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1. Making the grade News writer Ben Spurr unpacks the platforms for each candidate and ranks where they stand on the issues, from policing to the arts.

2. Voter’s guide Still not sure who you’re voting for on Monday? Check in with our ward-by-ward election hub, complete with information about council candidates.

3. Board games This election, for a variety of reasons, there are quite a few tight TDSB trustee races that are worth watching.

4. LRT, LRT, LRT Some working-class Hamiltonians aren’t too receptive to recent transplants from Toronto pushing for light rail transit in Steeltown.

5. WoodGreen’s woes We spent 48 hours on the front lines with WoodGreen’s social service workers, who went on strike on October 9.

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Letter-writer Robert Lee’s suggestion that Olivia Chow’s showing in the first March Citytv debate is why antiFord voters are backing John Tory is silly (NOW, October 16-22).

It’s true, Olivia was criticized for avoiding Ford’s crack and booze problems. Tellingly, though, only she asked Rob a question when given a

chance: how can he say he cares about the little guy after cutting TTC funding? Tory won’t reverse these cuts.

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Olivia Chow should have expanded her campaign to address the myriad issues that make Toronto increasingly un-civitas. Transit is but a reflection of a city visibly segregated into super-rich and super-poor, with a dismal layer of waiting-for-the-pinkslip, barely employed and hangingin-there-by-credit-card category.

Taxation, joblessness, homelessness and the pauperization of the working class should have been Chow’s fundamental campaign pillars.

Instead, she played nice by reducing her campaign to mere rhetorical jabs around transit issues.

Those of us expecting a radical voice are profoundly disappointed.

Chow presented herself as nothing more than a reflection of the NDP’s neurotic political vacillation between left and right rhetoric.

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Letter-writer Andrew van Velzen says the Chow camp’s lumping of John Tory and Doug Ford together is a sign of desperation (NOW, October 2-9).

But of course we can lump them together.

Tory financially supported both Rob and Doug Ford’s election campaigns in 2010. What does that say about Tory’s judgment? The Conservative ideology of the Fords and Tory is the same as Harper’s and Hudak’s – dismantling public services for the poor and middle class so they can give tax cuts to the rich.

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About that other Ford running in Ward 6

Wondering how much NOW is actually acquainted with Ward 6 when the Voter’s Guide fails to mention Russ Ford (NOW, October 16-22).

People in Ward 6 are very unhappy about the pace of mostly high-rise development without the necessary infrastructure and the inadequacy of public transit. Russ Ford stands as a community builder.

It is not too late for NOW to redeem itself. RussFord.ca. ed Dale Manager, Russ Ford campaign Toronto

Ray of hope in Etobicoke-Centre

I had the pleasure of knocking on doors in Ward 5 to support candidate Raymond Desilets. While I certainly

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would not predict he will be victorious, I was pleasantly surprised to meet voters already committed to supporting Ray and his progressive urbanist vision for Etobicoke.

Also, it was interesting to see that several of his signs in the neighbourhood had been vandalized. Even if NOW’s news department is ignorant of Ray’s challenge, his opponents are not.

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NOW should have mentioned Dyanoosh Youssefi as a council contender in Ward 16 Eglinton-Lawrence.

Youssefi is arguably the most progressive candidate in the ward, with strong community roots and a solid track record as a volunteer with the elderly and homeless.

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Your Voter’s Guide was basically an endorsement for Olivia Chow. There’s nothing wrong with an endorsement, but call it by what it is.

Chow just throws costly programs at every issue. Her worst idea is breakfast programs for kids! Education and schools are the responsibility of the provincial government, not the city.

What’s next, free lunch for all Toronto seniors?

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School board contests not to be overlooked

Thanks for covering the school board races in your Voter’s Guide (NOW, October 16-22). Often these races are overlooked and the candidates underwhelming. But that’s starting to change. A host of long-serving incumbents are retiring, and frankly it’s about time.

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Once the envy of the world for our inventive, inclusive and diverse city, we have become an international embarrassment.

Worse, we have become a city divided, in which neighbourhoods are pitted against each other, class against class and even race against race. At least that’s been the case in the current election campaign.

Toronto is not just a city of gridlock but of lockdown, where great ideas get dismantled and the only progress is imaginary fantasy subways that are discussed with the same authority as unicorn sightings.

The destruction of the city we love has happened on the boozy, drug-addled watch of Rob Ford and his older brother Doug, who has now replaced the ailing Rob to run for mayor.

That some are even discussing a return to City Hall of this two-headed monster of despair in next week’s election is a sorry sign of how broken this city has become.

Now the Fords’ fellow traveller John Tory – who courted that family’s approval for his failed 2003 mayoral run and proudly led the PC party of Mike Harris that Rob and Doug grew up worshipping – is somehow being posited as an antidote to the Ford poison.

Tory is an enigma tightly wrapped in a sweater vest who will do anything to hide his true colours. And those colours are full-on PC blue, the same party that in 1995 filled in a subway, subway, subway on Eglinton that would have been functioning by now had the party of Tory and Ford not jammed dirt back down into that hole.

It seems a majority of Torontonians are determined to end the Ford brothers’ ruinous reign. But to paraphrase Olivia Chow, the only real progressive in the mayoral race, why replace a Tory with a Tory?

There is little in John Tory’s past to suggest he would be fundamentally different than his conservative cohorts, save for the crudeness and the crack-smoking. Like the Fords, this silver-tongued and silver-spooned pol makes unfounded, unfunded transit promises. His amusingly named SmartTrack has been torn apart by transit experts on all sides of the political spectrum. The backtrack from SmartTrack would necessitate a Fordlike frenzy of service slashing and user fees. There would be no money left for new or necessary city services.

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PICKS & PANS 9 GAMEWHO TO VOTE FOR AND WHO’S GOT TO GO OCTOBER 27 IN ALL 44 WARD RACES community’s youth or calling out the mayor’s bigotry, Domise’s intelligence and tenacity are inspiring.

CHANGERS WE CAN GET BEHIND Idil Burale Ward 1 EtobicokE North

Ward 1 has undergone big changes since the 1990s, with the influx of thousands of newcomers from South Asia and East Africa, many of whom haven’t found the prosperity they hoped for.

Clustered in aging apartment towers along Dixon, they earn less than most Torontonians and often lack access to vital services. Vince Crisanti, the current councillor, is stuck in the past. One of Rob Ford’s closest allies, he’s consistently supported anti-tax policies that favour homeowners over newer, less affluent residents. Enter Burale, an energetic young candidate who’s a founding member of Women in Toronto Politics and community groups fighting youth violence. She understands what the area needs to thrive: government investment. An advocate for both small improvements like more flowers at community housing developments

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and transformational projects like the Finch LRT, Burale is the perfect candidate to help Ward 1 capitalize on its untapped potential.

Andray Domise Ward 2 EtobicokE North

It’s no wonder Ward 2 residents feel alienated from City Hall. Successive councils have failed to address high unemployment, a lack of quality housing and inadequate transit. But while Rob Ford has cynically manipulated that disaffection to convince residents that government should play only a limited role in their lives, Domise knows they deserve better and is actually proposing solutions. Those include setting up a tech hub to teach Rexdale students skills, reviving the Woodbine Live project that the Fords botched and reversing the mayor’s cuts to TTC service. Whether speaking about the need to invest in the

Russ Ford Ward 6 EtobicokELakEshorE

Aside from sharing a last name, this Ward 6 candidate has nothing in common with Rob and Doug. The executive director of the LAMP Community Health Centre for the past 14 years, Russ Ford is pushing an equity-focused platform calling for more transit, locally led development along condofied Lake Shore and the elimination of recreation fees. By contrast, three-term incumbent and Ford ally Mark Grimes voted in favour of cuts to library services and AIDS programs and against investing in social housing. He also took that taxpayer-funded trip to Vegas during the great casino debate, he says to scope the entertainment district. Russ Ford has won endorsements from the city’s progressive leading lights, including Parkdale-High Park councillor Gord Perks. He’d be a vast improvement over the stagnant leadership offered

by Grimes in a riding with its share of social issues.

Lekan Olawoye Ward 12 York south-WEstoN

Incumbent Frank Di Giorgio owes his 30-year electoral success to Mel Lastman and the large Italian-speaking base that tends to vote along ethnic lines in this forgotten pocket of the former city of York. John Nunziata, the lobbyist brother of council speaker Frances, has complicated matters for Di Giorgio by making a bid to complete a Ford-Holyday-Nunziata axis.

Viable lefties have run and lost here by lots before. But few have enjoyed the backing of Liberal cabinet ministers. Lekan Olawoye, the exec of nonprofit For Youth Initiative, has run a respectful campaign, even when he became the target of racist attacks. He represents something that’s desperately needed on council: a voice for black men lost to disenfranchisement and violence.

Alejandra Bravo Ward 17 davENport

Few incumbents deserve the boot more than Cesar Palacio. A diehard Ford ally until pretty much the end and chair of the Licensing And Standards Committee, with little to show for it, Palacio was brutally unimpressive at every turn. We would probably back his chief opponent regardless of who it was, but lucky for us and for Ward 17 residents, that person is Bravo, a wonderful candidate in her own right. With experience at the Maytree Foundation and on the Board of Health, Bravo would bring a strong social justice bent to a ward whose diverse residents deserve more than what they’ve been getting.

Alex Mazer Ward 18 davENport

Ana Bailão is an okay councillor. She’s good on issues of housing and labour, and has a number of left-wing endorsements. But she supported the Ford agenda more than she should have and pleaded guilty to drunk driving following a night out with casino lobbyists. Residents of Ward 18 should pick Mazer instead: the founder of Better Budget TO and a former adviser to the provincial minister of finance, Mazer has a thorough grasp of how to translate ideals into policy, and how to involve the public in doing so. His critical analysis and passion for civic engagement would be a welcome addition to City Hall.

Dan Fox Ward 24 WiLLoWdaLE

Funny story: incumbent David Shiner quietly spent five years between 2006-2011 as a registered lobbyist of the federal government while simultaneously holding down his full-time job as councillor. That by itself would be enough to recommend turfing him, even if he weren’t also an ineffective right-winger whose dual modes are “patronize” and “sneer.” Then there’s the midtown apartment he copped at a cut rate from Greenwin-Verdiroc Group. Fox has run a strong campaign,

striking at Shiner’s entitlement and absence of vision. Crucially, Fox believes the city should set service levels first and then tax accordingly rather than the other way around. The road to a better Toronto begins with that approach.

Ishrath Velshi Ward 26 doN vaLLEY WEst

The time is nigh for incumbent John Parker now that mayoral front-runner John Tory has endorsed his main challenger, Jon Burnside. It seems not even small-c conservative Leasiders can stomach Parker. Being kept out of the loop on development decisions has caused some consternation. We’re nonplussed. While Parker provided noteworthy comic relief as deputy council speaker, it’s easy to forget he was one of the mayor’s staunchest allies – and a PC backbencher with Doug Ford Sr. when a guy named Mike Harris was laying waste to the city.

Velshi, Parker’s former EA, is running against her former boss here, pushing the concerns of Thorncliffe Park and Flemingdon residents who feel they’re not being represented. Velshi has roots in Don Mills. Her father served as a former Liberal MPP for the area under David Peterson.

Amarjeet Chhabra Ward 44 scarborough East

Let’s be honest – Chhabra is not the ideal candidate. She has signalled she wouldn’t fight to reverse the wasteful Scarborough subway and said she would consider reducing the land transfer tax, a vital source of city revenue. But she may be the shot in the arm Scarborough East needs. There’s still plenty on her platform to get behind, including support for complete streets, the Sheppard LRT and immediate TTC service improvements. But the biggest reason to vote for her is incumbent Ron Moeser, whose repeated absences from City Hall and ineffectual response to community needs have left the ward without proper democratic representation for the better part of the last 22 years. continued on page 14

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stead, he whispers about finding “efficiencies” to fund his vague transit plans. When conservatives start wielding axes, services and programs that add to livability and creativity disappear, dismissed as frills in the name of prudence.

Since Tory defaulted to front-runner status this summer, his handlers have tried to keep their candidate’s mouth shut so he would not commit another of his legendary political belly flops. The result has been a carefully choreographed campaign aimed at helping us forget his enthusiastic right-wing past. It wasn’t that long ago that Tory advised women looking to get ahead to learn how to play golf.

Speaking of golf, Tory and his family were happy to join the Rosedale Golf Club even though it banned Jews at the time. Tory says his family helped get that rule changed, but who would even want to join a club that practised religious apartheid?

Toronto can do better.

Olivia Chow is the best choice to get Toronto back to being a city we can be proud of.

Chow has not run a great campaign, only really hitting her stride in these last few weeks. But that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t make a

great mayor. Rob Ford was a pretty good campaigner but a disaster in the mayor’s chair.

Critics want to paint Chow as fiscally irresponsible, yet she is the only candidate not mortgaging the next 30 years on a $1 billion stubway to nowhere. She won’t start writing cheques for anything until she knows what it will cost. This sets her dramatically apart from Tory and Ford.

Chow is alone in her determination to fix our increasingly divided city. Tory mutters pleasing platitudes, but only Chow is talking about nutrition programs to make sure kids have a full stomach so they can emerge with a full mind and the necessary tools to get ahead in school.

She’s also the only one with a plan to build desperately needed affordable housing and fix the social housing that’s fallen further into disrepair under the Fords.

Her portfolio of green initiatives – bike lanes, higher waste diversion targets and planting 1 million trees to fight climate change – would see us retake our rightful place as leaders in the world ecological movement.

The other two one-percenters yammer about experience, but both have barely held political office. Only Chow can point to decades of successfully operating in the political arena, where she has excelled at the school board, municipal and federal level.

Chow is the only candidate who has a proven track record of bridge building, having even managed to squeeze progressive policies from Toronto’s first mega-city mayor, conservative Mel Lastman. She’s the only one talking about youth employment and reining in the police budget. She’s the only one talking about ranked ballots. And more transparency in government.

She’s the only one with a track record of getting things done. She would get this city moving again instead of stuck in the fractious, flaccid, fruitless debates that tend to consume us.

Only Chow represents real change and real hope. Only Chow can deliver us the city we are so eager to attach the words “world class” to. Only Chow is offering a Toronto we can be proud of, a city that works and aspires to leave no one behind. Vote Olivia Chow for mayor and get a fresh start and a better tomorrow with real, progress.

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6WHO HAVE TO G0 Giorgio Mammoliti Ward 7 York West

Arguably, Mammo, despite his outrageousness, once spoke to the alienation felt by local residents. True to form, he’s claiming temporary amnesia after emergency brain surgery to explain that illegal $80K fundraiser with developers and lobbyists in Woodbridge that cops are now investigating. The chickens are coming home to roost. Larry Perlman has been a lone voice in the wilderness in York West for a long time. Nick Di Nizio, who finished second last time, can win, but he’s not the most progressive candidate – 20-something Keegan Henry-Mathieu is. He has raised the importance of transit to connect priority neighbourhoods.

Frances Nunziata Ward 11 York south-Weston

Until Rob Ford came along and appointed her council speaker, Nunziata was little more than a bit player on the municipal scene who made her career by blowing the whistle on a few crooked colleagues over a development deal gone bad. Two-plus decades later, she’s riding that wave to another term, with her lobbyist brother John running in the riding next door. It’s a family affair in York South-Weston. Meanwhile, little has changed for residents of one of the poorest wards in the province.

Denzil Minnan-Wong Ward 34 don ValleY east

He’s the public face of the Ford administration’s biggest electoral accomplishment – private garage pick up west of Yonge. But the company who won that gig under questionable circumstances, GFL, ended up losing the contract it took over from Turtle Island in Etobicoke because of its safety record.

When the Gardiner starting crumbling under his watch, he let bureaucrats take the fall and blamed Waterfront Toronto. Now he wants to spend untold

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billions keeping a useless section east of Jarvis up. Until Ford was caught with a crack pipe, he was the administration’s biggest apologist.

And it’s hurting Minnan-Wong at the doors. He’s supporting Tory for mayor, trying to line himself up for another sweet gig.

Michelle Berardinetti Ward 35 scarborough southWest

Berardinetti began her first term on council by ripping out bike lanes in her ward and accepting a role on Rob Ford’s executive. While she eventually stepped away from the mayor, she displayed a similar disturbing disregard for facts as Ford in pursuit of political gain, and her policy proposals were often either misguided or impractical. Berardinetti has at times seemed in over her head, like when she put a motion on the council agenda in June requesting that shelter staff be allowed to run “warrant checks” on potential clients, even though the checks are not authorized.

Glenn De Baeremaeker Ward 38 scarborough centre

De Baeremaeker’s term was defined by his nakedly self-serving flip-flop on the Scarborough subway, an unnecessary and hugely costly project that will take more than a generation to pay off. We’d be tempted to overlook this gutless move if the councillor didn’t spend so much of his time on frivolous pursuits, like trying to ban pet walruses within city limits or holding “cutest dog” competitions. A devoted environmentalist, De Baeremaeker has shown himself to be an opportunist in progressive sheep’s clothing. Maybe the World Wildlife Fund is hiring?

Raymond Cho Ward 42 scarboroughrouge riVer

No one knows when Cho was first elected to council; he has always been there and, like the wind or the mountains, may persist long after we’re gone. (Just kidding! He became a Metro councillor in 1991 and a megacity councillor in 1997.)

Regardless of his provenance, it’s time for him to go. His supposed values shift with uncomfortable frequency and without justification – he’s less an unpredictable maverick than a crisp autumn leaf blowing in the wind. We prefer Neethan Shan, the executive director of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians and a former York Region school board trustee. But we do hope he steps down as president of the Ontario NDP if elected.

9 INCUMBENTS WE LOVE miss or disdain them. Progressive denizens of the downtown core could not hope for a better public face for their values.

Paula Fletcher Ward 30 torontodanforth

Sarah Doucette Ward 13 Parkdale-high Park

In her maiden vote in 2010, Doucette was one of only six councillors to take a stand and vote against eliminating the vehicle registration tax.

She continued to stick to her progressive guns throughout the term, reliably opposing the Ford administration’s far-right agenda. Outside the chamber she fought tirelessly to preserve the High Park Zoo and rebuild the Jamie Bell Playground.

Doucette is community-minded and politically principled.

Gord Perks Ward 14 Parkdale-high Park In the 2010-2014 term, Perks proved himself the single most valuable member of council. Rob Ford’s crushing transit defeat? That was him. Rob Ford’s crushing budget defeat? That was him, too. He’s worked tirelessly to shape left and centre members into something resembling a coherent coalition, and his mastery of policy and procedure allowed him to outwit the right at nearly every turn. He puts his body, soul and sanity into the job in a way few others do, driven by a compulsion to help the least fortunate by whatever means necessary.

Mike Layton Ward 19 trinitY-sPadina

In 2010, Layton arguably got elected because he shared his father’s surname. In 2014, Layton should be reelected because he shares his father’s talents. An upstanding, impossibly likeable progressive, Layton fuses his left-wing ideals with a natural affinity for the craft of politics. If he’d stopped the casino at Exhibition Place but not the Walmart on Bathurst, it would have been enough. If he’d stopped the Walmart on Bathurst but not the expansion of the Island airport, it would have been enough. If he’d stopped the expansion of the Island airport but not played guitar in the Clamshell Quintet, it would have been enough. Dayenu.

Joe Mihevc Ward 21 st. Paul’s

To paraphrase his favourite saying, Mihevc is one of the angels of council’s better nature. Always thinking of Toronto’s most marginalized, the veteran Ward 21 representative led initiatives to add more beds to homeless shelters, create safe injection sites, protect fair wages for city cleaning workers and provide funding for school nutrition programs, among his many other noble causes. A moral compass for a city government that often finds itself adrift, Mihevc has helped make Toronto a more compassionate city. He thoroughly deserves another four years in office.

Josh Matlow Ward 22 st. Paul’s

We enjoyed taking the piss out of Matlow while he was taking himself far too seriously and casting himself in the role of council healer when all anybody wanted was for him to sit down and shut up. To be honest, he’s been a bit of a dick since his days on the school board, where his positions raised eyebrows because they were so clearly calculated to advance him politically. But Matlow has grown right before our eyes. Who would have thunk he would become one of the most effective critics of Ford. Matlow has thankfully gotten back to his activist roots. And we like him the better for it. Now if he would only stop blocking his perceived enemies on Twitter....

Kristyn Wong-Tam Ward 27 toronto centrerosedale

In a term in which queer issues came front and centre with remarkable frequency, Wong-Tam was a voice of wisdom, reason and dignified calm.

She knew when to be compassionate and when to be angry, when to negotiate and when to fight. On these and other matters (e.g., the Jarvis bike lanes), she defended the integrity of her ward, its residents and its institutions against those who sought to dis-

There’s no doubt that first-time candidate Jane Farrow, a popular activist and former broadcaster, would make an excellent addition to council. But her political aspirations shouldn’t come at the expense of a progressive stalwart like Fletcher.

The blunt-talking veteran was criticized for missing 20 per cent of council meetings this term, but whether she was brokering a compromise to save the port lands from the Fords’ disastrous meddling or working to preserve the Red Door Shelter, Fletcher was there when it counted.

Janet Davis Ward 31 beacheseast York

A key member of council’s left-wing core, Davis is City Hall’s foremost childcare advocate and opponent of outdoor advertising. She absorbs budget details to a degree few of her colleagues can match. She champions her values fiercely, and her compassion for the most marginalized is unwavering. We call her to mind whenever we need to remember that some people hold office for exactly the right reasons.

Shelley Carroll Ward 33 don ValleY east

Carroll was a one-woman dynamo this term, sitting in on budget meetings as though she were the official opposition and offering regular, withering critiques of the Ford administration’s agenda. Mike Del Grande, her successor as budget chief, probably has nightmares about Carroll. Armed with unparalleled knowledge of municipal finances, Carroll has never let politics or her own ambitions get in the way of doing what’s right for the city.

She’s a class act all the way. When Ford proposed she take over from Karen Stintz as TTC chair after Stintz orchestrated her coup to revive Transit City, Carroll kindly declined the offer. continued on page 16

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THE BEST OF THE REST (SOME OF WHOM SUCK BUT WHAT’RE YOU GONNA DO?)

Anybody but Holyday Ward 3 EtobicokE cEntrE

This riding could use some new blood, not a continuation of bloodlines. But in a ward represented by Doug Holyday since forever, son Stephen has stepped into the breach to continue the old man’s penny-pinching ways, the kind that have infected suburban councillors for too long. Liberal contender Greg Comeau is supporting Tory. Peter Fenech is pushing progressive causes, including ranked ballots and opposition to Island airport expansion, but has zero political experience besides helping local campaigns.

Roberto Alvarez is advocating a digital “city blackboard” for the exchange of ideas. For us, anybody but Holyday will do.

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Niels Christensen Ward 4 EtobicokE cEntrE

Chris Stockwell is the name that’s attracted the most interest to take over from incumbent Gloria Lindsay Luby, who’s retiring from politics. Stockwell’s got experience. As a former metro councillor, he was a likeable enfant terrible of the right. He called it like it was, mostly, even if it meant angering his friends in conservative circles. He continued that tradition as an MPP at Queen’s Park, where he was mentioned as a possible successor to big, bad Mike Harris. But Stockwell has mellowed – or is that regressed? – with age, back in the Etobicoke boys’ club.

Lindsay Luby, who knows a thing or two about fighting the old boys’ network here, is endorsing Christensen.

That’s good enough for us.

Flip a coin Ward 5 EtobicokELakEshorE

Justin Di Ciano has all the heavy hitters lined up for a second try in a ward that should have been his last time.

Incumbent Peter Milcyzn managed to finagle a win, despite Di Ciano’s connection to Ford’s former campaign manager Nick Kouvalis. Now that Milcyzn has moved to Queen’s Park, he’s up against Kinga Surma, Milczyn’s former EA, who has notable volunteer work and the endorsement of PC leadership candidate Christine Elliott and Doug Holyday, but the latter is more reason not to vote for her. Ray Desilets, who’s advocating smart growth and has gained a small but loyal following, deserves some consideration.

Anthony Perruzza Ward 8 York WEst

It won’t be the end of the world if Perruzza wins again in York West, even if he has spent the last year playing footsie with the Fords. He shamelessly accepted a seat on the mayor’s executive when no one else would touch Ford with a 10-foot pole. Perruzza has had some notable successes improving the Jane-Finch area’s undeserved bad rep. And, surprise, he’s come out against Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline, though it’s not entirely clear whether he’s concerned about the environment or the homeowners he relies on for support. But that’s Perruzza for you. Suzanne Narain, a member of Jane and Finch Action Against Poverty, has raised some important issues on race and policing.

Maria Augimeri Ward 9 York cEntrE

Augimeri hasn’t always won rousing reviews in these pages. But it has to be said that her stock has risen in the last term of council. She has acquitted herself well on transit and on the board of Toronto Community Housing. On the ongoing white elephant in her ward, Downsview Park and its redevelopment, she’s been a consistent and effective voice.

James Pasternak Ward 10 York cEntrE

Pasternak has twin obsessions: stumping for a subway that will never be built (the “North York Relief Line”) and fighting a phrase that will never go away (“Israeli apartheid”). In his first term on council, he wasted a concerning amount of energy on both causes in an effort to establish himself by pandering to constituents in the south part of the ward. Still, his work to get a priority designation for the Antibes Community Centre (meaning that its recreation programs are offered for free) has been a valuable contribution to a long-forgotten neighbourhood in the ward’s north. We can’t endorse Pasternak, but his most serious opponent sits even further to the right.

Josh Colle Ward 15 EgLinton-LaWrEncE

As a rookie councillor, Colle had what can be described as an up-and-down term, relishing the role of contrarian but too careful at times not to offend the mayor’s office. He thought better of joining Ford’s executive when shit hit the fan about crack. He championed food trucks and a music alliance with Austin, worthy enough causes for a first-term councillor. But sucking up to Karen Stintz on the Scarborough subway – and then sucking out when he didn’t win her coveted spot as chair of the TTC – were not his most shining moments. Room for improvement.

Jean-Pierre Boutros Ward 16 EgLintonLaWrEncE

The conservative establishment is coming out for Island airport expansionist Christin Carmichael Greb, a Bombardier Aerospace business analyst who, up until mayoral front-runner John Tory endorsed her last week, wasn’t on anybody’s radar to replace outgoing incumbent Karen Stintz.

Among Carmichael Greb’s other backers are Transport Minister Lisa Raitt (uh huh) and Paul Brown, who chaired Stintz’s failed mayoral bid before deserting to Tory. Yes, all roads lead to Stintz here. Boutros, Stintz’s former adviser who broke with her on the Scarborough subway (he rightly calls it a waste of money), has no lobbyists or developers contributing to his campaign. That’s saying something in a ward where runaway development has been a hot button.

John Filion Ward 23 WiLLoWdaLE

Preferring to do his work behind the scenes, Filion most notably spearheaded the move to strip Rob Ford of his powers after the mayor refused to step aside following his crack video revelations. Filion also took a principled stand against the Fords’ attempts to intimidate the chief medical officer of health over his recommendation to

lower speed limits. As Board of Health chair (a position that has rotated between him and Joe Mihevc for years), he’s shepherded some of the most progressive public health policies in the country through council. Filion is a low-key, high-value asset to the city.

We chalk up some recent off-colour remarks to the stresses of a long campaign.

Joe Cressy Ward 20 trinitY-spadina

Ward 20 residents are blessed to have so many positive options to succeed Adam Vaughan. Of all of them, however, we have to go with the obvious: Cressy, the NDP stalwart who impressively held his own against Vaughan in the June federal by-election. He may not bring radical change to council, but even if he were nothing more than a carbon copy of his BFF, Mike Layton, we’d be okay with that. It’s hard to say what the next term will bring, but Cressy should hit the ground running regardless of what may be required. (Unless Vaughan asks fill-in councillor Ceta Ramkhalawansingh to shred all the office’s files. Please don’t do that.)

Jaye Robinson Ward 25 don VaLLEY WEst

Representing the city’s most affluent ward has its advantages. It helped Robinson become a main cog in the Ford apparatus, serving on the executive and budget committees. And she figures to be a major player in a Tory admin, if he wins – she’s endorsing him for mayor. She’s as staunch a fiscal conservative as you’ll find, but Robinson has an ability to understand the importance of investing in the city.

Fingers crossed that continues.

Pam McConnell Ward 28 toronto cEntrErosEdaLE

McConnell gets the business from time to time from constituents who complain she’s not accessible enough.

It’s true McConnell may not be the best on small concerns that crop up, like that problem with pitbulls in Cabbagetown. But it’s also true McConnell doesn’t get enough credit for the big things. Some of the biggest city-building projects going, including the Regent Park and East Bayfront redevelopments, are taking place in her ward.

Mary Fragedakis Ward 29 torontodanforth

Fragedakis hasn’t exactly stood out among the rookies on council. She has mostly worked hard and kept her head down. It’s not flashy, but it’s a familiar recipe more experienced lefties like Janet Davis have used to forge solid political careers. Fragedakis represents what is an NDP stronghold but has managed to cop endorsements from conservative Peter Leon and Liberal cabinet minister Glen Murray.

Mary-Margaret McMahon Ward 32 bEachEs-East York

Outside of advocating for a downtown relief line, McMahon has won the respect of notable council colleagues, including Adam Vaughan. Sandra Bussin, the ex-Millerista McMahon beat in 2010, is back for a rematch, but it’s coming off more as a vanity play. Now there’s a YouTube video showing Bussin trying to wrestle a mic from McMahon’s hand at a recent all-candidates meeting. Time to move forward with McMahon.

Robert Spencer Ward 36 scarborough southWEst Maybe “meh” is unfair to Spencer, a past chair of the old Toronto Board of Education and all-round east-end progressive. He’d undoubtedly be an improvement on incumbent Gary Crawford, another of those councillors who continued to back the Fords longer than it made sense. And it certainly takes guts to be a Scarborough candidate who openly champions the virtues of LRT. But even though “game changer” would be too strong a designation (since Spencer probably wouldn’t be busting any paradigms), Ward 36 residents could do a whole hell of a lot worse.

Michael Thompson Ward 37 scarborough cEntrE

The dude talks in circles, but the folks he represents understand him clearly enough. Thompson served as Ford’s vice-chair on the Police Services Board, as well as chair of the Economic Development Committee, arguably the two most important jobs in the administration. In his role as the former, Thompson was more focused on cutting costs than making cultural change. And he wasn’t always on the right side in his very public feuding with the chief. But Thompson managed to keep enough political distance between himself and the Fords to maintain his dignity.

Cozette Giannini Ward 39 scarboroughagincourt

After four years of miserable Mike Del Grande, residents could use a break.

Alas, Jim Karygiannis, the former Liberal MP for the area looking for a soft landing after nearly three forgettable decades in Ottawa, is the acknowledged front-runner. Patricia Sinclair is running on Doug Ford’s ticket. Christopher Blueman gets marks for pissing off Karygiannis. Those looking for a change may find it in an unlikely candidate. Giannini, the VP of the local Parent-Teacher Association, is a little continued on page 19

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YOUR VOTE COUNTS I Voter turnout will be the story that delivers the real people’s verdict on the Rob and Doug reality show By ALICE KLEIN support voting for the most politically experienced and best representative of our diverse and aspirationally inclusive city, the daring one who is explicitly caring, the unapologetic policy wonk and artist, the bicycle pedaller and community convener, the youthful grandmother warrior, Olivia Chow.

But I think we need to realize that there’s something even more important in this race than whether Chow or John Tory is elected the next mayor. It is us.

The main and most important thing about this election is getting your ass out to a polling station and voting.

Seriously, your ballot has the power to be an act of redemption for the worldwide psyche. Why? People from everywhere marvel at just one question when they think of Toronto: “Who would give power over anything, let alone the city, to Rob, not to mention Doug, Ford? Doug is not even the funny one.”

Many of us are used to being disappointed and even revolted by politicians, but experiencing how an out-of-control addict and proven repeat liar can face no real consequences and continue to receive the love from his fans – that goes beyond politics all the way to psychic trauma. It places the Rob Ford era into a historical social psychology nightmare. There is one simple way

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we can finally answer back. It’s a little item on our agenda for Monday (October 27).

At the end of the day, voter turnout will be the story that delivers the real people’s verdict on the Rob and Doug reality show.

That’s the kind of social response that polls simply can’t tally.

And if we really move ourselves and our circles to vote, that kind of social behaviour can put Doug Ford where we want him, in third place at the bottom of the barrel. We need to redeem our political culture from the debasement that has been the Ford experience.

I’m betting that fellow urbanites have figured that out. And the turnout at the advance polls – more than doubling the numbers from 77,000 in 2010 to over 161,000 – affirms it. We’re set like never before to see a democratic surge October 27.

Last election, only half of those eligible turned out to vote.

That gave a huge amount of power to Ford-lovers. This time around, the ground game come election day will look very different.

Yes, the Fords still have their inexplicable special sauce and celebrity status going for them. But they have no professional election organization getting out the vote. That crew, most notably Nick Kouvalis, has moved to the Tory camp, which will be formidable.

The election day ground game is where Chow’s campaign will also shine. When it comes to pulling the vote, there’s nothing like NDP grassroots organization. Chow’s huge and committed volunteer base is preparing for a massive effort.

I care about making smart personal and political choices every day that don’t ignore real-world outcomes. The same is true of the one rare day when I head into a polling booth. I strategize.

For my tax money, Chow is far and away the best candidate for mayor, but she’s in that tricky third place spot. But in these last days, her star is rising and Doug’s is falling.

Lots of people are reportedly voting strategically for Tory this time because they want to take no chances with Ford. But I’m voting for Chow because I’m have faith that Torontonians are not going to let this one pass them by. Voter turnout to be the wild card that will take Ford down.

This election is a truly special one.

It really comes down to a question of who we the people are.

This is the one question we need to settle after the unbelievable ride we’ve had with the Ford family trauma. How strong is Ford Nation, and who are we, the citizens of the city, who somehow allowed this to happen? It’s time for the people of Toronto to reveal ourselves to ourselves and to the world.

And that’s also why it is important to support the candidate who actually reflects who you are.

If enough voters don’t turn out on election day to send the anti-social misanthropes to the lowest place on the public totem pole, then we have learned nothing from the Ford fiasco of these last four years.

On the other hand, if we vote in droves beyond the imagination of pollsters and pundits, we will slay the Ford dragon and be positioned to make the city great once again.

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thin on political experience, but in this case experience may be overrated.

Giannini has recently won endorsements from councillors Shelley Carroll and Gary Crawford.

Norm Kelly Ward 40 Scarboroughagincourt

He supports Island airport expansion and is now musing publicly about knocking the Sheppard LRT off track.

But what can we say? Kelly is still a bit of a hero for bringing much needed civility to the mayor’s office after taking over ceremonial powers from youknow-who. His efforts to embrace the gay community after years of abuse under Ford healed a great many wounds. That alone doesn’t quite make up for Kelly’s historical ineffectiveness, but Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Chin Lee Ward 41 ScarboroughrougE-riVEr

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. Gets marks for taking a bullet on the policing file. He lost his coveted seat on the Police Services Board over his support for Bill Blair.

Paul Ainslie Ward 43 Scarborough EaSt

Paul Ainslie was no boy scout in the early days of the Ford administration.

About the best that can be said for him back then was that he seemed publicly uncomfortable with the bullying the mayor’s office was doing of political opponents. But Ainslie eventually came around. He was the source in the Star story about the Garrison Ball debacle that confirmed for the first time those rumours about Ford showing up drunk and stoned all over town at all hours. Ainslie the military buff deserves marks for bravery.

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ENDORSEMENTS AT A GLANCE Ward 1 Etobicoke North Idil Burale Ward 2 Etobicoke North Andray Domise Ward 3 Etobicoke Centre Anybody but Holyday Ward 4 Etobicoke Centre Niels Christensen Ward 5 EtobicokeLakeshore Flip a coin Ward 6 EtobicokeLakeshore Russ Ford Ward 7 York West Keegan HenryMathieu Ward 8 York West Anthony Perruzza Ward 9 York Centre Maria Augimeri Ward 10 York Centre James Pasternak Ward 11 York South-Weston Anybody but Nunziata

Ward 12 York South-Weston Lekan Olawoye Ward 13 ParkdaleHigh Park Sarah Doucette Ward 14 ParkdaleHigh Park Gord Perks Ward 15 EglintonLawrence Josh Colle Ward 16 EglintonLawrence Jean-Pierre Boutros Ward 17 Davenport Alejandra Bravo Ward 18 Davenport Alex Mazer Ward 19 TrinitySpadina Mike Layton Ward 20 TrinitySpadina Joe Cressy Ward 21 St. Paul’s Joe Mihevc Ward 22 St. Paul’s Josh Matlow Ward 23 Willowdale John Filion

Ward 24 Willowdale Dan Fox Ward 25 Don Valley West Jaye Robinson Ward 26 Don Valley West Ishrath Velshi Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale Kristyn Wong-Tam Ward 28 Toronto Centre-Rosedale Pam McConnell Ward 29 TorontoDanforth Mary Fragedakis Ward 30 TorontoDanforth Paula Fletcher Ward 31 BeachesEast York Janet Davis Ward 32 BeachesEast York Mary-Margaret McMahon Ward 33 Don Valley East Shelley Carroll Ward 34 Don Valley East No endorsement

Ward 35 Scarborough Southwest No endorsement Ward 36 Scarborough Southwest Rob Spencer Ward 37 Scarborough Centre Michael Thompson Ward 38 Scarborough Centre No endorsement Ward 39 Scarborough-Agincourt Cozette Giannini Ward 40 Scarborough-Agincourt Norm Kelly Ward 41 Scarborough-Rouge River Chin Lee Ward 42 Scarborough-Rouge River Neethan Shan Ward 43 Scarborough East Paul Ainslie Ward 44 Scarborough East Amarjeet Chhabra

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ust a few weeks ago I was teaching RCMP Cpl. Ron Francis how to vaporize his medical marijuana.

He promised to check back in, but we never had another virtual session. He was found dead in his Kingsclear First Nation, New Brunswick, home on Monday, October 6, apparently a suicide.

Tossed aside by RCMP brass because he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and publicly bullied by Conservative parliamentarians for marijuana medicating, Francis emailed long after the media had lost interest in a “pot-smoking Mountie.”

We connected by sharing war stories about the side effects of antidepressants and how overwhelming sudden weed fame can be. We discovered a strong mutual respect for each other.

The heroic act of outing himself as a pot user was intended to draw attention to a dramatic lack of PTSD services and a cop culture of “suck it up, buttercup.”

Francis said, “I shouldn’t hide my medical marijuana from the public.”

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employers. It’s precisely the kind of courage prohibitionists fear and thousands of Canadians emailed him positive encouragement. Many privately outing themselves and writing at length about their own PTSD battles.

By all accounts Francis was a courageous officer.

Starting in 2007, he began trying different medications to deal with his PTSD and came to cannabis only when all else failed. He received a prescription to smoke weed, which he said calmed his symptoms.

Francis spent years trying to cope by using prescription pills.

“It was hard for me to accept medical marijuana at first,” he told me.

Enlightened by cannabis healing, he hatched a brilliant plan to use pot’s huge popularity to smoke out Mountie denial around PTSD. He smoked openly the first time while on duty and in uniform, attracting national headlines as well as the wrath of his superiors.

It was after a Remembrance Day ceremony.

It was ganja genius: the force had to address PTSD issues frontline officers face and publicly respond to his medpot puffing.

