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1. Community service Even though Doug Ford says he doesn’t know Sandro Lisi, witnesses say they spotted Rob Ford’s buddy putting up election signs on behalf of the politician.

2. Tory trust Senior news editor Enzo DiMatteo asks if John Tory will be the bridge-building mayor he claims to be or a Bay Street puppet.

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5. “Keep fighting” Mayoral candidate Olivia Chow tried to keep spirits inspired in her speech following her election night loss.

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Remix master Aaron Jerome has re-spun tunes by some of your favourite musicians (Radiohead, Drake). But it’s his latest electro-, hip-hop- and R&B-infused postdubstep solo album, Wonder Where We Land, which came out October 7, that brings the British producer to the Danforth Music Hall for a two-night stand. The masked performer is known for fun, visual and manic shows – often bringing onstage some of his many vocal collaborators. Friday and Saturday (October 31 and November 1), 8 pm. $23.50-$30, two-day ticket $47. RT, SS, TM.

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2000s heyday R&B singer. At the ACC, of course. 7:30 pm, $39.50-$175. TM. Force Majeure It’s opening weekend for Ruben Östlund’s dramedy about a dad who does the wrong thing while on vacation with his family. More on page 70.

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Nightcrawlers Jake Gyllenhaal is mesmerizing as a

creepy journalist who’ll do anything to get the story – and post horrific images of it online – in this TIFF hit opening on screens everywhere today. See more, page 69.

Ann-Marie MacDonald The Oprahapproved author talks about her new novel, Adult Onset, with NOW’s Susan G. Cole as part of IFOA, at Harbourfront’s Fleck Dance Theatre. 7 pm, $18. ifoa.org

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Vance Joy The summer’s Aussie

indie pop sensation plays two shows in one night (one all-ages, one for grown-ups) at the Phoenix. Doors 5 and 8 pm, $22.50.

RT, SS, TW. Sarah Waters The UK author, three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, reads from and discusses The Paying Guests at the Fleck Dance Theatre, as part of IFOA. 2:30 pm, $18. ifoa.org Canzine The festival of zine culture and independent arts hits Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts. 1-7 pm. $5. brokenpencil. com/canzine Day of the Dead Aztec dancers, traditional food and visual artists at ArtscapeWychwood Barns.

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tion of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant play mixing mystery and scandal – with Nicole Underhay and Gray Powell – previews today and runs to Dec 14 at the Royal Alex. $25-$99. 416-872-1212.

Triple Bill Toronto Dance Theatre features three productions, including a new work by artistic director Christopher House.

Fleck Dance Theatre. $20-$40. 8 pm.

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Waxahatchee Katie Crutchfield’s indie folk project plays the Great Hall with ethereal, local Buzz Records artist Anamai. Doors 8 pm, adv $12.50. RT, SS.

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Tanya Tagaq In town for the first time since her Polaris win, the experimental

throat singer will play at the Great Hall (moved from the much smaller Rivoli, for obvious reasons). A transcendental performer, not to be missed. 9 pm, $27, thegreathall.ca. November 6 Anti-Muslim Racism Sherene Razack lectures on Omar Khadr’s sentencing hearing at Guantánamo. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre. 416-444-7148. November 6 Mac DeMarco There’s never a dull moment when the pop singer/songwriter takes the stage. Vulgarity, nudity and exceptional tunes are all highly likely at his Danforth Music Hall show. 8 pm, $32.25-$47.50. November 6 The Motherfucker With The Hat Bob Kills Theatre inaugurates the new Coal Mine space with Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dark comedy about jealousy and addiction. $25-$30. brownpapertickets.com/event/859215.

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Weesageechak Begins To Dance Festival 27 Native Earth’s season opens with the annual workshop of indigenous plays, including works by Drew Hayden Taylor and Jani Lauzon. Aki Studio Theatre. $10-$20, festival pass $50. 416-5311402. November 12 to 22

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St. Vincent Judging by the turnout for the alt-pop guitar shredder’s YDS NXNE show in June, all of Annie Clark’s Toronto fans won’t fit in the Danforth Music Hall on March 3. $32.50-$35. RT, SS, TM.

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“Olivia Chow gave so much of herself to help improve the city. I am inspired by her to do the same.”

email letters@now toronto.com White privilege and sexism divides us

Olivia Chow ran a fantastic campaign (NOW, October 27). If she were a white man in a suit and didn’t have an accent, she would have gotten a lot more votes. White privilege and sexism are alive and well and what divides us.

Ours is a city with too many people who do not have a voice. A child poverty rate of 29 per cent is a clear marker that we need progressive leadership.

Chow put real dollar amounts on what she would do as mayor. That’s

what made her campaign so great.

All politicians should have to do that.

John Tory is not accountable because he didn’t make any real commitment to improve social housing or enhance after school programs.

As Chow said at one debate, “That is what makes us cynical about politicians.”

Big props to NOW for endorsing Chow. She gave so much of herself to help improve this city. I am inspired by her to give a little more of my time and energy to do the same.

David Quigg Toronto

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NOW’s endorsement full of suspense

NOW finally endorses a mayoral candidate and it’s Olivia Chow (NOW, October 23-29). Talk about shock and leaving it to the last possible moment. The suspense was killing me!

Charles Belton Toronto

If not Denzil MinnanWong, then whom?

I am curious. You said in your council endorsements that Denzil MinnanWong must go in Don Valley East (NOW, October 23-29). I am the only other candidate who is campaigning but I wasn’t endorsed. Who do you think people should have voted for?

Mary Hynes Toronto

U.S. war resisters PM’s inconvenient truth

As noted by the U.S. war resister who authored “Is this the war you truly

want for Canadians?”

(NOW, October 16-22), the Harper government is poised to send several war resisters back to the U.S., where they will face prison time and a dishonourable discharge.

These resisters are an inconvenient truth for Harper as he takes Canada into the quagmire with origins in the 2003 invasion Canadians refused to support. We need to tell Harper to let U.S. war resisters stay in Canada. They’re taking the position our country did in 2003.

Even Harper ultimately admitted that the 2003 invasion was a mistake.

Valerie Lannon Toronto

ISIS: from “useful rebels” to “terrorists”

Stephen Harper is so ideologically driven to force Canada into a war in Iraq that we are now bombing the same militants we supported in Libya in 2011. They were useful “rebels” against Gaddafi then. Today many of these same fighters are part of ISIL in Syria and Iraq.

Canada is helping arm Saudi Arabia. Saudis support the extremist Salafism that shares its ideological roots with ISIL. However, the Harper government celebrated a $10 billion deal to supply armoured vehicles,

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equipment and training over 14 years to this regressive Gulf monarchy.

Harper has sided with sectarian regimes, human rights violators and state terrorism. There will be no peace at all in the region for decades to come with these terrible actions.

David C. Fox York

Medpot Mountie’s freedom lesson

Re RCMP’s Reefer Madness (NOW, October 23-29). I didn’t think it was possible that I could feel more deeply about RCMP Cpl. Ron Francis’s suicide, but Matt Mernagh’s article made it so. My hope at this moment, as I once again wipe away tears for one of Canada’s best in red, is that all Canadians feel that same sense of regret that I feel. I now see that Cpl. Francis had a plan like millions of others: the universal freedom to decide how to live our own lives and all that includes.

Dianna Donnelly From nowtoronto.com

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Re WoodGreen Workers Walk (NOW, October 23-29). My uncle lives in an assisted-living unit for seniors diagnosed with mental health challenges at WoodGreen. It provides residents with their own bachelor units and staff assistance, and is much better than the programs offered at privately run for-profit homes.

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My partner and I have met with management three times to find out why this decision was made. (residents live on very low fixed incomes, many as low as $12,000 per year).

Management said they wanted the service fees to be aligned with fees charged in WoodGreen’s other residential seniors’ programs.

Imagine our surprise, then, when we read in NOW that WoodGreen management’s total salaries and benefits have increased 177 per cent between 2010 and 2013!

Katheryne Schulz Toronto

Paying Lip Service to William H. Macy

You refer to the new film rudderless as the “directing debut” of actor William H. Macy (NOW, October 16-22).

While this is his first theatrically released film as director, he did direct the excellent 1988 HBO TV movie Lip Service, with Griffin Dunne, Paul Dooley, Felicity Huffman, Clark Gregg and Macy himself, which was executive-produced by David Mamet.

Few seem to be aware of this film’s existence. It was released on VHS in 1989 but apparently hasn’t resurfaced since on any format and is rarely televised. Hopefully this early but assured directorial effort from Macy will soon be rediscovered.

Michael Rose Toronto

Hamilton mayor taken for ride on LRT?

I would have expected a call from Paul Weinberg about his story In Steeltown, A Familiar refrain On Light rail Transit (NOW, October 20), since you apparently had a chat with the un-credentialled ryan McGreal on the subject of LrT. My posCheck ourclear online ition on LrTout was made on my blog (mayorbratina.com). I did not campaign on a lower-city LrT. My preference was the A-line, which connected upper and lower neighbourhoods, which as you will see I advocated for over several years.

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Percentage of visible minority members on the new council, same as 2003.

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t was an awkward moment, one of very few in a mayoral campaign that, for the most part, was smooth sailing.

It happened while Daily Bread Food Bank executive director Gail Nyberg was onstage at the John Tory campaign victory party Monday, October 27, telling the gathered why she, an anti-poverty champion, was among the first to support Tory for mayor. (There had been a few questions about that, and Daily Bread was forced to issue a statement distancing itself from Nyberg.) And then... her mic got cut off. Cue the music.

The man himself had entered the Liberty Grand and was making his way to the stage for his acceptance speech.

There would be no time for niceties from Nyberg, as important as those may have been for the narrative being floated by Tory operatives for the assembled media throughout the night – namely, that a broad cross-section of Torontonians voted for Tory. The sign providing the backdrop onstage proclaimed it: One Toronto and #TOgether.

But it’s quite possible our city is more divided than it was after Rob Ford’s improbable win in 2010.

In his speech, Tory said that with his victory, the city has never been more together. That line was probably written before the landslide victory expected for that didn’t happen. Indeed, for a few eerie minutes after polls closed, it looked like chief rival Doug Ford would be within striking distance.

In the end, Tory won comfortably enough to argue he has a mandate – for now. But look beyond the 60,000-vote margin to areas of the city won by Tory and those carried by Ford and a different picture emerges.

Tory’s swath of support cuts right up the middle of the city, with pockets in Scarborough Bluffs and the Kingsway in Etobicoke, pretty much the same lines you’d find on a Toronto Real Estate Board map if you were looking to move into one of the city’s more desirable neighbourhoods.

Ford’s support, on the other hand, came mostly from the have-not inner and outer burbs in Scarborough and Etobicoke identified in David Hulchanski’s seminal The Three Cities Within Toronto report.

At the Liberty Grand in the hours before voting closed on Monday, John Duffy – the Liberal strategist credited with Tory’s key platform plank, the SmartTrack transit plan – talked about the surface rail proposal in social justice terms, part of a grander scheme to knit the city’s disparate areas together.

It was a recurring theme of a campaign designed to appeal to Main Street as well as Bay Street. The video presentation rolled out on the big screen before Tory’s speech contained enough shots of him with regular-looking folks.

But it was hard to get past the faces of the lobbyists and familiar kingmakers in the room, the dream team behind Tory, and the who’s who of campaign donors who’ve contributed a cool $2.5 million and counting to his campaign.

It was hard to forget, too, that when it looked like Rob Ford was a lock to win in 2010, Mike Harris’s boys at Cassels Brock, the law firm famous for ordaining mayors, urged Tory to run at the 11th hour to head off Ford at the pass. With Liberal George Smitherman in the race then, there wasn’t enough money to go around.

This time, though, both the PC and Liberal machines got behind Tory, which may complicate matters when push comes to shove on the big issues at City Hall.

Those familiar with Tory’s reputation for being led around by his nose by his backroom buddies can already see some disconcerting signs in the team assembled to guide Tory’s transition to power.

There’s Harris-era warhorse Case Ootes, who headed Ford’s own transition team in 2010 and was later dispatched to oversee the sell-off of social housing after that manufactured TCH scandal in the early years of Ford’s administration.

Then there’s Rod Phillips, a Mel Lastman crony and former OLG president and CEO who tried to sell Toronto on a downtown casino.

At a press conference Tuesday, Tory repeated his campaign pledge to build bridges with members of council. But his choice for chief of staff, Chris Eby, the Sussex lobbyist who served as director of communications on Tory’s campaign, doesn’t inspire confidence if the way Tory avoided detractors during the campaign by ditching debates is any indication. Tory’s campaign manager Tom Allison, Premier Kathleen Wynne’s former deputy chief of staff, would have been a better choice in that regard.

Who will fill Tory’s executive and roster of committee chairs will be a more delicate balancing act. Tory will have to reach across the suburban divide, but don’t be surprised to see some of the same faces from the Ford era in positions of prominence.

As for lefties who might occupy positions of influence, that probably won’t happen until midterm. In the short term, it looks like Tory will be relying on his handlers to navigate City Hall, although he did suggest during his speech that there may be a role for mayoral rival Olivia Chow.

Tory reminded us during the campaign that he’s 60 years of age now and that he ran for mayor for no reason other than that he wants to be of public service. Maybe Tory has matured.

Maybe he’s no longer a pushover.

And maybe Wynne, to whom he owes part of his victory, will keep him in line. Maybe.

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Toronto votes 2014: the fallout

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2. THE FORDS

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he moment Doug Ford stepped outside, it began to rain.

Leaving the Woodbine Banquet Hall at 10:30 on election night, he and his family piled into the RV that bore his face on the side. The Fordmobile was grinning, but Councillor Ford was not.

Included in his entourage was senior campaign staffer Graeme McEachern, who days earlier had boasted on Twitter that Ford would take the mayoral election with no fewer than 400,000 votes. In the end, he received 330,610 to John Tory’s 394,775. Olivia Chow finished third with 226,879.

Packed inside the garish vehicle, the inner core of Ford Nation drove away – less sailing off into the sunset than making a left onto a wet, dark Highway 27.

Not everyone went with. Oldest brother Randy stuck around the dwindling party, briefly joining the dance floor for Thriller. Speaking to NOW’s videographer, he wouldn’t

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preclude his own run for office in the future.

“Nothing’s ruled out, buddy. Nothing’s ruled out.”

The Fords are both defeated and enduring. Their grasp on the city has slipped, but they have by no means let go. * * * Five hours earlier, I’m bounding along Etobicoke’s St. Phillips Road in a BMW driven by Cynthia Amsden, a film publicist who’s taken a job running communications for the Andray Domise campaign. Domise, a financial planner with roots in Rexdale, is running to be councillor for Ward 2 (Etobicoke North), the seat held by one Ford or another since 2000.

Amsden, a proud downtowner, explains that she hooked up with the campaign in September – when Rob Ford replaced his nephew on the ballot following his cancer diagnosis, and Domise’s campaign manager joked on Twitter, “Does anyone have @jimmykimmel’s number?” She tweeted back offering a contact.

For a publicist, she says, taking on Ford is “the motherlode.” The posh

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By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE

British voice of her GPS system interrupts her story as it barks out directions to the Dixon towers.

The high-rise neighbourhood east of Kipling, made infamous by the Project Traveller raids (that netted, among other things, a copy of the first Rob Ford crack video), is where Domise will spend the last few hours of his campaign. The area has thou-

sands of residents living in close proximity, making it an efficiently dense place to pull the vote. We cross paths with would-be trustee Dahir Galbete and supporters of rival council candidate Munira Abukar.

Domise is accompanied on the canvass by two volunteers plus a man shooting a documentary and a camera crew from Humber.

Starting at the top of 370 Dixon, he works his way through, door by door, floor by floor. It’s like pretty much every other modernist apartment building in Toronto, with hallways whose quiet is sometimes pierced by the sounds of children and dogs.

I stand aside as Domise speaks to residents, and seldom catch more than an arm through a door frame.

To be closer would feel like intruding on a sacred moment of democracy.

Many residents say they’ve already voted, which could be true or just a polite way to shoo Domise off. Some are too young to vote, others aren’t citizens, and still more are simply unable or unwilling to make it across the street to the polling station.

“We’ve been at this for six months,” Domise reflects between floors.

“That’s not gonna reverse 14 years of enforced apathy.” * * * At the Ford party, the biggest cheers come early, when CP24 declares Rob the victor in Ward 2. He takes 58.8 per cent of the vote, nearly six times that of runner-up Luke LaRocque. Domise winds up third with 8.2 per cent.

Abukar fourth with 6.1.

The event is otherwise bleak, held in a hall a fraction the size of that which hosted the Fords’ 2010 victory bash. The room could be expanded by opening dividers, but there is no need. The last remnants of Ford Nation fit comfortably, a far cry from the crowd of four years ago that forced the victorious candidates to literally shove their way to the stage.

Back then, Rob barrelled in to Eye Of The Tiger. This time, Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. But the music doesn’t start until he’s already at the lectern and keeps playing through the first part of his speech.

His address is seven minutes of empty Fordisms peppered with references to the next election.

“We, today, have got to start working for November of 2018,” he says.

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Toronto votes 2014: the fallout

3. OLIVIA CHOW

L

ong before the election results flashed up on the big screen, the crowd in the Daniels Spectrum auditorium was resigned to defeat.

The roughly 200 people at Olivia Chow’s election night gathering in Regent Park were the kind predisposed to optimism. But even they didn’t believe their candidate, trailing badly in opinion polls going into the vote, would pull off a win.

Shortly after 8:10 pm, when the numbers came in showing Chow a distant third with 23 per cent, the room went silent not so much with disappointment as with quiet acceptance. John Tory would be the new mayor with 40 per cent of the vote, while Doug Ford took 34 per cent.

Chow’s supporters barely perked up again until she took to the stage to deliver her concession speech. In a 10-minute address punctuated by spontaneous chants of “Olivia! Olivia!” she told the crowd that moments earlier she had called Tory to con-

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gratulate him, but also to urge him to take up the social causes she had made central to her campaign.

“John, you know that children are going to school hungry in this city.

Too many young people are looking for jobs, too many families are looking for affordable homes... too many cars stuck in traffic gridlock, and too many people are living in poverty,” Chow said. “John, you’ve just been given a chance to do something about it.”

Despite the heavy defeat, she asked her supporters to “stay engaged, stay involved, keep fighting for what you believe. Ask that question: What can we do with each other, for each other?

Then go out and be the answer yourself,” she said, to cheers and whistles.

Chow had spent the final day of the election taking her message to the street, canvassing in Scarborough, Ryerson University and North York. Her final stop was at the corner of Jane and Wilson, where she met with transit riders waiting to board overcrowded buses.

Back in March, she held her first campaign appearance at the same

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For ALL the goodwiLL mAny mAy FeeL towArd her, there’S no doubt She wAS unAbLe to inSPire enough oF them By BEN SPURR

intersection to promote her plan to improve TTC service. But though she ended her campaign mere metres from where it began, on election day she was miles away from where she was back in the spring, when she seemed poised to take back City Hall for Toronto’s progressives after four years of right-wing misrule.

Chow started her mayoral bid brightly and led in early polls. Her ability to energize voters was evident at her campaign launch, which she held in a jam-packed church near the St. James Town neighbourhood where she grew up after immigrating to Canada from Hong Kong. That day she charged that Mayor Rob Ford had “let us down, over and over,” and pledged to be a mayor who would restore dignity to City Hall.

From the outset she emphasized her newcomer background as often as she could, hoping it would connect in a city where nearly half the population was born outside the country.

Simultaneously she’d describe how growing up poor had taught her the value of a dollar. In an effort to make herself more palatable to centrist

voters, she pledged to keep tax increases in line with inflation.

But her attempts to reach toward the middle were stymied by Rob Ford’s buoyant popularity, which led voters terrified at the prospect of his re-election to coalesce around Tory as the anti-Ford candidate. Even when a tumour diagnosis forced the mayor to drop out and be replaced of his less popular brother, Chow’s

efforts weren’t enough. She polled in third throughout the fall.

Her campaign’s shortcomings aside, however, Chow’s newcomer origins and persistence through personal and political battles mean she will always be a star to some.

During her campaign blitz on Monday, dozens of Ryerson students stopped to take pictures with her, a few of them becoming emotional at meeting her for the first time.

“She wants to build a better place for us,” said Sandy Herrera, a developmental psychology student who came to Toronto from Ecuador.

“I don’t think there are many role models that I can identify with. I want to be like her.”

Unfortunately for Chow, such devoted supporters were in the minority this election season.

In a scrum after her concession speech, Chow admitted that in the campaign’s early going she focused too much on beating Rob Ford instead of recognizing the threat that Tory posed.

“Rob Ford was the one I was running against, and when he went into rehab, things changed quite completely,” she said.

She framed her defeat to Tory as a case of talking points triumphing over substance. “John had a very strong, simple message about his transit plan. And I have a vision of a city that is not just about transit; it’s about housing and jobs and kids.”

She may have a point. Of the three main candidates, Chow was the only one to release a full policy platform.

But as a woman who has won 10 elections over the past 30 years at several levels of government, she knows better than most that campaigns are about connecting with voters. For all the goodwill that many in the city may feel toward her and her ideas, there can be no doubt that she was unable to inspire enough of them.

Whether her failed mayoral bid will be the end of her distinguished political career remains to be seen.

She stepped down as NDP MP to compete in the race, and although in her speech she vowed that she would “keep fighting for the causes that matter,” she told media it was too soon to say whether she would consider running for mayor again in 2018 or taking a shot at the leadership of the Ontario NDP. With an overwhelming majority of Torontonians casting their ballots for right-wing candidates Monday, many progressive voters in the crowd at Chow HQ weren’t sure what to do next either.

Byron Morris, a campaign volunteer, complained that a Toronto where Doug Ford can capture 330,610 votes was almost unrecognizable to him.

“Toronto is becoming a different city than it was 10 years ago,” he said.

“And we as progressives have got to figure out how to crack that nut.” 3 bens@nowtoronto.com | @BenSpurr

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Reflections on a violent day in ottawa

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By MATTHEW BEHRENS

Kevin Vickers, left, the sergeant-atarms of the House of Commons, on Wednesday October 22, after a lone gunman’s rampage on Parliament Hill.

HORROR ON THE HILL Some MPs had started barricading a side door to our caucus room with tables when, BANG BANG, BANG, a long series of gunshots rang out. By ANDREW CASH

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’ll never forget the sound, like the dark and vicious version of a melody you can’t get out of your head.

BANG, BANG, BANG. The gunshots explode with a shocking ferocity just as a Parliament Hill security guard barges into the Railway Room, where we hold our weekly caucus meetings. He hurries to lock the door and presses his body against it like a human barricade. Everything else seems in slow motion.

We’re all looking around, confused, half standing.

I’ve never actually heard gunshots before, so this could be anything, right? But there is the yelling, too, a lot of it.

That may be a common sound on the floor of the House of Commons, but it’s one you never hear in the halls of Parliament.

And it’s that more than the gunfire that signals to me something is seriously wrong just outside the door in the moments after Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo standing guard at the War Memorial on October 22 and then headed into Parliament with his shotgun, presumably in search of more targets.

Some MPs had started barricading a side door to the room with tables. Then BANG, BANG, BANG, a long series of gunshots.

Now we’re all down on the floor and very, very quiet. There are some muffled sobs.

Someone gets up to turn off the microphone we use in our meeting, lest it broadcast any sounds that can be heard outside the room. Another simply doesn’t get on the floor at all until others become adamant.

I look across the room for my colleague MP Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe (Pierrefonds-Dollard), who had only minutes earlier introduced her newborn to the NDP family. I thought she had a stroller with her, but

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now I can’t see that or her across the room.

No one is wired for this kind of thing. This isn’t part of the MP orientation after you get elected. In fact, we’ve never even had a fire drill.

What we do have, though, are stoically efficient, brave and professional security staff. Ours, Alain Gervais, finally moves away from the door, which we discover the next day was hit by gunfire, and tells us to get up very quietly.

Our leader, Tom Mulcair, who has been down against the opposite wall, makes a beeline to thank him, shakes his hand, and now we’re all moving to an adjacent meeting room connected by a different door.

In the few second’s walk into that room I text my wife: “If you heard there was trouble in the House today, don’t worry. I am fine. Someone was shooting up the place – for real!! Anyway we are all ok.”

I spoke too soon.

In this room another guard tells us that we have to go “as quickly and as quietly as possible” down the hall that connects the House of Commons with the Senate and get out through the Senate exit.

This is for real? It is.

The entire NDP caucus, our leader and some staff – more than a hundred of us – take off down the hall.

At the end another guard directs us down the stairs toward the exit. You’re not thinking at this point.

You’re just moving, trying to get as far away from the source of that awful sound.

But as we get to the Senate door, a guard is in the process of shutting it. We tell him, “No, we’ve been told to go out this door.” So he opens it up and we’re out.

But this immediately doesn’t feel right. We aren’t met by anyone on the other side. There doesn’t seem

to be any plan now. In fact, as I look back there are only about 15 of us outside, and the door is now closed. What happened to the rest? Confusion.

Now that I’m out of the building, I start to feel fear for the first time.

We’re wandering around like escaped hostages in the middle of nowhere. But we aren’t in the middle of nowhere. We’re on Parliament Hill. And sure enough, as we walk away toward the War Memorial, there are, like every other day, tourists, some stopping to take photos. I tell them they should be going the opposite way.

They have no sense of what’s happened. But really neither do we. Some of us make our way to the sidewalk as police tape is being wrapped around the War Memorial. Unmarked cars with sirens, ambulances, Ottawa police and various other military and security personnel are piling into Parliament. It’s sunny and mild, a classic fall day in Ottawa, except that everything’s been turned upside down. In the days and weeks to come details of what happened will emerge and we will start trying to make sense of this. No doubt a debate will ensue but as we move forward we must continue guarding our shared values of freedom, tolerance and an inclusive democracy.

In the days and weeks to come, details of what happened will emerge and we will start trying to make sense of this. But right now people are standing around stunned, unable to comprehend what this moment is and what to do, how to act or where to go, none of us realizing as we stand between the War Memorial and Parliament Hill that there is a young soldier lying dead at one and his killer dead at the other.

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NOW WE’RE ALL DOWN ON THE FLOOR AND VERY, VERY QUIET. THERE ARE SOME MUFFLED SOBS

Andrew Cash is NDP MP for Davenport. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

The murder of a young Canadian reservist and the Parliamentary shootout that followed was shocking because of its seemingly out-of-theblue nature.

But rather than viewing the tragic events last week as a wake-up call to seriously examine Canada’s negative role on the world stage and its war in Iraq, we got references to the “loss of innocence” and pronouncements that “things will never be the same.”

The events have understandably had a congealing effect on Parliamentarians who shared a trauma together.

But the shooting is already being used as an excuse for greater militarization and as justification for the war against ISIS, not to mention for “strengthening” our laws in the area of “surveillance, detention and arrest.”

Coincidentally, last Wednesday was also supposed to be the Harper government’s opportunity to unleash a new round of legislative measures designed to give CSIS and the RCMP even more freedom to monitor people overseas and take part in extraordinary rendition programs. After last week’s events, what opposition leader who wants to appear prime-ministerial would feel comfortable saying no to such an agenda?

We don’t know much about the shooter, but media have been quick to point out he was a recent convert to Islam.

When Prime Minster Stephen Harper addressed the nation, his discourse was unchanged from his bellicose rumblings spoken before the Parliamentary vote to bomb Iraq and Syria: “Canada will never be intimidated… redouble our efforts… savagery… no safe haven….”

While Canadian soldiers have been told to stay indoors and not show themselves in public in uniform, Muslims or those perceived as ones may have second thoughts about being out in public, too.

I have to wonder if this direct experience of fear and trauma will force us to examine our own addiction to violence as the solution to conflict.

Matthew Behrens coordinates the Homes Not Bombs non-violent direct action network.

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BEYOND PETROLEUM Fossil fuel companies, long toxic to our environment, are becoming poison in public relations environs as divestment campaigns take aim at the moral legitimacy of oil profits By NAOMI KLEIN

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hen the call came in that the University of Glasgow had voted to divest its £128 million endowment from fossil fuel companies, I happened to be in a room filled with climate activists in Oxford. They immediately broke into cheers. There were lots of hugs and a few tears. This was big – the first university in Europe to make such a move.

The next day there were more celebrations in climate circles: Lego announced it would not be renewing a relationship with Shell Oil, a longtime co-branding deal that saw toddlers filling up their plastic vehicles at toy Shell petrol stations. “Shell is polluting our kids’ imaginations,” a Greenpeace video that went viral declared, attracting more than 6 million views.

Are fossil fuel companies – long toxic to our natural environment – becoming toxic in the public relations environment as well? It seems so, galvanized by the “carbon tracker” research showing that these firms have several times more carbon in their reserves than our atmosphere can safely absorb.

Internationally, there are hundreds of active fossil fuel divestment

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campaigns on university and college campuses, as well as ones targeting local city governments, non-profit foundations and religious organizations. And the victories keep getting bigger.

In May, for instance, California’s Stanford University announced it would divest its $18.7 billion endowment from coal. And on the eve of September’s UN climate summit in New York, a portion of the Rockefeller family – a name synonymous with oil – announced that it would be divesting its foundation’s holdings from fossil fuels and expanding its investments in renewable energy.

Some are skeptical. They point out that none of this will hurt oil or coal companies. Different investors will snap up their stocks, and most of us will keep buying their products. Our economies, after all, remain hooked on fossil fuels, and affordable renewable options are too often out of reach. So are these battles over fossil fuel investments and sponsorships just a charade? A way to clean our consciences but not the atmosphere?

The criticism overlooks the deeper power and potential of these campaigns. At their core, all are taking aim at the moral legitimacy of fossil fuel companies and the profits that flow from them. This movement is saying that it is unethical to be associated with an industry whose busi-

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ness model is based on knowingly destabilizing the planet’s life support systems.

Every time a new institution or brand decides to cut its ties, every time the divestment argument is publicly made, it reinforces the idea that fossil fuel profits are illegitimate – that “these are now rogue industries,” in the words of author Bill McKibben. And it is this illegitimacy that has the potential to break the stalemate in meaningful climate action. Because if those profits are illegitimate, and this industry is rogue, it brings us a step closer to the principle that has been sorely missing from the collective climate response so far: the polluter pays.

Take the Rockefellers. When Valerie Rockefeller Wayne explained her decision to divest, she said that it was precisely because her family’s wealth was made through oil that they were “under greater moral obligation” to use that wealth to stop climate change.

