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some cash to the Canadian Cancer Society and see performances by Colin Mochrie, Dan Redican and more. 9 pm. $10. Rivoli. sketchcomedylounge.com. SHEILA GOSTICK Sassy and satiric, Gostick does stand-up with guitar in hand, to Dec 30. 8:30 pm. $20 sugg. Cinecycle. 416-971-4273.

rockers play their last show ever, at the Garrison. 10 pm. garrisontoronto.com. Robert Mapplethorpe Blackand-white gelatin silver prints shot in the 80s by the controversial gay photographer hang at Olga Korper Gallery. To Jan 15. 416-538-8220.

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miere of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s musical about race in 1913 Atlanta opens at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs. 8 pm. To Jan 22. $32-$40. 416-368-3110. limelight Pauline Kael famously called it Slimelight. Give the 1952 film – part of Cinematheque’s Chaplin series – a chance when it screens at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. 6:30 pm. $9.50-$12. 416-968-FILM.

14-piece contemporary-music ensemble sails into the Music Gallery to perform recent works by French composer Pierre Boulez and more. 8 pm. $20. TW. The misanthrope The Tarragon presents Martin Crimp’s version of the Molière play, with Stuart Hughes in the demanding title role. Final preview 8 pm (opens tomorrow). Tickets from $23. 416-531-1827.

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keeping transit on the rails (NOW, December 16-22) was well-researched and written. But if you would allow a professional engineer’s opinion on the same subject: Yes, LRV’s are cheaper, but there are considerations other than cost to think about. In the 60s, plans were made to change all streetcar routes to subways. Queen Street was supposed to be a subway around 1970. There was to be one block circled by a streetcar downtown for the tourists. This plan was derailed by a lobby of Luddites who like buggy whips, coal oil lanterns and wood stoves. That’s about where we are now. Let’s think about the future. Eventually, we’ll be forced to put subways everywhere because of gridlock and

increased population. The longer we put this off, the more it will cost in the future. We must get public transit off the streets or we will never solve our gridlock problem. John Bailes Professional Engineers of Ontario Toronto

World class we ain’t

i read the interview with ward 2 councillor Doug Ford on Transit City and subways (NOW Daily, December 3). It included the following quotes: “We want to be a world-class city. I’ve travelled 10 years in North America, to every single city... and to be a world-class city you don’t have streetcars, you have subways. “At the end of the day, I gotta tell

you, you can’t have streetcars. We aren’t a Third World nation.” While I, too, would like to see Toronto lead its peers, it is not correct to state that world-class cities do not have trams, streetcars, light rail or other forms of surface rail transit. In fact, global cities such as Paris, San Francisco, Barcelona, London, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney all use a mix of commuter rail, subways, buses, streetcars and light rail lines that complement each other and serve various scales. To quote Janette Sadik-Khan, the highly respected commissioner of New York City’s department of transportation, announcing a recent study on Brooklyn streetcars: “Once again, we’re looking back to the future with our transportation network. Once ubiquitous in New York City’s streetscape, streetcars remain part of the transportation mix in cities from Toronto to Melbourne, and we need to consider all options to improve transit access in underserved neighbourhoods” David Thom Toronto

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Consumption, my god

i just finished reading e. jordan’s letter to the editor, Conspicuous Gift Guides (NOW, December 9-15), after watching Bill Murray’s Scrooged on my new Christmas iPhone, and couldn’t help but say, “God bless us, every one!” Simeon Ross

and liberty, equality, fraternity. Roy Santin Toronto

Renewables versus nukes

i work in the energy industry. i have personally worked on three major nuclear refurbishments of over $2 billion each. My area of expertise is primarily in logistics and project control (or lack thereof). I have read the Ontario Liberals’ Long-term Energy Plan (NOW, December 9-15). Nuclear refurb and new nukes will not cost $33 billion. The price is likely to be about $70 billion. However, it has to be acknowledged that renewables are intermittent power and, according to long-term studies, can only be counted on to produce power for 24 per cent of a 24hour day (six hours tops). In order to keep lights on, the government would have to spend about $100 billion on renewables, which is substantially higher than nuclear’s cost. The plan does nothing to address

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the leaks in government logic on WikiLeaks (NOW, December 1622): these government “cables” were just email, after all, and no one has a right to privacy on the internet, as governments and large corporations keep telling us. The U.S. government can’t turn back the clock. The internet genie is out of the bottle, and its freedom is our only guarantee of democracy

the need for large-scale energy storage to better harness renewable investments in the province. Because of the intermittency of renewables, gasfired plants have to be used. Guess what happens when you consistently fire up gas plants? You increase their emissions. The Ontario Clean Air Alliance is adamantly against nuclear power. The OCAA’s position is that Ontario should tie our energy future to Quebec’s vast water resources and dismantle as many nukes as possible. That plan may work. It has been reviewed in the past, to tap the majority of our power from Quebec and help develop Manitoba’s vast northern hydro potential so it can feed Ontario. Rob Perri Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Confuse the public by using the backlash over cost overruns on one streetcar rightof-way on St. Clair to discredit the most comprehensive plan for light rail vehicles, aka Transit City, ever conceived for any city in North America.

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Note to council’s too-reasonable progressives: get into crisis mode or get flattened by Ford By ENZO DiMATTEO It was only the first meeting of council, but the progressives at City Hall are in deep trouble. The political pecking order seems already entrenched, judging by Thursday’s Ford fest in the clamshell – or should we start calling it the torture chamber? (Parental advisory: this column may contain explicit language and some hard truths.) I know it’s early days, but it may be time for council’s independent thinkers to get radical. Those tidy philosophical arguments marshalled at the December 16 meet (props to Adam Vaughan and Gord Perks) give much-needed succour to those of us who are still recovering from Rob Ford’s win and need therapy. But they’re not enough in the new normal of divide-and-conquer retail politics. Ford and his boys will keep beating that I-have-a-mandate-from-thepeople garbage, forever. The steamroller is fired up. And that churning urn of burning funk is headed straight for everything that’s good about Toronto. Time to make like a cornered badger and go for the jugular, or die trying.

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The conservativos you’re fighting are nasty mofos. Repeat after me 1,000 times: “No quarter asked. No quarter given.” They’re loath to extend even the most common courtesy, like your time to speak on the council floor. (Here’s looking at you, Denzil-Minnan Wong). They’re so cocksure, they’re strutting around the council chamber like they’re about to grow tail feathers. Gotta get a bit down and dirty and hit ’em where it hurts – namely, anything to do with immigrants, gays, race, the environment, the poor.... Fill in the blank. Mike Layton’s got the idea. If his motion asking council to condemn Maclean’s Too Asian headline proves anything, it’s that the mushy middle needs to be embarrassed

into voting with you. Otherwise, there’s no hope. Maybe it’s time to call Ford on that broken promise to allow deputations at council, and begin trotting some of those who will be left on the cutting room floor to the chamber to tell their stories. Things may have to get a lot uglier before they get better. I seem to recall Perks almost single-handedly bringing down a premier with a nifty bit of political theatre when he was a campaigner for Greenpeace. The public needs to know what Ford’s Toronto will mean, and they need not just to be told, but to be shown in the starkest possible terms. Can you say “props”? Remember Mike Harris? Football coach Ford has stolen a page right out of Iron Mike’s play-

book. Those “key matter” items he loaded up the first agenda with smell like that omnibus strategy employed by Harris. It’s called crisis management: create a crisis, manage accordingly. It’s what the guys calling the shots in Ford’s office do for a living. Check the resumés of chief of staff Nick Kouvalis and director of policy Mark Towhey. Have you noticed they’ve turned down the heat at City Hall to keep everybody on edge? Next thing you know, they’ll be taking away the veggie sticks and crackers served at meetings. (Yeah, I know. Too late). City Hall is starting to take on the feel of a meeting of group therapy tough guys, with a Kim Jong-il knockoff in the starring role. The too reasonable progressives need to change the channel, turn up the language, make like Biggie and reload, extra clips probably. Don’t feel guilty about coming down to Ford’s level if you have to to make a point. It’s confrontation he wants. It’s confrontation we need. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

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Offer false assurances that you have no plan to dump an iconic symbol of Toronto, i.e. the Red Rocket, into the lake, while declaring streetcars a “Third World” mode of transportation.

Ignore the fact that there are simpler ways to alleviate traffic congestion on streetcar routes like Queen and King, like making the streets one-way, than spending a fortune on subways to nowhere.

Trot out the stupid “it’ll save money” argument every time critics point out the obvious truths: that labour disruptions have shut down the TTC for only 13 days in the last 30 years, and making the TTC an essential service will cost the city millions more in arbitrated collective agreements.

Perpetuate the myth that the municipal election was a referendum on Transit City. And then threaten the premier with political annihilation in Toronto if he doesn’t go along with your plan to replace the plan with subways.

Once the TTC has been declared an essential service and the unions no longer have the power to negotiate system improvements as they do now, it’s only a matter of time before it runs aground and the dogs of privatization come sniffing around with promises of a better way: public-private partnerships.

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Civil rights lawyer Howard Morton drily points out what’s obvious to all except police overseers on the board and its overly narrowed G20 inquiry.

g20 gOeS uP In flameS Toronto police mangle a major civil rights test: thousands of G20 protesters march from Queen’s Park, but the day ends with cop attacks on peaceful demonstrators and bystanders following a trashing spree by a Black Bloc

handful. Things get worse. The following day, protesters endure an increas ing number of unlawful police searches, the “kettling’’ of hundreds at Queen and Spadina and the detention of 1,105. Both the feds and province refuse a major inquiry on G20 policing.

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“Sometimes I fantasized about jumping the one storey off my balcony – not to die, but so I could go to a hospital and lie in a bedbug-free bed for a few nights.” Jacob Scheier writing in NOW on the bedbug invasion that freaked a city.

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His mayoral bid in tatters after a quickie or two with a political groupie on the office couch, Adam Giam brone says there’s no bit ter taste left in his mouth. And then in the same NOW interview he gives the first hint that he’s done with politics.

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mIChael BRyant walkS A special prosecutor drops criminal charges against the former attorney general in the road rage death of cyclist Darcy Al lan Sheppard. Disbelief, anger and a moving trumpet tribute at Sheppard’s ghost bike memorial follow the news.

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Pride Toronto joins the “strong Israel” disinformation machine and forbids mention of “Israeli apartheid’’ in the upcoming parade. Reason prevails when organizers reverse their controversial decision to exile Queers Against Israeli Apart heid from the annual parade.

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“I apologize if I offended. That’s not my style.” Rob Ford tries to rewrite history on the campaign trail for past anti-gay tirades.

Lost in the rubble in earthquakedevastated Haiti is the fact that our government, along with the U.S. and France, overthrew Haiti’s elected president in 2004 – an event that ushered in a terrible

wave of political repression and the ongoing UN occupation. Six months after the earthquake in Haiti, only 5,000 transitional shelter units have been built for the tens of thousands displaced.

Harper’s greatest Hits Situation critical for the PM. Those sneaky Tories, faced with the prospect of an election, Harp’s henchmen pull the plug on hearings into the torture of Afghan detainees turned over by Canuck troops in Afghanistan. Later, Stephen Harper’s post-recession federal budget divines a rosy future. How wrong he was (still is).

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gravy stain The eight minutes that shook Toronto: Rob Ford wins the mayor’s race a breathless 480 seconds after the polls close, scooping 47 per cent of the vote.

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Heritage Hex The circa-1888 landmark at 1 Gould, known as the William Reynolds Block (and including the former Empress Hotel) collapses out of the blue – and puts legendary Salad King restaurant out of biz for the foreseeable future. (Don’t fret. The King’s reopening in February). 16

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In the midst of the so-called “war on the car,” cyclists win a tiny victory when the Jarvis bike lane opens following a massive assault by Rosedale commuters.

“There are 275,000 Afghans in the security force, and the best guesstimate for the number of insurgents is 15,000. So why aren’t we winning?” Scott Taylor, Esprit De Corps.

sHock & awe News leaks that the Tories have been fibbing all along: they’re going to extend the Afghan mission beyond 2011, using 1,000 of our military personnel to train Afghan police and soldiers in Kabul.

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“If the gun registry gets done in, more people will die. But it’s a question of public policy, not of fundamental rights.”

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Eco groups and forest product firms sealed a deal to save parts of boreal.

We’re relieved that 2010 is already receding in the rear-view mirror. This was the year, after all, when the Gulf of Mexico was smothered in oil and Canada worked hard to stall a whole other climate conference. We certainly have plenty to prep for, with the full ramifications of 2010’s decisions ready to hit us in the new year. Time to mull over our eco lows and crack open a little Ontario bubbly to celebrate our well-earned victories.

HIGH: GadGEt RECYCLING As of last Earth Day, Ontarians had the good fortune to access the most comprehensive electronics recycling program in the country. Five hundred collection points now accept 44 types of gadgets and electronics, from MP3 players to cameras. But the award for best move goes to Toronto, for making it super-duper easy for residents by offering curbside collection. Put your old TV or radio next to your garbage bin and it’ll get recycled locally, not dumped in the developing world.

LOW: FaREWELL tO ECO FEEs Everyone was grumbling about those “surprise” eco fees this summer, and, yeah, the failure to inform consumers about the program was idiotic, but cancelling it was even stupider. Truth is, we buy a lot of toxic shit that’s tricky to dispose of, like compact fluorescent lights and all things flammable and

corrosive. At least when there was a consumer fee, those who bought harmful products helped pay to recycle them. Now we’re all paying, since cancelling the fees means taxpayers are on the hook for $8 mil a year for proper disposal.

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When Quebecers started California dreamin’ and announced they would follow that state’s topof-the-line fuel efficiency standards a few years back, Ottawa first scoffed and promised watered-down “made in Canada” regs instead. (McGuinty also stalled on this one.) But by spring of this year, Ottawa was proclaiming a new quasi-Caliinspired standard under which the average fuel efficiency of cars and light

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LOW: bIkE basHING We had no idea that every time we pedalled in a bike lane we should have been wearing camo. We might be pinkos, yes, but armed soldiers in a war on cars? We’re confused. Aren’t cyclists the ones under attack? Either way, our new mayor is at least unifying pissedoff progressives ready to fight for bike rights.

HIGH: bOREaL LOVE-IN Tired of having their headquarters figuratively toilet papered year after year, Canada’s logging companies finally realized it was smartest to work with fabulously persistent enviro orgs. The result? The historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement last spring between 21 major forest product companies and nine eco groups, boosting protection for over 72 million hectares from BC to Newfoundland.

LOW: CaNUCk MINEs GEt NaILEd It’s not easy reaching the bottom in a sector notorious for burying enviro and human rights abuses around the world, but we’ve done it. Canada’s mining companies were recognized as the worst in the biz in a report by the Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict, paid for and quickly squashed by the industry itself. The report was leaked right before a vote on a private member’s bill that would have bumped up accountability for mining, oil and gas corps in the developing world. Too bad the bill was voted down.

HIGH: LEad aNd bPa GEt OFFICIaL kIss-OFF While it doesn’t offset their other bad deeds, several toxin-reduction moves by the feds have Ecoholics celebrating:

Industry report nailed its own Canuck mining companies for abuses.

1) plastics villain bisphenol A was officially declared “toxic”; 2) maximum lead levels in kids’ items and paint have been slashed; and 3) new consumer safety regs mean the feds will finally have the power to recall dodgy products.

Just as the province is trying to peg itself as a green energy hero, it’s announced it’s going to sink up to $40 billion into sprucing up as many as 10 reactors, making it the largest nuke improvement project on the continent. Committing to a 50 per cent nuclear grid tells us the province will only give green energy so much room to grow.

LOW: tOxINs LURkING Despite the fact that bisphenol A has a new “toxic” tag and has been eliminated from baby bottles, the feds have expressed zero interest in getting the estrogen mimicker out of our dinners, so, yep, it’s still in your canned chickpeas and beer. We’re also still waiting for proposed phthalate regs to get the estrogen mimickers out of toys. That means Santa’s toy factory is still doling out hormone disruptors.

HIGH: GREEN POWER GROWs Despite flak over rising energy bills, the province has stood fast by its support for planet-friendly power. In fact, it boosted its targets for solar, wind and bio-energy to 13 per cent of the grid by 2018, a decent jump from its old target of 10 per cent by 2030, and its present place at 3 per cent of the pie. The other upside is that the province mothballed another 2,000 megawatts of coal power a few months back. Commemorate with a deep breath.

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Boxing Week Music Fest Performances by Skratch Bastid, Do Make Say Think, Scuba, By Divine Right and many others. $5/night. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. Dec 26 to 30

continuing FrDoWnsvieW Park’s trail oF lights 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

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Community Church service with carol singing and a musical performance by Thom Allison. 10:30 pm. $25. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

Saturday, December 25 FrDisney on ice Skating performance of

Mickey And Minnie’s Magical Journey. To Jan 2 at various times. $21.50-$101. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. ticketmaster.ca.

FFrienDly sPike theatre BanD holiDay Party Bring a poem, song or dance to share.

2-5 pm. Free (donations welcome). Baycrest Hospital, 3560 Bathurst, 5th floor. friendlyspike@primus.ca.

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Tour 19th-century historic homes decorated for the season and create a decorative cornucopia to take home. Today noon-4 pm, tomorrow and Dec 31, 10 am-2 pm; Dec 28 to 30, noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills Museum, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. Frscience on Fire Holiday science programs include whimsical machine-making, star shows and the science of illusion. To Jan

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Performances by Rebecca Nazz, Mami Uno and DJ Mike Stoan. 9 pm. $10. El Mocambo,

2, 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. story telling With John russon Stories, discussion and live music. 8:30 pm. Free. Naco Gallery and Cafe, 1665 Dundas W. 647347-6499.

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Prayers to Mother Tara. 5 to 6:30 pm. Free. Kadampa Meditation Centre, 631 Crawford. 416-762-8033, kadampa.ca.

Club. 10 am. Free (excluding ferry fare). Ferry Docks, foot of Bay. torontobrucetrailclub.org. FrchristMas treats Walk Visit zoo animals and see them get their seasonal treats. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. rPaint-a-Mini-clog sunDays Parents and kids three to nine paint clogs, try on shoes and explore the galleries. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor

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W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca. FrROM FOR The hOlidays Family activities based on the Chinese terracotta warriors exhibition. To Jan 1, 10 am-8:30 pm. Free w/ admission (half price after 4:30 pm). Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

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Open-hearth cooking, 19th-century games and more for kids six to 11. To Dec 31, 9 am-4 pm. $122-$152. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807.

Zoo animals receive treats, and humans get half price admission, Dec 26 at the Toronto Zoo, 361A Old Finch Ave. 416-392-5929 www.torontozoo.com

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Club. 9:30 am. Free. SW corner Edwards Gardens (Leslie and Lawrence). torontobrucetrailclub.org. WinTeR BReak CaMP Half- and full-day art programs for kids four to 11. To Dec 31. $213-$380. Art Works Art School, 238 Jane. Pre-register 416-766-0662, artworksartschool.com. rWinTeR WOndeRland! Themed animation workshops, screenings and more for kids six to 13 happen to Jan 2. Noon-5 pm. $5/child per workshop. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-973-3012.

HOLIDAY FLOWERS The City of Toronto presents two flower shows, at Allan Gardens (Carlton St, between Jarvis & Sherbourne) and Centennial Park (151 Elmcrest Rd), until December 30. Free admission.

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THE WARRIOR EMPEROR See priceless relics of China’s first emperor, including ten life-sized members of his terracotta army, until Jan 2 at the Royal Ontario Museum. www.rom.on.ca

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dance troupe holds a holiday party with egg nog, dancing and more. 7 pm. Free. Arabesque Studio, 1 Gloucester. 416-920-5593. dRaWing CluB Meet and draw without the distractions of home. 6 pm. Free. Toronto Zine Library at the Tranzac, 282 Brunswick. torontozinelibrary.org. inTeRnaTiOnal FOlk danCing Enjoy dances from different countries, all levels welcome. 7:30-10 pm. $7. Koffler Centre, 4588 Bathurst. 416-638-1881 ext 4364. JaRana WORkshOP Mexican traditional music workshop with Alec Dempster. 7 pm. Pwyc. Naco Gallery & Cafe, 1665 Dundas W. nacogallery.com. sTORyTelleR sPOTlighT Poets, authors, actors and comedians share their work. Free. Kensington Cornerstone, 2A Kensington. kensingtoncornerstone.com.

