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1. A fort for grown-ups It’s not a terrorist hideout or a citizen-dug subway start. The Toronto tunnel was just a place for two dudes to chill, police say.

2. Losing Hope Rising rents are forcing the Salvation Army to shut down the 124-bed Hope homeless shelter, which has operated for 40 years at College and McCaul.

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Young Thug

Right when Nicki Minaj began toning down her flamboyant fashions, along came Young Thug to keep the rap-eccentric dream alive, with an orange fur hat, leopard-print dress and vocal style all his own. It’s not so much what the prolific Atlanta MC is rhyming, but how he’s doing it: his yelping, warbling flows are as catchy as they are unpredictable. After a year of massive hype, the 23-year-old arrives in Toronto alongside co-headliner Travis Scott and DJ/producer Metro Boomin. Danforth Music Hall. Tuesday (March 10), 7 pm. $28.50$32. ticketmaster.ca.

This week March 5–11 Thursday 5

Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights The hilarious sketch duo perform the first of four shows at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. $30. Theatre Centre.

647-505-1050. torontosketchfest.com.

See related story, page 47.

Kim Echlin Giller short-lister presents her new novel, Under The Visible Life, in the Reference Library’s Eh! Series. 7 pm. Free. More info page 52. tpl.ca.

Islam In The Mirror Of The West Lecture by UC Irvine professor Touraj Daryaee. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre. noorculturalcentre.ca.

Friday 6

Vag Halen The queer T.O. cover band trades in cock rock for Pixies tunes during two nights at Smiling Buddha. 9 pm. $10. And March 5.

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two-wheeled fun rolls into the Better Living Centre. To March 8. $10-$15. bicycleshowtoronto.com.

The Babadook Jennifer Kent’s awesome Australian horror flick finally opens on Toronto screens. See more, page 55.

Saturday 7

Feast In The East The 46th edition of the food (South American this time) and music series gets loud with HSY, Shrines and others. 9 pm, all ages. $8$13. Jam Factory. burndownthecapital.weebly.com.

Sunday 8

Ariana Grande The fouroctave mini-Mimi brings her first headlining tour to the ACC. Doors 6:30 pm. $29.50-$69.50. ticketmaster.ca.

Eco-perspectives Mohawk educator Danny Beaton offers a native view on environmental protection.

Knox College. 2 pm. Free. ulyssean. on.ca.

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Kate McKinnon SNL’s queen of impressions delivers two stand-up shows, part of the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. 7 and 9:30 pm. $39-$62. Randolph Theatre. torontosketchfest.com.

See cover story, page 44.

Tuesday 10

Travis Scott and Young Thug Recent Drake collaborator co-headlines with tripped-out Atlanta MC at the Danforth Music Hall. 7 pm. $28.50-$32. ticketmaster.ca.

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Winter market With local farmers at Montgomery’s Inn. 2-6 pm. Free. 416394-8113.

Cake And Dirt Daniel MacIvor’s new play about privilege, set in a Toronto penthouse, opens tonight at the Tarragon. 8 pm. To April 12. $29-$55, some discounts. 416-531-1827.

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Douglas Coupland Cultural commentator uses art to make a point at MOCCA (416-395-0067) to April 19 and at the ROM (416- 586-8000, $9-$16) to April 26.

Ho Tzu Nyen The Chinese artist’s haunting video evoking life and decay runs at Trinity Square Video to March 21. 416-593-1332. More info, page 53.

Marilyn Churley Former city councillor and MPP launches Shameless: The Fight For Adoption Disclosure And The Search For My Son at Women’s Art Association. 6 pm. Free. 416-922-2060. March 12.

The Barr Brothers Montreal indie folkies bring their newest batch of tunes to Lee’s. Doors 9 pm. $20. ticketfly.com. March 12.

Time Stands Still Donald Margulies’s drama about a journalist couple, a hit at last year’s Fringe, returns. Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace. $22-$38. 416-504-7529.

March 12 to 29.

The Pop Group Truly eccentric English proto-post-punks drop by again. Doors 9 pm.

Lee’s Palace. $29.50. ticketfly.com. March 14.

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good chance a second show is on the way – an extra got added when the Queen of Pop was here three years ago – but in case that doesn’t happen, grab a ticket ASAP. Air Canada Centre. 8 pm. $40-$355. ticketmaster.ca. October 5.

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Re Island Airport Safety Test (NOW, February 26-March 4).

Just this week the only vessel capable of moving through the harbour was the William Lyon Mackenzie fire boat, and only slowly at that. The harbour has been frozen for weeks, and was last year also. The remainder of the police emergency vessels would go nowhere in the event of an accident. Similarly, the second ferry would be useless.The emergency preparedness drill held last November was staged with all the emergency vehicles already at the airport.

Given that the passenger load at the airport is 10 times what it was a decade ago and the aircraft used now are larger and flights more frequent, it’s hard to believe that the once inadequate response capability has increased in proportion, never mind to the required level for solid safety.

Is the pedestrian tunnel going to change that?

Ron Jenkins From nowtoronto.com

Ludicrous ideas about homeless people

I don’t know where to begin on letterwriter Michael Irvine’s “advice” to homeless people on the streets of a

very prosperous city (NOW, February 26-March 4). I am ashamed on Irvine’s behalf that instead of being outraged that a city like Toronto has a homeless problem, he’d prefer to see them perform for him for spare change.

Homelessness is caused by various factors such as mental illness, physical disability, substance abuse and countless other social factors.

But its main cause is the sheer lack of affordable housing.

Please see Ontario Works and ODSP rates vs the average cost of housing in Toronto, as well as wait times for subsidized housing (roughly five to seven years, last I checked) instead of suggesting ludicrous privileged ideas next time.

Julia Lyubomsky Toronto

Any ob-gyn will tell you women should only wear cotton underwear, not poly. The same properties are responsible for increased body odour from any poly garment worn next to the skin.

Yes, poly may be recycled, but,

Slow down subways to prevent suicides

Lessons in polyester. Ew.

I gotta say, Adria Vasil totally dropped the ball in her bit on long johns (NOW, February 26-March 4).

Whether polyester is recycled or not, it remains a petroleum product. It’s basically spun plastic. Advocating poly is like advocating Shell oil or Suncor – you choose.

Furthermore, a good section of the population cannot wear polyester, because if it’s washed in anything that isn’t hypo-allergenic, the detergent stays in the garment and may irritate the skin. This is of special concern as commercial detergents become more and more sophisticated in their cleaning chemistry, with new chemicals added each year.

proposal to reduce their use by 80 per cent on corn and soy seed.

Phasing out these bee-killing pesticides is not only the right thing to do; it’s also extremely popular with the electorate.

Gideon Forman Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Toronto

well, ew, who wants an industrially extruded fibre product made from who-knows-what source material on their skin?

T. Berto Guelph

The buzz on beekilling pesticides ban

Re “Straight Facts” On Honey Bees (NOW, February 19-25). Kudos to Adria Vasil for her excellent mythbuster piece on neonic pesticides.

These poisons are indeed a threat to bees, but the good news is Ontario’s

Re Subway Suicides Pose Barrier Problems For TTC (NOW, February 19-25). No person contemplating suicide would jump in front of a slow-moving train. So instead of the proposed platform edge doors and their inherent cost, why not have subway trains slow down when they’re entering stations?

TTC staff could effectively implement a pilot project, at least at specific problem stations, to determine the cost benefit. Certainly the almost 100 per cent rise in suicides over the past year demands action.

L.W. Titus Toronto

American Sniper bang on

My wife and I saw American Sniper a few days ago and found it a superb, gripping movie about a true American patriot fighting for his country in very difficult circumstances. Your reviewer, Norman Wilner’s, derisive pre-Oscar takedown (NOW, February 20) did not do the film justice. But, then, it’s the same Norman Wilner

Adam Vaughan & Chrystia Freeland, Members of Parliament invite you to

Lets Talk: Arts, Culture & the Future of the CBC Thursday March 12, 2015 7:00pm AGO, Jackman Hall 317 Dundas St W. Entrance: Dundas & McCaul

RSVP: www.chrystiafreeland.ca Chrystia Freeland, MP 1027 Yonge Street, Unit 315 416-954-2222 @cafreeland

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who totally failed to appreciate the brilliant authenticity of the wonderful Israeli movie Fill The Void.

Joseph Berger Toronto

Xtra: why I’m not sorry to see it go

Gay bi-weekly Xtra has published its last print issue. It doesn’t break my heart to see it gone (NOW, February 18). The last issue lists a number of highlights through the paper’s three decades. What it doesn’t tell you is that many of its staffers appeared in its obituary pages after suffering stigma, illness and fear due to HIV phobia.

The paper failed to talk meaningfully about the most devastating issue decimating its community. The community was dying. Didn’t it need to be discussed? The paper pretended to despise the Toronto Sun. Yet Xtra in many ways emulated the Sun, featuring Xtra Hot pin-ups, mirroring the Sun’s exploitative Sunshine Girls.

Xtra was a voice for some, but not to the lost generation of its community.

Jake Peters Toronto

Clarification

Our December 4-10, 2014 publication included “The Ghomeshi Effect,” an article regarding the manifestation of transformative justice in social media.

That article made reference to a situation involving Greg Frankson and Ottawa’s Capital Poetry Collective as a means of illustrating the social phenomenon that is the article’s subject.

We reiterate that the situation involving Mr. Frankson involves unproven allegations. Moreover, any association that may have been drawn or inferred by readers between that situation and the abuse allegations against Jian Ghomeshi was unintentional.

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.

PORTS TORONTO BOARD CHAIR TAKES OFF ON NOW Ports Toronto chair Mark McQueen (pictured) had a few choice tweets for Ben Spurr’s Island Airport Safety Test story in last week’s print edition. And on NOW’s “incendiary positioning” on questions raised by a recently released report on emergency preparedness at the airfield. Here’s what McQueen had to say.

Toronto Fire Chief Jim Sales is confident in @BBishopAirport emergency response plans, but that’s apparently not good enough for @BenSpurr @BenSpurr to start with, your photo showed two generic airport firefighters dealing with a huge blaze 1/3 @BenSpurr then there’s the subhead: “Fire chief says the city is well

equipped, but a 20-year-old report... is raising red flags” 2/3 @BenSpurr the quotes from @ PortsToronto get lost in @nowtoronto’s incendiary positioning at that point. (As w every piece since 2004) 3/3 Island airport expansion foes were quick to respond and point to the fact that a ferry ramp that would be used to get emergency vehicles to the airport in the event of an accident was recently out of commission.

Ports Toronto spokes-

person Gene Cabral confirmed in response to a letter of concern from CommunityAIR’s Brian Iler that “we had a minor issue with hydraulics but it was remedied quickly, and there was minimal impact to service.”

According to CommunityAir, there have been at least seven flights diverted from the Island airport to Pearson over safety concerns in recent years, including three involving one aircraft in 2010 that had to be taken out of service temporarily. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

DIPLOMA In combining both theory and applied skills, students will be prepared for occupations in which they work with offenders and other high-risk client groups.

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Giving a toss at Backyard Axe Throwing League’s tournament for beginners on Saturday, February 27.

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Cityscape

The public got its first glimpse Tuesday night, March 3, of preliminary designs for the complex that could replace honest ed’s, Toronto’s most beloved discount department store. It’s big – four towers of 29, 16, five and four storeys – which means the proposal exceeds existing zoning bylaws and will probably be controversial. The big selling point: all of the roughly 1,000 units would be rental housing. Story at nowtoronto.com.

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What Mining Injustice Solidarity Network action at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual mining convention.

When Sunday, March 1, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

Why To deliver mock programs to delegates on PDAC’s stated commitments to corporate social responsibility. “It’s ridiculous that the same company that has been caught lying to communities and buying up land under false pretenses is leading a session on ‘proactive communication,’” says MISN organizer Rachel Small. Indeed, MISN points out that some of the convention’s sponsors are among the worst human rights offenders on the planet. In 2012, PDAC’s board of directors approved a five-year strategic plan identifying “access to land [and] access to capital” as priorities – along with “aboriginal affairs,” of course.

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Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, the former driver for the former mayor, was in court this week to face the music on that extortion rap concerning his alleged efforts to obtain the (first) Rob Ford crack video. The hearing is covered by a publication ban, but we can report that Lisi’s lawyers have indicated that if the matter proceeds to trial, they’d prefer it be conducted by judge and jury.

The case is already taking on the hallmarks of a circus. One of Lisi’s lawyers, Seth Weinstein, represented Justin Bieber when he was charged with assault in Toronto last year. The other is a former Crown attorney whom the OPP once called an “unindicted co-conspirator” in an alleged attempt to pervert justice. Meanwhile, Fabio Basso, the long-time Ford pal who lives at 15 Windsor, where the Ford video was recorded, briefly took a seat in the public gallery, bringing with him the strong smell of cigarette smoke.

“I really am very concerned at any proposal that says we should send these fare inspectors out without any personal protective equipment.”

TTC CEO Andy Byford bucks for batons for TTC fare inspectors after the TTC board approved changes last week that will see some of them carry batons and handcuffs. The board also voted to look into more “customerfriendly” clothing for the inspectors instead of the current police-style uniforms. Councillor Joe Mihevc says making inspectors appear less intimidating will lower the risk of violent confrontations with customers. But apparently Byford has done the costbenefit analysis and determined that catching turnstile-jumpers amounts to a PR win even if a few heads are busted in the process.

QuAIA CALLS IT QUITS After seven years of Palestine solidarity work in LGBTQ communities, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) has announced it’s disbanding.

The group says the “deteriorating situation in the Middle East, Canada’s involvement in attempts to suppress the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and other pressing issues have pulled activist energies in many directions... stretching the small group’s resources to continue in its current form.”

Mayor John Tory has threatened to cut city funding to Pride if it allowed QuAIA to march in the parade. Pride Toronto’s new executive director, Mathieu Chantelois, who was Tory’s French-language spokesperson during the municipal election, told NOW earlier this year that he was prepared to fight to allow QuAIA in the parade.

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IS CLIMATE FINALLY ON CITY AGENDA? Parks and Environment’s newly formed Subcommittee on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation held its inaugural meeting in the council chamber on Monday, March 2, to hammer out its mandate. Yes, the leftish subgroup has only four members, but it was a full house anyway, thanks mostly to attendance by members of the People’s Climate Movement, who were there to deliver a 14,000-signature petition to council demanding the city go 100 per cent green by 2050. Now, that would be something.

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iven his well-known animosity toward those who get in his way, Stephen Harper seems like the last person to trust with a secret police force.

But a secret police force is exactly what the prime minister will soon have, as a result of Bill C-51, the government’s “anti-terror” legislation currently making its way quickly through Parliament.

Even the pro-establishment Globe and Mail has come out strongly against Bill C-51 in a series of sharply worded editorials, accusing Harper of using the threat of terrorism to “turn our domestic spy agency into something that looks disturbingly like a secret police force.”

Canada already has extensive laws permitting police to disrupt the activities of terrorists. But this new bill goes beyond terrorism. Although it

officially permits lawful dissent, it allows our national security force, CSIS, to carry out undefined “measures” against perceived threats, including anything that interferes with Canada’s “economic or financial stability” or the country’s “critical infrastructure.”

The problem is that a wide range of legitimate groups involved in advocacy on environmental, First Nations, labour and social justice issues might well be regarded by the Harper government as a threat to the country’s “economic stability” or “critical infrastructure.”

Harper has already shown a willingness to use the power of the state to harass groups challenging his agenda, particularly his desire to develop Canada’s fossil fuel reserves. In 2012, he established a special $8 million program that imposed intrusive tax audits on charities in connection with their political activities. The

program appeared to be directed exclusively at groups critical of Harper’s agenda, including the David Suzuki Foundation, the Pembina Foundation, Amnesty International, PEN Canada, the United Church and Canada Without Poverty.

Bill C-51 would give the government far more police power to wreak havoc on these legitimate groups, and to do so behind a veil of secrecy, with little oversight.

Indeed, even without Bill C-51, Canada’s security forces have shown a willingness in the past to spy on and disrupt the activities of peaceful groups. Bill C-51 will be a flashing green light for them to be more intrusive and disruptive in the future.

The past behaviour I’m referring to goes beyond the already well-known examples of RCMP wrongdoing (illegal wiretapping, barn-burning, etc) that were investigated by the McDonald inquiry in the late 1970s.

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Amnesty International executive director ALEX NEVE says C-51 “contains deeply worrying challenges to human rights protection, including the unprecedented proposition of empowering Federal Court judges to authorize violations of the Charter Of Rights.”

NICOLE FILION, coordonnatrice de la Ligue des Droits et Libertés, says C-51 “is complex and very technical legislation that proposes two entirely new statutes and extensive amendments to three others. Each of those should receive thorough consideration.”

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ZIYAAD MIA of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association says the bill “leaves open the prospect of years of time-consuming and expensive court challenges after the fact.”

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SUKANYA PILLAY, general counsel and executive director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, notes that C-51 “has come forward without any accompanying review

of existing laws, policies and resources. To allow so little time for scrutiny of its provisions runs counter to the expectation Canadians have that their elected representatives will consider legislation carefully before it is adopted.”

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IHSAAN GARDEE, executive director, National Council of Canadian Muslims says that “Given the disproportionate impact of anti-terrorism legislation in recent years on Canadian Muslims... such limited time for study

by the committee offers scant opportunity for those views to be meaningfully shared with parliamentarians.”

Rather, I’m referring to other more serious RCMP behaviour that surfaced briefly at the McDonald inquiry but was then largely ignored by the commission and the media.

It’s worth taking a minute to highlight that behaviour, because it involves tactics that have long been used by police forces around the world to disrupt legitimate dissenters and ensnare them in problems with the law, thereby discrediting them and their causes in the eyes of the public.

Consider, for instance, the case of Warren Hart, a black FBI agent who was recruited by the RCMP in the 1970s. Working undercover, Hart spent four and a half years infiltrating and spying on black and First Nations groups in Canada.

Hart’s undercover work went well beyond spying. He also acted as an agent provocateur.

The groups he infiltrated were focused on peaceful political consciousness-raising, but Hart repeatedly urged them to resort to violence – to heavily arm themselves (with guns he offered to provide), to blow up police stations, police cars and an embassy, and to prepare themselves for racial violence, according to those who came into contact with him at the time.

Jean Greatbatch, now a Vancouver mediator, was at the time the women’s commissioner of the University of Toronto student council, which was working with the campus Black Students Union to bring American activist Angela Davis to Toronto to speak at Con-

vocation Hall as part of the “women of distinction” series.

Hart attended the planning meetings for the Davis visit, posing as a black activist. But unlike all the students at the meeting, he was always talking about the need for guns, according to Greatbatch.

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SPECIAL REPORT ANTI-TERROR BILL C-51

82% APPROVAL FOR TERROR BILL. IT MUST BE GREAT.

By SHOWEY YAZDANIAN It’s the most controversial piece of legislation in recent Canadian history. And yet, cries the Globe and Mail, citing anti-terror Bill C-51’s 82 per cent national approval rating, there has “rarely been a bill before Parliament that was more popular.”

Eighty-two per cent! My, what a large number. When countries like Russia, Iran and Kyrgyzstan boast 95 per cent election turnouts and 96 per cent presidential approval ratings, we in Canada collectively loose a big, hearty, democratic belly laugh at the sheer absurdity of voter unanimity. This isn’t to imply that the Angus Reid poll was fixed – merely that as a serious assessment of how Canadians really feel about Bill C-51, it just isn’t very good.

Let me assure you, 82 per cent of Canadians agree on precisely nothing, never mind eternal fidelity to a piece of abstruse legislation. First, the poll is not a random sample. The sample was 1,509 individuals drawn from a pool of people registered at the online Angus Reid Forum, a website where anyone who completes a survey can enter “sweepstakes draws to win gift certificates or cash.” The problem isn’t necessarily that respondents were enticed with prizes.

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Bill C-51 is 62 pages of dense legal text that would make most lawyers wince. The Angus Reid poll consists of two large-print pages with seven nice and easy questions – less onerous than your typical hotel satisfaction survey. And with questions like whether or not one is in favour of or opposed to “making it illegal to promote terrorism,” it’s probably less subtle, too.

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nearly reflects your feelings: a) There is a serious threat of terrorism here in Canada; b) Politicians and the media have overblown the threat of terrorism in Canada.

I choose c. I’m not CSIS. Questions about my personal appraisal of the threat of terrorism are irrelevant to the actual content of Bill C-51, so why don’t you take your leading questions elsewhere and ask me something else?

In its favour, the poll successfully ascertains that 65 people in Manitoba who go online to complete surveys are indeed worried about terrorism. The numbers in Saskatchewan are somewhat more troubling. In response to the question “How familiar are you with the proposed legislation?” 13 per cent of people had “read stories about it,” 28 per cent had seen “a story or two,” 39 per cent had “just scanned the headlines” and 21 per cent had not read “anything at all” – all of which is fine, except the numbers add up to 101.

Mathematics!

It’s a free country. If you want to support Bill C-51, then thine is the power. But the idea that this bill is an unstoppable juggernaut, a force of nature with such awesome powers of public approval that it’s simply irresistible at this point is nonsense.

This isn’t Facebook. I couldn’t care less how many “likes” Bill C-51 has. I only want to know two things: a) what it’s about and b) under exactly what circumstances and how far the government intends to ram its snout into my private life. I suspect most Canadians would agree.

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THE GOVERNMENT’S ANTI-TERRORISM ACT BY THE NUMBERS Number of expert witnesses heard in 2001, the last time Canada’s laws dealing with national security underwent significant changes.

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It’s that the poll was a) peppered with poorly designed questions and b) restricted to a self-selected batch of Canadians who have the kind of time, internet savvy and computer access that permits leisurely completion of surveys. It simply cannot be used to support grandiose statements about the general Canadian population, like the Globe and Mail’s proclamation that “more than four in five Canadians back the new legislation to expand the powers of intelligence agencies and police.”

But let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment and pretend that the poll took a random and representative sample of the real-life opinions of average Canadians. Eighty-two per cent is a lot of people, but it’s not quite so impressive when you consider that 57 per cent of those surveyed openly admitted that while they do support the bill, they know almost nothing about it. Specifically, 855 of the 1,509 survey-takers selfcharacterized their knowledge of Bill C-51 as either “Not read/seen anything at all” or “Just scanned/saw the headlines.”

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Number of organizations in the cross-country coalition objecting to the limit on parliamentary hearings, among them amnesty international, the british Columbia Civil liberties association, the Canadian Civil liberties association, the Canadian muslim lawyers association, the international Civil liberties monitoring group, la ligue des droits et libertés and the National Council of Canadian muslims.

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HOLE LOTTA TERROR FOR NOTHING The story of the north Toronto tunnel to nowhere went viral, and by the time the mystery was solved on Monday, March 2, only a little uncertainty hung in the air after the reassuring answer that it was dug for shits and giggles.

“These two guys in their 20s decided it would be a good idea to dig a hole to hang out in,” said Toronto police Constable Victor Kwong. “There’s no ritual, there’s no nefarious criminal terror aspect to it. It was literally two guys in their 20s who said, ‘Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we did this?’”

“There’s no criminal offence for digging a hole,” as Deputy Chief Mark Saunders intoned earlier.

So ended the latest imaginary terror threat to grip a nation, and this time it was the cops downplaying rather than ratcheting up the fear factor. (Was that because they came to the story late?) Like every other country, we have a history of odd ones. And national security forces had reportedly been alerted after the CBC broke the story of the tunnel’s existence, though the OPP heading up security for the Pan Am Games didn’t seem concerned. And we weren’t too worried, because a rosary and poppy had been found in the bunker. Sometimes a hole in the ground is just a hole in the ground.

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a high-powered rifle be positioned behind the curtains at Convocation Hall in case someone tried to shoot Davis while she was speaking. Others, including First Nations activist Vern Harper, related detailed accounts of Hart infiltrating their groups and urging them to be more militant, to carry weapons and perform acts of violence.

Ironically, Hart’s role as an RCMP spy only came to light because he publicly complained when the RCMP ended his contract in 1975.

But the McDonald inquiry showed little interest in investigating his role as an agent provocateur, even after the National Indian Brotherhood presented the inquiry with an affidavit detailing Hart’s offer to supply AK-47 rifles to native groups in BC. More recently, in 2010 the RCMP dispatched poseurs and agents provocateurs to infiltrate the ranks

of anti-war groups in the lead-up to the G20 in Toronto.

It’s not much of a stretch to imagine Stephen Harper overseeing a security force that sends agents provocateurs into protest groups, particularly those winning public support for opposing his agenda. It appears that the RCMP is already in lock-step with the government in regarding environmental activists as a national threat.

In an internal report leaked last month, the RCMP warned of “a growing, highly organized and wellfinanced anti-Canada petroleum movement that consists of peaceful activists, militants and violent extremists who are opposed to society’s reliance on fossil fuels.”

And who knows how wide the

net might be cast? What if CSIS suspected a group like Canadians for Tax Fairness might promote civil disobedience as part of its campaign for higher taxes on the rich, thereby encouraging them to move their money offshore and damage Canada’s “economic stability.”

If that sounds far-fetched, let’s not forget how paranoid and vindictive the Harper government has shown itself capable of being toward those it considers adversaries. One of the charitable organizations threatened with a special tax audit over its political activities was a little birdwatching group, the Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists, that had publicly criticized government policy on honeybees.

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CURTAIN CALL-OUT: WHERE ARE THE MINORITY VOICES IN THEATRE? THE FEW ARTISTS WHO DO GET A SHOT FIT SNUGGLY INTO A CONSTRICTED IDEA OF DIVERSITY By JOSEPH RECINOS

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need to say this. This is an act of frustration. This is me screaming at the top of my lungs out of pain, fear and anger. No, scratch that. This is me pummelling a punching bag, wishing it were a face. Not anyone specifically. But I want you to know where this is coming from.

NOW Magazine’s winter stage preview on The Future Of Canadian Theatre struck a nerve.

I have no personal or artistic problem with the cover subject, Jordan Tannahill. In fact, the one time I met him he was really nice. I’ve seen his work. I think what he’s been able to accomplish is great, and his recognition stands for itself.

But when I look winter STAGE Preview around the theatre community in Toronto, the future is definitely not, as NOW’s cover claims, “sitting pretty.”

What is it that I find so jjordan frustrating?

Tannahill Caucasian actors onstage telling stories that are supposed to be universal, but can’t be because they lack the realities of anyone who identifies as a minority.

We are not all necessarily representative of the so-called “urban” diaspora.

Aside from the realities of being misrepresented onstage, the lack of diversity in theatre is quite frankly tiring.

We have been fighting for so long to be represented. Companies like Obsidian, b current, Aluna, Buddies in Bad Times, Cahoots, Fu-GEN, Theatre Passe Muraille, Factory, Native Earth Performing Arts, the late and great Alameda Theatre Company and many more with a mandate to be the platform for “others” have done an incredible job. Bravo.

So why am I pissed? Because we don’t have enough champions. Our own communities are riddled with economic woes. We lack the support of community members outside the arts who respect and appreciate the work we do. And we don’t have enough artistic champions in positions of power to reshape the way we tell stories and put more diverse artists on main stages. the season's essential theatre, comedy and dance artists and shows p. 40

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Sadly, those artistic champions who are currently aiding in providing platforms for new voices are ultimately limited by politics. And tired.

CanStage, Soulpepper, Mirvish, Stratford, Shaw, Luminato, I’m looking at you.

And please don’t start naming the diverse actors who have graced or are currently gracing your stages. If you want to impress me, start casting diverse actors in leading roles. A shout-out to Soulpepper here for taking baby steps. I hope the trend continues.

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these companies, these “opportunities” are aimed at fulfilling funding and grant requirements.

Those select few diverse artists who do get a shot fit snuggly into a constricted idea of what serving the community and giving “others” a shot really means.

And I suppose that’s good enough if you think theatre is mostly a business, which I would agree it is.

Not enough artists recognize that.

But if this outdated mentality is such a successful business model, why are theatre audiences declining?

This is an issue that is affecting the theatre community as a whole, and we’re all struggling to understand it.

I recently attended a discussion on the subject entitled Disappearing Act? A Public Forum On Canadian Theatre And Toronto Audiences, at Theatre Passe Muraille, where a question was asked of the predominantly white audience. “Guys, look around. Where is the diverse voice?” Lo and behold, the maybe eight of us who fell into that category happened to be in the balcony pretty much huddled together.

So where were the rest of us? Creating or not giving a shit. Maybe both. What does it really matter to us if audiences aren’t attending these shows?

If you look at most indie shows/companies, a lot of them are made up of young, diverse artists vying for a shot. We’re not given a proper chance, so we do it ourselves.

I know more and more grants are becoming available, but you need proper training and skills to apply.

Most artists lack those skills. It’s a never-ending circle that ultimately leads to frustration, pain and hurt.

Not for you, though, supposed future of Canadian theatre, sitting pretty with resources and outlets to tell “our” story. It’s no one’s fault, really. Or is it?

The worst thing a good person can do is nothing.

So maybe it’s really our fault. We complain, we bitch, but are we collectively doing something to change the status quo?

