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The mammoth Toronto International Book Fair launches its inaugural edition this week (Thursday to Sunday, November 13-16) in the Metro Convention Centre’s North Building. More than 400 authors, exhibits and events are on the bill, but Inspire!’s biggest coup is Margaret Atwood’s appearance on the Main Stage Saturday at 3 pm, her first since releasing her excellent book of short stories, Stone Mattress. But don’t go just for the Canadian icon. Your one ticket gets you into all three days. torontobookfair.ca. More info, page 67.

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Caribou Canadian-bred, Londonbased house music hero Dan Snaith plays Toronto for the first time in years, bringing new album Our Love to the Danforth Music Hall. (It’s been sold out for ages, but Snaith’s hinted at a return trip soon.) Doors 7 pm, November 24 Nikki Payne One of Canada’s funniest stand-ups plays three nights at Yuk Yuk’s. Not to be missed. 8 (and some 10:30 pm). $13$22. 416-967-6425. November 20 to 22 Stevie Wonder Signed, sealed, delivered, he’s yours. At the ACC. 8 pm. $49.50-$149.50. ticketmaster.ca. November 25 In-between Spaces The Laneway Project convenes a summit on laneway revitalization. 6 pm. $10. Great Hall. eventbrite.com. November 20

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email letters@now toronto.com Ghomeshi should pay a price

If we wish to see the complaints of those nine women against Jian Ghomeshi taken seriously, don’t tar them by association as Sylvia Fraser does in Sex, Lies And Social Media (NOW, November 6-12). Nobody is better at undermining the case against Ghomeshi than Fraser herself. According Fraser’s The Book Of Strange (1992), the following was running through her mind on the eve of publication of her incest memoir My Father’s House (1987): “Since I have no proof of the incest beyond my own recovered memories, how do I know it’s true?” In her NOW article, she recalls soon feeling a lot more confident of her story, telling AM Los Angeles interviewers, “I was sucking my father’s penis while so young I didn’t know the difference between a penis and a breast.” Who remembers anything from their breastfeeding stage? As for Ghomeshi, for the pain and mental anguish he appears to have inflicted on a number of women, I hope he pays a price. Jeff Walker Toronto

Complexities of war rarely remembered

Thank you for Elizabeth Wether’s article Unknown Soldier (NOW, November 6-12). It’s rare to encounter Remembrance Day narratives that tell war’s more complex stories. Helene Vosters Toronto

Remembrance and an idiotic war on terror

Without doubt, the PM will be speaking shallow platitudes in praise of the dead, while also offering a token thanks to the remaining few who know better than he the poppy’s real meaning . If I seem sour, it’s because I cannot stomach the shit-show that Remembrance Day has become in light of our government’s decision to so wantonly join the U.S.’s latest idiotic war on terror. Jason Smith Toronto

TransCanada’s CEO in climate denial

Re Energy East Pipe Dreamin’, by Zach Ruiter (NOW, November 6-12). Is there a disconnect between

TransCanada CEO Russ Girling’s synapses and brain? The International Panel on Climate Change and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tell us unequivocally that we must stop using fossil fuels. Response from TransCanada: full speed ahead with all possible use of the dirtiest fossil fuels. Diagnosis for the planet: advanced stages of 19th-century smog-clot. Melanie Milanich Toronto

Jewish beliefs on non-Jews

Letter-writer Jacob Mendlovic suggests that Judaism’s fundamental commandments (to love others, not to steal, etc) do not apply to Jewish relations with non-Jews (NOW, November 6-12). This interpretation misrepresents Judaism as practised and taught by the overwhelming majority of Jews today. There are classical sources within Jewish tradition that differentiate between Jew and non-Jew. At times, Jews faced widespread persecution and were understandably wary of engaging the non-Jewish world. However, almost all rabbis over the past 150 years – from all streams of Jewish practice – view these differentiations as applying to ritual distinctiveness (i.e., what comprises a prayer

quorum, etc), not ethical or social concerns. Jewish beliefs on treating non-Jews in a kind and ethical way are not mere suggestions; they are commandments required of every Jew today. Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl and Rabbi Reuben Poupko Canadian Rabbinic Caucus Toronto

Sober second thought on mayoral vote

While the mayoralty election results are disappointing to those who favoured a progressive outcome, they can be regarded as positive in that it helped end the reign of error and folly by the bully boys Ford (NOW, October 30-November 5). However, sober reflection also indicates that rational, sensible policies lost to emotional slogans and antielitist negative messaging; that Doug Ford won more votes (by nearly 50 per cent) than Olivia Chow; and Toronto is not the happy global village and beacon of diversity that we may deludedly believe it to be. Sadly, while hope may be better than fear and love better than hate,

hate and fear are often very effective electoral tactics. J. Roth Toronto

No consensus on legal aid “vision”

Letter-writer Jack Fleming writes that the proposed “transformation” of legal aid will “improve access and services for low-income people” (NOW, October 16-22). But in fact there is no consensus among the boards of legal aid clinic staff and communities about this “vision,” and certainly no agreement that it is likely to result in an overall improvement in access to justice. As the Vision Report notes, poverty is “not leaving Toronto for the outer suburbs; it’s growing everywhere, though at a much higher percentage rate in the 905 area.” So, yes, clinics in the 905 need more staff and resources, but so do several of the Toronto clinics. Closing them would be a destructive response to the politics of austerity thinly disguised in this proposal. Bob Luker Toronto CORRECTION NOW’s listing for best bookstore in last week’s Reader’s Poll was incorrect. The winner is BMV Books (471 Bloor West, 416-967-5757, and others, bmvbooks.com). NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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SHAME GAME Hot media trend takes cheap shots at fashion industry lesser-thans: women, gays and transgendered people

It was funny the first time Jimmy Kimmel did it back in 2013. The show’s Lie Witness News went to New York Fashion Week and asked the fashion crowd about designers the writers had made up. More than a few people embarrassed themselves on camera, spewing opinions about runway shows by couturiers who don’t exist. Kimmel went back for seconds in 2014. Vice followed with an article, I Dressed Like an Idiot at Fashion Week To See How Easy It Is To Get Street Snapped. and Stylelist Canada published a video, We Convinced Fashion Week That a Cheap Halloween Costume Was High Fashion. Fashion shaming is the season’s hottest – and rather cowardly and unoriginal – trend. Besides being painfully overdone, these videos and articles perpetuate the stereotype that those who care about fashion are superficial, unintelligent and lesser-than. Sure, like any other major event, fashion weeks attract some wannabes. But you don’t see smug, self-congratulating TV personalities flocking to film, music or gaming festivals to expose (a less generous person may say “trick”) eager fans and attendees. No one runs around Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) with a camera asking film writers and bloggers about non-existent obscure films and directors. Perhaps that’s because film, music, sporting and gaming events are mostly covered by straight cisgender men who are automatically taken seriously. Kimmel has filmed Lie Witness News segments at Coachella and Justin Bieber concerts, too, but these heavily featured young women. The fashion industry is largely populated by women, gay or effeminate men and transgender people – traditionally marginalized groups and easy targets.

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By SABRINA MADDEAUX Fashion shaming plays on harmful characterizations of these individuals as vain, vapid, flighty and untrustworthy. The truth is, fashion is a highstakes business and cultural institution that employs some of the world’s most creative individuals. It’s also an important mode of expression that attracts those who are often ignored, if not oppressed, by mainstream society. Some argue that the subjects of these videos do it to themselves; no one is forcing them to lie or grandstand. It’s an easy criticism, but if someone stuck a camera in your face and started asking questions,

wouldn’t you attempt a good-natured stab at an answer? Our culture doesn’t make it easy for someone to simply say, “I don’t know.” Imagine a young woman unable to wear what she wants at school or home due to strict, sexist dress codes. Or a young gay man who, out of fear, only dresses to blend in with others in his conservative suburb. They come to a big-city fashion week, finally able to express themselves, and end up being ridiculed and shamed by major media outlets. The joke doesn’t seem so funny any more. 3 sabrinam@nowtoronto.com | @SabrinaMaddeaux

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Activists blocked the entrance to the St. Helen’s Meat Packers plant near Keele and St. Clair on Thursday, November 6. Trucks were unable to enter. Things escalated when police arrived and removed protesters sitting in the trucks’ way. Six were arrested. According to organizers, some 4,000 animals are slaughtered at this facility and another across the street every week.

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SEX WORKERS APPEAL TO WYNNE The federal government’s controversial prostitution bill, C-36, received royal assent on November 6, becoming law despite widespread objections by social justice activists and sex workers who say it will make their lives more dangerous than ever. The Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act replaces the handful of prostitution-related laws struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2013. Terri-Jean Bedford, one of three sex workers involved in that challenge, has asked Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne to refer the law to the Ontario Court of Appeal to test its constitutionality.

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IT’S WAY BIGGER THAN GHOMESHI IT WOULDN’T BE SO TERRIBLE IF GUYS HAD TO THINK TWICE ABOUT HOW THEY’RE COMING ON TO SOMEONE By SUSAN G. COLE

et’s stop talking about Jian Ghomeshi. We’ve got to. The sexual abuse scan dal involving the disgraced radio host reveals something that goes far be yond the walls of the CBC, and we won’t be able to do anything about it until we talk openly about why the crisis runs so deep. As the story began trending last week, I asked every woman I knew whe ther she had her own story about being harassed. Every single one said yes. If she was elderly she was a target because she was vulnerable. If she was young and proud of her body, she was too uppity. If she was showing cleavage, she was asking for it. If she was a lesbian, the harasser wanted to show her what she needed. Young, old, straight, queer, drop dead gorgeous, not so much – we’re all targets. That in itself doesn’t surprise me. I’m familiar with Diana Russell’s statistics showing that fully 93 per cent of women will experience some form of abuse or ha rassment in their lifetime. And I already know how few women use victims ser vices or report to police, and how the justice system fails over 90 per cent of those few women who do press charges. What’s blown me away throughout the Ghomeshi drama is how many of us have been groped, grabbed and harassed on the street, at a party, on the job – at a demonstration, for Christ’s sake – without reacting at all in the moment. If we’re sitting beside a famous media personality at a dinner party and he shoves his hand up our skirt, we don’t elbow him in the nuts and holler, “Get your hands off me!” We tend not to yell, shove or, god forbid, strike back physically. It’s almost as if we’re hardwired not to. But we’re not hardwired. We’re groomed to be silent and submissive. We are pinkified from day one. I remember asking for a blanket from the nurse’s station when my daughter was born, and throwing the attendant there for a loop. “Is it a boy or a girl?” she asked. “It’s a cold baby,” I replied. “Can I have a blanket, please?” I asked again, knowing full well she wanted to know the baby’s gender so she could colourcode the blanket. My daughter was 11 minutes old. Try getting out of that colour paradigm at a chil dren’s store. Clerks can’t even begin to recommend a clothing item or a toy without knowing the gender of the child we’re buying for. We talk to girl toddlers with

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TOOLS FOR CHANGE Give young women a voice, but don’t forget boys: learning to treat girls and women with respect has to start early. Things can change – it’s up to us make it happen. Sex education Last time the Liberals tabled a sex education bill, they let themselves get scared off by ignorant, sex-phobic lobbyists like Charles McVety and withdrew the legislation. Time to get serious about sex ed, with mixed-gender classes and deep discussion about consent. No means no, silence is not consent, and you’re on the hook if you’ve made your target drunk. Media literacy Media literacy training in classrooms from primary to high schools allows students to understand their role as consumers and to deconstruct ads that perpetuate negative sex role stereotypes. Listening to male and female students talk openly together about their passion for pop culture and the impact it has on their lives can be magical. The Mike Harris government eviscerated these programs. Bring them back. Physical education Make phys ed curricula stronger so women can revel in the strength of their bodies. But let’s get real – the last thing attackers expect is for women to resist with force, so girls need to learn self-defence strategies, too. Why not teach them in schools? SGC

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Even the language of sexuality makes it seem perfectly normal that the erotic dance will get violent. Am I supposed to want to get hit on?”

that squeaky little cutesy voice, and shake hands with a male twoyear old with a hearty “Hiya, buddy.” At a media literacy class I was teaching to 12year old girls several years ago, I asked how many of them had ever been on a diet. Half put up their hands. They were starving themselves, seriously messing with their bodies, actively weakening them, before they had even had their first period. Who taught them to be fatphobic before they’d reached puberty? The culture, for starters. We have to be thin, weak, smile nicely. Fashion necessities like tight skirts and high heels send a clear message. That kind of clothing sure as hell isn’t going to help us get away from a po tential attacker. Even the language of sexuality makes it seem per fectly normal that the erotic dance will get violent. Am I supposed to want to get “hit on”? It doesn’t sound like fun. And what does it say about our attitudes toward sex that the biggest insult you can hurl at someone is “Fuck you”? At the same time, women are taught to take care of everybody but ourselves. That’s another reason why, I think, we don’t humiliate the gropers and report the attackers. We don’t want to wreck a dinner party, never mind reputations. We don’t want to ruin their lives. Never mind ours. It doesn’t help that we’re infinitely blameable. That’s what I get out of the recent report that dorm advisers at York (allegedly) made a point of taking scores of women aside to tell them to “stay away” from Ghome shi when he was president of the York Federation of Students in the late 80s. They did that instead of tell ing the single alleged perpetrator to stop assaulting women. We’re always the ones responsible for pro tecting ourselves. The police won’t neces sarily do it. For years they perpetuated the false hood that women who fought back against their attackers would only make the assault worse. Domestic Just lie back and get it assaults reported over with, we were ad vised. to police. It wasn’t until 1985,

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when Pauline Bart completed her research reported in Stopping Rape: Survival Strategies, that we learned that fighting back was the best way to counter an attacker because it was the last thing he expected. Other research by Bart – and more relevant to what I’m talking about – reveals that women are less likely to stop a rape in progress when they know their assail ant. We’re so afraid of being blamed. And what happens if a woman walks into a meet ing in her workplace and a male colleague, the only other person in the room, remarks, “Nice sweater you’re wearing”? What if she says, “I would appreciate it if you didn’t comment on my personal appearance”? I’ve been astonished by how people tend to respond to this scenario in workshops. She’s called everything from paranoid to ungrateful bitch – by both women and men. Why didn’t she say “Thank you” and be done with it? Because that’s not how she felt. As for the poor guy who thought he was paying her a compliment, the appropriate response is straight forward. Just say, “Good to know,” and move on. As it is, I’m dreading the backlash that’s bound to re sult from the Ghomeshi affair, that point when men and women will start complaining about how the movement to end harass ment is disrupting every day interactions. I’m im agining that men will panic that they’ll never be able to make a sexual ad vance again without hav ing to question how they’re going about it. Come to think of it, would that be such a bad thing? Would it be so ter rible if guys had to think twice about how they’re coming on to someone? Percentage A rethink of how sex of all sexual should unfold? Bring it on. assaults reported 3

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A YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY FOR WOMEN

MORE DISTURBING CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN WERE ADDED TO THE LIST IN 2014. ALL EMERGED OUT OF PLACES THAT VALUE MEN MORE THAN WOMEN: SOUTH AFRICA, TEXAS, OTTAWA By JULIA LeCONTE

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t’s been a terrible year for women. This first struck me in July. I made a note in my iPhone: “Are women really losing this yr?” and jotted down a few words: Floyd Mayweather, anti-abortion laws in the United States, Nigerian schoolgirls, rape culture. At that point I could also have added the Isla Vista killings, women’s reproductive rights and the University of Ottawa (both the men’s hockey team rape case and the vicious online attacks on the female president of the Student Federation). But I was at a show and trying to concentrate. Since then, more disturbing crimes against women were added to the list. Fifteen-year-old Tina Fontaine’s dead body was found in a bag in the Red River. Star NFL running back Ray Rice beat his wife unconscious in an elevator, initially receiving a slap on the wrist until an incriminating video surfaced. South African Paralympic champion sprinter Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide and might get only 10 months in prison for killing Reeva Steenkamp, his girlfriend. There were less obviously egregious but still telling symptoms of an unwell society: the casual sharing of stolen nude photos of female celebrities as if that weren’t a sex crime. And Gamergate. What do they all have in common? All emerged out of places that value men more than women: South Africa, Texas, Ottawa. It’s not the individuals and their transgressions that are most disturbing. As unpalatable as these crimes are, it’s easier for me to understand that a murderer or a rapist exists than it is to accept a society that allows murderers and rapists to thrive. Do I hate boxing freak Floyd “Moneymaker” Mayweather for being a serial batterer of women, for being openly misogynistic on his Instagram and for allegedly nearly murdering the mother of his children? Yes. But I hate the culture that surrounds him more: the World Boxing Council that allowed him to be the highest-paid athlete in the world in 2014 (Mayweather earned $105 million, with a telling zero endorsement deals); the adult male fanboy writers and media who fawn over him;

the celebrities (Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj included) who happily pose with him on social media. Same goes for Rice. In the weeks following the discovery that he’d Women murder punched his fiancée’s lights out and calmly victims who are dragged her dead-weight killed by their body out of an elevator, partner. broadcasters such as ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith and athletes like NBA allstar Paul George tried to excuse his actions by saying women should learn how to avoid provoking men, or that she came at him first – never mind that the NFL tried to cover up the whole situation in the first place. For what? To protect the financial juggernaut that Floyd Mayweather keeps afloat? To prop up the Baltimore Ravens’ chances for a promising season? Because these things are more important than women, says society. Why is it that when it comes to sports, whether it’s the biggest stars or college-level athletes who probably won’t go anywhere, we forget that everyone is replaceable? There will be another Moneymaker. There will be another NFL season. There is an endless stream of athletes and entertainers ready to replace them. And yet we protect the villains and ignore the victims. As much progress as we’ve made, we’re still operating in a society where men’s lives – and men’s jobs – are paramount. Mayweather’s career punching other men in the face VIOLENCE BY THE NUMBERS

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Why is it when it comes to celebrities who screw up, whether it’s the biggest stars or college-level athletes, we forget that they’re replaceable? for sport, for example, is more important than the health and safety of the women in his life who bore and care for his children. Pistorius’s job of sprinting really, really fast is more valuable than being a model. The assumption in both cases is that the women were lucky to have landed these men. And what happens if you’re nobody? You fall through the cracks. By virtue of being native and a girl, Tina Fontaine meant very little at all. She slipped through police fingers because, despite being a missing person, she was not a priority. Across an ocean, hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria are mere bargaining chips for the larger goals of a terrorist organization. Now, as we enter the home stretch of 2014, we discover that revered Canadian broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi may be a serial batterer of women and a rapist. First came the satisfaction that finally this person might be held accountable for his manipulative, malicious actions. But right after, my own culpability. Like seemingly everyone else, I’d known about Ghomeshi’s reputation for being a scumbag. Like many, I’d heard second- or third-hand that women had left the CBC on account of sexual harassment. In a way, we were all keeping his secret. And why? Ghomeshi was not well

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liked personally. According to numerous articles written before and after the fact (Toronto Life, Maclean’s), he was not a fun person Women victims of professionally either – sexual abuse who a petty, unpredictable are under 24. narcissist. Was Ghomeshi irreplaceable? Certainly not. Like football players or boxers, more radio talents will always be found. So what it comes down to is that CBC execs and countless producers and co-workers deemed dollars most important. For years, they deemed an unlikeable, predatory broadcaster’s life and career more important than the lives and careers of scores of women who had to deal with him. Journalism schools across the country (I went to one of them) are full of women, a breeding ground for replaceable female staffer after replaceable female staffer after replaceable female staffer. I can’t and don’t believe that males being victimized or forced to leave their jobs in such a way would have faced the same lackadaisical, uncaring disregard. The message? Women are expendable in the workplace. This can only be true in a society that undervalues women, our contributions and our humanness. Shame on every CBC employee who turned the other way for their own job security or for their star. These things are always happening, and maybe they’re just being exposed and written about more than usual in 2014. That is definitely a positive thing. The ensuing discussions and outpouring of humanity can be reassuring. #YesAllWomen and #RapedNeverReported are good, inspiring social media movements that further important conversations – even though pro-feminist campaigns tend to turn into discussions not about what men should do but about what women can do to keep out of harm’s way. Or debates over whether rape culture is a thing. Or whether getting drunk means you deserve sexual degradation. These can be exhausting exchanges, but there’s nothing more necessary than having them. More than any other year, 2014 should be a year when we – Toronto, Canada, the media – undergo a period of painful self-reflection. What environments do we operate in? What kind of messages does silence send? What truths are we ignoring? And what values are we teaching? It’s time to speak up, no matter who is made to feel uncomfortable. It will be painful and ugly, but we owe it to ourselves and to our women and to our girls. 3

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doing to cause anxiety or instability in some women.

Combat rape culture and intervene in potentially risky situations. Inform yourself.

Have real conversations with your sexual partner about how power is enacted in your relationship.

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Call out friends whose idea of a “joke” is to make sexist remarks. Talk to your male friends about how to be masculine without being misogynist.

Be mindful of situations where women might feel anxious or unsafe. On deserted streets, especially at night, or in enclosed spaces, keep your distance from women you don’t know.

Choose appropriate times and places to approach women. If a woman doesn’t feel entirely free to walk away from you, it’s not an appropriate place.

Be attuned to verbal and non-verbal cues when it comes to approaching women and to physical contact with a partner or on a date. If you’re unsure, ask.

Use what social capital you have to speak out against misogyny whenever you see it. Think about how much Owen Pallett influenced the conversation about Jian Ghomeshi.

Don’t dismiss the experiences of women by writing them off as “irrational” or “crazy.” Instead, critique what those in power (often men) are

Talk about consent: how it’s negotiated and what enthusiastic/total consent looks like.

Read the work of male profeminist writers like Jackson Katz. Join the White Ribbon Campaign.

Find support if you witnessed or experienced violence growing up. Check the media you consume. Why watch/listen to/read it if it debases women? Ask the women in your life to tell you when they feel you are not fully respecting them.

Be gentle: don’t beat yourself up when you screw up. View those mistakes as learning opportunities.

Practise empathy: try to feel what a woman is feeling rather than how you want a woman to make you feel. Compiled by Jacob Scheier Sources consulted: academics Kate Drabinski and Dusty Johnstone, feminist authors Roxanna Bennett and Natalie Zina Walschots, and educator Farrah Khan. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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I WAS HONEST WITH POLICE ABOUT MY WORK AND THE FACT THAT I SOMETIMES DID DRUGS. I DIDN’T THINK I’D BE CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.”

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don’t remember much, even though I had very little to drink. The only memory I have is of waking up the next morning naked and sore all over. I’d been sexually assaulted by a man I met at a downtown bar. It was our first date. I didn’t go to the police, but not for the usual reasons women don’t report being raped. I was a dancer at a club, and the last time I’d complained to the police about an assault, I was the one who ended up being charged. It’s hard enough for women to be believed, but chances are that those who happen to be sex workers will end up dead before police believe them – especially if they’re also young and indigenous, like me. After the earlier incident, I was honest and open with the police about my work and the fact that I sometimes did drugs. I didn’t think for a moment that I’d be blamed for being assaulted. I was wrong. My then boyfriend and I were having an argument. A neighbour called the police; my boyfriend told them everything was okay. They left. Immediately afterward I was dragged down the stairs and thrown outside his apartment wearing nothing but a T-shirt. The only place I knew that was close by was my apartment, so I ran as fast as I could, with tears streaming down my face and no shoes. It was a cool summer evening. The police who had just left my boyfriend’s place were not far away, pulled over by the curb. By the time I waved them down, my boyfriend, who’d been chasing me, was on the scene. He had scratches on his back and neck, evidence either of my fighting him or trying to prevent him from dragging me down the stairs. The police went with the former and put me in the back of their cruiser. I don’t remember how long I was in there; I just remember being cold. And half-naked. At the station, I was charged with assault and held in a cell in view of male officers until the next morning. It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. In the mid-1990s, the solicitor general of Ontario adopted a mandatory charging policy requiring police to lay charges where there are reasonable grounds in incidents of domestic violence. The stated objective was to curb such incidents. But women are usually arrested if they defend continued on page 20 œ

ABOUT 1,500 People convicted of sexual assault each year in Canada.

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HARPER’S ZERO TOLERANCE FOR WOMEN FROM BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICES AND HONOUR KILLINGS TO THE LONG GUN REGISTRY, THE FEDS ARE TURNING THEIR BACKS ON WOMEN TRAPPED IN DANGEROUS SITUATIONS By ANTONIA ZERBISIAS

had to laugh last week when Chris Alexander, Stephen Harper’s minister of citizenship and immigration, barked something about “barbaric acts” being imported into Canada. Not because I found his proposed Zero Tolerance For Barbaric Cultural Practices Act funny, although it may well top the list of Orwellian names for legislation introduced by the Conser vatives. It’s because murdering a woman, whether she didn’t have supper on the table after he was out drinking with the boys, whether she talked back, whether she packed up the kids and left, is already against the law in Canada. Statistics show that these are among the reasons most women who are killed by their partners. They disobeyed. They disrespected. They departed. They “dishonoured.” Femicide is femicide whether you’re brown or white. But not to this government, which sees so-called “honour killings” as somehow different from the 70 or so annual murders of women by their partners here every year. In fact, this is a government not particularly open to women fleeing from gender violence in their home countries. As Alexander, who as recently as September had deported at least two women into jeopardy, one with a Canadian-born daughter, thundered, “With this bill, we would be standing up for immigrant women who have come to Canada for a better life.” Tell that to Jamila Bibi, 63, in Canada since 2006 after escaping accusations of adultery, who was returned to Pakistan where she is now in hiding from what she fears is death by stoning. Or to Winifred Agimelen and her children, who were sent back to Nigeria, where Boko Haram and genital mutilation await her daughters. These and other deportations are clear violations of the principle of “non-refoulement,” the so-called cornerstone of asylum and international refugee law. It states that no member country of the UN should send refugees back to countries where they face persecution, danger and/or the loss of human rights. Not that the Conservatives’ proposed legislation comes as a complete surprise. Former immigration minister Jason Kenney slipped dire warnings about “honour killings,” female genital mutilation and “barbaric cultural acts” into the official citizenship guide, while at the same time erasing feminism, unions and LGBT rights from descriptions of our own homegrown cultural practices. And last year, Rona Ambrose, then minister for the status of women, marked International Women’s Week by following the same script. “We have been very clear: so-called ‘honour’ killings

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are barbaric, and like all family homicides, represent a serious violation of Canadian laws,” she said. “We are committed to ending violence against women and girls in all its forms.” Except they aren’t. “The federal government does not have either a stand-alone policy on intimate partner violence or sexual assault,” noted the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) in a major report last year. “Nor does the federal government have a national action plan to address violence against women. A comprehensive total for federal spending is not possible[to ascertain]... and some expenditures are simply not detailed enough to determine if a particular project or grant is aimed at addressing violence against women.” (Unsurprisingly, the CCPA is one of the progressive organizations with charitable status in Canada that is getting a going-over by Canada Revenue Agency auditors.) Ever since it came to power, the Harper government has weakened and impoverished resources for women trapped in dangerous situations. There’s no state-supported daycare or moves toward pay equity to help a woman get on her feet. And shel-

ters are overcrowded and underfunded. Femicides typically occur when battered women attempt to get away. That’s when they need protection and legal help. But there’s not a lot to be had any more. So – bang! – honour crime. White or brown, it amounts to the same thing. And, speaking of guns, remember that this is the government that abolished the long gun registry, the one the RCMP and Canada’s police chiefs pleaded to maintain – and that likely kept many women alive. According to a comprehensive RCMP report on the registry, rural women are at particular risk: “For some abused women, threats with hunting rifles was a part of the everyday life, and these firearms played a role in creating a climate of control and intimidation. This ranged from dealing with their partner’s frequent threats of suicide, damage to property or threats

to harm her, the children or the pets/farm animals if she should ever leave.” But dumping the registry was Job One for the Cons. That despite how, in the wake of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre of women in Montreal, tightened gun legislation led to the biggest drop in femicides in history. According to StatsCan, the rate plummeted from just over 10 per million population in 1990 to just below six in 1998. As for being “committed to ending violence against women and girls in all its forms,” there’s that matter of 1,200 murdered and missing indigenous women and girls that the Cons continue to overlook – and the justpassed Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act, which strips sex workers of the right to take every precaution to protect themselves from predators. So, yeah, barbaric cultural practices. We don’t need to import them; we have them to spare. 3 Antonia Zerbisias is an award-winning Canadian journalist. She has been a columnist, reporter and TV host for both the Toronto Star and CBC-TV news and current affairs. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

SOMEWHERE MY MOM IS CHEERING

MAYBE THE CONVERSATION THAT’S GROWN LOUDER WILL FINALLY LEAD TO THAT ELUSIVE SEA CHANGE By MICHAEL HOLLETT

y 5-foot-2 mother never seemed taller than when she was staring down my birth father after his latest violent explosion. I knew violence in my life practically before I knew how to talk. My Women in first memory is of being screamed at for not being emergency able to recite my good-night prayer, yelled at by a man often close to flying apart. Once violence has shelters who been introduced in a household, it’s always lurkreported a pet ing just below the surface, a submerged predator being harmed or ready to attack. killed by an It was supposed to be a pleasant Sunday family abusive partner. dinner for our burgeoning unit. An infant sister might have been sleeping in another room when my parents and I sat down to eat, my mother at one end of a table she had managed to fill with china bowls and platters of food. There was a black wall behind her. I stared ahead at another that featured pictures of the smiling and crying faces of comedy and drama, a reminder of the acting dreams Mom still harboured as a member of the local amateur theatre Curtain Club. Even with three children before she was 21, she was determined not to let her stage dreams die. Dad sat at the other end of the table, staring unsmiling at my mother. Life is confusing for a kid just a few years into language, adults appearing to have their own secret dialect. My world often seemed over-lit, and loud with confusing bangs and shouts that made it hard to understand and to sleep. I don’t remember what my father said to my mother, shouted at my mother. I just remember tension building, a process set in motion that I had no control over but whose results would affect me deeply. I stared hard into my plate, carefully filled with mashed potatoes dripping with gravy, roast beef and bright yellow corn. The corn was like a light in the puddles of brown that might shine me home. And then the entire dining room table rose up from Dad’s end of the room, its contents hurtling Children who witness or into the air and pop, pop, smashexperience family violence ing into the wall behind my mothevery year in Canada. er and onto her body. Dad was

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the new c-word is charisma

GHOMESHI AFFAIR REVIVES FAMILIAR MEMORIES FOR THOSE IN MEDIA IN 80S TORONTO By JANE CHRISTMAS

£600,000 bronze statue to be erected in London honouring Mohandas Gandhi has stirred outrage. Turns out the peace activist was an active swordsman, joining the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Philip Larkin, Lord Byron and Silvio Berlusconi. All were known for their charisma; all were, or are, serial womanizers. Charisma is an innate quality that gets burnished by public relations consultants attempting to elevate their client to godlike status. Remember the fawning over Bill Clinton’s oratorical skills? Have you actually attended one of his talks? I did, several years ago, with a work colleague (also female), and 10 minutes into it the two of us looked wide-eyed at one another and mouthed, “We paid a hundred bucks for this?” Charisma reels in chumps like me, hooking us into believing that Clinton is a fantastic speaker, Gandhi a humble agent of nonviolent civil disobedience and King a great civil rights leader. Given their real achievements, should it matter that these men also abused women? Jian Ghomeshi is said to possess charisma. It was not apparent to me: I met him once or twice, and the stench of arrogance was so overpowering, I fled the room. It’s plain that he used his celebrity-induced charisma to prey on his admirers. Another media personality who was said to have charisma up the wazoo was Jimmy Savile. Adored by young and old in Britain, honoured by the Queen with an OBE and a knighthood, Sir Jimmy was a blend of eccentricity and philanthropic goodness. When he died in 2011, there were calls for statues in his honour until word seeped out about his raping girls in his dressing room and sexually groping the young hospital patients whose burdensome lives he was supposed to lighten. The few courageous women who’d reported Savile’s abhorrent behaviour to the police and to his employer, the BBC, were dismissed as lunatics and liars.

