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HS, RT, SS, TM. +canaSian dance The exciting fest continues till Feb 26 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. 8 pm. $25-$30. 416-973-4000.

CanAsianDanceFestival.com. bReaTHTaking Kathleen Mullen’s documentary investigation into the use of asbestos screens at the ROM at 7 pm.

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THe aRboR Director Clio Barnard introduces the Canadian premiere of her film – which won a prize at the recent Tribeca Film Fest – screenings at the Bloor as part of Doc Soup. 6:30 and 9:15 pm. $12 adv. hotdocs.ca/docsoup.

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Lady gaga The flamboyant pop star returns to the ACC for another over-the-top performance. 8 pm. $49.50-$175. TM. bRoTHeL #9 Anusree Roy’s new play about a South Asian woman who’s sold into prostitution debuts at the Factory Theatre and runs to Mar 27. 8 pm. $15-$40. 416-504-9971.

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Screening of the doc This Is My Witness to honour International Women’s Day. 7 pm.

Free. YMCA. Pre-register jenny. cheadle@wcospital.ca MaRnie STeRn The hipster guitar shredder plays an allages show at Wrongbar. 8 pm. $13.25. RT, SS, TW.

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i’ve been a reader since 1992, but this is my first time writing, compelled by letter-writer Thomas Graff’s Black- On-White Sex Is Cliché (NOW, February 17-23). As a black woman who is very attracted to Korean men, I would’ve loved to see what Graff suggests: an athletic Asian man with a black woman on the cover of the Love & Sex Guide. Hope you can make this happen next time. Keep up the great work on the excellent mag I’ve enjoyed since I was a tween!

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i find it int erest ing t hat let t erwriter Bogos Kalemkiar, who complains of U.S. imperialism in Egypt and throughout the Middle East (NOW, February 17-23), also complains about Stephen Harper’s failure to oppose Egyptian dictator Mubarak.

When the U.S. ousts Saddam Hussein, it’s blatant meddling in the affairs of another nation; when Harper chooses to have friendly relations with Egypt rather than meddling in its internal affairs, Kalemkiar suggests that Netanyahu is “pulling his chain.”

Does anyone else notice the inconsistency here?

David Palter Toronto

City union trash-talking

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Perhaps the best solution is for the city to go to the union and say, “We can come to an arrangement on the equipment, at, say, cost plus 10 per cent. If you can come within 10 per cent of the lowest bid, you get the contract.”

This could lead to some serious talks. That would be better than butting heads and potentially putting people out of work.

Perhaps Mayor Ford could reflect on the pain of his kidney stones and seek relief by accepting that any labour disruption be something else he would rather pass on.

Nicholas Brooks Toronto

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regarding t oront o zoo’s pachyderm Problem (NOW, February 17-23).

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ment of animals, including elephants, but whether animals should be confined in the first place.

While we need to kill animals in order to survive, and though it’s possible to justify temporarily caging an injured animal until it can be returned to the wild, it’s difficult to condone the large-scale incarceration of our fellow creatures, especially when the main reason for it appears to be commercial profit.

We should start slowly to shut zoos down, stop encroaching on wildlife habitat and find some other way to entertain children.

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during t he recent municipal election, there was one universal message from all the candidates, all but one little Joe. Toronto is for sale, and all assets are on the block, so how much can we get for them? Garbage continued on page 11 œ

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privatization is just the beginning (NOW, February 17-23).

Everything from Emergency Medical Services to parking will be on the list. Clean water and waste treatment will probably be next.

Glenn Kitchen Toronto What one year’s worth of junk mail looks like.

Junk mail a toll on garbage

in regard to your article on privatizing garbage collection in Toronto, a little while back I was increasingly frustrated with the amount of junk mail/free newspapers/flyers delivered to the two-apartment house where I rent. So I decided to see just how much we got in a year. I saved 15 bags of material, each one weighing 6 or 7 pounds.

Using figures for the number of households served by garbage pickup in Toronto, that adds up to about 11,000 tonnes per year.

Here’s a picture of what it looks like.

John Fitzgerald Toronto

Ford doesn’t mean harm

those who are pissed off that Ford got elected and that the sky will fall when there are cuts in services need to think about the basic principles of budgeting.

If there are cuts, they’re not made out of malice but because tax money is wastefully spent on perks, junkets, expense accounts, overpaid public sector workers compared to private sector workers, etc. Unlike maple leaves in the fall, government services are not free and do not fall from trees.

To prevent cuts in services, we need to cut wasteful spending, which is what Ford intends to do. Or we can pay more taxes. All this becomes sparklingly clear when one becomes a taxpayer.

G. Lee Toronto

Giambrone thoughts

good writers come and go. i always looked forward to reading Mike Smith and missed his insights during the municipal election and the G20.

I understand journalists move on, but imagine my dismay, then, that NOW would turn its pages over to newly unemployed career politician Adam Giambrone. He is one of the least thoughtful people of my generation I have encountered.

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New line on Sheppard: it’s old Will developers deke out of paying the surcharges on Ford’s subway the way they did with Lastman’s? By ROGER BROOK

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ooks like the backroom boys are back at City Hall.

The evidence? Last week’s news that Mayor Rob Ford has found oodles of private cash to finance his Sheppard subway extension east to Downsview and west to the Scarborough Town Centre.

Ford wasn’t able to sell the province on the costly line, it seems, but he says he’s now got backers lined up eager to gobble up density along Sheppard to pay for the project. Our mayor would not name these keeners, and meetings do not appear in the lobbyist registry.

But taxpayers may be unnerved to hear that Ford’s backers include some of the same folks who brought us Sheppard subway part 1, the 5.5-kilometre white elephant created by then North York mayor Mel Lastman.

Ford insists he has a mandate to build subways because that’s what he “promised” during the election. Not exactly. What he promised was that

he would hold a public consultation to choose a line. He informed the masses later via YouTube that Sheppard had been chosen. All the while he’d been meeting with developers.

He did indeed score developer money in his campaign. (Not unusual; so did Joe Pantalone, and we’re assuming the same will show up when the other hopefuls release their donor lists.) Ford’s list contains maximum $2,500 donations from Tridel’s CEO, Castlepoint’s president and both of Great Gulf’s founders.

But NOW has learned that the mayor met twice during the campaign with reps from the Building, Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), which lobbies for the residential construction biz.

Scheduled attendees at the first meeting included Joe Vaccaro, BILD’s VP of government affairs, and reps from the Sorbara Group, Great Gulf, Rockport, Empire and Tribute, in addition to Mattamy and Tridel, which

are already building towers along Ford’s proposed Sheppard extension.

BILD’s Toronto co-chair, Stephen Deveaux, says the meet was “a holistic discussion on development around transit,” including the question of air rights, whereby developers contribute money toward a subway extension in exchange for increased height around stations.

“If there’s a willingness from the city and the TTC to work with [us], then there’d be a buy-in from the development industry,” says Deveaux.

But there are more building tie-ins to Ford’s circle. When development law firm Goodmans LLP held its industry forum in November on the incoming administration, they brought in Case Ootes (Ford’s transition leader) and development lobbyist Alan Slobodsky. Info was strictly off the record. The two go way back. Ootes was Lastman’s right-hand man when he was mayor, while Slobodsky was Mel’s exec assistant in North York be-

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fore becoming chief of staff after amalgamation. Ford’s new chief of staff, Amir Remtulla, was Ootes’s assistant during the Lastman years.

Slobodsky communicated with Ford on various issues, the lobbyist register tells us, including El-Ad’s proposal for 2,200 units at Sheppard’s Don Mills station. The lobbyist was also around when Lastman claimed in 1989 that builders along the Sheppard line would pay $1 billion in developers’ fees.

Didn’t quite happen. Some developers sidestepped the fees by building just outside the applicable zones surrounding stations. And the city’s director of special projects, Joe Farag, who handled development fees in the old North York, confirms that council exempted some companies from paying the charge, presumably because their projects predated the subway plan. Farag notes the surcharge lapsed when North York joined amalgamation and the requi-

site law was never passed. Not a dime was collected. We’re still paying for the Sheppard line through a TTC development charge, in addition to increased property taxes.

For the new line, Ford is predicting developers will pony up “a minimum of $1 billion... as much as $2 billion” for additional air rights around stations. In addition, he’s proposing tax increment financing, whereby the city borrows against increased property taxes for the new units.

But even with a forest of towers rising along Sheppard, the number of riders on the existing line – 47,700 daily – is still lower than the projections made for the subway’s first year in 2002, meaning large operating losses will be with us indefinitely.

Slobodsky, for his part, has nothing but good things to say about Team Ford: they are “much more customer-friendly… sort of Lastmanstyle.”

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3-minute mayor Members of the press have taken to timing his public appearances as the micro-managed Ford stars in his own propaganda flick By ENZO DiMATTEO perhaps we shouldn’t read too much into the fact that the glass doors leading to the reception area in the mayor’s office are now equipped with locks.

Or that the mayor, who reportedly returned calls from his hospital bed last week, hasn’t made himself available to the men and women of the City Hall press gallery since the election, letting big brother Doug, the councillor from Ward 2, handle the tough questions.

Not sure who died and made Dougie mayor, but even Rob Ford’s enemies on council are willing to cut him slack on that last one. Every mayor has his or her own way of communicating with the public. In Ford’s case, it’s usually a brief statement and off to the next whatever.

It’s hard to know to what extent he’s actually engaged in the day-to-day business at City Hall. Members of council aren’t sure either, since Ford sightings are scarce – about as rare as, say, an endangered wolverine in the wild.

For councillors, there’s no seeing the big guy

without an appointment, no snatching a few minutes with the chief magistrate between meetings, as you’d expect in an organization as large as the city of Toronto, where the hurly-burly requires the occasional deviation from protocol.

The Friday press releases from corporate communications outlining the week ahead include none of the mayor’s scheduled events. The management structure is very much top down.

If he’s not careful, people are going to start talking, if they aren’t already. Fordo hasn’t looked himself lately. And it’s not just the 5-millimetre kidney stone he had to have surgically removed last week. Perhaps the rigours of the job are get-

ting to him, and something more serous is setting in, like a bad case of bunker mentality.

The guy in charge of the country’s sixth-largest government hasn’t exactly been fully engaged in the civic

discourse. In some ways, his carefully managed tenure so far has resembled a propaganda film.

Check the script: there’ve been visits with a governor general, a U.S. ambassador, a movie-star-turned-California-governor and a former rock star with a tongue that’s been in places an overweight kid from the burbs can only dream about. All of it for no other reason than optics.

Yup. The mayor is living la vida rock star. And as if to maintain the mystique, he’s only being served up for public consumption in dribs and drabs.

This hasn’t gone unnoticed by the City Hall press gallery, who tried to grill the mayor on the subject of his availability in a scrum outside his office Friday (February 18), only to be cut off when the queries got testy. He was out of there in three minutes and 23 seconds flat.

Ford laughed off the suggestion that he’s been hard to find. “It’s hard to miss 300 pounds of fun,” he said.

His press secretary, Adrienne Batra, says the mayor attends between 25 and 30 events a week.

It’s unclear why the press was summoned to Ford’s office in the first

place. One theory: he’s getting pushback from the province on his subway plan and is negotiating via the media.

On that front, Ford is laying the groundwork for the train robbery of the century – going to the province with a pitch to fund his Sheppard subway with private money while completely taking away council’s authority to vote on the plan.

Doug Ford’s musings the other day about Toronto following the Chicago strong mayor model and giving Rob veto powers didn’t come out of the blue. It’s part of a larger strategy to centralize power in the mayor’s office.

If you think council has been whipped by Ford now, wait till there are half the number of councillors and the mayor controls practically every vote. One key difference from Chi-Town’s strong mayor system: there, a speaker represents council’s opposition. Here, there’s no real opposition except for a handful on council’s progressive wing, and some of them are abandoning ship on votes.

The mayor has not only been able to set the agenda, but now he wants to hijack it, too. And there’s no better evidence of that than his private funding plan for subway expansion.

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is a really stellar book. It peers into the mind of serial killer Pickton and sheds light on his victims and police indifference. “It’s a fascinating story,” she says. “The book starts with the police refusal to deal with the disappearance of women, why they failed and why they didn’t care.”

And while Cameron delves into Pickton’s personal background, On The Farm puts the emphasis on the 49 women he killed. She didn’t want a replication of the Montreal Massacre, about which everyone can namecheck the killer but practically no one knows the name of even one of the 14 women he killed.

“I decided to tell the story of every single woman on the official victim list, because Picton admitted to killing 49 but was convicted of killing only six. I heard the testimony on the other cases, and I thought the lives of these women mattered. I’d met their families, their friends, their children. People loved these women.”

Ironically, it was while she was sitting in on Pickton’s trial that Cameron figured out how our national police force had been able to give the impression that she had shared info with them in the Mulroney case.

“There was endless wrangling over the search warrant police used to get access to Pickton’s farm, because the defence were trying to overthrow the warrant,” she says. It was then that she realized lawyers were used to the practice of police lying about informants and evidence to get warrants.

They didn’t happen to be lying in the Pickton case, but, she says, “I wouldn’t have known [how typical this was] if the police hadn’t taken such a raking through the coals by Pickton’s lawyers.”

She later discovered that the RCMP had sought a search warrant related to the probe of a helicopter firm related to the Airbus affair. The warrant indicated that they had information from an informant, and the name offered was Cameron’s.

“But I knew nothing about that company. I’d talked to police because I was trying to get them to tell me if Mulroney was under investigation.

They constructed an informant.”

With the help of some high-priced lawyers, she got the Mounties to release an affidavit detailing the material they said she had given them. She’s insistent that she only provided documents and news clippings that were in the public realm.

An Ontario Superior Court judge ruled in 2007 that the RCMP superintendant in the case had a reasonable basis for treating her as an informant, but his ruling refused to resolve whether Cameron was one.

“Nobody believed me,” she says. She also had to endure Mulroney’s insulting remarks about her to the 2009 Oliphant Commission (the probe into dealings between the former PM and lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber). After further legal action, the inquiry didn’t include the comments in the official transcript.

“We knew we had to be careful about Mulroney. But Robert Pickton was never going to sue me.”

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Yet we’re now contemplating a subway that would serve nowhere near as many people just so Ford’s business buds can make a killing.

How did we get here?

Who’s afraid of Rob Ford? Dalton McGuinty, that’s who. Why else would the premier allow the mayor to tell the province how to spend its money?

The Grits are unsure about whe­ ther Ford’s financing plan would end up costing taxpayers like the last

public­private partnership to build transit (the Sheppard subway to no­ where). But it looks like they’re head­ ing down the road of political expe­ diency anyway, selling out Transit City to avoid pissing off Ford just so they can (maybe) hold onto seats in Scarborough come the fall election.

McGuinty’s crew don’t want to put precious resources into fighting elec­ toral battles in T.O. when the next provincial election will be won in

ridings in southwestern Ontario and the 905, or so the theory goes. Grit polling suggests public transit is a non­starter as a campaign issue. The provincial election will be won or lost on jobs and the economy.

Funny thing, though, how Transit City promises to fast­track thousands of construction jobs and create far­ reaching development opportunities that would mean more jobs. But try explaining that to the voting public.

Too complicated, Grit insiders say.

When it comes to Ford, best to keep things simple.

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But at the same time, its one-line “reviews” that crowd out real reviews are the very definition of bogus content.

Tim Shore, publisher of blogTO, disagrees. “With thousands of stores/restaurants in Toronto, we simply don’t have enough resources to post full reviews of all of them. But we’re trying!”

He compares the reviews in question to those of social networks like Foursquare or user-review sites like Yelp! He says dubbing his site a conMass-produced content ruins the web. So will blogTO stop? tent farm “fails to consider that many By nowtoronto.com editor joSHUa erreTT readers come to blogTO for the same reason they go to Yelp!, Urbanspoon, conquered, also thinks there should be Type the words “sushi” and “Toronto” etc – to find a place to shop or eat.” more content in articles online. into Google and the first three entries But I can’t vote down the review of Last week, Google announced new are from the site blogTO. Bikkuri or add my own, as on Yelp! or measures to combat content farms, Actually, type any word and “ToronFoursquare. It’s been on the site, in all sites that mass-produce what it calls to” into Google and blogTO is bound to its unhelpful glory, for more than three “shallow or low-quality content.” This show its face. The local news and listyears. means articles with little value that ings site has Google search results in a The reality is, blogTO is neither a soonly exist to appear on searches, lure in headlock. cial network nor a user-review site; it is users and collect money from display But as mighty as blogTO is at search a commercial media site, and over the advertising. optimization, it’s often a midget when years has become a very successful Google is unleashing an extension it comes to actual content. one at that. With all the site’s strong for its browser, Chrome, in which these For instance, here is the site’s “recontent elsewhere, it’s time blogTO articles can be flagged and dropped view” of an outpost of the sushi chain gave up the factory farming approach. from searches.

Bikkuri, unsigned, in its entirety: So is blogTO a content farm?

THECENTRESHOPnowads:Layout 1 joshuae@nowtoronto.com 2/18/11 9:09 AM Page 1 “Bikkuri is a popular sushi restaurant twitter.com/joshuaerrett To be fair, the site produces a very on the fringes of Toronto’s Financial District. A good friend of mine swears by this place as the only sushi joint she’ll get takeout from in Toronto.”

An interesting take, I guess. But why didn’t the good friend just write the review? Doesn’t seem like it would’ve taken that long. Maybe the fact that she gets all her takeout sushi from one place means she doesn’t have the depth to write the two sentences?

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Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7521. salsa Heat (Progress Place) Dinner, salsa dance lessons, live music and a silent auction.

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$33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

BreatHiNg for stress relief Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129. caNadiaN iNterNatioNal auto sHow Classic cars, automotive art, sport compacts and more. Today to Feb 26, 10:30 am-10 pm; Feb 27, 10:30 am-6 pm. $20, child $7, pass $30.

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rBloor-Yorkville icefest Ice sculptures,

carving demos and competition, circus performers and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Bloor and Yorkville from Yonge to Cumberland. bloor-yorkville.com.

Feb 26 and 27 l.i.v.e. Hip-Hop festival Local and international artists including DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Joell Ortiz, Master T and Motion, live art demos, discussions, a fashion show, exhibits, live mural-making and more. Free w/ food or clothing donations.

Ryerson University, Gould between Church and Yonge. urbanhiphopunion.com.

Feb 28 to Mar 5 New creatioNs Toronto Symphony Orchestra festival of new works by John Adams, R Murray Schafer and others. $32 and up.

Various venues. 416-593-4828, tso.ca.

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Screenings of films including Ali Samadi’s documentary The Green Wave. $12. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-599-8433, hrw.org.

To Mar 4 reel artists film festival Documentaries about visual arts and artists including Wanda Koop, Christian Boltanski and John Baldessari. $12, stu/srs $8. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 1-888-599-8433, canadianart.ca.

To Feb 27 flecting our diversity of shapes, sizes and colours. 5:30 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-973-3012. 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. toroNto iNterNatioNal rv sHow The latest in recreational vehicles and destinations. Today noon-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-9 pm; Feb 26, 10 am-7 pm; Feb 27, 10 am-5 pm. $12, srs $9, under 16 free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. torontointernationalrvshow.ca.

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To Feb 27 toroNto iNdie resto fest Local independent restaurants offer special menus with partial proceeds to Second Harvest. $23 dinner, lunch $17. facebook/ torontoindierestofest.

To Mar 11 viva italia! cuciNa Festival celebrating the best in Italian food, wines and culture.

Chef’s House, George Brown College, 215 King E. thechefshouse.com.

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wHat we talk aBout wHeN we talk aBout Hate (PEN Canada) Panel discussion on hate

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7 pm. $10. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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caNada’s wiNd eNergY iNdustrY: driviNg tHe greeN ecoNomY Seminar. 7:30-9 am. $85.

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by South Asian People’s Forum coordinator Hamid Bashani, socialist hip-hop with MC Mohamad Ali, poet Maria Antonio Castillo and others. 7 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. resistancepoetryfest@yahoo.ca. tHe iNtimacY of ZeN poetrY Talk by zen master Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara. 7-8:30 pm. $20 sugg. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. carina. lof@gmail.com. irisH ceili Traditional Irish group dances for all ages with instruction. 8-11:30 pm. $5-$12.

Christ the Saviour Church, 823 Manning. setdance.ca. tHe mYtH of positive tHiNkiNg Singles evening with a talk by religious scholar Elan Divon.

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oceaNs: if tHeY wereN’t alive, could we survive? Event for teens 14 to 19 with speak-

ers on ocean preservation, endangered species and more. 6-9 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. sexapalooZa Celebration of all things sexual with tips from experts, products and more.

Today 5 pm-midnight; tomorrow noon-midnight; Feb 27 noon-6 pm. $20. International Centre, 6900 Airport.

Saturday, February 26

Benefits

BowlatHoN (Toronto Rape Crisis Cente/ Multicultural Women Against Rape) Teams of six to eight bowl to help end violence against women. 1, 4 and 7 pm. Minimum $175 in pledges. Bowlerama West, 5429 Dundas W. trccmwar.ca. graNd carNival gala 2011 (Abrigo Centre) Dinner, dancing and a silent auction. 5:30 pm. $150. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. 416-534-3434 ext 223. oN track to cardiac recoverY (Toronto Rehab Fdn) Fundraising walk on an indoor track. 9:30 am. $40. Toronto Rehab Rumsey Centre, 347 Rumsey. walkontrack.ca. paws oN tHe sHore (Humane Soc of Durham Region) Group dog hike and raffle.

12:30-3 pm. Free. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Kipling and Lake Shore. pawsontheshore.ca.

Events

artHropod ideNtificatioN Illustrated talk on

a new online resource. 1:15 pm. Free. Victoria College rm 206, 150 Charles W. ontarioinsects. org.

BrtHe Black commuNitY iN toroNto Kids learn about the black community’s involvement in newspaper publishing and print a souvenir bookmark. Today and tomorrow. Free w/admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416392-6915. cHolesterol statiNs & tHe BraiN Presentation on whether Alzheimer’s is linked to an insufficient supply of cholesterol to the brain.

2-4 pm. Donation. Subud Hall, 2170 Danforth.

Pre-register torontowapf@gmail.com. a fistful of poems Poetry workshop with Sandra Kasturi and David Clink. 10 am-5 pm. $80. Central, 603 Markham. Pre-register sandra.katsuri@rogers.com. flirtatioN 101 All-genders workshop. Noon-3 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

Bfor tHe love of food Cooking demo on traditional Caribbean food. 2 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. torontopubliclibrary. ca.

freeiNg Your erotic self iN poetrY or prose

Workshop with writer Myna Wallin. Noon-5 pm. $50. Tightrope Books, 602 Markham. tightropebooks.com. greeN tecH computer toss Watch a movie, get Linux Ubuntu installed on your computer and drop off used computers for re-use. Noon5 pm. Free. Free Geek Toronto, 51 Vine, Unit B. freegeektoronto.org. rguided sHoe tour Tour the museum’s shoe exhibits. 1-1:45 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca.

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Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Eglinton and Laird.

416-593-2656. is Your recipe wortH $250,000? Have your favourite recipe judged by a Food Network panel. 8 am-5 pm. Free. Hyatt Regency Hotel, 370 King W. Pre-register recipetoriches.ca. screeNplaY festival Professional reading of an original TV pilot. 7 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register wildsound.ca/ torontofilmfestivals.html. rsoutH asiaN Heritage daY Art, film, music, dance, poetry, kids’ activities and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. support tHe people of liBYa Demonstration.

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sTanding WiTh libYans

Events this week in Libya have been breathtaking. Following the inspiration of Egypt two weeks ago, Libyans in Benghazi now control their city, but the citizens of Tripoli face machine gun and fighter plane attacks by the weakening Gaddafi regime. A group called Time for a New Libya hosts an emergency rally Saturday (February 26) to mourn those killed and support the courageous uprising. Noon. Free. YongeDundas Square. facebook.com/ event.php?eid=185352221505381.

TalK abouT haTe sPeech

Some believe Canada’s hate speech laws make sense, but others, especially free speech advocates, aren’t so sure. Hear a range of opinions at PEN-sponsored panel What We Talk About When We Talk About Hate, with NOW’s Susan G. Cole, NewsTalk 1010’s John Moore, Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership president Janet Keeping and law prof Richard Moon, Friday (February 25). Steve Paikin moderates. Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge). $10. 7 pm. Proceeds support PEN Canada. torontopubliclibrary.ca. adv $12. Downsview Park Hangar, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.

TribuTe To Phil ochs Musical and word tributes to the late folksinger from David DePoe, Honey Novick and Sandy Crawley. 8-11 pm. $5.

Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. bohempoetrycafe@gmail.com.

WesTend sTories Evening of storytelling. 7-9 pm. Free. River Trading Company, 1418 Queen W. 647-295-5900.

WinTer of our disconTenT: leT The righT noT Prevail Law Union of Ontario conference with speakers and panels on the Charter right to housing, the G20 and civilian oversight of policing, and more. 8:30 am-5:15 pm. Pwyc (sugg $20), professionals $60. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. lawunion.ca.

Sunday, February 27

Benefits

oscar gala fundraiser (Care-Alive) Screen-

ing of the Academy Awards, red-carpet photos and more support a camp for kids living with epilepsy. 7 pm. $100. Malaparte Room, TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. care-alive/com/ events/oscar-party.

Events

bolivia and The righT To War Open study

session. 2-4 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. torontoboliviasolidarity@gmail.com. circle of life: PlanT Kingdom Presentation on First Nations traditional medicinal and other uses of plants. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free.

Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside. highparknature.org. david fosTer Wallace booK club Nine-week book discussion group led by Peter Merriman.

4-5:30 pm. $100. Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd. Pre-register 416-366-8973.

Bel anuTsi: When i lasT WroTe To You abouT africa Art critic Sarah Milroy talks

about the exhibition. 2 pm. Free w/ admission.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000. hocKeY sundaYs in canada Autograph session with Toronto Maple Leafs Colton Orr and Wendel Clark. 2-4 pm. Free. NE corner Yonge and Dundas. 416-591-2220. iceland Travel show. 2:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $8.

Morningside-High Park Presbyterian Church, 4 Morningside. 416-762-8627. musTard and maYo maKing maYhem Toronto Green Community hands-on workshop.

2-4 pm. $25. Timothy Eaton Church, 230 St

Avvy Go is at the Law Union conference February 26.

banned booKs: madame bovarY Discussion.

