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carla gillis’s article on the lack of all-ages shows in Toronto (NOW, February 24-March 2) hit a relevant issue. As a promoter, however, I must say that while I sometimes hear complaints from kids who are unable to get into my shows, I have never once been asked by a minor to put on an all-ages show. Why should I go to the extra trouble of making shows open to all when those under 19 aren’t willing to even ask me to put on all-ages shows? If you don’t like the way it is, speak up! Marc Herscovitch Toronto

toronto teens are lucky that there are any shows to go to at all. I grew up in Kingston in the 90s, where if a cool band came to town (almost never), it was always at a bar, and young kids were stuck outside. My advice to teenagers is to get off their asses and start promoting shows and not look to adults to do it for them. When I was a teenager, the only option was to rent a church basement and throw a show. We made enough to pay for the venue, got to play, see bands and run it our way. Jackson Main Toronto

Private cash for Sheppard

despite mayor rob ford’s illogical plan to build subways in low-density corridors like Sheppard and Eglinton (NOW, February 24-March 2), he is onto something when he suggests that new transit can be financed by collecting the (unearned) rise in local land values.

New transit can make a local econ omy more productive. Normally this additional wealth is quickly capital ized into local land values, and nor mally most of the new wealth dis appears into the pockets of those who own this land. Ford is suggesting that much of this “economic rent” could be collect ed to finance the infrastructure. However, “taxincrement finan cing” only works if the subways are warranted, which is probably not the case here. Frank de Jong

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letter writer g. lee states that Ford means no harm and is simply cutting costs in wasteful spending to prevent cuts in services (NOW, Febru ary 24March 2). Ford has stated openly that he does not want to increase government housing or shelters, though they are greatly needed. He has even cut these services. How are shelters and govern ment housing “wasteful spending”? These are people’s lives we are talking about. Don’t kid yourself. Ford has no idea what it’s like to be struggling for rent and food. I am ashamed that this man repre sents the city of Toronto when he un derstands very little about the beauty that is our city and its needs. Jo Allison Toronto

BlogTO’s search for meaning

let me get this straight. because in Joshua Errett’s opinion blogTO isn’t a “social network” or “user review site,” that means we’re not allowed to create a directory of places in the city (NOW, February 24March 2)? Every day we get emails from our readers asking us to add stores, res taurants and other local businesses to our site. There’s nothing malicious about this, nor is it an example of “content farming.” Adding an original photo and basic info about Sushi & Salad allows our readers to discover it as a dining op tion should they be looking for a place to eat near Bay and Dundas. What are you actually suggesting we do instead? Not add a business to our directory unless we do a full blown review? Tim Shore blogTO, Toronto

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Radiohead, limb from limb

maybe if benjamin boles had listened to The King Of Limbs a few more times for his Radiohead review (NOW, February 24-March 2), he would have found that nearly every song has a verse and a chorus, and surprisingly strong hooks. It’s a record that requires multiple listens and the abandonment of expectations. It really is great. At least he discussed the music a bit, unlike last week’s PJ Harvey review (NOW, Febraury 17-23). That was the worst review I’ve ever read, and I can’t believe it was published. It said absolutely nothing about the record. It would have been passable if

Has UN abandoned Libya?

i was so upset watching the barbaric rampage being inflicted in the streets of Tripoli, I had trouble sleeping last night. U.S. President Barack Obama gave a milquetoast speech while the blood of hundreds flowed. Obama looked like an ineffectual relief teacher admonishing a spitball-hurling class clown, while AK-47-toting mercenaries used innocent people for target practice. I lost it at 3 am and started shouting obscenities at the gormlessness I was witnessing on the TV screen. Why aren’t UN peacekeepers saving the citizens of Tripoli? Chris Faiers Marmora, Ontario NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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on nelly regrets gaddafi gig (NOW Daily, February 28). I would have to agree with Steven Page’s remark [“So it was OK to accept money from Gadhafi in 2007?”] about Nelly Furtado. I think the Furtado camp, by [revealing] her $1 million gig for him in 2007, [was only trying to pre-empt] criticism that would have arisen once her involvement with the Libyan dictator was uncovered. The dollars she received were just as bloodstained then as now. MoodBucket

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Who Kenneth Crisses. He’s not fall-down drunk, he’s wrestling. What Fight! Pro Wrestling at the Tranzac When 3:41 pm, Sunday, February 27

Booze laws The province decides to start treating Ontarians like adults (sort of) and relax booze regs at festivals and tailgate parties. Can beer in corner stores be far behind for a government in pre-election pollwatching mode?