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themselves or do not live where the domestic incident took place. The policy has actually led to an increase in dual arrests of both women victims and accused men.

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The tide has since turned big time, and police have documented a shocking litany of more than 200 criminal offences, of which 34 were rapes. For those of us who worked in media and the arts in 70s and 80s Toronto, the Ghomeshi scandal resurrects gut-wrenching memories. Women had come through a period of vociferous third-wave feminism, and companies were under political pressure to give opportunities to the flood of women university grads. The rolled-eyed attitude of employers changed dramatically when the benefits became clear: these newbies were young, compliant and cheap. We’d be paid much less than our male counterparts and no one would be the wiser. We women didn’t care so much; we were happy to get on the ladder at all. The downside revealed itself in short order: our naïveté coupled with our eager-to-please attitude were catnip to the high concentration of men with predatory appetites in the arts and media. Not all of them had charisma, but most assumed a sort of droit de seigneur. There was the national news anchor who chatted up and seduced each new young female staffer. The radio host, the TV news executive, the publishing house editor, the gallery owner, the current affairs producer, the reporter, the author, the record company executive – all of them regarded the brave new world of gender parity as a sexual open season. Meanwhile, female recruits wanting to be collegial gave them the benefit of the doubt. At the end of a shift, the newsroom intern would be pleasantly surprised to be invited by the news anchor to share a cab home, only to end up in his bed. The publishing house editor would flatter and promise career advancement, and the young staffer, dizzy at the attention, would acquiesce to his unwanted advances. I remember a female colleague arriving at work in the morning just as the CTV grapevine was spurting out details of her previous night’s “date.” Invariably,

And now we have another example of government legislation whose stated goal is to protect women but will end up doing more harm than good: the federal government’s new prostitution law, The Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act, which received royal assent last week. The preamble states that “the Parliament of Canada wishes to encourage those who engage in prostitution to report incidents of violence and to leave prostitution.”

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But it’s women who’ll continue to be victims under the law. In Norway, where a similar approach has been taken, sex workers report increased incidents of violence. This law won’t protect women. If anything, it will push them into the arms of organized crime and traffickers for protection. We should know better, of course. We can learn from the cases of Robert Pickton and John Martin Crawford, who preyed on Canada’s most

these women ended up with hushed-up abortions, soul-destroying shame, suicidal thoughts and job loss. The predators got the Order of Canada. I didn’t escape unscathed. In a file in a vault in the bowels of 52 Division is a videotaped statement I gave after being raped when I worked in the marketing department of a record label in the early 1980s. It happened the night of the Juno Awards, when our department was put up at the Harbour Castle Hotel, where the event was hosted. For some reason I feel it necessary to mention here that I didn’t drink that night: my colleagues (all male) were drug users, and I wanted to be stone-cold sober in order to make a quick getaway to my room and avoid their shenanigans, which I did at midnight. A few hours later, I was awakened by a senior executive hammering at my door. It was urgent, he said. Baffled by what calamity could possibly merit a news release at that hour, I flew to the door. My parents had always taught me to defer to authority, to trust, be nice, to go the extra mile. The executive barged in, bolted the door, shoved me onto the bed and raped me. Nothing prepares you for such things, but women should not have to be constantly on rape alert. Ghomeshi’s alleged antics show that little has changed in 30-plus years. To paraphrase the philosopher George Santayana: any experience that is not absorbed and retained is destined to be repeated. The shrapnel from the Ghomeshi scandal will be absorbed into the body of humanity; the hashtagged outrage will dissolve into the ether, the flag of charisma will attach itself to another man under whose spell we will fall, and feminism will hunker down in the trenches and await its next Groundhog Day appearance. Unless we bang our fist on the table and say, “This stops now.” 3 Jane Christmas is a former editor and bestselling author whose 2014 work, And Then There Were Nuns, was shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Word Awards. She lives in England. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

vulnerable and marginalized: outdoor sex workers who were further isolated and alienated by the criminal regulation of their livelihood. We can learn from Tina Fontaine, the native teen pulled from the Red River last summer, who was last seen alive by police and let go despite being reported missing. If this new law were truly about gender equality and the empowerment of sex workers, we’d be decriminalizing their lives and giving them

the tools to empower themselves. We needn’t give police additional tools or power. Under the feds’ new law, bars such as strip clubs that hire security can be charged under the material benefits section. But it was security and the manager in my bar who protected me, not the police, when the date who’d sexually assaulted me showed up at my work the next day. He was swiftly booted out. 3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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standing full up now, as if regarding his efforts. My tiny mother was on her feet not saying a word. I remem ber the glass milk bottle especially, its white contents splattered against the wall and dripping like pale blood along the black surface to the wood floor below. Food ran down my mother’s face, but she refused to wipe it off, instead turning her attention to the pieces of broken dishes, her eyes fixed not in this room but somewhere else, not blinking, not reacting. I would later imagine she was con templating ways out. But all I could think about at that moment were the faces of comedy and drama frozen like mine now was as I tried to deter mine what fate this latest outburst of violence would bring. Was everyone staring at us? My reaction that day still puzzles me and is an occasional source of guilt. Dad eventually turned his back on the wreckage and disappeared from the room. I helped Mom pick up a few broken dishes, but she simply said, “It’s okay, Mikey.” She was in control. My father was making strange noises in their bedroom; I thought he might be crying. I went to investi gate, and he was a pitiful mess. May be he was afraid the police would come again. They showed up myster iously at my house from time to time, and they weren’t there about a missing pet, though I rarely under stood the real reason. There was little likelihood that he was feeling re morse; if he was, why would he keep doing it? What I felt that night from him was fear. There was none of that coming from Mom. Like so many other little kids, I struggled to make things right, having plenty of feel ings of responsibility for something I had no control over. It wasn’t the first time I had seen my mother be brave under impossible cir cumstances, and it wouldn’t be the last. And despite the violence my fath er meted out, sometimes verbal, some times physical, he always seemed weak and out of control to me. I remember another puzzling night, armed police officers standing outside my parents’ bedroom talking in threatening tones to my father, who appeared to be scrambling to appease his interrogators. Mom was bruised but seemed in control again, confidently speaking reassuring words. I stood back from it all and just hoped everything would be okay, that the police would leave and not take anyone with them. I remember going with Mom to the doctor’s office and hearing her explain a black eye or a broken bone

as some kind of accident. More puz zling words to me, and I could feel the doctor’s suspicious gaze. But she did eventually escape to become a single mom, when divor cees were viewed with suspicion – damaged goods, maybe sluts. A high school dropout with a razorsharp mind, she went on to become a high ly successful businesswoman and devoted much of her life to fighting sexism, especially in the workplace. She was always proud to mentor

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Women who are turned away daily because shelters are full. younger women on their way up, and she started an organization called the Association of Women Execu tives (AWE). Get it? I was often in awe of her and her strength in staring down male violence. And I saw her share her hard learning and good ad vice with my sisters and her grand daughters, wise words from painful lessons that she managed to always share in an affirming way, regardless of the horror she’d gone through. I never dreamed of some Parent Trap family reunion after the Frank’s Moving Van drove away from my formerly violenceracked home. I knew it was good we were getting out, no matter where we were going. We were leaving for a tiny apartment in Flemingdon Park, but my sixyear old mind was certain we were going somewhere better. And considering how uncertain my world often was, the day my mom said “Enough” and safely extracted us and herself from an unending cycle of violence, I learned yet again that a small, powerful woman was capable of overpowering and over whelming a bigger bully of a man. At a time when police were still coun selling women to “not fight back,” I saw my mom successfully fight back every day of her life. There were many times we could have died; he often threatened to make it happen. My mother had to make her es cape largely on her own, although family and friends eventually came to believe that the charming guy she’d married was a violent abuser. We still don’t want to believe the words of women when they share terrible tales. Maybe that conversation, which has grown louder in this country over the last few weeks, will finally lead to the elusive sea change. Some where, my late mom is cheering all the women coming forward to tell their stories and expose us to awful truths long buried under shame and fear of not being believed. Silent No More? I hope so, and I know my brave mom would hope so, too. 3 michaelh@nowtoronto.com | @m_hollett

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FEAR STORM IN OTTAWA Media speculation caused widespread panic when a lone gunman raided Parliament Hill. What’s going to happen if we face a real attack like 9/11? By SCOTT TAYLOR

espite Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s brave words (after the fact) about not being intimidated by terrorism, Canada did not stand strong and proud during the recent shooting incident on Parliament Hill. Media-fuelled fears caused widespread panic, including the ridiculous instruction for military personnel to cease wearing uniforms outside their workplace. With confusion and panic mounting, the incident in Ottawa caught the attention of the international media, which reported that Ottawa was under siege by terrorists. When the dust settled, it became evident that a violent, brief incident had occurred. Despite all the handwringing and brow-beating about the failure of intelligence services, the security apparatus on Parliament Hill worked. What did not work were the channels of official information, and the resulting vacuum was filled by the rumours and hearsay of social media. If a lone, crazed gunman with an antiquated rifle can cause us to lockdown government, shut military bases and cancel hockey games, what’s going to happen if we face a real and sophisticated terror attack like the one that occurred on September 11, 2001? Ever since 9/11, security officials have warned Canadians that our nation is at risk of terror attacks. In fact, Canadian intelligence agencies and police services have thwarted numerous plots before these wouldbe terrorists could carry out their alleged attacks. The stated objectives in these failed homegrown terror schemes are astounding. In 2006, the infamous “Toronto 18” wanted to blow up the CN Tower and the Toronto Stock Exchange, at-

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tack Parliament Hill and, for their coup de grâce, behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a live TV broadcast of Peter Mansbridge’s nightly CBC news show (although one among them thought Paul Martin was PM). In April 2013, a pair of alleged terrorists were arrested for plotting to derail a VIA train. The terrifying scenarios they’d hoped to unleash never materialized, since the proper authorities apprehended the plotters before any harm came to Canadians. Even during Canada’s arduous 12-year deployment in Afghanistan to battle Taliban extremists, no actual Islamic-inspired attacks occurred on Canadian soil. This changed on the morning of October 20, when Martin Couture-Rouleau deliberately drove his car into two Canadian soldiers at a shopping mall just outside the military training base in Saint-Jean-surRichelieu, Quebec. Couture-Rouleau was well known to law enforcement for his stated intention of joining ISIS fighters in Syria. Authorities had briefly arrested him when he tried to board a flight bound for Turkey in August, and since then had placed him under what the RCMP termed “aggressive monitoring.” Couture-Rouleau’s deliberate attack left Warrant Officer Vincent Patrice dead. A second soldier suffered minor injuries. After fleeing the scene, Couture-Rouleau was involved in a high-speed chase with police. After his car rolled into a ditch, he emerged from the overturned vehicle armed with a knife and was subsequently shot and killed by police. News of this attack stunned Canadians. Sure, we have been warned that ISIS is targeting Canadians – the group’s own propaganda videos claimed we should

FLights were cLoseLy monitored as airport poLice searched For zehaFbibeau’s non-existent accompLices.

fear ISIS “in our own bedrooms.” Now, for the first time, a Canadian was killed by a deranged individual who was not an ISIS member but an ISIS wannabe. The effect on the public has been sobering. The reverberations of Couture-Rouleau’s attack were still the lead media story two days later, when Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo as he stood on guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. In full view of dozens of bystanders, Zehaf-Bibeau fired two rounds from his Winchester .30-30 lever-action hunting rifle into Cirillo’s back at point-blank range. As the mortally wounded Cirillo fell to the pavement, Zehaf-Bibeau made a mad dash toward the Centre Block entrance of Parliament Hill. Abandoning his own vehicle when he encountered the Parliament Hill barricades in place to deny unauthorized entry, Zehaf-Bibeau carjacked another vehicle. Forcing the terrified driver to flee the car at gunpoint, Zehaf-Bibeau then drove himself to the bottom of the main staircase at Centre Block. After a brief scuffle and exchange of gunfire at the entrance, he raced blindly down the corridor leading to the Library of Parliament. It’s not clear what motivated him or if he knew where he was going. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson claims police have a video containing evidence that the shooting was politically motivated. A letter from Zehaf-Bibeau’s mother published in Postmedia, however, suggests her son suffered from drug addiction and was angered by the government’s decision not to grant him a passport to fly to Saudi Arabia. What is clearer is that Zehaf-Bibeau did not have any master plan or conscious objective other than to cause mayhem. Chased and cornered by a score of alert security guards and police, the 30-something “lone wolf” was hit by a heavy fusillade of gunfire before Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers finished him off. A mere 83 seconds elapsed from the time Zehaf-Bibeau shot Cirillo until he was himself killed. In short, a lifetime criminal and drug addict, acting alone, committed a senseless murder of an essentially unarmed soldier and then ended his own mental torment in a suicidal charge into one of the thickest concentrations of armed law enforcement officers in Canada. But by achieving his death-by-cop, he unknowingly set in motion a drama of such magnitude that some newscasters proclaimed it forever life-changing. What ignited the fear storm were a number of fictitious statements from eyewitnesses that suggested Zehaf-Bibeau was not acting alone. As media outlets immediately switched to live coverage of the event, the absence of any verifiable information meant that reporters began to simply repeat information being circulated on social media. The Parliamentarians and staffers inside Centre Block at the time of the attack had heard an echoing hail of gunfire and presumed that such a volume of fire meant the attackers were numerous and armed with machine guns. This information was then tweeted and, of course, repeated, since the sources were transmitting from ground zero. All government offices went into lockdown mode, and all residents in the nation’s capital tuned in to follow what seemed to be a multi-pronged, orchestrated attack. Shortly after the initial shooting, it was reported that a victim had been shot in the Rideau Centre, a three-storey shopping mall located just 600 metres from Centre Block. The mall was then evacuated amid a flurry of denials from administrators at the Rideau Centre. Social media reports of a high-speed police chase along the major highway that bisects Ottawa also proved false, but not before causing schools across the city to lock down frightened students. The bridges over the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal were closed until police could establish checkpoints, and flights were closely monitored at Ottawa International Airport as police searched for Zehaf-Bibeau’s non-existent accomplices. 3 Scott Taylor is a former infantry soldier and founder of Esprit de Corps magazine. nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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CHECKPOINT UKRAINE What volunteer humanitarian aid looks like in a country unofficially at war By MARK MARCZYK

hen I agreed to put on a concert for Ukrainian soldiers defending Shchastya from Russian invasion, I did not envision lying on canvas sacks of second-hand sweaters and plush toys. Or being wedged between treadless tires and a WWII-era iron stove in the unheated back of an orange Mercedes transport truck on a treacherous road in a convoy of vehicles hauling missiles, rockets and a tank named Lucky. This is what volunteer humanitarian aid looks like in a country unofficially at war. The Kyiv-born driver of our truck, Ihor, is a jovial landscape architect who served the USSR in three wars (Armenia, Afghanistan and one he won’t name) before being discharged for “health reasons.” His co-pilot, Oleksij, a snowboard shop owner, has a wife in Italy and a sick daughter at home in Ukraine. “She’s pissed off at me,” Oleksij says about his wife as we pull up to the first of many checkpoints in Luhansk province in the so-called antiterrorist operation (ATO) zone. “I promised I wouldn’t go [to the front] until she got back from Europe, but how could I not? The people need our help.” I’m nervous, buried in the back of the truck under sleeping bags, contemplating recent reports of artillery fire and deadly sieges at nearby checkpoints 31 and 32. Ihor rolls down the window, hands a fleece balaclava to an AK-47-toting guard and asks if he’s staying warm. The soldier’s reply: “You got any winter boots in there?” “I don’t know why they call it ATO,” continues Ihor as we pass the checkpoint. “There are no terrorists here. All the ideological separatists either

fled, were killed or are in hiding. All that’s left is Russian soldiers. Anyone will tell you.” “How do you know they’re Russian?” I ask. “Their aim. They’re highly trained on advanced technology. Ukrainians don’t have that shit, and separatists don’t know how to use it. You ask any guy on the front line – the artillery rounds coming from the other side hit their target first time, every time. That and the passports on the corpses.” He slows down as we approach the next checkpoint, in Svatove, but the soldier waves us through.

ments in the conflict zones across eastern Ukraine. Poroshenko ordered more troops deployed to guard Mariupol, Dnipropetrovsk and Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, only 20 kilometres from the Russian border and 700 kilometres from Moscow. In the meantime, multiple reports online showed images of Russian tanks and vehicles in downtown Luhansk and 30-plus-truck convoys en route to Donetsk with anti-aircraft weapons, ammunition boxes, radar systems and gunmen. “It doesn’t look like it’s going to stop any time soon,” says a local soldier named Vitya, contemplating a pair of doves on his neighbour’s roof. “But we can’t leave. Our families are here. There’s nowhere else to go.” Before the war started last spring, Vitya was a furnituremaker sharing a modest home with his wife and two sheepdogs on a dirt road in Mostky. When the conflict with pro-Russian separatists escalated, Vitya was one of five men in his village of 2,400 to pick up a machine gun and train. One of them is now fighting to keep pro-Russian forces from taking over the Donetsk airport, opened for the 2012 European soccer championships. “I never dreamed of being a warrior,” Vitya continues, as we prepare to entertain weary troops. “But this is not a dream. This is our reality. Tomorrow I’ll go back to Shchastya so that one day I can go back to making furniture.” 3

“TOMORROW I GO BACK TO FIGHT IN SHCHASTYA SO THAT ONE DAY I CAN GO BACK TO MAKING FURNITURE.” Soldiers from the Aydar Battalion, whom we meet up with later taking a break from all-night fighting in Starobilsk, corroborate Ihor’s claim. They’re a ramshackle bunch, mostly volunteers in mismatched fatigues and a few locals who make day trips to fight at the front. One grizzled vet smokes a pipe and sports a “chub,” the hairstyle of the dreaded Cossack warriors. These men have seen real war. They’ve lost friends and family members to artillery fire that hasn’t stopped in spite of a ceasefire agreement signed by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine and the newly elected leaders of the breakaway republics. Ukraine’s foreign ministry reports 100 servicemen dead, 600 wounded. Both sides have never stopped firing, actually, and they’re both increasing deploy-

Mark Marczyk is the ringleader of Juno-nominated Toronto band Lemon Bucket Orkestra. news@nowtoronto.com @nowtoronto

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(Gawad Kalinga) Celebrity chef dinner raises funds for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines. 7-11 pm. $50. One King West Hotel, 1 King W. s.wilking@vcglobalmgmt.com. Warm The sole soCk drive (Scott Mission) Donate a pair of unworn socks and get free admission on weekends and a token of appreciation on weekdays. Nov 13-30. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. batashoemuseum.ca.

Events

animal righTs aCademy leCTure Anne Rus-

son talks about studying orangutans in the wild and the fight to save them. 7-9 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. animalrightsacademy.org. The diminuTion oF york ToWnship Heritage talk by Don Kendal. 7:30 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. 416-767-5472.

The FundamenTal naTure oF WaTer in egypTian myThologiCal ThoughT Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities lecture. 7 pm. Free. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. thessea.org.

geneTiCally engineered Food and your

healTh Speakers tour to provide the public with an opportunity to discuss their concerns around GE foods from a scientific perspective. 7-9 pm. $5. OISE, 252 Bloor W. facebook.com/ events/1484127141872932.

5invesTigaTing inClusion: lgbTQ sporT in ToronTo PrideHouse Toronto public discus-

sion on the local sports organizations. 6-8 pm. Free. 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church. pridehouseto.ca.

liTerary and oTher resourCes on CollaboraTion Anna Skorupsky leads a tour of the

Anita Ekstein Holocaust Resource Collection and the David and Syma Forberg Media Centre plus discussion. 7 pm. Lipa Green Centre, 4600 Bathurst. 416-635-2996.

november 13-19 2014 NOW

festivals • expos • sports etc.

Festivals this week

The Canadian inTernaTional Television FesTival A sneak peak at the new Corner

Gas movie, a panel and screening for CBC’s new mini-series The Book of Negroes, vintage series screenings, celebrity appearances and more. All events free (RSVP to reserve tickets). See website for schedule. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-5998433, citf14.tv. Nov 14 to 23

CliFF – Canadian labour inTernaTional Film FesTival Movies about workers and

The 416 ToronTo CreaTive improvisers

FesTival Improvised music performances by Kyle Brenders Ensemble, King Weather and other local artists. Pwyc-$20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416festival.com. Nov 13 to 15 inspire! ToronTo inTernaTional book Fair Readings, talks, storytelling, work-

shops, musical performances and more with Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood, Jeff Kinney, Jim Gaffigan and 400 other Canadian and international authors. $15, stu/srs $10, kids under 12 free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Bldg, 255 Front W. torontobookfair.ca. Nov 13 to 16

naTuropaThiC approaChes To osTeoporosis Information session. 6:30 pm. Free. Can-

adian College of Naturopathic Medicine, 1255 Sheppard E. 416-498-1255. phoTojounalism and sToryTelling Photography lecture by Lana Slesic. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. 416-4800720, torontocameraclub.com. royal agriCulTural WinTer Fair Livestock barns, horse shows, animal theatre, agricultural competitions, a petting farm and more. To Nov 16. $16-$24, under 3 free. Ricoh Coliseum, 100 Princes’ Blvd. royalfair.org. The spanish aparTmenT Screening of the 2002 French film by Cedric Klapisch. 7 pm. Pwyc. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca. ToronTo bike aWards Celebrating the top 5 bike-friendly businesses. 7:30 pm. $5. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts, 918 Bathurst. cycleto.ca/torontobikeawards. young adulT liTeraTure panel Discussion on the impact of YA literature and its place in the classroom. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca.

Friday, November 14

Benefits

breakFasT oF Champions (SickKids Allergy Program) Young Professionals for SickKids host a networking event with talks by Tim Leiweke and others. Door 7:15 am, keynote speech starts at 9 am. $75. First Canadian Place, 100 King W. breakfastofchamps.ca.

shameless magazine 10-year anniversary (Shameless Magazine) Anniversary party and Shamie Awards for the magazine for young women and trans youth with host Catherine McCormick, editor Sheila Sampath and more. 6-9 pm. $20. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900, shamelessmag.com.

Events

edmund meTaTaWabin The Cree writer/activist participates in panel discussions on indigenous issues at the Toronto International Book Fair. To Nov 15, Fri-Sat 3 pm. $10-$15. Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Bldg, 255 Front W. torontobookfair.ca.

leFTWords FesTival oF books and ideas

Event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers, with Susan Goldberg, David Austin, Ursula Pflug and others. See website for schedule. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. leftwordsfestival.com. Nov 13 to 17 regenT park Film FesTival Screenings, panel discussions, workshops and talkbacks that reflect inner-city communities like the Regent Park Community. Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. regentparkfilmfestival.com. Nov 19 to 22 TasTe oF iCeland Celebration of the country’s food and music scenes with a tasting menu and live music. Luma (350 King W) and Horseshoe (370 Queen W). icelandnaturally.com. Nov 13 to 16 veggieliCious Celebration of gourmet vegetarian cuisine with prix-fixe menus at restaurants and bakeries throughout the city. Various venues. veggielicious.ca. Nov 14 to 30

listings index Live music Theatre Dance

ToronTo inTernaTional shorT Film FesTival Showcase of short-form cinema

including animation, documentaries, comedies, narrative and more. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-598-2197, tisff.net. To Nov 14 ToronTo silenT Film FesTival Restored Alfred Hitchcock films screened with live musical accompaniment. $15, festival pass $35-$40. Screenings at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles and Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E. torontosilentfilmfestival. com. To Nov 16

WeesageeChak begins To danCe FesTival 27

Native Earth Performing Arts festival of indigenous performing arts including theatre, dance, spoken word, media art and film. $10-$20, pass $50. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. nativeearth. ca. To Nov 22

reel asian Film FesTival

Contemporary cinema by international and Canadian East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $10-$20. Royal Cinema, 608 College. reelasian.com. To Nov 16

SeeBrentButt inasneakpeak oftheCorner Gasmovieat theCanadian International Television Festival.

rendezvous WiTh madness Film FesTival

Shorts and features that focus on mental health, a multimedia installation,

hoCkey hall oF Fame induCTion Weekend

Appearances by NHLers, fan forums, autographed giveaways and more honouring the class of 2014. Nov 14 to 17. $14-$18. Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 Yonge. hhof.com. hogToWn hoedoWn Live music, square dancing and instruction. 8 pm. $10-$15, kids $7. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. 416-5353847, facebook.com/HogtownHoedown.

human righTs books For young readers

Discussion with authors Karen Levine, Rosemary McCarney and Margie Wolfe as part of the Toronto Book Fair. 2:30-3:30 pm. $15 pass. Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Bldg, 255 Front W. torontobookfair.ca.

laWrenCe heighTs and nepTune ColleCTive memory bank Current and past residents are

invited to bring their stories, memories and treasures to be documented as part of a community revitalization project. 6-8 pm. Free. Lawrence Heights Community Centre, 5 Replin. 416-953-4181. rp.a. day advenTures Sign you child up for crafts, cooking, games and more. 9 am-4:30 pm. $30 per child. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. sFConTario5 Sci fi convention, with authors Robin Hobb, Dan Falk and others. Nov 14-16. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 300 Jarvis. sfcontario.ca.

soCieTy For The sTudy oF egypTian anTiQuiTies sCholars ColloQuium Nov 14, 9 am-

4:30 pm; Nov 16, 11 am-4 pm. Free. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. thessea.org. ToronTo sWing danCe soCieTy Dancing to swing music. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. Treehouse Talks Short talks on current topics by expert speakers. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. treehousetalks.com.

