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peteer Ronnie Burkett’s latest show continues at the Factory to Oct 24. 2 pm. $25-$48. 416504-9971. BACHAO! Queer South Asian party with DJs spinning Bollywood and hip-hop for Pakistan flood relief. 9 pm. $10. Goodhandy’s. 416-760-6514.
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re recent changes to our prostitution laws (NOW Daily Online, September 30). I’m shocked and terrified to see a dangerous step back for exploited women and children, who are now left even more vulnerable to trafficking and violence. A small majority who have the luxury of working independently from their own homes or in brothels have overlooked the needs of sex workers who are not prostituted by choice and “work” under the control of pimps. The women involved in the court challenge argue indoor prostitution is safer. Lucky for them it has been so far, but their logic is flawed. I have counselled hundreds of women attempting to exit the violent and demeaning world of prostitution. For many, they are simply continuing the legacy of childhood sexual abuse. Heidi Kalyshov Toronto
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thanks for profiling where big mayoral candidates stand and sit on bike issues (NOW, September 16-22). Some are sitting on the sidelines or within the cartillery, but even Joe Pantalone must be viewed somewhat skeptically, despite seeming good in promises and in cycling surveys. All major candidates are weak on the big win for cyclists: a Bloor/Danforth bikeway that could have the effect of expanding space in the subway by shedding captive riders, all for the price of mere paint. Hamish Wilson Toronto
(NOW, September 23-29). Miller had a huge part in its demise. The Harvard scholar was able to understand the fine print in the 20-year contract the city almost signed with Waste Management Inc. Instead of holding WMI responsible for cleanup of any environmental disaster from the leachate containment system, the city would have had to pay the bill. This error could have cost us millions or even billions of dollars. After years of dynamite blasting, the mine pit was very vulnerable to leakage. Miller’s sharp eyes spotted this flaw. For all of us who sat in City Hall for days in protest, the green, blue and black bins lining Toronto streets to this day symbolize our victory in a titanic struggle. Warren Brubacher Toronto
The Chimera Project | Fresh Blood Oct. 13–14 See tomorrow’s dance superstars today! Fresh Blood pushes innovative and surprising dance works by emerging Canadian choreographers to the forefront.
the 10th anniversary of the death of the ill-conceived Adams Mine garbage plan should have been noted in David Miller’s Living Legacy
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What’s On VISUAL ARTS The Power Plant Fall Exhibitions Opening Party Oct. 8 | FREE Featuring the premiere of two new projects by acclaimed Canadian artist Ian Wallace and Los Angeles-based artist Pae White.
PERFORMANCE Out of Context – for Pina Alain Platel/les ballets C de la B (Belgium) Oct. 13–16 A major hit with audiences and critics alike since its premiere, maverick creator Alain Platel returns to Toronto with a stunning new work. Making this piece especially poignant is Platel’s dedication to the late modern dance legend, Pina Bausch. LITERARY ARTS International Festival of Authors (IFOA) Oct. 20–30 Bringing together the best writers of contemporary literature for 11 days of readings, interviews, round table discussions, talks and public book signings. Complete information at readings.org. COURSES Red Hot Learning Through December Upcoming courses include: Intro to Creative Writing; Capoeira, Capoeira!; Candy Making for Families; and more. Pre-registration required. For full list of courses and to register, call 416-973-4093 or visit harbourfrontcentre.com/learn/courses. VISUAL ARTS York Quay Centre Through Nov. 7 | FREE Featuring eight exhibitions including HYBRID – artists-in-residence collaborate on a new a series of work that integrates ceramic and metal. SKATING THE KINDER RINK Fri.–Sun. | FREE Made of synthetic, eco-friendly materials, this alternative to ice makes the perfect skating surface for beginners and expert skaters alike. Skate rentals are available. An Artificial Grass & Landscaping Inc. product.
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joshua errett fails to mention some key points in Don’t Throw Out The PlayBook (NOW, September 30-October 6). What RIM showed was all vapourware. PlayBook hasn’t shipped and won’t for several months. The demos were all computer videos and not on a live product. So when you write “There are hardware differences, like built-in cameras on both sides of the PlayBook, notably absent from the iPad,” you are talking about a fictitious BlackBerry PlayBook. Undoubtedly the iPad2 announced in January 2011 will have those features and more. When Apple demoed the iPad, Steve Jobs did so in real life and talked about price and performance. RIM needs to step up its game if it wants to compete and show customers real products, not some video. Respighifan
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regarding just watch us (now Daily Online, October 2). Sasha, I read your column for the sex advice. Leave the political shit out of it. I mean, we get it, you are a whore and proud of it. Sex workers are not criminals and blah, blah, fucking blah. I want to hear about other people’s sex questions, not Ontario’s stance on the sex trade. Stick to what you’re good at – giving sex advice – and leave the politics to the pigs at Queen’s Park. Seriously. Please. Rudy
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enzo dimatteo was far too easy on Rob Ford in Waterfront War (NOW Daily Online, October 4). I was sitting right in front of Ford during the Harbourfront debate, and whenever it wasn’t his turn to whine about the “gravy train,” the guy was actually stubbornly picking at a callous on his hand and throwing the dead skin on the floor – in a mayoral debate in front of 300 people. But what really pisses me off about this guy is his claim yesterday that council already voted to spend $88 million building the stacked arena in the port lands. Council did absolutely nothing of the sort. Is Ford really this stupid? Or is he just hoping that we are? Bryan
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Island Airport foes As expected, Air Canada announces it will resume flights out of Billy Bishop in 2011. The glasshalf-full view: history has shown that there’s not enough demand to keep a second commercial carrier aloft at the airport. Call it economies of scale.
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Spuds and Buds Celeb chef Jamie Kennedy’s frites added to the menu at the ACC just in time for Leafs’ season opener.
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Signs we may be headed into the second dip in a double-dip recession.
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Per cent the ratio of debt to disposable income among Canadian households, according to the Bank of Canada. An all-time high.
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Reality Check Cityscape A painful sight for heritage preservationists: cranes, not the kind that eat fish, but the steel machines erected by humans in the name of progress, make way at the foot of the historic round for Bridgepoint Health’s massive redevelopment of the old Riverdale Hospital grounds.
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Is David Miller’s endorsement of Joe Pantalone an election gamechanger? Tell us at nowtoronto.com
A momentous occasion for clean air advocates on Friday, October 1: the Ontario government shut down four coal-fired units. “Coal is history in Ontario,” declared Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence. Not so clear, according to the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. The Alliance notes that 11 of Ontario’s coal-fired boilers will remain operating until 2014. Under current eco rules, production can be boosted by up to 14 per cent to feed export electricity demand in the U.S. We’re not out of the fog yet.
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Have you heard? There’s a sign war out there, although placards for mayor have not been easy to spot since the deadline for lawn advertising was lifted in the wee hours of Monday morning. Come to think of it, the so-called “war” hasn’t exactly broken out. We’ve had scripted photo ops (nice one, Rocco) and the usual bending of the rules by campaign crews that’ll remain nameless (Rob Ford’s). The fairest of them all? Joey Pants’s. The other alpha males in this race went for bold and brash (or is that rash?). Pants’s affectionate green says “nice.” More election coverage starting on page 14
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Astronomers find Gliese 581 g, the most Earth-like planet ever uncovered in the heavens, a “super-Earth” just 20 light years away. Ground control to Major Tom.
Wild City What Bird-banding demo as part of LEAF’s The Birds And The Trees Tour Where Tommy Thompson Park, aka Leslie Street Spit, Sunday, October 3 Why The decline of migratory songbirds, and steps we can take to bring them back
BAROMETER Quebec-bashers Macleans owner Rogers Publishing eats crow (sort of) and expresses sincere regret for cover calling Quebec the most corrupt province in the Canadian federation. Macleans national editor Andrew Coyne follows Rogers apologia with a stuttering defence on the CBC.
St. Lawrence Market PETA bestows Compassion Award on historic food emporium for its decision to stop using glue traps to catch mice. A good bet this is not the kind of publicity the market’s looking for.
Globe and Mail’s left flank Political stalwart Rick Salutin gets lost in the Globe’s redesign shuffle and is dropped (permanently) from the masthead. Was his column slagging the PM the last straw? Progressives everywhere are in mourning.
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in 1987 to $121 billion in 2009. Poverty rates for seniors and children are on the decline, the crime rate has dropped for the third year in a row (3.8 per cent since 2008) and residential taxes are the lowest in the GTA. At the same time, PricewaterhouseCooper says Toronto is number one in terms of livability, and the Mercer Quality Of Living Survey ranks it 16 last year among 221 cities around the world. These good-news reports formed a delicious subtext to the latest mayoralty debate, Tuesday, October 5, hosted by Metro Morning’s Matt Galloway and broadcast Tuesday night on CBC Radio in part because Toronto Community Foundation chair Rahul Bhardwaj was a guest at the event. (A
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BEAST The critics are raving about this funky bistro offering locally sourced ingredients presented with flare. Highlights include the Elk tenderloin and naturally-raised beast burgers. 96 Tecumseh (as Whitaker) 647-352-6000
BLASTED Italian-trained physician Cadigia Ali needs ethnic base to get out the vote against Ford dynasty.
this is about as close as i’m goingtogettoRobFord’solderbrotherandself-declaredheirapparentto Ward2inEtobicokeNorth. After Doug Ford’s office manager, Sandra(nolastnamegiven),hangsup on me twice, and my request for an interview with the candidate languishesforweeks,IheadnorthbyTTC on Islington early in the morning to analmostdesertedElmhurstPlaza. There, I’m confronted with a spacious campaign office filled with “DougFordCouncillor”signs. While Rob is busy running for mayor,hisbroisalreadydoingconstituencyworkevenbeforetheOctober25election. “[Doug] was in here last night,” Sandratellsmeinabriefphoneconversation.“Hedroppedinatabout8 o’clock, and there were five or six peopleintoseehim.Theychatand thengoon.” Doug’s leaflet is available, but it doesn’t say much beyond his brother’sfamiliar,incongruousmantraof “reduced taxes” and “increased service levels.” Welcome to where Rob Fordism has taken root, flourished with large majorities over a 10-year periodandnowseekstotaketheentirecitybystorm. So go figure. Why is Etobicoke North fertile territory for politicos withananti-governmentandimmigrant-baitingbent?Thisisacomplex arearangingfromtheaffluentneighbourhoodsofRexdaleandsouthern Thistletown to the public housing enclaves of Dixon, Weston-Mount DennisandTandridgeCrescent. HerearethreefactsaboutWard2: unemployment is as high as 8.3 per cent,almostapointhigherthanthe cityaverage,55percentofthepopulation is made up of visible minorities including blacks and South Asians, and English is the mother tongue of 45 per cent of the ward, comparedtothecityaverageof49.6. With an expertise in health pro-
motion,CadigiaAlihasworkedwith theRexdaleCommunityHealthCentre, chaired the Etobicoke Conflict MediationTeamandparticipatedin variousvolunteerorgs. NowtheSomali-bornAliistrying for the second time to dislodge the Fordjuggernaut,havingcomesecond toRobFordin2006with2,010tohis 8,421votes. EarlyonemorningImeetupwith her at her campaign office inside a smallRexdaleBoulevardplaza,next to an African food/music store and anIslamicwomen’sfashionshop. Wearing a stylish orange Muslim head covering, Ali recounts how her credentials as an Italian-trained physicianwerenotrecognizedbylocalmedicalauthorities,anexperiencefacedby many immigrant professionals. “I decidedtousemydegreesinanotherway; Ireimaginedmyself,”shetellsme. Her program – general in nature – emphasizes reducing enviro toxins,makingthecitymulticulturally friendly,increasingartsfunding,affordablehousing,community-based policing and bike lanes, and implementingtheTransitCityplan. Going against the current mood forrestraint,hercampaignisabitof apoliticalrisk,butAlisaysshe’swillingtochanceitbecauseshe’sexperienced a more extreme situation – a national government reduced to zero. She’s nervous about the prospectofaMayorRobFordslicingaway existingmunicipalservices. “IcomefromAfrica.Iknowwhat that means. I want everybody to be served in their community, and the onlypeoplewhocanprovidethatare government,” says Ali, who’s endorsedbytheLabourCouncil. With no all-candidates meetings onthehorizon,Aliwon’tgetmuchof achancetochallengethefront-runner. In particular, she’s got a major quarrelwithplansforagiganticentertainment/hotel/retail/housing complex on Woodbine Racetrack, a
projectchampionedbyRobFord. Ali and her colleagues in Community Organizing for Responsible Development (CORD) have complainedthattheprojectwon’tensure thenewhousingunitswillbeaffordableorthatthe10,000jobsonoffer will be good-paying, and not part- timeordead-end. Theprojectinanareaofhighunemployment was embraced by the city,whichrewardedthedevelopers, WoodbineEntertainmentGroupand the Cordish Group, with a $120 millionpropertytaxbreak.Thiswasin exchangeforanewlocalhiringand training program. “We did get the support at city council for local hiring,butwedidn’tgetapprovalforthe targetsthatweaskedfor,”Alisays. Despite her considerable communitycred,thehealthcareworker will doubtless have a problem, says campaignworkerandCORDmember Nigel Barriffe – unless her natural low-incomeconstituencycomesout tomarktheirballots.Ford’ssupport, hepointsout,comesfromtheaffluentneighbourhoodsinthearea,particularlyThistletown. Ryerson urban studies prof Sandeep Kumar Agrawal, however, cautionsthattherearemanysmallbusiness people in immigrant areas receptivetotheanti-tax,cost-cutting message.TheyseetheFords“putting moneyintheirpocket,”hesays. Also,issuesofconcerntoimmigrant voters like unemployment and housing can only be solved at the federal andprovinciallevel,headds.Alimay begreetedwithskepticismatthedoor becausemunicipalpoliticiansareseen asunabletoaccomplishmuch. Aliistakingallofherchallengesin stride,andhasabout50youngpeople outtherecanvassingonherbehalf. “The majority [of Ward 2 voters] know me because I have been there for them down at City Hall,” she says. 3
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Who’s the man with the plan? Crunch time. As in two and a half weeks till E day. Lots to talk and double-talk about where the mayoral candidates really stand – and fall – on the issues. We take a good hard look. You should, too. By ENZO DiMATTEO
Who
George Smitherman
Joe Pantalone
Rob Ford
Rocco Rossi
Budget plan
Privatize this, sell that – including 47 per cent sale of city’s stake in Enwave and “underused” surplus city lands.
Believes in taxes, without breaking the bank. They’re the price we have to pay for a great city. Debt is okay as long as there’s a future payoff. Did we mention T.O. has the lowest residential property taxes in the GTA?
Who’s he trying to kid? The numbers just don’t add up. Says he can find (slash?) $1.7 billion over four years from operating budget that’s $9.2 billion in 2010 by cutting “waste” in the system. Like city services?
Long on managerial-speak, plus one big selloff of Toronto Hydro. Think he can “reinvent service levels” once collective bargaining agreements with city unions have expired. Read: privatize.
Transportation
Transit City lite, with a few subway lines thrown in to cover interests of development friends. No new bike lanes, just separate a few existing ones.
Trying to head off province’s plan to shortturn Transit City, the European-style light rail transit system that’s the lifeline of Toronto’s future.
Loopy. In a nutshell: kill Transit City, replace streetcars with buses. Oh yeah, and cyclists deserve to die.
Guy with big ideas, thinking small: 2 kilometres of track and a new subway station each year and a tunnel to nowhere.
City services
“Managed attrition” à la Ford – plans to cut 1,304 staff positions by the end of 2011 – which means parks and other services since fire, police and ambulance will remain untouched.
Believes in investing in them. Has Labour Council’s endorsement. He’s the only candidate talking about the pressure demographic shift among aging baby boomers will put on city services.
All-out war with the unions to privatize garbage. Wants to revive the ghost of amalgamation by cutting the size of council in half to 22 members. There goes the neighbourhood.
Get out the cleaver. More “managed attrition” than either Ford or Smitherman; “competition” for non-essential services.
Environment
Lots of sparks from the former energy minister about a “refocused” Toronto Hydro creating renewable energy, 500 megawatts’ worth, through good-old public/private partnerships. It all adds up to small potatoes.
Green roofs; complete streets; Ex wind turbine; tree advocate; plan for food prosperity and security. Enough said.
There’s a war on the car; walked out of the Toronto Environmental Alliance debate. Do we need to go on?
Recycling – other people’s right-wing ideas.
Arts
Raise funding for the arts to $25 per capita from the current $18. The devil in the details: $3 million in new spending for the arts (the same amount allotted to fighting bedbugs). A little too thin to be described as “bold” and “creative.”
Likes Vivaldi. Says he’ll raise the per capita contribution for the arts, boost film industry jobs and implement Cultural Access Pass program.
City-building
Set the nasty tone of this campaign by tearing down the Miller regime’s accomplishments and then declaring the race was between him and that other bully, Ford.
Hard to quarrel with a 30-year record: Exhibition Place, BMO Field; work on the waterfront reference group. Unlike competitors trying to tear the city down, Pantalone has actually uttered the words “civic values.”
A luxury, not a duty. All people want is their garbage picked up, don’t you know? Lays claim, somewhat suspiciously, to the biggest development project in the city’s history Woodbine Live. Ask residents in Dixon how they feel about that. (See our story, page 28).
So keen on privatization and budget-cutting that its’s hard to believe he has a long-term sense of building a city of the future.
Bottom line
Covers all the bases but doesn’t deliver where it counts – on the city livability index.
Has the vision thing, the practical kind. He’s been second in command of a regime that’s led Toronto through a transformative period in its evolution.
Nothing runs at the mouth like a Ford. Lots of splainin’ to do.
A businessman’s model for city governance, complete with firing power – voter recall and term limits. The cash gap: he thinks he can pull this off without TTC subsidy from the province.
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Comedic performance. Has proudly voted against every community arts and culture grant request to come before council. See outrageous arts debate at the AGO last week.
Says he likes’ em. Guy who first promised to raise per capita funding to $25; tougher approach to graffiti and tagging.
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Don Valley test Poor kid from the ’hood takes on Tory doom and gloom By ELLIE KIRZNER it’s a strange election where candidates feel safe trading in fiscal panic and all manner of Chicken Little prophesies. Who knew fabricated negativity could sell so well? Still, there’s more than one thing going on in this race, and progressives should take heart that, despite the noise about the city’s so-called financial ruin, much of the
citizenry appears endearingly loyal to the idea of sound city services. You could certainly see this at Ward 26’s meeting at the Noor Cultural Centre on Thursday, September 30, where six contenders aimed fire at incumbent Conservative John Parker. Here’s a ward shared by the middle-class homeowners of Leaside, the condo-owner/renters of Wynford-
Concorde and the challenged, teaming neighbourhoods of Thorncliffe and Flemingdon Parks, where residents have to claw for facilities easily on hand in other areas. Yes, there are lots of contestants, but the real narrative in Don Valley West wraps around Parker, who served in the Mike Harris government, and Mohamed Dhanani, chair of the Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network, a former adviser to deputy prem George Smitherman and director of the Flemingdon Community Food Bank. In the 2006 election, Parker squeaked in 214 votes ahead of Dhanani and won, grabbing only 20 per cent of the vote. The soft-spoken Dhanani, bolstered by endorsements from Lib reps for the area, MP Rob Oliphant and MPP Kathleen Wynne, is once again breathing down Parker’s neck. And he’s doing it by urging more rec centres, senior supports, playing fields, daycare and youth services. Everyone, of course, is for restraint – it’s just a question of what this means, and most folks here don’t think it precludes a spending spree on common facilities. Good for them. So Parker’s studied gloom-anddoom performance isn’t getting much traction at the Noor tonight, despite the fact he knows the script: shriek about what a crisis we’re in, but don’t dare propose diminishing services. “The city reserves are at zero,” he
says with increasing dread. “We can’t expect higher levels of government to bail us out.” And then the punchline – a non sequitur, actually: “I voted against all the new taxes.... Remember, I was on the other side.” Okay, we get it. You don’t want to spend any more money – but you don’t want to raise any capital either. By contrast, Dhanani is running a Smithermanish campaign (minus a tax freeze and subways). He, too, urges prudent spending, but his guiding motif this evening is about being raised in public housing by a single mom. He attributes his family’s survival, and by implication his success as a Yale grad, to the presence of social housing and community facilities and services. The city’s fiscal woes, he offers, can be met by a tax increase at the rate of inflation and by expanded economic development. “As we try to balance our budget,” he says, “we have to create a compassionate city.” It’s a theme that obviously reson-
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haps forced to be flat as he pounded out his message of a badly broken city in need of dramatic intervention. Pantalone was upbeat and positive, in part reflecting his image of the city he sees. “Toronto is fantastic and can be super-fantastic,” he gushed as he cited achievement after achievement, from the world-leading greening of Toronto to the promise of Transit City. Pantalone told of emigrating from his tiny Italian town “where everyone looked like me, tall,” and moving
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and shovel man” who helped build the Bloor-Danforth subway. In fact, the only negative news from the Vital Signs report was the emergence of dangerously disconnected suburbs, a problem the inmotion Transit City light rail plan would help fix. Pantalone attacked Smitherman and Ford’s subway dreams, saying they would take too long and are unaffordable. We are building Transit City now, said Pantalone, and the problem can be addressed. A beleaguered Ford claimed he could somehow get a subway built in three to four years, in part because he is buddies with federal Tory hatchet man Jim Flaherty. Galloway challenged the naysaying candidates, claiming, “The theme of this election seems to be running against the city people want to run.” Smitherman, sounding tired of his own downbeat claims, managed one good laugh as Ford taunted him for voting himself a pay raise as an MPP. “That’s because I didn’t have two jobs,” a swipe at the day-jobholding Ford, who works at his family’s decal business. Another of Ford’s unintended laughs occurred when he complained “Toronto is a dirty city,” noting how he keeps his decal shop clean. “First thing in the morning I get the janitor to pick everything up.” As the negative-campaigning candidates themselves seem weary of their message of mayhem and the city is filled with fall colours – newly posted election signs as well as the leaves – the race is still very much on to save us from those who would save a city that doesn’t need saving. David Miller’s Wednesday-morning endorsement of Pantalone raises the stakes even more as he claims his deputy mayor is the only one who can lead Toronto. Miller noted that ship-abandoning lefty councillor Joe Mihevc, who’s endorsed Smitherman, tried to get Miller to quit the race that the mayor eventually won seven years ago. “You don’t vote for someone because they are less awful than someone else,” said Miller in endorsing Pantalone, as he proved this election is still very much in play. 3 michaelh@nowtoronto.com
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How about no? The groundswell of online opposition to Rob Ford, in its current state, is unlikely to affect any mayoral vote come October 25. There are two disconnects here, and both have to do with technology. First, the only reason anyone bothered to start an anti-Ford Facebook movement is that recent polls had the label-making councillor as a shoo-in for the mayor’s office. Those polls, however, should be taken lightly. Most polls that put Ford ahead by double digits don’t include data from those who operate without a home phone. These are generally young, citydwelling critters with cellphone numbers outside most polling databases. And that shows. Of the 1,012 respondents to the late September Nanos poll, more than half were over the age of 50. More than half of those were over 60. And most of the total were homeowners outside downtown. All of them
with home phones. The polling technology left a huge chunk of the voting bloc out in the cold. Sure, people with mobile phones can vote for Rob Ford, but there’s no way of knowing that from this round of polling. Regardless, let’s get back to the online protests. So we turn to Facebook. There are several Stop Ford groups out there on the social network, some with declared supporters in the 10,000s. Where are these people coming from? (The first supporter profile I looked at listed Waterloo as home.) And are they even eligible to vote? (A student graduating Danforth Collegiate in 2012 is too young, right?) Those are two concerns about Facebook protests, though not mine. I question what hitting a “Like” button does to convince anyone which candidate to vote for. I question whether the people making these Facebook groups are even convinced themselves. On a handful of the more popular anti-Rob Ford pages, nothing comes close to persuasive. There are plenty of reasons for not voting Ford, but these
groups list none. There are plenty of ways to organize against his campaign, but none are explored. Most times, Ford is the only candidate mentioned. Unsurprisingly, one recent rally – limply organized on Facebook – had to be cancelled due to lack of interest. Nearly all of Toronto’s online political groups, protesters and activists are falling victim to two fundamental problems here. One, they focus all online discourse on the negative. How about supporting a candidate you want to win instead of choosing one you want to lose? Didn’t Barack Obama’s campaign – which thrived online – focus more on hope than hate? And two, the anti-Ford movement relies on loose-knit, low-commitment and ultimately ineffective social networking to make their case. Online tribes would have more success challenging than hating. It’s easy – and very natural on the internet – to simply be against something. It’s much harder to hip-check the status quo. Break down these polls instead of responding to them. Go through the methodology, check the stats. Comb through Ford’s platform as well. Dig up his history. Be activist. By continually and lazily repeating Ford’s name, his ridiculous quotes, his basic-as-all-hell platform on social networks, people are making a meme out of him.
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THE GREEN ISSUE
SUSTAINING FISH
GOOD FISH, BAD FISH
YOU WANNA CHOW DOWN ON SUSTAINABLE SWIMMERS, BUT HOW MUCH CAN YOU TRUST THE ECO LABELS? By ADRIA VASIL
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40-60%
OF CONSUMERS WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND CHOICE WHEN BUYING FISH
ou’re at a fish counter, waiting for a thunderclap of clarity as you eye the shimmering cuts of pink and white flesh behind the cold plexiglass. You mutter to yourself, “Is wild salmon the good one? Is Atlantic cod the bad one?” Depending on who you ask, anywhere from 40 to 60 per cent of consumers would, all things considered, like to make an environmentally sound choice, and as of now virtually every major Canadian grocery chain is listening. Yes siree, grocers are jumping away from bad press into a pool of sustainable seafood policies like a jittery school of flying fish. As the impact of those historic purchasing policies starts to show up on shelves, onlookers are crossing their fingers, hoping we can buy our way to healthier seas. But not everyone agrees we’re on the right boat to catch truly sustainable fish. * * * Somewhere between distributing a million little red-, yellow- and green-listed seafood guides, putting the squeeze on chefs to ditch endangered fish and flunking every national grocery chain for their reckless seafood choices, fishery activists have managed to get retailers to sit up and notice. Now, two years after Greenpeace picketers started swarming storefronts one chain at a time, Metro just announced it would be blacklisting seven species of fish. The week before, Whole Foods Canada proclaimed it would ditch all red-listed fish by Earth Day 2013. All this dovetails with Walmart Canada’s and Loblaws’(the largest buyer and seller of seafood in Canada) commitments to sell nothing but 100
OCEAN WISE This stamp tells you a
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per cent certified sustainable seafood by lucky 2013. Since 63 per cent of the seafood that Canadians eat is purchased at grocery stores and retail outlets (compared to 50 per cent in the U.S.), Sarah King, coauthor of the Greenpeace’s Taking Stock report card, says these policies will have a major impact. “They have the power to push the producers and push for change on the water, which is harder for consumers to do.” What kind of change are we talking about? The first step starts with trying to figure out what exactly retailers are putting on shelves, which until now has been about as clear as a marsh in spring. If you’re lucky, the label may say Pacific cod, but it won’t tell you precisely where in the big blue sea it was caught (Hecate Strait, BC, or Gulf of Alaska?), how it was caught (destructively trawled or better, bottom long-lined?) or even what damn country it’s from. Says King, “A lot of retailers are now taking steps to be transparent and improve traceability from ship to shelf. They’re undertaking rigorous investigations and having discussions with suppliers, trying to figure out where it’s from, is it legal, what is it.” Indeed, several chains have agreed to at least tell us the fish’s proper name (a big commitment since studies reveal nearly a quarter of fish is mislabelled) and where it was caught, but few have yet agreed to cough up details on what gear was used to catch it. And that’s key for any consumer trying to determine whether a fish falls on the green side of a seafood pocket guide or lurks in red avoid-at-all-cost territory. Metro is the first of the big nationals to say it will publicly divulge
menu or seafood item is approved by Vancouver Aquarium’s conservation program, Ocean Wise. Doesn’t mean the entire menu gets the green light. oceanwiseconservation.org.
as much on labels. Still, most agree the onus has been left on consumers long enough. If we’re going to see real market change, grocers have to go beyond transparency and traceability and overhaul what they’re actually ordering from the high seas. That’s something most of the chains have committed to do to some degree, and in deciding which seafood actually qualifies as sustainable, many are turning to certified sources. This is when the seas get a bit choppy. Market leaders like Loblaws and to a lesser extent Walmart Canada have in fact committed to shift all their wild caught fish over to sources certified by one org, the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). The MSC is widely considered the best and only independent, globally recognized standard. It was co-founded by the WWF and Unilever, one of the world’s largest seafood purchasers, back in 1995 as both grew alarmed at dwindling fish stocks, the lore goes. Since it became independent in 99, it’s managed to certify a surprising 7 per cent of global wild seafood stocks (12 per cent if you fold in those fisheries mid-certification). Everything was hunky-dory when it first started certifying small fisheries, but things grew a little trickier as it put its stamp on industrial fisheries large enough to supply the world’s largest food companies. Then MSC-certified New Zealand hoki populations collapsed. And later, enviros were taken off guard when, in the middle of the Take A Pass On Chilean Sea Bass boycott, some Chilean sea bass (aka Antarctic toothfish) gained MSC certification. Monterey Bay Aquarium and 30
SEACHOICE Founded by five Canadian conservation orgs, SeaChoice offers a well-vetted ranking of red-, yellow- and green-listed fish. Some retailers, like Whole Foods, plan to use its colour-coded system on labels. Big Carrot only sells species on SeaChoice’s good side. seachoice.org.
