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i was in elliot lake a couple of weeks ago and met the mayor, who asked me about the Toronto mayoral race. What are Torontonians thinking? he wanted to know. What indeed?

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However, in real practical ways, his political endorsements of the past in mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone and city council candidate Kevin Beaulieu (NOW, September 23-29) tell a different story.

He’s almost living in the past, when minorities produced the issues and reps of status quo came onstage to “eloquently” speak on behalf of the so-called voiceless.

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Self-employed sex workers do not benefit from legal obstacles to their chosen field. It remains illegal for pimps to force women into the sex trade against their will.

Slavery has not been legalized, just sex work. I think that most of the readers of NOW already understand this, judging by the poll results, indicating a 68 per cent approval of the legalization of prostitution.

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Mesley’s on the wrong side of this issue if she’s playing the decency card. The fact is that a clean and honest sex industry benefits some women.

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They are pussies on this issue.

Ando Douglas Toronto

War resisters fight for peace

my friends phil mcdowell and jamine Aponte are U.S. war resisters.

They’ve been living in Toronto for the past four years and face deportation.

They love Canada and its people.

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Maybe, if Miller stays involved.

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Not-so-strange coincidences October 12, 1492 – the day Christopher Columbus came dancing across the water to “discover” the Americas.

October 12, 2010 – Community Solidarity Network holds national day of action in support of climate justice for “centuries of domination of the Earth’s resources and indigenous peoples in pursuit of growth and profit.”

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Strategic stink I’d rather vote with conviction than feed “anyone but” cynicism By MICHAEL HOLLETT the current distraction caused by the ongoing strategic voting discussion that has infected Toronto’s mayoralty race seems based on the absurd idea that there is a science to elections and that the process has more to do with lab coats than lawn signs.

The electoral alchemists who push strategic voting have helped create a cynical atmosphere around this election, a race that’s been largely devoid of ideas and inspiration, hardly fertile ground to engage an at best disinterested, at worst cynical electorate.

Since barely more than 30 per cent of eligible voters choose to mark an X on municipal ballots, I’m certain more citizens would make the effort if they felt they were voting for something

instead of against something else.

“Hey, everybody, let’s hold our noses and vote for the best of a bad lot” is hardly the oratorical excellence that has inspired people to give a shit in elections throughout the ages.

When ex-mayor John Sewell was asked what it meant when he agreed to be on a post-election panel for mayoralty hopeful George Smitherman, his tepid response was, “If that means I’m endorsing him because of it, so be it. That’s fine with me.”

Really? That’s the best we can do?

We’re going to engage young people and non-traditional voters with this expedient message?

Wouldn’t you rather vote for something you believed in? That’s what has ignited unlikely front-runner Rob

Ford’s crazy campaign. His folks believe in screwing everybody else and not paying taxes, and tough luck for the little guy or the disadvantaged.

Sadly, this “positive” message has more resonance than the compromise collusion that is strategic voting.

Supposedly left-wing councillor Joe Mihevc has abandoned his natural ally Joe Pantalone in the name of strategic voting. While admitting Pantalone has “the skills, smarts and experience to be a fine mayor,” he’s reluctantly calling for a Smitherman vote to elect “a good mayor” rather than Ford. Is this what people had in mind when they fought for democracy?

Americans surprised themselves by electing Barack Obama, Toronto

did the same by electing David Miller, and a tiny, perfect progressive named David Crombie once stole Toronto’s mayoralty. Hell, even Sewell did it. So why are so many now prepared to sell a diminished vision of our city and what it can be?

Once we drag out the logarithms, spreadsheets and poll numbers, a case can be made that a strategic vote for Smitherman is actually more likely to give us a city we’d be ashamed of than would a vote for Ford. Despite claims by the mainstream press, if Ford were to win, he’d be very unlikely to have council support, so getting his slashand-burn policies through would be a daily struggle.

Smitherman’s huge-tent, “I will be what you want me to be” approach is

Not the same old song and dance.

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more likely to be bought by a new council, meaning his own slash-andburn approach might actually become city policy and the recent great strides Toronto has made would be dismantled and destroyed.

To ignite the strategic voters’ Bunsen burner for a minute to warm this electoral petri dish, I suggest that we might be doing more strategic harm electing Smitherman than Ford.

As the federal and provincial governments continue to ignore this city and hoard their 90 per cent share of tax dollars raised in Toronto, the next term will be tough for any elected representative. If Ford were to win, the folly of his policies and crazy promises would be quickly exposed. That means the shit would hit the fan in plenty of time to pre-empt a new right revolt led by provincial Conservative Tom “I Like Mike Harris” Hudak when the Ontario vote happens in about 18 months.

Voting “strategically” for Ford might ensure that Ontario wouldn’t elect another Harris-style Tory government. A vote for Smitherman would be more fuel on the fire to discredit Liberals and hasten, perhaps guarantee, a horrible provincial Tory backlash win.

But even thinking this way makes me want to take a shower. I’m committed to marking my X beside a candidate I believe in, not one I can merely put up with. And you can be sure that if Smitherman is elected, he will interpret the result as a mandate, not as lukewarm support. He will operate as if every vote were enthusiastically given, not reluctantly, strategically offered. And if you look at his not-so-different-from-Ford approach, that’s something to fear.

Of course I want the candidates I vote for to win. But even if they don’t, I want my vote – and my support – to stand with a candidate and policies I believe in.

Ideally we all use our votes to elect those we believe in. But at the very least, we use our votes to stand and be counted, and to make sure, even if the wrong candidate is chosen, the winner knows there’s a significant group out there with a different vision of the city.

By casting your vote with confidence and conviction, not compromise and collusion, we might just get a city government and a Toronto we can be proud of. It’s happened before.

Why not again?

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“Is the city really that broke? Of the six largest governments in Canada, we’re the only one without a deficit [and] have the second-lowest per capita debt. “

“My view is always vote with your principles and your heart. Would you compromise with anything else in your life? This election is about the soul of the city.”

The difference between him and George Smitherman I’m not arguing for a tax freeze. [Smitherman’s] talking about cutting 1,300 jobs and $365 million from the budget in the first year. That will mean cuts to libraries, parks, the arts, priority neighbourhoods and seniors. The difference between him and Rob Ford is one of degree.

their baby. I told them at their editorial board meeting, but they didn’t print it.

Biggest challenge on the campaign trail Trying to separate the reality from the perception of City Hall. The reality is that City Hall has worked.

The perception is that it has not.

There’s a segment of the Toronto population that, even if David Miller walked on water, they would say he can’t swim.

Is the city really that broke? Of the six largest governments in Canada, we’re the only one without a deficit [and] have the second-lowest per capita debt.

What cuts to funding for priority neighbourhoods will mean for the inner burbs They are the most racialized areas of our city. In Scarborough, 67 per cent of residents are visible minorities. They live there primarily because that’s where housing is affordable. But it’s also where transit is the worst and where the recession has hit the hardest, primarily in manufacturing.

I’m the only candidate for mayor who’s saying unequivocally that funding for the city’s priority neighbourhoods (which runs out in 2010) needs to be continued and expanded.

The Rob Ford “phenomenon” He’s a creation of the Toronto Star. When they joined the Sun and started piling on criticism of City Hall, they created a legitimacy for Ford. He’s

On strategic voting My view is always vote with your principles and your heart. Would you compromise with anything else in your life? This election is about the soul of the city. There’s too much at stake. Either we continue the city-building or we simply degrade ourselves by cutting here or there because we can’t afford to be that good – mediocrity is the only thing we can afford.

Police handling of G20 protests The truth hasn’t completely come out in some ways. Who was in charge? I’d like to believe that if Chief William Blair were in control, none of this would have happened, because I remember very well his [positive] handling of the Tamil protests.

On the St. Clair streetcar right-of-way backlash If I had to do it over again, I’d vote against it because it’s become the poster child for government screwups. People are judging the rest of Transit City by that even though it’s a completely different concept.

People say governments can’t make mistakes. Businesses make mistakes. My god, they brought the world to collapse. But if governments make mistakes, they are either incompetent, fools or just corrupt.

His reversal on the vehicle registration tax (which he’s now promising to reduce) One of the problems we’ve had in democracy is the disconnect that’s artificially developed between City Hall and the people of Toronto. The vehicle registration tax is strongly resented. It’s hated. It af-

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fects working-class people who don’t have transit options. If I want to reconnect to those people and give them a reason to come back to a more progressive view of city-building, then I have to meet them halfway on this.

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On his connection to the queer community The city has been a leader in terms of municipal involvement in queer issues.

Our public health initiatives have been incredible. We gave spousal benefits when our lawyers told us it was illegal to do so. I was one of the people who voted

to do that. My record is as good as it gets. Ask Kyle Rae. I’ve been there.

His support in the burbs The Italian and Portuguese communities, where I’ve been a presence for 30 years, are not downtown communities any more. I do better with people who were not born in Canada, which is 50 per cent of the city’s population. They have an inclination toward me, and often it’s not captured in the polls, especially online ones.

Proudest achievement My environmental initiatives. Gord Perks is fond of saying that every city environmental initiative in the last 10 years has my fingerprints on it. I take that as a compliment. I’ve never tried to make an inventory of [my accomplishments]. I’ve just tried to make the system run.

David Miller’s strong endorsement He sent a clear signal that there’s only one choice if you believe in building and not diminishing the city, and that’s Joe Pantalone.

On labour’s slow support They came to the realization that there’s too much at stake. And they were not going to let it evolve without their participation.

Priorities when (if) he becomes mayor Green jobs. The Toronto Stock Exchange has more green companies listed than any other exchange in the world. Toronto has been a catalyst for that.

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Let’s leave aside that this is selfserving and ignore how disappointing Smitherman’s campaign is if he has to rely on not being Rob Ford to get your vote.

While Smitherman and a legion of pundits want the strategic voting argument to be the most important factor in this campaign, the fact is, it isn’t.

Here’s the truth: a vote for Ford is a vote for an attack on public services; a vote for Smitherman is also a vote for an attack on public services; a vote for Pantalone is the only vote for sustained and improved public services.

The two most telling election promises Smitherman has made are to freeze taxes next year and to shed public service jobs by only hiring two new people for every three who retire.

We all know Ford’s “gravy train” doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.

There simply aren’t enough pennies to be pinched to support his sweeping tax cuts.

What gets less attention is the sleight of hand Smitherman uses to “balance” his budget plan. His tax freeze principally rests on blowing surpluses generated by Mayor David Miller and finding $157 million in “smarter procurement.”

Does smarter procurement mean he’s going to move the price of diesel fuel for TTC buses down by thinking

hard? Or has he made a shrewd guess about the 2011 price of asphalt for road repairs? I doubt it. Less money coming in will mean fewer services – Smitherman won’t tell us which ones.

On top of that implied cut, he wants to further shrink the public service by not hiring workers for some of the vacancies created by retirements. This is very revealing. He’s already acknowledged that emergency services can’t be touched.

Nor can he touch other staff-driven services: two drivers can’t manage three TTC buses. Over 1,000 jobs will vanish in such municipal services as libraries, community centres, parks, land use planning and bylaw enforcement. Fewer people delivering these services means you and I get less.

Toronto works because neighbourhood parks, libraries, community centres and beautification projects enrich our lives and bring us together. Neither Smitherman nor Ford understand this simple truth.

There is nothing strategic about choosing one brand of wrongheadedness over another. Besides, city building is never accomplished by tactical considerations in an electoral season. It’s accomplished by investing in the city and in each other.

Joe Pantalone is the only person running on that platform. If you want to vote for a smaller, meaner city, I leave it to you to pick your own poison.

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With his civil service background, he’s extremely well versed in the finer details and knows well that polœcontinued from page 22 itics and policy don’t always go hand able to hold Howard Moscoe accountin hand. able for all the damage he did in the Massive infrastructure projects community,” says Davis, who’s now are on the horizon for Ward 15, with the closest thing to an incumbent two dominating the political agenda: the ward has. the Lawrence Heights revitalization “Moscoe supported the car tax, and the Eglinton LRT. the garbage tax, the land transfer The Transit City line would touch tax, most of the 40 per cent tax in- 16 wards, so it’s not just a local issue, creases that occurred over the last but in an area that includes sections nine years,” says Davis, a tax foe who of Allen, Lawrence and Eglinton and nevertheless believes the city is on a borders on the 401, transportation “collision course with financial ruin.” (or “traffic,” depending on your perPerhaps not surprisingly, Moscoe spective) is a major issue. has endorsed Colle. An executive at The LRT line itself hasn’t figured an energy and infrastructure de- much in the campaign, however. All the major contenders velopment firm, back the plan in princiColle is hard to pin 401 ple – particularly since down on the politthe section that runs ical spectrum. He’s through Ward 15 will be a liberal but has a underground, which Mel Lastman enWard 15: means there’s little fear dorsement in his Eglinton-Lawrence of a St. Clair-style depocket. And he’s bacle here. got the nod from Lib MPP Greg Says Colle, “I remind Briar Hill a lot of people who say, Sorbara and lefty ‘We want subways, not Joe Mihevc.

Rogers streetcars,’ that this will Colle wants betbe as fast as the Bloor/ ter access on and Danforth line. It’s underoff the Allen Road, ground, and the station a daily $10 TTC family pass, a satellite police station spacing is the same, so really we’re in Lawrence Heights and – this is a getting a subway.” hot one for sure – a publicly elected Lawrence Heights is another story TTC chair. altogether.

He’s also running on a “families “The biggest issue is the Lawrence first” platform. Thankfully it’s not in Heights development,” says Davis that insipid “family values” kind of unequivocally of the proposal passed way. He explains it’s more about by council in July to replicate the Refamilies of all stripes being able to af- gent Park model by converting the ford to live in the city. “I want to keep public housing project into a mixedpeople in our neighbourhoods, as op- income community. posed to forcing people out to the “City council is going to privatize suburbs,” he explains. wholesale a big chunk of publicly Colle and Davis are without ques- owned land and add the equivalent tion the leaders in the race, but canof 20,000 residents. didate Tony Evangelista, a retired “There’s not enough road capacity city planner, deserves a look as well. to accommodate the 42,000 car trips that will emanate from the development, and there are high schools that are operating at 200 per cent,” says Davis. “This is checkbook-planning at its worst.

“If I’m elected the plan is dead.”

On the revitalization, Evangelista says, “It needs to be done, should be done and will be done. The question is how.” He is also concerned about the increased density – the number of units would increase to 7,500 from the existing 1,200.

Colle, too, defends the plan. “They all want to talk about traffic or density, but those are issues that we should and can work through.

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Moody politics Right-wing pulls shock doctrine By WAYNE ROBERTS i still can’t get used to the fact that modern conservatives are frequently outraged by the way things are going and venomous about the need for abrupt changes, while radicals are relatively calm about the ways things get done and are moderately looking for more of the same, maybe a bit sooner than later.

Conservatives like to use social crises, as Naomi Klein says, as a way of imposing what they insist is a necessary and forceful right turn. But if a real emergency does not exist – as in Toronto, which always gets top ranking for economic, social and governance success – shock doc rhetoric can still stir conservative blood.

I consider this sea change in political moodiness during an evening at old Metro Hall, Wednesday, October 6, as one of two speakers addressing about 60 ethnically diverse city volunteers.

The evening fulfills two of 20 hours of required training in which volunteers donate 40 hours of time at some 175 yearly events that city staff at Live Green Toronto organize to promote environmentally sustainable lifestyles.

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Outraged conservatives can demand respect for taxpayers, but these volunteers, saving the city some $80,000 in wage expenditures, boost city budgets while respecting the city as a living organism in its own right, the municipal expression of Gaia.

City planner Janet Lowe starts the evening at 6:30 pm with a PowerPoint presentation about the city’s walking strategy, designed to “bring Torontonians to their feet.” Walking isn’t the red flag for drivers that cycling is, so it doesn’t provoke angry political demands to banish walking lanes, aka sidewalks.

Roads take up about a third of city space, one and a half times more than parks, Lowe tells the group, and cars are involved in 55,000 collisions a year. As someone who honours tax-

payers and still harbours old-fashioned anger from the olden days, I’m tempted to raise my hand and mention that simple repairs to T.O.’s 7,200 kilometres of road cost the city over $100 million a year. It’s just one small portion of the taxpayer subsidy of cars, often paid by people who can’t afford a car but who lack the righteousness of those who feel they carry all the burden and receive none of the benefits of taxes.

In contrast to my inner thoughts, Lowe’s talk is persistently positive.

She explains city efforts to instigate “complete streets” – deliberately planned on behalf of all street users.

To create such thoroughfares, Lowe says the city needs volunteers who can count pedestrian and car traffic and interview residents so that planning takes all factors into account.

When she finishes 40 minutes later, the room comes alive with questions and comments, often delivered in thick accents that speak to the city’s emerging style of engaged interculturalism – such a rarity and so in need of the same respect as taxpayers, who reap the multiple social and economic rewards of a city energized by volunteering newcomers.

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call a halt to questions so that the second speaker (me) can finish before the two-hour class ends. After a brief break, I speak about food and why it’s a crucial enviro issue, giving the audience talking points on why Torontonians should feel proud of the leadership our city has taken internationally.

We’re host to one of the world’s first food policy councils, food charters, food and hunger action plans and food strategies, for example.

I wrap up and the room erupts in questions, challenges and comments.

Two volunteers who’d held food and agricultural jobs in their country of birth enquire privately

Outraged conservatives can demand respect for taxpayers, but projects like the city’s Live Green repay residents many times over.

about the possibilities of starting businesses along those lines.

I realize this is a room animated by people desiring to give back to the city, but also an incubator overflowing with the social capital that can be tapped to nurture a creative class in the food sector. And I think about how interculturalism and engagement can flourish when government looks beyond conventional municipal issues like parks, potholes and police.

One of the first Toronto writers to urge us to respect our place, Eric Arthur, called his 1963 book Toronto, No Mean City. When the best a booster can do is muster up “no mean city,” that town’s in drastic need of self-respect – a problem that remains acute some 60 years later.

If that city’s promise is respected, taxpayers will be repaid many times over, as social dialogue, intercultural learning, enriched job opportunities, improved air quality, reduced traffic congestion and public participation come into their own, dwarfing anything that penny-wise, pound-foolish budgeting could ever accomplish. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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Ana Bailão’s front-pager in Portuguese mag raises eyebrows By ROGER BROOK that a portuguese candidate would find herself trumpeted by a Portuguese publication is hardly news.

Still, the appearance of Ward 18 hopeful Ana Bailão on the cover of Senso Magazine is certainly raising some questions.

Heavily Portuguese areas north of Queen and around Bloor were recently treated to a free delivery of Senso with a smiling Bailão gracing the cover.

Inside was a five-page interview that included her rags-to-riches story framed by images of election signs and a flyer that read “On October 25th Elect....”

Senso has reason to parade the campaign literature – members of its staff are responsible for designing Bailão’s signs, flyers and website through a company known as Creative7 (C7).

Bailão, who is in a dramatic showdown with Adam Giambrone’s former EA Kevin Beaulieu, assures me that “those are two completely different companies.”

All right, but both are located in unit 9, 300 New Toronto, and Senso’s news editor and creative director,

Ward 18 candidate says there’s nothing untoward about her connection to Portuguese publication.

Ana Fernandes-Iria and husband Jamie Iria, are also C7’s manager and CEO. The line between Senso and Bailão is blurry. Senso’s website (ptvirtual. com) features an article on Bailão’s commitment to increased parking.

No author, just a note to contact Paula Oliveira for more information.

When I contact Oliveira, a Bailão volunteer, she says she “translated the article for her.”

“Her” meaning Ana Bailão?

“She did [the article] herself.”

Interesting. Sure enough, the English version is on Bailão’s website with a note to call Anthony Irving for information.

When Irving isn’t knocking on doors for Bailão, he’s a senior consultant for Devon Group, a government relations (lobbying) firm whose successes and clients range from Toronto’s Pan Am Game bid to the Building, Industry and Land Development Association (BILD).

Asked to explain the relationship between Senso and Creative7, Jamie Iria says he doesn’t do interviews.

“I’m just a designer. I don’t get involved in politics.”

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editor-in-chief, Jack Prazeres, a coowner of Trican Masonry and a director at the Masonry Contractors’ Association of Toronto. Although he’s donated to multiple campaigns, including Bailão’s, he also declines to speak, saying, “I don’t get involved in politics.”

Bailão raised over $70,000 in her last (2003) campaign, mainly from the development and construction industry. We know this because doc film maker Scott Dobson did the research and showed it around.

Dozens of ads for construction-related corporations and unions litter Senso’s pages. Companies and unions can no longer shower their favourite Toronto candidate with cash because city council voted to ban that practice last December.

Bailão is certainly not new to the workings of business; she served as vice-president of Banco Comercial Português and is currently on leave from her gig as VP of marketing and director of strategic business development at GlobeStar Systems.

But she denies that there’s anything untoward in the free giveaways of Senso and her relationship with C7. The magazine, she tells me, has “always been distributed in the community in bakeries” and shops, but delivery to households “has always been their intention.”

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Their lids are reusable (unlike 99 per cent of canning lids used today, adding to their green value) and are made with polyoxymethylene copolymer, aka acetal copolymer. They don’t contain BPA or phthalates and pass all food contact standards (reusablecanninglids.com).

High-profile canners like Marisa at foodinjars.com are big fans of the product for both water-boiling and pressure-canning methods. They note that to get a good seal you must, after putting the lid and band on, unscrew the band a quarter of an inch for air to escape during processing, then give the lid a good tightening when you remove the jar from the canner.

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comedy and film with performers including Paul Anka and Buffy Sainte-Marie. Various venues. Free at Yonge-Dundas Square, some ticketed events. cwofest.ca.

Oct 14 to 17

the amazing kreskin The mentalist per-

forms. 8 pm. $39.50. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. roythomson.com.

Cuba’s glObal health sOlidarity Toronto Forum on Cuba lecture. 6:30-8 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W. j.kopelow@utoronto. ca.

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tOriCizatiOn Lecture by curator Carolyn Tennant. 5-7 pm. Free. Vtape, 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317.

Ward 19 all-Candidates meeting 7 pm. Free.

College Street United Church, 452. College. hurdb@lao.on.ca.

West dOn lands Community update meeting. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-214-1344.

Whats OrganiC abOut “OrganiC”? Film screening and talk. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

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art in an autO shOP (Wellspring Cancer Sup-

port Fdn) Art show and sale (today 7-9:30 pm), auto shop open house (tomorrow 10 am-4 pm) and party (tomorrow 7-10 pm). Free. Auto Eurotic, 199 Laird. 416-421-2886.

Playdate 2010 (SickKids Therapeutic Clown Program) Music, dancing, food, clowns and more. 6 pm-2 am. $50. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. playdate2010.com.

imaginenative film & media arts festival Works by indigenous filmmakers and

media artists including Zacharias Kunuks’s doc on climate change. $7; opening night $12, stu/srs $10; passes $40-$100. Various cinemas. 416-585-2333, imaginenative.org.

Oct 20 to 24 internatiOnal festival Of authOrs Readings, panels, interviews, book signings and more with authors including Michael Cunningham, Charlotte Gray, Priscila Uppal, Jane Urquhart, Charles Burns, Dave Bidini, and Michael Winter. $18-$25, stu free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 973-4000, readings.org.

Oct 20 to 30 mOving image film festival Festival focusing on genres of film and experimentation, with screenings and workshops. $10.

Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor W), Giggleshorts/ Annex Live Theatre (296 Brunswick). miffest.com.

Oct 15 to 17 maCedOnian film festival Classic and Karin Ruehrdanz. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. mfa Launch party for art projects by Sheila Heti, Margaux Williamson and Ryan Kamstra.

8 pm. Free. Stone’s Place, 1255 Queen W. theproductionfront@gmail.com.

nOrth tOrOntO all-Candidates meeting

Forum on environmental issues in North Toronto. 7-9 pm. Free. North Toronto Community Centre, 200 Eglinton W. torontogreen. ca.

Our Water, Our lives Water rally to urge our government to better manage, conserve and protect our water resources. Noon. Free.

Queen’s Park. joshg@earthroots.org.

modern Macedonian films, animations and documentaries (films in English or w/ subtitles). $10. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 647-2624622, macedonianfilmfestival.com.

Oct 16 and 17 X avant neW musiC festival v Music and dance performances based on the theme “What is real?” with Halo Ballet, Mission of Burma, Myra Davies and others. Free-$25.

Various venues. musicgallery.org.

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ability arts and culture featuring visual art, music, film and more. Various venues and prices (some free). abilitiesartsfestival.org.

To Oct 24 glObal Cabaret festival Songs and stories from performers including Melanie Doane, Carole Pope, Don Francks and Lorraine Segato.

PhOtOgraPhing the tar sands Presentation

by photographer Louis Helbig. 8 pm. $10. 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com.

POst CarbOn tOrOntO Talk on building a passivhaus. 7-9:30 pm. Free. U of T Health Sciences Bldg, 155 College. paultrueman@ hotmail.com.

the building Of tOrOntO’s yOnge street subWay Presentation by historian Jay Young.

7 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. 416-393-7703. ruCkus Anti-racism, anti-oppression conference for youth of colour. Free. Accolade W Bldg, York U, 4700 Keele. Pre-register youthactionnetwork.org.

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Oct 14 to 18 estdOCs Estonian documentary film festival. $10-$20. Various cinemas. 647-7236632, estdocs.com.

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firefighters. 6-9 pm. $30. XS Nightclub, 261 Richmond W. torontoffc.ca.

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art hOuse sessiOn (Cup for Education) Performance by the Balconies, photography by Zach Slootsky and more. 7 pm. $5. Mascot, 1267 Queen W. info@firstdropcanada.org. blank-fest (Toronto’s Serving Charity) Performances by Bagdaddios, Playdeaf and others. 7 pm-2 am. Donation of blanket or winter clothing. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina.

416-777-1777. draWn tO develOP gala (Street Kids Int’l) Party and auction of original works by Canadian photographers. $75. Distillery Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill. drawntodevelop.com.

OutWOrds 2010 (OUTwords) A queer/spectrum community arts exhibition, tour and talk. Today and tomorrow. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. sOngs fOr the sOil (Canadian Organic Growers) Concert with the David Henman Band and others. 7:30 pm. $20. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-466-4420. stars Of the 21st Century (Koffler Centre of the Arts) Members of the National Ballet of Portugal, Berlin Opera Ballet and others perform. 6 pm. $40-$200. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. kofflerarts.org.

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Various prices. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. globalcabaret.ca.

To Oct 30 Planet in fOCus International environmental film and video festival. $5-$12, stu/ srs $10. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416968-3456, planetinfocus.org.

To Oct 17 sOundPlay festival New media and sound art festival with performances, installations, workshops, screenings and more. $10-$15, pass $20-$25, installations pwyc, some events free. Wychwood Barns (601 Christie), Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen W). soundplay.ca.

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anti-aging shOW Health and fitness semin-

ars, cosmetics, exhibits and more. Today noon7 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Oct 17, 11 am-6 pm. $12, pass $20. International Centre, 6900 Airport. theantiagingshow.com. art/inter/faCe Conference on connecting through critical and creative action. To Oct 17. $210, stu $85. OCAD, 100 McCaul. Pre-register dramafocus.ca/osea10/index.html. blOOd COltan Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779.

COmPeting nOtiOns Of feminism in islam

tOrOntO hisPanO-ameriCan film festival

Features and documentaries from Spanishspeaking countries. $10, stu/srs $8. Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W. 416-897-2537, thaff. com.