Comedy Art galleries Readings

symposium on mental health in sports and more. $12-$20, some pwyc, festival pass $70. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. rendezvouswithmadness.com. To Nov 15

continuing

Friday nighT live @ rom Live music, DJs, popup food, tours of the galleries and more with a Heros theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca/fnl. genTlemen’s expo Speakers, pavillions, drink sampling and other events targeting the modern urban man. Nov 14 to 16. $30-$110. Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Bldg, 255 Front W. gentlemensexpo.com.

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Saturday, November 15

Benefits

a nighT oF Trivia (Rotary Foundation) Rotary

Club of Toronto Skyline event. 6:30 pm. $15, stu $10. Scallywags, 11 St Clair W. 416-9223737, rotarynight@gmail.com. Falpha bazaar (Alpha Alternative School) Gently used clothing, toys, household items, books, handmade crafts and more. 11 am-4 pm. $2. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435, alphaschool.ca. CommuniTy roCks (Community Living Toronto) Music by Trooper, the Good Acoustics, spoken word artist Aria Tesolin, food and more to support people with intellectual disabilities. Doors 6 pm. $150. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. communityrocks.ca. Fholiday magiC (SickKids Toys and Games Fund) Holiday tree lighting and a performance by jazz vocalist Molly Johnson and folk/rock artist Andrew Austin. 5-6:30 pm. Donations appreciated. Village of Yorkville Park, Cumberland and Bellair. bloor-yorkville.com. The love shaCk danCe parTy (The Unison Benevolent Fund) Dance party with DJ Fred Schneider from the B52s, 80s makeovers, prizes for best 80s look and a silent auction. Doors 8 pm. $30, adv $20. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. unisonfund.ca. making rugs From rags (Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum) Learn to braid rugs from scraps of old clothing. Noon-3:30 pm. $10 (includes lesson & museum tour). Tollkeeper’s Cottage, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca.

Events

aFTer The Fall: a breaTh oF liFe Screening of

the doc about a South Asian woman’s battles with cancer and cultural conflicts, followed by Q&A. 11 am. $9.50. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. eventbrite.com/e/13745468065.

ages oF Chaos? demysTiFying anCeinT egypT’s inTermediaTe periods Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities annual symposium. 9 am-5 pm. $45-$90. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. uofttix.ca.

arT, CreaTiviTy, & spiriTualiTy Workshop

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followed by a time of optional sharing. 1-4 pm. Free. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, 18 Wynford, suite 102. donheights.ca. barley’s angels Women-only beer appreciation night. 7 pm. Pharmacy Bar, 1318 King W. barleysangels.wordpress.com.

bridging The gap – a Workshop on The FuTure oF live TheaTre Gathering for youth and

theatre artists to share perspectives and experiences while networking and collaborating. 10 am-4 pm. $10 or pwyc. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. theatreontario.org. CyCling in Fall & WinTer Learn how to ride safely in cold weather and maintain your bike. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Pre-register. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746. The FuTure oF meaT Authors Isha Datar and Robert Bolton discuss the likelihood of a future when cultured meat is a reality. 4-6 pm. $15. Bevlab, 1115 Queen W. bevlab.co. FesTival oF dangerous ideas Exploration of our relationship with our food system. Talks on seeds, soil, pesticides and more with keynote speaker Dr Vandana Shiva, Adria Vasil and others. 1-8 pm, DJ party at 9:30 pm. $75$85, party only $20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. festivalofdangerousideas.ca. high park ConveyanCe day Learn about John and Jemima Howard’s decision to transfer the park property to the City of Toronto in 1873. Noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, 11 Colborne Lodge. 416-392-6916.

imperialism and The World Wars oF The 20Th CenTury Discussion on the political, economic and historical roots of the global drive to war. 3 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. facebook.com/iysse.yorku.

inTerseCTion: enTrepreneurship & indigenous arTs ConFerenCe Indigenous artists,

entrepreneurs, experts and students share success stories and lessons learned by entrepreneurial arts organizations in Canada. Nov 15 to 16, 9 am-5 pm. Free. OCAD U, 100 McCaul. intersection-conference.eventbrite.ca. inTroduCTory mediTaTion Class. 1 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. meditationtoronto.com.

jeWish ConTemplaTive ChanTing serviCe

10:30 am-noon. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, shirlibeynu.ca. la TraviaTa Screening of a filmed live performance by the Paris National Opera. 1:30 pm. $20-$25. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca. masTering audio 101 Workshop on creating industry format standards with Innovator in Residence Robert DiVito. 3-5 pm. Free. Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd. tpl.ca/iir. morTgage 101 Learn about approvals and what banks usually don’t tell you. 2-4 pm. Free. Pre-register. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746. murder aT The rom Scavenger hunt for adults. $35. Pre-register. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. urbancapers.com. 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.

skeTCh: CreaTing opporTuniTies Through arT For marginalized young people Dale

Roy talks about the arts org that helps marginalized youth. 1:30-3 pm. Free. Room 4-414. OISE, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca. smashmouTh Spoken word open mic with Zeinab Aidid, Killa Beatz and host Britta B. Sign up 7:30 pm, show 8 pm. Pwyc. Lazy Daisy’s, 1515 Gerrard E. lazydaisyscafe.ca. TasTe oF iCeland Film sCreenings A series of short films followed by a documentary, curated by the Reykjavik Shorts & Docs Festival. 2-6 pm. Free. Royal Cinema, 608 College. 416466-4400, eventbrite.com/e/13883456793. rTime Travel WiTh Colborne lodge Enjoy games and toys from 150 years ago and listen to stories. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Locke Library, 3083 Yonge. 416-393-7730. ToronTo 48-hour Film projeCT Screening of short films made by local filmmakers. Noon. $10. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. 48hourfilm.com/toronto. ToronTo’s greaT War aTTiC Bring your WWI stories and treasures to share and have them uploaded to the Canadian Encyclopedia website. 1:30-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Sunday, November 16

Benefits

Sea Shepherd OntariO Barnacle Ball (Sea Shepherd Conservation Soc) Live music, films, silent auction, vegan dinner and speakers on protecting the ocean from illegal actions. 5-11 pm. $60. Roma’s Hospitality Centre, 5-5980 Shawson. seashepherd.org/barnacleball. War child (Village of Love Canada) Screening of the documentary about Emmanuel Jal 4 pm. $15-$20. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. villageoflovecanada.org.

Events

autumn in the Valley Learn how birds,

plants and animals prepare for winter at this guided walk. 1:30-2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. BlOOr takeOVer: girlS rOck camp Screening of the film Girls Rock!, followed by live performances from GRCT alumni Deanna Petcoff and Brighid Fry. 4 pm. $9.75. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com. chai tea and a mOVie Screening Alexandre Arcady’s 24 Days, about the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi. 1:30 & 4:30 pm. $15. Cineplex Empress Walk, 5095 Yonge. tjff.com.

cOral, Fire & ice: explOring Secret underWater WOrldS Talk and visuals with photog-

rapher David Doubilet and aquatic biologist and photojournalist Jennifer Hayes. Nov 16 to 18. Sun 2 pm, Mon-Tue 8 pm. $19.50-$79.50. Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

deer park: Old OakS, Other treeS & lOcal hiStOry Lost rivers walk. Meet at St Clair E and

Avoca. 2 pm. Free. lostrivers.ca. rFamily SundayS Hands-on design activities for all ages. Noon to 4 pm. Free for up to two adults, accompanying children under 12. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. rFun FOr kidS Science demos for kids and family fun with Russell Zeid. 2 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org.

the great War and itS laSting impact On tOrOntO Talk by John Beram and display of

local memorabilia. 2 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. lambtonhouse.org. hOckey hall OF Fame legendS claSSic Hockey game featuring teams captained by Mats Sundin and Joe Sakic. 3 pm. $30-$60. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. hhof.com. FrSanta clauS parade The annual parade of floats, bands, clowns and more kicks off at 12:30 pm at Christie Pits (Bloor and Christie), goes east on Bloor to University, south on University to Wellington, and east on Wellington to the St Lawrence Market (Front and Jarvis). Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. thesantaclausparade.com. Strength in thOSe BrOken placeS Presentation by Christopher Wulff. 10:30 am. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, 18 Wynford, suite 102. 416-444-8839, donheights.ca.

Monday, November 17

Benefits

War reSiSter cOmmunity dinner (War Resisters Support Campaign) Dinner and update from lawyer Alyssa Manning, Jane Orion Smith and a U.S. war resister. 6 pm. $20 sugg. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. resisters.ca.

Events

aFter tiller Screening of the documentary.

7 pm. $10 sugg donation. In the JJR MacLeod Auditorium. Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College Circle. facebook.com/OCAC88. Funding muSic Lecture on various funding models and how to get a music project off the ground with Innovator in Residence Robert DiVito. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd. tpl.ca/iir. help! the end OF tOuring Film clips and talk by lecturer Kevin Courrier. 7-9 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

inSpiratiOn, ideaS and SOlutiOnS: Site deSign FOr urBan tree grOWth in the netherlandS Talk by urban green engineer Joris

Voeten. 9 am-noon. Free. City Hall, 100 Queen W. yourleaf.org. intrOductOry meditatiOn Learn three easy techniques. 7 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. meditationtoronto.com. J-talkS: Jim rOBertS The executive editor of Mashable talks to the Globe And Mail’s James Bradshaw about his journey from traditional to digital media. 6:30 pm. $30, stu $15. Exchange Tower, 130 King W. cjf-fjc.ca/j-talks. pOSt a letter SOcial actiVity cluB Letter writing night. Pwyc for stamps and stationary. Wise Bar, 1007 Bloor W. pal-sac.com.

big 3

myrOn zaBOl talkS phOtOgraphy Lecture. 6:30 pm. Free. OCAD U, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca. Opera talk: dOn giOVanni Canadian Opera Co talk by Opera Canada editor Wayne Gooding. 7-8 pm. Free. Pre-register. North York Central Library 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639, coc.ca. pOWering the Future: inSightS FrOm the cO-OperatiVe energy tranSitiOn Public talk

about co-operative renewable energy and the growing trend of green energy impact investing. 7-9 pm. Free. YWCA Elm Centre, 87 Elm. community-power.eventbrite.com. racOnteurS StOrytelling Mainhall. 7 pm. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. Small Ship cruiSeS Travel talk. 3 pm. Free. Merit Travel, 408 King W. merittravel.com. tOrOntO rOOmmate mixer Meet potential roommates at this social event. 6:30-9 pm. $10. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. 416504-2334, apartmate.ca.

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

SUPPORT WAR RESISTERS

With the U.S. army escalating its presence in Iraq, increasing numbers of war resisters are heading north of the 49th parallel. Help build a supportive community at a fundraising dinner for the War Resisters Support Campaign on Monday (November 17), 6 pm, at Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. Jane Orion Smith, general secretary of Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers), and lawyer Alyssa Manning are among the speakers. $20. resisters.ca

SHAMELESS TURNS 10

Shameless, the shit-kicking feminist magazine for young Study academy Open hOuSe Tour the facility, see student projects and meet the faculty. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Study Academy, 20 Glebe E. thestudyacademy.ca. WarhOl & reagan: architectS OF change

Lecture by Bob Colacello. 7 pm. $35. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

Tuesday, November 18

Benefits

Jazz Jam and FundraiSing 40th Birthday BaSh (Musicounts) Louisa LaBarbera, Chris

Gale, Amanda Tosoff, Brendan Davis, Jeff Halischuk and others. $20 suggested donation. Jazz Bistro, 251 Victoria. jazzbistro.ca.

Events

BlueS pOetry Fusion of blues music and the

African-American oral tradition with musicians Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley. 7 pm. Free. Pre-register. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639. climBing kilimanJarO Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Merit Travel, 408 King W. 416-345-9726.

curatOr’S tOur permanent cOllectiOn

Highlights of the museum. 6:30-7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. Aga Khan Museum, 77 Wynford. 416-646-4677, agakhanmuseum.org.

FrOm cradle tO graVe: FaBricS in the liVeS OF WOmen in medieVal cairO Lecture on

how social interaction with textiles and their production affected the lives of women in medieval Cairo. 7 pm. $20, stu $15. Pre-register. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797, rom.on.ca. rlearn tO Skate Classes for all ages. Various times and prices. Pre-register. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/learntoskate. WOmen’S health WOrkShOp Learn about naturopathic approaches to reproductive, sexual and hormone health. 7 pm. Free. Pre-register. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com.

NADINE MACKINNON

Ver(Sing) Screening of videos by Sandra Gregson and Barbara Sternberg. 7:30 pm. Free. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. 416-489-8406.

upcoming Channel your peace activism to support war resisters on November 17.

women and trans youth, is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Friday (November 14), 6 to 9 pm, with a big bash. Comedian Catherine McCormick hosts the event at Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond West, and DJ Betti Forde spins the music. $20. shamelessmag.com

THINK DANGEROUSLY

NOW Magazine’s Ecoholic, Adria Vasil, shares the stage with key-

SurVey and reSearch agenda Lecture by David Last. 4-6 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George. scienceforpeace.ca. emergent dialOgue, municipal climate reSpOnSe, and imaginary WOrldS: explOring climate change innOVatiOn and engagement prOceSSeS at the cOmmunity Scale

Seminar with prof John Robinson. Rm 149, basement. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. environment.utoronto.ca. FOOd Fight tOrOntO 2014 Gathering of innovators, researchers, producers and others to look for ways to make the food system more sustainable and accessible. 5-8 pm. Free. CSI Regent Park, 585 Dundas E. socialinnovation. ca/event/food-fight-toronto-2014. hOW Budgeting can change yOur liFe Learn the secrets of budgeting, saving and investing your money. 7:30 pm. Free. Pre-register. Cen-

lOOking FOr WOmen in medieVal cairO: imagined hiStOrieS & hiStOrical realitieS

Anecdotes and historical accounts shed light on women’s participation in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the era from 969 to 1171. 8 pm. $20, stu $15. Pre-register. Ismaili Centre, 49 Wynford. 416-586-5797, rom.on.ca. meditatiOn claSS Class following Nyingma Tibetan Buddhist teachings. Bring a towel or yoga mat. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Community Centre 55, 97 Main. vbatoronto.org. muSic VideO editing in Fcpx 101 Workshop on basic workflow techniques for single and multi cam shoots, storyboarding and more. 1-4 pm. Free. Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd. tpl.ca/iir.

the art Starter party (Art Starts) An art battle, interactive stations, a silent auction and more. 6:30-9:30 pm. $75. The Uptown Loft, 2464 Yonge. eventbrite.ca/e/4476629720.

Better With age: gala & Silent auctiOn

(North York Seniors Centre) The Centre celebrates 40 years of helping seniors with dinner, music and more. 5:30 pm. $100. Grand Luxe, 3125 Bayview. 416-733-4111, nyseniors.org. eat.art.lOVe (Leave Out Violence Ontario) Cocktail party and art auction featuring live music. 7 pm. $80-$100. The Extension Room, 30 Eastern. 647-352-7041, eatartlove.com. the FrOcktail party (Juvenile Diabetes Research) Auction and dancing. 7 pm. $70. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay, 8th floor. 416-861-6138, thefrocktailparty.com. girl riSing (Care Canada project in Malawi) Documentary screening to celebrate the International Day of the Girl. 7:30 pm. VIP reception 6 pm($100). $25, (eventbrite.ca). Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. care.ca. key change (Canadian Music Centre) Music by the Hilario Duran Trio, silent auction, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. 6:30 pm. $150. Pre-register. Canadian Music Centre, 20 St Joseph. 416961-6601 ext 201, rsvp@musiccentre.ca.

Events

engaging in-BetWeen SpaceS The Laneway Project is hosting the city’s first “summit on laneways” to inspire new ideas and approaches for laneway revitalization. 6 pm. $10. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330, thelanewayproject.ca/events. 3

Adieu au langage 3D a film by Jean-Luc Godard

Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the new film by Jean-Luc Godard is a visually sumptuous and richly complex meditation on history and eternity, being and nothingness, desire and death.

Opens November 14

the amadeuS art prOJect: ViSual art inSpired By muSic (Amadeus Choir) Live and si-

Tickets on sale now tiff.net/godard

lent art auction. 6:30 pm. $10. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. theamadeusproject.com.

tral Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511 ext 225.

Benefits

presents

Wednesday, November 19

Benefits

note speaker Vandana Shiva and others at the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas, a daylong exploration of our increasingly precarious relationship with our food system, Saturday (November 15), 1 to 8 pm, at Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas East. Find out everything you need to know about seeds, soil and pesticides. DJ party 9:30 pm. $75-$85, party only $20. festivalofdangerousideas.ca

Thursday, November 20

and don’t miss our series

Godard Forever: Part Two on now until December 22 on ly at

Reitma n Squa re, 350 King Street West

TIFF prefers Visa.

grOWing citieS: a Film aBOut urBan agriculture (Greenest City) Film screening and

discussion. 6:30 pm. $12. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. greenestcity.ca.

®Toronto International Film Festival Inc.

Events

cOnSciOuS actiViSm dOcumentary SerieS: eVeryday reBelliOn Film screening. 6-9 pm.

Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, harthouse.ca.

educatiOn FOr Security leaderS: a glOBal NOW november 13-19 2014

food

DAVID LAURENCE

Pharaoh’s po’ boy (shrimp sandwich), the Cairo Classic (below left) with ful, boiled egg and falafel, and the Egyptian falafel plate are hits at Maha’s.

Eat like an Egyptian SURE, MAHA’S SERVES FUL AND TAMIYA, BUT GET READY FOR DATE GRILLED CHEESE AND A CREATIVE TAKE ON SCOTCH EGGS By KARON LIU MAHA’S FINE EGYPTIAN CUISINE 226 Greenwood, 416-462-2703, facebook.com/MahasFineEgyptianCuisine, @mahasbrunch The influx of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean restaurants this year has made hummus as ubiquitous as guacamole, and chefs are giving the cheap shawarma a haute upgrade. But food from Egypt is still largely unknown here. Maha Barsoom and her family are trying to change that at their month-old restaurant just south of the Greenwood subway yard. The cheery 50-year-old, who came to Toronto 14 years ago with her two kids and husband, proudly shows off a framed clipping of her lentil soup recipe that won a local cooking contest.

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With her grey hair neatly tied back, an apron around her waist and a smile that punctuates the end of every sentence, Barsoom is the kind of cook whose pedigree doesn’t come from fine-dining restaurants, but from the Cairo school where she served hundreds of picky schoolchildren every day. And of course, she feeds her kids Monika Wahba, now 24, and Mark, 21, who have turned a kitchen and bath store into a cozy, sun-drenched corner restaurant-café. “I cook the way I cook at home, and everybody likes to eat home food,” says Barsoom. “Our dishes are simple and healthy. Egyptian cuisine is full of spices and herbs, and based on vegetables and legumes more than

meat. As a result we have a lot of vegan and vegetarian dishes because of the reality of not being able to cultivate meat – Egypt is mostly desert.” To simply lump Egyptian cuisine under the Middle Eastern umbrella negates just how varied the country’s food is. Centuries of occupation by the Turks, Persians, French and Brits made the nation’s cuisine into a mishmash of honey-dribbled sweets, roasted eggplant, fried chicken cutlets not unlike schnitzel and a thriving afternoon tea and coffee culture. Egypt borrowed dishes like shak-

Maha Barsoom (left), son Mark Wahba and daughter Monika Wahba raise the Egyptian bar.

MORE GREAT PLACES FOR EGYPTIAN FOOD BABA GEDDO 67 Duncan, at Queen, 416-901-4336 Koshari is the thing to order at this easily missed EgyptianMexican spot in the Entertainment District. The classic dish consists of rice, lentils, macaroni and chickpeas topped with tomato sauce and fried onions. It’s an odd combination, but it’s so popular in Cairo there’s a fast food chain that serves only this. ME VA ME KITCHEN EXPRESS 240 Queen West, at John, 416-546-3770, mevamekitchenexpress.com

shouka from neighbouring Tunisia and the heavy use of bold spices like cinnamon, cardamom and cumin from the North African tradition. The Mediterranean Sea brings plenty of seafood and cooler, fresher flavours from Italy and Greece. So, yes, there is an Egyptian version of feta, and Barsoom makes her own. More creamy, like a yogurt, and mixed with tomatoes and mint to mellow out its salty bite, her feta takes six months to age and is plopped on top of the Cairo Classic platter ($12) that’s recommended for first-timers. Other quintessential Egyptian components on the plate are ful, the breakfast dish of mashed fava beans, tomatoes and onions; charred baladi bread, a whole wheat and bran pita baked by a local Egyptian baker; and tamiya, the Egyptian falafel made from fava beans instead of the chickpeas used in Lebanon and Israel. It’s colour is close to avocado green, and it has a creamier texture underneath the crispy crust.

The Pharaoh’s po boy ($9) isn’t a riff on the recent seafood sandwich trend, but a recreation of daughter Monika’s favourite thing to eat on the streets of Cairo as a kid: plump and juicy battered shrimp packed into warm baladi bread and drizzled with tahini, parsley and a squeeze of lime. It’s the kind of sandwich that still makes you salivate hours after eating it. Barsoom’s prized lentil soup ($9 as a main, $6 as a side) is spiced with cumin, coriander, black pepper and garlic. Bold but not spicy, thick and velvety with a burnt umber hue, it’s ideal for chilly and wet November afternoons. But the kitchen isn’t restricting itself to by-the-book recipes. Daughter Monika came up with her version of a Scotch egg – a boiled egg wrapped in the Egyptian falafel mix rather than meat, then served with greens and cumin-spiced home fries ($12). There’s also a date grilled cheese ($12 with side) made of Gouda, havarti and Swiss with butter-sautéed

dates pressed between egg bread and topped with honey. It’s their way of serving the fruit that’s traditionally cooked with scrambled eggs. And since the siblings were previously baristas at the nearby Grinder Coffee, Monika and Mark sling ground cardamom and honey lattes in addition the Turkish coffees their mom taught them to make. While it’s only been a month, Maha’s has already become a neighbourhood hangout where customers are greeted by name, and word of mouth has the odd chef dropping by out of curiosity over this underrepresented cuisine. “I’d like people to learn more about it. That’s my main goal,” says Barsoom. “I want people to know how different and flavourful Egyptian cuisine is. I think the country’s had a bad reputation in the last years because of the political happenings, and I want to do something for my country.” 3 food@nowtoronto.com | @karonliu

While the food isn’t strictly Egyptian, the popular eastern Mediterranean spot – with other locations in Thornhill and Vaughan – does capture some of the cuisine’s essence: panne (or schnitzel), lentil soup, baba ghanouj, beet salad and fried eggplant. The menu also incorporates elements of Greek, Italian, Moroccan and Israeli fare, much like Egyptian food itself. ARZ BAKERY & FINE FOODS 1909 Lawrence East, at Wexford, 416-755-5084, arzbakery.com The giant Mediterranean and Middle Eastern supermarket has a deli counter with prepared foods, a shawarma stand, a butcher and an irresistible bakery where flaky and honey-drizzled sweets are piled high into magnificent mounds. Check the freezers for the shop’s own line of frozen meals and pick up some tubs of baba ghanouj and ful to go with the house-baked pitas. Not in Scarborough? You can also find Arz sweets and dips at Loblaws.

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Former Centro chef Jason Carter opened his first restaurant this week. Dandylion (1198 Queen West, at Gladstone) has taken over the former Unit bar space and is now serving dinner Tuesday to Sunday. The menu is split into three courses, each with a choice of nine plates, like vinegarpoached mackerel with onion cream and horseradish, trout with carrot sauce and smoked paprika, and walnut tea cake for dessert. Pizzeria Libretto’s third location is now open for lunch and dinner in the financial district at 155 University (at Adelaide). Meanwhile, its fourth location on King West, a joint project with Porchetta and Co., remains under construction. On the other end of Queen, a banner with crude Batman-related jokes and the promise of apple fritters on November 17 has appeared on the outside of Leslieville’s shuttered Bero restaurant at 889 Queen East (at Logan). It’s actually a teaser for an incoming café called the Purple Penguin that’ll serve coffee from Pig Iron Coffee Roasters, fresh-squeezed juices, bread from St. John’s Bakery and the aforementioned fritters. Cult favourite San Francesco Foods (the veal sandwich place beside the Monarch Tavern in Little Italy) is opening a more central outpost in the old Pizzaiolo spot at 609 Queen West (at Portland). Signs for a fish-and-chips spot called Easy Catch Fish and Chips are on the windows of 1446 Yonge (at St. Clair), right between Delica and Holy Chuck burgers. The place is still in hiring mode, so it’ll be a while till you can get those chippies.

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Winter is notoriously difficult for restaurants not located in the warm confines of a shopping centre. Leslieville’s Glas Wine Bar (1118 Queen East, at Jones) is getting proactive by offering Sunday brunch and buck-a-shuck every day from 5 to 7 pm and Fridays and Saturdays 9 to 11 pm. The place also does a vegetarian tasting menu on Tuesdays that’s worth the trek. Know of any openings, closings or how to make a cocktail using NeoCitran? Email food@now toronto.com.

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There are plenty of fancy-pants spas in town, but where do you go for a quick and reliable manicure or facial? The Ten Spot is a chain of beauty bars with experienced staff who get the job done fast. Their Queen West location unveils its new look after all but gutting and redoing the entire space. There’s new paint, millwork and fixtures, plus additional wax rooms to accommodate more appointments. This self-described “anti-spa” adheres to the highest sanitation standards: no pedi sinks with jets, no double dipping wax sticks and no reusing buffer blocks or nail files. Also enjoy little perks like complimentary skin analyses, free toe waxes with every pedi service, brow makeup touchups after brow waxes and more. Ten Spot picks They suggest the Brazilly ($50), the bar’s signature waxing service. Look for The official grand reopening party on November 20. Stop by for snacks, bevvies and complimentary polish jobs. Hours Monday to Wednesday and Saturday 8 am to 8 pm, Thursday and Friday 8 am to 9 pm, Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. 3

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TO WHEAT OR NOT TO WHEAT?: THE PASTA GUIDE

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DEPENDING ON YOUR VANTAGE POINT, A BOWL OF NOODLES CAN BE WARMLY NOURISHING OR DOWNRIGHT INFLAMMATORY. TIME TO COOK UP SOME PERSPECTIVE.

BARILLA/CATELLI wHEAT Wheat gets a lot of flak for bloating bellies and triggering inflammation, but it does have some redeeming qualities. Genetically modified wheat still isn’t allowed on shelves (let’s keep it that way), and a lot of big Canadian pasta brands like Catelli and Italpasta get much of their wheat pretty locally, from the Prairies. (Barilla uses a combination of North American and Italian wheats.) On the other hand, the monoculture mega-farms growing it tend to keep weeds down with herbicides like glyphosate-based Roundup made by GMO kingpin Monsanto. Enviros certainly aren’t fans, and contentious research out of MIT argues it’s this very pesticide that’s triggered the rise of gluten intolerance. FYI, last year’s boycott of Barilla pasta quieted down after its CEO sort of apologized for saying he’d never put a gay family in a Barilla ad. SCORE: NN

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I’ve seen so many dodgy products with a gluten-free label, I’ve stopped counting. Anything with conventional corn should raise an eyebrow, particularly if it’s made in North America, since corn sources here are largely genetically modified and too often grown from seeds treated with controversial neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths. So in this case, it’s a good thing that most gluten-free corn-based pastas on shelves (even Catelli’s, Italpasta’s and Barilla’s) are made in Italy. There, GMO corn is still prohibited, and three neonic pesticides are currently outlawed on flowering crops (not winter crops). However, other chems of concern like glyphosate are still common. Best to stick to certified organic corn pastas like San Zenone. SCORE: NN

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Science has spoken yet again. Time is not on our side. Leaders must act.

