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the cover of the love & sex guide (NOW,Februry10-16)showsamuscular black man with a blond white woman.Nothingwrongwiththat,except that it’s becoming clichéd to showsuchpairings. Blondwhitewomenaretheclichéd ideaofthemostdesirablefemale,not just by white men, but as in trophy wives for men of all races. Muscular blackmaleshavealsobecomeacliché. IsaiahMustafa,oftheOldSpiceads,is yetanothermanifestation. Inperhapsthemostethnicallyand racially diverse city in the world, it seems odd that politically correct, NDP-lovingNOWwouldnottryfora more original idea of a romantic heterosexualcouple–likeanathletic South Asian man with a black woman. Thomas Graff
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that full-page ad about how third-party cigarettes or “contraband” cigarettes act as a gateway for other crime (NOW, February 10-16) is total bullshit, and I’m not happy seeing it in NOW. If the government of Canada truly cared about the safety and wellbeing of others, it wouldn’t facilitate the mass production of smokes in the first place. Aaron Vaccariello Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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Bad Dog fades to black
the closing of bad dog theatre (NOW Daily, February 13) is a sad development. The theatre has played host to many great shows. A great one was Show Stopping Number! The Improvised Musical, which won a Canadian Comedy Award and went to The Best Of The Fringe after a successful run at the Toronto Fringe. Good times indeed! Sean Fisher
Don’t cry for Bad Dog
perhaps if now uber-critic Glenn Sumi had come and reviewed shows once in a while rather than completely ignoring Bad Dog Theatre, it wouldn’t be closing. All this outpouring of love at this point does the theatre little good, Mr. Sumi. Ralph MacLeod
Arcade Fire’s up
kanye west changing his mind about Arcade Fire, whether to fit in or in true admiration (NOW Daily, February 14), is the least of things to come out in the aftermath of their award win. In my opinion, the atrophy among Grammy Award followers is clear from their belief that because some of them don’t know who Arcade Fire is, somehow that makes the group less musical and/or deserving of the award. Adrian Muir
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Rethinking the Pan Am Games
Just where is the city going to get the $40 million or so needed to clean up contaminated soil for Pan Am projects? From the reserve fund used to maintain Toronto’s 161 closed landfill sites.
Peace in the Middle East
After 17 days of protests, the people of Egypt topple a dictator, and the rumblings of democracy are felt across the Arab world. Read our continuing coverage on page 18.
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Canuck rockers surprise the world to take album-ofthe-year honours at the Grammys. Read Jason Richards’s post at nowtoronto.com on why all of a sudden Kanye West is seeing the light.
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Who Chilled-out masked man? What Icycle’s 10th annual ice ride at Dufferin Grove Park Saturday, February 12. Why This year to raise money for Peter McKenzie, who was badly injured just before Christmas when he was hit by a car while riding his bike on the Bloor Viaduct.
Toronto Zoo’s pachyderm problem Should the Toronto Zoo’s three elephants be moved to a sanctuary in California? Councillor Shelley Carroll wants to. We size up their living conditions: Zoo industry standard for space to roam for elephants 1,800 square feet Size of the elephant pen at the Toronto Zoo. 10,000-plus square feet Size of elephant sanctuary in San Andreas, California 930 hectares The distance elephants have been observed to walk per day in the wild 195 km What it would cost to expand the Toronto Zoo’s elephant pen $40 million Number of people who signed councillor Carroll’s petition 1,518
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An empty victory for Island Airport foe CommunityAIR this week. Turns out the org was right all along about the pedestrian tunnel proposed by the Toronto Port Authority: it’s illegal under regulations prohibiting any “fixed link” between the airport and the mainland. Transport Canada explicitly said so in a letter sent to waterfront stakeholders February 11. The poison in that missive is that Transport Canada now plans to officially change the regs to allow the tunnel. Gravy plane? The projected cost of the tunnel: $45 million.
The answer to the province’s longterm energy plans may be blowin’ in the wind, but the Grits tilted on the side of political expediency, imposing a moratorium on wind farms, including an offshore project slated for the Bluffs. Read what Tory leader Tim Hudak had to do with it at nowtoronto.com.
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so no need to put the ingredients on the bottle. Gulp to that. The Food And Drug Act allows brewers to leave some 40 categories of ingredients off their labels, including tasty things like wood shavings and “pH-adjusting and water-correcting agents.” Did we mention nylon? On Monday, February 14, the feds came through for doctors, consumer groups and health advocates pushing for stricter labelling on food and beverages, including wine and spirits, but exempted beer at the last minute. We get it. The Tories like Molsons.
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City Hall Watch We’re not sure if Mayor Rob Ford’s kidney stone last week had anything to do with big brother Councillor Doug Ford’s musings that he may run for the Tories in the fall provincial runoff. It might well have, but the chances of Dougie, the brains behind the big boss, jumping ship are next to zilch. Three reasons why: 1) Doug Ford is a nutty guy, but he’s not nuts enough to think he can juggle the job of MPP and run City Hall on the side, is he? 2) It would be a daunting task to unseat the sitting Liberal MPP, Shafiq Qaadri, in Etobicoke North, even if the riding is Ford’s backyard. Qaadri won by 9,436 votes over his PC rival in 2007. 3) The mayor can’t fly solo at City Hall, especially since his other trusted ally, chief of staff Nick Kouvalis, is no longer there minding the mothership.
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Meet enviropig. ThaT’s noT This swine’s real name, jusT his Trademark. he’s goT eco-friendly poop and was conceived in a TesT Tube righT here in canada aT The universiTy of guelph, where proTesTors wearing snouTs Turned up lasT week To sound The alarm. coming soon To a meaT counTer near you: the world’s first genetiCally modified food animal. by enZo dimatteo What’s the pig deal? This little piggy has been specially engineered to produce an enzyme in its salivary glands that better digests cereal grains – and results in less phosphorus, some 30 to 70 per cent less – coming out the back end in the pig’s manure. the eco benefits Less pollution from manure runoff. In areas of intense swine production, where pig manure is used as fertilizer and killing fish in nearby waterways, developers of Enviropig say its low-phosphorus poo will reduce risks of contamination. What’s in it for farmers? Lower feed costs. Right now, pigs are fed either a mineral phosphate or commercially produced supplement because they’re unable to absorb phosphorus from the grains they’re fed.
What has enviros so freaked Food safety. Enviropig may end up on grocery store shelves without consumers knowing they’re buying it, says the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). That’s because there are no mandatory labelling requirements for GE food in Canada. the food safety secret Health Canada does not conduct its own safety tests on GM food, but relies on data provided by product developers that is classified as “confidential business information” and is not accessible to the public. frankenfood chain The plan is to cross-breed Enviropig with conventional pigs so all future lines will be born with genetically engineered salivary glands. If that
doesn’t yank your food chain, the fact that pigs are rendered in a big way for chicken feed in Canada might. the simple solution to pollution CBAN says we should feed pigs grains they can easily digest. Research by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture suggests that relatively inexpensive feed supplements currently on the market can reduce phosphorus in pig poop by 50 per cent. is enviropig a cash coW? Ontario Pork, the organization representing hog producers, hopes so. OP owns the trademark to Enviropig. For farmers, Enviropig may save feed and manure handling costs, but it may also come with a technology use fee, like Monsanto’s charge to farmers for its GE seeds.
an industry in crisis • Canada’s pork industry is in crisis. Exports of live pigs in 2009 were 34 per cent lower than in 2008. • Canadian pork production represents 20 per cent of total world trade in pigs, but Canadian farmers are losing about $40 per pig sent to market.
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• Hog production here has doubled over the last 20 years as factory farming has taken hold, but producers, some losing $15,000 a week, are leaving the industry in droves, by some 11 per cent last year alone. • cheap pork imports have placed an added financial strain on farmers, as have the higher
the alternative to ge pigs We could ditch the industrial model of hog production. There’d be no phosphorus overload if pig production were dispersed and dominated by family-run farms, as it was 20 years. Right now, a handful of companies control pig farming in Canada. Fewer farms raising many more hogs means higher costs to ship feed longer distances and dispose of hog waste.
Canadian dollar and higher feed costs caused by drought in the U.S. • The pig population in Canada reached 14 million in 2007.
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t wasn’t the vaporizers at every table or the bong-wielding middle-aged women that stood out most at Saturday’s (February 12) Bill S-10 forum at the Hot Box Café. It was when the weed-lovers’ hangout lived up to its name, filling with enough pot smoke to trigger a visit from the fire department. Responding to an alarm at the Baldwin Street venue, three bashful firefighters seemed amused to find a smoky room of marijuana enthusiasts gathered for a panel on the bill that would require mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences. Pipes and papers littered tables throughout the venue, which had the vibe of a college party house. Loosely hung sheets covered damaged spots on the ceiling, and chalkboards were plastered with drawings of stoned beavers and huge blunts. Former Oakville NDP candidate Alison Myrden could be heard making wolf whistles at the strapping firefighters as they walked the length of the building to confirm there was no fire. Meanwhile, Marijuana Party of Canada founder Marc-Boris St-Maurice tried to calm the tittering masses, who were split between those who found the scene comical and those worried the police might arrive next. “Have fun,” said a beaming firefighter as the trio left without incident. The crowd – which included teenagers, parents and a grey-bearded man in leather pants – burst into cheers and applause. That the firemen appeared unconcerned with the source of the stench seemed to confirm the panelists’ message: pot use is common in society, and most users are ordinary people.
“S-10 targets young people disproportionately,” said Caleb Chepesiuk of Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy. “If you’re 18 and your friends are 17, you can get two years for passing them a joint. It gives two years automatically for anyone trafficking in places young people frequent. Does anyone know anywhere youth don’t frequent?” The reincarnation of two previous bills that failed to survive, S-10 was introduced and passed in the Senate, and made its way to the House of Commons in December. Part of the Conservatives’ “tough-on-crime”
suite, it would enforce mandatory minimum jail sentences for growing as few as six marijuana plants. Myrden, who takes prescription marijuana to treat multiple sclerosis, said S-10 also targets compassion clubs, which grow pot for medicinal users. The clubs occupy a grey area of the law, and operators would risk sentences of two to 14 years, she told NOW. Proponents of S-10 want to make it easier to keep drug dealers behind bars, and say harsher sentences would act as deterrents. “It is an incredibly important piece
of legislation that goes after people who traffic in drugs [and] sell drugs to our children,” government House leader John Baird told the House on February 10. A former corrections officer and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Myrden disagreed, noting that mandatory minimums have done little to reduce crime in the U.S. She called out the Conservatives for going against their own smallgovernment ideals. “Conservatism means that the government does not interfere with people’s privateT:10” lives and does not
waste tax money,” said Myrden, who held a vaporizer the size of an electric toothbrush in her hand for most of the night. St-Maurice, now a member of the Liberal Party and director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said the Conservatives have not said how much the legislative changes would cost. “They either don’t know, or the cost is just so outrageous that they don’t want to tell,” he said. Despite having voted for the similar Bill C-15 in 2009, the Liberals announced last week that they will not
support S-10, a position shared by the Bloc Quebecois and NDP. That decision means it’s unlikely the bill will pass – unless one of the other parties changes its stance. In the case of an election, which seems increasingly imminent, S-10 will die and its supporters will have to start fresh. “It doesn’t end here,” said St-Maurice, his face illuminated by colourful lights reflecting off a Canadian flag with a pot-leaf centre. “You all have to vote. If the Conservatives get a majority, there won’t be anything else we can do.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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he skeptics are coming out of the woodwork as the world waits to see what a council of generals in Egypt understands of democracy. Did last week’s spectacular events on Cairo’s streets achieve a mere per sonnel change or true system uphea val? There’s still an emergency law, the right to assembly is shaky and the role of dissidents in the transi tion undefined and unstructured. All will reveal itself in good – or bad – time. But watching the adrena linpumped protesters nightly on Al Jazeera passing out food, creating communal habitations and linking arms to protect one another, it was easy to imagine there will be zero tol erance for continued repression in Egypt’s future. Still, counterrevolutions happen, some of them spurred by the same pa cifist resistance that brought Mubarak down, like the potsandpans protest that signalled the start of the murder ous coup that killed Salvador Allende in 1973. (Nonviolence theorists never said pacifism would be the domain solely of the morally righteous.) That aside, Egypt’s elegant insur rection, unfinished though it be, stirs utopian imaginings and suggests a historical reckoning that could make guerrilla armies and suicide bomb
ers from Nepal, Sri Lanka and Colom bia to Lebanon, Gaza and Nigeria, not to mention governmental armed in terventions, as obsolete as field bat tles fought in regimental rows. Already, movement analysts are exploring the extent to which Egypt’s 18day epic was sheerly spontaneous or deliberately plotted. Any balance sheet, though, has to draw a line from Tahrir Square to two rooms on a resi dential street in East Boston, the headquarters of the Albert Einstein Institution. The centre was founded in 1983 by Gene Sharp, who slowly came to real ize that his Oxford PhD thesis, The Politics Of Nonviolent Action, pub lished in 1973, had actually become a handbook for antiauthoritarian ac tivists from Burma to Slovenia, South Africa, Serbia – and now Egypt. “It’s all in their hands. I’m offering no advice to anybody. I’m just pleased people find my writings helpful,” says the octogenarian, ever careful to divest himself of all earthly respon sibility for grand occurrences. So how did we get from here to Tahrir? Sharp’s From Dictatorship To Democracy has been available in Arabic since 2005, and in 34 other languages. It was even posted on the Muslim Brotherhood site. “I think this is very significant,” he says.
“Some of the stereotypes may not be true.” Beyond that, we know two Face book groups were the organizational core, if we can use that phrase, of the uprising: the April 6 Movement set up in 2008 to support striking work ers in ElMahalla ElKubra, and We Are All Khaled Saeed, named for a man killed by police in June 2010. The two orgs had a close relation ship and borrowed tactics from other struggles and right out of the Sharp playbook, like wearing black, hand ing roses to police, carrying out disci plined vigils in groups of no more than five, painting targets on their backs in front of police lines, etc. April 6 had ties to a group of Egyp tian exiles in Qatar called the Acad emy of Change, students of Sharp’s work, and one April 6er travelled to Serbia to consult with a leader from Otpor, the Sharpinspired group that overthrew Milosevic. Before the up rising, the group studied an Otpor instructional video. You can see why Sharp would be keen to refuse the connection. Be sides a concern for simple proportion ality, he’s been fending off charges by the Iranian and Burmese regimes and even paranoid lefties that his centre is a CIA tool. He’s always maintained that he’s written a blueprint, and what follows is up to others. Nonviolent resis tance, he likes to say, is a pragmatic choice, not a spiritual practice. “It’s been waged by people who, given the chance, would otherwise have used violence quite freely,” he told me years ago. “The question is, how will the great struggles be fought? The dynamics of nonviolent struggle are far more complex than military struggle and guerrilla war.” More complex, and yet stirringly simple, as Sharp’s 198 ways to over throw despotism show, including mock elections, earth writing, pray ins, false identities and collective dis appearance. Reading the list always blows me away. In revolution, everything is both improvised and already foretold, a lot of it codified in the 15 or so vol umes of the Einstein Institution, many of them free for download. Did Sharp want to be in Tahrir, as he was in Tiananmen in 1989? “People were doing well on their own,” he says. And besides, if anything goes wrong, he reminds me, there’s an other howto: The Anti Coup. May the heroes of Tahrir never need that one. 3 ellie@nowtoronto.com
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The Arab network’s web-savvy push to get on TV in the U.S. By nowtoronto.com editor joSHUa erreTT Call it the network’s CNN moment. Just as CNN’s coverage of the Gulf War of 1992 catapulted that network to Lady Gaga-like stardom, Al Jazeera is turning heads. This isn’t lost on Al Jazeera English (AJE). Beside every piece of its topshelf online coverage you’ll see an ad urging viewers to demand that the network be made available on U.S. airwaves. American cable companies have so far succeeded in blocking AJE across most of the U.S. (Toronto viewers can watch with Bell Express Vu channel 516 in the International News I package, in case you’re wondering.) I would give a superfluous organ to get the Arab news network into John Q. Public’s living room, but thankfully, I won’t need to. CNN didn’t need a web campaign to elbow its way into the mainstream in 1992, and Al Jazeera doesn’t need one now. Not only were AJE’s online viewers watching a political revolution unfold in Egypt, but they were themselves participating in another one in front of their monitors. And that alone will change television news forever. But AJE is pushing the limits of web protest well beyond that. It is piggybacking its cause on Egypt’s historic regime change, drumming up public outrage at what is admittedly a hypocritical stranglehold on its availability in the U.S. Here’s how: • Next to the video player showing Tahrir Square was a widget where U.S. viewers could enter a ZIP code under the words “Demand Al Jazeera in the USA.” It spits out a form letter that can be sent off to the local cable provider. • According to Chartbeat, a realtime analytics service, a whopping 71
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per cent of AJE traffic was coming from social networks. AJE capitalized with a Twitter #DemandAlJazeera hashtag. • AJE created an embeddable banner that can appear on any site (and will in the online version of this piece) that I’ve only ever seen on articles about their broadcast campaign. It looks neat, though. • The smartest tool Al Jazeera used to further its cause was MeetUp.com, an early Web 2.0 social organizing service. AJE organized hundreds of meetings around the world – a few in Toronto – to discuss getting better access to the station in those regions. MeetUp, lest we forget, was the site that briefly propelled small-state governor Howard Dean to first place in the 2004 Democratic primaries. Under the circumstances, it all looks to be working. Al Jazeera is gaining support Techno-utopians already hold its campaign up as another triumph of the tweet – social media changing the world. But as with the Egyptian protests themselves, change isn’t growing out of social media, but out of people power. That is, the people in Tahrir Square overthrew the Egyptian government, not those of us who tweeted about it. Granted, some online viewers found out through the web campaign that they couldn’t watch AJE on TV. But if AJE does eventually become more accessible, it’s because of what it does – its excellent programming – and people’s desire to see its coverage. The tweets about it are just a sidebar.
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Are naturally scented products safe? Someone needs to bottle a new cologne called Villain. After all, scented products are banned from tons of offices, and in many circles heavy spritzers face nearly the same amount of scorn as pregnant smokers swiggin’ from a mickey. I know first-hand the headaches and nausea triggered by synthetic scents, but products labelled “naturally scented” occasionally get my temples throbbing, too. How come?
I always assumed the company was flat-out lying, but it turns out things are more complicated than that. A recent study led by the Univer sity of Washington tested 25 scented body care products, air fresheners, laundry products and cleaners and found they emit 133 different vola tile organic compounds. Not really surprising, except that half the prod ucts are marketed under a green claim like “natural,” “non-toxic” or
“made with essential oils.” Lots of “natural”-branded products contain synthetic scents (including Method cleaners and big-name body care lines like Nature’s Gate and Burt’s Bees. Thing is, the UW researchers found that products marketed as using “natural” or “organic” fra grances emitted lots of VOCs, too. Actually, according to the report, “All products with ‘natural’ or ‘organic’ fragrance emitted at least one chemical classified as toxic or hazardous under (U.S.) federal laws.” Ditto for products with “essential oils.” What the hell is going on here? Well, it turns out two of the most com-
mon VOCs in all the products, synthetic or not, were ethanol (which is either a petrochemical or a fermented-sugars-based alcohol) and alphapinene (found in oils of pine, rosemary and eucalyptus). Ethanol is registered as an air con taminant under occupational health laws, and both ethanol and alphapinene are registered as pesticides in the U.S. Moreover, the most common VOC in all “natural” and synthetically scented products was limonene. Re gardless of whether it’s derived from orange peels or not, it’s known to re act with ozone in the air to create pollutants like formaldehyde and
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In many circles, fragrance spritzers face nearly the same amount of scorn as pregnant smokers. acetaldehyde. This new data supports the case made by studies like one out of Taiwan published in Atmospheric Environment a couple of years back that found that burning essential laven der, tea tree and eucalyptus oils in diffusers emitted all kinds of ter penes, which, like limonene, can contribute to indoor air pollution. All this is why really sensitive Eco holics will already know they have to stay away from synthetic and nat ural scents, including essential oils. Anne Steinemann, lead researcher on the UW study, says whether you know it or not, scents affect you at the subclinical level. “People who use them all the time don’t realize they’re injuring themselves,” she says. The safest bet is to stick to fragrance-free items made with simple, natural ingredients. If you’re an essential oil lover, at least ask for highquality certified organic oils that don’t use petrochemical solvents. Scent devotees should keep in mind that a genuine essential oil scent may not be VOC-less, but it should at least be free of the hundreds of other worrisome ingredients found in the thousands of scented consumer products lining shelves. Remember, just because a synthet ically scented product claims to be phthalatefree doesn’t mean it’s free of hormonedisrupting chemicals (of which phthalates were only one of a dozen found by Environmental Defence). To get rid of all the hormone messers in scents and start mandatory labelling, send a request to the health minister at action.davidsuzuki. org/parfum.
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Thursday, February 17
Benefits
Knit-in (Streetknit) Make warm blankets,
socks and mittens for the homeless (instruction and wool provided). 6:15-8:15 pm. Free Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7521. luncH moneY dAY (Second Harvest) Purchase food tickets and select various lunch options in support of meals for the hungry. 11 am-2 pm. Various prices. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.
Events
emmAnuel JAl Talk by the Sudanese musician and former child soldier. 5-9 pm. $5. U of T Scarborough Student Centre, 1265 Military. utscwarchild.eventbrite.com. gRAPHic detAils: conFessionAl comics BY
JeWisH Women Curator’s talk. 8 pm. Free. Koffler Gallery Off-Site at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. kofflerarts.org. KeePing YouR HeARt HeAltHY WitH nAtuRAl cARdiologY Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.
locAl & etHicAl FAsHion Fashion show with
a Haitian spoken word artist/dancer. 7 pm. $10-$15. Glendon College Cafeteria, 2275 Bayview. swayanne.wordpress.com.
mAKing YouR FiRst FeAtuRe... And getting it seen Panel discussion with filmmakers
Daniel Cockburn and Ryan Redford, and KinoSmith’s Robin Smith. 7-8:30 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-736-5149. nAtionAl Home sHoW Tips, celebrity specialists, model homes, green-friendly trends and more. To Jan 27. $16, online $13; stu/srs $12, online $9; children free. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. nationalhomeshow. com. tHe nAtuRe oF existence Documentary film screening and Q&A. 7 pm. $4 or pwyc. Centre for Inquiry Ontario, 216 Beverley. cfiontario. org.
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festivals • expos • sports etc.
International Centre, 6900 Airport. spingfishingandboatshow.com. toRonto RocK lAcRosse The Rock play Rochester. 7:30 pm. $15-$25. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. torontorock.com. tRAumA As A cultuRe PHenomenon Colloquium with an address by UK visual arts professor Francis Frascina. 12:30-8:30 pm. Free. OCAD University, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.
Festivals this week
Reel ARtists Film FestivAl Films about art-
ists including Wanda Koop, Christian Boltanski, John Baldessari and Andreas Gursky. $12, stu/srs $8, passes avail. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 1-888-599-8433, canadianart.ca. Feb 23 to 27
Saturday, February 19
Benefits
toRonto HumAn RigHts WAtcH Film FestivAl Screenings of films including Ali
AustRAliAn Flood disAsteR FundRAiseR
Samadi’s documentary The Green Wave. $12, opening $100. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-599-8433, hrw.org. Feb 22 to Mar 4 rtoRonto’s KidFest Indoor inflatables, laser tag, rock climbing and more. Free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. kidsfest.ca. Feb 19 to 21 vivA itAliA! cucinA Festival celebrating the best in Italian food, wines and culture. Chef’s House, George Brown College, 215 King E. thechefshouse.com. Feb 22 to 25 WHAt ARe You doing BAcK tHeRe? Back Burner Productions winter arts festival with playwrights, actors, dancers, musicians and more. By donation. Dominion on Queen, 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. Feb 17 to 19 WinteRFolK All-ages acoustic music festival with performances by 150 artists including Big Rude Jake, Betty Supple, Brian Gladstone and the Gary Kendall Band. Free-$15. Various venues. winterfolk.com. Feb 18 to 21
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PlAYgRound Fringe festival of new plays and works-in-progress by York University
oBJects oF desiRe Conversation about art collecting with curator Katharine Lochnan. 6-9 pm. $125. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. PAKistAn BetWeen WAR And WAteR Discussion on feminism and empowerment. 6 pm. Free. Hart House South Dining Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.utoronto.ca.
TheBlackwoodTwoplayDoraKeogh February18aspartofWinterfolk. students. $7. Joseph G Green Studio Theatre, York U, 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/ finearts/events. To Feb 18 RHuBARB Festival of contemporary theatre and performance art by Ravi Jain, Ecce Homo, Praxis Theatre, Femmes du Feu and many others, plus talks, poetry and more. Wed-Sat pass $20, Sun pwyc, some events free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes. com. To Feb 27 toRonto indie Resto Fest Local independent restaurants offer special lunch and dinner menus with partial proceeds to Second Harvest. $23 dinner, lunch $17. facebook/ torontoindierestofest. To Mar 11 u oF t dRAmA FestivAl Competitive theatre by up-and-comers based on original student-written plays. 7:30 pm. $12, stu/ srs $10. Hart House, U of T downtown and Mississauga campuses. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. To Feb 19
Friday, February 18 tHe cAse AgAinst BARRicK gold And megAmining in ARgentinA Talks by Argentinian
PRison moRAtoRium Action coAlition
Community meeting of activists, ex-prisoners, drug users and activist scholars. 6-8 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. the519.org. WHAt does cAnceR looK liKe? Café Scientifique discussion. 6-8 pm. Free. Duke of York Pub, 39 Prince Arthur. cafescientifique.ca.
social activist Pino Solanas and others. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. cleAn tRAin coAlition demonstRAtion Protest the purchase of diesel locomotives for the link to Pearson Airport. 8:30 am. Free. Metrolinx, 20 Bay. cleantrain.ca. rsPRing FisHing & BoAt sHoW An indoor lake, boats, seminars, field dog demos and more. Today 11 am-9 pm; tomorrow 9 am6 pm; Feb 20, 9 am-5 pm; Feb 21, 9 am-5 pm. $14, srs $12, yth $10, under 12 free.
(Canadian Red Cross) Performances by Paul Price, Matt Newton, Brendan Bell and others. 5 pm. $25. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. yaca.ca.
sAm And mAx – neveR too Young FoR PRo-
FAnitY (Free the Children) Comedy with Sam Feldman, Max Olson, Sara Hennessey and others. 9-11 pm. $5. John Candy Box Theatre at Second City, 70 Peter. secondcity.com.
Events
BRicKolAge Guided tour of the artist-run centres, galleries and studios of 401 Richmond West led by curator William Huffman. Free. 401 Richmond W. 401richmond.net. dJ sKAte nigHt Late-night skating with DJs spinning house, funk, soul, reggae, soca, bhangra and pop-rock. 8 to 11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rFAmilY dAY WeeKend Historic costumes, cookie-baking and more. Today and tomorrow noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916. gReAteR toRonto WoRKeRs’ AssemBlY Conference with panels and discussion. 9:30 am-6 pm. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. workersassembly.ca. lilA & ecco’s diY comic BooK exPo Workshops with comic book creators including Dawson and Lesley Fairfield. Noon-4 pm. $6/ workshop, pass $10. Theatre Direct, 601 Christie. smallprinttoronto.org. YouR Food, YouR cHoice – tHe PRomise oF oRgAnic Canadian Organic Growers confer-
ence with keynote speaker Silver Donald Cameron, panels and more. 9 am-5 pm. $85, adv $65, stu/srs/unwaged discounts avail. U of T Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut. Pre-register cogtoronto.org.
Sunday, February 20
Benefits
(Stephen Lewis Fdn) Original theatrical monologues by student playwrights. 2:30-5:30 pm. Free (donations appreciated). Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. yorku.ca/finearts/theatre.
Events
AFgHAnistAn is noW oPen FoR Business
Socialist Project forum. 4 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. socialistproject.ca/bullet/445.php. contemPoRARY ARt Bus touR Visit current exhibitions at the Gladstone Hotel, Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York and Doris McCarthy Gallery. Noon-5 pm. Free. Pre-register 416-368-1881 ext 4270. elementAl mAgic Workshop with special-effects animator Joseph Gilland. 10 am-5 pm. $15. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-9733012. rFAmilY dAYs At tiFF Screenings, activities, exhibitions, concerts and more. Today and tomorrow 10 am-6 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. rgHost touRs oF tHe cAstle Guided tours with ghost trackers Michelle Desrochers and Patrick Cross. 7 pm. $25, child $15. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org.
gRAPHic detAils: conFessionAl comics BY JeWisH Women Curator-led exhibition tours
and comic workshop for teens. Noon-5 pm. Free. Koffler Gallery Off-Site at the Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. kofflerarts.org. rPuRim cARnivAl A performance by magician Scott Dietrich, games, crafts, photos, videos and more. 10 am-noon. $3/child. Temple Har Zion, 7360 Bayview. 905-889-2252. sunnYBRooK And edWARds gARdens Urban hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 10:30 am. Free. NE corner Yonge and Lawrence. torontobrucetrailclub.org. WAvelengtH Talk by musicians Liz Worth and Stuart Berman. 4-6 pm. Pwyc. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. wavelengthtoronto.com. West toRonto RAilPAtH Lost rivers walk. 1 pm. Free. Dundas and Dupont. 416-593-2656. xenoglossiA Writing workshop with poet a. rawlings. 1-5 pm. $95. Toronto New School of Writing, 283 College. Pre-register tnsow.com.