That, in a nutshell, is the rationale behind polluter pays. It holds that when commercial activity creates

hefty public health and environmental damage, the polluters must shoulder a significant share of the costs of repair. But it can’t stop with individuals and foundations, nor can the principle be enforced voluntarily.

As I explore in my book, This Changes Everything, Fossil-fuelbased companies have been pledging for more than a decade to use their profits to transition us away from dirty energy. BP has rebranded itself as “Beyond Petroleum” – only to back off renewables and double down on the dirtiest fossil fuels.

Richard Branson pledged to spend $3 billion of Virgin’s profits finding a miracle green fuel and fighting global warming – only to systematically lower expectations while sharply increasing his fleet of airplanes. Clearly, polluters aren’t going to pay for this transition unless they are forced to do so by law.

Up until the early 1980s, that was still a guiding principle of environmental law-making in North America. And the principle hasn’t totally

Profits knowingly made by treating the Planet like a sewage dumP should be seen as odious.

disappeared – it’s the reason why Exxon and BP were forced to pick up large portions of the bills after the Valdez and Deepwater Horizon disasters.

But since the era of market fundamentalism took hold in the 1990s, direct regulations and penalties on polluters have been superseded by the drive to create complex market mechanisms and voluntary initiatives designed to minimize the impact of environmental action on corporations. When it comes to climate change, the result of these so-called win-win solutions has been a double loss: greenhouse emissions are up and support for many forms of climate action is down, in large part because policies are perceived – quite rightly – as passing costs on to already overburdened consumers while letting big corporate polluters off the hook.

It is this culture of lopsided sacrifice that has to stop – and the Rockefellers, oddly, are showing the way.

Large parts of the Standard Oil trust, the empire John D. Rockefeller cofounded in 1870, evolved into Exxon Mobil. In 2008 and 2012, Exxon earned about $45 billion in profits, which remains the highest yearly profit ever reported in the U.S. by a single company. Other Standard Oil spinoffs include Chevron and Amoco, which would later merge with BP. The astronomical profits these companies and their cohorts continue to earn from digging up and burning fossil fuels cannot continue to hemorrhage into private coffers.

They must, instead, be harnessed to help roll out the clean technologies and infrastructure that will allow us to move beyond these dangerous energy sources, as well as to help us adapt to the heavy weather we have already locked in. A minimal carbon tax whose price tag can be passed on to consumers is no substitute for a real polluter-pays framework – not after decades of inaction has made the problem immeasurably worse (inaction secured, in part, by a climate denial movement funded by some of these same corporations).

And that’s where these seemingly symbolic victories come in, from Glasgow to Lego. The profits of the fossil fuel sector, made by knowingly treating our atmosphere like a sewage dump, should not just be seen as toxic – something from which publicly minded institutions will naturally distance themselves. If we accept that those profits are morally illegitimate, they should also be seen as odious – something to which the public itself can make a claim in order to clean up the mess these companies have left, and continue to leave, behind.

When that happens, the pervasive sense of hopelessness in the face of a crisis as vast and costly as climate change will finally begin to lift. 3 This column was originally published in The Guardian.

Naomi Klein’s most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate, was published in the U.S., UK and Canada in September. ­thischangeseverything.org news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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sure.” (Ontario’s municipal elections are fixed by law on the fourth Monday of October, so if nothing changes, it’ll be October 22.)

Some of his supporters shout “Come again!” not as a substitute for “Pardon?” but as an impassioned plea to a departing messiah.

When Doug later takes the stage to the same piece of music, he is greeted by chants of “Recount! Recount!”

“Together,” he tells his adoring fans, “we have changed the political landscape in Toronto. It is the city made up of vibrant communities from every corner of this globe, all of whom share the same belief that government should be for the people.”

He’s effectively describing democracy as though it’s a radical concept.

And to those who drown out the end of his speech with further demands for a recount, government for the people may indeed sound something like a novelty: the Fords’ substantial talent is helping the powerless feel empowered, as though someone is

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responding to them for the first time in their lives.

Several people reply to his speech with proclamations of “In Ford we trust.”

If you’re looking to bring Ford Nationals toward reality-based politics, the only hope is to elect someone who can improve their circumstances in ways the Fords only promise. * * * Shortly before the polls close, I find Abukar at Dabagoye restaurant on Martin Grove.

She’s wrapping up dinner before heading to her party in a hall above a furniture distributor next door.

The 22-year-old is a director of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, one of the two tenant representatives elected to the board in 2011.

To her, the Fords are frauds who prop themselves up on the backs of the people they claim to serve.

“It’s me taking all the myths that they sold to the city and saying, ‘Well, look at them. I’m unravelling them: every lie you’ve told, every myth you’ve told about the work you’ve done for the people.’

“If you’re saying you’re calling TCHC residents and fixing their homes,” she says, “well, buddy, my home is still broken. And I live right close to you. I’m the closest TCHC neighbourhood to you. When it comes to you saying you’re there for the community, it’s me being at Dixon and saying, ‘Well, I’m here where Project Traveller happened, and I’m

not the councillor – so where are you, right?’”

Abukar’s frustration bursts out in intense, rapid-fire explanations of the Fords’ alternately indifferent and paternalistic relationship with marginalized communities.

(Domise has diagnosed the same issue.)

In particular, as a young woman of colour who lives in community housing, wears a headscarf and whose signs and volunteers have been subject to racist and Islamophobic attacks, she resents the Fords casting themselves as “the little guys.”

“You’re not the little guy if you’re driving around in an RV that has your face on it.”

Her campaign, she explains, is about declaring, “Hi, over here – I’m the little guy. And I’m telling you you don’t speak for me. I speak for myself.”

Just as with the city as a whole, Ward 2 has to ween itself off of a civic paradigm in which the Fords automatically take up the central role.

“I think the more we speak about them,” Abukar says, “the more power you give them, right?

And for me, it’s like, let’s move away from the fact that they destroyed the community. Let’s move away from the fact that they’re even here [to the matter of] how do we build a community without them?”

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WoodGreen social service workers ratified a new contract, voting 81 per cent in favour on Tuesday, October 28, after walking off the job October 9.

Workers agreed to a three-year contract with wage increases of 1.5 per cent in each of the next three years. Parttime workers’ request for benefits was denied.

Claire Hariz, a cleaner and bargaining team member, said many workers supported the strike but couldn’t afford any more lost wages. “They’ve got mouths to feed, so for them it isn’t a choice.”

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Toronto Coalition to Stop the War rallied outside the U.S. Consulate on University on Saturday, October 25, to protest the U.S.-led bombing raids against ISIS in Iraq. The Harper government recently began reviewing the files of U.S. war resisters living in Canada in what critics says is an attempt to silence their calls for peace.

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boombox (upcoming TIFF exhibition Stanley Kubrick) Film, music, art and fun at this fundraising event. 9 pm. $160. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/boombox.

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Festivals this week

featuring film, theatre, art, talks, music and more. Glendon College, 2275 Bayview, and EKRAN ToRoNTo Polish Film FEsTivAl Polish other venues. festivalofimagesandwords.ca To Nov 8 cinema showcase of features, docs, shorts iNTERNATioNAl FEsTivAl oF AuThoRs Readand more. $15. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesings, talks, interviews and more with authvalles. ekran.ca ors including Caroline Adderson, David BezNov 5 to 9 mozgis, Steven Galloway, James Ellroy, PomEgRANATE Film FEsTivAl Celebrating Armenian cinema and culture. $10-$60, passes Emma Donoghue, Esther Freud, Damon Galgut and David Adam Richards. $18 and up, available. Hamazkayin Theatre, 50 Hallcrown festival pass $120, students free. HarbourPlace. pomegranatefilmfestival.com front Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973Nov 5 to 9 4000, ifoa.org ToRoNTo silENT Film FEsTivAl Restored To Nov 2 Alfred Hitchcock films screened with live REbEls WiTh A cAusE Film FEsTivAl Artistic musical accompaniment. $15, festival pass reflections of social justice issues and critic$35-$40. Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E, and other cinemas. torontosilentfilmfestival.com al documentations of unsung community work. All screening followed by panel disNov 1 to 16 cussions. Free. York Woods Library Theatre, ToRoNTo souTh AFRicAN Film FEsTivAl 1785 Finch W. rebelsfilmfest.org Narrative and documentary films that show To Oct 31 the rich and complex history, politics and culture of South Africa. Art Gallery of Ontario, 7A*11d iNTERNATioNAl FEsTivAl oF PERFoRmANcE ART Performance, live and acJackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. tsaff.ca tion art, sound and media works, and public Nov 1 to 2 interventions by Berenicci Hershorn, lo bil, Nathalie Mba Bikoro, claude wittman, Francesca Fini and others. Pwyc-$10. Artscape FEsTivAl oF imAgEs ANd WoRds Celebration Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 7a-11d.ca To Nov 2 of Latin American art and culture in Canada,

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ghostbusters, proton pack demos, photos with the marshmallow man and two film screenings. 7 & 7:30 pm. $13. Colossus Theatre, 3555 Hwy 7, Vaughan. thebigevent.ca.

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. Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, 288 Bremner. 905-935-5763, eventbrite.ca.

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ANimAl RighTs AcAdEmy lEcTuRE Vittoria

Lion talks about why behavioural changes are better than technological fixes in the animal industrial complex. 7-9 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2281. animalrightsacademy.org. big bANg ThEoRy: dRum ciRclE 101 Playshop for adults. 7-8:30 pm. $30. Long & McQuade, 935 Bloor W. Pre-register ripplerhythm@ gmail.com.

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Bodies and bike lights are used to spell out the most important number in climate science for the newly elected mayor and council.

5:30 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. 350.org. body oF WoRK Photography lecture by Yuri Dojc. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com.

cANAdiAN ART FouNdATioN’s iNTERNATioNAl sPEAKER sERiEs: sARAh ThoRNToN Book

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

HdiviNE ENmiTy Horror film screening. 9:15 pm. Free. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton.

416-598-2197, wildsoundfestival.com.

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PEOPLE AND PLACES PUT AT RISK BY TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline Proposal See landscapes and people the mega-pipeline threatens in this arresting photo exhibit.

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Dance Art galleries Readings

pm. $18, stu $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. drinkwithdeath.com.

ENgo lEgAl ToolKiT WoRKshoP Session to educate nonprofits in the environmental field about the legal tools available to protect air, water, land and human health. 9 am-4:30 pm. $100. Sustainability Network, 215 Spadina.

Pre-register sustainabilitynetwork.ca.

ThE FuTuRE oF ToRoNTo REAl EsTATE Toronto Life’s Philip Preville, former chief planner Paul Bedford and others discuss how the booming housing market is reshaping the city. 6-9:30 pm. $55. Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. torontolife. com/cityseries.

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HghosT TouR oF ThE ElgiN ANd WiNTER gARdEN ThEATRE cENTRE Learn about the his-

tory 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. 416-314-2871.

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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.

HhAlloWEEN doublE FEATuRE Screening of The Wolf Man (1941), and The Mummy (1932). Check website for schedule and ticket price. Cineplex, Yonge & Dundas, and other Cineplex theatres. cineplex.com.

HrhAlloWEEN 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.

HhAuNTEd 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. Preregister 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com.

hEAlTh clAims ANd ThiRd-PARTy cERTiFiERs oN PREPAcKAgEd Food Talk by Vivien Wong

on what the logos on food products mean and how you can be a more informed consumer. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. homEToWN hoRizoNs Rob Rutherdale looks at how local communities experienced WWI from Alberta farmers to Ontario shopkeepers, to civic workers in Quebec. 6:30 pm. Free.

North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416395-5623. odE 2 EAsT Video installation by Adam Szigeti showcases Scarborough’s natural spaces. Live music by Pierre Pharaoh. 8 pm. Free. Café La Roche, 2139 Lawrence E. on.fb.me/1ptyeGk.

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Toronto Police Services Board public consultation session. 7-9 pm. Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 The West Mall. tpsb.ca.

HscREEmERs Indoor scream park with haunted attractions, skull castle, house of cards, monsters and more. To Nov 1. $30-$40.

Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place, 190 Princes’ Blvd. screemers.ca.

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Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and others speak at an event to name a street after the queer artist. Reception to follow in the Cabaret Space. Noon-2 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

sToPPiNg EbolA: docToRs WiThouT boRdERs ExPERiENcEs oN ThE FRoNT liNEs oF A hisToRic EPidEmic Learn more about the humanitar-

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

Tbg oRgANic FARmERs’ mARKET Local produce, bread, meat, cheese, honey, gardeners’ advice clinic and more. Thursdays 2-7 pm (indoors in winter). Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

Tom WoollEy Public lecture hosted by Ryerson Dept of Architecture. 6:30-8 pm. Free. The PIT, 325 Church. arch.ryerson.ca.

ToRoNTo iNTERNATioNAl PiANo comPETiTioN Elite young pianists competition. To Oct 30. $10. Chinese Cultural Centre, PC Ho Theatre, 5183 Sheppard E. cccpianocompetitions.org.

HrToRoNTo’s hAuNTEd WAlK WiTh mAcKENziE housE visiT Discover Toronto’s ghost

stories and darker history. Check website for schedule. Today and Nov 1. $18.75, stu/youth $16.75, child $10.75. Hockey Hall Of Fame, 30 Yonge. Pre-register hauntedwalk.com. uToPiA Rebel Films screening and discussion.

7 pm. $4 sugg. OISE, rm 5-280, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca.

HWEiRd TAlEs Selection of new animated horror shorts. 8 pm. $5 suggested donation.

Toronto Animated Image Society, 1411 Dufferin, Unit B. tais.ca.

H 5Who’s AFRAid oF RAdicAl QuEER REsisTANcE? Halloween neighbourhood history

walk n’ roll tour by flashlight uncovers the community’s history of resisting gentrifacation, the criminalization of sex work, racism, violent policing and more. 8 pm. Free. Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives, 34 Isabella. facebook.com/events/371577326333364.

HWildsouNd FEEdbAcK ToRoNTo Screening of Not Anymore, A Story Of Revolution, short films La Commedia, Suburban Deathcore and others at 7 pm. Horror feature Divine Enmity at 9:15 pm. Pwyc. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. info@wildsound.ca. yogA FoR iNjuRiEs Workshop addresses common injuries and how to heal the body. For all levels. 6:30 pm. Free. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. livingcityhealth.com.

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Benefits

HghosT WAlKs AT ExhibiTioN PlAcE (United Way) Paranormal tours of the grounds every Fri in Oct. 7-9 pm. $20. Starts at General Services Building, 2 Manitoba. Pre-register 416263-3658.

HhAlloWEEN FuNdRAisER (Make A Wish Toronto & Central 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. 647-893-3697.

HABCs Of DeAth 2: A hOrrOr AnthOlOgy

Opening for the horror anthology sequel. $9.50, srs $6, stu $7. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. rainbowcinemas.ca.

Hthe BruiseD spirits Of sOuthern OntAriO

Opera Arcana’s post-punk multimedia horror story set in Kensington Market. Today and tomorrow 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Videofag, 187 Augusta. facebook.com/events/819866891397293.

HfriDAy night live @ rOM Live music, DJs, pop-up 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.

HhArt hOuse Of hOrrOrs Multi-room party with magicians, contortionists, palm and tarot readings, horrors flicks, a séance and DJ music. 8:30 pm. $15 (séance extra $7). Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca.

HhAunteD high pArk Spooky grounds tours, legends and ghost stories for families with adults 18 years and up. 7-8:30 pm. $17.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916.

MAnhunt tOrOntO: high pArk Capture The Flag, Manhunt, Red Rover and other games played in parks and streets. 9 pm. Free. High Park at Bloor. meetup.com/UrbaniGames.

HrOCky hOrrOr piCture shOw Halloween screening. Costumes and snacks welcome.

6-8 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

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Shadowcast performance performing their own satirical, comedic version of the film during the show. 7 & 10:30 pm screenings. $15.

Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

HsCAry filMs Watch Linda Blair’s head spin in The Exorcist 7 pm, and scream all the way through A Nightmare On Elm Street 9:30 pm. $11, srs $8. Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E. foxtheatre.ca.

Hthe shining Screening of Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of one of Stephen King’s movels starring the crazed Jack Nicholson. 6:30 pm. $12,50, srs/stu $10. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net.

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big 3 NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

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MOVEMBER MOVEMENT

Get ready for some not-so-fashionable facial hair now that November has set in and men are growing beards to raise awareness about prostate cancer. In support of Movember, improv troupe the Dandies presents Close Shave 3, three sets of music and comedy at the Imperial Pub on Saturday (November 1). 7, 9 and 11 pm. $15$20 or three sets for $40. 54 Dundas East. ow.ly/BwxaK

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PICKING A NEW POLICE CHIEF

What do we want in a new police chief? Public consultations on the allimportant question of picking a top cop got underway this week and conclude Monday (November 3), 7 to 9 pm, at North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. Free. tpsb.ca

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SCARY CLIMATE CHANGE

Mayor-elect John Tory and new members of council will receive a message about climate change when bodies and bikes are used to spell out the most important number in climate science – 350, the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Be sure to wear your climate-themed costume. (There will be a prize.) Nathan Phillips Square, Thursday (October 30), 5:30 pm. Free. 100 Queen West. toronto350.org

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT With Andrew Bennett, Canadian Ambassador for Religious Freedom 6:30 pm, Monday, November 3 U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina Avenue, M5S 2J7

onto.com

What does it mean to promote Canadian values of pluralism and tolerance abroad?

WS, Join Andrew Bennett, Prof. Pamela Klassen, Prof. , Ruth Marshall, and Prof. Melissa ISTINGS Williams with the University of Toronto for anTS engaging discussion.

CONTES Contact Multi-Faith E Centre is ANDatMOR Zita Prashad, 416-946-3120 zita.prashad@utoronto.ca

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HrspooktaCular Dog Walk Dress-up event for all dogs with treats and prize for best costume. 6:30 pm. Free. Liberty Village Park, 70 East Liberty. facebook.com/ events/1467684043506274.

Hspook-taCular sCreenings Poltergeist 7 pm, Mr Vampire III 9 pm, and Night Of The Creeps at 11 pm. $10, stu/srs $8 per screening. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theroyal.to.

HrtriCk-or-treat Fun family activities. 10 am-8 pm. Free w/ admission, $5, stu/srs $3, under 12 free. Museum of Inuit Art, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571.

HzoMBie proM Relive your prom with even more horror with photo booths, prize for zomb-king and -queen, DJ party, makeup stations and more. 9 pm. $25-$30. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. zombieprom.ca.

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Cathay Ball (Mon Sheong Foundation) Blacktie gala with multi-arts performances by the Flying Aspara, Little Pear Garden Collective, the Laura Lynn Band and others. 6 pm. $400.

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front W. monsheong.org.

Close shave 3: Q Meets Who (Movember Canada) Improv troupe the Dandies present a benefit show with three comedy and music sets. 7, 9 and 11 pm. $15-$20, all three sets $40. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. ow.ly/BwxaK.

Events

aCting Classes Open to everyone. 2-5 pm.

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

Buying your First hoMe Learn about financing and how to make an offer. 2-4 pm. Free.

Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-393-7746.

Canzine 2014 Zine fair and festival of underground culture, with panel discussions, skill share, book pitch, readings, zine swap, books, comics and printed ephemera. 1-7 pm. $5. 918 Bathurst Centre. brokenpencil.com/canzine.

HDay oF the DeaD Musicians, Aztec dancers, traditional food, visual artists, actors and more. 4-10 pm. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. torontoartscape.org. the Dionysus experiMent Zine launch and music by Pony, Fuss, Terrorista, Riot Porn, Pantychrist and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Nowhere Gallery, 1581 Dundas W.

5DoWn anD Dirty: Diy porn Workshop

Learn to make quality porn on a small budget with Feminist Porn Award-winning filmmaker Sonya Barnett and others. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. $120, stu $20. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register sex-ed.ca.

Hhorror-raMa Horror-film culture convention with appearances by Tom Savini and Barbara Steele, a vendors market, parties and a screening of Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (at Revue, 400 Roncesvalles). Today & tomorrow. $10-$40. 99 Sudbury. horrorramacanada.com. introDuCtory MeDitation Class. 1 pm. Free.

Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. meditationtoronto.com.

HrMiMiCo puMpkin paraDe Say bye to Halloween at a jack-o-lantern parade. 6-8:30 pm. Free. Amos Waites Park, 2445 Lake Shore W. facebook.com/mimicopumpkinparade.

MoM to MoM Fall 2014 sale Parents sell gently used items to each other plus vendors and parenting lectures. 10 am-3 pm. $2. West Scarborough Neighborhood Community Centre, 313 Pharmacy. torontomomtomom.com.

MurDer at the roM Scavenger hunt for adults. 1-3:30 pm. $35. Meet outside Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister 416-852-6444, urbancapers.com.

Hnight oF the living DeaD TIFF pop-up screening of the zombie flick rated 14a.

Snacks and alcoholic drinks for sale. Outdoor screening in the historic kilns, dress for the weather. 7-9 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

HrpuMpkin paraDe Display of jack o’lanterns and pumpkin parade. Bring your own candle. 6:30-9 pm. Free. East Lynn Park, 1949 Danforth. decadiaries.wordpress.com.

HrpuMpkin Walk Bring your jack-o-lantern for a spooky walk. 5-9 pm. Free. Vine Parkette, Dundas W at Quebec. junctionbia.ca. rouge park Walks Guided walks in the urban wilderness. See website for meeting points. Today and tomorrow 9:30 am, 12:30 & 2 pm. Free. rougepark.com/hike. snoWFest Bring gently used gear to swap, check out product demos and educational clinics on winter sports. 11 am-5 pm. Free.

Mountain Equipment Co-op, 400 King W. events.mec.ca.

toronto international piano CoMpetition Finals for elite young pianists. 8 pm. $30$40. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. rcmusic.ca.

American cultural celebration with familyfriendly events, live music and dance, skullface painting, churros and more. 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

rDruM artz 10th anniversary CeleBration Family event with workshops in samba

drumming, carnival costume making, stilt walking and dance. 11:30 am-3:30 pm. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307, drumartz.com. an enChanteD evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm.

Free/pwyc for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. iCelanD volCano BarDaBunga Talk by geologist/volcano specialist Kristinn Gudjonsson.

3:30 pm. $10. Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church, 4 Morningside. Pre-register 416-762-8627.

the kitChen liBrary open house/CookBook sWap Bring cookbooks to swap for

new/better ones. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. the kitchenlibrary.ca.

5lgBt DanCe Salsa and bachata classes for queer and trans people. $15. U of T MultiFaith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com. liBerty village FarMers Market Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca.

Mining environMent issues Move north

Lecture by prof Graeme Spiers. 2 pm. Free.

Medical Sciences Bldg Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org. olD Book anD paper shoW Travel and movie posters, comics, vintage photography, sewing patterns and more. 10 am-4 pm. $8. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. antiqueshowscanada.com. origins oF MoDern eCosysteMs Illustrated lecture by ROM paleontologist Jean-Bernard Caron. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org. rsaMBa DruMMing For kiDs Drop-in workshop. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz.com. sunDay Morning BirD Walk Guided walk to identify resident and migratory birds. 8-11 am. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. tommythompsonpark.ca.

transit: Colonel Walter o’hara’s parkDale Urban ecology walk along Humber Bay

to Dugway Hill, up Sorauren Ave to Ponta Blanco (White Bridge). 11 am. Free. Meet at Queensway and Windermere. 416-593-2656.

Events

art Bus tour See current exhibitions at the

Justina M Barnicke Gallery, U of T Art Centre, Blackwood Gallery and the Art Gallery of York University. Noon-5 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register 416-978-8398.

HDía De los Meurtos CeleBration Latin

WoMen For WoMen’s lunCheon (Women’s

College Hospital Foundation) Guest speakers include musician Kathleen Edwards, figure skater Elizabeth Manley and others, plus a panel discussion on women’s mental health issues. 11:15 am. $195. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. womenforwomens.ca.

Events

art at the palais (secondary school arts pro-

grams) Emerging Toronto Artists Awards gala and art exhibit with live performances and silent auction. 6 pm. $20, adv $15. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. etaawards.com.

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. Preregister 416-394-1000. 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. legal For Business Former CRA auditor discusses important legal considerations for business. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. Pre-register 416-396-8951.

5a perFeCt x: interseCting perspeCtives in transgenDer FilM, art anD perForManCe

Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst present an artists’ talk on their work as a transgender couple.

4-6 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca.

Wednesday, November 5

Benefits

the playoFF run (The Michael “Pinball”

Clemons Foundation) Join Pinball and other CFL legends for a 5K run along the lakeshore to support people in priority neighbourhoods. 9 am. $31-$51. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. Preregister mpcf.ca/The-Playoff-Run.html.

What’s on the taBle (Stop Community Food

House) Elly Litvak presents her solo show about living with and recovering from mental illness. 7 pm. $30. 3030 Dundas West, 3030 Dundas W. georgehermanhouse.ca.

Events

an agatha Christie Mystery: FinDing alz-

heiMer’s on the page Learn to recognize signs of Alzheimer’s in written language. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge, Beeton Auditorium. 416-395-5577. the Beatles: love Me Do anD First hits

Film clips and talk by lecturer Kevin Courrier. 7-9 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

CanaDian theatre in Context Lecture by theatre artist Ravi Jain. 9 am.

Free. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail, rm AA341. utsc. utoronto.ca.

introDuCtory MeDitation

Learn easy techniques. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College.

416-538-0006, meditationtoronto.com.

Male BoDy iMage support

puBliC survey on hiring a neW poliCe ChieF Toronto Police Services

service, a fashion show, a silent auction, gourmet treats and more raise funds for seriously ill children. 1-4 pm. $80 and up. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. Pre-register 416-6425675, teaandtiaras.ca.

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noW Who’s Crazy noW? (George Herman

Sunday, November 2 tea & tiaras (Starlight Children’s Fdn) Tea

Tuesday, November 4

Benefits

ners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.

Benefits

ence for apparel brands and retailers, sustainability experts, NGOs and academia to share best practices, build relationships and tackle the social and environmental challenges facing the industry. Today and tomorrow. From $200. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Pre-register wear2014.com.

Monday, November 3

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 salsa praCtiCe No lesson, begin-

WorlD ethiCal apparel rounDtaBle Confer-

Board public consultation session. 7-9 pm. North York Civic Centre, Members Lounge, 5100 Yonge. tpsb.ca. tai Chi Weekly class Mondays & Wednesdays, 9-10 am. Free w/ membership ($6$10/year). Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil. cecilcommunitycentre.ca. toronto sWing DanCe soCiety Five-week East Coast swing dance lessons. To December 1. $70 series. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. traMpoline hall Mini-lectures hosted by Misha Glouberman. 7:40 pm. $5-$6. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall. net.

Dress up your pooch for October 31’s Spooktacular Dog Walk.

Centre) Toronto’s best chefs under one roof. 7 pm. $300. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. wott. thestop.org.

Events

The educaTion of a Leader: Joseph BranT and The schooL ThaT Became darTmouTh coLLege

United Empire Loyalists presentation by Jean Rae Baxter. 7 pm. Free. St David’s Towers Community Room, 51 Donlands. uelgovsimcoe.org.

The forgoTTen genocide: europe’s gypsies in WorLd War ii Film screening and panel discus-

sion with social activist Bernie Farber and professor Cynthia Levine-Rasky as part of Holocaust Education Week. 7 pm. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-789-5502. in conversaTion WiTh danieL Lanois The producer and artist talks about his career and introduces his new album with short films and accompanying songs. 7 pm. $22.75. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. israeL: a naTion-sTaTe? Science for Peace lecture

by Abraham Weizfeld. 4-6 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace. ca.

LiBerTy viLLage Bia generaL meeTing 3:30 pm.

Brazen Head, 165 East Liberty. 416-535-8787, libertyvillage.ca.

presented by

munk deBaTe on oBama’s foreign poLicy

Robert Kagan, Fareed Zakaria, Bret Stephens and Anne-Marie Slaughter debate whether Obama’s policies have made the world a more dangerous place. 7 pm. $25-$90. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

The oaag aWards Ontario Association of Art Galleries awards presentation. 4 pm. Free (RSVP).

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. Pre-register 416-598-0714, awards@oaag.org.

ThoughT exchange series: your Brain on speed How the brain responds to the rush hour

of life, working better with age, and mainting your mental edge in the workplace. 6:30 pm.

Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416395-5440.

ToronTo mini maker faire Launch parTy Curiosities and cocktails, celebration and cellophane, crafting and canapes and more. 6:30-10:30 pm. $10. 918 Bathurst Centre. make-wonder-tinker. eventbrite.com.

upcoming Thursday, November 6

Benefits

arTaTTack! (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre) Silent and live auctions of art by Winnie Truong and many others. $30 & $150. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

The BenJamin proJecT (Toronto Humane Society) Meet author Malcolm Bernstein as he launches his book about a family and their dog, plus shelter tours and more. 7 pm. Free. 11 River. thebenjaminproject.ca.

The finaL shoW (Light Of Day: Parkinson’s research/support) John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, Joe D’Urso & Stone Caravan, Pat Travers and others play the final show before the El Mo closes its doors. 8 pm. $60. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. lightofdaycanada.com/tickets.

Events

ago firsT Thursdays Installations, art talks, live music by Majical Cloudz and more inspired by the Suzy Lake exhibit. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/firstthursdays. animaL righTs academy LecTure Camille Labchuck talks about where Canadian political parties stand on animal rights issues. 7-9 pm. Free.

OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2281. animalrightsacademy.org. anTi-musLim racism & The LaW: omar khadr’s senTencing hearing aT guanTanamo Lecture

by U of T prof Sherene Razack. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca.

Bangkok nighTs: fesTivaL of LighT Celebration of Thailand’s Loy Krathong Festival with Thai food, DJ and cocktails. 6 pm. $30, adv $25. Bangkok Garden, 18 Elm. 416-977-6748, bangkokgarden.ca. hoLocausT educaTion Week fiLm Screening of Hitler’s Children. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440. michaeL speaks Public lecture hosted by Ryerson Dept of Architecture. 6:30-8 pm. Free. The PIT, 325 Church. arch.ryerson.ca.

Trans famiLy LaW proJecT Launch Discussion of free resources and how trans parents can protect their rights in family situations. 6-9 pm. Free.

Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne. Preregister bit.ly/1snlnV6. yiddish vinkL Bernice Eisenstein talks abou the book, I Was A Child Of Holocaust Survivors.