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UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon on what’s being called the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “final warning” on climate change, which predicts irreversible global impacts for centuries to come unless we phase out fossil fuels altogether UN secretaryby 2100. general Ban Ki-moon

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TINKYADA/RIZoPIA RICE PASTA

I love this smooth, chewy noodle, which lacks the grittiness of spelt or whole wheat pastas, and it’s glutenfree. Plus, these two brands are made in Toronto using American-grown nonGMO rice. Half their products are certified organic. That’s why it’s a shame that rice is getting burned yet again by findings that it’s heavy in trace arsenic. New research from the UK reveals that of 80 rice products tested there, 58 per cent exceed the EU’s proposed arsenic limits in rice for kids. Sadly, fibre-rich brown rice has higher levels than white. Tinkyada’s own tests show its arsenic levels are 200 parts per billion – below brown rice limits but twice the proposed EU children’s limits. North American health authorities say rice (or rice pasta) can safely be eaten in moderation. (Consumer Reports says two or three times a week for adults, one and a half times for kids.) SCORE: NNN

GMOS HIDING IN “NATURAL” FOOD AND BABY FORMULA? Voters in Colorado and Oregon rejected initiatives during U.S. midterm elections last week to have genetically engineered foods labelled, after Big Food sank millions into anti-labelling campaigns. They may want to rethink their votes. According to the latest shocker from Consumer Reports, popular breakfast cereals, snack foods and baby formula – including those selfdescribed as “natural” – all contain far more genetically modified ingredients than we knew. CR is now calling on the feds to bring in GMO labelling laws and ban the world “natural” on processed foods that contain GE ingredients. Of the more than 80 food items tested, nearly all contained “substantial amounts” of genetically modified corn or soy (averaging 70 per cent GE content).

GoGo QUINoA/ ToLERANT BEAN PASTA

I was a little uncomfortable about buying quinoa after an exposé revealed that poor Bolivian farm workers could no longer afford their super-nutritious native grain thanks to the global quinoa craze. The good news is that the main quinoa pasta brand in Canadian stores, GoGo Quinoa imports its noodles from fair trade sources in Bolivia. As well as being certified organic, it’s been heralded as a top-tasting glutenfree pasta, and I’d have to agree. Note: it’s blended with organic South American white rice flour. Tolerant Foods out of Chicago makes certified organic pastas with U.S. grown and “imported” lentils and black beans. Neither brand is local, but both are gluten-free. They do cost more, though. SCORE: NNNN

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Given wheat’s villainous status amongst the granola set, I keep my carnal love for a good bowl of white pasta on the down-low. I’m now breaking my silence to big up Alberta’s Prairie Harvest’s certified organic wheatbased pastas (whether whole wheat, kamut – branded under Artesian Acres packaging – or, gasp, white). They’re all Canadian-grown and mostly Canadian-milled (some of the wheat for the white pasta is milled just across the Alberta border in Montana). Others, like Felicetti organic wheat pastas, may have a Canada Organic seal, but they’re actually made in Italy. Glutenfree locavores will prefer Ontariomade Maria’s Noodles for offering a lot of Canadian-grown legume pastas. They’re not organic, but Maria’s spelt and ecoholic kamut ones are. pick SCORE: NNNNN

ingredients like canola oil, cottonseed oil and sugar from GM sugar beets are so highly processed that “most of the DNA is destroyed,” making accurate DNA testing impossible. The same is true for highly processed corn syrup and soybean oil. To be considered “non-GMO,” corn or soy has to contain less than 0.9 per cent genetically modified DNA. That’s the same standard used by organic certifiers, EU regulators and the food certifiers at the Non-GMO Project, since trace Besides big-name processed products like contaminants are impossible to avoid entirely. Froot Loops and Doritos, testers found alarming Consumer Reports did have some good amounts of GMOs in virtually all “natural” news: all soy milk tested from Silk, Pacific and products sampled (other than those with non- Soy Dream ended up being non-GMO, even if it GMO or organic claims). On the guilty list: Kashi wasn’t organic and made no GMO-free claims. GoLean hot cereal, Nature Valley granola bars, More comforting results: all the certified organBoca vegan veggie burgers and Pirate’s Booty ic and Non-GMO Project-verified products were white cheddar snacks, a health store brand that as claimed – non-GMO. now offers some items that are Non-GMO ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation Project-verified. Four soy-based infant formulas, Enfamil Get your copy of Adria Vasil’s ProSobee, Gerber Good Start, Similac Isomil and latest book, Ecoholic Body: Your Similac Go & Grow, also came up positive for Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide genetically engineered content. To Living Healthy And Looking Good – in bookstores everywhere! CR limited testing to products with corn and soy, since other common genetically modified

astrology freewill

by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 We all have ad-

dictive and obsessive tendencies. They are fundamental to being human. So the challenge is not to eliminate them – that’s not possible – but rather to harness them. If you hope to keep them from dragging you down, you must work hard to channel them into activities that enhance your life. How are you doing on this score, Aries? Are you chronically dependent on drugs, gambling, sugar or chaotic relationships? Or are you, instead, hooked on the courage you summon when you face your fears and the willpower you invoke as you free yourself from your limitations? Now is an excellent time to upgrade your addictive and obsessive tendencies.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Our planet’s

most abundant mineral is called bridgmanite. It’s an amalgam of iron, magnesium, silicon and oxygen. Until recently, no one had actually seen it because it lies so deep underground it can’t be reached by digging tools. Scientists have only known about it from studying how earthquake waves moved through it. That changed in the last few years, when two mineralogists found bridgmanite in an ancient meteorite. They were able to analyze the nuances of this basic mineral for the first time. I predict a comparable development for you, Taurus. In the coming months, you will become more familiar with a core part of you that has always been a mystery. The revelations may occur with the help of an influence that resembles a meteorite.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Some conspir-

acy theorists are paranoid that aliens or government agencies use radio waves to try to control their minds. They wear tin foil hats to protect themselves from the evil transmissions. But a recent study shows that this protective head gear has an effect that’s opposite to what it’s supposed to. In fact, it actually amplifies the intensity of radio frequencies, making it even more likely that mind-control signals would work their dastardly magic. This problem probably does not apply to you, but I suspect you are suffering from a comparable glitch. An approach you’re pursuing or an attitude you’re cultivating is having an impact contrary to what you imagine. Now is an excellent time to make adjustments.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 I can’t remember

the last time you’ve had as much artistic freedom as you have now. It’s as if life has given you a slew of wild cards and X-factors to play with. You don’t have to answer to the past as much as you usually do. You are less beholden to the demands of duty and the constraints of karma. Here’s the best perk: you have been authorized by both the higher powers and lower powers of the cosmos to fall in love. With whom? With what? Everyone! Everything!

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 For much of its his-

tory, the United States claimed ownership of the ocean within 3 miles of its coasts. That changed in 1988, when the federal government declared that hereafter it would have sovereignty over the ocean as far as 12 miles from land. With that action, American territory increased dramatically. I invite you to consider a comparable expansion in the

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coming months, Leo. Seize more space. Seek further privileges. Ask for a bigger piece of everything.

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Then in 1992, astronomers began to locate planets orbiting other stars. On one spectacular day in February 2014, NASA announced it had identified 715 new planets. I foresee a similar uptick for you in the next seven months, Sagittarius. Your rate of discoveries is about to zoom.

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VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Poland’s most

renowned ghost hunter is frustrated. Having invested a fortune in spectral detection equipment, Piotr Shalkevitz finds that there are fewer and fewer spooks to investigate as the years go by. I’m not qualified to speak about whether or not the whole world is experiencing a decline in the ghost population. But I’m confident that this is exactly what is happening for you Virgos. Recently, the haunted elements of your life have begun to dissipate. And in the next eight months, I expect that you will be freed from most, maybe all, of the ghosts and pesky demons that attached themselves to you once upon a time.

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Lattimer’s 92-year-old father died in 2007, she inherited his large collection of odd relics. It included a cigar smoked by W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo’s driver’s licence, Abraham Lincoln’s shaving mirror, a bearskin coat owned by General George Custer and Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis. Many items turned out to be quite valuable to collectors. One eager bidder offered to buy the famous genitalia for $100,000. I suspect that in the coming months, you will experience events that have some resemblances to this story. For example, the legacy you receive may not be what you expected, but could turn out to be more useful than you imagined.

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Montrealer ditches London to go her own way on debut solo album By SAMANTHA EDWARDS MOZART’S SISTER at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West) as part of The Long Winter on Friday (November 14), 7 pm. Pwyc, advance $11. thegreathall.ca

In just three years, Mozart’s Sister, aka Caila Thompson-Hannant, went from never owning a functional computer to writing her first album on one. “I knew zero about digital technology. I lived in a constant state of thinking that world was so mysterious,” says the Montreal-based electro-pop artist over the phone. There was a steep learning curve, but Thompson-Hannant picked up the music software Ableton and mastered the Nord Lead 2 synthesizer quickly. Soon after, in 2011, she self-released her debut EP, generating a whirlwind of hype that catapulted her from Montreal’s DIY loft scene to 4AD’s recording studios in London – the same label that had already scooped up Grimes and Purity Ring. “It was kind of weird and hard because I got so much momentum, excitement and energy from releasing stuff online,” she says. “Then people start wanting to get involved, and it gets confusing. You’re navigating a lot of different desires, external and internal.” The press and music biz latched on so early in Mozart Sister’s career that Thompson-Hannant was still trying to figure out what kind of music she wanted to make. “There’s so much pressure on artists

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to be a sensation, and not enough credence is given to growth through mistakes, through time, through not taking every opportunity.” Eventually, she left England and her “fancy manager” and moved back to Montreal to work on her LP, opting to write, record and produce everything herself. The result, Being, was two years in the making. It’s a super-slick pop album full of synths, drum samples, loop pedals and Thompson-Hannant’s daring vocals, which are less whimsical than other one-person electronic acts. It’s a huge transformation from her previous indie rock bands, Shapes & Sizes and Think About Life, and even from her first songs as Mozart’s Sister. “I was really interested in the perfect song. How does a really catchy song work from top to bottom,” she says. Now that she’s had one go-round, Thompson-Hannant wants to release her music at a much quicker pace, even if it means every song isn’t a huge hit. In fact, she’s already recorded demos for a new album, many of which appear in her current set. “It’s cool when you listen to the really shitty records of your favourite artists, like Lou Reed, and you’re like, ‘What the fuck was that?’” she says. “It’s part of the process of being creative. When you hold on too tight or want it to be just right, I think it’s bad for the spirit.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Dakota tavern Weather Station. ñThe Drake Hotel Lisa LeBlanc. See album review, page 59. ñ Free times CaFe Channel 88 8 pm.

Grossman’s Fried Angels (blues) 10 pm. HuGH’s room New Orleans Stomp Michael White & Gregg Stafford. 8:30 pm.

lou DawG’s Paige Armstrong, Pat Wright (acoustic blues/funk/soul/jazz). 10 pm.

lula lounGe Changui Havana (salsa/merengue/cumbia), 10:30 pm.

PJ o’Brien irisH PuB The Marc Joseph Band (top 40 covers/country/salsa), 10 pm.

reFerenCe liBrary The Shoeless (folk), lunch-

time concert, 12:10 pm.

tranzaC soutHern Cross The Foolish Things Southern Cross. 5 pm. wHite elePHant Arthur Renwick (blues/ roots/folk jam), 6 to 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

array sPaCe Gerald Barry. 8 pm. Bar raDio Gypsy Rebels (jazz), 10 pm. Gallery 345 Stephen Clarke (solo piano). Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm.

Also: Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. HaBits GastroPuB Chelsea McBride Group (jazz). 9 pm. Hart House U of T Jazz Orchestra 9 pm. Jazz Bistro William Carn Quintet (jazz). koerner Hall Leonidas Kavakos & Yuja Wang (violin, piano) 8 pm.

lawrenCe Park Community CHurCH

Isabelle Demers (organ) 8 pm. lula lounGe World Jazz Fridays Nancy Walker Trio. 7:30 pm. musiDeum Mike Gennaro (avant/improvised). 8 pm. olD mill inn George Koller Quartet 7:30 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet (gypsy bop). tHe rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Lorne Lofsky Quartet 9:45 pm. Also: Chris Gale Four 6:30 pm. toronto Centre For tHe arts Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra 7:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross 416 Improvisers Festival SonoRa, Kyle Brenders Ensemble, Birth Of Troubling Forms, 10 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

3030 DunDas west DJ Fase (hip-hop/funk/ old school), 10 pm.

Bassline musiC Bar Subtle Blend Josh Grant,

Crooklin, Math Rosen, BSMNT (instrumental beats, experimental electronica). 10 pm. Castro’s lounGe DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. tHe Cave Bif Bang Pow (60s mod Brit pop). DJ Trevor. CoDa Bob Moses, Members Only, Night Vision, Koki 10 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul). 10 pm. Holy oak CaFe Go Easy With Me: Unearthed Cassettes (DJ/world), 10 pm. luxy niGHtCluB Alkaline, Spex, Infamous Sound, Street Team, Mon A Gallis, DJ John J, Lexus Supreme, Ill Kidz. reD niGHtCluB Hernan Cattaneo 10 pm. rivoli DJ Stu (rock & roll). tHe steaDy CaFe & Bar PASSAGES Stuart, Leanne, Pursuit Grooves 10 pm.

Saturday, November 15 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

3030 DunDas west Run with the Kittens,

Dany Laj & the Looks, Wax Mannequin 10 pm. alleyCatz Lady Kane (rock) 9:30 pm. Beit zatoun Syndicate Fest: 14 Next-level bands in one day. Bufflo, Elos Arma, Falcon Punch, Gnarwhal, Junior Bob, Names, Oshwa, Hit Home, Pisces at the Animal Fair, Quaaludes, Ryan Power and others, 4 pm. tHe Cave Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk, Fitness Club Fiasco (indie pop). Cavern Bar Over EZ, Alma Cassels, Coldlion, Poppy Miers w/ Don Armstrong Kennedy doors 9 pm. tHe DanFortH musiC Hall Jingle Bell Concert Series Mother Mother, the Beaches, Bestie. 8 pm, all ages.

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Double Double lanD The Space Lady, Didur, New Chance, Body Interface ñCarl DJs 9:30 pm. See preview, page 54. Dora Keogh Baltic Avenue (pop/rock). DraKe hotel Gingger Shankar doors 8 pm. Drums n Flats Indie Night Edgewater Hotel.

9 pm.

Sluts On 45 (rock),doors 9:30 pm. the rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rivoli Lipstick Junkies, Fade Chromatic, Convoys, 1951 doors 9 pm. silver Dollar Look Vibrant, Wax Atlantic, The Cautioneers, Bedsheets doors 9 pm. the sister The International Pop Overthrow Sister Hyde, Broomfiller, Clockwise, Terry Draper, Ray Paul, Dewey Truman, James Clark Institute, Blair Packham 8 pm. smiling buDDha Howie Sutherland & the Indigos, the Autumn Portrait, Cyprian doors 9 pm. sounD acaDemy Remember De Bacchanal: Soca Of De 90s Jester, DJ Chief, D’Bandit, Eman. southsiDe Johnny’s The Bear Band (rock/ blues). 4 to 8 pm. virgin mobile moD club Concert and video shoot KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, D-Sisive, DJ Kenny Bounce, 10 pm.

lucK bar Raven, Night Demon 9 pm. ñharD horseshoe Taste Of Iceland: Reykjavik Calling Retro Stefson, LYON, Hermigerñ vill, Young Karin, Uni Stefson 9 pm. ñ lee’s Palace PUP, Indian Handcrafts, Life in Vacuum doors 9 pm. ñ linsmore tavern Gunslingers (Gunz N Roses

tribute). local Alistair Christl (rockabilly) 9 pm. may caFe The Barbarian Kegger Fundraiser for the Northern Ontario Permaculture Enthusiast Society Protokult, Into Oblivion, DJ Wurm (rock). orbit room 20th Anniversary Ride the Tiger & Soul Stew. Press club Anna Cyzon, the Corner, the Commoners (indie rock/pop) doors 9:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

aga Khan museum Autorickshaw 8 pm. bar raDio Jeff Oussoren (roots) 4-7 pm. bloor street uniteD church iFandango, So-

nata, Bolero! Luisa Morales, Cristobal Salvador, Alison Melville. 8 pm. cameron house Ollie Vee, Whitney Rose, Grier Coppins, Sue & Dwight 3 pm. Also: The Stereo Division album release in the Backroom.

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the sPace laDy, with carl DiDur, neW chance, boDy interFace DJs at Double Double Land (209 Augusta), Saturday (November 15), 9:30 pm. $13 advance. RT, SS.

In the five years since it opened, Kensington Market DIY event space Double Double Land has hosted lots of quirky performances, from avant-garde noise rock to trippy cosmic disco. But the headlining artist for the third night of their anniversary celebrations this weekend might be their most delightfully offbeat guest yet. If you spent much time in San Francisco in the 70s and 80s, you might have stumbled across a street performer known as the Space Lady wearing a winged helmet and playing otherworldly echo-drenched Casio keyboard covers of classic rock songs like Born To Be Wild and The Ballroom Blitz. For about 20 years, Susan Dietrich Schneider supported her three children and husband by busking – staying off the grid to protect her husband, who’d dodged the Vietnam War. She’d long since retired from performing when, in 2001, aficionados of outsider music rediscovered some of her wonderfully weird old recordings, leading to an unexpected revival of her Space Lady persona and her first-ever club tour last year. “I was pretty terrified, but it turned out to be a lot easier than I’d feared,” says Schneider of her first appearances on actual stages. “People were so encouraging and enthusiastic, and I could see that my music means something to them above and be-

yond anything I ever expected. They went out of their way to make me feel comfortable and appreciated.” She now enjoys a dedicated cult following, but her busking days were mostly spent in obscurity. “I rarely drew a crowd. The respect and acknowledgement I’m getting now is so gratifying after all those years of playing to what seemed like deaf ears,” she says. Even after her reissued recordings started generating fan mail, Schneider felt too shy to return to performing. It wasn’t until her second husband, Eric Schneider, discovered the emails and found out about her secret past that he convinced her to get her old Casio keyboard and effect pedals out of the garage. “He was astounded. He’d never seen me come to life like that,” she says. “He made me sit down in front of the computer and write emails to all the fans who’d written, and sent out an announcement that the Space Lady was back.” 3 benjaminb@ nowtoronto.com

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Bold As Love’s MO is bringing together PoC and indigenous artists. Why is that important to you? Jamaias Da Costa, poet/journalist: We share a similar experience of being underrepresented in the mainstream. Whether at festivals, concert series or other events, PoC and indigenous artists are often tokenized. We want to forge conversations between indigenous artists and other artists of colour – as well as our audiences. Everyone is welcome, of course, but there are specific experiences that indigenous and PoC artists can speak to. How are the six events different from each other? Rosina Kazi, Lal musician: Each is unique and showcases the diversity within our own

scenes. We present both emerging and established acts. Each [show] pairs artists who complement each other yet bring something new to the stage. For example, we have musician Lido Pimienta, DJ Shub (formerly of A Tribe Called Red), spoken word artist Taqralik Partridge and indigenous audio-visual collective Skookum Sound System in the upcoming weeks. Elwood Jimmy, arts administrator/curator: The work we present is diverse in content and form, incorporating elements of spoken word, hip-hop, classical, electronic and throat-singing, as well as work in different indigenous languages. You seem to be filling a niche not many have tapped into yet. Da Costa: It probably has been done before, just not in this way. There’s more awareness of issues that surround First Nations, communities of colour, queer and “marginalized” people. What’s amazing about Bold As Love is that it’s attempting to connect and bridge these communities and build trust through music and art, and we can do this because we represent the different communities we are trying to bring together. Has the recent success of acts like A Tribe Called Red and Tanya Tagaq changed the way we’re viewing indigenous artists? Cris Derksen, cellist/composer: Both artists have been around for years, so indigenous communities and some other folks who love music have been down for a long time. Maybe it’s changed the way non-indigenous artists see indigenous artists, but this is a movement that’s been building, and everyone else is finally catching up! Saturday’s event features Moe Clark and Lal. How do these two artists jive together? Melody McKiver, composer/arts curator: Both convey a special intimacy and consciousness. Audiences may know Moe Clark as a solo, loop-based spoken word performer, but her new release, Within, features a Montreal jazz trio who draw on soul and funk. It counterpoints Lal’s electronic music, but the underlying pulse of both is completely complementary. Bold As Love presents: Lal Sweet 16th Anniversary with guest Moe Clark, Saturday (November 15) at the Gladstone (1214 Queen West), 9:30 pm. $8-$12. JULIA LeCONTE

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Gate 403 Brown-Talsky Jazz Quintet 9 pm. Grossman’s Celebration Of Jude Hession’s

Life 4:30 pm. New Orleans Connection (allstar jazz band) 4:30-9 pm. Jazz Bistro Dream A Little Dream Cabaret Alexis Gordon, Andres Sierra, Marcus Nance and Tara Litvack. 2 pm. Kristina Nojd (jazz). 7 pm. Koerner Hall Richard Goode (piano) 3 pm. local Gest Sunday Jazz Faith Amour Trio, 4:30 pm. morGans on tHe DanfortH Jazzy Sunday Ros Kindler w/ Mark Kieswetter & Ross NacIntyre, 2 to 5 pm. music Gallery Generation 2014 L’Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal, 8 pm. tHe rex Beverly Taft Quartet 9:30 pm. Also: Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm. Bugaloo Squad (music of Donny Hathaway) 7 pm. Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. st micHael anD all anGels cHurcH Wind Song The Wychwood Clarinet Choir, 3:30 pm.

Tuesday, November 18

suPermarKet Manitoba Music The Slow Glories, Slow Leaves, Mise en Scene, 9 pm.

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Pascoe 8:30 pm. Backroom. Sinners Choir 10 pm, Slocan Ramblers 6 to 8 pm. cluB 120 Open Mic/Stage Diner. 9 pm. tHe DuKe liVe.com Open Jam Frank Wilks. 8:30 pm. first canaDian Place Veinte Años Adonis Puentes and Pancho Amat (Cuban), 12:15 pm. free times cafe Best Of The Open Stage Steve Raiken, Richard Seto, Bobby Houston, Emily Doffin, Samir Hossan (songwriters). 8 pm.

Hoeppner and Beverley Johnston (flute & percussion), noon to 1 pm. Gate 403 Laura Marks Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. Jazz Bistro Jazz Jam & Fundraising 40th Birthday Bash Musicounts benefit. Louisa LaBarbera, Chris Gale, Amanda Tosoff, Jeff Halischuk, Brendan Davis and others. musiDeum Barbara Croall (Aboriginal original works, flute, piano). 8 pm.

cameron House Signe Miranda’s Veranda &

castro’s lounGe Lily Frost (swingabilly) 8 come anD Get it restaurant Undrcovr tHe DanfortH music Hall Damien

Rice doors 7 pm. See album review, page 59. DraKe Hotel D.D Dumbo doors 8 pm. tHe Garrison High Ends doors 8 pm. See album review, page 59. Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

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cameron House Suzanne Jarvie (rock/bluegrass/country), CD release, 8 pm. castro’s lounGe The Cosmotones (old school rockabilly). 6 pm. tHe central Greg Rukus, Chuck Coles, Jenn Fiorentino 8:30 pm. DraKe Hotel Tei Shi doors 8 pm. tHe Garrison Team Spirit, Sam Coffey & the Iron Lungs doors 8 pm. Grossman’s No Band Required 10 pm. HuGH’s room 50+ Poems For Gordon Lightfoot: A Literary And Musical Celebration Jory Nash and others, 9 pm. orBit room Jordan John (blues/R&B/funk). Bob Dylan & His Band doors 7 pm. ñ VirGin moBile moD cluB NextStage Concert Series USS, 7 pm.

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NNNN ñTHEOPHILUS LONDON

Vibes! (Warner Bros) Rating: The stylistically varied second full-length from New York artist Theophilus London does have one common thread running through it: it’s fucking fun. Just try not to dance to the rubbery, tribal electro beats of Tribe, or vogue to the Madonnameets-British new wave steeze of Neu Law or chuckle at the very cheeky, very sexy Do Girls – where, over an urgent, seductively sinister beat, London posits himself as a sex god capable of swaying someone’s orientation. He’s often described as a “hip-hop artist,” but London actually speak-sings rather than raps, and Vibes! is a disco-dappled, funk-fuelled electro-pop record. Each successive track brings a new and increasingly surprising 80s or 90s influence: Take And Look recalls Let’s Dance-era Bowie, Need Somebody falls somewhere between Prince and Lionel Ritchie, and Figure It Out shines with Boyz II Men vocals, owing its synth-funk bass line and throwback R&B groove to producer Leon Ware and Dev Hynes’s dreamy falsetto respectively. People will argue that all the influences distract from London himself, but with an album this good, it’s hard to care. The highlight is the sentimental, Yeezus-worthy Can’t Stop featuring Kanye, who’s also the album’s executive producer. The slow, harmonized hook about growing old with your love will lodge itself in your head (and heart). Top track: Can’t Stop feat. Kanye West JULIA LeCONTE

Hip-hop

JUNIA-T Eye See You (independent)

Rating: NNN The most telling lyric on Junia-T’s ambitious 15-track solo debut is nestled in the hook of Too Smoove, where he boasts about being an “old soul living in this new school.” On Eye See You, the producer/ emcee comes across as a humble aficionado of hip-hop’s jazz- and soul-obsessed 1990s, with a clear love for the gritty, infectious work of the Native Tongues collective and Wu-Tang Clan. Delivered in his laid-back flow and edgy tone, Junia-T’s lyrics are world-weary; his is a daily grind, and he raps about working hard. Occasionally he steps back, handing the mic off to an array of MCs and singers, but the results are uneven. He belongs in the spotlight. Eye See You is full of pent-up tension. For the most part, Junia-T presents himself as a chill dude, but when he excitedly goes in behind one of his layered, inspired beats, that’s where he’s meant to be. Top track: The Day Junia-T plays the Drake Hotel December 18. VISH KHANNA MIGOS Rich Nigga Timeline (Quality Control/Atlantic) Rating: NNN Atlanta trio Migos rap with warp-speed precision. You imagine three guys in the studio riffing off and one-upping one another with head-spinning verse after head-spinning verse. Their penchant for rhyming in triplets has drawn comparisons to the fast, verbose flows of 90s rap duo Das EFX and trap rapper Gucci Mane, and their style falls somewhere in between. While Migos are best known for the club hit Versace, they spend much of Rich Nigga Timeline describing how the spoils of their mainstream notoriety are the result of time spent on the margins of society. The 18-track mixtape conveys their incredulity – bluntly articulated on Can’t Believe It – at being alive, much less mak-

ing a living from music. What rescues it from utter bleakness is a palpable sense that Migos are having fun. There’s a zany energy to their ad libs and the multiple ways they rhyme – “bachelors” with “spatulas,” for example. However, the mixtape’s lengthy runtime means it gets bogged down in one-dimensional songs about women, covering the same ground over and over again. Top track: Hit ’Em KEVIN RITCHIE

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ARIEL PINK pom pom (4AD) Rating: NNN In a recent interview with Pitchfork, Ariel Pink expressed his admiration for the thoroughly vile Westboro Baptist Church – the group that pickets soldier funerals and struts around with “God hates gays” signs. He finds the knee-jerk liberal reaction to them amusing because “they’re just exercising their free speech.” On his latest album, pom pom, the L.A.based musician exercises that contrarian nature as well as his own free expression,

making music that’s taxing on the ears to the point of unlistenable one moment and genius-level catchy the next. He stays true to his reputation for unconstrained madness: songs traverse such settings as Jewish weddings before abruptly moving to Teletubbies-like scenes (Dinosaur Carebears), a travelling children’s freak show (Plastic Raincoats In The Pig Parade) and fuzzy punk nightclubs (Goth Bomb). Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Pink gets sentimental in the straightforward gem Picture Me Gone, an emotional tune with an 80s synth riff and melodic vocals. It’s a refreshing change of pace for a guy who seems like he’s always trolling us, itching to get under our skin. Top track: Picture Me Gone SAMANTHA EDWARDS

HIGH ENDS Super Class (Dine Alone) Rating: NNN Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde specialize in good-time, groove-filled rock and roll. Frontman Jeffrey Innes takes things in a different direction on his solo debut; it’s more electronic (that’s almost always the case with rock bands’ solo projects, eh?), with textured ambience and nods to both lush orchestral pop and more minimalist early 80s synth pop. Still intact are the big melodies and layered backup vocals, and Innes’s clear, inviting voice sounds better than ever. There’s a soothing tone throughout, and things never get hectic or harsh. The lyrics sidestep navel-gazing and suffering-in-love perspectives, staying optimistic instead. Case in point: I’m Gonna Keep On Dancing, in which “no love can get me down.” It also has a vaguely Trust sound, minus the gothic tendencies. The downtempo mood prevents the album from grabbing your attention or making your pulse race, but the songs are too well written and executed for it to ever fade completely into the background. Top track: I’m Gonna Keep On Dancing High Ends play the Garrison on Tuesday (November 18). CARLA GILLIS DAMIEN RICE My Favourite Faded Fantasy (Warner) Rating: NN It’s been 12 years since Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice’s outstanding record O, and eight since his also great follow-up. Given the buildup, we were yearning for something either equally good or at least notably different. There are familiar things here: Rice’s delicate, whispery vocals; songs that get angrier as they go along and orchestrally swell toward the finish line. But while My Favourite Faded Fantasy uses some of the same ingredients, the results aren’t as compelling. Where O was direct, raw and sober – cold and real in its confessional heartbreak – MFFF is aimlessly wistful and therefore more difficult to connect with. It doesn’t help that half the songs are over six minutes long, and the shortest is four and a half. String arrangements, like on The Greatest Bastard, are sometimes overly dramatic and don’t match the romantic-but-hapless-fuckup lyrics. There’s nothing outwardly unpleasant, though. The title track is catchy in a recent Coldplay kinda way, and Colour Me In is this

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They Promised You Mercy (Six Shooter) Rating: It might be time to crown St. John’s-based Amelia Curran Canada’s queen of melancholy folk-rock. They Promised You Mercy – the Juno-winning songwriter’s seventh album – is more driving and rhythmbased than its predecessors; opener Somebody Somewhere even hints at Graceland with its na-na-na-na-nas, hooks and grooves. (Props to rhythm section Joshua Van Tassel on drums and Devon Henderson on bass.) The arrangements are impressively articulated (Bryden Baird returns on horns, Drew Jurecka on strings), but Curran’s appeal lies in the strong yet wearied and frail resonance of her vocals, her tendency to drop literary references (Faulkner, Hardy), the subtly layered backup vocs and her ability to pen perfect little songs – Time, Time for example. I generally don’t agree with the assertion that Curran is our next Leonard Cohen, but there are hints of his legacy on The Matador. Top track: Time, Time Amelia Curran plays Harbourfront Centre November 22. SARAH GREENE

Highways, Heartaches And Time Well Wasted is Lisa LeBlanc’s calling card to the English-Canadian folk scene. And with help from producer Emmanuel Ethier, the young Acadian banjo slinger has found a new depth of sound to match her booming voice. The Montreal-based songwriter (whose 2012 self-titled francophone debut went platinum) goes country-noir on reluctant love song You Look Like Trouble (But I

Guess I Do Too) and Gold Diggin’ Hoedown, which runs at the clip of bluegrass but packs the racket of punk. Most haunting is LeBlanc’s take on traditional folk song Katie Cruel (popularized by Karen Dalton), while most subtly interesting is her writing on The Waiting List, featuring a cameo on slide guitar by Brad Barr. The only misstep on the short EP (which clocks in under 18 minutes, including the instrumental western title track) is the final song, Race Track, which rocks but sounds unfinished. LISA LEBLANC Highways, Top track: Katie Cruel Heartaches And Time Well Wasted Lisa LeBlanc plays2014-11-06 the Drake Undergrond RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Nov13_Church.qxp__V 6:42 PM Page 1 (Bonsound) Rating: NNNN Friday (November 14). SG

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Arcadia aced ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard (Shaw Festival/Mirvish). At the Royal Alexandra (260 King West). Runs to December 14. $25-$99. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. See Continuing, page 63. Rating: NNNN

If you like to exercise your mind at the theatre and not merely be entertained, you won’t find a better show than Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, a 2013 Shaw Festival production that’s part of the Mirvish season. Stoppard sets his cleverly plotted narrative in two time periods in the same English country estate. In the early 1800s, Septimus Hodge (Gray Powell) tutors the precocious Thomasina Coverly (Kate Besworth) and has sometimes angry words with minor poet Ezra Chater (Andrew Bunker). The imperious Lady Croom (Nicole Underhay) argues with Richard Noakes (Ric Reid), who intends to turn her English garden into a picturesque Italian one.

