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Re Linda McQuaig’s Would You Trust A Secret Police Force To This Man? (NOW, March 5-11). I’m the guy Warren Hart criminalized. [Hart was a black FBI agent recruited by the RCMP to spy on black and First Nations groups in Canada in the 1970s.] I’m the one that gave him a truckload of military weapons used to set up native radicals out west. I’m the one who robbed banks and other institutions on the orders of Hart. I’m the one whose gun was used in a robbery shootout that netted me my first adult prison sentence. I was only 17. I’m the former leader of Toronto’s Dirty Tricks Gang. Hart created that gang, and I’m still living with the negative consequences.

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Linda McQuaig’s article recognizes that Stephen Harper has been reorganizing the RCMP into “his own private secret police force,” one that will rule without any oversight. History repeats itself, and the current hullabaloo over terrorists is just another version of the Crusades. Why would we be surprised if the RCMP became the Brownshirts of this century?

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Conservative leader Stephen Harper is anything but conservative.

He appropriated the name to mislead Canadians when he made the deal with Progressive Conservative (sellout) Peter MacKay, a glib character who is currently minister of justice. Harper does not conserve. He dismantles and perverts democracy like none before him, at least in my lifetime, and I’m 70-plus.

Canadians have snoozed with great conviction and allowed Harper to render Canada a warmonger state that defecates on peace. He hates science.

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Why minorities aren’t supporting theatre

Kudos to actor Joseph Recinos for writing about the mostly Caucasian hue of Canadian theatre (NOW, March 5-11).

It’s more than lack of minority actors that’s the problem. As Recinos points out, it’s mostly white directors and producers “imposing their limited vision.” Just don’t expect this diverse society to support stories that make minorities invisible.

What about future generations?

If you’re a minority with a dream, don’t bother in Canada. The drama programs are ethnically challenged.

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Asian Caesar to turn Stratford on its head!

The sentiments expressed by Joseph Recinos about the minority deficit in theatre are germane, but let’s have some perspective here. The theatregoing public for the most part is an economically comfortable segment of society who, as do minority audiences, like to see people looking like them onstage. An Asian Julius Caesar would certainly turn Stratford on its head!

Except for ethnic-themed productions, minority audiences are usually, well, in the minority. Perhaps if that audience segment grew, producers

would be compelled to feature more ethnic actors in leading roles.

But while the stage may lack lead­ ing roles for minorities, some of the hottest shows on television feature strong minority leads. Perhaps stage has a bit of catching up to do, but it is not all gloomy.

Dan Hamm From nowtoronto.com

The myth of a Sun News revolution

According to former Sun News staffer Chris Kayaniotes, the most important story Sun News pushed was to its own staff that they were part of some “brash and at times ballsy revolution­ ary movement” (NOW, March 8). Sun News had a right to exist (and to com­ pete, and to fail), but this kind of mythmaking sounds like the oppo­ site of actual journalism.

Ian MacIntyre From nowtoronto.com

Landlord tribunals a factor in homelessness

Your recent article by Bernie Farber on homelessness (NOW, February 12­ 18) barely scratches the surface.

Many low­income people are forced against their will onto the street by adjudicators at the Landlord and Ten­ ant Board. The monstrous, unholy al­ liance between the board and Toronto Community Housing has caused se­ vere illness in many vulnerable peo­ ple.

Those who have been made home­ less cannot adequately look after themselves. They don’t have a stove to cook meals on. They don’t have their own bathtub to bathe in or bed to sleep in.

It must be remembered that home­ less shelters are not housing. These places of refuge are far from pleasant or healthy.

Rick Davies Toronto 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.

Tory’s first budget causes stink City council passed key parts of Mayor John Tory’s first budget on Tuesday, March 10, at a meeting that featured a protest and a bag of dog poop. The highlights: TAX RATE SHELL GAME 2.25 per cent Residential property tax increase approved by council, but the impact on the average resident will be more than the rate of inflation promised by Tory during the election when you add in the .5 per cent Scarborough subway levy. $83.19 Increase for the average household.

But there’s more. The 2015 budget also raised the cost of TTC tokens by 10 cents and monthly Metropasses by $7.75, and increased garbage collection fees by 58 per cent.

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ON SHAKY GROUND In his speech introducing his first budget as mayor, Tory repeated a line he used when he gave an informal state-of-the-city shortly after taking office. He said the document “achieves a balance between respect for the taxpayers” and making “historic investments in the city,” pointing to $39 million for better TTC service and $25 million in new funding for social development and antipoverty initiatives.

But some councillors warned that Tory’s move to borrow from reserves to plug an $86 million hole left by the province’s withdrawal of social housing supports could leave the city facing shortfalls of $305 million and $276 million in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

OCAP CRASHES TORY’S PARTY Tuesday’s meeting began with a bang when a small group with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty dis-

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Interesting conspiracy theory about that: Canada’s spy agency ordered postal workers to allow the incendiary package through.

Five take-aways from the National Security Agency whistle-blower’s Canadian Journalists for Free Expression video address at Ryerson on March 4.

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2. “Canadian intelligence agencies have some of the weakest oversight in the first world, and Bill C-51 [the Harper government’s anti-terror legislation] would only serve to shroud more of these operations in secrecy.”

3. More data, more problems. “When you collect everything about everybody, you don’t really understand any of it.”

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BILLIONAIRE KOCH BROTHERS CUT HUGE SWATH THROUGH TAR SANDS The extent of their holdings in the Alberta tar sands has long been rumoured, but now we have a map to prove just how much sway the U.S. billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, hold over deposits in Stephen Harper’s Alberta backyard.

A map released by the San Franciscobased International Forum on Globalization (IFG) last week offers KOCH controlled up the dirty Tar sands details: leases on more of the Alberta tar sands, some 890,000 hectares (2 million acres), than oil and gas giants Exxon, Chevron and Conoco combined. What role the Koch’s enormous stake in the tar sands is playing in U.S. approval of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, not to mention Ottawa’s oil sands fever, is the big question.

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unday was International Women’s Day, and all I got from Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a lousy media release.

Oh yeah, there was also the itwould-be-funny-if-it-weren’t-soblatantly-opportunistic tweet from Defence Minister Jason Kenney, who insinuated, complete with photos of Muslim women in chains, that ISIS would “enslave” all us ladies as soon as the terrorist menace reached our shores. That means “Be afraid, very afraid,” and don’t pay attention to that loss of civil rights hiding behind the curtain of the so-called anti-terrorism bill. Turns out the photos were from ceremonial processions symbolizing the prophet Mohammed’s granddaughter, who was taken in chains to Damascus after her brother Hussein was beheaded.

But I digress, not unlike the Harper government is doing, playing the fear card while good jobs and social programs do a disappearing act.

In his slickly crafted Women’s Day missive, Harper touts his initiatives to “ensure safer communities for Canadian women and their families.”

Among them the Protection Of Communities And Exploited Persons Act, which basically strips sex workers of their constitutional right to safety and security, and the Zero Tolerance For Barbaric Cultural Practices Act aimed at polygamy, but really a notso-veiled slam against Muslims and “brown people.” Like the brown people who, according to Conservative MP John Williamson’s remarks at the Manning Centre Networking Conference on the current state of conservatism in Ottawa on the weekend, come to Canada to steal work from “whities” who get paid to “stay home.”

You know, paid to stay home like single welfare mothers, the preferred target of Mike Harris’s “Common Sense Revolution” in 1990s Ontario, the common sense that gave us the Walkerton E. coli tragedy that killed seven and the death during a record-breaking heat wave of the pregnant Kimberly Rogers, under house arrest for welfare fraud.

It’s no coincidence that many in the Harper government were also in the Harris crew – or that Williamson, at the Manning Centre hoedown, referred to the Common Sense Revolution to describe the HarperCons’ 2015 campaign strategy. None of which bodes well for women.

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Not that this will surprise those who have tracked this government’s record on women’s equality since Harper first came to power in 2006.

Among its many hits on women was the shutdown of 12 out of 16 Status of Women offices and the entire Court Challenges program, which helped women (as well as members of the LGBT community and those facing physical and mental challenges) fight for their constitutional rights. At the time, Harper referred to those as “left-wing fringe groups.”

The irony is that, both in his International Women’s Day statement and on the Status of Women government website, the emphasis is on “increasing women’s economic security and prosperity” and “highlight[ing] the vital contributions that women make to the domestic and global economy.”

This could explain why Status of Women Minister Kellie Leitch, whose theme of the day was “improving economic opportunities for all,” chose to mark

Status of women minister marked IWD at “MOMpreneurs” conference on juggling business, babies and blogging.

it at a “MOMpreneurs” conference where women could learn to, among other things, “juggle business, babies and blogging.”

“When women succeed, Canada succeeds,” says Leitch, who is, conveniently, also labour minister. “I’m sure we all agree that Canada is far better off when the talents and skills of women are fully represented throughout our economy – from corporate boardrooms and small businesses to technical professions and skilled trades.”

Sure is hard to believe that the Conservative government agrees to that.

Consider that one of the first acts of the Harper governments was, at a time of a $13 billion surplus, to reject a Liberal childcare program that took years to craft and negotiate and would have created childcare spaces and allowed women to fully participate in the workforce. Instead, the Conservatives’ gave families a taxable $100 per month for children under the age of six that barely covers the bus fare to childcare.

And yet this is a

government that claims to be all about the babies. Or so it seems. Not just because of the frequent votes on private members’ bills, all aimed at limiting women’s reproductive choices, but also because almost everything it does is about encouraging women to spawn. Problem is, it doesn’t give them the support to do so. Instead, it wants women to be dependent on men.

This would explain the recently introduced income splitting scheme that would really only benefit the top 5 per cent of couples. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the average benefit for the bottom 60 per cent of couples earning $56,000 or less would be just $175, while the richest 5 per cent would receive an average benefit of $3,100.

Needless to say, income splitting is great only for those with one highearning partner – usually a man – while the other partner, usually a woman, tends to work part-time, or not at all. This while federal and provincial revenues are reduced by income splitting by an estimated $11.9 billion.

But as one speaker said at the Manning conference, “Can we really be encouraging some of our most intelligent women to have a career instead of having children without paying a price for that?”

What else should we expect from a government whose justice minister burbles on about diaper changes, packing lunches and taking care of aged loved ones, as Peter MacKay did on Mother’s Day? Not that the Harper government cares about “women’s work.” Recall that the only question to get cut when the mandatory long-form census became optional was about unpaid household chores and caregiving, which are performed overwhelmingly by women. The Harper government simply doesn’t want to know. And it doesn’t want women to know either.

This is all tragically encapsulated in its much-touted maternal health policy, which applies not to women here – say, on impoverished reserves – but in foreign lands.

At his lavish and heavily secured three-day Saving Every Woman, Every Child: Within Arm’s Reach Summit in May, Harper held forth on promoting women’s rights without ever once mentioning contraception or how essential it is to maternal health. You can’t be feeding and caring for healthy babies if you keep having another one every year – assuming you survive your pregnancy and labour.

But the PM seems not to care at all, as long as policy plays well to the base, which wants more babies for Jesus. But once they’re born, they’re on their own.

So, yeah, thanks for the media release, Mr. Prime Minister. It’s quite the love letter to Canada’s women. 3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson entered with swarming media in tow, cameras flashing and questions flying as members of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security took their seats.

He was releasing, on live TV, the 55-second cellphone video made by Parliament Hill shooter Michael ZehafBibeau – a showcase that benefited from a months-long free publicity campaign.

Paulson’s performance was Hollywood-inspired, his presentation peppered with blockbuster sound bites, including that Zehaf-Bibeau “stormed the grounds of this Parliament” (a term

Why now, in the midst of debate over anti-terror Bill C-51, is the RCMP sharing evidence? usually reserved for the massed hordes, not one disturbed individual).

And, in a self-conscious reference to the RCMP’s decision to release the video after holding onto it for over four months, “If not us, then who?”

More significantly, Paulson also noted that this was an extraordinary moment because the “RCMP is not, nor should we be, in the habit of publicly discussing evidence or evidence collection during an active investigation.” But release information the RCMP did, including the fact that it had been in touch with hundreds of potential witnesses and have enough information, had he lived, to charge Zehaf-

Bibeau with terror-related offences.

But the question of whether he was linked to any organized terror group has not been settled, Paulson said.

Then why now, in the midst of a contentious debate over new anti-terrorism legislation (Bill C-51), was Paulson sharing with the nation such evidence, which he conceded “could be seen as seeking to influence that process”? Indeed, Paulson’s Hamlet-like indecision over whether the video should ever be seen has been a media obsession since he first announced its existence last October. Since then, debate has raged over whether Zehaf-Bibeau’s acts were “terrorist” or, as his mother wrote, the “last desperate act” of a mentally ill young man.

Because Zehaf-Bibeau mentioned in the video that his acts were retaliation for Canadian wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Paulson said he believes the young man was a terrorist, though he also conceded that judgment of the video’s contents “can only ultimately be decided by a court having jurisdiction to weigh and assess it.”

The language is crucial as C-51 supporters seek to pile on the “Canada under attack” narrative crucial to the bill’s acceptance and the Conservatives’ re-election campaign. Ramping up the threat of terrorism will also influence Parliamentarians about to consider an election budget next month and the RCMP’s own dreams of increased funding.

Paulson underscored his melodramatic description of the Zehaf-Bibeau probe – “I have not seen a tempo and a pace of operations like this” – by telling the committee that he has doubled his complement of anti-terrorism officers to 600, 130 of them investigating leads in this single case.

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By CATHERINE NASMITH government to continue The government is trying to the ramrights this law infringing upon of through parliament in record time. dreamt recently that I was on How hard would it be for no to of places like King Street’s restaurant peaceful people.” a streetcar travelling through mean no? row or Kensington Market, where “This bill disproportionately targets indigenous communities, of demolition rubble, If thrift were a fundamental value entrepreneurs and small businesses On March 14, people will and Muslims, manypiles environmental activists, dissidents, of whom Don’t Let Stephan Harper’s through in our society, we’d never have to talk can own property and operate ingather together in are already subjected to questionable and overreaching powers bya completely unTerror Bill Destroy Our Rights recognizable about heritage preservation. We’d dependent of chain retail or unafsecurity officials.

This bill will Canada make it easier and ostensibly lawful for landscape. Ancommunities across Don’t Let Stephan Harper’s governmentfortoan continue infringing people.” other night I woke up fearing just keep and repair what we have, fordable newly developed retail space. emergency day ofupon the rights of peaceful Terror Bill Destroy Our Rights the whole city was going to end up making additions or building new The issues are similar to the tenaction to stop Harper’s March 14, “secret people will gather across like the ludicrous tower going up at buildings in other places. Instead, we sions between fast and slow food, police” law.together in communities A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO STOP On C-51 Canada for an emergency day of action to stop Harper’s “secret police” Yonge and Bloor.

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for Heritage Conservation Districts were put forward for study in 2015-16 (Baby Point, Bloor West Village, Cabbagetown Southwest, the Distillery District, Kensington Market and the Kingsway.)

All three of those issues reflect a city hoping to preserve much more, and much faster. The report talks about the challenges of getting buildings on the Inventory of Heritage Properties, and the frustration of volunteers willing to help but unable to penetrate the system.

It also speaks to the lack of municipal resources dedicated to the enormous task at hand, but applauds the addition of more than 5,000 properties to the inventory between 2006 and 2014.

Finally, it points to Heritage Conservation Districts as an important way forward, and applauds ongoing efforts and a budget request to support the work.

Prior to amalgamation, only four

HCD’s were in place: Fort York, Draper Street, Wychwood Park and the East Annex.

Between 2001 and 2009, the city experienced a rapid increase in HCD implementation, adopting 15: four in Cabbagetown, two in Harbord Village, as well as Blythwood Road, Kingswood Road South, Lyall Avenue, North Rosedale, South Rosedale, Queen Street West, Riverdale, Union Station, Weston and Yorkville-Hazelton. Many of these designations were achieved by volunteer research with support from a heritage consultant, at relatively modest cost.

I was involved in four of these projects as the heritage architect, and

found that these community-driven plans and studies built an extraordinary neighbour-to-neighbour commitment to preservation and succeeded in achieving their goals. For example, Harbord Village Phase I’s study and plan were completed in one year, start to finish, and have stood uncontested for 10 years now.

In spite of its successes, however, Toronto has pretty much abandoned this approach. In the name of standardizing the process, HCD implementation was suspended while the city developed a consolidated policy on the preparation of HCDs that was issued in March 2012. This document added many new requirements for studies and plans, in excess of what’s required by the Ontario Heritage Act, and has made implementing HCDs far more expensive, requiring much larger professional teams and leaving little room for meaningful community involvement.

In their effort to ensure that all

listing, designation, HCD studies and plans can stand up to the tests put to them at the OMB by developers, city staff have made the process more complex and resource-intensive. It’s a Catch-22.

It will take more than improvements in heritage administration to preserve all that is valued in Toronto.

Losses happen because the province’s planning and building development system is stacked against old buildings.

Municipal councils can say no to the demolition of old buildings, but here’s the rub: those decisions can be overruled by the OMB. We have a long way to go to save even the “special” buildings, let alone the ordinary fabric that makes Toronto such a vibrant place to live. 3 Catherine Nasmith is a heritage architect, president of the Toronto Branch of Architectural Conservancy Ontario and represents the province on Heritage Canada The National Trust. She lives and practises in Kensington Market and publishes the online journal Built Heritage News. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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PAN AM GAMES TORCHED ANTI-POVERTY ACTIVISTS DECRY SPENDING ON GAMES SPECTACLE WHILE CITY FACES HOMESLESSNESS CRISIS By ZACH RUITER

Calling for “shelters, not spectacles” and “communities, not circuses,” the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) held a march on Monday, March 9. About 50 demonstrators with torches, lanterns and other lights gathered at Parliament and Gerrard and illuminated a bridge over the Don Valley to protest the province’s Pan Am Games expenditures while the city deals with a crisis in shelter and affordable housing.

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If you look historically at these large-scale international sporting events, they are often used as an excuse to advance gentrification. With regard to Toronto and Pan Am, you’ve got 7,000 athletes and 3,300 units of athletes’ housing, and a commitment to 10 per cent of that being affordable housing once the Games are done.

OCAP has been fighting for a 24-hour women and trans drop-in space. We’ve been fighting to get the city to honour its commitment to keep shelter occupancy rates below 90 per cent, and the city hasn’t moved. It’s been able to cry poor. It’s been able to talk about other priorities. It’s so galling.”

PAT FIFIELD, harm reduction worker

The scam is that the small amount of social housing we’re going to get in the former dock lands is so small compared to total expenditure [on the Games], developers are going to be the biggest winners. The city has just forgotten about the homeless population and the working poor of this neighbourhood.

Where are we putting all these people who are moving out of Regent Park?

For a while they didn’t even want us to swim in the new pool; they wanted to charge fees. The pool was for the condo people and wasn’t for the people already living there. The city paid for it, so everyone should have use of it. The billions they spent on these Games could have gone into maintaining the pools for the children of this city. We had 23 pools that needed $1.7 million a few years ago that they would not fund.”

BRIAN DUBOURDIEU, an Armed Forces retiree who has used Toronto’s shelter services on and off for the last 20 years

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I don’t think anybody is arguing against sport or team spirit, but that’s how it will be spun. Our message is about engaging people. Sport does a lot of good things for people, but Pan Am is creating a spectacle as opposed to putting money where it actually belongs.”

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Pan Am is going to put downtown people at a disadvantage.

Landlords will be kicking people out so they can rent for the Games. They want to get paid.”

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You are going to see a security operation, and there will definitely be an attempt to clear poor people and marginalized people off the street, getting rid of graffiti and turning the city into a photo op instead of a place where people live.”

LESLEY WOOD, York University sociology professor and author of Crisis And Control: The Militarization Of Protest Policing

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A lot of First Nations people and people on George Street are going to be displaced because of the Pan Am Games. They might not be allowed into the neighbourhoods unless they have a card.”

SIGRID KNEVE, Mohawk activist, Downtown East Women

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$1.4 billion Pan Am Games’ project budget $500 million Province’s contribution. Another $500 million is being contributed by the feds. $239 million Estimated cost of security $86 million City of Toronto’s contribution, most of which is being picked up by the province and feds.

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Toronto maintains a progressive veneer, [but] council is generally supportive of the agenda of urban upscale development and offers no alternative to austerity. To say nice, soothing, progressive things is all well and good, but our communities are under attack.”

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was why so many officers are working full-time to try to prove there was a network of support for a man so out of touch and indigent that he had to combine hitchhiking and Greyhound rides to get from Vancouver to Ottawa, and stay at a shelter when he arrived in the capital.

While Paulson resisted the temptation to comment on C-51, he did remark that played into the hands of the bill’s supporters. In discussing the RCMP’s attempts in February to preventively arrest and detain a Montreal kickboxer on a “terrorist peace bond,” he expressed frustration that the case had been put off for a month so the young man’s lawyer could, as

per standard practice, go over the allegations and prepare a response.

Without exactly saying the Mounties are the victim of what other agencies have called “judicial jihad,” he ominously warned, “We need to rethink, in this country, how we manage the courts, frankly.”

Indeed, Paulson certainly cannot be pleased that on March 13 the Federal Court will take up the long-running saga of three Canadians tortured overseas with RCMP and CSIS complicity.

New documents to be tabled in the lawsuit of Ottawa’s Abdullah Almalki and Toronto’s Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin indicate that while the RCMP concluded in 2001 that Almalki posed no threat whatsoever – and was described by the Mounties as nothing more than “an Arab running around” – the same RCMP almost simultaneously issued an international bulletin describing him as an imminent threat to national security, sharing his travel plans with

foreign partners with the intention, his lawyers argue, of having a third country “arrange for or assist in his detention before he could return to Canada.” That country turned out to be Syria, and the RCMP is being sued, in part, for sending questions to Almalki’s Syrian torturers.

Meantime, in a manner that mirrors ISIS’s media strategy, the Tories continue polluting the Twittersphere and Facebook feeds with images and quotations (see the recent ISIS shoutout to the West Edmonton Mall and Defence Minister Jason Kenney’s tweets wrongfully describing Shia Muslim women involved in a ceremonial procession as ISIS slaves) advancing the Canada-at-war narrative to raise money for the Conservatives’ re-election bid, with Zihaf-Bibeau’s 55 seconds bolstering the government’s video artillery.

3 Matthew Behrens is a freelance writer and social justice advocate who has worked closely with the targets of Canadian and U.S. national security profiling for many years. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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muSic maTTerS Live music, cover bands playing 70s, 80s and 90s music, costume contest and prizes benefit Musicounts and Humber College. Doors 7 pm. $25, adv $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. facebook.com/ MusicMatters2015. pubbed & uNplugged Metalworks Institute students night of acoustic music and raffles benefits MusiCounts. 8 pm. $3. Coopers Pub, 780 Burnhamthorpe W. metalworksevents@ gmail.com.

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Jennifer Phillips combines excerpts from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues with excerpts from her play, The F Word in this show. Runs to Mar 15 see website for times. $16-$26 (proceeds support the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, U of T and Nellie’s Shelter). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com/events.

Events

chaNge yOur braiN, chaNge yOur reSulTS

Talk by Brain Fitness expert Jill Hewlett on developing new skills and altering behaviour.

7-8:30 pm. Free. Rm 212. The Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. thebigcarrot.ca.

ciTizeNShip educaTiON meNTOriNg circle

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

Free. Burrows Hall Library, 1081 Progress. 416588-6288 ext 231, culturelink.ca/citizenship. cOhabiTaTiON STraTegieS Lucia Babina and Miguel Robles-Durán discuss transformative urban-intervention projects with moderator Yan Wu. 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $8. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond W #124. prefix.ca. cOmmuNiTy QuilT grOup Learning and sharing get-together. 6-8 pm. All welcome. Free.

Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. rdigiplaySpace Interactive adventure with new-media exhibits from around the world including learning-centric games and handson activities. Mar 7-Apr 19. $10. TIFF Bell Light-

festivals • expos • sports etc.

listings index Live music Art galleries Theatre

Festivals this week

The T.O. ShOrT Film FeSTival Shorts films from local, Canadian and global filmmakers.

6:15 and 7:45 pm each night. $5. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontoshort.com.

Mar 16 to 20

continuing

NaTiONal eNgiNeeriNg mONTh Robotics

competitions, interactive games, lectures and displays promote the wonders of engineering and technology for all ages and backgrounds. See website for details. Various venues. nemontario.ca/events.

To Mar 31 New ideaS FeSTival Alumnae Theatre’s annual showcase of new writing, works-inprogress and experimental theatre features works by Tabitha Keast, DJ Sylvis, Catherine Frid, Rose Napoli and others. Opens Mar 11 box, 350 King W. tiff.net/kids. 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.

FOrbiddeN FruiT: a brieF hiSTOry OF liTerary

ceNSOrShip Pearce Carefoote offers a historical overview from the Renaissance to the present day. 2-3:15 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. 416-393-7657. iNveSTigaTiNg regulaTOry chill Dayna Nadine Scott and Gus Van Harten discuss constraints on regulatory decision-making to protect the environment and public health. 4:10 pm. Free. Rm 179. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. environment.utoronto.ca. leT’S Talk: arTS, culTure aNd The FuTure OF The cbc Discussion with MPs Adam Vaughan

and Chrystia Freeland. 7 pm. Free. RSVP. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. chrystiafreeland.ca. receSS Community open house with live music, artist talks, exhibits, performances, an arts market, and food and drink. 4:30-10 pm.

Free. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. artscapeyoungplace.ca. reverb JaNe FiNch Spoken word poetry and open mic with MC Jordon Veira and emerging artists. 6-8 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-736-2100 ext 88608.

The Summer/auTumN gardeN Professor Bill Andrews talks about how to achieve beauty, diversity and low maintenance in your garden.

7:30 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. lambtonhouse.org.

TOOlS FOr iNNer peace Guided meditation session. Thursdays at 11 am. $10. Ankh Yoga, 2017 Danforth Ave. 647-223-3662.

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Dance Comedy Readings

Tabitha​Keast’s​ Inheritance​goes​ up​at​New​ Ideas​Fest.

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.

To Mar 29 rSugarbuSh maple Syrup FeSTival Tap into nature with demonstrations, wagon rides, entertainment, pancakes with maple syrup and more. $6.50-$10. Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley. 416-667-6295, maplesyrupfest.com.

To Apr 6 TOrONTO SkeTch cOmedy FeSTival Massive sketch comedy showcase featuring Pajama Men, Allana Reoch, Falcon Powder, 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.

To Mar 15

walk FOr healTh & well-beiNg Outdoor

walk, bring good shoes and a bottle of water.

1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. stevensjason0926@yahoo.com. wedgwOOd: arTiSTry aNd iNNOvaTiON The ROM’s Peter Kaellgren talks about the history of the fine china company. 7-8 pm. Free. (An identification clinic for ceramics is available from 6-6:45 pm; pre-register). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639. wOmeN’S healTh Discussion on endometriosis and women’s wellness. 6-7 pm. Free. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. 647-497-9797.

Friday, March 13

Benefits

beTS FOr peTS Charity casino night with

games, food and entertainment. 7-10:30 pm. $45 (benefits Toronto Humane Society and the Humber College Scholarship Program).

918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts, 918 Bathurst. picatic.com/BetsforPets.

The peacOck ball Peacock themed fundraiser in support of the Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women. 6:30 pm. Tickets from $75. Claireport Banquet and Conference Centre, 65 Clairport Cres. universe.com/ events/the-peacock-ball.

phOOlaN devi perFOrmaNceS & daNce FuNdraiSer Dragonfly Belly Dance, music by

Dolphin Diemer and more to raise funds to make a movie about the Indian politician/survivor. 7-9 pm, dance party with DJ Ivan Plamer from 10 pm. $25. Lolita’s Lust, 513 Danforth. gillian@phoolandevimovie.com.

SumO cycle, pOlariTy Hardcore metal, punk and pop bands perform for Project Paws Animal Rescue/Etobicoke Humane Society. 6 pm. $10, adv $8. Coalition, 349A College. facebook. com/events/824307940949735.

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Movie reviews Movie times

child under 12 free. Check website for hours.

Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes Blvd, Exhibition Place. nationalhomeshow.com.

TOrONTO SwiNg daNce SOcieTy daNce All styles of swing music. No experience or partner required. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

TreehOuSe TalkS Short talks on current topics by expert speakers. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. treehousetalks.com.

Saturday, March 14

Benefits

gNOJazz all STar cONcerT & SchOlarShip FuNdraiSer Mark Kieswetter, Lui Botos Sr,

Ross MacIntyre and a dozen professional vocalists play this benefit concert. 6-9 pm. $15. Reserve. Chalkers Pub, 247 Marlee. 416789-2531, reservations@chalkespub.com.

Events

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caNadiaN dJ ShOw Workshops, networking events, product demos and exhibits, seminars and more. Mar 13-15, see website for schedule. $40 and up. Hilton Toronto Downtown, 145 Richmond W. cdjshow.com. ciTizeNFOur Rebel Films screening and discussion featuring the Edward Snowden doc. 7 pm. $4 sugg donation. Rm 5-280. OISE, 252 Bloor W. 647-986-1917, socialistaction.ca/rebel. eXerciSe & Fall preveNTiON FOr SeNiOrS 65+

Weekly class. Bring indoor shoes & OHIP card.

3-4 pm. Free. Dixon Hall, 58 Sumach. (Also Tuesdays 1-2 pm at 188 Carlton). Pre-register.

416-847-2765.

The gem eXpO Gems, minerals, beads and jewellery. To Mar 15, Fri 11:30 am-8 pm; Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun, 10 am-5 pm. $5/day. Hyatt Regency Hotel, 370 King W. thegemexpo.com. hiddeN TaleNT caNada Show off your singing skills or just watch. To Mar 15, see website for schedule and registration info. Free. Woodbine Shopping Centre, 500 Rexdale Blvd. hiddentalentcanada.com. iNTerSecTiON/crOSS SecTiON Interdisciplinary conference for media and cultural studies students. Keynote talk by photographer Louie Palu. At Ryerson and York University. See website for details. iscs-conference.com. lONg wiNTer laTe NighT Talk ShOw Guests Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall, poet Damian Rogers, musician/historian Don Pyle, and musical performance by Overnight, with host Vish Khanna. 7 pm. $11 or pwyc. All ages event. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. torontolongwinter.com.

NaTiONal hOme ShOw & caNada blOOmS

Home and garden event with exhibits of home decor and design for inside and out. Mar 13-22. $17-$20, srs $14-$17, $14, stu $13-$16,

caNada JOb eXpO Networking, learning and employment advice for grads and job seekers of all experience levels. 11 am-3 pm. Free.

North York Memorial Hall, Concourse level of the North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. canadajobexpo.com.

The clergy prOJecT Humanist Association of Toronto presents a talk by Catherine Dunphy.

1:30 pm. Free. Room 4-414. OISE, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca.

