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legendary Toronto roots rockers are back, marking the 20thanniversary reissue of Shakespeare My Butt at Lee’s Palace over a two-night stand. $25. HS, RT, SS, TM. you beTTer WATch ouT! Dyke divas Lea DeLaria and Maggie Cassella reunite for a special holiday show of comedy and music. 9 pm. Blue Moon Pub. $20-$25. maggierant@rogers. com.
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Cool collectivists Broken Social Scene kick off a two-night stand, Dec 9
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A chriSTMAS cArol After his award-worthy turn as Willy Loman, Joseph Zeigler takes on Scrooge for Soulpepper’s remount of the Dickens classic. 7:30 pm. Young Centre. $5$75.33. 416-866-8666. 2001: A SpAce odySSey Special effects guru Douglas Trumbull talks about his work on the Kubrick masterpiece, which also gets screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox. 7 pm. $15-$18.75. tiff.net.
broken SociAl Scene The Toronto indie rock heroes kick off a two-night stand at Sound Academy. 8 pm. $30. HS, RT, SS, TM. +dAniel bArroW Sobey Art Award winner’s superb mixedmedia show hangs at Jessica Bradley to Dec 23. 416-5373125.
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COC’s recent Aida performs a free recital of Verdi and Puccia arias. Noon. Four Seasons Centre. coc.ca.
Mod Club show raises funds for the Regent Park School of Music. 7 pm. $25. RT, SS, TM. The nuTcrAcker The National Ballet of Canada’s production of the seasonal classic celebrates its 15th year. 7 pm. Four Seasons Centre. To Jan 2. $21.50-$151.50. 416-345-9595.
Canuck pop punk stars kick off a two-night stand at Sound Academy. 5:30 pm, all ages. $33.50. RT, SS, TM, UR. The TeMpeST Helen Mirren plays the role of Prospera in Julie Taymor’s film version of Shakespeare’s final play. Opening day.
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Henry Louis Gates and race
henry louis gates jr. displays a naïveté common among African Americans when it comes to Africa (NOW, November 18-24). I recently spent a year working in Uganda, where I met a guy from New York. In his hometown, he told me, he was black, but in Uganda people
stared at him funny and children would call out, “Muzungu! Muzungu!” White man! White man! Gates can play African dress-up and harp on about the motherland all he wants. On the continent itself, he will always be a muzungu. Simone Ubertino Toronto
No rest for the Wikis
as a wikipedian (officially for 1 year, 9 months and 28 days) who has created 55 articles, I understand Joshua Errett’s rallying cry (NOW, November 25-December 1). Toronto’s Wikipedians are here – believe me, they are – but we need to get a lot more organized. For example, artist Doris McCarthy just passed away, but her article is woefully stub-like. I created the article for cellist Coenraad Bloemendal yesterday and found that there are no categories for “People from Toronto, Ontario” or “Canadian
musicians of Dutch descent.” A local chapter is a great idea and would be beneficial to creating and expanding pertinent Canadian articles the way good urban planning is beneficial to a city. Grey Coyote Toronto
“Sleepy conductor” RIP
george robitaille, the ttc ticket taker photographed asleep in his booth a year ago, is dead (NOW Daily, November 28). George’s health issues were both real and, in the end, deadly, and yet the disparaging public assault in January of this year forced a man already dealing with major health concerns to come forward and explain what truly should have been a private matter. The incident that went viral no doubt took its toll on George. However, with his own inspiring courage and good-natured demeanour, he met the media head on to answer the faceless critics who denounced him without any interest in the reasons that led to his front-page notoriety. George Robitaille was a wonderful man and co-worker who had a long and proud career with the TTC, and that’s how those who knew George will remember him. Daniel Kowbell TTC Collector Mississauga NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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Spotted Outside the Toronto Stock Exchange, Thursday, November 29, 3:30 pm, protesters call for divestment in Canuck-owned China Gold International over plans to expand its mining operations in Tibet.
Reality Check The distribution of shooting incidents reported by Toronto police so far this year. Despite the usual pre-Christmas onslaught – and recent media stir – the number of shootings as of the end of October is about the same (there have been two more incidents) as last year. There’s been one more gun-related death this year compared to last year.
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Horrible voter turnout in the Vaughan by-election Monday (November 27) in which Tory candidate Julian Fantino won in a squeaker over Liberal Tony Genco. The Grits are now regretting big time the fact that they couldn’t find a star to run against ol’ numbnuts. The outcome could have been different.
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Rockets red Blair Well, apparently not. Police Chief Bill Blair says video evidence in the SIU’s recent probes of G20 officers was tampered with. Er, Chief, your goons – uh, boys – got off, remember?
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James Judd, former head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Services, surfaces in thousands of diplomatic notes released by WikiLeaks this week. Judd-head says Canucks are “naive” about the threat of terrorism and adds that the Canadian courts have an untoward aversion to info obtained through torture.
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To ship 16,000 tonnes of radiation-laced parts from Bruce Power’s nuke reactors near Kincardine across the Great Lakes for “processing and recycling” in Sweden. Apparently, there are no such facilities in Canada. Bruce gets back 30 per cent of the recycled steel for use in consumer products – plus 10 per cent of “low-level radioactive waste” that can’t be recycled, and a tennisball-sized hunk of radioactive material (about 64 grams) to be stored at its Western Waste Management Facility on the Bruce site.
A 120-kilometre trip by truck from Bruce Power to the port of Owen Sound, where they’ll be put on a ship for a 6,344-kilometre, threeweek trip through the Great Lakes – right past every major metropolitan area on both sides of the border before venturing into the St. Lawrence Seaway and shipping lanes in the Atlantic. The shipment must comply with provincial, federal and international maritime laws, but apparently that’s no real obstacle. According to Bruce Power, “thousands” of shipments of radioactive waste take place on the Great Lakes every year, which is news to eco activists. There have never been public hearings into those shipments.
Sixteen 12-metre-high, 2.5-metrewide, 100-tonne steam generators too big to fit in a regular shipping container (which is why Bruce had to apply for a special arrangement permit and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission had to hold public hearings). The units have been collecting dust and rust in a warehouse at Bruce’s nuclear facility, in the case of some of the units since 1995. Bruce Power says the generators do not pose an eco risk. But about 90 per cent of the mass of radioactive material inside the missile-shaped power cells, which hold thousands of steel tubes, contains plutonium – and about a dozen other a highly toxic radioactive poisons.
4. Nuke Experts Say The plan is “safe and responsible.” It’s “the right thing to do.” The total concentrated amount of radioactive material is negligible, according to Bruce experts. Ditto for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which has concluded that the steam generators fall into the lowest category of contaminated waste. As for the potential for an accident, the CNSC says that’s “unlikely.” It foresees “extremely low probability” of a severe accident taking place, although the total weight of the cargo exceeds the International Atomic Energy Agency limit for a single shipment.
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The amount of plutonium-239 inside the generators, which have been in operation for 25 years each, is enough to give more than 52 million people their maximum permissible “body burden” of 0.7 micrograms. They add that any shipment of radioactive waste on the Great Lakes needs stricter rules and regulations than those applied to oceans. A quarter of the planet’s fresh water (relied upon by some 40 million people) is at stake. There are 16 drinking water plants on both sides of the Great Lakes between Sarnia and Walpole Island First Nation alone.
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The new mayor doesn’t have the moral authority he thinks he has By enzo DiMATTeo rob ford’s first public appearance in front of the City Hall press corp after his big election victory may have lacked excitement, but that’s not to say it wasn’t revealing. The weight of great expectations seems to be getting to Ford already (see the oft-pulled handkerchief to wipe his sweaty brow). The task before the mayor-elect on Monday (and as of December 1 the mayor) was a simple one: to officially unveil his appointments to the various committees of council (anti-climactic, since the names had been leaked for weeks), say a few words about their qualifications, and sign off. But things didn’t exactly motor along without a hitch. Ford was uncomfortable from the start, stumbling over the prepared statement and shifting nervously at the podium when he wasn’t wiping his face or tugging an ear – secret signals to his crew, perhaps, who took in the proceedings from various vantage points in the clamshell. Without an election script to follow, Mista Ford will have to dig a little deeper in that bag of tasty Fordisms if he’s going to at least appear to be engaged on the issues. The “customer service” shtick, Monday’s talking point, is already sounding tired. If it wasn’t clear to the men and women of the press during the campaign, it is now: it’s going to be a long four years. Will Ford even survive his term before some scandal of his making, or someone else’s, takes him down? Exhibit A: Doug Ford. The Ward 2 councillor and older brother of the mayor is the supposed brains behind the operation, but he hasn’t been appointed to anything. Still, there he was getting his photo taken with the rest of the angry white men brigade in Ford’s cabinet and being scrummed by the media long after baby brother Rob had left the scene. His Honour had to be called back after leaving before the all-important photo with his new crew had been snapped. Question is, who made Doug Ford mayor? Much has been made by the Ford crew, and some members of the media, it must be said, of the “moral authority” supposedly granted Rob
Ford to push through his agenda, given his sizable election win. Let’s get a grip. Fifty per cent of eligible voters turned out for the October election, and Ford got a little more than half those ballots. The simple truth of the matter is that he does not represent a majority of Torontonians. A look at the makeup of council will tell you that: as a whole, it tilts more centre-left than right. Ford’s win adds up to a mandate to push
through some of the policy planks on which he ran, but it doesn’t give him the right to rule by the divine right of kings. Besides, what happened to Ford’s election-night promise to earn the respect of those who didn’t vote for him? The mayor and his team are relying on the divide between the burbs that voted for him and the core that voted for his main challengers to drive his agenda along geographical lines. Queer thing about that is that the guy he’s replacing and viewed as too downtown-centric did
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more to help the burbs (check out Transit City, priority neighbourhoods, Tower Renewal) than any other mayor in recent history – or Ford ever will. Can you say Transit City RIP? Too late. So what will it mean for Toronto’s economy and place on the world stage nurtured under David Miller when the agenda is driven by suburban priorities like filling potholes and snow removal rather than tourism-drawing culture and the arts? Yeah, you get the picture. Ford has been getting some bad advice. His top two senior advisers come with backgrounds in military strategy, but politics is the art of compromise, not war. The smart thing for Ford to do would have been to bring a few political foes into the fold. In time, he may find that having his enemies outside the tent pissing in is worse than inside the tent pissing out. All the names of councillors selected by Team Ford for the plum jobs had to sign off on a checklist of five priorities. Support those priorities and, presto, there’s your committee chairmanship or seat on the executive. Easy. The appointees are a motley crew, with few surprises except maybe rookie councillor Jaye Robinson’s recommended appointment to the executive committee along with babe in the woods Michelle Berardinetti. She’s supposed to be a Liberal, but that scarlet letter on her snazzy get-up looks like an A for ambition. Robinson is a curiouser piece in the Ford jigsaw puzzle. As a former bureaucrat in the city’s economic development department whose resumé includes arty megaprojects like Nuit Blanche, Robinson’s brand of politics doesn’t seem to mesh with Ford’s strident, budget-thwacking conservativism. But some of the other key bureaucrats in Miller’s administration have suddenly adopted the Ford cost-cutting mantra, so perhaps Robinson’s no different in that regard. John Parker, the former Harris-era MPP whose name was the only one of the bunch that hadn’t been heard in prior media speculation, copped the role of deputy speaker. Did that have anything to do with the guffaws that met the choice of Frances Nunziata (and her reportedly tenuous grasp of Robert’s Rules of Order) as speaker? Parker’s appointment may have been the first bit of damage control undertaken by the Ford crew. Maybe there’s hope for, you know, actual debate of the issues. Nah. The partisan lines have been too radically drawn, and there’s no turning back now. There’s an agenda to be rammed through. 3
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G20 test Professional activist seeks legal end to over-the-top bail conditions in landmark G20 case ByJOSH HUME in an elevator in the university Avenue courthouse on Tuesday, Nov ember 30, a police officer remarked to no one in particular on the scene outside: “They got a protest going on today. G20. I thought that was over.” Well, maybe for him it is. For thousands of unnerved pro testers seeking police accountability, it’s so not over. Nor is it for legend ary Montreal activist Jaggi Singh, sitting in a courtroom on the fourth floor, or for his 18 remaining coac cused. Singh, in town for a bail review, is under house arrest, cannot take part in political demonstrations, associate with his coaccused or have a passport. He’s also not allowed a cellphone. This hearing is an opportunity for
Singh and his lawyer, Peter Rosen thal, to challenge the draconian con ditions imposed after he surrendered to police in early July. Singh faces G20related charges of conspiracy to commit mischief, assault police and obstruct justice. While a publication ban forbids re porting on the actual proceedings, it can be said that PEN Canada, which normally defends freedom of expres sion for writers, is intervening on Singh’s behalf. He’s not the only accused facing these kinds of constraints. Leah Hen derson is not allowed to post on the internet, and Alex Hundert’s partici pation in a Ryerson panel got him ar rested for violating the condition that he not participate in demos,
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which was then amended to forbid any expression of his views publicly. It’s moot now; he was arrested a third time and thrown back in jail. Somehow, it’s not surprising that it’s Singh mounting a legal challenge to this tough bail regime. The celeb rity motormouth was a key arrestee in the 1997 APEC summit protests at UBC and was snatched up by police at the 2001 Quebec City Summit of the Americas protests, leading to the famous teddy bear catapult charges, which were later dropped. “All of us have been living in these conditions for four months; that’s highly punitive,” he says, “none of us has been convicted of anything.” Contesting bail restrictions, says civil rights lawyer Jackie Esmonde, isn’t usually top of mind for arrest ees. “In many cases, people are focused on fighting their criminal charges as a priority, and bail condi tions are seen as temporary,” she says. But doing so, says Esmonde, who has studied the effects of such con ditions on social movements, is highly important. “Singh’s condi tions were so incredibly onerous and cannot be seen as anything other than an attack on free expres sion,” she says. Typically, the function of bail
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REBEL RESUME Highlights of a protest career
1997 Arrested at APEC summit protest at UBC and charged with yelling through a megaphone into a security guard’s ear 1999 Charges dropped • One of 51 people to file a complaint against the RCMP’s APEC actions • Complaints spark a formal probe by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP 2001 Arrested at the Quebec City Summit of the Americas for breaking bail conditions and on weapons charges over a teddy bear catapult that were later dropped 2002 Commission for Public Complaints report says Singh was arrested in 1997 on spurious charges 2003 Quebec Superior Court says earlier bail conditions on yet another arrest violated his freedoms • Deported by Israeli authorities for violating a ban on his admission to the West Bank • Arrested at Concordia for supporting students arrested for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit 2006 Arrested, charged with violating bail conditions at an Afghan protest during a Stephen Harper presser 2007 Convicted of obstruction 2010 Arrested following the G20 protests in Toronto
“Singh’s conditions are an attack on free expression” lawyer Jackie Esmonde r estrictionsistomakesurepeople actually show up for court and to protect the public from nefarious deeds. But does anyone really believe the city’s on the verge of anotherwindow-smashingspree? As many activists who’ve been arrested but not convicted know, bail conditions can substitute for the sentence itself. “The effect is punitive rat her than fulfilling any properpurposeofbail,”saysRosenthal.
Political organizers are forced into silence, says Singh, and becomeisolatedfromtheircommunities,fromfriendsandfromtheorganizations they work for. “The conditionsaresetupinsuchaway astocreateself-doubtandambiguityaboutthenormalthingsyoudo everyday,”hesays. He’sallowedtobeatwork,forexample, but wonders if leaving the buildingtograbfoodconstitutesa bail violation. Since being released
inJuly,he’salreadybeenstoppedby Montreal police after speaking at a teach-inforwhichhe’dreceivedpermission.Oddly,hewasfoundnotto beinviolation.Hundertwasnotso lucky with Toronto police’s looser interpretationof“demonstration.” The question is why the justice systemfeelscompelledtolevythese restrictions.Doesitreallyfeelthreatenedbyarelativehandfulofpolitical agitators? Are activists paranoid, or T:10” istherereallyanefforttodisruptso-
cial justice groups by going after theirso-calledleaders? If that’s the case, Singh says, the Crown is wasting its time. “I’m part ofamovementthatisveryskeptical of the notion that there’s any one personforpeopletogetbehindand follow,”heexplains.“Thatattitudeis justcompletelycontrarytothepoliticalbeliefsof,I’dsay,everybodythat hasbeenchargedinthis.” Still, such conditions are disruptive, says Craig Fortier of No One Is
I llegal, a group with which Singh is associated. “In a community that’s attemptingtobuildsolidarityamong organizations, groups and social issues,non-associationisahugething for core organizers who need to be abletoworkcollaboratively.” The outcome of Singh’s hearing thisweekwillbecloselywatchedby otherG20accused.“Ithinkthere’sa goodchancethatthere’sgoingtobea substantialjudgmentthatwillinfluence matters not only for this case butinthefuture,”saysRosenthal. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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tener who was aghast when a compli cated, protracted internal struggle silenced CKLN for nearly six months in 2009. And now, just as things have started to come together for the broadcaster on the left side of the radio dial – at 88.1 on the FM band – CKLN is once again fighting for its life. On Wednesday (December 8), the
station faces a Canadian RadioTele visionTelecommunicationsCommis sion (CRTC) hearing. The regulator claims that when it investigated a rash of complaints, it found program ming logs, annual reports and other required records in disarray and in some cases unavailable. The CRTC wants to discuss the sta continued on page 22 œ
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tion’s performance and status, but the formal wording of the hearing notice seems chilling, asking CKLN, among other things, to “show cause why the Commission should not take steps to suspend or revoke the broadcasting licence in question.” Fighting words or formality? Hard to tell. According to CRTC rep Denis Carmel, the commission “does not comment on ongoing processes in order to ensure fairness and objectivity.” True, the regulator rarely sends a station to the gallows, but CKLN isn’t taking any chances. “It’s a process we have to take seriously,” says Andrew Lehrer, who was elected CKLN vice-chair late last year after competing factions agreed to hold a general meeting. The station had been shut down when Ryerson’s student council withheld funds. Lehrer says the new board has amended bylaws to prevent future mayhem and addressed many CRTC concerns. A new logger system, for instance, should ensure that music hosts avoid playing hits, which by CRTC rules can’t make up more than 10 per cent of all music aired. Lehrer’s feeling positive about the looming CRTC grilling, but there’s lots to lose if it goes badly. In a monopolized media world, community stations, freed from profit consider-
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about sound art might not draw a huge audience, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth broadcasting.” While these stations don’t know exactly what their ratings are – it’s too expensive to find out – Robert Washburn, e-journalism prof at Belleville’s Loyalist College, thinks they garner a large following in an unusual way. “Instead of one, they have a lot of micro-audiences. The anti-poverty group has its show; there’s a hip-hop show. They create a mass audience made up of smaller groups.” While there’s a “tsunami wave’’ of emerging media, Washburn says, “traditional media continue to have an important presence and a strong relationship with new media. It’s not an either-or situation.” CKLN is already living in both worlds with its live streams, active Facebook presence and online chats during shows. But it’s still radio, and that, to my mind, is the magic. Most people can blog to express their thoughts, but radio is the child of the age-old art of storytelling. Airwave communication, through the human voice, conveys a sense of randomness and immediacy, alive and in the moment. With radio, you listen to a favourite show knowing the general content, but you don’t know who or what you will hear until it actually airs, opening up a world of unexpected possibilities. But grassroots radio, unlike many online functions, is also a real-time social incubator. As Steve Anderson, national coordinator of OpenMedia. ca, puts it, “One thing that’s important is the actual physical space [of the radio station]. It brings people together so they can learn from and mentor each other. The internet can’t replace that,” he says. As a programmer with CIUT’s Caffeine Free some years back, I was awash in constant discussions of politics, activism and culture, in a studio that was a creative commons. For all the craziness and chaos of these stations, their social contribution is immense. But their staying power is their localism. It’s the same hunger for what is nearby, Anderson says, that is the key engine of the internet. “That’s not going away with the digital era,” he says. “With local music and culture, community radio’s always been a key force. It’s just getting stronger.” Let’s hope the CRTC sees it the same way. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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Wiki wins Why WikiLeaks will forever be a moving target By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT The leaking of 250,000 diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks this week is nothing new. Well, to clarify, the information is of course new. The leaking of previously secret data to the public, and the public’s lust for it, is as old as history. Resisting WikiLeaks – that is, branding it a terrorist organization or, worse, shutting it down – would be both foolish and futile, for several reasons. Foolish is pitting the law against technology. This is flat-out an unfair fight. Think about the effectiveness of anti-spam laws, privacy commissioners and anti-downloading groups. Sure,
they get angry, wave their hands around and threaten a lot of terrifying consequences, but do they actually achieve anything? The only way to stop the proliferation of government leaks online is to build better security to stop the leaks in the first place. The law has nothing on technology, so the fight should be technology versus technology. It comes down to the age-old battle of hackers versus security. Shutting down the site and believing the problem will disappear is foolish as well, but even more futile. The governments embarrassed by
WikiLeaks blame Julian Assange, the site’s eccentric figurehead. But he is just that, a figurehead. He may run the day-to-day operations of the site or work doggedly hard as an evangelist for WikiLeaks, but he is not irreplaceable. The site he created is here to stay. If Google CEO Eric Schmidt or Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg were removed from their positions, their technology companies might not run as smoothly, but they would still run. The same goes for WikiLeaks. Just as Assange is replaceable, so is his site. WikiLeaks, lest we forget, is just a delivery mechanism. Shut it down and another will sprout up. If it’s not Assange and WikiLeaks, it’s someone else and another site. In all matters of life, it is far better to know than not. A better-informed public makes better-informed decisions. (This sentiment appears not to be lost on the Canadian government, which was set to declassify its portion of the cables in 2018 anyway.) Assange is an irritant, clearly, but he has performed a vital service. The governments of the world have obviously not kept their secrets close to their chests, and through WikiLeaks he has alerted them to this fact. The world needs such irritants. Plato’s mentor, Socrates, lest we forget, was such a gadfly. At his trial, he did not overstate the value of a rabble-rouser: “If you kill such a one as I, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me... for I sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth.”
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artist prooF sale (Open Studio) Print studio fundraiser with printmaking demos and a sale. 6-9 pm. Pwyc (sugg $10). Open Studio Gallery, 401 Richmond W. 416-504-8238. CountdoWn to Zero (Seriously, Time to Stop Education Program) Film screening. 7 pm. $10, stu $5 or pwyc. Revue, 400 Roncesvalles. 416532-5697. eleanor WaChtel and miChael ondaatje
(PEN Canada/Toronto Public Library Fdn) Ondaatje quizzes Wachtel on 20 years of Writers & Company. 7 pm. $10. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. giFt oF musiC (Musicounts Canada) Performances by Aion Clarke, Melanie Durrant, Aim Dance Team and others. $20 adv. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. musicounts.ca. hip-hop hanukah (Chai LifeLine) A performance by Jewish hip-hopper Socalled, Hanukah songs and more help buy toys for needy children. 9:30 pm. $25, adv $20. Mod Club Theatre, 722 College. ashkenazfestival.com. photorama 2010 (Gallery TPW) Sale of photography by Robert Burley, Geoffrey James, Dyan Marie and manyothers. To Dec 4 noon-7 pm. Free. Gallery TPW, 56 Ossington. 416-6451066. support, don’t deport beneFit jam (U.S. War Resisters) Mr. Rick & the Biscuits, Darren Eedens and others perform. 8:30 pm. $30, adv $25. Prohibition Gastropub, 696 Queen E. thejamblog.com. ’tis the season Cabaret (Toronto Youth Theatre) Sneak previews of upcoming shows and more. 7 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org.
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holidaY baZaar & CraFt sale (Central Neighbourhood House) Ecological, economical alternative holiday gifts. Today noon-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. 349 Ontario. 416-925-4363 ext 117. sounds oF the season (Daily Bread Food Bank) CBC Radio One holds live broadcasts of shows with live music, personalities and more. 5:30 am-6 pm. Non-perishable food donation. CBC Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front W. cbc.ca/toronto. WoodlaWn potterY studio sale (YWCA of Toronto) Show and sale of members’ work. 5-10 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. woodlawnpottery.ca.
Festivals this week
rChristmas around the World Multi-
cultural Christmas displays and an international marketplace. Free. City Hall Rotunda, Queen and Bay. cfactoronto.com. Dec 4 and 5 rharbourkids: sk8 Festival celebrating skate culture with a hockey card cabaret featuring Dave Bidini, curling demos, outdoor skating, performances, skateboarding, a beatbox workshop and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Dec 4 and 5 hispaniC Festival Hispanic Canadian cultural festival with music by Hilario Duran, Laura Fernandez and others plus dance, poetry and more. Free. Trane Studio (964 Bathurst), Latinada (1671 Bloor W). hispaniccanadianarts.org. Dec 4 and 5 rnatural light Festival Walk scenic trails and view displays of Christmas lights. Free. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289, kortright.org. Dec 3 to 4, 10 to 11 and 17 to 18 salon du livre de toronto Francophone book festival with authors including Herménégilde Chiasson and Ryad AssaniRazaki plus storytelling and more. Appel Salon $6/day or $25 passport; other
Wall to Wall (Gallery 44) Holiday fundraising
exhibition of photo-based art. To Dec 11. 6-9 pm. Free. Gallery 44, 401 Richmond W. 416979-3941. War resisters beneFit ConCert (War Resisters Support Campaign) Music by Jon Brooks and a talk by Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman. 8 pm. $20 or pwyc. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.
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addiCted to plastiC Film screening and Q&A with director Ian Connacher. 8-11 pm. Free. Modrobes Sustainable Garment Co, 620 Queen W. 647-726-0164. Cooking For the skin Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. global aCCess Oxfam World AIDS Day panel discussion with speakers from the HIV/AIDS Legal Network and others. 6-9 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2212, 252 Bloor W. karenj.cao@live.ca. gta Faith summit Seven nights of talent, talk and teaching with open mics and talk-show
Laura Fernandez takesthe stageatthe Hispanic Festival.
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events free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. Dec 8 to 11
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rdoWnsvieW park’s trail oF lights panels. To Dec 4, 7:30-9:30 pm. No cover. Various venues. gtafaithsummit.com. personal Computer Club oF toronto Meeting. 1 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. pcct.org. pig business Film screening and panel discussion on the damaging effects of intensive pig farming. 7-9 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. pride CommunitY advisorY Forum Public consultation session on advancing the overall objectives of Pride. 7-9 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. communityadvisorypanel. ca. sarah harmer CD signing and performance by the Canadian songstress. 5:30 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. speakeasY holidaY sale Hand-crafted gifts, holiday cocktails and more. 7-11 pm. Pwyc ($4 sugg). Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-5331374.
star Children: the past, present and Future
Holiday light show tour of animated displays. Wed to Sun 6-11 pm. Walk-through $8, child $4; or $20/car. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. downsviewpark.ca. To Jan 2
oF spaCe travel Astronomy talk and tele-
scope observing. 8:10-10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. astro.utoronto.ca.
transport Futures: road priCing & smart groWth Forum Panel discussion with trans-
portation experts from Edinburgh, Buffalo, BC and Toronto. 8 am to 5 pm. Metropolitan Hotel, 108 Chestnut. Pre-register transportfutures.ca. Yiddish vinkl Illustrated talk on the rise of the Toronto Jewish community by Bill Gladstone. Noon. $16 (includes lunch). Free Times Cafe, 320 College. Pre-register yiddishvinkl@ yahoo.ca.
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Benefits
Christmas ConCert and varietY shoW
(Native Canadian Centre) Rock, blues and traditional aboriginal drumming support families in need. 6-9 pm. $3, srs/kids free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087.
and discussion led by Linda McQuaig. 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. centreofgravity.ca. anthologY oF rap Roundtable discussion led by Andrew DuBois. 2-4 pm. Free. Munk School, rm 108N, 1 Devonshire. csus@utoronto.ca. ConneCting singles Meet-and-mingle with a talk on indigenous cultures. 7 to 9:30 pm. $45$50. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. deepak Chopra The author/medical doctor lectures. 7:30 pm. $29.50 and up. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.
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dinner Victorian Christmas feast with entertainment, dancing and more. 7 pm. $100. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity. 416863-0010. tequila and more Tasting and sampling show. 4-10 pm. $50, online $45. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front W. tequilaandmore.ca. toronto Christmas market Musical entertainment, holiday-themed workshops, a street market and more. To Dec 12. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. torontochristmasmarket. com. treehouse talks Short talks by Bob McDonald, Micah Toub and Abigale Miller. 6-7:30 pm. Free. MaRS Discovery Centre, 101 College. treehousetalks.com.
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Common thread Chorus (ArtsCan Circle)
Concert of folk and Latin music with Mike Stevens and others. 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. St Simon’s Church, 525 Bloor W. 416-410-5022. diCkens Christmas tea (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab) Dickens readings, seasonal songs,
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tea and more. 2-4 pm. $15. St Clement’s Anglican Church, 59 Briar Hill. 416-923-2035.
rNative Crafts aNd Christmas Bazaar
(Native Canadian Centre) Unique hand-crafted gifts. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087. Pet PiCtures With saNta (Toronto Humane Soc) Pet pictures (today and tomorrow from 2-5 pm), and a craft and bake sale (tomorrow from 2-5 pm). $20/photo. 11 River. torontohumanesociety.com. rWiNter WoNderlaNd (Children’s nature camp) Chickadee feeding, crafts, a nature walk and more. 10 am-2 pm. $5. Humber Arboretum, Finch and hwy 27. 416-675-5009. Yogis of toroNto uNite! (Global Seva Challenge) Perform 108 sun salutations in support of grassroots organizations in South africa. 10 am-noon. Min $108 in pledges. Guvernment, 132 Queens Quay E. onelovetoronto.org.