In the 1990s, writer Hannah Jarvis (Diana Donnelly) pursues the history of a mysterious hermit who lived on the estate centuries earlier, while smug, self-centred academic Bernard Nightingale (Patrick McManus) tries to prove that Lord Byron was involved in a deadly duel there in the same period. Each story feeds the other, Stoppard offering tantalizing bits of information that fill in the plot, occasionally providing red herrings as well. Though the first scene’s tempos are sometimes off and could be more focused, director Eda Holmes’s production is a model of clarity in terms of the various topics and plot lines. Besworth is a curious, charming, determined Thomasina, whether she’s wondering about the meaning of carnal embrace or trying

to prove a mathematical formula, and Powell’s subtly seductive tutor clearly pulls in every female in the house. Underhay’s pert smile doesn’t cover her demanding, jealous nature, while Bunker’s versifier is a comic dunce more concerned with flattery than with his wife’s reputation. Some of the best scenes involve Donnelly and McManus, who set off dramatic sparks whenever they go at each other in rat-a-tat dialogue. Complementing their work is that of Harveen Sandhu as a young 20th century Coverly who’s as excitable as the 19th century Thomasina, and Martin Happer, a cool statistician who, like his ancestor, plays with equations. Smart, surprising and cleverly

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How good is ARC’s site-specific production of Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan’s Moment? When, during the gripping climax to the first act, an actor barfed – in character – and some landed on my shoes and pants, I barely blinked. Sure, the actor, Deborah Drakeford, could improve her projectile vomit aim. But it was dramatically appropriate. And I doubt it was payback for a bad review. As always, she’s riveting. Drakeford plays Teresa Lynch, the highly strung Dublin matriarch of a family that’s still recovering from a tragedy that occurred more than a decade earlier. During one day, her three children visit: writer Niamh (Janet Porter), who’s still bitter over something; regular caretaker Ciara (Aviva Armour-Ostroff), who arrives with her good-natured husband, Dave (Andre Sills); and finally artist Nial (Ryan Hollyman), the black sheep who’s making a rare appearance with a girlfriend (Bahareh Yaraghi) en route to a gallery in Spain. Before nightfall, drinks will be

drunk, voices will be raised and secrets will come spurting out like... well, you get the picture. It’s a sharply observed domestic drama with a touch of the ghost story. What director Christopher Stanton does with it is miraculous. The small audience (maximum 30) sits near and around a rectangular dining room table where most of the action happens, the better to see the family members’ reactions. The actors are so convincing in recreating the rhythms of real speech that you’ll swear you’re eavesdropping on actual conversations. Porter is harrowing, though she reveals her character’s discomfort a little too strongly off the top; Armour-Ostroff’s changes feel real – especially when a bombshell is dropped in the second act; Hollyman nails a difficult monologue; and Drakeford is intensely watchable as the nervous, quivering mom. Rumblings in the sound design (also by Stanton) and subtle shifts in Nick Blais’s lighting snap us in and out of reality effectively. Even the intermission space – in the basement – is used with imagination. But like the Lynch family at the start of the show, I’m loathe to reveal surprises. Having also helmed the memorable Laws Of Motion, Stanton is emerging as one of the indie scene’s most inGLENN SUMI triguing directors.

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Like that kid in The Sixth Sense, if you travel to Spoon River, you’re sure to see dead people. Based on a collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters, the rich Soulpepper production is entertaining and moving in equal measure. It becomes a celebration of life and death and how the two interact with each other as the residents of a graveyard deliver their histories and wisdom to “passersby” (the audience). After we’re led into the graveyard, the only living person we see is a speaker (Diego Matamoros) at the funeral of young Bertie Hume (Hailey Gillis). What follows are some 50 short speeches and songs by the deceased, moments filled alternately with humour, irony, bitterness, hope, jealousy and ultimately a sense of the wonder of creation that can’t be realized while we are able to breathe. Adapted by composer/arranger/ actor Mike Ross and director Albert Schultz, the show blends several gen-

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Male & Female Singers: Seeking strong, dynamic, contemporary, pop/rock singers with high belts between 22-30 yrs. for lead and ensemble roles. Any race. Boys: Seeking 9 – 13 year old boys, good pop/music theatre tenor singers to play two featured roles. Young Lola is a black actor and Young Charlie is a Caucasian actor. MP3 to Young Lola and Young Charlie’s songs is below. Be sure to look at “YOUNG” http://telseyandcompany. auditionservices.com/KINKYauditions When: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014. Sign in begins at 9:30 am and ends at 12 noon. Singing begins ASAP and everyone will be seen. Where: Estonian House. 958 Broadview Ave., Toronto, ON. Please enter through the side doors to sign in.

Ballet of Canada). Runs to November 16 at the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). $26-$249. 416-345-9595. See listings, page 63. Rating: NNN

Ballet does elegance and noble romance well, but scenes of smouldering sensuality and lusty passion are often better expressed in contemporary dance works. An exception is Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 take on Manon, that once controversial story about greed, sex and murder that inspired two wellknown operas. I have fond memories of the Nation al Ballet of Canada’s production (it premiered here in 1996), which I recall as a fascinating mix of classical technique and smoking-hot modern sensibility, shot through with psychological complexity.

Mike Ross and Hailey Gillis (front) serve up moments of simple eloquence in Spoon River.

erations of actors: senior Soulpepper members (among them Nancy Palk, Stuart Hughes and Oliver Dennis), some former Academy members (Gregory Prest and Raquel Duffy) and the current talented Academy. While not every number succeeds, you’ll lose count of the many magical moments. In one series of episodes, Hughes plays a now aged seducer whose women offer tales of their encounters with him; in another series, successive spouses, caught against the walls of pine boxes, describe their happiness or woe. The mayor (Brendan Wall) prides himself on cleaning up the town’s morals but complains about a couple

who fool around on his grave. Miranda Mulholland’s violin solo about a woman who reveals the secrets of the natural world but not her own mystery is also memorable. Gillis is another standout, her haunting, ethereal performance giving just the right touch of simple emotional eloquence near the end. Ross’s music – a blend of reels, slow waltzes, honky-tonk numbers and ebullient toe-tapping dance songs, played and sung by the large company – is a treat, too. Be sure to check the photos on the walls and various characters in the preshow, during which you travel an unJON KAPLAN usual path to your seat.

Alas, I was unmoved by the current remount and its opening night leads, Sonia Rodriguez and Guillaume Côté, who remained cool and detached, approaching their many pas de deux with a calculated air and disappointing lack of chemistry. Granted, in this staging by Patricia Ruanne, Karl Burnett and Anthony Dowell, the storytelling isn’t the clearest. We never get a good sense of Manon’s motivations. She’s basically pimped out to the wealthy Monsieur Guillot de Morfontaine (Rex Harring ton) by her brother, Lescaut (Francesco Gabriele Frola), even though she’s in love with young student des Grieux (Côté). The central romance never feels convincing, and neither Rodriguez nor Côté – perfectly capable dancers – is able to take MacMillan’s steps and create a compelling character from them. Frola, a talented member of the

corps, understands Lescaut’s slippery, slimy nature and communicates that whenever he appears. Harrington, too, is excellent, especially in the production’s strongest scene, a trio in which his Guillot is trying to dance with Manon while she’s being manipulated by her brother. Svetlana Lunkina also stands out as Lescaut’s seductive mistress. The ensemble scenes are good but occasionally feel over-long. And the orchestra plays the mishmash of Masse net melodies with a passion that’s often lacking onstage. The tragic final act encapsulates what’s missing from this Manon. There’s lots of sturm und drang in the music, some violence that hits a little too close given recent news stories, and a couple of scenes that should be heartbreaking. I admired the dancing, but wanted Manon to meet her maker quicker.

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New this week a Wake For LosT Time ([elephants] collective).

This 24-hour durational performance looks at the nature of time. Nov 15-16, Sat 6:31 pm to Sun 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Hub 14, 14 Markham Street. hub14.org. boxes buried deep by Sage Tyrtle (Convection Productions). Tyrtle performs her solo show of fairy tales based on her life. Nov 14-16, Fri-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 4 pm. $15, stu $10. Videofag, 187 Augusta. tyrtle.com/boxes. burYinG Toni by Catherine Frid (Alumnae Fireworks Festival). Emma Jung grapples with her history, real and imagined, after 50 years of marriage to psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Nov 29, runs in rep w/ You Have To Earn It; see website for schedule. $15, Sun mat pwyc, festival pass $25. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. alumnaetheatre.com. buYer & CeLLar by Jonathan Tolins (Mirvish). An underemployed Los Angeles actor goes to work in Barbra Streisand’s basement (see Q&A, page 64). Nov 13-30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. CYrano de berGeraC by Edmond Rostand (Amicus Productions). An eloquent but largenosed man tells his handsome friend what to say to woo a young woman. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Nov 22, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 16 and 22 at 2 pm. $22, stu/srs $20. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. amicusproductions.ca. FuLGens and LuCres by Henry Medwall (Poculi Ludique Societas). Two men woo a Roman senator’s daughter in this 15th-century play. Nov 14-16, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $10-$20. Luella Massey Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. 416-978-7986, plspls.ca. human FurniTure by Claire Burns (Red One Theatre Collective/Triangle Pi Productions). A kinky tryst is threatened by an unexpected

guest and a nosy neighbour. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Nov 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. insaTiabLe sisTers (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). New performance works that celebrate queer womyn and trans* folks feature Fly Ladi Di & Katy Sly, Body Waves, Beany John and others. Nov 14 at 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. maCbeTh by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare BASH’d). The company presents its text-based, bare-bones approach to the Bard’s classic tragedy. Opens Nov 18 and runs to Nov 23, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. 416531-5833, shakespearebashd.com. The masseY murder by Charlotte Gray (Theatre Erindale). A maid kills her wealthy boss in this historical play. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Nov 23, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm (and Nov 23). $18, stu/srs $12. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905569-4369, theatreerindale.com. meTropoLiTan operas by Joe Pintauro (Witchboy Theatre). Short plays featuring prostitutes and priests, chauffeurs and film stars, set in the gritty 80s of New York City. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Nov29, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. witchboytheatre.com. pauLo and daphne by Ned Dickens (Theatreworks Productions). A contemporary take on Ovid’s story of Apollo and Daphne looks at breaking the ties that bind, atonement and transformation. Previews Nov 19. Opens Nov 20 and runs to Dec 7, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20-$25, stu $12.50, Tue pwyc. Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. theatreworksproductions.com. peeLer’s paLaCe (Dolly Berlin). This burlesque revue features Agatha Frisky, Tanya Cheex, Percy Katt, headliner Roxi D’Lite and others. Nov 16 at 8 pm (doors 7 pm). $20-$50. Revival, 783 College. peelerspalace.eventbrite.com. pLaY readinG Week (Tarragon Theatre). Plays in development by Fabrizio Filippo, Rachel Blair, Anna Chatterton, Marie-Beath Badian, Evan Webber, Kat Sandler and others get staged readings. Nov 18-22 and Nov 2629 at 8 pm. Free. 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. sesame sTreeT Live: LeT’s danCe (VEE Corp/ Sesame Workshop). Theatrical dance party with Elmo and Ernie. Nov 15-16 10:30 am & 2 pm. $47-$107.25. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. spin by Evalyn Parry (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre/OutSpoke Productions). Music, narration and projections are used to portray the bicycle as an instrument of social change. Opens Nov 19 and runs to Nov 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$37, Sun pwyc at the door. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

and a wacky mail room clerk are part of this homage to screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s. Opens Nov 13 and runs to Nov 29, runs in rep w/ Burying Toni; see website for schedule. $15, Sun mat pwyc, pass $25. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. alumnaetheatre.com.

Continuing by Tom Stoppard (Mirvish/ Shaw Festival). Scholars living at an ñarCadia English country house learn about the

people who lived there in 1809 (see review, page 60). 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. nnnn (JK)

The aTheisT by Ronan Noone (Persona Interonto). A journalist who lost his faith casts his conscience aside to climb the professional ladder. To Nov 15, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. brownpapertickets.com. avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. To Dec 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. The bakeLiTe masTerpieCe by Kate Cayley (Tarragon Theatre). A forger in postwar Amsterdam who sold a Vermeer to the Nazis faces a death sentence unless he

can prove he painted the work himself. When his judge, an art historian, becomes the subject of his next picture, they both must deal with issues of guilt, mercy and forgiveness in this subtle, finely acted drama. To Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $15. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnnn (JK) The book oF mormon by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone (Mirvish). Two naive missionaries go to a volatile region in Uganda in this religious satire musical. 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. mirvish.com. CabareT by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and

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TapesTrY brieFs: boosTer shoTs (Tapestry New Opera). Short creations by ñ librettist/composer combos are performed featuring playwrights Morris Panych and James Rolfe, composer Dean Burry and others. Nov 13-16, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $35. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, #316. tapestryopera.com. You have To earn iT by Ramona Baillie and Maria Popoff (Alumnae Fireworks Festival). A philandering boss, a scheming new employee

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dance, film, comedy and interdisciplinary performances connected by themes of love, death, passion and the avant-garde. Nov 14 at 7:30 pm. $12-$15, stu $10. Round Venue 152A Augusta. roundvenue.com. Gimme one riddim (Jasmyn Fyffe/Natasha Powell) A dance-theatre production about the emergence of ska music in Jamaica. Nov 13 at 8 pm. $44-$49, stu $10. Flato Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469, markhamtheatre.ca. knees and Toes/nYs and Tos (TOES for dance/mindyourmind). Contemporary dance artists from New York City and Toronto perform. Nov 15-16, Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm. $15-$25. Betty Oliphant Theatre 404 Jarvis.

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manon (The National Ballet of Canada). Choreography by Sir Kenneth MacMillan based on a novel about a Parisian courtesan (see review, page 62). Nov 8-16, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm (and Nov 13 and 15). $26$249. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national. ballet.ca. nnn (GS) The roGue shoW: a TanGenTe (Kaeja d’Dance/ Vertical City Performance). Allen Kaeja performs a solo exploration of individuality and defiance, but also of the unshakeable bonds of family and culture. Nov 8-16, Sat-Sun 4:19 pm. $50. Dovercourt House 805 Dovercourt. 416535-3847, kaeja.org/creations/the-rogueshow. 3

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Fred Ebb (Curtain Call Players). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. To Nov 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. 416395-5750, curtaincallplayers.com. CIrCLe JerK by Justin Haigh, Scott Dermody, Brandon Crone and Wesley J Colford (Soup Can Theatre/safeword/Aim for the Tangent Theatre). Four playwrights present new works in which bits of dialogue submitted by the public were used as the opening and closing lines of their new creations. To Nov 23, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $15-$24. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina (lower unit). soupcantheatre.com.

Actor, Buyer & Cellar One of the cleverest recent offBroadway hits is coming our way. Jonathan Tollins’s Buyer & Cellar is a solo show about an underemployed actor who takes a job working in a basement shopping mall in Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home. Inspired by a small item in La Streisand’s book on design, the show is a great vehicle for an actor – and a hoot even for non-Babs fans. Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie played the role for over a year, and now Christopher J. Hanke, who was a villain to Daniel Radcliffe’s lead in the recent Broadway revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, takes over the Toronto leg of the tour. See listings, page 63. Would you ever do what your Buyer & Cellar character, Alex, does – i.e., work alone in a shopping mall beneath Barbra Streisand’s home? Only if there was a food court. You took over off-Broadway from Michael Urie, who’d been with the show for a long time. Was there a batonpassing moment? No baton, but there was a passing of Barbra’s book, My Passion For Design, from Urie to me onstage at the Barrow Street Theatre in NYC. There is a pic online somewhere of us being silly with that moment. Apparently you both played the same part in the How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying revival. Coincidence?

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Total coincidence. We’re both young comedic actors who love playing buffoons onstage. Now we joke about getting the same agent and saving on commissions. How To Succeed starred Daniel Radcliffe. Best DanRad story? I love that kid, plain and simple. His eyes tell it all – charm, openness, professionalism, sparkle. I loved playing opposite him. And he didn’t miss one show in our entire year. He’s oldschool. Like, Chita Rivera old-school. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much of a Streisand fan were you before getting the part? I would say a 1. I had to Google her to find out what she’d done. And after? I’m obsessed with the early Barbra. Those first 10 years of her career? Genius. I don’t think Streisand’s seen the show. But if you heard 30 minutes before showtime that she was coming…?

tions). A young man questions the existence of the afterlife after his dog dies. To Nov 15, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15. The Space, 250 Augusta. echoproductions.ca. evItA by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Lower Ossington Theatre). Eva Duarte rises from poverty to become the president’s wife in this musical. To Nov 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.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 top clothing maker in Norway. To Nov 16, Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Thu 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $40-$50.

I would find the nearest bottle of Sauvignon Blanc and down it. Or take one of those “aspirins” my mother’s so fond of…. Tips for surviving doing a one-person show eight times a week? Sauvignon Blanc and aspirin. Go-to cabaret number? I Want To Be A Rockette. You played Tommy Boatwright in Arena Stage’s Normal Heart, another high-profile gay-themed show. How inspiring was that? This play changed my life. I am so happy it had its much-deserved (finally!) Broadway run a few years ago: to inspire others, inform young people of our history and get the attention of HBO to make the recent film version that reached millions! You recently tweeted that you’re going to be in the TV series Nashville. Will audiences love you or hate you? Neither. I probably won’t survive the gLenn sumI editing room.

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Thursday, November 13 AAron Berg Stand-up show. To Nov 16, Wed-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. ñ $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Just For LAughs Comedy tour Standup by Gabriel Iglesias, Martin Moreno, ñ Godfrey and Dom Irrera. To Nov 14, Thu-Fri

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7:30 pm. $35.50-$59.50. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com. KItCh Komedy Weekly pro/am show hosted by Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. 647-350-4555, kitchbar.com. LAugh sABBAth Darryl Orr, Mark Forward, Chris Wilson, Kathleen Phillips, host James Hartnett and others. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. mIKe storCK Headliner Storck performs with Noor Kidwai and host Darryl Purvis. To Nov 16, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. muLLet’s nIght show Jean-Paul Mullet presents a comedy variety show w/ Robin Archer, Britton Vincent, Teige Reid, Duo Dad, Money Fish, William Nishri and others. 9 pm. $10, stu/ srs $7. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, memullet.com. one nIght stAnd Improv based on hot dates, w/ Wordburglar, James Gangl and cake. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. Queer Comedy nIght LGBTQ comedians and hosts Catherine McCormick and Danz Altvater. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor W. thesteadycafe.com. reBeL wIthout A Cosmos This isn’t as solid as Second City’s last two revues, but there’s still lots to enjoy, particularly from veteran ensemble members Connor Thompson and Ashley Botting. Thompson scores big laughs as an Owen Sound layabout who has a gift for giv-

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416733-0545, hgjewishtheatre.com. the Four horsemen ProJeCt by Kate Alton and Ross Manson (Volcano Theatre/Crooked Figure Dances/Global Mechanic). The poetry of Rafael Barreto-Rivera, bpNichel, Paul Dutton and Steve McCaffery is adapted into a dance-theatre production. To Nov 22, Mon-Sat 8 pm. $25-$49. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. hAmLetmAChIne by Heiner Müller (Theatre@York). Based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this postmodern drama explores revolutions and rebellions. To Nov 15, Sun-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $17, stu $12. York University, 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888, theatre.finearts. yorku.ca. 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 musical. To Nov 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $27, stu/srs $25. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. theatrescarborough.com. the Love gAme by Britney Tangedal (North of Maine). Games designed to keep a relationship fun lead a couple to question their commitment to each other. To Nov 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. northofmaine.ca. mAry stuArt by Friedrich Schiller (George Brown Theatre). This drama looks at the conflict between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. To Nov 15, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sun 1:30 pm. $20, srs $15, stu $8. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

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ing directions, as well as a children’s performer accidentally hired to sing at a Remembrance Day ceremony. Botting gets two big solos that showcase her sassy range. But under director Reid Janisse, many of the sketches need polish, presenting jokey types rather than people. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. nnn (GS) stoned uP Comedy Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Puff Lounge, 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. the vest show In town A variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Friday, November 14 Comedy KAPow Hosted by Amish Patel, Andy Fruman and Jeff Tsang. 8:30 pm. Free. (in the Diner). Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca. the CurAtor Improvisers create a new oneact comedy based on a piece of art chosen by that week’s curator. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. 416-4913115, baddogtheatre.com. ImProv gAme show Weekly Whose Line-inspired competition. 8 pm. $5. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. Just For LAughs Comedy tour See Thu 13. mIssed ConneCtIons Kliffer Entertainment presents an improvised Craigslist saga. 11 pm. $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. klifferentertainment.com. reBeL wIthout A Cosmos See Thu 13. the soAPs – the LIve ImProvIsed soAP oPerA Improvisers create a new episode ñ each night of an ongoing story of drama, romance, intrigue and betrayal in an 80s Texas town. To Nov 21, Thursdays 8 pm. $10-$12. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

teh Internets QuIz show: dot Com together Comedy quiz show about internet com-

munities w/ Kevin Matviw, Sally Smallwood, Allan Turner and Amy Zuch. 10 pm. $10. Comedy, Bar 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. texAs Comedy mAssACre 2 Killer stand-up w/ Gavin Stephens, Chris Locke, JJ Liberman, Ryan Maglunob, Darryl Orr, Keesha Brownie, Nick Flanagan, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Fox & Fiddle Wellesley, 27 Wellesley E. texascomedymassacre2.com. the unemPLoyABLes Jamie O’Connor presents stand-up w/ guest comedians. 10 pm. $5. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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MoMent by Deirdre Kinahan (ARC). A man returns home 15 years after a sudñ den act of violence ripped a family apart (see

review, page 60). To Nov 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Thu & Sun 2 pm. $20. Sidemart Theatrical Grocery, 1362 Queen E. brownpapertickets. com/event/899552. nnnn (GS) the Motherfucker With the hat by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Bob Kills Theatre). A stranger’s hat threatens a long-time romance. Nov 11-30, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$30. The Coal Mine Theatre, 798 Danforth. brownpapertickets.com/event/859215. My treasure island!!! by Karen Woolridge (Johnson Girls). Adapted from Sara Levine’s novel, the play follows an underemployed, egotistical post-grad trying to live by ideals gleaned from Stevenson’s pirate classic. With supporting characters presented through the protagonist’s talking parrot puppet, this investigation of twenty-and-thirtysomethings’ social stagnation is surreal, funny, and insightful. To Nov 16, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$33, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, johnsongirls.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) nsfW by Luck Kirkwood (Studio 180). This satire looks at power games and privacy in the cut-throat modern media workplace. To Nov 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $15-$39. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, studio180theatre.com. opera luMinata (Opera Luminata). Popular tunes with pyrotechnics and visual efects. To Nov 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $48-$57. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, operaluminata.com. opus by Yaron Lifschitz (Canadian Stage/

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Saturday, November 15 the 404s: roMeo vs Juliet Shakespearethemed improv games and scenes w/ Aaron Doucet, Tim Moffatt Christine Laskowski, Jon Lee & others. 8 pm. $10. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. coMedy at the red rocket Joel West hosts a weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880. deez lauGhs presents Marc trinidad: con-

troversy Derryck Birch presents the comic in a live show. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, derryckbirch.com. double o/double diGest James Bond-based improv w/ Steve Hobbs, Hayley Kellett and others at 9:30 pm. Archie comics-based improv w/ Devon Hyland, Kristopher Bowman and others at 10:30 pm. $5 per show. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. the dub Improvisers provide a voiceover track to a remastered cut of a classic film. 10 pm. $7, stu $5. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. iMprov leaGue Four troupes go head-to-head in a shortform improv competition. 8 pm. $5. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. the lonGforM iMprov shoWcase D’You Duo, Shots & High Fives, Coko & Daphany and Bamboo Kids Club perform plus host Matt Folliott. 11 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. Micetro Improvisers work together to score points per scene in the hopes of being the last player standing in this Survivor-style show. 7 pm (also Wed at 8 pm). $5. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. once upon a broWn Stand-up w/ Faisal Butt and others. 8:30 pm. $10. Coalition Lounge, 349A College. 416-832-9331. rebel Without a cosMos See Thu 13. the scene Freddie Rivas & Jess Bryson present a monthly party w/ sketch comedians, improvisers and solo acts performing their best 5-minute scenes. 11 pm. $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

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Circa). Acrobats tumble, spin and fly to the sounds of Shostakovich, played live on stage by the Debussy String Quartet. To Nov 16, ThuSat 7 pm, Sun 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. canadianstage.com. peace Warriors by Doron Ben-Atar (TEATRON Theatre). This darkly comic play looks at the anti-Israel politics at elite college campuses. To Nov 16, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre.com. 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. To Dec 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$55, rush $15. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.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 poetry collection (see review, page 62). To Nov 15, see website for schedule. $23-$89. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (JK) 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. To Nov 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$45. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. talkinG heads by Alan Bennett (Precisely Peter Productions). The Outside Dog, Playing Sandwiches and A Lady Of Letters are performed from Bennett’s collection of BBC

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with host Keith Pedro. 7 & 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. theatresports High-octane weekly team improv competition. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

your hood’s a Joke – danforth vs annex

Toronto Comedy All-Stars presents a comedy turf war hosted by Danish Anwar w/ Danforth Drunk Philosophers vs Annex Raging Baristas. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, torontocomedyallstars.com.