Artists need to start changing the way we look at outdated views of storytelling. I am sick of seeing stories that could feature a multitude of artists and talent but because of a director’s vision the cast is predominately white. Why are we still allowing this to happen?

But who am I, right? I have no awards and only a few theatre credits to my name. I’m only four years out of theatre school. I am a voice among the voiceless, the puppet onstage and the hands behind the curtain. I am creating but I’m mostly watching.

And now I’m tired.

I’m tired of what I see. I’m tired of feeling like I’m all alone. I’m tired of allowing others to speak for me. I’m tired of being scared and of the intimidation. I’m tired of thinking I’m not good enough and I’m tired of doing nothing.

The artistic community is looking for the reasons why audiences are diminishing. Well, I’m here to tell you that they are diminishing primarily because the future of theatre is tired of being misrepresented. We are tired of constantly fighting for small gains.

I personally have accepted that unless I create my own platform, I will never have a chance to truly give my artistic voice flight.

Who am I? I am a voice among the voiceless.

And we are many working to create an inclusive community, despite all the barriers.

We are the future of Canadian theatre, and we are not sitting pretty.

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Ithe vagINa moNolgues meets the F word Jennifer Phillips combines excerpts

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com/events.

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Weekly meeting for newcomers to study for the test, practice English and more. 6-8:30 pm.

Free. Burrows Hall Library, 1081 Progress. 416588-6288 ext 231, culturelink.ca/citizenship. commuNIty QuIlt group Learning and sharing get-together. 6-8 pm. All welcome. Free.

Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

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8 pm. Free (pre-register). Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. 416-396-8943.

FIrst thursdays Live music by Lowell, installations and art talks inspired by the Art Spiegelman exhibit. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/ firstthursdays.

FreNch coloNIal racIsm & the dIsplay oF prImItIve arteFacts at parIs musée de l’homme, 1920-40 Lecture by Alice Conklin. 7

pm. Pwyc. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.ca.

Fret Not ukulele NIght Chris Wilson leads ukulele instruction for all skill levels. Bring your own ukulele. 7-9 pm. $15. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

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New Ideas FestIval Alumnae Theatre

presents its annual showcase of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre. Works by Tabitha Keast, Catherine Frid, Rose Napoli, DJ Sylvis and others. Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm, Sat readings at noon. $15, pass $40.

Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com.

Mar 11 to 29 toroNto sketch comedy FestIval Massive sketch comedy showcase featuring Pajama Men, Allana Reoch, Parker & Seville, Kate McKinnon, Marty Topps, Bucko and others. Shows at Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W), The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen W) and Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst). $15-$39, pass $75. torontosketchfest.com.

Mar 5 to 15 toroNto IrIsh FIlm FestIval The best of Irish cinema including documentaries, features and shorts. Mar 6 opening night gala Standby (directed by Rob and Ronan Burke) will feature actor Brian Gleeson in attendance. $15, opening night $20.

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Mar 6 to 8

role oF bIg data IN eNvIroNmeNtal health Lecture by Howard Hu. 4:10 pm. Free. Room 179. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. environment.utoronto.ca.

Islam IN the mIrror oF the west lecture serIes Lecture by professor Touraj Daryaee. 7

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416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca. matcha tea workshop Learn about the supercharged green tea powder. 7-8:30 pm. $5 sugg. Karma Food Co-op, 739 Palmerston.

Pre-register manager@karmacoop.org. reeNa katz aka radIodress The artist talks about how she uses live and recorded vocalizations and listening in her work. 7-8:30 pm.

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1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. stevensjason0926@yahoo.com.

west toroNto JuNctIoN hIstorIcal socIety Business meeting at 7:30 pm, talk by Fading History author Dave Cook at 8:15 pm. Free.

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To Mar 31 New creatIoNs FestIval The Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents full concerts and performance excerpts, talks and a composers’ symposium. $20/concert, some free events.

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe, and other venues, see website for details. newcreationsfestival.com.

To Mar 7 reelworld FIlm FestIval Dramas, documentaries and shorts by emerging and established artists focused and racial and cultural diversity. Mar 2-7 in Toronto and Mar 8 in Markham. $10-$15, stu/srs $5, pass $110. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. reelworld.ca.

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al speakers. 8 pm. $10. 3030 Dundas West, 3030 Dundas W. 3030dundaswest.com. world FIddle day practIce Jam Learn the repertoire for the May event at Fort York. 6:458:45 pm. Pwyc. Long & McQuade, 925 Bloor W. worldfiddledaytoronto.wordpress.com.

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Pre-register sustainabilitynetwork.ca. toroNto hardware hackathoN Makers, designers, entrepreneurs and engineers compete to make the best working prototype in one weekend. Virtual keynote by Wired editor Chris Anderson. $50, spectator only $20. See website for schedule. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. hardwarehackathon.org. toroNto INterNatIoNal bIcycle show Consumer show with bike polo tournament, minivelodrome, seminars, test ride zone, kids’ area, demos and more. To Mar 8. Fri noon-9 pm, Sat 10 am-7 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. $10-$15, passes $25-$40, kids under 5 free. Better Living Centre, 195 Princes’. bicycleshowtoronto.com.

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Barnes, David Sacks and David Schotzko, and a silent auction support young and emerging composers. 4-7 pm. $50, arts workers/stu $30.

Array Space, 155 Walnut. arraymusic.com. beIt zatouN opeN house & reNt party Party to support the culture and activism space with performances by Maryem Tollar Ensemble, Near East Ensemble and Roula Said & the Bellydance Choir Ladies. 6:30-10 pm. $20-$50 (sliding scale). Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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Urban Jive, The RoaDogs, Notorious road, Essential Soul and Ike N’ Fez play this benefit concert. Doors 7:30 pm. $20. Mod Club, 722 College. abcforsickkids.eventbrite.ca eat 2 Feed to Dining series includes a worldcuisine inspired dinner with local food and wine. 7-10 pm. $45 (FoodShare’s Good Food Program). Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. eventbrite.ca/e/14956949639. vIctory charIty ball Black tie funder with cocktails, dinner, entertainment and five box-

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IbodIes oF lIght Tangled Art & Disability

and the DisAbled Women’s Network present films seen through the lens of disability and difference in celebration of International Women’s Day. Panel discussion 3:30-5 pm (free), screenings 6-8 pm $10, people w/ disabilities $5. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. tangledarts.org/bodies-of-light.

caNadIaN JourNalIsts aNd coverage oF the gaza war Investigative reporter Andrew

Mitrovica explores various aspects of how the war was covered. 3-4 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. 416-393-7783. experIeNce schulIch 2015 Open house to learn about courses, attend mini-lectures, tour the facility and more. 9 am-4 pm. Free.

York University, 4700 Keele. Pre-register 416736-5060, events@schulich.yorku.ca. rhINa matsurI doll FestIval Japanese tea, kimono demonstration, storytelling, playing with traditional toys and more.

Noon-5 pm. Free. Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor W. jftor.org.

IINterNatIoNal womeN’s day 2015 rally & march This year’s theme is Our Bodies: Our Territories: Our Communities. Rally from 11 am in the Auditorium, march from 1 pm, ends with a fair at Ryerson (55 Gould). Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. iwdtoronto.ca.

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Introductory MedItatIon Class at 2:30 pm.

Free. eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-539-0234, meditationtoronto.com.

LIp Sync party nIght Sing your face off without making a sound. Doors 7 pm, show 8 pm.

Free. Pre-sign up. Lazy Daisy’s, 1515 Gerrard e. dawn@lazydaisyscafe.ca.

I 5SteeL-toed StorIeS: IWd edItIon Steeltoed Dames & Dykes gathering for women & trans-identified folks in construction to connect and community-build. 7-10 pm. $10-$15, stu/unwaged $5. the Steady, 1051 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/1616266205263643. toronto antIque & VIntage Market everything from prints to pine, deco to decorator finds, kitsch to kitchenware and more. to Mar 8, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. $10.

Queen elizabeth theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. torontoantiqueandvintagemarket.ca. toronto SaLSa practIce no lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 pm or 5:30-8 pm. $5. trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. toronto VIntage cLothIng ShoW Vintage and retro clothing, accessories, jewellery and more. to Mar 8, Sat 10 am-5 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. $10 (includes toronto antique & Vintage Market). Queen elizabeth theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. torontovintageclothingshow.ca.

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krIS Jenner’S koMedy kIdS Stand-up comedy benefit for Sistering w/ Zane Banyan, theresa Ramirez, Julia Lederer, Brian Ward and others.

8 pm. Pwyc. Bad Dog Comedy theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. roozakazoo all ages family concert benefits the Stop. 3:30-5:30 pm. Pwyc, suggested donation $10 per person. 3030 Dundas West, 3030 Dundas W. 416-995-2356.

IpapayaraMa: WoMen’S day FaIr/ceLebratIon all-female musical jam w/ Mari Pal-

hares, Primitiva Chiva Libre, DJ Firecracker.

Genres include maracatu, reggae, cumbia, spoken word and folk. 12:30-5 pm. Pwyc (proceeds support arts workshops for female survivors of violence and discrimination). Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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Ing the Future Michele Landsberg and others celebrate grandmothers here and in africa as part of international Women’s Day. Reception and silent auction to follow. 2-4 pm. $20 (Stephen Lewis Fdn). MnJCC al Green theatre, 750 Spadina. voicesofpower.eventbrite.ca.

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a north aMerIcan natIVe perSpectIVe on enVIronMentaL protectIon Ulyssean Society lecture with Mohawk environmentalist/ educator Danny Beaton. 2 pm. Free. Room 4.

Knox College, 59 St George. 416-410-1892, ulyssean.on.ca.

talk by the cyclist who’s travelled more than 10,000 km on 2 wheels. 2 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. lambtonhouse.org. an enchanted eVenIng Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm.

Free, pwyc donation for meal. trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. meditationtoronto.com.

IInternatIonaL WoMen’S day artISan ceLebratIon arts & crafts show. noon-3:30

pm. Studio 89, 1065 Canadian Place, unit 104. facebook.com/events/1061324220550256.

Learnt WISdoM Lecture SerIeS: the deep end Meet at Davenport and Lansdowne and

walk together to the pool for this lecture and pool party. Four speakers, and storytelling.

Bring bathing suit and towel. 1 pm. Pwyc. Joseph Pinnicinni Pool, 1369 St Clir W. learntwisdomlectures@gmail.com.

5Lgbt dance cLaSSeS Queer and trans salsa classes. to Mar 29, Sun from 3 to 5 pm (beginner to advanced). $15 drop-in. Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com.

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Meet instructors and learn about academic coaching and creative enrichment courses for kids. 1-3 pm. Free. Room 26. St Matthew’s Church, 729 St Clair W. thinkae.org. untaMed antarctIca Climbers Mike Libecki and Cory Richards describe their first ascent at the bottom of the world. to Mar 10, Sun 2 pm, Mon & tue 8 pm. $19.50-$79.50. Roy thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. roythomson.com.

IWhen WoMen ruLe the nIght artistic presentation of music, spoken word, live paintings, dance and comedy by women and girls. all-female cypher at 6 pm, show 7-10 pm. $10-$15. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. eventbrite.com/e/15736983742.

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unManned: aMerIca’S drone WarS Dinner

followed by a film about the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad. Discussion to follow. Dinner 6 pm, film & discussion from 7 pm. $20 or pwyc (War Resisters Campaign).

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. resisters.ca.

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aFca toaStMaSterS open houSe Learn about

improving your public speaking and leadership skills. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Miles nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. afca.toastmastersclubs.org.

crypto JeWISh hIStory and the current Story Rabbi Stephen Leon talks about his

work helping people to reconnect to their historical Jewish roots as far back as the Spanish inquisition. 7:15 pm. $10. Pre-register. Congregation Darchei noam, 864 Sheppard W. 416-638-4783, bit.ly/CryptoJewish.

IdeVto’S InternatIonaL WoMen’S day taLkS Panel with female technology insiders

Jen Simmons, Clarissa Peterson, anita Clarke and host Mandy Gilbert. 6-10 pm. $16. Preregister. achievers, 190 Liberty. iwd.devto.ca.

FInd your FaShIon dreaM Job Learn about the types of positions available, networking and more. 6 pm. $35 (pre-register). toronto Fashion incubator, 285 Manitoba. fashionincubator.com/shop. grooVe dance cLaSS Workout that feels like a dance party. no experience necessary, 8-9 pm. Drop-in $15. tiger Dragon Martial arts Centre, 945 St Clair W. differentstages.ca.

Introductory MedItatIon cLaSSeS 7 pm.

Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416539-0234, meditationtoronto.com.

Meet Me In LIberatIon Square: the Work oF

aLI MuStaFa Memorial for the photographer killed in Syria last year alongside an exhibition of his work. 7-9 pm. Free/pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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lanterns, lights and noisemakers to protest the overpriced spectacle and demand more affordable housing, shelter services and a raise in social assistance rates. 7:30 pm. Free. anniversary Park, nW corner Parliament and Gerrard. ocap.ca/node/1214. tooLS For Inner peace Guided meditation.

Mondays at 8 pm. $10. ankh Yoga, 2017 Danforth ave. 647-223-3662, ankhyoga.com.

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u oF t LIterary Moot Faculty of Law profs star in a play that puts Oliver twist on trial.

Mar 10, 6-9 pm. $10 (benefits University in the Community). innis town Hall, 2 Sussex. eventbrite.ca/e/15693664172.

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anIMaL rIghtS acadeMy Lecture talk on the intersection between animal rights, activism and witchcraft. 7-9 pm. Free. Room 256. Uni-

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The next week is rammed with events celebrating International Women’s Day – everything from When Women Rule The Night, performances by girls and women at Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham ($10$15), to Voices Of Power, celebrating grandmothers here and in Africa at the Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina ($20, with proceeds to the Stephen Lewis Foundation). Both happen Sunday (March 8). But the activist centrepiece is, as always, the rally on Saturday (March 7), 11 am, at OISE Auditorium,252 Bloor West, followed by the march at 1 pm and a fair at Ryerson, at 55 Gould.

Free. The theme this year is Our Bodies. Our Territories. Our Communities. iwdtoronto.ca.

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versity College, 15 King’s College Circle. animalrightsacademy.org.

exercISe & FaLL preVentIon For SenIorS 65+

Weekly class. Bring indoor shoes & OHiP card.

10:30 am. Free. Pre-register. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746.

IntroductIon to perMacuLture Learn about this sustainable model that can be used to create economically stable and productive landscapes, homes and communities. 6-8 pm. Free (pre-register). 3rd fl, room B. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440, tpl.ca.

LILIeS & LILy beetLe Scarborough Garden & Historical Society lecture and 90th anniversary celebration with 1920s costumes and cake.

7:30 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. pLanet ocean Film screening and talk about the ocean and its importance to our world.

6:15-8:15 pm. Free. Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane. 416-394-1014, green13toronto.org. ten WoMen Who changed toronto talk by historian Pat Staton. 7-8 pm. Free. north York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660.

Wednesday, March 11 adVenturerS, connoISSeurS and deaLerS: the rISe oF toronto’S orIentaL rug traderS Lecture by neil Brochu. 6:30 pm.

$12, stu pwyc. textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. textilemuseum.ca. back paIn and you: Work Learn some tips to strengthen muscles, reduce pain and prevent injury. 6-7 pm. Free. Register. Living City Health, 120 eglinton e. 647-497-9797.

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ized and homeless women with a number of services, including assistance in dealing with government agencies, hot meals and basics like access to shower facilities. The Kris Jenner’s Komedy Kids show benefits this essential org, with performances by Zane Banyan, Theresa Ramirez, Julia Lederer, Brian Ward and more on Sunday (March 8), 8 pm, at Bad Dog Comedy Theatre (875 Bloor West).

Pwyc. baddogtheatre.com.

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A screening of Robert Greenwald’s Unmanned: America’s Drone Wars is featured as part of a fundraising dinner and discussion at Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. Proceeds go to the War Resisters Support Campaign. Monday (March 9), 7 pm. Pwyc-$20. resisters.ca.

dx3 Conference and trade show dedicated to digital marketing, advertising and retail brings agencies, publishers and retailers together for two days of networking and education. to Mar 12, see website for schedule. $25 and up. Metro toronto Convention Centre north Bldg, 255 Front W. dx3canada.com.

JuStIce For WoMen & gIrLS WIth dISabILItIeS

talk by Shantha Rau Barriga. 6:30-8 pm. $15.

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic art, 111 Queen’s Park. gardinermuseum.on.ca.

LIVIng MedItatIon 7-8:30 pm. Free. Ralph thornton Centre, 765 Queen e. 416-392-6810.

thIS nucLear age: heaLth, uranIuM MInIng, ManagIng FISSILe MaterIaLS Lecture with

Richard Denton of international Physicians for the Prevention of nuclear War. 4-6 pm. Free.

Room 179. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

WInter FarMerS Market indoor market with local farmers. 2-6 pm. Free. Montgomery’s inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

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Step out of the box Men’s shoes have evolved way beyond boring racks of black oxfords.

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stylenotes The week’s news, views and sales Bring on the brides Brides looking for a wedding dress worthy of a princess may want to book an appointment to view the Reem Acra fall 2015 bridal collection trunk show Friday and Saturday (March 6 and 7) from 10 am to 6 pm at White Toronto (19 Hazelton, 416-849-9196, whitetoronto.com).

The newest collection is called Let There Be Light and includes embroidered crop-top/ skirt ensembles, beautiful ball gowns and more on-trend looks for the big event.

Growing up green Ryerson School of Fashion holds a student-run fashion show to showcase eco-conscious collections from some of Toronto’s most promising young talents.

Revolution 2015 challenges Ryerson students to think about fashion differently – how can clothes be more sustainable and how can the industry be more diverse? Support these young eco-freaks and buy a ticket to the show ($15) on March 26 at Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas East).

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Petite fashions beyond “cute” It’s not easy being small. If you’re under 5-foot-4, it can be outrageously difficult to find trendy clothes that fit without a pricey visit to the tailor. No one deserves to be relegated to a lifetime of shopping at Laura Petites.

One of our fave eco-friendly brands, Reformation, just released its first-ever petites line. Lovingly called the Don’t Call Me Cute collection, it features many of Reformation’s signature cuts (think slinky maxi dresses, deep-v rompers and co-ord sets), sized just a bit shorter and still made from sustainable fabric.

The brand offers free worldwide shipping with zero net carbon impact, so hop over to thereformation.com and treat yourself.

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Dove wants you to be a nice girl – the type who says something positive or doesn’t say anything at all. The brand recently launched its latest campaign, dubbed #SpeakBeautiful, to change the way women speak online.

According to the skin care brand, over 5 million negative “beauty tweets” (whatever that means) were posted by women in 2014. Dove also posted stats on how many times words like “ugly,” “hideous, “gross” and “dislike” were tweeted during and following the Oscars’ red carpet.

Sure, online bullying is a serious issue – and so is helping women feel more confident about their bodies in

a world that all too often seeks to control and shame them. However, perpetuating the idea that women should be nice and polite, serving up ideas about themselves and others with a smile, is problematic.

I remind Dove that women still struggle to overcome this same obstacle to equality in the workplace.

Women who criticize or push for better results are seen as aggressive, bossy or even mean. Men who exhibit the same behaviours are ambitious, have high standards and are worthy of promotion.

The message shouldn’t be to “look beautiful” or #SpeakBeautiful, it should be to screw harmful beauty and behaviour ideals altogether.

Look how you want. Speak how you want. Don’t try to be perfect or a size 6 or nice for any other reason than that’s what you want to be.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 To depict what

lay beyond the limits of the known world, medieval map-makers sometimes drew pictures of dragons and sea serpents. Their images conveyed the sense that these territories were uncharted and perhaps risky to explore. There were no actual beasties out there, of course. I think it’s possible you’re facing a comparable situation. The frontier realm you are wandering through may seem to harbour real dragons, but I’m guessing they are all of the imaginary variety.

That’s not to say you should entirely let down your guard. Mix some craftiness in with your courage. Beware of your mind playing tricks.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Whenever I close my eyes and seek psychic visions of your near future, I see heroic Biblical scenes. Moses is parting the Red Sea. Joseph is interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. Jesus is feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. What’s the meaning of my reveries? Well, this psychic stuff is tricky, and I hesitate to draw definitive conclusions. But if I had to guess, I’d speculate that you are ripe to provide a major blessing or perform an unprecedented service for people you care about.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 In a New Yorker cartoon, Tom Gauld outlines “The Four Undramatic Plot Structures”: 1.

“The hero is confronted by an antagonistic force and ignores it until it goes away.” 2. “The protagonist is ac-

cused of wrongdoing, but it’s not a big thing and soon gets sorted out.”

3. “The heroine is faced with a problem but it’s really difficult so she gives up.” 4. “A man wants something. Later, he’s not so sure. By suppertime he’s forgotten all about it.” In my astrological opinion, Gemini, you should dynamically avoid all four of those fates. Now is a time for you to take brave, forceful action as you create dramatic plot twists that serve your big dreams.

back.” Do you agree with Flaubert, Leo? I don’t. I say that you can live with such resilient innocence that your heart’s leaves grow back after a big wind, and become ever-more lush and hardy as you age. You can send down such deep, strong roots and stretch your branches toward the sun with such vigour that your heart always has access to the replenishment it needs to flourish. The coming weeks will provide evidence that what I say is true.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright,” said heavyweight German philosopher Walter Benjamin, a fellow Cancerian. I am happy to report that there’s a good chance you will soon be blessed with an extraordinary measure of this worry-free self-awareness. And when you do – when you are basking in an expanded self-knowledge infused with self-love and self-appreciation – some of your chronic fear will drop away, and you will have at your disposal a very useful variety of happiness.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “I will not wait

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “As you get older,

the heart sheds its leaves like a tree,” said French novelist Gustave Flaubert.

“You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows

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to love as best as I can,” says writer Dave Eggers. “We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future.

This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” That’s your keynote for the coming weeks, Virgo. That’s your wake-up call and the rose-scented note under your pillow and the message scrawled in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. If there is any part of you that believes love will be better or fuller or more perfect in the future, tell that part of you to shut up and embrace this tender command: Now is the time to love with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your mind.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 I love the song

Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd. Other favourites are Tool’s Third Eye and Yo La Tengo’s Pass The Hatchet, I Think I’m Goodkind. But all of these tunes have a similar problem. They’re more than 10 minutes

long. Even before my attention span got shrunk by the internet, listening to them tested my patience. Now I have to forcefully induce a state of preternatural relaxation if I want to hear them all the way through. In the coming days, Libra, don’t be like a too-much-of-a-good-thing song. Be willing to edit yourself. Observe concise boundaries. Get to the point quickly. (You’ll be rewarded for it.)

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Sneaking around isn’t necessary, Scorpio.

There’s no useful power to be gained by hiding information or pursuing secret agendas. This is not a time when it’s essential for you to be a master of manipulation who’s 10 steps ahead of everyone else. For now, you are likely to achieve maximum success and enjoy your life the most if you are curious, excitable and transparent. I invite you to embody the mindset of a creative, precocious child who has a loving mommy and daddy. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 In 1953,

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It took them seven weeks to climb the 29,029-foot peak. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh got into a bathyscaphe and sailed to the lowest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It took them four hours and 47 minutes to go down 36,070 feet.

Based on my analysis of your astrological omens, I think the operative metaphor for you in the coming weeks should be the deep descent, not the steep ascent. It’s time to explore and hang out in the depths rather than the heights.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The African country of Ivory Coast has two different capital cities. Yamoussoukro is the official capital, while Abidjan is the actual capital, where the main governmental action takes place. I suspect there’s a comparable split in your personal realm, Capricorn: a case of mixed dominance. Maybe that’s a

good thing; maybe it allows for a balance of power between competing interests. Or perhaps it’s a bit confusing, causing a split in your attention that hampers you from expressing a unified purpose. Now would be a favourable time to think about how well the division is working for you, and to tinker with it if necessary.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I’ve gone on three book tours and done my spoken-word show in scores of bookstores. But one of my favourite author events took place at the Avenue C Laundromat in New York City’s East Village. There I performed with two other writers as part of the Dirty Laundry: Loads Of Prose reading series. It was a boisterous event. All of us authors were extra loose and goofy, and the audience offered a lot of funny, good-nature heckling. The unusual location freed everyone up to have maximum amusement. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, might thrive by doing what you do best in seemingly out-of-context situations. If you’re not outright invited to do so, I suggest you invite yourself. pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 When Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California in 2003, the state had the eighth largest economy in the world, right behind Italy and just ahead of Brazil. Schwarzenegger had never before held political office. When Cambodian doctor Haing Nor performed in the film The Killing Fields, for which he ultimately won an Oscar, he had no training as an actor. He was a novice. Will you try to follow in their footsteps, Pisces? Is it possible you could take on a role for which you have no preparation or seasoning?

According to my divinations, the answer is yes. But is it a good idea?

That’s a more complex issue. Trust your gut.

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ecoholic CHEW ON THIS: THE VITAMIN C GUIDE When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

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MOST NORTH AMERICAN VITAMIN MANUFACTURERS SAY THEY TEST THEIR SUPPLIES TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE FREE OF CONTAMINANTS. BUT WHAT’S ACTUALLY IN THAT TABLET YOU’RE POPPING?

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A whopping 80 per cent of the world’s vitamin C comes from China, where ascorbic acid is chemically processed and fermented from the glucose in cornstarch. GMO activists haven’t been particularly thrilled that the microbes involved in the processing are often genetically engineered. However, the bigger concern is the corn. Natural Factors says its Chinese ascorbic acid is from non-GMO corn. Though it does contain carboxymethyl cellulose, one of two vitamin fillers recently linked to inflammation (see Nature Notes).Notably, Chinese vitamin C factories were deemed to be so polluting that they were forced to shut down in a preOlympics emissions crackdown.

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Like most supplement makers, Jamieson generally gets its vitamin C from ascorbic acid manufactured in China.

The exception is Exxtra-C, one of the rare examples of European-sourced, high-potency C on shelves. Its trademarked “Quali-C” is made in Scotland by the multinational materials/life sciences corp DSM. Like most labmade C, it’s synthesized from corn glucose, but Quali-C gets its corn (and “starter materials,” i.e. microbes) from non-GMO European sources. These capsules also contain organic sugar and a bunch of vitamin fillers like magnesium silicate, aka talc. Note: not veg-friendly; the gelatin is bovine. Twice the price of run-of-the-mill C, but still more affordable than Navitas or MegaFood.

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Looking for a poppable form of C that’s a little more natural? Most supplements marketed as food-based capsules of freeze-dried fruits and veg still contain isolated synthetic vitamins (like synthesized ascorbic acid) to “top up” their C content. MegaFood says the source of that synthetic vitamin is “proprietary” but that its C is Non-GMO Project-verified, as is New Chapter’s (now owned by Procter and Gamble).

The rest of the C in these two brands is squeezed out of certified organic fruits, veg and herbs tested for pesticides.

They come in fairly low dosages – 250 mg per capsule – and will cost you $25 to $50 for 60 caps. New Chapter’s capsule isn’t vegan. It has shellac.

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locations in the Antarctic. Most of the samples contained D4 (cyclotetrasiloxane, which has been phased out by a number of companies) as well as super-common D5 (cylopentasiloxane) and D6 (cyclohexasiloxane).

Back in 2009, Environment Canada proposed that D4 and D5 be added to its list of toxic substances but shifted gears after industry persuaded the regulator that the chems weren’t entering the environment at quantities that could cause harm.

THIRD TIME LUCKY FOR GREAT LAKES ACT?

BODY CARE CHEMS FOUND IN ANTARCTIC KRILL The silky siloxanes designed to give our deodorants, lotions and hair ser-

ums a slippery softness are turning up surprisingly far from our bathrooms. Research published in Environmental Science & Technology has found them in soil, plants, phytoplankton and krill in nearly a dozen

After two failed attempts in four years, the province has reintroduced the Great Lakes Protection Act. The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change says the act, if passed, would help fight climate change, protecting wetlands and coastal areas and reducing toxic algal blooms. An alliance of environment orgs, including Ecojustice and Environmental Defence, has praised the move. With three out

NAVITAS NATURALS CAMU POWDER Deep in the Amazon basin grows one of the most vitamin-C-dense berries on earth. Not surprisingly, camu camu is being marketed as a super-food, but just how is it being harvested? The Rainforest Conservation Fund told me camu camu’s popularity has been stressing wild populations in Peru.

(Most of the stuff on shelves is wildpicked.) The best way to avoid taxing these wild sources is to buy sustainably cultivated certified organic camu like Navitas’s. In powdered form (no junky fillers here), a teaspoon gives you a whopping 700 mg of C. It’s pricier than synthetic C, but this tart powder is an all-natural way to boost your C in smoothies.

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of four of Ontario’s Great Lakes in decline and 72 per cent of southern Ontario’s wetlands already lost, the orgs say, “Immediate action is required.”

FOOD ADDITIVES MAY BE HURTING YOUR GUT Common food additives found in everything from salad dressing and ice cream to vitamins and cough syrup may be promoting a rise in inflammatory bowel disease, according to research published last week in the journal Nature.

