer’s adaptation, translated by Maria Milisavljevic. The adaptation and its translation speak directly to some of today’s key
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concerns: the conflict between big business interests and environmental guardians; individual rights versus what society defines as important. Thomas Stockmann (Joe Cobden), a scientist in a small Canadian town just starting to have success with its new health baths, discovers that factories upstream are polluting the baths’ waters. Thinking he’ll be applauded for his revelation, he offers his report to friends at a local newspaper (Matthew Edison and Brandon McGibbon). But Thomas’s uptight brother, Peter (Rick Roberts), a politician who chairs the baths’ board of directors and is therefore Thomas’s boss, thinks differently, especially given the cost of a new pipeline and the town’s potential ruin if information is leaked. By the end, he’s not the only one criticizing Thomas’s findings and motives.
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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. 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. 416532-1137, fpp.org. 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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Jillian Keiley’s staging of the classic Carroll children’s tale, adapted by James Reaney, is fun for young and old, especially with the delightful design of Bretta Gerecke, which creates a world of mirror-image Alices along with the original’s fantasy characters. Strong performances and audience participation add to the show’s playful spirit. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) caBaReT by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is darker than many, with fine performances by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s Berlin. Don’t miss it. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. nnnn (JK) kinG leaR by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore
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Engaging from the start, Rose’s production moves the action along quickly, filling the theatre with striking images, heady debate and thrilling theatrical moments. His cast is first rate, beginning with Cobden’s boyish, initially naive and then explosive Thomas. There’s also fine work by Tamara Podemski as Thomas’s largely supportive wife and Richard McMillan as her entrepreneurial father, quietly sinister until he reveals a truly devilish nature. The newspapermen, including Tom Barnett as the paper’s publisher, are likewise fleshed-out characters. Some of the most arresting scenes are those between Cobden and Roberts, whose battles grow from sibling rivalries to intellectual confrontations and angry fist fights. But perhaps the production’s most magnetic episode is a public forum that Thomas calls to have his ideas heard. The theatre viewers become the forum’s audience as we’re asked to offer our own opinions on what we’ve seen and heard, a debate tied directly into our everyday concerns about education, the arts and government. Not every element works, though. Thomas’s long, impassioned speech at the forum, for instance, distances rather than pulls us in further, though the following discussion grounds the action again. Even so, this Enemy is intelligent, well-argued and passionately dramatic. Jon kaPlan Don’t miss it.
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Thursday, October 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Headliner Andrew Evans
w/ Monty Scott and host Scott White. To Oct 4, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.
hosted by Cassie Moes dedicated to treats found in a goody bag. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W, Cabaret Space. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. IT’S MY 2ND ANNIVERSARY, LET’S LAUGH Comedy Bar presents Shirley Whalen, Christophe Davidson, headliner Michelle Christine and hosts the Sues. 7:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. KITCH KOMEDY Weekly pro/am show hosted by Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.
LAUGH SABBATH PRESENTS: HUMAN LIFE IS WORTHLESS! Hosted by Marty Topps & Tim
Gilbert, w/ Nick Flanagan, Parker & Seville, Fraser Young, Jackie Pirico and others. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. MAGGIE CASSELLA: BECAUSE I SAID SO The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Cassella test driving new material ahead of a U.S. tour. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-3476567, pubaret.com. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS The Second City presents its fall mainstage show (see review,
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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. Runs to Oct 5, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, Sun 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3667723, canadianstage.com. PROARTEDANzA SEASON 2014 Harbourfront NextSteps presents choreographies by Roberto Campanella, Guillaume Côté and others. To Oct 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20-$40. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. REHEARSAL/PERFORMANCE Ame Henderson presents live rehearsals as part of her residency at the AGO and in preparation for a Nuit Blanche event. Oct 2 from 6 to 8 pm. $12-$15. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/ame-henderson. 3
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Friday, October 3 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. COMEDY KAPOW! Amish Patel, Andy Fruman
and Jeff Tseng perform. 8:30 pm. Free. Club 120 Diner, 120 Church. club120.ca. EAST COAST COMEDY NIGHT Shortweird presents stand-up, improv and music by Darryl Purvis, Diana Love, Karen Mitten, Rose Giles, Merv Hartlen, Mark Walker, Lord Beaverbrook, Ralph MacLeod, host Marcel St Pierre and others. 8 pm. $15. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. shortweird.com.
Ashley Botting (left), Allison Price, Kevin Whalen and Sarah Hillier frequently seem lost in this Cosmos.
Chaves, Danz Alvatar, Ashley Moffatt, Paul Hutcheson, Mel Lucier, Andrew Johnston and Phil Luzi. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. IMPROV GAME SHOW Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 2. RICHARD RYDER Adult, gay-centric, straight friendly stand-up comedy. 9 pm. $15-$20. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. THE UNEMPLOYABLES Jamie O’Connor presents stand-up w/ guest comedians. 10 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor.
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Rebel revolt REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS written and performed by Ashley Botting, Sarah Hillier, Etan Muskat, Allison Price, Connor Thompson and Kevin Whalen (Second City, 51 Mercer). Limited run. $16-$29. 416-3430011. See listings, this page. Rating: NNN
After the stratospheric success of Sixteen Scandals and We Can Be Heroes, Second City’s newest show is a bit more earthbound. Which is ironic, considering that the title is Rebel Without A Cosmos. Chalk it up to the unofficial law of comedy physics – what goes up must come down? – or the fact that, with two new ensemble members, this is a transition show. The revue, performed on Camellia Koo’s suitably out-of-this-world set, gets off to a promising start, lampooning the fact that everyone feels like the centre of the universe. But what follows doesn’t pay off: an awkwardly staged and unfunny sketch about partying friends trying to outwit the RIDE program; a tired scene about an arrogant Apple store employee (newcomer Etan Muskat) dealing with a confused iPhone owner (Kevin Whalen, another newbie); a pointless musical sequence about a yoga instructor (Allison Price) wanting to get closer to a student (Ashley Botting).
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These and other sketches aren’t terrible, exactly, and the troupe performs them well, but the writing lacks polish. Hence the reliance on unnecessary accents and tics to get characters across. Even so, a few bits stand out. Connor Thompson delivers a bravura performance as a mullet-wearing, seemingly dim layabout at an Owen Sound gas station who has a gift for giving directions – of all kinds. When this sketch gets called back, in the show’s single reference to the municipal election, it gets a huge response. Thompson also scores as a children’s performer accidentally hired to sing at a Remembrance Day ceremony. Bonus: he gets to show off his wicked improv chops. Botting, the other standout in this revue, has two big solos: one about the winner of Miss Average Canada honours (with shoutouts to middle-of-theroad brands like Jackson Triggs and Joe Fresh), the other a sweet and playful song addressed to our nation’s true hero, astronaut Chris Hadfield. Another fine sketch takes the idea of the selfie to the next level. But the problem with this revue, directed by SC alum Reid Janisse, can be summed up in two sketches about a group of social misfits in a Learning Annex class. The characters are types – the over-sharer! the close-talker! – rather than people. So the laughs don’t go very deep.
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416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. YUK YUK’S See Thu 2.
Saturday, October 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. ADAM SANK Live show by the U.S. comic. 7
pm. $10-$15. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-4060880. DRINKALONG LIVE Live recording of the podcast w/ David Followes and Jeremy Schultz. 10 pm. Free. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.
FAN FICTION THE SHOW: BATMAN VS SUPERMAN
Fan fiction scripts performed by the FFTS cast, the 404s & Sushi Boys and hosted by Adam Ward. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. facebook. com/events/786459334731186. IMPROV LEAGUE: GAME 5 Four troupes go head-to-head in a shortform improv competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. A LAUGH A MINUTE Stand-up, improv, parodies and more w/ host Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm. Free. Club 120 Diner, 120 Church. club120.ca. MONKEY TOAST The Tite Group presents the improvised talk show with actor Kristian Bruun, beekeeper Jim Lowe, the Monkey Toast Players and host Ron Tite. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. monkeytoast.com.
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PERFECT 10 PRESENTS: THE NUIT BLANCHE EDITION Dan Galea hosts w/ Julia Hladkowicz, DJ
Demers, Daniel Woodrow and headliner Faisal Butt. 10:30 pm. $10-$15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S See Thu 2.
Sunday, October 5 COMEDY @ THE WELL Weekly show w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free. 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents Round 6 Finals w/ host Justin continued on page 56 œ
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THE VELVETEEN RABBIT Ballet Jörgen presents the Margery Williams children’s book adapted as a story ballet for all ages. Choreography by Kathleen Rea. Oct 4-5, Sat 4 pm, Sun 2 pm. $16-$32. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 1-888-655-9090, balletjorgencanada.ca. WHOLE Lucsculpture presents live music and flamenco dance by Kiyo Asaoka. Oct 3 doors 7 pm. $20. 663 Greenwood. 416-461-7936, lucsculpture.blogspot.com. WORLD OF DANCE presents the international urban dance competition. Oct 4, from 3 to 11 pm. $30. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. worldofdance.com/tour.
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this page). Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, FriSat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) STONED UP COMEDY Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Cafe, 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990. TED’S TALK: OLD SCHOOL No games or gimmicks, just OG improv w/ Robin Duke, Linda Kash, Jonathan Wilson, Kathryn Greenwood, Ted Hallett and Lisa Merchant. 9:30 pm. $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. facebook.com/spreadimprov. TWO CATS COMEDY Pro and amateur comics w/ host Jackie Pirico. 8 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. YUK YUK’S Stand-up by Dom Pare. To Oct 5, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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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) MAN OF LA MANCHA by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh (Stratford Festival). This 1960s musical about Don Quixote author Cervantes has one legitimate hit, The Impossible Dream, but a weak book and middling production don’t help sell it to today’s audiences. Tom Rooney is terrific as Cervantes/ Quixote, as is the winning Steve Ross as his servant in the play’s real and fictional worlds. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. NN (Susan G Cole) A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director Chris Abraham’s take on the Dream is full of queer content, including sexy, robust performances by Evan Buliung and Jonathan Goad, who alternate as Oberon and Titania. But the emphasis on slapstick doesn’t allow the play’s poetry to shine as it should. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) THE PHILANDERER by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). In this early Shaw comedy, the title character is caught between two women, one cool and calculating, the other passionate and unpredictable. The actors in this triangle – Gord Rand, Marla McLean and Moya O’Connell – are scintillating, and director Lisa Peterson’s decision to use Shaw’s original ending gives the production a surprising seriousness. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. 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 who believes that space aliens are invading the village. Runs 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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Laite and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 2. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons’ weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. TOMES ADVENTURE HOUR Epic fantasy improv w/ host Alex Tindal & others. 7 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. tomesimprov.com. YUK YUK’S See Thu 2.
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presents Bryan Hatt, Keith Pedro, Chris Robinson, Monty Scott, Rhiannon Archer, Marc Hallworth, Michael Kolberg, Andrew Ivimey, Ernie Vicente, MC Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. ASSFACE Improv w/ Christopher L Hedrick, Darin Joyce, Elizabeth Anacleto, Allan Turner, Eric Miinch and Jess Grant. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY Classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562. DAWN PATROL Dawn Whitwell presents queered up stand-up w/ Freddie Rivas, Nick Flanagan, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Merv Hartlen, Stephen Sharpe, Priscilla Paqueno and Karen Mitton. 8:30 pm. $7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. HARD DAY COMEDY Weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900. 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, October 7 ABSOLUTE COMEDY The Stand-Up 101 Grad
Show w/ host Ted Bisaillion. 3:30 pm. $5. Headliner Andrew Evans w/ Monty Scott and host Scott White. 8 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CLASSY DRUNK Emmet Ray Bar presents stand-up comedy. 8:30 pm. Free. 924 College. 416-792-4497, theemmetray.com. THE FIRESTARTER Stand-up hosted by Kyle Andrews & Selby Nixon w/ weekly guest comics. 8:30 pm. Free. Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416966-4369. FLAT TIRE COMEDY Weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. Amsterdam Bicycle Club, 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. FOUNTAIN ABBEY Stand-up w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8:30 pm. Free. The Fountain, 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 2. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar and others. 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 Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. TERRIFIC WOMEN Comedy styled as a 70s cable access show w/ Dawn Whitwell, Natalie Norman, Jordan Foisy, Beggar’s Canyon and hosts Steph Kaliner and Sara Hennessey. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Ossington, 61 Ossington. theossington.com. YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Wednesday, October 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Pro-Am Night w/ Brian
Ward, Kerby Darius, Kyle Andrews, Rebecca Gillis, Peter Aterman, Sean McKiernan, headliner Scott White and host Martha O’Neill. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY NIGHT AT MUSIDEUM Stand-up, improv and sketch performers. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323, musideum.com. THE HIVE Weekly improv w/ rotating teams. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR Stand-up by Dionne and music by Garage Baby. 9 pm. $10. C’est What, 67 Front E. 416-867-9499, ticketfly.com. MAGIC OVEN COMEDY Weekly stand-up. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele. PAUL THOMPSON: 2RAW Deez Laughs presents Thompson w/ Franco Nguyen, Michael May, Jay Freeborn, Adrienne Fish, Kris Bonaparte and Nitish Sakhuja. 9 pm. $5. Remix Lounge, 1305 Dundas W. 416-530-1338, remixlounge.ca/dl. REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 2. SIREN’S COMEDY Open-mic stand-up w/ host Wojtek Arciszewski and headliner Darren Springer. 8:30 pm. Free. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. YUK YUK’S Stand-up by Darryl Orr. To Oct 12, 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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Easy Answer THE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING by Elyse Friedman (HarperCollins), 286 pages, $26.99 cloth. Rating: NN
If Elyse Friedman weren’t such a good writer, I wouldn’t be so disappointed in her new novel. But it’s precisely because there is so much potential in The Answer To Everything’s premise and because Friedman can master tone – here a combination of satire and heartbreaking realism – that the book is so frustrating. Perpetual freeloader John, a visual artist, has moved in with psych grad student Amy. Their charismatic neighbour Eldrid is attracting free drugs, financial supporters and disciples with his musings on the meaning of life. When John discovers Eldrid’s appeal, with Amy’s blessing, he establishes the website The Answer To Everything. Before he knows it, hundreds have logged on to express their spiritual yearning, including a wealthy businessman who owns a mansion near Bayview and Lawrence, a perfect spot for a new live-in institute. Soon the believers come, sex and drugs follow, and Amy and John are making a small fortune. Friedman has a firm grasp of why so many people are drawn to the Eld-
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5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, October 2 ALLAN LEVINE The biographer/historian reads from Toronto: Biography Of A City. 1 pm. Free. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. Pre-register 416-393-7650, torontopubliclibrary.ca/ehlist; and at 7 pm at Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston Rd. 416-396-8939. CHLOE GRIFFIN The author reads from Edgewise: A Picture Of Cookie Mueller, plus a multimedia presentation and onstage discussion with Damian Rogers. 7 pm. Free. Clint Roenisch Gallery, 190 St Helens. cookiemuellerbook.com.
