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Who’s afraid of the TTC?

for a couple of days last week i gave some thought to giving up my car, until I found out how much transit costs: $3 for a ride and $121 for a monthly Metropass.

Toronto’s transit is probably the most expensive in North America. It is dirty and overcrowded, and TTC employees have the manners of street gangsters.

John Russell Toronto

Gushing over geothermal

regarding renewables versus Nukes (NOW, December 23-29).

I agree with letter-writer Rob Perri that nuclear is cheaper than intermittent green options. But there is a green option that is continuous and cheaper than nuclear: geothermal, or more specifically Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS).

Nuclear power is an elegantly simple concept: dig “hot” rocks out of the ground, use them to boil water (to produce steam to run turbines to produce electricity) and then bury them again.

In EGS, drills bore deep into the earth, where the temperature from natural radioactivity is very high, and extract the hot steam to

produce electricity, leaving the radioactive materials safely underground.

The oil and gas industry has developed the deep drilling technology that makes it practical to produce EGS power almost anywhere.

We in Ontario don’t have the advantage of living in a volcanic area, so we’d have to drill deeper, which would cost more, but we’d still be able to build modular geothermal plants for less than half of new nuclear.

Bill Livingstone Etobicoke

The PM reimagines Lennon

the pm performed john lennon’s Imagine at a recent holiday party (NOW, December 16-22), among other rock classics, I assume as a tribute to the man who was assassinated in 1980.

Also recently, the PM’s former mentor, Tom Flanagan, stated on national TV that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be assassinated.

Flanagan is clearly a wack job at large.

The PM did his best to distance himself from the comment. But I wonder if the PM questions the essence of Flanagan’s teachings, being a former student?

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More citizen presence in City Hall council chamber and committee rooms Less reliance on online networking Progressive councillors need to see a sea of supporters at municipal meetings, and the new rightwing regime needs to see the folks they’re stinging, in the flesh. Less Facebook, more real face time. Tweet away, but nothing beats showing up.

More Alex Hundert, Leah Henderson, Amanda Hiscox and Peter Hopperton Less Bill Blair More economic stimulus Less flaky fiscal restraint

As federal budget discussions rev up, only idiots and panderers to the rich really think slaying the deficit should be top of mind at a time when there’s 7.6 per cent unemployment nationally, 8.5 in the Toronto area. Fiscal policy should favour the majority, not fans of withering away government.

We’re really looking forward to a time when the gag orders go away and we can see what evidence the Crown has against the G20 “co-conspirators” who were arrested before the Saturday (June 26) demo and trashing. This is where we get to see the role of undercover cops in the G20 ops, and how infiltration and harassment work.

Meanwhile, police Chief Blair should just cease and desist his badly designed media interventions, his disses of the Special Investigations Unit and his feeble attempts to spin away the kettling incident.

More Special Investigations Unit’s Ian Scott Less Mike McCormack, head of the police union

Scott rightly reopened the case of G20 policing victim Adam Nobody after more citizen video surfaced and has courageously laid charges against baton-wielding officer Babak Andalib-Goortani. No thanks, though, to 12 witness officers who, obviously feeling the protection of their bulldog union, couldn’t identify, ahem, themselves or anyone else. All hail to the one lone officer who told the truth.

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More Elle Flanders, filmmaker and Mideast activist Less Martin Gladstone, sometime candidate and home videoist

Flanders was on the front lines fighting to restore Pride Toronto’s backbone in the face of pressure to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from the parade. She also had to withstand the slurs in Gladstone’s Reclaiming Our Pride video, which went viral among city councillors and attempted to cast QaIA as anti-Semites. Gladstone’s knack for becoming a bit player in larger stories is impressive. He turned up again this year when he latched onto the controversial solesource Tuggs deal in the Beach and ran for council until stepping down to back Mary-Margaret McMahon.

More Rachel Maddow Less Jon Stewart

More pedestrian safety Less speed This is a city that aspires to walkability but has 150 traffic collisions daily.

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More talk about maintaining decent wages in the public sector Less Fordist chatter about “other ways of delivering services”

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More Sarah Doucette Less Giorgio Mammoliti

Newby Ward 13 councillor Doucette stood her ground in her maiden vote and stuck with five other council progressives opposed to killing the revenueboosting vehicle registration tax. Meanwhile, right-wing maverick and mayoral dropout Mammoliti’s taken the wrong message from the Ford win and is nursing delusions of political grandeur.

Council watch: a look ahead at 2011 The first big test: Transit City. Will Ford put the agreed-upon plan to a vote?

He says there’s no need to, but the province may insist on it, if only to make it clear that Ford’s intention to kill the plan is also the political will of council. Ford’s election win was many things, but it wasn’t a referendum on Transit City. The idea that he can unilaterally declare it dead and actually get a serious hearing from the province borders on the insane. Transit City is, after all, a provincially funded project.

What kind of opposition can the progressives on council muster to save it? Lose this one and it’s pretty much over for the forces of good. My guess is that Ford will get his Scarborough subway loop, and Transit City advocates will get the Eglinton Crosstown light rail project, which is mostly underground and fits Ford’s approach to public transit: bury it where it won’t mess with cars on surface routes.

The province may have another political calculus in mind on Eglinton. The proposed Crosstown line cuts right through a handful of ridings in which the Libs may be vulnerable to the Tories in next fall’s provincial election. That might mean we’ll be seeing a subway instead of light rail under Eglinton, only that scenario would prove costly. Tunnels would have to be wider to accommodate subways.

The $9.2 billion riddle: where will Ford find the “efficiencies” to balance the budget, build subways and hire 100 more cops without raising property taxes?

There’s simply not enough fat in the system to deliver on those promises. So what’s the endgame?

One piece of the puzzle is pretty clear: massive privatization of city services, perhaps including the TTC. The idea of complete privatization of the TTC is embraced by Ford’s director of policy, Mark Towhey. But the alternative of offloading the TTC onto the province may be in the cards instead. Don’t be too surprised if that happens. It’s been floated by both left and right on council – by the former to spite the province for years of underfunding; by the latter to remove a drain from the budget. It’s not hard to read between the lines of Ford’s “core services” rhetoric, as in “The job of cities is to deliver the basics.” The sell-off of surplus lands and city assets will also be part of the equation.

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Council watch: a look ahead at 2011 Under the radar: that libel suit filed against Rob Ford for his “corruption” charge during the election over the city’s lease agreement with the Boardwalk Café.

Not sure how the mayor will squirm off the hook on this one. His statement of defence is relying heavily on a technicality – namely, the fact that Boardwalk owner George Foulidis may not have properly served notice to sue. Statements Ford made on the Boardwalk deal to the Sun and on CFRB, though, leave little to the imagination. It’s clear he thinks money changed hands on the QT. The mayor may be forced to cut a deal, make a public apology or both. Rather than undergo that embarrassment, though, chances are Ford will fight this one to the bitter end. Will he be so willing then to pick up the costs of the suit himself? And how will he answer those lingering questions about how brother Doug knew so much about in-camera meetings on the Boardwalk deal before he was even elected Ward 2 councillor? Doug was also quoted in the Sun article. The mayor is supposed to be sworn to secrecy on such matters. This one may end up in the integrity commissioner’s office, too.

The bro factor: Will Rob Ford’s big brother Doug, aka the Ward 2 councillor and supposed brains of the operation, be trouble?

It was brother Dougie who invited Don Cherry to make a complete mess of council’s inaugural meeting, which was supposed to be Ford’s moment but instead was overshadowed by Cherry’s pinkos tirade. There’s word, too, of a rift forming between Doug Ford and chief of staff Nick Kouvalis, the real brains behind the operation. Plans to replace Kouvalis aren’t being made just yet, but there will be big demand for his campaign know-how, perhaps during the federal election, expected in the spring, or the provincial runoff (a more likely scenario for his departure) in the fall. Either way, a loss for Ford.

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The big mystery: Will council’s progressive wing take flight? And who, if anyone, will emerge as the consensus builder?

Gord Perks? Articulate but viewed as too radical. Good thing from our perspective, bad thing from a political standpoint.

Adam Vaughan? Downtown centrism an issue here.

Shelley Carroll? Too accommodating, perhaps, to go head to head with Ford’s forces. She has her own mayoral aspirations to think about, too.

Joe Mihevc? Unwilling. And he may have screwed his chances when he endorsed George Smitherman for mayor over the left’s standard-bearer, Joe Pantalone.

Pam McConnell? Huge experience, and tactical, but prefers to do her thing behind the scenes.

That brings us to Janet Davis.

Who’d of thunk the little-known councillor from East York, a long-time foot soldier in the left, could be The One. Two things going for Davis: she’s managed to keep her lefty sensibilities ambiguous enough not to be seen as part of Miller’s cabal; she has the patience of Job, which is what will be required to grind out any victories.

Rob Ford’s Achilles heel: council’s women.

If it’s true that council will divide along nonpolitical lines during this term (forgive me for not wholeheartedly believing that assessment by some on the left), then the female bloc may be a force to reckon with. Women on council occupy 15 seats, only eight fewer than are needed for a majority. The male-dominated Ford administration has offered the odd plum to a handful in that group, but not enough to keep them all in line. The halfdozen women who are natural Ford supporters may not all continue to be when the bloodletting at budget time is done.

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Perils of the pact Dismal deal is more about dismantling government than it is about lifting Canada out of recession

By WAYNE ROBERTS

julian assange needs to be free.

We could really use him here in the new year to create some WikiLeaks buzz around a series of undercover trade deals that will lock Canada into a neo-con economy no matter who wins the next few federal elections.

As we go about our New Year’s distractions, discussions leading to an all-embracing “bilateral” deal covering Canada and 26 European countries are into their fifth and near-

final round, part of a package of some 50 free trade deals.

“In just four years we have negotiated free trade agreements with eight countries,” Minister of International Trade Peter Van Loan boasted a few months back.

Canada, he said, will be the only country to sign deals with both Europe and the U.S. (“Look who I’m playing with, Mama!”) As a result, he said, in “this year’s Economic Freedom Of The World index, Canada maintained its position as a leader” of free trade.

At this point I make two confessions of ignorance. First, I remember when Canada used to win awards as the best country to live in, but I knew nothing about the Economic Freedom Of The World index. It appears this gold standard of indexes is published by the right-wing Fraser Institute.

Second, I confess that I hadn’t known this major deal tucked inside a broader set of trade deals was in the offing right under my journalistic nose. I read Van Loan’s announcement and then followed his directions to the website posted by the government to keep people abreast of negotiations ongoing since 2008.

The site specifies that this is more than a trade deal because it encompasses investment and overall regulatory policies dealing with competition, labour, the environment and patent protection.

“Regulatory” is a nice little word to slip in, since few people know that regulatory changes don’t have to be taken before Parliament or debated

in public. They’re just adopted in confidential meetings of cabinet.

This is the last time we get to hear about changes that will be going down, but the web page does provide an email address for anyone who wants to submit comments. Perhaps this will win the Fraser Institute an award for web democracy in the new world of economic freedom.

The fact is, I’ve been sleepwalking past this news with the best of them.

It wasn’t until I was invited to speak to the National Farmers Union in Saskatoon earlier this month and heard a panel that it all became clear.

Thanks to unsung (and so far not arrested) WikiLeakers, the panel has a working draft of the agreement as it was in April 2010. Unavailable on the government website, it can be accessed at tradejustice.ca.

It’s fitting that I learned about this deal at a farmers’ convention, because food and agriculture will be most profoundly affected, for the simple reason that the industrial sector has already been finished off by globalization and earlier free trade deals, most notably NAFTA. I’ve been rubbing my eyes for some time, wondering why attempts to pressure municipalities, universities and hospitals into buying local and sustainable food have produced no real push-back from big businesses linked to food globalization. I just didn’t know where to look.

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crimination against any European com­pany that wants to bid for a public contract, says Steven Shrybman, panelist at the NFU and a 20-year veteran of trade law debates.

Other provisions of the EU trade agree­ment will discourage farmers from the practice of saving their own seeds, said panelist Terry Boehm, an expert in intellectual prop­erty rights as well as NFU pres­i­dent.

Indeed, Boehm cites provisions of the deal that permit courts to seize the assets of farmers alleged by companies (but not proven by courts) to have taken patented seeds from seed, chemical and drug corporations.

The deal isn’t about trade, said

factured goods and services.

There seems to be nothing for Ca­ na­da in this deal – unless the free market agenda it embodies becomes the back­door enabler of laws that aid the Conservative agenda. The EU, for example, demands that the deal cover such agencies as the Canadian Wheat Board, which has a monopoly to market wheat and barley and guarantees prices for farmers. The board, to which the Tories are unfriendly, is seen as a trade impediment. So, too, the dairy, poultry and egg supply management system, one of the few sectors where fam­ily farmers can still make a living.

Lest we forget the ramifications of ex­isting trade deals, NAFTA will be automatically updated to incorporate any new agreements with Europe. Since NAFTA forbids any NAFTA partner to treat another partner less favourably than any other country, the provisions of the EU deal must be extend­ed to the U.S. and Mexico.

That makes this the most sweeping deal going.

Because of resistance from rising middle powers in the global South, Bra­zil, India and China, the World Trade Organization has been unable to engineer a new world order in one move. This EU-Canada deal is second best. In the absence of colonies in the global South, the leading colony in the global North will have to do. 3

Say so long to ­government local food ­purchasing policies. panel­ist Michael McBain of the Cana­ dian Health Coalition. “It’s not a trade agreement. It’s really an attack on gov­ernment.”

Reading my notes on the meeting helped me understand the sense of mys­tery I felt after reading CAW eco­ nomist Jim Stanford’s critique of the deal for the Canadian Centre for Pol­ icy Alternatives. He points out that Ca­nada now imports about $1.50 from the EU (mostly Germany) for every $1 in goods and services it exports. Most of our exports are raw resources, and almost all the imports are knowledge- and job-rich manu-

HOW THE CANADA-EU TRADE DEAL TIES OUR HANDS 1. Hello, trade imbalance

4. Whose services? Our services

• Sure, the free trade agreements Cana­da’s made with the U.S., Mexico, Israel, Chile and Costa Rica have resulted in 4.77 per cent average annual growth of Canadian exports, but they’ve also led to 8.67 per cent average annual growth in ­imports.

Is our government really going to sign away the public’s right to control its water? It could happen. Europe’s negotiators, on behalf of European multinationals, are seeking more private-sector involvement and an end to public monopolies in Canadian essential services like waste management and water. Legislation that requires public agencies to include water conservation in their procurement practices would be considered a trade impediment.

2. Where’s my job?

• A simulation based on 28 industries shows an ­incremental loss of 28,000 jobs if t­ ariffs between Canada and the EU are mutually eliminated.

• Make that 150,000 jobs if tariffs are mutually eliminated and Canada’s dollar continues to rise against the euro.

3. Local bites the dust • Proposed rules would prevent the use of procurement policies for local devel­opment.

Welcome to a regime where ­government can no longer purchase and make contracts in ways that protect the environment and create local employment.

• The EU has targeted Ontario’s Green Energy Act for tying clean energy subsidies to the use of local sourcing and employment.

5. Tar sands reprieve Current proposals would give EU-based oil companies new tools to challenge any Canadian attempt to minimize the ­enviro impacts of the tar sands or limit the pace of their development. Not a problem for the Tories – they welcome international trade rules as a way of defeating climate change initiatives.

Sources: Potential Impacts Of The Proposed Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic And Trade Agreement On The Pace And Character Of Oil Sands Development, by Steven Shrybman; Out Of Equilibrium, by Jim Stanford; Negotiating From Weakness, by Scott Sinclair

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PickeriNg FaMily couNtDoWN Skating, face painting, and a pyjama party with a movie and snacks. Starts at 7 pm, balloon drop at 9 pm. Free (food bank donations appreciated).

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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.

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Tour 19th-century historic homes decorated for the season and create a decorative cornucopia. Today noon-4 pm; tomorrow, 10 am-2 pm. Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills Museum, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.

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. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca.

FrScieNce oN Fire Holiday science programs include whimsical machine-making, star shows and the science of illusion. To Jan 2, 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

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free celebration with performances by Shawn Desman, Danny Fernandes, These Kids Wear Crowns, Stereos, Blake McGrath and Divine Brown. Starts at 10 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. citytv.com. gage Park NeW year’S village Mardi Grasstyle celebration in downtown Brampton with skating, ice sculptures, magicians, performances by Sam Roberts Band, Faber Drive and others and fireworks at 9 pm and midnight. Free (VIP Party at Rose Theatre $50).

Main St S at Wellington. brampton.ca. kiNDliNg light oF WiSDoM MiND Contemplation and reflection candlelight service.

8-10 pm. $10 donation. Zen Buddhist Temple 297 College. zenbuddhisttemple.org.

NeW year’S eve caNDle light All welcome at this Buddhist Nembutsu chanting circle. 6 pm-midnight. By donation. Wada Ji Sangha Temple, 344 Bloor W, #607. 416-925-7575.

NeW year’S eve coMeDy extravagaNZa

Eddie Della Siepe, Kathleen McGee, Cedric Newman, Bryan O’Gorman, Mike Nemiroff and others perform. 7:30 pm. $39.50-$59.50.

Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. masseyhall.com.

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Second City presents its revue Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes, party

Animal visits, keeper talks, a magician, Justin Bieber tribute and kid’s countdown. 6-9 pm. $15, srs/stu $10. Meadowvale N of 401.

416-392-5929, torontozoo.com.

WorlD healiNg eveNt Peace songs, guided meditation and candle-lighting for world peace. 6:30 to 8 am. Free (community breakfast $10 donation). St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-690-2095, emanation.org/peace.