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other orgs spoke out against the approval on Antarctic krill. Most recently, the David Suzuki Foundation and others were highly critical as erratic BC sockeye salmon won the MSC label earlier this year. Then the dissing went public in a big way. Last month, six fisheries scientists published a scathing opinion piece in the journal Nature condemning the certifier. Too many fisheries were being certified despite population declines, they wrote, and small fisheries were being bypassed. They also pointed out that formal objections by NGOs were discouraged because groups might have to pay as much as £15,000 (dropped to £5,000 this August) to MSC to fund audits into their complaint. Ultimately the article argued that “the incentives of the market have led the MSC certification scheme away from its original goal, toward promoting the certification of ever-larger capital-intensive operations.” Says Jennifer Jacquet, lead author on the piece and a scientist with the UBC Fisheries Centre’s Sea Around Us Project, “What I have a problem with is that we’re telling consumers this is the best you can do, this is most environmentally sustainable choice. We’re not telling them, ‘Hey, this is the best of a bad bunch,’ which is what the MSC really is.” Adds Jacquet, “That really disempowers consumers to do much more, especially since they paid more for this fish. It’s a cop-out.” But not all critics of the MSC agree the label should be dismissed. Bill Wareham at the David Suzuki Foundation says of the MSC system, “It’s not perfect, but it’s quite good, and our organization doesn’t have a problem with most of the certifications. Out of 100 certifications, there’ve been maybe half a dozen objections. Maybe there should be none, but that’s probably not realistic.” Okay, so those half dozen objections represent at least a third of fish certified by MSC, but Wareham argues that environmentalists are better off working with the MSC to reform it from the inside. He says the battle is vital, “but if we got rid of the MSC, we’d spend five years trying to recreate something just like it.” For its part, the MSC says that it’s brought about improvements in every controversial fishery it’s waded into.
The sockeye salmon fishery was given 43 different conditions for improvement, the South Georgia toothfish, aka Chilean sea bass, fishery that got the label had to change gear to eliminate seabird bycatch and put observers on every ship to ensure no illegal fish were caught. The MSC promises a report on the net benefits to all its fisheries over the last 10 years and says reforms based on NGO complaints are in the works. Says Kerry Coughlin, MSC’s regional director for the Americas, “If we were to set the bar at 100 per cent, we’d be back to not having any impact at all. Then we make no change or improvement.” Regardless, some chains have decided to make up their own mind. Whole Foods went rogue and decided earlier this year not to offer MSC krill products. Ditto for MSC-certified hoki at the UK’s Waitrose chain. And insiders say Loblaws has quietly acknowledged that stores may not sell an MSC product if it doesn’t meet their criteria. Nonetheless, there’s no denying MSC is still broadly supported by retailers and many enviro groups. An informal poll of fish gurus like Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish, and Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder, reveals that, despite misgivings, they’re still on board with the label, whether it’s on a Filet-O-Fish sandwich (McDonald’s does use MSCcertified fish but doesn’t advertise it) or in a grocery’s freezer. Says Grescoe, “I face the same problem as other consumers. I continue to eat fish, and there’s still very little information available. So when there’s an MSC label, I say to myself that’s good, some work has been done on this species.” But he’s careful to add, “I don’t take what they say as gospel.” Grescoe’s signature advice is to stick to species low on the totem pole, like sardines and farmed mussels, instead of chowing down on the 10 per cent remaining large fish still left in the sea. Greenberg says the next step has to be figuring out some palpable way of protest that goes beyond choosing fish on menus or in grocery stores, perhaps harassing politicians for more protected marine reserves, tougher fish quotas and smarter aquaculture standards. WWF’s Bettina Saier has
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MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL (MSC) This independent
BEST AQUACULTURE PRACTICES (BAP) This industry-
global standard (originally founded by WWF and Unilever) is considered the best certification system for wildcaught seafood and has certified 7 per cent of the global catch, though it’s not without its critics. msc.org.
generated certification is more common on frozen seafood. A BAP shrimp farm may have no child labour and decent health and safety requirements, but enviros consider BAPs eco safeguards weak. Expect to see a new ASC (Aquaculture Stewardship Council) logo in a year or two. gaalliance.org/bap.
IS FOR FAIL HOW GROCERS SCORE ON GREENPEACE’S SEAFOOD REPORT CARD:
LOBLAWS
GRADE
43%
(No Frills/Fortinos/ValuMart/Real Canadian Superstore/T&T) GRADE 43 per cent REEL DEAL Made the boldest move to date by announcing all its seafood (including the stuff in pet food and fertilizer) would be sustainable by 2013. Critics say the chain puts too much emphasis on controversial MSC certification, but so far has removed six red-list species. Still selling nine of 15 red-listers.
WALMART CANADA
GRADE
28%
GRADE 28 per cent REEL DEAL The Canuck branch finally caught up with the U.S. parent company, announcing its sustainable seafood policy last spring. It’ll sell nothin’ but certified fish by 2013, but hasn’t delisted any red-list fish yet and still sells six of 15.
METRO
GRADE
(Food Basics, Super C) GRADE 21 per cent (but climbing fast) REEL DEAL Metro’s probably the most improved chain since the Greenpeace grades came out. It now says it’s axing nine species on the red list and has taken the bold lead in banning endangered Atlantic Canadian cod, plus labels will now specify catch methods.
21%
63%
OF THE SEAFOOD CANADIANS EAT IS PURCHASED AT SUPERMARKET CHAINS
SOBEYS
GRADE
14%
(Foodland/IGA/Price Chopper) GRADE 14 per cent REEL DEAL This slowpoke’s sustainable seafood policy is due any day now, so grade should climb. Started offering some Ocean Wise-approved fish, and like all of the above, it sells some MSCcertified fish.
COSTCO
GRADE GRADE 7 per cent REEL DEAL The stores don’t carry a ton of seafood, and what they sell is in bulk. Company hasn’t made a peep to demonstrate it gives a flying fish.
7%
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Molotov cocktail shriMp Our explOsive lust fOr these tasty sea insects is far frOm guilt-free By paUl tErEFENko “endless shrimp.” type it into Google and you’ll get page after page of Red Lobster all-you-can-eat shrimp chatter. Shrimp has already dethroned tuna as the most eaten seafood in America, and Canada is seeing a similar trend. It’s not tough to convince yourself that shrimp is easy on the oceans. After all, those delicious sea beetles reproduce like crazy, don’t need a lot of food to mature and grow to market size in just a few months. Heck, even the cute factor is low for a creature more suited to a scene in Starship Troopers than Finding Nemo. But the reality is the shrimp industry, specifically in the southern hemisphere, has a massive effect on
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catching everything from invertebrates, fish and sharks to sea turtles. In some places 90 per cent of what’s caught isn’t shrimp,” says Nichols. “We’re looking at 20 kilograms (of unwanted bycatch) for every kilo of shrimp caught in destructive shrimp fisheries,” says Robert Rangeley, WWF Canada VP for the Atlantic Region, making his number even higher. “It’s like catching a squirrel by clear-cutting a forest,” says Monterey Bay Aquarium spokesperson Alison Barratt. Logically, when you’re after something as small as a shrimp you’re taking in everything bigger, but there have been improvements. But here’s the rider: if you down North American shrimp, you’re way
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further ahead on the sustainable scale. U.S. and Canadian trawlers have excluding devices in their nets, and lobster-trap devices that allow bycatch to be removed alive are used for Pacific spot prawns. Much of Canada’s Atlantic shrimp, which is all the wild-caught variety, actually goes to the UK. Our shrimp is increasingly attaining MSC certification. That’s great for the few who seek out sustainable shrimp. But these days even Dairy Queen and Taco Bell sell shrimp. “It’s everywhere and it’s cheap,” says Nichols. To feed that cheap need, Asia fills the void. Three-quarters of global production comes from China, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. “Consumers are contributing directly to the loss of mangrove forests, and wild fisheries, and to climate change problems,” warns Alfredo Quarto, executive director of the Mangrove Action Project. In the case of roughly half the world’s shrimp industry, farming is the production method of choice – and mangroves are often razed so operations can be near salt water. “Governments promoting shrimp farming aren’t able to control the industry,” says Quarto. Loose regula-
tions allowed for the loss of 70 per cent of Ecuador’s mangroves, he adds. The number in the Philippines hovers around 60 per cent. It’s the same for Thailand, and India’s losses are estimated at 30 to 40 per cent. It’s because of the market forces that will allow cheap shrimp to thrive that Quarto’s against certification, in particular by the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), which is to farmed shrimp what the MSC is to wild shrimp. The label is set to roll out in coming months. “We’re protesting and trying to get them to postpone. They’re not adhering to real needs and lessening public demand for shrimp,” says Quarto. The alternative to this destruction, he says, is supporting your local shrimp industry and accepting it as a seasonal food. But criticism of shrimp farms doesn’t end at habitat destruction. “White shrimp are easy to farm, and that might mean you’re growing them where they’re not native,” says Barratt. “They’re invasive, and you risk escape with inland ponds.” And then you have to consider diseases. “Waste is a huge problem. Ponds can become unusable, and you’re discarding treated (think antibiotics and pesticides) sludge into the
environment,” says Barrett, whose organization’s Seafood Watch guide recommends avoiding all imported shrimp in favour of Canadian wildcaught and some U.S. farmed and wild varieties. What makes U.S. farms work is tank farming that recirculates water without destroying coastland. Understandably, it’s more expensive. Mark Powell, WWF International’s global seafood leader, believes that progress is being made on the shrimp front. He gives an example of a novel plan in Vietnam where the government is leasing spots in a coastal national forest area where shrimp feed as though they were in the wild. “Farmers are allowed to grow and sell shrimp, but the situation is natural, and there’s no food input. It’s like a harvest lease – a hybrid between farming and fishing.” And there’s always you and me. “Buyers can motivate change,” says Powell. “When customers express an interest in better shrimp, retailers and wholesalers make a change.” It almost makes you want to plan an all-you-can-eat endless shrimp fiesta – which is precisely the attitude we should fear. 3 pault@nowtoronto.com
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frankenfish attack Put your fork down — A cAnAdiAn-mAde fAbricAted fish is heAding your wAy
how comfortable are you sitting down to dine on artificial, lab-created salmon? Think quickly, because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a biotech company’s plan for a made-in-Canada GE fish to land on a dinner plate near you. With Atlantic salmon facing decline, Waltham, Massachusettsbased AquaBounty Technologies says it’s produced an engineered fish that tastes exactly like salmon, with the same colour, odour and texture. The only difference is that AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon contain a growth hormone gene from chinook salmon to accelerate their early development and a DNA fragment from the eel-like ocean pout to help activate the growth hormone. Still hungry? “Most of our major fisheries are overfished, the world population is growing, demand for seafood is growing and we need some alternatives,’’ says John Buchanan, AquaBounty’s director of research. He says the breed they’re working on will mature in two years, half the time conventional fish take to reach market size. Moreover, he tells me, the fish will not only be as healthy to eat as regular salmon, they’ll be more environmentally friendly. Some fish farms have trouble with disease and escape, he says, but the AquaBounty salmon will be exclusively female, almost uniformly sterile and raised in selfcontained facilities inland. Still, not everyone’s convinced we can predict either the eco consequences or the health effects of unleashing DNA-manipulated fish on the planet. When the FDA held hearings last month to discuss AquaBounty’s proposal, demonstrators, including reps from Ben & Jerry’s, protested in Washington, DC, and outside the company’s facility in Bay Fortune, PEI. It’s Canadian tech, after all. Back in 1989, molecular biologists at Memorial University in St. John’s and the University of Toronto hatched a plan to develop salmon that grow quickly and tolerate extremely cold water. A U.S. financier read about the research, reeled in the Memorial scientist, and AquaBounty was born.
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The firm has also approached Canadian regulators for approval. The FDA proposal calls for eggs to be produced in PEI and then hatched and the salmon reared and processed in Panama. But Buchanan tells me the company actually wants to sell its eggs to fish farms close to consumer markets. “As a genetics company we’d sell the eggs to a grower who has an agreement with the FDA for certain standards of compliance,” Buchanan says. “I’m assuming that good husbandry practices would be employed by the farmer.” Lucy Sharratt, coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, doesn’t buy the claims. “There’s never been any longterm studies into the health impacts of genetically engineered
foods. Essentially by releasing genetically engineered foods onto the market, one huge experiment is being conducted.” Sharratt adds that genetic engineering explicitly supports factory farming and can introduce new environmental and health risks to an already troubled industrial food production system. Moreover, she’s concerned about the company’s plan to sell its eggs to fish farms. How much control would AquaBounty actually have over its enviro commitments, Sharratt asks. “They’re avoiding the biggest environmental risk question by saying they would produce only in Panama, when their plans are actually something else entirely,” Sharratt says. At the Consumers Union in New York, senior scientist Michael Hansen says he’s not satisfied by the documentation supplied to the FDA.
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“They have too-small sample sizes. Looking at six fish, on allergenicity, for example, and making determinations – that’s not correct.” While the FDA oversees the entire regulatory process in the U.S., multiple agencies handle oversight north of the border. Health Canada regulates GMO products as “novel foods” and addresses health and safety, while the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, a branch of Agriculture Canada, has traditionally handled many eco issues. With no regulations in place to handle GMO animals, eco oversight has been handed over to Environment Canada. For confidentiality reasons, Health Canada, says spokesperson David Thomas, cannot confirm whether or not AquaBounty has filed a submission or any other information related to a submission. If approved, GMO fish would likely take a few years to show up in North America’s food supply. Currently, AquAdvantage salmon are in a headto-head race with a genetically engineered pig being developed at the University of Guelph for becoming the first GMO animal to enter the food system anywhere in the world. But there’s been trouble on that front. In 2002 11 experimental GMO piglets at the U of Guelph were mistakenly sent to a rendering plant and turned into animal feed instead of
The breed will mature in two years, half the time conventional fish take to reach market size. being destroyed, and two years later this happened again with unapproved GMO pharma-pigs from Quebec. “It’s predictable that one or more containment measures can and will fail at one point,” Sharratt says. “Atlantic salmon are a threatened species. The environmental risk is too great.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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“The nutritional world seems united behind fish and fish oil. We’re not sure that there aren’t other ways to gain the same amount of good health.”
Oil Of Okay? there’s a pond full of claims about fish oil as a heart and memory tonic, but only some of them pan out By ELIZABETH BROMSTEIN
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id you take your fish oil today? Should you? Rich in omega-3 fatty acids, fish is considered today’s magic formula for heart and brain health. “Eat your fish and you’ll live longer and smarter!” Of course, this is always followed by, “Hey now! Let’s all calm down until the science comes in.” Well, it is coming in. But besides the debate over the benefits, many are questioning whether our global fish sources can sustain increased consumption of the swimmers and all this production of supplements. And though we’re told fish oil capsules are safe to ingest, cleaned of all the PCB nasties found in the waters, a lawsuit launched last spring throws those claims into question. According to fishoilsafety.com, some fish oil on the U.S. market has undisclosed and unnecessarily high levels of contamination. To down that capsule or not?
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WHAT THE ExpERTS SAy “We looked at control trials involving those who took oily fish or fish oil supplements and those who didn’t. We were interested in tracking heart attacks and strokes. While a couple of big studies suggest a protective effect, overall, if you add the studies together, the picture isn’t so clear. Fish oil may be protective under some circumstances. A large UK trial of men with angina found an almost but not quite statistically significant increase in deaths in those who had been given the oily fish. So there is a slight possibility of potential harm to some people. We looked for evidence that PCBs might cause problems associated with eating oily fish. We didn’t see evidence of that.” LEE HOOPER, senior lecturer, research synthesis and nutrition, University of East Anglia, UK
“Certainly omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA have been found to be associated with improved cognitive performance. The EU recommends that all pregnant and lactating women consume at least 200 mg of DHA per day from fish or fish oils. Omega-3 from fish oil has also, in most studies, shown a 20 per cent reduction in cardiac mortality for those with heart disease who take at least 1,000 to 3,000 mg of EPA DHA per day. It has consistently shown a significant reduction in blood triglyceride levels. In a recent study of 35,000 post-menopausal women, it was found, though this needs confirmation, that regular use of fish oil was associated with a reduction in breast cancer risk.” BRUCE HOLUB, professor emeritus, human health and nutritional sciences, U of Guelph
“The nutritional world seems united behind fish and fish oil. We’re not sure that there aren’t other ways to gain the same amount of good health. And we see quite clearly that fish stocks, under their current pressure, are not sustainable. The science is not as clear-cut as everyone makes out. We’ve got at best a very small effect, and we might get a better outcome if we got more exercise, ate better, smartened up our lifestyles. I’m not saying long-chain omega-3 fatty acids may not have special pharmacologic effects. But we can get these from the new biology, from blue-green algae.” DAVID JENKINS, Canada research chair, nutritional sciences, U of T
“We conducted the largest and longest randomized control trial ever to see whether increasing older people’s dietary intake of the two most important omega-3 fats would benefit cognitive function, and we found no evidence of a benefit. There’s evidence from other studies that individuals who eat a lot of fish have better cognitive function. But the problem is that people who eat a lot of fish are different from people who don’t. All sorts of other factors like education or other things in their diets might influence cognitive function.” ALAN DANGOUR, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U of London, UK
“Long-chain omega-3 fats are essential fats. Omega-3s and omega-6s have to be in balance; we have too much omega-6. This imbalance increases inflammation, one possible factor in cardiovascular health. Essential nutrients are not like drugs and can’t be tested like drugs. We see a link between Alzheimer’s or heart disease and low levels of omega-3s, but if you translate that into a randomized control trial, you may not see a very positive response. How do you know that the people in the group aren’t missing something else equally important?” AILEEN BURFORD-MASON, nutritionist/immunologist, Toronto
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faith that both can happen at once. “Over the last few years, the marketplace has put a lot of pressure on our department of fisheries and oceans to implement policies that are required by standards [like MSC].” (Some provinces are even paying to have fisheries certified by MSC to stay in the game, though the Department of Fisheries maintains that the MSC certifications only prove how sustainable Canuck fisheries already were.) Industry, Saier says, has taken responsibility for this resource on both the business and the policy side, “and that’s what leads to transformational change.” That’s the theory, of course, and we’re in the middle of seeing if it plays out. As DSF’s Wareham notes, “It’s still a question mark whether it’s going to work.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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with research apparently way ahead of the consumer curve, I’d say it’s time we stopped swallowing the convenient lie about fish suffering. A few months back, I stopped by a conservation area on the way home from the country. There amongst the picnicking and the scampering of small children was a man fishing with his young son. He had a little fish on the end of his line pierced through the palate by his hook. He proceeded to cast again, sending the poor creature – still very much bucking and wriggling – soaring out over the waters and back into the deep. Again he slowly reeled it in and again he cast. That was when I stopped looking. It was disturbing, but then I chided myself for acting like some kind of Bambi vegetarian; I’m a big fan of pan-fried whitefish. In the song Something In The Way, Kurt Cobain made it plain that “it’s okay to eat fish cuz they don’t have any feelings.” I guess that group of boys I witnessed smelt fishing beside the Rouge some time ago, throwing the unwanted but still living shad into their beach fire, had been given the same information. Unfortunately, somebody neglected to inform the fish. They were writhing and flipping, doing a great impression of intense agony as they roasted alive.
susTaINING fIsh Recent scientific studies suggest that the fish weren’t just acting. They do indeed experience suffering comparable to that of humans. Researchers have methods for ascertaining this. They inject the most sensitive parts of fish – their lips – with bee venom, causing them to exhibit signs of intense pain. When they administer an analgesic, the pain behaviour ceases. Scientist Victoria Braithwaite caused quite a stir a few years ago by showing that fish have specialized pain receptors just like we do. Her new book, Do Fish Feel Pain?, suggests that we extend to fish the same kind of compassionate considerations we give birds and mammals whose flesh we consume for protein. Even if it’s just the compassion of a quick death. “We have to take far fewer fish out of the system at a time,” she tells me by phone from her office at Penn State University. “And in dealing with those fewer fish, we can handle them more quickly. We can use percussive stunning – a very quick blow to the head – or electrical stunning and then cut the gills so that they very quickly bleed out as soon as possible after capture.” Noted Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer agrees. “I think we should give their pain and suffering as much weight as we would give a similar amount of suffering in a human being,” he tells me. “There are methods we can employ without enormous cost to ourselves.” While health food stores and some markets go to great lengths to assure customers that the wild fin fish they stock is sustainably harvested, there’s no seal of approval for the ethical treatment of fish. Nor, I’m told, are there many customer requests for such information. And what of anglers? “From the work we’ve done,” says Braithwaite, “I don’t think that fishing with a live bait fish on the end of a hook is an ethical process. But what I’m curious about is this: have anglers thought about alternatives? Could you actually kill the bait before you put it on the end of the hook, and would it be as effective? I don’t know the answer to that.” The Swiss government has taken its own direction; last year, live bait fishing and barbed hooks were banned. Anglers are now required to take a course in humane methods. Time to take the bait and add “ethical treatment’’ to those sustainable labels. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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martin kouprie knows his seafood first hand. “I’m a scuba diver – it’s a passion,” says the Pangaea chef. “I’ve always been in the water, whether off the coast of Newfoundland deep in the Atlantic, or the Caribbean or Pacific. I know the beauty.” He’s also become increasingly aware of the restaurant industry’s part in the thoughtless damage we’re doing to the seas’ fragile eco-system. To become part of the solution instead of the problem, his swanky Yorkville boîte has hooked up with Ocean Wise (see sidebar, page 26). “First of all, you don’t have to pay to participate,” continues Kouprie. “And Ocean Wise is the only program that verifies the pedigree of the fish at both the supplier and restaurant level. There’s a lot more choice out there than people realize.” We’ll happily go for Pangaea’s legally fished New Zealand abalone three-way on the half-shell – ceviche on kohlrabi slaw, frothy tempura with avocado mousse, seared over pickled watermelon ($20) – or a dense filler-free West Coast Dungeness crab cake in a spicy pool of gazpacho ($18). Meaty BC albacore tuna gets cooked sous-vide, then casually tosses over a tsunami of crisp haricots verts, barely-there rings of raw red onion and leafy butter
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PaNaGea, The foGGy Dew aND ITs sIsTeR Pubs aReN’T The oNly oceaN wIse ResTos IN TowN. heRe’s wheRe The caTch of The Day Is always a coNscIeNTIous oNe.
BEAST 96 Tecumseth, at Whitaker, 647-3526000, thebeastrestaurant.com Ex-Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar employees Scott Vivian and Rachelle Vivian follow in the organic guru’s culinary footsteps. In amongst their sweetbreads and miscellaneous pig parts, find the multiculti likes of Qualicum Bay scallops with caldo verde and smoked wild Pacific sockeye salmon with Yukon Gold hash.
COWBELL 1564 Queen W, at Sorauren, 416-849-1095, cowbellrestaurant.ca Toronto’s original snout-to-tail beanery, Mark Cutrara’s popular Parkdale bistro also features a number of locally sourced fish dishes. At dinner, chef pairs seared Ontario pickerel with marinated fingerlings and a “loose” tapenade, while at brunch, he idiosyncratically tops bennies with house-smoked speckled trout.
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111 Queen E, at Mutual, 416-863-6006, georgeonqueen.com Seafood has always been a major player in chef Lorenzo Loseto’s elaborate multi-course tasting menus, and his just-launched autumnal lineup’s no different. This season, look for wild Pacific halibut coupled with cauli-
foGGy notion FOGGY DEW (803 King West, at Tecumseth, 416-703-4042, foggydew.ca) Complete meals for $25 per person, including all taxes, tip and a pint. Average main $15. Open Monday to Friday 11 am to 2 am, Saturday and Sunday 10:30 am to 2 am. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnn
You don’t have to break the bank in Yorkville to eat ethical seafood. You can find Ocean Wise-approved fish at the Foggy dew alongside the usual modestly priced pub grub suspects. Met at the door by the pong of empty beer kegs and an effervescent server in an abbreviated Catholic schoolgirl’s uniform, we’re soon sitting in one of the friendly boozer’s
semi-private snugs. As a Blue Jays game slowly unravels on a largescreen TV overhead, the condo local’s satellite jukebox shuffles from Joy Division (Love Will Tear Us Apart) to Journey (Don’t Stop Believin’), though fat luck thinking positive did Ian Curtis. We doubt that two fillets of Alaskan-caught halibut battered in Kilkenny cream ale ($15.99) would have cheered up the notorious misery guts, but their sides of hand-cut fries, creamy coleslaw and textbook tartare sauce will put smiles on just about anyone else’s face. Given a tasty trio of soft tacos dressed with roasted corn salsa and spicy Marine Stewardship Councilsanctioned New Zealand whitefish poached in German weissbier ($11.99), Curtis might have hung SD around a little longer.
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HARBORD ROOM 89 Harbord, at Spadina, 416-962-8989, theharbordroom.com With its late hours, engaging staff and creative kitchen, Cory Vitiello and crew’s resto-row bistro has been a runaway hit with seafoodies since the minute it threw open its doors two years ago. Two of the reasons: wild line-caught Pacific halibut wrapped in crispy plantain and smoked ’n’ poached Arctic char dressed with frazzled leeks. Steven davey
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Music by three mystery bands plus DJ dancing. 8:30 pm. $5 and up sliding scale. Double Double Land, 209 Augusta. barrierelakesolidarity.org. Fine Wine Dinner (Grapes for Humanity) A champagne reception, dinner and live wine auction support earthquake relief in Haiti. 6:30 pm. $250. Four Seasons Hotel, 21 Avenue Rd. grapesforhumanity.com. Freeing your sPiriT (Freeing the Human Spirit) Sound, music and poetry with Gary Diggins, Mary Ito and others. 7:30 pm. $30. Music Gallery, 197 John. 416-204-1080.
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ningside Library, 4279 Lawrence E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. asTral ProJeCTion Talk on the Gnostic perspective and guided meditation. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Gnostic Centre, 715B Danforth. Preregister 1-877-466-7471. THe beneFiTs oF CHoosing organiC Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. CanaDa salsa Congress Dance festival with performers from around the world, salsa championships, workshops and more. To Oct 11. Various prices. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Sq. canadasalsacongress. com.
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ToronTo HisPano-ameriCan Film FesTival Features and documentaries from
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Hamburg design theory prof Friedrich von Borries. 6 pm. Free. OCAD Auditorium, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000. Queer mounTain bike ToronTo Intro skills session on mountain biking in the Don Valley followed by a mixer. 6-8 pm. $40 (w/ bike and helmet $60). 416-531-8795. Queer sWing DanCing Beginner lesson and dancing. 7 pm. $5. 519 Church Community Centre. swinginout.ca. THe sCienCe beHinD THe beauTy Astronomy talk by Elizabeth Harper-Clark and telescope observing. 8:10-10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. astro.utoronto. ca.
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ConneCTion Bridget Stutchbury talks about her new book The Bird Detective. 7-9 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. susTainabiliTy, THe environmenT anD CommuniTy Mayoral debate with the lead-
ing candidates. 7 pm. Free. St Lawrence Centre, 27 Front W. votetoronto2010.com/ toronto-debates. yiDDisH vinkl Gerry Kane talks about the work of Yiddish poet Avrom Sutskever. Noon. $16 (incudes lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. Pre-register yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca.
continuing rabiliTies arTs FesTival Celebration of dis-
ability arts and culture with music, break dancing, films, forums, visual art and a children’s program. Various venues and prices, some events free. abilitiesartsfestival.org. To Oct 24
FlasH ForWarD Festival featuring emerging photographers with exhibits, lectures and panel discussions. Free. Liberty Village. flashforwardfestival.com. To Oct 10
global CabareT FesTival Performers include Carole Pope, Elizabeth Sheppard, Melanie Doane, Denzal Sinclaire and Lorraine Segato. shire. Pre-register 416-921-3802 ext 221.
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Mapuche Political Prisoners) Fundraising film screening. 7:30 pm. $10-$20 sliding scale. Birge Carnegie Reading Rm, 95 Charles W. g20.torontomobilize.org. veraCruz beneFiT (Veracruz flood victims) Music with Café con Pan, traditional Mexican and Spanish poetry, and more. 7 pm. $10 sugg. Naco, 1665 Dundas W. 647-3476499. ouTWorDs 2010 (OUTwords) A queer/spectrum community arts exhibition and fundraiser with a tour and talk. To Oct 15. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.