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The birds of prey are making a big comeback in T.O. Our team of field naturalists spotted the raptors in the Don Valley, Downsview Park and on the steeple of St. Michael’s Cathedral in recent weeks. The Toronto Ornithological Club website lists sightings at Eglinton West station, atop several apartment roofs and over High Park.

An elegant example of Leaside’s industrial heritage, the Canadian Northern Railway Eastern Lines Locomotive Shop, circa 1919, is about to become a giant grocery store and anchor for a new shopping mall. The stretch of Laird near the CNR site already has big-box retail up the wazoo, including a recently revamped mall just up the street near Eglinton. But pols on council pushing the development insist the mall will be on a more human scale, something akin to the Shops at Don Mills. Now we can feel reassured.

Police blotter Here’s a shocker. The Toronto police report going to the Police Services Board today (Thursday March 3) says T.O. cops are using “good judgment” when firing tasers. Not exactly on target. Stats suggest that police continue to deploy the stun guns disproportionately against emotionally disturbed people. Of 210 incidents when police fired tasers in 2010, almost half involved disturbed persons, half of whom officers believed to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Police reported one unauthorized use of a taser in all of 2010, by a sergeant against two handcuffed suspects.

Food security The European Union, Canada’s largest export market for soybeans, approves a new rule that will, if adopted by the European Commission, allow imports of animal feed with trace elements of genetically modified material.

City Hall watchers The exodus has begun. Deputy city managers Sue Corke and Richard Butts, it was revealed this week, are leaving City Hall. Corke has been in her position since 2005. Butts was appointed in 2007.

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hat’s happening along the Mediterranean shores of Africa, where the world’s first agricultural revolution happened some 10,000 years ago, is one sign that the empires built by cheap oil and food are in for a shakedown. My bet is that the current worldwide food price hike – the second in less than five years – will match the rise in oil prices in terms of its wrenching geopolitical impact. The two, of course, are intimately connected. Food can’t be fertilized and shipped without imports of cheap fossil fuels, and people in areas near the oil-rich Arab world cannot eat without imports of cheap food. The rise in food and oil prices in 2007-08 caused mass outbreaks of rioting in some 40 countries, a reminder of how much desperation increased food prices cause for some 3

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Increase in world price index from a year ago Increase between October 2010 and January 2011 Increase in sugar prices Increase in price of fats and oils Increase in wheat prices Increase in price of maize Number of people recent food hikes have pushed into extreme poverty

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bi l l ion people. Oil price hikes, on the other hand, mainly create anger for the affluent. The full effect of those soaring prices was cut short by its sidekick, the world recession of 2007-08,

which captured attention while depressing prices. As a result, few noticed that no major government did anything to deal with the structural fundamentals behind this rise in food prices: deepseated shifts like population growth,

urbanization, climate chaos, destruction of fishing grounds, meat-eating and other resource-intensive Americanizations of world food-ways. This is quite apart from the significant shift of farmland from food to car fuel production and the rise of financial speculation in food commodities. There are so many factors at work, it’s safe to refer to price hikes as “overdetermined,” to use a weird term from leftist liturgy. Despite urgings from bodies like the World Bank, no major government has spent serious money on research or programs to increase agricultural production. That’s been left entirely to the private sector and the dubious inventions of chemical-seed giants like Monsanto. Ignoring a crisis does not make it

go away. Rising food prices are inevitable, and this second round is almost certain to be followed by several more. In Canada, according to a February report by Capital Economics consultant David Madani, groceries will go up a sticker-shocking 5 per cent this year. In countries where the low-income majority spend half their income on imports of basic staples of rice, wheat and corn – this describes Arabic regions of Africa to a T – minor shifts in food prices can wreak havoc. In North America, where plentiful and convenient foods cost as little as