5craFT acTiON T.O. Knitting, cross-stitch, crochet and embroidery with crafty dykes. Saturdays 2-5 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. facebook.com/dykemarchtoronto. craFTiNg SuSTaiNabiliTy cONFereNce Conference for makers, researchers, educators and students to examine the pairing of craft and sustainable practice. Topics include disposable culture, what makes a viable craft practice and more. $135, stu $55. OCAD U, 100 McCaul.

416-925-4222, Pre-register craftontario.com/ crafting-sustainability.

5FOSTeriNg eNd-OF-liFe cONverSaTiONS,

cOmmuNiTy & care FOr lgbT Older adulTS

Town-hall discussion. 3-5 pm. Free. Pre-register. 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church. lgbteol.onth@gmail.com.

FrONTruNNerS: NiigaaNibaTOwaad Screening of the film about Aboriginal runners who carried the torch to the 1967 Pan-Am Games in Winnipeg, then were denied entry into the stadium. 7:30 pm. Free. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. bloorstreetunited.org.

MrkiNg’S cOurT aT caSa lOma Games, puzzles, interactive medieval theatre, crafts, music and more. Mar 14-22, 9:30 am-5 pm daily. $27, srs/youth $21, child $17. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. casaloma.ca.

Mrmarch ‘muSemeNTS Typeset your name on the 1845 printing press, make a craft and try a cookie from the historic kitchen. MonFri, noon-4 pm, Sat-Sun to 5 pm. $3-$8. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915.

Mrmarch break Family drOp-iN Drop by for a tour the historic house and kids’ activity.

12:30-4 pm. $3-$8. Colborne Lodge, 11 Colborne Lodge. 416-392-6916.

Mrmarch maNia iN The valley Try out historic toys and parlour games, look for signs

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of spring in the Wildflower Preserve and make a unique take-home craft. Mar 14-22, 11 am-4 pm (closed Mar 16). $2-$6. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.

MrNAISA MArch BreAk FuN FAIr All-ages activities include fishing for sounds, bucket toss, recycled bowling, toonie toss, spin the wheel and other sound inspired activities. Mar 14-22, 2 pm daily, $2, family $5. NAISA Space, 601 Christie. naisa.ca.

NAtIoNAl dAy oF ActIoN AgAINSt ANtIterrorISM BIll c-51 Rally at noon, followed by

march. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. facebook.com/events/413139418861169.

oPIrg-toroNto SocIAl ANd eNvIroNMeNtAl JuStIce SyMPoSIuM Paper presentations from

student and community researchers, workshops and panels on social and environmental justice issues and campaigns. 10:30 am-6:30 pm. Free. 5th floor. OISE, 252 Bloor W. opirgtoronto.org/tracx.

PeoPle’S JourNAlISM: rePortINg uNder FIre

Journalists Sharif Kouddous and Jihan Hafiz talk about working as social justice-oriented freelancers in conflict areas, plus tributes to Ali Mustafa from those who worked with him.

7 pm. $10-$15. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. eventbrite.com/e/15484293940. rSPrINg equINox FeStIvAl Toronto-based artists, makers and designers host a festival with live music, performances, storytelling, a market, workshops, games and more for the whole family. 11 am-10 pm. $12, kids free.

Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. springequinoxfestival.eventbrite.ca. rStorIeS FroM the MIddle AgeS Storyteller Stéphanie Bénéteau tells stories of castles and knights, dragons and princesses. Mar 14 at 5 pm (costume party from 4 pm). $8-$15, kids under 7 free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.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. trANzAc clothINg SwAP Bring gently used items to swap. 1-4:30 pm. Free. Tranzac Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick. tranzac.org. voluNteer IN culture Learn about volunteering in the culture sector with orgs like Hot Docs, Cinéfranco, Jane’s Walk, Luminato and others. Presentations, volunteer marketplace and screening. 11 am. Free (RSVP). Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. tfaforms.com.

the woNder yeArS SeASoN 1 MArAthoN

Watch the whole season or just a few favourite episodes. Trivia, brunch and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. facebook.com/events/365896363616996.

Sunday, March 15

Benefits

rthere’S No PlAce lIke hoMe Screening of

The Wizard Of Oz, food, silent auction, photos with Oz characters and more benefit Humber College Scholarship Fund and Marnie’s Lounge at the Hospital for Sick Kids. 6:30-10 pm. $30, kids $15. Regent Theatre, 551 Mt Pleasant. clickyourheels.wix.com/event.

Events

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. 416-539-0234, meditationtoronto. com.

big 3

for off-reserve members and her personal struggle. 7-9 pm. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

deAth FroM lAughter, FeMAle hySterIA & eArly cINeMA Forum Critical Conversation Series lecture and discussion with Maggie Hennefeld. 7 pm. Free. Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor W. mercerunion.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.

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

Wednesday, March 18

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#REJECTFEAR #STOPC51

A coalition of 41 human rights and civil liberties groups has sounded the alarm over Anti-Terror Bill C-51 giving police too much power; dozens of lawyers have declared the bill unconstitutional; editorialists from across the political spectrum have joined the chorus of condemnation. And on Saturday (March 14), thousands are expected to take part in a National Day of Action Against C-51 at rallies and marches sponsored by Leadnow.ca, Idle No More and the Ontario Federation BeeS’ kNeeS SwINg dANce Teaser class for all ages, shapes and sizes. 2-3 pm. Free. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. beeskneesdance.com.

clIMAte & cAPItAlISM: clIMAte chANge IMPActS oN the gloBAl South ANd INAdequAte uN AgreeMeNtS Talk by Nasima Nektar, Isaac

Asume and Romain Felli. 2 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. facebook.com/ events/851535224904842.

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.

reINcArNAtIoN ANd the evolutIoN oF coNScIouSNeSS Presentation of the FIGU-Landes-

gruppe Canada. 2-4 pm. $5. Lillian H Smith Library, Meeting Rm A, 239 College. ca.figu.org. totAlly FABulouS vegAN BAke-oFF Friendly baking competition and judging/tasting.

2-4:30 pm. $10 (includes tasting). Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. bakeoff.veg.ca.

uP FroM the rootS oPeN MIc & Poetry SlAM

Hosted by Dwayne Morgan. 8 pm, $10. Harlem, 67 Richmond E. harlemrestaurant.com. world FIddle dAy PrActIce JAM Anne Lederman leads bowed string instrument players to prep for an event in May. 1-3:30 pm. Pwyc.

Long & McQuade, 925 Bloor W. 647-217-4620, worldfiddledaytoronto.wordpress.com.

Monday, March 16

Benefits

dIvAS ANd dIvoS AgAINSt dePortAtIoN: FuNdrAISer For the FIgueroA FAMIly Benefit by music theatre performers in support of Jose Figueroa, who faces deportation for being a non-violent student activist in 1980s El Salvador. 7 pm. Pwyc. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. facebook.com/events/643158405789196.

NeIl SedAkA, cANtor SIMoN SPIro Sing For

of Labour, among others. Events get under way in Toronto at Nathan Phillips Square at noon. Leadnow.ca.

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Liberal MPs Adam Vaughan and Chrystia Freeland invite the public to discuss arts, culture and the future of the CBC in a forum Thursday (March 12), at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas West. 7 pm. Free.

RSVP chrystiafreeland.ca.

The Children benefit concert for Chai Lifeline Canada. 7:30 pm. $50-$160. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. chaiconcert.com.

Events

MrArt gArAge Kids age five and create a

work of art for the Pan-Am Games. 2-3 pm.

Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. tpl.ca.

Mrdx MArch BreAk deSIgN cAMPS Fashion and design-based camps for young creators ages 6-14. 9 am-4 pm (to 5:30 pm available). $345/week. Pre-register. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. groove dANce clASS Workout class that feels like a dance party. 8-9 pm. $15. Tiger Dragon Martial Arts Centre, 945 St Clair W. differentstages.ca.

MrhArBourFroNt MArch BreAk cAMPS

Camps for ages 3-15 in dance, hip-hop, chess, digital photography, improv theatre and much more. See website for details. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734093, harbourfrontcentre.com/camps.

INtroductory MedItAtIoN clASSeS Learn three easy techniques. 7 pm. Free. College/ Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-539-0234, meditationtoronto.com.

MrMAd ScIeNce Workshops and demos for ages 5 and up. 2-3 pm. Free. S. Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. tpl.ca.

MrMArch BreAk MAke & tAke Hands-on activities for families with crafts you can take home. Mar 16-20, 1-4 pm daily. Free w/ admission.

Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. textilemuseum. ca.

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Jose Figueroa faces deportation for being a non-violent student activist in 1980s El Salvador. Now music theatre performers Mark Cassius, Alessandro Costantini, Daniel Williston and others perform to support his cause in Divas And Divos Against Deportation. Monday (March 16), 7 pm, at the Magic Oven, 347 Keele. Pwyc. 416-604-0202.

20-minute stage show. 11:30 am, 1 & 3:30 pm.

Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. ontariosciencecentre.ca. toolS For INNer PeAce Guided meditation session. Mondays at 8 pm. $10. Ankh Yoga, 2017 Danforth Ave. ankhyoga.com. toroNto SwINg dANce SocIety West Coast swing dance lessons. 7:30 pm. $70/series.

Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

MryPt MArch BreAk drAMA cAMPS Arts activities for JK to Grade 6. Call/see website for times for each age group. $190-$380. Preregister. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

Tuesday, March 17 ANIMAl rIghtS AcAdeMy lecture Lecture by

Vittoria Lion. 7-9 pm. Free. Room 256. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. animalrightsacademy.org. cAN we drAw A lINe IN the tAr SANdS? Talk

by Stephen D’Arcy on the environmental costs of the project. 1-3 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca/thoughtexchange.

dAy-to-dAy exPerIeNceS oF oNgoINg Poverty & hoMeleSSNeSS IN NortherN oNtArIo

BAck PAIN & you: exercISe Learn about exercises to prevent back pain help for low back injuries. 6-7 pm. Free. Register. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. 647-497-9797. lIvINg MedItAtIoN Course offered weekly from 7-8:30 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

MrNeM At the cN tower National Engineering Month presents interactive activities and experiments for children and families all day.

Included w/ admission. CN Tower, 301 Front W. nemontario.ca/events. thIS NucleAr Age: NucleAr eNergy’S Future Lecture with Professor John Luxat. 4-6 pm.

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

who you goNNA cAll? PArANorMAl INveS-

tIgAtorS IN SPIrItuAl horror Lecture examining the evolution of spiritual horror and paranormal investigation through films like The Haunting, Poltergeist, Paranormal Activity and others. 9:15 pm. $12-$15. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theblackmuseum.com. wINter FArMerS MArket Indoor market with local farmers. 2-6 pm. Free. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

upcoming

Thursday, March 12

Benefits

PueBlo gAlA 2015: A ScIeNce AFFAIr Tapas-

style molecular gastronomy, cocktails, a silent auction and more. 6-9 pm. $200 (benefits Pueblo Science). Pre-register. Shamba Foundation, 48 Yonge #1200. puebloscience.org.

Events

ethIoPIAN dIASPorA voluNteer SPeAker SerIeS Returned diaspora volunteers share stories

about their work in Ethiopia, plus a photo exhibit, live music and food. 6-9 pm. Free. RSVP. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. 647-4784089 ext 1, ow.ly/IpD4l.

Put AwAy your reSeArch ANd tAlk to your NeIghBour: why tAlkINg IS vItAl to BuIldINg A greeNer toroNto Seminar. 4:10 pm.

Free. Room 179. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. environment.utoronto.ca.

SyMPhoNy oF the SoIl Screening of the doc about relationships between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals. 7-8:30 pm.

Free. Rm 212. The Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. thebigcarrot.ca.

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SAvAkA yogA oPeN houSe

Live music and yoga classes to celebrate the launch of yoga programs at this space. Bring your own mat. 6-9 pm. Free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-731-3599, savakayoga.com.

MrthoMAS the tANk eNgINe & FrIeNdS Live

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Easy dressing

Is it a shirt? Is it a dress? No, it’s a shirt-dress – one of spring’s Public School shirt-dress ($630, comfiest Holt Renfrew, 50 trends.

Bloor West, 416922-2333, and others, holtrenfrew.com)

Jack by BB Dakota Hubert shirt-dress ($83, Coal Miner’s Daughter, 744 Queen West, 647381-1439, and others, coalminersdaughter.ca)

Wilfred Free Stone dress ($145, Aritzia, 220 Yonge, 416-204-1318, and others, aritzia. com)

Comrags washed linen Jan shirtdress ($270, 812 Dundas West, 416-360-7249, comrags.com)

store of the week Her Majesty’s Pleasure

556 King West, 416-546-4991, hermajestyspleasure.ca

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Beauty salons are a dime a dozen in Toronto, but few stand out. When I consider the time it takes to drag my butt outside, the perils of the TTC and all the other things I could be spending my hard-earned dollars on, I often opt to just do my nails at home. For me, the nail salon experience has always been distinctly “blah.”

Enter Her Majesty’s Pleasure, a new beauty-salon-meets-cocktail-lounge located in the Fashion House building on King West.

I was skeptical. The name alone, combined with a website that prompts visitors to call the salon’s “concierge,” seemed to cater to a high-maintenance princess type that I don’t identify with. After all, I’m still coming to terms with wearing colours that aren’t black.

I’m happy to report my preconceived notions were wrong. First, the salon is pretty without seeming to try too hard. Floor-toceiling windows flood the high-ceilinged space with natural light. The manicure bar is furnished with marble, while the pedicure area features Muskoka chairs and special lighting that makes it feel like the sun is shining down on you. I can’t begin to imagine how much money was spent on the ultramodern design, but it was worth it.

The staff are friendly, accommodating

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and not at all pretentious. There is a coat check, the importance of which cannot be overstated when you’re wearing untold layers of clothes in the winter. The services are solid and, paired with a crisp glass of Prosecco or a signature cocktail, are the perfect way to unwind (or wind up for a night out).

The prices, while not quite as cheap as your corner nail salon, are reasonable for an experience that rivals – if not exceeds – that of some high-end hotel salons around town.

Her Majesty’s Pleasure picks The owners recommend the Ultimate Manicure ($50), which they call a “50-minute pamper passport.” It includes cuticle care, rejuvenating exfoliation, polish and a hand, forearm, scalp and shoulder massage. Get a custom cocktail (the bartenders excel in giving you exactly what you want), and you’re basically in heaven. Can’t decide on a bevvy? Try a unique take on the old-fashioned ($14).

Look for The place does more than just nails.

Consider trying out the blow dry, waxing and facial services. If your hair just needs a quick refresh, you can have it dry-styled you while you get a nail treatment.

Hours Monday and Tuesday 9:30 am to 8 pm, Wednesday to Saturday 9:30 am to 10 pm, Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.

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YMC shirt-dress ($375, Gravity Pope, 1010 Queen West, 647-7485155, gravitypope. com)

So you know about hair extensions and eyelash extensions, but did you know that eyebrow extensions are now a thing? For those with not-sowell-endowed brows, this could save you from a lifetime of hopeless shadowing and penciling that never quite does the trick.

Winks Eyelash Boutique (70 Yorkville, 416-777-9465, winksboutique. com) offers the service, which lasts for two to three weeks and is surprisingly natural looking. Basically, a technician uses adhesive to attach little synthetic hairs to your existing brows and surrounding skin.

The initial $65 service includes shaping and tinting, while a fill appointment goes for $50. It’s the perfect fix for anyone whose eyebrows are still stuck in the 90s.

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The week’s news, views and sales The good kind of cold One of our favourite facials in town is the Freeze Clinic’s (808 Danforth, 647-700-5880, and other, thefreezeclinic.ca) signature treatment, which includes diamond microdermabrasion, cold laser, micro-current, oxygen infusion, a collagen mask and more. It’s like a bunch of already effective facials combined into one super-treatment that addresses a whole range of skin conditions, including stubborn winter dryness, eczema and dullness.

Curious? Take advantage of the First Timers special that offers a treatment for $175 (regularly $199) or the “Bring on the Compliments” package that includes three signature treatments for $499 (regularly $615).

Spring blooms Okay, maybe it’s not exactly spring yet, but Canada Blooms flower and garden festival will have you feeling like it is. The event takes place Friday (March 13) to March 22 at the Direct Energy Centre (100 Princes’) Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 9 pm and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. Adult tickets are $17 each and can be purchased at canadablooms.com.

While you’re there, also check out the National Home Show in the same venue. Your ticket includes both shows.

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by Rob Brezsny

ARIES Mar 21 | Apr 19 In the old

Big, beautiful eyebrows that rival those of Cara Delevingne

03 | 12

Superman comics, Mister Mxyztplk was a fiendish imp whose home was in the fifth dimension.

He sometimes sneaked over into our world to bedevil the Man of Steel with pranks. There was one sure way he could be instantly banished back to his own realm for a long time: if Superman fooled him into saying his own name backwards. You might think it would be hard to trick a magic rascal into saying “Klptzyxm” when he knew very well what the consequences would be, but Superman usually succeeded. I’d like to suggest that you have a similar power to get rid of a bugaboo that’s been bothering you, Aries. Don’t underestimate your ability to outsmart the pest.

TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 In 1637,

mathematician Pierre de Fermat declared that he had solved the “Last Theorem,” a particularly knotty mathematical problem.

Unfortunately, he never actually provided the proof that he had done so. The mystery remained.

Other math experts toiled for centuries looking for the answer.

It wasn’t until 1994, more than 350 years later, that anyone succeeded. I think you are on the verge of discovering a possible solution to one of your own longrunning riddles, Taurus. It may take a few more weeks, but you’re almost there. Can you sense that twinkle in your third eye? Keep the faith.

GEMINI May 21 | Jun 20 Your up-

coming efforts might not be flawless in all respects, but I suspect you will triumph anyway.

You may not even be completely sure of what you want, but I bet you’ll get a reward you didn’t know you were looking for.

Cagey innocence and high expectations will be your secret weapons. Dumb luck and crazy coincidences will be your X-factors. Here’s one of your main tasks: as the unreasonable blessings flow in your direction, don’t disrupt or obstruct the flow.

CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only 2 inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian.

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22 In 1961,

19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To ac-

company his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica.

By 1963 his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock and roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you stay as you are?

VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22 “Whoever

travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.”

That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an adviser, teacher or role model.

LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22 There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation.

As I see it, you have two choices.

If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be?

SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21 I have

taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anaïs Nin, I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller.

Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise.

The insatiable delight of constant change.”

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21

One of your important assignments in the coming week is to

get high without the use of drugs and alcohol. Let me elaborate. In my oracular opinion, you simply must escape the numbing trance of the daily rhythm. Experiencing altered states of awareness will provide you with crucial benefits.

At the same time, you can’t afford to risk hurting yourself, and it’s essential to avoid stupidly excessive behaviour that has negative repercussions. So what do you think? Do you have any methods to get sozzled and squiffed or jiggled and jingled that will also keep you sane and healthy?

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19 Singer Gloria Gaynor recorded the song I Will Survive in 1978. It sold over 2 million copies and ultimately became an iconic disco anthem. And yet it was originally the B-side of Substitute, the song that Gaynor’s record company released as her main offering.

Luckily, radio DJs ignored Substitute and played the hell out of I Will Survive, making it a global hit. I foresee the possibility of a similar development for you, Capricorn. What you currently consider to be secondary should perhaps be primary. A gift or creation or skill you think is less important could turn out to be preeminent.

AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18 I’m

tempted to furrow my brow and raise my voice as I tell you to please please please go out and do the dicey task you’ve been postponing. But that would just be a way to vent my frustration, and probably not helpful or constructive for you. So here’s my wiser advice: to prepare for that dicey task, lock yourself in your sanctuary until you figure out what you first need to change about yourself before you can accomplish the dicey task. I think that once you make the inner shift, doing the deed will be pretty easy.

PISCES Feb 19| Mar 20 In the fairy

tale The Ugly Duckling, the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.

Homework: If you could be any other sign besides the one you actually are, what would it be, and why? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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ecoholic SLEEP ON IT: THE MATTRESS GUIDE When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

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DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME PUTTING A DENT IN YOUR SLEEP? THE SLAB YOU’RE COPPING YOUR Z’S ON MAY BE PUTTING A BIGGER HOLE IN THE ENVIRONMENT. WHAT’S UNDER YOUR SHEETS?

ecoholic pick

TEMPUR-PEDIC

SEALY/SIMMONS/SERTA

IKEA LATEX

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SLEEPTEK/OBASAN

No matter how comfortable these claim to be, there’s nothing particular comforting about tempurpedic’s assurance that weeks of offgassing odours are perfectly “normal” for its memory foam mattresses. tempur-pedic is one of the rare mainstream mattress brands that isn’t certified by Certipur-us, an industry body that tests polyurethane foam for basic volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde, as well as heavy metals and certain flame retardants. A class action launched in California in 2013 argues that tempur-pedic (now owned by sealy) misled consumers about being formaldehyde-free and should be warning the public about potential allergic reactions.

SCORE: N

the conventional mattress kings have undoubtedly improved over the years. still made from polyurethane foam with a slurry of petrochems, their products are now wrapped in flame-retardant barrier fabrics in lieu of flame retardants added to the foam. Like most mattress makers, they get their foams certified by industry-run Certipur-us and use recycled steel springs. they all claim their wood is certified sustainable: simmons and sealy by the greenwashy sustainable Forestry Initiative, serta’s by respected Forest stewardship Council. Don’t expect much natural content. sealy’s latex is 100 per cent petroleum-based, rather than from rubber trees. Its premium stearns and Foster line may “infuse” a little silk into covers and wool into toppers, but the insides are still petro foams and gels.

SCORE: NN

If you want a more natural mattress but are tight on cash, Ikea may be the place for you. Just don’t assume “latex” beds are “all natural.” You’ve got to read the fine print. (thankfully, Ikea is more transparent than most about ingredients.) Its Myrbacka latex mattress combines synthetic latex with polyester wadding, polyurethane foam and some lamb’s wool. the sultan Heggedal, on the flip side, is one of the company’s most natural (and comfortable) options. Its latex is 85 per cent natural, and the wadding is made of wool, cornbased pLA (a biodegradable plantbased polyester) and coconut-husk coir.

It’s wrapped in a blend of conventional cotton, tree-pulp-derived lyocell and flaxy linen. If you prefer a spring-free mattress, Morgongåva is made with a similar latex blend and has a wool topper and 100 per cent cotton ticking.

Ikea beds are always flame-retardantfree and made in the u.s. or Mexico. It does internal voC testing but does not have third-party voC certification.

SCORE: NNN

this celeb-endorsed, Montreal-made brand calls itself the “only natural memory foam” and the “perfect organic mattress,” but it’s gotten in trouble in the past for “padding its claims.” the outer covering and compressed base are made of organic cotton, yes, and the inner rubber core may be Euro-latex- and oeko-tex-certified to be low emissions, but the “natural” latex memory foam part is a bit murky and lacking certification. In late 2013, the Federal trade Commission barred Essentia from claiming its mattresses are voC- and chemical-free and “made with 100% natural materials.” Essentia now lists all the ingredients at myessentia/learn/the-ickytruth, though it says chems like styrenebutadiene and liphenyl diisocyanate are also found in other natural latex products. the company posts lab testing that shows it’s all ultra-low-voC. However, it would be great to see third-party seals for mattresses as a whole (without it we’re dropping an N). these athlete-endorsed beds are wool-free and get their flame retardancy from kevlar.

SCORE: NNN

Looking for deep, worry-free sleep for you and/or your little ones? Amongst your greenest bets is an all-natural mattress crafted from certified-organic rubber, topped with organic naturally flame-retardant wool padding (or puddle pads for kids) and wrapped in certified-organic cotton. ottawa’s sleeptek (maker of obasan, Greensleep, Dormio and soma’s in-house mattresses) specializes in just that. Its comfy beds are certified by Germany’s eco-INstItut (with top standards for voCs, heavy metals and flame retardants).

You can score some through soma sleep (its North York showroom carries multiple brands), Dormio, Grassroots, Ecoexistence, or see sleeptek.ca. ohio’s Naturepedic offers some similar options with Americangrown cotton, though its wool-free kids beds are waterproofed with polyethylene plastic and fireproofed with baking soda and silica gel. Hardcore locavores can opt out of tropical latex and get an entirely American-grown 100 per cent wool futon by shepherd’s Dream (shepherdsdream. ca), but latex beds tend to be better performers.

SCORE: NNNNN

nature notes 3M DITCHES FOREST CERTIFIER LICKETY-SPLIT take note: 3M products, including post-It Notes, will no longer be made with questionably sourced trees. 3M announced last week that it’s ditching its paper certifier, putting its main supplier on notice and bringing in tough new sustainability policies.

Forest Ethics had been actively dogging 3M at board meetings and spearheading consumer petitions against the office supply company for a couple of years. But it was after Forest Ethics flew a banner over a major league baseball game in the company’s home town of Minneapolis last summer that 3M called the enviro group to arrange a truce.

On March 5, the former foes joint-

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ly announced that 3M has officially ditched the Sustainable Forestry Initiative label and put its paper supplier, Quebec’s Resolute Forest Products, “on notice” over its logging of caribou habitat and fractured relationship with First Nations.

The Post-It king has vowed to ensure that none of its wood fibre comes from threatened forests and that indigenous and local communities are granted free, prior and informed consent before logging occurs. 3M is also going to boost its use of recycled paper.

HERSHEY’S KISSES GMOs GOODBYE

Just days after Nestlé usA pledged to ditch artificial colours and flavours, Hershey’s announced it would be cleaning house, too. the chocolate maker is promising a transition to “simple ingredients” that are “easy to understand.” that means no more polyglycerol polyricinoleate (that’s an emulsifier, by the way), high-fructose corn syrup or genetically modified sugar and soy lecithin.

A few key high-profile products, namely Hershey’s Kisses and Hershey’s milk chocolate bars, should be GMO-free by the end of 2015.

The company had, back in 2012, already committed to getting 100 per cent of its cocoa from certified sustainable sources by 2020. As of this year, 30 per cent of the company’s cocoa is certified.

Pressure has now shifted to Mars to dump the artificial dyes linked to hyper-activity from its North American confections. It ditched the blue #2 and other fake colours from British M&Ms back in 2012.

Campaigns to clean up junk food haven’t been limited to candy bars. Last month, Breyers caved to consumer pressure and announced it would start sourcing milk and cream that are free from genetically modified bovine growth hormones.

ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

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– in bookstores everywhere!

quote OF THE WEEK

“I did feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”

Regrets? Keurig Kcup creator John Sylvan claims he’s had a few over the landfillclogging disposable coffee pods he invented two decades ago. He also admits to being “mystified” why people keep buying them. And despite Keurig Green Mountain’s public promises to offer a fully recyclable pod by 2020, Sylvan says that ain’t happening either.

All the more reason not to buy them.

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BEST BARS

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TORONTO 2015

Hey, we made it through another winter. It’s time to celebrate at one of T.O.’s bars. We round up the newest watering holes as well as those best for beer, wine, cocktails, spirits, places where the kitchen stays open extra-late and where to get your green on for St. Paddy’s Day. Drink up!

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BEST FOR COCKTAILS

The Drake Hotel 1150 Queen West, 416-531-5042, thedrakehotel.ca

Ramos Gin Fizz

The Drake, with its timeless appeal and sheer scale, has arguably done more to promote quality cocktails than any other local company. Home to skilled cocktail bartenders like Sandy De Almeida and packed industry events like Ivy Knight’s 86’d Mondays, it’s been a cultural hub for over a decade. Its lavish sister spot in Suitsville, Drake 150 (150 York, 416363-6150, drakeonefifty.ca), has its own killer list of drinks, and Drake Devonshire (24 Wharf, Wellington, 613-399-3338, drakedevonshire.ca) recently brought cocktails to Prince Edward County. Continuous kudos.

Access A few stairs at the main entrance, washrooms on ground floor.

Lounge Hours Monday to Friday 11 am to 2 am, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 2 am.

Toronto Temperance Society

michael watier

577A College, torontotemperancesociety.com Sadly, many Torontonians haven’t had the pleasure of cozying up to one of the city’s top cocktail bars.

Calling this one a speakeasy, a term tossed around with such flippancy it’s now synonymous with uninspired, would be downright unjust. Let’s just say it’s a membersonly joint hidden above co-owned Sidecar. Go for a trial run and you’ll be hooked. Dues ($25 monthly) are a small price to pay for flawless cocktails, unmatchable hospitality and one of the best spirits selections in the city.

David Greig concocts one of Cocktail Bar’s signature drinks, the De Lioncourt.

Cocktail Bar

923 Dundas West, 416-792-7511, hoofcocktailbar.com Cocktails are finally deposing the vodka soda, yet shockingly few T.O. bars are devoted to (or capable of) crafting perfect drinks. This is one of them. The list, hilariously captioned and meticulously constructed by owner Jen Agg and bar manager David Greig, features seasonally updated signatures like De Lioncourt (El Dorado 12, Angostura bitters, verjus and honey syrup dusted with nutmeg, $11) and classics like the Ramos Gin Fizz (gin, citrus, sugar, cream, egg white and orange blossom water, $13). Beyond the drinks, Cocktail Bar’s ambience, decor and service set a city standard.

Access A few steps at entrance, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 6:30 pm to 2 am

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Crusta Rhymes

Access Stairs to the second floor, washroom on the same floor.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am

BEST FOR SPIRITS Geraldine

Kalwin Cappa serves up a Dark And Stormy with a smile.

1564 Queen West, 647-352-8815, geraldinetoronto.com Thirst for well-mixed cocktails inevitably leads to restaurant bars – that’s just the lay of the land in Toronto. Parkdale’s Geraldine, with its elegant Parisienne aesthetic, has a top-notch drinks list dreamed up by bar manager Michael Mooney. Try the The Courtesan (Indian five spice-infused Dickel rye, tamarind, fresh lime, mango purée and Angostura bitters, $14) and the crazy good Parisienne Milk Punch (Calvados, rum, absinthe, pineapple, lemon with spices and milk), served by the glass ($12) and tea pot ($45). After oysters, absinthe and a couple of cocktails, you should probably spring for dinner cooked by chef Alex Molitz. Weekend brunch (with brunch cocktails) is a brand new addition.

Access No barrier at entrance, washrooms on main floor.

Hours Tuesday to Friday 5 to 11 pm, Saturday and Sunday brunch 11 am to 3 pm, oysters and cocktails 3 to 5 pm, dinner 5 to 11 pm. Bar and oysters until late.

1602

(Whisky)

Also known as the bar whose name changes nightly according to the whims of the presiding barkeep, 1602 has all the creature comforts of a local: mellow lighting, well-loved couches, a chalkboard wall that invites inebriated scrawls and, best of all, a long bar backed by shelves so loaded with whisk(e)y, they’re beginning to buckle. What’ll it be?

American rye? Fancy Highland scotch? Small-batch bourbon? Maybe save some room for a bit of everything, because 1602 has one of the city’s funkiest whisk(e)y programs.

