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Voter’s Guide

The essential ward-by-ward breakdown: the candidates, the issues and all you need to make the smart choice on October 27 page 12

e c n a m 12 ELECTION SPECIAL Ro 12 18 24 26

Ward by ward A breakdown of all 44 council races At issue Sizing up the mayoral candidates on five hot buttons Transit questions Olivia Chow’s plan deconstructed TDSB test School board contests to watch

10 NEWSFRONT 11 News briefs John Tory and white privilege; Chevron action

30 Iraq war U.S. resister’s letter to Canada

32 DAILY EVENTS 36 LIFE&STYLE

36 Beginner’s guide Contouring basics 38 Store of the week Tuck Shop Outpost 39 Astrology 40 Ecoholic Leggings; fracking for the cure

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41 Feature The Emmet Ray raises the bar, plus other watering holes with good food 43 Drink up! Bubblies, Cask Days and more

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1. Toronto the racist? Attacks against Olivia Chow, the only visible minority in the mayoral race, has us wondering whether diversity truly is our strength.

2. Comment karma At a mayoral debate at George Brown College, student Evan Carter calls Doug Ford out on comments he made about kids with Aspberger syndrome in May. 3. Debate whitewash John Tory denies white privilege exists at the Inner City Union debate.

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“Today I thought a lot about how Harry Styles cried once while getting stitches.”

66 Actor interview The Guest’s Dan Stevens 68 Actor interview St. Vincent’s Melissa McCarthy; Reviews Tu Dors Nicole; The Green Prince; These Final Hours; Fury; The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya; Watchers Of The Sky; The Book Of Life; Rudderless; The Best Of Me 70 Festival preview ImagineNative Also opening Matthew Saville’s Felony 71 Playing this week 76 Film times 78 Indie & rep listings Plus Time Lapse, at the After Dark Festival

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October 21 Über-producer Flying Lotus is uncannily good at weaving jazz, electronic and hip-hop in a totally unique way. (Check out his new album, You’re Dead!) But his 3-D, projection-based light show is what really makes him a can’tmiss performer. He’s also bringing bestie/frequent collaborator/virtuosic bass player Thundercat along for the ride. Count on them to make cameos in each other’s shows. 8 pm. $29-$33.50. TM.

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email letters@now toronto.com Don’t blame race for Olivia Chow’s demise Re “Go back to China” (NOW, October 9-15). Political debates invariably attract a fringe element with too much time on their hands and not much between their ears. That a few yahoos show up at events to slag Olivia Chow on the basis of her ethnic origins is meaningless in the overall campaign.

There is no evidence that her ethnicity is a factor in voters’ decision-making.

Chow’s problem is that she has not presented herself as a compelling candidate and has run a poor campaign. She came into the campaign

as “I’m not Rob Ford” and has not communicated a dynamic message on other issues.

Eric Trimble Toronto

How Chow left social democrats cold

I agree that the racism directed at Olivia Chow in this campaign is disgusting. However, I disagree that Chow’s third-place standing is tied to racism.

Right-wing politicians always know that they never should abandon their base. That is why Doug Ford skates so carefully around the racism question.

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Chow, on the other hand, spent the first eight months of her campaign not paying attention to her base.

When questioned about tax increases, she dodged and weaved and failed to refocus the debate on the damage done in the Ford years by petty cuts and service reductions.

As a social democrat, I have happily voted for a losing cause many times.

This election, though, I must follow the prime directive – RoFo (now DoFo) must go. If the polls continue as they have, I will be voting for John Tory.

Michael Greason Toronto

Tracing Chow’s fall to that first debate

I trace the discontent with Olivia Chow to that campaign-opening debate at Citytv. All of us Ford haters were salivating at the chance to revel in the inevitable takedown of Ford by an experienced MP. When it didn’t happen – not even close, in fact – the

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“ Olivia Chow’s problem is not racism – it’s that she has not presented herself as a compelling candidate. ” I voted for Ford. It won’t happen again.

I was looking forward to Chow’s contribution when she entered the mayoral race, even though I’m still bleeding from the nose from David Miller’s tax assault.

I always thought she was a pretty bright person. But she’s become little more than a confusing distraction. If she succeeds in taking votes away from John Tory by constantly trying to bash away at him, it’ll only help Doug Ford. For that reason I wish she’d drop out for the good of Toronto.

Oh yeah, I voted for Ford. I regret it.

It won’t happen again.

Joe Ciccone Toronto

David Suzuki’s paradigm shift surprise

I wish David Suzuki well in his paradigm shift (NOW, September 9-15).

But disconnected asthmatic SUV owners rushing to the hospital with respiratory problems notwithstanding, I was surprised by Suzuki’s apparent dismay that we must re-fight old battles.

In every environmental issue in which I have been involved in our community, I have never forgotten the sage advice that environmental victories are temporary and environmental losses are permanent.

Difficult though it may be, eternal vigilance must be our daily companion.

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Legal aid changes: the whole story

I was disappointed to read Sheila Gostick’s Legal Aid Trouble about the GTA Legal Clinics’ Transformation Project (NOW, October 9-15). The proposed changes are in fact something the clinics themselves have devised in a lengthy collaborative process as a way to improve access and services for low-income people.

Gostick’s article could have noted that the new model puts 18 per cent more staff on the front line, doubles the amount of community outreach and provides some consistency in the services provided so that getting help does not depend on which side of the street you live on.

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In fact, when he was on our cover on January 14, 2004, it was because he was starring as The Cooler’s chronic failure at the gaming tables, hired to be a professional jinx. During his interview with John Harkness, Macy admitted that he was sick of being typecast and had told his agent to stop getting him cast as a loser (nowtoronto.com).

We’re not sure that worked. Even the physician he played in a recurring role on ER was a bit nerdy.

But he’s in control now. His directing debut, Rudderless, about a grieving father who discovers his deceased son’s demo tapes, opens this week. It’s a modest character study – Macy co-writes and plays a small part, too – but very well realized (see review, page 68).

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2,000 JOHN TORY FUMESOVER ON WHITE PRIVILEGERESTAURANTS! John Tory has thus far avoided the kind of error that’s sabotaged his previous runs for office. But in a media scrum after a debate Friday, October 10, on priority neighbourhoods, a reporter asked him, “Does white privilege exist?” Tory’s response: “White privilege? No, I don’t know that it does.”

2 column The online backlash to his answer was swift, but the truth is he was flirting with this kind of language all night.

Earlier, when asked about the predominance of white representatives on council, Tory talked about a program he ran with CivicAction in which “you actually brought people, consciously, from visible minority groups… into rooms across the city and said, ‘Here’s how you run for office, here’s how to get some confidence’…. We’ve got to give people the self-confidence to step up and run.”

In response, Olivia Chow accused him of blaming people for their own disenfranchisement. “I didn’t blame anybody,” Tory fumed. “I actually did something about it.”

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Voter’s Guide

The race for mayor is sucking up all of the #TOpoli oxygen, but the real fate of the city will be in the hands of the 44 councillors we elect October 27. Here’s the ward-by-ward lowdown on who’s got it – and not.

Compiled by ENZO DiMATTEO, JONATHAN GOLDSBIE and BEN SPURR

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WARD 1 ETOBICOKE NORTH Contenders Vincent Crisanti, Idil Burale, Patricia Crooks, Akhtar Ayub.

Hot buttons Transit, affordable housing, policing.

Average income is $21,000 less than the city-wide average; 60 per cent of residents are first-generation immigrants. Incumbent Crisanti did little to distinguish himself this term – except as one of only five councillors to vote against stripping Rob Ford of his powers in the wake of the mayor’s crack scandal. Eager to take Crisanti’s place are community organizer and cofounder of Women in Toronto Politics Burale; Crooks, a social worker pushing for better childcare and expanded bus service; and Ayub, who’s promising monthly public meetings between high-rise tenants and police.

Turnout in 2010 44 per cent of 31,922 eligible voters.

WARD 2 ETOBICOKE NORTH

Contenders Rob Ford, Andray Domise, Munira Abukar.

Hot buttons Ford’s health – and his numerous n-word-spiced tirades while drunk/and or high.

A last-minute game of electoral musical chairs dropped the mayor into this contest after he was diagnosed with cancer. Ford has not been able to campaign full-out. Will his sudden incapacitation help wash away many voters’ misgivings about his past four years in office? Domise, a media-savvy financial planner, has relentlessly criticized the Fords for neglecting Etobicoke North’s disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

In next week’s print edition: our endorsements for mayor and candidates in all 44 council races.

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Also in the running is Abukar, a Toronto Community Housing director whose profile was raised when her election signs were defaced with racist graffiti.

Turnout in 2010 51 per cent of 35,789 eligible voters.

WARD 7 YORK WEST

WARD 3 ETOBICOKE CENTRE

Contenders Stephen Holyday, Greg Comeau, Peter Fenech, Roberto Alvarez.

Hot buttons Development, unemployment – incomes are 20 per cent below the city average.

Council appointed Peter Leon in October 2013 after deputy mayor Doug Holyday made the leap to Queen’s Park.

When Leon confirmed in late August he would not run in the October election, it looked like this race would be wide open. But a week later, Doug’s son Stephen, a chip off the old conservative block, threw his hat in, potentially lining up a Holyday dynasty in this ward.

Turnout in 2010 54 per cent of 37,066 eligible voters.

WARD 4 ETOBICOKE CENTRE

Contenders Chris Stockwell, John Campbell, Niels Christensen.

Hot buttons Humbertown Shopping Centre redevelopment.

Four-term incumbent Gloria Lindsay Luby shocked council in late August by announcing she wouldn’t be seeking re-election. Looking to fill the void are a number of local heavy-hitters who share her low-tax, cost-cutting conservative agenda. No surprise – the population of this ward is older, richer and more likely to own a home than the average Toronto resident. On the ballot are former Toronto District School Board chair Campbell, who lost to Lindsay Luby by less than 400 votes in 2010; former Mike Harris-era speaker Stockwell, who seems to be riding the Ford ticket; and Christensen, who as president of the local residents’ association led community opposition to the Humbertown Shopping Centre.

Lindsay Luby has endorsed Christensen.

Turnout in 2010 59 per cent of 36,724 eligible voters

Mark Grimes

WARD 6

ETOBICOKE-LAKESHORE Contenders Mark Grimes, Michael Laxer, Tony Vella, Peggy Moulder, Miroslaw Jankielewicz and seven others.

Hot buttons Lakeshore revitalization, transit.

So far the campaign in Ward 6 hasn’t coalesced around any major local issues, but there’s a feeling among some residents that this ward tucked away into the city’s southwest corner is something of a forgotten community that’s not getting the investment it deserves. Hence the large slate, 12 candidates in all, which includes long-time incumbent Grimes. His proximity to Etobicoke’s unruly ruling family, the Fords, has earned him the nickname “Midnight Mayor.” But in 2010, Rob Ford actually endorsed Wendell Brereton, an ordained pastor known for his anti-gay views, before the latter dropped out of the race. Grimes won easily in a field that included no serious challengers.

This time former Toronto Police Services spokesperson Vella, has thrown his hat in, vowing to be “inclusive and accessible.”

Turnout in 2010 50 per cent of 42,118 eligible voters.

Contenders Giorgio Mammoliti, Nick Di Nizio.

Hot buttons Police probe of incumbent Mammoliti’s $80K fundraiser.

Mammoliti’s running for his political life.

Besides the cop probe of that fundraiser, there’s an audit of his campaign expenses wending its way through the courts. Truth is, the mayor’s right-hand thumb has been doing the bidding of vested interests at City Hall for longer than anyone cares to remember while York West slides further down the livability index. Two Forum polls, one in July and the most recent in September, show Mammo in a neck-and-neck race with Di Nizio. Keegan Henry-Mathieu and Larry Perlman are also running.

Turnout in 2010 45 per cent of 27,869 eligible voters.

WARD 8 YORK WEST

Contenders Anthony Perruzza, Suzanne Narain.

Hot buttons Transit, poverty, unemployment.

Two-term incumbent Perruzza has made some queer political moves in his time. When no one would touch a scandalized Rob Ford with a 10-foot pole, Perruzza happily accepted a seat on the mayor’s executive. Noteworthy among Perruzza’s challengers this time is school teacher Narain, a member of Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty.

Arthur Smitherman – that would be former mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s estranged brother – is also on the ballot. He endorsed Rob Ford in 2010 and is endorsing brother Doug this time around.

Turnout in 2010 45 per cent of 25,883 eligible voters.

WARD 5

ETOBICOKE-LAKESHORE Contenders Justin Di Ciano, Tony D’Aversa, Kinga Surma.

Hot buttons Queensway revitalization and redevelopment of Six Points Plaza and the Westwood Theatre lands As in Ward 3, the departure of an incumbent (Peter Milczyn) for Queen’s Park has opened this race up. The man in pole position is Di Ciano, who lost to Milczyn by only 109 votes in 2010 on the strength of endorsements from Rob Ford and Jean Augustine. He’s got neighbouring councillor Mark Grimes’s backing as well. Eight others are on the ballot, among them Milczyn’s former assistant Surma.

Turnout in 2010 56 per cent of 44,370 eligible voters.

Maria Augimeri

WARD 9 YORK CENTRE

Andray Domise / Ward 2

Contenders Maria Augimeri, Gus Cusimano.

Hot buttons Transit, Downsview Park development, Toronto Community Housing; one-third of all families here are headed by a single parent.

It’s a rematch between incumbent Augimeri and Ford lackey Cusimano, who came this close last time.

Cusimano challenged the results in court but lost, and bad blood lingers from that. More recently, council voted to pay Cusimano’s legal costs after Augimeri called him a “criminal.”

Turnout in 2010 48 per cent of 26,740 eligible voters.

WARD 10 YORK CENTRE

Contenders James Pasternak, Igor Toutchinski.

Hot buttons Transit.

First-term incumbent Pasternak is a mixed bag. He leans conservative politically but seems to have an appreciation for the priority neighbourhoods in this otherwise well-to-do riding. Made an ass of himself on Pride funding, which he opposed over the involvement of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in a clear nod to conservative Jewish voters in his riding. He’s up against HarperCon and Ford disciple Toutchinski, who fell 1,300 votes short in 2010 and is hanging his hopes this time on $50K spent on a park in the area that he calls a “monument to incompetence.” David Epstein and Randy Bucao round out the ballot.

Turnout in 2010 47 per cent of 36,701 eligible voters.

WARD 11 YORK SOUTH-WESTON Contenders Frances Nunziata, Jose Garcia, Dory Chalhoub.

Hot buttons One of the poorest wards in the province.

Council speaker Nunziata has been an institution in these parts since she was the pre-amalgamation mayor of York.

Under Ford, most of her focus has been on defending the mayor’s various fuckups and failing to cut the police budget.

The riding should be ripe for the picking for a progressive. Federally it’s held by the NDP and provincially by the Libs, but the NDP doesn’t seem inclined to offer up a candidate who can mount a serious challenge. Garcia is only noteworthy among her challengers for the wrong reasons: he’s even more rightwing than Nunziata.

Turnout in 2010 46 per cent of 36,143 eligible voters.

WARD 12 YORK SOUTH-WESTON Contenders Frank Di Giorgio, John Nunziata, Nick Dominelli, Lekan Olawoye.

Hot buttons Youth unemployment, transit, crime (mostly for those interested in whipping up moral panic).

If there were ever an argument for term limits, incumbent Di Giorgio is it.

But just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, here comes Nunziata – yes, the former Liberal MP and brother of current council speaker Frances, spoiling to make a political comeback.

Nunziata hasn’t been in politics since that ill-advised dalliance with Reform/ Canadian Alliance and failed mayoral run in 2003. Remember that? And is staking his fortunes this time on Fordian gravy train rhetoric. Olawoye, a not-forprofit exec and former adviser to the province on youth services, has upped the ante by speaking out on youth employment and won impressive endorsements from St. Paul’s councillor Joe Mihevc and provincial Liberal cabinet minister Michael Coteau. Dominelli, who lost by a little more than 400 votes to Di Giorgio in 2010, seems the odd man out.

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WARD 13 PARKDALE-HIGH PARK Contenders Sarah Doucette, Nick Pavlov, Thomas Dempsey, Rishi Sharma and eight others.

Hot buttons Development, condofication around High Park, transit.

Life’s pretty good in this west downtown ward. Average household incomes of $105,852 are 20 per cent higher than in the rest of Toronto, unemployment is low, and the park’s ample green space provides a welcome respite from urban life. In fact, things are so nice that residents don’t want anything to change, which is why a main election issue is anger over new mid- and high-rise developments (particularly those bordering High Park). While many residents blame the Ontario Municipal Board for the community’s inability to block condo construction, others focus their ire on rookie incumbent Doucette. Among those looking to knock her off are Pavlov, who finished a distant third in 2010, and development-busting High Park Coalition founder Sharma.

Turnout in 2010 59 per cent of 37,992 eligible voters.

WARD 14 PARKDALE-HIGH PARK

Contenders Gord Perks, Charmain Emerson, Tim Kirby, Gus Koutoumanos.

Hot buttons Reconstruction of Roncesvalles and restrictions on new restaurants along Queen.

When lifelong environmental activist Perks first ran here in 2006 as mayor David Miller’s handpicked candidate, he was seen to be stomping on turf already staked out by Rowena Santos, a progressive woman of colour. Perks defeated her by fewer than a thousand votes and in his first term on council largely filled the function of Miller’s fixer, or less charitably, his henchman.

But under Rob Ford’s mayoralty, Perks has emerged as both the conscience and the brains of council’s left. Behind the scenes, he organized the opposition to Ford’s proposed cuts and nutty transit fantasies. And on the council floor, he delivered consistently rousing speeches. Those running against him include Emerson, the vice-president of marketing for clothing chain French Connection Canada, whose website emphasizes her non-partisan-ness; Kirby, who will be canvassing the ward to determine his platform; Koutoumanos, a mortgage broker and owner of Shoxs in the Junction; and proud perennial candidate Jimmy Talpa.

Turnout in 2010 51 per cent of 34,495 eligible voters.

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WARD 15 EGLINTON-LAWRENCE Contenders Josh Colle, Chani AryehBain, Eduardo Harari, Ahmed Belkadi.

Hot buttons Transit, Lawrence Heights redevelopment.

Of all the rookie councillors, Colle has shown himself among the most adept at navigating the politics at City Hall.

He’s obviously learned a few things from the old man, Mike, who served as a York and Metro councillor back in the day and is the area’s sitting Liberal MPP. The younger Colle sidled up to the Ford admin early on but actually ended up voting the with mayor less than half the time. He can be infuriating. The depth of his recent opposition to a homeless shelter in his ward caught a few by surprise. But Colle’s not all bad, distinguishing himself as part of the city’s trade mission to forge a music alliance with Austin. Among his opponents, AryehBain, former owner of a uniform supply business, is mounting the slickest challenge. Belkadi has some sign presence in the ward.

Turnout in 2010 46 per cent of 37,646 eligible voters.

WARD 16 EGLINTON-LAWRENCE

Contenders Jean-Pierre Boutros, Terry Mills, Michael Coll, Elana Metter.

Hot buttons Condo intensification, transit, traffic gridlock.

It’s a free-for-all to replace the outgoing Karen Stintz, with 16 candidates registered to run. Stintz’s former adviser Boutros, who’s publicly broken with the former TTC on the Scarborough subway, seemed to have the early inside track. He’s boasting the fact he has no developers or lobbyists backing his campaign. But Metter, who worked on Stintz’s unsuccessful mayoralty campaign, may end up getting Stintz’s endorsement. Mills, who finished a distant second to Stintz in 2010, has the backing of former area city councillor Michael Walker.

Turnout in 2010 55 per cent of 36,032 eligible voters.

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WARD 17 DAVENPORT

Contenders Cesar Palacio, Alejandra Bravo, Saeed Selvam.

Hot buttons Social services cuts, methadone clinic at Dufferin and St. Clair.

When incumbent Palacio was first elected in 2003, he beat the NDPbacked Bravo by 791 votes. When they returned for a rematch in 2006, Palacio’s margin of victory narrowed to 281 votes. Bravo is now back for a third try, this time with high-powered endorsements from Lib MP Adam Vaughan, NDP MP Andrew Cash and city councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, among others. Palacio is supposed to be a Liberal but has been an unabashed shill for Ford, grabbing headlines for his crusade against the Toronto Public Library’s magazine and DVD collections, and for fighting a methadone clinic in the ward. More recently, he’s served a libel notice on Bravo for allegedly misrepresenting his vote on library cuts. Also in the race is Selvam, co-founder and director of the SPARK Initiative to empower “women, youth and newcomers in vulnerable regions” of Toronto.

Turnout in 2010 45 per cent of 32,741 eligible voters.

WARD 19 TRINITY-SPADINA

Contenders Mike Layton.

Hot buttons Development along Bathurst, the future of the Honest Ed’s site, Liberty Village’s nightmare transit situation.

As the NDP-backed scion of a popular dynasty, Layton handily won in 2010 with 45.4 per cent of the vote against grassroots lefty Karen Sun and rightleaning sports broadcaster Sean McCormick. Then Layton impressed everyone by actually being a really good councillor, tag-teaming with Adam Vaughan to beat back a downtown casino, Island airport expansion and a Walmart on Bathurst. His efforts include securing funding for the Liberty Village pedestrian and cycling bridge early in the term when the Ford administration was on its cost-cutting binge. Even the Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy, a generally disagreeable person with a hostility toward all things left-wing, praised Layton in her last annual city council report card. Layton faces no serious challengers this time. There’s Albina Burello, a media research analyst who believes that building any transit in Scarborough (LRT and subway) is a waste of money that should be put into downtown transit instead; former Liberal staffer Scott Bowman, whose platform consists of a vague list of priorities like “bring leadership back to Ward 19”; and prolific online troller George Sawision.

Turnout in 2010 50 per cent of 42,519 eligible voters.

Ana Bailão

WARD 18 DAVENPORT Contenders Ana Bailão, Alex Mazer.

Hot buttons Transit, child care, affordable housing.

Incumbent Bailão distinguished herself on council this term as an advocate for affordable housing but otherwise stuck mostly to the centre. A rocky period propping up the Ford regime early on culminated with her pleading guilty to drunk driving in early 2013 — and it soon emerged that she’d been out drinking with casino lobbyists at the Thompson Hotel.

Bailão lists efforts to expand the Railpath and improvements to the fair wage policy as accomplishments this term. Running against her are 11 other candidates, among them Harvardeducated lawyer Mazer, a founder of Better Budget TO (and a former policy director for Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan) who is positioning himself as the ward’s “progressive candidate,” touting his support of light rail and participatory budgeting. Also running are Jim McMillan, aka Singin’ Jimmy, the former Rob Ford devotee; and Paul Alves, who’s pushing rush hour express buses when he’s not promoting his Book Guys show on iTunes.

Turnout in 2010 49 per cent of 30,470 eligible voters.

Joe Cressy

WARD 20 TRINITY-SPADINA

Contenders Joe Cressy, Sarah Thomson, Anshul Kapoor, Albert Koehl, Mike Yen and 17 others.

Hot buttons Island airport expansion, development.

Adam Vaughan was elected to the House of Commons in a June by-election leaving Ward 20 the most hotly contested open race in the city. It’s a dense, diverse ward, with several distinctive neighbourhoods, each with its own set of challenges. The common theme, however, is the intense pressure of development and how to manage it while preserving an area’s character.

Cressy is the guy to beat, having earned significant name recognition from the federal by-election in which he was bested by Vaughan. Mike Layton’s BFF and a professional NDPer, Cressy has endorsements from luminaries of the broad left and centre-ish political establishment. Kapoor, the NoJetsTO founder who’s leading the group’s campaign against Island airport expansion, has Ange Valentini, Vaughan’s long-time executive assistant and now chief of staff, on his election planning committee. Other notable candidates include: Thomson, who hurt her profile with a

second, clownish run for mayor before dropping out to run in this ward, where she did very well as a candiate in the 2011 provincial election; Terri Chu, an engineer and founder of political-engagement initiative Why Should I Care?; Graham Hollings, the co-chair of the Bellevue Square Park Residents Association, who helped lead the fight against Walmart; Koehl, a high-profile environmental lawyer and cycling activist; and conservative standard-bearer Yen, who finished a distant second to Vaughan in 2010 and whose campaign is being chaired by former Harper communications director Dimitri Soudas.

Turnout in 2010 48 per cent of 50,172 eligible voters.

WARD 21 ST. PAUL’S

Contenders Joe Mihevc, Cos Lucursi, Ted Bustamante.

Hot buttons Transit, traffic gridlock.

Incumbent Mihevc is an NDPer and progressive with a PhD in theology and social ethics and a demeanour that could be described as “rabbinic.”

This largely well-off chunk of midtown – which includes Wychwood, a key stretch of St. Clair West, and the west half of Forest Hill – has been represented by Mihevc for 23 years, going back to the old City of York. And Mihevc ain’t going anywhere. He got 56.2 per cent of the vote in 2010 and 56.7 per cent in 2006, elections during which a not insignificant portion of residents were annoyed by the development of the St. Clair streetcar right-of-way. Now that it’s finished and is pretty well accepted, there really aren’t any wedge issues for his opponents to exploit. And everyone loves the Wychwood Barns, another of his pet projects. His only opponents are Licursi, a Ford fan and occasional commenter on the infamous “I Hate The War On Mayor Rob Ford” Facebook page, and Bustamante, who’s promising improved planning and transit and supporting John Tory for mayor.

Turnout in 2010 56 per cent 32,861 eligible voters.

WARD 22 ST. PAUL’S

Contenders Josh Matlow, Sarfraz Khan, James O’Shaughnessy, Bob Murphy.

Hot buttons Development and transit.

Incumbent Matlow began his first term on council with an obnoxious determination to straddle both sides of every issue, under the assumption that the correct answer to each question must always be exactly in the middle.

He had a weekly Toronto Star column and a Sunday afternoon talk show on Newstalk 1010. But after his Star column wrapped up and Newstalk canned him in favour of the Fords, he appeared to spend more time working on council business and less promoting himself. He became a fierce critic of the Fords, a deft champion of lightrail transit and an articulate advocate for principled (if occasionally wrongheaded) positions. He was on track to being acclaimed this time, until three others tossed their hats in just before the deadline.

Turnout in 2010 55 per cent of 44,620 eligible voters.

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WARD 23 WILLOWDALE Contenders Er… Hot buttons Development, traffic gridlock, childcare.

The richy-rich ward straddling north Yonge has been John Filion’s since the pre-amalgamation days. Filion was one of those in the mushy middle who played along to get along until the Ford crack scandal broke but ended up authoring the motion asking council to strip the mayor of his powers. He’s writing a book about the Ford years. (Who isn’t?) Filion’s supporting John Tory for mayor. Of the five other candidates on the ballot here, only newcomer Kun-Won Park seems to be taking the race seriously enough to establish an online presence.

Turnout in 2010 44 per cent of 51,341 eligible voters.

WARD 24 WILLOWDALE Contenders David Shiner, Dan Fox, Randy Ai, Michael Galea.

Hot buttons Integrity issues.

Twenty-three-year incumbent Shiner didn’t file to run until the last minute, and then cited “overwhelming” support from constituents as his reason. But he arguably got bored with municipal politics long ago, around the time of that failed run for the provincial PCs in 2007.

His claim to fame this term: headlines he attracted with Mammoliti over the sweetheart deal he copped for rent on a midtown apartment thanks to his developer friends. Local political activist Fox, who’s been campaigning since March, has the backing of the Labour Council and former Liberal MP and MPP Gerard Kennedy’s endorsement.

Turnout in 2010 47 per cent of 41,051 eligible voters.

WARD 26 DON VALLEY WEST

Contenders John Parker, Jon Burnside.

Hot buttons Development, transit, traffic.

Deputy speaker Parker has cast himself in the role of eccentric uncle for most of the council term, voting against the motion to relieve the mayor of his powers amid the crack video scandal. He argued it was a matter best left to the integrity commissioner. Cycling advocates will remember Parker for his procedural dipsy-doodling at committee that set in motion removal of the Jarvis lanes. But he often broke with the administration, like when Karen Stintz orchestrated her Transit City coup. Parker also opposed plans for a downtown casino.

Burnside, a former cop and business owner whom Parker beat by little more than 400 votes in 2010, is back for a rematch. He’s pledging monthly town halls, a “holistic” approach to transit that involves both subways and LRT, and more city funding for recreational facilities in priority neighbourhoods.

Ishrath Velshi, Dimitre Popov and ACTRA president David Sparrow are also on the ballot.

Turnout in 2010 59 per cent of 34,761 eligible voters.

Kristyn Wong-Tam

WARD 27

Jaye Robinson

WARD 25 DON VALLEY WEST

Contenders Jaye Robinson and four others.

Hot buttons Traffic gridlock, development.

Robinson started out as one of the few women in the mayor’s inner circle, sitting on the executive and budget committees. She was a strong supporter of Ford’s fiscal agenda who slowly fell out with the mayor: first, over brother Doug’s hostile attempted takeover of Waterfront Toronto’s port lands redevelopment, which angered more than a few high-powered developers in the city; and later over Ford’s crack escapades. People took notice when Robinson said the mayor should resign, not just because of her insider status, but because she represents the most affluent ward, which voted in a big way for Ford in 2010. She’s supporting John Tory for mayor. Among her opponents are Nikola Streker, who’s pushing term limits for councillors.Turnout in 2010 54 per cent of 39,822 eligible voters.

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TORONTO CENTRE-ROSEDALE Contenders Kristyn Wong-Tam and nine others.

Hot buttons Development, the future of the Church-Wellesley Village.

The first openly gay woman on council, incumbent Wong-Tam quickly established a reputation for wisdom and diplomacy. Even under a mayor who legitimately believes there is such thing as a “war on the car,” she successfully implemented various pedestrian festivals and projects on Church, Yonge and Bloor. A businesswoman and art gallery owner with deeply progressive politics, she’s criticized for being too friendly with developers and engaging in inadequate community consultation. Among the mostly ragtag group of nine candidates running against her are Megan McIver, an accomplished Liberal who takes credit for stick-handling the legislation to designate the TTC an essential service; Robin Lawrance, who ran for mayor of Ottawa in 2010 and told the Public Transit In Ottawa website that the construction of underground transit would put the city at risk for earthquakes; and Jordan Stone, who blanketed the ward with posters well ahead of the legal date for doing so.

Turnout in 2010 56 per cent of 51,132 eligible voters.

of city council and a huge advocate for child care, Davis was part of the core group forging organized opposition to Mayor Ford’s policies. Other candidates include Russell Rahman, whose website prominently features a photo of himself with Premier Kathleen Wynne; George Papadakis, the president of the Thessalonikean Society of Toronto; Brenda MacDonald, a singer who’s running (with the help of former Ford staffer Tom Beyer) “because of concerns for traffic, inappropriate development and inconsistent service”; Mark Turnbull, who jumped in the race after Davis failed to assist him with a parking issue; and Bob Smith, one of a handful of candidates running for the neo-Nazi Nationalist Party of Canada.

Turnout in 2010 54 per cent of 33,931 eligible voters.

Paula Fletcher / Ward 30

WARD 28

TORONTO CENTRE-ROSEDALE Contenders Pam McConnell and 13 others.

Hot buttons Housing, transit, Regent Park redevelopment, policing, Island airport expansion.

With 14 candidates, Ward 28 has more people in the race than all but one other ward in which the incumbent is running for re-election, though it’s not immediately apparent why. Incumbent McConnell hasn’t been an especially offensive councillor. McConnell has served on pre- and post-amalgamation city councils since 1994 – including as chair and vice-chair of the Police Services Board under David Miller. The gradual development of the East Bayfront and West Don Lands have taken place under her watch, as has the redevelopment of Regent Park. Among her opponents are Blackmore, a director with the Cabbagetown BIA opposed to Island airport expansion and supporting John Tory for mayor; and Christopher Brosky, a former skinhead convicted in the 1991 killing of a black man in Forth Worth, Texas, who still wears a swastika necklace.

Turnout in 2010 53 per cent of 39,594 eligible voters.

WARD 29 TORONTO-DANFORTH Contenders Mary Fragedakis, Dave Andre, John Papadakis and three others.

Hot buttons Services for seniors.

Long-time conservative councillor Case Ootes stepped down in 2010, and Fragedakis slipped in when two highprofile right-leaning candidates (including former Ward 26 councillor Jane Pitfield) split the vote. This time, Ootes is endorsing civil engineer Andre, who wants to create a link between the Main Street subway station and the Danforth GO station. Also running is Papadakis, a one-term councillor in the old borough of East York, who may or may not work as a paralegal; the Law Society’s directory lists his status as “suspended administratively.” As for Fragedakis, a reliable

member of council’s left-wing voting bloc, her greatest accomplishment so far is something for which she can’t officially take credit: as the lone nonFord-allied member of the Civic Appointments Committee in its early days, she blew the whistle on the Ford administration’s highly questionable hijacking of the appointments process.

Turnout in 2010 58 per cent of 31,525 eligible votes.

WARD 30 TORONTO-DANFORTH Contenders Paula Fletcher, Liz West, Jane Farrow.

Hot buttons Transit, parks and recreation, affordable housing.

In 2010, Fletcher edged right-leaning broadcaster West by just 259 votes.

Fletcher and West are headed for a rematch, but this time high-profile activist Farrow is also in the mix. Farrow will likely split the vote, though it’s not necessarily clear in which direction. The beloved queer activist and founder of Jane’s Walk (which is named after Jane Jacobs, not herself) served as Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon’s executive assistant for a time. She could conceivably divide the left, handing West a victory, or divide the anti-Fletcher vote, handing Fletcher a victory.