Sunday, November 16 coMedy @ the Well Weekly show w/ hosts

Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free. 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca. 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.

happy hour coMedy: Give Me My spot

Round 8. Hosted by Chad Gibson. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. the playGround Stand-up comics followed by an open mic w/ hosts Melissa Story and Kris Siddiqi. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com. rebel Without a cosMos See Thu 13. sunday niGht live The Sketchersons’ weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Monday, November 17 altdot coMedy lounGe Stand-up w/ Trixx, Mike Rita, Keith Pedro, Dylan ñ Gott, Ben T, Nitish Sakhuja, Mark Heath, Noor

Kidwai, Darrin Rose, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. cheap lauGhs Monday Weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. PJ O’Brien Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. daWn patrol Dawn Whitwell presents queered up stand-up w/ Amanda Day, Lianne Mauladin, Catherine McCormick, DJ Demers, Dan Galea and Definition of Knowledge. 8:30 pm. $7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

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Elephant Empire’s new comedy show w/ Peter Stevens, Matt Lemche, Andrew Gardner and Mark Little. 9:30 pm. $5. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

at unlovable Kathleen Phillips, Dave AtkinñlauGhable son, Ben Beauchemin, Jordan The T.O.-born, NYCbased comic Aaron Berg plays Yuk Yuk’s through November 16.

Cohen, Nick Nemeroff, Stan Ferguson and hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415 Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

monologues. To Nov 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm (no show Nov 15), Sun 4 pm. $25. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-5970227, brownpapertickets.com/ event/885024. the teMpest by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). Love and revenge collide on a magical island in this classic play. To Nov 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 22 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca.

uncovered: billy Joel & elton John (Acting Up Stage Company). The comñ pany performs a cabaret tribute show. To Nov 13, Thu 8 pm. $32-$100. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208, rcmusic.ca.

WeesaGeechak beGins to dance festival – 27 (Native Earth Performing Arts). New

works by indigenous artists include plays by Lilia Leon, Jani Lauzon, Daniel David Moses, dance by Santee Smith and more. To Nov 22, see website for schedule. $10-$20, pass $50. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. nativeearth.ca. What i learned froM a decade of fear by Beatriz Pizano, Lyon Smith and Trevor Schwellnus (Aluna Theatre). A performance piece about the war on terror is framed as an interrogation in which seemingly innocuous questions are turned into attacks that challenge the morals we hold and the judgments we make. Beatriz Pizano and Lyon Smith are perfectly matched, and director Trevor Schwellnus’s videography brings another chilling element to the show. To Nov 30, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $12-$20. Aluna Theatre, 1 Wiltshire, studio 128. 416203-2535, alunatheatre.ca. nnn (JK) 3

pancake Mondays Weekly comedy and allyou-can-eat pancakes. 7:30 pm. $5. Smiling Buddha 961 College. 416-788-7586. 200% vodka Longform improv with the Social Capital Rep Company and guest hosts. 8 pm. Pwyc. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, November 18 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. open Mic tuesday Show for up & coming talent. 8:30 pm. $5. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. rebel Without a cosMos See Thu 13. sketch coM-aGGedon Troupes compete over 5 nights for a spot in the 2015 Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. To Nov 22, Tue-Fri 8 and 9:30 pm, Sat final 8 pm. $10-$15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. the skin of My nuts Weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 7:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts. student bodies Longform improv w/ players of the Social Capital Repertory Program. 8 pm. Free. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. yuk yuks open Mic 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. yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, November 19 acoustic coMedy: the birthday edition

Music and comedy w/ Holly Wyder, Shannon Doherty, Jordi O’Dael, Evan Radley and Serge Taliansky. 8 pm. $10. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. the hive Weekly improv w/ rotating teams. 8 pm. Pwyc. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. the Julien dionne coMedy hour Stand-up by Dionne and music by Garage Baby. 9 pm. $10. C’est What, 67 Front E. 416-867-9499, ticketfly.com. MaGic oven coMedy Weekly stand-up. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven Keele, 347 Keele. 416-6040202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele. pro/aM niGht Headliner Simon Rakoff, Dylan Beeson, Justin Sanchez, Max Magas, Kirk Hicks, Silvi Santoso, Thomas Calnan and host Alastair McAlastair. 8:30 pm. $6. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. rebel Without a cosMos See Thu 13. siren’s coMedy Open-mic stand-up w/ host Connor Cheeseman and headliner Tyler Champagne. 8:30 pm. Free. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. sketch coM-aGGedon See Tue 18. 3

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Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), to February 8, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Friday 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 416-586-8000. Rating: NNNN

A small room on the ROM’s European floor, wedged between displays of armour and art nouveau furniture as if between war and aesthetic refinement, holds Bernice Eisenstein’s exhibit Genizot: Repositories Of Memory.

The Toronto author of the illustrated memoir I Was A Child Of Holocaust Survivors uses the concept of genizot, synagogue storage rooms for tattered sacred writings (normal disposal of any text containing the name of God was forbidden; genizot’s contents were periodically buried in cemeteries), to frame her personal concerns with 20th-century history. Eisenstein works within the tradition of reverence for the word in her series of black-and-white gouache portraits of 20th-century literary

The World is an Apple:

The Still Lifes of Paul Cézanne

Bernice Eisenstein’s altered copy of Felix Salten’s Bambi is part of her trove of memories.

and cultural figures, bookended by two images of the artist’s mother. Not all are Jews, but Eisenstein connects them to her narrative: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry dedicated The Little Prince to Jewish author Léon Werth, who also gets a portrait; German doctor Alois Alzheimer appears next to Regina Eisenstein. The portraits are similar to those in Correspondences, her recent accordion-fold book created with Anne Michaels, but here her intense, naive, off-kilter depictions are embellished with words: a list of the Nazis’ “degenerate artists” surrounds Stefan Zweig; text from Remembrance Of Things past runs in every direction behind Marcel Proust; photographer

Chim (David Seymour) stands before an inventory of his possessions and announcement of his death by Magnum, the agency he founded. A vitrine in the centre contains small trinkets, more portraits in the artist’s handmade books, a copy of Felix Salten’s Bambi into whose folded pages she inserts tiny facsimiles of covers of classic 20th-century novels and an altered copy of Robert Walser’s The Walk. Eisenstein’s modest, illustrationstyle art and small installation delicately evoke a harrowing journey through the 20th century, paying tribute to the artists who keep memory alive. 3 frans@nowtoronto.com

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13-Dec 13, reception 6-8 pm Nov 13. 64 Merton. 416-440-3084. ANGELL Karine Giboulo (installation), Nov 15-Dec 20, reception 1-4 pm Nov 15. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444. BAU-XI Tracey Tarling (painting), Nov 1529, reception 2-4 pm Nov 15. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600. DE LUCA FINE ART Tony Calzetta (painting), Nov 15-Dec 6, reception 4-7 pm Nov 15. 217 Avenue Rd. 416-537-4699. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Joseph Tisiga, to Nov 15. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. DIVISION GALLERY Martin Boudreau (painting), to Nov 22. NEXT group show, to Feb 15. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082. EDWARD DAY Dan Kennedy (painting), to Nov 30. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540. JESSICA BRADLEY Rebecca Belmore, Nov 13-Jan 10, reception 6:30-8:30 pm Nov 13. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125. LE GALLERY Amanda Nedham (drawing), to Nov 29. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. LOOP GALLERY Elizabeth D’Agostino and Richard Sewell, to Nov 30. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. NICHOLAS METIVIER Charles Bierk (painting), Nov 13-Dec 13, reception 6-8 pm Nov 13. 451 King W. 416-205-9000. PARI NADMI GALLERY Sarah Farndon (sculpture), Nov 13-Dec 20, reception 6-8 pm Nov 13. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464. PAUL PETRO Carol Wainio, Nov 14-Jan 10, 2015, reception 7-10 pm Nov 14. Su Rynard, Nov 14-22. 980 Queen W. 416979-7874. RED HEAD GALLERY Ian Mackay (painting), to Nov 29, reception 1-5 pm Nov 15. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654. SCRAP METAL Somebody, Everybody, Nobody, to Mar 28. 11 Dublin. Fri-Sat noon-5 pm or by appt, 416-588-2442. TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Will Kwan, to Dec 12. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332.

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Pakistan, to Jan 18. In Search Of The Artist, to Nov 16. $15-$20 .77 Wynford. 416-646-4677. AGO Alex Colville, to Jan 4 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Aimia Photography Prize, Jan 4. Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to Nov 25. Michelangelo, to Jan 11 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Mohamed Bourouissa, to Feb 8. Suzy Lake, to 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?, to Dec 7. 4700 Keele. 416-736-5169. GARDINER MUSEUM Claire Twomey, to Jan 4. $8-$12; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE This Area Is Under Surveillance, to Jun 30. Wendy Coburn, to Dec 19. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. MOCCA Vera Frenkel, Nov 15-Dec 28, reception 8 pm Nov 14. Pwyc. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067. POWER PLANT Julia Dault, Pedro Cabrita Reis and Shelagh Keeley, to Jan 4. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROM Bernice Eisenstein, to Feb 8. Designs For Sitting; Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan 25. Paul Kane, to Jan 24. $14.50-$16; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm discounts. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Harun Farocki; Dispatch: War Photographs; Remembering The Real Winnie, to Dec 7. Public Studio, to Dec 19. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164. TEXTILE MUSEUM Oriental Rugs, to Apr 15. Urban Fabric: Portraits Of A City, to Jan 11. $6-$15; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416599-5321. U OF T ART CENTRE Allen Ginsberg and Robert Giard, to Dec 6. AA Bronson, to Nov 15. 15 King’s College. 416-978-1838.

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Three days, hundreds of writers, scores of booths? Here are some suggestions for what to see at the inaugural festival.

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Alive and well Inspire! shows industry confidence By SUSAN G. COLE INSPIRE! TORONTO INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR November 13 to 16 at the Metro Convention Centre (255 Front West). Three-day pass $10-$15. 647-7758181. torontobookfair.ca

Is this any time to launch an international book fair in Toronto? Bookstores are closing regularly, HarperCollins has just shuttered its Canadian distribution centre, and the curtain came down on the 2014 edition of International Kathy Reichs hits the main stage November 15.

Festival of Authors less than two weeks ago. Yet here come the organizers of Inspire! with a four-day event featuring over 400 authors and displays – surely an optimistic sign that the book industry is far from dead. Inspire! is really more a book fair than a festival. It’s not as closely curated as IFOA in the sense that it gleefully embraces popular culture. Comic Jim Gaffigan’s on board on Friday (November 14), bringing his book about food, and Anne Rice appears at noon Saturday (November 15), both on the mainstage, and there are many events devoted to crime fiction. But stage events have also been given over to small presses like Biblioasis and Second Story Press, and a special stage has been set up for some of our best aboriginal writers to share their work. Seen that way, the fair is kind of a combo of both IFOA and Word On The Street. There are scores of literary lights – Meg Wolitzer, Margaret Atwood, Alison Pick – but also over 100 booths sponsored by magazines and

READINGS THIS WEEK 5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, November 13 BARRY BLANCHARD Reading from his book,

The Calling – A Life Rocked By Mountains with accompanying slide show. 7:15 pm. Free. Patagonia, 500 King W. 416-861-1102.

EXCHANGING NOTES: MARK KINGWELL – HAS DEMOCRACY KILLED CIVILITY? Discussion about

happiness, life and writing. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

INSPIRE! TORONTO INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR

Readings, talks, storytelling, workshops, music and more with Margaret Atwood, Jeff Kinney, Anne Rice, Jim Gaffigan and others. $15, stu/srs $10, chilren under 12 free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre North Bldg, 255 Front W. torontobookfair.ca KATHLEEN WINTER Reading. 7 pm. Free. Another Story, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104.

LEFTWORDS FESTIVAL OF BOOKS AND IDEAS

Event celebrating progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers, with Susan Goldberg, David Austin and others. See website for schedule. To Nov 17. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. leftwordsfestival.com SEX MASTERS Launching Succulent SexCraft and Secrets Of The Sex Masters with co-authors Carl Frankel, Carlyle Jansen and Jon Pressick. 8:30-10:30 pm. Free. The Ossington, 61 Ossington. intimateartscenter.com

Friday, November 14 RENELTTA ARLUK Reading. 7 pm. $5. Museum of Inuit Art, 207 Queens Quay W. miamuseum.ca

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Book talk. 1 pm. Free/RSVP. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. torontopubliclibrary.ca/ehlist

Saturday, November 15 CHIEDZA PASIPANODYA Launching Grace Notes

On Survival. 6 pm. $10. Artscape Distillery Studios, 9 Trinity, #317. watah.org WHEN BROTHERS SPEAK Spoken word concert with David Delisca, Shihan and others. $37$47. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. stlc.com

Sunday, November 16 AUTHORS’ BRUNCH Literary brunch with David Halton, Andrew Peacock, Michael Winter and Jennifer Kingsley. 10 am. $50. Pre-register. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416-361-0032.

Jim Gaffigan does an onstage interview November 14.

publishers and an entire area devoted to food culture and the books that represent it. And unlike Word On The Street, this indoor fair won’t be at the mercy of the elements. It’s not surprising that a mammoth show like this has engaged Indigo as its official programming bookseller. Good Minds is the official programming bookseller for the First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literary Circle. Exhibitors sell directly from their booths. But note that the fest restricts the number of books festival goers can get signed by a single author following a programming session to three, and – here’s a major catch – those books must have been purchased on site. At the same time, Inspire! is a major deal. One $15 pass gets you into all three days of the event. If you want to attend the opening party tonight (Thursday, November 13), the pass is $25. 3

Check out the Main Stage on Friday (November 14) at 6 pm, when NOW stage and film editor Glenn Sumi interviews comic Jim Gaffigan, author of Food: A Love Story. You might just want to park yourself at the Main Stage Saturday (November 15) during the afternoon. Anne Rice is there at noon, William Gibson at 1 pm, Kathy Reichs at 2 pm and Margaret Atwood at 3 pm. Find me Sunday morning (November 16) at the Discovery Stage, when I’ll be hosting the Woman Interrupted event at 10:30 am with Alisha Piercy, Ursula Pflug and Phyllis Rudin, and talking to Christine Becker at noon and Molly Peacock at Reneltta Arluk takes the indigenous 12:30 pm. Inspire! stage November 16. Also on Sunday, Reneltta Arluk, Lee Maracle, Daniel David Moses and Yvette Nolan discuss indigenous theatre, 2 pm at the First Nations, Metis & Inuit Circle. Later that day Robyn Doolittle talks about Rob Ford on the Discovery SGC Stage at 3 pm.

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Monday, November 17 50+ POEMS FOR GORDON LIGHTFOOT: A LITERARY AND MUSICAL CELEBRATION Readings by

Anne Michaels, Marty Gervais and others, plus music. 9 pm. $40, $28 w/ book. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. BLUE COFFEE Readings. 8 pm. Free. Magpie Taproom, 831 Dundas W. 647-350-8305, bluecoffeereadingseries.wordpress.com EXILE EDITIONS Reading works by Bruce Meyer, George Elliott Clarke and others. $60 (incl dinner). Reserve the.exilewriters@gmail.com. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. 647-349-6373. INANNA FALL LAUNCH NO. 3 New books by Pam Galloway, Susan McCaslin and others. 6 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. inanna.ca

Tuesday, November 18 THE EXILE WRITERS SERIES Readings by Alyx Dellamonica, David Huebert, John Jantunen, Michael Matheson and others. 7:45 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

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Launch for the book by Dannielle Owens-Reid and Kristin Russo. 8 pm. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. gladdaybookshop.com TSAR FALL BOOK LAUNCH Sheniz Janhomaded, charles c smith, H Nigel Thomas and others. 6:30-9 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/tsarpublications

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It’s easy to make a movie out of a true story – you just make everything more exciting, claim artistic licence and add that little disclaimer at the end about certain characters being invented for the sake of drama. It’s trickier to capture the mood and texture of a moment in time and replicate actual events from the perspective of the people who experienced them. Jon Stewart does that in Rosewater. And here are five more.

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1. Bloody Sunday (2002) 2. Thirteen Days (2000) 3. No (2012) 4. The Wannsee Conference (1984) 5. All The President’s Men (1976) See expanded article at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Kim Bodnia interrogates Gael García Bernal in Jon Stewart’s powerful feature debut, Rosewater.

Torture in Tehran

Actor dug deep into his role as Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari By NORMAN WILNER ROSEWATER written and directed

by Jon Stewart, based on the book by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, with Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Golshifteh Farahani. A Search Engine Films release. 103 minutes. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

Gael García Bernal might not be the first person you’d choose to play Maziar Bahari, the Iranian-born, London-based journalist whose appearance in a Daily Show Tehran field piece brought him to the attention of Iran’s fundamentalist government. But first-time filmmaker Jon Stewart saw something in the Mexican actor that led Stewart to cast him as the lead in Rosewater, a drama that recreates Bahari’s experiences in Tehran during the 2009 election. “Maziar is a clear example of a tri-

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umph of the human spirit,” García Bernal says during Rosewater’s TIFF press day. “He’s a person who found comfort and perspective and compassion through humour… and [his story] expands to take on a much more universal aspect. It becomes a story that puts the finger on a subject that is very important, which is that institutionalized torture is happening every where in the world.” He’s talking about the 118 days Bahari spent in solitary confinement at Tehran’s Evin prison, with the occasional interrogation. “Solitary confinement is torture,” he says. “Maziar, after having experienced it, he’s [become] a strong advocate of showing the banality of torture, of showing that at the end of the day, solitary confinement is not doing justice where justice needs to be done.” García Bernal had played real peo-

ple before – most notably the young Che Guevara in 2004’s The Motorcycle Diaries – but Bahari is someone reared in an entirely different culture. Did that present more of a challenge? “I found the character like any other character, just by information,” he says. “Getting to see Jon’s point of view of Maziar, talking to him endlessly, asking him endless questions. And getting to know a lot about Iran, through documentaries, reading books and imagining what it could be. I mean, I’ve never been there. I wish I could go there. Jon has never been there either.” García Bernal also talked to his Iranian co-stars – Golshifteh Farahani and Shohreh Aghdashloo, who play Bahari’s sister and mother respectively – as much as possible. “It was incredible to talk about all of this with them, because they’re the first ones to say ‘It’s not like that.

REVIEW ROSEWATER (Jon Stewart) Rating: NNNN In his first film as a writer/director, Jon Stewart tackles a story close to home: the ordeal of Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, whose appearance in a Daily Show segment about the 2009 Iranian election was a factor in his subsequent arrest, detention and torture by the Ahmadinejad government. But Rosewater isn’t just about incarceration. Stewart also recreates Bahari’s experiences in his homeland in the days leading up to the election, when the journalist talked to fundamentalists determined to hold on to power and progressive-minded youth driven to educate themselves about the outside world and point their country toward the future. It’s an assured, thoughtful and ultimately very moving debut, with fine performances by Gael García Bernal as Bahari and Danish actor Kim Bodnia (Pusher) NW as his interrogator.

Iran is, you know, a sophisticated place with normal people.’” He also had to learn to inflect his speech with a slight Farsi accent. “The accent thing was to unify and build a world where people were supposed to be talking in Farsi,” he explains. “If we would have really gone for it, we would have done it in Farsi for real. It would have been very interesting to see me talking in Farsi,” he says, laughing. The actor was drawn to Rosewater for its larger commentary on fundamentalism, which Stewart frames as authority bent on repressing citizens’ natural inclination to understand the world around them. It’s simply impossible, he says, to keep people in the dark indefinitely. “The joke is on them,” he says, “on those power structures that build these huge machineries to keep someone from bearing witness or from asking the difficult, dangerous questions. They build this structure that gets destroyed by somebody just going, ‘I saw this.’ And that’s it. He becomes enemy number one.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

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Braydon Denney plays the young Abe Lincoln in The Better Angels.

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The BeTTer Angels (A.J. Edwards). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: nn The Better Angels is what happens when someone tries to make a Terrence Malick movie without having the advantage of actually being Terrence Malick. The glorious sweep is there, but not the grace. It’s an impressionistic drama about a key year in the life of

the young Abraham Lincoln – 1817, when young Abe’s mother died and his father remarried. Writer/director A.J. Edwards at least comes by the Malick connection honestly. He worked on The Tree Of Life and To The Wonder, and Malick is credited as a producer here. But he’s still just borrowing his mentor’s style, and to no real end. Edwards deploys all of Malick’s signature moves – swelling score, sundappled camerawork, hesitant voiceover narration – and even shoots in black-and-white for extra sobriety. But

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A lot of Godard’s latest is crap, but he explores the possibilities of 3D like no one else By NORMAN WILNER gOOdBye TO lAnguAge 3d

written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, with Héloise Godet, Kamel Abdeli, Richard Chevalier and Zoé Bruneau. A Koch Lorber release. 70 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (November 14) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 76. Rating: nnnn

As the culmination of TIFF Cinematheque’s massive Godard Forever retrospective, the filmmaker’s latest feature, Goodbye To Language 3D, gets a commercial run at the Lightbox. It’s not very good, but seeing it in a theatre in 3D is as essential an experience as watching Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar in real IMAX. The best way to explain what Jean-

Luc Godard does in Goodbye To Language 3D is to say that he explores the possibilities of 3D cinema in a way no other filmmaker would dare, because virtually every other filmmaker would be terrified of losing the audience. But Godard has spent the last few decades making sure we know he doesn’t care about us in the least. He’s been trafficking in incoherent imagery and garbled political statements since the 70s. If you’re still showing up, you’re either a diehard follower or, like me, you’re sitting through Godard’s endless wanking about geopolitics and personal freedom in the hopes that he’ll deliver another masterpiece like Éloge De L’Amour.

he lacks Malick’s innate sense of pacing and escalation, so individual scenes of farm life and adolescence hang limply when they should be building toward an ecstatic, revelatory climax. Unmoored, the actors, including Braydon Denney as young Abe, Jason Clarke as his father, Brit Marling as Abe’s mother and Diane Kruger his father’s second wife, struggle to invest their characters with depth or even a semblance of personality. They’re just there to twirl for us in nOrMAn WIlner period costume.

Goodbye To Language 3D is not a masterpiece, but it is the work of a master who’s willing to reinvent the way we perceive narrative. At key moments, Godard and his cinematographer, Fabrice Aragno, desynchronize the two sets of images that our brains (and those glasses) fuse into a three-dimensional image. Close your left eye and watch the camera follow one participant in a scene; close your right and see the other participant, standing still. This revelatory technique is used mostly in the service of a banal series of conversations in which lovers walk around a house in various states of undress, yammering about philosophy and cultural theory in that uniquely French mode of intellectual exhaustion. In a scene that encapsulates all of Godard’s excesses, a woman stands nude while her lover, perched on the toilet, expounds on the excretory imagery of Rodin’s The Thinker while loudly moving his own bowels. So, yeah, a lot of Goodbye To Language 3D is crap. And yet there are scenes of simple, elegant beauty, most of them involving a really lovely dog who’s filmed sniffing around the countryside in long takes that let you appreciate both the animal’s undirected movement and the sense of place that 3D allows. The dog poops, too, but as no politics are involved I’m willing to let it slide. 3

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Musicians Justin Kauflin (left) and Clark Terry are kinda an anti-Whiplash duo.

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emPTying The sKies (Douglas Kass, Roger Kass). 78 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: nnnn

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All that jazz KeeP on KeePin’ on (Alan Hicks). 86 minutes. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: nnn

Clark Terry is a member of that generation of jazz artists who were first to realize the importance of education in maintaining the genre’s legacy of innovation and excellence. Pedestrian in its structure and cinematography, Alan Hicks’s Keep On Keepin’ On is a likeable, if not all that jazzy, homage both to Terry’s magisterial trumpet-playing and his genuinely inspiring career as mentor and educator. Now in his 90s, Terry has kept on teaching despite debilitating diabetes. His latest pupil is young pianist and ris-

ing star Justin Kauflin, who has a rare disease that gradually robbed him of his eyesight. Keep On shifts between the musicians as they endure their individual struggles with health and career issues. Several charming scenes show them working together and supporting each other. There’s some terrific archival performance footage and succinct tributes from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Bill Cosby and Quincy Jones, who was Terry’s first student. Several subjects mention how essential the development of an individual voice is for anyone seeking a meaningful place in jazz. What Keep On makes clear is that Terry’s major contribution to this discussion is his emphasis on self-knowledge: that individual voice isn’t something you put on, but rather, through reflection and discipline, draw from JosÉ Teodoro deep within yourself.

Endangered bird species have already been radically affected by climate change and habitat loss. Emptying The Skies focuses on the disturbing practice in southern Europe of illegally poaching migratory songbirds for consumption as culinary delicacies. Based on a New Yorker article by novelist Jonathan Franzen, Douglas and Roger Kass’s doc follows a group of activists from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) who travel to Cyprus, Italy and France during migration season, freeing their feathered friends from sadistic traps and occasionally being chased off private property by gun-wielding landowners. While the film lacks some momentum, the Kasses subtly reveal details about the volunteers (oddly, they’re all male), many of them professionals who take part in the expeditions during their vacation. Their stories and their efforts, as well as accounts by ornithologists, will warm your heart and attune your ear not only to the sounds of birds but also to this noble cause. gLenn sUmi

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Bright Lights Beyond The LighTs (Gina PrinceBythewood). 116 minutes. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: nnn

She’s an English hip-hop artist on the verge of her big break. He’s a Los Angeles cop with political aspirations who stops her going over a hotel balcony. This being the movies, they’re instantly drawn to one another, but can these crazy kids make it work? That’s the pitch for Beyond The Lights, a new romantic drama from Love & Basketball writer/ director Gina PrinceBythewood. As in her beloved debut, Beyond

The Lights is a love story about characters with three dimensions and compatible personalities; here, each has been raised by a single parent devoted to their success. For Noni (Belle’s Gugu Mbatha-Raw), it’s her controlling mother (Minnie Driver); for Kaz (Red Tails’ Nate Parker), it’s his cooler but no less determined dad (Danny Glover), who’s charted a path to the White House for his eminently respectable son. But having established Noni and Kaz as complex, intelligent souls who are worthy of one another’s validation and love, Prince-Bythewood has to spend another hour and a half inventing increasingly silly obstacles to their happiness. The film reminds us why straight-up romances are so few and far between these days: the genre depends on contrivance more than almost any other. But when the couple clicks, it still feels norman WiLner pretty damn good.

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No teeth WoLves (David Hayter). 91 minutes. Opens Friday (November 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: n

Wolves marks an inauspicious directorial debut for superhero screenwriter David Hayter (X-Men, X2, Watchmen), though in fairness the slapdash nature of the production suggests this doesn’t reflect his original vision. That said, it doesn’t seem like this werewolf-centric Twilight knockoff would ever have amounted to much, with its dopey mythology about an

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orphaned high-schooler named Cayden (Lucas Till) who discovers his hairy side and hits the road. Eventually, our hero finds his way to the lycanthrope colony of Lupine Ridge, where the civilized wolfen folk live under an alpha male (Game Of Thrones’ Jason Momoa, sporting grey contact lenses for no particular reason) bent on siring a new heir with a comely pureblood (Merritt Patterson). Decent monster makeup can’t paper over the total lack of ideas, and fun supporting turns from Stephen McHattie and Melanie Scrofano left me wishing Hayter had made the movie about their characters instead.

Jim Carrey (left) and Jeff Daniels return for more Dumb laughs.