Monday, February 21 rFAmilY dAY At tHe FoRt Aboriginal, French
Canadian and Metis music, dance and stories. Noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Fort York, Garrison between Strachan and Bathurst. 416-392-6907. rFAmilY dAY At tHe sHoe museum Kids hunt for shoes in the galleries, paint a mini-clog and try on funny shoes. 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca. rFAmilY dAY At tHe Y Family fitness activities
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and special guests. 11 am-1 pm. Free. MetroCentral YMCA (20 Grosvenor), North York YMCA (567 Sheppard E). ymcagta.org. rfAmily DAy Dress up as a garden gnome and try to break the Guinness World Record. 9:30 am. Free. AMC Theatre, Yonge and Dundas. eonesfilmmedia.ca. fAmily DAy in toronto Outdoor celebrations with music, dance, skating and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Colonel Samuel Smith Park (Kipling and Lake Shore), Albert Campbell Square (150 Borough), Mel Lastman Square (5100 Yonge).
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toronto.ca/special_events. rGo wilD in the city Rouge Park family day walk. 10 am-noon. Free. Rouge Valley Conservation Centre, 1749 Meadowvale. rougepark.com/hike. rhArboUrkiDs fAmily DAy A hockey shootout, sledge hockey demos, skating, live music, African drumming workshops and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. honoUrinG DeAth Evening of stories honouring the life and death of environmental activist Tooker Gomberg. 7 pm. Free. Friends
NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events
hit the knit-in
Metrolinx plans to approve dirty diesel, and Clean Train folks are rallying so our political masters get the message. Free. 8:30 pm, Metrolinx headquarters, 20 Bay. cleantrain.ca.
Join the ever-growing knitting movement and contribute to a great cause when knitters make warm blankets, socks and mittens for Streetknit and the homeless tonight (Thursday, February 17) at Annette Library (145 Annette). 6:15 to 8:15 pm. Wool and needles provided – instruction, too. 416-3937521.
free the kiD solDiers
Global militarism that recruits children for war is finally getting the attention it deserves. Seize the chance to hear lAst cAll for electric former Sudanese child soldier EmMcGuinty’s Liberals are in pre-elecmanuel Jal, an internationally tion mode and wobbling all over the known musician, rapper, storyteller map. Help ensure they do a flip-flop and activist, speak and perform toin our favour and decide to electrify day (Thursday, February 17), 5 pm. the rail link to Pearson right off the $5. U of T Scarborough Student Cenbat, not seven to nine years from tre, 1265 Military Trail. utscwarchild. now. On Friday (February 18), eventbrite.com. activeAGO_NOW_feb14_2_Layout 1 11-02-10 4:07 PM Page 1
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February Art Gallery of Ontario Learn about the dance traditions of India at the AGO! South Indian Courtly Dance
Wednesday, February 23 | 7 – 8:30 pm Jackman Hall inDANCE Artistic Director Hari Krishnan will present South Indian courtly dance traditions based on decades of research in remote villages of South India. Nalin Bisnath from inDANCE, Toronto.
House, 60 Lowther. greenspiration.org. left film AnD viDeo Discussion with Frank Saptel followed by short films and musical performances. 7:30 pm. Free. Regal Beagle, 335 Bloor W. 416-591-6859. rlGbtq fAmily DAy celebrAtion Music, arts and crafts, food and more celebrate the diversity of families. 10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne. mtamaki@sherbourne.on.ca. ron mAnn Discussing the process, philosophy, challenges, rewards and his evolution as a maker of documentary films. 6-9 pm. $55 stu $25. Camera Bar, 1028 Queen W. Pre-register ronmann.eventbrite.com.
Tuesday, February 22
Events
bent – An eveninG of qUeer expressions
Panel on whether gay is the new straight with Kim Katrin Crosby, Ali Humza Naqvi and others. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. O’Grady’s 518 Church. 416-531-4635, ogradyschurch.ca. the blUe leGAcy Environmentalist Alexandra Cousteau lectures on the importance of water in all its forms. 7 pm. $29. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.
fort roUillé, frAnco-ontAriAn heritAGe: A moAt fortress Urban heritage walk. 1 pm. Free. King and Dufferin. 416-593-2656.
mUlticUltUrAlism hAs pUt cAnADA on the
wronG coUrse Debate with historian JL Granatstein and writer Haroon Siddiqui. 6:30-8 pm. $25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. the politics of preservAtion Presentation on preserving older homes, with historian Alec Keefer. 7 pm. Free. Fern Avenue Public School, 128 Fern. paulweinberg@rogers.com.
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staffers and other queer writers, bloggers and journalists. 7 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
Upper cAnADA’s first pArliAment bUilDinGs
chAllenGinG books: who shoUlD DeciDe whAt oUr chilDren reAD? Panel discussion
All-genders workshop. 7-9 pm. $20. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.
Lecture by Rollo Myers. 7:30 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. wmsc.ca.
Wednesday, February 23
Benefits
kAmA reADinG series (World Literacy Canada)
Jack Rabinovitch, Cynthia Dale and Charles Foran. 6:30 pm. $60. Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue. 416-977-0008, worldlit.ca. qUestioninG: A qUeer pUb qUiz (LGBT Youthline) Trivia evening. 7:30-10 pm. $25/team. Woody’s, 467 Church. 416-972-0887. weAr2work (women immigrants entering the workforce) Showcase of fashionable work wear created using second-hand clothing by Sonja Vejin. 7 pm. Free. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. wear2work.stylebysonja.com.
Events
box sAlon Short words, film, performance and music by Claudia Dey, Robert Dayton, Annette Mangaard and others. 8 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. cAnADA’s cUltUrAl institUtions in trAnsition Lecture on challenges and opportunities
for leadership. 6:30 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. censorinG mAnGA for fUn AnD profit Talk on how Japanese comics and graphic novels are censored in Canada and what you can do about it. 7 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
censorship, ADvocAcy JoUrnAlism AnD the GAy press Discussion with Pink Triangle Press
with publisher Patsy Aldana, librarian Peggy Thomas and student Eve Freedman. 6:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. Preregister freedomtoread.ca. entrepreneUrship 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Pre-register marsdd.com/ent101. kink 201: tie me Up, tie me Down! All-genders workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900. mix tApe swAp with DAmn AykroyD Create a playlist and swap your mixes. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Avro, 750 Queen E. theavro.com. triviA niGht Come out and play. 8 pm. $2. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.
upcoming Thursday, February 24
Events
biGGer, better AnD mUltiples: orGAsms for women Women-only workshop. 7-10 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.
chArActer bUilDinG & creAtinG conflict
Writing workshop with writer-in-residence Elizabeth Ruth. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416395-5639. thomAs hirschhorn The Paris-based artist talks about his massive immersive artwork Das Auge (The Eye). 7 pm. $6. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.
Black History tHis week Thursday, February 17
ship authors. 6 pm. $10. Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm. blackartndialog.com.
Art GAllery of york University Centre for
kAhil el zAbAr AnD the ethnic heritAGe ensemble African Heritage concert. 8 pm,
Incidental Activisms installations exhibition. To Mar 13. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416736-5169. blAck internAtionAl film festivAl Screening of Waiting For Superman followed by a round table discussion. 8 pm. $15 adv only (benefit for Toronto Bathurst Lions Club). George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-656-1069.
rDUppies, JUmbies AnD olD time tAles
Caribbean storytelling for all ages. 6:30 pm. Free. Weston Library, 2 King. torontopubliclibrary.ca. emmAnUel JAl Talk by the Sudanese musician and former child soldier. 5-9 pm. $5. U of T Scarborough Student Centre, 1265 Military. utscwarchild.eventbrite.com. GrAce, milly, lUcy... chilD solDiers Film screening. Today, tomorrow and Feb 19, 4:30 pm. $6, stu/srs $4. NFB, 150 John. nfb.ca . kinobe & soUl beAt AfricA Acoustic concert. 8 pm, $25-$40. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. royAl ontArio mUseUm Institute for Contemporary Culture: painting/sculpture: El Anatsui, to Feb 27. Position As Desired/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rshort-knee Traditional Grenadian masquerade performance for kids eight to 10. 2 pm. Free. Jane/Sheppard Library, 1906 Sheppard W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. tich mAreDzA bAnD African music dance party. 9 pm. Free. the Ossington, 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. tribAl eye An exhibition of Haitian art runs to Feb 28, Mon to Fri 11:30 am-9 pm, Sat & Sun 10 am-7 pm. Free. 73 Kensington. 647210-7015.
$18-$25. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 416-9138197. And Feb 19. wAleeD AbDUlhAmiD kUsh African jazz. 7 to 10 pm. Free. Gladstone Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. into the roots... beyonD the leAves Dance Immersion presentation choreographed by Jasmyn Fyffe and Vivine Scarlett. Feb 18-20, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $15-$25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-203-0666, dindance.com. tich mAreDzA bAnD Performing at 9 pm. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667.
Saturday, February 19 rAfricAn ADventUre Dance and music
performances, drumming workshops, crafts, films and more. To Feb 21, 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rAfricAn DrUm circle Workshop for kids six to 12 with Jean Assamoa. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
Black History Month Listings
A 200-yeAr AffAir: AfricAn-AmericAns in pAris Virtual tour with filmmaker Julia This event is one of the Maharaja Talks and Performances being held at the AGO in conjunction with the exhibition Maharaja: The Splendour of India’s Royal Courts.
spicinG it Up: hot, sexy AnD sUstAinAble sex
Browne. 2-4 pm. Free. Oakwood Library, 341 Oakwood. 416-394-1040.
Friday, February 18 AnDrew crAiG Meet the CBC Radio host. 1:30 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. blAck romAnce in the 21st centUry: where is the love Author Kayla Perrin and
filmmaker/actor Sharon Lewis lead a discussion with a panel of romance and relation-
rthe blAck commUnity in toronto Kids learn about the commun-
ity’s involvement in newspaper publishing and print a souvenir bookmark. Today and tomorrow, and Feb 26 to 27 noon-5 pm. Free w/admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915.
hip-hop hAppeninGs – the beAt
Goes on Talk by indie urban artist Christopher France (aka Thrust). 2 pm. Free. Brookbanks Library, 210 Brookbanks. torontopubliclibrary.ca. hip-hop hAppeninGs – the beAt Goes on Talk by indie urban artist Christopher France (aka Thrust). 5/family. Free. Thorncliffe Park Library, 48 Thorncliffe Park. torontopubliclibrary.ca. rkirikoU AnD the wilD beAsts Film screening (in French). 2 pm. $6, stu/srs $4. NFB, 150 John. nfb.ca .
Sunday, February 20 el AnAtsUi: when i lAst wrote to yoU AboUt AfricA African Canadian Artists Assoc
director Joan Butterfield talks about the exhibition. 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000. A linc in time Black Film Festival screening of a film about Lincoln Alexander. 11 am, 1 and 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terr. 416-923-1171.
witness As DesireD: A celebrAtion of AfricAn cAnADiAn film Screenings of films
by Deanna Bowen, Jason Ebanks and others plus a discussion with the filmmakers and programer Cameron Bailey. 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. rom. on.ca. lizz wriGht The singer performs at 8 pm, $34.50. Glenn Gould Studio, CBC Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front W. 416-205-5555.
Monday, February 21 sUite for mA DUkes Sceening and inter-
view with Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey, mother of the late hip-hop artist J Dilla, who died from lupus. 2 pm. $15. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. najatmahammed@gmail. com.
Tuesday, February 22 blAck internAtionAl film festivAl
Screening of Selwyn and Q&A with Selwyn A Pieters, and Resilience: Stories Of Single Black Mothers, followed by a presentation by director Lana Lovell. Free. NFB, 150 John. nfb.ca wAitinG for sUpermAn Ontario Black History Soc screening of the Davis Guggenheim film followed by discussion. 8 pm. $15. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-656-1069.
Wednesday, February 23 rAnAnsi tAles Stories, songs and riddles of African village folk tales for kids eight to nine. 1 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. rrichArDo keens-DoUGlAs Presentation by the children’s author. 10:30 am. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. rrichArDo keens-DoUGlAs Presentation by the children’s author. 1:30 pm. Free. Gerard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. rAchel mAnley/olive senior/pAmelA morDecAi The authors discuss their work
with Donna Bailey Nurse. 7 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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space that gets great natural light. Baker and Daoust ripped out red-toned laminate and covered the subfloor with high-gloss porch paint. The resulting blank canvas spotlights statement pieces like the teak Poul Cadovius wall unit, Berber rug and Joshua Jensen-Nagle’s Grasses And Grains photograph hanging behind the couch. The duo also revived a vintage Malm electric
fireplace they found on Craigslist, but the modern room’s warmth really comes from a creative but minimal sense of layering. “We both feel it’s really important to mix old with new,” says Baker. “It’s easy to fall in love with the beautiful patina (of a vintage piece), but we also know that having something age with you is truly special.” 3
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Crate & Barrel’s urban offshoot, CB2, has confirmed its arrival north of the border this summer and the opening of its first store, in the renovated Big Bop space, at the corner of Queen and Bathurst. Until then, you can shop the collection, including the Academy chair featured in our Space Design Guide spread (page 26), in Canadian dollars online at cb2.com/ Canada.
Outclass “Heritage” has been a buzzword in menswear for a few seasons now, with both long-standing brands and new labels adopting the term to describe a nostalgic and rustic look. The title perfectly describes Outclass (outclass.ca), a Toronto accessories and clothing line launched last fall by creative director Matteo Sgaramella. His first collection, including a hand-knit toque and wool scarf, fits right in at Matt Robinson’s offthe-alley spot, Klaxon Howl (694B Queen West, 647-436-6628). Spring pieces like this canvas carryall arrive this week. Scarf ($65) and tote ($265). DAVID HAWE
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Cool your jets to bust flab Balance cortisol to save the heart and tighten the tum By elizaBeth Bromstein you can’t hear about belly fat these days without a reference to cortisol, that steroid hormone released in response to stress that signals cells to store fat. Not only is extra packing on the
waist aesthetically a no-no given current fashion dictates, but it’s also linked to increased risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer. Yikes. Still, the stress hormone does
have a function. Cortisol actually helps the body deal with external pressure by regulating blood pressure, immune function, carbohydrate metabolism and inflammation.
But it’s all about achieving a balance. Too little cortisol is linked to fatigue, depression and Addison’s disease; too much, on the other hand, is connected to Cushing’s disease, high blood pressure, obesity, muscle weakness and a host of other problems. What can we do to keep cortisol levels in some sort of harmony?
What the experts say “In a chronic stress situation, we lose the ability to regulate our cortisol metabolism. Abdominal fat cells have more cortisol receptors than others. Cortisol levels are typically high in the morning and low in the evening. Aside from relaxing, getting enough sleep and eating well, taking supplements can reduce cortisol. Theanine, an amino acid in green tea, has a relaxing effect. Malaysian ginseng (Eurycoma longifolia) lowers cortisol and raises testosterone, a counterbalance to cortisol. We’ve studied cordyceps, a Chinese mushroom, and rhodiola, a Tibetan root.” SHAWN TALBOTT, author, The Cortisol Connection, Utah “Both high and low levels of cortisol are linked to depression. We looked at depression, anxiety and aggression.
When you first experience these behaviours, your levels are high because it’s very stressful, but you can’t maintain high levels over a prolonged period of time. Cortisol is a neurotoxin, so your body shuts down its production. I think we have to be cautious about cortisol as a potential treatment for depression; the body shuts down production for a reason.” PAULA RUTTLE, PhD candidate, department of psychology, Concordia U, Montreal “An acute stress response could actually help your memory function. Everyone remembers what they were doing during the September 11 attacks. Chronic stress does not cause disease, but can be seen as an accelerator. There is no magical recipe to reduce stress. Many people think relaxation is the
astrology freewill
by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “There are nights
when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls,” said comedian George Carlin. “There are mornings when your dreams are more real and important than your waking life,” says my favourite dream worker. “There are times when the doctor isn’t feeling well, and only his patient can cure him,” says I. Now it so happens, Aries, that in the upcoming week, your life is likely to pass through an alternate reality where all three of the above conditions will prevail – as well as other similar variants and mutations.
sense of loss that comes with discovering the way things really are. I protest this perspective. I boycott it. As proof that it’s at least partially wrong, I offer up the evidence provided by your life in the days ahead. From what I can tell, the gratification that you feel while hunting down the truth will be substantial, and yet it will ultimately seem rather mild compared to the bliss that arrives when you find what you’re looking for.
dhist monk in China, takes his devotions very seriously. For the last two decades he has performed as many as 3,000 prayers every single day in the same exact spot at his temple. Part of me admires his profound commitment, while part of me is appalled at his insane addiction to habit. It’s great that he loves his spiritual work so deeply, but sad that he can’t bring more imagination and playfulness to his efforts. I bring this up, Taurus, because I think it’s a good time, astrologically speaking, for you to take inventory of the good things you do very regularly. See if you can inject more fun and inventiveness into them.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 People listen when Eric Schmidt speaks. He’s the CEO of Google, a company that has major power in shaping the future of information. In recent months he has been riffing on the disappearance of privacy. Because our lives are becoming interwoven with the internet, he believes it will become increasingly hard to keep any secrets. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know,” he says, “maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” This is especially true for you right now, Cancerian. In the coming weeks, I encourage you to maintain the highest standards of ethical behaviour. The lucky thing about this situation is that news of the good deeds you do and smart moves you make are also likely to circulate far and wide.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “To the scientist
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Six years ago, a friend
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Hua Chi, a Bud-
there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth,” said science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. The clear implication of this statement is that there’s always a
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of mine came to believe she had died in a previous incarnation by being thrown off a horse. From that time on, she felt stuck. She became convinced that her life energy would remain in a state of suspended
cure, but it is not. You have to manage the stress – for example identifying what in the situation is stressful. If it’s because of unpredictability, how can you make the situation less unpredictable? Establish a plan B. Even though you might not use it, it will tell your brain that there is an exit, and this will decrease your stress response.” MARIE-FRANCE MARIN, Ph.D. candidate, Université de Montréal, FernandSeguin Research Centre “To raise cortisol levels in the brain, we gave participants hydrocortisone before MRI scans to assess the brain’s responses. Cortisol suppressed responses both to negative and positive stimuli. Cortisol seems to restore normal brain function in the aftermath of stress exposure. Cortisol-induced suppression of emotional re-
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animation until she learned to feel comfortable on a horse. Fear kept her from even attempting that for a long time, but recently she got up the courage to begin. Her efforts were bumpy at first, but rapidly improved. As she gained confidence as a rider, every other aspect of her life bloomed, too – just as she’d suspected. I think her experience could be useful for you to learn from in the coming months, Leo. What’s your biggest, oldest fear? Is there anything you could do to start dissolving it?
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “I’m not con-
fused,” said poet Robert Frost. “I’m just well mixed.” I would love that to be your motto in the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your cycle when you should be extra curious about blending ingredients in new combinations. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that the cosmos will respond enthusiastically if you take steps to make yourself the embodiment of lush diversity. Celebrate complexity, Virgo! You will generate unexpected strokes of good fortune by experimenting with medleys and syntheses that appeal to the jaunty parts of your imagination.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 In addition to their standard offerings, the yoga teachers at Atlanta’s Tough Love Yoga centre (toughloveyoga.com) sometimes offer exotic variations. During their Metal Yoga classes, for instance, the soundtrack for their stretching and breathing exercises is heavy metal music. Here’s their promise: “Melt your face off in a very relaxing,
sponse could be a helpful tool in treating or even preventing post-traumatic stress disorder.” MARLOES HENCKENS, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Nijmegen, the Netherlands “Ashwagandha enhances energy levels and stress resistance. It increases red and white blood cell and platelet counts. That helps you stay calm. I prescribe L-theanine to be taken with food. It helps keep blood pressure within normal limits and increases the activity of alpha brainwaves.” ZORANA ROSE, naturopath, Toronto healing way.” That’s the spirit I’d like to see you bring to your life in the coming week: vehemently intense but tenderly curative; wickedly fierce but brilliantly rejuvenating.
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 I would love to see you play with your food this week. And draw pictures on walls. And have conversations with winking statues and talking trees and magic toasters. I’ll be thrilled, Scorpio, if you watch cartoons about furry animals outwitting maniacal robots and if you entertain fantasies of yourself pushing a cream pie in the face of an obnoxious authority figure. But given how dignified and discreet you tend to be, I realize the chances of any of this actually happening are minuscule. Can I at least coax you into hopping, skipping and dancing around a lot when no one’s watching? sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “Better
keep yourself clean and bright,” said George Bernard Shaw. “You are the window through which you must see the world.” Take that advice to heart, Sagittarius. This is an excellent time for you to do any necessary work to get yourself cleaner and brighter. I’m not at all implying that you’re a dusty, greasy mess. But like all of us, there’s a continuous buildup of foreign matter that distorts the view and that must be periodically washed away. If you do it now, your work will be extra-smart and effective.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The state
of Wisconsin is famous for its cheese, so it wasn’t a big surprise when its state legislature decided to honour the bacterium that’s essential in making cheddar, Monterey Jack and Colby. So as of last year, Lactococcus lactis is the official state microbe. I would love to see you decide upon your own most beloved microbe sometime soon, Capricorn.
How about naming Ruminococcus or Peptococcus as your personal favourite among all of your gut flora? It’s that time of year when it makes cosmic sense to acknowledge and appreciate all of the small and hard-to-see things that keep you thriving.
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Don’t put
your shoes on before you put on your socks this week, okay? Refrain from polishing off a piece of cheesecake and a bowl of ice cream before dinner, and don’t say goodbye whenever you arrive at a new destination. Catch my drift, Aquarius? Do things in the proper order, not just while engaged in the fundamental tasks of your daily rhythm, but also in the long-term processes you’re carrying out. Each step in the sequence needs to prepare the way for the next step. Keep a clear vision of the organizing principle that informs your work.
pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 Many people know John Mellenkamp’s song This Is Our Country because it was used in a commercial for Chevy Silverado trucks. But if they’ve only heard it that way, they may be under a mistaken impression about its meaning. The ad quotes just a fraction of the lyrics, including “So let the voice of freedom / Sing out through this land / This is our country.” What the ad doesn’t include are other lines like “And poverty could be just another ugly thing / And bigotry would be seen only as obscene / And the ones that run this land / Help the poor and common man.” Let this serve as a cautionary tale for you, Pisces. Make sure you get the rest of every story – not just the partial truth, but the whole freaking thing. Homework: What most needs regeneration in your life? And what are you going to do to regenerate it? FreeWillAstrology.com.
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HUGHES at the Drake Hotel, Wednesday, ÑALLIE February 9. Rating: NNNN
Musicals are a pretty divisive genre, despite the inexplicable popularity of Glee. Allie Hughes has been associated with the art form, but judging from her over-the-top Valentine Wedding Spectacular at the Drake, she’s not worried about being lumped in with the theatre crowd. There were costumes, characters, skits and a plot line about being stood up at the altar by Chad Leonardo Von Galen II, played by Sweet Thing musician Nick Rose. Despite the distractions, Hughes’s commanding vocals were the centre of attention. Her newer songs have a bit of a Queen-inspired stadium rock vibe that allowed her to show off the more powerful side of her voice and the versatility of her tight backing band. Yes, the extravaganza was goofy at times, but also incredibly entertaining. When so many performers seem reluctant to put on much of a show, it’s refreshing to see someone hold nothing back. BENJAMIN BOLES
HEART at Massey Hall, Friday, February 11. Rating:
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without question, the best vocalist in rock. She prowled the stage in head-to-toe black, throwing her curls around while foxy Nancy, tomboyish in a Heart jersey, leapt and spazzed out on her guitars. Did I mention they’re 60 and 56 years old? The set was full of 70s and 80s classics, a few impressively rearranged, like These Dreams, in which they beautifully harmonize, and a stripped-down Alone, which showcased Ann’s voice so powerfully that she got a mid-show standing O. The newer songs, meanwhile, are the heaviest of their career. Big lights, big volume – the show had the epic quality of an arena concert but with the goosebump-raising intimacy and sonic clarity of Massey. And the crowd? Joyous, adoring, on its feet, pooled upfront by the end, age be damned. Now can someone please tell me why Heart are consistently left CARLA GILLIS off those overwhelmingly male best-of-rock lists?
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The Horseshoe often hosts buzzy touring bands, but on Friday it was home to two of Toronto’s more solidly consistent, underappreciated live bands. Steamboat’s Dad-rock influences aren’t particularly hip, but the band’s immaculate musicianship and upbeat Festival Express vibe are perfect for a Friday-night party. Veering between southernfried classic rock and blue-eyed soul, Steamboat expanded to 10 players by the end, including two organists, a full horn section and
a guest spot by frequent scene-stealer Maylee Todd, whose high vocals pushed a few songs into Jackson 5 territory. Catl share Steamboat’s affinity for sounds of the past, but that’s where the similarities end. Where Steamboat fetishize 70s AM rock, Catl prefer grittier, stripped-down early blues. The trio picked up momentum as they sailed past last call, attacking primitive blues riffs with the energy and abandon of classic punk. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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Excitement for the Twelves was palpable, but no one looked more psyched than Panic Bomber (aka Richard Haig). The dance floor quickly filled up, and 10 minutes into his opening set he could have been mistaken for the headliner. Playing to the biggest crowd I’ve seen at Wrongbar, the energetic Haig furiously worked his laptops and mesmerized by singing and manipulating his own vocal samples overtop his genre-defying tracks. The crowd went crazy for his punched-up cover of Britney Spears’s Toxic. When Brazilian remix gods the Twelves (aka João Miguel and Luciano Oliveira) began their set, the party hit overdrive. Hovering over laptops, the duo transformed familiar indie rock tunes into electro fist-pumpers. Vocal samples from Phoenix, Gossip, Daft Punk, even Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, received their slick, mass-appeal treatment. They lacked Panic Bomber’s wild energy, but we deJORDAN BIMM voured their reconfigurations anyway.
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Halifax singer/songwriter discovers happy songs can be just as good as heartbreakers By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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The days of wallowing in heartbreak are behind Jenn Grant. Nowadays, she’s just looking to have fun. “That’s my mantra,” says Grant over the phone from her home in Halifax. “If something doesn’t feel fun, I don’t want to do it.” And why not? Since releasing her downbeat 2009 sophomore record, Echoes, things have gone very well for the ginger-haired singer/songwriter. She’s mended her broken heart, found a new partner, got engaged, bought a house and, to top it off, released a critically acclaimed new album, Honeymoon Punch (Six Shooter). Grant’s firing on all cylinders, so it’s no surprise that she’s relaxed and cheerful in conversation. Then again, that may also have to do with her recent jaunt to Mexico as an act on an all-inclusive musical cruise organized by the Barenaked Ladies. “I couldn’t get Twitter or Facebook on the ocean, but if I could have I probably would’ve been talking about all the amazing free food available every hour,” she gushes. “It was really awesome.” That jubilation extends to Honeymoon Punch. Where Echoes exuded an organic folk-roots vibe, HP’s combination of electronic textures, hummable hooks and flirtatious swagger qualifies as it as a dance-pop record. “They say it’s harder to write happy songs,” says Grant reflectively. “That’s probably true, but I like to approach music in a pretty carefree way and not overthink it. I don’t need things to be perfect, but I do need them to have the right energy. It’s important to stay in the moment.” Though it may be her most laboured-over album, Honeymoon Punch sounds spontaneous, and much of the credit for that goes to her producer/fiancé, In-Flight Safety’s Daniel
Ledwell. By removing the separation between her personal and professional life, Grant was able, essentially, to live her music. “Danny experienced the whole thing with me, not just the production part. While I was writing, he was there. While I was recording, he was there. We spent a lot of time listening to records together, which inspired what’s on the album.” Grant pinpoints French pop band Phoenix as an influence, specifically their use of synthesizers and keyboards. There were also some odd ones; How I Met You, for instance, was written as a continuation of the 30 Rock theme song. “While I was writing the record, I got sick with the flu and spent two straight days in bed,” she says. “For 48 hours I didn’t eat or anything, and I just watched 30 Rock. After hearing the theme song so many times, it got lodged in my subconscious.” Evidently, Grant can turn any material into a great pop song, which may be why she’s all over the new album by Canadian hip-hop weirdo Buck 65. “What I get from working with him I don’t really get by myself, and I think that’s important in a side project. He allows me to write with my voice in a different way and take my imagination to new places. Working with him has been really great. “Everything’s just going right.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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Relocating from Calgary to Montreal provoked a year of awakenings for buzz band By KEVIN RITCHIE BRAIDS with BATHS and STAR SLINGER at the El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Saturday (February 19), 9 pm. $12. HS, RT, SS, TM. And at Sonic Boom (512 Bloor West), 5:30 pm. Free with food item for Fort York Food Bank.