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rids of the world. But she loses a grip on her characters. John has a sudden change of heart that makes no sense. Confusingly, he is a sexist creep but makes smart, almost feminist, art. Friedman never deals with that paradox. And Amy becomes a materialist shopaholic out of nowhere. What happened? The middle section of the book is devoted to the comments from budding believers on why they need the answer to everything. A startling story comes from Heather, the mother of a gender-independent five year-old, who is in deep conflict
with her husband over how to parent their child. It’s a shocking, powerful piece that could stand on its own. And it’s evidence of what Friedman could offer if she decided not to opt for glibness. Let’s have more of that and less of SUSAN G. COLE the easy stuff. Friedman reads October 25 and joins the You Write Funny panel October 26 at the International Festival of Authors. ifoa.org susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole
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Sometimes the personalities talking about a public figure can be as fascinating as the subject. It’s that way with Edgewise: A Picture Of Cookie Mueller ($24.95, Bbooks Verlag). As well as performing in John Waters’s movies, Mueller, who died in 1989, was a writer, critic and influential presence on New York’s art scene. Waters, Gary Indiana and Linda Yablonsky are among the interviewees who discuss the queer icon in a book that includes photos by Robert Mapplethorpe and covers Baltimore’s 60s artist communes, Provincetown in the 70s and 80s Berlin. Editor Chloé Griffin reads and is interviewed by Damian Rogers Thursday (October 2) at Clint Roenisch Gallery. See Readings, this page. SGC
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OPEN BOOK SALON: WRITING & PLACE Kamal Al-Solaylee (Canada), Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes Camilla Gibb (Canada), The Beauty of Humanity Movement Steven Heighton (Canada), The Dead are More Visible
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trol: The Militarization Of Protest Policing. 7 pm. Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104, btlbooks.com. 5QUEER CONFESSIONS LGBTQ memoir reading with Rachel Lauren Clark, Adam Carroll, Ralph Carl Wushke and others. 8 pm. Pwyc/$5 suggested. 519 Church Community Centre. queerconfessions.com. SHENIZ JANMOHAMED Launching her second book of poems, Firesmoke, with a night of music and poetry. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. shenizjanmohamed.com.
Saturday, October 4 RICHARD SCARSBROOK Coffee and conversation with Toronto Public Library’s Writer in Residence. 2 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639. SERAPHIM EDITIONS LAUNCH Shawna Lemay, MH Callway, Chris Laing, David Whitehouse, John Delacourt and others launch new books. 2-5 pm. Free. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur. thebookband.com/events. WORDS AND MUSIC SALON Storytelling by James Phelan, poetry by Gianna Patriarca, Don Cullen and Rocco de Giacomo, plus music. 1:30-4:30 pm. Free. Portobello, 995 Bay. 416-926-1800.
Sunday, October 5 ALESSANDRA DA ROCHA Launching and sign-
ing copies of her new book, Sé El Dueño De Tus Sueños. 2:45-5 pm. Free. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. BABYWORLD Launch for the novel by Jonathan Martin Dixit with live music by the Complete Unit and Aunt Beazy. 4-9 pm. Salto Antipasto Lounge, 1138 Davenport. affentheaterinc.com. BRAINS, WORDS & VOICES Pre-1975 poems recited from memory, voting by applause.
7 pm. Pwyc. Tutorino, 109 Niagara (buzzer 007). therotarydial.ca. MARIANNE APOSTOLIDES Book launch for Sophrosyne with reading, live music and dance. Doors 6:30 pm. Free. Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren. 416-531-1005, facebook.com/ events/553757381391437.
Monday, October 6 ROWERS READING SERIES Poetry and prose by Margaret Sweatman, Binnie Brennan, John Barton and Mark Sampson. Doors 6:15 pm. Free. The Central, 603 Markham. rowerspubreadingseries.com.
Wednesday, October 8 BECKY BLAKE/MARGUERITE PIGEON/MICHELLE WINTERS Reading. 8 pm. Free. Type Books, 883
Queen W. 416-366-8973, typebooks.ca. BOOKTHUG FALL LAUNCH New books by Kate Hargreaves, Marianne Apostolides, Michael Boughn, R. Kolewe, Alisha Piercy, Wanda Praamsma and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501, bookthug.ca. JENNIFER BONNELL Launching Reclaiming The Don: An Environmental History Of Toronto’s Don River Valley and in conversation with Tim Alalmenciak. 7 pm. Free. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-978-2239 ext 248. MARGUERITE PIGEON Reading from Some Extremely Boring Drives. 3 pm. Free. Parliament Library, 269 Gerrard E. 416-393-7663. OPEN BOOK SALON: WRITING & PLACE Launch event for the Open Book Explorer project with authors Kamal Al-Solaylee, Camilla Gibb and Steven Heighton. 7:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. openbooktoronto.com. RICK RIORDAN Presentation and talk about the mythical world of Percy Jackson and book five The Blood Of Olympus. 7 pm. $10 ($30 w/ book). Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. 3 events@nowtoronto.com.
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NUIT BLANCHE Honkin’ huge installations, ideas just as big, a potent party vibe – get ready for Nuit Blanche’s all-night art crawl to dominate downtown By FRAN SCHECHTER and DAVID JAGER
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SCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE Saturday (October 4), all over town. 6:53 pm to sunrise. scotiabanknuitblanche.ca T.O.’s wild all-night art party keeps growing. That’s great in theory – when artists transform the city, it’s pretty thrilling. But in practice the crowds have been getting out of hand. Last year, the Nuit Blanche team tried to solve the problem by closing down major thoroughfares and putting more installations right in the streets. It still felt pretty cramped. This year, the festival is moving into even larger spaces – like the mammoth park around Fort York – and closing down Bremner. Programming director Julian Sleath says he was determined to get the party out of the indoor spaces and into even larger outdoor contexts. “Why create another institution in the same locations. We want a new playground.” There are still shows at the AGO and the Gardiner, but forget about bars as a venue. “We were placing some shows in bars but discovered that the focus was not on the art,” deadpans Sleath. And now that Nuit Blanche is no longer working with the liquor board to keep bars open late, the yahoo factor could go down significantly. Good news for those who like to party and appreciate thoughtprovoking eye candy but don’t like being pushed around by a drunken mob. Good to know, too, that if you miss the event Saturday night, 10 projects remain in place for a full week. Beyond Bremner, look for partial and full street closures on Spadina between College and Front, Queen between Bay and Cameron, Bathurst south of King, Fort York and Bremner Boulevards. The TTC shows its art appreciation by offering all-night service, with the last train leaving at 7:30 am. An $11 pass gives unlimited travel – good for a group of up to six people, maximum two adults over 19 – from 9 am Saturday to 9 am Sunday. For more info on the exhibits, Nuit Blanche talks and GPSbased info on shows near you, see nowtoronto.com/art or scotiabanknuitblanche.ca. And follow the NOW team on Twitter. See ad, page 20. NOW OCTOBER 2-8 2014
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hat if, going about your daily routines, you suddenly found yourself underwater? This is the premise of Holoscenes, an ambitious water-based artwork by Lars Jan’s experimental multimedia performance lab, Early Morning Opera. Fittingly, its genesis was an ordinary event: reading the paper. Jan, who’s based in New York City and L.A., couldn’t get out of his mind a 2010 New York Times photo of people caught in a flood in northern Pakistan, a place where he has family. Its beautiful composition reminded him of Raphael, but at the same time it was an image of utter devastation. He had a vision of a person inside a box of water, the water level going up and down. Research on floods and climate change led him to the concept of the Anthropocene, the idea that we’re no longer in the Holocene epoch of the last 12,000 years but a new geological era marked by the impact of humans on the planet. He was surprised that few are aware of this concept. “It’s an interesting metaphor or lens into our total inability to deal with the problem of climate change, but also with lots of long-term issues that require thinking on a scale at which we’re not really evolved to think,” he says over the phone from New York. “I want to access the imagination as a way to make up for our lack of sensory capacity to think and respond to the long-term.” To draw a connection between the massive forces unleashed in violent weather events and our mundane habits, he and his collaborators began a search for repetitive daily rituals that performers could enact inside an aquarium. Their complex collection process involved a world map, connecting with people near 52 random GPS points and an open call for dailylife videos. (Check them out at holoscen.es.) “I was looking forward to tremendous diversity in everyday behaviours.
But what I’ve found is really interesting: people in a lot of different places make tea in a lot of different ways, but a lot of our lives are just about making tea.” Holoscenes is slated to travel to art venues in Florida and California next year. “Every new place we go, we’ll use new videos to make new behaviours in the aquariums and add to the old ones,” he says. “My hope eventually is to create a menagerie of 24 behaviours that rotate between three aquariums in a 24-hour performance – a triptych, complementing and counterpointing one another in strange ways.” In Toronto, where Holoscenes will be presented outdoors to a mass audience for the first time, the EMO team – which includes a fountain designer, an aquarium builder and the head of aquatics for Cirque du Soleil’s Vegas show O – is working with one 4-metretall rectangular tank. Four performers each take a 90-minute shift, rising to the surface for breath and sinking as they struggle to continue their actions. Two are Toronto dancers Ben Kamino and Lua Shayenne, a connection made through the project’s Nuit Blanche producer, choreographer Jenn Goodwin. An algorithm based on climate conditions controls the speed of the system, which can drain or fill the aquarium with 12 tons of water, heated to 32°C, in less than a minute. Underwater and surface microphones capture sound that’s mixed with compositional elements. For future iterations, EMO is collaborating with climate scientists on information handouts and considering using local docents to facilitate audience discussion. “It’s a massive undertaking for our group of creators and the producers, MAPP International Productions – everybody is doing something that’s very far out of their comfort zone. It’s a scale that we haven’t worked on before,” says Jan. EMO’s previous projects have combined provocative performances with innovative projections. “I often think of the performers as test pilots, getting in this thing that nobody’s ever gone in before. We’re extremely serious about safety. Water is an incredibly powerful and dangerous force.” Though he’s building on the tradition of zoos and aquariums as well as
aquatic entertainments like Vegas’s Bellagio fountains and Esther Williams movies, Jan’s also critiquing the practice of collecting and exhibiting exotic specimens. “An art piece that’s part of a global conversation inherently holds lots of biases. I want to take up the challenge of having a global conversation while also acknowledging that there’s a colonial history of searching far-flung corners of the earth for diversity for cabinets of curiosities or menageries in European courts. Aquariums are also ways of looking at the world’s diversity and having people who don’t get to travel see those things and understand that they exist. “It’s very tricky. The point is to be in a public space and create something that’s entertainment but also a location for conversation and consideration about issues that are not usually taken up in a spectacle.” Jan’s background informs his approach to the global and the local. Raised in the U.S., the son of an Afghan mother and a Polish father (whose Cold War history is the subject of a new EMO project), he’s been travelling since he was 19. He’s done public art projects in Afghanistan, where his mother now runs a girls’ school, recorded traditional music in Ukraine and apprenticed with a Bunraku puppeteer in Japan. “Central Asia’s been very important to me,” he says. “Travelling to less populated parts of the world allows me to get back in touch with a longform thought process that we lose in urban places. It’s really great for thinking about origins or associative daydreaming, a rich source of my artwork.” Will people make the connections between global and local, everyday life and climate catastrophe amid the hurly-burly of Nuit Blanche? Though granting agencies he’s worked with try to quantify the impact of art, as an artist Jan doesn’t find this process useful. “I’m going on the assumption that some instinct I don’t have control over is guiding me, and somehow it resonates inside other people. That’s been my experience of other artwork that I’ve loved, and I’m hoping that’s also the case for me as a maker.” 3
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Yvette Mattern: Global Rainbow
Forget the clowns and the lion tamers. Curator Denise Markonish (Oh, Canada) encourages artists to use their wits to create an all-night magical display.
the night circus Diane Landry: Icebreaker
18 York Landry, a wizard of motorized found objects, makes magic with bike wheels, plastic bottles, umbrellas and salad spinners. Icebreaker builds on recent work using plastic sheets that, when lit and activated by the Quebec-based kinetic sculptor, strikingly resemble the moving surface of water. Suspending an airborne boat on her ersatz sea in which a rower struggles mightily to go nowhere, Landry pulls in multiple associations about the human condition, climate change and the artistic imagination. FS
SuttonBeresCuller: Big Top Grand Stand
Clarence Square Park, corner of Spadina and Clarence Square (an extended project running October 5 to 6, 9 to 13) SuttonBeresCuller are a trio of Seattle sculptors working collaboratively in the construction and reclamation of everyday objects. In the great tradition of transient circus caravans and carnivals, they’ve built an enormous marvel: four caravans stacked atop a flatbed trailer, adorned with lights, flags and a giant parasol. Big Top Grand Stand is a dream object of impossibly whimsical dimensions. DJ
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222 Spadina (an extended project running October 5 to 13) New York- and Berlin-based artist Mattern shines a bold seven-colour laser rainbow from the top of a Chinatown building to illuminate the night sky in the direction of the CN Tower. Rooted in the minimalist and Fluxus aesthetics of the 60s and 70s, it’s intended to be a unifying beacon of hope in uncertain times. Hopping the globe from location to location, Global Rainbow has shone in Berlin, Toulouse, London and recently in New York City in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. DJ
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Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin: Screaming Booth
Curator Dominique Fontaine puts the accent on fun and games in this series of shows giving new meaning to the terms “play” and “participation.”