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artisaNs’ gift fair One-of-a-kind and handmade gifts. Today and tomorrow noon-6 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. artisansgiftfair. com. rCaN’t sit still: fuN oN the sloPes Animation workshop for kids three to five. 10:30 am. $5. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416973-3012. rCast iroN Chef Kids eight and up prepare and sample Regency and Victorian Christmas treats. 1-4 pm. $20, child $15. Todmorden Mills Museum, 67 Pottery. Pre-register 416396-2819. rdj sk8: CherrY BomB Skate to the sounds of DJs Cozmic Cat and Denise Benson. 8-11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Natrel Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. draWiNg a liNe: Workers agaiNst u.s. steel
International Socialists talk by Carolyn Egan. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1220, 40 St George. socialist.ca. ear kNoWs throat Two-part writing workshop with poet a.rawlings. Today and tomorrow 1-5 pm. $100. Toronto New School of Writing, 283 College. Pre-register tnsow.com.
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food & historY shoW Talk on local history by author Bruce Bell and sampling of organically grown sprouts. 10 am. Free. St Lawrence Market Kitchen, 92 Front E. stlawrencemarket.com. rgiNgerBread house WorkshoP Handson class for kids of all ages. 11 am, 1 or 3 pm. $20. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. Preregister 416-394-8113. a haNdmade holidaY shoW Poster art, knitwear, jewellery, children’s clothes and more. 11 am-6 pm. $2-$5, kids free. St Stephen-inthe-Fields, 103 Bellevue. kidicarus.ca/ handmadeholiday. holidaY art market Handmade arts and crafts. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. Free. Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media & Education, 918 Bathurst. 918bathurst.com/ artmarket. homeless immigraNt ChildreN sheltered BY CaNadiaN PaCifiC railWaY, toroNto, 1883-90 Urban history walk. 2 pm. Free. King
and Strachan. 416-593-2656. latkePalooza Chanuka party and latke competition. 9:30 pm-2 am. Free. Caplansky’s Deli, 356 College. michelle@caplanskysdeli.com. musiCal imProvisatioN CliNiC Musicians of all levels learn to improvise a solo in the genres of rock, blues and R&B. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Long and McQuade, 925 Bloor W. mslmusic.ca. Parkdale Bazaar Vintage Christmas special marathon, a portrait studio, and handcrafted and vintage goods. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Masaryk-Cowan Community Centre, 220 Cowan. parkdaleliberty.com.
PeoPle’s assemBlY oN Climate justiCe
Community organizers, activists and neighbourhood groups meet to discuss building a stronger movement for climate justice in Toronto. 9:30 am-5 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St Geoge. torontopeoplesassembly. wordpress.com. Pride CommuNitY advisorY forum Public consultation session on advancing the overall objectives of Pride. 12:30-2:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. communityadvisorypanel.ca. rQueeN West holidaY eveNt Live music, holiday stories, a tree lighting and more. 2-5 pm. Free. Queen from University to Bathurst. queenwestbia.ca.
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It’s been 21 years since 14 female students were gunned down at Montreal’s Polytechnique and, because Canada’s women’s shelters are still rammed and violence against women remains epidemic, activists continue to mark the anniversary. This year’s Women Won’t Forget candlelight vigil commemorating all those abused and killed by men is slated for Monday (December 6) at 6 pm. Rabble-rouser Judy Rebick speaks alongside musical performers. Free. Philosopher’s Walk, Bloor just west of the ROM. womenwontforget.org.
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Here’s a fun anti-capitalist night sierra CluB The environmental group holds its annual general meeting for members and those interested in joining. 2-4 pm. Free. Brickworks, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca/visit. rsolar oBserviNg Safely observe the sun with specially filtered telescopes (weather permitting). 10 am-noon. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. toroNto roller derBY: Blood aNd thuNder eNCore Bout Two teams of women from around North America battle it out. 6:30 pm. $18, adv $12, under 9 free. Downsview Park Hangar, 35 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com. WYChWood BarNs holidaY market Local indie artists and crafters sell their work. 9 am-5 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns
out: Journalist Linda McQuaig talks about her new book, The Trouble With Billionaires, written with Neil Brooks, following a screening of The American Ruling Class. The flick, by John Kirby, is a “dramatic doc-musical” featuring Lewis Lapham, who takes two Ivy League grads on a tour of the corridors of power. Friday (December 3), 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard East. centreofgravity.ca.
C02 solutions: beyond Cancún
As global warming talks in Cancún heat up, the Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, OPIRG-Toronto and other groups host a People’s Assembly On Climate Justice, Saturday (December 4), 9:30 am to 5 pm. The orgs host the global day in solidarity with interCommunity Gallery, 76 Wychwood. bev@ designin3d.com.
Sunday, December 5
Benefits
a Christmas Carol (STOP Community Kitchen) Reading by actor RH Thomson, Metro Morning’s Matt Galloway and others. 7:30 pm. $20. Runnymede United Church, 432 Runnymede. 416-767-6729. holidaY Craft sale (Romero House/Guatemala Women Survivors of Violence) 4:30-7 pm. Free. Alternative Grounds, 333 Roncesvalles. 416-534-5543. lessoNs aNd Carols (Out of the Cold) Carols and readings for Christmas. 7:30 pm. Dona-
Judy Rebick talks at the Women Won’t Forget vigil December 6.
national coalition La Via Campesina, which has little faith in the current process and calls for the creation of a “thousand Cancúns” to generate local, grassroots responses to the climate crisis. Hear a roster of speakers and much strategizing. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George, rm 2118. torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress. com. tion. Leaside United Church, 822 Millwood. 416-425-1253. vegaN Bake sale (Cove Guardian) Fundraiser to stop the Japanese slaughter of dolphins. 1-6 pm. Free. Panacea, 588 Bloor W. rtimmons@ tnpi.ca.
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raNimate this!: fuN oN the sloPes Animation workshop for kids six to 13. 12:30 pm. $5. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-973-3012. Cuso-vso iNterNatioNal voluNteer daY CeleBratioN Music and speakers entertain
past and present volunteers. 6:30-10 pm. Free. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 647-478-4089. el aNatsui Curatorial tour of the exhibition with Afrofest artistic director Peter Toh. 2 pm.
Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rHogmanay Party Scottish New Year celebration with crafts, baking, stories and song. Noon-5 pm. Free w/ admssion. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. mS Liberation treatment Talk on results of more than 100 teatments by physician Rehan Sayeed. 1-4 pm. Free. Sheraton Hotel, 600 hwy 7 East (Richmond Hill). sufferingwithms.com.
raya DunayevSkaya anD marxiSt HumaniSm Lecture by professor Sandra Rein. 4 pm. Free. OISE, rm 8201, 252 Bloor W. ideasleftout@gmail.com.
r“Say no to DrugS, Say yeS to Life” CHriStmaS feStivaL Entertainment, arts and crafts,
kids’ activities, a Santa visit and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. 416-925-2145. Snow Day “HoLiDay market Indie arts and crafts, jewellery, ornaments, clothing, baked goods and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. snowdayholidaymarket. wordpress.com. SPiDerS of ontario Illustrated lecture by Toronto Zoo curator Tom Mason. 2:30 pm. Free. Emmanuel College, rm 001, 75 Queen’s Park Cres. torontofieldnaturalists.org. rukrainian Heritage Day Christmas celebration with performances by Prolisok Vocal Ensemble and others, Ukrainian-themed arts and crafts, and a digital gallery presentation. 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.
Monday, December 6
Benefits
50 LaffS Per Hour (Toronto Children’s Breakfast Club) Comedy fundraiser with performances by Alan Park, Claire Brosseau, Darth J Vader and others. 9 pm. $10. Dominion, 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. H.e.a.r.t (Kids Help Phone) Concert to raise awareness about bullying with Robyn Dell’Unto, Mandippal and others. 8 pm. $6. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.
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eDwarD greenSPan The author/lawyer talks with radio personality Ralph Benmurgui. 7:30 pm. $37. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723. How to Drive your man wiLD witH PLeaSure Women-only workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $43. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416588-0900.
muSiC in tHe afriCan ameriCan CiviL rigHtS movement: on Liberation muSiCoLogy Talk
and discussion by TV Reed. 4-6 pm. Free. Munk School, rm 108N, 1 Devonshire. csus@ utoronto.ca. new wave Cinema of taiwan Film clips and lecture by film critic Adam Nayman. 7-9 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org. oPen Life Drawing Live models. 6:30-9 pm. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@hotmail.ca.
ParLer fort – Surveying CanaDa’S fooD HiStory Culinary researcher/author Dorothy
Duncan speaks about her research. 7 pm. $10. Fort York, 250 Fort York. Pre-register fortyork@toronto.ca. tramPoLine HaLL Mini-lectures curated by Margaux Williamson. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. tampolinehall.net. women won’t forget A candlelight vigil with speaker Judy Rebick and musical performers commemorates the 21st anniversary of the Montreal Massacre and all women abused and killed by men. 6 pm. Free. Philosopher’s Walk, Bloor west of Avenue, behind the ROM. womenwontforget.org.
women’S CoLLege HoSPitaL rememberS tHe montreaL maSSaCre Service in mem-
ory of the 14 women murdered at L’Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. Noon-1 pm. Free. Women’s College Cummings Auditorium, 76 Grenville. 416-323-6400 ext 315. worn faSHion JournaL Talk on what makes a fashion magazine by Worn editor/ publisher Serah-Marie McMahon. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416395-5577.
Tuesday, December 7
Benefits
HoLiDay Party (Hope Air) Performances by Todd Van Allen, Ian MacIntyre and others. 8:30 pm. $10. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-8400501. kiki’S PariS: tHe City of LigHt in 1925 (Brick Literary Journal) Fundraising ball with music by Jill Barber, dancing and more. 8 pm-1 am. $75. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. 416-5939684.
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greenworkS Career fair Exhibits, networking and info on careers in the green energy sector. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. collegeconnect.on.ca/events.
Wednesday, December 8 ConDom-Stuffing Party Volunteer to help
combat HIV/AIDS. 5:30-8 pm. Free. AIDS Comm of Toronto, 399 Church. 416-340-8434 ext 254. entrePreneurSHiP 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Preregister marsdd.com/ent101. inStitutionaL LieS Conversation with political commentator Richard Gwyn and Fifth Estate co-host Linden MacIntyre. 7-8 pm. $25. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. rowL ProwL Walk to look for the Great Horned, Saw Whet and other owls. 7 pm. $7.35. Humber Arboretum, Finch and hwy 27. Pre-register 416-675-5009. Peru – inCa traiL Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel, 408 King W. Pre-register toronto@atcadventure.com. tHree ContinentS Roundtable on contemporary African art with professor Chika Okeke-Agulu and others. 7 pm. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. toronto babeL Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com.
upcoming Thursday, December 9
Benefits
CHanging tHe PiCture (Journalists for Hu-
man Rights) Art auction. 6:30-10 pm. $15, adv $10. Propeller, 984 Queen W. 416-5047142, changingthepicture.eventbrite.com. Dine anD Donate (U of T Students’ Union Food/Clothing Bank) A dinner helps students in need. 7 pm. $48.50, stu $38.50. Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. utsu.ca. DreiDeL baSH (CHW Hadassah-Wizo) Hanukkah party. 9 pm. $30, adv $20. Six Degrees, 2335 Yonge. dreidelbash@live.ca. Let Him be (Daily Bread Food Bank) Screening of the Peter McNamee film about John Lennon. 7:15 pm. $10. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. lethimbe.com.
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man Rights Day call to action with lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire, Stephen Lewis and others. 7:30 pm. $25, stu/child $20. U of T MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. zeroforce.org/humanrightsday. winter artS exPo Performances by the Bootcamp Dancers, Daniel Daley and others, original artwork and more. 6 pm. Free. George Harvey Collegiate, 1700 Keele. urbanartstoronto.org. 3
FRESH FINDS OPERA BOBS PUBLIC HOUSE A convivial atmosphere, an assortment of craft beers on tap, wholesome food and great live entertainment. 1112 Dundas St. W. (east of Ossington) 416-536-5585
www.operabobspublichouse.com ROARING TWENTIES XMAS Explore 1920s holiday traditions, with faithful re-creations of period decorations, treats, games and toys, until January 2 at Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Road 416-392-6910 www.toronto.ca/culture/museums
HONEST ED’S Toronto’s labyrinth of retail kitsch has bargains on household goods, and doubles as a museum of theatre ephemera from The Royal Alex’s storied history. 581 Bloor St. West www.mirvish.com/honesteds
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Soulpepper’s production of Dickens’ classic returns, with Joseph Ziegler reprising his acclaimed performance as Scrooge, at Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill St., December 6 to 30. www.soulpepper.ca
CUT YOUR OWN TREE Select and harvest your own Christmas tree at one of the many tree farms within easy driving distance of the city. www.christmastrees.on.ca
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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Physicist Stephen
Hawking believes it would be dangerous to get in touch with extraterrestrial creatures. “If aliens visit us,” he says, “the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” Those who’ve studied the teeming evidence for UFOs would say that Hawking’s warning is too late. Some mysterious non-human intelligence has been here for a long time, and the fact that we are still around proves they’re no Spanish conquistadors. Aside from that, though, let’s marvel at the stupidity of Hawking’s lame advice. As any mildly wise person knows, exploring the unknown is not only an aid to our mental and spiritual health – it’s a prerequisite. That’ll be especially true for you Aries in the coming weeks.
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 “At times, al-
though one is perfectly in the right, one’s legs tremble,” wrote philosopher V. V. Rozanov. “At other times, although one is completely in the wrong, birds sing in one’s soul.” That may have been the case for you last month, Taurus, but these days it’s the exact reverse. If your knees are wobbly, you’re off-centre, missing the mark, or far from the heart of the matter. If, on the other, birds are singing in your soul, it’s because you’re united with the beautiful truth. There are a couple of caveats, though: The beautiful truth won’t be simple and bright; it’ll be dense, convoluted and kaleidoscopic. And the birds’ songs will sound more like a philharmonic orchestra pounding out Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony than a single flute playing a quaint folk song.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Are there any
actors who have impersonated as many different types of characters as Gemini chameleon Johnny Depp? From rogue agent to chocolatier, from psychotic barber to astronaut, he is a model of inconsistency – a master of not imitating himself. (To glimpse 24 of his various personas, go here: bit.ly/geminiactor.) According to my reading of the omens, you now have a poetic license to follow his lead. There have been few times in the last two years when you’ve had this much freedom and permission to be so multiple, mercurial and mutant.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 A tattoo now
adorns the neck of pop star Rihanna. It says “rebelle fleur,” which is a French phrase meaning “rebel flower.” The grammar police protested her new body art. They wished she would have rendered it correctly – as “fleur rebelle” –
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since in French, adjectives are supposed to follow, not precede, the nouns they refer to. But I’m guessing Rihanna knew that. In reversing the order, she was double-asserting her right to commit breezy acts of insurrection. Let’s make “rebelle fleur” your keynote in the coming days, Cancerian. Break taboos, buck tradition and overthrow conventional wisdom – always with blithe grace and jaunty charm.
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Research by German
psychologists suggests that positive superstitions may be helpful. Reporting in the journal Psychological Science, they discovered that people who think they are in possession of good luck charms outperform people who don’t. “Superstition-induced confidence” seems to act in ways akin to how placebos work to heal sick people: It can provide a mysterious boost. (More here: tinyurl.com/luckcharm.) Just for the fun of it, Leo – and in accordance with the astrological omens – put this finding to the test. Get yourself a magical object that stimulates your power to achieve success.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Psychologist Carl Jung said that we are all connected to each other via the collective unconscious. Your psyche and my psyche have taproots that sink deep into the memories and capacities of the entire human race. According to my reading of the omens, your taproots are now functioning more vigorously than they have in a long time. You’re in more intimate contact than usual with the primal pool of possibilities. And what good is that, you may ask? Well, it means you have the power to draw on mojo that transcends your personal abilities. Could you make use of some liquid lightning, ambrosial dreams or healing balm from the beginning of time?
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 If you want to get a gallon of milk directly from the source, you have to squeeze a cow’s udder over 300 times. I recommend you use that as a metaphor for your task in the days to come. It’s going to take a lot of squirts or tugs or tweaks to get the totality of what you want. Be patient and precise as you fill your cup little by little. There’s no way you can hurry the process by skipping some steps. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,” says the Bible. That doesn’t mean what most people think it does. The word translated as “meek” is the Greek word praus, which in ancient times didn’t mean “weak-willed, passive, mild.” Rather, it referred to great power that was under rigorous control. For example, soldiers’ warhorses were considered praus. They heeded the commands of their riders, but were fierce warriors that fought with tireless fervour. In this spirit, Scorpio, I’m predicting you’re about to get very “meek”: offering your tremendous force of will and intelligence in disciplined service to a noble cause. (Thanks to Merlin Hawk
for the info I used in this ’scope.)
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Philoso-
pher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a book called Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. I’d love it if in the next few weeks you would think a lot about how you are on your way to becoming what you were born to be. Current astrological omens suggest you will have special insight into that theme. For inspiration, you might want to borrow some of Nietzsche’s chapter titles, including the following: Why I Am So Wise, Why I Am So Clever and Why I Am A Destiny.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 During
some of her concerts, Capricorn singer Hayley Williams (lead vocalist of Paramore) has worn a tank top that bears the phrase “Brand New Eyes.” I encourage you to consider making that your own guiding principle for a while. By pointedly declaring your intention to view the world with refreshed vision, you will be able to tune in to sights that have been invisible to you. You will discover secrets hidden in plain view and maybe even carve out a window where before there had been a thick, blank wall.
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Much of my
recent book, Pronoia Is The Antidote For Paranoia, is rated PG. Some is R. But there’s one story that’s X. Not in the same way that porn is. While it’s uninhibited in its rendering of ecstatic eroticism, it’s a feminist meditation on spiritual intimacy, not a heap of vulgar stereotypes. Still, when the book came out, I couldn’t bear the thought of sending copies to certain relatives of mine who are a bit prudish. So I came to an honourable compromise: Using a razor blade, I sliced out the nine pages in question and gave my loved ones the mostly-intact remainder. May I suggest you consider a comparable editing of your efforts, Aquarius? Your main object right now is to win friends and influence people.
pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 In the waters off the southwest coast of Africa, the small fish known as the bearded goby has always been preyed upon by jellyfish – until recently. Now this formerly mildmannered species, whose diet used to consist of phytoplankton, has overthrown the ancient status quo: It is feasting on the jellyfish that once feasted on it. Scientists aren’t sure why. I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your life, Pisces. How it will play out exactly, I’m not sure. Maybe you’ll gain an advantage over someone or something that has always had an advantage over you. Maybe you will become the top dog in a place where you’ve been the underdog. Or maybe you’ll begin drawing energy from a source that has in the past sucked your energy. omework: What if you didn’t feel compelled to H have an opinion about every hot- button issue? Try living opinion- free for a week. Report results by going to freewillastrology.com and clicking “Email Rob.”
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few doors east of the ultra-hip nightspot. “We’re here to stay.” That’s a relief, because you wouldn’t want to miss out on some of the most righteous barbecue in town, even if the card is only limited to three sandwiches, one of them a combo of the other two. Five ounces of Perth County pulled pork shoulder come in the Carolinastyle ($6.95), sweetly finished with apple cider vinegar, sugar and red chili flakes, while the same amount of chunky beef brisket ($7.95) gets the Texas treatment, brushed with a traditional red sauce of molasses, vinegar and ancho chilies. Both have been rubbed for 48 hours and smoked inhouse for another 15. They’re also unusually juicy. “About three-quarters of the way through the process, we do something called ‘the Texas Crutch,’” says Rose. “After 12 hours, the meat’s not really taking in any more smoke, so the longer you cook it, the more it dries out. At that point, we wrap it tight in tinfoil and put it back in the smoker so that the meat stays nice and moist.”
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At brunch, they update tuna melts with smoked Ontario whitefish, molten Emmenthal and topknots of arugula ($11), some perfect chunky fries on the side ($3). The hungover are directed to the Remedy ($14), a pair of deep-fried (!) poached eggs slathered with hollandaise, smoked cheddar and sweetly pulled pork over hash, baked navy beans and more of that sensational slaw. Bread pudding junkies will slobber over a savoury version laced with portobello mushrooms, sautéed leeks and smoked Emmenthal ($15 with Green Goddess salad). Hadley’s may be off to a slightly uneven start, but the friendly, unpretentious spot oozes potential. Nothing that the Texas Crutch can’t SD fix.
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thestockyards.ca. Everyone’s a backyard BBQ expert, but only Tom Davis puts his South Carolina ’cue on the line. Trouble is, until the self-taught pit boss is happy with the quality, they’re only available Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 5 pm. Lunch counter seating. Best: grain-fed, air-dried barbecued chickens in garlicky cumin rub; St. Louis-cut racks of pork side ribs; maple-glazed southern fried chicken; dairy-free potato salad in lemony vinaigrette; at brunch, Eggs Tommy, flaky buttermilk biscuits topped with house-cured Cajun sausage, shrimp, hollandaise and deep-fried poached eggs, porchetta-spiked home fries on the side; dulce de leche beignets. Complete dinners for $30 per person (lunches/ brunches $20), including all taxes, tip and a house-made limeade. Average main $13/$10. Open Tuesday to Friday 9 am to 9 pm, Saturday 11:30 am to 9 pm. Brunch Sunday 9 am to 3 pm, dinner 4:45 to 8 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: steep ramp at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnnnn
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1118 Queen E, at Caroline, 647-3501611, franklyeatery.com. Does the Leslieville strip really need another brunch spot? It most definitely does when the card is this unique, the soundtrack (T.Rex, Roxy Music, the Smiths) this artfully curated and the service so charming. Shame there are only 18 seats. Best: Indo-inspired mains like gobi parantha, thick whole wheat crepes stuffed with al dente cauliflower sided with sour cream raita, spicy house-made sausage and coriander chutney; BLT built on toasted slices of St John’s Bakery’s sourdough stacked with thick Upper Cut bacon, ripe tomato and avocado mayo; at weekend brunch, corn tortillas piled with tandooristyle pulled pork, perfectly scrambled free-range eggs and garlicky roasted tomato salsa lashed with avocado cream, a heap of commercial organic greens dressed in honey balsamic on the side. Complete meals for $18 per person, including all taxes, tip and a Limonata. Average main $10. Open Tuesday to Sunday 9 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnn
Contemporary WOOdLOt 293 Palmerston, at College, 647ñ 342-6307, woodlotrestaurant.com. Located in a gorgeous two-storey garage and dominated by a wood-burning oven the size of a small igloo, ex-Czehoski chef David Haman’s 40-seat bistroslash-bakery keeps its comfort food simple if massively portioned. And, no, he doesn’t do pizza. Reservations essential. Best: off the top, house-baked Red Fife baguettes with salty whipped butter; substantial starters like vegetarian French onion soup; creamy cauliflower tarts tossed with Toscano, wilted greens and brodo-braised lamb; Red Fife papardelle with either tomato-braised wild boar or wild mushrooms and boozy shallots; humongous mains like venison pie thick with root veggies; to finish, lemon ‘n’ blueberry tarts topped with roasted marshmallow merengue. Complete meals for $50 per person, including all
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taxes, tip and a pint of Duggan’s #9 IPA. Average main $19. Open for dinner nightly 7 to 10 pm; bakery weekdays 7:30 am to 4 pm, weekends 8 am to 4 pm. Closed Some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnnn
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253 Yonge, at Dundas Sq, 416-366-3600, paramountfinefoods.com. Suburban falafel franchise launches across from the Eaton Centre to instant crowds. Outstanding Middle Eastern grills, lightning service and a historic heritage setting help ease the chaos. Also: 1290 Crestlawn, at Dixie, 905-282-1600; 56A Lakeshore E, at Stavebank, Mississauga, 905891-3333; 7315 Yonge, at Glen Cameron, Thornhill, 905-886-4600. Best: housebaked pita dipped into garlicky hummus, dressed with shredded shawarma; sharable mains like reconfigured “whole chickens” marinated in yogurt à la tandoori and finished with spicy piri-piristyle sauce; unusually juicy lamb kebabs dusted with oregano, all unimaginatively sided with cardboard rice or limp frozen fries, iceberg lettuce, pallid tomato and mild pickles; the Paramount Special, strawberry and mango juices swirled with almonds, crushed pistachios and clotted cream; honey-dripping baklava. Complete dinners for $25 per person (lunches $15), including all taxes, tip and a
relatively fresh juice. Average main $12/$8. Open Sunday to Thursday 8 am to midnight, Friday and Saturday 8 am to 1 am. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn
Vegan One LOve vegetarian 854 Bathurst, at London, 416-535ñ 5683, oneloveveg.com. If you’ve ever had
Ikeila and Iville Wright’s spicy vegan corn soup at Harbourfront, you’ll recognize the signature dish at their Annex takeaway. The rest of their short Caribbeanstyle veggie card’s just as tasty, but because much of it’s made from scratch, it can sometimes be a long time coming. Best: start with the famous soup, a robust vegan purée thick with Jamaican pumpkin and full of backyard garden peas; follow with textured bean curd and buttery lima beans in mild curried gravy plated with sliced avocado, caramelized plantain, basmati rice ‘n’ lentils and salad in a sesame-ginger vinaigrette; rotis – either paratha, dahl puri or whole wheat – generously stuffed with curried chana chickpeas. Complete dinners for $20 per person (lunches $15), including all taxes, tip and a freshly squeezed juice. Average main $10. Open Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday 11 am to 6 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, no washrooms. Rating: nnnn 3
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Skaters with kitchen skills can suit up in this Screaming Hand apron and oven mitt set ($22, Hammer Skateboard, 2225 Queen East, 416-6980005, hammertoronto.com).
Bobbette & Belle is doing brisk macaron business from its new Leslieville bakery (1121 Queen East, 416466-8800, bobbetteandbelle. com), but don’t miss picking up a box of delish letterpress shortbread cookies ($35), too.
It’s already December and you’d be darn stubborn not to run out and scoop up the style, tech and eco finds featured in our third gift guide of the season, stat! By ANDREW SARDONE and ALEXANDER JOO Photos by DAVID HAWE • Hair and makeup by TAYLOR BORRIS for Judy Inc./TRESemmé • Fashion assistant: STEFANIA YARHI
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Use this gold bar coin bank ($12, Propaganda, 686 Yonge, 416-961-0555, shopaganda.ca) to start saving for next year’s holiday haul. On Oliver Oliver: Ben Sherman sweater ($138, Yoka, 2116J Queen East, 416-686-0836, bensherman.com), buffalo check shirt ($19, Joe Fresh, 396 St. Clair West, 416410-3736, and others, joe.ca) and khaki welt pocket pants ($72, American Apparel, 499 Queen West, 416703-5146, and others, americanapparel.net).
One of our favourite design lines, Roost, creates these punch-out felt ornaments ($39.90/set of 20, Ziggy’s at Home, 794 College, 416-535-8728, ziggysathome.com).
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SoYoung Mother’s canvas cooler ($27.95, Planet Kid, 87 Roncesvalles, 416-5379233, planetkid.ca) is one good-looking lunch bag. Château Gâteaux candles ($18, Labour of Love, 242 Carlton, 416923-8988, thelabouroflove.ca) come packed in vintage teacups.
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Stuart: An Akai APC40 MIDI controller.It’s currently on loan to Pho, but I’m headed to Berlin in the spring to learn how to use it properly, so I plan on reclaiming it.
What’s the best gift you’ve ever given?
Swain: I gave my girlfriend D’Angelo’s Voodoo album ($17.99, HMV, 333 Yonge, 416-596-0333, and others, hmv.ca). It’s the gift that keeps on giving! Stuart: As a teen, I used my babysitting money to buy my mum some stationery. Later, I found out she’d used it to write a draft copy of my Grammy acceptance speech.
The ultra-eco-friendly Bedol Water-Powered Alarm Clock runs entirely on tap water – no batteries, power cords or winding necessary. Fill ’er up and the ions in the water create a charge that supplies juice for up to 12 weeks ($19.99, Pistachio, 2433 Yonge, 416-3229452, epistachio.com).
What’s on your list this year?
One of Toronto’s most beloved Christmas traditions – the joyful celebration of a Christmas Vespers in full Baroque splendour, with voices, strings, brass, lutes and keyboards, all directed by David Fallis $10 tickets for ages 30 and under. Visit www.torontoconsort.org
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Stuart: A touring sound engineer and live drummer for next year. And the Beyerdynamic TG-X 60 microphone ($190, Long & McQuade, 925 Bloor West, 416-5887886, and others, long-mcquade.com). I rented one for our U.S. tours, and it helped keep my voice feeling strong. STEFANIA YARHI
Even paltry gifts look perfect wrapped in Kid Icarus’s brilliant 3-D paper ($10) available at its Kensington store (75 Nassau, 416977-7236, kidicarus.ca) and during the Handmade Holiday Show this Saturday (December 4) from 11 am to 6 pm at St. Stephen-in-the-Fields (103 Bellevue).