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Next Stage theatre FeStival Produc-

tions by local and international artists from across the Fringe circuit, including Hilario Duran and Ann Powell. $12-$15, passes avail. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

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by Skratch Bastid, Do Make Say Think, Scuba, By Divine Right and many others. $5/night. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

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Join the Honourable David C Onley for a traditional levee. Noon-2 pm. Free. Fort York, Garrison off Fleet. fortyork.ca. rMayor’S NeW year’S Day levee Mayor Ford and city councillors host a traditional levee. 2-4 pm. Free. City Hall Rotunda, 100 Queen W. toronto.ca.

NeW year’S Day hike Hike the Leslie Street Spit with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 12:30 pm.

Free. Foot of Leslie at Unwin. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

NeW year’S Day Service Greet 2011 in contemplation and reflection, and renew your commitment to peace. 11:30 am. Free. Zen Buddhist Temple, 297 College. 416-658-0137.

WheelBuilDiNg Three-part workshop with Community Bicycle Network. 7-10 pm. $102.

CBN Intersection, 761 Queen W. Pre-register communitybicyclenetwork.org.

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SuNDay SceNeS Tour the current exhibitions

with Michal Maciej Bartosik. 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

Wednesday, January 5

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DraWiNg cluB Meet and draw without the distractions of home. 6 pm. Free. Toronto Zine Library at the Tranzac, 282 Brunswick. torontozinelibrary.org. eNtrePreNeurShiP 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm.

Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Preregister marsdd.com/ent101. iNterNatioNal Folk DaNciNg Enjoy dances from different countries, all levels welcome.

7:30-10 pm. $7. Koffler Centre, 4588 Bathurst.

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Storyteller SPotlight Poets, authors, actors and comedians share their work. Free.

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Here’s one instance where you definitely want to head down to the Mayor’s New Year’s Day Levee at City Hall. Not that a visit with Rob Ford will be highly elucidating, but city council­ lors will be there, and our progressive team needs some morale boosting.

Give them a pat on the back and en­ gage in a little strategizing about issues you care about. Saturday (Janu­ ary 1), 2 to 4 pm. Free. City Hall Rotun­ da, 100 Queen West. toronto.ca.

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Get the mad party season out of your system and chill New Year’s Day (Satur­ day, January 1) with a trek out on the Leslie Spit, that amazing tract of land­ fill that’s become a nature preserve.

Sure, some new Tommy Thompson Park structures have gone up, marring the wildness of the scene. But the fur­ ther out you head, with the Toronto Bruce Trail Club as your guide, the more creatures you’ll see in a habitat unlike any other in the city. 12:30 pm.

Free. Foot of Leslie at Unwin. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

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The NOW Talks series continues next Thursday, January 6, with a dynamite evening of intimate conversation fea­ turing two fascinating Canadian artists who blew up in the 80s. NOW pub­ lisher Michael Hollett hosts hip­hop groundbreaker Maestro Fresh-Wes and pop sensations Platinum Blonde’s Mike Holmes onstage in the NOW Lounge (189 Church), with proceeds going to Music Counts, an organization that promotes music programs in schools. 7 pm. $5. nowtoronto.com.

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NEW YEAR’S LEVEE Meet the Lieutenant Governor, and tour Fort York National Historic Site, 250 Fort York Blvd., noon to 2pm on January 1. Free. www.toronto.ca/culture/museums.

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Passing off Quebecois-style French fries and gravy with cheese as gourmet comfort food was an amusing foodie in-joke at Patriot and Montreal eatery Au Pied de Cochon the first few times. Ten years in, the food phenom is a stale punchline well past its sell-by date. In its place, watch for Southern U.S. slow-cooked ’cue to take the culinary cognoscenti by storm, especially once somebody pairs it with poutine.

Remember when servers said nothing but “Can I take your order?”

“More wine?” and “Shall I get the bill?” Now we’ve got the gruelling crew at Guu who, after making customers stand outside in the cold for up to two hours, verbally assault them in continuous Japanese at decibel levels that make table talk next to impossible in a soundproofing-free concrete bunker to the thud of cheesy dated disco. Their message? “Shut that goddamned door!”

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Speaking of vegetable matters, could we have a moratorium on beet salads? We know the red tubers are locavore ’n’ all – macrobiotic to boot! – and we agree they’re terrific when paired with Woolwich Dairy of Orangeville’s goat cheese in a hazelnut vinaigrette, as so, so many are wont to do. But has nobody heard of turnips?

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They don’t call us Hogtown for nothing. And we’re all for offal whether it’s from Cowbell, the Hoof or Beast. But now that Calico has closed, is it too much to ask that a restaurant be as serious about the veggies it serves as it is about its meat?

More book ’em Less walk-in

It’s a full-time job keeping track of reservations, what with cancellations, re-schedules and no-shows. No wonder exceptionally popular spots like Pizzeria Libretto, Foxley, Black Hoof and Guu do without them. And just think of the buzz factor a perpetual lineup creates!

Props to Enoteca Sociale and nearby Campagnolo for booking half their tables on any given night, meaning those who think ahead are guaranteed a seat, and the spur-of-the-moment crowd has a shot at one, too.

More playlist Less random shuffle More leftovers Less tapas

Smaller plates mean bigger profits, an industry given that explains the popularity of portion-controlled tapas at pricey joints du jour like Origin and Nyood. More power to Woodlot’s David Haman, who believes he’s doing something unethical if his customers leave his Palmerston beanery without a doggy bag.

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Just because Iron Maiden, the Blind Boys of Alabama and the late Karen Carpenter are your favourite recording artists of all time doesn’t mean the paying public should be subjected to the random shuffling of your iPod, even if you do own the restaurant. There’s a good reason iTunes has a “smart playlist” function.

More cooks Less celebrity chefdom Once upon a time, people went into the resto biz because they loved to cook. Now they do it for fame, fortune and franchise, or so the likes of Gordon Ramsay and the Food Network would lead them to believe. Oh, for the days when an apprenticeship wasn’t a gig with Donald Trump.

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In 2011 we want… (Style) A buy-local movement

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Just because every-

thing is different doesn’t mean anything has changed,” said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out. You will have to be vigilant to keep from getting swept up in the giddiness of big talk at the expense of practical action. You’ll have to push hard to make sure that seductive ideas are translated into concrete details. Can you do it? I think you can.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 In 1967, John McCain was a U.S. Navy pilot fighting in Vietnam. Shot down during a bombing mission, he was captured and jailed in the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was tortured. After being freed in 1973, he returned to the U.S. and eventually launched a political career. When he ran for president in 2008, his candidacy got an endorsement from an unlikely source: Tran Trong Duyet, the Vietnamese prison commander who had supervised his torture. In the coming months, Taurus, I expect you to experience a turnaround that will have comparable poetic justice. I’m not sure how it will unfold. Maybe an adversary will praise you, a person who wounded you will make amends, or a force of nature that once opposed you will come over to your side. Twenty-eleven will be a Year of Vindicating Reversals.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Can you finally

escape the pain you got imprinted with during adolescence? Is it a realistic possibility that you could triumph over the conditioning you absorbed before you knew how to talk? Do you have the power to do what few of us have done, which is to get out from under the weight of the past, shed the inertia of your memories and live brave and free in the raw truth of NOW? If there will ever in your life be a time when you can accomplish at least some of this noble quest, Gemini, it will be in 2011.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Decades ago, the U.S. built a network of sleek expressways to make it fast and easy for cars to travel between cities. But like many of America’s impressive engineering feats, this one took little account of what the human soul might enjoy. Ugly buildings or empty spaces surround many of those roads. Visually, the difference between I-95 in Georgia and I-74 in Illinois is negligible.

“The Interstate highway system has made it possible,” said Charles Kuralt, “to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything.” You cannot afford to let this be your operative metaphor in 2011, Cancerian. Your potential for rapid, extensive progress is sizable, but it would be a mistake to barrel along with your eyes fixed

on the prize in the distance as you neglect what’s happening along the way. Be both global and local; romance the details as you revel in the big picture.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Fixing people’s teeth is

one of Dr. Peter Kertesz’s specialties. The British dentist has a thriving business in London. Now and then he’s also called on to practise an exotic variation: animal dentistry. Recently, he corrected the tooth problems of two tigers in a zoo. Other species he has helped include elephants, whales, and pandas. In 2011, Leo, I suggest you consider branching out like Dr. Kertesz. What would be the equivalent, in your domain, of expanding the ways you use your primary skills?

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “What can I do

with this eternal longing?” That’s the first line of Assouf, a song by the African band Tinariwen. During the rest of the tune, the singer never offers a definitive answer to that plea, but as he tumbles and rumbles over the possibilities, the band plays a lot of righteous music. I suggest that you make Tinariwen’s cry your question of the year in 2011. It will be an excellent use of your time to meditate on how to call forth, nurture and direct your ineffable, insatiable yearning. (Hear the song: http://tinyurl.com/Assouf.)

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 In 2011, I believe you will have the chance to weave your fortunes together with an abundance of allies who are good for you. They will be your equals, they will share at least some of your most important values and they will respect you for who you are. That’s excellent news, right? My only worry is that you might shy away from the demands that such invigorating collaborations will make on you. It would be less work, after all, to fall back into reliance on more prosaic relationships that don’t ask so much of you. Please don’t take the easy way out, Libra. Rise to the occasion!

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “When I be-

came a man I put away childish things,” said Sagittarian author C.S. Lewis, “including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” I suggest you take up that attitude yourself in 2011, Sagittarius.

One of your top assignments in the coming months will be to play with greater intensity and more frequency and a heightened imagination. If you want to achieve your adult goals, you’ll be wise to recreate your childhood wisdom in a higher octave.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “We Americans are the best-informed people on earth as to the events of the last 24 hours,” wrote historian Will Durant some decades ago. “We are the not the bestinformed as to the events of the last 60 centuries,” he concluded. Today this describes many Westerners, not just Americans. We are adrift in the Age of the

Short Attention Span – a time when the lessons of the past are becoming lost or irrelevant. But in 2011, I’ll be rooting for you to elude this curse, Capricorn. It’s crucial for you to be in close touch with both the lessons provided by the grand sweep of human civilization and by your own personal history.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “The third-rate

mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority,” said author A.A. Milne.

“The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.” You will have an excellent chance to cultivate that definition of a first-rate mind in 2011, Aquarius. According to my reading of the astrological omens, life will be conspiring to strengthen your brain. You will have everything going for you if you make it your intention

to sharpen your wits, use language more precisely and see the world with greater clarity and objectivity. To get the fun started, make a list of what you could do to push your intelligence beyond its current limits.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 “Anything you’re

good at contributes to happiness,” said philosopher Bertrand Russell. If I had my way, Pisces, you’d write that on a note and tape it to your bathroom mirror for the duration of 2011. I think it would raise your appreciation for the power your personal gifts have to bestow blessings on both yourself and others. And I hope it would inspire you to spend a lot of quality time finding out all you can about what you’re good at and deepening your capacity to do what you’re good at.

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He feared his enemies had convinced the Pope to give him this task in order to demonstrate how mediocre his painting was. But today his work at the Sistine Chapel is regarded as a masterpiece. I suspect that in 2011 you may face a version of Michelangelo’s dilemma, Scorpio: being offered a job you don’t consider your forte. It’s quite possible, however, that accepting this “diversion” will yield interesting results.

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often have altruistic companion for so long – redreams. It’s the end of quired her, in fact, to survive – the world and I am it’s really hard to believe that very busy. I’m teachyour relationship is not healthy. ing my friends to fly, When people tell you it isn’t, By showing them how to SASHA you think they’re crazy. be brave and survive, Just about a year and a half and protecting them ago, I completely lost my mind. from the great ash-coloured Actually, I didn’t lose it. That would pelicans that are descending have been a relief. I got lost in it, and from the bruised skies heralding the it turned out to be a very messy and apocalypse. scary place. It was particularly scary I think these dreams reflect my because the gorilla refused to come desire to be a good person – and more in with me. to the point, a person people can On pure chaotic impulse, I decided trust. This is my biggest fantasy. But to spend a month in Holland, my there are a few things standing in the family’s homeland. It was a terrifyway of accomplishing this, the priing experience. I still don’t know how mary one being my lifelong relationit happened; how I managed to acship with rage. Rage has been my quire a valid passport, put clothes in near constant companion for 40 a suitcase, convince authorities to years. keep their tasers holstered as I walked When I was little, I was physically shattered and skinless through airabused. Those of us who have been ports and onto planes. physically or sexually abused know When I got back to Canada, the how humiliating it is not to be able to gorilla was waiting on my doorstep. fight back, to be hurt by the people “Dude, you look like shit,” she said. who are supposed to be taking care “Thanks,” I replied. of us. And to watch in mute anguish “I missed you. Can I come in?” as our small, helpless siblings suffer Sigh. “Sure.” the same fate.

“Are you mad at me?” she asked.

I was so tense that before I was 10 “I dunno. I think I have to go on years old I’d ground my molar teeth antidepressants.” in half. Abuse completely disem“Really? Okay.…” powered me, and the buffer I created “Look, I know it’s a cop-out. But I around myself was something akin think if I don’t, I might kill myself.” to a gorilla – a great, chest-beating, She stared at me with undisguised head-ripping-off-and-f linging-it contempt. “It’s really hard taking about gorilla. When I feel threatened, care of you when you won’t get anout she comes. gry,” she said coldly.

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There is wisdom in pain. psy­chiatrist,­ and­ we­ set­ out­ to­ con­ quer­ the­ gorilla.­ Not­ an­ easy­ task.­ This­kind­of­confrontation­requires­a­ lot­of­concentration­and­persistence,­ and­Dr.­B­was­having­a­hard­time­get­ ting­ me­ to­ do­ my­ homework:­ The­ Dance­Of­Anger,­Mind­Over­Mood.­I­ would­ dive­ into­ these­ books­ with­ feverish­purpose­and­just­completely­ lose­ focus,­ or­ find­ inspiration­ in­ them­briefly,­but­then­off­I’d­go­with­ the­gorilla­again.­ One­ day­ as­ I­ was­ going­ on­ about­ some­unrelenting­source­of­fury,­Dr.­ B­ went­ poking­ around­ in­ her­ desk,­ looking­for,­I­assumed,­her­prescrip­ tion­pad.­(She’s­not­chintzy­with­the­ meds,­ believe­ me.)­ Instead,­ she­ pro­ duced­ an­ elastic­ band,­ looked­ me­ straight­in­the­eye­and­said,­“Alex,­an­ ger­is­no­longer­an­option.”

She­ made­ me­ put­ it­ around­ my­ wrist.­“Whenever­you­get­angry­and­ feel­like­lashing­out,­she­said,­I­want­ you­to­snap­this.”­ Anger­ is­ no­ longer­ an­ option.­ It’s­ off­the­table.­And­what­that­means­is­ that­I­have­to­sit­in­the­feelings­that­ hide­underneath­it:­fear,­pain,­hurt.­ A­ couple­ of­ months­ ago,­ I­ had­ a­ dream­ that­ my­ girlfriend­ was­ Faye­ Dun­away­playing­Joan­Crawford­play­ ing­ my­ mother.­ I­ shit­ you­ not,­ there­ was­ a­ coat­ hanger­ and­ everything.­ I­ have­unresolved­issues­with­my­mom.­ It­hurts­that­the­person­who­was­sup­ posed­to­take­care­of­me­didn’t­do­the­ greatest­job.­But­I’m­trying­to­feel­pain­ without­letting­it­escalate­to­self­pro­ tective­ wrath.­ Pain­ is­ not­ weakness.­ There­is­wisdom­in­pain.­ In­my­altruistic­dreams,­I­am­sav­ ing­my­friends.­I­am­doing­this.­Not­ the­gorilla.­ 3 sasha@nowtoronto.com

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What’s your New Year’s resolution?

I resolve to change my species. Hopefully I will become a cat.

Your green resolution?

I resolve to give up burning tires to celebrate my birthday.

What guilty pleasure will you not give up?

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The City Hall councillor, who ran a tough campaign to win the Toronto Centre-Rosedale seat, checks in with her hopes for 2011.

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

To spend more time with my family, especially getting to know my two nieces and nephew.

They are all under 16 months of age, and since I didn’t have much time during my eight-month election campaign, I want to make it up to them in the new year.

Your green resolution?

To do what I can to support the Save Transit City campaign. It’s the most environmentally forward public transit strategy that we have approved and funded by all three levels of government. If Toronto is going to be an economically competitive international city, let’s not waste any time and build it now.

What guilty pleasure will you not give up?

Chocolate, especially Teuscher dark truffles from the Manulife Centre.

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The Juno-nominated Toronto country band, acclaimed for their down-home vibe and deliciously dark lyrics, host a New Year’s Eve party at Lee’s Palace that should be one of the better concerts that night. We asked multi-instrumentalist Casey Laforet about his 2011 resolutions.

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

To calm down and stop letting things get to me; less whiskey and more wine; to try out a Depression-era-themed fish tank at my house; and to finish our new record. Does that count as one resolution?

Your green resolution?

I already turn off lights compulsively, so I guess I’d like to use less of everything. Less meat this year, too.

What guilty pleasure will you not give up?

She knows who she is.

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This Hour Has 22 Minutes correspondent/anchor Hall has made real news headlines with her on-air stunts trying to interview Stephen Harper and Dalton McGuinty. Things should be a little less controversial – but no less funny – when she hosts Massey Hall’s New Year’s Eve Comedy Extravaganza (masseyhall.com).