Fletcher has nevertheless compiled an impressive list of endorsers, including former conservative mayor David Crombie. West, meanwhile, is best known these days as the ostensibly left-wing half of the liberal-vs.-conservative debating duo on CHCH’s Square Off. Also running are Daniel Trayes, Francis Russell and Mark Borden.

Turnout in 2010 56 per cent of 36,298 eligible voters.

WARD 31 BEACHES-EAST YORK Contenders Janet Davis and eight others.

Hot buttons Transit.

Incumbent Davis’s long-time friend, NDP MPP Michael Prue, was defeated by lobbyist Arthur Potts in the June provincial election, but there’s no reason to believe a similar upset might happen in the municipal race. One of the most staunchly left-wing members

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WARD 32 BEACHES-EAST YORK

Contenders Mary-Margaret McMahon, Sandra Bussin.

Hot buttons Development.

It looked like incumbent McMahon would breeze to re-election. But in early September, Bussin, the woman she trounced with 65 per cent of the vote in 2010, suddenly registered for a rematch, blaming McMahon’s inexperience for “the unabated and unreasonable development throughout the ward.” Bussin, a solid NDPer and David Miller ally who was a deputy mayor in his first term and council speaker in his second, had become embroiled in an unusual number of minor scandals that garnered city-wide attention – chief among them, helping the Beaches Boardwalk Café, whose owners had previously been campaign donors, obtain a very favourable lease renewal from the city. One by one, Bussin’s opponents dropped out and threw their support behind McMahon, previously best known as the person behind the East Lynn Farmers’ Market, where – according to Star columnist and neighbour Catherine Porter – you’ll recognize her as “the one dressed in the pea or carrot costume.” At City Hall, McMahon was initially perceived as a lightweight more interested in baking treats for her colleagues than in getting difficult work done. But she gradually found her voice. Her platform includes pushing for a downtown relief line.

Turnout in 2010 58 per cent of 41,001 eligible voters.

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John Tory has SmartTrack, Olivia Chow is on the buses and Doug Ford’s in subway fantasy land, but how do they rate on the other thorny issues? Here’s a decoder. By Ben Spurr

Olivia Chow

John Tory

Doug Ford

The only leading candidate calling for a ban on the police practice of carding. Is pledging to sit on the Police Services Board as mayor to renegotiate the controversial shift schedule that sees cops paid 28 hours for every 24 hours of work.

Suggests a robustly funded police department is the most important factor in community safety, which isn’t supported by evidence.

Likens reforming the police budget to buying batteries in bulk from Costco, but as usual Ford’s numbers don’t add up. His full-throated support for “frontline officers” is a signal he wants to maintain the unsustainable status quo on police salaries.

Promises to create 15,000 new privately owned, affordable rental homes. Has suggested creating a separate agency for seniors housing, a possible first step in breaking up the Toronto Community Housing, which many housing advocates believe is too large to address the day-to-day needs of tenants.

Would convene a task force to restructure TCH. Proposes to create more affordable housing through tax incentives and Section 37 money, but has no hard targets. His plan to spend $864 million on repairs merely duplicates what the city is already doing.

Has a track record of voting against affordable housing projects; famously doled out $20 bills to residents of an Etobicoke housing project in a display of populism that would have made Pablo Escobar proud.

Taking a page from New York City mayor Bill de Blasio’s book, Chow is advocating a “Target Zero” approach to pedestrian safety by allowing communities to reduce speed limits and reconfiguring the 100 most dangerous intersections. Chow’s $4 million bike plan, however, budgets only $20,000 per kilometre of bike lane, but painted lanes cost at least $25,000 per kilometre, while separated lanes can cost up to $1 million.

Supports building separated bike lanes in “sensible locations” and proposes more bike parking at TTC stations.

He’s also promising to personally chair a construction coordination committee to plan all major road projects; much-mocked water taxi scheme from the early days of the campaign remains part of his platform.

Would also continue building separated bike lanes downtown, but ridiculed calls to lower speed limits and temporarily close off roads to cars in residential areas.

Has dismissed the Eglinton Connects plan as a “war on the car” that could negatively affect the auto industry.

Governance

A strong advocate for ranked ballots. Also backs extending voting rights to permanent residents. Wants to give integrity commissioner more power and ask the province to enact harsher financial penalties for councillors who break the Code of Conduct.

Released a 10-point code of conduct shortly after entering the race, but hasn’t done enough to assuage concerns his various business interests could put him in many conflicts of interest situations. He’s promised to consult the integrity commissioner and (maybe) would put his stock holdings in a blind trust. Opposes ranked ballots.

Supports an eight-year term limit for council members.

Would cut council in half, from 44 to 22 members. Voted against ranked ballots. Opposes giving permanent residents the right to vote in city elections.

Arts & Cultures

Supports arts funding target of $25 per capita and indexing billboard tax to rate of inflation. Pledges to follow through on creation of a city music office and wants to create a public art foundation.

Also supports $25 per capita target and music office.

Says he would look into expanding the billboard tax or a new, similar source of arts funding. Wants to explore ways to convert abandoned and city-owned properties into affordable arts venues.

Has boasted that no mayor has put more money into the arts than his brother, but the increase in per capita funding was driven almost entirely by a grassroots campaign to fund arts through a billboard tax.

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WARD 33 DON VALLEY EAST

Contenders Shelley Carroll, Paul Bell.

Hot buttons Sheppard LRT, social housing.

Incumbent Carroll is as good as it gets.

It wasn’t that long ago when her name was being mentioned as a possible mayoral contender. Oh, what could have been! There’s no one who understands transit issues or the nuances of the city budget better. In terms of the subway-LRT divide, Carroll’s for LRT while her four opponents are for subways, but there’s no whiff that the issue may mean a Sandra Bussin-like upset in the making for Carroll. The most visible among her contenders is Bell, a lapsed Progressive Conservative whose platform includes phasing out the land transfer tax and “re-imaging” Toronto Community Housing.

Turnout in 2010 46 per cent of 31,975 eligible voters.

es along the shore of Lake Ontario is relatively well off and also less ethnically diverse than other parts of Scarborough. It’s been represented for the past four years by rookie councillor Crawford, a friendly-faced conservative who served on Ford’s executive committee and, in between painting a portrait of the mayor for Ford’s mother, worked to boost arts funding. Crawford’s seat may not be secure. He took only 25 per cent of the vote in 2010, and two of the candidates who ran last time are having another go, including second-place finisher Spencer, a progressive former Toronto District School Board trustee. Mohebzada, a young Afghan immigrant who opposes the Scarborough subway extension, is a first-time candidate.

Turnout in 2010 54 per cent of 34,570 eligible voters.

WARD 34 DON VALLEY EAST

SCARBOROUGH SOUTHWEST Contenders Michelle Berardinetti, Paul Bocking and seven others.

Hot buttons Ward 35’s average household income is the second-lowest in the city.

Berardinetti won in 2010 on a Fordfriendly agenda, which translated into a seat on the budget committee. She eventually broke with the mayor on his nickel-and-diming over budget cuts. But Berardinetti never did live up to her early promise. Her highest-profile accomplishments: a 2010 campaign promise to remove bike lanes on Pharmacy and Birchmount and relocating the Toronto Zoo’s elephants to California. She’s also taking credit in her campaign literature for delivering a new fire station, expanding library hours and keeping Warden Hilltop Community Centre in public hands.

Residents could find a champion in Bocking, a high school teacher and PhD candidate who wants to freeze TTC fares, improve bus service and bring businesses back into the area’s vacant industrial lands.

Turnout in 2010 50 per cent of 34,594 eligible voters.

WARD 36

SCARBOROUGH SOUTHWEST Contenders Gary Crawford, Rob Spencer, Masihullah Mohebzada.

Hot buttons Sheppard subway.

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WARD 37

SCARBOROUGH CENTRE Contender Michael Thompson and two others.

Hot buttons Transit, seniors issues, recreational space.

Incumbent Thompson, whose name has been whispered as a possible mayoral candidate in the past, won in a cakewalk with 83 per cent of the vote in 2010. A high-profile councillor, Thompson served as vice-chair of the Police Services Board and chair of the Economic Development Committee.

But he’s among right-wingers on council who think the conservative cause has been hurt by the Ford sideshow.

Thompson backs the Scarborough subway. Two others are on the ballot here: Niranjan Balachandran, who’s promising to increase free rec services, and Luigi Lisciandro.

Turnout in 2010 49 per cent of 38,839 eligible voters.

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SCARBOROUGH CENTRE Contenders Glenn De Baeremaeker, Theodore Rueckert, Kevin Winson, Theo Kalafatis.

Hot buttons Scarborough subway.

This ward is among the poorest in the city, and since 2003 has been represented by the left-leaning De Baeremaeker, who has raised his profile this term by joining with Karen Stintz in leading the charge for council’s approval of the Scarborough subway extension. His challengers offer a mixed bag. Car-friendly local businessman Rueckert wants to widen residents’ driveways and eliminate bike lanes.

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Contenders Denzil Minnan-Wong, Mary Hynes.

Hot buttons Transit, affordable housing, seniors issues.

As Ford’s public works and infrastructure chair, Minnan-Wong is the public face of one of the mayor’s most notable achievements – privatized garbage pickup west of Yonge. True to form, he lists keeping taxes down and investments in infrastructure (i.e., the millions wasted on the Gardiner) as key accomplishments. Also takes credit for “exposing wasteful spending practices at Waterfront Toronto.” Yes, Minnan-Wong is a bit of a legend in his own mind.

Hynes, a retired special ed teacher, is pushing for complete streets, more childcare and affordable housing.

Turnout in 2010 51 per cent of 33,122 eligible voters.

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Turnout in 2010 49 per cent of 38,086 eligible voters.

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SCARBOROUGH-AGINCOURT Contenders Jim Karygiannis, Patricia Sinclair, Christopher Blueman.

Hot buttons Sheppard transit plans, the fate of Scarborough Grace Hospital and the council-approved but locally unpopular plan to build a TTC bus garage at McNicoll and Kennedy.

After a 26-year reign, former Liberal MP Karygiannis resigned his federal seat in Scarborough-Agincourt in April to run for this council seat vacated by ultra-conservative Mike Del Grande.

Karygiannis comes into the race with a ton of name recognition and some baggage, including questions about his numerous trips abroad as MP and propensity to ruffle feathers. An altercation with candidate Blueman while the latter was out door-knocking made the local paper. Challenger Sinclair, who ran unsuccessfully in neighbouring Ward 41 in 2010, is an organizer for Save Our Sheppard. She’s supporting Doug Ford for mayor. Cozette Giannini, a VP of the local parent-teacher association, and Derek Li, a backer of John Tory’s SmartTrack, are among the other challengers.

Turnout in 2010 45 per cent of 34,031 eligible voters.

WARD 40

SCARBOROUGH-AGINCOURT Contenders Cue Twilight Zone music.

Hot buttons Bridlewood Mall redevelopment.

The ward continues to face many challenges (its average household income is 24 per cent lower than the city average) and arguably could use an injection of new energy, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone capable of providing it. Incumbent Norm Kelly is the most prominent deputy mayor in the city’s history thanks to council’s decision to hand him almost all of the mayor’s powers in the wake of Ford’s drugs

and gang scandal, and his steady hand on the tiller has only enhanced his reputation. Anthony Internicola, a regular at Ford Fest judging by the photos on his website, says he’s running “for the democratic way… for the working people.” Former Ontario Green Party candidate Josh Borenstein is pitching voter recall, abolishing the land transfer tax and removing fluoride from Toronto’s water supply.

Turnout in 2010 49 per cent of 35,928 eligible voters.

WARD 41

SCARBOROUGH-ROUGE RIVER Contenders Chin Lee, Cynthia Lai, Sivavathani Prabaharan, Sandeep Srivastava.

Hot buttons Transit, Scarborough subway.

Politically there isn’t much separating Ward 41 rivals. On the biggest issue, the Scarborough subway extension, they’re all on the same page – they like it! Councillor Lee has won the last two elections in this ward, where half the population are native Chinese speakers. Lee, who identifies as a Liberal and supported Ford challenger George Smitherman for mayor in 2010, won a highly coveted appointment to the Police Services Board during the most recent term of council but lost that over his support for Bill Blair as chief. He’s running again on a low-taxes, law-andorder platform while pushing improved GO rail service. Among the candidates standing between him and re-election are Lai, former president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, and Srivastava, chief tech at a call centre company who earlier in the campaign was accused by other candidates of plagiarizing his website.

Turnout in 2010 44 per cent of 42,877 eligible voters

WARD 42

SCARBOROUGH-ROUGE RIVER Contenders Raymond Cho, Neethan Shan.

Hot buttons The incumbent’s politics of convenience.

This sprawling ward in Toronto’s northeast corner is home to more than

78,000 residents – 64 per cent of whom were born outside the country. It’s a pity that such a dynamic area is represented

by Cho. The septuagenarian has been a councillor since 1991, and if he has any accomplishments, they’ve long been forgotten. Although broadly left-leaning, last year he had the temerity to run for the Ontario PCs in the provincial election while still sitting as councillor. Also noteworthy: his flip-flop on the LRT versus subway debate. He now supports the latter after backing the former.

Among the dozen or so candidates vying to wrest the ward from his ossifying grasp are Shan, former Ontario NDP candidate in Scarborough-Rouge River; Ken Jeffers, who has pledged more social space for seniors; and Somu Mondal, a Ford supporter.

Turnout in 2010 48 per cent of 44,136 eligible voters.

WARD 43 SCARBOROUGH EAST

Contenders Paul Ainslie and four others.

Hot buttons Transit.

The question looming over this campaign was whether incumbent Ainslie’s decision to vote against the Scarborough subway extension at council last October would hurt his re-election chances. Mayor Ford attempted to punish him for that by robocalling the ward, and Ainslie later complained to the integrity commissioner, forcing Ford to apologize. Fortunately for Ainslie, who took 61 per cent of the vote in 2010, candidates aren’t exactly lining up to take advantage of his divisive transit vote. Of the four challengers registered, two don’t appear to be actively campaigning, and the other two (Jason Colterman, a pro-subway candidate whose platform includes protecting the urban forest, and Alonzo Bartley, who wants to diversify job opportunities in the ward) have no substantial political experience.

Turnout in 2010 49 per cent of 33,162 eligible voters.

WARD 44 SCARBOROUGH EAST Contenders Question here is who’s not running?

Hot buttons Transit, long-time incumbent Ron Moeser’s council attendance record.

Incumbent Moeser has been a councillor for 22 of the past 26 years and looks ripe for replacement. He only took the 2010 election by 284 votes over Diana Hall, a conservative who’s running again. And he’s done little to improve his chances by being absent for large chunks of this council term with health problems. He did emerge for a short time during the first LRT versus subway debate to support LRT. Perhaps sensing his vulnerability, 14 candidates have signed up to challenge him. Besides Hall, there’s former City Idol candidate Amarjeet Chhabra, who wants to tackle the repair crisis at Toronto Community Housing and sees the Sheppard LRT as a major priority; Richard Ross, who’s promising to keep taxes low and end “out of control spending”; and Jennifer McKelvie, an environmental scientist whose concerns include the trucking of waste from the Highland Creek sewage treatment plant through local neighbourhoods.

Turnout in 2010 50 per cent of 43,819 eligible voters.

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5 questions answered Save for mayoral candidate Olivia Chow’s pledge to study a downtown relief line, her transit plans are light on ambition. No fancy new crosstown routes. No flashy, original heavy-rail propositions. Will it work? We check the achievability index.

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This part is tricky. Chow wants to pay for the unfunded elements of her transit plan with a mix of savings from cancelling the Scarborough subway and reverting to the original LRT plan, a land transfer tax surcharge and more money from the feds and the province.

Cancelling the Scarborough subway would free the city from having to reimburse Metrolinx approximately $85 million spent on the original LRT plan, as well as untold millions in cancellation fees owed to Bombardier for light-rail vehicles.

The city would also be able to redirect the $660 million federal grant from the subway project.

(Chow may be assuming too much there.)

Chow says her dedicated transit tax would also raise funds to pay for the city’s $1 billion share of the downtown relief line (a projected $3.2 billion project). Chow’s land transfer tax surcharge on houses valued at $2 million or more would generate about $20 million annually, $18 million of which she would dedicate to paying for environmental and engineering studies for the DRL. But those are expected to cost $200 million.

By Rob Salerno

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Chow is pledging to spend $15 million to improve rush hour bus service immediately. But the TTC doesn’t have enough buses to ease crowding.

Is it even possible to procure, store and maintain enough buses to deliver better rush hour service?

Expert opinion is split. Transit observer Steve Munro has a more or less convincing argument that her plan could be accomplished within a year or two.

Sixty per cent of transit trips involve buses – even more in the suburbs, where riders are far from any existing or planned rapid transit lines.

Those riders arguably need the most “relief” after years of cutbacks have left them waiting longer for overcrowded buses.

The TTC is currently using all available buses during the morning peak.

And any expansion of morning service would have to wait about a year for new buses to be ordered and delivered. A garage would also have to be built to accommodate the vehicles.

While the TTC says a new garage can’t be built until 2019, Chow says solving storage would be easy: she’d simply lease space in suburban lots in the meantime.

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What about the state-ofgood-repair and accessibility backlog at the TTC, which the organization estimates at over $3 billion?

Chow deserves some credit for being the only candidate to tackle this issue.

Among the necessary projects not currently funded: a new signal system; new trains for the Bloor-Danforth line; additional streetcars for downtown; a new bus garage and buses to handle system expansion; and accessibility upgrades, required by law, at 18 subway stations.

Chow says the city exacerbated the

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repair backlog by pursuing the Scarborough subway. She argues that the $1 billion financing plan crowds out other borrowing the city should’ve undertaken for basic maintenance but now can’t if it wants to stay under its self-imposed debt ceiling.

Chow’s now proposing replacing the Scarborough subway tax (1.6 per cent over 30 years) with a dedicated transit levy on residents’ property tax bill to cover state-of-good-repair costs, among other things.

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Would Chow’s downtown relief line plan, the one bigticket item in her transit platform, actually provide the necessary relief for a Yonge line already overcrowded in rush hour?

For years the TTC has insisted that its top priority is a downtown relief line to relieve crowding on the Yonge line south of Bloor – which will only

Where would the money come from?

worsen as ridership continues to grow with the introduction of new LRT lines feeding Yonge.

Though Chow’s plan syncs with current plans under study, such a line would bring little comfort to morning riders coming from York Mills to Rosedale stations who regularly have to watch four or five overcrowded trains pass before they can board.

Chow argues those riders would see relief from a new signalling system (set to launch in 2019) that will allow an increase of up to 30 per cent capacity on the Yonge line.

Chow also supports the province’s planned GO electrification and GO/ TTC fare integration, which would help get suburban riders off the subway system and onto GO trains, providing speedier trips and regional relief.

But Metrolinx says the Yonge subway may be approaching capacity south of Sheppard by 2031 even with these improvements.

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Would Chow simply accept whatever Metrolinx proposes for Toronto from its $15 billion GTA transit fund?

The Liberals recently announced a transit fund for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area valued at $15 billion over 10 years. Both Chow and Tory are only asking for crumbs for either of their schemes. And what of the other bits of the once-funded Transit City? Why isn’t Chow pushing Metrolinx to build the portions of the Finch to Yonge, Sheppard to UTSC, Eglinton to Pearson, and Scarborough to Malvern LRTs that Metrolinx cancelled in 2010?

Chow says she still supports the full Transit City plan, but that she’d rather leave the timing up to the experts because “why should a candidate say what’s already in the books isn’t enough?”

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By Jonathan Goldsbie Trustee candidate Sabrina Zuniga addressed the near-empty hall.

“Thank you, everybody, for coming out tonight. It’s really nice to see so many people. We had hoped for a packed crowd, but that’s okay.”

There were between 30 and 40 people in attendance for the Monday, October 6, debate among those vying for the Toronto District School Board’s Ward 10 (Trinity-Spadina) seat; the main level of the Central Toronto Academy auditorium holds 612.

And as this was expected to be an especially fiery showdown (it wasn’t), at least half the crowd consisted of supporters of the eight candidates who had come out to cheer for them.

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Candidate Michael Ford is the grandchild of the late MPP Doug Ford, the nephew of Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford Jr., and the son of Kathy Ford and ex-husband Ennio Stirpe, who’s currently serving an 18-year jail sentence for attempted murder.

He’s in his early 20s, with some sort of pilot’s licence and no known interest in education. He signed up in the last half hour that nominations were open, upon withdrawing his bid for Ward 2 councillor to make way for Uncle Rob. He’s declined every media request for an interview so far and didn’t even bother to record a prepared statement for Rogers TV (an opportunity extended to all trustee candidates). He is running on his name and

Progressive Conservative government of Mike Harris stripped boards of their taxation powers and reduced the role of elected trustee to a parttime job paying only an honorarium, the public has been discouraged from taking their authority seriously. In a number of respects, school boards have been set up to fail.

Still, the functions of trustees – setting education policy, assisting students and parents with issues and overseeing the management of a large-scale public institution – remain vital. A lot of people who seek the job really want to make a difference.

In this election, for various reasons, an unusual number of TDSB races have tiptoed toward the mainstream consciousness. Here are five that are uncharacteristically compelling:

pedigree alone.

In the other corner is incumbent John Hastings, who was a councillor in the old City of Etobicoke until jumping to provincial politics with the PC wave of 1995. He stayed in the legislature for two terms, declined to run again in 2003 and was elected as a trustee in 2006. These days, he’s mostly known for his funky glasses and being the seconder of trustee Sam Sotiropoulos’s inflammatory motion casting the Pride parade as inappropriate for TDSB participation.

Among the six other challengers sidelined by the focus on the Fordling is Dahir Galbete, a Somali Canadian with deeply progressive views on education: he dismisses the value of standardized tests and believes that an emphasis on core academics fails to develop students’ social, psychological and physical well-being. continued on page 28 œ

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Ward 10 (TrinitySpadina) In June, board chair and Ward 10 trustee Chris Bolton suddenly resigned, leaving the race wide open.

Ausma Malik, a former U of T student union exec who’s bounced around NDP circles and is currently on leave from the Stephen Lewis Foundation, has received endorsements from Councillor Mike Layton and council candidate Joe Cressy. As a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab and once criticized Israel’s 2006 air strikes on Lebanon, she has also received backlash from

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certain quarters that wouldn’t otherwise take notice of a school board election. “Chow endorses radical Muslim terrorist sympathizer for trustee” read the headline of a recent op-ed in the Jewish Tribune, the media arm of far-right B’nai Brith Canada.

Similar sentiments have been expressed by candidate Richard Klagsbrun, a former executive at Hollywood studio Participant Media, who runs the Eye On A Crazy Planet blog and considers the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty to be a group of extremist Marxists.

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remained in that role until her own ascent in 2006. She’s one of the few reliable progressives remaining on the board and boasts support from former mayor David Crombie.

Dandy’s biggest challenge, however, comes from the left: Jennifer Story is at the front of a new group of NDP-backed reformers looking to salvage a board that wades into scandal with remarkable frequency. Story’s resumé is a bingo card of left-wing bona fides: stints with the Canadian Federation of Students, Council of Canadians, Greenpeace and the offices of MP Jack Layton and Councillor Mike Layton. (Her husband is the Broadbent Institute’s Rick Smith.)

She created the Students First Pledge, onto which more than 30 candidates have signed, promising to clean up the board and hire an ombudsman.

Her endorsers include MPP Peter Tabuns, MP Craig Scott and Councillor Paula Fletcher.

Ward 17 (Don Valley East) Held by Michael Coteau until his 2011 election to Queen’s Park, the seat was narrowly captured by Harout Manougian in a 2012 by-election. In a field of 17 candidates, the t hen- 25- yea r old professional engine e r managed to squeak in with just 18.9 per cent of the vote. In his short time on the board, he’s distinguished himself for his conservative values; the antichoice Campaign Life Coalition has praised his “courageous” support for Trustee Sotiropoulos’s anti-Pride motion. At the same meeting, he was one of just three trustees to oppose a separate motion reaffirming the TDSB’s commitment to celebrating Pride. Xtra recently turned up a 2005 op-ed Manougian wrote for a student paper at the University of Waterloo in which he argued that same-sex marriage rights opened the door to polygamous marriages, bestiality and incest. He told Xtra that his views have since evolved.

Robert Cerjanec, who finished just 317 votes behind Manougian in the by-election, is taking a second shot at the seat. A past York Federation of Students VP and Shelley Carroll fan boy, he’s running on a platform of restoring integrity to the scandal-plagued board.

Ward 20 (ScarboroughAgincourt) Arguably, no incumbent is better known or more vulnerable than Sam Sotiropoulos. He slipped in in a 2012 by-election and promptly displaced Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti as the most enthusiastic social conservative holding office in Toronto. He appears to view himself as a kind of culture warrior, striking out against the crumbling morals of modern society. This has included a bizarre fixation on nudity at Pride, as well as mocking dismissals of the very concept of transgenderism. He was supported by labour groups in his 2012 bid, but they won’t be making that mistake again.

Sotiropoulos could well be toppled by Manna Wong, who finished just 171 votes behind him in the by- election.

An assistant to NDP MPP Peter Tabuns (and previously Marilyn Churley), Wong is getting the left’s backing this time around. John Furr – who organized the summer’s Shirtless Horde protests against Mayor Ford – originally signed up to take on Sotiropoulos but withdrew to support Wong when it became apparent she had a much better chance of beating him.

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Also keep an eye on: • Ward 2 (Etobicoke Centre), where Rob Ford lawyer and Toronto Party president Stephen Thiele is taking on lefty incumbent Chris Glover.

• Ward 9 (Davenport), where ACTRA communications director Marit Stiles is competing against seven other candidates to succeed outgoing trustee Maria Rodrigues.

• Ward 14 (Toronto CentreRosedale), where armed with the support of both local councillors, hospital worker Chris Moise wants to replace Sheila Ward, who’s been around since amalgamation.

• Ward 18 (Scarborough Southwest), where teacher and Tamil TV talk show host Parthi Kandavel is looking to oust Elizabeth Moyer, who NOW rated an “F” as far back as 2001.

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The ghosts of Canada’s last air war are likely to haunt its new campaign against ISIS in Iraq.

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ear Canada, You were promised that a small group of Canadian Special Forces and no more would be sent as advisers into the escalating ISIS/ISIL conflict in Iraq.

Now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has approved sending Canadian strike aircraft to participate in bombing missions.

Very soon you will begin to hear about Canadian planes sending “humanitarian aid” of food and medical supplies to those affected by the fighting.

ISIL attacks on the shipments will force Canada to supply troops to provide “security for our humanitarian mission,” which will pave the way for full combat deployment when the violence escalates, as it always seems to when combat forces are involved in humanitarian aid campaigns. It’s a pattern the world has witnessed too many times.

Decades ago, the U.S. helped install a Sunni dictator in Iraq; you know him as Saddam Hussein.

When Saddam broke his leash and acted against the wishes of the U.S., he became a “dangerous dictator” and the Iraqi people suddenly gained the right to “democracy and freedom,” which the U.S.-led coalition was happy to deliver at gunpoint during the course of two wars.

Saddam’s Sunni government was toppled in 2003 by its original architects, to be replaced by a Shia government. The actions of the transitional government that followed resulted in a complete exclusion of Sunni Muslims. It shouldn’t have been a surprise when many of them, including senior officers of the Iraqi military, joined the insurgency in Iraq.

The government allowed Shia militias to hunt and murder Sunnis for many months before any effort was made to stop the killing. The actions of the U.S.-led coalition and the new Iraqi government played directly into the re-

cruiting narrative for this new extremist movement. When major combat operations ended in 2011, the U.S. and its allies left Iraq in the midst of a simmering civil war.

The bloodshed has only reinforced the historical lines dividing Shia and Sunni in Iraq.

The only significant change, besides the body count, seems to be oil profits flowing more directly to American corporations. “Mission Accomplished” indeed.

And now ISIL is touted as the new enemy from the darkness as if their emergence was not foreseeable. In reality, ISIL is just the latest incarnation of a very old xenophobic sect of Islam, the Wahhabi movement, finding new breath in the aftermath of yet another war.

Our bombs have only made them stronger, just as they always have.

The Harper Conservatives are hoping you are not engaged enough to notice its hopes of attaining a new casus belli for Canada. But if Harper gets his way, you’ll soon be spending money you don’t have on a war that’s making you less safe, not more.

And what about the long-term costs for the soldiers who do come home? How will Canada be able to take care of them? Large numbers of Canadian veterans from the war in Afghanistan have already become homeless, jobless or committed suicide. They have yet to receive care from a resource-strapped Veterans Affairs Canada. How will VAC be able to meet the needs of even more veterans?

Please understand that I don’t mean to forgive the barbarity that ISIL has clearly committed. As an American soldier, I witnessed first-hand how war makes monsters of us all.

Everyone with a gun in a war zone thinks themselves “one of the good guys,” but the idea that anyone in a war acts in accordance with international law is a myth.

Once I realized this, I decided I could not participate in a war of aggression (the Iraq war of 2003) launched against people who had not committed any crime. I found taking part in this war a violation of both international law and basic moral behaviour, to such a degree that I could not have any further part in it.

Many others made the same choice I did, and a good number of us came to Canada seeking refuge. We have experienced first-hand the lasting effects of a war in Iraq started under false pretenses. We would implore you to be thoroughly informed, Canada. If you decide to go forward into this war, you should at least do so with all the facts.

Almost all who desert the U.S. military are simply administratively discharged without jail time. But without exception, every American war resister in Canada deported into U.S. military custody has faced significant jail time when evidence was presented of how we spoke out to people like you. The American government wants to jail me not just for leaving the military, but for having the audacity to shed light on war crimes we were asked to commit.

Is this the kind of war you truly want for Canadians? If you do, I will leave quietly.

A number of resisters living in Canada have seen recent movement in their cases after years of silence from the government. The immigration minister’s personal attention to our cases is made clear by Operational Bulletin 202, directing all our files to his desk for review instead of using normal procedures.

I will go to the cell that awaits me in the U.S. for having spoken loudly about the injustices I was asked to abide. I do not believe I deserve to be punished for speaking out, but perhaps I do for not having spoken out loudly enough. 3

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BehinD the Curtain (Canadian Mental Health Assoc) Live music by the Morals and Jory Nash and a talk by TEDx presenter Aliçia Raimundo, raffle and silent auction. 8 pm. $40, adv $35. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. behindthecurtain2014.eventbrite.com. honest anxiety (Children’s Mental Health Ontario) Improv comedy performed by Steve Baerwald and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. oktoBerFeast 2014 (Canadian Cancer Society) Traditional Bavarian-style celebration with food trucks, local bands, craft beer and more. 5-11 pm. $25-$60. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. cancer.ca/oktoberfeast.

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Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4 sugg. OISE, rm 5-280, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca.

CoCaine anonymous Convention Celebration of sobriety and recovery with speakers, workshops, social events and more. To Oct 19. $20. Eaton Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard W. Preregister socaconvention.org.

imaginenative Film + meDia arts Festival

Celebrate the latest works by Indigenous people at the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio and new media. $7-$12, passes $25 and up. TIFF Bell Lightbox, (350 King W)

Demonstrate, DanCe, Drum against poverty Gathering to demand an end to racial

Keepers​Of​The​Loom​ screens​at​EstDocs:​​ Estonian​Film​Festival. and other venues. imaginenative.org.

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inDie week international Performances by indie bands happen at venues across the city.

Various prices (ticketfly.com). Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. canada.indieweek.com.

To Oct 19 reel inDie Film Festival Indie Week’s film festival showcases the musical side of film including docs, biopics, short films and music videos. $10, stu $5; passes $30-$95.

Royal Cinema, 608 College. reelindiefilmfest.com.

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sci-fi, action and cult films. From $13, passes available. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. torontoafterdark.com.

Oct 16 to 24 uma nota Festival of Afro-Brazilian, Latin, Caribbean, funk and soul music with live acts and DJs, art, film screenings co-presented with BRAFFTV and more. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W, and other venues. umanota.ca.

Oct 16 to 19

Events

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Create colourful sketchbook pages with botanical artist Nellie Sue Potter. Today 6-9 pm; Oct 19, 1-4 pm; Oct 21, 6-9 pm. $150.

High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. Preregister highparknaturecentre.com.

CeleBrating vanessa’s law Panel discussion with MP Terence Young, Dr Linda Rapson and big pharma whistleblower Blair Hamrick about reducing deaths caused by adverse reactions to prescription meds. 7-9 pm. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Pre-register david@peoplesrim.org. explore your heritage Learn how to research your family history using ancestry.ca.

2 pm. Free. Evelyn Gregory Library, 120 Trowell. 416-394-1006. home eConomiCs workshop Discussion on lifestyle changes and home upgrades that can help reduce energy bills. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Pleasant View Library, 575 Van Horne. 416-203-3106.

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7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord.

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kensington-BellwooDs Community legal serviCes AGM and a meet and greet

with City Council candidates. 6:30 pm. Free.

College Street United Church, 452 College.

Pre-register 416-924-4244.

learn how to write Creative non-FiCtion

Workshop and discussion with author Donna Kakonge. 6:30 pm. Free. College/ Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-393-7668. mentorship in the arts Chris Abraham and Mitchell Cushman in conversation, moderated by Banuta Rubess. 7:30 pm. $10.