Noon. $20 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Cafe, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOURD Buh-bye, Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Hello, squash surplus.

What now? We asked Chris Kalisperas, chef at The Forth, for some inspirations on what to do with all those gourds decorating our tables.

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How to pick it

Look for a firm skin with no soft or mouldy parts or bruises. Don’t worry if the colour isn’t uniform or if there are some barnaclelike splotches on them. A squash doesn’t need refrigeration – it can last for weeks when stored in a cool dark place.

How to cook it

“Your choices are either roasting or boiling,” says Kalisperas. “But when you boil it, it becomes really soggy and hard to work with unless you’re puréeing it into a soup. Even then you have to add a lot of flavour to it.”

That’s why he prefers roasting (for the home cook, it’s 400°F for 45 minutes to an hour). “When roasted, it becomes more flavourful since the natural sugars caramelize. I’ve never tried a raw squash, but I imagine it’d just dry your mouth out.”

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Buttercup squash tart

The buttercup squash is best characterized as a little green pumpkin with the occasional splotch of bright orange on the skin.

When you splice it open you’ll see that seeds take up most of the inside, so if you want to make a soup, Kalisperas says it’s better to opt for the butternut squash, which has a higher flesh-to-seeds ratio.

The chef roasts and purées the squash with eggs, garlic, salt, and pepper to make a savoury custard. He then pours it into a mini-piecrust, bakes it and then finishes it with a horseradish cream.

“The cream was made by whipping 35 per cent cream and ground horseradish, but if you don’t want to do that at home, you can just mix sour cream and horseradish,” he says.

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“If you’re entertaining and want something quick and simple, a crostini is the way to go,” he says. “I wanted to move away from a bruschetta since it’s fall, so I replaced tomatoes with squash.”

The roasted squash is simply peeled, puréed, mixed with grated parmesan, salt and pepper and spread on pieces of grilled bread that’ve been brushed with olive oil and salt. Kalisperas then adds slices of lardo (cured pork fat), puts them back into the oven for 30 seconds to slightly melt it, and finally garnishes them with more cheese, some basil leaves and drops of a nice balsamic vinegar.

The slightly melted pork fat blankets the squash for a salty finish, and the basil and vinegar add a fresh pop to the first bite.

Stuffed acorn squash

The peculiar ridges of the acorn squash make it look like a Christmas ornament, so why not show off its cool shape by serving it whole?

Kalisperas slices it in half, removes the seeds and rubs it with salt, pepper, curry powder and grape seed oil.

“Don’t use olive oil when roasting a squash,” he says. “Use a grape seed or canola oil because olive oil will begin to smoke when you’re roasting it at high temperatures.”

The roasted squash is then stuffed with an earthy mixture of wild rice and foraged mushrooms like hen of the woods and cinnamon caps. A curried yogurt drizzle adds a contrasting tartness to the mushrooms and rice while some fried Brussels sprout leaves on top add a crispy garnish.

Pepper squash dipping sauce

The starchy nature of squash lends itself well to making thick dipping sauces.

“Remember to add a bit of butter or cream when puréeing squash or else it won’t be as smooth,” Kalisperas says.

“This squash caramelizes really nicely when you roast it, and after blending it, toss in some blue cheese and a bit of maple syrup for a squash dipping sauce.”

Kalisperas pairs this sweet and cheesy sauce with sweetbreads, but you can try it with chicken wings or fries.

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Fresh dish Happening

On Friday (October 31), show up to a Chipotle in your Halloween regalia from 5 pm to close and get an order of tacos, a burrito, bowl or salad for $3 as part of its annual Boorito campaign. Proceeds from the night are donated to Second Harvest.

Opening

There’s the saying that when one restaurant closes, another opens. Since closing Swish by Han in Old Town, the Han brothers are back at it with another snack bar called Hanmoto (2 Lakeview, at Dundas West), just a short walk away from their other snack bar Oddseoul on Ossington.

Construction at what they describe as a “Nipponese snack shack” is ongoing.

Little Fin, a takeout seafood spot from the people behind the adjacent Chase and the Chase Fish & Oyster, has opened in the Dineen Building at 4 Temperance (at Yonge, littlefin.ca). The shop specializes in fried and grilled fish sandwiches (salmon, tuna, mahi mahi, haddock); lobster, shrimp and crab rolls, as well as take-home lobster dinners.

Replacing the recently closed Paese on King West’s restaurant row is Parlor Foods (333 King West, at John).

Its site (parlorfoods.com) describes the menu being “inspired by the landscape of Canada,” with lunch and dinner focused on local or foraged sea-

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A few steps eastward is the recently opened Her Majesty’s Pleasure (hermajestyspleasure.ca), a nail bar and café at the bottom of the incoming Fashion House condo (556 King West, at Spadina). Right next door, Wilbur Mexicana (552 King West, at Spadina, wilburmexicana.com) is very close to opening.

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drinkup Chalk it up to Toronto’s remarkable capacity for drinking and dining out, the galvanization of the local bar community or the abundant opportunities niche neighbourhoods offer to new independent businesses – Toronto’s in the midst of a bar renaissance. Despite increased rents and constant drama over licensing, more seasoned drink-smiths than ever are opening bars and serving up hospitality on a silver platter – laden with great drinks. By SARAH PARNIAK

Best Brand new Bars Toronto’s strength is its diversity. The same variety that defines our culture and inspires our cuisine is rapidly defining our city’s international appeal. With a staggering number of new bars having opened in the past few years and plenty more to come, it’s hard to keep up. For now, here are four of the best new spots. to catch a buzz.

Rush Lane 563 Queen West, 416-551-7540, rushlaneco.com This sleek, contemporary bar owned and operated by five seasoned barmen has become a hangout for cocktail lovers and industry folks alike since opening three months ago.

The name and facade pay tribute to Queen West’s network of graffiti alleys, but the interior aesthetic – modern, masculine and polished – is far from gritty.

The in-house bar lab, equipped with high-tech tools like a rotary evaporator, centrifuge and Cline Bell ice machine (which freezes 300- pound clear ice blocks that are then cut and pressed into perfect spheres to order), is testament to how seriously Rush Lane takes its drinks.

Kill any instant association with unsmiling bar brats in lab coats, though – Rush Lane’s emphasis on experimentation stems from the same genuine, passionate approach it takes to all aspects of service: engaging hospitality, deftly executed drinks and delicious plates from chef Christopher Scott in a fun (sometimes rowdy) atmosphere.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Access No barrier at the door, washrooms on main floor.

LoPan

LoPan

most make you feel like you’re an esteemed guest in the Big Boss’s private lair.

503College, College,647-341-8882, 647-341-8882,dailoto.com dailoto.com 503 The new fall cocktail menu features boozy delights designed to I’m sick of the term “speakeasy,” but I’ll forever be in love with the warm you from the inside out. The Ichi-Go, Ichi-E (nori-infused Bowconcept of nondescript places to drink. LoPan, stacked on top of high- more scotch, Lillet Blanc and roasted barley tea, $16) brilliantly plays profile DaiLo, isn’t hard to find if you know what you’re looking for – with the seaside characteristics of its Islay Scotch base while soothing which in this case are bar manager Shane Mulvany’s Asian-inspired hyper-complex flavours with Lillet. cocktails and yum cha reinterpreted as bar snacks by chef Nick Liu. Hours Tuesday to Saturday 6 pm to 2 am. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Lofty ceilings and lavish details – turquoise walls accented with Access Up a flight of steep stairs to LoPan (separate entrance beside gold, leather banquettes, stylized fixtures strung above the bar – alDaiLo), washrooms also upstairs.

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304 Richmond West, 416-551-9221, tbto.catbto.ca 304 Richmond West, 416-551-9221,

Thoroughbred bar manager Brendan Schätti is famous for his Cadillac Chrome cocktail.

Opened less than two months ago by childhood friends Ariel Copeland and Jacob Fox (chef and maître d’ respectively), Thoroughbred brings some much-needed soul to an otherwise not so entertaining district. The relaxed tri-level bar and restaurant caters to the lunch crowd, post-work drinkers and diners and, on weekends, party people.

The bar – run by Brendan Schätti (Origin, Oddseoul) – is the best seat in the house. Schätti and the bar team fix killer drinks – be it a house signature like the Cadillac Chrome (Tromba Blanco, fresh pineapple, lime, passion fruit syrup, salted Campari and hellfire shrub, $13) or classic cocktails à la Louisiane or La Floridita Daiquiri.

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

Access Up five stairs to entrance, washrooms on main floor.

The Gaslight The Gaslight 1426 Bloor West 1426 Bloor West

A warm beacon along the drowsy leg of Bloor between Lansdowne and Dundas, the Gaslight is a joint labour of love from two veteran bartenders, Megan Jones (Reposado, County General, Bar Chef) and Tim Pritchard (Communist’s Daughter).

Opened just over a month ago in the former Zocalo space, the Gaslight already emits the welcoming vibe of a long-standing local. The dim light of flickering candles and vintage sconces is a perfect complement to the bar’s understated beauty. A walnut drop-ceiling inlaid with old tin, gorgeous custom woodwork and a mural reproducing a vintage pineapple ad set a chill scene for pints and tasty snacks like roast beef croque monsieur and broccoli poutine.

Despite Jones’s reputation as a talented drink-smith, the Gaslight is decidedly not a cocktail bar (though cocktails available by the glass and pitcher are available and predictably delicious). She and Pritchard just wanted a lowkey hangout where they could entertain neighbourhood guests and friends – a suitable goal for two of the most genuinely hospitable bartenders in the city.

Hours 5 pm to 2 am daily.

Access No barrier at the door, washrooms in basement.

The Gaslight’s Tim Pritchard and Megan Jones emphasize hospitality.

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Q &A

At Civil Liberties, Cole Stanford (left), Nick Kennedy and David Huynh have found creative freedom.

Civil Liberties (opening soon at 878 Bloor West) Good things come in threes. After three years of working together at Salt on Ossington, David Huynh, Nick Kennedy and Cole Stanford – who have been in the industry for 13, eight and seven years respectively – decided it was time to branch out on their own.

Fittingly, it only took them three months to settle on a space – a onetime hookah bar, grocery store and fish market near Bloor and Ossington, in a building constructed in 1912.

They arrived at the concept – a fun, unpretentious bar with great cocktails and a spotlight on service – and the name Civil Liberties.

The sign, erected a few weeks ago, is a golden pineapple, the international symbol of hospitality.

The reality of any small business is finite funds. The three partners have done almost all of the demolition, drywall and framing themselves.

Regulars from their days at Salt have helped, too – inviting the proprietors over for dinner, hauling grimy buckets of clay out of the basement, dropping off vintage glassware and plumbing the entire building for next to nothing.

Working an average of 12- to 14-hour days (Thanksgiving was their first day off in five months), the trio has dealt with many challenges – deciphering the building code, mishaps with that fickle substance known as epoxy and getting kicked out of the dump for accidentally releasing a giant cloud of plaster dust.

It will all be worth it once Civil Liberties opens its doors – hopefully next month.

What drove you guys to open up your own spot?

NK This is an opportunity to do exactly what we want.

CS Full creative control.

Tell me about the concept.

NK The word we often go back to is a fun – and modern – bar. We probably won’t do much table service because we want people to engage with us but also with one another.

Another thing we talked about is kindness over coldness. You’re not going to get judged over what you want to drink and how you’re going to drink it.

How will you feel when you open?

CS Usually, when you start to see the end of the road you think, “Oh shit! I actually own a business.” I don’t think any of us feel that way.

We just want to get back to doing what we do.

NK We joke about how we went from measuring things in ounces to measuring things in tons. Going back to measuring things in ounces is very, very appealing.

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563 Queen West, 416-551-7540, rushlaneco.com

The owners of Rush Lane – Alexis Arrowsmith, Brett Klyszejko, Doug Twigger, Simon Hooper and Jordan Bushell (also the brand ambassador for Hennessy in the U.S) – are a diverse group of professional barmen who happen to see eye to eye.

The idea existed long before they’d pinpointed an ideal space, the old Hot Wings on Queen near Portland, and opened Rush Lane last July.

The contemporary space has a raised platform furnished with a leather couch, fish tank and wall of records, imparting a homey vibe.

The in-house lab – outfitted with a rotary evaporator unique to Toronto’s bar scene – enables the partners to be “unencumbered by convention,” as Bushell puts it.

The bar program is playful and progressive, using ingredients like beet grenadine and malic acid; cocktails like the Vieux Carré are offered on tap.

The owners take a perfectionist approach, measuring ingredients with digital meters and scales to ensure consistency and constantly experimenting to improve on existing drinks.

“We wanted to build a bar that we would actually drink at… and we do,” says Hooper.

What made you want to open your own spot?

SH You get to a point where you need to go out on your own and make a run at it, and Toronto is on the brink of a boom.

What’s the concept/philosophy behind your bar?

JB We wanted a marriage of excellent offerings in a fun, approachable space where you can start a night or end it.

Rush Lane has lots of amazing toys. Is experimentation an integral part of the bar’s ethos?

SH Yes! Everything in the lab is used in the [research and development] side of our programs.

Every single cocktail is meticulously thought out and executed. We don’t wing anything. We use the lab during the day, so at night it’s all about the customer.

What’s the most rewarding part about finally throwing open the doors?

SH Seeing something that you have put your blood, sweat and soul into come alive. It’s our baby.

JB Seeing the looks on friends’ and families’ faces when they stepped in and saw the space, tasted the food and cocktails and partied with us all night.

How would you describe your personal style or approach behind the bar?

SH Cheeky but professional. I like to keep the fun in bartending.

JB Hospitality first. We like to make people feel at home at our bar.

Rush Lane’s Simon Hooper (left), Jordan Bushell and Doug Twigger have mixology down to a science.

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Bartender’s theatre

BarChef’s Frankie Solarik fires up the drinks.

Ever sit at a bar and think, “What’s that?” “Why’s that happening?” or just “omfg that’s cool”?

Whether it’s tossing bottles, hand-chipping bespoke ice cubes, lighting things on fire or orchestrating a fluid “dance” behind the wood, the visible effort bartenders put into their craft is not just for nerdy self-satisfaction. The spectacle is for you, dear drinker. It may range from the subtle to the flashy, but theatre contributes to a quintessential bar experience.

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Presentation and whimsy

It can be as simple as an evocative drink name or a beautiful crystal glass or as complex as molecular mixology and à la minute infusions, but a small sense of wonder is part of a memorable night.

BarChef (472 Queen West, 416-868-4800, barcheftoronto.com), one of Toronto’s original cocktail bars, takes a singular, hyper-modernist approach to its drinks, which are served smoked to order (like the famous vanilla and hickory-smoked Manhattan) or in redefined forms like gels, “ravioli,” foam and “snow.”

At the recently opened Linwood Essentials (930 Queen West, 647-8289663, linwoodessentials.com), owner Jake Valianes puts a lot of time and thought into presentation, without “taking anything too seriously.”

After spending four months researching cocktail bars around the world for inspiration, Valianes channels a wacky, irreverent sense of whimsy into his cocktails: Dr. V’s Magical Quick Fixer Elixir (Grand Marnier, Becherovka, amaro, lemon and sparkling wine, $16) is sipped from a medicinal bottle that comes in a branded box. Breakfast In Portland (Old Tom gin, Aperol, lemon, simple syrup, egg white, soda and Froot Loops milk, $14) froths over the lip of a tiny milk bottle spiked with a paper straw.

Technique

The confidence, precision and finesse a bartender exhibits behind the stick contributes to the overall guest experience. Not only do we automatically trust bartenders who look like they know what they’re doing, but we feel justified in paying for the experience as well as the drink.

David Greig, manager of Cocktail Bar (923 Dundas West, 416-792-7511,

hoofcocktailbar.com), used to dismiss any frills that weren’t purely functional, but “I’ve come to see the value in the visual aesthetic. People come to a bar partly for that. A cocktail is decadent, frivolous – always will be.

That’s why they’re fun,” he said.

Shane Mulvany, bar manager at DaiLo/LoPan (503 College, 647-3418882, dailoto.com), thinks a little effort goes a long way. Like many bartenders, he admits to practising new techniques at home or during lulls in service, because ultimately “technique shows a guest that you care about what you do.”

Entertainment and good times

One of my favourite quotes pertaining to the bar is from bar lord Gaz Regan: “A mixologist makes my drinks, but a bartender makes my night.”

What makes a bartender great is how comfortable and engaged they make their guest feel, be that through banter, jokes or magic tricks.

“I always start off with a big smile. I’ll ask them how their day was, to get a little conversation going, says Chanel Wood, bar manager at Rasa (196 Robert, 647-350-8221, rasabar.ca) “We’re a little neighbourhood bar, so I like to see if they’re from the area.

Cracking a joke always helps, too – if I remember a good one!”

“When I’m entertaining a guest at my bar, my goal is to introduce them to something new, Holly Caverly, bar manager at Momofuku (190 University, 647-253-8000, momofuku.com/toronto), weighs in.

“You never forget the first time you taste a great dry sherry or a fierce new amaro. It leaves a lasting impressing, and it’s the perfect way to start an exciting conversation about spirits.”

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Dundas West and Euclid It wasn’t too long ago that this intersection was a derelict strip void of good food options. But now places like Porchetta & Co. (825 Dundas West) have people coming in from all over (including Anthony Bourdain).

The shop does one thing and one thing spectacularly: pungent, garlicky, slow-cooked pork with bits of crunchy crackling on top sandwiched between a fluffy white bun.

Next door is chocolate-maker Odile Chocolat (829 Dundas West), which offers beautiful chocolates with unorthodox flavours like a Bollywood-themed truffle spiced with cardamom and a Canadian Bent’s Susur Lee specialty, wild black

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Right at the streetcar stop, look for Campagnolo (832 Dundas West), which just expanded its hours to open for dinner every day – good news for fans of chef Craig Harding’s signature spaghetti all’amatriciana and roasted grapes with burrata cheese on toasted bread.

Hudson Kitchen (800 Dundas West) also hits the spot at dinnertime as chef Robbie Hojilla mixes elegant fine-dining plates with a straight-up fried chicken sandwich on brioche with adobo mayo.

A little further down you can also check out Susur Lee’s Bent (777 Dundas West) for Asianinspired bites and cocktails. For an unusual brunch, hop over to Patois (794 Dundas West) for fried chicken and Hong Kongstyle egg waffles.

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Hairy situation: does MoveMber do More harM than good?

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t’s moustache time. Movember kicks off this week as hordes of men throw down their razors to raise funds and awareness for men’s health, and prostate cancer in particular.

The onslaught of facial fuzz can be a bit of an eyesore – but that’s not what really concerns me about Movember. I can’t help but wonder if reinforcing very traditional ideas about masculinity and facial hair in the name of a good cause does more harm than good.

Movember is all about manly men – the manlier and hairier, the better. Guys who join the cause are dubbed “Mo Bros” and are encouraged to compete to become the “Ultimate Mo.” If you’re “facial follically challenged,” you can compete for the “Lame Mo” encouragement award.

Not exactly the most flattering (or politically correct) title, is it?

Not to mention the irony that many men who’ve actually undergone prostate cancer treat-

ment can no longer grow facial hair due to hormone therapy. This perceived loss of masculinity when it comes to hair growth along with other bodily functions is one of the greatest psychological struggles for prostate cancer survivors.

Studies show that black and Latino men often shy away from rectal exams that detect prostate cancer because they see the test as emasculating.

How does a month-long event that reinforces hyper-masculinity help change this?

Men who can’t grow facial hair and women have little role to play in Movember other than donating and cheering on their moustached heroes. Mostly, the role of a “Mo Sista” is to continue having sex with men participating in the month, no matter how badly his ’stache mangles her face. A Mo Sista is one of the cool girls who can drink and laugh along with the guys (see Amy Dunne’s “cool girl” speech in Gone Girl). God forbid a Mo Sista grows her own facial or body hair

during No-Shave November.

While growing a moustache this month results in back slaps and toasts at the bar for white cisgender men, the same can’t be said for trans people and men of colour. Trans people don’t fit into Movember’s neat separation of the genders, and the ones with facial hair are unfortunately still more likely to get stares than high fives while walking down the street. Non-white men face racist stereotyping that casts them as suspicious

or intimidating when they grow beards or moustaches.

Men’s health is undoubtedly a cause worthy of our support. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and also the leading cause of death from cancer in Canadian men. There must be a more inclusive way to raise money and get the message across.

Share your thoughts in the comments section on nowtoronto.com.

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The lazy girl’s guide To salon-look diy ponyTails Don’t have time to wash your hair? Does labour-intensive straightening or curling seem too daunting a task? Are you broke as a joke without tens of dollars to throw away at professional salons or blow-out bars? This is the hair guide for you.

I convinced Matthew Collins, celebrity hairstylist and co-owner of Brennen Demelo Studios (316 Adelaide West, 416-301-1072, brennendemelo.com), to teach me three easy-to-craft ponytails that look like pro updos. The guy has a four-month wait list, so I figure giving away a few secrets won’t hurt his bottom line too much.

The sci- fi bumpy ponyTail

The knoTTeD ponyTail

1. Start with slicked-back ponytail.

2. Separate hair into four sections.

3. Take two sections and cross them vertically.

4. Take the other two sections and cross them horizontally.

5. Continue the pattern of crossing vertically then horizontally.

6. Secure with elastic and loosen the braid with a comb.

1. Start with slicked-back ponytail.

2. Backcomb a section of the ponytail, then comb softly over the surface to make a smooth bump.

3. Secure with elastic.

4. Use the end of your comb to pick the bump into a more rounded shape.

5. Repeat with more sections of your hair until you have the desired number of bumps.

1. Start with slicked-back ponytail.

2. Take two small pieces from the back and tie a knot around the ponytail the way you would begin to tie your shoes.

3. Gather two more pieces of hair into the original two pieces and repeat the tying motion.

4. Repeat until you’re happy with the look.

5. Secure with an elastic at the base of the knots.

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How to find a Hairstylist wHo can work witH etHnic Hair Curly ethnic hair comes with unique challenges that not every stylist can handle

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hris Rock’s movie Good Hair exposed the business and politics behind black hair. It’s a million-dollar industry with massive trade shows, yet in our fairly diverse city, it’s still difficult to find a salon that can cut so-called ethnic hair.

If you have curly ethnic hair, you can’t just walk into any old salon with a good reputation.

The shape of hair follicles in curly hair, along with the fact that it’s often drier, make it more prone to breakage. Hair with loops, waves and curls doesn’t lie flat, making it more complicated to cut and style.

The bottom line is you need a stylist experienced with ethnic hair or you’ll end up with a regrettable J.Lo look, prestraightened and lightened.

Last time that happened to me, I spent a year growing out my overly thinned curls.

Journalist Diane Campbell knows this first-hand. “After a salon hair-straightening experi-

ence that resulted in severe damage, I was very wary about straightening or chemically altering my hair,” she says. “I decided to go natural around age 22 but didn’t start wearing my hair in my current natural style until about age 34.”

Stylist Tricia Hall went natural in high school. ”I discovered my natural curl pattern by accident when I went too long without getting it relaxed. I didn’t go to anyone. I just grew it out myself.”

Women straighten their hair for many reasons: they learn from the women in their lives who also do it; it’s easier to manage; society says straight hair is more acceptable. Many women of colour straighten and damage their hair for years before finding a way to work with their natural hair texture.

To find a hairstylist who knows how to work with ethnic hair, you usually have to rely on word of mouth. Many people trade recommendations on

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Twitter and Facebook. At NaturallyCurly.com, the grandmother of curly hair sites, contributors recommend salons and stylists who cater to clients with curly and ethnic hair.

Sometimes you just have to stop people on the street and ask where they go. I found my current hairstylist at Earth Salon in Yorkville by approaching a woman at Burger King.

Once you decide on a salon, always book an informational appointment and come armed with questions, like Campbell did when she tried Curl Ambassadors: “Can you trim my hair? How will you go about it? If I want to wear my hair in a natural style other than my everyday wash-and-go, what kind of looks can you suggest?

If I need my hair pressed straight for a special occasion, can you handle that?”

A knowledgeable stylist will take the time to listen to your concerns, be ready with multiple solutions and offer an at-

home regimen to maintain your mane between appointments.

Still, it’s hard to find the right fit. Hall still hasn’t found one she likes. She says you can’t walk into any “black salon” because even those don’t know how to handle all types of black hair.

As for me, after achieving straight, shiny hair with a flat iron for a year, I also suffered a lot of damage and had to cut off 6 inches. I immediately retired my flat iron and have embraced my curls and experienced stylist ever since.

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FACE OFF: THE HALLOWEEN MAKEUP GUIDE make sure you’re not getting your zombie glow or superhero stripes from suspect sources.

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starts off promisingly enough listing natural castor oil and beeswax on its label. but it degrades quickly from there into lots of petroleum-based ingredients and some ghastly parabens, including butyl and propyl parabens that have been banned from children’s items in Denmark thanks to their endocrine-disrupting potential. lots of smiffy’s products come with warnings about not applying to damaged, inflamed or sensitive skin or on eyes or lip area. really. made in china.

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this made-in-china kit has it all – fake blood, skin, glitter. it also has lots of petrol-derived ingredients, destructively mined talc as well as a few parabens, though they no longer use the butyl and propyl type, which is a slight improvement. either way, no thanks.

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sure, these guys say they’re “nontoxic” and compliant with eu and u.s. fDa toy and cosmetic regs, which means the products, which are made in the uk, should be low in heavy metals like lead. but they’re still full of other crappy petrochemicals, pegs and dodgy butyl and propyl parabens. fine print warns they’re not suitable for eyes and lips but image on the box infers otherwise. at least snazaroo face painting sticks are paraben-free.

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finally, a made-in-canada option. this indie Quebec company offers up all sorts of naturally derived Diy kits. the base is a lotion made with sunflower, soybean, coconut and palm oils. wish the soybean oil were organic and that they’d drop the controversial palm oil, but the product is non-toxic and nutfree, with paperwork to prove it passes heavy metal and phthalate testing. the paints do contain a little synthetic phenoxyethanol preservative. available at treasure island toys, through indigo online and kissnaturals.com SCORE: NNN

this california-made brand skips the artificial dyes, parabens and iffy talc and instead uses certified organic jojoba oil and (allergy alert) organic almond oil as a base with mineral/veggie pigments and nano-free zinc. more good news: products are mica-free and tested for heavy metals to make sure they’re compliant with cali standards. they come with a bamboo applicator for convenience. some glob face paints, like kiss naturals, contain phenoxyethanol. available at big carrot, 100 mile child and herbs & nutrition. globiton.com SCORE: NNNN

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OF THE WEEK DIY OF THE WEEK: HOMEMADE FACE PAINT get creative in the kitchen by whipping up face paint that can literally be licked off at the end of the night. mommy magazines say you can make your own by mixing lotion with food colouring, but i’m not wild about the synthetic fD&c food dyes used in storebought stuff. truly natural food colouring is hard to come by in canada, so what’s the alternative? start with an all-natural face cream (the thicker the better, or thicken with a little arrowroot powder) or you could use (fair trade) cocoa butter as your base. then mix in Diy blueberry or raspberry juice (mash and strain your berries) or ¼ teaspoon turmeric, cocoa, spirulina, kale or beet juices – the list goes on. for an au-naturel zombie look, try mashed avocado on your face. yes, some of these will stain, but if you can’t get dirty on halloween, when can you?

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naturenotes KIDS’ COSTUMES LACED WITH TOXINS Disconcerting levels of toxins are still sneaking into seasonal costumes, accessories and party supplies despite government crackdowns, according to a new report issued by healthystuff. org.

The non-profit tested more than 100 items from big-box stores in the u.s., including Walmart and Target. some 5 per cent contained levels of lead illegal in children’s toys and around 10 per cent had brominated flame retardants. One costume in particular, a toddler Batman “muscle” costume, had levels of lead and phthalates considered illegal in toys. healthystuff.org’s research director, Jeff Gearhart, recommends that parents avoid vinyl products, opt for natural fibres and tell retailers to stick to non-toxic supplies.

MUZZLED CANADIAN SCIENCE while the feds were officially celebrating national science and technology week and trumpeting the harper government’s leadership on research and innovation, canada was being castigated around the globe for gagging scientists.

Over 800 scientists from 32 countries signed an open letter to the pm calling for Canadian science funding and freedom to be restored (see quote of the week). The letter, which appeared as

an ad in the Ottawa Citizen last week, was drafted by the u.s.-based union of Concerned scientists. here are a few numbers that prompted the global scientific community to get on board: 85% federal departments that scored a sad c or lower when it comes to openness and protection against political interference for government scientists, according to a recent report by simon fraser university and the non-profit evidence for Democracy. four, including the Department of natural resources, flat out failed. $2.6 billion federal cuts to 10 sciencebased departments between 2013 and 2016. according to the professional institute of the public service of canada (pipsc), 5,064 jobs are also being axed in that time.

90% federal government scientists who feel they can’t speak freely to media about their work. (Just don’t ask them to talk to you on record about this.)

48% federal scientists who have seen information withheld, causing the public or government to be “misled or misinformed,” according to polling by pipsc and environics.

43% federal scientists who have been asked to exclude or alter information in government documents for non-scientific reasons.

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Canada’s leadership in basic research, environmental health and other public science is in jeopardy.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 If you live in Gaza,

you don’t have easy access to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The closest KFC restaurant is 35 miles away in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. But there was a time when you could pay smugglers to bring it to you via one of the underground tunnels that linked Egypt to Gaza. Each delivery took four hours and required the help of two taxis, a hand cart and a motorbike.

(Alas, Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend, Aries, that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections as the KFC-lovers in Gaza were. Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drug-dealer, black-marketeer.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 It’s urgent that

you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mould. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit.ly/ yellowslime.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing.

The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context. Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing Ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Native American

hero Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-HolyDoor. Let’s install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love.

May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 This is one of those

rare times when it’s okay for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in

a few hours and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner. Don’t make any of these things habits, of course. But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Our evolutionary ancestors Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it’s harder but not impossible to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains.

I’m confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish. Be sure to take advantage of your enhanced intelligence. Solve tough riddles! Think big thoughts! Halloween costume suggestion: a brain-eating Homo erectus.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?” So said Noah’s ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with St. Crocodile magazine. Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I’M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shock-proof bullshit-detector.

(For inspiration, check out these visuals: bit.ly/bsdetector.) sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In AMC’s

famous TV drama, a high school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, Breaking Bad, refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean? Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie or gang-banger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens and picking the kids up from school.” I’m concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge.

Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger or a Buddhist monk junkie.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion. You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language.

The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenityspouter.

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CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 You are at a

point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working hard to earn. I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favours and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes. For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower.

It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence. I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: the X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary native America creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

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FLYING LOTUS and

THUNDERCAT at the ñ Danforth Music Hall, Tuesday, October 21.

R ating­: NNNN With each visit to toronto, Flying Lotus’s show gets more visually spectacular and technically advanced. on tuesday he brought his layer cube, on which the fantastical visual representations of his iDM-meets-jazz-meets-hip-hop music were projected.

Wearing a suit and glowing goggles, the musician (born Steven Ellison) stood at his laptop in the middle of the translucent cube for an hour while lasers, lights, cartoons and patterns played tricks on our eyes – no 3-D glasses necessary.

Some highlights: a birthing scene; a cartoonish hologram representation of captain Murphy, Flylo’s rap alter ego; skulls that looked like they were trying to push out and escape from the cube.

After a brief interlude when he stepped out front to rap a couple of songs – and, somewhat crustily, chide us for not being turnt up enough – Flylo brought his bestie and opener, the virtuosic bass player Thundercat, for the finale. the two battled it out – bass vs. laptop – toward the finish line.

Earlier, thundercat had the audience spellbound in a completely different way. His mesmerizingly fast fingers flew all over his instrument, cranking out his unmistakable soul-meets-futurefunk sound that occasionally rose to a jazzy psychedelic squall.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week SINEAD O’CONNOR at Massey Hall, Friday, Oc-

ñtober 24.

Rating­: NNNN Perhaps it was because Sinead O’Connor looks like a pop star on the cover of her latest album. or perhaps it was because she cancelled scheduled concerts in toronto last year. Either way, a giddy audience reacted with a lengthy standing ovation when the irish singer appeared. they whooped and cheered throughout the show, especially when she tapped the current political climate. She went straight for the jugular, opening with i Am Stretched on Your Grave, dedicated to the soldier killed in ottawa last week. Wails descended into whispers, and her voice sounded as fiery and jarring as ever.

Intense­moments­were­offset­by­fun,­feel-good­pop-rock­from­ her­past­two­albums­that­took­the­concert’s­third­act­in­a­laid-back­ direction­just­when­things­should­have­been­amping­up.­In­contrast­ to­her­confrontational­lyrics,­O’Connor­has­an­anxious,­even­mousy­ presence.­But­when­her­voice­explodes,­any­middling­material­is­ but­a­memory.

She­encored­with­a­rare­and­jaw-dropping­performance­of­Bob­ Marley’s­War­sung­alone­onstage­–­just­as­she­did­when­she­tore­up­ Pope­John­Paul­II’s­photo­on­Saturday­Night­Live­to­protest­child­ abuse­in­the­Catholic­Church.­The­crowd­leapt­to­its­feet­–­a­pop-

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PALLBEARER with TOMBS at Lee’s Palace, Fri-

ñday, October 24.

Rating­: NNNN if the Metal Workout needs a spokesperson, they should consider Mike Hill, guitarist/vocalist of Brooklyn experimental metal outfit Tombs. the guy is jacked – all head and shoulders and shrieking vocals. His physique suits tombs’ music, which weaves together black metal, sludge, noise and good ol’- fashioned harmonized guitar riffing. A tough act to follow, for sure.

But Pallbearer followed them – and how. it was a long overdue appearance, delivered to a crowded house. their latest, Foundations of Burden, is a stone-cold masterpiece that harnesses the hype and breadth of coverage metal is currently being offered and makes good on every hope. the band lived up to it live. From the sluggish plods to the triumphant swells of guitars and angel-boy vocals of guitarist/singer Brett Campbell, they showed their full range, undaunted by a finicky mic and overly growly low end. it was heavy, harrowing but still uplifting. it feels stupid to say that Pallbearer are what a pop doom metal

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band should sound like. it’s more that they stand as a shaggy, sweaty representation of how far our ideas of what constitutes john Semley “pop music” have expanded, for better or for worse.

COURTNEY BARNETT at Lee’s Palace, Saturday,

ñOctober 25.

Rating­: NNNN Courtney Barnett’s rise to fame has been fast. in just four months, she’s gone from playing the Silver Dollar to a sold-out show at Lee’s without even having a proper debut album out.

Barnett’s a rock star now, an unlikely one at that. She walked onstage with a too-cool-for-school gait, tousled hair covering her face, and immediately ripped into an hour-long set that was much louder than her records. Backed by a full band – all members equally into feedback, overdrive and freak-outs – she speak-sang in her deadpan style that, despite all the noise, is at the core of each tune. the crowd went crazy during Avant Gardener – about ending up in an ambulance after gardening in a heat wave – and swayed with their lighters lit during slower jam Anonymous club.

Live,­Barnett’s­songs­seemed­less­about­the­banalities­of­everyday­life­and­more­like­calls­to­arms.­That­is,­until­you­realize­she’s­ wailing­about­getting­drunk­and­daydreaming­about­her­crush.­ Samantha edwaRdS ­

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CHRISSIE HYNDE Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Thursday (October 30) The Pretenders singer solo.

SOUPCANS, BURNING LOVE, DILLY DALLY, MEXICAN SLANG, ANDRE ETHIER & SUNSET PIGS & OTHERS Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Thursday (October 30) Local bands rock Death To T.O. IV. FIRE ROCK WITH ME: A VERY TWIN PEAKS HALLOWEEN w/ After Hours, Ruby Cikada, the Owls Are Not What They Seem Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Friday (October 31) Experimental rock for Halloween.

SBTRKT Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday and Saturday (October 31 and November 1) Dubstep from London, England.

JUAN MACLEAN, TIM SWEENEY, NANCY WHANG Fairmont Royal York Hotel Concert Hall (100 Front West), Friday (October 31) DJ sets of midnight bangers.

HOTNUTS HALLOQWEEN w/ Bunny Michael, DJs Produzentin & Das Hussy The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (October 31) See preview, page 51.

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MOUNTIES, THE GAY NINETIES Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (November 1) See preview, page 56.

USHER Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Sunday (November 2) Chart-topping R&B-pop legend.

THE 1975 Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Sunday and Monday (November 2 and 3) Manchester R&B-tinged rock and roll.

BAHAMAS, THE BARR BROTHERS Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Wednesday (November 5) See Barr Brothers preview, page 57.

BROTHER ALI, BAMBU, DJ LAST WORD Tattoo (567 Queen West), Wednesday (November 5) Golden-age-of-hip-hop-inspired rap.

CLASSICAL-FOLK

AgnES ObEL

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There are probably several connections you could draw between Toronto and Agnes Obel, but one includes the Danish singer/songwriter having toured throughout Europe in 2011 with folk experimentalists Evening Hymns (who have since relocated from Toronto to Perth, Ontario).

When she comes to Harbourfront Centre Theatre (formerly Enwave Theatre) she’ll be playing two back-to-back shows with the equally beguiling Jennifer Castle. Whereas Castle draws heavily from blues, Obel draws heavily from classical. Lush, driving orchestral songs sidle up alongside starker balladry, her vocals ringing out against her emotive piano lines.

Obel’s still touring sophomore album Aventine, which came out last September, so don’t be surprised if some newer songs show up in the set. She’s also known to cover Elliott Smith’s Between The Bars and John Cage’s I Keep A Close Watch.

Tuesday and Wednesday (November 4 and 5) at Harbourfront Centre Theatre (231 Queens Quay West), 8 pm. $29.50-$39.50.

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Just Announced TUNGSTEN HAM, STUTTER, DESPERATE EXECUTIVES, UNCLE SID Lee’s Palace $6.

November 6.

TRENTEMØLLER Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $23. TW. November 13.

MICAH BARNES, BILLY NEWTONDAVIS, TYRONE GABRIEL, GAVIN HOPE, DANIEL BARNES, RUSS BOSWELL Stand By

Me: The Music Of The Brill Building Al Green Theatre 8 pm, $50.

UT. November 13.

THE WEATHER STATION Dakota

Tavern. November 14.

TEAM SPIRIT

The Vaselines Lee’s Palace, January 19, 2015.

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House doors 9 pm, $5. November 21.

L CON, CLARINET PANIC DELUXX, CAYLIE STAPLES Jam Factory Co doors 8 pm, $8. November 22.

ary 15.

LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA, FREEMAN DRE & THE KITCHEN PARTY, RAMBUNCTIOUS, PRESSGANG MUTINY AND OTHERS Fedora Upside Down

Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. January 19.

Reunion Weekend Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF. November 28 and 29.

MAESTRO FRESH WES, KARDINAL OFFISHAL, KELLYLEE EVANS, DJ SHAD Cavalcade Of Lights Nathan Phillips

Square 7 to 10 pm, free. November 29.

ANDY KIM AND OTHERS Andy Kim

Christmas: Benefit for CAMH Foundation’s Gift of Light Program Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $25. LN, TM. December 10.

BADBADNOTGOOD Opera House doors 8 pm, all ages, $16. TW. December 13.

RAISED BY SWANS Horseshoe doors 8:30

pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TF. December 18.

THE SKYDIGGERS X-Mas Horseshoe

The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS. November 17.

Weekend Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $28.50.

HS, RT, SS, TF. December 18 and 20.

HUUN HUUR TU Small World

doors 6 pm, all ages, $13.50-$40. TF. December 19.

Music Centre 8 pm, $30. SWM. November 20.

JANITORS, THE SOUL STRUGGLERS, CHRISTIAN HANSEN, AIRCRAFT Cameron

CRACKER, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN Lee’s Palace Janu-

CRYSTALYNE Virgin Mobile Mod Club

THE VASELINES

LONDON GRAMMAR Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $23. LN. January 21.

ELLIOTT BROOD, THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA Phoenix Concert Theatre $tba.

January 24.

AUGUST BURNS RED, MISS MAY I, NORTHLANE, ERRA

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $30. RT, SS, TF. January 30.

ARIEL PINK Phoenix Con-

cert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20.

RT, SS, TF. February 19.

TOPS Tattoo doors 9 pm, $13.50. TF. December 19.

ST VINCENT The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $32.50-$35.

RT, SS, TM. March 3.

BATTLECROSS Opera House. December 26.

RICH AUCOIN New Year’s Eve Party: The

COLD WAR KIDS Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TF. March 18.

Greatest Karaoke Set Ever Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. December 31.

ONE DIRECTION On The Road Again 2015 Tour Rogers Centre LN. August 15.

JUST ANNOUNCED!

dress to kill

Halloween is a time when partiers cast aside the traditional aesthetic and pragmatic concerns inherent in choosing everyday club wear to worship at the bloody altar of conceptualism. With that in mind, we rank five Halloween parties by their degree of conceptual difficulty – or lack thereof. By KEVIN RITCHIE

Friday, October 31 Hotnuts Halloqween with Bunny Michael at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), 10:30 pm. $10.

Since dressing up is de facto for drag queens, Halloween is obviously de rigueur. The theme at drag party Hotnuts is “nature slut veg qween.” Suggestions, courtesy of the promoters, include Mileek Cyrus, Denzel Squashington, Asparagus van Sant and Mariah Carrot.

Difficulty: High BUNNY MICHAEL

Terror Vision with DJ EZ, Jus Ed and others at 99 Sudbury, 10 pm. $24.50/ $29.50.

PDR, RT, SS, TF. The Mansion crew’s annual bash has a typically stacked lineup of international and local house and techno luminaries and an old-school horror/sci-fi theme. So dress up as Debbie Harry from videodrome or a Prophet 10, one of the synths John Carpenter used to compose the Halloween II score.

Difficulty: Medium

Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air 90s Halloween at Sound Academy (11 Polson), 10 pm. $20 (advance). TZ. Patterned vests, snap-back hats, Zubaz pants – it’s probably not difficult to replicate

Will Smith’s signature look from the influential sitcom. However, if revellers go deep (think Hilary’s wedding gown pearl-rosary-choker combo, Oprah from the Oprah episode), this party won’t jump the shark.

Difficulty: Medium

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 14 • MASSEY HALL SHOW 8PM • MASSEYHALL.COM ON SALE TOMORROW AT 10AM

The Bruised Spirits Of Southern Ontario at Videofag (187 Augusta), 8 pm. Free.

Ex-Fifth Column members Caroline Azar and GB Jones are emerging from the shadows for this two-night multimedia happening written/directed by Azar and starring Jones’s “Southern Ontarian Gothic” outfit Opera Arcana.

There’s no dress code, but since the band is influenced by authors Susanna Moodie and Margaret Atwood, perhaps your outfit should be, too?

Difficulty: High

Dudebox Is Fucking Dead V: Return To The Carwash Of Doom at Planet Car Wash (689 King West), 10 pm. $10.

The promoters behind charitable popup party Dudebox are returning to Planet Car Wash, a location that could double as the theme. And even though inclusivity is the only actual theme at Dudebox, according to their Facebook page, Ebola-inspired costumes are out and feminism is in. We would like to add intergalactic hubcaps into the mix.

Difficulty: Low music@nowtoronto.com

TONIGHT! • MASSEY HALL SHOW 8PM • MASSEYHALL.COM

WITH SPECIAL GUEST: KENNETH BRIAN BAND

THURSDAY NOV 20 • MASSEY HALL SHOW 8PM • MASSEYHALL.COM with special guests

SATURDAY NOV 22 DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

DOOR 7PM SHOW 8PM • RT, SS • ALL AGES

T H E 1 0 TH A N N U A L

With Special Guest Lonnie Holley

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

SUNDAY NOV 9 • DANFORTH MUSIC HALL DOORS 7PM SHOW 8PM • ALL AGES

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 10 VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB DOOR 7PM SHOW 8PM • RT, SS • 19+

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE w/ Joe Pug • WED JAN 14 • THE OPERA HOUSE

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Thursday, October 30 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Cavern Bar The Databats, William M Nash, Mantragora doors 9 pm.

The DanforTh MusiC hall Something Classic Tour RAC, the Knocks doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

Drake hoTel EP release Ben Stevenson, Ango, Michael Brock. el MoCaMBo The Ready Set, Metro Station, the Downtown Fiction doors 6 pm, all ages. free TiMes Cafe King Creep (indie rock) 8:30 pm. holy oak Cafe April Snow (funk) 10 pm. horseshoe The Brains doors 8:30 pm.

The hoxTon Jerzee ‘Tha Icon’, CrashDex, E3FF, AKTEC 10 pm.

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PalaCe Sheezer, Lonely Parade, Petra Glynt doors 8:30 pm. ñlee’s Massey hall Chrissie Hynde doors 7 pm. ñ The PainTeD laDy CD release John Orpheus.

The PisTon Bass Lions, Adrian Underhill 9 pm.

Hsilver Dollar Death To T.O. IV Soup-

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cans, Burning Love, Dilly Dally, Mexican Slang, Andre Ethier & Sunset Pigs and others 6 pm.

The sisTer Tres Bien Ensemble. sMiling BuDDha Shaking Hands, Blush Death, Horse 9 pm. sounD aCaDeMy Going To Hell Tour The Pretty Reckless doors 6 pm, all ages. souThsiDe Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. suPerMarkeT James Black.

3030 DunDas WesT She Never Sleeps (rock/ Genesis tribute) 9 pm.

ToronTo CenTre for The arTs Bare Bones & Upfront Indie Music Series Lisa Michelle, Jamie Oliver 7:30 pm. velveT unDergrounD Atomzero, Creep Echo, Hero Biscuit, Eye Steal 8 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Bar raDio Reynolds Creek (country) 9 pm.

BlakBirD Dubai Nights.

HCaMeron house BaCk rooM Drink With

Death: A Morbid Cabaret Ada Dahli, Freeman Dre, Darren Eedens, Jaash Singh, Christopher Weatherstone and others 8 pm.

CasTro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situtation (folk/rock/country) 6 pm.

The flying Beaver PuBareT Michelle LecceHewitt (pop/folk/motorgrass) 7:30 pm. grossMan’s Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm. hugh’s rooM CD release David Bromberg 8:30 pm.

The loCal Sarah Jane Scouten (roots/Canadiana) 9 pm. lou DaWg’s Open Mic Don Campbell 9 pm.

MonarChs PuB Blues Thursdays The Jack de Keyzer Band.

TranzaC souThern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

alleyCaTz Liane Fainsinger Quartet (jazz) 8 pm.

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PETER & THE TEST TUBE BABIES

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KLINGANDE

MAISON MERCER

NOV 08

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HARD LUCK BAR

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RJD2 w/ MEMORECKS

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NOV 21

LES SINS w/ J.PHLIP

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ALVARO

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SNFU

NOV 12

THE WILD FEATHERS

NOV 13

GANZ

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ANTEMASQUE

THE MOD CLUB THE MOD CLUB

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LEWIS WATSON

NOV 27

SEVNTH WONDER

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BADBADNOTGOOD

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NOV 28 THOMAS JACK ft. MATOMA & COLECO DEC 09

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THE OPERA HOUSE

DEC 11

NETSKY (LIVE!) w/ KOVE

THE OPERA HOUSE

DEC 12

FAKE BLOOD & SINDEN

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

DEC 19

ROUTE 94 & HOllOH

NOV 06 MAC DEMARCO

JAN 10

ROBIN SCHULZ

STUDIO BAR

NOV 11 PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT

CODA

NOV 13 DARK STAR ORCHESTRA

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DEC 5

FLOSSTRADAMUS

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THE HOLLY SPRINGS DISASTER

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Chinese CulTural CenTre P.C. ho TheaTre Toronto International Piano Comñ petition Semi-Final (classical) 1 to 7 pm. eDWarD Johnson BuilDing WalTer hall

Johannes Plays Johannes John Kruspe (piano) 12:10 pm. eMMeT ray Bar John Wayne Swingtet (jazz/ gypsy/swing) 9 pm.

four seasons CenTre for The PerforMing arTs riCharD BraDshaW aMPhiTheaTre

Divertissement à 6 Monique de Margerie, players of the COC Orchestra (piano) noon. gaTe 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm, Sarah Kennedy Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

Jazz BisTro Colin Hunter & the Joe Sealy Quartet 8 pm. kaMa Thursdays At Five Drew Jurecka & Dave Field w/ the Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. lula lounge Love Letters Cabaret: Eden (burlesque/dance) 8 pm.

HMusiDeuM Vivia Kay Halloween Show (jazz) 8 pm. olD Mill inn Zoe Chilco Quartet 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

The rex Bucket of Fish 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. roy ThoMson hall The Dream Of Gerontius Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. sony CenTre for The PerforMing arTs Voice Of Asia Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra, Choir and soloists (Kazakh and classical music) 7 pm.

HTranzaC Main hall Baroque + Beer: Halloween Edition Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 9 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Zebrina (jazz/ world) 10:30 pm. young CenTre for The PerforMing arTs CD release The Breithaupt Brothers 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 hiphop/pop) doors 10 pm.

CluB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 CluB 120 Diner The Danny Show DJ Jason Cleveland 7 pm.5 CraWforD DJ Downunda, host Miss Olivia

and Kermit 9 pm.

Johnny JaCkson Thirsty Thursdays (rock). seven44 Disco Inferno DJ Soundman Sanchez.

Wayla Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.

(rock/experimental) 8 pm.

HWilD Wing The Hallowe’en Party Van Leer 7 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

HBar raDio Mr Rick’s Halloween (country) 10 pm.

Friday, October 31

Blue goose Tavern The Fried Angels (blues) 9 pm.

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

HalleyCaTz A Nightmare On Broadway Taxi,

DJ Chad (rock/top 40/dance) 9:30 pm.

HaMiCo’s Pizzeria Halloween Show The Johnnys, Dawg Hauz doors 9 pm.

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

Cavern Bar The Coyote Kids (indie rock) doors 9 pm.

HThe CenTral uPsTairs Halloween Costume Party Derek Mulvaney, Dave Nolan, Rowan Cuddy, Sean Gilheaney, Andrew Goucher, Stephen Coghlan, Gavin Twamley 8 pm.

HDruMs n flaTs Halloween Bash The Roughnotes (rock & roll) 9 pm. holy oak Cafe Slapback (Smith tribute) 10 pm. horseshoe Noah Gunderson, Owen Beverly doors 9 pm.

HJaMaiCan CanaDian assoCiaTion Halloween Fundraiser For Make A Wish Toronto Christopher Michaels (Soul Train-themed party). olD niCk Stiletto Flats (classic rock) 9 pm.

HParTs & laBour Halloween Smithfits, DJs Andy Rourke, Scott Wade & Scott Waring 11 pm.

HPlaneT CarWash Dudebox Is Fucking Dead V: Return To The Carwash of Doom Derek Wise, Drew Howard, Nino Brown & Yes Yes Jill, James Nightingale, Jon Chetty 10 pm. rivoli Red, Time Giant 9 pm.

Hroyal onTario MuseuM Friday Night Live: Boo! Devin Cuddy Band, Rival Boys, Prophet, DJ Half Punk’d 7 to 11 pm.

HsMiling BuDDha Subtle Blend: Halloween Edition Cy, Josh Grant, Anzola, Stillmonk, BSMNT (electronic hip-hop/experimental beats) 9 pm.

HsouThsiDe Johnny’s Halloween Party & Costume Contest Cameltoe (rock) 10 pm.

HTranzaC Fire Rock With Me: A Very Twin Peaks Halloween After Hours, Ruby Cikada, the Owls Are Not What They Seem

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HCaDillaC lounge Halloween Party Jerome Godboo, Eric Schenkman, Gary Craig 10 pm.

Dora keogh Whitney Rose Band (country). gaTe 403 Dennis Gaumond Blues Duo 9 pm. grossMan’s Frankie Foo 10 pm. lou DaWg’s Paige Armstrong, Pat Wright (acoustic blues/funk/soul/jazz) 10 pm.

lula lounge El Quinto (salsa) 10:30 pm.

The sisTer We Are French, Subject to Change, MIP Power Trio, Rotary Dial.

sTeelWorkers hall Kaiso Royale-A Calypso

Coronation Macomere Fifi, Singing Sandra, Mandy Woods (calypso/reggae) doors 8 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

WhiTe elePhanT Bar Sarah Stinson 7 to 10 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

BlakBirD Terry Logan’s Unit. free TiMes Cafe Lodan (jazz/folk) 8:30 pm. gaTe 403 Mike Field Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Hhugh’s rooM Freakeasy Halloween

Costume Concert Denielle Bassels Quintet, Charlie Quinn 8:30 pm.

Jazz BisTro Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 9 pm. lula lounge Alexis Baro Quartet (jazz) 7:30 pm.

HMeTroPoliTan uniTeD ChurCh Phantoms Of The Organs John Tuttle, Patricia Wright and others (organ) 10 PM. olD Mill inn Bob DeAngelis Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop).

The rex Paul Neufeld & the Blindfold 9:45 pm, Sara Dell 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross The Ryan Driver Sextet 10 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

HBarCoDe Fright Fest 9 pm.

HBassline MusiC Bar Tricks & Treats: Let

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T.O. music nOTes TORONTO MUSIC SCENE #JIANGATE TWEETS

member to vote for @oliviachow” @psiloveyouband (Paul Saulnier, PS I Love You)

Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC’s very popular Q radio show and one of Canada’s biggest music media personalities, was fired from CBC on Sunday amid a firestorm of sex allegations. Not surprisingly, Toronto’s music scene had a lot to say on Twitter.

The most blunt and – in our opinion – on-point comment came via Facebook, however, from lauded Canadian composer/violinist/Arcade Fire member Owen Pallett, who said in a post, “Jian is my friend. I have appeared twice on Q. But there is no grey area here. Three women have been beaten by Jian Ghomeshi.”

“While #JianGhomeshi was in Moxy Fruvous, Brent Bambury was hosting Brave New Waves.” @Tusks_4ever (Samir Khan, Tusks) “This isn’t ‘he said, she said’ it’s ‘he said and a whole bunch of shes said.’ #jiangate” @quartermass (Paul K Lawton, Ketamines) “@jvpurcell jian is my guest. i don’t kick guests out of my house, or off my stage, because of what they’re going through. ever. the end.” @amandapalmer in response to a question about whether Ghomeshi will still be the guest at Palmer’s Lee’s Palace appearance on November 25. “yeah, so the most important thing for the ppl of toronto during this strange time (#jiangate) is to re-

HOT DREAMS COME TRUE Toronto band Timber Timbre got some major exposure on Monday, October 27: their song, Run From Me, appeared not once, not twice, but four times on NBC’s The Blacklist (it was a recurring theme). The James Spader-starring show has 20 million viewers per episode – not bad exposure for the Polaris Prize short-listers.

CHOW TO FORD Toronto’s Amai Kuda and Y Josephine took a break from working on their new project, AfroSoul Volume II: MaZai, to be released November 24, to make a song/ video in support of Olivia Chow, cleverly titled, Chow To Ford. Unfortunately, they only got half of their wish. A Ford is no longer mayor of our city, but Olivia lost out to John Tory. Check out the video at tinyurl.com/k99ojva.

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There Be House & The Deep North Halloween Party DJs Adam Khan, Dick Diamonds & Roland Gonzales.

HBuddies in Bad Times TheaTre Halloween DJ K-Tel doors 10:30 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).

HCLinTon’s Spooktacular DJs Bangs & Blush (60s soul/rock) 10 pm.

HCoaLiTion Lounge Halloween Party DJ Suareasy, DJ Bank$ (R&B/trap/house/reggae/ hip-hop/soca) 10 pm.

HCoda Scream DJ Abel 10 pm.

HCuBe DJ Mike Toast doors 10 pm.

The danforTh musiC haLL SBTRKT, Goldlink 8 pm.

HdeTour Bar Heresy’s Haunted House DJs Run Animal Run, SL. & Cole Burns.

Hdrake hoTeL A Nightmare On Beac’s Street DJ Your Boy Brian, Diggy the DJ.

THE BRAINS

Catching a show this Halloween? Beware: some bands are seriously spine-chilling, while others are hiding behind a hyped-up moniker.

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fairmonT royaL york hoTeL ConCerT haLL Midnight Bangers Juan Maclean (DJ ñ set), Tim Sweeney, Nancy Whang 8:30 pm.

HThe garrison Hotnuts Halloqween Bunny Michael, DJs Produzentin & Das ñ Hussy doors 10:30 pm.5

SHOW

HOW SCARY IS YOUR BAND NAME?

HOW SCARY IS YOUR BAND?

THe Brains

Thursday (October 30) at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Classic, sure. But evoking a 70s horror B-movie, the Montreal trio’s name is more campy than spooky.

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Though there is lots of black eyeliner happening, “psychobilly horror-punk” is not exactly hair-raising.

But if you’re into dancing on Halloween, the blistering rhythm section will take care of you. NN

THe owls are noT wHaT THey seem

With After Hours and Ruby Cikada, Friday (October 31) at the Tranzac (292 Brunswick), 8 pm. $6.

More eerie and unsettling than terrifying, the reference to David Lynch’s 90s TV drama Twin Peaks is perfect given the Tranzac bill they’re on: Fire Rock with Me: a Very Twin Peaks Halloween. NNN

TOANWTS is a five-person drone ensemble – serious innate creepfactor. NNN

nigHT Terrors of 1927

With Capital Cities and Cherub, Tuesday (November 4), at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), 7 pm, all ages, $24.50-$34.50.

Heebie-jeebies. Night Terrors are literally what nightmares are made of. NNNN

Not remotely. The synth-pop duo from L.A. (and recent Tegan & Sara collaborators) excel at twinkly electro beats and gently crooned, shiny pop choruses. N

supersuckers

With Public Animal, Sunday (November 2), at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), doors 8 pm, $17.50 adv. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Since it’s Halloween, we’re thinking vampires. But actually the band used to be called the Black Supersuckers, a porn novel reference.

Blech. N

Despite having album names like Devil’s Food and last year’s Get The Hell, the Supersuckers are a garagey rock ’n’ roll band with Southern rock swag. Lotsa swears and cowboy hats. Could be scary, depending on who you ask, but not in that way. N

Pantychrist, the Lipstick Junkies 8 pm. oPera house Carnival Of Death Tour Kataklysm, Suffocation, Jungle Rot, Pyrexia, Internal Bleeding (metal) 8:30 pm.

Press CLuB aBabe Music Dr Keys, the Namedroppers, Not a Total Gadjo (rock) 9:30 pm.

The rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. siLver doLLar Nobel Prize Fighter, Meeko Cheech, the Flu, Rhinosaur, Liquor Pigs, Red Lines doors 9 pm. souThside Johnny’s The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4 to 8 pm. souThside Johnny’s Still Sunday (rock) 10 pm.

HTaTToo Haunted Häus doors 10 pm.

Storey 2 to 6 pm.

10:30 pm.

The rex The Big Band Tap Revue Preview Toronto Jazz Orchestra 3:30 to 6:30 pm.

The rex Artie Roth Quartet 9:45 pm. roy Thomson haLL The Dream Of Gerontius Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. royaL ConservaTory of musiC Toronto International Piano Competition: Final round 7:30 pm.

HThe saLvaTion army CiTadeL Trick Or Treat! A Halloween Concert Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm.

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

HgLadsTone hoTeL Decades Of Dance DJ Nico, DJ Geoffrol, DJ Phil Leithead 9 pm.

HgraviTy soundBar Insidious Chapter 3 DJ Delirious & DJ Matrixz 10 pm.

HguvernmenT Diablo Halloween Ball Jed

Harper, Deko-Ze, Flux, Booch & Sydo, the Hammer and others.

HhangLoose media sTudios Candy Flip With Suma & Promise Pinch, Droog, Rollin’ Cash, Zum One 10 pm.

HharT house Hart House Of Horrors DJ Caff 8:30 pm.

HkooL haus Halloween Resurrection.

HLee’s PaLaCe Chronologic Monster Mash Goin’ Steady DJs doors 9 pm.

HLiBerTy grand Monster Mash Blasterjaxx, Jaime Jones, Deniz Koyu, Nicole Moudaber, Loudpvck, Shiba San, Thugli, Adrian Lux doors 10 pm.

HLoCaL gesT Costume Party DJ Mike Reid 10 pm.

HLuxy nighTCLuB Goosebumps Halloween Chills Whitebwoy, Soca Sweetness and others.

Hmaison merCer Halloween Costume & Dance Party 10 pm.

Hmuzik The Walking Dead Aftermath 9 pm.

H99 sudBury Terror Vision: All Night Halloween Music And Art Party DJ EZ, Ebony, Eytan Tobin & Lum, Carly Bangs, Jus -Ed and others.