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Droog designer Marcel Wanders and MAC have paired up to launch a limited-edition collection of shapely makeup tools and multi-faceted cosmetics ($21.50 to $90, 89 Bloor West, 416-929-7555, and others, maccosmetics.com) available only until December 26.
If Ben Sherman’s cozy topper ($85, Yoka, 2116J Queen East, 416-686-0836, yokafashions.com) is any indication, the trapper hat trend is back for another Toronto winter.
On Senait: Jules Power Floria red check wool tunic ($124) and slouch sweatpants ($96, both julespower.com) and Bass saddle shoes ($99.85, Town Shoes, 95 Bloor West, 416-928-5062, and others, townshoes.com). On Oliver: Canada Field cardigan ($159, Red Canoe, redcanoebrands.com), flannel longsleeve button-up shirt ($65) and khaki welt-pocket pants ($72, both American Apparel, 499 Queen West, 416703-5146, and others, americanapparel.net) and Nordic boots ($198, Roots, 100 Bloor West, 416-323-3289, and others, roots.com). shopAGO_NOW_dec2_fa_Layout 1 10-11-24 10:40 AM Page 1
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The pinnacle of the series, Halo: Reach (Xbox), brings together the best features of its predecessors and still brims with innovations. A great campaign and top-notch multi-player make this the must-have first-person shooter ($59.99, HMV, 333 Yonge, 416-596-0333, hmv.ca).
A wealth of new features, gorgeous graphics and adherence to its triedand-true formula put Civilization V (PC) at the top of the list of games most likely to suck away hours of your life ($49.99, HMV).
Clear the floor and do your stretches so Dance Central (Xbox Kinect) can turn you into a dancing machine. Using the new Kinect motion sensor, you’ll be challenged to get your groove on to a full list of top dance tracks ($49.99, HMV).
Though the move to Lego game formula may be getting a little tired, Lego Universe (PC), a brand new multi-player extravaganza of brick-building goodness, is a refreshing experience for kids and parents alike ($39.99, HMV). See reviews at nowtoronto.com/games.
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Hibernate all winter in Munki Munki’s flannel PJs ($76, Tryst, 559 Queen West, 647430-0994, and others, trystlingerie.com).
Stash any leftover holiday cash in Matt & Nat’s studded pocketbook ($75, Trove, 793 Bathurst, 416-5161258, and other, trove.ca).
Dear Tane, please make these knit baby booties ($75, Advice from a Caterpillar, 8 Price, 416-960-2223, advicefromacaterpillar.ca) in grown-up sizes.
Set out a spread of olives and baguettes on Tina Frey’s long and lean plates ($45 to $80, Gardiner Museum Shop, 111 Queen’s Park, 416-408-5066, gardinermuseum.on.ca).
If you think vegetarian diets are limited to carrot sticks and too much tofu, you haven’t sampled the gourmet meatfree fare in Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty cookbook ($62, Good Egg, 267 Augusta, 416-593-4663, goodegg.ca).
Say it with Katherine Morley’s message vases ($18 to $60, MADE, 867 Dundas West, 416-607-6384, madedesign.ca).
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On Oliver: Gant Rugger vest ($298, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com), Fred Perry plaid shirt ($115, Motoretta, 554 College, 416925-1818, and other, motoretta.ca), unisex basic leather belt ($34, American Apparel, 499 Queen West, 416-703-5146, and others, americanapparel.net) and Converse by John Varvatos Bosey boots ($250, Get Outside, 437 Queen West, 416-5935598, and other, getoutsideshoes.com).
Don’t call a Yakkay ($160, Curbside Cycle, 412 Bloor West, 416-9204993, curbside.on. ca) a hat or a bike helmet. The company prefers “brainwear.”
The Adidas/Sennheiser HD25 premium DJ headphones give professionalgrade equipment some street cred by injecting the iconic three-stripes design into a premium product with crystal-clear highs and crisp bass ($349.95, Bay Bloor Radio, Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor West, 416-967-1122, baybloorradio.com).
We’re breaking our $500 price limit to squeeze in Sand’s holiday-partyperfect plaid blazer ($695, GotStyle, 60 Bathurst, 416-2609696, gsmen.com).
Skip the novelty neckwear and go for a classic skinny tie ($148, Uncle Otis, 26 Bellair, 416-9202281, uncleotis.com) by Rag & Bone.
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The Sound Of Music 45th Anniversary Limited Edition Collection Blu-ray/DVD combo pack saves most of the extras for the Blu-ray, but comes with hand-painted music box, 100-page scrapbook, snapshots from Salzburg, soundtrack and reproduction of original 1965 souvenir program ($59.99, HMV, 333 Yonge, 416-586-9668, and others, hmv.ca). The Films Of Rita Hayworth (Sony) DVD debuts for Tonight And Every Night, Salome and Miss Sadie Thompson, plus classics Gilda and Cover Girl. Extras include commentary on Gilda and introductions by Martin Scorsese, Baz Luhrmann and Patricia Clarkson ($54.99, HMV). The Slumber Party Massacre Collection (Shout Factory) Laughs, musical numbers and gore figure in this trio of 80s slasher flicks with a feminist agenda. Directors Amy Jones, Deborah Brock and Sally Mattison supply commentary, and there’s a three-part doc ($19.99, HMV). Agatha Christie’s Marple: The Geraldine McEwan Collection (eOne) All 12 TV movies starring Geraldine McEwan as the aged sleuth, with guest stars Joanna Lumley (of Absolutely Fabulous), Derek Jacobi and Timothy Dalton, among others. Extras include making-of docs, hour-long cast and crew interview and history of Marple onscreen ($89.99, HMV).
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What’s the best gift you’ve ever received? Martins: A vintage Karl Lagerfeld purse from my partner, Dan. I’ve enjoyed it into the most beautiful state of decay.
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Martins: A vintage neon clock from an old diner. I had to drive to Detroit to pick it up.
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Somerset: World peace and Camilla Skovgaard heels. But not necessarily in that order. The multi-strap ankle boot will be available at Carte Blanche in the spring and is totalSTEFANIA YARHI ly worth the wait!”
Graphics for car racing games have made leaps and bounds, but it’s still a drag trying to steer with a goddamn computer mouse. The Logitech G27 Racing Wheel simulator for PC and PlayStation 3 features dual-motor force feedback that accurately simulates traction loss, weight shift and road feel ($349.99, Future Shop, Toronto Life Square, 325 Yonge, 416-9715377, and others, futureshop.ca).
Design finds don’t get much more whimsical than Patrick Mok’s ceramic teapot ($230, The Guild Shop, 118 Cumberland, 416-921-1721, theguildshop.ca).
Surprise the photographers on your list with Nikon COOLPIX S1100pj unique 14-megapixel shooter that does what their highpriced Leicas can’t: project their images and videos directly onto walls! ($349.99, Henry’s, 119 Church, 416-868-0872, henrys.ca).
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The Logitech Flight System G940’s authentic controls and design raise the realism of flight simulator games to new sky-high levels and turn your coffee table into a full-fledged cockpit. Force feedback effects let you feel wind shear, buffeting, turbulence and g-forces, but not the shitty airplane food ($379.99, Logitech, logitech.com/en-ca). E-mail pictures straight from your mobile phone to the Kodak Pulse 7-inch frame, or add them from a memory card ($129.99, Best Buy, Eaton Centre, 65 Dundas West, 416-6428321, and others, bestbuy.ca).
The Telus Huawei E5836 device brings ultra-fast 3G+ service to the person who absolutely cannot stray from an Internet connection. Intuitive and userfriendly, it also acts as a hot spot for up to five users or devices ($149, Telus Store, Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 416-205-9489, and others, telusmobility.com).
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Jamie Thiers and Jennifer Radford of the east-end DIY bike repair hub (717 Queen East, bikesauce.org) peddle their twowheeled wish list.
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Thiers: A friend of mine found me an awesome blue-and-yellow Gardin road bike frame and worked with me on fixing it up. Now that I know how to, I’d rather build a bike myself than buy it ready-made.
What’s the best gift you’ve ever given?
Thiers: We gave bikes to a street theatre project at Ralph Thornton Community Centre. A group from the centre came into the shop a few weeks ago and fixed up five bikes that had recently been donated to us, and we in turn donated them back.”
What’s on your list this year? Radford: A storefront location for next spring!
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The adventurer or highly clumsy shooter on your list will like the Olympus Stylus TOUGH-8010 durable camera, which dives 10 metres underwater, withstands falls from 2 metres and shrugs off the freezing temperatures of a Toronto winter ($364.99, The Source, 777 Bay, 416-586-0826, and others, thesource.ca).
For the YouTube deviant, the Sony Bloggie shoots full-HD 1080p video or 12.8-megapixel stills with the press of a button. The 3-inch touchscreen vividly replays the shots, whether they’re dancing cats or drunken frat boys ($229, Sony Centre, 1 Front East, 647-258-0600, and others, sonystyle.ca).
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This holiday season, give the gift of life. Dignitas International provides children and adults access to life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment, care and support.
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By donating to Sherbourne Health Centre you will contribute to incredible programs like the Family Health Team, Supporting Our Youth, The Rotary Club of Toronto Health Bus, the 24/7 Infirmary & more!
Thoughtful, practical gifts for those in treatment at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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For almost a hundred years, Evangel Hall Mission has been building community with poor, homeless and socially isolated people in downtown Toronto through support, housing, services and advocacy. We are a community of compassion and a place of hope. EvEry day at ehm wE: • Serve over 200 people in our drop – in centre. • Provide over 200 hot meals for the hungry. • House over 130 people in fully furnished affordable housing units. • Provide spiritual and emotional comfort to those who otherwise feel helpless and alone. • Provide free basic health and dental services to hundreds in people in need. • Provide community, support, life skills, and advocacy for at risk, inner city youth. Your charitable contribution this holiday season will make a significant impact in our community and help those who would otherwise feel helpless and alone. Please help us continue to bring hope into people’s lives.
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Ethicalocean.com rocks because you can gift shop according to various ethical screens (social change, eco-friendly, animal-friendly), but we love the site’s shoulder, messenger and shopping bags in particular, because the company that makes them offers fair trade jobs and daycare to women otherwise trapped in Kolkata, India’s, sex trade ($19.95, ethicalocean.com).
We all know your dad doesn’t really want another tie, and your sister seems to stash every gift you’ve given her at the back of her closet. So rather than putting yourself through torturous rounds of jingle-saddled mall shopping, why not consider a gift that makes a real difference in someone’s life? Plus, everybody gets a distinct warm and fuzzy feeling deep in the Grinchiest part of their soul.
Evergreen edible food garden
Any green-space lover on your list will grow full of holiday cheer knowing this donation you made in their name helps build an Evergreen community garden at a local school or public place. Your giftee gets this simple packet of heirloom tomato seeds as a sprouting thanks for giving urban kids a way to get outside and dig in the dirt while learning how to grow food from the seed up ($50, my.evergreen.ca/gift).
WWF cheese cutting set
Need a hostess gift with heart for your favourite foodies? Forget yawn-worthy wine in a bag that will vanish by the end of the night or fresh-cut flowers sure to wilt by the end of the week. All proceeds from this bamboo cheese cutting kit (engraved with the WWF logo) go toward conserving biological diversity ($19.99, wwfstore.donorportal.ca).
Fair play soccer ball
Just because your vuvuzela-induced tinnitus has finally stopped doesn’t mean the Ronaldo fans in your life wouldn’t still love a good soccer ball to kick around. El problemo is that many of those on shelves today are made in sweatshops overseas. Aim higher and buy a fair trade ball whose proceeds go to support school-building and youth projects in Africa ($30, yfocus.ncf.ca/fairtrade).
Playlist For The Planet
Because every revolution needs an anthem, David Suzuki asked Canadian musicians to write songs inspired by nature. The result is Playlist For The Planet – an impassioned mix of voices from Broken Social Scene and k-os to Gordon Lightfoot and Bruce Cockburn. The disc doesn’t get officially released till March 2011, so your giftees will feel like enviro insiders when they unwrap an advance copy (with packaging made of recycled paper) ($20, store.davidsuzuki.org).
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Wolf woes If you weren’t at Wolf Parade’s Friday show at Sound Academy, you might not see them again. Near the set’s end, co-leader Spencer Krug announced that it was “the last show we’ll play for a long time.” For those hoping it was a Broken Social Scene-esque prank, an official Wolf Parade fansite reports, “Dan Boeckner has contacted us and stated that Wolf Parade will be taking an indefinite hiatus.” To those following Krug and Boeckner, the news won’t be a surprise. With increasing effort being put into their respective side projects (now main vehicles?), Sunset Rubdown and Handsome Furs, the Montreal-based songwriters had already been making Wolf Parade less of a priority. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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BAHAMAS with DOUG PAISLEY at Glenn Gould Studio, Thursday, Novñ ember 25
Rating: NNNN CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio doesn’t get a ton of rock ’n’ roll action, so the fact that singer/guitarist Afie Jurvanen, aka Bahamas, aka the fastest picker in town, turned up the crunch and let his fingers fly was all the more exciting. Starting out solemn and solo at a grand piano, Jurvanen was soon joined by the Weakerthans’ Jason Tait on drums and myriad percussion doodads and pedals. (Jurvanen introduced him as “Home Hardware – he’s got a lot of toys going on.”) By the fourth song (the Joel Plaskettesque Already Yours, from Pink Strat), things were scorching. Besides tunes from his acclaimed debut album, Jurvanen offered up new ones that maintain the laid-back tropical vibe but are dancier and more uptempo. A reworked Hockey Teeth – full of funky Taitpowered organ, slide guitar and rim shots – further showcased the duo’s playful mood. Opener/tourmate Doug Paisley wilted somewhat amidst the venue’s swish vibe but did his best to loosen up with smart country tunes and comedic anecdotes. His five-piece band, which includes Blue Rodeo bassist Bazil Donovan and Matthew Barber on drums, sounded great, and lanky Paisley has a pleasant, nice-guy CARLA GILLIS croon that evokes Randy Travis.
LUKE DOUCET & THE WHITE FALCON at Mod Club, Saturday, ñ November 27
Rating: NNNN It makes sense that Luke Doucet named his band after his beautiful Gretsch White Falcon guitar. His massive tone and flashy picking were the real stars of his early-evening Mod Club show. But while the axe heroics were front and centre, he avoided bury-
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ing the hooks in the disruptive noodling that too many skilled players indulge in. As much as the band name suits his gritty, garage-rock-country sound, his onstage chemistry with Melissa McClelland (his wife, guitarist and backup vocalist) was so strong that they should seriously consider doing a married couple revue. Their harmonies blend amazingly well, and when she took a turn singing one of her own songs, the audience was more than receptive. The only complaint? Doucet’s rowdy cottage rock didn’t get the crowd very worked up, but you can’t blame him for having an overly reserved fan base. BENJAMIN BOLES
ZOOBOMBS at the Horseshoe, November 28 ñSunday,
Rating: NNNN It’s strange to consider a band that lives halfway across the world hometown heroes, but if there’s one deserving of the designation, it’s Zoobombs. With help from championing promoter Dan Burke, the Tokyo group has played more Toronto shows than most local bands. (Their 2001 live album, Bomb You Live, was even recorded at the El Mocambo.) They have the following to show for it. Though this Horseshoe performance was a last-minute makeup gig for a cancelled Buffalo show (they’re in the midst of their first American tour in over a decade), they still packed the dance floor with devoted, enthusiastic fans. Switching between upbeat funk rock and spacey noise breakdowns, Zoobombs once again reinforced their live reputation on their de facto home turf. It’s hard to imagine tightly constructed pop rock, Hendrixesque guitar wankery and effects-knob-twiddling coexisting peacefully, but they do under lead singer/guitarist Don Matsuo’s charismatic leaderRICHARD TRAPUNSKI ship.
Good news for the Tranzac, which needs to raise $40,000 by the new year to stay operational. Recent fundraising efforts are paying off. In addition to profitable concerts by Rock Plaza Central
USHER at Air Canada Centre, Monday, November 29 Rating: NNN For an artist self-anointed as Michael Jackson’s heir apparent, Usher Raymond’s sexed-up OMG! show at the ACC was a surprisingly straightforward production. The 31-year-old entertainer kept the focus squarely on music, dance and his glistening torso. After opening with two tracks off his recent Raymond V Raymond album, Monstar and She Don’t Know, the exhaustive 24-song set mixed massive hits like Yeah! and Love In This Club and soulful fan favourites like Burn and My Boo. Usher is young enough not to come off as a careerist warhorse, but he betrayed an old-school sensibility during his go-to R&B numbers: the chair dance, the moonwalk, the ballad sung atop a floating platform, the wet-hot fan serenade. The women in the audience ate up every moment. Pop crossover hits DJ Got Us Falling In Love and OMG ended the evening on a high, bringing the audience to its feet, fists in the air. Usher might lack the visionary mindset to fill Michael Jackson’s sparkly shoes, but what he lacks in inspiration he certainly makes up for in perspirKEVIN RITCHIE ation.
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Melissa McClelland (left) rocked out with her husband, Luke Doucet, at Mod Club Saturday.
So long, Legion
Looks like the days of renting the Canadian Corps Legion Hall for quirky events like the Vintage Cuts swing party (pictured) are seriously numbered. The charming veterans’ hangout at Niagara and King is slated to close very soon, bringing to an end its original function as well as its use as a unique event space. This edition of Vintage Cuts, dubbed the British Summer Fair, fea-
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Ono honours Hamilton rock band Live How You Live gained a famous fan last week. Yoko Ono picked their song One Life as the winner of the John Lennon 70th Anniversary Birthday Contest. Part of the long-running John Lennon Songwriting Contest, this year’s instalment is extra-special: it’s the first time Ono has been directly involved. “They wanted a song that represented activism, peace and love,” says lead singer Carm Milioto. “The lyrics are very much about all of that” Benjamin BoleS
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Great Lake Swimmers
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Toronto art-salon-turned-label thrives by thinking small By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI THE BURNING HELL, FEMBOTS, JENNY OMNICHORD, TWO-MINUTE MIRACLES, PROOF OF GHOSTS and the BARMITZVAH BROTHERS at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), tonight (Thursday, December 2). $10-$12. RT, SB, SS.
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The Manhattan Transfer
FRI. DEC. 17, 2010 8:00PM KOERNER HALL A special holiday season performance of music from the Chick Corea songbook alongside festive season favourites.
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actually intended to be more of an art piece than a conventional record.” As interest in the Swimmers picked up, (weewerk) began signing more acts, first the Barmitzvah Brothers and Elliott Brood, then Barzin, United Steel Workers of Montreal and Two-Minute Miracles. Eventually, Klygo and Koh sold their Queen West apartment and (weewerk) morphed entirely into a record label. With Klygo now handling all the day-to-day operations himself, it’s remained a small-roster, practically one-man operation that befits its name. This enables (weewerk) to afford its artists the creative freedom that might not be possible at a bigger label. Take the Burning Hell, for instance. After years of drumming up publicity for their theatrical big-band approach to gothic folk, they stripped down to a trio for 2010’s This Charmed Life. In keeping with the record’s intimacy, (weewerk) limited the physical release to vinyl records sold only at smallvenue shows. “I admit that’s not the most financially viable way to release a record,” says lead singer/songwriter Mathias Kom. “But the record’s a bit more personal, so I wanted it to be
Influential record labels are usually the result of intense development and careful planning. But they can also form by accident. Such is the case with (weewerk). Over eight years, the Toronto label has become a vital source of off-kilter Canadian folk, country, roots and rock. Surprisingly, it didn’t begin as a record label at all. “When we started back in 2002, (weewerk) was actually an experimental art salon and gallery space on Queen West,” says co-founder Phil Klygo. “And it doubled as our apartment.” Running the salon space, Klygo and his then-partner Germaine Koh (now a conceptual artist in Vancouver) built a solid word-of-mouth reputation as forward-thinking patrons of the arts. As a record label, however, (weewerk)’s history is inseparable from that of its most successful band, Great Lake Swimmers. When Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker completed his first album in 2003, he turned to Klygo, who at the time was working with the label Teenage USA. Rather than putting the self-titled album out on that label, Klygo decided to sell it in a limited run as a musical tie-in with the (weewerk) space. “I did all the artwork and packaging for every copy by Burning Hell hand,” says Dekker. “It was
more for people who are already fans. “It’s counterintuitive from a marketing perspective, but I think it’s been really well received because of that. Not only did (weewerk) allow me to make the kind of record I wanted to make, but they matched my enthusiasm 100 per cent.” In other words, (weewerk) functions not just as a label but as a support system for like-minded artists. Hence, the stacked lineup for its two-night eighthanniversary party at the Silver Dollar. The Barmitzvah Brothers and TwoMinute Miracles are coming out of lengthy touring hiatuses to play the show, while Great Lake Swimmers are used to headlining venues 10 times the size. And since so many of the bands are interconnected, expect collaborations aplenty. “I don’t consider this a Great Lake Swimmers show,” says Dekker. “It’s more of a celebration of what (weewerk) has been able to do over the last eight years. “Without (weewerk), there would be no Great Lake Swimmers.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
IndIe pop
russian futurists ditching irony for classic pop glory While the Russian Futurists’ new record, The Weight’s On The Wheels (Upper Class), isn’t a complete departure for sole member Matthew Adam Hart, he does make some surprising moves. He credits producer Mike Musmanno (OutKast, the Lilys) with bringing out his R&B side, though the overt pop moves were all Hart’s idea. “I really like [Halifax singer/songwriter] Ruth Minnikin’s voice because it’s such a classic pop voice,” Hart says of the duet One Night, One Kiss, about people getting together in a club. “So I decided to write a more classic pop song – like, not ironic or smartassy or anything, just old-school pop that didn’t have so much over-thinking and double meanings and shit. “I wanted a song people could sing along to, plus I spend a lot of time in bars watching people. That sounds creepy. I mean just obserJOanne HuFFa ving the interactions between people.” n Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, December 2), doors 9 pm. $10-$15. 416-516-8677.
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Aspects of Oscar:
synth-pop
austra
Oscar Solo featuring McCoy Tyner and introducing Alfredo Rodriguez
A revitalized Katie stelmanis relaunches
austra with rituals and DJ Kevin Hegge at the Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Friday (December 3), doors 9 pm. $8. 416-504-4239.
Last time we talked to Katie Stelmanis, she was in search of a new band name after discovering that the one she’d wanted, Private Life, was taken. After much deliberation, she rechristened her project Austra, but she probably should’ve checked the internet first. “I set up a Google alert for Austra, and it’s been going off every few minutes,” sighs Stelmanis over pints of cider at the Beaver. “Apparently, it’s also the short form for Australia. But at this point I just don’t care any more. I like it because it has few associations attached to it.” Band-name neutrality is a big deal for Stelmanis right now, since she’s effectively relaunching her career with a dance-club-friendly sound and stronger image. Her dramatic opera-trained voice is still centre stage, but her new material is miles away from the quirky keyboard pop she made under her own name. Austra’s recently released debut single, The Beat And The Pulse (One Big Silence), has many critics declaring that she’s finally living up to the huge potential shown on her 2008 solo debut, Join Us (Blocks Recording
Club). According to Stelmanis, one of the biggest shifts came from discovering dance music. “After seeing Hercules and Love Affair at Mod Club, I got inspired to learn more about the history of house music. “I’ve really only discovered bass very recently, but I understand now why it’s so important with a high-pitched voice like mine. Without those frequencies upfront in the mix, I can sound a little piercing.” It helps that she’s brought in producer Damian Taylor (Björk, Robyn) to assist with mixing the songs she’s recorded over the last three years for an album to be out in the new year on a prestigious label we can’t yet reveal. “Working with Damian was great because his background is in straightup techno and dance music, but he’s also got experience with pop. He taught me a lot – not just about synthesis but also about how to approach the material live.” Live, she relies on real musicians – bassist Dorian Wolf, drummer Maya Postepski, keyboardist Ryan William and (when available) singers Romy and Sari Lightman – and backing tracks, a compromise she’s willing to live with. “I’m not so worried about whether people think it’s cheating to use backing tracks live. It’s actually a lot of work and in many ways harder to pull off. There’s a lot that can go wrong.” 3
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THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS, DVAS
Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, December 2) See preview, page 55.
LOWEST OF THE LOW
Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday and Saturday (December 3 and 4) Toronto roots rock legends reunite.
EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
w/ Q-Bert, Marcus Visionary, Big League Chu and more Revival (783 College), Saturday (December 3) Turntablism and funky breaks.
cember 4) Critically acclaimed baroque pop.
JUNO 40TH ANNIVERSARY DECADES CONCERT SERIES: 1970S NIGHT,
w/ Andy Kim, the Beauties, Luke Doucet, the Good Brothers, Justin Rutledge and many more Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (December 4) See page 59.
KILLING JOKE
Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (December 7) Reunited industrial music pioneers.
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Thursday, December 2 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
BOVINE SEX CLUB Speak of the Devil, Archers, Vilipend.
CLINTON’S Arthritis Society Fundraiser 20 Amp Soundchild. CROCODILE ROCK Open Jam Night Thursdays Sonic Playground 9 pm. FOX & FIDDLE DANFORTH Baby, It’s Cold Outside benefit for TouchStone Youth Centre Jerry Leger & the Situation, James McKie doors 7 pm. THE GARRISON Wavelength 511 Mean Red Spiders. HARD ROCK CAFE The Gift Of Music: Benefit for MusiCounts Canada Kim Davis, Ray Robinson, Melanie Durrant, Trish, Aion Clarke, DJs Jester, Entourage and P-Plus. HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/blues/ jazz) 9 pm. HORSESHOE NQ Arbuckle, the Warped 45s, Matthews Brothers (alt country) 9 pm.
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Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $32.50. RT, SS, TM. February 20.
DUM DUM GIRLS
El Mocambo doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS. February 26.
PLANTS & ANIMALS
Guvernment 416-869-0045. March 18.
NOAH & THE WHALE
Mod Club doors 8 pm, all ages, $17.50. RT, SS, TW, UR. March 24.
TAYLOR SWIFT, NEEDTOBREATHE Air Canada Centre $tba. TM. July 15 and 16.
TICKET INDEX Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
How to place a listing
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Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday (December 3) See preview, page 61.
= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night
Hamilton Place 8 pm, $36.50-$59.50. TM. February 19
Massey Hall doors 6:30 pm, $39.50-$94.50. RTH, TM. March 17 and 18.
J. COLE, RICH KIDD, JAHVON
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GOO GOO DOLLS, STEVEN PAGE
SARAH MCLACHLAN, BUTTERFLY BOUCHER, MELISSA MCCLELLAND
Music Gallery (197 John), Friday and Saturday (December 3 and 4) See preview, page 60.
How to find a listing
Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, $49.50-$99. SC, TM. February 14.
Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$74.50. RTH. March 17.
TEEN SLEUTH AND THE FREED CYBORG CHOIR
BUKE & GASS
DEVILDRIVER, CANCER BATS, BAPTIZED IN BLOOD
THE CHIEFTAINS ST PATRICK’S DAY
Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Friday (December 3) See preview, page 55.
THIS SATURDAY
Boxing Day Guvernment 416-869-0045. December 26.
Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 5.
AUSTRA, RITUALS, DJ KEVIN HEGGE
LIMITED TICKETS FOR THE SATURDAY SHOW STILL AVAILABLE AT ALL OUTLETS
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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, TEDDY Opera House 416-466-0313. February 2. THOMPSON THE GIPSY KINGS Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (De-
Mod Club (722 College), Friday (December 3) Indie folk band with a great live rep.
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EL MOCAMBO Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois
Electric Karma, Ceramic Flowers (alt rock) doors 9 pm. LI’LY Real Funk, Come Get It! Chris Rouse & the Arousal (R&B/funk/soul) 9 pm. MOD CLUB Hip-Hop Hanukah toy-raiser benefit for Chai LifeLine Socalled doors 9 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Allston Rising, Revolution Love, the Hormoans, Chik Gala, BingeNinja. RIVOLI CD release party Decade of Sleep, Dan Roth & the Joys, DJ Lucas 9 pm. ROC N DOC’S Fraser Daley (R&B) 9:30 pm. ROCKPILE Despised Icon, the Acacia Strain, Ion Dissonance. SILVER DOLLAR Weewerk Records Anniversary Show The Burning Hell, Jenny Omnichord, Fembots, Two-Minute Miracles, Proof of Ghosts, Barmitzvah Brothers. See preview, page 54. SLACK’S Anna Sudac, Richard Longedijk, Elana Harte 8 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Psycroptic, Keep of Kalessin, Pathology doors 8:30 pm. UNDERGROUND GARAGE The Strangers. THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (roots/rock) 9 pm. WRONGBAR CD release The Russian Futurists, DVAS doors 9 pm. See preview, page 55
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GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Thursday Night Confidential: Toronto Blues Society Harrison Kennedy 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S SHBTI. HOLY OAK CAFE Lisa Bozikovic, Julie Faught, Liz Brockest (folk) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Craig Cardiff 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL Tyler Shipley & the Consumer Goods, Great Aunt Ida. LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 8 pm. LOU DAWG’S Mike Constantini 10 pm. LULA LOUNGE War Resisters Support Campaign Benefit Concert Jon Brooks, Antonia Zerbisias, Jeremy Hinzman 8 pm. MONARCHS PUB Delta Blues Thursdays Layla Zoe, Steve Pelletier, Shawn Kellerman, Vince Maccorone. PROHIBITION Support, Don’t Deport benefit jam for U.S. War Resisters Mr Rick & the Biscuits, Darren Eedens 8:30 pm. REX Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues harmonica) 6:30 pm. REX Kirk MacDonald Quartet 9:30 pm. TOUCHÉ Mistura Fina, Aline Morales (Brazilian music) 10:30 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 9 pm.