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not only is this extremely casual café a HOOF CAFÉ pioneer in the no-man’s land known as 923 Dundas West, at Gore Vale, 416-792-7511 the Junction Triangle, but its genreATLANTIC intended as a holding pen for their defying lineup of deconstructed entrees 97 Dundas West, at Brock, 416219-3819, atlanticondundas.com wildly successful Black Hoof (nOW’s – cider-poached apricot ’n’ pork sausNathan Isberg was considered “the 2008 resto of the year), Jennifer Ag ages over warm split pea and smoked sensible one” when the idiosyncratic and Grant van Gameran’s pork-centric paprika mash with artisanal sourdough, Online guide nowtoronto.com/food chef shared kitchen duties with Woodbreakfast spot is even busier than the just part of a $10 main-course salad – RestauRant lot’s David Haman at Czehoski back original – no surprise when suckling breaks new ground as well. Self-taught when the Queen West saloon still had pig eggs Benny and foie gras French chef Joel MacMillan’s avant-garde platsome semblance of culinary cred. Here, toast are the specialties of the house. ing alone induces swoons.

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Though it’s been dubbed the Pizzeria Libretto of Leslieville, this always swamped east-side pie shop does something its Ossington rival refuses to do: accept reservations. A $25 threecourse pizza prix fixe and an iconic Hogtown view of the streetcar yards across the way are just the icing on the cake.

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WHAT: Mount Gay Eclipse (amber rum) Rating: NNN WHERE: Barbados WHY: Everyone’s upping their glycemic index with eggnog at this time of year, but it’s just viscous goo until you spike it. While some choose to dilute the nog with whisky or brandy, I am firmly in the rum camp. Mount Gay’s delicate caramelized-banana sweetness is good for wassails you. PRICE: 750 ml/$29.95 AVAILABILITY: At most liquor stores (product #64444)

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We were never a fan of either Winteror Summerlicious until we visited this restaurant staffed by George Brown culinary arts students last February. Part laboratory, part Food TV studio, the brightly lit room buzzes with servers who outnumber paying customers three to one. The surprisingly polished meal’s a steal, too.

WABORA (550 Wellington West, at Bathurst, 416-777-9501) Because this offshoot of the best sushi joint in Bracebridge – some claim to fame – doesn’t have a website, we popped into the swanky cantina soon after it opened in August to check out its menu. When we pulled out our camera to get a quick picture, management showed us the door. We can take a hint. SUSHI QUEEN IZAKAYA (655 Bay, at Elm, 416-979-3288, sushiqueenizakaya. com) Guu or goo? While it’s certainly an improvement on the sorry sushi assembly line that preceded it, this Guu wannabe hasn’t quite grasped the concept. Witness its Godzilla Roll, a monstrous maki of hot rice, lobster, scallops and tempura shrimp drenched in flying fish roe, Kewpie mayonnaise and – shudder – broiled cheddar cheese.

WHAT: Inniskillin Pinot Noir 2009 (red) Rating: NNN WHERE: Niagara Peninsula WHY: You’re going to the LCBO tomorrow? Well, be making a list, checking it’s in stock and finding out there’s a line around the block. For lastminute turkeys such as yourselves, Pinot Noir is the way to go. This is entirely decent in a light and dry way, affordable (for a Pinot), local and available. PRICE: 750 ml/$14.95 AVAILABILITY: At most liquor stores (product #261099)

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RUBY WATCHCO (730 Queen East, at Broadview, 416-465-0100, rubywatchco.ca) If we wanted to eat exactly the same roast chicken and mashed potatoes as everyone else for $49 a pop, we’d visit our mothers. And We wouldn’t get a lecture.

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GUU (398 Church, at McGill, 416-9770999, guu-izakaya.com) It helps to be drunk to appreciate this heavily hyped Vancouver import’s Korean-Japanese mashup menu. Deepfried Brie? Think a slightly better Sushi on Bloor with non-stop shouting.

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Our annual survey of the ins and outs of style in the city highlights the best new boutiques, our MyStyle fave and more from a year in the fashion and design trenches. In: power dressIng

Sorry, ladies. this year’s big retail story is the explosion of menswear shops, especially along Queen West, where Oliver Spencer, Ruins and an expanded Sydney’s store upped our handsome shopping ops. Boy boutiques aside, 2011’s top store debuts included Tabula Rasa, Advice from a Caterpillar, Labour of Love, LAB Consignment and Jacob & Sebastian.

Jules Power probably thinks we’re a little creepy for constantly professing our love for her first collection, but those tailored sweatpants, tartan blazers and lipstick-stained ts are definitely the designer debut of the year. this is the last time we’ll mention it. Promise!

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Nothing makes canadians feel more relevant than a big international brand deciding to grace us with its goods. last spring, the arrival that caused the most hoopla was Topshop, which gave Jonathan + Olivia the exclusive on debuting its womenswear in canada. Menswear and cosmetics arrived on Ossington this month, but we were already excited at news that J. Crew is coming to town in 2011.

In: MysTyle besT dressed Stefania Yarhi’s 2010 MyStyle lineup included über-blogger Tavi and a trio of fuzzy, caffeine-pushing mascots, but our favourite is definitely vintage retailer Sarah Magwood. her retro getup was so inspiring that we built our fall fashion issue around the city’s knack for buying, selling and wearing vintage and put Magwood on the cover.

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Is there a fight for designer fashIon dollars going on in the city? Some style pundits would like you to believe Holt Renfrew and the Bay are going head-tohead to win exclusive labels and socialite dress budgets. If it’s true, shoppers are the real winners, because both stores have filled their floors with designer appearances, new labels and generous sales.

In: IMM lIvIng From a small studio on Spadina, the team at Imm Living has quickly built up a giftware business that brings emerging canadian design to cool concept stores around the world. Some of their biggest hits include Andrea Chin’s ceramic flashlight pendants and Rob Southcott’s stackable totem cups, now available in fantastically gaudy gold and silver.

In: desIgners doIng IT for TheMselves From temporary pop-ups like Jessica Jensen’s excellently executed holiday store to full-blown retail concepts like Pink Tartan’s swish 77 Yorkville, directfrom-the-designer stores gained steam in 2010. With many retailers still nervous about risking rack space on in-demand local names and those brands getting a taste for profit margins minus the middleman, we’re betting this is one trend that grows in the year to come.

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ouT: The arTIsT group Many of the city’s biggest stylists were suddenly agency-less when the artist Group closed in april. Some claimed they were owed fees from years of work, and the business’s bankruptcy also claimed slick online fashion rag cheek Magazine.

ouT: don Cherry No one really expected to see Don cherry swear in a toronto mayor or dress for the occasion in anything but his signature loud (okay, blaring) blazers and sky-high-collared shirts. But his bubble-gum-pink jacket looked as misguided and cheap as the polarizing political statement he said he wore it to make.

ouT: Those ThaT saId goodbye We said so long to jeans-and-t spot Covet + Crave and leslieville vintage housewares outpost Winkel. You can still get a great camera deal at Henry’s, but you’ll have to head to the Mississauga outlet. the closing that hit the canadian fashion industry hardest was the Yorkville boutique of Montreal eveningwear master Andy The Anh, who announced the shuttering of his business earlier this month.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “There’s always one

moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in,” wrote novelist Graham Greene. I’ll add to that: there are at least three moments in adulthood when a new door opens and invites the rest of the future in. Judging by the astrological omens, I’m guessing that one such breakthrough lies ahead for you in 2011. What can you do to expedite and encourage fate’s summons? Here’s one possibility: surrender to the naked truth of what you love.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 If oil companies were given permission to sink their drilling rigs into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the petroleum they produced would ultimately lower gasoline prices by 4 cents per gallon. To my mind, that’s not a good trade-off. Let this scenario serve as a cautionary metaphor for you in 2011, Taurus. Don’t share your pristine wilder-

ness or soulful beauty with exploitative types who offer iffy rewards. Instead, hold out for those who appreciate you profoundly and whose own gifts help you to thrive.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Freud said that

among all human endeavours, there were three “impossible professions” that inevitably yielded unsatisfying results. They were child-rearing, the governing of nations and psychoanalysis. My own experiences don’t entirely confirm this. My parents raised me pretty well, and I’ve given my daughter a decent upbringing. Of the nine psychotherapists I’ve consulted in my life, two were excellent healers and none were damaging. But even those relatively winning projects were sometimes fraught with unsolvable riddles, chronic frustrations and maddening uncertainties. I bring this up, Gemini, because I think 2011 will be a time when

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Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The coming year will

2010 you will generate far more gratification and success than usual in your own versions of “impossible professions.” Unsolvable riddles, chronic frustrations and maddening uncertainties won’t be completely absent, but they could very well be at an all-time low.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “We have to believe in free will. We have no choice.” So said author Isaac Bashevis Singer. I encourage you to adopt that puckish thought as your motto in 2011, my fellow Cancerian. According to my reading of the astrological omens, this will be our year to supercharge our willpower and intensify our ability to carry out our plans – but always with good humour and a highly tuned sense of irony. In fact, one of the best ways to deepen our command over our own unconscious impulses and the caprices of fate will be to take ourselves – and everything else, too – less seriously.

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be a time to think big – maybe even bigger than you’ve dared to think in over a decade. That doesn’t mean you should be rash, reckless or unrealistic. On the contrary. Your expansive dreams should be carefully wrought and anchored in a detailed understanding of how things actually work. As an example of what not to do, learn from Snoop Dog. The rapper wanted to rent all 62 square miles of the small European nation of Liechtenstein so he could film his music video there. Liechtenstein authorities turned him down, but only because his team didn’t ask far enough in advance. Had he been better organized, the whole country could have been his.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 An Oregon man

named Don Wesson stopped his truck by the side of the road and took home a 40-pound rock that caught his eye. That was more than a decade ago. For years he used it as part of a border to prevent his dog from messing up his garden. Then he saw a TV show about meteorites and brought the rock to scientists. They told him it was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth long ago and originally came from the asteroid belt. Other experts told him he could probably sell the exotic artifact for as much as $40,000. I predict a metaphorically similar development in your life during the coming year: the discovery of a valuable old thing from far away that you will underestimate at first.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Richard Grossinger is my friend, my teacher and the brilliant author of numerous books. (His latest is called 2013.) He is also a humble adept in the high art of gratitude. On his website, he has a page devoted to expressing vivid appreciation for the 71 best teachers of his life (bit.ly/YourTeachers). His testimony is a riveting and touching reminder of how each of us is a creation of all the important people we’ve loved and hated. Compiling such a list should, I think, be a rite of passage for anyone who aspires to be an authentic human being. There will never be a better time than 2011 for you to do this work yourself, Libra. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “Just when I

found out the meaning of life,” said comedian George Carlin, “they changed it.” I’m hoping that will be one of your top inspirational jokes in 2011, Scorpio. If all goes well, you will no longer be content with all your previous answers to the question “What is the meaning of life?” – either because “they changed it,” as Carlin suggested, or because it’s no longer interesting or useful to you. This is very good news, in my opinion. You will have nowtoronto.com/food the invigorating privilege of going off in search of fresh answers to the riddle of the ages!

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Nations has declared that 2011 will be the International Year of Chemistry – a time to honour the role chemistry plays in our lives. Meanwhile, you Sagittarians will be celebrating your own personal Year of Chemistry, although in a different sense of the word – the sense that means natural attraction, spontaneous connection, intuitive allure and uncanny synchronicity. Don’t let this abundance of grace make you overconfident, and don’t just sit back and let it run wild. Be a master chemist intent on rigorously cultivating the very best experiments.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 I have tracked down a formula that I think should be one of your central ongoing meditations in 2011. It’s from newsman David Brinkley: “A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.” In the coming months, you will be extra-smart about knowing which of these bricks to use and exactly how to position them in your foundation. And more than that, Capricorn: you will have special insight not only about bricks that have been flung fairly recently, but also about those that have been hurled at any time in your life. AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 The city of

Stockholm, Sweden, consists of 14 islands that are spanned by more than 50 bridges. It’s a beautiful, clean, culturally rich place that’s ranked among the best urban centres in the world. I’m hoping that in the coming year you will develop a certain resemblance to it. With a little luck and a clear intention to forge strong new links, you will connect the many fragmented areas of your life, creating a2,000 unified netneaRly RestauRa work that ensures each part is humming Search by rating, price, gen in resonance with the whole. In fact, let’s call 2011 yourneighbourhood, Bridge-Building Year. review & m

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1 Kanye West

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Universal) How do you recover from repeatedly embarrassing yourself in front of millions of people and getting a reputation as King Douchebag? By proving all the haters wrong with an ambitiously creative album that tackles your demons head-on and artfully humanizes your egomaniac tendencies.

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This Is Happening (DFA/EMI)

If this does turn out to be the last LCD Soundsystem album, as James Murphy has been threatening, then the NYC dance punks have gone out on a hell of a high note. Music about music isn’t supposed to be this emotionally affecting, but these guys proved that they own that niche.

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The Suburbs (Merge)

Grinderman 2 (-Anti)

The second instalment of Nick Cave’s delightfully seedy garage rock side project reveals that it isn’t a one-off fluke. If anything, the swampy grooves and acidic riffs are even tougher and more menacing than the first time around, which bodes well for a third chapter.

Majesty Shredding (Merge)

The third studio album from the Montreal indie rockers shows they’re more than capable of becoming the stadium-rock heroes we worried they might grow into. Without sacrificing any of their arty ambitions, they come up with a universally accessible meditation on growing up that perfectly captures the mood of the end of the 00s.

While all the glory went to Pavement’s oversold reunion, North Carolina’s finest 90s college rockers quietly reformed to release one of the year’s strongest alt records. Considering Merge’s huge success and their age, this could have been brunch-date music. Instead, they sound young and hungry like it’s 92 all over again.

Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)

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Swim (Merge)

Dundas, Ontario’s, most famous musician sets his sights on underground club music and comes out with a collection of songs that are just as engrossing to listen to in your living room as they are on the dance floor. It’s the answer to any indie rock Luddite who still thinks techno is a fad.

5 JaneLLe monÁe

The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III) (Warner) A sublime voyage into the mind of a musical virtuoso, Janelle Monáe’s superb, genredefying full-length debut aims big and succeeds. It’s a record collector’s delight, full of orchestral swells, raps and toe-taps, unified by Monáe’s wondrous wail.

8 best Coast If you argued that the L.A. music scene officially took over from Brooklyn this year – a theory that wouldn’t meet much resistance – then Beth Cosentino led the movement. Ariel Pink and Dum Dum Girls might have hit their targets first, but Crazy For You was a blissed-out and fuzzy, feel-good Abomb.

Michael Hollett’s Top 10 Albums

1. Band of Horses, Infinite Arms (Sony/ Columbia) 2. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (Merge) 3. The Roots, How I Got Over (Universal) 4. Superchunk, Majesty Shredding (Merge) 5. Shad, TSOL (Maple) 6. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Universal) 7. The Sadies, Darker Circles (Outside) 8. Eminem, Recovery (Universal) 9. Sarah Harmer, Oh Little Fire (Universal) 10. Aloe Blacc, Good Things (Stones Throw)

Benjamin Boles’ Top 10 Albums

9 Dum Dum GiRLs I Will Be (Sub Pop)

Not all fuzz-drenched 60s girl-group pop is created equal. When there are so many competitors in the lo-fi buzzsaw bubble-gum world, it takes carefully crafted shimmering harmonies, unique approaches to distortion and some rock-solid songwriting to rise above the crowd like these girls do.

10 BIG BOI

Sir Lucious Leftfoot The Son Of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)

OutKast heavyweight Big Boi raises the stakes with a series of heady and hooky bass-driven productions as unpredictable as his rapid-fire rhymes. The best thing to happen to the club all year.

1. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (DFA/EMI) 2. Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Universal) 3. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs (Merge) 4. Robyn, Bodytalk (Konichiwa) 5. Dirty Projectors + Björk, Mount Wittenberg Orca (independent) 6. Caribou, Swim (Merge) 7. Zeus, Say Us (Arts & Crafts) 8. Dum Dum Girls, I Will Be (Sub Pop) 9. Gil Scott-Heron, I’m New Here (XL) 10. Hot Chip, One Life Stand (EMI)

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2010 letdowns M.I.A. loses the plot We really wanted to like M.I.A.’s third album /\/\/\Y/\ (despite the annoyingly un-Google-able name). We even defended her when she went off the deep end and tweeted New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg’s phone number after an unflattering profile. Unfortunately, it turned out that her exboyfriend and frequent collaborator, Diplo, was right when he said she isn’t really trying any more and has surrounded herself with too many yes-men. Somehow, her rants about the internet came across as both immature teenage angst and out-of-touch grumpy old man. Not a good look.

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1 Iggy and the StoogeS Yonge-Dundas Square, June 19

The punk pioneer tore NXNE a new one with an incendiary show that shut down traffic and made rockers 40 years his junior look old and boring. Any fears that this would be yet another nostalgia-tour letdown were obliterated by the sheer raw power of the legendary band.

2 LCd SoundSyStem Kool Haus, May 25

Too often we focus on LCD Soundsystem’s caustic humour and clever musical references, but the live show brought their latent emotional sensitivity to the foreground in an undeniably powerful way. Dedicating the gig to departed Toronto queer icon Will Munro made it all the more touching.

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Mod Club, July 26

We were a bit worried when we heard that Andy Butler had killed off his large live band concept in favour of a more electronic approach, but once that kick drum punched us in the chest and his new team of vocalists unleashed their soulful harmonies, all doubts were removed.

BeLLe and SeBaStIan Massey Hall, October 12

There was nothing flashy about the Scottish pop band’s long-awaited return to Toronto, but they charmed the audience by playing an arsenal of perfectly crafted songs and plucking a few dancers from the crowd.

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lease, Drake rocked the lakeside shed and made his arrival among the hiphop elite uncontested by bringing out the biggest names in the game, JayZ and Eminem.

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After catching this insanely intense NXNE performance, there’s no longer any mystery why their shows are the stuff of legend. Lead singer Tim Harrington used every inch of the club as he prowled through the crowd, dismantled furniture and generally caused chaos in the best possible way.

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Drake Underground, June 12

At this intimate solo acoustic show, the English cult hero/folk rocker kept a perfect balance of old songs, new songs and brilliant stream-ofconsciousness banter that matched the surreal quality of his lyrics and the hilarity of his loud polkadot shirt.

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Top 10 concerts

Escape To Plastic Beach Tour. An endless stream of top-tier musical guests – famous and obscure – literally kept the audience on their toes. Easily the year’s most inspired arena show.

A fitting cap to the summer of Arcade Fire, this outdoor fete nearly made up for the lack of big-ticket summer festivals all on its own. If ever there was a worthy defence of Arcade Fire’s newly acquired arena

Toronto Reference Library, May 28

It’s hard to imagine a venue less suited to Fucked Up’s chaotic hardcore act than a library, but even as the stage set-up began to unravel in the anarchy of moshing and crowd-surfing, the band and audience kept it together in an uncanny feat of communal punk harmony.

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Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti put out some brilliantly original music this year, and we were thrilled to put him on our cover. Even more encouraging were his claims that he’d matured as a performer and wasn’t going to be such a notorious asshole onstage any more. Too bad he behaved like an obnoxious brat when he hit the Mod Club and once again succeeded at alienating his fan base by ruining his own tunes with unfunny pranks.

RIP Technics 1200 After a confusing and vague series of press releases and email exchanges, it became clear that Panasonic had indeed discontinued the entire line of Technics 1200 DJ turntables, marking the end of an era for hip-hop, house, techno and dance music in general. Sure, plenty of other manufacturers still make club-friendly record players, but we’ve never seen a brand other than Technics in any respectable DJ booth, and this isn’t likely to change. While technically not a musical instrument, this piece of equipment greatly shaped popular music over the past 30 years, and its disappearance from the market might just be the final nail in the coffin for vinyl. Still, we’ll put money on 12-inch records outlasting CDs.

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Top 10 local albums

Swim (Merge)

Okay, technically Dan Snaith is based in the UK these days, but we’ll always see him as a Toronto boy. This groundbreaking exploration of the uncharted middle ground between underground dance music and pop blew minds from both scenes the world over.