The year and a half art rockers Braids spent writing the seven songs that make up their debut LP, Native Speaker, was one of awakenings for the high school friends. Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Katie Lee, Austin
Tufts and Taylor Smith moved from their hometown of Calgary to Montreal, enrolled in university and came into their own as young adults. “There was energy building up in us because we were learning so much and had a lot of emotions that we were dealing with at the time,” drummer Tufts, 20, says over the phone from the band’s tour van. “When we’d get together and write, it was pretty emotionally charged.” In addition to learning to cook and pay the bills, the group learned to record. Beginning in early 2009, they spent a year in the studio meticulously making their songs into an album. “All of the textures and layers are decided upon collectively and collaboratively,” he says. “They’re married between the four of us.” Released on Flemish Eye in January, Native Speaker is studious and ambitious, full of unfurling loops, chord swells and lyrical poetry that have earned the band critical praise
from all the right outlets. The attention has made the tightknit group even tighter. They’ve all lived together, and their jam space is in Smith and Tufts’s garage. In interviews, it’s not uncommon for one member to speak on behalf of the others, especially when it comes to the feelings that informed Native Speaker. Asked about the title, for example, Tufts explains it was inspired by their shared life experiences and also one member’s romantic relationship. “It’s about people finding the language we’re most comfortable speaking,” he says. “The four of us came together through music and found our native tongue there. Music is our most innate form of communication. “It’s also about the love story between Raphaelle and her boyfriend,” he continues. “He’s the one she can be herself around. He understands her as a person. They speak each other’s native tongue, you know?” Standell-Preston’s lustful lyrics
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Sonic Boom (512 Bloor West), Saturday (February 19) In-store gig.See preview, page 39.
JENN GRANT, RAE SPOON. OLENKA & THE AUTUMN LOVERS The Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (February 19) See preview, page 36.
SKRILLEX, NERO, PORTER ROBINSON The Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (February 19) See cover story, page 42.
AKRON/FAMILY
The Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (February 20) See preview, page 50.
FINNISH METAL TOUR 2
w/ Finntroll, Ensiferum, Rotten Sound and more Opera House (735 Queen East), Tuesday (February 22). See preview, page 41.
JUST ANNOUNCED
LUKAS ROSSI
Acoustic Show Tranzac 8 pm, $25$100. lukasrossi. com. February 24.
WHITE COWBELL OKLAHOMA
Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 19.
ELLIOTT BROOD
JunoFest Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $17.50 or $30 wristband. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 26.
BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH
JunoFest Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $17.50 or $30 wristband. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 26.
NELLY
DISTURBED, KORN, SEVENDUST, STILLWELL
THE PLANET SMASHERS, THE JOHNSTONES, SAINT ALVIA
TITUS ANDRONICUS
Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $29.50-$39.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM, UE. March 24.
JunoFest Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $17.50 or $30 wristband. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 25.
GRAPES OF WRATH
JunoFest El Mocambo doors 9 pm, $17.50 or $30 wristband. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 25.
BASIA BULAT
JunoFest The Great Hall doors 8:30 pm, $17.50 or $30 wristband. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 26.
Music As A Weapon V Tour Air Canada Centre doors 6 pm, $44 .50-$57.50. RT, SS, TM. March 31. Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 1.
LIAM FINN
Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 7.
MATT DUSK
Back From Las Vegas! Great Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $40. TM. April 9.
LOW
Mod Club doors 8 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 2.
THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50. TM. May 5.
BABY DEE
Music Gallery. May 7.
TUNE-YARDS, BUKE & GASS
Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 12.
USHER, AKON
Air Canada Centre $tba. TM. May 14.
ROOTS
Winterfolk
ADELE
Entering its ninth year, the folk, roots and blues festival takes over the Danforth February 17 to 21, with 150 artists playing at six local venues. All of the gigs are free except for Saturday night’s talent-stacked bash at Eastminster United Church (310 Danforth), where you can catch the Warped 45s (pictured), the Minotaurs, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party and many more for $15, or $12 in advance. winterfolk.com.
RIHANNA
LEE’S PALACE Kill Giants, Bare Minimum, Die
by Remote, the Cans. MUSIC GALLERY The Wavelength 11th Anniversary Festival Kite Hill, Eiyn Sof, Gordon Grdina’s East Van Strings, Not the Wind, Not The Flag 8 pm. PARTS & LABOUR The Responsables, Marco Graziano 10 pm. PRESS CLUB CD release Beekeepers Society, Topanga, Meadowlark 5 doors 9:30 pm. RIVOLI BACK ROOM Done With Dolls, Kardiak Kids doors 6 pm, all ages. SMILING BUDDHA Burning Candy 9 pm. SONIC BOOM In-store performance The Dears 7 pm. WRONGBAR Abe Vigoda, Wild Nothing, DJ Max Monehu 9 pm.
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AQUILA Suitcase Sam (blues). CAMERON HOUSE Ron Leary. CAMERON HOUSE Greg Cockerill (folk rock/
American/roots) 10 pm. C’EST WHAT The Sun Harmonic, Alex Grantham, Hungry Lake 8 pm. C’EST WHAT Double CD release Kaleb Hikele, Alex Granthum (alt folk) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM CD release Era Chorna, Bill King, Pat LaBarbera, Terry Clarke, Duncan Hopkins 8:30 pm. BLIVING ARTS CENTRE Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa 8 pm. MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, George Olliver, Neil Chapman, Danny Lockwood, Steve Pelletier (blues) 9 pm. BTHE OSSINGTON Tich Maredza Band 9 pm. THE PAINTED LADY The Bellejars 9 pm.
SLACK’S Raise The Roof Women’s Music Fest
Auditions Elana Harte 8 pm. SUPERMARKET Hearts & Crafts: The Muso Project Edward Monzon, Matt Butash, Charles Collymore, Adam Martin, Rachenne Regozo, Shane Cay, Arlene Paculan doors 7 pm. TEN FEET TALL WinterFlock VII Alan McKinlay, Glen Hornblastt, Roger Zuraw, Desmond Nathan Hirock, Pete Otis and others 9 pm. TRANZAC Mikel Miller, Kevin Bell.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
Kool Haus 8:30 pm, all ages, $28.50. RT, SS, TM. May 18. Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $19.75-$99.75. TM. June 7.
GLEE LIVE! IN CONCERT!
Air Canada Centre $tba. TM. June 11. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Jeff Milligan doors 10 pm. ñ GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5
INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). KOS DJ Love Doctor (roots rock) 7:30 pm. MAISON MERCER The Immaculate Jed Dadson. VELVET UNDERGROUND Get Wild Thursdays DJ Co
XS NIGHTCLUB DJ Ozaze (industrial/goth) 10 pm.
CHINA HOUSE Dave Restivo Quartet (jazz). DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist)
Friday, February 18
FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE
BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series Black Lungs, Hunter, Mockingbird Wish ñ Me Luck, the Organ Thieves, DJ Ewan Exall, DJ
5:30 to 8 pm.
American Berserk: The Solo Piano Music Of John Adams Adam Sherkin noon.
FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Magic Flute Canadian Opera Com-
pany’s Ensemble Studio 7:30 pm. GALLERY 345 The Annex String Quartet 8 pm. GATE 403 Jeff La Rochelle Quartet 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Amanda Covetta Jazz Band 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE One Stop Vocal Jazz Safari Melissa Lauren Jazz Band 7 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. REX Morgan Childs Trio 6:30 pm. REX Jeremy Pelt ‘Wired’ 9:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Sketchpad Simeon Abbott, Joe Sorbara, Nicole Rampersaud (jazz/experimental) 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO CD release Trace Element 8 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
CLINTON’S Pimp My School: Benefit for Ecuadorian Children Gabe Nespoli, the Little Black Dress, the Short & Curlies, Holy Toledo!.
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL Vania.
CADILLAC LOUNGE Beatles Tribute The Rattles. CLINTON’S Gooding Jones & the Overtones
(rock).
GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Bill Wood & the Woodies 9 pm. GREEN VELVET CARIBBEAN GRILL Fantasy Fridays Merciless Operation (reggae/R&B). HORSESHOE Make Your Exit, the Paint Movement, Wildlife, Strumbellas (alt rock). LAMBADINA Mars Rover (pop/hip-hop). LEE’S PALACE Video release The Delinquints, Midnight Malice, Skullians, You Handsome Devil, Bourbon DK (punk rock) 9:30 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Miracle Whip, the Belle Jars. MONARCHS PUB Classic Rock Fridays Michael Danckert, Kevin Adamson, Danny Lockwood 7 pm.
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Northern Primitive 10 pm. PRESS CLUB This Is a Parade. PROJECT 165 Good Clean Feeling, Tiny Mountains 10 pm. RANCHO RELAXO The Schomberg Fair, the Cheap Speakers, RivalBoys doors 9 pm. REVIVAL Hip-Hop Karaoke Four-Year Anniversary Black Sheep, Abdominal, More or Les, DJs Numeric, Ted Dancin’ doors 9 pm. RIVOLI BACK ROOM One-Year Anniversary Of Wool And Howl Wool & Howl, Free Whiskey String Band, the Cavaliers doors 9 pm. SIESTA NOUVEAUX The City Streets, the Red inForms, Me & My Scarecrow, the Sky of Sound, Giants 8 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Baby Shower The Good Times, Phil Allister, Voodoo Children, Steve Foster + Associates, Bo & Dysfunct, DJ Patrick Merners. STEAM WHISTLE BREWING The Wavelength 11th Anniversary Festival Woodhands, Minotaurs, Pat Jordache, Romo Roto, Doldrums 9 pm.
VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Misty (alt rock) 10 pm. WOO’S LOUNGE Heart.Of.The.City DJ J-Class,
Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/oldschool) doors 10:30 pm.
Saturday, February 19 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
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BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk: Song-
writers Unite Russell Leon, Collette Savard & John Zyteruck, Neil Conway, Kristin Lindell, and others 7 to 9 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk Sarcasouls, Joanne Crabtree & Margaret Stowe, David Celia & Joan Besen, Brian Gladstone & Tony Quarrington, HOTCHA! 7 to midnight. BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk Brock Zeman, Steve Paul Simms & John Jackson, Danny Marks 9 to midnight. CAMERON HOUSE David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. CAMERON HOUSE FRONT ROOM Kayla Howran 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Still Lions 10 pm. DANFORTH CAFE Winterfolk Anna Ziemirska, Rosemary Phelan & Jason Leprade, Jory Nash, Dan McVeigh, David Celia, David Lum, Jack Marks 7 pm to midnight. DORA KEOGH Winterfolk The Blackwood Two, Sue & Dwight, the Blackest Crow, Jon Davis, Nonie Crete, Dave Celia, Dave Lang 7 pm to midnight. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Return Of The Fast Folk Underground Eugene Ripper & Rattlesnake Choir doors 7:30 pm. BGLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Black History Month Waleed Abdulhamid Kush (panAfrican music) 7 to 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM John Hammond 8:30 pm. BIMPERIAL PUB Tich Maredza Band 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Friday Salsotika, DJ Gio (80s/90s salsa) 10 pm. MAMBO LOUNGE Winterfolk Laura Fernandez & Don Naduriak, Tony Quarrington, Evaristo Machado 7 pm. TERRI O’S SPORTS BAR Winterfolk Aaron McGill & Dan Shantz, Mikel Miller & Kevin Bell, Jory Nash, Danny Marks, Michael Brennan 7 pm to midnight. BTRANE STUDIO African Heritage Concert Of The Month Kahil El Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 8 pm.
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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DOWNTOWN Mozart’s Legacy: From The Kegelslatt Trio To Fairy Tales 7:30 pm. THE CENTRAL Flying Monkey Freak Show Cabaret 9 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN George Grosman’s Bohemian Swing 9 pm. GALLERY 345 The Art Of The Piano David Virelles, Miles Okazaki (Cuban jazz) 8 pm. GATE 403 Jana Cassidy Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Bartek Kozminski Ei Mosaico Flamenco Jazz Fusion Band 9 pm. MASSEY HALL Michael Kaeshammer, Jill Barber (jazz/pop) 8 pm. OLD MILL INN Fridays To Sing About! Sophia Perlman Trio w/ Adrean Farrugia, Ross MacIntyre 7:30 pm. QUOTES CD Launch Party Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm.
ANNEX WRECKROOM For Today, Stray from
the Path, Structures, Texas in July 5 pm, all ages. ASPETTA CAFFE Chase This Light, Seymour, New Horizon, Luke & Andrew Vasjar, Itchy Bones 7 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series The Sinisters, Damn 13, DJ Ian Blurton, DJ Gregg 13. CADILLAC LOUNGE Nowhere Girl, the Mashmen 9:30 pm. THE CENTRAL Should Have Worn Black Socks 6 to 9 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm. EL MOCAMBO Baths, Braids, Star Slinger doors 9 pm. See preview, page 39. GRAFFITI’S Jack Marks’ Lo$t Wages 3 to 6 pm. THE GREAT HALL The Wavelength 11th Anniversary Festival Hooded Fang, Maylee Todd, Little Girls, Eric Chenaux Electric Trio, Grimes 9 pm. HORSESHOE Jenn Grant, Rae Spoon, Olenka & Autumn Lovers 9:30 pm. See preview, page 36 LEE’S PALACE Rasputina doors 9 pm. MITZI’S SISTER BF Soul, Brenna MaQuarrie. MONARCH TAVERN Biodiesel, Dynamo & Badnutbeats 9:30 pm. PRESS CLUB The 3 Bears. RIVOLI Entire Cities, Fast Romantics, the Ascot Royals 9 pm.
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Finnish metalist Mathias “Vreth” Lillmåns has discovered the perfect homesickness cure while on tour: completely surround yourself with no one but other Finnish metalists. For the second straight year, his folk-metal hybrid Finntroll are leading the Finnish Metal Tour across North and South America. Judging by the singer’s groggy voice late in the afternoon, the Finn caravan is keeping Lillmåns plenty entertained. “Yeah, it was a fun night as usual,” he croaks. “It’s nice to have all these Finnish friends with us all the time.” The bands all salute the same blue-and-white cross, but Finntroll stand apart with their diverse, almost unclassifiable sound. Their new album, Nifelvind (Century Media), blends elements of pastoral folk, including flutes and fiddles, over pounding guitar riffage. “We take inspiration from everywhere,” Lillmåns says. “Our last albums have been more like ethno albums. There’s Scandinavian folk, folk from Bali or from the East. It’s about freedom to do whatever you want, and we’re going to keep doing it.” Despite the fun Lillmåns is having with his countrymen, the geographically expansive itinerary is giving him reason to grumble. “You need sandals and sunglasses in one place and long johns and boots in another. It’s plus 30˚ in South America and minus 30˚ in Saskatchewan.” At the Opera House (735 Queen East), Tuesday (February 22), 7 pm. $28.50. RT, JASON KELLER TM. REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. REX Adam Rogers Trio (featuring Nate Smith)
9:45 pm. REX Ted Warren Trio 6:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL International Vocal Recitals Nicole Cabell (soprano) 8 pm.
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Royal Conservatory Orchestra 8 pm. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH The Marco Polo
Project: Part II The Toronto Consort, Suba Sankaran (16th-century party music) 8 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
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Yes Yes Y’All TwoYear Anniversary Party Hollyrock, Sammy D, Elle Nino, J-ill, Stunts 10 pm.5 THE BARN Katy Perry Vs Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus Vs Kelly Clarkson. Battle Pop: Bad Girls Club DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall) 10 pm.5 C LOUNGE Famous Fridays Vivi Diamond (top 40/mashup/R&B/house) doors 10 pm. C’EST WHAT DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 9 pm. CREWS/TANGO ZONE Club Lite DJ Relentless.5 CREWS/TANGO TANGOS DJ Roxanne Hector.5 CZEHOSKI It’s A Party DJ NaNa. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Edumacation DJ Cosmo, DJ Fase doors 11 pm. FLY Family Day Weekend: College Night 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK Luv This City The Junkies doors 10 pm. GEORGE’S PLAY DJ Oscar (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5
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HOT BOX CAFE High Grade Entertainment
(reggae/R&B/oldies). INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Ghaleon (house/breaks). LEVACK BLOCK BACK ROOM DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm. LEVACK BLOCK FRONT ROOM DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop) 10 pm. LUXY NIGHTCLUB Diva Fridays DJ Jedi, DJ 4Korners. MIDPOINT Fondle Em Fridays DJ NV, DJ Standfast (hip-hop/funk/soul/rocksteady reggae) 9 pm. MOD CLUB Arcade Harvard Bass, Torro Torro 10 pm. NACO GALLERY CAFE Fancy Pants The Whole Man, Home Rekha, Lillith Z 9 pm.5 OPERA HOUSE DJ Shortee, Billy C, Dough Low doors 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Phantastik (hip-hop/ reggae) 10 pm. THE PISTON DJ Ryan Gavel (pop/rock/hip-hop/ soul) 10 pm. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro) 10 pm. STONE LOUNGE Fabricated Andrew McDonnell, Matt Coleridge. SUPERMARKET Go Go Bizkitt! DJs O-God, Go Go Bizkitt, Barletta, Boots Boogie. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alternative/indie rock) doors 10:30 pm.
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ATORY THEATRE Bluebird North: Where Songwriters Sing & Tell Colin MacDonald, John Angus MacDonald, Dean McTaggart, Julie Crochetière 8 pm. SONIC BOOM In-store performance Braids 5:30 pm. See preview, page 39. TRANZAC Wavelength Anniversary Festival Eleven: Speaker Series Woodhands, Not the Wind, Not the Flag 4 to 6 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Motel English, Girl & the Machine 9 pm. WRONGBAR Madrid.
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BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk: FingerStyle Guitar Dunstan Morey, Jo-Anne Park, Ron Bloor, Steve Shorter, Randy Finney, Des McCann and others 1 to 3 pm. BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk: Best Of Nashville Songwriters Assoc Dan McVeigh, Debra Alexander, John Di Battista, Shaun Devlin, Barbara Lynn and others 1 to 3 pm. BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk: Award-Winning Songwriters David Leask, Jory Nash, D’Arcy Wickham, Melwood Cutlery 3 to 5 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk: Seneca College Independent Music Program Justice RF, Nika Smith, Andrew Hyatt, Emma Sunstrum and others 3 to 6 pm. BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk: Best Of Acoustic Afternoons Dan MacLean Jr, Katie Regan, Mark Denington, Steven Morrison, Carlin Belof, Trevor Jones, Tyler Ellis 5 to 7 pm.
BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk Brock Zeman 7 to 8 pm.
BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk Satur-
day Saints, the Guitar Boys of Alderon, Mi chael Jerome Browne 9 pm to midnight. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk Melwood Cutlery, Dan Whiteley 6 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk: Finger Pickin’ The Blues Mr Rick, Mose Scarlett, Michael Jerome Browne 8 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk Jon Davis, Big Rude Jake, Betty Supple Band 9 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE FRONT ROOM Sue & Dwight (folk/roots) 3:30 to 5:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Cameron Family Singers 6 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Devin Cuddy 10 pm. C’EST WHAT Nicole Christian (blues/roots) 8 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN The Foggy Hogtown Boys (bluegrass) 4 to 7:30 pm. DANFORTH CAFE Winterfolk David Leask, David Hein, D’arcy Wickham, Eve Goldberg 7 to 11 pm. DORA KEOGH Winterfolk Josh Wilkinson, the McDales, Abigail Lapell, William & Polly, Bram Cherun, Grainne Ryan, the Wanted, Brock Zeman 1 to 4 pm. DORA KEOGH Winterfolk: Irish Song Circle Deb Quigley, Uilein Piper 4 pm. DORA KEOGH Winterfolk David Nigel Lloyd, Louise Ford, the Donefors, Margaret Stowe Trio 8 pm to midnight. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Lucas Silveira, Dave Bidini, Lenni Jabour (pop/ rock) doors 7:30 pm. EASTMINSTER UNITED CHURCH Winterfolk IX Blues And Roots Festival: Big Bands For Your Buck Jack Marks & the Lost Wages, the Warped 45s, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, the Minotaurs 7:30 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Mardi Gras Dance And Masquerade Swamperella (cajun/zydeco) doors 8 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Country Saturdays Laura Repo Country Band 7 pm. HUGH’S ROOM John Hammond 8:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Saturday Roberto Linares Brown Orchestra, DJ Jimmy Suave. MAMBO LOUNGE Winterfolk Ania Ziemirska, Sue & Dwight, David Lum, Glen Hornblast 1 to 5 pm. MAMBO LOUNGE Winterfolk Mike Masse, Louise Ford, Tony Quarrington, Laura Fernandez, Evaristo Machado 5 to 11 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Chris Antonik Band, Dylan Wickens & the Grand Naturals (blues) doors 7 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The North, Poisonous Glass 10:30 pm. TERRI O’S SPORTS BAR David Lum, Mike Masse, Tony Quarrington, Dan McVeigh, David Celia & Joan esen 1 to 6 pm. BTRANE STUDIO African Heritage Concert Of The Month Kahil El Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble 9:30 pm.
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BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk: Put Some Afro In Your Roots The Doneñ fors, Nathan Lawr (jazz/Afro/funk bass) 7 pm. C’EST WHAT Hot Five Jazzmakers 3 pm. GALLERY 345 Les Amis Concerts Duo Novinc/ Caldarovic (piano/violin) 8 pm.
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Friday Feb 18th THE OPERA HOUSE $15 @ Door 19+ ticketweb.ca NOW FEBRUARY 17-23 2011
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f you’re over 25, you probably haven’t heard of Skrillex. And if you have, it’s likely that you hate the kind of dance music he makes and blame him for corrupting and bastardizing the dubstep genre – or dance music as a whole if you’re particularly curmudgeonly. None of that really
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skrillex with nero and Porter robinson at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (February 19), 10 pm. Sold out. matters to the kids who love his aggressive beats and pummelling bass lines. His combination of bangin’ electro house, throbbing dubstep, heavy metal aggression and pure pop glitter is genuinely new and shamelessly populist. There’s not much middle ground
when it comes to Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore): you either love him or hate him. But like the old punk rock maxim says, if you’re not pissing anybody off, you’re probably not doing anything interesting. “I’m a sensitive guy, so I try not to think about the hate, or look for it,” admits Moore somewhat defensively. “I just want to make my music, and I’m not trying to please anyone in particular.” He’s definitely pleasing some peo-
ple, though. The numbers speak for themselves. His first commercially released EP only dropped in October, yet his Saturday gig at the Phoenix has been sold out for weeks, and tickets online are going for as much as $150 each. The Phoenix is about four times larger than Wrongbar, where he played an insanely intense soldout gig just over two months ago. Moore has already cranked out officially sanctioned remixes for pop heavy weights Lady Gaga, La Roux
WHAT THE F*CK IS DUBSTEP? The dubstep sub-genre exploded out of the UK underground and, over the past decade, has infiltrated international mainstream pop. Despite its popularity, the sound is still a bit of a mystery to people who haven’t been following dance music trends closely. To help you fake some expertise at your next dinner party, here’s a condensed history of dubstep.
BASS
2003 Legendary BBC Radio 1 DJ 2000 The term itself had yet to be invented, but you can clearly hear the style’s early rumblings in the sparse instrumental remixes of UK garage tracks by producers like Zed Bias. Essentially, the formula at this point is punishing drum-’n’-bass-inspired bass lines over slippery breakbeats and dark atmospherics. Basically d’n’b, but slower.
John Peel starts playing dubstep on air, pulling it out of the clubs and pirate radio and into popular culture in the UK.
2004 Pioneering producers like
MARK COATSWORTH
Digital Mystikz start experimenting with a reggae-inspired halftime beat that creates a unique tension against the uptempo, wobbly bass lines. Soon the early 2-step garage rhythms start falling out of fashion.
2001 The South London club
night Forward> is launched, providing the emerging style’s first home. It functions mainly as a spot for producers to try out new ideas on a loud sound system.
2005 Dubstep spreads beyond the UK to the rest of the world. In Toronto, Brandon Sek throws a couple of parties but attracts only about 20 people.
WIN tickets to this show! Enter at
nowtoronto.com/contests and Black Eyed Peas. He’s been signed to Mau5trap, the label of Canadian electro house international superstar Deadmau5. His Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP dominated the Beatport dance music charts in an unprecedented way in November, at one point holding eight of the top 10 spots as well as scoring the first-ever number one on the chart for a dubstep song (see sidebar). I have never in my career had so many unsolicited pitches from ran-
dom people desperate to cover this show in some way – pretty impressive for a 23-year-old producer who was largely unknown in the dance music world a year ago. It reads like one of those mythical overnight success stories, but as is often the case, Moore has more musical history than his age suggests. “It’s definitely not been an overnight success. I’ve been making music for a long time. I’ve been playing guitar, piano and singing since I was nine.”
Before his solo career as an electronic artist, he was the vocalist for L.A. post-hardcore band From First to Last, which he joined when he was just 16 and was signed to Epitaph at the time. That punk rock energy is still reflected in Moore’s crazy live shows, which see him constantly stagediving and crowd-surfing in a scene that looks like a cross between a out-of-control mosh pit and a fullon rave. continued on page 44 œ
2006 BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne
2002 The word “dubstep” starts being used to describe the style, and a cover story in XLR8R magazine helps establish the term and the movement.
Hobbs puts together a special on the genre called Dubstep Warz and begins to champion the sound on air. Some of the bigger names play gigs in Toronto, including intimate appearances by Kode9, Loefah and Skream. A weekly Wednesday night party called Dubslingers launches at Thymeless that’s still running today.
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It might be that screamo connection that throws some people off, leading them to suspect he’s just jumping on the dance music bandwagon. But according to Moore, he was interested in dance music long before he played in a band. “Absolutely. I was into electronic music before post-hardcore. This shift wasn’t about my changing musical tastes, because I’ve been listening to this kind of music my whole life.” You get the sense that he’d rather not be fielding questions about his teen years on the Warped Tour. Not that he’s embarrassed about his past – just sick of explaining over and over that it’s not really that big a deal any more to like both punk and dubstep. “I don’t have any problem talking about it – just if that’s all people want to talk about. All that information is out there already. Go on Wikipedia, it’s all there. When I started Skrillex, it didn’t matter, because it was a new name to everyone and nobody knew who I was. But now it’s all about me being that DJ who was in a band, and interviewers keep asking about the transition from rock to doing this. “Ask yourself what was the first album you ever listened to? And what was the first record you bought for yourself and loved? Can you imagine trying to explain how you transitioned between the two, over and over again?” You can’t help but suspect that Moore’s history played a tangible role in his rapid rise to fame. An unknown producer doesn’t get to do official Lady Gaga remixes without having some music industry friends. On the other hand, his success seems to have had more to do with the DIY approach he took releasing his early music for free on the internet; his pop remixes only got attention after he blew up for his own tracks. “When the My Name Is Skrillex EP came out in June, it was a free down-
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load and we didn’t have a publicist or anything, but it still did a couple hundred thousand downloads and was all over the blogs. Word was circulating, but it was under the radar of the normal media community, flowing from a different side of things. “I have much more original material than remixes, and the original material has been the most successful by far.” As much as he’s now associated with dubstep’s rapid growth in North America, Moore’s L.A. take on the UKborn sub-genre is in no way reverent, and the style is only a small part of his overall sound. He borrows just as much from contemporary electro house and 90s IDM, not to mention metal, punk and straight-up pop. He’s an outsider to the genre but has had more success with elements of the sound than the style’s original architects. You can imagine what the purists think about this. “I was the first Beatport artist to hit number one with a dubstep song, so that word was thrown around a lot, but the people who come to the shows and buy my records know I’m not really a dubstep artist.” It’s just one element of many in his sound, but he’s proud to say he’s helping to break the sound on this side of the Atlantic. Unlike most British dance music trends of the past few decades, elements of dubstep have been sneaking into the production of some of the biggest American R&B, hip-hop and pop stars in recent years, even if most listeners might not recognize it. “I don’t think a straight-up dubstep track with no vocals will ever be big on American radio. Having said that, even extreme black metal somehow made it into the mainstream in a watered-down form. “On that level, I think it has already happened. You can hear it in Usher and Britney Spears, and more and more pop artists are going to be borrowing from dubstep. It’s been happening in the UK for a long time, of course, but it’s definitely arrived in North America.” So next time you hear that unmistakable wobble bass booming out of a car stereo and scaring your pets, blame Skrillex for helping unleash it on a massive scale. 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com
2007 Britney Spears uses that trademark wobble bass sound on the single Freakshow and freaks out the purists. With support from NOW, Toronto parties, though still pretty small, feature soon-to-be-huge names like Rusko, and the energy is undeniable.