10 per cent of family budgets, the impact is less jarring, except for those on low and fixed incomes. Nevertheless, it’s estimated that 40 million Americans are now food-insecure, dependent on charity, food stamps and other aid for a full stomach. In Canada, where both charities and government pay less heed to food access than south of the border, I’m not aware that any officials have even attempted to calculate impacts – an omission that screams out how unprepared Canadian government safety nets and social organizations are on this issue.

Other than in the Anglo-American bubble, where food access is deemed an issue unworthy of public policy and the poor are largely left to their own devices, leading nations get it. The G20 group of most wealthy nations has put food security at the top of its to-do list for this year. Other than war and mass drought, food is as close as it gets to the real bottom line. The bottom line is that the foundation stones of relatively cheap food – the international norm since the 1970s, when the government of Richard Nixon (would you buy a used food system from him?)

subsidized U.S. flooding of export markets with basic grains, beans and meat – are cracked. We now need to think in dramatically different ways. Here’s where to begin.

THREE STEPS TO A NEW FOOD SYSTEM 1) CONSERVATION It’s an obvious priority when as much as half the world’s food production is currently wasted, according to Vaclav Smil, Canadian geographer and global expert on this issue. To date, T:10” despite Smil’s and my rants, no gov-

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local eggs (Ontario’s smashed eggs, used in all mass-service institutions, come from Manitoba) and local fruit and veggie processing.

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3) FOOD ACCESS AS PUBLIC POLICY Governments should guarantee food basics in the same way they guarantee other essentials: medical care, education, roads, public broadcasting. Political leaders will have to step up to the plate or, like the once-stable governments of north Africa, be sent packing. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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EIGHT SURE SIGNS FROM LAST WEEK’S FINAL BUDGET DEFIBRILLATION THAT ROB FORD’S CITY HALL IS QUICKLY DESCENDING INTO THE DEEPEST, DARKEST REACHES OF HELL. (NO, REALLY). By ENZO DiMATTEO Giorgio Mammoliti makes the left his bitch. Mammo seems to be warming to his special seat in the chamber next to the man with absolute power. Some of Ford’s mojo must be rubbing off on the councillor from have-not York West. There’s this breezy air about Giorgio. He barely breaks a sweat during council meetings. It’s like he’s on a beach somewhere picking up chicks, which may explain his “You can spank me later” suggestion to Councillor Janet Davis. All in good fun, of course, the cut and thrust of politics being what it is. Giorgio Mammoliti: too smooth for words.

out of 44 agin it. The mayor’s handlers have been scrupulous about controlling the man and the message, but there’s no saving Ford from the devil inside.

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Rob Ford experiences another attack of homophobia. Still struggling with his inner gay, His Worship pulled a huge boner – he voted no to funding from the province for an HIV/AIDS screening program. It wouldn’t have looked so bad, except Ford’s was the only vote

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Doug Holyday boogies to a different beat. The biggest penny-pincher on council performed a nifty jig for the TV cameras after council voted to blow $3 million on consultants – to find “gravy” in the city bureaucracy that isn’t there. (Think George Bush and weapons of mass destruction.) Holyday’s pièce de résistance: blaming the left for making the $3 mil public. Yeah. Now consultants will know how much money has been put aside for this political exercise and take advantage, Holyday said. Why the allocation was hidden in the fine print in the first place is another question, of course. Lefty mainstay Gord Perks does the unthinkable: he votes yes on Ford’s budget. Of course it was a mistake. Perks got his redo after rising to ask – no, beg – for another vote. But then, in another Twi-

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light Zone moment, Councillor Frank Di Giorgio, part of the mushy middle keeping Ford afloat, mistakenly voted no on the budget. All of which confirms what we’ve suspected since Ford rode into office with his special-edition Ronald Reagan voodoo economics: that the council chamber is possessed by demons.