Lecture by author Farzana Hassan. 7 pm. $5, stu $4. Centre for Inqury Ont, 216 Beverley. cfiontario.org. east bayfrOnt shOres Urban heritage walk.

6 pm. Free. Front and Jarvis. 416-593-2656.

ski, snOWbOard & travel shOW Equipment,

mOdernism in kyiv: Jubilant eXPerimentatiOn Multimedia launch. 4 pm. Free. St Mi-

fashion, resorts and more. Today 3-10 pm; tomorrow noon-10 pm; Oct 16, 10 am-9 pm; Oct 17, 10 am-6 pm. $17, srs/yth $12, under 6 free.

Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. torontoskishow.ca. tOrOntO bOOk aWards Awards presentation hosted by CBC Radio’s Matt Galloway. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416395-5577.

tOrOntO-danfOrth all-Candidates meet-

ing Ward 29 debate. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Royal Canadian Legion, 1083 Pape. 416-645-6000 ext 4001. videO’s PreservatiOn, genealOgy and his-

chael’s College Alumni Hall, rm 400, 121 St Joseph. 416-978-2239 ext 248.

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When even the Nobel Peace Prize winner can remain imprisoned in his home country, it’s obvious that not all citizens of the world have the freedom to express themselves. That’s why PEN, now chaired by Canada’s John Ralston Saul, is such an important organization, fighting to maintain writers’ right to resist tyranny around the world. As usual, the International Festival of Authors opens with the annual PEN benefit, this year featuring Pulitzer Prize winner and former sports writer Richard Ford in conversation with Eleanor Wachtel. Wednesday (October 20). 8 Arts Network) Fundraising party to open a gallery for self-identifying women in the west end. Noon-4 pm, brunch 10 am. Free, brunch $12. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. thatswomenswork.com.

Oasis ZOO Run (Toronto Zoo) 10K run and 5K run/walk. Pre-register canadarunningseries. com/zoorun.

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adam’s simple RatiOn Seminar with textile artist Stephen Schofield. 10 am-3 pm. $65, stu $40. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre.

Pre-register 416-599-5321.

Café sCientifique Discussion on whether digital technologies really help us to stay informed. 4 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. cafescientifique.ca. expeRimental studiOs Masterclass with video artist Peer Bode. 2-5 pm. $30. Vtape, 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317. rfall COlOuRs Guided fall colour walks, birds of prey demos and more. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission.

Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

HOw dOes a peaCeful, libeRal-tHinking muslim live tHeiR faitH in a sOmetimes HOstile seCulaR sOCiety Humanist Assoc talk.

1:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 3-311, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca.

HunteR and COOk launCH Interviews with Alan Michael, Toneta and others, reviews, projects and more. 7-11 pm. Free. Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen W. hunterandcook. com. tHe impeRfeCt RevOlutiOn Ont Black History Soc meeting and talk by author Gordon S Barker. 1-5 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. 416-867-9420. rmap family satuRday Make your own animal out of clay. 2 pm. Free. Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane. 416-395-5950. muRRay laufeR The artist signs copies of his book From Eight To Eighty. 1-3 pm. Free. AGO Shop, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago.net. rOne wORld, One sky Presentations, films and more on the history of astronomy. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

pm, $50, at the Fleck (207 Queens Quay West). readings.org.

Richard Ford headlines the PEN benefit on October 20.

Rhythms for pantalone

Help boost the positive city vision of Joe Pantalone by heading to the Lula Lounge tonight (Thursday, October 14) to hear Musicians For Mayor Joe. Hosted by Jazz.FM’s Jaymz Bee and NOW columnist Andrew Cash, the event also features Michael Occhipinti, Yvette Tollar, Louis Simao and many more, plus special surprise guests. 8 to 11 pm.

1585 Dundas West. Free, donations accepted. mayorjoe.ca.

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BMX Jam contest, indoor street course, bike trials contest and more. 10 am-5 pm. $5. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. bicycleshowtoronto.com. rtRaditiOnal awaReness gatHeRing Moccasin-making workshops, drumming, dancing and food. 9 am-9 pm. $20, yth $5. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087. unlOCktHeCity Survivor-meets-AmazingRace with an urban twist. 9:30 am-1 pm. $35.

Bickford Centre, 777 Bloor W. 416-427-7227. wHat is yOuR aRt wORtH? Lecture by European art critic Edward Lucie Smith. 1 pm. Free.

St Lawrence Town Hall, 157 King E. Pre-register arsnovaarts@gmail.com. rwipeOut! Cheer on the 10 semi-finalists in the Last Call For Canada’s Wickedest Wipeout.

Noon-2 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. yimby (yes in my baCkyaRd) festival Share ideas on how to make Toronto a better city by promoting citizen-based community development. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. yOung vOiCes wRiteRs COnfeRenCe Youth 12 to 19 work with writers on fiction, songwriting, spoken word, web publishing and more.

10 am-4 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5784.

Sunday, October 17

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el aRte de la mueRta (Art City St James Town) Art, music and culture inspired by the Day of the Dead with the Clash Assassins, tattoo artists and more. 8 pm. 6 Degrees, 2335 Yonge. sevencrownstattoo.com/muerta. lOOp fundRaiseR (Loop Gallery) Musical performances by Aaron Davis, Nick Buzz and others. 8-9:30 pm. $30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-516-2581, loopgallery.ca.

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ballet witH tHe staRs The National Ballet of

Canada presents an open class with company dancers for intermediate ballet students and spectators. 11 am-12:30 pm. $40 per class, $10 to watch (must pre-register). Walter Car-

share a groupthink on citizen-based community development in a happening called the YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) Festival. Join the citybuilding chatter, Saturday (October 16), 11 am to 4 pm. Free. Gladstone (1214 Queen West). 416-531-4635. sen Centre, 470 Queens Quay W. national.ballet.ca.

bOlivia: extRaCtive industRies and bOlivia’s inteRnal CHallenges Discussion. 2-4:30

pm. Free. Centre for Social Justice, 489 College. torontoboliviasolidarity@gmail.com.

Canadian CHinese idOl Launch with performances by Laure Shang and Karina Es. 7 pm.

Free. Chinese Cultural Centre, 5183 Sheppard E. 416-292-9293, ccidol.ca.

COntempORaRy aRt bus tOuR Tour current exhibitions at the Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York U and Doris McCarthy Gallery.

11:30 am-5 pm. $10. Balisi, 711 Queen W. Preregister 905-828-3789. rfall COlOuRs walk Learn about plants and trees that transform the landscape. 1 pm. $7.35. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College Blvd. Pre-register 416-675-5009.

ganaRaska tRail in tHe HORsesHOe valley

Bus trip for a hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 9:30 am. $23. York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

JOHn tORy The Toronto City Summit Alliance chair talks about building a better city. 10:1010:50 am. Free. St Clement’s Church, 59 Briar Hill. 416-483-6664. nO taR sands! nO tanks! Live streaming of Clayton Thomas-Muller speaking from the No Tanks flotilla rally in Vancouver. 3 pm. Free.

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. 647-341-6733.

RaJ patel The writer/activist lectures on a modest proposal in defence of local food.

2:30-4 pm. $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. spiked tea Afternoon tea and talk with artists at artist-designed tables. 2-5 pm. $60. Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519.

witHin ReaCH: infinite pOssibilities Of sex and sexuality Sexuality symposium for all

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BreaTHe! Yoga practice for women in a safe environment. 5:30-7 pm. $7. Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W, phatch@ryerson.ca.

CaPe BreTon sTeP DanCinG All-ages lesson, no experience necessary. 6:15pm. $10. Farmer Memorial Baptist Church, 293 South Kingsway, 416-231-8717.

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Mayor DaviD Miller: exiT inTervieW Miller talks about seven years of transforming Toronto with interviewer Andy Barrie. 7 pm.

Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-3955577.

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reaD For THe Cure (Cancer Research Soc) Annabel Lyon, Linden MacIntyre and Catherine Gildiner. 6:30 pm. $100. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay. readforthecure.ca.

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HoW nanoTeCHnoloGy Will aFFeCT THe environeMnT – in a GooD Way Seminar. 4:10

pm. Free. U of T Woodsworth College, rm WW121, 119 St George. 416-978-3475. kuna yala Travelogue with Peter Jarrett. 6:30 pm. $15, stu free. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. oPera 101: DeaTH in veniCe Canadian Opera Co forum and discussion for people new to opera. 7:30 pm. Free. Duke of Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca. sTaTisTiCs in THe HeaDlines Lecture by professor/author Jeffrey Rosenthal. 4-5:30 pm. Free.

$10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-586-5797.

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Benefits

CHair aFFair (Furniture Bank) Silent auction

of artist-designed chairs. 6 to 9:30 pm. $100.

Steam Whistle Brewery Roundhouse, 255 Bremner. furniturebank.org/chairaffair.

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insiDers’ GuiDe To PiTCHinG MaGazine MarkeTs Panel discussion with the industry’s top

magazine editors. 7-9 pm. $20, adv $10. U of T Health Sciences Bldg, 155 College. pwactoronto.org.

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Brother and sister act Alka Graham and Rick Chander cook up a cool brunch, including tandoori wraps (centre), with a subcontinental spin at their packed eatery, Frankly.

Spiced-up brunch Frankly brings complexity to everyone’s fave weekend meal By STEVEN DAVEY FRANKLY (1118 Queen East, at Caroline, 647-350-1611, franklyeatery.com) Complete meals for $18 per person, including all taxes, tip and a Limonata. Average main $10. Open Tuesday to Sunday 9 am to 4 pm. Unlicensed. Rating: NNN

you have to get up early to beat the Leslieville brunch bunch. Why,

here it is just after 9 on a gloomy Saturday morning and both Bonjour Brioche and Lady Marmalade are packed to the rafters. By 10, there’ll be lineups.

A little further east, chef Alka Graham and brother Rick Chander’s Frankly is just as slammed, every one of its 18 seats taken. Open six months, the cozy café already has a loyal fol-

lowing. T. Rex on the sound system makes me an instant fan.

If it’s eggs Benny with home fries you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place. Instead, go for corn tortillas piled with tandoori-style pulled pork kissed with cumin, perfectly scrambled free-range eggs and garlicky roasted tomato salsa lashed with avocado cream, a heap of commercial or-

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533-3213, goedeten.ca. Le Petit Déjeuner’s Johan Maes and Tonya Reid’s Belgian frituur re-launches on the west-side’s hip resto strip. Modest prices, late weekend hours and unparalleled quality make this

Euro-style café an instant smash. Best: twice-cooked Belgian frites topped poutine-style with Guinness-spiked beef stew or Italian-style Bolognese and squeaky Pasquale Brothers’ cheese curds;

ganic greens dressed in honey balsamic on the side ($11.50).

Wrapped in a thin tortilla, chunks of chicken breast in garlic aioli get a similar treatment ($10 with salad), the addition of Subcontinental cabbage slaw and crunchy roasted chickpeas an unexpected twist. Gobi parantha ($8.50 with salad) turns out to be thick whole wheat crepes stuffed with al dente cauliflower sided with East-meets-West sour cream raita. Make sure to pair them with links of house-made sausages laced with chilies and dipped in coriander chutney ($3).

Frankly’s BLT ($9.50 with salad) sees

toasted slices of St. John’s Bakery’s excellent sourdough stacked with unusually thick Upper Cut bacon, ripe tomato and avocado mayo. Pesto Palooza ($11 with baguette and salad) finds scallions and jalapeños folded into more of those fabulously scrambled eggs finished with chopped bacon and a drizzle of cherry-tomato cream.

Coffee ($1.95) is strong and ecofriendly, tap water doctored with lemon, and servers ably keep up with the crowd. The room might be small, but its rewards are substantial. Frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way. 3

classic duck confit; 8 ounces of blood-red triple A strip loin; made-to-order Belgian waffles simply dusted with confectioners’ sugar or dressed to the nines with maple syrup, candied strawberries, and house-made wild blueberry, Belgian chocolate or gingerbread ice cream. Complete meals for $15 per person, including all taxes, tip and a goji berry iced tea.

Average main $8. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm, Thursday to Saturday 7 pm to 3 am, daily for coffee, pastries and

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Open Monday to Friday 8 am to 6 pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10 am to 6 pm. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn

dressed with crunchy cukes, sweet red bell pepper and the inevitable alfalfa sprouts ($6.99 with organic mesclun in balsamic vinaigrette or vegan soup, gluten-free bread $1 extra).

Ample black bean burgers ($7.99) come built on rosemary-and-basilscented whole wheat buns garnished with season-peak tomato and lemon guacamole. Thick with pepper and free-range eggs, Monterey Jack quiche rides a wheat-free quinoa crust ($5.99 with soup or salad).

We’ll gladly pass on Teatree’s brunch combo – limp banana French toast, flat flapjacks and quickly scrambled eggs ($6.99) – that’s gluten-free but flavour-challenged for Pimm’s extravagant desserts.

Wond’rous vegan carrot cupcakes materialize swirled with soy frosting.

Fruit-crusted tarts brim with cheesecake. Slices of deliriously rich chocolate fudge cake (all $3.50) would be called flourless anywhere else. You’d never know they’re all good for you.

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i’ve never been fond of the Danforth. Whenever its annual street fair rolls around, I’m sure to make a beeline... in the opposite direction.

But east of Jones, past the sweating throngs, the midway rides and the dunking booths, the boulevard of broken plates gives way to eclectic cafés like Erin Pimm’s Teatree.

Launched last January, the former Sakawaya is now an oasis of civility in a sea of souvlaki and flaming cheese.

Like Frankly’s Alka Graham, Pimm is a self-taught chef who isn’t afraid to break the rules. Her completely veggie carte – much of it vegan and/or gluten-free – focuses on health-conscious grub like lemony hummus sandwiches on house-baked rye

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with chopped scallops; the inevitable siu mai upgraded with foie-gras-like goose liver mousse and black caviar; classic shrimp har gow and pan-fried turnip cake with Chinese sausage; Chiu Chow dumplings with ground pork, chives and crunchy peanuts; ridiculously tender octopus tentacles in five-spice powder; to finish, perfectly flaky milk custard tarts with birds’ nest; by the pot, Iron Buddha oolong tea. Complete dim sum meals for $20 per person, including all taxes, tip and tea. Open daily for dim sum 9 am to 4 pm, à la carte menu 11 am to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating:

by ex-Joso’s, Arlequin and Sintra chef Joseph Senisi – delivers big flavours at modest price points. Now open for dinner! Best: to start, soups like spicy watermelon ‘n’ beet gazpacho swirled with quality olive oil; offbeat sandwich combos like the Squirrel (canned sardines, peanut butter, Sriracha and aged cheddar on rye) sided with lime-laced Cuban black beans topped with tomato, coriander and avocado; at weekend brunch, grilled flank steak and eggs with sautéed apples, potatoes dauphinoise and Texan’s Biscuits; to finish, strawberry and rhubarb pie; to drink, jalapeño, chocolate and banana smoothies. Complete meals for $20 per person, including all taxes, tip and a coffee. Average main $12.

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tremely inventive card – think communal Ethiopian-style platters by way of a health-conscious California spa – puts this low-key veggie-friendly Junction Triangle beanery firmly on the foodie map.

Best: crisp green bean salads with arugula, roasted radishes and toasted pine nuts in glazed apple cider vinaigrette sided with double-cream Quebec Brie and house-baked caraway crackers; shareable “broken bread” platters of house-made pork sausage with wild mushrooms, poppy seed free-range chicken salad or grilled Niagara peaches and roasted corn hummus, all served with toasted St John Bakery sourdough and organic arugula, red radish and baby plum tomatoes in red wine vinaigrette; at weekend brunch, strawberry bread pudding. Complete meals for $25 per person, including all

Chinese Dim Sum Crown PrinCess 1033 Bay, at Irwin, 416-923-8784, ñ crownprincessfinedining.com. Sister of

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From Kensington Market to Ossington, Leslieville to Roncie, we have our pick of every retro-clothing era. But calling these duds “retro” (or “duds” for that matter) suggests we don’t hold our second-hand buys in as high esteem as the designer bag a label lover purchases on Bloor.

The women in this spread, including I Miss You’s Julie Yoo, Harlow Black’s Ashlene Roberts, 69 Vintage Collective’s Emma Doll, Chosen’s Melissa Ball and Magwood’s Sarah Magwood, literally live for this stuff, and from it.

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MELISSA BALL, CHOSEN Printed spandex smock ($35, Chosen), black boots ($50, Penny Arcade Vintage), gold necklace ($25, I Miss You), gold cuff ($35) and animal-print bracelet ($15, both Magwood).

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EMMA DOLL, 69 VINTAGE COLLECTIVE Yellow macramé fringe shawl ($45, Rozaneh at 69 Vintage Collective), silk pants ($75) and gold earrings ($22, both 69 Vintage), snake bracelet ($30, Tomorrow Never Knows at 69 Vintage Collective) and belt ($20).

JULIE YOO, I MISS YOU Jean Paul Gaultier Femme orange corset jacket ($299), Moschino leopardprint pencil skirt ($125), gold flower choker ($45) and Charles David taupe heels ($28, all I Miss You).

SARAH MAGWOOD, MAGWOOD 1940s lace dress ($165), faux fur and wool hat ($30) and suede ankle-strap heels ($40, all Magwood).

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Silk blouse ($25), deadstock heavy metal necklaces ($22 each), black silk bustier ($18, all Chosen).

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Blue fedora ($185, Lilliput), purple blouse ($5, 69 Vintage Collective/Buy the Pound), vintage coat ($55, Rozaneh at 69 Vintage Collective), gold necklace ($35, 69 Vintage).

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Hoi Bo brings it home “I don’t believe in seasonality,” says Hoi Bo’s Sarra Tang. “As a young designer, it’s an impossible feat.” She believes in the complete opposite, in fact, a philosophy of slow fashion she’s been developing since launching her line in 2007, long before heritage brands and small, local production were trends.

You only have to visit her new Distillery District studio and boutique (55 Mill, building 74, studio 107, 416-888-8270, hoibo.com) to see the axiom in action. Tang and her team of two sew all the bags in the bright white space, adding finishing details like brass grommets and studs by hand. Tang even knows how long each step in a piece’s production takes (37.6 minutes to hand-stitch a leather strap for an oxblood leather clutch), essential information for someone trying to squeeze as much product as possible out of a small manufacturing capacity.

Hoi Bo’s hand-waxed bags and clothing collection are carried at boutiques in Canada and the U.S., but Tang’s plans for growth are focused on expanding to other media. Watch for porcelain espresso cups, sterling silver spoons and furniture. Hoi Bo is becoming a micro lifestyle brand, slow fashion’s inevitable next step.

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Karamea designer Michelle Turpin has turned designer liaison. She and The Fashion Collective, made up of stylists Kate Mullin, Dwayne Kennedy and Brian A. Richards, are working with new entries like Jessica Jensen, Rita Liefhebber and Klaxon Howl to tailor the presentation format. As a result, collections will be shown in three different spaces from the massive, 1,000-seat runway room to a studio perfect for intimate shows.

Michelle Reagan, who’s worked PR for Catherine Malandrino in New York and wrangled media for Alternative Fashion Week, here has bravely accepted the task of getting the Fashion Week word out to Toronto’s fickle style press.

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Who doesn’t want to start a fashion magazine? Surely not the writers, editors and stylists behind Toronto-based online style rags Filler, PULP, Hardly and Plaid, all launched this year.

Filler (fillermagazine.com) and PULP (pulpmagazineonline.com) both have a high-fashion hook, providing a platform for photographers, makeup artists and hair stylists who often have to hold back the full flavour of their creative juices when working for more commercial publications. Hardly (hardlymagazine.com) is targeted at teens, posting prom-inspired editorials and advice columns for a Sassy-starved generation.

Plaid (plaidmag.com) is the most Toronto-focused of the bunch, with profiles of T.O. designers and editorials featuring local merch.

“I was very inspired by bloggers,” says its editor, Odessa Parker (pictured).

“Because of people like them, the fashion world is no longer being led by authority but by enthusiasm. Publishing online has allowed us to reach a much broader readership.”

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To call Jamil and Alia Juma’s clothing line (jumastudio.com) “Torontobased” understates what a global brand it’s become over the past two years. The duo still maintain a studio in the Junction, shooting their campaigns here, but also have a showroom in New York and do long stints in China overseeing production.

“We often ponder where we should have our headquarters but then came to the conclusion that we don’t need to have a head office,” says Jamil. “We just need mini-offices in the areas we’re constantly travelling to.”

That nomadic approach is also reflected in their international list of stockists, including Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong, the W Hotels chain and Serpentine and Pho Pa in Toronto.

“Over the last year, we’ve been very happy with the way the collection has evolved,” says Alia. “We feel like we’ve really hit our stride creatively.” Lots of that satisfaction comes from the launch of their blockbuster scarf line, oversized silk swatches printed with moody forest, feather and crow motifs.

“We were looking for ways to accessorize the collection,” says Jamil.

“The scarves out there all felt dowdy, so we came up with designs that resonate with a younger audience.”

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fall fashion special Where to score consignment buys, designer vintage and racks of trendsetting retro fashion. cocktail looks and red-carpet-worthy Consignment gowns in the middle of Mirvish Village.

LAB Consignment, 15 Ossington, 416302-6739, labconsignment.com.

Lauren Baker doesn’t sell all vintage, but has lots of old-school buys amid her gently worn wears.

HAUS, 1265 Bloor West, 416-551-1635, hausstore.com.

Second Time Around, 99 Yorkville, 416916-7669.

Fine vintage Cabaret, 672 Queen West, 416-5047126, cabaretvintage.com. Try to choose between actual vintage frocks and Cabaret’s own collection of 50s and 60s-inspired satin dresses.

Harlow Black, 594 Markham, 647-3467899. An unexpectedly glam salon of chic

I Miss You, 63 Ossington, 416-9167021. Budget-friendly buys up front lure you into a back room full of breakthe-bank Chanel, YSL and other designer labels.

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Thrill of the Find, 1172 Queen East, 416-461-9313, thrillofthefind.com.

Vintage Bride, 587 Markham, 416530-0025, vintagebride.ca.

New and vintage Tabula Rasa, 745 Broadview, 416-4654450, tabularasaclothing.com. This offDanforth spot is creatively curated with jeans, T-shirts and vintage racks that touch on the season’s biggest trends.

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Ruins, 960 Queen West, 647-351-0960, ruinstoronto.com.

Online Shrimpton Couture, shrimptoncouture. com. A virtual fashion museum of designer fashion from the 1920s to the 2000s.

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Preloved, 881 Queen West, 416-5048704, preloved.ca. Trailblazing reworked vintage label Preloved’s fall collection includes cowl-necked cardigans and patchwork bags.

Model Citizen, 279 Augusta, 416-7037625. Julian Finkel tailors found menswear into fitted blazers and waistcoats.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, 587 Markham, coalminersdaughter.ca.

The Rage, 2 Kensington, 416-599-5177, ragetoronto.ca.

Trendsetters 69 Vintage, 1100 Queen West, 416516-0669, 69vintage.com. Owner Kealan Sullivan’s passion for fashion and creative approach to shopkeeping know no bounds.

APT 909, 909 Dundas West, 416-9167599, apt909.blogspot.com. Trend-setting Japanese shoppers flock to this Dundas West spot to scoop up style inspiration.

Courage My Love, 14 Kensington, 416979-1992. Courage takes an international approach to vintage buys and standout accessories.

Gadabout, 1300 Queen East, 416-4631254, gadabout.ca. In addition to clothing and accessories, Gadabout carries beautiful vintage textiles.

House of Vintage, 1239 Queen West, 416-535-2142. Reopened in Parkdale after a short hiatus, this store’s on top of retro fads and trend-free fashion.

Klaxon Howl, 694R Queen West, 647436-6628, klaxonhowl.com. Owner Matt Robinson has been filling his shop with now-in-vogue workwear and military gear for years.

Vintage 69 Collective/Buy the Pound, 1207 Bloor West, 416-516-1234, 69vintagecollective.tumblr.com. Yes, you can still find a blouse for five bucks in Toronto, and it will likely be in 69’s Buy the Pound department.

Penny Arcade, 1177 Dundas West, 647-346-1386. Summer brings the Minnow Bathers vintage-inspired swimwear collection to the racks.

Stella Luna, 1627 Queen West, 416536-7300. A chic dress shop at Queen and Roncie.

Chosen, 15 Ossington, 647-802-7704.

Love Me Two Times, 760 Bathurst, 647896-8030, lovemetwotimes-vintageboutique.blogspot.com.

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Silver Falls, 15 Ossington, 416-5883500, silverfallsvintage.blogspot.com.

Sub Rosa Vintage, 16 Kensington, subrosavintage.blogspot.com.

Vantage Ground, 758 Bathurst.

Vintage clothing and housewares Bungalow, 273 Augusta, 416-5980204, bungalow.to. Pick up some midcentury teak furniture with that Bay blanket stripe coat.

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What does style mean to you? For me, style is a representation of how I may be feeling on a given day. Some days I feel glamorous and feminine, other days I’m all grunge. The ability to play with my style allows me to be honest about my state of mind without taking myself too seriously.

What is your personal style? My personal style changes pretty frequently, although some things stay consistent. Lots of black, grey, navy and white, with a splash of colour usually through accessories. While I’ll push the envelope occasionally, I try to stick to the laws of classic chic.

I feel naked without... My silver bangles, which I bought in a Tehran bazaar six years ago with one of my closest aunts.

Favourite part of Toronto? There are lots of things about Toronto that I love, but the community of friends and independent businesses in downtown’s west end definitely takes first place.

