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email letters@nowtoronto.com Galloway mediocre at best

i’ve always loved your best of toronto issues (NOW, November 410). I’ve never felt strongly enough to write to complain about the people’s choice.

But am I the only one who believes Matt Galloway is possibly the worst host/inMatt terviewer on CBC Radio?

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i used to go to mountain Equipment Co-op years ago, but forgot about it until last week, when it came to my attention twice – once when it was voted the best sporting goods store in NOW’s Readers Poll and again when it became the Consumer Boycott Target of the Month in the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East’s We’re Not

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According CJPME’s fact sheet, MEC sells around 30 products made in Israel. Maybe NOW readers like those who voted MEC the best need to be better informed about the stores they patronize.

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Beef from the burbs

your magazine spilled a great volume of ink slagging the suburbs during the election, and then your hip, progressive, diverse, intelligent and oh-so-urban readers pick the Keg as the best steak in Toronto?

The irony resonates far beyond the quality of the beef.

Andrew Matthews Toronto

La Bombs’ big thanks

thank you so much to NOW readers for selecting me Toronto’s best graffiti artist. Wow, I am so touched. For real. I am sappy.

We have a book coming soon that documents the work of all graffiti pioneers in the T-dot from 1980 to 1991, entitled Toronto Graffiti. It covers Scarborough to Etobicoke and everything in between.

I have a correction: my contact is myspace.com/labombs. Thank you all so much. You guys rock. Keep building for the people!

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A bun for burger basher

as a long-time resident of kensington Market and a food enthusiast, I was a little surprised by Steven Davey’s reviews of some of our restaurants (NOW, October 28-November 3).

It seems your reviewer does not really have a taste for quality. Davey skipped over some of the Market’s best dining options, like Burger Bar, for instance.

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i get jacob scheier’s criticism of the Rally For Sanity (NOW, November 4-10). But I think if the rally had been anything other than the show Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert put together, they would’ve crossed the line they so insistently draw: comedians who poke fun at media and politics.

The rally was billed as a safe place for left- or right-leaning people who do not conform to the media’s black-and-white portrayal of “the American people” to come together in the name of reasonableness.

At the rally, I felt like I was among a community that for the most part thinks and laughs about the same political and media mayhem.

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regarding your art listing of must-see shows this week (NOW, November 4-10). As the owner of the Bau-Xi Gallery and Bau-Xi Photo, I take exception to Privatecritic’s comments posted online about our gallery.

I have never been called a rude hack before. The Bau-Xi has great artists, none of whom are “interior design buffs.” Many of our artists have had exhibitions at prestigious public institutions and positive critical reviews.

The Bau-Xi’s been around for 45 years, and we work hard to maintain our reputation. We do not “take rich people’s money.”

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versy sooner or later” in 10 Lessons For The Left (NOW, November 4-10)?

Stop choking on sour grapes.

As for the “sad anti-immigrant types” you referenced who have “gravitated” to Ford, please remember that the suburbs voted Ford and the suburbs are heavily populated by immigrants G. Lee Toronto

Elitist theory or inanity?

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Being Catholic seems to be part of his explanation for voting for Ford, since O’Hare mentions it, but it still

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Vigilante case points to race

the david chen case (now daily, October 29) raises several questions.

Store owners in David Chen’s area say they wait for hours for the police to come pick up a shoplifter. Is this common across the city?

Or is it only Chinatown stores? If so, then Chinese shopkeepers might be victims of police racism.

Vancouver police have started a zero-tolerance policy toward thieves that’s cut the number of thefts by something like 25 per cent. Many of these thieves have drug habits or mental health problems.

I don’t see why store owners should be the only members of society to pay the costs.

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However, I disagree that Ford will alienate his supporters. Why? Because all his broken promises and failures will be blamed on scapegoats. This is what makes the right wing so powerful. They consistently hurt the very people who vote for them but get away with it by blaming gays, immigrants, Muslims, etc. I hope you’re right, though!

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doesn’t provide any insight as to why he voted for a man he himself describes as “a buffoon.”

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Going to war over poppies War has other victims. It’s time for a new ceremony that remembers all who suffer. By SUSAN G. COLE

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f you’re like me, remembrance Day makes you a bit uneasy. You want to identify with the ever-dwindling numbers of soldiers who’ve sur vived the war trauma of their youth. But all that pro-army pageantry seems to romanticize war when we should be spending the day assessing the damage of military conflict, not celebrating it.

I’m especially bummed by the way Remembrance Day activities are being exploited as a means of promot-

The best way to honour those who died is to make sure no one ever again has to go into battle. ing Canada’s current campaign in Afghanistan. That, I say, was never the point of November 11. Remembrance Day began as a celebration of the Armistice – the brokering of peace after World War I. There has to be a way to honour the soldiers without throwing a bouquet to our ongoing contentious mission.

Fortunately, I’m not alone. Many activists plan to wear white poppies on Remembrance Day, believing that

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the best way to show respect for those who died in war is to ensure that no one ever again has to go into battle.

Naturally, members of the military establishment are not happy. Bob Butt, director of communications for the Royal Canadian Legion, is one of them.

“The white poppy stands for peace, the red poppy is for remembrance,” he says on the phone from Ottawa. “Remembrance recalls those who have died in military service for this country. Peace is peace, and they’re not the same thing. Anyone who sells or uses a poppy that isn’t the red poppy is infringing trademark.”

AIDS activists, on the other hand, did not flip out when other groups took up their own ribbon campaigns.

First there were red ribbons to end AIDS, then along came breast cancer awareness groups’ pink ribbons. Then men against violence against women sold white ribbons. Did AIDS activists scream, “Hands off our brand?” No way.

Peace activist Jan Slakov has been making white poppies and handing them out for free. She says the campaign is designed to promote the power of non-violence.

“There is so much we forget on Remembrance Day,” she says, on the phone from Saltspring Island in BC. “We

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Though British widows began wearing white poppies after the First World War, the official white poppy campaign was established in 1933 by the Women’s Cooperative Guild in Britain, and only recently have peace activists joined the movement.

You can express your support by pinning on a poppy made of paper or cardboard.

only remember the soldiers who were wearing our uniforms. But there’s no black-and-white in war.

Atrocities are committed on all sides. And many of the people who save lives in wartime aren’t in uniform.”

The white poppy activists remind me of an action Women Against Violence Against Women took decades ago on Remembrance Day. We followed the official ceremonies at City Hall by putting up our own cenotaph, which read, For Every Woman Raped In Every War. Ours was the message that war has other victims.

I say it’s time for a new ceremony taking into account all those who suffer in war: the rape victims, the civilians who are bombed, displaced or murdered, as well as those men and woman in uniform sent into the fray by our governments.

As it is, if you question Remembrance Day you’re showered with verbal flak on message boards and online forums. Last year when I posted on the subject of my red poppy squeamishness, the response was swift and vicious. I get how the deaths of more than 150 Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan is a sensitive issue for their families and the military in general.

During my weekly radio spot on Talk

640 last Thursday, the subject of the white poppy garnered the usual knee-jerk response.

When I commented that the best way to honour the brave men and women who have fallen is to make sure no one ever again gets sent into battle, one of my co-panelists, Mark Bonokoski of the Toronto Sun, jeered, “Next thing you know you’ll be protesting the Santa Claus Parade.”

I actually appreciated the parallel.

“A protest against the commercialization of Christmas would be a perfect follow-up to Santa’s parade appearance,” I replied. “The Santa Claus Parade began as a marketing tool for Eaton’s.”

The switchboard had already lit up. “You should be ashamed to let that woman talk,” growled one caller, forgetting that freedom to express dissent is one of the things Canadian soldiers are supposed to be fighting for in every war.

But then, all the way from Scotland, a caller reminded us that Armistice Day, the precursor of Remembrance Day, was established to remember the horrors of the First World War, that campaign that traumatized a whole generation and redefined the demographics of the entire Western world.

“Remembrance Day was never intended to glorify war,” the caller insisted, “but to recall the truth about war’s devastation.”

“That’s a British viewpoint,” complained Legion rep Butt.

But it’s a legitimate one, I think.

War is hell, and we know it. Honour the fallen by fighting for peace. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

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Who’s pulling Ford’s strings?

By JOSH HUME

Mayor-elect oddly AWOL while his team is busy calling the shots

By ENZO DiMATTEO an eerie silence has descended on City Hall.

Less than three weeks removed from the election of Rob Ford, the calm before the storm of cuts the mayor-elect promised during the campaign has enveloped the twin towers at 100 Queen West.

In a room on one of the top floors, Ford’s transition team has been busily reviewing which councillors to appoint to what committees, and, we hope, mapping a program for the future. But who knows? It’s still unclear just where Ford’s administration is heading, or if it has a direction beyond its cost-cutting agenda.

In a political version of the children’s storybook Where’s Waldo?, the mayorelect who promised to shake up City Hall has been mysteriously missing in the post-election housecleaning.

Save for an appearance at PunchUp In Peel, a charity boxing event held

by Emergency Services personnel in Mississauga (of all places) on Thursday, November 4, His Honour has been conspicuous by his absence.

Maybe his official organ, the Toronto Sun, which has been on one of those kicks lately – phoning defeated councillors to see if they’re working or playing out the string, collecting a cheque on the taxpayers’ dime – could give Ford a call. He’s known to return them, right?

When David Miller was elected, the papers were full of stories every other day about the new guy and his plans.

The last we heard from Ford was that now infamous CBC Radio interview the day after the election in which the new mayor was too pre-

occupied with what was happening on the football practice field to answer questions about his unlikely rise to king of the hill.

In terms of setting a tone, the lack of communication – or secrecy, depending on your perspective – suggests the new administration is still very much trying to figure out what to do both programmatically and with the main man himself.

Judging by the early signals, Ford will be cast in the role of puppet mayor, cutting ribbons and performing other ceremonial duties of office.

As in the election, the heavy lifting will be done by his chief of staff and former campaign chair, Nick Kouvalis, and older brother Doug Ford, the new Ward 2 councillor. These two, who are also on the transition team, wrote the script for Ford’s election.

There seems no inclination, at least in these early days, for the highly ideological Ford team to straddle political lines as Mel Lastman did in the early years of amalgamation. Overtures have been made to councillors in the centre and on the political left of council about what roles they may play. But given some of the names being kicked around for the most powerful positions, the lines between left and right will be clearly drawn.

Ford clones Mike Del Grande and Frances Nunziata are touted for budget chair and council speaker respectively. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that big brother Doug’s name has come up for deputy mayor. The other councillor being considered for deputy mayor, however, is a bit of a shocker: Giorgio Mammoliti.

There’s method to the Ford team’s madness. They’re betting that votes on issues won’t be won or lost along ideological lines.

The interests of individual councillors may be too disparate for progressives and mushy middlers to coalesce around causes. Instead, votes will be counted along different lines: suburbs versus downtowners, soft versus hard services, etc.

But putting Ford in the role of figurehead poses political risks. We saw that with Lastman. Before long, his inner circle was calling the shots behind his back and we wound up with the MFP computer leasing scandal and hijinks over mega-developments like the Union Station deal.

Those things happen in large organizations when the guy whose hand is supposed to be on the tiller is not firmly in control.

Not to engage in conspiracy theories, but one of the characters involved in the MFP mess was at Councillor Case Ootes’s retirement party. As was one Mike Harris, but I digress. Ootes is heading up Ford’s transition team.

Ford can’t afford not to steer the ship of state. Major parts of his agenda will rely heavily on his own powers.

For example, he’s promised to hire 100 more police officers, which would mean adding something like $10 million to the police budget, without factoring in the $30 million more (at a minimum) that’ll be need-

ed to cover salary increases come contract time next March. Will the mayor-elect have the time or volition to sit on the Police Ser vices Board and navigate the tricky politics there?

So far, Ford has been disinclined even to make an appearance at City Hall.

Is there a plan beyond the bumpersticker messages heard during the campaign? We’re about to find out.3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

Odds and sods 2 to 1

Odds that Giorgio Mammoliti will be deputy mayor. A little birdie tells us it’s a done deal. Maybe. Besides, Ford has few allies to choose from.

Yikes, those bylaw enforcement officers may be packin’ after all.

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5 to 1

Odds the Lawrence Heights revitalization project is a no go. Ford said during the campaign that he’s agin it.

But the developers who’ve signed on will have something to say about that. Could be Ford’s first big come-down.

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10 to 1

Odds that mayorelect Rob Ford will put himself on the Police Services Board. He has no choice if he wants to push that promise to hire 100 more officers, but he’s more suited to playing cop cheerleader than to navigating the complex maze of police union politics.

25 to 1

Chances that Transit City is dead. Ford is intent on killing the plan and putting money from the province toward a subway loop connecting the Sheppard and Bloor-Danforth lines.

But the Amalgamated Transit Union is not about to see the jobs connected to building a system of rail lines across the city go off the rails. There’ll be blood spilled over this one.

500 to 1

Odds that the Ford team will be able to keep their election promises. There’s a $275 million surplus and $80 million property tax stabilization fund, thanks to David Miller. But how Ford’s going to deliver $1.7 billion in cuts without the $100 million from the land transfer tax he’s promised to abolish – without gutting city services, which he’s guaranteed he will not do – is unfathomable.

1,000 to 1

Chances Ford’s crew will banish all lefties on council to the swamp of the Licensing and Standards Committee. But that’s only because there aren’t enough seats.

10,000 to 1

The likelihood that any of Miller’s environmental initiatives will survive the Ford years. Ford’s chief of staff, Nick Kouvalis, has already mused loudly about killing the Atmospheric Fund and Tower Renewal project.

La Palette owner Shamez Amlani will shutter his bistro in Kensingon Market later this month, and the timing couldn’t be more fitting.

For 10 years, the restaurant was a community hub, the launch pad for Pedestrian Sundays and other community projects – the famous Garden Car out front just one of them.

Amlani could be the real King of Kensington, which is why it’s so sad that a prohibitive rent increase has forced him to close his flagship. “We had an exciting idea about how we could change the city,” says Amlani.

“I’ve grown cynical,” he admits.

That community remains, he says, but its spirit never infected City Hall.

And Rob Ford isn’t even mayor yet.

Still, for all Amlani’s frustrations with bureaucratic inertia, the last decade really was marked by a sense of infinite possibility. There was a philosopher prince in the mayor’s chair, iconic new buildings popped up all over downtown, and a young generation of civic enthusiasts worked at recasting the city in their own image.

Are we at the end of that era? “Cultural renaissance.” “City-building.”

“Creative city.” Will those terms sound like antiquated marketing buzzwords when the new regime takes over?

Consider all the fanciful talk a few years back of bike lanes in the sky, entire streets without cars and the unearthing of lost creeks. It may all have been improbable, but the atmosphere allowed such ideas to flourish.

The exuberance was tolerated and even welcomed at City Hall, even though Amlani and others would argue that the city was not especially open to new ideas and simply adopted a happy message that played well. The utopians spoke a romantic language, and core city services, smooth roads and taxation measures were not part of their lexicon. Architects were the new rock stars, and even city planners looked glamorous.

That mood was captured in Coach House Press’s uTOpia books, first launched in 2005. Somewhat aptly, on Tuesday (November 16), the last in the series, Local Motion: The Art Of Civic Engagement In Toronto will be feted at Lula Lounge. “I want people to get the feeling we’re not at the mercy of the people we elect,” says series co-editor Alana Wilcox.

So this is where the real fight starts, where the battle over the legacy of the Miller era begins. The next few years will have to see the last wave of visionaries taking stewardship of the best ideas of the past decade.

For now, we can expect a period of austerity in the visioning process. This time around, it may have to be the idealists who get angry.

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“The key was to get a process that looks like a court, smells like a court and might even be a court, and has an actual adjudication that people will accept,’’ McKay says.

Certainly, 39 of the country’s leading NGOs did – from Amnesty International to World Vision, the Mennonite Central Committee and more.

George Soros signed on, as did some Guatemalan leaders and mining activists around the globe.

To no apparent avail.

The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada thumped the bill, saying it would encourage “unfounded allegations” and damage company reputations. PDAC’s Saley Lawton says her org is now fully onside with the Tories’ new Corporate Social Responsibility counsellor, a sorry, sanctionless substitute for accountability.

The Canadian Mining Association prophesied that Canuck firms would lose their competitiveness and ominously warned of “unintended consequences.”

Curiously, that’s the phrase Martha Hall Findlay likes to use. The Toronto MP, who didn’t vote, wants a return to the 2007 process (essentially Ignatieff’s position). “The proC-300 lobby,’’ she tells me “has the best intentions, but they played on MP no-shows play politics with bill to protect poor countries from Canuck eco crimes By ELLIE KIRZNER emotions, and that makes having a six lousy votes. the sinking of have made it, but no cigar.”

“I was going to vote for the bill. I wasn’t mandatory. (The ombudsman substantive conversation about unBill C-300 in the federal House WedNo thanks either to some of Mchave problems with it, but I felt it was could only recommend, not order.) intended consequences versus prinnesday, October 27, was, despite the Kay’s AWOL colleagues like Michael better to have it,” says Angus. “But by According to Mining Watch, C-300 ciples difficult. There are horror storclaims of some who had “tactical’’ Ignatieff, who sniffed about the bill’s mid-afternoon, word was all over the was a much tougher proposal, an acies for sure. But there are a number of differences with it, a classic tale of “problems,” a deft way of signalling Hill that the Liberals were going to tual legislative fix. Which probably companies that are doing good, and big money snuffing out the social his caucus that their presence in the make sure it was dead. So I said to the explains its demise. they have now all been tarred.” good.

House wasn’t required. whip, ‘If this is going down, I have Because the bill was a private This nostalgia for 2007 and a time Liberal John McKay’s private memRemiss Liberals and NDPers now have other things to do.’ Looking back, I member’s initiative, it couldn’t have when the industry was onside ber’s bill promised enviro and huto own the burden of having wrecked thought, ‘Shit.’” astounds Mining man rights accountability for taxthis one, tangible reform in the name of So now the latest Watch’s Catherine payer-funded Canadian mining, oil some far-off better (dare we say more chance to ease the Coumans. “Sudand gas firms overseas – and slipped business-sensitive?) initiative. suffering in the global denly, the round into oblivion by a vote of 140 to 134.

But here’s where the fatefulness of South is finito. Like the table has become So near and yet so far. There in one personal reckonings messes with the miraculous efforts that the Holy Grail,” she Charlie Angus, NDP MP corner was the mining lobby and the plan: T.O. MP Gerard Kennedy apparcreated a 2007 industrysays. “For two Tories scaring the wits out of MPs by ently backed the bill but was off at a NGO round-table report, it’s Tory budgetary implications, so McKay years, industry lobbied against the threatening thousands-strong job conference in Japan with Tory Jim roadkill. That 2007 document called and his advisers craftily vested the 2007 report. Now everyone’s saying, losses, and in the other a team of parPrentice and figured the outcome for a mining ombudsman to probe Foreign Affairs and International ‘No, it was much better.’ They’re shiftliamentary no-shows: 13 Libs, three wouldn’t be affected. Two absentee nasty overseas out-of-sight, out-ofTrade ministers with responsibility ing the bar.” The fact is, the differNDPers (plus one abstention) and NDPers, Winnipeg’s Pat Martin and mind behaviour. It was a great for investigating charges. If comence with Bill C-300, she says, was four Bloc.

Charlie Angus from mine-rich Timachievement in its day, but as Mining plaints panned out, they would have that “it was regulatory. It was for “I had counted on the Bloc and the mins-James Bay, say they supported Watch takes care to point out now, its to notify Export Development Canareal.”

NDP to bring out the vote,’’ says a C-300 but skipped because they own negotiators made a major sacri- da for possible nixing of cash supAnd that’s the shame of it.

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Firefox, RockMelt and the new web wars By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT This week, the fantastic Firefox celebrated its sixth birthday as a browser.

Happy!

But not so fast. Sadly, this is no

time for cake. The team of Firefox developers, many working in the Mozilla offices on Spadina Avenue, are in a heated battle for users in an increas-

ingly crowded field. With Firefox 4 delayed till 2011, the Mozilla team has to beat down a brand new social-mediafriendly browser, RockMelt.

A new browser, yes, but there’s a very familiar face behind it.

Here’s how it all breaks down.

Originally titled Phoenix, Firefox grew out of the browser Netscape Navigator (it originally shared the source code).

Netscape, we all remember, was brutally murdered by Internet Explorer

in the late 1990s Browser Wars.

Explorer today, though, is an empire on the decline. Its market share has drooped below 50 per cent for the first time since it was first forced upon Windows users.

Firefox, meanwhile, has grown steadily and has 31.5 per cent of all users. (Chrome, Google’s dabble in browsers, is the Joe Pantalone of the bunch, in third with 11.54 per cent.)

But just in time to put a damper on Firefox’s browser birthday, the ghosts of Netscape are back.

RockMelt, which at first sounds like a sandwich from Newfoundland, is a browser built for the Facebook age. It’s the child of Marc Andreessen, who cowrote the code for Mosaic, which Netscape was built on. (Mozilla, the parent of Firefox, killed off Mosaic. Hence the

NOW gets into location-sharing Lo and behold, NOW Magazine is now in the location-sharing game.

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His new browser assumes there are only four core activities online: posting on Facebook, searching on Google, tweeting on Twitter and visiting a few select websites. RockMelt makes them easier.

“These are all things we would have done [at Netscape] if we had known how people were going to use the web,” he’s said.

That is how people use the web right now. But the money question has to be, is that how they will use the web in the future?

Right now, RockMelt is in a very early stage and is worth at least a try. But check back in six years to see if it’s the browser of the future or just playing catch-up. joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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What’s the difference between regular, natural and organic makeup?

Women already have enough to deal with trying to figure out what makeup looks natural; forget tracking down brands that actually are.

Natural Lash, Natural Match, Beyond Natural... with all the nature-invoking product names on shelves, you’d think you’d died and woken up in a field of unsprayed daisies.

Alas, beauty purveyors are mostly talking about how well their products will complement your inherent beauty without making you look like an orange face-paint victim.

Fair enough, but a growing number of products made by the same companies are claiming to be natural in the “made from natural ingredients” sense. You have to look closely at ingredients listed to see the difference.

In the nearly seven years I’ve been writing this column, the labelling waters have remained nearly as murky for makeup as when I started.

Using an ingredient on Health Canada’s restricted Hotlist is still not illegal, and cosmetics chemicals still don’t have to undergo pre-market testing to prove they’re safe.

And of the 12,500 products the Suzuki Foundation just surveyed, a whopping 80 per cent contained at least one dirty-dozen ingredient tied to cancer, reproductive toxicity, endocrine disruption or fish-harming (including some with the words “natural,” “bio” or “organic” in their name).

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BDIH does a good job of ensuring that ingredients come from natural, GMO-free plants and minerals, with no synthetic dyes or fragrances. (Essential oil fragrance blends confuse the toxicity scorers at cosmeticsdatabase.org, since BDIH lists those blends as “parfum,” usually a catchall for dodgy substances.)

No silicones or carcinogenic ethoxylated ingredients (those with “eth” in their names) are allowed, and many BDIH brands have certified organic and biodynamic ingredients.

Ecocert certifies natural and organic ingredients using similar guidelines to BDIH’s, and it’s a decent tool as long as you don’t take the seal at face value. Case in point, Organic Wear by Physicians Formula makes okay drugstore eyeshadows, but the “Ecocert certified organic” label on them is deceptive. The fine print tells you that as little as 10 per cent of Organic Wear’s loose powder is certified organic, though 100 per cent is “certified natural” (or more aptly “naturally derived,” since an ingredient

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So, yes, info about organic content is annoyingly misleading, but the details are at least there when you look, and the standard is solid otherwise.

Still more cosmetic brands are Natural Products Association-certified (like Gabriel/ Zuzu, PeaceKeeper CauseMetics, Hemp Organics, Burt’s Bees, Ecco Bella, Suncoat, even Bonne Bell). NPA does a looser check and doesn’t call for, say, sustainable manufacturing as the first two standards do. Plus, only 60 per cent of a brand’s line needs to qualify, so never assume that a specific product passes without checking.

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For top organic purity, look for the USDA Organic seal (which signifies 95 per cent organic content or more). Zuii Organic makes excellent USDA-certified eyeshadow, foundation, mascara, lipstick and blush.

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Benefits

The ‘b’ you evenT (Dress for Success) Brafitting instructions, advice on tall fashions, jewellery and more. 6-9 pm. Free. Long Legs, 2717 Yonge. 416-440-8255.

G20 leGal deFenCe Fundraiser (G20 arrestees) Music, song, dance and speeches with Naomi Klein, Hawksley Workman and others.

8 pm. $50-$100. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. g20.torontomobilize.org.

Events

aGinG GraCeFully: bone & JoinT healTh Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

ChallenGes and hope: sTories From aFriCa Talks by community development workers. 7 pm. Free. Thomas Merton Catholic School, 1515 Bloor W. themeetinghouse.ca.

FoCusinG CreaTiviTy ThrouGh phoToGraphy Talk by photographer Nancy Falconi. 8

pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com.

GreaT war Jewish leGion memorial walk

Urban heritage walk. 10:30 am. Free. Long Branch TTC Loop. 416-593-2656. inTernaTional sTudenT expo Info on college and university programs for international students. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free.

Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. istudentexpo.ca. lesT we ForGeT Remembrance Day ceremony.

10:30 am. Free. Old City Hall Cenotaph, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca.

lisTeninG To painTinGs: CulTural myTholoGies oF Gender in The Caribbean Talk by pro-

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Free. York U Conference Centre, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/cerlac. media Consumers in a diGiTal aGe Lecture

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416 ToronTo CreaTive improvisers FesTival Free improvisation music festival

with performances and a workshop. Free, workshop $7. Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Palmerston Library (560 Palmerston).

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Nov 16 to 20 GamerCamp.Ca Festival celebrating art and creativity in video games with speakers, demos, arcades and more. $30. Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina), George Brown College (230 Richmond E). jaime@gamercamp.ca.

Nov 13 and 14 new serbian Film FesTival Contemporary Serbian films (most w/ English subtitles).

Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W. 416-516-2330, bloorcinema.com.

Nov 11 to 14

continuing rendezvous wiTh madness Film FesTival Shorts and features that touch on mental illness and addictions plus panel discus-

6 Queen’s Park. diycitizenship.com.

The real news: reporTinG realiTy Talk by

Middle East correspondent Lia Tarachansky.

7:30-9:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. remembranCe day Ceremony Memorial display and military music. 10:55 am. Free. Royal York Hotel Lobby, 100 Front W. 416-860-4556. royal aGriCulTural winTer Fair Livestock barns, horse shows, vegetable competitions, celebrity chef competitions, concerts and more. To Nov 14. $20, stu/srs $16, children free. Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place. 416872-7777, royalfair.org.

Tedxibyork Non-profit conference featuring short talks by journalists, space evangelists, poets, activists and others plus dance and music. 10 am. $100. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. Pre-register tedxibyork.com.

TryinG To CaTCh The momenTs Lecture by children’s poet/author Michael Rosen. 8 pm.

Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416393-7746.

advoCaTinG For The homeless and The poor Talk by street nurse Cathy Crowe. 1:30

sions. $10. Workman Hall, 651 Dufferin. 416583-4606, rendezvouswithmadness.com.

To Nov 13 soundplay NAISA festival of new media and sound art with performances, installations, workshops and more. $10$15, performance pass $20-$25, installations pwyc, some events free. Wychwood Barns (601 Christie), Gladstone Hotel

(1214 Queen W). soundplay.ca.

To Nov 27

youTh beneFiT ConCerT (Justice for Children and Youth) Performances by Bidiniband, Jack Connolly, New Bend and others. 7 pm-midnight. $40. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635.