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Frances Nunziata stars in her own onewoman show. Perfect timing and great oneliners – all that’s missing from the council speaker’s routine are colourful balloons. Hear the one about Shelley Carroll and the itchy mike? Pretty soon Nunziata will be taking her show on the road. She performs a little magic, too, managing, for example, to make the $774 million elephant sitting in the room (also known as next year’s budget deficit) disappear with a wave of her pen. She ruled out-of-order any discussion on the matter. How’s that for a joke?

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Ford true believers are beginning to speak in tongues. In Rob Ford’s Toronto, the big lie is that services are not being “cut.” They are being “reallocated,” “reorganized” or “capped.” And “inculcating culture change” is not code for privatization or Harris-style slash-and-burn. It’s not so nefarious as that. Honestly. It’s as Councillor Peter Milczyn says, “doing better without taking more from taxpayers.” So beautiful in its simplicity

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.John Parker channels... something. Parker’s enthusiasm for cutting the crap out of the Tenant Defence Fund and grants for tenants groups was one for the books. His problem: tenant orgs, which may include members of the NDP (horrors!), are receiving money from the city. And engaging in political activity. It’s not like Parker is close to lobbyists who may have powerful landlords as clients, right? Among Ford’s inner circle, the peer pressure to join the schoolyard bullying is spreading like a bad case of bedbugs. Even working stiffs like Councillor Paul Ainslie, perhaps feeling a little diminished by the testosterone-fuelled alpha males around him, are taking cheap shots. The councillor from Scarborough East, really overreached with an ill-advised attack on Josh Matlow. Ainslie suggested that the rookie councillor’s motion to reinstate funding to the Office of the Ombudsman was a veiled attempt to curry favour with that office should Matlow ever become the subject of a future probe. Harsh. Except the ombudsman probes constituents’ complaints, not the conduct of councillors. That’s the integrity commissioner’s job. Ainslie was left with egg on his face. Sometimes the bully loses. enzom@nowtoronto.com

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it’s pretty annoying watching there will be no full disclosure of the Western leaders go on about the sac events of late June without a broad red rights of Arab protesters, consid public inquiry. ering the way our governments have Not that there isn’t a flurry of over refined crowd control tech and tac sight activity. To date we have one tics designed to scare their own acti completed ombudsman’s report, one vists off the streets. officer heading to court, two Special And speaking of discouraging Investigations Unit probes ongoing, public expression, the Canadian Civil and, yet to come, a systemic review Liberties Association and the Nation by the Office of the Independent Po al Union of Public and General Em lice Review Director, a Police Services ployees released their G20 investiga internal investigation, a parliament tion, Breach Of The Peace, on Monday, ary committee report, a review by February 28. the Police Services Board and one by The document, based on three the Commission for Public Com days of truly paranoia inducing tes plaints Against RCMP. Blackwood NOW_ad_fa_Layout 1 11-02-22 11:05 AM the Page 1 timony in November, makes clear Lot’s of dossiers, but so little confi

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Getting to the bottom of G20 police action will require an overarching inquiry, not just a stack of reports.

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all it policy-making by stealth. A little tweak of Canadian Border Services Agency regulations, and suddenly women’s shelters in the city are one step down from the inviolate sanctuaries they need to be. It was just four months ago that a coalition of groups wrested a city-only directive from the local wing of CBSA that prevented agents from entering or waiting outside shelters or anti-violence spaces. But the activists campaigning for the change had little time to celebrate their humanitarian victory. On February 11, the head office of CBSA issued a national decree that effectively overrode the local understanding. Community organizer Nora Currie was one of about 10 people called to a meeting with CBSA that morning, presumably to discuss their hard-fought arrangement. She said the Border Services officials at first denied anything had changed. Eventually, Currie’s group, which included representatives from the anti-violence and immigration advocacy communities, was presented with the new policy, which allows agents to enter shelters seeking those under deportation orders. “This was clearly problematic and the opposite of what had formerly been negotiated,” she says. “At that point we disbanded the meeting and asked CBSA to leave.” Many in that community say women without legal status may now have to