Head-to-toe: Shirt: Boyfriend’s Pants: Eryn Brinie, Fawn, 967 Queen West, 647-344-4703, fawnboutique.ca Shoes: Vintage from Flashback, 20 bones 20 at Flashback, 25 Kensington, 416-598-2981 Necklace: from the Middle East, old Saudi coin from the 60s Bangles: silver from Iran Bag: Soukwear Moroccan clutch from Chasse Gardée, 1084 Queen West, 416-901-9613, chassegardee.com STEFANIA YARHI Sunglasses: Yves Saint Laurent

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Retailer index 69 Vintage, 1100 Queen West, 416516-0669, 69vintage.com 69 Vintage Collective, 1207 Bloor West, 416-516-1234, 69vintagecollective.tumblr.com Aldo, Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 416597-3809, and others, aldoshoes.com ATZ, atozane.com Brooks Brothers, 200 Bay, 416-3680162, brooksbrothers.com Chosen, 15 Ossington, 416-588-3500 Donato Salon + Spa, Yorkdale, 3401 Dufferin, 416-789-4322, and others, donato.ca Fluevog, 242 Queen West, 416-5811420, fluevog.com Gotstyle, 60 Bathurst, 416-260-9696, gsmen.com H&M, 1 Dundas West, 416-593-0064, and others, hm.com Harlow Black, 594 Markham, 647-3467899 Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com Heel Boy, 682 Queen West, 416-3624335, heelboy.com I Miss You, 63 Ossington, 416-9167021, imissyou.ca Lilliput Hats, 462 College, 416-5365933, lilliputhats.com

Magwood, magwood.ca Penny Arcade Vintage, 1177 Dundas West, 647-346-1386 Roots, 100 Bloor West, 416-323-3289, and others, canada.roots.com Urban Outfitters, 235 Yonge, 416-2141466, and other, urbanoutfitters.com3

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Until recently, no

cricket had ever been observed pollinating a flower. All the evidence showed, in fact, that crickets don’t help flowers – they devour them. Then one night last January on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, researchers discovered that the species known as the raspy cricket was responsible for pollinating wild orchids. They even caught the magic act on film. I regard this turn of events as akin to an upcoming development in your life: someone or something that you’ve never thought of as a fertilizing force for you will become one.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 My date and I

decided to go see the film You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. As we entered the theatre, we passed a short, elderly Chinese woman in a brown uniform. She was bent over sweeping the floor. Suddenly she stood up straight, looked me in the eye and extended her left hand toward me. Confused, I reached out toward her. She quickly pressed something in my hand, then returned to her sweeping. As I walked on, I unrolled the small paper scroll she had given me. It read, “Tell your Taurus readers they should be alert for helpful messages coming from sources they would usually ignore or neglect.” I’m doing what she suggested.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Of all the signs in the zodiac, you are currently the best at carrying out the following activities:

gliding, flowing, leaping, skipping, twirling, undulating, reverberating, galloping and rub-a-dub-dubbing. I suspect that you will also excel at rumbling, romping, rollicking, cavorting and zip-a-dap-doodling. If all goes well, Gemini – which is to say you show how much you love your body and throw off any inhibitions you might have about celebrating your instinctual nature – then you will be at the low end of the scale in performing these activities: shuffling, drooping, mumbling, wallowing, pigeonholing and pussyfooting.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 A reader wrote to

me bemoaning the fact that her new Cancerian boyfriend is addicted to safety. She speculated that since he is a member of an astrological sign renowned for its timidity, she should probably either get used to the suffocating lack of action or else bolt from the relationship now. In reply, I sent her a quote from one of the most heroic Cancerians of the 20th century, Helen Keller: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” Moral of the story: it’s a ripe time for you to rise up and refute the people in your life who think you’re a brooding wallflower.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Helping your fellow humans can literally enhance your

strength. A Harvard study (tinyurl.com/ BeExtraNice) proved that people who did good deeds or even visualized themselves doing good deeds had increased physical endurance and willpower. Unfortunately, the study showed that those who harbour nefarious intentions are also able to draw on extra fortitude. In other words, you can boost your energy by either being compassionate or evil. I highly recommend the former over the latter, Leo, especially now that you’re entering a phase when it makes a lot of spiritual sense to build your courage, vigour and tonicity.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “The art of medi-

cine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease,” said French philosopher Voltaire. With this in mind, let’s evaluate your current discomfort. From what I can tell, healing forces beyond your control and outside of your awareness are going to be working their mojo to chip away at your problem. But it will still be wise for you to occupy yourself in activities that you think will expedite the fix. Doing so will minimize your anxieties, allowing nature to do what it does best.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Usually you specialize in having a light touch. You’d rather nudge than push. Nimble harmony is more interesting to you than brute force.

You prefer your influence on people to be appreciated, not begrudgingly re-

spected. And I certainly don’t want you to forsake any of those inclinations. But I would love to see you add a dash of aggressiveness and a pinch of vehemence to your repertoire in the coming week. I’d be thrilled if you raised your voice a bit and gesticulated more vigorously and projected your confidence with an elevated intensity. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your refined approach will benefit from a dose of subliminal thunder.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Time magazine

created a list of the 50 worst inventions.

Included among the most terrible creations that human ingenuity has ever come up with are plastic grocery bags, sub-prime mortgages, hydrogenated oils and pop-up ads. Now let’s switch our attention to your personal equivalents of these monstrosities. To climax the atonement phase of your own astrological cycle, I recommend that you do the following: 1. Identify the three worst ideas you have taken seriously during the past decade. 2. Carry out one formal action to correct or make amends for the consequences of each bad idea. 3. Really, truly, forgive yourself as best as you can.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 For your

assignment this week, I have borrowed from a list of suggestions offered by Sagittarius poet Kenneth Patchen in his book The Journal Of Albion Moonlight.

Feel free to improvise as you carry out at

least three. 1. Discourage all traces of shame. 2. Bear no cross. 3. Extend all boundaries. 4. Blush perpetually in gaping innocence. 5. Burrow beneath the subconscious. 6. Pass from one world to another in carefree devotion. 7. Exhaust the primitive. 8. Generate the free brain. 9. Forgo no succulent filth. 10. Verify the irrational.

11. Acquire a sublime reputation. 12.

Make one monster at least. 13. Multiply all opinions. 14. Inhabit everyone.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Among Google searches starting with the phrase “who is,” the top-rated is “God,” while “Satan” is a distant 10th. Running ahead of Satan but behind God are Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber. If I were you, Capricorn, I wouldn’t be Google-searching any bigger-than-life entities like those four in the coming week. The characters you need to research are non-divine, non-celebrity types who might bring interesting influences into your life – people who would have a direct influence on your access to resources and on your ability to call forth the best from yourself.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Explorers

found a 30,000-year-old carved stone artifact in a German cave and brought it to the University of Tubingen for study.

Experts there determined that it had a dual purpose for the ancient humans who made it. Phallic-shaped with rings around one end, it was obviously a sex toy. But other markings indicated it was also used to start fires by striking it against flints. I’d like to make this power object your symbol of the week, Aquarius. You’re in a phase when you should be alert for ways to mix business with pleasure and practicality with adventure.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 You’re not exceptionally scared of the dark, Pisces, but sometimes you seem to be intimidated by the light. You can summon the spunky courage to go crawling on your hands and knees through dank tunnels and spooky caves in quest of treasure that’s covered in primordial goo, but you may play hard to get when you’re offered the chance to unburden yourself of your cares in wide-open spaces. What’s up with that? Don’t get me wrong: I’m proud of your capacity to wrestle with the shadows in the land of the lost; I’m gratified by your willingness to work your karma to the bone. But I would also love you to get a share of rejuvenating rest and ease now and then. Do you think you could manage to have it both ways? I do.

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DESIGN PHILOSOPHY: “Art is such an extension of personal style,” says Shor. “It doesn’t have to be large or expensive, but it should be original and it should absolutely be there somewhere!” After they source work, Shor and Neubacher often project images of the art where it will be hung so clients get a sense of the piece in their space.

NEW PROJECTS: The duo leads a lecture and tour October 29 at the Art Toronto international art fair (tiafair.com) called Buy Early, Buy Young, promoting emerging Canadian contemporary artists.

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Village people Anchored by the iconic honest ed’s, Mirvish village is A hAven for foodies, coffee lovers And shoppers seeking vintAge finds By ANDREW SARDONE Photos by MICHAEL WATIER on a monday night in late july, more than a thousand people fill the short block of Markham between Bloor and Lennox. They aren’t here for a standard, city-sanctioned summer street festival or to queue for a coveted patio table at the Victory Café (581 Markham, 416-516-5787).

They’re here for a book launch. A Scott Pilgrim book launch, to be exact.

At midnight, author and comic book artist Bryan Lee O’Malley starts signing hundreds of copies of his latest title at the Beguiling (601 Markham, 416-533-9168). Next door at the Central (603 Markham, 416913-4586), bands SISTER, Hurry Hard, Chang-A-Lang and Soft & Wet entertain the crowds.

At Rocco’s Plum Tomato (585 Bloor West, 416-539-9009) up the street, the soundtrack for the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World video game premieres.

The movie’s music previews at Butler’s Pantry (591 Markham, 416-5359868), and a costume contest takes over the former home of David Mirvish Books.

It’s the biggest spectacle the sleepy Mirvish Village block has seen in a while, almost rivalling the flashing lights and boastful signage at landmark Honest Ed’s (581 Bloor West, 416-537-1574) around the corner.

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galleries and retail in the 60s after Ed Mirvish bought up the block but abandoned plans to replace its lean Victorians with a parking lot for his discount-shopping mecca. Today, its tenants sell vintage furniture and graphic novels in the houses’ converted living rooms, and fill their paved-over front yards with sculpture and racks of retro clothing.

Vintage fashion is one of the area’s biggest draws. Harlow Black (594 Markham, 647-346-7899) is known for its chic salons overflowing with 50s frocks, while Twice Found (608 Markham, 416-534-3904) mixes in collectable costume jewellery by names like Sherman and Weiss.

Next to Honest Ed’s on Bathurst, find Love Me Two Times (760 Bathurst, 647-896-8033) and Vantage Ground (758 Bathurst). Coal Miner’s Daughter (587 Markham, 416-6296610) carries both new designs and reworked vintage. And down a half flight of stairs, just north of Lennox, is Cher Thornton’s the Refinery (588 Markham, 416-818-1104).

Thornton arrived in the neighbourhood in 2007 when she bought Vintage Bride (587 Markham, 416530-0025) across the street. She still sells once-worn wedding dresses there by appointment, but launched her second store two years ago to house non-nuptial stock.

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She’s also showing reworked vintage pieces created in collaboration with designer Evan Biddell, including a Mohawk-topped aviator cap and a twisted trench with ballooning short sleeves.

Above the Refinery, Karen Wilson’s window is full of a recently discovered cache of handsome vintage luggage and briefcases, though her KarenFoundIt boutique (588 Markham, 416-535-7432) is known for its vintage furniture and housewares. There are jam cupboards, trunks and filing cabinets, plus her best-selling collection of rings, bracelets and key rings created from silver flatware.

This stretch of Markham is also home to Posies Flower Shop (590 Markham, 416-588-9061), Dragonov Studio for Fine Jewellery (606 Markham, 416-530-0553) and a long list of galleries and artist studios.

Pick up a DVD at Suspect (605 Markham, 416-588-6674) or Vintage Video (604 Markham, 416-5389927) and don’t miss dining at Southern Accent (595 Markham, 416-536-3211).

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The neighbourhood also stretches across Bloor from the edge of the Annex to the stone gates at Palmerston. Here you’ll find bra spot Secrets from Your Sister (560 Bloor West, 416-

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Gorillaz, N.E.R.D Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), tonight (Thursday, October 14) See preview, page 61.

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The Airplane Boys, Rochelle Jordan Lambadina (875 Bloor West), Friday (October 15) See preview, page 65.

Dr Dog, Here We Go Magic Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (October 16) See preview, page 70.

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Pitchfork’s review of the Hundred in the Hands’ new self-titled debut was way too harsh. They were right, though, to point out a lack of cohesion among the record’s slick, danceable, post-punk-influenced party-starters – especially compared to the creative, organic-sounding offerings found on the Brooklyn girl/boy duo’s promising summer EP. Live, however, these fist-pumping cuts totally work. Kicking off their set with Dressed In Dresden, their achingly cool breakthrough single (and, for a while, their only recorded output), guitarist Jason Friedman and vocalist Eleanore Everdell went for broke, early start time be damned. They followed this with Sleepwalkers, a haunting, fuzz-bass-driven song from their EP, before diving into newer cuts.

The synth-bass level was too low during current single Pigeons, cutting out some of its dance-floor oomph, but this was remedied by the time they reached Young Aren’t Young, whose icy disco pulse and massive guitar stabs made it the highlight. JORDAN BIMM

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Various venues, Saturday to Sunday (October 16-24) See Jeff Mills preview, page 72.

Shows that rocked Toronto last week

Wed, Oct 6

CHAPTERHOUSE at Lee’s Palace

Rating: NNN We almost missed out on the reunion of 90s shoegazers Chapterhouse when the band suddenly dropped Toronto from a planned spring jaunt through North America. Fortunately, a certain Icelandic volcano scuttled the entire tour, and when it was rescheduled, the T.O. date was back on.

After 16 years, the British fivepiece’s blistering waves of sound and uplifting melodies still resonate, and the wallflowerish image so many acts of their ilk cultivated now reads more as confidence – or perhaps casual complacence. Either way, they sounded on point despite some shoddy mic connections at Lee’s Palace.

The crowd was definitely age-appropriate, a fact made depressingly apparent when the suburban-dad types hanging by the bar bailed super-early.

The gear nerds and 90s nostalgiaphiles filled out the front where they could more easily salivate over the six gleaming guitars, including an expensive-looking vintage Fender Electric XII with a hockey-stick-shaped neck.

When guitarist/singer Stephen Patman finally picked it up halfway through the set to play Breather, it elicited a few cheers of its own.

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Rating: NNNN It’s still unclear why Los Campesinos! booked their all-ages Eyjafjallajökullvolcano makeup show at a venue as small as Wrongbar, but if it was out of fear that their indie anthems wouldn’t work in a big room, they’re selling themselves short. They share Arcade Fire’s knack for making indie pop that translates successfully to stadiums, and if crowd response was any indicator, that level of success might come sooner rather than later.

Arcade Fire (and to a lesser extent, Broken Social Scene) are an appropriate musical comparison too: both acts cram a lot of musicians onstage, milk a youthful urgency that verges on histrionic and connect deeply with fans. At first we thought all eight members of the Welsh band were singing together, until we saw just one set of lips moving. Turns out the chorus effect came

from every teenager in the room singing every word to every song, often at the top of their lungs and with their BENJAMIN BOLES eyes closed.

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While their self-titled debut album initially seems overly restrained and polished, the live show lifts the veil of slick production to reveal deceptively strong songwriting. Though the band may as well have been performing behind a curtain, the audience didn’t seem to mind. Freed from the obligation of staring at the stage, the crowd busied itself with dancing and singing instead.

Isn’t that better than staring at a BB 3 JumboTron for hours?

Blonde Redhead, Pantha Du Prince Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Sunday (October 17) See preview, page 63.

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Dakota (249 Ossington), Tuesday (October 19) Soulful ex-Rabbit test-runs new tunes.

Lissie, Dylan Leblanc

El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Tuesday (October 19) See preview, page 68.

Deerhunter, Real Estate, Casio Vs Japan Opera House (735 Queen East), Tuesday (October 19) Buzzy ambient punks have a new LP.

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The record sleeve features a closeup of Williams wearing a feathered military helmet, a visual metaphor for “the inner conflict on the head of every man,” explains Haley.

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It’s not difficult to envision Blonde Redhead sitting down between albums and having that discussion veteran bands usually have before heading into the studio: what are we going to do differently this time?

The 17-year-old three-piece have taken their dreamy brand of shoegaze rock in all sorts of directions over eight full-length albums, reaching a career high, at least commercially, on 2007’s melodically vibrant 23.

So before recording Penny Sparkle (4AD), Kazu Makino, the group’s ethereal vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace found themselves at a crossroads: replicate 23’s sound and try to further its success or head toward a new frontier, as they’ve often done.

“We always have that kind of talk,” says Simone from his pad in Brooklyn.

“But [this time] it wasn’t that easy to be honest.”

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“It was hard because we’ve never had somebody so involved and with so much to say,” says the Milan-born Simone. “It was difficult to give up control and a certain part of the process.”

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guitars are removed almost completely from the equation, while Makino rarely uses her falsetto or breaks range. Some critics think Sparkle lacks energy, but it can’t be denied that it evokes a mood and has no shortage of atmosphere.

“Right now I feel like it’s really good that we made an album that’s different and that we can learn from,” says Simone. “It has a depth that maybe our other albums didn’t.

“It’s good for us to get out of our comfort zone and do things we don’t know what to expect from.”

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Alex Pauk, Music Director & Conductor Up to date trends in Canadian and International music performed by an orchestra unlike any other.

Guest artists Wallace Halladay, Saxophones Peter Chin, Dancer/Choreographer Larry Weinstein, Film Maker Works by Schafer, McPhee, Ives, Adès, and Good.

Sunday October 17

8 pm Concert 7:15 pm Pre-Concert Talk Koerner Hall

at the Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance & Learning 273 Bloor Street West

Tickets 416.408.0208 or performance.rcmusic.ca

or in person at the Box Office

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D-SISIVE

SATURDAY NOV 27 THE HORSESHOE TAVERN ON SALE SATURDAY

CHROMEO SATURDAY JAN 22 THE OPERA HOUSE

clubs&concerts BOOK IT NOW!

CHALAWA, SLY & ROBBIE, THE ARSENALS

Sound Academy $25. RT, TM. November 5.

GRADY, THE MOTORLEAGUE

El Mocambo doors 9 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW. November 11.

GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THESE SHOWS SELL OUT

JOSÉ FELICIANO, MARGARET MAYE

TONIGHT

Benefit Concert For Epilepsy Queen Elizabeth Theatre 7 pm, $55-$150. TWIN. November 27.

30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS, APACHE BEAT

Wrongbar 8 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW. November 28.

WITH BOUNCING SOULS & OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

BADLY DRAWN BOY

The Great Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $27.50. LN, RT, SS, TM. December 8.

THURSDAY OCT 14 KOOL HAUS ALL AGES

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE

THIS FRIDAY

Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 16.

MAYER HAWTHORNE

PEACHES, CHILLY GONZALES

AND THE COUNTY

FRIDAY OCTOBER 15 THE OPERA HOUSE

THIS SUNDAY

HELMET

SUNDAY OCT 17 LEE’S PALACE

ON SALE NOW THE

TOMGREEN.COM

WORLD STAND-UP COMEDY TOUR

SATURDAY OCT 23 THE PHOENIX

SATURDAY OCTOBER 23

TICKET INDEX

HS – HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com.

LN – LIVE NATION livenation.com.

PDR – PLAY DE RECORD 357 Yonge. 416-586-0380, playderecord.com.

How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 73, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

How to place a listing

TUESDAY OCTOBER 26

SOKO

Thursday, October 14

W/ TITLE FIGHT & BALANCE AND COMPOSURE THE MOD CLUB - ALL AGES

W/ MAYLEE TODD THE DRAKE HOTEL

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12

DJ SHADOW THE PHOENIX

WEDNESDAY NOV 17

ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI AND OS MUTANTES THE OPERA HOUSE

BUY TICKETS AT UNIONEVENTS.COM, TICKETMASTER, ROTATE THIS, SOUNDSCAPES & PLAY DE RECORD

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RT – ROTATE THIS 801 Queen W. 416-504-8447, rotate.com.

RTH – ROY THOMSON HALL/GLENN GOULD/MASSEY HALL 60 Simcoe/250 Front W. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com.

SC – SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

SS – SOUNDSCAPES 572 College. 416-537-1620, soundscapesmusic.com.

this week All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website.

Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

SENSES FAIL/BAYSIDE

Peaches Christ Superstar Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $35. RT, SS, TM. December 21.

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Gorillaz, N.E.R.D. doors 7 pm. See preview, page 61.

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

AQUILA UPSTAIRS All the Tired Horses (folk/ rock).

BOVINE SEX CLUB Indie Week The Johnnys, Westlake, Lion Ride, Rise for Order, Mad June, WAZU, Roymackonkey.

BREAD & CIRCUS Indie Week The Ascot Royals, Joel Battle, Portrait, StereoGoesStellar, Stacey Kaniuk, Last Second Magic 9 pm.

CAM’S PLACE The Late Show.

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CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA CABARET &

LOUNGE Indie Week Jia Harlow, the Withouts, Kick Everything 8 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Submutations (dub/ reggae) 10 pm.

CROCODILE ROCK Open Jam Night Thursdays Sonic Playground 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Steers & Queers Gay Ole Opry Three-Year Anniversary A Shotgun

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Wedding, Rev. Lex Vaughn, Man Chyna, DJ Sigourney Beaver (variety show/dancing).5 DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Indie Week The Coppertone, Hilary Weaver, Before the Flood, Lauren Malyon, the Central Nervous System, Berlin Brides, the Ascent of Everest 8 pm.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Indie Week: Blank-Fest benefit for Toronto’s homeless Baghdaddios, Falling Anvils, Manahan, Modified, All Else Fails, Playdeaf, Crooked Valentine 8;30 pm.

THE GARRISON The Dears 9 pm. ñ GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Thursday

Night Confidential I Pkew Pkew Pkew, Lindy Vopnfjord 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Miracle Whip 6 pm, the Millwinders 9 pm.

THE GREAT HALL Crash Test Dummies, Colleen Brown doors 8 pm, all ages.

HARD LUCK BAR Indie Week 5th Projekt, Mary Rose Obsession, Alternate End, Docile, L. Stadt, Drive Faster 8 pm.

THE HIDEOUT Indie Week You VS Me, Dan Kosub, the Little Black Dress, the Lost Boys, the MacHams, Milow the Girl, Static in the Stars 8 pm.

HORSESHOE Indie Week The Drama, Black Majik Movement, Mean Tangerine, What She Said, the Whatmans, the Back Bone Beat.

KENSINGTON CORNERSTONE RESTAURANT

Alissa Vox Raw, Jesse Barksdale, Timothy Gauthier 7 pm.

KOOL HAUS Bad Religion, Bouncing Souls, Off with their Heads (punk) doors 7 pm, all ages.

KOROVA MILKBAR Quilt, M Mucci, Toddler Body 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Sick! Benefit for Alex Abbott Caym, Little Sunday, DaysLeft (metal) doors 8:30 pm.

MASCOT Art House Sessions: benefit for Cup For Education The Balconies 10 pm.

MASSEY HALL Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Paul Anka 8 pm.

MOD CLUB We Came As Romans, In Fear and

TC – TORONTO CONSORT 416-964-6337, torontoconsort.org.

TM – TICKETMASTER 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca.

TMA – TICKETMASTER ARTSLINE 416-872-1111, ticketmaster.ca.

TW – TICKETWEB ticketweb.ca.

UE – UNION EVENTS unionevents.com.

UR – ROGERS UR MUSIC tickets.urmusic.ca.

Faith, Upon a Burning Body, Falling Forward (metalcore) doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE OK Go, Company of Thieves, Summer Darling doors 8 pm, all ages.

RIVOLI Indie Music Week Ten Kens, Tin Star Orphans, GoobyGoo & Peekers, Life Size Dream, Alright Alright, Mikey Bustos, Nans & Nat, Avery Island 8 pm.

ROSE THEATRE Spirit of the West 8 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR The Human Eye, Blood Rexdale, the Walls Are Blonde, Teen Tits, Minus 6,000,000,000, Rodrigo Wild 8 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Cobra Skulls, Victim Party, Permenant Bastards (punk rock) doors 9 pm.

STONES PLACE MFA: Joint Arts Project launch party Tomboyfriend (indie-pop queer arts troupe) 8 pm.

UNDERGROUND GARAGE Indie Week Noble Blood, the Adult Film Industry, Dog Tooth Violet 9 pm.

VELVET UNDERGROUND Indie Week Hot White Chocolate, the Cunninghams, Breaching Vista 8 pm.

WRONGBAR CD release Saidah Baba Talibah, DJ Paul E Lopes (alternative) 9 pm.

YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Jesse Labelle 1 pm, Kirstin Jones 2 pm, Erin Hunt 3 pm, Darrelle London 4 pm, Andrew Cole (5 pm), M.T.L (6 pm), Luke McMaster (7 pm).

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Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $34-$39. 416-5316604. February 11 and 12.

HOLY OAK CAFE Lozninger (folk) 7 pm, Polyester Heart & Nick Zubeck (folk) 10 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM CD release Laura Smith, Ryan MacGrath, Mike Ritchie, Tony Quarrington 8:30 pm.

HUMBER SUMMIT LIBRARY Songs From Mother Earth Yoann Freget (gospel/jazz/soul) 6:30 pm.

LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

LOU DAWG’S Don Campbell 6:30 pm, Mike Constantini 10:30 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Stella Rose.

MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, Harp Dog Brown, Graham Guest, Gary Craig, Terry Wilkins, Darren Gallen.

REBAS CAFÉ Michael Menegon & Frank Patrick 7 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS 10 pm. ñMuskox

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

THE CENTRAL Exposed: Cat Bent’s Freakshow Cabaret (cabaret) 6 to 9 pm.

CHINA HOUSE Cory Weeds, Neil Swainson, Ted Warren, Bernie Senensky 7:30 pm.

DE SOTOS Open mic/jam Double A Jazz 8 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 pm, Ken Skinner’s Back (jazz) 9 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

Music In The Afternoon Livia Sohn, Geoff Nuttall, Stephen Prutsman (violin/viola/piano) 1:30 pm.

Trench Town Oddities, the North, Graydon James & the Young, Novelists, Andy Brown, Kate Rogers Band, Simon Fagan, Winnebagos of Death 8 pm.

C’EST WHAT Noah Zacharin (folk) 10 pm.

EASTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH Songs For The Soil benefit concert for Canadian Organic Growers David Henman Band, Frank Wilks, Melanie Peterson and others (folk/blues/ rock/pop) 7:30 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Matt York (folk/rock) 9 pm.

FAT CAT WINE BAR Alan Small (guitar) 7 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFÉ Indie Week Elora, Faye Blais, Inlet Sound, Carlo Meriano, Que Sarah, Valentine Black, HOTCHA! 7:30 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Responsible Jam 9 pm.

Haydn & Mendelssohn Afiara String Quartet noon to 1 pm.

FUZION Cocktails At Six Mark Cassius, Ken Lindsay 6 to 9 pm.

JANE MALLETT THEATRE St Lawrence Quartet 8 pm.

THE LOCAL Old World Romance.

LULA LOUNGE Toronto Musicians For Mayor Joe fundraiser Andrew Cash, Michael Occhipinti, Yvette Tollar, Louis Simao, Rich Brown, Maryem Tollar, Pat Murray, Dan Fortin, Tania Gill, Michelle Willis 8 pm.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Julian Bewig (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Thursdays

BLUE MOON Open Jam Saxman Lou 9 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Indie Week

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

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HIP-HOP

2010.11 CONCERT SEASON

More than 70 classical, jazz, pop, and world music concerts to choose from in the magnificent Koerner Hall.

Airplane action

Local upstarts the Airplane Boys set their sights on being the OutKast of Toronto By JASON RICHARDS THE AIRPLANE BOYS and ROCHELLE JORDAN as part of INTIMATE & INTERACTIVE at Lambadina (875 Bloor West), Friday (October 15), doors 10 pm. $10. intimateninteractive.tumblr.com.

You know a hip-hop act is serious when they refer to their music as a “movement.”

Such is the case with Toronto rap duo the Airplane Boys, who’ve spent the last few weeks on a swift ascent thanks to a series of high-concept YouTube music videos, heavy airplay on FLOW 93.5 and an ambitious hustle.

“If Drake is the Jay-Z of Toronto, then we wanna be the OutKast,” says Jason Drakes, aka Bon Voyage.

This goal may come to fruition soon; Bon Voyage and partner-incrime Mannie Serranilla, aka Beck Motley, just returned from L.A., where they networked with highWith John Sherwood John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm.

THE PADDOCK Jake Wilkinson (jazz trumpet) 10 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Fred Spek’s Camp Combo (hipster vaudeville) 6 pm, Heavyweights Brass Band (New Orleans-style brass) 9 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm, Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message 9:45 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Sibelius Violin Concerto Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Henning Kraggerud (violin) 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Grand Opening Yo-Yo Ma,

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

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).

profile labels and management companies (though they’re not at liberty to say which ones).

The influence of Big Boi and Andre 3000 is clear in their work, as is that of other acts they look up to: N.E.R.D, Kanye West, Daft Punk. Take their biggest song to date, Sleep, with its combination of minor-chord electro production, Neptunes-style drum work and abstract lyrics.

“That song is about how when people are asleep, they’re more awake, and when they’re awake doing their day-to-day routine, they’re sleeping,” Drakes says.

“It’s also about leaving periods of negativity behind in your life – doing what you really want to do.” music@nowtoronto.com

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Interview clips at nowtoronto.com

THE OSSINGTON Subtitles Brandon Sek, Rory Them Finest.

PARTS & LABOUR There Goes The Neighbour-

hood Afterparty DJs Patrick Moore, Scott Wade (hip-hop) 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 90s Party.

THIS IS LONDON Mohabbat: A Benefit For Pakistan DJs Maseo, Mayer Hawthorne, Johnny Hocking doors 8 pm.

VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:15 pm.

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CANADIAN DEBUT!

BUIKA

Sat. Oct. 16, 2010 Intimate Spanish torch songs, sophisticated flamenco and jazz, and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

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

Friday, October 15 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

ALTER EGO MARTINI LOUNGE R&B Fridays.

BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40) 9:30 pm.

273 Bloor St. W. (Bloor & Avenue Road) Toronto

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collective concerts

www.collectiveconcerts.com

wed october 20 Mod Club | $18.50 advance

with

here we go magic

saturday october 16

the phoenix

early show • doors 5:30pm • $19.50 advance

tuesday october 19 @ Opera house

thursday october 14

jon hopkins

in fear and faith upon a burning body falling forward

mon octoBer 25 the mod club

$20.00 advance

new york city

trinity st. paul’s | $22.50 adv

real estate + casio vs japan

dry / all-ages show

sat october 30 @ horseshoe | $24.50 advance

with

the phoenix

$ 37.5o adv +ff

friday october 15 ska

friday november 5 the mod club | $15.00 advance

the morNiNG

tWin sisteR + OBeRhOFeR

release mustard plug the creepshow cd

BeAtDowN, DeALs GoNe BAD, the DreADNoUGhts

JAY BRANNAN lee’s Palace

dum dum girls

november 11

all-ages • $29.50 advance +ff

november 21

the vAselines armen ra thursday

koolhaus

sunday

glasgow scotland • sub pop • “molly’s lips” - “son of a gun”

with

thursday october 14

w/ Blackheart procession

mANgAN BeNDers harbourcoats

bouncing souls + off with their heads

Phoenix | union / stomp - $17.50 advance + ff

polaris prize nominee

with

30 th anniversary tour

we came as

thurs octoBer 28

DAN

so cal punk

Mod Club | all-ages - $ 14.50 advance

four romans

tet

416-598-0720

sat november 13 the phoenix

$ 20.50

advance +ff

tuesday october 26 the phoenix | 19+

with basia bulat

aL L-aGes

Friday November 26 souNd academy

with

superchunk

thursday december 9 sound academy • all ages

sub pop • montreal

sunday october 31 @ the Phoenix

tuesday november 2 Phoenix | $25.50 advance - ALL AGeS

metalcore

saturday december 11 the phoenix |

$ 30.00 advance

lee’s palace |

$ 25.00 advance

sunday december 12

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wEdnEsday november 3

wEdnEsday november 3 @ horseshoe tavern | $12.50 advance

to freedom

fRiday

satuRday november 6

monday

wooden

horseshoe tavern

40 oz joy formidaBle

Lee’s Palace | subLimE tribute - $13.50 adv

november 5

Lee’s Palace w/ JoSe GonZALeS

Ska/reggae

thuRs october 14 | $6.00 indie Week 2010

Black Bone Beat WhatmanS Slane What She Said runs with kittens + more! satuRday october 16 $13.50

advance

foxy shazam free energy the reason

TueSdAy Nu MuSic NigHT hosted by Bookie (16 th year ) tuEsday october 19

fRiday october 15

dustin Bentall november 10 mookie & the loyalists azure the coppertone fast romantics yukon blonde monday october 18

aVi buffalO $13.50

advance - sub Pop

allie hughes

alert the medic october 20 | 10.00 adv we were lovers wEd ex-be Your oWn Pet JIM bRYsOn & the jeff the weakeRthans band brotherhood andrew vincent heavy cream + youth crime $

thuRs october 21 | $ 6.00

low level flight Crush luther morning thieves

fRiday october 22 u.K. EPitaPh foLK PunK $13.50

advance

brit pop

red shoes

fRiday november 5 | $ 10.00

forest city lovers hooded fang allie hughes golden ghost

thuRsday october 28 | $10.00 advance no cover!

$13.50

advance

wEdnEsday

wEdnEsday

november 10 Lee’s Palace

“sex & Candy” - $20.00 advance

satuRday november 13

horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance

VetiVer

fRiday november 12

horseshoe tavern | $10.00 advance

two hours

traffic fRiday

the freSh and only’S

marcy playground

horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance

wEdnEsday

november 17

horseshoe | $13.50 adv

the blow

fRiday november 19

horseshoe | $17.50 adv - Vancouver bC

satuRday december 11 Lee’s Palace | $18.00 advance

grapeS juStin of wrath rutledge

WoodhandS rural white

fRiday november 26 horseshoe tavern | $12.00 advance

thuRs december 16

fRiday december 17

thuRsday october 14 | $ 10.00

caym dayS left little sunday satuRday october 16 | $ 10.00

tWo croWn king Walk off the earth street pharmacy StaylefiSh

Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance

Lee’s Palace | $16.50 advance

the duke advantage

thuRs oct 14 @ sneaky dee’s | $10.00 adv

cobra skulls $5.00

fRi october 15 @ El mocambo sweden - $13.50 advance

with bad religion Ticket Stub

mon october 25 @ the drake | $10.50 adv

adamtwo haworth stephens gallants of

feRRabY lIOnhaRt + kat buRns

monday

november 8

the drake | $10.50 advance

tuEsday november 9

tuEs november 16 @ Rivoli | $13.50 adv

the drake | $13.50 advance

donovan woods

artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720

horseshoetavern.com defense 370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina witH Wilco’S j. Stirratt

www.collectiveconcerts.com

wEdnEsday

november 30 El mocambo $12.50

advance

daft punk tribute

scIentIsts

Of sOund Dynamo + badnutbeats

satuRday october 23 | $10.00 imaginative party

Martha redbone inez redslam collective

helmet

wEd october 20 | $ 18.50

thuRs october 21 | $ 17.50

all girl punk rock

campbell

monday october 18 the drake | seattle - $14.50 advance

rocky votolato witH

ha ha tonka

violenS jameS horse feathers blackshaw

bruce peninsula the golden dogs autumn tunng sunday

fRiday october 15 | $ 12.00

sunday october 17 | $22.50 adv - new york City Grunge

cuff alberta cowbell iSoBel oklahoma the drake

416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

with

with

clinic

thuRs november 11 Lee’s Palace

november 7

fRiday october 29 | $6.00 - high Energy Rock & Roll

sharon Van etten

sky ray winter gloves

Lee’s Palace | $13.50 advance

ORgan thIeves gentlemen husbands MOnsteR tRuck bad ideas cavaliers + the north eaton mcgrath

blood

Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance

november 19

fRiday october 15

wEd october 27 | $ 11.50 adv

november 8

junip dawes

with

monday november 8 El mocambo | $12.50 advance

mark lanegan ex-belle & sebastian

& screaming trees ‘duo’ fRiday october 22

cIvet + dIeMOnds

| $17.50 advance - new york City ska

the slackeRs with

green room rockers

wEdnEsday october 27 a benefit for virgin unite’s re:generation featuring

satuRday october 30

goin’ steady

tuEs november 16 @ El mocambo | $11.50 adv

fang island w/ delicate Steve

StornoWay

franZ nicolay & major general ( ex-Hold Steady )

Advance Tickets @ ticketmaster.ca or 416-870-8000 • Horseshoe Front Bar • Soundscapes • Rotate This

tickets $20.00 @ ticketweb

halloween dance

artist bookings: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW october 14-20 2010

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BLOOR/GLADSTONE LIBRARY Make Some Noise: Juno Awards 40th Anniversary ñ Concert Buck 65 8 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Indie Week Artist Showcase

The Red Boy, Static in the Stars, the Hyena Dog Robbery, You Handsome Devil, Broadcast Zero, the Lucky Ones, the Black Rainbows 8 pm.

BREAD & CIRCUS Indie Week Vinyl Hero, Morgan David, Melina Soochan, the Murder Plans, the Breaking Lakes, blueVenus 8 pm.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Alistair Christl & the Cosmotones (roots R&R).

CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA CABA-

RET & LOUNGE Indie Week She King, Mad June, the Fantasy Defender 8 pm.

CLINTON’S Sweater Season Dress Rehearsal, Jennifer Courvoisier, Ryan Patrick Haley.

DAKOTA TAVERN The Sheepdogs (Southern rock).

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND

Indie Week WAXMEN, Our Friend & the Spiders, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Jumple 7 pm.

THE GARRISON The Dears 9 pm. ñ GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY

Lissie tames Tiger Illinois singer/songwriter nabs a top 20 UK hit with debut album Catching A Tiger By KEVIN RITCHIE

year and a half of studio sessions in

LISSIE and DYLAN LEBLANC at El Mocambo London, Nashville and L.A., where she (464 Spadina), Tuesday (October 19), doors 8 pm. $12.50. LN, RT, SS, TW, UR.

Lissie Maurus doesn’t paint the most attractive portrait of her onstage self.

“I give a lot in my songs,” the 27year-old singer/songwriter says over the phone from a tour stop in Los Angeles. “I get really sweaty, my face turns red, I run out of breath. I just really go for it.”

The raw power she uses to bring her hard-edged, hooky folk rock to life is part of the reason Maurus, who performs under her first name, believes she’s been able to make music a fulltime gig.

Five years ago the Illinois native quit her studies in Colorado and moved to L.A. to have a go at the music industry.

It didn’t take long before she started making the right connections. An illfated deal with Maverick led Maurus to her current manager, and eventually she signed to Sony.

In June, she released her debut album, Catching A Tiger (Columbia), a breezy collection of world-weary Americana tunes that became a top 20 hit in the UK. The songs arose from a

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worked with a variety of co-writers and co-producers including English piano man Ed Harcourt and Kings of Leon producer Angelo Petraglia.

Initially, though, she was reluctant to collaborate.

“I’ve always written [songs] and played lots of shows but I could never quite figure out what I wanted to do when it came to recording,” Maurus says. “They’d just start playing some lick and I’d start stream-of-consciously throwing melodic ideas and lyric bits around, and it came together really naturally.”

In addition to her powerful voice, Maurus’s self-assured, outgoing nature endears her to people; she can talk the talk without seeming desperate.

“Even when things weren’t going so well for me, I always thought I was doing a good job,” she says. “I was kind of delusional. I never once thought I couldn’t make it, so I always carried myself with a good spirit.” music@nowtoronto.com

more online

Interview clips at nowtoronto.com

BAR Dirt Farmer (pop/rock/hiphop/soul) 8 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm, Bill Wood, Dany Laj 9 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR Indie Week YOUTHINASIA, Broomfiller, Dead Messenger, Grace Over Diamonds, the Lost Boys, the Live Lights 8 pm.

HARLEM Sam Boileau (soul/funk/reggae/blues) 7:30 pm.

THE HIDEOUT Indie Week: Irish Showcase Last Second Magic, Simon Fagan, Valentine Black, the Whatmans, Nightbox, Bella Clava, Brazen Angelz, Berlin Brides doors 8 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Coco & Co, Empire Lights, My Lovely Son (pop) 10 pm.

LAMBADINA Intimate & Interactive Open Mic The Airplane Boys, Rochelle Jordan doors 10 pm. See preview, page 65.

LULA LOUNGE CD release Odel Johnson & the Guvament (roots/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

MASSEY HALL Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Burton Cummings, Jill Hennessy 8 pm.

MOD CLUB Mike Posner, Far East Movement, Stephen Jerzak, 2AM Club, Bad Rabbits, XV doors 7 pm, all ages.

MONARCHS PUB Classic Rock Fridays Michael Danckert, Kevin Adamson, Danny Lockwood 7 pm.

NOCTURNE FRONT ROOM Indie Week Electronic Showcase Delica-m, Nans & Nat, Dinosaur Dinosaur, Kick Everything, WAZU. NOCTURNE MAIN ROOM Indie Week Electronic Showcase Eden Warsaw, L.Stadt, the Tanuki Project, GoobyGoo & Peekers 9 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Mayer Hawthorne & the County doors 9 pm.

ORIGINAL’S Kenny V (R&B/rock/reggae).

THE PAINTED LADY Toronto Funk Alliance, Honey B Hind (funk/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR TV Buddhas, Greys, Les Frauleins, Neon Windbreaker 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE The Planet Smashers, the Creepshow, Mustard Plug, Beatdown, Dreadnoughts, Deals Gone Bad (psychobilly punk) 6 pm, all ages.

RIVOLI Indie Week Colors in the Air, Secrettes, Berlin Brides, These Electric Lives, Simon Walls, Isle of Dogs, Milow the Girl, Prelapse Slow Motion, Victory 8 pm.

ROCKPILE Janis Joplin’s Original Band: Big Brother and the Holding Co..

SIESTA NOUVEAUX STUDIO BLR Falklands.

SILVER DOLLAR Indie Week Prodigal Sons, Partland Brothers, Old Crowns, Serena Pryne & the Mandevilles, the Eatons, Jamie Flegg 8 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Vic Ruggiero, Constable Brennan, the Heatskores (punk/ska) 8 pm.

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& Dave West 7:30 pm, Metal Kites 10 pm. underground gArAge Indie Week Australian Showcase Shane Walters, WAZU, Roymackonkey, Bluespoon, Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold, Mrs Johnston, Inner City Elegance, 8 pm.

VelVeT underground Indie Week Atlantis Blueprint, the Black Napalese 8 pm.

VillAge VApor lounge Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. yonge-dundAS SquAre Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Jill Hennessy noon, Liam Titcomb 1 pm, M.T.L. 2 pm, Jodi King 3 pm, JRDN (4 pm), Andrew Cole (5 pm), Julie Crochetière (6 pm), Nightbox (7 pm).

fast (hip-hop/funk/rocksteady reggae) 9 pm. mod club Get Er Done DJs Star Eyes, Roxy Cottontail, Jubilee, Betti Forde, Riviera doors 10 pm.

The oSSingTon Rap VS Rock – Front Room Rock VS Back Room Rap. The SAVoy Uptown DJ Chris Formagin (soul/ jazz/R&B) 7 & 11 pm.

SupermArkeT Market Fresh! DJ Class!CK, Yo Ev! (classics/electro/house) 10 pm.

VelVeT underground DJ Loriann 11 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

ASpeTTA cAFFe Life Blown Open, Marnie

AmAdeuS Brian Cober, Terry Wilkins, Bill He-

define 9 pm.

cAmeron houSe Zeppelinesque (Led Zep tribute).

cornerSTone pub Two by Four (acoustic blues/R&R).

el mocAmbo First Aid Kit, Ferraby Lionheart (indie folk duo) doors 9 pm.

460 SpAdinA Down by Riverside.

Free TimeS cAFé Indie Week Jill Jambor, Sarah

MacRae, Maneli Jamal, Sabrina Korva, Kevin Wong, A Primitive Evolution 7:30 pm. glenn gould STudio Danny Michel (folk rock) 8 pm. groSSmAn’S The Damn Neighbours, Madagascar Slim 9:30 pm. highwAy 61 SouThern bArbeque Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm. horSeShoe Dustin Bentall, Mookie & the Loyalists, the Coppertone, Fast Romantics. hugh’S room McKenna Gibson Band 8:30 pm. lolA Gypsy Rebels (world) 8 pm. lou dAwg’S Paige Armstrong (rockin’ blues) 9 pm. miSSiSSAugA conVenTion cenTre ARTSbeats Gala TorQ Percussion Ensemble, Carlos Bastidas 7 pm. miTzi’S SiSTer Pilgrims of Brock, Ron Leary, Rich Burnett, Pork Royalty.

uniTAriAn congregATion greAT hAll windmill TheATre Night And Day: Music From The Great American Song Book of the 30s & 40s The Windmill Ensemble 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

AquilA The Sassy Bearcat Band (jazz/blues).

ASpeTTA cAFFe Phil Tessis Trio, Amy & Emmie (jazz/blues) 8 pm.

dominion on queen George Grosman’s Bohemian Swing 9 pm.

humber college lAkeShore cAmpuS Hum-

ber Music Jazz Series Bob Mintzer & the Humber Faculty Big Band 8 pm. lulA lounge Sam Dickinson Trio w/ Matthew Chalmers 8 pm. old mill inn home SmiTh bAr Fridays To Sing About Adi Braun Trio 7:30 pm. quoTeS Fridays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Michael Stuart (saxophone) 5 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm, Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm, Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message 9:45 pm.

TiFF bell lighTbox The Ambassadors The Toronto Consort 8 pm.

TrAne STudio Miles Davis Tribute: Plugged Nickel – The Shorter Years Brownman.

TrAnzAc The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

TriniTy ST pAul’S church The Ambassadors Toronto Consort 8 pm. wATerFAllS Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 6:30 pm.

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Hollyrock, Sammy D, Elle Nino, J-ill, ñ Stunts (queer hip-hop jam) 9 pm.5

bAbAlúu DJ Julio Cesar 10 pm. drAke hoTel underground Edumacation

Kaewonder, Sweet Touch Foundation 11 pm. drAke hoTel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. eTon houSe Singles Night DJ Phil (top 40) 9pm.

Fly Dance Camp DJ Mark Falco (90s vocal dance floor hits) 10 pm.5 FooTwork Deko-ze, Robb G, Cam Maxwell, Jayforce doors 10 pm. goodhAndy’S Mandy Goodhandy Gent’s Club DJ Sexy Pants doors 10 pm.5 hyde In The Know DJs Mike Toast, Matt Karpf 10 pm. inSomniA Back In The Day BlackFriends (hip-hop).

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bAr iTAliA Al Webster 10 pm. boVine Sex club Indie Week Daisy Chain,

Doll, the Live Lights, A Primitive Evolution, Darlings of Chelsea, Teenage X, Voodoo Bunny 8 pm. breAd & circuS Indie Week Semi-Finals 8 pm. cAm’S plAce The Badstards. chAlkerS pub Soul Stew, DJ Vinyl Crush (funk/disco/rock) 9:30 pm.

cherry colA’S rock n’ rollA cAbAreT & lounge Indie Week Courage My Love, Milow the Girl, Brooklyn Fletcher 8 pm.

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10 pm. ñcatl dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 8 pm. ñ drAke underground Indie Week East Coast

Ceilidh Kitchen Party Tim Chaisson & Morning Fold, Kristina Trites, Jon Hines Show, Sherman Downey & the Ambiguous Case 6 pm. drAke underground Evening Standard, CFCF doors 11 pm. eddie’S plAce The Lost Legends (rock) 9 pm. elgin TheATre Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival M.T.L. 1 pm. eTon houSe The Failsafe (classic rock) 9 pm. glAdSTone hoTel melody bAr Country Saturdays Box Full of Cash (folk/blues/country/ world) 7 pm. grAFFiTi’S The Sin City Boys 4 to 7 pm, Ian Philp, Bobby Sanderson, Steve Stanley eve. hArd luck bAr Indie Week Semi-Finals 8 pm. hArlem Aria (soul/reggae/Afrobeat) 8 pm.

The hideouT Indie Week Semi-Finals The Lost Boys, Static in the Stars, the Whatmans 8 pm. horSeShoe Hollerado, Foxy Shazam, Free Energy doors 9 pm. imperiAl pub Birthday Bash Rex Baunsit, Joyful Sinners 8:30 pm. lee’S pAlAce Two Crown King, Walk Off the Earth, Street Pharmacy, Staylefish.

The locAl Book of Gnomes (pop/experimental jazz/soundscapes). mASSey hAll Pop Cherry (Stonesy rock) 8 pm. mod club The Drums, the Hairs 6:30 pm. originAl’S Kenny V (R&B/rock/reggae). pArTS & lAbour Cerebral Ballsy, Fog of Leprosy, Fatality 10 pm. phoenix concerT TheATre Dr Dog, Here We Go Magic (folk rock/alt country) doors 5:30 pm. See preview, page 70.

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Free TimeS cAFé Indie Week Semi-Finals John Allaire, Thunderclap!, Scotty James, Jenikz 7:30 pm. glenn gould STudio Danny Michel (folk rock) 8 pm. groSSmAn’S Graceful Daddies 9 pm. highwAy 61 SouThern bArbeque Aaron Griggs (blues) 8 pm. hugh’S room Tom Paxton. lou dAwg’S Jeff Fager 10 pm. lulA lounge Colombia Mi Amor Orquesta Fantasia, DJ Giovanni Torres (salsa) 7 pm. miTzi’S SiSTer The Volunteers. remArkS bAr & grill Open Mic Jam Johnny Blue Quartet 4 to 8 pm. rex Danny Marks (blues) noon.

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pino, Adolfo De Santis (vocals, piano) 7:30 pm. chAlkerS pub Nancy Walker Trio 6 to 9 pm. dominion on queen Tim Turvey Jazz Ensemble 8 pm. drAke hoTel lounge Ed Vokurka Ensemble (swing/jazz) 8 pm.

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chestra Mississauga, Alexander Sevastian (accordion) 8 pm. old mill inn Piano Masters Amanda Tosoff Trio 7:30 pm. piloT TAVern Cory Weeds, Bernie Senensky, Reg Schwager, Ted Warren matinee. poliSh combATAnTS hAll X Avant New Music Festival: Trading Spaces Jeff Mills, Big Zang, DJs Jamie Kidd, Martin Fazekas (live A/V piece) 9 pm. See preview, page 72. rex Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 3:30 pm, Sara Dell 7 pm, Cory Weeds, Bernie Senensky, Reg Schwager, Ted Warren 9:45 pm. roy ThomSon hAll Sibelius Violin Concerto Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Henning Kraggerud (violin) 8 pm.

ST pATrick’S cATholic church Music For The Six Wives Of Henry VIII The Tallis Choir 7:30 pm.

TriniTy ST pAul’S church The Ambassadors Toronto Consort 8 pm.

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FooTwork Milton Jackson doors 10 pm. goodhAndy’S Sodom Monster Ball: A Hallow-

een Extravaganza DJ Sumation, Ben Anthony Lavoz, Mahogany Browne doors 10 pm.5 guVernmenT Kaskade. holy oAk cAFe Hot Weather (world rhythms) 10 pm. hyde Hyde After Dark DJs M-Kutz, Mikeo (mashups) 10 pm. inSomniA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house).

JAngbAng Night Music Eroc & Codis (disco/ house) 10:30 pm.

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Such is the case with singer/songwriter Luke Temple, leader of Brooklyn avant-pop band Here We Go Magic. Temple recorded the first album (self-titled, 2009) alone in his bedroom and has since expanded the project into a five-piece band.

The resultant follow-up, Pigeons (Secretly Canadian), has brightened production and fleshed-out arrangements but retains the debut’s swirling, hypnotic, world-folk aesthetic, a sound that’s both jarring and familiar.

“I like to think of it like this,” explains well-spoken keyboardist Kristina Lieberson over the phone from New York City. “The project’s palette has four new colours, but it still has the same texture.”

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“We’re all interested in repetitious, layered structures, which is really how we came together in the first place,” says Lieberson. “Luke wanted musicians who could play the first album live, and that inspired us to collaborate in the same mode.

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Techno

Mills’s X Avant thrills Detroit techno god Jeff Mills is excited by his gig at experimental music festival X Avant By Benjamin Boles

this year, at least in terms of progressing the art form of electronic music.”

In fact, Mills has expanded the genre into other contexts. He’s performed with an orchestra, worked with pianists, and for X Avant, he’ll incorporate actors and projections into his set, which explores the theme of UFOs and people’s belief in them.

Outer space has been a recurring topic in his work. His timing is particularly appropriate right now, as a surprising number of ex-military figures are insisting that there have been repeated UFO appearances for decades.

“This information has always been out there,” says Mills, “but unfortunately it’s only coming to the attention of the mainstream media now. The more you pay attention to it, the more you understand why people are so attracted to it; a lot of it is actually very logical and possible.”

Has Mills ever experienced a close encounter?

“Not really. But when you fly back and forth over the ocean so many times, you see some strange things. I haven’t seen an actual spaceship, though. Yet.”

Jeff MiLLs with biG zanG, JaMie kiDD and Martin fazekas at the Polish Combatants Hall (206 Beverley), Saturday (October 16). $15-$20. RT, SS, TW.

A Jeff Mills gig would typically be at a big afterhours dance club with a massive sound system. So why is the Detroit techno pioneer playing the Music Gallery’s fifth annual X Avant Festival?

Running from October 16 to 24, the fest showcases experimental avant-garde music geared more toward chin-scratching than foot-stomping, an atypical environment for a legendary DJ working turntable magic.

“It’s an opportunity to be more conceptual with the music,” Mills explains.

“Unfortunately, there aren’t many examples of [techno music] being used in other contexts. The dance floor is so dominant that people have been misled into believing this music’s only good when it’s made for people to dance to.

“This might actually be the most important event that I do

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LoLa Steve Gleason 3 pm.

Mitzi’s sister The Liquidaires 5 to 7 pm. rex Dr Nick (blues) 3:30 pm. roc n Doc’s Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 pm. superMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. tranzac southern cross Griffin Epstein, Liv Carrow, Laura Mac 7:30 pm, Brandon Agnew 10:30 pm.

GLenn GouLD stuDio Gravity & Grace Amici Chamber Ensemble (chamber music) 3 pm. harLeM Open Jam Night Prince Jahmercan (jazz/funk/soul/Motown/R&B/pop) 7 pm.

Joe MaMa’s The Nathan Hiltz Trio 7 pm.

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Music GaLLery X Avant New Music Festival: The Complete Recitations By Georges Aperghis Donatienne Michel-Dansac 8 pm. the painteD LaDy Safety in Numbers (Django meets tango jazz) 6 to 9 pm. rebas café The Noah Sherman Trio 1 to 4 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Cory Weeds Organ Group 9:45 pm.

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GooDhanDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 Graffiti’s Blackmetal Brunch DJ Murder Mike (black metal) 11 am to 5 pm.

GuvernMent Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77. hyDe Factory Sundays DJs Joe Mazone, Manolo, Mikel Curcio, Goldfinger, Addy 10 pm. the ossinGton 100% Geoff Snack, Adam Jackson. veLvet unDerGrounD DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

WronGbar Kenny Ken, DJ SS doors 9:30 pm.

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The Age Of Adz (Asthmatic Kitty) Rating: NNNN While there were releases in between (EPs, instrumental highway laments), The Age Of Adz is really the first Sufjan Stevens full-length since Illinois. A lot has changed in five years.

Clearly his plan to make an album for each U.S. state didn’t include this record, which loses more than geographic dedication. Drum machines and beeping bloops replace much of Stevens’s cute campfire banjo sounds of yore.

Lead track Futile Devices eases the transition from old to new Stevens, but by the first synthesized buzzes of Too Much, you know we’re going someplace different. That said, it’s still a Sufjan disc – multi-layered, thoughtfully orchestrated, captivating. In some ways the change in direction makes you feel closer to him than ever – especially if you can digest Impossible Soul, a 25-minute dissection of failed love at the end of this already lofty 75-minute charmer.

Top track: Impossible Soul PAUL TEREFENKO

(Secretly Canadian) Rating: NNN At Antony and the Johnsons’ most recent Toronto concert – February 2009 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Antony Hegarty revealed his lighter side, enlivening the set with off-the-cuff anecdotes during the spaces between his heart-wrenching piano ballads. Turns out, the bruised, androgynous, master translator of his inner pain into dramatic song is hilarious.

While his fourth album is no Punch & Judy show, lead single Thank You For Your Love is all gratitude-filled lyrics and celebratory horns, I’m In Love gets more rhythmically experimental than usual, and an “everything is new” mantra optimistically begins and ends the LP. Hegarty’s still haunted – Ghost, the Björk duet Flétta and the majestic The Spirit Was Gone attest to that – and his voice still trills, emotes and grows operatic, enhanced by Nico Muhly’s minimalist orchestral arrangements.

But taken as a whole, Swanlights is curiously one-note, occasionally self-indulgent and fails to leave a strong impression. Or perhaps Hegarty’s simply raised the bar impossibly high for himself.