“I was told by the psychologist hired by the RCMP I

“My job was to catalogue human remains and drive them around the province.

I was still healing from PTSD. It wasn’t a place for me to be.”

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was better off taking marijuana than Ativan because of Ativan’s side effects. The RCMP should argue with the psychologist, not me.”

But had RCMP provided better mental health services, our pot-smoking Mountie may never have gone public.

“I wanted these [mental health] issues addressed within the RCMP,” he told me.

Since 2006, 31 retired or active RCMP officers have committed suicide. Cleverly and quietly, Francis used his unique situation to educate skeptical higher-ups on the force about the effects of PTSD. His personal battle motivated him hugely.

He demanded officers receive more time off to heal, more access to services and more say in which duties they are assigned when returning from leave for PTSD-related illness. But the RCMP placed him in the major crimes unit when he came back from his leave.

“My job was to catalogue human remains and drive them around the province. I was still healing from PTSD. It wasn’t a place for me to be.”

Disabled Canadians medicating in the workforce need to be accommodated, but RCMP brass never thought to put a vaporizer in a basement and hide Francis.

Instead, when Francis went public with his condition, he says “the hammer came down.”

He was placed on medical leave, and forced to return his uniform in November 2013.

As the story was gaining momentum something weird and crazy happened.

RCMP officers showed up at his door in December 2013 with a form that allowed them to hold him under the Mental Health Act for 72 hours, reportedly because he might hurt himself or someone else.

He got into an altercation with the officers and was charged with two counts of assaulting fellow officers and one count of resisting arrest. Officers used a stun gun to subdue him. He was held for 30 days to determine if he was fit to stand trial.

His lawyer suggested the RCMP motive was to remove his client from the media spotlight. Released, the RCMP returned to Francis’s home weeks later after Francis called in distress. Suspecting alcohol, officers charged him with breaching a bail condition. Another altercation broke out in which Francis allegedly pushed one officer and grabbed another by the shirt.

He was charged with two more counts of assault.

Francis’s messaged me weeks before his three-day trial was set to begin. He was looking forward to presenting what happened and wanted people to know the officer he gave a bloody nose too had a personal beef.

He would eventually plead guilty to two counts of assault and, in exchange, have the other charges dropped. His sentencing was scheduled for November 3.

The incident left tremendous emotional damage, he told me last summer. By then he had fallen off the media’s radar, but he was looking forward to justice.

He committed suicide before his sentencing date.

Francis’s commanding officer is asking media not to speculate about his death, but it’s more important than ever to examine events via a coroner’s inquest.

BC’s coroner’s office has set out to investigate a Mountie suicide – why not New Brunswick’s?

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Some 500 social service workers for ey Toronto Community Housing the WoodGreen agency walked off seniors’ residence at 12 Thorncliffe the job on October 9. Their union, Park where WoodGreen PSWs proWorkers United Canada Local 154, vide service. represents personal support workers Lee Huang, walking the picket line (PSWs), early childhood educators, outside, is upset to learn that PSWs cleaners, English as a second lanfrom a different unionized agency guage (ESL) teachers, social workers have crossed the line and are caring and refugee resettlement workers for her clients. operating out of 32 locations.

“We are all workers,” says Huang.

WoodGreen PSWs earn $16.38 an “We should be united, even in differhour. They’ve been offered a 1.25 per ent agencies.” cent wage increase, plus $15 extra viWUC Local 154 is an affiliate of the sion care for employees with beneService Employees International fits. Pay for other jobs at WoodGreen Union (SEIU); the PSWs from VHA, a ranges from $12 to $39 an hour. competing agency, crossing the pickMeanwhile, eight of WoodGreen’s et lines are also part of SEIU. management staff earned more than Bill Hulme of SEIU Healthcare con$1 million between them in salaries firms that VHA workers crossed the and taxable benefits in 2013. Woodpicket line.

Green’s CEO, Brian Smith, made more Says Felicia Talbot, another worker than $204,000, accordon the picket line, “I ing to Workers United Things really have am what they call a representative Adrie gone off the rails. casual worker. I don’t Naylor. have any benefits. I There have been A common theme of some issues have another parttheir grievances is the time job. I’m a single regarding need for dignity and reparent, like many spect, and for the work negotiations. others here. I need the that they do to be val- Councillor Paula Fletcher two incomes, but the ued. two together don’t At the Overlea, union disunity make one. I use food banks once in a The Overlea is an 11-storwhile. I have to stand up for what’s

right. A 1.25 per cent [pay increase] doesn’t cut it.”

Swan song of the WoodGreen CEO Brian Smith, the WoodGreen CEO, was filling in for early childhood educators at the Duke of Connaught public school on the morning of October 14. He is set to retire soon, after 36 years in the position.

“I think we’ve made an offer that is reasonable,” he says. “I know of other organizations, at least five others, all of which had offers much less than what we’ve made to the union. We all have very limited resources. We get our funds from various government contracts, and we have been flatlined in those, so we either lay people off or reduce services.”

On the sidewalk outside the school, Smith meets with picketing workers who persuade him to come back to the table and negotiate.

Barry Fowlie, the director of the Workers United Canada Council, invites Smith to meet with him at the union’s 317 Adelaide West head office at 2 pm, at the same time as the workers would be picketing en masse at WoodGreen’s head office at 815 Danforth.

I’m a single parent, like many others here. I use food banks once in a while. A 1.25 per cent [pay increase] doesn’t cut it.

Personal support worker Felicia Talbot

The representative refrain “Things really have gone off the rails when you’ve got a strike at WoodGreen,” offers Ward 30 Councillor Paula Fletcher from her campaign office. “This is a unionized environment, I guess, that hasn’t been meeting the needs of the employees, or there have been some issues regarding how those negotiations have taken place.”

WUC Local 154 is asking for a twoyear contract and a 2 per cent cost-ofliving wage increase, as well as extending benefits to all employees, including part-time and relief workers.

The 2 per cent increase is in effect a wage decrease, because the consumer-price-index-based cost of living hovers around 2.5 per cent. And the real cost of living in Toronto?

That’s another story.

Single mom celebrities A WoodGreen advertising campaign for its Homeward Bound program “to help single mothers and their children move from homelessness and poverty to successful careers and self-sufficiency” is still up in the TTC. The advertisement reads, “What if we cared about those living in poverty as much as we care about celebrities?”

We either lay people off or reduce services.

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Confab fail Nothing is accomplished at the meeting between Workers United and CEO Smith at the union’s downtown offices.

Fowlie described the meeting: “Nothing concrete was put on the table here, so it’s all in the netherworld. We’ve cut and cut. We’ve been the ones cutting all along the line.”

Says another union rep Paul Smith: “Well, we’re talking. Who knows? It’s always worth talking.”

The letter Workers were called individually to meet with supervisors before last week’s walkout and asked to sign a letter stating they would agree not to strike. The union has filed an unfair labour practices complaint with the Ministry of Labour.

Executive compensation WoodGreen management’s total salaries and benefits have increased 177 per cent between 2010 and 2013. Total salaries and benefits for executive management have ballooned from $394,458 to nearly $1.1 million during this period.

WoodGreen ABCs WoodGreen Community Services is one of the largest social service agencies in Toronto, helping some 37,000 children, youth, adults and seniors each year in the areas of health and wellness, employment, housing and immigrant settlement.

WoodGreen is financed through three levels of government and private donations. Year-to-year funding provided by government departments cannot be transferred between WoodGreen programs.

WoodGreen’s advisory board and a separate board of directors includes three Toronto Dominion Bank VPs, two Ipsos Reid VPs, a Deliotte partner and a CEO of McCarthy-Tétrault.

Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow began working with Vietnamese refugees and Chinese immigrants at WoodGreen around 1979. And WoodGreen’s seniors’ residence at 1070 Queen East was renamed the Jack Layton Seniors Housing, after Chow’s late husband and NDP leader, in 2013.

At a Ministry of Labour mandated vote Tuesday, October 21, WoodGreen workers voted 74 per cent to reject management’s latest offer.

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Thursday, October 23

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, 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. $15. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. eventbrite.ca/e/12655193023. isABel hunt (CAMH Foundation) Launch for the debut novel A Hidden Life, includes a raffle, live art and more. 7-10 pm. Free. Hashtag Gallery, 801 Dundas W. ahiddenlife.com.

Ithe JuDiCious use oF solituDe: DAviD CronenBerg in ConversAtion With MArk kingWell (PEN Canada) The International

Festival of Authors launch features David Cronenberg talking about his debut novel, Consumed. 8 pm. $100. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org. kiDs noW CArnivAl (Kids Now) Carnival games, awards, prizes, silent auction and more at this benefit for the youth org. 6:30-9 pm. $20, kids free. Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst. kidsnowcanada.com.

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ADAPting to A ChAnging CliMAte Talk on

how cities and their residents will deal with extreme weather events with David MacLeod, Blair Feltmate and Dan Sandink. 6 pm. Free. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft, Rm 149 (basement). environment.utoronto.ca.

eleCtion Fever: exPloring WhAt MAkes our City greAt Journalist/author Edward

Keenan talks about municipal politics. 7-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660. is FAsCisM on the rise in euroPe? Discussion with guest speaker Erik Demeeste. 7 pm. Sir Sanford Fleming, 10 King’s College, rm 1001.

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lessons in innovAtion Fireside chat with

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. 6:30 pm. Free, tickets required. MaRS Centre, 101 College. eventbrite.ca

nAturoPAthiC APProAChes to A heAlthy PregnAnCy AnD Delivery Information ses-

sion. 6:30 pm. Free. Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, 1255 Sheppard E. Preregister 416-498-1255.

5oF AFriCA: histories, ColleCtions & reFleCtions 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.

ozone Pollution: ChAllenges in Air QuAlity Due to FrACking Prof Angela Hong talks about

her observations from tracking air pollutants in Utah’s Uintah Basin. 6:30 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120. sMAll Business ForuM Business expert speak about their experiences and successes and offer one-on-one consultations, plus a trade show. 9 am-5 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, South Bldg, 222 Bremner. Preregister 416-392-6646, toronto.ca/sbf2014 .

toronto’s trees – BeyonD the iCe storM

Presentations by biology prof Dawn Bazely, parks & rec officer Kim Stathamand others.

7-9 pm. Free (RSVP required). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register discoverthedon.ca/speakerseries.

Friday, October 24

Benefits

giMMe shelter Art sAle (Toronto Humane

Society) Fundraising sale of art by Stefan Galvanek, Linda Woolven and others plus food and raffle prizes. 7-11 pm. Free. Rebellion Gallery, 914 Eastern. rebelliongallery.com.

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Art toronto Four-day art expo showcasing galleries from many countries, plus panels and presentations. To Oct 27. $20, stu/srs $14, child 12 and under free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front W. arttoronto.ca.

BeACh stuDio tour Self-guided tour of Beach artists and artisans studios. Fri 6-9 pm, Sat 10 am-6 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm. To Oct 26. Free.

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FriDAy night live @ roM Live music, DJs, pop-up foodand more with a Fashion Global theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

FroM isis to liByA: hAs the ArAB revolution FAileD? Discussion with Erik Demeester,

editor of Belgian Marxist magazine Vonk. 7 pm. Ryerson Student Centre, Margaret Laurence Rm, 55 Gould. fightback@marxist.ca goD loves ugAnDA Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4 sugg. OISE, rm 5-280, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca. hogtoWn hoeDoWn Live music, square dancing and instruction. 8 pm. $10-$15, kids $7.

Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. facebook. com/HogtownHoedown. iMAginenAtive Art CrAWl An interactive event featuring three galleries. Evening features contemporary indigenous new media art, commissions, retrospectives and talks by leading curators and artists. 5-8:30 pm. Free.

A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond W. 416-9799633, imaginenative.org. the lAW AnD youth WorkshoP Youth can learn about their rights from judges, lawyers, police officers and others. 9 am-3:30 pm. Free for 18 and under. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register 416-956-5625,

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els on the Of Africa exhibit with speakers and a performance by Nastio Mosquito. Today and tomorrow. $30, stu $20. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416586-5797, programs@rom.on.ca.

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Benefits

ChArity Poker & CAsino (Reena Foundation) Texas Hold’em poker, blackjack and craps tables plus a silent auction and more. 8:30 pm. $60-$90. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. reenafoundation. akaraisin.com/VIPEvent.

Cornhusk Dolls (Community History Project) Workshop on doll making with teacher Catharine Watts. Tour of the museum included. 11 am-3 pm. $10. Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca.

CritiCAlheAl (SickKids Hospital) All-night board gaming and video gaming marathon.

Today and tomorrow 11 am-midnight. Pwyc.

Richtree Natural Market, Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. tinyurl.com/criticalhealmedia.

DreAM serenADe (Beverley Street School) Feist, Sarah Harmer, Jason Collett, Lou Canon, Hayden and others perform in support of services for children with developmental disabilities. 7 pm. $50-$200. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. masseyhall.com.

FAll sAle (Humbercrest United Church) Toys, games, books, handmade goods, clothing, preserves and more. 9-11:30 am. 16 Baby Point. humbercrest.ca. heAling gArDen MusiC Fest (MacKenzie Health Fdn) Caitlin Hanford, Wendell Gerguson, Kelli Trotter and others play to raise funds to create a garden for cancer patients. 8 pm. $25, adv $22. St Nicholas Anglican Church, 1512 Kingston. acousticharvest.ca. heArt oF FAshion (North York General Hospital) A fashion show, auction, cocktails and gourmet food help raise funds for a breast diagnostic centre. 7 pm. $250. Shops at Don Mills Town Square, Don Mills and Lawrence. heartoffashion.ca. stePhen leWis FounDAtion FunDrAiser

(Stephen Lewis Fdn Grandmothers To Grandmothers Campaign) Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir and harpist Loril Shennik perform at 7:30 pm. Pre-concert marketplace at 6:30 pm. $30, adv $25. St Timothy’s Anglican Church, 100 Old Orchard Grove. 416-485-5011, grannieconcert@gmail.com.

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ACtive hoPe – hoW to FACe the nuCleAr AnD CliMAte Mess We’re in Without going CrAzy

Workshop in the work that reconnects, helping to get a sense of the bigger picture and a context for action in these overwhelming times.

9:30 am-5 pm. $200-$250. Bartley Place, 160 Bartley. thelivingcentre.com.

CAiro At the heArt oF the grAnD tour: MeDievAl trAvellers FroM sPAin to ChinA

Lecture as part of the Royal Ontario Museum’s Cairo Under Wraps series. 8 pm. $20, stu $15.

Ismaili Centre, 49 Wynford. Pre-register 416586-5797, rom.on.ca.

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Toronto Coalition to Stop the War peace rally.

2:30 pm. Free. U.S. Consulate, 360 University. nowar.ca.

CAnADiAn stuttering AssoCiAtion MiniConFerenCe Panel discussions and presenta-

tion on the latest research, advice on coping and more. 10 am-4 pm. $20-$25. Metro Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. Pre-register 416840-5169, stutter.ca/conference.

A ChAnging MeloDy ForuM Full day of sharing and learning for people with dementia for familes, friends and professionals. Brain health through nutrition and exercise, strategies on connecting together and more. 10:30 am. Ryerson Oakham House, 55 Gould. Preregister alzheimertoronto.org. rFAll Colours CeleBrAtion Guided fall colour walk, sustainable house tours and selfguided activities. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289. gooD PeoPle, BAD things Daniel Thau-Eleff’s solo show is presented as part of Doing Jewish Off The Grid: Politics, Identity, Spirituality, an event that challenges the beliefs and practices of mainstream Jewish organizations. 8 pm. $10-$45. College St United Church, 454 College. ijvcanada.org. hoMe energy seMinAr Learn low- and no-cost ways to save money on your energy bills and about programs to help you upgrade. 2-5 pm.

Free. First Portuguese Canadian Cultural Centre, 60 Caledonia. 416-203-3106.

iMMigrAtion stories: MAking A

hoMe in olD toronto Heritage Toronto walk. Today and tomorrow 2 pm. Free/pwyc. Location provided on registration. heritagetoronto.org. is the internet intelligent? Discussion on the intersections of intelligence while learning to co-exist wih smart devices, appliances and search engines. Interactive displays, video screenings, sensory explorations, maker workshops and more. Noon-6 pm.

Merchants of Green Coffee, 2 Matilda. 416741-5369, manmeeti.com. kiD PoWer Book launch and monthly matinee for the book on kids cult film and television includes a screening of The Bad News Bears. 4 pm. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theroyal.to.

Movie WArDroBe sAle Fashion treasures for men, women and kids from more than 35 vendors. 9 am-5 pm. $5, srs/child free. Showline Studios, 915 Lakeshore E. craftcad.com.

MurDer At the roM sCAvenger hunt Solve the clues and crack the case. 1-3:30 pm $30.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. northBounD leAther: sCAnDAl Fetish party featuring a leather fashion show and dancing. 9 pm. $40-$60, VIP $125-$135. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. northbound.com. onigiri WorkshoP The art of traditional rice ball making. 2-4 pm. $20. Bevlab, 1115 Queen W, within the Theatre Centre. bevlab.co.

See Francesca Fini at the 7a*11d Performance Art Festival.

Festivals this week

cReatiV festiVal Celebrate sewing, knitting, quilting, needlework, weaving, beadwork and more, with workshops, seminars and artisans. $4-$25. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. creativfestival.ca.

Oct 24 to 26 de coloRes festiVal of neW WoRks

Alameda Theatre Company’s final edition of the Latin-Canadian playwright showcase features works-in-progress by Martha Batiz, Amanda Parris and Isaac Luy. $13-$15, pass $25. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. alamedatheatre.com.

Oct 23 to 24 gloBal caBaRet festiVal Dance, music and theatrical cabaret shows by Mike Ross, Patricia O’Callaghan, Tiina Kiik, Ins Choi, Robert Glumbek and many others. $20-$26, festival pass $63-$120. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, globalcabaret.ca.

Oct 24 to 26

inteRnational festiVal of authoRs

Readings, talks, interviews and more with authors including Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis, James Ellroy, Steven Galloway, Esther Freud, Emma Donoghue, Damon Galgut and David Adam Richards. $18 and up, festival pass $120, students free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, ifoa.org.

Oct 23 to Nov 2 Macedonian filM festiVal Celebration of over 100 years of Macedonian filmmaking. $10. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. macedonianfilmfestival.com.

Oct 25 to 26 ReBels With a cause filM festiVal Artistic reflections of social justice issues and critical documentations of unsung community work. All screening followed by panel discussions. Free. York Woods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch W. rebelsfilmfest.org.

Oct 27 to 31

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.

Royal ontaRio MuseuM guide: the BackgRound stoRy Toronto Entomologists’ As-

sociation event with co-authors of the guide.

1:15 pm. Free. Victoria College, Lecture Hall, 73 Queen’s Park. ontarioinsects.org. toReX coin shoW Buy, sell, trade and have your coins evaluated, check out hobby supplies and more. Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-3 pm. $7, under 16 free. Hyatt Regency, 370 King W. torex.net.

toRonto inteRnational Piano coMPetition

Elite young pianists competition. To Oct 30. $10. Chinese Cultural Centre, PC Ho Theatre, 5183 Sheppard E. cccpianocompetitions.org. 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. the WeaRaBle aRt shoW Clothing, jewellery and accessories created by Canadian artists.

Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $10. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. thewearableartshow.com. young Voices WRiteRs confeRence Workshops on fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic

sikh inteRnational filM festiVal Documentaries, shorts and feture films that celebrate the diversity of Sikh stories and storytellers. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, sifftoronto.com.

Oct 25 to 26 7a*11d inteRnational festiVal of PeR-

foRMance aRt Performance, live and action art, sound and media works, and public interventions by Berenicci Hershorn, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, lo bil, claude wittman, Francesca Fini and others. Pwyc-$10. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 7a-11d.ca.

Oct 29 to Nov 2

continuing Big city iMPRoV festiVal Improv comedy

showcase featuring performers from around North America including Bad Dog Theatre Co, Mantown, Jet & Holly, Concentrated Evil and many more. $10-$20, passes from $45. Comedy Bar, (945 Bloor W) and Bad Dog Theatre (875 Bloor W). bigcityimprovfestival.com.

To Oct 25

BRafftV – BRazilian filM & teleVision festiVal Films by Brazilians living abroad

and films by foreign filmmakers about Brazil. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. brafftv.com.

To Oct 25 festiVal of iMages and WoRds Celebration of Latin American art and culture in Canada, featuring film, theatre, art, talks, music and more. Glendon College, 2275 Bayview, and other venues. festivalofimagesandwords.ca.

To Nov 8

iMaginenatiVe filM + Media aRts festiVal

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

To Oct 26 toRonto afteR daRk filM festiVal Horror, sci-fi, action and cult films. From $13, passes available. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. torontoafterdark.com.

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novels, script writing and journalism for teens 12 to 19. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5784.

Sunday, October 26

Benefits

5undeRBeaR (People with AIDS Fdn) Under-

wear party with DJ Knight Muzik. 4-9 pm.

Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Events

doing JeWish off the gRid: Politics, iden-

tity, sPiRituality Talks and workshops that challenge the beliefs and practices of mainstream Jewish organizations, with Judy Rebick, Dan Freeman-Moloy, Reena Katz and others.

9:30 am-6:30 pm. $15-$45. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. Pre-register ijvcanada.org. an enchanted eVening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm.

Free/pwyc for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. leaRnt WisdoM: oVeR the hill Storytelling and exploration as part of this outdoor lecture series under the Dundas bridge by the Humber River. Free. Meet at Jane & Dundas at 3:45 pm. facebook.com/events/388076424683272. continued on page 26 œ

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5LGBT Dance Salsa and bachata classes for queer

and trans people. $15 drop-in. U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com.

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

PhoToGraPhica FaLL Fair Vintage and used cameras, darkroom equipment, books, images and more. 10 am-3 pm. $7, stu free.

The Trident Hall, 145 Evans. fair@phsc.ca.

sunDay MorninG BirD WaLK

Guided walk to identify resident and migratory birds. 8-11 am.

Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. tommythompsonpark.ca.

ToronTo Jazz socieTy Monthly meeting.

2:30-6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. torontojazzsociety@yahoo.ca.

VoTinG: hoW can iT Go so WronG? Lecture by professor Donald G Saari. 2 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org.

WychWooD VinTaGe cLoThinG shoW Vintage fashion, accessories, jewellery and more.

10 am-5 pm. $8. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. antiqueshowscanada.com.

Monday, October 27

Benefits

Don’T sToP BeLieVin’ (Broadway Cares/Equity

Fights AIDS/Actors’ Fund of Canada) Song and dance with members of Wicked and The Book Of Mormon. 8 pm. $55-$250. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 1-800-461-3333, mirvish.com.

Events

Business as usuaL, FoLKs – a PosT-eLecTion sTreeT ParTy Party to celebrate the end of

the current mayoral era. 9-11 pm. Free.

Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. facebook.com/events/1476435829293030.

cheaT sheeT To an inVesTor PresenTaTion

Workshop on getting investors for your busi-

ness venture. 6:30-9 pm. $19-$29. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/12312893195.

eMBracinG LiFe anD DeaTh: an inTroDucTion To nichiren BuDDhisM Seminar. 6:30-

7:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746, sgicanada.org. eyes on The eLecTion Gavin Crawford hosts the Eyes On Team to investigate and cry over the election results. Comedy by Ron Sparks, Stephanie Tolev, Kaleb Robertson and others.

7 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/ events/1500260643593762.

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.

ToronTo VoTes Broadcast of the city election results. 6 pm. Free.

Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

big3 NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

uniFy ToronTo DiaLoGue: a neW sTory

Series with discussion on how to face the global mess we’re in and how fear and grief empower us to be the change. 6:30-9 pm. $10-$20 sugg donation. OISE Peace Lounge, 7th flr, 252 Bloor W. unifytoronto.ca/events.

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PS Kensington celebrates community, ecology and public space at 2014’s last Pedestrian Sunday (October 26). Noon to 7 pm. Free. Augusta and College. pskensington.ca

The Toronto casts of Wicked and The Book Of Mormon are stepping up to benefit Actors’ Fund of Canada, the union that supports actors’ rights, and Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, America’s leading industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising and grant-making organization, with the Don’t Stop Believin’ event Monday (October 27). Head to the Panasonic

Tuesday, October 28 5aa Bronson: LiFe anD WorK Bronson talks about self-portraiture, queerness, magic and other aspect of his art before, through and after General Idea. 7-9 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. utac.utoronto.ca. coMic BooKs anD GraPhic noVeLs Group 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.

criTicaL creaTiVes: PoLicy, PerForMance, DiVersiTy anD The arTs in The GTa Literary

readings, live music and dance are used to explore the interplay of art, culture and politics.

7:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

The eVeninG aFTer The niGhT BeFore Election debrief and networking event with Sun reporter Don Peat. 6-8 pm. $28-$45. C’est What, 67 Front E. Pre-register toronto.iabc.com. innoVersiTy creaTiVe suMMiT Join leaders and celebrities in Canada’s media industry and creators from diverse backgrounds to explore ways to energize and re-imagine media. $250/ day, $410 two-day pass. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register innoversitysummit.com. 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.

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Theatre (651 Yonge) and hear great musical theatre performers, including Wicked’s Laurel Harris, do their thing. 8 pm, $55$250. Use the promo code BELIEVE to get 2-for-1 tickets.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com

canaDa ouT oF iraQ

In case you haven’t noticed, Canada is back at war in Iraq, this time against the Islamic State, aka ISIS. On Saturday (October 25), Toronto Coalition to Stop the War rallies outside the U.S. Consulate (360 University) in a call for peace in the region. 2:30 pm.

Free. nowar.ca

naTuroPaThic aPProaches To auTisM sPec-

TruM DisorDers Information session. 6:30 pm. Free. Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, 1255 Sheppard E. Pre-register 416498-1255. occuPy econoMics Workshop on debt and Canadian politics. 8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca.

ProMiscuous PrinTs Textiles and fashion lecture by Philip Sykas. 7 pm. Free. Royal Ontario

Wicked’s Laurel Harris performs at Don’t Stop Believin’ October 27.

Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

PuBLic surVey on hirinG neW PoLice chieF

Toronto Police Services Board public consultation. 7-9 pm. Scarborough Civic Centre, Committees Rm 1 & 2, 150 Borough. tpsb.ca.

ToronTo coMic JaM Get together with other indie artists and collaborate on making comics. Bring your own pencils and pens. 7:30 pm.

Free. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E, upstairs. 416977-4667, meetup.com/Toronto-Comic-Jam.

Wednesday, October 29

Benefits

The insiDe aFFair (Gastrointestinal Soc) Performances, dinner, talks and more. 5:30 pm. $200. Fermenting Cellar, 28 Distillery Lane. badgut.org.

5PunK rocK BinGo (local charities) Bingo games, live entertainment and a party with DJ Triple-X. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Beaver, 1192 Queen W. facebook.com/punkrockbingotoronto.

Events

JuicinG For oPTiMuM heaLTh Explore how juicing can help you to with weight, sleeping and feeling more vibrant. 7-8:30 pm. $5/pwyc.

Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston. Pre-register manager@karmacoop.org.

LiFe DraWinG Nude figure drawing class. 7-10 pm. $15. Back Space, 587A College. backspaceto.ca.

The nuTs anD BoLTs oF FicTion WriTinG

Workshop with Richard Scarsbrook 6:30 pm.

Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge.

Pre-register 416-395-5639.

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upcoming Thursday, October 30

Benefits

BooMBox (upcoming Stanley Kubrick TIFF

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exhibit) Film, music, art and fun. 9 pm. $160.

TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net/boombox. ruM & rhyThM (CTO Scholarship Foundation and Caribbean SickKids Initiative) Caribbean themed event with aquarium viewing, food, music, beverages and entertainment. 6:30-10 pm. $125 (eventbrite.ca). Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, 288 Bremner. 905-935-5763.

Events

canaDian arT FounDaTions’s inTernaTionaL sPeaKer series: sarah ThornTon Book

ON VIEW UNTIL DECEMBER 7, 2014

launch for 33 Artists, in 3 Acts. 7 pm. $20, stu/ srs $18. Royal Ontario Museum, Eaton Thetre, 100 Queen’s Pk. rom.ca.

FREE ADMISSION FREE EXHIBITION TOURS DAILY AT 2:30PM 33 Gould Street, Toronto, Canada 416.979.5164 www.ryerson.ca/ric

sToPPinG eBoLa: DocTors WiThouT BorDers exPeriences on The FronT Lines oF a hisToric ePiDeMic Learn more about the humanitar-

François Sully, Untitled [Vietnam], July 16, 1962, gelatin silver print, detail.

The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre

ian crisis and how to stop it. 7 pm. Free. Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. Preregister eventbrite.ca/e/13584685159.

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Halloween

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party planner Sc-a-a-a-ry. cHeck out all tHe boo-tiful eventS Haunting tHe StreetS and venueS all over town.

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Thursday, October 23 Events

Drink With Death: a MorbiD Cabaret Ada Dahli, Jaash Singh, Christopher Weatherstone, Freeman Dre, Darren Eedens and others perform. 8 pm. Today, tomorrow, Oct 25 and Oct 29. $18, stu $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811, drinkwithdeath.com. rGhosts anD spirits of olD toWn, faCt or

fiCtion tour Halloween tour of haunted cobblestone streets of the Distillery District with real and fake tales. See website for schedule. To Nov 1. $18.75, stu $16.75, child $10.75. Segway of Ontario, 30 Gristmill Lane.

Pre-register hauntedwalk.com. haunteD kensinGton, ChinatoWn & the

GranGe tour Ghost walk with a multicultural twist. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25. Pho Hung, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

a niGhtMare on Queen street art shoW & MasQueraDe party Alternative artists hor-

ror-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. roCky horror halloWeen Cabaret Jim Sharman’s cult-classic 1975 film is presented as an interactive musical. Costumes encouraged. Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10 pm (followed by dance party). To Nov 1. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. sCreeMers 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. continued on page 28

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Attack and DJ Eriv Von Eric, costume contests, games, monster themed drinks and more. Doors 9 pm. $15, adv $12. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. brownpapertickets.com/e/878174. zombiE WrEstlinG Zombies vs Wrestlers vs Mexican Luchadores, burlesque, music, prizes and more. 8 pm. $15-$20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. fightbrand.ca.

Friday, October 24 Benefits

Ghost Walks at Exhibition PlacE (United Way) Paranormal tours of the grounds every Fri in Oct. 7-9 pm. $20. Starts at General Services Building, 2 Manitoba. Pre-register 416263-3658.

Events

Sunday, October 26

Tour the grounds and her stories about the fort and its history (for ages eight and up).

7:30-9:30 pm Today and tomorrow. $12.50.

Historic Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. Preregister 416-392-6907, fortyork.ca.

Ghosts, 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.

Ghouls ‘n GamEs Showcase of nerd rock bands with an emphasis of video game music including the Blast Processors, Super Hammer, Villainest and Epic Game Music. 8 pm. $12. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. facebook. com/events/290620834464028. hauntED hiGh Park Spooky grounds tours, legends and ghost stories for families with adults 18 years and up. 7-8:30 pm. Today and tomorrow. $17.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park.

Pre-register 416-392-6916. hauntED toronto scavEnGEr hunt Triviabased team competition. 7-9:30 pm. Today, tomorrow and Oct 29. $30. Meet in front of the Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. rkrEEPY kortriGht Celebrate Halloween with a frightening forest walk, scary stories, live owls and more. Today and tomorrow 6-9 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). Pre-register 416-667-6295.

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rtoronto’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, tomorrow, Oct 28 and Oct 29. $18.75, stu/youth $16.75, child $10.75. Hockey Hall Of Fame, 30 Yonge. Preregister hauntedwalk.com.

Saturday, October 25 Benefits

rthE hauntED housE! (Rouge Valley Con-

servation Centre) Pumpkin carving, ghost stories and a haunted house tour. Come in costume. 5-8 pm. $5 min donation. RVCC, 1749 Meadowvale. Pre-register online at eventbrite.com/e/13628161197.

rtoronto zombiE Walk anD halloWEEn ParaDE (The Canadian Wildlife Foundation:

Help the Bats) Death Day celebration and walk with zombie marching band, scary stilt walkers, bike floats, costume contest, vendors and

Health Centre) Street festival, costume parade, photo booth, arts & crafts, and concert with Jully Black. 10:30 am to 4 pm. Free. Bloor West Village, between Jane and Runnymede. torontowesthalloweenfest.com.

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rhalloWE’En hoWl Musical and interactive puppet show with Alistair Ant for ages 3-8. 11 am & 2 pm. $16. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre, 4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031, solarstage.on.ca. rhalloWEEn in thE Junction: PumPkinFEst

Pumpkin carving, family pumpkin-themed activities and treats all day. 2-6 pm. Free. Junction Train Platform, Dundas W & Pacific. thejunctionbia.ca. rhalloWEEn on quEEn Contests, activities and live entertainment, costume parade (2 pm), and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Kew Gardens and Ivan Forrest Gardens, 2075 Queen E. thebeachvillage.com.

rthE hauntED Walk’s halloWEEn DoG PartY

more. Meet at noon, parade 3 pm, show 5 pm.

Noon. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. Pre-register torontozombiewalk.ca.

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ax halloWEEn Entertainment by Sofonda,

Daija Vu and Nikki Chin. Doors 10 pm. Phoenix, 410 Sherbourne. axoronto.eventbrite.ca. rboo! at thE barns Fun all-ages spooky evening with haunted house, stilt walkers, photo booth, costumes and more. 5-10 pm.

Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. atthebarns.org/boo.

rGEEk shriEk boutiquE & halloWEEn comic FEst Local arts & crafts, independent

comics creators, kids’ activities and more.

Noon-7 pm. Free. Back Space, 587A College. backspaceto.ca.

Ghost Walks Guided candlelight tours through historic buildings. Call for times.

Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. Pre-register 416667-6295. halloWEEn DJs Gareth Emery, M4Sonic, Mark Oliver and Manzone & Strong play this costume party. 10 pm. $30. Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. inktickets.com. rhalloWEEn ExtravaGanza Family fun with cookie making, crafts, games and costumes during museum hours. Today and tomorrow. Free for kids in costume. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca.

halloWEEn motoWn DancE PartY Vintage spooky tunes, ouija sessions, tarot readings, costume contest and more. 9 pm. Free-$3 before 11 pm. Sex Laser, 1369 Dundas W. facebook.com/events/874320799264423. rhalloWEEn music Family entertainment with Sir Jerry. 1 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. rhaloWEEn boo bash! Outdoor party with bouncy castle, cotton candy, candy hunt, pumpkin decorating and costume contest.

12:30 to 3 pm. Free. Kidz360, 3431 Dundas W. Pre-register kidz360.ca. rhauntED hiGh Park For FamiliEs Spooky grounds tours, legends and ghost stories for families with kids eight and up. 6:30-7 pm and 8-9 pm. $12.50, child $7.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916. rhoWlinG 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. rniGht oF DrEaD Clay & Paper Theatre community parade and celebration to banish our darkest fears, with stilt walkers, musicians, dancers and more. 6 pm. $10 or pwyc. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. satanicon Demonic movies, music, imagery, acts and prizes for best costumes hosted by

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Mr Mephisto. 9 pm. $10. Big Picture Cinema, 1035 Gerrrard. aionicstar.com.

sEason x: an x-FilEs comEDY sPooktacular

Improv and sketch comedy show. 8 pm. $5.

The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388. rsPirit Walk Tour through downtown alleys and laneways to discover some of the city’s haunted buldings. 6:30, 7 or 7:30 pm. Not recommended for children under eight years of age. $12.50, child $10.50 (recommended for ages eight to 15). Mackenzie House, 82 Bond.

Pre-register 416-392-6915. sPookiEst businEss Comedy variety show with Matt Rubel and others. 9 pm. $10-$15.

Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, pubaret.com. thrillEr costumE PartY Gareth Emery, Drive, Manzone & Strong and other DJs. Doors 10 pm. $25-$45. Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. inktickets.com.

turnED... an imProvisED zombiE horror shoW Two outbreaks are portrayed by con-

current comedy improv shows in the venue’s Mainspace and Cabaret stages. 9:30 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, bigcityimprovfestival.com. zombiE brunch Ghoulish treats at this zombified brunch. 11 am. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

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Creep show and scary bingo. 8:30 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Ghost storiEs tolD livE Five people tell true stories without notes. Doors 7:15 pm. Free. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. facebook.com/ events/719845484731752.

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Theatrix Costume House Wednesday, October 29 Events Bonspiel, A Creepy sCAry night of DeAth Comedy cabaret with improvisers Rob Baker, Ashley Bottling, Jan Caruana, Alastair Forbes and James Gangl. 9 pm. $10. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. bonspieltheatre.com.

music by Soupcans, Burning Love, Dilly Dally, Mexican Slang, Andre Ethier & Sunset Pigs and others. $15. Silver Dollar & Comfort Zone, 486 Spadina. ticketfly.com.

Divine enmity Horror film screening. 9:15 pm. Free.

Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-598-2197, wildsoundfestival.com.

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the CArnegie hAll show The monthly improv comedy/ variety show takes on a Halloween theme with guest Colin Mochrie and others. 8 pm. $18-$20, stu $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. octcarnegiehallshow.bpt.me. outrAgeous! – the witCh, pleAse! Comedy show with queer and queer-friendly comedians Martha Chaves, Emma Hunter, Gareth Lloyd, live music and dance, and host Robert Keller. 8 pm. $15. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com. phAntoms, plAyers AnD punDits wAlk Haunted walk of the financial and Entertainment districts. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Preregister 416-923-6813. the weirDo show Halloween-oriented stand-up comedy with Todd Graham, DeAnne Smith, Alex Nussbaum and others. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540.

Centre Learn about the history of the complex and hear tales of the alleged ghosts and spirits that are said to inhabit the building. 7 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. 189 Yonge. 416314-2871. rhAlloween stAr pArty Hollywood and Halloween are combined in interactive outdoor activities that look at our love of scary movies. 7:30-10 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. hAunteD toronto sCAvenger hunt Trivia-based team competition. Costumes mandatory on Friday. 7-9:30 pm.

Today and tomorrow. $30. Meet in front of the Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-8952378, urbancapers.com.

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Ontario) Soul Train themed party with Christopher Michaels, 3 guest DJs, Soul Train line dance, and soul food.

Dress as your fave celebrity from the 70s, 80s and early 90s. $22. Jamaican Canadian Association, 995 Arrow. 647893-3697.

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ABCs of DeAth 2: A horror Anthology Opening for the horror anthology sequel. $9.50, srs $6, stu $7. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. rainbowcinemas.ca.

BlACkout hAlloween night Halloween costume and dance party. 10 pm. Maison Mercer, 15 Mercer. ticketzone.com.

Boooooprov! Improvisers in spooky costumes compete in elimination games in this comedy show. 8 pm. $20.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, beerprov.com. the BruiseD spirits of southern ontArio Opera Arcana’s post-punk multimedia horror story set in Kensington Market. Today & tomorrow 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Videofag, 187 Augusta. facebook.com/events/819866891397293.

ChronologiC monster mAsh Music from 1890 to 2014 by the Goin’ Steady DJs. Doors at 9 pm. $10. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. the CrAft Screening of the goth-girl cult classic. 10 pm. $12.50, srs/stu $10. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net.