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performance anxiety Shows curated by Heather Pesanti unfolding in and outside City Hall put the focus on performance – and the vulnerability involved when artists put their private selves on display.
Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel: Split Chorale For Viljo Revell
City Hall Rotunda Viljo Revell, architect of City Hall, referred to the iconic curved building as the “eye of city government.” Los Angeles artist Andrews and composer Benzel riff on the idea of a humming, sleepless panoptic government in a large video installation and performance. A central stalk of video screens broadcasts images inspired by the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, while a massive chorus populating the commons balcony gazes down on visitors while intoning a continuous drone from dusk until dawn. DJ
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Michael Smith: Threshold
City Hall council chambers Since the 80s, Smith, in the guise of deadpan, cliché-spouting Everyman Mike, has been making comedic performances, videos and TV talk shows that send up the art world, business, politics and daily life. A second character, Baby Ikki, is a stubblefaced, diapered, preverbal infant. Since Smith doesn’t shy away from political satire, will his performance draw on the antics we’ve witnessed over the past few years in council chambers? FS
Shasti O’Leary-Soudant: HALFLIFE
Nathan Phillips Square Riffing on every paranoid sci-fi plague scenario from the Andromeda Strain onward, Buffalo-based O’Leary-Soudant has conceived of a mass performance/role-playing game involving 100 Nuit Blanche participants. Released into Nuit Blanche at 7 pm, these “carriers” will “test” willing subjects throughout the downtown core using invisible UV reactive ink markers. The “infected” are then called back to Nathan Phillips Square at midnight for a mass “curing.” DJ
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Los Carpinteros: Conga Irreversible
Fort York, 100 Garrison Drawing on the tinkering relied on in their homeland to keep obsolescent technology functioning, globe-trotting Cubans Marco Antonio Castillo Valdes and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez make absurdist objects like a couch/ stove hybrid or a chest of drawers shaped like a hand grenade. (See their show at Prefix to November 22.) Their diverse practice also includes humorous political commentary like this video of a performance at the 2012 Havana Biennale in which carnival marchers dressed in untraditional black dance and play music backwards, a sly send-up of the claim that the Cuban Revolution is irreversible. FS
before day break Magda Gonzalez-Mora has assembled shows from diverse regions to explore Canada’s effort to mould a culture that fosters inclusion and plurality.
Sharif Waked: Chic Point
Fort York, 100 Garrison A Palestinian video artist with Israeli citizenship and one of the few Palestinians represented in Israeli museums, Waked, not without humour, points up the ironies of life under occupation. In this 2005 video, subtitled Fashion For Israeli Checkpoints, he juxtaposes Arab men in a catwalk fashion show wearing deconstructed and slashed midriff-exposing garments of his own design with still photos of men forced to lift their shirts or strip at checkpoints so Israeli soldiers can search them for explosives. FS
Bruno Billio: Bright Bundle, Fort York
, 100 Garrison Road Dashing interdisciplinary artist and designer Billio is artist-in-residence at the Gladstone, and his approach has always relied on a certain straightforward elegance. This year he transforms Fort York into an incandescent bundle of golden white light by wrapping it in a 1,000-metre ribbon of LED lights. An ambient soundtrack contributes to the otherworldly, pulsating spectacle. DJ
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Installations by indie artists transform the downtown core at venues of all kinds
Spectrum Music: Interface
Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw This experimental music showcase combining touch, improvisation and sound features a different improvisatory musician every hour, standing in the middle of a circle of eight speakers equipped with sensors. Audience members touch the sensors, activating computer-generated loops of sounds and samples that in turn change the direction of the improvisation. Listeners can thus direct and co-create with the musicians throughout the night. DJ
Girls Learning Code: Envision
The Lab, 483 Queen West Computer geeks may have been ridiculed in high school, but now they run the world, and a very maledominated world it is. Girls Learning Code is about empowering a new generation of women to crack the glass ceiling in infotech. Envision showcases the works of 40 eight-to-14-year-old girls who each programmed and designed her own 3D printed object. See them displayed inside a giant 30-foot wire sphere. DJ
Mario Martinelli and Raji Aujila: Meeting The Shadow
The Spoke Club, 600 King West Italian artist Martinelli uses a starkly simple premise and digital technology to haunting effect. Pedestrians pass between a high-powered floodlight and a large white screen; their shadows, captured as they pass by, are digitally frozen onto the screen’s surface. Nuit Blanchers have a chance to turn and scrutinize them while they slowly fade. A fleeting and strangely intimate piece. DJ
Barbara Greczny, Esther Buckareff and Michelle Breslin: Sex Worker, Truth & Archetype
Beaver Hall Gallery, 29 McCaul (continues to October 23) This timely assumption-busting documentary project’s subjects come in a variety of ages, genders and ethnicities, and work in porn films, escort services, massage parlours and internet chatrooms. Using an open-consent form that built trust and allowed the sex workers to control how they’re represented, filmmaker Buckareff and sound tech Breslin recorded candid interviews presenting a forthright bunch of people who enjoy their jobs, while in Greczny’s photographs they pose as their fantasy selves. FS
Belmont House and Neel Desai: This Light Of Mine
401 Richmond West Belmont House, a home for people 85 to 95, has an innovative arts therapy program that encourages residents to create art across a variety of media. For this exhibit, they were asked to portray one personal memory through a unique medium. The artists hope to shift perceptions surrounding the elderly and the aging process. DJ
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Antonia and Iullia Kostiuk: Sand Animation Show Adam Bialo: The Death Of Queen West
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West Between 2009 and 2011, Bialo documented the condos rising in the Queen West Triangle from the window of his loft in studio building 48 Abell. He’s been working on this fiveminute film since the building’s demolition, weaving together time-lapse images of construction, footage of artistic life at Abell, the wild eviction party and the building’s eventual tear- down into a bittersweet valedictory for the vanishing Queen West art scene. FS
George Brown School of Design, 341 King East Combining painstaking draftsmanship and cuttingedge concepts of animation, the Kostiuk sisters draw on sand scattered across the surface of a light box, forming figures patiently and with consummate skill. Their entire process unfolds in real time on several projected screens so the audience can watch as forms emerge organically in dynamic narratives of transformation. DJ NOW october 2-8 2014
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All the official projects in the nocturnal art crawl, this year put together by an all-women curatorial team
Mary Dyja: Fungal Overtake
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West Crafting takes on an ominous tone as Minsk-born Canadian textile artist and recent York BFA grad Dyja, wearing a yarn mask that marks her as infected by the encroaching menace, fills a hotel room with organic-looking, chaotic crocheting that mimics fungal growth. Working throughout the night, she interacts with viewers and invites them to touch her work. FS
NUIT BLANCHE Saturday, October 4, 6:53 pm to sunrise. Zones: Before Day Break (Fort York, 100 Garrison); The Night Circus (Spadina S of King, Bremner); Performance Anxiety (Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W); The Possibility Of Everything (Spadina S of Dundas, Queen W). scotiabanknuitblanche.ca
Before Day Break Toronto curator Magda GonzalezMora gathers a diverse contingent of artists from Europe, Palestine, Latin America and Canada who offer different angles on the human experience. CANOE LANDING PARK Yoan Ca-
Daniel Samson, Paul Dhir and Matthew Ryan Smith: Gyan Chauper
Fort York, 100 Garrison Local choreographer Samson, architect Dhir and curator/art prof Smith collaborate on a large-scale version of Gyan Chauper, an ancient Indian board game designed to teach morality lessons and how to overcome passions in the quest for spiritual enlightenment. During the Raj, the British appropriated the game for what we now call Snakes And Ladders. You become a life-size game piece, your karma influencing your progress around the board. FS
pote: Open Mind (installation). Fort York Blvd and Dan Leckie Way. FORT YORK 100 Garrison. • Bruno Billio : Bright Bundle (light installation). • Labspace Studio : Between Doors (installation). • Los Carpinteros : Conga Irreversible (video). • LeuWebb Projects , Jeff Lee and Omar Khan: Melting Point (light installation). • Sharif Waked : Chic Point (video). • Wilfredo Prieto : Ascendent Line (installation). FORT YORK ARMOURY Isabel Rocamora: Body Of War (video). 660 Fleet.
FORT YORK GARRISON COMMON
100 Garrison. • Callum Schuster, Brady Bothwell and David Nolan: Absolute Space (installation). . • Vasco Araújo : Telos (video). FORT YORK LIBRARY 190 Fort York. • Antoni Muntadas : Good News (installation). • Kelly Mark : Everything And Nothing (performance/video).
The Night Circus Art selected by Denise Markonish – who curated of Oh, Canada, a massive survey of Canadian contemporary art at MASS MoCA in western Massachusetts – turns the circus into an epic magical contest. 320 FRONT W George Bolster: Un/natural History: Drowning Captiva (video).
BREMNER NEAR ROGERS CENTRE
A Wall Is A Screen: Tearing Down Walls
Goethe- Institut Toronto, 100 University, walking tours 8 and 11 pm Inaugurated at the 2003 Hamburg Short Film Festival as a way of revitalizing downtown business districts after dark, AWIAS now travels to cities internationally to put on walking tours that pause to project short films selected to work with the locations. The German group has curated a program for the Goethe- Institut’s Grenzfall – Tearing Down Walls, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In addition to the two walks, non-mobile screenings run all night outside Goethe-Institut. FS
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Fastwurms: The Fortune-Teller Machine – Zardoz (performance). CLARENCE SQUARE PARK SuttonBeresCuller: Big Top Grand Stand (sculpture). Spadina and Clarence Sq. FORT YORK AND BRUNEL Derek Liddington: The Sun Will Always Rise And Fall From East To West (performance). GLOBE AND MAIL PRESS HALL Anandam Dancetheatre, Brandy Leary, Eamon Mac Mahon and James Bunton: Cascade (installation). 425 Wellington W. PWC TOWER Diane Landry: Icebreaker (sculpture). 18 York.
RENAISSANCE TORONTO DOWNTOWN HOTEL Dana Sherwood: The
Medodious Malfeasance Meat-Grinding Machine (installation). Parkette, 1 Blue Jays. ROUNDHOUSE PARK 255 Bremner. • Lars Jan : Holoscenes (installation). • Megan and Murray McMillan: The Shifting Space Around Us (installation). UNION STATION Michael Oatman and Brian Kane: 8th Wonder (social sculpture). 65 Front W. 416-393-4636.
Performance Anxiety Currently based in Austin, Texas, and formerly a curator at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox, Heather Pesanti orchestrates a symphony of contemporary performance art, with a contingent of artists from Buffalo. NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE 100 Queen W. • Bingyi : Wanwu: Metamorphosis (performance). Podium roof. • Kathryn Andrews and Scott Benzel: Split Chorale For Viljo Revell (performance). City Hall Rotunda. • Kyle Butler : Phrases Toward Rephrase (performance). SE corner. • Michael Smith : Threshold (performance). Council Chambers. • Shasti O’Leary-Soudant : HALFLIFE (performance). NE corner. • Tony Conrad and Jennifer Walshe: THE SIGNING (performance). Main stage. • Tor Lukasik-Foss : Dress Rehearsal (performance). Loading dock. • Vertical City: 2YouTopia (performance). Underground parking lot P1.
The Possibility Of Everything Artists from Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Quebec brought together by independent curator Dominique Fontaine alter our basic assumptions and invite us to rethink public spaces. 180 AND 280 SPADINA, 290 QUEEN W Chélanie Baudin-Quintin: Screaming Booth (installation).