choose between assault and being forced to leave the country. “Everyone should be able to access services no matter what their status,” says “Sarah,” a front-line worker who asked NOW to withhold her real name to safeguard her clients’ confidentiality. “I hope [the change] doesn’t affect that, but I think it probably will.” Sarah, who’s worked in emergency spaces, health clinics and other facilities for abused women, was once at a shelter when immigration agents came looking for a client. She says it violated the promise of safety shelters work hard to provide. Abusers, she says, often call immigration officials to report their estranged partners, leading victims to view CBSA agents as an extension of their abuser’s power. The new policy, obtained by NOW, details the steps agents must take in order to enter such a facility. “While cases where a foreign national enters a women’s shelter require heightened sensitivity, the obligation to investigate and remove the individual does not cease to exist in those circumstances,” states the policy, which hadn’t been executed anywhere as of February 18, according to CBSA. It was put in place to ensure that the service conducts investigations with sensitivity, spokesperson Sabrina Mehes tells NOW. “Under the directive, CBSA officers will enter shelters only under the most critical of circumstances, such as for security risks and criminals, both of whom pose potential

threats to residents staying at shelters and the public at large,” she says. At Red Door Shelter, which often supports women who have fled to Canada to escape a violent partner, executive director Bernnitta Hawkins says the policy “interferes with our ability to provide protection. We had been given assurances that Border Services would not come in. It could spread like wildfire that shelters do not provide the protection these women need.” Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow, the NDP Immigration critic, says the change could mean more kids in jail, as women usually take their children when fleeing violence. Children can be taken into custody with their mothers whether they are Canadianborn or not, Chow says, noting that 15 to 20 kids are detained in Canada on any given night. “It leaves psychological scars,” she said, citing studies that link childhood detention to psychological problems, bedwetting and delayed intellectual development. Chow says she’d like to see health clinics, schools, childcare centres, shelters and hospitals deemed off-limits to immigration enforcement. The new regulations, says Farrah Miranda, an organizer with migrants-rights group No One Is Illegal, only add to an already difficult situation for undocumented women. “This makes for a doubly traumatizing experience and sends a message to abusers that they are free to abuse women with no status.” 3

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There are no good studies on the impact of using peroxide tooth whiteners year after year. ed with chemical fillers. You can also take the DIY route, like, say, baking soda, which, as your grandpa will tell you, is a decent abra sive whitener. But brushing the powder straight onto your teeth can cause major irritation and long-

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Internet-spawned techniques for getting things done By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT A mind as cluttered as a hard drive. A common problem for developers, which is why that community has latched on to productivity-improving methods. This week, I tried a few. Email on a diet “Hi friend! Sorry, I missed your email. Either I mistakenly deleted it or it just got lost in the shuffle. But that’s not important. The only thing that matters is I’m here now....” That’s my stock response to friends when I miss emails. It smooths over any grievances about my non-reply. But that strategy can’t work forever. So I experimented with the famous In-

box Zero, the message management system where you keep your inbox clear of any email at all times. This means you have to delete or move all old emails into folders. Basically, you have to deal with every message that comes in when it comes in. Your inbox should be perpetually empty, with all your read and sent emails neatly organized in folders. The idea comes from Merlin Mann, who’s made a career out of his empty inbox. He calls it action-based email. “I’m writing a book about Inbox Zero,” he says, slated for 2011, “which you may