DeCADes of DAnCe Halloween extravaganza with music from the 50s to the 00s, sing-a-longs, and dancing on two floors with music provided by DJ Nico, DJ Geoffrol, and DJ Phil Leithead. 9 pm. $25-$35. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

DiABlo hAlloween BAll Final Halloween night at this venue with seven rooms and seven sounds with Deko-Ze, Jed Harper, Flux, Booch & Sydo, the Hammer, Toma, C-Kutz and others. $35 (ticketzone.com). Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. 416-262-0897, diablohalloweenball.com. fire roCk with me: A very twin peAks hAlloween Experimental rock music

by After Hours, Ruby Cikada and the Owls Are Not What They Seem. 8 pm. $6. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick.

416-923-8137, tranzac.org.

freAkeAsy hAlloween Costume ConCert Gatsby or 1920s themed party with music by Denielle Bassels Quintet, burlesque and more. 8:30 pm. $18, adv $15. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-5316604.

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hAlloween Costume party with DJ Wristpect & DJ Mensa playing old school hip-hop, R&B, dance, house, reggae and 90’s pop. 10 pm. $20. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. themarqueemedia. com. friDAy night live @ rom Live music, DJs, popup food, tours of the galleries and more with a Boo! theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl. fright fest Haunted house theme, giveaways, spooky photo booth, DJs & more. 9 pm. Barcode Club, 364 Richmond W. 647-283-0539. gooseBumps hAlloween Chills DJs, sexy/scary costumes, lootbags and music by Whitebwoy, Soca Sweetness and others. Luxy Nightclub, 60 Interchange Way. 416-806-3383. hAlloween At BuDDies Fay Slift hosts a spooky sexy dancing party with DJ K-Tel, costume contest and guest performers. Doors at continued 10:30 pm. $13. Buddies on page 30 in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

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Halloween BasH­Dress­as­your­­favourite­ dead­or­­almost­dead­rock­star­and­dance­to­ rockabilly,­60s­&­70s­high­energy­rock­and­roll­ with­The­Roughnotes.­9­pm.­Free.­Drums­N­ Flats,­1980­­Avenue­Rd.­647-347-9474.

Halloween BasH­DJs­Fields­McQueen­&­Nino­ Brown.­Doors­9­pm.­$33.­Steam­Whistle,­255­ Bremner.­steamwhistle.ca/halloween.

Halloween Burlesque sHow­Les­Femmes­ Fatales­magical­night­with­talents­of­Kryptonite­Kunt,­Papillon­Lafayette,­Dolly­Berlin,­Tiny­ B­Hiney,­Dottie­Dangerfield,­Bombyx­Mori,­ Lady­Ore,­Venus­Venom,­music­by­DJ­Rosina­ Kazi­and­host­Dainty­Box.­Doors­10:30­pm.­ $15.­Bad­Dog­Theatre,­875­Bloor­W.­ ­baddogtheatre.com.­ Halloween Costume Party­DJ­Mike­Reid­and­ prizes­for­best­costume.­10­pm.­Local­Gest,­ 424­Parliament.­416-961-9425.

Halloween FetisH Ball-suBsPaCe­Daring­ ­aerial­work­with­explosive­fire­effects­&­suspension­bondage,­Day­of­the­Dead­face/body­ painting­area,­Creepy­Clown­photo­booth,­ nearly­nude­costume­contest,­rope­bondage­ demos­and­more.­Fetish­wear­dress­code.­10­ pm.­$20-$25.­Opera­House,­735­Queen­E.­416466-0313.

Halloween movies­Alfred­Hitchcock­movie­ night­with­the­1960­film­Psycho­7­pm,­and­ 1972­click­Frenzy­9­pm.­$11,­stu/srs­$8.­Revue­ Cinema,­400­Roncesvalles.­416-531-9959.

Halloween nigHt­Spooky­sounds­of­DJ­Mike­ Toast.­Doors­10­pm.­$15.­Cube,­314­Queen­W.­ ­inktickets.com.

Halloween nigHt monster masH­Threerooms­with­DJs­Blasterjaxx,­Jamie­Jones,­ Loudpuck,­Moguai,­Sjhiba­San,­Thugli­and­ many­others.­Doors­10­pm.­$49.50.­Liberty­ Grand,­25­British­Columbia.­ticketweb.ca.

Halloween Party­Costume­party­with­prizes­ and­music­by­Jerome­Godboo­playing­with­ Eric­Schenkman­and­Gary­Craig.­10­pm.­Cadillac­Lounge,­1296­Queen­W.­416-536-7717.

Halloween sHow­Rock­show­with­Dawg­ Haus­and­The­Johnnys.­Doors­9­pm.­No­cover.­ Amico’s­Pizzeria,­1648­1/2­Queen­W.­416-5372222.

Halloween sPooktaCular­Costume­dance­ party­with­DJs­Bangs­&­Blush­playing­spooky­ tunes­and­guilty­pleasures.­10­pm.­Clinton’s,­ 693­Bloor­W.­­bangsandblush.ca.

Hart House oF Horrors­Multi-room­Halloween­party­with­magicians,­contortionists,­ palm­and­tarot­readings,­horrors­flicks,­a­ séance­and­DJ­music.­8:30­pm.­$15­(séance­ extra­$7).­Hart­House,­7­Hart­House­Circle.­ ­harthouse.ca.

Heresy’s Haunted House­DJs­Run­Animal­ Run,­SL.Y­and­Cole­Burns­play­this­dance­party.­ No­cover.­Detour­Bar,­193­Baldwin.­­ facebook.com/events/568452066594074.

Hotnuts Hallowqueen­Bunny­Michael,­DJ­ Bruno­Coviello­Light­Asylum,­Buzz­Huneedew,­ DJs­Produzentin­&­Das­Hussy.­Doors­10:30­ pm.­$10.­Garrison,­1197­Dundas­W.­­ facebook.com/737682899638961. insidious CHaPter 3­DJ­Delirious­&­DJ­ Matrixz,­laser­light­show­and­more­at­this­costume­dance­party.­10­pm.­Gravity­Soundbar,­ 296­Richmond­W.­­facebook.com/ events/1463326727266864 monster masH­Costume­dance­party­with­ music­by­Blasterjaxx,­Jaime­Jones,­Deniz­ Koyu,­Nicole­Moudaber,­Loudpvck,­Shiba­San,­ Thugli,­Adrian­Lux­and­others.­Doors­10­pm.­ $39.50.­Liberty­Grand,­25­British­Columbia.­ ­ticketweb.ca. nigHt oF a tHousand FaCes­Rue­Morgue­and­ FanExpo­Canada­party­with­creep­show,­costume­contest,­night­of­the­living­dance­with­ music­by­DJ­Prospero,­Tom­Dragomir­and­Eric­ Von­Eric.­Doors­9­pm.­$40,­adv­$25.­Phoenix,­ 410­Sherbourne.­rue-morgue.com. nigHt to dismemBer­19th­Century­London­ freak­show­themed­party­with­two­rooms­ and­music­by­DJs­Mike­Gibbs,­Jamie­Kidd­and­ Martin­Fazekas,­live­music­by­Ali­Black,­Aquatic­Mind­and­Shea­Butter.­10­pm.­$tba­(Play­De­ Record/Soundscapes).­Polish­Combatants­ Hall,­206­Beverley.­­breakandenter.net. a nigHtmare on BeaC’s street­Halloween­ costume­party­with­DJ­Your­Boy­Brian­in­the­ Lounge­(10­pm),­and­Diggy­the­DJ­in­the­ Underground­(11­pm).­Prize­for­best­costume.­ $10.­Drake­Hotel,­1150­Queen­W.­416-5315042.

a nigHtmare on Broadway­Music­by­Taxi­ and­DJ­Chad­playing­funk,­soul,­R&B,­disco­ and­top­40,­costume­prizes.­Alleycatz,­2409­ Yonge.­416-481-6865.

P&l Halloween­Party­with­Smithfits,­DJs­ Andy­Rourke,­Scott­Wade­&­Scott­Waring,­ photobooth­and­costume­prizes.­11­pm.­Parts­ &­Labour,­1566­Queen­W.­416-588-7750.

PHantoms oF tHe organs­Costumed­Halloween­howl­with­organists­­Patricia­Wright,­ John­Tuttle­and­others.­10­pm.­Free­(donations­to­student­organizations­appreciated).­ Metropolitan­United­Church,­56­Queen­E.­ ­metunited.org. tHe Predrink BeFore Halloween­A­livenews-parody­show­and­party­featuring­comedy,­improv­and­music.­8­pm.­$5.­Comedy­Bar,­ Cabaret­Space,­945­Bloor­W.­­facebook.com/ GoodNewsTorontoTheShow. tHe real witCHes Ball Samhain­masquerade­ celebration­with­pagans­and­witches­coming­ together­for­the­Witches’­New­Year­and­those­ who­have­passed­on.­Music­by­El­Doom­ Squad,­Fruit­of­the­Turqoise­Vine,­DJ­Madame­ Hair­and­a­medieval-inspired­musical­troupe.­ 6-10­pm.­$10.­Buddies­in­Bad­Times­Theatre,­ 12­Alexander.­416-975-8555,­­thewheel.com. tHe roCky Horror PiCture sHow­Shadowcast­performers­enact­their­own­satirical,­ comedic­version­of­the­film­during­the­show.­ 7­&­10:30­pm­screenings.­$15.­Bloor­Hot­Docs­ Cinema,­506­Bloor­W.­­bloorcinema.com. sCary Films­Watch­Linda­Blair’s­head­spin­in­ The­Exorcist­7­pm,­and­scream­all­the­way­ through­A­Nightmare­On­Elm­Street­9:30­pm.­ $11,­srs­$8.­Fox­Theatre,­2236­Queen­E.­ ­foxtheatre.ca. tHe sHining­Screening­of­Stanley­Kubrick’s­ adaptation­of­one­of­Stephen­King’s­movels­ starring­the­crazed­Jack­Nicholson.­6:30­pm.­ $12,50,­srs/stu­$10.­TIFF­Bell­Lightbox,­Reitman­Square,­350­King­W.­tiff.net. rsPooktaCular dog walk­Dress-up­event­ for­all­dogs­with­treats­and­prize­for­best­ ­costume.­6:30­pm.­Free.­Liberty­Village­Park,­ 70­East­Liberty.­facebook.com/ events/1467684043506274. sPook-taCular sCreenings­Poltergeist­7­pm,­ Mr­Vampire­III­9­pm,­and­Night­Of­The­Creeps­

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Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St. Toronto M6G 4C7 Toronto's Artscape Wychwood Barns becomes the epicentre of Vintage fashion on Sunday, October 26. Thirty top vintage dealers from Toronto, Montreal and elsewhere put on a show and sale at historic, industrial-chic Wychwood Barns. Guests will find a wide range of vintage fashion, accessories and textiles.

Men's and women's clothing, shoes, hats, scarves, handbags, costume and fine jewellery, decorative pieces, vintage quilts and a great deal more.

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at­11­pm.­$10,­stu/srs­$8­per­screening.­Royal­ Cinema,­608­College.­theroyal.to. squid lid & animalia­Black­Fridays­deep­bass­ sea­party­with­DJ­Darq,­Dar­Darkness­Visible,­ DJ­Osaze,­and­Saint­Alkaline­playing­neo-industrial,­electro-house,­crunchy­dubstep­and­ circus­soundtracks.­9­pm.­$15,­adv­$10.­Nocturne,­550­Queen­W.­­brownpapertickets.com. suBtle Blend: Halloween edition­Electronic­ hip-hop­and­experimental­beats­by­Cy,­Josh­ Grant,­Anzola,­Stillmonk­and­BSMNT.­9­pm.­ $5/pwyc.­Smiling­Buddha,­961­College.­416519-3332. rtriCk-or-treat­Fun­family­activities.­10­ am-8­pm.­Free­w/­admission,­$5,­stu/srs­$3,­ under­12­free.­Museum­of­Inuit­Art,­207­ Queens­Quay­W.­416-640-1571. tHe walking dead aFtermatH­Halloween­ costume­dance­party.­9­pm.­$25-$35.­Muzik,­ 15­Saskatchewan.­416-595-9998.

ZomBie Prom­Relive­your­prom­with­even­ more­horror­with­photo­booths,­prize­for­ zomb-king­and­-queen,­DJ­party,­zombie­ makeup­stations­and­more.­9­pm.­$25-$30.­ Palais­Royale,­1601­Lake­Shore­W.­ ­zombieprom.ca.

Saturday, November 1 danCe nigHt ‘95 Halloween edition­Eurod-

ance,­electronica,­rave­classics­at­this­dance­ party­with­DJ­Shok,­Paul­Savage,­DJ­Frakti,­DJ­ Davide­and­others­with­a­90s­costume­theme.­ Doors­10­pm.­$5.­Club­120,­120­Church.­ ­facebook.com/events/289283841277871. tHe day aFter Halloween Party­DJ­Jed­ Danson­plays­this­costume­party­with­prizes.­ 10­pm.­$15.­Uniun,­473­Adelaide­W.­ ­inktickets.com.

Halloween BasH­DJs­Skratch­Bastid­&­Fields­ McQueen.­Doors­9­pm.­$33.­Steam­Whistle,­ 255­Bremner.­steamwhistle.ca/halloween.

Halloween Hangover­Dance­party­with­ prizes­for­best­costume.­Doors­10­pm.­$15.­ Cube,­314­Queen­W.­inktickets.com.

Haunted Häus­Doors­10­pm.­Tattoo,­567­ Queen­W.­­tattooqueenwest.com.

Horror-rama­Horror-film­culture­convention­with­appearances­by­Tom­Savini­and­Bar-

bara­Steele,­a­vendors­market,­parties­and­a­ screening­of­Mario­Bava’s­Black­Sunday­(at­ Revue,­400­Roncesvalles).­Today­&­tomorrow.­ $10-$40.­99­Sudbury.­­horrorramacanada. com. masq – Halloween Hangover­Costume­ party­with­DJs­Mark­Oliver,­Manzone­&­ Strong,­and­others.­Doors­10­pm.­$15.­ Guvern­ment,­132­Queens­Quay­E.­­inktickets. com. rmimiCo PumPkin Parade­Say­bye­to­Halloween­with­a­jack-o-lantern­parade.­6-8:30­ pm.­Free.­Amos­Waites­Park,­2445­Lake­Shore­ W.­facebook.com/mimicopumpkinparade. nigHt oF tHe living dead­TIFF­pop-up­ screening­of­the­zombie­flick­rated­14a.­ Snacks­and­alcoholic­drinks­for­sale.­Outdoor­ screening­in­the­historic­kilns,­dress­for­the­ weather.­7-9­pm.­Free.­Evergreen­Brick­ Works,­550­Bayview.­­evergreen.ca. rPumPkin Parade­Display­of­jack­o’lanterns­ and­pumpkin­parade.­Bring­your­own­candle.­ 6:30-9­pm.­Free.­East­Lynn­Park,­1949­Danforth.­­decadiaries.wordpress.com. rPumPkin walk­Bring­your­jack-o-lantern­ for­a­spooky­walk.­5-9­pm.­Free.­Vine­Parkette,­Dundas­W­at­Quebec.­­junctionbia.ca. triCk or treat! a Halloween ConCert­ Dress­up­in­costume­and­enjoy­scary­music­ including­Funeral­March­Of­A­Marionette,­ The­Sorcerer’s­Apprentice­and­others­performed­by­the­Scarborough­Philharmonic­ Orchestra.­8­pm.­$30,­srs­$25,­stu­$15.­The­ Salvation­Army­Citadel,­2021­Lawrence­E.­ ­spo.ca.

Sunday, November 2 dÍa de los meurtos CeleBration Latin­

American­cultural­celebration­with­familyfriendly­events,­live­music­and­dance,­skull­ face­painting­and­a­churro­competition­with­ TO­Latin­American­chefs.­10­am-2­pm.­Free.­ Evergreen­Brick­Works,­550­Bayview.­ ­evergreen.ca.

House oF Horrors­Halloween­weekend­ aftermath­for­industry­people.­DJ­Jed­Harper­ and­costume­prizes.­No­cover­before­11­pm­in­ costume.­Uniun,­473­Adelaide­W.­­uniun.com. ­ 3

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by Rob Brezsny counsel may not be 100 per cent accurate.

ARIES MarNorm 21 | Apr 19Wilner : The driest place on Be both receptive and discerning toward the planet@normwilner is the Atacama Desert in norththem. ern Chile. It gets about a half-inch of rain per year. AndGlenn yet in 2011, archaeologists Sumi VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22: In the Englishdiscovered that it’s also home to a site @glennsumi speaking world, a sundae is a luxurious containing the fossilized skeletons of dessert that features ice cream topped numerous whales and other ancient sea LeConte with sweet treats like syrup, sprinkles, creatures. Julia I’m detecting a metaphorically and fruits. In Korea, a sundae is somecomparable anomaly in your vicinity, @julialeconte thing very different. It consists of a cow’s Aries. A seemingly arid, empty part of or pig’s intestines crammed with noodles, your life harbours buried secrets that are Kate Robertson barley and pig’s blood. I expect that in the available for you to explore. If you follow @katernow coming week you will be faced with a dethe clues, you may discover rich pickings cision that has metaphorical similarities that will inspire you to revise your history.

Sarah Parniak to the choice between a sundae and a sundae. Make sure you are quite clear TAURUS Apr@s_parns 20 | May 20: Businessman about the true nature of each option.

Warren Buffet is worth $65.5 billion, but regularly gives away Spurr 27 per cent of his forBen LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22: The average servtune to charity. Microsoft co-founder Bill ing of pasta on a typical American’s plate Gates owns @benspurr $78 billion, and donates 36 is almost 480 per cent bigger than what’s per cent. Then there are the members of recommended as a healthy portion. So Jonathan Goldsbie the Walton family, owners of Walmart, says a research paper titled The Contribuwhere 100 million Americans shop week@goldsbie tion Of Expanding Portion Sizes To The ly. The Waltons have $136 billion, of U.S. Obesity Epidemic, by Lisa R. Young which they contribute .04 per cent to Adria Vasil and Marion Nestle. Muffins are 333 per good causes. You are not wealthy in the @ecoholicnation cent larger than they need to be, the ausame way these people are, Taurus. Your thors say, and steaks are 224 per cent exriches consist of resources like your skills, cessive. Don’t get caught up in this trend, Sabrina Maddeaux relationships, emotional intelligence, creLibra. Get what you need, but not way, ative@SabrinaMaddeaux power and capacity for love. My inviway more than what you need. For that

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tation to you is to be extra generous with those assets – not as lavish as Buffet or Gates, perhaps, but much more than the Waltons. You are in a phase when giving your gifts is one of the best things you can do to bolster your own health, wealth and well-being.

GEMINI May 21 | Jun 20: You have two

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options. You can be in denial about your real feelings and ignore what needs to be fixed and wait for trouble to come find you. Or else you can vow to be resilient and summon your feistiest curiosity and go out searching for trouble. The difference between these two approaches is dramatic. If you mope and sigh and hide, the messy trouble that arrives will be indigestible. But if you are brave and proactive, the interesting trouble you get will ultimately evolve into a blessing.

CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22: Astronauts on the

International Space Station never wash their underwear. They don’t have enough water at their disposal to waste on a luxury like that. Instead, they fling the dirty laundry out into space. As it falls to Earth, it burns up in the atmosphere. I wish you had an amenity like that right now. In fact, I wish you had a host of amenities like that. If there was ever a time when you should be liberated from having to wash your underwear, make your bed, sweep the floor and do the dishes, it would be now. Why? Because there are much better ways to spend your time.

You’ve got sacred quests to embark on, heroic adventures to accomplish, historical turning points to initiate.

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22: What are those new

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whisperings in your head? Are they messages from your inner teacher? Beacons beamed back through time from the Future You? Clues from the wise parts of your unconscious mind? Whatever they are, Leo, pay attention. These signals from the Great Beyond may not be clear yet, but if you are sufficiently patient, they will eventually tell you how to take advantage of a big plot twist. But here’s a caveat: Don’t automatically believe every single thing the whisperings tell you. Their

matter, be judicious in your approach to all of life’s necessities. The coming phase is a time when you will thrive by applying the Goldilocks principle: neither too much nor too little, but just right.

SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21: “Children are

the most desirable opponents at Scrabble,” declares Scorpio author Fran Lebowitz, “as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.” I don’t wholeheartedly endorse that advice for you in the coming days, Scorpio. But would you consider a milder version of it? Let’s propose, instead, that you simply seek easy victories to boost your confidence and hone your skills. By this time next week, if all goes well, you will be ready to take on more ambitious challenges.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21 : You are

entering a phase when you will have more luck than usual as you try to banish parasitic influences, unworthy burdens and lost causes. Here are some projects you might want to work on: 1. Bid farewell to anyone who brings out the worst in you. 2. Heal the twisted effect an adversary has had on you. 3. Get rid of any object that symbolizes failure or pathology. 4. Declare your independence from a situation that wastes your time or drains your resources. 5. Shed any guilt you feel for taking good care of yourself. 6. Stop a bad habit cold turkey.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19: Are you ready to be as affable as a Sagittarius, as charismatic as a Leo, as empathetic as a Cancerian and as vigorous an instigator as an Aries? No? You’re not? You’re afraid that would require you to push yourself too far outside your comfort zone? OK, then. Are you willing to be half as affable as a Sagittarius, half as charismatic as a Leo, half as empathetic as a Cancerian and half as inspiring an instigator as an Aries? Or even a quarter as much? I hope you will at least stretch yourself in these directions, Capricorn, because doing so would allow you to take maximum advantage of the spectacular social opportunities that will be available for you in the next four weeks.

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AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18: In the coming weeks I hope you will find practical ways to express your newfound freedom. All the explorations and experiments you have enjoyed recently were fun and provocative, but now it’s time to use the insights they sparked to upgrade your life back in the daily grind. Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. I love it when you are dreamy and excitable and farseeing, and would never ask you to tone down those attractive qualities. But I am also rooting for you to bring the high-flying parts of you down to earth so that you can reap the full benefits of the bounty they have stirred up. If you work to become more well-grounded, I predict that you will be situated in a new power spot

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PISCES Feb 19| Mar 20: The heavy metal band known as Hatebeak broadened the definition of what constitutes music. Its lead singer was Waldo, an African grey parrot. A review by Aquarius Records called Waldo’s squawks “completely and stupidly brilliant.” For Hatebeak’s second album, they collaborated with animal rights’ activists in the band Caninus, whose lead vocalists were two pitbull terriers, Basil and Budgie. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I’d love to see you get inspired by these experiments. I think you will generate interesting results as you explore expansive, even unprecedented approaches in your own chosen field.

Homework: I invite you to carry out a prank that makes someone feel really good. Report results by going to FreeWillAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”

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Slutty Halloween costumes

What’s up with all the rampant slut-shaming that pops up around Halloween?

So-called “progressives” spend 364 days a year telling women to dress however they want, but when October 31 rolls around, suddenly wearing a minidress that resembles a taco is about the most vapid thing a woman can do.

Halloween slut-shaming often comes cloaked in critiques about intelligence and creativity – being a sexy Disney princess is scoffed at as being just sooo unoriginal. But no one thinks twice when men pull out their off-the-rack Batman, Freddy Krueger or X-Men costumes that delight in violence. As usual, boobs are public enemy number one, while guns, axes, chainsaws and knives are A-OK. Articles in the Huffington Post, E! Online and Buzzfeed ridicule the year’s most “ridiculous” or “offensive” sexy costumes, pre-emptively shaming any woman who might consider wearing one of them. Ladies, to prove they’re “serious” about Halloween, have to cover up.

Never mind the fear-mongering stories about protecting teen girls from the supposed tyranny of sexy costumes. Where are the think pieces for young men about costumes that glorify violence?

I say dress as slutty as you want this Halloween and, for that matter, the rest of the year, too.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

RAW DEAL: THE MILK GUIDE

WITH A MILLION DAIRY COWS IN THIS COUNTRY BELCHING OUT PLANET-WARMING METHANE, CAN CLASSIC COW MILK EVER BE GREEN? ITS ETHICAL CRED DEPENDS ON WHICH CARTON YOU CRACK. NATREL/NEILSON Gone are the bucolic days when even conventional dairy farmers let their cows roam free on green pastures.

Most Canadian dairies keep cows indoors tied in stalls to make it easier to feed ’em rations high in GMO corn and soy. And while growth hormones are outlawed in Canadian dairies, other hormones are not. Two of the biggest brands on the market are Natrel and Neilson. Neilson is owned by Saputo, which was nailed for buying milk from Canada’s largest dairy, outed last summer for horrific animal cruelty. Saputo says it only resumed buying from the mega-dairy (with 3,500 cows) when animal welfare improvements were documented. Natrel gets its milk via Agropur, Canada’s largest dairy cooperative, which also supplies Sealtest. Both offer better certified organic options. All are ultra-high-heatpasteurized to last oddly long times.

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HEWITT’S/ LIBERTÉ GOAT MILK Goat milk hasn’t taken off in North America the way goat cheese has.

But it’s got the advantage of being lower in lactose.

Hewitt says the goats on its conventional farms are mostly kept in group pens indoors, despite the grazing goat on the label. And like with Hewitt’s and Liberté’s conventional cow products, the goats can be given antibiotics and GMO feed. However, Hewitt’s certified organic goat milk in returnable glass bottles come from goats that get 120 to 150 days of pasturing a year, depending on the weather, and are hand-milked on Amish farms in Ontario.

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GREENFIND OF THE WEEK

TODAY CAUSEMETICS

October is generally awash in pink, with everything from bathroom tissue and blenders to kitty litter and petrochemical-laced lipstick promising to donate as little as a dime per product to breast cancer awareness and research. All that pinkwash makes Today Causemetics’s arrival onto the scene so damn refreshing.

This all-natural, non-toxic body care line was dreamt up by the Canadian Breast Cancer Support Fund as a way to raise money for women living with breast cancer who are struggling financially.

The fund teamed with a dozen green beauty brands (Consonant, Pure + Simple, Ella’s and Sappho, among others) to create the Today line of creams, soaps, deodorants, perfumes, lip gloss and more. For each product sold, a good $4 to $10 goes to women who quite literally can’t afford to be sick. As the funds says, you can go green, get beautiful and give back. causemetics.ca

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This new kid on the block is making a splash with its grassy branding. The “100% grass-fed” claims are a bit of a stretch since about half its farmers are mid-transition, still supplementing with oats, barley and non-GMO soy.

The other half have shifted to 100 per cent grass-fed (or hay, depending on the season). RM doesn’t follow organic standards to a T, but it does outlaw the administering of any antibiotics and hormones to its cows, and their pasture grazing period is half the year, weather permitting. Great, since grassfed cows are said to emit less methane, though there’s heated debate about this. Since it lacks the third-party monitoring of certified organics (helps keep costs down, says the CEO), it would be nice to see it at least get SPCA- or Local Food Pluscertified.

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A pioneer of the local, certified-organic movement, Harmony has chosen to stay small and close to home. It buys from 14 Ontario family farms with average herds of 50 cows that get to graze roughly 180 days a year on pasture and go outside daily year round.

Any grains fed are certified organic and GMO-free, and mostly grown on the farms. What’s nice about Harmony is that all the milk with its name on the label actually comes from its own farms, whereas most organic milk, like regular milk, is pooled, then divided for sale on the market.

Harmony offers milk in cartons, bags and old-fashioned glass bottles that get sanitized and reused a good dozen times.

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nature notes NEW BEE-HARMING PESTICIDE MAY GET OKAY FROM HEALTH CANADA It looks like Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) is getting ready to green-light Bayer’s new neonic pesticide, despite concerns about neonicotinoid links to bee deaths.

The agency says it’s proposing full registration for pesticides containing flupyradifurone from the now notorious neonic family. But its own environmental assessment notes that Bayer’s new concoction “may pose a risk to bees, non-target beneficial arthropods and freshwater and saltwater inverte-

ORGANIC MEADOW This national brand that once supplied PC Organics is actually a co-op of 66 small family-run, certified-organic Ontario farms, producing 80 per cent of all the organic milk in this province.

It doesn’t make a big deal about it, but like all organic dairies, its cows get to pasture (up to 22 hours a day) half the year, and get plenty of outdoor time in winter, too. They do get some grains, but nearly all its farmers grow their own certified organic, GMO-free winter feed (oats, peas, barley, soy and whole plant corn silage, as well as hay).

The company also offers yogurt, kefir, cheese and lactose-free options.

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brates” as well as “birds and small wild mammals when used for soybean seed treatment.”

PMRA notes that it’s planning to minimize the risks to wildlife by including a precautionary label on the pesticide. The Sierra Club of Canada says that’s not good enough. It’s encouraging Canadians to voice their opposition to the new neonic while the PMRA is accepting public comments (until November 1).

To send a letter to the PMRA, see sierraclub.ca.

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SC JOHNSON, CLOROX COME CLEAN ON FRAGRANCE SECRETS The multinational behind megabrands like Glade, Pledge and Windex will be the first big company go public with all of its fragrance ingredients. According to a recent announcement, SC Johnson will un-bottle its former trade secrets on its website and via consumer hotline by early 2015, starting with its air fresheners.

The move comes on the heels of Clorox announcing it will begin divulging the top fragrance allergens in its products early next year, without fully opening up about all of its scented ingredients.

The companies say there are anywhere between 10 and 50 compounds behind their fragrances.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

The vast majority of [oil] reserves are unburnable.

Former Bank of Canada governor and current Bank of England governor Mark Carney, sounding an awful lot like a climate activist at a World Bank seminar last week. Carney threw his weight behind the notion that oil company reserves will become “stranded assets” and would have to stay in the ground if we’re to avoid catastrophic climate change. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

food Around the world in five brunches

Toronto’s multicultural makeup has fostered some delicious culinary mashups at dinner from local chefs, so why settle for plain eggs and bacon at brunch? Punch up your brunch with these five takes on staples that combine the best ingredients and flavours from cuisines around the world. By KARON LIU

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Linda Modern Thai’s Thai-style eggs benedict, $15

The North York Thai restaurant inside the Shops at Don Mills just launched brunch service this month. Among the dishes are warm bananas and chopped peanuts wrapped in paper-thin rotis (roti gulay), satay skewers and this interesting take on eggs Benedict.

Smoked, fatty duck breast is draped over runny poached eggs and pillowy brioche that sops up everything, and then smothered in house-made, buttery-sweet panang curry. On the side is a bowl of congee (rice porridge) dressed with pickled cabbage, peanuts and fish sauce spiked with chilies. Plus, there’s a little bowl of a paste-like egg custard called sangkaya and a frieddough fritter to dip into the porridge, custard or the runny eggs.

11 Karl Fraser, 416-642-3866, lindamodernthai.com, @LindaModernThai

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Chef Wing Li preps the Thai-style eggs benedict – with smoked duck breast, panang curry on a butter brioche and sides of Thai congee, pathongko (fritter) and sangkaya (coconut egg custard spread) – at Linda Modern Thai.

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Essen’s Jewish banh mi, $12

Last month, chef Leor Zimerman turned his Portuguese-style restaurant Quinta into Essen, a Jewishinspired eatery that reflects the food he grew up eating mashed up with various culinary trends that have infiltrated Toronto. Case in point: the Jewish banh mi available at lunch and weekend brunch. Slices of fried beef salami are sandwiched in a crusty baguette along with pickled carrots and onions, grainy mustard and a smear of chicken liver-garlic mayo that drips on to your fingers.

1282 Dundas West, 416-534-0407, essentoronto.com, @Essen_Toronto

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Branca’s dulce de leche brioche, $12

This newly opened Argentine-style grill house has adjusted its Sunday hours to cater to customers who often miss out on this weekend ritual: they serve brunch till 8:30 pm. The brunch menu has just four dishes: smoked salmon with crumpets; yogurt with fruit and muesli; suckling pig with eggs, beans, rosti and hollandaise; and a classier take on French toast, a fluffy brioche topped with dulce de leche, Chantilly cream (whipped cream flavoured with vanilla) and cooked oranges that add a bittersweet, citrusy bite to cut through the candy-caramel sauce.

Since it’s served till evening, it can double as dessert.

1727 Dundas West, 416-519-8165, branca.ca, @Branca_TO

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Fonda Lola’s huevos rancheros, $12

The Mexican brunch dish gets a Montreal-style makeover from chef Howard Dubrovsky, who insists that Quebecois diners would never eat overcooked, flat scrambled eggs.

Dubrovsky adds Oaxaca cheese into the mix and then gently folds the runny eggs toward the centre of the pan, giving them a creamy, slightly gooey and fluffy texture. He also places the Mexican cheese directly on the griddle until it starts bubbling, then lays tortillas on top, ensuring that the cheese is evenly caramelized and crispy (a trick he picked up from a market stall in Mexico City). The textbook ranchero sauce uses tomatoes, tomatillos, onions, garlic and chilies. Not everything needs improving, after all.

942 Queen West, 647-706-9105, @FondaLola

Q&A Shawn Micallef

What’s your problem with brunch?

The super-popular places that everyone lines up for. They’re crowded, service isn’t the greatest, and eating becomes an ordeal because it ends up taking hours and never lives up to

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Every plate on chef Rudy Boquila’s weekend brunch menu combines some diner classic with a staple Filippino ingredient. For example, this big breakfast comes with the usual fried eggs and a side arugula salad, but in addition, diners can choose from pork longanisa (sausage), pork belly tocino (bacon) or our preference, whole boneless fried bangus, the national fish of the Philippines. Fried to a brown crisp so everything – head, tail and fins – can be eaten, bangus (or milkfish) has a mild, smokey flavour that pairs well with the side of lightly battered sweet cassava chunks and bowl of garlicky fried rice.

669 Queen West, 647-346-2377, lamesafilipinokitchen.com, @LamesaTO

Isn’t every going-out meal conspicuous consumption?

It depends. If you’re going out to lunch or just fuelling up, it is conspicuous, but not in the see-and-beseen kind of way. When you make it into a scene with the lineups, it goes into this class practice.

Food for thought: why brunch is a class issue

Shawn Micallef isn’t a big fan of brunch. In his new book, The Trouble With Brunch ($13.95, Coach House), he explores how this weekend ritual raises issues about class and conspicuous consumption.

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its billing as a relaxing thing to do on a Sunday.

Are you saying brunch be abolished?

No, I don’t want to abolish what others think of as fun, but I hope this book nudges people into thinking about the conspicuous consumption involved.

How much is this about hipsterdom?

I wouldn’t say hipsterdom, but it overlaps. I’m referring more to the creative class, people who live in cities and do precarious work, like on contract or without benefits. Leisure time becomes tight and precious, and spending it on brunch is something I don’t find leisurely. I found brunch a fun way to enter into the topic of class.

If someone were reading this while having brunch, what’s the takeaway?

I hope they’ll look at the patrons

The long-awaited Yorkville location of Buca has opened this week at the Four Seasons Residences (53 Scollard, at Yonge). The 85-seat restaurant is open daily for breakfast (coffees and pastries, as at Bar Buca), lunch, dinner and weekend brunch. The menu is similar to that of the original Buca on King West, but this outpost has a greater emphasis on seafood dishes like cured fish.

Over the last year the space at 785 Queen West (at Manning) has seen a revolving door of “coming soon” signs: a cupcake shop, a sandwich shop, a barbecue joint, even a food-truck-themed restaurant. It turns out it was all a prank from Khao San Road owner Monte Wan, who took over the space last summer and used the fake restaurant signs as a decoy to throw off (and troll) local food media and restaurant trends. Well, he opened an actual restaurant in the space last weekend called NaNa. The menu is similar to Khao San Road’s, with curries, a khao soi and grilled skewers, along with some new items like laab and rotis for dessert.

Opening in the former Ginger spot in Cabbagetown is Kanpai Snack Bar (252 Carlton, at Broadcast) from Arshad Merali, owner of Liberty Noodle. The place bills itself as a Taiwan-inspired street food spot that’ll be open late with cocktails on tap (but no bubble tea). Check the Twitter feed @KanpaiSnackBar for regular updates on its opening status.

Signs for a new Bulk Barn have appeared at 393 King West (at Spadina), further eroding the strip’s clubby reputation as condos and shops catering to residents continue to trickle in.

Chef Anthony Rose has opened a little food shop called Schmaltz Appetizing Store behind his restaurant Fat Pasha (414 Dupont at Howland). The place has prepared foods to go like cream cheese, smoked fish, salads, and spreads, along with a bagel bar.

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around them and wonder if they’re in a similar position, facing the same precarious work conditions and maybe connect with them and band together around common difficulties.

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King West’s restaurant row has lost another one. This time it’s Paese Ristorante (333 King West, at John), which closed over the long weekend. Earlier in the summer fellow Italian eatery Verona Ristorante also shut down. Paese’s original location at 3827 Bathurst (at Wilson) remains open.

Know of any openings, closings? Email food@ nowtoronto.com.

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By SARAH PARNIAK drinks@nowtoronto.com | @s_parns

WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!

Calvados Grand Solage Pays d’Auge Calvados, Normandy’s famous apple brandy, is essential to every wellrounded liquor cabinet and back bar – especially in a climate like this one.

Using it before, during and after meals in cocktails, cooking or swirled in a snifter, is a serious impulse as autumn advances. Boulard Grand Solage Pays d’Auge (likened to “grand champagne” for apples) is spontaneously fermented from over 120 varieties of les pommes and double-distilled in copper pots (like cognac), before being matured in oak. Pure fresh-pressed apples kissed with vanilla and spice make you shimmer from the inside out.

Price 750 ml/$49.70 Availability LCBO 296228

WHAT WE’RE DRINKING TONIGHT

American pale ales

Mr. Flamingo 1265 Dundas West, 647-351-1100, mrflamingo.ca Stacked above Bambi’s – Dundas West’s subterranean it-den of beats and iniquities – is Mr. Flamingo. At the recently opened bar/restaurant, treats are dished casually (but not too casually) till late, as some unwritten Toronto-after-dark rule now dictates, courtesy of co-owners Mikey Apples (Bambi’s) and chef Fan Zhang (Happy Child, the Drake, Niagara St. Café).

Pared-down Gotham meets hints of Miami in the black-and-white dining room/bar divided down the middle. The music sets a chill, playful vibe. One of the best things about Mr. Flamingo is that it refuses to take itself too seriously. “We Serve the World’s Worst Barbequed Ribs,” states a backlit sign above the bar. (They don’t.)

The bar-friendly menu spans potato chips and pickles (both $4) to lobster baked oysters ($13) and madeto-order burrata ($15). Don’t get too attached, though – the menu flips all the time.

To drink, check out a list of classic cocktails like Negronis, old-fashioneds (both $12) and gin fizzes ($11) put together by head bartender Tommie Cheng (formerly of the Black Hoof). For the wine-inclined, Jamie Drummond (one-half of Good Food Revolution and former sommelier at Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar) has written an accessible, interesting list of mostly local and Old World options.

Since Dundas West is quickly becoming Toronto’s nighttime playground, fun fuelling stations like Mr. Flamingo, where you can stuff yourself before and during a night out, are a must. Once refreshed, you don’t have to migrate far to find a party – Bambi’s downstairs is a safe bet.

When you wake up the morning after the best night of your life with a mild to non-existent hangover thanks to all the tasty plates you cleaned, you may just feel inclined to scrawl Mr. Flamingo a thank-you/I love you note.

Wednesday to Monday 6 pm to 2 am. Closed Tuesdays.

Access up half a flight of stairs to the entrance, washrooms on main floor.

Taps and beer fridges are brimming with stiff porters, Tripels and pumpkin beers right now, but lively, heartily hopped APAs are thirst-worthy all year round.