2008 Rusko’s huge hit, Cockney
Thug, divides audiences with its noisy, aggressive attitude, laying the groundwork for dubstep’s new populist direction. Purists are annoyed by the lack of subtlety, but the kids love it. Snoop Dogg collaborates with Chase & Status, signalling that the sound could cross over into American urban music.
2009 Dubstep continues to infiltrate mainstream pop, with artists like Rihanna, Eve and La Roux getting in on the action. M.I.A. hires Rusko to help produce her third album, Maya.
2010 Britney Spears enlists Rusko to help on her upcoming album, and judging from the halftime dubstep breakdown in the first single, Hold It Against Me, the sound will be all over the record. In Toronto, the parties are huge and the crowds increasingly young and rowdy. Elements of the style are popping up everywhere, leaving original fans of the genre wondering what happened to their scene. Electro house artists like Deadmau5 and Skrillex score big by borrowing the wobble bass sound and bouncing between tempos, while the purists cry into their beer.
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Gate 403 Bass & Voice Brunch Ori Dagan noon
to 3 pm.
Gate 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. Gate 403 Max Senitt Latin Jazz Band 9 pm. Glenn Gould Studio Haydn’s Cello Concerto
Kindred Spirits Orchestra 8 pm. not My doG Fred Spek’s Camp Combo (hipster vaudeville) 10 pm. old Mill inn Piano Masters Richard Whiteman Duo w/ Kurt Nielsen 7:30 pm. Rex Danny Marks & Friends noon. Rex Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 7 pm. Rex Adam Rogers Trio (featuring Nate Smith) 9:45 pm. Rex The T.J.O. Big Band (jazz orchestra) 3:30 pm. Roy thoMSon hall Brahms & Dvorák Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. SoMewheRe theRe Studio Nicole Rampersaud (solo trumpet) 8 pm. tRane Studio Trouble (with Harvey Cowan) 8 pm. tRinity St. Paul’S ChuRCh The Marco Polo Project: Part II The Toronto Consort, Suba Sankaran (16th-century party music) 8 pm. unitaRian ConGReGation GReat hall Shiraz Ensemble (Persian music) 8 pm.
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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Cheval Just Cheval Saturdays DJ Undercover. Clinton’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush
(Motown/Britpop).
CRewS/tanGo Zone DJ Craig Domonic 10 pm.5 CZehoSki Jang Bang DJ NaNa 10:30 pm. dRake hotel undeRGRound Woolfy doors 10 pm.
Fly Deko-Ze’s Birthday Dwayne Minard,
DJ Kevin Bailey 10 pm.5 ñDeko-ze, FootwoRk Guido Schneider, Terence ñKissner, Noah Pred, Simina Grigoriu, Koki doors 10 pm.
GeoRGe’S Play DJ Oscar (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 Goodhandy’S Sodom’s Second Annual Vam-
pire Love Ball DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 GuveRnMent Dash Berlin. haRbouRFRont CentRe iCe Rink Masala! Mehndi! Masti! GhuMMMo Skate Party (bhangra/bollywood) 8 pm. inSoMnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). levaCk bloCk baCk RooM DJ Teezdale & Dougie Boom 10 pm. levaCk bloCk FRont RooM DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm. Mod Club UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. naCo GalleRy CaFe Alimanha Family Night DJ NoLoves, VJ Nero (Latin contemporary from Spain to Mexico).5 neu+Ral Remembering Peter: Memorial Show For Belladonnakillz Goldie Luxx, Pussy, Cousin Dog, Famine, C64, Ghost Television, B7, Goodfellaz, Loopsy Dazy (experimental) 8 pm. the Painted lady Salazar 10 pm. PaRtS & labouR Dream/Date DJs Max Mohenu, Steven Manning, Tony Price (postpunk/disco/soul/minimal wave). Phoenix ConCeRt theatRe Nero, Skrillex, Porter Robinson doors 10 pm. See cover story, page 42. the PiSton One-Year Anniversary Bender 9 pm. Sneaky dee’S Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. SuPeRMaRket Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal. SutRa The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). tattoo RoCk PaRlouR Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor Gen Y, DJ Stu (dance rock/retro) doors 10 pm. velvet undeRGRound DJ Joe (alt rock) 11:15 pm.
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Sunday, February 20 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL
doMinion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.
dRake hotel undeRGRound Seven-Year An-
niversary Secret Show doors 8 pm. the GaRRiSon The Wavelength 11th Anniversary Festival Lullabye Arkestra, Neon Windbreaker, Simply Saucer, Ghostlight 9 pm. BGlenn Gould Studio Lizz Wright (R&B/ jazz/gospel) 8 pm. GRaFFiti’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 5 pm. hoRSeShoe Akron/Family, Delicate Steve doors 8 pm. See preview, page 50. MitZi’S SiSteR The Liquidaires 5 to 7 pm. naCo GalleRy CaFe The Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party punk) 7 pm. oRbit RooM Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. PaRtS & labouR Formalists, Seoul, Desert Trees, Old Ambition doors 9 pm, all ages.
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electro shoegaze
Powers
Last spring, local band the Ghost Is Dancing decided to start over. Laying to rest their orchestral indie leanings, they re-emerged (sans one member) in September as the stripped-down electro-shoegaze outfit Powers. Blending in-your-face delay-heavy vocals with guitar, samples, synths and beats, they play the Boat tonight (Thursday, February 17). We contacted singer/guitarist Jamie Matechuk for the latest. Check nowtoronto.com/music for the full Q&A. Why did you decide to start over? Powers is a new band. TGID ended when we left our label and it became clear that we were interested in different things musically. We didn’t want people coming to a TGID show and not getting the same band. The new sound reflects what we’re into. I love sampling now. We have songs that have fireworks, a second of an old Motown song, our voices pitchshifted up 12 steps, water, walking, broken video game glitches. I’ll sample anything. All that, plus us playing. Any recording plans? We’re recording with Ryan DiCecca, who’s known for remixes and MIDI stuff. A bunch of songs are on the verge of being done and we only wrote them a few months ago. That kind of turnaround is really exciting. Our plan is to start releasing singles on a bi-monthly basis. I love the idea of putting out songs as they come. We’re planning a single and video release for April. That will kick off a conJoRdan biMM tinual flow.
Phoenix ConCeRt theatRe Morcheeba doors 8 pm. ñ RoCkPile Within the Ruins, Suffokate, the Contortionist.
FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD
aQuila The New Mynah Birds w/ Julian Fauth (mostly blues) evening.
baR italia uPStaiRS The Crazy Mosquito Jam
– Malaria Prevention Benefit DJ Medicineman (global grooves) 9 pm. blaCk Swan SeCond FlooR Winterfolk: Best Of Ten Feet Tall Open Stage Roger Zuraw, Chris Casserly, Steve Raiken, John Layton, Steve Morrison, Trevor Jones and others 1 pm. blaCk Swan SeCond FlooR Winterfolk: Guitar Jam Tony Quarrington & Margaret Stowe, Shawn Brush, Jimmie Bowskill, Mr Rick, Noah Zacharin 3 pm. blaCk Swan SeCond FlooR Winterfolk Ken Yoshioka (blues) 5 pm. blaCk Swan SeCond FlooR Winterfolk: Fingerstyle Frenzy D’Arcy Wickham, Steve Payne, Noah Zacharin 6 pm. blaCk Swan SeCond FlooR Winterfolk Erin Hill & Her Psychedelic Harp, the Donefors, the Guitar Boys of Alderon, Porkbelly Futures, David Essig 7 pm to midnight. blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk: Stouffville Artists Showcase Marie-Lynn Hammond, D’Arcy Wickham, Erwin Shack, Glen Marias, Ewan Dobson 1 pm.
blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk:
Blues Songwriting Gary Kendall, Ken Yoshioka, Big Rude Jake 3 pm.
blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk: Songs
Of The Spirit Eve Goldberg, Tannis Slimmon, Michael Jerome Browne (gospel) 4 pm. blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk Steve Payne, Tannis Slimmon 5 to 7 pm. blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk: Cross Cultural Roots Danny Simmons, Kristin Cavoukian 7 pm. blaCk Swan Main FlooR Winterfolk: Borealis Records-The Best In Canadian Folk Music Eve Goldberg, James Gordon, Melwood Cutlery w/ Dan Whiteley, Michael Jerome Browne, Mose Scarlett & Tony Quarrington 8 pm. CadillaC lounGe Country Matinee Scotty Campbell (country) 4 pm. CaMeRon houSe Jay Pollock 6 pm. CaMeRon houSe Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm. doRa keoGh Winterfolk: Arts Can Circle Carol Teal, HOTCHA!, Noah Zacharin, Joanne Crabtree, Jason LaPrade & Rosemary Phelan 1 pm. doRa keoGh Winterfolk John DiBatista, Matthew DeZoete, Nonie Crete, Paul Languille, Shawn Brush 3 to 8 pm. doRa keoGh Winterfolk: Why So Glum Chum? Peter Wildman, Tony Quarrington and others 8 pm. doRa keoGh Winterfolk The Blackest Crow, Betty Supple, Rosemary Phelan, Tannis Slimmon, Joanne Crabtree, the Horables 9 pm to midnight. dRake hotel undeRGRound Family Concert The Monkey Bunch doors 3 pm.
GladStone hotel Melody baR Bluegrass Sundays Makita Hack & the Logrollers (roots/ bluegrass/hardcore) 5 to 8 pm. MaMbo lounGe Winterfolk John DiBatista, Aaron McGill & Dan Shantz, Peter Wildman, Paul Languille 1 to 5 pm. MaMbo lounGe Winterfolk: Writing Music For Theatre David Hein, Tonny Quarrington, James Gordon 5 pm. MaMbo lounGe Winterfolk Matthew DeZoete, Joanne Crabtree & Margaret Stowe, the Blackwood Two, Betty Supple, Peter Verity, Jon Davis 6 pm to midnight. PoGue Mahone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. Royal Canadian leGion #258 Bluegrass Sundays The Spinney Brothers, Badly Bent 2 pm. teRRi o’S SPoRtS baR Winterfolk: Moonshine Cafe Best Of The Open Stage 1 pm. teRRi o’S SPoRtS baR Winterfolk GCDC, Peter Verity, Pat Little, Chris Casserly, Herb Dale and others 3 to 6 pm. teRRi o’S SPoRtS baR Winterfolk Laura Fernandez & Noah Zacharin, Steve Payne, Steve Paul Simms & John Jackson, Michael Brennan, Kristin Sweetland, Jimmy Bowskill 6 pm to midnight. tiFF bell liGhtbox Singin’ In The Dark Family-Friendly Sing-A-Long Shawn Hitchins (movie hits) 11 am to 5 pm hourly.
Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL
the CentRal Association Of Improvising Musicians 3 to 6 pm.
edwaRd JohnSon buildinG walteR hall
Music & Truffles Debussy Quartet 3:15 pm. the Painted lady Combo Royale 9 pm. PReSS Club Justin Snikkar’s Asymmetrical Disposition & the Jazz Piztolz 9 pm. Rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Rex Richard Whiteman 7 pm. Rex Dean McNeill, Brian O’Kane 9:30 pm.
Royal ConSeRvatoRy oF MuSiC MaZZoleni hall Discovery Series Joaquin Valdepeñas, John Perry 2 pm.
SoMewheRe theRe Studio Process Re-
vealed – Voice Project Workshop Christine Duncan (experimental/jazz) 5 pm. tRane Studio Jazz FM 91.1 Youth Big Band 8 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
beaveR Bedroom Eyes DJs J Crosson, L Wild-
man.
bovine Sex Club DJ Rockabilly Rob. CRewS/tanGo Zone Creamed Sundays DJ Ana Capella 10 pm.5
dRake hotel undeRGRound DJ Benzi, DJ Huggs doors 11 pm.
GladStone hotel ballRooM Phunk’d Pham-
ily Day DJs Double AA, RA, RKS 10 pm. GuveRnMent Family Dubfire, Carlo Lio, Victor Calderone, Congorock, Nick Catchdubs, the Knocks. henhouSe Neverending Weekend DJ Poor Pilgrim (Matt Cully of Bruce Peninsula ) 10 pm.5 inSoMnia DJ LK (old-school hip-hop/disco/ funk). luxy niGhtClub Get Inked! Body Paint Party DJ Couture.
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The ChriS anTonik BanD w/ Dylan Wickens & the Grand naturals
march 12 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5:30pm
DaWG FM Blues Bash Feat. The JohnnY MaX BanD
H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H HH H fri feB 18 H H H H H H H H H H H H DJ Patrick Merners/Twisted Music H H H H Sat feB 19 Late Night Live! 10:30pm H H H H H H H H H H H H H H HigH lonesome Wednesday • 9:30pmH H H H H H H H big city bluegrass H featuring members of H H H H the foggy hogtown boys H H & the creaking tree H H string quartet H H H thu H H feB 24 H H H H H H H DoorS 8Pm H H H H fri feB 25 H H H H H H H H H H H H H Sat feB 26 Beatlesque Country-Psych H H H H H H H H H H H H H H (Cincinnati) H H H H w/ H H H H H (Belgium) H H H H H H H Plus! H @ 8:30pm H H H advance tickets @ rotate This, Soundscapes H H H thu Mar 3 H H H H H H H H H H H Nouveau Garage/Goth H H fri H H Mar H H4 H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H Sat Mar 5 H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H w/ H H H H H HH H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H
The “Baby Show-er” Bash
PHIL ALLISTER, The Good Times Voodoo Children, BO+DYSFUNKT
tHuRsDAY FebRuARY 17 Gladstone Gallery: 7-10pm Graphic details: confessional comics by Jewish women Opening ReceptiOn | FRee melody bar: 8pm - 1Am Thursday NighT CoNfideNTial BloCks reCordiNg CluB preseNT an eveninG with mantler | FRee FRiDAY FebRuARY 18 melody bar: 7-10pm BlaCk hisTory MoNTh waleed abdulhamid Kush | FRee melody bar: 10pm - 2Am KaraoKe w/ peteR stYles | FRee sAtuRDAY FebRuARY 19 melody bar: 7-10pm Mill sT. CouNTry saTurdays preseNT the laura repo country band | FRee ballroom: 8pm-2Am swamperella's 15th annual mardi Gras celebration | $15 melody bar: 10pm-2Am KaraoKe w/ peteR stYles | FRee sunDAY FebRuARY 20 melody bar: 5-8pm Mill sT. Bluegrass suNdays preseNTs maKita hacK & the loGrollers | FRee ballroom: 10pm-3Am phunK'd phamily day DJs DOuble AA, RA, & RKs | $15 mOnDAY FebRuARY 21 art bar: 7:30pm - 9:30pm early MoNThly segMeNTs #25 James brouGhton + sidney peterson | $5 tuesDAY FebRuARY 22 melody bar: 8pm-12Am era chorna | FRee weDnesDAY FebRuARY 23 ballroom: 6-8:30pm the bpc's freedom to read weeK celebration | FRee melody bar: 7:30pm-12Am Granny boots cOlOuR me DRAgg: celebRAting 5 YeARs in tHe mAKing! | FRee art bar: 8-10pm life drawinG | $7
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Fri Feb 18
GOODING JONES & THE OVERTONES
Sat Feb 19
FEB 19 ◆
SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL: Spinning 60’s Soul
Rock & Roll Dance Party DRINK, DANCE, GET MESSY W/ THE GIRLS OF BANGS&BLUSH FEB 20 FEB 21 FEB 22 FEB 23
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KARAOKE NIGHT QUIZ NIGHT w Terrance Balazo
THE ART BAR POETRY SERIES VINCE LOMBARDI, GIRL DRINK DRUNK, OSCAR TANGO
3rd Sunday of each month is The Psychic Brunch Clinton’s Is Looking For New Bands 416.503.2921 or bookclintons@hotmail.com
7-9pm LEON
KNIGHT & THE NEON LIGHTS 10pm HOT WAX MELTDOWN
4-7pm THE FOGGY HOGTOWN BOYS
10pm BRADLEYBOY
MACARTHUR w// TARANTULA w
Sun Feb 20 11-3pm BLUEGRASS BRUNCH 10pm
THE
BEAUTIES THE RATTLESNAKE
Mon Feb 21
10pm
Tues Feb 22 Wed Feb 23
10pm THE
CHOIR SURE THINGS 10pm FLASH LIGHTNIN’
249 OSSINGTON AVE (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com
THE NORTH Poisonous Glass
crazy strings Starship Experience
HATCH, SLIGHTLY LEFT Sunrise Oh Sunrise DILDONIKS Elvyn, Union Duke THE DRESS WHITES
Mon 21 The lion’s den w/ Julion & Crew The deepest reggae, cool vibes & corn soup... Tues 22 GhosT JAil TheATre Improv comedy so damn funny it’s spooky...
486 spadina ave. @ college
Saturday Supper Club Blues!
w/mocKingBirD wish me lucK, the organ thieves + DJ vania & ewan exall
THE OSSINGTON
FEB 18 ◆
w/ PeoPle You Know + DJ James st. Bass
BlACk lungs
PIMP MY SCHOOL: A GIG FOR THE KIDS
(RAISING MONEY FOR THE CHILDREN IN ECUADOR) GABE NESPOLI, THE LITTLE BLACK DRESS, THE SHORT & CURLIES, HOLY TOLEDO!
thu Feb 17 • with vj Barnaby Marshall Bovine's 20th AnniversAry series
OF THE CANYON
w/ GUEST GREG PRESTON
416-535-9541 WWW.CLINTONS.CA W of Bathurst FEB 17 ◆
10pm LADIES
Thu Feb 17
BUFFALO KILLERS BENITO BAND
The Speaking Tongues, Luau Or Die
ORCHARD
Drunk Woman presents
HONKY NIGHT IN CANADA!!!
ELL V GORE
w/ Rituals
MAUSOLEUM
Garage-Country-Punk
THE STABLES SUN RA RA RA
The Cautioneers, Mittenz
NeXt @ CMf: March10-12
THE ZOOBOMBS, CATL
Russian Futurists, The Darcys UNCLE BAD TOUCH, THE PEELIES Katie Moore, The Pining, Invasions THE WILDERNESS, FOXFIRE and more...
at The Silver Dollar & Comfort Zone 416.763.9139 • silverdollarroom.com
thu feb 17 | 6pm | $10
dONE WITh dOLLS w/ kardiak kids
what do you get when four feisty pre teen girls pick up instruments? a hitband?? well of course! fri feb 18 | 9pm | $5
tHe one year anniVersary oF WooL and HoWL
w/ WOOL ANd hOWL
Free Whiskey string band, the Cavaliers sat feb 19 | 9pm | $5
PUbLiC City anniVersary Party
feat. Entire Cities, The Fast romantics
and The Ascot royals
sun feb 20 | drs 8:30pm | $5
LAUGh SABBATh:
POPPA PrOPPA’S hOUSE OF JOKES Hosted by PoPPa ProPPa. Feat: CHris LoCke, big tease, tom Henry & more! eVery sUnday at tHe riVoLi! WWW.LAUGhSABBATh.COM
mOn feb 21 | drs 8:30pm | pwYC ($5) BrOAdCAST LIVE ON USTrEAM.COM MC ArThUr SIMEON debra digioVanni mark ForWard eddie deLLa siePe and more! ALTdOTCOMEdYLOUNGE.COM tue feb 22 | drs 8:30pm | pwYC ($5) ThE hEAdLINE SErIES FEATUrING: FrENzY MC AdAM ChrISTIE
w/special guests niCk FLanagan, dan beirne rULers oF tHe UniVerse neWsdesk WitH ron sParks
SKETChCOMEdYLOUNGE.COM wed feb 23 | drs 8pm | $5 dr
ThE BOx SALON
the box invites you to an evening of short words, film, performance and music by: Claudia dey, robert dayton, dr ew, Lynne Heller, kathleen Phillip, annette mangaard, annie onyi Cheung, John southworth thu feb 24 | 9pm | $10
ThE BEAT LOUNGE
toronto’s Hip Hop Producer showcase
COMING SOON feb 27 LOVELY KILLBOTS MarCh 18 ThE IdLErS MarCh 19 FOOTPrINTS MaY 31 (COMIC) STEVE hOFSTETTEr 332 QUEEN ST. W. | 416.596.1908 | rivoli.ca
TEmpO pRESENTS:
JEFF miLLiGAN
DOORS @ 10pm_$10
FAST FOLK UNDERGROUND
w/ EUGENE RippER
+ RATTLESNAKE CHOiR DOORS @ 7:30pm_$10
LUCAS SiLVEiRA
w/ DAVE BiDiNi
+ LENNi JABOUR
DOORS @ 7:30pm_$10
DRAKE 7 YEAR ANNiVERSARY SECRET SHOw
DOORS @ 8pm_FREE
DJ BENZi + DJ HUGGS DOORS @ 11pm_$10
ELViS mONDAY
DOORS @ 9pm_FREE
RiCH AUCOiN DOORS @ 8:30pm_$10
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NOW february 17-23 2011
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WIN TIcKeTs! collective concerts presents
TeNNIs
February 25 at The Horseshoe $11.50 advance 19+ Tickets available at HS/RT/SS/TM
clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 48
ULTRA Family Day Kenny Dope, Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull. ñ VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Hanna (80s retro) 10 pm.
WRONGBAR Elite Force, Tasc, Farbsie and
others.
Monday, February 21 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Elvis Monday
O n s ale n o w. C h e c k o u t c o l l e c t i ve c o n c e r t s .c a f o r m o r e inf o.
AKRON/FAMILY February 20 at The Horseshoe
$10.00 advance 19+ Tickets available at HS/RT/SS
Visit nowtoronto.com to enter!
Deadline is Sunday, February 20, at 11pm. One entry per household.
Drunk Hussy, Heartbeat Hotel, Alex Low, the Wildcore, Teen Tits, Wild Wives (pop/rock) doors 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. HARLEM CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Domestic Bliss Mondays Gord Zubrecki Band. MOD CLUB Times of Grace, Straight Line Stitch, War of Ages doors 7 pm, all ages.
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk:
Family Day The Horables, Ken Yoshioka, David Essig & Tony Quarrington, Gary Kendall Band (blues) 3 to 6 pm, all ages.
BLACK SWAN SECOND FLOOR Winterfolk: Music For the Good Times & Bad and Songs Of Canada HOTCHA!, Michael Brennan, the Saturday Saints, Peter Verity, Sue & Dwight 1 to 3 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk: Audience Participation Songwriting James Gordon, Eve Goldberg, Joanne Crabtree, David Hein 1 pm. BLACK SWAN MAIN FLOOR Winterfolk Kristin Sweetland 3 pm. BLACK SWAN Winterfolk: Ukulele Speakeasy Sue Cutler, Michael Griffin, Heather Katz, Tony Burns, Frank Paldino and others 4 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Open Stage Sam & Meghan 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Betty Stew 6 pm. CAMERON HOUSE FRONT ROOM The Cameron Review 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Vas Vega 10 pm. DANFORTH CAFE Winterfolk: Family Fun David Nigel Lloyd, Erin Hill & Her Psychedelic Harp, David Nigel Lloyd, Betty Supple & Laurel Collins 2 to 6 pm. DORA KEOGH Winterfolk: Family Fun Andrew Queen, Beth Anne Cole & Tony Quarrington, Noah Zacharin, David Nigel Lloyd, HOTCHA! 1 to 7 pm. GATE 403 Snake Oil Johnson Ken Kawashima & Bob Cespaziani (blues) 9 pm. JOE MAMA’S Shakura S’Aida (blues) 7:30 pm. THE LOCAL Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/ country) 9:30 pm. MAMBO LOUNGE Winterfolk Kristin Sweetland, Brian Gladstone, Mr Rick, Freeman Dre, Ken Yoshioka 1 to 6 pm. REPOSADO Mezcal Mondays Lucas Stagg & Chris Bennett. TERRI O’S SPORTS BAR Winterfolk: Remembering Norm Hacking Glen Hornblast, Mikel Miller 1 pm. TERRI O’S SPORTS BAR Winterfolk Beth Anne Cole & Tony Quarrington, Andrew Queen, Mose Scarlett, Mr Rick, Big Rude Jake, David Essig 3 to 6 pm. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Singin’ In The Dark FamilyFriendly Sing-A-Long Shawn Hitchins (movie hits) 11 am to 3 pm hourly.
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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM
Music With Bite: La Tête Dans Les Nuages Annabelle Renzo (harp) 1 pm.
HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE
Family Skating Party Toronto All-Star Big Band (swing) 2 to 4 pm.
REX Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. REX Kelsley Grant’s Trombone Orchestra 9:30
pm.
SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Panic! Series Allison Cameron, Nobuo Kubota, Steve Ward (experimental, jazz) 8 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
BEAVER Kicking And Screaming DJs Pat Ghostwolf, George Burt. BOVINE SEX CLUB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr. GOODHANDY’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). THE PISTON Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared 10 pm.
Tuesday, February 22 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series Coregasm.
CADILLAC LOUNGE The Louisianna Snowblow-
ers 8:30 pm.
CAMERON HOUSE Luke Nicholson (alt pop) 10 pm.
THE CENTRAL Trouble in the Vegetable Garden, Pale Whale (rock) 10 pm.
C’EST WHAT Paint (rock) 10 pm. HORSESHOE Nu Music Nite The Cunninghams,
Marvelous Beauhunks, Brother 9 pm. OPERA HOUSE The Finnish Metal Tour 2 Finntroll, Ensiferum, Rotten Sound, Barren Earth doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 41. PHOENIX New venue. Yann Tiersen, Breathe Owl Breathe (classical) doors 8 pm. THE PISTON The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Jim Storie Juniors 9 pm.
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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE Silk
Road Strings Wendy Wen Zhao, Lucas Harris, Bassam Bishara (pipa, lute, oud) noon. GATE 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm. THE LOCAL Larry Roland and the Love Touch. THE PAINTED LADY Sport of the Future (bluegrass) 9 pm. REVIVAL Bobby Long, Ben Somer doors 7 pm.
ART ROCK
Akron/Family WIN tickets to this show! Enter at
nowtoronto.com/contests
Akron/Family’s newest album, Akron/ Family II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT, is as wild and freaky as the title suggests. The unashamedly joyful record brings together electronic experimentation, fuzz-guitar freak-outs and pastoral folk to great effect, and is already a strong contender for 2011 year-end lists. We asked multi-instrumentalist Miles Seaton about the recording process; the live show hits the Horseshoe Sunday (February 20). For the full Q&A, go to nowtoronto.com/music.
What influence did recording in Detroit have on the album? It was a major inspiration because of the way nature is reclaiming the crumbling industrial landscape. It was also summer, and we were all in love. There was a real freedom that felt ever-present – a lot of people living with abandon and on the margins of society in the best possible way. “The skyscrapers are all vacant. What do we do? Let’s start a skyscraper climbing club!” That was the vibe, and it doesn’t get more joyful than that. Are you uncomfortable with your somewhat hippy image? Sometimes. What’s comfortable in the indie landscape is to guard yourself and make witty intellectualism the highest form of expression. The reason we get called “hippies” is because we don’t buy into those ideas so much. I love irony and wit as much as the next person, but I see how I can hide in them as a person or an artist. I don’t want to bring some half-assed version of myself to the table when it comes time to express something. Call me crazy, but that feels a BENJAMIN BOLES lot more radical and rock and roll than the other option.
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FEBRUARY 17-23 2011 NOW
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
The Annex Live Augusto Monk & the Drop out Syndicate (jazz/funk) 7:30 pm. Cherry CoLA’s roCk n’ roLLA CD release Nilima (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. GLAdsTone hoTeL MeLody BAr Era Chorna (jazz/opera) 8 pm. rex Mr Marbles (jazz) 6:30 pm. rex Jazz Jam Norm Villeneuve, Lisa Particelli 9:30 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
Crews/TAnGo Industry Tuesdays DJ
Quinces.5
GoodhAndy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors
8 pm.5
reposAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.
Wednesday, February 23 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
Bovine sex CLuB 20th Anniversary Series The Nightmares, Romeo Liquor Store.
CAdiLLAC LounGe The Neil Young’uns 8:30
pm.
The CenTrAL Toronto Independent Music Awards 8 pm.
drAke hoTeL underGround Rich Aucoin,
Mainsail doors 8:30 pm. horseshoe Warchild Benefit Tribute To Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen And Neil Young Tommy Youngsteen & the Million Dol lar Band (musicians from Sam Roberts Band, Stars & the Stills) (members of Stars, Sam Roberts, Arkells, Stills) 9:30 pm. Lee’s pALACe CD release Hey Rosetta! doors 8 pm. operA house Welcome To Hell Tour White chapel, Veil of Maya, Chelsea Grin, I Declare War, the Acacia Strain doors 6 pm, all ages. pArTs & LABour Satanized, John Milner, You’re So Boss, 10,000 Watt Head, Drums Like Machine Guns 10 pm. The pisTon Buddy Black (pop/rock/hip-hop/ soul) doors 9 pm. superMArkeT Wednesdays Go Pop! MJ Cyr, Down by Riverside doors 9 pm.