HnoCTurne Squid Lid & Animalia DJ Darq, Dar Darkness Visible, DJ Osaze, Saint Alkaline (neo-industrial/electro-house/crunchy dubstep) 9 pm.

HoPera house Halloween Fetish Ball 10 pm.

HPaLais royaLe Zombie Prom DJ Johnny B Goode 9 pm.

HPhoenix ConCerT TheaTre Night Of A Thousand Faces DJ Prospero, Tom Dragomir & Eric Von Eric doors 9 pm.

HThe PisTon ShinDig Halloween DJs General Eclectic, Splattermonkey & Parkdale Funk (50s & 60s dance party) 10 pm.

HPoLish ComBaTanTs haLL A Hallowe’en Night To Dismember Spencer Parker, DJs Mike Gibbs and Jamie Kidd, Martin Fazekas, Ali Black, Aquatic Mind, Shea Butter. ravage and rumBLe Flashback Fridays DJ NaNa 10 pm. rivoLi PooL Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll).

Hsound aCademy Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air 90s Halloween DJ Wristpect & DJ Mensa 10 pm.

The sTeady Cafe & Bar Blood, Sweat & Queers Halloween Edition DJ John Caffery.5 HsTeam WhisTLe BreWing Halloween Bash DJs Fields McQueen & Nino Brown doors 9 pm.

HThoroughBred food & drink Dead Celebrity Halloween DJs Serious & Dopey.

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adeLaide haLL Jon Bellion doors 7 pm, all ages. aLLeyCaTz Lady Kane 9:30 pm. amsTerdam BiCyCLe CLuB Odd Soul (funk/

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soul/R&B) 11 pm. arroW haLL I Am Hardwell World Tour DJ Hardwell, Dannic 8 pm, all ages.

CadiLLaC Lounge Anansi Stories (roots/rock/ reggae) 10 pm.

Cavern Bar Thirdrite, Nasal Grass, Electric Shovel doors 9 pm.

Cherry CoLa’s roCk n’ roLLa CaBareT and Lounge CD release party The Mahones doors 9 pm.

Ciro’s Xarah Dion, Effet Werther, Soft Features, DJs Sarin, Josh V, Pappa G 10 pm. deTour Bar Day Of The Dead Iduna, Radio Free Universe, Hormoans doors 9 pm. dora keogh The Woodshed Orchestra (pop/ funk). drake hoTeL Streets of Laredo doors 8 pm.

The garrison Cool Man Cool, Gammage, Adam’s Mind, the Meat Sweats doors 9 pm. horseshoe Dry the River, Nathaniel Rateliff doors 9 pm.

JamaiCan Canadian assoCiaTion Chelsea Stewart, Rootsman Sound, DJ Orlando, DJ Afrodite doors 7 pm.

Lee’s PaLaCe Mounties, the Gay Nineties doors 9 pm. See preview, page 56.

Linsmore Tavern Rock of Ages (Def Leppard tribute) 9:30 pm. noWhere gaLLery The Dionysus Experiment Zine Launch Pony, Fuss, Terrorista, Riot Porn,

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Bar radio Lucas Stagg & Cleave Anderson (country) 10 pm.

CasTro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake 4:30 pm. free Times Cafe Dr B’s Acoustic Medicine Show

2 pm.

gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. harLem Reece (singer/songwriter). kensingTon Lodge The Knights Of Beat: A Tribute To Nik Beat Max Layton, Alexandra Innes, Bob Cohen, Michelle Gould, Bruce Hunter and others 5 to 7 pm.

LuLa Lounge Moda Eterna (salsa) 10:30 pm. maCkenzie’s annex Rebas Open Mic David

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Jaymes Young doors 5 pm, all ages; second show doors 8 pm.

The rex Shrimp ‘Daddy Reid’ (blues) 7 pm.

royaL ConservaTory of musiC ConservaTory TheaTre Bluebird North 8 pm.

TranzaC main haLL The Exide 9 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Abigail Lapell

(singer/songwriter) 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

aLLianCe française sPadina Bertrand Belin 8 pm.

array sPaCe Array Session 28 The Emoti-Choir

(improvisation) 8 pm.

BLakBird Coltrane Tribute Michael Arthurs Quartet.

C’esT WhaT Hot Five Jazzmakers 3 pm.

ChaLkers PuB Mike Murley Trio 6 to 9 pm. gaTe 403 Melissa Boyce Band (jazz/blues) 9 pm. grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Jazz BisTro Halie Loren 9 pm. monTgomery’s inn Musical Matinee: Bach To Basics Neapolitan Connection, Rachel Mercer 2 pm tour, 3 pm concert. naisa sPaCe SOUNDplay Series: Terminal Noise Mugbait 8 pm. oLd miLL inn Amy McConnell Trio 7:30 to

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

C Lounge Soul-Train Explosion Party DJ Mr Al doors 9 pm.

CasTro’s Lounge DJ Spinson’s Dance Party (old school/underground hip-hop) 11 pm.

The Cave Full On Alternative DJ Pat. CeLT’s PuB Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness

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

CineCyCLe Nomad Uno (Afro/disco/voodou)

10 pm.

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

HCLuB 120 Dance Night’95 Halloween Edition DJ Shok, Paul Savage, DJ Frakti, DJ Davide and others doors 10 pm.5

Club 120 Diner Get It On DJ Todd Klinck 9 pm.5 HCoalition lounge Anonymous Halloween

Afterparty DJ NAT 10 pm.

CoDa Mind Against, Gerd Janson, Gera & 2Grams.

HCube Halloween Hangover Costume Party doors 10 pm.

the Danforth MusiC hall SBTRKT 8 pm. ñ eMMet ray bar DJ Sawtay (soul/hip-hop) 10 pm.

fly 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 guvernMent MASQ – Halloween Hangover

Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong 10 pm. lou Dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hip-hop). neCk of the wooDs Hip-House Vs House DJs Mensa, Fase, Guerilla Science, Dirty Dale. the Piston With It (Mod/Northern soul dance party) 10 pm.

HsteaM whistle brewing Halloween Bash DJs Skratch Bastid & Fields McQueen doors 9 pm. stuDio bar Crash The Party DJ Ry-Fi 8 pm.

H3030 DunDas west Horror-Rama party DJ Johnny Revelation (retro rock/pop/shock) doors 9 pm.

Huniun The Day After Halloween Party DJ Jed Danson 10 pm.

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air CanaDa Centre The UR Experience Usher 7:30 pm. ñ blue sueDe sue’s Live Music Showcase 5 pm.

Castro’s lounge Leon Knight & the Neon Lights (rockabilly) 4 pm.

the garrison The Big Ice Elliotte Friedman,

Jeff Marek, Bryan Hayes, Ken Reid, Jeremy Taggart doors 5 pm. hirut fine ethioPian Cuisine Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm. holy oak Cafe Isis Giraldo’s Voices (pop) 9 pm. horseshoe Supersuckers, Public Animal doors 8 pm.

ñkool haus The 1975 doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ Milk glass Co Kurt Marble, Suno Deko, Julie

Byrne, DJ Brandon Gibson-DeGroote doors 9 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

blaCk bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

C’est what Judy Marshak w/ Bob Cohen 3 pm. the Duke live.CoM The Ronnie Hayward

Band (rockabilly/blues) 4 to 8 pm. eMMet ray bar Graham Playford (folk/songwriter/rock/roots) 9 pm. free tiMes Cafe Singers Edge: Unplugged Session 9 8 pm, Jewish Brunch Buffet Kiki’s Klezmer Trio 11 am & 1:15 pm. grossMan’s Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. kingston rD uniteD ChurCh Kingston Road Village Concert Series: An Equal Music Toronto Symphony String Quintet 1:30 pm. linsMore tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (blues/R&B/funk) 5 to 9 pm. lula lounge Sunday Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza 11 am. lula lounge Drum Artz Anniversary Celebration 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. lula lounge Carlos Varela (Cuban) 8 pm.

MCgraDies taP anD grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. tranzaC southern Cross The Woodchoppers Association 10:30 pm, Avesta Nakhaei 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, No Angels Dancing (Allison Cameron & D Alex Meeks) 1 pm. tranzaC Main hall Tranzac Fall Feast The Unseen Strangers (bluegrass) 7 pm. yellow griffin Another Bloody Folk Club 7 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Club 120 Diner Jazz Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.5 Double Double lanD A Bazaar Colin Fisher, Healing Power DJs noon to 6 pm. See The Many Moods Of Healing Power Records album review, page 58.

eDwarD Johnson builDing walter hall

Mooredale Concerts New Orford String Quartet, Teng Li 3:15 pm, Music & Truffles Interactive Concert For Young People 1:15 pm. gate 403 Conor Hall Jazz Trio 9 pm, Carter Brodkorb Jazz Quintet 5 to 8 pm. grossMan’s New Orleans Connection (jazz) 4:30 to 9 pm. loCal gest Sunday Jazz Boom for Rent 4:30 pm.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31

HALLOWEEN OZ PRESENTS

(groove-based space jazz) 2 to 5 pm.

MORGANS ON THE DANFORTH Jazzy Sunday At Ease (jazz) 2 to 5 pm.

MUSIDEUM The Book Of Sounds Sandra Mogensen (classical) 8 pm, Don Naduriak & Jambanda (jazz) 3 pm.

THE REX Petr Cancura 9:30 pm, Bugaloo Squad 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm.

THE REX Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL Alice Giles (harp) 2 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

MOUNTIES

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Watch This Sound (rare/

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1

HALLOWEEN W/ RETRO ROAD SHOW

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

DAVID BAZAN

+ PASSENGER STRING QUARTET W/ DAVID DONDERO

Monday, November 3 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BEAVER Punk Rock Bingo Hervana, DJ Triple-X (all-female Nirvana tribute ñ band) 9 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones (old-school rockabilly) 6 pm.

GROSSMAN’S No Band Required 10 pm.

KOOL HAUS CASTRO’S LOUNGE blueVenus (singer/song-

30TH ANNIVERSARY

DORA KEOGH Open Stage Julian Taylor (folk

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722 COLLEGE STREET

Hook-hunting supergroup have chemistry and melody in spades

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7

THE SPOONS

INDIE ROCK

vintage ska/reggae/dub vinyl) 9 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Hacker the Planet (psytrance/techno/hardstyle) 9:30 pm.

HUNIUN House Of Horrors DJ Jed Harper (industry night).

MOUNTIES with THE GAY NINETIES at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (November 1), 9 pm. Advance $20.

HS, RT, SS, TF.

rock) 8 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Open Stage Mondays Dave Plank 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Blues & Troubles 9 pm.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Open Mic Night Don

Hawksley Workman is stretched out in the grass backstage at last month’s Riot Fest. He’s just finished an early afternoon set drumming with his three-piece indie rock hook-slingers Mounties, yet Workman sounds like he already misses his fellow songwriters, Ryan Dahle of Limblifter and Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat, who all share lead vocal duties.

“We were instantly buddies when we met,” he says, recalling their initial meeting at the 2009 Junos.

“We have such an incredible fondness for each other.”

The three accomplished musicians built on that chemistry by starting to write together in 2012. Workman is still in awe of those original sessions, saying they had a very old-school approach.

Campbell 9 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Open Mic Mon-

days 10 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

EMMET RAY BAR David Occhipinti (jazz) 7 pm.

GATE 403 Mike Daley Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

OLD MILL INN Jazz.FM91 Sound Of Jazz Concerts Gap Mangione Quintet 8 pm.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 • 10:30PM

HOTNUTS HALLOWQUEEN BUNNY MICHAEL SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 • 9PM

COOL MAN COOL GAMMAGE | ADAM’S MIND | THE MEAT SWEATS SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 • 5PM

THE BIG ICE MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 • 7:40PM

TRAMPOLINE HALL WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5 • 8PM

KNOX HAMILTON XPRIME THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 • 9PM

SPELLS OF VERTIGO CHRISTIAN PUNK BAND | WHIMM FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 • 9PM

MICHAEL BERNARD FITZGERALD GOLD COMPLEX | GRAY SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8 • 7PM

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REFERENCE LIBRARY New Music 101: New Ad-

ventures In Sound Art Christina Petrowska Quilico (piano) 7 to 8 pm.

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

SEVEN44 Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/ swoon) 7:30 pm.

“We’d drink a mountain of wine, jam for 45 minutes and comb through what we did,” he recalls.

What emerged was 2014’s Polaris Prize long-listed Thrash Rock Legacy (Light Organ) – 14 tracks packed tight with key- and guitar-driven melodies and Workman showing off his high-energy approach to the skins.

Workman says the tunes came about organically.

“It’s not like they are written at a round table with a pen and paper out,” he says, adding that the approach felt like “jazz fusion more than pop music.”

Riot Fest was proof of the bonds forged during those studio sessions: Mounties were all smiles, and their mutual trust manifested itself in a jam-friendly set that didn’t ignore the band’s strong suit.

“When we’re jamming, we’re like starving wolves,” says Workman, “looking for the hook.”

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALLEYCATZ Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

THE CAVE Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro

70s & 80s).

REPOSADO Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, November 4 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8 to 10 pm.

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Capital Cities, Cherub, Night Terrors of 1927 doors 7 pm, all ages.

DRAKE HOTEL Allo Darlin’ doors 8 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR The Reign of Kindo, Matthew Santos doors 7:30 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Tribute To Jennifer Castle 9 pm.

HORSESHOE St Paul & the Broken Bones, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas doors 8:30 pm.

THE PISTON Sheldon Holder 9 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Arachnidiscs Showcase Colin Fisher & Mike Gennaro, Beard Closet, the Unquiet Grave, Holiday Rambler doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Colette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB David Bazan & the Passenger String Quartet (string quartet performance) doors 8 pm.

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AXIS GALLERY & GRILL The Junction Jam Derek

Downham 10 pm.

CLUB 120 DINER Open mic/stage Shayne Taylor 9 pm.5 THE DUKE LIVE.COM Open Jam Frank Wilks 8:30 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE CD release party Amy Rivard 8 pm.

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GATE 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo (pop) 9 pm, Harpdog Brown (electric blues) 5 to 8 pm.

THE GREAT HALL Waxahatchee, Anamai doors 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Ms Debbie & the Don Valley Stompers 9:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE THEATRE Agnes Obel, Jennifer Castle (singer/songwriter) 8 pm.

IZAKAYA SUSHI HOUSE Drum & Dance Tuesdays 8:30 pm to midnight.

LOU DAWG’S Tangled Up In The Blues Chris Caddell, Cassius Pereira, Kenny Neal Jr 8 pm.

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FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

White Night In Russia Marina Thibeault & Michel-Alexandre Broekaert (viola & piano) noon to 1 pm.

JAZZ BISTRO CD release Howie Silverman 8 pm.

MUSIDEUM Christa Couture & Hillary Grist (jazz/folk/pop) 8 pm.

THE REX Rex Jazz Jam Chris Gale (sax) 9:30 pm, Adam Teixeira Quintet 6:30 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL Musicians from Marlboro 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Peripheral Vision (jazz) 10 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALLEYCATZ Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun

8:30 pm.

CLUB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 REPOSADO Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, November 5 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CODA M:Pire of Evil, Hatriot 7:30 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Sean Rowe doors 6:30 pm.

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Bahamas,

the Barr Brothers doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ See Barr Brothers preview, page 57.

THE GARRISON Knox Hamilton, XPrime doors 8 pm.

JAZZ BISTRO Soul Stew (R&B) 8 pm.

THE LOADED DOG Tommy Rocker (rock) 9 pm.

LULA LOUNGE 30-Year Celebration The Monster

Horn Band w/ Robbie Rox (rock/jazz) 8 pm.

OPERA HOUSE In The Wilderness Andrew McMahon, Hunter Hunted, Junior Prom doors 6:30 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Flatrock.

SMILING BUDDHA Lee Paradise, Ice Cream, Secret Sign doors 9 pm.

TATTOO Brother Ali, Bambu, DJ Last Word (hip-hop) doors 8 pm.

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CAMERON HOUSE Jen Lane & John Antoniuk 6 to 8 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Kevin Butler & Darlin (folk) 9 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

Walk To The Sea David Buchbinder, Hilario Durán (world music fusion) 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

GATE 403 Julian Fauth Blues Night 9 pm, Howard Willett Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE THEATRE Agnes Obel, Jennifer Castle (singer/songwriter) ñ 8 pm.

JOHNNY JACKSON Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 pm.

LOLA Wednesday’s Child 8 pm.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Live Acoustic Blues.

MUSIDEUM Late July Nicole Simone 8 pm.

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The Barr Brothers are a spectacle live.

There’s the prominence of Sarah Pagé’s concert harp, for example, and the experiments with unusual percussion like bicycle rims and guitar treatments like manipulating its strings with a thread.

“It’s my way of distracting people from my singing,” says Montreal-based songwriter/guitarist Brad Barr of the thread thing. He’s just finishing up lunch in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, where the band is 10 days into a European tour. “I used to do it in every song. I’m choosing my moments now.”

Barr’s warm vocals recall Paul Simon’s, though he cites Van Morrison’s cadences and turns of phrase as an influence. On their beautiful sophomore album, Sleeping Operator (Secret City), there’s tension between conventional songwriting and the sonic exploration that speaks to the group’s origins.

Brad and Andrew Barr began playing together as part of Boston’s jazzy avant-rock trio the Slip in the mid-90s.

Nine years ago, they moved to Montreal after Andrew fell in love with a Canadian. It was then that Brad famously met Pagé after hearing her practicing harp in an adjacent apartment.

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“A lot of that first record [2011’s The Barr Brothers] was a response to having played so much improvisation,” says Brad. “We brought the volume down and worked at something more refined. Coming from a classical world, Sarah appreciates [working out] her parts [beforehand].”

Yet these days, Pagé has grown more comfortable with improvisation.

(Listen to her go at it on heavy blues jam Half Crazy.) “We encourage it,” says Brad. “In all the songs, there’s room for improvisation. It’s a little more subtle, with a tonal centre. It’s not as abstract or ‘free,’ but I wouldn’t get much of a kick out of playing songs if there weren’t space to open them up somehow.”

Considering their penchant for spontaneity, it’s no surprise that some of the instrumentation on Sleeping Operator came about by chance. “At some point we just kind of went bananas,” says Brad.

During sessions for an as yet unreleased collaboration with Malian ngoni superstar Bassekou Kouyate, the Barrs asked ngoni player Abou Sissoko to sit in on Little Lover.

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the deluxe digital version). That doesn’t suit listening to the whole thing in one sitting, but all of the new tracks successfully reimagine the originals in exciting ways.

Not a great entry point for new listeners, but still a worthy companion piece for the full-length.

Top track: Candy Tongue (Jenny Wilson version) Trentemøller plays Virgin Mobile Mod Club November 13.

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Electronic ARCA Xen (Mute)

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Michael (Company) Rating: Most people know Chaz Bundick as chillwave survivor Toro Y Moi. Les Sins is his dance-music side project, and this new material has little connection to his dream-pop roots. While his work as Toro Y Moi has become more house-influenced, his debut Les Sins release reveals a talent his previous work only hinted at: a much tougher and more club-friendly side. It’s a remarkably consistent dance album in a singles-based genre that usually fails

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The influence of raw, classic Chicago house is immediately evident, but so are nods to hip-hop, juke, techno, dubstep, drum ’n’ bass and electro funk. Despite that wide range, it holds together, even when the mood jumps from the disco pop of Why (featuring Nate Salman) to the minimalist, dark percussive groove of Bother. Hopefully this detour turns out to be more than just a momentary diversion.

Top track: Past Les Sins plays the Hoxton November 21.

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Rating: NNNN After listening to the debut album by Venezuelan-born/London-based musician Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi), we’re not surprised that he’s co-producing the next Björk record. Just as the Icelandic pop innovator used patterns in nature to break away from traditional song structure on 2011’s Biophilia album, Arca forges his own intuitive path on Xen through rhythm and harmony, but with even less regard for pop convention.

Moments of softness and even warmth make Ghersi’s debut album a more varied, mature and easier listen than last year’s unforgiving &&&&& mixtape. Family Violence uses chaotic strings to whip up an agitated state, whereas more typical pulverizing beats and chilly minimalism climax in a dramatic fury on the title track.

Orchestral flourishes swirl through the slo-mo Wound, one of several songs that offset chaos with quietude.

It’s as if Ghersi is not just confronting his demons but recreating them as music.

Xen is a collage of warped sounds and emotions that, compared to the discomfort and abrasiveness of past releases, linger on the harmonious threshold between beauty and pain.

Top track: Wound KEVIN RITCHIE RYAN HEMSWORTH Alone For The First Time (Last Gang) Rating: NNN Canadian electronic producer Ryan Hemsworth continues to broaden his already eclectic musical palette on his latest album, which comes only a year after his debut full-length, Guilt Trips. Fans will recognize the intricate ambient hip-hop rhythms, but this time his latent pop impulses are much closer to the surface, and his rock influences even more on display.

When it works best, the sudden majorkey-pop keyboard lines blast out of the hazy, hypnotic beats like rays of sunshine, and the guest vocalists function more like instruments than as the central focus.

He’s not the first to do it, but Hemsworth’s synthesis of experimental electronic music with contemporary R&B feels very particular to him.

But like any adventurous artist, he occasionally pushes things too far, mixing in hooks that are just a little too cheesy against otherwise promising ideas.

Top track: Hurt Me Ryan Hemsworth plays the Opera House November 15.

BB TRENTEMØLLER Lost Reworks (In My Room) Rating: NNN Danish electronic music producer Trentemøller explored his rock influences on his last album, Lost, and collaborated with a wide array of indie rock vocalists: Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino, the Raveonettes’ Sune Rose Wagner and Jonny Pierce of the Drums. Fans of his techno and house influences may have found the shoegaze and new wave references an abrupt shift. But they’re out of luck if they’re hoping this new compilation of remixes reframes the songs in a club-friendly way.

It’s puzzling that rather than including alternate versions of every track off the album, he has instead included two remixes each of River Of Life, Come Undone and Deceive (and even more repetition on

DEERHOOF La Isla Bonita (Polyvinyl) Rating: NNN Deerhoof celebrate their 20th anniversary by revisiting their roots as a noise project slumming it in San Francisco’s mid-90s punk scene. After spending 10 days in guitarist Ed Rodriguez’s basement working on what they thought were demos, they realized on the last day that they had a full-fledged album on their hands.

Recorded live, La Isla Bonita is harsh and dissonant, with as many dicey guitar spasms and eerily saccharine-sweet vocals courtesy of bassist Satomi Matsuzaki and as much perfectly off-kilter drumming as heard on their early tunes. But the band’s grown up, too. There are honest-to-goodness catchy hooks here.

Opener Paradise Girls is loud and repetitive but with a Dirty Projectorsesque guitar line that stays in your head long after it’s over. Closer Oh Bummer, sung by drummer Greg Saunier, is a straightforward moody rock song – at least for the first three minutes, after which a striking doomsday-meets-Thriller breakdown erupts, reminding diehard fans that the band members are still weirdos but also keeping fair-weather listeners at a distance.

Top track: Paradise Girls Deerhoof play Lee’s Palace on November 13.

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OBLITERATIONS Poison Everything (Southern Lord) Rating: NNN Sometimes relocating to California brings out a musician’s sunny side, but that’s not the case with Stephen McBean. Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops lead man’s newest project is the go-for-broke L.A.based Obliterations, expert at firing out angry, seething, dark hardcore punk à la Black Flag.

McBean fans have been anticipating their debut full-length album for over a year. It’s nothing like the Vancouver native’s usual heavy but laid-back psych rock fare. Nor is his laconic drawl ever on offer.

Instead, Sam James Velde from L.A. hard rockers Night Horse and Bluebird spits out harsh vocals, ripping his throat apart on all 13 songs.

Bleach-evoking grunge can be heard in the thick and low-slung bass lines, courtesy of Austin Barber (Saviours, Travelling Eyelids), while Flo Schanze (Dudeman, Sonofold) cranks out super-tight rapid-fire rhythms. Tunes are fast, brief and vicious, though the band claims to be as inspired

by Black Sabbath as Black Flag, an influence primarily heard in McBean’s titanic guitar riffage.

Worth the wait.

Top track: Ad Nauseam CARLA GILLIS

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MYKKI BLANCO Gay Dog Food

(UNO NYC) Rating: NNN There’s a battle going on between inner demons and outside pressures on Mykki Blanco’s Gay Dog Food, a mixtape that doubles down on his aggro punk aesthetic.

“I need to quiet the commotion in my mind,” he explains over New Feelings’ elastic groove. The spoken-word missive, which finds Blanco accepting that his snarling stage persona is too freaky for many, walks a line between earnestness and irony.

The deceptively laid-back monologue sets up the tone for a mixtape that indulges in commotion and in-your-face attitude. Self-Destruction grapples with drug use over sludgy industrial distortion, A Moment With Kathleen cedes the mic to the riot-grrrl leader Kathleen Hanna on a chaotic, collage-like track, while Fulani and Moshing In The Front shift the focus to rhymes and wordplay.

While the sounds and styles are ultimately familiar, Gay Dog Food sees Blanco bluntly aligning himself with feminist and queer collaborators (Cakes Da Killa and No Bra also turn up) and embracing and owning his outsider status.

Top track: Moshing In The Front (featuring Cities Aviv) KR

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THE MANY MOODS OF HEALING POWER RECORDS (Healing

Power) Rating: NNN Toronto’s weirdo music scene doesn’t always get as much attention internationally as Montreal’s, but if you want a crash course on a big chunk of the strange, experimental music being made here in intimate DIY venues, this 80-minute mega-compilation tape by Healing Power is a good entry point.

It features 19 songs by 18 artists (Bile Sister makes two appearances), and there’s a wide range of approaches, from the skronky punk free jazz of Margarita Night to the off-kilter country folk of Jennifer Castle to lots of cosmic electronic explorations. Some of it is annoyingly silly (Toblerone Boys’ Nugget Vacancy), but other moments are hauntingly beautiful (the Cluttertones’ Bison). Given the breadth and the length, it’s unlikely that any listener will love all of it, but anyone can be sure to hear something they haven’t imagined before.

Top track: Propaganda by Petra Glynt Colin Fisher performs at the Healing Party Bizarre on Sunday (November 2) at Double Double Land.

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Ambient GROUPER Ruins (Kranky) Rating: NNN Liz Harris, aka Oregon-based artist Grouper, once played an eight-hour show meant to help concertgoers sleep and relax.

That’s a testament to the kind of music she makes: subtle, ambient, calming. On Ruins, her textural sound is even more stripped-back, built from only her light voice and upright piano.

Harris recorded Ruins back in 2011 in Portugal, where every day she hiked several miles through a small village and past dilapidated estates to the beach. She says Ruins is a tribute to that walk, but it sounds more like a snapshot of isolation.

As her fingers delicately struggle across the keys, whispered vocals dragging alongside, you can hear rain starting to fall in the background, late-night insects buzzing and frogs croaking, the jarring beep of a microwave.

These noises become as important as the piano, transporting you to Harris’s private studio. The quietness is also the project’s greatest weakness. At times, it leaves the album feeling incomplete or intrusive, as if we’re peeking in mid-thought.

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Opening HTHE BRUISED SPIRITS OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO by Caroline Azar (Opera Arcana). Post-

Hailey Gillis and Peter Fernandes play in a new musical version of Spoon River.

Spoken from the grave

The dead give lessons – and sing and play instruments – in Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River By JON KAPLAN SPOON RIVER adapted by Mike Ross and Albert Schultz from Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, composed by Ross, directed by Schultz, with Frank CoxO’Connell, Oliver Dennis, Peter Fernandes, Hailey Gillis, Stuart Hughes, Oyin Oladejo, Nancy Palk and Brendan Wall. Presented

by Soulpepper at the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Now in previews, opens Tuesday (November 4) and runs to November 15; see soulpepper.ca for schedule. $23-$89. 416-866-8666.

In Spoon River, the dead teach the living a few lessons about life.

Adapted by composer Mike Ross and director Albert Schultz from Spoon River Anthology, a collection of poems by American writer Edgar Lee Masters in which the residents of a small-town graveyard recount their lives and passions, the Soulpepper show blends poetry and music.

The cast is a combination of Soulpepper senior artists and members of the current Academy, young the-

atre practitioners thrilled to be sharing the stage with people they’ve admired for years. The Academy people were part of a workshop version of Spoon River at the Global Cabaret a year ago and have been involved in creating as well as performing the current script.

“We first tackled it about four months into our Academy training,” says Hailey Gillis, “and since then we’ve done lots of devised work with Leah Cherniak, which has given us a sense of power in the rehearsal hall.

We believe in and argue the ideas we put forward, and it’s wonderful when actors like Diego Matamoros and Nancy Palk listen to us.”

“We were encouraged to look at all the poems in the anthology,” continues Peter Fernandes, “to bring in the poems and find the themes that interested us and then convince others of what we find valuable in the material.”

Once the material was chosen, the 19 actors started working with

Schultz and assistant director Erin Brandenburg (another Academy member), shaping the speakers of the short poems and finding through-lines for sections of the production.

Fernandes plays several characters, including the man who carves the gravestone epitaphs and a widow who urges the living not to assume that they can change their time here.

Gillis’s single role provides a framework for the narrative.

“What holds it all together is the idea that those who are no longer here have a different insight into the world,” she offers. “They want to be remembered, but it’s necessary to remember not just the best parts of these characters but also the rough edges of their lives. Albert is rigorous about the fact that we can’t be precious with these stories.”

The idea for the show began when Schultz threw composer Ross a copy of Masters’s poems, suggesting they might be a fruitful source for a pro-

duction. The composer was apparently so inspired that he had a chunk of it written the next day.

“Mike, who’s performing with us, says he could hear the songs the first time he read the text,” smiles Fernandes. “What we’re presenting gives audiences the poems as well as his interpretations of the verse. He’s tapped into the original so well that I can’t imagine presenting the poetry without the music.”

Most of the performers also play instruments during the show; Gillis, for instance, tackles ukulele, guitar, tambourine and drum.

“Mike’s an amazing leader,” agrees Gillis. “Some of us told him we didn’t know, despite a musical background, how to play this or that instrument.

He encouraged everyone, told us we’d figure it out, and we did.

“That’s the kind of positive attitude everyone has around here. We can’t help but be inspired and grow.”

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punk multimedia horror story set in Kensington Market. Oct 31-Nov 1, Fri-Sat 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. Videofag, 187 Augusta. facebook. com/events/819866891397293.