The SadieS

Darker Circles (Outside)

The Toronto psych-country rockers may not have won the Polaris Music Prize this year, but they did put out their most mature record yet. Considering how consistently solid their long string of previous releases were, we can’t wait for the next instalment.

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Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts) Caribou

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Meet Me At The Muster Station (Paper Bag)

Alongside their mascara-rocking brother band, Diamond Rings, this 90sworshipping Kingston duo rode a howling wave of feedback from wellkept local secret to full-out critical darlings. Even when indulging in retrostyle guitar heroics, this stunning debut album doesn’t waste a note.

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Thank Me Later (Universal)

Toronto’s very own nudged American hip-hop radio in an angsty, introspective direction with this misty-eyed debut. It’s highly assured and full of swagger but also establishes Drizzy as a rapper unafraid to dwell on love’s grey areas.

6 CrYSTal CaSTleS

Crystal Castles (Fiction)

The scorn and derision that greeted Crystal Castles’ debut was significantly muted after the release of this equally abrasive, harddriving sophomore release, which has landed on many top10s around the world. Could this rarely seen local duo be the real deal? Recent collaborator Robert Smith Drake seems to think so.

The lo-fi electronica outfit stripped back their rhythm section and solidified their vision on their mostly instrumental third album. The result? Tighter, funkier grooves, abysses of soul-rattling noise and deeply satisfying ambience.

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Broughtupsy (Mysteries of Trade) We’ve known for some time that the electro dancehall duo can rock a party with the best of them, but it wasn’t until this release that we realized how deliciously deep they could go when you take them away from the dance floor and stick them in the studio.

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When You Left The Fire (Vérité) If we didn’t know any better, we’d think this evocative folk rock gem had its roots somewhere in rural Canada (like, say, Manitoba), but somehow it arose straight out of Toronto’s beating concrete heart.

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It would be tempting to dismiss DVAS, whose sound blends smooth 80s soft rock with the bounce of house music, as kitsch, but these guys aren’t joking around. Society is ridiculously addictive and was the perfect summer soundtrack.

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w/ PS I Love You, Germans, Do Make Say Think, Skratch Bastid and more Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Sunday to Thursday (December 26 to 30) Five nights of eclectic music.

Mod Club 8 pm, $16. TW. February 5.

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Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $25-$30. RT, SS, TM. February 5.

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w/ Modernboys Moderngirls, the Mark Inside, the Coast and more The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Sunday to Thursday (December 26 to 30) Indie rock festival for charity.

Phoenix Concert Theatre 10 pm, $23.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. February 19.

w/ Chris Sheppard, John E, Robb G, Manzone & Strong and more Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Sunday (December 26) Annual classic rave party.

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Thursday, December 23 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Trans-Siberian Orchestra

4 and 8 pm. ALLEYCATZ Graffiti Park. BOVINE SEX CLUB Prince Perry & the Gladstones, Christian D & the Hangovers, the Straight Razors, DJ Cactus. THE CENTRAL Alfred Chow 9 pm.

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Sound Academy doors 5:30 pm, all ages, $22.50-$35. RT, SS, TM, UR. April 25.

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TICKET INDEX

HS – HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com. RT – ROTATE THIS 801 Queen W. 416-504-8447, rotate.com. SS – SOUNDSCAPES 572 College. 416-537-1620, soundscapesmusic.com. TM – TICKETMASTER 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca. TW – TICKETWEB ticketweb.ca.

For The Toronto Human Society Ilana, Koleon Menace, Rebecca Nazz, Mami Uno, DJ Mike Stoan (pop/R&B/dance) doors 9 pm. ETON HOUSE Playback (R&R dance) 9 pm. THE GARRISON Deficits, Permanent Bastards, Canyon City, Sea to Sea 9 pm. HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 9 pm. HORSESHOE Moneen, Black Lungs, the Junction, Orphan Choir doors 8:30 pm. FLEE’S PALACE Xmas Punk Rock Bathurst Queens, the Swabs, Skullians, IVS, Paper Fortunes. LI’LY Real Funk, Come Get It! Chris Rouse & the Arousal (R&B/funk/soul) 9 pm. OPERA HOUSE My Darkest Days, Bleeker Ridge, Rise to Order (alt hard rock) doors 8 pm, all ages. RIVOLI The Beat Lounge 9 pm. ROC N DOC’S Start the Car w/ Paul Zammit (R&B) 9:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Cold Dead Hands, the Auras, Buddy Black, Union Duke, Bon Chapeau doors 8:30 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm. FTATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Rock Of Ages Holiday Party the Rock of Ages Band, DJ Lazarus (retro 80s & 90s) doors 10 pm.

336 Yonge Street, 784 Yonge Street, Sheppard Centre, Cloverdale Mall, Oshawa Centre and more.

THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (roots/rock) 9 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm (New Orleans blues) 9 pm. KENSINGTON CORNERSTONE RESTAURANT

Songwriter Spotlight 8 pm. THE LOCAL Jay Aymar. LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 8 pm. LOU DAWG’S Mike Constantini 10 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Miracle Whip, Amorak, David Celia Band. FTEN FEET TALL Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Christmas Party Edition 8 pm. TOUCHÉ Mistura Fina, Aline Morales (Brazilian music) 10:30 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Textura (jazz/blues/contemporary) 7:30 pm. BLACK MOON LOUNGE Cuban Havana Night Joaquin Hidalgo Trio (cuban music). CHINA HOUSE Goodman, Shaw & the Swing Era Ross Wooldridge 7:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Alexander Brown’s Latin Power Jam 9 pm. GATE 403 CD release party Ben Davis Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Laura Marks 6:30 pm.

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FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY Royal Touch Video

Remix Dance Party 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 HOT BOX CAFE Stoner Rock Night 7 pm. INSOMNIA Martini Madness DJ Ron Jon (funk/ soul/house). PARTS & LABOUR Instinct DJs Brian Smiley & Jeremy Glenn (art rock/synth wave/house) 10 pm. LA PERLA Soft Focus DJ Wilkins (lo-fi, postpunk, psych-funk). FREVIVAL The Annual Winter Classic DJs Mensa, Seven, Fase, Starting from Scratch. THE ROOSEVELT ROOM That Old School Party Monsieur Cedric (pop/rock/hip-hop/house/ R&B) 10 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Metal Health (80s hair metal dance party). FSUPERMARKET Shake Your Can Food Drive: benefit for Daily Bread Food Bank DJs Mickey D, J-Lah, O-God 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Retro Thursdays DJ Lazarus (80s & 90s music) doors 10 pm. TOTA LOUNGE Double Vision: Ready To Rock The Concrete DJs Kue Rock, DJ Dough Low (hip-hop) 9 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 10 pm.

Friday, December 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

FBOVINE SEX CLUB Christmas Eve Party. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin

Ho Ho N.O.J.O. 9:30 pm. ñ FROY THOMSON HALL Christmas With The

TSO Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mike Eldred, Etobicoke School of Arts Chorus, Canadian Children’s Opera Company 2 pm.

(classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 10 pm. FROC N DOC’S Chuck Jackson’s Christmas Eve (R&B) 3:30 to 7:30 pm. FSOUND ACADEMY Zimaproject.com Christmas Party Ortemy, Bratan, Slon, REiz, Kotov & Wilde, Elan, Simon Sezz doors 10 pm.

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Mod Club doors 8 pm, all ages, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 17.

FEL MOCAMBO Artists For A Cause: Benefit

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Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 22.

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Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $34.50-$49.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 13.

CROCODILE ROCK Open Mic Night Sonic Play-

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Sound Academy doors 6 pm, all ages, $27-$37. RT, SS, TM, UR. March 20.

ALL TIME LOW, YELLOWCARD, HEY MONDAY, THE SUMMER SET

BRIGHT EYES

w/ Robag Wruhme, Hali, Jamie Kidd, Mike Gibbs and more Twist Gallery (1100 Queen West), Sunday (December 26) Techno warehouse party.

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (December 26) Indie folk and alt-country hoedown.

A DAY TO REMEMBER, BRING ME THE HORIZON, WE CAME AS ROMANS, PIERCE THE VAIL

Kool Haus doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $32.50. RT, SS, TM. April 19.

Sneaky Dee’s doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TM. March 12.

BOX(ING DAY) OF KITTENS 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

THE SCHOMBERG FAIR, CAVALIERS!, BEFORE THE FLOOD

Holiday Surprise Tour Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 18.

INXS

Sound Academy doors 7:30 pm, $60. TM. March 2.

OLD-SCHOOL BOXING DAY BLOWOUT

ELEPHANT 6

ANDY POOLHALL Burner Thursdays Barletta, Paul David (house/electro/rock) 10 pm. CHEVAL Brand’d Thursdays.

BACK ALLEY WOODFIRE BBQ & GRILL Gram Whitty Trio 7:30 pm. THE CENTRAL Taesung Yu Quintet (jazz) 6 to 9 pm.

FROY THOMSON HALL Christmas With The

TSO Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mike Eldred, Etobicoke School of Arts Chorus, Canadian Children’s Opera Company 8 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BOAT Yacht Rock. FCENTURY ROOM Dreidel Rock. COBRA LOUNGE The Fix Fridays Hennie V

(house/hip-hop/club anthems). FCREWS/TANGO Glitz & Glam DJ Relentless, DJ Roxanne Hector.5 FOMO Love & Slap DJs G Spence, DomB (triphop/house) 9 pm. GEORGE’S PLAY DJ Oscar 11 pm.5 FGUVERNMENT Serbian community event. Absolute Entertainment presents It’s Not Our Christmas. INSOMNIA DJ Adam Davis (house/nu jazz).

Saturday, December 25 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

FBOVINE SEX CLUB Christmas Day Party.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

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

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

FCREWS/TANGO DJ Quinces, DJ Craig Do-

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Let’s Party! Xmas Xtravaganza! DJ Shawn Riker 10 pm.5 ñ GEORGE’S PLAY DJ Oscar 11 pm.5

GUVERNMENT Spin Saturdays Andy Moor (house/trance). INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). SUTRA The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR MAIN ROOM GEN Y DJ Trevor (dance rock) doors 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock/ old school/Brit/electro/classics/retro) doors 10 pm. THIS IS LONDON London Calling (top 40/ mashup). VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Joe (alt rock) 10 pm.

Sunday, December 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

FDrake Hotel UnDergroUnD What’s

In The Box Festival: Night One Skratch Bastid, DJ Co-op, Saidah Baba Talibah, Vaness Alegassi (rock/pop) doors 8 pm. FtHe garrison Boxing Day Special Festival & Food Bank Drive Modernboys Moderngirls, HUT, John Kameel Farah, Bryan W Bray & Chris Worden, Taylor Patterson 9 pm. graffiti’s Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. graffiti’s The Sinkin’ Ships 4 to 7 pm. FHorsesHoe Boxing Day Blowout! The Schomberg Fair, Cavaliers!, Before the Flood doors 8 pm. lola Blood Orange 4 pm. Parts & laboUr The Understatements, Politically Motivated Suicide, Loaded Dice, the Odds 1989, Half Beat (ska/punk) 7 pm, all ages. rePosaDo Ancient Chinese Secret (instrumental). roc n Doc’s The Bottle Devils (rock) 9 pm. FrockPile Boxing Day Metal Fest Nitemare. FsUPermarket Funky People Do Right! Boxing Day Jam DJs Paul E Lopes, Jason Palma, John Kong, DJ Fase, DJ Catalist (soul/ hip-hop/funk) doors 10 pm.

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tHe central Dale 9 pm. cinecycle Sheila Gostick (folk singer)

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Open Mic: Poetry & Music Ruben ‘Benny’ Esguerra 11 am to 2 pm. free times café Lose Yer Shoes Folkadelic Festival Benefit Barefootin’ and others (folk/ blues/psychedelic) 8 pm. grossman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm. Hot box cafe Dope Poets Open Mic (hip-hop) 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 Salsa Brunch Buffet Mario Ochoa’s Quarteto Tradicional (Cuban son) noon & 2 pm. relisH Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. roc n Doc’s Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 pm. soUtHsiDe JoHnny’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. sUPermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. UnDerDown PUb Open Mic Porter 9:30 pm.

gallery Box(ing Day) Of Kittens 3-Year Anniversary Robag Wruhme, ñ Hali, Jamie Kidd, Mike Gibbs, Fabio Palermo Ftwist

10 pm.

Fvelvet UnDergroUnD Boxing Day Party DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

Fxs nigHtclUb Projek: Boxing Day Shimon,

Mystical Influence vs Sniper, Marcus Visionary, Mr Brown doors 10 pm.

Monday, December 27 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

FDrake Hotel UnDergroUnD What’s

ñIn The Box Festival: Night 2 PS I Love You, 84.85, Kidstreet, Jeremy Glenn, Babe doors 8 pm.

garrison Boxing Day Special Festival & Food Bank Drive The Elwins, ñ RatTail, Grasshopper, the Mark Inside, Neon FtHe

Windbreaker, Greys 9 pm. Harlem CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. HorsesHoe Shoeless Monday Treestar, Polarity, Those Who Run, Lake of the Wood 9 pm. HUgH’s room Don Ross 8:30 pm. Parts & laboUr Naysayer, Stick Together, Dead End Path, Easy Way Out (hardcore) 8 pm, all ages. roc n Doc’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9 pm. t.s.t’s laUncH PaD In a Nuts Shell, Mike Collinson (rock) 8 pm, all ages.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

caDillac loUnge Open Stage Sam & Meghan

10 pm.

tHe central Laura Scarlett Lewis 9 pm. cinecycle Sheila Gostick (folk singer)

8:30 pm. ñ Dave’s goUrmet Pizza The Monday Sessions

Open Jam Pete Eastmure 7:30 pm. free times café Open Stage Signe Miranda 7:30 pm. tHe local Hamstrung String Band. mitzi’s sister The Dishes (rock). tHe PainteD laDy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. rePosaDo Mezcal Mondays Lucas Stagg, Chris Bennett.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

cloak & Dagger PUb New Orleans Jazz Adam

emmet ray bar Dan in E or F (jazz) 9 pm. Jane mallett tHeatre Mozart, Shostakovich,

Schumann Philharmonia Quartett Berlin 8 pm. rex Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. rex Avi Granite 6 9:30 pm. somewHere tHere stUDio Panic! Jack Vorvis, Steve Ward, Jeremy Strachan, Michael Kaler, Alan Bloor 8 pm. somewHere tHere stUDio St Gilles Steve Ward (improv jazz trombone) 9 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun. bovine sex clUb Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

crews/tango Candice Star Search 11 pm.5 Drake Hotel loUnge 86’D DJ Johnny Strych-

nine doors 7 pm.

Drake Hotel loUnge 86’D Boot Knives doors

10 pm.

gooDHanDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

insomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). stone loUnge Fabricated Tim Patrick, irGO, Matt Coleridge doors 10 pm.

Tuesday, December 28 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

bovine sex clUb Cactus, Slander, the Clash Assassins.

Hotel UnDergroUnD What’s In The Box Festival: Night 3 Do Make Say ñ Think, Ruby Coast, Pick a Piper doors 8 pm. FtHe garrison Boxing Day Special Festival & Food Bank Drive Whale Tooth, ñ Persian Rugs, Random Order, the Electric FDrake

Shoes, Dr Ew, Sing Leaf 9 pm.

glaDstone Hotel meloDy bar Ninth Planet 8 pm.

graffiti’s Dave Martin’s Beefknuckle Holiday

Show 8 pm.

HorsesHoe Nu Music Night Live How You Live

(rock).

korova milkbar Friendly Rich & the Lollipop

People 10 pm.

sUPermarket Sam Cash doors 8:30 pm. tHe wilson 96 Steve Puchalski, Dave Picco 9 pm.

Beer-Colacino (blues/jazz) 9 pm.

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Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

alize Scott Kemp 6 to 9 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm. rex The Giuffre Project 7 pm. rex Random Access 9:30 pm. somewHere tHere stUDio Heather Segger (jazz trombone/experimental) 5 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

Fannex wreckroom Secret Surprise Boxing

Day Jam 9 pm. beaver L Wildman, Jonny ‘88. Fbovine sex clUb Boxing Day Rockabilly Party DJ Rockabilly Rob. cHeval She’s With Us Sundays. Fclinton’s Boxing Day Party Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). Fcrews/tango Boxing Day Special DJ Relentsess, DJ Capella.5 FcrocoDile rock Boxing Day Bash (retro/ rock/top 40.dance) 9 pm. embassy bar Pressure Drop Brendan Canning, DJ Anousheh, Iron Will, Chuck Boom, Guv’nor General, Morningside 116 (ska/rocksteady/reggae/soul/funk) 9 pm. Ffootwork Old School Boxing Day Blowout Chris Sheppard, Manzone & Strong, Peter ‘the Greek’ Ivals, John E, Robb G doors 9 pm.

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Boxing Day Deadmau5. Boxing Day Bash DJ Poor Pilgrim 10 pm. insomnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. FlUla loUnge What It Is! Boxing Day Jamm Kwame Younge & Dave Campbell 10 pm. tHe PainteD laDy Medallions Monthly Meds 9 pm. sneaky Dee’s Rob Dyer Dance Party. tHe social Artwork, Zeds Dead, Hydee 10 pm. Ftattoo rock ParloUr Trash Palace Boxing Day Extravaganza.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

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8:30 pm. ñ george’s PlAy Steve Roseland Show: Lost In

cAmeron House Jadea Kelly 6 pm. THe cenTrAl Sedina 10 pm. cinecycle Sheila Gostick (folk singer)

8:30 pm. ñ cloAk & DAgger Pub Slocan Ramblers (blue-

gATe 403 Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm. THe locAl Scott Kemp Collective. roc n Doc’s Marshall Dane (new country/

pop) 9 pm.

Fsilver DollAr Bluegrass Holiday Jam Un-

seen Strangers, Smokey Folk, Ewan Dobson doors 8:30 pm. TrAne sTuDio Acoustic Soul Open Mic 7:30 pm.

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AlleycATz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. Dominion on Queen Corktown’s Django Jam 8:30 pm. gATe 403 Donné Roberts Band 5 to 8 pm. rex Matt Newton Trio 6:30 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm. someWHere THere sTuDio Projections & Music Tomasz Krarkowiak, Steve Ward (percussion/trombone) 8 pm.

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creWs/TAngo All Request DJ Quinces 10

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gooDHAnDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors

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rePosADo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, December 29 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

cADillAc lounge The Neil Young’uns 8:30

pm.

THe cenTrAl Toronto Independent Music Awards 7 pm.

cloAk & DAgger Pub Scott McGrenere (pop/ folk) 10 pm.

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where, Kim Koren, Lisa Kubista doors 9 pm. velveT unDergrounD CD release Radical Joe, FA, Leora Matts, Maria Stuff, DJ Swade 7 pm, all ages.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Annex Wreckroom Drummers In Exile (drum

rockPile Led Zeppelin Tribute the White. suPermArkeT Wednesdays Go Pop Every-

AQuilA Potty Mouth (bluegrass) 9 pm. cinecycle Sheila Gostick (folk singer)

The 50s Tonight Clint Lyckher, Carlotta Carlisle.5 grAFFiTi’s Kitgut’s Oldtime Stringband 7 to 10 pm. grossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. THe Hole in THe WAll Luke Vajsar 8:30 pm. HugH’s room Fred Eaglesmith 8:30 pm. lolA Open Stage Johnny Bootz 8 pm. lulA lounge Gary Morgan’s PanAmericana (Latin jazz orchestra). miTzi’s sisTer Gregg Woolner, Heather Kelday. seAnAcHAi Keith Jolie 8 pm. silver DollAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

AlleycATz Carlo Berardinucci Band (jazz/pop)

8:30 pm.

FbuDDies in bAD Times THeATre Songs From 3penny Opera. What Keeps Mankind Alive? Small Wooden Shoe Christmas Concert doors 8 pm.5 cHAlkers Pub Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm. Dominion on Queen Derek Gray’s Tesseract 9 pm. gATe 403 Alex Samaras Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gATe 403 The Gypsy Rebels 9 pm. THe locAl Make Out Wednesdays the Ron Leary Quintet. reservoir lounge Beverly Taft & her Swell Fellas 7 to 9 pm. rex Griffith/Hiltz Trio 6:30 pm. rex Leyland Gordon 9:30 pm. unDerDoWn Pub Rita di Ghent (nu-jazz/soul) 7 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

blonDies OVRFLO Wednesdays gaDJet, Nikola, Chico Pacheco (deep house/classics) 9 pm.