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THE BEAN Signe Miranda, David Sony & Dale Luarca 9 pm.
BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE CABARET Jambo-
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BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Textura
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FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE
Glenn Gould School Opera: Kurt Weill’s Little Mahagonny noon to 1 pm. GATE 403 Tim Shia Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Nadia Hosko Jazz Band 9 pm.
LA MAQUETTE DeVaughn David 6:30 to 9:30 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met
Patricia Wright (organ ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Thursday Jazz Club Joe Sealy 7:30 pm. THE PADDOCK Jake Wilkinson Quartet 10 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). ROY THOMSON HALL Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Christian Tetzlaff, Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Ghost Eye (Simeon Abbott, Dan Gaucher, Steve Ward) 8 pm. SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS A Christmas To Remember The Canadian Tenors & Orchestra 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO CD release Peripheral Vision (Don Scott & Michael Herring) 8 pm. TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Mozart And Haydn Programme Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Richard Egarr (fortepiano) 8 pm.
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YORK UNIVERSITY ACCOLADE EAST BLDG MARTIN FAMILY LOUNGE York University Jazz Festival: Jazz Combo 7:30 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.
CHEVAL Brand’d Thursdays. COBRA LOUNGE Album release Magda & Marc
Houle, Jamie Kidd, Koki 10 pm. ETON HOUSE DJ Phil (top 40s) 9 pm. GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA Martini Madness DJ Ron Jon (funk/ soul/house). THE PAINTED LADY DJ Phantasik (old school/ hip-hop/reggae) 10 pm.
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“The 70s were the last decade when successful music was also the best. When Lightfoot, the Band, Young, Mitchell, Cohen, the Guess Who, Rush and Cockburn were all on the charts, music fans weren’t lamenting the poor state of the mainstream. There may be more good music in the world today, in the 70s you didn’t need to sift through heaps of corporate shit to find it.” LUKE DOUCET
Catch Luke Doucet Saturday (December 4) at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West) as part of the Juno Decades WIN tickets to this show! Enter at Concert Series: 1970s Night. The Beauties, Dan Hill, Oh Susanna, the Good Brothers, the Sadies, Blue nowtoronto.com/contests Rodeo and more also reminisce about the Canadian music scene online at nowtoronto.com/music.
THE ROOSEVELT ROOM That Old School Party
Monsieur Cedric (pop/rock/hip-hop/house/ R&B) 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Retro Thursdays DJ Lazarus (80s & 90s music) doors 10 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze.
Friday, December 3 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ANNEX WRECKROOM Miss May, Sleeping With
Sirens, Bury Tomorrow, Crimson Armada doors 5 pm, all ages. ASPETTA CAFFE Unbuttoned (hip-hop/funk) 8 pm. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB CD release Austra, Rituals, DJ Kevin Hegge. See preview, page 55. BREAD & CIRCUS Friendlyness & the Human Rights, Progress (roots/reggae) 10 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Chick Jagger (Stones tribute). DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND David Usher doors 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Deep Fried DJ Linx, DJ Thera-P, DJ Riccachet (hip-hop) doors 10 pm. EL MOCAMBO Ogguere (Cuban hip-hop duo). EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Jesse Weeks, 2Fresh Flow, Zameer (rock/pop/hip-hop) doors 8 pm.
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These Electric Lives 9 pm. ñ GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin
(classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. GROSSMAN’S The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues). HARD LUCK BAR DC Music Showcase and benefit for the Daily Bread Food Bank. HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 10 pm. HORSESHOE Zeus, Amos the Transparent, Skeletones Four (indie rock) doors 9 pm. KOROVA MILKBAR Boys Who Say No, Hut, Dr Ew 9 pm. LAMBADINA Canadian Independent Music Fridays (open mic/freestyle competition) 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Lowest of the Low doors 9 pm. LIVING ARTS CENTRE Mississauga Arts Council Cranberry Breakfast Liberty Silver 7:45 am. MEADOWVALE THEATRE A Taste Of Soul BluSoul, Age of Reason (R&B/Motown/Marvin Gaye/Stevie Wonder) 8 pm. MOD CLUB Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (indie folk) doors 7:30 pm. MONARCHS PUB Classic Rock Fridays Michael Danckert, Kevin Adamson, Danny Lockwood 7 pm. MOTEL The Ultimatemost High (garage punk rock) 11 pm. MUSIC GALLERY Pop Avant Series Teen Sleuth, the Freed Cyborg Choir (rock opera) 8 pm. See preview, page 60. ORBIT ROOM Arsenals. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Jingle Bell Rocks 2010 Dinosaur Bones, the Arkells, the Reason (indie rock) 8 pm, all ages. RANCHO RELAXO The Family, Red Red Run, the Sister Wives. RIVOLI Chad Stokes, Matt Embree, Lauren Coleman doors 8:30 pm. ROC N DOC’S Next of Kin (rock) 10 pm. ROCKPILE Despised Icon, the Acacia Strain, Beneath the Massacre. SILVER DOLLAR Weewerk Records Anniversary Show United Steel Workers of Montreal, Great Lake Swimmers, Canteen Knockout, Barzin, the Village Meat. See preview, page 54. SNEAKY DEE’S Young Widows.
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UNDERGROUND GARAGE Phil & John Show (interactive rock).
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
ASPETTA CAFFE Itchy Bones & Ben Wood (blues/rock) 8 pm.
ETON HOUSE The Key Frames (country/rock/
bluegrass) 9 pm.
GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR RudeBoy RudeGirl 7 pm. THE HARP PUB The Heart Attacks & Johnny Max 9 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Zoe Guigueno 7:30 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Stanley Brothers Tribute Dottie Cormier & Stagger Lees (bluegrass) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM CD release Carlos Del Junco 8:30 pm. LOU DAWG’S Paige Armstrong (rockin’ blues) 10 pm. LULA LOUNGE Benny Escalante (Cuban Son) 11 pm. MASSEY HALL Christmas & Hits Tour Kenny Rogers 8 pm. NATIVE CANADIAN CENTRE Christmas Benefit Concert & Variety Show (world music/rock/ blues/traditional Aboriginal drum) 6 to 9 pm. REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB JP & Friends (acoustic blues/jazz) 10 pm. UNITY CHURCH Henry Vivel & TropiCanada (boleros/cha cha/salsa) 8 pm.
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Christmas Party Steve Strongman, Robin Banks, Chuck Jackson, Sock It to You Allstars (blues) doors 7 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
THE ANNEX LIVE Baby, It’s Cold Outside Peggy Mahon, Danny Mcerlain, Dave Field 8 pm. BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Gram Whitty Trio 7:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN At Ease (swing/jazz) 9 pm. GALLERY 345 The Art Of The Piano Vicky Chow 8 pm. GATE 403 Morgan Sadler (piano) 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Joanna Moon (flamenco-Latino/ Quebec edge quartet) 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL Woodlawn Pottery Studio Reception Sonya Anderson (vocalist) 5-10 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Handel’s Messiah Elmer Iseler Singers, Amadeus Choir 8 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Daniela Nardi, Ron Davis (electro world jazz) 7:30 pm. QUOTES Fridays At Five John MacLeod 5 to 8 pm. REX The Maisies (three-part vocal harmony septet) 6:30 pm. REX Andrew Stewart 9:45 pm. ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL An Evening Of Kurt Weill Glenn Gould School Opera 7:30 pm.
SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Leftover Daylight
Series 8 pm.
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Christmas To Remember The Canadian Tenors & Orchestra 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Alla Kadysh 8 pm. TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Mozart And Haydn Programme Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Richard Egarr (fortepiano) 8 pm. WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 6:30 pm.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM House Party Fridays
(dance/top 40/mashups/90s mixes) 10 pm.
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tine, Tiny Danza, Growl Chant Howl, Pure Finesse. SNEAKY DEE’S Buke & Gass, Talk Normal, Doldrums doors 8 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Brandon Flowers doors 8 pm. T.S.T’S LAUNCH PAD Chill With Pill (rap/hiphop) 9 pm, all ages. VELVET UNDERGROUND Little City, Blacklist Manifesto, Ryan Warner 8 pm.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM The Fresh Meat Tour Jef-
free Star, Dev, It Boys doors 5 pm, all ages. ASPETTA CAFFE Pat Boardman, Bolus, Gordie & the Guts, Tyler Russel 7 pm. BAR ITALIA James King 10 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Dearly Beloved, A Primitive Evolution, Tripping Hazard. CADILLAC LOUNGE Cadillac Ranch Double O Soul 3:30 pm. DC MUSIC THEATRE DC Music Showcase and benefit for the Daily Bread Food Bank all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND David Usher doors 8 pm. EDDY’S PLACE Breakandenter 3 Year Anniversary Party Pawel, Frivolous, Noah Pred, DJ martin Fazekas, Co-Op. EMMET RAY BAR Forget the Flowers (indie/ rock) 10 pm. ETON HOUSE Playback (R&R dance) 4 to 7 pm & 9 pm. HORSESHOE Juno 40th Anniversary Decades Concert Series: 1970s Night Andy Kim, the Beauties, Bidiniband, the Good Brothers, Dan Hill, Kevin Hearn, Luke Doucet, Michaele Jordana, Justin Rutledge, Oh Susanna and others 9 pm. See page 59. HUGH’S ROOM Amici Camping Charity Benefit Tim Magwood, Daniel Roth, Tom Szczesniak, Sharron Matthews and others 8:30 pm. LEE’S PALACE Lowest of the Low doors 9 pm. MASSEY HALL Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson doors 6:30 pm. MOD CLUB Jeremy Fisher, Greg Laswell, Emily Brown doors 8 pm. MUSIC GALLERY Pop Avant Series Teen Sleuth, the Freed Cyborg Choir (rock opera) 8 pm. See preview, this page. OPERA HOUSE Watain, Black Anvil, Goatwhore, Panzerfaust, Empyrean Plague (metal) doors 7 pm, all ages. THE PISTON The Perfect Transcription, A Spacemen 3 & Spritiualized party in aid of Natty Brooker Speedway, Flowers of Hell, the Hoa Hoas, Drunk Woman, the Pow Wows, the Blooming Rosebuds, the Disraelis, Ostrich Tuning and others doors 9:30 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Polynesian Bride, Dilly Dally, Mad Ones. REX Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm. ROC N DOC’S Joe Mavety (R&B) 4 pm. ROC N DOC’S Pop Cherry (Stonesy rock) 10 pm.
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Proof Matt Walsh, Gingy, Johnny Hockin doors 11 pm. EMMET RAY BAR JuiceBox Jam (soul) 10 pm. FLY The Big Bang Party DJ Amita (Bollywood/bhangra) doors 9:30 pm.5 FOMO Love & Slap DJs G Spence, DomB (trip-hop/house) 9 pm. FOOTWORK Luv This City Dekoze, Chris Ink doors 10 pm. GEORGE’S PLAY DJ Oscar 11 pm.5 GOODHANDY’S Dirty Sexy Party DJ ViVi Diamond doors 10 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Adam Davis (house/breaks). JANGBANG Commonwealth DJs Pete Funk, Richniques, Safari647 doors 10 pm. THE LOCAL She Said Boom Xmas Bash DJ April Fool. MARGRET Speakeasy Queer Function DJ Cozmic Cat 10 pm.5 MOD CLUB Arcade Fridays Nero, the Killabits doors 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Transmission DJs Scott Wade, Scott Waring (Britpop/new wave). REVIVAL Make It Funky 5-Year Anniversary DJ Q-Bert, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Marcus Visionary, Big League Chu, Lady Linzee, Mickey D and others 9 pm. SPORTS CENTRE CAFE Raptor Fan Fridays DJ Colin Lee 7 pm. SUPERMARKET Rollin’ & Scratchin’ 3-Year Anniversary Party DJ Rich Aucoin. TERANGA Aughtie By Nature DJs A.C. Risky, ARP 2600 (retro dance party) doors 9 pm. ULTRA Flock Fridays (mashup). VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Loriann 10 pm.
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TEEN SLEUTH & THE FREED CYBORG CHOIR Brain tumour inspires surreal art rock theatre production How can I prepare you for the wild ride that is a Teen Sleuth & the Freed Cyborg Choir performance? Let’s start with the backstory. In 2005, Teen Sleuth vocalist/creative director Ellen Smallwood had a benign tumour removed from her brain. During the process, EEG machines read her brain waves for a spell. This bond with machinery begot a flirtation with cyborgism and launched her Montreal art rock project. The term “art rock” is thrown around lots these days, but for the Halifax County native and her collec-
tive of dancers, doo-wop singers and thespians, the glove fits. “We’re an art rock mirror of fantasy and reality,” Smallwood tells me. “Our disenchanted storybook of songs comes to life via a 12-piece band, projections, puppetry and dance.” Ultimately, music’s at the heart of this theatrical beast. Teen Sleuth’s debut album, Where The Animals Trace The Stars (independent) is not only mind-bendingly original but also terrifically uplifting. Says Smallwood, “We’ll make you want to stand up and cheer.” CARLA GILLIS ■ Music Gallery (197 John) as part of the Pop Avant Series Friday and Saturday (December 3 and 4), 8 pm. $10-$15. RT, SS, TW.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM Massive Saturdays DJ
Mixnmatch, DJ Death by Awesome 10 pm.
AUGUSTA HOUSE Reality Bytes 1.3 DJs 4est,
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC CONSERVATORY THEATRE Bluebird North Showcase
HIP-HOP
SILVER DOLLAR Big Silver (blues ) 8 pm. ST SIMON-THE-APOSTLE ANGLICAN CHURCH
Lovers’ rap vs cornball pop
Mauricette aka Subliminal (beatboxing) 11 am to 4 pm. THE HARP PUB Sleeping Children Around The World benefit Christmas party Johnny Max Band 4 pm. LAMBADINA Ethiopiques Tomas Ewnetu & Meseret Addis, DJ AfroSonic (Afrobeat/disco/ top 40) 11 pm. THE LOCAL Kenneth McCleod & the Salt Band. LOU DAWG’S Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm. LULA LOUNGE Cafe Cubano (salsa dance) 10 pm. REMENYI HOUSE OF MUSIC Celebrate! Holidays Of The Global Village Children’s Show Chris McKhool 1 pm. REX Danny Marks (blues) noon. (singer/songwriters) 8 pm.
ArtsCan Circle Benefit Concert Common Thread Chorus, Mike Stevens (folk/Latin/ South American music) 7:30 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
ASPETTA CAFFE The Nim Shambler Trio (jazz) 3 to 5 pm.
BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Denielle mas Concert 7:30 pm.
DECEMBER 19 The Sound Academy
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
Lindzrox, Jrox (90s music). BLONDIES The Rivalry Jeff Breen vs Cesar Caballero, Ruby J vs Stewart Thompson, Parro vs Spinfinite (DJ Battle). BOAT Chronologic (dance music from 1890 to 2011) 10 pm. CHEVAL Just Cheval Saturdays DJ Undercover. CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (60s soul/R&R dance). COBRA LOUNGE The New Disco Saturdays DJ Aadil. COLLEGE STREET BAR Heavy Rotation DJs Royale, Mercilless, Riccachet, Thera-P (funk/soul/ R&B/hip-hop/house/reggae) doors 10 pm.
CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Flutes By
DECEMBER 4 Mod Club Theatre
Camera: Live Soundtrack To Silent Film Holger Schoorl, Tomasz Krakowiak, Germaine Liu, Kyle Brenders, Joe Clement and others 8 pm. ST PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Gabrieli: Midnight Mass Of 1605 The Tallis Choir 7:30 pm. TEN FEET TALL June Garber 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Hispanic Festival 2010: CD release Carlos Bastidas Band, Laura Fernandez, Hilario Duran doors 7 pm. TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Mozart And Haydn Programme Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Richard Egarr (fortepiano) 8 pm. UNITARIAN CONGREGATION GREAT HALL Memories From Childhood Eileen Keown, Jennifer Tung, Glenn Gould School of Music vocalists 8 pm. WOMEN’S ART ASSOCIATION Bill McBirnie, Louis Simao (flute, piano) 7 pm.
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE MARILYN BREWER COMMUNITY SPACE HarbourKIDS: SK8 Sean
Bassels Quintet (jazz/blues) 9 pm.
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SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Man With A Movie
Night: Bach, Bach & More Emma Elkinson, Alison Melville, Margaret Gay, Sara-Anne Churchill (baroque music) 8 pm. C’EST WHAT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad jazz) 3 pm. CHALKERS PUB Nancy Walker Quartet (jazz) 6 to 9 pm. CHURCH OF SAINT TIMOTHY Amahl And The Night Visitors: Benefit for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign & St Timothy’s Church The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, St Timothy’s Church Choir (dramatic reading with music) 7:30 pm. GALLERY 345 San Agustin Duo Emma Banfield, Diana Dumlavwalla (violin, piano) 8 pm. GATE 403 Jazz Brunch Coleman Tinsley noon to 3 pm. GATE 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Melissa Boyce Band (jazz/blues) 9 pm. GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL Christmas Splendour II Pax Christi Chorale 7:30 pm. HOPE UNITED CHURCH Welcome Yule Christmas Concert Cantemus Singers 7:30 pm. LA MAQUETTE Pater Mathers (classical guitar) 6:30 to 9:30 pm. LIVING ARTS CENTRE An English Christmas Mississauga Festival Choir 2 & 8 pm. MOMIJI SUSHI BISTRO J&V The Duo (jazz/pop/ R&B/easy rock/Latin) 7 pm. MORROW PARK CHAPEL Christmas In The Chapel Elora Festival Singers & Chamber Orchestra (classical) 3 to 5 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Daniela Nardi, Ron Davis (electro world jazz) 7:30 pm. REBAS CAFÉ The Noah Sherman Trio 4 to 7 pm. REX Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm. REX Engine Peter Lutek, Greg de Denus, Tom Richards, Dan Fortin, Ethan Ardelli 9:45 pm. RIVERDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A Taste Of The Holidays SingingOUT 2 and 7:30 pm.5
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL An Evening Of Kurt Weill Glenn Gould School Opera 7:30 pm.
J. COLE In a year when, as Erykah Badu so concisely put it in a Twitter rant, “pop techno cornball-ass music” ruled the radio, there were also plenty of signs that old-school hip-hop spirit hasn’t capitulated: Nicki Minaj ditched vixen verses for weirdo flow, Kanye exorcised his beautiful, dark, twisted fantasies, and Jay-Z brought beat poetics back to the A list by signing Jay Electronica to his Roc Nation imprint. Poised to storm the spotlight is J. Cole, a rapper/producer who isn’t afraid to get deep. The North Carolina native’s hype commenced last year when he became Roc Nation’s first signee, and his momentum has continued apace thanks to brassy summer single Who Dat and the recent Friday Night Lights, a mostly self-produced mixtape showcasing his dexterous, introspective wordplay and warm midtempo soul (downloadable at jcolemusic.com). If his sold-out Sound Academy gig is any indication, more than a few folks are hoping Cole’s forthcoming debut LP, Cole Word, will hammer another nail into the cornball coffin. KEVIN RITCHIE
Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday (December 3), 8 pm. $22.50. PDR, TM.
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DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Peer Pressure
A-Rock, Hatchmatik, Merk Meny doors 11 pm. EDDIE’S PLACE Breakandenter Three-Year Anniversary Party Pawel, Frivolous, Noah Pred, DJ Martin Fazekas, Co-op doors 10 pm. FLY Master Beat World Tour DJ Brett Henrichsen, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 FOMO Mingle 9 pm. FOOTWORK John Dahlback doors 10 pm.
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Party DJ Jimi Lamort doors 9 pm.5 GUVERNMENT Spin Saturdays Andy Moor (house/trance). GUVERNMENT Contact John O’Callaghan, Sean Tyas, W&W, Ashley Wallbridge. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE ICE RINK DJ SK8 Night DJs Cozmic Cat, Denise Benson 8 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE DJ Anni Spadafora 10 pm. INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). MOD CLUB 8-Year Anniversary Party DJ MRK, the Ruby Spirit, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/R&R) 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (rock & soul oldies). REVIVAL The Back To Basics Party Paul E Lopes, Jason Palma, Groove Institute, DJ Starski, DJ Apocalypse 10 pm. RIVOLI Droppin’ Knowledge! Blake Carrington, Wolf J, Harris, Fundament, Pablo, DJ James Redi 9 pm. 751 Motown Party Fawn BC, Brett Millius, Reverand Throwdown (Motown/northern soul/remixes). SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop and soul) 11 pm. 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. ULTRA Signature Saturdays (mashup). VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Joe (alt rock) 11 pm. VIDA LOUNGE Can’t Stop Esther – The Madonna Marathon DJ Doctor Baggie 10 pm.
Sunday, December 5 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ANNEX WRECKROOM Abacabb, Legend,
Wretched, Monsters, In Alcatraz 1962, Heritage, In the Act of Violence, Hang the Heretics doors 5 pm. ASPETTA CAFFE Dan Scruton (rock/pop) 2:30 to 5:30 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Songwriters Expo Holiday Bash: Fundraiser for METRAC. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND David Usher doors 8 pm. EL MOCAMBO Run It Back Mary Rose Obsession, Lucifier, Kathleen Crandles and others 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. REPOSADO Ancient Chinese Secret (instrumental). ROC N DOC’S The Bottle Devils (rock) 9 pm. ROCKPILE Blackfoot.
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
ELLINGTON’S CAFE Open Mic: Poetry &
Music Ruben ‘Benny’ Esguerra 11 am to 2 pm.
GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Blueñ grass Sunday Kit-Gut
String Band 5 to 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S Acoustic Jam Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 4 pm. GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM The Fresh Meat Tour Jef-
free Star, Dev, It Boys doors 5 pm, all ages. ASPETTA CAFFE Pat Boardman, Bolus, Gordie & the Guts, Tyler Russel 7 pm. BAR ITALIA James King 10 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Dearly Beloved, A Primitive Evolution, Tripping Hazard. CADILLAC LOUNGE Cadillac Ranch Double O Soul 3:30 pm. DC MUSIC THEATRE DC Music Showcase and benefit for the Daily Bread Food Bank all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND David Usher doors 8 pm. EDDY’S PLACE Breakandenter 3 Year Anniversary Party Pawel, Frivolous, Noah Pred, DJ martin Fazekas, Co-Op. EMMET RAY BAR Forget the Flowers (indie/ rock) 10 pm. ETON HOUSE Playback (R&R dance) 4 to 7 pm & 9 pm. HORSESHOE Juno 40th Anniversary Decades Concert Series: 1970s Night Andy Kim, the Beauties, Bidiniband, the Good Brothers, Dan Hill, Kevin Hearn, Luke Doucet, Michaele Jordana, Justin Rutledge, Oh Susanna and others 9 pm. See page 59. HUGH’S ROOM Amici Camping Charity Benefit Tim Magwood, Daniel Roth, Tom Szczesniak, Sharron Matthews and others 8:30 pm. LEE’S PALACE Lowest of the Low doors 9 pm. MASSEY HALL Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson doors 6:30 pm. MOD CLUB Jeremy Fisher, Greg Laswell, Emily Brown doors 8 pm. MUSIC GALLERY Pop Avant Series Teen Sleuth, the Freed Cyborg Choir (rock opera) 8 pm. See preview, this page. OPERA HOUSE Watain, Black Anvil, Goatwhore, Panzerfaust, Empyrean Plague (metal) doors 7 pm, all ages. THE PISTON The Perfect Transcription, A Spacemen 3 & Spritiualized party in aid of Natty Brooker Speedway, Flowers of Hell, the Hoa Hoas, Drunk Woman, the Pow Wows, the Blooming Rosebuds, the Disraelis, Ostrich Tuning and others doors 9:30 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Polynesian Bride, Dilly Dally, Mad Ones. REX Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm. ROC N DOC’S Joe Mavety (R&B) 4 pm. ROC N DOC’S Pop Cherry (Stonesy rock) 10 pm.
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GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Country Sat-
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Proof Matt Walsh, Gingy, Johnny Hockin doors 11 pm. EMMET RAY BAR JuiceBox Jam (soul) 10 pm. FLY The Big Bang Party DJ Amita (Bollywood/bhangra) doors 9:30 pm.5 FOMO Love & Slap DJs G Spence, DomB (trip-hop/house) 9 pm. FOOTWORK Luv This City Dekoze, Chris Ink doors 10 pm. GEORGE’S PLAY DJ Oscar 11 pm.5 GOODHANDY’S Dirty Sexy Party DJ ViVi Diamond doors 10 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Adam Davis (house/breaks). JANGBANG Commonwealth DJs Pete Funk, Richniques, Safari647 doors 10 pm. THE LOCAL She Said Boom Xmas Bash DJ April Fool. MARGRET Speakeasy Queer Function DJ Cozmic Cat 10 pm.5 MOD CLUB Arcade Fridays Nero, the Killabits doors 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Transmission DJs Scott Wade, Scott Waring (Britpop/new wave). REVIVAL Make It Funky 5-Year Anniversary DJ Q-Bert, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Marcus Visionary, Big League Chu, Lady Linzee, Mickey D and others 9 pm. SPORTS CENTRE CAFE Raptor Fan Fridays DJ Colin Lee 7 pm. SUPERMARKET Rollin’ & Scratchin’ 3-Year Anniversary Party DJ Rich Aucoin. TERANGA Aughtie By Nature DJs A.C. Risky, ARP 2600 (retro dance party) doors 9 pm. ULTRA Flock Fridays (mashup). VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Loriann 10 pm.
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TEEN SLEUTH & THE FREED CYBORG CHOIR Brain tumour inspires surreal art rock theatre production How can I prepare you for the wild ride that is a Teen Sleuth & the Freed Cyborg Choir performance? Let’s start with the backstory. In 2005, Teen Sleuth vocalist/creative director Ellen Smallwood had a benign tumour removed from her brain. During the process, EEG machines read her brain waves for a spell. This bond with machinery begot a flirtation with cyborgism and launched her Montreal art rock project. The term “art rock” is thrown around lots these days, but for the Halifax County native and her collec-
tive of dancers, doo-wop singers and thespians, the glove fits. “We’re an art rock mirror of fantasy and reality,” Smallwood tells me. “Our disenchanted storybook of songs comes to life via a 12-piece band, projections, puppetry and dance.” Ultimately, music’s at the heart of this theatrical beast. Teen Sleuth’s debut album, Where The Animals Trace The Stars (independent) is not only mind-bendingly original but also terrifically uplifting. Says Smallwood, “We’ll make you want to stand up and cheer.” CARLA GILLIS ■ Music Gallery (197 John) as part of the Pop Avant Series Friday and Saturday (December 3 and 4), 8 pm. $10-$15. RT, SS, TW.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM Massive Saturdays DJ
Mixnmatch, DJ Death by Awesome 10 pm.
AUGUSTA HOUSE Reality Bytes 1.3 DJs 4est,
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC CONSERVATORY THEATRE Bluebird North Showcase
HIP-HOP
SILVER DOLLAR Big Silver (blues ) 8 pm. ST SIMON-THE-APOSTLE ANGLICAN CHURCH
Lovers’ rap vs cornball pop
Mauricette aka Subliminal (beatboxing) 11 am to 4 pm. THE HARP PUB Sleeping Children Around The World benefit Christmas party Johnny Max Band 4 pm. LAMBADINA Ethiopiques Tomas Ewnetu & Meseret Addis, DJ AfroSonic (Afrobeat/disco/ top 40) 11 pm. THE LOCAL Kenneth McCleod & the Salt Band. LOU DAWG’S Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm. LULA LOUNGE Cafe Cubano (salsa dance) 10 pm. REMENYI HOUSE OF MUSIC Celebrate! Holidays Of The Global Village Children’s Show Chris McKhool 1 pm. REX Danny Marks (blues) noon. (singer/songwriters) 8 pm.
ArtsCan Circle Benefit Concert Common Thread Chorus, Mike Stevens (folk/Latin/ South American music) 7:30 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
ASPETTA CAFFE The Nim Shambler Trio (jazz) 3 to 5 pm.
BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Denielle mas Concert 7:30 pm.