Access No barrier at the entrance, washrooms in the basement.

Hours 6 pm to 2 am daily

Rhum Corner

Reposado

926 Dundas West, 647-3469356, rhumcorner.com

136 Ossington, 416-532-6474, reposadobar.com

(Rum)

Has your desperation for a winter escape reached fever pitch? I’m guessing you’re not spending enough time at Rhum Corner, and frankly, it sounds like you could use a Zombie. With over 100 bottles of rum on the wall and plenty of fun ways to drink them (cocktails, slushies, rum by the bucket), the only thing missing from Jen Agg and Roland Jean’s Haitian hut is the beach. And after a few slushy pina coladas, you probably won’t care.

Access One step at the entrance, washrooms up a few stairs.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

The Caledonian (Single Malt Scotch)

856 College, 647-547-9827, thecaledonian.ca

Geraldine’s bar manager, Michael Mooney, goes oldschool with a classic French-style absinthe fountain drip.

david laurence

If you love scotch (or anything Scottish, for that matter), the Caledonian is probably already your spiritual home. It’s not just the glistening back bar lined with 200-plus bottles of amber nectar that beckon; the service and food, including surprisingly delicious haggis, are also on point. If the thoroughly annotated list is overwhelmingly large, ask owner Donna Wolff for a recommendation.

Scotch-loving ladies should check out (free!) monthly Women In Whisky events.

Access One step at entrance, washrooms in basement.

Hours Monday to Wednesday 5 pm to midnight, Thursday 5 pm to 1 am, Friday and Saturday 4 pm to 2 am, Sunday 4 pm to midnight.

david laurence

1602 Dundas West, 416-823-0661

The Emmet Ray (Whisky)

924 College, 416-792-4497, theemmetray.com It seems that under-the-radar bars are stars when it comes to stocking copious amounts of whisky (and pouring it at very fair price points).

The Emmet’s whisky stash easily exceeds 200 labels – Canadian, American, Scottish and Irish, with some wild cards from places like Corsica, India and South Africa thrown in.

Kick back with your favourite dram (make it a double, because that’s more economical here) and comfort yourself with chef Trish Gill’s hearty fare like schnitzel in bacon chili cream sauce ($6).

Access One step at the entrance, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

(Agave spirits)

Since Toronto shed its adolescence and plunged into young adulthood (arguably, the transition is ongoing), tequila and its unfairly inglorious cousin, mezcal, have graduated from regrettable party shots and unloved outsiders to elegant drams and cocktail stars – spurred by Reposado, opened seven years ago. Sandy and Catherine MacFadyen’s bar stocks over 150 agave spirits, making it truly one of a kind. For the spiritsshy, Reposado also boasts a mean list of margaritas.

Access No barrier at the door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Sunday to Thursday 6 pm to 2 am, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to 2 am.

The Black Dice Café

(Japanese Whisky) 1574 Dundas West, blackdicecafe.com

Everything about this Japanese rockabilly bar howls “perfect haunt.” Besides, it’s the best spot in town to savour Japanese whisky.

Pull up a vinyl stool, settle on a pour (seven or eight Nikka whiskies are usually lined up) and soak up the Dice’s unique vibe. Ease into a whisky glow as the old jukebox rocks 50s jams over the dings and jingles of the vintage pinball table and soon all seems right with the world.

Access Barrier free, washrooms in the basement.

Hours Daily 8 pm to 2 am.

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BEST NEWISH&NOTABLE Bar manager Brendan Schatti revs up a Cadillac Chrome (right).

Thoroughbred

304 Richmond West, 416-551-9221, tbto.ca Here’s the good news: places for drinking well have permeated almost every T.O. ’hood. Before Thoroughbred, which opened last fall, drinking before or after a movie at Scotiabank Theatre was limited to pints or Milestones’ Bellini slush. Now you can sip a Shaolin Iced Tea (bourbon, mezcal, Newfie screech, Cynar, lime, Lapsang Souchonginfused Grand Marnier and chinoto, $15) or throw back classy Jell-O shots (try the El Diablo, with tequila, ginger, lime and cassis, $6) in the snug and contemporary tri-level space (a converted Victorian home) while snacking on chef-owner Ariel Coplan’s sharing plates.

michael watier

Access Stairs to entrance, washrooms on main floor.

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

Rush Lane

563 Queen West, 416-551-7540, rushlaneco.com With a wall of vinyl, a tropical fish tank and sleek leather couches, Rush Lane is like a reimagined, modernized old boys’ club – of course minus the bullshit and gender discrimination of yore. The bar focuses on cocktails, including house concoctions, four classic drinks on draught and contemporary libations featuring ingredients whipped up in the bar lab, which is equipped with fancy machinery (science!) like a rotary evaporator and centrifuge.

Access No barrier at door, washrooms on main floor.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Wise Bar

Civil Liberties

Furlough

The Gaslight

Beer lovers will find this quaint Bloorcourt watering hole mighty agreeable. Owner Tamara Wise’s beer selection might seem spartan at first glance, but the taps and fridge have been thoughtfully curated to strike a balance between local and lesser-known brews, many of them hard to find. Wise’s commitment to hospitality and good taste is obvious.

Affectionately referred to as the “pineapple bar,” Civil Liberties has brought some personality to the staid scene that is Bloor and Ossington after dark. Opened late last fall by partners and barmen David Huynh, Nick Kennedy and Cole Stanford (who met years ago working at Ossington’s Salt), this is a very cocktail-capable bar that won’t be pigeonholed. There’s no printed list of drinks, but interaction with your bartender will deliver something delicious and drive home the bar’s commitment to customer service. (Its sweet and spiky mascot is the international symbol of hospitality, after all.)

The second venture from Team Barchef (Frankie Solarik and Brent VanderVeen) is a smoking-jacketed throwback worlds away from its mother ship’s hyper-modernist sensibilities. Housed in the former Ursa at Queen and Shaw, Furlough is dim, polished and classically inclined. Just the spot for an aperitif – try the Lee-Metford Mark II (gin, Campari, akvavit, rosemary lavender bitters and rosewater garnished with cucumber, salt and pepper, $14) or a whiskey-forward nightcap.

The Gaslight is the local that Bloor West has been waiting for.

Partners Megan Jones and Tim Pritchard (both seasoned bartenders) opened it last autumn at Bloor and Symington, a low-key corner in desperate need of a bar. The thoughtfully designed interior is made extra-welcoming with small touches like fresh cut flowers. The $15 cocktail has no place here (in fact, all beverages are priced very fairly), but Jones’s feature concoctions are super-tasty (and often available by the pitcher). In more tolerable weather, you’ll want to arrive early to sit on the Gaslight’s quaint back patio.

1007 Bloor West, 416-519-3139, facebook.com/wisebartoronto

Access Barrier-free, washrooms on main floor.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

878 Bloor West, 416-546-5634, civillibertiesbar.com

Access No barrier at entrance, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

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924 Queen West, 647-348-2525, furloughtoronto.com

Access Two steps at the door, washrooms downstairs.

Hours Tuesday to Sunday 6 pm to late. Closed Monday.

1426 Bloor West, 647-402-9728, facebook.com/thegaslightTO

Access No barrier at door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy books... which is pretty close.

BEST FOR WINE

Nnedi Okorafor’s

paul till

WHO FEARS DEATH Learn about vino at a class by Midfield’s sommelier and co-owner Christopher Sealy.

Midfield

1434 Dundas West, 647-345-7005, midfieldwinebar.com Of all the transformed Portuguese sports bars on Dundas (and these days, the domestic-beer-pouring venues of pregentrification DuWest are fewer and farther between), Midfield is an effortless original.

A relaxed spot to explore intriguing wines without a single drop of pretension – everything on the frequently updated list is offered by the glass – it also dishes great food to complement the enthusiasm stoked by primo vino.

909 Dundas West, 647-748-0909, archive909.com Like Midfield to the far west, Archive is decidedly a wine bar dishing tasty bites, not a restaurant. It’s a favourite of oenophiles and industry folk, and brothers Josh and Joel Corea pour all of Archive’s wines by the glass. Both 3- and 5-ounce portions are available, as are exploratory flights. For those seeking fortification, sherry and port are also on hand.

84 Harbord St • 416-963-9993 • bakkaphoenixbooks.com

Access No barrier at the entrance, washrooms in basement Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

david laurence

Access No barrier at the door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 6 pm to close.

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Skin + Bones

980 Queen East, 416-524-5209, skinandbonesto.com In Leslieville, this neighbourhood resto and wine haven serves more than 10 types of vermouth to sip while you contemplate what to really drink. Settle in at the long bar and taste your way through a lengthy list of

wines by the glass. Just keep in mind that 3 ounces of Barolo or Burgundy don’t come cheap – here or anywhere – but it sure is nice to be able to savour a Grand Cru without having to commit to the bottle.

Access Barrier free, washrooms on main floor Hours Sunday 10 am to 2 pm and 5 to 10 pm, Tuesday to Thursday 5 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to midnight.

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BEST FOR BEER Bar Hop

391 King West, 647-352-7476, barhopbar.com Don’t judge this always bustling and perfectly informal bar on King West by its vicinity – drinking at the Hop is the most laid-back beer ed program in the city. Equipped with 36 rotating taps plus two casks, a long list of bottles including table-size and gluten-free options and a whisk(e)y-heavy back bar, Bar Hop hosts frequent tap takeovers and special events. Did I mention Buck-a-shuck Tuesdays?

Plans for Bar Hop 2.0 are in the works. See ya there.

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Access A few steps at the entrance, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily noon to 2 am.

Bar Hop co-owner Rob Pingitore pours out a couple of tasty pints.

The Only Cafe

Bar Volo

972 Danforth, 416-463-7843, theonlycafe. com

Access No barrier at the door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 10 am to 2 am.

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You’re just not a devout beer worshipper if you’re not making habitual pilgrimages to the temple of Volo. The family biz established in the mid-80s routinely stocks the wackiest and most wonderful brews in town (many made available through in-the-fam Keep6 Imports). Volo also brews its own house ales and hosts the now massive annual Cask Days festival. On top of all that, it serves whisky (over 60 bottles) and nibbles to accompany its list of 100-plus beers. stefania Yarhi

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Pushing good beer for more than three decades, the Only is an OG rendezvous for Toronto’s craft scene. A rotating, locally focused list includes 24 taps plus casks, and the fridge is full of bottles and cans that’ll make even the most reserved stoic beer geek squeal with delight. But there’s nothing reserved about the Only. Its psychedelic interior and spacious back patio, which will be brimming with beer drinkers and sun worshippers come summer, constantly hum with friendly chatter.

587 Yonge, 416-928-0008, barvolo.com

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Access No barrier at the door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Monday to Thursday 4 pm to 2 am, Friday to Saturday noon to 2 am, Sunday 2 pm to midnight.

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ST. PADDY’S PLANNER IT’S EASY BEING GREEN WITH THIS LIST OF ALL THINGS IRISH

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Friday, March 13 Black Friday Live céilí session from 5:30 pm.

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141 Danforth, 416-778-1804, allens.to/dora Dora Keogh (the sister of Danforth staple Allen’s next door) is like a little sliver of Ireland transplanted to Toronto. Grab a pint from the bar and pull up a stool at one of the copper tables to enjoy live Irish music on Thursdays after 9 pm and Saturdays and Sundays in the late afternoon. Those seeking privacy can camp out in the snug (an intimate room with convenient window access to the bar). Hearty, family-style meals can be reserved in Dora’s charming kitchen, aptly named Yer Ma’s.

Dawn Whytall and Mathew Cain show the pluck of the Irish at the Dora Keogh.

Access No barrier at door, washrooms on first floor Hours Monday to Thursday 5 pm to close, Friday to Sunday 4 pm to close

The O’Deadly’s play at 10 pm. An Sibín Pub, 709 Queen E. ansibinpub.com. dJ Mike ToasT (top 40/house/hip-hop/club anthems), Luck Of The Irish, 10 pm. Cube, 314 Queen W. cubetoronto.com.

GeT lucky: HoGTown oysTer sHuckinG conTesT St Patrick’s Open Oyster Shucking Contest, 2-6 pm (doors 1 pm); So You Think You Can Shuck: Amateur Shuck-off and Bobbing For Bivalves from 7 pm. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. RSVP paddy@shuckerpaddy.com, ceilicottage.com. irisH Beer niGHT Beer sampling from 6-9 pm, complimentary oysters from 6 pm till they’re gone. DJ spins live at 10 pm. Fynn’s of Temple Bar, 489 King W. fynnstemplebar.com.

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Dance party with DJ playing EDM, hip-hop and alternative. Green glow wristbands, green drinks and giveaways. 10 pm. Free.

Firkin on King, 461 King W. 416-979-5464. irisH For a cure Afternoon of live performances by Daytona, DJs KavemanN and IKhan, celebrity appearance by Jully Black, dancing, drinks, cereal bar, prizes and more at this fundraiser for Kidney Cancer Canada. 2-6 pm. $50. universe.com/events/3W5CZ. continued on page 30 œ

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235 Queen East, 416-2615890, blackirish.ca

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Inspired by the rowdy Five Points oyster saloons of 19th century New York City, the Black Irish is far less gritty than its historical prototypes.

The interior, with lots of natural light (great for daytime pints) and comfy seating, has all the makings of a solid neighbourhood haunt. The draught is disappointingly basic, but you can’t go wrong with cans of Guinness or Magners. (It’s an Irish bar, after all.) The menu is seafoodheavy, from steamed mussels ($12) to boiled lobster ($20). Drink specials and fresh oysters for $1.50 apiece (25¢ donated to F#ck Cancer) are available Sunday to Friday from 2 to 7 pm, and Session Sundays feature live Irish tunes.

Access One small step at the door, washrooms on main floor.

Hours Daily noon to 2 am.

Stout

221 Carlton, 647-344-7676, stoutirishpub.ca

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This east-side tavern is known and loved not only for its cozy, inviting atmosphere but also for its killer beer selection. Twenty taps plus cask pour mostly local, while the lengthy bottle list (categorized by style for your convenience) makes it even harder to settle on just one brew. St. Paddy’s shenanigans (Saturday, March 14, and Tuesday, March 17) feature Irish-themed drink specials and a live Celtic band from 8 pm.

St PatRick’S Day Five bands including Van

Leer play classic R&B, rocking’ blues, rockabilly and more. Starts at 7 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, 2050 Danforth. facebook.com/ pages/Hirut-Restaurant/188064831229749.

St PatRick’S Day at the tollkeePeR’S cottage Taste the Irish life with soda bread and

al capacity at 6:30 pm. $20. Roundhouse Park, 255 Bremner. dasboot.steamwhistle.ca.

St PatRick’S Day PuB cRawl Fun begins at this venue and moves to several other venues.

8:45 pm. $15-$25. Wear some green. Tequila Jacks, 184 Pearl. ticketscene.ca.

St PRactice Day Beer sampling from 7-9 pm and music with the Rocky Road at 10 pm. An Sibín Pub, 709 Queen E. ansibinpub.com.

St SatuRDay Brunch 11 am, the Gil-Can Irish Dancers at 8 pm, DJ McMike 10 pm-2 am. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. ceilicottage.com.

St. PatRick’S céiliDh Irish stew, fresh baked bread and live traditional music featuring Gin Lane. 7-11 pm. $5. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

St PaRaDe Day FaMily BRunch Brunch 11 am, trad session with Ena Brian and friends 4-7 pm, Gil-Can Irish Dancers 7 pm. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. ceilicottage.com.

St Patio’S Day on the Sky yaRD Irish brunch and dance party with DJ Soul Proprietor. 1 pm. Free. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042, thedrake.ca.

St PatRick’S Day Before- or after-parade brunch 11 am-4 pm and live Celtic entertainment from 3 pm. Fynn’s of Temple Bar, 489 King W. fynnstemplebar.com.

St PatRick’S Day PaRaDe Floats, bands, Irish dancers and more. Begins at noon at Bloor & St George, continues east on Bloor, down Yonge and finishes at Nathan Philips Square.

Free (donations of non-perishable food items for the Daily Bread Food Bank welcome). topatrick.com.

St PatRick’S Day Run & walk 5K run or walk benefits Achilles Canada programs for disabled athletes. Food and drinks await participants at the finish line. 10:30 am. Pre-register.

Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. achillesstpatricksday.ca.

SunDay SeSSionS PoSt-PaRaDe PaRty Live céilí session at 4:30 pm. Michael Darcy plays from 9 pm. Drink specials offered. An Sibín Pub, 709 Queen E. ansibinpub.com.

Monday, March 16 St PRactice Day Gear up and prep for the big

day with special appetizers and cocktails.

Fynn’s of Temple Bar, 489 King W. fynnstemplebar.com.

St PRactice Day Warm-up day for pros. Stories and conversations will be had. Opens 5 pm, early close to rest up for the main event. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. ceilicottage.com.

Tuesday, March 17

Day oF iRiSh Live music all day with Dave Ward 2-5 pm and Don Campbell 5:30-8 pm.

Performance by the Celtic Flurry Dance Pack Rant Maggie Rant St Patrick’s Day live music. and LA. 9 pm-1 am. Fionn MacCool’s, 310 8:30 pm. $27.50, adv $25. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Front W. 416-340-1917.

Dundas W. hughsroom.com. eveRything iRiSh Bands all day beginning at SPD Huge party with doors opening at 11 am.

1 pm, until 1 am. McVeigh’s Irish Pub, 124 The Marc Joseph Band at 1:30 pm and three Church #200. mcveighspub.com. others. Multiple DJs, free pancake breakfast and food options. 11 am-9 pm. $15-$20. gReen-gReen-gReen Traditional day with live Sound Academy, 11 Polson. spdcanada.com. music on both floors, green beer, giveaways, St PatRick’S Day gReen caRPet Block PaRty an Irish menu and more. 11 am till closing.

FeStival Live bands and DJs. 9 pm. $15. Tryst, St PaRty’S Day All-day party with outdoor Access No barrier at the door, washFirkin on King, 461 King W. 416-979-5464.

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tea, Celtic music, a museum tour and handknit shamrocks for sale. 11:30 am-3:30 pm. $5. Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca.

St PatRick’S Day BaR cRawl Register for a full day of luck with BarCrawls.com wristband, cup, map with participating bars and St Paddy’s Day swag. Noon-7 pm. $5. College Street Bar, 574 College. s2.cravetickets.com.

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1301 Queen East, 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com A ceili (pronounced “kay-lee”) is the Celtic term for a social gathering (that usually turns into a good, ol’ fashioned dance party after a few pints). At this Leslieville local, fresh oysters are always on offer (the Cottage’s publican, Patrick McMurray, is a wellknown shucking champ), plus rustic daily specials and on weekends a full Irish breakfast. There are a dozen taps, some of which pour Irish essentials like Guinness and Kilkenny, and a tempting lineup of whiskey, much of it from the Emerald Isle, to keep your pint company. Live Celtic music sessions go down every Tuesday from 8 pm.

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

Hours Monday to Thursday 5 pm to midnight, Friday 5 pm to 2 am, Saturday 11 to 2 am, Sunday 11 am to 11 pm.

cover till 10 pm. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. facebook. com/events/316195375246102.

Malarkey & ShenaniganS Live Celtic music from 8 pm and lots of drink specials. Free. Stout Irish Pub, 221 Carlton.

647-344-7676.

St Paddy’S Party DJ Triple-X spins indie/alt/retro tunes with an Irish twist. Irish themed-beverages, board games & drinking games. 8 pm till close. Free. Cavern Bar, 76 Church. facebook.com/event/358074044398237.

St Pat’S day Live music with Jesse Parent from 3:30 pm and an Irish band 8-11 pm. Fionn MacCools Uptown, 1867 Yonge. 416-484-1867.

St Patrick’S day @ the cottage Debauchery, Irish fare and live music. The Mere Mortals play 3-7 pm, plus the GilCan Dancers and more. 11 am till late. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. ceilicottage.com.

St Patrick’S day Party favours and live bands all day. Art & Woodhouse Duo 11 am, Lindsay Brohan 3 pm, the Mere Mortals 7:30 pm and Lady Shake 11 pm. $10 cover. Fionn MacCool’s, 70 The Esplanade. 416-362-2495.

St Patrick’S day True Irish day of celebration with heated outdoor tent, live entertainment inside, DJ Carlos spins outside and doors opening at 11 am. Fynn’s of Temple Bar, 489 King W. fynnstemplebar.com.

St Patrick’S day Two floors of madness with a live Celtic jam session with the High Drive at 1 pm, Stephen O’Toole 6 pm and the Irish Guys from 9:30 pm. An Sibín Pub, 709 Queen E. ansibinpub.com.

St Patrick’S day Live Celtic music 4-8 pm. Fionn MacCool’s, 235 Bloor E. 416-966-3006.

St Patrick’S day Party Irish dancers 5-9 pm, rock band Skip Tracer from 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302.

St. Patrick’S day tea Classic porter cake, shamrock cookies and tea. 1-4 pm. $10. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

Wee tin can Live music by this Irish tribute band. 7:30 pm.

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BEST FOR GREAT FOOD Peoples Eatery

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307 Spadina, 416-792-1784, peopleseatery.com The team behind 416 Snack Bar kept the name of this Chinatown restaurant when they took over last year, but swathed it in gold and wooden accents, pumped it full of deafening hip-hop and looped in Jewish menu influences as a nod to the history of nearby Kensington Market. The menu leans a little more that way these days (the slider-sized fried beef tongue sandwich, $7, is fantastic – hot, brisket-like beef dressed with pickles and yellow mustard), but still does right by the restaurant’s roots with snacks like melty chunks of General Tso tofu ($4).

Access Two steps at door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Rating: NNN

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This Coxwell-area neighbourhood spot isn’t a small-plates, loud-tunes kind of joint; you can take your friends, date or mom here. The awesome craft beer selection rivals the Only down the road, while the menu and atmosphere play at gastro-pubby luxury – to varying degrees of success. Overdone plating doesn’t help the lacklustre surf ’n’ turf ($18), a hearty jumbo shrimp vastly outshining the definitely not rare, definitely not tender tenderloin hanging out in an inexplicable pool of mayo. Wild boar meatball pizza ($16) is tempting on paper but, aside from its ultra-smoky bacon and wood-fired crust, doesn’t deliver.

Access One step at door Hours Daily 3 pm to 3 am.

Rating: NN

The former Ortolan is now an intimate late-night joint, but it’s hung onto chef Daniel Usher, who’s transformed a few of the old spot’s dishes, like lamb ragù gnocchi ($9), into barfriendly snacks. The rest of the menu (curiously, for a boisterous beer bar) is a blend of Mediterranean and Balkan. Lamb socca ($9) is crispedged, beautifully un-gamey shaved lamb nestled in a nutty buckwheat crepe, and the fave e cicoria ($7) – puréed bean dip topped with sautéed dandelion greens and plenty of olive oil – is salty, slightly bitter and strangely addicting.

Access Barrier-free at the door, washrooms in the basement.

Hours Tuesday to Sunday 6 pm to 2 am. Kitchen open till late. Closed Monday.

Rating: NNN

The second-floor sister bar to DaiLo is playful and coolly relaxed, like a house party with furniture pushed to the walls. The menu sticks to just eight items, with chef Nick Liu’s Big Mac bao ($6) the reigning king. It’s uncannily dead-on – moist beef filling offset by iceberg lettuce and pale orange “secret sauce.” (Apparently, he makes his own cheese because Kraft Singles don’t taste authentic enough.) Other items draw on the downstairs kitchen, including mammoth duck confit wings ($9) bathed in sweet sauce and encrusted with nuts, a happy by-product of DaiLo’s Peking duck.

Access Upstairs via a steep flight of steps (separate entrance beside DaiLo), washrooms upstairs.

Hours Tuesday to Saturday 6 pm to 2 am, closed Sunday and Monday.

Rating: NNNN

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Hanmoto

2 Lakeview, @HANMOTO_ Oddseoul’s Leeto Han’s ramshackle snack shop just off Dundas and Ossington only seats about 30, but once you nab a seat your reward will be the twin scents of deep-frying and teriyaki sauce wafting from the open kitchen. The unholiest creation: Dyno Wings ($9 for two Flintstones-sized pieces), which pack pork dumpling filling into deep-fried drums coated in thick, crunchy breading. Lighter fare includes colourful hamachi tartare ($12) tossed with chili ponzu, nori and avocado, and mind-bending miso ice cream dusted with nori powder and little pearls of puffed rice ($7).

Hours Monday to Saturday 6 pm to 2 am.

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416 Snack Bar

181 Bathurst, 416-364-9320, 416snackbar.wordpress.com An early front-runner in the trend of mixing small plates with a lively night-spot vibe, 416 has reliably stayed packed to the rafters, even on off nights. The menu, devised as an ode to Toronto, skips across global cuisines to sate drunken food cravings of all kinds, from grilled jerk fish to tuna hand rolls. Beef tartare, served on a baguette, is reminiscent of Middle Eastern kibbeh ($7), and the buttery-crusted, just-fallingapart beef empanada ($6) will save you a trek north to Kensington Market.

Access One step at door, washrooms on same floor.

Hours Daily 5 pm to 2 am.

Rating: NNN

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Bar Raval

505 College, 647-344-8001, thisisbarraval.com

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Grant van Gameren’s latest effort is the snack bar heard round the city, as much for its gorgeous wood-wrapped transformation of the former Teatro – like a hobbit hole imagined by Salvador Dalí – as for the kitchen’s delicate handling of Spanish pintxo classics. Humble small plates like light yet meaty Gallician octopus ($9), earthy blood sausage and egg ($8) and house-smoked and canned mackerel ($8) pack enormous flavour. The first bite of the spicy-sweet chorizo in the pig cheeks and cider ($9) would have knocked me off my chair if I’d been able to find a single bar stool anywhere in the packed house.

Access One step at door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 8 am to 2 am Rating: NNNN

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Bar Buca

75 Portland, 416-599-2822, buca.ca/bar The laid-back Buca offshoot is a popular after-work destination on a seeand-be-seen stretch of King West, but the substance on the menu far outstrips the spot’s (already considerable) style. Grab an order (or six) of the nodini ($3), hot, pretzel-like bread nuggets rolled in olive oil, rosemary and sea salt. If the word “smelt” doesn’t scare you, go for a double header of sardella Calabrese – anise- and chili-inflected fish topped with loosely whipped burrata on a ciabatta – or a plate of fried smelts topped with lemon and salt (both $6).

Access Barrier-free.

Hours Monday to Friday 7 am to 2 am, Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 2 am, weekend brunch 10 am to 4 pm, aperitivo daily 4 to 7 pm.

Rating: NNNN

Follow the neon tiger down a hidden side entrance into this dim bar where Chantecler’s Jonathan Poon does junk food with some surprises built in. Aptly named “numbing wings” ($7) come coated in a tangy blend of Szechuan pepper so nervedulling they almost make a pint of Guinness taste like root beer, miracle-berry-style. Meanwhile, the breading on the fried chicken ($18 for a four-piece platter with pickles and Wonder Bread) features a touch of coriander and cinnamon that evokes Chinese five-spice.

Access No barrier at door, washrooms in basement.

Hours Monday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am. Closed Sundays.

Rating: NNNN

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Bar Isabel

797 College, 416-532-2222, barisabel.com While novelty-hungry crowds ram the room at Grant van Gameren’s Raval, his Bar Isabel – the Old World Spanish taverna from which his knack for pintxos flows – is still holding steady to the west. The menu moves past bitesized morsels to shareable snacks like flash-fried shishito peppers ($8) reminiscent of seared green beans (albeit with an element of danger stemming from the burn in every tenth or so bite). Van Gameren has a knack for making typically heavy-tasting, oily fish stunningly mellow in flavour, like Isabel’s boquerones ($9), gently brined anchovies teamed with restaurant-style tortilla chips. Believe me, you’ll want to scoop up every last morsel.

Access Barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

Hours Daily 6 pm to 2 am.

Rating: NNNN

LALIBELA

869 Bloor W 416-535-6615 & 1202 Danforth | 416-645-0486 | lalibelaethiopianrestaurant.com This fabulous culinary experience awaits you! Make sure you visit Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant known for its exotic cuisine, unique taste and delightful traditional Ethiopian hospitality. Delicious meat and vegetable dishes include lamb, chicken, beef and a meat/veggie combo for the best of both worlds!

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nowtoronto.com/music Audio clips from our interview with Kindness + Madonna’s curious French connection + Fully searchable upcoming listings

THE ELWINS at the Hoxton, Sunday, March 8. Rating: NNN

JASON GORDON

The Elwins employed all manner of tricks to keep everyone moving on the hazy dance floor at the Hoxton for the release of their sophomore effort, Play For Keeps, including unleashing massive amounts of bubbles and a stellar cover of Beyoncé’s Countdown.

They came out swinging, with a guitar blast that slid into a user-friendly brand of catchy, treble-heavy jangle-pop that would buy the loyalty of an average frosh week participant. The hour-long set was rife with energy and handclaps, and lead singer Matthew Sweeney refused to stop and catch his breath until the end of single So Down Low and the encore break.

The Toronto band is seasoned and seems ready to take on bigger stages, though the set was a tad scripted. “We’re gonna keep playing some new ones if that’s okay with you guys,” said Sweeney to a chorus of cheers. “Sick. So convenient that worked out.”

Despite some growing pains, the Elwins are a sharp, well-oiled machine, and their new batch of tunes, though a bit similarsounding, are all party-starters. MATT WILLIAMS

the scene Shows that rocked Toronto last week

SPRINGTIME CARNIVORE and THE DODOS at the Horseshoe, Tuesday, March 3. Rating: NNN

So full of bounce and pep, Springtime Carnivore are. The Chicago four-piece bopped away on the Horseshoe stage during their first-ever Toronto show – an opening gig for San Francisco twopiece the Dodos, who delivered a solid, highly syncopated but often too abrasive set of effectsfuelled indie rock. Whereas the Dodos were all about urgent intensity, Springtime Carnivore’s sun-kissed psych pop lightened the early crowd’s spirits and helped the miserable slushy streets become a distant memory.

Greta Morgan is perfection, basically. She’s got the singsongiest of voices, strong and playful at the same time, and she nailed every note while rarely ever glancing down at the chords she was strumming or the keys she was plunking. She smiled and shimmied, her three-piece band giving off equally friendly vibes as they played most of the songs from their fuzz-and-reverb-soaked self-titled debut album.

As much as the band rocked it, there was

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something extra-special when Morgan played Other Side Of The Boundary all on her own. So assured. So engagingly mellifluous. They saved Supremes-esque standout Name On A Matchbook for last, but had won us over long before CARLA GILLIS then.

ULTIMATE PAINTING and ARMY GIRLS at the Silver Dollar, Friday, March 6. Rating: NNN

As Ultimate Painting’s breezy, pretty tunes enveloped the crowd at the Silver Dollar – which had thinned out by the time the UK band took the stage after midnight – my date for the evening leaned over and whispered, “They make me wonder what it’d be like to live in London.”