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week workshop with poet Victor Coleman. 6:30-8:30 pm. $150. Toronto New School of Writing, 283 College. info@tnsow.com. the GloBal econoMy Discussion and postKeynesian analysis of current events. 7 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. 416-340-1865.
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day at a local musicians open stage and potluck. 6 pm. Pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-596-7328. rthanksGIvInG weekend Taste harvest foods and cook in the historic kitchen. Today, tomorrow, Oct 11, noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. toronto.ca. rtIff faMIly fun Drop-in activities for kids five to 12 include creating illusions, music videos and simple trick effects. Today, tomorrow and Oct 11, 10 am-4 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/essentialcinema.
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BUILDING IT PLANET-FRIENDLY Catch a heady discussion about green architecture and the issues of ecology, design and synergy – Provocative Visioning: The Artist/ Designer As Eco-Provocateur. The panel features Friedrich von Borries, a professor of design theory from Hamburg, and Toronto architect Philip Beesley. Tonight (Thursday, October 7), 6 pm, free, at the OCAD Auditorium, 100 McCaul. 416-9776000.
MAYOR’S RACE GOES ECO This musical portrait of 16th-century European diplomacy highlights the fascinating relationship between embassies and music. Performed with voices, lute, hurdy-gurdy and recorder. $10 tickets for ages 30 and under. Visit www.torontoconsort.org
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Environmental Film & Video Festival opens with a gala reception and screening of Ron Mann’s film based on Margaret Atwood’s book. 7 pm. $22. TIFF Bell Lightbox, King and John. 416-531-4689. ThE NECESSITY OF VIRTUE Lecture by psychology prof Jordan B Peterson. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register 416-978-8849. PERSON PLACE ThING Curator’s tour of the
check out the (now four) main competitors as they discuss sustainability, the environment and community. Watch Ford evade the questions and pay close attention to SmithermanPantalone sparring. Tonight (Thursday, October 7). 7 pm, free. St. Lawrence Centre, 27 Front West. votetoronto2010
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Help benefit G20 Legal Fund and Mapuche Political Prisoners – indigenous people jailed in Chile for defending their lands – at a screening of The Chicago Conspiracy on Friday (October 8). The film tracks the catastrophic impact of neo-liberal economic ideas promoted at the University of Chicago by
the likes of Milton Friedman – also profiled in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. A great way to support activists rounded up here in Toronto and Chile. 7:30 pm. $10-20. Birge Carnegie Reading Room, Victoria College (95 Charles West). g20.torontomobilize.org.
textile exhibition. 6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. RIChARD TUTTLE ON AGNES MARTIN Tuttle talks about his friendship with Agnes Martin and her contribution to contemporary art. 7-8:30 pm. $18, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. RUCkUS Anti-racism, anti-oppression conference for youth of colour with workshops, speakers and more. Today and tomorrow. Free. Accolade W Bldg, York U, 4700 Keele. Pre-register youthactionnetwork.org.
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MANUSCRIPTS: FROM ILLUMINATED QURANS TO ILLUSTRATED POETRY Talk by Islamic art
curator Karin Ruehrdanz. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. MFA Launch party for art projects by writer Sheila Heti, filmmaker Margaux Williamson and musician Ryan Kamstra with a short reading and screening. 8 pm. Free. Stone’s Place, 1255 Queen W. theproductionfront@ gmail.com.
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Toronto Green Community hosts a meeting on environmental issues in North Toronto for wards 16, 22, 25 and 26. 7-9 pm. Free. North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton W. torontogreen.ca.
A PUBLIC TEChNOLOGY: ThE BUILDING OF TORONTO’S YONGE STREET SUBWAY Presentation by historian Jay Young. 7 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. 416-393-7703.
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60 Bathurst, 416-260-9696, gsmen.com Melissa Austria is a dapper dressing den mother to a lot of men in Toronto. Since opening GotStyle five years ago, she’s watched many a stumped-about style customer turn into a fashionsavvy fella. On Wednesday (October 13), she officially relaunches the store in swanky new digs across from the Thompson Hotel. The new GotStyle is divided into three main spaces. Just inside the front door are casual pieces or what Austria calls “brunch wear,” including cableknit sweaters and trim hoodies. Next door is the going-out zone, including fresh arrivals from Company of We, a New York label known for price- and detail-conscious menswear. In the
back, suiting by T-Concept and LAB helps guys handsomely take care of business. Finish things off with a plaid Fullum & Holt belt or one of Gregory Allen’s dandy bow ties. GotStyle picks: Layer up with a Sans Vanité cardigan in black and grey, $195; a grey wool T-Concept blazer has a subtle pinstripe, $550; Bustle’s fall waistcoat collection includes single- and double-breasted vests in wool, cotton or velvet, $275. Look for: A made-to-measure service and a barber shop in collaboration with Sharps. Hours: Monday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm, Sunday 1 to 5 pm. 3
There was frantic googling when the Fashion Design Council of Canada released the Toronto Fashion Week (lgfashionweek.ca) runway schedule on September 30. Many people recognized new names like Rita Liefhebber, Amanda Lew Kee and Thomas, who have all shown collections off-site in previous seasons, but who are House of Groves, Rachel Mara and Duy? The Duy label hails from Montreal, and we’ve seen the singularly named designer’s printed dresses at Delphic on Queen West. Mara is based in Portland, Oregon, and browsing her online lookbook (rachelmara.com) reveals feminine dresses, tailored blouses and a penchant for silk prints. House of Groves is created by TFI New Labels competition alumna Jennifer Waters. New names aside, the show creating the most buzz is Holt Renfrew’s opening-night review of designer Canadian labels. The presentation includes Lida Baday, Line, Smythe and Wings + Horns plus the first-ever appearance of Jeremy Laing’s collection on the big Toronto runway. LG Fashion Week takes place October 18 to 22 at Heritage Court (Exhibition Place). Consumer tickets to select shows are $24.99 at lgfashionweek.ca.
Swap shop
Clean out your closet this weekend and take all those what-wasI-thinking wears down to Mercer Union (1286 Bloor West, mercerunion.org) on Sunday (October 10) for the OMG SWAP!! 2. Last year, over 500 people showed up to trade forgotten but still fashionable and functional clothing and accessories. The event runs from noon until 6 pm and admission is $5. Leftover pieces are donated to Sistering (sistering.org).
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by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Much of the reader
mail I receive is friendly. But now and then I’ll get a message like this: “I’ve followed your horoscopes with pleasure for years. But I must say, you’ve really lost it lately. I can’t stand the garbage you’ve been slinging. What happened to you?” My response is to wonder why the person never wrote to me while he was happy with my efforts. It reminds me of a quote by Leon Uris: “How often in life it is that we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.” It also reminds me of how tempting it is to focus on what repels us and scares us, shortchanging the dreams that excite us. Your assignment in the next four weeks, Aries, is to reward what you like and pursue what you want. For now, forget about what you don’t like and don’t want.
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 The worst
painting in history is hanging in San Francisco’s De Young Museum. It is Noel And Bob, by Joan Brown. It’s so awkwardly garish and trivially monstrous that I can only conclude that Brown possessed what might be termed “negative genius.” It’s not just that she had no talent. She actually had the opposite of brilliant talent. And yet I must confess I had a good time gazing at this anti-artistic botch. I thoroughly en joyed laughing at it and was quite pleased at the jokes my companions and I made about it. I suggest that in the coming week you try something similar: enjoying the entertainment value and educational merit of clumsy, ungainly, out-of-whack stuff. Doing so will sharpen your wits for the nottoo-distant future, when you will come into proximity with a lot of understated beauty and elegance and grace.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Is my enjoyment
of the Temptations song My Girl diminished by the fact that it was used in a commercial for Sun Maid Raisins? Does José González’s tune Heartbeats evoke less feeling in me because I know it was used as the soundtrack for a Sony TV commercial? Well, yeah, actually. The songs haven’t been totally wrecked for me, but neither do they make my heart soar any more. Is there anything like that in your life, Gemini? Some pure and innocent pleasure that has been tainted or watered down? Believe it or not, you could restore it to its original state in the coming weeks.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 For the moment,
set aside your complaints about the transgressions of your original family. Cease your laments about the struggles you had to endure as a child. If you enjoy marinating yourself in those sorrows, you can always return to them at a later date. Here are the opportunities that are now available to you: to focus on the
gifts that your early life blessed you with... to acknowledge the resources bequeathed to you by the past... to celebrate and access the primal power that has been yours to draw on since the day you were born.
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Nose jobs are at an
all-time high. Every year, American plastic surgeons cumulatively scrape away more than a mile of flesh and bone from their patients’ sniffers. I predict that in the coming weeks, the noses of the entire planet’s Leo tribe will shrink 10,000 times that amount, at least metaphorically. Why? Because I expect an epidemic of truth-telling to break out among you. There’s going to be a mass outbreak of the Pinocchio effect in reverse. Congratulations in advance for the candour you’re about to unleash. Be kind and diplomatic if you can, but insist on revealing the whole story.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Many American
towns with “burg” in their names used to end as “burgh.” In the late 19th century, a federal bureau demanded that they drop the silent final “h.” The people of Pittsburgh rose, up, however, and demanded the right to retain their precious “h.” Their wish was granted. I strongly advise you to be inspired by Pittsburgh’s adamant insis tence on maintaining its identity, Virgo. Don’t let yourself be truncated, abbreviated or standardized.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “Dear Rob: A pro-
fessional astrologer who read my chart told me that I have no willpower and that there is basically nothing I can do to change that. Any suggestions? I’m feeling helpless and passive at a time when I could really benefit from standing up for myself. – Listless Libra.” Dear Libra: What the supposedly professional astrologer told you is totally inaccurate. No one’s chart ever in the history of the world indicates that they have no willpower. Astrology doesn’t speak in such stupid ways. Besides that, you and the Libran tribe will soon have an excellent window of opportunity to bolster your willpower. The fun begins now and lasts until at least November 18. Get ready!
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “Is it a dragonfly
or a maple leaf / That settles softly down upon the water?” asks Amy Lowell in Autumn Haze, a poem from her book Pictures Of The Floating World. She doesn’t need to know the answer to her question; either would be fine. In fact, the luxuriance of the moment lies in its ambiguity. The lolling sweetness thrives because of her freedom from having to define its origins. She is simultaneously alert and relaxed; attentive to the scene in front of her but content to let it be whatever it is. I highly recommend that you enjoy extended excursions into this state of being several times in the coming week.
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sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 This
morn ing I had to interrupt my meditation on your horoscope. I’d studied the astrologi cal configurations and said my usual prayer, asking for guidance to come up with the oracle you need most. But nothing had occurred to me yet and it was time to leave the house for an appointment. As I closed the door behind me, I was still in deep thought about you. Then my face hit something gauzy, and I pulled back. Overnight, a spider had spun a huge web spanning the entire porch frame. I’d knocked it a bit off-kilter, but it was still intact. “That’s got to be an omen,” I thought to myself as I stooped under it and continued on my way. An omen of what? A little voice in my head gave the answer: Sagittarius is ready to merge more di rect ly with the great web of life.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 If you have
been in tune with the cosmic rhythms these past 10 months, you’ve been erecting bridges like a master builder. Your careful planning and guidance have conquered an abyss or two. Seemingly irreconcilable differences are no longer irrecon cilable. Unlikely connections have bloomed. You’ve combined ingredients that no one thought could be blended. Between now and your birthday, your good work should reach a climax. It’s time to inspect your craftsmanship, polish any rough edges and be sure that your creations will last.
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On a night with competing options, local experimental instrumentalists Holy Fuck had some trouble filling the cavernous Phoenix. But by the time the band started playing, the crowd was bunched together upfront, ignoring the extra space. It’s easy to see why. As compelling as Holy Fuck’s albums are, the self-imposed restrictions they place on their live show – reproducing every bit of electronic texture with “organic” instruments – make them a feast for the eyes as much as the ears. They’re also improvisers. At times HF principals Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh looked like they were deciding on the spot which instruments to use (melodica, toy piano, 35 mm projector). The quartet’s more structured compositions made the biggest impact, maybe because the formless droning of openers Indian Jewelry had tested our patience. Evening starters Bad Tits were received more sympathetically, though a project composed of Sebastien Grainger (Death from Above 1979) and Josh Reichmann (Tangiers) should be capable of more than by-the-numbers retro dance RICHARD TRAPUNSKI rock.
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amount of fog. But before anything shady could go down, the three-piece cleared the air with feverish drumming and thrash dancing. Trust have scored some choice opening gigs lately, and their brash energy was especially in tune with the non-stop goth rock histrionics of Zola Jesus, aka Nika Rosa Danilova. The Wisconsin native has an impressive voice and a determined singing style at odds with her densely distorted music. That dichotomy could make for an interesting tension, but Danilova seemed more intent on having a good time: she paced frantically, flailed her blond hair and rocked out atop the sound system. The half-capacity crowd didn’t come close to matching her energy but appreciated her effort, applauding politely when cheers for an encore were met with an apology. “That’s all my band knows,” she said. “We played every song.” KEVIN RITCHIE
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at 99 Sudbury , Fri, Oct 1 Rating: NNN One of the challenges with reviewing dance music in the same space as traditional concerts is that a good party depends on far more than a good performance. In this case, the party was great thanks to a spacious, old-school warehouse venue with a rich history, exand at the Garrison, Thu, Sep cellent sound, creative video projections, a strong 30 Rating: NNN lineup and a good crowd. Headliners Swayzak, howLocal synth Ad_Now_1-5 pop band Trust created an 011010.ai 1 appropriately 10/1/10 11:00 ever, PM were a different story. misty mood by filling the Garrison with an indecent Had the UK duo been young and unknown, their
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explosions of dub echoes and moody textures might have impressed more. But they’re a group who’ve put out amazing electronic music throughout their long career, so unfortunately, the performance was a letdown. Nothing horrible or tacky transpired, just nothing inspiring. Maybe that explains why it’s been over three years since they’ve released a full album. BENJAMIN BOLES
with XIU XIU at Lee’s Palace, Sun Oct 3 Rating: NNNN ñDEERHOOF
If there’s one lesson weirdo art school bands should take from Deerhoof, it’s that a little levity can go a long way. Their disorienting collision of noise-rock skronk and 60s psych could alienate, but it’s delivered with so much light-hearted joy that you immediately stop questioning whether it’s pretentious or challenging. Frontwoman Satomi Matsuzaki’s robotic impressions of rock star moves and quirky deadpan vocals aren’t just good for a laugh, they’re what makes the San Fran band accessible. Paired with drummer/ founder Greg Saunier’s hilariously awkward stage patter, the playfulness flips the music from being potentially difficult to being difficult to hate. In contrast, opening act Xiu Xiu (performing as a stripped-down duo) played it straight and serious. This may have worked for fans enamoured of Jamie Stewart’s on-the-verge-of-tears voice, but it tempted BB the rest of us to yell at him to cheer up.
Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Thursday (October 7) See preview, page 56.
King Khan & the Shrines, Gentleman Jesse & his Men Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (October 8) Crazed rock ’n’ roll madman with soul.
Miike Snow, New Look
Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Saturday (October 9) Swedish stoner-pop kingpins.
The Walkmen, AA Bondy, Blood Feathers Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (October 9) See preview, page 58.
Jayme Stone
Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), Wednesday (October 13) See preview, page 49.
The Dears
The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Wednesday (October 13) Montreal indie rock residency begins.
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Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Wednesday (October 13) Electronic-leaning indie folk hero.
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It’s obvious that Toronto indie dance duo Bonjay are entering a new stage in their career. They’ve filmed their first video, will soon drop their first minialbum, Broughtupsy (Mysteries of Trade), are recording a live session for Daytrotter and are about to embark on Canadian and American tours. “I feel like Bonjay has found its sound now,” says vocalist Alanna Stuart, savouring a few minutes of downtime at Pop Montreal with her bandmate, DJ Pho, aka Ian Swain. For those of us who’ve been following the electro-dancehall act for years, it’s hard not to hope that this might be their crossover year. After all, if Kanye West can collaborate with Bon Iver, maybe there’s room on commercial urban radio for a forward-thinking club act like Bonjay, too. “It’s weird – I started off my career by having a song on FLOW in rotation,” says Stuart. “But it really wasn’t how I wanted
to make music or even the music I wanted to make. If I ended up back on there now, it’d be pretty ironic; the whole reason I immersed myself in the indie scene with Bonjay was to get away from all that.” Broughtupsy may be too moody for mainstream radio programmers, but it sees the band coming of age. That’s due in part to both members having developed solo careers. As a DJ, Swain teases crowds with UK-pirate-radioinspired instrumental dancehall, while Stuart sings for synth rock band Everything All the Time and just premiered her impressive solo material while opening for the Dears in Montreal. “[The solo show] was really exciting but so scary,” says Stuart. “I had to do it on my own, which I’ve never, ever done in my entire career as a singer. It’s just me with a vocal loop pedal, clapping my hands and beating on my chest for a kick drum. “If I’d had my way, I would have gotten out of it.” 3
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Banjoist/composer Jayme Stone and his backup musicians – fiddler Casey Driessen, guitarist Ross Martin and Orchestra London’s principal bassist, Joe Phillips – may look like a bluegrass band, but don’t be fooled. “I like to say we play country music from another country,” says Stone over the phone from Vancouver, where he’s getting ready to hit 17 cities in 21 days in support of his third album, Room Of Wonders (independent). A Torontonian now based in Boulder, Colorado, Stone played in the bluegrass/jazz group Tricycle before go-
ing solo. Both of his previous efforts – 2007’s The Utmost and 2008’s Africa To Appalachia, a collaboration with Malian kora player/singer Mansa Sissoko – won Juno Awards. Stone dreamt up Room Of Wonders in his kitchen while listening to Bach’s European folk-dance-inspired French Suites. A Bulgarian ruchenitsa is followed by Irish reels, a Moorish swordfighting dance and a Norwegian polka. There’s also room for a Nordic folk dance song, the Brazilian-inspired Vinicius and a bluegrass breakdown. “It’s like a chemistry experiment,” Stone explains. “You bring the banjo into a kind of music, and then you bring a kind of music onto the banjo, and that music transforms the instrument. I hope it makes you hear the music in a new way.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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MISSION OF BURMA, METZ, HYBRID MOMENTS The Garrison. October 24. BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, SINGERS FROM THE CANADIAN OPERA COMPANY ENSEMBLE STUDIO Operanation VII
– Cinderella: Rock The Ball Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 9 pm, $125-$350. operanation.ca. October 29. DJ SHADOW Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, $29.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM, UE. November 12. DIESELBOY Bassmentality Wrongbar 416-5168677. November 17. WOODHANDS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 19. GRAPES OF WRATH Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 19. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Massey Hall doors 6:30 pm, $35-$65. LN, RTH, TM. December 4. JUSTIN RUTLEDGE Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $18. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 11. TRICKY Mod Club 9 pm, $20. RT, TW. December 12. CONNIE KALDOR Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25$27.50. 416-531-6604. January 8 and 9.
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LN – LIVE NATION livenation.com. PDR – PLAY DE RECORD 357 Yonge. 416-586-0380, playderecord.com. RT – ROTATE THIS 801 Queen W. 416-504-8447, rotate.com.
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Thursday, October 7 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park. AQUILA Alain Richer (acoustic pop). BETTY OLIPHANT THEATRE Abilities Arts Festi-
val: Signals From The Stage Shawn Brush, Martin Deschamps 7:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Iron League, James & the Readys. CAMERON HOUSE Corin Raymond 6 pm, Ariana Gillis 10 pm. CLINTON’S Poisonous Glass. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Perfume Genius doors 8:30 pm. THE GARRISON Bonjay, Kevin Hegge 9 pm. See preview, page 49. GRAFFITI’S Miracle Whip 7 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Tom Keenan, Luke Michielson, Best Man (rock). HORSESHOE Canadian Honky, Jerry Leger, Imaginary Cities, Northern Electric 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Stolen Owners, Engine Empire, the Brilliance, Ceramic Flowers. MASSEY HALL X Japan (rock) 8 pm. See preview, page 56. MOD CLUB The 80s Hit Parade 9 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Hip Hop Menage II Nusaga’s K-Notty, Wizkid, Thank the Academy, OC’s, c-los & Kwansa 9 pm.
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BREAD & CIRCUS Fern Lindzon, Sisters of Sheynville.
PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE JP, Chrissie
CHINA HOUSE Chase Sanborn Quartet 7:30 pm. DE SOTOS Open mic/Jam Double A Jazz 8 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist)
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(Hynde) & the Fairground Boys, Amy Correia doors 8 pm. PRESS CLUB T.C. Folkpunk, Normal for Once. RIVOLI Son of Dave, Sheesham & Lotus, Carlos del Junco 8:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Dildoniks, the Aviators, the Osterby Head Blues Band, the Flames They Call doors 8:45 pm. SMILING BUDDHA Feed Your Head #1 lightsweetcrude, Days of You, Orange Fuzz doors 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Hail the Villain, Songs from a Room, Bleeker Ridge doors 9 pm. WRONGBAR The Growlers doors 9 pm.
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BLUE MOON Open Jam Saxman Lou 9 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM CD release
Ashley Condon, Ambre McLean (country/ folk) 9 pm. C’EST WHAT Canary Mine 10 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Darin Yorston (bluegrass/folk) 10 pm. FAT CAT WINE BAR Alan Small (guitar) 7 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Thursday Night Confidential: Toronto Blues Society Jack de Keyzer (blues) 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S The Responsible Jam 9 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Lisa Bozikovic, Weather Station (folk) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM CD release Ron Hynes 8:30 pm. JANGBANG Open Mic Mr Farenheit 8 pm. THE LOCAL Los Caballeros Del Son (Cuban). LOLA Brian Cober (solo acoustic blues) 9 pm. LOU DAWG’S Don Campbell 6:30 pm, Mike Constantini 10:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Rinoceronte, LAL (Brazilian/funk) doors 9 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Alyson McNamara. MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, Virgil Scott, John Daly, Steve Pelletier, Danny Lockwood. MUSIC GALLERY Gary Diggins and the Sonica Collective 7:30 pm. REBAS CAFÉ Howard Gladstone (singer/songwriter) 7 pm. ROC N DOC’S Fraser Daley (blues) 9 pm.
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Schumann & Shostakovich Cecilia String Quartet noon to 1 pm. FUZION Cocktails At Six Mark Cassius, Ken Lindsay 6 to 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO Concert For Inclusion benefit for ParaSport Ontario Justin Hines, Jackie Richardson, Laura Landauer, Andrew Craig 6 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon at Met Matthew Coons (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Thursdays With John Sherwood John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. THE PADDOCK Jake Wilkinson 10 pm. REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm, Sean Bray’s Peach Trio 9:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL Best Of Barber Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gil Shaham, Jon Kimura Parker (violin, piano) 8 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL Choral Soundscapes Toronto Children’s Chorus noon. TRANE STUDIO Songs From The Great American Songbook Morgan Sadler Trio 7 pm. TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Janina Fialkowska, Tafelmusik Orchestra (pleyel piano) 8 pm.
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CORNERSTONE PUB DJ Dazz (old school) 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ Rolls
Royce doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). LEVACK BLOCK Walmer Thursdays DJs the Dirty Frenchman & Plan B (hip-hop/electro/ dancehall/B-more/bass). THE OSSINGTON Soundclash DJ Nana (reggae dance hall/hip-hop). RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE deejayscoots (roots/hiphop/rock/reggae/R&B/disco/electro) 10 pm. SAMOVAR All That Salsa DJ Hector 5 pm till midnight. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR MAIN ROOM Tattoo Thursdays DJ Millhouse Brown (new rock/alternative) doors 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR BASEMENT Tattoo Thursdays Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop).
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 THE PHOENIX
THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY!
HOT HOT HEAT
“I saw that when the people lead, the leaders will follow.” Kyle Parrill
WITH HEY ROSETTA! & RICH AUCOIN
FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 AND SATURDAY OCTOBER 9 THE MOD CLUB - ALL AGES ON SALE NOW! THE
TOMGREEN.COM
SOUND CHECK
“The creepy clown faces in between buildings on Yonge.” Jade and Amanda
the event: Nuit Blanche, Saturday, October 2 the QUeStIOn: What’s the best thing you’ve seen tonight? Photos by Zach Slootsky
WORLD STAND-UP COMEDY TOUR
SATURDAY OCT 23 THE PHOENIX
TUESDAY OCTOBER 12
BELL X1 W/ JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW
THE DRAKE HOTEL
THURSDAY OCTOBER 14
BAD RELIGION
W/ BOUNCING SOULS & OFF WITH THEIR HEADS KOOL HAUS ALL AGES
“Just seeing this many people out.” Stephanie “The impromptu dubstep party at Yonge and Dundas!” Kalinda
“Seeing lots of people hyped up and into it.” Alice
“This! The remix dance floor.” Jaclyn McCahon
“The great Game Boy music in front of Old City Hall.” Amelia Fotopoulos
FRIDAY OCTOBER 15
MAYER HAWTHORNE & THE COUNTY THE OPERA HOUSE
SUNDAY OCTOBER 17
HELMET
W/ INTRONAUT LEE’S PALACE
SATURDAY OCTOBER 23
SENSES FAIL/BAYSIDE
“Seeing the police overrun by the massive crowds.” Oana (left), Mara, Christy and Kirsten
W/ TITLE FIGHT & BALANCE AND COMPOSURE THE MOD CLUB - ALL AGES
TUESDAY OCTOBER 26
HOWARD
SOKO
W/ MAYLEE TODD THE DRAKE HOTEL
JONES
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 9
THE SUMMER SET
THE MOD CLUB - ALL AGES
WEDNESDAY NOV 17
ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI AND OS MUTANTES THE OPERA HOUSE
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20
First toronto show in 15 years
DELHI 2 DUBLIN
Tuesday, Oct. 12
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Hart House A Musical Celebration Of Nat King
Cole Joel Hartley 9 pm. LuLa Lounge Lula Live & Intimate Dominic Mancuso (jazz) 8 pm. oLd MiLL inn HoMe sMitH Bar Fridays To Sing About Barbra Lica Trio 7:30 pm. Quotes Fridays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Laurie Bower (trombone) 5 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm, Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm, Alex & her Alleycats 9:45 pm. trane studio Birth Of The Cool Brownman (post-bop Miles) 8 pm. tranzac soutHern cross The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. trinity st PauL’s cHurcH Janina Fialkowska, Tafelmusik Orchestra (pleyel piano) 8 pm. WaterfaLLs Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 6:30 pm.
york university accoLade east BLdg sterLing BeckWitH studio Improv Soiree 8-9 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
annex WreckrooM All 90s Dance Night Odario, Grand Analog 10 pm.
BaBaLúu DJ Julio Cesar 10 pm. tHe Barn Glamity DJ Blackcat, DJs TNT, JJ
Rock, Hot Knife, Unruly Twin (R&B/reggae/ house/hip-hop/soca/old&new school).5 drake HoteL underground CD release Billy Dalessandro, Get Thoughtless, Noah Pred doors 11 pm. drake HoteL Lounge DJ Nights doors 10 pm. fLy Grapefruit DJ Shane Percy, DJ Aural, Don narama 10 pm.5 footWork Luv This City Addy, YM doors 10 pm. Hyde In The Know DJs Mike Toast, Matt Karpf 10 pm. insoMnia Back In The Day BlackFriends (hiphop). JangBang Jive Turkey Brandon Sek (deep disco/house) 10 pm. LaMBadina DJ AfroSonic (Afrobeat/disco/top 40). MidPoint Fondle Em Fridays DJ NV, DJ Stand fast (hip-hop/funk/soul/rocksteady reggae) 9 pm. Mod cLuB Arcade Fridays DJ Zinc doors 10 pm. tHe ossington Lucky Bitches. tHe Painted Lady DJ Phantasik, Honey B Hind (hip-hop/80s/reggae) 10 pm.