Front. Pre-register 416-860-5050.

arTsCienCe Camp Informal gathering of artists, scientists, engineers, architects and designers. Today 7-10 pm; tomorrow 10 am-10 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Preregister artsciencecamp.eventbrite.com. rThe babyTime show Exhibits, parenting experts including Ann Douglas, kids’ entertainment and more. Today, tomorrow and Nov 14, 10 am-6 pm. $10-$15. Convention Centre, 255 Front W. babytimeshows.ca.

Casa loma biG band danCe Dance to the sounds of the Toronto All-Star Big Band. 8 pm. $50. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-9231171, casaloma.org. kiss-in ToronTo Peaceful protest against homophobia. 10 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. naTional posTaGe sTamp show Stamps, society and club information, and draws. To Nov 14, 11 am-4 pm. Free. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. csdaonline.com/shows. niGella lawson Culinary salon Dinner and Q&A. 6:30 pm. $150. Fairmont Royal York, 100

Benefits

The piConG show (CKLN Radio) Evening of comedy hosted by Jean Paul. 8:30 pm. $15.

Hideaway, 538 Danforth. 647-504-3118.

liGhT oF day ConCerT (Parkinsons Fdn) Performances by Gary U.S. Bonds, Willie Nile and others. 8 pm. $30. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717.

The liTTle arT show (Artists’ Network) Boutique art silent auction. 7-11 pm. $35. Mercedes-Benz, 761 Dundas E. littleartshow. eventbrite.com. love 2010 (Workman Arts) Sale of miniature art works. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm.

Free (all art $75). Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education, 918 Bathurst.

918bathurst.com.

Events

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Friday, November 12

ToronTo reel asian inTernaTional Film FesTival Contemporary films by local and international Asian filmmakers. $5-$20.

Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts (10268 Yonge) and other venues. reelasian.com.

To Nov 15

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All-genders and couples workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900. sTop The war Toronto coalition to Stop the War banner-painting event to “welcome” Tony Blair on Nov 26. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. nowar.ca. voiCe oF women For peaCe Conference featuring presentations on de-legitimizing war, a gala dinner, music, theatre and more. To Nov 14. $10 and up, some events free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. vowpeace.org.

why Canada losT iTs bid For a u.n. seCuriTy

pm. Free. OISE, rm 7-192, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca.

The arChaeoloGy oF The body Archaeology symposium with experts from around the world. 9:30 am-4 pm. $70. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

buildinG a world movemenT For ClimaTe JusTiCe: lessons From bolivia Toronto Bo-

livia Solidarity forum with a talk by Erika Duenas. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, rm 2118, 100 St George. torontoboliviasolidarity@gmail.com. a day wiTh dave bidini Bidini talks on the art of sports writing and musical criticism, and evaluates manuscripts. 10 am-4 pm. $129.

Humber Lakeshore Campus, 3199 Lake Shore W. Pre-register hilary.higgins@humber.ca. how To GeT your messaGe in The media Toronto Coalition to Stop the War workshop.

2:30-5 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. Pre-register info@nowar.com. iCe, wine & dine Performers, ice carvers, live music, wine tastings and more. 4-10 pm. Free.

Elm and Yonge. wintermagic.ca.

The invisible CiTies Presentation on the book

by Italo Calvino. 2 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802.

CounCil seaT Socialist Action forum with speakers Yves Engler and Khaled Mouammar.

7 pm. $4 sugg. OISE, rm 2-213, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779. zeesy powers The interdisiplinary artist performs The Ghost and Total Panic. 8 pm. Free.

Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066.

koJi yamamura – masTery oF The Form

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11 release party and decades dance. 9 pm-2 am. $12, adv $10 (includes issue). Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. wornjournal.com.

ToronTo roller derby Championship finals.

7:30 pm. $12-$18. The Hangar, Downsview Park, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.

Benefits

Masterclass with the Japanese filmmaker. 10 am. $5, adv free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John.

416-973-3012.

Queen wesT neiGhbourhood walkinG Tour Led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon-2:30 pm.

$15. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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We’re always in favour of taking the environment seriously, but that doesn’t mean we can’t laugh about it once in a while. That’s the principle behind a benefit for Toronto Green Community, a group dedicated to environmental action on everything from toxic waste to locally grown organic food. Edgy stand-up and black comics promoter Kenny Robinson headlines the fundrasier, slated for Yuk Yuk’s (224 Richmond West) on Wednesday (November 17) at 7:30 pm. $20.

416-781-7663.

Sunday, November 14 Adventures In AnImAl BehAvIour Lecture.

3-4 pm. Free. Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. 416-977-2983. rAutumn In the vAlley Outdoor guided walk. 1:30-2:30 pm. $5, yth/srs $3, child $2.

Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416396-2819. dundAs vAlley Bus trip for a hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 9:30 am. $23. York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

FIeld trIp Author Shawn Micallef leads a walking tour of the Harbourfront area. 3 pm. $6.

Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734949.

Green ConneCtIon Networking party for entrepreneurs, sustainability advocates and personalities in the green space today. 6:309:30 pm. $55. Roundhouse, 235 Bremner. thegreenconnection.ca. nAked GIrls reAdInG roCk n’ roll Skin Tight Outta Sight burlesque reading. 7-10 pm. $15, couples $25. Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. ngrrocknrollskintightouttasight.eventbrite. com.

nutrItIon, Food seCurIty And ClImAte ChAnGe Mini-conference for parents, educa-

tors and others. 1-6 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register beautifulearth. org. oBsessIons Evening of music, books, animated film and paintings with composer Alexina Louie, author Iris Nowell and others. 2 pm. $5.

Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635, tinars.ca. one World, douBle tAke Roundtable discussions on global hot-button issues with media insiders, creatives and big thinkers. 4 pm.

Pwyc. Victoria College Alumni Hall, 91 Charles W. kofflerarts.org. peACe eduCAtIon In AFGhAnIstAn Talk by psychotherapist Mary-Jo Land. 2 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-410-1892. rsGt WooF & the WooF troop Canine sports demonstrations. 11 am-3 pm. Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. 416-360-7297.

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Making war illegitimate – now, there’s a concept. Join the Voice of Women, Canadian Pugwash, Peace Magazine and others at the Building Peace, Resisting War conference Friday to Sunday (November 12 to 14). Panels feature the Munk Centre’s Barbara Falk, the U of Winnipeg’s Marilou McPhedran, Columbia U’s Betty Reardon and many more. U of T’s Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, $40 daily, $125 total. vowpeace.org.

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With a new team ready to take over at City Hall, get the latest on what needs open lIFe drAWInG Live models. 6:30-9 pm.

$9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@hotmail.ca. rour Green eConomy Talk with author Andrew Heintzman and corporate Knights editor Toby Heaps. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. rsvp@reviewcanada.ca.

studIes In motIon: the hAuntInGs oF eAdWeArd muyBrIdGe Talk on the play by a

member of Canadian Stage Co. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. trAmpolIne hAll Mini lectures curated by Lauren Bride. 8 pm. $6, adv $5. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.

Tuesday, November 16

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ZAreInu FAshIon shoW (Zareinu Educational Centre) Collections by Jeanne Beker, Vintage Couture, Lilliput Hats and others. 7 pm. $118 & $250. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Pk. zareinu.org.

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ChopIn: the voICe oF the pIAno Illustrated lecture and archival recordings. 7-8 pm. $18.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

ChrIstopher sChneIder Memorial tribute to the local actor. 7 pm. $10 sugg. Boat, 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218.

CleAn trAIn demonstrAtIon Demonstrate for electrification of Metrolinx’s Georgetown Corridor rail line. 9 am. Free. Metrolinx Offices, 20 Bay. cleantrain.ca. lIFe In CrIsIs – AGAIn Presentations on the possible causes of the past five mass extinctions. 2-4:30 pm. $35, stu $15. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. loCAl motIon eleCtIon hAnGover pArty

Election aftermath panel discussion with Desmond Cole, Kelly Grant, Che Kothari, Jennifer Lewington and Mike Smith. 8 pm. $5. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

toronto’s ChAnGInG FACe oF phIlAnthropy Panel discussion with Karma Candy president Aditya Jha and others. 6:30-8:45 pm. $20.

tretheWey AIrFIeld – model FArm CentenAry Urban heritage walk. 2 pm. Free. Roy and

FRESH FINDS to be done to empower and protect T.O.’s poor and homeless. The Humanist Association of Toronto hosts an info session with Cathy Crowe, street nurse, Disaster Relief Committee activist and author of Dying For A Home: Homeless Activists Speak Out, Saturday (November 13), 1:30 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor West, rm 7-192. Free. uthumanist.com.

Ryerson U Oakham House, 63 Gould. Preregister rsvp@svptoronto.org. trAns dAy oF rememBrAnCe Aboriginal Women of Colour Working Group holds a discussion. 4-6 pm. Free. Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina. 416-978-8201.

WhAt’s next For BroAdCAst neWs? NBC News VP Mark Lukasiewicz discusses the demand for quality journalism in the changing mediums. 6:30 pm. $15, stu free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. cjftvnews.eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, November 17

Benefits

AlIve tonIGht (Distress Centre of Ontario)

Performances by Liberty Silver, 22 Turns and others. 8 pm. $10. Failtes Irish Pub, 201 City Centre (Mississauga). anyoli07@gmail.com.

Comedy FundrAIser (Toronto Green Community) Stand-up comedy with Kenny Robinson and others. 7:30 pm. $20. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-781-7663. mIke & FrIends (Green Party of Ontario) Celebration of Mike Schreiner’s first year as Green Party of Ontario leader with speakers and more. 7-10 pm. $100. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-977-7476.

A nIGht At mAssey hAll (SOS Children’s Villages) Performances by Little Caesar and the Consuls and more music from the 50s, 60s and 70s. 8 pm. $35-$45. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria.

416-872-4255.

WhodunIt? (Ontario College of Art and Design) Mystery art sale of works by students, faculty and well-known artists. Previews today noon-6 pm, tomorrow and Nov 19 noon-8 pm, with a gala (today 6:30-10 pm) and art sale Nov 20, 10 am-4 pm. Free, gala $150.

OCAD, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

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Beer And WIne shoWdoWn: round 2 Nancy Peppler, Anne Martin and Graham Duncan pair cheeses with wine and beer in this tasting competition. 7:30-9 pm. $70. Nancy’s Cheese, 260 Dupont. Pre-register 647-343-0315. continued on page 26 œ

Weston. 416-593-2656.

Monday, November 15

Benefits

CeleBrAtInG roBIn BArker’s 50 yeArs In hAIr (Stephen Lewis Fdn) CD launch for Bark-

er’s What Are The Children Worth? with live music. 8 pm. $45, adv $35. Revival, 783 College. 416-960-5545.

An evenInG WIth... (Women’s College Hospital) Talk by 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games CEO John Furlong. 6-10 pm. $600.

Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. aneveningwith.ca. suIte lIFe (SuiteLife Arts for Youth) Music from Bryant Didier, Richard Uglow, Sheldon De Souza and others plus an auction. 2-6 pm. $20.

Rex, 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

Events

the Good Food GAp Lunch talk with author

Lauren Baker. Non-1:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20 (bag lunch included). Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register gardiermuseum.on.ca.

Chuluaqui is primordial life force energy. Quodoushka hka is the magick created when the life-force energies merge to create a new energy greater than the sum of its parts. An alternative & enlightened approach to sexuality that will bring new understanding, openness & healing.

Join us for a three-day (plus one evening) intensive & learn to integrate spirituality & sexuality as an integral part of your life.

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WHELAN’S GATE IRISH PUB This small authentic Irish pub offers great service, tasty meals, 15 beers on tap, an extensive scotch list and a fine selection of Irish whiskey.

1663 Bloor St. West 416-531-1311 www.whelansgate.com

EYESORE CINEMA Independent movie store with an eclectic mix of imports, obscure titles, out-of-print novelties, and off-the-radar flicks.

801 Queen St. West, 2nd floor 416-955-1599 eyesorecinema.blogspot.com

PARLER FORT This speaker series presents Mayor David Miller discussing “Witness to a City”, his new book about citizens who have made Toronto a better place, November 15 at 7:30 pm.

Fort York, 250 Fort York Blvd. 416-392-6907 www.fortyork.ca

PUBLIC OFFICE The poster, art and print shop has reopened, and added clothes and bags from Red Canoe, plus salvaged oddities from Smash. Thurs-Sat 11 to 7, Sunday noon to 6.

780 Queen St. West (side door), 416-599-7030 joinpublicoffice.com

WHO’S YOUR MOMMY? Teresa Pavlinek, Lisa Merchant, and others perform in support of Adoption Support Services, 8pm November 18 at Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor St. West 647-898-5324

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East africa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adven-

ture Travel, 408 King W. Pre-register toronto@ atcadventure.com.

EntrEprEnEurship 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm.

Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Pre-register marsdd.com/ent101. how to stagE Your homE for rEsalE Info for seniors. 2-3:30 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7692. intErnational folk Dancing Enjoy dances from different countries, all levels welcome.

7:30-10 pm. $7. Koffler Centre School of the Arts, 4588 Bathurst. 416-638-1881 ext 4364. kittY scott on BEttY gooDwin Curators talk.

7-8:30 pm. $18, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6608. music through thE cEnturiEs CBC Radio’s Sound Advice host Rick Phillips talks about classical music. 10:30 am. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697. paE whitE The American artist talks about her exhibition Material Matters. 7 pm. $12.

Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. puBlic transit anD thE maYor’s rolE Post Carbon Toronto lecture by transportation expert Richard Gilbert. 7:30 pm. Free. Metro Hall, 55 John. postcarbontoronto.org.

so You think You can DancE with a Drag QuEEn Dance competition starring YURA. 9

pm. Free. Crews/Tango, 508 Church. 416-9721662. thEatrE of thE opprEssED Participatory workshop on using theatre as a tool for social change. 7-9:30 pm. $40, stu $30 (sliding scale).

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. Preregister naomi.tessler@gmail.com. toronto BaBEl Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pm.

Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com. trans DaY of rEmEmBrancE Community discussion, art-making, food and more. 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina. 416-978-8201.

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Benefits

art attack (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre)

Live auction of contemporary art, cultural adventures and other cool stuff with musical guest Light Fires. 7 pm. $20. Buddies, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. twElvE trEEs of christmas (Gardiner Museum) Gala and auction of Christmas trees decorated by local designers and architects.

6:30-9:30 pm. $200, adv $150. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080. la viDa loca (Homies Unidos) Documentary screening and discussion on gang violence in El Salvador and Toronto. 5:30-9 pm. $5 sugg.

Ryerson Eaton Theatre, 80 Gould. 416-9392892.

Events

thE art of cooking: an EvEning with JamiE

olivEr Chef talk. 7-9 pm. $79 & $149. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. Pre-register theartofcooking.ca. connEct BEautY Eco-friendly fashion, hands-on activities and more. 6:30-9 pm.

Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. womenshealthyenvironments.ca. fooD, communitY anD mEmorY Community discussion for Trans Day of Remembrance. Noon-3 pm. Free. Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina. 416-9788201. thE gaY intErnational? QuEEr activism across BorDErs Panel discussion with

queer activist Ponni Arasu and others. 7-9 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647726-9500. gourmEt fooD & winE Expo Tutored tastings plus sampling of wine, spirits, beer and food.

Today 6-10 pm, tomorrow 2-10 pm, Nov 20 noon to 10 pm, Nov 21 noon to 6 pm. $15-$35.

Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. foodandwineexpo.ca.

nEw prEvEntion tEchnologiEs for hiv

Interactive workshop. Today and tomorrow 5-9 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle.

Pre-register j.kopelow@utoronto.ca.

thE palEstinE rEfugEEs anD thE miDDlE East pEacE nEgotiations Lecture by Palestinian

human rights attorney Noura Erakat. 7 pm.

Free. U of T Sanford Fleming Bldg, rm 1101, 10 King’s College Rd. 905-270-3622.

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Santa Lucia wood snowflakes ($24.90/set of 20, Ziggy’s at Home, 794 College, 416-5358728, ziggysathome.com).

Santos Bautista’s beaded egg ornament ($12, Gardiner Museum Shop, 111 Queen’s Park, 416-408-5046, gardinermuseum.on.ca).

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If you’ve been looking for a memorable way to celebrate the season, look to the CN Tower. 360 Restaurant offers an award-winning wine cellar and innovative cuisine in an unsurpassed setting, making it an impressive choice for any festive event. Our special Holiday Lunch Menu, now an annual tradition, is also available December 1 st – 24th.

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Nathan Phillips Square Saturday, November 27 • 7 PM

Meet TV’s top chef, Gordon Ramsay, as he signs copies of his new book.

Sunday, November 14th, 6:30pm Indigo Manulife Centre 55 Bloor Street West Toronto, Ontario (416) 925-3536 Please line up outside the Cinema entrance on Level 1 (adjacent to the escalators). 300 wristbands will be handed out beginning at 9am on Sunday, November 14th. Wristbands will be handed out to customers with proof of purchase of World Kitchen from any Indigo, Chapters, Coles location or indigo.ca. If you do not have a copy, you can purchase one at the store beginning at 9am. One wristband per person and non transferable. Gordon Ramsay will sign up to three books. No memorabilia.

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Like many washed-rind cheeses, La Mami is a real stinker. Hover over this fromage and prepare for a rush of raunch. This makes the cheese’s mildness, meaty, oily texture and vaguely nutty flavour all the more of a pleasant surprise. The Bavarian wheat beer, with its bracing clove accent and fine astringent bubbles, provides a clean, even rinse for the pliant cow’s milk cheese from Quebec. A wholesome middleweight snackage combo.

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This pasteurized goat’s milk cheese from the Burgundy region of France cries out for the gamey complexity of Burgundian Pinot Noir, but affordable versions of these are not easy to come by. The Malivoire Gamay is, and it delivers, above all else, compatible weight. Both the cheese and the wine offer full flavour on a light frame, exiting slowly and gracefully together from the dance floor of the mouth. A sophisticated couple. Cue the string quartet.

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This thermalized (heated but not pasteurized) Quebecois cheddar has creamy depth and a keen, sour tang that merges smoothly with the malty warmth of the English ale. A perfect example of a pairing creating a complete third flavour – a real sum-greater-than-its-parts scenario. Not that the parts aren’t pretty great on their own. I envision people in rude good health wearing sweaters all standing around consuming this stuff and then somebody yells,”Toboggan party!” This is sensibly ignored.

Greene King IPA, $3.50, LCBO #65789 Ile-aux-Grues Cheddar, $5.99 per 100 gm, (Nancy’s Cheese)

Port and blue – these old coves have been retiring to the library together since back when being down with something meant having the flu. Another fine offering from La Belle Province, this luxuriantly fatty raw cow’s milk blue rocks a sweet funk, escorted nimbly by the precise cut of the racy port. This classic pairing may induce party narcolepsy. Follow with loud noises and shots of hard liquor.

Taylor Fladgate LBV, $17.95, LCBO #46946 Bleu d’Elizabeth, $7.60 per 100 gm, (Thin Blue Line, 93B Roncesvalles, 416-840-6966) Graham Duncan hosts a wine-versus-beer cheese tasting at Nancy’s Cheese on November 17. For tickets, call 647-343-0315.

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Where to get those gifts Here come the gift guides. Starting November 18, we pre-empt your regularly scheduled NOW Life & Style section with our annual review of perfect presents for frugal to fancy budgets. Five weeks of awesome style, eco and tech finds are guaranteed to make shopping for you and yours a breeze.

In the meantime, the party season is gearing up and you need something for that perfect host. Here’s a list of holiday sales that are sure to offer just the right thing.

Snap up a JJ’s Wood Creations chopping board at the One Of A Kind Show.

Leslieville Holiday Wanderlust, November 18, Queen East from east of Logan to west of Greenwood. Free.

The Moose Show, November 18-20, Canadian Broadcasting Centre (250 Front West). Free. mooseshow.com.

Seasons Christmas Show, November 19-21, International Centre (6900 Airport). Adults $12. seasonsshow.com.

One Of A Kind Christmas Show, November 25-December 5, Direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Place).

Adults $12. oneofakindshow.com.

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das Square, 416-366-3600, paramountfinefoods.com; also at 1290 Crestlawn, at Dixie, 905-282-1600; 56A Lakeshore East, at Stavebank, Mississauga, 905-891-3333; 7315 Yonge, at Glen Cameron, Thornhill, 905-886-4600) Complete dinners for $25 per person (lunches $15), including all taxes, tip and a relatively fresh juice.

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it ain’t guu. or scarpetta, origin or either of the Hoofs.

No, the hot new boîte that’s got le tout downtown in a full-on feeding frenzy isn’t any of those flashy dives, but a falafel franchise imported from the suburbs.

Across from the Eaton Centre yet.

Foodies, meet Paramount. You can’t miss the joint, as there always seems to be a crowd blocking the sidewalk out front. Once inside, you find another bunch waiting patiently for tables in the former Superior’s entryway. Grab a seat at the holding pen’s coffee bar during the

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inevitable 15-minute delay and take full advantage of the 150-year-old heritage building’s soaring ceiling and oversized chandelier that looks like it was left behind when The Phantom Of The Opera played the Pantages next door.

Though the upstairs balcony has a more formal atmosphere – exposed brick and beams, a few comfy booths, that humongous chandelier – it’s also a lot draftier at this time of year, so we opt for a table amidst the chaos of the resto’s buzzing main floor. If you remember Spadina delis of yore – the original Shopsy’s or Switzer’s – you’ll recognize the scene, a sea of hungry customers jockeying for position as an army of whiteshirted servers cut through the crowd to the clatter of crashing plates under the glare of hundreds of halogen spots and the surveillance of several CCTVs. Smiling for the cameras, we start with chill-killing lentil soup ($3.99), finished with freshly chopped parsley, raw carrot threads, a generous squeeze of lemon and a toss of pita crisps.

Next up, “hummus with meat

Iryna Perun shows off the Paramount Special, a mix of fruit juices, almonds and clotted cream.

($6.99)” translates as garlicky chickpea purée topped with shreds of tender halal shawarma lashed with chili oil. Puffed-up football-sized pitas straight from Paramount’s wood-burning oven convert into convenient scoops.

That fab flatbread becomes Lebanese manakeesh ($3) when spread with creamy thickened labneh yogurt and crushed za’atar, or a kidfriendly veggie pizza ($4) when topped with crunchy green pepper, canned pit-free black olives and lotsa mozza’.

Perhaps we’ve been spoiled by Akram of Kensington’s deep-fried nirvana, but Paramount’s signature falafel plate ($7.99) fails to impress, especially since its stars are baked and doughy. Like most mains, minimakanek sausages ($9.99) get the

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same sides, a uniform pile of sliced dill and pink turnip pickles, some knife-cut iceberg lettuce and a slice or two of dead-of-winter tomato.

Listed on the laminated menu as a “3-pound whole ($16.99),” we’re expecting an intact churrasqueira bird but instead get just over 2 pounds of moist, skinless breast, meaty thighs and attached legs that have been marinated in yogurt, à la tandoori, then chargrilled before being splashed with spicy piri-piri sauce.

Sensational stuff, and more than enough to share.

Shame the same can’t be said for sides of limp frozen fries and cardboard Uncle Ben’s rice. The card also says the Greek salad ($5.99) comes with “yasoo dressing.” Tastes like Kraft Zesty Italian to me.

Best stick with the unusually de-

lish chicken and beef shawarma combo plate ($11.99) and the mixed kebab grill ($15.99), one of oreganokissed strip loin, another of chicken shish taouk and a pair of ground beef kafta, a chargrilled tomato and onion on the side.

Wash them down with plastic kidproof glasses of strawberry juice ($3.99 small/$4.99 large) or beer mugs of the Paramount Special ($5.99), a mix of strawberry and mango juices swirled with almonds, crushed pistachios and clotted ashta cream. Baklava-esque pastries dripping honey and sugar syrup go for $24 a kilo.

With roots back to the 40s, Superior might have been a tough act to follow. Thankfully, Paramount’s even better. Good luck getting in.

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92 Ossington, at Humbert, 416-5370134, deluxrestaurant.ca. Tables are much easier to come by than they were when her busy Oz bistro launched a few years back – especially since the introduction of a second room with communal tables and fireplace out back – and owner/ chef Corrine Mozo’s Franco-Cuban card goes from strength to strength. Best: signature grilled Cubano sandwiches of cider-cured pork shoulder, sliced deli ham and gooey Gruyère, sided Havana-style with chunky frites, a whack o’ watercress and a Coke; chef’s charcuterie, peppery pork terrine, chicken rillettes and brandied chicken liver mousse; Cumbrae Farms veal cheeks with marrow in beet reduction

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Where I live, 35 per

cent of all high school students confess (or brag) that they have engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as imbibing five or more alcoholic drinks in a twohour period. According to my reading of the omens, your inner teenager may soon be longing to flirt with that kind of intense and total release. Can I talk him or her out of it? As much as I sympathize with the younger you’s need to escape the numbing effects of the daily grind, I’m asking the adult you to step in and assert your authority. Try to find a more constructive approach to liberation.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Why did fea-

thered dinosaurs evolve wings? Paleontologists in Britain have a new theory: it added to their sexual allure. The head researcher at the University of Manchester speculated that “maybe they ran around with their arms out-

stretched to show off how pretty their feathers were.” Eventually, those forearms became wings that came in handy for flying. In other words, the power of flight did not originate from the urge to fly, but rather from the urge to be attractive. Oddly enough, Taurus, this approach to understanding evolution would be useful for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could develop some interesting new capacities as you work to enhance your appeal to people who matter.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 On the subject of

being divided, novelist Iris Murdoch wrote the following: “He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar.

He was a man of two truths.” Whether you deserve the generosity of that interpretation still remains to be seen, Gemini.

It is possible that your version of double-

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2010 ness will be rooted in deceit or delusion rather than sincere and honest duality. Of course, I’m rooting for the latter. Please do all you can to ensure that you’re being authentic, not manipulative.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 My friend Ariel’s

six-year-old daughter Juno doesn’t understand why anyone would build streets that run in a straight line. Isn’t it more fun if the highways and byways are crooked and curvy? Shouldn’t people want to get to where they’re going by veering this way and that, relishing the playful twists and turns? That’s where the best action is, says Juno, and I agree: in the tweak, in the twirl, in the winding way – not in the beeline route that leaves no room for improvisation.

That’s especially true for you right now, my fellow Cancerian.

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as you evaluate the belief system that’s at the centre of your life. Does it sometimes lead you astray, cause you to see things that aren’t really there and fill you with confusion – but in ways that are more life-enhancing than any other belief system you know of? Or is your belief system actually kind of toxic?

Should you consider replacing it with another set of organizing principles? If it’s the latter, now would be a good time to begin making a change.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 The nature of

Post, my beloved former editor at the Dayton Daily News, sent me a haiku-like poem that I’d like you to ponder: “November trees / which are living? / which are dead?” I’m hoping this will put you in the mood to mull over an even bigger question, namely: what parts of your own life are withering and what parts are thriving? In my astrological opinion, it’s very important that you know the difference, and act accordingly.

the game is changing. Do you know which game I’m referring to? I mean the one that everyone’s playing but no one’s acknowledging they’re playing. The rules of the game had held steady for quite some time, but recently they began to shift. Now even the game’s rewards are in the process of metamorphosing. My advice? You don’t necessarily need to splash a big dose of raw candour all over the place, but I do recommend that you at least tell yourself the truth about what’s going on.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 My Facebook friend Robert Goldberg has come up with terms for you Libras that put a more positive spin on your reputation as a fence-sitter. He suggests “fence dancer” or “fence warrior.” You don’t always deserve to be bestowed with those honourable titles, of course. Sometimes you really do moulder there in your intermediate position, paralyzed by indecision and unable to do what’s in the best interests of anyone, including yourself.