2 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. brain vs braWn Chess club. 7-11 pm. Free.

Avro, 750 Queen E. 416-466-3233. children of holocausT survivors Info evening about a monthly support group for adult children of survivors. 7 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. harrietw@mnjcc.org. garY YourofsKY Lecture and video with the animal rights activist. 7 pm. $5 plus donation.

Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould.

Pre-register facebook.com/event. php?eid=196111033736430. heriTage PlanTs and hisTorical sighTs Presentation by senior planner for the city, Helen Hardis. 8 pm. Free. St Luke’s Church, 3200 Bayview. 647-296-0402.

PosT a leTTer social acTiviTY club Letterwriting gathering. 7-11 pm. Pwyc stamps and stationery. Naco Gallery Cafe, 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499.

ProsTiTuTion: aboliTion? regulaTion? decriminalizaTion? Lecture by Teresa Ulloa

laW union geTs doWn

Always depend on the Law Union of Ontario to focus on the legal tangles that matter most. This year’s conference, The Winter Of Our Discontent: Let The Right Not Prevail, covers huge ground, from Charter rights to housing, the anti-immigrant agenda to a G20 civil rights debrief. Participants include Julian Falconer, Andre Marin, Ian Scott, Kara Gillies, Avvy Go and many more. Saturday (February 26), 8:30 am to 5:15 pm, pwyc (sugg $20, session $5), professionals $60. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. lawunion.ca.

Clair W. Pre-register 416-781-7663. oaK ridges Trail aT long saulT Bus trip for a hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 8 am. $23. York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

oWner’s guide To The human genome

Science lecture and Q&A. 3-4:30 pm. Free.

Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College Circle. 416-977-2983, royalcanadianinstitute. org.

Pro WresTling live! Matches with Michael Elgin, Tyson Dux, “Psycho” Mike Rollins and others. 3-5 pm. $10-$19. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137, fightbrand.ca. singing and vocal Percussion Music workshop with FreePlay Duo, Suba Sankaran and Dylan Bell. 2-4 pm. $30. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. Pre-register 416-694-1266. rToTsaPalooza Franklin’s Backyard Birthday Blitz with Kevin Sylvester, the Monkey Bunch and others. 2-4 pm. $12, kids $8. Revival, 783 College. smallprinttoronto.org.

Whose bodY is This? Experiential workshop on body image for women only. 1-3:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

WriTing room Creative writing workshop with Sharon Singer. 1-4 pm. $40. Location

Ziáurriz of the Coalition Aginst Trafficking Women. 7 pm. Free. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. oise.utoronto.ca/cwse.

ToronTo is an aWful ciTY Singles evening with a talk by architecture critic Christopher Hume. 7-9:30 pm. $50, adv $45. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

WhaT if...? There Was no fear Join in a live conversation on CIUT Radio. Noon-1 pm. Free.

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse. utoronto.ca/student-engagement.whatif.

pm. $15. Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst.

416-789-3291 ext 511. beTTY Woodman Artist talk. 7-8:30 pm. $18, stu $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. 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.

sTrange neW Worlds WiTh raY JaYaWardhana Talk on alien planets and life beyond our

solar system. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

TexTile museum seminars Explore the connections between textiles, symbols and the psyche. $90. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321.

ToronTo babel Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pmmidnight. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com.

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Thursday, March 3

Benefits

billY ellioT (Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario) This benefit includes tickets to a performance of the hit musical and a preshow reception. 5 pm. $125-$600. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-422-5644 x 231, cpaont.org/billy. greaT canadian music from The 2000’s

(MusiCounts) NOW music editor Benjamin

Boles interviews Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene, Justin Rutledge and other artists from the 2000s as part of the NOW Talks series of intimate onstage conversations. 7 pm. $5 (Tickets at NOW Magazine).

NOW Lounge, 189 Church. nowtoronto.com. more fine girls (Times Change Women’s Employment Services) This benefit includes tickets to a performance of the play and a reception to mark International Women’s Day. 8 pm. $50. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. timeschange.org. shadoWbox 2011 (Textile Museum of Canada) Silent auction and cocktail reception.

6:30 pm. $35. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

Events

The arTisT ProJecT ToronTo Works by con-

temporary artists, art chats, competitions, a 3-D world lounge and more. To Mar 6. $12, stu/srs $8, children free, opening night preview $25. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com.

The blue covenanT Panel discussion on clean drinking water with Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow, environmental law prof Bruce Pardy and others. 7 pm. $18. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000. environmenTal career daY Job fair for university/community college students with speakers, a workshop and displays. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. careerdayuoft@gmail.com.

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Tuesday, March 1

Benefits

belmore aucTion (Rebecca Belmore Defence Fund) Auction in support of the artist’s legal defence against Pari Nadimi Gallery. 7 pm.

Free. Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen W. 416-5887750, belmoreauction.ca.

Events

canadian film: an aPPreciaTion Screening,

degrees

lecture and discussion with film commentator Risa Shuman. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. femcab 2011 International Women’s Day celebration with performances by comedian Sandra Battaglini, playwright Judith Thomspon, and others. 8 pm. $32. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9441740 ext 5.

TaP inTo Your hidden TalenTs Wired Woman seminar on building a successful career. 6:45-8 pm. $45, stu $25. Sutton Place Hotel, 955 Bay. Pre-register wiredwoman.com.

Terroir 5 Foodie syposium with talks by UK chef Fergus Henderson, food writers, wine experts and others. 7:30 am-6 pm. $120, adv $99. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Preregister terroirsymposium.com.

TriumPh of The ciTY: hoW our greaTesT invenTion maKes us richer, smarTer, greener, healThier and haPPier Presentation by

economics prof/author Edward Glaeser. 5 pm. $49, U of T alumni $39. Rotman School of Management, rm 147, 105 St George. Preregister rotman.utoronto.ca/events.

Wednesday, March 2 bacKsTage WiTh roberT cushman The the-

atre critic talks with Soulpepper Theatre founders Joseph Ziegler and Nancy Palk. 7:30

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Paddock picks

If you’re stopping by Shopgirls (1342 Queen West, 416534-7467, shopgirls.ca) this weekend to score a pair of our We Want earrings, don’t miss checking out designer Carrie Hayes’s new The Paddock line. Available exclusively at the Parkdale boutique starting Friday (February 25), the 20-piece spring collection includes cotton, nylon and bamboo separates that marry style with comfort. Visit the-paddock.ca to make your shopping list.

Last week we tracked down spring trend-perfect womenswear from the winter discount rack, and this time around we’re end-of-season shopping for the boys. Our sale spree through some of the best menswear boutiques turned up great classic pieces and a few transitional finds with a twist.

Downward dog for less

Loblaws has just launched a new collection of yoga and exercise gear called Jogi. Cleverly branded by Joe Fresh boss Joe Mimran, its limbering-up lineup includes mats, straps, blocks and balls priced from $5 to $45. Some of the best buys are hot-yoga-related, including gloves and socks that prevent slipping on sweat-soaked mats. Check out the Don Mills and Eglinton Real Canadian Super Store (825 Don Mills, 416391-0080, superstore.ca) for the best selection.

Tie twist

With bow ties verging on ubiquity, it takes a knit necktie ($45 on sale, Theodore 1922, 497 Bloor West, 416-850-0175, theodore1922.com) to stand out.

Psychedelic preview

Designer duo Alia and Jamil Juma preview their fall 2011 Juma collection with a video, Kaleidoscope, on jumastudio.com. It shows off dresses, blazers and tops in a bounty of textiles inspired by tapestries and animals encountered on a trip through India, Tibet, Thailand and Shenzen, China. Watch their web store for new arrivals from the spring collection packed with gorgeous, African-inspired prints.

Check please

As if we could ask Toronto guys to abandon their plaid shirts. Instead, we suggest adding a check-style ($110 on sale, Oliver Spencer) to your rotation of button-ups.

PROM date

The Royal Ontario Museum’s Young Patrons’ Circle is partnering with fashion label BCBG (bcbg.com) on their annual PROM fundraiser. March 26’s Into The Wild event highlights the museum’s natural history collection, and considering their stylish sponsor, we’re betting you’ll see a lot of safari dresses and animal prints wandering the galleries at the party. Tickets range from $150 to $295, at rom.on.ca/prom.

Earn your stripes

At some point over the past two years, many of us decided we enjoy dressing like French fisherman. This Filippa K crewneck ($100 on sale, Robber, 863 Queen West, 647-351-0724, robberstore.wordpress.com) does the trick with its irregular striping.

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Khaki kick

Wings + Horns makes one of the best pairs of chinos out there. Uncle Otis still has a few sizes left in olive and black ($145 on sale, 26 Bellair, 416-9202281, uncleotis.com).

A pair of Prada dress shoes stacked high on espadrille platforms might be a little extreme (and pricey) for most men. Try Oliver Spencer’s white-soled lace-ups ($245 on sale, 962 Queen West, 647-348-7673, oliverspencer.co.uk) instead.

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This spring’s wedding season is setting up to be a doozy thanks to a certain pair of royally betrothed Brits. But while we’re not waiting with bated breath like every other tabloid glossy and entertainment news show to see who will design Kate Middleton’s wedding gown, the buzz surrounding the couple’s engagement has shed some light on a new initiative to bring fair-mined precious metals and gemstones to jewellery stores. A few jewellers in the UK are committed to the effort, but if you’re in the market for a certified ethical bauble in North America, there’s only one place to shop: Fair Trade Jewellery Co. in Cabbagetown.

“Lots of people walk in here thinking we sell hemp rope and beads,” says owner and designer Ryan Taylor about the granola stigma attached to the fair trade label, but there’s not a kukui nut necklace in sight. Instead, he works with 18 karat gold and platinum to create a collection of rings and custom pieces that range from classic to contemporary.

Ethics and eco-friendliness aside, Taylor wants FTJ to be known for its sense of style and craftsmanship, as in the smithing skills required to forge a new grouping of tricky tension-set rings.

Fair Trade Jewellery Co. picks: Taylor encourages clients to think about using vintage or inherited stones in custom settings that start at $1,400; tension style rings look precarious, but Taylor says they’re actually the safest way to set a stone, $5,000 to $10,000.

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freshdish One of the most significant chapters in Hogtown’s culinary history concludes Monday (February 28) with the closing of the Hoof Café (923 Dundas West, at Gore Vale, 416-792-7511, theblackhoof.com). Famed for its suckling pig eggs Benny and foiegras-topped French toast, the no-reservations snout-to-tail brunch spot was swamped last weekend. Those who hoped to beat the crowds by showing up promptly for the 10 am opening found a two-hour-plus waiting list.

Khao San Road owner Jeff Regular and owner/chef Nuit Regular offer stir-fried minted beef and deepfried Thai-style egg with basil (right) at their already popular eatery.

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green chili. An extra 3 bucks gets you the soup of the day, tonight a vibrant cream of coconut laced with lime, button mushrooms and explosive cherry tomatoes.

At dinner, a super starter of deepfried squash fritters (Gra Bong $7) get dunked in tamarind sauce and recall pakoras, while a lunch-only iceberg lettuce salad dressed with shredded chicken in a tangy peanut vinaigrette (Yum Ta Wai) and a sensational fallfrom-the-bone pork rib soup (Khanom Jeen, both $8) often show up as suppertime specials.

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No relation to U of T vegan student cafeteria Hot Yam, vegan take-away Hot Beans (160 Baldwin, at Spadina, 647-352-7581) opens its doors tomorrow (Friday, February 25). In the location that housed the short-lived Harapeko sandwich shop, the incendiary Kensington Market beanery promises the likes of faux chicken tacos, seitan burritos and coconut-lime donuts.

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2:30 pm, dinner 5 to 10 pm. Closed SunThe Regulars’ regulars will be reday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: five lieved to learn that Nuit’s expanded steps at door, washrooms on same floor. card is as spectacularly spicy as ever.

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Torito co-owner/chef Carlos Hernandez forgoes tapas for Portuguese-style churrasqueira roast chicken. No days-old rubbery rotisserie birds these! Instead, find plump free-range, naturally raised, grainfed birds roasted until they’re perfectly à point, paired with low-sodium sides. Best: remarkably moist whole, halved or quartered chickens ready to take home or eat in; seriously tender beef cheeks and seasonal root veggie stew; mains like dense venison meat loaf finished with apples and currants; sweet Moroccan lamb shank with chickpeas and dried apricots; vegan ratatouille with grilled Japanese eggplant, roasted tomato and zucchini over buttery brown basmati rice; sides of eggy Spanish tortillas; lightly dressed salads of squash with Puy lentils; al dente green beans and mini-potatoes à la niçoise. Complete dinners for $15 per person (lunches $10), including tax and tip. Average main $7. Open Tuesday to Sunday noon to 7:30 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

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686 Queen E, at Broadview, 416-461-9663, lerossignolbistro.com. No longer Pop Bistro, this cozy 22-seat Riverside resto oozes Gallic sophistication, right down to the black-and-white photos of Parisian street scenes on the wall and Edith Piaf on the hifi. A moderately priced mainstream card of comfort food classics – escargots, anyone?

– keeps the local bourgeouisie amused.

Charming Old World service. Warning: extremely dim lighting, so pack a flashlight!

Best: to start, crostini of sautéed elephant

mushrooms in brandied butter dressed with radish sprouts or rillette-style duck pâté, both on Ace baguette; frenched wild boar chops in roasted garlic jus over saffron risotto; duck confit and smoky Toulousse sausages over navy bean cassoulet laced with lardons; to finish, apple ’n’ raisin bread pudding drizzled with caramel sauce and edible rose petals. Complete dinners for $55 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $20. Open for dinner nightly 5 to 11 pm. Closed some holidays.

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unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization,” said George Bernard Shaw more than six decades ago – and it’s still true. It’s very important that you be more discerning than newspapers in the coming weeks, Aries. You can’t afford to confuse a minor mess with a major snafu; it would be a big mistake to treat a small temporary detour as a permanent loss of momentum. Please keep your melodramatic tendencies in check, even as you appreciate the entertainment value of your ever-shifting story.

TauRus apr 20 | may 20 I know many Tauruses who are skilled at selling products and services but less adept at presenting themselves. They don’t mind being pushy and strategic when it comes to shaping the opinions of others, as long as they can remain a bit shy about showing others exactly who they are. If this is true about you, I propose that you work on changing it. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to be bold about expressing the totality of your beauty and making sure that everyone who matters to you gets to see it in its full glory. gemiNi may 21 | Jun 20 You’re not scared of acquiring more clout and lustre, right?

You won’t get nervous if you suddenly have to deal with more success than usual, right? You won’t run away if a power spot you’ve been cultivating for yourself finally starts providing you with the opportunities and responsibilities

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WHAT: Louis Bernard Réserve de Bonpas Côtes du Rhône 2009 (red) Rating: NNN WHERE: Rhône Valley, France WHY: This standard Rhône blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre packs the berry fruit flavours that are de rigueur in a modern, consumerfriendly red wine. What adds interest here is a number of secondary sensations beyond the fruit, dried herbs being most prominent. After that you get the structural stuff, mainly in the form of acidity, which will allow this wine to accompany robust foods. If you get merry when you have a little lamb, this would be perfect. Nice at the price.

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Korean 950 Eglinton W, at Rostrevor, 416-7877423, stonebowl.ca. Bibimbap can be found at most Seoul food restaurants, but only Sam Lee and Janet Yun’s casual Korean cantina is dedicated to this meal-in-one rice casserole. And while Seoul food isn’t generally very veggie-friendly, this often innovative kitchen has much for even vegans to enjoy. Best: seven different versions all told, the traditional a bowl of shortgrain white rice garnished with seared sirloin, veggies – raw, wilted or slightly pickled spinach, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, burdock, daikon and seaweed – and a runny fried egg; the Seed, a dairy-free take with black sesame, sunflower, pumpkin and poppy seeds and grilled portobello over mirin-marinated brown rice, both in sweet house-made red pepper ‘n’ apple gochujang hot sauce. Complete meals for $18 per person, including tax, tip and a mug of barley tea. Average main $11. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 10 pm, Sunday 11 am to 8 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays.

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garlicky cream of tomato soup sweetened with yams and crushed cashews; multi-culti sandwiches like Vietnamese banh mi subs with marinated tofu, pickled daikon and fresh coriander on house-baked whole wheat buns; mains like buttery dairy-free fennel and baby pea risotto or leek ’n’ potato pot pie, both sided with house organic greens in classic balsamic vinaigrette; spelt Belgian waf-

fles with whipped cream, stewed strawberries and maple syrup; to take home, wild blueberry scones and quinoa chocolate chip cookies. Complete meals for $15 per person, including tax, tip and a refilled mug of I Deal coffee. Average main $8.

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afraid that you’re in danger of repeating yourself, start playing more. Look for what amuses you, for what scrambles your expectations in entertaining ways.

Decide that you’re going to put the emphasis on provoking delight in yourself, not preserving your image.

school students are getting good grades every year. The number of As doled out has been going up steadily. Does that mean kids are getting smarter or that teachers have relaxed their standards? I don’t have a definitive answer for that.

But I do have a theory that all over the world, the Capricorn tribe has been growing more intelligent in recent years. Your increase in 2010 was especially notable.

There may have been a bit of tapering off lately, but I expect that to change soon.

The omens say you’re due for another growth spurt in your ability to understand how the world works.

sCoRpio oct 23 | Nov 21 I am a big fan of saying there’ll be no hairy riddles to deal with, but I am saying that even the hairy riddles will be interesting, at least a little fun and helpful in your efforts to purify yourself.

CaNCeR Jun 21 | Jul 22 In her essay The Possible Human, Jean Houston describes amazing capacities that are within reach of any of us who are brazen and cagey enough to cultivate them. We can learn to thoroughly enjoy being in our bodies, for example. We can summon enormous power to heal ourselves, develop an acute memory, enter at will into the alpha and theta wave states that encourage meditation and creative reverie, cultivate an acute perceptual apparatus that can see “infinity in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower” and practise the art of being deeply empathetic. Guess what, Cancerian? The next six months will be one of the best times ever for you to work on developing these superpowers. To get started, answer this question: is there any attitude or belief you have that might be standing in the way? (Here’s Houston’s essay: tinyurl.com/PossibleHuman.)

ViRgo aug 23 | sep 22 I’m no fan of the

to you, Leo. Can you hear their subtle melodies? Don’t worry, I’m not referring to the icky, stinky, creepy depths; I don’t mean that you’ll have to lose yourself in a chaotic miasma or wander speechless in a claustrophobic maze. No, the deep place I’m talking about is maybe the cleanest, most well-lit abyss you’ve ever had the complicated pleasure to explore. I’m not

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you’d been hoping for, right? I just hope you’re ready to handle the good stuff that’s available, Gemini. Please don’t confuse this enjoyable stress with the other kind.

Leo Jul 23 | aug 22 The depths are calling

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climate change that’s rocking every corner of the planet. In fact, I oppose it; I protest it; I resist it. However, I do need to acknowledge that there is at least one upside: the world is becoming more fragrant. Scientists say that as carbon dioxide levels rise, plants will release more aromatic chemicals known as “biogenic volatile organic compounds.” The smell of growing vegetation could intensify by as much as 40 per cent in the coming decades. This situation is not a precise metaphorical match for your upcoming destiny, Virgo, but I do see some similarities. Things are going to be getting hotter for you, emotionally speaking – and that will be stimulating, often even pleasurable, to your senses.

LiBRa sep 23 | oct 22 An interviewer asked me, “What is the most difficult aspect of what you do?” Here’s what I said: “Not repeating myself is the hardest thing. And yet it’s also a lot of fun. There’s nothing more exciting for me than to keep being surprised by what I write. It’s deeply enjoyable to be able to feed people clues they haven’t heard from me before.

And when I focus on doing what gives me pleasure, the horoscopes write themselves.” I hope this testimony helps you in your own life right now, Libra. If you’re

your analytical intellect and would never advise you to shove it out of the way so that your emotional intelligence can rule uncontested. But this is one time when I think the latter needs to get more say than the former; your emotional intelligence has licence to take precedence over your analytical intellect. In that light, please consider the following counsel from my Facebook friend Sophia Veleda: “I do not consider emotions to be the dirty red-headed stepchild of the frontal cortex. Our emotional selves are more intuitive, faster, smarter (by means of being able to take in more data at once) and just as capable. The frontal cortex is as likely to make errors due to data omission as the emotional centre is likely to get a degree of magnitude wrong.”

sagiTTaRius Nov 22 | Dec 21 There are

thousand of things in the world that provide you with only mediocre nourishment; the influences that deeply enrich you with their blessings are much smaller in number. To say it another way: you derive a bare amount of inspiration and teaching from the great majority of people, songs, images, words, stories, environments and sights, whereas you draw life-sustaining illumination and spirit-ennobling motivation from just a precious few. Your task in the coming weeks, Sagittarius, is to identify that special minority and to take aggressive steps to be in more ongoing communion with it.

CapRiCoRN Dec 22 | Jan 19 Research suggests that more and more American high

aquaRius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Is there anything you tend to hoard, Aquarius? Anything you store up in excessive amounts? Are there emotions you cling to past the time they’re doing you any good? Do you notice yourself feeling pangs of acquisitiveness when in the presence of particular treasures or symbols or pretty things? If so, this is an excellent time to work on dissipating those fixations. In the coming days, you will have cosmic assistance whenever you exert your willpower to undo your fanatical attachments to just about anything.

pisCes Feb 19| mar 20 I’m hoping that you will grant your ego more permission to shine in the coming weeks, Pisces. I’m hoping you will allow it to unveil more flash, feel more zeal and exert more force. After all your earnest bouts of self-sacrifice, you deserve a poetic licence to brag like a hip-hop millionaire.

After putting in such tireless devotion to maintaining an oceanic sense of self, you have every right to bust out a crisp, ferocious blast of “I am!”

3 Homework: Though sometimes it’s impossible to do the right thing, doing the half-right thing may be a viable option. Give an example from your own life: freewillastrology.com.

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I.T. guy takes it to the next level James Larcombe spins his computer sciences degree into a career developing mobile apps By JOANNE HUFFA the idea of having the world at your fingertips becomes increasingly literal with each passing day. Smart­ phones allow us to do almost anything at any time. From Facebook to weekly specials at the grocery store to Angry Birds, there’s a mobile application available to make life simpler or make time spent on the streetcar more toler­ able.

So who’s creating these apps to sat­ isfy our desire for sleek and functional wireless technology?

While Human Resources and Skills Development Canada suggests that the field of computer programming isn’t Ontario’s strongest job market at this time, software developers with

expertise in mobile applications are an exception.

One person who’s experienced the urgent demand for software develop­ ers with the coding skills specific to making big things happen on very small screens is James Larcombe.

British Columbia native Larcombe landed in Toronto following a transfer in his information technology (I.T.) job. Soon he enrolled in Ryerson Uni­ versity’s computer science program to expand on his education and help his transition into a design and develop­ ment role.

“I think I had a willingness to take my education in a different direction,” Larcombe says over lunch following a

quick tour of the three open­concept offices in his workplace at Trans­ continental Interactive. Larcombe’s quick wit and chatty, easygoing de­ meanour defy the stereotype of the socially awkward technophile.

“The education I received from Ry­ erson was very thorough but too gen­ eral to lead to a specialist job as a mo­ bile software developer. So a lot of that learning I had to do on my own. But [my education] did teach me [how] to teach myself those disciplines. It total­ ly prepared me for educating myself into the specialty I desired.”

Continuing to work in I.T. while at school, Larcombe spent his free time teaching himself the finer points of

building mobile applications until he had considerable coding skills to offer new employers.

“I rewrote my resumé, and after less than a week, though I hadn’t even ap­ plied for any actual positions, eight or nine different recruiters had con­ tacted me,” the self­described per­ fectionist says. “I kind of cherry­ picked. I wanted to be part of an existing development department; I didn’t want to set one up. That’s how I found Vortex.”

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a lot of what i do involves taking existing web services that were already developed for an advertising campaign and reshaping that data for mobile devices. often, first thing, there’ll be a status check-in on how projects are going, for anywhere from half an hour to an hour. then, if i’m developing an active campaign, i usually work with my project manager to confirm that our application development is on track and matches up with our managed project portfolio form, which lays out where i should be at any given point. i go back to my desk and set about frantically and eagerly coding my little heart out so i can produce something that a) fits my goals and b) satisfies me.

Sometimes i write something that meets my goals but doesn’t satisfy my desire to do it in the most elegant way. i alternate between implementing visual elements and a functional code base that makes those visual elements do magic. if i’ve met my goal successfully, you’ll have a fully immersive JH experience.”

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“Software programming and development” is an umbrella term that offers a lot of room for specialization. In general, programmers write, design and integrate computer code for various uses, including internet applications, computer-based games, film and mainframe applications.

Software programmers often get degrees in computer science from universities. However, there are other options, including Sheridan’s computer systems technology - software development and network engineering program, Centennial College’s interactive gaming and George Brown’s game programming diploma. Humber offers a postgraduate certificate in enterprise software development.

IF YOU GO Duration of program: three years for a diploma (Seneca offers a fouryear co-op software development degree), three to four years for a bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Projected earning potential: $42,000 to $89,000 annually. (See interview, page 29.)

Database administrator/ developer

The database administrator’s tasks include but are not limited to working with the user to develop the most effective database for the client, developing data recovery procedures and potentially acting as team leader. People in this line of work are required to know and analyze their clients’ concerns, and to understand the software and hardware required to make systems run smoothly.

In Toronto, computer science degrees are offered at University of Toronto, York and Ryerson.

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On top of knowing the fundamentals of programming for various platforms, a systems analyst has learned problem-solving skills related to issues in security, e-commerce, account management and internet protocols. Some people who study systems technology go on to jobs in multi-player gaming administration, data communications and security.

Along with general programs offered at Sheridan, Seneca, Humber, Durham and Centennial Colleges, there are opportunities to specialize in this field. Sheridan offers a unique bachelor of applied information sciences that centres on information systems security, which in turn focuses on making the internet a secure place for its users and their information. George Brown offers a postgraduate degree in information systems business analysis.

Tuition ranges from $3,400 to $9,200 annually, and increases for postgraduate studies.

Currently in Ontario, most technology fields are considered fair in terms of employment potential.

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IF YOU GO Duration of program: two years for a diploma, three years for a bachelor of applied information sciences degree, three years for a bachelor of science Projected earning potential: $48,000 to $69,000 annually for analysts, up to $92,000 annually for security consultants.