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9788381.

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Screening of the 1935 film Les Misérables in conjuction with the exhibition Fashion Victims: The Pleasures And Perils of Dress In The 19th Century. 6 pm. Pwyc. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca. say Cheese! say Cheers! Brewery tour with beer and cheese tasting. 7 pm. $34. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross.

Pre-register 416-667-6295, blackcreek.ca.

HsCreemers Indoor scream park with haunted attractions, skull castle, house of cards, monsters and more. To Nov 1. $30$40. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place, 190 Princes’ Blvd. screemers.ca.

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Hshakespeare anD zomBies Improv comedy with Shakespeare themes and characters adapted for Halloween. 8 pm. $7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540. small Business network Networking for owners, entrepreneurs and those wishing to start their own business. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416393-7674. toronto Book awarDs Ceremony Announcement of the winner and awards ceremony, hosted by CBC’s Gill Deacon. 7 pm.

Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416395-5577. toronto snow show Pro and amateur snowboarders and skiers, gear demos, ski and snowboard swap and more. To Oct 19. $18, stu/srs $10, kids free. International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd. torontosnowshow.com. toronto’s eConomy in 2025

CBC business correspondent Amanda Lang leads discussion with economist Jeff Rubin, the city’s chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat and others. 6-9:30 pm. $55.

Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. torontolife. com/cityseries.

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BraFFtv – Brazilian Film & television

Festival Films by Brazilians living abroad and films by foreign filmmakers about Brazil. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. brafftv.com.

Oct 16 to 25 BuFFer Festival Festival celebrating YouTube content with theatrical screenings, video premieres, red carpet events and more. Several downtown theatres. See website for details.7981 $15-$20. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. bufferfestival.com.

Oct 17 to 19 estDoCs: estonian Film Festival Documentary film festival screening feature films and short that explore Estonian culture, history and sense of humour. All films with English subtitles. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor W) and other venues. estdocs.com.

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introduces animal rights philosophy, including the distinction between rights and welfare, animal ethology and more. 7-9 pm.

Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2281. animalrightsacademy.org. the arChiteCture oF the image Photographer Richard Barnes, artist Charles Stankievech and AGO curator Stephanie Smith discuss the role images play in works of art that combine documentary and more fiction-based forms. 6:30 pm. Free (must RSVP). Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/13493670933.

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Education Centre DIY series) Curated screening that showcases the sexiness of diversity and radical representation in film. 8 pm. $12$15 (sliding scale available). OISE, 252 Bloor W. sex-ed.ca.

showcase featuring performers from around North America including Mantown, Jet & Holly, Bad Dog Theatre Company and many more. $10-$20, passes from $45.

Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W) and Bad Dog Comedy Theatre (875 Bloor W). 416-5516540, bigcityimprovfestival.com.

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documentary and talk by historian Bettany Hughes. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. will gm Crops FeeD the worlD? Discussion with Taarini Chopra of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and Seeds of Diversity on experiences with GM food and the risk of introducing new GM crops. 7-8:30 pm. Free.

Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. worlD FooD Day Interactive seminar, cooking workshop, and collective learning. 6-8:30 pm.

Free. The Centre for Immigrant and Community Services, 2330 Midland. Pre-register 416292-7510 ext 106.

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BooByBall toronto: Big top BooBy (Re-

think Breast Cancer) Circus-inspired evening with strong man competitions, contortionists, tiger tamers, fortune tellers, cocktails, festival foods and more. 8 pm. $115, under 25 $85. Kool Haus, 1 Jarvis.

416-869-0045, boobyball.com.

For the love oF Cloth sale (Textile Museum of Canada) Designer and decorator fabric, beads and samples. Today 11 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3 pm. B-1, 401 Richmond W. strandnews.ca.

Hghost 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 416-263-3658.

profiling, status for all, affordable housing a $14 minimum wage and more. 4-7 pm. SE corner of Jane & Finch. jfaap.wordpress.com.

DeliCious FooD show Chef Mario Batali headlines this food-lovers event featuring hundereds of exhibitors, cooking demos, tastings, book signings and more. To Oct 19. $20-$22, srs $15, stu $10. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes Blvd, Exhibition Place. deliciousfoodshow.com.

FriDay night live @ rom Live music, DJs, popup food, tours of the galleries and more with an Africa Alive theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

Hghosts, greasepaint anD gallows

Walking tour of jails, public hanging squares and vaudeville theatres. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). Meet at St Lawrence Market, 93 Front E. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Hhow to Be a zomBie Bring some old, tattered zombie appropriate clothes and makeup artist Tiffany Mark helps to achieve a gory look. For tweens and teens ages 12 and up.

5-7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-393-7674. lamartine DeBate Four teams debate if Allied war memorials should commemorate the dead of both sides of WWII. 4 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. toronto swing DanCe soCiety Dancing to all styles of swing music. 7:30 pm. $15.

Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

Hrtoronto’s haunteD walk with maCkenzie house visit Discover Toronto’s ghost

stories and darker history. Hear of the city’s haunted theaters, public hangings and scary encounters at Mackenzie House. Check website for schedule. Today and tomorrow. $18.75, stu/youth $16.75, child $10.75. Hockey Hall Of Fame, 30 Yonge. Pre-register hauntedwalk.com. uniFy toronto Dialogue: a new story Series with discussion on how to face the global mess we’re in and how to move forward to a sustainable fulfilling future. 6:30-9 pm. Suggested donation $10-$20. OISE Peace Lounge, 7th flr, 252 Bloor W. unifytoronto.ca/events.

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aangen Fall yarD sale (Send a Girl to School Program & other charities) Clothing, housewares, electronics, books and toys and more. 9 am-3 pm. Free. 868 Dovercourt. aangen.com.

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Humber River Valley The Don may get cred for its epic struggle against industrialism, but it’s the Humber that marks the centuries.

The river was called “Toronto” when First Nations and French fur traders used it as a passage to Georgian Bay. It was their preferred canoe route north, despite all the portaging, for one simple reason: it was an easier paddle than along Lake Ontario, where you were bound to be confronted with strong winds and waves, to the Trent system.

The stunning Etienne Brulé Park marks the spot where the first European explorer reached the river’s mouth in 1615.

Native people used the waterway and riverbanks as an ancient hunting and camping ground. Tools 4,000 years old have been found buried in its banks.

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dustrial building was a mill on the Humber that supplied the wood for Fort York.

After Hurricane Hazel, the Humber was designated perpetual parkland.

It beats the Don on the sheer number of trails; the east-end green space has 20 kilometres of them, the mighty Humber 32. Sixty species of fish swim its currents, and its marshes are nesting grounds for the great blue heron and American coot.

On a bike, follow the riverbed seamlessly across the Humber Bridge, a breathtaking arch that looks like a bleached rib cage, to the Martin Goodman Trail. For birdwatching, trails, firepits, boats and skating, head to this refuge to work off urban claustrophobia.

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The Humber is beautiful in a pastoral way.

The Don Valley is something else. Its beauty is its indomitable spirit.

Despite the ravages of decades of industrialization – not to mention the six-lane highway running a concrete ribbon through it – the Don’s still where we play every day.

For the urban explorer in you there’s mystery and intrigue in the rustedout bridges, reclaimed marshlands, twisted and mangled trees and abandoned rail lines.

The valley is also home to artistic beauty. Faith47, of the world’s most renowned street artists, was commissioned to create a work capturing the spirit of Toronto’s ravines.

The result is The Pull Of The Land, under the Metrolinx Bala subdivision rail line near the Brick Works.

The Don inspires that out-of-this-world feeling the moment you dip down from street level at Eldon Garnet’s Time: And A Clock at Queen and that first wind hits your back.

The secret hiding places are many: the mountain-bike-chewed paths of Crothers Woods, long-forgotten logger’s runs, the majestic Sherwood Park forest further north, the horse stables at Sunnybrook Park and glorious Edwards Gardens.

Add these to your destinations and you’re all set for a day trip.

But no exploration of the Don would be complete without a traipse through Moatfield Farm Park. Nestled between Leslie and Don Mills just south of the 401, it’s home to some of the valley’s most dramatic scenery. The perfect getaway.

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Highlighting the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Goethe-Institut‘s fall program looks at Europe and the world before and after 1989.

• Culture talks @ Goethe: author Marcello Di Cintio • Exhibition: “Dictatorship and Democracy” • Culture talks @ Goethe: media artist Pedro Ferreira • Christine Becker @ INSPIRE! Book Fair • European Union Film Festival: award-winning “West” Photo: Sue Ream

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Thinbuckle, Wyne Cass, Chris Bottomley, Eliana Euveas and the Shuffle Demons. Dinner and concert. Doors 6 pm. $150 (eligible for partial election campaign rebate). Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604, oliviachow.ca/chowstock.

CN Tower Climb (United Way) Rise to the challenge and climb all 1,776 steps. Pledges. CN Tower, 301 Front W. Pre-register online at unitedwaytoronto.com/climb. maNyaTTa Cares (Manyatta Network) Networking event with organizations that are dedicated to the success of African communities or people of African descent, with speakers, live African percussion, cocktails and more. 5 pm. $80. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register online at manyattanetwork.com/manyatta-cares.

PreTTy iN PiNk (Breast Cancer Awareness) Benefit party with a silent auction, pink makeup application, pink treats and beverages, gift bags, store discounts and more. Noon-5 pm.

Pink House, 32 Scollard. pinkthetown.com.

5sToryTellers revue (Singing OUT) Members of the LGBTQ+ choir perform to fund their trip to Denver. 7 & 9 pm. $15-$20. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

TaiNTed (Ontario Health Coalition) Reading of the new play set against the backdrop of the tainted blood crisis. 7-9 pm. Free, donations encouraged. Foundery, 376 Bathurst. moyotheatre.com.

The 24/7 eleCTioN bash (Dan Fox/Keegan Henry-Mathieu) Dance party funder for Fox in Ward 24 and Henry-Mathieu in Ward 7. $40 (eligible for the city’s partial rebate program).

Studio Bar, 824 Dundas W. danfox.ca/247bash. ways yogaThoN (South Asian Women’s Centre/We Are Your Sisters) Yoga class to raise funds to help victims of violence and human trafficking. 9 am-12:30 pm. $40. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). weareyoursisters.com.

Events

aCTiNg Classes Open to everyone. 2-5 pm.

Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

Creole uNiTy FeTe DJs, Caribbean cultural music, presentations, giveaways and more. 10 pm. $15 adv. SVG Lounge, 1230 Sheppard W. 647-716-3963, creoleunityfete.com. dJ ruPTure X Avant New Music Festival event with Marcus Boon in conversation with the DJ. 5 pm. Free. Music Gallery, 197 John. musicgallery.org. eThNoCulTural baggage aNd CoNTemPorary ClassiCal musiC X Avant New Music Festival panel discussion with Melody McKiver, Nicole Rampersaud, Shawn Mativetsky and moderator Parmela Attariwala. 3 pm. Free.

Music Gallery, 197 John. musicgallery.org.

girls learNiNg Code: iNTroduCTioN To ruby Beginner workshop for ages 9 to 12. 10 am-4 pm. $30. George Brown College, 341 King E. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/12642595343.

HrhalloweeN mask-makiNg Family workshop for children six years and older, accompanied by an adult. Treats prvided. 1-4 pm. $10, child $5. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery.

416-396-2819.

how CaNadiaN PaCiFiC railway saved riverdale Park aNd ParT oF doN valley

Urban heritage walk. Free. Meet at Broadview and Pottery Rd. 416-593-2656.

HrhowliNg hooTeNaNNy Haunted maze, Dracula magic shows, trick-or-treating and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4:30 pm.

Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca.

Julius easTmaN memorial diNNer X Avant New Music Festival event reimagining the piano propulsion of the composer. 8 pm. $20-$25. Music Gallery, 197 John. musicgallery.org. keNsiNgToN Foodies rooTs Tour Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50. Pho Hung, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. keNsiNgToN krawl Walking tour with tastings from area eateries. Today and tomorrow. $55. Baldwin & Augusta. Pre-register savourtoronto.com. kids learNiNg Code: souNd desigN Beginner workshop for kids 13-16. 10 am-4 pm. $30. George Brown College, 341 King E. Preregister eventbrite.ca/e/12643012591. laFoNTaiNe-baldwiN symPosium Keynote address by Robert LePage and discussion with John Ralston Saul and Adrienne Clarkson. 2 pm. $30. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 1-800-567-1600, lafontaine-baldwin.com. lioNeT Career exPo Exhibitors, speakers and more for students, graduates and young professionals. 10 am-8 pm. $10-$20. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. lionetcareerexpo.com. mediTaTe, eduCaTe, CelebraTe Meditate and learn how to pay attention to inattention. 2-5 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 4-414. discovermindfulness.ca. miNiaTures show Dollhouse miniatures by dealers and artisans from across Canada on exhibit and for sale. Today 11 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $8, kids free. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. metminis.ca..

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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. old Time CouNTry daNCe Live band, instruction available, no experience necessary. 7 pm. $20. Fairlawn United Church, 28 Fairlawn. sheryl@fairlawnavenueunited.ca.

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Storytelling with Steve Pitt. 2 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. 416-767-5472. 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.

ToroNTo roller derby Gore-Gore Rollergirls vs Death Track Dolls and the Smoke City Betties vs the Renegade Derby Dames. Doors 4 pm. $18, adv $12. The Bunker, Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.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. whisky live Sample scotches, bourbons, Canadian whiskies and more. 5:30-10 pm.

$119. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. whiskylive.com/canada/104/toronto-2014.

Sunday, October 19

Benefits

ToroNTo waTerFroNT maraThoN Run or

walk for the charity of your choice. 8 am.

Pledges. Exhibition Place, 210 Princes’ Blvd. torontowaterfrontmarathon.com. yoNge gogo’s Fall liTerary Tea (Stephen Lewis Foundation’s African Grandmothers Campaign) Documentary filmmaker and journalist Sally Armstrong reads from her latest book Uprising. 2 pm. Donation. Loretto College, 70 St Mary. 416-485-0753.

Events

HrCiTy oF The dead: NeCroPolis CemeTery Tour Drama-enhanced walk through the

cemetery with stories of murder and heartbreak, for ages eight and up. 1:30-3 pm. $12.50, child $10.50. Necropolis, 200 Winchester. Pre-register 416-392-6915.

HrCraveyard halloweeN ParTy Family fun event with live music by Dan The Music Man, haunted house, fun maze and fun house, pumpkin decorating, face painting, costume parade and more. 1-4 pm. Free. Parking lot, 72 Sterling. 416-218-2688. 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.

HgriNdhouse ghoulies! Halloween burlesque with Skin Tight Outta Sight, Great Canadian Burlesque, Eve of Destruction, The Knicker Kickers and others. 9 pm. $25-$50.

Revival, 783 College. grindhouseghoulies9. eventbrite.ca. rThe leslieville Flea Outdoor flea market with a variety of vintage, salvaged and upcycled goods. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Ashbridge Estate, 1444 Queen E. leslievilleflea.com.

5lgbT daNCe Salsa and bachata classes for queer and trans people. $15. U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com.

19Th CeNTury PasTimes wiTh a 21sT CeNTury TwisT Fascinator workshop. Noon-4 pm. $110.

Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-9797799, batashoemuseum.ca. oPeN miC Musicians, storytellers and poets welcome. 7:30 pm. Free. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com.

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homes Adèle Koehnke talks about her creative drama project. 2 pm. Free. Knox College, 59 St George. 416-410-1892, ulyssean.on.ca. rroald dahl day Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory with a story contest, DIY crafts, music by indie rockers Communism and more. 2-5 pm. Free (tickets required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. smallprinttoronto.org. rsamba drummiNg For kids Drop-in workshop. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz.com.

Monday, October 20

Benefits

bake sale (The Farley Foundation) Sale of

treats and snacks to assist with the costs of veterinary care for pets of people in need. 9 am-7 pm. The Kingsway Animal Hospital, 3265 Bloor W. 416-233-3277. buildiNg lives beNeFiT (Toronto Christian Resource Centre) The CRC celebrates 50 years of serving Regent Park with performances by Jackie Richardson and others. 6:30-9 pm. $175.

Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. tcrc.ca.

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online course taken at the library through Coursera. To Nov 4, Tuesdays 6-8 pm. Free.

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

cOnservaTiOn and develOpmenT in The rOuge river waTershed Talk by Dr L Anders

Sandberg. 7-8 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

enTrepreneurship and TechnOlOgy: The $100-milliOn idea CBC Radio’s Spark host

Nora Young invites digital superstars to discuss their fortunes and the secrets of their success. 6-9:30 pm. $55 (eventbrite.ca). Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. torontolife.com/cityseries.

frOm sea TO sky: science Tales frOm a research iceBreaker U of T’s Emma Mungall

Learn the facts about genetically modified crops on October 16.

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Hate the big-bad zillion-dollar porn industry? Or do you just yearn for an alternative? Support the Re-Framing Porn benefit for the U of T Sexual Education Centre’s DIY workshop promoting homemade erotica. The event, a partnership with Good for Her and the Feminist P*rn Awards, screens pics that celebrate diversity and radical sexual representation. Friday (October 17), 8 pm, OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor West. $12-$15. sex-ed.ca, goodforher.com

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Proponents of GM crops tell us that we need genetic modification to reduce global hunger. Taarini Chopra

Events

The BeaTles: Overview and impacT On The 1960s Film clips and talk by lecturer Kevin

Courrier. 7-9 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

a celeBraTiOn Of canadian dOcumenTaries Filmmakers Sarah Goodman, Lisa Jackson and Amar Wala discuss the creative trends taking shape in Canada’s doc scene. 6:30 pm. Free.

Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416395-5577.

cheaT sheeT TO a crOwdfunding campaign

Workshop on running a successful campaign.

6:30-9 pm. $19-$29. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/ e/12313121879. creaTiviTy panel Talk on the convergence of creativity and personal learning with police service detective sergeant Cameron Field, publisher Cynthia Good, professor Doug Thomson and others. 9:30-10:30 am. Free. L Space Gallery, 21 Colonel Sam Smith, Rm L1002. Pre-register tara.mazurk@humber.ca. lindy hOp wOrkshOp Toronto Swing Dance Society event. 7:30 pm. $50 for two nights.

Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

liveaBle ciTies: nyc-TOrOnTO grOwing green Lecture with Bram Gunther of the New

York City Parks Department on his initiatives to build a greener city. 4-5 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. Pre-register yourleaf.org/liveable-cities/oct20. 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.

OnTariO cOllege infOrmaTiOn fair Speak to representatives from 25 Ontario colleges. Today 5-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-3 pm. Free. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’. ocif.ca. weekly crafT circle Crafting social, also with a knitting lesson. 6:30 pm. Free. Bampot, 201 Harbord. Pre-register bampottea.com.

Tuesday, October 21

Benefits

eaT TO The BeaT (Willow Breast & Hereditary Cancer Support) Culinary treats from 60 top female chefs including Sandra Abballe, Wanda

of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and Seeds of Diversity discusses the risks of introducing genetically modified food crops into our environment. Thursday (October 16) at the Big Carrot, 348 Danforth.

Free. 7-8:30 pm. 416-466-2129.

greener ciTies

Bram Gunther, chief of forestry and horticulture for New York City’s parks department, imparts green pearls of wisdom on how to build more eco-friendly cities – and address climate change, sustainability and biodiversity in the process – in a lecture Monday (October 20) at University College, 15 King’s College Circle. 4 pm. Free. Pre-register at yourleaf.org/liveable-cities/oct20.

Beaver and Donna Dooher plus musical acts. 7 pm. $150-$175. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe.

416-778-6314 ext 236, eattothebeat.ca.

Events

change Of seasOn Tips for coping with the coming weather and decrease in sunlight. 7 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com. ciTy Of TOrOnTO career infOrmaTiOn evenT

Find out how to apply for jobs in more than 25 city divisions. 10 am. Free. Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. cOmic BOOks and graphic nOvels Group

and Greg Wentworth discuss climate change and its effects on the Arctic. 6:30 pm. Free. Kennedy/Eglinton Library, 2380 Eglinton Ave E. 416-396-8924.

glenn greenwald in cOnversaTiOn wiTh david walmsley Journalist/lawyer Green-

wald talks with the G&M editor-in-chief about his book, No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA And U.S. Surveillance State. 7-8:30 pm. $49, stu $25. Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Bldg, 250 Front W. Pre-register cjf-fjc.ca. heriTage TOrOnTO awards Awards ceremony and lecture by Jack Diamond with host Garvia Bailey. 6 pm. $30, stu $15. Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. heritagetoronto.org. inTrO TO creaTive wriTing Course for emerging and recreational writers with novelist Brian Francis. 6:30 pm. $226.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

The pOrTuguese in kensingTOn markeT

Kensington Market Historical Society lecture and photo display. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. kmhs.ca.

real ciTy maTTers: keeping TOrOnTO hOnesT Panel discussion on how to make the

city better with grassroots activists and members of community organizations.

Everyone welcome. 7 pm. Free. Revival, 783 College. torontoist.com/realcitymatters.

Wednesday, October 22

Benefits

cecc aucTiOn (Central Eglinton Community

Centre) Live and silent auctions for spa vouchers, event tickets, home decor items and more. 6 pm. Bid cards $5. Philthy McNasty’s Pub, 130 Eglinton E. 416-482-2273, centraleglinton.com. an evening Of fire and ice (VETS Animal Charity) Music by Roxanna, Morris Samson shares his Icy Antartica Adventure, appetizers, cash bar and gourmet desserts. 7-10 pm. $55-$85. Opera House, 735 Queen E. vetsanimalcharity.com. fashiOn helps award (Woodsworth College student in need) Fundraising event with jewelry and leather design station, photo booth, swag, feature cocktails, DJ JRex the decks, catered treats and more. 9 pm. $20 minimum donation. 2Cats Lounge, 569 King W. facebook.com/fashionhelps.

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spearheadtoronto.com. digniTy in fOcus (TORONTO+acumen) A fundraising party, with exhibition and auction of photographs. 7-11 pm. $45-$50. Airship37, 37 Parliament. eventbrite.com free The girls T.O (Free the Girls) Donate new or gently used bras and listen to live music by the Roadogs to support victims of sex trafficking. 7:30 pm-midnight. $15. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. eventbrite.ca/e/12655193023.

Big Business and The re-shaping Of nOrTh america Science for Peace lecture by Richard

Roman. 4-6 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George. scienceforpeace.ca. canadian ciTizenship TesT preparaTiOn A Toronto District School Board rep discusses what it means to be a citizen and how to prepare for the test. Bring your permanent resident card. 6-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5660.

OrienTaTiOn TO OnTariO Interact with other newcomers and learn how to find services in your community. 9:30 am-12:30 pm. Free.

Centre for Immigrant & Community Services, 2330 Midland. cicscanada.com. rOuge park walks Guided walks in the urban wilderness. 9:30 am. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike.

Events

Hdrink wiTh deaTh: a mOrBid caBareT

Ada Dahli, Freeman Dre, Darren Eedens, Jaash Singh, Christopher Weatherstone and others perform. 8 pm. Today, tomorrow, Oct 25 and Oct 29. $18, stu $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. drinkwithdeath.com.

elecTiOn fever: explOring whaT makes Our ciTy greaT Journalist/author Edward

seamanship and sailing rigs in The ancienT mediTerranean Public archaeology lecture

Keenan talks about municipal politics and where the city is likely to go next. 7-8 pm.

Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge.

416-395-5660.

by Julian Whitewright. 5 pm. Free. Galbraith Building, 35 St George, rm 303. aiatoronto.ca. welcOme gaThering Opening of the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival with a community feast and drum & dance performances. 2-4 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. imaginenative.org.

Ha nighTmare On Queen sTreeT arT shOw & masQuerade parTy Alternative artists horror-themed art exhibition, music by Trinurgy Music and live horror-cabaret by Elle Sugar. Costumes encouraged. 7-11 pm. Free with mask, $5 without. Gallery 416, 404 Queen E. caacollective.com.

upcoming Thursday, October 23

5Of africa: hisTOries, cOllecTiOns & reflec-

TiOns keynOTe Kenyan author/advocate Binyavanga Wainaina in conversation with Dan Yon. 7-9 pm. $35. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-586-5797, programs@rom.on.ca.

Benefits

arT wiTh pOTenTial (Raising the Roof) Art competition, auction, DJ music, food and more to support long-term solutions to homelessness. 6 pm. $75. Daniels Specturm, 585 Dundas E. artwithpotential.com.

5Buzz cuT (Toronto People With AIDS Fdn Food Programs) Manscaping with the leatherand denim-loving men of Spearhead. 9 pm Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219,

OzOne pOlluTiOn: challenges in air QualiTy due TO fracking U of T prof Angela Hong

talks about her observations from tracking air pollutants in Utah’s Uintah Basin. 6:30 pm.

Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416394-5120.

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Contouring and highlighting – the art of enhancing facial features, like cheekbones, with makeup – can be a risky but potentially incredibly rewarding endeavour.

Basically, you end up looking one of two ways: as chiselled as a Kardashian, or like you have lines of shit smeared across your face.

Obviously, the latter outcome is to be avoided at all costs.

I turn to M.A.C Cosmetics senior artist Melissa Gibson for a beginner’s tutorial in the art of contouring.

Step one: cover your face with a light natural foundation. This is your base for everything to come. Then, for step two, take a second foundation five to 10 shades darker than your natural skin tone and mix it with the light-

Finished er foundation to create a few colours to work with.

Trying to create magic on a budget?

Use your summer foundation as the darker shade.

Then, you start to draw.

“Use a paddle brush to draw lines where you’d love to have a bit more of a contour: the cheek, the temple, down the nose, in the corner of the eyes, down the jaw line,” instructs Gibson.

The third step is to blend, blend, blend with a blending brush or wet sponge to even out all the rough edges.

Some think using powdered bronzer is the best way to contour, but Gibson says that’s a big misconception. It’s actually better to use creamy foundations and concealers because they’re easier to build and blend, especially if

you accidentally go overboard.

Another key to contouring success?

As much natural light as possible to evaluate your work.

“People think they look great in the bathroom, then walk outside looking like marionettes,” cautions Gibson.

“Don’t go out with lines on your face.”

It’s also important to note that, when it comes to contouring, less is more.

“You can go a little bit darker at night and in photos, but otherwise you’d be surprised how much a little product can change the shape of your face,” she says.

After contouring is complete, do exactly the same thing with highlights. In step four, Gib-

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Look son takes the lightest of light concealers and creates a triangle under my eyes and up the side of my nose. She also uses the concealer to draw lines on my cheekbones.

“It’s like drowning your face in light,” explains Gibson. “You can also take it down the centre of the nose, on the chin and on the cupid’s bow.

You’re creating a more threedimensional face.” In step five, she blends the highlights the same way she did the contours.

If you’re the type who wants to go the extra mile, this is where powder comes into play. Use dark and light pow-

ders to go over the contours and highlights. Since powder is more matte, the effect will be multiplied.

The one rule here: “Don’t use a big brush. Use a fan brush or else the dark powder can end up looking like a dirty blush,” warns Gibson.

Dust some of your regular powder over your entire face to unify the look and you’re ready to dazzle the world with your new cheekbones.

Learn makeup skills from Gibson and head of M.A.C makeup artistry Gordon Espinet at #MACInstantArtistry.

Watch live demos, interact with videos and meet one-on-one with M.A.C artists until Sunday (October 19) from 10 am to 9 pm at the Toronto Eaton Centre (220 Yonge, 416-595-9576).

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In addition to their signature unisex toques – which now include neighbourhoods in the GTA, Montreal, Ottawa, New York City and Los Angeles – Tuck Shop Trading Co. offers up City Of Neighbourhoods Ts, cottage blankets made from super-soft jersey knit and capes crafted from MacAusland’s wool (a family-owned mill in Prince Edward Island that dates back to 1932).

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good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory. If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 : New York City’s

Diamond District is home to over 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewellery.

Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here. Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches and other accessories. Now an enterprising man named Raffi Stepnanian is cashing in.

Using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters. “The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,” he says. I’d love to see you get inspired by his efforts, Aries. Dig for treasure in unlikely places where no one else would deign to look.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20: In 1987, a col-

sistant disappear in a puff of smoke.

There’s no real sorcery. It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s hocuspocus. But abracadabra has a less wellknown history as an incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment with this possibility, Gemini. Say “abracadabra” to boost your confidence and enhance your derringdo. You already have more power than usual to change things that have been resistant to change, and intoning some playfully ferocious abracadabras may put your efforts over the top.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22: The 17th-cen-

lege freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the University of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist Bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny.

The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to over $28,000 – enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, Taurus: ask for a little from a lot of different sources.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20: The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the climax of their tricks, the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit materialize from a hat or an as-

tury writer René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His famous catchphrase is a centrepiece of the Western intellectual tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides the Bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality? I say no. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to instead adopt one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.”

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21: On a late sumLeo Jul 23 | Aug 22: You can’t give what

you don’t have. Here’s a corollary: you can sort of half-give what you half-have, but that may lead to messy complications and turn out to be worse than giving nothing at all. So here’s what I recommend: Devote yourself to acquiring a full supply of what you want to give. Be motivated by the frustration you feel at not being able to give it yet. Call on your stymied generosity to be the driving force that inspires you to get the missing magic. When you’ve finally got it, give it.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22: I suspect that one of your allies or loved ones will get caught in his or her own trap. The way you respond will be crucial for how the rest of the story plays out. On the one hand, you shouldn’t climb into the trap with them and get tangled up in the snarl. On the other hand, it won’t serve your long-term interests to be cold and unhelpful. So what’s the best strategy?

First, empathize with their pain, but don’t make it your own. Second, tell the blunt truth in the kindest tone possible.

Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22: In 1936, Libran author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle. Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a

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mer day in 1666, scientist Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England.

An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity. Fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers Sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of Newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped Earth’s gravity on his trip to the International Space Station. By my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a comparable gesture or ritual, Scorpio. With a flourish, update your relationship with an important point of origin.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21: Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high, either flying or perched somewhere off the ground. One species that isn’t subject to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird. As it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot – or your power animal, as they say in New Age circles. Why? I doubt that you will be soaring. You won’t be gazing down at the human comedy from a detached location high above the fray. But I expect you will be well-grounded and good-humoured – holding your own with poise amidst the rough-and-tumble. As you ramble, sing freely!

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 : Let’s discuss that thing you are eyeing and coveting and fantasizing about. My operative theory is that you can enjoy it without actually having it for your own. In fact, I think it will be best if you do enjoy it without possessing it. There’s an odd magic at play here. If this desired thing becomes a fixed part of your life, it may interfere with you attracting two future experiences that I regard as more essential to your development. My advice is to avoid getting attached to the pretty good X-factor so as to encourage the arrival and full bloom of two stellar X-factors.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 : “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way,” said philosopher Alan Watts. You have either recently made a personal discovery proving that this is true, or else you will soon do so. The brain-scrambling, heart-whirling events of recent weeks have blessed you with a host of shiny new questions. They are vibrant replacements for the tired old questions that have kept at least one of your oldest dilemmas locked in place. pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20: “There is for everyone some one scene, some one adventure, some one picture that is the image of his secret life,” said Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I invite you to identify that numinous presence, Pisces. And then I urge you to celebrate and cultivate it. Give special attention to it and pay tribute to it and shower love on it. Why? Because now is an excellent time to recognize how important your secret life is to you – and to make it come more fully alive than it has ever been.

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The long and short of it: the legging guide MOST OF THE STUFF ON THE MARKET IS CHEAPLY MADE OF CONVENTIONAL, INSECTICIDE-HEAVY COTTON, PETROL-LACED POLYESTER/NYLON OR TOXICALLY TANNED LEATHER. WHO’S GOT A LEG UP ON LEGGINGS? REITMANS

Cheap but not so cheerful, this Canadian chain has been criticized for manufacturing in Bangladesh and failing to contribute to the trust fund set up for victims of the Rana Plaza collapse. Western chains are also failing to chip in for repairs to 1,106 Bangladeshi factories just revealed to have safety problems. Besides using pesticide-intensive cotton, some of Reitman’s leggings are primarily made of nondescript rayon – not great when non-profit org Canopy says 70 million trees are cut every year for fabrics like rayon, viscose and modal, taking down Indonesian rainforests and the Canadian boreal.

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Yes, its ads are grating, and founder Dov Charney seems to be back after being turfed early this year following a string of alleged sexual harassment lawsuits. But AA is one of the only large clothing chains weaving, cutting and sewing its own clothing in the US of A in factories employing decently paid workers with solid benefits. Its Winter Leggings would be ideal if the company made them with some organic cotton or recycled fibres rather than conventional cotton. Just side-step their plasticy leggings made entirely from fossil-fuel-based, energyintensive nylon.

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nature notes FRACKING FOR THE CURE?

It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month and pinkwashing has reached new depths with global oil and gas drillers Baker Hughes painting 1,000 of its drill bits pink to commemorate the occasion. Says the company, “The pink bits serve as a reminder of the importance of supporting research, treatment, screening

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For the second year in a row the company is donating $100,000 to the Texas-based Susan G. Komen foundation. Ecowatch.com has launched a petition asking the foundation to end with its relationship with the Baker Hughes, pointing out that “at least 25 per cent of the more than 700 chemicals used in fracking are linked to cancer.”

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These two BCbased neohippy designers have all kinds of eclectic options to take you from summer festivals to fall protests to toasty yoga studios. Both Nomads (pictured) and MahaDevi use a combination of hemp, soy, rayon from bamboo and organic cotton (starting from $45/$55). And both manufacture “ethically” offshore in China, though MahaDevi still has a few Canadian-made options.