DECEMBER 19 The Sound Academy
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
Lindzrox, Jrox (90s music). BLONDIES The Rivalry Jeff Breen vs Cesar Caballero, Ruby J vs Stewart Thompson, Parro vs Spinfinite (DJ Battle). BOAT Chronologic (dance music from 1890 to 2011) 10 pm. CHEVAL Just Cheval Saturdays DJ Undercover. CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (60s soul/R&R dance). COBRA LOUNGE The New Disco Saturdays DJ Aadil. COLLEGE STREET BAR Heavy Rotation DJs Royale, Mercilless, Riccachet, Thera-P (funk/soul/ R&B/hip-hop/house/reggae) doors 10 pm.
CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Flutes By
DECEMBER 4 Mod Club Theatre
Camera: Live Soundtrack To Silent Film Holger Schoorl, Tomasz Krakowiak, Germaine Liu, Kyle Brenders, Joe Clement and others 8 pm. ST PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Gabrieli: Midnight Mass Of 1605 The Tallis Choir 7:30 pm. TEN FEET TALL June Garber 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Hispanic Festival 2010: CD release Carlos Bastidas Band, Laura Fernandez, Hilario Duran doors 7 pm. TRINITY ST PAUL’S CHURCH Mozart And Haydn Programme Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Richard Egarr (fortepiano) 8 pm. UNITARIAN CONGREGATION GREAT HALL Memories From Childhood Eileen Keown, Jennifer Tung, Glenn Gould School of Music vocalists 8 pm. WOMEN’S ART ASSOCIATION Bill McBirnie, Louis Simao (flute, piano) 7 pm.
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE MARILYN BREWER COMMUNITY SPACE HarbourKIDS: SK8 Sean
Bassels Quintet (jazz/blues) 9 pm.
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SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Man With A Movie
Night: Bach, Bach & More Emma Elkinson, Alison Melville, Margaret Gay, Sara-Anne Churchill (baroque music) 8 pm. C’EST WHAT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad jazz) 3 pm. CHALKERS PUB Nancy Walker Quartet (jazz) 6 to 9 pm. CHURCH OF SAINT TIMOTHY Amahl And The Night Visitors: Benefit for the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign & St Timothy’s Church The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, St Timothy’s Church Choir (dramatic reading with music) 7:30 pm. GALLERY 345 San Agustin Duo Emma Banfield, Diana Dumlavwalla (violin, piano) 8 pm. GATE 403 Jazz Brunch Coleman Tinsley noon to 3 pm. GATE 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Melissa Boyce Band (jazz/blues) 9 pm. GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL Christmas Splendour II Pax Christi Chorale 7:30 pm. HOPE UNITED CHURCH Welcome Yule Christmas Concert Cantemus Singers 7:30 pm. LA MAQUETTE Pater Mathers (classical guitar) 6:30 to 9:30 pm. LIVING ARTS CENTRE An English Christmas Mississauga Festival Choir 2 & 8 pm. MOMIJI SUSHI BISTRO J&V The Duo (jazz/pop/ R&B/easy rock/Latin) 7 pm. MORROW PARK CHAPEL Christmas In The Chapel Elora Festival Singers & Chamber Orchestra (classical) 3 to 5 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Daniela Nardi, Ron Davis (electro world jazz) 7:30 pm. REBAS CAFÉ The Noah Sherman Trio 4 to 7 pm. REX Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm. REX Engine Peter Lutek, Greg de Denus, Tom Richards, Dan Fortin, Ethan Ardelli 9:45 pm. RIVERDALE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH A Taste Of The Holidays SingingOUT 2 and 7:30 pm.5
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL An Evening Of Kurt Weill Glenn Gould School Opera 7:30 pm.
J. COLE In a year when, as Erykah Badu so concisely put it in a Twitter rant, “pop techno cornball-ass music” ruled the radio, there were also plenty of signs that old-school hip-hop spirit hasn’t capitulated: Nicki Minaj ditched vixen verses for weirdo flow, Kanye exorcised his beautiful, dark, twisted fantasies, and Jay-Z brought beat poetics back to the A list by signing Jay Electronica to his Roc Nation imprint. Poised to storm the spotlight is J. Cole, a rapper/producer who isn’t afraid to get deep. The North Carolina native’s hype commenced last year when he became Roc Nation’s first signee, and his momentum has continued apace thanks to brassy summer single Who Dat and the recent Friday Night Lights, a mostly self-produced mixtape showcasing his dexterous, introspective wordplay and warm midtempo soul (downloadable at jcolemusic.com). If his sold-out Sound Academy gig is any indication, more than a few folks are hoping Cole’s forthcoming debut LP, Cole Word, will hammer another nail into the cornball coffin. KEVIN RITCHIE
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DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Peer Pressure
A-Rock, Hatchmatik, Merk Meny doors 11 pm. EDDIE’S PLACE Breakandenter Three-Year Anniversary Party Pawel, Frivolous, Noah Pred, DJ Martin Fazekas, Co-op doors 10 pm. FLY Master Beat World Tour DJ Brett Henrichsen, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 FOMO Mingle 9 pm. FOOTWORK John Dahlback doors 10 pm.
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Party DJ Jimi Lamort doors 9 pm.5 GUVERNMENT Spin Saturdays Andy Moor (house/trance). GUVERNMENT Contact John O’Callaghan, Sean Tyas, W&W, Ashley Wallbridge. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE ICE RINK DJ SK8 Night DJs Cozmic Cat, Denise Benson 8 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE DJ Anni Spadafora 10 pm. INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). MOD CLUB 8-Year Anniversary Party DJ MRK, the Ruby Spirit, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/R&R) 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (rock & soul oldies). REVIVAL The Back To Basics Party Paul E Lopes, Jason Palma, Groove Institute, DJ Starski, DJ Apocalypse 10 pm. RIVOLI Droppin’ Knowledge! Blake Carrington, Wolf J, Harris, Fundament, Pablo, DJ James Redi 9 pm. 751 Motown Party Fawn BC, Brett Millius, Reverand Throwdown (Motown/northern soul/remixes). SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop and soul) 11 pm. 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. ULTRA Signature Saturdays (mashup). VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Joe (alt rock) 11 pm. VIDA LOUNGE Can’t Stop Esther – The Madonna Marathon DJ Doctor Baggie 10 pm.
Sunday, December 5 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ANNEX WRECKROOM Abacabb, Legend,
Wretched, Monsters, In Alcatraz 1962, Heritage, In the Act of Violence, Hang the Heretics doors 5 pm. ASPETTA CAFFE Dan Scruton (rock/pop) 2:30 to 5:30 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Songwriters Expo Holiday Bash: Fundraiser for METRAC. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND David Usher doors 8 pm. EL MOCAMBO Run It Back Mary Rose Obsession, Lucifier, Kathleen Crandles and others 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. REPOSADO Ancient Chinese Secret (instrumental). ROC N DOC’S The Bottle Devils (rock) 9 pm. ROCKPILE Blackfoot.
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
ELLINGTON’S CAFE Open Mic: Poetry &
Music Ruben ‘Benny’ Esguerra 11 am to 2 pm.
GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Blueñ grass Sunday Kit-Gut
String Band 5 to 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S Acoustic Jam Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 4 pm. GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.
HARBOURFRONT CENñ TRE BRIGANTINE
ROOM HarbourKIDS: SK8 – The Hockey Card Cabaret Bidiniband, Justin Rutledge, Ida Neilson, Jeff Meleras, Chris Page 1 pm.
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Harbourfront Centre MarIlyn brewer CoMMunIty SpaCe HarbourKIDS: SK8 Sean
Mauricette aka Subliminal (beatboxing) 11 am to 4 pm. Holy oak Cafe Motherboy (bluegrass) 9 pm. HugH’S rooM Ian Thomas 8:30 pm. latInada Hispanic Festival 2010 Carla Casanova, Andrea Muñoz, Leticia Recalde and others 2 to 7 pm. tHe loCal Dan Boniferro noon. tHe loCal Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. tHe loCal Jack Mark’s Lost Wages (folk country) 10 pm. lula lounge Luis Mario Ochoa’s Quarteto Tradicional (Cuban Son) noon & 2 pm. tHe paInted lady Ben McVoy, Candace Leca, General Staff (roots/folk/indie rock/alt pop rock) 9:30 pm. pour boy pub Open Mic 2 to 7 pm. rebaS Café Steve & Maya (singer/songwriters) 1 to 4 pm. roC n doC’S Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 pm.
St davId’S anglICan CHurCH A Christmas Carol The MadriGALs (Victorian carols) 2 pm. SuperMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. underdown pub Open Mic Porter 9:30 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
alIze Scott Kemp 6 to 9 pm. CHrISt CHurCH deer park Handel’s Messiah
(Highlights) The Talisker Players Orchestra, Sheila Dietrich, Stephen McClare, Bruce Kelly, Sandra Boyes 5 pm. de SotoS Jazz Brunch Double A Jazz, Ken Foster 11 am to 2 pm. dora keogH Jazz At Dora Keogh Roberto Occhipinti Trio, John Nugent 5 to 8:30 pm. drake Hotel lounge David Occhipinti Trio, the Elusive Casual (jazz) doors 8 pm. eMMet ray bar Hobsons Choice (jazz) 9 pm. evangel teMple U of T’s Gospel Choir Christmas Concert 7 pm. gate 403 Graceful Daddies 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo 9 pm. george’S play Carlotta’s Cabaret 9 pm.5 graCe CHurCH on-tHe-HIll Christmas Splendour II Pax Christi Chorale 3 pm. Joe MaMa’S The Nathan Hiltz Trio 7 pm. leaSIde unIted CHurCH Lessons And Carols: Christmas carols and readings to benefit Out of the Cold Leaside United Junior Choir, C Flats Jazz Band, Chancel Choirs 7:30 pm. lIvIng artS Centre Voices Of Light Mississauga Children’s Choir 3 pm. lula lounge Retrocity (a capella) 8:30 pm. MetropolItan unIted CHurCH Carols United Metropolitan Silver Band, Patricia Wright 7 pm. tHe paInted lady Safety in Numbers (Django meets tango jazz) 6 to 9 pm. rex Hart House & Jazz FM Youth Matinee noon. rex Bohemian Swing 3:30 pm. rex The Giuffre Project 7 pm. rex Francois Bourassa 9:30 pm.
rICHMond HIll Centre for tHe perforMIng artS Peter Stoll, Silverthorn Symphonic
Winds (clarinet) 2 pm.
SoMewHere tHere StudIo Residency Heather Segger 5 pm.
SoMewHere tHere StudIo Ken Aldcroft & Holger Schoorl, Martynec/Ward/Kubota 8 pm.
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bovIne Sex Club DJ Rockabilly Rob. CHeval She’s With Us Sundays. CHurCHIll Tighten Up DJ Cozmic Cat (jazz/ soul).
CHurCHIll Soul’d Out DJs Cozmic Cat, Sandy DeAlmeida (soul/Motown/funk).
graffItI’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am. HenHouSe Everything Crash DJ Poor Pilgrim
(global music) 9 pm. InSoMnIa DJ LK (old-school hip-hop/disco/ funk). tattoo roCk parlour Trash Palace (mashups). velvet underground DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.
Monday, December 6 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
bovIne Sex Club Glen Matlock & the
ñPhilistines, the Walnut Kids, New York Junk. CadIllaC lounge The Rizdales 8 pm. CHICk ’n’ delI Advocats Big Band (big band jazz/bop/swing/swoon) 7:30 pm.
dakota tavern Teddy Thompson doors 7 pm. drake Hotel underground Elvis Monday
Azores, Kuba Oms, Preandrathals, Ghostwalk Creek, City Weeds, People of Canada (rock/ pop) doors 9 pm. HarleM CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. HorSeSHoe Shoeless Monday Stolen Owners, the Strange, Professor 9:15 pm. Mod Club Bryan Greenberg doors 8 pm, all ages. MuSIC gallery John Grant doors 7 pm, all ages. roC n doC’S Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9 pm. SuperMarket Harmonize Equality & Respect Together benefit for Kids Help Phone Robyn Dell’Unto, Mandippal, the Free Press, the Pigott Brothers and others doors 7 pm.
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Cloak & dagger pub Paul Jago & Alun Piggins
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dave’S gourMet pIzza The Monday Sessions Open Jam Pete Eastmure 7:30 pm.
free tIMeS Café Open Stage Jeff Kahl 7:30 pm. gate 403 Snake Oil Johnson (blues) 9 pm. graffItI’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6
to 9 pm.
HugH’S rooM The Sisters Euclid, Kevin Breit 8:30 pm.
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eMMet ray bar Dan in E or F (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Faber & Freeman Duo 5 to 8 pm. rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 & 9:30
pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
drake Hotel lounge 86’D DJ Johnny Strychnine (rock) doors 7 pm. drake Hotel lounge 86’D Boot Knives (rock) doors 10 pm. goodHandy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 InSoMnIa DJs Topher & Oranj (rock).
Tuesday, December 7 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
bovIne Sex Club Pink & Black Attack Matt
Groopie & the Bandits, the Doppelgangers, Romeo Liquor Store. CadIllaC lounge Jeremy Fisher 9 pm. C’eSt wHat Luke Jackson (pop rock) 10 pm. drake Hotel underground Bobby Bazini (rock/pop) doors 7:30 pm. el MoCaMbo Freelance Whales, Miniature Tigers 8 pm. gladStone Hotel Melody bar Meredith Shaw & Tim Chaisson 8 pm. HorSeSHoe Nu Music Nite: Jingle Bell Rocks 9:10 pm. korova MIlkbar Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People 10 pm. lee’S palaCe Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, the Coppertone doors 8 pm.
pHoenIx ConCert tHeatre Killing Joke. ñ SuperMarket Holiday Party For Hope Air The
Earthtones 8:30 pm. trane StudIo Women’s Series: Music Of Tom Waits Bri-Anne Swan 7:30 pm. underground garage Jukebox Hero. tHe wIlSon 96 Steve Puchalski, Dave Picco 9 pm.
Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD
annex wreCkrooM Drummers in Exile (drum circle) 8:30 pm.
CaMeron HouSe Jadea Kelly 6 pm.
Cloak & dagger pub
Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. HugH’S rooM Melissa McClelland 8:30 pm. tHe loCal Massey/ Harris.
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CzeHoSkI The Waxotic Players Nathan Hiltz, Beverly Taft 8 pm.
four SeaSonS Centre for tHe perforMIng artS rICHard bradSHaw aMpHItHeatre
Pygmalion Classical Music Consort noon. gate 403 Kelsey McNulty Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Holy oak Cafe Thom Gill (jazz) 9:30 pm. tHe paddoCk Kevin Quain 9 pm. rex Matt Newton Trio 6:30 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam Tim Ries, Olah Kalman 9:30 pm. SoMewHere tHere StudIo Ken Aldcroft, Colin Anthony, Karen Ng & Heather Segger 8 pm, Parmela Attariwala, Germaine Liu and Christine Duncan 9 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
goodHandy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors
8 pm.5
repoSado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. tHe StIrlIng rooM Eastside The London
Street Wankers, DJ Damon Rush, Kai*zen (old school hip-hop/Chicago house) 9 pm.
Wednesday, December 8 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
bovIne Sex Club Flying Fortress, DJ Nina Arson.
CadIllaC lounge The Neil Young’uns 8:30
pm.
C’eSt wHat Négar 10 pm. ClInton’S La-Nai & the Free People, Ninja
Funk Orchestra (R&B/soul). Cloak & dagger pub Jason Kenemy (pop/ jazz) 10 pm. double double land CD release Wyrd Visions, Castlemusic, Nifty, DJ Craig Dunsmuir 9:30 pm. drake Hotel underground Tennis, Family Portrait (rock/pop) doors 8 pm. eMMet ray bar Modicity (post-punk) 9 pm. tHe great Hall Badly Drawn Boy doors 8 pm. HorSeSHoe The Brains, the Lucky Ones (ska/ punk) 9:10 pm. IMperIal pub Kilowatt (funk/R&B jam) 9:30 pm. MaSSey Hall Joe Satriani, Ned Evett and Triple Double (rock) 8 pm. Mod Club The Wood Brothers doors 7 pm. ranCHo relaxo Cool Hands, the Auras, Levon. SuperMarket Wednesdays Go Pop! Rachael Kennedy, Lordy Lordy, Wildlife doors 9 pm. underground garage Bluespoon.
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Country Christmas Benefit For PWA Food Bank Steve Roseland 9 pm.5 graffItI’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. groSSMan’S Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. HugH’S rooM Wendell Ferguson 8:30 pm. lola Open Stage Johnny Bootz 8 pm. SIlver dollar High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9:30 pm.
lula lounge
Cotton, Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy 8 pm.
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Wed 8 ◆ LA-NAI & THE FREE PEOPLE,
NINJA FUNK ORCHESTRA
CLINTON’S IS LOOKING FOR NEW BANDS BOOKING LINE 416.503.2921 Contact Fletch: bookclintons@hotmail.com
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218 Ossington Ave. (647) 213-LADY
Tue dec 2 ★ 9pm DJ NV Fri dec 3
★ DJ PhaNtasik with hoNey B hiND Burlesque Old school hip hop/reggae/80’s
Sat dec 4 ★ 6pm JoaNNe Mackell
stellar songwriting & voice that could stop a mack truck
★ 10pm Music By salaZar Funk/Soul/Hip Hop/Rock n Roll
Sun dec 5
★ 6pm safety iN NuMBers django-style jazz
★ 9:30pm BeN McVoy, caNDace leca, GeNeral staff Roots/Folk, Acoustic/Indie/ Rock, Alternative Pop Rock
Mon dec 6
★ 9pm the laDy waNts you! for oPeN Mic MoNDays: a free JaM! Got talent? That special mojo? Bring it!
Tues dec 7 ★ 10pm PWyC tBa Wed dec 8 ★ 10pm PWyC tBa
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tHuRsDAY DecembeR 2 Gladstone Gallery: 7-11pm speakeasy's AnnuAl HoliDAY sHow | pwYc Melody Bar: 8pm-12Am Thursday NighT CoNfideNTial & ToroNTo Blues soCieTy preseNT Harrison kennedy | FRee FRiDAY DecembeR 3 Gladstone Gallery: 5-10pm WoodlaWn pottery sHoW & sale opening Reception | FRee Melody Bar: 7-10pm gladsToNe World preseNTs rudeBoy rudeGirl | FRee Melody Bar: 10pm-2Am karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee sAtuRDAY DecembeR 4 BallrooM: 12:30-2:30pm pride CoMMunity ForuM | FRee Gladstone Gallery: 11Am-5pm WoodlaWn pottery sHoW & sale | FRee Melody Bar: 7-10pm Mill sTreeT CouNTry saTurdays preseNT Mr. riCk & tHe BisCuits | FRee Melody Bar: 10pm-2Am karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee sunDAY DecembeR 5 Gladstone Gallery: 11Am-5pm WoodlaWn pottery sHoW & sale | FRee BallrooM: 12-5pm snoW day Holiday Market | FRee Melody Bar: 5-8pm Mill sTreeT Bluegrass suNdays preseNTs kit-Gut strinG Band | FRee monDAY DecembeR 6 Melody Bar: 6-9pm york u Book launCH cultuRes oF militARizAtion | FRee tuesDAY DecembeR 7 Melody Bar: 8-12Am MereditH sHaW & tiM CHaisson | FRee weDnesDAY DecembeR 8 loBBy: 2-3pm 5tH anniversary Guided tour oF tHe Hotel | FRee Melody Bar: 8-10pm liFe draWinG $7 Melody Bar: 7:30-10pm graNNy BooTs preseNTs Hosted By ryan G. Hinds| FRee
1214 queen st w 416.531.4635 www.gladstonehotel.com penny@gladstonehotel.com
486 SPADINA AVE. @ COLLEGE
Saturday Supper Club Blues! DECEMBER 4 • • • • • • • 7PM DOORS
BIG SILVER SHAWN KELLERMAN DECEMBER 11 • • • • • • • • 7PM
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WEEWERK RECORDS A n n i ve r s a r y S h ow s !
THU DEC 3
THE BURNING HELL Fembots
JENNY OMNICHORD Two Minute Miracles BARMITZVAH BROS Proof Of Ghosts FRI DEC 3
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS
ELLIOTT BROOD, BARZIN United Steel Workers Of Montreal Canteen Knockout, THE VILLAGE MEAT
TINY DANZA
Crooked Valentine
GROWL CHANT HOWL
CRAZY STRINGS
OWL FARM, DJ DAVY LOVE
saT 4 FrieNdship with DJ Hi Mom! The best time possible
CREATION RECORDS!
sUN 5 Brass Facts – Trivia night! drinking and thinking and drinking MON 6 LioN’s deN Reggae dance party with Julion and crew weD 8 humBLemaNia 9 Live in Bellwoods! performances, cool vinyl, the legend continues 61 OSSINGTON AVE | 416•850•0161 | theossington.com
December
THE DARCYS WHALE TOOTH Rival Boys, Bravestation
416.763.9139 • SILVERDOLLARROOM.COM
7-9pm leon kniGht & the neon liGhts 10pm lucas staGG 7-9pm mike plume 10pm the mahones
Fri Dec 3 Sat Dec 4 Sun Dec 5
11-3pm
blueGrass brunch
the beauties Mon Dec 6 8-10pm teDDy thompson Tix: Rotate This, Soundscapes, 10pm
The Dakota Tavern & The Horseshoe
10pm the rattlesnake
Tue Dec 7
choir
10pm basement revue
hosted by jason
collett
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Wed Dec 8
the sure thinGs
249 OssingtOn Ave (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com
ThU dEC 2 • 9pM • $10 cD releaSe party
deCAde oF SleeP w/ Dan Roth anD the Joys with Dj Lucas frI dEC 3 • 8:30pM • $15
Chad StokeS of State Radio and fRiendS
Raising money foR the humanitaRian aid chaRity “calling all cRoWs” a portion of ticket sales will be donated to the cause.
w/ MATT EMbrEE Of rx bANdITS LAUrEN COLEMAN Of pEbALUNA SAT dEC 4 • 9pM • $5 • 19+
dRoPPin knoWledGe!
ToRonTo’S PReMieR HiP HoP leAGue... This Month Featuring: Blake carrington, Wolf j | Kj, harr1s aka h-1, Fundament, pablo, dj james redi SUN dEC 5 • drS 8:30pM • $5
lAuGH SABBATH PReSenTS:
leT’S GeT HoT!
Gus Ryder, Kid Metropolis
w/ The Two Koreas
Thu Dec 2 Dakota anniversary party
ANNIVERSARY SHOWS!
MC MARk FoRWARd Stephen patterSon Mark DeBoniS GrahaM chittenDen BoB kerr And MoRe! ALTdOTCOMEdyLOUNGE.COM
ACTION MAKES
FRI 3 MyTH PaRaDIse Soul, disco and house varieties
812 Dundas St. W. Toronto
WITh ChrIS LOCkE & AArON EvES LAUGH SABBATH, EVERY SUNDAY AT THE RIVOLI! WWW.LAUGhSAbbATh.COM MON dEC 6 • drS 8:30pM • pWyC
Borderline Clover
THU 2 No Name with DJ Nana Hip-hop, soul, R n’ B, music to make you move
HARD LUCK BAR BOOKINGS: hardluckbar@gmail.com
DESERT TREES, Sunreels, REDANDA Neighborhood Watch, THE FORMALISTS
THE HEY NOW
THE OSSINGTON
Thurs Dec 2 Adaptive Reaction w/ Old Major & Westblack Fri Dec 3 Discarded w/ Goodbye Tomorrow, Ares (God of War) - Benefit Show for the Daily Bread Food Bank **Bunker** Treestar w/ Kid Stallion, Bang Bang You’re Dead, You Call Yourselves Soldiers Sat Dec 4 Chik Gala, Eat Babies?, Girl + The Machine, GoldieLuxx, Love & Terror Cult **Bunker** Brighter Brightest, Everlea, Colour Color & Asteria Sun Dec 5 HEAVY METAL TACO NIGHT!!!! Mon Dec 6 Hard Times at Hard Luck Open Stage Comedy Night Tues Dec 7 The Fake Boys Wed Dec 8 Mess Around with DJ Misty
TUE dEC 7 • drS 8:30pM • pWyC THe HeAdline SeRieS feat thunDer country MC nATHAn MACinToSH w/Special GueStS VeSt of frienDS newSDeSk w/ron SparkS & MoRe! SkETChCOMEdyLOUNGE.COM
WEd dEC 8 • 8:30pM • $15 dr
Eros, ThanaTos & ThE avanT-GardE THe CABAReT SeRieS
W/ WinsTon spEar the Dancing Comedian! & Flamenco Sensation anjElica scannura!
with performances by: Angela Blumberg, Heather Columbus, Olivia Davies, The Daunting Divas, KyraJean Green, Heather Lumsden-Ruegg, Shane McMackin, Calywn Shurgold Special musical guest AMANDA MABRO!! ThUr dEC 9 • 8:30pM • $10
SArA kAMIN prESENTS
W/ saidah BaBa TaliBah, Miss haTTEr & ThE ToM Boys
COMING SOON
Dec 10-11 - Audio Blood HollidAy Dec 17 - WAx MAnnequin Dec 18 - Rivoli AnnuAl HolidAy SHoW Dec 22 - dARRelle london
334 QUEEN ST. W. • 416.596.1908 • rivoli.ca
THEDRAKEHOTEL.CA/EVENTS TwiTTER.COm/THEDRAKEHOTEL 1150 QUEEN ST w TORONTO 416.531.5042
NOW december 2-8 2010
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13-19 June 2011 ToronTo, Canada
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Chalkers Pub Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm. Christ ChurCh Deer Park Christmas Flourish: Celebrating The 100th Anniversary Of The Royal Canadian Navy Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir, HMCS York Band 7:30 pm. Dominion on Queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. Gate 403 Ryan Oliver Band (jazz) 5 to 8 pm. the loCal Make Out Wednesdays The Ron Leary Quintet. mezzetta Don Thompson, Reg Schwager (bass/guitar) 9 pm. nawlins Jazz bar Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. rex CD release Benny Sharoni (tenor sax) 9:30 pm. rex Griffith/Hiltz Trio 6:30 pm. roy thomson hall Renee Fleming, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (soprano) 8 pm. st thomas’s anGliCan ChurCh What Light Is This? Medieval Nativity Pageant 7 pm. trane stuDio Kevin Barreto Quartet 8 pm. unDerDown Pub Rita di Ghent (nu-jazz/soul) 7 pm. yorkminster Park baPtist ChurCh Festival Of Carols Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 7:30 pm.
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blonDies OVRFLO Wednesday gaDJet, Nikola, Chico Pacheco (deep house/classics) 9 pm. brassaii Les Nuits DJ Dlux, DJ Undercover. Fomo Hybernate Vinny Grüvhunter (soulful house) 9 pm. GlaDstone hotel meloDy bar Granny Boots: Disco Burlesque Ryan G Hinds (queer cabaret) 7:30 to 10 pm.5 GooDhanDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 harlem Music Is The Answer DJ Carl Allen, Melanie Sutherland (soul/R&B/house/reggae/ol’skool) 9 pm. henhouse Snakepit DJ Stunts, DJ Elle Nino 10 pm.5 rePosaDo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy3
Venue Index
alize 2459 Yonge. 416-487-2771. allianCe Française Downtown 24 spadina rd. 416-922-2014. anDy Poolhall 489 College. 416-923-5300. the annex live 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999. annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-5360346. asPetta CaFFe 207 augusta. 416-725-0693. auGusta house 152 augusta. 416-977-8881. baCk alley wooDFire bbQ & Grill 188 augusta. 416-979-5557. bar italia 582 College. 416-535-3621. the bean 388 College. 416-964-9900. blaCk moon lounGe 67 richmond W. 416-603-3100. blonDies 1378 Queen W. boat 158 augusta. 416-593-9218. bovine sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. breaD & CirCus 299 augusta. 416-336-3399. buDDies in baD times theatre 12 alexander. 416-975-8555. CaDillaC lounGe 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. Calvary ChurCh 746 pape. 416-466-3040. Calvin Presbyterian ChurCh 26 Delisle. 416-923-9030. Cameron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. Century room 580 King W. 416-203-2226. C’est what 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. Chalkers Pub 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. Cheval 606 King W. 416-363-4933. ChiCk ’n’ Deli 744 mt pleasant. 416-489-7931. China house 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. Christ ChurCh Deer Park 1570 Yonge. 416-920-5211. ChurCh oF saint timothy 100 old orchard grove. 416-488-0079. ChurChill 1212 Dundas W. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. Cloak & DaGGer Pub 394 College. 647-436-0228. Cobra lounGe 510 King W. 416-361-9004. ColleGe street bar 574 College. 416-533-2417. CroCoDile roCk 240 adelaide W. 416-599-9751. Czehoski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787. Dakota tavern 249 ossington. 416-850-4579. Dave’s Gourmet Pizza 730 st Clair W. 416-652-2020. DC musiC theatre 360 munster. 416-234-0222. De sotos 1079 st Clair W. 416-651-2109. Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-3686893. Dora keoGh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. Drake hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. eDDie’s PlaCe 860 College. 416-533-9669. eDDy’s PlaCe 860B College. el moCambo 464 spadina. 416-777-1777. ellinGton’s CaFe 805 st Clair W. 416-652-9111. emmet ray bar 924 College. 416-792-4497. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. evanGel temPle 4190 Yonge. 416-221-2330. Fly 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426. Fomo 270 adelaide W. 416-408-3666. Footwork 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. Four seasons Centre For the PerForminG arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. Fox & FiDDle DanForth 535 Danforth. 416-462-9830. Free times CaFé 320 College. 416-967-1078. Gallery 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781. the Garrison 1197 Dundas W. Gate 403 403 roncesvalles. 416-588-2930.