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I.T. guy takes it to the next level department. Currently, he’s the only person at the company creating smartphone applications for marketing and branding campaigns. One of Larcombe’s recent projects was picked as iTunes Canada’s App Of The Week.

“We have real difficulty in our company even finding mobile developers, because it’s such a brand new skill set,” he says. “Some of the studios used to develop mobile app have only been around for a year or two, so it’s really hard to find expert-level developers. There’s less competition for these jobs: so many companies are investing in mobile strategies and so few people are developing them.”

While Larcombe is currently at the forefront of interactive technology, he knows that just because he’s out of school, his education isn’t over.

“These technologies are changing so quickly that although my skill set’s relevant now, in a year and a half, if I don’t work to evolve, I won’t be relevant.” 3

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spokesperson for the tool, which he used to turn in a very musical and smooth set.

The technology is so new that it wasn’t always clear what the knob-twiddling and button-pushing was actually accomplishing, but Milligan certainly kept himself busy up there. The set may have been a bit too smooth and controlled, inspiring more gentle headnodding than sweaty dance floor action.

To be fair, the mellow vibes likely had just as much to do with its being a Thursday night, not to mention that those in the Toronto minimal techno scene aren’t exactly a bunch of 21-year-olds any BENJAMIN BOLES more.

There’s always a risk involved when a solo bedroom artist puts together a live group; music created in isolation isn’t always suited to the full-band treatment. But Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum and his hired guns had the instrumental chemistry to recreate the jangly, swirling guitar/keys interplay on Tatum’s UK-pop-worshipping debut.

However, being able to handle the day-to-day grind of touring is also required, and unfortunately, Wild Nothing just couldn’t do that. Already exasperated by tour bus issues, the band noticeably sulked through their set, especially after feedback squall forced them to restart one song three times. Without any banter to diffuse the tension, the crowd turned restless and the set never fully recovered.

Opening band Abe Vigoda seemed happier to be there, even if their music was considerably darker. Once jerky experimental punks, the L.A. band now use that energy to attack gothy synth RICHARD TRAPUNSKI rock.

WINTERFOLK BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL, various venues on the Danforth, February 17 to 21. Rating: NNN

Folk music’s its own world, so it seems appropriate that this annual winter festival sets up camp east of Yonge, where roots music fans and musicians crisscross the Danforth through wind and snow. A multi-generational, volunteer-driven, pay-what-you-can affair, Winterfolk offers up-and-comers like a cappella duo the Blackest Crow the opportunity to play alongside veterans like Mose Scarlett, Melwood Cutlery and David Essig.

The fest tried something edgy (by folk standards) this year with Brass Roots: Big Bands For Your Buck, a ticketed event at Eastminster United Church. It’s a shame that more of Winterfolk’s regulars didn’t make the three-block trek from the Black Swan to take in some of the best roots rock Toronto has to offer.

Openers Jack Marks and the Lost Wages played a great set, including Michigan Love, Sweet Patricia and New Girl Now (harmonica stood in for the horns) from the recent Lost Wages release.

Cousins-fronted quintessentially Canadian act the Warped 45s impressed with a warm, cohesive showcase highlighting their musi-

JEFF MILLIGAN at the Drake Hotel Underground, Thursday, February 17. Rating: NNN

Toronto techno veteran Jeff Milligan is based mostly in Berlin now, where he’s hooked himself up with music performance and production software company Ableton. He made it back to town this week to promote and demonstrate The Bridge, which is Ableton’s new program put out in partnership with popular digital DJ system Serato.

The Bridge allows users to treat live electronic elements like records, bridging the gap between producing, performing and DJing.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week cianship, working-class experiences and catchy choruses. Freeman Dre and the Kitchen Party sprawled across the stage like a travelling Parkdale carnival, with Michael Louis Johnson providing smoky trumpet solos from the dais. Finally, 11-piece Afrobeat closers Minotaurs joyfully rocked, inspiring at least a few people to get up and dance.

The venue seemed to move the road-hardened musicians to an unusual intimacy: Marks talked about his time in Princess Margaret Hospital; Dave McEathron (Warped 45s) joked about his mom’s sleepy Unitarian Church congregation; Andre Flak referenced his Catholic upbringing; and Nathan Lawr got the crowd to holler some enthusiastic amens.

Meanwhile, Winterfolk proper raged on, with good crowds at the Black Swan, Mambo Lounge, Dora Keogh and Terri O’s. I caught some great moments, including Collette Savard’s timeless vocals and zither at the Songwriters Unite showcase, Joanne Crabtree and Margaret Stowe having a great time playing the blues together, and Eve Goldberg’s Watermelon Sorbet (the intro to Richardson’s Roundup for six years).

Other highlights were Rosemary Phelan’s intimate Story Behind The Song workshop in the basement of Danforth Baptist Church, kids dancing in a circle at the end of Nonie Crete’s Dora Keogh set, Tannis Slimmon’s gospel singalong, Betty Supple’s The Moon, and funky/fun roots pop group the Donefors.

I thought it was a typo, but Parkdale’s Saturday Saints proved me wrong when they threw Armenian folk music into their usual Appalachian-inspired repertoire. Finally, Erin Hill (in town performing in South Pacific) and Her Psychedelic Harp went completely over the top with sci-fi songs that would fit right into 70s musical SARAH GREENE theatre.

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Motörhead HARD ROCK

Lemmy wishes he’d become popular while he was young enough to enjoy the spoils By JOANNE HUFFA MOTÖRHEAD at Kool Haus (1 Front East), Saturday (February 26), 8 pm. $40. TM.

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Lemmy, the renegade singer and bassist for legendary punk ’n’ roll trio Motörhead, is reviled and revered in equal parts. On the one hand, he’s a collector of Nazi memorabilia (which he brushes off as appreciation for the design aesthetic).

He’s also funny and quick to cut the crap and put things in perspective. On the other, he’s spent the past 40 years making uncompromising music that has never pandered to fads.

“You should never interfere with the quality of something just to get it out quick,” says Lemmy, over the phone from a Chicago hotel room. “That’s a great failing of today’s world. A lot of people like to get things done right now or yesterday so you don’t have a glitch in the sales record or whatever it is. But it’s not worth hurrying up. It’s not worth going off half-done.”

At 66, Lemmy remains the man in black, his long hair and mutton chops completing his famed cowboy-biker look. Along with his fondness for early rock ’n’ roll, he’s known for appreciating booze, amphetamines (“Motorhead” is British slang for a “speed freak”) and women, not necessarily in that order. But while his image embodies rock rebellion, when he speaks he sounds tired and, well, gentle.

“Until I came to live here,” he says, referring to his home in L.A., “we were unknown. We were a definite cult-following thing, which basically means that no one is buying your albums.

“A lot of people have this preconception of L.A. as full of crooks and liars and shit like that, but it’s not, you know. There are phony assholes everywhere – you just get used to the local

ones. At least in California they’re easier to spot, because you can hear them coming a quarter-mile away. They’re always talking the loudest.”

After 35 years fronting Motörhead (following his dismissal from Hawkwind after being detained at the Canadian border for drug possession), Lemmy may be more popular than ever. He’s the subject of the documentary Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son Of A Bitch, and the band has a new album, The Wörld Is Yours.

“It’s nice to be popular; I’m not gonna say it’s not, you know. But now I’m too old to enjoy it,” he says. “There was a time when I would’ve given them girls a run for their money, but you get to 60 and that slips away a little bit. It’s not slipped away altogether, believe me, but it doesn’t assume the importance it did when you’re 25. You never think anything’s gonna fade away until it’s gone and you think, ‘Shit, what’s happened to that?’”

Those who have read Lemmy’s entertaining autobiography, White Line Fever, or paid attention to his lyrics will know that the never-married singer has enjoyed the company of many women. However, the man who once sang about making love to mountain lions is circumspect about his sexual reputation.

“I’m in love with all the women I’ve ever been with, or else I wouldn’t have been with them. That’s why I don’t kiss and tell. I think that’s a terrible thing.

Having sex is really personal between the two of you; it should never be talked about with anybody else. It should not even arise.”

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Smith Westerns PoP

The young Chicago buzz band graduate from the all-ages scene and strike gold with their stripped-down glam rock revisionism By BENJAMIN BOLES smith westerns with unknown mortal orchestra at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Monday (February 28). $10-$12. HS, RT, SS.

Smith Westerns can relate to the plight of Toronto’s all-ages scene (see cover story, page 46). The young Chicago rockers are just barely legal to play bars in Ontario, but in the U.S. they’re still up against the same issues as local underage bands, even though their buzz-band status makes things a bit easier.

“A lot of our fans are kids our own age, and it totally sucks when they can’t get into the shows,” complains 21-year-old lead vocalist Cullen Omori as their tour van heads toward Vancouver.

“People think house party shows are raw and happening, but if you care about the music, you want to see it presented right in a real venue.

“In Chicago there were some allages venues, but the people who ran them would rip people off, not pay the bands very much and just do a shitty job overall.”

Despite their youth, Smith Westerns are already tour veterans. Their newest album, Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum), has significantly raised their profile, building on their debut’s T-Rex vibes by leaving behind their lo-fi beginnings for a lusher, cleaner sound. They’ve enjoyed underground buzz for a while, but this record’s breaking them to crowds beyond the garage rock scene that originally embraced them.

“It’s really cool to come back to rooms we played a year ago to only 40 people that we’re now selling out. All around it’s a better time now that we’re more popular. We still don’t have groupies, but we get around and we party.”

One lesson young bands should take from their success story is that going out on the road is still the best way to build a

following. Sure, the internet has made it possible to get famous without leaving your house, but that’s no substitute for proving yourself live.

“We were trying really hard in Chicago but were still mainly playing for our friends. We got tired of that and wanted to see what other cities had to offer. It really wasn’t until we started touring outside Chicago that we started getting recognized there.”

That’s not just a Chicago thing.

Dozens of Toronto’s biggest acts tell similar stories of making it elsewhere before getting taken seriously back home. Nevertheless, Omori finds our city particularly welcoming, and not just because of the lower drinking age.

“Toronto is actually one of our favourite places in the world to play. I really love it there. Everyone seems really cool and into the music.”

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Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), tonight (Thursday, February 24) Anthemic power folk outta St. John’s.

L.I.V.E. Hip-Hop Festival Ryerson Student Campus Centre 6:30 to 9 pm. urbanhiphopunion.com. March 4.

STEERS & QUEERS GAY OLE OPRY

w/ Gentleman Regina, Boylesque T.O., Fay Slift, DJs Sigourney Beaver, Joe Blow Dakota (249 Ossington), tonight (Thursday, February 24) Campy queer cowboy variety show.

TENNIS, THE D’ARCYS, HOLIDAY SHORES

Horseshoe (368 Queen West), Friday (February 25) Hot beach pop husband-and-wife duo.

MOTORHEAD, CLUTCH, VALIENT THORR

Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Saturday (February 26) See preview, page 36.

ASOBI SEKSU, BRAHMS

Horseshoe (368 Queen West), Sunday (February 27) See preview, page 40.

SMITH WESTERNS, UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

THURSDAY MARCH 17

TRAVIE McCOY

Horseshoe (368 Queen West), Monday (February 28) See preview, page 37.

W/ DONNIS, BLACK CARDS (PETE WENTZ’S NEW BAND), XV & BAD RABBITS

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JULIE DOIRON, FOND OF TIGERS Junofest

SATURDAY MARCH 26 W/ DJ PETE ROCK

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JunoFest El Mocambo doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 26.

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Hungarian Celtic Punk St Paddy’s Day Lee’s Palace $20. TW. March 17.

w/ Tokyo Police Club, Gord Downie & the Country of Miracles, the Acorn Mod Club (722 College), Tuesday (March 1) Independent bands compete for big cash prizes.

ALL AGES

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Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 4.

El Mocambo doors 9 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. April 9.

ROYAL BANGS

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HUNX & HIS PUNX

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SCALA & KOLACNY BROTHERS CHOIR

Opera House doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. April 30.

TAME IMPALA, YUCK

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TM. May 1.

RAMMSTEIN

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THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT Opera House doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TW. May 13.

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Dum Dum Girls Since appearing on NOW’s cover last year, buzz-saw bubble gum queens Dum Dum Girls have been touring constantly and building a strong following. They were already an amazing live act, so we’re looking forward to

hearing how their many months on the road have tightened things up even more. If their buzz keeps growing at this rate, this might be your last chance to see them in such an intimate venue.

At the El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Saturday (February 26), doors 9 pm. $13.50 advance. HS, RT, SS.

Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 18.

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How to find a listing

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All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, February 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles 9:30 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series Barnburner, Monster Truck, the Video Dead, DJ Cactus.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Jim Armstrong & The Sonic Deli Band.

THE CENTRAL Thirsty Thursdays Dale Luarca, Jaclyn Van Happen, Kai & Steve Luxton 9 pm.

CLINTON’S CD release party Adam Jesin, Little Black Dress (rock).

CROWN & TIGER Tiger Bar Groove Persian Rugs, New Teeth, Big City Nights, Sleepy Mean, Gnar Tooth Shotgun Habit doors 9 pm.

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DAKOTA TAVERN Steers & Queers Gay Ole Opry Gentleman Regina, Boylesque T.O., Fay Slift, DJs Sigourney Beaver, Joe Blow.5 DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Iguana New Music Night (rock) doors 7 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Atomic Tom, Fire X Fire (alt rock) doors 9 pm.

THE GARRISON Thank You, Hybrid Moments, New Feelings, Thesis Sahib 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Arthur Renwick 8 pm.

THE GREAT HALL Dodger, Derbert Plaza, Macro Fiesta (rock) doors 8:30 pm.

THE HIDEOUT Fourlines, Unanimous Maybe 9:30 pm.

LAMBADINA Benefit For The Ride To Conquer Cancer Wild Currents 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Hey Rosetta!, Gramercy Riffs doors 9 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER James Clark Institute (pop/twang).

MOD CLUB Benefit for the family of Sgt Ryan Russell Black Star Whiskey.

OPERA HOUSE Parkway Drive, Set Your Goals, the Ghost Inside, the Warriors doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

THE PAINTED LADY Picturesound (R&R) 9 pm.

LA PERLA Soft Focus, DJ Wilkins.

RANCHO RELAXO Katlina Wheeler, Fleece Elves, South of Bloor, the Shady Bails 9 pm.

RIVOLI BACK ROOM The Beat Lounge: Hip-Hop Producer Showcase doors 9 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Starship Experience, Slightly Left, Sunrise Oh Sunrise, Hatch 8 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Alpha Couple, Fin, High Park, 7777777 Life Support doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL Acoustic Show Lukas Rossi 8 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Jon Brooks & Greg Quill (folk).

CAMERON HOUSE John Showman & Chris Coole 6 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Greg Cockerill (folk rock/ American/roots) 10 pm.

C’EST WHAT Amanda LeBlanc 9:30 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFÉ The Infinity Intention w/ Laura Aidanblaise, Jack Walker.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR David Wood-

head’s Confabulation Cedric Smith, Anne Lindsay, Rich Greenspoon, Doug Wilde, David Woodhead 8 pm.

HORSESHOE The Head & the Heart, Wilderness of Manitoba, the Treasures (indie folk) doors 8:30 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Duke Robillard 8:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Salsa Heat Fundraiser For Progress Place 9 pm.

MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, Eric Fefferman, Kevin Vienneau, Alec Fraser, Danny Lockwood 9 pm.

PRESS CLUB Brody Dakin (folk rock).

SLACK’S Elana Harte, Sarah Smith (folk pop) 8 pm.

STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Mary Lynn Higgins Youth Fund’s Pub Night Cara Matthews, Thursday Night Jam’ (blues/jazz) 7 pm.

TEN FEET TALL Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage: Celebration of Gary’s 22,000th Day 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Anne Louise Genest 10 pm.

UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots) 9 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CHALKERS PUB John Abercrombie, Don Thompson (guitar, bass, piano) 8 to 11 pm.

CHINA HOUSE Dave Young Quartet w/ Robi Botos, Reg Schwager, Terry Clarke.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Halfbeat Mishap (jazz) 10 pm.

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

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

Suites For Solo Cello Winona Zelenka noon.

GATE 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm.

GLENN GOULD STUDIO Bass & Voice George Koller & Julie Michels 8 pm.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Mark McDonald (pipe organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm.

PAUL HAHN & CO LTD Parker Abbott Piano Duo (jazz).

REX Morgan Childs 6:30 pm.

REX N.O.J.O. Big Band 9:30 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL The Rite Of Spring Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Les Percussions de Strasbourg 8 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Sketchpad Simeon

Abbott, Joe Sorbara, Nicole Rampersaud 8 pm.

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T.O. MUSIC NOTES

See nowtoronto.com/daily/music for more music news and expanded versions of these stories.

Karaoke kool Four months ago, the Henhouse (1532 Dundas West) became the latest west- end drinking establishment to launch a karaoke night, but

with a campy twist. Every second Tuesday, you might find bartender Vanessa Dunn donning, say, a white feathered swan dress and walldancing provocatively while singing Björk’s It’s Oh So

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

Friday, February 25

(90s indie rock) 10 pm.

CENTURY ROOM Fam Glam Thursday DJ Crunch (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY Remix Dance Party DJ Noble (electro) 10 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

MAISON MERCER The Immaculate Jed Dadson.

THE OSSINGTON More Times (hip-hop/soul).

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE deejayscoots (roots/ rock/reggae/hip-hop/soul/R&B/disco/electro/funk) 9 pm.

VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 10 pm.

XS NIGHTCLUB DJ Couture, DJ Walter Vice 10 pm.

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CAMP 4 Switched On DJs Jaime Sin, Pammm

Quiet. Dressing up and getting down is strongly encouraged.

Veteran karaoke host Shawn Meunier officiates. His songselection list hovers around the 27,000 mark and includes 400

BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series C’mon, Biblical, Brooklyn Fletcher, DJ Vania.

BREAD & CIRCUS Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Lemon Bucket Orekestra (vagabond street romance gypsy party).

THE CENTRAL Jilted Lovers Club (indie/pop/ rock) 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Aria Tesolin 7 to 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Music For Education The Wheel Wells, James Arthurs, Mel Goldman doors 7:30 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Rockin’ for Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm.

THE HIDEOUT The One-look Donnybrook, the Beggars (indie/alt-rock) 9 pm.

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newly added pop and rock hits such as Florence and the Machine’s Dog Days Are Over, Mumford & Sons’ The Cave and Cee-Lo Green’s Fuck You. But it’s Dunn’s uncanny ability to capture the likeness of

OAK CAFE EP release Betty Burke, Jonas & Sylvie (rock) 10 pm. ñHOLY HORSESHOE Tennis, the D’Arcys, Holiday Shores doors 9 pm. ñ LEE’S PALACE The Ultimate MC Battle.

MASSEY HALL David Gray doors 7 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Growling Woods.

MONARCHS PUB Classic Rock Fridays Michael

Danckert, Kevin Adamson, Danny Lockwood 7 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Deicide, Belphegor, Blackguard, Neuraxis, Pathology.

LA PERLA Dirty Maria (Latin rock).

RAINBOW PALACE CD Release Party The Soupcans, Tropics, Induced Labour, Man Made Hill doors 9 pm.

RIVOLI Lovely Killbots, Nightbox, Foxes in Fiction 9 pm.

gay icons Mariah Carey and Cher that holds the biggest appeal. She’s a tireless cheerleader for each singer, providing encouragement or busting video-vixen backup moves where appropriate.

“My experience with karaoke is that it is taken too seriously,” says Dunn. “At the Henhouse we welcome the shitty, the fabulous, the flamboyant.

No judgment, just Hen love.”

KEVIN RITCHIE

ROCKPILE CD release Cardinal Chase.

SOUND ACADEMY The Everything To Do With

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR The Vandaleys (folk/

STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Steam Whistle UNSIGNED New Country Rehab, the ñ Coppertone, Cowlick doors 8 pm.

Joaquin Nunex Hidalgo, Eddie Bullen 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFÉ Piano Night Jeff Alan Greenway, Bryce Kulak, Tiger Lil (singer/songwriters) 9 pm.

GALLERY 345 Mel M’rabet Trio (Arabic-Andalusian music, jazz, blues) 8 pm.

BGLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Black History Month Kae Sun (reggae/soul/pop/hiphop) 7 to 10 pm.

BGLENN GOULD STUDIO Okavango (African orchestra) 8 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Coco Love Alcorn, Chloe Albert 8:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Salsa Friday Cache, DJ Gio, Marsha Lee. continued on page 40 œ

Fred Show doors 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Kate Rogers (pop/

rock/folk) 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL CD Release Engine 8 pm.

VELVET UNDERGROUND Ashley, the Castro, Sky of Sound 8 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS The New Mynah Birds, Nicole Dunn (blues).

ASPETTA CAFFE Pretty Vicories, Panorama, Stephanie Bosch 8 pm.

CADILLAC LOUNGE The Kensington Hillbillies.

rock) 9:30 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Toronto to Havana Safari

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Roy Thomson hall Ladysmith Black Mambazo 8 pm. ñ silveR DollaR Dildoniks, Elvyn, Union Duke, the Dress Whites 9 pm.

TRane sTuDio The Yiddish Swingtet 8 pm.

TRanzac Tiki Room Anhai (bluegrass/old-

time) 9 pm.

TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Ryan Driver Quar-

tet 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

ASPECTS OF OSCAR: OSCAR SWINGS featuring the Monty Alexander Trio, Russell Malone, Houston Person, Hassan JJ Wiggins Shakur, and Winard Harper Sat. Mar. 5, 2011 8:00pm Koerner Hall A celebration of Oscar Peterson at his swingin’est.

chalkeRs Pub John Abercrombie, Don Thompson (guitar, bass, piano) 7 to 10 pm. enoch TuRneR schoolhouse Masque Of Irony Cabaret Benjamin Butterfield, Peter Dala, Larry Beckwith, Scott Irvine 8 pm.

GaTe 403 Amy Noubarian Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

GaTe 403 Real Time Jazz Ensemble 9 pm. olD mill inn Fridays To Sing About David Statham Trio w/ Joe Sealy, Paul Novotny 7:30 pm.

Rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Rex Ted Warren Trio 6:30 pm.

Rex Dave Young Octet 9:30 pm.

Royal conseRvaToRy of music koeRneR hall Anne Sofie von Otter, Brad Mehldau 8 pm.

scaRleTT heiGhTs enTRePReneuRial acaDemy Russian Masters Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm.

TRanzac The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

c’esT WhaT DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 9

pm.

clinTon’s Dance Armstrong. cReWs/TanGo zone Club Lite DJ Relentless.5 cReWs/TanGo TanGos DJ Roxanne Hector.5 DisGRacelanD A Fistful Of Metal DJ Miss Barbrafisch (extreme metal) 9:30 pm.

Double Deuce saloon Double Funk Friday DJs Public Relations, M-Chan (funk/soul/jazzfunk/disco/breaks).

DRake hoTel unDeRGRounD Itzsoweezee Tom Wreck, Demiggs doors 11 pm.

DRake hoTel lounGe DJ Chris Briscoe doors 10 pm. fly Dance Camp Megahits! DJ Mark Falco 10 pm.5 fooTWoRk Deko-Ze Party Bash doors 10 pm. fox & fiDDle Wellesley Fiesta Friday DJ ShaqT (top 40/house/salsa).

GooDhanDy’s Liberation DJs Nik Red, Craig Dominic, Twysted doors 9:30 pm.5 GuveRnmenT caThouse 2000 Til DJ P Plus, DJ Smartiez, Sweet Touch Foundation, DJ Riccachet, Thera-P doors 10 pm. insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Marty McFly, Parro (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 Fridays Autoerotique.

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naco GalleRy cafe Gayfinity DJs Leila Pee,

Alex McClelland (dancehall/disco/house/gay beats).5 The ossinGTon Ministry Of Bottom End DJ Coolin C (deep dance).

The PainTeD laDy DJ Phantastik & Honey B Hind (hip-hop/ reggae/old school) 10 pm.

PaRTs & labouR Transmission DJs Scott Wade, Scott Waring (Britpop/punk) 10 pm.

RasPuTin voDka baR El Niño Mr Tunes, DJ Wiseman 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool lounGe DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro) 10 pm. continued on page 44 œ

ACOUSTIC AFRICA featuring Habib Koité, Oliver Mtukudzi, and Afel Bocoum Sun. Mar. 6, 2011 8:00pm Koerner Hall An exhilarating musical journey through the richness of African guitar traditions.

Presented in partnership with Small World Music.

Brahms

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! rcmusic.ca 416.408.0208 273 Bloor St. W. (Bloor & Avenue Road) Toronto

Toronto is about to get its first taste of Brahms, a coldwave trio that has Brooklyn abuzz.

Started in 2009 by Cale Parks (best known for his work in Aloha and as the drummer for White Williams), Brahms became a full-fledged band after their inaugural set, opening for Passion Pit, went better than expected.

Soon afterward they recorded four demos whose dark, punchy bass lines, danced-tinged production and oddly catchy choruses made a splash online.

“When we recorded those demos, we’d been a band for two weeks,” says Parks.

“They started circulating and became something bigger than we ever planned.”

They’re now prepping to release a 7-inch featuring new songs Add It Up and Repeat It, and they’ve taken a DIY approach. Besides handling the recording and artwork, they compiled tour footage shot on their iPhones into a video for Repeat It. Once their current tour ends in late March, the busy band heads into the studio to make a full-length. Parks says they’ve written and demoed over 30 songs in the past year.

“It’s going to be deeper and darker. It won’t be full of bangers like a Hot Chip record that’s all about getting drunk and dancing. It’ll be about getting drunk, thinking about things and then maybe dancing.”

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Mars’s Jackson Beyer plays to a rowdy capacity crowd (see photos, left) at Bread & Circus, February 17.

The ToronTo All-Ages scene hAs no home These dAys. Are we Turning our bAcks on The nexT generATion of homegrown bAnds?

By carla gillis Photos by ZacH slOOTsKY

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n a recent wintry saturday afternoon, in an almost pitch-black base-

ment beneath a Kensington Market vintage store, five young guys and one girl sweat, smile and spaz their way through a set of twisted soul rock. The wiry singer – Nicholas Doubleyou – yelps and hops and, in between songs, gets help tuning his guitar from bandmate Brock Dale, who can play saxophone and clarinet at the same time. A Chinese radio station loudly hums through an amplifier.