215 SPADINA (PARKING LOT) Chloé
Lefebvre and Jean Dubois: By Means Of A Sigh (À portée de souffle) (installation). 222 SPADINA Yvette Mattern: Global Rainbow (light installation). 253 SPADINA Dineo Seshee Bopape: The Problem Of Beauty (video). Parking garage ramp at Grange. 302 QUEEN W Marcos Zotes: AMAZE (installation). 330 SPADINA Maria Ezcurra: Made In China (installation). ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Pascal Grandmaison: La Main Du Rêve (video). Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Glenda León: Silent Rise (sculpture). 160 Queen W. DUNCAN AND QUEEN Urban Visuals: Shy Lights (installation).
JOHN AND QUEEN David Brooks: Gap Ecology (Still Lives With Cherry Pickers And Palms) (sculpture). OGDEN JUNIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
Máximo González: Walk Among Worlds (installation). 33 Phoebe. SPADINA AND GRANGE Alexandre Arrechea: Black Sun (video).
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Pendon and Marisa Gallemit: Wild Air Vision Electro (sculpture). 280 Bremner.
CONCORD CITYPLACE PRESENTATION CENTRE Concord ArtSpace
(sculpture). 23 Spadina. H&M Lizz Aston: Coalesce (installation). 427 Queen W. OSGOODE ROTUNDA Luigi Ferrara: The Garden Of Renova (installation). 361 University. ROUNDHOUSE PARK José Andrés Mora: Solar Dehydrator (installation). 255 Bremner.
Independent Projects 401 RICHMOND W
• Built For ART (multimedia). • Belmont House Homes for the Aged : This Light Of Mine (installation). ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Ame Henderson: rehearsal/performance (performance). 317 Dundas W. ART SQUARE GALLERY Peter Lee: The Crystalline Matrix Of DNA (installation). 334 Dundas W.
ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS
601 Christie. • AMAA Group : Impressions (installation). • Blandford Gates : New Orleans Jazz Funeral – A Funeral For Katrina (sculpture). • Hopkins Duffield : Hive (2.0) (sound installation). • Normative : One Night Stand (installation). ARTSCAPE YOUNGPLACE 180 Shaw. 416-530-2787. • Diaspora Dialogues : Goodnight Storytime (installation). • Kaitlynn McQueston : Labour Of Love (video). • Night Studios. • Spectrum Music and others: Interface (sound installation). BATA SHOE MUSEUM [R]ed[u]xLab: Stomata; Sine (installation). 327 Bloor W. BEAVER HALL Barbara Greczny, Esther Buckareff and Michelle Breslin: Sex Worker, Truth & Archetype (installation). 29 McCaul. BRENNAN HALL Toronto Catholic District School Board students: Project REACH (installation). 81 St Mary. CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE Dinuk Mijeratne and Isaac Rayment: Global Motive (performance/video). 20 St Joseph. CANOE LANDING PARK David + David: Kaleidoscopic (installation). Fort York Blvd and Dan Leckie Way. CARLTON CINEMA Magic Lantern Cinema: Cinema As Site (installation). 20 Carlton.
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH 1001 Queen W.
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• PATCH Project : PATCH It Up – Queen West (installation). • STEPS Initiative , TO Emerging ARTivists , Habitat for Humanity, Rodrigo Marti and Mahmood Popal: Bring To The Table (installation). CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER Ensemble Jeng Yi: The Empress Dowager (She Enters And Fondly Remembers Her Youth) (performance). 162 Bloor W. CLOUD GARDENS Julia Lee: Awaken Your Creativity (installation). 14 Temperance. CN TOWER lightsweetcrude: NightSuite (projection/sound installation). 301 Front W. DAVID CROMBIE PARK Emmanuel Jouthe: Écoute Pour Voir (working title) (performance). Esplanade at Lower Sherbourne. DESTINGO F_RMlab: Sky City (installation). 741 Queen W. DRAKE HOTEL Nicolas Sasson and Sara Ludy, Analog Preservation Network and others: Safe Space (installation). 1150 Queen W. DUNDAS W, MCCAUL Michelle Forsyth: Sandwich Boards (For My Dearest Friends) (performance). EATON CHELSEA HOTEL Harry Enchin: TorontoTime LIVE! (photos). 33 Gerrard W (patio, enter from Walton). EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING SNATS (U of T Student Chapter, National Association of Teachers of Singing) and music students: Songs Of Nuit (performance). 80 Queen’s Park. FORT YORK Daniel Samson, Paul Dihr and Matthew Ryan Smith: Gyan Chauper (installation). 100 Garrison. FORT YORK GARRISON COMMON Joel Loblaw, Will Hudson and Lindsy Gregory: Project Henge (installation). 250 Fort York. FORT YORK VISITOR CENTRE Nestor Kruger: An Act Of Timing (installation). 250 Fort York.
MACKENZIE HOUSE Rae Johnson: Toronto: A City Of Dreams (video). 82 Bond.
MANIFESTO COMMUNITY PROJECTS Fezz Stenton, Tiffany Alice, Thomas Masmejean and others: It All Falls Down (installation). 37 Bulwer. METRO HALL Johan Hallberg-Campbell: Wisdom Of The North: Moose Cree And Attawapiskat (photos). 55 John.
NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL OF CANADA Siavash Vazimezami: ATLAS (installation). 400 Jarvis. NUNU Anne Jane McIntrye: Into The Light Of The Dark Bright Night (installation). 1178 Queen W. OCAD U Grégoire Blunt, Emmy Skensved, Lili Huston-Herterich, Aryen Hoekstra, Lorna Mills and Matthew Williamson: Absolutely Free (installation). 100 McCaul. OLYMPIC PARK Tonya Hart: The Arctic Circle (sculpture). 222 Bremner. QUEEN W AND STRACHAN Liam Maloney: Texting Syria (installation). QUEEN WEST Zessy Powers, Samuel Rowlett, Shlomi Greenspan and others: Out Of Site (installation/performance/ video). Between Simcoe and Bathurst. REGENT PARK Michael Jursic and Winchester Arts Collective: An Emotional Lexicon (sculpture). 638 Dundas E. ST MATTHEW’S UNITED CHURCH John Shipman: Dried Beans Models Of The Universe From The Department Of Household Sciences And Advanced Projects (installation). 729 St Clair W.
SANDERSON LIBRARY Nomi Drory, Emily Kouri, Spring Collective and others: Mixing Toronto (video/live drawing). 327 Bathurst. SIMCOE AND FRONT W Mary Ward Art Collective: Underfoot (sculpture). SIMCOE PARK John Notten: Up The Creek (sculpture). 240 Front W. SITE 3 CO-LABORATORY Site 3 coLaboratory, Hopkins Duffield and Kris Coward: Galaxy Heist, Five Magic Cubes, and Photon Gallery (installation). 718 Ossington. SPADINA MUSEUM Art Science Collective: Elemental (installation). 285 Spadina Rd. SPOKE CLUB Mario Martinelli and Raji Aujla: Meeting The Shadow (installation). 600 King W. ST JAMES PARK Colin Lacey and Jennifer Chan: LandMark (photos). 120 King E. STANLEY PARK Valerie Arthur: Implied Geometries (installation). 76 Walnut. SUNNYSIDE BRIDGE Liz Knox and Paolo Pennuti: You Can’t Go Home Again... (installation). 1755 Lake Shore W. TAC ART/WORK GALLERY The IRIS Group: WhiteOut (installation). 568 Richmond W. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX 350 King W. • Chris Cumming and Ryan Driver: Jazz Age Cinema (film). • Colin Geddes and Michael Lane: The Unauthorized Hagiography Of Vincent Price (film). • Jade Raymond , Matthew Rose, James Everett and Wylie Robinson: A Digital Interactive Experience (installation).
• Robin McCallum , Finlay McEwan, Christopher Young and Julian Dubrawski: Ping (installation). • Sarah Keenlyside and Omar Khan: SEEN (film). • Shane Smith and Shawn Hitchens: Singin’ In The Dark (installation). 350 King W. 416-599-8433. TORONTO SCHOOL OF ART Gabriella Bord and Kate Hogg: Kalos Eidos (installation). 980 Dufferin. TTC SUBWAY SCREENS Adam Magyar: Stainless (video).
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOLS UTS Nuit Blanche Project
Team: Shipwreck (installation). 371 Bloor W. UNPACK STUDIO José Andrés Mora: You Don’t Sleep. You Never Sleep Well. (If Sleeping Was Your Profession, You’d Never Keep A Job) (sound installation). 11 Willison Sq. VICTORIA MEMORIAL PARK Silvia Nan Cheng: please come in please (installation). 10 Niagara. WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Supporting The Arts, Another Project By Tough Guy Mountain (intervention). 594B Dundas W.
Nuit Talks
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Chel-
anie Beaudin-Quintin, Fastwürms, Anandam Dancetheatre and Shasti O’Leary-Soudant: Performances And Previews, 8-11 pm Oct 2. $12-$15. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. THEATRE CENTRE Nathan Whitford, Lars Jan, Kathryn Andrews and Yoan Capote: Performance Anxiety. Noon-1:30 pm Oct 3. 1115 Queen W.
GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Clare Twomey: Piece By Piece (installation). 111 Queen’s Park.
GEORGE BROWN SCHOOL OF DESIGN Antonia Kostiuk and Iulia Kos-
tiuk: Sand Animation Show (performance). 341 King E. GLADSTONE HOTEL 1214 Queen W. • Adam Bialo : The Death Of Queen West (film). • Apollonia Vanova : The Red Carpet (sculpture). • Gladsonte 125 THE/NOW/NEXT (installation/performance). • Mary Dyja : Fungal Overtake (installation/performance). GOETHE-INSTITUT A Wall Is A Screen: Tearing Down Walls (screening). 100 University, N tower. GORE PARK F_RMlab: Planetterraeum (immersive architecture). 701 Fleet. HOTEL LE GERMAIN Marco Timpano, Nidhi Khanna and Matt Campagna: The Insomnia Project (installation). 30 Mercer. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Sara Angelucci, Brendan Fernandes, Althea Thauberger and others: All Together Now (projection). 7 Hart House. THE LAB Girls Learning Code: Envision (installation). 483 Queen W. LAURIER TORONTO OFFICE Eric Limeback: Cubed (sculpture). 130 King W.
From Top: Cascade, Night Circus; An Outdoor Opera, Dress Rehersal, Vertical City, Phrases Toward Rephrase, all part of Performance Anxiety, and Melting Point, Before Day Break NOW october 2-8 2014
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HUMBLE DIVA DOLAN
Cannes prizewinning Mommy director is a strange combo of ego and generosity By SUSAN G. COLE
He’s been called a diva before, and Quebecer Xavier Dolan – director of Mommy, a hit at Cannes and Canada’s entry in the Oscar race for best foreign-language film – sure behaves like one. He won’t allow photographs to be taken while we’re talking. “Why do you want photos of me with my mouth open?” he says, as if that’s what we’re interested in. He resists showing his tattoos – “Everyone wants that,” he rolls his eyes – and then insists on seeing the photos before letting us use them. The wunderkind can’t even get excited that he shared the jury prize at Cannes with icon Jean-Luc Godard. “To be honest, it doesn’t feel as special as people think it would,” he shrugs. “I’ve seen a few of his films, but his movies have not been the kind to impress me or move me. “I’m looking for raw performances, strong narrative – he’s never into that. He’s into deconstruction, free art objects and phony clinical performances by non-actors or actors who are directed in a fashion that I don’t relate to in a human way. It’s so far from the Latin cinema that inspires me. I realize he has historical value, but he isn’t a personal hero of mine.” But with all that bravado, you sense a certain vulnerability, a wariness of his burgeoning fame. Most telling of his inner anxieties, he can’t stop chewing his nails. And he’s almost humble when rebutting those who think Mommy, his story of a single mother and her troubled son, is a spinoff of his debut feature, J’ai Tué Ma Mère. “The films have two opposite
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worlds,” he says. “The characters, the style, the social strata – it’s day and night for me. I’m not at the stage where I’m amused enough by my filmography to make a movie in response to another of my movies.” Not one to take all the credit, he’s willing to acknowledge other artists who have inspired him, in particular his star in Mommy and Laurence Anyways, Suzanne Clément. “She’s willing to do anything for a character to exist. She doesn’t believe in performance, she believes in characters, and she’s completely unconscious of the quality and volume of her talent. That protects her from the REVIEW tricks and gimmicks that other acMOMMY tors fall into.” (Xavier Dolan) As for Cannes jury member Jane Rating: NNNN Campion, he appreciates her quest Precocious auteur Xavier Dolan (J’ai for original female characters. Tué Ma Mère, Lawrence Anyways) “She creates strong women, not again mines the rocky relationship victims, women with value. In Amerbetween mother and son in this exican movies, as soon as a woman is ceptional film about a single parent poor, she’ll be a stripper. The movie (Anne Dorval) coping, barely, with the starts with her as a loser, an alcoholic. troubled, often violent son (Antoine That’s not the place I want to give Olivier Pilon) she loves. Things women. Whatever their prestart looking up when she dicaments, I want their befriends a neighbour battles to be noble. I (Suzanne Clément) don’t want them to with speech probbe victimized or lems. diminished soPilon’s Steve is cially.” an endearing That passion sweetheart when draws him to under control, but stories of mothterrifying when he ers and their loses it. As the sons. tough mom who “It’s what does it Anne Dorval and Antoinedresses like a Olivier Pilon are superb in for me. Relationships explosive Mommy. teenager, Dorval is between mothers and equally incendiary, and sons, it’s a bottomless it’s a tribute to Clément’s gift well of possibilities. I don’t that she can match her in a much understand everything in life, and quieter role. I’m young, but this is something I do Operatic, beautiful and explosive, understand.” 3 Mommy is wholly unpredictable. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole Dolan has turned into one of Canada’s SGC best filmmakers.