Ultimate Painting’s London is all overcast afternoons spent lazily drifting through flower markets and browsing 1960s psych-pop rarities, a sense of relief and relevance taking hold when you finally recognize an LP – The Velvet Underground.

Led by Veronica Falls’s James Hoare and fellow Londoner Jack Cooper of Mazes, the band

relishes all aspects of 1960s revivalism, from jangly guitar riffs to self-indulgent instrumental breakdowns. Songs from their recent debut album were more animated than the studio versions, as Hoare and Cooper’s joint vocals blissfully energized the sometimes monotonous melodies.

On the other hand, Army Girls, who played third in a stacked bill alongside Bamboo and Deliluh, burst with vitality throughout their entire set. Even the “slow burner,” as co-leader Carmen Elle called it, had moody anticipation and a guitar freak-out. Which leads to the question: when are Army Girls going to release a new SAMANTHA EDWARDS album?

ARIANA GRANDE at the Air

Canada Centre, Sunday, March 8. ñ�

Rating: NNNN Love her or hate her, there’s no denying that Ariana Grande has accomplished much in her short musical career: a Broadway stint; several Nickelodeon shows; a 2013 debut album, Yours Truly, that devoured the Billboard pop charts; last year’s My Everything, which saw the 21-year-old

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explore more mature themes and genres without alienating her teen audience.

She hit the stage at a near-sold-out ACC to loud applause, opening with the one-two punch of Bang Bang and Hands On Me. Was there a seven-piece band with strings? Yes. A Great Gatsby themed set, complete with dancers in ties and tails, and the singer perched on top of a massive chandelier? Check. High-tech gloves created

by Imogen Heap that allowed the pop star to manipulate sounds by waving her arms? Naturally.

Video cameos came from rappers Childish Gambino, Mac Miller and Grande’s boyfriend, Big Sean, though Toronto’s the Weeknd (who guests on Love Me Harder) was noticeably absent. The ponytailed singer apologized for having a cold but had no trouble hitting the high notes on ballads Be My Baby and Honeymoon Avenue.

She saved the confetti and two of her biggest hits, Break Free and Problem, for last, and the former’s dubstep-influenced drop was as seismic as both songs’ themes of empowerment, messages MAX MERTENS not lost on the young crowd.

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THE BARR BROTHERS Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Thursday (March 12) Harp-obsessed prog folk.

KODO DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Sony Centre (1 Front East), Thursday (March 12) Mystical, muscular taiko drumming.

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KINDNESS, PRINCE INNOCENCE Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (March 13) See preview, page 38.

BRUTAL YOUTH, SCHOOL DAMAGE, NO HANDS, GOOD PEOPLE The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (March 13) Melodic hardcore and more.

ZAUM, FLYING FORTRESS, MOKOMOKAI Coalition (282 Augusta), Saturday (March 14) Middle Eastern mantra doom.

THE POP GROUP, FRESH SNOW, NEW FRIES Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (March 14) Bristol punk-funk group goes pop.

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ZAC BROWN BAND Molson Amphitheatre 7 pm. $47.50-$137.50. ticketmaster.ca. September 3.

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Thursday, March 12

Castro’s lounge Jerry Leger & The Situation (folk rock), 8:30 pm. ñ Free times CaFe Songwriter’s Circle Of Jerks

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Habits gastroPub Wonderfest Music Series

Myke Mazzei, 8:30 pm.

3030 DunDas West Elcee, Jape, pHoenix

Supertash, The Third Wheel Trio, Sister Speak, Kendal Thompson (singer/songwriters), 9 pm.

Holy oak CaFe The Living Daylight Stringband (old time), 7:30 pm. lee’s PalaCe The Barr Brothers (indie folk). Doors 9 pm. tHe loCal Swamperella (swamp pop), 9 pm. loCal gest Open Mic With Porter, 9 pm. lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar), 9 pm. musiDeum Mimi O’Bonsawin, David Patel, Greg O’Reekeys (blues), 8 pm.

Pagliacci, T.Y., DJ Big Jacks ManeStream, doors 9:30 pm.

Cameron House Sam Cash 10 pm. Sam Cash, & The Romantic Dogs, Neil Quin 10 pm. tHe Central Creddit, Josh Cohen 7 pm. Half Past Four, Physical Graffiti 9:30 pm.

Centro Pizza Tommy Rocker Open Jam, 8:30 pm.

Cloak & Dagger Luke Vajsar 10 pm.

HanDlebar Ada Dahli & The Pallbearers Holy Mess Launch Party, 9 pm.

HorsesHoe In Flight Safety, The Alpacas, Ginger Ale & The Mono Whales, Megan Bonnell.

JunCtion City musiC Hall Birds Of Bellwoods, Ryan Carr, Colin Wray Crawford doors 8:30 pm. karla’s roaDHouse Tommy Rocker (classic rock), 9:30 pm. kensington loDge Derek Mok 7 pm. linsmore tavern Rock Bottom (rock covers/ hard rock), 9 pm. lula lounge Music Matters Live music, cover bands playing 70s, 80s and 90s music, benefit Musicounts and Humber College. Doors 7 pm. orbit room Oakland Stroke (Tower of Power tribute), 10 pm.

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kinDness and PrinCe innoCenCe at the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (March 13), 9 pm. $20. livenation.com, rotate. com, soundscapesmusic.com.

It’s not surprising to hear Adam Bainbridge describe his work as Kindness as “postmodern collage.” The UK singer/songwriter is often portrayed as (and sometimes criticized for) taking an academic-research-based approach to his soulful pop.

After all, he did record his 2007 Live In Philly album as part of an artist-in-residence program at the Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study, and he accompanied his 2012 debut studio album, World, You Need A Change Of Mind, with a documentary on the Washington, DC, go-go scenes.

To Bainbridge, the best path to finding new sounds is through understanding the past.

“You have the option now of combining sounds from every era,” he says from a tour stop in Portland.

“Even just combining a horn sound from the 50s with a vocal sound from the 80s and drum sound from 2010: that’s already going to be something new.”

That drive to find new possibilities is part of what led him to record his

second album, Otherness (Mom + Pop), with a large cast of collaborators that included Robyn, Kelela, Devonté Hynes, M.anifest and others.

“The first record I wrote all on my own, so I didn’t feel like I needed to do that lonely thing again. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to making an album on my own again, actually.”

His collaborators aren’t responsible for the biggest shift in his sound, though. Whereas disco rhythms grounded his debut, on Otherness the beats are less focused on the dance floor and owe more to slower 80s R&B. Turns out that spending too much time in clubs can push your music in the opposite direction.

“Don’t DJ too much or it might put you off kick drums for a while. During the first record, I’d been stuck in a disco and early-house wormhole for a few years. When it came to this one, I was still playing a lot of disco and house in clubs, but my private listening side was getting slower and more melodic.

“Now that I’m DJing less, I’m coming back to club music again because it’s not being pounded into me every weekend. I think the third album will be somewhere in between the two.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

PHoenix ConCert tHeatre Cancer Bats, Indian Handcrafts, Exalt, Dead Tired ñ doors 8 pm. See preview, page 42.

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Cameron House Suzanne Jarvie & David Corley 9 pm [backroom]. Corin Raymond 6 pm.

Four seasons Centre For tHe PerForming arts Yao Guang Zhai, Jeanie Chung Clarinet

Fantasy (chamber music), noon-1 pm. [Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre]. gallery 345 Brendan Fox The Art Of The Piano, 8 pm. gate 403 Bill MacLean & Brian Stevens (B2 vocal/piano duo), 5-8 pm. Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm.

HugH’s room June Garber, Barbra Lica, Gigi Marentette, Lily Frost, The Mark Kieswetter Quartet The Jazz Side Of Peggy Lee. 8 pm. kama All Star Canadian Jazz Quartet & Dave Dunlop (jazz) 5-8 pm. olD mill inn Julie Michels Trio (jazz), 7:30 pm.

Poetry Jazz CaFe Jordana Talsky 8:30 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet w/ Sandy Alexander 9:45 pm. tHe rex Kirk MacDonald Quartet 9:30 pm.

Laura Hubert Band 6:30 pm. roy tHomson Hall Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka Beethoven Symphony No. 7, 8 pm.

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10 pm.

Club 120 5DJ Todd Klinck T-Girl Party, 10 pm.

CoDa Kode9 & Ikonika (Hyperdub Tour) 10 pm. ñ Coalition Cult Hero Thursdays (punk/alternative), 9 pm.

rounD venue Archi-Textures Knotibel,

Splinter w/ Michael Red, Jessica MzRevolution, Lumberjockey, VJ Trace (electronic/bass/ techno). 10 pm. tota lounge DJ Junior Black Thursdays’N’Friends: A Hip Hop Throwback Party, 10 pm.

Friday, March 13 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

3030 DunDas West Dead Penny Collective (funk/reggae/hip-hop/pop rock), 10 pm. alleyCatz Taxi 9:30 pm. amsterDam biCyCle Club The Fairest And Best (original pop/rock/soul), 11 pm. bassline musiC bar Subtle Blend: SP Heads Nyiam, Cram, Anzola, Josh Grant, Cy (experimental beats). 10 pm. bovine sex Club Kman & The 45’s, Adam’s Mind, Daniel Mager Band, Lavender Orange, New Stems, Sound Glyphics, Zack Power.

Cameron House Yana Bilyk 9 pm. [backroom] Castro’s lounge The Straight Eights (50s style rockabilly), 6 to 8 pm. tHe Cave Lazer/Wulf, Shooting Guns doors 8 pm. tHe Central Cherry Suede 5 pm. Pubefloral, The Exploration, The Flu, Poster Boy, Antibliss 9 pm.

Coalition Sumo Cycle, Polarity Hardcore metal, punk and pop bands perform for Project Paws Animal Rescue Benefit. All proceeds to Etobicoke Humane Society. 6 pm. tHe DanFortH musiC Hall Taking Back Sunday, The Menzingers, letlive doors 6 pm, all ages.

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T.O. Music NOTes

BLOCKS RECORDING CLUB CLOSES

Blocks Recording Club, the Toronto DIY music collective that’s released over 70 albums, including Owen Pallett’s 2006 Polaris Prize winner, He Poos Clouds, and ones by Fucked Up, Katie Stelmanis, the Phonemes and Les Mouches, is closing up shop after 12 years.

Started by Steve Kado and Mark McLean in 2003 as a cassette-only imprint, the label will mark the closure with a retrospective at Long Winter at the Great Hall on Friday (March 13). Blocks band Hank! will also perform.

A workers’ cooperative, it had a hard time finding new people to keep momentum going, and long-time members were ready to move on.

“A lot of the bands are not together any more. Most of the catalogue is no longer active,” board member John Caffrey told NOW. “You just have to go where the energy is or isn’t.”

The board has held its final AGM and the office has been shuttered. Caffrey added that Blocks is planning a proper blow-out concert in May or June, as well a commemorative publication. Whether or not the back catalogue, which has been pulled off iTunes, will be made available in the future has yet to be worked out.

The news comes one week after Toronto indie label Mammoth Cave announced its closure. Tough times.

JOY TOWER OR CN DIVISION?

Two design icons – the CN Tower and the Peter Saville cover design for Joy Division’s 1979 album, Unknown Pleasures – are together at last and available in T-shirt form via winterzone.bigcartel.com.

JUNO WEEKEND RUNDOWN

The mainstream Canadian music industry will descend on Hamilton this weekend for the 2015 Juno Awards, broadcast on CTV from FirstOntario Centre on Sunday (March 15) at 7 pm.

The Weeknd, Deadmau5, Alanis Morissette, Kiesza and Magic! are performing, but if you can’t wait till Sunday for Juno-related content, fear not: there are other options to tide you over.

On Thursday (March 12), the Sheepdogs, Tokyo Police Club and Say Yes kick off the weekend with a charitable gig for MusiCounts at Liuna Station, which will be broadcast on SiriusXM at 6 pm on Saturday (March 14).

The always popular Juno Cup, an NHL-greats-versus-rockers hockey game, happens Friday (March 13) at 7:30 pm in Hamilton’s Dave Andreychuck Mountain Arena. Jim Cuddy captains the rockers, and Mark Napier the NHLers. Check out junoawards.ca for the full lineup.

Also on Saturday at 6 pm, the gala dinner and awards will livestream via Junoawards.com. Alvvays, Dallas Smith and Daniel Lanois are among the performers, and Rush will receive the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award.

GIVE DRAKE THE KEYS TO THE CITY

Does Toronto-proud Drake deserve a key to the city? Organizers behind a petition to give one to the rap hometown hero believe so. According to the Facebook group Give Drake The Keys To The City, hosted by PointB Toronto, the thousand collected signatures would be presented to the mayor on Tuesday, March 10, at 11 am. But no one showed up except for a curious scribe or two.

PointB co-founder Brett Chang said later that the stated event time was a way to encourage people to sign, but instead of actually delivering the petition, they’d bring the issue up as new business at the next council meeting.

ALEXISONFIRE REIGNITES

St. Catharines post-hardcore group Alexisonfire are reforming to play a “limited engagement” of seven summer festival gigs, including the Toronto edition of Riot Fest on September 19 and 20. The news promptly sent CanRock fans into a tweeting frenzy, during which the Riot Fest website crashed.

The five-piece called it a day in 2011 and played a farewell tour a year later.

Frontman Dallas Green left to concentrate on solo project City and Colour (and eventually team with pop star Pink under the moniker You+Me), and guitarist Wayne McNeil turned up as the singer of Gallows.

Specially priced Riot Fest passes go on sale Friday (March 13) at 10 am. More lineup and venue info to come.

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carDinal rule Friday The 13th Disco Dance Party DJ Triple-X, 10 pm. castro’s lounGe DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly), 10 pm. cluB 120 DJ Aeryn Pfaff, Scooter McCreight, Frustra Jack (dance party), 10 pm to 3 am. coDa Maya Jane Coles, NITIN, Jonathan Rosa, Gera 10 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/ soul), 10 pm. tHe Hoxton Alvin Risk, Dr Ozi Payback, doors 9 pm. moD cluB Loving In The Name Of DJ Scott Cudmore, doors 10 pm. tHe piston Synthesexer (indie electronic dance party), 10 pm. uniun GTA x TJR, London Future, Manzone & Strong Factory Fridays, doors 10 pm. velvet unDerGrounD DJ Audi Etoffe Psychedelic Phreaks: Psytrance Rave. tHe vue Pisces And Aries Celebration Champion Squad, Outcast Sound, DJ Riyad, Breakdown, DJ Jeff, Chris Chetty, Tricky, Loutmout Chiney and others.

Drake Hotel Fashawn (rap), doors 7 pm. ñ ñ eton House Stiletto Flats (classic rock), 9 pm. tHe Garrison Brutal Youth, School Damage, No Hands, Good People doors ñ 8:30 pm.

GlaDstone Hotel When Journalists Rock The Screaming Headlines, Bulletin ñ ñ Kill and Conrad Black Sabbath. 8:30 pm. tHe Great Hall Elsa, Bart, Panic, Hank, Dreamsploitation, Not Of, ASMR Buds, ñ Several Futures, Dirty Frigs, Fake Palms, Pins

And Needles, Friendly Rich & The Lollipop People, Pretty Boys, DJ Cell Memory, Sweaty Fish Long Winter Year Three/Volume Five, 7 pm, all ages. See Bart feature, page 40.

Grossman’s tavern The Swingin’ Blackjacks (rockabilly/blues), 10 pm.

HarD luck Bar Wacken Metal Battle Round Two Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy, AxMinister, Caym, Dispersia, Midnight Malice.

Hirut Fine etHiopian cuisine The Unemployed (Eric Dull, Jeremy Steder, Aaron Kanapesky, Jules Granati). 8 pm.

HuGH’s room Jack de Keyzer doors 8:30 pm.

JoHnny Jackson Patrik, Vic NS, Jordan Solomon doors 9 pm.

Junction city music Hall Sad Boys Glee Club, DJ Nova (indie rock), 9 pm. lee’s palace The Arsenals, Frankie Foo, Sound One (ska/reggae). linsmore tavern Riff Raff (rock/covers), 9:30 pm. massey Hall Tom Cochrane 8 pm (doors 7 pm). olDe stone cottaGe puB The Marc Joseph Band. orBit room Soul Stew (R&B/soul), 10 pm. pHoenix concert tHeatre The Box doors 8 pm. rivoli Kindness, Prince Innocence Doors 9 pm. See preview, page 38. smilinG BuDDHa Jason & A Bunch Of Dead PUNX Piffbreak Arcade, Bam Thwok, Pseudo, Filthy Slate, Wildcard, Resist! Exsist! (punk/ hardcore/rock), doors 9 pm. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s Bad To The Bone (classic rock) 10 pm. tHe tennessee Running Violet, Leela. tota lounGe Who Is...EP Release SpecsOne, Zee-GSD, Tri Shy, Maloney Spittz, doors 10 pm.

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aGa kHan museum Emel Mathlouthi (Tunisian singer/songwriter), 8 pm. cameron House Melvin-Colacino Blues Band 10 pm. Patrick Brealey 8 pm. David Celia 6 pm.

Free times caFe Lauren Yule & Aaron Burke & Imogen Bel (folk/songwriters), 8 pm.

Grossman’s tavern Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm.

Holy oak caFe Battle Of Santiago (Latin), doors 9 pm.

HorsesHoe Union Duke, Johnny & The Jackals, Michael Lake. tHe local Tim Bradford Band (country), 9 pm. lula lounGe Son Ache (salsa), 10:30 pm. tranzac Howl Canyon (eerie folk), 10 pm.

WHite elepHant Scott B Sympathy 7-10 pm.

Winter GarDen tHeatre Camané (fado) 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm.

Mike Field Jazz Band 5-8 pm.

HaBits GastropuB Thom Mason Quartet (jazz), 9 pm.

Harlem David Hutchinson Jazz & Blues Band 7:30 pm.

Hart House Diane Roblin’s Reconnect (jazz), 9 pm. lula lounGe Adis Rodriguez Trio (Latin jazz), 7:30 pm. olD mill inn Alexis Baro Quartet (jazz), 7:30 pm. poetry Jazz caFe The Patrick Hewan Group Icon. 9 pm. tHe rex Brian O’Kane 9:45 pm. Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Lester McLean Trio 6:30 pm. rose tHeatre The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans jazz) 8 pm. toni Bulloni’s Irene Torres (jazz), sets at 6 & 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

751 Bar DJ Heights 93 ‘Til Infinity Hip-Hop Party, doors 10 pm. tHe Boat DJ Canada Thrust 10 pm.

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pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleycatz Jamesking 9:30 pm. cameron House Jane’s Party 10 pm. castro’s lounGe The Cosmotones (old

school rockabilly), 6 pm. tHe central The Johnnys, The Ollivanders, miKEYS, Midnight Lemonade, Akeem Raphael & Mac Mahew Saturday Night Secret Showcase, 9:30 pm. coalition Zaum, Flying Fortress, Mokomokai (Middle Eastern mantra doom), 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Redhino 7 pm. eton House Silmaril (pop/rock), 9 pm.

Fox & FiDDle The Swingin’ Blackjacks (rockabilly/blues), 9 pm.

GlaDstone Hotel Arlene Paculan (jazzy/soulful pop), 9 pm.

Grossman’s tavern Chloé Watkinson Park Eddy (rock/soul), 10 pm.

HanDleBar Kurt Marble, Germaphobes, Big JRs Cassette release, 9 pm.

HarD luck Bar Fuck The Facts, Spewgore, Ayahuasca (grindcore), FlinkTO Live!, 9 pm.

Harlem Madette (pop/soul), 7:30 pm.

HorsesHoe Theatre Crisp, Shaky Knees, Amy Zen, Pink Flowers, The Steady Rebels doors 9 pm. lee’s palace The Pop Group, Fresh Snow, New Fries (1978 post punk legends), doors 9 pm. linsmore tavern Sonic Boom KISS tribute, 9:30 pm. orBit room Ride The Tiger (Motown/Stax/ soul), 10 pm. tHe paDDock Davie Norris, Maria Ryan, Coyote Kids 9:30 pm. rancHo relaxo Luke Warm & The Cold Soup, Feather Beds, Cat & The Queen, Jay Vidyarthi 9 pm. tHe rex Danny Marks (blues), noon. rivoli Royal Streets, Mellowkotzen, Howie Sutherland, Dom Louis doors 9 pm. savinG GiGi Pink Moth 9 pm. silver Dollar Lobby, Only Yours, Nyssa, DJ Gabe Knox doors 9 pm. smilinG BuDDHa Sweet Talk, Blastronaut, Colin Fisher 9 pm. Tamas Pal, Armand, Ferdelle, Forgotten Kilns 5 to 8 pm. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s The Bear Band (rock/ blues), 4 to 8 pm. Mena Hardy (Southern rock), 10 pm. tHe tennessee Eastern Blok (rock covers), 10 pm. toronto centre For tHe arts The Barberettes (50s & 60s doo-wop, rock & roll singers from South Korea), 7 pm.

Mischief, vocal porn and Hot Tub Time Machine By CARLA GILLIS

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Bart with elsa, panic, Hank, Dreamsploitation, not oF, several Futures, Fake palms, Dirty FriGs and many others as part of Long Winter at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (March 13), 7 pm, all ages. Pwyc-$11. torontolongwinter.com.

Christopher Shannon did have a certain yellow, adolescent male Simpsons character in mind when he named his new band Bart.

“There’s an implicit mischievousness to the name that made me feel like the band could sound like anything and get away with it,” explains the Toronto musician.

And get away with anything they do. Their four-song debut EP, released in November, has stacked harmonic vocals courtesy of Shannon and co-founder Nathan Vanderwielen, mathily ricocheting rhythms, psych-prog songcraft, ambient studio textures and plenty of guitarfuzz fun.

“Nathan and I were just trying our best to please ourselves because at the time we didn’t think Bart would ever play live. But Jay [Anderson], Andy [Scott] and Lane [Halley] all seemed genuinely into the music when they heard the recordings, so it was easy to get them on board for shows.”

At times the music nods to late-70s progressive rock, a genre often derided for its overblown, over-indulgent

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Brian Jantzi Open Mike Coffee House, 7:15 pm.

Free times caFe Craig Robertson (songwriter), 8:30 pm. Dr B’s Acoustic Medicine Show Open mic/jam, 2 pm.

Grossman’s tavern The Happy Pals 4:30 to 8 pm.

HumBle BeGinninGs Cody McMillan (folk/ blues/rock), 2:30-4:30 pm.

tHe local David Meenan Irish session. 5 pm.

Lotus Wight (country blues), 9 pm. lula lounGe La Gran Colombia (salsa), 10:30 pm. musiDeum Jay Semko, Lawrie Ingles (folk), 8 pm. revival Shanbehzadeh Ensemble, Mahmood Schricker, DJ Michael Red (electronic world music fusion), Persian-Electro Alchemy, doors 8 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Abigail Lapell 10 pm. Jamzac 3 pm.

WHite elepHant Fraser Melvin Band 10 pm.

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array space Kaabi Kouyate Jazz-Mandingue concert (Afro jazz), 8 pm.

cHalkers puB GNOJAZZ All Star Concert &

Scholarship Fundraiser Mark Kieswetter, Ross MacIntyre, Lui Botos Sr & a dozen pro vocalists play this benefit. 6-9 pm.

Gate 403 Reide Kaiser: Doc Barrister’s Harlem Rhythm 9 pm.

HaBits GastropuB Brad Cheeseman Trio (jazz), 9 pm.

Hola caFe Mike Hopkins (classical guitar), 7 pm.

tendencies. But Bart members weren’t concerned about that kind of blowback during the record’s making.

“Our strategy was to lay it on as thick as possible until it started to sound worse. Also at that time I was really into music that could be described as ‘vocal porn’ – so I think the record was an attempt at making something within that category.

“None of us has that kind of big personality, so hopefully we’ll be able to avoid seeming like excessive human beings forever.”

Though Shannon says he “wouldn’t mind doing Bart full-time,” the members are in myriad other Toronto bands: Biblical, Doctor Ew, Marker Starling, Comet Control, the Bicycles, Hooded Fang and Fake Palms.

Their favourite albums, meanwhile, include Caribou’s Andorra, Nils Frahm’s Felt, Slint’s Spiderland, Jennifer Castle’s Pink City, Bo Hansson’s Attic Thoughts, Thomas’s When I’m Weak, I’m Strong, and self-titled efforts by McDonald & Giles and Karma.

With such varied influences and musical history, it’s hard to guess what the new band’s dream gig might be.

“I actually dreamt that we played a show with Deerhoof, who were the backing band for God, and we were in the movie Hot Tub Time Machine – the original. Is that taking ‘dream’ too literally?”

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koerner Hall Taylor Academy Showcase Concert AIMIA Discovery Series. 4:30 pm. music Gallery Tova Kardonne, Khôra The Lanka Suite, 8 pm. naisa space Joe Sorbrara, Christine Duncan NAISA Sound Bash performance (percussion, vocal improv), 8 pm. olD mill inn Jake Koffman Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. tHe rex Raoul & Bigger Time 9:45 pm. Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm. The T.J.O. Big Band 3:30 pm. roy tHomson Hall Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka Beethoven Symphony No. 7, 8 pm. royal conservatory oF music Taylor Academy Showcase Concert 4:30 pm [Mazzoleni Hall]. tHe stone lion David Hutchison & Terry Logan (jazz), The Unit, 3:30 to 6:30 pm. toni Bulloni’s Irene Torres (jazz), sets at 6 & 8 pm.

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3030 DunDas West DJ Corey Dawkins (reggae/ soca/dance hall/hip-hop), Open Mind, 10 pm.

Blue DiamonD entertainment complex

Swanky Tony Matterhorn, Fire Kid Steenie, Black Reaction, Charlie Brown and others.

BunDa lounGe DJs Jellybean Benitez and Nick Holder Feel The Spirit – The Toronto Sessions, 10 pm. clinton’s Bangs & Blush (60s soul/rock & roll), Shake, Rattle & Roll, 10 pm. cluB 120 DJ Johnny B Goode Bad Boys Of Burlesque, 9 pm to 3 am. coDa Patrick Topping, Francesca Lombardo 10 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Cruz Controlla (hip-hop/ soul) 10 pm. tHe Garrison Turning Point Selectors: A Man Called Warwick, Alex Vintage Voudou, doors 10 pm.

Harlem DJ Blackcat Denim: Pumps & Boots, 11 pm.

Holy oak caFe Mani-Pedi (disco), 10 pm.

Junction city music Hall Git Down! DJs OH16 & Splattermonkey. 10 pm. tHe piston Beam Me Up Disco party, 10 pm. ryze Len Faki, Greg Gow, Quim 4-Hour Extended Set, 10 pm to 6 am. supermarket DJ John Kong & MC Abdominal (funk/soul/boogie/hip-hop), Do Right Saturdays! 10 pm.

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Sunday, March 15 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Cameron house The Double Cuts 7 pm.

The CenTraL Safe Word, Shoulders 9 pm. gerrard arT spaCe Midcoast (indie rock/

jazz/folk), 3:30 to 4:30 pm. gLadsTone hoTeL Arlene Paculan (jazzy/soulful pop), noon.

Lee’s paLaCe The Barberettes (50s & 60s doowop, rock & roll from South Korea), 7 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (funk/R&B/blues), 5-9 pm. no one WriTes To The CoLoneL That Choir (pop/rock/jazz), Unplugged, 8 pm. opTiCianado ¡DO! (drums & organs), 1 to 4 pm. orBiT room Horshack (rock & roll), 10 pm.

The sCarBorough JunCTion Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 8 pm. smiLing Buddha The United Nations Live 8:30 pm. souThside Johnny’s Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix (pop/rock), Open Jam, 10 pm.

The Tennessee Ingersoul Matinée, 5 to 7 pm.

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CasTro’s Lounge Winnie Brave (folk), 4 to 7 pm.

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The LoCaL Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban son), 9 pm. Sean Donald (old-time/roots), 5 pm.

Long & mCQuade World Fiddle Day Practice Jam w/ Anne Lederman. 1-3:30 pm.

LuLa Lounge Jorge Maza Trio (Cuban son), noon. mCgradies Tap and griLL Dan Walek Open Jam, 6 to 10 pm. musideum David R Maracle & Thomas Starwalker Clair (blues/indigenous), 8 pm. reLish Bar & griLL David MacMichael & Paul Brennan Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic, 9 pm.

The rex Dr Nick & The Rollercoasters (blues), 3:30 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Makeshift Island 10 pm. Diane Roblin 7:30 pm. Monk’s Music 5 pm. Alaniaris 3 pm. Quebecois Jam 1 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

array spaCe The Blythwood Winds Adaptive

Behaviour (wind quintet), 7 pm. desoTos Double A Jazz & Kurt Lund Jazz Brunch, 11 am-2 pm. gaTe 403 Carter Brodkorb Jazz Quintet 5-8 pm. Mike Pelletier Jazz Quartet 9 pm. grossman’s Tavern New Orleans Connection (all-star jazz band) 4:30-9 pm.

Jazz BisTro Lawrence Cotton CD release, 3 to 6 pm. morgans on The danForTh Gina Pennesi & Scott Metcalfe (jazz) 2 to 5 pm. poeTry Jazz CaFe Patrick Hewan Duets DayDream, 3 pm.

The rex Bugaloo Squad 7 pm. Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Mackenzie Longpre 9:30 pm. royaL ConservaTory oF musiC Andrés Díaz (cello), 2 pm [Mazzoleni Hall]. sCarBorough CiviC CenTre Bob Cary Orchestra Sunday Concert Series, 2 to 4 pm.

Toni BuLLoni’s Irene Torres (jazz), sets at 6 & 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

The Boxing LoFT soCiaL CLuB Soul Sunday (house/disco/garage/classics), 3-9 pm.

CoaLiTion Femme Dom Sundays (punk/ alternative/girls rule). 9 pm. drake hoTeL Anthony Valadez, Birthday Boy, Dr J & Koray Ozel Around Sounds 2 CD release party, (disco/electronic/funk/hip-hop/house/ R&B/soul), 10 pm. hoLy oak CaFe Nite Flights 9 pm.

LoFT 404 Box Of Kittens, alienInFlux, Matt C, T-Minus, Richard Brooks Sunday Afternoon Social, 3 pm.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 14

air Canada CenTre Maroon 5 7:30 pm.

Cameron house Bad Apple 10 pm. grossman’s Tavern No Band Required 10 pm.

horseshoe Villianest, We Are Monroe, Bison

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Sound Shoeless Monday, doors 8:30 pm. kiTCh Luke Vajsar Hypnotic Lounge Series, 9:30 pm. orBiT room Jordan John (blues/R&B/funk). roy Thomson haLL Neil Sedaka, Cantor Simon Spiro Sing For The Children benefit concert for Chai Lifeline Canada. 7:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

The Cage 292 Phill Hood Jam, 10 pm.

Cameron house Pat Maloney 6 pm. Pat Maloney 6 pm.