Only the dimmest light trickles from the stage, but once your eyes adjust to the darkness, the shadowy outlines of about 30 teenagers become visible.

Some dance, others sit cross-legged; all intently take in the performance. It’s an all-ages show in Toronto, and that’s a rare occurrence these days.

“There aren’t very many,” says 16-year-old Abbey Gleason once the Kapisanan Philippine Centre becomes quiet enough to talk. “Except for at Sound Academy, which is in the middle of nowhere.”

“And it’s really expensive and corporate,” adds her friend Abbey Jackson, also 16.

They mention the Drake, the Gladstone and the Horseshoe as places where they’d love to see shows. “But I guess it’s not worth it for venues that size if nobody’s drinking,” Gleason laments. “The only hope for underagers is getting fake IDs.” To my surprise, Gleason brings up the awesomeness of the Pavilion, a long-running all-ages venue in Halifax, where her stepfather lives and where I grew up. Prior to the Pavilion, we had Café Ole, another long-running dedicated space for teens and their bands. Only when I moved to Toronto did I realize how lucky I was.

Why can’t a city of 2.7 million sustain an all-ages venue when a city of less than 400,000 can?

Well, Toronto did until last year. That’s when the Big Bop, the hulking purple building at the corner of Bathurst and Queen, shut its doors to make way for a furniture store.

On many nights since 1996, two of its three levels, namely the Kathedral and Reverb, held punk, rave and metal all-ages events. Adrift Clubhouse, a now-defunct indoor skate park on Spadina, held secret shows and DJ gigs for parts of 2008 and 09, hosting bands like No Age and Cancer Bats. In the late 90s, Who’s Emma, a punk collective and volunteer-run book and record store, held all-ages shows in its tiny Kensington locale.

So what’s left? Sprinklings of all-ages shows at the Shop at Parts & Labour, Sneaky Dee’s, the Opera House, Velvet Underground, Poor Alex, Bread & Circus. There’s an alternative space, Siesta Nouveaux on Sherbourne, as well as random warehouses, someone’s Chinatown garage, secret outdoor locales where kids can hook up a generator and go nuts.

Growing numbers of in-store performances at record shops like Sonic Boom and Soundscapes help fill the void, but there’s nothing steady enough to foster a real community.

Former Big Bop owner Dominic Tassielli is trying to pick up the slack.

He opened the all-ages-all-the-time Rockpile last April, but with its classic-rock tribute acts and Etobicoke location, it’s not a desirable or viable option for most downtown kids. It is, however, helpful to young bands, especially with full-time booker Steve Hoeg, who books under S&S Promotions, at the wheel.

“What I’ll do is bring in the big acts and I’ll put young bands behind them,” he explains. “I’ll find out who the young bands really want to play with and bring that band in. Some agents won’t take these little locals.

And if they’re not going to do that, I won’t do the show. If it’s not going to help these kids, what’s the sense in doing it?”

He cites last October’s Gilby Clarke (Guns N’ Roses keyboardist) and upcoming Paul Di’Anno (ex-singer of Iron Maiden) shows as examples.

Young bands playing with their idols, Hoeg says, freak out with glee and continued on page 48 œ

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bands and fans have their say: Daps all-ages, saturDay, February 12 @ Kapisanan philippine arts Centre

By ZACH SLOOTSKY

“It’s important to get young people out to see different HayLey kinds of music.”

“There are a lot of different things for people our age to do, but more people should book CHRistine young bands.”

“I think the scene just needs more shows and promoters giving it a chance.” niCk DoubLeyou

“We don’t play many all-ages shows. We have some youth in our collective (88days.ca), and they can’t alFRanCesCa noCeRa ways get into our shows.”

“The music scene is bar-oriented, so I think bars just need to sell alcohol to minors.” bRenDan DoubLeyou

“I’m really excited about the all-ages scene because I have an eight-month-old.”

LauRa [mother] JosepHine [daughter]

“I’m 19 now, and I always had to sneak into shows. I met April [Aliermo] from Daps Duo when I was 17. The night before, I’d seen Attack in Black at the Horseshoe by sneaking in. Daps is awesome. It used to be just local punk kRisten bands’ shows that were all-ages.”

“I think people like to keep it underground.

I’m from Vancouver. There are a lot of street artists, so it’s more open and accessible to younger crowds. The weather there allows for Li that.”

Colour Connection (band portrait) Seamus (from left), Zach, Sean, Fox, Fleming, Patrick

“I would say it’s vibrant but it’s pretty underground for all-ages. If you don’t have some connection to these shows, you might not know about them. It can lose its aura when more people know, but I’d still like to see a bit Rob more promotion. ”

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“Support for unsigned independent artists is lacking in Toronto. With all-ages shows, you have to rent a venue and you can’t serve alcohol, so it’s hard to make money.” ayo LeiLani

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gain the confidence to keep going. It also builds up their resumés, assisting them to secure outof-town shows and industry buzz.

Hoeg does, however, employ a pay-to-play system at the Rockpile (see sidebar, page 49.).

This was the case at the Big Bop, too, where he also booked shows. Basically, bands are required to sell a certain number of tickets in advance of their gig. That guarantees bodies during the opening slots – Hoeg calls them “friend bases” since young bands are usually too new to have fan bases – and the under-agers get braceleted at the door.

This approach points to the underlying challenge of throwing all-ages shows: how to generate revenue without bar sales. Hoeg says business at the Rockpile is thriving; its tribute acts draw an older suburban beer-drinking crowd (and often their kids), while the young openers bring out friends, hordes of them if they happen to be popular at school or have large families. There’s talk of eventually opening a downtown location.

But not everyone agrees with pay-to-play. Mark Pesci has booked half a dozen all-ages shows at Parkdale’s Parts & Labour since it opened last June.

Shows happen on Sundays and Mondays when the upstairs restaurant is closed. He says he’d never go that route – “there seems to be something underhanded about it” – but he understands why some companies depend on it.

“As a promoter, whether it’s direct pay-to-play or not, I still expect my support acts to draw a certain number of people if they want to continue playing shows. To that extent I understand it.

“Generating revenue is absolutely one of the key problems. I was just at the Best Coast show at the Phoenix, which was a big show like the ones at the Opera House, with about 1,200 people.

The attendance is so high that you can afford to hire extra security, pay the rental fees and whatnot to make it all-ages.

“It’s when you get into the 400-person-andunder attendance levels that [generating revenue] becomes a real issue.”

But Pesci says it’s doable. Currently he’s working with Wrongbar on an all-ages show for April.

It means hiring more security, compensating for the lack of bar sales with ticket sales and convincing the owner of the long-term benefits, which isn’t always easy.

He credits Parts & Labour owner/head chef Matty Matheson for sticking with the idea, even when, as at a recent show, the bar made next to nothing but over 150 people attended. Pesci says his shows are “artist-focused,” attracting people who are there to see bands and not party.

“Club owners and promoters need to understand the necessity of doing all-ages shows. In the long term, these people know about the venue and will continue to frequent it. And once they turn 19 and start drinking, they’ll come see some of our 19-plus shows.”

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If any part of the all-ages scene is thriving, it’s hardcore and punk – genres with a built-in DIY value system. It’s hardcore and punk that Pesci books, as do Greg Benedetto from the Stuck in the City collective and members of bands like School Jerks. Nineteen-yearold Alican Koc drums for Total Trash, one of the scene’s youngest bands. He describes the scene as hard to find but inviting once you do. He was into hardcore for about a year before he discovered it.

“It’s sort of kept that way on purpose,” Koc says, “and that’s a really good thing. It hasn’t been commodified. It still stands as an underground hardcore scene, which is beautiful.”

But sustaining venues, once again, is the chief issue, although in this case the raucous nature of the shows, while thrilling, adds another challenge.

“Things just always mess up,” Koc says. “House shows or shows in someone’s space can be really difficult because often people become frustrated if things get destroyed. Everyone has really good intentions and a lot of respect, but it’s still crazy music and people do crazy things. As a result, we’ve lost a lot of venues.

“Unfortunately, the majority of shows that are happening now are at bars. That’s always a disappointment, because we have good friends who are underage and can’t get in. But at this stage we can’t do too much about it. Fake IDs are pretty much essential in Toronto music right now. The whole 19-plus thing is generally stupid in the first place because there’s drinking at both types of shows. Having a show be 19-plus doesn’t really change anything.”

If there are few options for underage hardcore fans and bands, there are even fewer for those in other genres. Although local promoters (Dan Burke, Lauren Schreiber and Eric Warner come to mind) occasionally organize indie rock and pop shows, Daps Duo is the only one that makes a point of it. April Aliermo and Dan Lee, who play in Hooded Fang and other bands, have thrown six in the last two years, featuring acts, including high school bands, from a wide range of genres.

“Teenagers we knew were saying, ‘We have to sneak into shows to see bands, and we don’t even want to drink,’” Aliermo says. “Dan was like, ‘Oh, that’s too bad. When we were younger you could see a lot of good Toronto bands for, like, $5 bucks and a can of soup.’”

Lee recalls weekend afternoon all-ages shows at Lee’s Palace in the 90s that inspired him to play music. As a Grade 7 student, he got to see Spooky Ruben, Grasshopper, Treble Charger and other big local bands. “They were bananas. Tons of kids would show up, and none of them were drinking or anything. There was lots of moshing.”

Daps is unique for holding low-cost shows in the afternoon, including the one described at

“A STRONG ALL-AGES SCENE IS WHAT THE FUTURE OF THE ARTS SCENE IN A CITY IS BUILT ON.” - club booker Mark Pesci

the start of this article. The early start time makes their shows truly all-ages, bringing out toddlers, young mothers with babies, teenagers, 20-somethings. But, they say, it’s not always easy getting kids or the word out. They’d like to bring in big-name headliners – they tried for GZA when he was in town in 2009 – but expensive guaranteed fees make that near-impossible.

“Nobody’s throwing all-ages shows because there’s no money in it,” Aliermo says.

For Daps, it’s a labour of love. They make nothing off the shows once the bands, venue and sound person are paid, and that prevents them from expanding. They’ve applied for funding through the Ontario Arts Council, but without success. Aliermo was disheartened when she saw the list of funded organizations.

“All the money went to big symphonies and stuff like that.”

Lee likes the idea of a dedicated venue but is pessimistic about its survival chances. “I think it would be cool but I wouldn’t want to do it. It takes too much time. You’d need someone with a lot of patience and longevity.”

“And a way to make money,” Aliermo adds.

“You can’t have a place like that that’s going to make money,” Lee says, “so you have to find someone who’s willing to do it as a passion project – someone who’s in the clouds a little bit, not totally realistic, who’s going to do it and then have it sink. Which is what’s going to happen. But it will spawn something amazing in the process.”

Pesci is similarly daunted. Two summers ago, he and some friends looked into warehouse spaces that could host all-ages shows.

But just coming up with first and last month’s rent was off-putting. “Promoting is a thankless job as it is,” he laughs. “I’m trying to fathom the amount of preparation, determination and work required to get that up and running. You’d almost have to be independently wealthy. Once it was up, I think it could sustain itself.”

So let’s recap. Toronto teens are fortunate to have access to a number of big-name shows at large-capacity venues like Sound Academy, the Phoenix and the Opera House. Unfortunately, those do little to build community, since very few include young local opening acts, prices can be prohibitive, and drinkers are often awkwardly kept from non-drinkers behind roped-off areas.

As Pesci says, it’s a bit of a “faceless enterprise.”

The few promoters willing to throw smaller shows can only do so sporadically and often at a loss. There’s no targeted government funding for all-ages venues and promoters. A dedicated venue would be nice but is a huge time commitment and financial risk. Successful ones tend to be not-for-profit and run by volunteers or collectives, like the legendary 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley or the Ford Plant in Brantford, which closed last October after eight years. Millard’s in Sudbury is thriving because it’s in a kid’s garage, which means zero overhead; Toronto’s exorbitant rents, after all, are a large part of the problem.

So is it worth doing? Clearly not, from a business standpoint. But from a community-building standpoint? That’s a no-brainer.

It goes without saying that fledgling bands evolve into the musicians whose music fills our lives. They carve out the scenes that audiences enjoy for years to come. All-ages shows give teenagers something healthy to engage in, new skills to master, a creative outlet, a chance to develop socially and artistically, a passion for the arts. Some become professional musicians, promoters, sound engineers, talent agents and managers, record store and label owners. Some even go on to win Grammys, as we’ve recently seen. In a nutshell, young people regenerate a city’s creative lifeblood.

“A strong all-ages scene,” says Pesci, “is what the future of the arts scene in a city is built on.

As a promoter, I’ve seen how periods of low allages activity are usually followed by a drought in bands and people attending shows. And even if the creativity is there, we don’t see it or know how to access it.

“Over the last decade I’ve lived in Toronto, the scene has ebbed and flowed, especially on a smaller scale. Right now, with the closing of the Kathedral and other warehouse spaces, it seems dark. But something tells me that by summer, places will be popping up. They always do.”

Back at the Kapisanan Philippine Centre, night is coming on and the venue’s emptying out. Eighteen-year-old Sally Robbins shyly offers me some of her chocolate bar. She’s been to four or five all-ages shows and wishes there were more. I ask her if they inspire her. She doesn’t spend a second considering this.

“Definitely,” she says, emphatically, twisting a strand of her hair. “And not just on a musical level. They inspire me in all areas of my life.”3

Want to play? you’ll have to pay Steve Hoeg, full-time Rockpile booker, formerly of the Big Bop, talks a lot about helping young bands “get over,” i.e., “make it” in the music industry. Six years ago, he started S&S Promotions as a way of helping his teenage son’s band, Futures Past, secure better shows and avoid getting exploited.

Back then, battle-of-the-bands industry showcases were in their heyday, and he saw 15-year-olds having to sign contracts, sell large numbers of tickets to secure decent time slots and get paid nothing.

“It seemed like the way other companies did it, the more tickets you sold the better your chances were for winning the battle. It wasn’t fair. It was more of a money grab than a chance for bands to get the experience they needed to go to the next level.”

Matt Aldred, the 22-year-old guitarist for Modern Superstitions, has seen the underbelly of pay-to-play shows.

“I did it once with a band in high school, and that was enough. There are 10 to 12 bands in one night, and you have to give the promoter a certain amount of money. Then he gives you, say, 20 or 30 tickets that you try to sell to your friends. And they’re expensive, like $10. The length of your set depends on how many you sell.

“You’re just intimidated when you’re 15, 16. You can’t play in bars. You don’t know anybody. What are you going to do? You feel like the only way you can play is at one of these weird pay-to-play-type things. It’s pretty unsavoury.”

These types of shows still exist, though in smaller numbers. Toronto-based Supernova, for example, holds band battles throughout Canada and in parts of the States. While it avoids the term “pay-toplay,” its website openly states that under-19 bands don’t get paid and that those that sell the most tickets (and therefore bring out the biggest crowd) secure the best set times. Prizes vary from city to city, and often include studio time and gear.

Hoeg says he offers an alternative, though he’s still come under fire on message boards for putting Futures Past on most of his bills (they’ve since broken up, but not before a stint on MuchMusic’s DisBAND and opening slots with the Black Crowes, Simple Plan and Hedley) and for his pay-to-play system, which was in place at the Big Bop and continues at the Rockpile.

But he says he’d never get young bands to sign contracts or kick them off a bill if they couldn’t sell enough tickets. And his shows aren’t band battles. He limits bills to about five bands of similar genres and lets them keep the money after the first 20 tickets.

“I go on more of a trust level,” Hoeg explains. “If the bands don’t do the job they’re asked to do, they’re still going to get their time onstage. But when the bigger shows come up, of course I’m going to have to go with the bands that are taking it more seriously.”

Aldred, however, says the best thing kids can do is take a DIY approach: rent a local Legion hall for $100, borrow or rent a P.A., learn how to run the board and then fill the place with your friends.

CG “That’ll be way more fun.”

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New Mynah Birds, Nicole Dunn (mostly blues) 3:30 pm. c’est WHat And the Winner Is... 2 7 pm. cloak & Dagger pub R Mirsky, Brodie Dakin (folk/pop) 9 pm. glaDstone Hotel meloDy bar Bluegrass Sundays Marc Roy & Houndstooth 5 to 8 pm.

HugH’s room Ken Whiteley’s Gospel Matinee Alana Bridgewater, Basia Bulat, David Wall, Ben Whiteley 2 pm.

HugH’s room SHINE! Jim Fay Music Bursary Benefit Oh Susanna, Julian Fauth, the Lonesome Ace Stringband, Chelsee Livingston 7 pm. tHe local Dan Boniferro noon. tHe local Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. tHe local Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. lou DaWg’s Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole. lula lounge Luis Mario Ochoa Cuarteto (Cuban son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm. mitzi’s sister Laura Hubert 5 to 7 pm. naco gallery cafe The Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party punk) 7 pm. tHe painteD laDy Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 9 pm. pogue maHone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. press club The Dynamic Duel Meher & Gord (folk). rebas café Steve Payne, Brian Gladstone (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. tranzac Perpetual Peace Project 7:30 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Michael Laderoute 3 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Marianne Girard 5 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Carl David Onofrio 7:30 pm.

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Duffy’s tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues). emmet ray bar Matt Newton (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Victor Monsivais Trio noon to 3 pm. gate 403 Brownman Akoustic Trio 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 CD Release Circles w/ Kirk MacDonald (jazz) 9 pm.

adhimitri, Chris Malone (violin, guitar) 2 pm. lula lounge The Juno Jazz Concert: MusiCounts benefit Guido Basso, Jane Bunnett, Terry Clarke, Hilario Duran, Pat LaBarbera, Don Thompson, Richard Underhill, Dave Young doors 7 pm. miles naDal Jcc CAMMAC @ The J! Music Workshop: Singing And Vocal Percussion FreePlay Duo, Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell 2 to 4 pm. music gallery Four Seasons One Tree Array Ensemble 8 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Richard Whiteman 7 pm. rex Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm. rex Heavyweights Brass 9:30 pm. royal york rD uniteD cHurcH Four Hands: Song And Dance And More Luba and Ireneus Zuk (piano duo) 3 pm. someWHere tHere stuDio Process Revealed – Voice Project Workshop Christine Duncan (jazz/experimental) 5 pm. st olave’s anglican cHurcH Windermere String Quartet, Derek Conrod (horn) 3 pm. ten feet tall Jazz Matinee Jim Gelcer 3:30 pm. toronto centre for tHe arts Theme & Variations Orchestra Toronto, Sergio Monteiro (piano).

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Dominion on queen Rockabilly Workshop 2 to 4 pm.

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HorsesHoe The Smith Westerns, Unknown Mortal Orchestra doors 8:30 pm.

See preview, page 37. mitzi’s sister Domestic Bliss Mondays Big City Hicks. olD nick M Factor Mondays Keep You Honest, Elana Harte (rock/folk) 7 pm. tHe ossington The Lion’s Den Julion (reggae). press club Here & Now (hip-hop). roc n Doc’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9:30 pm.

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eDWarD JoHnson builDing Walter Hall St Lawrence String Quartet 7:30 pm. emmet ray bar Jonathan Challoner Quartet (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Lara Solnicki, Richard Whiteman, Brendan Davis 9 pm. gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. olD mill inn Sound Of Jazz – Turn Out The Stars: A Tribute To Bill Evans Brian Browne, Robi Botos 8 pm. rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. rex John MacLed’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm.

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bovine sex club 20th Anniversary Series Outbred Inlaws, the Bathurst Queens.

c’est WHat Tanya Philipovich 10 pm.

HorsesHoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nites

Ides of March, Dan Dwoskin 9 pm. moD club The Verge Music Awards Tokyo Police Club, Gord Downie & the Country of Miracles, the Acorn. parts & labour The Beets, Actual Water, Ohmno 10 pm. tHe piston The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. someWHere tHere stuDio Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Eric Chenaux 8 pm, all ages. yelloW griffin Johnny Devil & the Screaming Demons (rock) 10 pm.

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Band, Ellen Carol, Shawn Sage, Glen Hornblast, Peter Verity, Derek Downham 7 pm. cloAk & DAgger PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

DAkotA tAvern Peter Elkas (soul/folk rock). gAte 403 Julian Fauth (blues) 9 pm.

Holy oAk cAfe Lake Forest, Jenny Berkel, Carnival Moon (folk) 9 pm.

HugH’S room Anthony Gomes Blues Band 8:30 pm. olD nick Open Mic Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. roc n Doc’S Marshall Dane (new country/ pop) 9:30 pm.

SlAck’S Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS Colette Savard (folk) 7:30 pm. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS The Slipper Orchestra, Sing Leaf 10 pm.

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Clementine Is My Sunshine, Brendon Gomez, Stephanie Driedger, Toast, Raquel, Jonny Lane 8 pm.

SounD AcADemy INXS, JD Fortune doors 7:30 pm.

SuPermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Lou Cannon, Use As Directed, Lindi Ortega & the Treasures doors 9 pm.

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South Pacific: Art Songs Of New Zealand And BrASSAii Les Nuits DJ Dlux, DJ Undercover 10 Australia Artists of the U of T Faculty of pm.

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Annex Wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416536-0346.

AquilA 347 keele. 416-761-7474.

ASPettA cAffe 207 augusta. 416-725-0693. tHe Avro 750 Queen e. 416-466-3233.

BAck Alley WooDfire BBq & grill 188 augusta. 416-979-5557.

BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. tHe BeAn 388 College. 416-964-9900.

BeAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768.

BeerBiStro 18 king e. 416-861-9872.

BlAck SWAn 154 danforth. 416-469-0537.

BlonDieS 1378 Queen W. Bovine Sex cluB 542 Queen W. 416-5044239.

BrASSAii 461 king W. 416-598-4730.

BreAD & circuS 299 augusta. 416-3363399. cADillAc lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717. cAmeron HouSe 408 Queen W. 416-7030811. cAmP 4 1173 dundas W. tHe centrAl 603 markham. 416-913-4586. centre for inquiry 216 Beverley. 416971-5676. century room 580 king W. 416-2032226. c’eSt WHAt 67 Front e. 416-867-9499. cHAlkerS PuB 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. cHevAl 606 king W. 416-363-4933. cHinA HouSe 925 eglinton W. 416-7819121. clinton’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cloAk & DAgger PuB 394 College. 647436-0228. college Street BAr 574 College. 416-5332417. cornerStone PuB 537 College. 647-4307111. creWS/tAngo 508 Church. 416-972-1662. croWn & tiger 414 College. 416-920-3115.

DAkotA tAvern 249 ossington. 416-8504579.

DAve’S... on St clAir 730 st Clair W. 416-657-3283.

DimitrA’S BiStro 782 st Clair W. DiSgrAcelAnD 965 Bloor W. 647-8685263.

Dominion on queen 500 Queen e. 416368-6893.

DouBle Deuce SAloon 1168 Queen W. 416-537-1313.

DrAke Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-5315042.

Duffy’S tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-6280330. eDWArD JoHnSon BuilDing 80 Queen’s park. 416-978-3744. el mocAmBo 464 spadina. 416-777-1777. emBASSy BAr 223 augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-7924497. enocH turner ScHoolHouSe 106 trinity. 416-863-0010. fly 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426. fomo 270 adelaide W. 416-408-3666. footWork 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. four SeASonS centre for tHe Performing ArtS 145 Queen W. 416-3638231. fox & firkin 51 eglinton e. 416-480-0200. fox & fiDDle WelleSley 27 Wellesley e.

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HArlem 67 richmond e. 416-368-1920.

HeliconiAn HAll 35 Hazelton. 416-9223618.

HenHouSe 1532 dundas W. 416-534-5939. tHe HiDeout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664.

HigHWAy 61 SoutHern BArBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427.

HollyWooD on tHe queenSWAy 1184 Queensway. 416-251-0288.

Holy oAk cAfe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

HorSeSHoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753.

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If this were purely an experimental electronic album, we’d overlook the lack of hooks, but even as such it’s not particularly impressive. To be fair, the unusually high expectations and huge amount of hype can only lead to disappointment. If the artists were an unknown band, we’d call it a promising effort that needs a lot of polishing.

Top track: Lotus Flower BENJAMIN BOLES

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NNNNN ñANNA CALVI

(Domino) Rating: The self-titled album often acts as a musician’s mission statement, a way of saying “here’s what I’m about” and asserting that innate, guiding truth in a musician’s approach. No matter what singer/guitarist Anna Calvi releases in the future, on her impressive debut LP she’s able to convey a lot with seemingly very little.

Her smouldering voice stained with bright red lipstick, Calvi brings maximal drama to her minimalist rock music. En-

tire soundscapes unwind slowly and deliberately from melodies that drift from song to song, drawing the listener deep into a David Lynchian waking state. At times, the album feels less like a collection of songs than an ever-unwinding composition.

Whether howling eerily over a low, rhythmic pulse or riding a huge riff, Calvi’s sensuous presence brings much-needed sexual heat to today’s tepid rock ’n’ roll landscape.

Top track: I’ll Be Your Man Anna Calvi plays Wrongbar March 11.

KEVIN RITCHIE secret weapon has always been the expert drumming of Paul Banwatt, and here he’s given more of a chance to shine. And the band’s emphasis on catchy hooks strengthens their populist appeal.

Top track: Tornado 87 The Rural Alberta Advantage play the Phoenix April 29.

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Departing (Paper Bag) Rating: The Rural Alberta Advantage rode earnest lyrics and melodic folk rock to breakout success on their debut. The hometown heroes’ long-awaited follow-up repeats that formula, but with the added confiRADIOHEAD The King Of Limbs (independence of years of sold-out shows and dent) Rating: NN packed-venue singalongs.

You might be disappointed the first time They’re definitely hitting the same you hear Radiohead’s newest album, but beats as they did in their debut. The it does improve on repeated listens. It still Breakup, for instance, sets Nils Edenloff’s feels unfinished and unfocused, as flawed nostalgic narrative of heartbreak in the as it is forward-thinking. Had this been Prairies against quiet keys and busy perpresented as a free download of a work in cussion, much like Don’t Haunt This Place progress, we’d be much more generous, on Hometowns. Muscle Relaxants, on the but since they’re calling this a proper alother hand, repeats The Dethbridge In bum and charging money for it, we have Lethbridge’s full-speed-ahead mix of to judge it as such. overextended boy-next-door vocals and They have some reasonably good ideas, vigorously strummed acoustic guitar. bringing together Afrobeat rhythms, leftThe similarities might lead some to call field electronics, post-rock repetition and it a sophomore slump, but Departing is 1 2/22/11 experimental Unfortunately, Ad_Now_1-5 180211.ai 1:01 influences.