What’s your New Year’s resolution?

I just read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, which was amazing and eye-opening. I have no willpower when it comes to food and drink, but I am going to start by trying to eat far fewer animals and see how it goes.

Your green resolution?

To come up with a casserole recipe using only the ingredients in my green bin. Discarding them seems so wasteful. With a little melted cheese on top, nobody would even ask questions.

What guilty pleasure will you not be giving up?

I like pie for breakfast. I will not budge on that.

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What’s your New Year’s resolution?

To get rid of the extraneous things in my life, like excess clothes, makeup, paper, magazines, negative thoughts, people. It’s time to de-clutter.

What’s your green resolution?

To strive to buy local/organics with little or no packaging, like fresh fruits and vegetables. Not only will I be supporting the local economy, but I’ll also be supporting my family’s health and putting out less garbage.

What guilty pleasure will you not give up?

Magazines!! I am a magazine addict. I’ve got piles of them. That contradicts my main resolution, but that’s what makes it a guilty pleasure, right?

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fter several hours of rageous. It violates any and aggressive carousing every instinct for justice in my around Toronto, six body. friends and I stepped Then again, I always feel onto a Montrealmore respect for a person who By bound flight with- JOSHUA takes pride in what he or she out a single piece of does. Whether it’s writing, filmERRETT making or tweeting, if you’re luggage among us.

Looking back, it could’ve going to do something, don’t ended badly; you can be refused just float through it. Be proactive. boarding if the airline deems you’ve Show some passion for what you do. over-caroused.

I’ve begun to think the same about Instead, this was the best flight I’d getting dressed. ever been on. We blasted through When I first started at NOW, I security straight onto the plane, showed up for work wearing a red where, with the help of an eager bathing suit (the kind with the builtflight attendant, we painted the in underwear, not the Speedo variety, aisles red all through the night skies. thank you), a wrinkled V-neck and an What was the difference between Atlanta Hawks cap – all of it a size too this flight and the time I had all my big. I remember wearing said getup vitamin D confiscated on the way to out at night, too.

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And guess what? I was a pariah. If We were all wearing suits.

I’d been a singer, I would’ve been The flight crew either mistook us called Pariah Carey. If I’d been jumpfor the cast of Jersey Boys or let us get ing from a plane, I would’ve needed a away with acting like the Insane pariahchute. I’d get the worst tables Clown Posse because of how we were in restaurants and hassled for ID at dressed. All bets are on the latter.

R-rated movies. Even that guy who My official stance, for the record, hands out Jesus pamphlets at Yonge is that treating someone differently and Dundas would pass me over. based on what they’re wearing is outFrom experience, I can tell you

that dressing like a 12-year-old slob has zero advantages, no matter how smart or accomplished you are.

I’ve stepped up my aesthetic since my bathing suit days, but there’s still much work to do. So my resolution is to dress better. More specifically, in 2011 I’m instituting the Saturday suit.

It starts with my famous tan Italian brogues, with a matching belt, a crisp white button-down shirt and dark grey pants-and-jacket combo.

Leave out the tie or risk looking too much like a pencil-neck.

And – this is really important – make sure it fits. Wearing an expensive oversized suit is like drinking fine wine out of a beer bong.

A Saturday suit needn’t be expensive. In the past, I’d either steal an old fat-guy suit from my father or buy a used suit at a vintage shop and get it tailored. I could buy a cheap number at H&M or Zara that I don’t have to worry about wrecking.

Don’t forget the shoes. Never buy flimsy shoes.

If you need guidance, as I sometimes do, the obvious step is to keep a revolving list of style icons. Here are mine, in no particular order: postandrogynous-era Bryan Ferry, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, TIFF maestro Cameron Bailey, Jack Nicholson when he’s courtside at Lakers games, modern-day Jay-Z and Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson circa 1977, to name a few.

The suit, of course, is not truly necessary. My advice for 2011 is to wear whatever you like. But put some effort into putting on your clothes.

Remember, new look, new outlook.

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VASIL the time, in the new year I vow to dig Ever since I was trained to prepare deep inside to discover my own passion weekday meals as my mom called in infor slow food. That means I will try more structions from work, I’ve been a breakneck- often to make broth from scratch instead of speed chef. If a recipe takes 20 minutes or less, buying it in a cube, box or jar; grow sunflower I’ll master it. As long as the ingredients are or- sprouts in my kitchen like my big brother taught ganic and healthy and can be cooked in me to instead of pulling them prewashed one stack (buckwheat noodles boilfrom a bag; make homemade aling on the bottom, broccoli mond milk instead of guzzling steaming on top and a cold a carton of rice milk. tahini dressing stirred up And, yes, I’ll even soak on the side) or in one pan some beans overnight. (sizzling garlic white Why? Because when beans with heaping salyou slow down to ad on the side), I’ll make think about it, the cult you a damn tasty meal. of the ready-made But you can see why gives short shrift to I’ve given a miss to the farmers who nurfamily heirloom recipes tured their produce in like homemade Greek the rain and beating bread or moussaka. sun till the seasons perMy only problem with fected their offerings. this is the green guilt of being Because our culture of ina fast foody. I know opening a tin stant dinners only accelerates of industrially canned chickpeas is a our collective amnesia and skill eromajor no-no in the age of bisphenol A can sion around making homemade, nutrientlinings. Rest assured, I only buy the BPA-free packed meals. kind from say, Eden or PC Organics (by the way, Because kitchen shortcuts sever our bonds Amy’s Kitchen is going BPA-free in the new to our gastronomic and agricultural heritage. year), but using a can opener is still a serious Because quick fixes almost always come violation among slow food convivialists. with more packaging.

I also know it involves more packaging (alAnd because, some small voice over my beit recyclable) than just scooping a cup of shoulder is telling me, soaking almonds overdried beans from the never-opened bulk bag night isn’t very hard or time-consuming. in my cupboard. Ditto for the tetra pak of orI already stock up on as much as they offer ganic broth I drizzled into last night’s meal. at winter farmers’ markets like Evergreen Brick (Really, I usually try to stick to the dehydrated Works, but first things first: instead of reachorganic cubes, since they’re less packaged, but ing for the ready-made polenta from my mushcome on – the cubes’ spices are too overpower- room guy, I’ll take his shiitakes and make my ing for certain recipes.) own – and not with instant polenta next time, See how I keep peppering all my statements I swear. with qualifiers and excuses? That’s deep-seatBut there’s a caveat. I’m putting the rest of my ed shame bubbling up through my sentence resolution on hold until mid-February, when my fragments, guilt that’s only heightened when I next frenzied book deadline will have passed. quick-fry some bright green unsprayed rapini Until then, my 20-minute dinners are here from California in mid-December. to stay as much-needed refuelling breaks Not that slow food recipes don’t get made (breaks that can, if not safeguarded, erode into in my house. Let’s just say that if a borscht five-minute cereal suppers). So if you see me in takes eight hours to stew or a split pea soup the checkout aisle paying for packaged broth takes four hours to simmer, I’m there till the on January 2, no kvetching. Yet. Instead, share end (or is that “at the end”?) to appreciate the your bright ideas for getting me started. work that’s gone into it (and ask for a second Recipe suggestions welcome.

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More obscure band reunions

Was it the ushering in of a new decade that got us all pining and rosecoloured about the past, specifically the 90s? This year saw a number of reunion tours – Pavement, Thrush Hermit, Faith No More, Hole, Lowest of the Low, Grapes of Wrath, etc – often by bands that went relatively unheralded during their heyday.

The surge of reissues and box sets makes sense, then, and some standouts in that department include Lowest of the Low’s Shakespeare My Butt, Neu!’s Vinyl Box and Orange Juice’s Coals To Newcastle.

You can view all of this as a cash grab, but when the band hardly made any money the first time around and the elation derived from rocking out to little-known tunes from your formative years is impossible to deny, we call it a win-win.

Thrush Hermit

More national pride in our music scene

Despite our relatively small population, Canadian musicians continue to make such a huge impact on the global music scene that we really need to let go of that sense of inferiority. Arcade Fire put out one of the most acclaimed rock albums of the year, Drake is easily one of the biggest names in hiphop, Broken Social Scene continue to be critical darlings, Deadmau5 got insanely popular in dance clubs the world over, Feist sells out stadiums, and Justin Bieber is the biggest teen pop star on the planet. Even if you hate the aforementioned artists, you’ve got to admit they’ve made their mark, and Canada’s.

In 2011 we want…

Drake

More innovative low-budget music videos

Musicians are quickly learning that video cameras – and director friends – are almost as important to their equipment arsenal as axes, amps and GarageBand. After years of decline thanks to mainstream music stations gearing their programming to preteens, videos are white-hot again, both the DIY, shot-in-the-tour-van kind that go viral on YouTube and the sprawling, ambitious ones that let Lady Gaga and Kanye spread their directorial wings. Local videos of note: Hollerado’s inventive Americanarama and HotKid’s Yours And Mine.

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More bands actually pulling off their live performances

Many 00s buzz bands were deeply disappointing when it came to onstage interpretations of their home studio creations, a trend that thankfully appears to be shifting. Lately we’re finding that many hyped new bands are sounding even better in concert than on record, a welcome change. As much as we love records by, say, the Dum Dum Girls, the band earned a whole new level of appreciation after seamlessly delivering the songs live.

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Less cassette-tape revival gimmickry

A number of cassette releases clattered into our mailboxes this year, and while we realize there are aficionados out there (we’re looking at you, Thurston Moore), it’s the kind of gimmicky retro retread we’re not so fond of.

They are bulky and un-totable, have hissy sound quality, are not very eco-friendly, are easily unfurled and de-magnetized. And how impossible is it to locate the start of a track?

And who even has a tape deck lying around any more? And if you’re going to send along a digital download link or CD anyway…. Let’s just let this one die.

More independent concert ticket outlets

When the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster was finally approved this year, many worried that service charges and concert prices would skyrocket. Instead, new independent ticket vendors sprouted up practically every month, and the competition between the various players is giving consumers more options.

While it’s sometimes confusing to determine the most affordable option, that’s a hell of a lot better than having zero choice.

Less onstage ranting about audience cellphones

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We get that for musicians it’s annoying, disrespectful and distracting when fans spend more time snapping smartphone photos than absorbing the spectacle performers are delivering, but it’s equally annoying listening to bands’ righteous “living in the moment” rants on the matter.

So, to musicians, lay off a little. Remember that picture-taking is often a sign of deep devotion. And to fans, pocket that phone and pay attention. Twitter updates every five seconds are tiresome for everyone.

Does the word “indie” actually mean anything? In 2011, it may finally be time to kill off the useless genre prefix. Given the ongoing collapse of the record industry, the fact that a band’s on an independent label doesn’t tell us much about what it sounds like, and the term is increasingly used as a vague synonym for “interesting.” Does calling a quirky acoustic act “indie folk” say anything useful about their music? On a related note, the terms “garage” and “psych” are also on the verge of insignificance due toAmst_R&C-NOW-Ad_r4.pdf overuse. Let’s try to ration1 that10/25/10 before it gets out of hand.

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tickets

WhAT’s in The Box: niGhT 5

w/ scuba, mymanhenri, egyptrixx, Trust, nik of Circle research and more Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, December 30) Eclectic electronic music.

BoxinG dAY speCiAl fesTivAl & food BAnK drive w/ modern superstitions, pants & Tie, hot Kid and more The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, December 30) Indie rock festival for charity.

10Th-AnniversArY neW YeAr’s pArTY

w/ The sadies, deloro, the Weirdies and more The Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (December 31) Sweaty garage rock country NYE bash.

ellioTT Brood, CATl

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (December 31) Alt country and blues punk NYE party.

hooded fAnG, sisTer, Wilderness of mAniToBA, i Am roBoT And proud, And mAnY more Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Friday (December 31).

Stacked lineup of local indie rock.

Yes Yes Y’All

w/ Yo! majesty, hollyrock, sammy d, elle nino, J-ill, stunts The Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst), Friday (December 31) Queer hip-hop New Year’s party.

JusT AnnounCed

Alieninflux/promise/ sumA/CirQulAr WArehouse nYe

Blue peTer, ChAlK CirCle Mod Club 7:30 pm, $21. SB, SS, TW. January 21

lAurYn hill

w/ pan/Tone, Jeremy p Caulfield, noah pred and many more Pia Bouman School for Ballet (6 Noble), Friday (December 31) All-night house and techno party.

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $59.50. TM. January 22

dAs rACisT, BlAKe CArrinGTon, dJ pATriCK mCGuire

fooTprinTs + Bump n’ husTle + GArAGe 416

w/ Jason palma, mike Tull, paul e lopes and many more The Rivoli (6 Noble), Friday (December 31) Soulful house, funk, soul, hip-hop jam.

The KillABiTs, hYdee, GrimesKee

The Social (1100 Queen West), Friday (December 31).

Dubstep and electro New Year’s bash.

reverend horTon heAT, reverend peYTon’s BiG dAmn BAnd

Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $27.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 29

dipseT reunion

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages. 416-461-3625. January 28

helloGoodBYe, Gold moTel, You me And everYone We KnoW, noW, noW everY Children

moTorheAd, CluTCh, vAlienT Thorr DaviD Hawe

Sadies

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 5 pm, all ages, $17.50. RT, SS, TW. April 10

Mod Club doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $16.50. RT, SS, TM. February 13

BloodshoT Bill, The merCY noW, sphinxs, The sTrAnGers, dJ dAn ArGeT Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (December 31) Rockabilly, garage, punk and more.

Wrongbar 10 pm, $13. PDR, RT, SS. January 28

BlACK veil Brides, desTroY reBuild unTil God shoWs, i see sTArs, versAemerGe, CondiTions

Kool Haus doors 8 pm, $40. TM. February 26 Lauryn Hill

ticket index

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

PDr – Play De recorD 357 Yonge. 416-586-0380, playderecord.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.

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How to place a listing

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

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

Thursday, December 30 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Bovine Sex CluB Lovely Killbots, the Svens, Secrettes, DJ Cactus.

The CenTral Bora 6 to 9 pm.

DakoTa Tavern The Heartbroken 10 pm.

FDrake hoTel unDergrounD What’s In The Box: Night 5 Scuba, Mymanhenri, ñ Egyptrixx, Trust, Nik of Circle Research doors 8 pm.

FThe garriSon Boxing Day Special Festival & Food Bank Drive Modern Superstitions, Pants & Tie, the Hyena Dog Robbery, Hot Kid, Hate Gang 9 pm. harlem Follow Your Instinct Movement Band, DJ Musiklee Inzane (soul/R&B/hip-hop/reggae) 9 pm. horSeShoe Burt Neilson Band 9:30 & 11 pm. lee’S PalaCe Morning Whiskey, Bombs, Tess McGuire, Thomas Baxton-Beesley. li’ly Real Funk, Come Get It! Chris Rouse & the Arousal (R&B/funk/soul) 9 pm. moD CluB The Suicide Machines, the Snips, the Heatskores (ska punk) doors 8 pm, all ages. rivoli F**K New Years Show Tin Star Orphans, the Guest Bedroom, the Black Currents 9 pm. roCkPile (KISS tribute) Destroyer.

SouThSiDe Johnny’S Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm.

FSuPermarkeT Nice Friends Year End Party The Box Tiger, In the Audience, the Elwins, Ellos Arma (indie rock) 9 pm. velveT unDergrounD Phil Allister, Hallaluya 9 pm. velveT unDergrounD DJ Osaze (industrial/ goth) 11:30 pm.

The WilSon 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (roots/rock) 9 pm.

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aquila James Carroll (acoustic folk/blues) 9 pm.

CineCyCle Sheila Gostick (folk singer) 8:30 pm. ñ hugh’S room Fred Eaglesmith 8:30 pm.

kenSingTon CornerSTone reSTauranT Songwriter Spotlight 8 pm.

The loCal Diana Catherine & the Thrusty

Tweeters, Kirby (rock) 9 pm. lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 8 pm. lula lounge Salsa Descarga Jam for Freddy Suarez (salsa) 9 pm. miTzi’S SiSTer Shy, Woodland Telegraph.

TouChé Mistura Fina, Aline Morales (Brazilian music) 10:30 pm. unDerDoWn PuB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

alleyCaTz Lady Kane.

BaCk alley WooDfire BBq & grill Textura

(jazz/blues/contemporary) 7:30 pm.

BlaCk moon lounge Cuban Havana Night Joaquin Hidalgo Trio (cuban music).

Dominion on queen John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Scott Kemp Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Robb Cappelletto Jazz Band 9 pm. rePoSaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Darryl Orr 6:30 pm. rex Bob Brough (saxopohone) 9:30 pm.

FSuBa The Celebration Of Gospel doors 8 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

Cheval Brand’d Thursdays.

FCreWS/Tango New Year’s Kick-Off DJ Arif.5 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

inSomnia Martini Madness DJ Ron Jon (funk/

soul/house).

The PainTeD laDy Picturesound (Brit invasion/

Friday, December 31 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

alleyCaTz New Year’s Eve Party Ascencion, DJ Mike (funk/soul/R&B/reggae/disco/top 40).

Beaver Dream Land 2011 DJs Max Mohenu, Renee (soul/disco/new wave/party jams).

BlaCk DiCe Cafe New Year’s Eve Rockabilly Show The Greasemarks 10 pm.

Blue moon Show & Disco New Year’s Eve DJ Carol, DJ Cat (70s/disco) 8 pm.

Bovine Sex CluB New Year’s Eve Blackie Jackett Jr, Brooklyn Fletcher, DJs Erin Donnely and Ian Blurton doors 9 pm.