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Both of these brands feature colourful Canadian-made options out of bamboo and certified organic cotton blends. BCer Lilikoi (pictured) offers a variety of bright solids as well as fun patterns silk-screened with water-based inks.

Fifteen per cent of profits from the Honey Bee print ($44) goes to Pollinator Partnership.

Voilà’s Metis designer, Andréanne Dandeneau, keeps Canadian legs particularly cozy in winter with Toronto-woven, Winnipeg-sewn organic fair trade bamboo fleece available in a few rich warm hues, as well as Haida prints ($89). Yes, it takes chems to dissolve fastgrowing bamboo into rayon (true for all rayon), but I’d much rather support these conscientious Canadians than questionable mall options. lilikoiclothing.com, voilaandreanne.com SCORE: NNNN

WWF’s most recent Living Planet report doesn’t mince words. In less than two human generations, the world’s mammals, birds, amphibians and fish have been decimated by 52 per cent, all since 1970. Habitat loss, hunting and fishing are the main causes, with climate change adding to the pressure. WWF says we need to halt priority habitat loss, expand protected areas and redirect financial flows to “value nature” ASAP.

LEGO DUMPS SHELL PARTNERSHIP

After a Greenpeace video connecting toy manufacturer Lego to Shell’s Arctic oil drilling went viral, the Danish toy giant announced it’s ending its 40-year marketing partnership with Shell. Under the current arrangement, if you fill your tank with 30 litres of gas or more at a Shell station, you can score a free Lego toy. The deal isn’t being cancelled per se but won’t be renewed, according to the toy maker. For its part, Shell has been

GREEN fiNd OF THE WEEK EVOKE THE ELEMENTS WITHIN

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What I love about Toronto-based MIIK (pictured) is that it uses certified organic bamboo processed in a closed loop without dumping chems, and the fibres are milled, dyed (in navy, grey or black) and sewn right here in the GTA. Super-durable with control-top options, leggings, like Voilà’s, are OEKO-Tex certified – no dodgy chems on the surface ($69, miik.ca). Plus it’s signed onto Canopy’s forest-friendly fashion pledge. Fig mills, dyes (in black/navy) and sews its warmer, certified organic cotton leggings close by in Montecoholic real, keeping its carbon pick footprint down ($80, figclothing.com; not all lines are organic).

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Our government is making significant progress on addressing climate change.”

Federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq responds to Environment Commissioner Julie Gelfand’s report, which called federal action on greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions “slow,” “uncoordinated” and “unsatisfactory.” The commish singled out the feds’ failure to regulate the oil and gas sector, whose emissions have grown by 27 tonnes since 2012, and noted current federal efforts to address GHGs will have “little effect” in meeting our 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

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THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING LITTLE ITALY WATERING HOLE PROVES THAT BAR KITCHENS CAN KNOCK OUT TOP-NOTCH GRUB

By KARON LIU THE EMMET RAY (924 College, 416-792-4497, theemmetray.com, @theemmetray) is one of T.O.’s essential spots for whisky binges: there are more than 200 bottles to choose from. But this month it’s upping the food menu by having chef Trish Gill of sister sports bar the Dock Ellis create what she calls globally inspired comfort food: lots of braising, fat and gravy to match the belly-warming drinks we crave when the temperature starts to drop. Her take on Yorkshire pudding ($14) is like a Sunday roast rolled into one golden puff. Here’s how she makes it.

The other kind of pudding Unlike the Bill Cosby-approved jiggly pudding, a Yorkshire pudding is a fluffy, hollow pastry with its origin in British cuisine and is similar to a popover (or as Gill puts it, “like a Tim Hortons honey cruller without the honey”). it’s meant to sop up the gravy and meat juices from a roast. Gill first greases up a muffin tin

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Bar Volo’s Emily Ridley serves up the snacks.

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What the Emmet Ray is for whisky, Bar Volo is for beer, offering dozens of craft and cask beers. The list changes so often, it’s a good idea to check the website for what’s on the menu.

Food-wise, the card has a createyour-own charcuterie board – you choose your meats, pickles, pâtés and cheese – as well as heartier sandwiches and burgers. We’re partial to the veal burger with blue cheese.

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COCKTAIL BAR Chef Jordy Carr and executive chef Trish Gill up the ante at the Emmet Ray.

with beef fat and heats it in an oven cranked to 550°F. She then pours a batter of egg, milk and flour into the hot pans (“that blast of heat creates air pockets in the batter,” she explains). From start to finish, it takes just 20 minutes to make, which is why Yorkshire puddings are so popular in British households.

The oxtail stuffing The hollow Yorkshire pudding is perfect for filling with meats and vegetables. Gill opted for a stew-like braised oxtail, which, unlike the 20-

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A Yorkshire pudding needs some sort of gravy to soak up. Gill makes one by melting marrow from beef bones and mixing it with a bit of flour to create a roux, a French term for the thickening agent in sauce. It’s thinned out with a little beef stock and then gloriously poured over the pudding.

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minute pudding, takes hours to cook.

“I like the flavour and unctuousness of oxtail,” says Gill. “It’s a cheap cut but it has a lot of meat and collagen that taste great when you cook it slow.”

The tail is seared on a hot pan and then braised for three to four hours in tomatoes, red wine, chilies and a mirepoix – a mixture of chopped celery, carrots and onions, considered the holy trinity of flavour in French cooking for soups, stocks and sauces.

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Leslieville patisserie Bobbette & Belle has opened a second location in the Yonge and Lawrence ’hood at 3347 Yonge (at Snowdon, bobbetteandbelle.com ). The shop will sell bread from Kensington’s Blackbird Baking Co. as wells as its own popular macarons, cupcakes, cookies and anything else that a party host would want.

In other patisserie expansion news, Nadège, (nadege-patisserie.com) is opening a third location next month in

The horseradish crème fraîche A tangy dollop of crème fraîche mixed with grated horseradish creates a zesty, slightly sour and spicy sauce that cuts through the fattiness of everything else.

Makes sense considering horseradish is a typical condiment served with roast beef.

“This is like a Sunday roast for one,” she says.

PORTLAND VARIETY This corner spot in the thick of King West is more restaurant than bar, but people do come here after work for glasses of sparkling to go with pintxos, little bar snacks popular in northern Spain and the Basque country. They’re typically served on skewers or toothpicks, as opposed to tapas, which come on plates. With candied pork rinds, cassava fries, house-made ricotta on offer, best to come with friends to share items from the extensive snack menu.

587 King West, 416-368-5151, portlandvariety.com, @portlandvariety Cocktail Bar is known for its drinks list, but don’t underestimate the duck wings.

The whisky pairing Naturally, the Emmet Ray suggests a whisky pairing for all of the dishes on the food menu.

With the pudding, they recommend a 10-year-old Talisker, a smoky, peppery single malt from Ireland. NOW drinks writer Sarah Parniak describes it as peaty with hints of sugar and spice, so look forward to that.

the PATH below the Richmond-Adelaide Centre, just in time for commuters to pick up a cake or box of macarons for last-minute office secret Santas and non-denominational holiday parties.

After a few delays, takeout seafood shop Fresh off the Boat welcomed its first customers this week at 404 Queen West (at Spadina, @FOTB416), where you can get fish sandwiches and po’ boys. The resto’s name references newly landed immigrants who haven’t adapted to West-

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Restaurateur and cocktail expert Jen Agg’s bar serves two purposes: 1) as a waiting room for patrons itching to get into the Black Hoof and Rhum Corner across the street, and 2) as showcase for new cocktails and wine discoveries. You won’t be having dinner here since the snack menu is just

that, but the crispy duck wings with blue cheese snow make it worth sticking around for a little while.

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ern culture yet. While it has derogatory connotations, some communities embrace the term as a show of pride in their heritage. Will we have another GwaiLo/DaiLo name change?

A sign for chef Corinna Mozo’s Cuban-inspired diner La Cubana has appeared on the windows of her nowclosed restaurant Delux at 92 Ossington (at Humbert). La Cubana first opened on Roncesvalles last year to much success due to its family-friendly atmosphere, non-deafening music and, of course, delicious medianoches.

Closings

The windows of Swish by Han (38 Wellington East, at Yonge) have been papered up and the space has been taken over by the owners of the adjacent Pravda Vodka Bar. Swish, opened by Oddseoul’s Han brothers in 2009, was one of the city’s early adaptors of hipsterized Korean cuisine and all things kimchi.

Know of any openings or closings you want to tell us about?

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WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!

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Thoroughbred bar manager Brendan Schätti concocts his Cadillac Chrome cocktail.

Thoroughbred 304 Richmond West, 416-551-9221, tbto.ca Richmond West hasn’t been a destination for nightlife since the three-tiered meat markets of the Entertainment District vaporized and the area became a sad construction zone where we sometimes see movies.

In the vodka-cran-soda haze of freshman year, I recall tripping down the street on my way to Fez Batik, Tonic, Lot 332 or some equally regrettable party, gazing at the blurry, beautiful old townhouses as I teetered by on stilettos, thinking, “Man, someone should do something awesome with those.”

Well, Ariel Coplan and Jacob Fox finally have with their new (and first) spot, Thoroughbred. Just under two months old, it’s already breathing new life into the ’hood.

Fox describes the decor as a mix of organic and industrial. Wood meets metal in the narrow room’s low glow, resulting in clean lines – without forsaking comfort. Thoroughbred’s territory (43° 38' N / 79° 23' W) staked out in neon on the far wall feels more patriotic than a Canadian flag.

Come thirsty. There’s a list of tasty cocktails – try the Flipmode Appletini (Bison Grass vodka, man-

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Whisky Live 2014

October’s a great month to drink in Toronto. Hit Whisky Live 2014, the annual and international whisky-tasting extravaganza, October 18 from 5:30 to 10 pm at the Sheraton Centre (123 Queen West, 416-361-1000) to sample glorious brown spirits from around the world. Sign up for educational seminars including Women And Whisky, the Art And Craft Of The Balvenie and J.P. Wiser’s: A Legacy Of Canadian Blending. Fear not – there’s a buffet from 6 to 9 pm to keep you grounded. Tickets are $119. More info at whiskylivena.com/event/ whisky-live-toronto-2014.

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zana verde, verjus, “applès-garde” vermouth, bitters float, $14) or the Cadillac Chrome (blanco tequila, fresh pineapple, lime, passion fruit syrup, salted Campari, Hellfire Shrub, $14) – concocted by Schätti The wine bar manager Brendan Schätti. list curated by master somm Bruce Wallner is tight, intriguing and unintimidating.

Chef Coplan’s menu is made up of twists on dishes that he and Fox grew up eating – Kung Pao cauliflower ($9), Sunchoke Bravas ($7) and buttermilk fried sweetCadillac breads ($11). Many of the Chrome seasonal small plates are cocktail veg-friendly.

The second floor features an extended menu with more shareable options (Thoroughbred serves lunch as well) and there are parties on weekends (DJ Serious hosts Beat Junkie nights pn Fridays) so there are lots of reasons to drink, eat and repeat.

Tuesday to Friday 11:30 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to 2 am, Saturday 5 pm to 2 am. Closed Sunday and Monday.

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Cask Days 2014

Save some energy for the 10th annual Cask Days cask-conditioned ale beer fest, running October 24 to 26 at the Evergreen Brick Works. The fest is still operated by the Morana family (the same folks who operate Bar Volo), and this year’s edition features more than 300 cask ales from over 150 breweries – a quantum leap from early Cask Days festivals held on Volo’s patio.

Swing by on October 26 from noon to 6 pm for Last Call For Cask at the Brick Works ($5 admission at the door). caskdays.com

The Cask Days festival (October 24 to 26, at Evergreen Brick Works, 2014.caskdays. com) is almost upon us and we’ve already started training for Toronto’s 10th annual festival of barreled beer by – surprise! – drinking the stuff. Cask ales – unpasteurized, unfiltered and served slightly chilled from the vessel in which they “condition,” or undergo secondary fermentation – are an acquired taste for some and an obsession for others.

Low in carbonation and packed with flavour, these traditional-style ales are pumped or poured straight from the living cask right into your glass.

Plenty of local brewers – like Wellington, Black Oak, Mill Street and Great Lakes – make them, and there’s no shortage of beer-centric bars where you can drink them. Bar Hop (391 WHAT King West, 647-352-7476, barhopbar.com), Bar Volo (587 WE’RE Yonge, 416-928-0008, barvolo.com), the Granite (245 EgRINKING D linton East, 416-322-0723, granitebrewery.ca), C’est What TONIGHT (67 Front East, 416-867-9499, cestwhat.com) and Amsterdam BrewHouse (245 Queens Quay West, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse.com) all tap that cask.

Bubbles just because The hour’s golden to be a bubblehead. Every notable restaurant in town has a decent sparkler by the glass, and LCBO shelves are more effervescent than ever. You don’t have to reserve bubblies for special occasions – they’re ideal aperitifs, flexible food pairings and downright delicious wines. So what if it’s a Monday night? Sabre, then savour that shit.

13th Street Brut Clasico ñRosé ñCodorniu Rating: NNNN Why To say the Codorniu clan know their wine seems like an understatement. Vinifying since the 1500s, the Spanish family produced their country’s first traditional-method sparkling wine in 1872 – quite literally setting the benchmark for cava (which, like champagne, must undergo a secondary fermentation in-bottle).

Bright, lemony and foodfriendly, a glass of Codorniu can transform any old day into a celebration.

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Rating: NNNN Why Homegrown bubblies keep getting better and better. Niagara’s 13th Street has received well-deserved accolades for their sparklers, which the winery has been producing since the late 90s. A blend of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay (all un-oaked), this traditionalmethod rosé pours an expressive flute full of ripe berries and toast. Mmm, breakfast….

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There’s nothing champagne and oysters can’t fix – at least until the bottle runs dry and the empty shells pile up. Laurent-Perrier Brut (50 per cent Chardonnay, 35 per cent Pinot Noir, 15 per cent Pinot Meunier) advances the house philosophy of fresh, finessed and balanced wines. Laurent-Perrier describes this champagne as “elegant… with thin and persistent bubbles,” which means it’s supereasy to drink more than one glass.

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NAS at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Wednesday, October 8. ­R ating: NNN

Nas’s show at the soft-seated Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Wednesday felt more like an intimate meet-and-greet with the Queensbridge, new York, hiphop pioneer than a typical rap show.

To­celebrate­the­20th­anniversary­of­ his­debut­album,­the­seminal­East­Coast­ rap­classic­Illmatic,­the­artist­first­treated­us­to­Time­Is­Illmatic­–­a­funny,­sad­ and­insightful­documentary­chronicling­ the­rapper’s­early­life­and­the­disc’s­ naissance.

As­soon­as­the­credits­rolled,­he­took­ the­stage­to­perform­all­of­Illmatic’s­ tracks.­His­DJ­had­great­timing;­the­ sound­was­a­good­showcase­for­the­ beats­by­Q-Tip,­Pete­Rock,­DJ­Premier,­ L.E.S.­and­Large­Professor;­and­Nas­dutifully­rapped­every­song,­turning­the­mic­ to­the­audience­only­for­the­best­shoutalong­parts:­“I­never­sleep,­cause­sleep­ is­the­cousin­of­death,”­from­N.Y.­State­ Of­Mind,­for­example.­ He­was­perhaps­the­most­laid-back­ and­playful­I’ve­ever­seen­him,­but­the­ performance­felt­a­little­perfunctory­ and­the­in-between­banter­was­mostly­ rehearsed,­though­the­fan­interaction­ was­sweet­and­genuine.­ Still, at a time when so many musicians hone a live show without really having the tunes to back it up, it was great to revel in a true masterpiece.

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R ating­: NNNN listening to Sharon Van Etten’s newest record, are We there, is a personal, one-on-one, gut-wrenching experience. if you were at the Opera House on tuesday, you had to share her with about 850 people.

But what was lost in intimacy, Van etten made up for in rock star quality.

Her voice – full, smoky, raw, seductive – was just like on record, but everything else was different. the tunes were much bigger thanks to her fourpiece band, plenty of reverb and cool effects like her guitarist’s employing an ebow on Serpents, a track from 2012’s tramp that’s much punkier than anything on are We there.

Van etten switched up between omnichord and acoustic and electric

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SHARON VAN ETTEN at BIG K.R.I.T. at Tattoo, Friday, Shows that rocked Toronto last the Opera House, Octoberweek 10. ñ Tuesday, October 7.

guitars. She kept the mood light with self-deprecation, wine-swilling and joke-cracking. “this is my attempt at a Sade song,” she said before playing nothing Will change. “Hey Sade, i’m working on it. Get off my back.”

She­opted not­to­play­I­Know,­the­ album’s­most­agonizing­piano­ballad.­ But­for­the­encore’s­last­number,­she­ fearlessly­belted­the­brutally­honest­ Every­Time­The­Sun­Comes­Up.­Would­ have­broken­my­heart­had­she­ Jl skipped­it.­­­

­ ating: NNN R not only is Mississippi emcee Big K.R.I.T.’s sound heavily (and proudly) indebted to the earthy, southern funk of uGk and outkast, but his well-rehearsed stage show is aiming for the emotional breadth that Big Boi and andré 3000 brought to the Molson amphitheatre two months ago. the audience enthusiastically rapped along with k.r.i.t.’s slippery, double-time rhymes as the dj briskly cycled through songs mostly intermingling sex and driving metaphors: talkin’ Bout nothin’, riding dirty and rotation. just when the show started to feel one-note, he cooled the mood with a freestyle to lil Wayne and drake’s Believe Me and recent r&B-tinged single Pay attention before bringing out Big Sant, his partner in the duo the alumni.

their chemistry refreshed the energy levels but eventually devolved into unnecessary pandering with i Got this’s “Fuck these haters/fuck these hoes” chorus.

He ended on an introspective note, performing the Vent, which he dedicated to the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed teen fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Missouri, this summer; and Mt. olympus, his voracious and wide-ranging response to kendrick lamar’s control verse.

Finally, the fury and emotion was kevin ritChie palpable.

RÜFÜS DU SOL at Wrongbar, Sunday, October 12. ­Rating: NNN

australian indie dance-pop trio Rüfüs Du Sol’s 2013 debut album, atlas, debuted at number 1 on their home country’s charts, but they’re still relatively unknown on this continent. accordingly, Wrongbar wasn’t near cap-

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Sweaty guys with aussie accents waved their shirts in the air, and people perched on the shoulders of their friends, singing along to every chorus. the band acted like this kind of reception was normal, and they displayed the tightness and confidence that only come from touring constantly. they kept the backing tracks to a minimum, playing drums, keys, bass, guitar and harmonica live while hiding the laptop offstage. their pairing of wistful indie rock vocals with big-room house beats sometimes sounds like if the Postal Service attempted rave pop, which makes for catchy singles and plenty of fist-pumping. But live, the formula started to get repetitive. benJamin boles

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WHITE FENCE, KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Thursday (October 16) Super-fun garage rock.

THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Thursday (October 16) Local harmony-laden folk group.

X AVANT NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL w/ Laraaji, Diely Mori Tounkara, Lido Pimienta, Ursula Scherrer, Poirier and others Music Gallery (197 John) and Remix Lounge (1305 Dundas West), Thursday to Sunday (October 16-19) See preview, page 58.

SATAN, CASTLE, MIDNIGHT MALICE Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (October 17) Proto-thrash legends from Newcastle.

MUHTADI & THE WORLD DRUMMERS, ADRIAN X, SHI WISDOM AND OTHERS Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), Friday (October 17) Africa Alive for ROM’s Friday Night Live.

DILLY DALLY, ARMY GIRLS, WISH, BAD CHANNELS S.H.I.B.G.B’s (225 Geary), Friday (October 17) Toronto dream-grunge release party.

KAYTRANADA, IAMNOBODI The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (October 17) Hip-hop/R&B electronic producer.

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THE WOODEN SKY, ABSOLUTELY FREE Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday and Saturday (October 17 and 18) See preview, page 54.

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KING DIAMOND, JESS & THE ANCIENT ONES Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (October 18) See preview, page 48.

ICEAGE, FATHER MURPHY Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (October 19) Emotive Danish punk.

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TEMPLES, THE DISTRICTS Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Tuesday (October 21) Kaleidoscopic Beatlesesque pop.

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Itching to run around town catching fledgling bands at myriad small clubs, all while leaves crunch beneath the soles of your favourite autumn boots?

Indie Week kicked off on Wednesday, October 15, but gets underway in earnest from Thursday to Sunday. The annual music fest focuses largely on newbies, and rock is the predominant genre, though there’s also a country showcase as well as geographically grouped ones (UK, East Coast, Irish, etc).

Our picks: HotKid with the OBGMs and Breached on Friday (October 17) at Adelaide Hall. Tremayne and Scott Free take over Crawford on Saturday, while Junia T, Keita Juma and REDD hit up the Peacok Bar, also on Saturday. Best of the higher-profile shows? We’d go with Cousins, DIANA, Parallels and Lyon at Adelaide Hall on Saturday.

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Look up photos from last year’s Wacken Festival and you’ll see the current King Diamond tour in its full glory: inverted crosses hanging from high rafters, side drops that stretch from floor to ceiling, candles and clouds of fog, a cremation scene set in a coffin, a pentagram centred above a wrought-iron-railed balcony on which the black-and-whiteface-painted heavy metal legend prowls and unleashes his legendary falsetto.

On the phone from his home in Texas, King – born Kim Bendix Petersen in Copenhagen in 1956 – gets audibly excited when asked about the production. Nerdily excited. “The whole thing is two storeys tall,” he says, Danish accent thick, tone gracious even though it’s his 16th interview of the day. “The balcony goes up 5 or 6 metres. The depth is 1 metre.

The backdrop is 7 metres tall and 11 metres wide.”

He goes on and on – listing these measurements takes up half of our interview time. But his familiarity with the numbers speaks to his level of involvement in and commitment to the project, 30 years after its inception. The band remains a DIY venture. They have never had a manager, and last year King brokered a

three-album record deal with Metal Blade pretty much on his own.

Despite triple bypass surgery in 2010, he sounds completely pumped.

He’s just built a studio in his home where he can rehearse with the band pre-tour and record vocals – “40-voice choir parts if I want!” – for the upcoming 13th King Diamond album, which doesn’t have a release date yet. (A double album best-of collection, Dreams Of Horror, comes out in November.) He’s

psyched to learn Pro Tools once he gets home.

And he’s up on current music, like Ghost, the similarly face-painted, occult-loving Swedish band that often cite Mercyful Fate, King’s previous band, as an influence. King thinks they sound much more like Blue Öyster Cult, though. “I think Ghost have some good stuff, but they don’t sound like us. They aren’t extreme in any way,” he says.

Blue Öyster Cult, actually, are responsible for King Diamond’s existence. At their concert in Copenhagen in 1976 (also attended by members of Thin Lizzy – from whom a 20-year-old King got autographs while they stood at the bar), he saw a laser onstage for the first time. It set his imagination on fire.

“It definitely [impacted what I wanted to do]. I know what it feels like to see something inspiring. When our intro starts and that black front drop goes down and you see the set for the first time? The symbol hanging over, the blowing candles. It gives me goose bumps while I’m standing there about to go on. I think most people get goose bumps. This is power, and it’s dark.”

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Thursday, October 16 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AdelAide HAll Indie Week James Black, New

City Kings, Last Bullet, the Honey Runners, Here Below doors 8 pm.

AlleycAtz Miss Behavin.

Boots & BourBon sAloon Indie Week Meredith Shaw, Erik Ethridge, Drew Leith & the Foundation, Sea Perry, the Dead Projectionists, When We Was Young doors 8 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Indie Week Mojo GoGo, This Is a Crisis, the Curse Within, the DeadSet, Riot Club, Jackson X, Return for Refund doors 8 pm.

Brooklynn BAr Indie Week Downtown Felons, Andreas, the Quiet Things, JPNSGRLS, Calling August, YUCA, Maybe Refuge doors 8 pm.

cHerry colA’s rock n’ rollA cABAret And lounge Indie Week Final Sight, Redamber-

green, Big Name Actors, Heavy Early, Blind Race, First You Get The Sugar, Rynheart doors 8 pm. crAwford Indie Week The Orchard, HAYS, David Pollack, David Starr, Dylan Hennesey doors 8 pm. czeHoski Indie Week Crooked House Road, 5j Barrow, Eriksen, Hopeland, Ivory Hours, 1951, Lost in Film doors 8 pm. tHe dAnfortH Music HAll Big Wreck, the Lazys doors 8 pm. detour BAr Indie Week Ragged Mane, LOAD,

Modern Twist, Art & Woodhouse, Open Air, the Lost Chord, Blackdog Ballroom doors 8 pm. el MocAMBo Splash & Blow: A Farewell Kiss To The El Mo The Neil Young’uns, Crackpuppy, Simple Damned Device doors 9 pm. free tiMes cAfe Indie Week Garrett Olson, HAYS, Amy Metcalfe, Jason Kerrison, Katy Carswell, Annie Woodward, Maneli Jamal, Pilot Light doors 7 pm. tHe gArrison White Fence, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard doors 8 pm. glAdstone Hotel Behind The Curtain: benefit for the Canadian Mental Health Association The Morals, Jory Nash doors 7:30 pm.

HArd luck BAr 30 Years – Strong & Proud Tour Doro 8 pm. tHe Hideout Indie Week Frankie McQueen, De’Nova, Shawn Brady, YUCA, Marco With Love, the Toniks, Levi Stephens, Jim Dan Dee, Beyond the Mountain doors 7 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe Future States, the Most Loyal, Ann Bronson (rock/folk) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe Blue Sky Miners, Them Dang Rattlers, Lowlands, Stonetrotter (folk rockers) doors 8:30 pm.

HugH’s rooM CD release Jubilee Riots (Northern roots rock) 8 pm. kool HAus Bombay Bicycle Club, Milo Greene doors 7 pm, all ages. lee’s PAlAce Album release The Wilderness Of Manitoba (folk). lou dAwg’s Indie Week Annie Woodward, David Starr, Frank Ryan, Eli Tyler, Cat & the Queen, Wiknters End, Garrett Olsen doors 8 pm. nocturne Indie Week Gaiaisi, Mark Brathwaite, FamilyGrind, Redd, Zolo, Diemens doors 8 pm. tHe PAddock Indie Week Janitors, Stan Simon & the Hotel Bible, Ends by You, Laura Cole, Josh Speers, the Black Fever doors 8 pm. tHe PeAcock BAr Indie Week Siiines, Language Arts, Soldout, We Won the War, Robert Graham & the Fairest & Best, Ori Dagan, the Turks doors 7 pm. rivoli Indie Week Sea Perry, Ivory Hours, the Ending To This Story, Affinity, Bordeen, Dielectric, the Breaking Lakes doors 8 pm. roBert kAnAnAj gAllery Shahman, Slates, Joucous, Life in Vacuum. round venue Indie Week Melissa Marine, Adam Washburn, Sheldon Holder & Biopic, the Steady Rebels, Fat As Fuck, Turbo Street Funk doors 8 pm. silver dollAr Indie Week 460 Kustom, the Bloody Five, the Rathburns, Fallen Heirs, UBI & FU, Canvas doors 8 pm. tHe sister Tres Bien Ensemble. soutHside joHnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. suPerMArket Indie Week The Hot Sprockets, Moonlight Social, New Design, the Falling, the Peptides, Joy Philips, David Krystal doors 8 pm. toronto centre for tHe Arts Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Authentic Imperfection, Katie Dutemple 7:30 pm. totA lounge Indie Week Osiym, Juvon Taylor, Jeff Spec, Georgia Life, Crossword, Philly Moves, Femapco, Johnny Active doors 8 pm. underground gArAge Indie Week Open Air, Port Juvee, Stone Iris, Dusty Tucker, Frankie McQueen, Siiines, Rend doors 8:30 pm. virgin MoBile Mod cluB Milky Chance (pop/ folk/rock duo) doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

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BAr rAdio Rory Lavelle (folk) 9 pm.

BlAkBird Dubai Nights. cAstro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situta-

tion (folk/rock/country) 6 pm. c’est wHAt Ten Years Gone: A Tribute To The Life & Music Of Matt Osborne Jeff Jones 9 pm.

dAkotA tAvern Rose Cousins 7 to 9 pm. ñ full of BeAns coffee Maia’s Uke Jam 5-8 pm.

grAffiti’s Third Thursday Erik Bleich & Carl Lorusso Jr (singer/songwriter) 9 pm.

HArt House ArBor rooM U of T Idol Dave Clark & the Woodshed Orchestra (vocal contestants & band) 8:30 pm. locAl gest Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 8 pm. tHe locAl Parkdale Rebels (honky tonk) 9 pm. lou dAwg’s Open Mic Night Don Campbell 9 pm. lulA lounge Samba Squad (global percussion groove) 10 pm.

MonArcHs PuB Blues Thursdays The Conor Gains Band. toucHé Uma Nota & BRAFFTV Festival Launch Party Flavia Nascimento Trio doors 9:30 pm.

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

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

joHnson Building wAlter HAll Torq Percussion Ensemble 12:10 ñedwArd pm. eMMet rAy BAr Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

flAto MArkHAM tHeAtre Oliver Jones Trio

(classic jazz) 8 pm.

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Arts Operanation: Light Up The Night, COC Gala Yelle, Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio members 9 pm. gAte 403 Simone Morris Jazz Trio 9 pm, Robert Chapman Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. jAzz Bistro CD release Tara Davidson 9 pm. kAMA Thursdays At Five Alex Dean (jazz) 5 to 8 pm. linsMore tAvern Jazz Jam Russ Maclem 9:30 pm. lulA lounge T. Jahz SWTD Quartet (blues/ jazz/Afro-Caribbean/soul) 8 pm.

Music gAllery X Avant New Music Festival Laraaji & Diely Mori Tounkara (West African ambience) 8 pm.

MusideuM Two Ninety Two (avant/improvised) 8 pm. old Mill inn Yvette Tollar Trio 7:30-10:30 pm.

Queen elizABetH tHeAtre Mikhail Turetsky’s Soprano 8 pm. rePosAdo The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop). tHe rex Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. roy tHoMson HAll Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. royAl conservAtory of Music koerner HAll Polaris Esprit Orchestra 8 pm.

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 cluB 120 diner DJ Jason Cleveland.5 crAwford DJ Downunda, host Miss Olivia and Kermit 9 pm. seven44 Disco Inferno DJ Soundman Sanchez. wAylA BAr Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.

Friday, October 17 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AdelAide HAll Indie Week Hot Kid, the OBGMs, Breached, Goodnight Sunrise, ñ Dear Love, Ménage doors 8:30 pm.

AlleycAtz Lady Kane.

Boots & BourBon sAloon Indie Week The

Mandevilles, Johnny & the Jackals, Moonlight Social, Madison Ing, Dick Rodan, Torero doors 8 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Indie Week Dusty Tucker, Six Side Die, Savanah, Machines Dream, Broomfiller, Second Pass doors 8 pm.

Brooklynn BAr Indie Week The Toniks, Stargroves, Stone Iris, the Lipstick Junkies, the Cardinal Dream doors 8 pm. cAstro’s lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 6 pm.

cHerry colA’s rock n’ rollA cABAret And lounge Indie Week REND, Frankie McQueen,

Black Collar Union, Kumonga, the Maysides, Amberwood, Contour, the Modern Hearts doors 8 pm. crAwford Indie Week Andy Dishio, Just John, Allan Rayman, the Mighty Rhino doors 8 pm. czeHoski Indie Week Julian Triano, Hopeland, the Tired Flames, the City Gates, Streetlight Social, Eden Culture, Zameer doors 8 pm. tHe dAnfortH Music HAll Big Wreck, the Lazys doors 8 pm. detour BAr Indie Week Tiny Danza, Ensh, Eli Tyler, Soldout, LOAD, Urvah Khan, redXdown doors 8 pm. druMs n flAts The Speck Brothers (rock & roll) 9 pm. duffy’s tAvern Hammerhands, Immortal Bird, Ischemic, Old Witch (death/thrash) doors 9 pm. el MocAMBo Uma Nota Festival: Friday Night Jamboree The Human Rights, Heavy Soundz, DJ General Eclectic, DJs Rebel Up! doors 10 pm. eton House Stiletto Flats (classic rock) 9 pm. free tiMes cAfe Indie Week Vanessa Ferraro, Annie Woodward, Jason Kerrison, Piper Hayes, David Starr, Sydney Delong, Georgie Luttrell, JoJo Worthington, Braeden Mitchell doors 7 pm.

tHe gArrison Satan, Castle, Midnight Malice doors 8:30 pm. ñ HArd rock cAfe Indie Week - Heavy Metal

Showcase Blaze Bailey, Phantom, Spewgore, Laugh at the Fake (death/power metal) doors 8 pm. tHe Hideout Indie Week: Irish Showcase The Stogies, the Mohrs, Mojo GoGo, the Hot Sprockets, Raglans, Unquiet Nights, Hello Beautiful doors 7 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe Halls of Devotion (rock/ pop) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe Heavy Trash, Bloodshot Bill doors 9 pm. lee’s PAlAce The Wooden Sky, Absolutely Free doors 9 pm. See preview, page 54. linsMore tAvern Locomotive & the Trés Bien Ensemble (power pop) 9:30 pm. lou dAwg’s Indie Week Levi Stephens, Siiines, David Pollack Jennie Laws, Aitch, The Ending To This Story, Josh Taerk, Frankie Pye doors 8 pm.