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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD
CAMeron house Joshua Cockerill 6 pm. CAMeron house Boxcar Boys 10 pm. C’esT whAT Toronto Songwriters Guild 10 pm. GrAffiTi’s Kitgut Oldtime Strinband 7 to 10
Venue Index
ALLeyCATz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. proJeCT 165 165 augusta. 416-838-5730. GLenn GouLd sTudio 250 Front W. 416-2055555. ALLiAnCe frAnçAise downTown 24 spadina QuoTes 220 king W. 416-979-7717. rd. 416-922-2014. GoodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. rAnCho reLAxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. The Annex Live 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999. GrAffiTi’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. reBAs CAfé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. Annex wreCkrooM 794 Bathurst. 416-536The GreAT hALL 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. reLish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. 0346. Green veLveT CAriBBeAn GriLL 2056 Dufferin. reposAdo 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. AQuiLA 347 keele. 416-761-7474. GrossMAn’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. revivAL 783 College. 416-535-7888. AspeTTA CAffe 207 augusta. 416-725-0693. GuvernMenT 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. The Avro 750 Queen E. 416-466-3233. 0045. riChMond hiLL CenTre for The perforMinG BACk ALLey woodfire BBQ & GriLL 188 auhAMiLTon pLACe 50 main W (Hamilton). ArTs 10268 yonge (richmond Hill). 905-787gusta. 416-979-5557. hArBourfronT CenTre 235 Queens Quay W. 8811. BAr iTALiA 582 College. 416-535-3621. 416-973-4000. rivoLi 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. The BArn 418 Church. 416-593-9696. hArLeM 67 richmond E. 416-368-1920. roC n doC’s 105 lakeshore E (mississauga). The BeAn 388 College. 416-964-9900. heMinGwAys 142 Cumberland. 416-968-2828. 905-891-1754. BeAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. roCkpiLe 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. BeerBisTro 18 king E. 416-861-9872. hiGhwAy 61 souThern BArBeQue 1620 Bayrose TheATre 1 theatre lane (Brampton). view. 416-489-7427. 905-874-2800. BLACk swAn 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. hoLLywood on The QueenswAy 1184 Queen- roy ThoMson hALL 60 simcoe. 416-872-4255. Bovine sex CLuB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. sway. 416-251-0288. royAL CAnAdiAn LeGion #258 45 lawson. BrAssAii 461 king W. 416-598-4730. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. 416-779-2627. C LounGe 456 Wellington W. 416-260-9393. royAL ConservATory of MusiC 273 Bloor W. CAdiLLAC LounGe 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. hoT Box CAfe 191a Baldwin. 416-203-6990. 416-408-0208. huGh’s rooM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. CAMeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. siesTA nouveAux 15 lower sherbourne. 416iMperiAL puB 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667. The CenTrAL 603 markham. 416-913-4586. 364-4556. insoMniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. CenTury rooM 580 king W. 416-203-2226. siLver doLLAr 486 spadina. 416-763-9139. Joe MAMA’s 317 king W. 416-340-6469. C’esT whAT 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. sky LounGe 2680 skymark (mississauga). kos 61 Bellevue. 416-597-6912. ChALkers puB 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. 905-625-9896. LAMBAdinA 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. Cherry CoLA’s roCk n’ roLLA 200 Bathurst. sLACk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. Lee’s pALACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. ChevAL 606 king W. 416-363-4933. sMiLinG BuddhA 961 College. 416-516-2531. LevACk BLoCk 88 ossington. 416-916-0571. ChinA house 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. sneAky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. LivinG ArTs CenTre 4141 living arts (missisCLinTon’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. soMewhere There sTudio 227 sterling, unit sauga). 905-306-6000. CoMer house 11 Don ridge. 112. The LoCAL 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. CornersTone puB 537 College. 647-430-7111. soniC BooM 512 Bloor W. 416-532-0334. LoLA 40 kensington. 416-348-8645. Crews/TAnGo 508 Church. 416-972-1662. sound ACAdeMy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. Lou dAwG’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294. Crown & TiGer 414 College. 416-920-3115. souThside Johnny’s 3653 lake shore W. LuLA LounGe 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. Czehoski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787. 416-521-6302. Luxy niGhTCLuB 60 interchange Way. dAkoTA TAvern 249 ossington. 416-850-4579. sporTsTer’s 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258. MAison MerCer 15 mercer. 416-341-8777. dAnforTh CAfe 60 Bowden. sTeAM whisTLe BrewinG 255 Bremner. 416MAMBo LounGe 120 Danforth. 416-778-7004. dAve’s... on sT CLAir 730 st Clair W. 416-657362-2337. MAro 135 liberty. 416-588-2888. 3283. sTone LounGe 783 College. MAssey hALL 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. doMinion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368superMArkeT 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. MeTropoLiTAn uniTed ChurCh 56 Queen E. 6893. suTrA 612 College. 416-537-8755. 416-363-0331. dorA keoGh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. TArA inn BLuffs 2365 kingston rd. 416-266MezzeTTA 681 st Clair W. 416-658-5687. drAke hoTeL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. 6200. MidpoinT 1180 Queen W. duffy’s TAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. TATToo roCk pArLour 567 Queen W. 416-703MiTzi’s sisTer 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. eAsTMinsTer uniTed ChurCh 310 Danforth. 5488. Mod CLuB 722 College. 416-588-4663. 416-463-2179. Ten feeT TALL 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. 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believing she’s not one to get riled up. But her songs smoulder with the pain of love, desire and isolation, as on the haunting album closer, Sleepless. Her multiinstrumentalist brother, David Mayfield, provides a swaying backdrop of minimal accompaniment that has become Auerbach’s specialty. Top track: Our Hearts Are Wrong Jessica Lea Mayfield does the Drake Hotel on April 4. JASON KELLER
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Let England Shake (Vagrant) Rating: NNNN Almost 20 years and 10 albums into her career, Polly Jean Harvey continues to surprise and evolve. On Let England Shake, she works with repeat collaborators Mick Harvey, Jean-Marc Butty and John Parish to create a world where the past rubs up against the present, both musically and lyrically. Harvey’s signature clean guitar sound winds its way around horns and heavy percussion. Harvey looks at Britain’s engagement
in various wars and the effects of imperialism, her lyrics both scathing and heartbreaking. Sometimes her voice takes on a ghost-like screech, while at others she sounds overwhelmed by the gravity of what she’s singing. The songs of a woman whose homeland is “weighted down with silent dead,” Let England Shake isn’t Harvey’s political soapbox. It’s a passionate portrait of the human and communal costs of war, and the systems that keep us fighting. Top track: On Battleship Hill JOANNE HUFFA rhythm and whispered words introduce a new level of sex appeal. Top track: You’re Lionel Richie Mogwai play the Phoenix April 26. JH
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Rating: NNN French composer Yann Tiersen is best known for his film soundtracks for Amélie and Good Bye Lenin!, but he’s been making genre-defying records since 1995. Dust Lane, his sixth studio album and first for Anti-, continues to mine disparate sources to mostly discomfiting ends. Using a broad palette of instrumentation – analog synthesizers, toys, piano, mandolin – Tiersen’s music has a cinematic quality, each song its own journey on an album that explores themes of life and mortality. While much of Dust Lane is moody and introspective, it ends with Fuck Me, a duet with Gaëlle Kerrien that’s reminiscent of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s more playful songs. It’s a spirited end to a thought-provoking release. Top track: Fuck Me Yann Tiersen plays the Phoenix Tuesday (February 22). JH
COWBOY JUNKIES Demons (Latent)
Rating: NNN Last spring the Cowboy Junkies realized that being without a record contract meant they were free to release as much music as they wanted to on their own label. Feeling exceptionally productive, they launched the Nomad series, which will see the Canadian icons release four albums over 18 months. Demons, the second in the series, lacks the raw, ragged glory of Renmin Park, the first instalment, but there’s still a lot to love here. Demons pays tribute to the band’s friend Vic Chesnutt, who passed away last
winter before they had a chance to record the collaborative album they’d long talked about. The Cowboy Junkies have a great track record with cover songs, so doing an entire album of Chesnutt songs isn’t much of a stretch for them. Sonically, Demons has a lot in common with Renmin Park, although this disc feels a bit more produced. It’s a touching tribute, to be sure, but we wish they’d left a few more of the rough edges in this time. Top track: Ladle BENJAMIN BOLES
BRIGHT EYES The People’s Key (Saddle Creek) Rating: NN Conor Oberst has said he’s sick of the Americana roots influences that dominate his more recent recordings, and, sure enough, you can’t call The People’s Key a folk album. If anything, much of it sounds closest to the Cars’ new wave rock. Clearly, Oberst has embraced his pop tendencies wholeheartedly. On a purely musical level, there are some strong hooks and inventive arrangements, but it feels like something’s missing. Fragments of bizarre spoken-word ramblings float in and out, but it’s hard to tell if he’s making fun of the wild-eyed conspiracy theories or actually believes them. He definitely seems to be asking vaguely mystical and spiritual questions, leading to some unfortunate cringeworthy lyrics. It’d be easier to overlook the flaws if it weren’t for Ladder Song, a late addition to the album written in reaction to a friend’s suicide. The intense emotional immediacy of the ballad makes it all too clear how much better the rest of the disc could have been. Top track: Ladder Song Bright Eyes play Sound Academy March BB 13.
disappear. He’s obviously creative enough to explore new paths. But the navalgazing of the Streets’ Brit-rap has felt maxed-out since 2006’s The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. Skinner deadpans that he’s packing up his desk on Lock The Locks, the closer on an album that for the most part deals with navigating emotions within a cybersociety (We Can Never Be Friends). But holding the narrative thread, as he brilliantly did on 2004’s untouchable A Grand Don’t Come For Free, doesn’t happen here. He bounces among ideas, from an ode to his child, Blip On A Screen, to the chronicfatigue reflection Trying To Kill M.E. The production on this unfocused album is, as usual, nothing mind-blowing. Still, Skinner has an insightful charm and a lyrical gift that makes this a respectable send-off. Top track: We Can Never Be Friends JK
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BUCK 65 20 Odd Years (Warner) Rating: NNN Buck 65, aka Rich Terfry, has never made a secret of his oddball approach to hip-hop. Hell, it’s right there in the title of his new album. So it’s interesting to see him try to cooperate with a series of collaborators. It helps that none of his duet partners come from the world of hip-hop, but it still forces him to adapt to others’ paradigms. When it works, it works well. On a pair of originals and a heavily reimagined cover of Leonard Cohen’s Who By Fire, fellow Haligonian Jenn Grant’s sweet vocals are a nice foil for Terfry’s gruff flow, while Gord Downie uses his guest spot on Whispers Of The Waves to get gothic. Duets with Hannah Georgas and Montreal chanteuse Marie-Pierre Arthur, however, try to shoehorn the rapper into a more radio-friendly context, something he should leave for his day job as a CBC Radio 2 host. Top track: Whispers Of The Waves RT THE STREETS Computer And Blues (Atlan-
tic) Rating: NNN Mike Skinner says this fifth studio album is the end of the road for the Streets, an announcement that probably won’t upset a lot of us. Not that we want Skinner to
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The First Line (Glacial Pace) Rating: NNNNN Former frontman for NYC blues punks Railroad Jack and later White Hassle, Marcellus Hall is the best kind of singer/songwriter: utterly original. In this release on Isaac Brock’s (Modest Mouse) label, he also brings in his illustration career by including 44 pages of drawings inspired by biking and walking around New York. Guitar, vocals and harmonica are prominent in songs that owe as much to Buddy Holly and Jonathan Richman as Bob Dylan. Hall’s sharp, bright, wry lyrics about life, love and the virtues of being single also somehow manage to reference emails, phones, dishes and cashews. With arrangements ranging from the poppy Star Position to strings on the title track and Neon, Not The Night to pedal steel on the plaintive Don’t Go, this album is full of wholly satisfying musical and lyrical corners worth repeated visits. Top track: Star Position SARAH GREENE
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Thriller fizzles NOW YOU SEE HER by Joy Fielding (Doubleday), 357 pages, $29.92 cloth. Rating: NN you’ve seen them at stores every where – books with shiny covers, titles in embossed lettering and the words “New York Times bestseller” bellowing from the front. All that usually signals middlebrow sentimental fiction that discriminating readers want to avoid. But Joy Fielding is better at the genre than most, often going deeper than her superficial counterparts, and besides, she’s Canadian, which explains her participation in Harbourfront’s Reading Series this week. Unfortunately, Now You See Her isn’t up to Fielding’s usual standard. Grief-stricken Marcy Taggart is still in denial over the death of her daughter two years earlier and recovering from a more recent divorce. While alone in Cork, Ireland, where she was
supposed to celebrate her anniversary, Marcy is convinced she’s spotted her daughter, Devon, who she never believed killed herself. With the help of friendly bartender Liam, she searches wildly for the girl, often risking her own safety. Even when her hotel room gets trashed, Marcy ploughs on into ludicrously dangerous situations. The coincidences and dropped threads – she’s gone to the police in ways that make her look silly, so why doesn’t she report that she’s seen her stolen earrings on another woman? – stretch even the most generous reader’s credulity. But Fielding knows how to build characters, especially Marcy’s. She’s in deep despair over the loss of her manic-depressive daughter and still not over the suicide of her own mother, who was also bipolar, when Marcy was teenager. It almost makes her desperate behaviour believable – but not quite. SUSAN G.COLE
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ANDREW SMITH Discussing Edith’s War. 2 pm.
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Fenwick and Davida Nemeroff, to Mar 6. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510. kwt coNtemporary Painting/sculpture: Paul Dignan, Lauren Nurse and Svava Thordis Juliusson, to Feb 26. 624 Richmond W. 416646-2706. leo kameN Drawing/photos: Akira Yoshikawa and Meryl McMaster, Feb 19-Mar 19, reception 2-5 pm Feb 19. 80 Spadina. 416-5049515. loNSDale Gallery Avian group show, to Feb 20, closing party 2-5 pm Feb 20. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733. loop Gallery Drawing/installation: Gary Clement and Thelma Rosner, Feb 19-Mar 13, reception 2-5 pm Feb 19. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. mercer uNioN Out Of Print group show; projects: Paul Chan, James Carl, to Feb 26, reading/talk 7 pm Feb 17. 1286 Bloor W. 416-5361519. mereDith keith Painting/drawing: Tania Love, to Feb 26. 1695 Dundas W. 647-3515284. ocaDu GraDuate StuDeNt Gallery Enemies Of My Enemies: Hot Young Venezuelan Art Today, to Feb 27. 205 Richmond W. 416-9776000. opeN StuDio Gallery Prints: Kristie MacDonald, Feb 17-Mar 26, reception 6:30-8:30 pm Feb 17. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-504-8238. peak Gallery Odd Angels II group show, to Mar 5. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108. prefix Video: Rabih Mroué, to Apr 23. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. triNity Square viDeo Andrew James Paterson, Feb 17-Mar 19, reception 5-7 pm Feb 17, artist’s talk 6-8 pm Feb 23. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332. 2 of 2 Gallery Painting: Aileen Cheung, to Mar 12. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464. wyNick/tuck Painting: Gerald Ferguson and Monica Tap, to Feb 19. 401 Richmond W, #128. 416-504-8716. xpace ‘ad infinitum,’ Artifice, Giftworks group shows, to Mar 5. 58 Ossington. 416-849-2864. 3
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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS B indicates Black History Month event ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Visual Arts
Mississauga, to Feb 26. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten (free, Young Gallery); Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal Courts ($22, stu $12.50), to Apr 3. Betty Goodwin, to Apr 24. Walter Trier, to Apr 25. Paterson Ewen, to May 22. David Blackwood, to Jun 12. The JUNO Tour Of Canadian Art, to Aug 31. $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. B ART GALLERY OF YORK U Centre for Incidental Activisms; Gilberto Ante, to Mar 13, bus tour noon-5 pm Feb 20 (see Gladstone). Photovoice: youth from Jane-Finch, to Feb 20. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-7365169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Photos: Year Of The Rabbit, to Mar 11. Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear, ongoing. Socks: Between You And Your Shoes, to Apr 3. Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Thérèse Mastroiacovo, to Mar 6, bus tour noon-5 pm Feb 20 (see Gladstone). 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Ingrid Mayrhofer,
to Mar 31. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. DESIGN EXCHANGE Film: Rem Koolhaas: A Kind Of Architect, 7 pm Feb 23 ($15, adv $10). Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. Designers In The Classroom, to Mar 6 (free). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Inbetween, to Feb 20, bus tour noon-5 pm Feb 20 (see Gladstone), David Rokeby talk 3:45 pm Feb 20. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sugar And Spice, to May 1. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Ron Terada, to Mar 20. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Clarence Gagnon, to Feb 27. Unikkaaqtuat/Unikkaat, to May 8. Life As A Legend: Marilyn Monroe; Marilyn In Canada, Feb 19-May 15. George McLean, to May 22. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen, Cabinet, to Mar 27. 952 Queen W. 416-3950067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/ drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-6037591. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Un-home-ly, to Feb 20. Centennial Sq, 120 Navy;
Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905-844-4402. B ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Institute for Contemporary Culture: El Anatsui, to Feb 27, Joan Butterfield tour 2 pm Feb 20, family tours 1 and 3 pm Feb 20-21. Position As Desired/Exploring African Canadian Identity: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Out Of The Vaults, to Feb 27. Ragmala: Garland Of Melodies, to Mar 20. Fryderyk Chopin & The Romantic Piano, to Mar 27. Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to May 13. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Kai Chan, to May 1. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape, to May 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-5995321. U OF T ART CENTRE University College Collection; North Korean Images At Utopia’s Edge, to Mar 19. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-9781838. VARLEY ART GALLERY Carol Wainio, to May 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main. 905-477-9511. 3
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POST–LIVING ANTE-ACTION THEATER Sunday, 20 February, 2:30 PM, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street. Pay what you can. Buddies in Bad Times box office opens at 12 PM on the day of the event. Los Angeles-based art collective My Barbarian will lead local participants through workshops and a public performance of “Post-Living Ante-Action Theater.”
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Thursday, 24 February, 7 PM, Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, $4 Members, $6 Non-Members Artist Thomas Hirschhorn will discuss his massive immersive artwork Das Auge (The Eye), which will be on view at The Power Plant on 11 March, 2011.
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THE POWER PLANT REFRESH REOPENING MARCH 2011 WITH: NEW LOBBY & RECEPTION NEW VISUAL IDENTITY & WEBSITE NEW EXHIBITIONS On 11 March, 2011, the gallery will reopen to the public with upgraded visitor services and increased accessibility onsite, online and in all communications. For more information, visit www.thepowerplant.org or call 416.973.4949 THE POWER PLANT
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Proud papa David Furnish (and his famous partner) help bridge communities with Billy Elliot By GLENN SUMI
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Opening GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL (Nightwood Theatre). The festival of new works by ñ women presents staged readings of plays by
Lisa Codrington, Radha S Menon, Jayne Collins, Natasha Greenblatt, Jordi Mand and others. Opens Feb 17 and runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Tapestry/Nightwood Studio, 55 Mill, Cannery Studio 315. 416-9441740, nightwoodtheatre.net.
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I knew he’d leap at the chance to work on it.” Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, John, says Furnish, could fully directed by Stephen Daldry. At the Canon relate to the journey of a working(244 Victoria). Now in previews, Tuesdayclass British boy with artistic aspiraSaturday 7:30 pm, matinees Wednesday, tions (in Billy’s case, ballet) and a Saturday-Sunday 1:30 pm. $36-$130. 416family environment that wasn’t 872-1212. exactly used to that sort of thing and not always supportive. a couple of months after intro“By the end of the film he was in ducing his son to the world with part- floods of tears,” he says. ner Elton John, David Furnish is set to Because John’s on the road a lot, introduce local audiences to another Furnish acts as his eyes and ears for little boy: the title character in the the various productions. musical version of Billy Elliot. The show, he says, is more political The Scarborough-born Furnish than the movie – particularly about serves as executive producer on the the plight of the mining community. show, and it was his idea to adapt it And John and lyricist Lee Hall have into a musical in the first place. written songs that fill in histories of He and John saw the first public many characters. For some of the screening of Stephen Daldry’s movie music, Furnish says John was inspired – then called Dancer – at Cannes in by the sound of the colliery bands, 2000. Talking afterwards to the cre- well-known in northern England. ative team, he said it was amazing but “The songs they play are based on that it might be even better told as a hymns and suggest a specific stage musical. moment in history. El“Of course, it went on to become a ton thought drawing fantastic success,” says the super-arfrom this kind of ticulate Furnish. “Then [producer] music would be auEric [Fellner] rang me up and asked thentic and profoundif Elton would be interested ly moving.” in writing the music for a Furnish is careful stage musical. I didn’t about what kinds of need to ask him. projects they get behind. Besides Billy, he and John produced the Broadway play Next Cesar Corrales is Fall, about a gay one of four kids couple’s religious difplaying Billy. ferences, as well as the recent animated
BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL with music by
From the start, David Furnish thought Billy Elliot would make a great stage musical.
THE HUNT FOR RED WILLIE by Ken Bourke (Toronto Irish Players). Locals seek a killer after a landowner is murdered in a remote part of Ireland. Opens Feb 17 and runs to Mar 5, ThuSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, opening night reception $50. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416440-2888, torontoirishplayers.org. THE MIDDLE PLACE by Andrew Kushnir (Canadian Stage). Based on Project: Humanity interviews, the stories of homeless youth are brought to the stage. Opens Feb 17 and runs to Mar 12, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Soulpepper). Lovers and actors mingle in an enchanted forest (see story, page 61). Previews Feb 17-22. Opens Feb 23 and runs to Apr 15, see website for schedule. $45$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. WILD ABANDON/SEE BOB RUN by Daniel MacIvor (Theatre Caravel). The company presents a double bill of MacIvor’s one-act plays. Feb 17-19, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $13-$15. Unit 102, 46 Noble. theatrecaravel.com. WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE (Sandra Shamas). Shamas performs the third instalment of her solo show about her life in rural Ontario. Previews to Feb 18. Opens Feb 19 and runs to Mar 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-8725555, ticketmaster.ca.
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THEATRE REVIEW Previewing BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL by Lee Hall and Choppy River John (Mirvish). See story, this page. ñElton Previews to Feb 28. Opens Mar 1 and runs to
Jul 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK adapted by Wendy Kesselman (Shakespeare in Action). A Jewish family hides from the Nazis in this historical drama. Previews Feb 23-28. Opens Mar 1 and runs to Mar 13, see website for schedule. $15, stu/srs $12. Central Commerce CI, 570 Shaw. 416-703-4881, shakespeareinaction.org. MORE FINE GIRLS by by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus). A crisis reunites three sisters 10 years after a party divided them. Previews Feb 22Mar 1. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mats). $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.
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ARABIAN NIGHT by Roland Schimmelpfennig
(Trent University Cultural Studies Dept). The fantasy play is reframed in an internet cafe. Feb 19 at 8 pm. Pwyc (seating limited; RSVP). Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. trentarabiannight@gmail.com. CELEBRATING DAVID S CRAIG (Roseneath Theatre). The company bids adieu to its Artistic Director with mini-performances and more. Feb 21 at 7:30 pm. Free (RSVP). Workman Theatre, 651 Dufferin. production@roseneath.ca.
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VINCENT RIVER by Philip Ridley, directed by Stewart Arnott (Cart/Horse). Tarragon Extra Space (30 Bridgman). To February 20. $10-$25. 416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 60. Rating: NNN
The bond between mother and son can be stretched but rarely broken. Blood ties and emotional ties aren’t so easily severed, despite pain or avoidance. In Philip Ridley’s intense Vincent River, the parent-child bond operates on several levels. Anita (Kyra Harper) faces a future without her son Vincent, murdered in a gay-bashing. She confronts Davey (Matthew Gorman), the teenager who, along with his fiancée, discovered Vincent’s body. The two interrogate each other for information about Vincent, each forced to offer a bit of her or his history in order to get one in return. After a slow start, director Stewart Arnott’s production catches the pair’s guarded, haunted quality. The chem-
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flick Gnomeo And Juliet. “All three works,” he says, “are about bridging communities.” It’s a subject he knows well, particularly given the media attention around his civil partnership with one of the world’s biggest pop stars, and recently becoming parents via a surrogate. “Elton and I just try to be ourselves,” he says when I ask if they feel like role models. “I think we’ve naturally broken down barriers by being honest and open about who we are and how we feel about each other.” There’s still discrimination, however. “It’s interesting how Rod Stewart can father a child at 65, and a straight, single footballer named Cristiano Ronaldo can arrange to have a surrogate have a baby, and neither of them receives any criticism.” And how has two months of fatherhood affected the power couple, who recently gave the first pics of their new family to Us Weekly? “We feel much more grounded and content,” he says. “It’s got us feeling closer together. It’d be different for someone in their 20s. But we’ve been together 17 years and have a stable foundation. We have to work on it, obviously, but I don’t worry about the person I’m sharing my life with, nor do I worry about his career or my career. It’s a new challenge and joy.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com
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Kyra Harper and Matthew Gorman share great chemistry in Vincent River.
istry between the two actors kicks into high gear when Anita recounts her own story of loneliness and abuse. In that telling, Harper displays the raw nerves still throbbing decades later. Gorman is a more fearful adversary, hunching his shoulders and keeping his metaphoric cards closely hidden until he finally explodes in a finely delivered monologue near the play’s end. As dramatic as the writing is, Arnott and the actors bring out its moments of ironic comedy, too. Just as importantly, the production establishes the sense that these two become parent and child, linked not by blood but by JON KAPLAN their tie to Vincent.
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February 23 –26, 2011 Fleck Dance Theatre
207 Queens Quay W, 3rd Fl,Toronto presented in association with
Denise Fujiwara, Artistic Director
Harbourfront Centre
PROGRAMME February 23 & 25 at 8:00 pm • Ziya Azazi (Whirling Dervish) • Jocelyne Montpetit (Butoh) • Mi Young Kim Dance Company (Korean Dance)
PROGRAMME February 24 & 26 at 8:00 pm • Tribal Crackling Wind /Peter Chin (Contemporary)
• Bageshree Vaze (Kathak)
Butoh on Film: Darkness and Light February 26 at 4:00 pm Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W - Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail
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(Centre of Gravity). This vaudeville show features clown, circus, burlesque, comedy and music with host Shelley Marshall and others. Feb 19 at 8:30 pm. $13-$16. 1300 Gerrard E. 647-299-7677, lunacycabaret.com.
The Magic FluTe enseMble sTudio PerForMance (Canadian Opera Company). Young tal-
Sandra ShamaS Last week, as part of the NOW Talks series, Sandra Shamas sat down at the Drake with Susan G. Cole to discuss her life and her show, Wit’s End III: Love Life, opening Saturday (February 19) at the Winter Garden. See Listings, page 56. And see video from the interview at nowtoronto. com/nowtalks.
on workshopping the show at comedy club open mics: “I was fuckin’ flabbergasted. Performing in a comedy club is bone-on-bone: there’s no cartilage there. I found myself yelling a lot.”
on the show’s title, love life: “It’s about all manner of life, all manner of love, and how they intersect. I don’t have two hours of my own love life. I don’t think anyone does. Maybe 10 minutes tops.”
on aging: “I take naps now. In traffic. [Pretends to wake up.] ‘Wow, there are a lot of cars in my bedroom!’”
on seeing christopher Plummer in barrymore: “I would have preferred to hear his life instead of somebody’s I didn’t give a shit about. But him? I would have paid huge money to see him just loving every bristling second of it.” 3
ent perform lead roles in the COC’s production of the Mozart opera. Feb 17 at 7:30 pm. $22$55. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. oneyMoon/Joe: The PerFecT Man (Crowning Monkey). Christel Bartelse and Rachelle Elie perform their solo Fringe hits. Feb 17 at 7 pm. $12 or $20 for both. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. 647-980-2383, crowningmonkey.com. red nose disTricT (TorontoClown.com). Duo acts perform clown, physical comedy, mime and more. Feb 21 at 8 pm. $10. Bad Dog Theatre, 138 Danforth. torontoclown.com. sTarry nighTs house concerT (STAR Company). Rachelle Elie performs her solo show Joe: The Perfect Man. Feb 19 at 8 pm. $15. Secret Venue, location revealed with purchase. eventbrite.com/event/1177356505.
Telling Tales ouT oF school downTown
(York U Department of Theatre). Students present an original monologue show. Feb 20, 2:30 to 5:30 pm. Free (donations to Stephen Lewis Foundation). Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. yorku.ca/finearts/theatre.