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MOMMY written and directed by Xavier Dolan, with Anne Dorval, Antoine- Olivier Pilon and Suzanne Clément. An eOne release. 139 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 73.
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A GOOD DIRECTION Oscar-nominated director’s link with Sudan goes back two decades By NORMAN WILNER THE GOOD LIE directed by Philippe
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Falardeau, written by Margaret Nagle, with Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany and Emmanuel Jal. A Warner Bros. release. Some subtitles. 110 minutes. Opens Friday (October 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 73.
The Good Lie is not the first time Philippe Falardeau has told a story about Sudan. The Quebec filmmaker went to that country in 1994, as a cameraman on the NFB documentary Waiting. “It was about people waiting for food to be distributed by the UN,” he says during a TIFF press day. “You would get these food drops from the air, and people were collecting the food and piling the bags but couldn’t give it to the population because they had to
wait for the logisticians from the UN. So people were just standing there, waiting with their bowls for days, staring at the food. You wait for your food and it’s right in front of you.” Military action in the form of “this loose-cannon general coming to steal the food” caused the crew to be evacuated twice. “I remember in the plane feeling very guilty leaving the place,” Falardeau says. When he read the script for The Good Lie, he felt he had to make it out of a sense of responsibility toward the Sudanese. The film stars Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany and Emmanuel Jal as three “lost boys” of Sudan, survivors of a horrific civil war who’ve been brought to America as part of an outreach program. The tale of new immigrants adjusting to the West resonated with
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Falardeau, who’d explored similar themes in his Oscarnominated breakout Monsieur Lazhar – but this one was a little different. Falardeau didn’t write The Good Lie or develop the project in Quebec; he was working with an American studio and its attend-
REVIEW THE GOOD LIE (Philippe Falardeau) Rating: NNNN A drama about three Sudanese war survivors airlifted to Kansas City in early 2001 as part of an American outreach program, The Good Lie is being sold as a feel-good picture along the lines of The Blind Side. But it’s also the studio debut of Monsieur Lazhar director Philippe Falardeau, and he’s not interested in feel-good crap. He keeps things firmly grounded in the perspective of his protagonists (Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany and Emmanuel Jal), who are left to struggle with PTSD and survivor guilt in a world they don’t quite understand. The marketing puts Reese Witherspoon’s grumpy single woman front and centre, but it’s a bait-and-switch. Her character doesn’t appear for the first third and never takes over the story. Falardeau is far more interested in earning our empathy – and our tears – than in pandering to an American audience. NW Good for him.
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ant producers. “Every time I had some sort of artistic idea, it had to be discussed,” he laughs. “That’s the main difference. Making a film in Quebec, I also discuss my artistic ideas with my producers, but we’ve known each other for 12 or 15 years already.” Of course, the advantage to working with Hollywood is that you get its resources as well as its production structure – and that led to casting Reese Witherspoon as the woman with whom the lost boys forge an unlikely friendship. “I needed an actress who could portray this girl from Kansas City, and she certainly had this Southern touch,” he says. “And I needed an actress who could play this character who’s kind of edgy in the beginning but transforms into a luminous person who connects with these immigrants – and she has that range. And when she came on board the film was pre-sold in, like, 50 countries before a single shot was made, and that meant we were going to be able to make it.” Having Witherspoon in his film also helps a great deal in terms of marketing The Good Lie, Falardeau admits, even if she does play a supporting part. “She understood her role in the film,” Falardeau says, laughing. “Warner Bros. doesn’t. She’s on the poster.”
When he was fired as the showrunner of NBC’s Community, Dan Harmon channelled his rage and passion into a weekly stage show with his friends in the back room of an L.A. comic book store. The show became a podcast, the podcast went on a 20city tour, and director Neil Berkeley came along to record it. Notoriously difficult to work with – he’s been fired from almost every gig he’s ever had – but harder on himself than anyone else, Harmon is a self-described “functioning alcoholic” whose need for validation is matched by his insistence on casting himself as the villain of his own life. As such, he’s become a beacon for misfits who feel his social alienation mirrors their own inability to interact with others. Harmontown places its subject under the microscope as he’s accompanied onstage by (and locked in a tour bus with) girlfriend Erin McGathy, friend and sidekick Jeff Davis and fan-turned-dungeon-master Spencer Crittenden, all of whom defend him lovingly while acknowledging – and dealing with – his hair-trigger emotions and self-loathing. The result is a riveting, brutally honest and hysterically funny examination of a unique creative talent. Also, there’s some great Dungeons & Dragons gameplay. Harmon will be in attendance for Q&As after the Friday and Saturday (October 3 and 4) screenings, and the Bloor will host a live recording of the Harmontown podcast Saturday at 9 pm with Harmon and special guest Bobcat Goldthwait. Separate admisNORMAN WILNER sions for events.
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Hélas Pour Moi is an allegory for... something.
rapture thriller
Behind again LeFt BeHINd (Vic Armstrong). 110 minutes. Opens Friday (October 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 73. Rating: NN
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Well, at least they left Kirk Cameron behind. The new adaptation of Left Behind is at least a mild improvement on the previous adaptation of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’s Christian-apocalypse blockbuster, simply by virtue of having real actors in it. Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray and Cassi Thomson are among the unlucky Americans stuck on earth after God transports the faithful to heaven in preparation for the final battle against Satan’s forces. To the actors’ credit, they actually try to give good performances while struggling with some very clunky dialogue. (The script is by Paul Lalonde and John Patus, who haven’t learned anything from their work on the previous Left Behind movie cycle.) But though it’s nice that the Cage etc are trying, they’re still trapped in a squeaky-clean, very cheaply realized Bible story aimed solely at reassuring the faithful that they won’t have to witness the collapse of our impure, unworthy civilization. But even that audience will be miffed that this movie focuses only on the earliest events of the first book of the Left Behind series, confining its focus to the ordeals of pilot Rayford Steele (Cage) and his daughter Chloe (Big Love’s Thomson) and leaving out all the table-setting involving secret Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia taking over the United Nations. It’s also no fun at all, thanks to director Vic Armstrong’s inability to bring a single scene to life or resolve the tonal conflict between the grim events on screen and Jack Lenz’s weirdly optimisNormaN wILNer tic gospel rock score.
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Jennifer Grausman and Sam Cullman’s maddeningly involving documentary tracks two obsessive men: Mark Landis, a delicate Southern soul who spends his days making near-perfect copies of European master paintings and donating them to museums all over America, and Matt Leininger, a Cincinnati art authority who’s tracked Landis’s deceptions for years to no avail.
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3) to December 22 at TIFF Cinematheque (350 King West). See Indie & Rep Film, page 79. tiff.net. Rating: NNNN
The second half of TIFF’s massive Jean-Luc Godard retrospective finally gets underway at the Lightbox this week. Brace yourselves; it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. There are works in the back half of Godard’s oeuvre that can challenge even the director’s most ardent supporters – and there are works that can make his haters mute with astonishment. Godard’s career as a filmmaker has always been marked by a need to be noticed. Like the films of Orson Welles, his movies seem to herald their own genius in every frame. And more often than not, it’s simply a statement of fact. But after you revolutionize cinema with movies like Breathless, Une Femme Mariée and Weekend, what’s next? Godard pushed moviemaking further into stylization and experimentation, shifting from formal narratives to metaphors and polemics, not making movies as much as spraying ideas around like beekeepers’ smoke. His adventures in incomprehensibility become increasingly difficult to defend. TIFF’s program notes for 1993’s Hélas Pour Moi (November 20, 6:30 pm) include the phrase “occasionally impenetrable,”
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which is really saying something for late Godard. The film stars Gérard Depardieu as a man who inexplicably begins to speak with the voice of God; it’s an allegory for… well, something. And the director’s decision to subtitle the French dialogue in 2010’s Film Socialisme (December 6, 7 pm) with English non sequiturs (“Speak your parents”) is perverse, making it virtually impossible to understand what’s going on for much of the action. Godard’s impenetrability has alienated him from audiences and allowed filmmakers like Xavier Dolan to embiggen their own rebel images by scoring points on his fading reputation. But when he hits, he hits – as he does in his last real masterpiece, 2001’s Éloge De L’Amour (December 2, 6:30 pm). Told in two parts (the first shot on gorgeous black-and-white 35mm, the second on smeary digital video), it’s a brilliant, heartbreaking study of cultural ennui and missed opportunities playing out between two people (Bruno Putzulu, Cécile Camp) who might once have been lovers but weren’t. The potential for another picture as focused and affecting as that has kept me coming back to Godard for more than a decade. And I will continue to return for as long as he makes movies. He had something once. He might have it again. And I want to be there when it happens. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner
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Nicolas Cage gets Left Behind.
Kevin Smith’s Tusk marks a radical departure for the writer/director. It’s a horror comedy about a douchey American podcaster (Justin Long) who follows a story to Manitoba only to be abducted by a maniac (Michael Parks) bent on turning him into a human walrus. The horror elements are genuinely
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disturbing, and Long’s terror harmonizes nicely with Parks’s rigid insanity, but Smith just doesn’t have the skill to pull off the genre mashup. The comic beats – mostly in the second half, involving Johnny Depp under heavy makeup as a Quebecois detective obsessed with catching Parks – don’t land. There’s also the problem of the movie having virtually no story beyond its premise, and that premise making precious little sense in the first place. I assume it’s more entertaining if you see it stoned, but you can probably say that about almost any movie.
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Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith overact in My Old Lady.
Ben Affleck plays a husband with a missing wife (Rosamund Pike) in complex thriller.
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written by Gillian Flynn based on her novel, with Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon and Kim Dickens. A 20th Century Fox release. 149 minutes. Opens Friday (October 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 73. Rating: nnnn
It’s a testament to David Fincher’s skill as a filmmaker that he makes something as complex as Gone Girl feel so effortless. Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel is a juggernaut of plot and perspective, playing with narration (and narrative) to expand a drama about a woman’s disappearance in a small Missouri town into a psychological hall-ofmirrors thriller about trust, fidelity and status. The movie, also scripted by Flynn, does all that and more. The slippery narrative structure (which initially alternates between the immediate experience of Nick Dunne and the
diary of his missing wife, Amy) is still there, as is the satirical take on the American news media. The script is a little on the cold side, but that’s why Fincher is the perfect director. His best films – Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network – operate as clinical dissections of their subjects. When he last tried to engage his emotion chip, we ended up with The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Fortunately, Gone Girl doesn’t have room for emotion. It’s too caught up in the process of what happens to Nick’s life when Amy goes missing on the morning of their fifth anniversary. This is where the actors come in. Rosamund Pike is a great choice for the unknowable Amy, who remains present onscreen thanks to her diary entries, and Ben Affleck is a flat-out brilliant call as Nick, who never seems more unlikeable and calculating than when he’s trying to ingrati-
ate himself to someone. For a decade, I’ve heard people say this about Affleck; I think it’s just something about the way he smiles. Gone Girl turns that odd quality into a character flaw, making us question why Nick seems the least genuine when he most needs to be. The rest of the cast is great, too. Kim Dickens and Carrie Coon offer complex support as a detective investigating Amy’s disappearance and Nick’s twin sister, Margot. In a smaller role as Amy’s high-school boyfriend, Neil Patrick Harris does some nifty stuff in the margins. Even Tyler Perry convinces as a high-powered criminal attorney Nick enlists. The technical aspects are topnotch. Gone Girl feels machine-tooled in the best possible way – spotless, chilly and perfect, with everything placed just so. It’s exactly what this story – and these characters – require.
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I applaud veteran playwright Israel Horovitz for directing his first film at the age of 75. Too bad it’s the hammy My Old Lady, which offers little except the sight of three big stars acting all over the place in a nice setting. Mathias (Kevin Kline) is a middleaged alcoholic with three divorces and several unpublished novels behind him. After his estranged father dies, he travels from New York City to Paris to claim a sprawling apartment in the Marais bequeathed him by his dad. What he doesn’t know is that it was bought under the viager system, which means the buyer gives monthly payments to the old owner (who still gets
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to live on the property) until the latter dies. Turns out that previous owner Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith, who couldn’t sound less French) knew Mathias’s father, and she lives in the apartment with her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas), who’s as fucked up in her way as Mathias. You can guess where this is going, non? If you can’t, the actors are so skilled that their eyes give away their deep, dark secrets in their first few exchanges. And Horovitz can’t disguise the film’s stage origins; it’s basically a three-hander padded out with some cityscapes and scenes involving realtors, shopkeepers and doctors, all underscored by a mournful cello. Klein takes risks by playing a thoroughly unlikeable character, and Smith and Scott Thomas are at least watchable. But your time will be better spent munching on a croissant at a café.