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gists say the number 10 signifies completion, wholeness, totality. It could rightly serve as your lucky number in the coming weeks – a symbol of your power to draw long-term processes to a climax on your own terms. But you might also want to consider using 11 as your emblem of good mojo. That number denotes the drive to surpass the success you’ve earned before – to transcend easy triumphs and conventional wisdom so as to reach for a more challenging conquest. Either way, Aquarius, I think you’ll be flying high for the foreseeable future, so there’s no need to worry about which way you should go. If you do choose 11, the risks will be somewhat greater and the rewards more interesting.

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Just under the railway bridge north of Dupont, Summerhill Nursery & Floral (301 Macpherson, 416922-6902, summerhillnursery.ca) features a 2-and-a-half-acre plot loaded up with late fall planters and Christmas evergreens.

To fuel up after holiday home shopping, you can go French at Le Paradis Brasserie (166 Bedford, 416920-0995, leparadis.com) or sample the seasonal Italian fare at Mistura (265 Davenport, 416-515-0009, mistura.ca). Joso’s (202 Davenport, 416925-1903, josos.com) is legendary for its fab fish menu, and L’Unita (134 Avenue, 416-964-8686, lunita.ca) is developing its own loyal following with handmade pastas and thincrust pizzas. For burgers and all-day breakfasts, Avenue Diner is an authentically retro resto (222 Davenport, 416-924-5191).

Last but never least, the Ave and Dav area is home to some of Toronto’s best designer vintage boutiques, including The Cat’s Meow (180 Avenue, 647-435-5875, thecatsmeowcouture. com). The chic black-and-white awning on Louise Cooper’s storefront hints at the clothing and accessory treasures charmingly displayed inside, including hat racks topped with felt cloches and wood cases of fine-tocostume jewellery.

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Rating: NNN Advance listens to Smith Westerns’ sophomore album reveal the young Chicago quartet adopting a more polished, glam rock style than their “garage rock” tag would suggest. And it was likely that side the band displayed at their high-profile opening slot for Florence & the Machine on Wednesday at Sound Academy. But if their official after-party performance at Parts & Labour is any indication, they’re not ready to abandon their rambunctious teen spirit just yet.

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Rating: NNNN The best thing about local electro trio Madrid is usually Adam Perry’s shoegaze- and psych-influenced guitar work. But at Wrongbar, it was the climactic dynamics engineered by bassist/synth player Duncan Christie and live drummer Eric Lightfoot that got the large crowd dancing. Catchy new songs, including some dance-floorowning moments, have us officially excited for the band’s full-length album, set to drop in March.

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began in an unassuming way that highlighted their knack for patiencetesting buildups that give way to massive, get-the-fuck-up-and-jump beats.

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Their densely layered sound was often tainted by ringing feedback that the sound tech couldn’t seem to tame.

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If Spinal Tap’s slightly dim bassist, Derek Smalls, taught us anything, it’s to use caution when stuffing your trousers with bulging objects and to always consider the mechanical hazards of playing inside pods while onstage.

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says he and his creative team wanted to go more conceptual.

“We felt like no matter how many screens we had, it was going to feel like we’d already done that, so we conceived a spacecraft theme. We really liked the novel idea of a sphere and all the things we could do with it.”

Of course, Davis isn’t on the road for the first time in years just for the sake of playing records from a spacecraft (though that’s not a terrible reason).

He’s got a new untitled album slated for 2011 and wants to remind fans that although his last one came out in 2006, he’s still out there digging crates, clipping obscure samples and crafting booming beats.

“I didn’t want another year to pass without a major tour,” he says. “I’d been in the studio for about six months in a pretty aggressive work environment. I was ready to get some fresh air – like when a band is in a studio and they need to get out and live a little, try out music [live], run things by people to get their reaction.”

So far, two new cuts on the street hint at Shadow’s current direction: the twitchy grime epic Def Surrounds Us and the 70s California smooth-rockinformed tune I’ve Been Trying. While Def feels like a classic Mo’ Wax-era Shadow cut, the second is making his backpack-wearing hip-hop followers do a double take.

“The studio was out in the country, and I was going to a lot of second-hand shops in that area,” says Davis. “Picked up a lot of independent singer/songwriter California stuff, so [I’ve Been Trying] has a real rural element to it.

But no one song is any more indicative of the new album than one song was indicative of Endtroducing.”

Lately, that record – Davis’s 1996 debut masterpiece – has been on the producer’s mind. He says he’s returning to form, so to speak, after a disappointing reception for 2006’s collaborationheavy The Outsider.

“By ‘return to form,’ I mean putting in the type of hardcore concentration required and not having collaborations. I like collaborating because I learn things, but this album is going to be solo. I’m grateful for allowing that to happen. It feels right.”

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The new Blacc Troubled times lend grit to Aloe Blacc’s transformation from rapper to soul crooner By JASON RICHARDS ALOE BLACC with MAYA JUPITER and MAYLEE TODD at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Monday (November 15), 9 pm. $15. nujazz.ca. PDR, RT, SS, TW.

If you were making a list of rappersturned-singers, Aloe Blacc probably wouldn’t be the first name on it.

Many don’t know that before Blacc became the baritone voice behind the theme to HBO’s How To Make It In America, he spent a decade rapping in the group Emanon. But as Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Drake have discovered, talking on the mic can be sorta limiting.

“I wasn’t accomplishing what I wanted to as an MC, lyrically and stylistically,” says Blacc, born Egbert Dawkins. Rather than transforming himself into another Auto-Tune droid, the L.A. rapper took it deeper. “I started educating myself as a songwriter.”

Dawkins’s curriculum included the works of Donny Hathaway, James Brown, Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, soul artists whose music reflected the times, a tradition he wanted to carry on.

And there was no better time to inject some realness in the genre than amid Obama’s inauguration, an economic catastrophe and an over-caffeinated 24-hour cable-driven news cycle.

His third solo album, Good Things (Stones Throw), was written during the political fever pitch of 2009. And his song I Need A Dollar became something of an anthem for the financial crisis, with Dawkins’s bluesy vocals and the bright piano notes purposely recalling the sound of the OG recession: the Great Depression.

“For me, it’s very much a gospel song,” says Dawkins. “Call and response. At the time, I was listening to field recordings of chain gangs.”

It’s also autobiographical. The “please Mr. Bossman” verse about losing his job comes from experience. The “whiskey and wine” part is based on a friend who turned to substance abuse.

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

Thursday, November 11 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Dean Lickyer, Theset, Life

Size Dream, DJ Cactus.

CADILLAC LOUNGE CD release and benefit for Movember Canada Stone/Angel doors 7 pm.

THE CENTRAL Lightsweetcrude, Lavender Orange, Money Pie 9 pm.

CLINTON’S The Break Down (indie rock).

CROCODILE ROCK Open Jam Night Thursdays Sonic Playground 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Glasser, Twin Shadow doors 8:30 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Grady, the Motorleague doors 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Tribute to Gregory Isaacs Nattyphysicist, Doug Skillmore, I-Sax, Lindo P doors 9 pm.

THE GARRISON Pkew Pkew Pkew, Drive Faster, Bon Chapeau 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Thursday Night Confidential/Indie Love Radio I Fighter/ Love, the Lying Cheat, Andrew Austin 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Miracle Whip 7 pm, the Dylan Tree (tribute band) 9 pm.

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905-874-2800. April 29.

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.

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

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THE GREAT HALL G20 Legal Defence Fundraiser Hawksley Workman doors 8 pm. ñ HARD LUCK BAR Reykjavictim, Cigarette Operahouse.

HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/blues/

jazz) 9 pm.

HORSESHOE CD release Clothes Make the Man, By Divine Right, Teenage Kicks, ñ Colin Moore (alt rock) 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Marcy Playground, Future His-

tory (alt rock) doors 8:30 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Douglas September.

THE PAINTED LADY Heavyweights Brass Band (down tempo/funk/nu-jazz) 9 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Grinderman (Nick Cave) doors 8 pm.

RANCHO RELAXO Thursday Thursday Dildoniks, the Elks, the Business, Earls of Frontenac 9 pm.

RIVOLI Morgan Cameron Ross, Alanna Cherote, Rafe Malach doors 8:30 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Rage Against The Machine Tribute Papa’s Delicate Condition, Hatch, 1867, Diego P Shea.

SMILING BUDDHA Recessionary Revolutionaries CD release LAL, Jarret Prescott, DJ Who 8 pm.

SUPERMARKET Daniel Sky Band doors 9 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Al St Louis & the Soulmates Band 8 pm.

VELVET UNDERGROUND Full Give, Caiiro Foster.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm

(blues/R&B) 9 pm.

THE BEAN Acoustic Open Stage 7:45 pm, Signe Miranda, Down by Riverside, Jon Travis & Alex Andrews 9 pm.

C’EST WHAT Paint, Mittenz (rock & roll) doors 9 pm.

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

FREE TIMES CAFÉ Ian White.

GATE 403 The Blues Caller Emily Macleod 5 pm, Carissa Neufeld Jazz Band 9 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Sarah Mangle & Julie Faught (folk) 10 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Steve Forbert.

IMPERIAL PUB 50 River Concert Series Eamon

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McGrath, Joel Battle (folk rock) 9 pm.

LATINADA Rojitas (Cuban singer).

LITTLE TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH CD release Don Amero, Tim Alberts, Kev Morse, Brad Woods doors 7 pm.

THE LOCAL Tiffany Hanus.

LOU DAWG’S Mike Constantini 10 pm.

LULA LOUNGE CD launch Mighty Popo doors 8 pm.

MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, Tommy Fife, Pat Rush, Alec Fraser, Danny Lockwood.

TOUCHÉ Mistura Fina, Aline Morales (Brazilian music) 10:30 pm.

UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 9 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Textura (jazz/blues/contemporary) 7:30 pm.

BLACK MOON LOUNGE Mad Men Elise LeGrow Trio (60s jazz).

CHINA HOUSE Archie Alleyne, Reg Schwager, Artie Roth 7:30 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Carlie Howell Trio (jazz) 10 pm.

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

DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

Planetary Dreams The Annex Quartet noon to 1 pm.

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

THE GALLERY STUDIO CAFÉ Kirk MacDonald, Al Henderson Duo (jazz) 7 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM

Voice-Box Vilma Vitols, Neema Bickersteth, Savoy Howe, Christine Duncan (competitive concert in a boxing ring) 8 pm.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met: Music for Remembrance Day Patricia Wright (organ) noon.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Joe Sealy 7:30 pm.

OLD MILL INN DINING ROOM Jane Monheit (jazz) 7:30 pm.

The Paddock Jake Wilkinson Quartet 10 pm.

RePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

ReseRvoiR Lounge Remembrance Day Ross

MacIntyre, Nathan Hiltz, Jeff Halischuk 7 to 9 pm.

Rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm, Alain Bedard & Jazzlab Octet 9:30 pm.

Roy Thomson haLL Glagolitic Mass Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

RoyaL conseRvaToRy of music koeRneR haLL John McLaughlin and ñ the Fourth Dimension (jazz). See preview, page 58.

TRiniTy sT PauL’s chuRch Handel Dixit Dominus Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

andy PooLhaLL Burner Thursdays Barletta, Paul David (house/electro/rock) 10 pm.

cenTuRy Room Fam Glam Crunch (house/

hip-hop/club anthems) doors 10 pm. cobRa Lounge Essential Thursdays Layo & Bushwacka, Nitin, Rafwat & Chorniy. emmeT Ray baR Quebec Night 7 pm. geoRge’s PLay Kendall (piano) 5 to 8 pm.5 goodhandy’s Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck.5 guveRnmenT Peace Dot Love Music Festival Big Boi, Reema Major, Skratch Bastid, Grand Analog, Blues in D, Keys N Krates doors 7 pm, all ages. insomnia DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

PaRTs & LabouR Deadbeat DJs Corey Gibbs, Michael Mercanti (open format) 10 pm.

RevivaL NuJazz Festival Mark de CliveLowe, Sy Smith, Sunny Albeau, DJs Jason Palma, John Kong & General Eclectic doors 9 pm. samovaR All That Salsa DJ Hector 5 pm till midnight.

TaTToo Rock PaRLouR Ladies Night Millhouse Brown (80s/90s) 10 pm. Retro Dance Party 11 pm. veLveT undeRgRound DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11 pm.

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aQuiLa Tommy Fyfe, Jerome Godboo (blues/

R&B).

bLack sWan Dave’s Cirque Sonique Li’l Steve Band, Mr Flowas, Teresa Hart w/ Jon Long, Me Myself & Earl 9 pm. fRee Times café Mark Feldman, Running Red Lights. highWay 61 souTheRn baRbeQue Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm. hugh’s Room Stan Rogers Tribute Connie Kaldor, Al Parrish, Steve Ritchie, Ariel Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Beth Rogers, Tom Leighton, Trevor Mills 8:30 pm.

Jamaican canadian associaTion Benefit concert for flood victims Jay Davis.

LaTinada Ruben Vazquez (Cuban pianist).

Lou daWg’s Paige Armstrong (rockin’ blues) 10 pm.

LuLa Lounge Small World Music Society Luísa Maita (Brazilian jazz/pop) 8:30 pm, Brazilian Bandorama Roda de Samba, Baque de Bamba, Rinoceronte (Samba/Afro-Braziian) 10 pm. massey haLL

Johnny Reid 8 pm. ñ naPoca ResTauRanT Sean Pinchin (singer/

songwriter) 7 pm.

TRane sTudio CD release Donna Greenberg (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. undeRdoWn Pub JP & Friends (acoustic blues/jazz) 10 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

aLLiance fRançaise doWnToWn Florilège d’automne Fraser Jackson, Mitchell Pady, Monique de Margerie (bassoon/tenor/piano) 7:30 pm. asPeTTa caffe Les Petit Nouveau (jazz) 9 pm. back aLLey WoodfiRe bbQ & gRiLL Gram Whitty Trio 7:30 pm. boiLeR house Bill McBirnie, the Louis Simao Trio 7 pm. dominion on Queen Elmer Ferrer (jazz) 9:30 pm. gaLLeRy 345 The Art Of The Piano Vlada Mars 8 pm. gaTe 403 Mario Allende Latin Jazz Band 5 pm, Max Senitt Latin Jazz and 9 pm. gLadsTone hoTeL meLody baR Les Singes Bleus (francophone Jazz) 7 pm. gLenn gouLd sTudio Italian Baroque Sinfonia Toronto, Cecilia Loda (mandolin). haRbouRfRonT cenTRe bRiganTine Room Voice-Box Vilma Vitols, Neema ñ Bickersteth, Savoy Howe, Christine Duncan

(competitive concert in a boxing ring) 8 pm.

haRLem Dwayne Forrest (bossa nova jazz)

7:30 pm.

Jane maLLeTT TheaTRe Stephan Moccio (solo piano) 8 pm.

music gaLLeRy Tony Wilson Sextet (jazz) 8 pm. oLd miLL inn home smiTh baR Fridays To Sing

About Yvette Tollar Trio 7:30 pm.

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Friday, November 12 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

aLLeycaTz Graffitti Park. aLTeR ego maRTini Lounge R&B Fridays. baR iTaLia Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40) 9:30 pm.

bovine sex cLub CJ Sleez, Voodoo Bunny, Buddy Black.

cadiLLac Lounge Little Foot Long Foot. cLinTon’s Night Gang (80s 1 cover band). eL mocambo Razor, Fatality, Nitemare, Ag-

gressor, Vindicator, Joe Thrasher (heavy metal/thrash).

The gaRRison Persian Rugs, Negar Mokhtassi, Erin Lang, Culture Reject 9 pm. gLadsTone hoTeL baLLRoom Justice for Children and Youth Benefit Bidiniband, Jack Connolly, Jen Schaffer & the Shiners, New Bend 7 pm. gRaffiTi’s Rocking for the Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm, Bill Wood & the Woodies (pop/rock) 8 pm.

The gReaT haLL CD release/Tour Homecoming Party Meligrove Band, Ruby Coast, More or Les w/ the Peter Project 8 pm, all ages. haRd Luck baR I Emperor, Mercenaries. hemingWays Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 10 pm. hoRseshoe CD release Winter Gloves (indie electropop) doors 9 pm. kooL haus Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bobby Long doors 8 pm, all ages. miTzi’s sisTeR EP release The Joyful Sinners, Brenna Maquarrie & the New Saints doors 8 pm. monaRchs Pub Classic Rock Fridays Michael Danckert, Kevin Adamson, Danny Lockwood 7 pm. oRiginaL’s Skully & Crossbones.

Rancho ReLaxo CD release Politique, Ismism, Secrettes doors 9 pm.

RivoLi CR Avery 9 pm.

Roc n doc’s The Homeless Band (rock/funk/ retro/R&B) 9:30 pm. siLveR doLLaR R.A.P.E. Tazer, Trackstars, A Northern Drawl, Borderline Clover. sneaky dee’s Metal Health. sound academy Robyn doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 53. undeRgRound gaRage Airbag. vogLie Unconscious Encore (ska) 9 pm.

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QUOTES Fridays At Five Fred Duligal (saxo-

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REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm, Leah State 6:30 pm, Kelsely Grant 9:45 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Guido’s Orchestra, the Regent Park School of Music Choir, Red Hurley (pop orchestra) 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Interpreti Veneziani 8 pm.

TEQUILA BOOKWORM Hot Sauce 2.0 Launch

Party DJs Shingo, MissRuckus, urbansteve (tech house/dubstep/disco house/future funk/leftfield) 10 pm.

TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Handel Dixit Dominus Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir 8 pm.

WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 6:30 pm.

YORK UNIVERSITY ACCOLADE EAST BLDG TRIBUTE COMMUNITIES RECITAL HALL Vocal Masterclass 2 to 4:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM Benny Page, Kevin King

& Mutt, Marcus Visionary, Everfresh & Lush doors 10 pm.

BEAVER Vile Mistress Frostitution, Dead Cops, DJ Justin S (sleazy costume dance party) 11 pm.5 BOAT Yacht Rock.

C’EST WHAT DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND More Proof DJs Colin Bergh, Andre de Pape, Jon Friis doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Fathom doors 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Dazz (soul/R&B) 10 pm.

FLY Grapefruit: MMX Anniversary Special DJs Shane Percy, Aural, Cazwell, Donnarama, the GFruit B-Boys.5 FOOTWORK Umek doors 10 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Queer Idol 2011 Launch DJ T Klinck doors 9 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Adam Davis (house/ breaks).

LAMBADINA DJ AfroSonic (Afrobeat/disco/top 40).

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Arcade Fridays Autoerotique, Destructo.

NOCTURNE I’m Stealing Your

Wireless Tour Tech Diff, Raxyor, Digit216, Archi-Textures, Laf-O, Hans Ohm and others (hardcore/breakcore/psy/minimal techno) 10 pm.

OUR HOUSE BAR Fossil Fridays: California Love Hector Moralez, Loopity Goofs, G Cue, Miz Megs, Lee MacDonald.

PACHA LOUNGE Crack A Bottle-The Old Skool Party DJs Starting from Scratch, Tricky Moreira (old skool/house).

THE PAINTED LADY DJ Chocolate, Patrick Roots, Honey B Hind (reggae/ska) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR STD DJs Isosceles, Innez Da Future.

LA PERLA HER DJs Produzentin, Mikey Apples, OMGBLOG.COM doors 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE NuJazz Festival DJ Shadow, Pigeon John doors 9 pm.

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REVIVAL Fallen Heroes DJ Riccachet, DJ TheraP, Boogeyman doors 10 pm.

SPORTS CENTRE CAFE Beats, Beers & Basketball (old school hip-hop/funk) 7 pm.

SUBA Intimate & Interactive Open Mic Dwight Anderson, Ray Robinson, O’Sond, Omar Lunan.

SUPERMARKET Market Fresh Dance Party DJ Classick.

TERANGA Silent Shout Foxfire, Easyboy (evil disco/ synth-pop/electro dance party) 9 pm.

THIS IS LONDON Soho Fridays (house).

ULTRA Flock Fridays (mashup).

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Saturday, November 13 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/ SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park.

AQUILA The Paul Gellman

Band (R&B) 9 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Under the Cover (acoustic pop) 3 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB The Ascot Royals, Sometimes Why, the Belle Jars, Slightly Left.

BREAD & CIRCUS EP release The Inhumanoids.

C’EST WHAT Sarah Cripps (roots/pop) 10 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie ñ Hayward (rockabilly) 4 to 7 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Farewell Show

Slowking doors 8 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE

Roberto Rosenman doors 8 pm.

EL MOCAMBO One Eskimo, Hugo, Scars As 45 doors 7 pm. Cancelled.

THE GARRISON White Cowbell Oklahoma (rock & roll).

GRAFFITI’S The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm, Katey Morley Band 8 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR BUNKER DC Music Showcase Life Blown Open, the Complete doors 8:30 pm.

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Class Assassins, South End, Victim Party.

HARLEM Kaysha Lee (reggae/soul/

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HORSESHOE Two Hours Traffic doors 9

pm. ñ IMPERIAL PUB Normal for Once, Bob Sheppard

& Bo Green.

KOOL HAUS Haus Party Bruno Mars, JRDN, Danny Fernandes, Burnz N Hell doors 7 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Crued, Saigon Hookers, Hands Over Fist (rock).

MITZI’S SISTER John Wayne Orchestra matinee.

MOD CLUB Versaemerge, Anarbor, the Dangerous Summer, Conditions doors 6 pm, all ages.

ORIGINAL’S Skully & Crossbones.

PRESS CLUB Humans (electro folk).

RICOH COLISEUM Royal Winter Fair Marianas Trench, illScarlett.

RIVOLI Reel Asian Film Festival Presents Rice Dreams VOWLS, Jeff Garcia (Asian pop psychedelia) doors 10 pm.

SONIC BOOM In-store performance Hooded Fang 6 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, King Charles doors 8 pm, all ages.

ñ ñST STEPHEN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHURCH Flowers of Hell, the Hoa Hoa’s, Peter ñ Carmichael (space rock orchestra) doors 9 pm.

T.S.T’S LAUNCH PAD Chill With Pill (freestyle rap) 9 pm, all ages.

VELVET UNDERGROUND Professor, Junction Box 9 pm.

Anamanaguchi doors 8:30 pm. ñWRONGBAR

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Jessica & Sabone, Iulia, Bang,

Bang You’re Dead, Ludicrous Speed Department (acoustic folk/rock) 7 pm.

CADILLAC LOUNGE The Light Of Day Fundraiser for Parkinsons Gary US Bonds, Willie Nile, Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, Vincent Pastore, the Beauties 8 pm.

CANADIAN CORPS LEGION HALL catl, Colonel Tom & the American Pour (swampmuck blues/swinging country) 10 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Cross-Eyed Cat (Chicago blues) 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFÉ Dull Eyed Lamas.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Robyn Dell’Unto (folk/pop) 8 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Stan Rogers Tribute Connie Kaldor, Al Parrish, Steve Ritchie, Ariel Rogers, Nathan Rogers, Beth Rogers, Tom Leighton, Trevor Mills 8:30 pm.

LAMBADINA Ethiopiques Tomas Ewnetu & Meseret Addis, DJ AfroSonic (Afrobeat/disco/ top 40) 11 pm.

LATINADA Eliana Cuevas Trio.

THE LOCAL Makita Hack & the Log Rollers (stringband).

LOU DAWG’S Emily & Blue Callers 10 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Saturday Night Salsa Lady Son y Articulo Veinte 10 pm.

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Johnny Reid 8 pm. ñ PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Kate Nash (singer/

songwriter) doors 7 pm, all ages.

REBAS CAFÉ Jeff Giles (singer/songwriter) 4 to 7 pm.

REMARKS BAR & GRILL Open Mic Jam Johnny Blue Quartet 4 to 8 pm.

REX Brunch Matinee Danny Marks (blues) noon.

SILVER DOLLAR CD release Swamperella, The Unseen Strangers (bluegrass) 7 pm.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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Chhandayan – All-night Indian classical music concert Sawpan Chaudhuri, Alam Khan, Samir Chatterjee, Shashank, Amit Arya, Luna Guha and others 8 pm-6 am.

UNDERDOWN PUB Kevin Myles Wilson (folk/ rock) 10 pm.

WORKMAN THEATRE Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival Concert Liam Titcomb, Ron Hynes (screening of The Man Of A

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Thousand Songs and performance) 7:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Denielle Bassels Quintet (jazz/blues/contemporary) 9 pm.

BEERBISTRO The Gene Pool Boys (jazz) 8 pm.

BETTY OLIPHANT THEATRE TONO (music and dance from indigenous cultures of Canada, Mongolia China) 8 pm.

BLOOR STREET UNITED CHURCH

Music From The Kronos Quartet The Annex Quartet (classical/jazz/tangos) 8 pm.

C’EST WHAT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad jazz) 3 pm.

CHALKERS PUB Don Thompson’s Vibes Quartet 6 to 9 pm.

EASTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH Academy Concert Series: An Evening With Bach Agnes Zsigovics, Rona Goldensher, Paul Jenkins, Nicolai Tarasov, Kate Haynes (baroque music) 8 pm.

GATE 403 Steve and Paul Simms Duo noon to 3 pm, Bill Heffernan 5 pm, Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm 9 pm.

GEORGE’S PLAY Kendall (piano) 5 to 8 pm.5 GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Country Saturdays The Wanted 7 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM Voice-Box Vilma Vitols, Neema

ñ Bickersteth, Savoy Howe, Christine Duncan

(competitive concert in a boxing ring) 8 pm.

MEADOWVALE THEATRE Men In Tights Mississauga Pops Concert Band 7 pm.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Bells Spectacular! The Bronze Foundation Handbell Choir 7:30 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER CD release GUH, Julian Brown evening.

MOMIJI SUSHI BISTRO J&V The Duo (jazz/ pop/R&B/easy rock/Latin) 7 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Piano Masters Joshua Goodman Trio 7:30 pm.

REX Chris Hunt Tentet 3:30 pm, Fender Rhodes Trio 7 pm, CD release Alex Dean 9:45 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Stravinsky Firebird Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

TEN FEET TALL Alisa McCreary Trio 8 pm.

TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Handel Dixit Dominus Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir 8 pm.

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM Massive Saturdays 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush

(soul/rock & roll).

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Your Boy Brian

doors 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Lipstick, Cherry

doors 11 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Blood And Bandages Barber Shop 3-Year Anniversary Party 9 pm.

FLY DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Josh Karmin, DJ Kevin

Bailey 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK Lee Burridge, Nitin, Jeff Button doors 10 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Jock DJ Justin E doors 10:30 pm.5 THE GREAT HALL NuJazz Festival Tortured Soul, King Sunshine, Groove Institute, DJ Gadget.

GUVERNMENT Spin Saturdays Andy Moor (house/trance).

INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house).

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NACO GALLERY CAFE La Taco DJs Mizz Brown, Paul G, Scottie P 10 pm.

NEU+RAL 90s Party Anniversary Party DJ Fawn

Big Canoe.

99 SUDBURY Therapy Osunlade, Jojo Flores, Julie McKnight, Vinny Gruvhuntñ er & Morgan Shim, DJ Dirty Dale.

THE PAINTED LADY DJ Salazar (funk/soul) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR The Wetness DJs Lillith Ze Davil, Jill Botting.

REVIVAL The Main Ingredient: A Tribute To

Jamiroquai & UK Soul Agile, DJ Mensa, DJ Sean Sax. RIVOLI SIDEBAR Bump N’ Hustle 10 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop and soul) 11 pm.