The study, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America, found two emulsifiers in processed foods and medicines, polysorbate 80 and carboxymethyl cellulose (aka cellulose gum), may be

DIY C Those of us raised on chewable Flintstones vitamins are used to getting our nutrients on the go. Nearly twothirds of Canadians take vitamins. I’ve got a cupboard full of supplements myself and use a lot of them on a regular basis, but the best source of vitamins is still real food. You can easily make your own vitamin C supplement: just chop up some kale, Brussels sprouts, raw red cabbage and lightly cooked broccoli. You’ll get the most C from red peppers (even more than oranges and kiwis). Just make sure those peppers and kale are organic, since they tend to be high in pesticide residues.

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ecoholic pick wreaking havoc on intestinal flora.

The ingredients are used in a variety of dairy products (cottage cheese, creamers, frozen desserts), condiments, frozen dinners, many gluten-free and lowfat foods as well painkillers.

They’re approved for use, but the study’s researchers, led by the Georgia State University Institute for Biomedical Sciences, suggest federal regulators aren’t looking at subtle health impacts like inflammation. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

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T.O.’S TOP 5 GAME MEAT MARKETS

Derek Hill cuts and packs Canadian Buffalo Rib Eye.

It’s not game on for all butchers. Here’s where to get everything from caribou to crocodile.

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Whitehouse Meats

This is pretty much the mother lode of game meat in Toronto. Whitehouse has everything from the standard locally farmed meats like venison, rabbit, elk and boar – all in a vast selection of cuts – to a huge array of speciality varieties like muskox, camel, emu, crocodile and even turtle. It also has game meat salami, pepperoni and sausages.

St. Lawrence Market, store #16, 93 Front East (at Jarvis), 416-3664465, whitehousemeats.ca

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GOT GAME? While the options for Torontonians to try wild-caught game remain limited, there are plenty of opportunities to purchase farmed meat at restaurants or butcher shops. The flavour will certainly be less gamey than wild-caught, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t quality products and dishes out there. By SHERYL KIRBY

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ame meat can split a crowd.

Many balk at the slaughter and consumption of beautiful wild animals, but others realize that meat like venison is a healthy, natural alternative to intensively farmed products.

Game is generally leaner than beef or pork, and wild-caught animals eat a diet of twigs, berries and acorns instead of corn and antibiotics. That makes for a vast difference in flavour and texture from the farmed version.

Too bad for Ontarians that the only game meat we can purchase in stores and restaurants is farmed.

Concerned about quality control and poaching, most Canadian provinces have laws that prohibit the sale of wild-caught game. When game meat shows up at a butcher shop or restaurant, it’s usually rabbit, venison or other animals that take well to do-

mestication. Nobody seems especially interested in farming moose or bear.

Slaughter of farmed game meat must meet provincial guidelines regarding inspection and sanitation, while wild-caught meat is usually skinned and gutted in the woods and then either butchered by the hunter or a willing butcher.

Butchers who work with wild-caught meaqt must keep it separate from their inspected commercial wares, and some in rural areas even close their shops during hunting season to focus on bespoke game butchery.

In Newfoundland, where moose outnumber people, and Nova Scotia, laws around game meat are slowly changing. Restaurants there may deal directly with hunters to purchase wild-caught game. The hunters must be licensed, and all laws must be met (hunters are usually limited

to one or two deer per season and must have tags and paperwork).

A program started last year in Quebec permits a small number of high-end restaurants to serve wildcaught game, and there is hope among some Toronto chefs that Ontario will eventually follow suit.

In the meantime, restaurants here are only allowed to serve wild-caught meat at charitable events. While no permits are needed, they must ensure that all profits go to charity and keep paperwork that guarantees all meat was legally obtained.

Events like the annual Canoe Wild dinner – where chef John Horne and other chefs from across Canada serve seal, ptarmigan, squirrel and venison – draw sell-out crowds, and the Group of Seven Chefs has hosted events where moose and even beaver were on the menu.

The Healthy Butcher/Real Food Toronto

With an emphasis on organic and sustainable meat, the Healthy Butcher carries farm-raised fresh game including elk, bison and boar in a variety of cuts. For the undecided, it also has a frozen mixed game burger box that includes bison, elk and venison. Shop in person or online via the Real Food Toronto service. 565 Queen West (at Augusta), 298 Eglinton West (at Avenue Road), 416-674-2642, thehealthybutcher.com, realfoodtoronto.com, @healthybutcher

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Choose from a selection of game meat including bison, caribou, elk, venison, rabbit, pheasant and guinea fowl at this Etobicoke butcher, which also carries ostrich.

Get game meat cut to order or in the form of burgers or sausages. 5241 Dundas West (at Jopling), 416-2311500, mediumrare.to, @mediumrareto

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Sanagan’s Meat Locker

The beloved Kensington Market butcher mostly stocks your standard beef, pork, lamb and chicken, but it does have some of the more accessible types of game: venison from Ontario Harvest, quail from Nipissing Game Farm, rabbits from 100 Mile Market and wild boar from Perth Pork.

176 Baldwin (at Kensington), 416593-9747, sanagansmeatlocker.com, @sanagans

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T.O.’S TOP 5 GAME DISHES Game meat sausages Wvrst

The best place to start exploring game, Wvrst offers many different types of game meat sausages, and the variety and reasonable price allow you to learn about the flavour and texture of each meat. Handmade guinea fowl, elk, venison, rabbit, kangaroo and other sausages are good on a bun. $9 each, 609 King West (at Bathurst), 416-703-7775, wvrst.com, @wvrstbeerhall

Pigeon pie (squab) Borealia

The resto’s circa 1611 recipe is based on the theory that tourtière was originally made from tourte, aka passenger pigeon. Chef Wayne Morris uses a whole squab (a young pigeon), roasting the breast and serving it atop a bed of roasted parsnips alongside a lard-and-butter-crust pie filled with squab leg meat, duck gizzard, parsnip, carrot, potato, celery and thyme. $20, 59 Ossington (at Bruce), 647-351-5100, borealiato.com, @borealia_to

Crispy masala quail Queen and Beaver Public House

Head chef Andrew Berry-Ashpole calls it southern Indian fried chicken. This appetizer is a bone-in confit quail that’s been marinated in cumin and cardamom, then deep-fried in a yogurt, gram flour and masala spice batter. Served

with aubergine and okra curry plus coriander, mint and chili chutney, it’s a fun twist on more traditional preparations. $12, 35 Elm (at Bay), 647-347-2712, queenandbeaverpub.ca, @QueenBeaverPub

Polenta with braised rabbit Tutti Matti

The rustic dishes of northern Italy include plenty of game meat, and at Tuscan-themed Tutti Matti, chef/owner Alida Solomon braises rabbit with lemon, carrots, fennel, onion, guanciale, and herbs like rosemary and thyme for a comforting and delicious ragù served atop corn and farro polenta and garnished with Tamworth pig crackling. $24, 364 Adelaide West (at Charlotte), 416-597-8839, tuttimatti.com, @tutti_matti

Ontario Venison Café Boulud

The venison steak here may be the most expensive dish we’ve recommended, but it’s definitely worth trying. A variation of it often shows up on Boulud’s prix fixe menu for special occasions. Served with a blueberry aigre-doux, sweet potatoes, black kale and a sauce laced with chocolate, it’s a celebration of Ontario venison in all its glory. $43, 60 Yorkville (at Bay), 416-963-6000, cafeboulud. com/toronto, @cafebouludto

Little Portugal staples Porchetta & Co. and Pizzeria Libretto are following up on their planned King West side-by-side venture, opening a restaurant together in the former Little Italy location of gelato king the Mad Italian this spring. The A3 Napoli Pizzeria e Friggitoria (589 College, at Clinton), named for a Naples highway, will serve Neapolitan street food involving a lot of fried items.

Late-night snack joint Junked Food Co. is an episode of Epic Meal Time made manifest. Calorie-dense items like the Smash Bag (a Doritos bag loaded with meat, sour cream, cheese and lettuce that you smash together and eat like stoner pablum) are sure to poach some revellers who are sick of waking up with 7-Eleven taquito wrappers strewn about the room (1256 Dundas West, at Dovercourt, 647-343-5326, junkedfoodco.com).

Filling another niche in Toronto’s vast and varied “doing activities while drinking” market (axe-throwing, bowling, ping-pong, board games): Track and Field, from owners Dustin Keating (of Montauk), Nickie Minshall and Joshua Leblanc. The bar, housed in former dance club the Cave, will offer bocce, shuffleboard and crokinole boards (860 College, at Concord).

From the group that opened the popular El Furniture Warehouse in the

Annex comes Queen Street Warehouse (232 Queen West, at John), taking over the old Everest space. Calling itself a premium dive bar, it has the same pricing as El Furniture: everything on the menu (except for alcohol) goes for $4.95.

Changes Bloorcourt Village staple the Rustic Owl Café has spread its wings, adding a dinner menu, revamping its kitchen and renaming itself Blackbird Bistro (993 Bloor West, at Westmoreland). The in-house gallery remains intact, but new menu items like chicken stroganoff and lasagna make the Bistro stand out from the growing swath of cafés infiltrating the area (among them El Cafecito, Northwood and Bloomer’s).

Closings Trying to cram fish in between as many carbs as possible (poutines, tacos, sandwiches) may have proved too difficult for the Happy Hooker, which closed after less than two years. Is this the crash of the taco wave?

Something’s going on at 4-N-earning diamond-in-the-rough 93 Harbord. The welcoming high-end North African and Middle Eastern establishment was a critical success, but the windows of the tiny storefront have been papered over, with no explanation offered.

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WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!

Great Lakes Brewery Karma Citra

Bar Raval co-owner and barman Michael Webster mixes up the cocktails.

WHAT WE’RE DRINKING TONIGHT

By this point in the year (the two-month mark that feels like eternity), the combo of Zen and sunshine is just what the doctor ordered. GLB’s stellar limited-release IPA (which showcases the wunderkind Citra hop) is the next best thing to yoga on the beach. Crack a bottle and let loose a tropical genie to grant your every fresh-squeezed, anti-winter wish.

Price 650 ml/$5.95 Availability: At the GLB Retail Store (30 Queen Elizabeth, 416-255-4510, greatlakesbrewery.com) or LCBO 394213

Bar Raval

505 College, thisisbarraval.com, @bar_raval Bar Raval, this year’s most hyped opening, is as blatantly one-of-a-kind as it was intended to be.

The striking space (formerly Teatro) is encased in elaborate custom woodwork by Toronto architecture/design firm Partisans, giving it a sense of cave-like intimacy. It’s like you’re washing down pintxos (Basque-style snacks) with vermouth inside the belly of a beast dreamed up by Guillermo del Toro and shaped by Gaudí.

Though it channels the pintxos bars of Barcelona (it’s named after a neighbourhood in Catalonia’s irresistible capital), Raval is decidedly Toronto 2.0 – confident, uncompromising and a slave to flavour.

Although Wu Tang logos brand the bar’s drip trays and mark the washroom doors, baroque webbing creeps across the windows and one of the cocktails contains squid ink, Raval’s Spanish influence is obvious. Seating is minimal, and so is cutlery. Peripheral counters and upturned Pilsner casks are set with paper napkins and toothpicks so you can wipe the grease from your chin between scarfing morcilla topped with quail’s egg ($8) and spearing squid fried in pig’s fat ($8).

Owners Grant van Gameren (chef), Robin

Goodfellow and Michael Webster (bar overlords) want this to be a spot that can be enjoyed at any time of day; it’s ambitiously open from 8 am to 2 am, seven days a week. They take coffee as seriously as cocktails, and van Gameren’s bites – which adorn the bar daily ‘til late afternoon – are addictive.

Cocktail options are listed as aperitivi, alto vasos (tall drinks), shaken-and-stirred, and – in a renegade play, given how bartenders tend to shun vodka – vodka-based. Low-alcohol cocktails are a feature, making the prospect of day (or chain) drinking that much more appealing.

The wine list is short and sweet.; there’s foodfriendly beer like Pilsner Urquell on tap – alas, no Estrella.

If you’re indecisive, keep in mind that the bartenders are top-notch; trust them to fix a drink tailored to your taste ($16). Just be patient till 11 am – at Raval, as in Spain, there’s no rush.

Hours 8 am to 2 am daily Access One step at the door, washrooms in basement

Bock up

Malt-forward bock – an old-school German style that balances rib-sticking with refreshing – is well suited to the season

Amsterdam Spring Bock

Rating NNN Why It’s one of Amsterdam’s seasonal staples, and this year’s release is extra malty (and extra delicious) due to a recently tweaked recipe. Grab a few bottles to enjoy throughout the year. (Spring Bock is minimally filtered, bestowing it with cellaring power.)

Price 500 ml/$4.25 Availability At the Amsterdam retail store (245 Queens Quay West, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse.com) or LCBO 208942

Creemore Springs UrBock Rating NNN Why The beauty of bock is its lagered freshness – despite its full flavour. Creemore’s Urbock is a fine (and widely available) local specimen. Put back a few to forget how much it sucks outside. By the time you come to, it might just be spring.

Price 473 ml/$2.90 Availability LCBO 219659

Lake of Bays “Crazy Eyes” Darcy Tucker Winter Bock Rating NNN Why As the playoffs loom and the knife turns, this Lake of Bays Signature NHL Alumni release is like a balm for depressed and delusional Leafs fans. (I’m going to venture a guess that this is the first time Darcy Tucker has ever been described as a “balm.”) I digress, but this bock is on point.

Price 750 ml/$11.95 Availability LCBO 406504

TASTING NOTES

California dreamin’ Calling all fans of California wine. Tickets are now on sale for iYellow Wine Club’s California Carnivale 2.0 (April 11, the Burroughes Building, 639 Queen West). Jump on the chance to sip your way through California (fear not, the $65 ticket includes snacks and more) and soak up sunshine by proxy. Tickets and info at iyellowwineclub.com.

Don’t forget to save some room for the annual California Wine Fair ($75 from calwine.ca) at the Fairmont Royal York (100 Front West ) on April 13 from 7 to 9 pm.

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Rating: NNNN You don’t go to a Sleater-Kinney concert to have a blast. The music is too difficult to relax into – because it is difficult, unrelaxed music: constantly-on-the-move guitar lines, hard-sung vocals restlessly shared between co-singers/guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein, a nervy post-punk sound set against feminist lyrics with things to say. The Pacific Northwest trio work hard at every turn.

You go to throw gratitude and reverence toward rock heroes (and, for some people, a Portlandia star) who have done things their own way, including making challenging music that doesn’t sound like anybody else’s.

You go to stand on your tiptoes to see powerful Janet Weiss pound away at her kit while blowing into a harmonica.

Aided intermittently by guitarist Katie Harkin (because why bother with a bassist when you can have THREE guitarists?), the trio easily executed the high-stress songs.

They played eight of the 10 on bracing new album No Cities To Love, each proving that the band’s songwriting prowess – like their rep – has only increased during the eightyear hiatus.

Old tunes kept pace, particularly 2005’s Entertain and 2002’s One Beat, during which Brownstein pulled out some St. Vincentesque robot moves. And how do such antislackers handle an encore? By playing six songs, wide smiles on their faces. It almost made us forget about getting home from far-flung Sound Academy. Almost. CARLA GILLIS

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CORPSE at the Phoenix, Tuesday, ñ February 24.

Rating: NNNN Metal is, factually, the best music. It’s impossible to understand how anyone wouldn’t like Poland’s Behemoth – one of the most inventive, entertaining, soul-shattering contemporary metal acts, legit Satanists all – or how anyone could hear them (or see their lavishly appointed stage show) and wrinkle their noses like Mom trying sushi for the first time, going, “Ooh, not for me.”

Behemoth’s blackened death metal has expanded over the past 25 years to enfold pretty much every type of metal. They rip flawlessly through howling solos, chugging rhythms and Latin invocations to Lucifer. Cloaked and corpsepainted at the Phoenix, they opened with Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer from last year’s incredible The Satanist. Then they tore through a back catalogue of mostly recent-vintage bangers like Conquer All, Slaves Shall Serve and Ov Fire And The Void.

Criminally, Behemoth were opening for bigname Buffalo death metal act Cannibal Corpse, which is kind of like double-billing The Godfather

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Part II with Fight Club. It may be uncharitable to say that Cannibal Corpse sucks. Maybe their music – flat, boring, macho in a scowling, thicknecked way yet spiked by juvenile lyrics about dismemberment, putrefaction and corpse rape – just isn’t attuned to my palate. So I’ll wrinkle my JOHN SEMLEY nose and mutter, “Not for me.”

YOUR OLD DROOG and PRHYME

ñat Tattoo, Wednesday, February 25.

Rating: NNNN Rap’s underground is an increasingly segregated place in 2015. Part of it is populated by animated rappers primarily from the South largely powered by style and trendy rap-cum-lifestyle blogs. Then there are austere traditionalists who dabble in retro revivalism, like newcomer Your Old Droog and veteran Royce da 5’9”, whose pairing with legendary golden-age producer DJ Premier (together they are PRhyme) has revitalized both musicians.

At Tattoo, the old heads were every bit as lively as their excitable counterparts. Your Old Droog emerged in 2014 with a revivalist intensity so

deep, rumours abounded that he was Nas performing under a pseudonym. Live, he rapped passionately over classic instrumentals like DMX’s Get At Me Dog, cracking wise about the border and exuding a nerdy charm.

Royce da 5’9” and DJ Premier got a hero’s welcome, turning many in the screwfaced audience into unabashed fanboys. They ran through cuts from their complex eponymous release with zeal, and Royce dipped into his Bad Meets Evil catalogue with Eminem, moving with the confidence of a superstar. The pair’s chemistry was palpable; both clearly revere each other and said so several times.

Critics of this throwback style sometimes chide its makers for their 90s nostalgia. To the 500 or so ravenous fans at Tattoo, PRhyme delivered just that. And nothing else mattered.

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KAKI KING at Geary Lane, Thursday, February 26. Rating: NNN

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visually stunning – a whimsical light show is projected behind her and onto her guitar. The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body is “for the guitar about the guitar by the guitar,” she said at the end of her set at Geary Lane.

But up to that point, she let the instrument do all the talking. In near darkness in front of a large screen, she sat strumming, plucking and tapping its strings, striking, rubbing and scratching at its body, her playing emphasizing rhythm as much as melody. The all-instrumental “soundtrack” was mostly soft, complexly coloured and precise.

The projections ranged from whorls of light to threads of colour dripping down the guitar to snow imagery and bleak gas stations at night on the screen. Just as heaviness was setting in, the guitar told its (and King’s) life story through funny projected text about its struggle to find a way to belong, with its “New Age finger music,” in a world full of cool, fuzz-rock SGs. The tangent added levity to the night and helped the large crowd connect with the woman CG so fully at one with her six-string.

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DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH and HAYDEN at Massey Hall, Saturday, February 28. Rating: NNN

Local folk-rock kingpin Hayden appeared calm as he worked his way through a set of old standards and tracks from his upcoming release, Hey Love, on Massey’s stage.

His dry sense of humour was on display, and he perfected a balance between scrappy uptempo numbers on guitar and introspective tracks at the piano.

He told more personal stories – like one about his non-verbal young daughter – than ever before, and it was difficult to keep a dry eye before No Happy Birthday. Bass Song from 2002’s Skyscraper National Park was as chilling as ever, com-

plete with a frantic, rousing, delightfully off-key waltz of a finale.

In contrast to Hayden’s understated manner, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith went for a theatrical approach. Mangan has embraced his role as an Indie 88 mainstay, keeping things slick on heavily orchestrated Club Meds track Vessel. But where Hayden seemed perfectly unfazed on the legendary stage, Mangan struggled to settle in.

Mangan and his Blacksmith band of experimentalists are making every effort to escape the cuddly, nice-guy rock tag with darker, more haunting tracks. But the strange turns (including an awkward trumpet solo) his set took, particularly during tracks from Club Meds, were distractions more than intriguing JOSHUA KLOKE tangents.

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AMELIA CURRAN Queen West), Friday (March 6), 8:30 pm. $25. masseyhall.com.

Amelia Curran is comfortable with solitude. She’s been a solo singer/songwriter for close to 15 years, which has meant a lot of time alone on the road.

For her recent February birthday, she celebrated by embracing that aspect of her existence.

“I had a date night by myself,” says Curran from a tour stop in the Netherlands. “I was in Dublin and I had the day off, which was nice. Every couple of weeks when there’s a day off, I find a nice restaurant and call it a date night. Make room for my brain.”

She has been finding Amsterdam lonely, though, because everything’s written in Dutch (“I’m having this experience of being illiterate”), and when conversation moves toward her full band joining her for her forthcoming Canadian dates, excitement replaces her laid-back tone.

Her three-piece band – which includes drummer Josh Van Tassel, bassist Devon Henderson and guitarist Joel

Schwartz – will bring alive the songs on the superb They Promised You Mercy, her fourth album for Six Shooter, recorded at Toronto’s Revolution Records with Michael Phillip Wojewoda and released in November.

Its songs have perfectly wrought lyrics that say so much with just a few words, and the music moves between Curran’s signature melancholy folk and something close to pop, as on hugely melodic Song On The Radio (despite its banjo backup) and the stirring rocker Never Say Goodbye.

It’s already earned the St. John’sbased musician acclaim, but lately she’s also getting recognition for her mental health advocacy work, thanks to a powerful, inclusive PSA video she made to increase awareness and bring comfort to sufferers. “Everything is going to be all right,” she sings over and over, alongside other musicians, community members and notable Newfoundlanders like Rick Mercer.

“I wanted to do some anti-stigma and awareness work,” says Curran, who has sought help for depression.

“As [filmmaker Roger Maunder] and I talked to mental health consumers

and advocacy workers, we learned about the lack of a system and how frustrated a lot of these workers are, and it became a bigger story rather than one about me talking about me.

It became almost a challenge to the world: we tell people in it that we can change the system, and give them ways to do that.”

Till now, Curran has kept her politics largely separate from her music, but she grew up in a leftist family with an activist father who helped small NL communities facing relocation, so the two were bound to mix eventually.

“Sometimes if we don’t have the money to fix a tiny road or run a ferry into a tiny place, communities are completely relocated. That’s an old story in Newfoundland, but people don’t realize it’s still happening. So my father helped with what you might call economic development and infusing the arts into these small communities through tourism and things like that.

“In my family we have a tradition of saying, ‘Maybe that’s not the answer.

Let’s find another answer.’”

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MOON DUO Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Thursday (March 5) See album review, page 42.

VAG HALEN, PRINCESS CENTURY, NIKKI FIERCE, MILK LINES AND HUSH PUP Smiling Buddha (961 College), Thursday and Friday (March 5-6) Lez cock rockers play the Pixies.

TRASH TALK, RATKING, LEE BANNON Studio Bar (824 Dundas West), Friday (March 6) See Lee Bannon preview, page 36.

AMELIA CURRAN The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (March 6) See preview, page 32.

FEAST IN THE EAST 46 WITH HSY, SHRINES, RETIRED, WE ARE NOT WHO WE ARE Jam Factory Co. (2 Matilda), Saturday (March 7) Dinner with a side of sludge-punk.

SWAMPERELLA Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Saturday (March 7) 20th annual Mardi Gras masquerade.

MARC KINCHEN, JONATHAN ROSA, JEFF BUTTON, SIMON JAIN Coda (794 Bathurst), Saturday (March 7) House music hitmaker.

ARIANA GRANDE Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Sunday (March 8) Blunt-force melisma.

THE ELWINS, THE FRANKLIN ELECTRIC The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Sunday (March 8) Play For Keeps album release party.

GANG OF FOUR, PUBLIC ACCESS TV Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Monday (March 9) See preview, page 38.

YOUNG THUG, TRAVIS SCOTT, METRO BOOMIN Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday (March 10) Trippy trap rap.

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Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq became one of the most celebrated figures in Canadian indie music last year after her album Animism won the Polaris Prize.

This weekend, audiences will have the chance to compare and contrast her ferocious, guttural approach to throat singing with Mongolian performer Radik Tyulyush’s Tuvan style.

The pair will perform over two nights as part of the Aga Khan Museum’s cross-cultural music and film series.

Tyulyush will kick off the nights, and Tagaq will follow, accompanying Robert Flaherty’s silent 1922 documentary Nanook Of The North.

Friday and Saturday (March 6 and 7) at Aga Khan Museum (77 Wynford), 8 pm. $20-$35. agakhanmuseum.org.

Just announced KEITA JUMA, BEAUGÉ, STAYOUTLATE, DJ YOBI Drake Hotel doors 9 pm. $10 adv. March 19.

BROODS, ERIK HASSLE The Hoxton

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AILEE, JAY PARK, SAN E Massey Hall 7:30 pm. $65-$270. krowdpop.com. March 20.

THE QUEER SONGBOOK ORCHESTRA Church of the Holy Trinity 8 pm. $18-$25. queersongbook.eventbrite.com. March 26.

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ALIEN ANT FARM Rockpile 7 pm. $24.50.

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TRANZAC Houndstooth Bluegrass Thursdays, 7:30 pm [Southern Cross].

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ALLEYCATZ Jim Dan Dee. THE CAGE 292 Kalya Ramu Quintet (jazz/

blues), Nightbird Vocal Jazz Jam, 9:30 pm.

GATE 403 Clair Lee Jazz Trio 5-8 pm. Melanie Brûlée’s Band 9 pm.

HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Masters In The Round Susan Latimer, Pete Merilovich, Frank Zochodne, 8 pm.

JAZZ BISTRO David Rubel Live recording.

KAMA All Star Canadian Jazz Quartet & Perry White (jazz) 5-8 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Rent Party (swing/jazz covers), 8:30 pm.

MUSIDEUM Michael Pronsky (jazz/classical), 8 pm.

POETRY JAZZ CAFE Shafton Thomas Group (heavy metal jazz), 8:30 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadist Quartet w/ Sandy Alexander 9:45 pm.

THE REX Joel Harrison Quartet w/ David Braid 9:45 pm. Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

ST LAWRENCE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Adam Sherkin, LISZT: Wild New Wizadry, noon-1 pm.

TRANZAC New Civilization Colin Fisher, Scott Peterson, Brandon Valdivia, Tom Richards, Alex Lukachevsky, 10 pm. [Southern Cross].

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ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO First Thursdays: Art Spielgelman exhibit, Lowell. ñ 7-11:30 pm.

(Motown), Supreme Thursday, 7 to 11 pm.

WELDON PARK Strangelove doors 10 pm.

WEST BAR DJ Dennis Rojas (80s/90s/R&B/hip-

THE BOAT Greber, Demonic Possessor, Guilt-

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CAMERON HOUSE Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs, Buster Crabtree 10 pm.

CAVERN BAR The Lifts, Lyon Lay, The Galacticats doors 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Whitebrow 7 pm.

ETON HOUSE The Bonfire 7 pm.

HAWAII BAR Luke Vajsar (solo bass), 9:30 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Ravetapes, Jeevs J, DJ Fritz the Cat, DJ Rick Marcellino Planet Inspire: tribute & benefit for The Bridget “Gabi” Milius Tribute Fund, doors 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Rotary Dial, The DGB’s, Kerouacs, Stan Simon & The Hotel Bible doors 8:30 pm.

JUNCTION CITY MUSIC HALL Burn Apollo (alt rock), 8 pm, all ages.

KARLA’S ROADHOUSE Tommy Rocker (classic rock), 9:30 pm.

KENSINGTON LODGE Derek Mok 7 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Amour, Break The Trend, Macolly’s.

MOD CLUB Echosmith doors 6 pm, all ages.

SILVER DOLLAR Moon Duo doors 9 pm.

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SMILING BUDDHA Vag Halen, Milk Lines, Hush Pup Death To Vag Halen (all Pixies set), 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40), 9:30 pm.

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BOVINE SEX CLUB Wacken Metal Battle Round One Answer With Metal, Hallows ñ Die, Plethora, Tsargrad, Vesperia.

CAMERON HOUSE Biopic, Snaglle Music, City-

LEE BANNON BREAKCORE

Fewer rap beats, more experimental IDM

By BENJAMIN BOLES

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

C’EST WHAT The Celebration Army doors 8:30 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Corin Raymond 6 pm. ñ DOMINION ON QUEEN Fraser & Girard, Glen

Hornblast The Wee Folk Club, 7:30 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL Andy Shauf (singer/songwriter), 8 pm. [Underground].

FREE TIMES CAFE Loveovernite, Mark Humeniuk, Thieves Thieves, Every Second, James Favron (folk/pop/acoustic), 9 pm.

GROSSMAN’S TAVERN The Responsibles 10 pm.

HART HOUSE Hart House Stages Folk Night Jenny Mayhem, Running Red Lights and Quincy LePalm. 8 pm. [Arbor Room].

LOCAL GEST Jeff & Noah-Cabbagetown Band 8 pm. Open Mic With Porter 9 pm.

LONG & MCQUADE World Fiddle Day Practice Jam 6:45-8:45 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Zeynep Ozbilen Album release, 8 pm.