MonArcHs PuB Classic Rock Fridays North of 7. nocturne Indie Week Soldout, Drillfist, UBI & FU, Meet the Blue, the Terror, Enxh, DLV, the Idol Club doors 8 pm. tHe PAddock Indie Week The Deadset, Marco With Love, the Tungsten Hum, Levi Stephens, the Red Rails, Les Mosquitos, Graeme Lang, Holy Toledo! doors 8 pm. tHe PeAcock BAr Indie Week Eli Tyler, the Soft Look, Winters End, about:, Jutes, Diia doors 9 pm.

PHoenix concert tHeAtre Eluveitie, Metsatöll, Tyr doors 7 pm. rivoli Indie Week: Coalition Showcase Open Air, Zameer, GG Cole & the Lakeview and others doors 7 pm. rose tHeAtre David Wilcox 8 pm. round venue Indie Week Jeff Eager, the Cunninghams, Hays, Julian Cruz, the Ault Sisters, Midcoast, Rehan Delal doors 8 pm. royAl ontArio MuseuM Friday Night Live: Africa Alive Muhtadi & the World Drummers, Adrian X, Shi Wisdom, Njacko Backo, Davee Ki, Kwame Young 7 to 11 pm. s.H.i.B.g.B’s Release show Dilly Dally, Army Girls, Wish, Bad Channels 9 pm. silver dollAr Indie Week Vire, JPNSGRLS, De’Nova, the Pick Brothers, Ginger Ale & the Monowhales, Waterbodies, the Reed Effect, Take the Apple doors 8 pm. sneAky dee’s Album release party VIC NS, Bishop, Jake Bluez, Volchok doors 9 pm. soutHside joHnny’s Pop Cherry (vintage rock) 10 pm. suPerMArket Indie Week Ginger Ale & the Monowhales, Bordeen, Sydney Delong, 5J Barrow, Tear Away Tusa, the Maladies of Adam Stokes, Shaky Knees doors 8 pm. tAttoo BAseMent The Bow Down Tour Deniro Farrar & Denzel Curry, Rich Kidd doors 9 pm, all ages. tAttoo MAin rooM Roundtable 10Year Anniversary Naturally Born Strangers, DJs Wristpect, PPlus, Raccachet, TheraP, Mercilless and others doors 10 pm. totA lounge Indie Week GLife, REDD, Chase Lifted, Family Grind, King Kredible, Sola Reign, Kaydee doors 8 pm. underground gArAge Indie Week: East Coast Showcase First You Get The Sugar, the Falling, JJ & the Pillars, Jessie Brown & the Black Divine, the Stogies, 460 Kustom, Ragged Mane, Adam Washburn doors 8 pm.

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BAviA Arts studio Baithak Intimate Con-

cert Series Shawn Mativetsky, Parmela Attariwala, Razak Pirani (tabla, violin) 7 pm.

dAkotA tAvern Rose Cousins 7 to 9 pm. ñ dorA keogH Root Magic (blues) 9 pm.

gAte 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues)

9 pm.

HugH’s rooM Steve Forbert 8:30 pm. lou dAwg’s Paige Armstrong, Pat Wright (acoustic blues/funk/soul/jazz) 10 pm.

lulA lounge Cafe Cubano (salsa) 10:30 pm.

MusideuM Ivan Simonetti Ceremony (healing, spiritual) 8 pm.

tHe sister Tom Glenne 5.5, Josh Holden.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

AlliAnce frAnçAise sPAdinA Laurent Coq Trio (French/West Indies jazz) 8 pm.

BlAkBird Alexander Brown Quartet (Afro Cuban jazz).

edwArd joHnson Building MAcMillAn tHeAtre Wind Symphony 7:30 pm.

The Flying Beaver PuBareT The Legendary Bitch Diva w/ Brad Alexander 9 pm, The Nat King Cole Songbook Brent Thiessen 7 pm. gallery 345 MB10 (jazz) 8 pm. gaTe 403 Whitney Ross Barris Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. haBiTs gasTroPuB Laura Fernandez (jazz) 9 pm.

Jazz BisTro CD release Tara Davidson 9 pm. living arTs CenTre hammerson hall Engelbert Humperdinck 8 pm. lula lounge Rising Artists Jazz Series Monica Chapman Trio 7:30 pm. musiC gallery X Avant New Music Festival: Drums And Drones + Phrase Velocity 8 pm. See preview, page 58. musideum Brenda Lewis & Margaret Stowe (jazz) 8 pm. old mill inn Artie Roth Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosado The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

The rex Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm, Sara Dell 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. roy Thomson hall London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano) 8 pm.

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

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CasTro’s lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

CluB 120 breakandenter presents Junior Boys, Martin Fazekas 10 pm.5

CluB 120 diner DJ Shayne Taylor 9 pm.5 Coda FW Reunion Addy, Greg Gow, Anthony

D’Amico, Ticky Ty, Lee Osborne, Fresque, Baby Joel doors 10 pm. emmeT ray Bar DJ Cosmonauts (hip-hop/ electronic/indie/soul) 10 pm.

Fly 2.0 Shameless DJ Amita, DJ Reshiv (Bollywood/electronic/world beats/bhangra) 10:30 pm.5 The hoxTon Kaytranada, Iamnobodi doors 10 pm.

JunCTion CiTy musiC hall DJ Public Relations (mostly 80s/all vinyl).

Kool haus Boobyball: Big Top Booby-Rethink Breast Cancer Benefit Brendal Fallis, Guillaume Viau 8 pm.

The PisTon Rebel Hop 10 pm. ravage and rumBle Flashback Fridays DJ NaNa 10 pm. rivoli Pool lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll).

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royal onTario museum level 4 Overfunk’d-tribute to Fela Kuti & James ñ Brown Son of S.O.U.L & King Curtiss Winston 7 to 11 pm.

Saturday, October 18 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

adelaide hall Indie Week DIANA, Parallels, Lyon doors 9 pm. ñCousins, air Canada CenTre On With The Show Tour Fleetwood Mac doors 7 pm. ñ alleyCaTz Lady Kane.

BooTs & BourBon saloon Indie Week Royalty Records Showcase Moonlight Social, the Orchard, Amy Metcalfe, Green Light Morning, Tommy Brunett doors 9 pm.

Bovine sex CluB Indie Week The Anti Queens, the Unchained, Stuck on Planet Earth, Sketch doors 9 pm.

BrooKlynn Bar Indie Week Semi Final.

Cherry Cola’s roCK n’ rolla CaBareT and lounge Indie Week Semi Final Mojo GoGo,

Tiger Bloom, Luke Austin Band, and others doors 8 pm.

CrawFord Indie Week Tremayne, Scott Free, Jape, Sany Pearlman & Bones, Goliath Paw doors 8 pm.

CzehosKi Indie Week Semi Final 5jBarrow, the Joy Arson, Jason Kerrison and others doors 8 pm. deTour Bar Indie Week Les Mosquitos, the Control Room, Devon Coxoxo, Small Town Get Up, UBI & FU, Ends by You doors 8 pm. draKe hoTel underground EP release/mini tour Lily Frost, Drew Smith, Katherine Morley (pop/rock) 8 pm. duFFy’s Tavern Great Lakes, Days Like Today, Bitter Kids, Parkside, Hindsight, Rosewater doors 7 pm. el moCamBo Album release party Driftglass, Piece of Maiden, Russian Roulette 8 pm.

Free Times CaFe Indie Week Semi Final David Pollack, Little Boxer, Dave Silani, Kelsi Jean and others doors 9 pm. gloBal Kingdom minisTries Manafest, Promise, N.I.F.T.Y., Children of Thunder 6:30 continued on page 52 œ pm.

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THe Paddock Indie Week Stargroves, Aukland, the city Gates, Sole Pursuit, the Dreadful Starlings, Chris Gostling & the Tempo doors 8 pm.

THe Peacock bar Indie Week REDD, gLife, Family Grind, Junia T, Keita Juma doors 9 pm.

Press club aBabe Music Garett Olson, Jacquelyn Tober & the Rose County Ramblers, Autopilot 9:30 pm.

Queen elizabeTH THeaTre Boy & Bear, Reuben & the Dark 8 pm, all ages.

THe rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rivoli Indie Week: Focus UK Showcase The Hot Sprockets, the Stogies, Micronite Filters, New City Kings, the Toniks, D’Nova, Unquiet Nights doors 8 pm. rockPile Peter Tosh Birthday Tribute House of David Gang, Chasing Jane, Straight Goods, Christoper Charles & the Chronicles, Kush doors 8 pm. round venue Indie Week We Won the War, Bathurst Station, REND, Zameer, Stacey Renee, Samara York, Tonella & the Blood Between Us doors 8 pm.

THe sisTer Skaface, the Outbred Inlaws doors 9 pm. sound academy King Diamond, Jess & the Ancient Ones doors 8 pm, all ages.

See preview, page 48. souTHside JoHnny’s The Reckoning (rock/ top 40) 10 pm,the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

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Handlebar We Were Heads, Several Futures, Holzkopf, Arma Agharta, Alpha ñ Strategy 8:30 pm. See Several Futures album

review, page 59.

Hard luck bar Port Juvee, Rebuilder, Fuss, Eavesdrop (punk/rock) 9 pm.

THe HideouT Indie Week Semi Final Rebel Hero and others doors 8 pm.

Holy oak cafe Purple Hill, Julie Kendall & Paul Shepherd (rock) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe The Smalls 9 pm. kool Haus I-Octane, Assassin, Sample King, Fire Kid Steenie, Blax Dun Da Place, Renegade Squad, DJ Tyrone doors 10 pm. lee’s Palace The Wooden Sky, Absolutely Free doors 9 pm. See preview, page 54. linsmore Tavern The Mockers (Beatles tribute) 9:30 pm. lou dawg’s Indie Week-BKR/Petestock Showcase Winters End, Rory Taillon, Unquiet Nights, A-Fos & the Rude Youth, the Maysides, Theatre Crisp, New Franchise, Donny Yonder doors 8 pm. oPera House Less Than Jake, Big D & the Kids Table doors 8 pm, all ages.

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suPermarkeT Indie Week Semi Final Rebel Hero and others doors 8 pm.

ToTa lounge Indie Week: Music Ontario Showcase Last Bullet, the Steady Rebels, the Red Rails, Jessie Brown & the Black Divine and others doors 7 pm. underground garage Indie Week Semi Final Open Air, Raglans, Marco With Love and others doors 9 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

bar radio Spinning Wax & Pulling Strings w/ Colonel Tom & Nudie (country) 10 pm. casTro’s lounge Big Rude Jake 4:30 pm. eTon House Thelonious Hank (classic country) 9 pm. fleck dance THeaTre KAISO and DVD release Nagata Shachu (taiko drums) 8 pm. gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm.

HugH’s room Chowstock Richard Underhill, Kevin Hearn & Thinbuckle, Wayne Cass, Chris Bottomley, Eliana Cuevas, Shuffle Demons doors 6 pm. living arTs cenTre rbc THeaTre Bill Candy & Northern Comfort Band (folk/country/blues/ pop) 8 pm.

THe local Angie Gunn (honkytonk) 9 pm, Irish Session David Meenan 5 pm. lula lounge Orquesta Fantasia (salsa) 10:30 pm. mackenzie’s annex Rebas Open Mic Philomene Hoffman 2 to 6 pm. relisH bar & grill Anna Gutmanis, Jamie Anderson, Bob Cohen, Karen Dinardo 9:30 pm. royal canadian legion 1/42 Elana Harte & Lucio Agostini (Americana/retro) 8 pm. royal conservaTory of music mazzoleni Hall Taylor Academy Showcase Concert 4:30 pm.

svg lounge Creole Unity Fete DJ Jam-Z Mix,

Super L, DJ Toxic, DJ Novelys & Island Therapy 10 pm.

TriniTy sT. Paul’s cHurcH Songs Of Peace And Protest James Gordon, Mick Lane, Faith Nolan, Evalyn Parry, Tony Quarrington, Len Wallace (folk) 7:30 pm.

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Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

array sPace Arctic Circle lecture and performance Allison Cameron 8 pm.

c’esT wHaT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad

jazz) 3 pm.

cHalkers Pub David Buchbinder Trio (jazz) 6

to 9 pm.

THe flying beaver PubareT Storytellers:

fundraiser for Singing Out Choir Singing Out 7 & 9 pm.5

gaTe 403 Brownman Akoustic Trio 9 pm. grace uniTed cHurcH Trombone Quartet Concert Slide by Slide Quartet 7 pm.

grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Jazz bisTro CD release Tara Davidson 9 pm,

Jazz Brunch Steve Amirault 11:30 am. music gallery X Avant New Music Festival Jace Clayton’s Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner 8 pm. naisa sPace SOUNDplay Series: Life Revisited Eric Boivin, Alberick 8 pm. old mill inn Sam Broverman Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosado Rob & Bob Power Duo. revival Midnight Mix 4 Year Anniversary Baby Yu, DJs Wristpect, J-Class, Big Philly, Sir Lanceleot, JB Allen doors 10 pm.

THe rex KØGGING (Dutch jazz group) 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7:30 pm, Laura Hubert Band 3:30 pm. roy THomson Hall The Planets & More Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

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royal conservaTory of music koerner Hall Salute To The Big Bands Rob McConnell’s Boss Brass 8 pm.

seven44 Climax Jazz Band 4-7 pm. sT PaTrick’s caTHolic cHurcH Songs Of War

And Remembrance Tallis Choir 7:30 pm.

TarTisTry Elizabeth Martins Group, 10 am Guys, Birds of a Feather, Fair Trade 10 am-6 pm.

Toni bulloni Genevieve Marentette, Robert Scott (jazz) 9 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

THe balleT All Vinyl Everything Mensa, Agile

& Mista Jiggz (hip-hop/R&B/house/reggae/ disco/funk/soul/breaks) doors 10 pm. black eagle Bearcode: Bears 4 Bears DJ Mark Falco (electro house/top 40) 10 pm.5 blakbird Groove On Down DJ Curtis Smith. casTro’s lounge DJ Spinson’s Dance Party (local/old school/underground hip-hop) 11 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 Bearracuda DJ Matt Consola 10 pm.5 club 120 diner Get It On! DJ Todd Klinck 9 pm.5 coda Victor Calderone, Chris Cornacchia, Brent Hayward doors 10 pm. emmeT ray bar DJ Cruz Controlla (hip-hop/ soul) 10 pm.

fly 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 THe garrison Soul Clap & Dance Off Party DJ

Jonathan Toubin, DJ Gaven Dianda doors 9 pm. lou dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hip-hop). nocTurne Darkrave And Dirty Cupcake Party.

THe PisTon Love Handle (boogie/soul) 10 pm. remix lounge X Avant New Music Festival & Uma Nota Festival DJ Ushka, Poirier (transglobal underground) doors 10 pm.

THe savoy Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. wrongbar Sweet Tears DJs Starting from Scratch, Tyrone Solomon, the GURU Brothers.

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Sunday, October 19 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

bovine sex club Indie Week Closing Party The

Hot Sprockets, New City Kings, Sumo Cyco doors 10 pm.

THe danforTH music Hall Streetlight Manifesto doors 7 pm, all ages. drake HoTel underground Tory Lanez (rap).

HiruT fine eTHioPian cuisine Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm.

Holy oak cafe Claire Coupland (pop) 9 pm.

HorsesHoe Iceage, Father Murphy doors 8 pm. lula lounge Sing! Micah Barnes, Countermeasure, the O’Pears, Andrea Koziol, Allisa Vox Raw (pop/rock/jazz) 7 pm.

PHoenix concerT THeaTre We Were Promised Jetpacks doors 8 pm. round venue MATT dorgan PROJECT, Loopsy Dazy 8 pm. smiling buddHa Jenna Burke, Faith Amour, Andre Anthony, Stacey Aseidu (R&B/soul) 9 pm. souTHside JoHnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. sTudio bar Dream House Music.Art.Design Festival Monday Blake, Elcee, Atom Martin, Neverland Gang, Shaqisdope, Remain Giant, DJ NyeTheGlitch, PlaitWrights, Pierre Pharaoh (hip-hop/new wave) doors 7 pm. virgin mobile mod club Indie Week Finals Mojo GoGo and others doors 6 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. casTro’s lounge Helen Stewart 4 pm.

THe duke live.com The Ronnie Hayward

Band (rockabilly/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

Ellington’s CafE Kids Open Stage 4 to 6 pm. frEE timEs CafE Gordon’s Acoustic Living

Room Gaye Zimmerman-Huycke, Dean Cavill, Brian Morgan and others 8 pm, Brunch Beyond the Pale (klezmer) 11 am & 1:15 pm. tHE grEat Hall Batucada Carioca 10 Year Anniversary Party & Community Cultural FairUma Nota Festival Batucada Carioca w/ Tio Chorinho, Louis Simao & Chris Butcher, Wagner Petrilli, Roda de Samba doors 2 pm. grossman’s Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

HugH’s room CD release James Hill 8:30 pm. linsmorE tavErn Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (blues/R&B/funk) 5 to 9 pm. tHE loCal Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban ) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/country) 5 pm.

lula loungE Sunday Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza 11 am.

mCgradiEs tap and grill Open Jam Dan

Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. tHE rEx Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

array spaCE Array/Evergreen Community Gamelan Meetup 1-4 pm.

array spaCE Open Rehearsal/Informal Concert neither/nor 7:30-9:30 pm.

BEtty olipHant tHEatrE Souvenir Con-

tinuum Chamber Ensemble, Shannon Mercer, Krisztina Szabo (film and live music project) 8 pm. continued on page 56 œ

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The tempermental duo of Alice Glass and Ethan Kath, best known as Toronto electro goths Crystal Castles, announced that they were calling it quits on Wednesday, October 8. Glass tweeted that she was leaving the band for “a multitude of reasons both professional and personal” and that she would pursue a solo career. Kath has stayed quiet, but fans of his pre-CC rock ’n’ roll ventures like Kill Cheerleader (also known as Cheerleader 666 and Cheerleader) have their fingers crossed that he might return to his roots (or better yet, revive that band!).

See nowtoronto.com/music for breakup details.

ADELAIDE HALL REGROUP The former CHUM building at Adelaide and Duncan has been put to good use since June 2013 as the live music venue Adelaide Hall. With a sweet balcony and space for 550 partiers, it’s a rare medium-sized event space perfect for hot up-and-coming acts. However, you may have noticed that it hosts only half a dozen shows a month, and some months just one or two. That might be changing, though, with Thursday’s announcement that Mark Pesci has taken the reins as talent buyer/music programmer at the Hall and MRG Concerts East. Pesci is best known as the former booker behind punk/garage/hardcore shows at Parts & Labour and more recently Smiling Buddha. His first booking?

Lemuria on December 17 – which makes us think the Entertainment District might start getting a bigger dose of punk rock.

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By JULIA LeCONTE The wooden sky and AbsoluTely Free with Jon hynes on Friday (October 17), and wIsh on Saturday (October 18) at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), doors 9 pm. $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. And wooden sky VInyl bIke Tour at Cabin Fever (1669 Bloor West), Soundscapes (572 College) and Kops (592 Bloor West), 2, 4 and 6 pm.

Free.

Gavin Gardiner is a glutton for punishment. Or, he really loves his job.

On Friday night, his rootsy Toronto indie rock five-piece the Wooden Sky play the first of their two-night stand at Lee’s Palace. On Saturday afternoon, the guys pedal a Wooden Sky Vinyl Bike Tour around the city, playing acoustic sets at local record stores with instruments they can carry on their bikes (and backs). Then there’s the band’s history of impromptu postshow sets. And Gardiner, the songwriter, singer and guitarist, is running the Scotiabank half marathon the following day along with bassist Jon Hynes.

Talk about feeling like Superman.

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and drive to Moncton,” says Gardiner.

He’s fuelling with wings and beer at the Lakeview at Dundas and Ossington, just down the street from where the band shot the cover art for their September-released fourth full-length, Let’s Be Ready, out on their own Chelsea imprint.

It channels Americana, the lilt of country and the patient dignity of the National, and it nods at the Hip – the latter thanks partly to Gardiner’s undulating, twang-inflected vocals.

The album was meant to capture the spirit of their show, and, fittingly, it was written on the road – a first.

“I couldn’t go on tour for eight months and not do any writing,” says Gardiner. “So I just forced myself, which was fun because I got to write about the things I was experiencing at that time. That was a new experience.”

The result is a bit of a tour diary. For example, Gardiner penned Baby, Hold On, somewhere between Thunder Bay and Toronto – the home stretch.

“I’ve only ever written a complete song – lyrics and everything – in the van once. We were so close to home at that point. I was just lying there watching the snow go by Lake Superior, and the rhythm of it just seemed to make

sense with the song. So I started singing it into my phone, and then I started singing the other parts, and then I got home and recorded it all.”

Being in motion helps the natural writing process, he says – the same feeling as running. “It’s partially due to the distraction of it,” •he explains.

FRI NOV28 SOUND ACADEMY “You’re not looking muse the $43.50 -the $48.50 ADV •inALL AGES eye.”

The members have even taken to running on this current tour. A band that plays as much as possible together – and jogs together – stays together, it seems: except for the recent bassist swap of Andrew Wyatt (who’s on the record) for Hynes, the guys – Edwin Huizinga (violin), Andrew Kekewich (percussion) and Simon Walker (guitar) – have mostly been together since 2007.

“Everybody wants to be as invested as they can be, which is part of the • $20.00 reason we’re LEE’S still a PALACE band,” says Gar-ADV diner.

“I always wanted the band to feel like a family, which is sort of a cliché, but I don’t want to spend all my time with people I don’t care about and who don’t care about me. Life’s too short.”

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CaMeron house Megan Lane (indie pop).

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x avant festival EXPERIMENTAL

Music series champions GTA’s transcultural movements By BENJAMIN BOLES x AvAnt FestivAl at the Music Gallery (197 John) and Remix Lounge (1305 Dundas West), Thursday to Sunday (October 16-19). $10-$20, festival pass $40.

SS, musicgallery.org Music Gallery programmer David Dacks sounds acutely aware of the potential political minefield he’s stepping into by framing the ninth edition of the experimental music institution’s X Avant Festival around the concept of transculturalism.

“It’s very common to see articles now about cultural appropriation, and being an increasingly older white guy, I’ve realized the privileged status David Dacks that I have,” says Dacks in the Music Gallery’s green room. “So what do you do

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about that? Where do you go from there? And how do you make meaningful contributions? A lot of that has to do with stepping back and letting other people do their things by helping create the winning conditions.”

The conditions he’s referring to are the established Music Gallery audience’s receptivity to new sounds, access to the org’s beautiful performance space in St. George the Martyr Church and – perhaps most importantly – the funding for unique one-off collaborations that make X Avant so unique (see sidebar).

While the series has long been known for showcasing the more experimental aspects of pop music alongside purely avant-garde work, it also provides a forum for discussion through various talks and interviews. Among

Lido Pimienta

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Lido Pimienta (Sunday, October 19, 8 pm, Music Gallery) The Colombian-Canadian performer curated her showcase and will be joined onstage by Anishinaabe multi-instrumentalist Melody McKiver (who also appears as part of the October 18 panel discussion Ethnocultural Baggage And Contemporary Classical Music) and Mas Aya (Toronto experimental musician Brandon Valdivia), with visuals by Adrienne Crossman and Peter Rahul.

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TransculTural collaboraTions As exciting as it is to see rare Toronto appearances by acts like Drums and Drones (aka Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase and visual artist Ursula Scherrer, October 17), cutting-edge Brooklyn DJ Ushka and NYC writer/musician/DJ Jace Clayton (both on October 18), a big part of what makes X Avant special are the festival-specific one-off collaborations. We chose the best of the fest.

the panels this year is Mississauga Goddamn (Sunday, October 19, at the Music Gallery, moderated by Anupa Mistry), whose name riffs on a self-deprecating line from a Hidden Cameras song but will actually celebrate the giant suburban city and its ever-blossoming music scene.

“There’s an amazing amount of vitality and creativity coming from these places that are so often written off as banal. It’s important to underline that there are a lot of truly intracultural movements within the Greater Toronto Area that are perhaps not recognized as such,” says Dacks.

“I’m not a Facebook warrior about these things, and sometimes I wish I were, but I’ve got a budget supplied by three levels of government that I can try to spend on issues that really matter.”

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THE FEST’S BEST TEAMWORK

Phrase Velocity (Friday, October 17, 8 pm, Music Gallery) Opening for NYC’s Drums and Drones, Phrase Velocity are local tabla virtuoso Ed Hanley and Jonathan Adjemian, who’ll electronically deconstruct Hanley’s intricate percussion patterns and provide a synthetic bed of droning sound waves to surround and complement the complicated polyrhythms.

Laraaji and Diely Mori Tounkara + friends (Thursday, October 17, 8 pm, Music Gallery) NYC electric zither player Laraaji’s career has seen a recent revival with the reissue of some of his 1970s ambient work with Brian Eno. As well as performing solo, he’ll also be teaming up with Montreal-based kora player Tounkara and local experimental musicians Colin Fisher, Scott Peterson and Valdivia.

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Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady (Pheromone) Rating: People don’t make records like this any more. A voice, guitar and a little bit of harmonica – just a woman in a room laying her music onto 2-inch tape.

Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady is the buzzy debut of Steph Cameron, a rural BC-based folksinger who was discovered by Cowboy Junkies bassist Alan Anton, met with Pheromone partner Kim Cooke to record one song and ended up spontaneously recording an album. In three days.

She kicks off with a flurry of notes and a sung-talked tune called Railroad Boy reminiscent of Michelle Shocked’s 1986 Walkman-recorded breakthrough The Texas Campfire Tapes. The record moves through early Dylan-style songs (Glory) and rousing, original natural disaster tales (Goodbye Molly). It lingers on some classic, fumblingly sweet love blues (Poppa, You Can Take Me Home, Blues At My Window) and hints at an affinity for Holly Golightly (Interlude Two).

Cameron is a bright and brash guitarist and a beguiling singer. Can’t wait for the vinyl.

Top track: Goodbye Molly Steph Cameron plays the Dakota Tavern Wednesday (October 22).

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Namedropper (Sonic Unyon) Rating: NNNN On her sixth album, Toronto’s Oh Susanna (Suzie Ungerleider) sounds immensely comfortable breaking out of her comfort zone. As the title implies, Namedropper is an album of covers by Ungerleider’s friends and colleagues, produced by Jim Bryson, who also wrote the first song, Oregon.

Gone are the slow, sad alt-country numbers; in their stead is an Oh Susanna record you can actually dance to (at least to Melissa McClelland-penned pop/rock earworm Mozart For The Cat).

Ron Sexsmith’s signature sound is identifiable from the first whiff of guitar melody on Wait Until The Sun Comes Up, while it takes the second bridge to identify the charming Into My Arms as a Joel Plaskett song.

Ungerleider has a lot of big names to drop (she covers Jim Cuddy, Old Man Luedecke and the Good Lovelies), but two of the standout tracks come from lesserknown, Kingston-based artists: Rueben deGroot’s Randy Newman-style bank robber song Savings & Loan and Jay Harris’s 1955, which nods to Elvis Costello.

Top track: Mozart For The Cat Oh Susanna plays the Great Hall October 25.

SG SLOW LEAVES Beauty Is So Common (independent) Rating: NNN Winnipeg-based songwriter Grant Davidson released two albums under his own name before assuming the Slow Leaves moniker and asking fellow Winnipegger Rusty Matyas of Imaginary Cities to produce him. The two musicians play nearly

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replaced with more uplifting material. The quility. On Who Do You Love?, a funky band has grown adept at making their break drops in and out as if attempting to swelling choruses much more unpredictdrag a solemn-sounding Robyn into a club able, and that’s become part of the fun. by one arm.

Their fourth full-length is packed with With some exceptions, the songs truly longer string- and keyboardtake flight when Kindness cedes the mic to heavy tracks: Alcatraz others, like Robyn or Kelela, whose voices evolves from simple, add depth and suggestiveness – with an humble guitar strumease that eludes Bainbridge himself – eleming into an engrossing vating the album’s bland lovelorn sentislice of symphonic pop. ment.

And even shorter tunes like the Top track: With You, featuring Kelela playful Dream contain the kind of hopeful KEVIN RITCHIE harmonies that make it feel substantial and powerful.

SEA OLEENA Shallow (Lefse) Calling it their pinnacle might be preRating: NNNN mature, but Second Sight is so damn inFour years ago, reclusive 18-year-old Charvigorating that it may just be their best lotte Loseth began her soundscapes proyet. ject Sea Oleena on GarageBand. Since Top track: Gold Teeth then, she’s left small-town Saskatchewan Hey Rosetta! play the Danforth Music Hall for Montreal, self-released several EPs and February 12 and 13.

JOSHUA KLOKE scored a record deal. But the crux of her KINDNESS Otherness (Mom + Pop) music – dense and dreamy sonic journeys Rating: NNN via circuitous guitars, vibrant strings and Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness, is like that whispered vocals – has remained intact. friend who turns you on to new or obscure Her debut full-length will give you music. His debut album, World, You Need goosebumps one moment and break your A Change Of Mind, played like a history heart the next. Piercing piano on the epic lesson in dance music sub-genres.

11-minute track Vinton, LA is paralleled by Astute listeners might pick up on the a looming orchestral cloud in the backjazz and funk references in its follow-up, ground. The cold undertones in Paths but this time around Bainbridge has chancounterbalance Loseth’s warm voice, nelled his influences into more personal, which delights in stretching out each sylrelatable music. Meaning, the production lable. Sharp, seesawing strings gracefully doesn’t always overshadow the songascend on If I’m, before giving way to curt writing. strikes of piano and jolts of brooding elecOtherness drifts between accessible tronic beats. Then there’s the title track, a and experimental, noise and space, as a slow-burner that hints at lightness rotating cast of vocalists sing lovelorn melthrough the melancholic layers but never odies over soft piano, sighing horns, harp quite escapes 2014-10-06 the dark. and sub-bass. Sometimes the album deRCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Oct16_Kidjo.qxp__V 3:04 PM Page 1 Top track: If I’m SE lights in confounding this beauty and tran-

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every instrument on the appropriately named debut – indeed, beauty is everywhere on the album.

Take Second Chances, the mellow title track of Slow Leaves’ 2013 EP, reprised here with Davidson’s Doug Paisley-like tenor backed by a Bandesque bass line, acoustic guitar and organ. Or the moonlit latenight-drive closer, Rearview, with tinkling piano, harmonica and faraway “shoo-bedoops.”

On Nostalgia, Davidson draws inspiration from Neil Young’s Out On The Weekend. Elsewhere there’s a bit of boogie woogie (Life Of A Better Man), and Country Of Ideas bubbles with funky country rock.

It’s a pleasantly textured album, but one that ultimately leaves us waiting for Davidson’s personality to shine through a little more.

Top track: Second Chances Slow Leaves play the Cameron House Monday (October 20).

SG

Pop/Rock FOXYGEN ...And Star Power (Jag-

jaguwar) Rating: NNN After a SXSW meltdown and cancelled tour, it seemed like Sam France and Jonathan Rado of L.A.-based Foxygen were going to call it quits. Instead, they’ve made a third album, a sprawling 82-minute homage to their forefathers: the Velvet Underground, acid-tripping-era Beatles, Pink Floyd and Ziggy Stardust.

How Can You Really employs sunny horns and jangly piano, while Star Power III: What Are We Good For opens with a monologue by Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes (sounding like Lou Reed) and a love-fest singalong before erupting into groovy bass and guitar solos. For all the psychedelic brilliance, though, there is just as much noisy, self-impressed jamming that could have used editing.

And so, a cheat sheet for expedited listening: Focus on the first 12 tracks, cruise through the middle, pause for slower piano ditty Cannibal Holocaust and then skip to Everyone Needs Love, a rock ’n’ roll odyssey with Wayne Coyne singing backup.

Top track: Star Power III: What Are We Good For SAMANTHA EDWARDS

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Narrative Collapse (independent) Rating: New Toronto post-punk trio Several Futures deliver a satisfying dose of energized, heavy guitar rock on their six-song debut EP. Made up of long-time indie scene supporters and former Republic of Safety members Evan Davies and Jonathan Bunce (also of Wavelength), plus Hybrid Moments’ Matt Nish-Lapidus, the three-piece isn’t afraid to make noise, especially evident on album closer Thatcher In The Rye, which churns with gloom before descending into seriously abrasive, agitated punk.

Their guitar-bass-drums-vocals set-up keeps things minimal, elemental and oldschool, reminiscent of mathy 90s American indie rock and post-hardcore. NishLapidus’s clean singing voice is a highlight – he’s able to holler and intone with passion and conviction while always remaining tuneful, intelligible and even friendly in tone. Asymmetric drum patterns and rhythms, quick shifting structures and loud-soft guitar lines full of dissonance keep band and listener on their toes.

Top track: Thatcher In The Rye Several Futures play Handlebar on Saturday (October 18).

CARLA GILLIS

CONTESTS

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO WITH SPECIAL GUEST H’SAO

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL

“Africa's premier diva” (TIME) performs rhythmic Afro-funk fusion with “irresistible energy and joie de vivre.” (Los Angeles Times) Presented in association with Batuki Music and Small World Music.