THE SOCIAL Faktory J-Wow. STONE LOUNGE More Love DJ Shai, King Ida Supreme, Version Xcursion, Sassa le, Aram Scaram (dub/roots/culcha/dancehall/ragga/ jungle).

SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal 11:30 pm.

SUTRA The Bridge DJ Triplet (classic/hip-hop).

TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR DJs Trevor & Orly (dance rock).

THIS IS LONDON London Calling (top 40/ mashup).

TIME NIGHTCLUB Fixation Jed Harper, DJ Dlux doors 10 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Caliban Arts Theatre Relaunch Party Waleed Kush, Freedom Live, DJ Kush Nubia 8 pm.

ULTRA Signature Saturdays (mashup).

VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Joe (alt rock) 11 pm.

Sunday, November 14 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CADILLAC LOUNGE Scotty & the Ringtones.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 5 pm,

Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm.

KOROVA MILKBAR Anamanaguchi, Hut, Guy Dallas 9 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Allison Brown (folk/country/ oldtime) evening.

THE PAINTED LADY Naked Girls Reading Rock & Roll 7 pm.

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Dance pop

Rockin’ Robyn

Talk, out November 22, features five songs from the previous two plus five new ones.

“The interaction between studio Swedish pop princess’s three-part album experiment work and touring interests me,” she pays off big By Kevin Ritchie says. “When you’re in the studio for obviously had to go into a solo. We one and a half years, you usually get ROBYN with Maluca and Natalia Kills were like, ‘We have to have a synth quite isolated and a little nerdy about at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday solo on this record.’ It’s so nerdy and so your record. You maybe don’t look at it (November 12), 7 pm. All ages. $23.50. beautiful. It’s like ear candy.” from the practical perspective of how Sold out.

Indestructible is on Body Talk (Koni­ to communicate it live. This has given chiwa), the final album in a three-part me a chance to merge those worlds.”

There’s a delightful moment near the triptych the 31-year-old undertook as a The experiment has paid off, both end of Robyn’s new single, Indestruct“practical solution” to the creative creatively and commercially. Body Talk ible, when the song’s wistful arpeggio frustrations she experienced following is the year’s best pop album, an exugives way to a squelching retro symthe release of 2005’s Robyn. berant ode to club culture and the enphonic synth solo. It’s a brief interlude, The typical music industry cycle tangled emotions that can surface on but one that exemplifies the playful requires an artist to spend months rethe dance floor. Its influences vary and sincere approach the Swedish pop cording an album and then years tourfrom dancehall and gangsta rap to star brings to her craft. ing and promoting it. But Robyn chose minimal house and techno, united by “I’ve been listening to a lot of old to alternate between studio time and four-to-the-floor beats, epic bass lines disco, techno and house, and we touring in quick succession, allowing and Robyn’s unwavering focus on big, approached this record with that in the experiences to cross-pollinate. beautiful pop melodies. mind,” says Robyn, born Robin Miriam Body Talk Pt. 1 came out in June, and The goal, she says, was to celebrate Carlsson. “The pulsating bass and the RCM_Now2/5vert4col_bwAd_Nov11&18_Layout 1 10-11-04 4:42 PM Page 1 Body Talk Pt. 2 in September. Body those moments when commercial arpeggios and the synths – they just

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pop embraces a musical subculture and obliterates the barriers. “For me, club music is about a movement. It’s about how people relate to themselves and their surroundings. That’s where I feel at home and inspired.”

Body Talk also marks a reunion with Max Martin, the Britney Spears and NSync hitmaker who produced a pair of top-10 singles for Robyn in the mid-90s.

The resultant (and appropriately titled) song Time Machine is a massive fistpumper of a club jam about longing for a second chance.

“I consciously decided not to work with him on the last album because I had to figure things out for myself,” Robyn explains. “It was nostalgic to go back into the studio together.

“For me, it’s perfect timing – I’ve come full circle. It’s a way for me to show that I’m not trying to distance myself from where I come from. It’s still all about the songs.” music@nowtoronto.com

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Roc n Doc’s Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 PM. saRaH’s cafe Acoustic Afternoon Dan McLean Jr 3 to 6 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm.

TRane sTuDio Lullaby North Emilio Guim (innovative jazz guitarist) 4 pm, all ages.

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Yes Y’All) & Harddough (Friends Explode) Playing Straight Up Hip Hop

DirTy Talk Toronto’s Only Junk Food Dance Party w/ Jamie Sin (Love Saves the Day), Pamm (Lipstick Cherry) & Diana (Midnight Static) FRI 12th

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Heliconian Hall Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel – The Birthday Series Maria Thorburn, Michelle Simmons, Julia McFarlane, Jennifer Moersch, Michelle Kyle, Erin Bardua (chamber music) 2 pm.

Holy oak cafe Takoyaki (jazz) 9 pm.

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National Ransom (Hear) Rating: You’d be hard pressed to find an album as varied as Elvis Costello’s National Ransom (his 26th, give or take). Opening with the energetic title track, it at first appears to be an Americana effort in the vein of last year’s Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (both produced by Grammy magnet T Bone Burnett), only set against the backdrop of the imploded economy. Here, he’s fairly incensed – always a good thing in Costello’s case – and as verbose and intelligent as ever.

Had the album continued like this, it probably would’ve worked fine. But ambition grows in Costello with age, and he instead dips his toe into folk ballads, jazz, pop, bluegrass, country and, of course, rock ’n’ roll. And you know what? He’s good at all of it, each tune full of twists and expertly executed by his Imposters and his Sugarcanes. Sure, there are snags over the 16 tracks (the dull Jimmie Standing In The RCM_Now_contests_NONights_ad_Layout 1 10-11-08 6:03 PM Page Rain, the schmaltzy You Hung The Moon, the meandering All These Strangers).

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NORAH JONES ...Featuring Norah Jones (Blue Note/EMI) Rating: NN Spanning nine years and 18 tracks, Featuring collects a cross-section of Norah Jones’s previously released collaborations, barring more comical and controversial (and in many ways more interesting) work with Lonely Island and Mike Patton. Custom-made for holiday gift-giving, the album includes the smoky-voiced singer’s duets with Ray Charles, the Foo Fighters, Dolly Parton and Talib Kweli, showing her willingness to span genres and not be pigeonholed.

The Belle and Sebastian collab, Little Lou, Prophet Jack, Ugly John, illustrates the importance of context in art. While it sounds overproduced on B&S’s album, here it’s a standout and shows how well Jones’s voice blends with Stuart Murdoch’s. As on the other notable tracks, the song’s strong melody and classic arrangement allow her voice to shine. Ultimately, though, the comp is uneven, and it’s difficult to determine the intended audience; fans likely already own these songs.

Top track: Little Lou, Prophet Jack, Ugly John JOANNE HUFFA

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ONE ESKIMO (Shangri-La) Rating: NN

If you’ve always felt that the animated characters in Gorillaz are a little too menacing, then try London’s One Eskimo on for size. The cuddly foursome employs a similar cartoonish strategy, only instead of Jamie Hewlett’s jagged-toothed misfits, you get adorable guitar-playing penguins, bongo-bashing giraffes and a little hooded “Eskimo” who we’ll assume is supposed to be singer Kristian Leontiou. It’s enough to make you want to bite into a raw seal heart.

The music – a mostly acoustic-based blend of pop and atmospherics – strives to be as unthreatening as possible, with Leontiou’s one-range voice lilting in the mix on songs like UFO. Their semi-hit Kandi is another typical British gambit to revive past soul masters, borrowing from Candi Station, but at least they acknowledge it. Jack Johnson, however, gets no credit as the clear influence behind the banal Simple Day. Lyrically, it makes Johnson look like Jack Kerouac.

Top track: Hometime One Eskimo’s show at the El Mocambo Saturday (November 13) has been cancelled.

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RYAN COOK Peaks & Valleys (indepen-

GLASSER Ring (True Panther) Rating: NNN

New Orleans Nights

cohesive album and more like no-brainer radio references to Coldplay, U2, Michael Jackson, Sade, Feist and so on.

Top track: Liquor Store Blues Bruno Mars performs Saturday (November 13) at Kool Haus.

KEVIN RITCHIE

Ring sounds like the kind of album that could only be recorded in the 21st century.

Originally penned in the familiar womanand- GarageBand configuration, Cameron Mesirow’s debut LP has been given a sonic boost by producers Van Rivers and the Subliminal Kid but remains a DIY weirdopop solo effort.

Aside from a few marimba, saxophone and glockenspiel flourishes, the nine tracks are built around spare, repetitive programmed beats, punctuating synth lines and the most impressive instrument in Mesirow’s arsenal: her voice.

Sometimes soothing, sometimes mystical and sometimes off-the-wall (see Apply), her vocal versatility carries the hypnotic, looping arrangements, and not vice-versa. In fact, careful listens reveal bass and synth lines actually are Mesirow’s voice, treated and layered until all traces of humanity are erased. Strangely, a distinct analogue warmth still shines through. Think Enya filtered through chillwave.

Top track: Mirrorage Glasser plays tonight (Thursday, November 11) at the Drake.

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BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans (Elektra) Rating: NN One-third of the Smeezingtons, the production group behind K’naan’s Wavin’ Flag and Cee Lo Green’s Fuck You (among others), Bruno Mars leapt into the spotlight this summer and scored his own number-one hit with the soft rock ballad Just The Way You Are. As the title suggests, his debut LP favours smooth harmonies and easy-breezy pop melodies delivered by Mars in his boyish, R&B falsetto. The word “lightweight” was invented for records like this – ones that nail a commercial formula but are utterly devoid of heat, emotion or compelling personality.

Cutesy lyrics with insipid rhymes like “You can count on me like one, two, three” abound on songs that play out less like a

dent) Rating: NN Nova Scotia singer/songwriter Ryan Cook transitioned from hard rock to country and folk four years ago, inspired in part by Hank Williams (whose music he sometimes covers). With two EPs and an awardwinning album, Hot Times, under his belt, Cook travelled to Nashville to record his sophomore disc.

Where Hot Times’ sound was consistently old-timey, Peaks & Valleys brings in pop country, jazz and roots rock. On Wild Side Of Town, pedal steel and electric guitar complement Cook’s smooth croon and story songs. Alison Brown’s fluid banjo and Andy Leftwich’s fiddle on Gaspereau Valley are highlights.

Cook’s at his best when emulating the old stuff, bringing humour to O.C.D. Blues and zombie love song Dead Like Me. But country-radio-friendly If I Know Nothing Else and Sun are sugary to the point of unlistenable.

Top track: O.C.D. Blues Ryan Cook plays the Horseshoe Tavern Monday (November 15).

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The Widowmaker (Born Rich) Rating: NNNN Two years ago, NOW readers chose singer/ songwriter Donovan Woods as best local songwriter, and he proves readers right on his intimate second album, an earnest 12song ode to loss and heartache.

A fine multi-instrumentalist who moves easily between melancholy piano and acoustic guitar, the Sarnia native keeps his tunes brief and spare, while his husky vocals and smart lyrics pack the emotional punch.

The percussive Let Go Lightly drives a little harder than the rest, while Lord, I’m Tryin’ has a great lo-fi quality. A little bit

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Dan Mangan, a little bit Ryan Adams, Woods pens and delivers tunes like a pro.

Top track: Let Go Lightly Donovan Woods releases The Widowmaker at the Rivoli Tuesday (November 16).

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FLOWERS OF HELL O (Optical Sounds) Rating: NNN Greg Jarvis doesn’t lack ambition. For his third release with his Flowers of Hell orchestra, the bandleader makes his grandest statement yet: a single, 45-minuteplus semi-improvisational “song” recorded in one take and presented on double-sided CD in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound.

Recorded by Toronto producer Jon Drew and mixed in Manchester by the Earlies’ Tom Knott (who shares with Jarvis a synesthetic condition in which sounds are perceived as shapes and colours), the result is hard to put into words. That’s intentional. Resembling German “absolute” music, the composition is meant to signify nothing beyond the music itself.

It’s so abstract, in fact, that it practically eschews structure altogether. Where most post-rock builds around crescendos, O never quite gets to that point. It threatens to explode around the 28-minute mark, but instead fades into hushed tones before abruptly ending after 45 minutes.

Best approached with patience and without expectations.

Top track: O The Flowers of Hell play O in full on Saturday (November 13) at St-Stephen-in-theFields Church.

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Tensnake In The House (Defected) Rating: NNNN It’s reassuring that no one’s managed to come up with a tidy little genre box to stick German producer Tensnake into. You can draw connections between his laidback house sound and the cosmic disco coming out of Norway, or the classic house revisionism of Toronto’s Azari & III, not to mention the reinvented 80s boogie of NYC’s Metro Area, but all attempts to manufacture a definable scene around these sounds have failed, which is probably for the best.

The thread that ties all these tangents together is a shared obsession with making contemporary club beats inspired by the entire past 40 years of underground dance music rather than just the last five.

Tensnake is in a position to represent this mindset on a more mainstream level thanks to the massive success of his beautifully melodic anthem Coma Cat, and he makes the most of the opportunity with this expertly crafted two-CD DJ mix for heavyweight house label Defected.

Disc one focuses on slower 80s disco tempos and dubbed-out atmospherics, whereas disc two feels more like a reimagining of early 90s NYC house. As a package, it makes a great case for the idea that you can’t go forward without knowing where you came from.

Top track: Coma Cat Tensnake makes his Toronto debut November 18 at Wrongbar. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Director Mary Francis Moore shares a dark Scottish sense of humour with the writer of The Cure For Everything.

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Beatles and the bomb The Cure For Everything looks at a 60s teen’s hang-ups By JON KAPLAN THE CURE FOR EVERYTHING written and performed by Maja Ardal, directed by Mary Francis Moore (Contrary Company/ Theatre Passe Muraille). Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace (16 Ryerson). Previews through Sunday (November 14), opens Tuesday (November 16) and runs to December 4, Tuesday-Saturday 7:30 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm. $25-$30, Saturday matinee pwyc ($15 advance), previews $15. 416-504-7529. precocious elsa, the character created by Maja Ardal in You Fancy Yourself, is back in The Cure For Everything, ready to take on the world.

Unfortunately, since the sequel is set smack in the middle of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Elsa, still living in Edinburgh, worries that the world will explode around her.

In the earlier play, the preteen Elsa befriended the waiflike Adelle and stood up to the bullies at her school.

In The Cure For Everything, Elsa’s in her teens and fascinated by sex and getting drunk, and dreams about being part of the in group.

“When we meet her, she’s filled with hope and confidence, but it’s the shaky confidence of a 14-year-old,” says director Mary Francis Moore.

“Elsa takes risks, and by the end she’s experienced and wiser, though not jaded.

“She’s put herself out there in a kind of early feminist way that will help her in later life. The five days the play covers have a lasting effect on who she’ll be as an adult. By the time the play ends, her shell has cracked.”

In You Fancy Yourself, Ardal won

audiences with her storytelling and her ability to convince us we were seeing a whole stageful of different people. The current instalment grew in part out of audiences wanting to know more about Elsa and the others in her world.

“I thought it was important to meet Elsa in her teens, before she leaves Scotland. The Cuban missile crisis seemed a good time to set the action.

Just as the world is at the brink of complete chaos, so Elsa is at the brink of discovering her sexuality and what it means to be an adult.

“When we began talking about those things, it became clear that we had to link the story to the music of the period. The Beatles had their first few hits, the Mersey beat was becoming popular and mod was sweeping the country. All these sounds would

be accessible to Elsa, and they make a great backdrop for the story.”

Adept at creating characters verbally and physically, Ardal here concentrates on the two people most important to Elsa: cool, attractive Brian and popular Sheena, the antithesis of shy, insecure Elsa.

“I love Sheena and what Maja’s doing with her,” smiles Moore, an actor herself whose recent roles include Where’s My Money and a Dora-nominated turn in The Catering Queen.

“It’s incredible that this small woman, decades older than the character, makes me believe I’m watching a 16-year-old, 5-foot-10 blond with a backcombed bob who moves like Twiggy. Sheena’s the poised, graceful, charming teen that all her female classmates want to be.”

The collaboration between writer/ actor and director is a natural one, says Moore, since they share a common aesthetic about theatre.

“We both believe that if a story is a good one, you don’t have to put any bells and whistles into the production. If you don’t care about the characters, the show won’t work.”

The director also admits that the two click because they share a common Scottish heritage. Ardal grew up in Scotland, and Moore spent summers there with family.

“I understand the poetry of Maja’s writing as well as the dark Scottish humour that underlies it. Some people might be shocked at how she portrays the characters, but she presents them all with a loving heart, with a kindness and generosity beneath the darkness.

“That sense of humour means you’re able to laugh at yourself in your darkest moments and can always figure out how to turn an experience, as awful as it might be at the time, into an entertaining anecdote.”

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Opening

A CHILD OF SURVIVORS adapted from the

memoir by Bernice Eisenstein (Theatre Erindale). A child of Holocaust survivors grows up in the 1950s Kensington Market community of Toronto. Previews Nov 11. Opens Nov 12 and runs to Nov 20, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 20 at 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905-569-4369, theatreerindale.com.

THE CURE FOR EVERYTHING by Maja Ardal (Theatre Passe Muraille). Ardal’s character from You Fancy Yourself returns as a teenager in this solo show (see story, this page).

Previews to Nov 13. Opens Nov 16 and runs to Dec 4, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30$35, previews $15, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

EQUUS by Peter Shaffer (Hart House Theatre).

A psychiatrist tries to understand why a boy blinded six horses. Opens Nov 12 and runs to Nov 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 27 at 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen (Alumnae Theatre). Ibsen’s 19th-century classic about an unhappily married woman is re-imagined by Judith Thompson. Opens Nov 12 and runs to Nov 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for-1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

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by Sherry J Yoon and Jay Dodge (Harbourfront World Stage). PerformñPhotog ance group Boca del Lupo looks at the life of

war photographer Thomas Smith in this multidisciplinary piece. Opens Nov 17 and runs to Nov 20, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. the Plumber by Paul O Beale (Lolita Entertainment). Affairs and family tensions strain a marriage in this comedy. Nov 12-14 at 8 pm. $30.

Fri at Westview Centennial SS (755 Oakdale); Sat at Rozz Entertainment Complex (200 Advance, Mississauga); Sun at Sir John A Macdonald CI (2300 Pharmacy). lolitaevents.com.

Private eyes by Steven Dietz (Rogue and Peasant Theatre). Suspicion and deception abounds in this comedy. Opens Nov 11 and runs to Nov 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15-$20, Sun pwyc. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, roguetheatre.org. rent by Jonathan Larson (Brampton Music Theatre). NYC artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. Nov 11-14, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 1 pm. $28, stu/srs $24. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. the state of new york v Peter Pan by Paul Koster (Kelly Aija Zemnickis). The JM Barrie classic is mixed with TV’s Law & Order to solve the murder of Wendy in this comedy. Nov 1114, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $10. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. 416-925-8898, breadandcircus.ca.

a year with frog and toad by Robert Reale and Willie Reale (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). Cheerful Frog and grumpy Toad go through the four seasons in this play for kids. Previews Nov 15-17. Opens Nov 18 and runs to Dec 30, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca.

One-nighters ChristoPher “CJ” sChneider memorial Ac-

tors and musicians tell stories and perform tributes to the late actor. Nov 16 at 7 pm. $10 sugg (proceeds to the Schneider family). The Boat, 158 Augusta. bclost@yahoo.com. gala offenbaChienne (Toronto Operetta Theatre). Selections from French operettas are performed at this gala concert. Nov 14 at 2 pm. $35. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

miss sPider – sunny day in the sunny PatCh

(Living Arts Centre). This interactive musical is based on the children’s TV series. Nov 14 at 1 and 3 pm. $15-$20. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. naked girls reading roCk n’ roll (Skin Tight Outta Sight). Members of the burlesque troupe read. Nov 14 at 7 pm. $15, couples $25.

The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. ngrrock-

nrollskintightouttasight.eventbrite.com.

off bathurst theatre distriCt marathon (TAPA). This day of plays starts ñ with The Year Of Magical Thinking at 2 pm

(Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman), The Middle Place at 4:30 pm (Theatre Passe Muraille), dinner at the Epicure Café and Bethune Imagined at 8 pm (Factory Theatre). Nov 13 from 2 pm. $90 (includes shows and dinner).

416-596-8220, totix.ca. stoP! that’s bullying! (Kid-Safe Productions).

A girl and her friends deal with a bully at her birthday party. Nov 13 at 11 am and 1 pm. $10, child $5, family pack $25. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. 416-586-2466, kidsafeproductions.com.

Xstrata ensemble studio sChool tour

(Canadian Opera Company). Young artists present two child-friendly operas. Nov 13 at 1 pm (Isis And The Seven Scorpions) and 3:30 pm (Cinderella). $15, child $10 (per opera).

Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

Continuing

the admirable CriChton by JM Barrie

(George Brown Theatre School). A British aristocratic family and their butler are ship-

swing in the night: a vaudeville Cabaret

(Ladyluck Productions). This cabaret features burlesque, music, comedy and more. Opens Nov 14 and runs to Nov 28, Sun 7 pm. $25-$30.

Revival, 783 College. ladyluckproductions.ca.

24h of butoh and it is not butoh (Claudia Wittmann). Various artists explore the Japanese movement/performance art form for 24 hours. Nov 12-13, Fri 11:59 pm to Sat 11:59 pm. $10 or pwyc. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. claudiawittmann.ca. wait until dark by Frederick Knott (Oakville Players). A blind woman is terrorized by thugs seeking an item in her apartment. Opens Nov 11 and runs to Nov 20, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $22-$27. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy. oakvillecentre.ca. where the Credit ends... the Port began by Andrew Terry Pasieka (Eleventh House). This original play celebrates 175 years of history in the Credit River area. Nov 11-13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Fri 1 pm, Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20.

Clarke Memorial Hall, 161 Lakeshore W, Mississauga. 647-221-0027, eleventhhouse.org.

directed by Geoffrey Brumlik (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Winnipeg Jewish Theatre). At Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC (750 Spadina). To November 21. $40.50-$64.50. 416-366-7723. See Continuing, page 67. Rating: nnn

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Lenin’s embalmers mutes the laughs By JON KAPLAN

atre). This drama looks at the medical pioneer and three women in his life (see story, page 66). Previews Nov 13-17, Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm, Sun 7 pm. Opens Nov 18 and runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$40, previews $15, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

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Previewing

bethune imagined by Ken Gass (Factory The-

www.harthousEthEatrE.ca

Martin Julien (left) and Hardee T. Lineham play scientists battling to preserve Lenin’s body.

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can a body last forever?

In 1924, Soviet scientists Boris Zbar­ sky and Vladimir Vorobiov were given an impossible task by Joseph Stalin: preserve the corpse of Vladimir Lenin for eternity.

Vern Thiessen’s Lenin’s Embalmers follows the men on their mission, blending cartoony comedy with the seriousness of their efforts. In the hands of director Geoffrey Brumlik, the first act’s comedy is weak, though the scientists’ fall from grace in the second catches the proper note of tra­ gic irony.

Zbarsky (Martin Julien) and Vor­ obiov (Hardee T. Lineham) are the mismatched protagonists who argue constantly about which of them is truly the tale’s hero.

Zbarsky’s the canny politico who knows how to parlay the task into per­ sonal wealth and comfort; Vorobiov’s the academic who has all the experi­ mental knowledge to bring off the preservation. Thiessen’s clever script sometimes turns their scenes in the nnn = Recommended, memorable scenes

first half into vaudeville routines, but even with these two fine actors, Brum­ lik fails to sharpen the laughs suffi­ ciently.

The playwright uses other comic devices as well, putting the dead Len­ in (Harry Nelken, properly sardonic) onstage to comment on the action in a series of jokes.

There’s additional grim humour in the character of Stalin (the excellent, quietly steely David Fox), who ini­ tially takes council from an assistant (Steven Ratzlaff) but soon makes clear to everyone who’s in charge.

The play’s darker second half has more weight; there’s also increased underlining of the fact that the two scientists are Jews – “twice as easy to get rid of” if something goes wrong with their work.

Lineham and Julien offer nicely contrasted portraits of the scientists, especially when Stalin’s noose begins to tighten around their necks. Line­ ham’s Vorobiov becomes increasingly proud, drunken and sour, leading to a disastrous episode in a public cere­ mony with Stalin. Julien’s Zbarsky watches his life dissolve, eventually finding himself assigned to the coun­ try’s lowest circle of hell.

Together they’re a great team. Too bad the production doesn’t shape the comedy that precedes the characters’ fall.

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wrecked on a desert island in this social comedy. Runs to Nov 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666.

Beyond The Moors (Shaista Latif/Sarah Behl).

A different improvised show based on the novels of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters is performed weekly. Runs to Nov 27, Sat 8 pm. $15/show, 4-pack $50. Annex Theatre, 736 Bathurst. beyondthemoors.wordpress.com. deaTh of a salesMan by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). Albert Schultz directs a brutal but sympathetic version of Miller’s bestknown work. Joseph Ziegler’s Willy Loman is a potent mix of brash confidence and hyperbolic doubt, but it’s Ari Cohen who pushes the play to another emotional level. His passionately exhausted Biff hangs on to a tenderness that continually surprises, offering genuine heartbreak in this unsentimental production. Runs to Nov 20, Mon-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Wed and Sat 1:30 pm. $31.20-$75.33. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (Naomi Skwarna) for you, eMMy by bekky O’Neil (Quality Slippers Productions). This puppet play looks at the life and work of puppeteer Emmy Hennings. Runs to Nov 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. qualityslippers.ca.

GheTTo Klown by John Leguizamo (WestBeth Entertainment). The actor performs his solo show about his life on stage and screen. Runs to Nov 20, Mon-Sat 8 pm. $65. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, canadianstage.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. Runs to Nov 12, see website for schedule. $18, stu/srs $14.

Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca.

GlenGarry Glen ross by David Mamet (Column 13 Actors Company). Real estate salesmen struggle to survive in their cutthroat industry (see review, page 68). Runs to Nov 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $16. Unit 102 Theatre, 46 Noble. 416-536-0048, column13.org. nnn (Naomi Skwarna)

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The GreaT war: The hisTory of The villaGe of The sMall huTs, 1914-1918 by ñ Michael Hollingsworth (VideoCabaret). Holl-

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in Toronto

Conceived and directed by Sandra Laronde, and choreographed

by Sandra Laronde and Roger Sinha, Tono continues to mesmerize audiences with its celebration of the creature universally regarded as the epitome of strength, grace and beauty.

“Tono is a ravishingly beautiful dance work.

The dancers recreate a stampede that builds with excitement...absolutely stunning stretches and body twists. A wonderful achievement.”

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three Country Project: Canada, Mongolia, China

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Saturday November 13, 2010, 8 pm Betty Oliphant Theatre 400 Jarvis Street, Arts Box Office: 416 504-7529, $30 Renowned for its artistry and innovation, Red Sky is Canada's leading company that shapes contemporary world Indigenous performance in dance, theatre and music.

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A multidisciplinary exploration of a conflict photographer’s life as it flashes before his eyes. Created by Jay Dodge and Sherry J. Yoon

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PHOTOG: an imaginary look at the

uncompromising life of Thomas Smith

Boca del Lupo (Canada) Part of Fresh Ground new works, Harbourfront Centre’s national commissioning programme.

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Severe Clear

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One of the great pieces of Canadian contemporary dance... a lyrical joy from start to finish.

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Ron White’s Dr. Norman Bethune gets involved with a trio of passionate women.