Dumb And Dumber To (D: Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 109 min) Has it really been 20 years since Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels hit the big screen as intellectually challenged best friends in

Bobby and Peter Farrelly’s silly comedy? Well, they’re all back for more lowbrow laughs in this sequel in which Daniels’s character discovers he has a daughter. Opens Friday (November 14). Screened after press time – see review November 14 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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A picture-perfect Swedish family’s skiing vacay in the French Alps goes awry when the upright father panics in a moment of crisis. A wickedly funny dissection of bourgeois happiness.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of ﬁlm, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating. Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise speciﬁed. The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

Ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our ﬁlm times on page 76. ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY (Miguel

Arteta) sticks to the spirit of Judith Viorst’s picture book while adding its own ingratiating material. After a disastrous day, Alexander wishes for his family to share his misfortune. They face disasters at work, the junior prom, driving tests and the school play, each more manic and derivative as the plot chugs along. 81 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ANNABELLE (John R. Leonetti) is a thin

prequel to The Conjuring that fills in the backstory of the eponymous demonic doll from the first film. In early 70s California, a young couple (Annabelle Wallis and Ward Horton) with a new baby experience some paranormal activity. Director Leonetti generates some suspense and unease, and the film looks good. But the acting is as plastic as the doll, and there are some plot contrivances that will make even the most accepting genre fans roll their eyes. 99 min. NN (GS) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre

BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP (Rowan Joffe) stars a quivering Nicole Kidman as an amnesiac who wakes up every morning next to a husband (Colin Firth) she can’t remember because of an accident (or attempted murrrderrr?). Director Joffe keeps things effectively tense and confusing, but with every reveal and explanation, the film becomes more hammy and ridiculous. 92 min. NN (RS) 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 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, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE BETTER ANGELS (A.J. Edwards) 94 min. 72

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BEYOND THE LIGHTS (Gina PrinceBythewood) 116 min. See review, page 70. NNN (NW) Opens Nov 14 at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 BIG HERO 6 (Don Hall, Chris Wil-

liams) centres on 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter), who “upgrades” himself and four college-aged scientists to battle an emerging super-villain. Directors Hall and Williams find new angles on the required action beats, but their real focus is on Hiro’s bond with his initial subject, a marshmallowy medical droid called Baymax (30 Rock’s Scott Adsit). The world in which it all takes place is a production designer’s dream. 108 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (Alejandro González

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, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñBJÖRK: BIOPHILIA LIVE

(Peter Strickland, Nick Fenton) is a film of pop genius Björk’s spectacularly inventive show, which was more art extravaganza than concert, featuring a mind-boggling mashup of unsettling atmospherics, dark melody and electronica and riveting images of nature in action. Too bad there’s no behind-the-scenes action or insights into the star’s creative process, small but significant weaknesses. But Björk? She can do anything. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) 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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE BOXTROLLS

(Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable) are ghoulishlooking, sewer-dwelling creatures whose behaviour mimics that of raccoons (they rummage through trash) and Despicable Me’s Minions (they mumble and build stuff). They’re adorable, while the humans bent on exterminating them are ghastly. A hilarious visual treat from the Laika studio (Coraline, ParaNorman). 96 min. NNNN (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Fox, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñBOYHOOD

(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for

ñCHEF

(Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but writer/director/star Favreau is intent on delivering such a pleasurable little movie that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and you wouldn’t want him to cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

CITIZEN MARC (Roger Larry) is a documentary about pot activist Marc Emery, who served time in a U.S. penitentiary for selling marijuana seeds online. 92 min. Big Picture Cinema Gerrard

ñCITIZENFOUR

(Laura Poitras) chronicles the eight days Edward Snowden spent in a Hong Kong hotel room with filmmaker Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald, where he blew the whistle on America’s secret data-collection programs and the complicity of foreign governments in those efforts. It’s as unnerving as any espionage thriller. Some subtitles. 114 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñDEAR WHITE PEOPLE

(Justin Simien) is a vital, immediate comedy about contemporary attitudes toward race, gender and sexuality, set at a fictional Ivy League school where racial tensions are creeping toward a flashpoint. Social awareness can be fun! 108 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Yonge & Dundas 24

DOLPHIN TALE 2 (Charles Martin Smith)

is a merely okay sequel to the feel-good original about an boy who rescues and rehabilitates an injured dolphin. Here the kid’s only problem is whether to accept a fabulous scholarship. It all seems forced, but the cast pumps out the charm, and swimming dolphins entrance the small fry. 107 min. NN (Andrew Dowler) Revue

DON’T GET KILLED IN ALASKA (Bill Taylor) stars Tommie-Amber Pirie as a directionless 20-something who hits up her dysfunctional family for cash. Some plot elements and dialogue in this microbudget drama feel contrived, but each of the characters has an honest core that Taylor builds on to reach a touching and satisfying conclusion. 96 min. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, 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) Revue

DUMB AND DUMBER TO (Peter Farrelly,

Bobby Farrelly) 109 min. See Also Opening, page 70. Opens Nov 14 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Douglas Kass, Roger Kass) 78 min. See review, page 70. (GS) Opens Nov 14 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

ForcE majEurE (Ruben Östlund)

follows a picture-perfect Swedish family’s skiing vacation in the French Alps, where the father (Johannes Kuhnke) 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. Some subtitles. 118 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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. Direc-

tor 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) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

gonE girl (David Fincher) is a little

cold, but that’s why Fincher (Seven, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network) is the perfect director for it, clinically dissecting what happens to a small-town bar owner (Ben Affleck) when his wife (Rosamund Pike) goes missing on the morning of their fifth anniversary. Gone Girl feels machine-tooled in the best possible way, spotless and chilly and perfect. It’s exactly what this story and these characters require. 149 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Philippe Falardeau) is being sold as a feel-good picture (about three Sudanese war survivors airlifted to Kansas City in 2001) along the lines of The Blind Side, but director Falardeau is far more interested in earning our empathy – and our tears – than in pandering to an American audience. Good for him. Some subtitles. 110 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square

(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/cowriter Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. nnnn (NW) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

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hErmitagE rEvEalEd (Margy Kinmonth) is

(JeanLuc Godard) 70 min. See review, page 69. (NW) Opens Nov 14 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

a high-def tour of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, one of the biggest and oldest museums in the world. 83 min.

Nov 16, 12:55 pm, and Nov 17, 7:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24; continuing at Yonge & Dundas 24

hornS (Alexandre Aja) stars Daniel Radcliffe as a small-town murder suspect who wakes up one morning with horns sprouting from his head and the ability to make people reveal their most awful secrets. Aja clearly loves the grungy, magic-realist heart of Joe Hill’s novel, but the pacing’s

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lumpy and the tone doesn’t quite hold. When it works, it works really well, but after a while Horns just wears you down. 120 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

the huNdred-foot JourNey (Lasse Hallström) gives big fun to foodies. When family patriarch Om Puri opens a Bollywood-style eatery in a Gallic town across from the Michelin-approved resto owned by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), intense competition ensues. There are no surprises but lots of pleasures: Puri and Mirren are obviously having a gas, and it’s literally a feast for the eyes. Prepare to want to eat afterwards. 115 min. NNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

ñida

(Pawel Pawlikowski) follows novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish.

The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed. Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

iNtersteLLar (Christopher Nolan) is a stunning visual accomplishment in service of a story that’s pretty dopey if you think about it for even a microsecond. Matthew McConaughey plays an astronaut-turnedcorn-farmer who pilots a mission into a wormhole in hopes of finding a new home for the human race, but director/co-writer Nolan undercuts the hard-SF premise with a weirdly goopy reliance on primal concepts like destiny and the power of love. 169 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,

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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) Kingsway Theatre

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(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, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the Judge (David Dobkin) is a slick, commercial package – but what’s inside is pretty solid, letting Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall go head to head in a fatherson drama wrapped up inside a contrived legal thriller about a hotshot lawyer defending his father from a murder charge. Both actors are great, and Dobkin (who also co-wrote the story) foregrounds relationships over legalese at every turn. 143 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre keep oN keepiN’ oN (Alan Hicks) 86 min.

See review, page 70. NNN (NW) Opens Nov 14 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

kuNg fu eLLiot (Matthew Bauck-

man, Jaret Belliveau) is one of the more complex documentaries about a misguided DIY filmmaker, Halifax martial arts aficionado Elliot Scott, who want to be the first-ever Canadian action superstar. The film delivers huge laughs with an underlying sadness. It’s a blast to be let into Scott’s delusional world, and the somewhat shocking final third must be seen to be believed. 91 min. NNNN (Andrew Parker) Carlton Cinema

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(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) Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

Life’s a Breeze (Lance Daly) is a fluffy crowd-pleaser about a working-class Dublin family hunting for a lost mattress stuffed with a million euros. The hokey comedy’s star, Fionnula Flanagan, and appealing newcomer Kelly Thornton give the only tolerable performances in the loud, obnoxious ensemble. 83 min. NN (RS) Carlton Cinema 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) Mt Pleasant

Maps to the stars (David Cronenberg)

takes Bruce Wagner’s satirical Hollywood novel and turns it into a flat, psychologically trite tale of absent parents and ruined children. There are some interesting ideas knocking around, but the script simply wanders back and forth between the characters with no real point or logic. 112 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Queensway, 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) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Xavier Dolan) is the Cannes prize winner and Canada’s foreign-language Oscar entry from precocious auteur Dolan, about a single parent (Anne Dorval) coping, barely, with the troubled, often violent son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) she loves. Operatic, beautiful and explosive, Mommy is wholly unpredictable. Dolan has turned into one of Canada’s best filmmakers. Subtitled. 139 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square

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My oLd Lady (Israel Horovitz) stars Kevin Kline as a penniless, middle-aged loser who travels to Paris to claim a sprawling apartment in the Marais bequeathed him by his dad. But under the viager system, the previous owner (Maggie Smith) and her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) can still live there. The plot’s telegraphed in the first 10 minutes, but the stars are watchable. 107 min. NN (GS) Canada Square, Fox, Kingsway Theatre

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the Broadway revival of Steinbeck’s classic drama, starring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd. 150 min. Nov 13, 7 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge; continuing at Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Dan Gilroy) is a twitchy Los Angeles thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a creepy loner who worms his way into a career as a freelance videographer. His performance keeps you watching even as writer-director Gilroy’s slippery character study backs itself into a narrative corner. 117 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas,

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ONE CHANCE (David Frankel) is a cheesy

but entertaining biopic about operatic tenor Paul Potts (James Corden), who achieved overnight success on the TV show Britain’s Got Talent but put in lots of work and experienced heartbreak and hurt before that fateful night. Born to working-class parents, the pudgy Paul was bullied throughout childhood, which crippled his self-esteem. When he got an early shot at realizing his lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer, he choked. With a strong woman on his side (Alexandra Roach), however, and a friendly mate (Mackenzie Crook) at his cellphone sales job, he gets back on his feet, despite the many obstacles. While this classic underdog story is anything but subtle (Julie Walters, as Paul’s mom, is unbearably hammy), Corden (recently tapped to succeed Craig Ferguson as host of The Late, Late Show) infuses his role with heart and pathos, and he and the brighteyed Roach share a sweet, jokey, believable chemistry. 103 min. NNN (GS) OpensNov14atCarltonCinema

as writer/director Melfi piles on the complications and contrivances, Murray refuses to condescend to them. 103 min. NNN (NW) BeachCinemas,CineplexCinemasEmpress Walk,Colossus,EglintonTownCentre, HumberCinemas,Queensway,Rainbow MarketSquare,RainbowPromenade, SilverCityYonge,Varsity,Yonge&Dundas 24

ñTHE sECrET TriAl 5

(Amar Wala) tracks the experience of five immigrants to Canada who were labelled terrorists and detained without charges, let alone a trial, via the rarely used security certificate. They were never allowed to see the evidence against them. After the shootings on Parliament Hill, the dreaded security certificates are making a comeback, so the doc’s more timely than ever. 84 min. NNNN (SGC) BloorHotDocsCinema,KingswayTheatre

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)

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sluMs: CiTiEs Of TOMOrrOW (Jean-

Nicolas Orhon) tours “squatter communities” from Bangalore to New Jersey but has few insights to offer. The film never homes in on an argument or a point. Sociologists take turns defining the lowto-no-income makeshift neighbourhoods, while residents briefly list their struggles and joys. Subtitled. 83 min. NN (RS) BloorHotDocsCinema

ñTHE TAlE Of THE priNCEss kAguYA

(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 English-dubbed versions. 137 min. NNNN (NW) TIFFBellLightbox

THE THEOrY Of EvErYTHiNg (James

Marsh) takes the remarkable, complex story of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and imprisons it in the inspirational treacle of a disease-of-the-week movie about a young couple struggling with life-altering illness. Eddie Redmayne

and Felicity Jones make it worth watching, but Anthony McCarten’s script sees them only as noble sufferers waiting for the next challenge. 123 min. NNN (NW) Varsity

to travel just as long to see it. 40 min. NNN (RS) OntarioScienceCentreOMNIMAX

ñTHis is WHErE i lEAvE YOu

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) Fox,KingswayTheatre

(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) CarltonCinema

ñTHE Trip TO iTAlY

(Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Winterbottom reuniting for another grand tour of fine dining, conversation and deep human insight, this time knocking around a splendid series of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Fox

uNdEr THE sEA (Howard Hall) is a dazzling travelogue airily narrated by Jim Carrey, an alternative for those of us who can’t afford to go scuba diving off southern Australia. The mere 40-minute run time might make it a waste for those who have

WAlkiNg THE CAMiNO: six WAYs TO sANTiAgO (Lydia Smith) is a spectacular

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) CineplexCinemasEmpressWalk,Queensway,RainbowMarketSquare,Varsity, Yonge&Dundas24 WOlvEs (David Hayter) 91 min. See review, page 70. N (NW) OpensNov14atCarltonCinema

THE 100-YEAr-Old MAN WHO CliMbEd OuT THE WiNdOW ANd disAppEArEd

(Felix Herngren) stars Robert Gustafsson as the titular hero, a former explosives expert who escapes from a seniors facility and finds a suitcase full of money belonging to drug dealers. The Forrest Gumpian conceit feels very old, and the scattershot attacks on historical figures make no distinctions between good and bad guys. Worse, the pic’s not funny. Subtitled. 114 min. NN (SGC) KingswayTheatre

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,CarltonCinema,ColiseumScarborough,Colossus,Eglinton TownCentre,Grande-Steeles,Queensway, RainbowWoodbine,ScotiabankTheatre, SilverCityFairview,SilverCityYorkdale

ñTHE OvErNigHTErs

(Jesse Moss) is an incredibly sympathetic portrait of Jay Reinke, a Lutheran pastor in North Dakota trying to shelter people drawn there by the promise of jobs in the fracking industry. Documentarian Moss structures it as a portrait of both an individual and a community, allowing everyone a point of view even when that point of view seems reactionary and ill-informed. 100 min. NNNN (NW) KingswayTheatre,TIFFBellLightbox

pridE (Matthew Warchus) is an ex-

cellently 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) CanadaSquare,KingswayTheatre,Yonge &Dundas24

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(Jon Stewart) 103 min. See interview and review, page 68. (NW) OpensNov14atCanadaSquare,Eglinton TownCentre,Queensway,TIFFBell Lightbox,Varsity

sT. viNCENT (Theodore Melfi) seems de-

signed 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

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EMPTYING THE SKIES (PG) Fri, Mon 6:30 Sat 8:45 Sun 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:00 GIRLS ROCK! (PG) Sun 4:00 GROWING CITIES Wed 6:30 JUST EAT IT: A FOOD WASTE STORY Tue 6:30 KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON (PG) Fri 3:30, 8:45 Sat 6:30 Sun 7:00 Mon 1:00, 8:45 Tue 8:45 Wed 9:15 THE SECRET TRIAL 5 (PG) Thu 6:30 SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 4:30, 8:45 A TALE OF TWO REVOLUTIONS Sat 3:00 TORONTO 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT: BEST SHORT FILMS OF 2014 Sat 12:00

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

21 YEARS: RICHARD LINKLATER Thu 1:55, 6:40 ALWAYS WOODSTOCK Fri 7:00 THE BETTER ANGELS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 6:50, 9:05 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 8:15 Fri-Tue 1:05, 6:35 Wed 1:05 CANADIAN LABOUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SatSun 1:00, 2:35, 4:50 DON’T GET KILLED IN ALASKA Thu 2:00, 7:00 Fri-Sat 1:25 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:25, 7:00 DUMB AND DUMBER TO (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 6:55, 9:15 FORCE MAJEURE (14A) Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:45 GREG SESTERO BOOK READING: THE DISASTER ARTIST Sat 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 HORNS (14A) Thu 4:05, 9:10 Sun, Tue-Wed 3:55, 9:10 Mon 3:25 IMAGINE I’M BEAUTIFUL Thu 1:45, 6:55 JOHN WICK (14A) Thu 1:40 4:20 7:05 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu-Fri 1:20 Sat-Sun 6:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 6:30 KUNG FU ELLIOT Thu 4:15, 9:15 LIFE’S A BREEZE (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:50, 9:05 MAPS TO THE STARS (18A) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 9:25 SatSun 9:25 NIGHTCRAWLER (14A) Thu 1:15 3:55 6:45 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 ONE CHANCE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:30 OUIJA (14A) Thu 3:50, 9:00 RAINDANCE INDIE NITE Thu 7:00 THE ROOM Sat 11:45 THE SHEEPMAN Mon 8:45 THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (14A) Thu 1:50 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Thu 4:30 Fri 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 WESTERN UNION Mon 7:00 WOLVES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:10, 7:15, 9:35

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I)

Film Festivals Good Vibrations, from the UK, makes a welcome return.

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BIG HERO 6 (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Sat, Tue 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25, 11:30 DUMB AND DUMBER TO (PG) 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:40 late GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Wed 3:00, 9:05 INTERSTELLAR (PG) 12:30, 1:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:30, 8:30 Sat, Tue 10:45 NIGHTCRAWLER (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 ST. VINCENT (14A) Thu 12:40, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:40 FriWed 12:40, 6:50 WHIPLASH (14A) 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Sat, Tue 11:25 late

THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION

FESTIVAL A sneak peak at the new Corner Gas movie, a panel and screening for CBC’s new mini-series The Book of Negroes, vintage series screenings, celebrity appearances and more. All events free (RSVP to reserve tickets). See website for schedule. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-5998433, citf14.tv. Nov 14 to 23

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CLIFF – CANADIAN LABOUR INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Movies about workers and

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND Sun 5:00 THE BIRTH OF A NATION Tue 7:00 CHARLIE CHAPLIN YEAR ONE Thu 9:00 DRAGONFLY SQUADRON 3D Mon 7:00 HISTORY OF ANIMATION FROM EMIL COHL TO NOW Sun 2:00 THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Thu 9:30 INFERNO 3D (PG) Mon 9:00 KENO BATES LIAR Thu 7:00 KID DRACULA Sun 9:00 THE PERILS OF PAULINE Thu 6:00 PHLEGM: THE CINEMATIC WORKS OF JASON HAMMOND Sat 7:00 SAND Thu 7:30 TOTAL ECLIPSE Wed 7:00 WHAT I EXPERIENCED WITH LSD Sat 11:55 THE WIZARD OF OZ: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Sun 7:00

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ANNABELLE (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Sat 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon 1:40, 8:10, 10:35 Wed 1:00, 3:20 DRACULA UNTOLD (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Wed 1:30, 3:40, 8:20, 10:40 THE EQUALIZER (18A) Thu 12:15, 3:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Mon 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Tue 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 12:20, 3:15, 9:20 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 4:00, 7:20, 10:35 Wed 12:40, 4:00, 6:20, 9:30 INTERSTELLAR (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:20, 2:00, 3:00, 4:25, 5:05, 5:45, 6:40, 8:10, 8:50, 9:40, 10:20 Fri, Tue 12:40, 1:20, 2:00, 2:50, 4:20, 5:00, 5:40, 6:25, 8:00, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00 Sat 11:25, 12:20, 1:20, 2:00, 2:55, 4:20, 5:00, 5:40, 6:25, 8:00, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00 Sun 11:25, 12:40, 1:20, 2:00, 2:55, 4:20, 5:00, 5:40, 6:25, 8:00, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00 Mon 12:30, 1:20, 2:00, 2:50, 4:10, 5:00, 5:40, 6:25, 8:00, 8:40, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 12:40, 1:20, 1:55, 2:30, 4:20, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 8:00, 8:30, 9:40 INTERSTELLAR: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 11:50, 3:30, 7:10, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Tue 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 SatSun 11:50, 3:20, 7:00, 10:30 Wed 12:00, 3:30, 7:15, 10:40 JOHN WICK (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 FriSat, Mon-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:20 Wed 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 THE JUDGE (14A) Thu 11:50, 6:10, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MACBETH ENCORE Sat 12:00 NIGHTCRAWLER (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:50, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30,

Other than Saturday night’s opening gala screening of Italy’s Fasten Your Seatbelts – whose $25 ticket price includes a pre-screening reception at the Mod Club – admission to all screenings is free. That said, if you don’t want to risk being turned away, you can reserve online NORMAN WILNER for $10 per ticket.

EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS

EU films for free EUROPEAN UNION TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL from Saturday

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The EU Film Festival returns to the Royal for two weeks of free nightly screenings from the nations of the European Union. A wide assortment of genres, tones and styles all bang up against each other for the hell of it. Where else can you see a Belgian character study about two boys on a collision course with fate (The World Belongs To Us, Sunday, November 16, 8:30 pm) and then come back for a Luxembourg documentary about two brothers riding in the Tour de France (The Road Uphill, Tuesday, November 18, 6 pm)? 9:20, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:10, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Wed 1:10, 1:45, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10 OUIJA (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Wed 12:50, 3:05, 5:20, 7:50, 10:00

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ABOVE THE LAW (R) Tue 9:30 BLAZING SADDLES (PG) Sun 7:00 CITIZENFOUR (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 12:10,

Not all the films are new: the Swedish entry, Jan Troell’s The Last Sentence (Wednesday, November 19, 8:30 pm), was shot in 2011. But this is likely the only time the film – a nicely tense drama starring Jesper Christensen as a newspaperman who pushed back against Nazism as his country tried to remain neutral – will screen here. It’s fun to see Good Vibrations (November 21, 8:30 pm) resurface as the UK entry. The movie had a brief theatrical run in Toronto late last year, but you probably missed it – so now’s the perfect chance to catch Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s giddy period piece about Belfast music lover Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer), who opened a record shop in the 70s, discovered the Undertones and probably saved a few lives during the Troubles. 2:20, 6:05, 10:25 Sat 12:15, 2:20, 5:45, 9:45 Sun 12:05, 2:20, 4:30, 8:45, 9:45 Mon 6:40, 9:10 Tue 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 Wed 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 COMMENT ÇA VA? (14A) Sun 3:45 FORCE MAJEURE (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 7:25 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:30 Sat 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 2:35, 4:50, 7:40 Mon 7:00, 9:45 Tue 1:30, 5:15, 10:00 Wed 2:40, 5:25, 7:00, 9:50 FULL METAL JACKET (14A) Thu 9:15 GERMANY YEAR 90 NINE ZERO (14A) Fri 6:30 GILDA (PG) Sun 1:00 GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D Fri 12:30, 8:35 Sat 12:30, 8:15 Sun 12:30, 6:45 Mon 8:30 Tue 12:30, 7:50 Wed 12:30, 5:15, 8:00

their lives looking at issues like wages, working conditions, austerity, migrant labour and more. 1-6:30 pm. Free. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-598-2197, labourfilms.ca. Nov 15 to 16 EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL Contemporary films from many countries reflecting the excellence, innovation and diversity of European cinema. Free ($10 adv), opening night film & reception $25. Royal Cinema, 608 College. eutorontofilmfest.ca. Nov 15 to 30 REEL ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL Contemporary cinema by international and Canadian East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $10-$20. Royal Cinema, 608 College. reelasian.com. To Nov 16 REGENT PARK FILM FESTIVAL Screenings, panel discussions, workshops and talkbacks that reflect inner-city communities like the Regent Park Community. Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. regentparkfilmfestival.com. Nov 19 to 22

RENDEZVOUS WITH MADNESS FILM FESTIVAL Shorts and features that focus on

mental health, a multimedia installation, symposium on mental health in sports and more. $12-$20, some pwyc, festival pass $70. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. rendezvouswithmadness.com. To Nov 15 TORONTO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL Restored Alfred Hitchcock films screened with live musical accompaniment. $15, festival pass $35-$40. Screenings at the Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles and Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E.