Continuing a Toi, Pour TouJours, Ta Marie-lou (Forever yours, Marie-lou) by Michel ñ Tremblay (Théâtre français de Toronto). Trem-
blay lays bare the tragic roots of family dysfunction in this classic script, given a first-rate production by the cast and director Diana Leblanc. Runs to Feb 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $33-$57, stu/srs $28-$57. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com. nnnn (JK) angelina ballerina The Musical by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre). Angelina and her friends dance to get a starring role in this all-ages show. Runs to Mar 19, Fri 4:30 pm, select Sat-Sun 1 pm (see website). $29.50$49.50. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. angelinathemusical.com. assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman (Birdland Theatre/Talk is Free Theatre). The darkly cynical show about 10 failed and successful presidential assassins returns with more ammunition than ever. Director Adam Brazier and designer Beth Kates create a twisted carnival setting and use every
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Laara Sadiq’s Carmen takes centre stage in powerful production.
Director Peter Hinton’s bold production of Michel Tremblay’s poetic Saint Carmen Of The Main is a welcome revival, one that looks back in historical and dramatic terms yet is firmly anchored in examining what it means to be Canadian today. Country singer Carmen (Laara Sadiq) returns to Montreal after a lengthy visit to Nashville, determined to use her own songs to empower her friends on the Main, the prostitutes,
queers and hustlers who are societal outcasts. Driven to share her work with them, Carmen steps on the toes of her boyfriend/employer, Maurice (Jean Leclerc); his henchman and Carmen’s nemesis, Toothpick (Joey Tremblay); and faded, envious singer Gloria (Jackie Richardson). In Hinton’s hands, Carmen’s songs
inch of the space, while the performers make the most of both the dark text and pastiche of American song styles that becomes a bitter critique of the American dream. Don’t miss it. Runs to Feb 20, Thu-Mon 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416504-7529, birdlandtheatre.com. nnnnn (GS) aTTeMPTs on her liFe by Martin Crimp (Ryerson Theatre School). The intersection of art, authenticity and commerce is explored in this multimedia piece. Runs to Feb 17, Thu 8 pm. $18, stu/srs $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. barryMore by William Luce (Barrymore Entertainment Limited). Christopher Plummer reprises his Tony Award-winning turn as theatre’s hard-drinking, four-times divorced John Barrymore, who attempts a comeback as Richard III late in his career. Vigorous, spry (he begins act two in tights) and as focussed as ever, Plummer nails every line and gesture, although his talents deserve more than this jokey and shallow script Runs to Mar 9, Fri-Sat and Mon-Wed 8 pm. $55-$120. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, barrymoretheplay. com. nnn (GS) The big league by James Durham (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). A boy’s love of playing hockey is threatened by his competitive father. Runs to Feb 24, Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for more days and times). $10-
$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca. a chorus line by James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban (Toronto Youth Theatre). Singers and dancers tell personal stories at an audition. Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 3:30 pm. $25.50-$35, stu $19.50-$25.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org. divisadero: a PerForMance based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje (Necessary Angel/the Film Farm). A family is forever changed by a violent event in this musical adaptation about memory, identity and love (see review, page 59). Runs to Feb 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25$35, Sun pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, necessaryangel. com. nnnn (JK) The FanTasTicks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (Soulpepper). The children of feuding neighbours fall in love in this musical. (See review at nowtoronto.com/daily).Runs to Mar 24, see website for days and times. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. FloaTing by Hoipolloi (Harbourfront World Stage). Two people cope as their island floats away from the mainland. Runs to Feb 19, ThuSat 8 pm. $15-$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.
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are about finding one’s own voice: straight or gay, anglophone or francophone, male or female, and from every ethnic background. Imitating the style of Greek tragedy, Tremblay uses a Greek chorus whose emotional reactions are critical. Led by Robert Persichini and Karen Robinson and costumed by Eo Sharp in bright reds, they’re a show unto themselves in Sharp’s set, which echoes a Greek amphitheatre, lit dramatically by Bonnie Beecher. The production is filled with fine performances, including that of Diane D’Aquila as the butch Harelip, who adores Carmen. I wish there were more fire in Sadiq’s Carmen, who rarely conveys the character’s shining passion. Still, this is a special show, not least for Hinton’s thoughtful, theatrical take Jon kaPlan on the material. highway 63: The ForT Mac show by Architect Theatre (Theatre Passe Muñ raille). People come and go in the transient
town of Fort MacMurray, Alberta, in this play about love, money, oil and politics (see review, page 62). Runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$30, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, passemuraille. on.ca. nnnn (GS) ivona, Princess oF burgundia by Witold Gombrowicz (George Brown Theatre School). A bored prince proposes to an unattractive girl, causing panic in the kingdom. Runs to Feb 19, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666. The Magic FluTe by WA Mozart (Canadian Opera Company). There’s some good singing, if uneven acting, in this new production of Mozart’s noble and playful opera. Myung Hee Cho’s costumes live up to the magic in the title, but some directorial decisions – particularly a play-within-a-play motif – aren’t fully developed. Runs to Feb 25: Feb 18, 23 and 25 at 7:30 pm, Feb 20 at 2 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnn (GS) The Man in black by Shawn Barker (Mirvish/ LCQ Productions). Barker performs his solo tribute show to music legend Johnny Cash.
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A salty new translation by Linda Gaboriau and a cast full of first-rate actors” – Martin Morrow, The Globe and Mail
In Carmen actress Laara Sadiq, director Peter Hinton has a powerhouse whose fervour is palpable” – Kim Hughes , Eye Weekly
A tale of hustlers, hookers and hired killers from Canada’s best-known playwright.
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Liane Balaban (left), Justin Rutledge and Maggie Huculak do their utmost with Ondaatje.
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“We should never assume we’re alone in the universe.”
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sometimes storytelling succeeds not through straightforward narra tive but more obliquely, through char acter and imagery. Michael Ondaatje’s novels operate in that fashion, and in staging his latest book, Divisadero, Ondaatje, director Daniel Brooks and the com pany create a glowing tapestry using the writer’s words. The story is anchored in the rela tionship of four characters: a Califor nia rancher (Tom McCamus), his daughters Anna (briefly, as a young girl, Aviva Philipp-Muller, and later Maggie Huculak) and Claire (Liane Balaban) and hired hand Coop (Justin John Rutledge). This isn’t a production that is staged so much as evoked. Using mikes and the occasional table or chair, the ac tors coax not the eye but rather the ear. Firsttime actor Rutledge, who wrote most of the songs used so
effectively throughout, creates a man entranced by women and a deck of cards. Taking on three roles, McCamus offers a bravura turn as the card playing Mancini. The actor’s always powerful onstage, even when lurking in the background. Amy Rutherford is mesmerizing as Bridget, who en twines herself in Coop’s reclusive life. If the show has a weak link, it’s Bala ban’s twodimensional Claire, who doesn’t communicate much to the audience. We need at least a sugges tion of emotion bubbling beneath the surface. In contrast, there’s no lack of rich ness in Huculak’s Anna, the tale’s narrator; text and body language define the character in exquisite de tail. She delivers her lines as caress es, the words like pearls strung along a delicate necklace, their sheen drawing us into the depths of the storytelling. You won’t find a more exquisite theatre performance in town than Huculak’s. She finds Anna in the depths of her soul, demonstrating not only that the words “heart” and “art” rhyme, but that they are twins whose joined power to move an audience can be awesomely evocative. 3
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AIRShIP Femmes du Feu present an aerial
dance show as part of the Rhubarb Festival. Opens Feb 23 and runs to Feb 27, Wed-Sun 9 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, femmesdufeu.com.
CANASIAN INtERNAtIONAl DANCE FEStIVAl Harbourfront NextSteps presents ñ traditional and modern pan-Asian dance by Mi
Young Kim, Tribal Crackling Wind, Bageshree Vaze and others. Opens Feb 23 and runs to Feb 26, performances Wed-Sat 8 pm, see website for other events. $30, stu/srs $25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, canasiandancefestival.com. COExISDANCE SERIES #33 presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Feb 19 at 8 pm. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. myspace.com/coexisdance. FAMIly DAy DANCE The National Ballet of Canada presents performances by apprentices and family movement workshops with YOU dance. Feb 21, 10:30 am to 2 pm. Free (RSVP svanderlinde@national.ballet.ca). Walter Carsen Centre, 470 Queens Quay W. INDANCE Art Gallery of Ontario presents a performance as part of the exhibition Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal
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by Jasmyn Fyffe and Vivine Scarlett. Feb 1820, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $15-$25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-2030666, dindance.com. thE MARCO POlO PROjECt: PARt 2 The Toronto Consort presents music and dance with Sampradaya Dance Creations. Feb 18-19 at 8 pm. $20-$50. Trinity St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontoconsort.org. RISky BuSINESS & REBEl yEllS Dance Matters presents boundary-pushing works by Kate Nankervis, Jonathan Osborn and others. Feb 19-20 at 4 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. 416-556-0347. WORD AND BEyOND #11 coexisDance and Element Choir present dance by Corrin Adams. Feb 23 at 8 pm. $8. Somewhere There Studio, 227 Sterling. myspace.com/coexisdance.
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Runs to Feb 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$60. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NIXON IN CHINA by John Adams (Canadian Opera Company). An opera about a historic moment instead of a love story is a rarity. This look at Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China features both public moments and private musings of Nixon, Mao Tse-tung and Pat Nixon, among others. The production is a fine one, both dramatically and musically, though the minimalist opera tends to keep emotion in the background. Runs to Feb 26: Feb 19, 22, 24 and 26 at 7:30 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) OLEANNA by David Mamet (Soulpepper). Mamet’s intelligent, vitriolic two-hander pitting a panic-stricken student (Sarah Wilson) against her smug prof (Diego Matamoros) still thrills and pisses off after nearly two decades. László Marton’s direction is focused, and the actors are well balanced in their characters’ sadistic relationship. Runs to Mar 5, see website for days and times. $28-$60. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) RHUBARB FESTIVAL (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). The new works festival features plays, dance, performance art and hybrid works by Ravi Jain, Alex Napier, Claire Calnan, emergency exit, Mark Shyzer and others. Runs to Feb 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20 evening pass, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. SAINT CARMEN OF THE MAIN by Michel Tremblay (Canadian Stage Company/ National Arts Centre English Theatre). A country singer pushing artistic boundaries threatens some in her nightclub community (see review, page 58). Runs to Mar 5, Mon-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $22-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (JK) THE SECRET GARDEN by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon (Edinburgh Festival Theatre/Mirvish). An orphan makes a magical discovery in this musical adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel (see review at nowtoronto. com/stage). Runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm,
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Thursday, February 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Brendan McKei-
gan, Josh Williams and host Mike Paterson. To Feb 20, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Classic Albums Improvised, featuring Nirvana’s Nevermind. 8 pm. $10, stu $8. Portal, a mashup of two different improv sets. 9:30 pm. $10, stu $8. 138 Danforth. baddogtheatre.com. GRINDHOUSE COMEDY Grindhouse Burger Bar presents a stand-up open mic w/ Nathan Macintosh, Amanda Day, Eddie Della Siepe, Diana Love, Nick Reynoldson, Debra DiGiovanni and host Julia Hladkowicz. 10 pm. Pwyc. 365 King W. juliacomedy.com.
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GONG AND WINDING ROAD William Nishri presents the show’s 20th episode. 8 pm. Pwyc. Grossman’s, 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. THE PB AND J LOVE HERTZ SKETCHPROV SHOW Bread & Circus presents post Vñ Day sketch comedy w/ Pat Thornton, Bob
Banks, Jason DeRosse and guests Kate Todd, the Riot and Batman. 9:30 pm. $10. 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399, breadandcircus.ca. SPRING ‘11 MAINSTAGE REVIEW Second City presents a new production poking fun at the changing world we live in. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. TIRED WAVE STOP Brave Face Theatre presents Steve Boleantu in his solo show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Michael Gelbart. To Feb 20, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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improv competition. 11 pm. $8, stu $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. THE BEST OF LADYSTACHE Comedy Bar presents the troupe’s best sketches and videos, w/ guests Nikki Payne (Fri), Nathan Macintosh (Sat) and host Hunter Collins. To Feb 19, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ Better Than Nothing. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. LAUGH @ TRACKS New Reach Creative presents stand-up w/ Mackie, Sean Craig, Mark James Heath, Candace Lovett, Ricky ‘rudeboy’ Singh, Suzan Mazur, host Azfar Ali and others. 10 pm. Free. Tracks Brew Pub, 60 Queen E, Brampton. 905-453-3063, newreachcreative.com. MADE IN CHINA The Specials present a sketch revue featuring music, clown and video, w/ Precious Chong, Sandra Battaglini, Phil Luzi, Christopher Sawchyn and Cleopatra Williams. To Feb 19, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $15. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. 416-925-8898. SPRING ‘11 MAINSTAGE REVIEW See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Kyle Radke. To Feb 19, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:45 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Johnny Gardhouse. To Feb 19, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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UP SHOW See Sat 19. LAUGH SABBATH presents Poppa Proppa’s
Friday, February 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. BAD DOG THEATRE presents That Friday Show, a play by BDT students. 7 pm (in ñ Studio #2). Pwyc. Troubadour, competitive
musical improv. 8 pm. $12, adv $10. Clara & Tim, an improvised romcom series. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Micetro Impro, a Survivor-style
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Saturday, February 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents family-friendly
improv and sketch. To Feb 21, Sat-Mon 11 am. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Theatresports, fast short form improv matches. 8 pm. $10$12. 138 Danforth. baddogtheatre.com. BEERPROV Comedy Bar presents competitive short form improv w/ host Jim Robinson. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE BEST OF LADYSTACHE See Fri 18. MADE IN CHINA See Fri 18.
SAM & MAX – NEVER TOO YOUNG FOR PROFANITY Sam Feldman and Max Olson present
stand-up to benefit Free the Children, w/ Sam Shafaghi, Julie Kim, Bev Ellis, Dylan Gott, Sara Hennessey, Todd Van Allen, Julia Hladkowicz and others. 9 pm. $5. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. SPRING ‘11 MAINSTAGE REVIEW See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 18. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 18.
Sunday, February 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE
House Of Jokes w/ Chris Locke, Darryl Orr, Big Tease, Tom Henry, Steven Boleantu, Jingle Jangle and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents improv by the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. SPRING ‘11 MAINSTAGE REVIEW See Thu 17. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents comedy w/ Melissa Story and Jeff Clark. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present all-new weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 17.
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Monday, February 21 THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Sat 19. ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents
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Debra DiGiovanni, Mark Forward, Eddie Della Siepe, Ron Sparks, Laurie Elliott, Mike Paterson, MC Arthur Simeon and others. Broadcast live on Ustream.com. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. $#*! MY MAYOR SAYS Second City presents current-events comedy about T.O. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Jim Annan, Jan Caruana and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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Tuesday, February 22 BAD DOG THEATRE presents Seriously!, high
status, dramatic improv. 8 pm. $8, stu $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.
COLOURS OF COMEDY 13: FRIENDS AND FAMILY SHOW Alex Kojfman presents ñ ethnically diverse comedy w/ Frank Spadone,
Mike Takacs, Steve Scholtz and others. 8 pm. $10. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, coloursofcomedy.com. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, up and coming improv teams. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. IT’S $5 Crown & Tiger presents Bathurst Beat, Dana Alexander, Kirsten Gallagher, Andrew Ivimey, Ring on a String, Mike Yerxa, Alex Brown, host Heidi Brander and others. 8 pm. $5. 414 College. 416-710-2453. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Nick Flanagan, Rulers of the Universe, Dan Beirne, MC Adam Christie and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.
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A new Puck enters the game Soulpepper academy member gets a total Dream job By JON KAPLAN itially mismatched lovers, warring fairy rulers Oberon and Titania and a Shakespeare, directed by Rick Roberts, with band of workmen who are putting on Ins Choi, Trish Lindström, Oliver Dennis, a play. Gregory Prest, Abena Malika, Brendan Wall, As Puck, Prest causes confusion in Mike Ross and Karen Rae (Soulpepper). all three worlds; he’s both actor in Young Centre (55 Mill). Previews begin towhat happens and audience for the day (Thursday, February 17), opens Wedresulting comic chaos. nesday (February 23) and runs in rep to “When I told friends I was playing April 15. $45-$60, student $28, some rush. Puck, they gave me all sorts of weird, 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. arch looks that really terrified me,” he laughs. “But I want to base Puck in it’s hard to see shakespeare’s a something believable and simple. Midsummer Night’s Dream as a risky “He’s a character who has a play, but that’s how actor Gregory willingness to Prest’s been thinking about it. please his lord, Prest credits Rick Roberts, who Oberon, but directs Soulpepper’s new pro he’s also mo duction, with giving an edge to tivated to one of the Bard’s mostpro make things duced comedies. happen as he “We’re working on the clar wants them. ity of the text, but also making Rick’s encour the play’s magic personal,” says aged me to try the actor, who plays the mis all sorts of chievous fairy Puck. “We’re not choices before relying on special effects other we decide what than what we ourselves can pro works best.” duce. We don’t want to hide The National the magic and won’t be do Theatre School grad ing sleight of hand.” is excited to be The show blends acting not Gregory Prest bases three stories in only with his Puck in something 24014_NOWfloating:Layout 2/4/11 4:22 PM Pagehis 1 fellow volving two believable 1 and simple. pairs of in Soulpep
per Academy members but also with senior company performers like Oli ver Dennis and Michael Hanrahan. “What’s great is that my Oberon is Ins Choi, with whom I’ve spent six days a week for the past two years. That means our relationship as char acters starts from a real place. If Puck’s job is to make Oberon smile, I know just how to do that. It’s not like work ing with an actor I’ve met on the first day of rehearsals.” In fact, the Soulpepper experience has given Prest a sense of being part of a family, not just from having collaborated with the other Academy members so closely. “In these past two years I’ve had the opportunity to work with people I could only dream about: Daniel Brooks, László Marton, Nancy Palk. In fact, Nancy has been my mentor in the Academy. Having access to her has been one of the best experiences, being able to voice those seemingly dumb questions you can’t ask in re hearsal, and not feeling judged for doing so. “So often an actor gets a gig, devel ops friends and then it’s over when the show closes. It’s been great to have a continued, longterm relationship with so many other artists, to feel that I’m part of a community.” 3
witness as desired A Celebration of African Canadian Film Sunday, February 20th, 3:30 pm Reception to follow, Admission is FREE TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 4, Reitman Square, 350 King St.W. Presented by TD Bank Group as part of the THEN & NOW series of cultural events. A series of short films followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers. Position As Desired and associated programming is generously supported by TD Bank Group, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Do whatever you can to hitch a ride to Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show, Theatre Passe Muraille’s rich and entertaining return to its collective theatre roots. Two years ago, performers Georgina Beaty, Greg Gale, Jonathan Seinen, director Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman and former TPM artistic director Layne Coleman trekked to the home of the controversial Athabasca oil sands, Fort McMurray, where they interviewed long-term residents and those lured from across the country to work in various parts of the oil industry. The result beautifully balances politics with the personal, offering up details that can only come from solid research and an eye for dramatic and human truths.
Steve (Seinen) is an Edmonton-born reclamation scientist who rents out a room to Chad (Gale), a Newfoundland trucker. In a charming scene in a grocery store, the two meet Mary (Beaty), who works as a tour guide at the sands but wants to study dance in Toronto. The three characters’ hopes, dreams and disappointments intersect in surprising ways. Interspersed with their narrative are brief snapshots that linger in the mind: a closeted gay man looks for some connection through online personals, a French-Canadian worker spends his earnings at the casino, a woman finds satisfaction in teaching music to children. The fresh young actors plunge wholeheartedly into their many roles, particularly Gale, whose anecdotespewing trucker will break your heart. Corbeil-Coleman uses every inch of theatre space – from the lonely little perch where Chad drives his truck to the audience seating area itself, where two characters talk during a sermon. And I have to mention Steve Lucas’s set and lighting, which economically evoke any number of locales. His clever manipulation of the stage’s floor takes the phrase “carbon footprint” to a gLenn SUMi whole new level.
Ryan Wilner, Mike Paterson, Keven Soldo, Double K, Eric Clifford, Paul McCallum and Phil Maynard. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BaD DOg tHeatre presents The League, fast, competitive improv. 8 pm. $8, stu $5. The Mullet, improv that’s short in the front, long in the back. 9:30 pm. $8, stu/first show patrons $5. 138 Danforth. baddogtheatre.com. tHe Carnegie HaLL SHOw The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com. iMpatient tHeatre CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapidfire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impatient.ca. pOUrDOn Me COMeDY nigHt Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly show. 10 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. tHe QUantUM QOMeDY SHOwQaSe Double Deuce Saloon presents stand-up w/ Steve Scholtz, Makesi Arthur, Kristian Reimer, Adam Christie and host Jon Perrault. 9 pm. Free. 1168 Queen W. 647-349-8245. SpiritS Open MiC presents Angela Downey’s 65th Birthday Party w/ Nikki Payne, Kenny Robinson, Simon Rakoff, Nile Seguin, Cal Post, Steve Scholtz and Cleve Jones. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. Spring ‘11 MainStage review See Thu 17.
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Director argues politics, as much as illness, brought him down By SUSAN G. COLE PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE directed by Kenneth Bowser. 137 minutes. A First Run Features release. Opens Friday (February 18) at the Bloor. See Indie & Rep Film, page 72.
i knew that phil ochs had a toronto connection, especially because of his 70s performance at progressive Jewish compound Camp Naivelt. But Kenneth Bowser, whose documentary on Ochs opens at the Bloor this week, tells me the gifted singer/ songwriter had an even stronger connection with local concert impresario Michael Cohl. And for Bowser, it paid off. “I started shooting on my own dime and collected a lot of footage,” recalls Bowser, explaining that it was hugely expensive to clear the rights to some of the archival footage. “So Michael Cohl calls me. ‘I hear
you’re working on a film about Phil Ochs. I had a coffee shop in Toronto, and he used to play my place. I loved the guy, loved his music. What can I do to help?’ “‘Help me raise some money.’ “‘I’ll put up the money,’ says Cohl. “‘Really? It’s not the Rolling Stones.’ “‘I know. I made my money. Whatever you need, I’ll do it.’ “And he paid for the film.” The documentary tracks Ochs’s artistic development in tandem with the political movements that motivated him and that he in turn inspired. “Phil’s life was a perfect mirror of what went on in the 60s and the 70s,” says Bowser, whose previous works include a documentary on the filmmaker Preston Sturges and a series on the iconic TV comedy show Saturday Night Live. “It reflects the thrill
and excitement of knowing we would change the world, that we were going to make things right, through the battles and the disillusionment and the disappointment at what the country hadn’t lived up to. Bowser uses Ochs’s songs to fashion a clear story arc that traces the rise and fall of the movement organizationally and emotionally. “All I had to do was hook into that vein and follow it.” Though Ochs is known most for protest songs like I Ain’t Marching Anymore, he was inspired most by people as unlikely as Elvis Presley and John Wayne. “He knew how to combine Merle Haggard’s blue-collar world and Elvis Presley. He’d be thinking, ‘You need to be entertained while you’re getting your political nutrition? I can go down that road.’” In fact, Ochs himself might have embraced the label “protest singer,” but Bowser won’t put him into that musical straitjacket. “If you follow his music, he wasn’t just a protest singer. I mean Pleasures Of The Harbour, what is that? What is Tape From California? Rehearsals For
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Would a gifted artist kill himself in response to his political environment? Kenneth Bowser makes that argument in his documentary about charismatic songwriter Phil Ochs. Ochs was a bona fide protest singer, kicking ass with anthems like I Ain’t Marching Anymore and satiric songs like Love Me, I’m A Liberal. (His most famous song, Changes, however, is neither.) Mental illness was in his genes – his father was bipolar – and an assault Ochs experienced while in Africa damaged his vocal cords and his spirit, sending him into an alcoholic spiral. But Bowser suggests it was politics – the naïveté of the early 60s, Richard Nixon’s re-election in 1972 and the rise of the pop counterculture, which Ochs loathed – that sent him over the edge. Lots of people weigh in on his importance – Christopher Hitchens, Joan Baez, Tom Hayden – in this fine evocation of U.S. political turbulence in the SGC 60s and fitting tribute to a sensational artist.
Retirement is one of the most deeply felt albums about a passionate man encountering a cynical universe.” But through all of his changes – Changes is the name of what many feel is Ochs’s finest song – Ochs clung to the ideal of America. “He understood that politicians get you into wars, and soldiers die. He loved America and was invested in the idea of social justice and the best the United States could be.” Ochs suffered from manic-depression, which ultimately led to alcoholism and to his suicide in 1976. Bowser says his bipolar disorder may sometimes have been a creative boon. “He wrote Crucifixion while he was in the UK travelling from one town to another. He wrote it in one sitting and didn’t change a word. He would hit periods of time when he would just soar. When you’re in that manic thing, you grab onto ideas, you get excited.” But, I tell Bowser, it feels like the film puts Ochs’s history of mental illness in the background. “I didn’t wish to play anything down,” he insists, “but what I saw was a perfect storm – the political events, his career as a performer, his alcoholism, his manic-depression, the assassinations, the rise of Richard Nixon. Everything spun in a perfect way, one hammer blow after another, until he was on his knees. “Phil’s in Africa, in South America, he went to Asia. He had a sense on the ground of what things were like. His friendship with Victor Jara [the Chilean singer and activist who was murdered by the military during the 1973 coup against Allende] – how many friends can you see killed, how many progressive governments can you watch fall, how much can you take before you feel helpless?” 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com
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Small scaled SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS (Ed GassDonnelly). 75 minutes. Opens Friday (February 18) at the Royal. See Indie & Rep Film, page 72. Rating: NN
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Lebanese prison, enlisting convicts as actors and stagehands. It’s part of a rehabilitation project, getting the inmates to confront their own conceptions of guilt and responsibility through the text. Daccache isn’t as adept a filmmaker as she is a therapist – the doc’s first half is pretty draggy – but what she’s doing is remarkable. Familia (rating: NNNN) explores the emotional cost of migrant work through the story of a Peruvian family whose mother, Naty, takes a job as a hotel maid in Spain. Directors Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovitz have known this family for decades, and the result is an almost claustrophobically intimate study: we feel every pang of guilt and sorrow as Naty’s economic exile drags on and on. Among the fictional features,
the drawback to a festival like Human Rights Watch is that the audience is inevitably invited to immerse itself in one miserable situation after another. There isn’t always a lot of light at the end of these tunnels. Case in point? This year’s HRW opens with Ali Samadi Ahadi’s The Green Wave (rating: NNN), which looks at the 2009 Iran elections and that moment when it appeared Iranians might be able to get rid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – only to see their democratic revolution crushed by militias out to repress any sign of dissent. Ahadi tells the Iranian people’s story by combining sorrowful talking-head interviews with animated re-enactments of events, a technique applied with much greater impact in Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir. (Scenes of detainees being beaten by shadowy security forces feel a little more film noir than necessary.) The early footage of jubilant protesters assembling in a football stadium can’t help but bring the Egyptian revolution of January 25 to mind, but this story doesn’t end nearly as well. Zeina Daccache’s 12 Angry Leba nese (rating: NNN) looks at theatre director Daccache’s efforts to stage an Arabic version of ReginThe Green Wave, about Iran’s 2009 ald Rose’s play 12 elections, rolls into the festival. Angry Men in a
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When We Leave (rating: NNNN) casts the terrific Sibel Kekilli (Head-On) as a Muslim woman who abandons her husband in Turkey to return to her family in Germany, only to find they think she’s dishonoured them by fleeing a violent marriage. Writer/ director Feo Aladag creates a suffocating atmosphere that gives the story’s grim trajectory – signalled in the very first scene – a terrible feeling of inevitability. Less successful is Olivier MassetDepasse’s overwrought Illégal (rating: NN), which turns the story of a Byelorussian mother living without papers in Belgium into a sensationalistic broad-strokes drama, with every last casual inhumanity captured by a jittery handheld camera. The American detention centre at Guantánamo Bay turns up in a pair of documentaries that have previously played in town. The Oath (rating: NNNN), which screened last year at Hot Docs, tells the stories of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard and driver, brothers-in-law who fell into U.S. custody after 9/11. Director Laura Poitras uses their divergent fortunes to examine the two sides of America’s moral character under the Bush administration. The issues of illegal detention and sanctioned torture hit closer to home in You Don’t Like The Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (rating: NNNN), Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez’s powerful presentation of Omar Khadr’s first interview with Canadian interrogators at Guantánamo, a sickening look at a Kafkaesque holding system designed to intimidate and punish rather than prosecute. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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While it’s easy to admire the unique stylistic accents director Ed GassDonnelly fearlessly applies to his northern Ontario murder mystery, it’s not so easy to enjoy them. Small Town Murder Songs is self-conscious to a fault, interrupting moments of minimalist and contemplative beauty with overzealous religious gimmicks and loud, bombastic musical montages. Peter Stormare (the guy who found some nuanced use for a wood chipper in Fargo) wears a constant frown as Walter, an anguished cop and born-
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I AM NUMBER FOUR (D.J. Caruso). 110 minutes. Opens Friday (February 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN After the promising young-progatonist thrillers Disturbia and Eagle Eye, D.J. Caruso disappoints with this routine sci-fi flick that feels less like a bigscreen adventure than an adequate TV pilot. Adapted from Pittacus Lore’s 2010 young adult novel, the movie stars hunk du jour Alex Pettyfer as Number Four, one of eight powerful teen survivors from the planet Lorien who are currently on Earth but being killed, in order, by the Mogadorians, a race of aliens who eventually want to destroy humans. As the movie opens, alien Number Three meets a messy end. Guess who’s next? Soon Number Four changes his name to John Smith and, along with his mysterious guardian (a good but wasted Timothy Olyphant), relocates to a small Ohio town where he just wants to fit in at high school, especially with photographer Sarah (Glee’s Dianna Agron). As John gradually discovers his powers – glowing palms, superhuman strength, etc – Sarah’s jealous ex and an alien-obsessed townie get suspicious, while the Mogadorians get closer. As in Disturbia, Caruso’s adept at using technology to advance the plot. John’s superhuman stunts are quickly
caught on camera, uploaded and traceable. As for the acting, it’s nice to see Agron play a more sympathetic character than Glee’s nasty Quinn, but Pettyfer concentrates more on mastering an American accent than on creating a character with any conflict or depth. A shame Caruso’s muse, Shia LaBeouf, wasn’t available. The ho-hum effects, which involve leaping monsters and many oversized guns, look borrowed from the FX department of Relic GLENN SUMI Hunter.