HEVIL DEAD – THE MUSICAL by Christopher Bond, George Reinblatt, Frank Cipolla and Melissa Morris (Starvox Entertainment). The musical based on the Evil Dead film franchise returns. Opens Oct 31 and runs to Nov 9, TueThu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 7 & 10:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $40-$70. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. starvoxent.com.

FABRIK: THE LEGEND OF M. RABINOWITZ by Wakka Wakka Productions and the Nordland Visual Theatre (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Wakka Wakka Productions). Puppetry and music are used to tell the true story of Moritz Rabinowitz, who fled Poland to become a leading clothing maker in Norway.

Opens Nov 5 and runs to Nov 16, Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Wed-Thu 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $40$50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-733-0545, hgjewishtheatre.com.

THE KING AND I by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Scarborough Music Theatre). An English school teacher goes to Bangkok to work for the King of Siam in this classic musical.

Opens Oct 30 and runs to Nov 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm (and Nov 15). $27, stu/srs $25. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. theatrescarborough.com.

MARY STUART by Friedrich Schiller (George Brown Theatre). This drama looks at the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Opens Nov 5 and runs to Nov 15, TueSat 7:30 pm, mat Sun (and Nov 12) at 1:30 pm. $20, srs $15, stu $8. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

NINE THE MUSICAL by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston (Victoria College Drama Society).

Musical adaptation of Federico Fellini’s semiautobiographical film 8 1/2, set in 1960s Venice. Oct 30-Nov 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/ srs $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

PEACE WARRIORS by Doron Ben-Atar (Teatron Theatre). This darkly comic play looks at antiIsrael politics around elite college campuses.

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Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm, Nov 5 preview at 1 pm ($19). $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre.com.

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 (see story, page 59). Previews to 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.

ThE TEMpEST by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). Love and revenge collide on a magical island. Opens Nov 5 and runs to Nov 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 22 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca.

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WhAT I LEARNED FROM A DEcADE OF FEAR by Beatriz Pizano, Trevor Schwellñ nus and Lyon Smith (Aluna Theatre). A ritual

to atone for repression, war and paranoia becomes a eulogy for the human costs of collective safety. Opens Oct 30 and runs to Nov 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $12-$20. 1 Wiltshire, unit 124. alunatheatre.ca.

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Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). At the Red Sandcastle Theatre (922 Queen East).

To November 8. $25. eldritchtheatre.ca.

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Over the past few years, Eric Woolfe’s cute and spooky puppet and magic shows have become a Toronto Halloween tradition. This year’s instalment is a zany sequel of sorts to Mary Shelley’s famous monster parable. Following Viktor Frankenstein’s death, his alchemy-obsessed hunchbacked assistant Fry winds up a homeless drifter in a dystopian police state, where he falls hopelessly in love with a greasy spoon server after she offers him some leftover home fries.

The large cast of comedic characters (some human but most puppets) are all performed by Woolfe and Kimwun Pere-

hinec, who work so well together that they can seamlessly trade puppet characters mid-scene without missing a beat.

Many of the show’s plot points showcase Woolfe’s signature use of magic – elaborate trick props or deft sleight of hand developed in consultation with “Magic” Mike Segal – in awesome gross-out moments that are more campy and funny than horrific, including a scene where the server severs her hand only to have it surgically replaced with a new one with a mind of its own (à la 1991 horror flick Body Parts).

It takes a while for Fry to emerge from the puppet menagerie as the show’s central character, but the disfigured puppet with a creepy accent eventually becomes a lovable wildcard misfit whose story parallels many elements of Shelley’s original.

Like Viktor Frankenstein, Fry amasses a deep knowledge of medical science and technology, but only “sort of” mas-

ters the technique of re-animation, with humorous results. Like Frankenstein’s monster, Fry is relegated to the margins of society due to his strange appearance and behaviour. He survives on food scraps while dodging menacing gangs of alley-dwelling hobo puppets.

The colourful set and props designed by Melanie McNeill comprise a Halloween treat bag of eye candy.

The focus is a large upright trick crate at centre stage that Fry uses as his re-animation machine but can also makes characters appear and disappear. Another unique feature is that certain scenes are suddenly scaled down and played out with miniature diorama-sized versions of the puppets and sets.

The cozy east-end DIY Red Sandcastle Theatre storefront space only seats 25, so you can bet this weirdo Halloween puppet show will sell out.

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house learn about the people who lived there in 1809. Previews Nov 4-8. Opens Nov 9 and runs to Dec 14, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com.

MOMENT by Deirdre Kinahan (ARC). A family member returns home 15 years after a sudden act of violence ripped the clan apart. Previews Nov 4-5. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Thu and Sun 2 pm (no mat Nov 6). $20, previews $17. Sidemart Theatrical Grocery, 1362 Queen E. brownpapertickets.com/event/899552.

SExTET by Morris Panych (Tarragon Theatre).

Stranded in a motel by weather, six musicians struggle to come to terms with their failing careers, failing marriages and unfulfilled desires. Previews Nov 5-11. Opens Nov 12 and runs to Dec 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$55, rush $15. 30 Bridgman.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

TAKE ME BAcK TO JEFFERSON by Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour (Factory Theatre/Theatre Smith-Gilmour). The Bundren family reveals their foibles and follies in this darkly comic adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. Previews Nov 5. Opens Nov 6 and runs to Nov 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$45, preview $23. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

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WhEN WE WERE YOuNG: A STRATFORD cELEBRATION (World Festival of Children’s The-

atre). Event in support of the World Festival of Children’s Theatre in 2016. Nov 1 at 3 pm. $40-$50. Knox Church, 142 Ontario, Stratford. worldfestivalofchildrenstheatre.com.

WhERE ThE WILD ThINGS ARE by Maurice Sendak (Presentation House Theatre). A boy embarks on imaginary travels with animals. Nov 4 at 10 am. $12-$17. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. mtix.ca.

Continuing 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 review, page 62). Runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $38-$181 (ticketmaster.ca). Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855622-2787, operaatelier.com. NNN (JK) ThE ART OF BuILDING A BuNKER by Adam Lazarus and Guillermo Verdecchia (Factory Theatre/QuipTake). A frustrated man finds himself surrounded by a diverse group as he endures workplace sensitivity training (see review, page 64). Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23-$45. 125 Bathurst. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Nov 30, TueSat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 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. To Oct 30, Thu 7 and 10 pm. $15-$35. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

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 love and creativity (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $63. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-733-0545, hgjewishtheatre.com.

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EDEN by Pastel Supernova (Love Letters Cabaret). This burlesque revue looks at shipwrecked sailors and the mystical creatures they encounter. Oct 30 at 8 and 10:30 pm. $25-$35. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416588-0307, eventbrite.ca/e/13021759433.

EvERY TRIcK IN ThE BOOK (Bill Abbott Magic).

Abbott performs a combination of magic, improv and illusion. Oct 30 at 8 pm. $40. Joy Bistro, 884 Queen E. billabbottexperience.ca.

LA GRAN vIA by Chueca and Valverde (Toronto Operetta Theatre). This zarzuela combines comic fantasy, social comment, political satire in a story about Madrid’s grand avenue.

Nov 2 at 2 pm. $46-$63. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

INTIMATE ExpERIENcES: ThE cOMpOSERS (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Members of the Graduate Company present mini-personal cabarets with hosts Bruce Dow and Jeff Madden. Nov 2 at 7:30 pm. $15-$20. 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

ThE MASK MESSENGER By Faustwork Mask Theatre (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). This show for ages 4+ features original masks and characters. Nov 2 at 11 am & 2 pm. $16. 4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031, solarstage.on.ca.

MuRDER AT ThE BuRLESquE: EpISODE 3 (The Social Capital/Red Herring). This four-part serial incorporates burlesque performances into a hard-boiled detective story. Oct 31 at 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. eventbrite.ca/e/12434721587.

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ARcADIA by Tom Stoppard (Mirvish/ Shaw Festival). The past and present ñ collide when scholars in an English country

ThE NIGhTINGALE by Hans Christian Andersen (Little Red Theatre). The fairy tale about a singing bird and an arrogant emperor is brought to the stage. Nov 1 at 2 pm. $5. Emmanuel Howard Park United Church, 214 Wright. 416-533-8848, littleredtheatre.on.ca.

NOW WhO’S cRAzY NOW? by Elly Litvak and Doug Hersak (The George Herman House).

Litvak performs her solo show about living with and recovering from mental illness. All proceeds to GHH. Nov 3 at 7 pm. $30. 3030 Dundas West. georgehermanhouse.ca. quEERcAB (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre).

The monthly open-mic night for youth features music, spoken word, stand-up, drag and more. Nov 5 at 8 pm. Pwyc. 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

SING & DANcE (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre).

Jack Grunsky performs an interactive musical show for ages 3 to 8. Nov 1 at 11 am & 2 pm. $16. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

STEphEN hARpER: ThE MuSIcAL (James Gordon). Gordon performs his one-person-plus puppet play about the prime minister. Nov 5 at 8:30 pm. $25-$30. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604, hughsroom.com.

SuN IN MY EYES by Jack Kuper (Medina Theatre Ensemble). Staged reading of Kuper’s autobiographical play set in a Polish town in 1942.

Part of Holocaust Remembrance Week. Nov 3 at 7:30 pm. Free. Temple Sinai Congregation, 210 Wilson. medinatheatre.blogspot.ca.

ThIRTYBASh! (Playwrights Canada Press).

NOW Magazine’s Jon Kaplan and Susan G Cole host a party with play readings and more. Nov 3 at 6 pm. Free. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. facebook.com/events/462577893882497. vOIcE OF ASIA (Astana Opera). The ensemble performs Kazakh folk and opera plus excerpts of Tchaikovsky, Verdi and more. Oct 30 at 7 pm. $20-$60. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

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THE BOOK Of MORMON by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (Mirvish). ñ Two naive missionaries go to a volatile region

in Uganda in this religious satire musical. Runs to Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $49-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

BOOKwORMS by Bernard Farrell (Toronto Irish Players). A women’s book club experiments with inviting the husbands to the gathering, with disastrous results. Runs to Nov 8, ThuSat 8 pm, 2 pm. $18-$21. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 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. 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. 905-569-4369, theatreerindale.com.

Allyson McHardy (left), Mireille Asselin and Wallis Giunta highlight the cast of Alcina.

Magic missing ALCINA by Handel (Opera Atelier). At the Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge). To November 1; schedule at operaatelier.com. $38-$181.

1-855-622-2787. See Continuing, page 60.

Rating: NNN Handel’s opera Alcina is a tale of a sorceress and the enchantments she spins on a mysterious island. The Opera Atelier production, its first full-length Handel, is good but needs more magic.

In her kingdom of illusions, Alcina (Meghan Lindsay) regularly goes through lovers, turning the men into rocks, waves and other objects or animals when she tires of them. Her current partner-in-thrall, Ruggiero (Allyson McHardy), is sought by his fiancée, Bradamante (Wallis Giunta), who’s travelling with her guardian (Olivier Laquerre) and dressed as her brother.

Alcina’s companion, Morgana (Mireille Asselin) falls for the “brother” and

casts off her jealous lover, Oronte (Krešimir Špicer).

The work is mostly well sung, especially by McHardy, Giunta and Asselin, who know how to use the music to characterize their roles. McHardy’s Ruggiero traces a clear arc from the petulant lover to the heroic warrior, while Giunta’s determined Bradamante is a winning figure. Asselin is always charming, whether flirting, turning snappy when she doesn’t get her way or lusting after whoever catches her fancy.

Lindsay has an edge to her voice that stands her well when Alcina is fiery and threatening, though she’s less successful when the enchantress’s tone is melancholy or introspective. Špicer gets some genuine laughs with his portrayal of Oronte, but his voice is gruff and unattractive.

As always, Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg’s stylish period choreography catches the feeling of the music elegantly.

On the other hand, Marshall Pynkoski’s direction works when he has his singers deliver the material simply, without rushing around to little purpose. His use of comedy enhances the Morgana/Oronte relationship but falls flat when the laughs are directed at Ruggiero or Bradamante.

Just as importantly, some of his ideas aren’t fully developed, such as the parallel between the illusion of Alcina’s island and the make-believe that’s part of the theatrical experience.

The same is true of Ben Shirinian’s film segments, complementing Gerard Gauci’s fine set design, which includes musicians suspended in air. The film intends to show the reality behind the trickery, but only occasionally does it work.

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HdRINK wITH dEATH: A MORBId CABARET

(Romana Soutus/Christopher Weatherstone).

The dead rise to tell stories of their untimely ends through songs and storytelling. Runs to Oct 30, Thu 8 pm. $18, stu $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. drinkwithdeath.com.

EvITA by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Lower Ossington Theatre). Eva Duarte rises from poverty to become the Argentine president’s wife. Runs to Nov 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. 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 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) HfRANKENSTEIN’S BOy by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). This bloody, dieselpunk, gothic romance features puppets, people and dark parlour magic (see review, page 60). Runs to Nov 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus late show Nov 1 at 11:30 pm), Sun 4 pm. $25.

Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. eldritchtheatre.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) HELEN LAwRENCE by Chris Haddock, Stan Douglas (Canadian Stage/Arts Club Theatre Co/Banff Centre/NAC). This often compelling film noir tale about a mysterious blond (Lisa Ryder) bent on revenge uses a blend of filmed backgrounds and actors, who appear projected on a scrim as well as live behind it.

The performances are uniformly excellent, though the technique becomes gimmicky after a while. 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. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (JK) LAST dAyS (U of T Faculty of Music). The airy music of pre-war Europe segues into wartime songs of despair, anger and loss in this theatrical WWI commemoration. To Oct 30, Thu 2:30 & 7:30 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Music Room. music.utoronto.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. Runs to Nov 1, see website for schedule. $18-$25.

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

LOBBy HERO by Kenneth Lonergan (Unit 102 Actors Company). This dark comedy looks at futility and the quest for standing up for what’s right. Runs to Nov 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20-$25, Wed pwyc. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. unit102tix@gmail.com.

MAdAMA BuTTERfLy by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Something’s missing from this revival of Brian Macdonald’s minimalist production of the well-loved opera about a young Japanese woman (Patricia Racette, alternating with Kelly Kaduce) who gives up her family to marry a cad of a Navy officer (Stefano Secco and Andrea Care). The COC orchestra is sluggish under conductor Patrick Lange, and the leads lack chemistry, but Macdonald’s burnished production pays off in the second half, with Racette delivering a fine performance (if not a lustrous top voice)

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One Theatre/Theatre Brouhaha). At the Storefront Theatre (955 Bloor West).

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Caryl Churchill’s 1994 play The Skriker is considered a work nearly impossible to stage. In a splendid collaboration between Red One Theatre Collective and Theatre Brouhaha, director Daniel Pagett proves that in the right hands, it’s one of her most theatrically exciting scripts.

At its centre is the Celtic title figure, a malevolent fairy-like creature with a gruesome fascination with human infants. She/he/it takes an interest in two young women: Josie (Suzette McCanny), who has inexplicably killed her young child before the play begins, and the pregnant Lily (Perrie Olthuis), the friend

and fine work from the chorus and supporting singers. Runs to Oct 31, see website for schedule. $12-$339. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. NNN (GS) MIdSuMMER NIgHTMARE (Leroy Street Theatre). Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Runs to Nov 8 at 8 pm, Oct 30, 8 pm & midnight , Tue-Sat. $20. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. leroystreettheatre.com.

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. Runs to Nov 16, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm (and Oct 28), mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$33, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. johnsongirls.ca.

REBEL ACTS (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, U of T). Performances, workshops and dialogues by Guillermo Gómez Peña and La Pocha Nostra. Free. To Nov 1. Thu: Workshop Performance Salon, 8 pm, at Luella Massey Studio Theatre (4 Glen Morris); Fri-Sat: Corpus Insurrecto 3.2 performance, 8 pm, at Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse (79A St George).

416-978-7987, rebecca.biason@utoronto.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. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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who agrees to take the depressed Josie into her home.

Beleaguered by the Skriker in various forms, the two women do their best to defend themselves and the baby that Lily gives birth to partway through the play.

Churchill’s script tackles all sorts of topics, from postpartum depression to ecological concerns and various western myths, even taking us on a nightmarish trip to the underworld. She embeds this bubbling pot of themes in language that’s challenging, impressionistic and occasionally dense, using wit and associative wordplay to move the ideas forward. Think of a macabre children’s tale about changelings – young fairies exchanged for human infants – written in the style of James Joyce or Samuel Beckett.

Pagett, who pulls off an extraordinary feat in his directorial debut, makes sense of a difficult text by charting a firm through-line on language and story, in-

SeA SicK by Alanna Mitchell (The Theatre

Centre). Mitchell discovers the secrets of the ocean, faces demons and finds hope in this solo show. Runs to Nov 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, theatrecentre.org.

The SKriKer by Caryl Churchill (Red One Theatre Collective/Theatre Brouhaha).

An ancient fairy takes on many forms as it pursues two young women (see review, page 62). Runs to Nov 9, see website for schedule. $15-$25. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. NNNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Nov 14, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $15-$25, previews $10-$15. Daniels Spectrum, Aki Studio Theatre, 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. Runs to Nov 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $22, stu $15.

Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-4250917, eastsideplayers.ca.

TO KiLL A MOcKiNgbird by Harper Lee (Young People’s Theatre). This adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic coming-of-age tale captures a totally engaging story, though not all the characters, including young narrator Scout, are as well developed as they might be. Still,

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spiring his actors to be clear, scary and darkly funny in equal measure.

The cast is wonderful, beginning with the mesmerizing Claire Armstrong as the lead Skriker, a bowlerhatted narrator who opens the show with a five-minute monologue filled with associative words and ideas.

What follows – in a production that’s part music hall, part fright fest, part dystopian tale – is the Skriker’s pursuit of the two young women.

The other actors, in a variety of roles, are equally fine. Adding to the power of the productions are Holly Lloyd’s phantasmagoria of a set, Kendra Terpenning’s costumes, Angela McQueen’s hair and makeup, Melissa Joakim’s spooky lighting and Andy Trithardt’s live soundscape.

The Skriker won’t be to everyone’s taste, but I consider this ambitious, stimulating production first-class inJON KAPLAN die theatre.

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. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNN (JK) WhAT MAKeS A MAN by Jennifer Tarver (Canadian Stage/Necessary Angel). Some 20 tunes

by Charles Aznavour are intended to provide an overview of the composer’s work. While it features some fine performances – notably

by Louise Pitre and Saidah Baba Talibah, who know how to tell a tale in miniature using a single song – the show lacks a strong structure. The result: a series of sometimes strong theatrical moments rather than a satisfying whole. Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $15-$49.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (JK) WicKed by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (Mirvish). The musical prequel to The Wizard Of Oz has a strong book and attractive musical numbers, but this touring version doesn’t hit all the right notes in terms of the chemistry between the two leads, Laurel Harris (Elphaba) and Kara Lindsay (Glinda), though each has good moments. There’s still much to enjoy here, though not as much as in previous Toronto productions. Runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36$139. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) 3

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Lazarus – a talented bouffon, the clown who tells nasty truths – plays all the characters in the show, including a supremacist South African, a sensual Latina, a soft-spoken THE ART OF BUILDING A BUNKER by Chinese woman with a ball of fury Adam Lazarus and Guillermo inside her and the group’s leader, Verdecchia (QuipTake/Factory Theatre, perhaps more insensitive than any of 125 Bathurst). Runs to November 2. $23his charges. $45. 416-504-9971. See Continuing, page Elvis, though, is front and centre, 60. Rating: NNNN an “irritated, stuck and defensive” man with sexist, racist and other You’ll find lots of laughs in The Art Of nasty attitudes toward those around Building A Bunker, but they won’t him. The writers give him other always be comfortable ones. sides, too, humanizing him when he Written by performer Adam Lazarus talks to his child through a baby and director Guillermo Verdecchia, Art monitor and later when he reveals a follows the journey of Elvis, a disgrundeep, dark secret that’s equal parts tled office worker forced to take a anger and guilt. week-long sensitivity course. He hates Under Verdecchia’s direction, it, but he has to get through it or forLazarus’s bravura, high-energy perfeit his job, and with a new baby and a formance is a treat. Though some concerned wife, he can’t do that. scenes go on longer than necessary Elvis doesn’t see the importance of to make their point, the performer is this kind of workshop, given the always willing to take chances, problems in the world that drive him physical and verbal, as he to isolate himself in his basement pushes to see how much when he’s not in the group. The we can take in terms of action takes place within what’s permissible or Camellia Koo’s clever design politically correct. of interconnected pipes, lit Bunker is the kind

by Michelle Ramsay – a of show that chanmetaphor for his need to ges depending on get his family to hunthe nature of the ker down for audience and what self-proit finds funny. tection.

Sometimes you indulge in gales of laughter; at other times what starts as a giggle ends as a stifled gasp.

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Thursday, October 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Headliner Trent McClellan with Ali Hassan and host Larry XL. To Nov 2, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BEERPROV: THE DRAFT Jim Robinson presents young improvisers competing in a series of elimination games. 9:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com.

CORRAL’S CORRAL: SOME DRAW, SOME DRAWL! Corral Blue presents live drawing screen improv, puppets and more w/ Carolyn Williamson, Devon Hyland and others. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. corralblue.com.

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

THE INTERVENTIONISTS HALLOWE’EN EXTRAVAGANZA Spooky improv w/ Renee Griffin, Jeff

Heyerman, Justin Hansis, Chantal Tanamera Galliott and Dave Wenger. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

KITCH KOMEDY Weekly pro/am w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Party Of Four podcast taping w/ Chris Locke, Aaron Eves, James Hartnett, host David Dineen-Porter and more. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

NIK RABINOWITZ Launch party for the Toronto South African Film Festival with the South African comic. 7 pm. $45-$75. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, tsaff.ca.

HQUEER AS FUCK: HALLOWEEN EDITION

LGBTQ+ comedy, w/ Robby Hoffman, Candice Gregoris, Jess Beaulieu, Andrew Johnston, Dawn Whitwell and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor W. facebook. com/events/1498547307063815.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS This isn’t as solid as Second City’s last two revues, but there’s still lots to enjoy, particularly from veteran ensemble members Connor Thompson and Ashley Botting. Thompson scores big laughs as an Owen Sound layabout who has a gift for giving directions, as well as a children’s performer accidentally hired to sing at a Remembrance Day ceremony. Botting gets two big solos that showcase her sassy range. But under director Reid Janisse, many of the sketches need polish, presenting jokey types rather than people. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25$29, stu $16-$18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 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.

ZONK IMPROV Moniquea Marion presents longform improv by duos. 8 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667.

Friday, October 31

Fruman and Jeff Tseng. 8:30 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

HHIRUT HALLOWEEN HOOT Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents stand-up w/ Chris Finn, Florence Ballard, Scott McCrickard, Raygun Hunter, Scott McMann, Paul Haywood, Joel West and host Elton John Jr. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560.

IMPROV GAME SHOW Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

HMONSTER MASH Phil and Sandra present a Halloween-themed show w/ Taylor Stein, Boyd Banks, Nick Flanagan & Alex Nussbaum.

9 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125.

HTHE PREDRINK BEFORE HALLOWEEN Good News, Toronto presents a live-news parody show/party w/ comics, musicians and improv.

8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W, Cabaret. facebook.com/GoodNewsTorontoTheShow.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 30.

THE SOAPS – THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA Improvisers create a new episode ñ each night of an ongoing story of drama, ro-

mance, intrigue and betrayal in an 80s Texas town. To Nov 14, Fridays 8 pm. $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.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.

Saturday, November 1 ABSOLUTE COMEDY

See Thu 30.

CLOSE SHAVE3: Q MEETS WHO The ñ Dandies present a

Movember Canada benefit w/ Scott Yamamura, Keesha Brownie, Zabrina Chevannes, Tony Ho and others. 7, 9 and 11 pm. $15-$20, all three sets $40. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. ow.ly/BwxaK.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a

weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880, redrocketcoffee.com.

FAN FICTION THE SHOW: STAR TREK Fan fiction scripts performed by the FFTS cast & guests. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. facebook.com/fftheshow.

GAVIN CRAWFORD: LIVE AND IN PERSONS

Crawford portrays different people in this comedy show. 7 pm. $20-$25. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

GET IT ON! Improv, games and karaoke w/ host Andy Fruman. 9 pm. Free. Club 120 Diner, 120 Church. club120.ca.

IMPROV LEAGUE Four troupes go head-to-head in a shortform improv competition. 8 pm. $5.

The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

MONKEY TOAST The Tite Group presents the improvised talk show with film critic Richard Crouse, Cash Cab’s Adam Growe, the Monkey Toast Players and host Ron Tite. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. monkeytoast. com.

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PERFECT 10 COMEDY: THE ANONYMOUS SHOW

Audience members and comics wear Guy Fawkes masks in this hacker-inspired show.

10:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

REBEL WITHOUT A COSMOS See Thu 30.

Sunday, November 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 30.

BRIAN POSEHN Early stand-

up show as part of the Dark ñ Comedy Festival. 7 pm. $20-$25.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

BRIAN POSEHN Late standup show as part of the Dark Comedy Festival. 9 pm. $20$25. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761, ticketfly.com.

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

8:30 pm. Free.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 30.

HBOOOOOPROV! BeerProv presents impro-

visers in spooky costumes competing in a series of elimination games. 8 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com.

HCOMEDY KAPOW HALLOWEEN! Club 120 Diner presents skits with Amish Patel, Andy

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Allison Price (left) and Ashley Botting appear in Second City’s Rebel Without A Cosmos.

The JoKe CluB Stand-up w/ Chris Locke, Evany Rosen, Pat Burtscher, Marty Topps, Tom Henry and host Nick Flanagan. 9 pm. $7. The Ossington, 61 Ossington. theossington.com. leS improBaBleS Competitive improv en français. Blues vs Reds. 7:30 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. ligueimprotoronto@ gmail.com. reBel WiThouT a CoSmoS See Thu 30.

The SKiN oF my NuTS Weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar and others. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

STuDeNT BoDieS Longform improv w/ players of the Social Capital Repertory Program. 8 pm.

Free. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. yuK yuK’S TueSDayS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, November 5 aBSoluTe pro/am NighT Headliner Dan

Quinn, Camille Cote, Jag Ghankas, JP Hodgkinson, Alex Crawford, Ken Roche, Selby Nixon and host Mike Storck. 8:30 pm. $6. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

The hiVe Weekly improv w/ rotating teams. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com. holoDeCK FollieS The Dandies present the monthly improvised Star Trek variety show w/ music from Nerds With Guitars and sketch comedy from Parker & Seville. 8 pm. $8. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

The JulieN DioNNe ComeDy hour Stand-up

by Dionne and music by Garage Baby. 9 pm. $10. C’est What, 67 Front E. ticketfly.com. liar liar paNTS oN Fire Tall tales competition w/ host Paul Bellini and others. 7:30 pm.

Pwyc. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. magiC oVeN ComeDy Weekly stand-up. 8 pm.

Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele.

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Monday, November 3 alTDoT ComeDy louNge Diamondfield pre-

sents DJ Demers, Trixx, Mike Rita, Aisha Alfa, James Hartnett, Allison Dore, Winston Spear, MC Ryan Belleville and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

The BeST oF The SeCoND CiTy Classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

Cheap laughS moNDay Weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. PJ O’Briens Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

DaWN paTrol Dawn Whitwell presents queered up stand-up w/ Ben T, Camille Cote, Matt Collins, Michelle Dion Dave Healey, Phil Luzi and Todd Graham. 8:30 pm. $7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. harD Day ComeDy Weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John, 2nd floor.

416-977-1900.

200% VoDKa Longform improv with the Social Capital Rep Company and guest hosts. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 3rd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, November 4 aBSoluTe ShoWCaSe NighT Best of the club’s top local talent. 8:30 pm. $10. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca. alTDoT ComeDy: DarK ComeDy FeSTiVal Rob Mailloux, Tyler Morrison, Steph Tolev, John Moses and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

FlaT Tire ComeDy Weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free.

Amsterdam Bicycle Club, 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy.

FouNTaiN aBBey Stand-up w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8:30 pm. Free. The Fountain, 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com.

JohN moSeS Live stand-up show as part of the Dark Comedy Festival. 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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w/ Mike Wilmot, Ron Josol, emcee Alan Park and others. 8:30 pm. $15-$20. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. brownpapertickets.com/ event/893853. reBel WiThouT a CoSmoS See Thu 30.

The roN Jeremy roaST Big Jay Oakerson and Lisa Ann skewer the porn legend as part of the Dark Comedy Festival. 9 pm. $56-$113.

Royal Cinema, 608 College. ticketfly.com.

SireN’S ComeDy Open-mic stand-up w/ host Che Durena and headliner Chris Robinson.

8:30 pm. Free. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

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dance listings Opening TDT Triple Bill Harbourfront NextSteps presents Toronto Dance Theatre perñ forming Thomas Hauert’s Pond Skaters plus

Early Departures and a new work by Christopher House. Nov 4-8, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20-$40.

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

TriBuTe To rex The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica presents a tribute to its co-founder, Rex Nettleford combining traditional Jamaican and balletic dance. Nov 4 at 7:30 pm. $50-$200. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 905-452-1911, sonycentre.ca.

Continuing SeiSmology Anandam Dancetheatre’s public participatory production with dance artists and designers. Runs to Nov 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15-$25. Collective Space, 221 Sterling, Unit 5. seismology.eventbrite.ca.

STealTh Shotgun Juliet presents a physical theatre/dance piece about four women who have vowed to be silent and hidden – until one decides she wants out. Runs to Nov 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $17. 8-11, behind 233 Spadina. facebook.com/shotgunjuliet.

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CrimSoN WaVe ComeDy Jess Beaulieu and Natalie Norman co-host a feminist-friendly, LGBTQ-positive stand-up night. 9 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Drop & giVe me 20 Up-and-coming comics Kyle Lucey, Tim McDonald, Jarrett Campbell & host Marc Hallworth. 8 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. reBel WiThouT a CoSmoS See Thu 30.

SuNDay NighT liVe The Sketchersons’ weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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Joseph Tisiga’s cigarette sculptures have multiple meanings.

MIXED MEDIA

Native ironies

Tisiga’s work is deep and whimsical By DAVID JAGER JOSEPH TISIGA at Diaz Contemporary (100 Niagara), to November 15.