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lem, and how the choices they make affect their relationships. I cannot wait to see it again to figure out how the pieces fit together. 89 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(Brendan Gleeson), who’s told he’ll be murdered in a week’s time. But this isn’t a mystery; rather, it’s an inquiry into the whole village’s crisis of faith – and by extension, Ireland’s. And it’s great. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square
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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) Coliseum Scarborough
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(Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable) are ghoulish-looking, sewer-dwelling creatures whose behaviour mimics that of raccoons (they rummage through trash) and Despicable Me’s Minions (they mumble and build stuff). They’re adorable, while the humans bent on exterminating them are ghastly. A hilarious visual treat from the Laika studio (Coraline, ParaNorman). 96 min. NNNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
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fatherhood. It’s a dumb vanity project that illustrates middle-class male denial and distraction. 92 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema
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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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
the ever-formidable Denzel Washington with Training Day director Fuqua for a pulpy, sadistic big-screen update of a barely remembered 80s TV series. Up until the overheated climax, it’s even reasonably entertaining. 131 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
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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
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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
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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
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body-hurts drama about Americans and Mexicans whose lives are touched by an accidental death on the border. Ed Harris’s and Michael Peña’s fine performances are undercut by a script that prefers happenstance to character development and an ending that makes no emotional sense whatsoever. Some subtitles. 103 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
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an English-language remake of JeanFrançois Pouliot’s 2003 comedy Seducing Dr. Lewis, with the action transposed from rural Quebec to a depressed Newfoundland harbour community. Director McKellar is less interested in belly laughs than in generating a constant hum of contentment, which works very nicely. 115 min. NNN (NW) Regent Theatre
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(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/co-writer Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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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(Neil Berkeley) 101 min. See review, page 69. NNNNN
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heCTor aND The searCh For happiNess
(Peter Chelsom) stars Simon Pegg as a psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) who decides to travel the world in search of the secret to personal fulfillment. It’s a white-peopleproblems 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. 114 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñhoNeyMooN
(Leigh Janiak) follows 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 B-movie 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) Kingsway Theatre
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, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway
ñiDa
(Pawel Pawlikowski) follows novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed. Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre
Jersey boys (Clint Eastwood) sucks. The
original stage version cannot be as lifelessly realized, as jarringly overacted, as narratively clumsy or as musically inept as the film producer-director Eastwood has made of it. This is a turgid, exaggerated, painful experience, crushingly dull at two and a quarter hours and utterly tone-deaf to the rhythms of its own music. 134 min. N (NW) Mt Pleasant
kiTe (Ralph Ziman) 90 min. See Also Opening, page 72. Opens Oct 3 at Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 79) leFT behiND (Vic Armstrong) 110 min. See review, page 70. NN (NW) Opens Oct 3 at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 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)
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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
LittLe terrors (Maninder Chana) is a soso look at the fate of a 13-year-old American Muslim boy taken to a wilderness camp in Pakistan, where a group of terrorists/insurgents train him as a suicide bomber. Their blank faces rarely give a glimpse beneath the surface. 103 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) Carlton Cinema
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. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity
ing as something important. 115 min. NN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox
mommy (Xavier Dolan) 139 min.
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a most WaNted maN (Anton
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Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counterintelligence with elegance and grace. In a final, masterful lead performance, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer tracking a Chechen Muslim (Grigory Dobrygin) through Hamburg. Director Corbijn uses clear visual strategies to show us the hows, wheres and whys of the story even before we understand what’s really at stake. And the centre of his movie is Hoffman, watchful and worried and vulnerable and alive. Some subtitles. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre
my oLd Lady (Israel Horovitz) 107 min.
See review, page 72. NN (GS) Opens Oct 3 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity
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. NN (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 the Notebook (János Szász) filters Hungary’s wartime horrors under Nazi occupation through the eyes (and journal) of two young boys abandoned at their abusive grandmother’s home. The film often feels dramatically inert, but it’s punctuated by moments that are haunting and provocative. Subtitled. 108 min. NNN (RS)
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the November maN (Roger Donaldson)
is a rote espionage thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as a world-weary spy chased through the former Soviet Union by his former protege (Luke Bracey). If you’ve never seen one of these movies before, you might be intrigued by director Donaldson’s generic chase staging and fondness for CIA operators staring intently at monitors in under-lit situation rooms. 98 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre
ñobvious ChiLd
(Gillian Robespierre) is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Jenny Slate as a Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart. Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre
ñPride
(Matthew Warchus) is an excellently played crowd-pleaser based on the true story of a London gay and lesbian grassroots organization that offers to support striking mineworkers against Margaret Thatcher’s vicious regime. It
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
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magiC iN the mooNLight (Woody Allen)
is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
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the maze ruNNer (Wes Ball) adapts a YA
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 postur-
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metro maNiLa (Sean Ellis) is a Sundance
the skeLetoN tWiNs (Craig Johnson) is a modest indie dramedy starring Saturday Night Live veterans Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as siblings helping each other through a rough patch in their lives. It’s fine, and the actors contribute moments when it’s considerably more than fine, but it’s totally by the numbers. 93 min. NNN (NW) Queensway, Varsity
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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
man) 119 min. See review, page 72. NN (Andrew Parker) Opens Oct 3 at Varsity
couple Annie and Jay (Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel), who try to spice up their stale sex life by making a sex tape, which somehow gets forwarded to the tablets of a small group of friends, including Annie’s prospective employer (Rob Lowe). It’s an okay time-waster with a few big laughs, more small ones and a lot of unfunny scenes of people yelling in panic. 95 min. NNN (Andrew Dowler) Scotiabank Theatre
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years after an attempt to curb global warming freezes the planet, the only life left on Earth is jammed aboard a constantly speeding train where a few dozen people living in steerage plot to overthrow their upper-class masters a dozen cars ahead – and turns it into a gripping, thrilling and utterly credible adventure. See it with a crowd. Some subtitles. 126 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
TeeNage MuTaNT NiNja TurTles (Jona-
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, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
ñThis is Where i leave You
(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 Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
(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, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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) Kingsway Theatre 3
Tina Fey and Jason Bateman play sarcastic siblings in This Is Where I Leave You.
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Tracks (John Curran) stars Mia Wasikowska as real-life adventurer Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 walked 2,750 kilometres through the Australian desert with only three camels and her dog by her side. The script lacks tension but fortunately, you can just groove on the imahes, and Wasikowska is riveting. 112 min. NNN (SGC) Regent Theatre
ñThe Trip To iTalY
(Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Winterbottom reuniting for another grand tour of fine dining, conversation and deep human insight, this time knocking around a splendid series of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity
Tusk (Kevin Smith) 102 min. See review, page 70. NN (NW) Opens Oct 3 at Yonge & Dundas 24
ñ20,000 DaYs oN earTh
(Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard) is less a documentary profile of Nick Cave than it is a stylized representation of his life, following the Australian-born, Britain-based musician over the course of a single impossible day. Is it experimental, playful or just plain weird? I enjoyed it, so that doesn’t really matter. 97 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
22 juMp sTreeT (Phil Lord, Christo-
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pher Miller) is basically just a toy box full of wonderful things, a sequel to Lord and Miller’s self-aware TV adaptation that levels up accordingly, with terrific chases and fights that stay grounded in the contrast between Channing Tatum’s gung-ho energy and Jonah Hill’s nervous hesitation. Stay for the credits. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre
a Walk aMoNg The ToMbsToNes (Scott Frank) presents Lawrence Block’s tale of cop-turned-detective Matthew Scudder’s
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ALIEN Sat 4:00 Tue 7:00 ANNABELLE (14A) 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat BANG BANG! (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:30, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:55, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 6:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:55, 10:20 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:35, 8:55 Sat-Sun 3:35, 5:55, 8:15 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50 Sat-Sun 1:15 BOYHOOD (14A) Fri-Sun 2:30, 6:00 Mon-Wed 6:30 BREAKUP BUDDIES (14A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:55, 7:30, 10:25 BUT ALWAYS (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:50 DAAWAT-E-ISHQ (PG) Thu 10:20 DAVID BOWIE IS (PG) Thu 5:00, 9:30 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:30, 9:55 THE DROP (14A) 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:10 mat, 4:40 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:30, 11:00 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 7:45, 10:15 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – THE MUSICAL (14A) Sun 12:30, 6:30 Mon 2:00, 9:30 Wed 5:15 GONE GIRL (14A) 3:10, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:25 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 5:40, 7:20, 8:40, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 7:10, 10:05 HAIDER Thu 1:45, 6:30, 9:50 Fri 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Mon 1:40, 6:50, 10:10 Tue 1:40, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Wed 1:40, 4:00, 6:50, 10:10 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (14A) Thu 1:40 4:20 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 INNER DEMONS Fri 6:00, 8:00 Sat 9:30 Sun, Tue 10:00 Mon 7:30 Wed 8:30, 10:30 KHOOBSURAT (G) Thu 1:40, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 9:35 MonWed 10:00 LEFT BEHIND Fri, Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 1:40, 4:10, 7:45, 9:50 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:35, 10:05 Fri 2:00, 7:35, 10:05 Sat 11:55, 3:30, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Mon 10:05 THE MAZE RUNNER: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 3:25, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:25, 3:30, 6:00, 6:15, 9:00, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 12:45, 3:25, 3:30, 6:00, 6:15, 9:00, 9:15 MY LITTLE PONY EQUESTRIA GIRLS: RAINBOW ROCKS Sun 4:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA - ENCORE Sat 12:55 NO GOOD DEED 8:00, 10:10 Fri 3:20 mat, 5:40 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:20 mat, 5:40 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:10, 4:35, 7:25, 9:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:40, 1:55, 4:35, 7:00, 7:25, 10:25 TUSK (14A) 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 7:30 Fri, Tue 2:00, 3:45 Sat 6:00 Mon 5:00 Wed 2:00 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:10, 9:45
Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444
BOYHOOD (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 CALVARY (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 CHEF (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Fri 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:00, 8:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 THE DROP (14A) Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:50 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:00 Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Fri 3:50, 6:20, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:20 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10
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, 7:30 THE TRIP TO ITALY (14A) Fri 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40
MT PLEASANT (I)
675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Fri 8:55 Sat 4:00, 9:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu, Sat, Wed 7:00 Fri 6:45 Sun 4:30
REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884
CHEF (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 7:00 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:30 TRACKS Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun 2:15 Wed 7:00
SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:50, 10:30 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 2:30 Fri-Wed 12:45 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:25, 4:00 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri, MonWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – THE MUSICAL (14A) Sun 12:30 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri-Sat, MonWed 12:35 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 10:10 Sat 3:35, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Sat, Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 MY OLD LADY Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA - ENCORE Sat 12:55 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Thu 7:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 10:00
Metro West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442
THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 5:20, 7:30, 9:10 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 4:00 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Mon 1:15 mat GONE GIRL (14A) 6:30, 9:35 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00
KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 8:45 CHEF (14A) Thu 2:45 Fri-Wed 6:00 COHERENCE (14A) 8:00 Fri-Sat 11:15 late DAVID & ME (G) Thu 7:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:30 Mon, Wed 1:00 FRANK (14A) Thu 10:00 FRONTERA (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 9:30 HONEYMOON Sat, Mon, Wed 9:30 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 11:00, 2:55, 6:40 Sat-Sun 2:55, 6:40 IDA (PG) Thu 11:15 Sat, Mon, Wed 11:30
LIFE OF CRIME (14A) Thu 8:25 Fri-Wed 4:15 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Fri-Wed 5:00 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu, Tue 1:00 Fri 1:05 Sun 1:00, 1:05 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 3:45 Fri-Sat 1:00 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 11:15, 9:35 Sat, Mon-Wed 1:05 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 2:15 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Sat-Sun 11:00 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 5:30 Fri-Wed 2:45 WALKING WITH THE ENEMY (14A) Thu 4:45
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 12:35, 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Tue 12:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Sun 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 MonWed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 2:20 Fri 2:10 Sat 11:40 Sun 1:40 Mon-Wed 1:35 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:55 Fri 12:55, 3:35, 6:25 Sat 12:40, 3:35, 6:25 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:20 MonWed 12:45, 3:20, 6:20 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 THE DROP (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 9:10 Sun 9:00 Mon-Wed 8:55 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 3:50, 4:20, 6:45, 7:00, 7:15, 9:45, 10:10, 10:15 Fri 12:30, 1:15, 3:25, 4:15, 6:45, 7:30, 7:35, 9:55, 10:45 Sat 11:00, 12:20, 1:00, 1:15, 3:25, 4:15, 6:45, 7:30, 7:35, 9:55, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 1:20, 3:30, 4:15, 4:25, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:30, 10:45 MonWed 12:35, 1:25, 3:00, 3:35, 4:25, 6:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 9:45, 10:25 EVAN ALMIGHTY (G) Sat 11:00 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY – THE MUSICAL (14A) Sun 12:30 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 12:30, 3:30, 3:45, 7:00, 7:15, 10:30, 10:40 Sat 11:45, 12:10, 3:30, 3:45, 7:00, 7:15, 10:30, 10:40 Sun 11:45, 12:20, 3:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:20, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10 Fri 1:35, 4:25 Sat 11:00, 4:25 Sun 4:15 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:00 Wed 1:10, 4:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:20 FriSat 7:25, 10:20 Sun-Wed 7:10, 10:00 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 6:40, 9:40, 9:45 Fri 1:50, 4:35, 6:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 1:45, 4:35, 6:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 3:55, 6:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:25, 6:00, 6:15, 9:05 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40 LEFT BEHIND Fri 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Sat 12:00, 3:05, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:05 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 3:00, 4:05, 4:45, 6:00, 6:50, 7:35, 9:00, 9:35, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 3:00, 4:50, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:50, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 1:50, 3:00, 4:35, 6:00, 7:20, 9:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 6:00, 7:20, 9:00, 10:05 MY LITTLE PONY EQUESTRIA GIRLS: RAINBOW ROCKS Sun 4:00 MY OLD LADY Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 1:55, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 MonTue 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA - ENCORE Sat 12:55 NO GOOD DEED Thu 1:00, 3:35, 8:40 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Fri 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 1:30 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 4:30, 6:25, 7:30, 9:10, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 3:45, 5:35, 6:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 3:45, 5:40, 6:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:50 Sun 12:30, 1:10, 3:45, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 9:50 MonWed 2:00, 4:30, 4:40, 7:15, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Thu 7:30 A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (14A) Thu 1:55, 3:00, 4:50, 6:00, 7:50, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:00, 4:05, 6:55, 9:00, 9:45 Sun 2:10, 3:00, 7:35, 9:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 9:00, 10:30 XBOX ONE CINEPLEX LAUNCH EVENT Sun 11:00 continued on page 78 œ