have heard of. If you have, you’re probably sick of it.” He’s right. Inbox Zero feels like the South Beach Diet, a passing fad that may temporarily slim down your inbox, but soon enough you’ll gain everything back with a vengeance. When I used Mann’s Inbox Zero, it merely spread my emails over an unruly number of folders. Eventually, I forgot which folder contained which emails. (Finding a dinner invite from a friend at work meant checking folders for “invites,” “work” and “friends,” only to see it afterwards in a “work friends” folder.) I pared down the folders to “needs reply” and “replied,” but both were as haphazard as my unfiltered inbox. I spent more time moving emails around than writing them, and moving emails is a feeble way to spend your time. (My solution: the ingenious Send & Archive function in Gmail Labs. Look into it!) Catch up on tasks As a university student in Rome, Francesco Cirillo had trouble focusing. Not helping was the anxiety he felt as time slipped away with every break he took. Using an everyday kitchen timer, he carved up his study time into 25-minute blocks. After 25, he’d take a break, on LylaLavan_NOW_3.83x5.5.pdf the assumption that his brain required a rest every 25 minutes, and then move

on to a different subject. He called these blocks of time “pomodoros,” Italian for tomatoes, named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer he used. Cirillo’s style became the Pomodoro Technique. Of all the non-software productivity tools, this one is the most sensible. It doesn’t require mad documentation or physically moving stuff around. Cirillo even offers his book as a free download. I’ve considered taking this one to the next level and walking out of meetings that take longer than 25 minutes. “Sorry, I’m on Pomodoro time!” Doing things Getting Things Done is the cult book that inspired almost all forms of life hacking, including Gawker’s Life Hacker website. In 2002, author David Allen urged everyone to document. Record all your tasks, big and small, on a list and cross them off when you’re done. What many of us already call to-do lists, Allen calls next-action lists. Each item is not only an action but a concrete action. Instead of “get a new job,” it would be “find resumé,” “write cover letter,” “go to LinkedIn” and so on. The feeling of fulfillment as you cross off each easy task propels you on 1 27/02/11 PM to the next. The 9:10 endgame is an empty mind, when all your tasks vamoose off

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your list and out of your mind. Dismantling individual projects into manageable bits makes it all easier. However, the goal of Zen – emptying your mind – is creepy, especially considering Allen’s connection to a church called Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. Getting Things Done may have little to do with that seemingly harmless New Age church. But if you live life always aiming for an empty mind, does life not become an endless series of cluttering tasks? Isn’t the point of all this productivity to not feel like that? 3 joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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billy Elliot (Canadian Paraplegic Assoc) Per-

formance of the hit musical and pre-show reception. 5 pm. $125-$600. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-422-5644 ext 231.

grEat Canadian MusiC FroM thE 2000’s

(MusiCounts) NOW music editor Benjamin Boles interviews Brendan Canning from Broken Social Scene, Justin Rutledge and Royal Wood as part of NOW Talks. 7 pm. $5 (Tickets at NOW Magazine). NOW Lounge, 189 Church. nowtoronto.com. hEarts For sMarts (Canada-Mathare Education Trust) Party supporting high school education in Kenya. 7:30-midnight. $30. Peridot, 81 Bloor E. cmetrust.org. MorE FinE girls (Times Change Women’s Employment Svs) Performance of the play and a reception. 8 pm. $50. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. timeschange.org. shadoW box (Textile Museum of Canada) Silent auction of original art and a cocktail reception. 6:30 pm. $35. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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thE artist projECt toronto Works by con-

temporary artists, art chats, competitions, a 3-D world lounge, opening-night party and more. To Mar 6. $12, stu/srs $8, children free, opening night $25. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. astronoMiCal ConnECtions Astronomy talk and telescope observing. 8:10-10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. astro. utoronto.ca. thE bluE CovEnant Panel on clean drinking water with environmental law prof Bruce Pardy and others. 7 pm. $18. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. CanCEr and MEdiCal hErbalisM Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

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Canadian MusiC WEEK Performances by

more than 800 local and international artists including Adam Jones, Janelle Monae, Shad, J Mascis and Land of Talk at 55 venues plus a conference. cmw.net. Mar 9 to 13 rsugarbush MaplE syrup FEstival Demonstrations, pancake breakfasts, wagon rides and more. $9, srs/child $6.50. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 416-667-6299, maplesyrupfest.com. Mar 5 to Apr 10