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Top track: Your Turn Clear In The Sun Telekinesis plays the Horseshoe March 6.

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The results aren’t a drastic departure from the low-key roots pop sound Sexsmith is known for, but the production definitely has a more commercial feel. You can still get some of that personal feeling from Sexsmith’s voice and songwriting, even if the backing tracks seem a little too manicured and glossy. But, frankly, if you’re already a fan, it’s hard not to miss the tender intimacy of his previous albums. To Rock’s credit, his touches don’t actually get in the way of the songs, and hopefully his tweaks are just what Sexsmith needs to garner the support he deserves.

Top track: Michael And His Dad Ron Sexsmith hits Lee’s Palace April 21. BB TELEKINESIS 12 Desperate Straight Lines (Merge) Rating: NNN Bands in need of a catchy pop sound with a light edge should visit Chris Walla in Portland. The Death Cab for Cutie guitarist and producer can seemingly get this result from any artist he works with, including Michael Benjamin Lerner, aka Telekinesis.

Lerner fled to Berlin for inspiration to write this sophomore effort, holing up in a warehouse, perhaps an attempt to inject some darkness into the cheerful pop displayed on his 2009 Walla-produced debut.

He eventually returned to Walla to make a record as upbeat as its predecessor, even when striving to be as downcast as the Cure (Please Ask For Help). This isn’t necessarily a problem, since songs like Car Crash and Your Turn Clear In The Sun are infectious rock. But redundancy creeps up,

(Fat Possum) Rating: NNNN Don’t look now, but the 90s are back in a big way. Considering that most of the members of Yuck were a year old when Nevermind was released, it would be easy to suggest that the band is inspired more by 90s revival bands than by the era itself.

One listen to their album, however, and it’s clear that they nail the distorted, disaffected 80s-90s slacker aesthetic better than most of their peers.

The British lads have obviously studied their fanzines. There are traces of Pavement, Dinosaur Jr, Teenage Fanclub, Elliott Smith and Sonic Youth all over the album (especially Operation, which maybe cribs from SY’s Teenage Riot a little too hard).

But what sets Yuck apart is their excellent songwriting. It takes hooks to pull off songs like these, even if they’re buried under piles of grunge, and Yuck have hooks in scores.

Top track: Holing Out Yuck play the Phoenix on May 1.

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Dirty Mouth Of The St. Lawrence River (Blocks Recording Club) Rating: Maggie MacDonald is the voice of Betty Burke, a Toronto trio completed by Jo Snyder and Sheila Sampath, who joined following this record’s completion. Anyone who knows MacDonald from previous bands the Barcelona Pavilion and Republic of Safety may be surprised by the quieter, poppy quality of Betty Burke.

But while the music may be sweeter, MacDonald’s deep and resonant voice is unmistakable. And hearing her impart sage advice like “You can’t dress for the weather that will be / you gotta dress for the weather that is” over strummed acoustic guitar is a charming experience.

Painstakingly packaged in a vellum envelope with an accompanying ’zine, this release puts the “independent” back in indie pop.

Top track: You Can’t Wear Suede In The Rain Betty Burke play Holy Oak on Friday (February 25).

JOANNE HUFFA

PETER ELKAS Repeat Offender (New Scotland) Rating: NNN Ex-Local Rabbit Peter Elkas is back with his third solo album after taking a bit of a break after 2007’s Charlie Sexton-produced Wall Of Fire. Evidently he revisited the soul and R&B crates for Repeat Offender, an early rock ’n’ roll love-in record-

ed mostly at home with the help of Ian McGettigan (Thrush Hermit) and out on Joel Plaskett’s boutique New Scotland label.

Elkas’s songs are the dramatic, crooning sort, and he and his band pull off an easy blue-eyed soul with nostalgic hooks, sepia-stained backup vocals and horns.

The tunes veer toward comfortable homogeneity, and would make the perfect iPod soundtrack for long dog walks.

(Makes sense, considering Elkas is a dogwalker in his other life.)

That said, it’s not without surprises.

Tiny Valentine bursts with almost absurd earworm potential; swaggering, screeching sax and staccato piano on Misery shake things up; and soaring vocals make Melody kind of brave.

Top track: Tiny Valentine Peter Elkas plays the Dakota every Tuesday in March (1, 8, 15, 22, 29). SARAH GREENE

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THE GOOD LOVELIES Let The Rain Fall

(independent) Rating: NNN This all-female group is indeed good and lovely, having nailed a formula of oldfashioned dresses, buoyant ditties, spoton three-part harmonies and onstage repartee. Last year they scored a Juno for best roots and traditional group, and fan Stuart McLean has compared them to the Andrews Sisters.

Known for their infectious bluegrassswing sound, the Lovelies have toned things down a notch for Let The Rain Fall, with its mellow songs about lovers and missing home. (They spent nearly half of last year on the road.) But fun is what they do best, like on the piano-and-harmonica stomper Oh, What A Thing, the jazzy Crabbuckit and the exuberant Made For Rain.

It’s cavity-inducingly sweet, and the lyrics and lead vocals leave you wanting some toughness. But perhaps that’s beside the point for a group so well suited to folk festivals and plush theatres.

Top track: Oh, What A Thing The Good Lovelies play the Great Hall on April 2.

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Peter Chin (left) performs a solo and has created a group piece for Chumvan Sodhachivy and four others.

Opening YOU OKAY Peggy Baker Dance Projects and Necessary Angel present a ñARE dance/theatre piece with choreography and

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A firm Chin up Peter Chin stirs the CanAsian mix By GLENN SUMI CANASIAN INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL featuring works by Ziya Azazi, Jocelyne Montpetit, Mi Young Kim, Tribal Crackling Wind/Peter Chin and Bageshree Vaze. To Saturday (February 26) at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). $25-$30. See Dance Listings, this page. 416-973-4000.

it’s hard to pin down peter chin.

His interests range all over the artistic map – he’s a choreographer and dancer, but also a composer, designer and director. And as far as geography goes, you never know where he’ll pop up.

For the past while, he’s made frequent trips to Nicaragua to work on a piece called Fluency. And one of his two pieces for the CanAsian Festival’s 10th anniversary draws on his work in Cambodia, where he’s travelled periodically since completing a research residency in Phnom Penh in 2003.

He created Old And New, Gold And Blue for five Cambodian dancers who have training in their country’s classical dance as well as contemporary techniques.

“They’re in different worlds,” says Chin, who could be talking about himself – he was born in Jamaica and his heritage includes a mix of Chinese, Irish and African.

“It’s about how these dancers embody the opposing currents in their lives. They’re rooted in traditional forms that make them very Cambodian – some of them have even performed for the king in his palace – but at the same time they’ve worked with people like Robert Wilson and others in Europe, the States, Australia and Canada.”

When the dancers performed the piece recently in their native country, they raised eyebrows among traditionalists.

“The old guard was saying the piece

shouldn’t be performed in modern costume, and that it should be made simpler because it wasn’t easy to get the message,” says Chin, who was back home in Toronto at the time.

“Things we might take for granted – mixing up genres and styles – are on the cutting edge over there, and that fascinates me.”

Chin takes even more artistic licence in the solo piece he’s performing, which he says is his fantasy of what Buddhist dance was like on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

“The music is a crazy mashup of Javanese gamelan with West African drumming and Chinese Buddhist hymns,” he says, chuckling. “There are very few records left from that era, so I’m basing this piece on nothing scholarly or academic, just my imagination.”

The third element of Chin’s CanAsian program includes Jeremy Mimnagh’s film about the revival of the arts in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s. It focuses on the tour to Cambodia of Chin’s work Transmission Of The Invisible, which featured, among other things, images of traumatized children.

How did the Cambodians respond to his piece?

“Many artists found it thought-provoking, both poetic and visceral,” he says. “It was harder to read the reaction from the older guard, though.

And a lot of young people don’t even know that history because the war isn’t taught to them.”

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dance by Baker, about time and the transient nature of professional competence. Previews Mar 1-3. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 13, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, previews $15; Mar 6 pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, peggybakerdance.com.

DANCE CUBA Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba presents the all-female ensemble performing a fusion of flamenco, ballet and contemporary dance to Afro-Cuban rhythms. Mar 2 at 8 pm. $40$70. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

LONGER THAN A SHADOW Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects and DanceWorks CoWorks present choreography and performances by Jennifer Dallas and Bienvenue Bazie. Feb 2427, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, Sun pwyc. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. 416-204-1082, kemiprojects.ca.

PACO PENA Rose Theatre presents live flamenco music and dance. Mar 2 at 8 pm. $48-$68. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

SERIES 8:08 presents a choreographic performance workshop featuring Susan Lee/Tracey Norman, Shannon Litzenberger, Marie France

Forcier, Lisa Weiler and Sylvie Bouchard. Feb 26 at 8:08 pm. $10, stu $8. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. series808.ca.

SWAN LAKE Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet presents Tchaikovsky’s fairy-tale ballet.

Opens Mar 1 and runs to Mar 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $60-$225. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-8722262, sonycentre.ca.

YOUTH FESTIVAL OF UKRAINIAN DANCE Ukrainian Dance Festival presents traditional dance and costumes. Feb 27 at 3 pm. $25-$30. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga.

905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

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AIRSHIP Femmes du Feu present an aerial dance show as part of the Rhubarb Festival.

Runs to Feb 27, Thu-Sun 9 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, femmesdufeu.com.

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VAL Harbourfront NextSteps presents pan-Asian dance ranging from traditional to contemporary, featuring Ziya Azazi, Mi Young Kim, Tribal Crackling Wind, Bageshree Vaze and others (see story, this page). 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.

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

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Opening ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Lorraine Kimsa The-

atre for Young People). Puppetry and masks are used in this adaptation of the the novel by Lewis Carroll. Previews Mar 1. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Mar 19, see website for schedule.

$10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca.

BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). A boy leaves boxing for ballet while his family struggles with economic troubles in small-town England. 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 BOYS IN THE BAND by Mart Crowley (Ghost Light Projects). Secrets and anxieties are exposed as a group of gay buddies drink and play games at a party. Opens Mar 1 and runs to Mar 6, Tue and Thu-Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander, Tallulah’s Cabaret. 416-975-8555, ghostlightprojects.com.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK adapted by Wendy Kesselman (Shakespeare in Action). The story of a Jewish girl and her family hiding from the Nazis is adapted for the stage. Previews to Feb 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.

THE DISAPPEARING ACT (Allan Royal). Royal performs his solo show about facets of our personality we’d like to explore or escape. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Mar 6, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, Sun pwyc. Pia Bouman Dance Theatre, 6 Noble. 647-918-4191.

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

Kerry Griffin

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After an eight-year run, the Bad Dog Theatre, the improv comedy institution, wags its tail for the last time this weekend, the victim of escalating rents. But it’s not going out without a final huzzah on Saturday (February 26), featuring a cast of awesome alumni including co-founder Kerry Griffin and stars/teachers Jan Caruana and James Gangl.

For info on the rest of the theatre’s events, see Comedy Listings, this page.

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Caruana: Kerry’s parents telling me they didn’t really birth him.

Gangl: That time the building burned down and we collected all the insurance money.

Griffin: Rob “Bullets” Bartlett, our technical director, so he could bring down the lights in my condo every time I say something funny.

Caruana: The picture of Dr. Doom (Kris Siddiqi) improvising with Ian McIntyre.

Gangl: The hidden safe below the floorboards.

If the walls of the Bad Dog could talk, what would they say?

Griffin: “Doesn’t anybody around here know how to fix drywall properly?”

Caruana: They would examine the abortion issue through three stories set in different eras. Or maybe just tell the Studio 2 blow job story.

Gangl: “I hope this place becomes a strip club.”

The theatre’s final show is being called Hasta La Vista Danforth. What were some alternate titles?

Kerry Griffin: Please Pay Our Rent!

Jan Caruana: Will Mime Drinking A Cup Of Coffee For Food James Gangl: Philanthropists Apply Within.

If the walls of the Bad Dog’s washroom could talk, what would they say?

Griffin: “My god, improvisers are really well endowed!” (This may only apply to the female washroom.)

Caruana: “Please stop peeing on me.”

Gangl: “I hope this place does not become a strip club” (This definitely only applies to the male washroom.)

Funniest memory?

Griffin: Making my parents pay for every show they saw. Birthing me don’t

If you could leave with a physical chunk of the building, what would you take?

The big after-party’s at the Black Swan. Who’ll play Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis?

Griffin: Jan will be Natalie, James will be Mila, and I will play the confused but aroused audience.

Caruana: I will play both parts with puppets.

Gangl: Natalie and Mila have both RSVP’d, so they’ll be playing themselves.

Bad Dog’s next stop: Ossington corridor, Kensington Market or Bloorcourt Village?

Caruana: I was kinda hoping we’d just do shows in my apartment. Anywhere else is too far from my house.

Gangl: The corner of Moneybags Lane and Everyimproviserhasajob Circle.

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Thursday, February 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mike Paterson,

Ryan Wilner and host Nick Carter. To Feb 27, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD DOG THEATRE and Ely Henry present Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, an improvised re-imagining of the story. 8 pm. $10, stu $8. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 33 Supermarket presents comedy w/ Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Mark Debonis and others. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com.

GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class. 9 pm. Pwyc.

70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

RADIO VAULT Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe performing with Warm Summer Hotness and host Martha O’Neill. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. radiovault.ca.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT Second City presents a new production poking fun at the everchanging world we live in. In previews, opens Mar 8. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat late show 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Julie McCullough and Marc ‘Skippy’ Price. To Feb 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $12-$20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $12-$20.

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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”

5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Friday, February 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 24.

BAD DOG THEATRE presents That Friday Show,

a one-act play by BDT students. 7 pm (in Studio #2). Pwyc. Troubadour, competitive musical improv. 8 pm. $12, adv $10. Clara & Tim, an improvised romcom series. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. The Late Late Horror Show, B-movie-inspired improv. 11 pm. $8, stu $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ Athletic Robot (Jason Gemmill, Jorge Moreira, Rhonda Riche).

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

THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW Centre for Inquiry presents atheist-friendly comedy. 8:30 pm. $10, stu $7. 216 Beverley. 416-971-5676, cfiontario.org.

KNOCKOUT COMEDY NIGHT TKO’s Pub presents Joel Buxton, Amanda Day, Jon Kane, JP Hodgkinson, Kevin MacDonald, Sean McKiernan, Winston Spear and host Scott McCrickard. 10 pm. Free. 1600 Danforth. 416-466-1965.

NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv and sketch. 9 pm. Pwyc.

70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SLACKSTOCK VII Black Swan presents stand-up, sketch and improv with hosts Action Slacks.

Doors 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-4690537.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 24.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Darren Rose and Tim Rabnett. To Feb 26, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:45 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Chuck Byrn. To Feb 26, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $20.

5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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Saturday, February 26 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 24.

ADAM BAILEY’S BIRTHDAY XXXTRAVAGANZA Comedy Bar presents music,

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stand-up, sketch comedy, burlesque, clowns and more w/ Jon Blair, Mark Andrada, Veronika Swartz, Megan Liley, host Sketchy the Clown and others. 10 pm. $15. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

DOG THEATRE: OUR LAST HURRAH ON THE DANFORTH! BDT presents ñBAD

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Photo of cast by Bruce Zinger

Comedy Q&A

– Kim Hughes , Eye Weekly

A tale of hustlers, hookers and hired killers from Canada’s best-known playwright.

saint carmen of the main written by michel

tremblay

translated by linda

a canadian stage/national arts centre co-production

gaboriau

directed by peter

hinton

starring the nac english theatre company

On Stage to Mar 5, 2011 bluma appel theatre

st. lawrence centre, 27 front st. e. production sponsor

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Peter.­416-340-7270.

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hELLo MuddA hELLo FAddA hErE I AM AT oh god A BEAr!!!­Hard Luck Bar­presents­comedy­

Theatresports­,­fast­short­form­improv­matches.­8­pm.­$12.­It­Ain’t­Over,­a­show­w/­Ron­Tite,­ Punch­in­the­Box,­Fast­&­Dirty­and­more.­9:30­ pm.­$12.­Hasta­La­Vista,­Danforth,­a­final­tribute/party­to­end­BDT’s­run­at­its­current­address.­11­pm.­$12.­(See­Q&A,­page­55).­138­ Danforth.­416-491-3115,­baddogtheatre.com.

BBILL BELLAMY LIVE­Global­Platinum­ Events­presents­Bellamy­w/­Todd­Rexx,­ Ron­Josol,­Chris­Robinson,­Dana­Alexander­ and­host­Jay­Martin.­8­pm.­$49-$99.­Sony Centre,­1­Front­E.­416-872-2262.

ThIs PArTY’s A rIoT­See­Thu­24.

Yuk Yuk’s VAughAn­See­Fri­25.

Yuk Yuk’s WEsT­See­Fri­25.

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Sunday, February 27 ABsoLuTE CoMEdY­See­Thu­24.

ThE BEnCh­John Candy Box Theatre­presents­

Rose,­John­Hastings,­Gavin­Stephens,­Lianne­ Mauladin,­Nick­Reynoldson,­Anthony­Ciardulli,­ MC­Winston­Spear­and­others.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­ 332­Queen­W.­altdotcomedy­lounge.com.

CoMEdY CABArET­TheComedyDump.com­presents­stand-up­w/­Georgea­Brooks-Hancock,­ Andrew­Evans,­Todd­Van­Allen,­Jackie­Nicholson,­Dave­Paterson,­Robin­Crossman,­host­ Chris­MacLean­and­others.­7:30­pm.­Free.­ Charlotte Room,­19­Charlotte.­416-598-2882. dIrTY BIngo­Zelda’s­presents­a­weekly­game­ with­adult­prizes­w/­hosts­Gloria­Hole­and­ Lena­Over.­8:30­pm.­Free.­692­Yonge.­zeldas.ca.

IMPErIAL CoMEdY­Imperial Pub­presents­ weekly­Pro/Am­comics­w/­host­Eric­Bud.­9:30­ pm.­Pwyc.­54­Dundas­E.­imperialcomedy.com. sAVEd BY ThE JokEs­Fox & Fiddle­presents­ weekly­comedy­w/­hosts­Evan­Desmarais­and­ Chris­Robinson.­8­pm.­Pwyc.­27­Wellesley­E.­ wellesleyfox.com. $#*! MY MAYor sAYs­Second City­presents­ current-events­comedy­about­T.O.­8­pm.­$12.­ 51­Mercer.­416-343-0011,­secondcity.com.

ThE soAPs­The­National­Theatre­of­the­ World­presents­a­weekly­improvised­ soap­opera­w/­Matt­Baram,­Lisa­Brooke­and­ others.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­ thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

WhEEL oF IMProV­John Candy Box Theatre­ presents­competitive­improv.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­70­

upcoming­improvisers­picked­by­the­Second­ City.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­70­Peter.­416-340-7270.

BIg LAughs In LITTLE ITALY­Public­presents­ Adam­Susser,­Jeff­Elliott,­Jackie­Nicholson,­ host­Kris­Bonaparte­and­others.­9­pm.­Free.­ 596­College.­416-539-8890.

LEgEnds oF ZELdA’s­presents­a­weekly­show­ w/­improv­by­the­Eleventh­Commandment­ plus­guests.­8­pm.­$5.­Zelda’s,­692­Yonge.­ zeldas.ca.

BnuBIAn dIsCIPLEs ALL BLACk CoMEdY shoW­Yuk Yuk’s Downtown­presents­

ñ the­monthly­show­w/­Alex­Pavone,­Jazz­Mann,­

Daniel­Woodrow,­Ernie­Vicente,­Patrick­Haye,­ Rodney­Ramsey­and­host­Kenny­Robinson.­ 8:30­pm.­$20.­224­Richmond­W.­yukyuks.com. suddEnLY sundAY­Pantages Martini Bar­presents­a­weekly­comedy­night­w/­hosts­Melissa­Story­and­Jeff­Clark­plus­musical­guests.­9­ pm.­Free.­200­Victoria.­416-362-1777. sundAY nIghT LIVE­The­Sketchersons­ present­new­sketch­every­week­w/­guest­ hosts­and­musical­acts.­9:30­pm.­$8.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­thesketchersons.com.

ThIs PArTY’s A rIoT­See­Thu­24.

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Monday, February 28 ALT.CoMEdY LoungE­Rivoli­presents­Darrin­

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DISTILLERY HISTORIC DISTRICT

“SPOT-ON… PLAYED JUST RIGHT” “RIVETING PRODUCTION” – Globe and Mail

– Eye Weekly

and­campfire­stories­w/­Parker­and­Seville,­ Tim­Gilbert,­Nick­Flanagan,­Andrew­Chapman­ and­2­Man­No­Show.­9­pm.­$5.­812­Dundas­W.­ hardluckbar.com.

IMPATIEnT ThEATrE Co­presents­improv­by­its­ students.­6:30­pm.­Free.­Harold­Night.­8­pm.­ $5.­The­Incubator,­up­and­coming­improv­ teams.­9­pm.­$5.­Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­ 416-238-7337,­impatient.ca. skETChCoMEdYLoungE­Rivoli­presents­ The­Headline­Series­w/­Shoeless,­Deadpan­Powerpoint,­the­Doo­Wops,­Reverse­Oreo,­ Newsdesk­with­Ron­Sparks,­MC­Martha­ O’Neill­and­others.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­332­Queen­W.­ sketchcomedylounge.com. sTAndIng on ThE dAnForTh­Eton House­presents­Gavin­Stephens,­Mike­Cameron,­Daniela­ Saioni,­Jy­Harris,­Dom­Pare,­Rose­Giles,­Rene­ Robichaud­and­host­Jo-Anna­Downey.­9­pm.­ Free.­710­Danforth.­416-466-6161.

ThIs PArTY’s A rIoT­See­Thu­24.

Yuk Yuk’s doWnToWn­presents­the­Humber­ School­of­Comedy­at­7:30­pm,­and­stand-up­ Amateur­Night­at­9:30­pm.­$4.­224­Richmond­ W.­416-967-6425,­yukyuks.com.

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Wednesday, March 2 ABsoLuTE CoMEdY­presents­Pro-Am­night­w/­ Steve­Levine,­Jon­Hyatt,­JP­Hodgkinson,­ Natasha­Henderson,­Sean­McKiernan,­Travis­ Albers­and­host­Lou­Eisen.­8:30­pm.­$6.­2335­ Yonge.­416-486-7700,­absolutecomedy.ca.

ThE CArnEgIE hALL shoW­The­National­ Theatre­of­the­World­presents­a­weekly­ variety­show.­9­pm.­Pwyc.­Bread & Circus,­299­ Augusta.­thecarnegiehallshow.com.

ThE door PrIZE shoW­Zelda’s­presents­a­ weekly­talent­contest­w/­host­Vicki­Licks.­8:30­ pm.­Pwyc.­692­Yonge,­upstairs.­zeldas.ca.

IMPATIEnT ThEATrE Co­presents­improv­by­its­ students.­6:30­pm.­Free.­House­Party,­scenes­ by­ITC­teams.­8­pm.­$10.­Munchausen,­rapidfire­improv­based­on­true­stories.­10­pm.­Free.­ Comedy Bar,­945­Bloor­W.­impatient.ca.

Pourdon ME CoMEdY nIghT­Pour Boy Pub­ presents­a­weekly­show.­10­pm.­Free.­666­ Manning.­647-343-7969,­pourboy.ca.

ThE QuAnTuM QoMEdY shoWQAsE­Double Deuce Saloon­presents­stand-up­w/­Nick­Beaton,­Rob­Bebenek,­Sarah­Donaldson,­Garrett­ Jamieson,­Hunter­Collins,­Evelyn­Reese­and­ host­Linda­Ellis.­9­pm.­Free.­1168­Queen­W.­ 647-349-8245. sPIrITs oPEn MIC­presents­Ron­Sparks,­ Darcy­Michael,­Frank­Spadone,­Allyson­ Smith,­Darryl­Purvis,­Martha­O’Neill,­Samuel­ Yen,­Jill­Knight,­Erin­Rogers­and­host­Jo-Anna­ Downey.­9­pm.­Free.­Spirits Bar & Grill,­642­ Church.­416-967-0001.

ThE sTAnd uP undErdoWn CoMEdY hour­ Underdown Pub­presents­Nick­Flanagan,­Tim­ Gilbert,­Ali­Hassan,­Kenny­Molotov,­Jackie­ Nicholson­and­host­Timothy­Allen.­10:30­pm.­ Free.­263­Gerrard­E.­416-927-0815.

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theatre review

Powerful Place ThE MIddLE PLACE by­Andrew­ Kushnir,­directed­by­Alan­Dilworth­ (Project:­Humanity/Canadian­Stage).­At­ the­Berkeley­Street­Theatre­(26­Berkeley).­ To­March­12.­$22-$49.­416-368-3110.­See­ Continuing,­page­58.­Rating:­nnnn

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If­you­missed­The Middle Place at­ Summer­Works­2009,­now’s­your­ chance­to­catch­Project: Humanity’s­ bold­and­funny­verbatim­project­ filled­with­the­voices­of­people­living­ and­working­in­a­Rexdale­youth­ ­shelter.

In­2007,­writer­and­performer­ ­Andrew Kushnir began­taping­interviews­with­residents­and­caseworkers­ about­how­they­came­to­be­in­the­ shelter,­what­the­experience­was­like­ and­where­they­saw­themselves­in­the­ ­future.­The­responses­run­the­gamut­ from­hilarious­to­heartbreaking.

Kushnir­introduces­a­dynamic­ group­of­characters­who­live­in­this­ societal­middle­place­for­different­ reasons.­Lack­of­support­and­abuse­fit­ in,­but­there­are­no­easy­paths­to­ sympathy­here;­one­of­the­most­ ­riveting­elements­of­the­production­is­ how­the­specific­struggles­are­communicated­with­so­much­humour­and­ warmth.­We’re­never­invited­to­feel­ pity­–­just­to­listen.­At­least­three­

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“A tempest in an Oriental teapot.”

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want­to­go­to­university,­a­few­want­ to­be­actors,­while­another­is­attending­nursing­school.­Many­keep­ the­fact­that­they’re­living­in­a­shelter­ a­secret.