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CANUCK PALE ALE

Why Brewed with five kinds of malt from around the world – Germany, France, Britain and Canada are all represented – Junction Brewery’s craft ale is a balanced, sessionable homage to original American craft ales like Anchor Liberty Ale and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Bonus: it gets even tastier as it warms.

Price 473 ml/$2.85 Availability LCBO 345280

the “Crazy” and spruced up the label of their trademark APA this summer, but Mama always said it’s what’s on the inside that matters most. Crisp and quenching as ever, GLB’s Canuck is a reward for (finally) shuttering the cottage or a consolation prize when your favourite team mucks up. Again.

Price 473 ml/$2.50 Availability LCBO 242545

THE PUBLICAN HOUSE SQUARE NAIL PALE ALE Rating NNN Why The Publican House’s Square Nail Pale Ale, a flagship beer from Peterborough’s craft brewery, waltzes across the tightrope stretched between caramelized malts and resiny hops. Crack this West Coast-style PA with a stack of cheese and crackers and work on your relationship with Netflix.

Price 473 ml/$2.60 Availability LCBO 376293

TASTING NOTES Read and learn

It’s almost hibernation season, so stock up your home bar and curl up with some primo boozy reads like acclaimed bartender/cocktail blogger Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s The Bar Book: Elements Of Cocktail Technique (Chronicle, $37) and Death & Co’s just released Modern Classic Cocktails book by the proprietors of NYC’s big deal bar of the same name (Ten Speed Press, $46).

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Cifer pours local It seems that the Danforth is quietly becoming a destination for craft beer lovers. Louis Cifer (417 Danforth, 647-350-5087, louisciferbrewworks. com), a sprawling new beer-focused spot from the owners of Cabbagetown’s Stout Irish Pub, is now pouring what’s local, including house beers that will eventually be brewed on premises.

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nowtoronto.com/music Audio clips from our interview with Oh Susanna + Live reviews of King Diamond and White Fence + Searchable upcoming listings

THE WOODEN SKY at Cabin Fever, Soundscapes and Kops on Bloor, Saturday, October 18. ­Rating: NNN

Before they commenced, the Wooden Sky frontman Gavin Gardiner called what they were about to do crazy: play three sets at three record stores, biking to each one with their instruments on their backs. though Gardiner’s voice was often drowned out by the sound of milk frothing at the tiny Cabin Fever café/record shop, the acoustics were fantastic for the band’s mic-free soulful folk. their harmonies on Baby, Hold On were a highlight, but hearing Gardiner casually chat with the bearded dude behind the bar was also a treat. at Soundscapes it was largely a Gardiner solo set. He slowed down their barnburner Maybe it’s no Secret by drawing out the chorus, while the rest of the band stood by looking like they wanted to browse the new releases. a short trip up Palmerston to Kops and their harmonies reemerged on Don’t You Worry about a thing – the slow, rolling closer on their new album, Let’s joshua kloke Be Ready.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week KING TUFF at the Horseshoe, Tuesday, October 14. ­Rating: NNN

King Tuff, born Kyle Thomas and signed to Sub Pop, embraces a loose and gritty beer-soaked aesthetic, from his band’s hesher fashion sensibilities – trucker caps, handlebar moustaches, patch-covered jean vests – to the back-to-basics good-time fuzz rock they energetically deliver.

Perfection isn’t the point, but a little more tightness during their Horseshoe set would’ve made the songs land harder. Headbanger, the strongest tune on terrific new album Black Moon Spell, fell flat during the choruses because thomas couldn’t come close to reaching the high notes. in other songs, flubbed chords and a too-thick guitar sound distracted.

He found his footing during the second half, and developed a jovial rapport with the collegeaged crowd. a wah pedal solo in soft rocker eyes Of the Muse grabbed attention, bassist Magic Jake whistled wickedly during eddie’s Song, and the superbly clear tone of anthem’s masterful

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lead riff (from 2012’s King tuff) left us absolutely amped.

Proof thomas got the crowd onside? When he declared at the start of encore song i Love You Ugly that he’d never seen more ugly people in a city before, it earned him loving cheers.

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FLEETWOOD MAC at the Air Canada Centre, Saturday, October 18. ­Rating: NNN

By the time Fleetwood Mac played Rhiannon, early in their two-and-a-half-hour revue at the Air Canada Centre, it was clear that despite the brouhaha over the return of long-time member Christine McVie after a 16-year hiatus, it’s still the Stevie Nicks show. nicks can get a crowd excited by waving her arm or doing a little twirl. every time she sang (and she was singing well) the packed house got out of their seats.

Starting with the Chain, the Mac played through nearly every song from their bestselling hit machine Rumours, pulling out Silver Springs in

the encore with an abundance of ridiculous chime sounds. (the band clearly love their synths – why, oh why, did they not bring along a live horn section?) not to be outdone by nicks, Lindsey Buckingham prepared for a Big Love solo turn by charging up his right hand like a robot before launching into the loudest, most ferocious classical playing imaginable. While other members took the occasional break, admirably, Buckingham almost never left the stage, though some of his other songs came sarah Greene across as overwrought.

TORY LANEZ at the Drake Underground, Sunday, October 19. ­Rating: NNN

toronto native Tory Lanez is an R&B-loving, hooksinging 22-year-old emcee whose sound is indebted to OVO. in the current climate, those qualities point to success, and judging by Sunday’s energetic, polished performance, Lanez is headed for it.

For instance, Henny in Hand, from his latest

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Lost Cause mixtape, is a falsetto-crooned slow jam. Yet he managed to have the crowd jumping up and down with their ones in the air, all while delivering a theatric, decently sung rendition.

But from his unsuccessful crowd-surf on the third song to the onstage videographer blinding anyone looking in the rapper’s direction to the Drake Underground’s strange 10 pm curfew, things often got weird. after his mic cut out just after 10, Lanez was pissed, but carried on after grabbing a functioning one, and ploughed forward for another couple of songs. His just-overan-hour set seemed a little short though, for such a hyped homecoming with no opener.

He managed to successfully crowd-surf, and the audience enthusiastically rapped along to standout tune the Godfather. it seemed disingenuous when he peaced out of the venue superquickly, though, especially after promising to take

a picture with every fan who wanted one.

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Just six months ago, Andrew Hozier-Byrne, who goes by the mononym Hozier, played amongst the fairy lights on the low-ceilinged stage at one of Queen West’s most intimate venues, the Rivoli – capacity 200. Two weeks ago, he was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

Those of us present for that intimate NNNNN performance at the Riv should count ourselves lucky. On Tuesday it’s the Phoenix, and next winter it’s Massey Hall (on March 2). For the bluesman from County Wicklow, Ireland, it’s been a steep trajectory.

“I found it very daunting at first. I’m much more comfortable doing small clubs and intimate gigs – the relationship you have with an audience is very different,” he says. “I was just on a European festival run where we only played to audiences of 10,000, sometimes 25,000, 30,000 people. So I’m not as worried any more, but still.

I’m in no rush to do huge, huge venues.”

With bigger stages, he promises more players, more vocalists and, hopefully, more songs. “[The Phoenix] will be an even better show. I promise you that. You won’t be disappointed.”

After making his name on the strength of two gospeland soul-indebted four-song EPs, Hozier released his self-titled studio debut last month on Sony. It includes most of those previously released tunes, including the aptly titled, American South-evoking Work Song, plus a handful of new tunes that continue his darkly romantic, acutely sexual, irreverent and often anti-establishment songwriting.

His intense 2013 debut single Take Me To Church, for

example, explores sexual liberation, shame and the Church. The video – now with over 15 million views – follows a gay couple as they flee persecution from a violent, hooded mob. Released in September of last year, it was a comment on Russia’s increasingly homophobic climate.

“Through an organization called AllOut.org, I had been following what was going on in Russia – essentially a neo-Nazi group called Occupy Pedophilia that attacked and tortured very young LGBT community members,” explains Hozier.

“The video reflects the song – about an organization that undermines a very natural part about being a person, one of the more wonderful and joyous parts of being a human being. I wanted to make the video about a current example that wasn’t based on the Church.”

The poetry of his lyrics recalls the legendary scribes of his home country, but the rhythm and blues elements don’t.

“It can seem preternatural, but it was the music I was listening to before I was born, and then as a very, very, very young child in the house,” says Hozier, whose father was a blues musician. “I had my dad’s record collection as I grew up, and I had this growing fascination with early 20th century music, which developed into exploring jazz and soul and all forms of African American music.”

On the Take Me Church EP, those long-simmering influences finally came to the fore.

“The EP was a bit different from songs I’d been writing previously. I just decided to explore those influences a bit more honestly. I stopped caring about making music that I thought people wanted to hear.”

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Reigning Sound GARAGE ROCK

Greg Cartwright swaps labels, sticks to his sound By JOHN SEMLEY reigning sound at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday

(October 25), doors 9 pm. $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

When I ask Greg Cartwright of North Carolina-via-Memphis garage rockers Reigning Sound what the biggest difference is between working with a small indie label like In the Red and a big indie like Merge, he points to our interview.

“The biggest change is stuff like this,” Cartwright says from his home in North Carolina. “Like, right now talking to you on the phone. With Merge, there’s a whole apparatus built in that’s ready to just gear up and push a record.”

At Merge, Cartwright finds himself rubbing shoulders with heavies like Bob Mould, Spoon, Superchunk and Arcade Fire. With their latest record, Shattered, the band remains true to Cartwright’s roots: simple melodies and foot-stomping rhythms give shape to tender songs about love and love lost.

It’s the kind of music that’s ebbed into the mainstream thanks to major-label artists like Jack White and Black Keys.

Talking about Memphis-influenced garage-pop bands pack-

ing stadiums, Cartwright chooses his words carefully.

“Jack White and the Black Keys, they’re willing to add a lot of other components to make it something more… chartready,” he says. “There’s a lot of pressure to make big Billboard hits, not soulful, weird garage records. It’s interesting to see what they add – techno and hip-hop and rap – to what they do naturally to make something that’s chartready. But I’m not doing that. I’m not in a situation where I have to.”

If Cartwright’s records are at all “chart-ready,” they’re about five or six decades too late, hearkening back to a golden era of roots, Memphis soul and straight-ahead rock ’n’ roll. They’ve found their admirers despite Cartwright’s tendency to play hard-to-get, rebuffing the sly come-ons of major labels.

“I’ve been called by some people at majors,” he says. “But I don’t really take them very seriously. It seems like a lot of work. More work than I am willing to do. The thing smaller labels afford is the freedom to make whatever you want.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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BLACK MILK, NAT TURNER, KING REIGN Tattoo (567 Queen West), Thursday (October 23) Detroit alt hip-hop.

ISKWÉ, RYAN SOMERVILLE Music Gallery (197 John), Thursday (October 23) Experimental Native drumming.

TY DOLLA $IGN, LIL BIBBY, DJ CHARLIE B Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Friday (October 24) Sexually explicit R&B. PALLBEARER, TOMBS Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (October 24) Foggy doom metal.

SINEAD O’CONNOR Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday (October 24) Irish singer/songwriter.

OH SUSANNA The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday (October 25) See preview, page 46.

THE REIGNING SOUND Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (October 25) See preview, page 42.

COURTNEY BARNETT, SAN FERMIN, MIKHAEL PASKALEV

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (October 25) Deadpan Aussie indie pop.

DREAM SERENADE w/ Barenaked Ladies, Feist, Hayden, Sarah Harmer, Lou Canon, Matt Berninger & Aaron Dessner & others Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (October 25) Beverley Street School benefit.

DUM DUM GIRLS, EX COPS, BB GUNS Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Sunday (October 26) Reverb-laden garage rock.

EX HEX, SPEEDY ORTIZ Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Monday (October 27) Mary Timony’s power trio.

SLOWDIVE, LOW Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday (October 28) Reunited English shoegazers.

HOZIER, JAMES BAY Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (October 28) See preview, page 40.

THE PRESETS, LE1F, ANTWON, CHELA, FRANKI CHAN Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Wednesday (October 29) Aussie electronic & American rap.

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The WyTcheS PSYCH-PUNK

Something you don’t read often is “Brighton by way of Peterborough,” but that’s the story of psych-punk trio the Wytches.

It’s also no small feat to sign to a bunch of international labels for your debut album, but Kristian Bell, Gianni Honey and Daniel Rumsey did that. Annabel Dream Reader came out in August on Dine Alone, Heavenly, Partisan, Fat Possum and Hate Hate Hate. And with it came streaming on NPR and Pitchfork, along with positive reviews from Stereogum, the New York Times and Nylon.

What’s all the hubbub about? The trio got together in 2011 after Bell and Honey moved from Peterborough to Brighton for university, and with Dorset singer/songwriter Rumsey stage front, they deliver rough-around-the-edges hazy psych full of sexed-up swagger and blues – and enough sludge, angst and angles to appeal to post-punks, too.

Wednesday (October 29) at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), 8:30 pm. $12.50. RT, SS, TF.

Dilly Dally

The Garrison, November 8.

Just Announced THE MAHONES CD release party Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Cabaret and Lounge doors 9 pm. November 1.

STARK NAKED & THE FLESHTONES, PRINCE PERRY, KING KONG 4 Battle

Bovine Sex Club doors 9 pm, $8. November 6.

THE DONEFORS The Painted Lady 9 pm.

November 6.

TEENANGER, THE SOUPCANS, HOODED FANG, ROTZIG Feast In The

East 42 Jam Factory Co 9 pm, all ages, $8. CB, CM, RT, SS. November 7.

NEW HORIZZZONS, MIDNIGHT STATIC, DJS GABE KNOX & DIANA MCNALLY Cloud 35 Anniversary Party Mercer Union 8 pm. $35. November 7.

THE ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE The

Poem/The Song Music and poetry with Thom Allison, Margaret Atwood, Andrew Burashko, Carla Huhtanen, Gregory Hoskins and others.

Harbourfront Centre Theatre 8 pm, $25-$59.

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LIGHTMARES, SEDGE, BEST FRIENDS Cavern Bar doors 9 pm, $7. November 8.

DILLY DALLY, BLONDE ELVIS, DIRTY CHURCH, NEW HANDS Big Smoke Festi-

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val The Garrison doors 7 pm, $15. TF. November 8.

JACKIE RICHARDSON, EVOLUTION OF JAZZ ENSEMBLE, AIJIA WAITHE, KAMIL ANDRÉ DEWHURST An Evening With Jackie Richardson: Black Women Effecting Change Daniels Spectrum 8 pm, $50.

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CORIN RAYMOND & THE SUNDOWNERS, JACK BREAKFAST, EVALYN PARRY, ANGIE GUNN, DECLAN O’DONOVAN Record Lonesome Night 10th Anniversary Party Tranzac Main Hall 7 pm, $20-$25. BP. brownpapertickets.com/ event/869228. November 12.

OMARION, DJ RITZ Ryze 10 pm, $25 adv.

TS. 647-839-8769. November 14.

A$AP FERG, YG Bestcoast Connection Tour Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $49.50. TM. November 19.

ILLITRY, BASS LIONS, KIRA MAY Drake Hotel doors 9 pm, $10-$12. TF. November 27.

MONSTER VOODOO MACHINE, TRIGGER HAPPY, HARANGUE, VALYEAR 20th Anniversary Show: Daily Bread

Food Bank benefit Sneaky Dee’s 9 pm, $10.

November 28.

SLOAN Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $28.50. RT, SS. November 29.

DAVID GRAY, MARTIN WORTHY, WAYNE NEON Janis Joplin’s 72nd Birthday Bash Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $27.50, adv $22.50. January 19.

KC ROBERTS & THE LIVE REVOLUTION, JULIAN TAYLOR BAND, DJS COZMIC CAT & DENISE BENSON, A DIGITAL NEEDLE Friday Night Live: Dinos,

SAM SMITH Air Canada Centre $35-$79.50.

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WILD CHILD Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm,

Dodos & Disco Royal Ontario Museum 7 to 11 pm, $10-$12. November 15. from Oct 14 honoured. The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, $50. TM. November 18.

TM. January 20.

BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND Ride Out Tour Air Canada Centre $tba. LN, TM. January 24.

$13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. January 28.

VIET CONG The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10.

RT, SS, TF. January 31.

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Thursday, October 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Carlos Morgan 9 pm.

BoAt Hangin Tuff, Gunt, Guiltfeeder, Dead Ranch, Dead Mouth doors 9 pm.

cAvern BAr Derek Harrison, the Bloor Lees

doors 9 pm.

chArlie’s GAllery TWiMFeST Prom, Sarah Bartlett, Flicker State, Daniel Greer, Shawn William Clarke, Brooklyn Doran 8 pm.

GlAdstone hotel Melody BAr TWiMFeST Bonwit Teller, the Do Good Badlies, Ally Mode, Paint, Atom & the Volumes, Buffalo 8 pm. horseshoe Rah Rah, Paper Lions doors 8:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce She Said Save Me, Aviation, Russian Roulette, Girl 9 pm. lulA lounGe Yasgur’s Farm (funks/soul/jazz) 10 pm. oPerA house Album release show Shawn Brady & the Northern Sons doors 7 pm. rAncho relAxo TWiMFeST The Back 40, Convoys, BA Johnston, Frankie & Jimmy, the Alpacas 8 pm. silver dollAr Beams, Pistol, George Warren, Patrick Grant & the Flesh Vignettes doors 9 pm. the sister Tres Bien Ensemble.

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Plex, Toodee, Biz Markie, Leslie Hall and others (children’s show) 6 pm. southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. suPerMArket 45 release Freak Motif w/ Lady C, Grüvoria (funk) 9 pm. tAttoo Black Milk, Nat Turner, King Reign doors 8 pm.

3030 dundAs West UBL BBoyz Break Dancing Battle. toronto centre for the Arts Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Bryce Jardine, South of Bloor 7:30 pm.

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BAr rAdio Jenny Allen (folk) 9 pm.

BlAkBird Dubai Nights. cAstro’s lounGe Jerry Leger & the Situtation (folk/rock/country) 6 pm.

first cAnAdiAn PlAce WAterfAll stAGe Greg Hanna 12:15 pm.

free tiMes cAfe Alan Rhody & the Brothers Brady (folk) 8 pm.

GrossMAn’s Thrill Harmonic 10 pm.

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Oh SuSanna FOLK

Toronto singer embraces new directions on covers album

By SARAH GREENE

oH susanna at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday (October 25), 8 pm. $25. RTH. When we meet for coffee in her neighbourhood, the Junction, Oh Susanna is cheery. But it’s been a tough one and a half years for Suzie Ungerleider. Her adventurous, crowd-funded sixth album, Namedropper, was put on hold in May 2013 after the singer/songwriter learned she had breast cancer.

(She was in treatment until February.)

“We were going to release the record at exactly the same time last year,” she says. “So it’s almost like we did this time warp where I had to go down a portal and do weird treatment. But actually it was beautiful, because I had to tell all these people who supported the album during the Kickstarter campaign, ‘I can’t deliver this to you,’ and I got this amazing outpouring of love from family and friends.”

The extra time also allowed Ungerleider to hook up with a new label – Hamilton’s Sonic Unyon.

Originally conceived by Ungerleider as a traditional covers album, the concept changed over the course of a phone call with her old friend, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jim Bryson, who suggested getting artists to write original material for it.

The rule? It had to be people Ungerleider knew, and she encouraged her friends to submit tunes they wouldn’t normally associate with her music.

Songs poured in. Two days after an email to Ron Sexsmith, he delivered instant classic Wait Until The Sun Comes Up; Joel Plaskett sent in a demo for Into My Arms complete with sung hooks. Meanwhile, Melissa McClelland surprised her with a pop/rock tune called Mozart For The Cat, inspired by Ungerleider’s son Sal, who was born nearly three months early.

“She was saying if you don’t have any expectations of life, you’ll do much better than if you have a certain idea of how things should go,” explains Ungerleider, who says she tapped into her inner Pat Benatar for the song’s fierce, tough vocal.

For her, Namedropper was about freedom: breaking out of the cocoon of her solo career and giving up some control to Bryson so she could move in new musical directions.

“We have this brother/sister chemistry,” she says. “He deliberately subverts everything; I’m more traditional. I like things pretty and beautiful, maybe intense but melodic, and he says, ‘Let’s throw a little dissonance in here.’”

Her love of music, she says, goes much further than her own catalog.

“I wanted to express my admiration for these writers, get into their heads, have fun, be a singer and interpreter and get a range of expression that I wouldn’t have if I wrote my own script.”

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HugH’s Room CD release Russell deCarle Trio, Steve Briggs & Denis Keldie 8:30 pm.

LinsmoRe TaveRn Don River Blues 9 pm.

THe LocaL Kevin Roy (singer/songwriter) 9 pm.

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

LuLa Lounge Maryem Tollar (Arabic) 8 pm.

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Thursdays Brant Parker. musiDeum Clan Hannigan (folk/Celtic) 8 pm.

RivoLi Jake Chisholm & Dylan Wickens doors 8:30 pm.

Sorrow 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/ old-time) 7:30 pm.

See page 27.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

aLLiance FRançaise sPaDina Liz Mc-

Comb 8:30 pm.

eDwaRD JoHnson buiLDing waLTeR HaLL

Phil Nimmons & David Braid 12:10 pm. emmeT Ray baR Tropical Punch (tropical jazz) 9:30 pm.

FouR seasons cenTRe FoR THe PeRFoRming aRTs RicHaRD bRaDsHaw amPHiTHeaTRe

Gypsy Songs Lauren Segal, Robert Gleadow (vocalists) noon. gaLLeRy 345 The Art Of The Piano Megumi Okamoto 8 pm. gaTe 403 Annie Bonsignore Jazz Duo 9 pm, The Brickhouse Tour Paul Ilew-Willians 5 to 8 pm.

HoLy bLossom TemPLe Profeti della Quinta (synagogue music of the Renaissance) 7:30 pm.

Jane maLLeTT THeaTRe Belcea Quartet 8 pm.

Jazz bisTRo CD release Carol McCartney & band 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Brian O’Kane & Lorne Lofsky w/ the Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. music gaLLeRy IsKwé & Friends IsKwé, Ryan Somerville (traditional native drumming with classical musicians and eletronic manipulation) 8 pm. oLD miLL inn Ron Davis Trio (jazz) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

RePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

THe Rex Joe Sullivan Quintet 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

Roy THomson HaLL Romeo & Juliet Toronto Symphony Orchestra 2 pm.

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ToRonTo cenTRe FoR THe aRTs LoweR gaLLeRy Cabaret Soiree: The Many Faces Of Gabaret Gabi Epstein, Donovan LeNabat, Mark Camilleri.

young cenTRe FoR THe PeRFoRming aRTs Global Cabaret

Festival: (re)Birth: EE Cummings In Song 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/ loungE

bunDa Lounge Throwback Thursdays DJ NaNa 10 pm.

THe cave Transmission DJ Shannon (rock). cLinTon’s Throwback Thursdays (90s hip-hop/pop) doors 10 pm. cLub 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 cRawFoRD DJ Downunda, host Miss Olivia and Kermit 9 pm.

HoLy oaK caFe DJ Kieran 10 pm.

THe HoxTon Digitalism 10 pm.

JoHnny JacKson Thirsty Thursdays (rock). seven44 Disco Inferno DJ Soundman Sanchez. smiLing buDDHa DJ Btarded (hip-hop/acid house/electro).

TaTToo basemenT a/A2 Ferenc Stenton, Wizard Of, Self So, Beat Market Radio 9:10 pm. wayLa baR Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.

Friday, October 24 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul aDeLaiDe HaLL Gob. aLLeycaTz Lady Kane.

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TRanzac souTHeRn cRoss Sweet Darling &

The BalleT Clara Venice (theremin & other eclectic sounds) doors 8 pm.

Caplansky’s TWiMFeST The Holy Gasp, Paul

Kasner.

CasTro’s lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 6 pm.

Cavern Bar Yukon Trails, Aleandra & the

Strangemakers doors 9 pm.

Cherry Cola’s roCk n’ rolla CaBareT and lounge Gob After Party The Von Rebels, the

Turbo AC, the Heroin Hayride, the Sinisters, the Black Halos, Romeo Liquor Store and others doors 9 pm. drums n FlaTs Stiletto Flats (rock & roll) 9 pm.

FlaTo markham TheaTre The Jim Cuddy Band 8 pm.

The garrison Ben Frost, Nick Storring, DJ Daniel Vila doors 9 pm. See album review, page 54. gladsTone hoTel TWiMFeST Aircraft, Trevor James & the Perfect Gentlemen, Persian Rugs, Ketch Harbour Wolves, Hue, the Black Fever 8 pm.

The greaT hall EP release Art Bergmann, Tony Dekker & the Two-Minute Miracles doors 8 pm. guvernmenT In Too Deep Tour Ty Dolla $ign, Lil Bibby, DJ Charlie B (hip-hop). horseshoe Alert the Medic, Sun K, Fever City, Ready the Prince doors 9 pm. lee’s palaCe Pallbearer, Tombs (doom metal) doors 9 pm. liBerTy grand arTiFaCTs room AIDSbeat: Benefit for Canfar SoSumi, The Gavelheads, the Redactions, Collateral Attack, Negotiable Instruments, Good Alibis, Mutual Release, Big Wigs and others 8 pm. linsmore Tavern Hatchetmen (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. living arTs CenTre hammerson hall Randy Bachman 8 pm.

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massey hall Sinéad O’Connor 8 pm. ñ monarChs puB Classic Rock Fridays The Dylan

Tree.

opera house Smallpools, Magic Man, Waters doors 7 pm, all ages. ranCho relaxo TWiMFeST Light Bulb Alley, Drunk Lips, the ‘92 Blue Jays, Revolvers, Dead Messenger, Sun Stone the Blue Stones, 5th Projekt, Jim Dan Dee 8 pm. rivoli New City Kings, Black Collar Union doors 9 pm. royal onTario museum Friday Night Live: Fashion Global The Darcys, Pick Brothers, U of T Jazz, Barbra Lica, DJ Feel Good Smalls 7 to 11 pm. ryze Anine Edge & Dance Sean Roman, Nicey, Karlene Oliver, Bosno, Atif 10 pm. seven44 Hott Roxx (Rolling Stones tribute). silver dollar Record release Dead Broke, Bille Dre & the Poor Boys, Penske File, Northern Primitive doors 9 pm.

The sisTer Frank Ryan, Akorn, Siobhan Gabrielle. sneaky dee’s After Love, Chad Price, Sam Taylor & the East End Love doors 9 pm. souThside Johnny’s Freedom Train (rock/ top 40) 10 pm.

3030 dundas WesT Mob Bairey & the Railers (Bob Marley & the Wailers tribute).

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Bar radio Pearly Jenkins (rockabilly) 10 pm. dakoTa Tavern Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 10 pm.

Free Times CaFe A Song Of My Own Student Showcase 7:30 pm.

grossman’s Jerome Godboo, Eric Schenkman, Shawn Kellerman & Al Cross 10 pm.

hugh’s room Carlos del Junco w/ Eric St Laurent, Henry Heillig 8:30 pm.

living arTs CenTre rBC TheaTre Autumn Hill,

Kira Isabella 8 pm. lou daWg’s Paige Armstrong, Pat Wright (acoustic blues/funk/soul/jazz) 10 pm. luCy’s seaFood kiTChen Fried Angels (blues) 8 pm. lula lounge Azucar Negra (salsa) 10:30 pm. monarCh Tavern The Di Palmas (country/ western) 9:30 pm. noT my dog The Singles Tour Big Mama Lele (humorous indie folk) 10 pm. sTudio Bar Latin-Afro-South Asian Festival Njacko Backo, JDT Trio, Rakkatak (African/ Latin/South Asian fusion) 10 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Rock Paper Scissors 10 pm, Jean & Lance 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

WhiTe elephanT Bar Arthur Renwick (blues/ roots/folk) 6 to 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

allianCe Française spadina Liz McComb 8:30 pm.

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ANDROID

imagineNATIVE .org

IPHONE

OCT. 2 2-26 , 2014

ONLY PER SCREENING!

$7 FOR REGULAR SCREENING TICKETS Screening Presenter:

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS

Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square 350 King Street West, Cinema 1

The Embargo Collective II Commissioned in celebration of imagineNATIVE’s 15th anniversary, the Festival is thrilled to present as its Closing Night Gala, The Embargo Collective II II, five short films created by five distinguished artists: Caroline Monnet, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Zoe Hopkins and Lisa Jackson.

Come celebrate the best in Indigenous media arts at the 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest showcase of film, video, radio, and new media made by Indigenous people from Canada and around the world!

Download your imagineNATIVE App at Google Play and the iTunes App store!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 10:00 AM Opening Scene: Youth Shorts I Cinema 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 10:00 AM Big Break: Youth Shorts II Cinema 3 11:00 AM This May Be the Last Time Cinema 4

3:00 PM Storytellers Screening Featuring Joseph Boyden, Maria Campbell, Shane Belcourt & Terril Calder Cinema 1

12:30 PM On Location: Environmental Programme Cinema 3

4:30 PM The Pa Boys Cinema 3

2:00 PM Australia Spotlight II: Bedevil Cinema 4

5:30 PM Trick or Treaty?

Cinema 1

3:30 PM indigiTALKS: Following that Moment Cinema 3

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26

5:30 PM Sol Cinema 4 6:00 PM New Wave: Canadian Shorts Programme Cinema 3 12:15 PM Wapikoni 10 ans/Years Cinema 3

7:30 PM Cinema Sisters: Women’s Program Cinema 3

8:45 PM Australia Spotlight III: The Darkside Cinema 3

10:00 AM My Legacy Cinema 3 11:00 AM Australia IV: Digital Dreamtime Cinema 6 12:00 PM Script Lab Live Reading Cinema 1 12:15 PM Depth of Field: International Shorts Cinema 3

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1:15 PM Among Ravens Cinema 4

8:00 PM Olga - To My Friends Cinema 4

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

9:45 PM A White Day Cinema 3

12:00 AM ACTION!: Activist Shorts Cinema 3

3:45 PM Australia Spotlight VI: Shorts Curated by Pauline Claque Cinema 4

11:15 PM The Witching Hour: Late Nights Shorts Programme Cinema 3

8:00 PM Drunktown’s Finest Cinema 4

11:00 AM Sumé - The Sound of a Revolution Cinema 4

1:55 PM Australia Spotlight V: Black Panther Woman Cinema 3

3:00 PM Australia Spotlight I: Shorts Curated by Rachel Perkins.

Cinema 3 5:15 PM The Lodge Cinema 3

2:30 PM Available Light: Shorts Programme Cinema 3

6:30 PM Closing Night Gala: The Embargo Collective II Cinema 1 This landmark project – commissioned in celebration of imagineNATIVE’s 15th anniversary – presents five new short films by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Lisa Jackson, Caroline Monnet and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers. These incredible shorts are not to be missed 8:30 PM Award Winners Screening I Cinema 6

SPECIAL EVENTS

All exhibitions take place at 401 Richmond unless otherwise noted. All Exhibitions are FREE.

Welcome Gathering Wednesday, Oct 22, 2:00-4:00pm Native Canadian Centre of Toronto

INDUSTRY SERIES: WORKSHOPS + PANELS

Enjoy food, performances and local craft vendors!

Presented by The Harold Greenberg Fund TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West), Studio A&B unless otherwise noted

Trove: Unearthing the Embargo Collective II Curated by Rebecca Baird Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Lisa Jackson, Caroline Monnet and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC) Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 122 October 18 to November 15, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 6:30–8:30pm Artists & Curator Talk: 7:30pm

9:00 AM Telefilm’s Micro Budget Programme: Films in Progress TIFF Lightbox Learning Studio A&B

imagineNATIVE brings in industry leaders to facilitate and present over 14 outstanding industry events about the art, craft and business of film and media arts from an Indigenous perspective.

imagineNATIVE’s Art Crawl Friday, Oct 24, 5:00–8:30pm 401 Richmond Street West (no ticket necessary, entrance based on capacity)

RECAST Curated by Lisa Myers Bev Koski, Christian Chapman, including new edited works by Sébastien Aubin and Caroline Monnet, Marja Bål Nango and Nathan Young Gallery 44, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120 October 24 to November 22, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 6:00–8:00pm Artists & Curator Talk: Friday, October 24, 7:00pm

Regular Screenings

$7

$7

Closing Night Gala

$7

$7

Awards Show FREE (see below for info on free tickets)

FREE

imagineNATIVE’s 15th Birthday Party

$10

$10

All regular screenings from Thursday, October 23 to Sunday, October 26 before 6pm are FREE to Seniors/Students with ID/Underemployed.

Tickets must be picked up in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office one day prior to the screening.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Opening Night Party Wednesday, Oct 22, 9:00pm–2:00am The Everleigh $12 (FREE to Opening Night Gala Ticket Holders and Pass Holders) 19+

ICE FISHING

By Jordan Bennett Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 October 22 to 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 5:30–7:30pm Artist Talk: Friday, October 24, 6:30pm

/ Underemployed

Presented by:

EXHIBITIONS

I:ke - I have motion Curated by Lee-Ann Martin Rebecca Belmore, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Faye HeavyShield, Qavavau Manumie, Meryl McMaster, Nadia Myre, Jeffrey Thomas A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 September 23 to November 1, 2014 Reception: Friday, October 24, 5:00–7:00pm Artists & Curator Talk: Friday, October 24, 5:30pm

Seniors / Students with ID

Find all our programming info at www.imaginenative.org or app.

FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

All screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox at King & John (350 King St. W) unless otherwise stated. All events are as listed.

Regular

Presenting Sponsor:

10:15 AM Digital Co-Productions: The Future of International Media Arts Collaborations TIFF Lightbox Learning Studio A&B

Coded Territories Book Launch Friday, October 24, 11:00am Ryerson Image Centre

12:00 PM Short Documentary Pitch Competition Cinema 4

Celebrate the launch of imagineNATIVE’s first book, commissioned by Ryerson Image Gallery and published by University of Calgary Press.

Presenting Sponsor:

Platinum:

(A TRIBE CALLED RED)

Cris Derksen & Red Pepper Spectacle Arts

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY IN CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTS!

4:15 PM The Future of Indigenous Social Justice Docs TIFF Founder’s Lounge

AWARDS SHOW AND B’DAY PARTY Awards Show Saturday, Oct 25, 8:00 pm Revival (Tickets can be obtained at our Festival Box Office)

Featuring DJ BEAR WITNESS

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE 15 YEARS OF INCREDIBLE INDIGENOUS MEDIA ART! imagineNATIVE’S 15TH BIRTHDAY PARTY IS THE FESTIVAL’S BIGGEST BASH!

STRIKE A POSE IN OUR PHOTO BOOTH!

1:30 PM Mastersclass: Warwick Thornton: The Complete Storyteller TIFF Founder’s Lounge

1:30 PM Short Drama Pitch Competition Cinema 4

$ 1 0 | F R E E FO R D E L EG AT E PA S S H O L D E R S | 1 9 +

WIN FABULOUS PRIZES

10:30 AM Indigenous Production Masterclass TIFF Founder’s Lounge

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

SAT 9:00PM - 1:00AM | HART HOUSE, GREAT HALL

With Special Guest

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 9:00 AM APTN’s Terms of Trade Update TIFF Founder’s Lounge

Join us on our annual art crawl of Festival exhibitions featuring contemporary Indigenous media art.

FILM + MED IA ARTS FESTIVAL

Gold:

Silver:

Bronze:

Join superstar host Candy Palmater, star of APTN’s The Candy Show Show, as we honour the winners of this year’s prizes. Over $20,000 in cash and in-kind services will be awarded by this year’s Sun Jury and Moon Jury.

BC Producers’ Branch

Media:

imagineNATIVE’s 15th BIRTHDAY PARTY Saturday, Oct 25, Doors Open at 9:00 pm, Design Exchange $10, ages 19+

Public Funders:

Community Partners:

an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario

Miziwe Bliik

Join us to celebrate 15 years of incredible Indigenous media art at the Festival’s biggest bash! Featuring DJ Bear Witness (A Tribe Called Red) and Cris Derkson! Win fabulous prizes and enjoy a complimentary birthday cupcake and a glass of bubbly!

Mentorship Partners:

Festival Hotel:

Hospitality Partners:

No’kmaq Village

9:00 PM Award Winners Screening II Cinema 4

Advertisement

Foundations:

Individual Donors:

Ontario Trillium Foundation | CJ Foundation | The McLean Foundation | Dreamcatcher Foundation

Air Born Productions Inc., Shelagh Rogers, Gisèle Gordon, Dana Claxton, Andre Morriseau, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Brenda Darling and Ian Gilmour, Charlotte Engel, Andrew Johnson, Daniel David Moses, Wendy Pearson, Michelle St John, Louanne Chan, Dennis Rudd in memory of Rebecca Schafer, Jonathan Bylok and all our anonymous donors.

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$7

#iN15th

Presenting Sponsor:

ANDROID

imagineNATIVE .org

IPHONE

OCT. 2 2-26 , 2014

ONLY PER SCREENING!

$7 FOR REGULAR SCREENING TICKETS Screening Presenter:

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS

Sunday, October 26, 2014 6:30pm TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square 350 King Street West, Cinema 1

The Embargo Collective II Commissioned in celebration of imagineNATIVE’s 15th anniversary, the Festival is thrilled to present as its Closing Night Gala, The Embargo Collective II II, five short films created by five distinguished artists: Caroline Monnet, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Zoe Hopkins and Lisa Jackson.

Come celebrate the best in Indigenous media arts at the 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest showcase of film, video, radio, and new media made by Indigenous people from Canada and around the world!

Download your imagineNATIVE App at Google Play and the iTunes App store!

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 10:00 AM Opening Scene: Youth Shorts I Cinema 3

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 10:00 AM Big Break: Youth Shorts II Cinema 3 11:00 AM This May Be the Last Time Cinema 4

3:00 PM Storytellers Screening Featuring Joseph Boyden, Maria Campbell, Shane Belcourt & Terril Calder Cinema 1

12:30 PM On Location: Environmental Programme Cinema 3

4:30 PM The Pa Boys Cinema 3

2:00 PM Australia Spotlight II: Bedevil Cinema 4

5:30 PM Trick or Treaty?

Cinema 1

3:30 PM indigiTALKS: Following that Moment Cinema 3

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26

5:30 PM Sol Cinema 4 6:00 PM New Wave: Canadian Shorts Programme Cinema 3 12:15 PM Wapikoni 10 ans/Years Cinema 3

7:30 PM Cinema Sisters: Women’s Program Cinema 3

8:45 PM Australia Spotlight III: The Darkside Cinema 3

10:00 AM My Legacy Cinema 3 11:00 AM Australia IV: Digital Dreamtime Cinema 6 12:00 PM Script Lab Live Reading Cinema 1 12:15 PM Depth of Field: International Shorts Cinema 3

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1:15 PM Among Ravens Cinema 4

8:00 PM Olga - To My Friends Cinema 4

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

9:45 PM A White Day Cinema 3

12:00 AM ACTION!: Activist Shorts Cinema 3

3:45 PM Australia Spotlight VI: Shorts Curated by Pauline Claque Cinema 4

11:15 PM The Witching Hour: Late Nights Shorts Programme Cinema 3

8:00 PM Drunktown’s Finest Cinema 4

11:00 AM Sumé - The Sound of a Revolution Cinema 4

1:55 PM Australia Spotlight V: Black Panther Woman Cinema 3

3:00 PM Australia Spotlight I: Shorts Curated by Rachel Perkins.