HEY ROSETTA! Second Sight

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(Sonic/Warner) Rating: NNNN St. John’s band Hey Rosetta! have become one of the most appreciated rock acts in Canada, thanks in large part to their swelling, textured sound. The seven-member band has always stretched beyond typical rock limitations with its decidedly cinematic sound. While 2011’s Seeds was no less grandiose, its darker turns have been

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THEATRE PREVIEW

Inside an outsider New works looks at an insensitive guy who longs to connect By JON KAPLAN THE ART OF BUILDING A BUNKER by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia, directed by Verdecchia, with Lazarus. Presented by QuipTake and Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst). Opens Thursday (October 16) and runs to November 2, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2 pm. $23$45, some discounts and Sunday pwyc.

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Even if we don’t think about it consciously, we spend every day deciding how to interact with others: choosing what’s permissible to say or do, avoiding what we consider wrong.

That’s a huge challenge for Elvis, the central character in Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia’s The Art Of Building A Bunker, which opens the Factory Theatre season. A hit in its workshop production at SummerWorks 2013, the show gives solo performer Lazarus a chance to portray the various members of a sensitivitytraining group and its not always sensitive leader.

Having committed some unnamed act of stepping over the line at work, Elvis is forced to do a week’s mandatory training, at the end of which he and the others must each present a speech in which they confront and exorcise their worst demons.

“He’s a low-ranking civil servant, a guy with a wife and child he feels he must protect,” says Lazarus. “I think he works in zoning permits, and while he’s quiet most of the time, he’s irritated, stuck, afraid and angry. He might seem to fall in line, but internally he’s steaming, brewing and awkward.”

Lazarus and cowriter/director Verdecchia have drawn a man who’s darkly funny, prone to think and sometimes say the most inappropriate things.

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Playwright Guillermo Verdecchia (back) directs Adam Lazarus in The Art Of Building A Bunker.

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identify. Lazarus’s background in bouffon suggested the direction he’s taken with Elvis.

“The bouffon figure is the outsider, the fool, who speaks the truth and says things that we don’t dare say or are socialized into not saying,” notes Verdecchia. “He might speak lots of nonsense, but there are certain truths and realities that he blurts out in everybody’s face.”

Elvis longs for connection with others but doesn’t know how to reach out to them. The world is headed for disaster as he sees it, and he can’t understand the importance of sensitivity training in light of what’s to come.

“He raises the basic political questions that are central to everyone,” nods the director. “How do we live together, how do we get along and manage our encounters and differences? These aren’t abstract questions but personal ones for both Adam and me. We’re trying in someway to address a feeling in the air about fear and the lack of civility.”

While raising thorny ideas, the show is often driven by humour.

“But like the material, the laughs are often difficult and suggest questions without necessarily answering them,” says Lazarus, whose work includes Wonderland, in which he played the legless, foul-mouthed Eff. “If a viewer starts to laugh and then wonders whether it’s okay to do so or finds it shocking, we’ve touched the right button.”

“The same ideas came up in a show I worked on with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai, The Adventures Of Ali & Ali And The Axes Of Evil,” adds Verdecchia. “This is the kind of comedy we must create today. Drama in general reconciles us to our profound feelings about things. Unsettling laughs always ask us to re-examine what we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.”

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Opening THE ART OF BUILDING A BUNKER by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia (Facñ tory Theatre/QuipTake). Elvis is surrounded by

a diverse group of characters as he endures workplace sensitivity training (see story, this page). Opens Oct 16 and runs to Nov 2, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23-$45. 125 Bathurst.

416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

BEEF by Michael Musi (Sorry Goat Productions).

A couple break up following a visit to a burger shop in this play about insecurities and acceptance. Opens Oct 21 and runs to Nov 2, Tue Oct 21 at 8 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $18-$20. The Box, 89 Niagara. beeftheplay.com.

BELLA: THE COLOUR OF LOVE by Mary Kerr and Theresa Tova (Harold Green Jewish Theatre).

Inspired by the life of Bella Chagall, this show uses words, songs and Marc Chagall’s art to look at the nature of love and creativity. Previews to Oct 19. Opens Oct 21 and runs to Nov 2, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Sun 2 pm, Wed 1 pm. $63. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-733-0545, hgjewishtheatre.com.

CLASSIC MOTOWN (Windmill Theatre). This musical revue features the songs of Marvin Gaye, the Supremes and more. Oct 17-18, FriSat 8 pm. $30. Unitarian Congregation Great Hall, 84 South Service Rd, Mississauga. 905483-5702, windmilltheatre.com.

CONCORD FLORAL by Jordan Tannahill (Why Not Theatre/Suburban Beast). Teens flee a mysterious plague they have brought upon themselves in this re-imagining of Boccaccio’s Decameron. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$20.

Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, theatrewhynot.org.

EVITA by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Lower Ossington Theatre). Eva Duarte rises from poverty to become the Argentine president’s wife in this musical. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Nov 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

HELEN LAWRENCE by Chris Haddock (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre Co/ Banff Centre/NAC). Vancouver struggles to reorganize itself after World War II in this drama combining visual art, theatre, live-action filming and computer-generated simulations. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Nov 2, TueThu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

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Richard O’Brien (Lower Ossington Theatre).

Jim Sharman’s cult-classic 1975 film is presented as an interactive musical. Costumes encouraged. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Nov 1, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10 pm. $20. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

SCOOTER THOMAS MAKES IT TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD by Peter Parnell (Black Rabbit The-

atre). This coming-of-age play looks at how friendships evolve. Oct 17-18 at 2 and 8 pm. $20. The Box, 89 Niagara. blackrabbittheatre. wix.com/blackrabbit.

SIDEKICKS & SECRET IDENTITIES by DJ Sylvis (Monkeyman Productions). Short plays based on comics where heroes are unexpected, bystanders aren’t so innocent and sidekicks finally get their moment of glory. Opens Oct 17 and runs to Oct 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3:30 pm. $15. Fraser Studios, 76 Stafford. monkeymanproductions.com.

WEIRD (Theatre Arcturus). Aerial arts and theatre combine in this show that explores Shakespeare’s Macbeth from the perspective of the Three Witches. Oct 17-19, Fri-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $19-$22. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315. theatrearcturus.ca.

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THE BAKELITE MASTERPIECE by Kate Cayley

(Tarragon Theatre). An artist must prove that he forged a Vermeer painting he tried to sell in WWII-era Holland. Previews Oct 21-28. Opens Oct 29 and runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, SatSun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

One-nighters

CMTP MYSTERY SHOW (Confidential Music Theatre Project). Actors who are familiar with their scripts but have not rehearsed together will stage a secret musical production. Oct 16 at 8 pm. $25. Victoria Chapel, 91 Charles W. confidentialmusicaltheatreproject.com.

H GRINDHOUSE GHOULIES: HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR Skin Tight Outta Sight/Great

Canadian Burlesque). The troupe pays tribute to sleazy films of the 60s and 70s with a revue featuring Dolly Berlin, El Toro and others. Oct 19 at 9 pm. $25-$50. Revival, 783 College. grindhouseghoulies9.eventbrite.ca.

OPERANATION: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT (Canadian Opera Company). This funder for the COC features dance-pop band Yelle performing alongside Ensemble Studio artists, fashion, dancing and visual arts. Oct 16 at 9 pm. $150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, operanation.ca.

SCRIPT TEASE (The National Theatre of the World). Siminovitch Prize finalists Michel Marc Bouchard, Olivier Choinière, Colleen Murphy and Hannah Moscovitch write a few lines of a play that will then be performed by improvisers. Oct 19 at 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

STELLA – QUEEN OF THE SNOW by Marie-Louise Gay (Mermaid Theatre). Two kids discover the world of winter in this family play based on the book. Oct 21 at 6:30 pm. $20-$25. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca.

TAINTED by Kat Lanteigne (Moyo Theatre). A family fights to stay intact when tragedy strikes in the wake of Canada’s tainted blood scandal. Oct 18 at 7 pm. Free. The Foundery, 376 Bathurst. moyotheatre.com.

TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare (Classical Theatre Project). The company presents a vaudevillian take on the classic comedy. Oct 22 at 7 pm. $49. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. ctptickets.com.

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BIRTH by Tom Arthur Davis (Pandemic Theatre).

In a future society where people don’t age or die, the government must regulate childbirth (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage).

Runs to Oct 18, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $25. Camp-

dramas emerge when four lonely New Englanders enroll in a community theatre course. Runs to Oct 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

An EnEMy Of THE PEOPLE by Henrik Ibsen (Tarragon Theatre). A thrilling adaptation of the Ibsen classic about a doctor in conflict with the society around him moves the action to a small Canadian town and involves the audience directly in the play’s debate on environmental and big-business issues. Great cast, too. Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$53. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnnn (JK) fALSTAff by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Verdi’s last opera opens the Canadian Opera Company season in a splendid production directed by Robert Carsen. In the title role, Gerald Finley is a fine singing actor, and he’s surrounded by an excellent cast in a production that updates the action to the 1950s. Runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $12-$339. Four Seasons CenLouise Pitre (left), Saidah Baba Talibah and Andrew Penner are tre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. excellent in the weakly structured What Makes A Man. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnnn (JK) THE fEMME PLAyLiST by Catherine Hernandez Many of the individual numbers tunes, notably I Want To Be Kissed, (b current AfteRock Plays). Hernandez uncovmusical review ers the realities of living as a queer woman of succeed, but the show lacks a clear I’m Gonna Sleep With One Eye Open colour in this multidisciplinary show. Runs to structure to hold the material togethand the triangular relationship of I Oct 25, runs in rep with Brotherhood, see website for schedule. $15-$50, ltd Sun pwyc. er. There’s something of a frame – In My Chair.

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Brawner, the voice of experience, bePenner, here a kind of street buskWHAT MAKES A MAn songs by Charles 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. gins and ends the show as well as er with some worldly truths to comAznavour, created by Jennifer Tarver HOLd MOMMy’S cigArETTE (Shelley Marsometimes echoing the others, who municate, is simple and direct, makshall). Marshall’s autobiographical solo and Justin Ellington (Necessary Angel/ show about three generations of a dysfuncpresent different aspects of Aznaing the most of It Will Be My Day Canadian Stage). Berkeley Street Thetional family deals with mental illness, suicide vour’s material – but that’s not and the title song, about a lonely atre (26 Berkeley). Runs to November 2. and cancer. Tough subjects, but Marshall – as enough. gay man searching for love and hapgood a performer as she is a writer – confronts $30-$49. 416-368-3110. See Continuthem with honesty and humour. The details The best work comes from the two piness. ing, page 62. Rating: nnn feel authentic, and you can see the humanity women. Pitre doesn’t have to prove her Brawner’s sugared voice is a treat beneath even the most embittered character.

The work of prolific French-Armenmusical or dramatic chops; she simply to listen to, but there’s little sense The ending, which breaks the fourth wall, provides a lovely moment of grace and acceptian composer Charles Aznavour is streams such songs as La Bohème, that he’s part of a theatrical producance. Runs to Oct 28, 8 pm daily. $20. The Full the inspiration for What Makes A Take Me Along and A Young Girl tion. He doesn’t use the songs to tell Bawdy Loft, 290 Carlaw, unit 202. 416-821Man, devised by director Jennifer through her heart and presents them stories the way the other three do.

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JuLiE MAdLy dEEPLy by Sarah-Louise as a whole package using her voice, The production’s best ensemble Young (Mirvish/Seabright Productions).

Arranging some 20 of Aznavour’s emotions, eyes and body. I wishMichael she number is.....................................................................................@m_hollett I Drink, a waltz filled in Hollett Young’s 90-minute song-filled show about melodies for a quartet of singing achad more opportunity to sing in equal measure with anxiety, bemuseJulie Andrews is equal parts history lesson and Alice Klein .................................................................................................@aliceklein tors – Kenny Brawner, Andrew Penfan tribute, and it’s filled with love and respect French; the French lyrics give the music ment and the desire for escape. for one of the icons of musical theatre. Young Susan G. Cole ner, Louise Pitre and Saidah Baba a different shape.

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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). Musician and actor Bhaneja explores his fascination with the blues in this introspective autobiographical show that traces the genre’s history with the help of music – classics and original tunes performed

by Divine Brown and blues group Raoul and the Big Time. Runs to Oct 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$38. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) MAdAMA BuTTErfLy by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). A geisha marries an American naval officer in this tragic Italian opera (see review, page 62). Runs to Oct 31, see website for schedule. $12-$339. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnn (GS) MAriLyn – AfTEr by Nonnie Griffin (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Griffin portrays Marilyn Monroe as an older person recounting her life story in this solo show. Runs to Oct 19, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $26. 12 Alexander, Tallulah’s Cabaret. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

MAriOn BridgE by Daniel MacIvor (D & T Productions). Three sisters are reunited when they return to Cape Breton to see their dying mother. Runs to Oct 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15.50-$18. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. marionbridge.bpt.me.

THE MOunTAinTOP by Katori Hall (Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival). The night before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr meets a sexy, smart chambermaid who changes his life. Under Philip Akin’s direction, Kevin Hanchard and Alana Hibbert play out their sometimes serious, sometimes comic confrontation with charm and gusto in a script that takes some unexpected turns.

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. 416-5311402, obsidiantheatre.com. nnnn (JK) Our cOunTry’S gOOd by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Out of Joint/Mirvish). This 25th anniversary production of Wertenbaker’s work about a rogue’s gallery of prisoners on the new Australian penal colony mounting a play looks striking and the script is richly detailed.

But uneven performances and some broad directorial choices (by its original director, Max Stafford-Clark) don’t bring out all the work’s shadings. Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99.

Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. nnn (GS) PinKALiciOuS THE MuSicAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Oct 26, Sun 1 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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Kirstin Rae Hinton (left) and Deanna Palazzo play sisters in mourning in Marion Bridge.

Classic flies TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee, adapted by Christopher Sergel (Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). Runs to November 2; see youngpeoplestheatre.ca for schedule. $15-$30. 416-862-2222. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNN

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Prince Tommy must choose between two princesses in this musical show for ages 3 to 10. Runs to Oct 25, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2 pm. $16.

4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031, solarstage.on.ca.

ThE ThING BETwEEN US by Alison Lawrence (the mcguffin company). Lawrence’s play tracks the ambivalent relationship between two women – one of whom moves in with the other’s family when her own father dies – from childhood to adulthood. There’s some sensitive writing in the first half, and Mary Francis Moore and Emily Hurson are very expressive as kids, but the writing in the later moments isn’t as rich. Runs to Oct 19, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30, srs $25, preview $20, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, mcguffincompany.com. NNN (GS) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee (Young People’s Theatre). Racial injustice in Depression-era Alabama is seen through the eyes of a child in this adaptation of the novel (see review, this page). Runs to Nov 2, see website for schedule. $15-$30. 165 Front E. 416-8622222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNN (JK) TwIST & ShOUT (Famous People Players).

Memories of juke boxes, drive-in movies and early rock ‘n’ roll are part of this all-ages blacklight theatre show. Runs to Oct 25, see website for schedule. $40-$65. 343 Evans. 416532-1137, fpp.org. 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 (see review, page 61). 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. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (JK) 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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ARMS AND ThE MAN by Bernard Shaw (Shaw

Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.

CABARET by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is darker than many, with fine performances by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s

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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) CRAzy fOR yOU by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival).

A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this musical set in the 1930s. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67.

Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

KING LEAR by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore makes a human figure – a king who’s easy to relate to. Most of the cast surrounding him is just as strong, which helps the audience feel that we go on an eventful and harrowing journey with the characters. 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. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) ThE PhILADELPhIA STORy by Philip Barry (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans are complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy reporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-5117429, shawfest.com. whEN wE ARE MARRIED by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed when three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries.

Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake.

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Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic, in large part because it’s a powerful story told in a simple yet compelling fashion.

The simplicity comes from the fact that it’s narrated by Scout (Caroline Toal), a preteen in 1935 Maycomb, Alabama, whose world is changed when her father, Atticus Finch (Jeff Miller), defends Tom Robinson (Matthew G. Brown), a black man, on a rape charge brought by Mayella Ewell (Jessica Moss), a white woman, and her incendiary father, Bob (Hume Baugh).

The narrative also deals with the fascination Scout, her older brother, Jem (Noah Spitzer), and their friend Dill (Tal Shulman) have with their unseen neighbour, Boo Radley (Mark Crawford), who hides from the world and has become a bogeyman in the children’s imaginations.

There’s an admirable clarity in director Allen MacInnis’s production, one that captures not just the main storylines but also the emotional grip of small moments, like the father/son tension between Atticus and Jem and the portrait of Dill, who, in Shulman’s fine performance, comes to realize Patricia Racette was not in the best form when the Canadian Opera Company opened Madama Butterfly.

Jeff Miller and Caroline Toal play Atticus and Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, a fine piece of storytelling.

why Boo isolates himself.

Miller presents Atticus’s wisdom, warmth and decency without making him a sentimental figure, while Lisa Berry as Calpurnia, the Finches’ cook and surrogate mother, is tart and nononsense.

Baugh and Moss create strong figures, too, he as the representative of racism in this community and she as a woman who feels manipulated and victimized in several ways. Crawford nicely distinguishes his two different parts, first as the trial’s prosecuting attorney, whose language treats Robinson as a guilty and inconsequential human being, and later as Boo, with his

own ingenuous sense of what is right.

Toal communicates Scout’s childlike qualities as the innocent who asks legitimate but hard questions about the world around her, but she has little latitude to grow in Christopher Sergel’s adaptation. Scout seems pretty much the same at the start and end of the play.

Even so, the high quality of the storytelling is one reason to see this production. Another is the fact that it’s more than a piece of history. You only have to think of the recent shootings of blacks in Ferguson and St. Louis to realize the contemporary relevance of JON KAPLAN Lee’s engrossing tale.

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even tone but seems more interested in belting out his passions to the audience than connecting with anyone onstage.

The second half is much stronger.

Racette is a fine actor, and she’s obviously thought a lot about this character. Her Un Bel Di paints a visual and dramatic portrait in a few minutes, and she has great rapport with her sturdy, sensible servant, Suzuki (Elizabeth DeShong, who’s got a characterful, full mezzo) and Consul Sharpless (Dwayne Croft). Her Butterfly interacts differently with each of them – and with marriage broker Goro (Julius Ahn) and prospective second husband Yamadori (Clarence Frazer) – according to their status.

It’s in the second half, too, that Brian Macdonald’s acclaimed production gains power. Susan Benson’s set, with wooden platforms and movable screens, evokes Butterfly’s increasing isolation, and the moving musical entr’acte between acts two and three is played with Butterfly patiently awaiting Pinkerton’s return, Michael Whitfield’s lighting subtly changing from evening to sunrise. It’s haunting.

There’s also fine work by the COC chorus. Their angry curses in act one are so distinctive, you can almost hear them in the echo in the second half, and their hushed, gentle humming chorus is sublime.

But you know something’s not right when you’re looking forward to hearing the chorus and not the leads.

Half flight MADAMA BUTTERfLy by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). To October 31. $12-$339. 416-363-8231. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNN Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly should pierce the emotions, but something is missing in the Canadian Opera Company’s current revival. On opening night, there were many dry eyes in the house – including mine. And I’m usually a blubbering mess during the closing scenes.

Things don’t start off well, with sluggish conducting in the overture and throughout the first act by Patrick Lange. How I wish the COC’s Johannes Debus were at the podium. He’d have got the orchestra to bring out the precise details and rich harmonies in Puccini’s score, generating momentum in an act that can too often seem like a series of entrances and exits.

He’s not given much help by his two leads, however. Patricia Racette’s Butterfly – the young Japanese woman who gives up her family to marry Pinkerton (Stefano Secco), a cad of a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy – was obviously in poor voice, her top notes approaching screechy.

Tenor Secco, who alternates in the role with Andrea Carè (as Racette does with Kelly Kaduce), has a nice

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Thursday, October 16 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Headliner Nathan Macin-

tosh w/ Marcus O’Laoire and host Scott McMann. To Oct 19, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

HONEST ANXIETY Improv by Steve Baerwald and others with proceeds going to Children’s Mental Health Ontario. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com.

KITCH KOMEDY Weekly pro/am show hosted

by Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

A LAUGH A MINUTE Club 120 Diner Stand-up, improv and more w/ host Mandy Goodhandy & others. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Chris Locke, Tim Gilbert, James Hartnett, Evany Rosen, David Dineen-Porter, Jackie Pirico and host Tom Henry. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS This isn’t as solid as Second City’s last two revues, but there’s still lots to enjoy, particularly from veteran ensemble members Connor Thompson and Ashley Botting. Thompson scores big laughs as an Owen Sound layabout who has a gift for giving directions, as well as a children’s performer accidentally hired to sing at a Remembrance Day ceremony. Botting gets two big solos that showcase her sassy range. But under director Reid Janisse, many of the sketches need polish, presenting jokey types rather than people.

Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) hSHAKESPEARE AND ZOMBIES We Happy Few present improv with Shakespeare themes and characters adapted for Halloween. 8 pm. $7.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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

THUGS, DRUGS AND DOUGS: A FORD-FOCUSED REVUE Comedy Bar This sketch revue looks at

the years under Mayor Ford and parodies the current candidates. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

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 Glen Foster. To Oct 19, Thu & Sun 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Friday, October 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 16.

BEN KRONBERG Puff Mama presents a stand-

up show. To Oct 18, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20-$25.

Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-4509125, puffmama.ca/comedy.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT The Bad Dog Theatre company performs The Soaps at 8 pm, and The Curator at 9:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR Main: Catch 23 at 8 pm, Mantown ñ at 11 pm. Cabaret: Human Amusements, Mr

Beaver, Mark & Kyle at 8:30 pm; Puppet Town Theatre, the Brothers Jacokes, K$M at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

CALVINBALL COMEDY Improv w/ the Calvinball troupe, Mr Beaver and guests. 10 pm. $5. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. facebook.com/events/516469425156907.

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COMEDY KAPOW! Club 120 Diner Amish Patel, Andy Fruman and Jeff Tseng perform. 8:30 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

IMPROV GAME SHOW Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

THE MARY-JANES OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents headliner Steph Tolev, Dawn Whitwell, Amanda DAy, Terrific Women and host Lianne Mauladin. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. maryjanesofcomedy.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 16.

THE UNEMPLOYABLES Jamie O’Connor presents stand-up w/ guest comedians. 10 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 16.

Saturday, October 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 16.

THE ACTUAL GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH Im-

prov w/ Jennifer Goodhue, Marcel St Pierre, Kerry Griffin, Lisa Merchant, Gord Oxley, Jack Mosshammer, host Marc Hallworth & more.

8 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

BEN KRONBERG See Fri 17.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT The Bad Dog Theatre Co stages Theatresports at 8 pm.

Prom Dates and Uncalled For at 10 pm. $10$20, festival pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR Main: TKO Winner, Bonspiel at 7 pm; ñ Illusionoid, Tim Baltz at 9 pm; Bottoms Up at

10:30 pm. Cabaret: Sneak Attack, the Beasts, Hi! Hello at 8:30 pm; Matt Naas & the Singers, Ted & Lisa at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

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

GET IT ON! Club 120 Diner Improv, games and karaoke w/ host Andy Fruman. 9 pm. Free.

120 Church. club120.ca.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 16.

THIS IS NOT DEBATABLE Recording Steve Patterson of CBC Radio’s The Debaters in a live show featuring personal tales and original songs. 7 & 10 pm. $25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. stevepatterson.ca.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 16.

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Sunday, October 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 16.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT One Night

Stand w/ Tim Baltz at 8 pm; Ze Jonas Brothers, Tits on Fire, Moist Theatre at 9:30 pm. $10$20, festival pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT The Vote at 7 pm (free); Tales Of Cthulhu, 80s Slasher Show at 8 pm; Mixed Company at 9:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT The Vote at 7 pm (free); Ladies Night at 8 pm; Golden Ages at 9:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR

Main: Bucko, Day Drunk, S&P at 8 pm; Party Hard Duos w/ Filthy & Squalor, RN & Cawls, 2-Man No-Show & others. 10 pm. Cabaret: Maybe Schmoopz, Corey Mathews, Thunderbolt at 8:30 pm; Troupe Name Pending, FOB, Fake Cops at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY Weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. PJ O’Briens Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

HARD DAY COMEDY Weekly all-female comedy show n. 8:30 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Darryl Orr, Nile Seguin, Definition of Knowledge, Nick Martinello, hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan and others. at 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

NERDY TALK Guest performers talk about nerdy things w/ host Adam Ward. 9:30 pm.

Free. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl.

416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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

Tuesday, October 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Open-mic show. 8:30 pm. $5. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

Main: Belleville-ville, Kerrigan’s Knee, Beatvox at 8 pm; Starwipe, Engage!, K$M at 10 pm.

Cabaret: podcast recording at 6 pm (free); Giinge, N2N, Jordan & Pippen at 8:30 pm; the Coincidence Men, Bright Young Women, Lashings of Apologies at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

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.

LES IMPROBABLES Competitive improv en français. 7:30 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 16.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Weekly open mic w/ Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts.

SOCAP STUDENT NIGHT Longform improv w/ players of the Social Capital Repertory Program. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

YOUNG DRUNK PUNK Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents a new solo show written and performed by Bruce McCulloch. 8 pm. $39-$55. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. torontosketchfest.com.

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BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR Main: State of the Union at 1 pm ñ (Free); Sunday Night Live w/ guests at 9 pm.

Cabaret: Crudité show w/ Pizza Bagel, Five Finger Miscount, Bamboo Kids Club and more.

8:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

COMEDY @ THE WELL Weekly w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free.

The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents Round 7 Finals w/ host Tim McDonald, Silvi Santoose, Matt Gass and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

THE IMPORTANCE OF TAGGING EARNEST The Second City Training Centre Sketch comedy revue. 3 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 16.

THAT 90S SHOW Celebrate what was dope, fresh and whack w/ Foad HP, Jackie Pirico, Chris Robinson, Joe Vu, Aisha Brown, headliner Patrick Haye and host Dena Jackson. 7:30 pm. $10-$15. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

YUK YUK’S See Thu 16.

Monday, October 20 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Diamondfield

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presents Mike Rita, Scott Faulconbridge, Patrick Haye, Dylan Gott, Ryan Horwood, Kyle Hickey, Steve Patrick Adams, Todd Van Allen, MC Matt O’Brien and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY Classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14.

Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

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Opening DANCE LIKE A MAN Sawitri Theatre Group presents Mahesh Dattani’s study of human relationships and weaknesses. Oct 16-18, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20-$50. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. sawitridlam.bpt.me.

FLYING BACH Red Bull Breakdance ensemble the Flying Steps and contemporary dancer Anna Holmström perform

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vignettes set to Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier. Oct 16-19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$70. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-8724255, masseyhall.com.

LIN SNELLING Dancer/choreographer Snelling performs an improvised response to Shelagh Keeley’s wall drawing Notes On Obsolescence and to the architecture of the space. Oct 1618, Thu 7 pm, Sat 2 pm. Free. The Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. thepowerplant.org.

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Wednesday, October 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Pro-Am Night w/ Akshay

Sharma, Bruce Douglas, Jeff Paul, Matt Gass, Wojtek Arciszewski, Vicki Kim, headliner Marc Sinodinos and host Andrew Searles. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ BDT The Vote at 7 pm (free); Tall Sigh, Coko & Daphney, RN & Cawls at 8 pm; Bulwark, Chomo & Cash, Primo at 10 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60.

Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BIG CITY IMPROV FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR Main: LGBT Improv Showcase w/ ñ guest Scott Thompson at 8 pm; White Rhino,

Calvinball, Jet & Holly at 10 pm. Cabaret: Backline podcast recording at 6 pm (free); Tomes at 8:30 pm; Sheebound, Jer Josh & the SteveCams, 2-Man No-Show at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

BOBBY LEE Yuk Yuk’s Stand-up show. To Oct 23, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $35. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

THE HIVE Weekly improv w/ rotating teams. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. 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. ticketfly.com.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 16.

SIREN’S COMEDY Open-mic stand-up w/ host Sallie Smith-Fitch and headliner Sam Burns.

8:30 pm. Free. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

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RAqS MACABRE/DANSE MACABRE This dance/ theatre show goes through different eras and lands looking at the inner fight between sin and virtue. Oct 17-19, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. facebook.com/ groups/403949683076790.

SERIES 8:08 The audience can give feedback at this monthly performance workshop showcasing new dance ideas. Oct 20 at 8:08 pm. $10. Videofag, 187 Augusta. series808.ca.

60 60 DANCE TORONTO 2014 Harbourfront NextSteps presents 60 dances set to 60 oneminute pieces of music featuring choreographers from disciplines like mime, aerial dance, breakdancing, flamenco, ballet, circus and more. Oct 16 at 8 pm. $25. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

TAP! What’s On? Tap! presents a gala performance as part of the Eastern Canada Tap Conference. Oct 17 at 7 pm. $35. Cawthra Park Secondary School, 1305 Cawthra, Mississauga. whats-on-tap.com/ectc.

TERRA BRASIL Uma Nota Festival presents the Dance Migration performing music, dance and capoeira, celebrating the African-influenced rhythms of Pernambuco and Bahia. Oct 17 at 8 pm. $35, stu/srs $25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, umanota.ca.

UPLICA: A SILHOUETTE OF A DOUBT Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie presents choreography by Ofilio Portillo and Apolonia Velasquez of Gadfly. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Oct 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-364-8011, colemanlemieux.com.

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WAVING IS FUNNY Contemporary dance by Tina Fushell, in collaboration with Luke Garewood and Molly Johnson, which dissects the simple gesture and how it is used. Runs to Oct 18, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $17. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-9888462, wavingisfunny@gmail.com.

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Andrews plays on this interdependence with every brush stroke. Working around a blank area of the canvas, he shows how dust and crowds and buildings are surfaces that emerge from and reflect an elemental radiance.

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chaos theory that posits how the smallest event can trigger enormous consequences.

All of these themes come together in Entrances And Exits. The reflective surfaces of the Mies van der Rohe TD building shimmer into patches of iridescent colour, with figures viewed dimly through the glass or reflected from the street. Here the light that bleeds through the left side of the canvas could be the overexposed area of a photograph, while other areas are almost impressionistic in their tonality.

Yet for all the complexity of reference and theme, Andrews manages to keep the work strictly contained, if not formalist, in its serenity. It’s the work of a painter who has truly hit his stride, inviting us to stand in rapt contemplation of the visual poetry of the everyday.

The second floor contains a series of Andrews’s more intimate crayon portraits of male nudes, made as part of a collective project for CATIE, the Canadian AIDS Treatment and information exchange.

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trayedKlein dissident Kotler to the KGB Alice Follow us on over 30 years ago. @aliceklein Both men are still grapTwitter NOW pling with their lifeSusan G. Cole @ nowtoronto changing decisions, Kotler @susangcole ground in this terrific novel guilty about betraying the Adria Vasil .................................................................................@ecoholicnation – shortlisted for the Giller wife who stuck with him Enzo DiMatteo Sabrina Maddeaux ................................................@SabrinaMaddeaux Prize – about an Israel polfor over 10 years while he @enzodimatteo NOW Promotions ...............................................@NOWTorontoPromo itician fleeing scandal who was imprisoned, Tankilescapes to his childhood evich for collaborating Norm Wilner hometown, Yalta. with the KGB only to be @normwilner Even when intelligence treated poorly by anti-Semagents threaten to expose ites. And when Kotler Glenn Sumi his extramarital affair, shockingly tells his soldier Kotler stands his ground against his@glennsumi son to obey the order to remove the government’s decision to dismantle settlers – rules are rules – the moral LeConte West Bank settlements. And whenJulia questions become even trickier. @julialeconte Lecture by AA Bronson AA Bronson: Life and Work Kate Robertson Tuesday, October 28, 7:00– 9:00pm @katernow Hart House East Common Room, 7 Hart House Circle Dovercourt. uponastarbooks.ca.

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MUTENDEI NABUTETE Launch for Shadow

Walkers: The Glory of Kings, with comedian Maliaka Bryce, music by Ubuntu Drum Group, Word Mason, Sonia Oduwa Aimy and Akedonn 7 pm. $30. Dovercourt House, 805

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SMASHMOUTH! Spoken word open mic featuring poet David Delisca, musical feature by Shikkha Sehgal, hosted by Britta B. 8 pm. Free.

Lazy Daisy’s Cafe, 1515 Gerrard E. lazydaisyscafe.ca.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS The Pottery + Glass Show, Oct 18-19. 601 Christie. 416392-7834.

BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY Painting: Ray Mead, to Nov 1. 1069 Bathurst.

647-348-5110.

BEAVER HALL Installation: Sex Worker, Truth & Archetype, to Oct 23. 29 McCaul.

BIRCH CONTEMPORARY Richard Storms, Oct 18-Nov 22. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CRAFT ONTARIO GALLERY Chimera group show, Oct 16-Nov 22, reception 6-9 pm Oct 16. 990 Queen W. 416-925-4222.

DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Video: Mark Lewis, to Nov 1. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880.

DE LUCA FINE ART Sculpture: Camilla Singh, Oct 18-Nov 8, reception 6-10 pm Oct 18.

217 Avenue Rd. 416-537-4699.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Joseph Tisiga, Oct 16-Nov 15, reception 7-9 pm Oct 16. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Mixed media: Frank Nulf; Landscape group show, to Oct 30. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

GALLERY 1313 Beyond Our Roots: Latin America And Beyond, to Oct 26, reception 6-10 pm Oct 16, artist’s talk 2-4 pm Oct 18.

1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Workman Arts: Being Scene, to Oct 30. Hard Twist 9 – Fibre Optics, to Dec 28. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GOETHE-INSTITUT Prints: Herta Müller, Oct 16-Nov 11. 100 University, N tower. 416593-5257.