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Bethune imagined looks at hot politics By JON KAPLAN BETHUNE IMAGINED written and directed

by Ken Gass, with Ron White, Fiona Byrne, Sascha Cole and Irene Poole (Factory, 125 Bathurst). Previews begin Saturday (November 13), opens November 18 and runs to December 12, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2 pm (except November 14 at 7 pm). $28-$40, some Sunday pwyc, previews $15, some rush and stu/srs tickets. 416-504-9971.

actor ron white’s discovered that it’s intimidating to play a wellknown historic figure.

As the title character in Ken Gass’s Bethune Remembered, White tackles the Canadian doctor who became a venerated hero in China, known for his medical innovations and support for socialist causes.

“I’ve played Mussolini,” he recalls, “but Bethune is a scarier character, since he’s one of us, a Johnny Canuck born in Gravenhurst who went on to champion the cause of socialized medicine in Canada.”

In his costume, with moustache and glasses, he looks strikingly like Bethune in 1936, just before he went off to Spain and established the world’s first mobile blood transfusion unit. Two years later, he travelled to China to fight with Communist troops against the Japanese.

But Gass’s play isn’t just about Bethune. Central to the tale are three key women in his life: his former wife, Frances Penney; his friend Marian Dale Scott; and the young, political Margaret Day, all drawn to Bethune’s flame.

“That flame was a powerful one,” says White, whose previous stage work includes George F. Walker’s Adult Entertainment and the TV show

The Line, based on characters from Walker’s Suburban Motel series. “Women gravitated toward the charismatic Bethune because he was so passionate, so on fire, so smart. When he talked to you, you knew you were the only person in the room.”

Self-confident to an astounding degree, Bethune dealt with his tuberculosis by operating on himself when Canadian doctors refused to recognize modern European techniques.

The play’s women, all attracted to him sexually, all fit into a different part of the alluring physician’s life.

“Frances was his first love, an apolitical aristocrat whose beliefs were so different from Bethune’s. He married and divorced her twice, but their affection never died. It’s like the song says: ‘The first cut is the deepest.’”

Marian, a painter and the wife of poet Frank Scott, was Bethune’s closest friend; they shared an interest in art as well as politics.

“She might have been more to him, but she was held back by her morals and the constant internal war between what she had and what she wanted.”

Finally, the young Margaret understood Bethune’s revolutionary drive.

“But she also wanted to lose her virginity to him. It’s not by chance that he was often attracted to those who cared about society, who wanted to challenge the status quo.

“Yet despite his fascination with all three women, they end up rejecting him. It’s as if each learns what she can from him before realizing that Bethune’s life is too chaotic, too restless for a permanent connection with anyone.”

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ence in total darkness, then reveals fast-paced, highly-stylized, comedic vignettes about Canada’s involvement in World War One. The cast, made to look like ghoulish versions of historical figures, does a stellar job of switching in and out of multiple characters, while meticulous attention to detail, use of vivid colours and fluid storytelling creates the feel of a graphic novel come to life. Limited run, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$30. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-1725, videocab.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) Hal’s KitcHeN: WHat’s BurNiNg? (Mysteriously Yours). A famous chef seeks the perfect menu in this interactive mystery. Runs to Dec 31, Fri-Sat 8 pm (dinner from 6:30 pm); see website for other times. $43-$83. 2026 Yonge.

416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

KosHer lutHeraNs by William Missouri Downs (TEATRON Theatre). A Jewish couple pose as Lutherans to adopt a young woman’s baby. Runs to Nov 21, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416781-5527, teatrontheatre.com. leNiN’s emBalmers by Vern Thiessen (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Two scientists chosen to immortalize Lenin gain influence in this absurdist dark comedy (see review, page 64).

Runs to Nov 21, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mats Wed and Sat 2 pm (see website for other days and times). $40.50-$64.50. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com. NNN (JK) tHe middle Place by Andrew Kushnir (Theatre Passe Muraille). Based on Project: Humanity interviews, the stories of homeless youth are brought to the stage. Runs to Nov 13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca.

PiNKalicious, tHe musical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Dec 29, Sat 11 am and 1 pm, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

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by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott (Mirvish). .

This musical adaptation of the 1994 movie about two drag queens and a transexual who travel in the titular bus through Australia’s outback features some strong performances, eye-popping designs and familiar pop tunes (heavy on 70s disco). Sadly, the unfabulous book skimps on character and merely acts as a bridge between production numbers. Tony Sheldon adds warmth and realness to Berna-

dette, his transsexual of a certain age, and the other performers have the pipes and physicality to show off the show’s best asset: the candy-coloured costumes. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $20$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) a raisiN iN tHe suN by Lorraine Hansberry (Soulpepper). There’s nothing emotionally dated in Hansberry’s 1959 play about a black family in a Chicago tenement who each have a chance to live their dreams thanks to an insurance cheque. Director Weyni Mengesha’s moving production features some fine performances, especially those by Abena Malika

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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

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Company presents classical Chinese dances with choreography by Yan Lam. Nov 13 at 7 pm. $22. City Playhouse Theatre, 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. 905-470-9914, chinesedance.com. ciNderella National Ballet of Canada presents James Kudelka’s interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev’s fairy-tale ballet. Opens Nov 11 and runs to Nov 20, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun (and Nov 18) 2 pm. $25-$210.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet. ca. reVolutioN Monster Feelings presents choreography by Sebastian Mena performed by Zion Lee, Joseph Gonsalves, Ami Spears, Hanna Kiel and others. Nov 11-13 at 8 pm. $15. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. 416-367-1800.

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Mamet on fast-forward Glengarry Glen ross needs gentler pacing to add tension By NAOMI SKWARNA GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet, directed by Jonah Allison (Column 13). At Unit 102 Theatre (46 Noble). To November 13. $16. 416-536- 0048. See Continuing, page 65. Rating: NNN

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glengarry glen ross, the play that launched a thousand theatre school applications, is back in a nofrills production by local indie company Column 13. David Mamet’s portrait of Chicago real estate men involved in a racket gone wrong is as quick and dark as ever, although this production’s feverish pace does little to bring out the subtleties in the script.

Yes, Mamet dialogue is bloody and violent and unstoppable, but the staccato rhythm pops all the more if you give it a few air holes.

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The production lacks polish in a fairly conscious way, so it’s the intention of Column 13 that it not be as smooth as Soulpepper’s recently remounted Glengarry. Still, mandated “rawness” should not preclude coherence. The brokers are sloppy; the acting shouldn’t be.

This is caused in part by the tenor of Jonah Allison’s direction, which front-loads the emotional outbursts.

For much of the first act, three of the six characters shout and slap the inverted, L-shaped bar – a terrible piece of scenography that the actors try their damndest to work around. It’s the quieter, creeping moments between Richard Roma (Brandon Tho­ mas) and a mostly silent Lingk (Rob­ ert Bellissimo) that resonate.

The second act (no intermission) picks up considerably, several of the

performances taking on real authority. Thomas’s dandyish, racist Roma smarms up the stage, while the others perspire and collar-tug, effectively putting the douche in fiduciary.

Allison does double duty as Shelley Levene, the most pathetic guy on the floor, and if he struggles to find his footing in the first act, he gains confidence in the second. For a moment, you can almost see the salesman he could’ve been, might’ve been, but will never actually be.

“Always be closing,” says Mamet, and Column 13 has commendably taken that dictum to heart. But with a calmer tread and more articulated setting, the production would feel less like it’s racing to close and more like something set loose.

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L.A. – is silly without being witty. A narrator (Aaron Walpole) keeps popping in to remind us that we’re watching a cheesy musical.

Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You have affection for the genre, but RoA mocks it, which leaves a nasty aftertaste. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, 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) ROUTES by Collin Doyle (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). A boy deals with violence in his home, school and community.

Runs to Nov 18, see website for schedule. $15$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca.

SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell (Stage West). A frustrated English housewife goes on a wild Greek vacation. Runs to Nov 21, TueSun 6:30 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $46$80 (includes buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga.

905-238-0042, stagewest.com.

SPENT by Michele Smith, Dean Gilmour, Ravi Jain and Adam Paolozza (Theatre Smith-Gilmour/TheatreRUN/Why Not Theatre). Bay Street traders find a changed world with the economic crash and, in a series of fantasy episodes, discover what it means to be without. A fine blend of clown, physical comedy and sharp satire on the world’s self-impressed movers and shakers make this show one of the liveliest in town. Runs to Nov 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $18-$28, stu/srs $15-$24, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

NNNN (JK) STEAM HEAT – A FOSSE CELEBRATION (Curtain Call Players). This revue pays tribute to the song and dance stylings of Bob Fosse. Runs to Nov 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Nov 7 and 13 at 2 pm. $24. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-703-6181, curtaincallplayers.com.

TI JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS by Derek Walcott (Theatre @ York). Three brothers in a tropical forest encounter the devil in this fable about colonialism. Runs to Nov 13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $17, stu/srs $12. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio.

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UNITY (1918) by Kevin Kerr (Ryerson Theatre

School). A small town in Saskatchewan is hit with the Spanish Flu after WWI. Runs to Nov 13, see website for schedule. $18, stu/srs $14.

Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca.

VOICE-BOX by Julia Aplin, Anna Chatterton and Juliet Palmer (World Stage/urbanvessel). This multi-arts piece uses music, movement and boxing to look at perceptions of aggression in women. Runs to Nov 14, ThuSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$35. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Brigantine Room.

416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

WICKED by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (Mirvish). This musical about the land of Oz before Dorothy tells the back story of Elphaba, later the Wicked Witch of the West, and Galinda, later Glinda the Good. This touring production could be stronger in some supporting roles, and Chandra Lee Schwartz’s Galinda is better with comic than serious moments, but she and Jackie Burns’s splendid Elphaba capture the vital magic between the two witches. Runs to Nov 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$129.

Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) WIDE AWAKE HEARTS by Brendan Gall (Tarragon Theatre). A suspicious producer casts his wife and his best friend as lovers.

Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$44, rush $10. 30 Bridgman.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK by Stephen Mallatratt (East Side Players). An estate lawyer deals with demons from a case involving a mysterious widow in this ghost story. Runs to Nov 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca.

THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion (Tarragon Theatre). A woman deals with the sudden loss of her husband and child. Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2:30 pm. $23-$44, rush $10. 30 Bridgman.

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Thursday, November 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Simon Rakoff,

Geoff MacKay and host Sam Demaris. To Nov 14, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents Next Big Thing, new and veteran improvisers perform scenes.

8 pm. The Jam, an open improv jam session.

9:15 pm. $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Andre Arruda, Chris Kerley, Heather Nassler, Dale Cotnam, Jill Knight, Josh Rachlis, Kenny Molotov, Michael Black, K Trevor Wilson and host Todd Van Allen. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698.

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YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Sean Tweedly. To Nov 14, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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pm. $10-$12. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Better Than Nothing (David Boyce, Angela Brown). 9 pm.

Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

HAIRCUT Bread & Circus presents Greg Choicej and others. 10 pm. $10. 299 Augusta. 416336-3399, breadandcircus.ca.

THE PICONG SHOW Hodgepodge Productions presents a comedy benefit for CKLN Fund Fest w/ host Jean Paul. 8:30 pm. $15. The Hideaway, 538 Danforth. 647-504-3118.

SEX WITH JEREMY Comedy Bar presents longform improv w/ the Jeremy Birrell Show, Sex T-Rex, Kerry Griffin and others. 10:30 pm. $5.

945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle presents stand-up w/ Deb Robinñ son, Andre Arruda, host Xerxes Cortez and

others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com.

TOKE & JOKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. Free.

66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Gord Paynter.

To Nov 13, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20.

70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Ron Vaudry. To Nov 13, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Saturday, November 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents Theatresports,

competitive improv. 8 pm. Key Party, sexy comedy with real and fake couples. 10 pm. $10-$12 each. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

BRIAN REGAN Live Nation presents the standup comic in a live show. 7 pm. $46.50. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-8708000.

LAST STOP COMEDY Fitzgerald’s Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comedy with people talking loudly and hosts Jordan Foisy and Matt Shury.

9 pm. Pwyc. 2298 Queen E. 416-698-8588.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 11.

TOUCH MY STEREOTYPE Comedy Bar presents

videos, sketches, songs and improv w/ Anna Sudac, Dan Ramos, Jonathan Shatzky, Chantale Renee and others. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 12.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 12.

Sunday, November 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11.

GHOST JAIL THEATRE Clinton’s presents weekly

improv, monologues and more. 7:30 pm. $5$6. 693 Bloor W. ghostjail.com.

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.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Talent Show, w/ Tim Gilbert, the Gurg, Pat Thornton,

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Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 11.

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.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

Monday, November 15

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Winter wonder ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter

ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Nile

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Seguin, Darren Frost, Allison Dore, Joel Buxton, Ben Iscoe, Barry Taylor, Andrew Chapman, MC Nick Beaton and others. 9 pm. Pwyc.

332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

A DARE TO REMEMBER: PAT THORNTON’S 24-HOUR STAND-UP SHOW Comedy Bar

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for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. To Nov 16, from Mon 6 pm to Tue 6 pm. $5 come-and-go wristband. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.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.

Tuesday, November 16 A DARE TO REMEMBER: PAT THORNTON’S 24-HOUR STAND-UP SHOW See Mon 15. ñ I HEART JOKES Evan Desmarais presents weekly comedy and fun. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 11.

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, November 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/

Sam Demaris, Danny Bruzzi, Thomas Calnan, Mary-Anne Gibson, Travis Albers, Dale Cotnam and host Tony Deyo. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, 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 weekly variety show. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Rene Robichaud, Brendon Chan, Stephen Greene, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.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.

LAUGH FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Toronto Green Community presents a comedy benefit starring Kenny Robinson. 7:30 pm. $20. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. 416-781-7663, torontogreen.ca.

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the old saw has it that you should write what you know. But if Annabel is any indication, a gifted writer doesn’t have to.

Author Kathleen Winter is not a transsexual and has never had an intersexed moment in her life. Yet she sheds a bright light on what it’s like to be born a hermaphrodite.

It’s 1968 in the small port of Labrador’s Croyden Harbour. When Jacinta gives birth to her baby, she can tell from her friend Thomasina’s reaction that something about the little creature is different. Turns out her newborn has the genitals of both sexes.

Jacinta’s husband, the trapper Treadway, is determined to bring the child up as a boy – and to keep his con-

dition a secret from the child and society. So Wayne grows up different, with feminine characteristics he eventually disguises through massive doses of hormones.

But he dreams of being girl (this other self he calls “Annabel”), loves the synchronized swimmers, wants their bathing suits, dances by himself in his room and makes a strong emotional connection with an artistic girl his age. His parents keep his condition a secret from him until he’s way into his teens.

If this book were about the life of a trapper in Labrador it would be fascinating.

Winter goes into deep and vivid detail about Treadway’s six-month journeys into the wild and the toll it takes on his wife back home.

But this is a story about gender, written at a time when the issue has become deeply politicized within a sometimes fractious movement. The beauty of Annabel is that you’d never know it. Winter writes from her gut and couldn’t care less if she’s politically correct.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, November 11 DIEGO BERGIA Book and exhibit launch. 7-10 pm. Free. Magic Pony, 694 Queen W. 416-8611684, magic-pony.com.

JOY FIELDING/ROBERT J WIERSEMA Taking about their new books. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

LYNDA FISHMAN Talk. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8973.

HARRY KARLINSKY Launch. 6:30 pm. $5. Workman Hall, 651 Dufferin. tinats.ca.

ROBERT J WIERSEMA Launch. 8:30 pm-1 am.

Free. Pilot, 22 Cumberland. 416-923-5716.

Friday, November 12 CANADA AND THE MAKING OF THE BOMB Peter

van Wyck, Julie Salverson and others. 8-10:30 pm. Free. Of Swallows, Their Deeds and the Winter Below, 283 College. 416-534-5173.

GRANT LAWRENCE Launch with performances by Jill Barber and Matthew Barber.

8-10 pm. Free. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

LEAH STINSON/ROBERT PRIEST/ADEBE D.A.

Poetry. 8 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org.

Saturday, November 13 BOHEMIAN EMBASSY POETRY CAFE Honey Novick and others plus an open mic. 8-10:30 pm. $5. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. bohemianembassy.wordpress.com.

KAROLYN SMARDZ FROST Talking about her book I’ve Got A Home In Glory Land. 2 pm.

Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Sunday, November 14 LITERARY BRUNCH Charlotte Gray, Roméo Dallaire, Deborah Cadbury and Arthur Ainsberg.

10 am. $45. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. Preregister 416-361-0032.

IRIS NOWELL Music, books, animated film and paintings. 2 pm. $5. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635, tinars.ca.

Monday, November 15 JIM CARROLL “GHOST” LAUNCH Musical and film tribute to the late author/poet, with John

IN PERSON Except for Wikipedia itself, nothing or no one else has expressed the value of the “wiki” concept more vividly than Don Tapscott. In Wikinomics, co-authored with Anthony D. Williams, he explains how mass collaboration is changing the way business and individuals compete and succeed.

Their follow-up, MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business And The World ($34, Penguin), has yet more examples of how cooperation trumps competition every time.

Tapscott discusses these ideas at Indigo on Monday (November 15).

SGC See Readings, this page.

As specific as the subject is, she’s adept at conveying universal truths about human cruelty. And the transformations of the people in the novel – Treadway’s, in particular – reveal a writer in absolute control of character development.

No wonder Annabel is on the short lists of all three of the country’s major SUSAN G. COLE fiction prizes.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

L’Ecuyer. 9 pm. No cover. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, tinars.ca.

QUATTRO FALL LAUNCH Reinhard Filter, Retina Greenand others. 7 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

DON TAPSCOTT Discussion. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, November 16 LOCAL MOTION: THE ART OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

IN TORONTO Launch. 8 pm. $5. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. chbooks.com.

MARK MCEWAN Discussion. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

KAREN PALMER Launch. 7 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-361-0032.

Wednesday, November 17 FRANÇOIS BARCELO Talk. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535.

PAUL HEADRICK/MIKE KNOX/STEVE MCOR-

MOND Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.wordpress.com.

MAUREEN JENNINGS Talking about her Murdoch mystery series. 6:30 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

KATE TAYLOR Talk. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7696.

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William Kentridge’s What Will Come (Has Already Come) plays with stop-motion animated charcoal drawings, part of Diabolique at Oakville Galleries.

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Pointed politics Diabolique is devilishly smart By FRAN SCHECHTER DIABOLIQUE at Oakville Galleries

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(Centennial Square, 120 Navy; Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore East), to November 14. 905-844-4402. Rating:

NNNN political art comes to suburbia in this show about war and violence from Regina’s Dunlop Art Gallery featuring work by 20-plus Canadian and international artists.

Videos dominate at Gairloch Gardens, including Emanuel Licha’s War Tourist series, Vancouverite Matilda Aslizadeh’s fantasy on Western child soldiers, and a segment from Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men. The show’s Saskatchewan touchstone, David Garneau’s painting from an autopsy photo of a First Nation’s youth whose frozen body was found after a police beating, and War Skull, YBAers Jake & Dinos Chapman’s cer-

amic Grand Guignol head crawling with bugs, are also at Gairloch.

Among the fireworks at Centennial, a wall of works on paper includes powerful Vietnam-era drawings by

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ñ ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Sculpture:

Abraham Anghik Ruben, to Dec 23. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-895-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Prints: William Kentridge, to Nov 21. Installation: Allyson Mitchell, to Nov 28 (Young Gallery, free). Mixed media: Shary Boyle, to Dec 5. Film/painting: Julian Schnabel; photos: The Grange Prize; sculpture/painting: Eva Hesse, Betty Goodwin and Agnes Martin, to Jan 2, 2011. Sculpture/drawing: Henry Moore, to Feb 6, 2011.

Inuit Modern, to Feb 13, 2011. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY

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Video/performance/photos: Terrance Houle, to Dec 5. 4700 Keele, Accolade East bldg. 416-736-5169.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Juno Sole: Celebrating 40 Years Of The Juno Awards, to Nov 30.

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).

905-828-3789.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Bruce Mau, to Nov 14.

Canstruction (benefit for Daily Bread Food Bank), to Nov 14. Constructions: Contemporary Norwegian Design & Craft, Nov 17-Jan 23, 2011. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

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

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Breaking Boundaries group show, to Jan ñ 30, 2011. Hot Commodity: Chinese Blue And

White Porcelain, to Jan 9, 2011. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, to Nov 28. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Painting: Bruno Bobak, to Dec 5. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution Of The Group Of Seven, to Jan 30, 2011. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8, 2011. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA Installation: David Hoffos, to Dec 31.

952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/ drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-6037591.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Diabolique group show, to Nov 14. Centennial Sq, 120 Navy; Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

THE POWER PLANT Shawn Micallef, walking tour 3 pm Nov 14. 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.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Institute for Contemporary Culture: painting/sculpture: El Anatsui; Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to Jan 2, 2011.

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; Position As Desired/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27, 2011. Painting: Jane Ash

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NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Howard Lonn, Nov 11-Dec 4, reception 6-8 pm Nov 11.

451 King W. 416-205-9000.

OCADU Whodunit? Mystery Art Sale, Nov 17-19, preview noon-6 pm, gala auction ($150) 6:30-10 pm Nov 17. Made Well/ Handmade: material art and design students, to Nov 15. 100 McCaul. 416-9776000.

PIERRE LÉON GALLERY Photos: Marikel Lahana, Nov 11-Dec 16. 24 Spadina Rd. 416922-2194 ext 35.

P|M GALLERY Painting: Amanda Reeves, to Nov 20. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

SHOW & TELL GALLERY Painting: Brian Donnelly and Winnie Truong, to Nov 28. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Elliot Erwitt, Nov 13-Jan 15, 2011. 1026 Queen W. 416-5040575.

TORONTO FREE GALLERY Video installation (SAVAC): Debashis Sinha, to Dec 4. 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461.

253469 Performance/exhibit: Istvan Kantor, to Nov 28. 1267 Bloor W. 416-6539919.

XPACE Cavalcade, Odds And Entries, Technicolor Dreambox, Nov 12-Dec 11, reception 7 pm Nov 12. 58 Ossington. 416-849-2864.

YYZ Installation/prints: Hadley + Maxwell and Barbara Balfour, to Dec 11. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

Poitras, to Sep 1, 2011. $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Drawing With Scissors: Molas From Kuna Yala, to Feb 13, 2011. Sculpture: Kai Chan, to May 1, 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.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Sculpture: Kai Chan, to Jan 30, 2011. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main. 905477-9511.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE Video: MidLife Shelf Life (Vtape), 7 pm Nov 15. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

CLARK & FARIA Installation: Derek Liddington, Nov 12-Dec 22, performance/reception 7-10 pm Nov 12, performance/artist’s talk 2 pm Nov 14. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-7031700.

CLINT ROENISCH Painting/sculpture: Sylvain Bouthillette, to Nov 20. 944 Queen W. 416516-8593.

CORKIN GALLERY Installation/photos: Ramón Serrano and Fred W McDarrah, Nov 12-Dec 22, reception 6-8 pm Nov 12. 55 Mill. 416-979-1980.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Sculpture: Kim Adams and James Carl, to Nov 20. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

FIRST CANADIAN PLACE Painting: Jennifer Walton and Nada Sesar-Raffay, Nov 16-Jan 14, 2011. Sculpture: Gord Smith, to Nov 12.

1 First Canadian Pl. GALLERY 44 Photos: Paul Butler and Lynne Heller, to Nov 27, tour 1 pm Nov 13. Photos: Amanda Strong, to Nov 27. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

GALLERY TPW Performance environment: Zeesy Powers, Nov 12-13, performance 8 pm Nov 12. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066.

KATHARINE MULHERIN Painting: Mike Bayne, to Nov 21. 1082 Queen W. 416-9936510.

LITTLE ART SHOW Silent auction of 8-by-10 works, 7-11 pm Nov 13. $35. Mercedes-

New York feminist Nancy Spero, weird comics-style works by California eccentric Raymond Pettibon, Balint Zsako’s elegant ink drawings exploring the connection between

the male body and weapons, and Scott Waters’s paintings of military hardware on romance book covers.

On video, Rebecca Belmore forcefully pounds nails into a slightlysmaller-than-coffin-sized board covered in camo fabric, while a nailfree camo-covered board standing upright in the gallery resembles a gravestone.

For those wishing for more William Kentridge, the big thrill is What Will Come (Has Already Come), his 2007 film projected from the ceiling onto a circular table with a mirrored cylinder in the centre.

Stop-motion animated charcoal drawings move in merry-go-round fashion around the table, a metaphor for the circular nature of war and history.

Kentridge’s current preoccupations, 20th-century political conflicts and play with perception, take the form, in this case, of the 1935 Italian-Abyssinian war and anamorphism, a Leonardo invention in which distorted images resolve into readable ones in a mirror held at a right angle to the picture surface.

Seeing the drawings become more or less elongated and their reflections alter as you change position offers a much richer and more personal experience than you get watching his work on YouTube.

And emerging into sleepy, affluent Oakville after these meditations on carnage might add another layer of meaning.

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Zhao Tao wanders through Shanghai in I Wish I Knew.

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Zhang-ke, with Zhao Tao, Han Han, Chen Dan-qing and Rebecca Pan. A filmswelike release. 118 minutes. Subtitled.

Opens today (Thursday, November 11).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

the last time i talked to jia Zhang-ke, he was in Beijing editing I Wish I Knew. Nine months later, he’s brought his melancholy documentary to the Toronto Film Festival, so we get to sit down face to face.

Speaking through a translator in a pleasantly cluttered nook in the offices of distributor filmswelike, Jia and I discuss his impressionistic approach to the documentary medium. His previous picture, 24 City, mixed inter-

views with actual residents of the factory town of Chengdu with recognizable actors playing the parts of residents. I Wish I Knew uses its subjects to paint a larger picture of a culture.

“Everyone is hurt by history in China, so Shanghai becomes a stage to act that out,” Jia says. “China’s past resonates with everyone in China, so the themes that they deal with are themes that everyone in China can relate to – themes of loss and hurt.

“Yet for every single person, Shanghai is a different place and has a different history. Making I Wish I Knew was my way of reimagin-

ing Shanghai for myself – looking at its history through the depiction of hurt, loss and disappearance.”

Jia made the movie as a commission for this year’s Shanghai World Expo. The announcement of the project turned a few heads, since his first four films had run into problems with government censorship.

He assures me there were no such issues this time around: “I had complete freedom and artistic reign over the project. I did everything I wanted to do and told everything I wanted to tell.”

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Jia Zhang-ke follows the docu-fiction hybrid of 24 City with a more conventional documentary project exploring the tangled history of the port city of Shanghai – but of course he’s really considering the political and cultural legacies of China as a whole. (It’s his thing.)

Tracking some 160 years of change and upheaval – and paying special attention to the damage wrought by Mao’s Cultural Revolution – Jia weaves archival images and interviews with witnesses into an involving tapestry, breaking up the action with shots of long-time muse Zhao Tao wandering through the city as it exists now.

The theatrical release version runs 20 minutes shorter than the cut that played the Toronto Film Festival.

That’s an overall positive; the longer cut lost its shape in its final third, whereas this version moves with NW more confidence.

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was offer his fellow citizens a chance to publicly confront elements of their shared past – specifically the fall of Shanghai to the Communist People’s Liberation Army in 1949, and the Cultural Revolution that devastated the nation from 1966 to 1976. That doesn’t happen very often in China, at least not openly.

“In public and on the record, people are still very quiet about those events,” he says, “but individually, one - on- one ,

people always talk about them. That’s always been the case. My mission with a film like this is to turn the conversation from a private one to a public one. After 1949, there were people from Taiwan talking about this event and people in Hong Kong talking about this event and people in China talking about this event. I wanted to combine all these voices – this plurality – into a single work.”