PAINTBOX BISTRO Lorraine Segato, Colleen Allen, Miku Graham, Shawnee Talbot, Amani, Michelle Willis, Charlotte Siegel Wild Women (Don’t Get The Blues): Part 2, 8 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Flohil’s Playhouse Kat Goldman, Samantha Martin w/ Delta Sugar, Tom Wilson (blues, roots and gospel), doors 8 pm.

RIVOLI Aspen & Bartleby, Amy Bronson, Black Suit Devil, Melanie Peterson (acoustic/indie/ folk), doors 8:30 pm.

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LEE BANNON with TRASH TALK and RATKING at Studio Bar (824 Dundas West), Friday (March 6), 7 pm. $16. ticketweb. com.

Don’t expect to hear many of the hip-hop beats Lee Bannon wrote for Joey Bada$$ and the Pro Era crew when he opens for California hardcore punk band Trash Talk and NYC rap group Ratking. Instead, Bannon is focusing on the experimental drum ’n’ bass beats of his 2014 solo album, Alternate/Endings (Ninja Tune), and the breakcore-influenced sounds of his upcoming record.

“It’s funny because it actually kind of blends in with what [Trash Talk and Ratking] are doing,” Bannon says from a tour stop in Virginia. “My last EP [Main/Flex] had Charlie Benante from Anthrax playing drums on it, and it’s pretty brutal. It’s like Nine Inch Nails but without the cheesy vocals.”

Some of Bannon’s fans are still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that the experimental IDM breakbeats of his solo career are coming from the same guy who produced 95 Til Infinity for Joey Bada$$.

Anyone coming to see him and expecting a traditional hip-hop DJ set will be disappointed.

“There are no computers in my show, and a lot of

analog gear. There’s no DJing. It’s just me playing live, 100 per cent. I don’t even really know how to DJ. When I was DJing for Joey Bada$$ I was literally just hitting play on Ableton to trigger some beats I’d made for him, so I guess that’s why a lot of people think I’m a DJ.” To help clarify this identity shift, he’s pulled back from writing beats for rappers unless it’s a full-on collaboration. Instead of hip-hop influences, he namedrops 90s IDM heroes like Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Autechre, Plaid and Venetian Snares, most of whom made their mark on the world before he even hit puberty.

“It’s like Drake referencing Nas. In the world I’m doing music in now, those producers are my Nas.” His second album is finished and scheduled for release later this year. He sees it as a continuation of some of the ideas established on Alternate/Endings, but with a different sonic fingerprint.

“It’s cleaner, and there’s a rounder low end.

Alternate/Endings was a gritty, headphone drum ’n’ bass album for listening to in your room while you’re hacking – like a punk album. This one is vast, with more powerful sounds.”

3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

scape Backroom. Snaggle, Biopic, Cityscape (jazz fusion/pop/rock), doors 8:30 pm.

THE CAVE Dilana, Truckermouth doors 8 pm.

CAVERN BAR Rile O’Donnell, Geraldine Steinhoff, Gunk, Mackenzie McRuer, Cacia Gillian, Cas Stonehouse doors 8 pm.

CENTRO PIZZA Tommy Rocker Open Jam, 8:30 pm.

ETON HOUSE Flashback 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Rusty, Little Junior, Crow Town (90s alt rock), doors 9 pm.

THE HOXTON Shash’U, Memorecks & HRMXNY, The Kount doors 10 pm.

LEE’S PALACE The Soul Motivators, Grand Analog, The Out Of Towners, DJ John Kong doors 9 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Subsolo (rock/pop rock covers), 9:30 pm.

MASSEY HALL Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti 8 pm.

MOD CLUB Above & Beyond Concert: Rock For SickKids Urban Jive, The RoaDogs, Notorious road, Essential Soulm, Ike N’ Fez, doors 7:30 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Meghan Trainor, Sheppard Doors 7 pm, all ages.

RANCHO RELAXO Benighted, Bookakee, Vodnik & Vesication 8:30 pm.

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maiden doors 9 pm.

ROSE THEATRE Colin James (rock/blues) 8 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Ultimate Painting, Army Girls, Bamboo, Deliluh doors 9 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Vag Halen, Princess Century, Nikki Fierce Death To Vag Halen (all Pixies set), 9 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Solid Ground, Clarity, ThaCapitalE doors 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Cameltoe (rock), 10 pm.

STEAM WHISTLE BREWING The Digs, Galactic Scoundrels, DJ Medicineman Happy Birthday Toronto – Celebrating 181 Years, 8:30 pm.

STUDIO BAR Trash Talk, Ratking, Lee Bannon (hardcore punk), doors 7 pm.

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AGA KHAN MUSEUM Tanya Tagaq & Radik Tyulyush (Inuit/Tuvan throat singing), 8 pm. ñ CAMERON HOUSE David Celia 6 pm. Kayla Howran (blues) 10 pm. Patrick Brealey 8 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Chris & Nicole, Yolanda Ho, Brydan Smith (folk/singer-songwriters), 8:30 pm.

T.O. Music NOTes ANDY KIM, KEVIN DREW TO PLAY LETTERMAN

Relatives of the following local musicians, please set your TiVos: singer/songwriter Andy Kim and Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene are booked as the musical guests on CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman on March 12, the same day the segment will air.

Kim, best known for his string of Billboard chart hits in the late 60s/early 70s, including Rock Me Gently, recently tapped Drew to produce his latest LP, It’s Decided, which Arts & Crafts released last month.

The pair will be backed by Morgan Doctor (Vag Halen, Mahmood), Derek Downham (the Beauties), Anna Ruddick (Bry Webb, Randy Bachman), Peter Nunn (Honeymoon Suite) and James Reid (Matthew Good).

Andy Kim and his band also play Field Trip on June 7.

MAMMOTH CAVE NO MORE

Last week, Mammoth Cave Records announced it was ceasing operations after seven years in business and close to four dozen records by musicians across Canada, including lovingly curated reissues by Simply Saucer and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet.

Despite successful recent releases by Calgary’s Teledrome and Hamilton’s B.A. Johnston, the label founded by Toronto-based Paul Lawton and Calgarybased Evan Van Reekum was unable to overcome cultural and economic obstacles, as a lengthy note on Mammoth’s Facebook page explains.

The surprise announcement has worrisome implications for other sceneoriented, documentarian labels trying to stay afloat in Canada’s current music economy, where even the most profit-driven organizations depend on public funding.

In limbo for the moment are upcoming releases by Outtacontroller, the Famines, the Allovers and Lawton’s own Century Palm among others.

CRYSTAL CASTLES BOOK SOLO GIGS

Crystal Castles are no longer a thing, but singer Alice Glass and producer/songwriter Ethan Kath are soldiering on separately.

Glass has booked a DJ gig at NXNE this June and is prepping a solo record that’s expected to go in a darker, more aggressive direction than Crystal Castles. In a recent interview, she promised it will mark “a fresh start” and sound “like a kitten eating its hoarding owners after they die.” (We are holding her to that.)

Meanwhile, Crystal Castles fans who are sticking with #TeamEthan should note that Kath is among the acts confirmed to play the Go HARD Festival, which touches down at Echo Beach on May 30.

CMW ROLLS OUT MORE NAMES

Canadian Music Week has released a second round of participating musicians, and they include Brooklyn hip-hop prodigy Joey Bada$$, shoegaze veterans Swervedriver, English post-punks the Psychedelic Furs, indie pop heartstring-pullers Death Cab for Cutie, southern gospel soul singer Leon Bridges, PBR&B singer JMSN, Halifax party-starter Rich Aucoin, Hamilton southern rock stompers Monster Truck and many other names you can find at cmw.net/music.

The GreaT hall Amelia Curran (roots/ traditional), 8:30 pm. See preview, ñ page 32. huGh’s room Anthony Gomes (blues/rock), 8:30 pm.

JuncTion ciTy music hall Young Running, DJ Chris Joynt (country/rock/indie), 9 pm.

lula lounGe Yani Borrell (salsa), 10:30 pm. small World music cenTre Youth Songwrit-

er Showcase 7 pm, all ages.

WhiTe elephanT Arthur Renwick 6 to 9 pm. yelloW cup cafe Azalea (alt country) 8 pm, all ages.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

alleycaTz Nine Times Band. array space Nick Fraser Quartet, Tony Malaby 8 pm. ñ Grossman’s Tavern Combo Royale 10 pm.

habiTs GasTropub Bossa Tres (jazz), 9 pm. harlem David Hutchinson Jazz & Blues Band 7:30 pm.

heliconian hall The Music in Our Lives Peggy Mahon, Danny McErlain (jazz), 7:30 pm.

Jazz bisTro David Rubel Live recording.

Koerner hall Vadim Repin, Svetlana Smolina Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bartok, Debussy & Ravel (violin, piano). 8 pm. lula lounGe Jim Heineman Trio (world/jazz), 7:30 pm. musideum A Tribute To Jim Galloway (jazz), 8 pm. old mill inn Carol McCartney Quartet (jazz), 7:30 pm. poeTry Jazz cafe The Eric West Group (experimental jazz), 9 pm.

The rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. sony cenTre for The performinG arTs The Piano Guys (classical renditions of modern pop hits). 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

club 120 Cream DJs Recklezz & KLR, 10 pm. coda Nathan Barato, Cocodrills, Jonathan Rosa, 10 pm.

midpoinT bisTro DJ NV (hip-hop/R&B/soul/

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GanG of four Putting the “no” in nostalgia

By VISH KHANNA

GAnG of four and PuBlic Access t.v. at Lee’s Palace, Monday (March 9), doors 8 pm. $30. rotate. com, soundscapes.com.

“When I started the new record I didn’t have a plan, but one thing I felt sure about was that I would go wherever I chose,” Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill says from his home studio in London. “And I wouldn’t be looking back to some mythical Gang of Four rule book about what is and isn’t allowed.”

Toward the end of the 1970s, Gill co-founded the remarkable post-punk band, whose jagged, danceable, politically outspoken songs

influenced a million musicians and earned them a loyal following. With few gaps, Gill and original singer/songwriter Jon King kept the outfit active with a revolving door of additional musicians.

The new album, What Happens Next, is the first Gang of Four record without King, who left after touring 2011’s acclaimed Content. It finds Gill completely rethinking the band.

“In the beginning, I was the musical director and trying to basically invent a new language – it wasn’t just a copy of James Brown or the Velvet Underground,” Gill says. “It was taking music apart in little building blocks and putting them back together until it felt right. And I

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AlleycAtz Taxi 9:30 pm. cAmeron House C & C Surf Factory 8 pm. cAvern BAr The Marvellous Beauhunks, The

Operators, The 905s doors 9 pm. tHe DAnfortH music HAll Flight Facilities doors 7 pm.

DrAke Hotel JJ And The Pillars doors 7 pm. eton House The Starlite Band (pop/rock/ country), 9 pm. tHe GArrison Magic Man, Panama Wedding, Prides doors 9 pm.

GlADstone Hotel Parkside Drive (dance/ funk/disco/rock), 8 pm [Melody Bar].

GrossmAn’s tAvern Powderfinger (Neil Young tribute), 10 pm.

HArlem Gyles (pop/soul) 7:30 pm.

HorsesHoe Ivory Hours, Tear Away Tusa, Kasador, The Turks doors 9 pm.

HumBle BeGinninGs Mike Aceto 2:30-4:30 pm.

JAm fActory co Feast In The East 46 HSY, Shrines, Retired, We Are Not Who We Are. 9 pm, all ages.

Junction city music HAll Good Enough Live band karaoke. 9 pm. lee’s PAlAce JD McPherson, Dylan Pratt doors 9 pm. let’s Be frAnk Missfats 10 pm. linsmore tAvern Whiskey Rose Thin Lizzy tribute, 9:30 pm. lulA lounGe Rock’n’Rainbow (family-friendly pop/rock), Album launch party, doors 11 am, all ages.

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doors 6:30 pm.

PHoenix concert tHeAtre Wayne Wonder Reggae Cafe, 10:30 pm.

tHe rex Danny Marks (blues), noon. rivoli Jonesin & The Hurt, Small Town Get

Up, Mother Leads, Shoelace (indie rock), doors 8 pm. rockPile Gutter Demons, House of Haunt doors 8 pm. smilinG BuDDHA Life In Vacuum, Worst Gift, Big Knife Little Knife, Chastity, HX KY doors 8 pm. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s The Bear Band (rock/ blues), 4 to 8 pm. Bone-Yard (rock/top 40), 10 pm. stuDio BAr Divo, Dan-e-o, D.O., Rufus Album release party. (hip-hop/R&B), doors 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

AGA kHAn museum Tanya Tagaq & Radik Tyulyush (Inuit/Tuvan throat singing), 8 pm.

AlliAnce frAnçAise Sounds Of Saba Fantahun Shewankochew, Netsanet Mellesse, 8 pm.

Beit zAtoun Beit Zatoun Open House & Rent Party Maryem Tollar Ensemble, Near East Ensemble, Roula Said & others. 6:30-10 pm. cAmeron House Jack Marks 10 pm. Milan Boronell [Backroom]. Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm.

Sue & Dwight (folk/roots) 3:30-5:30 pm.

DAkotA tAvern The Good Right Arm Stringband Bluegrass brunch. 10 am to 2 pm.

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Darren Austin Hall, Stephen Bahnesli, Lana Sugerman, Jesse GL Stewart Truth Heart: Sacred Music Concert. 8 pm. free times cAfe Dr B’s Acoustic Medicine Show Open mic/jam, 2 pm. Xave A Horse, Ride A Xowboy North Mountain, Marc Tyndel, Dave Rutt, 8:30 pm.

GrossmAn’s tAvern The Happy Pals 4:30 to 8 pm. Powder Finger w/ Chloe Watkinson 10 pm.

thought I was doing that with this record.”

What Happens Next has received mixed reviews. Multiple singers have replaced the idiosyncratic King (primarily touring vocalist John “Gaoler” Sterry), and the album’s electronic, industrial ambience has been likened to post-Zooropa, 90s era amalgam dance-rock.

Some of its modern lyrical motifs, including Obey The Ghost’s “We’re Facebook friends with celebrities,” have been described as heavyhanded and contrived.

From Gill’s perspective, he’s being as artistically honest as he can be while also carrying Gang of Four’s ever-questioning, critical flag into the future.

HuGH’s room Mia Sheard, Colleen Brown,

Jessica Stuart, Ben Hermann Tribute To Joni Mitchell – Songs Are Like Tattoos, 8:30 pm. lulA lounGe The Lula All Stars (salsa), 10:30 pm. musiDeum Nhapitapi Mbira (African music), 8 pm. trAnzAc Jamzac 3 pm [Southern Cross].

Swamperella Mardi Gras dance and masquerade. (Cajun/Zydeco) doors 7:30 pm. vino rosso Words & Music Salon Bryan Pickell and Kim Michele & Julie Lynch, 1:30-4:30 pm. wHite elePHAnt Freeman Dre & Kitchen Party 10 pm.

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ArrAy sPAce ArrayMusic Fundraiser (jazz)

Micah Barnes, David Sacks and David Schotzko 4-7 pm.

Art loft Melanie Brûlée doors 7:30 pm. c’est wHAt The Hot Five Jazzmakers doors 2 pm. cHAlkers PuB Robi Botos 6-9 pm.

GAte 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm.

Glenn GoulD stuDio Weston Silver Band, Paul Duffy (cornet soloist), Cornet-Copia! 8 pm.

HABits GAstroPuB Chris Wallace Trio (jazz), 9 pm.

HeliconiAn HAll The Musicians In Ordinary, 8 pm.

JAzz Bistro David Rubel Live recording. koerner HAll Jon Batiste & Stay Human 2 pm. music GAllery Skookum Sound Crew, Lido Pimienta, Sarah Yankoo 8 pm. olD mill inn Pat Collins Trio (jazz), 7:30 pm.

PlAceBo sPAce Kohen Hammond Quartet & Robert Wannell Quartet doors 8 pm.

Poetry JAzz cAfe Re.Verse & Katie DuTemple (hip-hop jazz), 9 pm. tHe rex Carn & Davidson 9 9:45 pm. Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm. Chris Hunt Tentet + 2 (original big band jazz), 3:30 pm. roy tHomson HAll Barbara Hannigan, Krisztina Szabó, Iestyn Davies, Isaiah Bell, Christopher Purves (opera-in-concert), New Creations Festival: Written On Skin, 7:30 pm.

“Some people want familiarity and another version of what you’ve done before,” Gill says.

“And other people have grasped this and said, ‘I can hear this is Gang of Four. I hear the same DNA in the guitar and beats.’ But it’s different and it’s now, and some people get it and others haven’t gotten it and are a bit fed up that it doesn’t sound like [1979’s] Entertainment!, I suppose.

“I’m never going to do Entertainment! mach two, three, four or whatever. Done that. The idea that Gang of Four could be about nostalgia is frankly abhorrent.”

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FsAint luke’s uniteD cHurcH Counterpoint Community Orchestra 7:30 pm. tHe stone lion David Hutchison & Terry Logan (jazz), The Unit, 3:30 to 6:30 pm. victoriA colleGe cHAPel Scaramella (chamber music), Telemania, 8 pm.

younG centre for tHe PerforminG Arts Don Ross, Ted Quinlan, Christine ñ Bougie, Nick Tateishi, The Guitar Summit, 8:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

tHe BAllet Renaissance-All 90s DJs Kariz & Mista Jiggz, (hip-hop/R&B/house/reggae/ rock/pop) doors 10 pm.

BAssline music BAr Let There Be House DJs Toronto Hustle & Guerilla Science, 10 pm. cABAl lounGe Slave To The Rhythm DJs Cory Dawkins & Starting From Scratch. clinton’s Bangs & Blush (60s soul/rock & roll), Shake, Rattle & Roll, 10 pm. cluB 120 Bubble Pop DJ Kpop, VJ Gee & DJ TaeKai, 10 pm. coDA Marc Kinchen, Jonathan Rosa, Jeff Button, Simon Jain doors 10 pm.

DrAke Hotel DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia Never Forgive Action (classic hip-hop & R&B), 11 pm.

GlADstone Hotel Hause Of Whaps, Serb Superb No Pants Society Beach Party, (burlesque show followed by dance party), 9:30 pm.

HArlem unDerGrounD DJ Chocolate, Xixgon International Sound, Noble Works Irie Nights, 11 pm. tHe Hoxton Klankarussell doors 10 pm. suPermArket DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal (funk/soul/boogie/hip-hop), Do Right Saturdays! 10 pm. uniun DJ Jed Dadson Uniun Saturdays: Prohibition, doors 10 pm. west BAr DJ Dave Campbell, Kazen Media (R&B/hip-hop/house/top 40), 10 pm.

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3030 DunDAs west Oozakazoo All ages family

concert benefits The Stop. 3:30-5:30 pm.

Air cAnADA centre Ariana Grande doors 6:30 pm. cAmeron House The Double Cuts 7 pm.

HorsesHoe Milo Greene, Caroline Smith (pop/soul) doors 8 pm. tHe Hoxton The Elwins, The Franklin Electric Record release show, doors 8 pm. linsmore tAvern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (funk/R&B/blues), 5-9 pm.

PArts & lABour Alcoa doors 8 pm, all ages. rivoli The Temperance Movement doors 8 pm. tHe scArBorouGH Junction Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 8 pm. smilinG BuDDHA TOPS, Tasseomancy, DJ Daniel Benjamin doors 8 pm. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix (pop/rock), Open Jam, 9:30 pm. trAnzAc Ryan Driver Band & LUKA 10 pm [Southern Cross].

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IBeit zAtoun Papayarama: Women’s Day Fair/Celebration Semi-experimental all-female musical jam w/ Mari Palhares, Primitiva Chiva Libre, DJ Firecracker (maracatu/samba, reggae/cumbia/spoken word/folk). 12:30 to 5 pm.

BlAck BeAr PuB SNAFU Jam, 4 to 8 pm. tHe cAGe 292 Phill Hood Jam, 10 pm. cAmPBell House museum Ozere The Listening Party Concert Series, 7:30 pm. cAvern BAr Open Mic Sundays Hosted by Kyle Skillman, doors 9 pm.

DAkotA tAvern The Good Right Arm Stringband Bluegrass brunch. 10 am to 2 pm.

DrAke Hotel Parsonfield (indie folk), doors 8 pm. [Underground] free times cAfe Lenka Lichtenberg & The Yiddish Meydals Jewish Brunch Buffet (klezmer), 11 am & 1:15 pm. Singer’s Edge: Unplugged Session 13 (songwriters), 8 pm.

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HugH’s room Kruger Brothers 8:30 pm. mCgradies tap and grill Dan Walek Open Jam, 6 to 10 pm. relisH Bar & grill David MacMichael & Paul Brennan Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic, 9 pm. tranzaC More Songs & Poems Robert Priest and Max Layton w/ Bob Cohen. 5-7 pm.

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Koerner Hall Kahane Swensen Brey Trio 3 pm. loCal gest Diane Roblin’s Reconnect (jazz/ folk/rock/blues) 4:30 to 7:30 pm. lula lounge U of T Jazz 7 pm. morgans on tHe danFortH Yvette Tollar & David Restivo (jazz) 2 to 5 pm. musiC gallery 30 More Continuum 30th anniversary, 8 pm. poetry Jazz CaFe DayDream & Patrick Hewan Duets 3 pm. tHe rex Bugaloo Squad 7 pm. Carn & Davidson 9 9:45 pm. Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

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Cameron House Bad Seeds 10 pm.

Cavern Bar Jimmy Pearson, Marshall Veroni,

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HorsesHoe Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, Beans On Toast doors 8 pm.

See album review, page 42.

KitCH Luke Vajsar Hypnotic Lounge Series, 9:30 pm. lee’s palaCe Gang of Four, Public Access TV doors 8 pm. See preview, page 38.

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Cameron House Jay Pollock 8 pm. tHe danFortH musiC Hall Young Thug,

Travis Scott, Metro Boomin 7 pm. ñ HorsesHoe The Tourist Company, Old English, Pistol George Warren, John Jacob Magistery Nu Music Nite, doors 8:30 pm.

HugH’s room G2R: Genesis To Revelation (Genesis tribute), 8:30 pm.

Queen elizaBetH tHeatre Mike and the Mechanics doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Cameron House Nevada 8 pm. Sinners Choir

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tHe duKe live.Com Frank Wilks Open Jam,

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BamBi’s Lust For Youth, Bile Sister.

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Jim Dan Dee Jazz Trio 9 pm. grossman’s tavern Django Gypsy Jam 9:30 pm.

Jane mallett tHeatre Till Fellner (piano), 8 pm. tHe rex Ehud Ettun 9:30 pm. Richard Whiteman Group 6:30 pm. royal Conservatory oF musiC Bryan Epperson (cello), 7:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Aurochs (jazz) 7:30 pm. Stop Time (jazz), 10 pm. trinity st. paul’s CHurCH Talisker Players, On A Darkling Plain, 8 pm.

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HorsesHoe Black Collar Union, Little Boxer, Else Majesty, Rolls Joyce. melange Soul Instigators Tap In Jam. 6-11 pm. tHe painted lady Milo McMahon, Sam Klass. ratio Clara Engel, Divine Circle, Gardener, Lunar Creatures 9 pm, all ages. rivoli Victoria Marie, Entanglement Quartet, Kara Purto, Loryn Taggart, Bordeen doors 8 pm. sound aCademy Pentatonix (a cappella group), doors 7 pm, all ages. uniCorn puB The B-Sides 9:30 pm.

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Michelle Rumball 5-8 pm. grossman’s tavern Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm.

Holy oaK CaFe Joey Wright (country), 7:30 pm. Johnny Ferguson (folk), 10 pm.

HugH’s room Darrelle London (alt folk), CD release, 8:30 pm.

Kramer’s Open Stage hosted by Meghan Morrison, 8 to 11 pm. massey Hall Colin James 8 pm. remix lounge Under The Shining Bright Lights Open mic, doors 8 pm. silver dollar Crazy Strings Bluegrass Wednesday, doors 9 pm. tranzaC Arnd Jurgensen 7:30 pm. [Southern Cross]. Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 6 pm. Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 6 pm.

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CHalKers puB Lisa Particelli Girl’s Night Out Jazz Jam. 8 pm to midnight.

Four seasons Centre For tHe perForming arts Alex Samaras Chanson Refusées (jazz),

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Free times CaFe Steve MacDonald (jazz), 8:30 pm. mezzetta Dino Toledo & Fernando Gallego Flamenco show. 8 pm. nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio, 7 to 11 pm. only CaFé Lazersuzan (groove-based space jazz), 8 to 10 pm. plaCeBo spaCe Emily Steinwall Jazz Jam doors 8 pm. reposado Spy vs Sly vs Spy (jazz/blues trio). tHe rex Kirk MacDonald Quartet 9:30 pm.

Scott Kemp Trio 6:30 pm.

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647-726-9500.

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Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

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CaBal lounge 782 King W. 647-342-8866. the Cage 292 292 College.

CaMeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

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160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. the Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598.

Cavern Bar 76 Church.

416-971-4440.

Centre For soCial innovation annex 720 Bathurst.

416-979-3939.

Centro pizza 3408 Kingston Rd. 416-850-2828.

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416-789-2531.

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Four seasons Centre For the perForMing arts 145

Queen W. 416-363-8231.

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plaCeBo spaCe 2877 Lake Shore W. 647-926-0947.

poetry Jazz CaFe 224 Au-

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rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-

551-7560.

W. 647-345-2803.

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416-598-2162. the hoxton 69 Bathurst.

416-456-7321. hugh’s rooM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. huMBle Beginnings 3109 Dundas W. 647-748-3109.

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Jane Mallett theatre 27 Front E. 416-366-7723.

Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria.

416-363-5299.

JunCtion City MusiC hall 2907 Dundas W.

KaMa 214 King W. 416-

599-5262.

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Kingston Rd. 647-352-7780.

Kensington loDge 21 Kensington. 647-769-9936.

KitCh 229 Geary. 647-350-4555.

Koerner hall 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

KraMer’s 1915 Yonge. 416483-0697. lee’s palaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. let’s Be FranK 460 Spadina Avenue. 416-519-7256. linsMore tavern 1298 Danforth. 416-466-5130. loCal gest 424 Parliament.

416-961-9425. long & MCQuaDe 925 Bloor W. 416-588-7886. lula lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Massey hall 178 Victoria.

416-872-4255.

MCgraDies tap anD grill

2167 Victoria Park. 416449-1212.

Melange 172 Main.

Mezzetta 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687.

MiDpoint Bistro 1180 Queen W. 416-272-2450.

MoD CluB 722 College. 416588-4663.

Morgans on the DanForth 1282 Danforth. 416-

461-3020.

MusiC gallery 197 John.

10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811.

596-1908. roCKpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. rose theatre 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800. roy thoMson hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

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album reviews

OF MONTREAL Aureate Gloom (Polyvinyl) Rating: NNN On their 13th album, Of Montreal shift away from psychedelic prog-pop toward 70s punk and glam rock mixed with early 80s post-punk and new wave influences.

It’s the kind of revivalist thing that would have seemed too fashionable 15 years ago but is now far enough removed from trends that it just comes across as an honest reflection of founder Kevin Barnes’s current interests. What hasn’t changed is his habit of cramming too many ideas into a song, a sometimes annoying tendency that pays off surprisingly often.

While not the most original-sounding, Barnes and his band keep things interesting by smoothly bouncing between overtly sweet pop moments and anxious dissonance. Too bad clunky lyrics hold things back at times. He’s always taken an idiosyncratic approach to that, but this particular album came out of a divorce and a period of emotional turmoil, and the acutely personal lyrics often sound like excerpts from a teenager’s diary.

Top track: Bassem Sabry BENJAMIN BOLES MOON DUO Shadow Of The Sun

album of the week Experimental Folk NNNN ñANAMAI

Sallows (Buzz) Rating: There’s a distinct déjà vu quality to Anna Mayberry’s dreamy vocals in her solo project, Anamai, and yet no immediate comparisons come to mind. A press release suggests Chelsea Wolfe and Weyes Blood as kindred spirits, but Anamai’s debut LP – the product of HSY’s Mayberry and Egyptrixx’s David Psutka – is more elusive and subtle, with a heavy drone-induced weight that comfortably settles in the back of your throat. This sense of familiarity and

uniqueness is why Sallows instantly resonates, while maintaining its mystery listen after listen.

Each track is a deliberate experiment in maximalist and minimalist songwriting. Mayberry’s languid vocals are layered and echoed as they float alongside delicate fingerpicking, booming solitary drums and the odd tambourine. Yet a lush backdrop of otherworldly effects is always filling in the landscape.

For now, Mayberry may be better known as the husky voice of HSY, but it’s with Anamai that she’s truly getting at her roots. track: Mute Flames Top track SAMANTHA EDWARDS

pared to last year’s plodding AF album, Reflektor, Butler gets to the point so much quicker.

Top track: What I Want JOSHUA KLOKE

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Policy (Merge) Rating: On his debut solo release, Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler fashions himself a Renaissance man. Opener Take My Side is a banging, jangly ode to early Lou Reed, and then Butler changes course for the quirky, introspective 80s electronic stomp of Anna.