Kushnir­plays­himself,­addressing­ the­other­four­performers­from­the­ balcony­of­the­theatre.­The­talented­ ensemble­–­Akosua Amo-Adem,­ ­Antonio Cayonne,­Jessica Greenberg and­Kevin Walker –­adopt­many­ ­distinct­physical­and­vocal­choices,­ although­there’s­occasionally­some­ confusion­as­to­who’s­who.

Walker­dazzles­as­the­hard-eyed­ Aiden­carefully­telling­Andrew­how­ he­met­his­girlfriend,­but­his­presence­ is­disappointingly­brief.­The­vignettes­ tantalize­but­don’t­fully­satisfy.

Director­Alan Dilworth’s­meticulous­staging­and­Jung-Hye Kim’s­circular­white­platform­further­tighten­ the­focus­on­the­four­performers­in­ the­blackness­of­the­Berkeley­stage.­ Under­Kimberley Purtell’s­luminous­ halo­of­light,­it­offers­a­safe­but­blank­ slate­for­the­young­residents,­who­fill­ it­with­the­drama­of­their­own­lives.

Kushnir­often­reminds­us­that­ we’re­getting­an­edited­selection­of­ characters­who­are­heard­from­very­ briefly.­There’s­no­possibility­of­telling­ any­one­story­fully,­but­the­­montage­ of­articulate­voices­arouses­empathy.

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DOc WUThErGLOOM by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). A travelling exorcist and ñ his ghoulish puppets perform a Grand Gui-

gnol style show. Feb 24-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20.

Secret Venue in Kensington Market, location revealed with purchase. eldritchtheatre.ca.

A hAMbUrGEr IN A PITA by Nina Shenhav (TEATRON Theatre). Tensions arise when two secular Jewish families from different cultures become neighbours in this comedy. Preview Mar 2 at 1 pm. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Mar 13, Tue-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs $19-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-781-5527, teatrontheatre.com.

ThE LONG rED rOAD by Brett C Leonard (Column 13 Actors Company). Two brothers reunite years after a tragic accident led them to different paths. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Mar 12, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $18. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace.

416-504-7529, column13.org.

MASqUE OF IrONy (Toronto Masque Theatre).

This cabaret is based on the songbook of Randy Newman. Feb 25-26 at 8 pm. $15-$30.

Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity. 416410-4561, torontomasquetheatre.com.

MOrE FINE GIrLS by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus).

Three sisters reunite over a family crisis ten years after a party drove them apart (see story online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Previews to Mar 1. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mat). $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

TWELFTh NIGhT; Or WhAT yOU WILL by William Shakespeare (Written on Water Theatre/ Phyzikal Theatre Co). This adaptation focuses on issues relevant to Generation Y. Feb 25-27 at 8 pm. $15. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. tickets@writtenonwatertheatre.com.

LA VOIx hUMAINE by Jean Cocteau (Harbourfront World Stage/Toneelgroep Amsterdam).

This solo show about a desperate phone call between ex-lovers is performed in Dutch with English surtitles. Opens Mar 2 and runs to Mar 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$45. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

WILL’S 7 DEADLy SINS cAFE by Vrenia Ivonoffski (Act II Studio). Scenes from Shakespeare are woven together at a 50s hangout. Feb 24-26, Thu-Fri 7 pm, mats Sat 4 pm, Fri 2 pm. $15.

Ryerson Theatre School, 44 Gerrard E. 416979-5000 ext 6297, ryerson.ca/~act2.

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jects/Necessary Angel). Dancer Peggy ñ Baker and playwright Michael Healey perform a dance/theatre piece about art and aging.

Previews Mar 1-3. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 13, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, previews $15; Mar 6 pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, peggybakerdance.com. brOThEL #9 by Anusree Roy (Factory Theatre). A young woman strives to take control of her life after she is sold to a Calcutta brothel. Previews Feb 26-Mar 2. Opens Mar 3 and runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm (7 pm during previews). $25-$40, previews $15, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

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One-Nighters bAckSTAGE WITh rObErT cUShMAN (Holy

Blossom Temple Stagecraft). The theatre critic talks to Joseph Ziegler and Nancy Palk of Soulpepper Theatre. Mar 2 at 7:30 pm. $15, stu $12.

Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst. 416789-3291 ext 511, hbtstagecraft@gmail.com.

FEMcAb 2011 (Nightwood Theatre). This multi-arts performance cabaret in honour of International Women’s Day features Judith Thompson, Lara Bozabalian, Sandra Battaglini, Julia Aplin and others. Mar 1 at 8 pm. $30. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Brigantine Room. 416-944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net. ... MAkING OThEr PLANS by Geoffrey Tyler (Peacock Productions). Tyler performs his cabaret solo show. Feb 26 at 8:30 pm. $50, stu $35. Labspace Studio, 2A Pape.

647-705-7247, peacockproductions.ca.

LE NOzzE DI FIGArO by WA Mozart (Essential Opera). The wedding opera is performed concert-style in Italian with English text projections. Feb 26 at 7:30 pm. $15. Calvin Presbyterian Church, 26 Delisle. essentialopera.com.

ONE OF A kIND by Yossi Vassa and Shai Ben Attar (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Nephesh Theatre). An Ethiopian Jewish family travel on foot to a Sudanese refugee camp and then to Israel in the 70s. Feb 24 at 7:30 pm (stu mat at 1:15 pm). $31-$43. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com.

STEPhEN hArPEr: ThE MUSIcAL by the Shehori Brothers and Jay McCarrol (Second City). This musical satire looks at the trials and tribulations of the prime minister. Feb 25 at 8 pm. $28-$48. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

SUDDENLy MOMMy! by Anne Marie Scheffler (Perfectly Norma Productions). Scheffler performs her solo comedy about motherhood.

Feb 26 at 8 pm (also Mar 5 at 2 pm). $20. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. suddenlymommy.com.

UNSTUck by Evan Tsitsias (Foundry Theatre Co). An anniversary celebration turns into a discussion on love and monogamy in this play reading. Feb 28 at 7 pm. Pwyc. The Detour Bar, 193.5 Baldwin. firstdrafttoronto@gmail.com.

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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.

ArTAUD: UN POrTrAIT EN DécOMPOSITION

(TheatreRUN/Théâtre français de Toronto).

This mix of poetry, images and theatre is based on the writings of Antonin Arnaud and performed in French. Runs to Feb 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20. TFT Centre for Creation, 21 College, suite 610. theatrerun.ensemble@gmail.com. bArryMOrE by William Luce (Barrymore Entertainment Limited). Christopher Plummer reprises his Tony Award-winning turn as theatre’s harddrinking, 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 bANG by Jed Feuer and Boyd Graham (Civic Light Opera Co). Two theatre producers try to stage the history of civilization. Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25.

Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall.

416-755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com.

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 during a Broadway audition. Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $25.50$35, stu $20-$25.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontoyouththeatre.org.

DIE FLEDErMAUS by Johann Strauss (Toronto Opera Repertoire). A woman gets revenge on her philandering husband in this comic operetta. Runs to Mar 6, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. 416-978-8849, toronto-opera.com.

ThE FANTASTIckS by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (Soulpepper). The children of feuding neighbours fall in love in this musical (see review, page 59). 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. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

NNNN (Jordan Bimm) GrOUNDSWELL FESTIVAL (Nightwood Theatre). The festival of new works by women presents staged readings of plays by Lisa Codrington, Jayne Collins, Jordi Mand and Rose Cullis. Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm.

Pwyc ($10 sugg). Tapestry/Nightwood Studio, 55 Mill, Cannery Studio 315. 416-944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net. hAMLET by William Shakespeare (Rosedale Heights School of the Arts). The classic tragedy is performed by students. Runs to Feb 25, Wed-Fri 7:30 pm. $10. 711 Bloor E. 416-3931580, rhsahamlet@gmail.com. hIGhWAy 63: ThE FOrT MAc ShOW by Architect Theatre (Theatre Passe Muraille). This collective work based on interviews with residents of Fort McMurray, home of the controversial Athabasca oil sands, beautifully balances politics with the personal. Focusing on the story of three young

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See the Best of Italian Contemporary Performance Celebrate Italian culture, food, music, art and fashion, March 15 – 26 at

Sandra Shamas continues to till the soil of her rich life.

theatre review

Yes, we Love her Sandra Shamas’s wit sparkles By GLENN SUMI WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE written

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and performed by Sandra Shamas (Shamas). At the Winter Garden (189 Yonge). To March 13. $25-$65.

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several times in her new show, Sandra Shamas mentions worshipping at the altar of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. That’s funny, because it’s easy to imagine Shamas playing an Oprah-like role in the lives of her own fans, although not on a daily basis. It’s been eight years since the last instalment of her Wit’s End series, but judging from her superb comic timing – and the rapturous applause that greets her – it’s like she never left.

The show opens with a flashback to being 11 years old and learning about menstruation via an awkward tampon demonstration and a dull school film called You’re Becoming A Woman. This segues cleverly to dealing with menopause and all the changes happening to her body, which she deals with by buying a high-end bra,

taking adult ballet classes and experimenting with henna and clothespins.

More than ever, Shamas is the great leveller, frankly chronicling her proactive approach to dealing with hot flashes as well as the new sonic qualities of her vagina.

The show’s second half digs a little deeper to look at areas in her life that aren’t that great (relationships with men) and to recount her farming experiences. She tries to buy a tractor and then meets a veteran farmer at one of her shows who mentors her, even though her only agrarian ambition is to open a roadside fruit and vegetable stand. Her brief connection with the farmer provides the show’s emotional high point.

While it’s still anecdotal, Wit’s End III has more narrative shape than its predecessor. But Shamas’s powers of description, her physicality (that ballet training helped) and her affectionate impersonations are as vivid and funny as ever. The show’s subtitle isn’t about finding romance but rather a carpe diem imperative: love life.

Let’s hope we don’t have to wait as GLENN SUMI long for Wit’s End IV.

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Cashing in The MaN iN Black: a TriBuTe To JohNNy cash written and directed by

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As just a moderate Johnny Cash fan, I didn’t expect much from The Man In Black, Kurt Brown’s show about the versatile country artist with the resonant bass-baritone voice and signature all-black wardrobe.

Granted, it took a while for the twoand-a-half hour show to heat up, but soon I was slapping my thigh, clapping my hands and even hollering with the rest of the diehard Cash fans at the Panasonic.

Brown’s touring show isn’t some souped-up musical biography that takes us through cheesy episodes in the artist’s life as if they were stations of the country music cross. There’s very little about Cash’s personal life or struggle with drugs and visits to prison.

What we get instead is a fantastic concert fronted by a performer (Shawn Barker) who looks and sounds enough like the real thing (in, say, his late 30s), performing songs from Cash’s near 50year career, even those wild alt-rock experiments he did late in life with producer Rick Rubin.

Recreating his subject’s onstage gestures (the raised guitar, the humble downward glance), Barker slips into character without overdoing it, delivering fine versions of hits like Folsom Prison Blues, I Walk The Line and the still eerily haunting Ballad Of Ira Hayes.

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Shawn Barker walks the line without stumbling.

when it’s all there in a song like Kris Kristofferson’s Sunday Morning Coming Down.

Barker has Cash’s between-song banter down pat – and he’s good at getting the crowd to join in – but he lacks the older Cash’s gravitas, that weary-voiced feel of a sinner who sought and earned redemption through his music.

Barker and the first-rate band (the stand-out is bandleader and electric guitarist Mike Burns) are particularly strong on Cash’s uptempo tunes. Just try to keep your feet still during Get Rhythm and I’ve Been Everywhere, songs that have the propulsive power of charging locomotives.

The show’s high point is a medley of gospel-infused songs that brings the house down and then raises it back up gleNN suMi real high.

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people – each involved in some sector of the oil industry – the company manages to evoke many people’s hopes, dreams and disappointments. Director Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman uses every inch of the theatre space, and Steve Lucas’s designs – especially his use of the stage floor – add to the work’s power. Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25$30, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNNN (GS) The huNT For red Willie by Ken Bourke (Toronto Irish Players). Locals seek a killer after a landowner is killed in a remote part of Ireland.

Runs to Mar 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20.

Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.org.

Jackie aNd Jack by Jim Christy (Back Burner Productions). A fateful meeting takes place on a beach in 50s Massachusetts. Runs to Feb 25, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $10. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

MadaMa BuTTerFly by Giacomo Puccini (Toronto Opera Repertoire). Cultures collide in this Italian opera. Runs to Mar 5, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. toronto-opera.com.

The Magic FluTe by WA Mozart (Canadian Opera Company). There’s some good singing, if uneven acting, in this new production of the 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: Fri 7:30 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 (see review, this page). Runs to Feb 27, ThuSat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$60. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) The Middle Place by Andrew Kushnir (Canadian Stage). The stories of homeless youth are brought to the stage (see review, page 56). 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. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) a MidsuMMer NighT’s dreaM by William Shakespeare (Soulpepper). Lovers and actors mingle in an enchanted forest. 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.

NixoN iN chiNa by John Adams (Canadian Opera Company). An opera about a historic moment rather than 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 COC production is a fine one, both musically and dramatically, though the minimalist opera tends to keep emotion in the background. Runs to Feb 26, Thu and Sat 7:30 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W.

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by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt, directed by Joseph Ziegler (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). To March 24. $28$60, 416-866-8666. See Continuing, page 57. Rating: NNNN

The Fantasticks debuted off-Broadway in 1960 and ran for an incredible 17,162 performances, making it the longest-running musical in theatre history. Soulpepper’s revival – the first in Toronto since 1995 – puts a new shine on this enduring and endearing slice of Americana by faithfully connecting with the dusty love story’s folksy charm and breezy humour.

Two neighbours in suburban post­ war America attempt to engineer a ro­ mance between their children. The colluding fathers concoct a phony feud, and later build a wall between their houses that, as intended, fuels a romance between Matt (Jeff Lillico) and Luisa (Krystin Pellerin).

Lillico and Pellerin work well to­ 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) ORIGINal SHaKeSPeaRe PROJeCT (Humber Theatre). Students perform Twelfth Night and The Comedy Of Errors. Runs to Feb 26, Wed-Sat 7 pm. Free (reserve). Humber Arts & Media Studio, 300 Birmingham. 416-675-6622 ext 3080.

PINKalICIOuS, THe MuSICal by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to May 29, Sat-Sun 1 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. vitaltheatre.ca.

Red lIGHT WINTeR by Adam Rapp (Another Theatre Co). Sex and secrets converge on a cold night in Amsterdam’s Red Light District.

Runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15. Unit 102 Studio, 46 Noble. 416-427-5786.

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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20 evening pass, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

ROuGH JuSTICe by Terence Frisby (East Side Players). A man charged with killing his infant son defends himself in this courtroom drama.

Runs to Mar 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca.

SaINT CaRMeN OF THe MaIN by Michel Tremblay (Canadian Stage Company/ National Arts Centre English Theatre). Director Peter Hinton’s bold production reimagines this Tremblay classic, in which the title charac-

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gether, producing lots of cute “aw shucks” moments. But while the kids are the clear focal point, the show benefits from its strong supporting cast. As conspiring dads Huckleby and Bellamy, Michael Hanrahan and William Webster have great chemistry, their effortless rapport best seen dur­ ing the comic song It Depends On What You Pay, when they hire a team of travelling actors to assist in their scheme.

But that pair of players – an elderly Shakespearian monologist (Oliver Dennis) and a fake Native American who specializes in death scenes (Michael Simpson) – end up stealing the show. Giving it a healthy dose of physical comedy, they elicit big laughs thanks in part to director Joseph Ziegler and choreographer Tim French’s ability to load jokes into every move.

Still, the most enduring strength of the show is classic songs like Try To Remember and Soon It’s Gonna Rain.

They’re wonderfully accompanied by the traditional piano and harp, and convey the warm, nostalgic sweet­ ness at the heart of The Fantasticks.

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JORdaM bIMM ter returns from Nashville to inspire the Main’s prostitutes, queers and hustlers with the strength of their own worth. A thrilling show, though Laara Sadiq’s Carmen rarely has the necessary fire. 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). This touring production of the 1991 musical based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel is certainly ambitious, but it’s hampered by scenes that awkwardly juxtapose time schemes, a cumbersome Rubik’s Cube of a set and merely adequate performances by the leads. Full of unmemorable music, it’s a tough sell to people unfamiliar with the book.

Runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $40-$110. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) SHe dId WHaT?!!! (Famous People Players).

The black light theatre company presents a musical based on a children’s book by Diane Dupuy. Runs to Apr 29, Tue-Sat 11:30 am and 6 pm. $59.50, srs $52.50, child $39.95 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org.

SOuTH PaCIFIC by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Dancap/Lincoln Center Theater).

Love blooms on an island paradise during WWII in this musical. Runs to Apr 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $35$190. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com.

SWeeTHeaRT: THe MaRy PICKFORd STORy by Dean Burry (Lunabridge Productions). This musical looks at the Canadian silent film star.

Runs to Feb 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $17. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910, toronto.ca/spadina.

WIT’S eNd III: lOve lIFe (Sandra Shamas).

Shamas performs the third instalment of her solo show about her life in rural Ontario (see review, page 57). Runs to Mar 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, ticketmaster. ca. NNNN (GS) 3

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Jewish women draw real life By FRAN SCHECHTER GRAPHIC DETAILS: CONFESSIONAL COMICS BY JEWISH WOMEN at the Gladstone (1214 Queen West), to April 17.

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from superman and mad magazine to Maus, Jews have played a big role in comics. Now, British artist Sarah Lightman and Michael Kaminer, a writer for New York Yiddish newspaper the Forward, have curated Graphic Details, a touring show brought in by the Koffler about Jewish women’s contributions to the once male-dominated form.

The artists are from Britain, the U.S., Canada and Israel, their styles ranging from sketchbook diaries to funnies-type strips. Nonconformists all, each tells a unique tale about growing up Jewish, love lives queer

• Lecture series “Ecology.Design.Synergy: Green

Architecture & New Ideas from Germany & Canada”. www.goethe.de/ecology

B indicates Black History Month event AGO Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal

(Bucharest Biennale 4). Justina M. Barnicke Gallery & Goethe-Institut.

Courts, to Apr 3 ($22, stu $12.50). Betty Goodwin, to Apr 24. Paterson Ewen, to May 22.

David Blackwood, to Jun 12. $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BART GALLERY OF YORK U Centre for Incidental Activisms; photos: Gilberto Ante, to Mar 13. 4700 Keele. 416-736-5169.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Year Of The Rabbit, to Mar 11. Native North American Footwear; Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art, ongoing. Socks: Between You And Your Shoes, to Apr 3. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

CAMPBELL HOUSE Ingrid Mayrhofer, to Mar 31. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Designers In The Classroom, to Mar 6 (free). Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Gordon Monahan, Mar 2-Apr 13, artist’s talk 2:30, reception 5-9

• Goethe-Institut commission: Berlin artist duo

Köbberling & Kaltwasser’s site-specific work at The Future of Mobility expo.

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GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sugar And Spice, to May 1. Betty Woodman, artist’s talk 7-8:30 pm Mar 2 (Jackman Hall, AGO, $12-$18). $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm halfprice, 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 Life As A Legend: Marilyn Monroe, to May 15. $15, stu/srs $12.

10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen, Cabinet, to Mar 27, Jacob talk/tour 1-2 pm Feb 26.

952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

cil drawings from her visual diary and Eisenstein’s expressive ink-andwash illustrations. I’d love to see more from Ilana Zeffren, who has a few small pencil drawings here and has published books in Hebrew that depict her own and public queer life in Israel. Translation, please.

Though it’s interesting to see the artists’ originals, with their blue-pencil sketches, comics are meant to offer a page-turning experience. An exhibit can only show fragments of narrative: a lot of reading without the usual payoff.

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BROM El Anatsui, to Feb 27, Sarah Milroy tour 2 pm Feb 27. Position As Desired: Photos From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. $22, stu/srs $19; Fri 4:30-9:30 pm $11, stu/srs $9.50; Wed 4:30-5:30 pm free. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Kai Chan, to May 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; Wed 5-8 pm pwyc. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE UC Collection; North Korean Images At Utopia’s Edge, to Mar 19. Work In Process: UTM/Sheridan students, Mar 1-31.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS ANGELL Winterlude group show; digital art:

Alex McLeod and Brendan George Ko, Feb 24-Mar 19, reception 6-9 pm Feb 24. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR POINT Video/performance: Here And There And Here, 6 pm Feb 27 (pwyc). 443 Lakeshore Ave, Toronto Island. 416-392-7834.

BAU-XI PHOTO David Leventi, to Mar 8. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Painting/film: Jaan Poldaas and Louise Noguchi, to Mar 12. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

CREATIVE SPIRIT ART CENTRE Canadian Art Brut group show, to Mar 26. 999 Dovercourt. 416-588-8801.

GALLERY GEVIK Painting: Daphne Odjig, Feb 26-Mar 18, reception/postage stamp unveiling 3-6:30 pm Feb 26. 12 Hazelton. 416968-0901.

GALLERY TPW Photos/video: Davida Nemeroff, to Mar 5. 56 Ossington.

416-645-1066.

GLADSTONE HOTEL InSitu Chair Show: Humber industrial design students, 6:30-11 pm Mar 2 (insituchairshow.com). Painting: Travis Shilling, to Mar 26. Graphic Details: Confessional Comics By Jewish Women (Koffler Gallery), to Apr 17. Carpets: Bev Hisey, to Feb 28. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Photos: Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt, to Jun 1. Making Thinking Thinking Making; SAMPLER; Plotting A City, Neighbourhood Maverick group shows; installation/photos: Seth Scriver, Jesse Boles and others, to Apr 3. 235

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and straight, childbearing and miscarriage, the Israeli army, 70s women’s liberation or gross-out humour.

The show has four rooms: It’s Not You, It’s Me, with pioneers Sharon Rudahl and Aline Kominsky-Crumb alongside more recent first-person practitioners like Vanessa Davis and Toronto’s Sarah Lazarovic; Chosen Schmosen, about visiting Israel and serving in the IDF, plus Corinne Pearlman’s comics about Jewish London and this show; Oy Gevalt, expressions of angst like local artist Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was A Child Of Holocaust Survivors and Diane Noomin’s miscarriage tale; and Sh*t Happens, turd stories, plus Racheli Rottner’s Kafkaesque relationship with a bug.

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE STUDIO THEATRE

Power Plant presents Thomas Hirschhorn, artist’s talk 7 pm Feb 24 ($6). 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Live Long And Prosper: Images Of Longevity In Ukiyo-e, to Mar 5 (Mon-Fri and Sats Jan 8 and 22, Feb 5 and 19, Mar 5). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

LE GALLERY LE Sept seventh anniversary show, to Feb 27. 1183 Dundas W. 416-5328467.

MIRA GODARD Painting: Ed Bartram, Feb 26-Mar 19, reception 2-5 pm Feb 26. 22 Hazelton. 416-964-8197.

MKG127 Sculpture: Dean Drever, to Mar 12.

127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

OCADU ONSITE Book/multimedia: Marian Bantjes, artist’s talk 6:30 pm Mar 1, Mar 2-Jun 5, reception 7-9 pm Mar 2. 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

PARTS & LABOUR Rebecca Belmore Defence Fund, auction 7 pm Mar 1. 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

PAUL PETRO Painting: Stephen Andrews and Sandy Plotnikoff, Feb 25-Mar 26. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

PIKTO Photos: Rafal Gerszak, to Mar 6. 55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443.

SPENCE GALLERY Painting: Marcelo Suaznabar, preview 6-9 pm Feb 25, Feb 26-Mar 20, reception/book launch 6-9 pm Feb 26. 588 Markham. 416-795-2787.

YYZ Video: Ashley Guindon, to Mar 12. Installation: Aldexandre David, to Apr 2. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

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In an unnamed city, a man storms the studio of KiddieFame, a children’s reality/talent show, taking hostages – including children – and will talk to only one man, disgraced journalist Thom Pegg. As the hostage drama unfolds, Eve, an Olympic champion trying to escape the glare of publicity, meets and connects with secret street artist Rabbit, who’s planning the Blue Light Project, a spectacular work of public art.

Taylor skilfully portrays a city losing its collective mind. The venal me-

dia have descended, demonstrators of all stripes are staking their turf outside the hostage site, the police are getting dangerously restless.

Sometimes offering astute satire (KiddieFame calls its equivalent of getting voted off the island The Kill), Taylor comments pointedly on celebrity and art’s redemptive qualities.

The sequence where Rabbit puts his installation into place has an exquisite tension showcasing Taylor’s excellent chops.

But his ambition gets the best of him. Unable to tie up his threads, he lets some characters drop out of the picture entirely, and the narrative itself is messy. A second journalist, Loftin, comes onto the scene out of nowhere, when Taylor’d have done better by getting under the skin of one of the cops instead. A subplot about Eve’s missing brother just gets in the way.

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, February 24 LISA GENOVA/JEANNETTE WALLS/ELENA GOROKHOVA In conversation with Heather

Reisman. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

REENA VIRK: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A CANADIAN MURDER Launch of a book by

Mythili Rajiva and Sheila Batacharya. 6:308:30 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744.

SPEAKEASY Nancy Jo Cullen, Sarah Pinder, Claire Caldwell and Mark Marczyk. 7:30 pm.

Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499.

Saturday, February 26 BONNIE BOWMAN Reading from Spaz. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647345-2803.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition featuring Burlington Slam Project. 7 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

Sunday, February 27 JUDITH CHANDLER/NAOMI LAUFER/CAROL MALYON Reading. 7:30 pm. Free (donations

appreciated). Secret Handshake Art Gallery, 189B Mutual. thesecrethandshake.ca.

CHRIS JERICHO The wrestler signs copies of

his book Undisputed: How To Become The World Champion In 1,372 Easy Steps. 1 pm.

Free. Chapters Square One, 189 Rathburn W (Mississauga). chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, March 1 MARGARET HEFFERNAN Talking about Willful

Blindness. 8 am. $49 (includes breakfast).

Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. Reserve rotman.utoronto.ca/events.

RABINDRANATH MAHARAJ Reading. Free.

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Can terrorists be funny?

Chris Morris answers in the affirmative in his smart kitchen-sink satire Four Lions By NORMAN WILNER

FOUR LIONS directed by Chris Morris, written by Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain and Simon Blackwell, with Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak and Arsher Ali. An eOne Entertainment release. 98 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (February 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 65.

chris morris made his mark in England by going further than any satirist has gone before. In two brilliant television series, The Day Today and Brass Eye, he’s lampooned the increasing vapidity of Britain’s news media. The latter show caused an actual scandal with a 2001 special about England’s pedophile hysteria, “Paedogeddon!”