And now that he’s given those voices a movie, Jia’s working on his next project. This one’s a little different.

“I’m preparing a wuxia film set in 1905 China,” he says. “I’m writing the script right now. It’s complete fiction – but it also depicts China at a time of change. There’s lots of thievery and action and fight sequences, but it’s based on the same themes of loss and disappearance.”

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Films are Reel deal reel asian Festival screens rare movies from all over the continent ToronTo reel aSian inTernaTional Film FeSTiVal (at Innis Town Hall and other locations), to Wednesday (November 17). reelasian.com.

Golden Slumber (Yoshihiro Naka-

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mura, Japan). 139 minutes. Subtitled. Friday (November 12), 10 pm, Royal. Rating: nnnn

Imagine Oliver Stone’s JFK locked down to the point of view of Lee Harvey Oswald and played as a bone-dry comedy.

That’s Golden Slumber, Yoshihiro Nakamura’s follow-up to his equally unclassifiable Fish Story. It could play as an action movie or a political thriller, but instead it’s an absurdist character study.

Unassuming delivery man Aoyagi (Masato Sakai) finds himself framed for the murder of the prime minister of Japan and flees through the streets of Sendai. Fortunately, he knows all the best routes, so he can keep ahead of the authorities while looking up old friends in a bid to figure a way out of his predicament. One of the nicest people he meets in his adventure is the serial killer who’s been terrorizing the city, which is par for the course in Nakamura’s oddball universe. norman Wilner

THe mounTain THieF (Gerry Balasta, Philippines/U.S.). 78 minutes. Subtitled.

Saturday (November 13), 5 pm, Innis Town Hall. Rating: nnn

Gerry Balasta’s debut feature relies on a gimmicky narrative technique to build tension, but it gains a lot from its disturbing setting and the use of non-actors.

Julio (Randy Catonjay) is a Filipino widower who’s left his war-torn town to travel north to Manila’s Payatas area, which, according to the credits, is the world’s largest dump-site town.

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There, he and his sight-impaired son (Richard Casas) join a community of scavengers, sifting through the trash for salvageable items. A clash with the group’s religion-spouting bully alters everyone’s lives.

Shots of the acres of garbage are overwhelming, serving as a powerful metaphor for society’s disenfranchised. Almost as effective are the raw, open performances by some of the actors, who all live in the dump-site community. Stay for the closing credits to see their heartbreaking life stories and how you can contribute to the Mount Glenn Sumi Hope Project.

ToileT (Naoko Ogigami, Japan). 109 minutes. Saturday (November 13), 7:15 pm, Innis Town Hall. Rating: nn Naoko Ogigami’s Toilet is a stiff, mannered tale of three half-Japanese siblings (Alex House, Tatiana Maslany and David Rendall) coping with their mother’s death and the uncomfortable presence of their silent Japanese grandmother (Masako Motai).

There’s certainly curiosity value here – and not just because it was shot in Toronto (posing once again as Anywhere, USA) and performed entirely in English. It’s a tonal curiosity, too, with Ogigami evidently trying to crossbreed Ozu’s spare, intimate dramas with Wes Anderson’s arch characterization. It’s an intriguing proposition, but in practice it’s stilted and precious. nW

dear docTor (Miwa Nishikawa, Japan).

127 minutes. Subtitled. Sunday (November 14), 2 pm, Innis Town Hall. Rating: nnn

Miwa Nishikawa’s drama studies the response of a village community to the revelation that its resident doctor (Tsurube Shofukutei) has no medical training or certification. As news of a

police investigation spreads through town, Dr. Ino’s patients must decide whom to believe – the officials, with their self-important posturing, or the man who’s been treating them respectfully for three years.

The muted dramatic tone seems at odds with the story being told.

This is, after all, a film about a horrific betrayal of trust; Ino has literally taken patients’ lives into his unqualified hands. But Nishikawa wants to tell the story in a different way, examining the nature of Ito’s deception and the way his presence has affected his village, for good and ill.

It’s not exactly triumphant cinema, but it’s never less than interesting.

It’s taken more than two years for Kisses to land a local release after playing the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, and for the life of me I can’t understand why.

Lance Daly’s intimate tale of a pair of Irish tweens is the easiest sell I can imagine, especially in the wake of films like John Carney’s Dublin-set romance, Once and Simon Reynolds and Ingrid Veninger’s Only, which followed two children over the most important day of their lives.

Kisses is solidly in the same vein, charting a similarly crucial span of time for young neighbours Kylie (Kelly O’Neill) and Dylan (Shane Curry), who

flee their grim home lives to spend an eventful Christmastime night wandering through Dublin together. Beautifully shot in both black-and-white and colour – and on 35mm film rather than HD video – it’s a gentle, delicately stylized tale that nicely suits the perspective of two kids trying to cope with a world they don’t yet understand.

Daly crams a lot of incidents into his economical running time, including a subplot about a serial killer who may or may not be an urban legend and an odd cameo by Stephen Rea as the world’s least likely Bob Dylan impersonator.

The vignettes shouldn’t fit together, but somehow they do – as if we were watching the adult Kylie and Dylan’s impressionistic memories of an adventure that’s stayed with them for decades.

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Taiwan/U.S.). 85 minutes. Subtitled. Sunday (November 14), 8 pm, Royal. Rating: nnnn

Reel Asian’s closing-night gala is a charming hybrid, part romance, part caper and tons of fun, all set in the bustling night-time streets and hidden-away shops of modern Taipei.

The lovelorn Kai (Jack Yoo) wants to go to Paris to visit his ex-girlfriend, so he borrows money from a gangster and gets drawn into a plot involving a mysterious package, a group of wannabe hoods and two contrasting cops. Also along for the wild ride is Susie (Amber Kuo), who works at the bookstore where Kai’s been trying to learn French to impress his ex.

San Francisco-born Arvin Chen apprenticed to late, great Taiwanese director Edward Yang, and he shows a Yang-like empathy for all his characters. The film is beautifully shot and expertly cast, and the atmospheric, jazzy score helps maintain its GS whimsical tone.

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Rachel McAdams (left), Diane Keaton and Harrison Ford play in the harmless but vapid Morning Glory.

tV journalism comedy

Fun with Ford morninG Glory (Roger Michell). 106 minutes. Now playing. For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: nnn Is there anyone better at playing cranky, self-righteous pricks than Harrison Ford? It seems like a weird market to corner – especially with Tommy Lee Jones still at large – but there you go.

Morning Glory casts Ford as an aging Dan Rather-type newshound forced to take a gig co-hosting a struggling New York morning show. Rachel McAdams is the 28-year-old executive producer who brings him aboard.

Diane Keaton plays the vain has-been with whom he must now share a desk.

It’s pleasant enough fluff – particularly during a lively midsection when McAdams starts putting her talent in

increasingly absurd situations to boost ratings – but nothing more. And the ending’s based on a phony moral crisis that plays like some Bizarro-universe version of Broadcast News where William Hurt’s vapid anchorman is the hero rather than a cancer at the heart of American television journalism.

Roger Michell, whose previous mass-market entertainments include Notting Hill and Changing Lanes, doesn’t want us to think about that.

He goes big. Ford scowls like a pro – his face is probably frozen like that at this point – and McAdams smiles more in this picture than she has in her entire off-camera life.

Aline Brosh McKenna’s script focuses on their father-daughter relationship to the exclusion of Keaton’s character, who’s not part of the Astory. But neither is Patrick Wilson as McAdams’s disposable love interest, so at least Keaton has some company on norman Wilner the sidelines.

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DANNY BOYLE iS gOiNg tO tESt YOUR ENDURANcE

By NORMAN WILNER

Photo by MICHAEL WATIER 127 Hours directed by Danny Boyle, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Boyle based on the book by Aron Ralston, with James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara and Clémence Poésy. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release. 94 minutes.

Opens Friday (November 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

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i’m meeting danny boyle for lunch in the Park Hyatt Hotel in the middle of the Toronto Film Festival whirlwind. When I get there first, I’m escorted to a table for six with only two place settings. Arriving moments later, Boyle looks at the space quizzically.

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I can’t help myself. “Is this what happens when you win the Oscar?”

“Don’t you start,” says the director of Slumdog Millionaire, laughing. “It follows you around forever more. Especially when they start publicizing the film, because they always use ‘Oscar winner!’ They use it now in front of your name. You no longer have your name, it’s like your name’s not relevant. You’re Oscar Winner!”

This is the fourth time I’ve interviewed Boyle, and I’ll be honest: I really like the guy. He’s a terrific filmmaker, and he’s always a great interview – exuberant, effusive, energetic.

The fact that he sounds exactly like my brother-in-law Pete probably helps the bonding, too.

Boyle’s back at TIFF with his new

film, 127 Hours, a true-life survival story starring James Franco as Aron Ralston, who spent five days with his hand trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon before amputating his own arm. It’s an unlikely follow-up to a crowd-pleaser like Slumdog Millionaire, but then that’s the point: Boyle knew if he didn’t make it now, it’d probably never happen.

“It doesn’t matter how much people say he’s an inspirational figure,” Boyle says between bites of an heirloom tomato salad. (It takes me four times as long to eat mine, and he’s doing most of the talking.)

“From the hard perspective of the studio, they would never normally make a film like this, unless it was a vanity project for, you know, a big

movie star or” – he pauses and grins – “someone who’d just won an Oscar.”

That right there, the self-deprecating honesty, is why I’m so fond of Boyle. He’s telling the stories he wants to tell the way he wants to tell them, and if they end up clicking with the public, as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Slumdog did, that’s great. And if the click isn’t there – as happened with A Life Less Ordinary, The Beach, Millions and Sunshine – he accepts that judgment and starts work on something else.

He loves all his projects, he tells me.

It’s just that you can’t make people see a movie they don’t want to see.

“Sunshine nobody went to see,” he says of his misunderstood 2007 space odyssey, which cast Cillian

Murphy and Rose Byrne as astronauts on a suicide mission to reignite our dying star. “You couldn’t do anything to get anybody to see that movie. On Slumdog, you couldn’t do anything to stop people watching it.

It’s so bizarre, you know – it’s so weird the way it all works. So I don’t bother any more – I just speak to everybody exactly the same about everything,” he laughs.

This film will be an easier sell than the ambitious Sunshine, given its simple, easily understood pitch – and the buzz from the TIFF screenings, where some audience members fainted during Franco’s grisly farewell to arm.

“They were all fine eventually,”

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Danny Boyle gets in James Franco’s face while directing 127 Hours.

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You wouldn’t expect a filmmaker as kinetic as Danny Boyle to make a movie about a man trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon – but the conceptual challenge is probably what drew him to the material in the first place.

Telling the story of Aron Ralston, who battled dehydration and desperation for the eponymous span of time before hitting on a particularly horrible solution, Boyle brings his usual flair to the action, jumping into flashbacks, fantasies and hallucinations to give the movie some shape.

It’s the cinematic equivalent of restless leg syndrome, but it serves to convey Ralston’s unravelling state of mind. In a compelling solo turn, James Franco turns his natural charisma and playfulness into character flaws, showing us how Ralston’s overconfidence and casual approach to mountaineering put him in harm’s way – and how he redeemed those flaws with ingenuity and a powerful will to live.

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127 Hours recounts the story of real-life survivor Aron Ralston.

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As 127 Hours takes its place in the canon of survival cinema, we recall a few other features and documentaries that tell thrilling – and terrifying – true tales.

APOLLO 13 (1995) Ron Howard’s best movie recreates the most extreme survival scenario imagin­ able: NASA’s finest struggle to rescue three astronauts trapped in a disabled capsule 200,000 miles from Earth. It’s a nail­biter from start to finish even though we know it all works out in the end.

LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997) Werner Herzog’s fascination with extreme personalities led him to Dieter Dengler, whom he interviewed at length for this documentary. A U.S. Navy pilot shot down over Cambodia during the Vietnam War, Dengler spent six months in a hellish POW camp before making a daring escape. Her­ zog revisited the story in 2006’s Rescue Dawn, with Christian Bale as Dengler.

THE ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON’S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION (2000) The mixture of sorrow and resolve in Liam Neeson’s narration sets the tone for George Butler’s powerful survival documentary, a tribute to the men of the Endurance – who spent almost two years trapped in a frozen wasteland after their disastrous attempt to cross Antarctica in 1914 – through archival footage, photographs and re­enactments.

You’ll want to watch this one wrapped in several blankets, clutching a hot water bot­ tle. Preferably in August.

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Denzel Washington (left) and Chris Pine spend most of their time blabbing in the supposed action pic Unstoppable.

BEN WhEATlEy director, down terrace

Having cut his teeth directing television comedies and commercials, Ben Wheatley has broken out in a big way with Down Terrace, a micro-budget fusion of the old-fashioned English comedy of manners and new-breed British crime picture set almost entirely in a modest Brighton home. After a year on the festival circuit, his movie’s about to start its Toronto commercial run. Wheatley talks about the freedom that comes with making movies for no money and the irresolvable conflict between screenplays and real life. Down Terrace opens Friday (November 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85.

But that couldn’t have made for an easy pitch to producers. Did you struggle to get it financed?

I figured that no one would fund this, so we didn’t bother even trying (laughs). But it was written pragmatically enough that it wouldn’t cost us our houses.

And once we started making it, people became interested. But it was that initial thing of just going, “We don’t need anybody else.”

You shot the whole picture in just eight days. Isn’t that an insanely short span of time for a feature?

If you just close your eyes and hold your breath, you can do it that quick. We scheduled it to that and just did the math on the scenes and said, “Right, okay, this day we’re doing 40 shots,” and that’s the way it was. norMan Wilner

Opens Friday (November 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating:

nn I honestly don’t know why Denzel Washington keeps working with Tony Scott. Scott has a way of deadening Washington’s formidable charisma, and he doesn’t exactly offer him memorable roles. He doesn’t call the actor on that tic of his where he mumblerepeats the last few words of a sentence for extra gravity, either.

Then again, maybe Washington likes taking it easy once in a while. Certainly, Unstoppable asks little of him. He spends the bulk of the picture sitting down, arguing with Chris Pine about sacrifice and family while the two of them chase a runaway train loaded with toxic, combustible chemicals.

Well, normal for us, but it’s still odd to see movie characters acting that way.

It’s only cinema that isn’t like that. These scriptwriting bible things say that this develops and that develops; it’s all very logical. But life’s not logical at all.

The total lack of detail about the family’s criminal operations is something new for the genre.

At the end of the day, it’s just another job, isn’t it? You wouldn’t do a film about plumbers and go into endless conversations about what pipes they’re gonna use. It’s the same thing with crime films – you don’t wanna go on and on about cocaine the whole time or how they’re gonna do a robbery.

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Imagine Mike Leigh directing an episode of The Sopranos and you have some sense of the absurd appeal of Ben Wheatley’s directorial debut. It plops itself down in a Brighton household where a young man and his parents cope with the demands of everyday family life while running a criminal syndicate.

Bill (Robert Hill) and his son Karl (Robert’s real-life son Robin Hill, who also co-scripted) have just dodged a substantial prison sentence on an unspecified charge.

Stop, please Unstoppable (Tony Scott). 98 minutes.

Down Terrace plays like a bone-dry British sitcom with bipolar disorder – everyone’s enjoying a cup of tea in the front room, and then someone produces a hatchet.

The idea that you can be horrific but also kind of penitent about it and also not care at the same time – that, to me, is like family life. You can be screaming at people and laughing with them at the same time, or within a beat. And that is not psychotic behaviour; that is normal behaviour.

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They’re welcomed home by matriarch Maggie (Julia Deakin) and various well-wishers, one of whom may well have ratted them out to the coppers in the first place.

That’s hard enough to sort out, but throw in Karl’s pregnant girlfriend (Kerry Peacock) and a hit man (Michael Smiley) with a toddler in tow and things get progressively more complicated.

Wheatley keeps the movie’s tone shifting expertly throughout, and fans of Edgar Wright’s Spaced will be delighted to see Deakin and Smiley showing some real dramatic range. Like the movie itself, they’re a lot more nW complex than they first appear.

Monsters’ Scoot McNairy has zero character to work with.

ham-fisted allegory

Sad sci-fi

Monsters (Gareth Edwards). 94 minutes.

Opens Friday (November 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: nn

Remember how District 9 used the trappings of science fiction to deliver a heady allegory about race relations and South Africa’s shameful legacy of apartheid? And how Cloverfield used a hand-held camera to capture the awe and terror of a giant monster rampaging through an urban setting?

Well, if you don’t, you’ll probably be really impressed by Gareth Edwards’s Monsters, a largely hand-held sci-fi sort of thing that sends a pair of American citizens (Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able) stumbling through a Mexico infested by beasts from a crashed space probe. It’s a border-crossing

Julia Deakin and Robert Hill try to keep their crime family together in the well-executed Down Terrace.

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Right – the train. Big sucker. And thanks to the magic of workplace negligence, it’s speeding out of control toward a trestle over which it will surely plunge, its volatile cargo crashing down into the large silos of fuel oil sitting beneath, located smack in the middle of a city of tens of thousands of people. Only Washington and Pine have a chance of catching it in time.

Kind of a ridiculous premise, actually, but Unstoppable opens by telling us that its story is inspired by true events (in that there are trains, and they run on tracks, I suppose).

The movie has a certain momentum – I’ll give it that, but it’s no fun at all.

Scott plays the whole thing straight, resulting in a fast-moving but disappointingly serious disaster picture.

The train growls when it zooms past the camera, which gives us hope that proper hysteria could break out at any moment. But it never does. It never norMan Wilner does.

movie: Sin Nombre with giant space octopods.

This is very clearly a one-man production. Edwards wrote, directed, shot and designed Monsters and also takes credit for the CG animation. The movie should guarantee him a career as an effects artist; the creatures – when they appear, which is awfully infrequently – are eerily alien and nicely integrated into their surroundings.

It’s a pity Edwards isn’t able to integrate anything else into his movie, like a compelling plot, memorable dialogue or decent performances. McNairy and Able are stick figures who spend all their screen time spouting risible platitudes about how America sure looks different when you see it from the other side of a wall. I love a giant-monster movie as much as the next guy – more, probably – but even I can’t get norMan Wilner behind this.

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Boyle says, turning to the sea bass (after eyeing my salmon). “I’m really pleased how few people do faint. I think people just got through it.

People hum. I love that. I saw it with people at Telluride, and they were” – he tilts his head low and starts hum­ œcontinued from page 77

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TOUCHING THE VOID (2003) This documentary by Kevin Macdonald recreates the ordeal of mountaineers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, whose 1985 climb up the Peruvian Andes nearly killed both of them. Hanging over a crevasse in a storm, Yates had to cut an injured, slipping Simpson loose to save himself; Simpson survived the 100-foot drop and then spent three days dragging himself back to the base camp. Were it not for the re-enactments, we’d never believe this happened – and if Simpson and Yates didn’t appear on screen to tell their own story, we’d never believe they survived.

ming with increasing intensity.

I can relate. The climax of 127 Hours is gruelling, unflinching and hid­ eously ugly. It’s also not over quickly.

“It took Ralston 44 minutes to cut it off,” Boyle says. “You’ve got to rep­ resent that. It’s not an instant thing.

There’s various stages that he gets through. You know it’s always gonna be extreme. And I mean, I love cin­ ema being extreme. I think you do go to watch it, to see it push... we like it to push the boundaries, because it is our ultimate visual art form. We want to see it push things very, very hard sometimes.”

Boyle himself has been pushing to make a survival story – specifically, one that traps the camera with some­ one in a confined space – for a while.

“It’s one of those bees in your bon­ net,” he says. “I’ve just never been able to let it go. I tried to make a film many years ago about Brian Keenan, the Irish hostage who was held with John McCarthy in Beirut. They were chained to a radiator for five years.

“There’s some clash between what a film normally constitutes – mo­ mentum, change, vibrancy, move­ ment, contrasts, cutting – and what these stories are, which is that you have a human being and a chance to just study him, inexorably. Can you actually make it bearable, entertain­ ing? But more importantly, can you make it involving?”

Ralston’s story, he says, gave him that hook. Not only does the timeline create a perfect cinematic structure, but the hiker shot hours of cam­

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James Franco learns a life lesson in Danny Boyle’s powerful 127 Hours.

corder footage and took plenty of pic­ tures of himself during his ordeal.

The confessional quality of the foot­ age gave Boyle and screenwriter Si­ mon Beaufoy their point of entry into the story.

“That was the key for all of us,” he says. “We made it immersive. That was always the idea, that you become complicit in it. There’s nobody else to have a relationship with – it’s just you and Franco, and you’re in there with him. You don’t get out, there’s nothing [else] to look at, and eventu­ ally he’s gonna do something that you’ve got to join him in doing, be­ cause otherwise you’ll never be able to watch it.”

Like all survival tales, the inner journey of 127 Hours proves just as important to the story, as the trapped Ralston is broken down from over­ confident young charmer to desper­

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ate man facing an unimaginable test.

“He’s like a specimen,” Boyle ex­ plains. “He’s a perfect specimen, but he’s not, by a long ways, a perfect man. He’s the perfect athlete, every­ thing going for him, but the other side of him is different. There are various clues in there about how reckless he is. He was a very fit man, running triathlons in the desert – it’s a kind of arrogance.”

Of course, Ralston’s self­image as an invulnerable adventurer is use­ less against the harsh and indifferent natural world.

“Nature just takes the [boulder] and says, ‘Wait there, young man,” Boyle says. “To nature, it’s a pebble.

It’s nothing. It’s a grain of sand. Na­ ture just says ‘Stop there,’ and he is not going to get out of there. Franco did this 22­minute take, trying to move that fucking rock that’s not gonna move. It’s only a grain of sand, but it’s not gonna move. It’s you that’s gotta move.”

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Extraterrestrials attack Los Angeles in new sci-fi flick Skyline.

Skyline

(D: Colin and Greg Strause, 100 min) Eric Balfour (Six Feet Under) and other B-listers play in a story about extraterrestrials behaving badly as they prepare to swallow up Los Angeles. The trailer shows no visual effects or dialogue, which makes us fear the filmmakers have something to hide.

Not a good sign.

Opens Friday (November 12). Screened after press time – see review November 12 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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“‘MONSTERS’ IS THE BEST BRITISH FEATURE DEBUT SINCE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S ‘MEMENTO’.”

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STRANDED: I’VE COME FROM A PLANE THAT CRASHED ON THE MOUNTAINS (2007) The story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972 – leaving the members of a Uruguayan rugby team to fend for themselves (and turn to cannibalism) until the survivors were rescued just before Christmas – has been adapted into a sensationalistic Mexican 1976 TV movie (Survive!) and a grim 1993 Hollywood feature (Alive).Stranded, Gonzalo Arijón’s documentary – which played Hot Docs in 2008 – reunites all 16 survivors to tell NW their story properly.

“‘Unstoppable’ is a nerve -slicing, tension-soaked rollercoaster that may stop your breathing, stop your pulse, hell it may even stop your heart but you’ll be left ready to do it all over again.”

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(Feng Xiaogang) spans some 32 years in the lives of a fictional Chinese family riven by the Tangshan earthquake of 1976, which killed nearly a quarter of a million people.

Forced to choose which of her young twins will be pried from the rubble, a mother (Xu Fan) chooses her son and spends the rest of her life punishing herself for the decision. What she doesn’t know is that her daughter has also miraculously survived, to be raised by foster parents in another city. And as the story skips through the decades, Aftershock grows into a thoughtful melodrama about survivor’s guilt and how the weight of the dead can press upon the living for years or even decades after their loss. Subtitled.

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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3D (Anthony Bell, Ben Gluck) offers light laughs and thrills for small children. The animation and 3-D don’t have the wow factor to impress kids over 10, but the story might do the job. It’s about a slacker wolf who loves an alpha wolf who’s out of his league. 88 min. NNN (AD) Canada Square, SilverCity Mississauga THE AMERICAN (Anton Corbijn) is a mostly competent spin on the standard one-lastjob thriller, with a solid performance by George Clooney as the resolutely closedoff lead. You can sink into the movie’s visuals without ever quite connecting to

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self through law school and spent nearly two decades fighting to clear her brother (Sam Rockwell) of a murder conviction, to a mundane movie-of-the-week. 106 min.

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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.

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(Rodrigo Cortés) takes place entirely within the confines of a coffin in which a man (Ryan Reynolds) has found himself buried with little more than DEVIL (Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle) a lighter, a flask and a cellphone. Reynolds is a modest supernatural thriller that uses is riveting, and you’ll appreciate Cortés’s a brisk pace and fluid editing to provide bravura cinematic accomplishment after mild entertainment, but that can’t disyou catch your breath. guise the thinness of its 95 min. NNNN (NW) simple story: five stranColossus, Empire Thegers are trapped in an EXPANDED REVIEWS atres at Empress Walk, office tower elevator, nowtoronto.com Kennedy Commons 20, one of whom is the Devil Yonge & Dundas 24 in disguise, here to kill sinners for fun. 80 min. NN (AD) CARLOS (Olivier Assayas) covers some Interchange 30 20 years in the career of the Venezuelanborn terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (Jay Roach) stars (played bluntly by Domino’s Edgar RamíPaul Rudd as a would-be corporate player rez) as he criss-crosses Europe and the tasked with bringing an idiot to his bossy’s Middle East, lobbing grenades, taking dinner party, and Steve Carell as his danhostages and trying to blow up airplanes gerously literal-minded guest. It’s disfor the Palestinian cause – always makappointing to see Rudd stuck in a convening sure the newspapers know what tional straight-man role, but Carell gets he’s doing. Produced for French TV as a every opportunity to explore his characthree-part miniseries, Assayas’s ambitious ter’s demented innocence. Could be much biography features some spectacular funnier – and shorter. NNN (NW) filmmaking and well-considered perforInterchange 30 mances. But screened as a five-and-aDOWN TERRACE (Ben Wheatley) 93 half-hour theatrical presentation, the min. See director Q&A and review, top-heavy construction and exhausting page 78. NNNN (NW) running time work against the overall Opens Nov 12 at Carlton Cinema. experience. Some subtitles. 333 min. NNN (NW) DUE DATE (Todd Phillips) is basically just Carlton Cinema an update of Planes, Trains & Auto-

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CATFISH (Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost) is a lightweight documentary about online friendship that moves to an online romance that ends in deception. Since the film doesn’t dig very deeply, it’s little more than a cautionary tale about the dodginess of internet relationships. Old news.

94 min. NN (AD) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE CONCERT (Radu Mihaileanu) stars

Alexei Guskov as the former star conductor of Russia’s Bolshoi Orchestra, demoted to janitor three decades earlier for not ousting the company’s Jewish musicians.

Now he gets a shot at glory. The tone-deaf film lurches from one cultural cliché to the next and skips over the tragedy at the film’s centre. Subtitled. 120 min. NN (GS) Cumberland 4

CONVICTION (Tony Goldwyn) reduces the undeniably powerful true story of Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank), who put her-

mobiles, with control freak Robert Downey Jr. and clueless chaos-bringer Zach Galifianakis racing from Atlanta to Los Angeles. The actors could have coasted on the odd-couple script, but they both dig deep into their characters; Downey, in particular, gives what would be an Oscarcalibre performance in a just universe.

(Really, he’s amazing.) But the emotional depth winds up pushing against the broader nature of the plot, which gets more cartoonish as it goes along. Due Date is much more satisfying when it keeps things real. 95 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, 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

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(Will Gluck) is a chipper riff on The Scarlet Letter, in which a high school senior (Emma Stone) is branded a slut after a white lie about losing her virginity goes viral. Gluck’s film occupies the same clear-headed space as 10 Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls. It’s a movie you can respect in the morning. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

EAT PRAY LOVE (Ryan Murphy) offers

audiences the chance to vicariously accompany Julia Roberts as she retraces author Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling odyssey of self-embiggenment, travelling from one impossibly photogenic, sundrenched location to another in a profoundly monotonous travelogue. 139 min.