ñIn The Box Festival: Night 4 By Divine Right, Brian Borcherdt, Germans, RatTail, DJ

bovine sex club DJ Nina Arson. Fomo Hybernate Vinny Grüvhunter (soulful

gooDHAnDy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

Brendan Canning doors 8 pm. FTHe gArrison Boxing Day Special Festival & Food Bank Drive The Coast (last show ever), Whale Tooth, Powers, Dilly Dally 9 pm. HorsesHoe Electric Six, Songs from a Room, Millions of Brazillians (garage R&R) doors 9 pm. imPeriAl Pub Kilowatt (funk/R&B jam) 9:30 pm. rivoli Heather Kelday, Sean Pinchin 8 pm. roc n Doc’s Herve & Chris (R&B) 9:30 pm.

house) 9 pm.

HArlem Music Is The Answer DJ Ty Hale, Melanie Sutherland 8 pm. nocTurne Coresteppers V14 Debaser, C64, Mighty Dreadnaut, DJ Blndr, TalixZen (jungle/ragga-jungle/raggacore) 10 pm. rePosADo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. ToTA lounge Wasabii Wednesdays DJ MashA-Holix, DJ Dough Low (rock/dance mashups) 9 pm. 3

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Alice FAzooli’s Eco Eve 2011. Sustainable New Year’s Eve celebration with candlelight and reduced lighting, repurposed decor, local sparkling wine, NO party favors. Transit accessible and Bullfrog powered. Party snack, midnight toast and DJ dancing. Dress code black, white and green. Advance tickets until Dec 17 $45, $45-$60 later. 294 Adelaide W. 416-979-1910, ecoeve2011.eventbrite.com. Annex Wreckroom Yes Yes Y’All New Year’s Eve with Yo! Majesty, Hollyrock, Sammy D, Elle Nino, J-Ill and Stunts. 8 pm. $15-$20. Tickets at theannexwreckroom.com. 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. beAver Dream Land 2011 party with DJs Max Mohenu and Renee playing soul, disco, new wave and party jams. No cover. 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. bovine sex club New Year’s Eve with Blackie Jackett Jr, Brooklyn Fletcher, DJ Vania. Midnight toast and favours included. Doors 9 pm. $12. Tickets at the club or at Shanghai Cowgirl (538 Queen W). 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. cenTre oF grAviTy New Year’s Eve Party with Zero Gravity Circus performances, DJs Mizz Mwah, Sextone and Ana+one and special guests. 9:30 pm. $20. Tickets at the Sideshow Cafe. 1300 Gerrard E. clinTon’s Shake A Tail New Year’s 2011 party. One night only. Dance to 60s pop and soul. 9 pm. $10 at the door. 693 Bloor W. 416-5359541. creWs/TAngo The Black & White Affair party with DJs Craig Domonic, Quinces and Roxanne Hector. Party from 7 pm, dancing till 4 am. Advance $10, $15 at the door. 508 Church. 416-972-1662.5 DrAke HoTel NYE prohibition-themed party. Revisit the Roaring Twenties with booze-filled teacups, live jazz soundscapes, top hats, moustaches, feathers and pearls. Maylee Todd and Your Boy Brian entertain. Doors 7 pm. $35. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. el mocAmbo King Sunshine performs live and DJs Groove Institute, Andy Roberts, Derek Codlin and GaDJet spin. 10 pm. Advance $20 , $30 at the door. unitedsoul.ca. 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. Fly DJs Manny Lehman, Shawn Riker and Mike Vieira spin. 10 pm to 7 am. Advance $35, more at the door. 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426.5 FooTWork Luv This City NYE 2011 with Addy, Nathan Barato, the Junkies, Jayforce and Jon Jon. 10 pm. Advance tickets $25. 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. THe gArrison Goin’ Steady’s Chronologic dance party with DJ Shit la Merde. Dance music from 1890 to 2011, in that order. Advance $15 (Rotate This, Soundscapes, Ticketweb), $20 at the door. 1197 Dundas W. glADsTone HoTel bAllroom New Year’s Eve at the Gladstone offers Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque in the Ballroom (doors 9 pm), a live Neil Diamond experience (8 pm) and karaoke (10 pm) in the Melody Bar. Melody Bar events free, burlesque advance $40, $50 at the door. Burlesque tickets at Nearly Naked (920 Queen W) and at the gladstone. gladstonehotel.com. 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635. gooDHAnDy’s New Year’s party with DJs T Klinck and Cesar. Doors 10:30 pm. No cover. 120 Church. 416-760-6514.5 guvernmenT Magic 2011 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza with Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong, Baba Kahn, Vertex and others. Doors 9 pm. Advance $40, more later. 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. HArD rock cAFe Hungama. Glitz and glamour of Bollywood with DJ Guru and dhol player Dholi Tanveer, hosted by MC JD. Midnight toast, intercontinental appetizers and favors. Style code in efect. Early bird tickets $30. 9:30 pm. Tickets amar.ahlawat@gmail.com. 279 Yonge. HenHouse Top Heavy: New Year’s Edition dance into the new year with DJ Jane Fonda. Midnight toast offered. 10 pm. No cover. 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. HorsesHoe 10th Anniversary Party with the Sadies, Deloro & the Weirdies playing two sets (11:20 pm &1:15 pm). Doors 8:30 pm. Adv $25 (Ticketmaster, Rotate This, Soundscapes and Horseshoe). 370 Queen W. 416598-4753. continued on page 52 œ

thurs dEcEMBEr 23 @ opera house with BlEEKEr ridgE & risE tO OrdEr

thurs december 23 | $13.50 adv - Xmas extravaganza

Moneen BlacK lungs + thE JunctiOn + Orphan chOir

closeD for holiDays friday

DecemBer 24 to Saturday

DecemBer 25

sunday december 26 | $7.00

boxing day blowout!

schomberg Fair Cavaliers sTaBles

all-ages

$ 17.50 advance

suicide machines The sNips • The heaTskores Performing Together for the First Time in Over 15 Years!

ShoeleSS mondayS

thurs december 30 |

thunder bay jam band reunion!

danCe

cave Nye dj trevor sat january 22 tHe Mod club advance

the phoenix

$30.00

advance

TuesdaY JanuarY 18th THe PHOenix

$ 29.50 advance

9:30 & 11:00

ElEctric six

with Wye OaK

Millions of Brazillians

friday december 31 | $25.00 advance - outside music

the SadieS akron/ nicOlE tueS February 1 • The sound AcAdemy $30.50 Advance All Ages • $43.50 Advance VIP BAlcony SeAtS (19+)

sunday february 20 horseshoe tavern | $10.00 advance

dElOrO + thE WEirdiEs saturday january 8 | $20.00 advance

junos

40 th aniv dEcadEs cOncErt 80’s sEriEs

the sPoons • Platinum blonde

familY portland • dead oceans

saturday february 26 the horseshoe | $15.00 advance

friday february 4 Lee’s Palace | $17.50 advance

jim bryson & the weakerthans band

& the blaCk sea

westerns

with

karkwa

sunday march 13

sound academy

$ 34.50 advance + FF • $ 49.50 advance + FF (19+) VIP Balcony • all-ages

hooray for earth saturday january 22 | $13.50 advance with

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

horseshoetavern.com 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

fri february 25 @ horseshoe | 11.50 adv $

tenniS wed march 16 @ horseshoe | $13.50 adv

michael showalTer

370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina

www.collectiveconcerts.com

friday december 31

$ 20.00

advance - 8:30 doors

neW Years eve!

Catl

bradleY boY

friday january 7 | $ 7.00

Cheap SpeakerS maladies oF adam stokes the Fires oF Young novelisTs

saturday january 8 | $ 7.00

elos arma BodY douBles hoTel roYal glass amP

cracker caMpEr van BEEthOvEn performing keY lime pie in its entirety

wed january 12 @ horseshoe tavern | $10.00 adv

reason + darlings of chelsea

red nightfall Counterpoint marCh fourth 9 LiveS & Counting

performing kerosene hat in its entirety

friday april 1 @ Lee’s Palace | $22.50 adv

with the

friday

saturday january 15 | $24.50 advance

Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance

advanceno cover!

bruce springsteen meets the replacements

thursday january 6 | $ 6.00

horseshoe tavern

the smiith atKins

saturday march 5

plants and aniMals the concretes wire jeSSe MaLin monday january 17 |

thurs december 30 | $ 6.00

MONDAYfebruary FEBRUARY 28 thurs 28

rik emmet oF triumPh • san sebastian MaEstrO frEsh WEs • chalK circlE the modern suPerstitions & ManY More! $15.00

clOsEd fOr hOlidays

WhiSkey MoRning BomBs Tess parks tommy Paxton beezley

wed december 29 | $18.50 adv - detroit high-energy rock

10th anniveRSaRy neW yeaRS eve paRty!

thurs december 23 | $ 7.00 x-mas punk rock

bathurst queens DecemBer 24 the sWabs to WedneSday sKullians • ivs DecemBer 29

Performing songs from ‘Hollywood Town Hall’ & ‘Tomorrow the Green Grass”

tWo SetS!

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friday febRuaRy 4

tuesday december 28

The Brilliance live how You live BUrT NeilsoN MiasMata running red lighTs BaND

advance • 9:00pm doors

$21.50

Hosted by BOOKiE (17th Year)

$10.00

$13.50

thursday dEcEMBEr 30 @ Mod Club | $16.50 adv • all-ages

mon december 27 | no Cover

TreesTar polariTy thoSe Who Run Lake of the Wood

friday december 31

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

saturday january 29 | $ 15.00 advance

with

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

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New Year’s Eve THE OSSINGTON THU 23 More TiMes w/ elle NiNo aNd CooliN Reggae, hip hop, soul and dancehall. Last chance to stretch it out before lockdown. FRI 24 & saT 25 Closed for The holiday sUN 26 UNliMiTed sUNday w/ elijah aNd Boo, Getting you back to normal, one spin at a time.

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lAtviAn house Good Times Gang Party with Mike Gibbs, Ali Black, Lee Osborne, Jamie Kidd, Alicia Hush, VETEZE, Mark Baker, LeeLee Mishi, Milton Clark, Ludikris & Vukan, Terry D, Johnny Lim, Joel Dubin, TEG, Big Fat Seth and Rye Bread. $30. Tickets Shanti Baba (546 Queen W), Moog/Slinky (442 Queen W), Play De Record (357A Yonge), Soundscapes (572 College), Grind House (281 Augusta), Plastik Wrap (2235 Dundas W) and UPC Boutique

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Spinning 60s POP, BEAT, PSYCHE, SKA & SOUL!

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Venue Index

Hooded Fang play Tranzac set by Ayah, and DJs P-Plus, Ricccachet and Thera-P spinning all evening. Hosted by Big Philly. Dinner available from 8 pm. Music from 9:30 pm. Comp bubbly and appetizers included. Semi-formal dress code. $35 show & party, $75 dinner and party. 81 Bloor E. 416515-7560. Phoenix ConCert theAtre Arrival 2011. Gay New Year’s event w/ DJs Patrick Guay and Mark Falco, plus live performance by Sofonda Cox. Doors 10 pm. Advance $25, more at the door. Tickets at Priape (501 Church). 410 Sherbourne. priape.com.5 PiA BoumAn sChool for BAllet Warehouse NYE-alienInFlux + suma + cirQular + promise: Pan/Tone, Jeremy P Caulfield, Leelee Mishi, Antidote, Living Stone, Timothy Wisdom, Niko, Jonah K, Rollin’ Cash, Noah Pred, Zum One, Kristian Sunflower, Michael Thompson provide house, techno, dubstep and downtempo for this party along with a circus show. Advance $40. Tickets Shanti Baba (546 Queen W), Moog/Slinky (442 Queen W), Studio Gang (112 Ossington), Play De Record (357A Yonge), Sideshow Cafe (1300 Gerrard E), Fairies Pyjamas (29 Kensington) and Plastic Wrap (2235 Dundas W). sumatics.org, cirqlar.ca, harvestfestival.org, ilovepromise.com. 6 Noble. 416533-3706. the Port Poppy Seed, Luxury Bob, Miracle Whip and DJ Hot Pants will have you dancing at this party. 9 pm. Advance tickets $10. 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270. rivoli Footprints, Bump N Hustle & Hotstepper party with two floors, three rooms of

house, soul, funk, Latin, Afrobeat, old school, hip-hop and disco. DJs Jason Palma, Stuart, General Eclectic, Mike Tull, Paul E Lopes, Blueprint and Moreno. Advance tickets $25 (Play De Record, Soundscapes, Cosmos, Rotate This). 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. silver dollAr The Bloodshot BBQ New Year’s Eve bash with Bloodshot Bill, DJ Mark ‘BBQ’ Sultan & Red Dawn, the Mercy Now, Sphinxs, the Strangers and DJ Dan Arget. Advance $12, $15 at the door. Tickets at Rotate This, Soundscapes. 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. the soCiAl Bass/Ball NYE party with the Killabits, Hydee & Grimeskee playing drum & bass, dubstep and electro. 10 pm. $20. Tickets at ticketweb.ca. 1100 Queen W. 416-5324474. sound ACAdemy Ignite New Year’s with Tony Matterhorn. Doors 10 pm. 11 Polson. 416461-3625. suPermArket Do Right! New Year’s Eve party with DJs Fase, John Kong and MC Abdominal. Doors 9 pm. Dinner and dance $60, party only advance $25, $30 at the door (Supermarket, Soundscapes, Play De Record). 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. terAnGA Pop Lobster New Year’s Eve dance party with dancing to indie, mainstream, electro, disco, Motown and new wave. $5, free before 11:30 pm. 159 Augusta. 416-8499777, facebook.com/poplobster. trAnzAC New Year’s Eve fundraiser for the Tranzac with Rural Alberta Advantage, Laura Barrett, Hooded Fang, Light Fires, Sandro Perri, I Am Robot and Proud, Sister, Muskox, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Dr Ew, Octoberman and DJ Craig Dunsmuir. Doors 8 pm. Advance $15, $17 at the door. Tickets from Rotate This, Soundscapes and the Tranzac. 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. tWist GAllery Teenage Riot Records NYE Loft Party. Restored loft party w/ Bird Peterson, St Mandrew, Torro Torro, Tapedeckbros and Dicky. 10 pm. Early bird $25, $40 later. 1100 Queen W. 416-530-7656, ticketweb.ca. velvet underGround New Year’s Eve. The Wilderness and Polynesian Bride perform from 9 pm ($10). Retro 80s party with DJ Hanna at 11 pm ($20). 510 Queen W. 416504-6688. WronGBAr New Year’s Eve party with Dirty Dale, Rynecologist and Nasty Nav. 10 pm to 4 am. Advance $20 (Rotate This, Soundscapes, wanttickets.com). 1279 Queen W. 416-5168677. 3

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PRINCE PERRY & THE GLADSTONES w/CHRISTIAN D & THE HANGOVERS, THE STRAIGHT RAZORS + DJ CACTUS FEAT. DJ ROCKABILLY ROB

(128.5 Cumberland). 491 College. 416-6565577. lee’s PAlACe New Year’s Eve with Elliott Brood. Catl opens the show. Two sets, 11:15 pm & 1 am. Advance tickets $20. Tickets at Rotate, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. liBerty GrAnd Grand 2011. DJ Wristpect, Sir Lancelot, DJ Tilt, DJ Undercover, DJ Vivi Diamond and DJ Alonso Mendez provide the music at this party. Buffet dinner offered. Complimentary champagne toast and party favours included. Club tickets $60, dinner & club $100. 25 British Columbia. 416-8708000, ticketmaster.ca. lulA lounGe Salsa New Year’s Eve threecourse dinner and concert by the Hilario Duran Trio, a salsa lesson, midnight toast and three sets by salsa band Lady Son y Articulo Veinte. Dinner from 6:30 pm, concert 7:30 pm, salsa lesson 9 pm, Lady Son from 10 pm. Dinner and show $150, dancing only $40. 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAro London Town New Year’s with DJ Calvin Harris, and LA Riots in the Green Room. Advance $60, $80 later. Upscale casual attire required. 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. mitzi’s sister The Bidiniband, Selina Martin & Band and guests play for this party. Yummy chili included with admission. Advance $15, $20 at the door. Tickets at Rotate This, Hits & Misses, Frantic City, Soundscapes, She Said Boom (Roncesvalles). 1554 Queen W. 416532-2570, mitzissister.com. oPerA house The Onyx Ball. DJ Corey Activate at this all night party from 10 pm to 6 am. Tickets at Priape (501 Church), Northbound Leather (588 Yonge). Free shuttle provided by O’Grady’s (518 Church) from 10 pm. Shuttle drop off at Steamworks (540 Church) for the official after party. Advance $35, more at the door. 735 Queen E. beefdip.com.5 the ossinGton Some New Bullshit New Year’s party with Azuree & Carl. Champagne, bourbon and sleazy tunes for the sinner within. $11. 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. the PAinted lAdy New Year’s Eve 2011 bash with sexy burlesque dancers, DJ NV spinning hip-hop, R&B, soul and more. No cover. 9 pm. 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. PArts & lABour Communal-style dinner with two seatings, 7 & 10 pm. DJ Scott Wade spins after midnight. $125. In The Shop, classic R&R, pop and soul dancing with Scott Cudmore. 10 pm. $10. 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. Peridot Best Of Both Worlds party with a live

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the best of 2010 times a jaw-dropping puppet show within a puppet show, Billy Twinkle didn’t twinkle, but, rather, lit all the big theatrical lights.

7 PEER GYNT

Thistle Project, January 28-February 21

Blasted

Ibsen’s rambling philosophical piece about bad boy Peer got a vibrant production under Erika Batdorf’s direction, with Susan Coyne creating an engaging title figure and the chameleon-like Matthew Romantini playing all the others in his life. Moving the audience around the Church of the Holy Trinity as the action roamed around the world was a brilliant idea.

8 IF WE WERE BIRDS

Tarragon/Groundwater Productions, April 14-May 23

Studies In Motion

Erin Shields gave a universal face to the legend of Philomel, Procne and Tereus by creating a chorus made up of female victims drawn from centuries of war. Alan Dilworth’s direction, rich and specific, gave leads Tara Rosling, Philippa Domville and Geoffrey Pounsett a chance to dig into the humanity and horror of their roles.

Death Of A Salesman

9 HOMAGE

2b theatre/Luminato, June 17-19

Top 10 theatre productions The best theatre of 2010 covered it all: war, death, marriage, rebirth and a trio of classic texts. The quality was so high that it was hard to come up with our list; for every show we chose, we had to reject two others. If you missed these, look for remounts of Assassins, Yichud and (fingers crossed) Matchbox Macbeth in 2011.

STUDIES IN MOTION

The Electric Company/Canadian Stage, November 22 to December 18

How do you get to the essence of human behaviour? This fascinating hybrid interwove text, movement, design and projections to examine the contradictions of Eadweard Muybridge, whose 19th-century photographic studies of

humans and animals in motion predated the motion picture. Under Kim Collier’s original direction, this material could only come to life in the theatre, an exciting sign of where artistic director Matthew Jocelyn is taking Canadian Stage.

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Birdland/Talk is Free Theatre, February 4 to 20

In a year of Tea Party dissent down south and an urban/suburban split right here, the timing was perfect for a big, bold revival of Stephen Sondheim’s angry musical about successful and failed presidential assassins. Adam Brazier’s direction never flagged, getting brilliant performances from Martin Julien, Graham Abbey and Trish Lindstrom among others, who all lit up the stage like a literal carnival.

Soulpepper, October 16 to November 20

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Mazel tov to playwright Julie Tepperman and director Aaron Willis’s big, boisterous, brilliant show about the nuptials of an Orthodox Jewish couple. It asked tough questions about tradition and commitment. And from the moment you entered Theatre Passe Muraille, completely transformed by Beth Kates into a synagogue, you were swept up in the drama – and debate.

Buddies in Bad Times, September 22 to October 17

BILLY TWINKLE: REQUIEM FOR A GOLDEN BOY

From the intentionally disorienting journey outside the theatre to the increasingly brutal revelations about masculinity and violence onstage, Brendan Healy delivered one hell of an opening salvo as Buddies’ new artistic director. Sarah Kane’s early play descended into a steaming, nightmarish war zone made more visceral by the design team and incendiary performances by David Ferry, Michelle Monteith and Dylan Smith.