CaDillaC lounge New Year’s Eve The Emerson Street Band.

The CenTral Canadian Indie Movement 9:30 pm.

Drake hoTel New Year’s Eve Maylee Todd. el moCamBo New Year’s 2011 Bash King Sunshine, DJs Groove Institute, Andy Roberts, Derek Codlin, GaDJet doors 9 pm. groSSman’S New Year’s Eve Caution Jam. hemingWayS Jan Albert (rock/country/blues/ jazz) 10 pm.

FhorSeShoe 10th-Anniversary New Year’s Party The Sadies, Deloro & the Weirdies doors 8:30 pm. lee’S PalaCe New Year’s Eve Party Elliott Brood, Catl (folk rock) 11:15 pm & 1 am. lee’S PalaCe DanCe Cave Dance Cave New Year’s Eve DJ Shannon (rock) doors 9 pm. moD CluB Escaping The Decade 8th Annual New Year’s Eve DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight, Disco Rebels (indie/electro/dubstep/ rock) doors 9:30 pm.

The PorT New Year’s Eve 2011 Poppy Seed, Luxury Bob, Miracle Whip, DJ Hot Pants 9 pm. roC n DoC’S New Year’s Eve The Mike Daley Band 10 pm.

Silver Dollar New Year’s Eve Bloodshot Bill, the Mercy Now, Sphinxs, the Strangers, DJ Dan Arget.

Sneaky Dee’S Funreal New Year’s.

TaTToo roCk Parlour Tattoo Rocks 2011 DJ Dwight (new rock/grunge/indie/alternative) doors 9 pm.

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aquila New Year’s Eve Bash The New Mynah Birds, Nicole Dunn, Paul Gellman (blues).

C’eST WhaT New Year’s Eve. hugh’S room New Year’s Eve Chris Whiteley & his All-Star Cast. lula lounge Salsa New Year’s Eve Hilario Duran Trio, Lady Son y Articulo Veinte. monarChS PuB New Year’s Eve Party Jack de Keyzer Band, Jerome Godboo (blues).

STar Walk reSTauranT New Year’s Dance Party (Ballroom/Latin/salsa).

Trane STuDio A Blue Note: New Year’s Victor Jones & Culture-Versy 8 pm.

TranzaC New Year’s Eve Sister, Hooded Fang, Light Fires, I Am Robot and Proud, Muskox, Sandro Perri, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Dr Ew, Octoberman, DJ Craig Dunsmuir doors 8 pm.

TWiSTeD kilT reSTauranT anD PuB New Year’s Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped In Tradition (Celtic).

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China houSe New Year’s Eve Gala Soul Stew

(R&B/soul/jazz/funk).

DoverCourT houSe New Year’s Eve Swing & Blues Ball. gaTe 403 Sam Broverman & Peter Hill Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 New Year’s Eve The Vandelays 9 pm. glaDSTone hoTel Ballroom Skin Tight Outta Sight New Year Burlesque Party 9 pm. harlem unDergrounD New Year’s Eve Ball Chris Weatherstone Trio. olD mill inn home SmiTh Bar New Year’s Eve Heather Bambrick & the John Sherwood Trio doors 7 pm. rex Funky R&B New Year’s Bash Grooveyard (funky soul/R&B) 9:45 pm.

riChmonD hill CenTre for The Performing arTS New Year’s Eve Jackie Richardson (blues/ jazz/gospel) 10 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

ame Omisoka Chris La Roque (mashups/

house/hip-hop/R&B/rock). annex WreCkroom Yes Yes Y’All New Year’s Eve Yo! Majesty, Hollyrock, Sammy D, Elle Nino, J-Ill, Stunts (R&B/hip-hop/dancehall).

CenTre of graviTy New Year’s Eve Party DJs Mizz Mwah, Sextone, Ana+one.

ClinTon’S Shake A Tail New Year’s (60s pop/ soul) 9 pm.

CoBra lounge The Fix Fridays Hennie V (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

CoBra lounge Limelight NYC doors 9 pm.

CreWS/Tango The Black & White Affair DJ Craig Domonic, DJ Quinces, DJ Roxanne Hector 7 pm.5 Drake hoTel DJ Your Boy Brian doors 7 pm. fly New Year’s Eve 2011 DJs Manny Lehman, Shawn Riker, Mike Vieira 10 pm.5 fomo Love & Slap DJs G Spence, DomB (triphop/house) 9 pm. fooTWork Luv This City NYE 2011 Addy, Nathan Barato, the Junkies, Jayforce, Jon Jon, Matty Ryce 10 pm.

The garriSon Goin’ Steady’s Chronologic Party DJ Shit la Merde (indie/rock/pop). gooDhanDy’S New Year’s Party DJs T Klinck, Cesar doors 10:30 pm.5 guvernmenT Magic 2011 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong, Baba Khan, Vertex and others doors 9 pm. harlem New Year’s Eve Ball DJ Carl Allen (soul/R&B/house/hip-hop/reggae) 10 pm. henhouSe Top Heavy: New Year’s Edition DJ Jane Fonda 10 pm. holy oak Cafe Escapade New Year’s Party DJs Vic Cheong, Isla Craig (R&B/dancehall/hiphop) 9 pm. inSomnia DJ Perro. laTvian houSe Good Times Gang Party Mike Gibbs, Ali Black, Jamie Kidd, Alicia Hush, Lee Osborne, VETEZE, Mark Baker, LeeLee Mishi, Milton Clark and others. maro London Town New Year’s Eve Calvin Harris, LA Riots. mill STreeT BreW PuB New Year’s Celebration Phusion 7 pm. nava 4PLAY DJs J-Class, Kariz, Kid Swift, Fisher Pryce (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/electro/house) 10 pm.

99 SuDBury The STuDio 99 Resolutions DJ Hush, Sam Haze, Ramy Vs David. noCTurne DJs Spirit, Gremlinz, Sara Simms, c64, Grimm, Capro & Hydra, Deadcell 10 pm.

The oSSingTon Some New Bullshit Azuree & Carl.

The PainTeD laDy NYE Sexy Burlesque Bash DJ NV 9 pm.

ParTS & laBour New Year’s Eve DJ Scott Wade 7 & 10 pm.

PeriDoT Best Of Both Worlds New Year’s Eve Ayah, DJ P-Plus, Riccachet, Thera-P 8 pm.

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.

The reD lighT Red Light New Year’s Eve party with DJ Serious, Kaewonder and DJ Numeric spinning hip-hop, funk, soul and disco. 10 pm.

No cover. 1185 Dundas W. 416-533-6667. rivoli Footprints + Bump n Hustle + Garage 416 New Year’s DJs Jason Palma, Stuart, Mike Tull, General Eclectic, Paul E Lopes, Blueprint, Moreno (house/soul/funk/ Latin/Afrobeat/hip-hop/disco/ska) doors 9 pm.

The SoCial Bass/Ball The Killabits, HyMark yourNYE calendar for dee & Grimeskee (drum & bass/dub/electro) 10 pm. upcoming NOW Talks: SounD aCaDemy Ignite New Year’s Eve Tony Matterhorn doors 10 pm.

February 3: the 90s SuPermarkeT Do Right! New Year’s Eve DJs March 3: the 00s Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal doors 9 pm.

ThiS iS lonDon This Is Big Ben 2011 4Korners, Armo Kidd (mash ups/top 40) doors 9 pm. ulTra Ultra Privé New Year’s Eve DJ Aristotle (mash ups/top 40) 9 pm. velveT unDergrounD New Year’s Eve Retro Party DJ Hanna, the Wilderness 10:15 pm.

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roy ThomSon hall Bravissimo! Opera’s Greatest Hits New Year’s Eve Isabel Bayrakdarian, Richard Margison, Alberto Gazale, Sarah Maria Punga 7 pm.

FST laWrenCe hall World Healing Event (peace songs) 6:30 to 8 am.

Ten feeT Tall New Year’s Neighbourhood Jam 8 pm.

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The rooSevelT room That Old School Party Monsieur Cedric (pop/rock/hip-hop/house/ R&B) 10 pm.

TaTToo roCk Parlour Retro Thursdays DJ Lazarus (80s & 90s music) doors 10 pm.

ThymeleSS Rock Steady Thursday Semojrab Naki, Cyborg, Ras Bingi Catt, Lady Tremor 7 pm.

ToTa lounge Double Vision/ Jus Cuz Showcase DJs Thrust & Salty Jackson, Wio K, Cyrogenics, Kue Rock, Unknown Mizery, DJ Dough Low (hip-hop) 9 pm.

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Thursday, January 6 Venue: NOW Lounge Doors open at 6:30 pm, event starts at 7 pm

Tickets: $5 (donated to MusiCounts). Advance tickets available at NOW Magazine, 189 Church.

Or at the door January 6. Quantities limited.

Front desk hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 9 am-6 pm, Tuesday 9 am-7 pm

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Wrongbar New Year’s Eve Party Autoerotique, Dirty Dale, Rynecologist, ñ Nasty Nav 10 pm.

Saturday, January 1

The PainTed Lady DJ Salazar (funk/soul) 9 pm. sneaky dee’s Hangover Party. suPermarkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase,

John Kong, MC Abdominal 11 pm. suTra The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop).

This is London London Calling (top 40/mashup).

Sunday, January 2 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

graffiTi’s Blackmetal

Lee’s PaLace Red Nightfall, Counterpoint,

Folk/BlueS/countRy/ WoRld

Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. roc n doc’s The Bottle Devils (rock) 9 pm.

Skeets & the Gang 4 to 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/ countRy/ WoRld

March Fourth, 9 Lives & Counting 9 pm.

The cenTraL Dane & Kiri 9 pm. graffiTi’s Happy New Year Party

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

eLLingTon’s cafe

Open Mic: Poetry & Music Ruben ‘Benny’ Esguerra 11 am to 2 pm. grossman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.

heLiconian haLL Viennese New

Year’s Concert The Musicians in Ordinary (cantatas/sonatas by Conti, Vivaldi and Caldara) 8 pm. rex Sara Dell 6:30 pm. rex Heavyweights Brass Band (New Orleans-style brass band) 9:30 pm.

hoT box cafe

Dope Poets Open Mic (hip-hop) 7 pm.

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LuLa Lounge

Salute To Vienna The Strauss Symphony Of Canada 2:30 pm.

Sunday Salsa Brunch Buffet Luis Mario Ochoa’s Quarteto Tradicional (Cuban Son) noon and 2 pm.

dance muSic/ dJ/lounge

annex Wreckroom Wreckroom

Remixed (rock/ dance/electro/remix) 10 pm.

roc n doc’s

Chuck Jackson & the AllStars (blues) 4 pm.

augusTa house

Reality Bites New Year’s Day Dance Party (90s) 9 pm. boVine sex cLub New Years Day Hangover Party. cobra Lounge The New Disco Saturdays DJ Aadil. creWs/Tango DJ Craig Domonic, DJ Quinces.5 george’s PLay DJ Oscar 11 pm.5 guVernmenT Spin Saturdays (house/trance). insomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). nocTurne First! Shankar, Kadmon, Martin Fazekas, Gnoman, Hans Ohm, Subhuman, Capro, Jawbone, Bloody L, Lucky General.

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.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

aLize Scott Kemp 6 to 9 pm.

The cenTraL Manor Few Weekly Cabaret 9 pm. dominion on Queen Jazz Jam 4 to 7 pm. gaTe 403 Melissa Lauren Jazz Band noon to 3 pm. gaTe 403 Karen Ng Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 The Lower Etobicoke Sound 9 pm. heLiconian haLL Viennese New Year’s Concert The Musicians in Ordinary (cantatas/sonatas

by Conti, Vivaldi and Caldara) 2 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Elvis Bossa Nova 7 pm. rex Allison Au Quartet 9:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

beaVer L Wildman, Jonny ‘88. boVine sex cLub DJ Rockabilly Rob. cheVaL She’s With Us Sundays.

TaTToo rock ParLour Trash Palace (mashups).

VeLVeT underground DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

Monday, January 3 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

harLem CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday Poor Young Things, Elissa Barclay, Missing in Venice 9:15 pm. roc n doc’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9 pm.

T.s.T’s Launch Pad In a Nut’s Shell w/ Mike Collinson (rock) 9 pm, all ages.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

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 PainTed Lady Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. rePosado Mezcal Mondays Lucas Stagg,

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

gaTe 403 Victor Monsivais Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm. rex Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. rex Florian Hofner Quartet 9:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

aLLeycaTz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun. boVine sex cLub Moody Mondays Douglas

Tuesday, January 4 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

boVine sex cLub Slyde. horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nites

Jesse Parent Band, the Sour Notes 9 pm. koroVa miLkbar Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People 10 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

annex Wreckroom Drummers in Exile (drum circle) 8:30 pm.

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Lee’s PaLace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

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The LocaL 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

LoLa 40 kensington. 416-348-8645.

LuLa Lounge 1585 dundas W. 416-588-0307. maro 135 liberty. 416-588-2888. miLL sTreeT breW Pub 55 mill. 416-681-0338. miTzi’s sisTer 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. mod cLub 722 college. 416-588-4663. monarchs Pub 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. music gaLLery 197 John. 416-204-1080. naco gaLLery cafe 1665 dundas W. 647-347-6499. naVa 125 york Blvd (Richmond Hill). 905-708-1933.

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The ossingTon 61 ossington. 416-850-0161.

The PainTed Lady 218 ossington. 647-213-5239.

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stage Stuart Hughes says Martin Crimp’s version of The Misanthrope has more bite than the original.

THEATRE FESTIVAL PREVIEW

Next in line

Eight shows head beyond the Fringe By JORDAN BIMM THE NEXT STAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL at Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst). Opens Wednesday (January 5) and runs to January 16, various times. $12-$15, passes $48 and $88. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto. com.

Kiss-kiss Molière

Adaptation of The Misanthrope is set in gossipy world of glitterati By JON KAPLAN THE MISANTHROPE by Molière, adapted

by Martin Crimp, directed by Richard Rose, with Stuart Hughes, Andrea Runge, Patrick Galligan, David Storch, Michelle Giroux and Maria Ricossa (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Previews through Tuesday (January 4), opens Wednesday (January 5) and runs to February 6, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2:30 pm (no matinee January 1). $37-$46, stu/srs discounts, Friday and Sunday rush $10.

416-531-1827.

the polite lie or the uncomfortable truth? What do you tell a friend?

It’s always the latter for Alceste, the central character in Molière’s 1666 play The Misanthrope, who alienates his allies and further offends his enemies.

Martin Crimp gives a contemporary turn to the script in an adaptation set not in Parisian upper-crust society, but rather in today’s world of theatre and film stars and highpowered agents. No surprise that the gossip, flattery and insincerity read as powerfully today as they must have for Molière’s audience.

“Crimp’s version resembles the original almost line for line,” says Stuart Hughes, who plays Alceste in a new Tarragon production. “He’s up-

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dated the language and made it colloquial, but his intention is the same, though darker and with a little more bite.

The actor, a Soulpepper founding member and several-time Dora winner, compares Crimp to another British playwright, Sarah Kane.

“He doesn’t pull any punches and takes shots at those who make accommodations for others’ sensibilities,” says Hughes. “No character comes off unscathed.”

That includes Alceste, who attacks others but can’t see the self-delusion in his foolish infatuation with Jennifer, a film star 30 years his junior who toys and flirts with every acquaintance, dishing the dirt on a friend whenever a back is turned.

“But he believes she has a depth not yet revealed to others,” says Hughes. “Alceste has faith that if he goes through the humiliation of love long enough, Jennifer will prove that she’s an extraordinary human being.

“The fact is, she’s a meteor in the entertainment world, a young starlet excited about every personal and professional bonbon that might come her way. You’ll find her peers on magazine covers in every grocery store around the world.”

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Hughes points out that performing the script requires a balance between laughter and moralizing.

“Part of the excitement of acting it is finding that point between the light and the dark,” he says. “We don’t want the audience to think of Alceste as a moralist they reject out of hand; instead, they should find enjoyment and entertainment in his struggle against the obstacles in his path.

“I see him like Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, constantly slipping on a banana peel but always getting up and trying to move on.”

Then there’s the matter of Crimp’s rhymed couplets, which echo Molière’s original text.

“It’s years since I’ve spoken verse onstage. I’d forgotten the thrill of using this kind of heightened language, the rigour it imposes,” says the actor.

“Yet while you get to wield the words with intention and experience a sense of élan in completing a rhyme, at the same time you also have to make it sound naturalistic.

“It’s like nipping someone with a foil, getting their attention and convincing them of your argument.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

MORE ONLINE

Interview clips at nowtoronto.com

JONA STUART

THEATRE PREVIEW

there was a time when the summer Fringe Festival was the end of the line for hit productions. After acing the fest circuit, shows hit a glass ceiling between Fringe success and getting picked up by a pro theatre.

This was the impetus for the Toronto Fringe to create the Next Stage Festival back in 2008: to give companies that had excelled at any Fringe Festival (not just Toronto’s) an opportunity to take things to the next level.

This year’s selection of eight shows offers everything from a 20-person fight show (Duel Of Ages) and Australian Fringe celeb Nicola Gunn’s psychological detective story (At The Sans Hotel) to renowned Canadian playwright Judith Thompson’s collaboration with a group of young actors that investigates notions of sickness and disability (The Grace Project: SICK!).

“Next Stage exists to give another presentation opportunity to Fringe companies that are ready to take things up a notch, reach new audiences and spend more time crafting a piece,” says Gideon Arthurs, the Fringe’s executive director.