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 GONE GIRL (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:00, 3:15, 6:35, 10:00 Sat 6:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 INTERSTELLAR (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:50, 6:30, 10:05 FriSun 11:50, 3:30, 7:10, 10:50 MAPS TO THE STARS (18A) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 7:25, 10:15 ROSEWATER (14A) Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:25, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 ST. VINCENT (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00,

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Birdman or (The UnexpecTed VirTUe of ignorance) (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 inTersTellar (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:20, 6:00, 9:35 FriSun 2:50, 6:30, 10:05 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:20, 9:00 The Theory of eVeryThing (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25

Yonge & DunDaS 24 (Ce) 10 DunDaS ST e, 416-977-9262

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no good, Very Bad day (PG) Thu 6:25 Fri 2:25 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25 Tue 7:45 Before i go To sleep (14A) Thu 6:30, 8:50 Fri 1:40, 4:05, 6:20, 8:40, 11:05 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:05, 6:20, 8:40, 11:05 Mon-Tue 8:20, 10:45 Wed 10:45 The BesT of me (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:15 Fri 5:25, 10:40 SatSun 12:05, 5:25, 10:40 Mon-Wed 10:40 Beyond The lighTs (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 10:55 SatSun 12:00, 2:40, 5:25, 8:10, 10:55 Mon 1:50, 4:40, 8:00, 10:55 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 8:10, 10:55 Big hero 6 (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:25, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Big hero 6 3d (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, 9:35, 10:15 Fri 3:00, 4:00, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 11:15 Sat-Sun 12:00, 12:10, 3:00, 4:20, 5:45, 7:30, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30, 11:15 Mon-Wed 2:50, 4:00, 5:35, 7:00, 7:45, 8:20, 10:00, 11:00 Birdman or (The UnexpecTed VirTUe of ignorance) (14A) Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:20, 8:20, 11:10 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 The Book of life 3d (G) Thu 6:45, 9:10 The Book of life (G) Thu 3:10 Fri-Sun 2:55, 8:15 MonWed 8:15 The BoUrne idenTiTy (14A) Fri 2:00, 7:45 Sat 10:00 Sun 11:00 Mon 2:00 Tue 7:15 Wed 4:00, 9:30 The BoxTrolls (G) Thu 4:25 BreakUp BUddies (14A) Thu 10:00 casino royale (PG) Thu 10:30 dear WhiTe people (14A) Thu 2:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 2:55, 5:50, 8:25, 11:10 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45, 11:30 MonWed 2:00, 4:55, 7:35, 10:30 don’T go Breaking my hearT 2 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:05, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:45, 8:25, 11:20 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:45, 3:00, 4:45, 5:00, 6:00, 7:15, 8:00, 9:15, 10:35, 11:15 Sat-Sun 12:05, 1:00, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:20, 6:00, 7:05, 8:30, 9:15, 10:15, 11:30 Mon-Tue 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 1:45, 3:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 fUry (14A) Thu 6:15, 9:30 fUry: The imax experience (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:50, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00 gone girl (14A) Thu 2:45 Fri 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 2:50, 6:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:50, 6:00, 9:40 gone WiTh The Wind Sun 2:45 Mon 6:30 gUardians of The galaxy (PG) 10:45 Fri-Sun 4:45, 7:45 gUardians of The galaxy 3d (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:05 happy neW year (PG) Thu 6:40, 10:40 hermiTage reVealed Sun 12:55 Mon 4:30 Tue 2:00 Wed 2:00, 7:30 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:45, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 6:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 7:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 6:30, 10:40 John Wick (14A) Thu 4:00, 8:00, 10:45 Fri 4:30, 10:50 Sat 4:40, 10:50 Sun 12:30, 8:00 Mon, Wed 7:30 Tue 3:30, 10:20 kill dil 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat laggies (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:15 The maze rUnner (PG) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 7:40, 10:25 naTional TheaTer liVe: of mice and men - encore Thu 1:45, 7:00 Fri 4:30, 10:15 Sat 12:45, 6:45 Tue 4:00, 9:45 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 3:25, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Tue 7:30 Sat 12:30, 8:00 Sun 4:40, 10:50 Mon, Wed 3:30, 10:20 pride (14A) Thu 5:00, 10:25 Fri-Wed 10:30 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:45, 9:45 Fri 3:35, 6:05, 9:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:35, 6:05, 9:05 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:10 The shaUkeens (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 The UmBrellas of cherBoUrg (PG) Sat 4:00 Whiplash (14A) Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 8:15, 10:45

Midtown CanaDa Square (Ce) 2200 Yonge ST, 416-646-0444

The Book of life (G) Thu 5:30, 7:40 edsa WoolWorTh Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 The good lie (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:20 John Wick (14A) Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:10, 8:30 The JUdge (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:00 Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 maps To The sTars (18A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 Fri-Sun 4:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 8:10 mommy (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:00 Fri 6:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 6:40 Mon-Wed 5:10 my old lady (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:50 Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40 pride (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:20 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 roseWaTer (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50 The skeleTon TWins (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:10

MT PleaSanT (I)

675 MT PleaSanT rD, 416-489-8484 magic in The moonlighT (PG) 7:00 Fri-Sat 9:00 Sun 4:30

regenT TheaTre (I) 551 MT PleaSanT rD, 416-480-9884

Boyhood (14A) Fri-Sat 6:30 Sun 3:45 Wed 7:00 force maJeUre (14A) Fri 9:30 Sat 4:00, 9:30 Sun, Tue 7:00

SIlverCITY Yonge (Ce) 2300 Yonge ST, 416-544-1236

alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no good, Very Bad day (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:15 Fri-Sun, Wed 12:50 Mon-Tue 1:05 Big hero 6 (PG) Thu-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 4:15, 7:00 Big hero 6 3d (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Mon, Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Thu 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:55, 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Wed 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 fUry (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:20 Fri, Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 Sat-Sun 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 12:40, 3:50, 10:30 gone girl (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Mon 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 3:45, 6:50 hermiTage reVealed Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:50, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:50 Mon, Wed 1:00, 2:50, 4:45, 6:30, 8:30, 10:00 John Wick (14A) Thu 10:20 The meTropoliTan opera: macBeTh encore Sat 12:00 naTional TheaTer liVe: of mice and men - encore Thu 7:00 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 12:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45 Fri, SunTue 3:15, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 5:15, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 3:15, 10:10 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 1:15, 4:00, 9:45

fUry (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:50, 9:00 Fri 1:10, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Sat 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:50, 6:10, 9:15 gone girl (14A) Thu 1:35, 5:00, 5:20, 8:30, 8:40 Fri 11:55, 3:10, 4:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:55, 11:00 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 4:00, 6:55, 7:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 1:50, 4:00, 5:10, 7:30, 8:40, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:55, 4:00, 5:10, 7:30, 8:40, 11:00 Wed 2:25, 4:00, 6:45, 7:30, 10:50, 11:00 gone WiTh The Wind Mon 6:30 hermiTage reVealed Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30 hoW To Train yoUr dragon 3d (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 1:25, 2:30, 3:00, 5:30, 6:30, 6:40, 9:30, 10:20, 10:30 Fri 12:50, 2:20, 2:30, 3:20, 6:10, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30, 10:55 Sat 11:35, 12:00, 1:45, 2:20, 2:30, 3:20, 6:10, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30, 10:55 Sun 12:00, 1:10, 2:30, 3:05, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:50, 10:30, 10:40 Mon, Wed 1:25, 2:30, 3:05, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:50, 10:30, 10:40 Tue 1:25, 2:30, 3:05, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:50, 10:20, 10:30 John Wick (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sat 3:00, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sun, Tue 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Mon 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 5:20, 10:15 The JUdge (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:15 Fri 2:45 Sat 11:55 Sun, Wed 2:10 Mon-Tue 2:15 maps To The sTars (18A) Thu 2:00 The meTropoliTan opera: macBeTh encore Sat 12:00 naTional TheaTer liVe: of mice and men - encore Thu 7:00 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:30, 9:40 Fri 1:30, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Sat 1:25, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 oUiJa (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 5:00, 9:50 Sun, Tue 4:15, 9:35 Mon 4:15, 9:55 Wed 4:15, 10:10 roseWaTer (14A) Fri 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon 1:10, 4:00, 7:30, 10:40 Tue 1:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 4:40, 7:50, 10:00 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 2:40, 3:00, 5:10, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:10 Fri 11:50, 1:40, 3:10, 4:15, 6:00, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 11:00, 12:20, 1:35, 3:10, 4:15, 6:00, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 12:20, 1:25, 3:10, 4:05, 6:00, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:30, 3:10, 4:05, 6:00, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 1:30, 3:10, 4:05, 6:00, 7:10, 9:50 Whiplash (14A) Fri 12:10, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 11:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 MonWed 1:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

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Big hero 6 (PG) Thu 1:00 4:05 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 The Book of life (G) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 12:30 1:15 4:00 4:45 7:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 12:45, 4:00, 4:15, 7:30, 7:45 John Wick (14A) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:55 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:20 oUiJa (14A) Thu 1:10 4:15 7:05 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:15

2442 bloor ST. WeST, 416-769-2442

Big hero 6 (PG) Thu 3:50 7:00 9:25 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:15 mat The Book of life (G) Thu 4:10 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat gone girl (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:20, 9:15 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 6:30 9:50 Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50 Fri, Tue-Wed 6:50 SatMon 1:00, 6:50

KIngSWaY TheaTre (I) 3030 bloor ST W, 416-232-1939

BJörk: Biophilia liVe (G) Thu 10:45 Sat, Mon, Wed 4:00 Boyhood (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 9:05 chef (14A) Thu 11:10 force maJeUre (14A) Thu 11:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:05 The hUndred-fooT JoUrney (PG) Fri-Wed 11:15 ida (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 11:15 imagine i’m BeaUTifUl Thu 2:30, 7:25 The irish pUB Thu 4:05 laggies (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 5:00 my old lady (PG) Thu 3:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:15 The 100-year-old man Who climBed oUT The WindoW and disappeared (14A) Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 The oVernighTers (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 4:00 peT semaTary Fri-Sat 11:00 pride (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 5:00 The secreT Trial 5 (PG) Fri-Wed 5:45 The TWo faces of JanUary (PG) Thu 5:30 Fri-Wed 12:45 Walking The camino: six Ways To sanTiago (G) Thu 1:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:15

queenSWaY (Ce)

1025 The queenSWaY, qeW & ISlIngTon, 416-503-0424 alexander and The TerriBle, horriBle, no good, Very Bad day (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:30 Before i go To sleep (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:25 Big hero 6 (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Fri 1:00, 3:10, 3:50, 6:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 12:20, 12:55, 3:10, 3:50, 6:00, 6:35, 9:30 Sun 12:20, 12:40, 3:10, 3:30, 6:00, 6:20, 9:05, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:40, 3:10, 3:30, 6:00, 6:20, 9:05, 9:30 Big hero 6 3d (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 12:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Birdman or (The UnexpecTed VirTUe of ignorance) (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 6:55, 9:30, 9:50 Fri 11:50, 4:55, 7:50, 9:00, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 9:00, 10:40 Sun 4:20, 7:45, 9:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:45, 9:00, 10:35 The Book of life 3d (G) Thu 4:20, 7:05 The Book of life (G) Thu 1:45 Fri 12:00, 2:40, 7:20 Sat 11:00, 12:10, 2:40, 7:20 Sun 1:20, 6:50 Mon 1:05 Tue 1:05, 6:50 Wed 1:10 dracUla UnTold (14A) Thu 4:55, 10:25 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri 11:45, 1:20, 2:30, 3:30, 4:05, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 12:45, 1:10, 2:30, 3:40, 4:05, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:00, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 1:00, 2:00, 3:40, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:25, 10:00, 10:25 Mon 1:15, 2:05, 3:40, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:30, 10:00, 10:25 Tue 1:15, 2:05, 3:40, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:25, 10:00, 10:25 Wed 2:05, 3:40, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:25, 10:00, 10:25 The eqUalizer (18A) Thu 10:30

WooDbIne CenTre, 500 rexDale blvD, 416-213-1998

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400 ronCeSvalleS ave, 416-531-9959 arT and crafT (PG) Wed 7:00 a BreaTh of life Sat 11:00 dolphin Tale 2 (G) Fri 1:30 The drop (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 7:00 Sat, Mon, Wed 9:00 easy VirTUe Sat 2:00 ernesT & celesTine (PG) Fri 4:00 The lodger Sun 1:30 The manxman Sat 4:15 The skeleTon TWins (14A) Fri 9:30 Sat, Mon 7:00 Sun, Tue 9:00 War child Sun 4:00

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5095 Yonge ST., 416-847-0087

12 MarIe labaTTe roaD, 416-644-0660

Before i go To sleep (14A) Thu 3:55 Big hero 6 (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 7:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Big hero 6 3d (PG) Thu 3:35, 9:35, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 MonWed 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Birdman or (The UnexpecTed VirTUe of ignorance) (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:25 Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 fUry (14A) Thu 6:35, 9:55 gone girl (14A) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 6:50, 10:10 Wed 3:30, 6:45, 10:10 hermiTage reVealed Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 6:00, 9:40 Fri 1:35, 5:10, 8:45 Sat-Sun 1:15, 5:00, 8:40 Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:45 inTersTellar: The imax experience (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:40, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 3:05, 6:40, 10:25 John Wick (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 1:50, 5:30, 7:55 Sat, Mon-Tue 5:30, 7:55 Sun 7:55 Wed 3:50 The meTropoliTan opera: macBeTh encore Sat 12:00 naTional TheaTer liVe: of mice and men - encore Thu 7:00 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 4:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 10:20 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 4:00, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 3:30, 5:10, 7:25, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:15

Birdman or (The UnexpecTed VirTUe of ignorance) (14A) Thu 2:30, 9:00 Fri-Sat 4:10, 7:10 Sun, Tue 4:00, 7:30 Mon 2:30 Wed 4:00 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Fri 4:40, 7:50, 11:00 Sat 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 11:00 Sun 1:20, 3:30, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:45 gone girl (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 6:00, 9:30 Sun, Tue-Wed 2:00, 6:00, 9:15 Mon 3:00 gone WiTh The Wind Mon 6:30 hermiTage reVealed Sun 12:55 Wed 7:30 inTersTellar (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 6:30, 9:00, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 1:00, 2:30, 5:00, 6:30, 9:00, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:45, 10:15 Mon 2:00, 5:00, 6:00, 9:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:45, 10:15 naTional TheaTer liVe: of mice and men - encore Thu 7:00 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 10:00 Sun-Wed 10:45

onTarIo SCIenCe CenTre oMnIMax (I) 770 Don MIllS rD., 416-429-4100

hUBBle Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00 Sat-Sun 3:00 The hUman Body 12:00 island of lemUrs: madagascar (G) 11:00, 2:00 Under The sea Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 continued on page 78 œ

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Big hero 6 (PG) Sat-Sun 12:00 Big hero 6 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:40, 10:15 The Book of life 3d (G) Thu 6:30 The Book of life (G) Sat-Sun 12:45 dUmB and dUmBer To (PG) Fri 3:45, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:40 gone girl (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 6:45, 10:00 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Wed 10:00 inTersTellar (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 8:00 Fri 3:15, 7:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 2:55, 6:30, 10:05 John Wick (14A) Thu 9:00 nighTcraWler (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:10 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 3:15, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Tue 7:15, 10:10 Wed 10:10 sT. VincenT (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:45 Fri 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 SatSun 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Tue 7:30, 9:50 Wed 9:50

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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 1:25 4:00 6:45 9:30 Fri-wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 10:50, 11:50 mat Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Sunwed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 4:35, 7:00 THe Book of Life (G) thu 2:10 Fri, Sun-wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:40 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:30, 6:40 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 9:20 Fri, Sun-tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 wed 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 gone girL (14A) thu 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri, Sun-wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 HermiTage reveaLeD Sun 12:55 wed 7:30 How To Train Your Dragon 3D (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 2:00, 3:00, 5:30, 6:40, 9:10, 10:10 Fri, Sun-wed 1:20, 2:40, 5:10, 6:20, 9:00, 9:55 Sat 11:10, 1:20, 2:40, 5:10, 6:20, 9:00, 9:55 JoHn wick (14A) thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 Sat, Mon-tue 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 wed 2:30, 5:05, 10:05 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-tue 1:40, 7:00, 9:45 wed 7:00, 9:45 ouiJa (14A) thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-wed 4:20, 9:20

SilverCity yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin St, 416-787-2052

aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu 1:15 BeYonD THe LigHTs (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Mon-wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu, Mon-wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 4:30, 7:10 THe Book of Life (G) thu 1:50 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 9:30 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:10, 1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 1:15, 2:30, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 furY (14A) thu 3:30, 6:45 gone girL (14A) thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:15 Sat 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:45 How To Train Your Dragon (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 1:30, 3:00, 5:00, 6:40, 8:30, 10:20 Fri, Sun 11:50, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:05, 10:50 Sat 11:10, 11:40, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:05, 10:50 Mon-wed 1:30,

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Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu 4:50 Fri 12:40, 3:25, 5:20, 7:20 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:20 Mon, wed 5:15 tue 5:15, 7:20 THe BesT of me (PG) thu, Mon, wed 7:40 Fri-Sat, tue 9:45 Sun 9:30 Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 4:45, 6:00, 7:25 Fri 12:20, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 11:15, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Mon, wed 4:55, 7:25 tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 5:20, 8:10 Fri 12:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Mon, wed 5:40, 8:15 tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 THe Book of Life (G) thu 5:10 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 8:30 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) Fri 12:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Mon, wed 5:30, 8:10 tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 THe equaLizer (18A) thu 8:30 Fri, tue 3:50, 10:20 Sat 3:40, 10:20 Sun 3:40, 10:10 Mon, wed 8:25 gone girL (14A) thu 5:15, 8:25 Fri 12:15, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 3:25, 6:45, 9:55 Sun 12:25, 3:25, 6:45, 9:55 Mon, wed 5:10, 8:20 tue 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 How To Train Your Dragon 3D (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 5:00, 7:00, 8:00 Fri, Sun 12:50, 2:45, 4:30, 6:30, 8:15, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 12:50, 2:45, 4:30, 6:30, 8:15, 10:00 Mon, wed 5:00, 7:10, 8:00 tue 4:30, 6:30, 8:15, 10:00 JoHn wick (14A) thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri 3:05, 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 Sat 2:35, 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon, wed 5:20, 7:50 tue 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 THe JuDge (14A) thu, Mon, wed 4:55 Fri 12:20, 7:10 SatSun 12:30, 7:10 tue 7:10 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 5:35, 8:20 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Mon, wed 5:45, 8:25 tue 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 ouiJa (14A) thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri 12:10, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 5:45, 8:00, 10:05 Mon, wed 5:55, 8:15 tue 5:45, 8:00, 10:15

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce) SCarborough town Centre, 416-290-5217

aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu 2:50 annaBeLLe (14A) thu 10:10 Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 1:00 3:50 6:35 9:20 Fri-wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri, Monwed 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 4:55, 7:30 THe Book of Life (G) 2:15 Sat 11:40 mat Dear wHiTe PeoPLe (14A) Fri-wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:25

DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 10:20 Fri, Mon-tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:45, 10:30 eDsa wooLworTH Fri, Mon-wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 furY (14A) thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-tue 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 wed 3:45, 10:05 gone girL (14A) 2:55, 6:20, 9:45 HermiTage reveaLeD Sun 12:55 wed 7:30 How To Train Your Dragon 3D (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:45, 10:20 Fri, Mon-wed 2:00, 2:50, 6:00, 6:30, 9:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:00, 3:30, 6:00, 7:10, 9:40, 10:50 JoHn wick (14A) thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat, Monwed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:50 Sun 4:25, 6:55, 9:50 THe maze runner (PG) thu 1:40, 4:25 Fri-Sat, Mon-wed 1:00 Sun 1:35 naTionaL THeaTer Live: of mice anD men - encore thu 7:00 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-tue 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 wed 4:45 ouiJa (14A) thu 3:05 5:30 7:55 10:05 Fri-wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15

10:00 tue 3:00, 5:40, 6:40, 9:30, 10:25 JoHn wick (14A) thu 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:10, 8:45 Mon 3:50, 6:50, 10:35 tue 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 wed 4:30, 6:40, 7:15, 10:25 THe JuDge (14A) thu 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 kiLL DiL Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Mon-wed 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 THe meTroPoLiTan oPera: macBeTH encore Sat 12:00 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 Fri 2:05, 5:00, 7:50 Sat 5:20, 8:10 Sun 4:00, 7:00 Mon 4:00 tue 4:20, 7:10 wed 3:50 ouiJa (14A) thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 10:45 Sat 10:55 Sun 9:50 Mon 9:30 tue 10:00 wed 9:25 rosewaTer (14A) Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Mon, wed 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 tue 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 sT. vincenT (14A) thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon, wed 5:00, 7:35 tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00

eglinton town Centre (Ce)

HaPPY new Year (PG) thu 3:00 Fri, Mon-wed 3:30 SatSun 1:00 Jai Ho (14A) Mon-wed 10:30 kaTHTHi (PG) thu 3:30 7:00 10:30 Fri-wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat kiLL DiL 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 4:30 oru oorLa renDu raJa (PG) thu, Mon-wed 7:15 Fri-Sat 10:30 Sun 4:00, 10:30 PooJai (14A) thu 10:30 Fri-Sun 7:15 THe sHaukeens (14A) thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri 3:45 Sat-Sun 1:00 suPer nani (PG) thu 3:45

1901 eglinton ave e, 416-752-4494

aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu 3:25, 5:35, 7:45 Fri 12:00, 2:10 Sat 11:45, 2:10 Sun 11:50, 2:00 annaBeLLe (14A) thu 10:00 Before i go To sLeeP (14A) thu 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 BeYonD THe LigHTs (14A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 wed 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-tue 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 BirDman or (THe unexPecTeD virTue of ignorance) (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-wed 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 4:50, 7:20 THe Book of Life (G) thu 2:10 Fri 12:20, 1:30 Sat 1:25 Sun 12:50 tue 3:10 THe BoxTroLLs (G) thu 2:40 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 7:00 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 9:50 Fri 11:55, 2:00, 2:40, 4:40, 5:20, 7:20, 8:00, 10:05, 10:45 Sat 11:20, 12:00, 2:00, 2:40, 4:40, 5:20, 7:20, 8:00, 10:05, 10:45 Sun 1:25, 2:05, 4:05, 4:45, 6:55, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Mon-wed 4:05, 4:45, 6:55, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 THe equaLizer (18A) thu 4:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun, tue 10:30 Mon, wed 10:10 furY (14A) thu 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sat 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Sun-tue 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 wed 4:10, 9:45 gone girL (14A) thu 3:05, 6:25, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 Sun 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon, wed 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 tue 3:15, 6:35, 9:55 gone wiTH THe winD Mon 6:30 HaPPY new Year (PG) thu 3:15, 6:55, 10:30 Fri, Sun 11:45, 3:15, 6:50, 10:25 Sat 11:35, 3:10, 6:45, 10:20 Mon, wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 tue 3:05, 6:40, 10:15 HermiTage reveaLeD Sun 12:55 wed 7:30 How To Train Your Dragon 3D (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 2:20, 3:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:45, 10:20 Fri 11:50, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:15, 10:50 Sat 11:10, 11:50, 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:10, 10:15, 10:50 Sun 12:10, 2:00, 4:15, 6:00, 8:20, 9:55 Mon, wed 3:35, 5:30, 8:30,

woodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhurSt CirCle, 416-299-3456

GTA Regions North ColoSSuS (Ce) hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 6:50 Sat 11:05, 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 6:50 Mon-wed 4:35, 6:50 annaBeLLe (14A) thu 3:35, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45 Before i go To sLeeP (14A) thu 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:00, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-wed 8:05, 10:20 THe BesT of me (PG) thu 4:05, 9:40 Fri-tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 wed 3:45, 10:30 BeYonD THe LigHTs (14A) 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 3:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-wed 3:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 THe Book of Life (G) 3:20, 5:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50 mat THe BoxTroLLs (G) thu 6:35 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-wed 4:25, 6:45, 9:15 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 10:00 Fri 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 12:10, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Mon-wed 4:30,

5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 THe equaLizer (18A) thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:45 furY (14A) thu 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-wed 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 gone girL (14A) thu 4:00, 7:30, 10:35 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-wed 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 guarDians of THe gaLaxY (PG) Fri-wed 9:20 How To Train Your Dragon 3D (PG) Sat 11:00 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 3:30, 5:30, 7:10, 9:10, 10:50 FriSun 12:00, 1:50, 3:35, 5:30, 7:10, 9:10, 10:45 Mon-wed 3:35, 5:30, 7:10, 9:10, 10:45 inTersTeLLar: THe imax exPerience (PG) thu 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 Mon-wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 JoHn wick (14A) thu 5:10, 7:35 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 THe JuDge (14A) thu 3:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:20 maPs To THe sTars (18A) thu 6:45 THe maze runner (PG) Fri, Sun 1:40 Sat 11:00, 1:40 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 ouiJa (14A) thu 3:55, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:35 Mon-wed 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:35 sT. vincenT (14A) thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:35, 10:00 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:00

rainbow proMenade (i)

proMenade Mall, hwy 7 & bathurSt, 416-494-9371 aLexanDer anD THe TerriBLe, HorriBLe, no gooD, verY BaD DaY (PG) thu, Sat-wed 1:15, 4:10 Fri 4:10 Big Hero 6 (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) thu 9:30 Fri-wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:55, 9:35 gone girL (14A) thu 6:30 inTersTeLLar (PG) 12:30, 1:05, 4:05, 4:35, 7:35, 9:00 THe JuDge (14A) thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Fri-wed 6:30, 9:20 sT. vincenT (14A) 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20

West grande - SteeleS (Ce) hwy 410 & SteeleS, 905-455-1590

Big Hero 6 (PG) thu 5:00, 8:05 Fri 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 SatSun 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-wed 5:00, 7:35 Big Hero 6 3D (PG) thu 5:40, 8:35 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-wed 5:30, 8:05 THe Book of Life 3D (G) thu 5:25 THe Book of Life (G) Sat-Sun 12:45 DracuLa unToLD (14A) thu 7:45 DumB anD DumBer To (PG) Fri 4:00, 7:45, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-wed 5:10, 8:30 furY (14A) thu 4:50, 7:50 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-wed 5:05, 8:20 gone girL (14A) thu 4:40, 7:50 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 SatSun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Mon-wed 5:15, 8:25 inTersTeLLar (PG) thu 4:45, 5:10, 8:20, 8:50 Fri 3:30, 5:30, 6:50, 9:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:40, 1:30, 3:15, 5:30, 6:50, 9:15, 10:30 Mon-wed 5:00, 7:00, 8:00 JoHn wick (14A) thu 5:15, 9:00 Fri 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 SatSun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-wed 5:35, 8:10 nigHTcrawLer (14A) thu 4:20, 8:10 Fri 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 3:20, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-wed 5:25, 8:15 ouiJa (14A) thu 5:50, 8:45 Fri 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-wed 5:20, 7:40 3

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woman currently racked by a guilty Catholic conscience. My last boyfriend and I were in an open, long-distance relationship. We were together for a year and a half, and things were great fun. We considered each other our primary partners, but I met his other partners and felt fine about most of them, and I got to have some fun playtime back in my own city. Then I finished grad school and wanted to talk about moving to his city. He simply refused to have that conversation, and we broke up. It hurt – a lot – but we resolved to stay friends, and we are still close. A year later, he was diagnosed with cancer. I went to visit him at his request and cuddled him at night as he was racked by chemo nausea and fatigue. There was some touching (boobs and butts help with nausea, apparently), but mostly I just spooned him and fetched him tea. That same weekend, I met his new, much younger girlfriend (19 to his 28). She is sweet and caring, but she was clearly uncomfortable with my visit, and I belatedly realized that either they aren’t doing the open thing or they haven’t talked much about it. I suddenly felt a little jealous and a lot like an emotional intruder. Not everyone understands the sort of relationship he and I had, but I’m lost on how to be a good friend/former girlfriend to him now. Am I jeopardizing his romantic life by staying his friend? Is it possible for us to stay close without making his current girlfriend jealous? Did I just help him cheat? Accidental Home Wrecker Good on you for going to see your ex-boyfriend, AHW. It was absolutely the right thing to do. As for his current girlfriend: It’s possible that your presence made her uncomfortable, AHW. It’s also possible that she’s socially awkward and you misread her signals. Or perhaps she’s never had to interact with a partner’s ex before. She’s still a teenager – the whole concept of exes remaining on good terms and being there for each other during a crisis may be new to her. If you and your ex are close enough to spoon during a health crisis, AHW, you’re close enough to ask him a direct question or two about his current relationship. Is it open or closed? If it’s open, are we talking open in practice or open in theory? If it’s the latter, you may be the first “non-primary” partner – or the first ex-primary partner – with whom this girl has ever had to interact. Meaning: She may have been more comfortable with You, the Idea, than she was with You, the Person.

Another question to ask your ex: Will your being around screw up his current relationship? Your ex may still want you around even if the answer is yes. His current girlfriend is very young, and (provided I’m reading the timeline correctly) he’s been with her for less than a year. Right now the support of his old friends may be more valuable to him than this new girlfriend. So don’t disappear on your ex because you have a hunch his new girlfriend might be jealous, AHW. Talk to him, let him make his own choices, and be there for him.

Not everyone who’s poly can be out, NUNYA, just as not everyone who’s gay, bi, trans, kinky or poz can be out. But the only way to dispel myths about poly people and poly relationships – poly people are all burners, poly relationships don’t work out for the long term, all non-monogamous relationships ultimately fail – is for poly people to come out when and where they can. So if you’re in a position to be out, NUNYA, you should come out. And while your poly relationship isn’t anyone’s business, it’s not something you should have to hide either.

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ones: happily married for decades, with a long-term girlfriend. GF is at this point part of the family, and while it hasn’t always been an easy arrangement to sort out, it has worked for over a decade. Recently, I’ve been talking with other nonmonogamous folk and find myself wondering whether I have any responsibility to publicly admit details about my multipartner lifestyle. Though it’s probably obvious to those we interact with regularly (GF is routinely part of holiday family functions and picks up kids after school, etc), we have never been directly ASKED, nor have we told. On the one hand, I want others to know that workable long-term non-monogamy isn’t just a pipe dream, but on the other, the details of my personal life are nobody’s business. I’m certainly no role model, but am I crazy to feel guilt for not being openly poly? Non-monogamous, Utterly Normal, Yet Apprehensive

in a relationship for the last decade. We are high school sweethearts who lost our virginity to each other. We are now engaged, but for the last few years we have been having a recurring issue. He wants a three-way desperately. He thinks about it all the time, and it seems to come up in almost every conversation we have. I feel that this goes beyond just a fantasy. We used to have a great sex life, but now I feel as if I have to beg for it. He wants this to happen NOW. I think it should just happen naturally if it is going to happen. I don’t think there should be any pressure on it. We tried going to a swingers club, met a couple and fooled around. He started to have sex with the wife, and it was okay. The wife was not interested in me at all, though. I agreed to all of this because I have always been bi-curious, but I never had the opportunity, so needless to say I did not enjoy myself very much during this encounter. My fiancé was not satisfied,

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though. He still keeps bringing it up. I think it is a deeper feeling that he missed out because we got together so young. I have repeatedly told him I am fine with taking a break so he can go get some other ass before we get married, but he will not listen. I am completely satisfied. We are both happy and love each other. I just constantly have guilt about being the reason he can’t have what he wants. Is there anything I can do? Please, help. Not Enough For Him When a person says she wants something sexual to happen “naturally,” NEFH, what she means is “spontaneously.” Three-ways don’t happen that way. An opposite-sex couple that wants to have a three-way is gonna have to make an effort, NEFH. You’ll have to take out personal ads, go to swingers clubs and approach trusted friends or exes and carefully broach the subject. (A gay couple that wants to have a threeway? They just have to leave the house. Pretty much.) So your fiancé is right: this won’t happen if you don’t make it happen. But your fiancé is also being a douche. If three-ways are all he can talk about, and if he’s so obsessed with three-ways that he’s not interested in two-ways (with you) any more, then he’s consciously or subconsciously sabotaging your relationship. Offer him a deal: so long as he makes the two-ways happen, you’ll help make the three-ways happen. On the Lovecast, Dan and Janet Yassen from RAINN talk about recovering from rape: savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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