Intimate Apparel; Blind Date; Hana’s Suitcase; The Great War; Aurash; Stitch; A Raisin In The Sun; Spent

YICHUD

Theatre Passe Muraille/Convergence Theatre, February 6-27

Director Albert Schultz proved that he understood the heart of Arthur Miller’s classic about the curdling of the American dream. His first-rate cast, headed by the magnificent Joseph Ziegler as the increasingly desperate title figure, made us feel deeply the Loman family’s false hopes, lies and losses.

Awesome encores

Assassins

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes/Factory, September 24-October 31 Ronnie Burkett was in top form both as writer and puppeteer in this biography of a troubled cruise ship marionette artist who travels into his past to work out his suicidal present. At

One of the few stage highlights at a largely disappointing Luminato, Anthony Black’s play about sculptor Haydn Davies examined questions about art, society and immortality – heady themes, but grounded by Jerry Franken and Barbara Gordon’s warm performances and Christian Barry’s spare but suggestive staging, which had audiences sitting within Peter Blackie’s sculptural set.

10 MATCHBOX MACBETH

Litmus Theatre, October 21-31 The new kid on the block is Litmus Theatre, which cut Macbeth down to an hour and presented the Bard’s tale of seductive power inventively, using shadow play, spooky sounds and economic staging in a backyard shed for an audience of 14 per show. Far better than Stratford’s latest version, and on an infinitesimally smaller budget. Returning, we hope, in the spring.

Stage setbacks LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: THE MUSICAL Who knew Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved books could result in such a trail of horseshit? ONE PURE LONGING: TÁHIRIH’S SEARCH This multimedia piece about the 19thcentury poet who defied Persian authorities should have touched viewers, but

the production resembled a theatre school exercise. An embarrassing commission for an international festival. SOULSEEK Tech effects couldn’t cover up the empty core of this reworking of the Orpheus myth, resulting in one of the worst-reviewed shows in recent memory.

Top 10 theatre artists The best theatre artists capture the emotional truth that lies at the centre of a production, and this year’s top artists – actors, directors, designers and an opera chorus – led audiences into the heart of what it means to be human.

1 JANE SPIDELL actor

Spidell’s an acting laser, able to zap into the core of a character and release emotions that range from the comic to the scary, sometimes both simultaneously. The mesmerizing performer played a predatory housewife in Peggy Pickit Sees The Face of God and then wowed audiences in Doc, turning in a devastating portrait of a high-spirited, independent woman driven to drink and anger by her workaholic husband.

2 JOSEPH ZIEGLER actor/director

Ziegler’s as thoughtful a director as he is an actor. This year he helmed Waiting For The Parade at Soulpepper and Harvey at Shaw. But it’s his acting that truly astounded, whether as a self-centred wooer in A Month In The Country, a trademark Scrooge in A Christmas Carol or, most towering of all, Death Of A Salesman’s Willy Loman, turned by Ziegler into a contemporary King Lear devastated by his false dreams and the family living within them.

BEN CHAISSON AND BETH KATES

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R. JEANETTE MARTIN

Call them the design power couple of Toronto. Singly and together, Chaisson and Kates created some amazing designs, including transforming Theatre Passe Muraille into an orthodox Jewish temple (Yichud) and making the entire inside of Koerner Hall a projection surface (Dark Star Requiem). The coolest? The Playground, a SummerWorks space where every kid, no mat-

ter what age, could fool around with electronic and more old-fashioned gizmos.

DRAKEFORD 4 DEBORAH actor

This was Drakeford’s year to shine, beginning with a multiplicity of characters in The Dining Room and continuing with her turn as an enigmatic wife in the surrealistic The City. An actor with a big heart, Drakeford was able to bring that humanity to the fore in two Soulpepper productions, first as the bossy Janet in Waiting For The Parade and then returning to A Christmas Carol as the warmest of mothers, Mrs. Cratchit.

5 BYRON ABALOS actor

Abalos handles comedy and drama with equal skill, as he proved in a year that began with a Dora-nominated turn in The Making Of St. Jerome, playing the driven brother of a teen killed by the police. He followed that by anchoring a reading of Creeps, as a man in a sheltered workshop caught between Uncle Tom-ism and hidden fear and anger, and an impassioned, energetic turn in Roshni as a young tea seller with Bollywood dreams.

DAVID FERRY actor/director

Ferry spent much of 2010 directing, including Shakespeare: If Music Be… and a nastily rollicking production of Where’s My Money? At a Playwrights Canada Press launch, he reminded us of his quicksilver performing skills by doing a multi-character cold reading from Living Curiosities. But the standout was his tour de force in Blasted. Ferry made the play’s journalist dislikable, pitiable and hugely affecting.

7 JENNY YOUNG actor

Young knows how to reveal her characters’ humanity, turning even the most difficult people into characters you root for. In And So It Goes, she gave a chilling yet engaging quality to an emotionally troubled woman. At Shaw, she turned The Women’s Mary, potentially a sappy figure, into someone with immediate grit and survival instincts. And in the fest’s Age Of Arousal, she gave warmth and energy to Rhoda, who saw typewriting skills as a means to liberate women in 1885 London.

KIMBERLY PURTELL designer

Lighting is one of the most magical of the stage arts, and Purtell is a wizard at it. Of the more than a dozen shows she lit in 2010, the most memorable included Blasted’s pristine world become war-torn hell, the precise yet dreamlike mindscape of The List and the shimmering, ethereal environment for Beauty Dissolves In A Brief Hour.

MARIA VACRATSIS actor

We don’t get to see the talented Vacratsis onstage nearly enough, but she gave us indelible theatrical memories this past year as a Holocaust survivor who used Shakespeare to hold onto her humanity in Such Creatures. Later, in Through The Leaves, she played a needy butcher so intoxicated with an abusive lover that she never cut him off, making viewers care for and understand the loneliness inside each of us.

OPERA 10 CANADIAN COMPANY CHORUS singing actors

We can’t think of a Canadian Opera Company production this year (or others) when the chorus, led Sandra Horst, didn’t shine. They always create the most beautiful of sounds and throw themselves energetically into their roles as Spanish smugglers, Elizabethan nobles, Venetian townspeople or Scandinavian sailors, even if the director’s concept is sometimes more silly than sound.

Jane Spidell

Best & worst comedy Best concert show Aziz Ansari’s Dangerously Delicious Tour at Just For Laughs (July 9, 9:30 pm). Ansari’s act goes beyond both ethnic shtick and geek revenge fantasies to become something wild and new. I’ve never seen a crowd so excited as during the show’s final 15 minutes of request-taking.

Most overblown controversy Conan vs. Jay. Coco walked away with $45 million and a bruised ego, which he quickly soothed with a sold-out North American tour, hundreds of amusing tweets and huge initial numbers for his new TBS show. Meanwhile, Jay who?

Most improved sketch troupe Second City Toronto. In one year the ensemble went from one of their worst shows (Second City For Mayor) to the 5N-rated Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes. Hope they give us more clever words, words, words in 2011.

Funniest game-changer In her TV show (thank you, E!), live act and occasional high-profile hosting gig, Chelsea Handler is that rare combination of hot, female and funny – yet not threatening (unless you’re Angelina Jolie).

Most unlikely TV comeback Betty White first saw her chocolate bar commercial go viral, then in a special Mother’s Day SNL hosting gig showed her prompter-reading co-stars what comic timing is all about.

Worst TV spinoff Hiccups. After the hilarity that was Corner Gas, let’s hope this unfunny show is just a, um, hiccup in Brent Butt’s career.

Best TV show by a comic Louis C.K.’s Louis. Shame we can only watch it online in Canada.

Funniest performance by a former member of SCTV In the star-studded Love, Loss And What I Wore, Andrea Martin brought down the house with a story about finding the right purse.

Improv? Theatre? Does it matter? Rebecca Northan in Blind Date and the National Theatre of the World (Naomi Snieckus, Ronald Pederson, Matt Baram) proved that labels don’t matter when it comes to improvised shows this funny – and honest.

Funniest interview The women of Women Fully Clothed (plus their deadpan driver/manager) hijacked us, took us on a Timmy’s run and gabbed about their new show for an hour.

Worst news Really, Mark Forward, you’re giving up stand-up? Will you please reconsider?

Best comedy podcast Todd Van Allen’s monthly chat with funny people is an invaluable resource. And, no, we’re not just saying that because Glenn Sumi was a guest last summer. heyitstva.com.

Most likely TV comeback Put the Kids in the Hall in wigs and costumes and give them good scripts – as they got for Death Comes To Town – and, even with age, illness (member Scott Thompson’s brush with cancer) and separate careers, it’s like no time has passed at all. Aziz Ansari

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Top 10 dance shows 2010 was another good year in dance, but we can’t help noticing that the companies on this list, with one exception, all hail from North America. A sign of Canadian and U.S. dominance? Or that it’s no longer feasible to import foreign dance shows?

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Aszure Barton & Artists, April 17 and 18

Appearing suddenly and with little advance publicity (a spot opened up between tour gigs), Barton and her nimble New York-based company presented a brilliant double bill full of playful, dramatic and always fresh movement, including a couple of postmodern winks at the performing life. The Alberta-born artist demonstrated why she’s one of the world’s most sought-after choreographers.

2 FuLL bLOOm

Young Centre, January 12 to 16

Kevin O’Day, Luches Huddleston Jr. and Robert Glumbek proved male dancers can still get their groove on after 40. Alas, Glumbek’s opening-night injury prevented him from performing (Roberto Campanella ably stepped in), but a remount at the end of the year saw him join the testosterone-fuelled trio as he’d planned.

3 COnFLuEnCE

Peggy Baker Dance Projects, February 24 to 28 In her most ambitious program to date, Baker danced a solo, paired with Larry Hahn for a moving duet by Doug Varone, and choreographed a trio for younger dancers Kate Holden, Sean Ling and Sahara Morimoto. Music and movement motifs linked them all into a hypnotic meditation on science, art and mortality.

4 REd bRiCk

Chartier Danse/Arraymusic, September 17 to 19

Nearly a decade to the day after com-

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poser Michael J. Baker’s death, his widow, Marie-Josée Chartier, mounted a series of revivals and new works to his music. A who’s who of the contemporary dance and music scene (including Chartier, reuniting with her Dancemakers pals) took part, ensuring the aheadof-his-time composer’s legacy lives on.

5 GisELLE

Fabulous Beast/World Stage, May 4 to 8 Ireland’s Michael Keegan-Dolan turned traditional ballet on its feathered headpiece in this raunchy, sexy and subversive take on the tragic story. If you’re going to remake a classic ballet, this is how you do it.

6 OnEGin

National Ballet of Canada, June 19 to 25 Fresh from the Stuttgart Ballet, new principal dancer Jirí Jelinek showed us why his interpretation of the brooding Eugene Onegin is internationally loved. He had a poignant Tatyana in Xiao Nan Yu, and the production glowed dramatically with Santo Loquasto’s new sets and costumes.

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RUBBERBANDance Group/ DanceWorks, November 26 to 27

Victor Quijada uses his eclectic background – urban dance competitions as a kid, work with Twyla Tharp and Eliot Feld as a young adult – to create something utterly new. As this mini-retrospective proved, he and his fearless

dancers have the potential to change what we think of as concert dance.

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Opening

This series of works inspired by the ROM’s treasures and performed in various sections of the evocative building redefined the term “museum piece” and introduced dance to a whole new audience. A win-win.

Operetta Theatre). A woman gets revenge on her philandering husband in this comic operetta. Opens Dec 28 and runs to Jan 9, 2011, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm (no show Jan 1), mats Sun 2 pm. $52-$78. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E, Toronto. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

CanAsian Dance Festival, May 7 to 16

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Wen Wei Dance/DanceWorks, April 9 and 10 Wen Wei Wang’s preadolescent experiences in a Chinese dance boarding school helped inspire this provocative work about burgeoning sexuality. The competitive one-upmanship was enhanced by the playful use of pheasant feathers in unexpected places.

thE FutuRE 10 mEmORy hEaRtbREak JunCtiOn, diPtyCh

blackandblue dance projects, November 4 to 6 Sasha Ivanochko reprised an earlier solo about a woman’s heartbreak and offered up a new duet with Brendan Wyatt that showed the roots of the star-crossed relationship, the performers’ bodies responding to every twitch and twang of Catherine Thompson’s evocative score and delivering a wild, tempestuous ride.

Movies step up

Die FleDermaus by Johann Strauss (Toronto

DisNey ON ice PreseNts mickey & miNNie’s magical JOurNey (Feld Entertainment).

Disney characters travel into each other’s worlds in this family ice show. Opens Dec 25 and runs to Jan 2, 2011, Dec 25 at 3 pm, Dec 27-31 at noon & 4 pm, Dec 26, Jan 1-2 at 11 am & 3 pm. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416-870-8000, disneyonice.com. the liON, the Witch & the WarDrObe by CS Lewis (Dramatic Change Youth Theatre). The fairy tale from The Chronicles Of Narnia is presented on stage. Opens Dec 27 and runs to Jan 2, 2011, Sun-Tue 2 pm. $14. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. 1-877-7003130, lionww.com. sNOW aNgel by Kathleen Black (Lower Ossington Theatre). A young girl goes on an adventure to change the world and find her father. Dec 29-30, Wed-Thu 7:30 pm. $25. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, snowangel. eventbrite.com.

Previewing

the misaNthrOPe by Molière, adapted by

Martin Crimp (Tarragon Theatre). A playwright who scorns celebrity culture falls for a superficial film starlet. Previews Dec 29-Jan 4, 2011. Opens Jan 5 and runs to Feb 6, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no mats during previews). $23-$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

One-Nighters the seDiNa shOW (Sedina Fiati). The Festive

Edition features R3, an open mic and a collab-

orative cabaret. Dec 26 at 7 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. sedinashow.com.

F3PeNNy Xmas cONcert: What keePs maNkiND alive? (Small Wooden Shoe). Join in singing or just listen to songs from The Threepenny Opera. Dec 29, doors 8 pm. 3 cents. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. smallwoodenshoe.org.

Continuing beauty aND the beast: the savagely silly Family musical by Lorna Wright ñ and Nicholas Hune-Brown (Ross Petty Pro-

ductions). In the paparazzi-populated Enchanted Forest, Prince Zack (a charismatic Jake Epstein) gets himself mixed up in a Faustian contract while angling for the heart of Bella (Melissa O’Neil). Nicholas HuneBrown and Lorna Wright’s smart, unapologetically busy script is replete with songs and gags that thrill kids and adults alike. Granted, the plot is a bit like clicking between six browser tabs, with references ranging from Lady Gaga to Cinnabon, but the fun is in the mashup. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Thu-Sat 7 pm, see website for other times/holiday schedule. $27-$85. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-8725555, rosspetty.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) Fa christmas carOl by Charles Dickens (Soulpepper). Director Michael Shamata’s fine adaptation of the Dickens classic is a welcome revival, with Joseph Ziegler a believable Scrooge who turns from scowling miser to beneficent humanitarian, with lots of shadings in between. In a production that’s never treacly, the other performer who stands out is John Jarvis, playing all the ghosts and giving each an individual and strong personality. Runs to Dec 30, see website for schedule. $40-$76, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK)

FDr. seuss’ hOW the griNch stOle christmas! the musical by Timothy Mason and

Mel Marvin (Big League Productions/Dancap). The animated holiday classic is adapted for the stage. See review at nowtoronto. com/daily. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, see website for schedule (no shows Dec 24-25). $25-$74. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) Free tO be yOu aND me (Lower Ossington Theatre). Songs and skits for all ages emphasize individuality, diversity and self esteem. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Mon-Thu (and Jan 2) 3 pm, plus Dec 30 at noon. $29.50, family 4-pack $100. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

a FuNNy thiNg haPPeNeD ON the Way tO the FOrum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart

and Stephen Sondheim (Mirvish/Stratford Festival). There are lots of potential laughs in this early Stephen Sondheim musical, based on comedies by the Roman playwright Plautus, but director Des McAnuff goes for a Three Stooges approach. Despite some good performances, the show’s lack of subtlety forces the humour down viewers’ throats rather than letting us appreciate the entertainment. Runs to Jan 16, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (Dec 24 & 31 shows at 2 pm; no shows Dec 25 & Jan 1). $40-$120. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. mirvish.com. NN (JK) hal’s kitcheN: What’s burNiNg? (Mysteriously Yours). A famous chef seeks the perfect menu in this interactive mystery. Runs to Dec

I can’t recall another year where there were so many decent dance movies. Frederick Wiseman’s vérité gem La Danse, Bruce Beresford’s historic Mao’s Last Dancer and Darren Aronofsky’s psycho-thriller Black Swan all enjoyed healthy runs. An inventive Astaire/Rogers riff even made the otherwise forgettable Step Up 3D worthwhile.

Dance duds JULIA DOMNA After bringing several world-class dance companies to town in previous festivals, Luminato dropped the ball with Syria’s Enana Dance Theatre, a company that seemed more concerned with costume changes than with delivering any interesting movement. THE CORPSE BRIDE Theatre PANIK’s movement-theatre adaptation of a Yiddish folk tale sounded promising on paper and featured some good performers, but onstage it lacked coherent storytelling, compelling movement or any raison d’être. John Gzowski’s songs were hair-pullingly bad. SeereviewofDr.Seuss’HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas!nowtoronto.com/daily

31, Fri-Sat 8 pm (dinner from 6:30 pm); see website for other times. $43-$83. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. Happyview p.S. by Michael McMurtry and Derek Williams (Spicy Mike Productions). McMurtry’s one-person, multicharacter show is set in an elementary school, with the audience playing students at an assembly. The Evil Principal Meaney is about to send us all to boarding school in the North Pole, and it’s up to her accident-prone vice principal, her daughter and a policeman with dreams of becoming a dancer and/or magician to help get us out. McMurtry is a nimble clown and has lots of energy and a real affection for his characters – as well as his all-ages audiences. His improvisations on audience suggestions or questions are lots of fun. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Mon-Thu (and Jan 2) 1:30 pm. $24.50, family 4-pack $80. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. NNN (GS)

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JoSepH aNd THe amaziNg TecHNicolor dreamcoaT by Andrew Lloyd Webber and

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. 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 May 29, 2011, Sat-Sun 1 pm (holiday shows Dec 27-29 at 11 am and 1 pm). $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.

Thursday, December 23 beST of abSoluTe ToroNTo Absolute Comedy presents Dave Merheje, Ryan ñ Maglunob, Lou Eisen and host Ward Ander-

son. 8:30 pm. $tba. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. comedy above THe pub McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Carolyn Bennett, Adam Tomlinson, Christophe Davidson, Julie Kim, Kailan Baker, Jo-Anna Downey, Keven Soldo, Kivork Kidanian, Matt Shury, Stephanie Tolev and host Todd Van Allen. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416364-9698. 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. Fmiracle oN mercer STreeT Second City presents all-ages seasonal comedy of liveaction sketches, puppetry and songs. Thu and Sun-Wed 1 pm. $12, family 4-pack $40. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

priScilla QueeN of THe deSerT THe muSical

SomeTHiNg wicked aweSome THiS way comeS Second City SC presents its ñ 66th sketch comedy revue, and it’s the most

DEBRA FRIEDMAN

by Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott (Mirvish). This musical adaptation of the 1994 movie about two drag queens and a transexual who travel in the titular bus through Australia’s outback features some strong performances, eye-popping designs and familiar pop tunes (heavy on 70s disco). Sadly, the unfabulous book skimps on character and merely acts as a bridge between production numbers. Tony Sheldon adds warmth and realness to 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) SHrek: STompiN’ THe Swamp (Sphere Entertainment). The film ogre 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 (no shows Dec 25). $12.50-$22. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. TabiTHa & THe Time macHiNe by bekky O’Neil (Quality Slippers Productions). Three friends travel through time and learn history in this all-ages musical puppet show. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Sun-Thu 11:30 am (no show Dec 26). $24.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, qualityslippers.ca. FTea aT THe palace by Ann Powell and David Powell (Puppetmongers). This family-friendly puppet show features a retelling of two Russian folk tales. Runs to Jan 1, 2011, daily at 2 pm, plus Dec 29-30 at 4:30 pm (no show Dec 25). $18, stu/srs $13, Jan 1 gala $30. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, puppetmongers. com. 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 easy-listening 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. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca. NNNN (JK) 3

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 ArthurSimeonhits be humming a theNubianshow certain song December26. parody as you

leave. To Dec 29, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Sun 4 & 7 pm (see website for schedule after Dec 29). $24$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) yuk yuk’S dowNTowN presents Cedric Newman. To Dec 23, Thu 8 pm. $12. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, December 24 aN aTHeiST cHriSTmaS eve! Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents a night of free-thinking comedy w/ Bryan O’Gorman, Steve Scholtz, Cal Post and Hunter Collins. 8 pm. $22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Sunday, December 26 beST of abSoluTe ToroNTo Absolute Com-

edy presents Brendan McKeigan, Steve Scholtz, Nathan Macintosh and host Nile Seguin. 8 pm. $tba. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. gHoST Jail THeaTre Clinton’s presents weekly improv, monologues and more. 7:30 pm. $5$6. 693 Bloor W. ghostjail.com. miracle oN mercer STreeT See Thu 23.