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A whimsical ironist with a gift for surreal humour, Joseph Tisiga (a member of the Kaska Dene Nation) enjoys building dreamlike genealogies of native American imagery that evoke both the absurdities and troubled complexities of indigenous history.

His watercolors, collage and sculpture are on view in the show A Sacred Game: Escape Is Perpetual at Diaz.

Watercolour was a medium used by early ethnographers, priests and settlers to record their first impressions of natives. Tisiga’s deft figures bring the tone of these historical sketches to life, but set them within the much wider field of his imagination.

In Confirmation Of Final Dust, he paints a thatched hut, a dock with canoes, two priests, a female figure in a top hat and Duchamp’s bottle rack.

Art history, cultural history and native history all meld in the dreamscape, creating little jolts of amusement that are all equally unsettling.

Imbued With The Spirit features a melancholy young man flanked by two tiny masked medicine men waving rattles, while a buffalo pierced with arrows stands mounted on a

Joseph Tisiga’s work, like Confirmation Of Final Dust, can be unsettling.

wooden box. The shamans could be children and the buffalo a toy. Tisiga plays with the duality of grand spiritual symbols and traditions that have shifted in meaning or lost their original power.

He best evokes native American symbols as both potent spiritual signifiers and reservation gift shop clichés in his large cigarette sculptures. Tobacco is both a sacred native plant and a symbol of the indigenous contraband economy.

The spirit of a culture, Tisiga seems to be saying, lies in its many contradictions, even in its failures and tragedies. Fittingly, his bleak humour brings Samuel Beckett to mind, an artist from another extraordinarily rich culture with a troubled and exploited past.

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1520 Queen W. 416-821-3060.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Surburbia; Outskirts; Suburbed; Making Arrangements; Strip Mall Architecture; photos: Robert Burley, to Dec 28.

Photos: No Flat City, to Jun 1, 2015.

235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Installation: Tricia Middleton, to Nov 8. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY The Scondi Collection, to Nov 15. 86 Miller. 416-504-9515.

MKG127 Laura Kikauka, to Nov 15.

1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

NARWHAL CONTEMPORARY Moon Room group show, to Nov 15. 2104 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: John Hartman, to Nov 8. 451 King W. 416205-9000.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U Flash Forward 10: Uncanny Worlds, to Dec 20, Meryl McMaster talk 12:30 pm Oct 31.

230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000.

PAUL PETRO Stephen Andrews, to Nov 8. 980 Queen W. 416979-7874.

PIX FILM GALLERY Installation: Tanya Read, Nov 1-22, reception 7-10 pm Nov 1. 1411 Dufferin, unit C. 647520-1642.

RED HEAD Painting: Ian Mackay, Nov 5-29. Teri Donovan, to Nov 1. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-5654.

ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY Jordan Seal and Christopher Lori, to Nov 15.

172 St Helens. 416-289-8855.

TAC ART SPACE Troy Brooks and R Kelly Clipperton, Nov 2-22. 568 Richmond W. 647-648-7935.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Stanley Kubrick, Oct 31-Jan 25, 2015 ($10-$12.50).

350 King W. 416-599-8433.

SUSAN HOBBS Scott Lyall, to Nov 22.

137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

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GARDINER MUSEUM Toronto Potters, to Nov 7.

Claire Twomey, to Jan 4. $8-$12, Fri discounts.

111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

GIBSON HOUSE Memories Of The Future, to Nov 9. 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Wendy Coburn, Oct 30Dec 19, reception 6-8 pm Oct 30. This Area Is Under 23 Hour Surveillance, to Jun 30. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL Henri Matisse, James W Morrice and John Lyman, to Jan 4. $12-$15. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke, to Jan 4 (Centennial, 120 Navy); Aleesa Cohene, to Jan 5 (Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore E, Oakville). 905-844-4402.

POWER PLANT Julia Dault, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Shelagh Keeley, to Jan 4. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

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GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Propellers To Palms, to Nov 15.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGA KHAN MUSEUM In Search Of The Artist, to Nov 16. Contemporary Art From Pakistan, to Jan 18. $20, stu/srs $15. 77 Wynford.

AGO Alex Colville, to Jan 4 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Anishinaabe Artists, to Nov 25. Aimia Photography Prize, to Jan 4.

Michelangelo, to Jan 11 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Mohamed Bourouissa, to Feb 8. Suzy Lake, Nov 5-Mar 22. $11-$19.50, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Is Toronto Burning?

1977/78/79, to Dec 7. 4700 Keele. 416-7365169.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Politics Of Fashion/Fashion Of Politics, to Jan 25 ($14-$18.50). 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Lois Andison, to Nov 8. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

BAU-XI Painting: Jamie Evrard, Nov 1-13, reception 2-4 pm Nov 1. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600.

BEIT ZATOUN Resistance Is Alive, Nov 1-16, reception 7 pm Nov 1. Beyond Calligraphy: Jewish And Muslim Artists, to Oct 31. 612 Markham. 647726-9500.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Ron Martin, Nov 1-26, reception 2-6 pm Nov 1. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

CRAFT ONTARIO Chimera, to Nov 22.

990 Queen W. 416-925-4222.

DE LUCA FINE ART Sculpture: Camilla Singh, to Nov 8. 217 Avenue Rd. 416537-4699.

DIVISION GALLERY Painting: Martin Boudreau, to Nov 22. NEXT group show, to Feb 15. 45 Ernest. 647-3469082.

GALLERY 44 Bev Koski and Christian Chapman, to Nov 22 (imaginenative. org). 401 Richmond W #120. 416979-3941.

ROM Sarah Thonton, talk 7 pm Oct 30

($18-$20). Paul Kane, to Jan 24. Fashion Follows Form; Cairo Under Wraps, to Jan 25. Bernice Eisenstein, to Feb 8. $14.50$16 Fri discounts. 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Dispatch: War Photographs In Print, 1854-2008; Harun Farocki, to Dec 7. Public Studio, to Dec 19.

33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Urban Fabric: Portraits Of A City, to Jan 11. Oriental Rugs, to Apr 15. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Allen Ginsberg and Robert Giard, to Dec 6. AA Bronson, to Nov 15. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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URBAN FICTION

Love, actually LOVE ENOUGH by Dionne Brand (Knopf), 180 pages, $26.99 cloth.

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Dionne Brand, Toronto’s former poet laureate, shows a passion for our city’s diversity and landscape in a new novel that touches on the lives of a range of character from committed activists to doomed thugs. The title, Love Enough, refers to the limitations and boundaries human connection both requires and resists.

Social worker June, who’s had a series of relationships with politicos

like herself, is having trouble with her lover Sydney, who loves to shop and doesn’t share her activist leanings. Bedri, alongside his pal Ghost, is on a violent downward spiral. Bedri’s father is a way-overqualified cab driver, an economist who speaks five languages. Ghost’s and Lia’s mother is a drug addict with zero parenting skills.

Using potent poetic language, Brand weaves these characters’ stories – they often brush up against each other – into a powerful narrative. All yearn to liberate themselves from problematic relationships. A heartbreaking sequence in which June rejects birthday presents from Sydney in favour of one act of kindness and a hug per day from her lover reveals just how difficult even the simplest of gestures can be.

But what makes any book by Brand special is her portrait of Toronto, which brings moments of pleasure to local readers. Everything feels so familiar: the butt-ugly small-industry buildings on Dupont, the carrammed Don Valley, the beautiful lake and the messed-up waterfront.

And how many of us have sat in a taxi wondering about our Somali driver’s story?

In Love Enough, our city seethes with love, pain, triumph and tragedy.

Nobody writes about Toronto like SUSAN G. COLE Brand.

Brand reads Saturday (November 1), 3 pm, at Lakeside Terrace and joins the How We Live Now round table Sunday (November 2), 2 pm, at Fleck Dance Theatre.

READINGS THIS WEEK I = International Festival of Authors event

Museum, Eaton Theatre, 100 Queen’s Pk. rom.ca

Thursday, October 30

Friday, October 31

IEMILY GOULD/EMILY LINDIN/SINA QUEYRAS/ANNA TODD Round table on the

relationship between writers and their online communities, with moderator Mark Medley. 7:30 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org GREG SORBARA Launch and talk for the release of The Battlefield Of Ontario Politics.

6:30 pm. $30. Osgoode Hall Law School, York U, 4700 Keele. Pre-register online at yorku.ca/booklaunch.

INSIDE HER Akhaji Zakiya and others launch a collection of fiction and poems about women loving. 7 pm. Free. Glad Day Bookshop, 589 Yonge. akhajizakiya.com.

IJACEK DEHNEL/LAILA LALAMI/CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS/RICHARD WAGAMESE Reading

from their latest works with host James Grainger. 7:30 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org

IJULIE ANGUS/KIM THÚY/KATHLEEN WINTER Reading from their latest work. 7:30

pm. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org ILOUISE WELSH Author talk with moderator Steven W Beattie. 6 pm. Free. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org NAHLO ABDO Launch for Captive Revolution – Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within Israeli Prison System and panel with professors David McNally, Alan Sears and Himani Bannerji. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org SARAH THORNTON Canadian Art Foundation Speaker Series launch for 33 Artists In 3 Acts. 7 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Royal Ontario

IANNA HOPE/FRANCES ITANI/KATE PULLINGER/ JOHANNA SKIBSRUD Round table discussion on

writing about WWI from a female perspective with host Charlotte Gray. 7:30 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org IANN-MARIE MACDONALD Reading and interview with NOW’s senior entertainment editor Susan G Cole. 7 pm. $18. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org

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ILEE HENDERSON/ELIZA ROBERTSON/MIRIAM TOEWS/KATHLEEN WINTER Reading, with host

Tanis Rideout. 7:30 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org

ITAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NON-FICTION SPOT-

LIGHT Shortlisters Tony Birch, Thomas King, Lee Maracle, Ellen van Neerven read. 7:30 pm. $18.

Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

Saturday, November 1 WATERS Reading, Carol Off. 2:30 pm. $18. Fleck ñwith hostHOPE/SARAH Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org IANNA

ICAROLINE ADDERSON/MARTHA BAILLIE/ MIRIAM TOEWS/RUDY WIEBE Round table on

tough times with moderator Farzana Doctor. 3 pm. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

ICATHERINE GILDINER/JOHN MCFETRIDGE/ CLAIRE HOLDEN ROTHMAN Authors discuss their

books about the October Crisis and the FLQ with moderator Marc Côté. 7:30 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

ICHARLES FORAN/LEE HENDERSON/DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN/KIM THÚY Reading from their

latest works with host Alissa York. 5 pm. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

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launching this week Playwrights Canada Press is upping the ante for its seasonal launch, turning it into a bash celebrating the publisher’s 30th anniversary. Readings are still on the menu, this time by playwrights Sky Gilbert, Judith Thompson, Davis S. Craig, Kristen Thomson and David Yee. Perennial hosts NOW Magazine’s Jon Kaplan and yours truly are still on board, and Thirtybash! happens not at a bar but at Hotel Ocho (195 Spadina). A cocktail hour starts things off at 6 pm on Monday (November 3). See Readings, sgC this page.

ICundill Prize in History Discussion on processes in non-fiction with Marla R Miller, Stephen R Platt and host Christopher Mangredi. 2 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org Idavid adams riCHards/emma donogHue/tHomas King/JaCob sCHeier

Reading from their latest works with host Katrina Onstad. 7:30 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

Idavid bergen/CHristos tsiolKas/ riCHard Wagamese Round table discussion

of the role of the setting in the authors’ novels with moderator Lewis DeSoto. 7:30 pm. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org

brand/FranCes itani/KatHPullinger ñryn KuitenbrouWer/Kate Idionne

Reading from their latest works with host Ania Szado. 3 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

Iin Conversation WitH david niCHolls

Discussion of One Day and new novel Us, with host Bert Archer. 4:30 pm. $18. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

IJl granatstein/david maCFarlane/miCHael Winter Round table on the WW1 Canadian experience. 4 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

Isteven galloWay/aislinn Hunter/lee maraCle/Carrie snyder Reading with host

Jacob McArthur Mooney. 5 pm. $18. Harbourfront Centre, Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

ICanada, Fall in! tHe great War remembered in Words, images and song Hugh

Brewster’s concert performance about Canadians in WWI. 7:30 pm. Free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org Canzine 2014 Zine fair and festival of underground culture, with panels, skill share, readings, zine swap, comics and printed ephemera. 1-7 pm. $5. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts. brokenpencil.com/canzine

Sunday, November 2 brains, Words & voiCes Contest with pre1975 poems recited from memory. 7-9:30 pm.

Pwyc. The Dirt Underneath, 101 Niagara. therotarydial.ca/brainswordsandvoices.

Idavid bergen/miCHael Crummey/CHarlotte gray/Claire Holden rotHman Read-

ing with host Jacob McArthur Mooney. Noon. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

Idionne brand/JosePH Kertes/Carrie snyder/miCHael Winter How We Live Now

round table with moderator Brian Francis. 2 pm. $18. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

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robertson/diane sCHoemPerlen Round table on the forms of fiction with moderator Catherine Bush. 2 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org guerniCa editions Fall launCH Rosemary Clewes, Edward Nixon and Michael Springate read from their works. 4 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. guernicaeditions.com.

IJulie angus/george FetHerling/CatHerine gildiner/alison PiCK/rudy Wiebe Round table on real-life inspirations with moderator George Fetherling. Noon. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org Imyanmar@iFoa Round table with authors Nay Phone Latt, Ma Thida, Khin Mya Zin on the state of literature in Myanmar with moderator Karen Connelly. 1 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

David Yee reads at the Thirtybash! November 3.

IPeter C neWman Celebration of the journalist’s career. 3 pm. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

IsHevCHenKo@iFoa Ukrainian writers Jars Balan, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and Bohdan Kordan discuss the WWI War Measures Act with host Alexander Motyl. 11 am. $18. Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

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search process and the rewards and pitfalls of writing historical non-fiction with moderator Bert Archer. 2 pm. $18. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org Ia tribute to alistair maCleod Storytellers reflect on MacLeod’s influence and read from his work. 4 pm. $18. Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org

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West & The Beloved Of God. 7 pm. Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416462-1104. roWers reading series Peter Dube, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith, Angela Rawlings and Ray Robertson. 6:45 pm. Free. The Central, 603 Markham. rowerspubreadingseries.com. tHirtybasH! Playwrights Canada Press anniversary party hosted by NOW Magazine’s Jon Kaplan and Susan G Cole, with play readings by David S. Craig, Sky Gilbert and more. 6 pm. Free. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. facebook. com/events/462577893882497.

Walter issaCson Discussing his new book, The Innovators. 6-7:30 pm. $20. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. Pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/13734932553.

Tuesday, November 4 ann-marie maCdonald Reading from Adult Onset followed by Q&A. 1:30. $25. Women’s Art Association of, 23 Prince Arthur. Pre-register 416-504-8222 ext 243, writerstrust.com greg sorbara Launch for The Battlefield Of Ontario Politics. 5:30-7:30 pm. $25 (eventbrite.ca). Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Preregister sorbara-student.eventbrite.ca. stePHen aaron grey/dreW Clementino

Musicians-turned-novelists Grey and Clementino launch Ant Farm, A Novel About What Is Bugging Society and Afghan Dust. 7 pm.

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Poetry readings. 7 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973, typebooks.ca broCKton Writers series Carole Giangrande, IF the Poet, Sheniz Janmohamed and Zoe Whittall read at the series’ fifth anniversary party. 7 pm. Pwyc. Full of Beans Coffee, 1348 Dundas W. brocktonwritersseries.wordpress. com. maureen Jennings The author discusses her detective novel No Known Grave. 7 pm. Free.

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A decade and a half after his death, is there anything left to say about Stanley Kubrick?

Well, sure. His filmography is remarkable for its resonance, continuing to reveal new secrets and meanings every time it’s explored. His predatory tracking shots and clinical framing have become a genre unto themselves; the term “Kubrickian” instantly communicates the idea of an austere vision, dispassionate or even merciless, in which human protagonists struggle against systems they barely understand.

What is the meaning of 2001: A Space Odyssey? What’s really going on in The Shining? How can the same artist have made A Clockwork Orange, which embraces anarchy and hedonism, and Full Metal Jacket, which suggests the depersonalization of military training is the only thing that enables men to survive the chaos of war? And what’s the deal with the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut?

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I’m happy to spend hours discussing everything but the last question. Eyes Wide Shut is a terrible, terrible movie, its ludicrous eroticism laughably defended as dreamlike and surreal by people who really should know better. But I digress.

In support of Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition – opening at the Lightbox Friday (October 31) after an acclaimed run at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – TIFF Cinematheque is launching a full retrospective of Kubrick’s work. Everything’s here, from his earliest short films to the post-mortem projects A.I. Artificial Intelligence (a long-gestating Kubrick project picked up by Steven Spielberg after his friend’s death) and Room 237, Rodney Ascher’s documentary dissecting the supposed hidden meanings that lurk within Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining.

TIFF launches the series with a weekend of special guests. Long-time Kubrick producer Jan Harlan introduces The Shining Friday (October 31); a fairly impressive double bill on Saturday (November 1) offers a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the presence of Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, who played the film’s beleaguered astronauts, and Harlan and his sister Christiane Kubrick – the director’s widow – dis-

cuss their final collaboration, Eyes Wide Shut.

Other scheduled guests include visual effects designer Douglas Trumbull on 2001: A Space Odyssey (November 7), Positif editor Michel Ciment on A Clockwork Orange (November 8), UCLA archivist Jan-Christopher Horak on Spartacus (November 15), actor Alan Cumming on Eyes Wide Shut (December 1), Toronto film critic Adam Nayman on Full Metal Jacket (December 12) and Jesse Wente, the Lightbox’s director of programming, on The Killing (January 18, 2015).

I’m most intrigued by the inclusion of Kubrick’s rarely screened international version of The Shining, which plays just once on November 25. At 25 minutes shorter than the North American release, TIFF describes it as “a more enigmatic and oblique version of the film.” (The domestic cut is pretty enigmatic and oblique as it is, so you can imagine my curiosity.)

If you care about cinema, you’ve likely seen most of Kubrick’s films already. See them again; they can take it. And if you’ve never seen 2001, you’re going to want to address that immediately; TIFF’s 70mm print – which screens for a week beginning November 7 – is a thing of endless, majestic beauty.

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Kubrick: king of costumes

Stanley Kubrick wasn’t known for his personal style, but the visually arresting costumes in his films have haunted our cultural psyche for decades. Here are five of the most memorable.

The black derby hats, top-and-bottom false lashes on only one eye and suspenders worn by Alex and his droogs in A Clockwork Orange were a dystopian marriage of British dandy and skinhead. The talented Milena Canonero designed the costumes, but Kubrick himself is said to have told Malcolm McDowell to wear his jockstrap over his trousers.

Costume designer Marit Allen used the Venetian masks in Eyes Wide Shut to represent the masks we all wear in society. Playing on concepts of identity and sexuality, they’ve managed to linger in our nightmares and fantasies ever since.

Few things are creepier than the Grady twins in The Shining. The image of the identical girls holding hands in their pastel frocks – another of Milena Canonero’s creations – has been recreated for countless Halloween costumes and even inspired looks on the runways of Louis Vuitton and Alexander McQueen.

The costume designer for 2001: A Space Odyssey was Hardy Amies, the haute couture designer best known for dressing Queen Elizabeth II. Space-age costumes like his slim-fitting flight attendants’ uniforms, complete with egg-shaped helmets, had a timeless aesthetic.

Ulla-Britt Söderlund and Milena Canonero won an Oscar for their costume design for Barry Lyndon. The magic was in the details of the elaborate gowns, wigs and regimental soldiers’ uniforms, some of which were genuine antique garments.

Jake Gyllenhaal says he found a way to relate to the unscrupulous journo he plays in Nightcrawler.

Jake the snake Jake Gyllenhaal loves his creepy role in Nightcrawler By NORMAN WILNER nightcrawler written and directed by Dan Gilroy, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton. An Elevation Pictures release. 117 minutes.

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Jake Gyllenhaal has flirted with unlikeable characters in the past, but his performance in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler is something truly revelatory.

As Lou Bloom, a skeletal, hollow-eyed predator who stalks the Los Angeles night with a video camera in search of footage of violent crimes he can sell to local newscasts, Gyllenhaal is eerily convincing. You can see his eyes, but there’s nothing behind them. Spouting canned self-help jargon any time he’s cornered, he’s a sociopath who’s found his calling: charging people money to show them awful things that don’t bother him in the slightest.

“He is our first responder, do you know what I mean?” the actor tells me the day after the movie’s world premiere at TIFF. “It’s funny that someone like him exists, and it’s terrifying, because it speaks to that moment in yourself when you go, ‘Am I gonna click on that? Am I gonna look at that video? Or am I not?’ And whether you do or you don’t, that moment in you? That is Lou Bloom. He is the ultimate entrepreneur, and his is the ultimate success story for today.”

“Dan [director Gilroy] is saying that we believe success is, work hard enough, you get away with it – and that’s goodness. But that’s not the case with Lou, and I don’t think Dan is saying that’s the case with the majority of people who have a certain type of success. And that’s a fascinating thing.

“All of the things we’ve been taught: ‘Visualize a goal. Go as hard toward that goal as possible.’ Well, it doesn’t take into account those who don’t have empathy.”

Gyllenhaal, fortunately, has plenty of empathy. That’s how he figured out who Lou was.

“Acting can be a selfish, immature art, but I also think it can breed empathy if you decide to really prepare and research,” he says. “It’s about looking at yourself, parts of yourself, that are making decisions like Lou Bloom.

There are pieces of all of us that have those qualities, and I think that’s interesting.”

So does Gyllenhaal see Lou Bloom as a monster? The actor won’t say, exactly.

“I look [objectively] and go, ‘Okay, is this guy a sociopath?’” he says. “And then I’ve gotta throw that out and enter [his] world.”

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Screenwriter Dan Gilroy (Freejack, Two For The Money) makes his directorial debut with this twitchy Los Angeles thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a creepy loner who worms his way into a career as a freelance videographer, chasing car crashes and murders and selling his footage to a TV news director (Rene Russo) who’s just as ethically flexible as he is.

Gilroy’s script is less interested in social commentary than in crafting a slippery character study, and Gyllenhaal is perfectly suited to that – face gaunt, eyes blazing with demented self-confidence and showing no humanity whatsoever, he’s like a man grown out of synthetic meat in a lab somewhere.

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YouNg oNes (Jake Paltrow). 100 minutes.

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There’s an interesting conversation about genre happening inside Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones, which takes the tropes of a western and reconfigures them for dystopian sci-fi. But the movie itself is a little less thought-provoking.

Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Elle Fanning play homesteaders struggling to survive in a drought-devastated California not too far in the future. The conflict is over water rather than cattle or oil, but the emotions are basically the same:

rivalries have grown, tensions rise, and desperation leads to bloodshed. It’s basically a John Ford movie except for the robot mule.

As he did with his first feature, The Good Night, writer-director Paltrow pairs a top-notch cast with a genuinely novel idea – but he struggles with individual scenes and can’t quite figure out how to land the ending. (His vision of the future is also frustratingly limited, though that seems to be intentional.)

The sun-blasted South African locations provide impressively alien terrain, and the actors keep you engaged – Shannon is so good that I wanted the whole movie to be about his character – but something’s always just a little off. And the longer Young Ones goes on, the clearer that becomes.

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Young Ones, with Michael Shannon (left) and Kodi Smit-McPhee, just misses.

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Ruben Östlund, with Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren and Vincent Wettergren. A filmswelike release. 118 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74.

Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure is being described as a domestic drama, a character study and a social comedy. All of those things are true, more or less: the film, in which a Swedish family’s bourgeois happiness is shattered during a skiing vacation in the French Alps, is funny and excoriating in equal measure.

In a little room underneath his distributor’s office, Östlund, who shot ski films in his early 20s, tells me the whole thing started because he was looking for an excuse to go back to the slopes. And then he happened on a YouTube clip.

“It was a group of tourists sitting in an outdoor restaurant [who] saw an avalanche on a distant mountain peak,” he says. “And what I was interested in was the three seconds when the crowd goes from joyful to nervous laughter and

then to total panic. Only the snow [mist] reached the restaurant, but people were panicking. And they had to deal with their embarrassment after, when they were walking back to the tables.

“I had the idea of having a family go on a ski vacation and experience this. I told a friend of mine who is an actor, and the next day he came back and said, ‘What if only the father runs away?’ And immediately I understood: here is something we can build a feature film around.

“I started to ask myself questions about gender and the roles we play – how to be a father and a man. It just opened up a lot of questions, and everything fell into place.”

Force Majeure sets its psychological treatise against the gorgeous backdrop of a ski resort in the French Alps. Did it feel strange to stage something this intense in a place where people are supposed to be having the time of their lives?

“Yeah, well,” he says with a smile. “The only happy image of a vacation is in the travel agency’s commercials.”

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Force Majeure follows a picture-perfect Swedish family – Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke), Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) and young children Vera and Harry (real-life siblings Clara and Vincent Wettergren) –on a skiing vacation in the French Alps.

Everything’s delightful until Tomas panics in a moment of potential crisis, destroying his standing as benevolent patriarch and sending him into a spiral of self-justification. The deeper he digs, the funnier Force Majeure gets and the more perceptive and uncomfortable it becomes. It goes on a little longer than it needs to, but that’s really my only complaint.

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Mixed thrills aBcs oF Death 2 (various directors). 122 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: NNN It will probably come as no surprise that ABCs Of Death 2 follows the same formula as its predecessor. How could it not?

Once again, producers Tim League, Ant Timson, Todd Brown and Marc Walkow have commissioned 26 horror shorts from 26 filmmaking teams, each taking its subject from a letter of the alphabet. And as with the original, the result is a very mixed bag, since some directors are far more capable of telling a story (or delivering a scare) than others.

Standouts include Rodney (Room 237) Ascher’s questionnaire creeper, Evan (Cheap Thrills) Katz’s slick comedy about an assassination gone terribly wrong, Julian (The Mighty Boosh) Barratt’s found-footage goof, Vanishing Waves collaborators Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s unsettling alieninvasion tale and Inside and Livid directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s intensely creepy babysitting sketch.

And this chapter’s Canadian content is particularly strong, with contributions from Chris Nash, Vincenzo Natali, Jen and Sylvia Soska and Astron-6’s Steven Kostanski.

But if you’ve been keeping count, that’s just nine shorts, leaving 17 that either deliver a feeble payoff or nothing at all. It might be enough to get you through, but you’ll be very aware of the running time after three duds in NorMaN WilNer a row.

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HORNS (Alexandre Aja) Rating: NNN Cracking under the strain of being a suspect in the mur—Village Voice der of his girlfriend (Juno Temple), small-town DJ Ig director, Horns (Daniel Radcliffe) drunkenly —Time Out New York desecrates her memorial site and wakes up the next morning with horns sprouting from his head and a curi—New York Times UN CERTAIN REGARD OFFICIAL SELECTION 2014 —Rolling Stone ous ability to make people Sweden’s official Oscar® entry reveal their most awful secrets.

Radcliffe’s a good choice for the lead – you never suspect for a moment that he could actually kill anyone – and director Alexandre Aja (High Tension, the recent Alexandre Aja made his name with some very nasty movies – the French Hills Have Eyes remake) thriller High Tension and the remakes of The Hills Have Eyes and Piranha. clearly loves the grungy, With Horns, opening this week, he tries something different – a lyrical, almagic-realist heart of Joe most magic-realist adaptation of Joe Hill’s supernatural thriller, starring Hill’s novel.

Daniel Radcliffe as a young man accused of his girlfriend’s murder who sets But the pacing’s lumpy, out to clear his name through rather unconventional means. with much of the midsection spent watching Ig I sat down with Aja the day after Horns’ world premiere at TIFF 2013. interrogating one person Did you always see Daniel Radcliffe in the role of Ig? after another about When I read the book I thought, “What other movie has been similar to this?” And I the night of the couldn’t find one. There’s a little bit of Twin Peaks, a little bit of Blue Velvet murder, and the tone – I’m talking about the book, not the film. In the end, the only thing that doesn’t quite slide really got me close to it, in a reverse way almost, was Frank Capra’s It’s A from absurd dark Wonderful Life. And I think Daniel Radcliffe has a very similar quality to comedy to proper James Stewart in the way that he’s a good person who is going on a joursuspense. When it ney. And that was really important: everybody hates Ig, but as the audience works, it works you know that he’s a good person. You’re on his side. really well, but It’s a much gentler journey than I expected from you.

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Maps To The Stars finds David Cronenberg taking Bruce Wagner’s satirical Hollywood screenplay and turning it into… well, I’m not sure what it is now, but “satire” is not the word.

It’s a flat, psychologically trite tale of absent parents and ruined children, with Julianne Moore as a neurotic actor trying to land a part originally played by her famous, and famously dead, mother (Sarah Gadon, glimpsed in clips and hallucinations). Mia Wasikowska plays a troubled young woman who arrives in Los Angeles on a collision course with an even more troubled child star (The Killing’s Evan Bird) whose parents (John Cusack, Olivia Williams) have at least one terrible secret of their own. Also, Robert Pattinson drives a limo.

There are some interesting ideas knocking around, and the theme of parents’ mistakes literally haunting their children is a perfect metaphor for Cronenberg.

But there’s no centre to the script, which simply wanders back and forth between the various characters with no real point or logic. Nothing has any impact, and the biggest revelations Maps To The Stars, with are sort of left hanging.

Julianne Moore, Cronenberg has been trying to lacks logic. make this movie for nearly a decade. I still don’t know why.

You may have noticed a literary trend toward marriage thrillers, those female-targeted novels like Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl and S.J. Watson’s Before I Go To Sleep, now being turned into movies in which crafty wives and wretched husbands scheme between the sheets. The Brits have dubbed them “chick noir.” If the impeccable Gone Girl’s success and artistry have motivated people to explore the genre further, Before I Go to Sleep may be the counterpoint to give it a rest.

Quivering her way through twists and turns, Nicole Kidman plays amnesiac Christine, who wakes up every morning next to a husband (Colin Firth) she can’t remember because of an accident (or attempted murrrderrr?) that’s also robbed her of the ability to keep new memories beyond a day.

Perhaps the filmmakers were hoping we’ve forgotten Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece Memento, from which Before I Go To Sleep freely borrows in form and content to diminished effect. Christine must solve a whodunit while in an exceptionally vulnerable spot where she can’t trust the people who claim to be her husband, doctor and best friend.