In his feature debut, Four Lions, Morris takes on an equally loaded

topic – homegrown jihadists, here imagined as a quartet of inept wouldbe martyrs plotting a massacre out of a dingy flat outside London.

“I was reading Al-Qaeda: The True Story Of Radical Islam, by Jason Burke, and I noticed that there were several examples of terrorist plans that were much funnier than I was expecting them to be in terms of what actually happened,” Morris says from England.

“The one that kicked it off was some Yemenis who wanted to blow up a U.S. warship with an exploding boat and got as far as asChris Morris sembling on

REVIEW FOUR LIONS

ñ(Chris Morris) Rating: NNNN Chris Morris’s jet-black farce maintains a queasy balance between character-based comedy and incisive political commentary for its entire running time. That’s much trickier than it sounds, since the movie focuses on a cell of inept British Muslims bent on martyring themselves.

The material wants to be big and broad, but to do that would be to abandon the kitchen-sink realism that’s crucial to the movie’s tone. Morris, who cut his teeth making the withering satire of The Day Today and Brass Eye for UK TV, never shortchanges the characters for easy laughs, and manages some pointed comments on the state of England’s relationship to its Muslim population.

It’s a credit to Morris’s intelligence, skill and sensitivity that things play out as they do, with moments of mordant wit and piercing satire slowly giving way to the creeping sense that these idiots might actually pull off their NW scheme.

the quayside at 3 in the morning.

They put their launch in the water and filled it with explosives – and it sank.”

He also notes the 2006 plot by would-be Canadian terrorists to behead Stephen Harper and occupy CBC headquarters at the same time – even though the former was in Ottawa and the latter in Toronto.

“Both amongst terrorist units that managed to pull off an attack and those that failed, there’s a rich history of flat-footedness and human failings. Most enterprises are characterized by a fair degree of screwing things up along the way. Why would that be any different in a jihadi cell?”

The key conflict in Four Lions isn’t between Islam and the West, however. It’s played out between two of the would-be bombers, Omar (Riz Ahmed) and Barry (Nigel Lindsay), who’ve come to the movement from very different perspectives.

“Omar would say he’s fighting an injustice, while Barry would say he’s fighting for the end of days, to bring it all on,” Morris says. “He just wants a big fight; he’s a nihilist looking to ground his aggression somewhere.

That happened, actually. There was a neo-Nazi ideologue who inspired some nail bomb attacks in the 90s by a group called Combat 18. He converted to Islam when he saw 9/11 because he realized it was the best fight on the planet.”

Morris brought Four Lions to North America carefully, premiering it to strong critical notices at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and nudging it into commercial release last fall with a word-of-mouth tour of major cities – “not just L.A., but San Francisco, Boston, DC, Seattle, New York and even down to Lubbock, Texas.

“The place that most singularly impressed me was New York, because I thought the people there might feel sensitive about terrorist attacks,” he says. “But they were precisely the opposite: ‘Look, we’ve been through this, so we’re more than happy to deal with it as a comedy.’”

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Farrelly good time One-half of the gross-out sibling team grows up – kinda By NORMAN WILNER HALL PASS directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly, written by the Farrellys, Pete Jones and Kevin Barnett from a story by Jones, with Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate. A Warner Bros release. 105 minutes. Opens Friday (February 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 65.

bobby farrelly hasn’t asked me what I think of his new movie, and I’ve been courteous enough not to tell him. I wonder if he’s used to that.

After perfecting the gross-out comedy with Dumb & Dumber, Kingpin and the blockbuster There’s Something About Mary, he and his brother, Peter, have spent the last decade struggling to make another smash.

Okay, Shallow Hal and Stuck On You have their moments, but the other films – Me, Myself & Irene, Fever Pitch, The Heartbreak Kid – were dead on arrival, their weak stories further undermined by the brothers’ habit of packing their casts with non-actor pals and a certain inattention to the technical demands of lighting and editing.

Their new film, Hall Pass, attempts to apply their distinct formula of scatological humour, ritual humiliation and cartoonish unreality to a midlife-crisis comedy about two suburban husbands (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) whose wives give them a week’s leave to venture outside of their marriage beds.

“Pete and I are both married guys,” Farrelly says. “So we definitely relate to these two guys.”

Of course, it’s unlikely that either Peter or Bobby has ever been caught masturbating in a minivan, as happens to Sudeikis in one of the movie’s set pieces.

“You know,” Farrelly says, “we’re very conscious to make sure that beneath the gags and all that there is a good story with a moral. And I think it’s there. In the end, people have had character arcs, and they come back and they’ve learned a lesson, in a very bizarre way.”

REVIEW HALL PASS (Peter and Bobby Farrelly) Rating: N The Farrelly brothers, the makers of Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary, attempt to reclaim the territory they ceded to Judd Apatow in the last decade with a midlife-crisis comedy about two dorky Providence men (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) given a week off from their marriages by their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate).

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Hall Pass feels like an attempt to reclaim ground the Farrellys ceded recently to Judd Apatow, whose productions have landed huge audiences by mixing extreme comedy with more grounded love stories. But Apatow’s pictures tend to be about younger characters, while the Farrellys are skewing older.

Hall Pass makes their new perspective particularly obvious in a sneering, atonal scene in which Wilson’s character dresses down a hipster barista (Derek Waters) by explaining that someday he’ll need to apply for a real job and squares like Wilson will be the people doing the hiring.

“We all know that kid, that young guy who’s hipper than us,” Farrelly says. “My brother and I are those two guys, we’re not that young kid.

Maybe in Apatow’s world he’s that young kid – I don’t know.”

The Farrellys’ next project is a modern take on the Three Stooges, currently in pre-production.

“We’re casting it now,” he says, sitting squarely in an armchair. “We’ve seen really wellknown actors and total unknowns. We’ve seen a lot of people who are really good at playing Moe, Larry and Curly – it’s just that we haven’t picked the three yet.”

I suggest Paul Giamatti as Moe (they’d been thinking of him as Larry), with Rich Sommer (Mad Men’s Harry Crane) as Curly. It takes a while to come up with a Larry. Maybe Ryan Gosling, just to see if he’d do it?

Rather than a biopic, this is an attempt to relaunch the Stooges franchise.

“We’ve broken the script up into three shorts,” Farrelly says, “but each short sorta leads into the next, so collectively it’s a story, like a movie – true to the original Stooges style, but new material. We’re not gonna force our brand of humour into it if we can help ourselves.”

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While their characters may have aged, the Farrellys haven’t grown up themselves. They’re still casting their non-actor pals in supporting roles and paying absolutely no attention to setting up shots, pacing scenes or even building momentum from one set piece to the next.

Wilson and Sudeikis’s characters come across as venal idiots rather than the frustrated souls they need to be for the jokes to work, and the gross-out gags are so blatantly out of place that you have to wonder why they’re even here – apart from the fact that the Farrellys NW just don’t know any other way to make movies.

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WILLIAM FICHTNER Actor, Drive Angry

You might recognize William Fichtner as the dogged FBI agent who chased Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell all over America in Prison Break. Or maybe as the bank manager who stares down the Joker in The Dark Knight’s opening heist, or the lovelorn vampire scientist mooning after Milla Jovovich in Ultraviolet. Basically, if you need a slightly unmoored authority figure, you call William Fichtner.

The actor’s live-wire unpredictability is showcased nicely in Drive Angry, an action movie that casts him as the Accountant, a supernatural bagman bent on recapturing Nicolas Cage’s escaped prisoner. On a promotional stop in Toronto, the Cheektowaga-raised Fichtner sat down to discuss the finer points of being a wild card.

It seems like whenever you turn up in a movie wearing a suit and tie, things are about to get weird.

That’s cool! I love that!

How do you get into the character of the Accountant? He’s not a conventional bad guy.

I think he enjoys the chase, which he doesn’t get all the time. It’s probably a pretty boring job, being the Accountant in Hell. But when he gets to come back?

Yeah, it’s kinda good. And eventually the chase leads the Accountant to really understand why it is that (Cage) broke out in the first place. Noble cause, you know? Quite a worthy adversary.

It’s a great bad-guy role: he shows up and knocks people around, but he also gets to be the picture’s comic relief.

I’ve had so many people say to me, “You know, the Accountant has some funny lines in this.” Not that I’m completely surprised by that, but a little

bit. Nothing was ever played for a joke or a laugh.

Drive Angry doesn’t really fit into any one genre – it’s a chase picture, a supernatural thriller, an action movie, it’s in 3-D. How did they sell it to you?

I got an envelope from the agent one day. I sat down and I read it, and I thought, “That’s really cool.” You know, 70s road movie, tough, sexy, gritty – good script, really interesting characters, tight the whole way through.

How often does that happen?

A lot of the stuff I want I don’t get. But sometimes I read something – it could be a one-scene part – that’s really great. Not that I’m looking for one cameo after another, but sometimes it’s just worth it creatively.

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ñ(Patrick Lussier) Rating: NNNN The 1970s grindhouse revival hits its apex in Drive Angry, which takes everything that’s good about genre movies – sun, sweat, muscle cars, sinister cultists, an undercurrent of irreverent wit, unapologetic servings of sex and violence – and distills it into a Nicolas Cage chase movie. In 3-D and everything!

Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer’s script mashes up the Peter Fonda quickie Race With The Devil and the Christopher Walken thriller The Prophecy for a story about a mysterious avenger (Cage) tearing up the American South to rescue a baby from apocalyptic cultists. Things get complicated once another pursuer, known only as the Accountant (William Fichtner), joins the chase.

Cage has a great deal of fun, and Fichtner provides a calm and very funny contrast as his implacable opponent. Billy Burke will horrify Twilight fans as a very bad man with terrible fashion sense. But Amber Heard steals the picture as David Morse (left) and an embittered diner server swept up in Nicholas Cage help Cage’s mission. Seriously, why isn’t she Drive this pic.

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Lambert Wilson (centre) and his fellow monks take a vote.

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You are a man of God tending to the people of an isolated village because that is your mission. One day a stranger tells you you’re not wanted. You pay him little mind. But then an official tells you the same thing – that conditions are growing untenable and the Islamic militants in the region will kill you for living in their country.

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protect you if you stay? What if he wants you to leave?

Xavier Beauvois’s wrenching Of Gods And Men asks those questions in almost every frame, dramatizing the story of the Cistercian Trappist monks who chose not to leave their Algerian monastery as the country tilted toward civil war in 1996.

Beauvois is clearly fascinated by the monks’ decision to remain in harm’s way – though in his telling it seems less a collective agreement than a declaration by their leader, Christian (Lambert Wilson), who takes a moral stand and pressures his brothers to side with him. And it’s on Christian’s face that we see the most profound struggle with his faith as he tries to calm his

brothers and grapple with his own growing terror.

Of Gods And Men takes a subtle, respectful approach to the material, adopting the pace and rhythm of monastic life. There are conversations, hymns and meals. Nothing happens quickly, which led to some griping when the film won the Grand Prix at Cannes; a few critics argued that once the monks declare their intention, the rest of the movie is an anticlimax. I can see how an impatient audience might feel that way, but I read it differently.

This is a quiet, implacable film that finds notes of grace in its steady progress toward a dreadful end.

the festival circuit while Canadian distributor Mongrel Media tried to figure out what to do with it.

On Friday it finally opens, the latest title in Mongrel’s multi-platform experiment. It’ll be available on Netflix simultaneously with its Lightbox debut, and the DVD comes out Tuesday.

However you see Alamar, please see it. It’s a beautiful, delicate blend of documentary and fiction, the delicately observed story of a Mexican man (Jorge Machado) taking the young son (Natan Machado Palombini) he barely knows on a trip to a coral reef. When they return, the boy’s mother will fly him home to Italy; this is likely to be the last time they see each other.

González-Rubio, a documentary filmmaker making his feature debut, serves as the movie’s writer, director, cameraman and editor. He’s made something wonderful, a modest study of human connection in remote surroundings that finds beauty and power in the smallest of gestures – brewing coffee, making fish stew, teaching a child to snorkel.

The actors really are father and son; the things we see them do, they’re actually doing. But the fiction of the tale imbues each moment with tenderness and importance. We get the sense that something important is passing from one generation to another, and we’re fortunate enough to witness it.

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I first saw Pedro González-Rubio’s Alamar in the last days of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. Most of the media had gone home, and as a result there weren’t enough people left to create a buzz around the movie’s lovely fatherson story, which plays out against the picturesque Mexican coast.

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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.

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kind of film that makes you want to go out and hug old people. Tom and Gerri (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen) are that rare happy couple in their twilight years who routinely invite less fortunate friends and family over for dinner, tea and occasionally a lot of wine. If Leigh’s film feels unhurried, plotless and schematic, well, that’s kind of the point. During these naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, there are dramatic moments when minor discomforts and awkwardness, and even manifestations of class consciousness, threaten the couple’s strictly sustained pleasantness. As the conflicted and notably less educated friend who might make the wheels fall off life’s cycle, Lesley Manville delivers an awards-calibre performance masking pain and vulnerability with drunken eccentricity. 130 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Varsity

BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel, looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Montreal television producer (Paul Giamatti). Simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian. 132 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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(John Whitesell) continues to drag the men-in-drag formula through the mud. In this second witless sequel, Martin Lawrence reprises his role as FBI agent Malcolm, once again donning the muumuu and rolls of latex as stereotypical Big Momma, this time accompanied by his rapper wannabe stepson, Trent (Brandon T. Jackson). Witnesses to murder, the two fat-suit-clad men hide out in an Atlanta arts school for girls. It’s Some Like It Hot with Lawrence and Jackson finding ways to make the cross-dressing antics as monotonous as possible. There’s also a hapless attempt to bank on the popularity of Glee: girls in the art school frequently break into musical numbers, and Trent chimes in with his own freestyles. No one in the cast has any actual musical talent, though, which might be the only funny thing about this movie. 108 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coli-

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Greek family, where a couple (Christos the beginning and end of a marriage in Stergioglou and Michele Valley) have heartbreaking but overly schematic detail. decided to raise their three children in Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams denear-total ignorance of the outside world. liver superb, natural performances as the This results in repressed rage and some endearing yet rough-around-the-edges really inappropriate sexual development. couple who long ago seemed perfect for It’s all presented in a series of flat, visually each other but can now barely carry on a monotonous tableaux; any metaphor or conversation without breaking a few theme is left for us to divine. I like the idea things. 120 min. NNN (RS) that it’s an allegory for Canada Square, Carlton isolationism. Retreat Cinema, Colossus, from the world and you Kennedy Commons 20, EXPANDED REVIEWS wind up raising monKingsway Theatre, nowtoronto.com sters. Not the cheeriest Scotiabank Theatre subject for a movie, but CEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel somehow it plays. SubArteta) features Ed Helms panicking an titled. 97 min. NNNN (NW) awful lot as a small-town insurance salesCarlton Cinema man who travels to Iowa for a convention and finds himself confronted with all the DRIVE ANGRY (Patrick Lussier) 104 writhing debauchery of the big city. But min. See Q&A and review, page 63. the sales-convention-as-bacchanal thing NNNN (NW) was summed up in a few brief scenes in Opens Feb 25 at 401 & Morningside, ColiUp In The Air, and the rest of the office deseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park tails have been covered at length by 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres Helms himself on The Office. Director at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Arteta has assembled a terrific comic cast Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Marand simply left his actors hanging. You ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow wouldn’t think it possible for John C. Reilly Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity to give a bad performance as a glad-handFairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity ing douchebag, but he’s a constant annoyYonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. ance here. 86 min. NN (NW) THE EAGLE (Kevin Macdonald) plays like an Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Comunintentional homoerotic fantasy, commons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 plete with wooden acting. Adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s young-adult novel, it’s THE COMPANY MEN (John Wells) wastes about Marcus (Channing Tatum), a 140 AD Oscar winners Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Roman soldier who attempts to restore Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones, who honour to his name and country. With his star in a timely pic about corporate greed British slave Esca (Jamie Bell) in tow, he and recessionary downsizing. Writer and travels north of Hadrian’s Wall to retrieve first-time filmmaker Wells oversells his the golden eagle, the emblem of his legion unoriginal message about CEOs being bad reportedly lost by his father years before. and common workers being saintly. 115 There, the tables are turned and Marcus is min. NN (GS) suddenly at the mercy of Esca and various Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 Roman-hating warriors. Macdonald takes THE DILEMMA (Ron Howard) marks the a long time to generate any excitement, latest step in Howard’s attempt to recapwaiting until the final act to deliver the ture his past glory as a populist filmmaker. kind of action and adventure demanded Vince Vaughn plays a Chicago hustler who by the genre. He’s not helped by Tatum, finds out that the wife (Winona Ryder) of who mumbles his lines when he’s not his best friend and business partner (Kevin squinting his baby blues at the horizon.

James) is having an affair and twists him114 min. NN (GS) self into knots trying to decide whether to 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, spill the beans. There is exactly one laugh.

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THE FIGHTER (David O. Russell) is the story

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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

FOUR LIONS (Chris Morris) 102 min.

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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.

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THE GREEN HORNET (Michel Gondry) finds

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) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

HALL PASS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)

See Q&A and review, page 63. N (NW) Opens Feb 25 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 ñHARRY

(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, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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I AM NUMBER FOUR (D.J. Caruso) is a step

backwards for Disturbia and Eagle Eye director Caruso, whose latest film feels like a merely adequate sci-fi series pilot.

Alex Pettyfer plays John Smith, the fake name of an alien who hides out in a midwestern high school to escape detection from another set of aliens who want to destroy the human race. As John discovers his powers – glowing palms, superhuman strength, etc – as well as love (with Glee’s Dianna Agron), the evil aliens draw closer.

Caruso cleverly uses technology to advance the plot, and 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. And the ho-hum effects, which involve leaping monsters and many oversized guns, look borrowed from the FX department of Relic Hunter. 110 min. NN (GS) 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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(Sylvain Chomet) finds the creator of The Triplets Of Belleville turning an unproduced script by Jacques Tati into a marvellously dry, rewardingly subtle comedy about an aging French stage magician who befriends a Scottish village girl and takes her with him to a performance in the big city. 80 min.

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ñINCENDIES

(Denis Villeneuve) is 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 something violent – will haunt your imagination more than seeing it played out

realistically. The multi-layered mystery is set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. At the reading of their mother, Nawal’s, will, twins Simon (Maxim Gaudette) and Jeanne (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin) are asked to find a brother they didn’t know they had and a father they have long believed dead. Their individual journeys are interwoven with flash backs to Nawal’s (Lubna Azabal) harrowing experiences as a student activist, prisoner and survivor. Villeneuve’s control over the material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day Greek tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min.

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ñINSIDE JOB

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

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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

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(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 Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies is up for the best foreignlanguage Oscar on Sunday.

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

JustiN BieBer: Never say Never (Jon M.

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) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the Kids are all right (Lisa Cholodenko) is a feeble comedy about lesbian couple Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), whose two children want to meet their sperm donor. Enter Paul (Mark Ruffalo), who’s attracted to Jules. The plot is ridiculous. Bening, however, is terrific. 104 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

are sensational, as is Dianne Wiest as Kidman’s mother. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30

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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)

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 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, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, continued on page 68 œ

little FocKers (Paul Weitz) arrives six years after Meet The Fockers for more predictable in-law-from-hell hijinks. Now raising five-year-old twins with his wife Pam (Teri Polo), Gaylord “Greg” Focker (Ben Stiller) once again raises the suspicions of Pam’s dad, retired CIA-agent Jack (Robert De Niro), who’s come for the twins’ birthday party. Storylines about a sexy drug rep, flamenco dancing and a preschool clumsily intersect, creating some funny moments. But the script is a Focked up mess. 98 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30

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“A TENDER AND RAUNCHY COMEDY OF SELF-DISCOVERY.”

(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.

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the MetropolitaN opera: iphigéNie eN tauride is a live simulcast in high-def of the Met’s production of the Gluck opera, starring Susan Graham and Plácido Domingo.

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“A SWEET COMEDY WITH A DIRTY MIND.”

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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale oF gods aNd MeN ñ NNNN

(Xavier Beauvois) 117 min. See review, page 64.

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(Danny Boyle) tells the story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), who spent the eponymous span of time trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon 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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

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(John Cameron Mitchell) tracks bereaved parents Becca and Howie in a moving meditation on grief. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart

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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.

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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

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) Carlton Cinema

SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK & TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION is a collection of the grossest animated scenes, both new and classic. 90 min.

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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.

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TRON: LEGACY (Joseph Kosinski) showcases 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 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, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra) is a

ludicrous, paranoid action movie with a decent budget and a sense of its own absurdity. The set-up is straight out of an airport thriller, as an unassuming doctor (Liam Neeson) in Berlin for a biotech conference survives a car crash and wakes up after a four-day coma to discover someone has appropriated his identity. Now, personal insults aren’t just something this guy shrugs off – you saw Taken, right? – so he must smash his way to the truth with the help of a resourceful Bosnian cabbie (Diane Kruger). And that means a whole lot of property damage, a couple of inventive car chases and at least one closequarters slugfest. The only weak link is

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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 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema WHAT WOMEN WANT (Daming Chen) is a

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.

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ludicrous premise. Power-tripping theatre director Gabor (Nicholas Campbell) makes a deathbed request that six members of his company gather at his wake and reveal exactly how they feel about him – while they read Hamlet. And he wants to put it all on film to be shown at a public memorial. Huh? Why would people expose themselves in this way, figuratively and literally.

(There’s a camera in the bathroom, too!).

Sarain Boylan as a coke-addicted 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 – strain credulity.

And what’s with Raj (Raoul Bhaneja), the closeted actor? Afraid to be gay? In the theatre world? You can’t be serious. 93 min. NN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

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ALAMAR (G) Fri 3:00, 6:15 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:00, 6:15, 8:30 Mon 6:15, 8:30 INCENDIES (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon 7:00, 9:45 OF GODS AND MEN Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 7:30, 10:10

20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

VARSITY (CE)

CARLTON CINEMA (I)

BLUE VALENTINE Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 DOGTOOTH Thu 4:15, 9:05 Fri-Wed 4:20, 9:45 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:15 HALL PASS (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20 INSIDE JOB (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:05 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu 1:55, 4:10, 6:50, 9:00 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (18A) 1:35, 7:20 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:35 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:25, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:00 RABBIT HOLE (14A) Thu 1:30, 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:35 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 3:55, 9:30 SOMEWHERE (14A) 3:20, 9:40 Thu 1:20 mat, 5:20, 7:30 THE WAY BACK (14A) Thu 1:25 4:05 6:45 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444

THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 THE ILLUSIONIST Thu 1:45 4:30 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 OF GODS AND MEN Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 8:30 DRIVE ANGRY (18A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:30 late GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 6:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00 HALL PASS (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sat 11:25 late I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 12:40 3:30 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:35 3:50 6:40 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 FriWed 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10, 11:20 Sun-Wed 12:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10

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

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Tue 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 SatSun 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 2:10 4:50 7:40 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Sun 12:30 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) 1:20, 4:15, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:50 mat THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 9:50 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 Sun 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, MonWed 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:50,

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Mon 12:30, 9:40 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:10 3:10 6:20 9:30 FriWed 12:10, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:50, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:50, 9:10 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 FriWed 12:40, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 INCENDIES (14A) 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10

VIP SCREENINGS

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) 1:55, 5:45, 8:45 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 1:35 6:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:35, 6:15, 9:45 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 1:15 3:55 6:15 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:25, 9:05 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 12:55, 3:35, 6:35, 9:25

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

7 KHOON MAAF (14A) Thu 2:45, 6:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 5:05 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:55, 5:05 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 Fri 12:20, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:55 Sat 11:10, 12:20, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:55 Sun 11:10, 12:20, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:45 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu-Fri 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 THE COMPANY MEN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35 THE DILEMMA (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu-Fri 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:40, 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 10:15 Sun 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 HALL PASS (14A) Fri 12:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 Sat 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 Sun 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 (PG) 2:35, 5:50, 9:05 Sat-Sun 10:50 mat JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Fri 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun 11:15, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu-Fri 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:00, 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:05, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Mon, Wed 3:05, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Tue 3:05 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 SANCTUM: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 TANGLED (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:00 Fri-Wed 1:50 TANNU WEDS MANNU 3:00, 6:00, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu-Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Tue 1:40, 9:50 Wed 1:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 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 Fri 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 10:45, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 A WAKE Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00

JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 12:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Fri 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:15 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:35, 10:10 Fri 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

Midtown

ANOTHER YEAR (PG) 4:25 BLUE VALENTINE 9:20 THE ILLUSIONIST 3:00 INCENDIES (14A) 7:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 11:00 TANGLED (PG) 1:05

CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:55 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:45 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:15 Fri 4:20, 7:30 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:50, 8:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10 Fri 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 SatSun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50 THE FIGHTER (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30 THE ILLUSIONIST 4:30, 6:40 Fri 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:20 mat, 9:10 THE MECHANIC Thu 5:00, 7:20 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:45 Fri 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 SatSun 1:20, 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 9:20 Sat 4:10, 9:25 Sun 4:30 INSIDE JOB (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00 Sun 2:00

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:20 Sun 2:10, 4:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 1:30, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 HALL PASS (14A) Fri 1:45, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40

Metro

West End KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 6:25, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:25, 3:45, 7:15, 10:25 Sat 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:20 BIUTIFUL (14A) 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:10, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Sun 12:30 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:35, 6:20, 9:15 Sat 6:20, 9:15 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:40, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:10, 9:10 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) 1:30, 4:00 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Thu 3:25 Fri-Wed 3:20 HALL PASS (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 12:35, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:40, 10:05 Thu 12:30, 3:35 mat JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Sun only 12:50 4:10 6:40 9:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:10 3:15 6:10 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:05, 6:25, 9:25 THE MECHANIC Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:10, 6:15, 9:05 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 2:30 4:55 7:25 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:30 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:35 4:30 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35

GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 12:45, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15 HALL PASS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 I AM NUMBER FOUR 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 (G) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:30 UNKNOWN (14A) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15

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

GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 6:40, 9:00 Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat, 4:20 HALL PASS (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:25 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:25 I AM NUMBER FOUR 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00 mat JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 4:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 7:10, 9:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE Sat 1:00 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:00 Fri 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 SatSun 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:20

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

BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45, 11:59 SunWed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 11:55 late THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:35, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:25, 2:40, 4:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:45 Sun-Wed 1:25, 2:40, 4:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 2:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:30, 10:00 THE MECHANIC Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20, 11:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10, 11:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 10:25 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Wed 2:20, 5:00, 10:20

GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 6:20, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:30 Fri-Sun 1:50, 5:20, 8:40 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:40 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Sun 2:00 mat HALL PASS (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon 6:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:35, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun continued on page 70 œ

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Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 JuSTin bieber: never Say never - direcTor’S Fan cuT 3d (G) 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat JuSTin bieber: never Say never 3d (G) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 The king’S Speech (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 The Mechanic Thu 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 The MeTropoliTan opera: iphigénie en Tauride Sat 1:00 no STringS aTTached (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:25, 9:25 Sun-Wed 3:50, 6:25, 9:25 The riTe (14A) Thu 9:00 The rooMMaTe (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 10:20 SancTuM (14A) Fri-Wed 6:45, 10:15 SancTuM 3d (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 unknoWn (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:30

3d (G) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 JuSTin bieber: never Say never 3d (G) Thu 12:20, 1:10, 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 The Mechanic Thu 2:00, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 The MeTropoliTan opera: iphigénie en Tauride Sat 1:00 The rooMMaTe (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 SancTuM 3d (14A) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Sun 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Tangled (PG) Thu 12:15 Fri-Wed 12:10 unknoWn (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:10, 7:00, 10:00

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Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 JuSTin bieber: never Say never - direcTor’S Fan cuT 3d (G) 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:30 mat Sat 1:15 mat JuSTin bieber: never Say never 3d (G) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00 The king’S Speech (PG) 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:40 mat The Mechanic Thu 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:45, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 9:55 The MeTropoliTan opera: iphigénie en Tauride Sat 1:00 no STringS aTTached (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 The rooMMaTe (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 SancTuM 3d (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Sat, Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Spike & Mike’S Sick & TWiSTed FeSTival oF aniMaTion 2011 Wed 7:00 True griT (14A) 3:40, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat unknoWn (14A) Thu 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:00, 7:45, 9:55, 10:30 Mon-Tue 4:35, 6:35, 7:25, 9:25, 10:10 Wed 4:35, 7:25, 9:25, 10:10 yogi bear (G) Thu 4:05 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:00 Mon-Wed 3:45

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Festival feasts on visual artists

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Films focusing on artists and their creative process can be fascinating.