Bezmozgis has fashioned a slim piece of fiction that is almost perfectly structured. It could be adapted to the stage or screen to great effect.

From the start, the ethics are murky. No sooner do you feel comfortable with the set-up and imagine you’ve grasped the personal quandaries than the author throws in another ethical twist.

And it can’t be coincidental that Kotler won’t bend to a bully government yet supports a policy that in itself is morally questionable.

Even more of a triumph is Bezmozgis’s ability to evoke the specific experience of Russian Jews – both those who stayed and those who made their way to Israel/Palestine – and how difficult it is for the betrayed and the beSUSAN G COLE trayers to forgive.

Bezmozgis reads at the International Festival of Authors on October 25. ifoa.org susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

Sunday, October 19 CAROLINE MOOREHEAD Brunch and conversation with the author of Village Of Secrets. 10 am. $50. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. Preregister 416-361-0032.

CAROLINE MOOREHEAD, BRIAN LITTLE, CATHERINE GILDINER, DANIEL FRANCIS Authors’

brunch. 10 am. $50. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416-361-0032.

YONGE GOGO’S FALL LITERARY TEA (Stephen Lewis Foundation’s African Grandmothers Campaign) Documentary filmmaker and journalist Sally Armstrong reads from her latest book Uprising. 2 pm. Donation. Loretto College, 70 St Mary. 416-485-0753.

Tuesday, October 21 ANDREA THOMPSON The author of Over Our

Heads gives a spoken word performance and onstage interview. 8 pm. $10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. pages-unbound.com.

DAVE COUSINS Book launch and reading for Exorcising Ghosts, the autobiography of The Strawbs singer. 4-5:30 pm. Free. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

SHAB-E-SHE’R POETRY NIGHT XXII Poetry and music open stage with Clifton Joseph, Bar-

INTERACCESS Mean Time To Upgrade, to Nov 22. 9 Ossington. 416-532-0597.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Japanese Design To-

day/100, to Oct 30. 131 Bloor W. 416966-1600.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Installation: Tricia Middleton, to Nov 8. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

MERCER UNION Laurent Montaron and Aryen Hoekstra, to Oct 25. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519.

PREFIX Video/sculpture: Los Carpinteros, to Nov 22. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

P/M GALLERY Painting: Amanda Reeves, to Nov 15. 1518 Dundas W. 416-9373862.

PROPELLER Painting: Avner Levona, Oct 22-Nov 2. Take 5 group exhibition, to Oct 19. 984 Queen W. 416-504-7142.

RED HEAD GALLERY Teri Donovan, to Nov 1, reception 2-5 pm Oct 18. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: John Hartman, Oct 16-Nov 8, reception 6-8 pm Oct 16. 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

SPAZIO GALLERY Emergence group show, Oct 16-Nov 13, reception 7:30-10 pm Oct 16. 400 Eastern #201. 416-789-2577.

VTAPE Video: Lisa Birke, Oct 18-Nov 14, reception 2-5 pm Oct 18. 401 Richmond W #452. 416-351-1317.

WARC Trove: Unearthing The Embargo Collective II, Oct 18-26, opening Oct 18.

401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

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AWARDS WATCH It’s the season to dole out dough, and the Toronto Book Awards team does the honours Thursday (October 16) at the Reference Library. I’m thinking Anthony De Sa’s Kicking The Sky is the best bet, even though Selvadurai The Shyam Selvadurai’s Hungry Ghosts got a GG nod last year. Charlotte Gray The Massey Murder: Gray’s A Maid, Her Master And The Trial That Shocked A Country and The Wondrous Woo by Carrianne K.Y. Leung are also on the list. But I reserve my softest spot for activists Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis’s The Stop: How The Fight For Good Food Transformed A Community And Inspired A Movement. See Readings, page 64. SGC bara Erochina and host Bänoo Zan. 7 pm. $5.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

WARD ANDERSON The comic reads from his coming-of-middle-age novel, I’ll Be Here All Week. 7 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. Pre-register 416-393-7610, torontopubliclibrary.ca/ehlist.

Wednesday, October 22 CHRIS TURNER Launch for How To Breathe

Underwater with Shift Magazine’s Andy Heintzman plus musical guests. 7:30 pm. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. biblioasis.com.

INANNA FALL BOOK LAUNCH 2 Readings, art, and revelry with Joyce Burkholder, Kathy Haycock & Linda Sorensen, spoken word poet Andrea Thompson launches and more. 6-8:30 pm. Free. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur. inanna.ca.

THE POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR WWI poetry from both sides of the conflict read by RH Thomson, Christopher Newton and Martha Burns. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5577.

TALES OF THE CAPTAIN DUKE Steampunk soiree and launch for The Stowaway Debutante with author Rebecca Diem. 7 pm. Free. Black Cat Gallery, 2186 Dundas W. facebook.com/ events/352095474949180.

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If I had to describe Dan Stevens in a word, it’d be “dashing.” The former Downton Abbey star really does have that charming, handsome thing going on, which is why it’s so jarring to see him do what he does in The Guest.

Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett’s throwback thriller – which closed TIFF’s Midnight Madness program earlier this month – gives Stevens his first big-screen lead as David, a wellspoken military veteran who arrives at the home of a fallen soldier and insinuates himself into the family’s routine. Only the dead man’s sister, Anna (Maika Monroe), notices that something is terribly off about the visitor.

“I guess I wanted him to operate slightly on his own tempo,” Stevens explains, sitting with Monroe on a couch at the Thompson Hotel a few hours before the TIFF screening.

“It was interesting for me as an actor to really throw myself into one of those physical transformations. Everything – the way the guy moved, the way he spoke – was very, very different from my own way of being, and from a lot of the characters I’d had a chance to play before.”

David’s mercurial temperament was another appealing element. For much of The Guest, we’re not supposed to be sure what he really wants from anyone, and Stevens enjoyed

keeping his motivations hidden.

“There’s a certain kind of charm to him, for sure – you’re not sure where this is going,” he says. “I think that’s very much part of the game that Adam and Simon wanted to play – teasing the audience a little bit, making you briefly comfortable – ‘Oh, I know what kind of movie this is. I know this scene; this is a bully-victim scene,’ or ‘This is a teacher-pupil scene’ – and just twisting that on its head and seeing how that makes you feel.”

Stevens says Wingard and Barrett lured him in by exploiting a mutual love of John Carpenter movies.

“It’s a real celebration of those kind of films and the feeling that you got watching them as well,” he explains. “It’s not so much wanting to recreate the images and scenes from those films, but more [recreating] the sense that you got watching them, something that can be quite hard to find these days.

“We definitely shared a common bond over Big Trouble In Little China and the kind of fun that both the actor and the filmmaker look like they’re having in those films. Kill Bill was a big one as well – Uma Thurman is having such a great time on screen.”

At this, Monroe produces her iPhone: its background is the Japanese poster for Kill Bill: Vol. 1.

“Nice,” Stevens says. “That’s badass. I did want David to wear a big yellow catsuit, but it was vetoed.”

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A stranger (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens, sporting a perfect MiddleAmerican accent) comes to a small town to visit a fallen soldier’s family, is invited to stay… and then things get nasty.

After the wickedly clever You’re Next – a Midnight Madness hit in 2011 – Adam Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett’s next feature is a self-aware homage to the early films of John Carpenter, and one in particular. But even if you’ve never seen a Carpenter film, you can enjoy The Guest as an energetic and clever thriller that takes a premise and runs with it, pitting Stevens’s charming time bomb against the dead soldier’s sister (a terrific Maika Monroe), who sees through him almost immediately and tries to figure out what’s really going on.

The action is inventive, the characters well-drawn and the climax… well, it’s not original, exactly, but in a movie like this that’s kind of the NW point.

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There’s not a lot going on in this weird, beguiling coming-of-ager, and that’s perfectly fine. Quebec director Stéphane Lafleur and his talented cast know how to make the most of every unassuming moment.

Stunningly photographed on 35mm black-and-white, Tu Dors Nicole recalls early Godard and Wes Anderson, but throughout it establishes Lafleur as a singular voice that Canada needs to pay attention to – more so than that other hot-shit Quebecer who’s been stealing much of our nationalistic ink

for the last five years.

A wonderfully resigned Julianne Côté stars as insomniac 22-year-old Nicole, who’s spending her hot summer days while her parents are away looking for something to do with Véronique (Catherine St-Laurent), her similarly aimless best friend.

Characters both idiosyncratic and absurd pass through, but whether they’ll have any effect on Nicole’s arrested development is left in the air.

The film skilfully portrays youthful malaise, bewilderment and unexpected hope. And did I mention that the whole thing is pretty hilarious, too?

Lafleur counters the lackadaisical narrative with direction, editing and sound cues that are playful but precise, mysterious but potent, making every note in this exceptionally well-made film something to savour.

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McCarthy on Murray St. Vincent actor celebrates co-star’s surprising restraint By NORMAN WILNER ST. VINCENT written and directed by Theodore Melfi, with Bill Murray, Jaeden Lieberher, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts.

An Entertainment One release. 103 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

Melissa McCarthy is having a pretty good weekend. She’s at the Toronto Film Festival in support of St. Vincent, which means she gets to hang around with Bill Murray for hours at a stretch – though last night, that meant hugging some very damp fans on a rainy red carpet.

Today, McCarthy is calmer and quieter. Like most comic performers, she’s not “on” all the time – though her energy can’t help but rise when she talks about working with Murray.

“It was like a master class, just watching and learning,” she says. “For God’s sake, don’t push. If he’s not pushing, don’t. I’d have to remind myself, just be in the room with him. You kinda want to juggle fire, just to show him: ‘Here’s my trick!’

“But no, it’s a quiet scene, so I don’t have any tricks,” she says, mock-sighing. “I don’t have any tricks in this scene, I just have to show up and try to stay with him.

That was scary, but it was my favourite stuff, because he’s so subtle.”

McCarthy was in awe of Murray on the set.

“He sits in the pocket of stuff so beautifully. He really knows how funny he is. I think he’s one of the funniest people on the planet. And he’s so smart and funny that he could have thrown in three, four lines in every single scene, made the whole movie different.

He could have gotten crazy laughs because he just can, whenever he wants.

“But he didn’t. He was just quiet and subtle and used the negative space between his lines to make people love him.”

St. Vincent casts McCarthy as Maggie, a newly single mom who moves in next door to Murray’s cranky Vincent, and winds up hiring him to watch her son (Jaeden Lieberher) after school.

Maggie could have come across as a generic supporting role – the defensive, overprotective mom – but McCarthy gives her a few intriguing layers, not the least of which is the sense that she’s quietly traumatized by her job as a hospital CT scan technician.

“I’ve never thought about someone who sits there and watches that all day, and can’t register [emotion] and isn’t supposed to,” she says. “You’re just sucking in all that sad stuff on top of your own life dissolving. I just thought, ‘Where does that go?’”

Having played another complex character in this summer’s Tammy (which she co-wrote with her husband, Ben Falcone, who also directed), McCarthy is keen to keep exploring those roles while still making comedies.

“My husband and I wrote another one that we’re gonna shoot in March, and he’ll direct again,” she says.

“And there’s another really fun one, Spy, coming out that I did with Paul Feig. We have another one after that, but we haven’t started writing it.

“That’ll be very different,” she says. “It’s just a drama. That’ll really confuse everyone.”

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REVIEW ST. VINCENT (Theodore Melfi) Rating: NNN If St. Vincent doesn’t get Bill Murray an Oscar, nothing will; long stretches of Theodore Melfi’s feature debut seem designed specifically to play with “For Your Consideration” superimposed on the screen.

Melfi’s feature debut is basically a mashup of the Czech comedy Kolya with Murray’s character from Rushmore in the lead. Vincent is a cranky alcoholic whose hostile exterior masks deep sorrow and a heart of gold, which we discover as he bonds with the new neighbour kid (Jaeden Lieberher) by taking care of him while his mother (Melissa McCarthy) is at work.

But even as Melfi piles on the complications and contrivances, Murray refuses to condescend to them. Neither do co-stars McCarthy, Terrence Howard and Chris O’Dowd, who play their roles with minimal eccentricity and maximum humanity.

Yeah, Naomi Watts goes pretty broad as a pregnant Russian “lady of the night” whom Vincent employs on occasion, but there’s just no way to play that role straight.

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Secrets and lies THE GREEN PRINCE (Nadav Schirman). 100 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NNN This documentary about a Hamas leader’s son who spied for Israeli security agency Shin Bet for over a decade has everything: intrigue, tension, emotion.

Mosab Hassan Yousef grows up in the shadow of his father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, developing a passion for Palestine and a hatred for Israel. While in an Israeli prison for gun-running, the younger Yousef grows disenchanted with Hamas’s violent methods and is “turned” by Shin Bet agent Gonen Ben Yitzhak. Yousef goes back to Gaza to work for his father, the perfect way to

gain information for the Israelis.

Using archival footage, old news reports, some re-enactments and interviews with both men – all expertly edited – the film paints a fascinating picture of the machinations of the spy world, as well as the sacrifices Yousef makes. The surprising emotional core of the film is the bromance between the spy and his handler – highly unusual in these situations.

Strangely, the doc drops and then runs away from the fact that Yousef was raped as a child by a Palestinian, and I wish it revealed more about his conversion to Christianity once he’s forced to flee to the United States.

But the bigger problem is that, given what its two main subjects do for a living, it’s hard to believe a word either of them says.

But that might just be director SUSAN G. COLE Nadav Schirman’s point.

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Intense Hours These FiNal hours (Zak Hilditch). 86 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NNNN

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These Final Hours is a movie where the end is not just nigh but in the process of arriving, thanks to a meteor strike somewhere on Earth’s northern hemisphere. The shock wave will take about 12 hours to reach Australia.

Zak Hilditch’s grim character study takes place in that window of time.

People have had some time to come to grips with extinction, and Jimmy (Nathan Phillips) just wants to party

himself into oblivion at a friend’s rave. “It’s going to hurt,” he tells a lover in the opening scene, “and I don’t want to feel anything.” But his plans are complicated when he grudgingly befriends Rose (Angourie Rice), a young girl who’s been separated from her father.

Getting Rose back to her family involves a lot of driving, and the film uses their car time to let Jimmy and Rose bond. It’s sweet and quietly heartbreaking; it’s the last friendship either of them will ever forge.

Hilditch is covering the same territory Don McKellar and Lorene Scafaria did in Last Night and Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, but he puts his own spin on it. His film doesn’t have any of the melancholy of its cousins; it’s harsher and bleaker, as befits the Australian landscape. But it still manages to find the humanity NormaN WilNer in annihilation.

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I’ve been a little cool on Studio Ghibli’s recent offerings, so I’m happy to report that The Tale Of The Princess Kaguya is a return to form for the legendary Japanese animation house.

It’s a fable about a humble bamboo carver who finds a mysterious infant in the forest and brings her back to his wife to raise as their own. But giving little Kaguya the best future means moving to the capital and living among nobility, exchanging her happiness for a chance at security.

Veteran director Isao Takahata has

made a lovely allegory about parenthood, about welcoming a new life and watching it grow only to realize that life will bring dreams and thoughts you can’t control.

Takahata is rightly revered for his merciless Grave Of The Fireflies; he’s working in a far more delicate and beautiful mode here. The characters and environments look like brush paintings come to life, and the narrative moves with a bittersweet tenderness. And if the film meanders a bit in its midsection, that just means we have more time to sink into its gorgeous world.

TIFF is screening an English-dubbed version in the afternoons and the subtitled Japanese version in the evenings.

The film is also this month’s Critic’s Night feature, so I’ll be guest-hosting the 6:40 pm screening Tuesday (OctoNormaN WilNer ber 21).

Nathan Phillips and Jessica De Gouw prepare for the end of the world.

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Familiar Fury Fury (David Ayer). 134 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

Rating: NNN From Training Day and Harsh Times to Sabotage and End Of Watch, David Ayer writes one kind of movie: one where macho he-men – usually cops – yell and curse at each other until someone gets shot in the face.

Women barely exist, and dramatic contrast inevitably comes from the arrival of a decent hero who finds himself dumped into a cruel, violent new reality.

Ayer’s new film, Fury, has all that, too, but there’s a twist: it’s set during the Second World War, focusing on the crew of an American tank making its way into Germany in April 1945.

Fury is the same story he always tells, but macho bullshit and onedimensional characterization are part and parcel of the WWII genre.

There’s the battle-hardened com-

mander (Brad Pitt), the smartass (Shia LaBeouf), the brute (Jon Bernthal), the ethnic minority guy (Michael Peña) and the newbie (Logan Lerman) whose spirit will be forged in the fire of combat.

It’s the fire that most people will be talking about, as Ayer actively tries to top the brutality and gore of Saving Private Ryan. People die very badly and frequently in close-up, bits

of them splattering the camera.

In its brutality and brawny action sequences, Fury feels like a swaggering corrective to the old-fashioned pleasures of George Clooney’s recent The Monuments Men. I liked Clooney’s film, but a lot of people didn’t; they’re welcome to embrace this inNormaN WilNer stead.

Watchers Of The Sky looks at genocide over the past century.

Brad Pitt (front) and his crew get tanked in Fury.

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Watch this WaTchers oF The sKy (Edet Belzberg). 120 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NNNNN

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A bracing and heart-wrenching look at genocide over the past century, Edet Belzberg’s documentary could become a vital instrument of change.

Bouncing back and forth between the story of Raphael Lemkin, who in

the 1940s tirelessly tried to get the UN to amend its definition of war crimes, to first-hand witnesses to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Rwanda, Argentina, Germany and Darfur, Belzberg paints a comprehensive picture of history depressingly repeating itself due to a lack of proper legal deterrents to these atrocities.

Belzberg’s thesis is solidly backed up and needs no dramatic embellishment.

It stands alongside The Act Of Killing as one of the best films made on such aNDreW ParKer a delicate subject.

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tHe BOOK OF LIFe (Jorge R. Gutierrez). 95 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times see Movies page 71.

Rating: nnn The Book of Life offers an embarrassment of riches. It’s a bursting-at-the-seams piñata of an animated movie, stuffed with so many glorious visuals, delightful gags and candy-wrapped life and death lessons that it implodes before anyone can savour how sweet a treat it is.

The phantasmagoric folktale revolves around Mexico’s Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), but parents shouldn’t be too concerned about the morbid fascination factor.

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RuDDeRLeSS (William H. Macy). 104 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

Rating: nnn

BLOODY GOOD ber 26 at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (506 Bloor West) and TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West). See Indie & Rep Film, page 78. imaginenative.org

ImagineNATIVE returns this week, celebrating its 15th anniversary with a particularly broad selection of programming. But it’s also taking advantage of its proximity to Halloween to line up some season-appropriate material.

This year’s opener, for example, is Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s delightful vampire comedy What We Do In The Shadows (Wednesday, 7 pm, Bloor; rating: nnnn). The movie won the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award at TIFF last month, so a lot of people will be happy to catch up to it.

A largely improvised mockumentary about the subculture of vampires in Wellington, New Zealand, What We Do stars Waititi (whose delicate character study Boy opened the fest in 2010) and Clement as longterm housemates who feed on humans while trying to play down their petty personal tics and egotistical attempts to out-cool one another. It’s a great deal of

fun, and manages to squeeze in a couple of decent shocks as well.

Another TIFF title is Alanis Obomsawin’s new documentary Trick Or Treaty? (October 25, 5:30 pm, Lightbox; rating: nnnn), about the rise of the Idle No More movement in response to the Canadian government’s ongoing mendacity and bad faith regarding native issues. Even in an age of advocacy docs, it’s rare to see a project that radiates anger and dismay the way this one does.

I’d also recommend Cinema Sisters: Women’s Program (October 23, 7:30 pm, Lightbox; rating: nnnn), which features Shane Belcourt’s Kaha:Wi: The Cycle Of Life, a study of choreographer Santee Smith’s 2004 debut dance production that explores both the artist’s perspective and the Iroquois legends she drew upon to create it.

And as part of its Australian spotlight, imagineNATIVE honours the unjustly forgotten Aboriginal filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, including her 1989 short Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy in an Australian shorts program (October 23, 3 pm, Lightbox) and screening her only feature, Bedevil (October 24, 2 pm, Lightbox; rating: nnnn).

Moffatt makes horror movies disguised as intense emotional dramas.

Some moments in Bedevil have stayed with me ever since I saw it at TIFF in 1993. I can think of no higher endorsement.

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Rudderless is a small movie, and that’s just fine. It’s the directorial debut of actor William H. Macy – who co-wrote the script, cast his wife, Felicity Huffman, in a key role and appears in a cameo as a bar owner – and it’s about a broken man trying to put himself back together.

His name is Sam, and he’s played by the perpetually underrated Billy Crudup. The death of his college-age son has left him a dissolute mess, living on a boat and working as a house painter. But when he discovers a cache of songs his son left behind, Sam performs one of them at a bar’s open-mic night and winds up form-

romance

No Sparks tHe BeSt OF me (Michael Hoffman).

117 minutes. Opens Friday (October 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: nn

The Best of Me, the latest movie from a novel by peddler of moss-covered romance Nicholas Sparks, hews insipidly close to The Notebook, the author’s first and most successful story about kissing in the rain.

Once again, an older couple trips down memory lane to rekindle the passion of their youth. Instead of the twilightaged James Garner and Gena Rowlands from The Notebook, a chiselled, slightly grey James Marsden and a stilllooks-good-in-panties Michelle Monaghan play the senior couple here. This basically allows the movie to double down on the requisite fawning.

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The film centres on a love triangle between best friends (voiced by Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum) who become gambling fodder for afterlife gatekeepers La Muerte (Kate del Castillo) and Xibalba (Ron Perlman). The Mexican love affair turns into a skullspinning, labyrinthine adventure that encompasses the past and present and the lands of the living, remembered and forgotten.

Producer Guillermo del Toro and director Jorge Gutierrez have said that an early version of the film clocked in at close to three hours, something I imagine as an epic that could have qualified as animation’s answer to Milton’s Paradise Lost. This bare-bones version is a busy, overpopulated mess, where no individual character gets enough time to sustain our interest.

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ing a band with a kid (Anton Yelchin) who doesn’t realize Sam’s music isn’t really his.

You probably know where the story’s going. But there’s at least one thing you likely won’t see coming – I certainly didn’t – and Macy smartly lets Crudup carry the complexities of Sam’s grief without resorting to overt manipulation.

As the young and old versions of Dawson Cole, a quiet, noble lad born from white trash, both Luke Bracey and Marsden get to whip off their shirts, strut their abs and perform intensive gardening, taking hand and shovel to fertile soil while sweating in the glistening Southern sunset.

They are joined under the rose bush by Amanda (Monoghan and a Taylor Swift doppelgänger named Liana Liberato), who, like all Sparks’s heroines, dives into the relationship with Dawson despite his cartoonish, despicable criminal family and her rich daddy’s objections.

As you’d expect from films of the novelist’s work, which have become their own clichés, a tragedy will strike, children will be put in peril, destiny will make amends, and every Budweiser moment between the couple, young and old, will look like it’s been shot by unemployed wedding photographers.

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The movie’s ambitions are so modest, I’m surprised it’s getting a theatrical release at all. As theatres clamour to book the next superhero movie or horror reboot, there seems to be less and less room for subtle character studies like this.

I’m glad somebody’s still making nORman WILneR them.

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Felony (D: Matthew Saville, 105 min) Three cops cope with an accident that’s left a child in coma. One’s committed a crime, one’s hiding it and the third exposes it. Director Matthew Saville is one of Australia’s major talents, and whenever Tom Wilkinson shows up in a movie, you know you’re going to get at least one great performance. opens Friday (october 17).

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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (Miguel

Arteta) sticks to the spirit of Judith Viorst’s picture book, adding its own ingratiating material. After a disastrous day, Alexander wishes for his family to share his misfortune. They face disasters at work, the junior prom, driving tests and the school play, each more manic and derivative. 81 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, Silver-

City Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñALTMAN

(Ron Mann) takes an appropriately cockeyed approach to its subject, asking a number of the late director’s collaborators – among them Lily Tomlin, Michael Murphy, Julianne Moore and Bruce Willis – to define the term “Altmanesque,” then illustrating their answers with stories of his innovative filmmaking methods. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ANNABELLE (John R. Leonetti) is a thin

prequel to The Conjuring that fills in the backstory of the eponymous demonic doll from the first film. In early 70s California, a young couple (Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton) with a new baby experience some paranormal activity. Director Leonetti generates some suspense and unease, and the film looks good. But the acting is as plastic as the doll, and there are some plot contrivances that will make even the most accepting genre fans roll their eyes.

99 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman) tracks two obsessive men: a delicate Southern soul who makes near-perfect copies of European paintings and donates them to museums, and the Cincinnati art authority who’s tried to expose his deceptions to no avail.

The filmmaker can’t decide which one is the hero, and you may find your sympathies similarly split. 89 min. NNNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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ñBJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE

(Peter Strickland, Nick Fenton) is a film of pop genius Björk’s spectacularly inventive show, which was more art extravaganza than concert, featuring a mind-boggling mashup of unsettling atmospherics, dark melody and electronica and riveting images of nature in action. Too bad there’s no behind-the-scenes action or insights into the star’s creative process, small but significant weaknesses. But Björk? She can do anything. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (Jorge R. Gutierrez)

95 min. See review, page 70. NNN (RS) Opens Oct 17 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE BOXTROLLS

(Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable) are ghoulishlooking, 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, Canada Square, 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 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 continued on page 72 œ

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see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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long and a hair too manipulative, but writer/director/star Favreau is intent on delivering such a pleasurable little movie that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and you wouldn’t want him to cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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(Matt Reeves) harvests the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never looks back. Where the last one paid lip service to ape/human ethics and rushed through its character development to get to what it thought audiences wanted, Dawn is willing to put in the

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work, with complex characters on both the human and primate sides. Some subtitles. 130 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

DivergeNt (Neil Burger) is the latest attempt to launch the next Hunger Games, and the first to nakedly mimic that franchise with another post-apocalyptic tale of a young woman (Shailene Woodley) fighting to save her people from an elaborate political conspiracy. Problem is, it takes nearly two hours to get going, wasting all its time on dull-witted worldbuilding and endless training sequences.

140 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, SilverCity Fairview, Varsity DolPhiN tale 2 (Charles Martin Smith) is

a merely okay sequel to the feel-good original about an boy who rescues and rehabilitates an injured dolphin. Here the kid’s only problem is whether to accept a fabulous scholarship. It all seems forced,

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, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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origin story for Vlad the Impaler (Luke Evans). It’s dull, grey and rather pointless, the prologue to a modern Dracula movie stretched out to feature length. Some subtitles. 92 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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There’s not enough plot for a feature, but I’d have happily watched another hour of Hardy playing with that puppy. 106 min.

NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Potter And The Starship Troopers, a very expensive, very elaborately designed attempt to build a new super-franchise out of Orson Scott Card’s 1985 sci-fi novel about a gifted young boy (Asa Butterfield) chosen to save the world from an alien threat. 113 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, SilverCity Fairview, Varsity

the equalizer (Antoine Fuqua) reunites

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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cin-

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feloNy (Matthew Saville) 105 min. See Also Opening, page 70.

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ñfiNDiNg viviaN maier

(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier, constructing a compelling portrait of a mysterious artist who refused to be seen. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

froNtera (Michael Berry) is an every-

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) Kingsway Theatre

fury (David Ayer) 134 min. See review, page 69. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 17 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, 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 goD helP the girl (Stuart Murdoch) is,

basically, a mess: leadenly paced, indifferently staged, sloppy in its characterization and insufferable in its storytelling. Pompeii’s Emily Browning and Penny Dreadful’s Olly Alexander are little more than mannequins in writer/director Murdoch’s indie-popster fantasia about a Scots pop combo that forms over one eventful summer. 111 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñgoNe girl

(David Fincher) is a little cold, but that’s why Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network) is the perfect director for it, clinically dissecting what happens to a small-town bar owner (Ben Affleck) when his wife (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the morning of their fifth anniversary. Gone Girl feels machine-tooled in the best possible way, spotless and chilly and perfect. It’s exactly what this story and these characters require. 149 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, 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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(Philippe Falardeau) is being sold as a feel-good picture (about three Sudanese war survivors airlifted to Kansas City in 2001) along the lines of The Blind Side, but director Falardeau is far more interested in earning our empathy – and our tears – than in pandering to an American audience. Good for him. Some subtitles. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Varsity

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(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/cowriter Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough,

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(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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Kingsway Theatre

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entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy about two Los Angeles roommates who dress up as LAPD officers for a costume party, keep the charade going for fun and wind up in a turf war with a Georgian gangster (James D’Arcy). The ending’s a bust, but the actors are fun. 100 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande ­ Steeles, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Ira Sachs) tracks lovers George and Ben, superbly played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, who are forced to live separately when they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment. Sachs lets small gestures evoke the intimacy the two men miss so desperately. You won’t be on the edge of your seat, but you will get drawn in by the characters and their dilemmas. 94 min.

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(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

iNsidious (James Wan) teams the Saw franchise creators – director Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell – with Paranormal Activity producer Oren Peli for a story of a family plagued by spooky craziness. More a reworking of Poltergeist than anything else. 92 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24 The JudGe (David Dobkin) is a slick, commercial package – but what’s inside is pretty solid, letting Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall go head to head in a fatherson drama wrapped up inside a contrived legal thriller about a hotshot lawyer defending his father from a murder charge.

Both actors are great, and Dobkin (who also co-wrote the story) foregrounds relationships over legalese at every turn. 143 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cine­ plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity York­ dale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Kill The MesseNGer (Michael Cuesta)

stars Jeremy Renner as California reporter Gary Webb, who wrote about the CIA’s flooding poor black neighbourhoods with crack cocaine to launder money raised in the Iran-Contra scandal in 1996. A U.S. government campaign tried to discredit him by any means necessary. It’s a wellpackaged story, even if it never really catalyzes its indignation into something more resonant. 112 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

lefT BehiNd (Vic Armstrong) is a mild improvement on the previous adaptation of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins’s Christian-apocalypse blockbuster, casting real actors (Nicolas Cage! Chad Michael Murray! Big Love’s Cassi Thomson!) as unlucky Americans stuck on earth after God transports the faithful to heaven. But it’s no fun at all. 110 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queens­ way, Yonge & Dundas 24

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community who are distanced from their sexuality and emotions. It’s very uneven, and lines about Carl Sagan and our place in the universe make everything a bit too on the nose in an already obvious movie.

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Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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, Scotiabank Theatre

The Maze RuNNeR (Wes Ball) adapts a YA dystopia series about boys trapped in a mysterious area surrounded by a maze.

It’s monotonous, nonsensical, virtually humourless and oppressively grey. It only exists to set up the next one. 113 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

Magic iN The MooNLighT (Woody Allen)

is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s

MeN, WoMeN & chiLdReN (Jason Reitman) is a partly successful tale of interconnected people in a small Texas

“A REMARKABLE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT FROM WILLIAM H. MACY.”

The MeTRopoLiTaN opeRa: Le Nozze di FigaRo (Richard Eyre) is a high-def live

broadcast from the Met of Mozart’s famous opera, set in the 1920s by director Eyre, with Ildar Abdrazakov and Marlis Petersen. 194 min.

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(Xavier Dolan) is the Cannes prize winner and Canada’s foreign-language Oscar entry from precocious auteur Dolan, about a single parent (Anne Dorval) coping, barely, with the troubled, often violent son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) she loves. Operatic, beautiful and explosive, Mommy is wholly unpredictable. Dolan has turned into one of Canada’s best filmmakers. Subtitled. 139 min.

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(Anton Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counterintelligence with elegance and grace. In a final, masterful lead performance, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer tracking a Chechen Muslim (Grigory Dobrygin) through Hamburg.

Some subtitles. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

My oLd Lady (Israel Horovitz) stars Kevin

(Felix Herngren) stars Robert Gustafsson as the titular hero, a former explosives expert who escapes from a seniors facility and finds a suitcase full of money belonging to drug dealers. The Forrest Gumpian conceit feels very old, and the scattershot attacks on historical figures make no distinctions between good and bad guys.

Worse, the pic’s not funny. Subtitled. 114 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

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(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 gets a bit too warm and fuzzy – bordering on manipulative – at the end, but this is an important story proving that activists with ingenuity can build improbable political coalitions. 119 min. NNNN (SGC) Varsity

RuddeRLess (William H. Macy) 104 min.

See review, page 70. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 17 at Carlton Cinema

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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) Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Varsity

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Kline as a penniless, middle-aged loser who travels to Paris to claim a sprawling apartment in the Marais bequeathed him by his dad. But under the viager system, the previous owner (Maggie Smith) and her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) can still live there. The plot’s telegraphed in the first 10 minutes, but the stars are watchable. 107 min. NN (GS) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, Varsity

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suspenser that pits a stay-at-home mom (Taraji P Henson) against a charming but homicidal escaped convict (Idris Elba) who lies his way into her house. The stars give the characters some depth, and the action zips along, but there are no big scares and no plot turns you won’t anticipate. 84 min.