GeorGe’s Play 504 Church. 416-963-8251. GlaDstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Glenn GoulD stuDio 250 Front W. 416-2055555. GooDhanDy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. GraCe ChurCh on-the-hill 300 lonsdale. 416-488-7884. GraFFiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the Great hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. Grossman’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. Guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. harbourFront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. harD luCk bar 812 Dundas W. harD roCk CaFe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. harlem 67 richmond E. 416-368-1920. the harP Pub 55 lakeshore E (mississauga). 905-274-3277. heminGways 142 Cumberland. 416-968-2828. henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. holy oak CaFe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. hoPe uniteD ChurCh 2550 Danforth. 416691-9682. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. huGh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. imPerial Pub 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667. insomnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JanGbanG 430.5 College. 416-961-8424. Joe mama’s 317 King W. 416-340-6469. korova milkbar 488 College. 416-961-1600. la maQuette 111 King E. 416-366-8191. lambaDina 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. latinaDa 1671 Bloor W. 416-913-9716. leasiDe uniteD ChurCh 822 millwood. 416-425-1253. lee’s PalaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. li’ly 656 College. 416-532-0419. livinG arts Centre 4141 living arts (mississauga). 905-306-6000. the loCal 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lou DawG’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. lula lounGe 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. marGret 2952 Dundas W. 416-762-3373. massey hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. meaDowvale theatre 6315 montevideo (mississauga). 905-615-4720. metroPolitan uniteD ChurCh 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331. mezzetta 681 st Clair W. 416-658-5687. moD Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. momiJi sushi bistro 2111 sheppard E. monarChs Pub 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. morrow Park ChaPel 3377 Bayview. 416-226-6620. motel 1235 Queen W. musiC Gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. native CanaDian Centre 16 spadina rd. 416-964-9087. nawlins Jazz bar 299 King W. 416-595-1958. olD mill inn 21 old mill rd. 416-236-2641. oPera house 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orbit room 580a College. 416-535-0613. the PaDDoCk 178 Bathurst. 416-504-9997. the PainteD laDy 218 ossington. 647-2135239. Parts & labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. Phoenix ConCert theatre 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. Pour boy Pub 666 manning. 647-343-7969. Prohibition 696 Queen E. 416-406-2669. Quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. ranCho relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. rebas CaFé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372.
remenyi house oF musiC 210 Bloor W. rePosaDo 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. revival 783 College. 416-535-7888. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. riChmonD hill Centre For the PerForminG arts 10268 Yonge (richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. riverDale Presbyterian ChurCh 662 pape. 416-466-3246. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roC n DoC’s 105 lakeshore E (mississauga). 905-891-1754. roCkPile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. the roosevelt room 2 Drummond. 416599-9000. rose theatre 1 theatre lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800. roy thomson hall 60 simcoe. 416-8724255. royal Conservatory oF musiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. silver Dollar 486 spadina. 416-763-9139. slaCk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. somewhere there stuDio 227 sterling, unit 112. sony Centre For the PerForminG arts 1 Front E. 416-872-2262. sounD aCaDemy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. sPorts Centre CaFe 49 st Clair W. 416-9280556. st DaviD’s anGliCan ChurCh 49 Donlands. 416-465-4940. st PatriCk’s CatholiC ChurCh 141 mcCaul. 416-598-3269. st simon-the-aPostle anGliCan ChurCh 525 Bloor E. 416-923-8714. st thomas’s anGliCan ChurCh 383 Huron. 416-979-2323. the stirlinG room Distillery District, 55 mill. suPermarket 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. sutra 612 College. 416-537-8755. tattoo roCk Parlour 567 Queen W. 416703-5488. ten Feet tall 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. teranGa 159 augusta. 416-849-9777. this is lonDon 364 richmond W. 416-351-1100. time niGhtClub 81 peter. 416-581-1118. tinto CoFFee house 89 roncesvalles. 416530-5885. toronto Centre For the arts 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388. touChé 669 College. 416-516-9009. trane stuDio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trinity st Paul’s ChurCh 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. t.s.t’s launCh PaD 46 Hyde. ultra 314 Queen W. 416-263-0330. unDerDown Pub 263 gerrard E. 416-927-0815. unDerGrounD GaraGe 365 King W. 416340-0365. unity ChurCh 173 Eglinton W. 416-487-3663. viDa lounGe 1345 st Clair W. 416-690-1345. waterFalls 303 augusta. 416-927-9666. the wilson 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. women’s art assoCiation 23 prince arthur. 416-922-2060. wooDbine banQuet & Convention Centre 30 Vice regent Blvd. wronGbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. york university aCColaDe east blDG 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888. yorkminster Park baPtist ChurCh 1585 Yonge. 416-922-1167.
REIS & RARSIUES TIES DISC SPECIA L
While they started off making jangly pop on the Postcard label, by the time Orange Juice disbanded they’d incorporated funk into their sound and had a slew of remixes under their belts. Although fans of the early material weren’t always eager to embrace their changing sound, there’s a lot to enjoy in these later tracks, especially the breakthrough hit Rip It Up. Top track: Lovesick JH
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The Promise (Columbia/Sony) Rating: NNNN In the three years between the knockout success of Born To Run and Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Bruce Springsteen was unable to go into the studio due to management issues but was still writing songs at an enviable rate. The songs that didn’t make Darkness make up this collection. Some will be familiar. There’s a version of Racing In The Street with different lyrics, as well as Because The Night and Fire, which were made famous by Patti Smith and the Pointer Sisters respectively. Bruce’s original, looser version of Because illuminates the emotional depth Smith added to her rendition, though it’s easy to hear why she liked the song in the first place. And while curiosities and lost tracks usually only appeal to the fan who has everything, this album stands as a perfect complement to Springsteen’s mid-70s work. Top track: Outside Looking In JOANNE HUFFA
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speare My Butt Deluxe Edition CD/ DVD (Pheromone) Rating: NNNN It’s been 20 years since the Lowest of the Low released Shakespeare My Butt, yet the album still gets you in the gut and takes you back to a Toronto you may have lived in or may never have seen. Ronnie Hawkins and co.’s marriage of punk, rock and folk with unpretentious lyrics about epic love affairs, poverty and history hints at Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg. Tellingly, the Weakerthans’ John K. Samson is a fan. Independently recorded at a time when that was rare, Shakespeare My Butt got rotation on commercial radio and eventually went gold. It’s 17 songs and an hour long, yet invites repeat listening. This remastered reissue also includes a booklet of essays and a 45-minute documentary. Top track: Rosy And Grey The Lowest of the Low play two sold-out shows at Lee’s Palace Friday and Saturday (December 3 and 4). SARAH GREENE
JIMI HENDRIX West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (Sony) Rating: NNN Considering Jimi Hendrix’s music career lasted only seven years and spawned just three official studio albums, it’s hard to imagine there’s much in the vaults left to mine. Yet somehow here we are with
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another posthumous Hendrix collection stuffed with unreleased material. The compilation starts with a disc of Hendrix’s early work as a young musician, collecting his stints as a hotshot session guitarist for soul acts like Little Richard and the Isley Brothers. It’s an interesting place to begin, and a good first glimpse into his burgeoning career as a guitar hero. After that, however, the word “anthology” seems like a misnomer. Rather than a comprehensive account of Hendrix’s career, the other three discs present a compendium of newly unfurled alternate takes, unfinished song sketches and live performances. They’ll interest diehard fans and completists but are hardly a place to begin for the uninitiated. Top track: Are You Experienced? RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
SYD BARRETT An Introduction To Syd Barrett (EMI) Rating: NNN With renewed interest in Syd Barrett at an all-time high following his 2006 death, EMI teamed with former Pink Floyd bandmate (and eventual replacement) David Gilmour to present this overview of his brief, confounding career. A first-time collection of the highlights of his stint as Pink Floyd bandleader alongside selections from his short-lived solo career, the compilation is a cohesive look at a decidedly incohesive career. While Pink Floyd’s debut, Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, has long been recognized as a psychedelic treasure, Barrett’s solo work has been spottier. His knack for songwriting is easy to see, but knowing the effect his drug-induced psychosis had on his compositions can make some of them downright hard to listen to. Here I Go and She Took A Long Cool Look certainly sound like the work of an unravelling psyche, with folk rock hooks warped and fractured beyond recognition. At times unnervingly brilliant, at other times just unnerving. Top track: Terrapin RT
Coals To Newcastle (Domino) Rating: NNNN For years available only on Japanese imports or for exorbitant amounts on eBay, the music of Scottish indie pop forefathers Orange Juice is finally repackaged in a comprehensive six- CD box set that also includes a DVD of live performances and music videos. This lovingly prepared collection includes singles, albums, BBC sessions and a heap of previously unreleased material that spans the band’s eight-year history, including their many lineup changes.
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The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 – The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 (Columbia) Rating: NNNN Bob Dylan is so revered and mythologized, it’s nice to catch a glimpse of him as a regular human being. These collected demos paint a seldom-seen portrait of Dylan less as a musical god than a young working songwriter trying to make a buck. Recorded for his first publishers in the early 60s, the 47 songs were written to be covered by other popular musicians of the day, and his versions were not intended for release. As such, Dylan is in much more casual form than we’re used to hearing him, occasionally coughing over songs and fessing up to forgotten lyrics.
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Oddities (Querbeservice) Rating: To have The Log Driver’s Waltz on record, finally, is alone worth the price of this Kate and Anna McGarrigle compilation featuring long-lost tunes from 1973 to 1990. But the Montreal sisters give us much more than that rollicking ditty (which is different from the one in the animated NFB short). Like a vintage version of A La Claire Fontaine, a 70s living-room demo called Louis The Cat and You Tell Me That I’m Falling Down, which diehards might recognize from The McGarrigle Hour DVD. The timing is, of course, significant. Kate passed away earlier this year, and you can’t help but get choked up when the sisters sing, “Why should the beautiful die?” in Ah May The Red Rose. It all makes you pine for a proper box set, especially since the liner notes lack info about the tunes. (They do include a tender essay by Anna.) The good news is that Anna recently said Nonesuch has committed to releasing a reissue of their debut album plus some early demos and solo Kate work. Happy, happy, joy, joy. Top track: As Fast As My Feet Kate McGarrigle’s son, Rufus Wainwright, plays Massey Hall Saturday (December 4). CARLA GILLIS 3
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real treasure). If you don’t have a turntable and you’re not so interested in the live material and book, a much more affordable trimmed-down version is available as well. However, the full box set is the kind of thing music fans will hold on to forever. Top track: Miles Runs The Voodoo Down BENJAMIN BOLES
MILES DAVIS Bitches Brew: 40th
Anniversary Collector’s Edition (Sony) Rating: NNNNN It’s not hyperbole to call Bitches Brew the most culturally important experimental album of all time. Sure, a few pop albums with avant-garde influences might have sold similar numbers, but nothing this abstract and weird has ever infiltrated the popular consciousness on this scale. The fact that these groundbreaking sessions still sound disturbingly futuristic and otherworldly underscores how ahead of the game Davis was. As far as box sets go, this deluxe package is notable for its narrow focus. There’s no fluffy documentary and a relatively small number of outtakes and live recordings, but the box is so lovingly put together that you don’t feel cheated. In addition to remastered versions of the original recordings and alternate takes, you also get a live DVD, a live CD, a gorgeous book, an odd envelope of reproduced artifacts and an exact reproduction of the original double album on audiophile-grade vinyl (the
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Musical muse Duets, drama and Gord Downie By NAOMI SKWARNA BESIDE EACH OTHER choreographed and performed by ANDREA NANN and BRENDAN WYATT. Part of the Collisions Dance Festival at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). Opens today (Thursday, December 2) and runs to December 9, 8 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm. $20-$29. 416-866-8666. See Dance Listings, this page.
before dancing beside each Other, Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt had their first creative encounter in a kind of dream. To be specific, they performed Reveries – presented by Nann’s company, Dreamwalker – a work featuring the solo music of Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie.
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“There was an immediate connection between us,” Nann says, sweeping her long hair over one shoulder. “So returning to Gord’s material seemed like a natural extension of that first partnership.” The result, which kicks off the Collisions Dance Festival, is an hour-long piece composed of 11 distinct segments. All but two are dedicated to and inspired by a song on one of Downie’s solo albums – either Battle Of The Nudes (2003) or Coke Machine Glow (2001). Wyatt and Nann both choreographed and perform this piece themselves. Their collaborative approach primarily took the form of improvising movement dialogues between their characters – essentially long, si-
lent conversations in dance. “The content of certain songs inspired ideas that we would dialogue in movement,” says Nann. “The unique thing that comes across, what was inherent in the development of the work, is our shared ability to communicate through dance.” How does Downie feel about entering the dance domain? “I think I’m a dancer myself in terms of what I do onstage,” he says in his recognizable drawl. “Andrea and I connect in that regard. I love dance – trying to express myself wordlessly.” Nann and Wyatt’s working relationship thrives on wordlessness, the pair using a self-described “physical fluency” that comes from their common experiences as contemporary dance artists. Beside Each Other also features the handmade, charmingly DIY projections of Toronto-based artist Elysha Poirier. Downie liked her projections so much that he hired her and design-
er David Duclos to help him build his own lo-fi machine that he brought on a recent two-month tour. “Ours is called Maurice,” says Nann, referring to their French-inflected projector. Downie calls his Jack. “Maurice wasn’t really flying with the crew guys,” he explains. “Gord is an artist, not just a singer/ songwriter. He’s a truly expressive being,” says Nann, whose friendship with him began more than two decades ago through Nann’s husband, Andy Maize of the Skydiggers. Downie’s connection with dance can even be found in a song called The Dancer And Its Disappearance, based on something choreographer Crystal Pite once said. “Crystal was describing what she feels dancers do, which is create artwork of their breath and bones and blood,” says Downie. “It disappears as it’s happening. That idea’s stayed with me ever since.” Each song in the new work introduces a different context for Nann and Wyatt, suggesting the arc of the characters’ relationship. But is it the story of a friendship? A love affair? They’re reluctant to label it. “I was joking the other day that this piece contains all the elements of a long-term relationship,” says Nann playfully. “Humour, malice, mischief… and then fruit and cutlery and animals.” They’re not lovers in the traditional sense, but there’s some obvious artistic crushing between them. “I don’t ever feel like I’m pretending to be a character,” says Wyatt, his eyes fixed on Nann. “I am in a relationship with Andrea, and it has been wonderful and hard. All those things.” But how do they maintain the intimacy of their working relationship under the audience’s gaze? “There’s a moment during the song Chancellor,” says Wyatt, smiling. “We look at each other and hold hands – and it just happens for a second.” “An eternity,” adds Nann. 3 stage@nowtoronto.com
dance listings Opening ARABESQUE WINTER GALA Arabesque Dance
Company presents Yasmina Ramzy and student and company belly dancers. Dec 4 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Estonian House, 958 Broadview. 416-920-5593, arabesquedance.ca. BESIDE EACH OTHER Michael Young Theatre presents a series of short duets by Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt featuring the music and poetry of Gord Downie (see story, this page). Opens Dec 2 and runs to Dec 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $29, stu $20. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. DANCE INNOVATIONS: HARVEST York University Department of Dance presents new choreographies by dance majors. Dec 2-4, Program A at 7 pm, Program B at 8:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. 4700 Keele, McLean Performance Studio. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/finearts/dance.
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EROS, THANATOS & THE AVANT-GARDE Rivoli presents the cabaret series, with ñ music, dance and more by Olivia Davies, Anjelica Scannura, Winston Spear and others. Dec 8 at 9 pm. $12-$15. 332 Queen W. DancetoDanseFestival@hotmail.com. IMPULSE 2010 The School of Toronto Dance Theatre presents students performing works by Danny Grossman, Valerie Calam, Allison Cummings and others. Opens Dec 2 and runs to Dec 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $19, stu/srs $15. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-967-6887, schooloftdt.org. THE NUTCRACKER State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents the holiday ballet. Dec 4-5, Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm, $50-$80 (child $35), at Living Arts Centre (4141 Living Arts, Mississauga). 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. Also Dec 8-9 at 7 pm, $58-$78 (child $20), at Rose Theatre (1 Theatre Lane, Brampton). 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. THE NUTCRACKER Ballet Jörgen presents the holiday classic. Dec 8-9 at 7:30 pm. $20-$65. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-978-8849, balletjorgencanada.ca.
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Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre presents semi-classical odori and folk dances by students, teachers and guests. Dec 5 at 2 pm. $15. 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345, jccc.on.ca. SOULFUL MESSIAH Harbourfront NextSteps and Ballet Creole present a contemporary Afro-Caribbean version of Handel’s oratorio. Dec 3-5, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20$45. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, balletcreole.org. STUDENT GALA Hannan’s Bellydance Studio presents students and pros. Dec 3, doors 8 pm. $20-$35. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. 416-462-3498, hannandance.com. 3
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Roshni rules ROSHNI by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). To December 11. See Continuing, page 69. Rating: NNNN
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friend’s connections in the film industry. In her first two-actor play, Roy continues to explore the warmth and humanity of her characters. Chumki and King Kumar are strongly realized, physically and verbally. Roy’s Chumki radiates optimism about her life with King Kumar but also the occasional pang of jealousy when he doesn’t pay her the attention she wants. She’s happiest clinging to his arm, her crush on him only slightly concealed. Abalos’s King Kumar is brash or ob-
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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook
“JOSEPH ZIEGLER COULDN’T POSSIBLY BE BETTER AS SCROOGE”
Byron Abalos and Anusree Roy reveal human truths in Roshni.
backrooms of the British rock scene in the late 50s. (See story, page 69.) Opens Dec 2 and runs to Dec 19, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $15-$20. 326 Carlaw. torontomojo@gmail.com. muNScH exPReSS (George Brown Theatre School). This family-friendly show is based on
sequious as the occasion requires when he’s peddling his wares, and we see a palpable struggle when he’s forced to choose between two alternative futures. Thomas Morgan Jones directs with a sure hand, while Lindsay Anne Black’s set of corrugated metal walls and high, dirty windows evokes the crowded station. David DeGrow’s lighting magically brings characters and audience onto a moving train, and Thomas Ryder Payne’s textured soundJON KAPLAN scape adds atmosphere. jonkap@nowtoronto.com
popular Robert Munsch stories. Opens Dec 4 and runs to Dec 11, Sat 1 pm. $18, srs $12 stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666. ScRIPt SmASH (Theatre Smash). Plays by José Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw and others get readings in this series on contemporary theatre around the world. Dec 2-4 at 8 pm. $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. theatresmash.com.
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You probably don’t know anyone who grew up in a railway station. Calcutta’s largest station is the setting for Anusree Roy’s Roshni, in which preteens Chumki and King Kumar learn crucial lessons about life. Roshni means “light” in Hindi, and Roy’s script sheds a rich light on human hopes. Chumki (Roy) is a blind shoeshine girl, King Kumar (Byron Abalos) a tea seller. Both are young, charming con artists with immense energy, trying to scrape together enough money to realize their dreams. King Kumar wants to be a Bollywood celebrity, and Chumki, blind after a bout of measles, longs to have her sight restored. Each is encouraged by adults who look for a healthy financial payoff from the children. Boss Man promises that his brother, a surgeon, can cure Chumki, while King Kumar’s uncle in Bombay dangles the carrot of a friend of a
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Opening BeAuty ANd tHe BeASt: tHe SAvAgeLy SILLy FAmILy muSIcAL by Lorna Wright and Nicholas
Hune-Brown (Ross Petty Productions). A Faustian deal leads to trouble in this farcical version of the fairy tale. Opens Dec 2 and runs to Jan 2, 2011, Thu-Sat 7 pm, see website for other times. $27-$85. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, rosspetty.com. cHIcAgO by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse (U of T St. Michael’s College). Two female jazz singers use murder to gain publicity in 20s Chicago. Dec 2-4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. A cHRIStmAS cAROL by Charles Dickens (Soulpepper). The classic holiday ghost story gets a staging. Opens Dec 6 and runs to Dec 30, Mon-Sat 7:30 pm (to Dec 23; see website for mats and holiday schedule). $40-$76, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. HARBOuRKIdS: SK8 (Harbourfront Centre). This celebration of skating and winter includes a musical comedy cabaret, Cow Over Moon Theatre’s play Jack Frost and more. Dec 4-5, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. mOJO by Jez Butterworth (Ezra’s Atlantic Co-op). This dark comedy looks at the
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TEEN SLEUTH & THE FREED CYBORG CHOIR
Motion magic STUDIES IN MOTION: THE HAUNTINGS OF EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
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A vivid demonstration of what theatre can be but so seldom is, Studies In Motion entertains, engages and concerns us with ideas that get to the root of human existence. Kevin Kerr’s play explores the life and work of Eadweard Muybridge (Andrew Wheeler), a 19th-century photographer whose pioneering studies of animal and human locomotion anticipated the moving picture. Kerr looks at two strands of Muybridge’s life: his scientific work at the University of Pennsylvania and his earlier time in San Francisco, where his much younger wife, Flora (Celine Stubel), cuckolds him with a local theatre critic (Jonathon Young). The past bleeds into the present as Muybridge gets involved in the lives of his assistants and various models –
male and female. Since the photos are taken nude (yup, there’s lots of skin, tastefully revealed), the indecency card comes up, but the play also explores the connection between science and art, and even what forms the basis of life. These are lofty themes, but director Kim Collier stages the material with the kind of artistry that earned her the recent Siminovitch Prize. Robert Gardiner’s sets, lighting and video projections achieve maximum effect from minimum means, while Mara Gottler’s costumes efficiently suggest the period’s constrictions and mores. Especially striking is Crystal Pite’s choreography, so necessary in a piece about finding the essence of movement and motion. If there’s a coldness to the production, it’s fitting, because of Muybridge’s rigour and exactitude. Wheeler, onstage nearly all the time, exudes authority, his actions occasionally humanized by his broken heart. Dawn Petten, Juno Ruddell and Kyle Rideout are also memorable as contrasting assistants. But this isn’t a star vehicle – it’s a collaborative effort, one that shouldn’t be missed. GLENN SUMI
One-Nighters
ANGEL by Warren Sulatycky (Savage Theatre). An Alberta artist confronts the Manhattan oil exec who’s taken his land and more in this play reading. Dec 5 at 7:30 pm. Free. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. warrensulatycky.com. CAILLOU’S GREATEST SkATE OF ALL (Koba Entertainment/Paquin Entertainment). The hero of the TV/book series stars in an all-ages show. Dec 4 at 1 pm. $20-$43. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca. CHARLES DICkENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL (John D Huston). John D Huston plays Dickens and the MadriGALS sing in this theatrical adaptation of the classic holiday tale. Dec 5 at 2 pm, $20, stu $10-$15, at St David’s Anglican Church (49 Donlands). 416-466-3142. Also on Dec 8 at 7 pm, $20, child $15 (food bank donations appreciated), at St. Cuthbert’s Anglican Church (1399 Bayview). 416-485-0329. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Runnymede United Church). RH Thomson, Heather Bambrick, Matt Galloway and the ESA Holiday Choir perform a reading of the Dickens classic. Dec 5 at 7:30 pm. $20. 432 Runnymede. 416-7676729. CONvERSATIONS ON THE GREEN (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Ralph Benmergui talks to lawyer Edward Greenspan. Dec 6 at 7:30 pm. $37. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3667723, hgjewishtheatre.com. AN EvENING WITH STEpHEN SONDHEIM
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(Mirvish). This onstage interview/conversation features Sondheim and journalist Robert Cushman. Dec 6 at 8 pm. $22-$69. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com.
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JOSEpH AND THE AMAzING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT by Andrew Lloyd Webber and
more. Dec 6 at 7 pm. Free. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Lobby. 416-703-0013. ’TIS THE SEASON CABARET (Toronto Youth Theatre). This fundraiser for TYT features sneak peeks at upcoming shows and other performances. Dec 2 at 7 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747 ext 221, torontoyouththeatre.org. (Theatre Centre). Judith Thompson, Jovanni Sy and other playwrights present political theatre pieces about Toronto’s future under Rob Ford. Dec 6 at 8 pm. Pwyc (proceeds to the Actors Fund of Canada). 1087 Queen W. thewreckingball.ca.
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BETHUNE IMAGINED by Ken Gass (Factory The-
atre). Gass’s imagining of the Canadian surgeon, innovator, artist and social activist Norman Bethune sheds lots of light on 1930s Montreal, especially the era’s art, politics and opportunities for women. Unfortunately the man himself (played energetically by Ron White) never comes into focus, perhaps because Gass surrounds him with three different women and merely hints at his future groundbreaking work in Spain and China. Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25$40, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NN (GS) BINTI’S JOURNEY adapted by Marcia Johnson (Theatre Direct). A young African girl seeks her grandmother after losing her family to HIV/AIDS. Runs to Dec 4, Sat 4 and 7 pm. $10-$15. Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. theatredirect.ca. THE CURE FOR EvERYTHING by Maja Ardal (Theatre Passe Muraille). Ardal offers the second instalment in the tale of Elsa, now in her early teens and wanting to be part of the in crowd and have a boyfriend, just as the Cuban missile crisis threatens the end of the world. Playing all the characters and capturing them superbly both vocally and physically, Ardal is a joy to watch. Runs to Dec 4, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille. on.ca. NNNN (JK)
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THE GREAT WAR: THE HISTORY OF THE vILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1914-1918 by ñ Michael Hollingsworth (VideoCabaret). Hollingsworth’s black-box style engulfs the audience in total darkness, then reveals fastpaced, 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
Tim Rice (Stage West). This musical reinvents the Biblical story of Joseph and his brothers. Runs to Feb 14, 2011, Tue-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $53-$88 (includes buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905238-0042, stagewest.com. LAST DANCE by Sedina Fiati (Diva Day Productions). Fiati performs a workshop of her solo cabaret about love, dance and acceptance. Runs to Dec 4, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $10. Turning Point Fitness, 593 Yonge. sedinashow.webs.com. LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL by Allan Knee, Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein (Randolph Academy). This musical is based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Runs to Dec 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22 (Dec 2 Sunnybrook Foundation benefit $75). Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416-872-1111, randolphacademy.com. OLIvER! THE MUSICAL by Lionel Bart (EMP). This musical is based on Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. Runs to Dec 4, Fri 8 pm, Sat 2-Sun 2 pm. $25, stu $19. Burnhamthorpe Auditorium, 500 the East Mall. 416-248-0410, e-m-p.net. THE ONE-MAN HIT pARADE (Mirvish). Impressionist/comedian André-Philippe Gagnon presents a multimedia music and comedy show. Runs to Dec 5, Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $50-$99. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. pARADISE BY THE RIvER by Vittorio Rossi (Shadowpath Theatre). This drama looks at the internment of Italian-Canadian men during WWII (see review, page 70). Runs to Dec 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, shadowpaththeatre.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.
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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
Dance at the Young presents: Beside Each Other
Collisions Dance Festival
Full Bloom
Beside Each Other is a 60 – minute dance work created by Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt inspired by and featuring the music and poetry of Gord Downie (The Tragically Hip). World premiere.
A weekend packed full of innovative dance, music & choreography, featuring a wide range of multidisciplinary performances, spontaneous creations, artist interviews and audience integrations.
Full Bloom is the personal and intimate journey of three men through the joys of fatherhood, the demands of manhood, and the challenges imposed by physical age.
Tickets: $29 CADA /students $20
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Tickets: $29 CADA /students $20
“A work of delicate humour, profound insight & extraordinary physical skill”– DAILY NEWS
Experience up to 5 shows in a single “collision”!
“Deeply expressive… experience �& skill come together in a wild dance”�– RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG (GERMANY)
December 10 – 12
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Kevin O’Day, Luches Huddleston Jr. & Robert Glumbek in Full Bloom Virtuosic Toronto as part of Collisions Dance Festival
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vivid colours and fluid storytelling creates the feel of a graphic novel come to life. Runs to Dec 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$30. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-7031725, 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.
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Juno Ruddell, Andrew Wheeler and Kyle Rideout make Studies stand out.
(Teen Sleuth). A troupe of musicians, dancers and artists use puppetry, dance and projections to tell a sci-fi revolution tale. Dec 3-4 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs/adv $10 (ticketweb.ca). Music Gallery, 197 John. 416-204-1080, musicgallery.org. UTAH’S CRYING by Darryl Costello (MNJCC Al Green Theatre). A burnt-out musician deals with the loss of a friend and trying to regain fame in this rock musical. Dec 2-4 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 750 Spadina. utahscrying.com. WHAT LIGHT IS THIS? (Poculi Ludique Societas). This medieval nativity pageant is based on the York cycle of mystery plays. Opens Dec 8 and runs to Dec 11, Sat and Wed 7 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, srs $15, stu $10. St Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron. 416-978-5096, plspls.ca.