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FAIR GAME (Doug Liman) dramatizes the

story of the Bush administration’s outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), poking holes in the case for invading Iraq. Plame and Wilson are depicted as a well-matched pair of stalwart, morally upright people, but once her secret is out, there’s nothing for the two actors to do but puff themselves up self-righteously over and over again as they’re smeared repeatedly by a series of anonymous wonks in suits. That may be exactly what happened, but it’s not terribly dramatic, no matter how hard Liman tries to invest the proceedings with jittery energy. Fair Game never really comes into its own as a movie. It just seems like old news. 108 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Mia Hansen-Løve) follows a Parisian film producer (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) who juggles work and family as he tries to keep his faltering company afloat. He spars good-naturedly with financiers, accountants and filmmakers, and then comes home to his wife (Chiara Caselli) and three daughters, on whom he dotes. And then the style of the film changes radically, like flipping over an LP to find a totally different musical style waiting for you on the other side. It’s quiet and unshowy and devastating. Subtitled. 106 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

FOR COLORED GIRLS (Tyler Perry) is

middlebrow king Perry’s inept adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s powerful “choreopoem,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf.

Shange’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play uses poetry, movement and song to tell the universal stories of seven black women identified by a particular colour and living in different cities. Perry gives the women

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names, jobs and oh so many issues as he lets their lives intersect in and around a New York City apartment. He’s added a gallery of good-for-nothing black men and a couple of older women to the mix, mostly to dispense some Madea-to-order wisdom. The poetry, intermingled with Perry’s banal dialogue, feels awkward when delivered, inevitably in close-ups. In the end, it’s a star-studded checklist of issues covering date rape, STDs and domestic abuse. 134 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (Daniel Alfredson) adapts the third and final book in Stieg Larsson’s best-

selling trilogy. It’s basically a dreary court procedural in which Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) stands trial for her father’s murder. See it to complete the story, but know that the film doesn’t cut it as a stand-alone. Subtitled. 146 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

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GROWN UPS (Dennis Dugan) is a featurelength excuse for Adam Sandler to hang around and shoot the shit with his SNL buddies Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider, with Kevin James obviously standing in for Chris Farley. If it’s low on proper belly laughs, there’s a genuine warmth to some scenes. 102 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

of too many junk mortgages, the deregulation of derivatives and the infiltration of conservative free-market ideologists into schools of economics throughout the West. Ferguson’s documentary is so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, it’s probably because you were staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min.

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(Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck) takes directors Boden and Fleck out of the dramatic HANDSOME HARRY (Bette Gordon) plays comfort zone they established with Half out as a road movie in which Harry (Jamey Nelson and Sugar and sends them into Sheridan) tries to find his soul. When his intriguing new territory old Navy buddy (Steve with this oddball Buscemi) makes a deathdramedy about a suibed request – “Tell EXPANDED REVIEWS cidal teen (a terrific Kagan I’m sorry” for a nowtoronto.com Keir Gilchrist) who 30-year-old episode – lands in the adult Harry hits the road to psych ward of a New York meet his commitment. Along the way he hospital. NNNN (NW) tracks down his other Navy pals – John Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 Savage as a homophobic real estate agent, peacenik prof Aidan Quinn and born-again JACKASS 3D (Jeff Tremaine) is exactly like Titus Welliver – all of whom participated the two previous features and TV series, in what turns out to have been a brutal except for the 3-D, which is so feeble you’ll beating of a fellow recruit. Sheridan is exbarely notice it. Johnny Knoxville and cellent as the guilt-ridden guy with a secohorts pee, puke, poop, fart, get hit and cret and, though the structure is formulaic take a lot of falls in a non-stop string of to a fault, Gordon elicits terrific performsimple gags and stunts. They laugh like ances in this tender and timely film. 94 loons when someone else gets nailed and min. NNN (SGC) look genuinely miserable when it’s their turn. The relentless repetition quickly Carlton Cinema generates mind-numbing boredom. 90 HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood) is a muzzymin. N (AD) headed, vaguely supernatural drama 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, about three people (Cécile De France, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Matt Damon and Frankie McLaren) whose Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire lives are shadowed by death. Eastwood’s Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, made lazy films before – most recently Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, ScotiaChangeling and Invictus – but the subject bank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity matter of Hereafter sets certain expectaYorkdale tions that his indifferent approach can’t even begin to satisfy. Some subtitles. 123 KISSES (Lance Daly) 75 min. See remin. NN (NW) view, page 74. NNNN (NW) Opens Nov 11 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (Steven R. Monroe) stars Sarah Butler as an city woman who rents a summer cottage to work on her novel, only to be raped and beaten by a quartet of yokels. She seeks vengeance.

Standard horror movie style and murders too elaborate to be real try to keep the movie safely within genre conventions, but you’ll still want a shower afterward.

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(Jia Zhang-ke) 118 min. See director interview and review, page 72.

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(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, full-throttle filmmaking. 146 min. NNNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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from one incident to the next with such speed that the characters aren’t the only ones left breathless. 94 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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(Matt Reeves) successfully adapts Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish chiller Let The Right One In, transferring the action to New Mexico. A bullied teen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and an enigmatic neighbour (Chloë Grace Moretz) bond as a series of murders sweep their apartment complex. Writer/director Reeves honours Alfredson’s original from the very first frames. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (Greg Berlanti) stars

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as coguardians of the orphaned baby of their deceased best friends. The idea that parents would leave their child with such an irresponsible pairing and not tell them is the movie’s first stupid plot point, and it continues in poor taste from there. 115 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga,

(Nicholas Fackler) uses elements of magic realism and an intriguing twist to show uncommon insight into the aging experience. When trouble at work – he’s having a hard time keeping up at his age – looks like it will send lonely Robert (Martin Landau) into a permanent tailspin, he finds some joy in his new connection with Mary (Ellen Burstyn). 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 – two of America’s greatest screen actors – know how to make the most of it. Hard to believe this was written and directed by a guy in his early 20s. Required viewing for anyone interested in aging populations, whose issues are among our most urgent. 90 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

MAO’S LAST DANCER (Bruce Beresford) is

a lead-footed, melodramatic biopic about Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, who visits America as Communism’s ballet prodigy but then refuses to return home, to the dismay of the Chinese Consulate. Beresford touches too briefly on some of the story’s ambiguities. At least there’s some fancy dancing. Some subtitles. 117 min.

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(Jeff Malmberg) is a documentary about outsider artist Mark Hogancamp, who’s constructed an elaborate scale-model world in his backyard as a way to cope with the aftereffects of a brutal beating that left him with a brain injury and memory loss.

When Hogancamp’s dynamic photographs of Marwencol come to the attention of a Greenwich Village art gallery, everything changes – and director Malmberg probes still deeper into his subject’s complicated, wounded soul. It’s absolutely thrilling to watch the camera push Hogancamp closer and closer to confronting some elements of himself that he obviously doesn’t want to discuss, and what happens after that is even more amazing. This is one of the best movies you’ll see all year; please don’t let anyone ruin it for you. 83 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

MEGAMIND (Tom McGrath) has some

great ideas flying around, but they never quite make it onto the screen. The villainbeats-hero premise is ingenious, but it’s executed with parts cribbed from Shrek, Despicable Me, The Incredibles and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Sure, Will Ferrell is a great choice for the role of an insecure supergenius, and David Cross is great fun as his talking-fish sidekick, but they’re trapped in a formula storyline that follows some very familiar beats. When Ferrell plays with a malapropism or improvises the perfect capper to a scene, the movie glows with madcap invention, but mostly it just sits around basking in its borrowed production design and retread concept. 96 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, 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

MONSTERS (Gareth Edwards) 94 min. See review, page 78. NN (NW) Opens Nov 12 at Scotiabank Theatre.

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change vantage points and pace the action slightly differently. It also allows for a couple of effective shock cuts. Paranormal Activity 2 doesn’t use dread the same way as its predecessor, which built its scares from the sense that absolutely anything could crash into that static frame at any moment. This time around, we more or less understand the threat and how it works; it’s just a question of which door is going to swing open, or what noise is going to startle us next. That still makes for a scary movie, but now the scares seem more predictable. 91 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Allen) doesn’t just honour the world of Beverly Cleary’s books; it develops that world into a smart, winning and engaging movie that will appeal as much to parents as to the kids who’ve dragged them to the megaplex. 104 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

Alice Gautier (left) and Chiara Caselli appear in the smart drama The Father Of My Children.

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?

The 3-D is so underused that the movie might as well be flat. 88 min. NNN (AD) Interchange 30

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White) plops Emma Thompson’s magical British governess down at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s rundown farm to help five cousins learn to work together, respect one another and appreciate the delights of digitally enhanced farm animals. It may be disposable entertainment, but it’s still entertaining. 109 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

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(Mark Romanek) is a chilly adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel. It’s a science-fiction story with virtually no science-fiction elements;

instead, it’s a subdued drama about three people (Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley) 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. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Sam Taylor-Wood) feels like it could be a Mike Leigh movie about the birth of the Beatles – and that’s a compliment. Taylor-Wood’s character study of the teenage John Lennon (Aaron Johnson, last seen in Kick-Ass) 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 reconnects with his long-lost mother (AnneMarie Duff) to the disapproval of his protective aunt (Kristin Scott Thomas). 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 have

seemed, these were moments that changed the world. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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(Danny Boyle) 93 min.

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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) Interchange 30 PaRaNoRMal activity 2 (Tod Williams) sticks reasonably close to the elements that made the original so effective, and feels like a genuine companion piece to the first picture. The downside is this is basically just another helping of Paranormal Activity. The use of multiple security cameras allows director Williams to

ReD (Robert Schwentke) doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but as all-star action movies go it’s a lot more fun than The Expendables.

The starry cast have a fine time sending themselves up as his fellow codgers, and Schwentke’s sprightly direction keeps the mayhem at a comic-book remove. 111 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

previous Saws, except it’s in unimpressive 3-D. Characters try to escape from elaborate death traps set by either a secret accomplice of dead serial killer John Kramer (Tobin Bell) or crooked cop Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). As a series finale, it’s disappointing. The big surprise is exactly the kind of reveal the Saw movies have given us before. Bell, who gives the franchise its soul, is barely on screen, and most of the killings seem recycled and tired. 91 min. NN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

SecRetaRiat (Randall Wallace) is the true story of the colt that won the Triple Crown in 1973. Owner Diane Lane coasts on a beaming smile and a trembling lower lip, while trainer John Malkovich sports a series of truly hideous outfits. It’s that kind of movie. We deserve better. 122 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway SkyliNe (Colin Strause, Greg Strause) 94

min. See Also Opening, page 79.

Opens Nov 12 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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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) Interchange 30

(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 every-

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one 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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STREETDANCE 3D (Max Giwa, Dania

Pasquini) is yet another movie about a dance crew reluctantly recruiting ballerinas to join them in their b-boy routines.

The street dancers do some pirouettes while the ballerinas learn a little swagger.

Pathetic plot and performances aside, this movie’s really about sheer, unadulterated spectacle, with flying people and flailing limbs, all in eye-popping 3-D. 98 min. NNN (RS) SilverCity Mississauga

SUMMERHOOD (Jacob Medjuck) is writer/ director Medjuck’s first film, and you can really tell. The dialogue is stilted and the emotional conflict meaningless, though THE SORCERER’S APthere are lots of grossPRENTICE (Jon TurtelEXPANDED REVIEWS out poopy jokes. Nartaub) is a silly effects nowtoronto.com rated by John Cusack, comedy with Nicolas the story follows four 10 Cage making wizard year-old cabin mates at summer camp – hands opposite a squirming Jay Baruchel.

Reckless (Degrassi: The Next Generation’s The big effects sequences are realized well Scott Beaudin), Toast and Fetus – all of enough, but the real entertainment value them bad boys who get on the assistant is in the performances. 108 min. NNN director’s (Christopher McDonald) nerves.

(NW) Oh, and Fetus (Lucian Maisel) has a big Interchange 30 crush. Though Maisel is awfully cute, he STONE (John Curran) stars Robert De Niro mumbles, and Cusack’s voice-over is way as a hard-case Detroit parole officer flumtoo blabby and distracting. The one terrific moxed by his latest applicant (Edward speech – from the assistant director, Norton), who claims to be in the middle of about how he cares about the kids’ safety a spiritual rebirth. It’s hard to say which – totally tanks because the character’s element of this risible drama is sillier – Anbeen so relentlessly ridiculed that we can’t gus MacLachlan’s portentous screenplay, take him seriously. Strictly for eight-yearcobbled together from half a dozen of Jim olds. 96 min. N (SGC) Thompson’s lesser potboilers, or Norton’s Yonge & Dundas 24 sustained impression of Bubbles from The TAKERS (John Luessenhop) is a moderately Wire. 105 min. N (NW) entertaining caper flick about a gang of Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy professional thieves whose armoured-car Commons 20 job goes wrong while the cop on the case

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“Darkly Funny.”

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much of the heart of the director’s stage version of Shakespeare’s last play for the Stratford Festival. Maybe not surprisingly, what it loses is the magic of the theatre. Christopher Plummer rightly anchors the production verbally and emotionally as Prospero, the aged duke of Milan who, through his wizardry, has the chance to take revenge on those who banished him from his kingdom. Plummer shares the stage with a number of other strong performers, and the camera’s close-ups reveal much that you can’t see in the theatre unless you’re in the front row. The opening storm is fully believable, not just because of the festival’s stage machinery but also because of the rocking, dipping camera work. What doesn’t work are the surprising moments of supernatural flight and the sudden disappearance and reappearance of characters who seem to have shot instantaneously from one side of the theatre to the other. 130 min. NNNN (JK) Nov 14, 4 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

TIBET IN SONG (Ngawang Choephel)

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gives the term “protest song” new meaning. It’s a superb documentary tracking Tibetan resistance to Chinese repression. After they invaded in 1950, the Chinese set out to eviscerate Tibetan culture. Suddenly, loudspeakers pumping out Maoist propaganda were installed in every village. Then Chinese bureaucrats

THE TOWN (Ben Affleck) finds Affleck directing himself as the brains behind a crew of Boston bank robbers who’s caught between the life and the heat when he falls for a hostage (Rebecca Hall) from his last job. Affleck struggles to reconcile his own dramatic interests with the demands of the heist genre. The result is an impeccably crafted but tonally wobbly studio picture that’s at war with itself. 125 min.

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(Apichatpong Weerasethakul) took this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes. It’s a lovely magic-realist study of a dying Thai man (Thanapat Saisaymar) who welcomes visits from friends and relatives both living and spectral. Shooting with an unfussy vérité aesthetic, Apichatpong crafts a delicate, enveloping spell, creating a world where the intrusion of the supernatural is almost commonplace. There’s a generosity and warmth here that practically radiates off the screen; you can’t help but be pulled along as the director takes his odd, wonderful journey. If you’ve seen Syndromes And A Century or Tropical Malady, you already know and love his distinctive tone; if you haven’t, you’ll pick it up quickly enough.

Subtitled. 108 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

UNSTOPPABLE (Tony Scott) 98 min. See review, page 78. NN (NW) Opens Nov 12 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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(Davis Guggenheim) looks at the decline and fall of the U.S. public school system.

The issues are complex, and director Guggenheim gives much time to talking heads and statistics. But he also follows the heart-wrenching stories of five bright children, whose futures are at stake as they await lotteries to get into schools across the country that aren’t “dropout factories.” 102 min. NNNN (GS) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

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. It’s all a little obvious, especially as interpreted through LaBeouf’s sad-puppy gaze.

132 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway

YOU AGAIN (Andy Fickman) isn’t nearly

the guilty pleasure its premise promises.

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. With the exception of Yustman, the leads do their best with the soggy material, even though there’s little motivation, character or real comedy. 105 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30

WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER ñYOU

(Woody Allen) is a sly entry tracking the desires and anxieties of people who go the distance – and a bit too far – to chase their dreams. Great ensemble cast, especially Naomi Watts and Josh Brolin as a couple with problems. 98 min.

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- L.A. Times

A. Marinca in “Storm”

- New York Times

TAMARA DREWE (Stephen Frears) plops us down at a pastoral writers’ colony disrupted by the return of a young woman (Gemma Arterton) to her family home. Director Frears pitches it as a classic British drawing-room comedy, with various characters cheating on one another and information travelling back and forth in whispers. Someone even overhears a conversation whilst trapped in the loo. It’s pleasant enough, and the performances are sprightly, but aside from Tamsin Greig’s devastating turn as a cuckolded wife slowly crumbling under the strain of keeping up appearances for her narcissistic bastard of a husband (Roger Allam), it doesn’t amount to much. 111 min. NNN (NW) Cumberland 4

cleverly co-opted Tibetan folk songs by applying Communist lyrics to their melodies. Resistance was powerful – just singing the old songs led to arrest. Director Choephel was collecting folk songs when the Chinese sentenced him to 18 years for spying in 1996, and his mother’s quest for his release became an international campaign that freed him in 2002.

But Choephel refuses to let his personal story eclipse the larger picture – it’s the music and the freedom it stands for that matter here. Don’t miss it. Subtitled.

NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

The German Cultural Centre is proud to program & support Canadian-German film encounters.

See you at our events this winter!

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We are collaborating with TIFF Bell Lightbox in the presentation of “Metropolis” as well as “The Lives of Others”, with a talk and Q&A by Marianne Birthler, head of the Stasi Archives Berlin.

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Berlin filmmaker Andreas Hartmann is visiting the Reel Asian Festival.

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AluCine is showing Juan Sarmiento’s work and the latest from Berlin’s Lakino Festival.

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Our exclusive film series “Beyond the Border” introduces Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, the renowned German-French film academy, with director Jan Schütte in attendance.

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21 European countries celebrate the art of film with the EU Film Festival. German selection: Hans-Christian Schmid’s award-winning “Storm”, accompanied by a talk on human rights and The Hague with Mark Kingwell and Mirja Trilsch (formerly Yugoslavia Tribunal).

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SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Mon 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 1:45, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 9:55 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun,

Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Tue 2:15, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 2:15, 7:40, 10:10 Mon 2:45, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 2:15, 7:50, 10:15 RED Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 2:35, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 SKYLINE (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 THE TEMPEST Sun 4:00 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri, Tue 12:30, 3:15, 6:30, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 12:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:10, 5:30, 6:45, 9:15

Metro

West End KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) FriWed 12:40, 7:00 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 8:50 INSIDE JOB (PG) Fri-Wed 3:15, 9:35 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Thu 1:15 Sat-Sun 11:00 NOWHERE BOY (14A) Thu 5:00 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) Thu 3:05, 7:00 Fri-Wed 5:10

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 CONVICTION Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:15, 2:25, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:20, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:55, 6:45, 7:30, 9:20, 10:00 Sat-Tue 2:00, 4:55, 6:45, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50, 10:00

FAIR GAME Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:30, 8:30 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:10, 6:25, 9:35 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 2:00 4:50 7:45 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 6:55, 9:45 THE MALTESE FALCON Wed 7:00 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:45, 2:30, 4:20, 5:05, 7:00, 7:40, 9:45, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 4:05, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 1:40 4:35 7:25 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 RED Thu 12:35 3:35 6:35 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 1:40, 4:10, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 Mon 12:20, 2:45 SECRETARIAT (G) 3:45 Thu 12:40 mat, 7:05, 10:05 late SKYLINE (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:25 THE TEMPEST Sun 4:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 12:05, 3:10, 6:25, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat 5:00, 7:45, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 7:25, 10:25 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri 12:50, 1:30, 3:55, 4:35, 6:40, 6:50, 9:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:50, 1:30, 3:55, 4:35, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Mon 12:50, 1:30, 3:55, 4:35, 6:50, 7:30, 10:20, 10:40 Wed 12:20, 3:55, 4:35, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 DUE DATE (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 7:25, 9:35 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:30, 6:45, 9:25 JACKASS 3 (18A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 9:45 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 12:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) 12:50, 3:50, 7:15, 9:20 RED 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 continued on page 86 œ

259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:20, 4:30, 5:20, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 1:50, 5:10, 8:30 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 2:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 1:30, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 1:15, 3:35, 10:10 THE MALTESE FALCON Wed 7:00 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, MonWed 3:00, 6:20, 9:00 Sat 6:20, 9:00 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 6:20, 9:00 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-

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DUE DATE (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:20 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 SatSun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:15 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 6:50, 10:10 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:45 mat Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:45 mat THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 RED Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:40 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 7:10, 9:40 SKYLINE (14A) 7:00, 9:30 Fri 4:15 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sat 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:40 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:30 mat Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30 mat

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BURIED (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 2:10, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:10, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:20, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20, 11:55 Sun-Wed 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:20, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20 EASY A (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:15 JACKASS 3D (18A) 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 11:30 late LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 MEGAMIND (PG) 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:40 late MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 RED 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:45 late SAW 3D (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45, 11:59 Sun-Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:50 late WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” (G) Thu 9:50

GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

CONVICTION Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 4:20, 10:00 FAIR GAME 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:30, 9:00 Sat 9:00 Sun 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 4:05 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:00 7:10 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat ONE ANGRY MAN 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:05 mat PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:50, 6:50, 9:40 Wed 9:40 SKYLINE (14A) 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:40 mat Sun 1:40, 4:20 mat Sun only 1:40 4:20 7:40 10:20 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 STONE Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 THE TEMPEST Sun 4:00 THE TOWN (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 6:55, 9:55 Sun 12:40, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:40

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:40 Sat 4:30 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:50 THE MALTESE FALCON Wed 7:00 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, SunWed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 4:00, 7:20, 9:55 RED Thu 1:20 4:30 7:10 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:50, 7:50, 10:30 SKYLINE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:45, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 7:15, 10:15 Wed 12:45, 9:40 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00

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DUE DATE (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:10 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:45, 10:15 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:15 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:30, 3:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:20 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 RED Thu 12:50 3:50 6:40 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:40 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 7:10, 9:50 SKYLINE (14A) Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00

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THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:25, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 MonWed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:20, 9:10 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:20, 8:40 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 RED Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:45, 9:55 SKYLINE (14A) Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:30, 9:45 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 MonWed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 12:35, 1:00, 3:35, 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:40, 1:20, 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 10:00 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 5:05, 7:10, 7:40, 10:00, 10:25 Sun 12:40, 1:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 10:00 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 10:05 FriWed 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:35, 6:45 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 1:15 4:15 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:15, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:10, 6:50, 7:10, 9:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 RED 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:50 Thu 12:45 3:45 6:40 9:40 Sun only 12:45 3:30 7:30 10:25 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 1:35 4:35 7:35 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 THE TEMPEST Sun 4:00 THE TOWN (14A) 3:40, 9:45 Thu 12:40 mat, 6:45 late UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 7:00, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

CONVICTION Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 MonWed 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:10, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:10, 10:25 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:35, 6:50 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:50 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Sun 2:05, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 THE MALTESE FALCON Wed 7:00 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Tue 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:45 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:40, 6:20, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:15 Mon-Tue 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:15 Wed 3:30, 4:50, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 FriSun 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:50, 10:20 RED Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:05, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 5:05, 8:00, 10:35 SKYLINE (14A) 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:25, 10:25 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 10:05 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 3:40, 5:10, 6:20, 7:40, 9:15, 10:40 FriSun 12:45, 2:10 mat

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

AFTERSHOCK 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat ANJAANA ANJAANI Thu 3:05, 6:25, 9:35 BURIED (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 7:55, 10:15 CONVICTION 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat EASY A (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:50, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:40, 4:50, 10:05 FAIR GAME 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat GOLMAAL 3 (PG) 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat INCEPTION (PG) 3:10, 6:25, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:05 mat INSIDE JOB (PG) 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 2:00 4:25 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 2:15, 7:25 Thu 4:50 mat, 10:05 late MORNING GLORY (PG) 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:30, 12:15, 1:15 mat

NOWHERE BOY (14A) 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:35 mat PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:45, 4:00, 7:15, 9:40 SECRETARIAT (G) Thu 4:25 7:15 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:40 mat SKYLINE (14A) 2:45, 3:30, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:00, 12:30, 1:15 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:45 mat STONE 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50

GTA Regions Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 Fri 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 1:40, 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 MonWed 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 EASY A (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun-Tue 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:50, 8:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:50, 8:30 Sat 4:50, 8:30 Sun 1:10, 8:30 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu, Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 10:15 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:20 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 12:20, 3:10, 6:45, 9:45 THE MALTESE FALCON Wed 7:00 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 1:00 3:30 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MEGAMIND: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 RED 12:10, 3:00, 6:50, 9:50 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 2:00, 5:10, 7:45, 9:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:00, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 THE TEMPEST Sun 4:00 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 12:30, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Wed no 1:20

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 CONVICTION Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:00, 4:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:05, 10:20 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:35, 4:30, 5:15, 7:10, 7:55, 9:55, 10:45 Fri-Sat 11:15, 12:15, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15 Sun 11:15, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:15, 11:15 FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:05, 1:15, 4:25, 7:40, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:25, 7:40, 10:55 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 7:05 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 3:00, 5:25, 8:15, 11:00 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:10, 3:40, 8:05, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 8:05, 10:50 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:50 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 2:05, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:05, 11:30, 12:45, 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00, 10:30 MEGAMIND: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 MonWed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 11:05 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:40, 8:20, 11:05 RED Thu 1:15, 4:10, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:05, 7:25 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 2:40, 5:35, 8:05, 10:55 Fri-Sun 10:15, 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:25, 11:10 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:50, 8:25, 11:10 SKYLINE (14A) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:15, 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:35 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 7:00 Fri-Sun 10:00, 4:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:05, 10:25 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:50, 11:50, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 11:00

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ALPHA AND OMEGA 3-D (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:45 Fri-Sun 1:20 CONVICTION Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 FAIR GAME Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:50 Fri, Sun 2:00, 6:20, 9:40 Sat 6:20, 9:40 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:15 FriSun 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 4:20, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:05

SKYLINE (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 STREETDANCE 3D (PG) Thu 9:10 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) 1:05, 3:50, 7:05, 9:25 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15 Mon 3:55, 6:45, 9:15 RED 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:30

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GRANDE - STEELES (CE)

BURIED (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:45, 10:05 CONVICTION Thu 4:45, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:10, 8:40 DUE DATE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:10, 10:00, 10:45 Fri, Sun 12:20, 1:40, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:10, 10:00, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 1:40, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:10, 10:00, 10:50 EASY A (14A) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:20, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 8:50 FAIR GAME 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat FOR COLORED GIRLS (14A) 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:20 mat THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 4:50, 8:30 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 JACKASS 3D (18A) 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:00 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 MEGAMIND (PG) 3:40, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 FriSun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 MEGAMIND: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu, MonWed 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:55, 10:45 RED Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 SKYLINE (14A) 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 4:35, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:50 mat UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 4:10, 4:50, 7:10, 7:45, 9:50, 10:40 FriSun 1:10, 1:50 mat WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Sat, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:55

DUE DATE (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:55, 7:10, 9:50 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 JACKASS 3 (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 10:05 LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 3:30 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:25, 9:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 MonWed 4:40, 7:40, 9:55 RED Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:55, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 SAW 3D (18A) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 SKYLINE (14A) 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:25 mat UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 3:35, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:05 mat 3

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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 ACTION REPLAYY (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE AMERICAN (14A) 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 1:55 mat Sat-Sun 11:20, 1:55 mat CATFISH (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) 5:30, 7:45, 9:45 Fri 3:15 mat SatSun 10:30, 12:45, 3:15 mat DEVIL (14A) 3:40, 5:50, 8:05, 10:05 Fri 1:40 mat Sat-Sun 11:40, 1:40 mat DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 1:35 mat Sat-Sun 10:55, 1:35 mat EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu-Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat GROWN UPS (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:25, 6:00, 8:55 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:05, 3:25, 6:00, 8:55 HEREAFTER (PG) 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:15, 1:15, 3:15 mat I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE Thu 4:55, 7:35, 9:55 Fri 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (14A) 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 2:15 mat Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:15 mat LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE 3D (PG) 5:30, 7:45, 10:05 Fri 3:00 mat Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:40, 3:00 mat LET ME IN (14A) 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 2:05 mat Sat-Sun 11:25, 2:05 mat LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 10:35, 11:15, 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 10:35, 11:15, 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 MY SOUL TO TAKE 3D (14A) 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 2:45 mat Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:45 mat NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri, MonWed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 THE OTHER GUYS (14A) 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Fri 2:40 mat SatSun 12:20, 2:40 mat RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) Thu 4:15, 6:40 Fri 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 Sat-Sun 11:25, 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 SALT (PG) 4:05, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:40 mat Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:40 mat SAW 3D (18A) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 SECRETARIAT (G) 3:30, 6:15, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 1:55, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:55, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 STONE 4:30, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 2:05 mat Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:05 mat TAKERS (14A) 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 2:10 mat Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10 mat THE TOWN (14A) 3:45, 4:45, 6:25, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Fri 2:00 mat Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:00, 2:00 mat YOU AGAIN (PG) 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:10 mat

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Festivals reel asian international Film Festival

bloor cinema, 506 bloor w (bc); nFb cinema, 150 john (nFb); innis town hall, 2 sussex (it); richmond hill centre For the perForming arts, 10268 yonge (rhc); royal cinema, 608 college (rc). 1-888-222-6608, reelasian.com.

thu 11-suN 14 – Festival of international

films by East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $12, youth $5; closing night $15, festival pass $80, 4-pak $35. thu 11 – On The Flip Side, short film program. 6:30 pm. Bi, Don’t Be Afraid (2010) D: Dang Di Phan. 9 pm. Both screenings at IT. fri 12 – Drawing On The Art Of Hand & Foot, animation/adventure films for youth. 1 pm (NFB). Suite Suite Chinatown (2010) D: Lesley Loksi Chan, Lillian Chan, Aram Siu Wai Collier, Heather Keung, Serena Lee, Howie Shia and Joyce Wong. 7:45 pm (RC). Golden Slumber (2010) D: Nakamura Yoshihiro. 10 pm (RC). sat 13 – Oxhide II (2009) D: Liu Jiayin. 2:15 pm. The Mountain Thief (2009) D: Gerry Balasta. 5 pm. Toilet (2010) D: Naoko Ogigami. 7:15 pm. Eighteen (2009) D: Jang KunJae. 10 pm. All above screenings at IT. suN 14 – Dear Doctor (2009) D: Nishikawa Miwa. 2 pm (IT). One Big Hapa Family (2010) D: Jeff Chiba Stearns. 4:45 pm (IT). Closing night gala: Au Revoir Taipei (2010) D: Arvin Chen. Director in attendance. 8 pm (RC). moN 15 – Reel Asian’s Reel Thing presents Au Revoir Taipei (2010) D: Arvin Chen. 7 pm (RHC). $10.