“It

The Toronto Fringe’s Gideon Arthurs says no aesthetic or political bias guides the fest choices.

was conceived as a way of tapping into the enormous creative potential of the Fringe that seemed to dissipate after the festival.”

Now in its fourth year, Next Stage features remounts from the Fringe and some new works by companies with outstanding Fringe track records. Each show runs in repertory for nine performances, which incidentally is just enough to make them eligible for Dora Awards.

Unlike the Fringe, which is programmed based on a lottery system, Next Stage is a juried affair. Companies must be “artistically successful” Fringe veterans.

“Have they demonstrated forward momentum in their creative work?” asks Arthurs. “Can they hustle? Can they show that their work is continuing to evolve? Are their reviews getting better? Are their houses getting bigger?”

This year Arthurs and the Fringe team sorted through more than 90 applications for eight slots.

“My favourite part of working at the Fringe is that it’s populist, both in the art that’s presented and the way people digest it. It’s cheap, low-risk, rough and raw. If you look at the eight shows, it’s clear there’s no aesthetic or politics guiding our choices.”

So what can audiences expect? “Everything they expect from the Fringe, but a bit more refined.” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interviews with THE MISANTHROPE’S STUART HUGHES and PARADE’S TRACY MICHAILIDIS • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

In 2011 we want…

More multidisciplinary companies Less text-based work Not that we have anything against text-based scripts – hey, we have some of the best playwrights around. But in mounting works like Studies In Motion and The Andersen Project, Canadian Stage’s new artistic director, Matthew Jocelyn, explores a new kind of theatricality – one blending text, movement and film – that more companies should take up.

More comic tweets Less show promotion

Tracy Michailidis says Parade works best in an intimate venue.

MUSICAL PREVIEW

Joining the Parade Tracy Michailidis adds her voice to politically charged musical By GLENN SUMI PARADE by Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown, directed by Joel Greenberg, with Michael Therriault and Tracy Michailidis.

Presented by Studio 180 and Acting Up Stage Company at the Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs (26 Berkeley). Previews from tonight (Thursday, December 30), opens Monday (January 3) and runs to January 22, Monday-Saturday 8 pm, previews 7 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm, no performance January 1. $32-$40. 416-368-3110.

tracy michailidis is no longer waiting for the Parade. The Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry musical has arrived, and she’s joined on in one of the central roles.

Turns out that auditioning for the 1997 Livent workshop production of Parade was one of her first ever professional experiences.

“I remember singing a song from the show and thinking that it was great but daunting,” says the talented performer. “I still feel that it’s daunting, but that’s always a good motivation for me. I like doing things that scare me.”

In the Canadian premiere production, co-produced by the exciting indie companies Acting Up Stage and

Studio 180, Michailidis plays Lucille Frank, wife of a Jewish factory manager who’s falsely accused of the rape and murder of a teenage employee in 1913 Atlanta.

Leo Frank’s trial remains one of the 20th century’s most famous, pitting North against South, Jews against Christians and blacks against whites.

“In rehearsals we’ve talked not just about the horror of what happened to this one man, but about the mob mentality in general,” she says.

“We’re trying to explore the psychology of the event, how something can snowball and how people can get so caught up. No one group is the villain. Ultimately, I think everyone in the show is trying to do the right thing.”

A long-time fan of composer Brown’s, Michailidis says one of her first Toronto performances was in his song cycle Songs For A New World.

“I love all the tight harmonies, the technical challenges,” she says.

“There’s something anthemic about his music. But what Parade has that Songs For A New World or The Last

Five Years doesn’t is a narrative through-line.”

Michailiadis has seen two productions of Parade, including the shortlived 1999 Broadway premiere starring her Stratford Fiddler On The Roof co-star Brent Carver and the 2007 production at London’s Donmar Warehouse, which was much smaller and used a reduced cast in multiple roles. That’s the script that the company’s working with.

“The Lincoln Center production made a big impression on me, but I felt detached from it. I like feeling transformed and emotionally engaged when I go to a show. At the Donmar, I felt closer to the action.”

The Berkeley Theatre, where she sizzled last year as the tempestuous Franca in The Light In The Piazza, is a similarly intimate venue.

“If I could do musicals in 200-seat theatres, I’d be perfectly happy,” she says. “It’s great we’re doing it acoustically. There’s something really immediate and potent about the experience.”

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Comics should be funny, right?

That’s their job, innit? But it’s incredible how many people who get paid to make us laugh merely use Twitter to promote their upcoming shows. Pros like Jim Gaffigan (@JimGaffigan) and Toronto’s own Todd Van Allen (@heyitstva) understand the potential of the medium. Conan O’Brien amassed huge support during the Team Coco vs. Team Leno controversy – all via his snarky comments. And it’s a win-win, right? If you’re funny in 140 characters, won’t we be more likely to buy tickets?

More site-specific works Less proscenium shows

Maybe it’s because we see hundreds of shows a year, but site-specific performances can be an unforgettable experience. The red light district’s The Witch Of Edmonton at Trinity-Bellwoods Park, 2009’s KRIMA! What A Shame, which featured hundreds of dancers in the lobby of the Young Centre, and Museum Dances, performed in various rooms at the ROM, make us rethink what’s possible. That’s not as easily achieved while sitting politely in a row of seats. Even last year’s Yichud felt different because Theatre Passe Muraille had been transformed into a synagogue. Nu?

More good touring shows Less crappy ones

We get that there are a lot of big theatres to fill up. But some clunky touring shows have made stops here, including Little House On The Prairie: The Musical, Miss Saigon and probably the dozenth litter of Cats. On the other hand, we’re glad we got to see things like Lincoln Center’s South Pacific and (a total unexpected pleasure) Legally Blonde The Musical. So just watch the quality, please. stage@nowtoronto.com

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theatre listings How to find a listing

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook f = Festive/seasonal event

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Opening Hard Love by Motti Lerner (TEATRON Theatre). An ultra-Orthodox couple who divorced over religious issues are reunited 20 years later. Opens Jan 5 and runs to Jan 16, 2011, Jan 5 at 1 pm (preview), then runs TueThu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun and Wed 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs/preview $19-$30.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-781-5527, teatrontheatre.com.

THe MisaNTHrope by Molière, adapted

by Martin Crimp (Tarragon Theatre). A playwright who scorns celebrity culture falls for a superficial film starlet (see story, page 40). Previews to Jan 4, 2011. Opens Jan 5 and runs to Feb 6, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2:30 pm (no mats during previews). $23$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

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NexT sTage THeaTre FesTivaL (The Toronto Fringe). This festival features ñ new and reworked productions by Fringe art-

ists, including At The Sans Hotel, Duel Of Ages, Fairy Tale Ending, Sick!, The Apology, Eating With Lola, Swan Song Of Maria and Tom’s A-Cold (see story, page 40). Opens Jan 5 and runs to Jan 16, 2011, shows daily at various times, see website for schedule. $15, mat $12, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. parade by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry (Acting Up Stage/Studio 180).

A Jewish factory manager is framed for the rape of a young worker in 1913 Atlanta (see story, page 41). Previews Dec 30-31 at 7 pm.

Opens Jan 3 and runs to Jan 22, 2011, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32-$40. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, paradethemusical.com.

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Muraille). A poet seeks to solve the mystery of her mother’s death in this solo show. Previews Jan 5-8. Opens Jan 11 and runs to Jan 29, 2011, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$30, previews $15, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace.

416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

One-Nighters BravissiMo! opera’s greaTesT HiTs (Attila Glatz Concert Productions). The ñ Opera Canada Symphony performs popular

arias, duets and overtures with soloists Isabel Bayrakdarian, Richard Margison and others.

Dec 31 at 7 pm. $55-$145. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com. rauNcH N roLL New year (Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque). The troupe performs with guests Miss Roxi DLite, Obsykura, Dew Lily, Sexy Mark Brown and others. Dec 31, doors 9 pm. $40-$50. Gladstone Hotel, 1214

Take the family and spend A Year With Frog And Toad, with the wonderful Allen MacInnis and Louise Pitre.

Queen W, Ballroom. 416-531-4635, skintightouttasight.com.

T.o.T. New year’s eve (Toronto Operetta Theatre). Dinner at the Hot House Café is followed by a performance of Die Fledermaus and a champagne party to ring in the new year. Dec 31 from 5 pm. $145 plus performance ticket. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

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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 7 pm, Fri and Sun 2 pm. $27-$85. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, rosspetty.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna)

cHrisTMas caroL by Charles Dickens (Soulpepper). Director Michael ñ Shamata’s fine adaptation of the Dickens fa

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, Thu 1:30 pm. $40-$76, stu $32; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) die FLederMaus by Johann Strauss (Toronto Operetta Theatre). A woman gets revenge on her philandering husband in this comic operetta. 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. 416366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

disNey oN ice preseNTs Mickey & MiNNie’s MagicaL JourNey (Feld Entertainment). Dis-

ney characters travel into each other’s worlds in this family ice show. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Thu-Fri noon & 4 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am & 3 pm. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416870-8000, disneyonice.com.

fdr. seuss’ How THe griNcH sToLe cHrisTMas! THe MusicaL by Timothy Mason and

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

Mel Marvin (Big League Productions/Dancap).

This lavish adaptation about the curmudgeonly outsider bent on pinching Christmas pleases in many ways. Stefan Karl’s Grinch plays up the camp – especially fun during glittery showstopper One Of A Kind. But while there’s plenty to look at, this Grinchy production is overwhelmed by set changes and long, expository songs about gift-giving, leaving little room for emotional engagement. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, see website for schedule. $25$74. Sony Centre, 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, Thu noon and 3 pm, Sun 3 pm. $29.50, family 4-pack $100. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, 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 31 show at 2 pm; no show 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 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 solo, 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, Thu and Sun 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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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.

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. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Sun 2 pm. $14. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. 1-877-700-3130, lionww.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. $29.50-$39.50.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL

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, mats Sat-Sun 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. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats SatSun 2 pm. $28-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) SHREK: STOMPIN’ THE SWAMP (Sphere Entertainment). The Dreamworks character and his friends put on an all-ages show. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, daily at 10:30 & 11:30 am, 12:30, 2 & 3 pm. $12.50-$22. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace.

416-923-1171, casaloma.org. fSNOW ANGEL by Kathleen Black (Lower Ossington Theatre). A young girl goes on an adventure to change the world and find her dad.

To Dec 30, Thu 7:30 pm. $25. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, snowangel.eventbrite.com.

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, Thu and Sun 11:30 am. $24.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, qualityslippers.ca.

TEA 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 Thu 4:30 pm. $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, Thu 11 am and 2 pm. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416862-2222, lktyp.ca. NNNN (JK) 3

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comedy listings How to find a listing

Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue. f = Festive/seasonal event

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Comedy,​NOW​Magazine,​189​Church,​Toronto​ M5B​1Y7. Include title, producer, comics (host/ headliner/sketch troupe members), brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/info phone number/ website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, December 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Paul Morrissey,

Dave Merheje and host Slim Bloodworth. To Jan 2, Thu 8:30 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Bobby Roshdi, Candace Lovett, Ian MacIntyre, Graham Borgfjord, JP Hodgkinson, Jeff Paul, Leah MacDonald, Luke Gordon-Field, Sarah Grange and host Todd Van Allen. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698. fMIRACLE ON MERCER STREET Second City presents all-ages seasonal comedy mixing live-action sketches with puppetry and songs.

To Jan 2, Thu and Sat-Sun 1 pm. $12, family 4-pack $40. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

THE SECOND CITY’S NEW YEAR’S EVE LAUGH-STRAVAGANZA Second City ñ presents its sketch revue Something Wicked

Awesome This Way Comes, party favours and champagne toast. Optional dinner at Wayne Gretzky’s available. Two shows: 7 and 10 pm.

Show only $45-$60; dinner and show $89$104. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com.

SHOW AND DISCO NEW YEAR’S EVE Maggie Cassella and Heather Mackenzie present a 70s-themed NYE party with comics Kristen Becker, Vong Sundara and Heather Gold, plus a DJ disco party. Comedy at 8:30 pm, DJ party from 10 pm. $15$30.

Blue Moon, 725 Queen E. brownpapertickets.com/ event/138047.

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TOWN presents New Year’s Eve 2010 w/ Mike Wilmot, Rob Ross and Jo-Anna Downey. Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $50, dinner + show $88. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents New Year’s Eve 2010 w/ Stephen Patterson, Kristen Von Hagen and Jay Brown. Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $40, dinner + show $88. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents New Year’s Eve 2010 w/ Chuck Byrn, Roy Daye and Terry Clement.

Dinner 8 pm, show 10 pm. $50, dinner + show $88. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Saturday, January 1 MIRACLE ON MERCER STREET See Thu 30.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 30.

Sunday, January 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 30.

LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents a weekly show

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GANZA Massey Hall presents the 10th annual NYE show w/ Jon Dore, Eddie Della Siepe, Kathleen McGee, Cedric Newman, Bryan O’Gorman, Mike Nemiroff, Derek Seguin, Tim Steeves and host Geri Hall. 7:30 pm. $39.50-$59.50. 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com.

NEW YEAR’S EVE SPECTACULAR Absolute Comedy presents headliners Slim Bloodworth and Paul Morrissey, plus Dave Merheje and host Marc Sinodinos. 7:45 & 10:15 pm. $40, $60 includes buffet. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

Joel Lindley, Jamie O’Connor, Alex Brovedani, Magdalena Borkowski, Peter Fulton, Akshay Sharma and host Derick Lengwenus. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents the opening night of new improv shows: The League, fast, competitive improv. 8 pm. $8, stu $5. The Mullet, teams reinvent a classic improv challenge.

9:30 pm. $8, stu/those attending first show $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Jen Broxstein, Rene Payes, Ralph Cooper, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

Hennessey, Andrya Duff, Kathleen Phillips, Deb Robinson, Sandra Battaglini, host Mae Martin and others. 7:30 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W, Melody Bar. gladstonehotel.com.

Monday, January 3

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 30.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Kathleen

ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents New Material Night w/ Pete Zedlacher, ñ Sara Hennessey, Trixx, Ian Lynch, MC Dave

Merheje and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Coming Soon... w/ Hayley Simpson, Jason Haist, Ricky Stoimenov and MC Kevin Herod. 11 pm. Free.

332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a weekly game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm.

Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

McGee. To Jan 9, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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dance listings

HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK

Impulsive Entertainment presents a weekly new material night for singers, poets, 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 Eric Bud. 9:30 pm.

Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com.

SECOND CITY’S DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REñ VUE Second City presents a holidayfTHE

themed show of scenes and songs. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

Tuesday, January 4 SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents

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ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/

GRANNY BOOTS: DIANE KEATON’S BIRTHDAY PARTY Gladstone Hotel presents ñ all-female comedy w/ Dawn Whitwell, Sara

w/ improv by the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

MIRACLE ON MERCER STREET See Thu 30.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES Second City SC presents its 66th ñ sketch comedy revue, and it’s the most

consistently funny show in years. Director Chris Earle has a theatrical eye, edgy sense of humour and knows which topical references will capture the zeitgeist yet also remain classic. The talented, versatile cast takes on G20 protests, tech annoyances and pushes the limits of comedy with a ballsy scene about the Israel/Palestine situation. The final moments are a brilliant nod to several earlier sketches, and you’ll be humming a certain song parody as you leave. To Jan 5, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 7 & 10 pm (see website for schedule after Jan 5). $24-$29, stu $15; New Year’s Eve $50-$60. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) URBAN LEGEND – SHEILA GOSTICK CineCycle presents the square-dancing stand-up and downtown folk singer. 8:30 pm. $20 suggested donation. 129 Spadina. 416971-4273.

Wednesday, January 5

Jon​Dore​ushers​in​2011​ politely​at​Massey​Hall’s​ New​Year’s​Eve​Comedy​ Extravaganza.

The Headline Series w/ Cheap Smokes, Ladystache, Tim Gilbert, British Teeth, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Nathan Macintosh and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 30.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the

Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Opening SALUTE TO VIENNA Roy Thomson Hall and

Attila Glatz Concert Productions present the annual New Year’s Day concert with dancers from Ballet St. Polten accompanied by a live orchestra. Jan 1 at 2:30 pm. $55-$135. 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com.

WORD AND BEYOND #4 coexisDance and Element Choir present music by Eve Brown and dance by Julie Lassonde. Jan 5 at 8 pm. $8. Somewhere There Studio, 227 Sterling. myspace.com/coexisdance.

Continuing fTHE NUTCRACKER Ballet Jörgen presents the holiday classic, choreographed by Bengt Jörgen. To Dec 30, Thu 2 and 7 pm. $34-$46.

Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre. 905-477-5530, balletjorgencanada.ca. fTHE NUTCRACKER The National Ballet of Canada presents the holiday classic, choreographed by James Kudelka. Runs to Jan 2, 2011, Thu and Sun at 1 and 5:30 pm. $35.34$130.26. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca.

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books In 2011 we want…

More Canadian juries Less Canadian Literary Idol

We’re not buying CBC’s strategy of getting the public to name 10 finalists for Canada Reads this year. They’ve got a decent book team over there; let them decide. As it is, by the time the official panel makes its pitch, listeners wind up voting for the celebrity, not the book. And can we keep our prize juries Canadian, please? Every time a Brit steps in, something bad happens.

More stories Less tweetage

I’m with NOW contributor Jacob Scheier, who argued in our pages that writers in a huff over jury shenanigans – specifically the sale of the British rights to Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists thanks to Giller juror Ali Smith’s tip – ought to put their complaints in a story, not a tweet.