READING CAROL BOLT (Playwrights Canada Press). This book launch for a collecñ tion of Bolt’s plays features a reading and
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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 Bernadette, 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) ROCK OF AGES by Chris D’Arienzo (Mirvish). Mashed together from the 80s glam rock catalogue, this critic-proof jukebox musical is essentially a glorified version of rock week at American Idol. It’s well sung and played, but the story – about an aspiring actor (Elicia MacKenzie) and musician (Yvan Pedneault) in L.A. – is silly without being witty. 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) ROSHNI by Anusree Roy (Theatre Passe Muraille). Two youths beg, steal and dream of a better life at a Calcutta train station (see review, page 67). Runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNNN (JK) SHREK: STOMPIN’ THE SWAMP (Sphere Entertainment). The Dreamworks character and his friends put on an all-ages show. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, daily at 10:30 & 11:30 am, 12:30, 2 & 3 pm (note: no shows Dec 25). $12.50-$22. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. casaloma.org. THE SILICONE DIARIES by Nina Arsenault (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Arsenault’s autobiographical solo show addresses why she underwent 60 surgeries to become the woman she is today. Laying out the origins of her obsession with body modification, she narrates scenes from her trailer park boyhood, her move to Toronto and dangerous situations to score silicone injections. The show’s most powerful part comes when she finally grapples with aging and struggles to control her addiction to silicone. Arsenault is captivating and spot-on during the most emotional moments. Runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $19-$33. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm)
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OF EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE by Kevin Kerr (Canadian Stage Company/Electric Company Theatre). This play looks at the life
and work of the 19th-century photographer (see review, page 68). Runs to Dec 18, MonSat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNNN (GS) 300 TAPES (Public Recordings/Alberta Theatre Projects). Three performers use movement and sounds to bring taped archives to life. Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $22, stu/srs $15. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. WIDE AWAKE HEARTS by Brendan Gall (Tarragon Theatre). Niceness never intrudes in this witty, sexy new work by the multi-talented Brendan Gall. As two confused couples attempt to make a movie together, their artistic choices begin to bleed into their reality. Gina Wilkinson’s often thrilling direction brings out the psychosexual tension between the characters, and Lorenzo Savoini’s cockeyed, sheer-curtained set makes the show as striking to the eye as it is to the ear. Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$44, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by L Frank Baum (Civic Light Opera Company). This musical is based on the classic children’s novel. Runs to Dec 19, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and Dec 18) at 2 pm. $25. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by Joan Didion (Tarragon Theatre). Didion’s adaptation of her memoir dealing with her family tragedy is contained and epigrammatic, but actor Seana McKenna and director Michael Shamata give it powerful emotional nuance that goes beyond the coolness of the words. Masterfully performed and staged. Runs to Dec 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (added performance: Dec 12 at 7 pm). $23-$44, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD by Robert Reale and Willie Reale (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). Based on Arnold Lobel’s books for children, this easylistening musical traces 12 months in the life of the cheery Frog and the sometimes grumpy Toad, played with great charm by Allen MacInnis and Louise Pitre, respectively. At 70 minutes, it’s a little long for the youngest viewers, but it’s still a wonderful way to introduce kids five years and up to theatre. Runs to Dec 30, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-8622222, lktyp.ca. NNNN (JK) 3
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to, Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter in a west-end gallery and several productions in other non-theatrical venues. Now, as Ezra’s Atlantic Co-op, they’re taking over an east-end space to present Jez Butterworth’s quirky play Mojo. “We’re actually erecting a theatre in the space,” says the energetic Blais, who’s performed in a number of the company’s shows. “We’re in a building on Carlaw that’s full of artists and studios, but there’s not much in the way of theatre in the area. “What we do is bring quality, affordable theatre to everyone’s backyard.” The company first mounted Mojo four years ago in a now-gentrified west-end building, and they’ve been
looking for another space and open time in the actors’ schedules to give it a longer run. Set in late-50s London, Mojo follows central figures Sweets and Potts, low-level criminals involved in the entertainment business. A kidnapping, murder and resulting gang war prove that grabbing and holding power isn’t easy. “The audience is in for a wild ride in this fast-moving world,” promises Blais, “and Butterworth isn’t worried about drumming in a message or moral. The play’s just an entertaining, ratcheted-up evening of dark comedy, where everyone’s plans go up in smoke as they juggle for power.” Mojo is the kind of production that Blais hopes will inspire other young artists to create their own work for audiences beyond family and friends. That’s the only way, he argues, to feel empowered in a profession that has little personal career control. “There’s a practicality to offering shows in this fashion. Red One Collective isn’t a production company, but rather a group of individuals full of ideas who want to bring those ideas to life in an empty room, wherever it may be. Each show is presented by a rotating co-op of artists. “We can’t afford to rent theatres, so we find our own, which reduces the overhead and lets us rehearse in the performing space. That also means less expensive tickets. One guy could afford to see our last production, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, four times; he brought different friends to each performance. “And it’s always good to have help from within the company. For Mojo,” he laughs, “we need lots of hands to tack sequins on the wall to create the feel of a seedy nightclub.” 3
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The fact that history is written by the victors makes it easy to gloss over questionable acts committed by the Allies during World War II. However, this sweeping historical drama keeps one important story alive: the plight of Italian Canadians who were unjustly arrested and sent to internment camps. Vittorio Rossi’s expansive and comprehensive narrative focuses on two brothers separated by these events in 1940 Montreal. Romano (Chris Coculuzzi), a rising businessman, is sent to a camp in Petawawa on suspicion of being a Fascist, while his brother Cenzo (Len Batta) is left to
look after the family – and constantly over his shoulder. Director Marianne McIsaac weaves the play’s multiple plot lines tightly together with fluid transitions between realistic scenes, a multilevel set and lots of nuanced background action. Interesting developments, generally well rendered by the ensemble, come from the wide array of characters – from an actual ItalianCanadian Fascist to a sympathetic camp guard. While Jan Michael Weir’s base commandant is weak in key moments, Ryan MacDonald proves he’s one of Toronto’s most talented character actors by expertly executing a number of roles and accents, getting lots of laughs in the process. Despite an epic run time (close to three hours) and jarring roboticsounding recordings used in letterwriting scenes, Paradise By The River is a genuinely moving piece of social history and an important piece of Canadian story-keeping. JORDAN BIMM
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Thursday, December 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Joey Elias, Martha
O’Neill and host Ryan Maglunob. To Dec 5, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $15-$20. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.
ASIANSPLOITATION SPANKS THE TIGER – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT Asiansploitation presents
their hit sketch comedy revue from the Fringe. To Dec 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15-$18. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971. BAD DOG THEATRE presents previews of Micetro Impro, a Survivor-style improv competition. 8 pm. $5. 138 Danforth. 416-4913115, baddogtheatre.com. THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 31 Supermarket presents LadyStache, Bob Wiseman, Mark DeBonis, the Boom and others. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com. COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Diana Love, Heidi Brander, Patrick Lema, Jim McAleese, Jon Schabl, Max Olson, Todd Graham, Tom Mes, John Pattison and host Todd Van Allen. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698. COMEDY @ COCONUTS New Reach Creative presents comedy followed by hip-hop, R&B and reggae w/ host Ricky ‘rudeboy’ Singh and various comedic acts. 9 pm. Free. Coconuts Restaurant & Lounge, 2180 Steeles W. 905532-0504, newreachcreative.com. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class players. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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consistently funny show in years. Director Chris Earle has a theatrical eye, edgy sense of humour and knows which topical references will capture the zeitgeist yet also remain classic. The talented, versatile cast takes on G20 protests, tech annoyances and pushes the limits of comedy with a ballsy scene about the Israel/Palestine situation. The final moments are a brilliant nod to several earlier sketches, and you’ll be humming Caitlin Howden and Matthew Reid’s song parody as you leave. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Bob Keele. To Dec 5, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents the Rising Stars Of Comedy double feature. 8 pm. $12. 70 Interchange Way, Vaughan. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents the Rising Stars Of Comedy double feature. 8 pm. $12. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
Friday, December 3 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. ASIANSPLOITATION SPANKS THE TIGER – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT See Thu 2. BAD DOG THEATRE presents That Friday Show,
a one-act play by BDT students. 7 pm. Pwyc. It’s A Wonderful Improvised Life, a send-up of the Frank Capra film. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Frosty The Show...man, an improv take on holiday cartoons. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. COMEDY NIGHT AT REBA’S Neil Ross presents stand-up and sketch comedy w/ guest Terry Cowe. 7 pm. Free. Rebas Café, 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Better Than Nothing. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
THE SECOND CITY’S DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REVUE Second City presents a holiday-themed
show of scenes and songs. To Dec 17, Fri and Wed 1 pm, plus Mon 8 pm, to Jan 3, 2011. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.
SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 2. TOKE & JOKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a
weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. Free. 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500.
725 Queen E. maggierant@rogers.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Gilson Lubin. To Dec 4, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:45 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Sam Easton. To Dec 4, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
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Saturday, December 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. ASIANSPLOITATION SPANKS THE TIGER – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT See Thu 2. DOCTOR WHOM Bigger on the Inside Productions presents an improvised tribute ñ to the sci-fi TV show w/ Scott Montgomery,
Ashley Botting, Aurora Browne, Chris Gibbs and others. To Dec 18, Saturdays 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ticketweb.ca. 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. ONCE UPON A PUPPET John Candy Box Theatre presents an improvised puppet fairy tale. 1 pm. $5, 6-pack $20. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 3. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 3.
Sunday, December 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents
upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. 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 Let’s Get Hot! w/ Chris Locke & Aaron Eves, Tim Gilbert, Glenn Macaulay, James Hartnett, David Dineen Porter, Kathleen Phillips, Brian Barlow, Nick Flanagan and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents weekly stand-up guests and improv by the Eleventh Commandment. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.
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Monday, December 6 50 laFFs Per Hour Dominion on Queen presents Alan Park, Claire Brosseau, Mike ñ Cliff, Kathleen McGee, Terry Clement, Aaron
Berg and others. Proceeds to the Toronto Children’s Breakfast Club. 9 pm. $10. 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893, dominiononqueen.com. alt.coMedy lounGe Rivoli presents New Material Night w/ Dave Merheje, Debra DiGiovanni, Nathan Macintosh, Arthur Simeon, Ian Lynch, MC Mark DeBonis and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Coming Soon... w/ Danny Martinello, Candace Lovett, Abraham Sualim and MC Bobby Knauff. 11 pm. Free. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. Hard tIMes at tHe Hard luck Impulsive Entertainment presents a weekly new material night for singers, poets, stand-ups, sketch, improv and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. impulsiveentertainment.com.
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tHe second cIty’s dysFunctIonal HolIday revue See Fri 3. stand-uP sHowdown: one last tIMe
Comedy Bar presents 6 comics, 3 topics ñ and one judge w/ host Craig Brown, Mark Forward, Rhiannon Archer and others. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. wHeel oF IMProv John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
Tuesday, December 7 Bad doG tHeatre presents The Jam, an open
improv jam session. 8 pm. $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. GeoFF Hendry and assocIates Supermarket presents Ian MacIntyre, Todd Van Allen, the Earthtones and host Geoff Hendry. Proceeds to Hope Air. 8:30 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. 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. sketcHcoMedylounGe Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Fratwurst, Good Game, the Regulars, Newsdesk w/ Ron Sparks, MC Shelley Kidwell and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.
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the 2010 governor general’s Award jury has rejected urban grit in favour of a slow burn of a novel set in the prairies. Dianne Warren’s GG winner, Cool Water, begins with a terrific sequence in which a young cow-
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Sunday, December 5
45 Books In 45 MInutes Whirlwind presentation of fiction and non-fiction titles. 6:30 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. Reserve 416-361-0032.
stacy scHIFF/Molly Peacock/MIcHael wInter/alIssa york Authors brunch. 10 ñ am. $45. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. benmcnallybooks.com.
GaBrIella GolIGer/naIrne Holtz/sukI lee
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Reading. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973.
PersIstent Poverty: voIces FroM tHe MarGIns Launch. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free.
JoHn sorenson/roB laIdlaw/andrew westoll 7 pm. $8. George Ignatieff Theatre,
soMetHInG wIcked awesoMe tHIs way coMes See Thu 2. standInG on tHe danFortH BIrtHday BasH Eton House presents Kate Davis,
eleanor wacHtel and MIcHael ondaatJe
Friday, December 3 BoB Mcdonald/MIcaH touB/aBIGale MIller Short talks. 6-7:30 pm. Free. MaRS Dis-
covery Centre, 101 College. treehousetalks. com.
Phillips, Keesha Brownie, She Said What, host Andrew Johnston and others. 8:30 pm. $10. 12 Alexander. femaledogsalad@gmail.com.
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Wednesday, December 8
– A Field Guide To Getting Luckier. 1 pm. Free. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. 416-5880900.
aBsolute coMedy presents Pro-Am night w/
Andy Pitz, Sean Sinclair-Day, Makesi Arthur, Lenny Corrado, Al Val, Diana Love and host Dan Shaki. 8:30 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. Bad doG tHeatre presents previews of new improv shows: The League, fast, competitive improv. 8 pm. The Mullet, twist on a classic improv challenge. 9:30 pm. $5 for one or both shows. 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. cHrIstMas @ corktown Betty’s presents a holiday show w/ Desiree Lavoy, Ron Josol, Kristian Reimer, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free (donations to Daily Bread Food Bank appreciated). 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, upstairs. 416922-2526, zeldas.ca.
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Nile Seguin, Daniela Saioni, Nathan MacIntosh, Ian Lynch, Dave Martin, host JoAnna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. yuk yuk’s downtown presents Ryan Belleville. To Dec 12, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3
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Banker Norval readies to pay for the elaborate wedding of his pregnant daughter, but he’s even more distressed at having to pressure cashstrapped Blaine to pay back his loans. Blaine’s family, six kids and his alarmingly disorganized wife, is out of control. Meanwhile, Lee, a foundling who’s inherited his adoptive parents’ farm, finds a horse who helps him figure out his priorities. In other segments, the owner of the lost horse inadvertently threatens another man’s marriage, and Willard tries to cope with his passion for his late brother’s wife. Warren writes with a cool, matter-
of-fact precision that is so smooth and easy that these characters – not as simple as they first seem – creep up on you before you know it. This is a quiet book, maybe too quiet, that throws you into what seems like another culture. Definitely not fiction that portrays the complexities of a major Canadian city and its place in the larger global universe. If you want something like that, snap up Michael Helm’s Cities Of Refuge, a novel that, except for its Writers Trust short-list nod, was crimi nally ignored this awards season. susan G. cole Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com
kIldare doBBs/adrIenne GruBer/Maureen Hynes/JIM nason Poetry. 7:30 pm. Free. katHerIne GovIer Reading. Noon-1:30 pm.
(PEN Canada/Toronto Public Library Fdn benefit) 7 pm. $10. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. walk MyselF HoMe Launch of an anthology on ending violence against women. 7-9 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744.
t’was tHe BItcH salad BeFore cHrIstMas Buddies in Bad Times presents the ñ year-end show w/ the Cheeto Girls, Kathleen
Always intriguing Michael Winter’s The Death Of Donna Whalen ($34, Hamish Hamilton) copped a spot on the Writers Trust short list for fiction, and why not? It’s the literary equivalent of a docudrama, rendered in meticulous detail and with Winter’s trademark vividness, about the reallife murder of a young woman and the chaos it causes in her small town. Winter joins Stacy Schiff, Molly Peacock and Alissa York at the Authors Brunch at the King Eddie Sunday (December 5) See Readings, this page. sGc
Harbord House, 150 Harbord. 647-430-7365.
Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity. 416535-9914. 15 Devonshire. 416-285-1744.
Arthur Simeon, Hunter Collins, Marilla Wex, Sarah Donaldson, Doug Taylor, Cal Post and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.
boy vies with a grizzled veteran in a 100-mile horse race that runs through the town of Juliet and its environs – including the Little Snake sand dunes. Right away we know exactly where we are and the basic values of the people who live there. The ensuing vignettes occur two generations later, when the town is undergoing a transition from farm/ranch community to... no one’s sure what.
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$25, stu/srs $20 (bag lunch included). Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. Reserve gardiermuseum.on.ca. readInG carol Bolt Book launch with readings from Bolt’s plays. 7 pm. Free. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. playwrightscanada.com.
Tuesday, December 7 Brooke JeFFrey Launch for Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party Of Canada, 1984-2008. 5:307:30 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. vIncent laM Reading. 7 pm. Free. York University, ACW 206, 4700 Keele. 416736-5158, yorku.ca/laps/canwrite.
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Malaysian director Yeo Joon Han takes his satire to the limit By NORMAN WILNER SELL OUT! written and directed by Yeo Joon Han, with Jerrica Lai, Peter Davis and Kee Thuan Chye. A Vagrant Films release. 106 minutes. Opens Friday (December 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 77.
i’ve done plenty of interviews in coffee shops, but this is the first one I’ve done at a Starbucks in Kuala Lumpur. Okay, technically I’m in Toronto and Yeo Joon Han, the writer, director and editor of Sell Out!, is standing outside a closed Starbucks at a shopping mall in his native Malaysia. But it still counts. A midnight telephone interview in the parking lot of a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall might seem like an odd way to promote your movie, but Yeo is cool with it. Certainly, it’s no
stranger than anything in his movie – an antic, inventive musical about two young people trying to move up the corporate ladder that not only lets those characters burst into song but offers the audience its own musical number with karaoke-style lyrics. Sell Out! is one of the happiest surprises I’ve had in a movie theatre this year – and as Yeo is delighted to explain, he has no idea how it happened. “I was looking for funding for a more personal film,” he recalls, “but when the opportunity came, it was from this big company that wanted me to do a commercial film. So I was kinda stuck. I didn’t really have a commercial, mainstream film in mind, so I thought I’d do a comedy, cuz I like comedy. “But I wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to write or shoot until one
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Sell Out! is a gleefully ambitious movie that hits the screen bursting with ideas and energy. It’s the sort of film where anything can happen, and pretty much everything does. Yeo Joon Han’s satirical feature – performed almost entirely in English – follows the fortunes of two young Malaysians working for the rapacious FONY Corporation in Kuala Lumpur. Ambitious TV presenter Rafflesia Pong (Jerrica Lai) lucks into a reality series where she follows terminally ill people around in hopes of catching their deaths on camera. Meanwhile, product developer Eric Tan (Peter Davis) delivers a machine that makes seven different things from raw soybeans, only to discover that FONY isn’t interested unless it literally turns soybeans into money. As Rafflesia and Eric try to cater to their bosses’ increasingly ridiculous expectations – Eric takes a trip to a mystic who attempts to exorcise his creative side, which is getting in the way of making cheap products – Yeo surrounds them with a hail of inventive gags and delightful musical sequences, including a karaoke number with singalong lyrics. NW There’s nothing else like it in theatres.
day I thought I would just maybe make a film about the situation I found myself in. So I invented these two characters who had to struggle. And then one thing led to another.” The result feels very much like the work of someone at play. There’s a lightness to Sell Out! that makes the complex subject matter go down awfully easily. This is quite an accomplishment, given that one storyline finds a character hosting a reality series where she basically sits by dying people’s bedsides and waits for them to croak. “Some jokes are quite horrible – not just corny, but insensitive,” says Yeo. “And we were wondering, ‘How far do we go with these things?’ So we thought, ‘Well, nobody has ever done a film like this in Malaysia. Let’s give it a shot.’ I allowed myself to go as far as I could to test where the thing would bend and break. Basically, that’s the kind of society we live in, the situations we find ourselves in. I’ve just twisted and turned it. There’s a lot of pent-up anger, I guess.” It helps that Sell Out! declares its mischievous intentions from the start, with a prologue that mocks pretentious directors and artier-thanthou film festivals – which turned out to be a stumbling block at home. “In Malaysia, some people walked out,” Yeo says with a laugh. “During the first screening, one blogger walked out and said, ‘Why is the director so arrogant in the first scene?’ I realized a lot of Malaysians don’t get irony. They don’t realize that what we are showing is not what we believe.” Then again, it’s not just Malaysians who had trouble understanding some of Yeo’s satire, as he discovered when he brought the film to Venice. “A Belgian producer came up to me and said, ‘I really like the idea of interviewing dying people. Can I use it for a reality show in Belgium?’ “‘WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?’” Yeo shouts, quoting his horrified self – then breaking into laughter. “Someone actually came up to me and asked for permission to use it!” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky, screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin from a story by Heinz, with Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey. A Fox Searchlight release. 110 minutes. Opens Friday (December 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 77.
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los angeles – natalie portman still looks a little like a kid playing dress-up. Wearing a sleek midnight-blue jacket over a lighter blue ruffled shirt, the actor looks much, much younger than her 29 years. It’s what makes her convincing in the role of a deteriorating ballerina in Black Swan, and it’s also what keeps people underestimating her. “Yeah, I guess I’ve learned the merit of having an image as a good girl,” Portman says. “It just seems easier to surprise people and subvert that. You know, you curse and people are like....” She rears back and gasps like a Southern belle with the vapours. “Which is funny, because I was never in kid films. My first movie was The Professional, which was R-rated. I was 11 years old.” Anyone who watches Darren Aronofsky’s intense psychodrama will come away with the image of Portman’s tormented, flailing Nina imprinted on their retinas. She’s so amazingly good, and in so many different ways, that she obliterates almost everything else in the picture. Portman could very well win an Oscar for her performance, but she’d rather not talk about it. At the Black Swan press conference, she gracefully deflects talk of awards, steer-
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ing the conversation toward the collective efforts of the cast and crew. She’s downplaying the effort she put into the movie. She spent a year preparing for the role, doing two hours of ballet training daily with coach Mary Helen Bowers for the first six months, then adding another three hours of formal classes and swimming for additional toning. And then there was the character stuff. Her Harvard degree in psychology came in handy when building a specific profile of her Black Swan character. Portman diagnosed Nina as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which comes as a surprise, since the screenwriters had said the character was a classic borderline personality. “Well, they’re not mutually exclusive,” she tells me about an hour after that press conference, sitting in a quiet alcove at the W Hollywood. Portman’s talking about the research she did for the movie, which also included watching a few films. I assumed she’d loaded up on thematically related cinema like Repulsion and The Red Shoes, but Portman went another way. “The Frederick Wiseman documentaries [Ballet, about the American Ballet Theater, and La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet] were my filmic references,” she says. “And then I read all the dancer autobiographies from the New York City Ballet during the Balanchine years. I thought if you situate it in a very particular culture, that’s very helpful. So I read Allegra Kent, Suzanne Farrell, Toni Bentley – and then I just talked to a lot of dancers, too. It was really more from people than from films.” By the time shooting started, Portman was training eight hours a day. The unrelenting
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physical regimen – with a diet that consisted of little more than carrots and almonds, according to Aronofsky – certainly helped her connect to her splintering character. “Every scene was....,” she makes a frenetic gesture, waving her hands around in a panic. “I don’t remember any easy days. We had such a short schedule, and it’s a low-budget film. We were doing 15-, 16hour days. But it was good, because you really don’t get to do anything else. You just stay in the world of the film.” It’s a pretty freaky world. Black Swan plays like Michael Powell’s Technicolor fairy tale The Red Shoes as directed by Dario Argento, with the increasingly unhinged Nina coming apart under the demands of her controlling stage mother (Barbara Hershey) and the advances of her predatory choreographer (Vincent Cassel) and a confident dancer (Mila Kunis). Portman’s unrestrained performance and Aronofsky’s feverish mise en scène give the movie the feeling of a runaway train in pointe shoes. “I think people get excited by it because movies are so tame right now and this one’s crazy,” Portman says, laughing. “It’s not like anything you’ve ever seen before. It’s really bold filmmaking, and I don’t think we see a lot of that right now.” Portman’s always been drawn to the bolder films, balancing big pictures like Mars Attacks!, the Star Wars prequels, V For Vendetta and next
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ñRating: NNNN If David Cronenberg and Peter Greenaway had a fight over the remake rights to Dario Argento’s Suspiria, the result might look a lot like this deliriously operatic tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman) who starts to lose her mind when she wins the role of the Swan Queen in a star-making production of Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. Returning to the intensely sensual headspace of his debut film, Pi – now augmented with subtle digital effects and sweeping Dolby sound – Darren Aronofsky delivers a rich, weird experience, building a showcase around Portman’s tremendous range. Vincent Cassel, as her predatory choreographer, is pretty great himself, and Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey year’s Thor with work by Wayne Wang, Anthony Minghella, Wong Kar-wai, Amos Gitai and Wes Anderson. She was the only person in the world who understood Zach Braff in the Sundance smash Garden State, and she earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress as a lost-soul stripper in Mike Nichols’s Closer. Portman has an ulterior motive for seeking out challenging projects. She’s been moving toward writing and directing for some time. “I learn from everyone I work with every day,” she says. “Actors, directors, writers. Yeah, I’m really lucky to be around so many interesting, creative and smart people all the time. I’ve grown up in this world, and though I’m no expert in anything, really, I do feel a kind of familiarity, and have an inherent understanding of struc-
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contribute vivid supporting turns. If you think the whole affair is a little over the top, that’s kind of the point. Indeed, it’s the only way to make a movie this ambitious NW and impassioned. ture and all that. And also just this passion and desire to create.” Recently she’s been testing herself as a filmmaker, directing Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazzara in the delicately observed 2008 short Eve and helming an artful segment of the omnibus film New York, I Love You. (She also appears in a segment of the film directed by Mira Nair.) Portman’s New York, I Love You sequence is the sort of thing we expect from a young filmmaker – a calm, nicely observed story about a man and a child in Central Park. But Eve is a much more complicated piece, starring actors who are practically living legends. It’s hard to picture Bacall and Gazzara being directed by someone who looks like she could be their great-granddaughter, but Portman pulled that off, too. “It was terrifying,” she says, beaming. “Almost anything I’ve done that I am proud of, I was ignorant to have done. There’s some kind of weird bravado that it took to go in there and do that, and I feel so lucky that I did. “I mean, Ben Gazzara is an absolute legend and such a great actor. Bacall is an absolute icon and an incredible actress and such a great comedian. The fact that they both believed in it and were willing to do the film was such an honour. But also they’re serious actors – they want to work, they want to work hard, they want to be directed.” So does Portman. She responds to strong filmmakers, and she aspires to be one herself. “I’ve been writing, and I’ve done the shorts, and I think about doing more.” She won’t talk about what “more” might be, though. “It just turns into, ‘Why didn’t you ever do that thing that you were talking about?’” Whatever it is, it’ll be worth seeing. The kid’s got game. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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Pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer (left) puffs himself up before a Meilleurs Ouvriers de France judge.
You want to see the meringue crack or the cookie crumble, but that doesn’t happen often here often enough. If anything, this is a cinematic lesson KINGS OF PASTRY (Chris Hegedus, D.A. in the difference between a documenPennebaker). 84 minutes. Some subtitles. tary tracking a real-life pastry competiOpens tonight (Thursday, December 2) at tion and a Food Network reality show. the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 84. Whenever any of those TV competiRating: NNN tions – Chopped, Top Chef, for example – get too bland, someone, either a Sixteen pâtissiers vie for the coveted judge or a commentator, gooses the Meilleur Ouvrier, the industry’s highest damned thing so we can revel in some honour, in this luscious co-production good old-fashioned conflict. by two venerated documentarians. In Kings Of Pastry, the judges don’t Problem is, it’s almost too much of a castigate the competitors à la Gordon confection. Chris Hegedus (The War Ramsay. They even step in occasionally Room) and D.A. Pennebaker (Don’t to encourage them. Look Back) fail to ratchet up the tenIron Chef pastry-style this isn’t. But sion, and we’re not totally invested in kind of11/9/10 cool, too.6:04:58SUSAN YWCA Rose Ad 3.833x5.542 B&W that’s FINAL.pdf PM G. COLE any of the pastry chefs.
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At 11, Portman made her screen debut in Luc Besson’s action blowout The Professional, holding her own opposite Jean Reno and a frothing Gary Oldman. Her complex and unforgettable performance – which is even more impressive in the expanded international cut – instantly put her on the radar as one of the year’s biggest finds.
The first nine minutes of Amos Gitai’s Free Zone consist of nothing but Portman weeping in close-up, shot through a car window. That’d make any actor think twice about signing on, and the rest of the movie is a metaphorical take on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Portman, who was born in Jerusalem, was the perfect choice to play a visiting American plunged into the quagmire of Middle East politics.
ESTABLISH YOUR RANGE Not too many 13-year-olds can get away with calling themselves old souls, but as the eerily mature New England neighbour kid who provides invaluable guidance to Timothy Hutton’s rootless piano player in Ted Demme’s Beautiful Girls, Portman proved that her Professional turn was no fluke. And as Al Pacino’s troubled stepdaughter in Heat, Portman keeps a thinly drawn character from falling into total stereotype.