NubiaN diScipleS all black comedy revue Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents ñ the Boxing Day Blow Out w/ Arthur Simeon,

Patrick Haye, Dred Lee, Kris Bonaparte, Jay Martin, Keesha Brownie, Crystal Farrier, Dave Merheje, Chris Robinson and host Kenny Robinson. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

SomeTHiNg wicked aweSome THiS way comeS See Thu 23. SuddeNly SuNday Pantages Martini Bar pre-

sents an open mic w/ host Melissa Story. 8:30 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. urbaN legeNd – SHeila goSTick presents the square-dancing stand-up and downtown folk singer. To Dec 30, Sun-Thu 8:30 pm. $20 suggested donation. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. 416-971-4273.

Monday, December 27

Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. miracle oN mercer STreeT See Thu 23.

FTHe SecoNd ciTy’S dySfuNcTioNal Holiday revue Second City presents a

ñ holiday-themed show of scenes and songs.

8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. urbaN legeNd – SHeila goSTick See Sun 26.

Tuesday, December 28 i HearT JokeS Evan Desmarais presents week-

ly comedy and fun. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. impaTieNT THeaTre co presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. Harold Night, the improv form created by Del Close. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, a showcase of up and coming improv teams. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. laugHTer for THe arTS Simon B Cotter presents comedy to benefit Garden Avenue Public School w/ Trevor Boris, Nikki Payne, Allyson Smith, Winston Spear and Mike Wilmot. 8:30 pm. $25. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-393-9165. miracle oN mercer STreeT See Thu 23. SkeTcHcomedylouNge Rivoli presents a Canadian Cancer Society Fundraiser w/ Colin Mochrie, Laurie Elliott, Fraser Young, Dave Hemstad, Dan Redican, Lauren Ash, MCs

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Ryan & Jason Belleville and others. 9 pm. $10. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

SomeTHiNg wicked aweSome THiS way comeS See Thu 23. urbaN legeNd – SHeila goSTick See Sun 26. yuk yuk’S dowNTowN presents Amateur

Night, w/ Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up newbies at 9:30 pm. $3. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, December 29 abSoluTe comedy presents Pro-Am night w/

Paul Morrissey, Slim Bloodworth, Andrew Young, Joel Buxton, Anthony Ciarduli and Hoodo Hersi. 8:30 pm. $tba. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. 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. impaTieNT THeaTre co presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapidfire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. miracle oN mercer STreeT See Thu 23.

SomeTHiNg wicked aweSome THiS way comeS See Thu 23. urbaN legeNd – SHeila goSTick See Sun 26. 3

dance listings F = Festive/seasonal event

Opening FTHe NuTcracker Ballet Jörgen Canada presents the holiday classic, choreographed by

Bengt Jörgen. Dec 29-30, Wed-Thu 7 pm, mat Thu 2 pm. $34-$46. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-477-5530, balletjorgencanada.ca.

Continuing FTHe NuTcracker The National Ballet of Canada presents the holiday classic, choreographed by James Kudelka. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, see website for schedule. $35.34-$130.26. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca. 3

alT.comedy louNge Rivoli presents Pete Zedlacher, Matt O’Brien, Laura ñ Cilevitz, Dave Merheje, Kevin MacDonald, Gavin Stephens, Matt Shury, Anthony Ciardulli, MC Nathan Macintosh and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. Hard TimeS aT THe Hard luck Impulsive Entertainment presents a new material night for singers, poets, stand-up/sketch/ improv comics and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. impulsiveentertainment.com. imperial comedy Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host

JAN Dirty 14 – 29 2 011 Rotten Scoundrels Book by Jeffrey Lane Music & lyrics by David Yazbek Directed by Jeremy Hutton

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the best of 2010 neighbourhoods and even a nighttime beach scene. Urban loneliness and longing never looked so compelling.

5 sHAry BoylE

Art Gallery of Ontario, September 15 to December 5

The range of multi-award-winning local artist Shary Boyle was evident in Flesh And Blood, which included ceramic figurines, polymer clay sculptures, installations, drawings and paintings. An intrepid explorer of the psychosexual terrain lurking beneath Celtic folklore, animal hybrids and stereotypical femininity, Boyle more than held her own against the handful of classical paintings from the gallery’s collection thrown into the show.

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Power Plant, June 19 to September 12

2 DAniEl BArrow

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Art Gallery of York University, March 31 to June 6

1 El AnAtsui

Royal Ontario Museum, October 2 to February 27

The ROM’s Institute for Contemporary Culture scored a coup by bringing in When I Last Wrote To You About Africa, a retrospective put together by New York’s Museum for African Art that includes the Ghanaian artist’s early ceramics, found-object sculptures and installations and recent glittering bottle-cap “tapestries” that have received international acclaim. Anatsui’s work has visual pizzazz and an anticolonialist message, making this a savvy show that appeals to everyone.

must see shows

Multiple overhead projectors, turntables and glass trays of water agitated by table fans made low-tech magic for Emotional Feelings. A fabulous queer sensibility’s at work, using a children’s-book-illustration aesthetic to both celebrate and subtly mock pop culture’s obsession with emotional extremity. Barrow’s Good Gets Better show at Jessica Bradley was also terrific, making him one of the most productive artists of 2010.

3 Four DirEctions

Evergreen Brick Works, September 26 to December 31 No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Envi ronment’s show of videos in the kiln tunnels of the Brick Works is a fantastic marriage of setting and content. Wer ner Herzog’s film of the Kuwait oil fires

For The Holidays, to Dec 23 and Jan 5-15, edition launch w/ Peaches 6:30-8:30 pm Dec 23. 788 King W. 416-703-4400. Atelier 688 Drawing/photos: Jay Dart and Dean West, to Jan 18. 688 Richmond W #201. 416-671-2537. Clint roenisCh Drawing: Massimo Guerra, to Jan 15. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593. DrAbinsky Painting/photos: Charles Bierk and Jeff Bierk, to Jan 15. 114 Yorkville. 416324-5766. evergreen briCk Works Video: Werner Herzog, Isabelle Hayeur, Val Klassen and Dana Claxton, to Dec 31. 550 Bayview. 416-596-1495. gAllery ArCturus Fierce Absolution group show, to Jan 22. 80 Gerrard E. 416-977-1077. hArbourfront Centre Photos: Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt, to Jun 1. Too Cool For School: An Art & Science Fair; unREAL group shows; Barbara Balfour, Kristiina Lahde, Kotama Bouabane and others, to Jan 2 (artandsciencefair.ca). Architecture: Building Partners

December 31

David Hoffos transformed MOCCA into a dark labyrinth populated by tiny dioramas and projected ghosts in his stunning Scenes From The House Dream. A monumental effort, nearly a decade in the making, resulted in picture-perfect idylls of lonesome Americana. Shoebox-sized windows opened onto chillingly familiar stagings of North American urban life: hotel rooms, suburban

group show, to Dec 23. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. FinDexg gAllery Prints: Good Editions 2010: Good Times group show, to Dec 31. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. JessiCA brADley Art + proJeCts Collage/projection: Daniel Barrow, to Dec 23. F Prints: Other Editions, gallery artists, to Dec 23. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125. o’born ConteMporAry Painting/photos/ drawing: John Monteith, to Jan 29. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555. ontArio CrAfts CounCil Love And Money group show, to Dec 31. 990 Queen W. 416925-4222.

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It was at times an overambitious slog, but the content mining the relationship between art and nature proved so varied and smartly curated that this show merited several visits. ContemEl Anatsui porary art neo-pagans Fastwürms enchanted with their corner devoted to from Lessons Of Darkness shows how a their cats, introduced as fierce living feature film that may not work as a personages in their own right. Javier whole can still provide a very effective Tellez’s black-and-white film pitting video loop, and the responses commis- eight blind New Yorkers against an elesioned from three Canadian women, phant was equally striking, as was the Isabelle Hayeur, Val Klassen and Dana video by Brazilian artists Rivane Claxton, gently but insistently counter Neuenschwander and Cao Guimarães, Herzog’s pessimistic vision. which showed carpenter ants wrestling pieces of multicoloured confetti DAviD HoFFos into their tropical nest. Always intriMuseum of Contemporary guing and at times dazzling. Canadian Art, September 10 to

Jay Dart shows at Atelier 6888

Painting: York Wilson, to Jul 31. 1 Front E. 416-872-2262. stephen bulger Photos: Elliot Erwitt, to Jan 15. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. susAn hobbs Film/textiles: Oliver Husain, to Jan 22. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. toronto free gAllery AIR (Alphabet City Festival); prints: TrashFoodFuelWaterAir (Circuit Gallery), to Feb 26. 1277 Bloor W. 416913-0461. 3

7 tErrAncE HoulE

Art Gallery of York University, September 15 to December 5 Terrance Houle’s combination of selfdeprecating humour and wry social comedy made Givn’r a winning retrospective of this young artist’s video and photography. With equal doses of bracing honesty and slapstick, Houle portrays himself as a man stuck in a tragicomic wrestling match between two worlds –

the Western culture in which he will always feel absurdly forlorn and the aboriginal culture of his past, rife with its own contradictions and clichés.

8 DiABoliquE

Oakville Galleries, September 18 to November 14

The highlight of this jam-packed show of political art from Regina’s Dunlop Art Gallery was William Kentridge’s perception-bending anamorphic animated film What Will Come (Has Already Come). International names like Shirin Neshat, Nancy Spero, Ray mond Pettibon and Jake & Dinos Chap man mixed with Canadians Rebecca Belmore, Balint Zsako, Scott Waters and others to open a window onto the urge toward conflict and bloodshed.

9 Hou cHun-MinG IndexG, October 13 to November 21

Hong Kong art star Hou ChunMing was a bracing international voice at IndexG this year. With his brash, primitive and sexually loaded woodcuts on giant sheets of rice paper, he melded personal narrative, traditional Chinese mythology and a post-punk outsider art sensibility into something palpably vibrant and exciting.

10 tHE storytEllEr

AGO, June 9 to August 29

It had way too many hours of video, but the AGO deserves credit for bringing in this political show put together by New York’s Independent Curators International during the G20, an event that the local art scene largely ignored. It included The Battle Of Orgreave, a re-enactment of a Thatcher-era miners’ demonstration by Britain’s Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis; Israeli Omer Fast’s video about Polish extras in Shindler’s List that sent up Holocaust docs; Cao Fei’s Chinese factory workers acting out their dreams on the shop floor; Canadian Emanuel Licha’s War Tourist series (which also appeared in Diabolique) and more.

museums this week Art gAllery of ontArio Julian SchnaMoCCA David Hoffos, Kim Adams, bel; photos: The Grange Prize; Eva Demand and Geoffrey Farmer, ñ ñThomas Hesse, Betty Goodwin and Agnes Martin, to to Dec 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. Jan 2. Laurel Woodcock, to Jan 30 (Young Gallery, free). Henry Moore, to Feb 6. Inuit Modern, to Feb 13. Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal Courts, to Apr 3 ($22, stu $12.50). $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free except Dec 24-Jan 2, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. Design exChAnge Constructions: Contemporary Norwegian Design & Craft, to Jan 23 (free). Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

gArDiner MuseuM of CerAMiC Art Breaking Boundaries, to Jan 30. Hot ñ Commodity: Chinese Blue And White Porcel-

ain, to Jan 9. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. McMiChAel CAnADiAn Art ColleCtion Painting: Jean Paul Lemieux, to Jan 2. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution Of The Group Of Seven, to Jan 30. Clarence Gagnon, to Feb 27. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

oAkville gAlleries Un-home-ly, to Feb 20.

Centennial Sq, 120 Navy; Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905-844-4402. poWer plAnt Ian Wallace and Pae White, to Jan 2. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. royAl ontArio MuseuM Institute for Contemporary Culture: El Anatsui, to Feb 27. The Warrior Emperor And China’s Terracotta Army, to Jan 2 ($31, stu/srs $28, child $19.50; Wed after 3 pm $15, child $11.50). Photos: Mark Nowaczynski, to Jan 16. Ragmala: Garland Of Melodies, to Mar 20. Fryderyk Chopin & The Romantic Piano; Position As Desired: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. textile MuseuM of CAnADA Drawing With Scissors: Molas From Kuna Yala, to Feb 13. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape; Kai Chan, to May 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. 3

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TO GO by Allison Pick 6 FAR (Anansi)

A Czech Jewish family sees the Nazi writing on the wall and tries to take action in a Holocaust tale that is part mystery, part tragedy and especially convincing in its portrayal of the impact of anti-Semitic terrorism on a young child.

THE MADONNAS 7 OF ECHO PARK by Brando Skyhorse

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Skyhorse’s story cycle about Mexican Americans trying to assimilate in Los Angeles – all of them connected in some way to a drive-by shooting – is told with cool confidence and a fresh new voice.

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OF REFUGE by Michael Helm 3 CITIES (McClelland & Stewart)

Many will identify 2010 as the year of the Giller “scandal” and the unstoppable ascent of the ebook. NOW’s 2010 Top 10 list, however, is characterized by a surprising number of firsttime novelists.

REHEARSAL by 1 THE Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)

Using three settings – a sax teacher’s studio, a girls’ academy where a student has been sleeping with the male music teacher and the drama school where kids suffer for their art – Catton meditates on desire, teenage angst and the power of creativity. The best debut since Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees.

by Emma 2 ROOM Donoghue (HarperCollins)

Donoghue gets out of her historical fiction comfort zone to craft an ingenious novel about a boy born into captivity and the mother who shares his

THE AMAZING 8 ABSORBING BOY by Rabindranath Maharaj (Knopf)

A man is overwhelmed by guilt over his personal secrets when his daughter is attacked while riding her bike in the streets of Toronto. We’re still flabbergasted at the way this beautiful book about refugees, politics and trauma was ignored by this year’s prize juries.

When Samuel’s mother dies, he’s sent from Trinidad to Toronto to live with the father he’s never known and experiences our city by riding the subway, hanging out a coffee shop and frequenting video stores. T.O’s never before looked like it does in this debut novel.

THE NEAREST EXIT 4 MAY BE BEHIND YOU by S. Bear Bergman

THE BEAUTY OF 9 HUMANITY MOVEMENT by Camilla Gibb

In a series of essays and anecdotes, Bergman reflects on the trans experience. Brilliant, funny, poignant, this is an inspirational book for trans people and the ultimate educational tool for everybody else, including your favourite know-nothing.

Gibb’s saga tracing changes in Vietnam over generations has a bit of everything: politics, a hefty portion of food and a surprisingly powerful emotional punch as the story comes to a close.

LONG SONG by 5 THE Andrea Levy

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Levy’s dynamite storytelling chops bring to life a Jamaican slave who experiences both the pain of working on a sugar plantation and the triumph of Abolition. The trick here is that she’s

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CRAZY by 10 GIRL Russell Smith Smith’s story about a resentful community college teacher and his obsession with a mysterious woman gradually unfolds as an insightful meditation on masculinity. Just in case you’re wondering, Smith is also surprised that we like it.

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SOLAR by Ian McEwan (Knopf) has an anti-hero – an insecure Nobelist who exploits the eco-movement – whom you love to hate. GHOSTED by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall (Random House) tries to do way too much in a story about a drug addict who makes money writing suicide notes, but Bishop-Stall’s writing has fantastic energy. ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter (Anansi) deserved all those short-list kudos for her beautiful tale about an intersexed child trying to cope in small-town Labrador. FAUNA by Alissa York (Random House) connects animal rescuers, the creatures they save and the people who threaten them in an exceptional literary exercise in empathy.

THE SKY IS FALLING by Caroline Adderson wastes a great idea about a book set in BC during the paranoid 80s by making its activists look like idiots. ILUSTRADO by Miguel Syjuco won the Man Asian prize – we don’t know how. It’s an impenetrable and confusing story about a young writer who returns to the Philippines to untangle the mystery of his mentor’s death. THE PREGNANT WIDOW by Martin Amis gives us 20-something lit freaks who trade sex partners while on holiday in Italy. It’s supposed to be a statement on the early 70s sexual revolution but just makes you wish all the characters would shut up already.

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Three years after modernizing the western with No Country For Old Men, the Coens go old-school with this dusty meditation on the harshness of death and the illusion of revenge, with sterling turns by Jeff Bridges, newcomer Hailee Steinfeld and the ever underrated Matt Damon.

5 Police, adjecTive Corneliu Porumboiu

A small-scale, wickedly humorous procedural about a detective who wants to cut a pot-smoking teen a break and a supervisor who uses a dictionary as ammo against such rationality. Porumboiu’s meditative, textural film on the bureaucratic nature of language is as dead serious as it is absurd.

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Christopher Nolan

The Social Network

Top 10 movies From a new take on an old-school western to a French crime picture that adds ethnicity to the mix, 2010’s best films play fast and loose with genre. Two movies based on “real” people are too wild and inventive to be called biopics, while a pair of “documentaries” resemble psychological thrillers. And then there are Christopher Nolan and Edgar Wright, whose movies reference about a half-dozen genres apiece.

1 The Social NeTwork David Fincher

The classic American tale of success, power and greed is updated for the online generation: There Will Be Blood on apps. Broad themes and contemporary resonance aside, Fincher’s masterful comedy is also the most accessibly entertaining movie this year, featuring a

talented cast that can compute Aaron Sorkin’s rapid-fire dialogue faster than your MacBook.

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Jacques Audiard

A young, illiterate French-Arab prisoner (Tahar Rahim) manoeuvres through the institution’s ever-shifting social and ethnic power structure and, in the process, learns how the world works – inside and outside the concrete walls. Audiard’s audacious epic, anchored by frighteningly natural performances by Rahim and Niels Arestrup as the prison’s Corsican gang leader, deserves its comparisons to all those other great crime films, including The Godfather.

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Nolan’s trippy heist movie, made with the carte blanche he got from The Dark Knight, is one of the most elaborate and ambitious films we’ve seen in years– a grand statement about storytelling (and a clever allegory about filmmaking) loaded with beautiful, unexpected images and a great Cillian Murphy performance that no one even noticed.

Banksy’s smart, self-effacing and hilarious satire is a scathing look at how genuine street art becomes that most cringe-inducing adjective: commercial. The film’s suspect origins might be a Borat-style ploy and we may never get to know the real Banksy, but what’s clear is his discomfort with his own mass popularity.

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A stunning documentary about outsider art, this is also a powerful portrait of a man struggling with deep personal pain. Mark Hogancamp builds an elaborate scale-model fantasy world in his backyard as therapy for a devastating brain injury, and takes amazing photos of it. Malmberg’s camera charts his self-reinvention as an artist – and several other things.

Wright brings Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels to the screen with the flashy excitement of a video game, the studied irony of the indie music scene and the cheesy thrills of a superhero pic. It’s also a heartfelt love letter to Toronto, reflecting all the hangouts and diversity (ethnic, sexual and otherwise) we know and love.

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The DIY-surgery scene may have grabbed all the attention, but Boyle’s pic about Aron Ralston’s gruelling ordeal stuck between a rock and a hard place is way more than the sum of that, er, part. Powered by inventive camera shots, bleary hallucinations and the heart-thumping sounds of A.R. Rahman’s score, it’s an exuberant, lifeaffirming wake-up call, with James Franco conquering the role’s steep demands.

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Matt Damon distinguished himself in just about every way possible in 2010 – charging righteously through Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone, playing a soulful seer in Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, narrating Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, turning in one of the savviest performances of his career as a puffedup Texas Ranger in True Grit… and just crushing it as Liz Lemon’s boyfriend Carol Burnett on 30 Rock.