More film adaptations of Canadian books Less sucking up to the bestseller list

Kudos to Geddy Lee for securing the film rights to Dave Bidini’s Baseballissimo: My Summer In The Italian Minor Leagues. And damned if Brad Pitt’s production company hasn’t picked up Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists.. Both film adaptations have got to be better than that lazy reworking of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love.

More parking Less construction Not that we’re here to celebrate the car, but the International Festival Of Authors took a major hit this year when Harbourfront’s main parking lot was out of commission because of construction. Can’t believe the project won’t be completed until way past the 2011 edition of the festival.

Tweets complained that a Giller juror’s tip sealed a UK deal for Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists.

art MUST-SEE SHOWS F = Festive event ANGELL Painting: Steve Driscoll, to Jan 15. 12 Os-

sington. 416-530-0444.

FART METROPOLE Gifts By Artists: Multiples For The Holidays, Jan 5-15. Installation: Micah Lexier, to Dec 31. 788 King W. 416-703-4400.

ATELIER 688 Drawing/photos: Jay Dart and Dean West, to Jan 18. 688 Richmond W #201. 416-6712537.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Video/painting: Kelly Richardson and Wanda Koop, to Jan 22 (closed Dec 23-Jan 4).

129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Harold Town, to Jan 29. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

CLINT ROENISCH Drawing: Massimo Guerra, to Jan 15. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Painting: Jacob Yerex, to Jan 9. F Christmas group show, to Jan 2. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS Video: Werner Herzog, Isabelle Hayeur, Val Klassen and Dana Claxton, to Dec 31. 550 Bayview. 416-5961495.

GALLERY ARCTURUS Fierce Absolution group show, to Jan 22. 80 Gerrard E. 416-977-1077.

GENDAI GALLERY Residency In RMB City: Adrian Blackwell, Yam Lau and GestureCloud, to Jan 29.

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond.

647-200-6161.

GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Taking Shape group show, to Jan 22. 1520 Queen W. 416516-6876.

FGLADSTONE HOTEL Textiles: Hard Twist 5: Chroma!, to Jan 30. Carpets: Bev Hisey, to Feb 28.

Installation: Patty Zuver, to Jan 3. Photos: Residents Without Borders (World AIDS Day/Give a Day/Stephen Lewis Foundation/Dignitas International), to Jan 3. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Photos: Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s

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READINGS THIS WEEK

Greenbelt, to Jun 1. Too Cool For School: An Art & Science Fair (artandsciencefair.ca); unREAL; Barbara Balfour, Kristiina Lahde, Kotama Bouabane and others, to Jan 2. 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Live Long And Prosper: Images Of Longevity In Ukiyo-e, to Mar 5 (closed to Jan 3). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

INTERACCESS Oath Of The Homunculi group show, to Jan 22. 9 Ossington. 416-599-7206.

FNARWHAL ART PROJECTS The Unicorn: A Gathering Of Magic group show, to Dec 31. 680 Queen W. 647-346-5317.

OCADU ONSITE Video: Adel Abdessemed, to Feb 13. 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

OLGA KORPER Photos: Robert Mapplethorpe, to Jan 15. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220.

RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Lynn Kelly, Jan 5-29. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654.

ROUGE CONCEPT Gallery artists, Jan 4-Feb 6. 732 Queen E. 416-778-0555.

SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Painting: York Wilson, to Jul 31. 1 Front E. 416-8722262.

STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Space And Time group show, Jan 5-31, reception 7-11 pm Jan 5. 255 Bremner. 416-362-2337.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Multimedia: Tim Burton, to Apr 17 ($22.75, stu/srs $18.20). 350 King W. tiff. net/tiffbelllightbox.

TORONTO FREE GALLERY AIR (Alphabet City Festival); prints: TrashFoodFuelWaterAir (Circuit Gallery), to Feb 26. 1277 Bloor W. 416-9130461.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Richard Johnson, to Jan 8. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.

FXEXE Giftworthy group show; sculpture: Brad Copping and Annie Tung, to Jan 26 (by appt Dec 24-Jan 4). 624 Richmond W. 416-646-2706.

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Monday, January 3 ROWERS READING SERIES Michael Lista, Alison Pick and Drew Hayden Taylor.

7:30 pm. Free. Harbord House, 150 Harbord. 647-430-7365.

Wednesday, January 5 BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES Mary Frances Coady, Janis Goveas, Nicole Tanguay and Carlyn Zwarenstein. 7 to 9 pm. Free. St Anne’s Church, 270 Gladstone. 416-536-3160.

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painting: Eva Hesse, Betty Goodwin and Agnes Martin, to Jan 2. Installation: Laurel Woodcock, to Jan 30 (Young Gallery, free). Sculpture/drawing: 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 24Jan 2, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear; Socks: Between You And Your Shoes, ongoing. $12, srs $10, stu $6.

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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 group ñ show, to Jan 30. Installation: Jim

Hake, to Jan 2. Hot Commodity: Chinese Blue And White Porcelain, to Jan 9. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm halfprice, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

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A portrait of Grace Jones is part of the Robert Mapplethorpe show at Olga Korper Gallery.

Jan 2. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution Of The Group Of Seven, to Jan 30. Illustration: Clarence Gagnon, to Feb 27. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

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Geoffrey Farmer, to Dec 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/ prints/drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-603-7591.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Un-home-ly group show, to Feb 20. Centennial Sq, 120 Navy; Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

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ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Institute for Contemporary Culture: painting/sculpture: 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/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to May 13. Painting: 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. 416-5868000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Drawing With Scissors: Molas From Kuna Yala, to Feb 13. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape; sculpture: Kai Chan, to May 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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More Cultural Outreach Less Travel Porn

Movies like Sex And The City 2 and Eat Pray Love promised audiences the thrill of exotic locales and emotional journeys but delivered scene after empty scene of Hollywood stars self-actualizing in perfect lighting while brown people watched them expectantly. Let’s hope 2011 brings some genuine exploration of cultural differences rather than cheap shots about wearing Jimmy Choos under your burqa.

More Actual Actors Less Digital Enhancement

Jeff Bridges had a fantastic year, bookended by thoughtful, fully realized performances in Crazy Heart and True Grit and an unexpected star turn in TRON: Legacy. His humanity in that film also shows up the cheesy digital youthenizing that lets him play his younger selves: the tech just doesn’t work, turning the actor into one of those dead-eyed characters from The Polar Express. If Disney moves forward with TRON 3, let’s make sure to delete that particular program from memory.

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This ship has sailed Jean-Luc Godard’s latest is 97 minutes of an old man wanking By NORMAN WILNER FILM SOCIALISME written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard with Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger and Patti Smith. A Mongrel Media release. 97 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens today (Thursday, December 30) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 52. Rating: N

i don’t doubt for a second that Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Socialisme will find its defenders. The man is a true artist, and cinema owes him a massive debt just for Breathless, A Woman Is A Woman and Weekend, and for galvanizing his fellow New Wavers to reinvent the way movies were made in the 1950s.

But Film Socialisme is incomprehensible, incoherent and intolerable – 97 minutes of an old man wanking.

It’s the sort of movie Godard’s critics accuse him of making all the time, an empty, self-indulgent polemic.

I’m not usually one of those critics. I think he’s a legitimate master, and in the right circumstances he’s still capable of making great cinema. In Praise Of Love is one of my favourite films of the last decade.

Film Socialisme is the work of the same artist, its serene images disrupted by digressions about politics and morality, but it’s hollow, lacking the emotional immediacy of his greatest work.

There’s no discernible narrative. It opens on a cruise ship somewhere in the Mediterranean whose passengers sit in shadows and talk about stuff. A certain style of dress suggests they’re European. Certainly they converse, primarily in French. Patti Smith is there, carrying a guitar. Perhaps she’s got a gig later.

Godard shuffles through topics randomly, touching on American imperialism, the horrors of globaliza-

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tion and the question of Palestine.

(At the mention of that, the screen goes black and the words “ACCESS DENIED” appear in big letters.) The shifts in visual tone and subject matter are echoed on the soundtrack, which sometimes plays two different audio streams against one another to create a larger sense of chaotic discord. Why? Why not?

Maybe I didn’t fully understand it.

That’s certainly possible. Godard has ensured that the English subtitles actively work against the interpretation of the predominantly French dialogue, pulling a handful of words (“she has alife” (sic), “speak your parents”) out of a long speech.

My French was good enough to follow the lines as spoken, but it didn’t matter. Most of the time the characters are going on about nothing at all. Kinda like the movie.

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Sure, The Expendables was a box-office hit, but for the most part 2010 was a thoughtful year for film, when a perfectly constructed, brainy drama like The Social Network could find both a rhapsodic critical reception and box-office success, and a rousing crowd-pleaser like The King’s Speech could land TIFF’s People’s Choice Award.

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With projects like Defendor, Splice, The Wild Hunt and Leslie, My Name Is Evil, Canadian filmmakers turned established genres inside-out, challenged audience expectations and demonstrated that our cinema can be just as weird and unpredictable as it wants to be. The upstarts provided a much-needed contrast to empty offerings like Chloe and Gunless.

More Edgar Wright Less Ridley Scott

No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t turn Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World into a blockbuster. Fortunately, no one seems to hold it against director Edgar Wright, who’s seen his star rise even higher in Hollywood despite his movie’s failure. Meanwhile, after the turgid debacle of Robin Hood, fellow Brit Ridley Scott needs to take a long, hard look at his career in the decade since Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. Maybe that Alien prequel doesn’t need to be made right now, you know?

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Don’t worry, there are still two ENTER THE VOID (Gaspar Noé). 137 minhours to go. Oscar’s soul is free to float utes. Opens today (Thursday December around, flash back over his life and 30) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, peep in on his stripper sister (Paz de la page 52. Rating: NN Huerta) as she has a series of unpleasant sexual encounters – because no In the annals of European provocaNoé project is complete without sevteurs, Gaspar Noé is a mere footnote eral protracted scenes of a woman compared to directors like Michael weeping.

Haneke and Lars von Trier. Noé offers The director pretends to greater gimmicky portraits of one-dimensional depth – a friend of Oscar’s ugliness that can be shrugged off fairly helpfully summarizes easily. You might cringe during I The Tibetan Book Of Stand Alone and Irreversible, but The Dead to clue us in you won’t carry their horrors with to the movie’s you. structure – but he’s still Noé’s latest, Enter The Void, is playing in the shallow just as ugly and cruel as his previous end. If you’re chasing a features but comes coated in a hallucinogenic, unconsheen of psychedelia and spirituventional narrative exality. The whole thing is preperience, 2001: A Space sented from the point of Odyssey is still playing a view of Oscar (Nathaniel Paz de la Huerta plays couple of screens over in Brown), a young drug one of director Noé’s the Lightbox. NORMAN WILNER dealer whom we weeping women.

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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

win over the club’s owner (Cher), even as the place is going under. The silly plot is really an excuse to stage repetitive Broadway-style numbers that are more fun to watch than listen to. 100 min. NN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

finds the two youngest Pevensie siblings (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) whisked – along with their obnoxious hours. 132 min. NNN (NW) cousin (Will Poulter) – to the oceans of Grande - Yonge, Varsity Narnia, joining King Caspian (Ben Barnes) in a quest to find some missing lords and BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky) restore balance to his magical land. That finds director Aronofsky returning to is, until the movie drops all pretence of the intensely sensual headspace of his entertainment and turns into Walden debut film, Pi – now augmented with Media’s creepiest proselytization yet. 112 subtle digital effects and sweeping Dolby min. NN (NW) sound – for a deliriously operatic tale of a 401 & Morningside, Beach ballerina (Natalie PortCinemas, Carlton Cinman) who starts to ema, Coliseum Missislose her mind when EXPANDED REVIEWS sauga, Coliseum Scarborshe wins the role of nowtoronto.com ough, Colossus, Courtney the Swan Queen in a Park 16, Eglinton Town star-making producCentre, Empire Theatres at tion of Swan Lake at LinEmpress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queencoln Center. It’s a rich, weird experience, sway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow and a fine showcase for Portman’s treWoodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity mendous range. Vincent Cassel, as her Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkpossibly predatory choreographer, is dale pretty great himself, and Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey contribute vivid supCLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF porting turns. If you think the whole affair ELIOT SPITZER (Alex Gibney) could is a little over the top, that’s kind of the have been another story about a good guy point. Indeed, it’s the only way to make a pol who had a little sex and lost everymovie this ambitious and impassioned. thing, but director Gibney (Oscar winner 110 min. NNNN (NW) for Taxi To The Dark Side) presents Spitzer Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, as someone who was hounded by his Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kenenemies but also a deeply flawed person. nedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Too bad we don’t hear a word from Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Spitzer’s wife, but this pic is super-smart

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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 nightclub, but first she must

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as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the moon. That subplot provides the movie with its most engaging and entertaining moments; the other stuff, with Gru’s tube-shaped minions jumping around at us in 3-D, is a lot less interesting. 95 min.

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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

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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 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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min. See review, page 45. N (NW) Opens Dec 30 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (Daniel Alfredson) adapts the third

and final book in Stieg Larsson’s bestselling trilogy. It’s basically a dreary court procedural in which Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) stands trial for her father’s murder. See it to complete the story, but know that the film doesn’t cut it as a stand-alone. Subtitled. 146 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant

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(David Yates) is nearly two and a half hours long, doesn’t have an ending and introduces characters and situations that won’t pay off until the second half reaches theatres next summer – and none of that matters. This is the most satisfying and confident Harry Potter movie yet. 146 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

HEREAFTER (Clint Eastwood) is a muzzy-

young people (Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd) as they cope with major life changes. It’s presented as a fluffy romantic comedy, but Witherspoon and Rudd are 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, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

IF YOU ARE THE ONE 2 (Feng Xiaogang) is a Chinese romantic comedy by the director of recent TIFF hit Aftershock. See review December 30 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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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 expecta-

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HOW DO YOU KNOW (James L. Brooks) follows the fortunes of two very nice

(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.

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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

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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 documentary. Problem is, it’s almost too much of a confection and lacks tension.

Iron Chef pastry-style this isn’t. Some subtitles. 84 min. NNN (SGC)

Yes, newcomer Hailee Steinfeld is in just about every scene in this gritty adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel about vengeance. But she’ll likely win the supporting actress Oscar come February.

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(Danny Boyle) tells the story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), who spent the eponymous span of time trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon LITTLE FOCKERS (Paul Weitz) arrives six before hitting on a particularly horrible years after Meet The Fockers for more solution. Franco is terrific as a guy with a predictable in-law-from-hell hijinks. Now powerful will to live. And yes, the climax is raising five-year-old twins with his wife exactly as gruelling as you’ve heard. 93 Pam (Teri Polo), Gaylord “Greg” Focker min. NNNN (NW) (Ben Stiller) once again Cumberland 4, Empire raises the suspicions Theatres at Empress Walk, of Pam’s dad, retired Interchange 30, Kennedy EXPANDED REVIEWS CIA agent Jack (Robert Commons 20, Queensway, nowtoronto.com De Niro), who’s come Scotiabank Theatre for the twins’ birthday

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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.

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LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (Edward Zwick)

wants to be a frothy romantic comedy about a Pfizer pharmaceutical rep (Jake Gyllenhaal) who falls into a no-strings sexual relationship with a doe-eyed Parkinson’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, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

MADE IN DAGENHAM (Nigel Cole) is a

feminist crowd-pleaser from the director of Calendar Girls that tracks female workers, led by Rita O’Grady (an excellent Sally Hawkins), striking for equal pay at a UK Ford plant. It presses the women’s solidarity button almost too hard, but there’s some great writing, and the period detail is exquisite. 113 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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.

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ñRABBIT HOLE

(John Cameron Mitchell) tracks bereaved parents Becca and Howie in a moving meditation on grief. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart are sensational, as is Dianne Wiest as Kidman’s mother. Oscar could call on all of them, and the movie, too. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Varsity

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 nothing-special 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

ñTHE SOCIAL NETWORK

ingenius villain-beats-hero premise, but it’s executed with parts cribbed from Shrek, Despicable Me, The Incredibles and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Will Ferrell is great as the insecure super-genius, and David Cross has fun as his talking-fish sidekick, but they’re trapped in a formula storyline.

96 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

(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.

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MORNING GLORY (Roger Michell) casts

STONE (John Curran) stars Robert De Niro

MEGAMIND (Tom McGrath) has an

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

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

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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

Paul Giamatti brings Mordecai Richler’s world to life in Barney’s Version. of Jim Thompson’s lesser potboilers, or Norton’s sustained impression of Bubbles from The Wire. 105 min. N (NW) Interchange 30

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Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland attraction come to life. The best performance is delivered by the animators of Maximus, a guardsman’s horse clearly modelled on Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive – but funnier, obviously, because he’s a horse. 101 min.

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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

and Johnny Depp look great but 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. 103 min.

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The TowN (Ben Affleck) finds Affleck dir-

ecting himself as the brains behind a crew of Boston bank robbers who’s caught between the life and the heat when he falls for a hostage (Rebecca Hall) from his last job. Affleck struggles to reconcile his own dramatic interests with the demands of the heist genre. The result is an impeccably crafted but tonally wobbly studio picture that’s at war with itself. 125 min.

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TroN: legacy (Joseph Kosinski) is a great-

looking dud. The visual architecture is breathtaking: sweeping, neon-lit digital

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(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

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, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim) tracks Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, who collaborates with garbage pickers to create 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.

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yogi bear (Eric Brevig) won’t be spawning any new interest in the 50-year-old cartoon bear who parts campers from their “pic-anic” baskets. The new live-action 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 five-year-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)

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you agaiN (Andy Fickman) isn’t nearly

the guilty pleasure its premise promises.