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asPetta caffe Brittany Smith, Puella, Kate
Todd 2:30 to 6 pm, Slaves of Rhythm, Militus Rue 8 pm. Bar itaLia Al Webster 10 pm. Bovine sex cLuB The Outbred Inlaws, Liquor box, the Real McCoys. caMeron House Kim Wempe. dakota tavern Petunia (roots) 7 pm. dc Music tHeatre Punk Night Rearview, This Is Not A Drill, the Apathetics all ages.
drake HoteL underground Cotton Jones,
Parson Red Heads, Pepper Rabbit doors 8 pm.
graffiti’s The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm. HarLeM Chicken n Waffles (soul/R&B) 8 pm. HorsesHoe C’Mon, Burning Love, Red
Misha & the Spanks doors 9 pm. ñMass, kooL Haus Miike Snow, New Look (elecpop) doors 7:30 pm, all ages. ñtro Lee’s PaLace The Thermals, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Lioness doors 9 pm. ñ tHe LocaL Ronnie Artur, Alison Young. Mod cLuB Hot Hot Heat, Hey Rosetta!, Rich Aucoin doors 6 pm, all ages. ñ oPera House EBMfest 2010 Celldweller, E
Craft, Psyche, Kilowatts & Vanek, Statik Sky, Skylight Glare, Glenn Love, DJ Skin, Edwin Somnambulist, DJ Pale doors 5:30 pm, all ages. orBit rooM The A Team (funk). originaL’s Julian Troiano. Parts & LaBour Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (50s & 60s rock/pop/soul). PHoenix concert tHeatre The Walk men, AA Bondy, Blood Feathers (alt rock and roll) doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 58. rancHo reLaxo Tranquilizer Records Launch Party Noble Blood, Mass Assem bly, Black Magick Fox doors 9 pm. rivoLi DeFacto, Magnolius, LEO37, Timbuk tu, Fresh Kils, the United States of Mind 10 pm. roc n doc’s Jessica (R&B) 4 pm, Balboa (rock) 10 pm. siLver doLLar Sister Wives, King’s Common 10:30 pm. sneaky dee’s Dayglo Abortions. suPerMarket Do Right Saturdays DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal 11:30 pm. t.s.t’s LauncH Pad Sing For Your Supper Live! (rock & roll cooking show) 8 pm.
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CANADIAN DEBUT!
axis gaLLery & griLL Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) noon-3 pm.
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canadian corPs Legion HaLL Tom Parker, Bob Hannan, James Thomson, Cameron Family Singers 10 pm. friends House Thanksgiving Potluck And Imagine Party: John Lennon’s 70th birthday (open stage by local musicians) 6 pm. gLadstone HoteL MeLody Bar Country Saturday Whoa Nellie! 7 pm. grossMan’s Danny Marks (blues) 9 pm.
Sat. Oct. 16, 2010 Intimate Spanish torch songs, sophisticated flamenco and jazz, and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
HarBourfront centre redPatH sugar stage Harbourkids: Harvest Volume (kid
friendly festival) 11 am & 2 pm, The Good Lovelies noon & 4 pm.
HarBourfront centre Lakeside terrace
HarbourKids Harvest: Kitchenband Hootenanny Andrew Penner, Erin Brandenburg, Iner Souster (kid-friendly festival) 11 am to 5 pm. HigHWay 61 soutHern BarBeQue Terry Blersh (blues) 8 pm. HugH’s rooM Leonard Cohen Tribute Suzie Vinnick, David Sereda, DK Ibomeka, Lorraine Segato, Rebecca Campbell, Luther Wright, Anne Lindsay, David Gray, Holmes Hooke 8:30 pm. Lou daWg’s John Bridgens 10 pm. LuLa Lounge Salsa Dance Party Cafe Cubano. PHoeBe on Queen Sounds Of The Solar System David Hickey (crystal bowl and planet gong concert) doors 6:30 pm.
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ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE ABBEY ROAD Thur. Oct. 21, 2010 The Beatles’ Abbey Road album is re-imagined and performed live by a star-studded lineup including Steven Page, Sarah Slean, and many others. Presented in partnership with the Art of Time Ensemble.
HUGH MASEKELA Sat. Oct. 23, 2010 South Africa's legendary icon, "the man with the horn," plays world-jazz with his 6-piece band
Tickets & Packages ON SALE NOW! rcmusic.ca 416.408.0208 Even though Miike Snow’s excellent self-titled debut has been out for over a year, it’s continuing to pick up steam. Part of that is definitely due to their kick-ass live show, which you can check out Saturday (October 9) at Kool Haus.
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collective concerts so cal punk
30 th anniversary tour
bouncing souls + off with their heads
thursday october 14 koolhaus
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thursday october 14
Mod Club | all-ages - $ 14.50 advance
we came as
friday october 15 ska Phoenix | union / stomp - $17.50 advance + ff
in fear and faith friday october 22
the
new york city ska
$20.00 advance
New York CitY
first full band show in 20 years!
tet tues october 26
besnard lakes
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Thurs OCTOBER 21 • koolhaus
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friday october 22 @ horseshoe tavern $13.50 advance
- uK epitaph folk Punk
frank turner
saturday october 30 @ the horseshoe | $24.50 advance
the
glasgow scotland • sub pop “molly’s lips” - “son of a gun”
tuesday november 2 Phoenix | $25.50 advance - ALL AGeS
with
AA bondy + blood feAthers
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here we go magic
saturday october 16
the phoenix
early show • doors 5:30pm • $19.50 advance
tuesday october 19 @ Opera house
deerhunter
thurs octoBer 28
trinity st. paul’s | $22.50 adv
dan mAngAn polaris prize nominee
with basia bulat
hArbourcoAts dry / all-ages show
sunday october 31 @ the Phoenix
wednesday december 1 the mod club | $16.00 advance
ra ra
riot VASELINES DUM DUM GIRLS + the Most serene repUBLic
WITH
new york • $18.50 advance
with real estate
w/ Blackheart procession
jenny & johnny
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wed october 20
the phoenix | 19+
Beatdown, deaLs Gone Bad, the dreadnoUGhts
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october 9
lowe
slackers four the mod club
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saturday
Mod Club | $ 34.50 advance
Mod Club | $18.50 advance
mon octoBer 25
release mustard plug the creepshow cd
wed october 13
romans nick
lee’s Palace | $17.50 advance
all-ages • $29.50 advance +ff
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metalcore
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Friday November 26 souNd academy sub pop • montreal
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wEdnEsday november 3
oz johnny flynn 40 to freedom
Lee’s Palace | suBLimE tribute - $13.50 adv
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thursday october 7 | $5.00
monday october 11 | no Cover
Canadian honky ShoeleSS mondayS Jerry leger The Jon eddy Band imaginary CiTies Jeremy day northern electric Tonella friday october 8 |
$12.50
advance - h-Core B.C. Punk Legends
class assassins g20 awareness night
saturday october 9 | $10.00 adv - t.o.’s fave Power rawk trio
c’mon
Burning love reD Mass miSha & the SpankS
sun october 10 | $17.50 advance - sweden Kemado Psych rockers
dungen with
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wEdnEsday october 13
red night fallS TueSdAy Nu MuSic NigHT Queen licorice hosted by Bookie (16 th year ) here comes the calvary tuEsday october 12 life BloWn open liTTle sTevies
The sidewalks hounds Below The von bondies hot panda The seT (
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friday october 15
Dustin Bentall mookie & The loyalisTs The copperTone fast Romantics
thurs october 14 | $6.00 indie Week 2010
Black Bone Beat WhatmanS Slane What She Said mean tangerine + more! monday october 18
avi Buffalo $13.50
advance - sub Pop
saturday october 16 | $13.50 advance
friday
november 5
Lee’s Palace w/ JoSe GonZALeS
monday
november 8 horseshoe tavern $13.50
advance
wEdnEsday
junip wooden sky dawes & yukon blonde clinic azure the Blow ray with
sharon van etten
wEdnEsday
saturday november 6 Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance
with
vetiver
with
the fresh and only’s
november 10 Lee’s Palace
wEdnEsday november 10 horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance
november 17
horseshoe | $13.50 adv
thurs november 11 Lee’s Palace “sex & Candy” - $20.00 advance
saturday november 13
marcy playground
horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance
two hours traffic
friday
november 19
Lee’s Palace | $13.50 adv
woodhands
friday november 19
friday november 26
thursday october 7 | $ 6.00
stolen owners engine empire the Brilliance ceramic flowers saturday october 9 Kill rock stars - $15.50 advance
the theRmals royal alberta JuStin whiTe thurs december 16 Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance
horseshoe | $17.50 adv - Vancouver BC
horseshoe tavern | $12.00 advance
grapeS cuff of wrath the duke saturday december 11 Lee’s Palace | $18.00 advance
cymbals eat guitars + lioneSS
with
friday december 17
Lee’s Palace | $16.50 advance
khan & the shrines thursday october 14 | $ 10.00
caym dayS left little sunday
cowbell oklahoma
with
atomic tom
tuEsday october 12 | $18.50 advance
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monday october 11
El mocambo | $12.50 advance - ALL AGeS
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hollerado cobra skulls firsT foxy shazam + free energy rocky fri october 15 @ El mocambo sweden - $13.50 advance
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Daft PUnK tribUte
with members of keane
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two crown king
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dynamo + BadnutBeats
sTaylefish
sunday october 17 | $22.50 adv - new york City Grunge
helmet
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scienTisTs walk off the earth
aiD kiT votolato greg Joy formidaBle iSoBel laswell november 7
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tuEsday november 16
the drake
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El mocambo | $11.50 advance
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big damn band
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416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010
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advanTage rutledge
thurs oct 14 @ sneaky dee’s | 10.00 adv
thursday october 28 | $10.00 advance
friday october 8 | $ 16.50 montreal - berlin 10-Piece alterna soUl garage
sunday october 10 | $12.00 advance - south africa rock
$
no advance cover! wEdnEsday october 27 | Brit Pop - $11.50
with
tuesday wEdnEsday
november 30 El mocambo $12.50
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X marks the spot X Japan are finally ready to conquer North America By Jordan Bimm ning to wow Western markets, thanks to their first-ever North American tour. Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight Since forming in 1982, X Japan have (Thursday, October 7), 8 pm. $39.50sold over 30 million records and played to sold-out crowds at the 50,000 cap$69.50. RTH, TM. acity Tokyo Dome an astounding 18 Japanese stadium rockers X Japan times. Founding members Toshi and have all the makings of American-style Yoshiki (both go by single names) are rock mythology: success on a massive considered musical royalty in Asia, perscale, tragic deaths in the band, a forming for heads of state and basicbunch of really weird shit at shows. But ally doing whatever they want. EMI_KTTunstall_TS_Now.qxd:Layout 9:44 PMse- Page this hard-hitting, high-styled TokyoBut1the10/4/10 band’s success – first based powerhouse is only now begincured in 1989 with their sophomore
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record, Blue Blood (King), a classically inspired take on speed-metal – has come with deadly consequences. In May 1998, just after X Japan disbanded at the height of their popularity, lead guitarist Hide was found hanged in his Tokyo apartment. A wave of copycat fan suicides followed – though heartbroken band members maintained his death was an accident – and 50,000 attended a public me1morial. Police eventually ruled that Hide had taken his own life.
“When Hide died, I didn’t think an X Japan reunion would be possible,” Yoshiki recollects on the phone from a tour stop in Seattle. “He was such a great friend, we couldn’t imagine playing without him.” But with demands for a reunion through the roof, the band worked out a high-tech solution: in 2007, they played their first reunited shows alongside a ghostly holographic projection of Hide constructed from old video footage. “It was too real,” admits Yoshiki. “We all broke into tears.” While he won’t rule out future holographic appearances, Yoshiki says the sizable soft-seat theatres they’re playing on this tour are simply too small to support the complex stadium-scaled projection system required to resurrect their fallen bandmate. However, the band’s reputation for take-noprisoners theatrics and spectacular visuals promises to make these “intimate” appearances memorable nonetheless. For a band used to the stadium circuit, performing for 2,000 people is actually challenging. “Looking out and seeing everyone’s faces made me a little shy,” laughs Yoshiki. “I wasn’t sure if I should look into people’s eyes or not.” Tailoring their music to Western tastes has also meant making some changes. “We’ve been playing harder, heavier songs, and fewer ballads,” he says. “We also take fewer breaks, and most of all, keep the energy level high.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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RemaRks BaR & GRill Open Mic Jam Johnny Blue Quartet 4 to 8 pm.
Rex Danny Marks (blues) noon. TimoThy’s PuB The Meteors (blues) 4:30 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Jamzac Open Jam
3 pm, Marianne Girard 6:30 pm, h.h. neptune, Sugar Rae Hammond 10 pm. Women’s aRT associaTion The Random World of Stella Walker Stella Walker, Waylen Miki (concert, art show and sale) doors 8 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
aquila The Gypsy Rebels (jazz). BeeRBisTRo The Gene Pool Boys (jazz) 8 pm. c’esT WhaT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad
jazz) 3 pm.
chalkeRs PuB Lorne Lofsky Trio w/ Kieran Overs, Barry Romberg 6 to 9 pm. Dominion on queen Brian Rose Little Big Band 8 pm. DRake hoTel lounGe Roberto Rosenman (gypsy jazz) doors 8 pm. GRossman’s Happy Pals (New Orleans jazz) 4 pm. miTzi’s sisTeR John Wayne Swing Orchestra 5 to 7 pm. olD mill inn home smiTh BaR Piano Masters Hilario Duran Trio, Roberto Occhipinti, Mark Kelso 7:30 pm. Rex Jake Chisholm (blues) 3:30 pm, Sara Dell 7 pm, CD release Dave Young Quartet 9:45 pm. Roy Thomson hall Rhapsody In Blue Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jon Kimura Parker (piano) 7:30 pm. TRane sTuDio Michael Pickett & Fernando Tavares Quartet (classical Brazilian bossa/ samba) 8 pm. TRiniTy sT Paul’s chuRch Janina Fialkowska, Tafelmusik Orchestra (pleyel piano) 8 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
annex WReckRoom Afrika Bambaataa, the Get By, Robb G, Big League Chu, ñ Farbsie vs Mickey D doors 9 pm. BaBalúu DJ Carlitos (salsa) 10 pm. clinTon’s Shake A Tail (60s pop and soul). coRneRsTone PuB DJ Dazz (R&R) 10 pm. DRake hoTel unDeRGRounD More Proof
Andy Capp, Gingy, Gabe Knox doors 11 pm.
DRake hoTel lounGe DJ Lucie Tic doors 10
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tour, and I started to like it more and more,” says Bondy, currently on tour opening for labelmates the Walkmen. “Plus I’ve always wanted to surf. I’ve done most other board sports. Seems like I’m ready to surf.” There’s certainly no Beach Boys vibe on Bondy’s dark, chilling yet addictive second album, 2009’s When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum). Bondy, whose resumé includes a stint in the late-90s buzzed-about alternative trio Verbena (Dave Grohl produced their 99 record, Into The Pink), conjures a candlelight-in-the-cabin intimacy on his two rural-tinged solo albums. Live, the songs open up with help from a full touring band. It’s been a little over a year since When The Devil’s release, and Bondy admits his label is starting to politely inquire about new material. In true laid-back West Coast spirit, he doesn’t sound like a man to be rushed. “It’s always being written someway or another,” Bondy offers philosophically. “You just make small decisions and things happen. “You’re not waiting around, though. There’s a compass in there somewhere. Try to not try is kind of the deal. You’re being conducted and conducting yourself to the next station.”
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Harlem Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/ jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. Opera HOuse Triptykon, 1349, Yazuka 7 pm, all ages. Orbit rOOm The Outlanders (jazzy fusion rock). rOc n DOc’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9 pm.
Folk/Blues/Country/World
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grOssman’s Hard Dog Brown 9 pm. HarbOurfrOnt centre reDpatH sugar
stage HarbourKids: Harvest Volume (kid friendly festival) 11 am & 2 pm, The Good Lovelies noon & 4 pm. HarbOurfrOnt centre lakesiDe terrace
HarbourKids Harvest: Kitchenband Hootenanny Andrew Penner, Erin Brandenburg, Iner Souster (kid friendly festival) 11 am to 5 pm. tHe lOcal The Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass) 9:30 pm. mitzi’s sister Gord Zubrecki Band. tHe painteD laDy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. ten feet tall Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar Association East End Open Stage 8 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
emmet ray bar Dan V Dan (jazz) 9 pm. HugH’s rOOm JAZZ.FM91 Songwriters Series
Gene Bertoncini and Alan Bergman 8:30 pm. rex Shileds, Johnston & Fielding 6:30 pm, Melissa Stylianou Quartet 9:30 pm. tranzac sOutHern crOss This is Awesome (jazz) 7 pm, Open Mic 10 pm. tHe WilsOn 96 The Monday Night Specials (jazz) 9 pm.
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Tuesday, October 12 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
c’est WHat Future History 10 pm. DakOta tavern Peter Elkas (soul/folk rock)
10 pm.
Drake HOtel unDergrOunD Bell X1, James
Vincent McMorow (Irish rockers) doors 8 pm. tHe great Hall Dan Deacon & Lightning Bolt. HOrsesHOe TheSet. lee’s palace Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, Class Actress doors 7:30 pm. tHe lOcal James Clark, Tim Cameron. massey Hall Belle & Sebastian doors 7:15 pm, all ages. mOD club Howard Jones (pop/electronic) doors 7 pm. Orbit rOOm Deep Roots (reggae/R&B/soul). sneaky Dee’s Early Man, Evile, Bonded By Blood, Fatality doors 9 pm. WrOngbar Octopus Project, STRFKR doors 8 pm.
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axis gallery & grill The Junction Jam Derek
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Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio: English & American Song noon to 1 pm. graffiti’s The Grim Preachers Whisky Jazz Band 8 pm. HOly Oak cafe Brothers Eros (jazz) 9 pm. tHe paDDOck Kevin Quain 9 pm. pantages HOtel CD release Marcus Nance 8 pm. rex George Grosman Trio 6:30 pm, Rex Jazz Jam Morgan CHilds 9:30 pm. ten restaurant & Wine bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 8:30 pm. tranzac sOutHern crOss Hobson’s Choice 7:30 pm.
Montreal indie rock stars the Dears kick off a three-night residency at the Garrison Wednesday (October 13). Word is they’ll be previewing their entire forthcoming album, which isn’t slated for release until 2011.
gOODHanDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors
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tHymeless Big Tune Tuesday (reggae) 10 pm.
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WHistler’s grille Steve Grisbrook (blues) 7
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge 8 pm.5
bOvine sex club Indie Week Launch Party
Gooby Goo & Peekers, Nans & Nat, Gardening, Not Architecture, WAZU, Berlin Brides 9 pm. c’est WHat Jillian Brady 10 pm. clintOn’s The Thorns, Trackstars. clOak & Dagger pub Jason Kenemy (pop/ jazz) 9 pm, Derby Widow Wednesdays (rock) 11 pm. tHe garrisOn The Dears 9 pm.
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Melanie Sutherland (soul/R&B/house/reggae/ol’skool) 8 pm. tHe HiDeOut Indie Week Launch Party Christina Martin, Simon Fagan, Roymackonkey, Berlin Brides, the Whatmans, L Stadt, Lost Boys, These Electric Lives, Static In The Stars 7 pm. imperial pub Kilowatt (funk/R&B jam) 9:30 pm. lula lOunge A Celebration Of The Music Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer Carl Palmer Band (prog rock) doors 7 pm. mOD club Nick Lowe, Gerraint Watkins doors 8 pm. Orbit rOOm LMT Connection (funk/R&B). tHe painteD laDy Dane Hartsell, Kiri Etzkorn (rock/pop) 9 pm.
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ricHmOnD Hill centre fOr tHe perfOrming arts Spirit of the West 8 pm. rOc n DOc’s Herve & Chris (R&B) 4 pm.
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graffiti’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. grOssman’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.
HigHWay 61 sOutHern barbeQue Michael
Pickett (blues guitar/harmonica) 7 pm. HugH’s rOOm CD release Jayme Stone 8:30 pm. See preview, page 49. lOu DaWg’s Lisa Michelle (acoustic pop soul) 8 pm.
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Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9:30 pm. Stop Time, God’s Gift to Yoda 10 pm.
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DOminiOn On Queen Eastend Ukulele Circle (jazz) 8 pm.
emmet ray bar Scott Kemp Trio 9 pm. gallery 345 The Musical Theatre Of Rick Sacks
New Music Concert Ensemble, Rick Sacks (percussion). la maQuette Peter Mathers (classical guitar) 6:30 pm. tHe lOcal Make Out Wednesdays The Ron Leary Quintet. naWlins Jazz bar Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. rex Rhonda Stakich Trio 6:30 pm, People, Places & Things Greg Ward, Tim Haldeman, Jason Roebke, Mike Reed 9:30 pm. victOry café The Hot Jazz String Quartet 9 pm.
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alleycatz West Coast Swing (dance w/ lessons) 8:30 pm. brassaii Les Nuits DJs Dlux, Undercover. Drake HOtel unDergrOunD Burner Magazine Launch Party Lucie Tic, Barletta, Paul David, Paul Revered 9 pm. glaDstOne HOtel melODy bar Granny Boots OUTwords 7:30 pm, Vitamin G DJs Nik Red, San Fran 10 pm.5 gOODHanDy’s Boy Party! DJ Rolls Royce doors 10 pm.5 tHe OssingtOn Humblemania. la perla Noches Calientes DJ ‘Loco’ Luke W (salsa/Latin/retro/groovy Spanish). sutra Golden Wednesdays DJs Professer Mélé & Turt McGurt (hip-hop) 10 pm. WrOngbar Bassmentality Women of Dubstep (Vilify and Link), the Killabits, Zeds Dead doors 10 pm. 3
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Venue Index 20 Mowat 20 Mowat. african House 2111 Jane, unit 7. alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. annex wreckrooM 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. aquila 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. aspetta caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. augusta House 152 Augusta. 416-977-8881. axis gallery & grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. BaBalúu 136 Yorkville. 416-515-0587. Bar italia 582 College. 416-535-3621. tHe Barn 418 Church. 416-593-9696. BeerBistro 18 King E. 416-861-9872. Betty olipHant tHeatre 404 Jarvis. Blue Moon 725 Queen E. 416-463-8868. Boiler House 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. Bovine sex cluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. Bread & circus 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. caMeron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. canadian legion Hall 201 Niagara. 416-504-6694. tHe central 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. c’est wHat 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. cHalkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. cHina House 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cloak & dagger puB 394 College. 647-436-0228. cornerstone puB 537 College. 647-430-7111. crooked cue 3056 Bloor W. 416-236-7736. dakota tavern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dc Music tHeatre 360 Munster. 416-234-0222. de sotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. distillery district 55 Mill. doMinion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893.
drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. el MocaMBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. eMMet ray Bar 924 College. 416-792-4497. enwave tHeatre 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. eton House 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. fat cat wine Bar 331 Roncesvalles. 416-535-4064. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. four seasons centre 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. free tiMes café 320 College. 416-967-1078. friends House 60 Lowther. 416-964-9699. fuzion 580 Church. 416-944-9888. gallery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. tHe garrison 1197 Dundas W. gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. glenn gould studio 250 Front W. 416-205-5555. goodHandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. graffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. tHe great Hall 1087 Queen W. 647-746-5426. grossMan’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernMent/kool Haus 132 Queens Quay E. HarBourfront 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Hard luck Bar 812 Dundas W. HarleM 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. Hart House 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. tHe Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. HigHway 61 BarBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. Holy oak cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HorsesHoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. HugH’s rooM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. Hyde 420 Wellington W. 416-977-4933. iMperial puB 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667. insoMnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JangBang 430.5 College. 416-961-8424.
kool Haus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. la Maquette 111 King E. 416-366-8191. laMBadina 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. lee’s palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. levack Block 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. li’ly 656 College. 416-532-0419. tHe local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lou dawg’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. lula lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. Maple leaf House 2749 Lake Shore W. 416-255-2558. Maro 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. Massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. Metropolitan cHurcH 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331. Midpoint 1180 Queen W. Mitzi’s sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. Mod cluB 722 College. 416-588-4663. MonarcHs puB 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. Mulligan’s 2428 Dundas W. 905-855-7584. Music gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. naco gallery cafe 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499. nawlins Jazz Bar 299 King W. 416-595-1958. 99 sudBury 99 Sudbury. old Mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. opera House 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orBit rooM 580A College. 416-535-0613. original’s 1660 Bayview. 416-481-0371. tHe ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. tHe paddock 178 Bathurst. 416-504-9997. tHe painted lady 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. pantages Hotel 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. parts & laBour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. la perla 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. pHoeBe on queen 18 Beverley. pHoenix concert tHeatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. press cluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183.
quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. rancHo relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. reBas café 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. reMarks Bar & grill 1026 Coxwell. 416-429-9889. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roc n doc’s 105 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-891-1754. rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. rockwood 31 Mercer. 416-979-7373. roy tHoMson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. saMovar 51A Winchester. 416-925-4555. seanacHai 1106 Danforth. 416-465-4500. silver dollar 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. slack’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. sMiling BuddHa 961 College. 416-516-2531. sneaky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. sound acadeMy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. suBa 292 College. 647-272-5067. superMarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. sutra 612 College. 416-537-8755. tattoo rock parlour 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488. ten feet tall 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. tHyMeless 355 College. 416-928-0556. tiMotHy’s puB 344 Brown’s Line. 416-201-9515. trane studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. trinity st paul’s cHurcH 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. t.s.t’s launcH pad 46 Hyde. victory café 581 Markham. 416-516-5787. village vapor lounge 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500. waterfalls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. wHistler’s grille 995 Broadview. 416-421-1344. tHe wilson 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. windsor arMs Hotel 18 St Thomas. 416-971-9666. woMen’s art association 23 Prince Arthur. 416922-2060. wrongBar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. york university 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888
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THE BLACK ANGELS Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon) Rating: NNN It may seem strange for a current band to relaunch legendary 60s blues label Blue Horizon, but the Black Angels fit the bill. Taking their cue from countless classic psych and garage bands, the Austin quintet don’t have just one foot in the past – they have both. Maintaining their successful retrominded formula but further developing their chops, the band’s third LP keeps the reverb high and the hooks flowing. Much of the album, including slow, ominous opener Bad Vibrations, has a darker tone than most other garage revivalists, but diversions like the Nuggetsy frat pop of Telephone help lighten the mood. Helpful, since the album does occasionally drag. Everything from the production to the songwriting seems aimed to evoke the 60s, and the album would probably sound killer on a good turntable. Top track: Bad Vibrations The Black Angels play the Phoenix October 31. RT
ard), but there’s also immediate pleasure in the straightforward fuzzy psych rock of Revival and Don’t Cry. Despite being one of the album’s longer tracks, the Pundt-written Desire Lines is the hardest hitting. Recalling the structure of Microcastle standout Nothing Ever Happened, it follows an infectious hook with a majestically building instrumental coda that earns the song every second of its nearly seven-minute run time. Top track: Desire Lines Deerhunter play the Opera House October 19. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
disc of the week
SON OF DAVE Shake A Bone (Kartel)
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Meet Me At The Muster Station (Paper Bag) Rating: When music critics cheer about a 90s revival, they’re not applauding the parade of grunge bands reforming in the hopes of milking Gen-Xers for enough cash to buy another sports car. If anything, those nostalgia tour bands have turned out to be not very different from the hair metal rockers that they claimed to hate. What is happening (and worth noting) is that a new generation of young musicians is taking inspiration from the less mainstream rock acts of that era, whose repertoire has aged much better in comparison to
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Everything In Between (Sub Pop) Rating: NNNN In the three years since we first wrote about noise-pop duo No Age, they’ve become poster children for the DIY Los Angeles punk scene from which they sprang and for the lo-fi movement as a whole. That’s a lot of pressure for a band, often leading to fumbled reinventions and retreads of early glories. Thankfully, they do neither on their second studio album. Instead, they continue to refine everything that seduced us in the first place. This time around, the lo-fi quality is less abrasive but still dirty and intimate enough to stop anyone from yelling “Sell out!” The pop punk hooks are more front and centre, but are closer to the sensitive fuzz-coated flavour of early Sloan than Blink-182’s extreme-sports vibe. Top track: Glitter No Age play the Polish Combatants Hall November 18. BB
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Belle & Sebastian Write About Love (Matador) Rating: The idea of Belle & Sebastian doing an album of love songs tantalizes; it’s a subject the beloved Scottish indie band has tackled time and again with equal amounts of wit, woe, joy and cynicism. All of these feelings are present on their new-
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the flannel-clad chart-toppers. Kingston, Ontario, duo PS I Love You are the perfect example, and their impressive debut album is enjoying a huge amount of hype as a result. Picture J Mascis guitar heroics, but if he’d allowed himself to learn some of Eddie Van Halen’s tapping tricks. Some might complain that the vocals are buried in the mix and sometimes sound like an afterthought, but that’s kind of the point. More than anything, this album proves that heavy guitar rock doesn’t have to die out with the dinosaurs. Top track: 2012 PS I Love You crank it up October 26 at the Garrison. BENJAMIN BOLES
est, which doesn’t sound at all like a concept album and unmistakably like B&S. Chief songwriter Stuart Murdoch’s recent God Help the Girl project featured an array of singers, and Write About Love follows a similar vein, exploring how subtleties in vocal performance affect a song’s character. The interchanging players fit beautifully into B&S’s repertoire of unrequited pop anthems and introspective acoustic ballads. The rambunctious energy of the band’s salad days has evolved into a more considered, grown-up sound (hello, Norah Jones), but that classic pop sensibility remains. Top track: I Didn’t See It Coming Belle & Sebastian perform at Massey Hall Tuesday (October 12). KEVIN RITCHIE
Rating: NNN On his fifth solo album, Winnipeg-born former Crash Test Dummy Benjamin Darvill, aka Son of Dave, freaks out alone on harmonica, percussion, beat boxing and vocal acrobatics with the aid of a loop pedal. Harmonica gets proper respect, standing in for horns and keyboards on songs flavoured by blues, funk and R&B. The unconventional lack of instruments creates a refreshingly authentic dirtyblues sound. Guitar banished, Darvill wails over lo-fi beats and bassy harmonica. Recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini, Shake A Bone is more about vibe than songwriting, and Son of Dave’s eccentric persona contrasts with fragments of mildmannered tech talk between songs. The title track and She Just Danced All Night will get people moving, while slower grooves like Broke-down Lincoln, Guilty and You All But Stay showcase Darvill’s breadth as both a singer and harmonicist. Top track: Broke-down Lincoln Son of Dave shakes up the Rivoli tonight (Thursday, October 7). SARAH GREENE
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Rating: NNNN With every album, Deerhunter strip away more layers of textural ambience and reveal what some fans knew all along: that they’re a pop band. That’s not to say Halcyon Digest is “easy”; it still takes a few listens to fully comprehend. But when not hiding behind melody-obscuring noise, Bradford Cox and Lockett Pundt are exposed to be as skilled at songwriting as sonic experimentation. It takes some patience to appreciate the languid, hypnotic dream-pop of Earthquake, Sailing and He Would Have Laughed (dedicated to the late Jay Reat-
ALTAR EAGLE Mechanical Gardens (Type)
Rating: NNN Alter Eagle, the new coldwave electro-pop project by Tulsa, Oklahoma’s, Brad Rose, is probably the most accessible music he’s ever made. Having previously explored free folk, space rock and ambient drones as a member of the North Sea, ajilvsga, Alligator Crystal Moth, Rose and his wife, Eden Hemming, weave together gloomy bedroom synths, weirdo blips, lo-fi beats and detached vocals that occasionally produce a spell-binding, play-it-again-rightnow hook. Hemming’s spacey singing recalls MBV’s Bilinda Butcher, while Rose’s vocals are unmistakably modelled after J Mascis (especially on Honey). The spooky, autumnal track Spy Movie sounds like hopped-up Salem, while parts of You Lost Your Neon Haze evoke the dreamy quality of soon-to-be rivals Cold Cave. Top track: Spy Movie JB
Country/Folk THE MELIGROVE BAND Shimmering
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Lights (Nevado) Rating: NNNN I had one of those “it’s been too long” moments when the Meligrove Band’s new disc appeared on my desk. It’s only the third full-length from the Toronto-based high school chums who formed the band back in 1997. Lucky for fans, it’s full of hooky goodness. The dark, danceable pop is incredibly diverse in its construction. From the spiritlifting horn work on opener Ghosts At My Back to the computer bleeps on Make Believe It and the catchy piano-based swayalong Bones Attack!!!, the four-piece prove they’re unafraid to experiment. The result is fun, fresh, not-too-saccharine indie pop. If there’s any justice in the world, Shimmering Lights will release the Meligrove Band from the “Toronto’s most underrated band” tag. The Meligrove Band play the Great Hall November 12. Top track: Halflight PT
FINGER ELEVEN Life Turns Electric (Wind-
up) Rating: N Ever had an angry cry so long and teary that you emerge from it forgetting what it was all about? Finger Eleven were playing in the background, right? That’s because just as inconsequential as your angsty alternative nu metal pop fusion life bumps are, so, too, are Finger’s tunes. To their credit, they do assemble melodies. And they stick to their guns – largely. Life Turns Electric isn’t a massive shift, but erases hints of their former Rainbow Butt Monkey incarnation and the harder tones of early Finger Eleven. Good Intentions is an apt example of this pavingover. Prefab brooding is sprinkled on top. Acoustic finale Love’s What You Left Me With does have some genuine emotional appeal. Alas it’s more a eulogy for the record than a celebration of Life. Top track: Love’s What You Left Me With PAUL TEREFENKO
PHIL COLLINS Going Back (Warner)
DEERHUNTER Halcyon Digest (4AD)
strands of late 80s and early 90s R&B translated and distilled into scraps of despondent, gloomy indie IDM. The result is challenging (that’s the point) but packed with rewards for the open-minded listener, like the beautiful, singalong chorus that only briefly surfaces from the murky ether of My Body, and the ominous soundscapes in You Hold The Water. With its haunting risks that resonate, Love Remains is a perfect fall record. Top track: Ready For The World JORDAN BIMM
Rating: NN Phil Collins says he didn’t want to bring anything new to this collection of Motown covers and retro R&B, and he’s definitely succeeded. The production and arrangements sound like a very good impression of 60s-era American soul music, which isn’t surprising, seeing as he drafted three of the surviving Funk Brothers to lend some authentic Motor City flavour. You can tell he’s having the time of his life drumming with his childhood heroes and tackling his favourite old tunes, but it’s not long before the charm wears thin. He sticks so closely to the original arrangements that his shortcomings as a vocalist are painfully evident. Had he tried to reinterpret the classics even a little bit, we wouldn’t be so quick to compare his singing to the originals. Instead, the whole thing feels like listening to a very expensive karaoke session by a competent vocalist with a limited range. You’re better off buying one of the billions of vintage soul compilations on the market and getting the real deal. Top track: Talking About My Baby BB
JOHNNY MATHIS Let It Be Me: Mathis In
Nashville (Columbia) Rating: NNN Comparing Johnny Mathis to Frank Sinatra, my father was as surprised that he’s still active as he was that he recently made a country album. Seventy-five years old this week, “the velvet voice” known for hit 50s pop songs like Chances Are and It’s Not For Me To Say is the longest-standing artist on Columbia Records (1956-63 and 1968-present). He once had five albums on the Billboard charts simultaneously and put out the music industry’s first greatest-hits album in 1958. Let It Be Me is an anomaly. Steeped in nostalgia, these are classic country covers with soft, swelling string arrangements – about as far away from the farm as you can get. Live in the studio, Nashville musicians play with feeling, and Mathis is joined by Alison Krauss, Vince Gill and Lane Brody on backup vocals. The result is an eerie time capsule that works best on ballads (Crazy, Make The World Go Away and You Don’t Know Me) and suffers from cheesy 70s detours (Southern Nights). Top track: You Don’t Know Me SARAH GREENE
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BAD RELIGION The Dissent Of Man
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Love Remains (Lefse) Rating: Like Chicago crack ghouls Salem, Brooklyn philosophy student Tom Krell makes spooky dance-inspired music that’s seriously hip. At the centre of his hotly tipped debut are soulful and at times unexpectedly catchy vocals. They sound extracted, processed and soaked in reverb and get set against austere, dreamlike backdrops of ghostly synths, seemingly improvised percussion and intentionally blown-out, hypnotic production. Krell’s songs are artfully constructed to sound like rough-hewn musical sketches,
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(Epitaph) Rating: NNN When you’ve put out albums for more than 30 years, you’re bound to start repeating yourself. For a while, Bad Religion verged on becoming a Bad Religion parody band. Luckily, The Dissent Of Man, their 15th effort, doesn’t continue that descent, especially early on. The Resist Stance will get a G20 rock tosser’s blood flowing, while Only Rain’s energetic melodic punk should’ve been the record’s blueprint. Throughout the 15 tracks, the SoCal veterans even venture into new territory by working in some country and alt rock. At its worst, we get the forgettable mid-tempo jock rock of Won’t Somebody. Mostly, though, there are enough decent hooks and spirit-soaring overdrive to satisfy new and old fans. Top track: Only Rain Bad Religion preach dissent at Kool Haus October 14. PT 3
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Reynolds rap AMERICA THE PRISONER: THE IMPLICATIONS OF FOREIGN OIL ADDICTION AND A REALISTIC PLAN TO END IT by Lewis Reynolds (Relevance Media), 317 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNN
lewis reynolds’s thesis is impressively broad: U.S. dependence on foreign oil is the prime cause of most of the country’s woes over the last 60 years. Reynolds backs up his assertions with a detailed survey of the history of oil geopolitics and how it’s made the U.S. vulnerable to Middle East instability. You could get lost in the sea of footnotes. One excellent distinction Reynolds makes when describing the science behind energy consumption is the difference between energy needed for transportation (oil) and for appliance consumption (electricity). America’s oil comes mostly from foreign sources, while coal-burning power plants use mostly domestic coal.
Before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP had begun successfully rebranding itself as a “green” energy producer, directing profits into alternative energy sources. While investment in solar or wind energy alleviates the burden on domestic coal-burning electrical plants, it does nothing to ease dependence on foreign petroleum. The last third of the book is an exhaustive survey of how to achieve energy independence, with emphasis on fuel efficiency, biofuels and hybrid vehicles. Amidst all this overwhelming technical detail, the one big element missing is a human face. The stats and analyses are impressive, but what are the human implications of our oil addiction? The author’s strength is clearly in consulting and analysis; next time he should team up with a journalist. Also, what’s with the cover art? It looks like an Iron Maiden album cover. The jacket should have something more formal to match the book’s tone. JOSEPH WILSON Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com
IN PERSON
Local hip-hop groundbreaker Wes Williams’s (aka Maestro) path to success has been strewn with obstacles, but he still realized his dream of becoming T.O.’s most important rap artist. His new book, Stick To Your Vision ($24.99, McClelland & Stewart), is designed to inspire persistence and resilience in people with their own dreams. Though he’s targeting young adults, the book has something to offer to anyone who wants to pursue a personal passion. Maestro signs copies at Chapters on Friday SUSAN G. COLE (October 8). See Readings, this page.
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UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, October 22, 8pm READING/INTERVIEW: John Waters American writer, filmmaker, actor, and visual artist John Waters in conversation with Richard Crouse. Saturday, October 23, 3pm ROUND TABLE: In Graphic Detail Graphic novelists Charles Burns, Dylan Horrocks and Seth. Moderator: Shelagh Rogers Saturday, October 23, 9pm CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF THE JUNO AWARDS Launch of Music from Far and Wide: Celebrating 40 Years of the JUNO Awards. Featuring co-authors Karen Bliss, Nick Krewen and Jason Schneider, Jim Cuddy, Dan Hill, and Emm Gryner. Moderator/host: Jian Ghomeshi Sunday, October 24, 4pm ROUND TABLE: Word, Sentence, Novel. Paolo Giordano, Alexander MacLeod and Karl Marlantes. Moderator: Antanas Sileika
Complete schedule at readings.org
READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, October 7 CLARKE MACKEY Book launch. 5-8 pm. Free.
sion. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.
Tuesday, October 12
Dufferin Grove Rink House, Dufferin S of Bloor. 416-535-9914. MICAH TOUB Talk. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8973. MICHAEL WEX Talking about his book the Frumkiss Family Business. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440.
Talks. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.
Friday, October 8
CARLA COLLINS Talk. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55
JENN FARRELL Launch. 8 pm. Free. Toronto Free
Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. info@anvilpress.com. WES MAESTRO WILLIAMS The hip-hop artist signs copies of his new book Stick To Your Vision. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. chapters. indigo.ca.
RACHEL ZOLF/NANCY JO CULLEN/SARAH PINDER
LEAH STINSON/ROBERT PRIEST/ADEBE D.A.
ñJOSEPH BOYDEN/JOHN RALSTON SAUL Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.
JOHN GIORNO In dialogue and performance with poet/editor Marcus Boon. 8 pm. $5. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. tinars.ca.
SHAWN MICALLEF Talk. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7696.
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Commodity: Chinese Blue And White Porcelain, to Jan 9, 2011. Breaking Boundaries: Four Young Canadians Re-imagine Ceramic Art, Oct 7-Jan 30, 2011. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, to Nov 28. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Painting: Bruno Bobak, to Dec 5. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution Of The Group Of Seven, to Jan 30, 2011. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8, 2011. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA BMO 1st Art, to Oct 31. Installation: David Hoffos, to Dec 31. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-603-7591. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Diabolique group show, to Nov 14. Centennial Sq, 120 Navy; Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905844-4402. POWER PLANT Painting/tapestry/video: Ian Wallace and Pae White, Oct 8-Jan 2, 2011, reception 8 pm Oct 8. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Institute for Contemporary Culture: sculpture: El Anatsui; Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to Jan 2, 2011. Photos: Mark Nowaczynski, to Oct 11. ICC: Walls And Barriers: A Collaborative Project, to Oct 23. The Warrior Emperor And China’s Terracotta Army, to Jan 2, 2011 ($31, stu/srs $28, child $19.50; Wed after 3 pm $15, child $11.50). Fryderyk Chopin & The Romantic Piano, Oct 9-Mar 27, 2011. Position As Desired: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27, 2011 (Kenneth Montague tour 6 pm Oct 13). Painting: Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1, 2011. $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Stephen Schofield, Lia Cook and David R Harper, to Oct 17. Drawing With Scissors: Molas From Kuna Yala, to Feb 13, 2011. $12, srs $8, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, to Nov 28. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3
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Videophagy/Videofagia, Oct 8-9, reception 6 pm-midnight Oct 8. 181 Augusta. 416-9797574. MKG127 Sculpture: Risa Horowitz, to Oct 9. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682. NICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Edward Burtynsky, to Oct 9. 451 King W. 416-205-9000. PAUL PETRO Painting/installation: Melanie Rocan and Janet Morton, to Oct 9. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. RED BULL 381 PROJECTS Enthusiasm, to Oct 9. 381 Queen W. 416-593-1629. RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Elaine Whittaker, to Oct 30, reception 2-5 pm Oct 9. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-5654. SPENCE GALLERY Painting: Oswald DeLeón Kantule, to Oct 17. 600 Markham. 416-7952787. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Larry Towell, Oct 7-Nov 6, reception 5-9 pm Oct 7. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Essential Cinema, to Oct 23. 350 King W. tiff.net. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Joe Lepiano, Oct 7-30, reception 5-7 pm Oct 7. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999. 253469 Display Value group show, to Oct 30, reception 2-5 pm Oct 9. 1267 Bloor W. 416653-9919. 3
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Electric Ballroom blitz Actor Sarah Dodd explores family secrets in provocative Irish play By JON KAPLAN THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM by Enda Walsh, directed by Autumn Smith, with Sarah Dodd, Rosemary Dunsmore, Cathy Murphy and Christopher Stanton (MacKenzieRo). At Tarragon Extra Space (30 Bridgman). Opens Friday (October 8) and runs to October 24, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. $26, Sunday pwyc. 416-531-1827.
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ates in the work of Irish playwright Enda Walsh, whose play The Walworth Farce was part of last year’s World Stage. In it, a father and his two sons enact their troubled history over and over. In his later play, The New Electric Ballroom, three sisters living in a small seacoast town ritualistically replay their early family life. It’s the latest production by MacKenzieRo, Toronto’s professional Irish rep troupe.
“It’s set in the kind of town you find up and down the western coast of Ireland, with a one-room pub and a fish cannery as its main source of income,” says Sarah Dodd, who plays middle sister Clara. Clara and her sibs, Breda and Ada, the “youngster” at 40, have cocooned themselves in their house, refusing to enter what they see as a hostile world. Their fear stems from an incident decades earlier, an evening at a club that scarred the two elder sisters.
“They tell the story of that evening repeatedly, though each has her own take on the material,” notes the Stratford vet, who most recently performed in Communion at the Tarragon. “The storytelling is a safe way of defining exactly what will happen each day; in the outside world, they don’t know what they might encounter. “Those stories become a strange, fucked-up, almost religious ceremony.” Dodd admits that Clara wasn’t the easiest character to get into. “I couldn’t figure her out on my first reading, and then I realized that’s because she’s not really there in her mind. While she’s occasionally lucid, most of the time she deliberately chooses to be in soft focus. It makes it easier for her to be in the world, where her main objective is to be fed. “So I force myself to become softfocused. That poses difficulties for an actor, since I have to come in on cue and deliver my lines. I have to project that Clara’s not fully there, but I really have to be spot on as a performer.” The sisters’ schedule is thrown out of sorts when one of them questions the long-established pattern of selfcreated myths and thinks about leaving the safety of the house, possibly with the fishmonger Patsy, the man who regularly visits the women. Dodd’s also performed in Tom Murphy’s A Whistle In The Dark, another Irish play in which family mythologies are central. Is there a pattern here? “There are certainly some similarities. I wonder if both playwrights are examining the need to tell the same tales again and again, possibly suggesting that it’s all right to break out and tell new stories as well.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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Opening THE AMAZING KRESKIN (Massey Hall). The mentalist presents a magic and comedy show. Oct 13-14, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $39.50. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. masseyhall.com. DE COLORES FESTIVAL (Alameda Theatre Company). New creations by Latin-Canadian playwrights include works in development by Martha Chaves, Amaranta Leyva, Juan Carlos Velis and Marilo Nuñez. Oct 7-8 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $12, pass $28. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-652-5442, alamedatheatre.com. THE INVISIBLE GIRL by Michele Riml (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). A girl learns about perceptions of fashion and beauty after being shunned by her popular friends. Previews Oct 12. Opens Oct 13 and runs to Oct 23, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca. THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM by Enda Walsh (MacKenzieRo). Three sisters in a remote fishing village in Ireland are obsessed by dark memories (see story, this page). Opens Oct 8 and runs to Oct 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $26, Sun pwyc. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, mackenziero.com. PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL by Elizabeth
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Strange thing about great theatre: even the playwright can’t predict the impact the work will have on the audience. Sarah Kane, the author of Blasted, always said her play doesn’t give answers, and only asks questions. But her incendiary drama actually makes pointed commentary on masculinity, terror and war. That’s why, though its queer content isn’t as obvious as it is in a play like, say, The Boys In The Band, it’s a completely appropriate work for Buddies in Bad Times’ new artistic director Brendan Healy, who also helms this terrific production, to program. Blasted opens in a pristine hotel room overlooking a street where war may be raging. In the room, middleaged Ian (David Ferry) and Cate (Michelle Monteith), who looks like a schoolgirl, play out their strange relationship that criss-crosses between abuse and love. A starving soldier (Dylan Smith) suddenly enters carrying a rifle, upending the power dynamics, and by the end the hotel room has turned into a steaming war zone where rape and cannibalism rule. Yes, it’s grim, but it’s also absolutely Page 1 riveting. That’s due in part to the per-
formances from its committed actors. As the spectacular Ferry plays him, you can never despise the racist, pathetic Ian, and Monteith, cementing her status as one of the best actors on current Toronto stages, plays Cate as a possibly mentally challenged teen who knows a sexual thing or two. As a production, Blasted is a wonder. Julie Fox’s design, matched by Kimberly Purtell’s lighting, grasps Kane’s desire to basically blow up the play and take us on a journey to hell. And the show’s sound, by Richard Feren, has just the right intensity. I get that the material is challenging, but I wish the program weren’t so laced with “viewer discretion advised”-type content. This is actually a strangely tender play, with one of the most moving last lines ever. The best thing I’ve seen at Buddies. sUsaN G. COle
Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Opens Oct 9 and runs to Dec 29, Sat 11 am and 1 pm, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50; family 4-pack $100 (till Oct 8). Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. RadiaNCe by Louis Nowra (bcurrent). Three half sisters reunite in northern Australia for their mother’s funeral and wade through the past. Opens Oct 12 and runs to Oct 15, Tue-Fri 8 pm. $10. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-533-1500, bcurrent.ca. shakespeaRe iN hOllywOOd by Ken Ludwig (Scarborough Players). Oberon and Puck find themselves on a 1930s Hollywood film set in this comedy. Opens Oct 7 and runs to Oct 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm (except Oct 23), mats Oct 17 and 23 at 2 pm. $17. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. theatrescarborough.com. sOUlseek (Birdland Theatre). Music, video and theatre tell the story of a woman’s journey to find love and reinvent her destiny. Opens Oct 7 and runs to Oct 23, Mon-Sat 8 pm. $30, stu/ srs $20. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. 416-504-7529, birdlandtheatre.com. tOyeR by Gardner McKay (The Sugar Company/Lyric East Studios). A psychiatrist helps victims of a bizarre psychopath in this thriller. Opens Oct 7 and runs to Oct 16, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20-$25, 2-for-1 Tue. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. toyer.ca.
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on (Ryerson Theatre School). A book club explores life and death, love, identity and belonging through an ancient epic. Previews Oct 13 at 8 pm. Opens Oct 14 and runs to Nov 12, see website for schedule. $18, stu/srs $14. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. impRiNts – the aNCestRy pROjeCt by Michael Spence (Theatre Gargantua). This multimedia performance explores the life of a woman and the ghosts in her genetic memory. Previews Oct 12. Opens Oct 15 and runs to Oct 16, Fri-Sat and Tue 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15.
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Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-5380988, theatregargantua.ca. The liST by Jennifer Tremblay (Nightwood Theatre). A busy woman neglects a friend’s request and inadvertently causes her death. Previews Oct 11-13. Opens Oct 14 and runs to Nov 6, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net.
Hill Centre for the Performing Arts). The characters from the kids’ TV series perform live. Oct 12 at 3:30 and 6:30 pm. $22-$25. 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca. SeParaTed aT mirTh by David Gale and Randy Vancourt (Blue Moon). Gale and Vancourt perform a musical comedy cabaret. Oct 8 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 725 Queen E. chutzpahagogo.com.
bus across the Australian outback, looking for love and friendship. Previews from Oct 12, opens Oct 26 and runs to Jan 2, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $20-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com.
This multi-arts festival celebrates diversity, inclusion and accessibility with visual art, film, installation, dance and more. Runs to Oct 24, see website for venues, schedule and prices (many events free). abilitiesartsfestival.org. aida by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). The tragic opera is performed in Italian (see review, page 71). Runs to Nov 5: Oct 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27, 30, Nov 2 and 5 at 7:30 pm, mat Oct 24 at 2 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnn (JK) ali & ali: The dePorTaTion hearingS by Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef (Cahoots Theatre Company). Five Arab/Muslim men are held without charges in Canada in this satire (see review, page 73).
PriSCilla Queen of The deSerT The Continuing muSiCal by Stephan Elliott and Allan ñ abiliTieS arTS feSTival (Abilities Arts Festival). Scott (Mirvish). Three friends take a battered
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seminars, the Canadian Salsa Championships and evening performances by Canadian and international artists. Oct 7-11, see website for schedule. Performances $20-$35, conference events extra. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square. canadasalsacongress.com. dream of The red Chamber Beijing Friendship Dance Company presents classical ballet and traditional Chinese dance about a love triangle that devastates a noble family. Oct 12-13 at 8 pm. $28-$116. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca. The drowning anThology Crazyfish Collective presents works by Sasha Ivanochko and Lynndsey Larre. Opens Oct 13 and runs to Oct 23, Wed-Sat 7 or 8:30 pm (times alternate, see website for details). $17-$20. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca. eroS, ThanaToS & The avanT-garde Rivoli presents the cabaret series, with music, film and dance by the Parahumans, Dave Colin Wilson, Megan Nadain, Hip Kik and others. Oct 13, doors 8:30 pm. $12-$15. 332 Queen W. PedestrianThrashDC@hotmail.com. freSh blood Harbourfront NextSteps and the Chimera Project present works by up-and-coming choreographers Carlos Rivera, Jasmyn Fyffe, Julia Male, ILL NANA
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and others. Oct 13-14, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $18$20. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. chimeraproject.org. fuTure memory hearTbreak JunCTion The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents choreographer/performer Sasha Ivanochko and dancer Brendan Wyatt in a double-portrait of fatal love. Oct 13 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. ink To fleSh JD Dance presents works by Jesse Dell, Jordana Deveau and Kate Franklin exploring perspectives on physical beauty. Opens Oct 13 and runs to Oct 23, Wed-Sat 7 or 8:30 pm (times alternate, see website for details). $15-$20. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. ouT of ConTexT – for Pina Harbourfront World Stage and les ballets C de la B present choreography by Alain Platel dedicated to the late modern dance legend Pina Bausch. Opens Oct 13 and runs to Oct 16, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$49. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.
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Robert Massicotte’s set, which cleverly uses boxes, hidden doors and evocative screen projections to create an archetypal urban landscape. If you’re a fan of Cirque du Soleil, some stunts will look familiar, especially the climactic Trampowall, where the acrobats look like they’re defying gravity in a scene from Inception. We’ve also seen bravura bicycling before, but seldom with Thibaut Phil ippe’s energy or precision. (One of his most impressive cycling sequences involves audience participation.) Emi Vauthey’s aerial silks work isn’t too original or impressive, but Josi anne Levasseur gracefully manipulates the Cyr wheel, and Claire Aldaya and Romain Vigier demonstrate lots of strength and accuracy in their hand-to-hand work. What this troupe has over their better-known Quebec competition is a legitimate b-boy feel. All the performers know how to move and groove, whether their feet, hands or heads are touching the ground or hurtling glenn Sumi through the air. Runs to Oct 17. $15-$32, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. nn (Jordan Bimm) banana ShPeel by David Shiner (Cirque du Soleil). Cirque du Soleil’s thinly scripted show about a vaudeville-style troupe includes much idle banter, variety show song-and-dance numbers and a few astounding physical acts. Longtime Cirque fans will miss the daring aerial feats, but the show comes alive visually with gorgeous 1920s-influenced costumes, and musically with the addition of an onstage jazz band. Runs to Oct 10, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $25-$110. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnn (Debbie Fein-Goldbach)
Twinkle: reQuiem for a golden boy by Ronnie Burkett (Factory Theatre). ñbilly A puppeteer evaluates his life and rekindles his passion after losing his job (see review, page 70). Runs to Oct 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$48, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. nnnn (GS) blaSTed by Sarah Kane (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Sex, violence and the horrors of war are explored by a man and woman sheltering in a hotel (see review, page 68). Runs to Oct 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$33, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. nnnnn (Susan G Cole) CanCer Can’T danCe like ThiS by Daniel Stolfi (Jennifer De Lucia). Stolfi performs his solo
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show about his battle with the disease. Runs to Oct 9, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20-$25 (partial proceeds to Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre). Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. cancercantdancelikethis.com. ThE CLoCKmaKEr by Stephen Massicotte (Tarragon Theatre). The Tarragon’s 40th season launches with Massicotte’s intriguing play, which muses on memory and time. Storylines about a lonely clockmaker, a dejected married woman, her abusive husband and a mysterious inquisitor unfold too slowly at first, but the pace picks up once they begin to intersect. The acting is strong, with Christian Goutsis and Claire Calnan creating the most poignant and vulnerable characters. Humour, often subtly delivered, makes the show really shine. Runs to Oct 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$44, Fri & Sun rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) ThE CodfaThEr (Murder Mystery Toronto). Mobsters seek a murderer in this interactive dinner-theatre comedy. Limited run, Sat 7 pm. $65. Forget About It!, 325 King W. 416-8553306, murdermysterytoronto.com. dr. JEKYLL, ThErE’S NoWhErE To hYdE (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). A dead body turns up at a criminology conference in this interactive comedy. Runs to Oct 30, FriSat 8 pm. $40-$45. 2026 Yonge. 416-4867469, mysteriouslyyours.com.