Free Times CaFe Open Stage Mondays (folk/ songwriters). 7:30 pm.

hugh’s room Martyn Joseph 8:30 pm.

The LoCaL Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass),

9 pm.

mCgradies Tap and griLL Dan Walek

Acoustic Jam, 8 to 11 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Tranzac Open

Stage Hosted by Sarah Greene, 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

The CenTraL Jim Dan Dee 8 pm. emmeT ray Bar Ess & Bee Sam Gleason &

Belinda Corpuz (jazz), 7:30 pm. Harley Card Quintet (jazz), 9 pm. gaTe 403 Abbey Sholzberg Jazz Trio 5-8 pm. harLem underground Neil Brathwaite (jazz), 8 to 11 pm. heLiConian haLL Payadora Tango Ensemble w/ Rebekah Wolkstein 7:30 pm.

The rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm. University Of Toronto Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

aLLeyCaTz DJ Frank Bischun Salsa Night, 8:30 pm. handLeBar Morgan Yew Rotation, 10 pm. reposado DJ Ellis Dean Mezcal Monday, 9 pm.

Thompson hoTeL DJ Eric The Tutor Blacklist,

doors 10 pm [Rooftop].

Tuesday, March 17 See St. Patrick’s Day Planner for all listings, page 29. pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Bier markT The Marc Joseph Band 9 pm.

Cameron house Duane Rutter 6 pm.

CasTro’s Lounge Lily Frost (swingabilly) 8:30 pm. handLeBar The Dreamboats (50s/60s pop covers), 9 pm.

hard LuCk Bar Craft Spells, Bilinda Butchers 8 pm.

LoLa HiWay 5 5 pm. orBiT room The Sattelites (reggae) 10 pm.

The painTed Lady Hugh Wilson, Bad Dog & The Pool Girls, Lobü, Stephen Spencer 8:45 pm.

The pisTon Kiwi, The Tate, Wider Smile 9 pm. rivoLi La Nena (indie rock), doors 9 pm. smiLing Buddha Marshall Veroni, Joshua Powell, Coast To Coast 5-8 pm. sound aCademy Fifth Harmony, Jacob Whitesides, Jasmine V, Mahogany Lox (pop/ R&B), 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

horseshoe Mary Margaret O’Hara and others, 38th Martian Awareness Ball, doors 8:30 pm.

LuLa Lounge DJ Alberth Moreno, Giovanni Torres & Salsomanos Salsa dance party, 9 pm. remix Lounge Drum & Dance Tuesdays Drum & dance circle. 8 pm. rose TheaTre John McDermott 8 pm.

The Tennessee Open Mic w/ Gualberto Machado.

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Four seasons CenTre For The perForming arTs Humber College’s Latin Jazz Ensemble

Picante! (jazz series), noon-1 pm [Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre]. gaTe 403 Jeffrey Hewer Jazz Band 5-8 pm.

Toby Hughs Jazz Band 9 pm. grossman’s Tavern Django Gypsy Jam 9:30 pm. hoLy oak CaFe The Music Of Cole Porter A Samaras and others, 9 pm.

The rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam Hosted by Harley Card Quintet, 9:30 pm. Richard Whiteman Group 6:30 pm.

TranzaC The Ken McDonald Quartet 10 pm [Southern Cross].

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

Cameron house Nevada 8 pm. Sinners Choir

reposado DJ Gord C Alien Radio. DJ Gord C Alien Radio.

drake hoTeL Ian Kelly (singer/songwriter),

Wednesday, March 18

10 pm.

doors 9 pm. [Underground].

The duke Live.Com Frank Wilks Open Jam, 8:30 pm.

Free Times CaFe Charlotte Fabro (folk/songwriter), 8 pm.

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Cameron house Alli Devenish, Brett Caswel, Stonetrotter 10 pm. Jay Pollock 8 pm.

POST-HARDCORE

cancer bats Taking a breather breeds posi perspective By MICHAEL RANCIC

CanCer BaTs with indian handCraFTs, dead Tired and exaLT at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Thursday (March 12), doors 8 pm. $25. rotate.com, ticketweb. com.

After Toronto heavyweights Cancer Bats finished touring their last album, Dead Set On Living, in the summer of 2013, guitarist Scott Middleton got the opportunity to go to Spain to learn how to build guitars.

He proposed the idea of a break to his bandmates, who weren’t used to pausing for a breather in the tourrecord-tour-record cycle. But they actually welcomed the change.

“It gave us more time to think about the whole scope of the band,” says vocalist Liam Cormier between sips of coffee in a Bloorcourt café, “and less about what had just happened on the last tour.”

That new perspective informed the band’s fifth album, Searching For Zero (New Damage), which builds on the posthardcore, bullheaded, lifeaffirming

urgency featured on DSOL while also settling into something more contemplative and melodic.

When they reconvened to write it, they committed to moving beyond “one type of song” to instead explore the breadth of sounds they’ve been developing over their 10-year career: punk, stoner rock, metal.

“DSOL was the first record we’d written as a full four-piece,” says Cormier, “and with this one we were finally, like, messing around with all these other ideas.”

After demoing with friend Ian D’sa of Billy Talent, the band took the songs to renowned producer Ross Robinson’s studio in Venice Beach. Robinson helped flesh out the emotional

connections between the members and the material.

“Even when we were doing bed tracks, we were talking about the songs and what they meant,” Cormier says, beaming. “[Robinson would] go around asking how everyone felt about [each song] and what their interpretations were, which was so cool.

Everyone was engaged at every point in the process.”

As for the end result, Cormier describes Searching For Zero as a record that finds positivity through a shift in perspective. True or absolute zero is the lowest point on a scale, he says.

“We weren’t trying to make a concept record, but we did want an idea that could tie all the feelings on the record together. True zero is about where we’re at right now, because once you find that zero point, everything else is positive.”

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horseshoe Lips, The Fourth Well, Field Study, The Werest doors 8:30 pm. lee’s palaCe Helmet “Betty” 20th Anniversary show. Doors 8 pm.

Melange Soul Instigators Tap In Jam, 6 to 11 pm.

MoD CluB Kalin And Myles (hip-hop), doors 6 pm, all ages. orBit rooM LMT Connection (funk), 10 pm. phoenix ConCert theatre Cold War Kids, Highs (indie rock) doors 8 pm. rivoli Philip Sayce (rock). sMiling BuDDha Cops On Horses, Chris Doucett & The Way Out, Sevens, Odd Ones 9 pm. superMarKet Live Band Karaoke 9 pm. uniCorn puB The B-Sides 9:30 pm.

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CaMeron house David Newberry 6 pm.

DaKota tavern Jess Reimer (alt country).

Del ray so-Cal Cantina Open Stage 9 pm. free tiMes Cafe Sue & Dwight, Michelle

Rumball, Tony Laviola Where Have All The Folk Songs Gone, (singalong tribute to 50s & 60s folk), doors 6:30 pm. gate 403 Julian Fauth Blues Night. 9 pm. grossMan’s tavern Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm. holy oaK Cafe Joey Wright (folk), 7:30 pm.

She Roams, Josh Turnbull, Sarah Ciantar & David Gluck (singer/songwriters), 10 pm. hugh’s rooM Valdy 8:30 pm.

KraMer’s Open Stage hosted by Meghan Morrison, 8 to 11 pm. the loCal Angie Gunn (honkytonk), 9 pm. lola Wednesday’s Child Open Mic 8 pm to midnight.

reMix lounge Under The Shining Bright

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Castro’s lounge Mediterranean Stars (Mediterranean jazz), 8:30 pm.

ChalKers puB Lisa Particelli Girl’s Night Out

Jazz Jam. 8 pm to midnight. eMMet ray Bar Kevin Butler & Darlin’ (folk/ singer-songwriter), 9 pm. gate 403 Paul O’Conner & The Concord Jazz Quintet 5-8 pm.

Koerner hall The Glenn Gould School Opera artists The Threepenny Opera, 7:30 pm. naWlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio (jazz), 7 to 11 pm. plaCeBo spaCe Emily Steinwall Jazz Jam doors 8 pm. reposaDo Spy vs Sly vs Spy (jazz/blues trio). the rex The Israeli Jazz Showcase Kobi Hass Quartet 6:30 pm, Guy Mintas Trio 8:15 pm, Anat Cohen Quartet 10 pm.

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Brassaii Wristpect, Mike Toast Les Nuits, doors 10 pm. hanDleBar Greasy Listening (vinyl spun by Sonic Boom staff), 9 pm.

the garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416519-9439. gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-5882930. gerrarD art spaCe 1475 Gerrard E. 416778-0923. glaDstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. the great hall 1087 Queen W. 416791-1268. grossMan’s tavern 379 Spadina. 416977-7000. haBits gastropuB 928 College. 416533-7272. hanDleBar 159 Augusta. 647-7487433. harD luCK Bar 772a Dundas W. 647748-0772. harleM 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. harleM unDergrounD 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743. hart house 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849. heliConian hall 35 Hazelton. 416-9223618. hirut fine ethiopian Cuisine 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560. hola Cafe 1298 Queen E. 647-3501298. holy oaK Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-3452803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-5982162. the hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-4567321. hugh’s rooM 2261 Dundas W. 416531-6604. huMBle Beginnings 3109 Dundas W. 647-748-3109.

Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299.

Johnny JaCKson 587 College.

JunCtion City MusiC hall 2907 Dundas W. KaMa 214 King W. 416-599-5262.

Karla’s roaDhouse 4630 Kingston Rd. 647-352-7780.

Kensington loDge 21 Kensington. 647769-9936.

KitCh 229 Geary. 647-350-4555.

Koerner hall 273 Bloor W. 416-4080208.

KraMer’s 1915 Yonge. 416-483-0697. lee’s palaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-5321598. linsMore tavern 1298 Danforth. 416466-5130. the loCal 396 Roncesvalles. 416-5356225. loCal gest 424 Parliament. 416-9619425. loft 404 263 Adelaide W. 416-9994590. lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. long & MCQuaDe 925 Bloor W. 416-5887886. lula lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-5880307.

Massey hall 178 Victoria. 416-8724255.

MCgraDies tap anD grill 2167 Victoria Park. 416-449-1212.

Melange 172 Main.

MoD CluB 722 College. 416-588-4663.

Morgans on the Danforth 1282 Danforth. 416-461-3020.

MusiC gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080.

MusiDeuM 401 Richmond W. 416-5997323. naisa spaCe 601 Christie. 416-6525115. naWlins Jazz Bar 299 King W. 416-5951958. no one Writes to the Colonel 460 Col-

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VENUE INDEX 3030 DunDas West 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736.

751 Bar 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. aga Khan MuseuM 77 Wynford. 416646-4677. air CanaDa Centre 40 Bay. 416-8155500. alleyCatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. aMsterDaM BiCyCle CluB 54 The Esplanade. 416-864-9996. array spaCe 155 Walnut. 416-5323019.

Bassline MusiC Bar 865 Bloor W. 416732-7513.

Bier MarKt 58 The Esplanade. 416-8627575.

BlaCK Bear puB 1125 O’Connor. 416752-5182.

BlaCKBirD Bistro 993 Bloor St. West.

Blue DiaMonD entertainMent CoMplex 21 Toryork. 647-822-2583. the Boat 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218.

Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416504-4239. the Boxing loft soCial CluB 263 Adelaide W. 416-601-1457.

Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730.

BunDa lounge 1108 Dundas W. C’est What 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. the Cage 292 292 College.

CaMeron house 408 Queen W. 416703-0811.

CarDinal rule 5 Roncesvalles. 647-3520202.

Castro’s lounge 2116 Queen E. 416699-8272. the Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416532-1598.

Cavern Bar 76 Church. 416-971-4440. the Central 603 Markham. 416-9134586.

Centro pizza 3408 Kingston Rd. 416850-2828.

ChalKers puB 247 Marlee. 416-7892531.

Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

CloaK & Dagger 394 College. 647-4360228.

CluB 120 120 Church.

Coalition 282 Augusta. 416-832-9331.

CuBe 314 Queen W. 416-263-0330.

DaKota tavern 249 Ossington. 416850-4579. the Danforth MusiC hall 147 Danforth.

416-778-8163.

Del ray so-Cal Cantina 620 Queen W. 437-344-2029.

Desotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-6512109.

Don heights unitarian Congregation 18 Wynford, suite 102. 416-444-8839.

DraKe hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-5315042. the DuKe live.CoM 1225 Queen E. 416463-5302. eDWarD Johnson BuilDing 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. ellington’s MusiC & Cafe 805 St Clair W. 416-652-9111. eMMet ray Bar 924 College. 416-7924497. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-4666161. firKin on King 461 King W. 416-9795464. four seasons Centre for the perforMing arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. fox & fiDDle 865 York Mills. 416-7928299. free tiMes Cafe 320 College. 416-9671078. gallery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-8229781.

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Lights Open mic w/ spoken word, musicians, poets, comedians and artists, doors 8 pm. silver Dollar Crazy Strings Bluegrass Wednesday, doors 9 pm. the tennessee Tennessee Jamboree w/ Sion. tranzaC Josh Cole 10 pm [Southern Cross].

Winter garDen theatre The Once, Sarah MacDougall (Newfoundland folkroots trio) 8 pm.

lege. 416-551-7647. olD Mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-2362641. olDe stone Cottage puB 3750 Kingston Rd. 416-265-7932. optiCianaDo 2919 Dundas W. 416-6042020. orBit rooM 580A College. 416-5350613. the paDDoCK 178 Bathurst. 416-5049997. the painteD laDy 218 Ossington. 647213-5239. phoenix ConCert theatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. the piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. plaCeBo spaCe 2877 Lake Shore W. 647926-0947. poetry Jazz Cafe 224 Augusta. 416-5995299. ranCho relaxo 300 College. 416-9200366. relish Bar & grill 2152 Danforth. 416425-4664. reMix lounge 1305 Dundas W. 647722-4635. reposaDo 136 Ossington. 416-5326474. revival 783 College. 416-535-7888. the rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. rose theatre 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800. rounD venue 152A Augusta. 416-4516346. roy thoMson hall 60 Simcoe. 416-8724255. royal Conservatory of MusiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. ryze 423 College. 416-868-0303. saving gigi 859 Bloor W. 416-531-1538. sCarBorough CiviC Centre 150 Borough.

416-396-5263. the sCarBorough JunCtion 646 Danforth Rd. 647-350-4300. silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-9750909. sMiling BuDDha 961 College. 416-5193332. sneaKy Dee’s 431 College. 416-6033090. sony Centre for the perforMing arts 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669. sounD aCaDeMy 11 Polson. 416-4613625. southsiDe Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. the stone lion 1958 Queen E. 416-6901984. superMarKet 268 Augusta. 416-8400501. the tennessee 1554 Queen W. 416-5322570. thoMpson hotel 550 Wellington W. 416-640-7778. toni Bulloni’s 156 Cumberland. 416967-7676. toronto Centre for the arts 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388. tota lounge 592 Queen W. 416-8668878. tranzaC 292 Brunswick. 416-9238137. uniCorn puB 175 Eglinton E. 416-4820115. uniun 473 Adelaide W. 416-603-9300. velvet unDergrounD 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. the vue 195 Galaxy Blvd. 416-2139788.

White elephant 366 Queen E. 416364-9999.

Winter garDen theatre 189 Yonge.

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album reviews

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Golem (In the Red) Rating: Wand’s second album comes on the heels of their first, Gangolian Reef, released in August. That debut came out on Ty Segall’s God? Records, so maybe the L.A. four-piece picked up a tip or two from their ridiculously prolific label boss about how to write fast. (They’ve also switched labels, though.) Despite its quick conception and execution, Golem is massively substantial – and not just because of its bludgeoning riffs and cosmic synths.

It opens and ends with the slowest, quietest, psychiest builds, and then the half-hour-long middle is akin to wandering through the wildest forest on mushrooms, pushing hard through dense trees and crunchy bramble, finding relief in clear and open mossy patches, climbing a tree to see the dizzying cosmos above and black-abyss landscape below. Cory Hanson’s airy vocals are resplendent throughout. It’s a trip, a varied one with heavy/ light and ugly/beautiful balances in perfect moderation.

Best played loud.

Top track: Reaper Invert Wand play Adelaide Hall on April 3.

CARLA GILLIS

album of the week

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Park Avenue Sobriety Test (Pheromone) Rating: As long-time followers of Canada’s beloved Joel Plaskett know, the Dartmouth, Nova Scotia-based singer/songwriter wears many hats: grindin’ rock ’n’ roller, knee-slappin’ bluesy folkie, sentimental acoustic crooner. His latest solo effort finds him compressing those multiple personalities into a 13-track record.

But unlike 2011’s wide-reaching compilation of rarities, demos and B-sides (also excellent in its own right), Park Avenue Sobriety Test is a cohesive package.

After two decades of music-making, the 39-year-old sounds as comfortable on Celtic fiddle ditty On A Dime as he does covering a century-old protest song or wearing his heart on his sleeve on acoustic torch song When I Close My Eyes. Over the years, he’s fine-tuned the precious balance between humour and cynicism, winding them together with a catchy riff. It all makes Park Avenue Sobriety Test the quintessential Plaskett album – and a good entry point for new fans, too.

Top track: When I Close My Eyes Joel Plaskett Emergency play the Danforth Music Hall on May 22.

SAMANTHA EDWARDS

Pop /Rock MADONNA Rebel Heart (Universal)

Rating: NNN Madonna is in a rare reflective mood on her 13th album. The Queen of Pop’s last outing, MDNA, largely played it safe on the dance floor with nice enough songs about of love, heartache, religion and sex.

On Rebel Heart, she revisits her go-to themes, but it’s the songs that play around with Madonna’s status as professional pop icon (Veni Vidi Vici, Joan Of Arc and Illuminati) that are the most ambitious and interesting lyrically.

The album is surprisingly full of acoustic sounds and wistful balladry reminiscent of her 90s material, but it also plugs into a load of dark, restless and weird club rhythms with help from a coterie of indemand producers (Diplo, Mike Dean, Avicii, Blood Diamonds, Sophie, DJ Dahi).

This array of styles flows nicely thanks to Madonna’s ear for simple and clean melodies that not only flatter her thinner vocal performances but also anchor the more nutso numbers, like the pop masterpiece that is Bitch I’m Madonna – essentially one self-referential summation within another.

Top track: Bitch I’m Madonna, featuring Nicki Minaj Madonna plays the Air Canada Centre October 5. See online story, nowtoronto. com.

KEVIN RITCHIE

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MODEST MOUSE Strangers To Ourselves (Epic) Rating: N Isaac Brock’s vocals have always been an appropriately abrasive counterpoint to Modest Mouse’s wounded-animal riffing and surging rhythm section, but they do a dangerous amount of heavy lifting on the band’s sixth full-length. The ’roided-out production squashes the group’s dynamic range and tonal palette into dull-roar wallpaper, and Brock’s voice (now scoring Anthony Kiedis-level numbers on the Rappin’ Dad Index) is ever-present on top, his chewin’-on-garbage turns of phrase inescapable for a full hour.

Songs you’d expect to swell and boil over – which is what Modest Mouse are good at – often end up trudging humourlessly (Ansel, Be Brave), and things get far worse in the moments where humour is actually the goal. Pistol, a bafflingly tonedeaf send-up of an alpha male en route to the dance club, is so conceptually past its best-before date that it would have smelled funny on their last album from nearly a decade ago. (And, yup, the “pistol” is exactly what you think it is.)

No one is asking Modest Mouse to be timely, and it’s frustrating to hear them discard what has made them timeless.

Top track: The Tortoise And The Tourist MARK STREETER YOUNG GUV Ripe 4 Luv (Slumberland) Rating: NNNN If you haven’t been paying close attention, you might be surprised that Ben Cook’s new album as Young Guv is so unabashedly perky pop. After all, his biggest claim to fame is playing in two of Canada’s most successful hardcore punk bands, Fucked Up and No Warning.

But Ripe 4 Luv’s glistening harmonies and platinum-pop hooks seem less leftfield if you’ve been following the Toronto musician’s ever-growing list of startlingly diverse side projects or his ghostwriting for chart-topping mainstream acts. Drawing on that quirky resumé is what makes these summer-day guitar pop gems so successful.

The most obvious reference point is Big Star, but there’s a subtle soul-pop undercurrent that sets it apart from the legions of Alex Chilton power-pop imitators. An intriguing tension exists between the lo-fi production touches and pristine hi-fi sounds, and similarly between Cook’s joking/not-joking attitude.

Plus, it’s a good thing when more than half of the album’s songs are in the running for “top track.”

Top track: Ripe For Love BENJAMIN BOLES

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Hip-hop MAXO KREAM Maxo 187 (TSO)

Rating: NNN Houston emcee Maxo Kream represents a new breed of H-town rappers who are far less indebted to their local predecessors than those the city has produced before. Kream, whose pronounced nihilism can give his music a gangsta rap horrorcore vibe, adds a fresh narrative bent to his style on Maxo 187. Despite this supplemented new sound, the tape is four songs too long and would benefit from greater sonic exploration.

Still, there are several highlights. 1998 finds him in a steady double-time rhythm packed with darkly comic bars (“My boys go pop, I ain’t talking Backstreet / My guns go pop and the bullets N Sync”). And on the tape’s standout, Murder, a story-driven track that offers a compelling 360-degree view of the immediate aftermath of a homicide, Kream shows the newfound vulnerability and sage street smarts his music often lacks.

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HEEMS Eat Pray Thug (Greedhead/ Megaforce) Rating: NNN Heems (aka Himanshu Suri) made his name as part of Das Racist, famous for their unlikely 2008 novelty rap hit Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell. His debut solo album is much less focused on laughs, though. Instead, Eat Pray Thug is deeply personal and introspective, about being brown-skinned in America post-9/11 and a tough breakup that happened at the same time Das Racist imploded. Suri’s clearly committed to losing his joke rapper image, and while this attempt is not consistently successful, the high points balance out the stumbles.

He has a gift for language, and his wordsmith abilities are put to work deconstructing his identity rather than crafting clever puns. Apparently, sample-clearance issues greatly delayed the album and prevented some songs from being included, which could explain the unfinished indie rap feel of much of the production. That rawness works on the political songs, but less so when he tries for lighter pop-rap flavours.

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Folk PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO A Wanderer I’ll Stay (in-

dependent) Rating: NNN You wouldn’t be faulted for thinking you’d stumbled upon a lost Gillian Welch and David Rawlings classic when listening to Pharis and Jason Romero’s third album. Much like that Grammy-winning duo, the Horsefly, BC-based roots twopiece play bluegrassy Americana replete with reedy close harmonies, mournful melodies and sparse banjo/fiddle/acoustic guitar accompaniment.

Originals sit alongside vintage cuts like Buell Kazee’s Civil War-era The Dying Soldier, Jess Milton’s Goodbye Old Paint from 1942 and apparently the first song about cocaine, Cocaine Blues, which adds in some western swing. Without the liner notes, you’d be hard pressed to differentiate the new songs from the borrowed, which come in the album’s second half. Their own songs, often led

by Pharis, are sturdy and timeless, particularly the title track and There’s No Companion, with its uplifting choruses.

Pharis and Jason have perfected an old-time sound, and despite sounding like a more banjo-heavy version of Welch/Rawlings, it’s arresting and memorable.

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Eugène Atget was best known for his near-obsessive photographic record of Parisian architecture that was fast disappearing around the turn of the 20th century. His glass-plate largeformat images, with their stark romanticism and wispy light, inspired the next generation of great photographers.

In his show Paris After Atget, Canada’s Thaddeus Holownia pays tribute to the Frenchman in his own new series of Parisian scenes. Adapting Atget’s preference for architectural

detail above human drama, he gives a sense of Paris’s enormous architectural richness.

As Atget knew, architecture is inextricably of its time, and Holownia toys with this notion by noticing the intrusions of contemporary culture on historical subjects. Thus, a classic 19th century storefront is brightened by a large photo ad of Janelle Monáe, and the Tom of Finland mascot of queer sex boutique IEM appears in another print.

Some of Holownia’s photos address continuity as much as change.

Famed Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Co. looks much the way it did in 1951, while his stunningly handsome image of an old-growth

Thaddeus Holownia’s Terrasse Lautréamont pays tribute to the great Eugène Atget.

oriental plane tree in Parc Monceau shows what a couple of centuries of judicious urban tree husbandry can do.

His studies of the Paris Opera and the Winter Circus, occupying the centre of each frame in all their burnished, ornamental weight, are nearly as solid and monumental as the original buildings themselves.

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AGA KHAN MUSEUM The Lost Dhow: A Discovery From The Maritime Silk Route, ñ to Apr 26. Howard Hodgkin; Visions Of Mu-

ghal India, to Jun 21. 77 Wynford. 416-6464677. $15-$20, free Wed 4-8 pm.

ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks, to May 31. Jonathan Plante and Robert Burley, to May 24. 123 King W. 905-527-6610. $8-$10.

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Erika Defreitas, #CurateAGM, TALWST, to Apr 12. 300 City Centre. 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Jean-Michel Basquiat, to May 10 ($16.50-$25). Art Spiegelman, to Mar 14. Suzy Lake, to Mar 22.

Henryk Ross and Yuri Dojc, to Jun 14. Silke Otto-Knapp, to Jul 19, artist talk 5:30 pm, reception/performance 6-8:30 pm Mar 18 (free).

Manasie Akpaliapik, to Jun 30. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. $11-$19.50, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded).

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Biding Time: The Collection Strikes Back, to Mar 15. 4700 Keele,

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BATA SHOE MUSEUM Fashion Victims: Pleas-

ures And Perils Of Dress In The 19th Century, to Jun 30, 2016. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. $8-$14.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Janet Werner, to Apr 11. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

FORT YORK Art And The Great War; Charles Pachter, to Sep 1. Gertrude Kearns, to Jun 14.

250 Fort York Blvd. 416-392-6907.

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 Dawn For Leonia, to Jun 7 (Architecture Gallery). Darren Rigo, Deep Woods; Stopping By Woods; Lasting Effect; Every So Often; REWILD, to Jun 14. No Flat City, to Jun 1. 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000.

26. 10365 Islington. 905-893-1121. $15-$18.

MOCCA Douglas Coupland; Store/Fronts, to Apr 19. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Depth Of Perception, to Mar 15. 1306 Lakeshore E, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

POWER PLANT The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding, to May 18.

231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROBERT McLAUGHLIN GALLERY Margaret Rodgers, to May 7. Running On Empty, to Apr 26. 72 Queen (Oshawa). 905-576-3000.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Douglas Coupland, to Apr 26. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23. 100 Queen’s Park. Worn: Shaping Black Feminine Identity, to Nov 1. 416-586-8000. $14.50-$16 Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9-$10.

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taken in a period of renewed reverence for historic architecture. While Atget restlessly captured a vanishing Paris in transition, Holownia shows us a city in the process of cosmetically enhancing its choicest real estate.

His Paris, like much of Europe, is rapidly becoming a prettified copy of itself.

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RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Burn With Desire;

Anti-Glamour: Portraits Of Women, Manuela Morales, to Apr 5. 33 Gould. 416-9795164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM From Ashgabat To Istanbul: Oriental Rugs, to Apr 15. Good Beginnings: 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.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Alma Duncan, to May 3.

216 Main (Markham). 905-477-9511. $4-$5.

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BAND GALLERY Stella Fayikesi and Zun Lee (photos), to Apr 2. 1 Lansdowne. 647701-4323.

BAU-XI PHOTO David Burdeny, to Mar 21.

324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

CENTRE SPACE Nicotye Samayualie (drawing), to Mar 28. 65 George. 416-323-1373.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Jeff Tutt and Josh Thorpe (painting/prints/drawing), to Mar 21. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

DIVISION GALLERY Mathieu Latulippe, to Apr 18. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082.

GALLERY 44 Photopia group show, Mar 13-21, reception 6-9 pm Mar 13. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

INGRAM GALLERY Jack Nichols (prints), Mar 14-31, reception 2-4 pm Mar 14. 49 Avenue Rd. 416-929-2220.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Sarah Cale, to Mar 21. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

JOHN B. AIRD AIRD@30!, to Apr 3, reception 6-8 pm Mar 12. 900 Bay. 416-9286772.

KEW GARDENS TO BALMY BEACH Winter Stations (outdoor installation), to Mar 22.

KOFFLER GALLERY Kristiina Lahde, to Mar 29. 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643.

MERCER UNION Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and Krista Bell Stewarts (video), Mar 13-Apr 25, artist talk/reception 7 pm Mar 13. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519.

MILES NADAL JCC 10th Anniversary show, Mar 12-Apr 12. 750 Spadina. 416-9246211.

NARWHAL Junko Mizuno (painting), to Mar 14. 2104 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

OLGA KORPER Kristina Burda and Greg Murdock, to Mar 21. 17 Morrow. 416588-8220.

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THEATRE PREVIEW

There will be Blood

Two hot indie companies collaborate on reviving García Lorca’s classic tragedy

By JON KAPLAN

Actor Sochi Fried says Blood Wedding has the “quality of a raw nerve.”

BLOOD WEDDING (BODAS DE SANGRE) by Federico García Lorca, translated by Langston Hughes, directed by Soheil Parsa, with Beatriz Pizano, Derek Kwan, Bahareh Yaraghi, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio and Sochi Fried. Presented by Aluna Theatre and Modern Times at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Previews Thursday (March 12), opens Friday (March 13) and runs to March 29, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday and Sunday 2 pm. Pwyc-$25. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

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Marriage, passion and death are knotted inextricably in Blood Wedding (Bodas De Sangre), Federico García Lorca’s classic Spanish play that has the feel of Greek tragedy.

In a small village, two families have been feuding for generations. Now the boy from one clan is engaged to marry into the other, but trouble swells when the bride-to-be runs

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away with her former suitor.

Two fine indie companies, Aluna and Modern Times, collaborate on this production of Langston Hughes’s translation of the script, directed by Soheil Parsa, who’s given heightened theatricality to such well-known texts as Macbeth, Waiting For Godot and The Lesson.

“The play has the quality of a raw nerve, and Soheil has staged it with extreme simplicity,” says actor Sochi Fried.

“Scenographer Trevor Schwellnus uses a minimalist concept to create a series of windows that suggest a rural community where people know everyone else’s business.

“We actors have to rely on our bodies and voices in space, since there’s nowhere onstage

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to hide. Similarly, the characters have no place to put deep desires that fall outside the community’s conventions and status quo.”

Another challenge for Fried and the other performers is Lorca’s language, which she characterizes as operating with a poetic rather than a rational logic.

“It’s metaphoric and imagistic, and all but one of the characters are archetypal figures who are called boy, girl, wife, father and so on. The exception is the married Leonardo,whose flight with the bride leads to tragedy.”

Fried plays two roles in the show, first as Leonar-

do’s wife and later as the moon.

“In some way the wife represents the social conventions against which Leonardo struggles. She’s rule-bound, aware of how marriage works in this society. Sometimes it’s hard to shift my very 21st-century sensibility as a woman to a character who must uphold her role. She loves Leonardo, but she also fights as hard as she can to hold onto him, knowing that he is literally the person who keeps the family from poverty.”