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A WAKE (Penelope Buitenhuis). 93 minutes. Opens Friday (February 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN How’s this for a premise? Power-tripping theatre director Gabor (Nicholas Campbell) makes a deathbed request of his wife (a very forbearing Tara Nicodemo) about his wake. He wants six members of his company to gather and reveal exactly how they feel about him while they read Hamlet, a play the troupe never got to mount. And he wants to put it all on film. And he wants that movie shown at a public memorial. Huh? Why would people agree to expose themselves in this way, figura tively and literally. (There’s a camera in the bathroom, too!) Six unhinged people, I’d say, and that doesn’t include Gabor’s son, who conveniently appears out of nowhere to direct – bully, actually – these sad creatures. The actors, an assortment of Cana da’s best stage artists, do show some energy. Sarain Boylan as a cokeaddict ed sex kitten has a disturbing edge. And as the board member with a secret crush on Gabor, Martha Burns arouses sympathy. But the situation and the dialogue – invented by the cast itself – are so ludicrous that they make even the bril liant Graham Abbey, as the only actor among them who made it to L.A., a bore. And what’s with Raj (Raoul Bhaneja), the closeted actor? Afraid to be gay? In the theatre world? You can’t be serious. Unfortunately, A Wake is. SUSAN G. COLE
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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR (Vikram Jayanti) explores the
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(Alejandro González Iñárritu) is a harrowing new work from the gifted Mexican director (21 Grams, Babel). It forgoes his multi-narrative approach to tell the linear single story of Uxbal (Javier Bardem), a Barcelonian trying to maintain his myriad shady businesses while caring for his two children and dealing with their mother, his ex-wife (Maricel Alvarez), who’s bipolar and now turning tricks. And he’s dying. Bardem is spectacular as a tortured soul trying to do right when everything’s going all wrong. This isn’t for everyone. If you can’t stand the heat, stay away. But if you want to experience a terrific filmmaker and a superb performer at the height of their powers – Bardem just received a best actor Oscar nod and Biutiful is nominated in the foreign language category – don’t miss it. Subtitled. 147 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
murder charge that ended Phil Spector’s legendary career without passing judgment on his guilt or innocence, by letting Spector speak directly to the camera and BLACK SWAN (Darren Aronofsky) is a intercutting the producer’s self-aggrandizdeliriously operatic tale of a ballerina ing, paranoid stories with footage from (Natalie Portman) who starts to lose her his first trial. It’s a deliberately frustrating mind when she wins the role of the Swan tactic, sure to infuriate anyone expecting Queen in a star-making production of a straight-up look at either Spector’s Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. It’s a rich, career or his murder trials. Jayanti does to weird experience – and a Spector what James Tolittle over the top, which back did to Mike Tyson is the only way to make a in his documentary EXPANDED REVIEWS movie this ambitious Tyson: peels back layer nowtoronto.com and impassioned. 110 after layer of privilege min. NNNN (NW) and disconnection to Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, reveal the self-deluded man within. 102 Courtney Park 16, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy min. NNN (NW) Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity MissisTIFF Bell Lightbox sauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 ANOTHER YEAR (Mike Leigh) is the BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance) charts kind of film that makes you want to the beginning and end of a marriage in go out and hug old people. Tom and Gerri heartbreaking but overly schematic detail. (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) are that Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams derare happy couple in their twilight years liver superb, natural performances as the who routinely invite less fortunate friends endearing yet rough-around-the-edges and family over for dinner, tea and occacouple who long ago seemed perfect for sionally a lot of wine. If Leigh’s film feels each other but can now barely carry on a unhurried, plotless and schematic, well, conversation without breaking a few that’s kind of the point. During these natthings. 120 min. NNN (RS) uralistic and rudimentary proceedings, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, there are dramatic moments when minor Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, discomforts and awkwardness, and even Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre manifestations of class consciousness, threaten the couple’s strictly sustained CEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel Arteta) features Ed pleasantness. As the conflicted and notaHelms panicking an awful lot as a smallbly less educated friend who might make town insurance salesman who travels to the wheels fall off life’s cycle, Lesley ManIowa for a convention and finds himself ville delivers an awards-calibre performconfronted with all the writhing debauchance masking pain and vulnerability with ery of the big city. But the sales-convendrunken eccentricity. 130 min. NNNN (RS) tion-as-bacchanal thing was summed up Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Mt in a few brief scenes in Up In The Air, and Pleasant, Varsity the rest of the office details have been covered at length by Helms himself on BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a The Office. Director Arteta has assembled radically simplified adaptation of Mordea terrific comic cast and simply left his cai Richler’s final novel, looking back at actors hanging. You wouldn’t think it the life and loves of a deteriorating Montpossible for John C. Reilly to give a bad real television producer (Paul Giamatti). performance as a glad-handing Simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian. douchebag, but he’s a constant annoy132 min. NNN (NW) ance here. 86 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, InterColossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Comchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensmons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE Mississauga, Varsity OF THE DAWN TREADER (Michael Apted) finds the two youngest Pevensie siblings BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) (John Whitesell) 108 min. See Also Openwhisked – along with their obnoxious ing, page 65. cousin (Will Poulter) – to the oceans of Opens Feb 18 at 401 & Morningside,
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Narnia, joining King Caspian (Ben Barnes) in a quest to find some missing lords and restore balance to his magical land. That is, until the movie drops all pretence of entertainment and turns into Walden Media’s creepiest proselytization yet. 112 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre
THE COMPANY MEN (John Wells) wastes
Oscar winners Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones, who star in a timely pic about corporate greed and recessionary downsizing. Writer and first-time filmmaker Wells oversells his unoriginal message about CEOs being bad and common workers being saintly. 115 min. NN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
COUNTRY STRONG (Shana Feste) stars
Gwyneth Paltrow as a country singer who’s trying to make a comeback after being sprung from rehab – too soon – by her manager husband (Tim McGraw). Writer/director Feste pushes every button possible, but the thing remains emotionally empty. That’s because we get no idea why Kelly was driven to drink in the first place. 117 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30
THE DILEMMA (Ron Howard) marks the
latest step in Howard’s attempt to recapture his past glory as a populist filmmaker. Vince Vaughn plays a Chicago hustler who finds out that the wife (Winona Ryder) of his best friend and business partner (Kevin James) is having an affair and twists himself into knots trying to decide whether to spill the beans. There is exactly one laugh. 111 min. N (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Giorgos Lanthimos) is set largely in the remote home of a Greek family, where a couple (Christos Stergioglou and Michele Valley) have decided to raise their three children in near-total ignorance of the outside world. This results in repressed rage and some really inappropriate sexual development. It’s all presented in a series of flat, visually monotonous tableaux; any metaphor or theme is left for us to divine. I like the idea that it’s an allegory for isolationism. Retreat from the world and you wind up raising monsters. Not the cheeriest subject for a movie, but somehow it plays. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
DUE DATE (Todd Phillips) is basically just
an update of Planes, Trains & Automobiles, with control freak Robert Downey Jr. and clueless chaos-bringer Zach Galifianakis racing from Atlanta to L.A. Downey gives a great performance, but the emotional depth winds up pushing against the broader nature of the increasingly cartoonish plot. 95 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30
THE EAGLE (Kevin Macdonald) plays like an unintentional homoerotic fantasy, complete with wooden acting. Adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s young-adult novel, it’s about Marcus (Channing Tatum), a 140 AD Roman soldier who attempts to restore honour to his name and country. With his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell) in tow, he travels north of Hadrian’s Wall to retrieve the golden eagle, the emblem of his legion reportedly lost by his father years before. There, the tables are turned and Marcus is suddenly at the mercy of Esca and various Roman-hating warriors. Macdonald takes a long time to generate any excitement, waiting until the final act to deliver the kind of action and adventure demanded by the genre. He’s not helped by Tatum, who mumbles his lines when he’s not squinting his baby blues at the horizon. 114 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rain-
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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. It’s is an underdog story that plays out just like Rocky, only in this version Adrian has an outgoing personality and Paulie is on the pipe. 115 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
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based on Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility, but even if you’re not familiar with the novel, this sometimes fun rom-com is as predictable as daybreak. When their single parent dad dies, Beverly Hills-bred sisters Nora (Camilla Belle), who has her eye on law school, and shopaholic Mary (Lindsay Lohan look-alike Alexa Vega) are suddenly bankrupt. When their aunt Aurelia (Babel’s Adriana Barraza) takes them into her L.A. east-side home, the girls discover what feels like a foreign country – vibrant, Spanish-speaking, full of energy and pushing more than a few stereotypes. Will Mary see the beauty of the boy next door? Will Nora open her too often abandoned heart? Will the young women learn some life lessons? You guess. 107 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
gNomeo aNd JulieT (Kelly Asbury) crosses Shakespeare with Toy Story to transpose the Bard’s timeless tale of young love to the back gardens of adjoining British homes, where the lawn ornaments of Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague have been at war for generations. The animation is bright and inventive, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are nicely matched as the titular lovers, and Jason Statham, of all people, voices the menacing Tybalt. But you do get the sense that someone has tried to Shrek up the script, offsetting the clever nods to Shakespeare with random pop culture references. And this story, of all stories, is strong enough to work without the heroine also being a ninja. 84 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, Silver-
Gondry and writer/star Seth Rogen collaborating on a big-budget update of a character best known from a 1960s TV series. The opening sequence belongs in a far sharper picture, and the film’s climax is built around a novel, thoroughly Gondryesque idea – though it’s preceded by one of the sloppiest car chases in memory, made even worse by the added darkness imposed by the 3-D conversion process. 118 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
i am Number Four (D.J. Caruso) 110 min. See review, page 64. NN (GS) Opens Feb 18 at 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.
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based on Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched, one of the most powerful plays of recent years. Director Villeneuve’s (Polytechnique) adaptation does the epic story justice, even if it inevitably loses a bit in translation. Sometimes the suggestion of an event onstage – especially continued on page 68 œ
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(Charles Ferguson) takes a very complex subject – the story of the global economic collapse triggered by the 2008 failure of several American financial institutions – and explains it in terms so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, you were probably staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant
JUST GO WITH IT (Dennis Dugan) finds
Adam Sandler turning his lazy attentions to a remake of the 1969 farce Cactus Flower, playing a plastic surgeon who recruits his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) and her children as his fake family when his latest fling (Brooklyn Decker) proves to be more than a one-night stand. It’s your basic door-slamming farce, or at least it once was. In the hands of Sandler and frequent collaborator Dugan, it’s a sloppy, unnecessarily cruel series of blandly photographed arguments and misunderstandings, with one dumb idea clunking artlessly against the next. There’s no joy or wit. It’s all mechanics, an excuse for Sandler to slouch his way through yet another spectacular location and pull the occasional goofy face. You can’t blame the guy for making the most of such a sweet deal, but you don’t have to spend 13 bucks enabling him. 116 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
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Chu) mixes exciting 3-D concert footage with the story behind the titular 16-yearold Stratford, Ontario, native’s meteoric rise. Director Chu completely grasps his subject’s relevance. Bieber is easily the first major celebrity who belongs entirely to the social networking age. He was discovered on YouTube (through footage that Chu puts to good use) and maintains his loyal fan base through Twitter, where almost 7 million followers hang on his every keystroke. Ultimately, Never Say Never does lose steam, with doctored inspirational moments, some unnecessary selfserious drama over Bieber’s changing voice and a never-ending parade of performances that only fans could endure. But hell, Bieber’s all about the fans. So who are we to bad mouth what should amount to the tween-age version of orgasmic joy? 105 min. NNN (RS)
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ñTHE KING’S SPEECH
(Tom Hooper) turns the relationship between the stammering prince who would become George VI (Colin Firth) and his expat Australian speech trainer (Geoffrey Rush) into a charming little period piece. Director Hooper uses inventive staging and surprising visual choices to goose the straightforward material and brings out the best in Firth, Rush and co-star Helena Bonham Carter. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
LEMMY (Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski) 116
min. See review, page 72. NNN (CG) Opens Feb 18 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 72).
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(Simon West) finds Jason Statham squarely in his comfort zone, playing a no-bullshit assassin who helps a hotheaded youngster (Ben Foster) get over his father’s death by taking him on as his apprentice. Director West (Con Air, The General’s Daughter) works at a slower boil than usual, trusting his actors to carry their scenes without anything blowing up in the background. 92 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
MEMENTO 10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT WITH CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Q&A (Christo-
pher Nolan) is a special one-night-only, high-def screening of director Nolan’s influential thriller about an amnesiac. The screening includes never-before-seen footage from a Q&A with Nolan and Guillermo Del Toro. 158 min. Feb 17, 6:30 pm, at Varsity
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST ENCORE is an encore
high-def broadcast of the Puccini opera, starring Deborah Voigt and Marcello Giordani, in a production that marks the 100th anniversary of the work’s world premiere at the Met. 230 min. Feb 19, 1 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (Ivan Reitman) wrangles some very appealing actors (Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher), gives them some potentially entertaining things to do (have sex without commitment) and proceeds to play everything out well beyond the point of exhaustion. For a movie about people who have a
great deal of sex, this is awfully frustrating. 110 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
OLIVER SHERMAN (Ryan Redford) is a
turgid, obvious melodrama about two men whose lives have taken very different paths after their return from combat. Seven years ago, Franklin (Donal Logue) rescued the wounded Oliver (Garrett Dillahunt) from certain death on the battlefield. Now, the brain-damaged Oliver has turned up at his doorstep, causing problems both minor and major for Franklin and his increasingly less accommodating wife (Molly Parker). Redford treats the delicate material with so much gravity that he crushes it with reverent self-importance. He’s also apparently instructed his cast to deliver every line as though it provided the most important moment in the whole picture. These actors are all so much better than this movie would have you believe. 82 min. NN (NW) Cumberland 4
ñ127 HOURS
(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 before hitting on a particularly horrible solution. Franco is terrific as a guy with a powerful will to live. And yes, the climax is exactly as gruelling as you’ve heard. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre
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(Kenneth Bowser) 137 min. See interview and review, page 63. (SGC) Opens Feb 18 at the Bloor (see Indie & Rep Film, page 72).
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(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. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30
THE RITE (Mikael Håfström) stars Colin O’Donoghue as an American seminary student of little faith who goes to Rome to study exorcisms under Anthony Hopkins’s Jesuit priest. Director Håfström cloaks the proceedings with a sheen of middlebrow respectability, but the movie takes a good hour to going, there’s not that much at stake for anyone, and the special effects aren’t that special: a bit of skin discoloration, some gymnastic stunt work and a lot of annoying musical cues. 112 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale
ñTHE ROBBER
(Benjamin Heisenberg) follows the gimlet-eyed, distressingly fit Johann Rettenberger (Andreas Lust) as he’s released from prison and sets about running marathons and robbing banks with equal focus. The plotting is fairly generic, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing – and you won’t be able to take your eyes of Lust. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
THE ROOMMATE (Christian Christiansen)
is like the college-aged younger sibling of Single White Female, ripping off the older thriller without any comprehension of what it’s doing. Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) stars as Sara, a perpetually pouty fashionista from Iowa who ends up rooming with Gossip Girl Leighton Meester’s Rebecca, a Pasadena sociopath who stares so hard that her eyes seem to operate in 3-D. They automatically become BFFs, as roommates do, while the movie turns into a limp, low-budget thriller lacking even
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appropriate lighting, never mind a halfdecent script or acting. Kelly isn’t given much to do besides look flirtatious and stand out as the prettiest thing in a fictional college full of pretty people. Meester gets to have more fun, but her character’s strained head tilts and gleaming eyeballs are so overused that they verge on parody. 93 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
SaNctum (Alister Grierson) combines two of executive producer James Cameron’s current interests – underwater exploration and 3-D photography – for an intermittently entertaining adventure about trapped cave divers trying to find their way back to the surface. Grierson keeps the action moving at a decent clip and offers a couple of impressive set pieces early on – including an underwater drowning that’s horrible in its simplicity – but can’t quite sell the declarative dialogue and roughneck character details that come so easily to Cameron. As a test run for lowlight 3-D digital cinema, it’s a little wobbly. As a movie, it’s considerably more so. 109 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
first Intifada is born; and the present. Humour is Suleiman’s essential weapon. Over decades, a neighbour spouts hilarious conspiracy theories. An Israeli tank ludicrously trains its guns on an obviously innocuous Arab talking on his cellphone. But the key symbol of the silent witness helpless in the face of events is clunky in a movie that makes the point without that conceit. Nevertheless, Suleiman walks a tonal tightrope expertly, focusing on humanity instead of ideology. Subtitled. 109 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox
troN: legacy (Joseph Kosinski) show-
cases breathtaking visual designs: neon-lit digital vistas and cool, sexy interiors that look like an Apple commercial directed by Kubrick. Unfortunately, aging hacker Kevin (Jeff Bridges) and his estranged son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) feel very analog. When they aren’t involved in light cycle chases or flinging shiny frisbees around, they deliver the kind of stilted dialogue that belongs in the original TRON. 125 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre
ñtrue grit
(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) is a lot of things, but quaint isn’t one of them. It’s mean as a snake, and has no illusions about the Glorious West. There’s a
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grave seriousness at the movie’s heart – it’s a story about the harshness of death, and the illusory promise of revenge and redemption. And if Jeff 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) Canada Square, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
uNkNowN (Jaume Collet-Serra) 109 min.
uNauthorized: the harvey weiNSteiN Project (Barry Avrich) follows the career
uNStoPPable (Tony Scott) sends Denzel Washington and Chris Pine after a runaway train speeding out of control toward an elevated trestle over which it will surely plummet, smack in the middle of a city of tens of thousands of people. The movie has a certain momentum, but it’s no fun at all. 98 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30
Chinese-language remake of Nancy Meyers’s 2000 comedy smash, with Andy Lau as a lovable chauvinist who mends his misogynistic ways when a cross-dressing accident grants him the ability to read women’s thoughts. Writer/director Chen starts out by going for the same Lenofriendly gender-gap observations – guys are all about sex, and women are forever worrying if they’re fat and craving chocolate! – but then, lumbering into the second hour, decides that what he really wants is a melodramatic love story. You’ll just want to go home. Subtitled. 119 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
a wake (Penelope Buitenhuis) 93 min.
yogi bear (Eric Brevig) won’t be spawn-
of Harvey Weinstein, who revolutionized the indie film scene, made people care about small movies and marketed the shit out of them, but that doesn’t make him an interesting documentary subject. Sure, it features Martin Scorsese, Patricia Rozema, James Ivory and many other film personalities, but even for the film freak, there’s not much new information. Greed, financial mismanagement, mercurial behaviour – all of which apply to the former main man at Miramax – matter only if they have an impact on the rest of us. That’s why audiences eat up docs about venal bankers, and why Unauthorized – called that doubtless because Weinstein refused to be interviewed – hasn’t got much going for it. 97 min. NN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox
See Also Opening, page 65. Opens Feb 18 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24.
See review, page 65. NN (SGC) Opens Feb 18 at Yonge & Dundas 24.
the way back (Peter Weir) follows seven prisoners who escape from a Russian gulag in 1940 and walk across the steppe, the Himalayas and the Gobi Desert to freedom. The first half-hour depicting life in the gulag is devastating, but The Way Back feels more like an extreme travelogue than a coherently scripted film. 133
what womeN waNt (Daming Chen) is a
ing any new interest in the 50-year-old cartoon bear who parts campers from their “pic-a-nic” baskets. The new liveaction movie featuring CGI renditions of Yogi and Boo Boo on a mission to save Jellystone has sly winks and tongue-incheck humour that may satisfy adults but are bound to go over a five-year-old’s head. 83 min. NN (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale 3
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Donnelly) 75 min. See review, page 64. NN (RS) Opens Feb 18 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 72).