Top track: The Spirit Was Gone CARLA GILLIS

Bloodstreams (Blue Fog) Rating: Melissa Boraski, once a regular on Toronto stages, left the musical life behind to become a parent. Unfortunately, being a stay-at-home mom can drive you nuts with boredom, so she began experimenting with her boyfriend’s vintage synth during nap time, as well as toying around writing acoustic folk songs. Eventually, she realized these two pursuits had more common ground than was immediately obvious, and Eiyn Sof was born.

The results are a mesmerizing blend of contemplative and playful, intimate and interstellar. The nods to electronic music manage to sit comfortably alongside the strumming and sweet harmonies, and never seem like an artificially forced experiment. Bloodstreams is a strikingly strong debut record that’s deceptively understated and startlingly original.

Top track: Bloodstreams Eiyn Sof plays Korova MilkBar October 27.

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KINGS OF LEON Come Around Sundown

(Sony) Rating: NN Kings of Leon used to be the best thing in a bad situation. Their arena alt rock with a translucent indie vibe was perfect for radio, and we could rely on them to push Nickelback out of an airtime slot. Then came 2008’s Only By The Night, a surprisingly good effort for a nothing-to-bragabout bro band. The Followill boys were experimenting and started leading us somewhere.

The fact that Come Around Sundown falls short, then, is all the more disappointing. Mary is an unconvincing bland throwback to AM oldies. The Face and The Immortals drone on with what you could call “subtlety” if you were too kind to say “boring.” Back Down South is no barnburner either. The exception is Radioactive, which wouldn’t have cracked the OCTOBER 14-20 2010 NOW

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Album (independent) Rating: It feels like forever since Hooded Fang’s debut EP turned them into a local band to watch, but the time they put into crafting this fully formed LP has unquestionably paid off. It takes effort to write songs that sound this effortless, and a 12-song record without a single weak link is a serious feat for a young band.

Cheerful but not twee, wistful but not gloomy, the seven-piece hit the golden mean separating good pop from bad.

Though they’re a large band, the arrangements never sound crowded. Horns, accordions and xylophone complement but never overwhelm catchy guitar lines and Daniel Lee’s breezy baritone. And despite lyrics that tend toward nostalgia, infectious hooks and upbeat instrumentals keep the mood light.

Their skill shines through clearest on Highway Steam, whose trumpets, boy/girl harmonies and catchy songwriting amount to endless replayability. The closer, Love Song, proves they can do the same with a more minimalist aesthetic.

Top track: Highway Steam Hooded Fang play the Horseshoe November 5.

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THE DRUMS (Downtown) Rating: NN

Enjoyment of the Drums depends partly on how much of a role you think originality should play in music. Juxtaposing winsome 50s pop against 80s post-punk scored the Brooklyn band a lot of blog buzz, but the sound loses its novelty when stretched over a full album. Less creators than curators, they fill their debut LP with easily traceable signposts – some Johnny Marr guitar here, some Joy Division drums there – and call it a day.

Despite its calculation, the album does contain some legitimately fun, catchy moments. It’s easy to see, for instance, why Let’s Go Surfing’s memory-sticking chorus burned up HypeMachine, while Best Friend’s smirk-inducing “You were my best friend and then you died” lyric plays well against the New Order arrangement.

But after about the fourth track, Jonathan Pierce’s anglo-aping croon begins to grate.

Works better on MP3 than on record.

Top track: I Wanna Go Surfing The Drums play Saturday (October 16) at the Mod Club.

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GIANNA LAUREN Some Move Closer,

Some Move On (Forward) Rating: NNN Gianna Lauren’s aptly named second disc came out of a move from Ottawa to Halifax that landed her in the heart of a sympathetically mellow music-making community. Backed by producer Daniel Ledwell (In-Flight Safety, Jenn Grant),

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Ottawa’s Daniel Lalonde, viola player Kinley Dowling (Hey Rosetta!) and labelmate Andrew Sisk (Share), the album’s spacious, ambient and dreamy – like Julie Doiron if she developed a taste for electronica.

Lauren’s haunting, layered vocals are the star here, though sometimes it’s hard to make out what she’s saying and nearly impossible to guess where she’s going.

Such meandering holds appeal, while sonic experiments include sneaky time changes on Le Vent Marin (Hovercraft), a cappella Oh Feather and the horns and gang vocals on the relatively rocking Standstill.

Top track: Nightmares Gianna Lauren plays the Tranzac Saturday (October 16).

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Metallic Spheres (Columbia) Rating: The team-up of the Orb and David Gilmour makes so much sense, it’s only surprising that it took so long. Not only were the ambient house pioneers initially both derided and celebrated by critics as a rave-era Pink Floyd, but, like their psychedelic forefathers, the Orb also suffered through everchanging lineups and disputes about who’s the real brains behind the music. Similarly, both acts followed up some indisputably brilliant recordings with an unfortunately long string of disappointments.

So while Roger Waters tries to ride nostalgia for The Wall more than 30 years later, give some credit to Gilmour for moving on to new challenges. Conversely, it’s a relief to see the Orb go back to the experimental soundscapes that made them famous, rather than continue their ill-considered attempts to write proper songs.

(This 50-minute album has only two tracks.) The results are exactly what fans of either act would hope for and a pleasant surprise for those who’d given up on both of them.

Top track: Metallic Side BB

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FUBAR II Give’r Again (Warner)

Rating: NNN Seeing Ian Blurton’s name in the production credits for this mockumentary sequel soundtrack offers a ray of hope amidst the worrisome prospect of an album’s worth of “spoof rock.” Blurton, a purist of the hard rock genre, wouldn’t waste his time making a tongue-in-cheek metal laugher, and keeps this soundtrack a decent standalone spin.

Some of the credit of course goes to Paul “Deaner” Spence, who leads Night Seeker, the FUBAR band that more than competently covers Boston’s More Than A Feeling and delivers Motörhead-calibre originals like Spellraiser and the Poisoninfected power ballad Right On. Sabbath’s stunning post-Ozzy Die Young opens the album, and Blue Cheer’s gritty 1968 drum odyssey Just A Little Bit has Blurton’s fingerprints all over it.

But what’s with all the yuletide numbers? Sure, the season is part of the film’s plot, but there’s nothing particularly “give’r” about Christmas tunes.

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Rating: nnnn the gardiner museum brings together a quartet of 30-something Canadians whose artwork incorporates clay in playful, unconventional ways to offer a variety of warped takes on traditional ceramic tropes.

Sobey Art Award finalist Brendan Tang uses ceramics as the medium for his meditations on Asian culture.

In his Manga Ormolu series, futuristic, jet-pack-like machine parts squeeze and deform Chinese-style blue and white vases. The manga mounts and familiar pottery items seem strangely comfortable together, as if the vases were comic-book engines powering up the hybrid contraptions for takeoff.

Sculptor Marc Courtemanche employs woodworking techniques on fired blocks of clay to fabricate realistic, life-size workshop tools, homely chairs and still-life fruit. He keeps it confusing by mixing in real metal parts and sappy floral decoration.

There’s something endearing about his celebration of ordinariness and absolute rejection of high-end design.

Attention Alan Ball: Carmela Laganse takes her love of Pee-wee’s Playroom furniture forms in a dark direction with a suite of swanky upholstered settees and stands equipped with ceramic headrests and basins that position people to be fed on by vampires. Photos of models on the furniture (no Bill or Edward, though)

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Julie Andreyev, to Oct 31. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-895-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Installation: Allyson Mitchell, to Nov 28 (Young Gallery, free).

Mixed media: Shary Boyle, to Dec 5. Film/ painting: Julian Schnabel, to Jan 2, 2011.

Photos: The Grange Prize, to Jan 2, 2011.

Sculpture/painting: Eva Hesse, Betty Goodwin and Agnes Martin, to Jan 2, 2011. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Video/performance/photos: Terrance Houle, to Dec 5.

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BATA SHOE MUSEUM Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear; Socks: Between You And Your Shoes, ongoing. $12, srs $10, stu $6. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, to Nov 28. U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905828-3789.

DESIGN EXCHANGE New Work: Will Alsop, to Oct 18 (free). 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, to Nov 28. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

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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.

THE POWER PLANT Painting/tapestry/video: Ian Wallace and Pae White, to Jan 2, 2011. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

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PEAK GALLERY Painting: Raffael Iglesias, to Oct 30. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108.

PREFIX Video installation: Lars Laumann, Helen Reed and Althea Thauberger, to Nov 27. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

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As it is, the story, set in 1969 at a family compound near Fenelon Falls, is way too confusing, and there’s so much detail you can almost drown in it.

The problem starts when the unnamed narrator – a very untrustworthy one – does his po-mo thing, trying to give us a context for the story of his adopted baby sister Jordan, born with a disability and treated as the family black sheep.

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Nov 7. Eleven In Motion: Abstract Expressions In Animation, to Sep 18, 2011. Pwyc. 72 Queen (Oshawa). 905-576-3000.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Institute for Contemporary Culture: painting/sculpture: El Anatsui, to Jan 2, 2011. 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, to Mar 27, 2011. Position As Desired/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27, 2011. 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. 416586-8000.

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

Photo 10, to Oct 28. Brookfield Place, 181 Bay. worldpressphotobrookfieldplace.com.

ART WITH HEART Auction to benefit Casey House, preview Oct 15-17 (Bonhams, 20 Hazelton), reception 5:30 pm/auction 7 pm Oct 19. $150. Carlu, 444 Yonge. 416-9624040, artwithheart.ca.

BAU-XI PHOTO Heidi Leverty, Oct 16-30, reception 2-4 pm Oct 16. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painted constructions: Gordon Rayner, Oct 16-Nov 10, reception 2-6 pm Oct 16. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

CORKIN GALLERY Installation: Ian Baxter&, to Nov 7. 55 Mill. 416-979-1980.

DISTILLERY DISTRICT Photos: Drawn To Develop (auction for Street Kids International), 7:30 pm-1 am Oct 14 ($75, drawntodevelop.com). 55 Mill, bldg 58.

416-364-1179.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Prints (Printopolis): Doug Guildford, Catherine Heard and Penelope Stewart, to Oct 24. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Video: Shaun Gladwell, to Oct 16. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112.

INDEXG GALLERY Prints (Printopolis): Hou Chum-ming, to Nov 21, reception 2-6 pm Oct 16. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Painting: Eliza Griffiths and Clint Griffin, to Oct 24. Prints (Printopolis): Amber Albrecht, to Oct 24.

1082 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

MERCER UNION Spiked Tea Afternoon So-

than necessary. A terrific chapter that comes right in the middle of the book – the moment he discovers Jordan’s diary – would have set the stage much more effectively.

Jordan is a compelling character.

Obsessed with pop culture – she collects Chum top 50 singles charts as if they were precious artifacts – and armed with a staggering intellect, she spends her time fantasizing about her birth parents and writing fake accounts, 100 of them to be exact, of 1954’s Hurricane Hazel, when she thinks she was conceived.

She and the narrator, an exceptional athlete, are inseparable, speaking sometimes in references only they can understand. He does what he can to protect her from her abusive cousins, including budding sadist Derwood. Also figuring prominently is a caged bear, the town’s main tourist attraction, that Jordan is determined to set free.

The author shows real promise.

Some sequences tear along at breakneck speed, but others get bogged down in unnecessary minutiae. Yes, Jordan loves specifics, but that doesn’t mean we need so many.

Palmer’s talent needs nurturing by a skilled editor who can rein her in.

SUSAN G. COLE Palmer reads alongside other Coach House writers launching books tonight (Thursday, October 14) at Revival. See Readings, this page.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

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The Toronto Book Awards kick off the season’s prize presentations tonight (Thursday, October 14) at the Toronto Reference Library. It’s not the glitziest event, but it does put the focus on local writers, and that’s a good thing. This year’s finalists include Seán Cullen’s The Prince Of Neither Here Nor There (Puffin), Cary Fagan’s Valentine’s Fall (Cormorant), Lauren Kirshner’s Where We Have To Go (McClelland & Stewart), Mark Sinnett’s The Carnivore (ECW) and Dragan Todorovic’s Diary Of Interrupted Days (Random House). A great night to celebrate local writers – hosted by Matt GalloSGC way – and it’s free.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, October 14 COACH HOUSE FALL LAUNCH Readings by Gary

Barwin, Dorothy Ellen Palmer, Gail Scott, Jon Paul Fiorentino and (via video) Jonathan Ball.

8 pm. Free. Revival, 783 College. 416-9792217.

GREG GAFFIN The Bad Religion lead singer signs copies of his new book. 6 pm. Free.

HMV, 333 Yonge. harpercollins.com.

MICHAEL RIORDAN Reading from Our Way To Fight. 7:30-9:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

Friday, October 15 MARGARET TRUDEAU Interviewed about her memoir by Heather Reisman. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Saturday, October 16 INDEPENDENTS MATTER DAY Readings by Jody Nyasha Warner, Cordelia Strube, Michael Winter and more. 10:30 am-4 pm. Free. Another Story, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104.

Sunday, October 17 AUTHORS BRUNCH Ruth Rakoff, Roy Mac-

gregor and others. 10 am. $45. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. Pre-register 416-361-0032.

JILLIAN CHRISTMAS/MICHAEL FRASER/LYNN HARRIGAN/JOHN B LEE Poetry. 6 pm. Free.

Central, 603 Markham. thecentral.ca.

Monday, October 18 MARC-ANTOINE MATHIEU The comic artist talks about his work. 6:30-9 pm. Free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-533-9168.

ANNE PERDUE Launch. 7 pm. Free. Samovar, 51A Winchester. insomniacpress.com.

RICK SPRINGFIELD Signing. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, October 19 ROSA JOHN Reading. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

MANSFIELD PRESS Fall launch. 7:30 pm. Free.

Boat, 158 Augusta. 416-532-2086.

QUATTRO FALL LAUNCH Books by Domenico Capilongo and others. 7 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-366-8973.

IAN TYSON Talking with music journalist Richard Flohill. 8 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635, tinars.ca.

Wednesday, October 20 RICHARD FORD Speaking with Eleanor Wach-

tel. 8 pm. $50. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings. org.

TAO LIN Talk. 7-9 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973.

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Whose laughs will last?

By GLENN SUMI

If you run into strangers doubled over with laughter this week, here’s why. The Canadian Comedy Awards Fest is taking over the city, with nominee showcases at clubs like the Comedy Bar, Yuk Yuk’s, Bad Dog and the Second City. Dave Foley hosts the actual Awards show on Monday (October 18) at the Isabel Bader, while Mary Walsh hosts the star-studded Best Of The Fest show at the Winter Garden on Sunday (October 17).

I checked in with a few nominees before the festivities. See Comedy Listings, page 84.

CHELSEA P. MANDERS

THE IMPONDERABLES

(best one-person show, Naughty Little Children)

(best sketch troupe)

SANDY JOBIN-BEVANS

JO-ANNA DOWNEY

(best male improvisor)

(best female stand-up)

Why do you deserve to win?

Manders: Because my costume is entirely polyester and I performed in July.

Imponderables: When you’re a wealthy hundred-aire, recognition means everything. Everything.

Jobin-Bevans: Because Kerry Griffin and Dave Pearce aren’t nominated.

Downey: Because I am the oldest and I will die first.

Toughest competition?

Rob Ford’s Spanx – they work hard!

The Second City. That is, until we illegally change our name to the Second City and accept all their awards. We’re from Hamilton, after all.

Myself. I don’t even know how I get out of bed in the morning.

Kate Davis for sure. She is the Susan Lucci of the CCAs.

Who do you most want to meet at the awards, and what’s your schmoozing technique?

I want to sing twisted thirds with Seán Cullen. My schmoozing technique: Cuervo Gold.

Anyone who will listen to our social networking movie pitch: MySpace: The Musical (in 3-D)

Bob Hope. Using the “séance” technique.

I want to meet whoever is working the bar… I don’t schmooze and tell.

If you win, who will you not thank?

The Taliban. They said some nasty things about my last album.

That comedy club in Sudbury.

Now who sucks!?

My mom. She still wants me to be a teacher.

Wow. That is a long list.

Last-minute message to the T.O. mayoral candidates?

Keep giving us good material.

Trash talking won’t get you nearly as far with voters as does trash collecting.

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How about the subways running until after last call?

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Comic relief According to Tim Progosh, comedy is the Rodney Dangerfield of the Canadian art scene. It just doesn’t get enough respect.

“Doing sketch, stand-up and improv across Canada, I’d see amazing troupes like the Illustrated Men. They were funnier than anything you’d see on TV.” At the same time, the Gemini-nominated actor was serving on juries where comedy nominees would be lumped in with variety specials and mini-series.

He hopes he’s changed things with the Canadian Comedy Awards, now in its 11th year and back where it started, in Toronto.

Categories include standup, improv, sketch, theatre, TV and film.

“We’ve found artists that other people didn’t acknowledge,” he says. “One year My Big Fat Greek Wedding was nominated as a stage play; two years later, it was a huge movie. The Drowsy Chaperone got nominated and won, and it ended up on Broadway.”

Current stand-up stars like Debra DiGiovanni, Gilson Lubin and Jon Dore all won in the best newcomer category.

This year’s fest includes four days of nominee shows at venues like the Comedy Bar, Bad Dog, Second City and Yuk Yuk’s. Mary Walsh hosts the Best Of The Fest Gala on Sunday (October 17), while Dave Foley hosts the awards show itself on Monday (October 18).

Not surprisingly, Progosh has seen lots of hilarity in a decade’s worth of awards shows.

“I remember seeing Luba Goy dancing with Jordan Prentice, the little person from In Bruges, at 2 am,” he says. “I also remember Mike MacDonald choked up after winning the Comic Genius Award.”

The awards themselves are still affectionately called Beavers.

“One year Deb McGrath said, ‘And the Beaver goes to...’ and Jayne Eastwood said, ‘Geez, I never get to say that any more.’”

Complete info at canadiancomedy.ca. GS

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by Nightwood and Canadian Stage at Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs (26 Berkeley). Opens tonight (Thursday, October 14) and runs to November 6, MondaySaturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm and Saturday 2 pm. $22-$49, some Monday pwyc. 416-368-3110.

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Join the CBC’s Brent Bambury for a chat and Q&A with tenor Alan Oke, discussing Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice, operatic obsession and the search for answers to life’s ultimate question.

how do we keep track of all the things in our hectic lives? We make lists to keep ourselves organized and sane.

The sole character in Jennifer Tremblay’s Governor General’s Award-winning play, The List, does just that, but organizing her life can’t erase guilty feelings about a neighbour’s death.

“The script is visceral, even on the first read,” says the talented Allegra Fulton, who’s settled back in Toronto after seven years in Los Angeles. “As an actor I was immediately challenged by the myriad interpretations it offers to performer and audience.”

The unnamed speaker has moved with her husband and three children from the city to a small country village, hoping for an improved family life. Unable to connect with most of her neighbours, she befriends another mother, Caroline, whose life is positively chaotic in contrast to the narrator’s, who is more than a touch obsessive-compulsive.

“At the centre of the tale is this woman, an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances,” explains Fulton. “Her struggle is with her own culpability. Trying to understand what’s happened and her part in it is what lifts the piece beyond storytelling, turning it into a vigorous, dynamic play.”

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lish. Opens Oct 16 and runs to Nov 6: Oct 16, 19, 22, 25, 28 and Nov 3 at 7:30 pm, mats Oct 31 at 2 pm and Nov 6 at 4:30 pm. $62-$281.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

ECSTASY by David Heron (Kingston 6 Entertainment). An uptown Jamaican ad executive has an unexpected romance with an exotic dancer. $30-$40. Oct 15 at 8 pm, at Jamaican Canadian Association (995 Arrow).

Oct 17 at 6 pm, at Glenforest Secondary School (3575 Fieldgate, Mississauga). ecstasy-theplay.com.

THE GIRLS WHO SAW EVERYTHING by Sean Dixon (Ryerson Theatre School). A book club explores life and death, love, identity and belonging through an ancient epic. Opens Oct 14 and runs to Nov 12, see website for schedule. $18, stu/srs $14. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, 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. Opens Oct 15 and runs to Oct 16, Fri-Sat and Tue 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. The-

atre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatregargantua.ca.

THE LIST by Jennifer Tremblay (Nightwood Theatre/Canadian Stage). A busy woman neglects a friend’s request and inadvertently causes her death (see story, this page). Opens Oct 14 and runs to Nov 6, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49, limited Mon pwyc. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net.

PULL THE CHUTE (portrait of a lady theatre).

Two one-act plays by Laura Cassis and Natalie Urquhart are performed. Opens Oct 19 and runs to Oct 24, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 3:30 pm. $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorainne Hansberry (Soulpepper). This drama looks at a black family living in 50s Chicago. Opens Oct 19 and runs to Nov 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, see website for other dates. $40-$76, stu $32, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca.

ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Action). This adaptation sets the story in a modern, culturally diverse city. Opens Oct 15 and runs to Nov 6, see website for schedule. $15, stu/srs $12. Central Commerce CI, 570 Shaw. shakespeareinaction.org.

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Allegra Fulton has returned to Toronto after seven years in L.A.

solo show, following Frida K., the remarkable play about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo by the actor’s mother, Gloria Montero, which Fulton toured internationally.

“It’s difficult and deliciously challenging to do a one-person show,” smiles the actor, who’s looking forward to working with new Toronto companies that have sprung up during her time away. “Your partner is the audience rather than another actor.

“The trick of the rehearsal process is finding the inside of the person you’re playing and what they are actively struggling with. Then, come performance time, you have to work out the solution in front of the viewers.”

Ironically, Fulton admits that what she loves about acting is the “tennis match between actors.

“So here I am alone onstage each night lobbing the ball to the audience, which really sharpens you up as a performer. Every performance gives you

a new partner to engage, so you’re always actively listening and responding.”

Every solo show, she believes, is about someone with a secret that’s not been told to anyone until now.

“Peter Hinton, who directed Frida K., suggested that every one-person show has to be in that form, because the character is so lonely, so alone in their experience, that it’s only right to meet them alone.”

The List, like Frida K, also has touches of humour.

“What else are you going to do in such a dreadful situation? Humour is a survival strategy. She relies on what’s absurd and funny in the awful place she’s found herself.

“That’s how she makes things better for herself, at least until she falls into another emotional minefield.”3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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dance, comedy, music and theatre are performed by Jen Hum, Winston Spear, Simla Civelek, Lo Bill, Carolyn Bennett, host Mike Sobreira and others. Oct 15-17 at 8 pm. $10.

2480 Dundas W. movementcentre.com.

TwisTed elegance by Jason Murray (Upstage Productions/pivotal(arts) theatre). A reclusive student must interact with a popular girl, forcing each one to examine their choices. Opens Oct 19 and runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $8-$12. Unit 102 Theatre, 46 Noble. twistedelegance.eventbrite.com. wicked by Stephen Sondheim and Winnie

Holzman (Mirvish). The hit musical telling the backstory of the witches of Oz returns. Opens Oct 20 and runs to Nov 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$129.

Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. mirvish.com.

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deaTh Of a salesman by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). Having lost his job in his twilight years, a man confronts his failure to achieve the American Dream. Previews Oct 16-20. Opens Oct 21 and runs to Nov 13, Mon-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $31.20-

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$75.33. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

Priscilla QUeen Of The deserT The mUsical by Stephan Elliott and Allan ñ Scott (Mirvish). Three friends take a bat-

tered bus across the Australian outback, looking for love and friendship. Previews to Oct 24. Opens Oct 26 and runs to Jan 2, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $20-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com.

UniTy (1918) by Kevin Kerr (Ryerson Theatre School). A small town in Saskatchewan is hit

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Zorana Kydd and Andre Sills have a good time; you won’t.

SoulSuck sOUlseek by Ognen Georgievski

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Vita mourns the loss of a man who, in her own words, was her best audience. Birdland has rightfully earned its audiences with exceptional productions of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and the soon-to-be-remounted Assassins, but to develop a piece of theatre that is as blank and soulless as this demands charity, not patronage.

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At one point during Birdland Theatre’s SoulSeek, the spray-painted logo projected on the back wall of the Walmer Centre Theatre looks like it says “SoulJerk.” That’s an apt misreading of this stultifying multimedia trek into one woman’s comatose psyche.

Vita (Zorana Kydd), tries to kill herself and instead winds up in a dreamy, tech-heavy underworld. Guided by script riffs lazily on the Orpheus myth Andre Sills’s white-suited Morpheus – without inventing anything new or rea fella who’s part myth, part Matrix – interpreting anything old. Live video Vita mutters vaguely about love and feeds and Richard Feren’s nicely texart, and sporadically wonders where tured soundscape do little to disguise her husband Terry (David Ferry, Skypthat the whole project feels like a selfing from beyond) is. aggrandizing stab at putting on a show.

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Anand Rajaram (left) and Ann Powell make the best of Hard Times.

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Hard truths hArd Times by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by Chris Earle (Puppetmongers/the night kitchen/Theatre Passe Muraille). At Passe Muraille Backspace (16 Ryerson). To October 16. See Continuing, page 83. Rating: nnn

No one needs to pull strings in Puppetmongers’ production of Hard Times, because the charm of the telling and some clever dramatizing make for memorable theatre.

Adapted from the Dickens novel by director Chris Earle and the ensemble, the show gives the brother-and-sister team of David and Ann Powell a chance to work outside the children’spuppetry box in which they excel.

This lesser-known Dickens book has a social message and many characters, among them the practical Thomas Gradgrind, his children Louisa and Tom, the rich, self-impressed Josiah Bounderby, his housekeeper Mrs. Sparsit and honest but unfortunate factory worker Stephen Blackpool.

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rational against the emotional or, to use the book’s term, facts against fancies. Over the course of the story, those who live only in their minds discover the narrowness of their existence.

The strength of the production lies in the cleverness of the Powells’ design, the suggestive use and interplay of doll-like hand puppets, expressive masks and shadow play. The Powells and Anand Rajaram play all the parts, at different times sharing the same character.

The performers and director Earle invent some surprising scenes that concisely convey nuanced information. In a charged encounter between Stephen, Bounderby and Mrs. Sparsit, all we see are a breakfast table and the characters’ hands. How hands move, how food is eaten and the tempo of voices combine to create vivid portraits.

There are muffed lines here and there, and at times you wish Dickens had been more succinct. But the emotional richness of the presentation – when the curtains open you see a crammed world of characters waiting to go onstage – carries the audience along to the show’s satisfying concluJon kAplAn sion.

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The droWninG AnTholoGY Crazyfish Collective presents works by Sasha Ivanochko and Lynndsey Larre. 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. youngcentre.ca. fresh blood Harbourfront NextSteps and the Chimera Project present works

by Carlos Rivera, Jasmyn Fyffe, Julia Male, ILL NANA and others. To Oct 14, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $18-$20. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, chimeraproject.org. ink To flesh JD Dance presents works by Jesse Dell, Jordana Deveau and Kate Franklin exploring evolving perspectives on physical beauty.

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. Runs to Oct 16, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15$49. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.3

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with the Spanish Flu after WWI. Previews Oct 20 at 8 pm. Opens Oct 21 and runs to Nov 13, see website for schedule. $18, stu/ srs $14. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca.

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MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Classical

Theatre Project). Ambition leads to murder in the classic tragedy. Oct 15 at 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst.

416-915-6750, classicaltheatreproject.ca.

MAJORSPACE LAUNCH (Cheshire Unicorn).

The company opens its new studio space with a reading by Judith Thompson, live music and more. Oct 15 at 8 pm. By donation. MAJORspace, 38 Abell, unit 207. cheshireunicorn.com.

OPERA 101: DEATH IN VENICE (Canadian Opera Company). Brent Bambury and guests discuss the COC’s upcoming production of the Benjamin Britten opera. Oct 20 at 7:30 pm. Free. Duke Of Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca.