Cinema 3 5:15 PM The Lodge Cinema 3

2:30 PM Available Light: Shorts Programme Cinema 3

6:30 PM Closing Night Gala: The Embargo Collective II Cinema 1 This landmark project – commissioned in celebration of imagineNATIVE’s 15th anniversary – presents five new short films by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Lisa Jackson, Caroline Monnet and Elle-Maija Tailfeathers. These incredible shorts are not to be missed 8:30 PM Award Winners Screening I Cinema 6

SPECIAL EVENTS

All exhibitions take place at 401 Richmond unless otherwise noted. All Exhibitions are FREE.

Welcome Gathering Wednesday, Oct 22, 2:00-4:00pm Native Canadian Centre of Toronto

INDUSTRY SERIES: WORKSHOPS + PANELS

Enjoy food, performances and local craft vendors!

Presented by The Harold Greenberg Fund TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West), Studio A&B unless otherwise noted

Trove: Unearthing the Embargo Collective II Curated by Rebecca Baird Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Zoe Leigh Hopkins, Lisa Jackson, Caroline Monnet and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Women’s Art Resource Centre (WARC) Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 122 October 18 to November 15, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 6:30–8:30pm Artists & Curator Talk: 7:30pm

9:00 AM Telefilm’s Micro Budget Programme: Films in Progress TIFF Lightbox Learning Studio A&B

imagineNATIVE brings in industry leaders to facilitate and present over 14 outstanding industry events about the art, craft and business of film and media arts from an Indigenous perspective.

imagineNATIVE’s Art Crawl Friday, Oct 24, 5:00–8:30pm 401 Richmond Street West (no ticket necessary, entrance based on capacity)

RECAST Curated by Lisa Myers Bev Koski, Christian Chapman, including new edited works by Sébastien Aubin and Caroline Monnet, Marja Bål Nango and Nathan Young Gallery 44, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120 October 24 to November 22, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 6:00–8:00pm Artists & Curator Talk: Friday, October 24, 7:00pm

Regular Screenings

$7

$7

Closing Night Gala

$7

$7

Awards Show FREE (see below for info on free tickets)

FREE

imagineNATIVE’s 15th Birthday Party

$10

$10

All regular screenings from Thursday, October 23 to Sunday, October 26 before 6pm are FREE to Seniors/Students with ID/Underemployed.

Tickets must be picked up in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Box Office one day prior to the screening.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Opening Night Party Wednesday, Oct 22, 9:00pm–2:00am The Everleigh $12 (FREE to Opening Night Gala Ticket Holders and Pass Holders) 19+

ICE FISHING

By Jordan Bennett Trinity Square Video, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376 October 22 to 31, 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, October 24, 5:30–7:30pm Artist Talk: Friday, October 24, 6:30pm

/ Underemployed

Presented by:

EXHIBITIONS

I:ke - I have motion Curated by Lee-Ann Martin Rebecca Belmore, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Faye HeavyShield, Qavavau Manumie, Meryl McMaster, Nadia Myre, Jeffrey Thomas A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110 September 23 to November 1, 2014 Reception: Friday, October 24, 5:00–7:00pm Artists & Curator Talk: Friday, October 24, 5:30pm

Seniors / Students with ID

Find all our programming info at www.imaginenative.org or app.

FILM + MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

All screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox at King & John (350 King St. W) unless otherwise stated. All events are as listed.

Regular

Presenting Sponsor:

10:15 AM Digital Co-Productions: The Future of International Media Arts Collaborations TIFF Lightbox Learning Studio A&B

Coded Territories Book Launch Friday, October 24, 11:00am Ryerson Image Centre

12:00 PM Short Documentary Pitch Competition Cinema 4

Celebrate the launch of imagineNATIVE’s first book, commissioned by Ryerson Image Gallery and published by University of Calgary Press.

Presenting Sponsor:

Platinum:

(A TRIBE CALLED RED)

Cris Derksen & Red Pepper Spectacle Arts

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY IN CELEBRATION OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA ARTS!

4:15 PM The Future of Indigenous Social Justice Docs TIFF Founder’s Lounge

AWARDS SHOW AND B’DAY PARTY Awards Show Saturday, Oct 25, 8:00 pm Revival (Tickets can be obtained at our Festival Box Office)

Featuring DJ BEAR WITNESS

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE 15 YEARS OF INCREDIBLE INDIGENOUS MEDIA ART! imagineNATIVE’S 15TH BIRTHDAY PARTY IS THE FESTIVAL’S BIGGEST BASH!

STRIKE A POSE IN OUR PHOTO BOOTH!

1:30 PM Mastersclass: Warwick Thornton: The Complete Storyteller TIFF Founder’s Lounge

1:30 PM Short Drama Pitch Competition Cinema 4

$ 1 0 | F R E E FO R D E L EG AT E PA S S H O L D E R S | 1 9 +

WIN FABULOUS PRIZES

10:30 AM Indigenous Production Masterclass TIFF Founder’s Lounge

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

SAT 9:00PM - 1:00AM | HART HOUSE, GREAT HALL

With Special Guest

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 9:00 AM APTN’s Terms of Trade Update TIFF Founder’s Lounge

Join us on our annual art crawl of Festival exhibitions featuring contemporary Indigenous media art.

FILM + MED IA ARTS FESTIVAL

Gold:

Silver:

Bronze:

Join superstar host Candy Palmater, star of APTN’s The Candy Show Show, as we honour the winners of this year’s prizes. Over $20,000 in cash and in-kind services will be awarded by this year’s Sun Jury and Moon Jury.

BC Producers’ Branch

Media:

imagineNATIVE’s 15th BIRTHDAY PARTY Saturday, Oct 25, Doors Open at 9:00 pm, Design Exchange $10, ages 19+

Public Funders:

Community Partners:

an Ontario government agency un organisme du gouvernement de l’Ontario

Miziwe Bliik

Join us to celebrate 15 years of incredible Indigenous media art at the Festival’s biggest bash! Featuring DJ Bear Witness (A Tribe Called Red) and Cris Derkson! Win fabulous prizes and enjoy a complimentary birthday cupcake and a glass of bubbly!

Mentorship Partners:

Festival Hotel:

Hospitality Partners:

No’kmaq Village

9:00 PM Award Winners Screening II Cinema 4

Advertisement

Foundations:

Individual Donors:

Ontario Trillium Foundation | CJ Foundation | The McLean Foundation | Dreamcatcher Foundation

Air Born Productions Inc., Shelagh Rogers, Gisèle Gordon, Dana Claxton, Andre Morriseau, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Brenda Darling and Ian Gilmour, Charlotte Engel, Andrew Johnson, Daniel David Moses, Wendy Pearson, Michelle St John, Louanne Chan, Dennis Rudd in memory of Rebecca Schafer, Jonathan Bylok and all our anonymous donors.

NOW october 23-29 2014

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house/minimal/sonic) 10 pm. wrongBar Boombox Toronto DJ Andy Smith, Paul E Lopes doors 10 pm.

lula lounge Lula All Stars (salsa) 10:30 pm.

MaCkenzie’s annex Rebas Open Mic Jim

Saturday, October 25

sT niCholas angliCan ChurCh Healing Gar-

alleyCaTz Lady Kane.

Bovine sex CluB Poppy Seed & the Love Ex-

den Music Festival Caitlin Hanford, Wendell Ferguson, Kelli Trottier, and others 8 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Rock Paper Scissors 10 pm, Scott By Sympathy 6:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Cavern Bar Run, This Side Down, Lisa Marie

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

BlakBird Terry Logan’s Unit.

Carr Building Motets With Symphonies: An

Italian House Concert For A Venetian Prince Of The Church The Musicians in Ordinary (17thcentury English songs) 8 pm.

The Flying Beaver PuBareT The Difference A Year Makes Ashley Gibson 9 pm, Daringly Disney Maren Sigson & Adam Proulx 7 pm. gaTe 403 Tiffany Hanus Jazz Band 9 pm, Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. haBiTs gasTroPuB Gord Sheard Trio (jazz) 9 pm.

Jazz BisTro CD release Carol McCartney & band 9 pm. lula lounge Whitney Ross-Barris Trio 7:30 pm. old Mill inn Heather Bambrick Quartet 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosado The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

The rex Joe Sullivan Quintet 9:30 pm, Sara Dell 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

plosion, the Disraelis, Blue Cougars.

Kruchak doors 9 pm.

Charlie’s gallery TWiMFeST Jeremy Murphy Band, Paul Sheppard, Greg Halpin, Port of Call, Philip James,Scotty Bernier 8 pm.

Cherry Cola’s roCk n’ rolla CaBareT and lounge Swaying Tuesdays, RFIM, NLSD (rock) doors 9 pm.

CoMForT zone Vatican Shadow, Jokers of the Scene, Votive w/ Kontravoid doors 9:30 pm. el MoCaMBo Alexz Johnson, Jared and the Mill, Patrick Droney doors 7 pm, all ages. eTon house Who Stole the Cookies? (classic rock) 8 pm.

Boo! Our HallOween Planner is frigHteningly gOOd. See page 27.

royal ConservaTory oF MusiC koerner hall The Royal Conservatory Orchestra 8 pm.

ToronTo CenTre For The arTs lower gallery Cabaret Soiree: The DalyHughes: You’re

Nothing Without Me Michael Hughes & James Daly, Erica Peck, Alessia Lupiano, Alexis Gordon.

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

TriniTy College ChaPel Early Music: Handel Love Duets Suzie Le Blanc, Adrian Butterfield 7:30 pm.

young CenTre For The PerForMing arTs Baillie TheaTre Global Cabaret Series: Amer-

ican Pie Songbook Mike Ross 8:30 pm.

young CenTre For The PerForMing arTs rBC sTudio Global Cabaret Festival: (re) Birth:

EE Cummings In Song Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Raquel Euffy, Ryan Field, Ken MacKenzie, Abena Malika, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall 10 pm.

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tival: Patricia O’Callaghan Sings Cohen 10 pm, Global Cabaret Festival: Hank Williams Songbook Colin Couch, Tina Kiik, John Millard, Ambrose Pottie, Tom Walsh 7 pm.

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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

array sPaCe eVoid Collective Dance Jam (avant/dance/improvised) 7:30 pm.

BlaCk eagle SIN DJ John Cafferty (deep house/nu disco) 10 pm.5

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

The Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60 mod Brit

pop).

CoaliTion lounge Loose Off The Goose (hip-

hop/EDM/top 40) 10:30 pm.

Coda Carlo Lio, Shaded, Chris Larsen doors 10 pm.

The danForTh MusiC hall The Glitch Mob, the M Machine, Chrome Sparks 8 pm. eMMeT ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm. holy oak CaFe DJ LP (obscure electronic) 10 pm.

The hoxTon Snakehips, Stwo, Elaquent, Ango doors 10 pm.

The PisTon Dutty Choppa Chop, T’Dizzler, GSpot (reggae dancehall) 10:30 pm. ravage and ruMBle Flashback Fridays DJ NaNa 10 pm. rivoli Pool lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). sound aCadeMy solariuM ReggaeCafe Renegade Squad, Whitebwoy, Fire Kid Steenie, Marxman w/ Dirty Dez, DJ Phatkat, DJ Jagz.

The sTeady CaFe & Bar Me+Physical Party Valued Customer, Leroy, NTMG, DJ Discrete (deep house/free jazz/electronic/micro-

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The greaT hall The Canadian ñ Songbook Oh Susanna

8 pm. See preview, page 46. holy oak CaFe Boybitch, Valkyrie 1984, Simple Chemistry, Deeper Arcades (80s synth) 10 pm. horseshoe The Reigning Sound, Undead Telly Savalas, Catl, Pow Wows, DJ Chico doors 9 pm. See preview, page 42. lee’s PalaCe Courtney Barnett, San Fermin, Mikhael Paskalev doors 9 pm. See Paskalev album review, page 54. linsMore Tavern Simply Queen (Queen tribute) 9:30 pm.

The loCal Chris Staig & the Marquee Players 9 pm.

MagPie TaProoM TWiMFeST Gypsy Chief Goliath, Ol’Time Moonshine, Royal Creatures, Connoisseurs of Porn, the Locusts Have No King, Chaos Monkeys 8 pm.

Massey hall Dream Serenade: benefit for Beverley Street School Barenaked Ladies, Feist, Hayden, Sarah Harmer, Matt Berninger & Aaron Dessner, Kevin Hearn, Jason Collett, Lou Canon, Billy Talent, Grey Lands 7 pm.

Milk glass Co PPOP Presents Stüka, New Zebra Kid, Bile Sister 9:30 pm. oPera house Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd Show-The Wall & Dark Side Of The Moon doors 7 pm.

Press CluB aBabe Music The Darling Knights, the Histrionics, the Autumn Portrait (indie rock) 9:30 pm. ranCho relaxo TWiMFeST Zords, the Rogue Satellites, Diamond Bones, Forgotten Fix, Erik Lind & the Orchard, Carnival Moon, Give Me Something Beautiful 8 pm.

The rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. silver dollar Meatbodies, Purling Hiss, Homeshake doors 9 pm. See Homeshake album review, page 54. sony CenTre For The PerForMing arTs The Wynners (Hong Kong pop) 8 pm. souThside Johnny’s Dunn w/ Dee Flat (rock/ top 40) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. svg lounge Modern Warfare III Love People, Super Gold, Brimstone Gold.

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CasTro’s lounge Big Rude Jake 4:30 pm.

C’esT whaT The Boxcar Boys (old-time/folk) 3

pm.

Free TiMes CaFe Suzanne Jarvie (folk) 8 pm.

Full oF Beans CoFFee Kids Open Stage 2 to 4 pm.

gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. gerrard arT sPaCe Grand Re-opening Party The Woodshed Orchestra, the Uplifters 8 to 11 pm. gladsTone hoTel Melody Bar Kristin Lindell (folk/country) 9 pm. grossMan’s The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues). haBiTs gasTroPuB Crooked House Road 9 pm. hugh’s rooM The Silver Hearts.

The loCal Irish Session David Meenan 5 pm.

RAVEN SHIELDS

Amar 2 to 6 pm.

allianCe Française sPadina Liz McComb 8:30 pm.

array sPaCe CD release See Through Trio (avant-garde jazz/psych folk) 8 pm. ñ Chalkers PuB Don Thompson & Reg

Schwager Duo 6 to 9 pm.

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aTre U of T Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Polese (soprano) 7:30 pm.

The Flying Beaver PuBareT Anyone Can Whistle Devon Hubka w/ Matthew Craig (cabaret) 7 pm. gaTe 403 John Deehan Jazz Band 9 pm. grossMan’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Jazz BisTro John Abercrombie Quartet 9 pm, Jazz Brunch Steve Amirault 11:30 am.

MusideuM Francine Hailman & Rick Maltese (jzz) 8 pm. naisa sPaCe SOUNDplay Series: Sound Visions Ian Jarvis, Sarah Peebles, Linda Antas, João Pedro Oliveira 8 pm. old Mill inn Denny Christianson Quartet 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosado Bradley & the Bouncers (swing).

The rex Bob Brough 9:30 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7:30 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet +2 3:30 pm. roy ThoMson hall Young People’s Concerts: Symphonic Spooks 2 & 4 pm. royal ConservaTory oF MusiC koerner hall RCM Season Gala Concert Sir James Galway & Lady Jeanne Galway (flautists) 8 pm.

sT TiMoThy angliCan ChurCh Fundraiser for

Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers To Grandmothers Campaign Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir, Loril Shennik 7:30 pm.

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

Toni Bulloni Sam Broverman, Mark Kieswetter (jazz) 9 pm.

ToronTo CenTre For The arTs Tchaikovsky Irmina Trynkos, Sinfonia Toronto (violin).

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Cabaret Soiree: In Good Company Mark Cassius & Lisa Atkinson, Renee Stein. yorkMinsTer Park BaPTisT ChurCh Shining Night: A Celebration Of Morten Lauridsen’s Choral Music The MacMillan Singers, Yorkminster Park Choir 7:30 pm.

T.O. music nOTes BELLJAR FILMS

Residents of Dundas West and Roncey know the treasure that is the Belljar Cafe, but music fans citywide should also take note. The cafe at 2072 Dundas West has been filming concerts on their small stage for the past year, including one with legend and neighbour Daniel Lanois, plus Raven Shields, Clinton St. John and others. Belljar owner Lisa Kannakko is also a filmmaker and photographer. “The café is a family business,” she says, “and filming these shows is a way to give back to our community.” Visit belljarcafe.com for a look-see.

NXNE CHANGE-UP NXNE director of operations Mike Tanner has bid adieu to the annual music festival and conference to slip into the newly created position of music officer for the city of Toronto. “I’m leaving behind an extraordinary organization run by wonderful people,” says Tanner. “But I’m excited to do whatever I can to help bring the music industry and City Hall together to make Toronto the best place possible to work in music while growing our city’s reputation as one of the world’s top music cities.” Onward and upward, Mike!

GET YOUR RADIO VOICE ON

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It’s too late to apply to be the “Voice of Indie88” – the person who announces things in between songs – but you can still vote for your favourite of the five finalists: Jennifer Mercer, Chris Simon, Guillermo Albert, Lauren Wing and Liam Gadsby. Listen to their auditions and vote online at indie88.com. The winner will be announced on Monday (October 27).

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Baillie TheaTre Global Cabaret Festival: Gershwin Songbook John Alcorn 9:30 pm, Global Cabaret Series: American Pie Songbook Mike Ross 3:45 pm.

EE Cummings In Song Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Raquel Euffy, Ryan Field, Ken MacKenzie, Abena Malika, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall 6:45 & 9:30 pm.

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Cabaret Festival Denzal Sinclaire 7 pm, Global Cabaret Festival: Webster’s Opera Corner Nicole Bellamy, Derek Boyes, Diego Catala, Ryan Harper, Teiya Kasahara and others 5:30 pm.

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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

The Cave Full On Alternative DJ Pat. CelT’s PuB Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness Vis-

ible (gothic/dark alternative/retro) 10:30 pm.

ClassiC lounge Island Rave doors 10 pm.

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

CoaliTion lounge Love Sexy Saturday DJ LB,

Wanna see Iggy Pop in a film by a Toronto producer? Jeff Rogers is working hard to raise $250,000 to make Dario Argento’s thriller The Sandman, starring the leathery godfather of punk. Some may know Rogers as the former booker at the Drake, founder of Handsome Boy Records and rock band manager for Crash Test Dummies, the Pursuit of Happiness, Randy Bachman and many others. As producer for the film, about a masked serial killer who steals eyes as trophies, Rogers is spearheading an Indiegogo campaign with donor perks that include spending a day on set and being in a scene (for $25,000), an executive producer credit (also $25,000), a guided set visit and dinner with Iggy or Argento ($10,000) and other treats for less dough. igg.me/p/929216 DJ Sure Shot (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10 pm.

Coda James Zabiela, Simon Jain, Alberto Jossue, Casualties of Sound doors 10 pm. eMMeT ray Bar DJ Serious (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. ePiC lounge Rock Sin Banderas 3ER Piso, Akiles, Cardboard Crown, Nakidread, DJ Merlina doors 9 pm.

Fly 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 The garrison Turning Point A Man Called Warwick, Saikou & the Rainforest Drummers doors 10 pm. harT house greaT hall imagineNATIVE’s 15th Birthday Party DJ Bear Witness 9 pm. lou dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hip-hop). rivoli Footprints DJs Jason Palma & General Eclectic doors 10 pm. round venue Hip, Hip, Hooray! Cabaret DJ

Davey Booom (belly dance party/showcase) doors 6:30 pm.

TaBoo Fire & Ice 6 JimmiFreshh, DJ Auzzie Skratch doors 10 pm. velveT underground Panic Halloween Retro Party. whiTe elePhanT Bar Toastr! DJ Sticky Cuts, DJ Recklezz doors 9:30 pm.

Sunday, October 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

BlakBird Clifton Joseph, Negus & the Platinum Records Crew.

The danForTh MusiC hall Little Machines Tour Lights, Rush Midnight doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Venue Index adeLaide HaLL 250 adelaide W. aLLeycaTz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. aLLiance française sPadina 24 spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. array sPace 155 Walnut. 416-532-3019. axis gaLLery & griLL 3048 Dundas W. 416-6043333.

THe BaLLeT 277a ossington.

Bar radio 615 college. 416-516-3237.

Beaver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768.

BLacK Bear PuB 1125 o’connor. 416-752-5182.

BLacK eagLe 457 church. 416-413-1219.

BLaKBird 812b Bloor W. 647-344-7225.

BoaT 158 augusta. 416-593-9218.

Bovine sex cLuB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

BrooKLynn Bar 1186 Queen W. 416-536-7700.

Bunda Lounge 1108 Dundas W. cadiLLac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. caPLansKy’s 356 college. 416-500-3852. carr BuiLding 100 st Joseph. casa Loma 1 austin terrace. 416-923-1171. casTro’s Lounge 2116 Queen e. 416-699-8272.

THe cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598. cavern Bar 76 church. 416-971-4440. ceLT’s PuB 2872 Dundas W. 416-766-4421. c’esT wHaT 67 Front e. 416-867-9499. cHaLKers PuB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. cHarLie’s gaLLery 112 Harbord. 416-961-2828. cHerry coLa’s rocK n’ roLLa caBareT and Lounge 200 Bathurst. cHinese cuLTuraL cenTre 5183 sheppard e.

416-292-9293. cLassic Lounge 30 Beverly Hills. 647-340-1503. cLinTon’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cLuB 120 120 church. coaLiTion Lounge 349a college. 416-832-9331. coda 794 Bathurst. come and geT iT! 676 Queen W. 647-344-3416. comforT zone 480 spadina. 416-975-0909. crawford 718 college. 416-530-1633. daKoTa Tavern 249 ossington. 416-850-4579.

THe danforTH music HaLL 147 Danforth. 416778-8163. dora KeogH 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. drums n fLaTs 1980 avenue Rd. 647-347-9474. duffy’s Tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330.

THe duKe Live.com 1225 Queen e. 416-4635302. edward JoHnson BuiLding 80 Queen’s Park.

416-978-3744.

eL mocamBo 464 spadina. 647-748-6969. emmeT ray Bar 924 college. 416-792-4497. ePic Lounge 1355 st clair W. 416-792-9382. eTon House 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. firsT canadian PLace 1 First canadian Pl. 416862-8138. fLaTo marKHam THeaTre 171 town centre Blvd (Markham). 905-305-7469. fLy 2.0 6 gloucester. 416-925-6222.

THe fLying Beaver PuBareT 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567. four seasons cenTre for THe Performing arTs 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. free Times cafe 320 college. 416-967-1078. fuLL of Beans coffee 1348 Dundas W. 647-3474161. gaLLery 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781.

THe garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gaTe 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. gerrard arT sPace 1475 gerrard e. 416-7780923. gLadsTone HoTeL 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

THe greaT HaLL 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossman’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernmenT 132 Queens Quay e. 416-8690045.

HaBiTs gasTroPuB 928 college. 416-533-7272.

HarT House 7 Hart House circle. 416-978-8849.

HiruT fine eTHioPian cuisine 2050 Danforth.

416-551-7560.

HoLy BLossom TemPLe 1950 Bathurst. 416-7893291.

HoLy oaK cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

HorsesHoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753.

THe HoxTon 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321.

HugH’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. izaKaya susHi House 294 college. 416-5516264.

Jane maLLeTT THeaTre 27 Front e. 416-366-7723.

Jazz BisTro 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299.

JoHnny JacKson 587 college.

Kama 214 king W. 416-599-5262.

KensingTon marKeT kensington s of college.

Lee’s PaLace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

LiBerTy grand 25 British columbia. 416-6423789.

Linsmore Tavern 1298 Danforth. 416-466-5130.

Living arTs cenTre 4141 Living arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000.

THe Loaded dog 1921 Lawrence e. 416-9010662.

THe LocaL 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

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LoLa 40 kensington. 416-348-8645.

Lou dawg’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294.

Lou dawg’s ryerson 76 gerrard e. 647-3493294.

Lucy’s seafood KiTcHen 6905 Millcreek. 905567-8950.

LuLa Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. macKenzie’s annex 469 Bloor W. 647-3405890. magPie TaProom 831 Dundas W. 647-350-8305. massey HaLL 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. mcgradies TaP and griLL 2167 Victoria Park.

416-449-1212. mezzeTTa 681 st clair W. 416-658-5687. miLK gLass co 1247 Dundas W. 416-536-6455. monarcH Tavern 12 clinton. 416-531-5833. monarcHs PuB 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. monTgomery’s inn 4709 Dundas W. 416-3948113. morgans on THe danforTH 1282 Danforth.

416-461-3020. music gaLLery 197 John. 416-204-1080. musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. naisa sPace 601 christie, studio 252. 416-6525115. nawLins Jazz Bar 299 king W. 416-595-1958. noT my dog 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. oLd miLL inn 21 old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. oLd nicK 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. onLy café 972 Danforth. 416-463-7843. oPera House 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. oPTicianado 2919 Dundas W. 416-604-2020.

PainTBox BisTro 555 Dundas e. 647-748-0555.

THe PainTed Lady 218 ossington. 647-2135239.

PHoenix concerT THeaTre 410 sherbourne.

416-323-1251.

THe PisTon 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

Press cLuB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. rancHo reLaxo 300 college. 416-920-0366. raTio 283 college. ravage and rumBLe 1378 Queen W. 416-5885105. remenyi House of music 210 Bloor W. rePosado 136 ossington. 416-532-6474.

THe rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. ricHmond HiLL cenTre for THe Performing arTs 10268 yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. rivoLi 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. rose THeaTre 1 theatre Lane (Brampton). 905874-2800. round venue 152a augusta. 416-451-6346.

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casTro’s Lounge Watch This Sound (rare/ vintage ska/reggae/dub vinyl) 9 pm.

Monday, October 27 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

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A U R O R A (Mute) Rating: Australian electronic music composer Ben Frost has been based in Iceland since 2005, but his fifth solo album was mostly written in the war-torn Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo while collaborating on a video installation with photographer Richard Mosse. Influenced by both the horrors of war and the looming threat of a nearby active volcano, A U R O R A is every bit as terrifying and brutal as those inspirations suggest, but also oddly hypnotic and contemplative.

If you’re not already familiar with Frost’s work, you can get a good idea of his approach from his previous collaborations: he’s worked with noise pioneers Swans, ambient grandfather Brian Eno and Montreal-based experimentalists Tim Hecker and Colin Stetson.

This time around, he’s traded the treated guitars and pianos of his earlier work for percussion and synthesizers, combining classical minimalism with the crushing sensory overload of doom: eerie drones, distorted walls of noise, layers of echoing drums and the occasional glimpse of a haunting melody.

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(Atlantic) Rating: NNN You might not recognize his name, but you’ve definitely heard his song. It was everywhere last summer: in the dentist’s office, your girlfriend’s apartment, that indie radio station. The ukulele-driven, twee-pop song Riptide got Aussie singer/ songwriter Vance Joy (aka James Keogh) a five-album deal with Atlantic.

Dream Your Life Away rides the wave of his breakout single while mostly sticking to the nu-folk formula that bands like Mumford & Sons have turned into a gold mine: open with a wistful guitar melody, add a dash of percussion (quick drumming, shakers, handclaps), follow with heart-shredding drama via swelling piano and violins, slow it back down and end with a bang – Keogh howling about love and loss. Songs like Winds Of Change and Mess Is Mine aren’t exactly original, but they’re damn catchy. When Keogh does stray from the formula though – kneeslapping folk or acoustic slow burners – the results are forgettable.

Top track: Winds Of Change Vance Joy plays two shows (5 pm, all ages; and 8 pm, 19+) at the Phoenix on November 1.

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(Paper Bag) Rating: NNN “Soon enough, work and love will make a man out of you” goes the line from the Constantines’ Soon Enough, possibly the inspiration for the title of Elliott Brood’s fifth full-length album. Even if it’s not, it’s still a fitting moniker, given how drastically more mature the band sounds on this powerful nine-track effort.

Lead singer Mark Sasso’s perpetually raspy vocals are packed with even more gravel, and he’s wise with years of experience, doling out advice on horn-infused, totally danceable Mission Bell. Taken, meanwhile, rises slowly toward a grandiose climax, and continues to haunt after

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In The Shower (Sinderlyn) Rating: Homeshake is Montreal’s Peter Sagar, the touring guitarist for Mac DeMarco and recipient of the junior jazz artist of the year award in high school in hometown Edmonton. Both of these backstories are alluded to on his sophomore album, In The Shower.

Influenced by Canada’s icy landscapes, Sagar’s brand of lo-fi indie pop feels like taking a hot bath after a day spent walking through the city in ankle-high slush.

Each song possesses the tender groove of quick-handed drums, velvety warm bass lines and easygoing vocals. But each is also rife with non sequiturs like weird synth effects or slow-mo spoken intros. The Shower Scene, for example, opens with sensual cooing, backed by the sound of flowing water that eventually transforms into applause. There’s a sense of humour to it all, as in the work of bedfellow DeMarco, that doesn’t detract from the songs but actually enhances them.

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Sayonara Saigon (Mom + Pop) Rating: With his debut North American EP – a hybrid of songs previously released overseas – Norwegian-Bulgarian singer/songwriter Mikhael Paskalev delivers a catchy slice of smartly written guitar pop. Sayonara Saigon has a lo-fi retro feel, drawing on 50s rock, 60s pop and Paul Simon. A good singer and a great expresser, Paskalev croons, shouts and gently warbles.

Harmonica is the perfect ingredient on dancey opener I Spy; Paskalev shows off his guitar chops on folkie love ode Susie; while Jailhouse Talk lilts with elements of the blues.

Befitting the era of Paskalev’s influences, the title track is a sad poem about the Vietnam War, a slow-build with female harmonies that abruptly increases tempo at the three-minute mark. It’s a perfect example of what Paskalev does throughout: somehow, he makes downer tunes sound chipper – sometimes to unnerving effect. “Sayonara Saigon,” he sings over a too-sprightly beat, “so long, everyone.”

Top track: Sayonara Saigon Mikhael Paskalev plays Lee’s Palace Saturday (October 25).

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Hip-hop

THE GAME Blood Moon: The Year Of The Wolf (Blood Money/eOne) Rating: NNN The Game’s career has been marred by his notoriously temperamental nature, inconsistency and an overwhelming “what could have been” feeling. On his sixth studio album, the Compton native stays true to form – flashes of brilliance mixed with the cringeworthy blunders that often make it hard to take the 34-year-old emcee seriously.

He’s snarling while recounting his career ups and downs on Bigger Than Me, unfiltered and poignant on The Purge, and technically skilful on Hit Em Hard. But the album’s missteps are obvious: romantic radio-bait On One sounds particularly outof-date; Best Head Ever (and its grotesquely lascivious interlude) should have been left on the cutting-room floor; and Take That feels numb and emotionless.

Like his previous releases, the record is unwieldy and features too many guests. But like the rapper, who is occasionally compelling despite seeming to do everything in his power not to be, the album is mostly enjoyable – in spite of itself.

Top track: The Purge JORDAN SOWUNMI

Dance

KIESZA Sound Of A Woman (Universal)

Rating: NNN At first, a lot about Calgary-bred dancepop star Kiesza’s debut album seems overwrought – the sung-to-the-hilt throaty vocals of the first few tracks (including smash single Hideaway), the stubborn dedication to mid-90s music throughout.

And lyrics in dance music aren’t always deep and meaningful, but the repetitive pounding of “If we could all fall in love together, we’d have no enemies” on No Enemiesz – yes, with a “z” – seems extra fromage.

But eventually, subtleties and variety emerge. Kiesza’s so much better when she reels back her impressively ranging vocals to buttery, as she does on boom-bapindebted songs Losin’ My Mind featuring Mick Jenkins (too bad the guest rap starts with a three-year-old basketball reference) and sexy, sultry Bad Thing with Joey Bada$$. Like on her previously released EP, a slow piano cover of What Is Love stands out, and Giant In My Heart (with its earworm male vocal) makes you want to create a corresponding dance routine.

Just like you did in the mid-90s.

Top track: Giant In My Heart JL

Folk

LEONARD COHEN Popular Problems (Columbia) Rating: NNN If you’ve seen Leonard Cohen perform live recently, you know he’s still got it: that iconic chocolatey voice delivering poemsongs that are at once sensual, spiritual and sardonic, backed by slick bands and smooth singers.

But on his 13th album – coinciding with the celebration of his 80th birthday – the bard from Montreal makes a questionable decision in getting co-writer Patrick Leonard to produce. The backup vocals that seem de rigueur on all Cohen albums are often unnecessary here and at their worst distracting when sung overtop the main attraction. There are other baffling choices: the saccharine veneer that pops up during the chorus of Did I Ever Love You; the use of drum machines and synths where there could be a real band.

Still, the album has its moments: sad and atmospheric Samson In New Orleans sounds like the old Cohen even as he channels Tom Waits vocally; My Oh My gets a bluesy treatment with horns, slide guitar and (real) drums.

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with ALCINA’S ALLYSON McHARDY • Review of THE ART OF BUILDING A BUNKER • Preview of BELLA: THE COLOUR OF LOVE • Scenes and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings THEATRE REVIEW

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Concord flies CONCORD FLORAL written by Jordan Tannahill, created by Erin Brubacher, Cara Spooner and Tannahill (Suburban Beast/Why Not Theatre). At the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen West). Runs to October 26. $15-$20. 416538-0988. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNNN

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Allyson McHardy cross-dresses as the entranced knight in Alcina By JON KAPLAN

Allyson McHardy plays in the opera

by Handel – her favourite composer.

ALCINA by Handel, directed by Marshall Pynkoski, conducted by David Fallis, with Meghan Lindsay, Allyson McHardy, Wallis Giunta, Mireille Asselin, Olivier Laquerre and Kresimir Spicer. Presented by Opera Atelier at the Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge).

Opens Thursday (October 23) and runs to November 1; schedule at ticketmaster.ca. $38-$181.

1-855-622-2787.

Mezzo Allyson McHardy gets to wear the pants in Handel’s baroque opera Alcina, and she’s happy about that.

She plays Ruggiero, the knight bewitched into falling in love with the enchantress Alcina, whose magical island is filled with animate and inanimate objects, former men she’s discarded as lovers.

“But don’t look for a totally masculine knight,” smiles McHardy. “The director, Marshall Pynkoski, said he cast me for my strengths, and he won’t hide the fact that I’m a woman. The costumes show my curves” Her character isn’t the only instance of cross-dressing in the opera. Ruggiero’s fiancée, Bradamante, comes looking for her lover disguised as her own brother and spends much of the time in that male role. Only when a piece of good magic convinces Ruggiero of the spell he’s under does he turn, a bit

uncomfortably, back to Bradamante.

“He’s such a fop at the start, petulant and childish. His early music is quite angular and not at all robust. As Alcina’s magic wears off and he matures – you might say he returns to reality – he becomes heroic and masculine.”

Caught between two women, Ruggiero has some difficult choices to make. He has to become literally disenchanted before he can make a proper decision.

“Alcina is his every dream come true. At one point she tells him to ‘think of pleasure’ – what man doesn’t want to hear that? But something happens to her with Ruggiero. She actually falls in love.

“If Alcina is the ultimate date, Bradamante is the one he should marry,” smiles McHardy.

“She’s going to be the one for keeps, the one he’ll build his life with, even though the relationship can’t have the excitement and thrills of his time with Alcina.”

McHardy is as fine an actor as she is a singer. She made a big impression in the Canadian Opera Company’s Roberto Devereux and Semele and Tafelmusik’s Hercules.

She admits that she’s “wired to be both a theatre person and a music person. You might say I’m like a hybrid car. It’s the story, I think, that provides the energy to sing the music well.”

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Semele and Hercules are also by Handel, a favourite composer for McHardy. She even programmed part of The Messiah (which she’s singing twice this coming Christmas) for her wedding.

“Handel affects me like no one else. He’s the one I listen to for kicks. The music is expressive, romantic and devastating. It has a clarity that makes it easy to drop into the work’s emotions. If you follow his equivalent of iambic pentameter, you can’t go wrong.

“And what a joy to sing Alcina with the Tafelmusik folks, who really rock. It’s funny, when I talk about baroque music I refer to the orchestra as a band. They’re one entity, not a bunch of instrumentalists. With the cushion of sound it provides, Tafelmusik make the music easy to sing. The musicians hear what you’re doing and smoothly match up with you.”3

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In shows like Post Eden, Jordan Tannahill proved that he really understands suburban teens. He returns to that rich source in Concord Floral, which masterfully blends naturalistic dialogue, poetic lyricism and magic realism.

Working with co-creators and co-directors Erin Brubacher and Cara Spooner, Tannahill plays out the anxieties and memories of 10 teens living near Concord Floral, a real-life abandoned greenhouse in Vaughan that became a party haunt. The script links the building to the villa in Boccaccio’s medieval book The Decameron, to which 10 young people flee to isolate themselves from the Black Death.

Part ghost story, part coming-of-age tale, part examination of school gossip and bullying, the show is buoyed by the writing and the young actors, who not only play the teens but also morph into various animals and birds, a memory-soaked couch and even Concord Floral itself, which bears oral witness to the past and present.

Focused and strong in their roles, the performers, named Teens One to 10, move swiftly from one episode to another, revelling in the discoveries their characters make and the eventual understanding of their actions’ consequences.

The central tale involves two friends (Jessica Munk and Erum Khan) and their involvement with a new student (Jovana Miladinovic), focusing on the seemingly inconsequential loss of a cellphone. Tannahill’s also written some powerful monologues for other characters: a queer guy’s attempts to connect with someone online and a self-exploring woman whose do-the-right-thing brother wants to protect her.

Staged in a field of grass with sharp, suggestive lighting by Kimberly Purtell and an unsettling sound design by Christopher Willes, Concord Floral is an ensemble choral piece that packs a theatrical and emotional punch. It’s also a fine showcase for a new generation JON KAPLAN of actors.

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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-​Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook H = Halloween-related event

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Opening AlciNA by GF Handel (Opera Atelier). A sorceress collects the souls of her lovers and a Christian knight seeks to set them free in this Baroque opera (see story, page 55).

Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $38-$181. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-622-2787, operaatelier.com.

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 to Oct 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.

BANg: les coqueTTes FArewell show (Les Coquettes). The cabaret theatre company performs a final show featuring dance, cirque, live music and elements of burlesque. Oct 2630, Thu and Sun at 7 and 10 pm. $15-$35.

Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

BookworMs by Bernard Farrell (Toronto Irish Players). A women’s book club experiments with inviting the husbands to the gathering, with disastrous results. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, 2 pm. $18-$21, opening night $50. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley.

416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.com.

The cApuleTs ANd The MoNTAgues by Lope de Vega (Theatre Erindale). Based on the same source material as Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, this 17th-century Spanish play comes to a happier conclusion. Previews Oct 23.

Opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 2, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm (and Nov 2). $18, stu/srs $12. Erindale Studio Theatre at UTM, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. theatreerindale.com.

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(Alameda Theatre Company). The final edition of the festival showcasing plays by Canadian Latin American artists features works-inprogress by Martha Batiz, Amanda Parris and Isaac Luy. Oct 23-24, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm. $15, stu $13, pass $25. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-504-7529, alamedatheatre.com.

HdriNk wiTh deATh: A MorBid cABAreT

(Romana Soutus/Christopher Weatherstone).

The dead rise to tell the stories of their untimely ends through songs and storytelling.

Opens Oct 23 and runs to Oct 30, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $18, stu $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. drinkwithdeath.com.