Throughout the 27-minute effort, an unhinged Butler takes his all-encompassing vision in any direction he pleases. He doesn’t stand idle for a second, giving the album an intense immediacy. Even acoustic track Son Of God quickly explodes into the “whoa-oh” territory Arcade Fire have claimed as their own for the last 10 years.

On Bowie-influenced stunner What I Want, the chorus of backup singers works in Butler’s favour, but it’s when he moves away from that crutch that his depth as a songwriter comes through. (Plus, he shares that he’s got a great recipe for “pony macaroni,” so there’s that.)

The grand aesthetic that makes Arcade Fire such a force is on full display. But com-

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Dreamsphere (Star House Collective) Rating: If you haven’t yet succumbed to Jenn Grant’s charms, Aqua Alta should do it.

The Halifax singer/songwriter’s new project with Halifax Pop Explosion scene vet Charles Austin (Superfriendz, Lil Orton Hoggett, the Beginners, etc.) and producer Graeme Campbell (Buck 65, Jerry Granelli) is breathtaking in its gentle tone, spare emotionalism and inventive use of eclectic noises and electronics.

Grant’s expressive high vocals and melodies buoy Dreamsphere’s ethereal mood, and a persistent worried tone in her voice prevents all the softness from collapsing in on itself. She repeats phrases in an almost mantra-like, or even OCD fashion, similar to the way you rub worry beads over and over again to keep anxiety at bay.

Aqua Alta isn’t a left-field tangent for Grant, but the newfound minimalism and

emphasis on electronics add a coolertemperature edge to all the warmth and gorgeousness on offer. Near the end the album loses steam due to sluggish tempos and increased experimental minimalism.

But that first half? Exquisite perfection.

Top track: Polar CARLA GILLIS

KELLY CLARKSON Piece By Piece (RCA/Sony) Rating: NNN Few singers are as invigorating as Kelly Clarkson, the pop world’s equivalent of feeling Zestfully clean. In the four years since Stronger, the former American Idol winner has become a wife and mother, but her mission as a pop star hasn’t wavered: she’s here to help you StairMaster the drama away with empowering lyrics and power wailing cranked to 11.

Piece By Piece was primarily produced

by Greg Kurstin, the pop Svengali behind Stronger’s best songs, who does not fuss too much with Clarkson’s big, shiny radiofriendly formula. In the past she was reluctant to jump on dance or EDM sounds, but Take You High, Dance With Me and Nostalgic find her ceding the floor to a few grating drops, builds and chopped-up vocal samples as well as some trendy 80s synth rhythms.

Those diversions aside, this is another Kelly Clarkson album that’s all about maximizing her big steamroller of a voice.

It’s top-loaded with catchy ballads like the title track, the Sia-penned Invincible and lead single Heartbeat Song that perfectly express her likeable, no-bullshit approach to pop.

Top track: Someone Kelly Clarkson plays the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre July 25.

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(Sacred Bones) Rating: NNN Moon Duo sit at the friendlier, brighter end of the psych rock spectrum while still maintaining cool-groove heaviness. It’s verbed-out cosmic, peppered with tambourine and handclaps, and driven by Ripley Johnson’s vocals, which are sweeter than you’d expect from such a ruggedlooking woodsman. Occasionally, like on In A Cloud, bandmate Sanae Yamada adds soft and light backup vocals, though warm organ fuzz is her predominant contribution.

Johnson is something of a cult hero, known mostly for his work as a member of San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips, and his objective with stripped-down Moon Duo was to find a simpler way to tour and make music. It seems to be working – Shadow Of The Sun is their third album since their 2009 formation.

It’s so soft-focus as to rarely assert itself or command attention, but fuzz-pop Free The Skull brings to mind Pink Mountaintops, boogie rocker Slow Down Low has a blissful pulse, and Thieves gets terrific mileage out of a hypnotically repetitive riff. They call themselves “repeat-o rock” for good reason.

Top track: Slow Down Low Moon Duo play the Silver Dollar on Thursday (March 5).

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shamelessly retro project. And they have the benefit of historical distance, allowing them to focus on the aspects of the genre that have aged best. Anyone who’s spent time digging through crates of dusty vinyl would be thrilled to find 12 previously unheard boogie songs that stand up this well, so does it matter that they weren’t actually produced in 1983?

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(Relapse) Rating: NNN The history of Virginia hard rock band Pentagram, often billed as “America’s first doom band,” is one of what-ifs. What if charismatic singer Bobby Liebling were a little less volatile? What if the band’s 1975 Columbia Records demo had been completed? What if 9,000 mitigating variables were different? Well, then, sure, yeah, Pentagram might have been America’s Black Sabbath.

The success of 2011 doc Last Days Here, about Pentagram’s string of close calls, has done much to revive (and over-inflate) the band’s legacy. The latest Pentagram reclamation attempt is the reissue of Child Of Darkness, a 1973 demo by Pentagram offshoot Bedemon (half-behemoth/halfdemon). Long circulated in underground circles by proto-metal aficionados, it’s a fine example of simple, riffy, sorta-shitty American hard rock.

There are some memorable songs (the title track, Serpent Venom, Last Call), but Bedemon, like Pentagram, are too caught up in melody and overdriven blues riffing to be truly substantial, especially considering that Black Sabbath had released three records by the time recording on Child Of Darkness began. Sometimes recovered documents like this show how the official history of heavy metal tends to favour the actually heavy.

Top track: Child Of Darkness Pentagram play the Opera House as part of NXNE on June 20.

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(Stones Throw) Rating: Throwback soul singer Mayer Hawthorne and hip-hop producer Jake One have come together as Tuxedo, an earnest love letter to uptempo 80s R&B, funk and late disco sounds. It’s the kind of vibe Chromeo have been milking for some time, but whereas they often play up the campy elements for laughs, Tuxedo are much more serious and authentic. Not only do they sound scarily close to the types of records they’re referencing, but they also execute that music with consistently high quality.

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BEANS ON TOAST The Grand Scheme Of Things (Xtra Mile/Fontana North) Rating: NNN There’s nothing grand-sounding about Beans on Toast’s skiffley anti-folk. But on his sixth album, the songwriter from Essex (also known as Jay McAllister) tackles some big subjects (alongside smaller ones): war and peace, gentrification, the pitfalls of touring, enduring friendship, chilling out.

His tunes are topical and jaunty, entertaining on first listen but less so after you’ve heard all the punchlines. Yet he gets in some good protest songs, among them the math-crammed sci-fi meat industry critique The Chicken Song and Stinging Nettles, a sweet banjo ditty telling kids to get out into nature.

What’s confusing – and ultimately a bit frustrating – is that the last few songs are longer and more fleshed out, giving room to McAllister’s conversational, gravelly drawl. If only the swinging romance of NOLA Honeymoon could have permeated more of the album.

Top track: Flying Clothes Line Beans on Toast plays the Horseshoe on Monday (March 9).

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SNL’S MOST VALUABLE PLAYER MAKES A BIG IMPRESSION AT T.O. SKETCHFEST

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the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, Monday (March 9), 7 and 9:30 pm. At the Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst). $39-$46. torontosketchfest.com.

Among the many highlights of Saturday Night Live’s recent 40th anniversary show was the Celebrity Jeopardy sketch featuring Will Ferrell’s Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond’s Sean Connery. More than holding her own was Kate McKinnon, gesticulating wildly and hilariously as Canada’s ambassador of tween silliness, Justin Bieber.

“When I was young I would tape those Celebrity Jeopardy parodies on VHS, then transcribe them and memorize them,” says McKinnon, live

from New York, a week and a half before her stand-up gig at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. “I still know all of them by heart. So to actually be there on the set with Darrell Hammond and Will Ferrell was….”

She pauses, trying to find the right word.

“It was fucked up, actually. It was too much.”

She earned that spot. In the media blitz leading up to the 40th special, listicles comparing and contrasting the SNL casts and sketches almost invariably mentioned McKinnon and her impressions – of Bieber, Ellen DeGeneres and Penélope Cruz, among others – on the best-of lists, beneath the golden oldies and just under Fey, Poehler and Ferrell.

Not bad, considering she’s been

with the show for just over three years. The gala itself was like a dream.

“All of my childhood superheroes were suddenly brought to life in the same room,” she says. “I’d already met a lot of cast members I idolized. But I hadn’t yet met Molly Shannon and Dana Carvey, so those were two big gets for me. And also, two of the Backstreet Boys happened to be there. When I was growing up, they created the weather.

When I met them, I maintained my cool, but I was liquefying inside.”

Comedy aficionados still talk about McKinnon’s first SNL spots, in the spring of 2012, just as Kristen Wiig was leaving, symbolizing in a way a passing of the torch from one brilliant female cast member to the

next. Where did this wide-eyed, fearless and brash performer come from, seemingly fully formed and ready for the big leagues?

“I did get some attention, but I think it was because it was mid-season and I came alone and was in five episodes,” she says. “It was very lonely and frightening.

When Aidy (Bryant), Cecily (Strong) and Tim (Robinson) got hired, we were in a group.

But that first season was scary.

The stakes were so high. There’s just a lot to know that you discover slowly about how to do the job well.”

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“I watched a lot of his videos and loved his dancing so much. I liked his singing, too, but I couldn’t sing like that, so I knew I couldn’t do that part. I connected with the dancing. It’s mostly a physical impression.”

Cecily Strong (above, left) and Kate McKinnon show off their bulges parodying Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein ad, and McKinnon (below, left) impresses her comedy idol Ellen DeGeneres.

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work hard to get her characters and sketches up.

“These ideas take time to build, and unless it gets shit out of your brain perfectly formed the first time, there’s not enough time from Tuesday to Saturday night to really massage them,” she says.

“It’s sort of a miracle when you think of something and execute it well enough to have it make it on the show.”

It helped that she brought three seasons of working on the Rosie O’Donnell-produced cable

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series The Big Gay Sketch Show – she’s SNL’s first openly out lesbian performer – and years of Upright Citizens Brigade experience to the table.

She introduced a lot of her characters from those years to SNL. “If comedy is school, then SNL is a graduate program,” she says. “As a comic you have to put in a lot of years of not getting paid to figure out who you are and what you want to say.

And also just being on a team helps.

The UCB community in New York is such a close-knit, amazing group of people. And it’s odd because there’s

no real structure in place. People are like, ‘Oh, you do UCB? I do UCB. We’re kindred spirits!’ And it’s an amazing thing to be a part of that.”

Not all of her celebrity impressions – and she does some brilliant non-celeb ones, too, like a lisping cat shelter lady – have made it to air.

“I have a whole catalogue of people on the Food Network and HGTV that I would love to do,” she admits. “But they’re not cultural icons. Usually impressions are suggested to me by people who are savvier than I.” One exception was Ellen DeGeneres, who’s been a role model for years – not, she says, as an out performer but as a comic.

“I think I watched her 2003 special Here And Now 50 times,” she says. “I memorized the cadence of her voice doing all these words.”

The first time she performed DeGeneres on SNL, it was a small bit, and she didn’t think the woman herself would see it.

“But she called the next day and told me she loved it,” says McKinnon.

“That was one of those ‘meeting a god’ moments. After the second time, she invited me on the show, and she’s been a total angel about it.”

Not only does she have DeGeneres’s vocal cadences and quirky personality down pat, but she’s also mastered her way of dancing. And it was movement that gave her the key to Stratford’s boy wonder, after an SNL writer suggested she play him.

“I watched a lot of his videos and loved his dancing so much,” she says.

“I liked his singing, too, but I couldn’t sing like that, so I knew I couldn’t do that part. I connected with the dancing. It’s mostly a physical impression.”

It’s a little early to talk about her post-SNL career. She’s doing standup at TO SketchFest, which she says she’s always done.

“There will be story, song and interpretive dance,” she jokes. “And there will be characters in it. Don’t worry, I won’t be just my boring old self.”

And in 2016 the world will see if she can transfer her comedy skills to the big screen. A month ago, she was announced as a cast member of the all-female Ghostbusters reboot, along with SNL alumna Wiig and current cast member Strong, to be directed by Paul Feig, who made Wiig a movie star in Bridesmaids.

I’ve been asked by SNL not to mention the film, so I coyly talk about being cast in a certain high-profile movie remake.

“It’s off the charts,” she says. “My feelings can’t be quantified.”

And the fact that several SNL alumni – albeit male ones – starred in the original?

“It’s a beautiful thing,” she says.

“It’s all coming full circle.”

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TOP 5 SNL IMPRESSIONS

Kate McKinnon’s Justin Bieber and Ellen DeGeneres are part of a 40-year tradition of SNL performers doing great impressions. Things have changed, of course, and Eddie Murphy’s Buckwheat and Billy Crystal’s Sammy Davis Jr. – in blackface yet – haven’t aged that well. Here’s a list of the best – and I’m not including impressions that, say, Martin Short brought from SCTV.

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Any festival is all about making discoveries, but these shows are guaranteed to crack you up. See details at torontosketchfest.com.

TINA FEY as Sarah Palin Fey had already left SNL to work on 30 Rock, but her appearances as vice-presidential nominee Palin were so lauded, they made it seem like she was still a permanent writer and cast member. She ended up winning an Emmy for one of her spots, and no wonder. It was a classy performance – mocking and non-partisan without being mean. She devotes a big chunk of her memoir, Bossypants, to explaining how she achieved that balance.

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DANA CARVEY as George H.W. Bush There have been great impressions of U.S. presidents – including Darrell Hammond’s Clinton and Will Ferrell’s George Dubya – but no one was as gleefully anarchic as Carvey as Bush Sr. Like a master caricaturist, he honed the act down to its essentials, his “Not gonna do it! Wouldn’t be prudent!” becoming a hilarious jazz riff.

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PAJAMA MEN Fringe Festival audiences here and abroad are familiar with the zany antics of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez, who’ve built up a huge following with their smart, physical comedy.

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PHIL HARTMAN as Frank Sinatra The genius of Hartman’s Sinatra impression is the fact that he did Ol’ Blue Eyes not as a smooth crooner but as a tired, bitter, crass showbiz type. His “You don’t scare me – I’ve got chunks of guys like you in my stool” to Sting (playing Billy Idol) is every kind of funny.

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WILL FERRELL as Inside The Actors Studio’s James Lipton Ferrell has the most range of any SNL alumnus, and he showed it with every twitch, pregnant pause and intentionally fumbled note-reading as the balding, nearsighted Lipton pretentiously interviewing actors about their work, however undistinguished.

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CHERI OTERI as Barbara Walters When Gilda Radner impersonated Barbara Walters and simply called her Baba Wawa, it was the first time a comic had parodied a news anchor. The impression seems a little cruel these days – it was all about the voice. But the woefully underrated Oteri so perfectly captured the essence of Walters, it was hard to tell who was who when GS they inevitably met.

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THE IRRELEVANT SHOW At last year’s SketchFest, the Edmonton-based troupe mounted their first-ever live show outside of their city. It was such a hit, they’re returning. And listen for your laughter when it airs later on their CBC Radio show.

March 10, Randolph Theatre

THE DANCE PARTY OF NEWFOUNDLAND The members of this troupe have gone on to other things – Jonny Harris is a terrific regular on Murdoch Mysteries – but any time they come together for their playful and action-filled sketches, comedy aficionados will be in the crowd.

March 6 and 7, Comedy Bar

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PANACEA! I seldom give comedy shows 5Ns, but this emerging troupe’s show in January (which they’re remounting here) was so fresh, funny and well-staged, I had to acknowledge it. Note: two of the four members – Nicky Nasrallah and Allana Reoch – are also doing solo shows at the fest.

March 11 and 12, Theatre Centre

THE SOMETHINGOROTHERS Back in 2007, I called this smart young troupe one of the discoveries of the year, but I didn’t hear much from them. Two of their members formed the hilarious Deadpan Powerpoint. But now they’re back, and I can’t wait to see how they’ve matured.

March 14, Theatre Centre Incubator

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Mom’s the word Veteran actor sinks her teeth into role of estranged parent

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Lynne Griffin says there’s a bit of Greek tragedy in Harper Regan, which also stars Molly Parker.

HARPER REGAN by Simon Stephens, directed by Matthew Jocelyn, with Molly Parker, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Lynne Griffin, Hardee T. Lineham, Alex PochGoldin, Philip Riccio and Izaak Smith. Presented by Canadian Stage at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Opens Thursday (March 5) and runs to March 22, TuesdayThursday and Saturday 8 pm, Friday 7 pm, matinees Saturday and Sunday 1 pm. $30$99. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

The script is mostly a series of twohanders in which Harper, played by Molly Parker, interacts with family members and a series of men, including a school-age boy she meets by a canal, a guy in a bar and someone she contacts through the internet.

Greek myth infiltrated the rehearsal process, too; director Matthew Jocelyn sometimes asked the actors to think of their characters in terms of classic figures.

“I guess at some level I’m Clytemnestra, trying to reconnect with my daughter,” smiles Griffin, whose career includes leads in Theatre Plus and more recently, lots of indie theatre around town, including the Storefront and Red Sandcastle, often with her husband, actor Sean Sullivan.

“Tobias, the boy at the canal, is an Adonis figure for Harper.

“All this Greek material ties into the family curse, which seems revisited on every generation of Harper’s extended family. Is her hus-

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Harper Regan, the title character in Simon Stephens’s play, goes through what might be considered a mid-life crisis.

When she learns that her father is dying, Harper leaves her husband and daughter without a word about where she’s going, jeopardizing her relationship with her family and her boss.

But there are deeper things going on here, says Lynne Griffin, who plays Harper’s mother, Alison.

“We’re approaching the work as one woman’s quest to find the truth, to exorcise the demons and confusions she’s had to face,” says the thoughtful actor on a rehearsal break.

“And there’s a family curse at work here, too, which suggests Greek tragedy. Harper has taken on the challenge to find what really happened in her past, though until now there’s been an awful lot of denial about the truth.”

band a version of her sick father, and has she married him looking for an easy and comfortable life she doesn’t find?”

It’s quite a cinematic script, admits Griffin, with a lot of subtext the characters don’t speak. What is spoken, in fact, at first seems to be quite trivial.

“We’ve been talking about deconstructing banality, and while initially I said, ‘What?!’ the dialogue has an everyday quality that’s enriched by the subtext. What these people don’t say is massive, and they’re eventually able to start chipping away at that unspoken, huge darkness under the surface.

“If the audience really listens and watches, they’ll pick up on something that makes this or that happen or creates that confusion or that reaction. They’ll catch those important moments that the family is ignoring; denial is the elephant in the room for Harper and those around her.”

Alison (whom we don’t meet until late in the play and who isn’t especially maternal) and Harper have been estranged and have not spoken for two years. They remember distinctly different versions of the past, not only of Alison’s separation from Har per’s father and her remarriage, but also involving a secret trouble connected to Harper’s husband.

“Alison’s moved on from all these family incidents and embarrassments, escaped from the complications of her own life by marrying a lovely, uncomplicated man who builds outdoor decks,” says Griffin.

“When Harper finally confronts her and acknowledges the possibility that what Alison believes is indeed the truth, it changes the direction of Harper’s life.

“But a move to acceptance can’t fix all her problems. As in real life, the play offers a number of questions that aren’t resolved, though ultimately there’s the chance of forgiveness for the suffering caused in the past.”

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New this week 52 PICK-UP by TJ Dawe and Rita Bozie Howland Company). Improvised ñ(The and intimate look at relationships told

through a game of 52 Pick-up (see Q&A, page 49). Opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$20. Fraser Studios, 76 Stafford. howlandcompanytheatre.com.

APPLES FROM THE DESERT by Savyon Liebrecht (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Spotlight on Israeli Culture). Reading of the play about love, reconciliation, tradition and modernity.

Mar 8 at 2 pm. Free (RSVP). Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Gallery Lounge. 416932-9995 ext 224, hgjewishtheatre.com.

BLOOD WEDDING by Federico García Lorca (Modern Times Stage Company/Aluna Theatre). A young woman runs away with the son of her family’s enemy. Previews Mar 11-12, opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed and Sun 2 pm. $18-$25, stu/ preview $15, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

BONNIE AND CLYDE by Adrian Yearwood (Echo Productions). This play examines the real people behind the sensationalized crime spree story in a physical theatre show. Opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 14, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Mar 8 and 14 at 2:30 pm. $20-$25. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. echoproductions.ca.

CAKE AND DIRT by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). This play takes a darkly comic look at life in Toronto through a fractured family of privilege. In previews, opens Mar 11 and runs

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CoMpaNy: a MUSICaL CoMEdy by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth (Victoria College Drama Society). Vignettes tell the story of a man unable to commit, his three girlfriends and the married couples who are his friends.

Mar 5-7, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. uofttix.ca.

HarpEr rEGaN by Simon Stephens (Canadian Stage). After learning of her father’s impending death, a woman suddenly walks away from her home and family (see story, page 48). Previews from Mar 1, opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 22, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

My dINNEr WItH CaSEy doNovaN by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). A man must get through a dinner with a gay porn star and his parents, who don’t yet know that he’s gay.

Previews Mar 11, opens Mar 12 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$24, Sun/preview pwyc. TPM Backspace. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca.

NEW IdEaS FEStIvaL (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, works-inprogress and experimental theatre features works by Tabitha Keast, Catherine Frid, Rose Napoli, DJ Sylvis and others. Opens Mar 11 and runs to Mar 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2:30 pm, Sat readings at noon. $15, pass $40. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. orEGaNo by Rose Napoli (Theatre Rhea). A young woman goes on an extraordinary adventure in order to face the death of her father in this magic-realist play. Previews Mar 11-12, opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm (and Mar 15), mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$23.

The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. theatrerhea.ca. pICNIC by William Inge (Scarborough Theatre Guild). A stranger unsettles a 1950s American small town preparing for a Labour Day picnic.

Opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Mar 15 and 21 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $17.

Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston Rd. 416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. tHE poStMaN (Town of York Historical Society). This play tells the story of Albert Calvin Jackson, Toronto’s first black letter carrier.

Mar 6 at 7:30 pm. $35 (benefit for Toronto’s First Post Office). St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-865-1833.

So, yoU WaNt to WrItE a MaSqUE? (Toronto Masque Theatre). Salon with Nicholas Dénoument and Mina Kalishnikova to learn about the process. Mar 9 at 7:30 pm. $15-$20 (preregister). Atrium, 21 Shaftesbury. 416-4104561, torontomasquetheatre.com/node/45.

SpooN rIvEr adapted by Mike Ross and Albert Schultz (Soulpepper). A forgotten town comes back to life in this show inspired

by Edgar Lee Masters’s 1915 poetry collection.

Remount of the Oct 2014 staging. Previews Mar 7-10, opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 28, see website for schedule. $29.50-$89. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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Hallie Seline and Cameron laurie Actors, 52 Pick-UP

Many plays chronicle the rise and fall of relationships, but TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi’s 52 Pick-Up has a cool gimmick. It’s told in 52 scenes, the title of each written on the back of a playing card. At the start, the actors toss the deck into the air and play out the show by taking turns picking up cards and doing that scene. The result is a different show each time out, with the audience filling in all that came before and after. The Howland Company remount their acclaimed Fringe production with a rotating cast of four. See New This Week, page 48, and howlandcompanytheatre.com for the different casts.

(You might want to see the show more than once, it’s that good.)

You’ve got four rotating casts. How did you decide on the pairings?

Hallie Seline: Well, Cam and I are a real-life couple. We had to have a serious conversation about whether or not we wanted to act in a play together about a couple’s beginning and ending.

Cameron Laurie: We had also been working together as a company for the past year, so we tried to just pair our personalities and natural chemistry.

For the same-sex versions, were any words changed?

CL: Surprisingly few. It was mostly pronouns and a couple of scene titles (“dresses” became “shorts”), but in fact we found that keeping the scenes as they were added some interesting complexity to those relationships.

mythologizing the story of how they first met, an undeniably awkward scene earlier in the play’s chronology. They’ve somehow made it sound really romantic.

HS: The Ideals is my

Sex And The City moment, which I both love and think is fabulously ridiculous. The Film never fails to move me. She both replays their first kiss and reveals something so personal both to the audience and her ex-partner.

start “Hello?” “Hi it’s me” “Uh-huh” etc. You have to be so on the ball.

Have you ever blanked out on a scene?

CL: Nope, never blanked.

HS: Knock on wood!

CL: We practise at home with a deck of cards and our morning coffee to stay sharp.

Co-writer TJ Dawe also penned the play that became The F Word.

Thoughts on the film?

HS: Love it. Simple. Modern. Funny.

Everything you really want from the romantic comedy genre, but it actually speaks to young relationships now – skepticism, complexities and all. Plus it features Toronto in a really lovely way.

When I saw the show at the Fringe, audience members were sobbing. Is it hard to keep it together onstage?

CL: After the last scene is done and we’ve finished reliving and reviewing our entire relationship and we’re saying goodbye, it can be a little tender.

HS: The hardest thing is to look into my actual partner’s eyes and say goodbye after we’ve just almost finished this beast of a play.

Focus must be so important, right?

HS: A hundred per cent.

There are a slew of scenes on the phone that all

Favourite song to get over a breakup?

CL: U2’s With Or Without You. HS: Brand New’s Seventy Times 7.

How did the Howland Company get its name? The street?

CL: We all started meeting and reading plays together at one of our founding member’s, James Graham’s, place on Howland. Instead of trying to name the company after something we hoped to represent, we named it after where we began.

What’s next for the company?

HS: We’re currently working on a new English translation and adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s Kasimir And Karoline with Holger Syme, chair of English and drama at U of T. That’s our major long-term project.

CL: Outside of future (yet unknown) productions, the Howlanders like to be little lab rats for some really talented local playwrights and artists.

Lots of workshopping going on.

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taLES oF ForGottEN aFrICa: tHE aFrICaN WoMaN (Ryerson African Students Associa-

tion). Dance, music, drama, poetry, fashion and more showcase the beauty, strength and struggles of African women. Mar 7 at 6 pm. $40-$60. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. facebook.com/events/1616614978560722. traFaLGar 24 (Driftwood Theatre). The 24hour play-creation festival culminates in the performance of six original works. Mar 6 at 7:30 pm. $60. Trafalgar Castle, 401 Reynolds (Whitby). driftwoodtheatre.com.

U oF t LItErary Moot Faculty of Law profs star in a play that puts Oliver Twist on trial.

Mar 10, 6-9 pm. $10 (benefits University in the Community). Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. eventbrite.ca/e/15693664172.

ItHE vaGINa MoNoLoGUES by Eve Ensler (Scuderia Productions). Female monologists tell real women’s stories of intimacy. In French w/ English surtitles. Mar 6 at 7 pm. $35 (benefits Oasis Centre). Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. scuderiaproductions.com.

ItHE vaGINa MoNoLGUES MEEtS tHE F Word by Jennifer Phillips (360 Productions).

Phillips combines excerpts from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues with her play, The F Word, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 15, Mar 5-7 and 14 at 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $16-$26 (proceeds support the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, U of T & Nellie’s Shelter). continued on page 50 œ

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

IWhen SiSterS Speak XV Up From The Roots presents the 15th-anniversary edition of the black female poets showcase with Jemeni, El Jones, Truth Is, Britta B and others.

Mar 7 at 8 pm. $37-$47. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, stlc.com.

Written On Skin by George Benjamin (TSO New Creations Festival). Concert performance of the 2012 opera that tells a story of lust and murder set in Medieval France, conducted by the composer. Mar 7 at 7:30 pm. $33-$145.

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. tso.ca.

Continuing abySS by Maria Milisavljevic (Tarragon Thea­ tre). Not your typical thriller, this dark and cryptic mystery about a missing person turns into an introspective look at a group of friends living in Germany who are unable to escape the lingering psychological effects of growing up during the Yugoslav Wars. Despite the impressive acting and staging, the play’s disparate elements fail to coalesce into a clear whole by the end. To Mar 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $29-$55. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm)

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The Wild Party is fuelled by sex, drugs and 1920s dance craze the Black Bottom.

Throw in some bathtub gin and you get an often raucous, occasionally tender evening of theatre.

The large, ambitious but not fully successful production, written by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe, focuses on the volatile relationship between Queenie (Cara Ricketts) and Burrs (Daren A. Herbert). She’s a blond vaudeville performer attracted to brutal men, he’s a minstrel comic with a violent past. One morning, to placate Queenie – she has a knife at his

throat – Burrs suggests throwing a big bash for their friends.

The party and its guests – a diverse assortment of people, black and white, whose sexual appetites go in many directions – fill the rest of the evening.

Too bad there’s no intermission; the first hour is so filled with action and intention that it’s hard to react to everything and feel something for the characters.

Director Robert McQueen, with the help of a smoking-hot orchestra led by Bob Foster, juggles the various story lines well, with Ricketts and Herbert shining as a sexy couple whose lives are linked by a short, easily ignited explosive fuse.

In addition to stellar work by this pair, there are a number of other terrific performers. Dan Chameroy has a warm sensuality as Black, brought to the party by Queenie’s friend Kate (SaraJeanne Hosie); the mutual interest between Queenie and Black leads first to the play’s few gentle moments and then to tragedy.