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adian Stage Company). Dorst’s enigmatic play about a possible love triangle is concerned with big issues like truth, jealousy and ownership. A shame that the elements don’t add up in director/translator Matthew Jocelyn’s production. There’s some good work, however, by Ryan Hollyman and Walter Bordon. Runs to Oct 16, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NN (GS) hard TImES based on the novel by Charles Dickens (Puppetmongers/the night kitchen). Mask and puppetry are used in
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the spirit of his former mentor, Sid, who forces him to re-examine his life – as a puppet show, naturally. The appearance of the Shakespearespouting Sid is initially confusing – who is he, and why does he sound like Harvey Fierstein? But Burkett soon strings us along with his tale of Billy’s prairie upbringing and early puppet inspirations, his burgeoning sexuality (a scene where he’s seduced by a much older man sizzles with tension) and his later success and disillusionment. Punctuating the show are a series of workshops where Billy (who physically resembles his creator) meets up with the people who become his surrogate family: the redheaded misfit Benji, the kind-hearted but talentless Doreen Gray and, especially, the thespian Sid. Burkett’s craft is as astonishing as ever. Several scenes feature puppets manipulating puppets, and you believe them because they all seem real. Look for one scene when Billy’s eyes slowly close when he hears some news: it’s staggering in its simplicity. Every inch of the set, dominated by the big cruise ship, is used to maximum effect, and John Alcorn’s music and sound help mix up the show’s moods. Most remarkable is Burkett’s dramatic range. He’s a damn fine actor, whether he’s playing an old man performing the Bard’s Juliet or a bored lover addicted to IKEA makeovers. One note: Billy Twinkle is about a specific profession, but its theme about cocky upstarts, mentors and making peace with one’s past applies to any field. Burkett, like all great artists, is universal in his reach. gLENN SumI this satire of capitalism and Utilitarian philosophy. Runs to Oct 16, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. Id by Jeannot Painchaud (Cirque Éloize). The streets of a big city are transformed through music, urban dance and circus arts (see review, page 69). Runs to Oct 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $35-$77. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca. NNN (GS) aN INSpECTor CaLLS by JB Priestley (Stage Centre Productions). A rich family’s secrets come out during a police investigation of a death. Runs to Oct 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $28, stu/srs $22. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-299-5557, stagecentreproductions.com. LovE, LoSS, aNd WhaT I WorE by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron (Michael Rubinoff/ Daryl Roth). The Ephron sisters use Ilene Beckerman’s picture-filled book of autobiographical reminiscences about clothing as a springboard for dozens of stories connecting fashion and women’s lives. The pieces are a mixed bag, ranging from a beautifully written monologue about a shirt (with a subtext about the end of a relationship) to an awkward anecdote about boots and rape. Runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed and Sat 2 pm. $35-$65. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, lovelossonstage.ca. NNN (GS) roCK of agES by Chris D’Arienzo (Mirvish). Mashed together from the 80s glam rock catalogue, this critic-proof jukebox musical is essentially a glorified version of rock week at American Idol. It’s well sung and played, but the story – about an aspiring actor (Elicia MacKenzie) and musician (Yvan Pedneault) in L.A. – is silly without being witty. Runs to Dec 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS)
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by Joelle Arqueros (Kingston 6 Entertainment/Ryan Singh Enterprises). This monologue show features men and women from various backgrounds. Runs to Oct 8, Fri 8 pm. $15-$25. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. sexrelationshipsandsometimeslove.ca. ShIrLEY vaLENTINE by Willy Russell (Stage West). A frustrated English housewife goes on a wild Greek vacation. Runs to Nov 21, Tue-
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Uneven Aida AIDA by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). To November 5. See Continuing, page 69 . Rating: NNN
Forget the elephants and pyramids. The Canadian Opera Company’s production of Verdi’s Aida passes on the work’s ancient Egyptian trappings and instead sets the story of love, revenge and patriotism in a 1960s totalitarian regime, vaguely Soviet in feel. Here the title character (Sondra Radvanovsky) is a cleaning woman; her lover, Radames (Rosario La Spina), becomes a sometimes insecure military man and her rival, Amneris (Jill Grove), the power-wielding politico daughter of the country’s ruler. Presented from Aida’s viewpoint, this production is fine to hear – it has some of Verdi’s best music – but less so to watch. In the original, Aida is an Ethiopian slave, in love with and loved by Egyptian warrior Radames; he in turn is desired by princess Amneris, who suspects that Aida is her rival. The story becomes more complex when the Sun 6:30 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $46$80 (includes buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com. [TITLE OF SHOW] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell (Angelwalk Theatre). This DIY musical is based on Bowen and Bell’s experiences putting on this very musical – first for the prestigious New York Musical Theatre Fest in 2004 (where they had a few weeks to write it) and then for subsequent remounts, all the while hoping for a Broadway run. There’s lots of self-reflexive fun, especially for anyone who loves or works with musicals. The direction is smart and economical, and there’s not a weak link in the four-person cast. Runs to Oct 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$45. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-872-1111, angelwalk.ca. NNNN (GS) THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler (Ghost Light Projects). A cast of 26 women, men and a drag queen read monologues from Ensler’s collection. Runs to Oct 7, Thu 7 and 9 pm. $25-$30. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. ghostlightprojects.com. YOU ARE HERE by Daniel MacIvor (Alumnae Theatre). MacIvor’s ensemble drama about a woman named Alison (Tabitha Keast) who looks back on her troubled life gets a fine remount. Under Paul Hardy’s direction, scenes flow into each other gracefully, and the design elements contribute well to the mood and rhythm. Keast uses her physicality and all the colours of her voice to capture Alison’s layers of self-deception, and she gets strong support from Michael Vitorovich, Will O’Hara and others. Runs to Oct 9, Thu-Sat 8 pm, $20. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. NNNN (GS)
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tival). Blackmail, marital fidelity and Wildean wit fuel this fine piece of melodrama, given an elegant production by director Jackie Maxwell and the strong Shaw ensemble. There are
Ethiopian king, Amonasro (Scott Hendricks), Aida’s father, is captured and plots to destroy his enemies. Director Tim Albery shakes the story up in his revision, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The world he creates, often intentionally drab, is a male-dominated, violent society. But sometimes the result, designed by Hildegard Bechtler (sets) and Jon Morrell (costumes), is silly rather than striking. In theatrical terms, though, the real problem is that Albery doesn’t evoke much tension between characters. It’s in the score, but confrontations pack little punch until Amonasro appears an hour into the opera. On a musical level, things are much better, with Johannes Debus conducting a lustrous reading of the score. La Spina sings stylishly and without bellowing, Grove’s Amneris is vocally commanding, and Hendricks makes a seductive, electric revolutionary. And it’s unlikely you’ll hear a better Aida than Radvanovsky, who understands the score’s drama and can scale her big voice down to float pure, hushed notes to the back of the house.
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JON KAPLAN standout performances by Moya O’Connell as the devious femme fatale, Patrick Galligan as the man she hopes to manipulate, Catherine McGregor as his rigidly moral wife and Steven Sutcliffe as an epigram-loving man of leisure. Runs in rep to Oct 31. $23-$105. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNN (JK) JOHN BULL’S OTHER ISLAND by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Shaw’s look at Anglo-Irish relations is sometimes dated, but the discussion about the development and exploitation of colonial lands still resonates. Director Christopher Newton’s production combines cogent arguments with warmth and humour. Runs in rep to Oct 9. $23-$105. Court House Theatre. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNN (JK) PETER PAN by JM Barrie (Stratford Festival). In director Tim Carroll’s adaptation of the famous children’s story, the world of author JM Barrie intersects with the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Michael Therriault makes a terrific Peter – amoral, self-centred, never able to keep still – and Tom McCamus doubles as the fastidious Barrie and the gleefully villainous Captain Hook. Runs in rep to Oct 31. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Avon Theatre. stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) THE WOMEN by Clare Boothe Luce (Shaw Festival). Luce’s play, directed by Alisa Palmer, is bitchy, brittle and fun in its look at the male/ female divide. Dozens of women talk constantly about the men in their lives, though men never appear onstage. Jenny Young, warm, believable and never asking for the audience’s pity, is perfect as the initially innocent figure at the centre of the story, and she’s surrounded by some of the Shaw Festival’s best performers, including Deborah Hay, Moya O’Connell and Jenny L Wright. Runs in rep to Oct 9. $23-$105. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest. com. NNN (JK) 3
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Thursday, October 7 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Fraser Young, Dred Lee and host Todd Van ñ Allen. To Oct 10, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-
Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Next Big Thing, new and veteran improvisers perform scenes. 8 pm. The Jam, an open improv jam session. 9:15 pm. $5. 138 Danforth. 416491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 29 Supermarket presents comedy w/ Terry Clement, Dave Merheje, Ryan Dennee and the Boom. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com. COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Chris Scian, Jennifer Schlumberger, Andrew McMichael, Calwyn Shurgold, Rose Giles, Joakim Österberg and host Derek Forgie. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698. COMEDY @ COCONUTS New Reach Creative presents comedy and music w/ Azfar Ali, Mike Bassily, Rebecca Webster, Allen Yiu, Arshad Merali, Sharif Musah, Charles Horne, Kathryn McBride and host Ricky ‘rudeboy’ Singh. 9 pm. $5. Coconuts Restaurant & Lounge, 2180 Steeles W. 905-532-0504. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class players. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES Second City SC presents ñ its 66th sketch comedy revue, and it’s the
most consistently funny show in years. Director Chris Earle has a theatrical eye, edgy sense of humour and knows which topical references will capture the zeitgeist yet also remain classic. The talented, versatile cast takes on G20 protests, tech annoyances and pushes the limits of comedy with a ballsy scene about the Israel/Palestine situation. The final moments are a brilliant nod to several earlier sketches, and you’ll be humming Caitlin Howden and Matthew Reid’s song parody as you leave. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 2 pm (plus Oct 10 at 7 pm). $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Lawrence Morgenstern. To Oct 10, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents the Rising Stars Of Comedy double feature. 8 pm. $12. 70 Interchange Way, Vaughan. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents the Rising Stars Of Comedy double feature. 8 pm. $12. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
Friday, October 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 7. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Troubadour,
competitive musical improv. 8 pm. $10-$12. That Friday Show, a play by BDT students. 8:30 pm (studio #2). Pwyc. Macro Neato, improv variety including games and plays. 10 pm. $10-$12. 138 Danforth. baddogtheatre. com. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Dan’s Mix ‘95 (Dan Hershfield, Lindsay Grant and others). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. JAMMIN’ ON THE ONE Stevie J, Damon Lum and Ad Lib present an improv jam. 7:30 pm. Free. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. 416-5691316. MAKING %@IT UP Tiny Head Productions and Dave Curran present an interactive comedy show w/ Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Alastair Forbes, Lisa Merchant, Dave Pearce and host Ralph MacLeod. 10:30 pm. $20. Dave And Buster’s, 120 Interchange Way, Vaughan. 647-977-7890, davecurranlive.com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle
presents stand-up w/ Bryan O’Gorman, Rob Mailloux, Kathleen McGee, Becky Bays, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. texascomedymassacre2.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 7. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Kyle Radke. To Oct 9, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Peter Anthony. To Oct 9, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
Saturday, October 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 7. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Theatresports,
competitive improv. 8 pm. Welcome To Town, an improvised documentary about two small towns. 10 pm. $10-$12 each. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre. com. LAST STOP COMEDY NIGHT Fitzgerald’s Pub presents weekly Pro/Ams w/ hosts Jordan Foisy and Matt Shury. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 2298 Queen E. 416-698-8588.
SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 7. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 7. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 8. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 8.
Sunday, October 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 7. SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 7. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar
presents an open mic w/ host Melissa Story. 8:30 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 7.
Monday, October 11 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Bobby Mair, Mike Takacs, Dave Barclay, Joel West, Matt Kowall, Joakim Osterberg, MC Mark DeBonis and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. SECOND CITY presents Live In 3D, sketch comedy featuring scenes and songs from SC history, plus new material. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
Tuesday, October 12 I HEART JOKES Evan Desmarais presents weekly comedy and fun. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. 416-9134586. IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 7.
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STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Sarah Donaldson, Steve Hopkinson, Doug Taylor, Mike Cameron, Becky Bays, Tim Allen and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. TUESDAYS IN THE JUNCTION Hole in the Wall presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9 pm. Free. 2867A Dundas W. 416-760-7041. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Amateur Night, w/ Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up newbies at 9:30 pm. $3. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks. com.
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Limited laughs ALI & ALI: THE DEPORTATION HEARINGS by Camyar Chai, Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef (Cahoots). At the Factory Studio (125 Bathurst Street). To October 17. See Continuing, page 69. Rating: NN
In the context of the War on Terror, politically motivated deportations are no laughing matter. So while this comedy tries to balance a potent message and funny gags, emphasis on the political makes the rest of the show feel underdeveloped. This sequel to 2004’s Ali And Ali And The Axes Of Evil opens with the titular friends (Guillermo Verdecchia and Marcus Youssef) living in Canada and performing a play about the 2008 election and Barack Obama’s promises to soften the hard-line politics of the Bush administration. However, their skit is quickly interrupted by an RCMP officer (Anita
Majumdar) who hijacks the performance and turns it into an impromptu deportation hearing – one that threatens to send the duo packing to wartorn “Azerbaganistan.” As in Brecht, a clear political argument is central. All other aspects of the production – like sets, props, plot, character development and, sadly, humour – are secondary to the job of hammering home the important message that even in the post-Obama age, Western states still routinely subject Arabs and Muslims to draconian levels of surveillance and persecution. As a comedy, the production struggles. The few amusing moments are mixed in with duds. One of the funniest bits, a puppet show depicting Obama in the Oval Office bickering with Biden and Bill Clinton while being continuously confronted by a conscience chorus of famous AfricanAmerican civil rights leaders, feels too similar to something from South Park. Other sequences turn out to be thinly veiled set-ups for PowerPoint JORDAN BIMM presentations.
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Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, with James Franco, Jon Hamm and David Strathairn. A Mongrel release. 91 minutes. Opens today (Thursday, October 7) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See times, page 84. Rating: NNNN
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One third is a courtroom drama based on transcripts of the obscenity trial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, charged for publishing Howl, Allen Ginsberg’s first poem. Another third features an animated version of the poem as Ginsberg, played by James Franco, reads it for the first time in 1955. An interview with Franco as the poet, also based on real interviews, makes up the third element.
Together, though, these elements create a moving portrait of one of America’s great literary icons. Usually courtroom dramas are talky and static, but by interspersing the trial sequences among the other elements and casting the likes of David Strathairn, Jon Hamm and Jeff Daniels – superb as an arrogant academic who thinks his analysis of the poem is neutral – they never get dull.
The animation by Eric Drooker is sometimes too literal, but most of it is visually arresting, and if not, you can just listen to Franco’s ecstatic reading with your eyes closed. Franco is sensational, which is why directors Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet) and Rob Epstein (The Times Of Harvey Milk) get away with the interview segments in which the camera focuses exclusively on the actor’s face. Franco looks like he’s literally channelling the beat poet: his gestures, his inflection, his habit of uttering “hmm” between clauses. During these scenes, Ginsberg talks about his influences, specifically Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Carl Solomon, his queer sexual history and the fact that his mother was institutionalized. Directors Epstein and Friedman use their documentary skills to unearth archival footage, but most of the biographical material is dealt with in effective re-enactments filmed in black and white. Franco’s reading of Howl at a basement café in Greenwich Village captures Ginsberg’s poetic cadence. His gleeful rendering of the final pages especially evokes the pleasure Ginsberg took in reading work that he knew was brilliant. In fact, Howl’s real star is the poem itself, which, by the end of movie, Ginsberg has read through completely. Flecked with obscenity and laden with rich imagery and captivating metaphors, it rages at American capitalism and conformity, defends the underclasses and aches for creative freedom. You could imagine a similar cinematic strategy – trial, interview, readings – applied to D.H. Lawrence, Oscar Wilde or any other artist dogged by censors (see sidebar, this page). But you’d need a compact, powerful work like Howl and a star with Franco’s gift and commitment to pull it off. And they don’t come around very often. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com
From ban Here are a few more artists who were hounded by censors and would benefit from the cinematic strategy pursued by the makers of Howl.
Lillian Hellman
The American playwright ran into trouble with her very first play, The Children’s Hour, which was banned in Boston, Chicago and London, England, because of its lesbian theme. Her memoirs, especially Pentimento, and the 1986 book Conversations With Lillian Hellman, edited by Jackson R. Bryer, are crammed with her ideas on politics and art. And her personal life, like Ginsberg’s, was fascinating, given her relationship with Dashiell Hammett. WORKING TITLE: Prep School Confidential WHO WOULD STAR? A perfect comeback vehicle for Lily Taylor
Salman Rushdie
Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa on Rushdie after he published The Satanic Verses completely changed the author’s life. His many essays and op-ed pieces on politics and culture would make perfect fodder for the fake interview. There’s no trial transcript,
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to biopic but a screenwriter could make a powerful concoction from various statements by the ayatollah and other fundamentalists outraged by Rushdie. WORKING TITLE: Satanic Versus WHO WOULD STAR? Art Malik (True Lies, the sheik in Sex And The City 2) would be wonderful as the Mumbai-born novelist.
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Basquiat case Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant child (Tamra Davis). 90 minutes. Opens today (Thursday, October 7) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. See times, page 84. Rating: nnn
Oscar Wilde
Sure, The Trials Of Oscar Wilde is already a play, but he’s an artist who deserves another treatment. His essays on aesthetics and pleasure are smart and witty, and he was absolutely compelling on the stand at his trial for gross indecency. While in prison, he wrote De Profundis, a repudiation of his earlier cultural writings, which would make a great literary centrepiece for the film. WORKING TITLE: Wilde At Heart WHO WOULD STAR? Colin Firth has embraced so many queer characters lately – why not cast him as Wilde?
D.H. Lawrence
When an unexpurgated edition of Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover came out in 1960, its publisher was charged in the UK with obscenity. In court, E.M. Forster defended the book, which would make a great film sequence, and Lawrence was a prolific producer of essays and literate letters, so there’s no shortage of cultural commentary there. Throw in Kate Millett with her feminist rethink of Lawrence and you’d have a tensionpacked piece. WORKING TITLE: Saint Lawrence WHO WOULD STAR? Put a beard on Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, Never Let Me Go) and he’d be persGc fect.
Zach Galifianakis (left) and Keir Gilchrist tell a terrific Story.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work could be put in better context.
In 1985 director Tamra Davis shot an interview with her friend Jean-Michel Basquiat in L.A., where he sometimes travelled to escape the pressures of the New York art scene. Hesitant to join those who cashed in on the artist’s friendship, Davis left the footage in a drawer. Now she’s expanded it to feature length by speaking to the painter’s friends, lovers, dealers and admirers. Basquiat’s short life makes a compelling story whether told in doc form or in the 1996 biopic by rival Julian Schnabel (who also appears here). It’s easy to see why the charismatic and handsome young graffiti poet was so sure he would be famous. Fascinating
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Bland Return RetuRn to el salvadoR (Jamie Moffett). 67 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: nn
Return To El Salvador demonstrates that good intentions don’t always make for great filmmaking. Director Jamie Moffett brings his cameras to El Salvador 17 years after the end of the devastating civil war, interviewing dozens of people who fled the nation during the chaos but have since returned to help rebuild their country. The cultural rebirth of El Salvador is indeed impressive, but we don’t really see that much of it here. Inspirational
footage shows how Basquiat worked ferociously on many paintings at once as TV and music blared and parties raged in his studio. While Schnabel’s film stresses Basquiat’s family history of mental illness, Davis depicts an angry, lost man separated from friends by his success yet isolated in the art world as the lone lionized black artist. Discourse about his work was often tinged with racism, and he grew increasingly paranoid about being used, even turning on Andy Warhol, who tried to offer him support. The film cites Warhol’s death as one factor leading to Basquiat’s fatal heroin overdose at 27. What’s missing is a thoughtful evaluation of Basquiat’s oeuvre that goes beyond “He’s now recognized as a genius whose work is worth millions.” Davis could have spoken to African-American visual artists and others who’ve been influenced by him.
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(Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck). 101 minutes. Opens Friday (October 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: nnnn
With this oddball dramedy about a suicidal teen (Keir Gilchrist) who has himself committed and lands in the adult psych ward of a New York hospital, directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck move out of the dramatic comfort zone they established in Half Nelson and Sugar and edge into intriguing new territory. Gilchrist (United States Of Tara) is terrific as the confused young hero, and Zach Galifianakis as his would-be
mentor finds new depths in his dulleyed teddy bear persona. Playing a considerably more troubled peer on whom Gilchrist crushes, Emma Roberts finally shows signs that she can break beyond the generic pretty-girl roles that have defined her career to date. These three actors may be the stars, but Boden and Fleck make sure we care about everyone else around them, too. Even the most peripheral supporting characters are defined as people rather than generic nut-house personalities. There isn’t a Nurse Ratched or a Billy Bibbit to be found here, just people. And it’s thrilling to watch Boden and Fleck refuse to give in to the conventions of the snake-pit drama, instead using those raw building blocks to craft an original and engaging film. noRMan WilneR
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music and smiling faces can’t disguise the fact that Return To El Salvador isn’t much of a documentary; it feels more like an infomercial about a can-do nation, with narrator Martin Sheen delivering upbeat but frustratingly bland lines like “Salvadorans are a brave people who love their country and dream about its future.” As opposed to whom, exactly? Those lousy Belgians? Moffett makes no attempt to structure the material or build an editorial rhythm, lining up one testimonial after the next without considering how each story might inform the other. The general sloppiness is brought home in the final moments, when Sheen tells us we’re about to see ways in which we can help Salvadorans recover... and Moffett just rolls the crednoRMan WilneR its.
Return To El Salvador feels like a glorified infomercial.
Lasse Rimmer and Lene Nystrøm Deliver the goods.
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Bornedal). 93 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: nnnn
Straw Dogs gets a Danish makeover in Ole Bornedal’s slickly shot thriller about a lawyer who moves his family back to his childhood village just in time to shelter a Bosnian émigré from a vengeful mob. Johannes (Lasse Rimmer) and his wife and children have barely unpacked their bags before a lovely older woman turns up dead by the side of the highway – the victim of a callous hit-and-run, according to Johannes’s
no-account brother (Jens Andersen), who fingers a local handyman, Alain (Bojan Navojec), as the culprit. Unwilling to condemn the terrified Alain without proof, Johannes takes the man into his home – which quickly becomes a fortress against attacks from the rabid townsfolk, already primed to explode after a day of drinking at a local festival. The situation is entirely believable, the characters sharply drawn and allowed some level of complexity, and – as was the case in director Bornedal’s terrific 1997 creeper Nightwatch – the violence is both hideously pragmatic and bleakly funny. The ending bites off just a little bit more than it can chew, but up until that point you’ll be on the edge of your noRMan WilneR seat. NOW october 7-13 2010
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Secretariat (Randall Wallace). 122 minutes. Opens Friday (October 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: N Secretariat is a fascinating case study in how to pander to an audience you don’t respect in the slightest. Targeted squarely at Middle Americans desperate for an up-from-nowhere sports picture, it’s an underdog story about a millionaire who believed in a horse when a bunch of other millionaires didn’t. Diane Lane plays Penny Chenery, who took over her family’s horse farm in the late 1960s and lucked into a colt with exceptional spirit and stamina. That horse became Secretariat, who went on to win the Triple Crown in 1973 and validate Chenery’s presence in a sport dominated by men. Nothing wrong with that story, but director Randall Wallace tells it in the
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most banal manner possible, fudging the facts of Chenery’s wealth and social standing to make her seem like a scrappy middle-class person who takes a huge risk by standing up to those who presume to be her betters. She even walks into a gentlemen’s club after she’s been asked not to – she’s a regular Erin Brockovich! Lane coasts on a beaming smile and a trembling lower lip, while John Malkovich sports a series of truly hideous outfits as Quebecois trainer Lucien Laurin. It’s that kind of movie. And honestly, we deserve better. NOrmaN WilNer
Diane Lane loses her grip on the reins.
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Out of tune tHe cONcert (Radu Mihaileanu). 119 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 8) at the Cumberland. See Times, page 84. Rating: NN
Radu Mihaileanu’s The Concert contains intriguing ideas about statesanctioned racism and the power of music to create different kinds of harmonies, but they’re lost amidst a contrived story and lots of unfunny farce. Once the star conductor of Russia’s Bolshoi Orchestra, Andrei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) was demoted to janitor three decades earlier for not ousting the company’s Jewish musicians. When he purloins an invitation to perform in Paris, he must find his musicians (now all doing odd jobs in Moscow), get them visas and over to France – never mind rehearsing the allRussian program. At nearly two hours, the film is a
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Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel experience new Life.
Life As We Know It (D: Greg Berlanti, 112 min) TV’s Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) and Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) play an unlikely couple brought together when their respective best friends die and they find themselves guardians of a now-orphaned baby. Slightly more dramatic than Heigl’s rom-coms, this could capture the female audience on a less-than-stellar opening week.
Aleksei Guskov and Mélanie Laurent have a score to settle.
funny business around him, and as the mess, lurching from one cultural cliché French violinist who’s got a secret to the next and skipping over the connection to the conductor, Mélanie tragedy at the film’s centre. Neither Laurent is just as beguiling as she was Moscow nor Paris comes off looking in Inglourious Basterds. interesting, and the orchestral sequenHope they’re more in tune with ces are laughably inaccurate. GleNN SUmi their next projects. Guskov’s gravitas contrasts with the DN_3X7_1007.1NM.:Layout 1 10-10-05 4:44 PM Page 1
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THE AMERICAN (Anton Corbijn) may not
be the best thing ever, but it’s a mostly competent spin on the standard one-lastjob thriller, with a solid performance by George Clooney as the resolutely closedoff lead. Corbijn makes The American, his second feature (following 2007’s stark Ian Curtis biopic, Control), a gorgeous affair; there’s more Italian location porn here than in Eat Pray Love. You can sink into the movie’s visuals without ever quite connecting to the story – which is the reason The American never snaps into focus for its final movement. It’s pretty, but its heart never beats as fast as it needs to. Some subtitles. 104 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
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BURIED (Rodrigo Cortés) is a minALPHA AND OMEGA 3D (Anthony Bell, Ben imalist thriller that takes place Gluck) offers a lively mix of light laughs entirely within the confines of a coffin in and thrills aimed at small children. The which a man (Ryan Reynolds) has found animation and 3-D don’t have the wow himself buried with little more than a factor to impress kids over 10, but the lighter, a flask and a cellphone. Who he is well-constructed story might do the job. and what’s going on hardly matter; the Slacker wolf Humphrey (voiced by Justin movie focuses entirely Long) loves high-rankon the issue at hand, ing Kate (Hayden Panwhich is how our protagettiere). Circumstance EXPANDED REVIEWS onist is going to survive deposits them in nowtoronto.com as the minutes tick away Idaho, but Kate is desand his oxygen supply perate to return to their dwindles. Reynolds is riveting, and you’ll Jasper Park home and marry the alpha appreciate director Cortés’s bravura cinemale from the neighbouring pack in order matic accomplishment after you catch to avert a war. The film has some brisk set your breath. 95 min. NNNN (NW) pieces, notably a climactic caribou stamCanada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, pede, the communal howl with its obligaColossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, tory romantic duet and several wild sleigh
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(Sturla Gunnarsson) is a flattering portrait of the veteran scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. Thankfully, director Gunnarsson’s subject is smart, fascinating and articulate, even without dissenting opinions. Structured around a lecture the 75-year-old Suzuki delivers at UBC, the place where he did his pioneering research into fruit flies and genetics, the film chronicles the events that shaped him, from the internment of his Japanese-Canadian family after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to his fascination with swamps and his kinship with indigenous populations. A great synthesizer and communicator, Suzuki is compelling about everything, including the economic downturn and the meaning of a single breath. There are gaps in his personal story, but the film has plenty of touching moments, especially involving his father. 93 min. NNNN (GS) Cumberland 4
with an online friendship between a young New York photographer and an eight-year-old Michigan girl who emails him for permission to make a painting from one of his photos. Online romance blossoms with the girl’s older sister, but when the photographer goes for a faceto-face meeting, deception is revealed. Since the film doesn’t dig very deeply into the deceiver’s motivations, in the end it’s little more than a cautionary tale about the dodginess of internet relationships – and that’s old news. 94 min. NN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Ole Bornedal) 100 min. See review, page 75. (NW) Opens Oct 8 at Carlton Cinema.