HFrANkeNsTeiN’s Boy by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). This bloody, dieselpunk, gothic romance features puppets, people and dark parlour magic. Previews Oct 23, opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm (and Nov 1, 11:30 pm), Sun 4 pm. $25. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. eldritchtheatre.ca. gloBAl cABAreT FesTivAl (Soulpepper). Cabaret-style shows by Sharron Matthews, Tiina Kiik, Toronto Masque Theatre, Ins Choi, Robert Glumbek and many others. Oct 24-26, see website for schedule. $20-$26, festival pass $63-$120. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

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lAsT dAys (U of T Faculty of Music). The carefree music of pre-war Europe segues into wartime songs of despair, anger and loss in this theatrical commemoration of the centenary of WWI. Oct 29-30, Wed-Thu 7:30 pm, mat Thu 2:30 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Music Room. music.utoronto.ca. les MiserABles by Alain Boublil and ClaudeMichel Schönberg (Etobicoke Musical Productions). An ex-convict seeks redemption and dodges his nemesis in this musical based on the novel. Opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm (and Nov 1). $tba.

Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. 416-248-0410, e-m-p.ca. les ZiNspirés 3d (Théâtre français de Toronto).

Five shows written by teens and reworked and performed by professionals will be presented in French with English surtitles. Opens Oct 24 and runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $18-$25, limited pwyc Wed. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

The lighTNiNg ThieF by Rick Riordan (Theatreworks USA). Mythical gods and monsters appear in the life of a boarding-school boy in this adaptation of the fantasy-adventure novel. Oct 26-28, Sun-Tue 11 am and 2 pm. $20-$25. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. rhcentre.ca. lA locA/red wiNTer by Alexander Kentris/ Katy Murphy (Pure Carbon). Two physical theatre pieces reimagine the stories of Joanna of Castile and Red Riding Hood as women fighting against oppressive societies. Oct 23-26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315. purecarbon.ca.

My TreAsure islANd!!! by Karen Woolridge (Johnson Girls). A woman reevaluates her dull life after reading Treasure Island in this adaptation of Sara Levine’s novel. Previews Oct 24-26. Opens Oct 28 and runs to Nov 16, WedSat 7:30 pm (and Oct 28), mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$33, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, johnsongirls.ca. oNesies (Daisy Productions). Performance of four one-act comedy plays by Joe Leon, Gavin Harrison and Jen Frankel. Oct 23-26, Thu-Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. daisyproductions.ca. reBel AcTs (Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies). Performances, workshops and dialogues by Guillermo Gómez Peña and La Pocha Nostra. Free. Oct 28-Nov 1 at 8 pm.

Oct 28: Imaginary Activism solo performance, at Robert Gill Theatre (214 College); Oct 2930: Artist/activist dialogue (Wed) & Workshop Performance Salon (Thu), at Luella Massey Studio Theatre (4 Glen Morris); Oct 31-Nov 1: Corpus Insurrecto 3.2 performance, at Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (79A St George).

416-978-7987, rebecca.biason@utoronto.ca. seA MArks by Gardner McKay (Fly on the Wall Theatre). Staged reading of the play about a romance between a man and a woman from opposite worlds. Oct 25-26, Sat-Sun 2 pm.

Pwyc. Fionn MacCool’s, 181 University. 416363-1944, university.fionnmaccools.com. seA sick by Alanna Mitchell (The Theatre Centre). Mitchell discovers the secrets of the ocean, faces demons and finds hope in this solo show. Opens Oct 29 and runs to Nov 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

The skriker by Caryl Churchill (Red One Theatre Collective/Theatre Brouhaha). An ancient fairy takes on many forms as it pursues two women. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 9, see website for schedule. $15-$25. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

The soldier’s TAle by Igor Stravinsky (Toronto Masque Theatre/Global Cabaret Festival). A soldier’s homecoming is thwarted by an encounter with the Devil in this classic tale that combines music, dance and theatre. Oct 2526, Sat 6:45 pm, Sun 1 pm. $20-$26. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. globalcabaret.ca.

30 people wATchiNg by nisha ahuja and Amelia Sargisson (Subtle Vigilance). Teens assault a South Asian classmate in BC in this play based on the murder of Reena Virk. Previews Oct 25-26. Opens Oct 28 and runs to Nov 14, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $tba. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. subtlevigilance.com.

The 39 sTeps by Patrick Barlow (East Side Players). This comedy whodunit is based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. Opens Oct 23 and runs to Nov 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $22, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca.

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Nimble noir heleN lAwreNce story by Stan Douglas and Chris Haddock, written by Haddock, directed by Douglas (Canadian Stage/Arts Club/Banff Centre/ National Arts Centre and others). At the Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front East). Runs to November 2. $30-$99. 415-368-3110.

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Helen Lawrence is film noir like you’ve never seen it, a blend of virtual reality and live actors that begins promisingly but, as a style, loses its appeal and becomes a gimmick. Happily, the actors are always great.

Devised by writer Chris Haddock and director Stan Douglas, this elegant tale of double crosses, corruption, sensuality and revenge is set in postwar 1940s Vancouver. Crooked policemen (Ryan Hollyman and Greg Ellwand) set

Previewing spooN river adapted by Mike Ross and Albert

Schultz (Soulpepper Theatre). A forgotten town comes back to life in this show inspired

by Edgar Lee Masters’s 1915 poetry collection.

Previews Oct 29-Nov 3. Opens Nov 4 and runs to Nov 15, see website for schedule. $23-$89.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

One-nighters doN’T sTop BelieviN’ (Mirvish/Actors’ Fund of Canada). An evening of song and dance by cast members from Wicked and The Book Of Mormon raises funds for Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS and for the Actors’ Fund.

Oct 27 at 8 pm (reception from 6:30 pm). $55$250. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. edeN by Pastel Supernova (Love Letters Cabaret). This burlesque revue features shipwrecked sailors and the mystical creatures they encounter. Oct 28 at 8 and 10:30 pm (and Oct 30). $25$35. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-5880307, eventbrite.ca/e/13021759433.

AN eveNiNg wiTh JeFFrey TAMBor (Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts). The film/ TV/Broadway star performs an interactive storytelling show. Oct 24 at 8 pm. $50-$55.

10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca. every Trick iN The Book (Bill Abbott Magic).

Abbott performs a mix of magic, improv comedy and illusions. Oct 23 at 8 pm. $40. Joy Bistro, 884 Queen E. billabbottexperience.ca. good people, BAd ThiNgs by Daniel ThauEleff (Independent Jewish Voices Canada). This monologue show asks if people are truly evil or just do bad things. Part of Doing Jewish Off The Grid: Politics, Identity, Spirituality. Oct 25 at 8 pm. $10-$25. College Street United

two black brothers (Sterling Jarvis and Allan Louis) against each other for the control of a gambling house. Percy, a bookie (Nicholas Lea), shakes down whomever he can while consorting with hotel manager Harry (Hrothgar Mathews).

Add the two women in the brothers’ lives (Crystal Balint and Emily Pigg­ ford), the woman who works at the hotel and likes to be called Joe though her name is Julie (Haley McGee), a war vet and his German bride (Adam Ken­ neth Wilson and Ava Jane Markus) and you have a whole slew of secrethiding characters. It takes a while to sort out who’s who, but that’s typical of the genre.

Enter the mysterious Helen (Lisa Ry­ der), who also calls herself Betty, bent on revenge and never showing all the cards in her hand.

The actors work in a blue box behind a downstage scrim, their images reflected on it. The scenery behind Church, 454 College. ijvcanada.org.

HhAllowe’eN howl by Alistair Ant Productions (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). Alistair Ant performs an interactive musical puppet show for ages 3 to 8. Oct 26 at 11 am & 2 pm. $16. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

luNAcy cABAreT: MAyorAl MAsquerAde

(Zero Gravity Circus). Candidate Sketchy the Clown and others perform at this vaudevillestyle cabaret of circus, comedy, music & more.

Oct 25 at 9 pm. $20-$25. The Circus Academy East, 1300 Gerrard E. lunacycabaret.com.

A MoveABle FeAsT (Volcano Theatre). Pop-up performances, art and music are part of this fundraiser for a spring 2015 opera premiere.

Oct 23 at 8 pm. $75-$150. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. volcano.ca.

HNighT oF dreAd (Clay & Paper Theatre).

Puppets, stilt dancers and others perform and parade in an interactive exploration of our collective fears. Black & white dress code suggested. Oct 25, parade starts at 6 pm. Pwyc$10. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. ouTerBridge – clockwork MysTeries (Ted Outerbridge). Performances by illusionists Ted and Marion Outerbridge. Oct 24 at 8 pm. $45$55, child $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

TAiNTed by Kat Lanteigne (Moyo Theatre). A family fights to stay intact through tragedy in the wake of Canada’s tainted blood scandal.

Oct 27 at 8 pm. Free. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, #313. moyotheatre.com.

360 AllsTArs (Onyx Productions). Urban circus with athletes, breakdancers, BMX riders and more. Oct 28 at 8 pm. $25-$45. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

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The kids’ TV series comes to life in an interactive production. Oct 23 at 6 pm. $26-$46.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. ticketmaster.ca.

them is a series of projections that give strong atmosphere to the story. It’s fascinating for a while, though it starts to feel contrived well before the end.

But the actors are always strong, beginning with Ryder’s cool, flirtatious but no-nonsense Helen, seeking the man who done her wrong. Lea’s Percy is also memorable, mostly in control but always smart enough to look for a way to escape if things go rotten. Jarvis brings strong emotion to one of the brothers, a returned soldier who thinks he’s lost everything to his well-dressed sib.

McGee’s Julie/Joe is a special treat, and the scenes she has with Helen – she’s more than a little attracted to the blond stranger – are highlights: sometimes teasing, sometimes playful, sometimes tender.

You might come to Helen Lawrence for its inventive staging, but when it’s all over, you’ll remember the performJoN kAplAN ances.

Continuing The ArT oF BuildiNg A BuNker by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia ñ (Factory Theatre/QuipTake). Elvis finds him-

self surrounded by a diverse group of characters as he endures workplace sensitivity training (see review at nowtoronto.com/stage).

Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23$45. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Nov 2, see website for schedule. $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 (see preview at nowtoronto.com/stage). 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.

The Book oF MorMoN by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (Mirvish).

Two naive missionaries go to a volatile region in Uganda in this religious satire musical.

Runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $49-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com.

BroTherhood: The hip hoperA by Sébastien Heins (b current AfteRock Plays). This solo music video tells the story of a superstar duo’s climb to success, breakup and epic reunion.

Runs to Oct 25, runs in rep with The Femme Playlist, see website for schedule. $15-$50.

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

CONCOrd flOral by Jordan Tannahill (Why Not Theatre/Suburban Beast).

Teens flee a plague that they’ve brought upon themselves (see review, page 55). Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$20.

Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, theatrewhynot.org. NNNN (JK) 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) 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. Runs to Nov 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. 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

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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 Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) the feMMe Playlist by Catherine Hernandez (b current AfteRock Plays). Hernandez uncovers the realities of living as a queer woman of colour in this multidisciplinary show. Runs to Oct 25, runs in rep with Brotherhood, see website for schedule. $15-$50. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. heleN lawreNCe by Chris Haddock, Stan Douglas (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre Co/Banff Centre/NAC). Vancouver struggles to reorganize itself after World War II in this drama combining art, theatre, live-action film and computer simulations (see review, page 56). Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $30-$99.

Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (JK) hOld MOMMy’s CiGarette (Shelley Marshall). Marshall’s autobiographical solo show about three generations of a dysfunctional family deals with mental illness, suicide and cancer. Tough subjects, but Marshall – as good a performer as she is a writer – confronts them with honesty and humour. The details feel authentic, and you can see the humanity beneath even the most embittered character.

The ending, which breaks the fourth wall, provides a lovely moment of grace and acceptance. Runs to Oct 28, 8 pm daily. $20. The Full

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Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra TheMadaMa butterfly by Giacomo Puccini atre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.

(Canadian Opera Company). Something’s miscom. NNN (GS) sing from this revival of Brian Macdonald’s PiNkaliCiOus the MusiCal by Elizabeth Kann, minimalist production of the well-loved opera

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A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Oct 26, Sun 1 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. the PriNCess & the Pea adapted by Derek Genova (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre).

Prince Tommy must choose between two princesses in this musical show for ages 3 to 10. Runs to Oct 25, Sat 11 am & 2 pm. $16.

4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031, solarstage.on.ca.

HrOCky hOrrOr hallOweeN Cabaret by Richard O’Brien (Lower Ossington Theatre).

Jim Sharman’s cult-classic 1975 film is presented as an interactive musical. Costumes encouraged. Runs to Nov 1, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10 pm. $20. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. sidekiCks & seCret ideNtities by DJ Sylvis (Monkeyman Productions). Short plays based on comics where heroes are unexpected, bystanders aren’t innocent and sidekicks finally get a moment of glory. Runs to Oct 26, ThuSat 7:30 pm, Sun 3:30 pm. $15. Fraser Studios, 76 Stafford. monkeymanproductions.com. tO kill a MOCkiNGbird by Harper Lee (Young People’s Theatre). This adaptation of Lee’s coming-of-age classic captures an engaging story. Not all the characters, including young narrator Scout, are as well developed as they might be. Still, director Allen MacInnis’s production is admirably clear, with some nicely detailed relationships. Runs to Nov 2, see website for schedule. $15-$30. 165 Front E. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNN (JK) twist & shOut (Famous People Players).

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Thursday, October 23 absOlute COMedy Headliner Marc Sinodinos

with Steph Tolev and host Andrew Searles. To Oct 26, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. biG City iMPrOv festival @ bdt The Vote at 7 pm (free); Hot 10, Kevin, Gentlemen’s Club at 8 pm; Concentrated Evil, Grave Roberts, Moist Theatre at 10 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60.

Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

biG City iMPrOv festival @ COMedy bar Main: Two Strikes at 8 pm; Jet & ñ Holly, Hip.Bang!, Potential Boyfriends at 10

pm. Cabaret: LJ & Snieckus, the Hylanders, Big in Japan at 8:30 pm; Die la Mode, the Cheeky Chappies, Chad Mallett at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com. bObby lee Stand-up show. 8 pm. $35. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. kitCh kOMedy Weekly pro/am show hosted

by Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

MaGGie Cassella: beCause i said sO (fOr realZ) Solo comedy show. 7:30 pm. $20-$25.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567, pubaret.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

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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. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) stONed uP COMedy Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Cafe, 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990. twO Cats COMedy Pro and amateur comics w/ host Jackie Pirico. 8 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397.

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Main: the Sufferettes, Hip.Bang! at 8 pm; Big Bang Improv, Stacked at 9:30 pm; Wheel of Improv at 11 pm. Cabaret: the Nice Guys Podcast Recording at 6 pm (free); American Girls on Tour, Munch n’ Vinny, Notorious at 8:30 pm; Mystery Society; Future Wives, Smith & I at 10:30 pm. $10-$20, festival pass $60. 945 Bloor W. bigcityimprovfestival.com.

COMedy kaPOw! Club 120 Diner Amish Patel, Andy Fruman and Jeff Tseng perform. 8:30 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca. deraNGed MarriaGe Debut of improv duo Nelu Handa & Nicky Nasrallah, plus the Weaker Vessels, Allana Reoch and host DJ Demers. 8 pm. $1. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. iMPrOv GaMe shOw Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. rebel withOut a COsMOs See Thu 23. sCOtt faulCONbridGe Stand-up show. To Oct 25, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $35. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. sOCial staNdiNG Stand-up w/ James Hartnett, Darryl Orr, Jeremy Woodcock, DJ Demers & host Marcel St Pierre. 10 pm. $10.

The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. 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.

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Theatresports at 8 pm; That’s So Whatñ ever, Last Action Movie, Slap Happy at 10 pm. $10-$20, pass $60. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre,

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Memories­of­juke­boxes,­drive-in­movies­and­ early­rock­are­part­of­this­all-ages­black-light­ theatre­show.­Runs­to­Oct­25,­see­website­for­ schedule.­$40-$65.­343­Evans.­fpp.org.­ WhAt mAKes A mAN­by­Jennifer­Tarver­(Canadian­Stage/Necessary­Angel).­Some­20­tunes­ by­Charles­Aznavour­are­intended­to­provide­ an­overview­of­the­composer’s­work.­While­it­ features­some­fine­performances­–­notably­ by­Louise­Pitre­and­Saidah­Baba­Talibah,­who­ know­how­to­tell­a­tale­in­miniature­using­a­ single­song­–­the­show­lacks­a­strong­structure.­The­result:­a­series­of­sometimes­strong­ theatrical­moments­rather­than­a­satisfying­ whole.­Runs­to­Nov­2,­Tue-Thu­and­Sat­8­pm,­ Fri­7­pm,­Sat-Sun­and­Wed­1­pm.­$15-$49.­ Berkeley Street Theatre,­26­Berkeley.­416368-3110,­­canadianstage.com.­NNN­(JK)­ WiCKeD­by­Stephen­Schwartz­and­Winnie­ Holzman­(Mirvish).­The­musical­prequel­to­The­ Wizard­Of­Oz­has­a­strong­book­and­attractive­ musical­numbers,­but­this­touring­version­ doesn’t­hit­all­the­right­notes­in­terms­of­the­ chemistry­between­the­two­leads,­Laurel­Harris­(Elphaba)­and­Kara­Lindsay­(Glinda),­though­ each­has­good­moments.­There’s­still­much­to­ enjoy­here,­though­not­as­much­as­in­previous­ Toronto­productions.­Runs­to­Nov­2,­Tue-Sat­ 7:30­pm,­mat­Sat-Sun­and­Wed­1:30­pm.­$36$139.­Ed Mirvish Theatre,­244­Victoria.­416872-1212,­mirvish.com.­NNN­(JK)­

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Main:­Benjamins,­Primo,­Stacked­at­7­pm;­ Cabaret:­Face­Off,­From­Justin­to­Kelly,­Fanny­ Pack­at­8­pm;­Jess­&­Vance,­1­Deep,­the­Sufferettes­at­11­pm.­$10-$20,­festival­pass­$60.­ 945­Bloor­W.­­bigcityimprovfestival.com.

ComeDY At the ReD RoCKet­Joel­West­hosts­a­ weekly­show­w/­guest­comics.­8­pm.­Free.­Red Rocket Coffee,­1364­Danforth.­416-4060880,­redrocketcoffee.com.

DeeZ lAuGhs PReseNts: ViRGiN luNGs 4­Derryck­Birch­presents­Randy­Komi,­Dena­Jackson,­Jarrett­Campbell,­Jordan­Foisy,­headliner­ Faisal­Butt­and­host­Nigel­Grinstead.­9:30­pm.­ $15.­Underground Cafe,­670­Queen­E.­derryckbirch.com.

HmAtt Rubel: sPooKiest busiNess­Standup,­sketch,­clown­and­more­w/­Rubel,­Colin­ Leggett,­Annie­Sass­and­Zabrina­Chevannes.­9­ pm.­$10-$15.­The Flying Beaver Pubaret,­488­ Parliament.­647-347-6567,­pubaret.com.

Rebel Without A Cosmos­See­Thu­23. sCott FAulCoNbRiDGe­See­Fri­24. seAsoN X: AN X-Files ComeDY sPooKtACulAR­ Sketch­and­improv­w/­Magdalena­Barys,­Michael­Mongiardi,­Jessica­Perkins,­Holly­ Greene,­Carmine­Lucarelli,­Nightmares­Are­ Scary,­host­Jeff­Clark­and­others.­8­pm.­$5.­The Social Capital Theatre,­154­Danforth,­2nd­ floor.­416-903-5388,­blackswancomedy.com.

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concurrent­shows­in­the­Mainspace­and­Cabaret.­9:30­pm.­$10­(or­festival­pass).­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­bigcityimprovfestival.com. the uNsuNG seQuel­Special­Features­Musical­ Improv­Troupe­presents­an­improvised­musical­sequel­to­your­favourite­movies.­8­pm.­$5.­ Imperial Pub,­54­Dundas­E.­specialfeaturesimprov.wordpress.com.

Peter­Hinton’s­take­on­the­classic­musical­is­ darker­than­many,­with­fine­performances­by­ Deborah­Hay,­Gray­Powell­and­Juan­Chioran­in­ key­roles.­The­set,­a­revolving­tower­that­ simulates­a­wheel­of­fortune­–­no­sooner­do­ you­rise­to­the­summit­than­you­fall­–­is­a­ great­metaphor­for­this­journey­to­hell­in­30s­ Berlin.­Don’t­miss­it.­Runs­in­rep­to­Oct­26.­ $35-$113,­stu­mats­$24.­Festival Theatre,­10­ Queen’s­Parade,­Niagara-on-the-Lake.­1-800511-7429,­­shawfest.com.­NNNN­(JK)­ KiNG leAR­by­William­Shakespeare­ (Stratford­Festival).­In­director­Antoni­ Cimolino’s­intelligent­production,­Colm­Feore­ makes­a­human­figure­–­a­king­who’s­easy­to­ relate­to.­Most­of­the­cast­surrounding­him­is­ just­as­strong,­which­helps­the­audience­feel­ that­we­go­on­an­eventful­and­harrowing­ journey­with­the­characters.­Despite­some­ flaws,­the­show’s­power­is­undeniable.­Runs­ in­rep­to­Oct­25.­$50-$135,­stu/srs­$20-$67.­ Festival Theatre,­55­Queen,­Stratford.­1-800567-1600,­­stratfordfestival.ca.­NNNN­(JK)­ the PhilADelPhiA stoRY­by­Philip­Barry­ (Shaw­Festival).­A­wealthy­socialite’s­wedding­ plans­are­complicated­by­her­ex-husband­and­ a­nosy­reporter.­Runs­in­rep­to­Oct­25.­$35$113,­stu­mats­$24.­Festival Theatre,­10­ Queen’s­Parade,­Niagara-on-the-Lake.­1-800511-7429,­­shawfest.com.­ WheN We ARe mARRieD­by­JB­Priestly­(Shaw­ Festival).­A­big­secret­is­revealed­when­three­ couples­gather­to­celebrate­their­silver­anniversaries.­Runs­in­rep­to­Oct­26.­$35-$113,­stu­ mats­$24.­Royal George Theatre,­85­Queen,­ Niagara-on-the-Lake.­1-800-511-7429,­ ­shawfest.com.­­ 3

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AltDot ComeDY louNGe­Diamondfield­ presents­Nile­Seguin,­Levi­MacDougall,­ ñ Trixx,­Faisal­Butt,­Rob­Mailloux,­Marito­Lopez,­

Camille­Cote,­Anthony­Kapfer,­David­Andrew­ Brent,­Jean­Paul­and­others.­9­pm.­$5.­Rivoli,­ 332­Queen­W.­­altdotcomedylounge.com.

CheAP lAuGhs moNDAY­Weekly­open­mic­w/­ Russell­Roy­&­guests.­9:30­pm.­Free.­PJ O’Briens Irish Pub,­39­Colborne.­416-815-7562.

CReAm oF ComeDY­The­Tim­Sims­Encouragement­Fund­presents­the­annual­ show­featuring­Tim­Sims­Award­nominees.­8­ pm.­$20.­Second City,­51­Mercer.­416-3430011,­secondcity.com.

DAWN PAtRol­Dawn­Whitwell­presents­ queered­up­stand-up­w/­Danz­Altvater,­Julia­ Hladkowicz,­Jessica­Perkins,­Michael­Kolberg,­ Sara­Hennessey­and­Steve­Patrick­Adams.­ 8:30­pm.­$7.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­ ­comedybar.ca. hARD DAY ComeDY­Weekly­all-female­comedy­ show­w/­hosts­Cassandra­Sansosti­&­Eesha­ Brown,­booked­acts­and­3­lotto­spots.­8:30­ pm.­Free.­The Office Pub,­117­John,­2nd­floor.­ 416-977-1900. miXeD ComPANY­Kliffer­Entertainment­Actors­ paired­with­improvisers.­8­pm.­$10-$12.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­comedybar.ca.

200% VoDKA­Longform­improv­with­the­Social­Capital­Rep­Company­and­guest­hosts.­8­ pm.­Pwyc.­The Social Capital Theatre,­154­ Danforth,­2nd­floor.­­blackswancomedy.com.

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Bm,­Zabrina­Chevannes,­Monty­Scott,­headliner­TRIXX­and­host­Kenny­Robinson.­8:30­ pm.­$20.­Yuk Yuk’s,­224­Richmond­W.­416967-6425,­­yukyuks.com.

HooGie sPooKY boo!­Moniquea­Marion­ presents­a­spooky­solo­show­w/­outrageous­ characters­and­improv.­8­pm.­$10.­The Social Capital,­154­Danforth,­3rd­fl.­416-903-5388,­

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Rebel Without A Cosmos­See­Thu­23. suNDAY NiGht liVe­The­Sketchersons­weekly­ sketch­and­live­music­show.­9­pm.­$10.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­comedybar.ca.

Sunday, October 26 Dred­Lee­&­Jag­Ghankas­and­others.­8:30­pm.­ Free.­The Well,­121­Ossington.­ ­thewellbarcafe.ca.

CRimsoN WAVe ComeDY­Jess­Beaulieu­and­ Natalie­Norman­co-host­a­feminist-friendly,­ LGBTQ-positive­stand-up­night.­9­pm.­$5.­ Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­comedybar.ca. hAPPY houR ComeDY: GiVe me mY sPot­EinStein­presents­Round­7­w/­Juliana­Rodrigues,­ Erick­Kam,­Tyler­Stein,­Dave­Shuken,­host­Blair­ Streeter­and­others.­8­pm.­Free.­229­College.­ ein-stein.ca.

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Chrissie­Cunningham­&­others.­9:30­pm.­Free.­ Amsterdam Bicycle Club,­54­the­Esplanade.­ facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. o DAt Dum­Sketch­show­with­rampant­audience­participation.­8­pm.­$10-$20.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­comedybar.ca.

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Cholfe, Billy Wiegand, Dylan Beeson, Rachelle Elie , Ben Lardie, Steve Davis, headliner Trent McClellan and host Larry XL. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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HtHe WeirDo SHoW Halloween-oriented stand-up w/ host Todd Graham and DeAnne Smith, Alex Nussbaum, James Hartnett, Glenn Macaulay and more. 9:30 pm. $5.

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Contemporary dance is at its most exciting when it flirts with other forms and disciplines. So expectations for this Coleman Lemieux collaboration with Gadfly (the street dance repertory company run by choreographer/dancers Apolonia Velasquez and Ofilio Sinbadinho) naturally run high. Though the work delivers on a number of counts, a revitalized choreographic palette is not one of them.

The initial scenes of this dance two-hander eerily mirrored the violent weather outside at last week’s opening-night performance.

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her aristocratic demeanour, Lemieux could easily pass for a vintage screen star. In fact, the work’s premise is based on themes related to Hollywood legend Greta Garbo. Lemieux creates her own specifically mad and reclusive persona by way of detailed hand gestures and nervous tics. She talks to herself in some sections and preens in front of a column of light as if it were a mirror or camera.

Lemieux’s character is physically shadowed by Erin Poole’s throughout the work, though it’s not clear if she is a psychological twin, an alter ego, a demon or possibly all of these.

Lemieux shoos Poole away repeatedly, but Poole returns to pick at Lemieux or obscure her vision. When they are in sync, we see how beautifully they move, extended limbs and frantic groundwork alternating with the intense stillness that all great dancers seem to be able to summon at will.

The relationship between the two women is fascinating to watch – for a while. But the choreographic shape of the dance remains episodic and unfocused. It meanders and floats with little in the way of either narrative anchor or kinetic trajectory.

The piece ends as cryptically as it begins, the light slowly bleeding away as the dancers sprawl on the floor.

At which point it’s hard to not wonder what Uplica might have looked and felt like had more of the joyful precision and passion of Gadfly’s street dance found its way to the party.

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t’s been 35 years since Harbourfront launched its glittery literary fest, and a lot has changed on the book scene. Bookstores are going down, eBooks are coming up, and many people on the publishing landscape are getting the jitters about the industry’s future. Yet book lovers continue INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF to flock to the lakeside venue where the world’s best authAUTHORS ors read from their work and share ideas with other writers. October 23 to November 2 at Harbourfront Centre.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the World Single tickets $18. ifoa.org War I, several of this year’s events feature authors who’ve written books set during and after the conflict. But IFOA also knows how to lighten up – the You Write Funny panel brings together some of the most amusing wordsmiths in print. Note that construction continues to slow traffic along Queens Quay, so make sure to leave plenty of time to get to the fest.

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October 24

Near legendary noirist James Ellroy talks about his new novel, Perfidia, and his craft with Canuck crime writer Linwood Barclay. 7:30 pm, Brigantine Room

October 25

Authors Jonas T. Bengtsson, Andrej Blatnik, Drago Jancar and Martin Solotruk discuss how translations of their work expanded their audiences. Part of IFOA’s Found In Translation program. 11 am, Lakeside Terrace

October 26

Wanna laugh? The You Write Funny panel features Elyse Friedman, Robert Glancy, Andrew Kaufman and Simon Rich. None of them qualifies as earnest. 3 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre

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October 27

Get to know the Governor General’s Award finalists Michael Crummey, Bill Gaston, Claire Holden Rothman, Linda Spalding, Drew Hayden Taylor and Joan Thomas when they read from their books.

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October 28

Joseph Boyden, Jian Ghomeshi, John Ralston Saul and Johanna Skibsrud join a panel celebrating Penguin’s 40th Anniversary. 7:30 pm, Brigantine Room.

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One of IFOA’s most timely round tables, A Pox On Your Head, with Nick Cutter, Charles Foran, C.C. Humphreys, Andrew Pyper and Louise Welsh, looks at writing about disease. 7:30 pm, Studio Theatre

October 30

Julie Angus, Kim Thúy and Kathleen Winter read and discuss their new books. 7:30 pm, Studio Theatre Joseph Boyden

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Charlotte Gray, Anna Hope, Frances Itani, Kate Pullinger and Johanna Skibsrud – whose books touch on themes related to war – sit on the Women & War panel. 7:30 pm, Lakeside Terrace

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Caroline Adderson, Martha Baillie, Miriam Toews and Rudy Wiebe talk about the challenge of writing about personally painful subjects, at the Tough Times panel. 3 pm, Studio Theatre

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Feeding feelings FOOD AND LOVE MAKE THE PERFECT COUPLE IN KIM THÚY’S SLIM, SENSUOUS MÃN By SUSAN G. COLE KIM THÚY reading and discussing her novel Mãn, October 30, 7:30 pm; and reading November 1, 5 pm, both at the Studio Theatre. ifoa.org You wouldn’t think a book about food would be so laden with emotion, but Montreal-based author Kim Thúy, whose novel Mãn, about a restaurateur conflicted by love, says that in her culture, feelings and food are always connected.

“Food is the first gesture we give to a child,” explains the engaging Montreal-based author during an interview in the NOW Lounge. “It’s the first act of love.”

Because food is so emotionally charged, it’s impossible simply to list the ingredients of a Vietnamese dish in a recipe and leave it at that.

“Every ingredient has a role. You can’t just use lotus seeds because you like the taste; you use them because they help with insomnia. If you’re sick you eat congee. There’s always a meaning behind every ingredient. It sounds poetic, but for the Vietnamese, it is just daily life.”

Every ingredient has a meaning and a story. That’s why her protagonist Mãn wants to rely on narratives, not images, for the cookbook she’s preparing.

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“A picture of beef stew doesn’t look good,” Thúy insists. “It’s not sexy. You can’t make it sexy because it’s all brown. But if you taste it or describe how it’s cooked or the story behind it, it becomes tasty. It explains so much more.”

Thúy’s first book, Ru, shortlisted for the 2012 Giller prize, and Mãn are similar in structure. They are both slim novels written in short, usually page-length vignettes. But the author doesn’t see them as fragmentary.

“If I were a painter I’d tell you it was one stroke,” she says, miming a brush stroke in the air. “Everyone talks about vignettes, but to me it’s one piece, one breath. Every time I sat down to write I read from the beginning so I could feel the continuity.

My editor and I couldn’t change the position of a paragraph because everything would fall apart.”

She speaks three languages – “none of them well, so one and a half” – but writes in French (Ru won the 2010 French-language Governor General’s Award) because, as she puts it, it’s the only language “where I know enough to know when I don’t know. In English I don’t have that antenna.

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Kim Thùy’s follow-up to Ru is like that 2012 Giller-shortlisted book: slim, poetic and powerful. This time out, she investigates the connection between food and love.

Mãn, an immigrant from Vietnam, lives in Montreal with her husband – courtesy of an arranged marriage – where she runs a Vietnamese eatery. When she brings a pointedly French element to her cuisine, the restaurant becomes a huge hit.

But her life takes a turn when she falls in love with a French man while promoting her cookbook in Paris.

Thùy deftly details the precision required to make gorgeous food and again delivers her story in short scenes – each one a small gem.

Keep some snacks around.

Reading Mãn will make you SGC hungry.

guage. The whole body is restrained.”

Thúy is a late bloomer. She didn’t start writing until she was well into her 30s. She took degrees in law, linguistics and translation, then ditched it all to start a restaurant.

Working in an eatery is exhausting.

“I was always tired,” she says. “The hardest job is running a restaurant, the second is being a mother, and I had both jobs at the same time,” so much so that she was falling asleep at red lights while driving. To stay awake, she began jotting notes that became the basis for Ru. But she doesn’t regret starting to write after having her children and trying out so many other careers.

“I wouldn’t have been able to write without that journey. I wasn’t born with raw talent. I have great stories to share, but I wasn’t born to be a writer.

It’s just life that’s using me as a messenger.”

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Ann-Marie MacDonald has taken a big risk with Adult Onset, a major departure from her two previous bestsellers, one of them the Oprah-approved Fall On Your Knees.

This novel doesn’t qualify as epic and it doesn’t take historical detail to the max. Adult Onset is raw, totally contemporary and deeply personal.

It’s an intimate account of how a Toronto parent of two small children – she feels like a single mother while her partner is temporarily plying her stagecraft in Calgary – starts losing her battle with rage.

The story begins when commercially successful novelist-turned-

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Sarah Waters’s new novel doesn’t have one of those devastating twists for which she’s known. But she proves in The Paying Guests that she’s as brilliant a storyteller as ever.

In post-WWI London, financially troubled Frances and her mother are forced to take lodgers Lillian and Leonard into their home.

housewife Mary Ruth receives an email from her father finally expressing his all-out acceptance of her lesbian relationship. Her attempt to write a response induces a flood of memories about her childhood, her ambivalent father, her depressed mother and the chronic pain Mary Ruth’s always had in her arm.

Interspersed with these recollections are excruciatingly detailed accounts of Mary Ruth’s current tedious life, the small errands that are supposed to qualify as major events, the neighbourhood parents she can’t relate to, the fans she encounters who wonder when they’ll see the next book – until her uncooperative child turns into the enemy. The tension deepens the more it seems possible that Mary Ruth might hurt her.

MacDonald revels in the contradictions Mary Ruth struggles with: her father loved her boyishness and loathed her lesbianism; she’s an accomplished writer/artist now consigned to dreary routines; on paper she’s hugely lucky but she feels only debilitating anxiety. She’s also plainly haunted by an early trauma she can’t face.

MacDonald stumbles when she tries to make Mary Ruth too clever – her penchant for correct grammar, for example, gets irritating. But she explores the question of parental abuse and its origins with uncommon courage.

And the whole thing has palpable SGC authenticity.

I interview MacDonald onstage October 31, 7 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre. ifoa.org

Suddenly privacy is at a premium, and Frances learns more than she should about the couple and feels the stirrings of attraction to Lillian.

As usual, Waters does not skimp on period details. Every piece of furniture, every fabric worn, all the elements of teeming London are described with delicate precision. Her genius is that these diversions never distract from the story. They meld seamlessly with the narrative, which rolls along at a clip.

There are infidelities, a murder and unbearable sexual tension – another Waters hallmark – in a story that touches on shifts in class, women’s constrained economic opportunities and the speed with which emotional landscapes can change.

Frances yearns for Lillian and takes huge risks to get her – their attempts to find space where they’re not being watched are almost comical. But when she might have what she wants, she has serious second thoughts. Be careful what you wish for, the author seems to say.

Kudos to Waters for the ambiguous ending, which questions fiction’s requireSGC ment for closure.

Waters reads November 1, 2:30 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre. ifoa.org

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Christos Tsiolkas’s brilliant Barracuda will make you think about what Olympic athletes sacrifice to be faster, higher and stronger.

It’s not as savagely satirical as his breakthrough novel, The Slap, but it offers a compelling look at contemporary Australian life.

Danny Kelly is a gifted swimmer who earns a scholarship to train at a posh Melbourne boys school, where he’s bullied because of his working-class background and his ethnicity – he’s part Greek, part Scots-Irish. Eventually he earns respect – and the eponymous nickname – for his swimming ability.

At home, things are equally complicated. His Greek-Australian mom,

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Be prepared: that’s the Boy Scouts’ motto. But even the best scout will be unprepared for what they encounter in Nick Cutter’s The Troop.

On a tiny island off PEI, a group of Boy Scouts (and their leader) are confronted by a ravenously hungry man.

Soon the boys, including a series of types – the popular jock, the geek, the loner – are fighting for their lives.

a hairdresser, caters to his every need, and his younger siblings look up to him, but his father, a long-haul truck driver, resents the fact that he’s getting so much attention.

Danny has a few friends, and his Hungarian emigré coach becomes a bit of a father substitute, but mostly he finds solace in the water.

Until something drastic happens.

The book’s complex structure interweaves the younger Danny’s progress as a competitive swimmer with his present-day life as an excon, and much of the tension in the absorbing first half comes from wondering what crime he committed.

But even after his transgression is revealed, there’s lots to explore about shame, family, ambition and class – this is one of the most convincing depictions of working-class life since D.H. Lawrence’s Sons And Lovers. The book’s final quarter, focusing on Danny’s relationships, becomes richly emotional as the man’s protective layers begin to crumble.

The many descriptions of swimming and competing are vivid, making you feel like you’re in the pool.

Tsiolkas is less successful in evoking Danny’s adult inner life – particularly around his lover Clyde. But that could just be because Danny doesn’t quite know who he is.

Eventually he begins to find out, and it makes this poignant novel even GLENN SUMI richer.

Tsiolkas reads October 30, 7:30 pm, Brigantine Room, and takes part in the Setting The Story round table, November 1, 7:30 pm, Studio Theatre. ifoa.org

Cutter (Giller-nominated Craig Davidson’s pseudonym) thanks Scott Smith and Stephen King in his acknowledgements, and you can see why. The second half reminds me a lot of Smith’s The Ruins, with its creepy look at nature and the sheer catalogue of gruesome details. The rich detailing of the boys’ lives, meanwhile, feels like early King.

There’s even an homage to King’s Carrie in Cutter’s effective use of newspaper clippings, transcripts and other documents to give context.

The pacing flags a little, but the vivid characters and their increasingly high-stakes situation make this a genuine page-turner. Some of the imagery is extremely graphic.

Doubtless someone’s bought the film rights, but I’m not sure I want to see some of the gross-out sequences onscreen.

As with any good horror story, there’s a disturbing social commentary – not to mention some suspicion around scientific advances – buried in the narrative.

Just be glad cottage GS season is over.