Other standouts are Susan Gil-

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mour’s Dolores, a determined, spotlight-grabbing diva of the Norma Desmond variety; Lisa Horner’s Madelaine, a lesbian stripper with a comic awareness of her own healthy ego; and Sterling Jarvis’s Eddie, a black boxer with a white wife (Rebecca Auerbach), who offers an insight into the racial tension that underpins this society.

There’s also memorable work by two couples, the incestuous D’Armano brothers (J. Cameron Barnett and David Lopez) and two Jewish producers (Josh Epstein and Larry Mannell) who argue about shedding their roots in order to move up in the theatre hierarchy.

Not all the performances are equally strong. Sometimes the pairing of characters, all of whom should be powerful, feels mismatched in terms of their energy and authority.

This Wild Party features some firstclass talent, but it’s ultimately not as engaging and emotionally involving as it might be, a problem with the production as well as the script.

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(Soulpepper Concert Series). An investigation of the meaning and musical references of Don McLean’s folk-rock anthem, from Buddy Holly to Dylan to Joplin and more. To Mar 8, see website for times. $22-$60. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. balm in gilead by Lanford Wilson (Ryerson Theatre School). Heroin addicts, prostitutes and thieves intersect in a NYC cafe in this drama. To Mar 12, see website for schedule. $tba. Abrams Studio, 46 Gerrard E. 416-9795118, ryersontheatre.ca. becky ShaW by Gina Gionfriddo (Sterling Theatre Company). Four men and women in their 30s are caught in a tale of love, sex and ethics in this comedy. To Mar 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20 stu/srs $15 on Tue. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. sterlingstudiotheatre.com. beneath the banyan tree by Emil Sher (Theatre Direct). A young Indian girl copes with moving to Canada in this fusion of theatre, music and dance. To Mar 28, see website for schedule. $7-$25. Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. brownpapertickets.com/ event/879977. blithe Spirit by Noel Coward (Mirvish). In this classic Coward play, a writer dabbles with séances and brings back the ghost of his first wife, resulting in an uncomfortable but comic triangle involving himself and his current wife. Angela Lansbury is the headlining star in this touring show, but other fine performers also know how to handle the rhythms and deliver the laughs. To Mar 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed and Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35-$175. Prin­ cess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. nnn (JK)

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(Starvox Entertainment). This homage to the John Cleese TV series features the audience as guests of the wacky inn in a partially improvised show. To Apr 19, Tue-Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 6 and 8 pm, Sun 6 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. $77 and up (includes dinner). O’Keefe Lounge.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

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directed by alFred hitchmOck by Birgitte Solem and Brian Caws (MYDT). Comedy whodunit set in a world where the Bates Motel meets Mad Men. To Mar 28, Fri-Sat dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. See website for more times/prices. $45-$87. Mysteriously Yours Dinner Theatre, 2026 Yonge. 416-4867469, mysteriouslyyours.com. the heart OF rObin hOOd by David Farr (Mirvish). A laid-back, hipster feel suffuses this uneven take on the Robin Hood story, which comes complete with a feminist subplot, scruffy acrobats as Robin’s merry men and the enjoyable harmonies of neo-bluegrass/folk group Parsonsfield to back up the action. The show has energy and a couple of good sight gags on the remarkable set, but the characters are thin and the performers don’t get to show off their musical chops. To Mar 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. nnn (GS) memOrable munSch (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). This family-friendly show is based on the stories of Robert Munsch. To Mar 29, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2 pm (see website for other shows). $16. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

Once by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (Mirvish). An Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music (see review, page 55). To May 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $29-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) pinOcchiO by Hugo Bélanger (Tout à Trac). The children’s classic comes alive in an inventive production for ages 6 & up. To Mar 21, see website for schedule. $25-$34. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. youngpeoplestheatre.ca. the SOund OF cracking bOneS by Suzanne Lebeau (Pleiades Theatre). Lebeau’s story of child soldiers is a tale of tense horror, a call to stop abducted children in Third World countries from being turned into merciless killing machines. The Pleiades production – running this week in French only – captures much of the characters’ distress, but Caity Quinn as a young boy isn’t as convincing as she might be.

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A darkly comic look at life in Toronto through a fractured family of privilege. Money, sex, lies and power collide in the aftermath of a champagne-fueled birthday party in a downtown penthouse residence.

Cake & Dirt is a mystery of consequences and causes, a parable of deceit, and an urban ghost story where a small act of evil may indeed create a great good.

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castle Theatre). Fail Safe by Michael Stittle and We Say Such Terrible Things by Bil Antoniou will be presented in this double bill. To Mar 14, Wed-Sun 8 pm. Red Sandcastle The­ atre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com. cannibal! the muSical by Trey Parker (Starvox Entertainment). This goofy musical, based on the 1993 film written and directed by Parker (South Park, The Book Of Mormon) while he was still in college, tells the story of Utah miner Alferd Packer, who was charged and convicted of cannibalism in the 1870s. The puerile references to feces, farts and bestiality wear out their welcome soon, as do multiple faux-sincere power ballads, but the talented cast (including Liam Tobin, Elicia MacKenzie and a scene-stealing Mark Andrada) are up for anything. To Mar 8, Tue-Sun 7 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $30-$110. Panasonic The­ atre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212.nn (GS) the dining rOOm by AR Gurney (Soulpepper). Gurney’s gently elegiac play consists of a couple dozen vignettes about life around a dining room table. It’s not the same table, and the show spans several decades yet isn’t chronological, but you get a good look at changing North American attitudes toward sex, fidelity, communication and class. Joseph Ziegler’s production has been polished to a warm glow, and the six actors bite lustily into their roles. To Mar 7, see website for times. $29.50-$89. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (GS) dOn’t StOp me nOW (Lower Ossington Theatre). The hits of British rock band Queen are performed in this theatrical tribute show. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossing­ ton Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. elViS’S tOenail by Fionnuala Kenny (Toronto Irish Players). A pregnant teen working at a factory poses moral dilemmas for her colleagues in 1960s Dublin. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Alumnae The­ atre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.com.

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in French. $17-$38. TPM Mainspace. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.ca. nnn (JK) speaKing in Tongues by Andrew Bovell (East Side Players). Four marriages are plunged into a morass of sex, lies and neglect after a woman goes missing. To Mar 7, see website for schedule. $22, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca.

ITHis is For you, anna by Suzanne Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Banuta Rubess and Maureen White (Hart House Theatre). This collective creation is a haunting exploration of revenge, liberation and motherhood. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthouse.ca.

Triple Bill (Restless Spirit Productions). The new indie theatre company presents the plays Dolores (Edward Allan Baker) and The Value Of Trying (Katie Ford) plus solo comedy by host Ken Hall. To Mar 8, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $15. Restless Spirit, 688 Richmond W, #103. williammac.ca/ restless-spirit-productions.html.

THe wild parTy by Michael John LaChiusa and George C Wolfe (Acting Up Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre). A vaudeville dancer and her performer boyfriend throw a wild party just before the 1929 economic crash (see review, page 50). To Mar 8, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $30-$55, stu mats $18. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, actingupstage. com. nnnn (JK)

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Fraser young Headlining with Jeff Schouela. To Mar 8, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 ñ pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15.

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Musical Productions). Tribute to musical theatre songs including hits from Grease, Fiddler On The Roof and many others. To Mar 8, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $24. The Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive. e-m-p.ca.

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Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

How To Kill a Comedian Second City presents its Spring 2015 Mainstage revue. In previews, opens Mar 9, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm, plus Sat 10 pm. $25-$45, stu $16$18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

KiTCH Komedy Weekly pro/am show hosted

by Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com. rusH Hour renegades Stand-up comedy w/ host Rush Zilla. 8 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com. saFFron & gold Comedy Weekly show w/ host Elaine Gold and guest comics. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. Christie Pits Pub, 814 Bloor W. facebook.com/saffrongoldcomedy. sKeTCHFesT @ Comedy Bar Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Fratwurst and Rulers of the Universe (8 pm); 2humans and the Rocket Scientists (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Law & Order sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); Stand-Up In Character (10:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

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Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights (8 pm); The Ladies of the Sketchersons and Tony Ho (10 pm). Incubator Space: Nicky Nasrallah, Allana Reoch and Death Ray Cabaret (7:30 pm); Palcoholics and Interrobang (9:30 pm). $15-$30/ each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com. sTewarT FranCis Stand-up show.

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pm. $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. sToned up Comedy Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Puff Lounge, 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990.

Top sHelF Comedy live: leslieville A small show with big laughs. 9 pm. Free. Dundas and Carlaw, 1173 Dundas E. topshelfcomedyshow. com. unreal Comedy Stand-up w/ hosts Patrick Stewart and Kyle Forsyth. 8:30 pm. $5, stu $2.

Placebo Space, 2877 Lake Shore W. facebook. com/placebospace. wonderFesT Comedy series Comedians Ernie Vicente, Ryan Long, JJ Liberman and Aisha Brown. 9 pm. Pwyc. Habits Gastropub, 928 College. 416-533-7272.

Friday, March 6 Comedy Kapow! Weekly stand-up, improv and sketch with a pro stand-up headliner.

8:30 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. facebook.com/comedykapow.

How To Kill a Comedian See Thu 5. improv game sHow Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416903-5388, socap.ca.

JunCTion Comedy Fridays Headliner Rob Mailloux and host Billy Wiegand. 8 pm. Pwyc.

Magic Oven Keele, 347 Keele. facebook.com/ JunctionComedyFridays. pusHpins Unscripted comedy is put on the map as audience suggestions drive this show about places, landmarks, characters and their stories. Mar 6-Apr 10, Fri 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com/pushpins. sKeTCHFesT @ Comedy Bar Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: The Beaverton Live! (8 pm); the Weaker Vessels and the Dance Party of Newfoundland (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Xmas Sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); Teh Internets Quiz Show (10:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. sKeTCHFesT @ THeaTre CenTre Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights (8 pm); Uncalled For and Get Some (10 pm). Incubator Space: Parker & Seville and Bucko (7:30 pm);

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New this week douBle Bill: porTer & TrenTHam lbs/ sq" performance presents Sara Porter in ñ her new work Sara Does a Solo, and Gerry

Trentham’s premiere of Experiment b. Opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 14, Wed-Sun 8 pm, mat Mar 13 at 2 pm. $28, stu $20, Mar 8 w/ pre-show party fundraiser $40. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. pps15.eventbrite.ca.

House oF HearTBreaK Christina Digiuseppe presents a jazz-fusion based production that looks at the madness of love. Mar 7-8 at 8 pm. $28. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity. eventbrite.ca/e/15471649119.

Iwomen liBeraTed Janak Khendry Dance Company presents Bharatanatyam and Odissi classical Indian dance inspired by the Buddhist scripture Therigatha. Mar 8 at 7 pm. $18-$30. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. womenliberated.eventbrite.ca.

Continuing THe man in BlaCK, CHroma & oTHers The National Ballet of Canada presents choreography by James Kudelka set to Johnny Cash songs, Wayne McGregor’s 2010 piece, Allegro Brillante by George Ballanchine and Carousel (A Dance) by Christopher Wheeldon. To Mar 8, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $26-$249. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. national.ballet.ca. vox:lumen Harbourfront World Stage presents Zata Omm Dance Projects’ sustainable show, choreographed by William Yong, which light itself with energy produced by the dancers, the audience and renewable sources. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $35-$40. Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

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Charles and the Ken Hall Show (9:30 pm). $15$30/each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com.

STEWART FRANCIS See Thu 5.

TOP SHELF COMEDY LIVE: THE BEACH Weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor. St Louis Wings, 1963 Queen E. topshelfcomedyshow.com.

Saturday, March 7

MAGGIE CASSELLA: I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS ABOUT THAT Cassella performs a

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rante, 1185 King W. brownpapertickets.com/ event/1283487.

SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Charles and the Dance Party of Newfoundland (8 pm); Stupid Time Machine and O Dat Dum (10 pm). Cabaret Space: News Sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); Speculation (10:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

SKETCHFEST @ THEATRE CENTRE Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights (8 & 10 pm). Incubator Space: Bucko and Junkyard Dukes (7:30 pm); Ned & Dave and Fratwurst (9:30 pm). $15-$30/each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com.

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Sunday, March 8 CRIMSON WAVE COMEDY Jess Beaulieu and

Natalie Norman co-host a feminist-friendly, LGBTQ-positive stand-up night. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/ thecrimsonwave.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Leora Goldberg, Silvi Santoose, Stuart Coakley, Charles McCarroll, Chad Gibson, Juliana Rodrigues, host Justin Laite and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 5.

Jazz duet UNDER THE VISIBLE LIFE by Kim Echlin (Hamish Hamilton), 346 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNN Kim Echlin’s follow-up to her superb The Disappearance again pursues her passion for music. It’s much more ambitious – which may be why it’s

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Thursday, March 5 ANTHONY DE SA The author talks about his book Kicking The Sky. 7 pm. Free. Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane. tpl.ca.

INS CHOI’S SUBWAY STATIONS OF THE CROSS Launch and art exhibit for the

ñ book based on a solo show by the playwright/ actor with illustrations by Guno Park. 7 pm.

RSVP. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666 ext 418.

KIM ECHLIN Talk with the author of Under The Visible Life. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca/ehlist.

5QUEER CONFESSIONS: THE MAMAS AND THE

PAPAS LGBTQ memoir reading series featuring Steen Starr, Heart Lavender, Karl Jennings, Rabbi Andrea Myers and others. 8 pm. $5 or pwyc. 519 Church Street Community Centre. queerconfessions.com.

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comedy show w/ Rob Mailloux, Sandra Battaglini and headliner Chris Robinson. 9 pm. $15. 796 Broadview Subway Vape & ECig, 796 Broadview. 647-999-9993.

Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-9035388, socap.ca.

Tuesday, March 10 A LAUGH A MINUTE Open-mic stand-up w/

benefit for Sistering w/ Theresa Ramirez, Zane Banyan, Julia Lederer, Brian Ward, Courtney Skye & others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

REAL JOKES Weekly comedy w/ hosts Dion Arnold and Scott Belford. 8 pm. Free. Placebo Space, 2877 Lake Shore W. facebook.com/ events/1490828984532340.

SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Rulers of the Universe and Stupid Time Machine (8 pm); The Sketchersons’ Sunday Night Live (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Commercial Parodies: But Wait... There’s More! by various troupes (8:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

SKETCHFEST @ THEATRE CENTRE Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: the Templeton Philharmonic and Uncalled For (6 pm); Elephant Empire and Vest of Friends (8 pm). Incubator Space: Tall Sigh and Interrobang (6:30 pm); Ned & Dave and Parker & Seville (8:30 pm). $15/each, festival pass $75.

1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com.

up, character pieces and video segments (see cover story, page 44). Opening sets by Christina Walkinshaw and Mark Little. 7 & 9:30 pm. $39-$46. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. torontosketchfest.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS Weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. PJ O’Briens Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

TOUGH LOVE IMPROV The Dandies present a show that puts performers through their paces to shake off performance rust and break bad habits. 8 pm. $2/pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

200% VODKA Weekly improv hosted by Matt McCready. 8 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor. The Social

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It deals with the ways two women attempt to free themselves from social constraints so they can blossom as jazz musicians.

In late 50s Hamilton, Katherine is brought up by a single mother – her Chinese father is longgone – who nurtures her love of music. Soon Katherine moves to

Manhattan, where she becomes a groundbreaking jazz pianist, falls for saxman T and winds up an (almost) single mother of three.

In Karachi, Pakistan, Mahsa’s music-loving parents are murdered by members of her mother’s family who are outraged that she married an American. Mahsa, too, shows a flair for jazz and begins to play at a local hotel.

When she moves to Montreal to study at McGill, she does gigs on the side and on a trip to New York City

begins a friendship, both personal and musical, with Katherine.

On a visit to Pakistan, Mahsa’s forced to marry a conservative doing business in Montreal. Back in Canada, she’s compelled to retire into family life but yearns for her independence.

Echlin writes about music in exhilarating ways. These women become free beings when they play.

But Mahsa’s struggles balancing family honour with her art are less convincing. Someone experiencing the personal trauma of honour killings has to know that many men from her culture will stop at nothing to control women. Here, she’s fooled

IKRIS JENNER’S KOMEDY KIDS Stand-up

READINGS THIS WEEK 5 indicates queer-friendly events

STEWART FRANCIS See Thu 5.

TOKES & JOKES Amanda Day hosts a

host Mandy Goodhandy. 10 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 5.

THE IRRELEVANT SHOW! Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents CBC Radio’s hit sketch comedy show performed for live tapings of two new episodes. 7 pm. $39.

Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. torontosketchfest.com.

KING OF THE HILL Weekly comedy contest w/ host Ariel Kagan. 8-10 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

LES IMPROBABLES Competitive improv en français. 7:30 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com.

MEGA CRAZY CRAZY FRENZY! Brandon Hackett, Jordan Cohen, Monica Heisey, Zabrina Chevannes, Joel Buxton, Andrew Barr, Jen Sakato and hosts Matt Collins & Lauren Mitchell. 9 pm. Free. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. garrisontoronto.com.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Sonic Cafe, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts.

STUDENT BODIES Weekly improv showcasing the teams and players from the Social Capital Rep Players and House Teams. 8 pm. Pwyc.

2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154

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Wednesday, March 11 ANDREW ALBERT Stand-up show. Mar 11-15, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

COMEDY NIGHT AT MUSIDEUM Weekly standup, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. musideum.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW Nick Beaton, Monty Scott, ñ Bryan Hatt, Nile Seguin, Dave Shuken, host

FAN FICTION THE SHOW: THE WALKING DEAD

Fan-generated material performed by comics w/ Adam Ward, Mark Cotoia and others. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. facebook.com/fftheshow.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 5.

LATIN LIVE! Sketch, stand-up comedy and music with a Latin touch. 7 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.

YUK YUK’S NEW TALENT TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, New Talent Showcase at 9:30 pm. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Marito Lopez, Michelle Shaughnessy, Nick Reynoldson, ñ ñ Craig Fay, Camille Cote, Todd Van Allen, Dylan Gott, Amanda Day, Ron Sparks, Sean Emeny, MC Andre Arruda and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

AN EVENING WITH KATE MCKINNON Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival preñ sents the SNL comic in a live show of stand-

35 Hazelton. 416-535-9956.

PHOENIX POETRY WORKSHOP Read your poem

performance for adults that reimagines the Purim story through improvisational games and storytelling. 11 am-12:30 pm. Free (preregister). Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416924-6211 ext 154.

Friday, March 6 NNEDI OKORAFOR The fantasy author reads

and discusses her work. 7 pm. Free. 3rd floor.

Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-3937748, tpl.ca.

THE PALEO PROJECT Book launch with naturopath Marc Bubbs. Talks at 5:30 and 6:45 pm.

Free. Integrative Health Institute, 46 Sherbourne. paleoprojectbook.com.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM SEMIFINALS Six poets battle to make it to the Apr 4 finals plus guest Omar Holman from NYC. 8 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. torontopoetryslam.com.

Saturday, March 7 THE MUSICIANS IN ORDINARY Celebration of

poet John Donne in words and music with author Seth Lerer. 8 pm. Heliconian Hall,

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for feedback and provide feedback for others or listen and share your impressions. 2:304:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca.

TORONTO SPECFIC COLLOQUIUM Lectures, readings and discussions from sci-fi, fantasy and horror authors, scholars and industry pros including David Nickle, Alex Leitch, Nnedi Okorafor and others. 9:30am-5:30 pm. $35$50 (pre-register). Round Venue, 152A Augusta. specficcolloquium.com.

IWHEN SISTERS SPEAK XV Up From The Roots presents the 15th-anniversary edition of the black female poets showcase with El Jones, Jemeni, Truth Is, Britta B and others.

Mar 7 at 8 pm. $37-$47. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, stlc.com.

WORDS & MUSIC SALON Poets Max Layton, Lev Hart, Ann Elizabeth Carson, Banoo Zan plus storyteller Adèle Koehnke & musicians. 1:304:30 pm. Vino Rosso, 995 Bay. 416-926-1800.

Sunday, March 8 COOK/BOOK WITH MADELEINE THIEN Writer

Thien chats and cooks her favourite dish with

Ins Choi launches the book based on his solo stage play on March 5.

Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free.

Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

GET IT ON! Improv party w/ host Andy Fruman & Mila Pierotti, followed by karaoke. 8 pm.

Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 5.

SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Highbräu and Accidental Company (8 pm); the Rocket Scientists and Junkyard Dukes (10 pm). $15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

SKETCHFEST @ THEATRE CENTRE Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: The Ladies of the Sketchersons and Panacea! (8 pm); Boiled Wieners and the Riot (10 pm). Incubator Space: Marty Topps, Jess Kidding and the Ken Hall Show (7:30 pm); Glimmer Twins and the Weaker Vessels (9:30 pm). $15/each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com.

SKULE NITE 1T5 U of T Engineering Society students stage a musical and sketch comedy revue. To Mar 14, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $14$16. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT Weekly open mic night. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN Stand-up comedy w/ host Ryan Long and others. 9 pm. Free.

Cavern Bar, 76 Church. facebook.com/ events/1414164218834741.

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too many times.

Echlin’s given the book an epic sweep, with so much going on that it’s difficult to stay connected to the emotional arc. Telling the story in short chapters, constantly alternating voices, doesn’t help. Sometimes, you just want to stay with a character and deepen the connection.

The Disappearance soared because the ache kept intensifying. That doesn’t happen here.

Still, lesser Echlin is better than SUSAN G. COLE most novels.

Echlin reads at the Reference Library Thursday (March 5). See Readings, this page. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

Fisseha, a roundtable on feminism in the arts and more. 7-9 pm. Free. The industREAL Arts Room, 688 Richmond W. facebook.com/ events/1575753522670040.

JOSEPH KERTES Diaspora Dialogues book club meeting with the author of The Afterlife Of Stars. 3:30-5 pm. $35. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. diasporadialogues.com.

MORE SONGS & POEMS Robert Priest and Max Layton w/ Bob Cohen on guitar and guests Kyle Layton Thomas, Jessica Layton, Thierry Tuchagues. 5-7 pm. Pwyc. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. tranzac.org.

Monday, March 9 LITER-EAT-URE WITH RAWI HAGE’S COCKROACH Hage joins host Sang Kim in a ñ chat about the inspirations behind the novel

chef/host Sang Kim. 6:30 pm. $25 (includes three-course dinner). Pre-register. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. justin@windupbird.ca.

IIWD WITH ROOM MAGAZINE Launching issues 37.4 and 38.1 with readings by Kamila Rina, Mahak Jain, Jane Iordakieva and Rebecca

while a five-course dinner is offered (note: insects will be served). 6:30 pm. $39. Preregister. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. justin@windupbird.ca.

Wednesday, March 11 RACONTEURS STORYTELLING Monthly storytelling night. 7:30 pm (doors 6:30 pm). $7-$10.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. raconteurs.ca.

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Thursday, March 12, 7:30pm 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto

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Eight characters haunt Ho Tzu Nyen’s video

READING/INTERVIEW Nina Berkhout (Canada), The Gallery of Lost Species David Vann (USA), Aquarium Interviewer: Deborah Dundas $10/FREE for supporters, students & youth

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Eastern and Western culture and spirituality meet in The Cloud Of Unknowing, a haunting half-hour video by Singapore’s Ho Tzu Nyen.

The original Cloud Of Unknowing was an anonymous medieval Christian guide to contemplative spirituality whose ideas bear similarities to the Eastern meditative tradition.

Ho’s installation was the Singaporean entry in the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it played in a church, but it still packs a punch of otherworldly weirdness in the less spectacular environment of Trinity Square Video.

The dreamlike video visits eight characters inhabiting a derelict apartment building. Caucasians and Asians, all have fleshy bodies that give them

Disturbing images of decay dominate Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Cloud Of Unknowing.

an amorphous, cloud-like quality.

To a soundtrack of drumming, heavy breathing and bits of song, Ho presents a long-haired rock drummer, a man with vitiligo whose room is hung with hundreds of light bulbs, another who seems to be sinking into a bed, a woman who watches a staticky TV while plates of food rot, another serene woman whose apartment has been overtaken by vegetation and a man in a book-lined study who writes obsessively. In a waterfilled basement, a man who strips down to an incontinence undergarment becomes the agent of the mist that provides the climax.

The characters are supposedly

drawn from art historical images.

The only reference I could identify was literary rather than visual – to the light bulb room from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man – but spotting references is not the point. It’s more about taking in a series of strange, sometimes disturbing images of life, culture and decay that are open to a range of interpretations.

The Cloud Of Unknowing is memorable but not always comfortable to watch, especially in the end, when it turns immersive as a hidden smoke machine fogs up the screening room, implicating the viewer in the mysteries the video evokes. 3

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GARDINER MUSEUM Women, Art & Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, to May 18. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. $9$15; half-price Fri 4-9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Darren Rigo, Deep Woods; Stopping By Woods; Lasting Effect; Every So Often; REWILD, to Jun 14. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

MOCCA Douglas Coupland; Store/Fronts, to Apr 19. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

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(painting/installation), to Mar 21. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

ARTA 4Expression, to Mar 17, reception 6-8 pm Mar 5. 14 Distillery Lane. 416-364-2782.

ARTWORLD Charles Malinsky (painting), Mar 7-29, reception 6:30-9 pm Mar 7 (RSVP). 365 Evans #101. 416-620-0500.

BAU-XI Alex Cameron (painting), Mar 7-21, reception 2-4 pm Mar 7. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600.

BEIT ZATOUN Ali Mustafa (photos), Mar 6-Apr 12, reception/memorial 7-9 pm Mar 9. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Director’s Choice II, to Mar 25. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

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ESP Maggie Groat (collage/sculpture), to Mar 14. 1450 Dundas W. 647-345-6163.

FIRST CANADIAN PLACE Love Art Fair preview, Mar 9-27. 100 King W. loveartfair.com.

GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Suzy Lake, Tony Scherman and Ulysses Castellanos, to Mar 12. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112.

IGLENDON GALLERY Féminin Dédoublé – Reflecting Feminine group show, to Mar 13.

2275 Bayview. 416-487-6721.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Sarah Cale, to Mar 21. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY Lyse Lemieux and Meryl McMaster (drawing/photos), to Mar 21.

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ROM Douglas Coupland, to Apr 26.

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. $14.50-$16 Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9-$10.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Burn With Desire; Anti-Glamour, Manuela Morales, to Apr 5.

33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Oriental Rugs, to Apr 15.

Children’s Clothing From China, to May 25.

55 Centre. 416-599-5321. $6-$15; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm.

U OF T ART CENTRE Hart House Collection; Sign, Sign, Everywhere A Sign, to Mar 7. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

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OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Alanis Obomsawin, Shawn Reynar and Anne Abbass, to Apr 4.

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A Separation (left), The Runner and Close-Up are must-sees in TIFF Cinematheque’s series.

Wildly funny WILD TALES (Damián Szifron).

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INTIMATE AND IRANIAN

New series proves Iranian film isn’t all about wide-eyed children and protracted suffering By NORMAN WILNER I FOR IRAN at TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Iranian cinema hasn’t been underrepresented in the West, but it’s laboured under an unfair perception of sameness – all wide-eyed children and protracted suffering.

TIFF Cinematheque aims to dispel that myth with I For Iran, an authoritative new retrospective of Iranian cinema stretching from 1933’s Mr. Haji The Movie Actor (Saturday, March 7, 5 pm, introduced by film scholar Hamid Naficy) to 2011’s Oscar-winning A Separation (April 3, 6 pm, with an introduction by author and critic Tina Hassannia).

I’d seen The Runner (March 13, 6:30 pm), Amir Naderi’s 1985 drama about a parentless youngster (Majid Niroumand) odd-jobbing around his harbour town, years ago, but watching it again for this series brought home how utterly fresh it feels. Both in subject matter and style, it could have been made last month. One could say the same for a lot of Iranian cinema, which focuses on intimate conflicts and simple desires played out against bleak, forbidding backdrops: the stories are timeless, the

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characters universal.

Either out of vision or necessity, these filmmakers reduce their characters’ worlds to the barest of essentials. In pre-Revolution works like Dariush Mehrjui’s The Cow (Friday, March 6, 6 pm), about a man whose inability to accept the death of the eponymous beast leads him to assume its role, the limited world view lets us see how few options their protagonists have.

In works produced after the Islamic Revolution, isolation becomes a metaphor for the country itself, sequestered from cul-

tural development by a fundamentalist theocracy.

Naderi’s haunting 1989 feature Water, Wind, Dust (March 14, 3:15 pm), starring The Runner’s Niroumand as a young man on a trek through the desert in search of his vanished family, could be read as a simple adventure story or an allegory for a convulsing nation’s quest for stability, while in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is The Friend’s Home? (March 22, 6:15 pm), made in 1987, a child’s odyssey to return a fellow student’s notebook becomes an exploration of the social order of a northern Iranian town.

Sohrab Shahid Saless’s 1974 drama Still Life (Sunday, March 8, 6:30 pm, i nt r o duc e d

by Naficy) contains a

Water, Wind, Dust can be seen as an allegory for a nation’s quest for stability.