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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) Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Steeles, Kingsway Theatre

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(Shawn Levy) features a familiar premise – family reunites at a funeral – but director Levy’s got such a great cast (Jane Fonda as the matriarch, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll and scene-stealer Adam Driver as the children), he’s able to spin it into a pleasurably unpredictable comedy. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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(Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Winterbottom reuniting for another grand tour of fine dining, conversation and deep human insight, this time knocking around a splendid series of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Royal, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Stéphane Lafleur) 93 min. See review, page 68. NNNN

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Tusk (Kevin Smith) is 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 disturbing, but the comic beats don’t land. 102 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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day. Is it experimental, playful or just plain weird? I enjoyed it, so that doesn’t really matter. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Royal, TIFF Bell Lightbox

It’s weird and messy but Guardians Of The Galaxy is also big fun.

a Walk amoNg The TombsToNes (Scott

Frank) presents Lawrence Block’s tale of cop-turned-detective Matthew Scudder’s (Liam Neeson) hunt for a pair of psychos in the most conventional and un-thrilling manner possible. It’s all very well-made, but it takes a long time for the movie to grind its way toward its bloody finale. 114 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

WalkiNg The camiNo: six Ways To saNTiago (Lydia Smith) is a spectacular

snore, tracking a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela, delivering more bromides than a 19th-century apothecary.

It is good to look at, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what you’re after. Some subtitles. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 DIVERGENT (PG) Sat 10:00 ENDER’S GAME (PG) Sat 9:15 ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D (PG) Sat 9:00 FREE BIRDS (G) Sat 10:15 FURY (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 THE GOOD LIE (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:55, 7:15, 10:40 MOMMY (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 MY OLD LADY (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 PARANORMAN (PG) Sat 9:45 PRIDE (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:30, 6:25, 9:15 Wed 12:45, 3:30 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 ST. VINCENT (14A) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu, Wed 1:30, 4:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Sat 9:30

VIP SCREENINGS

FURY (14A) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 THE GOOD LIE (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:50 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 MOMMY (14A) Thu 1:10, 6:45 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 ST. VINCENT (14A) Fri 1:10, 6:30, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:35, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) Thu 3:25, 4:20, 5:35, 7:00, 7:35, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:15, 3:25, 4:20, 5:35, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 SatSun 12:05, 1:20, 2:15, 3:25, 4:20, 5:35, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Fri, Tue 5:00, 8:15, 11:15 Sat-Sun 1:45, 5:00, 8:15, 11:15 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:15, 10:45 BANG BANG! (PG) Thu-Fri 3:40, 6:55, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:40, 6:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 6:55, 10:20 THE BEST OF ME Thu 10:00 Fri 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 SatSun 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 8:05, 10:50 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 8:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:10 Sat-Sun 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45 Sat 12:45 Sun 12:45, 12:55 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 3:35, 5:55, 8:15 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:15 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Fri 1:50 Sat 1:15 BREAKUP BUDDIES (14A) Thu 1:50 4:50 7:45 10:35 FriWed 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 CITIZEN MARC Thu 7:00 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:55 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Fri, MonWed 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE DROP (14A) 10:40 Fri-Sun 4:25 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 FROM DUSK TILL DAWN Thu 9:30 FURY (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:45, 9:30, 11:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 11:00 FURY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 THE GOLDEN ERA (PG) Fri 3:45, 7:25, 11:05 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:45, 7:25, 11:05 Mon-Wed 2:35, 6:20, 10:05

GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 10:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:20 Wed 1:45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 8:10, 10:55 Sat-Sun 7:10, 10:05 Wed 7:10, 10:55 HAIDER Thu 2:45, 7:10, 10:40 Fri 3:15, 6:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 6:50, 10:10 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:30 Fri 1:45, 7:40 Sat-Sun 1:40, 7:40 Mon-Tue 7:40 INSIDIOUS (14A) Fri, Wed 10:00 Sat 6:30 Sun 6:15 Mon 10:15 Tue 7:30, 9:45 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:30, 11:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 KILL THE MESSENGER (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 8:20, 10:55 Fri 3:05, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 8:20, 10:55 LEFT BEHIND (PG) Thu 7:20 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu 10:15 THE MAZE RUNNER: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:20 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:40, 10:10 MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:50 Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:15 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN ENCORE Thu, Wed 4:00 Fri 4:30, 7:15 Sat 12:55, 3:45, 8:45 Sun 3:30, 8:30 Mon 2:00, 7:30 Tue 2:00, 4:45 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN (REVERSE CASTING) Wed 7:00 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:25 Fri 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:25 TUSK (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:20 THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Thu 1:50 Fri, Wed 1:45 Sun 12:55

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

THE BOXTROLLS (G) Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00 Mon-Wed 5:40, 7:50 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:30, 7:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:50 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 5:30 THE DROP (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:20 THE GOOD LIE (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 THE GREEN PRINCE Fri 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:10 HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:45 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:00 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Thu 7:50 MY OLD LADY (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:10 Fri 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 SatSun 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:20 THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:20 Fri 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:00 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 THE TRIP TO ITALY (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:40

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Sat 4:30 Sun, Wed 7:00 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu, Tue 7:00 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:15 Sun 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

CHEF (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue 7:00 TRACKS Fri 9:15 Sat-Sun 4:30 Wed 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun

12:10, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 6:50, 9:40 Sun 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Wed 1:30, 10:00 THE BEST OF ME Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 12:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:55 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 1:20 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:30 Wed 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:30 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:40 FURY (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 12:25, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:00, 3:15, 6:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 2:50, 9:40 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu-Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 10:30 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:05 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:20, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 6:30, 9:30 Wed 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Sat 12:55 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN (REVERSE CASTING) Wed 7:00 THE ROYAL BALLET - MANON Thu 8:00 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 12:20 THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Sun 12:55

Metro West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) 4:50, 7:15, 9:15 Sat-Mon 1:00, 2:55 mat THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 3:45, 6:40 FURY (14A) 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Mon 1:10 mat GONE GIRL (14A) 6:30, 9:35 Sat-Mon 2:30 mat THE JUDGE (14A) 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 9:00

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

ALTMAN (14A) Fri-Wed 6:30 BJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE (G) 8:05 Fri-Sat 11:15 late BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 12:35, 8:55 Fri-Wed 8:35 CHEF (14A) Fri-Wed 4:35 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 12:25 FRONTERA (14A) Thu 8:55 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 4:50 Fri-Wed 3:10 IDA (PG) Thu 11:00 Fri-Wed 11:45 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Thu 3:10 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:35 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 1:35 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:00, 7:00 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) 5:20 Fri-Sat 11:15 late 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 9:40 THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (PG) Thu 5:15 Fri-Wed 2:50 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 11:00, 3:45

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:55, 5:30, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 8:40, 10:50 Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 8:40, 10:50 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 6:30, 8:40 Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:00, 6:30, 8:40 Wed 2:20, 5:00, 6:30, 10:30 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 THE BEST OF ME Thu 9:30 Fri 2:40, 3:30, 5:45, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 12:05, 2:55, 3:30, 5:50, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 12:35, 3:30, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:25, 3:30, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 Wed 3:30, 4:15, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri 4:40, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10 Sat-Sun 11:50 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 3:00, 5:25, 8:10 Sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon-Tue 5:20, 8:00 Wed 5:40, 8:00 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 1:40 Fri 12:35 Sat 12:40 Sun 12:25 Mon-Tue 2:40 Wed 1:15 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:20, 3:20 Fri 2:50 Sun 12:45 Mon-Wed 1:20 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri-Sat 10:35 Sun-Wed 10:25 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:20, 4:30, 6:00, 6:55, 8:50, 9:50 Fri 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Sat 11:40, 1:40, 2:30, 4:10, 6:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Sun 11:40,

12:50, 2:30, 3:10, 5:40, 6:00, 8:10, 9:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 12:50, 2:40, 3:10, 5:40, 6:00, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30 Wed 2:00, 2:40, 4:30, 6:00, 8:10, 8:40, 9:45 The equalizer (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10, 10:20 Fri 12:40, 3:50, 4:00, 7:10, 7:30, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 12:30, 12:35, 3:50, 4:00, 7:10, 7:30, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 12:40, 3:50, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 11:00 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:50, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50 Wed 12:45, 3:55, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 3:10, 6:30, 6:50, 10:15, 10:30 Sat 11:20, 12:00, 3:00, 3:20, 6:30, 6:50, 10:15, 10:30 Sun 11:20, 12:00, 3:00, 3:20, 6:30, 6:40, 9:55, 10:30 Mon-Tue 3:00, 6:30, 6:40, 9:55, 10:30 Wed 1:30, 3:00, 6:30, 6:40, 9:55, 10:30 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:40 Fri, Wed 12:50, 3:35 Sat 12:45, 3:30 Sun 3:40 Mon-Tue 12:55, 3:40 Guardians oF The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:25 FriSat 6:30, 9:40 Sun 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:40 hecTor and The search For happiness (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:35 Fri 12:30, 6:20 Sat 7:15 Sun 12:20, 6:10 Mon-Tue 12:50, 6:20 The JudGe (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:30, 6:45, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30, 10:45 Fri 12:45, 2:30, 4:00, 6:00, 7:20, 9:30, 10:35 Sat 1:15, 2:30, 4:40, 6:00, 7:20, 9:30, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 2:30, 4:20, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:40, 4:20, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:35 leFT Behind (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:05, 6:30 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:20, 6:30, 10:05 Fri 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:05, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:35 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 My old lady (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55 naTional TheaTre live: FrankensTein (reverse casTinG) Wed 7:00 The royal BalleT - Manon Thu 12:00 The skeleTon Twins (14A) Thu 1:10, 6:35, 8:55 This is where i leave you (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:05 Fri 5:35, 8:20, 10:55 Sat 8:20, 10:55 Sun-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55 a walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 9:35 Fri 3:20, 9:15 Sat 10:05 Sun 3:25, 9:10 Mon-Tue 3:35, 9:15 Wed 3:50, 9:00

RainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 annaBelle (14A) 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 The BoxTrolls (G) 1:10, 4:10 dracula unTold (14A) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 The equalizer (18A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Gone Girl (14A) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 FriWed 6:50, 9:25

East End beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:05 Fri 4:15, 7:40, 9:40 Sat 1:15, 7:40, 9:40 Sun 1:15, 3:20, 7:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:40, 9:40 annaBelle (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:05 The BesT oF Me 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat The Book oF liFe 3d (G) 7:30, 9:50 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 5:00 The Book oF liFe (G) Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 7:20 The equalizer (18A) Thu 6:40, 9:40 Fury (14A) Fri 3:50, 7:15, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:15 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 SatSun 12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:55 The JudGe (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 9:50 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55

North York Cineplex CineMaS eMpReSS Walk (Ce) 5095 Yonge ST., 416-847-0087

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:35, 9:45 Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:10, 9:30 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10, 9:30 annaBelle (14A) Thu 4:25, 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 1:20, 4:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

The BesT oF Me 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sun 1:55 mat The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 The Book oF liFe (G) Sat 11:55, 2:10 Sun 2:10 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 3:30, 6:05, 8:50 diverGenT (PG) Sat 10:00 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:00, 10:15 dracula unTold: The iMax experience (14A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 ender’s GaMe (PG) Sat 9:15 The equalizer (18A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 escape FroM planeT earTh 3d (PG) Sat 9:00 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:55, 7:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 The JudGe (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Sun-Wed 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Tue 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 4:10, 10:05 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 My old lady (PG) Thu 3:50 naTional TheaTre live: FrankensTein (reverse casTinG) Wed 7:00 paranorMan 3d (PG) Sat 9:45 The royal BalleT - Manon Thu 7:00 Tazza: The hidden card (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55 walkinG wiTh dinosaurs (PG) Sat 9:30

Cineplex vip CineMaS don MillS (Ce) 12 MaRie labaTTe Road, 416-644-0660

The equalizer (18A) Thu 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Fri 3:00, 7:00, 11:00 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 11:00 Sun 3:00, 7:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 3:00, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 3:00, 10:30 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 1:30, 6:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:45 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 4:40, 6:00, 8:30 Fri 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 9:30, 10:40 Sat 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:00, 6:00, 9:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 9:20, 10:30 Wed 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 9:20, 10:10 The JudGe (14A) Thu 3:00, 4:10, 7:20, 9:20, 10:30 Fri 2:20, 5:30, 9:00 Sat 5:30, 9:00 Sun 2:00, 5:30, 8:50 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:30, 8:50 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 naTional TheaTre live: FrankensTein (reverse casTinG) Wed 7:00 This is where i leave you (14A) Thu 3:30 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55

SilveRCiTY FaiRvieW (Ce)

FaiRvieW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 9:55 FriWed 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:40, 9:45 annaBelle (14A) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 FriWed 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Fri-Wed 5:30, 7:50, 9:55 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:10 Wed 3:10 The BoxTrolls 3d (G) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 12:15, 2:40 diverGenT (PG) Sat 10:00 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 1:40, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 ender’s GaMe (PG) Sat 9:15 The equalizer (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Fri, SunWed 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 escape FroM planeT earTh 3d (PG) Sat 9:00 Free Birds (G) Sat 10:15 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30 3:40 6:50 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50 The JudGe (14A) Thu 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 FriWed 1:00, 3:35, 6:40, 9:20 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 paranorMan 3d (PG) Sat 9:45 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55 walkinG wiTh dinosaurs (PG) Sat 9:30

SilveRCiTY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-2052

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:20, 3:00, 3:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:00 Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:25, 9:30 annaBelle (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:40 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 The BesT oF Me Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10

The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Thu 7:20 Fri-Sat 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:55 Sun 12:00, 2:30 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:50 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10 Fri-Sat 1:10 Sun 1:15 Mon-Wed 1:30 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 FriSat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 The drop (14A) Thu 10:30 The equalizer (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:20 Guardians oF The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 10:00 The JudGe (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri-Sat 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Tue 10:15

Scarborough 401 & MoRningSide (Ce) 785 MilneR ave, SCaRboRough, 416-281-2226

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:40 Fri, Tue 3:25, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:30 annaBelle (14A) Thu 6:10, 8:30 Fri, Tue 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 2:50, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 2:50, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:30 The BesT oF Me Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:00 The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Fri-Sat, Tue 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 Mon, Wed 7:40 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri, Tue 3:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:15 Mon, Wed 5:25 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 5:45 Fri, Tue 6:50 Sat-Sun 1:45, 6:50 Mon, Wed 5:30 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 6:00 dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:15 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:10 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:05 The equalizer (18A) Thu 5:25, 8:25 Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:30 Fury (14A) Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:15 Gone Girl (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:20 Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sat 12:15, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 12:15, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 5:10 The JudGe (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:25 Fri, Tue 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 lucy (14A) Thu 8:30 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 4:10, 9:30 Sun 4:10, 9:15 Mon, Wed 7:50 This is where i leave you (14A) Thu 7:50 a walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 8:05

ColiSeuM SCaRboRough (Ce) SCaRboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 Fri 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Sat 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 annaBelle (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 3:20, 6:05, 8:35 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 The BesT oF Me Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 12:05, 2:55, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Fri, Sun 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 4:20, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:55 Sat 1:40 MonWed 2:00 The BoxTrolls 3d (G) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 8:00 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 12:25 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00 MonWed 1:55, 4:25 Breakup Buddies (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 Fri 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:35, 8:50 Sun 12:45, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Tue 6:50, 9:40 Wed 10:10 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 3:00, 5:40, 8:30 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The equalizer (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 9:55 Fri 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Sat 5:45, 8:55 Sun 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 MonWed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Sat 1:45, 5:00, 8:20 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:40,

6:20, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 5:15, 8:40 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:25 Guardians oF The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:15 The JudGe (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:35 Sat 1:25, 4:55, 8:45 Mon-Tue 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 Wed 3:25, 6:55, 10:10 leT’s Be cops (14A) Thu 10:25 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9:00 MonWed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 naTional TheaTre live: FrankensTein (reverse casTinG) Wed 7:00 TeenaGe MuTanT ninJa TurTles (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:05 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55

eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:30, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Sun 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:40, 7:55, 10:05 annaBelle (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 BanG BanG! (PG) Thu 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Fri 12:15, 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 3:25, 6:55, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 The BesT oF Me Thu 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Thu 7:10 Fri-Sat 5:25, 7:50, 10:05 Sun-Wed 5:25, 7:50, 9:50 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:55 The BoxTrolls 3d (G) Thu 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Sun 5:05, 7:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:25 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 2:15 Fri 12:20, 2:40 Sat 12:15, 2:40 Sun 2:40 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 4:30 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00 Sun 1:00, 3:50 Mon-Wed 3:55 dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 4:10, 9:45 Fri, Sun 9:45 Sat 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:40 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 The equalizer (18A) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:20 Fury (14A) 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:10 mat Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Fri, Sun 12:15, 3:35, 7:00, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:05, 10:25 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 6:40 Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun-Wed 9:25 Guardians oF The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 9:40 haider Thu 3:25, 6:50, 10:20 Fri 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 Sat 12:05, 3:35, 7:05, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 3:25, 6:55, 10:30 MonWed 5:30, 9:30 hecTor and The search For happiness (14A) Thu 6:50 The JudGe (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:40, 7:15, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 7:25, 10:00, 10:35 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 6:35, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 leFT Behind (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:25 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:30, 7:05 Sat 6:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 This is where i leave you (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:00 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00 Sun 1:25, 4:05, 6:40 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:40 The vaTican MuseuMs 3d (G) Sun 12:55 a walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) 9:55

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhuRST CiRCle, 416-299-3456

BanG BanG! (PG) 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Madras Thu-Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 yaan Thu-Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 7:30, 10:30

GTA Regions North ColoSSuS (Ce) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 4:25, 4:50, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40 FriSun 12:45, 2:10, 3:00, 4:20, 5:15, 6:35, 7:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:35, 4:40, 5:35, 6:40, 7:35, 9:35 annaBelle (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:50, 4:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 BanG BanG! (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 The BesT oF Me Thu 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 The Book oF liFe 3d (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15 The BoxTrolls 3d (G) Thu 6:30, 9:05 Fri-Sun 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 6:35, 9:10 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00 Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35 Sat 3:10, 5:35 diverGenT (PG) Sat 10:00 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Thu 4:15, 7:05 Fri-Sun 1:20 dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 4:25, 9:40 MonWed 4:25, 9:25 dracula unTold (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Sat 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 dracula unTold: The iMax experience (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 ender’s GaMe (PG) Sat 9:15 The equalizer (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 escape FroM planeT earTh 3d (PG) Sat 9:00 Free Birds (G) Sat 10:15 Fury (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:10, 3:35, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:10, 7:25, 10:35 Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Guardians oF The Galaxy (PG) Thu 3:55 Fri, Sun 3:55, 6:50 Sat 6:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30 Guardians oF The Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 6:45 Fri-Sun 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:15 haider Thu 6:10, 9:35 The JudGe (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:00, 7:00, 9:10, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:45, 7:15, 9:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:15, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45, 10:10 leFT Behind (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 leT’s Be cops (14A) Thu 9:55 Fri-Wed 9:00 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 The MeTropoliTan opera: le nozze di FiGaro Sat 12:55 no Good deed Thu 9:00 This is where i leave you (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 7:05 Mon-Wed 7:00 a walk aMonG The ToMBsTones (14A) Thu 4:35 FriSun 9:30 Mon-Wed 9:40 walkinG wiTh dinosaurs (PG) Sat 9:30

RainboW pRoMenade (i)

pRoMenade Mall, hWY 7 & baThuRST, 416-494-9371 alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no Good, very Bad day (PG) Thu 12:50, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 FriWed 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:15 annaBelle (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25 The Book oF liFe (G) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:00 dracula unTold (14A) 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Fury (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Gone Girl (14A) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 The JudGe (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Mon 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 9:45

West gRande - STeeleS (Ce) hWY 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

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carlton cinema, 20 carlton. brafftv.com

thu 16-sun 19 – Festival of Brazilian film and television. All films w/ s-t. $8, festival pass $60. thu 16 – Until Sbornia Do Us Part (2013) D: Otto Guerra and Ennio Torresan Jr, and short Ed. 7 pm. fri 17 – Drops Of Joy (2014) D: Cacau Rhoden, and short Super. 7 pm. City Of God (2013) D: Cavi Borges and Luciano Vidigal, and Son Of Crime (2014) D: Daniel Ghivelder. 9 pm. sat 18 – Cecília’s House (2014) D: Clarissa Appelt, and The Sun Can Blind (2013) D: Toti Loureiro. 2 pm. Sound Of The Drum And The Maestro (2014) D: Natasha Pravaz, and Tokyo Village (2014) D: Rodrigo Grota. 4 pm.

Triunfo (2014) D: Caue Angeli and Hernani

Ramos, and Black Or White! (2013) D: Alison Zago. 6:30 pm. Love, Plastic And Noise (2013) D: Renata Pinheiro, and short Severino’s Dream. 9 pm. sun 19 – Learning How To Read To Teach My Fellows (2014) D: João Guerra, and short Huntsman. 4 pm. June – The Riots In Brazil (2014) D: João Wainer, and Rhythms Of Resistance (2014) D: Jason O’Hara. 6 pm.

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bloor hot docs cinema, 506 bloor W (bc), ehatare seniors facility, 40 old kingston rd (es); estonian house, 958 broadvieW (eh); tartu college, 310 bloor W (tc). estdocs.com

thu 16-tue 21 – Festival of films on Estonian

culture, history and politics. All films w/ s-t. $10-$25, pwyc Oct 16, half-price for stu w/ ID. estdocs2014.eventbrite.ca. thu 16 – The Juice King (2014) D: Keiti Väliste, and The Other Side Of The Plate (2013) D: Maria Kivirand. 7 pm (TC). fri 17 – Ash And Money (2013) D: Tiit Ojasoo, and Ene-Liis Semper. 7:45 pm (BC). sat 18 – Keepers Of The Loom (2014) D: Tom Mae and Reet Mae. 8:30 pm (BC). sun 19 – Estonian Animation: Lemonade Tale D: Vallo Toomla, XYZtopia D: Martinus Daane Klemet, Sandguy D: Pärtel Tall, and Pilots On The Way Home D: Priit and Olga Pärn. 1 pm.

Documentaries Screening Marathon: Paper City D: Jaak Kilmi, Possibility Of An Island D: Mariann Kõrver, Kelly D: Andrei Matsukevits, Cartoonist D: Kristjan Svirgsten, and Ballet Master D: Ruti Murusalu. 2-8 pm. Screenings at TC. mon 20 – Child Of Nature (2013) D: Anu Aun, and The Gull Theorem (2013) D: Joosep Majus. 7 pm (dinner and screening, EH).

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No Land’s Song D: Ayat Najafi, ROR D: Natalie Cunningham, and Up D: Tony Reames.

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7 pm. One More Song... An Evening Of Rage D: Shawn Beckwith, Everybody Knows D: Tristan Sennick, and Folk D: Sara Terry. 9:30 pm. sat 18 – Hard Part D: Stephanie Clattenberg, Petty Troubles D: Isaac Pingree, and Born To Ruin D: Brendan McCarney. 7 pm. The Pump

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D: Gerrard Johnstone, and short Foxed!. 7 pm. Suburban Gothic (2014) D: Richard Bates Jr, and short Young Blood. 9:45 pm. fri 17 – Hellmouth (2014) D: John Geddes, and short film Pupa. 7 pm. ABCS Of Death 2 (2014) D: Rodney Ascher, Julian Barratt and others, and short Lumberjacked. 9:30 pm. sat 18 – Shorts After Dark: Dynamic Venus, Happy B-Day, Liquid, Strange Things and others. 4:15 pm. Zombeavers (2014) D: Jordan Rubin, and short Day 40. 7 pm. Dead Snow 2: Red Vs Dead (2014) D: Tommy Wirkola, and short Period Piece. 9:30 pm. sun 19 – The Drownsman (2014) D: Chad Archibald, and short Kismet. 4:15 pm.

Wolves (2014) D: David Hayter, and short Rose In Bloom. 7 pm. Late Phases (2014) D: Adrián García Bogliano, and short Dead Hearts. 9:30 pm. mon 20 – Open Windows (2014) D: Nacho Vigalondo, and short The Monitor. 7 pm.

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2014) D: David Zellner, and short Migration. 9:30 pm. tue 21 – Predestination (2014) D: Michael and Peter Spierig, and short What Doesn’t Kill You. 7 pm. Time Lapse (2014) D: Bradley King, and short Honor Code. 9:30 pm.

bloor hot docs cinema 506 bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

thu 16 – Art And Craft (2014) D: Sam Cullman, and Jennifer Grausman. 4 pm. ñ Salon Vert presents DamNation (2014) D: Ben

Knight and Travis Rummel. 6:30 pm. Björk: Biophilia Live (2014) D: Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland. 9:15 pm. fri 17 – Watchers Of The Sky (2014) D: Edet Belzberg. 3:30 pm. EstDocs Film Festival: see listings, this page. sat 18 – Shakespeare’s Globe On Screen: Twelfth Night (2012) D: Tim Carroll. 11:30 am.

Watchers Of The Sky. 3:15 pm. EstDocs Film Festival: see listings, this page. sun 19 – Sí-Sí Cine Toronto Latin Film Festival presents Las Acacias (2011) D: Pablo Giorgelli.

3:30 pm. Watchers Of The Sky. 6:30 pm. Code Black (2013) D: Ryan McGarry. 9 pm. mon 20 – Watchers Of The Sky. 6:30 pm.

Code Black. 9 pm. tue 21 – Watchers Of The Sky. 1:30 pm.

York University Dept of Film: CineSiege 2014, screening of 2013-14 undergraduate shorts, fiction films and documentaries. 7 pm. Free. film.finearts.yorku.ca wed 22 – imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festiva: see listings, this page.

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In Time Lapse, George Finn thinks there’s money to be made in a camera that takes pics 24 hours into the future.

TIME LAPSE (Bradley King) Rating: NNN Time Lapse is one of the more offbeat entries in this year’s Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which runs Thursday (October 16) through October 24 at the Scotiabank and, as always, devotes its energies to horror, science fiction and general weirdness from the indie end of the cinematic spectrum.

Bradley King’s film uses its mix of science fiction and noirish crime movie to explore both philosophical questions of free will and predes-

tination and the messier emotional territory of greed, jealousy and destructive self-deception. Along the way, it cranks up a fair degree of tension.

The SF gimmick that propels the action is a camera that takes pictures 24 hours into the future. It and a body fall into the hands of a trio of roommates – a blocked painter, his waiter girlfriend and his pill-head gambler buddy – who figures out how to monetize the situation, which brings unwanted criminal attention.

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Toronto Socialist Action’s Rebel Films series presents Assistance Mortelle/Fatal Assistance (2013) D: Raoul Peck, about post-earthquake Haiti and the failure to deal with the housing crisis. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-280. socialistaction.ca/rebel ’Sauga Screenings presents Shipwrecked On A Great Lake D: Peter Rowe, and films by Katarzyna Kochan and Nick Name. 6:30 pm.

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7:30 pm. $8. 240 Sterling. pdome.org SuN 19 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents Chai Tea & A Movie: Above And Beyond: The Birth Of The Israeli Air-Force D: Roberta Grossman. 1:15 & 4:15 pm. Q&A w/ director to follow screening. $15. Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, 5095 Yonge. tjff.com.

Toronto Jewish Film Society presents My Mexican Shiva (2007) D: Alejandro Springall.

4 & 7:30 pm. $15, 18-35 $10. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

The Home Movie History Project presents Home Movie Day. Bring 8mm, super 8 and 16mm home movies to show or watch. 7 pm. Free. The Monkey’s Paw, 1229 Dundas W. google.com/site/homemoviehistoryproject. tuE 21 – White Pine Pictures presents West Wind: The Vision Of Tom Thomson. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge, Rm 1. 416-395-5625.

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Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Fest. 7 pm. Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 9 pm.

SuN 19 – Oz/Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming and George Cukor w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Darkside Of The Moon. 4 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 6 pm. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Rupert Julian. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm.

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Suspiria (1977) D: Dario Argento. 7 pm. Fight Club (1999) D: David Fincher. 9 pm. tuE 21 – 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.

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Don’t wait, talk now Four years ago, I met a man on a “married but looking” website. We exchanged fantasies, which included wanting to have threesomes and a D/s relationship.

He was 19 years my senior. I was 42 at the time. For three years, we met twice a week for drinks or sex. The sex was amazing. We had several threesomes. One year ago, we separated from our spouses. We have lived together now for four months. It isn’t what I imagined: the merging of kids and dogs, a D/s relationship turning vanilla. And due to some health issues, he can perform only once a week.

And now the real problem: His desire to bring another woman into our relationship borders on obsession. He searches daily on several websites for that “elusive woman” to become “our friend and lover.” I have access to the accounts, and his chats are pretty straightforward. Nothing that indicates a desire to cheat. He truly seems to be searching for a woman for a regular threesome.

The problem is that I am questioning whether I want another woman in our life.

I asked him why he’s so obsessed with finding someone, and he simply said that it would be “fun and hot.” Since he is much older than most men on these sites, women tend to pass him over. I have this fervent wish that he doesn’t find someone.

So do I sit back and hope that he doesn’t find another woman, or should I be upfront with him and tell him that I’m not interested in threesomes any more? I’m afraid that if he finds someone, my jealousy – which I work very hard to hide from him – will break us up. I’m almost getting obsessed myself, checking the sites and his chats constantly. It is bordering on the ridiculous. What should I do?

Just Wants To Be Monogamous Ask yourself which conversation will be more difficult: A. After a frustrating and protracted search, your boyfriend finally manages to find a woman who’s interested in being your “friend and lover,” JWTBM. At that point, you tell him you’re no longer interested in a third, regular or otherwise, and he needn’t have bothered.

B. You tell your boyfriend today – now – that you’re not interested in bringing a third into the relationship, regular or otherwise.

It’s the same conversation either way, JWTBM: You’re gonna have to tell him you’re not interested. Don’t count on him dying before he manages to find someone; he may be too old for the women on the websites he’s haunting now, but sooner or later, either he’ll find his way to a website where his age isn’t an issue, or a bi woman into older men will stumble over one of the ads he already has up. So you’re going to have to tell him the truth, JWTBM, the only question is when.

I would argue that having the conversation now would be preferable to having it after he’s set up a date for drinks with a potential third. He may be disappointed to learn that you’re not interested in a third any more, JWTBM, but he’s less likely to be breakuplevel angry/hurt if you didn’t stand there silently while he wasted time searching for a third.

And who knows? An honest and open conversation about the state of your relationship – including the fact that you’re dissatisfied with the once-a-week routine and the waning of D/s – may ignite an interest in a third. Would you feel differently about a third if it turned out she wasn’t for him (so

nothing to be jealous about), JWTBM, but for you? He’s getting older, he has health issues and he may want someone else around so that you won’t leave him to get your needs met. It’s also possible that a third would reignite the D/s dynamics that you miss. D/s is performance, it’s play, and nothing invigorates a pair of performers quite like a new audience.

I’m not telling you that you have to agree to the third – if it’s monogamy you want, then it’s monogamy you should ask for – but keep your mind, your options and those lines of communication all open.

I thought it was a triad I’m a mIddle-aged, Fat and happy gay man. My partner has a best friend, and they share everything – including our bed.

Most weekends, we tromp through town together, watch TV together and share waking and sleeping moments together.

Recently I referred to us as “poly and in a triad,” and I was shocked by my partner’s response. He claims that we aren’t a triad; I say that if we’re sharing home, heart and bed, we’re in a poly relationship. Sign me…

Honest Accidentally Poly Person, Yep Being poly means being open to or being in more than one romantic relationship – concurrent committed relationships – and what you’ve described sounds pretty poly to me. Perhaps it’s the triad designation that makes your partner uncomfortable.

That particular label implies that you’re all equal partners – not just equally attracted to each other and in love with each other (which three people rarely are), but equals

on the emotional, social and financial fronts as well, i.e., equally obligated to one another. Your partner may regard his best friend as fun to have around, but not an equal partner and not someone he is responsible to/for in the same way you two are responsible for each other.

Or maybe your partner regards his best friend as his boyfriend, not yours, and while he’s happy to share his boyfriend with you sexually, he’s not into the idea that you might be in love with his boyfriend and vice versa, so the “triad” label irks him.

Or maybe your partner is one of those people who believes that poly folks are deranged sex maniacs and whatever he’s doing can’t be poly because he’s not a deranged sex maniac, HAPPY, which makes him more comfortable with cognitive dissonance than the “triad” label.

Accept terms or divorce I’m a marrIed 28-year-old male. my partner and I are conflicted over the level of openness in our relationship. She describes herself as “post-mononormative.” I consider myself GGG. While I know that she wants me to be her life companion, she has expressed a need for novel experiences that may not include me. While I accept that there is no essential link between erotic love and long-term partnership, I reject the polyamorous notion that love is limitless. When she has misinterpreted conversations and transgressed boundaries, it has always coincided with the neglect of our own relationship. I have given

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up seeking the moral high ground and just want to find a solution. Should I have polyamorous relationships of my own? Or should I focus on cultivating shared erotic experiences with my partner? And do her transgressions mean that the boundaries we’ve set are not explicit or generous enough?

Non-Normative Problems I don’t think retaliatory polyamory is healthy or sustainable. (“I don’t want to have other partners, but if you’re going to have other partners, then so am I! Let’s see how you like it!”) And while you can focus on cultivating shared erotic experiences, NNP, your partner has made it clear that she needs – and intends to have – novel experiences that don’t include you. And while her transgressions may mean the boundaries you’ve set aren’t explicit or generous enough, NNP, it’s likelier that your partner gets off on transgression. Some people do.

I think you’re confused, NNP, and your confusion stems from the fact that your partner is negotiating with you about her nonnegotiable terms. She’s going to do who and what she wants whether you like it or not, and she’s going to hide behind “postmononormative” labels and claims that conversations were misinterpreted if that’s what it takes. Accept her terms or divorce her ass, but stop deluding yourself.

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