Cutter reads Sunday (October 26), 11 am, Brigantine Room, and takes part in the A Pox On Your Head round table, Wednesday (October 29), 7:30 pm, Studio Theatre. ifoa.org

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Half eaten CONSUMED by David Cronenberg (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Canada), 284 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NN

David Cronenberg’s first novel is very much of a piece with his cinema. The themes he’s obsessively explored over four decades – bodies at war with their owners, the power of technology to remake (or corrupt) flesh, the mutation and weaponization of ideas – all bristle inside Consumed like the insects one character believes are growing within her left breast.

The novel also has the same her-

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Song’s on key CELIA’S SONG by Lee Maracle (Cormorant), 269 pages. $24 paper. Rating: NNN

Lee Maracle is one of Canada’s bravest literary voices. She writes with clear-eyed fierceness – and sometimes thigh-slap-worthy humour – about how early contact with Europeans and our current government

metic sensibility that distinguishes his best films.

As in Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, you get the sense of being trapped with its characters as they burrow into darker and stranger places.

The narrative follows journalists Nathan Math and Naomi Seberg, who fly around the globe chasing stories of body horror.

Naomi goes to Paris to explore the lurid murder and possible post-mortem devouring of French philosopher Célestine Arosteguy, while Nathan visits an experimental cancer clinic in Hungary and winds up bedding one of the patients. Sex burbles just beneath the surface of everything Cronenberg’s characters do – and acts as a contaminant, as when Nathan infects Naomi with a rare STD during a layover boink in an Amsterdam hotel.

Alternating between Nathan’s and Naomi’s stories, Cronenberg details their interactions in chilly prose that fetishizes the products they use as much as their bodies or environments. And admirers who experienced the David Cronenberg Evolution exhibit at the Lightbox last year might feel its echoes in Consumed’s plot points; the aforementioned breast delusion was at the centre of a short film, The Nest, commissioned for the exhibit.

policies are affecting aboriginal communities.

Shape-shifting Mink is the main witness of events in a village on the West Coast of Vancouver Island in Nu:Chahlnuth territory.

Furious at having been rejected by the village, a double-headed serpent – another of the mythological elements Maracle weaves into her story – has triggered a crisis, the brutal, life-threatening rape perpetrated by one of their own.

The seer Celia could be a healing force if she would just agree to step in. But she’s happy retreating into her home and eating more than her body can handle.

Intense as this plot point is, the everyday conversations are just as essential. People talk spiritedly about everything from the problems caused by getting the vote, to the evils of mortgages, to who gets to make the community’s key decisions.

A section in which Celia’s daughter Stacey weighs the benefits and drawbacks of pursuing a relationship with a white man could be expanded into its own book.

The individual elements are intriguing, but the pieces of Consumed don’t cohere. The text bogs down in endless digressions – Aristide Arosteguy’s soliloquy on hearing-aid technology goes on for several pages – and the core mystery grows sillier the deeper it’s unpacked. And like a number of Cronenberg’s most recent films, it’s not nearly as funny as he seems to think it is.

NOrMAN WILNEr Cronenberg discusses his novel with Mark Kingwell at the annual PEN Benefit, Thursday (October 23), 8 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre. ifoa.org

Taken together, the situations and challenges Maracle convey offer a window into a village coping with seismic changes on almost every level.

The narrative moves back and forth through time and unfolds from various characters’ perspectives, sometimes in confusing ways.

But the characters are strong, and it does all come together in the end.

SGC Maracle joins the We Were Here First panel, October 31, 7:30 pm, at Studio Theatre, and reads November 1, 5 pm, at Lakeside Terrace. ifoa.org

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“Pull Quotes” EMMA DONOGHUE author of Frog Music, reading November 1, 7:30 pm; on the Forms Of Fiction round table November 2, 2 pm, both at the Brigantine Room.

KATHLEEN WINTER author of Boundless, reading October 29, 7:30 pm, at the Fleck; October 30, 7:30 pm, at the Studio Theatre; October 31, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room.

JOHANNA SKIBSRUD author of Quartet For The End Of Time, appearing at the Penguin Canada 40th anniversay event October 28, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room; at the Women & War panel, October 31, 7:30 pm, at Lakeside Terrace.

CATHERINE GILDINER author of Coming Ashore, appearing at the ECW 40th anniversary party October 24, 9 pm; at the October Crisis panel November 1, 7:30 pm, both at the Lakeside Terrace; and on the True Story panel November 2, 2 pm, at the Studio Theatre.

LEE HENDERSON author of The Road Narrows As You Go, reading October 31, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room; and November 1, 5 pm, at the Studio Theatre.

C.C. HUMPHREYS in conversation with Roch Carrier, October 25, 11 am, at the Fleck; reading October 25, 3 pm, at the Brigantine Room; and A Pox On Your Head panel October 29, 7:30 pm, at the Studio Theatre.

Summarize your book in a tweet #steamy #SF #unsolvedtruecrime #1876 #crossdress #frogs(amphibian) #Frogs(French) #burlesque #circus #motherhood #sexwork @EDonoghueWriter Emma Donoghue

Homeless flamenco dancers, dogs in chastity belts, love lost under Halley’s comet, transformative duck decoys take flight with you Kathleen Winter on-board.

Four characters. One goes missing. Who, or what, is to blame – and what are the limits of responJohanna Skibsrud sibility?

Coming Ashore is about my life in the 60s, in England as a student at Oxford, and in Toronto where I moved into Rochdale, a major drug centre in Canada.

Catherine Gildiner

Do writers make good lovers? Why? Yes, the best kind. We have a tendency to script everything, but we’ll sound so eloquent and sincere that you won’t notice.

Emma Donoghue

Empathy.

Lee Henderson

Seventeen flowers on the wall looking in. Sung to the tune of 99 Eliza Robertson Bottles.

Ten weight loss strategies that acSimon Rich tually work.

Aganetha Smart, a talented runner famous in the 1920s, lives alone & forgotten in a nursing home, now 104; but one last adventure awaits.

Carrie Snyder

Two sisters who love each other but are on opposing sides of a life Miriam Toews and death battle.

A plague called The Sweats hits London. Stevie’s search for her boyfriend’s killers takes her into the heart of a dangerous, collapsLouise Welsh ing city.

SIMON RICH author of Spoiled Brats, at the You Write Funny round table, October 26, 3 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre.

Who should star as you in your biopic? Why?

The unexpected life of Wendy Ashbubble after leaving her home in Canada to make it big in America with a newspaper comic called Lee Henderson Strays.

Plague: serial killer story during the Great Plague of London.

Highwaymen, thief-takers, actresses, penguins (I may have made the C.C. Humphreys last one up).

ELIZA ROBERTSON author of Wallflowers, reading October 31, 7:30 pm; and on the Forms Of Fiction panel, November 2, 2 pm, both in the Brigantine Room.

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Lena Dunham. I believe in nontraditional casting, and she can see into my soul. C.C. Humphreys I’m an unknown comedy writer.

The only way they’ll make a biopic of me is if I assassinate someone.

Lena Dunham, creator and star of TV’s Girls, has received $3.5 million for her first book. Care to comment?

Do you have her telephone Louise Welsh number?

Good for that radiantly, unabashedly talented dynamo!

Emma Donoghue

Way to go, brilliant woman.

Kathleen Winter

[Exaggerated shrug.]

Johanna Skibsrud

Simon Rich

Kristen Wiig. Because she’s hilarious. I’m not saying that I’m funny or anything, but at least the movie would be. (As if there’d be a biopic Miriam Toews about me.)

Whose memoir do you not want to read?

I don’t really want to read about that Norwegian mass murderer’s interminable struggle.

Kathleen Winter

Lena Dunham is an amazing genius. Give her all the money and Lee Henderson power.

The Confessions Of St. Augustine.

He was more fun as a bad boy.

If I say anything negative, it’ll seem like I’m out of touch with “the youth of today” but doesn’t that seem like a lot of money?

Anything ghostwritten, which excludes most celebrities and politEliza Robertson ical figures.

Miriam Toews

I think it was $.3.7 million.

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CARRIE SNYDER author of Girl Runner, at The Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalists event on October 29, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room; reading November 1, 5 pm, at the Lakeside Terrace; and on the How We Live Now panel, November 2, 2 pm at the Fleck.

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What important book have you pretended to have read? Were you convincing?

So convincing that I even deluded myself: for years I went around saying I read Tolstoy’s War And Peace.

Finally I discovered that I’d never get past the first Emma Donoghue long Freemasonry bit.

Ulysses by James Joyce. I saw the movie and listened to the audio tape and read Molly’s soliloquy so I have been able to squeak by in semi-literate circles.

Catherine Gildiner

I’ve pretended to have read Ulysses. I was unconvincing.

But no one I talk to has really read it either.

Eliza Robertson

Moby Dick. I was convincing for about 10 seconds – until I said it was about a famous musician’s penis.

C.C. Humphreys

Das Kapital. I was trying to impress my son who was studying it at university. Who knew there are a bunch of volumes, like three or four? That tripped me up.

Miriam Toews

Any of my exes. For obvious reaMiriam Toews sons.

Beginner CPR and no.

The Bible. Not very.

Simon Rich Louise Welsh

There is a joke about dangling modifiers in there somewhere. But genuinely: I don’t know. Are they poets or fiction writers?

No better or worse than anyone else. But be warned, partners may discover they’ve been fictionalized and eternally pinned to the page.

Eliza Robertson

Carrie Snyder

I live with a writer so I obviously think so. But I suspect some writers may be a little selfish – not a good quality in a lover.

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MIRIAM TOEWS author of All My Puny Sorrows, reading with Writers’ Trust finalists October 29, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room; October 31, 7:30 pm, at the Brigantine Room; and on the Tough Times round table November 1, 3 pm at the Studio Theatre.

You’re coming on a little strong, Simon Rich NOW Magazine.

I’d have to do more research.

Johanna Skibsrud

Event listings INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS EVENT LISTINGS international festival of authors through

November 2 at Harbourfront Centre venues.

Readings/interviews/round tables/talks $18, stu/yth under 25 free; Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists $25, PEN Canada benefit $100; Young IFOA $5 ($14 w/ workshop); 10-ticket pass (readings/round tables/interviews) $120; artist talks, Oct 27 publishing keynote and Canada, Fall In! Nov 1, free. Brigantine Room (BRG), Lakeside Terrace (LST) and Studio Theatre (SDT), 235 Queens Quay West; Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W (FDT). 416-9730-4000, ifoa.org.

Thursday, October 23 10:30 amrobin stevenson Young IFOA (SDT).

12:30 pm rebecca upjohn/renné benoit Young IFOA (SDT).

8 pm pen canaDa benefit (FDT).

Friday, October 24 10:30 am susin nielsen Young IFOA (SDT).

7:30 pm james ellroy reading and interviewed by Linwood Barclay (BRG).

7:30 pm marilynne robinson/colm tóibín reading (FDT).

9 pm ecW 40th anniversary party (LST).

Saturday, October 25 11 am roch carrier reading and interviewed

by CC Humphreys (FDT).

11 am jonas t bengtsson/anDrej blatnik/ Drago jancar/martin solotruk round table on globalization and literature breaking down barriers (LST).

Noon john boyne artist talk with moderator Steven W Beattie (SDT).

1 pm anDrés barba/nicolás casariego/

fuminori nakamura/gonçalo m tavares

round table discussion on what is lost in translation with host Valerie Miles (BRG).

1 pm nancy huston/maylis De kerangal/ jessica moore round table discussion with host Martha Baillie(LST).

2 pm gary geDDes/catherine graham/ julie joosten/jacob scheier/aDam sol poet summit readings with host Mary Ito (SDT).

2 pm roxane gay reading and interviewed by Siri Agrell (FDT).

3 pm DaviD bezmozgis/elyse frieDman/cc humphreys/shelly oria reading (BRG).

4 pm john boyne/peter robinson/mat­ theW thomas/tim Winton reading (FDT).

4 pm helle v golDman/kari hesthamar/ marianne ihlen round table discussion of the book So Long, Marianne with moderator Richard Crouse (LST).

4 pm teD barris/aDam foulDs/robert glancy/DaviD macfarlane reading (SDT).

7:30 pm karl ove knausgårD discussion with interviewer Sheila Heti (FDT).

reading (SDT).

7:30 pm jeffery Deaver/michael robotham /louise Welsh reading (LDT).

7:30 pm joseph boyDen/jian ghomeshi/ john ralston saul/johanna skibsruD PEN 40th anniversary (BRG).

Sunday, October 26

Wednesday, October 29

11 am ann eriksson/Damon galgut/julie joosten/lois leveen reading (LST).

11 am martha baillie/nick cutter/roxane gay/gary geDDes readings (BRG).

Noon aDam foulDs/karl ove knausgårD, tim Winton round table discussion on right and wrong, the loss of innocence and the journey to manhood in the lives of their male characters with host Mark Medley (FDT).

Noon aDam sol/mattheW thomas/russell Wangersky round table discussion on where a story comes from with moderator Steven W Beattie (SDT).

1 pm tashi DaWa/yucheng jin/yan li/ zhanjun shi China@IFOA discussion between prominent Chinese authors with moderator Jonathan Campbell (LST).

2 pm shelly oria/alison pick Koffler@IFOA (SDT).

2 pm hilary Weston Writers’ trust prize finalists panel discussion with nominated writers (BRG).

3 pm elyse frieDman/robert glancy/simon rich round table discussion about writing laughter into a book with host Andrew Kaufman (FDT).

4 pm anDrés barba/jonas t bengtsson/

anDrej blatnik/nicolás casariego/Drago jancar/maylis De kerangal/yan li/valerie miles/fuminori nakamura/martin solo­ truk reading (SDT).

4 pm ann eriksson/Damon galgut/kathryn kuitenbrouWer round table discussion on planning a story with host Ania Szado (LDT).

4 pm john mcfetriDge/peter robinson/mi­ chael robotham round table discussion on creating suspense by three crime novelists with host James Grainger (BRG).

Monday, October 27 3:30 pm anDreW Wylie Publishing keynote and interview with Carol Orf (BRG).

8 pm michael crummey/bill gaston/claire

holDen rothman/linDa spalDing/joan thomas Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists (FDT).

Tuesday, October 28 7:30 pm caroline aDDerson/jacek Dehnel/

marcel theroux/russell Wangersky

5:30 pm kevin barry/Wayson choy/karen connelly/valerie martin/nino ricci Hum-

ber School for Writers faculty members round table (SDT).

7:30 pm esther freuD/steven galloWay/ sina Queyras/marcel theroux reading (LST).

7:30 pm joseph kertes/laila lalami/eimear mcbriDe/kathleen Winter reading (FDT).

7:30 pm nick cutter/charles foran/cc humphreys/louise Welsh round table discussion on soeciety’s obsession with contagion and mass infection (SDT).

7:30 pm rogers Writers’ trust fiction prize finalists (BRG).

Thursday, October 30 6 pm louise Welsh artist talk (SDT).

7:30 pm julie angus/kim thúy/kathleen Winter reading (SDT).

7:30 pm jacek Dehnel/laila lalami/christos tsiolkas/richarD Wagamese reading (BRG).

7:30 pm emily goulD/emily linDin/sina Queyras/anna toDD round table discussion (LST).

Friday, October 31 7 pm ann­marie macDonalD reading and interview with NOW Magazine’s senior entertainment editor Susan G Cole (FDT).

7:30 pm anna hope/frances itani/kate pullinger/johanna skibsruD round table discussion on writing about WWI from a female perspective (LST).

7:30 pm lee henDerson/eliza robertson/ miriam toeWs/kathleen Winter reading (BRG).

7:30 pm tony birch/thomas king/lee maracle/ellen van neerven Taylor Prize for Literary non-fiction spotlight (SDT).

Saturday, November 1 2 pm marla r miller/stephen r platt Cundill prize in history discussion (BRG).

2:30 pm anna hope/sarah Waters reading (FDT).

3 pm caroline aDDerson/martha baillie/ miriam toeWs/ruDy Wiebe round table on tough times (SDT).

3 pm Dionne branD/frances itani/kathryn kuitenbrouWer/kate pullinger reading (LST).

4 pm jl granatstein/DaviD macfarlane/ michael Winter round table on the WW1 Canadian experience (BRG).

4:30 pm DaviD nicholls discussion of the new novel Us, with host Bert Archer (FDT).

5 pm steven galloWay/aislinn hunter/lee maracle/carrie snyDer reading (LST).

5 pm charles foran/lee henDerson/Diane schoemperlen/kim thúy reading (SDT).

7:30 pm catherine gilDiner/john mcfet­ riDge/claire holDen rothman discussion on the October Crisis and the effects of the FLQ (LST).

7:30 pm DaviD aDams richarDs/emma

Sunday, November 2 11 am jars balan/marsha forchuk skry­ puch/bohDan korDan Shevchenko@IFOA discussion on the War Measures Act (LST). noon DaviD bergen/michael crummey/

charlotte gray/claire holDen rothman

reading (BRG). noon julie angus/george fetherling/cath­

erine gilDiner/alison pick/ruDy Wiebe

Donoghue/thomas king/jacob scheier

round table discussion on real-life inspirations (SDT).

1 pm nay phone latt/ma thiDa/khin mya zin Myanmar@IFOA round table discussion (LST).

2 pm teD barris/hugh breWster/jl gra­ natstein discussion on writing historical nonfiction (SDT).

2 pm Dionne branD/joseph kertes/carrie snyDer/michael Winter round table discussion on the past and present, fiction and fact (FDT).

2 pm emma Donoghue/aislinn hunter/

remembereD in WorDs, images anD song

round table discussion on the forms of fiction (BRG).

3 pm peter c neWman celebration of the journalist’s career (LST).

4 pm a tribute to alistair macleoD (BRG).

reading (BRG).

7:30 pm DaviD bergen/christos tsiolkas/ richarD Wagamese round table discussion (SDT).

7:30 pm canaDa, fall in! the great War

eliza robertson/Diane schoemperlen

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(FDT).

NOW at NOW books editor Susan G. Cole interviews Ann-Marie MacDonald, author of the number one bestseller Adult Onset.

Friday, October 31, 7 pm at the Fleck Dance Theatre ifoa.org

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art

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Ginsberg’s pics Cool photos chronicle a beat life By FRAN SCHECHTER Allen GinsberG at University of

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You may have inherited snapshots taken in the 40s and 50s like the little prints in the first room of UTAC’s show. But unlike the people in your family albums, the folks posing for Allen Ginsberg’s camera were living wild, drug-fuelled and openly queer lives at a time when that was unimaginable, all while pioneering new literary forms.

Of course the author of Howl (a recording of Ginsberg reading it is piped in) is not primarily known for these black-and-white photographs, which aren’t technically that different from pictures anyone might take.

But they’re an invaluable chronicle of avant-garde life in the second half of the 20th century, from the beat generation to Naropa Institute.

Ginsberg was a shutterbug who came to employ his camera as a notebook, and U of T’s Thomas Fisher Library has acquired an archive of around 8,000 of his photos. The quality of his work improved with time and better equipment – he also

had help from Berenice Abbott and Robert Frank.

The images and Ginsberg’s handwritten captions across the bottom, some in the incantatory run-on sentences familiar from his poetry, convey a strong sense of the all-embracing enthusiasm and unashamed sexuality of the man behind the camera. He had a Buddhist sensibility of “capturing a fleeting moment in a floating world.”

Organized chronologically into five rooms, the photos depict William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady from the 50s onward; Gregory Corso, Gary Snyder, Timothy Leary, R.D. Laing and many others; Ginsberg’s family and that of his partner, Peter Orlovsky; and predigital selfies. Settings range from New York, San Francisco and Tangier to Mexico, Asia and Europe.

In the poignant images in the last room, Ginsberg has documented his own and his friends’ aging. This room’s and the show’s title come from one of his lectures: We Are Continually Exposed To The Flashbulb Of Death. They were all now celebrities, but Ginsberg continued to portray them with the same honest, unpretentious spirit.

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must-see shows ArtscApe YounGplAce Paperhouse Studio

open house, 3-7 pm Oct 24. 7a*11d International Festival Of Performance Art, Oct 29-Nov 2 (8 pm, pwyc, 7a-11d.ca). 180 Shaw. 416-530-2787.

Art toronto 90+ galleries, talks; preview/ party 6:30-10 pm Oct 23 ($200-$300), fair Oct 24-27. $20, stu/srs $14. Metro Convention Ctr N, 255 Front West.

A spAce GAllerY I:ke – I Have Motion, to Nov 1, reception 5-8 pm Oct 24. 401 Richmond W #110. 416-979-9633. clint roenisch Painting: Harold Klunder, Oct 24-Dec 6, reception 8 pm Oct 24. 190 St Helens. 416-516-8593. cooper cole GAllerY Graham Collins and Jeremy Jansen, to Nov 15. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316. esp Installation/ceramics: Kotama Bouabane and Naomi Yasui, to Nov 15.

1450 Dundas W. 647-345-6163.

FeAture: contemporArY Art FAir Oct 2326 ($10-$15, pass $20, featureartfair.com).

Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. 401 richmond W imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival Art Crawl, 5-8:30 pm Oct 24. imaginenative.org JessicA brAdleY GAllerY Installation: Tricia Middleton, to Nov 8. 74 Miller.

416-537-3125.

KoFFler GAllerY Pardes group show, to Nov 30. 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643. mKG127 Laura Kikauka, to Nov 15. 1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682. no FoundAtion Painting/drawing: Claire Scherzinger and Sarah Sands Phillips, to Nov 21. 1082 Queen W. 416-993-6510. pAul petro Stephen Andrews, to Nov 8. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. scrAp metAl Somebody, Everybody, Nobody group show, Oct 24-Mar 28, reception 8-10 pm Oct 24. Fri-Sat noon-5 pm or by appt. 11 Dublin. 416-588-2442. stephen bulGer Photos: Larry Towell, Oct 25-Nov 22. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

VtApe Video: Lisa Birke, to Nov 14. 401 Richmond W #452. 416-351-1317.

For museums, see nowtoronto.com/art.

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2014 POETRY NOW WINNER CATHERINE GRAHAM

Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings Of Insects

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 2PM Harbourfront Centre,

235 Queens Quay West, Brigantine Room Part of the International Festival of Authors

Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W., Brigantine Room Tickets/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org

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Q&A with WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD’s GREGG ARAKI • Audio for ALEX ROSS PERRY and LYNN SHELTON and more actor interview

THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN Shailene Woodley

REVIEW

Shailene Woodley takes a break from the franchise to star in Gregg Araki’s indie pic probing memory and grief By NORMAN WILNER WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD written and directed by Gregg Araki, from the novel by Laura Kasischke, with Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni and Angela Bassett.

A VSC release. 91 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Shailene Woodley is in New York City, on a noisy cellphone connection that makes it sound like she’s standing in the middle of Times Square.

(I’m assured that she’s indoors, at least, so maybe she’s in a Starbucks in Times Square.)

Still, even surrounded by the chaos that comes with being the megawatt star of the Divergent franchise and this summer’s smash The Fault In Our Stars, Woodley is generous with her time – and incredibly patient with repeated questions about her work in White Bird In A Blizzard, the independent drama she’s made with Gregg Araki.

White Bird casts Woodley as Kat, a young woman in 1988 whose life is upended by the disappearance of her mother (Eva Green) and the inability of her father (Christopher Meloni) to cope. But it’s also about other things, like Kat’s emotional and sexual development and the slippery truths of memory.

“That’s something I loved about this,” she says. “I always love watching films where you leave the theatre going, ‘Okay, my life has changed. There wasn’t any apparent big message that was thrown in my face, but I can’t get this movie out of my head. It just won’t leave me alone.’ Those are the movies I like to watch, so when I read scripts [like] that, those are generally the ones I pull for.”

Woodley says she wanted to work with Araki as soon as she saw his 2004 drama, Mysterious Skin.

“I was so blown away by Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s performance and the movie as a whole, just how haunting and amazing and beautiful and different it was. It was another project that stayed with me for months after I’d seen it,” she says. “And since then I’ve seen some of his other films as well.”

White Bird In A Blizzard was shot nearly two years ago, while Woodley was in a cycle of smaller projects like The Descendants and the terrific young-adult drama The Spectacular Now. And as befits an indie, it was a really quick shoot.

“The first time I met Chris was when he came in and we started working together,” she says. “And the first time I met Eva was on the day we started our work

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together as well. Eva was only in town for about a week and a half. She came in, did her thing and left. There wasn’t time to build chemistry – we just had to jump right in,” she laughs.

Since then, of course, Woodley’s become the very bankable face of two major studio projects. The first of three Divergent sequels, Insurgent, opens next March.

“We just finished that one,” she says, “and then we start the next one in probably about six months. But other than that, I don’t have any other projects lined up.”

I ask if she’d consider using her newfound box office status to try producing something for herself, and even through our garbled connection I swear I can hear her shake her head.

“I don’t know how that works,” she laughs. “I haven’t had that experience yet.”

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Shailene Woodley finds fun with Shiloh Fernandez in White Bird In A Blizzard.

WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD (Gregg Araki) Rating: NNN After ending the world (probably) in Kaboom, Gregg Araki downshifts to a smaller, more intimate apocalypse. It’s 1988, and small-town teen Kat Connor (Shailene Woodley) is trying to cope with the disappearance of her mother (Eva Green).

Araki turns Laura Kasischke’s 1999 novel into a contemporary Douglas Sirk melodrama, using casting tricks and sleek visual language to put a subtly surreal spin on the narrative. (There’s only a decade between Woodley and screen mom Green, while Christopher Meloni, who plays Kat’s father, has almost two decades on his screen wife.)

Green and Meloni manage the tricky task of playing Kat’s exaggerated memories of her parents, while Woodley’s layered performance shows us a young woman doing whatever she can to repress the truth about her parents’ relationship and her own sense of self.

Strangely, all three actors are so good at wearing their characters’ secrets on their faces that they undercut the movie’s emotional arc. We know these people better than they know themselves, making the big reveal of White Bird In A Blizzard almost NW superfluous.

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director interview

Alex Ross Perry

Birdman a bust BIrdmaN Or (THE UNExPEcTEd VIrTUE Of IgNOraNcE) (Alejandro González Iñárritu). 119 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: NN

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) – and, yes, I am obliged to refer to it by that ridiculous title – is a neartotal fiasco from a filmmaker bent on impressing the world with his prodigious talent.

With this show-offy drama about a former superhero movie star Riggan (Michael Keaton) making his Broadway debut by writing, directing and starring in a drama based on the stories of Raymond Carver, Iñárritu – the director of the flashy puzzle pictures Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful – labours as intensely as his increasingly desperate protagonist, and

with much the same results.

Keaton’s as magnetic as ever, but he and the all-star supporting cast – Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Zach Galifianakis, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan – are mere pawns in Iñárritu’s technically remarkable but emotionally hollow funhouse. It unfolds in digitally augmented long takes designed to create a seamless, occasionally dreamlike experience, as Riggan’s quest for artistic validation leads him into manufactured conflicts with everyone around him.

The extended takes and occasional stunning visual effects make me suspect Iñárritu is trying to one-up his countryman Alfonso Cuarón’s remarkable, Oscar-winning accomplishments on Gravity. But where Gravity’s virtuosity served its story and characters – and merited every prize awarded to it – Birdman’s cutting-edge production serves only its creator’s ego.

It’s a godawful mess. NOrmaN WILNEr

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Doing the wrong thing alex Ross perry revels in his portrait of a very mean man By NORMAN WILNER LISTEN UP PHILIP written and directed by Alex Ross

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Perry, with Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Krysten Ritter and Jonathan Pryce. A Tribeca Films release.

109 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: NNNNN

Alex Ross Perry would like you to know his new movie, Listen Up Philip, is not autobiographical. Unlike his eponymous protagonist, New York City author and generally horrible person Philip Lewis Friedman (Jason Schwartzman), he’s capable of treating others with decency and kindness.

“The fact that I can make movies with a crew of people who all have to listen to what I’m saying, and it’s up to me whether or not they have a good time or feel like they’ve done good work, shows that I’m not very close to the Philip side of that dichotomy,” Perry laughs. “I certainly know such people, but in the film world you can’t really be 100 per cent like that, because you have to rely on collaboration and the contributions of others.”

Philip, on the other hand? Kind of a monster.

“He’s entirely self-aware in everything he does, and perceives everyone else’s actions as invisible,” Perry explains. “As far as he’s concerned, every person he interacts with ceases to exist as soon as he

walks out of the room. Which is an interesting idea to explore in a character: what kind of a guy, when he’s with his girlfriend or his hero, sees them only in relation to himself, as a functionary in his own life? He doesn’t think about what their lives are like when he goes back to wherever he goes.”

Listen Up Philip follows its anti-hero as he marches through life like a Terminator, turning up in social situations and inevitably making them worse. He won’t cooperate in a photo shoot, treats the aforementioned girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss) terribly and refuses to learn a key lesson from his idol (Jonathan Pryce), a legendary author – which is that if he doesn’t re-evaluate the way he deals with people, he will end up isolated and alone.

“In every situation and chance he gets, he does what could be considered the wrong thing,” Perry says. “If the right thing is to say nothing, he says something very insulting. If the right thing is to be polite, he walks away.”

Perry describes the direction he gave to Schwartzman: “‘Think of what the nicest, most polite person would do and just do exactly the opposite – but do it with a smirk on your face.’ He is the guy who’s being the biggest asshole…. He is entirely self-aware, and does not care. That was the balance for Jason to find, and I think he found it with ease.”

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Review Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) Rating: NNNNN Alex Ross Perry follows his impressive The Color Wheel with this magnificently observed study of people trapped in uncomfortable spaces with one another.

Elisabeth Moss is In Listen Up Philip, it’s the treated very badly by audience who’s trapped with an a pitch-perfect Jason unbearable character: Philip Lewis Schwartzman in Friedman, a New York City novelist Listen Up Philip. whose self-regard outweighs pretty much everything in his life, pushing him away from the people he should care about most.

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Jason Schwartzman is pitch-perfect as Philip, letting loose his inner shitheel as he alienates his long-suffering girlfriend (Elisabeth Moss) and forms a parasitic relationship with an aging legend (Jonathan Pryce, who’s quietly as good as Schwartzman).

Perry’s film is literary in structure – with omniscient narration by Eric Bogosian – and lacerating in function, showing us precisely how Philip’s narcissism serves his art while chipping away at his soul. The real question is whether he’ll NW even notice or care.

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Michael Keaton (left) and Edward Norton can’t save hollow Birdman.

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Messy Mall maLL (Joseph Hahn) 88 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24) at Big Picture. bigpicturecinema.com. Rating: NN

Joseph Hahn’s meditation on alienation, based on Eric Bogosian’s book, is so over-the-top, it almost passes as satire. But it’s not funny and it offers zero social commentary.

Meth head Mal (James Frecheville) kills his mom, torches their trailer and heads to the mall with a whack of guns to complete his killing spree.

At the mall, with no idea what’s coming, is a bored housewife (Gina Gershon), a peeping Tom (Vincent D’Onofrio) and various alienated

teens, including the philosophically inclined Jeff (Cameron Monaghan), who all meet up during the shoot-out.

Forget about the decent cast. Debut director Hahn gives the pic some energy but can’t find the right tone. Is it supposed to be one big gross-out?

That would explain the icky scene in which a mean teen girl gets weird with the pervert. It’s got enough violence to be a gleeful splatterfest. Or is it a sweet coming-of-age story about a bored high schooler?

There’s some potential in this last possibility, except that Jeff’s voice-over in which he drones on about social dichotomies, capitalism and authority figures is laughable.

That might merit the satire label, but watching Mall feels more like an SUSaN g. cOLE ordeal.

Mall’s Cameron Monaghan gets philosophical.

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Hope Elizabeth Streb’s happy with ego booster Born To Fly.

LYNN SHELTON Director, Laggies

Lynn Shelton’s Laggies follows a Seattle woman (Keira Knightley) who flees from a marriage proposal to hide out with a teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) and her dad (Sam Rockwell).

Although it’s very clearly a movie from the same person who made Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister and Touchy Feely, it’s a new step for Shelton. A month after the film’s TIFF premiere, she explained why.

(For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.)

dance doc

It doesn’t Fly BORN TO FLY: ELIZABETH STREB VS. GRAVITY (Catherine Gund). 82 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24) at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. For times, see Movies page 72.

Rating: NN

Feeding nothing but the titular “pop action” choreographer’s ego, Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs. Gravity is a flat doc that has a lot to show but not much to tell about its 64-year-old subject. The doc feels more padded than the floor mats Streb’s gravity-defying dancers bounce off.

We spend a great deal of time getting familiar with rudimentary background on Streb – family life, dance influences and progressive dance steps are dutifully covered. Her dancers are

You’ve relied on improvisation and extensive rehearsal to create characters and scripts before, but Laggies is your first film to be written by someone else – specifically, Andrea Seigel. What was that like for you?

It was about finding where our voices blend. I kept thinking, “Well, it’s going to be a Lynn Shelton script by the time I make the movie.” But I realized at the end of it, actually, it’s both of our voices. Because even though I felt a great affinity with Andrea Seigel’s authorial voice, she’s still Andrea Seigel and I’m still me!

Keira Knightley’s Megan is presented as an unfinished person, but not because she’s clinging to adolescence.

She’s just moving at her own speed.

Exactly! She doesn’t know what she wants, but she knows what she doesn’t want when it’s presented. And what she doesn’t want, she’s realizing, is to be in lockstep with all of the friends who are moving, piece by piece, into this very conventional, established definition

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of what you’re supposed to be doing to get to “maturity.” She isn’t immature. She lives in this society that is treating her as if she is. It’s about finding her own version of adulthood and giving herself that opportunity.

Knightley’s played American characters before, but this is her first lead – and it’s a complex, very specifically American role. Was there any adjustment required for either of you?

Originally, [the script] was set in Orange County, near Los Angeles, so not only was she American, but Californian. It really helped that they let me transplant it up here to the Northwest, because she reads to me as very Northwest – maybe it’s just the pale skin [laughter]. I remember her asking, on her way out here to shoot, “I’ve never been to Seattle. What’s the weather like?” I said, “It’s like London.” And she said, “Lots of grey? I’ll feel NORMAN WILNER right at home.”

Keira Knightley flees a marriage proposal in the effective Laggies.

LAGGIES (Lynn Shelton) Rating: NNNN After the largely improvisational projects Humpday, Your Sister’s Sister and Touchy Feely, director Lynn Shelton tries her hand at a scripted feature. Written by Andrea Seigel, Laggies is about a Seattle woman (Keira Knightley) who freaks out at a marriage proposal and hides out at the home of a teenager (Chloë Grace Moretz) she’s just befriended, then finds herself drawn to the girl’s father (Sam Rockwell).

It plays like a lighter, looser spin on Joanna Hogg’s brilliant British drama Unrelated, with the aimless Knightley caught in someone else’s parent-child dynamic, but it’s no less insightful or compassionate.

Shelton gives her cast the space to develop their characters, to the point where both Jeff Garlin (as Knightley’s dad) and Kaitlyn Dever (as Moretz’s classmate) seem worthy NW of their own movies. Nicely done.

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certainly a dazzling sight, performing routines that look like accelerated Cirque du Soleil, with a lot of banging against walls or ricocheting off massive metal contraptions straight onto a chiropractor’s table.

According to Streb, being careful is frowned upon in this business. The physical punishment these dancers endure – with an ear-to-ear grin, never failing to praise their leader in the process – is the film’s most fascinating talking point.

The dark side of such commitment only rears its ugly head at the hour mark, when one dancer suffers a career-ending back injury. But she is quickly and optimistically shrugged off so that the film can move on to wonder at more of Streb’s choreographed feats, triumphantly showcased during the London Olympics.

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Don’t Eternity stars Myko Oliver (left) and Barett Crake look like Hall & Oates?

music comedy

Gay bait ETERNITY: THE MOVIE (Ian Thorpe). 92 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

Rating: NN This tone-challenged pic can’t decide whether it wants to be a sweet film about two guys in an 80s band, a satire of the music industry or an extended gay joke.

Naive aspiring pop star Todd (Barrett Crake) arrives in Hollywood, where he launches the blue-eyed soul band Eternity with saxophonist B.J. (Myko Olivier). They find spectacular success thanks to gay record exec Barry (John

Gires), weather girl trouble – they’re both in love with Gina Marie (Nikki Leonti) – and when the band becomes popular, Todd loses his songwriting chops, which can only blossom during periods of emotional upset.

It’s satire for sure. The boys are meant to evoke Hall & Oates and Wham! – everyone assumes they’re queer.

But unlike Music And Lyrics, which featured those great mock-80s videos with has-been pop star Hugh Grant, Eternity: The Movie doesn’t show the same smarts or affection for the era.

Todd comes across as dumb and the womanizing B.J. as crude.

There may be a small segment of the LGBTQ audience who will find this fun – the clothes are a hoot, the song lyrics ridiculous, and the gay innuendo constant – but it’s mostly just crass.

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Say cheesy A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT (Erik Poppe). 113 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies page 72. Rating: NN A Thousand Times Goodnight is a melodrama about a dedicated photojournalist who arrogantly dives into harm’s way to capture the truth. I didn’t believe it for a moment.

Norwegian director Erik Poppe draws from his own experiences as a war-zone shutterbug whose risk-taking tormented his wife and kids. Some of his photos used in the film reach for authenticity, but Poppe’s intimate story still feels contrived. Autobiographical films have a tendency to come off that way, likely because the director lacks distance and takes plot and character Keanu Reeves will do anything to avenge that puppy in John Wick.

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Wick works JOHN WIck (Chad Stahelski). 101 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: NNNN

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For a movie in which dozens of people are violently shot in the head, John Wick is an awful lot of fun – and as such, it plays like a tonic for the grim-as-hell tone of The Equalizer and Fury.

Keanu Reeves is the eponymous anti-hero, a retired assassin and very recent widower who reactivates himself to go after the thugs who stole his car and killed the puppy his wife left him. (The puppy is adorable, but remember: it’s only a movie.)

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Bully for you WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle). 106 minutes. Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

Rating: NN

Audiences at Sundance and Cannes loved Whiplash, but I wonder how many of them subsequently realized its ultimate message is “Bullying works.”

If you’re carried along by the pure, impossible conflict at the heart of Damien Chazelle’s drama – about a drummer (Miles Teller) squaring off against a monstrous conductor (J.K. Simmons) for a potentially life-changing spot in his school’s jazz orchestra – then maybe you won’t mind.

Miles Teller buckles under his bully of an instructor (J.K. Simmons) in Whiplash.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Juliette Binoche star in A Thousand Times Good Night.

As he charges Terminator-like into the heart of New York’s underworld – which is populated by a marvellous cast of character actors, and the less you know about who plays whom, the better – Wick must fight a lot of goons. And that’s where veteran stuntman and action coordinator Chad Stahelski, in his directorial debut, really distinguishes himself. Violence is what he knows, and he and his team choreograph gripping, visually inventive action sequences that make the most of their unlikely locations.

But more importantly, he makes the tone work, shifting from serious-minded character piece to full-on comic book excess so deftly you won’t even realize it’s happened. Somebody get this guy on the Daredevil reboot.

Certainly, the overheated, heightened filmmaking is designed to push reality away. With Simmons hurling abuse and Teller doing his best to roll with each new humiliation, it’s basically Full Metal Drum Kit set at an elite Manhattan music college.

Nothing matters but the battle of wills. Other characters are shut out or driven away. The only question is, will the kid crack or will the grownup accept his talent?

Teller and Simmons commit completely, and their performances are enough to power the drama through its first hour. (It’d make a hell of a stage play, if anyone were crazy enough to mount it.) But Chazelle’s plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous, prizing intensity over credibility, and the final act has the feel of a fever dream. I just couldn’t go with NORMAN WILNER it.

development for granted.