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crushingly personal study of a railway switchman (Zadour Bonyadi) facing mandatory retirement within a larger look at the apathetic Iranian state apparatus. That same shrugging disregard for human dignity echoes in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation four decades later, with its tale of an estranged couple locked in a never-ending, ideologically driven court case.

And then there’s Kiarostami’s 1990 Close-Up (March 27, 8:45 pm, introduced by Hassannia), one of the great works of world cinema, full stop. Spun out of an actual incident in which con man Hossein Sabzian impersonated Kiarostami’s fellow director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to take advantage of a Tehran family, the film explores not just the facts of the eventual criminal case but the very concepts of art and storytelling.

Filming the trial and recruiting Sabzian and his victims to play themselves in re-enactments of the con, Kiarostami makes it almost impossible to distinguish artistic recreation from the “official” reality. I would imagine being an artist trapped within a fundamentalist state feels very much the same. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

Its relative insubstantiality meant it never had a real chance at this year’s foreign-language Oscar, but Damián Szifron’s Wild Tales doesn’t really need the validation of an award. It just wants your laughter.

Argentine director Szifron’s film is a comic anthology of five shorts and one lightning-fast prologue all revolving around revenge, responsibility and payback. But the real motivator in each tale turns out to be a violation of the agreed-upon social order.

A server at a diner (Julieta Zylberberg) debates whether to poison the man who ruined her parents’ lives; the road rage of a pair of motorists (Leonardo Sbaraglia, Walter Donado) escalates into blood lust; a bride (Érica Rivas) takes extreme measures to express her displeasure at her new husband’s recent dalliance.

Szifron orchestrates each sequence expertly, demonstrating a flair for delivering absurd complications with marvellous comic timing and rich cinematic style. And yet nothing in Wild Tales feels like a filmmaker just showing off because he can; everything that transpires is rooted in the characters’ emotional reality, however baroque it may appear to us.

Oh, and I realize I haven’t mentioned the segment featuring Ricardo Darín (The Secret In Their Eyes) as a demolition expert who finds a novel solution to the apathetic parking authority of Buenos Aires. Toronto audiences should get a real kick out of that one.

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Rita Cortese (left) and Julieta Zylberberg get Wild.

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Native Americans of African descent fight for recognition in By Blood.

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Baba-wow the BABAdooK (Jennifer Kent). 93 minutes. Opens Friday (March 6) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 62.

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DELIVERING DIVERSITY fest devoted to international stories heats up screens By NORMAN WILNER 5th AnnuAl ReelWoRld Film FestivAl at the Scotiabank Theatre

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(259 Richmond West) through Saturday (March 7). reelworld.ca. Rating: nnnn

The ReelWorld Film Festival falls a little earlier in the calendar than usual. Given that many of this year’s films feature brilliant sunlight and warm climates, it might just be a gesture of kindness to Toronto audi­ ences still staggering through a par­ ticularly unforgiving winter. In which case, thanks.

Having got under way earlier this week with two days of industry pan­ els, the festival runs at the Scotia­ bank Theatre through Saturday (March 7). Selected features – includ­ ing opening­night gala Finding Samuel Lowe: From Harlem To China – screen Sunday (March 8) at First Markham Place as a sort of satellite festival for the GTA. This year’s program includes By Blood (Thursday, 6 pm, Scotiabank), a documentary about the efforts of native Americans of African descent to be recognized as members of the Cherokee nation, which seems disin­ clined to welcome them. It’s a story of which I was unaware, and direc­

tors Marcos Barbery and Sam Russell lay it out in a painfully blunt manner.

The awkward title of Jamshid Mahmoudi’s A Few Cubic Meters Of Love (Thursday, 9 pm, Scotiabank; re­ peats Sunday, 1:30 pm, First Markham Place) refers to the shipping container in a Tehran storage yard where Af­ ghani teen Saber (Saed Soheili) goes to meet his beloved Marona (Hasiba Ebrahimi).

The balance of Romeo­and­Juliet fantasy and clear­ eyed social drama – Saber is one of hun­ dreds of thousands of refugees working with­ out papers in Iran – tips over into bathos toward the end, but Mahmoudi’s instincts as a writer/direc­ tor are sound.

With Turbulence (Friday, 6:15 pm, Scotiabank), writer/

director Soran Mardookhi dem­ onstrates a touch that’s some­ what shakier. His premise – a soft­spoken Kurdish émigré (Kamal Yamolky) must navigate Vancouver’s bureaucracy when his adult daughter (Camillia Ma­ hal) goes missing – is workable, but he’s unable to find a vis­ ual style that suits his dovetailed storylines, and a number of secondary roles are undermined by flat performances.

But the downtown festi­ val ends on a high with Maria Ripoli’s Traces Of Sandalwood (Saturday, 7:30 pm, Scotiabank), starring Nan­ dita Das as a Bollywood icon whose search for the sister from whom she was separated decades earlier leads her to Barcelona. It’s clever and sur­ prising.

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The Babadook doesn’t just introduce a new horror classic to audiences. It also marks the assured feature debut of Jennifer Kent.

Seven years after her husband’s death in a car crash, Aussie Amelia (Essie Davis) and her precocious son, Samuel (the adorable Noah Wiseman), are getting by. She’s a nurse who works with elderly patients, while Samuel, preoccupied with homemade weapons and magic, begins to act out at school.

When the two read a picture book called Mr. Babadook that’s mysteriously appeared on their bookshelf, Samuel becomes obsessed with the eponymous hollow-eyed, top-hatted creature and is convinced it’s coming to get them. Ya know, sometimes you should listen to kids....

What makes the film so effective is that the horror comes out of character, not situation. There are echoes of other filmmakers (Mario Bava gets a shout-out in the credits), but Kent’s vision is her own. And the work can be taken literally or as a metaphor for the pressures put on a grieving, overworked single mother.

The wide-eyed Wiseman makes one of the most convincing scared kids in the horror canon, while Davis, unrecognizable from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, moves from mousy, selfdoubting pushover to ferociously powerful force.

It’s a terrifying performance. It and the film will haunt your dreams.

new horror classics

Most contemporary horror films don’t show a lot of ima­ gination, since they’re either remakes or part of some ghastly trend like torture porn. But some films have survived beyond that crucial opening weekend to be­ come cultural touchstones.

With this week’s release of The Babadook, it’s worth looking back at some horror films that have stuck around, still scaring us years later.

1. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)

2. CURE (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)

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3. KILL LIST (Ben Wheatley, 2011)

4. THE DESCENT (Neil Marshall, 2005)

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5. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY (Oren Peli, 2007) A Few Cubic Meters Of Love goes the distance.

Noah Wiseman is terrified of the Babadook. You will be, too.

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File facts 1971 (Johanna Hamilton). 79 minutes. Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

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Johanna Hamilton’s 1971 may not be as dynamic or immediate a documentary as executive producer Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour, but as a look at the earliest iteration of America as a security state, it’s essential.

Before the age of digital information – when the secrets of governments and corporations can be released to the world with a few keystrokes and a laptop, and citizen journalism and activism are as easy as posting a video to Twitter – stealing secrets meant breaking into offices and removing physical files.

And in 1971, eight pissed-off Phila-

delphians did just that to expose the malfeasance of the FBI’s operations against college activists, raiding a Bureau office in Media, Pennsylvania, and sending the documents to the Washington Post and a couple of congressmen.

They called themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, and their efforts wound up revealing the COINTELPRO program that J. Edgar Hoover had set up to conduct counterintelligence operations against Americans he felt were undermining the nation. (Martin Luther King Jr. was an early target, as dramatized in Selma.)

Hamilton tells their story through archival footage, a few re-enactments and present-day interviews with surviving Commission members who are understandably proud of their accomplishments, if still a little surprised that they didn’t end up being tried for nORMAn WILnER treason.

horror

Zero scares THE InTRUDERS (Adam Massey). 92 minutes.

Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies page 58. Rating: n

Do Maggie Smith and Richard Gere get it on? You know you want to find out.

adult rom-com

Pleasing pap THE SEcOnD BEST ExOTIc MARIGOLD HOTEL (John Madden). 122 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

Rating: nnn

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is all about director John Madden and screenwriter Ol Parker replicating the pleasant, empty charms of their 2012 collaboration – providing two more agreeable hours of life-affirming pap without condescending to their aging audience.

It’s a few months later, and the first movie’s surviving characters – played by the likes of Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Judi Dench, Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle – are still enjoying the casual exoticism of Jaipur. Every-

one is happy. Life is mostly good.

The sequel’s title refers to a new hotel that Dev Patel’s fussy Sonny wants to open, which necessitates the involvement of an American corporation and the anticipated arrival of an undercover inspector at the original Best Exotic – right around the time that Richard Gere turns up as a dashing Yank with an eye for Sonny’s mother (Lillete Dubey). There’s also the matter of Sonny’s wedding to lovely Sunaina (Tina Desai), which adds another level of stress to the poor guy’s life.

I could have done with less of Sonny’s comical wittering and more of grand dames Smith and Dench sitting around sipping drinks in the sun, but honestly? The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel wasn’t made to please me.

It’s for a different audience, and they will get exactly what they want from nORMAn WILnER it.

A bunch of pissed-off citizens exposed the FBI’s secret activities in 1971.

drama

Deep Valley THE VALLEY BELOW (Kyle Thomas). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

Rating: nnn Kyle Thomas’s multi-narrative drama tracks the lives of several Drumheller, Alberta, residents over three seasons.

A 19-year-old (Mikaela Cochrane) discovers she’s pregnant; a singer/ songwriter (Kris Demeanor) finds his ambitions undone by alcoholism; a taxidermist (Stephen Bogaert) quietly

Joe Perry and Mikaela Cochrane heat things up in The Valley Below.

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struggles to reanimate his failing marriage; a constable (Alejandro Rae) looks after local families while wondering if he’ll ever start a family of his own.

Some vignettes are moving and insightful, while others seem stuck at the sketch level.

The vagaries of procreation and the difficulty of sustaining love over the long term are the dominant themes, while the surrounding Badlands, whether seen through heat shimmer or encrusted with frost, evoke the vastness of geological time in contrast to the fleeting lives depicted in the JOSé TEODORO foreground.

Jim Sturgess (right) and Anthony Hopkins star in a film that doesn’t go down smoothly.

crime thriller

Crappy caper KIDnAPPInG MR. HEInEKEn (Daniel Alfredson). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58. Rating: nn

The longer we wait for those Avatar sequels, the more time Sam Worthington has to dish out mediocrity like Kidnapping Mr. Heineken. Worthington teams up with fellow faded star Jim Sturgess and director Daniel Alfredson (The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest) for this thriller based on a real life caper. As with the true story, things don’t go well.

Sturgess and Worthington play Cor van Hout and Willem Holleeder, the masterminds behind the 1983 highstakes abduction of beer baron Freddy Heineken (Anthony Hopkins), which netted a ransom of 35 million Dutch

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guilders. In more capable hands, the sensational case would have made for terrific entertainment.

The perpetrators took two years to plan the abduction, the mechanics of which provide the film’s most interesting details, from the carpentry involved in building soundproof hideouts to the perfect framing of a Polaroid to be delivered with ransom instructions. If only Alfredson and his writers were as meticulous in developing the characters and building a consistent tone.

The film clumsily alternates between gritty crime drama, high-octane actioner and psychological thriller as Heineken sporadically and inconsequentially plays head games with his abductors. The remaining cast members fill out the genre clichés – noble outlaw, cowardly traitor, sensitive brute – never giving a solid feel for the real people they supposedly portray.

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Creaky walls, doors that crawl open, mutilated plastic dolls and neighbours with plastic bags scurrying away at night.

The Intruders stacks the deck with all the familiar horror signposts, as if straying from clichés were the most frightening thing of all.

Evidently produced locally on a dime (with plenty of tax credit assistance), the film is a barebones attempt at delivering jolts without investing in sympathetic characters or adding nuance.

Miranda Cosgrove of iCarly fame goes through the motions as Rose, an off-her-meds teen plucked from her California lifestyle and relocated to a wintry Illinois small town (actually Sudbury).

The Victorian home her recently widowed and ever-absent father purchased comes complete with all the telltale signs that bad shit has happened: boarded-up windows, a basement dungeon and musty green wallpaper.

Dad (Donal Logue) thinks his daughter is schizophrenic when she reports that things are going bump in the night.

His lack of concern is contagious.

The Intruders can’t conjure the requisite tension or sense of unease, because all the jolts and revelations are delivered right on time, as if the formula were mapped out on the clock.

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Austin Butler and Miranda Cosgrove don’t make much of a splash.

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Pascal N’Zonzi (left), Elodie Fontan and Christian Clavier act in a marital mess.

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French flop SERIAL (BAD) WEDDInGS (Philippe de Chauveron). 97 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58. Rating: n So few Gallic films get a theatrical run in Toronto, it’s a farce that this offensive, unfunny comedy should be one of them.

Claude and Marie Verneuil (Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby) are a privileged, middle-aged white Catholic couple who live in a beautiful home in Chinon, France. After suffering through the marriages of three of their Vic-

toria’s Secret-ready daughters to professional French immigrants (a Jew, an Arab and a Chinese), they hope their remaining child, Laure (Elodie Fontan), will meet a nice Catholic boy.

She does, and he (Noom Diawara) has the nice French-sounding name of Charles. But it turns out – are you ready? – he’s black, originally from the Ivory Coast.

When Marie sighs, “What did we do to deserve this?” the eye-rolling audience will feel the same way.

The fact that Charles’s parents – who are coming for the wedding – are mildly racist themselves doesn’t make the film go down any easier, especially since France, like much of Europe, is currently seething with civil unrest.

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Unfinished Business (D: Ken Scott, 91 min) Tom Wilkinson, Vince Vaughn and Dave Franco star as business guys who go to Europe to close a deal but get caught up in a sex fetish event and a global economic summit.

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Playing this week How to find a listing

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 62.

Aerosmith rocks Donington 2014

(Dick Carruthers) is a high-def broadcast of a concert by the rock band filmed in Leicestershire last summer. 104 min.

Mar 5, 9:30 pm, at Yonge & Dundas 24

After the BAll (Sean Garrity) is a frac-

tured take on the Cinderella story, in which a fashion designer (Portia Doubleday) goes to work for her father (Chris Noth) only to discover that her stepmother (Lauren Holly) and stepsisters are bent on sabotaging her career and the family fashion house. Soon she’s forced return to the company disguised as a man (not very convincingly) so she can save the day. It’s predictable and a little bit ridiculous, but fun. 100 min. nnn (SGC) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queens­ way, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24

AmericAn sniper (Clint Eastwood) turns the alpha-male autobiography of Navy SEAL turned Iraq War sniper turned rightwing poster boy Chris Kyle into a dull, bythe-numbers war drama. A bulked-up, bearded Bradley Cooper does a fine job of showing us how deeply uncomfortable Kyle is stateside, but Eastwood’s disconnected direction means we spend the entire movie with a man in stasis. At 84, he’s earned the right to coast – but we don’t have to pretend he’s still making good movies. 132 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cine­ plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Silver­ City Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 AwAke: the life of YogAnAnDA (Paola

di Florio, Lisa Leeman) is the kind of hagiography you’d expect to find in a gift shop at a New Age store. With serene talking

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401 & Morningside, 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, Rain­ bow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silver­ City Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

heads, plenty of sitar plucking but not much tension, it tells the story of Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought Eastern religion to the West. 87 min. nn (GS) Kingsway Theatre

ñthe 50 YeAr ArgUment

(Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi) is a documentary about the New York Review of Books, which celebrated a half-century of publication in 2013. It’s a bracing film about the value of radical ideas and the importance of being courageous enough to consider them. 118 min. nnnn (NW) Revue

ñthe BABADook

(Jennifer Kent) 93 min. See review, page 55. nnnnn

(GS) Opens Mar 6 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

BAllet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes) takes you

through every step in the creation of a new ballet by emerging choreographer Justin Peck, who’s in his 20s and in the corps of the New York City Ballet. The vérité doc looks at a short piece he’s mounted for the company, from conception to rehearsal to sweaty-palmed opening night.

Not much fazes Peck, so there’s little tension. Of interest mostly to dance aficionados and those in the performing arts. 72 min. nnn (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Big news from grAnD rock (Daniel Perlmutter) stars Ennis Esmer as a smalltown reporter who tries to save his failing newspaper by turning movie plots into front-page stories – only to find his work under scrutiny by a big-city reporter (Meredith MacNeill) when he writes about secret medical experiments being conducted in his tiny Ontario town. It feels like a charming B-story on Corner Gas, and the actors certainly put in the work, but writer/director Perlmutter’s insistent folksiness becomes exasperating and ultimately exhausting. 87 min. nn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre 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) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Regent The­ atre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BlAck or white (Mike Binder) is a dread-

ful race-relations film with no shades of grey. Alcoholic WASP attorney Elliot (Kevin Costner) battles salt-of-the-earth black entrepreneur and earth mother Rowena (Octavia Spencer) for custody of their cute grandchild. It’s movie-of-the-week material, with only Costner’s salty, unselfconscious turn as a cranky codger making the film almost bearable. 121 min. nn (GS) Kingsway Theatre, Revue

Bolshoi BAllet: romeo AnD JUliet is a high-def broadcast of the ballet, starring Alexander Volchkov and Anna Nikulina.

145 min.

Mar 8, 12:55 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24; continuing at Yonge & Dundas 24

focUs (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) stars

Dev Patel delivers some twists in Chappie, opening this weekend.

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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queens­ way, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

the BoY next Door (Rob Cohen) is a latenight W Network slot filler in which Jennifer Lopez’s high school teacher is seduced and then stalked by her student.

Everyone involved in this piss-poor Fatal Attraction-style thriller seems confident that they’re making a terrible movie, so the actors adjust their performances for camp. It delivers laughs, not shrieks. 90 min. n (RS) Colossus

ñBoYhooD

(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. nnnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

chAppie (Neill Blomkamp) 120 min. See Also Opening, page 57.

Opens Mar 5 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cin­ emas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rain­ bow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silver­ City Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 the Drop Box (Brian Ivie) is a documen-

tary about a baby drop box that Pastor Lee Jong-rak installed on the side of his home.

79 min.

Mar 5, Yonge & Dundas 24; Mar 9, Eglinton

Town Centre

the DUff (Ari Sandel) occasionally plays

like a mashup of Mean Girls and Easy A, but Mae Whitman’s performance as a high-school senior who realizes she’s her group’s Designated Ugly Fat Friend and decides to challenge the accepted social structure gives The DUFF a spiky energy all its own. 101 min. nnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carl­ ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity York­ dale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñthe DUke of BUrgUnDY

(Peter Strickland) is set somewhere in Europe, maybe in the 70s, where Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna) is the bottom and Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) the top in an S/M relationship. Strickland’s powerful aesthetic comes through in extended footage of insect wings flapping and unsettling dream sequences, all set to Cat’s Eyes’ eerie music. Just don’t look for any revealing backstories or a turn-on, regardless of your sexual tastes. Subtitled. 105 min. nnnn (SGC) Royal

elephAnt song (Charles Binamé) stars

Bruce Greenwood as a psychiatrist at a Quebec mental institution trying to glean the whereabouts of a missing colleague from a disturbed young inmate (Xavier Dolan). Greenwood is totally convincing as a professional teetering on the edge of desperation, but Dolan’s twitchy, mannered turn gives him almost nothing to play against. 110 min. nn (NW) Canada Square, Varsity

fiftY shADes of greY (Sam Taylor-John-

son) adapts the wildly successful novels into something so slow it hurts. Dakota Johnson as the innocent virgin lured into a BDSM relationship is watchable, but almost nothing happens. The pic, which boasts a laughably clichéd soundtrack – Beast Of Burden, anyone? – is plainly a cash-grabbing set-up to promote a full trilogy. 124 min. nn (SGC)

Will Smith as a master con artist who lets a small-time scammer (Margot Robbie, of The Wolf Of Wall Street) into his crew, and into his heart – or does he? Writer/directors Ficarra and Requa aren’t out to trick their audience with elaborate, impossible plotting; they just don’t serve us everything on a silver platter. It’s appreciated.

105 min. nnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carl­ ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande ­ Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promen­ ade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñforce 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) Kingsway Theatre

the triAl of ViViAne AmsAlem ñgett:

(Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz) takes place entirely within a rabbinic courtroom, where a woman fights for five years for a divorce from her devoutly Orthodox husband. The set-up may be frustratingly constrictive, but that’s the point: the film is no more exasperating than the patriarchal legal system it depicts. Playing Viviane, co-director Ronit Elkabetz subtly conveys her warmth, passion and sensuality, all tragically hemmed in by the dark, buttoned-up garb, hair ties and frown imposed upon her. Subtitled.

115 min. nnnn (RS) Carlton Cinema, Rainbow Promenade

girl wAlks home Alone At ñAnight

(Ana Lily Amirpour) follows a vampire (Sheila Vand) as she cruises the streets of a fictional Iranian city inviting men to chat her up, make a move, bring her home. Shooting in black-and-white widescreen, writer/director Amirpour has built a marvellous world that shares its DNA with Godard, Jarmusch, Lynch, Tarantino and Bigelow. Subtitled. 99 min. nnnnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Revue

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(Céline Sciamma) follows 16-year-old Marieme, aka Vic (the charismatic Karidja Touré), who falls in with a girl gang in her surburban Paris housing project, boosting her self-esteem.

Sciamma (Tomboy) taps her compassion for young people in spectacular moments.

She has a lot of style and even more to say. Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

The hobbiT: The baTTle of The five armies (Peter Jackson) is the climax of

the director’s gargantuan adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s slender prequel to The Lord Of The Rings, and most viewers will be struggling with Middle-earth fatigue. At two hours and 24 minutes it’s the shortest of the trilogy, but it still feels longer than it needs to be, especially since the Smaugrelated cliffhanger is resolved 15 minutes in. Some subtitles. 144 min. NN (NW) Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre

hoT Tub Time machiNe 2 (Steve Pink) is exactly what you’d expect from a Hot Tub Time Machine sequel: bros partying heartily and insulting each other while checking out the racks on hot ladies, and also timetravel jokes. I laughed a few times, but more at the actors’ timing than at what they were saying. 93 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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, Mt Pleasant

ñThe imiTaTioN Game

(Morten Tyldum) stars Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who’s hired by the British government to crack the Germans’ Enigma code during the Second World War. He must collaborate with a team of misfit geniuses and keep their work a secret.

Also secret is his homosexuality. The film explores fascinating moral issues, and Cumberbatch is revelatory as Turing. 114 min. NNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Fox, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñiN her Place

(Albert Shin) is an expertly plotted drama that packs a paralyzing emotional gut punch. In rural South Korea, a well-to-do city woman moves in with an elderly farm woman and her pregnant teen with the intention of adopting the child. Societal demands and class differences are just two of the factors that stir this dramatic pressure cooker. Subtitled. 115 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

ñiNhereNT vice

(Paul Thomas Anderson) is a giddy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s detective novel about a sometime detective (Joaquin Phoenix) fumbling further and further into an elaborate (and frankly insane) conspiracy in 1970 L.A. Phoenix makes an excellent tour guide to the Pynchon/Anderson funhouse, and the director’s casual mastery of image and sound is here to be admired, as always. It’s a fantastically dense movie worthy of repeat viewings. 149 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank 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) Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre The iNTruders (Adam Massey) 92 min.

See review, page 56. N (RS) Opens Mar 6 at Carlton Cinema

JuPiTer asceNdiNG (Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski) is kind of goony and more than a little cheesy as space operas go, but it has some absolutely spectacular highs, including an astonishingly complicated chase over and through Chicago that seems like the reason IMAX 3D was invented. Some subtitles. 127 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 KidNaPPiNG mr. heiNeKeN (Daniel

Alfredson) 94 min. See review, page 56.

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Opens Mar 6 at Carlton Cinema

ñKiNG lear (sTraTford fesTival)

(Joan Tosoni) is a high-def broadcast of Stratford’s acclaimed production of the Shakespeare tragedy, crowned by Colm Feore’s magnificent Lear: initially vain and pompous, he becomes angry and fearful as he’s spurned by two of his daughters (Maev Beaty and Liisa Repo-Martell, both excellent), and as he rages in the storm he becomes a figure of pity. 180 min. NNNN (GS) Mar 7, 12:55 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

KiNGsmaN: The secreT service (Matthew Vaughn) is an action fantasy built around all the things people love about the Roger Moore-era Bond movies: unflappable gentleman heroes, megalomaniac villains, apocalyptic plots, awesome gadgets. And for a while, that’s enough. But an unironic celebration of such films means accepting their creepy white-men-as-conquerors undertone, leading the movie to some very uncomfortable places in the service of instant gratification. Some subtitles.

129 min. NNN (NW) 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñThe lasT five Years

(Richard LaGravenese) is an adaptation of the off-Broadway musical in which a young couple (Anna Kendrick, Smash’s Jeremy Jordan) recount the ups and downs of their relationship in song – she moving backwards from the bitter end, and he going forwards from the optimistic beginning. Kendrick has never had a better showcase; she’s always been a vivid screen presence, but when she sings she’s absolutely electric. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Revue

The lazarus effecT (David Gelb) is a

mildly self-aware riff on Frankenstein and Re-Animator, with a team of researchers using their breakthrough corpse-reviving serum on one of their own members after an accident. Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters and Sarah Bolger make engaging lab rats, but the script slowly sheds every intriguing idea and character detail for an utterly conventional final act. 83 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Michele Josue) revisits the tragedy of Matthew Shepard, gay-bashed and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming, 17 years ago, and draws a full portrait of the very human young man who became a national symbol. There’s nothing new here in terms of documentary form, but this is an important, emotionally powerful story. 89 min. NNN (JT) Carlton Cinema

mcfarlaNd (Niki Caro) is based on the

true story of a transplanted football coach (Kevin Costner) who convinced the Latino students at his California high school to form a cross-country running team and compete at the state level. It could move a little faster and be a little less proud of its own progressiveness, but it’s a sports movie that knows what it’s doing for the most part and ends strong. Some subtitles. 129 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Sturla Gunnarsson) is a splendidly photographed travelogue but nothing more.

Director/narrator Gunnarsson wanders through India’s provinces capturing spectacular images of rainfall and flooding but never really builds a thesis or grapples with what he sees.

There’s no curiosity, not even a pretense of investigation. It’s just tourism.

Some subtitles. 108 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

Leigh also conveys the impact of reality – slave ships, the rise of the steam engine – on the artist’s otherworldly masterpieces. An art film in every sense of the word. 150 min. NNNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

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(J.C. Chandor) is a moody character study of an entrepreneur (Oscar Isaac) who spends a month in the winter of 1981 trying to put his heating-oil business on a solid financial footing while someone keeps hijacking his trucks in broad daylight. As a study of corruption and lawlessness in precomeback New York City, it bears comparison to Dog Day Afternoon and Prince Of The City for its sense of place and time, and to the first Godfather for its depiction of a man who places himself at a moral crossroads. Some subtitles. 124 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Royal, Varsity

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(Mike Leigh) stars Cannes best actor winner Timothy Spall as painter J.M.W. Turner at the peak of his fame.

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gie 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) Kingsway Theatre

Night at the MuseuM: secret of the toMb (Shawn Levy) occasionally amuses

thanks Ben Stiller and his cohorts, who manage to be funny despite the lazy screenplay. In the franchise finale, Stiller’s night watchman and his crew head to the UK to battle more reanimated relics. For all the CGI whizz-bang and encyclopedia of historical figures, director Levy still hasn’t figured out how to make the proceedings exciting. 98 min. NN (RS) Fox

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(Paul King) is perfect.

Writer/director King’s remarkable adaptation of Michael Bond’s beloved

children’s books spins the story of the lost little bear from Darkest Peru into a thoughtful and genuinely moving metaphor for the immigrant experience. It’s cartoonish in precisely the right way, situating its talking, marmalade-loving, tragically accident-prone protagonist (voiced by Ben Whishaw) in a lush, just slightly exaggerated universe of delightful British actors. I’d have loved this when I was a kid. Hell, I love it now. 95 min.

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PlayiNg it cool (Justin Reardon) is The F Word remade by sociopaths, setting Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan to grapple with platonic buddyship instead of Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan. Screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair rely on rom-com stereotypes and contrivances rather than creating relatable characters. 94 min. N (NW) Carlton Cinema

(Gabe Polsky) is a pleasantly off-centre look at the Soviet Union’s fanatical pursuit of ice hockey superiority, which culminated in the socalled Red Army team of the 80s. Polsky, a veteran producer making his first documentary, has fun with the archival material and tells compelling stories about how stars like Vladislav Tretiak and Slava Fetisov balanced their beautiful game with the insane political situation back home. Some subtitles. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

the secoNd best exotic Marigold hotel (John Madden) 122 min. See

review, page 56. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 5 at Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Ava DuVernay) traces key moments in the movement for black voting rights in 60s America and comes at a time when racist killings have galvanized activism all over the U.S. David Oyelowo’s superb performance as King and DuVernay’s skill directing both the massive set pieces and intimate details would make this a powerful film even without its current political resonance. 128 min.