Kristen Bell plays Marni, a successful woman whose brother is marrying her high-school nemesis, Joanna (Odette Yustman). Meanwhile, Marni’s mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) is shocked to discover that Joanna’s aunt (Sigourney Weaver) is her own high school rival. With the exception of Yustman, the leads do their best with the soggy material, even though there’s little motivation, character or real comedy. 105 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30

will meeT a Tall dark sTraNger ñyou

(Woody Allen) is a sly entry tracking the desires and anxieties of people who go the distance – and a bit too far – to chase their dreams. Great ensemble cast, especially Naomi Watts and Josh Brolin as a couple with problems. 98 min.

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BURLESQUE (PG) 4:15, 9:10 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:05 CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER Fri-Wed 1:45, 7:05 FAIR GAME (PG) 4:05, 9:30 THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (14A) FriWed 1:20, 6:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 INSIDE JOB (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 6:55 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 2:00, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:25 THE TOURIST (PG) 1:55, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 YOGI BEAR (G) 1:40, 3:35, 5:20, 7:15, 9:00 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (PG) 4:25, 9:35

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THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:40 4:30 7:15 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 127 HOURS (14A) 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40

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SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 MonWed 12:45, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:40 Fri-Sun 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:15, 9:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:10, 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 11:15, 12:30, 1:15, 2:10, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:15,

12:30, 1:20, 2:10, 3:20, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:40, 8:30, 9:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:20, 3:00, 4:10, 5:15, 5:45, 6:45, 7:40, 8:30, 9:45, 10:15 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 3:00, 6:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu 11:10, 1:40 Fri-Sun 11:45 Mon-Wed 1:20 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu 11:45, 12:40, 2:20, 3:40, 5:20, 6:40, 8:00, 9:20, 11:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:10, 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:15, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:20, 7:10, 9:15, 9:50 TRON: LEGACY (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 12:50, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:40, 6:15, 6:50, 9:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:50, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30, 9:00, 9:30 TRON: LEGACY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 11:00, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

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ENTER THE VOID 3:15, 6:10, 9:15 FILM SOCIALISME 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 KINGS OF PASTRY Thu-Fri 6:15 Sat-Mon 1:30 THE TEMPEST 6:45, 9:20 WASTE LAND Thu-Fri 8:15 Sat 4:00 Mon 3:30

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:30, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 12:20, 1:00, 3:20, 4:10, 6:10, 7:10, 9:00, 10:05 Wed no 6:10, 9:00 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 RABBIT HOLE (14A) 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 10:15 TRUE GRIT (14A) 12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50

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BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 MonWed 4:55, 7:30 BURLESQUE (PG) Thu-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 MonWed 4:00, 6:40 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Thu-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 MADE IN DAGENHAM (14A) Thu-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 MonWed 4:50, 7:05 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 MonWed no 1:10, 9:35

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BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu-Sun 11:15, 12:05, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15, 11:00 Mon-Wed 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-Sun 11:05, 2:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 Mon-Tue 2:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:55 DUE DATE (14A) 7:20, 9:45 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Thu-Sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3D Thu 10:30, 12:40, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:40, 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu-Sun 10:50, 2:15, 5:30, 8:45 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:30, 8:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu-Sun 10:35, 11:00, 12:15, 1:15, 1:55, 3:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:45, 9:10, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:15, 1:55, 3:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:45, 9:10, 11:00 IF YOU ARE THE ONE 2 Thu-Sun 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu-Sun 11:15, 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu-Sun 10:55, 1:40, 4:25,

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 11:45, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:45, 3:00, 6:20, 9:15 Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 MonWed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:45, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:30, 8:00 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 8:00 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:15, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 12:50, 3:15, 6:40, 9:20 MonWed 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu-Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 SunWed 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 MonWed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu 11:30, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sat 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu-Sat 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 12:10, 3:25, 6:25, 9:30 Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu-Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:35 SunWed 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3D 1:35, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) 12:50, 4:30, 8:00 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu-Sat 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu-Sat 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu-Sat 12:30, 1:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:00, 4:40, 6:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:15, 10:00, 10:40 Sun-Wed 12:30, 1:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:00, 4:40, 6:20, 7:00, 7:35, 9:00, 9:25, 10:05 LOVE & OTHER DRUGS (14A) 9:10 MEGAMIND (PG) Thu-Sat 2:10 Sun-Wed 1:00 127 HOURS (14A) Thu-Sat 4:55, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 8:55 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu-Sat 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:20 Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 TRON: LEGACY (PG) Thu-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:40 MonWed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 YOGI BEAR (G) 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu-Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35

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

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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) 1:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10:55 MEGAMIND (PG) 2:20, 5:10 127 HOURS (14A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 THE TOURIST (PG) 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) 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:20

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BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu-Sat 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 9:30, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 9:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:40, 6:50, 8:40, 9:50 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 GULLIVER’S TRAVELS 3D Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 FriSun 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 FriSun 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu-Sat 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 MonWed 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu-Sun 12:10, 3:00, 6:10, 8:30 MonWed 4:10, 6:20, 8:30

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FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 FriSat 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:10, 6:10, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 4:50, 8:50

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LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 tangLed 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:00 MonWed 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 true grit (14A) Thu-Sat 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00

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the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 the Fighter (14A) Thu-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d Thu-Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu-Sun 9:40 Mon-Wed 9:15 how do you know (PG) Thu-Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 tangLed (PG) Thu-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:20 the tourist (PG) Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu-Fri 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:00 MonWed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 true grit (14A) Thu-Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 MonWed 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 9:00

Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:10, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:30, 8:40 the Fighter (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 guLLiVer’s traVeLs Thu, Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:00 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 6:10, 9:40 Fri 6:05, 9:10 how do you know (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 12:40, 3:20, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 tangLed (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 1:45, 4:10, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sun 12:20, 3:00, 6:00, 8:45 MonWed 3:45, 6:15, 8:50 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 true grit (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 yogi Bear (G) Thu-Sun 1:15, 3:45 Mon-Wed 3:50 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:15, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 12:00, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20, 9:30

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce) SCarborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) 1:20, 4:10, 7:30, 10:20 the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 the Fighter (14A) 12:45, 1:05, 3:30, 3:55, 6:40, 6:55, 9:50, 10:00 guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 9:35 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) 12:40, 4:30, 8:30 how do you know (PG) 12:20, 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 LittLe Fockers (PG) 12:50, 1:30, 1:50, 3:40, 4:20, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10, 10:30 MegaMind (PG) 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 tangLed 3d (PG) 12:15, 3:10, 6:45, 9:45 unstoPPaBLe (PG) 8:50

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BLack swan (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 FriSun 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 the Fighter (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 FriSun 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu 12:05, 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:50, 6:25, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:25, 9:35 how do you know (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:25, 6:15, 9:45 FriSun 1:00, 3:55, 6:35, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:25 the king’s sPeech (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 FriSun 12:55, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 2:15, 4:00, 4:50, 6:20, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:50, 6:20, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45

LoVe & other drugs (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 9:05 tangLed (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 the tourist (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 tron: Legacy (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 true grit (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 yogi Bear (G) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 6:00 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:15 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:10

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

BLack swan (14A) Thu-Sun 11:10, 12:00, 1:50, 2:35, 4:25, 5:10, 7:10, 7:55, 9:55, 10:45 Mon 12:00, 1:50, 2:35, 4:25, 5:10, 7:10, 7:55, 9:55, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:35, 4:25, 5:10, 7:10, 7:55, 9:55, 10:45 BurLesque (PG) Thu 11:15, 4:55, 10:35 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:05, 7:20 Mon-Wed 2:05, 7:20 due date (14A) Thu 4:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:55, 10:05 iF you are the one 2 Thu-Sun 10:10, 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 Mon 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 in this LiFe (PG) Thu-Sun 10:55, 2:15, 5:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:40, 9:10 the king’s sPeech (PG) Thu-Sun 10:35, 12:40, 1:30, 3:35, 4:25, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Mon 12:40, 1:30, 3:35, 4:25, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:35, 4:25, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 LoVe & other drugs (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:05 Made in dagenhaM (14A) Thu 2:05, 7:45 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:50, 7:15 Mon 1:50, 7:15 Tue-Wed 7:15 127 hours (14A) Thu-Sun 11:45, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 the sociaL network (14A) Thu 11:05, 1:50, 7:15 Fri-Wed 4:30, 10:00 tees Maar khan (PG) Thu-Sun 10:55, 2:05, 5:15, 8:30 Mon-Wed 2:05, 5:15, 8:30 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sun 11:40, 1:35, 2:20, 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:25, 10:10 Mon 1:35, 2:20, 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:25, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:25, 10:10 tron: Legacy (PG) Thu-Sun 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 Fri 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 Mon 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 true grit (14A) Thu-Sun 11:05, 12:05, 1:45, 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 Mon 12:05, 1:45, 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 yogi Bear (G) Thu-Sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:15, 7:25, 9:35 MonWed 2:00, 4:15, 7:25, 9:35 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu 10:45, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:10, 10:45, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce) Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 due date (14A) Thu-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:20, 6:35, 9:15 the Fighter (14A) Thu-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 MonWed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) 1:10, 4:50, 8:30 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu-Sat 11:30, 12:10, 1:00, 2:00, 3:10, 3:50, 4:45, 6:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:40 Sun 11:30, 12:10, 1:00, 2:00, 3:10, 3:50, 4:45, 6:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:35, 1:15, 2:00, 3:10, 3:50, 4:35, 6:00, 6:45, 7:20, 8:45, 9:25, 9:55 tangLed 3d (PG) Thu-Sun 11:15, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 MonWed 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 12:00, 12:40, 3:00, 4:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:40, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 12:40, 3:00, 4:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:20, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 tron: Legacy: an iMaX 3d eXPerience (PG) Thu-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 true grit (14A) Thu-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 MonWed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50

CourTney Park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 BLack swan (14A) Thu 11:40, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35 FriSun 10:50, 1:35, 4:00, 6:35, 9:05, 11:25 Mon 11:30, 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu 10:10, 1:10, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 the Fighter (14A) Thu 10:20, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sat 10:20, 12:55, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00, 11:30 Sun 3:30, 6:15, 9:00, 11:30 Mon 11:35, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30

guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d Thu 10:25, 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Sun 10:00, 12:10, 2:10, 4:10, 6:15, 8:15, 10:50 Mon 12:10, 2:10, 4:10, 6:15, 8:15, 10:35 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:10, 6:15, 8:15, 10:35 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu 9:10 Fri-Sun 7:45, 11:05 Mon-Wed 7:35, 10:40 how do you know (PG) Thu 10:15, 1:05, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Mon 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 the king’s sPeech (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:35, 5:25, 8:05, 10:55 Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu 10:05, 11:00, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:35, 8:35, 10:00, 10:50 Fri-Sun 10:00, 11:20, 12:20, 1:50, 2:40, 4:10, 5:00, 6:35, 7:35, 9:00, 10:00, 11:20 Mon 11:20, 12:20, 1:50, 2:40, 4:10, 5:00, 6:35, 7:35, 9:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:50, 2:40, 4:10, 5:00, 6:35, 7:35, 9:00, 10:00 tangLed (PG) Thu 10:55, 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 FriMon 11:05, 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 the tourist (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:55, 5:40, 8:45 Fri-Sun 10:05, 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:35 Mon 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:35 Tue-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:35 tron: Legacy (PG) Thu 11:25, 2:25, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 FriSun 10:00, 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 9:55 Mon 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 9:55 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu 10:45, 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 tron: Legacy: an iMaX 3d eXPerience (PG) Thu 10:00, 1:00, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:20, 5:05, 8:00, 11:00 Mon 11:25, 2:20, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 true grit (14A) Thu 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:10, 12:45, 3:20, 6:00, 8:45, 11:15 Mon 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 yogi Bear (G) Thu 10:30, 12:35, 2:40, 4:50, 6:55 Fri-Mon 11:10, 1:25, 3:30, 5:30 Tue-Wed 1:35, 3:30, 5:30 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu 10:00, 12:00, 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20 Fri-Sun 10:15, 12:20, 2:35, 4:45, 6:45, 8:50, 11:00 Mon 12:20, 2:35, 4:45, 7:15, 9:20 Tue-Wed 2:35, 4:45, 7:15, 9:20

SilverCiTy MiSSiSSauga (Ce) hWy 5, eaST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

BLack swan (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d Thu 1:20, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 FriSat 1:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:00 how do you know (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 FriSat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 MonWed 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 the king’s sPeech (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 FriSat 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 tangLed 3d (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 true grit (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:50, 3:30, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 1:50, 3:30, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 Sun 12:40, 1:50, 3:30, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00 yogi Bear (G) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:40

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

BLack swan (14A) Thu, Sat 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 1:15, 4:25, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:10

the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 11:45, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:15, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 due date (14A) Thu, Sat 4:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri 4:20, 7:45, 10:25 Sun 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:25, 10:05 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu-Sat 11:15, 2:30, 6:15, 9:50 Sun 11:15, 2:30, 6:10, 9:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:10 how do you know (PG) Thu-Sat 12:25, 3:55, 6:55, 10:05 Sun 12:25, 3:55, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 the king’s sPeech (PG) Thu-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu, Sat 12:15, 1:00, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 12:15, 1:00, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 1:00, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 6:40, 7:20, 8:40, 9:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 4:10, 4:45, 6:15, 6:45, 7:30, 8:40, 9:10, 9:55 MegaMind (PG) Thu-Sun 1:30 Mon-Wed 4:30 tangLed 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 8:55 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sat 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:15, 6:40, 7:20, 9:35, 10:15 Sun 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:20, 9:50 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu, Sat 12:00, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:30 Fri 12:00, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 4:20, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10 tron: Legacy: an iMaX 3d eXPerience (PG) Thu-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 true grit (14A) Thu, Sat 12:45, 1:30, 3:40, 4:20, 7:05, 7:40, 9:55, 10:40 Fri 12:45, 1:30, 3:40, 4:20, 7:05, 7:40, 9:55, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 1:30, 3:40, 4:20, 6:35, 7:40, 9:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:15, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 9:45 yogi Bear (G) Thu-Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 8:40 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu-Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:05, 8:10

inTerChange 30 (aMC)

30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 BurLesque (PG) Thu-Sat 10:45, 12:55, 1:40, 4:00, 4:35, 6:50, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15 Sun 12:55, 1:40, 4:00, 4:35, 6:50, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:35, 6:45, 7:20, 9:35, 10:10 desPicaBLe Me 3d (PG) Thu-Sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:05, 5:25 Mon-Wed 5:25 easy a (14A) Thu-Sun 2:50, 7:55 Mon-Wed 7:55 Fair gaMe (PG) Thu-Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Faster (14A) Thu-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 MonWed 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 the Fighter (14A) Thu-Sun 10:35, 11:15, 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 4:55, 7:00, 7:45, 9:55, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:15 the girL who kicked the hornet’s nest (14A) ThuSun 12:25, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 guLLiVer’s traVeLs Thu-Sun 11:20, 2:00, 4:15, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:25, 8:35 guLLiVer’s traVeLs 3d Thu-Sun 10:55, 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 3:45, 4:50, 6:30, 7:50, 9:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:50, 5:50, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:10 guzaarish (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 MonWed 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 hereaFter (PG) Thu-Sun 12:40, 6:40 Mon-Wed 6:20 incePtion (PG) Thu-Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Jackass 3d (18A) Thu-Sun 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 7:35, 10:05 Legend oF the guardians: the owLs oF ga’hooLe 3d (PG) Thu-Sun 11:55, 2:35, 5:20 Mon-Wed 5:20 Let Me in (14A) Thu-Sun 11:55, 5:15, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:15, 10:10 LiFe as we know it (PG) Thu-Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:50

LoVe & other drugs (14A) Thu-Sun 10:50, 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 Made in dagenhaM (14A) Thu-Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Morning gLory (PG) Thu-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:30, 10:00 the neXt three days (14A) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 127 hours (14A) Thu-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 ParanorMaL actiVity 2 (14A) Thu-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 raise your head (14A) Thu-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:55, 9:10 red Thu-Sun 10:45, 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 saw 3d (18A) Thu-Sun 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 7:45, 10:05 secretariat (G) Thu-Sun 1:05, 6:50 Mon-Wed 6:25 the sociaL network (14A) Thu-Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 stone Thu-Sun 3:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:50, 9:15 tees Maar khan (PG) Thu-Sat 12:05, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 the town (14A) Thu-Sun 11:10, 2:05, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 unstoPPaBLe (PG) Thu-Sun 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 you again (PG) Thu-Sun 3:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:55, 9:10

rainboW ProMenade (i)

ProMenade Mall, hWy 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Fri 1:15, 4:15, 6:50 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Fri 12:45, 2:55, 5:15, 7:25 Mon 2:55, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 the tourist (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:15 tron: Legacy (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35 Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:00 Sat-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:25 true grit (14A) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 1:10, 3:50, 6:45 yogi Bear 3d (G) Thu, Sat-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:05, 9:10 Fri 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:05

West grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

the chronicLes oF narnia: the Voyage oF the dawn treader 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 12:25, 3:15, 6:15, 9:10 Sun 12:25, 3:15, 6:15, 9:05 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:05 the Fighter (14A) Thu-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 guLLiVer’s traVeLs Thu-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 harry Potter and the deathLy haLLows: Part 1 (PG) Thu-Sat 9:05 Sun-Wed 9:00 how do you know (PG) Thu-Sun 12:35, 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 LittLe Fockers (PG) Thu-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 tangLed (PG) Thu-Sat 1:20, 3:55, 6:35 Sun 1:20, 3:55, 6:30 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30 the tourist (PG) Thu-Sat 1:00, 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 3:35, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 tron: Legacy 3d (PG) Thu-Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 true grit (14A) Thu-Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 10:00 yogi Bear (G) Thu-Sat 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:25 3

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Toronto stalwarts return with songs off their classic and just-reissued Shakespeare My Butt. 5:33

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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

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Thu 30 – RED (2010) D: Robert Schwentke.