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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 l.i.v.E. hip hop FEstival International and local artists, live art demos, discussions, exhibits, mural-making and more. Free w/ food or clothing donation. Ryerson University. urbanhiphopunion.com. To Mar 5 nEW CrEations Toronto Symphony Orches-

don’t thinK tWiCE about japanEsE politiCs, it’s all right Lecture by Waseda University

prof Masaru Kohno. 7 pm. Free. Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor W. jftor.org/rsvp.php. EnvironMEntal CarEEr day Job fair for university/community college students. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. careerdayuoft@gmail.com.

FluoridE in drinKing WatEr: bEnEFits and risKs Talk by professor/dentist Hardy Lime-

back. 4:10-6 pm. Free. U of T Rosebrugh Bldg, rm RS208, 4 Taddle Creek. learn.environment. utoronto.ca. grand hoMEs oF thE hudson vallEy Architectural tour with Bob Roden. 8:15 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. wtjhs.ca.

Missing and MurdErEd aboriginal WoMEn Awareness conference with workshops on prevention and empowerment. Today and tomorrow 9 am-4 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. Pre-register 416-9649087. sMall FirM on a boistErous sEa Small Design Firm founder David Small talks about his adventures creating software, electronics and typography. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. OCAD, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

tra festival of new works by John Adams, R Murray Schafer and others. $32 and up. Various venues. 416-593-4828, tso.ca. To Mar 10 toronto indiE rEsto FEst Local independent restaurants offer special lunch and dinner menus with partial proceeds to Second Harvest. $23 dinner, lunch $17. facebook/ torontoindierestofest. To Mar 11

spaCing spEaKs Spacing Magazine salon on urban issues with architecture photographer Peter MacCallum, visual artist Cindy Blazevic and graphic designer Rick/Simon. 7 pm. $5. Fort York, 250 Fort York. spacing.ca. talKing stats 2: blaCK and WhitE Black and white youths discuss race, culture and the kids next door. 7:30 pm. Free. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. darren@ tendency.ca.

Friday, March 4

Benefits

girl Fight (Nellie’s Shelter) Women’s boxing

match and music by Bangs + Blush. 7-10 pm. $20 adv. 99 Sudbury. wanttickets.com/girlfight. roCK thE globE (Global Youth Network) Concert with Slightly Left, Elos Arma and others. 9 pm. $10. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. myglobalyouthnetwork.org. to laos With lovE (hill tribes of Laos) Concert with Julia Campisi and Meri Perez plus a presentation on Laos. 7:30-9:30 pm. Donation. 519 Church Community Centre. tolaoswithlove. blogspot.com.

on past lives, near-death experiences, soul contracts and more. To Mar 7. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front W. Pre-register wisdomannex.com. ConsuMing Kids Screening of a documentary on corporate advertising to children, followed by a discussion. 7:15-9:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. centreofgravity.ca. disCovEr sCuba Scarborough Underwater Club open house. 1:30-4:30 pm. Free w/ food donation. Scarborough Centennial Rec Centre, 1967 Ellesmere. suci.ca. golF and travEl shoW Lessons, golf equipment and more. Today noon-7 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Mar 6, 10 am-5 pm. $15, online $13, srs $11, children free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. torontogolfshow.com. thE gospEl oF artstars Lecture by culture critic Nadja Sayej. 5-7 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. thE grEat ExtratErrEstrial dEbatE Symposium on the search for life in the universe. 7-9:30 pm. $10-$20. MacLeod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. cficanada.ca/ontario/ events. nEW MEdiCinEs & global hEalth Lecture by professor Anita McGahan. 10-11:30 am. Free. Health Sciences Bldg, 155 College. elayna. fremes@utoronto.ca. rEasonablE doubt – 9/11 Chemistry professor Niels Harrit talks about 9/11 with an emphasis on how nano-thermite was used. 7 pm. $15, adv $12. Sidney Smith Hall, rm 2102, 100 St George. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. rEFlECtions on thE rEClaMation Discussion on Haudenosaunee land rights struggles and non-native aliance-bulding with Cheyenne Williams and others. 7 pm. Free. Reagle Beagle, 335 Bloor W. workersassembly.ca. sEE yoursElF hErE Open house for aspiring law students from underrepresented communities. 10 am-2:30 pm. Free. U of T Faculty of Law, 78 Queen’s Park Cres. seeyourselfhere. eventbrite.com. toronto biCyClE shoW A flatland freestyle competition, mountain bike competition, accessories and more. Today noon-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Mar 6, 10 am-6 pm. $13, stu/ srs $8, under 5 free. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. bicycleshowtoronto.com. toronto roCK laCrossE The Rock play Philadelphia. 7:30 pm. $15-$25. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. torontorock.com. trEEhousE talKs Short talks on various subjects by Joseph Ogbonna, Sheila McCook and Jordan Peterson. 6:20-8 pm. Free. MaRS Centre, 101 College. treehousetalks.com. 24-hour CodE-a-thon Participants develop