Best 800-lb Gorilla The growing pains aren’t quite over, but the TIFF Bell Lightbox is worth celebrating. The cinemas are topnotch, the restaurants are hopping, and the programming is above reproach. And the cookies at O&B Canteen are really, really good.

Best Phoenix-Like Rebirth The Carlton Cinemas, refurbished and reopened by Magic Lantern Cinemas as a proper art house venue this summer, remind us what we were missing over the last decade, when Cineplex let the theatres slide into disrepair. Yes, the hallways smell different now. That’s the absence of mildew.

Best Use of 3-D TRON: Legacy, which goes for the same dimensional effect as Avatar rather than thrusting something in your face every 30 seconds.

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Best Retro Movement Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg, Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give and Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right reached back to the 1970s for their tales of unstructured, awkward emotional intimacies in the style of vintage Altman and Allen.

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Worst Brand Extension The “IMAX experience” screens that opened at AMCs all over the city this fall charge $18.50 for a slightly larger and slightly sharper digital presentation than the already expanded “ETX” room. Yes, the screen reaches the ceiling now. No, it’s not IMAX.

Best Solo Acts Ryan Reynolds spends the entirety of Buried performing to a BlackBerry, a lighter and a glow-stick. At least James Franco gets to talk to his camcorder in 127 Hours.

Best Breakout Of The Year Emma Stone, who launched herself into proper movie stardom in Easy A. We told you so.

Local Hero Bruce McDonald made three features (This Movie Is Broken, Trigger and Hard Core Logo 2) and one documentary (Music From The Big House). And when TIFF couldn’t find a print of Roadkill for a free screening in September, McDonald provided his personal copy.

Most Unjustly Dismissed Canadian Movie Vincenzo Natali’s Splice, which wrapped an insightful parenthood metaphor in a Cronenbergian tale of science gone mad.

Most Justly Dismissed Canadian Movie Atom Egoyan’s Chloe, which positioned itself as a piercing look at marriage, jealousy and sex but was really just another cheesy erotic thriller.

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1. UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Monkey ghosts make excellent dinner guests. 2. THE SOCIAL NETWORK A coder without a moral code. 3. MARWENCOL Tiny people hold great big truths. 4. A PROPHET Prison makes the man much harder. 5. INCEPTION Dark Knight carte blanche = dream project. 6. POLICE, ADJECTIVE The meaning of “is” is everything. 7. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Real? Fake? It’s still art, innit? 8. TRUE GRIT The Coen brothers rejuvenate a chestnut. 9. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Soulful, thrilling CGI. Better than Pixar. 10. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD Edgar Wright goes manga on Toronto.

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1. HOWL James Franco is poetry in motion as bad boy Allen Ginsberg. 2. MOTHER AND CHILD Annette Bening deserves her Oscar for this, not that other film. 3. THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES A knockout study of memory, passion and regret from Argentina. 4. LIFE DURING WARTIME Todd Solondz’s faux sequel to Happiness is another squirm-inducing film about love, sexual abuse and forgiveness. 5. LAST TRAIN HOME This brilliant doc follows a Chinese couple who live in a factory dormitory on their annual twoday train trip to their family home. Runners-up 6. PLEASE GIVE A couple patiently wait for their next-door La Danse, Black Swan, The King’s Speech, Marwencol, Inside neighbour to die so they can pillage her apartment. DevasJob, Client 9, How To Train Your Dragon, Rabbit Hole tatingly sly. Ten hours of my life I’ll never get back 7. TRUST Can’t believe this TIFF entry about a young teenBurlesque, For Colored Girls, Piranha 3D, The Girl Who ager who hooks up with the wrong guy online hasn’t got a Played With Fire And Then A Couple Months Later Kicked deal yet. The Hornet’s Nest 8. LIFE WITH MURDER A mother and father give new meaning to the term “unconditional love” by supporting their son, who’s been convicted of murdering his sister. 9. CYRUS Jonah Hill shows surprising range See expanded as the jealous 20-something live-in son Top 10 film lists at whose mother (Marisa Tomei) is beginning a relationship with the always ternowtoronto.com rific John C. Reilly. 10. GROWN UP MOVIE STAR Tatiana Maslany gives a breakout performance as the sexually precocious daughter of a closeted gay ex-NHLer.

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1. A PROPHET An illiterate, penniless Arab works his way up the rungs of a French prison and learns everything about life. 2. THE SOCIAL NETWORK A digital reboot of Revenge Of The Nerds becomes the moral thriller for our times. 3. TRUE GRIT The Dude, out-Duking John Wayne, and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld saddle up for the most thrilling adventure of the year. 4. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Is it art? Who cares when the doc about it is this smart and entertaining? 5. INCEPTION Takes the idea of movies evoking a dream state to a brand new level. Actually three new levels. Or four? 6. 127 HOURS Danny Boyle and James Franco rock on. 7. I AM LOVE Tilda Swinton speaks fluent Italian and has the meal of her life in this throwback to Visconti-era excess and melodrama. 8. THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT And so is the state of acting, when you’ve got fresh performances by Annette Bening and the usually mannered Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. 9. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD A graphic novel and video game mashup all filmed in familiar T.O. haunts. 10. LAST TRAIN HOME Makes our own transit/family/work issues seem like nothing.

Kristen Stewart shows a pulse in The Runaways. Noomi Rapace rocks The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Sally Hawkins lights up Made In Dagenham. Michael Douglas gets his mojo back in Solitary Man.

Screen sins SALT If you’re gonna make an actioner with Angelina Jolie that isn’t sexy or funny, can you at least make it smart? THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT A dumb take on lesbian parenting and sperm donor angst, even if Annette Bening does look great as a dyke.

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Radheyan Simonpillai’s Top 10 Movies 1. A PROPHET A beautiful, expressionistic coming of age tale… in prison. 2. THE SOCIAL NETWORK If Citizen Kane and Bill Gates had a baby, it would be Mark Zuckerberg. 3. POLICE, ADJECTIVE Sombre movie about detectives choosing the right words leaves you speechless. 4. EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Even the title of this ominous graffiti art doc deserves an award. 5. TRUE GRIT No Country 2: Another Reason To Kill Josh Brolin. 6. 127 HOURS More fun than a movie stuck in one place has any right to be. 7. THE KING’S SPEECH The prequel to The Queen, yet another movie about speeches. 8. INSIDE JOB What’s a derivative? Matt Damon will explain. 9. LIFE DURING WARTIME Why even weird pedophiles and Pee-wee Herman might be forgiven. 10. THE FIGHTER Micky Ward vs. Crazy Family and David O. Russell vs. Boxing Movie Clichés.

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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 Aguilera) tries to make it as a dancer/singer in a floundering nightclub, but first she must win over the club’s owner (Cher), piss off the drunken diva (Kristen Bell) and flirt with the sexy bartender (Cam Gigandet). When she finally shows everyone her star quality, a smouldering suit (Eric Dane) gets interested even as he’s negotiating to buy the club. The silly plot is really an excuse to stage repetitive Broadway-style numbers that are more fun to watch than listen to. Cher looks fantastic but her voice shows strain, while Aguilera does her growlsinging thing without making much of a dramatic mark. There’s lots of eye candy in the supporting cast, but Stanley Tucci (enough with the fairy godfather routine, sir) and Broadway’s Alan Cumming are wasted. 100 min. NN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (Michael Apted)

(Darren Aronofsky) finds the two youngest Pevensie siblings finds director Aronofsky returning to (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) the intensely sensual headspace of his whisked – along with their obnoxious debut film, Pi – now augmented with cousin (Will Poulter) – to the oceans of subtle digital effects and sweeping Dolby Narnia, joining King Caspian (Ben Barnes) sound – for a deliriously operatic tale of a in a quest to find some missing lords and ballerina (Natalie Portman) who starts to restore balance to his magical land. Direclose her mind when she wins the role of tor Apted sleepwalks his actors through a the Swan Queen in a star-making producseries of tonally misaligned vignettes, tion of Swan Lake at Linedging the plot ever coln Center. It’s a rich, closer to a visit to weird experience, and a Aslan’s kingdom, EXPANDED REVIEWS fine showcase for Portwhere the movie drops nowtoronto.com man’s tremendous all pretence of enterrange. Vincent Cassel, as tainment and turns into her possibly predatory Walden Media’s creepiest proselytization choreographer, is pretty great himself, yet. 112 min. NN (NW) and Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey con401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carltribute vivid supporting turns. If you think ton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colithe whole affair is a little over the top, seum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park that’s kind of the point. Indeed, it’s the 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres only way to make a movie this ambitious at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queenand impassioned. 110 min. NNNN (NW) sway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, ScotiaEglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Ken-

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(Alex Gibney) could have been another story about a good guy pol who had a little sex and lost everything, but director Gibney (Oscar winner for Taxi To The Dark Side) presents Spitzer as someone who was hounded by his enemies but also a deeply flawed person. Too bad we don’t hear a word from Spitzer’s wife, but this pic is super-smart nonetheless. 117 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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Coffin) stars Steve Carell as the voice of a sneering schemer who adopts three girls as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the moon. That subplot provides the movie with its most engaging and entertaining moments; the other stuff, with Gru’s tube-shaped minions jumping around at us in 3-D, is a lot less interesting. 95 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

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DEVIL (Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle)

is a modest supernatural thriller that uses a brisk pace and fluid editing to provide mild entertainment, but that can’t disguise the thinness of its simple story: five strangers are trapped in an office tower elevator, one of whom is the Devil in disguise, here to kill sinners for fun. 80 min. NN (AD) Interchange 30

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DUE DATE (Todd Phillips) is basically just

an update of Planes, Trains & Automobiles, with control freak Robert Downey Jr. and clueless chaos-bringer Zach Galifianakis racing from Atlanta to L.A. Downey gives a great performance, but the emotional depth winds up pushing against the broader nature of the increasingly cartoonish plot. 95 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus

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(Will Gluck) is a chipper riff on The Scarlet Letter, in which a high school senior (Emma Stone) is branded a slut after a white lie about losing her virginity goes viral. Gluck’s film occupies the same clear-headed space as 10 Things I Hate About You and Mean Girls. It’s a movie you can respect in the morning. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

FAIR GAME (Doug Liman) dramatizes the

story of the Bush administration’s outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for her husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), poking holes in the case for invading Iraq. No matter how hard Liman tries to invest the proceedings with jittery energy, Fair Game seems like old news. 108 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

FASTER (George Tillman Jr.) is a straight-up revenge thriller starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a California ex-con on a mission of violent retribution, with Billy Bob Thornton and Carla Gugino as the homicide detectives on his trail and Oliver Jackson-Cohen as a high-powered assassin hired to stop him before he can finish the job. It’s a grim, lean piece of work that feels like it crawled out of a 1978 double feature. And that’s a good thing. 98 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30 THE FIGHTER (David O. Russell) is the story

BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian, a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Montreal television producer (Paul Giamatti). It’s serviceable,

though it sacrifices the complexity of Richler’s novel (and any subtlety in Giamatti’s performance) in order to cram as many characters and incidents as possible into its two-plus hours. 132 min. NNN (NW) Opens Dec 24 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity.

of working-class Massachusetts boxer Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg), who toils in the shadow of his older brother Dicky (Christian Bale), a former fighter who’s since spiralled into crack addiction. Obviously, Micky will have to put some space himself and between his monstrous family if he’s ever going to make anything of himself – and a romance with a comely barmaid (Amy Adams) seems to offer him the confidence he needs to do that. It’s is an underdog story that feels just like Rocky, only in this version Adrian has an continued on page 65 œ

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outgoing personality and Paulie is on the pipe. There are no surprises or twists; everything plays out exactly as you expect it will. It’s comfort food, but it’s awfully bland. 115 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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I, DON GIOVANNI (Carlos Saura) unsuccessfully attempts to do for opera librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte what Milos Forman’s Amadeus did for Mozart, Da Ponte’s frequent collaborator. The Veniceborn Da Ponte (Lorenzo Balducci) starts life as a priest, poet and, like his good pal Casanova, notorious ladies’ man. After being exiled from Venice for his verses, he moves to Vienna, where he and Mozart THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S agree to collaborate on a new Don GioNEST (Daniel Alfredson) adapts the third vanni. Then the film becomes an exand final book in Stieg Larsson’s besttended VH1: Behind The Opera special. selling trilogy. It’s basically a dreary court The earnest, dutiful script insists that Da procedural in which LisPonte is haunted by his beth Salander (Noomi rakish ways, but director Rapace) stands trial for Saura never shows him EXPANDED REVIEWS her father’s murder. in action. The repetition nowtoronto.com See it to complete the of autobiographical tidstory, but know that bit followed by staged the film doesn’t cut it as a stand-alone. opera scene soon becomes formulaic. Subtitled. 146 min. NN (SGC) There is some good singing, however, and Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt richly ornate costumes. Saura also plays Pleasant with convention by using elegant painted backdrops for some exterior shots and GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (Rob Letterman) upvery modern video projections at one clidates the classic Jonathan Swift satire mactic moment. But that’s not enough to about a man (Jack Black) who travels to save this Don Giovanni from the hell of different lands. Screened after press time mediocrity. Subtitled. 127 min. NN (GS) – see review December 24 at nowtoronto. TIFF Bell Lightbox com/movies. 85 min. NNN (RS) Opens Dec 25 at 401 & Morningside, INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan) is a Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton complex thriller/heist flick with LeoTown Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande nardo DiCaprio as the leader of an indusYonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, trial-espionage team who extract valuSilverCity Yorkdale. able information by inserting themselves into dreams. Tremendous, full-throttle HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY filmmaking. 146 min. NNNNN (NW) HALLOWS – PART 1 (David Yates) is Interchange 30 nearly two and a half hours long, doesn’t

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INSIDE JOB (Charles Ferguson) takes a very complex subject – the story of the global economic collapse triggered by the 2008 failure of several American financial institutions – and explains it in terms so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, you were probably staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant, Regent Theatre

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JACKASS 3D (Jeff Tremaine) is exactly like the two previous features and TV series, except for the 3-D, which is so feeble you’ll barely notice it. Johnny Knoxville and cohorts pee, puke, poop, fart, get hit and take a lot of falls in a non-stop string of simple gags and stunts. They laugh like loons when someone else gets nailed and look genuinely miserable when it’s their turn. The relentless repetition quickly generates mind-numbing boredom. 90 min. N (AD) Interchange 30

headed, vaguely supernatural drama about three people (Cécile De France, Matt Damon and Frankie McLaren) whose lives are shadowed by death. Eastwood’s made lazy films before – most recently Changeling and Invictus – but the subject matter of Hereafter sets certain expectations that his indifferent approach can’t even begin to satisfy. Some subtitles. 123 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

HOW DO YOU KNOW (James L. Brooks) follows the fortunes of two very nice young people as they cope with major life changes: world-class softball player Reese Witherspoon is facing the end of her career at the age of 31, while squeaky-clean corporate suit Paul Rudd has just learned he’s the target of a federal investigation. It’s presented as a fluffy romantic comedy, with Hans Zimmer’s woodwindy score urging us to enjoy ourselves, but Witherspoon and Rudd clearly aren’t acting in a rom-com. They’re trying to play real people with real problems, and for their efforts they’ve been locked in an indifferently shot, awkwardly paced Very Special Episode of Friends. 116 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre,

THE KING’S SPEECH (Tom Hooper) turns the relationship between the stammering prince who would become George VI (Colin Firth) and his expat Australian speech trainer (Geoffrey Rush) into a charming little period piece. The production assembles the tried-andtested Oscar-baiting elements of big stars, crippling personal issues and regal pomp, as previously seen in Mrs. Brown and The Queen – with the added bonus of a war with Hitler looming in the background. But director Hooper uses inventive staging and surprising visual choices to goose the straightforward material, much as he did in last year’s The Damned United. He also brings out the best in Firth, Rush and co-star Helena Bonham Carter. 118 min. NNNN (NW)

KINGS OF PASTRY (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker) follows 16 pâtissiers as they vie for the coveted Meilleur Ouvrier, the industry’s highest honour, in this luscious co-production by two venerated documentarians. Problem is, it’s almost too much of a confection. Hegedus (The War Room) and Pennebaker (Don’t Look Back) fail to ratchet up the tension, and we’re not totally invested in any of the pastry chefs. You want to see the meringue crack or the cookie crumble, but that doesn’t happen often here often enough. And in Kings Of Pastry, the judges don’t castigate the competitors à la Gordon Ramsay. They even step in occasionally to encourage them. Iron Chef pastry-style this isn’t. But that’s kind of cool, too. Some subtitles. 84 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE (Zack Snyder) turns Kathryn Lasky’s fantasy novels into an intense, kinetic and slightly insane action movie populated entirely by photo-realistic owls who don helmets and battle gloves. It’s technically dazzling, but the story races from one incident to the next with such speed that the characters aren’t the only ones left breathless. 94 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

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adapts Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish chiller Let The Right One In, transferring the action to New Mexico. A bullied teen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and an enigmatic neighbour (Chloë Grace Moretz) bond as a series of murders sweep their apartment complex. Writer/director Reeves honours Alfredson’s original from the very first frames. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (Greg Berlanti) stars Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel as coguardians of the orphaned baby of their deceased best friends. The idea that parents would leave their child with such an irresponsible pairing and not tell them is the movie’s first stupid plot point, and it continues in poor taste from there. 115 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30

LITTLE FOCKERS (Paul Weitz) arrives six years after Meet The Fockers for more predictable in-law-from-hell hijinks. Now raising five-year-old twins with his wife Pam (Teri Polo), Gaylord “Greg” Focker (Ben Stiller) once again raises the suspicions of Pam’s dad, retired CIA agent Jack (Robert De Niro), who’s come for the twins’ birthday party. Various storylines about an erectile dysfunction pill, a sexy drug rep (Jessica Alba) and Pam’s ex (Owen Wilson) clumsily intersect, creating some funny moments. The actors are fine enough – Stiller makes a great straight man, and Wilson takes his airhead act to a blissful new level – but the script is a mess. The writers set up situations that never pay off, including a preschool run by a hyperactive Laura Dern and a bad contractor situation that reunites De Niro with his Taxi Driver/Mean Streets co-star Harvey Keitel. Director Weitz doesn’t know what to do with them, which is simply Focked up. 98 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (Edward Zwick)

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button almost too hard. And the men, except for Rita’s husband and union brother Bob Hoskins, are all pretty icky. But there’s some great writing, and the period detail is exquisite. 113 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30

Harrison Ford as an aging newshound forced to take a gig co-hosting a struggling New York morning show, produced by Rachel McAdams, with Diane Keaton as a vain has-been. Pleasant enough fluff, but nothing more. 106 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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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. Utterly predictable. 133 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

kinson’s patient (Anne Hathaway). But it just tries so damn hard to win you over that it’s exhausting. 113 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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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) Interchange 30 RABBIT HOLE (John Cameron

Mitchell) tracks bereaved parents Becca and Howie in a moving meditation on grief. Adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his play, the script expertly leaks information, slowing cluing us in to key details – why the dog is tied up at Becca’s mom’s, the identity of the teen Becca is seemingly stalking – so that we wind up getting deep insight as well as the experience of tragedy. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart are sensational as adults dealing with their pain in opposite ways – she guarded, purging the house of reminders of her son, he obsessed with old family videos, working to preserve his memories. And Dianne Wiest as Becca’s mother is, as always, a revelation. Oscar could call on all

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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) Interchange 30 SAW 3D (Kevin Greutert) is just like the six previous Saws, except it’s in nothingspecial 3-D. Characters try to escape from elaborate death traps set by either a secret accomplice of dead serial killer John Kramer (Tobin Bell) or crooked cop Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). 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, Regent Theatre

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The Social NeTwork (David Fincher) 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. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

SToNe (John Curran) stars Robert De Niro

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

TaNgled (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 he’s a horse. Pity they couldn’t figure out a way to give him a song. 101 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

The TempeST (Julie Taymor) proves that

Taymor may be a fountain of visual ideas, but she should stay away from CGI. The effects in her version of the Bard’s classic are laughable, which detracts from her evocative use of the Hawaiian landscapes. Taymor adapts the play with a gender bend, changing hero Prospero to Prospera (Helen Mirren, who is a marvel), but this stripped-down version takes a dip in the middle when her character all but disappears. Russell Brand is actually very cool as the comical Trinculo, easily holding his own alongside Alfred Molina as the drunken Stephano. As Calaban, Djimon Hounsou has a hard time grappling with the text, but beautiful Ben Whishaw (Bright Star) rocks as Ariel. I’ve upped the rating for the poetry. That guy Shakespeare could write. 109 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