4:30 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 7 pm. Fair Game (2010) D: Doug Liman. 9:30 pm.

Fri 31 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath 2:15 pm. The Social Network. 4:20 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 7 pm. saT 1 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part One (2010) D: David Yates. 4 pm.

The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 7 pm. The Social Network. 9:35 pm. suN 2 – Megamind. 1:15 pm. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part One. 3:30 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 6:30 pm. The Social Network. 9:10 pm. moN 3 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part One. 3:30 pm. Never Let Me Go (2010) D: Mark Romanek. 6:30 pm. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010) D: Woody Allen. 8:40 pm.

Tue 4 – The Social Network. 4:15 pm.

You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. 7 pm. Never Let Me Go. 9:05 pm.

Wed 5 – Hot Docs Doc Soup presents The Mouth Of The Wolf (2009) D: Pietro Marcello. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. $12. hotdocs.ca.

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See the anti-pinko mayor and his friend Don Cherry at the mayoral inauguration.

5:09 REVOLVERS Watch the psych rock revivalists tear up Sonic Boom. 3:47

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Thu 30 – Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) D:

ñDavid Lean. 1 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) D: Stanley Kubrick. 6 & 9:15 pm.

Fri 31 – Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

(2005) D: Tim Burton. Noon. Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm. Alice In Wonderland (2010) D: Tim Burton. 3 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. saT 1 – Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm. James And The Giant Peach (1996) D: Henry Selick. 3:45 pm. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) D: Tim Burton. 6 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm. suN 2 – Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm. The Gold Rush (1925) D: Charles Chaplin.

3:30 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm.

Monsieur Verdoux (1947) D: Charles Chaplin.

6:30 pm. moN 3 – Charles Chaplin X 2: A Woman Of Paris (1923), and Sunnyside (1919). 12:15 pm.

Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm. Charles Chaplin X 2: The Kid (1921), and A Day’s Pleasure (1919).

3:30 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm.

Limelight (1952) D: Charles Chaplin. 6:30 pm.

Tue 4 – Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm. 2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm.

Wed 5 – Lawrence Of Arabia. 1 pm.

2001: A Space Odyssey. 6 & 9:15 pm.

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Mixed-up Mouth THE MOUTH OF THE WOLF (Pietro Marcello) Rating: NNN Pietro Marcello’s elliptical The Mouth Of The Wolf is an odd choice for Doc Soup. The monthly documentary showcase tends to lean toward more conventional programming rather than atmospheric, observational works like this one. It’s a nice change of pace, but I wish it were more satisfying.

The film traces the love story of Enzo and Maria, two aging residents of the Italian coastal city of Genoa. In voice-over, Enzo, who did hard time for injuring three police officers in a shootout, tells us of his deep and enduring connection to his beloved Maria, whom he met in prison.

In her own voice-over, Maria speaks of having been a junkie when she met Enzo; what she doesn’t specifically tell us is that she was also a man.

Marcello intercuts their story with archival images of Genoa – the better to illustrate the world that produced them, I suppose.

The juxtaposition doesn’t quite work. With a running time of just over an hour, The Mouth Of The Wolf fails to knit itself together, leaving the relationship between Enzo and Maria and their city’s history frustratingly vague. It’s still a moving portrait of an unlikely romance, but the backdrop never comes into focus.

Screens Wednesday (January 5) at the Bloor. See NormaN WilNer listings, this page.

ema, including Documents/Itineraries, a program of shorts and réalitiés including Fuego En Castilla (1958-59) D: José Val del Omar, De Purificatione Automobilis (1974) D: Gabriel Blanco and others. 7 pm. Free.

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Thu 30 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath.

2 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 4:15 & 9 pm. Due Date (2010) D: Todd Phillips. 7 pm.

Fri 31 – Megamind. 2 pm. The Social Network. 4:15 pm. Due Date. 7 pm. saT 1– Megamind. 2 pm. Due Date. 4:15 & 9:20 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. suN 2 – Megamind. 2 pm. The Social Network. 4:15 & 7 pm. Due Date. 9:20 pm. moN 3-Tue 4 – The Social Network. 7 pm. Due Date. 9:20 pm.

Wed 5 – Morning Glory (2010) D: Roger Michell. 1:30 & 7pm. The Social Network. 9 pm.

Thu 30 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm.

IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 & 5 pm.

Fri 31 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm.

IMAX Hubble. Noon. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. saT 1 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm.

IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 & 5 pm. suN 2 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am & 3 pm.

IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. The Light Before Christmas. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 & 5 pm. moN 3-Wed 5 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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Thu 30 – Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath.

2 pm. Fair Game (2010) D: Doug Liman. 4 pm. Burlesque (2010) D: Steve Antin. 7 pm.

The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher.

9:20 pm.

Fri 31 – Megamind. 1 pm. Burlesque. 3 pm.

The Social Network. 5:15 pm. Fair Game.

7:30 pm. saT 1 – Megamind. 2 pm. Burlesque. 4 pm.

The Social Network. 7 pm. Fair Game. 9:25 pm. suN 2 – Megamind. 2 pm. Burlesque. 4 pm. The Social Network. 7 pm. Fair Game. 9:20 pm.

moN 3 – The Social Network. 1 pm. Fair

Game. 7 pm. Hereafter (2010) D: Clint Eastwood. 9:10 pm.

Tue 4 – Fair Game. 6:45 pm. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (2009) D: Daniel Alfredson. 9 pm.

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Fri 31-saT 1 – Closed. suN 2-Wed 5 – Due Date (2010) D: Todd Phillips. 7 pm. The Social Network. 9:15 pm.

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Emma Stone scores an Easy A – but her commentary doesn’t.

Easy A (Sony, 2010) D: Will Gluck, w/

Emma Stone, Penn Badgley. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NN Easy A’s fresh story and surprising humour put the boots to the high school movie’s sniggering obsession with losing one’s virginity, and bring it kissingclose to the likes of Heathers and Rock ’N’ Roll High School – teen classics with teeth.

Olive (Emma Stone) lies to her best friend that she’s lost her virginity. The news is all over school in an instant, with embellishments, which leads her to embrace her bogus notoriety and begin having pretend sex with lots of guys. Parents, teachers and Christian loonies are concerned.

Stone makes Olive a smart, funny and sane kid who gets her outlook from dotty parents beautifully played

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(Sony, 2010) D: Phillip Noyce, w/ Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNNN CIA operative Salt (Angelina Jolie) goes on the run in Washington, DC when a defector denounces her as a Russian sleeper agent activated to assassinate the Russian president.

Her colleagues, played by Liev Schreiber, who believes she’s innocent, and Chiwetel Ejiofor, who doesn’t, follow in hot pursuit.

The action never stops. Jolie kicks, punches, shoots, strangles, leaps from moving vehicles and throws together a homemade bomb. Highly entertaining and very reminiscent of 60s spy thrillers, right down to the old dagger-inthe-shoe trick straight out of From Russia With Love, the spy school gimmick that was a staple of the decade.

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by Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci. Thomas Haden Church and Lisa Kudrow as the movie’s other adult couple deliver more sharp humour, much of it owing to Church’s dry, wait-a-beat delivery.

Director Will Gluck’s two favourite words are “cadence” and “rhythm,” according to Stone in their shared commentary. This explains key aspects of the humour and is one of the commentary’s two interesting facts.

The other involves lobsters on movie sets. Stone and Gluck don’t care for commentaries. They let us know up front and go on to prove it.

EXTRAS Commentary, gag reel, Stone audition footage. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

gest he’s making the same movie and telling the same story again and again.

Not your average commentary.

EXTRAS Commentary, Jolie-asaction-hero and disguises docs, Noyce interview. Widescreen.

English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Fox, 2010) D: Oliver

Stone, w/ Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN “A love letter to New York,” “a comedy of manners,” “whimsical.” Oliver Stone applies all these words to Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Personally, I go with “interesting failure,” “uneven” or “a mess.”

In 2008, the sub-prime lending bubble starts to burst and the investment bank where Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf) works goes under,

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helped along by a shove from archrival Bretton James (Josh Brolin). At the same time, Moore is in love with Winnie (Carey Mulligan), the estranged daughter of 80s Wall Street shark Gordon “Greed Is Good” Gekko (Michael Douglas). Gekko gives Moore the dirt on James so Moore will help him become reconciled with his daughter.

After an hour of set-up, a plot emerges about bringing down James. Then an altogether different and completely unbelievable plot erupts from nowhere and lurches to a laughable curbside resolution.

On the upside, Stone wrings solid drama from boardroom meetings.

Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and Eli Wallach turn in fine performances, and the visuals are handsome and occasionally inventive.

Stone’s commentary touches on filmmaking, his views on the current economic horror show and his life philosophy. He’s engaging and provocative, which makes up for the time he spends telling us how to respond to his movie.

EXTRAS Commentary, Gekko appreciation doc. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

The American (Alliance, 2010) D:

Anton Corbijn, w/ George Clooney, Violante Placido. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN Nothing much happens in the first hour, but it’s pretty to watch because director Anton Corbijn knows how to get the most out of his Italian hillside village and surrounding countryside.

It’s also mildly tense, because somebody is spying on Mr. Butterfly (George Clooney), an assassin sent to hide in the village after a botched job in Sweden that’s left him with a bad conscience. Butterfly, with few words and a perpetually haunted gaze, hangs out with the village priest, falls for a local hooker (Violante Placido) and customizes an assassin’s rifle for an icy blond.

We know exactly where this is going long before he announces that this is his last job, and it goes there without surprises, thrills or any discernible emotion. Clooney has done such a good job of making Butterfly a closed-down guy that we just don’t care.

The extras explain that he’s seeking redemption. It doesn’t help.

EXTRAS Director’s commentary, making-of doc, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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Coming Tuesday, January 4

Case 39 (Paramount, 2010) Renée

Zellweger plays a social worker who puts herself in peril when she rescues an abused child and brings her home.

The Last Exorcism (Alli-

ance, 2010) With documentary crew in tow, a phony exorcist heads into backwoods Louisiana to reveal his tricks in one last ritual.

Things go terribly wrong.

Machete (Fox, 2010) Robert Rodriguez’s high-energy actioner about an ex-Federale hell bent on revenge stars Danny Trejo with Robert De Niro and Jessica Alba.

Dinner For Schmucks (Para-

mount, 2010) Paul Rudd and Steve Carell star as a young executive and the guy he invites to a dinner to be mocked.

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Queensway & Parklawn 4 Hill Heights Rd, Newly Renovated suites, Bachelor $650., 2 Bedroom $900. Clean quiet building. Please call 416-236-9617

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BLOOR & SPADINA fine bach apt in Victorian house 332 Brunswick Ave. 900.00/month all-inclusive

416-967-7620

call Johan avail. Jan 1st.

for rent - 1 bdrm ADMIRAL/ANNEX 1 bdrm. apt. 3rd. flr. of quiet house of retired prof. Wooden beams, skylights, a/c, about 400 sq.ft.

Common entrance, 10 mins on foot from U of T., 1 person only, no pets. $1200/mo. incl. util.,cable, i-net., furn./unfurn. avail. Jan.1st on 1 year lease.,416-924-8976-leave message.

BEACHES 1 bdrm. above store, dinning room, deck, laundry, garage, $1100 Call 416-698-2379

Broadview/Danforth Furn. 1 bedroom, parking, $875 incl., avail. immed. from January to June Call 416-826-5398

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office/retail commercial space $4000/mo., 2650 sq. ft. + bsmt. huge storefront, can be divided in half; 2 front and 2 back doors, walk to beaches, wheelchair accessable call Nick 416-858-5124

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I really need some help and comfort.

I am a straight 25-year-old woman, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend for four years. I had never been the romantic type until I met him. At the beginning, we were purely sexual. We love roleplaying, and we always came up with erotic fantasies of me being fucked and used by multiple men, or some fantasy where others were involved. It was hot to me until I fell in love with him. Now the only thing that turns me on is him.

Even though he says he loves me, I cannot say he gets turned on by thinking of only me. We still continue these fantasies, but lately I’m seeing that every single time we are intimate, he always talks about things he wants other men (and women) to do to me or what he wants to do with others while I’m around. He never talks about a hot fantasy that involves only him and me. I drew the line when he started bringing my best friend into our role-playing. When I told him I would prefer if he didn’t bring her into it, he ignored me and talked about her anyway. The last time I brought it up, he said he won’t tell me his fantasies any more and that he’ll just tell me what I want to hear. He also said that by asking him to stop thinking of others, I am demeaning him and his sexuality.

I have done everything I can to please him. I have done things sexually that I swore I would never do, because I trusted him. I guess my question is, am I demeaning him when I ask him to not bring up others in our role-playing every time we’re intimate? It wouldn’t bother

me if it were once in a while. I wind up feeling unattractive and never good enough. What can I do to make him want only me?

Not Good Enough Nothing.

He’s never gonna want just you and only you, NGE. All that crazy, groupy, kinky shit that turned him on when you first got together – the shit that turned you on before you fell in love with him – still turns him on and will always turn him on.

Now, I know you’re not doing it on purpose, NGE, and this is just how you feel, and feelings are sacrosanct lil’ mysteries and there’s nothing you can do about them, but I’ve never understood people who are up for anything with someone they’re into – dirty talk, crazy sex, groups (real or imagined) – up until the moment they fall in love with that person.

Um… shouldn’t falling in love, and the deepening feelings of trust and security that go along with that, open a couple up to new possibilities, new horizons, new sexual adventures?

And if falling in love with someone means the end of sexual adventure and fantasy and role-play – if falling in love means previously acceptable fantasies wind up on your partner’s no-fly list – isn’t that a huge disincentive to fall in love?

That said, NGE, your boyfriend should, at the very least, mix it the fuck up. Even if you were into groups – or still into groups, or still into thoughts of groups – hearing about groups each and every time you fuck would get pretty fucking tedious

after four fucking years. And pressing ahead with annoying fantasies about specific people – your best friend, your mom, your boss – after you’ve asked him to stop is an asshole move. If he needs dirty talk to get off, he should find new dirty scenarios to explore, including some that involve you and only you, save the group fantasies for “once in a while,” and leave your best friend out of it.

As for feeling unattractive, you should make him aware of your insecurities – if you haven’t already – and he should be considerate enough to come through with regular reassurances about your attractiveness, his feelings for you, how hot he thinks your body is, etc, etc.

Finally, NGE, I want to emphasize again that there’s nothing you can do to make him want you and only you. He is who he is, he’s turned on by what turns him on, and you knew that when you fell in love with him. You have neither the right nor the power to reach into his erotic imagination and yank out the bits that conflict with your ideas of what sex is or should be when two people are in love.

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that your attitude is demeaning, though. It’s more delusional, perhaps, with a sprinkling of irrational jimmies. But not demeaning.

be enough to make me happy.

I have asked her about the possibility of having a threesome. She said she would never go for that, not MMF or FFM, and she is utterly against it and always will be. But I NEED more. Sad fact. What do I do?

Coming Up More You could stick it out, I suppose, in the hopes that true love has the opposite effect on your girlfriend than it did on NGE here, i.e., that once your girlfriend is crazy for you, CUM, she’ll want to fuck shitloads of other people and she’ll give you the goahead to do the same. The odds of that happening, however, are close enough to nonexistent that I would be stripped of my professional accreditation if I advised you to live in hope.

Look, CUM, you’re 21 and you’re not ready to settle down – or settle for one person – not yet anyway, maybe not ever. However lovely this girl is, however pleasant your evenings together are, you’re not sexually compatible. There would be fewer divorces and less heartbreak if people were encouraged to view sexual incompatibility as the deal breaker it inevitably becomes over time.

Dump the nice girl, be single, fuck around and keep your eyes peeled for a girl who wants what you want, change and all.

I am a 21-year-old male In a lovIng

my frIend – I swear, I actually mean

and committed relationship. The sex is great; the evenings together are great.

It’s a perfectly happy relationship except for this one thing: I can’t get enough change. I want to be having sex with someone else. One girl is never going to

my friend – has been “notdating” his “notboyfriend” since August. They see each other on an almost daily basis and have even had a conversation about exclusivity. The “notboyfriend” won’t fuck my friend! What’s even weirder is that

they started out as fuck buddies and then didn’t speak for a year before they started dating.

What should my friend do? He would like to have sex with the “notboyfriend,” since it was awesome the first run.

Concerned Lesbian It’s possible that your friend’s notboyfriend seroconverted sometime after their fuck-buddy arrangement expired and before they started dating, and the notboyfriend wants to disclose his new HIV status before they start fucking again and is having a hard time working up the nerve.

Or it could be that your friend’s notboyfriend isn’t into your friend sexually but depends on his emotional support and doesn’t want to have to share him, or compete for his nonsexual attentions, with a real, live, honest-to-god boyfriend.

Here’s what your friend should do: tell the notboyfriend that, while he values the emotional intimacy they share, he’s looking for sexual intimacy, too. If there’s some reason why they’re not fucking, he wants to know what it is. If there’s no reason, he wants to start fucking. Your friend needs to make it clear that there will be no “exclusivity” – and no more “notdating” – until they’re notnotfucking.

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