ROYAL (I)
608 COLLEGE ST, 416-466-4400 KITE Fri-Tue 9:00 Wed 7:00 MOEBIUS (18A) Thu 7:00
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:15, 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:50, 7:00, 8:10, 9:20, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:15, 2:00, 3:25, 4:15, 5:35, 7:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 10:10 Fri-Sat 7:25, 10:20 Sun-Wed 7:25, 10:10 THE EQUALIZER: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (18A) Thu 1:25,
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Rainbow woodbine (i)
woodbine CentRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 AnnAbelle (14A) thu 7:00, 9:25 Fri-wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 The boxTrolls (G) thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:20 Fri-wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-wed 1:05, 4:05 The equAlizer (18A) thu 1:00 3:50 6:40 9:30 Fri-wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Gone Girl (14A) Fri-wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 1:05 The MAze runner (PG) thu 1:10 3:55 6:55 9:35 Fri-wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 no GooD DeeD thu 4:15 This is Where i leAve you (14A) 7:05, 9:45 thu 1:25 mat, 4:20 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-wed 12:55, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20
East End beaCh Cinemas (aa) 1651 Queen st e, 416-699-1327
AnnAbelle (14A) 7:00, 10:10 Fri 4:00 mat sat-sun 1:00, 4:00 mat The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 6:50, 9:10 The boxTrolls (G) Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:00 sat-sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 mon-wed 7:30, 9:50 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 7:30, 9:50 The equAlizer (18A) thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 sat-sun 12:50, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 mon-wed 7:10, 10:00 Gone Girl (14A) 6:50, 9:30 Fri 3:30 mat sat-sun 12:40, 3:30 mat GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 7:20 sat-sun 1:10 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 10:00 Fri-sun 3:50, 6:40 mon-wed 6:40 The MAze runner (PG) thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 sat-sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 mon-wed 7:20, 10:15 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri-wed 9:20
North York Cineplex Cinemas empRess walk (Ce) 5095 Yonge st., 416-847-0087
AnnAbelle (14A) Fri-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 mon-wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:00 6:55 9:40 Fri-wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 The boxTrolls (G) Fri-sun 1:05 The equAlizer: The iMAx experienCe (18A) 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:25 mat The equAlizer (18A) thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 mon-wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 froM here To eTerniTy – The MusiCAl (14A) sun 12:30 Gone Girl (14A) Fri-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:25 mon-wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 10:15 heCTor AnD The seArCh for hAppiness (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 sat-sun 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 mon-wed 4:30, 7:10, 10:05 The hunDreD-fooT Journey (PG) thu 4:15 The MAze runner (PG) thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 mon-wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 My olD lADy 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:15 mat nATionAl TheATre live: MeDeA - enCore sat 12:55 The pirATes (14A) thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 TAzzA: The hiDDen CArD (14A) thu 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 mon-wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 mon-wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 The vATiCAn MuseuMs 3D (G) thu 7:30 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 4:30, 7:10, 10:00
silveRCitY FaiRview (Ce)
FaiRview mall, 1800 sheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 AnnAbelle (14A) 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 sat 11:15 mat The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 The boxTrolls (G) thu 2:20 Fri, sun-tue 1:50 sat 11:30, 1:50 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:45 Fri, mon-wed 1:55 sat 11:10, 1:55 sun 1:25 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 1:45 4:25 6:55 9:30 Fri-wed 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 sat 11:05 mat The equAlizer (18A) thu 1:25 4:20 7:15 10:10 Fri-wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 Gone Girl (14A) Fri-tue 1:30, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 1:30, 4:15 Fri, sunwed 1:35, 4:25 sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:25 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 7:00, 9:50 Friwed 7:15, 10:05 leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 9:25 The MAze runner (PG) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri,
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Simon Pegg is doggone good in flawed Hector And The Search For Happiness. sun-wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 My liTTle pony equesTriA Girls: rAinboW roCks sun 4:00 no GooD DeeD thu 2:15, 4:35, 9:20 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 1:55 4:30 7:05 9:40 Fri-wed 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 sat 11:40 mat The vATiCAn MuseuMs 3D (G) thu 7:30 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-sat, mon-wed 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 sun 7:20, 9:55
silveRCitY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin st, 416-787-2052
AnnAbelle (14A) thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:25 7:00 10:25 Fri-wed 5:25, 7:50, 10:25 The boxTrolls (G) thu 2:00 Fri-sun 12:35, 3:00 monwed 3:00 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 1:15, 3:55 Fri, sun-wed 1:45, 3:30 sat 11:00, 1:45, 3:30 The equAlizer (18A) thu 1:15, 3:30, 4:15, 6:35, 7:15, 9:40, 10:10 Fri, sun 12:40, 1:20, 3:45, 4:25, 6:50, 7:30, 9:55, 10:35 sat 12:25, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 6:35, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35 mon-wed 12:30, 1:10, 3:35, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:45, 10:25 evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 Gone Girl (14A) thu 10:00 Fri-sun 12:30, 1:45, 3:50, 5:15, 7:15, 8:45, 10:40 mon-wed 12:30, 1:45, 3:50, 5:15, 7:05, 8:45, 10:30 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 1:20, 4:10 Fri-wed 4:30 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 7:05 Fri-wed 7:20, 10:15 The MAze runner (PG) thu 1:15, 2:00, 4:05, 4:50, 6:55, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, sun-wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 no GooD DeeD thu 1:50, 4:30, 10:15 Fri, sun-wed 1:00, 8:00, 10:20 sat 1:00, 8:00, 10:25 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 1:30 4:15 7:00 10:10 Fri-wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10
Scarborough 401 & moRningside (Ce) 785 milneR ave, sCaRboRough, 416-281-2226
AnnAbelle (14A) Fri, tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 mon, wed 5:30, 8:15 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu, mon, wed 8:00 Fri, tue 9:55 sat 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 sun 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 The boxTrolls (G) thu, mon, wed 5:40 Fri, tue 4:45, 7:20 sat 11:05, 12:00, 2:25 sun 2:20 DAWn of The plAneT of The Apes (PG) thu 5:25, 8:15 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 5:20, 7:50 Fri, tue 4:00, 6:45 sat 11:05, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45 sun 1:30, 4:05, 6:45 mon, wed 6:00 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 5:50, 8:20 Fri, tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 mon, wed 5:50, 8:25 The equAlizer (18A) thu 5:15, 8:10 Fri, tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 sat-sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 mon, wed 5:20, 8:20
evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 Gone Girl (14A) Fri, tue 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 sat 11:30, 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 sun 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 mon, wed 5:10, 8:20 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 5:30, 8:15 Fri, tue 3:55, 6:40 sat-sun 12:45, 3:35, 6:40 mon, wed 5:25, 8:10 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) Fri-sun, tue 9:30 luCy (14A) thu, mon, wed 8:25 Fri-sat, tue 9:50 sun 9:20 The MAze runner (PG) thu 5:15, 7:55 Fri, tue 4:15, 6:50, 9:40 sat 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:40 sun 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:35 mon, wed 5:15, 7:50 My liTTle pony equesTriA Girls: rAinboW roCks sun 4:00 no GooD DeeD thu 6:10, 8:25 Fri, tue 5:30, 7:55, 10:00 sat 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:55, 10:00 sun 1:10, 5:40, 7:45, 10:00 mon, wed 6:10, 8:15 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles (PG) thu 6:00 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu, mon, wed 5:20, 7:40 Fri, tue 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 sat 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 5:35, 8:05 Fri, tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 mon, wed 5:35, 8:10
Coliseum sCaRboRough (Ce) sCaRboRough town CentRe, 416-290-5217
AnnAbelle (14A) thu 9:30 Fri-wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 As Above, so beloW (14A) thu 4:25 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 The boxTrolls (G) thu 1:55 Fri, sun-wed 1:45 sat 11:15, 1:45 breAkup buDDies (14A) Fri-wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 1:30, 4:10 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, sun-wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 The equAlizer (18A) thu 1:00 3:30 4:15 6:35 7:10 9:40 10:20 Fri-wed 12:45, 3:30, 3:55, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:10 sat 12:05 mat evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 froM here To eTerniTy – The MusiCAl (14A) sun 12:30 Gone Girl (14A) thu 10:00 Fri-sat, tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 sun-mon, wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 1:05, 4:05 Fri-wed 1:20, 4:25 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 7:05, 10:10 Fri-wed 7:20, 10:20 leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 1:35, 6:50 Fri-sat, tue-wed 9:35 sun-mon 10:05 The MAze runner (PG) thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Friwed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 nATionAl TheATre live: MeDeA - enCore sat 12:55 no GooD DeeD thu 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Fri, sun-wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 sat 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles (PG) thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:55 Fri-sat, tue 1:25, 4:05 sun 4:55 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles 3D (PG) thu 9:40 Frisat, tue 6:50 sun-mon 7:30 wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri, sun-wed 2:20 sat 3:20 The vATiCAn MuseuMs 3D (G) thu 7:30 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 1:10 4:00 7:00 9:50 Fri-wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55
eglinton town CentRe (Ce) 1901 eglinton ave e, 416-752-4494
AnnAbelle (14A) thu 7:45, 10:10 Fri-sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 mon-wed 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 bAnG bAnG! (PG) thu 2:40, 6:15, 9:45 Fri-sun 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 mon, wed 6:00, 9:25 tue 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 sun, tue 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 mon, wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 The boxTrolls (G) thu 2:05 Fri 12:25, 2:55 sat 11:10, 12:15, 1:15 sun 12:20, 2:45 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 4:15, 7:00 Fri 1:00, 3:45 sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:35 sun 1:40, 4:20 mon, wed 4:20 tue 4:25 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 mon, wed 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 tue 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 The equAlizer (18A) thu 2:30, 4:20, 5:40, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 Fri-sat 12:40, 1:25, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:35, 10:00, 10:45 sun 12:30, 1:15, 3:35, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 mon, wed 4:15, 5:30, 7:25, 8:30, 10:30 tue 3:35, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 Gone Girl (14A) thu 10:00 Fri-sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 mon 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 tue 3:40, 7:05, 10:30 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 4:15 Fri, sun 1:45, 4:35 sat 1:50, 4:40 mon-wed 4:35 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 7:05, 10:00 Fri, sun, tue 7:25, 10:15 sat 7:30, 10:20 mon, wed 7:25, 10:20 hAiDer thu 2:15, 5:45, 9:35 Fri 12:05, 3:35, 7:10, 10:40 sat 11:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:40 sun 1:00, 3:00, 6:30, 10:05 mon, wed 5:00, 8:40 tue 3:25, 6:55, 10:25 heCTor AnD The seArCh for hAppiness (14A) thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 mon, wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 tue 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 khoobsurAT (G) thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 mon, wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 tue 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 lefT behinD Fri-sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 mon, wed 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 tue 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 luCy (14A) thu 9:40 The MAze runner (PG) thu 2:05, 4:10, 4:50, 6:55, 9:40, 10:20 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 sun 12:50, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00 mon, wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 tue 4:25, 7:15, 10:00 My olD lADy 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:30 mat no GooD DeeD thu 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles (PG) thu 4:55 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 sat 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 sun 12:25, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 mon-wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 The vATiCAn MuseuMs 3D (G) thu 7:30 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20 Fri 6:40, 9:40 sat 7:20, 10:05 sun-mon, wed 7:00, 9:45 tue 7:10, 10:05
woodside Cinemas (i) 1571 sandhuRst CiRCle, 416-299-3456
bAnG bAnG! (PG) thu 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 Fri, mon-wed 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30 sat-sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 5:15, 7:30 MADrAs 10:30 thu 4:30, 7:30 A MAn’s Desire for A fifTh Wife 5:00 sat-sun 3:45 mat yAAn 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 sat-sun 1:00 mat
AnnAbelle (14A) thu 9:30 Fri-sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 mon-wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 bAnG bAnG! (PG) thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:25 sat 12:15, 3:45, 7:05, 10:25 sun 2:40, 6:10, 9:35 mon-wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 The boxTrolls 3D (G) thu 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 Fri-sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 mon-wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 The boxTrolls (G) thu 4:05, 6:30, 8:50 Fri, sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 sat 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 mon-wed 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 Dolphin TAle 2 (G) thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:55 mon-wed 4:10, 6:55 Dr. CAbbie (PG) thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 sat 11:20, 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 mon-wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 The Drop (14A) thu 4:30, 7:10 Fri-wed 9:30 The equAlizer: The iMAx experienCe (18A) thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 mon-wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 The equAlizer (18A) thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 mon-wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 evAn AlMiGhTy (G) sat 11:00 Gone Girl (14A) thu 10:00 Fri-sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 sun 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 mon-wed 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy (PG) thu 4:15 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:05 mon-wed 4:05 GuArDiAns of The GAlAxy 3D (PG) thu 7:00 9:45 Friwed 6:50, 9:45 hAiDer thu 5:30, 9:10 Fri 2:15, 6:00, 9:25 sat 11:05, 2:35, 6:00, 9:25 sun 12:30, 6:00, 9:25 mon 5:55, 9:25 tue-wed 5:45, 9:25 heCTor AnD The seArCh for hAppiness (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 mon-wed 4:20, 7:10 khoobsurAT (G) thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-sun 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 mon 7:00, 10:05 tue-wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 lefT behinD 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri, sun 2:30 mat sat 12:00, 2:30 mat leT’s be Cops (14A) thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-wed 3:30, 9:00 luCy (14A) Fri-wed 9:55 The MAze runner (PG) thu 4:20, 4:50, 6:55, 7:30, 9:35, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 mon-wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 My liTTle pony equesTriA Girls: rAinboW roCks sun 4:00 no GooD DeeD thu 5:05, 7:10, 9:20 Fri, sun 12:50, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 sat 1:05, 3:10, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 mon-wed 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles (PG) thu 4:00 Fri-sun 1:00 TeenAGe MuTAnT ninJA TurTles 3D (PG) thu 6:45 Friwed 6:15 This is Where i leAve you (14A) thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri, sun 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 sat 11:50, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 mon-wed 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 A WAlk AMonG The ToMbsTones (14A) thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 mon-wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10
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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.