DESPICABLE ME (Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin) stars Steve Carell as the voice of a sneering schemer who adopts three girls as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the moon. That subplot provides the movie with its most engaging and entertaining moments; the other stuff, with Gru’s tube-shaped minions jumping around at us in 3-D, is a lot less interesting. 95 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24 DEVIL (Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle)
is a modest supernatural thriller that manages to provide mild entertainment despite the limitations of its simple story. Five strangers are trapped in an office tower elevator. One of them is the Devil in disguise, here to torment sinners for fun. Every time the lights go out, someone dies. A cop tries to figure out what’s going on, while a security guy, a maintenance man and the fire department attempt a rescue. A brisk pace and fluid editing that moves easily among the various groups keeps the proceedings lively but can’t disguise the thinness of the material. 80 min. NN (AD) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
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(Will Gluck) is a chipper riff on The Scarlet Letter, in which a high school senior (Emma Stone) is branded a slut after a white lie about losing her virginity goes viral. Gluck’s film occupies the same clear-headed space as 10 Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls: it’s a movie you can respect in the morning. Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is terrific fun in her first leading role, and Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci do their best to
steal the picture as her eccentric parents. 93 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
EAT PRAY LOVE (Ryan Murphy) offers audiences the chance to vicariously accompany Julia Roberts as she retraces author Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling odyssey of self-embiggenment, travelling from one impossibly photogenic, sundrenched location to another in a profoundly monotonous travelogue. 139 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
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(Banksy) is the story of Thierry Guetta, who told everyone he was working on an epic documentary about street art but never got around to doing anything with the raw footage, leading the artist who calls himself Banksy to take over the project – while Guetta chose to reinvent himself as a street artist. Enormous fun. 87 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
THE EXPENDABLES (Sylvester Stallone) is a deliberate throwback to cheesy 80s actioners like Commando and Cobra, with director/co-writer/star Stallone and a cast of tough guys mowing down (or blowing up) scores of anonymous extras in a Latin American banana republic. People who liked that sort of thing in 1986 will get the warm fuzzies; everyone else will find themselves trying to digest a big ol’ slab of cheese. 103 min. NN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
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(Yael Hersonski) is unique among Holocaust documentaries in a very horrible way: the bulk of the footage in Hersonski’s searing exploration of image-craft and cultural memory comes from a Nazi propaganda film shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in May of 1942. As Hersonski demonstrates through archival testimony, interviews with survivors and the invaluable diaries of a ghetto resident, the German film crew commandeered the locals into performing in staged scenes designed to depict them as alien and unknowable. The project was never completed, for reasons that remain uncertain. But the raw footage offers a compelling – and repugnant – look into the Nazi propaganda machine. Hersonski’s witnesses place it in the appropriate horrific context, but the images speak loudly enough for themselves. Some subtitles. 89 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square
FUBAR II (Michael Dowse) delivers lots of nihilistic low comedy, highlighted by a spectacular house destruction. Five years after the original, our two substanceaddled Calgary headbangers – wildman Dean (Paul Spence) and his marginally less wasted best buddy, Terry (David Lawrence) – head for Fort McMurray and big bucks in the tar sands. Dean fakes an injury in hopes of getting workers’ comp. Terry falls for a local girl, which puts a strain on the friendship. It’s funnier and livelier than the first, and Spence and Lawrence have the acting chops to make their characters more than mere caricatures. We believe in them and their bonded-forlife friendship. 86 min. NNN (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
another, less ambitious movie, working against the sweetness of the principal storyline. 104 min. NNN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20
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wall documentary that assembles interviews with dozens of very funny people for a look at the nuts and bolts of a working comedian’s life. Director Jordan Brady and fellow ex-performer Ritch Shydner interview roughly four-fifths of everyone who’s anyone in the stand-up world: Bobcat Goldthwait and Roseanne Barr, Kathy Griffin and Louis C.K., Janeane Garofalo and Jim Gaffigan. The result is more like a feature-length bull session than a proper documentary, but that’s okay; it’s like sitting down at the bar with a bunch of comics after the end of a particularly long tour. Mostly they’re just crabbing about things that haven’t gone as well as expected, but it’s well-observed and entertaining crabbing because of the talent involved. 87 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
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(Aaron Schneider) is a Johnny Cash song come to life, with Robert Duvall playing an old Tennessee hermit who decides to throw himself a funeral party, and Bill Murray and Lucas Black lightening the mood as his perplexed enablers at a struggling funeral parlour. And as their stories unfold, Get Low works its way under your skin. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre
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Alfredson) is the second in the series adapting Stieg Larsson’s thrillers. Computer hacker Salander (Noomi Rapace) is the prime suspect in a triple murder, and Blumkvist must find her before the police do. Rapace is a knockout and the villains are creepy, but some plot devices are super-cheesy. See The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, now on DVD, first or you’ll be lost. Subtitled. 129 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant
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(Niels Arden Oplev) is a superb adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s mega-seller about disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who’s working with punk computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to find the niece of corporate magnate Henrik Vanger (SvenBertil Taube), lost over four decades ago. Great tension and superb performances, especially by Rapace as the pansexual girl with the tattoo. Subtitled. 152 min. NNNN (SGC) Regent Theatre
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pairs real-life couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long as a couple who refuse to end a summertime romance in New York and try to keep things going after she moves back to San Francisco. Documentary filmmaker Burstein brings a refreshing frankness to the goings-on – you don’t see many rom-coms where people do bong hits on their first date, and aren’t punished for it – and the leads are awfully winning. But the charming elements grind up against some raunchier stuff – most of it provided by Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as Long’s buddies. They’re funny, but those scenes feel dropped in from
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(Luca Guadagnino) stars Tilda Swinton as a woman who finds passion outside the fortress of the upperclass Milanese family she’s married into. Guadagnino’s operatic approach is gorgeous to watch, and Swinton brings an intelligence and openness worthy of the literary heroines that inspired the script. 119 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre
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ly watchable yet frustrating film “about” Joaquin Phoenix, who from all appearances gave up a successful career as a leading man (two Oscar nominations) to let his hair and beard grow out, don shades and make a half-assed attempt to become a hip-hop musician. Friend, director (and brother-in-law) Affleck has intimate access to Phoenix, whose cry for help begins to sound increasingly self-indulgent and narcissistic, especially as he throws tantrums to his fans, friends and assistants, one of whom gets back at him in a major way. Affleck announced recently that the film was a hoax, which explains some of the more outrageous sequences. But I’m not entirely convinced. Phoenix’s physical and emotional flame-out seems frighteningly authentic. He’s always been a good actor, but is he really that good? NNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg) shows us a revealing, jam-packed year in the life of Rivers, who’s tireless, tenacious and hilarious even in her mid-70s. Directors Stern and Sundberg leave some areas of her personal life unexplored, along with some of her meaner routines. But you get the sense that Rivers’s life is her work, and she’s as hard on herself as she is on anyone else. 84 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema
Hoffman) is Oscar-winning actor Hoffman’s directorial debut, and he doesn’t embarrass himself. He plays Jack, a socially THE LAST EXORCISM (Daniel Stamm) inept limo driver who’s set up on a date shuns horror movie cliwith the nervous Connie chés and predictable (Amy Ryan), who works shocks in favour of with Lucy (Daphne EXPANDED REVIEWS plausible characters Rubin-Vega), the persisnowtoronto.com caught in a compelling tently unfaithful girlstory, enhanced by solid friend of Jack’s co-workvisuals. A Baton Rouge er pal Clyde (John Ortiz). minister intent on getting out of the fake Bob Glaudini’s adaptation of his offexorcism business performs his final ritual Broadway play (which starred Hoffman) on a teenage farm girl in rural Louisiana. has a strange tone, and Hoffman holds All goes well until the night turns nasty. many scenes of forced awkwardness too 87 min. NNN (AD) long – as if he doesn’t trust the audience Yonge & Dundas 24 to get a point. Still, the movie has a cumulative power leading up to a climactic, LEBANON (Samuel Maoz) is a resquirm-worthy dinner party scene. The markable cinematic accomplishment theatre-trained leads are all wonderful, – an experimental war movie that exespecially the underrated Ortiz, who’s plores the chaos, terror and moral confufinally given a chance to show his range sion experienced by the soldiers on the on film. 90 min. NNN (GS) ground, leaving the politics out of it. It’s a Canada Square, Varsity foxhole picture; Sam Fuller would have
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survey of all the Jewish baseballers who played in the major leagues. Speaking as a Jewish baseball fan, I learned absolutely nothing. Who of us doesn’t know all about Hank Greenberg, Al Rosen and Sandy Koufax? What’s missing here is an analysis of what it is about America’s national pastime that appeals so much to Jews – the stats, the game’s languor, the absence of violence? What? Even more problematic is the basic thrust of the film, which is an expression of my parents’ generation’s (people over 70) old siege mentality that made them celebrate any Jewish person who became successful. Those identity
young-adult version of The Lord Of The Rings, as directed by the guy who made Dawn Of The Dead and 300 – because it is. Given the keys to the Australian digital animation studio that produced Happy Feet, Snyder turns his sweeping adaptation of Kathryn Lasky’s fantasy novels into an intense, kinetic and slightly insane action movie populated entirely by photorealistic owls who don helmets and battle gloves. It’s technically dazzling – and even more so in 3-D – but the story races from one incident to the next with such speed that the characters aren’t the only ones left breathless. 94 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park
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(Matt Reeves) adapts Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 chiller Let The Right One In. The original was so distinctly Swedish, it’s amazing how well the material handles the transfer to a New Mexico setting. The story is exactly the same, with a bullied teen (The Road’s Kodi Smit-McPhee) and an enigmatic neighbour (Kick Ass’s Chloë Grace Moretz) bonding as a series of murders sweep their apartment complex. There’s blood and screaming aplenty, but the real horror lies in the story’s long-term implications, as embodied by Richard Jenkins as Moretz’s guardian. Writer/director Reeves trades Cloverfield’s shaky camcorder aesthetic for an austere widescreen elegance that honours Alfredson’s original from the very first frames. 115 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge
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White) plops Emma Thompson’s magical British governess down at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s rundown farm to help five cousins learn to work together, respect one another and appreciate the delights of digitally enhanced farm animals. Small children will enjoy the parade of CG critters – including the most adorable baby elephant since Dumbo – and their parents can be amused by the parade of famous faces. Maggie Smith and a Harry Potter co-star who shall not be named turn up in cameos, Bill Bailey appears as a chipper farmer, and Rhys Ifans makes a play for Tim Curry’s fussy-villain career as Gyllenhaal’s duplicitous brother-in-law. It may be disposable entertainment, but it’s still entertaining. 109 min. NNN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga
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a chilly adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel tracing the lives of three English children from their young days in the 1970s to their adulthood in the 1990s. A science-fiction story with virtually no science-fiction elements, it’s instead a subdued drama about people trying to figure
out the purpose of their lives and come to terms with their limited time – which, of course, means it’s about everyone. Carey Mulligan is terrific as Kathy H., our de facto guide to this world; Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley are the friends she spends her life losing. Romanek’s austere direction never looks away from the tragic truths at the story’s core. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
THE OTHER GUYS (Adam McKay) is a buddy-cop comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as a pair of mismatched New York detectives who stumble onto a massive corporate fraud case. As quasi-satirical action movies go, it’s no Hot Fuzz, but it’s a damn sight better than Cop Out. 107 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (Paul W.S. Anderson) has a brilliant opening, then settles into being a typical entry in the series (it’s the fourth), which means snappy zombie-killing action based on the franchise-launching video game and not much story. This time, our hero, Alice (Milla Jovovich), joins a group of survivors holed up in a prison. They’re all looking for
Arcadia, whose radio broadcasts promise shelter and safety. But is Arcadia a trap? Director Anderson knows how to fling stuff in your eye, but he’s more in love with 3-D’s potential for creating vertiginous depth with plunging overhead shots. They hit their peak when Alice has a Die Hard moment involving a rooftop and a rope. 97 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
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RETURN TO EL SALVADOR (Jamie Moffett) 67 min. See review, page 75. NN (NW) Opens Oct 8 at Carlton Cinema.
SALT (Phillip Noyce) stars Angelina Jolie as
CIA agent Evelyn Salt, accused by a Russian defector of being a sleeper spy. It unfolds in a monotone of explosions and car chases, and the plot holes are ludicrous. If you’re gonna make an actioner with Angelina Jolie that isn’t sexy or funny, can you at least make it smart? 100 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20
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londz) is a disturbing film about love, sexual abuse and forgiveness. Solondz is back in Happiness territory, although this doesn’t really qualify as a sequel. The dialogue is brilliant, believable even as characters say completely inappropriate things, and the performances by Allison Janney, Ciarán Hinds and others are spectacular. No one combines irony and emotion like Solondz. 96 min. NNNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
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(Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez) is the retro-macho action movie The Expendables wanted to be – a tongue-in-cheek send-up of (and tribute to) the pulpy shoot-’em-ups of a bygone era. In this case, it’s the grindhouse actioners of the 1970s, which Rodriguez and Maniquis clearly worship. The formidable Danny Trejo is the title character, an exFederale chosen as a patsy by a corrupt politico (Jeff Fahey) and forced to kill a whole bunch of people before he can clear his name. Rodriguez and Maniquis keep the slashings, shootouts and chases coming fast and furious, reverse-engineering an entire movie from the fake trailer that played in front of Rodriguez’s Grindhouse feature Planet Terror, while weaving in a surprisingly savvy indictment of American isolationism and anti-immigrant sentiment. Also surprising: Lindsay Lohan, who turns up as Fahey’s rebellious daughter, is kind of good. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Yonge & Dundas 24
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a lead-footed, melodramatic biopic about Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, who visits America as Communism’s ballet prodigy but then refuses to return home, to the dismay of the Chinese Consulate. Beresford touches too briefly on some of the story’s ambiguities. At least there’s some fancy dancing. Some subtitles. 117 min. NN (RS) Mt Pleasant
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from the first frame to the last, as director and co-writer Wright turns Bryan Lee O’Malley’s six-part graphic novel into a hyper-stylized, vividly cinematic feat of genre fusion. It’s a love story, a kung-fu movie, an epic adventure and a rollicking slacker comedy, packed full of endearing performances and imaginative fight scenes. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre
thinking of him as “that guy who isn’t Michael Cera”) to the status of nerd godhead – into a thrilling, rippling comedy of manners about male vanity, social mores and the utter impossibility of transparency in the modern age. It’s also about an idea that takes over the world: that everyone wants everyone else to know exactly how he or she feels about everything, at any given moment. Is it the best American movie of the year, as you may have been hearing? Maybe not. But it’s tremendously THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (Juan Jose entertaining, an endlessly clever creation Campanella) travels back and forth myth produced with immense skill and through time, tracking retired Buenos peppered with great oneAires police investigaliners. 122 min. NNNNN tor Esposito (sad-eyed (NW) Ricardo Darín), who EXPANDED REVIEWS 401 & Morningside, can’t let go of a nowtoronto.com Beach Cinemas, Colossus, 20-year-old case of Courtney Park 16, Eglinrape and murder. A ton Town Centre, Grande superbly complex meditation on memory, Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons passion and regret. Subtitled. 129 min. 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, NNNN (SGC) Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SECRETARIAT (Randall Wallace) 122 min. SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity See review, page 77. N (NW) Opens Oct 8 at 401 & Morningside, Beach STEP UP 3D (Jon Chu) is a step backwards Cinemas, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town for the franchise. The choreographed seCentre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, quences are energetic, eye-popping and Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainrange widely in style, and the 3-D adds bow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, texture and is only occasionally gimmicky. Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, The story about an upcoming dance batSilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Silvertle, however, is simply mind-numbingly City Yorkdale, Varsity. bad. 104 min. NN (GS)
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need of rehearsal space. De facto leader Carly (Nichola Burley) strikes a deal with a ballet company to practise in their studio as long as the ballerinas can join in. The street dancers add a little pirouette to their routine and the ballerinas learn a little swagger. (It’s like the dance world version of gentrification.) The filmmakers aren’t interested in anything that doesn’t involve body popping. The skeletal plot and pathetic performances seem slapped together, but the movie’s really about sheer, unadulterated spectacle, with flying people, flailing limbs, all in eye-popping 3-D. 98 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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supposed to be a comedy about unexpected fatherhood, but it never finds an acceptable tone. Jason Bateman goes for broad laughs, while Jennifer Aniston dons that same flinty mask she sported in The Break-Up and The Bounty Hunter. No one’s idea of a good time. 101 min. NN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20
TAKERS (John Luessenhop) is a moderately entertaining caper flick about a gang of professional thieves whose armoured-car job goes wrong while the cop on the case slowly closes in. 115 min. NNN (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE TOWN (Ben Affleck) is Affleck’s slicker follow-up to Gone Baby Gone. He directs himself as the brains behind a crew of Boston bank robbers who finds himself caught between the life and the heat when he falls for a hostage (Rebecca Hall) from his last job. Affleck is similarly struggling to reconcile his own interests (character portraits, Boston neighbourhood details) with the demands of the heist
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children’s stories (as well as their parents’). And as in An Inconvenient Truth, there’s a call to action in the closing credits. 102 min. NNNN (GS) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity
Wall STreeT: moNey Never SleePS (Oliver Stone) tracks America’s looming financial disaster through the eyes of a brighteyed, morally upstanding money manager (Shia LaBeouf) engaged to the daughter of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), whom you may remember from the last movie as something of a schemer. Stone isn’t a details guy; he’s all about grand pronouncement, and his opinion here is that the collapse of 2008 cost everyday Americans their innocence as well as their homes and pensions. It’s all a little obvious, especially as interpreted through LaBeouf’s sadpuppy gaze. 132 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
Josh Brolin channels his inner nebbish in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.
WhaTever iT TakeS (Christopher C.C.
genre. It’d be a lot more satisfying if he’d allowed himself to stretch out for three hours, as Michael Mann did in Heat. Instead, the result is an impeccably crafted but tonally wobbly studio picture that’s at war with itself from one scene to the next. Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm do some fine work filling out their standard crazyguy and FBI-guy parts, though. 125 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
Toy STory 3 (Lee Unkrich) finds our plas-
tic heroes facing the end of their usefulness as their owner, Andy, prepares to go off to college. The movie has beats, and even entire scenes, that recall the glories of the earlier chapters, but TS2 happened because Pixar had another story to tell, while TS3 is here because someone thought it was a surefire hit. 97 min. NNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Bruce McDonald) is ostensibly a two-hander for Tracy Wright and Molly Parker as former bandmates reunited after a decade for one very eventful Toronto night. But it’s really intended as a swan song for Wright, who’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months before the start of production. Daniel MacIvor’s script feels like a reconceived stage piece – it’s overly theatrical, but the actors make it work, shaking the material to life and refusing to let go. Wright couldn’t have asked for a better tribute. Trigger surrounds her with friends and loved ones, and lets her rock out one last time. The sadness only kicks in when the buzz wears off. 78 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
UNcle BooNmee Who caN recall hiS PaST liveS (Apichatpong Weera-
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sethakul) took this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. It’s a lovely magic-realist study of a dying Thai man (Thanapat Saisaymar) who welcomes visits from friends and relatives both living and spectral. Shoot-
ing with an unfussy vérité aesthetic, Apichatpong crafts a delicate, enveloping spell, creating a world where the intrusion of the supernatural is almost commonplace. There’s a generosity and warmth here that practically radiates off the screen; you can’t help but be pulled along as the director takes his odd, wonderful journey. If you’ve seen Syndromes And A Century or Tropical Malady, you already know and love his distinctive tone; if you haven’t, you’ll pick it up quickly enough. Subtitled. 108 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity
The virgiNiTy hiT (Andrew Gurland,
Huck Botko) offers a slightly darker twist on the classic American Pie theme: teenage boys losing their virginity. After going with the same girl for two years, Matt (Matt Bennett) is ready to go all the way. When that goes wrong, best friend Zack (Zack Pearlman) pushes him into a strange odyssey involving his adopted sister, a woman on the internet and finally a porn star. Some of Matt’s misadventures are surprising and funny, and the filmmakers inject an extra shot of realism by showing us everything through Zack’s minicam or cellphone. That also creates a creepy undertone of people detached from their own lives. 90 min. NNN (AD) Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
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Guggenheim) is as devastating a look at the decline and fall of the U.S. public school system as Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth was about global warming. The director doesn’t have the charismatic Al Gore as his spokesperson this time, but he does have the heartwrenching stories of five bright children, whose futures are at stake as they await lotteries – yup, you heard that right – to get into schools across the country that aren’t “dropout factories.” The issues are complex, shrouded in bureaucratic red tape and years of neglect. In the first half Guggenheim – who also narrates – gives much time to talking heads and statistics. Thankfully, he’s found several excellent communicators – among them wildly energetic educator Geoffrey Canada and no-bullshit Washington, DC, school chancellor Michelle Rhee – to explain things. But the film finds its heart and soul in the
Wong) tracks the inaugural year of the Bronx Centre for Science and Mathematics, a school designed to improve local kids’ academic performance. Charismatic principal Edward Tom spends most of his time trying to motivate his at-risk students, especially Sharifea, who starts the year with fourth-grade math skills. Tom struggles with the issue of discipline: Will too much shut these kids down? Will too little set them up for failure? Sharifea is a compelling personality, too, her intelligence shining through even as her grades are tanking. Director Wong embellishes the film with lyrical graphic images, and you’re rooting for the school to succeed. Every student in every constituency everywhere deserves the kind of attention the kids get in this Bronx school. 92 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
evokative films presents A film by
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deliver us from evil Toronto International Film Festival Fantasia International Film Festival
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“A tense and exciting thriller...” eFilmCritic
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Opening short film: Land of the Heads Now playing at the
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yoU agaiN (Andy Fickman) isn’t nearly
the guilty pleasure its premise – and the fine cast – suggests. Kristen Bell plays Marni, a successful woman whose brother is marrying her high-school nemesis, Joanna (Odette Yustman). Meanwhile, Marni’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) is shocked to discover that Joanna’s aunt (Sigourney Weaver) is her own high school rival. Cue the parallel bitchfests, right? The leads do their best with the soggy material. (I’m afraid there’s a pool-dunking scene.) Bell shows great comic timing, and Kristin Chenoweth steals a few scenes as a demented wedding planner. Only Yustman seems adrift, but maybe that’s because the characters lack anything but the most obvious motivations. 105 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Woody Allen) tracks the desires and anxieties of people who go the distance – and a bit too far – to chase their dreams. When Alfie dumps Helena, her daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) sends her to a seer she knows is a charlatan. Sally, in the meantime, starts working for hot gallery owner Greg while hubbie and failing writer Roy stays busy spying on the girl next door (Freida Pinto). The ensemble is terrific. As the kind of writer character Allen used to play, Josh Brolin – all schlub and weakness – is hilarious. But it’s Watts who shows real emotional depth. You’d think that wouldn’t work in a comic piece like this, but Allen has always said that his films are funniest when the actors don’t play up the comedy. Watts has that strategy down. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Grande - Yonge, Varsity 3
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CATFISH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 3:25, 5:20, 7:20, 9:15 DELIVER US FROM EVIL Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:40, 9:45 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (14A) Thu 12:45, 2:35, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:30, 9:40 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A) Thu 12:35 3:35 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 I AM COMIC Thu 1:15, 5:00, 9:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:40 3:30 6:45 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 5:25, 7:15 LEBANON (18A) Thu 9:20 LIFE DURING WARTIME (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:55, 4:55, 7:05, 9:05 Fri-Wed 3:10, 5:15, 7:35 RETURN TO EL SALVADOR Fri-Wed 1:45, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 SALT (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:40, 7:05 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 6:55 Fri-Wed 3:15, 9:00 THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:00 Fri-Wed 4:35, 9:05 WHATEVER IT TAKES Thu 3:15, 7:25
CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444
CATFISH (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 THE CONCERT Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 EASY A (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 I AM LOVE (18A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
EASY A (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 9:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:55, 9:10 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25, 11:55 Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sat 12:00 late SECRETARIAT (G) 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:45 late THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45, 12:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45
THE TOWN (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40, 12:15 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30, 12:10 SunWed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
BEST WORST MOVIE & TROLL 2 DOUBLE FEATURE Thu 9:00 DEVIL (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:30, 7:40, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:15, 9:15 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 1:30 4:40 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:40, 7:40, 9:50 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DAS RHEINGOLD Sat 1:00 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 PSYCHO Wed 7:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 6:40, 9:10 Wed 12:40, 3:00, 9:10 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 9:00 SECRETARIAT (G) Fri-Wed 12:20, 12:50, 3:10, 4:15, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:10, 1:00, 1:40, 3:10, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:10 Wed 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:10 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 3:50, 5:30, 9:40, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:20
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HOWL 12:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sat 11:30 late JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD (14A) 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 Fri-Sat 11:15 late TRIGGER Thu 12:30, 3:45, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 3:45, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 3:45 Sun 3:45, 10:00 Mon-Tue 3:45, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 3:45 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES 8:30
NEVER LET ME GO (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:35, 9:25 Fri 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Sat-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES FriWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:25, 1:05, 3:25, 4:05, 7:15, 9:15, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:05 Wed 1:05, 4:05, 10:05
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:30 Fri, TueWed 2:00 Sat-Mon 11:25, 2:00 THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 7:40 Fri-Wed 7:05, 9:30 ANJAANA ANJAANI Thu 2:45, 6:15, 9:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:50, 6:30, 9:55 Sat-Mon 11:30, 2:50, 6:30, 9:55 BURIED (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:10, 9:10, 9:40, 10:40 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:20, 3:20, 4:35, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:35, 10:35 Sat-Mon 10:55, 12:00, 1:00, 2:20, 3:20, 4:35, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:35, 10:35 CASE 39 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Fri, TueWed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Mon 11:25, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 CATFISH (14A) Thu 3:05 5:25 7:45 10:25 Fri-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:35, 10:25 Sat-Mon 10:55, 1:05 mat DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu 1:55 4:35 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:10 SatMon 11:20 mat EASY A (14A) Thu 2:00 3:00 3:45 4:45 5:30 6:15 7:15 8:00 8:45 9:45 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:45 Sat-Mon 11:30, 12:30, 1:15 mat I’M STILL HERE Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 5:30, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 SatMon 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 5:30, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 TueWed 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 5:30, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 MACHETE (18A) 7:20, 9:50 Thu 2:05, 4:40 mat NEVER LET ME GO (14A) 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Sat-Mon 11:35 mat THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 5:10, 10:15 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Sat-Mon 11:05, 2:10, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Wed 2:10 TAKERS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:40 THE TOWN (14A) Thu-Fri 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:15, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 Sat-Mon 11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:15, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 Tue-Wed 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:15, 9:45, 10:30 TOY STORY 3 (G) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 6:45 Fri, Tue 2:25, 4:50 Sat-Mon 11:50, 2:25, 4:50 THE VIRGINITY HIT (18A) Thu 9:00 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:05, 5:05, 6:50, 7:40, 9:35, 10:35 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Mon 10:50, 1:55, 4:25, 6:50, 9:35
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IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 JACK GOES BOATING (14A) Thu 2:00, 10:00 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 NEVER LET ME GO (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 FriTue 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 12:50, 3:50 SECRETARIAT (G) Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:20 3:40 6:50 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:10 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Wed 12:40, 3:30 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20 Fri-Mon, Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Tue 12:10, 3:20, 9:40 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15
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CASE 39 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 EASY A (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 9:15 Fri-Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:40 3:20 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DAS RHEINGOLD Sat 1:00 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D Fri, Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 SECRETARIAT (G) Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 1:10, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Wed 12:45, 3:55, 6:55, 10:10 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 1:30, 4:05, 9:45
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6:25, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:25, 9:20 fuBar ii (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:45 Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:45 Tue-Wed 4:45 Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3d (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:45, 6:35, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:30 Let Me in (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 10:25 Life as we Know it (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 the MetropoLitan opera: das rheingoLd sat 1:00 My souL to taKe 3d Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 TueWed 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 psycho Wed 7:00 resident eviL: afterLife 3d (18A) Thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Wed 10:05 secretariat (G) Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 the sociaL networK (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 FriMon 12:45, 3:50, 7:15, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:50, 7:15, 10:10 streetdance 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Wed 3:30, 9:45 the town (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:25, 10:35 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 waLL street: Money never sLeeps (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Fri-Mon 12:15, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 TueWed 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 you again (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:00, 3:10, 6:45, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:10, 6:45, 9:40
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aLpha and oMega 3-d (PG) Thu 2:05, 7:05 the aMerican (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:40, 7:30 anjaana anjaani Thu 2:15, 5:45, 9:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 sat-Mon 11:55, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 catfish (14A) 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 sat-Mon 11:20, 1:25 mat daBangg (14A) 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 sat-Mon 1:20 mat eat pray Love (PG) Thu 3:45 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 sat-Mon 12:45 mat the expendaBLes (18A) Thu 5:05, 9:50 fuBar ii (18A) 3:45, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 sat-Mon 11:20, 1:35 mat going the distance (14A) Thu 2:30, 7:20 i’M stiLL here Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 inception (PG) 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 sat-Mon 12:05 mat it’s Kind of a funny story (14A) 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 sat-Mon 12:15 mat Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe (PG) 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 sat-Mon 1:05 mat Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3d (PG) Thu 2:00 4:30 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 sat-Mon 11:30 mat Life as we Know it (PG) 2:15, 4:05, 4:50, 6:40, 7:25, 9:15, 10:00 sat-Mon 11:40, 1:30 mat nanny Mcphee returns (G) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 6:55 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:35 sat-Mon 11:25, 2:05, 4:35 the other guys (14A) Thu 4:55, 9:50 saLt (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Fri, Tue-Wed 5:05, 9:55 sat-Mon 12:20, 5:05, 9:55 scott piLgriM vs. the worLd (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 6:55, 9:30 secretariat (G) 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 satMon 11:00, 1:00, 1:45 mat the sociaL networK (14A) 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 sat-Mon 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 mat
step up 3d (PG) Thu 2:25, 7:30 the switch (PG) Thu 2:40, 7:25 taKers (14A) Thu 4:50, 10:05 toy story 3 3d (G) Thu 4:30, 9:30 the virginity hit (18A) Thu 9:30 waiting for “superMan” (G) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 sat-Mon 11:30 mat you again (PG) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 sat-Mon 11:45 mat
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case 39 (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 despicaBLe Me 3d (PG) Thu 12:10 3:00 6:10 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 deviL (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 easy a (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 sat 1:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 fuBar ii (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:10, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, sun 2:00, 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 sat 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 inception (PG) Thu 1:30 5:00 8:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 5:00, 8:30 Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3d (PG) 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Life as we Know it (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 the MetropoLitan opera: das rheingoLd sat 1:00 psycho Wed 7:00 resident eviL: afterLife 3d (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:50, 6:35, 9:40 Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 step up 3 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:40, 6:30 streetdance 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 1:45, 4:30, 10:10 taKers (14A) Thu 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 3:20, 9:20 you again (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:50
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110 CourTney ParK e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 aLpha and oMega 3-d (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:15 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:45, 5:25 Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:25 case 39 (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Mon 11:05, 2:05, 5:05, 8:05, 11:10 Tue-Wed 2:05, 5:05, 8:05, 11:10 deviL (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 6:25, 8:45, 11:00 Fri-Mon 11:20, 1:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 easy a (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Legend of the guardians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3d (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05
LET ME IN (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:35, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D Fri-Mon 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:10, 10:35 Fri-Wed 8:15, 11:15 ROBIN HOOD (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 SECRETARIAT (G) Fri-Mon 10:00, 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:30 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:55, 2:55, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:00, 1:45, 4:05, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50, 10:20, 11:05 Tue-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 4:05, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50, 10:20, 11:05 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 TAKERS (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:30, 8:20 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:55 Fri-Mon 10:05, 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:45 THE VIRGINITY HIT (18A) Thu 11:00 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 1:05, 2:05, 4:10, 5:10, 7:15, 8:15, 10:20 Fri-Mon 11:55, 3:30, 7:10, 10:35 Tue-Wed 3:30, 7:10, 10:35 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Fri-Mon 10:25, 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25
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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:30 CATFISH (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:15 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DAS RHEINGOLD Sat 1:00 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 FriMon 12:40, 3:40 Tue-Wed 3:40 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:50, 7:10, 9:40
6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, 9:15
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CASE 39 (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 DEVIL (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 EASY A (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:30, 9:20 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:20, 9:00 Fri 3:55, 6:25, 9:05 Sat-Mon 1:10, 3:55, 6:25, 9:05 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 SECRETARIAT (G) Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 3:30, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 7:05, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:50 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu-Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Mon 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:10 Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 3
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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 FriMon 12:40, 3:15, 6:20 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:20 BURIED (14A) Fri-Mon 1:45, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 CASE 39 (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:10, 8:40 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 6:10, 8:40 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 DEVIL (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Mon 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 EASY A (14A) Thu 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 FriMon 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Mon 2:10, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:25, 7:40, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:10, 8:50 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:20, 6:30 TueWed 3:35, 6:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 FriMon 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DAS RHEINGOLD Sat 1:00 MY SOUL TO TAKE Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 7:00, 9:50 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, SunMon 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 4:15, 6:40, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Mon 2:15, 5:10, 8:10, 10:35 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:50, 1:30, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00, 10:40 Sat 12:50, 1:30, 3:45, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:45 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:55, 10:30
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The Karate Kid (Sony, 2010) D: Harald
Zwart, w/ Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN
It’s easy to wax on about Jackie Chan (left) and Jaden Smith.