The TouriST (Florian von Donnersmarck) finds the Oscar-winning director of The Lives Of Others going Hollywood in the worst possible way – by refusing to acknowledge he’s making a generic studio picture that feels 40 years past its sell-by date. Angelina Jolie plays a mysterious Englishwoman who ensnares an unassuming American (Johnny Depp) in an elaborate scheme to distract Scotland Yard and a vengeful mobster (Steven Berkoff). Jolie references Hepburn in her outfits (and Sophia Loren in her hairstyles), while Depp gets to wear a series of randomly assembled designer pieces, apparently having brought his own stylist to the set. But the two have no chemistry. They somehow negate one another in the frame, leaving us stuck with paper-thin characters and a movie that has no idea where it’s going or how to get there in an entertaining fashion. James Newton Howard’s score keeps insisting we must be having a grand old time at the cinema, but it’s a losing battle. 103 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park

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The TowN (Ben Affleck) finds Affleck directing himself as the brains behind a crew of Boston bank robbers who’s caught between the life and the heat when he falls for a hostage (Rebecca Hall) from his last job. Affleck struggles to reconcile his own dramatic interests with the demands of the heist genre. The result is an impeccably crafted but tonally wobbly studio picture that’s at war with itself. 125 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30 TroN: legacy (Joseph Kosinski) is a greatlooking dud. The visual architecture is breathtaking: sweeping, neon-lit digital vistas of the grid; cool, sexy interiors that look like an Apple commercial directed by Kubrick. It’s an immersive and sensory experience in which even the amplified sound design featuring Daft Punk’s psychedelic score feels like it’s been given a 3-D boost. Unfortunately, the characters and plot feel very analog. Jeff Bridges reprises his role as aging hacker Kevin Flynn, who’s reunited with roguish son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) after being imprisoned in a video game by his digital doppelgänger CLU (Bridges rendered 20 years younger). When these characters aren’t involved in spectacular light cycle chases or flinging those shiny frisbees around, they’re delivering the kind of stilted dialogue that would be at home in the Star Wars prequels… or the original TRON. 125 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale True griT (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) is

a lot of things, but quaint isn’t one of them. It’s mean as a snake, and has no illusions about the Glorious West. There’s a grave seriousness at the movie’s heart – it’s a story about the harshness of death, and the illusory promise of revenge and redemption. In addition to stunning newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, who plays the teenage would-be avenger Mattie Ross, and Matt Damon, who turns up as a blowhard Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf, smaller roles are filled out thoughtfully and with a nice feel for period. And then there’s Jeff Bridges, the artist formerly known as The Dude, who once again takes a genre character and invests it with such humanity and depth that you realize you’ve underestimated the man all over again. If Bridges does end up snatching another Oscar away from Colin Firth this year, no one could possibly hold it against him. 109 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

uNSToppable (Tony Scott) sends Denzel Washington and Chris Pine after a runaway train speeding out of control toward an elevated 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. 98 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Yonge & Dundas 24 waSTe laNd (Lucy Walker, Karen

Harley, João Jardim) tracks Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, who specializes in photos tricked out with found objects. He takes his practice to

new heights when he goes to the world’s biggest landfill to engage garbage pickers in his process. The workers – must say, they’re exceptionally beautiful to look at – ply their trade with relish while maintaining their dignity. By photographing them and inviting them to incorporate the materials they gather for recycling into the work itself, he creates astonishing pieces and changes his subjects’ sense of themselves. Except that they all have to return to work in the landfill. Still, it’s a moving testimony to the power of art. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

yogi bear (Eric Brevig) won’t be spawn-

ing any new interest in the 50-year-old cartoon bear who parts campers from their “pic-a-nic” baskets. The new liveaction movie featuring CGI renditions of Yogi and Boo Boo (voiced by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake) has sly winks and tongue-in-check humour that may satisfy adults but are bound to go over a fiveyear-old’s head. Yogi and Boo Boo join forces with their old bud Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh) to save Jellystone Park from a mayor hell bent on selling its trees. While there’s fun in a few choice wisecracks and pic-a-nic basket heists, Yogi Bear’s attempt to be smarter than your average family film fails to satisfy its target audience. 83 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, 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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BURLESQUE (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 Fri 4:15 SatWed 4:15, 9:10 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Fri 1:25, 3:55, 6:45 Sat 3:55, 6:45, 9:05 Sun-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:05 CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 1:45, 7:05 Sat 7:05 FAIR GAME (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:05, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 4:05 SatWed 4:05, 9:30 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Fri 1:20, 6:40 Sat 6:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Fri 1:15, 4:00, 6:50 Sat 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 6:55, 9:20 Fri 1:30, 6:55 Sat 6:55 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:20, 7:20 Sat 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:10 Sat 4:30, 7:10, 9:25 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:25 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 Fri 1:55, 4:10, 7:00 Sat 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 YOGI BEAR (G) Thu 2:00, 3:50, 5:35, 7:25, 9:30 Fri 1:40, 3:35, 5:20, 7:15 Sat 3:35, 5:20, 7:15, 9:00 Sun-Wed 1:40, 3:35, 5:20, 7:15, 9:00 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:30, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 Fri 4:25 Sat-Wed 4:25, 9:35

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12:45, 3:45, 6:25, 9:05 RABBIT HOLE (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:15, 9:05 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:15 4:05 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 10:30, 11:15, 12:05, 1:00, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15, 11:00 BURLESQUE (PG) Thu 11:05, 2:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 10:50, 11:25, 2:15, 2:45, 5:30, 5:55, 8:45, 9:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu 10:35, 11:00, 12:15, 1:15, 1:55, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:10, 10:10, 11:00 IF YOU ARE THE ONE 2 Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 10:30, 11:15, 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 10:55, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 TANGLED (PG) Thu 10:35, 1:15, 3:45, 6:10, 8:40 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 11:20, 1:50, 4:15, 7:05, 9:25 TEES MAAR KHAN Thu 12:25, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 10:45, 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:15 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 YOGI BEAR (G) Thu 10:30, 11:00, 12:45, 1:30, 3:00, 5:15, 6:50, 7:20, 9:05, 9:45 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu 11:30, 12:15, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:30

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BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 Sat 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 BURLESQUE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 3:50, 6:40 Sat 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 FAIR GAME (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 6:50 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Sat 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon 1:30, 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 Sat 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:30 Sat 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 1:50, 4:50, 7:40 Sat 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 MEGAMIND (PG) Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 Sat 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50 Sat 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35

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9:15 Fri 11:45, 3:15, 6:20 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu, Sat-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 12:20, 3:30, 7:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Fri 12:30, 3:40, 7:20 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 12:00, 3:00, 6:45 Sat-Wed 12:00, 3:00, 6:40, 9:45 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 1:15, 4:00, 6:50 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Fri 2:00, 5:00, 7:45 TRON: LEGACY (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri 12:40, 3:50, 7:10 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 4:45, 7:30 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu, Sat-Wed 11:30, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 11:30, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 1:00, 3:50, 6:50 Sat 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 Fri 1:15, 3:55, 6:55 Sat 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 12:50, 4:05, 6:45 Sat 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 Fri 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15 Sat 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 1:25, 4:00, 7:10 Sat 4:00, 7:10, 9:25 TRON: LEGACY (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 Sat 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 Fri 1:20, 4:15, 7:20 Sat 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15 Fri 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:05 Sat 4:45, 7:05, 9:15

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 Sat 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 1:15, 4:00, 6:50 Sat 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Fri 1:40, 4:40, 7:30 Sat 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 TANGLED (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 3:40, 6:40 Sat 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 TRON: LEGACY (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:00 Sat 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 YOGI BEAR (G) Thu 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 8:45 Fri 1:50, 4:10, 6:30 Sat 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50

North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 1:05 3:45 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:10 4:20 7:50 10:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10:55 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:10 127 HOURS (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu 1:40 2:50 4:30 5:30 7:15 8:10 9:40 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:15, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:15 3:50 6:40 7:30 9:25 10:15 FriWed 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20

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BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Fri 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50 Sat-Wed 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 9:30, 10:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20 Fri 12:40, 1:25, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20 Sat-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3D Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:10 Sat-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 12:20, 3:20, 6:45 Sat-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30 Sat-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:25 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:40, 9:15 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 6:40 Sat-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 12:10, 3:00, 6:10 Sat-Wed 12:10, 3:00, 6:10, 8:30

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9:30 Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 The FighTer (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 Sat-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 gulliver’s Travels 3D Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 harry PoTTer anD The DeaThly hallows: ParT 1 (PG) Thu-Fri 12:50, 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Wed 9:40 how Do you Know (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 12:45, 3:40, 6:45 Sat-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 liTTle FocKers (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 TangleD (PG) Sat-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 TangleD 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:00 Fri 12:55, 3:45, 6:40 The TourisT (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 1:30, 4:40, 7:40 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Tron: legacy (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri 12:40, 3:50, 7:10 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 True griT (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 yogi Bear 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 3:20, 6:20 Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10

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The chronicles oF narnia: The voyage oF The Dawn TreaDer 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:20 Sat 3:15, 6:20, 9:00 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:30, 9:00 The FighTer (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 Sat 4:15, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:40, 10:20 gulliver’s Travels Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 harry PoTTer anD The DeaThly hallows: ParT 1 (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:40 Fri 12:00, 3:10, 6:30 SatWed 6:10, 9:40 how Do you Know (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 12:50, 4:10, 6:55 Sat 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 liTTle FocKers (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 12:40, 3:20, 6:45 Sat 3:00, 6:45, 9:20 TangleD (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:10 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 The TourisT (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:00, 6:00, 8:45 Fri 12:20, 3:00, 6:00 Sat 2:45, 6:00, 8:45 Tron: legacy (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Sat 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 True griT (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:20 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30 yogi Bear (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:10, 8:30 Fri 1:15, 3:45, 6:10 Sat 3:30 Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:45 yogi Bear 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 2:15, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 12:10, 2:15, 5:00, 7:30 Sat 2:15, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Sun-Wed 12:00, 2:15, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30

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BlacK swan (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 The chronicles oF narnia: The voyage oF The Dawn TreaDer 3D (PG) Thu 1:10 4:20 7:30 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 The chronicles oF narnia: The voyage oF The Dawn TreaDer (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 The FighTer (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 gulliver’s Travels 3D Sat-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 harry PoTTer anD The DeaThly hallows: ParT 1 (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 how Do you Know (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:25, 6:15, 9:45 The King’s sPeech (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:25, 9:20 FriWed 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 liTTle FocKers (PG) Thu 12:50 1:40 3:40 4:40 6:20 7:20 9:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 10:00 love & oTher Drugs (14A) Fri-Wed 9:00 TangleD (PG) Sat-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 TangleD 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 4:00,

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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Thu 23 – A Christmas Carol (1951) D: Brian

“DIE-IN” Protestors played dead and stopped traffic at Yonge-Dundas to protest the federal government’s AIDS medication funding plan. 1:43 SCHOOL BOARD TRIBUTE The Toronto School Board

pays tribute to NOW Magazine founder and one-time trustee, Lilein Schaeffer. 6:45

Desmond-Hurst. 4:30 pm. A Christmas Story (1983) D: Bob Clark. 7 pm. It’s A Wonderful Life (1947) D: Frank Capra. 9 pm. Fri 24-saT 25 – Closed. sun 26 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath. 2:15 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 4:15 pm. RED (2010) D: Robert Schwentke. 7 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 9:25 pm. Mon 27 – Megamind. 2:15 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 4:15 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. Fair Game (2010) D: Doug Liman. 9:30 pm. Tue 28 – The Social Network. 4:15 pm. Fair Game. 7 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 9:15 pm. Wed 29 – Fair Game. 4:30 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 7 pm. The Social Network. 9:35 pm.

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Thu 23 – Playtime (1967) D: Jacques Tati. Noon & 3 pm. Charles Chaplin X 2: ñ Modern Times (1936), and Pay Day (1922).

venerable 90s act in acoustic form at Sonic Boom Records. 4:16 See the anti-pinko mayor and his friend Don Cherry at the mayoral inauguration. 5:09 ALOE BLACC A track by track breakdown of the L.A.-bred neosoul crooner’s 2010 album. 6:52 NOW TALKS THE 70’s

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12:15 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) D: Tim Burton. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) D: Stanley Kubrick. 6 & 9:15 pm. Fri 24 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. Charles Chaplin X 2: The Circus (1928), and A Dog’s Life (1918). 12:15 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. saT 25 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. Charles Chaplin X 3: The Pilgrim (1923), Shoulder Arms (1918), and The Idle Class (1921). 12:15 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15

pm. Modern Times, and Pay Day. 6:30 pm. sun 26 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. Charles Chaplin X 2: The Circus, and A Dog’s Life. 12:15 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. A King In New York (1957). 3 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. Mon 27 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. City Lights (1931) D: Charles Chaplin. 12:15 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. Tue 28 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. The Great Dictator (1940) D: Charles Chaplin. 6:30 pm. Charles Chaplin X 2: The Circus, and A Dog’s Life. 6:30 pm. Wed 29 – Playtime. Noon & 3 pm. The Nightmare Before Christmas. 1:15 & 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. City Lights. 6:30 pm.

Thu 23-Fri 24 and Mon 27-Wed 29– Holiday programming. Continuous screenings Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

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Thu 23-Wed 29 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. Holiday hours: Dec 24 noon to 5 pm, closed Dec 25 & 26, Dec 27 to 29, 11 am to 6 pm. Mon 27-Wed 29 – Winter Wonderland hour-long program of family-friendly, animated holiday films. 2 to 3 pm. Child $2, or free with animation workshop registration.

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Thu 23 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. Fri 24 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. saT 25 – Closed. sun 26-Wed 29 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 & 5 pm.

(1975) D: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. 4:30 pm. Free. Nowhere Boy (2010) D: Sam TaylorWood. 7 pm. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. 9:15 pm. Mon 27 – Monty Python And The Holy Grail. 7 pm. Free. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. 9 pm. Tue 28-Wed 29 – Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. 7 pm. Nowhere Boy. 9 pm.

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bus. 2 pm. Free. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (2009) D: Daniel Alfredson. 6:45 pm. Conviction (2010) D: Tony Goldwyn. 9:30 pm. Fri 24 -saT 25– Closed. sun 26 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath. 2 pm. Due Date (2010) D: Todd Phillips. 4:15 & 9:20 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 7 pm. Mon 27-Tue 28 – Megamind. 2 pm. Due Date. 4:15 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest. 9:20 pm. Wed 29 – Megamind. 2 pm. The Social Network. 4:15 & 9 pm. Due Date. 7 pm.

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Thu 23 – Horton Hears A Who (2008)

D: Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino. 2 pm. The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) D: Frank Oz. 4 pm. The Town (2010) D: Ben

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Affleck. 7 pm. Conviction (2010) D: Tony Goldwyn. 9:30 pm. Fri 24-saT 25 – Closed. sun 26 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath. 2 pm. Secretariat (2010) D: Randall Wallace. 4 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 7 pm. Burlesque (2010) D: Steve Antin. 9:25 pm. Mon 27 – Megamind. 2 pm. Secretariat. 4 pm. Burlesque. 7 pm. The Social Network. 9:25 pm. Tue 28 – Secretariat. 2 pm. Megamind. 4:30 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. Burlesque. 9:25 pm. Wed 29 – Megamind. 2 pm. Secretariat. 4 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. Burlesque. 9:25 pm.

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Thu 23 – Bargain Basement VHS Vault, Christmas edition. 7 pm. Animated TV Christmas specials including The Grinch (1966) D: Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, and others. 9 pm. Fri 24-saT 25 – Closed. sun 26-Wed 29 – Check website for schedule.

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The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 11 am to 7 pm. Closed Dec 25. 301 Front W. 416-868-6937, cntower.ca. Thu 23-Wed 29 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Closing at 2 pm Dec 24, closed Dec 25. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. 3

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MOM, audible but not quite loud enough for your mother to hear. of a little alcohol (as I’m not sure I’d have the Because you’re not going to confront her about courage to write to you about this sober). I’ve this affair or any other affair that you might ungot an awkward (understatement) situation. cover between now and your father’s death, My mother left her email logged in on my comand you’re not going to tell your mom you puter, and I decided to be an asshole and snoop snooped, and you and your brother are going to out of boredom. I honestly wasn’t expecting go right on defending your mother to your fathanything, but I found a few intimate emails beer, and you’re going to show a little respect – a tween her and a strange man that pretty much little retroactive respect – for your mother’s priconfirmed that she was cheating on my dad. vacy by pretending that you don’t know what My parents have been married for almost three you do know. decades, and it’s kind of an understatement to Is that clear? say he’s an antisocial psycho. He restricted her Your mom sounds like a lovely woman, MOM, from so many things during their marriage – and you and your brother should be happy that partly for religious/cultural reasons – and honshe managed to find a little solace, a little love estly did not appreciate what he had. He’s been and tenderness, in the arms of a man who isn’t a physical wreck for most of their marriage and a raving asshole. She deserves that, doesn’t she? has no personality to compensate. (I could go As for the CPOS label, that gets slapped only on on about how abusive and fucked-up his perpeople who cheat without cause, MOM, and it sonality was during my childhood, but that’s a sure sounds like your mom had cause. Which whole other issue.) My mother, on the other means she’s not a cheating piece of shit. She’s hand, is one of the nicest and most caring cheating on a piece of shit. people you could ever meet. She’s also “hot” – a lot of my friends (male and female) have Yes, yes, maybe your mom should’ve divorced pointed that out to me, as awkward as that is. your father, or had him murdered, but for reasons that will only ever be known to her, MOM, Okay: Dad’s an abusive asshole and borderline she decided that keeping her family intact – psycho, and Mom’s a beautiful woman with a maybe for cultural reasons, maybe for her boys lot of opportunities and social skills. The only – was more important than remaining faithful reason she didn’t leave him was to keep the to an antisocial psycho. It’s easy to say that family together and for those same stupid culcheating is always wrong and to call everyone tural reasons. But it’s hard knowing my mom is who cheats a POS, but sometimes an affair is a CPOS. It’s killing my older brother, who is the least worst option. close to her, and it’s making him really depressed. He feels betrayed, because for years As for your brother’s feelings of betrayal: Maybe he’s defended her against my father when out he our your dad was right and your mom was cheating Check accuses her of cheating and calls her a whore. on him throughout their marriage and his ti416.364.3444 nowtoronto.com/classifieds Real Estate & Rentals So what I want advice on is how the hell to conrades were justified and your brother was a fool front her about it. I know I snooped in her to defend your mother. Or maybe your mom email, and I know that was wrong. So what the decided, after being accused of cheating again hell to say? and again, and after being called a whore again Mother Obliterated Monogamy and again, that if she was going to be accused, Here’s what you say to your mother: “Good for indicted and tried for that particular crime, she you, Mom.” might as well have the pleasure of committing But you’re going to say it under your breath, it. Encourage your brother to give your mother

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balls every year when her kids were young. Once her kids were grown, Ma Savage shipped tins of these cookies to us if we couldn’t make it home for Christmas. Now I make them in December and ship tins off to my siblings on her behalf. It’s a great recipe for folks with little kids: There’s a step where you roll the dough into balls, a perfect job for little (freshly washed) hands. I made some earlier this month, had a little sob (I’m still missing my mom), and got some tins off to my sibs. I’m happy to share my mom’s recipe with you, Jason, and with Savage Love readers. Ma Savage’s Christmas Snowballs 2 cups flour 1/8 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/4 cup butter 2/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups pecans confectioners’ sugar Sift flour, salt, and cocoa together. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy, and add vanilla. Gradually beat dry ingredients into butter and sugar. Blend in pecans. Form dough into a loaf, wrap it up, put in fridge overnight. Cut loaf into inch-thick slices, cut slices into inch-square cubes, roll cubes into balls about one inch in diameter. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 20 minutes maximum. Transfer cookies off sheets right away and allow to cool completely. Put cookies in tub or tin, sift confectioners’ sugar over them, put lid on, turn tin or tub over a few times to coat cookies with confectioners’ sugar. Enjoy my mom’s cookies and have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, everyone.

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