repertory schedules
Rupert Julian. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. mon 6 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. Suspiria (1977) D: Dario Argento. 7 pm. Fight Club (1999) D: David Fincher. 9 pm. tue 7 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 6 pm. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998) D: Terry Gilliam. 7 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 9 pm. Wed 8 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 6 pm. The House By The Cemetery (981) D: Lucio Fulci. 7 pm. The Wicker Man (1973) D: Robin Hardy. 9 pm.
The excellent Barbara, starring Nina Hoss, helps kickstart Goethe-Institut series.
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All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.
revue cinema 400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca.
thu 2 – Bumps: A Mogul Skiing Documentary
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toronto Palestine film festival
aGo Jackman Hall, 317 DunDas W (aGo); Beit Zatoun, 612 markHam (BZ); tiff Bell liGHtBox, 350 kinG W (tBl). tPff.ca
thu 2-Fri 3 – Celebration of Palestinian cin-
ema, music, cuisine and art. $10, stu/srs $7. TPFF-10 card $75. thu 2 – Al Helm: Martin Luther King In Palestine (2014) D: Connie Field, and Al Sheesha (2014) D: Daniel Malak. 7 pm. Forbidden Pilgrimage (2014) D: Ahmad Damen, and The Salt Fisherman (2011) D: Ziad Bakri. 9 pm. All screenings at AGO. Fri 3 – Closing night: My Love Awaits Me By The Sea (2013) D: Mais Darwazah, and short film Dear Hassan. 7 pm (TBL).
cinemas BiG Picture cinema GerrarD 1035 GerrarD e. BiGPicturecinema.com
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After the fall of the Berlin Wall Goethe Films: Berlin Wall: 25 Years October 2 to 9 at TIFF Bell
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thu 2-Wed 8 – Check website for schedule.
Bloor Hot Docs cinema
506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. Bloorcinema.com
thu 2 – Doc Soup: Marmato (2014) D: Mark Grieco. 6:45 pm. Faith Connections (2013) D: Pan Nalin. 9:30 pm. Fri 3 – Art And Craft (2014) D: Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker. 4 & 6:30 pm. Harmontown (2014) D: Neil Berkeley. 9 pm. sat 4 – Art And Craft. 1 & 3:30 pm. Harmontown. 6:30 pm. Harmontown live podcast with Dan Harmon. 9 pm. sun 5 – Art And Craft. 12:45 & 6:30 pm. Sí-Sí Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival presents Bombal (2011) D: Marcelo Ferrari. 3:30 pm. Harmontown. 8:45 pm. mon 6 – Art And Craft. 6:30 pm. Harmontown. 8:45 pm. tue 7 – Art And Craft. 3:30 & 9 pm. Cinema Politica presents I Am Femen (2014) D: Alain Margot, a doc about the radical politics and actions of Ukrainian feminists. Discussion to follow. 6:30 pm. $2-$10. cinemapolitica.org. Wed 8 – Art And Craft. 4 pm. Films Changing The World- NCR: Not Criminally Responsible (2013) D: John Kastner. 6:30 pm. Harmontown. 9:15 pm.
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camera Bar
1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. cameraBar.ca
sat 4 – Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless
Mind (2004) D: Michel Gondry. 3 pm.
cinematHeQue tiff Bell liGHtBox reitman sQuare, 350 kinG W. 416-599-8433, tiff.net
thu 2 – Goethe-Institut Toronto presents Barbara (2012) D: Christian Petzold. 6:30 pm. Intro by NOW Magazine film writer Norman Wilner. Level Five (1996) D: Chris Marker. 7 pm. NAS: Time Is Illmatic (2014) D: One9. 7 pm.
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(2014) D: Zac Hoffman. 7 pm. $10. Tickets at bumpsdocumentary.ticketbud.com. Fri 3 – The Trip To Italy (2014) D: Michael Winterbottom. 7 pm. The November Man (2014) D: Roger Donaldson. 9:15 pm. sat 4 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D (2014) D: Jonathan Liebesman. 2 pm. The Trip To Italy. 7 pm. The November Man. 9:15 pm. sun 5 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3D. 2 pm. The Trip To Italy. 4 & 7 pm. The November Man. 9:15 pm. mon 6 – The Trip To Italy. 7 pm. The November Man. 9:15 pm. tue 7 – The November Man. 7 pm. The Trip To Italy. 9:15 pm. Wed 8 – Anime At The Revue: Cyborg 009: The Legend Of The Super Galaxy (1980) D: Masayuki Akehi. 6:45 pm. Free. RSVP required at jftor.org/anime. The Trip To Italy. 9:30 pm.
A quarter-century after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, its legacy still echoes through German cinema. Toronto’s Goethe-Institut has organized a screening series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox subtitled Before The Fall, assembling three films that examine the divided nation at its chilliest. Christian Petzold’s 2012 film Barbara, screening Thursday (October 2) at 6:30 pm with an introduction by yours truly, is the Fri 3 – Jean-Luc Godard X 2: Sauve Qui Peut/ La Vie (1979), and Scénario De Sauve Qui Peut/La Vie (1980). 6:30 pm. The Last House On The Left (1972) D: Wes Craven. 9 pm. sat 4 – Le Gai Savoir (1969) D: Jean-Luc Godard. 1 pm. N Nuit Blanche: Jazz Age Cinema with the Ryan Driver Quintet, featuring short films with live music, and The Unauthorized Hagiography Of Vincent Price. From 7 pm. Free. snbto.ca. sun 5 – Modern Times (1936) D: Charles Chaplin. 1 pm. Jean-Luc Godard X 3: Passion (1982), Letter To Freddy Buache (1982), and Scénario Du Film Passion (1982). 3:15 pm. Reportage Amateur/Mazuette Expo (2006) D: Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville. 7:30 pm. mon 6 – Check website for schedule. tue 7 – Jean-Luc Godard X 2: Un Film Comme Les Autres, and Ciné-Tracts (1968). 6:15 pm. Goethe-Institut Toronto presents Wings Of Desire (1987) D: Wim Wenders. 6:30 pm. The Hills Have Eyes (1977) D: Wes Craven. 9:30 pm. Wed 8 – Rendezvous With Madness and the U of T Dept of Psychiatry present William Kurelek’s The Maze D: Nick and Zack Young. Panel discussion to follow. 7 pm. $10, stu $5. mindfest.ca.
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sounding and has for years. I’m pretty sure he does other things that he isn’t telling anyone about – not even his wife. He has some medical questions about sounding. I’m a pediatric nurse, so he brought his concerns to me, but the questions are totally outside my area of expertise. Nothing emergency-room-worthy is going on, but he needs answers and refuses to speak with his regular MD about sounding. I’m wondering how to find an MD in his area who would be knowledgeable and non-judgmental. Needs Useful Referral Soon P.S. Thank you for your advice over the years. Because of you, I am comfortable with the questions he asked me even if I didn’t have the answers. The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom maintains a Kink Aware Professionals Directory on its website: ncsfreedom.org. The doctors, counsellors, lawyers, real-estate agents, etc, aren’t vetted by the NCSF, so inclusion on the list isn’t a recommendation. But it would be a good place for your friend to start looking for an irregular MD, someone he can open up to about sounding and whatever else he’s doing. In the meantime, I asked a doc for some thoughts about the risks and rewards of sounding. “Sounding refers to the insertion of foreign bodies into the urethra,” said Dr. Stephen H. King, MD, a board-certified urologist. “Under controlled medical conditions, urethral sounds, which are typically curved and sterilized metallic or plastic rods, are gently inserted onto the urethra [pee hole] in order to dilate a stricture [narrowing] that blocks the flow of urine out of the bladder. The lining of the urethra is typically very sensitive and delicate, and this procedure can be quite uncomfortable for most people.” But not everyone with a metallic or plastic rod sticking out of their urethra right now is experiencing discomfort. “Some people, likely a significant minority, derive sexual pleasure from urethral stimulation,” said Dr. King. “This includes both men and women. Sounders [not to be confused with Seattle’s soccer players!] have been known to insert a wide variety of objects, including but not limited to catheters, tubes, beads, pencils, batteries, drill bits and even the head of a decapitated snake. Yes, the latter has been reported.” I think we all need a moment to process that last detail. Someone found the head of a decapitated snake – or someone found a snake and decapitated it – and thought: “You know what? I’m going to stick this in my urethra.” This probably wasn’t something anyone who hasn’t shoved the head of a decapitated snake into their urethra even thought human beings were capable of before Dr. King shared this with us. And now we’ll never be able to forget it. Deep breaths, everybody. Let our shared trauma bring us closer together, not drive us apart.
Okay! On to your question, NURS: Your friend is a self-sounder and has been for years. So just how dangerous is sounding? “Some sounders end up in emergency rooms to remove a stuck object, leading to interesting X-rays and many good party conversations for us urologists,” said Dr. King. “But there is very limited medical literature on this topic beyond mostly case studies. However, one recent survey study associated recreational sounding with general high-risk behaviours and increased risk of STIs. Additional complications can include bleeding, infection, urethral stricture, perforation and erectile dysfunction. Some of these issues may cause long-term impairments or require surgical correction.” A couple of qualifiers from a nonmedical nonprofessional (me): Sounding by itself doesn’t lead to higher rates of STIs. While an inept sounding session could leave a person with a raw and bloodied urethra, and this rawness would place a person at higher risk of contracting an STI should they be exposed to one, it’s the propensity toward high-risk behaviours generally that places sounders at greater risk of contracting STIs, not the sounding itself. Dr. King agrees with me on this point. Also, people who don’t get objects stuck in their urethras – sounders who don’t progress to larger and larger objects before finally moving on to heads from decapitated snakes – don’t make appearances in emergency rooms, the medical literature or urologists’ party conversations. So the sample here is skewed, with sounders who are shoving only sterilized, well-lubricated and reasonably sized metal rods into their urethras underrepresented in the medical literature, cocktail party convo, etc. So while shoving a metal rod into your urethra is more dangerous than not shoving a metal rod into your urethra, it’s not as dan-
gerous as the limited medical literature would seem to suggest. “My guess is there are many people who sound without significant problems,” said Dr. King. “If performed in a very clean (ideally sterile) fashion with minimal trauma to the urethral lining, sounding maybe be relatively safe. The sounder, however, should be aware of these risks.”
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fetish – particularly the part where the girl bleeds a bit. Arguments that “breaking the hymen” is mythical bullshit haven’t swayed his fetish. His birthday is coming up, and she’d love to surprise him with some virginity bleeds. It won’t be a regular thing, so she’s okay with a bit of pain and discomfort. And it won’t be during her period, so that obvious solution is out. She asked for my advice – I’m the local sex guru – but this one has me stumped. Happy Hymen Hunting Good news, HHH! Your friend doesn’t have to endure pain and discomfort to treat her boyfriend to a few “virginity bleeds” on his birthday. “An artificial hymen also known as artificial virginity kit (and popularly referred to as a Chinese hymen or fake hymen) is a type of prosthetic membrane created for the purpose of stimulating an intact human hymen,” reads the highly disturbing copy at HymenShop.net. “Insert the artificial hymen into your vagina carefully…. When your lover penetrates, it will ooze out a liquid that appears like blood, not too much but just the right amount. Add in a few moans and groans and you will pass through undetectable!” As creepy as the boyfriend’s fetish might seem, the fact that some women have to use these artificial hymens under duress – women
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