If the wife’s language is simple and grounded in a world we know, the moon speaks symbolically.

“She’s a hungry, cold, bloodthirsty character, part of the play’s third act, which many people call surreal,” offers Fried, whose previous shows include Antigonick and Stencilboy And Other Portraits.

“But the moon fits right into Lorca’s poetic logic. She’s part of the natural world that steps fate-like into the human realm, upsetting the plans of Leonardo and the girl.

“My way into her character is to see her needing something outside of herself in order to be whole, just as the real moon needs the light of the sun.

Her insatiable thirst is only momentarily satisfied. She understands the sensual connection between blood and death – death that’s not the natural follow-up to growing old, but rather murderous and untimely.”

As in most Modern Times productions, movement is key in defining the play’s atmosphere.

“For Soheil, every physical action onstage must come from an organic place and an understanding that stillness is more powerful than stilted mannerisms.

“There have to be reasons for our movements. For instance, to create the wedding dance, he suggested we play with the violent motions of a punch first to the stomach, then the face and the back. Working with those ideas, we’ve developed a fluid pattern that each actor has individualized into a kind of folkloric dance.

“Blood Wedding is the kind of play that requires a style of acting and an approach to text miles away from kitchen-sink drama.”

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New this week THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin (Trin-

ity College Dramatic Society). Overachievers vie for the title in this musical comedy. Opens Mar 17 and runs to Mar 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place. uofttix.ca.

BAD BOYS OF HISTORY (Blazing Bombshell Burlesque). Burlesque and sideshow artists portraying some of history’s most notorious men in this gender-bending atypical revue. Mar 14 at 10 pm. $15-$20. Club 120, 120 Church. badboysburlesque.bpt.me.

BARE: A POP OPERA by Damon Intrabartolo and Jon Hartmere Jr (WolfPAC). High school seniors at a co-ed Catholic boarding school explore identity, sex and faith. Mar 12-14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $15.

Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. uofttix.ca.

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 (see story, this page). Previews to Mar 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.

BULL by Mike Bartlett (The Coal Mine Theatre). Two employees poke fun at a third as the trio wait to find out who will be axed in this dark comedy. Previews Mar 15, opens Mar 17 and runs to Apr 5, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. $25, preview $20. The Coal Mine Theatre, 798 Danforth. brownpapertickets.com.

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(Alliance Française). Storyteller Stéphanie Bénéteau tells legends from Quebec and beyond, Arabian Nights, Greek myths and more.

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Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park.

416-408-0208, music.utoronto.ca. rOuTe 66 – THe HearTlanD (Soulpepper Concert Series). A multi-artist journey through the heartland of America on the backs of Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac and the blues. Opens Mar 17 and runs to Mar 25, see

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Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

THe iCe queen (Purple Circus). A fearless princess sets off on an epic journey to find her estranged sister in this sing-along family show. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 22, daily at 2 pm, plus Sat-Sun 11 am. $30-$50.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. tickets.ticketwise.ca/event/3915569. kODO Drummers Of Japan (Sony Centre for the Performing Arts). Theatrical percussion show. Mar 12 at 8 pm. $55-$95. 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. 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.

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

OreganO by Rose Napoli (Theatre Rhea). A young woman goes on an adventure in order to face the death of her father in this magicrealist play. Previews Mar 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.

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COming HOme: THe mOTH in TOrOnTO (The Moth Mainstage). Theatrical storytelling show with host Ophira Eisenberg. Mar 12 at 7:30 pm. Sold out. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

THe Daisy THeaTre (Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes). This cabaret of improvisation parodies theatrical genres from opera, music hall, Las Vegas, French cabaret and vaudeville in an adult puppet theatre show. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Apr 5, TueThu and Sun 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9:30 pm. $30. Studio Theatre. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst.

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Disney On iCe: frOzen (Feld Entertainment).

This family ice show is based on the Disney movie. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 7 pm, mat Thu-Sun 11 am and 3 pm. $28-$95. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. disneyonice.com. essenTial zarzuela! (Essential Opera). This show is based on Amadeo Vives’s Bohemios and other Spanish works. Mar 13 at 8 pm. $20-$25. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton. essentialopera.com. glaDsTOne CaBareT (Gladstone). Burlesque revue with Fionna Flauntit, Bianca Boom Boom, Miss Fine Lines, Sly Maria and others.

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HARPER REGAN by Simon Stephens (Canadian Stage). At the Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front East). To March 22. $30-$99. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. See Continuing, page 50. Rating: NNN Though she only travels several hundred kilometres, the journey taken by the title character in Harper Regan is epic.

In Simon Stephens’s play, written in an intentionally disjointed style, Harper (the excellent Molly Parker) abruptly leaves husband (Alex Poch-Goldin), daughter (Vivien Endicott-Douglas) and boss (Hardee T. Lineham) to attend her dying father in another city.

Harper comes to terms with her life, past and present, in a voyage of the soul more than of the body. It’s not a fully satisfying expedition, in part because of the writing, but also due to director Matthew Jocelyn’s production, which is often exciting but ultimately fails to fill in all the narrative’s emotional gaps.

Working with set designer Debra Hanson and lighting designer Michael Walton, Jocelyn moves the performing space into the audience’s lap, building out from the Bluma Appel’s conventional stage to give us a close-up look at the interactions between characters. Harsh bursts of light and Thomas Ryder Payne’s jarring sound design punctuate the scene changes.

Many of the individual confrontations, all of which involve Harper, work well, beginning with her uncomfortable exchange with Lineham’s tyran-

nical, sexually suggestive employer. Poch-Goldin’s cheery husband hides an important secret we eventually discover, but he’s even better as a man who has an afternoon encounter with Harper; this second guy’s warm and inviting but also slightly off-putting.

Other men figure importantly in Harper’s trip of self-discovery: Izaak Smith as a student with whom she strikes up a conversation, and, in one of the production’s most finely crafted scenes, Philip Riccio as a sleazy, angry sexual aggressor in a bar.

Lynne Griffin also scores as Harper’s estranged mother, a not very maternal figure who believes a different truth than the one held by her daughter.

It’s not until the end of the play, unfortunately, that Endicott-Douglas convinces us that she’s connected to her character’s unsettled life.

Another problem is that pretty much everyone in this England-set play has a North American accent. The class differences between the characters are lost, and with that some of the tension between them.

But you won’t forget Parker’s extraordinary, complex performance in the central role. Her face always full of mixed feelings, this Harper grows by subtle but powerful increments into a woman who sees hope in the future, for herself and with JON KAPLAN her family.

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416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

SPOON RIveR adapted by Mike Ross and Albert Schultz (Soulpepper). This beautifully tuned production is based on the poems of Edgar Lee Masters, which give voice to dozens of people buried in a small-town graveyard. Mike Ross’s musical numbers – played and performed by a talented cast – and Albert Schultz’s nuanced direction capture the comedy and tragedy in the characters’ histories and, ultimately, the interwoven nature of life and death. (Review from Nov 2014.)

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. NNNN (JK) StORIeS FROM the MIDDle AgeS (Alliance Française). Storyteller Stéphanie Bénéteau tells stories of castles and knights, dragons and princesses. Mar 14 at 5 pm (costume party from 4 pm). $8-$15, kids under 7 free.

24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.ca.

SUBwAy StAtIONS OF the CROSS by Ins Choi (Soulpepper). A homeless vagabond delivers a message from God in Choi’s performance of songs and spoken words.

Previews from Mar 18, opens Mar 22 and runs to Apr 4, see website for schedule. $20$58. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. tIMe StANDS StIll by Donald Margulies (The TSS Collective). A journalist couple are in sync when on dangerous assignments, but struggle in a domestic environment. Previews Mar 12, opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm (Mar 27 at 7:30 pm), mat SatSun 2 pm. $22-$38. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca. the UNPlUggINg by Yvette Nolan (Native Earth Performing Arts/Factory Theatre). In a post-apocalyptic world, two Aboriginal women are cast out of their village and must wander a desolate landscape. Previews from Mar 14, opens Mar 19 and runs to Apr 5, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23-$45. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-531-1402, nativeearth.ca. vANyA AND SONIA AND MAShA AND SPIKe by Christopher Durang (Mirvish). Three siblings named after dysfunctional characters from Chekhov plays try to escape their melancholic curse in this comedy. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Apr 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for other dates). $19-$99. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. mirvish.com. veNUS by Suzan-Lori Parks (Theatre @ York).

In 1800s South Africa, a young black woman is lured away from a menial job to tour Europe as a freak show attraction. Previews Mar 15-16, opens Mar 17 and runs to Mar 21, SunFri 7:30 pm, mat Wed and Fri 1 pm, Sat 2 pm. $17, stu/srs $12, preview $7. York University, 4700 Keele, Accolade E Bldg. 416-736-5888, theatre.finearts.yorku.ca.

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After selling out their run at the Fringe this past summer, the Howland Company had 52 good reasons to remount TJ Dawe and Rita Bozi’s imaginative and touching relationship drama.

The concept is simple but powerful.

It’s a pretty standard relationship arc following two 20-somethings – from coffee shop encounter to final embrace – but it’s divided up into 52 miniscenes, with key words from each written on a different playing card. The deck is scattered and the scenes performed in random order. It’s modular theatre inspired by an iPod’s shuffle setting, and since four different casts take turns playing the couple at different performances, each show is unique (the one I saw featured Cameron Laurie and Hallie Seline).

The heart of the plot is a rocky romance, but there’s plenty of relatable humour. Anyone who’s been in a relationship will chuckle at the familiar foibles, frustrations and fears on display here.

Some scenes, like one about casual

jealousy titled How Do You Know Her? are quick snapshots and get laughs from their deadpan brevity or by the sarcastic knowing smirk the performers sometimes share with the audience when retiring a scene’s card. Others, like one called First Time, reveal longer, deeper backstories for the characters and lead to intense emotional exchanges stemming from their seemingly incongruent hopes for the future.

In this performance, Laurie and Seline displayed palpable romantic chemistry but were just as effective in scenes taking place earlier and later in the story that required some cringeworthy awkwardness. It’s easy to see how a different cast could put another spin on these moments, too.

Thanks to directors Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster and Paolo Santalucia, Laurie and Seline paced the performance so well that even though the scenes were in an order totally new to them, it didn’t feel random; there was a clear beginning, middle and end. This is partly attributable to the human tendency to impose order on chaos, but also to the cast’s deep understanding of the material and extensive practice thinking fast on their feet about which sections of the story have been revealed and which remain to be told.

Unlike other recent attempts at shuffle-setting storytelling, 52 Pick-Up succeeds both as an intriguing theatrical experiment and moving narrative.

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52 Pick-up (see review, this page). To Mar 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$20. Fraser Stu­ dios, 76 Stafford. howlandcompanytheatre. com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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) BAlM IN gIleAD by Lanford Wilson (Ryerson Theatre School). Heroin addicts, prostitutes and thieves intersect in a NYC cafe in this drama. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 12, call/ see website for schedule. $10. Abrams Studio, 46 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118.

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.

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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. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. nnn (JK) bonnie And clyde by Adrian Yearwood (Echo Productions). This play looks to examine the real people behind the sensationalized crime spree story in a physical theatre production. To Mar 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20-$25. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. echoproductions.ca. brAin Food: tWo short plAys (Red Sandcastle 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 Theatre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com. 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. To Apr 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm (and some Sat). $29-$55. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. don’t stop me noW (Lower Ossington Theatre). The hits of British rock band Queen are performed in this theatrical tribute show. To Mar 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $30-$40. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

(Starvox Entertainment). This homage to the TV series places the audience as guests at the wacky inn in a partially improvised dinner theatre show (see review, this page). To Apr 19, Tue-Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 6 and 8 pm, Sun 6 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. $60-$100. O’Keefe Lounge. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. n (GS) hArper regAn by Simon Stephens (Canadian Stage). A woman abruptly leaves her home and family after learning of her father’s impending death (see review, page 48). To Mar 22, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, mat SatSun 1 pm. $30-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. nnn (JK) 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. Solar Stage Children’s Theatre, 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca.

neW ideAs FestivAl (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, works-inprogress and experimental theatre features works by Tabitha Keast, DJ Sylvis, Rose Napoli, Catherine Frid and others. To Mar 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm, Sat readings at noon. $15, pass $40. 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. once by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (Mirvish). Based on the hit indie movie, this drama with music about the collaboration between a down-on-hisluck Dublin busker (Ian Lake) and a Czech immigrant (Trish Lindström) needs chemistry between the leads and a lot of heart and honesty. This all-Canadian production has all that and a lot more. A first-rate ensemble and sensitive, intimate direction by John Tiffany adds to the soulful, deeply felt show. To May 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $29$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) pinocchio by Hugo Bélanger (Tout à Trac).

The classic children’s story comes alive in an inventive production for ages 6 and up (see review at nowtoronto.com/stage). To Mar 21, see website for schedule. $25-$34. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. nnn (JK)

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by Jennifer Phillips (360 Productions). Phillips combines excerpts from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues with her play, The F Word. To Mar 15, Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $16-$26 (proceeds support the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, U of T and Nellie’s Shelter). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com/events.

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If you’re hungry for some British farce and love the John Cleese TV series Fawlty Towers, rent the box set.

The current Starvox Entertainmentproduced show, Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience – the typo in the title is intentional – serves up a thin imitation. Faulty, indeed.

Unlike other improvised dinner theatre shows – Yo, Tony and Tina, where are youse, now? – there’s not much of an arc. That becomes obvious in the aimless pre-show, when put-upon ectomorphic hotel owner Basil (a fine Benedict Holme) and his shrill wife, Sybil (Alison Pollard-Mansergh, who is replaced by Imogen Miller Porter later in the run) merely argue bitterly, with immigrant Spanish waiter Manuel (Leigh Kelly) spouting malapropisms.

Any opportunity to plant a couple of plot ideas here is wasted.

Alison Pollard-Mansergh and Leigh Kelly serve up half-baked routines.

After awkwardly ushering us into a part of the Sony Centre basement that resembles less a hotel than a warehouse (complete with atmospheric ceiling ducts), the “experience” itself begins. Sort of.

There are a few gags. Manuel fumbles with the dinner rolls. The (unseen) drunk cook does something disgusting with the soup. (Speaking of which: waiters, I’d appreciate your not touching the rims of all our soup bowls, thanks.) And Basil tries to conceal a scheme involving horse racing from Sybil.

The jokes about Manuel’s mangled English grow stale. Immigrant humour hasn’t aged very well, ya know? And

dance listings New this week Alice’s Adventures in WonderlAnd The National Ballet of Canada presents ñ Christopher Wheeldon’s interpretation of

Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 29, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $26-$250. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. national.ballet.ca. the eros cAbAret Sion Irwin-Childs presents interdisciplinary performances connected by themes of love, death, sex & the avant-garde.

Mar 13 at 7:30 pm. $10-$15. Round Venue, 152A Augusta. facebook.com/theeroscabaret.

Forcier/normAn DanceWorks and Harbourfront NextSteps present a double bill by Marie France Forcier and Tracey Norman. Mar 12-14, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $19-$37. Harbourfront

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Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, danceworks.ca. in the Further soil Streaming of a dance stage performance by the Menaka Thakkar Dance company about Thakkar’s journey in introducing Indian dance to Canada over 40 years ago. Mar 15 at 3:30 pm. Free/pwyc donations accepted. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. menakathakkardance.org. older & reckless #34: All duets MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents works by Karen Kaeja, Doug Varone and Jane Mappin, performed by Peggy Baker/Larry Hahn, Allen Kaeja/Karen Kaeja and Jane Mappin/Daniel Firth. Mar 1315, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $22.

Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity.

1-800-838-3006, moonhorsedance.com. sleeping beAuty on ice Show One Productions presents Tchaikovsky’s ballet per-

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you can only hear Sybil shriek “Basil!” so many times before you want to stab a dessert fork in your eye.

While the performers comfortably interact with patrons – many of whom simply want selfies – they’re given little opportunity to shine.

The food, which takes forever to come out, is as limp as the comedy, although there were some choice insults directed at vegetarians and vegans.

This show has been performed since 1997 and has played the West End and the Edinburgh Fringe to sold-out audiences.

There’s no accounting for taste. glenn sumi formed by the Imperial Ice Stars. Mar 14-15, Sat 2 & 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $55-$95. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. tour de dAnse Toronto Dance Theatre presents members of the public performing in a specially created show with company dancers. Mar 14 at 8 pm. $25 (fundraiser for TDT).

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tdt.org/tourdedanse.

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School presents 24 individual works of around 5 minutes each by students in the dance program. To Mar 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, rtsinfo@ryerson.ca.

double bill: porter & trenthAm lbs/ sq" performance presents Sara ñ Porter performing her new work Sara Does a

Solo, and Gerry Trentham’s premiere of Experiment b. To Mar 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 2 pm. $28, stu $20. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. pps15.eventbrite.ca.

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Thursday, March 12 Andrew Albert Stand-up show. To Mar 15, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

How to Kill A ComediAn Second City presents its Spring 2015 Mainstage revue. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Indefinite run, 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: 2humans and Secret Pants (8 pm); Cash Grab and O Dat Dum (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Weird Science sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); The Panel Show (10:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. sKetCHfest @ tHeAtre Centre Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Vest of Friends and Panacea! (8 pm); Elephant Empire and National Scandal (10 pm). Incubator Space: Glimmer Twins and Tall Sigh (7:30 pm); Beggar’s Canyon and Jape (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, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $14$16. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca. 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.

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ians perform their best late night TV-friendly material w/ host Courtney Gilmour. 8-10 pm.

Pwyc (proceeds to the War Amps). 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

Friday, March 13 Andrew Albert See Thu 12.

AsiAnsploitAtion Comedy lAb Improv and

sketch workshop for beginner and intermediate levels followed by a showcase. 6:15 pm. $5. RSVP. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. asiansploitation@gmail.com. tHe boArd Improv show takes on the shady business of big city condo boards and the secret lives of their members. To Apr 17, Fri 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com/the-board.

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 12. improv gAme sHow Weekly Whose Line-inspired competition. 8 pm. $5. 3rd fl. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. socap.ca.

tHe pen15 Club presents: mArCH mAddnezz

Comedy by John Morley, Calwyn Shurgold, Chrissie Cunningham, Garret Jamieson, headliner Steph Tolev and host Jesse Owens. 10 pm. $5. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. pen15club.ca. pusHpins Unscripted comedy is put on the map as audience suggestions drive this show about places, landmarks, characters and their stories. To Apr 10, Fri 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10.

Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com/pushpins. sex And tHe single pArent Stand-up w/ Christina Walkinshaw. 9:30 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761. sKetCHfest @ Comedy bAr Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Wendigo and Tony Ho (8 pm); Secret Pants and Falcon Powder (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Friday The 13th: Spooky Sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); Adventures In Zulk w/ Peter Stevens and Mark Little (10:30 pm). $10-$15/each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. sKetCHfest @ tHeAtre Centre Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: the Williamson Playboys and National Scandal (8 pm); the Templeton Philharmonic (10 pm).

Incubator Space: Jape and Hip.Bang (7:30 pm); Two Weird Ladies and Accidental Company (9:30 pm). $15/each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com. texAs Comedy mAssACre 2 Killer stand-up w/ Terry Clement, Cal Post, Nick Beaton, Keesha Brownie, Richard Lett, Aidan Devine, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Fox & Fiddle, 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com. top sHelf Comedy live: tHe beACH Weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor.

St Louis Wings Queen E, 1963 Queen E. topshelfcomedyshow.com.

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14/15 A struggling actress and a budding novelist fall in and out of love over the course of five years. This powerful and intimate musical explores the challenges of a creative life, the complexities of love in a modern world and the inevitable heartaches that we all face.

MARCH 19 - 21, 2015 SMCS Centre for the Arts 1515 Bathurst Street Special pricing for students and arts workers

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World Premieres by Marie France Forcier & Tracey Norman

Collaborators: James Bunton, Justine Comfort, Gabriel Cropley, Jesse Dell, Beth Despres, Brittany Duggan, Sky Fairchild-Waller, Molly Johnson, Louis Laberge-Côté, Gillian Lewis, Julia Sasso and Joshua Van Tassel Tickets: $19 - $37 Adult • $15 CultureBreak $19 - $26 Seniors • $23 Groups 10+ Box Office 416

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Saturday, March 14 Andrew Albert See Thu 12.

Cowboy Comedy Comedy and karaoke w/

Nick Martinello, Amish Patel, Che Durena, Sai Kit, Alan Shane Lewis, JJ Liberman, headliner Nitish Sakhuja and host Ronen Geisler. 8 pm. $5 Korean Cowboy, 2368 Yonge. facebook. com/events/435610946595127.

How to Kill A ComediAn See Thu 12. lAtin live! Sketch, stand-up and music with a Latin touch. 8 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church.

120diner.com. sKetCHfest @ Comedy bAr Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: Two Weird Ladies and Falcon Powder (8 pm); Wendigo and Garlic Jackson (10 pm). Cabaret Space: Musical Comedy Sketches by various troupes (8:30 pm); Weird Al Karaoke (10:30 pm). $10-$15/ each, festival pass $75. 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. sKetCHfest @ tHeAtre Centre Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Mainspace shows: the Williamson Playboys and Pop Roulette (8 pm); Marty Topps and Get Some (10 pm).

Incubator Space: Palcoholics and the Flat Earth (7:30 pm); the Somethingorothers and Hip.Bang (9:30 pm). $15/each, festival pass $75. 1115

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Mar 3 –Apr 12, 2015 in the Mainspace

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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STONE COLD STAND-UP: HOMETOWN HOMIES EDITION Aisha Brown, Dena Jackson, Zabrina

Chevannes, Moe Ismail, Marito Antonio Lopez, headliner Mark James Heath and host Jhanelle Dennis. 8 pm. Pwyc. Olde Stone Cottage Pub, 3750 Kingston Rd. facebook.com/ events/1555885658014576.

Sunday, March 15 ANDREW ALBERT See Thu 12.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Jennifer McAuliff, Matt

Holmes, Meg Mackay, Alex Crawford, Daniel Borman, Suzi Marks, host Andy Cheng and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. einstein.ca.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 12.

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: Twoson and Garlic Jackson (8 pm); Sketchersons’ Sunday Night Live (10 pm). Cabaret Space: St Patrick’s Day Sketches 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 Riot and Pop Roulette (6 pm); The Best Of The Fest Award Show w/ guest Bruce McCulloch (8 pm). Incubator Space: Allana Reoch and Respect Cops (6:30 pm); Beggar’s Canyon and the Flat Earth (8:30 pm). $15/ each, festival pass $75. 1115 Queen W. torontosketchfest.com.

THAT MOMENT WHEN Jan Caruana and Rob Baker reunite to perform their hit longform improv show. 8 pm. $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre. com.

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Monday, March 16 200% VODKA Weekly improv hosted by Matt McCready. 8 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. socap.ca.

ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Amanda Brooke Perrin, James Hartnett, Tim Gilñ bert, Ben Miner, Rhiannon Archer, Diana Love,

Ryan Long, Lianne Mauladin, Sammy Farid, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BIG BAD WOLF VS LORD UNDERWEARFACE VON SCHTINKER This family musical takes a new

look at a fairy-tale character. Mar 16-20 at 1:30 pm, Mar 21 at noon, Mar 22 at 2 pm. $14, family pack $45. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.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.

THE GAME Stand-up comics improvise a set based on audience suggestions drawn from a bucket w/ host Nick Martinello. 10 pm. $5.

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LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE Zabrina Chevannes, Julia Hladkowicz, Sammy Farid, Chris Locke and hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415 Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

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Series presents Hitchcock-inspired musical improvised terror. 8 pm. $5. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com/ good-evening.

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THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Weekly open mic w/ Vandad Kardar & 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.

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HELEN HUMPHREYS Talk with the author of The Evening Chorus. 1 pm. Free. City Hall Public Library, 100 Queen W. tpl.ca/ehlist.

MARILYN CHURLEY Former city councillor and MPP Churley launches Shameless: The Fight For Adoption Disclosure And The Search For My Son. Opening remarks by Olivia Chow. 6-8 pm. Free. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur. btlbooks.com/events.

NINA BERKHOUT & DAVID VANN The authors read from their latest works. 7:30 pm. $10.

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STAR TALKS: ANDREW MORTON The author talks about his latest book, 17 Carnations: The Royals, The Nazis And The Biggest Cover-Up In History. 7 pm. Free (ticket required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca/appelsalon.

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nandez paints a complete picture of a generation freestyling as they go, flipping the finger to routine.

The realism here is so sharp that Bobby’s character never falls flat, even if his dreams do. As he grows older, Bobby learns to navigate many more life challenges, from son-father estrangement to sexual frustration. The dialogue is especially fluid in later sections.

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WORDJAMMIN’: A CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS Indie authors read excerpts from their works. 2-6 pm. Free. Yellow Griffin Pub, 2202 Bloor W. wordjamm.com.

Monday, March 16 CECIL CASTELLUCCI Talking about her latest book, Stone In The Sky. 6:30 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. tpl.ca.

SARAH LAYDEN Reading and signing copies of her debut novel, Trip Through Your Wires. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. benmcnallybooks.com.

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Jack O’Connell

MICHAEL WATIER

BAD BOY BREAKTHROUGH Intense actor’s spirit remains unbroken in ’71

By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI ’71 directed by Yann Demange, written by Gregory Burke, with Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid and Sean Harris. An Elevation Pictures release. 99 minutes. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

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Breakout indie actor Jack O’Connell seized international acclaim for playing a volatile prisoner in Starred Up and a young British soldier desperately trying to survive a night stranded in Belfast during the Troubles in ’71. Making the leap to Hollywood to play a tortured prisoner of war in Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken should have been a natural fit for the 24-year-old British star.

“I don’t want to ruffle feathers or nothing, but the storyboard nature of working on such an expensive film [like Unbroken] is quite difficult,” says O’Connell with refreshing frankness.

“It’s almost as if the performance has already been done and you just get to imitate what the filmmakers are already seeing.”

To illustrate, O’Connell jumps up and starts imitating a storyboard performance, awkwardly mixing a soldier’s march with precise tiptoeing that looks as though he’s failing miserably at a sobriety test.

“I found it very frustrating that things were already decided before I was consulted,” O’Connell elaborates. “But I also like to check myself.

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It would be risky to trust my opinion on everything. At least the people deciding my performance before me were Angelina Jolie and [cinematographer] Roger Deakins. That helped me come to grips with it.”

O’Connell prefers the experimental, freewheeling hand-held shooting style of ’71, an engrossing low-budget chase movie that navigates the bitter and tragic turmoil between the Brits and the Irish. While stranded, O’Connell’s Gary Hook becomes a target for both the IRA and back-dealing British operatives.

I’m talking to O’Connell and his ’71 director, Yann Demange, during TIFF. O’Connell leans back, relaxed, still recovering from the extreme weight loss he endured for Unbroken. There’s a palpable coiled intensity to him, indicative of a troubled past. He’s had brushes with violence and regular visits to courtrooms, and you can see that in his posture, shoulders resting in a guarded position. That’s the reason Demange felt O’Connell was so perfect for the film.

“I was like, ‘This is the guy,’” Demange recalls of his first meeting with O’Connell over a couple of pints. “He’s full of pain. He knows pain.

You can see it in his eyes. He’s not pretending.

He understands the mindset of this boy. It’s not just the machismo; he’s got vulnerability, an emotional depth. He’s a bit rough around the edges.”

O’Connell says the imposing Demange also

REVIEW ’71

ñ(Yann Demange) Rating: NNNN This intense survival thriller is set in a particularly heated time during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Unbroken star Jack O’Connell plays Gary Hook, a young British soldier who is accidentally stranded in Belfast by his unit after a small, disorienting riot turns deadly.

He ducks through alleyways and corridors where various factions are looking to draw blood, all the while witnessing the multi-faceted political divisions and the various back-dealings that fan the flames of turmoil.

Though genre contrivances and docudrama make an uneasy marriage, Yann Demange’s stealthy direction doesn’t allow you to dwell on it, keeping the action moving through standoffs that are lurid, visceral and ultimately tragic.

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Jack O’Connell plays a Brit soldier stranded in Belfast during the Troubles.

has that edge about him, which is probably why the two clicked.

“We’re both working-class boys,” Demange adds. “We definitely connected as not being from the world that’s typically in film.”

Typical or not, both O’Connell and Demange have become sought-after talents on the heels of ’71. Demange is set to direct a thriller for Brad Pitt’s production company, Plan B, while O’Connell is starring opposite George Clooney and Julia Roberts in an upcoming hostage movie.

“I’m quite blasé about it all,” says O’Connell about the doors ’71 has kicked open for him.

“It was never the intention. I just focus on the here and now and make sure I give that due level of respect.

It’s very reassuring to see audiences still responding to this sort of filmmaking, though. To have lowbudget cinema and just plain, good old-fashioned storytelling still resonating with audiences around the world reinstates some faith for me.”

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IF THE SHOE FITS

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Ella enchants Cinderella (Kenneth Branagh). 105 minutes. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times see Movies, page 58. Rating:

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Writer/director follows his instincts with The Cobbler

By NORMAN WILNER

It’s not Adam Sandler’s fault that The Cobbler doesn’t work.

The CObbler directed by Thomas McCarthy, written by McCarthy and Paul Sado, with Adam Sandler, Method Man, Melonie Diaz and Steve Buscemi. An Entertainment One release. 98 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

In addition to his work as an actor, Tom McCarthy has built a considerable reputation as a writer/director of crit­ ically acclaimed, reasonably successful movies like The Station Agent and The Visitor.

His newest release, The Cobbler, is a little different. It’s a fable starring Adam Sandler as lonely New York shoe re­ pairman Max, who discovers an enchanted stitching ma­ chine in his store’s basement that allows him to take on the appearance of anyone whose footwear it’s repaired.

“It was really just this idea of approaching the simple, magical idea of walking in somebody else’s shoes and what that might do to somebody’s life,” McCarthy says.

“I’ve always been slightly fascinated with shoe repair shops and cobblers. Those shops are like Geppetto’s workshop. Tiny little places, almost subterranean, with instruments that look like they’ve been around for 200 years.”

McCarthy and co­writer Paul Sado “just started knocking away at it,” he says.

“The story started getting interesting and fun and kinda crazy, and we just leaned into it. We said, ‘Let’s keep trying to con­ nect the dots and see how we can play with genre and tone throughout, and how far we can push and surprise the audience.’”

McCarthy’s other films as a writer/director are largely about strangers who form surrogate families. My take on it, I tell him, is that he’s made a big mythological super­ hero kind of story that’s also about the gentrification of New York’s Lower East Side.

He laughs.

“I know this movie will not be for everyone. A lot of people are gonna freak out about the movie and say I’ve lost my mind and how could I make a crazy movie like this. But we want you to just kick back and go with the story. At heart it does have a lot of wonderful colours that I’m really proud of, and I think it holds together. In its own subtle way, it’s original and challenging.”