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CONVICTION (Tony Goldwyn) reduces the undeniably powerful true story of Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank), who put herself through law school and spent nearly two decades fighting to clear her brother (Sam Rockwell) of a murder conviction, to a mundane movie-of-the-week. 106 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20 COOL IT (Ondi Timoner) follows Bjørn Lomborg, the Danish author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, around the world as he explores cheaper – and more business-friendly – alternatives to the proposed methods of carbon reduction. First, though, the movie has to spend half its running time explaining that Lomborg isn’t a climate-change denier by having him declare it over and over again, which isn’t the most dynamic storytelling choice. Things pick up when Timoner gets into Lomborg’s alternatives, but her subject keeps waffling on a specific course of action, calling for more research before his consulting group can decide on a definitive approach. You can see why he pisses off the activists. And, eventually, the audience. 89 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4
BURLESQUE (Steve Antin) cribs from any number of trashy pictures about showbiz, but it’s not nearly as much fun as Showgirls. A small-town entertainer (Christina DESPICABLE ME (Chris Renaud, Pierre Aguilera) tries to make it as a dancer/singCoffin) stars Steve Carell as the voice of a er in a floundering nightclub, but first she sneering schemer who adopts three girls must win over the club’s owner (Cher), piss as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the off the drunken diva (Kristen Bell) and flirt moon. That subplot provides the movie with the sexy bartender with its most engaging (Cam Gigandet). When and entertaining moshe finally shows everyments; the other stuff, EXPANDED REVIEWS one her star quality, a with Gru’s tubenowtoronto.com smouldering suit (Eric shaped minions jumpDane) gets interested ing around at us in 3-D, even as he’s negotiating to is a lot less interesting. 95 min. NNN (NW) buy the club. The silly plot is really an exInterchange 30 cuse to stage repetitive Broadway-style DEVIL (Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle) numbers that are more fun to watch than is a modest supernatural thriller that uses listen to. Cher looks fantastic but her voice a brisk pace and fluid editing to provide shows strain, while Aguilera does her mild entertainment, but that can’t disgrowl-singing thing without making much guise the thinness of its simple story: five of a dramatic mark. There’s lots of eye strangers are trapped in an office tower candy in the supporting cast, but Stanley elevator, one of whom is the Devil in disTucci (enough with the fairy godfather guise, here to kill sinners for fun. 80 min. routine, sir) and Broadway’s Alan CumNN (AD) ming are wasted. 100 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, DIE WALKURE is a live broadcast in highCourtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, def and surround sound from Milan’s La Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Scala of the second opera in Wagner’s - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, RainRing Cycle, starring Waltraud Meier, Nina bow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Stemme, Simon O’Neil and Vitalij KowalRainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, jow. 310 min. Subtitled. SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverDec 7, at 11 am, Yonge & Dundas 24 City Yorkdale, Varsity DOWN TERRACE (Ben Wheatley) CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF plays like an episode of The SopELIOT SPITZER (Alex Gibney) could ranos directed by Mike Leigh, plopping ithave been another story about a good guy self down in a Brighton household where pol who had a little sex and lost everya young man and his parents cope with thing, but director Gibney (Oscar winner the demands of everyday family life while for Taxi To The Dark Side) is smarter than running some sort of criminal syndicate. that. Yes, there are some really bad guys, Director Wheatley, who wrote the script and, yes, they may have played a part in with co-star Robin Hill, shifts the movie’s exposing him as a client of the Emperor’s tone expertly throughout, and fans of Club escorts. But Gibney sees Spitzer as a Edgar Wright’s Spaced will be delighted to flawed character who prosecuted prostisee Julia Deakin and Michael Smiley showtution services while frequenting them ing some real dramatic range. Like the and who rose to the governorship thinking movie itself, they’re a lot more complex he could bulldoze everybody and everythan they first appear. 93 min. NNNN (NW) thing to get his way. The talking heads are Carlton Cinema fascinating, including creepy Home Depot founder Ken Langone and weasely AIG DUE DATE (Todd Phillips) is basically just CEO Hank Greenberg. Most memorable is an update of Planes, Trains & Autothe Emperor’s Club’s operations manager mobiles, with control freak Robert DowCecil Suwal, who will crack you up. One ney Jr. and clueless chaos-bringer Zach major flaw: not a word from Spitzer’s Galifianakis racing from Atlanta to Los wife, Silda. 117 min. NNNN (SGC) continued on page 78 œ
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Angeles. The actors could have coasted on invading Iraq. No matter how hard Liman the odd-couple script, but they both dig tries to invest the proceedings with jittery deep into their characters; Downey, in energy, Fair Game seems like old news. particular, gives what would be an Oscar108 min. NN (NW) calibre performance in a just universe. Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Inter(Really, he’s amazing.) But the emotional change 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queendepth winds up pushing against the sway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge broader nature of the plot, which gets & Dundas 24 more cartoonish as it goes along. Due FASTER (George Tillman Jr.) is a straight-up Date is much more satisfying when it revenge thriller starring Dwayne “The keeps things real. 95 min. NNN (NW) Rock” Johnson as a California ex-con on a 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colimission of violent retribution, with Billy seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Bob Thornton and Carla Gugino as the Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town homicide detectives on his trail and Oliver Centre, Empire TheJackson-Cohen as a highatres at Empress powered assassin hired to Walk, Grande stop him before he can finEXPANDED REVIEWS Steeles, Queensway, ish the job. It’s a grim, lean nowtoronto.com Rainbow Market piece of work that feels Square, Rainbow like it crawled out of a 1978 Woodbine, Scotiabank double feature. And that’s a good thing. Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity 98 min. NNN (NW) Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum EASY A (Will Gluck) is a chipper riff Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton on The Scarlet Letter, in which a high Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress school senior (Emma Stone) is branded a Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, slut after a white lie about losing her virQueensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiaginity goes viral. Gluck’s film occupies the bank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity same clear-headed space as 10 Things I Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale Hate About You and Mean Girls. It’s a movie you can respect in the morning. 93 A FILM UNFINISHED (Yael Hersonski) min. NNNN (NW) is unique among Holocaust docuInterchange 30 mentaries in a very horrible way: the bulk of the footage in Hersonski’s searing EAT PRAY LOVE (Ryan Murphy) offers exploration of image-craft and cultural audiences the chance to vicariously memory comes from a Nazi propaganda accompany Julia Roberts as she retraces film shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in May of author Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling 1942. The project was never completed, odyssey of self-embiggenment, travelling but the raw footage remains, offering a from one impossibly photogenic, suncompelling – and repugnant – look into drenched location to another in a prothe Nazi propaganda machine. Some foundly monotonous travelogue. 139 min. subtitles. 89 min. NNNN (NW) NN (NW) Interchange 30 Regent Theatre
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(David Yates) is the most satisfying and confident Harry Potter movie yet. It’s nearly two and a half hours long, doesn’t have an ending and introduces characters and situations that won’t pay off until the second half reaches theatres next summer – and none of that matters. Director Yates, who took the series’ directorial reins with the fifth film, has been subtly shifting the tone from fantasy to straight-up drama. There’s still plenty of wand-waving and broom-riding, but the movies now look and feel like contemporary cinema. This is great stuff, playing out with the assurance of a fully mature franchise. 146 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
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Jackass 3d(Jeff Tremaine)isexactlylike thetwopreviousfeaturesandTVseries, exceptforthe3-D,whichissofeebleyou’ll barelynoticeit.JohnnyKnoxvilleand cohortspee,puke,poop,fart,gethitand takealotoffallsinanon-stopstringof simplegagsandstunts.Theylaughlike loonswhensomeoneelsegetsnailedand lookgenuinelymiserablewhenit’stheir turn.Therelentlessrepetitionquicklygeneratesmind-numbingboredom.90min.N (AD) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre kINgs of Pastry(Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker)84min.Seereview,page76. NNN(SGC) Opens Dec 3 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. LegeNd of the guardIaNs: the owLs of ga’hooLe(Zack Snyder)turnsKathryn
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LIfe as we kNow It(Greg Berlanti)stars KatherineHeiglandJoshDuhamelascoguardiansoftheorphanedbabyoftheir deceasedbestfriends.Theideathatparentswouldleavetheirchildwithsuchan irresponsiblepairingandnottellthemis themovie’sfirststupidplotpoint,andit continuesinpoortastefromthere.115 min.NN(RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 Love & other drugs(Edward Zwick)
wantseversomuchtobeafrothyromanticcomedyaboutaPfizerpharmaceutical rep(JakeGyllenhaal)whofallsintoanostringssexualrelationshipwithadoeeyedParkinson’spatient(AnneHathaway).Butitjusttriessodamnhardtowin
youoverthatit’sexhausting.Thefirst hour’spleasantenough,butthenyou realizethestorydoesn’thaveanywhereto go.Afterthatit’slikeanentireseasonofa sitcomyoudidn’tparticularlywanttosee inthefirstplace.113min.NN(NW) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
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andtheshit-kickingministeroflabour (MirandaRichardson),tohelpsavethe day.Thisisafilmthatpressesthe women’ssolidaritybuttonalmosttoo hard.Andthemen,exceptforRita’s husbandandunionbrotherBobHoskins, areallprettyicky.Butthere’ssomegreat writing,andtheperioddetailisexquisite. 113min.NNN(SGC) Varsity
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alead-footed,melodramaticbiopicabout ChinesedancerLiCunxin,whovisits AmericaasCommunism’sballetprodigy butthenrefusestoreturnhome,tothe dismayoftheChineseConsulate.Beresfordtouchestoobrieflyonsomeofthe story’sambiguities.Atleastthere’ssome fancydancing.Somesubtitles.117min. NN(RS) Mt Pleasant
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greatideasflyingaround,buttheynever quitemakeitontothescreen.Thevillainbeats-heropremiseisingenious,butit’s executedwithpartscribbedfromShrek, DespicableMe,TheIncrediblesandMonstersVs.Aliens.Sure,WillFerrellisagreat choicefortheroleofaninsecuresupergenius,andDavidCrossisgreatfunashis talking-fishsidekick,butthey’retrapped inaformulastorylinethatfollowssome veryfamiliarbeats.WhenFerrellplays withamalapropismorimprovisesthe perfectcappertoascene,themovie glowswithmadcapinvention,butmostly itjustsitsaroundbaskinginitsborrowed productiondesignandretreadconcept.96 min.NN(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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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 movie: Sin Nombre with giant space octopods. It’s also a one-man production: writerdirector-cinematographer-production designer Edwards also takes credit for the CG animation. The movie should guarantee him a career as an effects artist, but everything else is beyond his reach. The leads 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 behind this. 94 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20
guro’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, Mt Pleasant
THE NEXT THREE DAYS (Paul Haggis) finds the Oscar-winning button-pushing director remaking the 2008 Eurothriller Pour Elle, with family man Russell Crowe deciding to break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of prison after she’s convicted of murder. Haggis’s schematic approach to screenwriting becomes more and more annoying as the movie unfolds: everything Crowe’s character does can be justified by the argument that he really loves his wife. It makes for a clear-cut moral universe, MORNING GLORY (Roger Michell) casts sure, but it also an utterly predictable Harrison Ford as an aging newshound movie. 133 min. NN (NW) forced to take a gig co-hosting a struggling 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, ColiNew York morning show. Rachel McAdams seum Scarborough, Colosis the 28-year-old sus, Courtney Park 16, executive producer Cumberland 4, Eglinton who brings him EXPANDED REVIEWS Town Centre, Grande aboard, and Diane nowtoronto.com Yonge, Queensway, RainKeaton the vain hasbow Promenade, Rainbow been with whom he Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity now must share a desk. Ford scowls like a Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga pro, and McAdams probably smiles more than she has in her entire off-camera life. NOWHERE BOY (Sam Taylor-Wood) It’s pleasant enough fluff – particularly is a character study of John Lennon during a lively midsection when McAdams (Aaron Johnson) as an angry Liverpool kid starts putting her talent in increasingly abwho’s wrenched wide open when he resurd situations to boost ratings – but nothconnects with his long-lost mother (Anneing more. 106 min. NNN (NW) Marie Duff) to the disapproval of his proCanada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, tective aunt (Kristin Scott Thomas). It feels Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, like it could be a Mike Leigh movie about Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, the birth of the Beatles – and that’s a Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, compliment. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Carlton Cinema SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity THE NUTCRACKER IN 3D (Andrei Konchalovsky) turns E.T.A. Hoffmann’s original NANNY McPHEE RETURNS (Susanna story into a long, joyless, Narnia-esque White) plops Emma Thompson’s magical yarn about magical kingdoms and the British governess down at Maggie Gyllentotalitarian rodents that rule them. Doehaal’s rundown farm to help five cousins eyed Elle Fanning (Dakota’s little sister) learn to work together, respect one stars as Mary, whose Nutcracker doll another and appreciate the delights of (Charlie Rowe) becomes animated when digitally enhanced farm animals. It may be no one else is looking. The screenplay talks disposable entertainment, but it’s still a lot about imagination but has very little entertaining. 109 min. NNN (NW) itself. The songs, by Eduard Artemiev and Interchange 30 Tim Rice (The Lion King), are dull. And the NEVER LET ME GO (Mark Romanek) is performances are as wooden as that titular doll. Even the pointless post-convera chilly adaptation of Kazuo Ishi-
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(Danny Boyle) finds the notoriously kinetic filmmaker telling the story of Aron Ralston, who spent the eponymous span of time trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon 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 serves to convey Ralston’s unravelling state of mind. In a compelling solo performance, James Franco turns his natural charisma and playfulness into character flaws. Ralston’s overconfidence and casual approach to mountaineering put him in harm’s way, yet his ingenuity and powerful will to live redeem him. And yes, the climax is exactly as gruelling as you’ve heard. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity
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. It’s still scary, but the scares seem more predictable. 91 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 SALT (Phillip Noyce) stars Angelina Jolie as
CIA agent Evelyn Salt, accused by a Russian defector of being a sleeper spy. It unfolds in a monotone of explosions and car chases, and the plot holes are ludicrous. If you’re gonna make an actioner with Angelina Jolie that isn’t sexy or funny, can you at least make it smart? 100 min. NN (SGC) Interchange 30
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Kramer (Tobin Bell) or crooked cop Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). A disappointing series finale. 91 min. NN (AD) Interchange 30
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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre Sell Out! ñ NNNN
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War Of The Worlds with five people in an apartment building. The monsters look cool and things pick up in the last halfhour, but acting, writing, directing and CG are adequate at best. 92 min. NN (AD) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
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cher) turns the nuts and bolts of the creation of Facebook into a thrilling, rippling comedy of manners about male vanity, social mores and the utter impossibility of transparency in the modern age. Is it the best American movie of the year? 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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as a hard-case Detroit parole officer flummoxed by his latest applicant (Edward Norton), who claims to be in the middle of a spiritual rebirth. It’s hard to say which element of this risible drama is sillier – Angus MacLachlan’s portentous screenplay, cobbled together from half a dozen of Jim Thompson’s lesser potboilers, or Norton’s sustained impression of Bubbles from The Wire. 105 min. N (NW) Interchange 30
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. Pleasant enough, but it doesn’t amount to much. 111 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema
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(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland attraction come to life. Mandy Moore and Chuck’s Zachary Levi contribute sprightly turns as the voices of Rapunzel and her would-be suitor, but the best performance is delivered by the animators of Levi’s nemesis Maximus, a guardsman’s horse clearly modelled on Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive – but funnier, obviously, because
(Apichatpong Weera sethakul) is a lovely magic-realist study of a dying Thai man (Thanapat Saisaymar) who welcomes visits from friends and relatives both living and spectral. 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. Subtitled. 108 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
uNStOPPaBle (Tony Scott) sends Denzel Washington and Chris Pine after a runaway train speeding out of control toward a trestle over which it will surely plummet, smack in the middle of a city of tens of thousands of people. The movie has a certain momentum, but it’s no fun at all. Director Scott plays the whole thing straight, resulting in a fast-moving but disappointingly serious disaster movie. The train growls when it shoots past the camera, which gives us hope that proper hysteria could break out at any moment. But it never does. 98 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 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
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(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. NNNN (SGC) Cumberland 4, Regent Theatre 3
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CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 CONVICTION Thu 1:40, 9:15 DOWN TERRACE Thu 1:35, 3:30, 7:05, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:30, 5:15, 7:10, 9:00 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 3:40, 5:35, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 5:35, 7:30, 9:25 FASTER (14A) 1:25, 3:25, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:40 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:20, 5:15 MONSTERS (PG) Fri-Wed 5:25, 9:45 NEVER LET ME GO (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 3:45, 7:00, 9:10 NOWHERE BOY (14A) Thu 1:50 4:10 7:15 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 7:15, 9:15 RED Thu 1:30 7:35 Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:20 TAMARA DREWE Thu 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:10 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES 2:00, 4:15, 6:50, 9:05
CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444
COOL IT (G) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00 INSIDE JOB (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 THE NEXT THREE DAYS (14A) 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Wed no 6:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
BURLESQUE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20, 11:40 Sun-Wed 12:55, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 4:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00, 11:15 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 9:40 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 1:10, 3:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sat 11:45 late MEGAMIND (PG) 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20 Thu 9:30 late MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 1:15, 6:40 Fri-Wed 9:30 TANGLED (PG) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
BURLESQUE (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 12:30, 1:20, 3:20, 4:10,
6:20, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 DUE DATE (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 FASTER (14A) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE Wed 7:00 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 10:15 Fri-Mon 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Tue 7:50, 10:15 Wed 1:15, 3:45, 10:15 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Sat only 12:30 12:50 3:50 4:50 6:30 7:30 9:20 10:20 MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:30, 6:10, 9:00 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 MORNING GLORY (PG) 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 THE NEXT THREE DAYS (14A) 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 127 HOURS (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40
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BLACK SWAN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:35, 6:45, 9:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 12:05, 1:35, 3:15, 4:55, 6:25, 8:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) Thu, Sat-Wed 12:55, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 12:35 3:25 6:15 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 7:15, 9:55
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
AFTER THE BREAK (PG) 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat FAIR GAME (PG) 1:50, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat GUZAARISH (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 3:45, 4:15, 5:15, 5:45, 6:15, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45, 11:15 Fri, Tue 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:15, 10:45, 11:15, 11:45, 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Mon 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:15 4:30 8:00 11:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:00 mat
HEREAFTER (PG) Thu 2:00, 7:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:10, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:50 Mon 2:00 KHELEIN HUM JEE JAAN SEY 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (PG) Thu 2:20, 10:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 DIE WALKÜRE Tue 11:00 THE NUTCRACKER IN 3D (G) 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 (14A) 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:00 mat RED Thu 4:55, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 SKYLINE (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon, Wed 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:55 Sat-Sun 10:50, 12:10, 1:10, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:55 Tue 3:30, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:55 TANGLED (PG) 3:45, 6:15, 9:00 Sat-Sun 10:15, 1:00 mat TANGLED 3D (PG) 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30 mat TERE ISHQ NACHAYA (G) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 THE TOWN (14A) 1:55, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 2:15, 3:15, 4:50, 5:50, 7:20, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:40, 1:00 mat
Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444
COOL IT (G) Fri 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50 FAIR GAME (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:30 Fri 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 SatSun 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:45 I DO (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:35 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15 Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 THE NEXT THREE DAYS (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:00 Fri 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 RED Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:50 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 TAMARA DREWE Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 SatSun 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:45 Fri 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 SatSun 2:15, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15
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SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
BURLESQUE (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:45, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 11:45, 2:40, 6:30, 9:30 Mon 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 FASTER (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 1:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:30, 3:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:45, 10:30 Mon 12:30, 12:40, 3:40, 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 10:00 Thu 1:30 4:15 7:15 10:00 Fri only 12:45 4:00 6:50 10:00 Sat only 12:45 4:45 7:30 10:10 Sun only 12:45 4:00 6:50 10:00 Mon only 1:40 4:20 7:10 10:00 Tue only 12:45 4:00 6:50 10:00
MEGAMIND 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 Mon 1:10, 3:55, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon 12:50, 3:35, 9:45 Wed 12:40, 3:35, 9:45 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20
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THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 7:15 Fri-Wed 7:00 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 5:05 JACKASS 3D (18A) Thu 9:45 LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (PG) Sat-Sun 11:00 RED Fri-Wed 9:35 SECRETARIAT (G) 12:50 THE TOWN (14A) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00
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North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550
BURLESQUE (PG) 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:55 late DUE DATE (14A) 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:25 late FASTER (14A) 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 11:50 late HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) 1:00, 1:50, 3:15, 4:15, 5:10, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50, 10:45 Fri-Sat 11:40 late MEGAMIND 3D (PG) 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 127 HOURS (14A) 2:10, 5:00, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:59 late UNSTOPPABLE (PG) 1:20, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:30 late
GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974
CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER Thu-Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 CONVICTION Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 FAIR GAME (PG) 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE Sat 1:00 MORNING GLORY (PG) 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat THE NEXT THREE DAYS (14A) 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat TANGLED (PG) 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat TANGLED 3D (PG) 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat THE TOWN (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 6:45, 9:45 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45
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Scarborough
tHe next tHree days (14A) Thu 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 skylIne (14A) Thu 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Wed 6:15, 9:15 tangled (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 tangled 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:50, 3:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 unstoPPable (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:15
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By ANDREW DOWLER EXTRAS Two commentaries, six-part making-of doc, more. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
Knight And Day (Fox, 2010) D: James Mangold, w/ Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN
Mads Mikkelsen makes the trip to Valhalla worthwhile.
Valhalla Rising (eOne, 2009)
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D: Nicolas Winding Refn, w/ Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNN The hardest thing to capture in movies is spirituality. The soul’s journey being neither visible nor literal, the usual result is either mush-minded uplift (most movies about nuns) or baffling odysseys (think road pictures). Valhalla Rising follows the latter model and makes a splendid job of it with a lean, harsh story set within a vast landscape. One-Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) is a Viking slave let out of his cage only to fight. He escapes and kills everyone but the boy who has fed him. They
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Disney, 2010) D: Jon Turteltaub, w/ Nicolas Cage, Jay Baruchel. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN
A fun scene in the middle pays homage to the original Mickey Mouse Fantasia segment, but otherwise this Sorcerer’s Apprentice owes more to Harry Potter and its knockoffs. Only this is faster, funnier and generally more entertaining than stiff old Harry. There’s Dave, the ordinary kid destined for wizardly greatness, Balthazar, the ancient sorcerer who trains him for his big battle with would-be world destroyer Morgana le Fay, who’s been imprisoned in a nesting doll with Balthazar’s beloved for 1,300 years, and Horvath, Morgana’s loving acolyte, who’s out to get the doll and release Morgana. Dave has a love interest, too, in the spunky Becky. All this love adds a touch of emotion to what could easily have been a mere mechanical exercise in polished wirework and CG action. It also gives Nicolas Cage a reason to underplay Balthazar (1,300 years of longing). He gives a fine comic performance while lying back to let Jay Baruchel, as Dave, get the big moments and laughs. Alfred Molina’s Horvath is a clichéd suave villain but thoroughly enjoyable. The making-of doc has some information about the mix of practical and CG effects, but more detail would have been welcome.
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join a band of Christian Vikings setting out on a crusade in the Holy Land, but mist envelops their ship, and when it clears they’re somewhere completely unknown. Drug-addled visions and murders ensue. In the end, we’re left with a sense of stillness, silence and otherworldliness whose meaning is obscure. It may help to recall that Odin, the Vikings’ chief god, was also one-eyed. Or you could go with director Nicolas Winding Refn. In the lightly comic video-diary-style making-of doc, he claims it’s a science fiction movie “without the science.” EXTRAS Making-of doc. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles. EXTRAS Making-of doc, more. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.
The Twilight Saga – Eclipse: TwoDisc Special Edition (eOne, 2010) D: David Slade, w/ Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNNN
A bit of humour and a vigorous werewolvesversus-vampires battle make this a little better than the series’ two previous entries, but between the highlights it hammers home the same simple dramatic point again and again: should high school mope Bella (Kristen Stewart) choose wimpy vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) or hunky werewolf boy Jake (Taylor Lautner)? Not that it matters. Stewart’s dull eyes and shifty gaze make it obvious that Bella cares about only one thing: the chance to become a vampire and unleash her true evil nature. Pattinson and Stewart spend some of their commentary time sending up the material. At one key moment, she says, “This is such a stupid movie.” From a more smug perspective, producer Wyck Godfrey and sourcenovel author Stephenie Meyer also pick apart the flaws. Together, the two commentaries provide an outstanding look at the obsessive care taken to get Eclipse just right. Fans will love it. All others, beware.
The always likeable Cameron Diaz and some creative action set-pieces make this perfectly acceptable couch fodder for a chilly night, but Tom Cruise renders Knight And Day a movie whose whole is less than the sum of its parts. Cruise plays a super-secret agent on the run from his own people, and Diaz is the ordinary citizen he picks up along the way. Of course, they fall in love. The problem is that Cruise does the whole thing in his determined robot mode even when he’s supposed to be romancing Diaz. It kills the premise. Fortunately, the pair have enough comic chemistry to generate some fun, most notably when Diaz dumps the damselin-distress shtick for a more aggressive stance. Director James Mangold injects comedy and thrills into the action scenes. They’re the focus of the brief making-of doc, whose emphasis is the stars doing their own stunts. This becomes more believable if you watch the viral videos. But nobody addresses the movie’s most interesting question: why does Louie, Louie keep cropping up on the otherwise undistinguished soundtrack? EXTRAS Making-of doc, viral videos. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.
Coming Tuesday, December 7 Inception (WB, 2010) Leonardo DiCaprio stars in a science fiction thriller about thieves who can invade dreams.
Queen Elizabeth In 3D
(eOne, 1953) A 50-minute doc incorporating recently discovered 3-D footage from Liz 2’s coronation, plus new scenes from a garden party.
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist And Rebel
(Phase 4, 2009) Brigitte Berman’s documentary on the Playboy publisher’s conflicts with government, feminists and the religious right.
Passenger Side (Kinosmith, 2009) A meandering day-long drive through Los Angeles changes the lives of a man and his estranged brother. 3
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A Guy, a girl, a song GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH (Damien Chazelle) Rating: NNN Light on plot and character but heavy on mood and texture, Guy And Madeline On A Park Bench marries mumblecore and the movie musical with decidedly mixed results. Titular Boston couple Guy (Jason Palmer), a jazz trumpeter, and Madeline (Desiree Garcia), just out of grad school, have recently broken up. In a series of vignettes, all captured by director Damien Chazelle in romantic black-andwhite and underscored by a full orchestra, the two explore other possibilities. Guy, in a charming, wordless scene set on a subway car, hooks up with Elena (Sandha Khin), while ous screenings 9 am to 5 pm. Free.
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Madeline, after finding a job as a restaurant server, hits it off with Paul (Bernard Chazelle, the director’s father) in New York. Unlike most mumblecore movies, the dialogue and narrative aren’t well shaped, and the acting is merely passable. Garcia and Khin both have expressive faces, but Palmer is more effective when he’s using his mouth not to talk but to play his horn in a club scene or in one of the many fine solos that punctuate the film. Garcia gets a series of old-fashioned MGM-musical-style numbers, and while the sequences are cleverly choreographed by Kelly Kaleta (there’s even some tap dancing), they’re insufficiently set up and would be more fun in colour. Opens at the Royal on Friday (December 3). See listings, this page. GLENN SUMI Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 8 pm.
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87, 90, 91, 140 & 146 Jameson Bachelor $639, 1 Bdrm $789 416-536-7805 www.metcap.com
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High Park/ Roncesvalles 1 bdrm., no parking, TTC. $750+ util. extra. Call 416-800-7419 or email: zoo.three@hotmail.com
Lakeshore/Bathurst Very spacious 1 bdrm (+ den). 900 sq ft, two baths, 11 ft ceiling, windows throughout. Fireplace. 400 sq ft terrace. Leased furnished, $2600/month. Avail. immed. Long term corp. contracts avail. with suite. Please pre-book now. Call Kevin 647-231-3030 to arrange a viewing.
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800-1000 sq.ft.immed. $1525-$2300 Inclus., 12 ft ceiling hdw, kit,bath, lrg windows, post & beam please call 416-630-2116
2 bdrm. bsmt. in building, kitch, bath, large hallway, 2 entrances, $1050+ Avail. immed., Call Sunny 905-598-5620 or 905-598-1156
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tic relationship. We have fun together and we have great sex. However, he doesn’t orgasm when I blow him or give him a hand job. He says he’s never been able to come from blow jobs or hand jobs. I don’t mind going straight to vaginal intercourse after blowing him for a bit, although I sometimes encourage him to finish himself off and ejaculate in my mouth. It’s not like I’m offended; I’d just like to get him there. I have a tiny mouth and tiny hands – could that be the problem? He says it doesn’t have anything to do with me. He just plateaus. HOW DO I SOLVE THIS PROBLEM, DAN? Is our sex life condemned to, god forbid, just vaginal intercourse? Barely Licking Over Wide Junk Of Boyfriend What’s the opposite of macho drama? Vulvo drama? Look, BLOWJOB, if you’re both giving and receiving oral, and giving and receiving hand jobs, then you haven’t been “condemned” to “just” vaginal intercourse. You’re having all kinds of sex – it’s just that he requires something very specific in order to get off. If there are times when you want to mess around without being fucked, or times when you’re not up for vaginal intercourse, just get him as close as you can and let him finish himself off with his hand. Your boyfriend is orgasmic, BLOWJOB – THERE’S NO PROBLEM HERE TO SOLVE. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net
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