ñthe Social Network
(David Fincher) turns the nuts and bolts of the creation of Facebook into a thrilling, rippling comedy of manners about male vanity, social mores and the utter impossibility of transparency in the modern age. It’s tremendously entertaining, an endlessly clever creation myth produced with immense skill and peppered with great one-liners. 122 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
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ñSomewhere
(Sofia Coppola) finds the director of Lost In Translation once again examining the loneliness of superstars, this time from the perspective of a jaded Hollywood actor (Stephen Dorff) trying to reconnect with his young daughter (Elle Fanning). It’s a measured, thoughtful and ultimately moving study of a lost soul trying to reassess his priorities because he likes his kid and there’s nothing good on TV. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema
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(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland attraction come to life. 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. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
the time that remaiNS (Elia Suleiman) uses the director’s family diaries as source material for a series of vignettes that span decades of Israeli/Palestinian history. Set in Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab town, it unfolds at four points in time: 1948, when his father (the charismatic Saleh Bakri) still imagines a spirited resistance; 1970, when Suleiman is a schoolboy and Palestinian pride has slipped away; 1980, when the
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THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 THE ILLUSIONIST 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 OLIVER SHERMAN (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 UNKNOWN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50
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GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 1:05 3:15 5:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:15, 6:30 I AM NUMBER FOUR 12:40, 3:30, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:35 late JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10, 11:30 Sun-Wed 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 FriWed 12:50, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 7:00, 9:30 SANCTUM (14A) Thu 12:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 UNKNOWN (14A) 12:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:25 late
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BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 Sat 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 TueWed 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 9:45 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 I AM NUMBER FOUR Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 TueWed 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Tue 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:15, 7:00, 9:00, 10:10 Wed 1:00, 2:20, 3:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:10 THE MECHANIC Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45 Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST ENCORE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:00, 6:00, 8:50 Sat 12:40, 6:00, 8:50 Tue-Wed 1:30, 3:45, 6:10, 8:50 THE RITE (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 9:40 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Fri-Sat, Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 TRON: LEGACY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER - 2011 Sun 8:00
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YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
7 KHOON MAAF 2:45, 6:15, 9:45 Sat-Mon 11:30 mat BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu-Fri 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:55 Sat-Sun 11:10, 12:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:55 Mon 11:10, 12:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Fri 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Mon 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 THE COMPANY MEN (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:35 Sat-Mon 11:20, 1:50, 4:35 THE DILEMMA (PG) 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Mon 11:20 mat FROM PRADA TO NADA (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu-Fri, Tue 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 9:00 Sat-Mon 11:30, 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 9:00 Wed 1:50, 10:35 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:50, 5:05, 7:40, 9:50 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Sat-Mon 10:40, 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 SatMon 10:50 mat THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Thu-Fri 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Mon 11:30, 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 (PG) 2:35, 5:50, 9:05 Sat-Mon 10:50 mat JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu-Fri 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 11:00 Mon 11:40, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 10:45
JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:30, 10:45 Fri, Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sat-Mon 11:15, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Wed 1:45, 10:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Sat-Mon 11:00, 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 2:05, 3:05, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:30 Fri 3:05, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Mon 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 SANCTUM (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 Fri 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 Sat-Mon 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 SANCTUM: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Mon 10:45 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 7:10, 10:05 TANGLED (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:00 Fri 12:45, 1:35, 4:00 Sat-Mon 10:55, 1:35, 4:00 TRUE GRIT (14A) 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Thu 2:40 mat, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Fri 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Mon 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 A WAKE Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 WHAT WOMEN WANT Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25
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BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:55 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:00 BIUTIFUL (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:50, 8:00 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:15 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:50 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:10 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 4:25, 7:10 Fri 4:55, 7:40, 10:15 SatMon 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:30 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45 Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50 FROM PRADA TO NADA (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30
THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15 THE MECHANIC Fri 5:00, 7:30 Sat-Mon 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:20 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Fri-Mon 9:45 SOMEWHERE (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:35 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 SatMon 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:45
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675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Fri 9:20 Sat 9:25 Sun-Mon 7:00 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun-Mon 4:30
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THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:40 Fri, SunMon 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 6:30, 9:40 Tue 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:20 Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 I AM NUMBER FOUR Fri, Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 7:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:20, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 THE MECHANIC Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:40, 10:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST ENCORE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 10:10 FriMon 1:40, 4:25, 7:40, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:35, 10:10 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:30, 7:50, 10:30 Tue 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 1:30, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tue 1:05, 3:45, 7:25, 10:15 Wed 3:45, 7:25, 10:15
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Metro
West End KingsWay ThEaTrE (i) 3030 Bloor sT W, 416-232-1939
Another YeAr (PG) Thu 3:00, 7:00 Fri-Wed 4:25 Blue VAlentine Fri-Wed 9:20 the illusionist Thu 1:30, 5:30 Fri-Wed 3:00 incendies (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 the sociAl network (14A) Thu 9:15 Fri-Wed 11:00 tAngled (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05
QuEEnsWay (CE)
1025 ThE QuEEnsWay, QEW & islingTon, 416-503-0424 BArneY’s Version (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 6:25, 9:45 Big MoMMAs: like FAther, like son (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 BiutiFul (14A) Fri-Mon 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 BlAck swAn (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:20, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-sat, Mon-Wed 12:15, 3:10, 6:15, 9:05 sun 12:15, 3:10, 7:20 the dileMMA (PG) Thu 9:00 the eAgle (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 the Fighter (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 6:20, 9:15 gnoMeo And Juliet (G) 1:30, 4:00 Thu 6:25 gnoMeo And Juliet 3d (G) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 the green hornet 3d (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 the green hornet (PG) Fri-Wed 3:25 i AM nuMBer Four Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10 incendies (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Just go with it (PG) Thu 12:30 1:10 3:30 4:10 6:35 7:10 9:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:05, 3:35, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:40, 10:05 Justin BieBer: neVer sAY neVer 3d (G) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 the king’s speech (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 FriWed 12:10, 3:15, 6:10, 9:10 the MechAnic Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 sat 7:35, 10:15 sun 2:10, 5:00, 10:15 the MetropolitAn operA: lA FAnciullA del west encore sat 1:00 no strings AttAched (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 10:00 the rite (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 the rooMMAte (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Mon 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 sAnctuM 3d (14A) 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 tAngled (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:25 true grit (14A) Thu 6:10, 9:10 unknown (14A) Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Tue 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 wwe eliMinAtion chAMBer - 2011 sun 8:00 Yogi BeAr (G) Thu 1:25
rainBoW WoodBinE (i)
WoodBinE CEnTrE, 500 rExdalE Blvd, 416-213-1998 Big MoMMAs: like FAther, like son (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 the eAgle (PG) 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 gnoMeo And Juliet (G) 12:45, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:10 the green hornet (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 i AM nuMBer Four Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 Just go with it (PG) 1:25, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Justin BieBer: neVer sAY neVer 3d (G) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 no strings AttAched (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 the rooMMAte (PG) 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 sAnctuM (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 unknown (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15
East End BEaCh CinEMas (aa) 1651 QuEEn sT E, 416-699-5971
BlAck swAn (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:30 gnoMeo And Juliet 3d (G) Thu 6:50, 9:10 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 sat-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 Tue-Wed 6:40, 9:00 i AM nuMBer Four Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 sat-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 6:50, 9:30 Just go with it (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 sat-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Justin BieBer: neVer sAY neVer 3d (G) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 sat-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 TueWed 7:10, 9:40 the king’s speech (PG) 6:30, 9:20 Fri 3:40 mat sun-Mon 12:50, 3:40 mat the MetropolitAn operA: lA FAnciullA del west encore sat 1:00 the rooMMAte (PG) Thu 7:20, 9:45 unknown (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 sat-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:20, 10:00
north york EMpirE ThEaTrEs aT EMprEss WalK (ET) 5095 yongE sT, 416-223-9550
Big MoMMAs: like FAther, like son (PG) 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-sat 11:59 late the eAgle (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25, 11:45 sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 continued on page 72 œ
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The FighTer (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:40 late From Prada To Nada (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 The greeN horNeT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 i am Number Four 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:35, 10:25 Fri-Sat 11:55 late JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:30, 10:00 The mechaNic Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50, 11:50 Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 127 hours (14A) Thu 10:30 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:35 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40, 11:59 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 True griT (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 8:00 Fri-Wed 8:00, 10:30 uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20
Grande - YonGe (Ce) 4861 YonGe ST, 416-590-9974
aNoTher year (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 barNey’s versioN (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Fri, Mon 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 6:30, 9:30 Sun 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 biuTiFul (14A) Fri-Mon 11:50, 3:10, 6:20, 9:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 8:30 black swaN (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sat 7:05, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 blue valeNTiNe Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 cedar raPids (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:00, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 iNceNdies (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:50, 10:20 Mon 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:00 The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 The meTroPoliTaN oPera: la FaNciulla del wesT eNcore Sat 1:00 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Mon 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 9:50
SilverCiTY FairvieW (Ce)
FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 The greeN horNeT (PG) Fri-Mon 12:00 Tue-Wed 12:45 i am Number Four Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 TueWed 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:40, 7:15, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 The mechaNic Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 FriMon 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Mon 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:20, 6:40, 9:40 Tue-Wed 12:50, 4:20, 6:40, 9:30 uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
SilverCiTY Yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432
big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 The eagle (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 The greeN horNeT (PG) Fri-Wed 4:30 i am Number Four Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
72
february 17-23 2011 NOW
The mechaNic Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:50 9:45 FriWed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 The riTe (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 7:30, 10:10 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:15, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 yogi bear (G) Thu 12:45
Scarborough
4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Sun 3:55, 9:20 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 TueWed 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 wwe elimiNaTioN chamber - 2011 Sun 8:00 yogi bear (G) Thu 3:35 Fri-Mon 1:40
kennedY CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedY rd & 401, 416-335-5323
7 khooN maaF 2:30, 5:45, 9:15 Sat-Mon 11:10 mat barNey’s versioN (14A) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 biuTiFul (14A) 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Mon 12:30 mat black swaN (14A) 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Mon 11:30 mat blue valeNTiNe 4:40, 10:10 Thu 1:55 mat, 7:25 cedar raPids (14A) 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Mon 785 Milner ave, SCarborouGh, 416-281-2226 11:00, 1:05 mat The chroNicles oF NarNia: The voyage oF The big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) Fri-Mon 12:45, dawN Treader 3d (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:05 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 The comPaNy meN (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri, The eagle (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:45, Tue-Wed 2:25, 7:35 Sat-Mon 11:50, 2:25, 7:35 7:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 The eagle (PG) Thu 2:20 5:00 7:50 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:20, gNomeo aNd JulieT (G) Thu 3:55, 6:20 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:30 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:20 mat Tue-Wed 3:40 The FighTer (14A) Thu 1:35 4:15 7:10 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:40, gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Mon 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Mon 11:05 mat 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 From Prada To Nada (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 The greeN horNeT (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 i am Number Four Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:15 Mon 1:40, gulliver’s Travels 3d Thu 4:50, 9:40 harry PoTTer aNd The deaThly hallows – ParT 1 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:20, i am Number Four 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:45 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:15, 1:15 mat iNceNdies (14A) Thu 1:30 4:25 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:15, 8:50 Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:55, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:10 9:35, 10:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Mon The mechaNic Thu 5:00, 7:45, 9:55 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:25, 11:00, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 7:50, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:40, 10:05 The mechaNic Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 5:00, 10:10 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 127 hours (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, Tue-Wed The riTe (14A) Thu 8:40 1:55, 7:25 Sat-Mon 11:10, 1:55, 7:25 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-Mon 6:55, PaTiala house (PG) 2:30, 5:40, 9:05 Sat-Mon 11:15 mat 9:10 Tue-Wed 6:55, 9:15 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:00, siruThai (14A) 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 TroN: legacy 3d (PG) Thu 1:40 4:30 7:20 10:15 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Mon 11:05 mat uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Mon 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed True griT (14A) 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 uNkNowN (14A) 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Mon 11:30 mat whaT womeN waNT Thu 1:50, 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:15, SCarborouGh ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 SatMon 11:25, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The dilemma (PG) Thu 7:25, 10:25 gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu-Fri, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 Sat-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 The greeN horNeT (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 1:00 1:30 4:00 4:30 7:00 7:30 10:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 1:30, 3:55, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:30 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 The meTroPoliTaN oPera: la FaNciulla del wesT eNcore Sat 1:00 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456 The riTe (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) Fri, Sun-Mon 4:45, 7:25, 10:25 Sat 4:45, 5:15, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 4:45, 10:25 1:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 3:20, 7:40, 10:30 Tue The roommaTe (PG) 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 1:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 saNcTum 3d (14A) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 The chroNicles oF NarNia: The voyage oF The TaNgled (PG) 1:25 Thu 4:25 dawN Treader (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:00, 9:10 wwe elimiNaTioN chamber - 2011 Sun 8:00 The eagle (PG) Thu 12:50 4:10 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 The FighTer (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, MonWed 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sun 1901 eGlinTon ave e, 416-752-4494 12:40, 3:30, 6:20 big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) Fri-Mon 1:10, The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri4:05, 6:55, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 The dilemma (PG) Thu 9:15 harry PoTTer aNd The deaThly hallows – ParT 1 (PG) The eagle (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, Thu 1:10, 4:50, 8:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45, 6:10, 9:40 Sat 6:10, 9:40 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 i am Number Four Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 TueThe FighTer (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:45, Wed 12:25, 3:20, 7:25, 10:10 6:40, 9:35 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 i am Number Four The imaX eXPerieNce Fri-Mon 12:00, gNomeo aNd JulieT (G) Thu 3:40, 6:30 Fri-Mon 1:25, 3:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 6:15 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:15 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 1:00, 1:40, gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Mon 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:20, 1:10, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:05 Tue-Wed 12:20, 1:10, The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 The mechaNic Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Mon i am Number Four Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Tue2:00, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:00, 5:10, 10:25 Tue-Wed Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 2:00, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, The meTroPoliTaN oPera: la FaNciulla del wesT Mon 12:40, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 1:30, eNcore Sat 1:00 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 1:45, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Tue 1:50, Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Mon saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 The mechaNic Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, TaNgled (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:10 Fri-Mon 12:10 Tue9:55 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 12:15 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Mon The TourisT (PG) Thu 9:00 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Tue-Wed The riTe (14A) Thu 6:15, 9:10 Fri-Wed 9:00 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed wwe elimiNaTioN chamber - 2011 Sun 8:00
401 & MorninGSide (Ce)
ColiSeuM SCarborouGh (Ce)
GTA Regions Mississauga
ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauGa (Ce)
eGlinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce)
CourTneY park 16 (aMC)
110 CourTneY park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 big mommas: like FaTher, like soN (PG) 2:05, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Sat-Mon 11:20 mat black swaN (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 The dilemma (PG) Thu 1:50, 7:40 gNomeo aNd JulieT (G) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 7:50, 10:05 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:25, 3:30, 5:45, 7:50 Sat-Mon 11:10, 1:25, 3:30, 5:45, 7:50 gNomeo aNd JulieT 3d (G) Thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 Fri 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 6:45, 8:50, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 6:45, 8:50, 11:00 Mon 10:30, 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 6:45, 8:50 Tue-Wed 2:45, 4:50, 6:45, 8:50, 11:00 The greeN horNeT 3d (PG) 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 SatMon 11:45 mat i am Number Four 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat i am Number Four The imaX eXPerieNce Fri 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Mon 10:30, 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 JusT go wiTh iT (PG) 1:45, 2:30, 4:35, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:35 Sat-Mon 11:05, 11:50 mat JusTiN bieber: Never say Never (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 JusTiN bieber: Never say Never 3d (G) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Mon 11:25 mat The kiNg’s sPeech (PG) 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Mon 11:15 mat The mechaNic Thu 1:30, 3:35, 5:50, 8:30, 10:45 Fri 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:30, 10:45 Sat-Mon 11:00, 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:30, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:35, 5:50, 8:30, 10:45 No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 SatMon 10:50 mat The riTe (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Wed 10:00 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:25, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45, 10:40 Fri 1:00, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 Sat-Mon 10:45, 1:00, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 saNcTum 3d (14A) 1:45, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Mon 10:50 mat saNcTum: aN imaX 3d eXPerieNce (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45 uNkNowN (14A) 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sat-Mon 11:55 mat
No sTriNgs aTTached (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 FriMon 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 The roommaTe (PG) Thu 4:15, 4:50, 7:10, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:15, 6:15, 9:00 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 9:00 saNcTum 3d (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 TaNgled (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:25 Fri-Mon 12:30 True griT (14A) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:55, 9:40 Sun 3:40, 6:55 uNkNowN (14A) Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:55, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 wwe elimiNaTioN chamber - 2011 Sun 8:00 yogi bear (G) Thu 3:35 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:00 Tue-Wed 4:05
inTerChanGe 30 (aMC)
30 inTerChanGe WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323
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Monsters: Two-Disc Special Edition (Maple, 2010) D: Gareth
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It’s a remarkable achievement in lowbudget filmmaking and watchable on its own terms, but Monsters is woefully under-supplied with monsters. The giant land squid from one of Jupiter’s moons look good when they show up, but the movie isn’t about them. It’s about a photojournalist (Scoot McNairy) who has to escort his boss’s daughter (Whitney Able) across the monster-infested zone in northern Mexico so she can get back to her fiancé. Mutual attraction ensues. The movie works for several reasons. The locations are unique and lovely. The constant suggestion of monsters lurking nearby adds tension. McNairy and Able (a real-life couple) are strong individually and work well together. Director (also photographer, writer and CG effects creator) Gareth Edwards shot 100 hours of mostly unscripted footage and made the movie in the cutting room. Edwards takes a radically different approach from most genre filmmakers. He’s articulate about his methods and philosophy in the extensive and enjoyable diary-style making-of docs. EXTRAS Commentary, director and cast interviews, making-of, editing and effects docs. Widescreen. English audio. Spanish subtitles.
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (Sony, 2010) D: Woody Allen, w/
Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin. Rating: NN; DVD package: none
Woody Allen may be among those who think that the more art resembles life, the better it is. In You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, he’s made a drawing-room comedy with the humour and plot contrivances left out, a pedestrian movie about ordinary people making serious but equally ordinary life-changing decisions that usually work out badly. Afraid of aging, comfortably moneyed Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) ditches wife Helena (Gemma Jones) for a trashy young gold-digger (Lucy Punch). Helena turns to drink and a psychic. Meanwhile, their daughter (Naomi Watts) is warming to her gallery-owner boss (Antonio Banderas) and fed up with her failed-author husband (Josh Brolin), who’s putting the moves on the young hottie across the way (Freida Pinto). Things go wrong, and in the end, an arch narrator intones the moral. That narrator and the chipper score are our big clues that this is a comedy.
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The characters and situations are played straight and bland. You might be amused. Or not. The high-powered cast does a good job, and Allen provides them all with solid dramatic moments, though Hopkins fares best, since his character is most racked by mixed emotions. There are no extras, but it’s easy to imagine the actors gushing about working with Woody. EXTRAS Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.
Bitter Feast (eOne, 2010) D: Joe Maggio, w/ James LeGros, Joshua Leonard. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN Everybody likes food and everybody hates know-nothing critics. Put the two together and you’ve got a great idea for a movie: a failed celebrity chef kidnaps the snide blogger he blames for his fall and subjects him to culinarythemed nastiness. Sadly, the actual movie is merely an okay time-waster. Some of the tortures are inventive but not very scary. Most of the fun comes from James LeGros, who plays the chef as a prissy twerp, and Joshua Leonard’s mix of despair and contempt as the blogger. This is ultra-cheap filmmaking and far from slick. The extras give a good idea of how they did it. To see the same basic idea done better and funnier, check out Theatre Of Blood, with Vincent Price as a Shakespearean actor taking out his critics. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, interview. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.
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Unstoppable doesn’t have enough depth to get your ankles wet, but it whips along with so much kinetic energy and visual flair that you’ll barely notice. The story is bone-simple: human error sends a driverless train with a combustible cargo hurtling across Pennsylvania. All attempts to stop it fail until a veteran engineer and novice conductor give chase. Denzel Washington, the engineer, Chris Pine, the conductor, and the rest of the cast are thoroughly credible as working people dealing with a potential disaster, but the real stars are the trains. Director Tony Scott shoots them from every con-
ceivable angle, always with moving cameras and often from helicopters. You can feel every one of those 100,000 tons of runaway steel, which lends a sense of genuine danger to the stunts. Scott’s commentary and the making-of doc make it clear that almost everything in the movie is old-school – there’s no green screen, very little CG. The kicker in the extras package is an
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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.
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festivals human rights watch film festival
tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. 416322-8448. tiff.net/winter or hrw.org.
tue 22-mAR 4 – Films focused on human rights issues around the world. $12, opening gala $100 (includes reception). hrw.org. tue 22 – Opening gala: The Green Wave (2010) D: Ali Samadi Ahadi. 8 pm. wed 23 – When We Leave (2010) D: Feo Aladag. 8 pm.
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tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w (tb); royal conservatory of music, koerner hall, 273 bloor w (rc). 416-599-8433. tiff.net/winter, canadianart.ca/raff.
wed 23-feb 27 – Documentaries about visual
art and artists. Opening night gala: $175 includes reception, festival pass $75 (does not include opening night), $12, stu/srs $8, free student screenings Feb 25 afternoon. canadianart.ca/raff. wed 23 – Opening night gala: Koop (2011) D: Katherine Knight. Q&A w/ director and artist to follow screening. 7 pm (RC).
cinemas bloor cinema
506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com
thu 17 – The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 4:15 pm. Kuroneko (1968) D: Kineto Shindo. 7 pm. Rue Morgue Magazine presents Cropsey (2009) D: Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman. 9:30 pm. fRI 18 – Rabbit Hole (2010) D: John Cameron Mitchell. 4:30 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 7 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011) D: Kenneth Bowser. 9:30 pm. SAt 19 – The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 4:15 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 7 pm. Rabbit Hole. 9:15 pm. Sun 20 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part One (2010) D: David Yates. 1:45 pm. Rabbit Hole. 4:45 pm. The Green Hornet (2011) D: Michel Gondry. 7 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 9:30 pm. mon 21 – The Princess Bride (1987) D: Rob Reiner 1:45 pm. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part One. 4 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 7 pm. The World’s Best Commercials: The 2010 Cannes Lions Ad Awards. 9:10 pm. tue 22 – The Green Hornet. 4:30 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 7 pm. Rabbit Hole. 9:10 pm. wed 23 – Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 4:30 pm. The Princess Bride. 7 pm. Stop Making Sense (1984) D: Jonathan Demme. 9:10 pm.
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Lemmy Kilmister demonstrates why he’s the godfather of heavy metal.
Lemmy rocks on LEMMY (D: Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski) Rating: nnn At the beginning of the new documentary about Lemmy Kilmister, a fan sums up the Motörhead singer and bassist best: “If they drop a nuclear bomb on this planet, Lemmy and cockroaches is all that’s going to survive.” Indeed, the Lemmy depicted by directors Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, who filmed him relentlessly for three years, is an unapologetic chain-smoking, whisky-swilling, speed-taking, women-bedding, rough-voiced rocker. But that’s exactly what we expect from the godfather of heavy metal. More interesting is the 65-yearold English legend’s seemingly solitary life off the road, which he mostly spends playing the trivia machine at L.A.’s Rainbow Bar and Grill. Nearby, his small rent-conSAt 19 – The Silent Partner (1978) D: Daryl
Duke. 3 pm. Free.
cinematheque tiff bell lightbox
reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiff.net.
thu 17 – A Matter Of Life And Death (1946) D: Michael Powell and Emeric ñ Pressburger. 6:30 pm. Cameraman: The Life
& Work Of Jack Cardiff (2010) D: Craig McCall. 9 pm. fRI 18 – The Barefoot Contessa (1954) D: Joseph L Mankiewicz. 6:30 pm. B SAt 19 – The Monster Squad (1987) D: Fred Dekker. 2 pm. Witness As Desired: A Celebration Of African Canadian Film. 3:30 pm. The African Queen (1951) D: John Huston. 4:30 pm. Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (1949) D: Albert Lewin. 7 pm. Sun 20 – Bell Free Weekend: Bibi Blocksberg (2002) D: Hermine Huntgeburth. 11:30 am. Leave Her To Heaven (1945) D: John M Stahl. 1 pm. Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff. 3:30 pm. The Red Shoes (1948) D: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. 6 pm. The Rules Of The Game (1939) D: Jean Renoir. 7 pm. mon 21 – Bell Free Weekend: Bibi Blocksberg. 11:30 am. Mary Pickford Films: Suds (1920) D: John Francis Dillon. Noon. Alice In Wonderland (2010) D: Tim Burton. 12:30 pm. James And The Giant Peach (1996) D: Tim Burton. 1:45 pm. Mary Pickford Films: Through The Back Door (1921) D: Alfred E Green. 2:30 pm.The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) D: Tim Burton. 3 pm. Mary Pickford Films: My Best Girl (1927) D:
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trolled apartment bursts with Motörhead paraphernalia, early rock ’n’ roll records and military memorabilia, including Nazi souvenirs whose aesthetic qualities he admires. Lacking a narrative arc or conflict, the film sticks with the classic rockumentary elements: concert footage, tour bus glimpses, fan idolatry, interviews with perennial rock doc “experts” Joan Jett, Slash and Dave Navarro, with curiously little from Motörhead’s other long-time members, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee. But it’s Lemmy himself – sarcastic, humble, sagacious and, especially near the end, weary – who keeps us entertained. Best is the rare footage from his Hawkwind days and a scene with his adult son that reveals his non-traditional parenting style. Opens Friday (February 18) at the Royal Cinema. See listings, this CARLA GILLIS page.
Sam Taylor. 4:30 pm. Sherlock Jr (1924) D: Buster Keaton. Silent film with live score by iNSiDEaMiND. 4:30 pm. Cameraman: The Life And Work Of Jack Cardiff. 6:30 pm. tue 22 – Leave Her To Heaven 6:30 pm. Human Rights Watch Film Festival. See listings, this page. wed 23 – The Free Screen presents Keeping Trace – On Time And Film, curated by Marlene Rigler. 7 pm. Human Rights Watch Film Festival. See listings, this page.
fox theatre
2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca
thu 17 – Winter’s Bone (2010) D: Debra Gran-
ik. 7 pm. The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell. 9 pm. fRI 18 – Tangled (2010) D: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. 2 pm. Megamind (2010) D: Tom McGrath. 4:15 pm. Another Year (2010) D: Mike Leigh. 6:45 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 9:15 pm. SAt 19 – Tangled. 2 pm. Another Year. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. The Social Network. 9:15 pm. Sun 20 – Tangled. 2 pm. Another Year. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. Rabbit Hole (2010) D: John Cameron Mitchell. 9:15 pm. mon 21 – Tangled. 2 pm. The Social Network. 4:15 pm. Another Year. 6:45 pm. Rabbit Hole. 9:15 pm. tue 22 – Rabbit Hole. 7 pm. Another Year. 9 pm. wed 23 – Another Year. 1:30 & 9:15 pm. The Kids Are All Right (2010) D: Lisa Cholodenko. 7 pm.
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thu 17-wed 23 – Continuous screenings, Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 17-fRI 18 – Passionate Eye: William, Kate & 8 Royal Weddings. mon 21-wed 23 – Passionate Eye: Thoroughly Modern Marriage.
national film board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque
thu 17-wed 23 – More than 5,000 NFB films
available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. Open Family Day (Mon Feb 21) 9 am to 5 pm for free family screenings.
Bthu 17-SAt 19 – Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child
Soldiers (2010) D: Raymonde Provencher. 4:30 pm. $6, stu/srs $4. BSAt 19 – Black History Month French Screening: Kirikou And The Wild Beasts (2005) D: Bénédicte Galup and Michel Ocelot. 2 pm. $5 per family. Saint Louis Blues (2009) D: Dyana Gaye, and short film Le Général Rebelle. 8 pm. $10. Btue 22 – The Black International Film Festival presents Resilience: Stories Of Single Black Mothers (2010) D: Lana Lovell, and short film Selwyn (2005) D: Bryan Friedman. 6:30 pm. Free. wed 23 – The NFB At The Oscars Program Two. 4 pm. Free.
ontario science centre
770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca
thu 17 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.
fRI 18 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm.
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thu 17 – The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell. 6:45 pm. Inception (2010) D: Christopher Nolan. 9 pm. fRI 18 – Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (2010) D: Michael Apted. Noon. Gulliver’s Travels (2010) D: Rob Letterman. 2:30 pm. Winter’s Bone (2010) D: Debra Granik. 4:30 pm. La Danse – Le Ballet De L’opera De Paris (2009) D: Frederick Wiseman. 6:30 pm. Rabbit Hole (2010) D: John Cameron Mitchell. 9:30 pm. SAt 19 – Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. 1 pm. Cinema Esperanca International and Friends Of Tenzin Namgyal
Tethong present: Semshook (2010) D: Diddharth Anand Kumar. 4 pm. Winter’s Bone. 7 pm. Rabbit Hole. 9:10 pm. Sun 20 – Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. 2 pm. Gulliver’s Travels. 4:30 pm. Winter’s Bone. 7 pm. Rabbit Hole. 9:10 pm. mon 21 – My Little School presents Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) D: Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. 11 am. Gulliver’s Travels. 1:30 pm. La Danse – Le Ballet De L’opera De Paris. 3:30 pm. Rabbit Hole. 7 pm. Winter’s Bone. 9 pm. tue 22 – The Book Revue with Geoff Pevere presents Atonement (2007) D: Joe Wright. 6:45 pm. Dogtooth (2009) D: Giorgos Lanthimos. 9:45 pm. wed 23 – Fallen Angel: The Outlaw Larry Norman (2009) D: David Di Sibatino, a documentary about the father of Christian rock with musical performances and discussions. 7 pm.
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Pape/Mortimer 3 bdrm, 2 bath, April 1st, a/c, Laundry, dishwasher, no pets, close to shops, close to ttc, suits 2 people, $1700+, Showing Sat. Feb. 19th, 2-4 pm (not before), 169 Woodycrest Ave. mrkavv@yahoo.com
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YORKVILLE 1 bdrm., plus sol. 6 appl., jacuzzi, prkg., locker. Feb. 1st. $1900 incl. 905-856-6418
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Dupont/Lansdowne Studios and Workrooms $900. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-516-1166 Rental Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 standardlofts.com
Dupont/Symington Comm. studio loft prof. space/Envir. from 800 to 4000 sq ft, high ceilings, 2 pc bathroom, bright, hrdwd flrs, combine units, office, photo, computer, internet design from $900 a month. 416-654-2915 or 416-630-2116
Sorauren Avenue Loft Studio For Rent,Rarely available 1,200 SF space on 2nd floor of boutique century-old loft building. Excellent studio for archictect, designer, photographer. 12' ceilings, full bath, three large windows. Central heat and AC inclusive. 416-822-9781. $1,900
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Davenport/Walmer I’m a music writer, female, with 1 indoor cat, looking for 1 other person (who likes cats, but has no pets)to take over the other room in this large 2bdrm house. Artsy types pref. Steps from Dupont subway station, at George Brown College and Casa Loma.$650 + $45 for internet/cable. 416-788-0863 Lansdowne/ Davenport
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Balloon Juice – a blog I read daily – BJ contributor “Mastermix” said, “If we want to do something about the high divorce rate, we might want to get real [about] the role of a discreet, mutually-agreed-upon affair as a safety valve.” In other words, TYTF, destroy the only home your kids have known and put yourself and the wife through the hell of divorce and here’s what happens next: you dog around for a few years and before long you shack up with a new woman – a woman who might want or already has a kid or two of her own – and a few years after that you’re trapped in another monogamous relationship that bores you, and a few years after that, you’re writing to ask if you should put your second wife and your new kids through the pain of a divorce, all so you can make an embarrassing pass at a barista who has zero interest in fucking you. Instead of putting your current family – and your hypothetical second family and that poor barista – through that, TYTF, why not risk levelling with the wife you’ve got now? Your marriage is already on the ropes, TYTF, so One day I’m gonna throw my hands in the air you don’t have a lot to lose. Ask to have a and declare that, from that blessed day for“safety valve” installed on your marriage in ward, I shall no longer tinker with the machinthe form of permission to have a discreet, muery of monogamy. That day hasn’t arrived, as I tually-agreed-upon affair, should the right still have mortgage payments to make and opportunity/barista present itself/herself. It opposite marriages to save – so here’s a little may not be a pleasant thing for your wife to tinkle for you: hear, but “I’m leaving you to go fuck a barista You say you want out, TYTF, but are you sure to be named later” won’t be music to her ears about that? In her book I Don’t: A Contrarian either. History Of Marriage, Susan Squire asks, “Why She may surprise you, TYTF. It’s entirely posCheck out does society consider it more moral for you toour sible – I hope you’re sitting down for this – nowtoronto.com/classifieds break up a marriage, go through Real a divorce, Estate & Rentals that you bore 416.364.3444 her just as much as she bores disrupt your children’s lives maybe forever, you. If she’s itching for a few adventures of just to be able to fuck someone with whom her own, social and sexual, then spend whatthe fucking is going to get just as boring as it ever money you were planning to spend on was with the first person before long?” (Emlawyers and counselling for your kids on flyphasis added.) ing grandparents in to look after the kids Writing about Representative Christopher while you two head out for a weekend away. “Craigslist Congressman” Lee last week on But if all she wants is to stay at home in front
school through college and after, I loved me some women. Then I met my present girl 10 years ago. I fell head over heels for her. I still love her. But little by little, she has become boring to me. Our sex life has cooled. Days run together with mundane activities like watching TV, going to the store and hanging out with our kids. We own a house, we’re financially stable, we look very traditional. But I am far from conservative. I love nightlife, crazy friends and good drink. She was aware of this when we met because we ran in the same circles. My boredom is compounded by a craving for sex with other women. It doesn’t matter who – the girl at the coffee shop, the checker at Whole Foods, every chick at the gym – I’m up to my eyeballs in covet. I want out. I want to be a father to my kids and take care of my wife financially. But I want out. I am a few years from 40. What is the best course of action? Too Young To Flail
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of the TV with the kids, tell her that to preserve your sanity and, paradoxically, your marriage, you’re going to go out and have some adventures on your own. If she leaves you over it, TYTF, then you got what you wanted: out.
I’m a 31- year- old lesbIan. my gIrlfriend is in her 30s, but save for a few onenight stands, she’d never been with a woman before. I’ve never had better sex than the sex I’m having with her. When I try to talk to her about this, she gets anxious and makes selfdeprecatory comments. I want to be with her for the long haul – our dreams fit together. I just need to figure out how to communicate with her about how great our sex is. Got any advice? Communication Breakdown Yeah, CB, I’ve got some advice for you: shut the fuck up. I had this awesome new boyfriend once, and the sex was so freaking great that I felt compelled to communicate with him about how great it was. “This is so great,” I would tell him. “Let’s try to figure out where all this greatness is coming from!” But he didn’t enjoy talking about sex – particularly while we were having sex – and he got so annoyed with my attempts to figure out where all this greatness was coming from that he eventually asked/advised/ordered me to shut the fuck up. Keep fucking the girlfriend’s fucking brains right fucking out, CB, but shut the fuck up. Odds are that she’ll learn to relax and open up about sex, like my boyfriend did. But in the meantime, CB, try to resist the urge to lesbian this thing into the ground by communicating it to death.
For several months now, I’ve had a growing attraction to one of my good male
friends. I am an open bisexual male, and my friend is “straight.” We’ve had relations – me blowing him, him jerking me – but he’s adamant that he is not attracted to males at all. He nevertheless sleeps with me in my bed when he spends the night. The plot thickens: A couple days ago, my “straight” crush ordered an 8-inch dildo, moulded from a real dick, complete with balls! He got it to use on himself! He says because there’s not going to be another male present when he uses it, and thus no romance, the act will be “straight.” I define being sexual as enjoying not only the sexual interactions possible between preferred genders, but also the emotional satisfaction or romance. Does he have a point? Absolutely Hate Acronyms Wasn’t there “another male present” when you were giving him blow jobs, AHA, and he was jerking you? Maybe if your “straight” friend wasn’t accepting blow jobs from another man and swore on a stack of vintage Playboys that he would be fantasizing about a lady-parts-having woman-person pegging him when he jams that dildo up his ass, then maybe – maybe – he could be believed when he claims to be a straight dude into anal penetration. But a guy who fails to mention a burning desire for pussy to shore up his straight cred – particularly in conversation with a dude who blows him – and instead falls back on a lame “no homo” rationalization (“Hey, it’s not like the dildo brought me flowers or anything gay like that!”) is a lot of things, but straight ain’t one of ’em. If your straight friend manages to fuck some sense into himself on that dildo, AHA, you might want to take a turn on it yourself.
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