With tight framing that prevents us from knowing more than Christine, director Rowan Joffe keeps things effectively tense and confusing, but with every reveal and explanation, the film becomes more hammy and ridiculous. A lean B-movie thriller is buried somewhere within this preposterous story, one that could have left us rattled in the dark without all the faux explanations RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI .

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prequel to The Conjuring that fills in the backstory of the eponymous demonic doll from the first film. In early 70s California, a young couple (Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton) with a new baby experience some paranormal activity. Director Leonetti generates some suspense and unease, and the film looks good. But the acting is as plastic as the doll, and there are some plot contrivances that will make even the most accepting genre fans roll their eyes.

99 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (Rowan Joffe) 92 min. See review, page 72. NN (RS) Opens Oct 31 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE BEST OF ME (Michael Hoffman) is the

latest, clichéd movie of a novel by peddler of moss-covered romance Nicholas

ñDAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

(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

BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (Alejandro González

DR. CABBIE (Jean-François Pouliot) is a

Iñárritu) is a near-total fiasco from a filmmaker bent on impressing the world with his prodigious talent, a show-offy drama about a former superhero actor (Michael Keaton) making his Broadway debut by writing, directing and starring in a drama based on the stories of Raymond Carver.

It’s a godawful mess. 119 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Queensway, 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

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, Humber Cinemas, 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) does little but

feed the ego of the titular 64-year-old “pop action” choreographer. We spend a great deal of time getting familiar with rudimentary background on Streb in a doc that feels more padded than the floor mats her gravity-defying dancers bounce off. 82 min. NN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ñTHE BOXTROLLS

(Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable) are ghoulishlooking, sewer-dwelling creatures whose behaviour mimics that of raccoons (they rummage through trash) and Despicable Me’s Minions (they mumble and build stuff). They’re adorable, while the humans bent on exterminating them are ghastly. A hilarious visual treat from the Laika studio (Coraline, ParaNorman). 96 min. NNNN (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater) is the

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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) 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

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) 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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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) Rainbow Promenade

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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

ETERNITY: THE MOVIE (Ian Thorpe) follows a naive songwriter (Barrett Crake) who starts the blue-eyed soul band Eternity with a womanizer saxophonist (Myko Olivier). A small segment of the LGBTQ audience may find this fun – the 80s clothes are a hoot, the song lyrics ridiculous, and the gay innuendo constant – but it’s mostly just crass. 92 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

ñFORCENNNNMAJEURE

(Ruben Östlund) 118 min. See interview and review, page 70.

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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

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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) Kingsway­Theatre

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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,­Beach­Cinemas,­Cineplex­Cinemas­Empress­Walk,­Cineplex­VIP­ Cinemas­Don­Mills,­Coliseum­Scarborough,­ Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­Grande­-­ Steeles,­Humber­Cinemas,­Queensway,­ Rainbow­Market­Square,­Rainbow­ ­Promenade,­Scotiabank­Theatre,­SilverCity­ Fairview,­SilverCity­Yonge,­SilverCity­Yorkdale,­Varsity,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

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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) Canada­Square

tHe GreeN priNce (Nadav Schirman) follows 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) Canada­Square

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&­Dundas­24

ñtHe Guest

(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) Scotiabank­Theatre

HorNs (Alexandre Aja) 120 min. See Q&A and review, page 72. NNN (NW) Opens­Oct­31­at­Carlton­Cinema 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) Carlton­Cinema,­Kingsway­Theatre ida (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.

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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) Kingsway­Theatre

tHe irisH pub (Alex Fegan) delivers exact-

ly 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. It’s a charming testimonial to tradition, community and communal drinking. 76 min. NNN (NW) Carlton­Cinema,­Kingsway­Theatre

ñJoHN Wick

(Chad Stahelski) stars Keanu Reeves as the eponymous anti-hero, a retired assassin and recent widower who goes after the thugs who stole his car and killed the puppy his wife left him. First-time director Stahelski deftly shifts the tone from serious-minded character piece to full-on comic book excess. Some subtitles. 101 min. NNNN (NW) 401­&­Morningside,­Beach­Cinemas,­Carlton­Cinema,­Cineplex­Cinemas­Empress­ Walk,­Cineplex­VIP­Cinemas­Don­Mills,­ ­Coliseum­Scarborough,­Colossus,­Eglinton­ Town­Centre,­Grande­-­Steeles,­Queensway,­ Rainbow­Woodbine,­Scotiabank­Theatre,­ SilverCity­Fairview,­SilverCity­Yonge,­SilverCity­Yorkdale,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

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,­Cineplex­Cinemas­ Empress­Walk,­Cineplex­VIP­Cinemas­Don­ Mills,­Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­ Queensway,­Rainbow­Market­Square,­ ­Rainbow­Promenade,­Scotiabank­Theatre,­ SilverCity­Fairview,­SilverCity­Yonge,­ ­SilverCity­Yorkdale,­Varsity kill tHe MesseNGer (Michael Cuesta)

regard outweighs pretty much everything in his life, pushing him away from the people he should care about most. Jason Schwartzman is pitch-perfect, letting loose his inner shitheel as director Perry shows us precisely how Philip’s narcissism serves his art while chipping away at his soul. 109 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF­Bell­Lightbox

ñlove is straNGe

(Ira Sachs) tracks lovers George and Ben, superbly played by Alfred Molina and John Lithgow, who are forced to live separately when they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment. Sachs lets small gestures

evoke the intimacy the two men miss so desperately. You won’t be on the edge of your seat, but you will get drawn in by the characters and their dilemmas. 94 min.

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lucy (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase

sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) Scotiabank­Theatre

MaGic iN tHe MooNliGHt (Woody Allen)

is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway­Theatre,­Mt­Pleasant

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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) Carlton­Cinema,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

ñlaGGies

(Lynn Shelton) plays like a lighter, looser spin on Joanna Hogg’s brilliant British drama Unrelated, with an aimless woman (Keira Knightley) caught in someone else’s parent-child dynamic.

But it’s no less insightful or compassionate. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge­&­Dundas­24

let’s be cops (Luke Greenfield) depends

entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy about two Los Angeles roommates who dress up as LAPD officers for a costume party, keep the charade going for fun and wind up in a turf war with a Georgian gangster (James D’Arcy). The ending’s a bust, but the actors are fun. 100 min. NNN (NW) Colossus

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ñlevitated Mass

(Doug Pray) documents artist Michael Heizer’s project to bring a very large boulder to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in the summer of 2012 – suggesting none too subtly that the human ingenuity required to make the thing happen is at least as artful as the thing itself. It’s kind of delightful, really. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Bloor­Hot­Docs­Cinema

ñlisteN up pHilip

(Alex Ross Perry) traps the audience with Philip Lewis Friedman, a New York novelist whose self-

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112 min. See review, page 72. NN (NW) Opens Oct 31 at Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the MetropolitaN opera: carMeN is a

(Xavier Dolan) is the Cannes prize winner and Canada’s foreign-language Oscar entry from precocious auteur Dolan, about a single parent (Anne Dorval) coping, barely, with the troubled, often violent son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) she loves. Operatic, beautiful and explosive, Mommy is wholly unpredictable. Dolan has turned into one of Canada’s best filmmakers. Subtitled. 139 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square

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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

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Kline as a penniless, middle-aged loser who travels to Paris to claim a sprawling apartment in the Marais bequeathed him by his dad. But under the viager system, the previous owner (Maggie Smith) and her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) can still live there. The plot’s telegraphed in the first 10 minutes, but the stars are watchable. 107 min. NN (GS) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Promenade

NatioNal theatre live: FraNkeNsteiN eNcore (Danny Boyle) is a high-def broad-

cast from London’s National Theatre of the stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, directed by Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller.

150 min.

Oct 31, Yonge & Dundas 24

NatioNal theatre live: skYliGht

(Stephen Daldry) is a high-def broadcast of the National Theatre’s production David Hare’s play, starring Cary Mulligan and Bill Nighy, directed by Daldry. 180 min.

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(Dan Gilroy) 117 min. See interview and review, page 69.

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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 dis-

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tinctions between good and bad guys.

Worse, the pic’s not funny. Subtitled. 114 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

ouija (Stiles White) is as flat as the titular board, from the stereotypical jump scares right down to the paper-thin premise, namely that five teens trying to contact a dead friend unleash a murderous spirit.

The spook isn’t that scary, doesn’t get much screen time and doesn’t resonate in any way with the thoroughly characterfree kids. 90 min. N (Andrew Dowler) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, 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, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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(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

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(Zak Hilditch) finds the humanity in annihilation, as a bloke (Nathan Phillips) grudgingly befriends 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 Australian landscape. 86 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Shawn Levy) features a familiar premise – family reunites at a funeral – but director Levy’s got such a great cast (Jane Fonda as the matriarch, Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll and scene-stealer Adam Driver as the children), he’s able to spin it into a pleasurably unpredictable comedy. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

a thousaNd tiMes GoodNiGht (Erik

Poppe) draws from the director’s own experiences as a war-zone shutterbug whose risk-taking tormented his wife and kids, with Juliette Binoche as his on-screen stand-in. I didn’t believe a moment of it.

113 min. NN (RS) Regent Theatre, Royal

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(Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard) is less a documentary profile of Nick Cave than it is a stylized representation of his life, following the Australian-born, Britain-based musician over the course of a single impossible day. Is it experimental, playful or just plain weird? I enjoyed it, so that doesn’t really matter. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Royal

whiplash (Damien Chazelle) is a battle of wills between a drummer (Miles Teller) who challenges a monstrous conductor (J.K. Simmons) for a potentially lifechanging spot in his school’s jazz orchestra. Teller and Simmons commit completely, but Chazelle’s plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous – to the point where the final act has the feel of a fever dream. I just couldn’t go with it. 106 min.

NN (NW) Varsity white bird iN a blizzard (Gregg Araki) turns Laura Kasischke’s 1999 novel into a contemporary Douglas Sirk melodrama, putting a subtly surreal spin on the story of a small-town teen (Shailene Woodley) trying to cope with the disappearance of her mother (Eva Green). 91 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema I N t h e at r e s Nov m e b e r 7 t h

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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 19th-century apothecary.

It is good to look at, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what you’re after. Some subtitles. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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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) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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Sat 11:40, 2:00 Sun 2:00 DracuLa unToLD (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:00 Fri, Tue 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 The equaLizer (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:30 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 fury (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:15 Fri, Tue 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Gone GirL (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:20 Fri, Tue 3:25, 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) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:35 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:25, 10:00 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 niGhTcraWLer (14A) Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:05, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:20 ouiJa (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:50 Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:55 ranGo (PG) Sat 11:00

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aLexanDer anD The TerriBLe, horriBLe, no GooD, Very BaD Day (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Fri, SunWed 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 annaBeLLe (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:55, 7:35, 9:40 Sat-Sun 7:35, 9:40 Wed 1:25, 9:40 The BeST of Me (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 The Book of Life 3D (G) Thu 4:25 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 The Book of Life (G) Thu 1:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45 Sat 11:10, 1:45 DracuLa unToLD (14A) Thu 2:30 5:00 7:20 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 The equaLizer (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Tue 4:20, 10:00 Wed 3:55, 10:20 fury (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:25, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 12:45, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Gone GirL (14A) Thu 3:05, 6:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:20, 9:45 Sat 11:30, 3:00, 6:20, 9:45 John Wick (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 MapS To The STarS 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Sat only 11:05 1:40 7:05 9:50 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:55 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 The MeTropoLiTan opera: carMen Sat 12:55 niGhTcraWLer (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 ouiJa (14A) Thu 3:10 5:30 7:55 10:20 Fri-Wed 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:40 mat ranGo (PG) Sat 11:00 The TriaL (14A) Thu 1:05 4:10 7:15 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 VikinGS froM The BriTiSh MuSeuM Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon aVe e, 416-752-4494

aLexanDer anD The TerriBLe, horriBLe, no GooD, Very BaD Day (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 annaBeLLe (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 BanG BanG! (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:00 Fri-Sat 10:20 Sun-Wed 10:00 Before i Go To SLeep Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Tue 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 The BeST of Me (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:00 Mon-Tue 9:45 Wed 9:55 The Book of Life 3D (G) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sat 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sun-Wed 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 The Book of Life (G) Thu 2:25 Fri 2:30 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:35 The BoxTroLLS 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:25 Fri-Sat 5:00, 7:25 Sun 5:05, 7:30 Mon-Tue 4:50, 7:15 Wed 4:20 The BoxTroLLS (G) Thu 2:15 Fri 2:35 Sat 12:05, 2:35 Sun 12:15, 2:40 Dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 9:55 DracuLa unToLD (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 The equaLizer (18A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 fury (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:25, 7:35, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Gone GirL (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:40, 9:20 Fri 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:15 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 happy neW year (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:45, 9:30 Fri 3:05, 6:45, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 3:05, 6:45, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 9:00 John Wick (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The JuDGe (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 The Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:40, 9:35 Fri 1:55, 4:45, 7:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15 The MeTropoLiTan opera: carMen Sat 12:55 niGhTcraWLer (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 ouiJa (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 1:05, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 ranGo (PG) Sat 11:00 ST. VincenT (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 VikinGS froM The BriTiSh MuSeuM Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30 The WoLf Man / The MuMMy DouBLe feaTure Thu 7:00

WooDSiDe CineMaS (i) 1571 SanDhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

happy neW year (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 6:15, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 6:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:45, 6:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:00, 9:30 kaThThi Thu 12:00, 3:30, 3:45, 7:00, 7:15, 10:30, 10:45 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:30, 4:15, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 1:00, 3:30, 4:15, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 pooJai Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:30 Super nani Fri-Wed 3:00

GTA Regions North ColoSSuS (Ce) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

aLexanDer anD The TerriBLe, horriBLe, no GooD, Very BaD Day (PG) Thu 4:40, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 annaBeLLe (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Sat 11:15, 1:35, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Before i Go To SLeep Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 The BeST of Me (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 The Book of Life 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 9:45 The Book of Life (G) Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 12:00 The BoxTroLLS (G) 4:15 Fri, Sun 1:40 mat Sat 11:05, 1:40 mat Dr. caBBie (PG) Thu 4:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat 10:10 Sun-Wed 10:05 DracuLa unToLD (14A) Thu 4:55, 6:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 The equaLizer (18A) Thu 3:50, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:55 fury (14A) Thu 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 9:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Gone GirL (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 GuarDianS of The GaLaxy (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:40 Fri-Wed 6:35, 9:35 GuarDianS of The GaLaxy 3D (PG) Thu 9:20 John Wick (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 John Wick: The iMax experience (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 The JuDGe (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:05 Sat 12:25, 3:50, 7:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:05 LeT’S Be copS (14A) Thu 9:05 Fri-Wed 9:20 MapS To The STarS 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:50 mat Sat 11:25, 1:50 mat The Maze runner (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:40 Sat, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:40 The MeTropoLiTan opera: carMen Sat 12:55 niGhTcraWLer (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 ouiJa (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:20, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:10, 2:50, 3:30, 5:05, 5:45, 7:25, 8:05, 9:45, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 1:10, 2:50, 3:30, 5:05, 5:45, 7:25, 8:05, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:35, 4:45, 5:45, 6:55, 8:05, 9:25, 10:15 ranGo (PG) Sat 11:00 ST. VincenT (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:25, 10:00

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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, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:40 Fri 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:05, 7:10, 9:45 annaBeLLe (14A) Thu 5:25, 8:05 Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 SatSun 1:00, 3:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:50 The BeST of Me (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:05 Sat-Sun 12:30 The Book of Life 3D (G) Thu 7:55 Fri 7:35, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Mon-Wed 7:35 The Book of Life (G) Thu 5:30 Fri 3:45 Sat-Sun 12:05 Mon-Wed 5:10 DracuLa unToLD (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:45 Fri 3:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 7:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45 The equaLizer (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:55 Fri 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Sun 3:10, 6:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:05, 8:05 fury (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:15 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:05, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:55 Gone GirL (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:10 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 SatSun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:55, 8:00 John Wick (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 SatSun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50 niGhTcraWLer (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:15, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:10 ouiJa (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:00 Fri 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:15 3

indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

Transgender Parents, with Jenna (left) and Eby, sheds light on trans people with kids.

thU 30-WEd 5 – Highlights of current pro-

gramming. Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

ontario science centre

463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thU 30 – A Most Wanted Man (2014) D: Anton Corbijn. 7pm. Boyhood (2014) D: Richard Linklater. 9:20 pm.

Hfri 31 – Alfred Hitchcock X 2: Psycho (1960).

7 pm. Frenzy (1972). 9 pm.

HSAt 1 – Horror-Rama, the counter-culture film convention presents Suspiria (1977) D: Dario Argento. 7 pm. $10. horrorramacanada. com.

SUN 2-tUE 4 – Check website for schedule.

WEd 5 – Ekran Polish Film Festival. See listings this page. 7 pm.

thU 30 – Tex Avery Film Festival. 7 pm.

SAt 1 – Phlegm: the cinematic works of Jason

the royal

thU 30-fri 31 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagas-

TRANSGENDER PARENTS (Rémy Huberdeau) Rating: NNN This tender doc, presented by Cinema Politica in collaboration with the LGBTQ Parenting Network, DOC Toronto and Point of View Magazine, offers a groundbreaking look at the experience of trans parents.

First-time feature director Rémy Huberdeau gives voice to a diverse collection of trans people, some who transitioned after they had families, some who parented during and after transitioning and many who are active in Toronto’s trans community.

They all have fascinating stories and points of view.

Syrus, for example, went through what sounds like a hormonal reversal in order to become a parent – an emotional challenge for him. Aiyyana describes her pleasure at becoming a grandmother and promotes a fluid definition of gender.

car. 11 am & 2 pm. The Human Body. Noon.

SAt 1-SUN 2 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar.

11 am & 2 pm. Great White Shark. Noon.

Under The Sea. 1 & 4 pm. Imax: Hubble. 3 pm. mON 3-WEd 5 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. 11 am & 2 pm. The Human Body. Noon.

Imax: Hubble. 1 pm.

How to find a listing

Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals ekran polish film festival revue cinema, 400 roncesvalles. ekran.ca

WEd 5-NOv 9 – Polish cinema showcase fea-

turing Jan Komasa’s Warsaw Uprising, Roman Polanski’s Ida and more. $15.

pomegranate film festival

hamazkayin theatre, armenian youth centre, 50 hallcrown place. pomfilmfest.com

WEd 5-NOv 9 – Festival of Armenian inspired film. $10-$15, gala $60, six-film pack $50, allaccess pass $150 (includes gala).

rebels with a cause film festival

west-side arts hub @ york woods library theatre, 1785 finch w. rebelsfilmfest.org

thU 30-fri 31 – Independent festival that

showcases artistic reflections of social justice issues and critical documentations of unsung community work. Free.

toronto silent film festival royal cinema, 608 college. torontosilentfilmfestival.com

SAt 1-NOv 16 – Restored Alfred Hitchcock

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reg hartt’s cineforum Hershel, who transitioned after becoming a parent and has a strong relationship with his son Lee, describes in beautifully self-aware ways how he may have underestimated the impact of his personal changes on his son.

Huberdeau shoots families in their everyday lives – cooking, getting ready for bed – as part of his strategy to normalize his very engaging subjects’ situations. And some of the testimony – especially Syrus’s partner Nik’s description of the birth of their child – will be familiar to any parent who’s witnessed those spectacular moments when a partner gives birth.

As a whole, though, Transgender Parents is like no movie you’ve ever seen.

Huberdeau and the doc’s participants attend the screening Tuesday (November 4), 6:30 pm, at the Bloor SUSAN G. COLE Hot Docs Cinema. See listings, this page.

films screened with live musical accompaniment. $15, festival pass $40, Hitchcock nine screening pass $100.

camera bar

toronto south african film festival

SAt 1 – Farenheit 911 (2004) D: Michael Moore. 3 pm.

SAt 1-SUN 2 – Showcase of South African films.$18, festival pass $99-$150.

reitman sQuare, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

art gallery of ontario, jackman hall, 317 dundas w. tsaff.ca

cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

thU 30 – Mall (2014) D: Joseph Hahn. 7 pm. fri 31-WEd 5– Check website for schedule.

bloor hot docs cinema

506 bloor w. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

thU 30 – Levitated Mass (2013) D: Doug Pray. 4 & 8:45 pm. Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs Gravity (2014) D: Catherine Gund.

6:30 pm.

Hfri 31 – Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs Gravity. 3:30 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 7 & 10:30 pm.

SAt 1 – Code Black (2013) D: Ryan McGarry.

1:30 pm. Altman (2014) D: Ron Mann. 4 pm.

Beyond Clueless (2014) D: Charlie Lyne. 7 pm.

Eurotrip (2004) D: Jeff Schafer. 9:30 pm.

SUN 2 – Sarah Goodman X 2: Army Of One (2003), and Hidden Driveway (2011). 1 pm.

Beyond Clueless. 4 pm. mON 3 – Code Black. 1 pm. The Documentary Channel presents Two Of A Kind (2014) D: Laura Eisen. Free. 6:30 pm. Free. 20,000 Days On Earth (2014) D: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. 9:15 pm. tUE 4 – Cinema Politica presents Transgender Parents (2014) D: Rémy Huberdeau, and Father (2014) D: Moritz Mayerhofer and Asparuh Petrov. 6:30 pm. $5-$10. cinemapolitica.org/ bloor. 20,000 Days On Earth. 9 pm.

WEd 5 – Altman. 3 pm. Doc Soup: Last Days In Vietnam (2014) D: Rory Kennedy. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. hotdocs.ca

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revue cinema

400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca.

770 don mills. 416-696-3127, ontariosciencecentre.ca

Trans parents transparency

WEd 5 – Total Eclipse (1995) D: Agnieszka Holland. 7 pm.

Hammond , and two short films by Daniel Sheahan. 7 pm.

SUN 2 – The History Of Animation From Emil Cohl To Now. 2 pm. Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonderland (1951) D: Clyde Geronimi and Winfred Jackson, w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. 5 pm. Oz/Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming and George Cukor w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Darkside Of The Moon. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Compter. 9 pm. mON 3 – The History of 3D From 1894 To Now. 5 pm. Dragonfly Squadron 3D (1954) D: Lesley Seleander. 7 pm. Inferno 3D (1953) D: Roy Ward Baker. 9 pm. tUE 4 – David Wark Griffith: The Biography Years – The Birth Of A Nation (1915) D: DW Griffith w/ score by Reg Hartt. 7 pm.

608 college. 416-466-4400. theroyal.to

HthU 30 – A Thousand Times Goodnight

(2013) D: Erik Poppe. 7 pm. Neon Maniacs (1987) D: Joseph Mangine. 9:30 pm.

Hfri 31 – Poltergeist (1982) D: Tobe Hooper.

7 pm. Kung Fu Fridays: Mr Vampire 3 (1988) D: Ricky Lau Koon Wai. 9:15 pm. Night Of The Creeps (1986) D: Fred Dekker. 11:15 pm.

SAt 1 – A Thousand Times Goodnight. 4 & 9:30 pm. Toronto Silent Film Festival: The Hitchcock 9. 7 pm. See listings, this page.

SUN 2 – Toronto Silent Film Festival: The Hitchcock 9. 2 & 4:15 pm. See listings, this page. A Thousand Times Goodnight. 7 pm. mON 3-tUE 4 – A Thousand Times Goodnight.

7 pm. 20,000 Days On Earth(2014) D: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. 9:30 pm. .

WEd 5 – Check website for details.

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1028 Queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

cinematheQue tiff bell lightbox thU 30 – Boombox fundraiser. See website for

details.

Hfri 31 – The Shining (1980) D: Stanley Kubrick. 6:30 pm. Back To The 90s: The Craft (1996) D: Andrew Fleming. 10 pm.

HSAt 1 – Stanley Kubrick X 2: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 2 pm. Night Of The Living Dead (1968) D: George A Romero.

7 pm. Eyes Wide Shut (1999). 7:30 pm.

SUN 2 – Reel Talk: Sneak preview. 10 am. Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) D: Stanley Kubrick. 1 pm. Model Shop (1969) D: Jacques Demy. 3:30 pm. Lolita (1962) D: Stanley Kubrick. 6:30 pm. mON 3 – See website for schedule. tUE 4 – Soigne ta droite/Keep Your Right Up! (1987) D: Jean-Luc Godard. 6:30 pm. Canada China Tibetan Culture Week presents Roof Of The World, a film on Tibet. 7 pm. Stanley Kubrick X 2: Kubrick shorts: Day Of The Fight (1951), Flying Padre (1951), and The Seafarers (1953), and Killer’s Kiss (1955). 8:45 pm.

WEd 5 – Roof Of The World. 7 pm. See website for schedule.

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fox theatre

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

thU 30 – The Trip To Italy (2014) D: Michael Winterbottom. 7 pm. The Drop (2014) D: Michaël R Roskam. 9:15 pm.

Hfri 31 – The Exorcist (1973) D: William Friedkin. 7 pm. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) D: Wes Craven. 9:30 pm.

SAt 1 -WEd 5 – Check website for listings.

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Buy your kid sex toys My son is 15 going on 16, and he’s

been experimenting with masturbation.

At the moment, I pretty much just think, fine, whatever. He’s a teenager – there’s very little I can do about it. So long as he doesn’t get porn-obsessed and start letting his grades slip, it’s fine.

The issue is that a few months ago, his younger sister found one of her tampons in the garbage, and it was covered with poop. She brought it up to me and my wife, and we didn’t think much of it – until a couple of months ago, when my wife discovered, again, a used, shitty tampon in the garbage. We had a talk with our son and told him that we understand he is maturing sexually and we don’t care how he explores his sexuality. However, we also don’t want to find shitty tampons or whatever else in the garbage.

Then, a couple of days ago, we were going to bed and we heard a noise coming from his bathroom. We checked it out and found his toothbrush in the sink, butt-end being rinsed with the water running full blast for who knows how long (he was downstairs). We asked him why he was doing that, and he said the cat had pissed on his toothbrush. We think his story is bullshit, as although the cat does piss on the floor, the cat has never peed on a counter before.

We are fine with him exploring his sexuality, but at the same time, we don’t want to find tidbits of what he’s doing out in the open. As I’ve explained to him, he needs to do a better job of hiding it, because if a friend had come over and found a shitty tampon in the garbage can, what would they think? However, it looks like shaming him to hide it better might be the only way. What are your thoughts on this? Are we in the wrong here?

Perplexed Over Progeny’s Sexuality You haven’t found any more shit-covered tampons in the trash since you spoke to your son about it months ago, POPS, so either he’s doing a better job of hiding those shit-covered tampons – he’s honouring his father and mother – or he’s not putting his sister’s tampons up his ass any more. And your concern for the delicate sensibilities of your friends is a bit of a reach. A true friend wouldn’t paw through the trash in your bathroom, and anyone who did dig through the trash in your bathroom deserves to find not just one shit-smeared tampon, but a handful.

As for the toothbrush, POPS, it wasn’t left “out in the open.” You found it in the sink in his bathroom. You discovered it because he stupidly left the water running full blast, it’s true, but it wasn’t out in the open in a shared communal space. If you had texted me the moment you found the toothbrush, I would’ve immediately texted you back and advised you to turn the water off and refrain from asking your son about the toothbrush. If you had to say something to him about it, POPS, I would’ve advised you to go with this: “Don’t leave the water running in your sink.”

Your son would’ve figured that you saw the toothbrush, figured that you figured it had been in his ass and never made that mistake again. (Just as he’s never made the tampon mistake again.) But you made the mistake of asking your son for an explanation (“Why are you doing that?”) in a context where 1) your son isn’t going to tell you the truth (“The cat pissed on it, Pops!”), and 2) you can’t handle the truth (“I was fucking myself in the ass with it, Pops!”).

Zooming out for a second: A boy who’s almost 16 isn’t “experimenting with masturbation.” He’s perfecting his technique. And we can deduce from the tampons and toothbrushes that your son likes ass-play.

That’s not a problem. Inconsideration used to be a problem (disposing of shitty tampons where his family members might find them), but he’s knocked that off, right? So the only remaining problem is that he’s putting things in his ass that aren’t designed for ass-play.

If you don’t want your son abusing any cucumbers or mixing spoons or Oscar statuettes that might be lying around your house – and if you don’t want to have to rush him to an emergency room in a few months to retrieve something that gets stuck in his ass – consider purchasing a few ass-appropriate toys for him, i.e., one or two small silicone butt plugs with flared bases. He’ll be mortified when you give them to him, POPS, but no more mortified than you were when you found those shitty tampons.

Buying sex toys for kids is a hurdle most parents can’t clear. If it’s not something you can do, then you’ll have to turn a blind eye to any toothbrushes you might find in sinks over the next few years.

You’ll also want to thoroughly wash cucumbers before consuming them.

– and he wears that particular belt all the time, even though you’ve asked him not to. What’s going on here?

Ass Spared, Feelings Hurt Equal parts inconsideration (on his part) and insecurity (on your part) are combining to create unnecessary drama. If spanking is so central to his identity that he has to wear his spanking belt every day, you may be the wrong girlfriend for him. If seeing an easy-to-overlook reminder of his fetish leaves you hurt, you’re less okay with those spanking dates than you pretend to be, ASFH, and he may be the wrong boyfriend for you.

Keep the sex memento i recently caMe across a pair of My

ex-girlfriend’s lacy panties in an old pair of shorts I haven’t worn in years. I love wearing women’s panties, and I almost hit the floor when I found them. I was a mess after this girl dumped me. I was devastated. To this day, I have not found closure. This is where it gets tricky. A part of me wants to keep them because it’s so hot that they’re hers. I’m happy with my current girlfriend – I love her— but these panties really turn me on. The other part tells me to “show some respect” and get rid of them. Is this an eth-

ical or moral issue? By keeping them, am I driving a wedge between me and my girlfriend? Any advice?

Old Panties Protocol You’re entitled to your memories and your keepsakes. And if a pair of panties can drive a wedge between you and your current girlfriend, OPP, then your relationship is made of pretty flimsy stuff. If an old pair of panties doesn’t destroy it, the next strong breeze will.

Keep the panties, I say, but put them away somewhere that isn’t easily accessed – in a box in your storage space, on a high shelf in a closet – so you aren’t tempted to haul them out every time you want to have a wank. But now and then, maybe when the girlfriend is out of town, I don’t see the harm in retrieving your ex-girlfriend’s panties and enjoying a nice, long, leisurely wank down memory lane.

And finally, OPP, closure isn’t something you find. It’s something you do.

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