When The Cobbler premiered at TIFF, I called it the worst thing I’d seen at the festival. As it turns out, McCar­ thy was in Toronto working on his next movie.

“I was prepping Spotlight when they did the [TIFF] press screening. It was a disaster, and they went after us hard. I was like, ‘Well, okay, that’s how I guess the movie [plays].’ Then we had the premiere four or five days later, and 1,500 people were at that thing and just totally went on the ride. And I was like, ‘Okay, this is all I wanted, to send the audience on a fun, weird ride, where [they] stayed connected to this guy’s little journey. This is great.’”

Spotlight will be less wild. Starring Mark Ruf­ falo, Rachel McAdams and Michael Keaton, it dramatizes the Boston Globe’s exposure of the Catholic archdiocese’s protection of predatory priests.

“It’s bigger and different totally again,” he says. “Maybe it’s quite a dramatic movie – not that I haven’t done that [before], but in a different way.”

Will it be ready for the fall festival circuit?

“I’d love to show it at Venice,” he laughs. “That would be cool. I’d love to bring this movie to Italy. Is there a Vatican Film Festival?”

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review THE COBBLER (Thomas McCarthy) Rating: N Gifted writer/director Thomas McCarthy goes terribly wrong with this comedy about Max (Adam Sandler), a Lower East Side cobbler who finds a magical stitching machine that lets him impersonate anyone whose shoes it repairs.

It’s basically a tone-deaf remake of Sam Raimi’s Darkman, with Sandler using his mystical power to goof on annoying jerks and help a nice young woman (Melonie Diaz) fight a scheming developer (Ellen Barkin) bent on gentrifying their neighbourhood.

Given how textured and developed McCarthy’s films have been before this (The Station Agent, The Visitor), The Cobbler is startlingly thin and naive, especially in regard to the larger implications of its hero’s actions.

I can’t hang this on Sandler; even he seems to be trying to sell the impossible concept. And it’s not like McCarthy was trying to make a Sandler comedy in the first place. The Cobbler doesn’t really resemble a Happy Madison production beyond the presence nW of Steve Buscemi in a small role.

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For a movie that has no reason to exist, Disney’s Cinderella is pleasant enough.

Billed as being “based on Disney’s Cinderella properties and the fairy tale written by Charles Perrault,” Kenneth Branagh’s lush new film is simply a live-action remake of the studio’s 1950 animated classic, following those story beats faithfully, though without the musical numbers.

As a result, the new picture spends a good third of its running time struggling with the fact that the tale of Cinderella is a little low on plot. But rather than push for more spectacle, Branagh

and screenwriter Chris Weitz (About A Boy, A Better Life) have decided to expand upon the characters.

They not only flesh out the onesided relationship between poor Ella (Downton Abbey’s Lily James) and her deeply unpleasant stepmother (Cate Blanchett, camping up the cruelty), but give that handsome prince (Game Of Thrones’ Richard Madden) more personality than he had in the original telling.

Branagh is also savvy enough to fill every supporting role with charming, capable actors – Derek Jacobi, Helena Bonham Carter, Stellan Skarsgård, Nonso Anozie, Rob Brydon – to keep us from noticing how little is actually happening in a given scene. The digital effects are appropriately clever, honouring the ’toon version without leaning on it too heavily. nOrMan Wilner Nicely done.

Cate Blanchett (left) rips into Lily James in Cinderella.

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Campus crime The hunTing grOund (Kirby Dick).

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The Hunting Ground is Kirby Dick’s third documentary exposing institutional protection of sexual assault, after 2004’s Twist Of Faith, about the Catholic Church’s shielding of a predatory priest, and 2013’s The Invisible War, which examined rape within the U.S. military. It is nauseating that any of these films needed to be made, but there you go.

Dick and producer Amy Ziering turn their attention to American college campuses, where between 16 to 20

per cent of students will be sexually assaulted over the course of their higher education. The assault will almost always be committed by someone the victim knows socially – and, in all likelihood, officials, administrators and even campus police will try to ignore the crime or otherwise stymie a full and open investigation.

Dick and Ziering follow exactly the same structure they used in The Invisible War, intercutting harrowing testimony from assault survivors with the efforts of a few crusaders – here, survivors-turned-advocates Annie Clark and Andrea Pino – working to raise awareness and agitate for action.

It’s an awfully effective formula. If you’re not disgusted by the institutional apathy revealed in The Hunting Ground, you may actually be a socionOrMan Wilner path.

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Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58. Rating: NNNN

Stop The Pounding Heart is a modest production, but that’s okay. You don’t need a huge budget when you’re working with simple truths.

Roberto Minervini’s drama is a close-up study of young Sara (Sara Carlson), who lives and works with her large family on their rural Texas goat farm. Just edging into her teenage years, the sheltered girl is starting to comprehend the larger world beyond her home-schooled Christian household. When she meets a young bullrider (Colby Trichell) who doesn’t have time for faith, she starts to challenge the limitations of her upbringing.

JAUME COLLET-SERRA Director, Run All Night

After their larger-than-life actioners Unknown and Non-Stop, Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson are trying something a little different with Run All Night. This one’s a relatively realistic thriller about a broken-down gangster trying to save his son (The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman) from a mobster’s vengeance. And as the filmmaker explains, intimacy was the whole point.

For all the shooting and chasing, it feels like a lot more time is spent on human interaction in Run All Night than in your previous collaborations with Neeson.

Well, this movie is the first one where the character is in front of the concept, you know? In Unknown, the character has so many secrets that it’s hard to play, [and] in Non-Stop, it’s such a confined environment and so little time that you cannot stop and have a normal five-page scene. “Why are they sitting and talking?

Something is going on!” This is the first movie where we can actually explore character and have normal scenes, and it was fun to be able to do that – still keeping the ticking clock and all that, but it’s not only about getting out of trouble physically. He needs to earn the right to be called a father again by his son.

So the movie has this other dimension.

Neeson clearly trusts you to play with his action-hero image. The protagonist was confused and lost in Unknown, and a boozy mess in Non-Stop. He’s even more of a wreck here.

Obviously, after doing three movies we’re trying different things. I don’t think I would have wanted to do Unknown II and Unknown III. That wouldn’t have been interesting for us. We like working together, and finding these three movies and really playing with different characters. He’s game for all of that; he’s really more of a storytelling partner. We discuss how far we can take it within this reality – and he’s so likeable that you can really have fun with his character, knowing that people will rally behind him.

And now that this is done, what’s next? Do you have anything planned?

Oh, no. I did two movies back to back; I’m gonna take until the summer and then decide. I’ll NOrmaN WilNer wait for Liam to call me.

review RUN ALL NIGHT (Jaume Collet-Serra) Rating: NNN Barely two months after Taken 3, Liam Neeson is back in fighting form for Run All Night. Give the man credit; he’s making the most of his second act.

In this one he plays Jimmy Conlon, an aging Brooklyn enforcer forced back into action when his adult son (Joel Kinnaman) gets mixed up in a double murder.

But it’s really about the pleasures of watching

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committed actors – not just Neeson and Kinnaman but Ed Harris, Vincent D’Onofrio, Common and Holt McCallany – elevate a generic cat-and-mouse picture into something a little more interesting.

Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Neeson in Unknown and Non-Stop, occasionally struggles to reconcile the themes of loyalty and regret with the requisite outsized action beats, but when he lets the material breathe, Run All Night nudges its characters into some NW worthwhile places.

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It sounds like the stuff of a hotblooded teen drama, but writer/director Minervini is working on a much subtler wavelength, observing small moments in a naturalistic manner instead of orchestrating big emotional confrontations. He casts non-actors and shoots them in their own world.

Much of Stop The Pounding Heart plays as ethnographic documentary rather than fictional narrative. (The Carlsons are who they are, and so is Colby.)

More importantly, Minervini – who’s made two previous features about life in this part of Texas, The Passage and Low Tide – respects these people and their world view, refusing to caricature their devotion to goats, guns and God in any way. He doesn’t editorialize; he just shows us human beings living their lives, letting urgent questions emerge from the juxtaposition of desires.

NOrmaN WilNer It’s mesmerizing.

Liam Neeson is a man on the run with a gun yet again.

It’s not a great doc, but The Price We Pay will fire you up.

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Steep Price THe PriCe We PaY (Harold Crooks).

95 minutes. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times see Movies, page 58. Rating: NNN

This exposé of corporate malfeasance in the form of tax avoidance is an eye-opener. Using interviews with economists and academics, The Price We Pay uncovers the way companies maximize profits by taking advantage of tax havens like the Cayman and Jersey Islands. (And now Canada: I’m talking about you, Burger King.)

The film’s aim is noble: explain how tax havens work, why we

should tax financial transactions (traders definitely do not support that) and more. There’s a ton of information here, and there’s no question that director Harold Crooks’s arguments are convincing.

The problem is that, apart from the very smart talking heads, not much happens on the visual level except filler images of things like Occupy demos and gleaming corporate headquarters.

You might as well be reading a book or an article.

You will, however, find a new hero in British MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee and gives those Google and Amazon SUSaN G. COle guys bloody hell.

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Gem of a Julie miss JuLie (Liv Ullmann). 129 minutes. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58. Rating: nnn

At a quiet Irish manor circa 1890, the baron’s daughter (Jessica Chastain) torments her father’s valet (Colin Farrell) and cook (Samantha Morton) until they find a way to turn the tables.

August Strindberg’s scathing examination of sexual and class politics gets a respectful screen treatment in the hands of Swedish legend Liv Ullmann. If you’re only familiar with Mike Figgis’s 1999 adaptation, shot with handheld cameras that seemed to dodge back and forth as Saffron Burrows and

Peter Mullan’s Julie and Jean rushed to and from one another, this version might seem a little staid.

Ullmann doesn’t really liberate the text from its stage origins, and the melodies of her classical soundtrack occasionally conflict with the taut, intense emotions on the screen.

But none of that matters when Chastain is in the frame. Initially playing Miss Julie as an impetuous, imperious presence, she cracks that facade wide open to reveal the twisting mess of misery, guilt and shame underneath.

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Colin Farrell and Jessica Chastain sizzle in Strindberg.

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Empty Search the searCh (Michel Hazanavicius). 135 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 13) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 62. Rating: nn After winning the Oscar for his glorified trinket The Artist, writer/director Michel Hazanavicius wields his newfound fame to throw a spotlight on human rights horrors in The Search. His well-intentioned children-in-peril story, set during the second Chechen war, is periodically moving but unwieldy and heavy-handed.

Hazanavicius’s wife and muse, Bérénice Bejo, plays Carole, a French NGO rep investigating the humanitarian crisis in Chechnya hoping to find a way for the world to pay attention.

She happens upon and takes in nine-year-old Hadji (Abdul-Khalim Mamatsuiev), an orphan who, in the film’s shocking prologue, witnesses his parents’ slaughter by Russian soldiers.

Hadji remains traumatized and mute, yet the silent, intimate moments he shares with Bejo’s Carole are some of the film’s most effective; the child, communicating with his

eyes, would have been right at home in The Artist.

Carole’s work with other survivors is less convincing or simply lumbering, as is the film’s splintered structure, which attempts a grand scope by following other characters.

Among them is Kolia (Maxim Emelianov), a Russian teen busted for pot and drafted into the army where he endures dehumanizing abuse. He is the film’s most intriguing character, thanks in large part to Emelianov’s stirring performance. But he’s integrated into the larger story in a ham-fisted, didactic way, and his connection is revealed in an M. Night Shyamalan moment that’s way too obvious to be taken seriously. raDheYan simonPiLLai AbdulKhalim Mamatsuiev and Bérénice Bejo bond in uneven movie.

comedy

It’s a Rapp Loitering With intent (Adam Rapp). 80 minutes. Opens Friday (March 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

Rating: nnn A shaggy tale of two New York City pals trying to hustle themselves into a movie career, Loitering With Intent is engaging and casually charming without ever being exactly good.

Co-writers Ivan Martin and Michael Godere star as Raphael and Dominic, wannabe actors aging past their prime.

(These characters may or may not be autobiographical.) When an old friend (Natasha Lyonne) tells them her boss is looking for a low-budget detective movie, the guys race off to Dominic’s family cabin to bang out a script.

But as soon as they unpack, they’re distracted by women: comely neighbour Ava (Isabelle McNally) and Dominic’s sister Gigi (Marisa Tomei), for whom Raphael has long carried a torch.

Other characters wander in and out of the story, most notably Gigi’s sometime boyfriend Wayne (Sam Rockwell).

Old buttons are pushed by people who should know better. And that’s about it.

Adam Rapp’s casual direction makes the film feel like a playful acting exercise with very low stakes. It’s a welcome shift from the turgid self-seriousness of his 2005 indie Winter Passing, and the entire cast is clearly having fun. I enjoyed watching them work, even as I knew it wouldn’t amount to norman WiLner much.

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Érica Rivas plays an unhappy bride in the very funny Wild Tales.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb Ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 62.

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) Carlton Cinema

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, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Revue, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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 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 BABADOOK

(Jennifer Kent) is a new horror classic. An Aussie mother (Essie Davis) and son (Noah Wiseman) chance upon a picture book called Mr. Babadook, and the boy becomes convinced the creepy eponymous creature is coming to get them. The horror comes out of character, not situation, and the performances are ferociously good. Terrifying. 93 min. NNNNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñBIG HERO 6

(Don Hall, Chris Williams) centres on 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter), who “upgrades” himself and four college-aged scientists to battle an emerging super-villain. Directors Hall and Williams find new angles on the required action beats, but their real focus is on Hiro’s bond with his initial subject, a marshmallowy medical droid called Baymax (30 Rock’s Scott Adsit). The world in which it all takes place is a production designer’s dream. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Fox

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

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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.

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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.

based on the stories of Raymond Carver.

It’s a godawful mess. 119 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BOLSHOI BALLET: ROMEO AND JULIET is a

high-def broadcast of the ballet, starring Alexander Volchkov and Anna Nikulina.

145 min.

Yonge & Dundas 24

ñBOYHOOD

(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. It’s the most ambitious, honest and illuminating movie of 2014. 164 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

CHAMPS (Bert Marcus) shapes the lives and legacy of Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins into a critical look at the sociology and predatory business of boxing, a little-regulated sport that exploits fighters from disadvantaged backgrounds. The angle only directly applies to Tyson, the film’s producer, who might be funding his own PR effort, appealing to audiences to believe in his reform. 85 min. NN (RS) Opens Mar 13 at Carlton Cinema CHAPPIE (Neill Blomkamp) is the third feature film by the director/co-writer of District 9 and Elysium, and his third assaultive, numbing action exercise. It’s built on a basic formula of clumsy heist plotting, gangster swagger and spectacular violence, with just enough near-future imagery to make it seem like deep meaning is in there somewhere, if we just keep digging. Some subtitles. 120 min. N (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 CINDERELLA (Kenneth Branagh) 105 min.

See review, page 54. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 13 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE COBBLER (Thomas McCarthy) 98 min.

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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.

Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (Sam Taylor-Johnson) 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) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

FOCUS (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) stars 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, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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,

­Tarantino­and­Bigelow.­Subtitled.­99­min.­ NNNNN­(NW) Kingsway Theatre

Girlhood­(Céline Sciamma)­follows­

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16-year-old­Marieme,­aka­Vic­(the­ charismatic­Karidja­Touré),­who­falls­in­ with­a­girl­gang­in­her­suburban­Paris­ housing­project,­boosting­her­self-esteem.­ Sciamma­(Tomboy)­taps­her­compassion­ for­young­people­in­spectacular­moments.­ She­has­a­lot­of­style­and­even­more­to­ say.­Subtitled.­113­min.­NNNN­(SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

The hobbiT: The baTTle of The five armies­(Peter Jackson)­is­the­climax­of­

the­director’s­gargantuan­adaptation­of­ J.R.R.­Tolkien’s­slender­prequel­to­The­Lord­ Of­The­Rings,­and­most­viewers­will­be­ struggling­with­Middle-earth­fatigue.­At­ two­hours­and­24­minutes­it’s­the­shortest­ of­the­trilogy,­but­it­still­feels­longer­than­ it­needs­to­be,­especially­since­the­Smaugrelated­cliffhanger­is­resolved­15­minutes­ in.­Some­subtitles.­144­min.­NN­(NW) Fox, Scotiabank Theatre

hoT Tub Time machiNe 2­(Steve Pink)­is­

exactly­what­you’d­expect­from­a­Hot­Tub­ Time­Machine­sequel:­bros­partying­heartily­and­insulting­each­other­while­checking­ out­the­racks­on­hot­ladies,­and­also­timetravel­jokes.­I­laughed­a­few­times,­but­ more­at­the­actors’­timing­than­at­what­ they­were­saying.­93­min.­NN­(NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview

ñhow To TraiN Your draGoN 2

­ (Dean DeBlois)­expands­the­world­of­ the­original­by­introducing­a­new­villain­ and­a­new­element­of­the­hero’s­backstory.­But­its­greatest­strength­remains­ the­relationship­between­Jay­Baruchel’s­ Hiccup­and­his­mute­but­amazingly­expressive­dragon­Toothless.­Dragon­2­is­at­ its­best­when­it­just­leans­into­that.­102­ min.­NNNN­(NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough,

Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

The huNGer Games: mockiNGjaY – ParT 1­(Francis Lawrence)­keeps­the­fran-

chise­in­a­holding­pattern,­focusing­on­ Katniss­(Jennifer­Lawrence)­while­she­ wrestles­with­whether­she­wants­to­be­ the­Mockingjay,­the­public­face­of­the­rebellion­against­the­Capitol­and­evil­ President­Snow­(Donald­Sutherland).­It’s­ very­well­made­and­Lawrence­is­riveting,­ as­usual,­but­it’s­all­just­set-up­for­the­ grand­finale.­123­min.­NNN­(SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñThe huNTiNG GrouNd

­(Kirby Dick)­ 104­min.­See­review,­page­54.­NNNN­

Pynchon’s­detective­novel­about­a­sometime­detective­(Joaquin­Phoenix)­fumbling­ further­and­further­into­an­elaborate­(and­ frankly­insane)­conspiracy­in­1970­L.A.­ Phoenix­makes­an­excellent­tour­guide­to­ the­Pynchon/Anderson­funhouse,­and­the­ director’s­casual­mastery­of­image­and­ sound­is­here­to­be­admired,­as­always.­It’s­ a­fantastically­dense­movie­worthy­of­ ­repeat­viewings.­149­min.­NNNN­(NW) Scotiabank Theatre

iNTersTellar­(Christopher Nolan)­is­a­

stunning­visual­accomplishment­in­service­ of­a­story­that’s­pretty­dopey­if­you­think­ about­it­for­even­a­microsecond.­Matthew­

McConaughey­plays­an­astronaut-turnedcorn-farmer­who­pilots­a­mission­into­a­ wormhole­in­hopes­of­finding­a­new­home­ for­the­human­race,­but­director/co-writer­ Nolan­undercuts­the­hard-SF­premise­with­ a­weirdly­goopy­reliance­on­primal­concepts­like­destiny­and­the­power­of­love.­ 169­min.­NNN­(NW) Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

iNTo The woods­(Rob Marshall)­is­an­ awkward­adaptation­of­Stephen­Sondheim’s­witty­and­profound­musical­ mashup­of­fairy­tales.­Sondheim’s­musicals­are­constructed­for­the­theatre.­His­ clever­wordplay,­complex­rhythms­and­

harmonies,­the­way­his­stories­intersect­ and­unfold­–­none­of­these­things­translates­easily­to­film.­There’s­poignant­material­here­about­parents­and­children,­ loss,­commitment­and­forgiveness,­but­in­ Marshall’s­film,­the­plot­seems­convoluted­ and­the­language­laboured.­The­less­time­ spent­in­these­woods­the­better.­125­min.­ NN­(GS) Revue

The iNTruders­(Adam Massey)­stacks­the­ deck­with­familiar­horror­signposts­–­ creaky­walls­and­doors,­mutilated­plastic­ dolls­–­as­if­straying­from­clichés­is­the­ continued on page 60 œ

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ñida

­(Pawel Pawlikowski)­follows­ novitiate­nun­and­orphan­Anna­ (luminous­Agata­Trzebuchowska),­whose­ aunt­Wanda­(Agata­Kulesza)­informs­her­ that­her­real­name­is­Ida­and­she­is­Jewish.­ The­pair­set­out­to­find­the­village­where­ Wanda­believes­Ida’s­parents­were­killed.­ Shot­in­crisp­black-and-white,­the­film­ tackles­the­complex­issues­of­faith,­hypocrisy­and­wartime­accountability­with­ nuance.­Subtitled.­80­min.­NNNN­(SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

ñThe imiTaTioN Game

­(Morten Tyldum)­stars­Benedict­Cumberbatch­as­mathematician­and­cryptanalyst­ Alan­Turing,­who’s­hired­by­the­British­ government­to­crack­the­Germans’­Enigma­code­during­the­Second­World­War.­ He­must­collaborate­with­a­team­of­misfit­ geniuses­and­keep­their­work­a­secret.­ Also­secret­is­his­homosexuality.­The­film­ explores­fascinating­moral­issues,­and­ Cumberbatch­is­revelatory­as­Turing.­114­ min.­NNNN­(GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Fox, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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most frightening thing of all. The bare bones thriller about an off-the-meds teen (Miranda Cosgrove) who hears things bump in the night fails to conjure unease because all the jolts and revelations are delivered right on time, as if the formula is mapped out on the clock. 92 min. N (RS) Carlton­Cinema

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,­Coliseum­Scarborough,­ Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­Grande­-­ Steeles,­Queensway,­SilverCity­Yorkdale,­ Yonge­&­Dundas­24 KidNappiNg Mr. heiNeKeN (Daniel

Alfredson) retells the 1983 high-stakes abduction of beer baron Freddy Heineken

(Anthony Hopkins). In more capable hands, the sensational case would have made for terrific entertainment. This film clumsily alternates between gritty crime drama, high-octane actioner and psychological thriller. The rest of the cast fill out the genre clichés– noble outlaw, cowardly traitor, sensitive brute. 94 min. NN (RS) Carlton­Cinema

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.

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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,­Coliseum­Scarborough,­ Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­Grande­-­ Steeles,­Queensway,­Rainbow­Woodbine,­ Scotiabank­Theatre,­SilverCity­Fairview,­ SilverCity­Yonge,­SilverCity­Yorkdale

LoiTeriNg WiTh iNTeNT (Adam Rapp) 80

min. See review, page 57. NNN (NW) Opens­Mar­13­at­Carlton­Cinema

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,­Canada­Square,­Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­Grande­-­Steeles,­ Queensway,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

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Miss JuLie (Liv Ullmann) 129 min. See review, page 57. NNN (NW) Opens­Mar­13­at­Canada­Square

MoNsooN (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) TIFF­Bell­Lightbox a MosT vioLeNT Year (J.C. Chandor)

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Carlos Pratts leads the pack in real-life drama McFarland.

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 pre-comeback 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) Canada­Square,­Carlton­Cinema,­Fox

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Cannes best actor winner Timothy Spall as painter J.M.W. Turner at the peak of his fame. Dick Pope shoots the landscapes that inspired the paintings spectacularly, but writer/director 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.

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

NaTioNaL TheaTre Live: behiNd The beauTifuL forevers is a high-def broad-

cast of David Hare’s epic play about modern India. 180 min.

Mar­12,­7­pm,­at­Coliseum­Scarborough,­ SilverCity­Yonge

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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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The price We paY (Harold Crooks) 95 min.

See review, page 56. NNN (SGC) Opens­Mar­13­at­TIFF­Bell­Lightbox

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(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) Bloor­Hot­Docs­Cinema,­Fox,­Kingsway­ ­Theatre,­Regent­Theatre,­Revue

ruN aLL NighT (Jaume Collet-Serra) 114

min. See Q&A and review, page 56. NNN (NW) Opens­Mar­13­at­401­&­Morningside,­ Beach­Cinemas,­Carlton­Cinema,­Cineplex­ Cinemas­Empress­Walk,­Coliseum­Scarborough,­Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­ Grande­-­Steeles,­Queensway,­Rainbow­ Market­Square,­Rainbow­Promenade,­Rainbow­Woodbine,­Scotiabank­Theatre,­SilverCity­Fairview,­SilverCity­Yonge,­SilverCity­ Yorkdale,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

The search (Michel Hazanavicius) 135 min. See review, page 57. NN (RS) Opens­Mar­13­at­TIFF­Bell­Lightbox The secoNd besT exoTic MarigoLd hoTeL (John Madden) is all about director

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. I could have done with less of Dev Patel’s comical fussing and more of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith’s grand dames sitting around sipping drinks in the sun. Some subtitles. 122 min. NNN (NW) Beach­Cinemas,­Cineplex­Cinemas­Empress­ Walk,­Cineplex­VIP­Cinemas­Don­Mills,­ ­Coliseum­Scarborough,­Colossus,­Eglinton­ Town­Centre,­Humber­Cinemas,­Queensway,­Rainbow­Market­Square,­Rainbow­ Promenade,­SilverCity­Fairview,­SilverCity­ Yonge,­Varsity,­Yonge­&­Dundas­24

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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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seriaL (bad) WeddiNgs (Philippe de

Chauveron) is an unfunny French farce about a privileged, middle-aged white Catholic couple (Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby) whose daughters have all married immigrants (a Jew, an Arab and a Chinese man). They lose it when their remaining child gets engaged to a black man. Mon Dieu, this is offensive, especially since France, like much of Europe, is currently seething with civil unrest. Subtitled. 97 min. N (GS) Canada­Square,­Cineplex­Cinemas­Empress­ Walk,­Varsity

seveNTh soN (Sergei Bodrov) is a spectacularly bad dungeons and dragons fiasco with Julianne Moore as evil witch Mother Malkin, who tries to wipe out mankind. We root for her in the hopes that there won’t be a sequel. She vamps and camps it up, seemingly aware that the only way to liven up the dreadful material is by trying to out-wicked the Wicked Witch of the West. 102 min. N (RS) Colossus,­Eglinton­Town­Centre,­Scotiabank­ Theatre

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(Yann Demange) 99 min. See interview and review, page 53. NNNN

(RS) Opens­Mar­13­at­Varsity

soNg of The sea (Tomm Moore) draws from Gaelic folklore to tell the story of

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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, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

STaNdSTill (Majdi El-Omari) intertwines

the stories of a Mohawk war photographer and a Palestinian refugee who has committed a revenge killing. 104 min.

Opens Mar 13 at Royal

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, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Revue, Varsity STop The pouNdiNg hearT (Rober-

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to Minervini) 98 min. See review, page 56. NNNN (NW) Opens Mar 13 at Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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, screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen seem to have assembled this script by cutting and pasting from the previous ones, and Dougray Scott is so embarrassingly miscast that he might as well have been digitally superimposed from old Mission: Impossible II footage. Some subtitles. 109 min. N (NW) Colossus

aspects of Takei’s life, but there are lots of great interviews, and the velvet-voiced Takei commands attention, whether talking about same-sex marriage or meeting Star Trek fans. 93 min. NNNN (GS) Mar 14, 7 pm, Carlton Cinema

uNfiNiShed BuSiNeSS (Ken Scott) is the

latest unfunny raunchy comedy from Vince Vaughn, an awkward attempt to incorporate the more grown-up themes the star’s been toying with lately. Jammed between pratfalls that include a man’s face and a penis coming together is a sentimental story about the challenges of being a supportive dad. The movie wants you to hug your family – but wait, whoa, look at those tatas! 91 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

The valley BeloW (Kyle Thomas) 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.