THE OPERA EXCHANGE: DEATH IN VENICE (Canadian Opera Company). This in-depth look at Benjamin Britten’s opera features lectures and a panel discussion. Oct 16 from 9:30 am to 1 pm. $20. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park, Walter Hall. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

PLAYDATE 2010 (Therapeutic Clown Program @ SickKids). Meet the clowns and see other circus performers at this fundraiser. Oct 15 at 6 pm. $50. The Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. playdate2010.com.

SPIRIT HORSE by Drew Hayden Taylor (Roseneath Theatre). This play about two aboriginal kids is based on Greg Banks’s Tir Na N’Og. Oct 16 at 11 am and 3 pm. Free. 651 Dufferin. roseneath.ca.

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val). The multi-arts festival celebrating diversity and accessibility features art, dance, theatre, film and more. Runs to Oct 24, see website for venues, dates and times. Various prices, many events free. abilitiesartsfestival.org.

AIDA by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Director Tim Albery transfers Verdi’s opera, set in ancient Egypt, to a drab, 1960s militaristic society, vaguely Soviet.

The result is sometimes visually striking, more often silly. But Johannes Debus’s conducting and the singers are first rate, especially Sondra Radvanovsky and Rosario La Spina as the ill-fated couple Aida and Radames. Runs to Nov 5: Oct 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).

This sequel to 2004’s Ali & Ali And The Axes Of Evil makes a good point about how, two years after Obama’s election, Arabs and Muslims are still subject to draconian levels of surveillance and persecution. However, a weak plot and hit-and-miss humour dilutes the important political message. Runs to Oct 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$32, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NN (Jordan Bimm)

BILLY TWINKLE: REQUIEM FOR A GOLDEN BOY by Ronnie Burkett (Factory Theñ atre). This mid-career triumph for Burkett is

set in the world of puppetry, the art form he’s embraced and transformed. Jaded, middle-aged puppeteer Billy attempts suicide but is rescued by a former mentor and made

to view his life through a puppet show. Burkett’s craft is as astonishing as ever, and his set – dominated by a big cruise ship – is terrifically evocative. And Burkett proves he’s a terrific actor as well, voicing his dozens of characters with love, humour and affection.

Runs to Oct 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25$48, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNNN (GS) BLASTED by Sarah Kane (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Kane’s grim commentary on masculinity, terror and war is riveting thanks to Brendan Healy’s strong direction, spectacular performances (particularly by David Ferry and Michelle Monteith) and a design that takes us on a journey to hell. The best thing I’ve seen at Buddies. Runs to Oct 17, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$33, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole) BUZZ (Theatre Passe Muraille). Projects in development by David Brock, Marcia Johnson, Jason Maghanoy, Erin Fleck, Darren O’Donnell and others are presented for audience input. Runs to Oct 15, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm. By donation. 16 Ryerson. passemuraille.on.ca.

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. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach)

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FERNANDO KRAPP WROTE ME THIS LETTER: AN ATTEMPT AT THE TRUTH by Tankred Dorst

(Canadian 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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat 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 this satire of capitalism and Utilitarian philosophy (see review, page 82). Runs to Oct 16, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (JK) 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. Runs to Oct 23, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-8622222, lktyp.ca.

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. The Canadian premiere of the New York stage hit has been cast with some of our biggest talents, who are mostly fine. Runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed and Sat 2 pm. $35$65. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, lovelossonstage.ca. NNN (GS) THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM by Enda Walsh (MacKenzieRo). Three sisters in a remote fishing village in Ireland are obsessed

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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. NNNN (JK) PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes. To Dec 29, Sat 11 am and 1 pm, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-6428973.

RADIANCE by Louis Nowra (bcurrent). Three half sisters reunite in northern Australia for their mother’s funeral and wade through the past. Runs to Oct 15, Tue-Fri 8 pm. $10. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. bcurrent.ca.

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) SOULSEEK (Birdland Theatre). Music, video and theatre help tell the story of a woman’s journey (see review, page 81). Runs to Oct 23, Mon-Sat 8 pm. $30, stu/srs $20. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. 416-504-7529, birdlandtheatre.com. N (Naomi Skwarna) TOYER by Gardner McKay (The Sugar Company/Lyric East Studios). A psychiatrist helps victims of a bizarre psychopath in this thrwiller. Runs to Oct 16, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $20-$25. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. toyer.ca.

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Thursday, October 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Wes Zaharuk,

Nick Reynoldson,Andrew Ivimey and host Jason Laurans. To Oct 17, 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.

BEST STAnD-UP SHOWCASE Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival presents nominees Allyson Smith, Jo-Anna Downey, Mike Paterson, Kate Davis, John Hastings, Chuck Byrn and others. To Oct 16, Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, canadiancomedy.ca.

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CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ BAD DOG THEATRE presents comedic ñ play nominee Morro And Jasp Do Puberty at

7:30 pm. Solo show nominee Naughty Little Children at 9 pm. Solo show nominee Harper Girl at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 138 Danforth. canadiancomedy.ca.

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nominee Nursery School Musical at 7:30 pm.

Solo show nominee Chaotica at 9 pm. BeerProv, featuring improv nominees at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 945 Bloor W. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ SECOnD CITY presents the Best Improv ñ Showcase, with award nominees, at 9 pm.

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Pwyc. Sketch troupe nominees the Second City at 11 pm. $10 (free w/ $25 festival pass).

51 Mercer. canadiancomedy.ca.

COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Andre Arruda, Darren Pyle, Jana Peck, Dave Kemp, Joel West, Ryan Tromba, Sean McKeirnan, Kathleen McGee and host Todd Van Allen. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698.

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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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. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. nnnnn (GS)

WEST EnD GIRLS: ECLECTIC OCTOBER EDITIOn Poor John’s Café presents all-girl

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Chevannes, Carolyn Bennett, Daniela Saioni and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 1610 Queen W. 647435-2688.

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. yukyuks.com.

Friday, October 15 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 14.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents That Friday Show,

a one-act play by BDT students. 8:30 pm (in Studio #2). Pwyc. The Late Late Horror Show, B-movie-inspired improv. Midnight. $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

THE BEnCH John Candy Box Theatre presents upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

BEST STAnD-UP SHOWCASE See Thu 14.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ BAD DOG THEATRE presents solo show ñ nominee Her at 7:30 pm. Sketch troupe nominee the Imponderables at 9 pm. Comedic play nominee Maybe at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 138 Danforth. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR presents Catch 23, with award

nominees, at 7:30 pm. Sketch troupe nominees She Said What at 9 pm. Solo show nominee the Incredible Hypnotist Boris at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 945 Bloor W. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ SECOnD CITY presents the Best Improv Show-

case, featuring award nominees, at 9 pm.

Pwyc. Comedic play nominee 0% Down, 100% Screwed at 11 pm. $10 (free w/ $25 festival pass). 51 Mercer. canadiancomedy.ca.

COMEDY On THE DAnFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv Athletic Robot (Jason Gemmill, Jorge Moreira, Rhonda Riche, Marcel Dragonieri). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth.

416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

HOWIE MAnDEL Rose Theatre presents the comedian/game show host in a live show. 8 pm. $85-$105. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

LATE nIGHT BEST STAnD-UP SHOWCASE Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival presents nominees Allyson Smith, Amanda B Perrin, Mark DeBonis and others. 10 pm. $20. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. 416-536-6468 ext 40, canadiancomedy.ca.

MAKInG %@IT UP Tiny Head Productions and Dave Curran present an interactive comedy show w/ Jan Caruana, Alastair Forbes, Kerry Griffin, Lisa Merchant, Dave Pearce and host Ralph MacLeod. 10:30 pm. $20. Dave And Buster’s, 120 Interchange Way, Vaughan. 647977-7890, davecurranlive.com. nAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm.

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YUK YUK’S VAUGHAn presents the Jury Duty 2 & Love Court Tour w/ Darrin Rose and Eddie Della Siepe. To Oct 16, 9 pm, 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

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CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ BAD DOG THEATRE presents improv ñ troupe nominees Rapid Fire at 7:30 pm.

General Fools at 9 pm. TheatreSports, w/ improviser nominees, at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 138 Danforth. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR presents improv troupe nom-

inees Monkey Toast Players at 7:30 pm. Carnegie Hall Show at 9 pm. Scratch at 10:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 945 Bloor W. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ SECOnD CITY presents the Best Improv

Showcase, featuring award nominees. 11:55 pm. $10 or festival pass ($25). 51 Mercer. canadiancomedy.ca.

COMEDY LOUnGE Lambadina presents Kris Bonaparte, Mike Rita, Sandro Veri and host Keesha Brownie. 9 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca.

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. *@#!... PARDOn MY FREnCH MCJB Entertainment presents comic Jean Paul in a live show w/ opener Chris ‘Bow Wow’ Robinson and host Kenny Robinson. 8:30 pm. $22.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. stlc.com.

SECOnD CITY TRAInInG CEnTRE OPEn HOUSE

Second City presents family programming, drop-in workshops, puppet shows and more.

1 pm. Free. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SOMETHInG WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 14.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 15.

Sunday, October 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 14.

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Awards & Festival and Canada’s Walk of Fame present Air Farce, Colin Mochrie and Friends, Seán Cullen, Nathan Macintosh, David Merry, Winston Spear, Deb DiGiovanni, Rob Mclean and host Mary Walsh. 8 pm. $55-$65.

Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-3142884, canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ BAD DOG THEATRE presents comedic play

nominee Uncalled For Presents... at 7:30 pm.

TheatreSports, featuring improviser nominees, at 9 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 138 Danforth. canadiancomedy.ca.

CAnADIAn COMEDY AWARDS & FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR presents sketch troupe ñ nominees Picnicface at 8 pm. The Sketcher-

sons at 9:30 pm. $10 per show or festival pass ($25). 945 Bloor W. canadiancomedy.ca.

KnIGHT TIME COMEDY presents weekly standup and sketch w/ host Jill Knight. 8 pm. $4.

Remarks Bar & Grill, 1026 Coxwell. 416-4299889, knight.time.comedy@gmail.com.

SOMETHInG WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 14.

STAnD UP SUnDAYS Second City presents the

Mercer Street Comedy Cabaret. 7 pm. $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SUDDEnLY SUnDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents an open mic w/ host Melissa Story. 8:30 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777.

Monday, October 18 ALT.COMEDY LOUnGE Rivoli presents Bobby Knauff, Julia Hladkowicz, Jamie Murray, Ryan Maglunob, Dale Cotnam, Rose Giles, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

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AWARDS Canadian Comedy Awards & Festival presents appearances by Ron James, Kevin McDonald, Debra DiGiovanni, Elvira Kurt, Colin Mochrie, Gordon Pinsent, Zaib Shaikh, the Minnesota Wrecking Crew and others, with host Dave Foley. 7:30 pm. $35.

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Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. canadiancomedy.ca.

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.

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Tuesday, October 19 I HEART JOKES Evan Desmarais presents week-

ly comedy and fun. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents the Cast of Designing Women, 7 Minutes in Heaven, Fratwurst, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Scott McMann and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

“A show about the power of now”

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 14.

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Steve Hopkinson, Douglas Taylor, Tim Allen, Mike Cameron and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

SUPER LUCKY IMPROV SHOW Black Swan presents shortform games, the Lobstercats, Carmine Lucarelli and hosts Amy Zuch and Gary Chan. 8 pm. $7 or less (dice roll). 154 Danforth. superluckyimprov.com.

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.

Wednesday, October 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/

Slade Ham, Anto Chan, Fahin Kaderdina, Phil Calautit, Kevin Sodo, Marco Bernardi and host Ted Bisaillion. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents Mortal Ymprov, four improvisers compete for supremacy. 8 pm. $10. 138 Danforth. baddogtheatre.com.

THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a comedy variety show. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com.

THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s Living Well presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

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SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 14.

SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Trevor Wilson, DJ

Edwards, Marilla Wex, Cleve Jones, Dylan Gott, Robert Smith, Ryan Tromba, Anthony Mlekuz, Cal Post and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416967-0001.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Ian Peet. To Oct 24, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom is indeed electric.

From its rapid-fire, intense start with a torrent of emotional, funny dialogue to its quietly unsettling ending, the play asks audiences to listen closely and continually reassess their view of a trio of sisters sequestered in their house in an Irish fishing village.

Decades earlier, elder sibs Breda (Rosemary Dunsmore) and Clara (Sarah Dodd) shared an unsettling experience at a dance hall, one that scarred their lives. They want to protect their younger sister, Ada (Cathy Murphy), from a similar tragedy by ritually re-enacting that traumatic night over and over; living in the past rather than the present is a way to ensure safety.

Their only visitor is the insecure fishmonger Patsy (Christopher Stanton), who turns up regularly with fish, news of village life and has a crush on Ada. Director Autumn Smith’s charged production captures the anguish, yearning and fear in the characters, alternating the poetic moments with those of bitchy humour. At first Ada is stage manager of the action, as the competing Breda and Clara, costumed (by Rosemarie Umetsu) to remind them all of that fateful evening, tell their stories. By the end, Ada is the one taking orders, having learnt the lesson they want to impart.

The acting is uniformly excellent, each of the actors having moments to shine.

But more important than the individual performances is the fact that the quartet of actors works as a seamless ensemble. They and Smith understand the humanity of these four characters as well as the incompleteness of their lives, mirrored in the half-finished walls of Lindsay Anne Black’s set, atmospherically lit by Laird Macdonald.

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(Sam Taylor-Wood) Rating: NNNN If Mike Leigh made a movie about the birth of the Beatles, it might play a lot like Nowhere Boy – and that’s a compliment.

Sam Taylor-Wood’s character study of the teenage John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) plays like a kitchen-sink period drama. It doesn’t hint adorably at greatness to come; it’s just the tale of an angry Liverpool kid who’s wrenched wide open when he discovers the home of his long-lost mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), is just a short trip from the house where he lives with his rigid Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas).

Johnson, last seen in Kick-Ass, plays the young Lennon in as unaffected a manner as possible, while Duff and Scott Thomas create vivid images of the two women who affected him most profoundly. Only the scenes in which John tentatively establishes a rapport with some kid named Paul (Thomas Sangster, working a touch more broadly) feel calculated toward Beatles nostalgists, but in a way that’s unavoidable. However ordinary they may NW have seemed, these were moments that changed the world.

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Lennon as a lad Director gets close to young Beatle – on film and off By NORMAN WILNER NOWHERE BOY directed by Sam TaylorWood, written by Matt Greenhalgh based on the memoir by Julia Baird, with Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, AnneMarie Duff and Thomas Sangster. A Maple Pictures release. 97 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 15). For venues and times, see Movies, page 90.

sam taylor-wood doesn’t back away from much. A respected video artist and photographer – and a twotime cancer survivor – she’s made a point of diving into projects that

might make others hesitate. After dipping a toe into filmmaking with the short film Love You More, she went all in with Nowhere Boy, a drama that imagines the formative teen years of some Scouser kid named John Lennon.

“I guess it’s like everything I do in life,” she says, inviting me to join her on the big couch in a Toronto hotel suite.

(She’s right; it’s much more comfortable than the chairs.) “I kinda just went straight at it, and then it wasn’t until I stepped foot in Liverpool that I started to feel, ‘Okay, actually now I realize the

enormity of what I’ve taken on.’”

Taylor-Wood wasn’t aware of the circumstances of Lennon’s youth, and says it felt like no one else was either.

“It wasn’t until much later that I started to get anxious about how large a subject it was, and what he meant to so many people,” she says.

“I’m still trying to fathom that, really. I’m still trying to fathom what he means to so many people.”

She also had to resist the urge to play up Lennon’s status as a future icon.

“You don’t want it hammered

home,” she nods. “What it felt like was that we were making a coming-of-age story. I had to leave behind Lennon and just feel that I was making a film of a boy’s journey to becoming a man and all the pain that he went through – which was more tremendous than most. I wanted you to engage with the story and forget about John Lennon.

At the same time, it was really important that every so often you’re jarred into remembering.”

In England, the film took a back seat to the news that Taylor-Wood and her much younger leading man

had started a relationship. The couple announced their engagement just after Nowhere Boy’s premiere at last year’s London Film Festival; their daughter, Wylda Rae, was born this past July and is accompanying Taylor-Wood and Johnson on their North American press tour.

“It’s just so convenient,” she laughs.

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You’ve seen Karl Urban kill a lot of people. The dynamic Kiwi actor played Eomer in the last two Lord Of The Rings films, faced off against Matt Damon in The Bourne Supremacy and Vin Diesel in The Chronicles Of Riddick, battled The Rock as the hero of Doom and bashed Vikings in Pathfinder.

Last year, he showed a comic side as Dr. McCoy in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek reboot, and in the all-star action comedy RED he further subverts his tough-guy image as a CIA assassin who turns out to be a little more complicated than most. On a Toronto press stop, we talked about the pleasures of being unrecognizable, the fun of sequels and the perils of going where Sly Stallone has gone before.

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You’re like a stealth action star – your resumé is pretty impressive, but people don’t know you’re in all these movies.

I like that – that’s the goal. It annoys me when I see actors move from film to film and their appearance or voice doesn’t change. Once Hollywood has actually seen you do something, and do it effectively, they tend to offer you more of the same. I like to diversify my roles as much as I can.

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cant’s alluring wife (Milla Jovovich), whose idea of “personal outreach” is a little more specific than most.

It’s hard to say which element of Stone (John Curran). 105 minutes. Opens this risible drama is sillier: Angus Friday (October 15). For venues and times, MacLachlan’s portentous screenplay, see Movies, page 90. Rating: n cobbled together from half a dozen of Jim Thompson’s lesser potboilers, or In a plot no one on Earth has ever co-star Norton’s sustained impression imagined before, a hard-case Detroit of Bubbles from The Wire. parole officer (Robert De Niro) on the Of course, there’s really no need to verge of retirement finds himself flumpick one over the other; there’s enough moxed by his latest applicant (Edward terrible in this movie to go around.

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J.J. and the writers are pretty hard at work on the script as we speak. I’m excited. They’re like three Einsteins, they really are, and when they get together they’re gonna cook up something pretty special. The challenge is going to be to exceed the benchmark they’ve already established.

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Red (Robert Schwentke) Rating: nnn As all-star action romps go, Red doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything, but it’s a lot more fun than The Expendables.

As a retired CIA assassin who assembles his former compatriots after someone puts a hit on him for reasons unknown, Bruce Willis does his Bruce Willis thing very well – which is good, because otherwise he’d probably send love interest/hostage Mary-Louise Parker running for the hills.

Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Brian Cox have a fine time sending themselves up as his fellow codgers, while Karl Urban works some complexity into an initially generic nemesis role. Robert Schwentke’s sprightly direction keeps the mayhem at a comic-book remove, which is nW essential for this sort of thing.

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80-year-old Clint Eastwood reflects on the sweet Hereafter By NORMAN WILNER

colour of the water as I was being washed around in the surf before I popped to the surface again.

“Then years later, when I was 21, we ditched a plane off the coast of northern California in the wintertime. I must say, as I was going in toward shore, I kept thinking, ‘Should I be thinking about something?’ I wasn’t

thinking about my demise. I saw lights in the far distance and I said, ‘Somebody’s in there having a beer and sitting next to a fireplace, and I just wanna be in there, so I’m gonna make it.’ There was no sense of fate out there, or anything like that. I don’t think you get a chance to think that much about it. When you get that much of a chance to think, you’re usually gonna be okay.”

I have a different question, though.

There’s a theme that’s appeared in Eastwood’s films over the years, as he’s evolved from being an actor who directs the occasional picture to one of America’s most revered filmmakers. From Bronco Billy to Gran Torino, he’s made movies in which older characters remain relevant and vital in a world that’s ready to move past them.

You can see it in Unforgiven and A Perfect World, and in Space Cowboys and Million Dollar Baby, and even in more generic pictures like The Dead Pool, Absolute Power, The Rookie and True Crime. I was wondering what he thought of that, and whether it applies to his own filmmaking.

“You know, it’s very subjective,” Eastwood says. “I think it’d be easier for somebody else to evaluate than it

would be for myself, cuz I don’t think of it in that way. If I start evaluating myself, I’d be afraid that I wouldn’t be able to think intelligently about every project and the various meanings thereof.”

That’s where Eastwood wants to leave it, but Matt Damon, who plays a reluctant psychic in Hereafter, picks up on the thought.

“I actually asked a similar question of him on Invictus,” he says, “but it was about directors as they got older. Why was it that they historically seem to fall off? Because he’s obviously completely avoided that.”

“Not so fast,” Eastwood says to huge laughter. Eighty or not, the man has fantastic timing – and his selfdeprecating response nicely undercuts any conversation about the decidedly mixed responses to recent work like Flags Of Our Fathers, Changeling, Gran Torino, Invictus... and, yes, Hereafter.

But Eastwood has a theory. “I knew Frank Capra a little bit,” he says, “and I spent some time with him at June Lake, where he lived in the summertime, and he was always so bright. I always figured, ‘Why isn’t this guy still working?’ And I also knew Billy Wilder somewhat, and he stopped

(Ellen Burstyn) was written and directed by a guy in his early 20s. Using elements of magic realism and an intriguing twist, Nicholas Fackler shows uncommon insight into the aging experience.

Robert is so lonely, he makes a major time commitment to the most incidental of activities, like flossing, and gives out only one Christmas present – to himself. When trouble at

work – he’s having a hard time keeping up in his advanced years – looks like it will send him into a permanent tailspin, he finds some joy in his new connection with Mary. Seldom has a December/December romance been presented onscreen, let alone so expertly.

Lovely, Still is a tender story with dark undertones, especially in the third act, and its stars know how to make

the most of it. Landau and Burstyn are two of America’s greatest screen actors and have obviously not lost a single step over time.

Required viewing for anyone interested in aging populations, whose issues are among our most urgent.

HEREAFTER directed by Clint Eastwood, written by Peter Morgan, with Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Frankie McLaren, Jay Mohr and Bryce Dallas Howard. A Warner Bros. release. 123 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 15). For venues and times, see Movies, page 90.

new york city – clint eastwood is talking about the time he almost died. Two times, actually.

At the New York Film Festival press conference for his new film, Hereafter – which premiered last month at TIFF – Eastwood is holding court, flanked by actors Cécile De France, Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas Howard and screenwriter Peter Morgan.

The film is about three characters struggling to define their relationships with death, so it seems logical to ask whether any of them has had a near-death experience.

“Everybody’s had some kind of one,” Eastwood says, looking pretty damn vital for a man who celebrated his 80th birthday this year. “I remember when I was very young, my dad was taking me into the surf on his shoulders, and I fell off. Even though I was probably four or five years old, I can still remember the

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Rating: NN Clint Eastwood’s slide into irrelevance continues with this muzzy-headed, vaguely supernatural drama about three people whose lives are shadowed by death.

Cécile de France plays a Parisian journalist trying to understand a near-death experience, Matt Damon is a San Francisco medium trying to live a normal life, and Frankie McLaren is a London kid coping with the loss of his twin.

Peter Morgan’s script shifts mechanically between the three characters as they go about their everyday lives, which leaves the movie shrugging from one banality to the next. Eastwood’s made lazy films before – most recently Changeling and Invictus – but the subject matter of Hereafter sets certain NW expectations that his indifferent approach can’t even begin to satisfy.

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working in his 60s. And I thought, ‘God, this is amazing, here’s a guy who’s bright and lived well into his 90s and didn’t work.’ And I never could figure that out.

He continues. “I figure your best years should be at a point when you’ve absorbed all this knowledge. Now, maybe they just didn’t keep up with the times, or they picked story material that didn’t work, or they had a few pictures that didn’t do so well, and all of a sudden…. People are very fickle, the Hollywood thing is very fickle, and they kinda move on.”

Of course, Eastwood – whose relationship with Warner Bros. lets him make pretty much anything he wants – doesn’t have to worry about Hollywood leaving him behind. And he has no intention of slowing down.

“There’s a director in Portugal [Manoel de Oliveira] who is still making films at over 100 years old,” he says, pausing for effect. “And I plan to do the same thing.”

The room bursts into laughter and applause. How can it not? Clint Eastwood just said he’s not going anywhere.

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Gory Grave I sPIT on YoUr GraVe (Steven R. Monroe). 107 minutes. Opens Friday (October 15). For venues and times, see Movies, page 90. Rating: nnn This is a softer but still unpleasant remake of one of the nastiest, hardestto-watch movies ever made.

A young woman (Sarah Butler) from the city rents a summer cottage in the woods to work on her novel. A quartet of local yokels shows up to rape, beat and murder her. They bungle the last part. She returns to kill them all.

The cast throws itself wholeheartedly into physically demanding roles.

Butler is particularly effective as avenging fiend.

Nothing interferes with the grim action, but one of the rapists is so feebleminded that killing him seems morally questionable. So is something the woman does, or claims she does, to lure her final victim, but that act is never seen nor dealt with.

Brutality played out against beautiful settings and a near-documentary feel are what give the original much of its power.

By contrast, director Steven R. Monroe works hard to keep reminding us that we’re watching a movie. His woods are conventionally dark and spooky, and creepy music cues every scare. Shock cuts and choppy editing abound. The revenge killings, especially the one featuring ravens, are the sort of elaborate death traps meant to please gorehounds. But the sheer savagery of the story remains intact.

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Golden ticket Tales From The Golden aGe (Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu).

138 minutes. Subtitled. Opens today (Thursday, October 14) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 95. Rating: nnn These five tales based on Romanian urban legends from the Ceausescu years are told with a very dry sense of humour.

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filmmaker, stages every scene as a potential Oscar clip, exhorting his actors to go bigger and broader with Pamela Gray’s blunt script, which is the sort of heavy-handed construction that can’t go five minutes without having a secondary character remind Waters how courageous and self-sacrificing she is for giving up her life for her brother.

The only pushback comes from Rockwell, whose bipolar character becomes the rock to which the audience can cling, and Melissa Leo, who puts a great deal of depth into a very shallow character.

The problem is, neither Rockwell nor Leo is the focus of the film. It’s all about Swank, who’s dour and mechanical even when the movie gives her Peter Gallagher’s Barry Scheck (yes, that Barry Scheck) as a sidekick.

If you were wondering when Hollywood would get around to making more pandering, easily digested legal procedurals like The Hurricane, your long wait is over.

Tony Goldwyn’s pedestrian Conviction takes the undeniably powerful true story of Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank), who put herself through law school and spent nearly two decades fighting to clear her brother (Sam Rockwell) of a murder conviction, and reduces it to a mundane movie-of-theweek.

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Just in time for what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday comes the release of Sam TaylorWood’s fine biopic about the teenage years of the talented Liverpool lad.

UNCLE BOONMEE I SPIT ON YOUR WHO CAN RECALL GRAVE HIS PAST LIVES But we don’t spit This lovely Palme d’Or-winning drama looks at a dying Thai man (Thanapat Saisaymar) who welcomes visits from friends and relatives both living and dead.

on you, latest horror remake! A raped and beaten woman (Sarah Butler) left for dead returns to seek vengeance on her attackers.

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A front-runner in the Oscar race, this look at the founding of Facebook stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield (unrecognizable from Never Let Me Go) and Justin Timberlake (!).

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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D (Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck) offers a lively mix of light laughs and thrills aimed at small children. The animation and 3-D don’t have the wow factor to impress kids over 10, but the well-constructed story might do the job. Slacker wolf Humphrey (voiced by Justin Long) loves high-ranking Kate (Hayden Panettiere). Circumstance deposits them in Idaho, but Kate is desperate to return to their Jasper Park home and marry the alpha male from the neighbouring pack in order to avert a war.