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new serbian Film Festival bloor cinema, 506 bloor w. 416-516-2330, bloorcinema.com.

fri 11-suN 14 – 10th New Serbian Film Festi-

val. Films in Serbo-Croatian w/ s-t (except Sun 9:30 pm). thu 11 – The Woman With A Broken Nose (2010) D: Srdjan Koljevic. 9:30 pm. fri 12 – 32nd Of December (2009) D: Saša Hajdukovic. 9:30 pm. sat 13 – 72 Days (2010) D: Danilo Šerbedžija.

9:30 pm. suN 14 – Motel Nana (2010) D: Predrag Velinovic. 7 pm. Ljubav I Moda (1960) D: Ljubomir Radicevic. 9:30 pm.

rendezvous with madness Film Festival workman hall, 651 duFFerin. 416-583-4606, rendezvouswithmadness.com.

thu 11-sat 13 – Cinematic perspectives on

mental illness and addiction. $10; five-pass $40, five-pass & gala $60. thu 11 – L’origine D’un Cri (2010) D: Robin Aubert (French w/ s-t), and short film DiD (2009) D: Jake Wynne. 8:45 pm. Panel discussion to follow screening. fri 12 – CAMH Grand Rounds presentation: Dangerous With Love (2009) D: Michel Negroponte. 11 am. Holding Hands (2009) D: T Standford and K Wilkinson, and The Distance Between (2009) D: Michael Fahd. 6:30

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repertory schedules

Jaws – from disaster to perfection JAWS (Steven Spielberg) Rating: NNNNN

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Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is a perfect movie, and if you disagree I will fight you.

Seriously, it’s the bridge between the American new wave of the late 1960s and early 70s and the blockbuster mentality that defined Holly wood after Star Wars, a riveting piece of cinema constructed in the guise of a popular entertainment.

It still amazes, 35 years later, that Spielberg turned a disasterplagued shoot into one of the greatest big-screen success stories.

Stuck with a mechanical shark that refused to work properly, he reworked the entire first half to keep the beast off-screen, representing the threat through Bill Butler’s camera, John Williams’s score and Verna Fields’s editing.

As a result, the principal pm. My Suidice (2009) D: David Lee-Miller. 9 pm. Panel discussion to follow screening. sat 13 – Martha Of The North (2009) D: Marquise Lepage, and short film A Good Indian.

Noon. Repeaters (2010) D: Carl Bessai, and The Lesson (2009) D: Amy McConnell. 2:30 pm. Canadian Shorts including Pour Jeanne (2009) D: Anouk Litteureux, Desiderata (2009) D: Hugh John Murray and others.

5:15 pm. Closing night gala: The Man Of A Thousand Songs (2010) D: William D MacGillivray, and live performance by Ron Hynes. 8 pm.

cinemas bloor cinema

506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com

thu 11 – Taxi Driver (1976) D: Martin Scorsese. 4:30 pm. Jean-Michel Basñ quiat: The Radiant Child (2010) D: Tamra

Davis. 7 pm. New Serbian Film Festival. See listings, this page. 9:30 pm. fri 12 – Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. 4 pm. The Autumn Harvest Film Festival short films. 7 pm. $8, srs/child $4. New Serbian Film Festival. See listings, this page.

9:30 pm. sat 13 – Inception (2010) D: Christopher Nolan. 3 pm. New Serbian Film Festival.

See listings, this page. 7 & 9:30 pm. suN 14 – Waiting For Superman (2010) D: Davis Guggenhiem. 1:45 pm. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. 4 pm. New Serbian Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 & 9:30 pm. moN 15 – Waiting For Superman. 4:30 pm.

David Lynch X 2: Lost Highway (1997). 7 pm.

Mulholland Drive (2001). 9:35 pm. tue 16 – Lost Highway. 4 pm. Waiting For Superman. 7 pm. Inception. 9:15 pm.

Wed 17 – Mulholland Drive. 3:15 pm. Toronto Film Challenge, films made in 48 hours. 7 pm. $10. torontofilmchallenge.com.

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camera bar 1028 Queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 13 – Indecisive Moments (2008) D: Larry

Towell. 2 pm. An American In Paris (1951) D: Vincente Minnelli. 3 pm. Free.

Denise Cheshire struggles with the evil beast in the magnificent Jaws.

characters – police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and Captain Quint (Robert Shaw) – get a lot more screen time than planned, letting the actors flesh out their characters well beyond the generic action figures of Peter Benchley’s novel.

By the time these guys step onto that boat, we’re fully invested in them as people – and all the more frightened for them once they’re out

cinematheQue tiFF bell lightbox

reitman sQuare, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiFF.net.

thu 11 – Night And Fog (1955) D: Alain Resnais. Noon. Free. Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm. The Birth Of A Nation (1915) D: DW Griffith. 3 pm. Kisses (2008) D: Lance Daly. 7 & 9 pm. fri 12 – Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm.

Andrei Rublev (1966) D: Andrei Tarkovsky. 3:15 pm. Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. In The Mood For Love (2000) D: Wong Kar-wai. 7:45 pm.

Salò, Or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 10:30 pm. Jaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg. 11 pm. sat 13 – The Sorrow And The Pity (1969) D: Marcel Ophüls. 11 am. Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm. The Seventh Seal (1956) D: Ingmar Bergman. 4:15 pm. Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. The Earrings Of Madame De... (1953) D: Max Ophüls.

7:15 pm. Scorpio Rising (1964) D: Kenneth Anger. 9:15 pm. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) D: Danny Boyle. 10 pm. suN 14 – Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966) D: Sergio Leone. 12:30 pm. Viridiana (1961) D: Luis Buñuel. 4:30 pm. Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. Breaking The Waves (1996) D: Lars Von Trier. 7:15 pm. moN 15 – Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm.

Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. TIFF and Goethe-Institut present The Lives Of Others (2006) D: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Discussion w/ Marianne Birthler, Federal Commissioner for the Stasi archives, to follow screening. 7 pm.

Rebirth Of A Nation w/ live soundtrack by DJ Spooky. 8 pm. tue 16 – Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm. The Birth Of A Nation. 12:15 pm. Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. Rebirth Of A Nation w/ live soundtrack

by DJ Spooky. 8 pm.

Wed 17 – Metropolis. Noon, 3 & 6:15 pm.

Kisses. 7 & 9 pm. Rebirth Of A Nation w/ live soundtrack by DJ Spooky. 8 pm.

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Fox theatre

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. Foxtheatre.ca

thu 11 – All Quiet On The Western Front (1930) D: Lewis Milestone. 7 pm. Let Me In (2010) D: Matt Reeves. 9:30 pm. fri 12 – Get Low (2009) D: Aaron Schneider. 7 pm. The Town (2010) D: Ben Affleck. 9:15 pm. sat 13-suN 14 – Toy Story 3 (2010) D: Lee Un-

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on the open sea with a 25-foot monster.

Still, it’s the quieter moments that make Jaws truly great: the little duet between Brody and his younger son at the dinner table, mirrored later by Hooper crumpling a styrofoam coffee cup to mock Quint crushing a beer can; that lonely stick washing up on the beach, signalling a forgotten victim of the shark’s rampage; and, of course, Quint’s story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, delivered by Shaw in one of the finest moments of his illustrious career.

If your only experience of Jaws is on video, you really need to take a rain check on whatever plans you had for Friday night and get yourself down to the Lightbox.

And while you’re there, ask the TIFF people how the hell a film this gripping managed to place 79th on their stupid list.

Screens Friday (November 12) at NormaN WilNer TIFF Bell Lightbox. krich. 1:45 pm. The Town. 4 & 9:15 pm. Get Low. 7 pm. moN 15-tue 16 – The Town. 7 pm. Catfish (2010) D: Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman.

9:15 pm.

Wed 17 – The Town. 1:30 pm. It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (2010) D: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. 7 pm. Waiting For Superman (2010) D: Davis Guggenheim. 9 pm. toronto

revue cinema

400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

thu 11 – Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist & Rebel (2009) D: Brigitte Berman. 7 pm. Fubar II (2010) D: Michael Dowse. 9:25 pm. fri 12 – Easy A (2010) D: Will Gluck. 7 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010) D: Woody Allen. 9:10 pm. sat 13 – Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) D: Susanna White. 2 pm. Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole (2010) D: Zack Snyder. 4:15 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. 7 pm. Easy A. 9:10 pm. suN 14 – Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole. 2 pm. Nanny McPhee Returns.

4:15 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.

7 pm. Easy A. 9:10 pm. moN 15 – Easy A. 1 & 9:10 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. 7 pm. tue 16 – Taxi Driver (1976) D: Martin Scorsese. 7 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. 9:25 pm.

Wed 17 – The Epicure’s Revue presents Julie & Julia (2009) D: Nora Ephron. 7 pm. Taxi Driver. 9:30 pm.

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the royal

608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

thu 11 – A Drummer’s Dream (2010) D: John Walker. 9:15 pm. New Year (2010) D: Philip Borg. 9 pm. fri 12 – Reel Asian Film Festival. See listings, this page. sat 13 – Private screening. suN 14 – Reel Asian Film Festival. See listings, this page. moN 15 – Private screening. tue 16 – Kinngait: Riding Light Into The World (2010) D: Annette Mangaard. Q&A with filmmaker to follow. 7 pm.

Wed 17 – Private screening.

toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

fri 12 – Expolitation Alley: Maniac (1980) D: William Lustig. 9:30 pm.

graham spry theatre

suN 14 – The Wizard (1989) D: Todd Holland. 7

thu 11-Wed 17 – Continuous screenings 9 am thu 11-fri 12 – Human Journey: Australia and

other Films thu 11-Wed 17 –

national Film board

thu 11-Wed 17 – Casa Loma presents The

cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 Front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

to 5 pm. Free.

Human Journey: Asia. moN 15-Wed 17 – Chile’s Emergency Mine Rescue.

150 john. 416-973-3012. nFb.ca/mediatheQue

thu 11-Wed 17 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free.

Wed 17 – A World Of Shorts and the Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival present It’s All In The Muse-Ic, a program of short films about music. 7 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

ontario place cinesphere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com

thu 11-Wed 17 – No screenings.

ontario science centre

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 11 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. fri 12 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 8 pm. sat 13 – Under The Sea. 11 am. Legends Of Flight. Noon, 2, 3 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1, 4 & 8 pm. suN 14 – Under The Sea. 11 am. Legends Of Flight. Noon, 2 & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. moN 15-Wed 17 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

pm. The Last Starfighter (1984) D: Nick Castle.

9:15 pm.

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 11 am to 7 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca.

Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org.

moN 15 – Toronto Film Society presents The

Film Buffet: Thieves’ Highway (1949) D: Jules Dassin, and Edge Of The City (1957) D: Martin Ritt. 7:30 pm. $15. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex.

416-785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com.

tue 16-dec 18 – Vtape presents Mid-Life Shelf Life, a program of video art curated by RM Vaughan. Tue-Fri 11 am to 5 pm, Sat noon to 4 pm. Free. 401 Richmond, suite 452. 416351-1317, vtape.org. tue 16 – Earthly Monthly Segments presents three films by Chick Strand: Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966), Waterfall (1967), and Soft Fiction (1979). 7:30 pm. $5 suggested donation.

Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar 1214 Queen W. earlymonthlysegments.org.

Toronto Theatre Organ Society presents The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923) D: Wallace Worsley. 8 pm. $20. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-499-6262, ttos.ca.

Wed 17 – Alliance Française of Toronto pre-

sents the Pocket Film Festival, a selection of films recorded using cellphones. Films in French. 5:30 pm. Free. 24 Spadina Rd. 416922-2014 ext 35, alliance-francaise.ca.

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dvd reviews Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg get raw in Antichrist.

Antichrist (eOne, 2009) D:

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Lars von Trier /w Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNNNN

Following­the­death­of­their­infant­ son,­a­grief-stricken,­anxiety-ridden­woman­(Charlotte Gainsbourg)­and­her­ thera­pist­husband­(Willem Dafoe)­retreat­to­their­cabin­in­the­woods.­Events­ then­turn­uncanny­and­ gruesome.

Antichrist is­much­more­ than­its­horror­movie­plot­ line­suggests.­It­can­be­ taken­as­a­mix­of­psychological­and­ supernatural­drama,­allegory­and­ poli­ti­cal­statement.­It’s­also­a­re-

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(eOne, 2010) D: Taylor Hackford, w/ Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNN With­its­dissatisfied­ married­couple­and­ opportunistic­drifter,­ Love Ranch starts­out­ looking­like­a­James­ M.­Cain­crime­story,­ say­The­Postman­Always­Rings­Twice,­ but­director­Taylor Hackford is­more­

markable­display­of­wholly­committed­acting­and­raw­emotion­from­ Gainsbourg­and­Dafoe­–­and­not­only­ in­the­explicit­sex­scenes.­On­any­ level,­it’s­a­masterpiece­of­visual­ storytelling,­filled­with­memorable­ shots­that­capture­the­characters’­inner­states.

Director­Lars von Trier isn’t­ very­forthcoming­on­the­commentary­he­shares­with­film­ scholar­Murray Smith,­but­ Smith­does­a­fine­job­of­offering­various­approaches­to­the­ film­and­pointing­out­key­details.

EXTRAS Commentary, seven making-of docs, cast interviews and more. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles. interested­in­exploring­the­possibility­ of­love­amidst­the­cynical­and­working­ life­in­a­brothel.

Long-time­married­couple­Grace­and­ Charlie­Bontempo­(Helen Mirren and­ Joe Pesci)­own­a­legal­brothel­in­Reno.­ She­runs­the­business;­he­does­the­promotion.­Charlie­buys­the­contract­on­ prizefighter­Bruza­(Sergio PerisMencheta).­While­Charlie­cheats­with­ every­girl­in­the­place,­Grace­and­Bruza­ get­together.

It’s­fun­to­watch­Mirren­go­from­ hard-as-nails­whoremonger­to­lonely,­

By ANDREW DOWLER

vulnerable­woman,­and­Pesci­makes­ Charlie­believable­as­both­dreamer­and­ thug.­Together­they­present­a­marriage­ that­may­be­loveless­but­is­rich­in­mutual­understanding­and­forgiveness.

Hackford’s­even-handed­take­on­ brothel­life­avoids­both­sentimentalism­and­sensationalism,­but­never­ quite­gels­with­his­somewhat­mistyeyed­approach­to­the­Grace­and­Bruza­ story.­Still,­the­lively­pace,­fine­performances­and­unforced­humour­keep­ the­movie­engaging­throughout.

Hackford­talks­a­little­about­the­ real-life­models­for­Grace­and­Charlie­ in­his­commentary,­and­more­about­ the­deleted­scenes.­They­do­much­to­ flesh­out­Grace,­Charlie,­the­minor­ characters­and­brothel­life.

EXTRAS Commentary, Hackford and Mirren introduction, deleted scenes.

Widescreen. English, French audio.

English subtitles.

The Goonies: 25th Anniversary Edition (WB, 1985) D: Richard Donner,

w/ Sean Astin, Josh Brolin. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNNN

For­a­lot­of­people­who­ were­under­12­in­1985,­ The Goonies remains­a­ beloved­childhood­ classic,­infinitely­rewatch­able­for­its­nostalgia­value.­For­the­rest­of­us,­it’s­a­ likeable­evening­of­light­entertainment,­rich­in­pro-kid­spirit­and­nonstop­laughter­and­thrills.

Led­on­by­a­pirate­treasure­map­and­ pursued­by­the­criminal­Fratelli­brothers,­Mikey­and­Brandon­Walsh­(Sean Astin and­Josh Brolin)­and­their­buddies­brave­the­tunnels­under­a­derelict­ restaurant.­From­then­on,­the­action­is­ peril­and­escape,­with­Rube­Goldberg booby­traps­every­step­of­the­way.­ Think­Indiana­Jones­in­short­pants.

The­board­game,­booklets­and­

Grown Ups (Sony, 2010) D: Dennis

Dugan, w/ Adam Sandler, Kevin James. Rating: NN; DVD package: NN Adam Sandler’s­in­ mild-mannered­niceguy­mode­through­a­ bland­comedy­that­ feels­like­one­of­those­ decades-after-the-fact­ sitcom­reunion­movies.

He­plays­successful­ Hollywood­agent­and­happy­family­ guy­Lenny­Feder­,­who­reunites­with­ his­public­school­basketball­buddies­ (and­everybody’s­wife­and­kids)­over­a­ long­holiday­weekend­at­a­cottage.

Kevin James plays­a­fat­guy.­Chris Rock underplays­a­twittery­househusband.­David Spade does­the­horny­ drunk­who­never­settled­down.­Best­ of­the­lot­is­Rob Schneider’s­toupéed­ New­Age­weenie.

The­string­telephone,­the­stupid­ ­arrow­game­and­the­choreographed­ girl-watching­are­entertaining,­but­ too­much­time­is­spent­with­the­guys­ lobbing­soft­zingers­at­each­other.­ That­runs­out­of­steam­by­the­halfway­mark,­so­everyone­heads­off­to­a­ water­park­where­the­sight­of­people­ having­fun­substitutes­for­comedy.

Veteran­Sandler­director­Dennis Dugan keeps­things­moving,­but­

­ othing­can­redeem­the­ham-fisted­ n sentiment.

Extras­are­sparse,­uninformative­ and­about­as­funny­as­the­movie.

EXTRAS Cast doc, bloopers. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

Coming Tuesday November 16 RoboGeisha (Funimation, 2009) More blood-soaked lunacy from Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi. This time it’s a tale of rivalry between cyborg sisters.

Metropolis (Kino, 1927) Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece fully restored, with 25 minutes of newly discovered footage and a new 5.1-track recording of the original score.

Lottery Ticket (WB, 2010) Bow Wow stars as a poor young man who strives to hang onto his winning lottery ticket despite the all-out assault of his greedy neighbours.

Don’t Look Back

(eOne, 2009) Monica Bellucci and Sophie Marceau star in a suspense tale about a woman who can’t convince anyone that her body is changing.

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story­boards­packaged­with­the­movie­ are­fun,­but­the­commentary­is­better.­ The­movie­occasionally­shrinks­to­a­ corner­inset­so­we­can­watch­director­ Richard Donner and­Brolin,­Corey Feldman,­Robert Davi,­Martha Plimpton and­others­joke­and­reminisce.

EXTRAS Cast and director commentary, making-of doc, outtakes, reproduction Empire magazine Goonies issue, souvenir booklet, storyboards, board game. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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Friday November 12 - 9:00 pm My Suicide David Lee-Miller, USA, 2009, 106 min, English

When 17-year old Archie announces he’s going to kill himself on camera for a class project, people try to either save him, imitate him, or push him over the edge.

Saturday November 13 - 8:00pm Closing Night Gala featuring a performance by Ron Hynes

The Man of a Thousand Songs William D. MacGillivray, Canada, 2010, 90 min, English

Canadian director William MacGillivray’s portrait of Ron Hynes features the legendary Newfoundland singer/songwriter performing and discussing his prolific and rich creative process as well as his troubled psyche fuelled by suffering, obsession, loneliness and substance abuse.

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427 & REXDALE Main 3 bdrm. completely reno. a/c, 5 appl. Immed. 416-744-2222

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By Dan Savage

I spoke at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, last Thursday night. PU students sub­ mitted a lot more questions – anonymous, on 3­by­5­inch cards – than I could possibly an­ swer in the 90 minutes we had together. So I’m using this week’s column to answer some of those I didn’t get to. Here we go:

If you were an animal, what animal would you be?

I’m an animal already – I’m a primate, like you.

If I had to be some other kind of animal, well, I would want to be either a tapeworm living in my husband’s gut or a particularly lethal bac­ teria that had just been inhaled by Glenn Beck.

What’s the most effective method of getting santorum out of the sheets?

An ounce of prevention – or the careful place­ ment of a towel – is worth a pound of Spray ’n’ Wash Stain Stick. If putting down a towel or taking time to douche is too much for you, fuck on the floor or get brown sheets.

What is the biggest barrier to the acceptance of gay marriage in the U.S.?

There are two big barriers.

First: all those loud, aggressive and hypocritical right­wing “Christian” shitsticks who oppose marriage equality because of some supposedly anti­gay bullshit they read in the Bible while ignoring everything in the very same Bible that limits their own sexual freedoms – you know, all those motherfuckers who masturbate, for­ nicate, divorce and remarry, and then turn around and oppose same­sex marriage be­ cause it “goes against their religion.”

Second: all those quiet, timid and cowardly NALT Christians out there who support mar­ riage equality but have allowed their conserva­ tive co­religionists to hijack Christianity. (“NALT” stands for “not all like that,” the phrase you hear from liberal Christians when­ ever you bitch about conservative Christians, i.e., “We’re not all like that!” Yes, yes, NALTs – we know. You’re not all like that. Don’t tell us.

Tell Tony Perkins, tell the Pope, tell Maggie Gallagher, et al.)

What is your opinion of straight women par­ ticipating in No Shave November?

I know nothing about No Shave November – but I’m an American, and we don’t let ignor­ ance stop us from forming opinions. So I wholeheartedly endorse No Shave November, its mission and women’s participation in it.

I had a traumatic experience my freshman year that scarred me to the point that I did not want my boyfriend to be even a little dominant. Now, three years later, I’m ready to take on a submissive role. How do I get my boyfriend to accept a submissive me?

Thank the boyfriend for being the not­even­a­ little­dom partner you needed while you healed. Then tell him that, thanks in large part to him, you’re secure enough to start mixing it up and you want to explore consen­ sual, erotic submission. Then offer him your erotic submission – in whatever form it takes/ turns you on – without asking him to play an overtly dominant role. Then, when he sees that you’re not going to shatter, or that you’re really sure about this and that it really turns you on, he can grow into a more overtly dom­ inant role.

Do you have advice about a breakup?

Thinking about breaking up with someone?

Don’t draw it out – nothing is worse than the humiliating realization, some days after you’ve been dumped, that the person who dumped you wanted out of the relationship weeks or months earlier.

Just been broken up with? Cry, eat, delete (phone numbers, email, texts, sexts), defriend, hit the gym, hit on someone else just as soon as you’re able. Or sooner.

I’m the “other woman” to a man 14 years my senior. I left home for school and he stopped contacting me – this after 1.5 years of relationship and visions of a future together.

Did I get played?

Yup. What is your response to people who say that being gay is a choice?

“You think being gay is a choice? Then choose it: Suck my dick. Show me how it’s done. You choose it – suck my dick – right now, and I’ll videotape it, and then we’ll put the proof that being gay is a choice on the internet for the whole world to see. Deal?”

Do cooling and warming lubes burn for every­ one? Or is there something wrong with me?

Why are they advertised as being so awesome?

I’m not sure why they’re suddenly marketing hot­and­cool lubes to breeders so aggressively.

But straight folks should know that gay people were using these lubes 40 years ago. They were called “hot lubes” back then, and gay people quickly realized that there wasn’t anything in­ teresting or sexy or awesome about a burning hole.

What should I do if it is too BIG to get in without hurting? Lube is not an option!

If it hurts going in and lube is not an option, then I have a one­word answer for you. And it’s not what you should do when someone stuffs a big dick into you and lube isn’t an op­ tion for some mysterious reason, but what you’re gonna do when someone stuffs a big dick into you and lube isn’t an option for some mysterious reason: suffer.

Is college really the best place to meet the love of your life? And if not, then what do you do in the meantime?

Some people do meet the love of their life at college. But you won’t know if you’re one of

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How important do you think sexual chemis­ try/compatibility is in a long­term relation­ ship?

Sexual chemistry/compatibility is only as im­ portant as sexual exclusivity/satisfaction is. If the latter doesn’t matter, the former is irrele­ vant. And for the record: companionate mar­ riage – the union of two individuals who sin­ cerely love each other but who don’t fuck (or don’t fuck each other) because they have no sexual chemistry/compatibility (at least with each other) – can be wonderful. There are lots of happy, healthy companionate marriages out there. Indeed, it’s a “lifestyle option” that rarely gets the recognition or credit it de­ serves.

Do you think polyamory is possible or healthy?

Polyamorous relationships are possible – I know for a fact that they’re possible – but they’re only as healthy as the folks who are in them. The same goes for monogamous rela­ tionships.

What’s the best song to have sex to?

Is there any question? The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound Of Music, of course. If you don’t have The Sound Of Music (but who doesn’t?), then If Momma Was Married from the original Broadway cast recording of Gypsy.

Thanks to Kayla, Chris, Lisa, Nancy and every­ one else at Pacific University who brought me in!

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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