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(Richie Mehta) is an assured and harrowing look at poverty and desperation in India’s slums. Rajesh Tailang gives a quietly wrenching performance as chain-wallah Mahendra (he fixes zippers), who sends his 12-year-old son Siddharth to work out of town. When the boy fails to return, matters both trivial and critical impede Mahendra’s search.

The film’s sociopolitical critique never interferes with its intimate and devastating story. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

soNg of the sea (Tomm Moore) draws

from Gaelic folklore to tell the story of young children discovering magic and peril. The animation is imaginative and rich, but the sluggish plot and characters left me wanting a bit more Pixar-brand pizzazz. Though the adventure drags along, it features some of the most artistic designs outside of Studio Ghibli. 93 min.

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the sPoNgebob Movie: sPoNge out of Water (Paul Tibbitt) has Nickelodeon’s

daft deep-sea burger flipper uncharacteristically surfacing on shore in CG and 3D, playing superhero in a live-action environment opposite a mugging Antonio Banderas as a villainous pirate. Thankfully, these unimaginative enhancements are limited to the final act. The bulk of the movie stays submerged, hand-drawn and Banderas-free, still delivering coy wit, surrealism and absurdity with SpongeBob’s childish whimsy. 93 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas,

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STILL ALICE (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland) follows a woman slowly losing her mind to early Alzheimer’s and succeeds because the script focuses less on Alice’s (Oscar favourite Julianne Moore) relationships with family and more on the ingenious strategies she uses to keep the ravages of her disease at bay. It does have a predictable trajectory – how could it not? – but it’s certainly not movie-of-theweek fare. 99 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity TAKEN 3 (Olivier Megaton) forces Liam Neeson’s glowering security expert Bryan Mills into a clumsy reworking of The Fugitive. Director Megaton can’t cut an action scene coherently, and the script seems to have assembled by cutting and pasting from the previous ones. Some subtitles.

109 min. N (NW) Colossus 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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Fox, Mt Pleasant, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

lines instead of the usual hot air of Hart’s act. As the groom who hires his services, Josh Gad also clicks as Hart’s straight man, making it easy to overlook how lazy, predictable and mildly offensive The Wedding Ringer often is. 101 min. NN (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi) is a giddy, mostly improvised mockumentary about a quartet of vampire flatmates living in Wellington, New Zealand. Its sense of humour falls somewhere between deadpan and bloody hysterical, as the centuries-old predators annoy each other with petty personal tics and egotistical attempts to out-cool one another. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

WHIPLASH (Damien Chazelle) is a battle of

wills between a drummer (Miles Teller) who challenges a monstrous conductor (J.K. Simmons) for a potentially life-changing 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)

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remembers the backup musicians who were key to the hit records cranked out in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, director Tedesco name-checks so many players, we don’t know who the Wrecking Crew actually is. But those familiar with the tunes will love this. And the issue of how fans were fooled into thinking bands like the Byrds and the Association played on all their records is an important one. 102 min. NNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 3

David Oyelowo delivers a superb performance as iconic leader Martin Luther King Jr. in this powerful film that focuses on some key moments in the movement for civil rights in 60s America.

Nominated for a best foreignlanguage film Oscar, Timbuktu looks at Islamic militants imposing sharia law on a small community that doesn’t want it. Balanced, humane and surprisingly gentle.

Colin Firth, Mark Strong and newcomer Taron Egerton star in this action fantasy about super-spies, dastardly villains and elite warriors.

The cartoony vibe provides lots of fun.

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(Abderrahmane Sissako) is a surprisingly gentle movie, given that it’s about Islamic militants imposing sharia law upon a small community that doesn’t particularly want it. There are no cartoon villains here, just people who’ll do the worst thing possible while thinking they’re being eminently reasonable.

Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) is another excellent working-class drama from the Dardenne brothers, starring the magnificent Marion Cotillard as a depressed woman whose co-workers voted to eliminate her factory job to save their bonus.

Cotillard’s quivering face and resigned posture beautifully convey her fight against mental illness and to keep her job.

It’s a powerful, minimalist film about rallying self-worth in a dehumanizing economy. Subtitled. 92 min. NNNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Royal

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (Ken Scott) 91 min.

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(Marjane Satrapi) stars Ryan Reynolds as Jerry, a small-town factory worker who tries his best to be a pleasant fellow and model employee, but, darn his luck, his cat keeps telling him to kill people. Reynolds is fantastic as the deeply confused protagonist, while Arterton and Kendrick do some very subtle work in the margins. Don’t read anything more. Just see it. 104 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 ELEPHANT SONG (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:25, 9:10 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sat 12:25, 1:20, 3:25, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:20 Sun 12:25, 1:20, 3:25, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:15 MonWed 12:30, 1:20, 3:35, 4:15, 6:25, 7:15, 9:15, 10:10 SELMA (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS (14A) Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:25, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed

(14A) Thu, Wed 7:50, 10:40 Fri 1:45, 2:05, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:20, 2:05, 4:30, 5:10, 7:50, 9:45, 10:40 Sun 11:20, 2:05, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Mon 4:45, 7:50, 9:45, 10:40 Tue 1:45, 7:15, 7:50, 10:40 BOLSHOI BALLET: ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:00 Mon 1:45 Tue 4:15 CASABLANCA Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 DETECTIVE K: SECRET OF THE LOST ISLAND (PG) Fri, MonWed 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 THE DROP BOX Thu 4:30, 7:00 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 4:30, 8:20, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:00, 8:05, 10:30, 11:00 Fri 3:30, 6:55, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:35 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 10:55 FOCUS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:25 Fri 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 MonWed 7:40, 10:25 JUPITER ASCENDING (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 7:05 Sat-Sun 1:05, 7:05 JUPITER ASCENDING 3D (PG) 4:05, 10:05 KING LEAR (STRATFORD FESTIVAL) Sat 12:55 MCFARLAND (G) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:20 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 SELMA (PG) Thu 6:45 Fri 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:55 SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (PG) Thu 6:35, 9:15 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:45, 3:55 Fri 1:50, 4:10 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 4:50 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 7:25, 10:15 Fri, MonWed 6:35, 9:00 Sat-Sun 7:25, 9:45 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 10:35 Fri 3:00, 6:10, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:00, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Wed 7:05, 10:00 TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES Thu, Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 1:35, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:10 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Thu 9:50 Fri, MonWed 3:35, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 THE WEDDING RINGER (14A) Thu 10:55 Fri, MonWed 4:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 4:15, 10:10 WHIPLASH (14A) Thu 1:45 Fri 4:30, 9:45 Sat 7:00 Sun 10:00 Mon 7:15 Tue 9:45 ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, MonWed 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:00, 9:00

VIP SCREENINGS

2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 10:05 WILD TALES (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 MonWed 12:35, 3:25, 6:50, 9:50

VIP SCREENINGS

BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri 12:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 12:30, 3:10 SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS (14A) Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

12 GOLDEN DUCKS Fri 2:40, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 AEROSMITH ROCKS DONINGTON 2014 (14A) Thu 9:30 AFTER THE BALL (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE)

AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:45 CHAPPIE (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:15 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 3:50, 4:50, 8:00, 11:00 Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:30, 10:45 Wed 2:30, 10:45 FOCUS (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 Fri 3:20, 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 7:00, 10:15 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri 3:00, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:30, 8:45 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Thu 9:00

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL YOU Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:45, 8:30 ELEPHANT SONG (PG) Fri 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:10 ENGLISH ONLY, PLEASE (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:10 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 5:45, 8:25 Fri-Sun 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 8:00 MCFARLAND (G) Thu 5:15, 8:15 Fri 7:00 Sat-Sun 1:10, 7:00 Mon-Wed 5:10

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:05 MR. TURNER (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:05 Fri 5:00, 8:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 5:00, 8:20 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:10 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 5:10 Fri 4:40 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40 Mon-Wed 5:30 SELMA (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:30 Fri-Sun 4:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 8:15 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45 Fri 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 7:30 WHIPLASH (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:20 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 6:15 Sat 8:35 Sun 6:20 IDA (PG) Fri 6:45 Sat 4:00 Sun 1:45 Tue 7:00 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Fri 8:45 Sat 6:00 Sun 3:45 Wed 7:00

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu-Fri, Tue 6:30 Sat 6:00 Sun 4:00 Wed 8:45 RED ARMY (PG) Sat 4:00 Sun 2:00 WILD (18A) Thu-Fri, Tue 8:45 Sat 1:30, 8:30 Sun, Wed 6:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 BOLSHOI BALLET: ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 12:55 CHAPPIE (14A) Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:35, 9:15 Fri 3:25, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:35, 10:00 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 3:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:45, 9:30 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 KING LEAR (STRATFORD FESTIVAL) Sat 12:55 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:55, 5:00, 6:50, 8:00, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 MonTue 1:00, 3:10, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 3:10, 6:40, 9:40 THE LAZARUS EFFECT (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 9:00 Sat 10:25 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 10:05 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:20, 4:05 Fri 1:40, 4:00 Sat 12:30, 2:55 Sun 1:05, 3:35 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:30 Wed 3:30 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 7:35, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30 Sat 5:20, 8:00 Sun 6:20 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35

Metro West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

CHAPPIE (14A) 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:00 mat FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 4:05 6:50 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat MCFARLAND, USA (G) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) 3:55 Sat-Mon 1:45 mat STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:00

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA (G) Fri-Wed 11:15 BIG NEWS FROM GRAND ROCK (PG) Fri-Wed 5:40 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 12:45, 7:25 Fri-Wed 7:15 BLACK OR WHITE (PG) Thu 1:10 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 4:45 FITZWILLY Thu 11:30 FORCE MAJEURE (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 1:00 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 3:00 IDA (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 3:00 IN HER PLACE (18A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:25 INTERSTELLAR (PG) Fri-Wed 9:15

mr. Turner (14A) Thu 2:45 Fri-Wed 1:00 my old lady (PG) Thu 5:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00 red army (PG) Thu 11:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 11:15 selma (PG) Thu 5:15 Sat, Mon, Wed 3:30 song oF The sea (PG) Sat-Sun 11:15 WhaT We do In The shadoWs (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 9:25 WhIplash (14A) Thu 3:10, 9:25 Fri-Wed 7:30 WIld (18A) Fri, Sun, Tue 3:30

QueenSWay (Ce)

1025 The QueenSWay, QeW & ISlIngTon, 416-503-0424 aFTer The Ball (G) Thu 12:30, 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 amerIcan snIper (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 1:20, 4:35, 7:40, 10:50 Sat 1:25, 4:35, 7:40, 10:50 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Wed 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 BolshoI BalleT: romeo and JulIeT Sun 12:55 The Book oF lIFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 casaBlanca Wed 7:00 chappIe (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 11:25, 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 The duFF (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:50, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 3:00, 5:50, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 FIFTy shades oF grey (18A) Thu 12:35, 1:05, 3:25, 6:35, 7:15, 9:30 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Tue 12:55, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:20, 10:20 Focus (14A) Thu 1:35, 2:20, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30 Fri 1:35, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 Sat 11:00, 11:50, 1:35, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 Sun 1:05, 2:00, 3:50, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:20, 2:00, 3:55, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:10 Wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25, 10:10 hoT TuB TIme machIne 2 (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 7:45, 10:05 Sun-Tue 6:10, 8:35 Wed 9:15 The ImITaTIon game (PG) Fri-Sat 6:40, 9:30 Sun-Tue 6:20, 9:10 Wed 9:10 JupITer ascendIng 3d (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 kIng lear (sTraTFord FesTIval) Sat 12:55 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) Thu 2:50, 4:00, 6:15, 9:25, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 3:35, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Tue 12:45, 4:05, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 The lazarus eFFecT (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Fri 3:40, 5:55, 8:25, 10:45 Sat 3:20, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45 Sun 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:50, 5:35, 8:10, 10:30 mcFarland (G) Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Fri 12:45, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:05 Mon-Wed 1:50, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 paddIngTon (G) Thu 12:40, 3:05 Fri 2:20, 5:00 Sat 12:50, 2:20, 5:00 Sun 12:50, 3:20 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:45 The second BesT exoTIc marIgold hoTel (PG) Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Sat 11:40, 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40 Fri 2:50, 5:30 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:30 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:10 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer 3d (G) Thu 7:10 Fri-Sat 8:00 Sun-Wed 7:40 sTIll alIce (PG) Thu 2:30 Fri 12:55, 3:30 Sat 11:00, 12:30, 3:40 Sun 1:00, 3:30 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:40 unFInIshed BusIness (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri 12:55, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 11:05, 2:55, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 4:35, 7:50, 10:15 WhaT We do In The shadoWs (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:20 Sun-Wed 10:00

VIP SCREENINGS

chappIe (14A) Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 FIFTy shades oF grey (18A) Thu 3:20, 4:15, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Focus (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri 2:50, 6:00, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:50, 6:00, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 8:50 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Mon-Tue 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 Wed 2:40, 10:30 The second BesT exoTIc marIgold hoTel (PG) Fri 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40

RaInboW WoodbIne (I)

WoodbIne CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 chappIe (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 The duFF (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 7:05 FIFTy shades oF grey (18A) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40 FriWed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Focus (14A) Thu 1:00 3:55 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 hoT TuB TIme machIne 2 (14A) Thu 9:45 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:35 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 The lazarus eFFecT (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 FriWed 4:05, 9:45 mcFarland (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer (G) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 unFInIshed BusIness (14A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35

Revue (I)

400 RonCeSvalleS ave, 416-531-9959 The 50 year argumenT Wed 7:00 Beggars oF lIFe Sun 4:15 Black or WhITe (PG) Fri 9:00 Sat, Tue 7:00 Mon 1:00 Wed 2:00 a gIrl Walks home alone aT nIghT (14A) Sun, Wed 9:00 Mon 7:00 Tue 9:30 The lasT FIve years (PG) Fri, Sun 7:00 Sat 9:30 Mon 9:00 paddIngTon (G) Sat 2:00, 4:00 Sun 1:00

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East End beaCh CIneMaS (aa)

film festival spotlight

1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

chappIe (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 3:50 mat Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50 mat The duFF (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:00 Focus (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:30, 9:50 hoT TuB TIme machIne 2 (14A) Thu 7:30, 9:50 The ImITaTIon game (PG) Thu 9:00 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:15 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15 mat paddIngTon (G) Thu 6:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 The second BesT exoTIc marIgold hoTel (PG) 6:40, 9:20 Fri 3:40 mat Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40 mat The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer (G) Sat-Sun 12:30 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer 3d (G) Thu 6:40, 9:10 Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30

Jessica Paré and Brian Gleeson are a delight in fest opener Standby.

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Things kick off with Standby (Friday, 7 pm), which pairs Brian Gleeson and Jessica Paré as exes who have a chance to rekindle their romance when she gets stuck at the Dublin airport on her way home to New York. Someone makes a

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variation on this movie every couple of years, but Paré and Gleeson (who co-starred with his father, Brendan, in The Tiger’s Tail) are charming together, and directors Rob and Ronan Burke don’t push the rom-com aspects too hard. Gleeson will be present at the screening, and your ticket stub will get you into the opening-night party at An Sibín Pub on Queen East.

Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn’s delightful Good Vibrations (Saturday, 3 pm), starring Richard Dormer as Belfast record-store owner and accidental album producer Terri Hooley, gets a “Toronto encore” screening, and there’s an advance screening of Yann Demange’s

white-knuckle thriller ’71, (Saturday, 5:30 pm) starring Unbroken’s Jack O’Connell as a British soldier who finds himself alone and unprotected on the hostile streets of Belfast.

And this year’s shorts program (Sunday, 4 pm) offers some real pleasures. Emmet Harte’s charming I Am Jesus follows an affable fellow (Steve Wilson) as he walks around Dublin wearing a sandwich board with the eponymous message and offering compassion, and Keith Walsh’s Analogue People In A Digital Age, is an observational documentary filmed in a Galway pub on the day Irish television switched from analog to digital broadcasting. norman WIlner

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5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 The WeddIng rInger (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 FriSat, Mon 9:10 Sun 9:30 Tue-Wed 9:00

amerIcan snIper (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 The Book oF lIFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 chappIe (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 The duFF (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 6:35, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 FIFTy shades oF grey (18A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Focus (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 hoT TuB TIme machIne 2 (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:30 JupITer ascendIng 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri 12:40, 3:40, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 12:15, 3:30, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 The lazarus eFFecT (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 6:55, 9:10 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 11:45, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 9:55 Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 paddIngTon (G) Thu 2:00 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer (G) Thu 1:30, 3:45 Fri, Mon 1:45 Sat 11:15, 1:40 Sun 12:00, 2:30 Tue-Wed 1:20 The spongeBoB movIe: sponge ouT oF WaTer 3d (G) Thu 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Sat, Mon 4:00, 6:40 Sun 4:45, 7:10 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:30 unFInIshed BusIness (14A) Fri 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:20, 2:45,

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amerIcan snIper (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:50 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 The Book oF lIFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 chappIe (14A) Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:05 The duFF (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:40 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 FIFTy shades oF grey (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:10 Focus (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:20 hoT TuB TIme machIne 2 (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:20 Sun 9:45 The ImITaTIon game (PG) Thu 8:05 Fri, Tue 6:45 Sat-Sun 1:25, 6:45 Mon, Wed 8:15 JupITer ascendIng 3d (PG) Thu 5:25, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:05, 9:20 Sat-Sun 4:00, 9:20 Mon, Wed 5:25 kIngsman: The secreT servIce (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:00 Fri, Tue 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 The lazarus eFFecT (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:15 Fri, Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:20 mcFarland (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:55 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sat 1:05, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 continued on page 64 œ

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selma (PG) Thu 5:20 the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water (G) 5:15 Sat 11:10, 12:45, 3:00 mat Sun 12:45, 3:00 mat the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water 3d (G) 7:30 Sat 11:45 mat unFinished business (14A) Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:45

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aFter the ball (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 american sniPer (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:45 bolshoi ballet: romeo and Juliet Sun 12:55 the booK oF liFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 chaPPie (14A) Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 crazy beautiFul you Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 the duFF (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 MonWed 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 enGlish only, Please (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20 FiFty shades oF Grey (18A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Focus (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15,

7:05, 10:00 hot tub time machine 2 (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30 Mon-Wed 9:30 JuPiter ascendinG 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 KinG lear (stratFord Festival) Sat 12:55 KinGsman: the secret service (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 7:15, 10:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 MonWed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 the lazarus eFFect (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 the second best exotic mariGold hotel (PG) Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:30 Sat 2:25, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:35 the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water (G) Thu 12:55, 3:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50 Sat 11:10, 2:10, 4:50 the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water 3d (G) Thu 6:30 Fri-Wed 7:10 unFinished business (14A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 the WeddinG rinGer (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 2:30, 5:05, 8:00 Sat 5:20, 8:00 Sun 5:05, 8:00 MonWed 1:20, 4:05, 6:45

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

american sniPer (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:55, 10:05 Fri, Sun

12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 3:05, 6:10, 9:20 MonWed 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 the booK oF liFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 casablanca Wed 7:00 chaPPie (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 the droP box Mon 7:30 the duFF (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Sun 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Mon 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 4:25, 7:20, 9:30 FiFty shades oF Grey (18A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 MonWed 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Focus (14A) Thu 2:05, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 1:45, 2:45, 4:20, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 1:45, 2:45, 4:20, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 Sun 1:25, 2:25, 4:05, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:05, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:25, 10:25 the hobbit: the battle oF the Five armies (PG) Thu 9:55 hot tub time machine 2 (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sat 9:25 Sun-Wed 9:15 the imitation Game (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:05, 8:50 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:30 Sat 12:40, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 Mon 3:45, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 JuPiter ascendinG 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 KinGsman: the secret service (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 the lazarus eFFect (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 FriSat 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Tue 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Wed 5:10, 9:55 mcFarland (G) Thu 4:00, 6:10, 9:10 Fri, Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 PaddinGton (G) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 Fri 1:50, 4:15, 6:50 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50 the second best exotic mariGold hotel (PG) Fri 2:25, 5:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 11:30, 2:25, 5:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 5:15, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 seventh son (PG) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 9:10 Sun 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:30 the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00 Fri 1:45, 4:10 Sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:05 Sun 2:00, 4:30 Mon-Wed 4:30 the sPonGebob movie: sPonGe out oF Water 3d (G) Thu 7:25 Fri-Sat 6:40 Sun-Wed 6:55 still alice (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri, Sun 1:05, 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 Sat 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 the theory oF everythinG (PG) Thu 3:15 unFinished business (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:30, 4:55, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 2:15, 4:35, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30

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aFter the ball (G) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:05 american sniPer (14A) Thu 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 birdman or (the unexPected virtue oF iGnorance) (14A) 3:55, 6:40 Fri-Sun 1:05 mat bolshoi ballet: romeo and Juliet Sun 12:55 the booK oF liFe 3d (G) Sat 11:00 the boy next door (14A) Thu 4:25, 6:50 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Sun, Wed 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Tue 6:35, 9:00 chaPPie (14A) Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 10:55, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 chaPPie: the imax exPerience (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 the duFF (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:15, 8:55 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 11:20, 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 6:05, 8:35 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:05, 8:35 FiFty shades oF Grey (18A) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 MonWed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Focus (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 11:00 Sun 1:25, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Focus: the imax exPerience (14A) Thu 4:15 hot tub time machine 2 (14A) 4:15, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:55 mat the imitation Game (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 11:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 JuPiter ascendinG 3d (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sat

special screenings I = International Women’s Day events unmanned: america’s drone Wars

Thursday, March 5 Goethe Films Screening of the 2007 film

Yella by Christian Petzold the 2004 film Nothing Ventured by Harun Farocki. 6:30 pm. $10. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. goethe.de/toronto.

Gohatto (taboo) Asian Gay Cinema screening of the 1999 film by Nagisa Oshima. 9 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca. the Greatest Question Screening of the 1919 film by DW Griffith. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca. liFe as We KnoW it Filmmaker and visual humorist Cameron Tingley presents his short films and shares his observations of modern society. 6-8:30 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. 416-967-1078.

Saturday, March 7 Ibodies oF liGht Tangled Art & Disability

and the DisAbled Women’s Network present films seen through the lens of disability and difference in celebration of International Women’s Day. Panel discussion 3:30-5 pm (free), screenings 6-8 pm $10, people w/ disabilities $5. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. tangledarts.org/bodies-oflight. the dirties Screening of the 2013 film. 7 pm. $10. Double Double Land, 209 Augusta. eventbrite.ca/e/15717307891. the salvador dali Film Fest Screenings 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

Sunday, March 8 IbeGGars oF liFe The 1928 silent film

starring Louise Brooks is screened with live piano accompaniment. 4 pm. $13, stu/srs $10. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. revuecinema.ca. the Fabric oF time Screening of the 2007 film by David Priest. 2 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

Kid dracula Screening of FW Murnau’s 1922 silent film set to music from Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

Monday, March 9 the matchmaKer (Pa’am ha’iti) Screening of the film by Avi Nesher as part of Spotlight on Israeli Culture. Subtitled in English.

Intro and post-film Q&A with Professor Kalman Weiser. 5:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca.

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Dinner followed by Robert Greenwald’s film about the impact of U.S. drone strikes at home and abroad. Dinner 6 pm, film and discussion from 7 pm. $20 or pwyc (War Resisters Support Campaign).

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Tuesday, March 10 the birth oF a nation Screening of the silent 1915 film by DW Griffith with score

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Planet ocean Film screening and discussion about the wonders of the ocean and its importance to our world. 6:15-8:15 pm. Free. Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane.

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and restaurateurs Vikram Vij and Meeru Dhalwala present the 2013 film The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra. Followed by discussion with CBC’s Metro Morning host Matt Galloway. 6:30 pm. $35. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.

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To Mar 8 toronto irish Film Festival The best of Irish cinema including documentaries, features and shorts. Mar 6 opening night gala Standby (directed by Rob and Ronan Burke) will feature actor Brian Gleeson in attendance. Check website for schedule. $15, opening night $20.

TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. torontoirishfilmfestival.com.

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Silence could be golden Wife issues. lack of intimacy. cuckold, etc.

Need Help While I typically encourage people to keep their questions brief, it is possible to be too brief, NH. But I’ve gotten so many questions from wannabe cuckolds with wife issues over the years that I’m going to hazard a series of guesses and take a shot at advising you.…

I’m guessing you’re a straight guy and you’re interested in cuckolding – the kink where the wife sleeps with other men, and either she tells the husband about her adventures or she “forces” him to watch her with other men.

Cuckolding can involve elements of humilia­ tion and/or degradation, and in some cases includes “forced bi” interactions between the cuckolded husband and the men his wife “cheats” on him with. And I’m also guessing you told the wife about your interest in cuck­ olding and she wasn’t interested and you wound up arguing about it, NH, and now your sex life is in the toilet, aka “lack of intimacy.”

So what do you do now? You drop it, NH, as cuckolding – which is a big ask for the wife (the sexual and emotional risks fall on her) – is a kink that both partners have to be equally excited about exploring. If she doesn’t want to go there, NH, then you’re not going there.

Not getting to explore cuckolding – and drop­ ping the subject – is the price of admission you’ll have to pay to revive your sex life.

And if restoring your sex life isn’t incentive enough to drop the subject, NH, this Savage Love reader’s experience might inspire you to drop it: “My husband, almost exactly 10 years older than me, confessed a cuckold fet­ ish to me shortly before our fifth anniver­ sary,” a happily married straight lady wrote (her letter appeared in Meet The Monogam­ ish, January 4, 2012). “I said no, but a seed was planted: Whenever I would develop a crush on another man, it would occur to me that I could sleep with him if I wanted to.”

She eventually met someone she wanted to sleep with and went back to her husband – five years later – to ask if he was still inter­ ested in cuckolding. He was – and guess what? He’s a cuckold now. I had to run an edited version of her letter, so this bit didn’t make it into the column, but the only reason this woman wound up exploring cuckolding was because her husband respected her initial “no” and wasn’t pressuring her to re­ consider. Because she didn’t feel like he was miserably unhappy with the status quo – a strictly monogamous status quo – and be­ cause she didn’t feel like he would blow up if she got cold feet, she felt secure enough to go there.

So shut the fuck up, NH, and you may even­ tually get what you want.

Mismatched libidos my boyfriend and i have been

together three years. We plan to start a family, we are very happy together, we go on many adventures together – all that good stuff. For the past year or so, I feel like I’ve been losing my sex drive. Not just toward him but in general. I should mention that I’m 30 and he’s 25, but our age gap has always been a non-issue. I have a stressful job and am often too tired to have sex on weeknights, so we’ve pretty much gone down to having sex once a week. He has said this devastates him. He feels like I’m not attracted to him because he always initiates, and he’s worried about our future sex life. I used to deny there was a problem and assure him, “No, we’re fine, I’m just tired,” etc.

But I admit it’s a problem. I’ve had more than a few uncomfortable “maintenance sex” sessions wherein I sex him to make him happy, and then I wind up mad at myself for being a faker and feel resentful toward him for being so horny. I’ve recently been coming to the conclusion that he’s right: it will be bad for our future if our sexual needs are so different. Yet I don’t want to let him go be-

cause of this. I love him madly. I’m also a CUDDLE ADDICT. In my fantasy world, we cuddle all the time, we have amazing sex only when we’re worked up, and my vibrator takes care of me more often than his cock (this is already the case generally). But I don’t view this lack of sex as a negative thing. I just don’t make sex as much of a priority as he does. I could see looking the other way if he needs to get his sexual needs met by someone else or with a professional, but it makes me nervous, mostly because I’d be devastated if he fell in love with someone else. I’m not polyamorous, as so many Seattleites are, but I’m open-minded.

Sexual Needs Undermining Good Girl’s Loving Expectations Barring a medical issue or a common­sense issue – get your hormone levels checked, try to incorporate your vibrator into the sex you’re having with your boyfriend, ponder the possibility that you fall somewhere on the asexual spectrum and perhaps marrying a sexual isn’t the greatest idea (particularly if you can’t see yourself opening up the rela­ tionship) – this sounds like just another aver­ age, ordinary case of mismatched libidos. My advice: break up now, before you have chil­ dren, before his feelings of rejection (already at devastating levels) and your feelings of resentment (at having to go through the motions) metastasize into an explosive case of mutual loathing.

times were in the year after the pregnancy, then once on Valentine’s Day last year and again last night after seeing HUMP! We’ve been in couples counselling for six weeks, and therapy laid a foundation for becoming intimate again. But things have been so awkward for so long that it just seemed impossible. But something clicked for us at HUMP! It’s like we both seemed to realize that people have sex in all shapes and sizes and methods and that you can dive in. At a certain point, you just have to dive right in.

You have always been a sex-positive force in my life – thanks for the reminder and bringing SF some excellent entertainment!

SF HUMP!er Thanks for the lovely note, SFH, and I’m thrilled HUMP! provided you and your boy­ friend with the goose/spark/inspiration you needed to dive back in. But you two did the heavy lifting – getting counselling, hanging in there, keeping those lines of communica­ tion open – and you two deserve the credit, not my silly little porn festival. Now keep

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