Here are two worth checking out at the Reel Artists Festival.

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

How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals human rights WatCh film festival

tiff Bell lightBox, reitman sQuare, 350 king W. 416322-8448. tiff.net/Winter, hrW.org.

thu 24-Mar 4 – Films focused on human rights issues around the world. $12. hrw.org. thu 24 – You Don’t Like The Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo (2010) D: Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez. 8 pm.

Fri 25 – Enemies Of The People (2010) D: Thet Sambath and Reob Lemkin. 8 pm. sat 26 – Familia (2010) D: Mikael Wiström and Alberto Herskovits. 8 pm. sun 27 – The First Grader (2010) D: Justin Chadwick. 8 pm.

Mon 28 – 12 Angry Lebanese (2010) D: Zeina Daccache. 8 pm.

Wed 2 – Life, Above All (2010) D: Oliver Schmitz. 8 pm.

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reel artists film festival

tiff Bell lightBox, reitman sQuare, 350 king W. 416599-8433. tiff.net/Winter, Canadianart.Ca/raff.

Wed 23-FeB 27 – Documentaries about visual art and artists. $12, stu/srs $8, free ñ student screenings Feb 25 afternoon, festival

pass $75. thu 24 – Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings (2010) D: Edgar B Howard and Tom Piper. 7 pm. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (2010) D: Susan Sollins and Charles Atlas. 9 pm.

Fri 25 – KOOP (2011) D: Katherine Knight. 1 pm. Aakideh: The Art & Legacy Of Carl Beam (2010) D: Robert Waldeck and Paul Eichhorn.

3 pm. Ghost Noise (2010) D: Marcia Connolly, and Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds (2010) D: Kate Vogel. 5:15 pm. The Colour Of Your Socks: A Year With Pipilotti Rist (2009) D: Michael Hegglin. 7 pm. About Jenny Holzer (2009) D: Claudia Müller. 9 pm. sat 26 – Notion Motion – Olafur Eliasson (2005) D: Jan Schmidt-Garre, and Damián Ortega: Do It Yourself (2009) D: Branka Bogdanov. 1 pm. The Possible lives Of Christian Boltanski (2009) D: Heinz Peter Schwerfel. 2:45 pm. The World According To Ion B (2009) D: Alexander Nanau. 4:30 pm.

Nam June Paik: Open Your Eyes (2010) D: Maria Anna Tappeiner. 7 pm. China, The Empire Of Art? (2010) D: Sheng Zhimin and Emma Tassy. 9 pm. sun 27 – This Not That: The Artist John Baldessari (2005) D: Jan Schmidt-Garre. 1 pm. Picture Start (2010) D: Harry Killas. 3:30 pm. Andreas Gursky: Long Shot Close Up (2009) D: Jan Schmidt-Garre. 5:30 pm.

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Cinemas Bloor Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-516-2330. BloorCinema.Com

thu 24 – Notorious (1946) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 4:30 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011) D: Kenneth Bowser. 7 pm. Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential: Carrie (1976) D: Brian De Palma. 9:15 pm.

Fri 25 – Blue Valentine (2010) D: Derek Cianfrance. 4:30 pm. South Of The Border (2009)

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China, the eMPire oF art?

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(Sheng Zhimin, Emma Tassy). 52 minutes. Some subtitles. Saturday (February 26), 9 pm. Rating: nnnn

Can so-called official art ever be truly powerful? How do politics change the way a people see and make art?

These are some of the pointed questions posed by China, The Empire Of Art?, a survey of China’s art scene from 1988 to the present day.

It traces the surge of Western interest in China’s vibrant contemporary art scene in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre – such strong interest that it has started to piss off some Chinese artists.

As the international audience for Chinese art grew in the 90s, artists worried that the West was having way too much influence on how they D: Oliver Stone. 7 pm. The Illusionist (2010) D: Sylvain Chomet. 9:30 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman.

11:30 pm. sat 26 – Blue Valentine. 4:30 & 9 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. sun 27 – The Illusionist. 2:30 pm. Blue Valentine. 4:30 pm. Academy Awards. 7 pm.

Mon 28 – The Illusionist. 4:30 pm. Notorious. 7 pm. Blue Valentine. 9:10 pm. tue 1 – 127 Hours (2010) D: Danny Boyle. 4:30 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. Blue Valentine. 9 pm.

Wed 2 – Hot Docs Doc Soup presents The Arbor (2010) D: Clio Barnard. Q&A w/ filmmaker to follow. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. $12. hotdocs.ca.

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Camera Bar 1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. CameraBar.Ca

sat 26 – Goin’ Down The Road (1970) D:

ñDonald Shebib. 3 pm. Free.

CinematheQue tiff Bell lightBox

reitman sQuare, 350 king W. 416-599-8433. tiff.net.

thu 24-Wed 2 – Human Rights Watch Film

Festival and Reel Artists Film Festival, see listings this page. sat 26 – The Princess Bride (1987) D: Rob Reiner. 2 pm. sun 27 – The Prowler (1951) D: Joseph Losey.

1 pm.

Mon 28 – Mansfield Park (1999) D: Patricia Rozema. 7 pm. tue 1 – The Prowler. 6:30 pm.

fox theatre

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.Ca

thu 24 – Classics From The Vault: King Kong

(1933) D: Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack. 7 pm. The Kids Are All Right (2010) D:

REEL ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL at the TIFF Bell Lightbox to Sunday (February 27). canadianart.ca/raff.

See listings, this page.

pursue their work. A video by Shang Huan, for example, shows a sow being persistently mounted by a boar. Both have words written on their bodies, the sow’s in Chinese, the boar’s in English.

Now that the country is starting to “open up,” young people are flocking to art schools, where they can tell you the name of every Western master but can’t name-check a single Chinese artist. The film’s feast of images of contemporary Chinese works created in the wake of Tiananmen demonstrates exactly what these kids are missing and how easily China could be stripped of real knowledge about its cultural development. susan G. CoLe Superb.

Jenny Holzer keeps it real.

This chronological account of the rise of American conceptual artist Jenny Holzer, while not exactly exploding the documentary genre, sheds light on an intriguing creative mind.

Using an ingenious mix of text, light and awareness of the power of archi-

tecture, Holzer makes works that comment on everything from advertising to the war in Iraq.

She began over 30 years ago with Truisms, textual observations that she projected onto buildings in ways that emulated advertisements and street art. The words, sometimes rhetorical, sometimes nonsensical, always make people think.

She’s since expanded the concept, putting text onto sculptures to protest rape in Bosnia, for example, and deepening her political commentaries beyond her original provocative wordplay.

What’s so wonderful about Holzer, apart from the work, is that she’s all Midwestern straight talk – she still spends much of her time on a farm in Ohio – and not the stereotypical effete, fashion-forward diva.

Yet she adapts to new environments and technologies in ways that always keep her relevant – even visGC sionary.

Lisa Cholodenko. 9:15 pm.

Fri 25 – True Grit (2010) D: Ethan and Joel Coen. 7 pm. The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell. 9:15 pm. sat 26 – Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (2010) D: Michael Apted. 2 pm. True Grit. 4:15 & 7 pm. The Fighter. 9:15 pm. sun 27 – Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. 2 pm. True Grit. 4:15 pm. Academy Awards. 7 pm.

Mon 28-tue 1 – The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 7 pm. True Grit.

9:20 pm.

Wed 2 – True Grit. 1:30 & 7 pm. The Fighter.

9:15 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

Fri 25 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 8 pm. sat 26 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 1, 3 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon, 4 & 8 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. sun 27 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm.

IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

Mon 28 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. tues 1-Wed 2 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

graham sPrY theatre

reg hartt’s Cineforum

aBout JennY hoLZer (Claudia Müller). 52 minutes. Some subtitles. Friday (February 25), 9 pm. Rating: nnn

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CBC museum, CBC BroadCast Centre, 250 front W, 416-205-5574. CBC.Ca

thu 24-Wed 2 – Continuous screenings, Mon

to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 24-Fri 25 – Passionate Eye: Thoroughly Modern Marriage.

national film Board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfB.Ca/mediatheQue

thu 24-Wed 2 – 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.

sat 26 – WILDSound Film Festival presents

short films, including Real Men Go Hunting D: Ryan Lynch, Silenzio In Valle D: Denise Tonella, Intermeezo D: Van Jan Dirk Peereboom Voller, and others. 7 pm. Free.

Wed 2 – Green Screens: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, short film program. 7 pm. Free.

ontario sCienCe Centre

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosCienCeCentre.Ca

thu 24 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

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463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 24 – Music & Film: Hangover Square (1945) D: John Brahm. 7 pm. sat 26 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival.

7 pm. sun 27 – Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, accompanied by the music of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album.

7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by the music of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

Mon 28 – You Can’t Take It With You (1938) D: Frank Capra. 7 pm. Henri Langlois: The Phantom Of The Cinematheque (2004) D: Jacques Richard. 9 pm. tue 1 – Gangs Of New York (2002) D: Martin Scorsese. 7 pm.

Wed 2 – Scarlet Street (1945) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm.

revue Cinema

400 ronCesvalles. 416-531-9959. revueCinema.Ca

Fri 25 – The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell.

7 pm. Inside Job (2010) D: Charles Ferguson.

9:15 pm. sat 26 – Tron: Legacy (2010) D: Joseph Kosinski. 1 pm. Toronto Ukrainian People’s Home presents Folk! (2010) D: Roxy Toporowych. 4 pm. Inside Job. 7 pm. The Fighter. 9:15 pm. sun 27 – Tron: Legacy. 1 pm. The Fighter. 3:30 pm. Inside Job. 5:30 pm. Academy Awards. 8 pm. Free.

Mon 28 – La Danse – Le Ballet De L’Opera De Paris. 1 pm. The Fighter. 7 pm. Inside Job. 9:15 pm. tue 1-Wed 2 – Marwencol (2010) D: Jeff Malmberg. 7 pm. The Company Men (2010) D: John Wells. 9 pm.

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the roYal

608 College. 416-534-5252. theroYal.to

thu 24 – Small Town Murder Songs (2010) D: Ed Gass-Donnelly. 7 pm. Lemmy (2010) D: Greg Olliver and Nes Orshoski. 9:15 pm.

Fri 25, sat 26, Mon 28 – Four Lions (2010) D: Christopher Morris. 7 & 9:15 pm. sun 27 – Four Lions. 4:30, 7 & 9:15 pm. tue 1-Wed 2 – Winds Of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers & The Spirits Of The Forest (2009) D: Michael Ostroff. 7 pm. Four Lions. 9:30 pm.

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toronto underground Cinema 186 sPadina ave, Basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundCinema.Com

thu 24 – Ghost (1990) D: Jerry Zucker. 7 pm.

Fri 25 – Exploitation Alley: Chained Heat (1983) D: Paul Nicholas. 9:30 pm. ñ sat 26 – A Night At The Roxbury (1998) D:

John Fortenberry. 7 pm. Breakin’ (1984) D: Joel Silberg. 9:30 pm. sun 27 – Ghost. 7 pm. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) D: Robert Rodriguez. 9:30 pm.

Wed 2 – Fright Night: Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) D: Ji-Woon Kim. 7 pm.

other films thu 24-Wed 2

– The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 24-Wed 2 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. thu 24 – Planet In Focus and Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers present Breathtaking: A Personal Investigation Into The Present-Day Use Of Asbestos D: Kathleen Mullen. Discussion with filmmaker and her family to follow screening. 7 pm. Pwyc. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. breathtakingfilm@gmail.com.

Fri 25 – CINSSU presents Cult Night Triple Bill:

Meet The Feebles (1990) D: Peter Jackson, Q: The Winged Serpent (1982) D: Larry Cohen, and Miami Connection (1987) D: YK Kim and Wook-Sang Park. 7 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. cinssu.ca. sat 26 – Ken Aldcroft In-Re-tro-Spective series presents a live soundtrack for silent film The General (1926) D: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton. 8 & 10 pm. Adv $10, $12. Somewhere There, 227 Sterling, unit 112. 416-530-0983.

South Asian Heritage Day at the ROM presents The Poetics Of Colour: Natvar Bhavsar, A Painter’s Journey (2011) D: Sundaram Tagore.

2:30 pm. Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Free with museum admission ($24 stu/srs $21, child $16, under 3 free). rom.on.ca.

Pleasure Dome presents Entropicana: The Joy Of Destruction program of film and video including Breakfast (Table Top Dolly) (1976) D: Michael Snow, Purna Virama (2009) D: Ujjwal Utkarsh and others. 7 pm. $8. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. 416-656-5577, pdome.org.

sun 27 – Toronto Jewish Film Society presents Surfwise (2007) D: Doug Pray. 4 & 7:30 pm. $15. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, milesnadaljcc.ca.

Mon 28 – Trans Inclusion Group screens XXY (2008) D: Lucia Puenzo. 6 pm. Free. The Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina.

416-978-8201, womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca.

Vom Media Festival presents a screening of Vixen Highway 2006 (2010) D: Tony Watt. 9 pm. YU Rock Cafe, 978 Pape. 647-342-3539.

Wed 2 – The Conscious Activism Documentary Series presents Soundtrack For A Revolution (2009) D: Bill Guttentag an Dan Sturman. 6:30 pm. Free. Hart House Library, 7 Hart House. harthouse.ca/docseries.

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thu 24 – La Danse – Le Ballet De L’Opera ñ De Paris (2009) D: Frederick Wiseman. ñ 6:30 pm. Dogtooth (2009) D: Giorgos Lanthimos. 9:30 pm.

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By ANDREW DOWLER

Due Date (WB, 2010) D: Todd Phillips, w/ Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galifianakis. Rating: N; DVD package: none

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Robert Duvall (left), Lucas Black and Bill Cobbs dig deep for Get Low.

Get Low (Sony, 2009) D: Aaron Schneider, w/ Robert Duvall, Bill Murray. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: N

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Duvall plays Bush in a simple, straightforward manner, but he comes across as a complex, conflicted and very smart man in his scenes with Murray and Sissy Spacek, who plays a woman from Felix’s past. A faint strain of Southern Gothic bubbles beneath the unforced humour but never gets too strong. The characters act more from their best impulses than from their worst.

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An unconventional, character-driven story, a dream cast who make the most of meaty roles, and beautiful painterly lighting easily overcome Get Low’s pedestrian pace to deliver a memorable, resonant drama.

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I wish I’d seen Megamind theatrically. The lively compositions and camera moves suggest that the 3-D is brilliant, and the beautifully detailed backgrounds need the pause button for home viewing.

Even on the small screen, the animation is lively and lovely. But it isn’t the kids’ movie it’s pretending to be. Really, it’s for people old enough to have spent too much time thinking critically about the Lex Luthor/Superman relationship.

Megamind, the Luthor figure, finally kills his nemesis, Metro Man, which plunges him into a relationship with spunky girl reporter Roxanne Ritchie and a bizarre plan to spice up his life.

Terrific city-trashing, comic battles and many flying scenes ensue.

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Due Date arrives packaged with a Blu-Ray disc, which, of course, gets all the extras. I suspect it’s no big loss.

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KING WEST/ DUFFERIN

Couples $60 Singles $30

1 BDRM GARDEN LEVEL HRDWOOD FLOORS* CERAMICS*UPDATED* 4 PIECE BATH*AVAIL IMMED/ $595+

2011 Dundas West. Call John 416-536-8824

416-588-8652 Downtown Bachelor Studio in Hotel Grange Hotel is located in the heart of the city, near Queen St. W. Chinatown & Kensington Mkt Unit suits 1-2 people, kitchenette, private bath with tub and shower, cable TV,free Wi-Fi. On-site parking available. Reasonable rates – Daily, Weekly, Monthly *** $43 per day based on 1 month stay.

416-603-7700 reservation@grangehotel.com

for rent - general !! ARTIST CO-OP !!

Great Opportunity to live among Artists in West-end Etobicoke Coop! Accepting applications from ARTISTS ONLY for membership.

1 Bdrm from $720+. Avail ASAP Please Call 416-255-3815 or Check out the Website for membership requirements @: www.lvactoronto.com

College / Spadina Daily, weekly, monthly (from $600) Pkg lndry SRs disc 416-921-2141

King / Jameson 87, 90, 91, 140 & 146 Jameson Bachelor $699, 1 Bdrm $819, 1 Bdrm lrg. $849, 2 bedroom $1089, 416-536-7805 www.metcap.com

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

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King & Jameson 87, 90, 91, 140 & 146 Jameson Bachelor 1 Bedroom O 2 Bedroom O O

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Sherbourne & Shuter

Bloor/Lansdowne Brand new 2 bdrm. apt. $1,400 everything incl. Fatima 416-656-1592 or Dina 416-723-6381

191 & 201 Sherbourne Ave N

Dupont/Lansdowne Two Bedroom - $1,275. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, undgrd, prkg, air. 416-516 -1166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com

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Richmond Hill Excellent OFFER! Very nice 2 bdrm, 2 bath, near major transportation hub, theatre, shopping at Yonge Street & Highway 7. 2 parking spaces, 1 locker, and ensuite laundry. $860 terry.grogars@hotmail.com

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for rent - 1 bdrm Dupont/Lansdowne One Bedroom - $950. 10'-14' ceilings.

Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-5161166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com

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AWESOME SPACE FOR LEASE at Lansdowne and Dundas, 500 to 25,000 sq. ft. in classic building avail. for artists, studios, indoor storage, film shoots, movie shoots and creative office space. From $8 sq. ft.

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416-588-8652 Wellington St. 1 bedroom 1 bath condo has the BEST location in The Heart Of The Entertainment And Financial District With Lots Of Restaurants, Theaters And Nightlife At Our Door; $850 jammes.dohers@hotmail.com 263 Wellington Street Toronto ON

416-537-4040 CUSTOMIZABLE STUDIOS FOR RENT according to customers or tenants willing. Any size you prefer. 50 Wade Ave. Call Fatima 416-656-1592 or Dina 416-723-6381

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

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By Dan Savage

I am 50 and a lesbIan. I have had a

retty active sex life for the last 30 years, p including a couple of long-term relationships. For the last three years I’ve been with a woman I love very much. We have amazing sexual chemistry – by far the best I have experienced.

For the last two years, I have noticed that my clitoris is getting bigger. Not transman-takes-testosterone big, but substantially bigger than it has ever been. I thought it was due to a big increase in sexual excitement, but it soon became clear that the enlargement was a permanent thing. It gets much more erect than it used to and often throbs or twitches after I come.

No one’s complaining. I am enjoying the heightened sexual arousal, and my girlfriend (who is very GGG) is thrilled. But why/how is this happening? Could it get even bigger? And why now? I hit menopause seven years ago, so it’s not some weird hormone surge. Could our sexual connection have caused this all by itself? I don’t really want to ask my gynecologist, though I did notice her checking out my equipment with wide eyes at my last checkup.

Stiffie Needs A Zipcode

“I always like to hear from people who are satisfied with their sex lives and relationships,” says author, sex researcher, vulva puppeteer and arch-rival sex advice columnist Debby Herbenick, and I have to agree. Most of our mail comes from people who are unhappy with their sex lives and/ or dissatisfied with their relationships. It’s always nice to hear from folks who are having fun.

What’s not so nice is that we sometimes

have to tell happy-and-satisfied folks that something may be seriously wrong.

“I would strongly encourage her to ask her gynecologist about her enlarged clitoris,” says Herbenick. “She should be very clear about the fact that it has increased in size.

She should let her know when she first noticed this and roughly how much she thinks it’s increased in size.”

If your gynecologist isn’t comfortable talking with you about your clit – if she just stands there gaping at it – get a new gynecologist.

Because your megaclit could be a symptom of something very, very serious.

“You need your doctor to examine your clit and rule out various medical conditions that could cause hormonal problems,” says Herbenick. “Sometimes these are benign health conditions; unfortunately, sometimes they include vulvar cancers, ovarian cancers and adrenal cancers that, for example, may present with symptoms including an enlarged clitoris.”

Some women believe their clitorises “grew” after menopause, but that’s not usually the case. When estrogen levels drop during menopause, other parts of the vulva – such as the labia – can become flatter or less prominent, which can in turn make the clitoris appear bigger. “However, she’s been in menopause for a long time,” says Herbenick, “and it sounds like the clitoral change happened well into menopause.” And amazing sex does not supersize clits: “High levels of arousal usually result in only a temporary swelling of the clitoris,” says Herbenick.

So make another appointment to see your doctor, SNAZ, “and keep asking questions until she’s sure that medical conditions, such as cancers, have been ruled out,” urges Herbenick.

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And, again, if your gynecologist doesn’t want to discuss it or was too stupid to spot what could be a symptom of common lady-parts cancers (!), time to get a new gynecologist.

my husband Is beautIful, awesome, etc. Unfortunately, his dick is small. It wasn’t

so bad our first few years together; he knows how to work what he’s got. But then I had a baby, and I tore. A few days later, my stitches tore. My six-week checkup turned out to be a poke in the stomach to confirm that my uterus was back in place, and when I asked why I couldn’t get restitched, the doctor told me, “Vaginas are very forgiving.” But a year later, Kegels aren’t helping and both of us are having trouble getting off.

He enjoys anal sex, but it’s not really fulfilling for me. I want to get a vaginoplasty to fit him, but I’ll have to wait till we’ve saved up enough money to pay for it.

Please, Dan, tell me how to have hotter sex with a small dick and a shredded kitty.

Unforgiving “Many women who have had multiple or traumatic births – and it sounds like she had a good deal of tearing – have some degree of prolapse,” says Herbenick. (A uterine prolapse, says the Wiki, “occurs when the female pelvic organs fall from their normal position into or through the vagina.”)

“If she did have prolapse,” says Herbenick, “she may be a candidate for anterior or posterior vaginal wall repair, which is quite similar to vaginal ‘rejuvenation’ surgeries, and then insurance may cover the surgery.

“Some people will wildly disagree with me

and say that women shouldn’t have surgery ‘to please their man,’ but I don’t see that here,” Herbenick adds. “I see two people who are married and want better sex, and she may have experienced some physical changes that have affected that.

And there are ways to fix it.”

Debby Herbenick is the associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and the author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide To Sexual Pleasure And Satisfaction, a book that I strongly recommend even though Debby once attacked me with a vulva puppet in a room full of people.

I lIve In ann arbor, mIchIgan.

Grange, a local restaurant, has a cocktail called “GGGinger.” Is it possible for a cocktail to be GGG? And how does it feel to have inspired one?

Curious Cocktail Connection A cocktail can’t be GGG, CCC, but a couple of cocktails – enough to take the edge off inhibitions, not so much to make consent unpossible – can induce GGG. And, I’m saddened to report, the GGGinger’s Gs refer to three of the gin-based cocktail’s ingredients – ginger beer, candied ginger, and ginger syrup – and not to the Savage Love meme “good, giving, and game.” Still, Grange co-owner Brandon Johns is confident that his GGGingers have inspired GGG behaviour all over Ann Arbor.

“It’s been our most popular drink since we opened,” says Johns, “so it must be doing something right. We also do pitchers of them, and when a couple shares one of those – let’s just say that something good is bound to come of that.”

And in other, more successful Savage Love memes…

Former U.S. senator and current presidential candidolt Rick Santorum “opened up” to Roll Call last week about his “long-time Google problem,” aka “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex” and always the number-one search result when you Google the former senator’s last name.

“It’s one guy,” Santorum told Roll Call.

“You know who it is…. It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues.”

I do have issues – I have lots of issues – but I take particular issue with politicians who compare loving, stable same-sex relationships to “man on dog” sex, as Santorum has done, or who would ban same-sex marriage and adoptions by same-sex couples, as Santorum has promised to do if he gets elected president. But the lowercase s santorum campaign wasn’t “one guy.” A lot of people were involved – from the Savage Love reader who first suggested that we redefine your name to all the folks who’ve written about it over the years (thanks, Roll Call!) – just like a lot of people were involved in turning Rick Santorum out of office in 2006, an election he lost by an 18-point santorumslide.

The website that’s still giving Rick Santorum fits – spreadingsantorum.com – hasn’t been updated since 2004. But we’re going to be relaunching the site in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

F ind the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/ savage. mail@savagelove.net

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