The film has some brisk set pieces, notably a climactic caribou stampede, the communal howl with its obligatory romantic duet and several wild sleigh rides. 88 min. NNN (AD) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 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.

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(Rodrigo Cortés) is a minimalist thriller that takes place entirely within the confines of a coffin in which a man (Ryan Reynolds) has found himself buried with little more than a lighter, a flask and a cellphone. Who he is and what’s going on hardly matter; the movie focuses entirely on the issue at hand, which is how our protagonist is going to survive as the minutes tick away and his oxygen supply dwindles. Reynolds is riveting, and you’ll appreciate director Cortés’s bravura cinematic accomplishment after you catch your breath. 95 min.

NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

CASE 39 (Christian Alvart) is a not very scary supernatural thriller that stars Renée Zellweger as a social worker who rescues a little girl from abusive parents and takes her home. Supernatural murders break out. Zellweger plays her character like the cliché she is, with little engagement and stereotyped compassion, fear and determination. Bradley Cooper, as her best friend and would-be lover, blows her off the screen in two of the movie’s three good moments: a nicely underplayed chilling conversation with the girl and, later, a bug attack he meets with more than panic. Scariest is Callum Keith Rennie as the girl’s father. The first 10 minutes ,when he has the child in his clutches, are the movie’s best moments. 109 min. NN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 CATFISH (Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost) is a lightweight documentary that begins 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, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Domhnall Gleeson, Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley are worth a look in Never Let Me Go. 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 seat. Subtitled. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 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, 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 THE CONCERT (Radu Midies. A cop tries to figure haileanu) contains inout what’s going on, triguing ideas about while a security guy, a state-sanctioned racism EXPANDED REVIEWS maintenance man and and the power of music nowtoronto.com the fire department atto create different kinds tempt a rescue. A brisk of harmonies, but pace and fluid editing that they’re lost amidst a contrived story and moves easily among the various groups lots of unfunny farce. Once the star conkeeps the proceedings lively but can’t disductor of Russia’s Bolshoi Orchestra, Anguise the thinness of the material. 80 min. drei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) was demoted NN (AD) to janitor three decades earlier for not Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborousting the company’s Jewish musicians. ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton When he purloins an invitation to perform Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress in Paris, he must find his musicians (now Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, all doing odd jobs in Moscow), get them Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale visas and over to France – never mind reEASY A (Will Gluck) is a chipper riff hearsing the all-Russian program. The on The Scarlet Letter, in which a high tone-deaf film lurches from one cultural school senior (Emma Stone) is branded a cliché to the next and skips over the traslut after a white lie about losing her virgedy at the film’s centre. Neither Moscow ginity goes viral. Gluck’s film occupies the nor Paris comes off looking interesting, same clear-headed space as 10 Things I and the orchestral sequences are laughHate About You and Mean Girls: it’s a ably inaccurate. Still, Guskov and Mélanie movie you can respect in the morning.

Laurent (as a French violinist who’s got a Stone (Superbad, Zombieland) is terrific secret connection to the conductor) add fun in her first leading role, and Patricia gravitas to the pic. Subtitled. 120 min. NN Clarkson and Stanley Tucci do their best to (GS) steal the picture as her eccentric parents.

Cumberland 4 93 min. NNNN (NW) CONVICTION (Tony Goldwyn) 106 min. See 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, review, page 89. NN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Opens Oct 15 at Varsity.

Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, QueenDELIVER US FROM EVIL (Ole Bornesway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, dal) is Straw Dogs with a Danish SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 makeover. Bornedal’s slickly shot thriller involves a lawyer who moves his family EAT PRAY LOVE (Ryan Murphy) offers back to his childhood village just in time to audiences the chance to vicariously shelter a Bosnian émigré from a vengeful accompany Julia Roberts as she retraces mob. The situation is entirely believable, author Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling the characters sharply drawn and allowed odyssey of self-embiggenment, travelling some level of complexity, and – as was the from one impossibly photogenic, suncase in director Bornedal’s terrific 1994 drenched location to another in a pro-

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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (Daniel

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

GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO ñTHE

(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

HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood) 123 min. See

foundly monotonous travelogue. 139 min.

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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

OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE ñFORCE

(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) Canada Square, Cumberland 4

FUBAR II (Michael Dowse) delivers lots of nihilistic low comedy, highlighted by a spectacular house destruction. Five years after the original, our two substance-addled 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-for-life friendship. 86 min. NNN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga,Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

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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) Regent Theatre

interview and review, page 88. NN (NW) Opens Oct 15 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

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(Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois) stars the voice of Jay Baruchel as the gangly Hiccup, who wants to be a Viking warrior like his father (Gerard Butler). When one of Hiccup’s gadgets brings down a mysterious dragon, he’s unable to kill the wounded beast and befriends it instead.

The animation and character design are magnificent, and the use of 3-D is incredible. 98 min. NNNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

where Downey’s in the super-suit are nowhere near as entertaining as the scenes where he’s just knocking around as Tony Stark. 124 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñIT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY

(Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) takes directors Boden and Fleck out of the dramatic comfort zone they established with Half Nelson and Sugar and sends them into intriguing new territory. In this oddball dramedy, a suicidal teen (Keir Gilchrist) lands in the adult psych ward of a New York hospital. Gilchrist (United States Of Tara) is terrific as the confused young hero, Zach Galifianakis finds new depths in his dull-eyed teddy bear persona as his would-be mentor, and Emma Roberts finally shows signs of being able to break beyond generic pretty-girl roles as Gilchrist’s considerably more troubled peer.

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 thoroughly engaging film. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

JACK GOES BOATING (Philip Seymour

Hoffman) is Oscar-winning actor Hoff-

JACKASS 3D (Jeff Tremaine) 90 min. See Also Opening, page 89.

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(Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman) mashes together a reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem, animation of the poem by Eric Drooker, transcripts from the obscenity trial of Howl’s publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and an interview with Ginsberg (James Franco) based on the poet’s writings on his life, his queerness and culture. It shouldn’t work but it does.

Courtroom sequences that could have been static and talky are energized by lawyers David Strathairn and Jon Hamm.

Drooker’s animation is sometimes too literal, but you can always close your eyes and listen to Franco read. He’s the reason the interview sequences, filmed in closeup on his face, work. Howl’s real star is the poem itself, which rages at American capitalism and conformity, defends the underclasses and aches for creative freedom. 84 min. NNNN (SGC) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, TIFF Bell Lightbox

man’s directorial debut, and he doesn’t embarrass himself. He plays Jack, a socially inept limo driver who’s set up on a date with the nervous Connie (Amy Ryan), who works with Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), the persistently unfaithful girlfriend of Jack’s co-worker pal Clyde (John Ortiz). Bob Glaudini’s adaptation of his off-Broadway play (which starred Hoffman) has a strange tone, and Hoffman holds many scenes of forced awkwardness too long – as if he doesn’t trust the audience to get a point. Still, the movie has a cumulative power leading up to a climactic, squirmworthy dinner party scene. The theatretrained leads are all wonderful, especially the underrated Ortiz, who’s finally given a chance to show his range on film. 90 min.

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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) Kingsway Theatre

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (Steven R. Monroe) 107 min. See review, page 89. NNN (AD) Opens Oct 15 at Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24.

ñINCEPTION

(Christopher Nolan) is a complex thriller/heist flick with Leonardo DiCaprio as the leader of an industrial-espionage team who extract valuable information by inserting themselves into dreams. Tremendous, fullthrottle filmmaking. 146 min. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

IRON MAN 2 (Jon Favreau) delivers everything you expect in a sequel to one of the best superhero movies of recent years – more Robert Downey Jr., more high-flying armoured action, more, more, more. But it still struggles with the fact that the scenes

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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) Yonge & Dundas 24

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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: THE RADIANT CHILD (Tamra Davis) has as its heart the

director’s 1985 interview with her friend Basquiat. Fascinating footage shows the artist as a confident, handsome young graffiti poet and later at work on many painting at once in a loud, chaotic studio.

Davis depicts an angry, lost man in an untenable situation, separated from friends by success yet isolated in a racist art world as the lone lionized black artist. Though the film lacks a thoughtful hindsight evaluation of his work, Basquiat’s charismatic presence and the story of his meteoric rise to fame and early death by heroin overdose are compelling. 88 min.

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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) Carlton Cinema

LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (Zack Snyder) plays like a

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 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

vey 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 LET ME IN (Matt violence? What? Even Reeves) adapts EXPANDED REVIEWS more problematic is Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 nowtoronto.com the basic thrust of the chiller Let The Right One film, which is an exIn. The original was so dispression of my parents’ tinctly Swedish, it’s amazing how well the generation’s (people over 70) old siege material handles the transfer to a New mentality that made them celebrate any Mexico setting. The story is exactly the Jewish person who became successful. same, with a bullied teen (The Road’s Kodi Those identity politics are so over. 90 min.

Smit-McPhee) and an enigmatic neighNN (SGC) bour (Kick Ass’s Chloë Grace Moretz) Grande - Yonge bonding as a series of murders sweep

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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

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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

MAO’S LAST DANCER (Bruce Beresford) is a

Aaron Tveit (left) and James Franco let out a big Howl. 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

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (Greg Berlanti) stars

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as Holly and Messer, co-guardians of the orphaned baby of their deceased best friends. The idea that parents would leave their child with such an irresponsible pair without telling them is the movie’s first stupid plot point. Rigor mortis hasn’t even set in before the screwball shenanigans begin. The movie’s loaded with your typical rom-com squabbling, “Awww, how cute” moments and cartoonish supporting characters like a social worker who seems more concerned about whether the guardians are fucking than whether the kid’s all right. Heigl’s okay in an undemanding role, but she adds little charm.

That burden falls on Duhamel, a hunkylooking version of Timothy Olyphant who provides eye candy for the target female demographic. 115 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Cum-

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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

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min. See review, page 88. NNNN (SGC) Opens Oct 15 at Carlton Cinema.

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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

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

MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (Wes Craven) is a

well-made, soft slasher flick more interested in its teen victims than its scares, which are handled effectively but not treated as big set pieces. After 16 years, a killer returns to slay the seven kids who were born the night he allegedly died. Or has his evil soul infected one of the teens?

Director Craven barely lets us glimpse his masked killer, deliberately saving us from yet another tedious sequel-ready horror icon. He’s more interested in making his teen victims and their high school intrigues interesting in their own right, something no other slasher flick director has achieved. The 3-D is so underused, though, that the movie might as well be flat. 88 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

NANNY McPHEE RETURNS (Susanna

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 digit-

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ally 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, SilverCity Mississauga

ñNever Let Me Go

(Mark Romanek) is 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, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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97 min. See interview and review, page 86. NNNN (NW) Opens Oct 15 at Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Varsity.

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 red (Robert Schwentke) 111 min. See Q&A with Karl Urban and review, page 87.

NNN (NW) Opens Oct 15 at 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. 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) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre returN to eL sALvAdor (Jamie Moffett)

demonstrates that good intentions don’t always make for great filmmaking. The cultural rebirth of El Salvador is indeed impressive, but director Moffett’s relentless use of inspirational music and smiling faces make this feel more like an infomercial than a documentary, 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? Some subtitles. 67 min.

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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

ñscott PiLGriM vs. the worLd

(Edgar Wright) is sheer pop delirium 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

★★★★ “Glorious, hilarious and absurd!”

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ñthe secret iN their eyes

(Juan Jose Campanella) travels back and forth through time, tracking retired Buenos Aires police investigator Esposito (sad-eyed Ricardo Darín), who can’t let go of a 20-yearold case of rape and murder. A superbly complex meditation on memory, passion and regret. Subtitled. 129 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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ating case study in how to pander to an audience you don’t respect. 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. Director Wallace tells that story in the most banal manner possible. 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. Yes, it’s that kind of movie. 122 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

ñthe sociAL Network

(David Fincher) turns the nuts and bolts of the creation of Facebook – and the elevation of Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg in a complex and prickly performance that should finally get people to stop 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 entertaining, an endlessly clever creation myth produced with immense skill and peppered with great one-liners. 122 min.

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steP uP 3d (Jon Chu) is a step backwards

for the franchise. The choreographed sequences are energetic, eye-popping and range widely in style, and the 3-D adds texture and is only occasionally gimmicky.

The story about an upcoming dance battle, however, is simply mind-numbingly bad. 104 min. NN (GS) Coliseum Mississauga

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STONE (John Curran) 105 min. See review,

page 87. N (NW) Opens Oct 15 at Cumberland 4, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga.

STREETDANCE 3D (Max Giwa, Dania

Pasquini) shamelessly recycles elements from Save The Last Dance and Step Up to tell its story about a dance crew in desperate 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 eyepopping 3-D. 98 min. NNN (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Yonge & Dundas 24 TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE (Cristian

Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu) 138 min. See review, page 89. NNN (AD) Opens Oct 14 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

THE TOWN (Ben Affleck) is Affleck’s slick-

(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

er 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 genre. It’d be a lot more satisfying if UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL he’d allowed himself to stretch out for HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong three hours, as Michael Mann did in Heat.

Weerasethakul) took this year’s Palme Instead, the result is an impeccably craftd’Or at Cannes. It’s a lovely magic-realist ed but tonally wobbly studio picture study of a dying Thai man (Thanapat that’s at war with itself from one scene Saisaymar) who welto the next. Jeremy comes visits from Renner and Jon Hamm friends and relatives do some fine work fillEXPANDED REVIEWS both living and specing out their standard nowtoronto.com tral. Shooting with an crazy-guy and FBI-guy unfussy vérité aesthetic, parts, though. 125 min.

Apichatpong crafts a delicate, enveloping NNN (NW) spell, creating a world where the intru401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, sion of the supernatural is almost comColiseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, monplace. There’s a generosity and Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, warmth here that practically radiates off Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow the screen; you can’t help but be pulled Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, along as the director takes his odd, wonSilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, derful journey. If you’ve seen Syndromes SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, VarAnd A Century or Tropical Malady, you sity, Yonge & Dundas 24 already know and love his distinctive TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich) finds our plastic tone; if you haven’t, you’ll pick it up heroes facing the end of their usefulness as quickly enough. Subtitled. 108 min. their owner, Andy, prepares to go off to colNNNNN (NW) lege. The movie has beats, and even entire TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity scenes, that recall the glories of the earlier WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” (Davis chapters, but TS2 happened because Pixar Guggenheim) is as devastating a had another story to tell, while TS3 is here look at the decline and fall of the U.S. because someone thought it was a surefire public school system as Guggenheim’s An hit. 97 min. NNN (NW) Inconvenient Truth was about global Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 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) Carlton Cinema, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS

(Oliver Stone) tracks America’s looming financial disaster through the eyes of a bright-eyed, 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 sad-puppy gaze. 132 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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 pooldunking 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, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, 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

WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER ñYOU

(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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MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 RED Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:40, 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 6:40, 9:10 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 9:00 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 12:20, 12:50, 3:10, 4:15, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:00, 3:10, 4:00, 6:15, 7:20, 9:10, 10:15 STONE Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 10:10 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 1:20, 10:20 Fri-Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Tue 6:45, 9:50

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John Malkovich gets all wired up in RED. 9:45, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:30, 2:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:20 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:55 FriSun, Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 RED Fri-Sun, Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Mon, Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50

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ALPHA AND OMEGA (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00 THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 7:15 Fri-Wed 11:00, 9:35 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 4:50 Fri-Wed 2:45 I AM LOVE (18A) Thu 2:45 INCEPTION (PG) Fri-Wed 7:00 TOY STORY 3 (G) Thu 1:00 WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” (G) Fri-Wed 5:00 continued on page 96 œ

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DEVIL (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:15, 9:15 A DISAPPEARING NUMBER Thu 7:00 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 2:30, 4:40, 7:40, 9:50 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:15 3:20 6:30 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:40, 9:45 JACKASS 3D Fri-Wed 1:10, 2:15, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30

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1025 thE QuEEnsWaY, QEW & islington, 416-503-0424 aLpha anD oMega 3-D (PG) thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 BurieD (14A) thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 case 39 (14A) thu 12:20, 3:05, 6:15, 9:20 DeviL (14A) thu 2:00, 4:20, 10:15 a Disappearing nuMBer thu 7:00 easy a (14A) thu 12:25 3:25 6:20 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:25, 6:25, 9:10 inception (PG) thu 3:00, 6:35, 10:00 it’s kinD of a funny story (14A) thu 1:50 4:40 7:35 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:10, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe (PG) thu 12:15 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3D (PG) thu 1:20 4:05 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:00, 6:50, 9:30 Let Me in (14A) thu 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Life as we know it (PG) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 FriWed 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 My souL to take 3D (14A) thu 1:05 4:00 6:55 9:45 FriWed 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45

nowhere Boy (14A) Fri-tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:55 Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:55 reD Fri-Wed 12:35, 1:25, 3:35, 4:30, 6:35, 7:30, 9:40, 10:30 resiDent eviL: afterLife 3D (18A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 secretariat (G) thu 12:40, 3:45, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-tue 12:40, 3:45, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 3:45, 7:05, 10:05 the sociaL network (14A) thu 12:05, 1:15, 3:15, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:00, 12:55, 3:10, 4:15, 6:20, 7:15, 9:25, 10:15 stone Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 streetDance 3D (PG) thu 9:05 the town (14A) thu 12:10 3:10 6:30 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 waLL street: Money never sLeeps (PG) thu 12:30 3:50 7:10 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 you again (PG) thu 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9:15

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WoodBinE cEntrE, 500 rExdalE Blvd, 416-213-1998 case 39 (14A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:30 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3D (PG) thu 12:35, 3:45, 7:05, 9:15 Let Me in (14A) thu 12:40 3:50 6:55 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:20 Life as we know it (PG) 12:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 reD Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 secretariat (G) thu 1:00 3:45 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 the sociaL network (14A) thu 1:05 4:05 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 the town (14A) 6:45, 9:35 thu 12:50, 3:55 mat you again (PG) thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 9:25

this week at SPECIAL EVENTS:

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® head archivist Michael Pogorzelski presents four outstanding examples of recent archival restoration work – and how they did it!

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Jackass 3D 7:30, 10:15 Fri 4:45 mat sat-sun 1:45, 4:45 mat LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3D (PG) thu 6:40, 9:15 Let Me in (14A) thu 7:30, 10:20 Life as we know it (PG) thu 7:20, 10:15 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 sat-sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 mon-Wed 7:20, 10:20 reD 7:10, 10:10 Fri 4:15 mat sat-sun 1:15, 4:15 mat secretariat (G) thu 7:10, 10:10 Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 satsun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 mon-Wed 6:50, 9:50 the sociaL network (14A) 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00 mat sat-sun 1:00, 4:00 mat the town (14A) thu 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 satsun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 mon-Wed 6:40, 9:40

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easy a (14A) thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:20, 6:40, 9:45 mon-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:40, 9:15 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3D (PG) thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Let Me in (14A) thu 9:20 Life as we know it (PG) thu 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Frisun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 My souL to take 3D (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:15, 9:55 Frisun 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 reD Fri-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 secretariat (G) thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 the sociaL network (14A) thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 the town (14A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 waLL street: Money never sLeeps (PG) thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:05, 10:05 you again (PG) thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:45

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case 39 (14A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 DeviL (14A) thu 9:40 easy a (14A) thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15

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case 39 (14A) thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 easy a (14A) thu 3:45, 6:10, 8:45 Jackass 3D Fri-sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 LegenD of the guarDians: the owLs of ga’hooLe 3D (PG) thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Let Me in (14A) thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:25, 6:10, 9:00 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:10, 9:00 Life as we know it (PG) thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 My souL to take 3D (14A) thu 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 reD Fri-sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 secretariat (G) thu 3:55, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-sun 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 the sociaL network (14A) thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 the town (14A) thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 waLL street: Money never sLeeps (PG) thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 you again (PG) thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:20

colisEum scarBorough (cE) scarBorough toWn cEntrE, 416-290-5217

BurieD (14A) thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 case 39 (14A) thu 1:40, 4:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 DeviL (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 6:40, 9:20 a Disappearing nuMBer thu 7:00 easy a (14A) thu 12:45, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:25, 6:25, 9:25 Jackass 3D Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:05, 3:30, 4:05, 6:30, 7:05, 9:30, 10:05 Let Me in (14A) thu 12:35, 3:35, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 My souL to take 3D (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 FriWed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 reD Fri, mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 sat-sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 resiDent eviL: afterLife 3D (18A) thu 12:30 3:30 6:20 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:20, 9:40 streetDance 3D (PG) thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 the town (14A) thu 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 waLL street: Money never sLeeps (PG) thu 1:30, 5:10, 8:45

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(THE MISSION, THE PIANO)

DZIGA VERTOV’S

HELD OVER

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KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

AAKROSH 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 2:40, 7:30 ANJAANA ANJAANI 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat CATFISH (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 DABANGG (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 DEVIL (14A) 2:10, 4:10, 6:10, 8:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:25 Sat-Sun 12:05, 6:25 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 3:45, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat INCEPTION (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Fri-Wed 3:10, 9:35 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) Thu 2:40 5:05 7:30 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat KNOCK OUT 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:45 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 2:00 4:30 7:05 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 2:15 4:05 4:50 6:40 7:25 9:15 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:05, 4:50, 6:40, 7:25, 9:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:40, 1:30 mat NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 2:05, 4:35 NEVER LET ME GO (14A) 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:05 mat NOWHERE BOY (14A) 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:35 mat SALT (PG) Thu 5:05, 9:55 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:30 SECRETARIAT (G) 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 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-Sun 11:00, 12:00, 1:00 mat STONE 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” (G) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45

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CASE 39 (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:20, 6:10 Wed 3:20, 6:20 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 DEVIL (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 8:00, 10:10 A DISAPPEARING NUMBER Thu 7:00 EASY A (14A) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:20 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:30, 10:00 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 10:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 1:20 5:00 8:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 JACKASS 3D Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:45, 3:15, 4:45, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:15, 4:45, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:50 3:30 6:20 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 FriTue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 RED Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 12:45 3:50 6:35 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 STEP UP 3 (PG) Thu 12:40, 6:30 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 TAKERS (14A) Thu 3:20, 9:20 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 9:00

DEVIL (14A) Thu 1:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 EASY A (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:50, 1:55, 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 INCEPTION: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Fri-Sun 11:35, 3:15, 7:05, 10:45 Mon, Wed 3:15, 7:05, 10:45 Tue 3:15, 10:45 JACKASS 3 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 11:05 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat JACKASS 3D Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:45, 11:25, 1:35, 2:20, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:35, 2:20, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) 1:20, 4:20, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:25 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 Fri-Sun 10:00, 10:30, 12:55, 1:25, 3:55, 4:30, 7:10, 7:40, 10:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 4:30, 7:10, 7:40, 10:20, 10:50 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:10, 2:10, 5:10, 8:10, 11:15 Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:10, 8:10, 11:15 RED Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:20, 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 8:15, 11:15 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:05, 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 10:10 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 4:05, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat 10:15, 12:45, 1:15, 4:10, 4:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:25, 11:10 Sun 10:15, 1:15, 4:10, 4:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:25, 11:10 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 4:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:25, 11:10 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:45 Fri-Sun 10:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 3:30, 7:10, 10:35 Fri-Sun 11:40, 3:10, 7:25, 10:55 Mon-Wed 3:10, 7:25, 10:55 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25

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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) 4:10, 6:30 Fri-Sun 1:20 mat CATFISH (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:15 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 3:40 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 STONE Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) 9:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 YOU AGAIN (PG) 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat

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COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

ALPHA AND OMEGA (PG) 3:30 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:20 BURIED (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:35, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:45, 9:20 CASE 39 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:00 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 FriSun 12:30, 3:00, 6:10, 8:40 DEVIL (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Sun 8:00, 10:35 MonWed 8:00, 10:30 EASY A (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:15 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 FUBAR II (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 JACKASS 3D 4:20, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:00 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:30 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat MY SOUL TO TAKE (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 NOWHERE BOY (14A) 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 RED 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:40, 1:20 mat RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:10, 7:40, 10:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:50, 10:25 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 9:45 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 9:55, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 10:10

SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:20 FriWed 1:15, 3:55, 6:50, 9:15 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:20 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, 9:15

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GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590

CASE 39 (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 9:20 Mon-Wed 9:10 JACKASS 3D Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Fri 3:55, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:20, 9:10 MonWed 3:55, 6:20, 9:00 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:20, 9:00 LET ME IN (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 RED Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 3:30 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:35 mat THE TOWN (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 YOU AGAIN (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Fri 3:45, 6:30 SatSun 12:55, 3:45, 6:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35 3

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Festivals estdocs Film Festival

estonian house, 958 broadview (eh); isabel bader theatre, 93 charles w (ib); tartu college, 310 bloor w (tc); PaPermill theatre, todmorden mills, 67 Pottery (Pt). 647-723-6632, estdocs.com.

fri 15-oct 22 – Films from Estonia. All films w/ English subtitles. $10-$20. Advance tickets @ Eesti Sihtkapital Kanadas, 956 Broadview (416-465-5600) and Estore at Eesti Maja, 958 Broadview (416-465-2219). fri 15 – World Champion (2009) D: Moonika Siimets, and An Estonian In Japan, Lost In Translation (2009) D: Artur Talvik. 7 pm (TC). sat 16 – Seven Etudes In Pictures (2010) D: Marianne Kõrver. 7 pm (PT). sun 17 – September (2010) D: Ilmar Raag. Followed by screening of winning films from the short film competition. 6 pm (IB). mon 18 – Dear Mister Moon (1998) D: Rao Heidmats. 7 pm (EH). tue 19 – Palusalu (2009) D: Kristiina Davidjants. 7 pm (EH). wed 20 – Jolly Old Farts (2010) D: Manfred Vainokivi, and Return Of Jaan Manitski (2009) D: Rein Raamat. 7 pm (TC).

moving images Film Festival toronto underground cinema, 186 sPadina, back entrance (tuc); annex live theatre, 296 brunswick (at). 416-477-2500, miFFest.com.

fri 15-sun 17 – Film festival that focuses on the genres of film as a study and welcomes experimentation. $10, best feature film showcase $30, festival pass $50.

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fri 15 – Big Screen/Big Action Showcase: The

Haymaker D: Daniel D’Alimonte, Cost Of A Soul D: Sean Kirkpatrick and others. 3:30 pm. Best Short Films Showcase: Glory At Sea D: Behn Zeitlin, Move On D: Chris LaRoche and others. 7 pm. Best Feature Films Showcase: Baby Blues D: Dylan Pearce, and 1999 D: Lenin M Sivam. 9:30 pm. All screenings at TUC. sat 16 – Comic Art Showcase: Dig Comics! D: Miguel Cima, Archon Defender D: David Krupicz and others. 11 am (TUC). Docs That Rock Showcase: Cat City D: Justine Pimlott, Sounds Like A Revolution D: Summer Preney and others. 1:30 pm (TUC). Toronto Nights Showcase: My Father, The Terrorist D: Sofiya Randera, Lick D: Chris Agoston and others.

6:30 pm (AT). Death By Night Showcase: Depois D: Gabriel Tupinamba, Salvation D: Sonia Suvagau and others. 11 pm (AT). sun 17 – Best Of Can-Con Showcase: Sun Goddess D: Andrew Bibelas, Point Traverse D: Albert Shin and others. Noon (TUC). Foreign Films Vs Canada Showcase: $9.50 D: Ranjith Joseph, Arranged Happiness D: Dany Dar-Creutz. 4:30 pm(TUC). Weird-o-Rama Showcase: e-Pigs D: Petar Pasic, Frankenpimp D: Tony Watt and others. 8:30 pm (AT).