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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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, who walked 1,100 miles solo along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. What could have been a mawkish and sentimental true-life story plays as intelligent drama thanks to the

sure hand of director Vallée, and Witherspoon is entirely credible as the worndown Strayed. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Fox, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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(Damián Szifron) is a comic anthology of five shorts and one lightning-fast prologue all revolving around revenge, responsibility and payback – all expertly orchestrated by Argentine director Szifron, who demonstrates a flair for delivering absurd complications with marvellous comic timing and rich cinematic style. Subtitled. 122 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity 3

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multi-narrative film that tracks the lives of several Drumheller, Alberta residents over three seasons. Some vignettes are moving and insightful, while others seem stuck at the sketch level. The surrounding Badlands evoke the vastness of geological time in contrast to the fleeting lives depicted in the foreground. 87 min. NNN (José Teodoro) Carlton Cinema

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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

The WeddiNg riNger (Jeremy Garelick) gives Kevin Hart material to work with, unlike those movies that simply drop him in a scene, pull the string on his back and let him loose. Jimmy, who pinch hits as a best man for friendless grooms, is an emotive character with some decent punchlines 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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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) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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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STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:25, 9:05 MonWed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 WILD TALES (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:25, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20

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BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 CINDERELLA (G) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 WILD TALES (14A) Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 MonWed 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

12 GOLDEN DUCKS (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 MonWed 7:30, 9:50 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE)

(14A) Thu 7:50, 10:40 Fri 2:45, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:05, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45 Mon-Wed 7:50, 10:45 BOLSHOI BALLET: ROMEO AND JULIET Thu, Tue 1:45 Fri 4:00 Sat 12:55 Sun 3:30 CASABLANCA Thu 4:45 Sun 12:55 Mon 7:00 CINDERELLA (G) Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30, 8:15, 9:15, 11:00 CINDERELLA: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (G) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 DRAKE’S HOMECOMING: THE LOST FOOTAGE (14A) Wed 7:30, 10:00 THE DROP BOX Fri, Wed 1:45 Sat, Mon 4:30 Sun 7:00 Tue 4:45 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 5:50, 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 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 FOCUS (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:15, 10:55 Fri 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:55 FOCUS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:25 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 (PG) Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat 9:30 Mon 1:45, 9:30 Wed 4:00 THE HUNTING GROUND (14A) Fri 3:45, 6:15, 8:40, 11:10 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:15, 8:40, 11:10 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 6:40, 9:25 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 7:40, 10:25 Fri 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-Wed 7:35, 10:25 JUPITER ASCENDING (PG) Thu-Fri 1:15, 7:05 Sat-Sun 1:05, 7:05 Mon-Wed 7:05 JUPITER ASCENDING 3D (PG) Thu-Sun 4:05, 10:05 MonWed 10:05 MCFARLAND (G) Thu 1:20, 7:20 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS – ENCORE Thu 7:00 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:45 Fri 1:45, 4:10 Sat-Sun 11:25, 1:45, 4:10 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:20 Fri 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 SELMA (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:55 Fri 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:45 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) 2:30, 4:50 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 6:35, 9:00 Fri-Wed 7:25 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 7:05, 10:00 Fri 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Wed 6:10, 9:15 TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES Thu 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Wed 10:15 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 Fri 3:35, 6:05, 8:25, 11:05 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:05, 8:25, 11:05 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:35 THE WEDDING RINGER (14A) Thu 4:20, 10:10 WHIPLASH (14A) Thu 10:30 Fri, Tue 9:45 Sat 7:00 Sun 9:30 ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 FriWed 6:35, 9:30

VIP SCREENINGS

CHAPPIE (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:15 Fri 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 CINDERELLA (G) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 4:00 FOCUS (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 9:40 Mon-Wed 8:30 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 2:30, 7:30, 10:45 Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 RUN ALL NIGHT (14A) Fri 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:30, 8:45 Fri 3:30, 6:30 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:30, 6:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:30

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE)

1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu 8:00 MCFARLAND (G) Thu 5:10 MISS JULIE (PG) Fri 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:15 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:05 MR. TURNER (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:10 Fri 5:00, 8:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 5:00, 8:20 Mon-Wed 4:45, 8:10 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 5:30 SELMA (PG) Thu 8:15 SERIAL (BAD) WEDDINGS (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 SatSun 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:45 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:45 Fri 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 SatSun 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:50 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Fri 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 WHIPLASH (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:20 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 SatSun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:50, 8:20

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 BOYHOOD (14A) Sat 8:40 Sun 6:20 IDA (PG) Thu 7:00 Fri, Tue 6:45 Sat 4:00 Sun 1:45 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Fri, Tue 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 3:15 Wed 8:45 RED ARMY (PG) Sat 4:00 WILD (18A) Thu-Fri, Tue 8:45 Sat 1:30, 8:30 Sun 1:00 Wed 6:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 3:55 Fri 7:30, 10:35 Sat 7:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 7:30, 10:25 CHAPPIE (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Tue 12:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 4:25, 6:40, 10:15 CINDERELLA (G) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Tue 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:30, 8:00, 10:20, 10:45 Sun-Mon, Wed 11:40, 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 5:05, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 DRAKE’S HOMECOMING: THE LOST FOOTAGE (14A) Wed 7:30 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Tue 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 3:40, 9:40 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 3:20 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun-Tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Wed 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 1:00 3:10 6:40 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 THE LAZARUS EFFECT (14A) Thu 9:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA DONNA DEL LAGO LIVE Sat 12:55 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS Thu 7:00 PADDINGTON (G) Fri-Sat 11:40, 1:10 Sun-Tue 11:50, 1:10 Wed 11:30, 1:10 ROYAL BALLET: SWAN LAKE Wed 1:00 RUN ALL NIGHT (14A) 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat only 2:00 5:00 7:40 10:30 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:05, 3:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 11:30, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10 Sat 5:10 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 6:30 UNFINISHED BUSINESS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35

Metro West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

CHAPPIE (14A) Thu 3:45 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Thu-Fri no 1:00 CINDERELLA (G) Fri, Mon 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun, TueWed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 4:05 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 4:15 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Thu-Fri no 1:15 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 3:55 Sat-Wed 12:10, 2:15

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I)

2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

CRAZY BEAUTIFUL YOU (PG) Thu 5:45, 8:30 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:45, 8:30 ELEPHANT SONG (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:10 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun

AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA (G) Thu 11:15 Fri-Wed 11:30 BIG NEWS FROM GRAND ROCK (PG) Thu 5:40 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 7:15 Fri-Wed 7:35

indie film spotlight

UNFiNiShEd BUSiNESS (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:20 WhAt WE dO iN thE ShAdOWS (14A) Thu 10:00

VIP SCREENINGS

ChAppiE (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 CiNdErELLA (G) 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 FOCUS (14A) Thu 3:10, 6:00, 8:50 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) Thu 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 rUN ALL NiGht (14A) 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat thE SECONd BESt ExOtiC MAriGOLd hOtEL (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00

RaInboW WoodbIne (I)

WoodbIne CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 ChAppiE (14A) Thu 12:50 3:50 6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 CiNdErELLA (G) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 thE dUFF (14A) 7:05 Thu 1:10 mat FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:15 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 thE LAzArUS EFFECt (14A) 9:45 Thu 4:05 mat rUN ALL NiGht (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr (G) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10 UNFiNiShEd BUSiNESS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 6:40

Scientist Fred Singer obscures the truth in Merchants Of Doubt.

Profitable lies MERCHANTS OF DOUBT (Robert Kenner) Rating: NNN Profit-seeking corporations are nasty pieces of work. That’s the point of Robert Kenner’s Merchants Of Doubt, which looks at companies’ strategies for fooling the public into believing whatever helps maximize their profits.

He starts by reminding us of the lies Big Tobacco told us about the health impact of cigarettes. To U.S. Senate committees and inquiries of all kinds, company stooges lied about or actually withheld studies that showed their deleterious effects.

But most of the material in this documentary is about how energy interests have changed the conversation about climate change. Think

BOyhOOd (14A) Thu 4:45 Fri-Wed 3:00 FOrCE MAjEUrE (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 9:15 A GirL WALkS hOME ALONE At NiGht (14A) Thu 3:00 idA (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 1:15 iNtErStELLAr (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:30 Mr. tUrNEr (14A) Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 My OLd LAdy (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:15 rEd ArMy (PG) Thu 11:15 Sat, Mon, Wed 1:00 SELMA (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00 SONG OF thE SEA (PG) Fri-Wed 11:30 StiLL ALiCE (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 5:30 StOp thE pOUNdiNG hEArt (PG) Fri-Wed 7:30 WhAt WE dO iN thE ShAdOWS (14A) Thu 9:25 Sat, Mon, Wed 9:15 WhipLASh (14A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 5:40 WiLd (18A) Thu 3:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 5:30

QueenSWay (Ce)

1025 The QueenSWay, QeW & ISlIngTon, 416-503-0424 AMEriCAN SNipEr (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 6:10, 9:15 Fri, Tue 12:00, 3:10, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 3:10, 6:40, 9:50 Sun-Mon 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 Wed 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 CASABLANCA Sun 12:55 Mon 7:00 ChAppiE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 6:20, 9:25 Fri, Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 CiNdErELLA (G) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 11:30, 12:10, 1:10, 2:20, 3:20, 4:10, 5:10, 6:20, 7:10, 8:00, 9:15, 10:05, 10:50 Sun 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:00, 6:50, 7:40, 8:50, 9:40, 10:30 Mon 11:30, 12:00, 12:50, 2:10, 2:55, 3:45, 4:55, 6:00, 6:50, 7:40, 8:50, 9:40, 10:30 Wed 11:30, 12:00, 1:50, 2:55, 3:45, 4:40, 6:00, 6:50, 7:40, 8:50, 9:40, 10:30 drAkE’S hOMECOMiNG: thE LOSt FOOtAGE (14A) Wed 7:30 thE dUFF (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 6:00, 10:35 Fri 12:20, 3:00, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sat, Tue 12:20, 3:00, 5:50, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45

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tanks operated by these interests pretend to be neutral, and paid know-nothings claim to be experts. “I took two economics courses and a science course in college,” says one.

Just as scandalous is the extent to which the media have fallen for them, giving these naysayers every opportunity to grind their axes in prime-time newscasts.

Using a magician’s tricks as a metaphor for corporate tactics is clever, and Kenner’s found an eloquent talking head in history of science prof Naomi Oreskes, but as in his previous flick, Food, Inc., he keeps hammering away at the same idea.

This could have been done in an hour, easy.

Opens Friday (March 13) at the SUSAN G. COLE Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.

Fri, Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 12:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 12:10, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:00, 3:55, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 11:50, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 10:55 Sun 11:35, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Mon 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 hOt tUB tiME MAChiNE 2 (14A) Thu 8:35 Fri-Sat, Tue 9:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 9:00 hOW tO trAiN yOUr drAGON 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 thE iMitAtiON GAME (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 9:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 10:00 jUpitEr ASCENdiNG 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Tue 8:45 Sun 10:25 Mon 9:50 Wed 9:35 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:05, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 thE LAzArUS EFFECt (14A) Thu 12:50, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 MCFArLANd (G) Thu 1:50, 3:00 Fri, Tue 11:40, 2:50, 6:30 Sat 2:50, 6:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45 thE MEtrOpOLitAN OpErA: LA dONNA dEL LAGO LivE Sat 12:55 NAtiONAL thEAtrE LivE: BEhiNd thE BEAUtiFUL FOrEvErS – ENCOrE Thu 7:00 pAddiNGtON (G) Thu 1:25, 3:45 Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:10 Sat 11:05, 1:20, 3:40, 6:10 Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55 Mon 12:35, 3:25 Wed 12:50, 3:20 rOyAL BALLEt: SWAN LAkE Wed 12:55 rUN ALL NiGht (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:05 Fri, Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 11:00, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 thE SECONd BESt ExOtiC MAriGOLd hOtEL (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Fri, Tue 12:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00 Fri, Tue 11:30, 1:50, 4:20 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 5:00 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 4:00 Mon 11:50, 1:30, 4:00 Wed 11:40, 1:30, 4:00 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr 3d (G) Thu 7:40 Fri, Tue 6:50 Sat 4:20, 6:50 Sun-Mon, Wed 6:30 StiLL ALiCE (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:40

Revue (I)

400 RonCeSvalleS ave, 416-531-9959 AMEriCAN SNipEr (14A) Sat-Sun 7:00 Mon-Wed 9:00 thE 50 yEAr ArGUMENt Thu 7:00 thE hOLy MOUNtAiN (R) Thu 9:00 iNtO thE WOOdS (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 4:00 Sun 1:30 pAddiNGtON (G) Sat, Mon-Wed 2:00 Sun 4:00 rEd ArMy (PG) Mon, Wed 7:00 Tue 4:00 StiLL ALiCE (PG) Sat-Sun 9:30 Tue 7:00

East End beaCh CIneMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

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Fox (I)

2236 Queen ST e, 416-691-7330 BiG hErO 6 3d (PG) Mon-Tue 4:00 thE hOBBit: thE BAttLE OF thE FivE ArMiES 3d (PG) Wed 4:00 thE iMitAtiON GAME (PG) Thu 7:00 A MOSt viOLENt yEAr (14A) Fri-Sun 9:30 Mr. tUrNEr (14A) Sat-Sun 3:45 Tue 6:30 Wed 9:20 pAddiNGtON (G) Sat-Sun 1:45 Mon-Wed 2:00 rEd ArMy (PG) Mon 7:00 Tue 9:20 SELMA (PG) Thu 9:30 WiLd (18A) Fri-Sun, Wed 7:00 Mon 9:00

North York CIneplex CIneMaS eMpReSS Walk (Ce)

ChAppiE (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 CiNdErELLA (G) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:00, 1:10, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 12:00, 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 8:00, 9:40, 10:35 drAkE’S hOMECOMiNG: thE LOSt FOOtAGE (14A) Wed 7:30 thE dUFF (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 4:50, 10:25 FOCUS (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 hOt tUB tiME MAChiNE 2 (14A) Thu 9:40 hOW tO trAiN yOUr drAGON 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 thE LAzArUS EFFECt (14A) Thu 5:05 thE MEtrOpOLitAN OpErA: LA dONNA dEL LAGO LivE Sat 12:55 rUN ALL NiGht (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 thE SECONd BESt ExOtiC MAriGOLd hOtEL (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr (G) Thu 1:45, 4:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:10, 2:30 Sat 11:50, 2:20 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr 3d (G) Thu 7:05 UNFiNiShEd BUSiNESS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:55, 7:45, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20

thE MEtrOpOLitAN OpErA: LA dONNA dEL LAGO LivE Sat 12:55 NAtiONAL thEAtrE LivE: BEhiNd thE BEAUtiFUL FOrEvErS – ENCOrE Thu 7:00 rOyAL BALLEt: SWAN LAkE Wed 1:05 rUN ALL NiGht (14A) Fri 1:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Wed 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 thE SECONd BESt ExOtiC MAriGOLd hOtEL (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:00 SEriAL (BAd) WEddiNGS (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 thE SpONGEBOB MOviE: SpONGE OUt OF WAtEr (G) Thu 4:05 Fri 1:40 Sat-Wed 12:00, 2:20 StiLL ALiCE (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 1:05, 3:35, 6:30 Sat 5:05, 7:35 Sun-Wed 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35

CIneplex vIp CIneMaS don MIllS (Ce) 12 MaRIe labaTTe Road, 416-644-0660

CASABLANCA Sun 12:55 ChAppiE (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 7:00, 10:00 CiNdErELLA (G) Thu 8:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 4:00 FOCUS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) Thu 5:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 thE MEtrOpOLitAN OpErA: LA dONNA dEL LAGO LivE Sat 12:55 NAtiONAL thEAtrE LivE: BEhiNd thE BEAUtiFUL FOrEvErS – ENCOrE Thu 7:00 thE SECONd BESt ExOtiC MAriGOLd hOtEL (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:15 Fri 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:30

SIlveRCITy yoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRIn ST, 416-787-2052

AMEriCAN SNipEr (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 ChAppiE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 CiNdErELLA (G) Thu 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 11:50, 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 1:15, 2:30, 4:00, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 Mon-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 thE dUFF (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sun 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 FiFty ShAdES OF GrEy (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 FOCUS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 hOW tO trAiN yOUr drAGON 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 jUpitEr ASCENdiNG 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10 kiNGSMAN: thE SECrEt SErviCE (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:15, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:10, 3:15, 6:40, 9:45 thE LAzArUS EFFECt (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:00

onTaRIo SCIenCe CenTRe oMnIMax (I) 770 don MIllS Rd., 416-429-4100

GrEAt WhitE ShArk Sat-Wed 12:00 hUBBLE Thu-Fri 1:00 Sat-Wed 2:00 thE hUMAN BOdy Thu 12:00, 1:00 Fri 12:00 iSLANd OF LEMUrS: MAdAGASCAr (G) Thu-Fri 11:00, 2:00 Sat-Wed 11:00, 4:00 rOCky MOUNtAiN ExprESS Sat-Wed 3:00 UNdEr thE SEA Sat-Wed 1:00

SIlveRCITy FaIRvIeW (Ce)

FaIRvIeW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 AMEriCAN SNipEr (14A) Thu 1:50 CASABLANCA Sun 12:55

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Fri-Sun 9:10 Mon-Wed 10:20 PaddinGTon (G) Fri 1:45 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:50 Mon-Wed 12:00, 2:30 run all niGhT (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:20 mat The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Thu 1:20 Fri, Sun 1:15, 3:50 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 3:50 Mon-Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:15 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 3:50, 6:30 Fri-Sun 6:40 Mon-Wed 7:50 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 The WeddinG rinGer (14A) Thu 9:00

Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner Ave, SCArborough, 416-281-2226

ameriCan SniPer (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:50 Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 ChaPPie (14A) Thu 5:05, 8:05 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 SatWed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Cinderella (G) Fri 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Sat 11:20, 1:00, 2:00, 2:50, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 2:00, 2:50, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 11:45, 1:00, 2:00, 2:50, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 The duff (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40 Fri 4:40, 7:10 Sat-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:10 fifTy ShadeS of Grey (18A) Thu 5:20, 8:10 Fri 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 foCuS (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:20 Fri 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Sat-Wed 12:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 hoW To Train your draGon 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 The imiTaTion Game (PG) Thu 8:15 JuPiTer aSCendinG 3d (PG) Thu 5:25 Fri-Wed 10:00 kinGSman: The SeCreT ServiCe (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:00 Fri 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35 The lazaruS effeCT (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:20 Fri-Wed 9:55 mCfarland (G) Thu 5:05, 7:55 PaddinGTon (G) 1:15 Sat, Tue 11:45 mat run all niGhT (14A) Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Thu-Fri 5:15 Sat 11:10, 12:40, 3:00, 5:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:15 Tue 11:55, 12:40, 3:00, 5:15 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sat 7:50 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:25, 7:50 Tue 12:15, 7:50 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:45 Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:15 Sat-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15

ColiSeuM SCArborough (Ce) SCArborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

ameriCan SniPer (14A) Thu 9:45 ChaPPie (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Cinderella (G) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 11:50, 12:40, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 Crazy beauTiful you (PG) Thu 12:50 3:50 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 drake’S homeCominG: The loST fooTaGe (14A) Wed 7:30 The duff (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35

fifTy ShadeS of Grey (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 6:50, 10:00 foCuS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 hoT Tub Time maChine 2 (14A) Thu 9:30 hoW To Train your draGon 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 JuPiTer aSCendinG 3d (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 9:55 Fri-Tue 10:25 Wed 10:45 kinGSman: The SeCreT ServiCe (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 3:20, 7:30, 10:40 The lazaruS effeCT (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 The meTroPoliTan oPera: la donna del laGo live Sat 12:55 naTional TheaTre live: behind The beauTiful foreverS Thu 7:00 run all niGhT (14A) 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:10 mat The SeCond beST exoTiC mariGold hoTel (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 10:35 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7:50, 9:30 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Thu 2:10, 4:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:20 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 7:10 Fri-Tue 7:50 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 The WeddinG rinGer (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:45

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon Ave e, 416-752-4494

ameriCan SniPer (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 Mon 3:15, 9:30 CaSablanCa Sun 12:55 Mon 7:00 ChaPPie (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Cinderella (G) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 11:50, 1:00, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:35, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:15, 10:05, 10:45 Sat 11:00, 11:50, 12:55, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:35, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:15, 10:05, 10:45 Sun-Wed 11:45, 12:30, 1:20, 2:25, 3:20, 4:10, 5:10, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:30 drake’S homeCominG: The loST fooTaGe (14A) Wed 7:30 The duff (14A) Thu 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:30, 9:20 Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:30, 9:10 Wed 12:40, 3:30, 9:15 fifTy ShadeS of Grey (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 Mon 1:10, 4:00, 6:25, 9:20 Tue 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 1:25, 4:35, 6:45, 9:30 foCuS (14A) Thu 2:10, 2:30, 4:45, 5:15, 7:40, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Mon 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:55, 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Tue-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 hoW To Train your draGon 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 The imiTaTion Game (PG) Thu 4:00 JuPiTer aSCendinG 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 7:10, 10:15 Sun 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Tue 12:25, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Wed 12:25, 3:40, 9:55 kinGSman: The SeCreT ServiCe (14A) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 The lazaruS effeCT (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 9:55 Sat 9:10 Sun-Wed 9:45 mCfarland (G) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 6:10 Sun-Wed 12:30, 6:00 The meTroPoliTan oPera: la donna del laGo live Sat 12:55 PaddinGTon (G) Thu 4:20 Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:45 Sun-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Tue-

Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 run all niGhT (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 The SeCond beST exoTiC mariGold hoTel (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 SevenTh Son (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 10:15 Sat 9:25 Sun-Wed 10:10 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Thu 2:05, 4:30 Fri 11:55, 2:25, 4:55 Sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:05 Sun-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:50 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 6:55 Fri 7:25 Sat 6:35 Sun-Wed 7:20 STill aliCe (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:00, 8:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25

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

ameriCan SniPer (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:10, 5:05, 7:50, 11:00 birdman or (The unexPeCTed virTue of iGnoranCe) (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:40 The boy nexT door (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Fri-Wed 9:30 ChaPPie (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 ChaPPie: The imax exPerienCe (14A) Thu 4:00 Cinderella (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Cinderella: The imax exPerienCe (G) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 drake’S homeCominG: The loST fooTaGe (14A) Wed 7:30 The duff (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:05, 8:35 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:35 fifTy ShadeS of Grey (18A) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 FriWed 1:55, 4:40, 7:55, 10:55 foCuS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 hoT Tub Time maChine 2 (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:35, 7:30, 10:50 hoW To Train your draGon 2 (PG) Sat 11:00 The imiTaTion Game (PG) Thu 4:25 JuPiTer aSCendinG 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Wed 3:00, 9:00 kinGSman: The SeCreT ServiCe (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 The lazaruS effeCT (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:15, 8:45 Fri, SunWed 12:10, 2:25, 4:55, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 4:55, 7:45, 10:15 mCfarland (G) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 Sat 12:10, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 The meTroPoliTan oPera: la donna del laGo live Sat 12:55 PaddinGTon (G) 12:00 Sat 11:30 mat run all niGhT (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:15, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:55, 10:30 The SeCond beST exoTiC mariGold hoTel (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 SevenTh Son (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Thu 3:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 4:45 Sat 11:20, 11:45, 2:20, 4:45 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 6:00, 8:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 7:10 Sat 11:10, 7:10 Taken 3 (14A) Thu 9:30 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 4:40, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 7:20, 10:25 The WeddinG rinGer (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:30, 8:55 Fri, SunTue 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 10:10 Sat 1:10, 5:20, 8:10, 10:35 Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:25, 10:10

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Sunday, March 15

The Girl Who STayed aT home Screening of

The fabriC of Time Screening of the 2007

the 1919 DW Griffith film. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca. markova: ComforT Gay Asian Gay Cinema screening of the 2000 film by Gil Portes. 9 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca. mean GirlS MUFF Society presents a screening of the Mark Waters film. Come dressed as your favourite character and participate in the costume contest, raffles and more. 9:30 pm. $8-$10. Royal Cinema, 608 College. facebook.com/muffsociety. million dollar arm Screening of the 2014 Disney film. 2 pm. Free. Room B. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

The nameS of love Screening the 2010 film

by Michel Leclerc. French w/ English subtitles. 7 pm. Pwyc. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. alliance-francaise.ca.

Friday, March 13 CiTizenfour Rebel Films screening and dis-

cussion featuring the documentary about Edward Snowden. 7 pm. $4 sugg donation.

Room 5-280. OISE, 252 Bloor W. 647-9861917, socialistaction.ca/rebel.

STandSTill Realism style drama shot primarily in b&w, with the majority of dialogue in the Mohawk language by writer and director Majdi El-Omari. Opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 19. Q&A w/ director after screening. $8-$10. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theroyal.to.

Saturday, March 14 fronTrunnerS: niiGaanibaToWaad

Screening of the film about Aboriginal runners who carried the torch to the 1967 PanAm Games in Winnipeg, then were denied entry into the stadium. 7:30 pm. Free. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. bloorstreetunited.org.

PurPle rain: ThiS film Should be Played

loud Screening of the 80s cult classic with Prince. DJ Moe Berg kicks off the party. Copresented by NXNE. Doors at 8:45 pm, screening at 9:30 pm. $11. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. ow.ly/JH8Gw. The Salvador dali film feST Screenings. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

WalT diSney ClaSSiCS Animated classics on the big screen including The Little Mermaid, Tron, The Black Hole, Dumbo, The Aristocats and others. Mar 14-20, see website for schedule. $13, kids $9. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/disney.

The Wonder yearS SeaSon 1 maraThon

Watch the whole season or just a few favourite episodes. Trivia, brunch and more.

11 am-4 pm. Free. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. facebook.com/ events/365896363616996.

Thu 1:10 4:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10 STill aliCe (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:40

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ameriCan SniPer (14A) Thu 8:05 ChaPPie (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:10 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Cinderella (G) Fri 4:30, 5:10, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Sat-Wed 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 The duff (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:45 Fri 8:10 Sat-Wed 1:15, 8:10 fifTy ShadeS of Grey (18A) Thu 5:20, 8:20 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:30

film by David Priest. 2 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca. faSTer, PuSSyCaT! kill! kill! Dinner and a movie weekly event featuring the Russ Meyer cult classic. 8 pm. $20. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, thedrake. ca. in The furTher Soil Streaming of a dance stage performance by the Menaka Thakkar Dance company about Thakkar’s journey in introducing Indian dance to Canada over 40 years ago. Mar 15 at 3:30 pm. Free/pwyc donations accepted. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. menakathakkardance.org. 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.

There’S no PlaCe like home Screening of The Wizard Of Oz, photos with Oz characters and more benefit Humber College Scholarship Fund and Marnie’s Lounge at SickKids. 6:30-10 pm. $30, kids $15. Regent Theatre, 551 Mt Pleasant. clickyourheels. wix.com/event.

Monday, March 16 aviva, my love Screening of the film by

Shemi Zarhin 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.

Tuesday, March 17 The birTh of a naTion Screening of the silent 1915 film by DW Griffith with score

by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

JuST eaT iT Screening the film about food waste and the environmental consequences it has spurred. 6-9 pm. Free. Hart House Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca/conscious-activism-documentary-series.

Wednesday, March 18 inToleranCe Screening of the 1916 film

by DW Griffith. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

film festivals The T.o. ShorT film feSTival Shorts films from local, Canadian and global filmmakers. 6:15 and 7:45 pm each night. $5.

Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontoshort.com.

Mar 16 to 20 foCuS (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:30 Fri 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 Sat-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 hoT Tub Time maChine 2 (14A) Thu 8:25 JuPiTer aSCendinG 3d (PG) Thu 8:30 Fri-Wed 10:35 kinGSman: The SeCreT ServiCe (14A) Thu 5:25, 8:15 Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Wed 12:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 The lazaruS effeCT (14A) Thu 5:55, 8:15 Fri-Wed 10:20 mCfarland (G) Thu 5:35 PaddinGTon (G) Thu 5:40 Fri 5:45 Sat-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 5:45 run all niGhT (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer (G) Fri 5:20 Sat-Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:20 The SPonGebob movie: SPonGe ouT of WaTer 3d (G) Thu 5:50 Fri-Wed 7:50 unfiniShed buSineSS (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri 4:40, 6:50, 9:15 Sat-Wed 11:55, 2:10, 4:40, 6:50, 9:15 3

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Feels like the first time When I Was 15, I had a three-monthlong sexual relationship with a 32-yearold woman. She was a friend of the family, and my parents were going through a divorce. I stayed with her for the summer, and she initiated the relationship. Looking back, I can see that she had been grooming me. We used to have conversations online and via email that were very inappropriate considering our age difference. The relationship ended when I went home, but she remained flirty. As a 15-year-old, I had a hard time sorting out my feelings for her, but we remained in contact. Now we speak sporadically, and it’s usually just small talk.

Soon after, I met a girl my own age and we started dating. Twenty years later, we are happily married and have two wonderful children. Our sex life is active and fulfilling. The only problem is my wife is very proud of the fact that we were each other’s “first and only” sex partners.

When we first slept together at 16, I couldn’t admit that she wasn’t my first, and I didn’t want to get the older woman in trouble. I don’t want to hurt my wife by revealing the truth. Can I keep this secret to myself?

This Revelation Undermines Total Harmony Like you, TRUTH, I lost my virginity to an older woman at age 15. My first was closer to me in age (20s, not 30s) than your first – the woman who preyed on you – and I never felt like she took advantage of me. If anything, I was taking advantage of her, as our sexual relationship helped me sort out my shit. (I could get through sex with a girl, yes, but I had to think about guys the whole time. I resolved to cut out the middlewoman and have sex with guys instead.) Over the years, well-meaning people have tried to convince me that I was damaged by this experience, but I never felt that way.

Based on your letter, TRUTH, it doesn’t sound like you were damaged or traumatized by this relationship. You quickly figured out that what she had done to/with you was squicky and inappropriate; the fact that she didn’t leave you damaged or traumatized doesn’t make what she did okay. But it sounds like your only issue – it’s the only issue you raise – is whether you can continue to allow your wife to think she was your “first and only.”

You can.

Unless you need to unburden yourself to the wife for your own sanity, TRUTH, or you think there’s a chance she could discover the truth on her own, don’t let one marital ideal – you should be able to tell each other everything – obscure an equally important if less obviously virtuous marital ideal. You don’t have to tell each other everything.

Protecting your spouse from the truth, allowing your spouse to have their illusions, is often the more loving choice. While there are deceptions that aren’t okay – crushing student-loan debt, a second family hidden in another city, you are Dinesh D’Souza – some deceptions are harmless. Allowing your wife to continue to believe that she was your “first and only” falls squarely into the harmless camp.

Family affairs I’m a 30-year-old gay man engaged to my partner of four years. During a conversation about faithfulness, I let slip to

my dad that we are monogamish. He immediately went into a screed about the affair my mother had and how being open means I’m setting myself up for hurt. He suggested he couldn’t support the marriage unless we were monogamous. He’s coming from a place of love, but I need advice on how to let him see that marriage doesn’t always equal monogamy.

Stressed Ontarian Now You could point out to your dad that monogamy didn’t protect him from hurt – Mom cheated on Dad, Dad got hurt – and then quickly add that being monogamish doesn’t make you immune to hurt.

If your partner were to violate the terms of your monogamish relationship, then you could get hurt, SON, just like Dad got hurt when Mom violated the terms of their monogamous relationship. Or you could tell your dad what he wants to hear – you’ve decided to be monogamous – and run him on a need-to-know basis.

And unless you and your husband-to-be want to formally bring a boyfriend into your relationship at some point – including your boyfriend at the holidays, bringing him along on family trips, etc – Dad doesn’t need to know that you’re having three-ways, joining sex clubs or tagteaming twunks at the Folsom Street Fair.

Room for intolerance my boyfrIend and I have been together for three years. I grew up in Hawaii and currently reside on the mainland. My

parents love my boyfriend, and we try to visit their home in Hawaii once a year.

Until recently, they were caring for my uncle, but he died last year. I told my mom that we were coming to visit, and she was elated. However, when I asked if we could stay in the newly spare bedroom, she said no and cited her religious beliefs. We weren’t raised in a religious household, but my mom has become more “Christ-y” since I left. When I ask why she would treat me differently than her other two heterosexual kids, who are allowed to stay in the spare bedroom with their partners, she just says that those are “her rules.” I told her that as long as she discriminates against us based on our “chosen lifestyle” (her words), then she can’t expect a visit from us. Am I being unreasonable?

Vexed In Seeking Island Time Nope. As an adult, your only leverage over your parents is your presence, VISIT. Tell your mom that if she can’t treat you with respect, then she has no one to blame but herself for your absence.

Sexless situation I’m a 30-year-old straIght guy, married to a 38-year-old woman. When we were dating we had an amazing sex life, but over the last eight years we’ve averaged once or twice a year. I don’t pressure her or make her feel bad, I tell her how attracted to her I am, I’ve asked about her interests and her pleasure, etc, but all I ever get in return is “I’m over-

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weight, I’m depressed, I don’t know why my sex drive is low.” She’s seen doctors but ignores their advice and tells me she feels bad for me but there’s nothing she can do. We haven’t had sex for more than a year. I’m a good-looking guy who’s spent most of his 20s in a sexless marriage. The usual advice is to do more of the housework and take care of the kid, but I do most of that already while working full-time. I’m at my wit’s end. I feel depressed, angry and beyond frustrated.

I don’t know how to deal with this.

Boy Lacks Ultimate Erotic Balance As Life Lacks Sex Yours is one of those cases where doing the “wrong” thing (staying in the marriage and getting sex elsewhere) may be preferable to doing the “right” thing (divorcing your depressed wife, traumatizing your poor kid, starting over again on Tinder). If you want to be honest with the wife, BLUEBALLS, tell her that you can accept a sexless marriage but you won’t accept a sexless life. The upside for her: you’re not going to leave her, and she’s no longer under any pressure to put out.

With any luck, your wife will be relieved, and you can transition to a functional, happy, companionate marriage.

On the Lovecast: He’s a “pervert.” She’s a “Christian.” Should he sneak off to see HUMP!? Listen at savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter mail@savagelove.net

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