The Secret Of Kells (Mongrel,
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2009) D: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, w/ Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNN
Oscar-nominated The Secret Of Kells is a kidfriendly animated fantasy on the book’s creation involving a brave, talented, young monk (voiced by Evan McGuire), a fairy (Christen Mooney) and an imminent Viking raid. The historical Book Of Kells is a 9th century illuminated manuscript widely considered Ireland’s greatest national treasure and the peak of the illuminator’s art. Its Gospel texts are richly adorned with Christian and historical images, animals, decorative borders, Celtic knots and more in dazzling colours. The movie takes its cue from the book and medieval art in general for its lavish and detailed play with colour and texture, perspective and proportion,
Here’s a remake that improves on the original. The uplifting and lightly comic underdog story works as well as it ever did, and the new version gains much from the presence of Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan in the leads. As an American 12-year-old transplanted to Beijing, Smith is credibly afraid when being beaten by local bullies, awkward in the puppy-love subplot and plausible as the only kung fu student of Chan’s maintenance man in the training sequences that form the heart of the movie. In this movie and last year’s Shinjuku Inciusing medieval conventions like borders and triptychs and techniques ranging from ink, watercolour, chalk, pencil and Flash animation. Every frame is beautiful. Fascinating extras look at the creative process and the chaos of putting together a five-country co-production. EXTRAS Directors and art director commentary, voice acting footage, more. Widescreen. English, French au dio. English subtitles.
The Killer Inside Me (eOne, 2010) D: Michael Winterbottom, w/ Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: N
Ads for The Killer Inside Me quote Stanley Kubrick: “The most chilling and believable story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.” Kubrick, who died 10 years before the movie was made, was talking about Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel,
dent, Chan has made a remarkable transformation from a light-comedy action star who always worked hard (sometimes too hard) to endear himself to the viewer into a full-blown dramatic actor. He works with small gestures and powerful intensity. Bustling Beijing life, the Forbidden City and training on the Great Wall and at Wudang Mountain Temple provide dandy eye candy and add some cultural context to the martial arts. The entertaining making-of doc features an original vs. remake and an explanation of how the new “wax on, wax off” was created. EXTRAS Makingof doc, Chinese lessons, music video. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
which imparts something important that the movie probably, by the nature of the medium, can’t: protagonist Lou Ford’s all-encompassing contempt for humanity, perfectly concealed behind a mask of affable stupidity. Ford (Casey Affleck) is a universally liked and respected deputy sheriff in a 1950s Texas town. A meeting with a prostitute (Jessica Alba) unleashes his latent sadism, and when he learns that she has a rich man’s son on the string, he sees an opportunity for payback. Crimes ensue. Affleck keeps his tone and movements quiet and controlled even in the most horrific moments. His performance contrasts well with Alba’s passion and the down-to-earth romanticism of Kate Hudson as Ford’s fiancée. In place of the heavy shadow, tilted camera and melodramatic score of cliché noir, director Michael Winter bottom opts for hot summer sun and a slightly too-clean look that brings a sense of wrongness to Ford’s actions. The extras are pure bait-and-switch. The package promises three making-of
docs with each of the stars. The disc delivers three almost identical threeminute ads for the movie with three or four quotes from the stars tossed in. EXTRAS Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
The Trotsky (Alliance, 2009) D: Jacob Tierney, w/ Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN A Montreal high schooler (Jay Baruchel) is convinced he’s the reincarnation of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, so he sets out to relive his hero’s life, which includes organizing a school strike and wooing 28-year-old Alexandra (Emily Hampshire) because she has the same name as Trotsky’s wife. Looney hijinks occur until a weak climax highlighted by an inspirational speech that sabotages its own youthinvolvement theme. Baruchel’s Trotsky is wonderful, an
angry stork when he’s playing at revolution, an anguished pretzel in the throes of love. Colm Feore does a splendid job as his nemesis, Principal Berkhoff, calm, controlled and just a touch mad. Director Jacob Tierney is frank about his blunders in an entertaining and informative commentary. EXTRAS Commentary, makingof doc, bloopers. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
Coming Tuesday, October 12 Jonah Hex (WB, 2010)
This comics-based western is about a back-from-thedead bounty hunter on the trail of a renegade general with a superweapon.
The Darjeeling Limited
(Criterion/eOne, 2007) Criterion releases an extraspacked edition of Wes Anderson’s pic about three brothers whose attempt at bonding on a trans-India train trip goes wildly wrong.
Splice (eOne, 2009)
Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play Dr. Frankenstein to a half-human monster unleashed by gene splicing and cloning.
Johnny Staccato (Edi Video, 1959-1960) John Cassavetes plays a jazz pianist/private eye in this highly regarded but shortlived series. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com
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Festivals planet in Focus Film Festival tiFF bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. planetinFocus.org.
wed 13-oct 17 – Environmental films and videos from 32 countries. $12, stu/srs $10, 5 pm weekday & 11 am weekend screenings $5, opening and closing night galas $22, festival pass $100. wed 13 – Opening night: In The Wake Of The Flood (2010) D: Ron Mann. Q&A w/ director and author Margaret Atwood to follow along with a live performance of songs from the film by the Echo Women’s Choir. 7 pm.
toronto hispano-amerian Film Festival
bloor cinema, 506 bloor w (bc); spanish centre, 46 hayden (sc). thaFF.com.
thu 7-oct 16 – Comedies, documentaries and
dramas from Spanish-speaking countries. $10, stu/srs $8. Tickets from torontohispano.com. thu 7 – Ave Maria D: Gustavo Pérez, Welcome To Hesperia D: Martin Edralin, and short film Cyclops. 6 pm Five Ways To Darío D: Dario Aguirre, and short films When You Run and Out Of Here. 8 pm (SC). fri 8 – The Hidden Truth D: Miguel Vassy, Exlibris D: Maria Trénor, and short films The Last Stop and The Ray And The Mermaid. 6 pm. Under The Same Sun D: Shula Erenberg, and short films Made In Japan and The Entourage. 8 pm (SC). tue 12 – The Secret In Their Eyes (2009) D: Juan José Campanella. 1 pm (BC). wed 13 – Memories Of A Dreamer (2008) D: Alisson Larrea. 7 pm (BC).
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bloor cinema, 506 bloor w (bc); innis town hall, 2 sussex (it). tpFF.ca.
thu 7-fri 8 – Films exploring Palestinian issues
and celebrating Palestinian culture. $10, stu $7. thu 7 – Jaffa, The Orange’s Clockwork (2009) D: Eyal Sivan and Nine To Five (2009) D: Daniel Gal. 7 pm. Shooting Muhammad (2009) D: Francesco Cantino and Luca Cusani, and short films Ghetto Town and Bus. 9 pm. Both at IT. fri 8 – End Of September (2010) D: Sama Alshaib, Budrus (2009) D: Julia Bacha, and short film Ken, Tov, Beseder. 7 pm (BC).
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cinemas bloor cinema
506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com
thu 7 – The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009) D: Daniel Alfredson. 4:15 pm. Get Low (2009) D: Aaron Schneider. 7 pm. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) D: Steven Spielberg. 9:10 pm. fri 8 – The Expendables (2010) D: Sylvester Stallone. 4:15 pm. Toronto Palestine Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2010) D: Edgar Wright. 9:30 pm. sat 9 – Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 3:30 pm.
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Activist Susan Belyea (left) and author Margaret Atwood do good work. Shame about the pic.
Mann doc lacks Focus
with composer Orville Stoeber for sequences featuring the book’s eco-cult. Designed to raise funds and awareness for enviro-org BirdLife International, the tour was obviously successful. The venues, including cathedrals, are invariably rammed no matter where Atwood travels, and she never fails to wow her fans. But the readings and performances that are the focus of the film range from dreadful to dull. (There’s no footage of the Toronto launch, helmed by Alisa Palmer.) Most of the performers, many of them amateurs, all of them carrying scripts, can neither act nor sing. Only the New York episode has any energy And there really is nothing a smart filmmaker like Mann can do about that – except hope viewers don’t notice. Highly unlikely. Screens Wednesday (October 13) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, followed by a Q&A with Mann and Atwood.
IN THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD (Ron Mann) Rating: NN The Planet In Focus festival opener has all the elements of a great documentary: a passionate and skilled filmmaker, a compelling literary star and a high concept that initially sounds fascinating. Using bits of animation but
mostly conventional doc techniques, Ron Mann (Go Further, Know Your Mushrooms) follows Margaret Atwood as she travels the world promoting her genius 2009 release, The Year Of The Flood. The tour included locally staged readings of some of the book’s key scenes, including choral renderings of the hymns Atwood wrote in collaboration
suN 10 – Raiders Of The Lost Ark. 2 pm. Tak-
wed 13 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. Planet In Focus Film Festival. See listing, this page. 7 pm. The Leopard (1963) D: Luchino Visconti. 7:30 pm.
Message (2009) D: Chen Kuo-Fu and Gao Qunshu, and short film Fragrant Light. 9 pm.
Fox theatre
770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca
ers (2010) D: John Luessenhop. 4:30 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 7 pm. The Expendables. 9:20 pm. MoN 11 – The Kids Are All Right (2010) D: Lisa Cholodenko. 4:30 pm. Takers. 7 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 9:10 pm. tue 12 – Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival. See listings, this page. 1 pm. The Expendables. 9:30 pm. wed 13 – Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 4 pm. Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 pm. The Birds (1963) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 9 pm.
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sat 9 – Indecisive Moments (2008) D: Larry Towell. 2 pm. Flags Of Our Fathers (2006) D: Clint Eastwood. 3 pm. Free.
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7 – The Godfather (1972) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 11:45 am, 4 & 8 pm. ñthu fri 8 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. Rashomon (1950) D: Akira Kurosawa. ñ 4:30 pm. Tokyo Story (1953) D: Yasujiro Ozu.
7 pm. Oldboy (2003) D: Park Chan-wook. 10:30 pm. sat 9 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. L’Atalante (1934) D: Jean Vigo. Noon. Ugetsu (1953) D: Kenji Mizoguchi. 2:30 pm. La Grande Illusion (1937) D: Jean Renoir. 5:15 pm. Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001) D: Francis Ford Coppola. Post-screening discussion with editor Walter Murch. 6:30 pm. Amélie (2001) D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 8:15 pm. Persona (1967) D: Ingmar Bergman. 11:30 pm. suN 10 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. Battleship Potemkin (1925) D: Sergei Eisenstein. Noon. Cinema Paradiso (1988) D: Giuseppe Tornatore. 2:30 pm. The Rules Of The Game (1939) D: Jean Renoir. 5:45 pm. La Dolce Vita (1960) D: Federico Fellini. 8:45 pm. MoN 11 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. Gone With The Wind (1939) D: Victor Fleming. Noon. The Maltese Falcon (1941) D: John Huston. 5 pm. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974) D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 8 pm. tue 12 – The Godfather. 11:45 am. Voyage In Italy (1954) D: Roberto Rossellini. 6:30 pm. Blue Velvet (1986) D: David Lynch. Isabella Rossellini will present the screenings.
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2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. Foxtheatre.ca
thu 7 – Baraka (1992) D: Ron Fricke. 7 pm. Life During Wartime (2009) D: Todd Solondz. 9 pm. fri 8 – I Am Love (2009) D: Luca Guadagnino. 7 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (2010) D: Edgar Wright. 9:15 pm. sat 9-suN 10 – Despicable Me (2010) D: Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 2 pm. I Am Love. 4 & 7 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 9:15 pm. MoN 11 – Despicable Me. 2 pm. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 4 & 9:15 pm. I Am Love. 7 pm. tue 12 – Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 7 pm. I Am Love. 9:15 pm. wed 13 – Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. 1:30 pm. The Kids Are All Right (2010) D: Lisa Cholodenko. 7 pm. Cyrus (2010) D: Jay and Mike Duplass. 9:15 pm.
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graham spry theatre
cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 Front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca
thu 7-wed 13 – Continuous screenings 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu7-fri 8 – Queen Elizabeth In 3D.
national Film board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nFb.ca/mediatheque
thu 7-wed 13 – More than 5,000 NFB films
available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. fri 8-wed 13 – Film series celebrating the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and the People’s Republic of China. Free screenings. Fri: Forever Enthralled (2008) D: Chen Kaige. 6:30 pm. Sat: Animated films: The Dream Of Jinsha (2010), and The Friends Of Kwan Ming. 1 pm. Walk To School (2009) D: Peng Jiahuang and Peng Cheng, and short film The Chinese Violin. 3 pm. Confucious (2010) D: Mei Hu, and short film Roses Sing On New Snow. 7 pm. Tue: Bodyguards And Assassins (2009) D: Teddy Chen. 7 pm. Wed: Go Lala Go! (2010) D: Xu Jinglei, and short film The Chinese Violin. 7 pm. The
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thu 7-fri 8 – Legends Of Flight. Noon & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. sat 9 – Under The Sea. 11 am. Legends Of Flight. Noon, 2, 3 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1, 4 & 8 pm. suN 10-MoN 11 – Under The Sea. 11 am. Legends Of Flight. Noon, 2 & 3 pm. Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. tue 12-wed 13 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Hubble. 1 pm.
revue cinema
400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca
thu 7 – Coco And Igor (2009) D: Jan Kounen. 7 pm. Dinner For Schumcks (2010) D: Jay Roach. 9:20 pm. fri 8 – Eat Pray Love (2010) D: Ryan Murphy. 6:45 pm. The Other Guys (2010) D: Adam McKay. 9:25 pm. sat 9 – Toy Story 3 (2010) D: Lee Unkrich. 1:45 pm. Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) D: Susanna White. 4 pm. The Other Guys. 6:45 pm. Eat Pray Love. 9 pm. suN 10-MoN 11 – Nanny McPhee Returns. 1:45 pm. Toy Story 3. 4 pm. Eat Pray Love. 6:45 pm. The Other Guys. 9:25 pm. tue 12 – Eat Pray Love. 6:45 pm. Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) D: Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. 9:25 pm. wed 13 – Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work. 7 pm. The Last Exorcism (2010) D: Daniel Stamm. 9 pm.
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608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to
thu 7 – Eat Pray Love (2010) D: Ryan Murphy. 7 pm. The Other Guys (2010) D: Adam McKay. 9:30 pm. fri 8-suN 10 – A Film Unfinished (2010) D: Yael Hersonski. 7 pm. Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) D: Ricki Stern and Anna Sundberg. 9 pm. MoN 11-tue 12 – Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work. 7 pm. A Film Unfinished. 9 pm. wed 13 – The Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund presents The Gift Of Music: Stories Of Music Therapy D: Scott Rondeau. 7 pm. Q&A to follow. $10. Tickets at ticketgateway.com. musictherapytrust.ca. Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work. 9:15 pm.
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toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com
thu 7 – The Host (2006) D: Joon-ho Bong. 7 pm. The Blob (1988) D: Chuck ñ Russell. 9:30 pm. fri 8 – Anaconda (1997) D: Luis Liosa. 7 pm. Tremors (1990) D: Ron Underwood. 9 pm. sat 9 – An American Werewolf In London (1981) D: John Landis. 7 pm. Werewolf Fever (2009) D: Brian Singleton. 9 pm. suN 10 – Pitch Black (2000) D: David Twohy. 7 pm. Blade 2 (2002) D: Guillermo del Toro. 9:15 pm. MoN 11-tue 12 – No screenings. wed 13 – The Blob. 7 pm. Tremors. 9 pm.
other Films thu 7-wed 13 –
The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 11 am to 7 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 7-wed 13 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. thu 7 – Sí-Sí CineToronto Latin Film Festival presents The Bicentennial Thursdays: Dos Hermanos (2010) D: Daniel Burman. 6:30 pm. Argentina Fútbol Club (2009) D: Juan Pablo Roubio, and Ernesto Sosa’s short films. 8:30 pm. Spanish w/ s-t. $10 per screening, stu/srs $8. York U Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview, rm 204 York Hall. glendon.yorku.ca/sisicine. HAADD (Helping Adults with Autism and Developmental Disorders) presents Just Because D: Aaron Kellett and Paula Kaston. 8:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. haadd.ca. fri 8 – Toronto Socialist Action Rebel Films presents Petropolis: Aerial Perspective On The Alberta Tar Sands (2009) D: Peter Mettler. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. 416-535-8779, socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. Reel Activism presents the Presbyterian USA film Steadfast Hope: The Palestinian Quest For A Just Peace, followed by an interfaith panel discussionl. 7 pm. Pwyc. Bloor St United Church, 300 Bloor W, upstairs. 416-966-2815. The Toronto-Danforth NDP’s Cinema Politica presents Fresh (2009) D: Ana Sofia Joanes. 7:30 pm. Discussion to follow. Free. Centre Of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org. The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu presents the documentary The Chicago Conspiracy. Discussion with director to follow. 7:30 pm. $10-$20 sliding scale (benefit for the Mapuche political prisoners on an 80-day (and counting) hunger strike in southern Chile, and with the Toronto G20 Legal Defense Fund. Birge Carnegie Reading Room, 95 Charles W. g20.torontomobilize.org. tue 12 – Fundacion Televisa and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents the Mexican Film Series: Bugambilia (1945) D: Emilio Fernández. 7 pm. Free. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. lulalounge.ca. The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee presents the documentary Unheard Voices, following seven homeless people who’ve spent years on the streets of Toronto. Panel discussion to follow. 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould, room SCC 115. tdrc.net. wed 13 – The Abilities Arts Festival: A Celebration Of Disability Arts And Culture Film Night presents The Red Chapel (2009) D: Mads Brügger, and short film Asia Trains D: Mitch St Pierre. Q&A to follow. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs/ persons with disabilities $7. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. abilitiesartsfestival.org. The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education presents the documentary Signs Out Of Time D: Donna Read, about archeologist Maria Gimbutas. Discussion to follow. Noon. Free. 252 Bloor W, rm 2-227. cwse@utoronto.ca. Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival presents a screening of 12 short films that will be featured on flights till November. 7 pm. Free. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. enroutefilm.com. 3
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90 Tyndall Ave. 1 bdrm med $839, 1 bdrm large $939. 416-536-3158. www.metcap.com
Bsmt. Bachelor apt. for rent 416-316-7410
Clean furnished one bdrm. bsmt. apt. with pots, pans,utensils, linens supplied, avail. immed. priv. ent. and laundry room., no pets/smoke., 1 year lease with ref. $900 includes util. first and last req., Paul 416-785-6243
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Dupont/Lansdowne
New small 2 bdrm. apt with ex. location, close to Yorkdale & downsview station, good schools, quiet pets ok, $900 util. incl., high spd. i-net, Call Eric 416-624-3742 email: erickerzner@hotmail.com
for rent - bach Downtown near subway, bright bach., priv. bath & kitch., $775. 416-726-5393
Dupont/Lansdowne
for rent - 1 bdrm Allen / Sheppard Newly Built 1 Bed + Den, Oversized Balcony, 9 Ft Ceiling, Close to Ammenities, Many Upgrades Incl High Quality Laminate Flooring, Stainless Steel Appliances, Granite Counters. Parking And Locker 647-404-1574 $1500
Daily, weekly, monthly (from $600) Pkg lndry SRs disc 416-921-2141
Bachelors $835. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-516-1166 Rental Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com
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87, 90, 91, 140 & 146 Jameson Bachelor $669, 1 Bdrm $789 416-536-7805 www.metcap.com
Clean large bach. on second floor., close to all amen., $725/month incl. hydro 416-469-4784
area. 1 lrg. bdrm. apt., a/c, eat-in kitch., lrg. liv. rm./din. rm., $1000 all incl., Call 416-516-0852
College / Spadina
Bathurst/Dupont 1 bdrm. bsmt. apt., parking, $730 incl. Call 416-977-3638
One Bedroom - $950. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-5161166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com
for rent - 2 bdrm KING WEST/ DUFFERIN 1 BDRM GARDEN LEVEL HRDWOOD FLOORS* CERAMICS*UPDATED* 4 PIECE BATH* AVAIL NOV. 1 $655+
TRUE LOFT CONVERSION Large 953 st ft 1 bed plus den There is a 24 hour metro located in building. The Ryerson campus is one of the fastest growing campuses in North America.
416-588-8652 Bathurst / King spacious 2 bdrm in upper duplex sep. ent., hrdwd flrs, lndry, deck. Avail Nov1st. $1200+ 905-271-3882
Downtown Condo Lakeview, 750 sq. ft, Juliet Balcony 2 bdrm. 2 bath, Hardwood, 5 stainless appliances, Ensuite Laundry, 1 parking and 1 locker,TTC At your doorstep minutes to QEW & downtown. 416-532-3111 $880
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Dupont/Lansdowne
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Sheppard/ Wilson Heights
Yonge/Eglinton 2 bdrm. furnished, $1895. and 1 bdrm. $1095 furn., both incl., hardwood, parking & close to subway, Call 416-733-0111, Email: 4rent@pathcom.com www.uptownrentals.ca
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416-588-8652 for rent - 3 bdrm+ MAIN ST./ MARKHAM Main flr. 3 bdrm. + in-law suite or loft, close to GO Train, walk to Garden Basket grocery store. $1600+ avail. immed. 905-472-6660
Affordable Artist/Film/Co-op space from 500 - 20,000 sq. ft. in classic arts building. Bloor/Lansdowne. Call 416-537-4040
Dupont/Lansdowne Studios and Workrooms $900. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-516-1166 Rental Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 standardlofts.com
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Comm. studio loft prof. space/Envir. from 800 to 4000 sq ft, high ceilings, 2 pc bathroom, bright, hrdwd flrs, combine units, office, photo, computer, internet design from $900 a month. 416-654-2915 or 416-630-2116
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Spectacular country living in a 1 year new Confederation Log Home less than 2 hours north of Toronto on the edge of the Haliburton Highlands. Enjoy the smell of pine as you enter this immaculate home. Located on a quiet dead end road adjacent to Somerville County Forest and just minutes away from Kinmount, Minden, Bobcaygeon and Fenelon Falls. All day sun can be enjoyed from 3 decks and the gorgeous sunroom. Attached 2 car garage. Hi-speed internet. Municipally maintained road and school bus route. Minutes from public boat launch on Crystal Lake and Burnt river swimming and canoeing. ATV and snowmobile trails nearby. Floor plans and Virtual Tour available. Why go through the stress, the mess and delays in building new when you could move in and enjoy this beautiful home and property by Xmas? Directions: From Fenelon Falls go 30 kms north on County Rd #121 to Somerville 9th Concession (opposite Crystal Lake Rd) & go west to # 264.
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Queen/Bathurst Office space, 100sqft. to 8000sqft., whole bldg & pkg avail 416-390-4030
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Queen Street West Prime professional office space for lease 1 block west of university ave. 4th floor with 11 offices avail. aranging from $750- $850 per office with elevator access call: 647-891-4224
Rm for rent, own bthrm, sh kitch, wlk to sbwy, prkg/cbl/internet Female only! Students OK Immed. 647-808-7788 or 416-535-6622
Don Mills/ Eglington Lrg. furn. condon room. avail. immed. with nice view., student, buisness person or senior welcome, 2 blocks from bus stop, no smoke. $500 incl. hyrdro & cable, prkng. extra. Call 416-963-8693
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My husband has a cuckold fetish,
which we have indulged through two drunken threesomes with two of his best friends. The first time, he really had to talk me into it. The second time, he steered me in that direction and I took the wheel. I now have had sex alone with Friend Two a few times. My husband was okay with it at first, but now he wants it to stop. I like the control he gave me, and now I don’t want to be told no. He opened the door, and I don’t want to close it. What do I do?
Not Ready To Stop
You close the damn door and you let your husband see that it’s closed. You tell him that you’d rather the door were still open, NRTS, but you assure him that it’s closed for now and will remain closed until he’s ready to open it again. That’s pretty much the only way you can have your husband and, at some point down the road, “the control he gave you,” too, i.e., his consent to fuck around with other men. Then you’ll be able to open the door to a threesome again, this time without a booze assist. Although it might take him longer to get comfortable with the idea of you seeing other guys alone, which seems to have triggered the wrong kind of anxiety, i.e., anxiety of the non-boner-inducing variety, which is not what emotionally safe and sane cuckolding is all about. Trust me, NRTS, your husband is still into cuckolding. That’s not a kink that evaporates after one or two drunken threesomes. He’s probably just a little spooked by how quickly you progressed from having to be talked into it to having to be talked out of it. A time-out will give him a chance to see – and give you a chance to demonstrate – that he is still your
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first priority, emotionally and sexually. Which he still is, right?
i aM a 23- year- old lesbian with a
beautiful girlfriend whom I met a month ago. Here’s the problem: she screams so loudly throughout sex that I’m concerned for my roommate and other people who live in our building, as well as the entire neighbourhood. I would know how to handle this situation if she were completely mute during sex – draw her out, make it into a game, etc – but I’m scared of telling her she’s too loud, because I don’t want to hamper her enjoyment. I even tried to make this into a role-play game where we would pretend we needed to be silent for some reason, but nothing makes a difference. How can I approach this without making her self-conscious? Lesbian Over Ungodly Din You don’t want to make her self-conscious, and that’s a lovely impulse, but she’s making you self-conscious, LOUD, and you’re just going to have to risk making her self-conscious. Because we’re not talking about a few loud yelps or screams at the climax(es) of the act(s), which is something a roommate or a neighbour can reasonably be expected to endure, but caterwauling throughout. That’s not okay. Tell the new girlfriend that the yelling wouldn’t be a problem if you lived on 200 acres of land, but you live in an apartment building, in the city, and you have a roommate and neighbours. Under those circumstances, you have a right to ask her to stifle herself. And if she reacts badly, or if she sulks like a child, then she’s obviously not mature enough to waste your valuable time (and tongue) on.
ory of the T-shirt on Wikipedia, there’s a picture of you? Are you aware of this? Jewdizzle I invented the T-shirt, and every time one is sold – even one with rapper 50 Cent on it – I get a royalty check. That’s why I don’t have to have a real job and can devote my time to answering questions from cuckolds’ wives, lesbians and people interested enough in the history of the T-shirt to read the Wikipedia entry about it.
i want to thank you for the it Gets
Better Project. My son is 14 and a sophomore in high school in rural Kentucky. He isn’t athletic. He isn’t religious. He isn’t in ROTC. He is constantly being called “gay” or “faggot,” oftentimes by the people he thought were his friends. He tries to ignore them, but it doesn’t stop them. He tries to debate them, but it doesn’t stop them. So far, it hasn’t gone beyond name-calling, but I worry. I showed him your site the day it went live. He sat down and watched the video that you and Terry put up. Since then, I have seen him checking the site out on his own. I don’t know if he is gay, but I do know that your message has touched him. He does confide that four years is still a long time to wait for things to get better. I think that seeing so many other people say the same thing holds much more weight than having his mother tell him. So thank you again for sharing. A Concerned Mom
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