Moving Image Showcase of short films. Midnight (AT).

toronto hisPano-amerian Film Festival

bloor cinema, 506 bloor w. 416-897-2537, thaFF.com.

thu 14-sat 16 – Comedies, documentaries and

dramas from Spanish-speaking countries. $10, stu/srs $8. Tickets from torontohispano.com. thu 14 – Siblings (2010) D: Daniel Burman. 7 pm. fri 15 – Third Degree (2009) D: Roberto Artiagoitía. 7 pm. Eva & Lola (2010) D: Sabrina Farji. 9 pm. sat 16 – Rudo And Cursi (2008) D: Carlos Cuaron. 7 pm. The Man Next Door (2010) D: Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. 9:30 pm.

imaginenative Film & media arts Festival bloor cinema, 506 bloor w. 416-585-2333, imaginenative.org.

wed 20-oct 24 – Film, art, new media, and more by indigenous artists. $7, stu/srs/underemployed free (before 6 pm), opening and closing night $12 (stu/srs $10); passes $70$100, stu/srs/underemployed $42-$60. wed 20 – Opening night: Boy (2010) D: Taika Waititi, and short film Taku Rakau E. 7 pm.

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macedonian Film Festival innis town hall, 2 sussex. 647-262-4622, macedonianFilmFestival.com.

fri 15-sun 17 – Classics, contemporary feature films, animations and documentaries. All films in English or with subtitles unless otherwise noted. $10. fri 15 – Sasha C Damjanovski X 2: Dance With Me (2010), and Green Pages (2006). Q&A w/ director follows screening. 7:30 pm. sat 16 – Voda (2007) D: Gabriela Ilijeska and Kaleidoscope (2009) D: Sandra Ristovska. 2 pm. Child (2010) D: Aljosa Simjanovski, Voda, and Kontakt (2006) D: Sergej Stanojkovski.

3:30 pm. Corridor #8 (2008) D: Boris Despodov. 5 pm. sun 17 – Wolf’s Night (1955) D: France Stiglic. 2 pm. Hoover (2008) D: Marija Apchevska, and Bal-Can-Can (2005) D: Darko Mitrevski. 3:45 pm. Dance With Me. 5:30 pm.

Planet in Focus Film Festival

bata shoe museum, 327 bloor w (bsm); al green theatre, mnJcc, 750 sPadina (ag); gardiner museum, 111 queen’s Park (gm); royal ontario museum, 100 queen’s Park (rom); royal theatre, 608 college (rt); wychwood theatre, artscaPe wychwood barns, 601 christie (wt). 416-968-3456, PlanetinFocus.org.

thu 14-oct 17 – Environmental films and

videos from 32 countries. $12, stu/srs $10; 5 pm weekday & 11 am weekend screenings $5; closing night gala $22; festival pass $100, some screenings free for children. thu 14 – For The Love Of Elephants (2010) D: Mary M Frymire. 5 pm (ROM). Hauling (2010) D: Sean Walsh, and short film To The End Of The Road. 5 pm (AG). Water On The Table (2010) D: Liz Marshall, and short film Walk In The Forest. 7 pm (ROM). Scientists Under Attack (2009) D: Verhaag Bertram, and short film Loving The Bomb. 7:15 pm (AG). Climate Refugees (2010) D: Michael Nash, and short film Tide Of Change. 9:30 pm (ROM). Ashes From The Sky (2008) D: José Antonio Quirós, and short film The Herd. 9:30 pm (AG). fri 15 – Queen Of The Sun (2010) D: Taggart Siegel, and short film Bee Man. 5 pm (ROM). A Road Not Taken (2010) D: Christina Hemauer, and Planet (2010) D: Matthew Branning. 5 pm (AG). Burning Water (2010) D: Cameron Esler and Tadzio Richards, Life In The Fast Lane (2010) D: Almerinda Travassos, and short film Green Heroes: Sarah Harmer. 7:15 pm (AG).

Dance To The Spirits (2009) D: Ricardo Íscar, and short film Paradise Later. 7:30 pm (ROM).

Transcendent Man (2009) D: Barry Ptolemy, and short film Business As Usual. 9:30 pm (ROM). Birdwatchers (2008) D: Marco Bechis, and short film Inukshop. 9:30 pm (AG).

sat 16 – Short Films: Ages 3-6. 10 am. Free.

(WT). Himalaya Alert (2009) D: Mark Verkerk, and shorts Plastic And Glass and Etching. 11 am (GM). Hope Builders (2010) D: Fernand Dansereau. 11 am (AG). For The Best And For The Onion! (2008) D: Sani Elhadj Magori, and Awra Amba (2009) D: Paulina Tervo. 12:30 pm (ROM). Bag It – Is Your Life Too Plastic?

(2010) D: Suzan Beraza, and short films Bottom Of The River and Feel What They Feel. 1 pm (AG). Short Films: Ages 7-13. 1:30 pm.

Free. (WT). Into The Dragon’s Lair (2010) D: Damon and Craig Foster, and Walter And The Tigers (2009) D: Jason Perryman. 2:15 pm (ROM). Strange Fruit: A Changing Landscape In The Central Okanagan (2010) D: Mark Arellano, and short film Lot 22, Concession 5.

3:15 pm (AG).Nutshimit – On The Land (2010) D: Sarah Sandring, and Tshiushuas (2010) D: Christine Poker. 3:45 pm (ROM). We Live By The River (2010) D: Karin Williams, and Down The Mighty River – The Great Divide (2010) D: Ernest Webb and Lisa M Roth. 5:45 pm (AG). Terras (2009) D: Maya Da-Rin, and short film Closed Zone. 5:45 pm (ROM). Land Of Destiny (2010) D: Brett Story, and short film U:Uranium. 7:15 pm (ROM). Dive! Living Off America’s Waste (2009) D: Jeremy Seifert, Never Lose Sight (2010) D: Sarah McNairLandry, and short film Tight. 7:30 pm (AG). Cry Of The Andes (2010) D: Carmen Henríquez, and short film We Are. 9:30 pm (ROM). Reading The Riot Act Shorts Program. 9:30 pm (AG). sun 17 – Nature’s Greatest Defender (2009) D: Cathe Neukum and Thomas Veltre, Home For Hawksbill (2010) D: Jordan Plotsky, and short film Red Knot: Flying On The Edge. 11 am (ROM). Family Program: Nutshimit – On The Land, Fledgling and The Herd. 11 am.

Free. (BSM). Seed Warriors (2009) D: Mirjam Von Arx and Katharina von Flotow, and short film 11 Degrees. 11 am (AG). Sweet Crude (2009) D: Sandy Cioffi. 1 pm (AG). Green Sprouts! Youth Filmmaker’s Showcase. 1 & 3 pm. Free. (BSM). The 4th Revolution – Energy Autonomy (2010) D: Carl A Fechner, and short film Cement Roots. 1:15 pm (ROM).

Whales Of Gold (2009) D: Lucia Duncan, Finding Coral (2009) D: Tavi Parusel, The Bering Sea: Ecosystem In Crisis (2009) D: Brent Balalas and Belly Up: Salmon In Peril (2009) D: Andrew Deiters. 3:15 pm (AG). Stone Pastures (2008) D: Donagh Coleman, and How Green Was Our Valley (2009) D: Fereshteh Joghataei. 3:15 pm (ROM). New Beijing: Reinventing A City (2009) D: Georgia WallaceCrabbe, Regarding Vancouver (2010) D: Laurynas Navidauskas, and short film Teclópolis. 5:15 pm (AG). Alamar (2009) D: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, and short film Sink. 5:30 pm (ROM). Closing Night Gala: Climate Of Change (2010) D: Brian Hill. 7 pm (RT).

cinemas bloor cinema

506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com

thu 14 – The Birds (1963) D: Alfred Hitchcock.

4:15 pm. Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 pm. The Kids Are All Right (2010) D: Lisa Cholodenko. 9:20 pm. fri 15 – I Am Love (2009) D: Luca Guadagnino. 4 pm. Toronto HispanoAmerican Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 & 9 pm. sat 16 – Toy Story 3 (2010) D: Lee Unkrich. 4 pm. Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival.

See listings, this page. 7 & 9:30 pm. sun 17 – Toy Story 3. 2 pm. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) D: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 4:15 pm. I Am Love. 6:30 pm. Machete (2010) D: Robert Rodriguez and Ethan Maniquis. 9 pm. mon 18 – Alien: The Director’s Cut (1979) D: Ridley Scott. 4:30 pm. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. 7 pm. Machete. 9:15 pm. tue 19 – I Am Love. 4:30 pm. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. 7 pm. Machete. 9:15 pm. wed 20 – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. 4 pm. ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival. See listings, this page. 7 pm.

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sat 16 – Indecisive Moments (2008) D: Larry

Towell. 2 pm. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) D: Clint Eastwood. 3 pm. Free.

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thu 14 – Taxi Driver (1976) D:Martin Scorsese. 6 & 9:15 pm. Sunrise: A Song ñ Of Two Humans (1927) D: FW Murnau. 6:30

pm. The Godfather (1972) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 8:30 pm. Raging Bull (1980) D: Martin Scorsese. 9:15 pm. fri 15 – Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans. 3 pm. Taxi Driver. 6, 9:15 & 11:59 pm. Vertigo (1958) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 6:30 pm. The Godfather. 8:30 pm. sat 16 – The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming. Noon. Night And Fog (1955) D: Alain Resnais. 3 pm. Free. Pather Panchali (1955) D: Satyajit Ray. 4 pm. The Searchers (1956) D: John Ford. 6:30 pm. The Godfather.

8:30 pm. Taxi Driver. 9:15 & 11:59 pm. sun 17 – Slumdog Millionaire (2008) D: Danny Boyle. Noon. Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902) D: Georges Méliès, and short film L’Arrivee D’un Train À La Ciotat. 12:15 pm.

Free. Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans. 1:30 pm. Amélie (2001) D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 3 pm. Rashomon (1950) D: Akira Kurosawa.

4:30 pm. City Of God (2002) D: Fernando Meirelles. 7 pm. The Godfather. 8:30 pm.

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Water worries WateR on the table (Liz Marshall, Canada). 82 minutes. Thursday (October 14), 7 pm, ROM. Also screens outside the festival October 16-17 at the Royal (see listings, this page). Rating: nnn

Filmmaker Liz Marshall shadows Canadian author and activist Maude Barlow as she travels the world campaigning for recognition of access to fresh water as an essential human right. Given the vast money to be made in the global bottled water industry, that’s easier said than done, Mon 18 – Taxi Driver. 6 & 9:15 pm. The Godfather. 8:30 pm. ñ tue 19 – Bicycle Thieves (1948) D: Vittorio De

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Mon 18 – Get Low. 7 pm. Winter’s Bone (2010) D: Debra Granik. 9:15 pm. tue 19 – Get Low. 7 pm. Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) D: Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg. 9:15 pm.

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The director’s also the writer, cameraman and editor, but there’s nothing showy about his movie, a modest study of human connection in remote surroundings that finds beauty and power in the smallest of gestures – brewing coffee, making fish stew, teaching a child to snorkel.

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7 pm. The Last Exorcism (2010) D: Daniel Stamm. 9 pm. fRi 15 – The American (2010) D: Anton Corbijn.

7 pm. Machete (2010) D: Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez. 9:15 pm. sat 16 – Family Fest: 5 NFB Films. Pwyc, $8 suggested. 10:30 am. International Home Movie Day: clinic 2:30 pm, screening. 3:30 pm. $4. The American. 7 pm. Machete. 9:15 pm. sun 17 – Wallace And Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) D: Steve Box and Nick Park. 2 pm. The Expendables (2010) D: Sylvester Stallone. 4 pm. The American. 7 pm. Machete. 9:15 pm.

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and Marshall’s documentary shows Barlow working hard to overcome corporate spinmeisters, wavering governments and an unenlightened public.

Watching Barlow push back against wave after endless wave of resistance makes the experience of watching Water On The Table a little frustrating, but her message is one that bears – and noRMan WilneR needs – repeating.

We’re From Winnipeg (2010) D: Caelum Vatnsdal. Live set with John K Samson alongside screening. 9:30 pm. $18 adv $15. Tickets at imagesfestival.com/store. tue 19-WeD 20 – Check website for schedule.

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Williamson. 7 pm. The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm. sat 16 – IF3 International Freeski Film Festival.

Noon to 6 pm. Water On The Table (2010) D: Liz Marshall. 9:30 pm. sun 17 – Teenager Hamlet. Noon. Water On the Table. 2:30 pm.

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WeD 20 – Hart House presents the Conscious Activism Doc Series weekly films: Petropolis – Aerial Perspectives On Alberta Tar Sands (2009) D: Peter Mettler. 6:30 pm. Free. Hart House Library, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse. ca/docfest.

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(Universal, 2010) D: Nicholas Stoller, w/ Russell Brand, Jonah Hill. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNNN This is one of the all-time great sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll movies, up there with Spinal Tap and Almost Famous. It takes a sharp, satiric look at the rock star as narcissistic, emptyheaded monster and delivers a nonstop mix of farcical and subtle gags.

The rock star is Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), whom you might recall as a minor character in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Record company nerd Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) has 72 hours to get from L.A. to London and bring Snow back for a major concert. But just dumped by his long-time girlfriend (Rose Byrne)

Jonah Hill (left) and Russell Brand run from Diddy in hilarious Get Him To The Greek.

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(Criterion/eOne, 2007) D: Wes Anderson, w/ Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson.

Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNN Three wealthy American brothers take a train ride across India. Control-freak Francis (Owen Wilson) insists that it be a spiritual journey. Jet-setter Jack (Jason Schwartzman) and nervous soon-to-be father Peter (Adrien Brody) acquiesce, but sibling rivalry runs amok and gets them tossed off the train in the middle of nowhere.

Precise, understated performances and self-conscious over-elaborate camera moves contrast with the beauty and chaos of India in this droll comedy

about family dynamics and the futility of the paint-by-numbers approach to spirituality.

Along with a very good making-of doc and critical essay, Criterion’s extensive extras provide several worthwhile comic items, notably Waris’s Diary.

EXTRAS Commentary, audio-visual essay, making-of doc, more. Widescreen.

English audio and subtitles.

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(Anchor Bay, 2010) D: Adam Green, w/ Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNNN Two snowboarders and a skier are trapped on a chairlift 50 feet in the air. The slopes are closed for the next four

about three people stuck up a tree with a crocodile beneath.

EXTRAS Commentary, four-part making-of doc. Widescreen. English, Spanish audio and subtitles.

days. They must save themselves or die.

There are wolves below.

Director Adam Green and his cast generate a great deal of suspense from these simple elements.

Dan (Kevin Zegers) is torn between girlfriend Parker (Emma Bell) and Lynch (Shawn Ashmore), his lifelong best friend, who’s not happy about losing his buddy to a girl. The cast makes excellent and unusual choices in handling the nuances of the relationships as well as the terror.

Green keeps the action vivid with an ever-moving camera that emphasizes vertigo and isolation. You can almost feel the wind. Everything was shot on location – no studio close-ups, no green screen – so cast and crew felt it for real.

It was, they say, a shoot from hell, and the extensive extras prove it.

Double-bill this with Black Water,

A Nightmare On Elm Street

(Warner Home Video, 2010) D: Samuel Bayer, w/ Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara.

Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN Director Samuel Bayer and his co-creators haven’t done anything notably new and different. It’s still the same old Freddy Krueger, dead child molester killing teenagers in their dreams because their parents killed him.

The dysfunctional family dynamics of the original are gone, but now we have a motive for Freddy’s depredations. (Rage and revenge aren’t enough?) He wants the kids to remember what he did to them as tots. This

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Writer/director Nicole Holofcener’s comedy drama stars Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt as New York antiques dealers waiting for the nasty, cunning old lady next door to die so they can grab her furniture.

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directly contradicts his claim that he is fueled by their memories, but it does provide an excuse to send the teens creeping around a derelict daycare centre.

The fedora, striped sweater and blade-fingered glove are back and, as Jack Nicholson said about playing the Joker, “This is one of those jobs where you just stand there and let the suit do the acting.” Still, Jackie Earle Haley is menacing as Freddy, though Rooney Mara and Kyle Gallner, the embattled teens, both seem unnecessarily bland.

Bayer creates an eerie dreamscape with a mix of new elements and classic shots from the original, all underscored by an effective soundtrack. Unfortunately, he uses the music to signal the onset of dreams, thus erasing much of the surprise factor.

The sole bonus feature offers a lightweight original-versus-remake comparison.

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and with his latest disc universally reviled, Snow is deep into sex and substances and in no mood to cooperate.

Brand delivers Snow’s megawatts of energy through a surface mask that remains unchanged whether he’s spewing filth or expressing warm-hearted concern. He’s very funny. So are the rest of the cast and the material. Listen closely to the song lyrics, especially Jackie Q’s hymn to anal sex and Brand’s furry wall number.

Best of the very funny extras is Blind Medicine, scenes from a hospital drama starring Sarah Marshall as a blind surgeon.

EXTRAS Widescreen, director, cast and producer commentary. Two blooper reels, Blind Medicine segments. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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416-588-8652 Bathurst / King spacious 2 bdrm in upper duplex sep. ent., hrdwd flrs, lndry, deck.

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Downtown 2 Bdrm Stainless Steel-Fridge, Microwave, Dishwasher. White Washer & Dryer.

Spectacular City And Lake View Day & Night! New Laminate Floors, Freshly Painted & An Open Concept Kitchen. $951 416-533-3455

Dupont/Dovercourt 2 Bdrm Bsmt $950 incl. $1050 Incl.

Basement of house. Separate ent.

Garden level windows. Non Smokers.

Renovated. No dogs. 647-832-8012 Avail Nov. 1st.

Dupont/Lansdowne Two Bedroom - $1,275. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, undgrd, prkg, air. 416-516 -1166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com

Queen / Lansdowne reno'd, lndry, hrdwd, kitch/living rm, a/c. Dec1st. $950incl. + hydro, nopets. 416-419-7704 / 416-532-7701

Yonge/Eglinton 2 bdrm. furnished, $1895. and 1 bdrm. $1095 furn., both incl., hardwood, parking & close to subway, Call 416-733-0111, Email:

studio for rent QUEEN / BATHURST STUDIOS FOR RENT 1250-1450 sq ft, bright, 12 ft ceilings, 3-piece washroom, fridge & stove incl.

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Dupont/Symington 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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Studio Space, Adelaide & John 800-1000 sq.ft.immed. $1525-$2300 Inclus., 12 ft ceiling hdw, kit,bath, lrg windows, post & beam please call 416-630-2116

Prime Office Space for lease Contact Janine 416-642-5188 jdobson@whiterockreit.ca

Queen Street West Prime professional office space for lease 1 block west of university ave.

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$2300 mid Nov-Dec reno'd 3bdrm. house, laundry, dishwshr., garage 2 car prkg. 519-402-0312

Office for rent. call 416-459-0007

Private artist friendly ! ! J.J. FLASH Hourly/flat rate *Local/long studios w/ high ceilings. distance* short notice* Shared kitchen & bath.

(416)599-2728 TTC Live-in from $650.

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MAIN ST./ MARKHAM

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2011 Dundas West. Call John 416-536-8824

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

1 BDRM MAIN FLR IN VICT HOME*HARDWOOD FLOORS*HIGH CEILINGS *UPDATED*AVAIL NOV. 1 $715 +

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WOMENS BEDS $30

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LITTLE ITALY quiet cln furn rm, 2nd flr of hse, $425/mo. Richard 416-537-9405

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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

Dufferin/Eglinton Furn. 2nd. flr. bdrm., Free TV set and cable service, Linens supplied and laundered, share four peice ceremic tiled bath. Tiled kitch., No smoke/pets, one block to shops, TTC & mins to Subway. $490/mth. incl. utilities. Call 416-785-6154

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Flaxseed can help reduce LDL (â&#x20AC;&#x153;badâ&#x20AC;?) cholesterol levels â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, as a result, may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Since it is a rich fiber source, flaxseed also helps with appetite control, detoxification and to normalize bowel movements.

Anti-Cancer: Flaxseed lignans are potent anti-cancer agents for both breast and colon cancer because of their ability to modulate the production, availability, and action of hormones produced in our bodies. For example, a study from Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Princess Margaret Hospital found that a single flaxseed muffin a day with 25 grams of ground flaxseed significantly slowed tumour growth in breast cancer patients.

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Tips for including flaxseed in your diet: It is recommended to eat ground flaxseed because your body is better able to digest it. Whole flaxseed passes through your intestine undigested, which means you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the health benefits. Flaxseed oil also contains omega-3 fatty acids, but the oil alone doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the beneficial lignans or fiber that the seeds have. You can purchase raw flaxseed in bulk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whole or ground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at many grocery stores and health food stores. Whole seeds can be ground in a coffee grinder and then stored in an airtight container in the freezer for several months.

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Auditions Oct 14 and 19; Call Backs Oct 24.

Tres Trio (Simone Creed, Mary Perdue, Indrani de Silva) mixed media show Oct 7-Nov 4. Receptions Sat Oct 16, 1-4 pm and Thur Oct 21, 6-8 pm. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Av 416-922-3638

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By Dan Savage

I was lIstenIng to the radIo yester-​​

day​morning,​and​I​heard​an​interview​with​ you​about​your​It​Gets​Better​campaign.​I​was​ saddened​and​frustrated​with​your​comments​ regarding​people​of​faith​and​their​perpetuation​of​bullying.​As​someone​who​loves​the​ Lord​and​does​not​support​gay​marriage,​I​can​ honestly​say​I​was​heartbroken​to​hear​about​ the​young​man​who​took​his​own​life.

If​your​message​is​that​we​should​not​judge​ people​based​on​their​sexual​preference,​how​ do​you​justify​judging​entire​groups​of​people​ for​any​other​reason​(including​their​faith)?​ There​is​no​part​of​me​that​took​any​pleasure​ in​what​happened​to​that​young​man,​and​I​ know​for​a​fact​that​is​true​of​many​other​ people​who​disagree​with​your​viewpoint.

To​that​end,​to​imply​that​I​would​somehow​ encourage​my​children​to​mock,​hurt​or​intimidate​another​person​for​any​reason​is​completely​unfounded​and​offensive.​Being​a​follower​of​Christ​is,​above​all​things,​a​ recognition​that​we​are​all​imperfect,​fallible​ and​in​desperate​need​of​a​saviour.​We​cannot​ believe​that​we​are​better​or​more​worthy​ than​other​people.

Please​consider​your​viewpoint,​and​please​be​ more​careful​with​your​words​in​the​future.​ ​ L.R. I’m sorry your feelings were hurt by my comments.

No, wait. I’m not. Gay kids are dying. So let’s try to keep things in perspective: Fuck your feelings.

A question: Do you “support” atheist marriage? Interfaith marriage? Divorce and remarriage? All are legal, all go against Christian and/ or traditional ideas about marriage, and yet there’s no “Christian” movement to deny marriage rights to atheists or people marrying outside their respective faiths or people divorcing and remarrying.

Why the hell not?

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Sorry, L.R., but so long as you support the denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples, it’s clear that you do believe that some people – straight people – are “better or more worthy” than others.

And – sorry – but you are partly responsible for the bullying and physical violence being visited on vulnerable LGBT children. The kids of people who see gay people as sinful or damaged or disordered and unworthy of full civil equality – even if those people strive to express their bigotry in the politest possible way (at least when they happen to be addressing a gay person) – learn to see gay people as sinful, damaged, disordered and unworthy. And while there may not be any gay adults or couples where you live, or at your church, or in your workplace, I promise you that there are gay and lesbian children in your schools. And while you can only attack gays and lesbians at the ballot box, nice and impersonally, your children have the option of attacking actual gays and lesbians, in person, in real time.

Real gay and lesbian children. Not political abstractions, not “sinners.” Gay and lesbian children.

Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of “faithful Christians,” and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that “faithful Christians” drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children – having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry – feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don’t have to explicitly “encourage [your] children to mock, hurt or intimidate” queer kids. Your encouragement – along with your hatred and fear – is implicit. It’s here, it’s clear and we’re seeing the fruits of it: dead children.

Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?

Did that hurt to hear? Good. But it couldn’t have hurt nearly as much as what was said and done to Asher Brown and Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and Cody Barker and Seth Walsh – day-in, day-out for years – at schools filled with bigoted little monsters created not in the image of a loving God, but in the image of the hateful and false “followers of Christ” they call Mom and Dad.

I am engaged to a man whose sexual

orientation​is​somewhat​confusing​to​me.

A​few​months​ago,​I​discovered​transgender​ porn​on​his​computer.​When​I​asked​him​about​ it,​he​said​he​just​watches​all​kinds​of​porn​ “just​to​watch​it.”​That​sounded​like​total​bullshit​to​me​–​and​it​was​proved​to​be​total​bullshit​when​I​discovered​that​he​watches​ONLY​ this​type​of​porn.​I​also​recently​discovered​a​ letter​he​had​composed​a​few​years​back​to​ another​man​asking​him​to​“hook​up,”​stating​ that​my​fiancé​had​had​a​one-​night​stand​with​ another​guy​and​really​wanted​to​do​it​again.​ The​letter​also​states​that​my​fiancé​had​a​girlfriend,​and​since​“discretion​is​very​important”​to​him,​he​could​only​hook​up​when​she​ was​out​of​town.

I​can​deal​with​somebody​being​bisexual.​I​ have​bisexual​fantasies​myself.​However,​I​ can’t​deal​with​someone​lying​to​himself​and​ to​me,​and​being​unfaithful.​Sadly,​I​can’t​really​make​this​guy​confess​to​me​that​he​is​bi.​ When​I​tried,​he​simply​told​me,​“You​are​so​ blind.”​What​does​that​mean?

I​really​don’t​want​to​dump​the​guy.​I​love​him.​ My​question​is,​I​guess,​what​the​fuck​do​I​do?​I​ feel​like​crazy​bitch​supreme​trying​to​get​this​ out​of​him,​but​it’s​impossible​not​to​think​ about.​ Bitchy​Girlfriend

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There’s nothing to be confused about: Your fiancé is very clearly bisexual. Gay men just aren’t into chicks-with-dicks porn; that’s a genre that appeals exclusively to straight/ straightish/bi male viewers.

So why can he be open about his cocksuckery with a complete stranger – that dude he sent the letter that you “discovered” – but not with you?

It’s a tired cliché, I realize, and I shy away from it for that reason, but in this case the shoe fits: Your fiancé has a bad case of the internalized homophobias. He finds it easier to be open with someone he doesn’t care about and is unlikely to see ever again precisely because he doesn’t care about that person and isn’t going to see him again. If you or the other people in his life he’s close to knew, he fears you would see him as damaged or inferior because that’s how he sees himself.

So, yep, a bad case of the internalized homophobias. He’s not entirely responsible for contracting this malady – our homophobic culture is the disease vector here – but, as an adult, he is responsible for working through it, for overcoming it, for being truthful with himself and the people he claims to love.

If he can’t be honest with you – the snoop he claims to love – about his sexual orientation, and if being cheated on is deal breaker for you (and he will cheat on you), don’t marry him.

I’m a loud fucker, just lIke the part-​

ner​of​the​woman​who​wrote​in​recently.​With​ my​consent,​my​partner​uses​a​pillow​to​ dampen​my​screams,​so​I​don’t​have​to​worry​ I’ll​piss​off​the​neighbours.​ Lesbians​Do​Scream It’s all fun and games – loud fun, ear-splitting games – until someone accidentally asphyxiates a screamer. But thanks for sharing, LDS.

Find​the​Savage​Lovecast​(my​weekly​podcast)​ at​thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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