Juliette Binoche plays Poppe’s onscreen stand-in, Rebecca, who jumps into a caravan with a jihadi suicide bomber to get every last portrait before her subject’s final destination.

How Rebecca gains such access is never mentioned.

She barely survives the ordeal, which convinces her to retire and attempt to create a a “normal” life with her apprehensive family. Photogenic reunions lead to domestic fireworks, convenient plot machinations and overwrought life lessons.

Poppe heightens the material with compositions that make every scene sparkle – he is a photographer, after all. But he fails miserably as a dramatist, co-writing a screenplay full of stilted dialogue, and garners unconvincing performances from a fine but misRADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI matched cast.

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Drink this THE IRISH PUb (Alex Fegan). 76 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: NNN

The Irish Pub delivers exactly what it says on the tin, as the saying goes: a tour of several Irish ale houses, where their owners and customers provide an oral history of the eponymous institution.

Documentarian Alex Fegan bounced all over Ireland to interview publicans and patrons at historic loca-

tions, shaping the footage into a charming testimonial to tradition, community and communal drinking.

I’ve never been to Ireland, but I’ve logged enough time in English pubs that I felt right at home amidst the charming little stories and loving details Fegan captures.

At one point I considered writing down the names of the various ales on hand pumps, just to see whether I could find them at the LCBO. If any of the above rings true to you, you will probably enjoy The Irish Pub as much as I did, and for the same reaNW sons.

Ana Coto (left) and Olivia Cooke look for clues in Ouija.

Ouija (D: Stiles White, 90 min) A ouija board session gets out of control in this horror entry from Stiles White. It stars Olivia Cooke and Daren Kagasoff – not exactly A-listers – and is the director’s debut feature. But White has special effects credits on Jurassic Park III and The Sixth Sense, so he has experience evoking terror and dread.

Opens Friday (October 24). Screened after press time – see review October 25 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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Maybe his soulful turn as a dad discovering his dead son’s talent will get Rudderless’s Billy Crudup the cred he’s always been denied.

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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.

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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 while 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 as the plot chugs along. 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, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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

latest, clichéd movie of a novel by peddler of moss-covered romance Nicholas Sparks, and it hews close to The Notebook. Once again, an older couple trips down memory lane to rekindle the passion of their youth. A chiselled, slightly grey James Marsden and Luke Bracey as his younger self both take their shirts off.

117 min. nn (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

birdmAn or (the unexPeCted Virtue of iGnorAnCe) (Alejandro González

Iñárritu) 119 min. See review, page 68. nn (NW) Opens Oct 24 at Varsity

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land, 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) Kingsway Theatre

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the book of life 3d (Jorge R. Gutierrez)

is a phantasmagoric animated folktale centring on a love triangle between best friends who become gambling fodder for after-life gatekeepers. It’s an overpopulated, magnificent mess, where every intricate frame is nuanced and dazzling. 95 min. nnn (RS) 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

born to fly: elizAbeth Streb VS. GrAVity (Catherine Gund) 82 min. See

review, page 70. nn (RS) Opens Oct 24 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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(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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñboyhood

(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. nnnnn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

ñChef

(Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but writer/director/star Favreau is intent on delivering such a pleasurable little movie that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and you wouldn’t want him to cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies. 115 min. nnnn (NW) 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 work, with complex characters on both the human and primate sides. Some subtitles. 130 min. nnnn (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

dolPhin tAle 2 (Charles Martin Smith) is

a merely okay sequel to the feel-good original about an boy who rescues and rehabilitates an injured dolphin. Here the kid’s only problem is whether to accept a fabulous scholarship. It all seems forced, but the cast pumps out the charm, and swimming dolphins entrance the small fry. 107 min. nn (Andrew Dowler) Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway

dr. CAbbie (Jean-François Pouliot) is a

lively comedy with a strong premise, brisk pace, appealing cast and timely theme.

When a newly minted Delhi doctor moves to Canada, where his credentials aren’t recognized, he finds himself running an illicit clinic in the back seat of his taxi. 104 min. nnn (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

drACulA untold (Gary Shore) is an ori-

gin 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

the droP (Michaël R. Roskam) is a crime

drama about a Brooklyn bartender (Tom Hardy) drawn into a world of trouble when he rescues an abused puppy and befriends a woman (Noomi Rapace) with a threatening ex (Matthias Schoenaerts).

There’s not enough plot for a feature, but I’d have happily watched another hour of Hardy playing with that puppy. 106 min. nnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway,

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eternity: the moVie (Ian Thorpe) 92 min.

See review, page 70. nn (SGC) Opens Oct 24 at Carlton Cinema felony (Matthew Saville) is a nice, broody policier in which three Australian cops (Joel Edgerton, Tom Wilkinson, Jai Courtney) wrestle with their roles in covering up a drunken accident. But writer-producer Edgerton writes his characters into a corner so murky that their only way out is through two very obvious contrivances, sending Felony off the rails in its final movement. 105 min. nnn (NW) Carlton Cinema fury (David Ayer) follows the crew of an American tank – among them Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf and Logan Lerman – making its way into Germany in April 1945. Director Ayer actively tries to top the brutality and gore of Saving Private Ryan, making it feel like a swaggering corrective to the old-fashioned pleasures of George Clooney’s recent The Monuments Men. Some subtitles. 134 min. nnn (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, 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) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(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, Rain-

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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

THE GREEN PRINCE (Nadav Schirman) fol-

lows a Hamas leader’s son who spied for Israeli security agency Shin Bet for over a decade. It’s fascinating portrait of the spy world and an unusual bromance between spy and handler. But it doesn’t deal with key incidents deeply enough, and given what the two subjects do for a living, who can believe a word they say? 100 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square

ñGUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/co-writer Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) Colossus, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Adam Wingard) is a John Carpenter homage exploring the tensions that arise when a stranger (Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens) comes to a small town to visit a fallen soldier’s family. The action is inventive, the characters welldrawn and the climax… well, it’s not original, exactly, but in a movie like this that’s kind of the point. 99 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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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, 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, 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

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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) Eglinton Town Centre LET’S BE COPS (Luke Greenfield) depends entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy about two Los Angeles roommates who dress up as LAPD officers for a costume party, keep the charade going for fun and wind up in a turf war with a Georgian gangster (James D’Arcy). The ending’s a bust, but the actors

Nathan Phillips and Jessica De Gouw have all of 12 hours to prepare for the end of the world in this Australian apocalyptic story that manages to be both sweet and gritty.

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HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

(Peter Chelsom) stars Simon Pegg as a psychiatrist (Simon Pegg) who decides to travel the world in search of the secret to personal fulfillment. It’s a white-peopleproblems movie that’s horribly tone-deaf to its subject matter, as its wide-eyed hero processes the suffering of others (a sex worker in Beijing, gun thugs in Africa) into simplistic life lessons. 114 min. NN (NW) Queensway

– Matt Risley, Total Film

“JULIANNE MOORE IS REMARKABLE.” – Amy Nicholson, LA Weekly

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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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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 IRISH PUB (Alex Fegan) 76 min. See

review, page 71. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 24 at Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

ñJOHN WICK

(Chad Stahelski) 101 min.

See review, page 71. NNNN (NW) Opens Oct 24 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas

CUSACK An obnoxious, thirtysomething New York novelist (Jason Schwartzman) reaches a crisis point on the brink of his new book’s publication, in this idiosyncratic comedy from writer-director Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel).

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ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

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MaLL (Joseph Hahn) See review, page 68.

are fun. 100 min. NNN (NW) Colossus

See interview and review, page 68.

109 min. NNNNN (NW) Opens Oct 24 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) Scotiabank Theatre

Love is straNge (Ira Sachs) tracks

the LUNchbox (Ritesh Batra) is built

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lovers George and Ben, superbly played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, who are forced to live separately when they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment. Sachs lets small gestures evoke the intimacy the two men miss so desperately. You won’t be on the edge of your seat, but you will get drawn in by the characters and their dilemmas. 94 min.

NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

LUcy (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return

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around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

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

88 min. NN (SGC) Opens Oct 24 at Big Picture Cinema

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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 MeN, WoMeN & chiLdreN (Jason

Reitman) is a partly successful tale of interconnected people in a small Texas 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.

119 min. NN (Andrew Parker)

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MoMMy (Xavier Dolan) is the

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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 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

the 100-year-oLd MaN Who cLiMbed oUt the WiNdoW aNd disappeared

(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, Kingsway Theatre

oUija (Stiles White) 90 min. See Also Opening, page 71.

Opens Oct 24 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

rUdderLess (William H. Macy) is a small

movie about a broken man (Billy Crudup) trying to put himself back together by playing his dead son’s songs. You probably know where the story’s going, but there’s at least one thing you likely won’t see coming. 104 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

st. viNceNt (Theodore Melfi) seems

designed explicitly to win Bill Murray an Oscar, casting the beloved star as a cranky alcoholic whose hostile exterior masks deep sorrow and a heart of gold. But even as writer/director Melfi piles on the complications and contrivances, Murray refuses to condescend to them. 103 min.

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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, Varsity

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(Isao Takahata) is a return to form for legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, a beautiful fable about a humble bamboo carver who finds a mysterious infant in the forest. If it meanders a bit in its midsection, that just means we have more time to sink into its gorgeous world.

Screening in both subtitled and Englishdubbed versions. 137 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

teeNage MUtaNt NiNja tUrtLes (Jona-

than Liebesman) is an overblown superhero adventure that tries to get by on bombast but too often it feels like an orgy of in-your-face 3D and a loud, oppressive score supporting bargain-basement plot, characters and big action set pieces. Four turtles and a rat mutate and develop martial arts skills to battle the evil Foot Clan and its plan to dominate New York. 101 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) Kingsway Theatre

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as a bloke (Nathan Phillips) grudgingly be­ friends a young girl (Angourie Rice) who’s been separated from her father 12 hours before the end of the world. Covering the same territory as Last Night and Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, it’s harsher and bleaker, as befits the Aus­ tralian landscape. 86 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

ñThis is Where i Leave You

(Shawn Levy) features a familiar premise – family reunites at a funeral – but director Levy’s got such a great cast (Jane Fonda as the matriarch, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll and scene­stealer Adam Driver as the children), he’s able to spin it into a pleasurably unpredictable comedy. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Poppe) 113 min. See review, page 71. NN (RS) Opens Oct 24 at Regent Theatre, Royal

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doesn’t really matter. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Royal, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Stéphane Lafleur) is an absurd, beguiling coming­of­ ager with not a lot going on, and that’s perfectly fine. Insomniac Nicole spends her hot summer days looking for some­ thing to do with her similarly aimless best friend. Director Lafleur counters the lacka­ daisical narrative with playful but precise direction, editing and sound cues, making every note something to savour. Subtitled.

93 min. NNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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 ma­ niac (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

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(Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard) is less a docu­ mentary profile of Nick Cave than it is a stylized representation of his life, follow­ ing the Australian­born, Britain­based musician over the course of a single im­ possible day. Is it experimental, playful or just plain weird? I enjoyed it, so that

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ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Rwanda, Argentina, Germany and Darfur, Belzberg paints a picture of history depressingly repeating itself due to a lack of proper legal deterrents to these atrocities. 120 min. NNNNN (Andrew Parker) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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snore, tracking a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela, delivering more bromides than a 19th­century apothecary.

It is good to look at, but go watch a travel­ ogue if that’s what you’re after. Some subtitles. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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10:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 FURY (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:25, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 MOMMY (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 PRIDE (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:25, 9:15 ST. VINCENT (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:15, 9:00 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 WHIPLASH Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20

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BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 FURY (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:25, 6:25, 9:25 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 ST. VINCENT (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:35, 9:10 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 WHIPLASH Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50

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, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 Fri 2:10, 4:20, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:15, 4:20, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 Mon-Wed 7:25, 9:50 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:15, 10:45 BANG BANG! (PG) Thu 6:55, 10:20 THE BEST OF ME (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 8:05, 10:50 Fri 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 MonWed 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 10:45 BOLSHOI BALLET: THE LEGEND OF LOVE Sun 12:55 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:45, 9:20 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Thu 1:45 Sat-Sun 12:45 Mon-Wed 1:50 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sun 3:35, 5:55, 8:15 Mon-Tue 5:55, 8:15 Wed 4:45 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Fri 1:30 Sat-Sun 1:15 BREAKUP BUDDIES (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Fri 1:30, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Tue 7:50, 10:35 Wed 10:35 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:50, 4:45, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:55 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE DROP (14A) Thu 10:40 FURY (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:45, 9:30, 11:00 Fri 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 12:30, 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:30, 3:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:20 FURY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 THE GOLDEN ERA (PG) Thu 2:35, 6:20, 10:05 Fri 3:45, 7:25, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:45, 7:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:45, 10:30 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 2:20, 7:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:20 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 5:20 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:05 HAIDER (14A) Thu 6:50, 10:10 HAPPY NEW YEAR Thu 8:30 Fri 1:10, 4:15, 5:10, 8:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:15, 1:10, 4:15, 5:10, 8:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:20, 2:30, 5:20, 6:15, 9:20, 10:00 HORNS (14A) Mon 7:00 Tue 7:45 Wed 1:30 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 10:30 JOHN WICK (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 KILL THE MESSENGER (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 8:20, 10:55 Fri-Sun 4:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 10:20 LAGGIES (14A) Fri 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Tue 3:25, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 2:15, 7:15, 9:50 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 2:25,

5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:10 MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN (14A) Thu 7:35, 10:15 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN (REVERSE CASTING) Fri 1:30, 7:30 Sat 4:25 Sun 5:00, 9:45 Mon 2:00 Tue 1:30 Wed 4:20 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: SKYLIGHT Thu 3:45, 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: SKYLIGHT - ENCORE Fri, Tue 4:15 Sat 12:55, 7:15 OUIJA (14A) Fri 5:15, 8:00, 11:10 Sat 12:00, 5:15, 8:00, 11:10 Sun 12:00, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 PRIDE (14A) Fri 3:40, 7:35, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:35, 10:25 ST. VINCENT (14A) Fri 1:45, 3:30, 3:35, 6:05, 6:30, 9:00, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:00, 1:05, 3:30, 3:35, 6:05, 6:30, 9:00, 9:05 Mon-Tue 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 6:40, 9:00, 9:10 Wed 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45 THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (R) Fri, Wed 10:15 Sat, Tue 10:45 Sun 7:45 Mon 10:00 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:25 Fri 2:20, 7:30 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:20, 7:30 Mon-Wed 7:50 THE VATICAN MUSEUMS 3D (G) Thu 1:45 THE WOLF MAN / THE MUMMY DOUBLE FEATURE Wed 7:00

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

THE BEST OF ME (PG) Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:20 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 5:40, 7:50 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri-Sun 8:30 MonWed 7:40 THE GOOD LIE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Fri 3:50, 6:25, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:25, 9:00 THE GREEN PRINCE Thu, Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:10 Fri 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 MOMMY (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:00 MY OLD LADY (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:20 Fri 3:30, 6:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 Mon-Wed 5:10 THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:00 PRIDE (14A) Fri 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 THE TRIAL Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:20

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 7:00, 9:00 Sat 7:00, 9:15 Sun 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 Fri, Tue 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Mon, Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 JOHN WICK (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 10:30 Fri, Tue 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 THE MAZE RUNNER (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: SKYLIGHT Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: SKYLIGHT - ENCORE Sat 12:55 OUIJA (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Tue 12:35, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon, Wed 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 10:05 ST. VINCENT (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Mon, Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

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 FURY (14A) Thu 4:05 7:00 9:55 Fri-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Mon 1:10 mat GONE GIRL (14A) 6:30, 9:35 Sat-Mon 2:30 mat THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 ST. VINCENT (14A) 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

ALTMAN (14A) Thu 6:30 Sat, Mon, Wed 10:30 BJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE (G) Thu 8:05 Fri-Wed 10:30 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 8:35 Fri-Wed 4:25 CHEF (14A) Thu 4:35 Fri, Sun, Tue 5:00 GOD HELP THE GIRL (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 8:30 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 3:10 Fri-Wed 2:20 IDA (PG) Thu 11:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 10:30 THE IRISH PUB Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:00 LOVE IS STRANGE (14A) Thu 1:35 Fri, Sun, Tue 9:05 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Fri-Wed 10:40 THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED (14A) Fri-Wed 3:00 PET SEMATARY Fri-Sat 12:00 PRIDE (14A) Fri-Wed 12:20, 7:00 THE SKELETON TWINS (14A) Thu 12:00, 7:00 Sat, Mon, Wed 9:05 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 5:20 THESE FINAL HOURS Fri-Wed 10:35 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH (14A) Thu 9:40 Sat, Mon, Wed 5:00 THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY (PG) Thu 2:50 Fri, Sun, Tue 8:30 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Fri-Wed 12:00

1,000 TIMES GOOD NIGHT Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat 4:30, 9:15 Sun 4:30, 7:00 CHEF (14A) Thu, Sat 7:00 Fri 9:15

QUEENSWAY (CE)

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE)

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 6:30, 8:40 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 11:50, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 6:15, 8:40 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 1:40, 4:35, 8:00, 10:35 MonWed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 THE BEST OF ME (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 3:45, 7:00, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:10, 6:40, 9:45 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:25, 6:40, 9:45 Wed 12:30, 3:25, 6:00, 10:00 BOLSHOI BALLET: THE LEGEND OF LOVE Sun 12:55 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Sat 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Sun 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Thu 2:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50 Sat 11:20 THE BOXTROLLS 3D (G) Thu 5:20, 8:00 THE BOXTROLLS (G) Thu 2:40 Fri 1:30, 3:55, 6:20 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 3:55, 6:20 Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:20 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:15, 6:10 Wed 12:50, 3:15 DESPICABLE ME 2 (G) Sat 11:00 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (G) Thu 1:20 DR. CABBIE (PG) Thu 10:25 Fri-Wed 8:50 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:40, 4:30, 6:00, 8:10, 8:40, 10:20 Fri 1:10, 3:40, 6:05, 8:30, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 1:10, 4:40, 8:30, 10:55 Sun 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 MonWed 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 MonWed 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 10:05 FURY (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:50 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 12:45, 3:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45, 10:50 Sun 12:30, 12:50, 3:50, 4:00, 7:10, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 3:45, 6:40, 7:00, 10:15 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 6:40, 9:55, 10:30 Fri 12:15, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 10:20, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 12:50, 2:30, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 10:20, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 12:50, 2:30, 3:20, 6:30, 6:40, 10:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:15, 3:00, 5:30, 6:35, 9:00, 9:50

2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:50, 9:20 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sat 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 THE BEST OF ME (PG) Thu 12:30, 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 BOLSHOI BALLET: THE LEGEND OF LOVE Sun 12:55 THE BOOK OF LIFE 3D (G) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 3:15, 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 THE BOOK OF LIFE (G) Thu 12:30, 2:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00 Mon, Wed 12:55 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:30 Fri, Tue 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Sat 4:30, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 Mon 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 FURY (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

Guardians of the Galaxy (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:55, 6:45 Sat 6:45 Sun 6:55 Guardians of the Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri 3:50, 9:55 Sat 3:45, 9:55 Sun 4:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:55, 9:55 hector and the search for happiness (14A) Thu 12:50, 6:20 John Wick (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 the JudGe (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:40, 4:20, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:35 Fri 12:40, 2:30, 4:00, 6:00, 7:20, 9:20, 10:35 Sat 12:35, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:20, 9:20, 10:35 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:25, 6:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:40, 2:30, 3:50, 6:00, 7:10, 9:20, 10:25 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:35 Fri 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:10, 9:00 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:35 national theatre live: skyliGht Thu 7:00 national theatre live: skyliGht - encore Sat 12:55 ouiJa (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 5:50, 7:00, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50 Sat 11:45, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 5:50, 7:00, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50 Sun 11:45, 12:20, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 4:30, 7:10, 7:25, 9:45, 10:10 Wed 3:20, 4:30, 7:10, 7:25, 9:45, 10:10 st. vincent (14A) Fri 2:30, 3:15, 5:10, 6:00, 7:50, 8:50, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 12:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:10, 6:00, 7:50, 8:50, 10:30 Sun 11:40, 12:00, 2:10, 3:00, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:50, 10:05 Mon-Tue 1:35, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 8:45, 10:20 Wed 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 8:50, 10:20 this is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:45 a Walk aMonG the toMbstones (14A) Thu 3:35 the Wolf Man / the MuMMy double feature Wed 7:00

RainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:15 annabelle (14A) 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 the book of life (G) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 1:10, 4:10 dracula untold (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 fury (14A) Thu 12:45 3:40 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 John Wick (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 6:50 ouiJa (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:30

East End beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) 7:40, 9:40 Fri 3:20 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:20 mat the best of Me (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:30 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 fury (14A) 7:15, 10:15 Fri 3:50 mat Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:50 mat Gone Girl (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:55 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 SatSun 12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:40, 10:00 John Wick (14A) 6:50, 9:15 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat the JudGe (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 st. vincent (14A) 7:00, 9:30 Fri 3:40 mat Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40 mat

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 3:40, 6:10, 9:30 annabelle (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 the best of Me (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 bolshoi ballet: the leGend of love Sun 12:55 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Sun-Wed 6:05, 8:30 the book of life (G) Fri 3:20 Sat 1:00, 3:20 Sun 1:10, 3:30 Mon-Wed 3:30 dracula untold (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 dracula untold: the iMax experience (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:30 the equalizer (18A) Thu 3:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 fury (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 MonWed 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 Fri 3:30, 7:10, 10:45 Sat 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 John Wick: the iMax experience (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:00, 10:25 the JudGe (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Fri 3:45, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 1:15, 7:00, 10:05 MonWed 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05 national theatre live: skyliGht Thu 7:00 national theatre live: skyliGht - encore Sat 12:55 ouiJa (14A) Fri 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Sun, Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Mon 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:10 st. vincent (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Sun 12:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:50

Cineplex vip CineMaS don MillS (Ce) 12 MaRie labaTTe Road, 416-644-0660

the equalizer (18A) Thu 3:00, 9:45 fury (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 3:30, 6:30, 10:30 Sun, Tue 3:30, 6:30, 10:20 Mon 4:50, 7:50 Wed 3:30, 10:40 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 9:20, 10:10 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:40, 6:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:00, 6:00, 9:30 Mon 3:20, 6:50 John Wick (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 11:00 Sat 1:00, 4:30, 7:30, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Mon 3:50, 6:20 Tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 the JudGe (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:30, 8:50 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 5:30, 9:00 Mon 4:20, 7:20 national theatre live: skyliGht Thu 7:00 st. vincent (14A) Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 3:00, 5:50 Wed 4:00, 6:30, 10:00 the Wolf Man / the MuMMy double feature Wed 7:00

SilveRCiTY FaiRvieW (Ce)

FaiRvieW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:40, 9:45 Sat 11:15 mat annabelle (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Tue 4:30, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 4:05, 10:10 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 5:30, 7:50, 9:55 Fri, SunWed 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Sat 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 the book of life (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:10 Sat 11:45, 2:30 Wed 3:10 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dracula untold (14A) Thu 1:10 3:25 5:40 8:00 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 10:15 the equalizer (18A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:30 Wed 1:00 fury (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30 3:40 6:50 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30 John Wick (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:15, 7:30, 10:15 the JudGe (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Tue 12:40, 6:25, 9:40 Wed 12:40, 6:25, 10:15 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:40, 9:20 FriWed 3:50 ouiJa (14A) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 the Wolf Man / the MuMMy double feature Wed 7:00

SilveRCiTY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-2052

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:25, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:10, 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 Sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 annabelle (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 the best of Me (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sun 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 the book of life (G) Thu 12:30, 2:50 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:20 Sat 11:30, 2:00 Mon-Wed 1:10 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 1:30 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dracula untold (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 the equalizer (18A) Thu 12:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 4:20, 7:30, 10:35 Sun 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 fury (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:20 Fri 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Sat 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 John Wick (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 the JudGe (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 7:00 Fri 1:10 Sat 1:45 Sun 1:15 Mon-Wed 1:20 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50 Fri-Sat 1:30 SunWed 12:50 ouiJa (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 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 5:15, 7:30 Fri, Tue 3:25, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 Sat 11:05, 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:30 annabelle (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:30 Fri, Tue 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 2:45, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 2:40, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 the best of Me (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:55 the book of life 3d (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:40 Fri-Sat, Tue 4:25, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 the book of life (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:25 Fri, Tue 3:25 Sat 11:40, 2:00 Sun 12:20, 2:00 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 5:30 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dr. cabbie (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:10 dracula untold (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:05 Fri, Tue 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:00 the equalizer (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:30 Fri, Tue

4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 fury (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:15 Fri, Tue 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Gone Girl (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:20 Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sat 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 12:15, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 John Wick (14A) Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:35 the JudGe (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:25 Fri, Tue 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat 12:20, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 7:50 ouiJa (14A) Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:50

ColiSeuM SCaRboRough (Ce) SCaRboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 FriWed 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 annabelle (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 the best of Me (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, MonWed 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 bolshoi ballet: the leGend of love Sun 12:55 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 the book of life (G) Thu 2:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50 Sat 11:20, 1:50 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 1:55, 4:25 breakup buddies (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dr. cabbie (PG) Thu 6:50 dracula untold (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:55 the equalizer (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 Sat-Sun 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 fury (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:25, 10:30 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:05, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 11:40, 3:05, 6:30, 10:00 John Wick (14A) Thu 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 the JudGe (14A) Thu 3:25, 7:20 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:15 4:05 6:55 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 national theatre live: skyliGht Thu 7:00 national theatre live: skyliGht - encore Sat 12:55 ouiJa (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 the trial Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40

eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:40, 7:55, 10:05 Fri 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 11:20, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Sun 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 annabelle (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Tue 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:20 banG banG! (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 3:25, 6:55, 10:20 Mon-Tue 4:40, 8:40 Wed 3:45, 9:45 the best of Me (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 5:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Sun-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 the book of life (G) Thu-Fri 2:40 Sat 11:15, 12:10, 2:40 Sun 12:05, 2:30 the boxtrolls 3d (G) Thu 4:30 Fri-Sat 5:00, 7:25 SunWed 4:50, 7:25 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 2:05 Fri 2:35 Sat 11:10, 12:05, 2:35 Sun 12:00, 2:25 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dolphin tale 2 (G) Thu 3:55 dr. cabbie (PG) Fri-Wed 9:55 dracula untold (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 the equalizer (18A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 fury (14A) 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Fri 1:05 mat Sat-Sun 1:10 mat Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:05, 10:25 Fri 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:30 haider (14A) Thu 2:20, 6:00, 9:35 happy neW year Thu 8:30 Fri 3:10, 6:50, 10:30 Sat 11:35, 3:10, 6:50, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 9:00 John Wick (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 the JudGe (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:35, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 MonWed 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 left behind (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 ouiJa (14A) Thu 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 st. vincent (14A) 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:45 mat Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45 mat this is Where i leave you (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30 Fri-Sun 12:50 the Wolf Man / the MuMMy double feature Wed 7:00

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alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 3:35, 4:40, 5:35, 6:40, 7:35, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:10, 5:15, 7:25, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:15 annabelle (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 Sun-Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:40, 10:00 banG banG! (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 the best of Me (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 TueWed 4:20, 6:55, 10:00 bolshoi ballet: the leGend of love Sun 12:55 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Sat 11:25, 1:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 the book of life (G) Thu 4:45, 7:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:40 Sat 12:25 the boxtrolls 3d (G) Thu 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Mon 7:55 TueWed 6:45 the boxtrolls (G) Thu 4:00 Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:15, 5:35 Tue-Wed 4:15 despicable Me 2 (G) Sat 11:00 dr. cabbie (PG) Thu 4:25 Fri, Mon 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 11:05, 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 TueWed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 dracula untold (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:20, 10:45 Sun-Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 dracula untold: the iMax experience (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:50 the equalizer (18A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:25, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 1:15, 4:25, 7:10, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:45 fury (14A) Thu 3:55, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:40, 1:20, 3:35, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:35, 10:25 Tue-Wed 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:35, 10:05 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Guardians of the Galaxy (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30 Fri-Mon 3:55, 6:50 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:40 Guardians of the Galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Mon 9:40 Tue-Wed 9:20 John Wick (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:00, 9:45 John Wick: the iMax experience (14A) Thu 10:05 FriSat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Mon 12:30, 3:00,

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West gRande - STeeleS (Ce) hWY 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

alexander and the terrible, horrible, no Good, very bad day (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:50, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:40 annabelle (14A) Thu 5:35, 8:00 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 SatSun 1:10, 3:40, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:25, 8:05 the best of Me (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:10 Fri 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:05 the book of life 3d (G) Thu 7:50 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 SatSun 2:45, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:55 the book of life (G) Thu 5:25 Sat-Sun 12:10 Mon-Wed 5:30 dracula untold (14A) Thu 5:35, 8:05 Fri 5:05, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:45 the equalizer (18A) Thu 5:20, 8:15 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:55 fury (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:15 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:20, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:15 Gone Girl (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:20 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 SatSun 12:15, 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:10 John Wick (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:15, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50 the JudGe (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:20 the Maze runner (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:55 ouiJa (14A) Fri 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:00 3

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thu 23 – Opening Scene/Youth Shorts I, including Slikebal (2013) D: Bernardino de Jesús López de la Cruz, Morning Star Îrha D: Jarret Twoyoungmen, The Divide D: Myesha Collins, and others. 10 am. Wapikoni 10th Anniversary shorts: L’amendement D: Kevin Papatie, Aitun D: Kévin Bellefleur, Blocus 138 D: Réal Junior Leblanc, and others. 12:15 pm. Australia Spotlight I/Shorts 1: Night Cries – A Rural Tragedy (1990) D: Tracey Moffat, Plains Empty (2005) D: Beck Cole, and Wind (2002) D: Ivan Sen. 3 pm. The Lodge (2014) D: Terril Calder, and short Indigo. 5:15 pm. Cinema Sisters Women’s Program: Kaha:wi: The Cycle Of Life (2014) D: Shane Belcourt, and shorts La Tiricia O Cómo Curar La Tristeza, Tramas Y Trascendencias, and Good Medicine: Madeline Hodge.

7:30 pm. Drunktown’s Finest (2014) D: Sydney Freeland. 8 pm. A White Day (2014) D: Michail Lukachevskyi, Kajutaijuq: The Spirit That Knocks In The Night, and short Ealli Guoddá Joavkkus. 9:45 pm. All events at TIFF. fRI 24 – Big Break/Youth Shorts II: Ross & Beth D: Hamish Bennett, Bloodlines D: Christopher Cegielski, Áigin D: Jouni West and others. 10 am. This May Be The Last Time (2013) D: Sterlin Harjo. 11 am. On Location/Environmental Program: Treading Water (2014) D: Jérémie Wookey & Janelle Wookey, Kewekapawetan: Return After The Flood (2014) D: Jennifer Dysart, and shorts Haida Raid 3: Save Our Waters and Guardians Of The Waters. 12:30 pm. Australia Spotlight II: Bedevil (1993) D: Tracey Moffat. 2 pm. indigiTALKS including shorts Rat

NORMAN WILNER Art, Through The Looking Glass and others.

3:30 pm. Sol (2014) D: Susan Avingaq. 5:30 pm.

New Wave Canadian Shorts: Noah D: Walter Woodman, Rattlesnake D: Kelvin Redvers, and others. 6 pm. Olga – To My Friends (2013) D: Paul-Anders Simma. 8 pm. Australia Spotlight III: The Darkside (2014) D: Warwick Thornton.

8:45 pm. The Witching Hour: Late Night Shorts Program: #nightslikethese, Kepler X-47, and others. 11:15 pm. All events at TIFF. sAt 25 – My Legacy (2014) D: Helen HaigBrown, and shorts Leaks and Alice And Kevin.

10 am. Australia Spotlight IV: Empire (1997) D: Michael Riley, and shorts Jhindu, Poles Apart and others. 11 am. Depth Of Field International Shorts: Bonki (2014) D: Siljá Somby, Jorindas Resa (2014) D: Liselotte Wajstedt, and others.

12:15 pm. Available Light Shorts: 8 Seasons (2014) D: Oskar Östergren, Várjjatvuotnalaccat and Tracing Blood. 2:30 pm. Storytellers Screening, an author and filmmaker present a screen-based video work accompanied by a live reading: Apikiwiyak/Coming Home (Maria Campbell & Shane Belcourt) and SNIP (Joseph Boyden & Terril Calder). 3 pm. The Pa Boys (2014) D: Himiona Grace. 4:30 pm. Trick Or Treaty? (2014) D: Alanis Obomsawin. 5:30 pm. All events at TIFF. suN 26 – Sumé – Mumisitsinerup Nipaa (2014) D: Inuk Silis Høegh. 11 am. Action! Activist Shorts: Ahi Ka (The Long Burning Fires of Occupation) (2014) D: Richard Curtix, Nadie Especial (2013) D: Juan Alejandro Ramírez, and others. Noon. Among Ravens (2014) D: Randy

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Sat 25-Sun 26 – Celebration of 100 years of Macedonian filmmaking. $10.

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(2013) D: Petar Dzurovski, Hairs (2013) D: Eleonora Veninova, and others. 1:30 pm. Witnesses: Canada (2013) D: Atanas Cuposki. 4 pm.

The Pursuit Of Luck (2013) D: Marija Dzidzeva, and short Audition Material. 7 pm. The Piano Room (2013) D: Igor Ivanov. 9 pm.

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Children Of The Sun (2014) D: Antonio Mitrikeski. 6:30 pm.

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The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history.

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Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. shortsnotpants. com. fri 24 – Toronto Socialist Action’s Rebel Films series presents God Loves Uganda (2013) D: Roger Ross Williams. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-280. socialistaction.ca/rebel.

HSun 26 – CineCycle’s Sounds & Silents presents Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, on 16mm with live score by the Birth of Troubling Forms. 8 pm. $10. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. super8porter.ca/CineCycle.htm. mon 27 – Alliance Française and the NFB present The Van Doos: 100 Years With The Royal 22 Regiment D: Claude Guilmain. 7 pm.

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HSat 25 – The Monster Squad (1987) D: Fred Dekker. 2 pm. The Trip To Italy. 7 pm. The Drop. 9:15 pm.

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Roman Polanski. 4 pm. A Thousand Times Sat 25 – How To Train Your Dragon 2 3D (2014) Goodnight. 7 pm. 20,000 Days On Earth. 9:30 pm.

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Married trans guy seeks...

I’m a 20-somethIng marrIed trans

guy in an openish marriage. In the online hunt for a guy to have some aboveboard, under-the-sheets fun with, I run into snags because I’m trans (I disclose on my profile) and because I’m married.

I’m baby-stepping my way toward an offline search for guys, going to events hosted by the local gay pride centre. I’ve been thinking of not wearing my wedding ring at these meet-ups, as I worry it says I’m taken and off-limits. Would it be dishonest for me to present as unmarried as long as I make it clear that I’m not looking for romance?

Totally On-Limits Dude My response is likely to wind up on antigay websites, TOLD, so let me preface it with this: We only started hearing that monogamy wasn’t just the cultural expectation/default setting for married couples but a crucial, essential, definitional element of marriage when samesex couples began to press for marriage rights. Married heterosexual swingers were fucking around (and recruiting other married heterosexuals into their “lifestyle,” a term swingers embrace!) decades before the marriage-equality movement got off the ground. And religious conservatives, while not fans of swinging, never argued that non-monogamous heterosexual couples weren’t really married or that they should be barred from marrying. So it seems that monogamy – like children and religion – only defines marriage when same-sex couples want to marry.

Anyway, TOLD, you don’t have to be married to be monogamous or monogamous to be married – and most gay male couples, married or not, aren’t monogamous. So go ahead and wear your wedding ring. While a wedding ring on a straight married man (or woman) will be assumed to mean “taken and off-limits,” the same assumption doesn’t apply in the case of a married gay man. If someone at one of the events you’re attending is interested in you, he’s likely to flirt with you first and make polite inquiries about your marriage (monogamous? monogamish? open? poly?) second. Your trans disclosure is likelier to be the bigger deal – and a far bigger obstacle for most (but not all) gay men – than your wedding ring. Good luck.

ous in bed? And now you’re complaining about being with a guy who has a higher libido and who is just as sex-positive as you are? My advice: stop pathologizing your husband. You probably didn’t appreciate it when past partners made you feel like your libido was a problem. Your husband’s libido isn’t a problem either. If you’re not interested in porn, lingerie or toys, say so. But look on the bright side: you’re lucky enough to be with a guy whose libido exceeds your own (for a change!), WTF, so your needs will never be neglected. Yahtzee.

Loud sex is not an issue I recently moved to a new apartment

where most tenants are retirees. I am a 25-year-old, just for reference. My SO and I enjoy loud play. She is very vocal, which happens to be one of my biggest turn-ons. But I’m worried we are being too loud. My old place had thicker walls and younger neighbours. I am concerned not only that we are waking up my neighbours, but that we may find ourselves on the receiving end of a noise complaint. Trying to stay quiet hasn’t worked; it’s hard for her to do, it hurts her feelings and it makes it less fun for me. Is there a way to politely bring the topic up with my neighbours to see if we’ve been bothering them?

Stressing Over Unwanted Neighbourly Disputes If your neighbours haven’t made it an issue, why would you want to make it one? Maybe thinner walls and older ears

resulted in a wash, SOUND, leaving your older new neighbours just as insulated from your loud sex as your younger old ones used to be.

Be careful with age play I am an adult hetero woman, and I

have a recurring fantasy that gives me pause. I was never abused as a child, and I have absolutely no sexual interest in children. However, in my fantasy, I am nine years old and being seduced by a gorgeous man in his 30s. It ends with us having intercourse. I don’t feel guilty – no harm done, after all – but I do feel strange. Help me out: Fight the fantasy?

Or is it okay?

Kinky In Distress You’re not fantasizing about having sex with children – excuse me, you’re not fantasizing about raping children – you’re fantasizing about being a child who is “seduced” (read raped) by a gorgeous man (read a rapist). Your fantasy is unrealizable except through consensual “age play,” a kink that has not been linked to pedophilia. So while your fantasy is very deeply squicky (VDS), KID, no one is harmed when you indulge yourself in your VDS fantasy. But be careful with whom you share it, KID, lest you wind up attracting an actual pedophile (someone who wishes you were a nine-year-old girl) or repelling someone who can’t wrap his head around the essential harmlessness of your VDS fantasy. (Some recommended reading for you, KID: The Toybag Guide To Age Play by Bridgett “Lee” Harrington.)

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now that fecal transplants are all

the rage for correcting gut microflora imbalances, when are we going to hear about the healing benefits of sharing anal toys?

Sharing Is Caring, Kids The poop being used to treat microflora imbalances is “strained, centrifuged, and frozen,” according to a report in the New York Times. This medicinal-grade poop now comes in pill form, and researchers predict that these shit pills – administered orally – could save the lives of 14,000 Americans every year. (I call on President Obama to appoint a microflora imbalance czar.) Since the poop in your butt hasn’t been strained, centrifuged and frozen – you would have to be the Felix Unger of scat fetishists to go to that kind of trouble – sharing anal toys is unlikely to provide the same health benefits to your partners.

So the advice around plugs and other ass toys remains the same: no sharing during play, abort if santorum is present, wash toys with hot water and soap before reuse. However, we may need to revise the insult “eat shit and die” in light of this new lifesaving/shit-eating treatment. But telling someone to “eat shit and balance your microflora!” doesn’t have the same punch.

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