apps for the new Windows Phone 7 in 24 hours. Noon. Free. Ryerson Digital Media Zone, AMC-502, 10 Dundas E. ryerson.ca/dmz. What’s your art stylE? Art Stylists Manny Neubacher and Anya Shor offer tips to the first-time art buyer as part of The Artist Project. 7-8 pm. Free w/ admission ($8-$12). Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. a World Without nuClEar WEapons British Royal Navy Commander Robert Green talks about security without nuclear deterrence. 7:30-9:30 pm. Free. Earth Sciences Centre, rm B142, 5 Bancroft. 416-978-3606.

Saturday, March 5

Benefits

an EvEning oF Earth, Wind, FirE & WatEr

(Starlight Children’s Fdn) Gala hosted by eTalk Daily’s Ben Mulroney. 6 pm. $350. Allstream Centre, 100 Princes’. 905-752-7827 ext 236.

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aboriginal round danCE Big drum dance and potluck feast. 6 pm-midnight. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087. absolutEly vintagE Sale of men’s and women’s clothing and more from the 1890s to the 1970s. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Maple Cottage, 62 Laing. 416-463-1254. ECo-Fashionista sWap MEEt Jewellery and accessories swap. 11 am-noon. $8. Green Instead, 200 Spadina. swapcity.ca. rK’nEx bridgE building Learn basic engineering principles. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. MElony Ward and thE artists A Canadian Art magazine panel discussion with artists is part of The Artist Project. 1-2 pm. Free w/ admission ($8-$12). Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. position as dEsirEd: a syMposiuM on idEntity Panel discussions on creating a space for

African Canadian artists with curator Kenneth Montague and others. 9 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rsuMo robot ChallEngE 2011 Homemade robots compete in head-to-head combat. 1:30-4 pm. $5, stu/child $2. OCAD, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

transCEnding thE bordEr: dialoguEs on thE ChallEngEs oF hispaniola Symposium

with panel discussions and talks. 8 am-5 pm. $50, stu $25. Glendon College, 2275 Bayview. Pre-register 416-440-9297.

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Collaborative artists Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins discuss Toronto’s art market. 3-4 pm. Free w/ admission ($8-$12). Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. WinTer WaTerfoWl evenT Learn about the many species of ducks that winter in the park. 10 am-noon. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. 416-661-6600 ext 5770.

Sunday, March 6

Benefits

ToronTo’s 177TH-BirTHday CeleBraTion

(Toronto’s First Post Office) Evening of drama, music and dancing. 7:30 pm. $25. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-865-1833.

Events

Body & Mind: nourisH, enriCH and expand

International Women’s Day event with health and wellness info, samples and more plus a performance of Brothel #9. 12:30-5:30 pm. $15-$40. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. factorytheatre.ca.

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Toronto Arts Council’s William Huffman explores mythologies and misconceptions about the art world. 3-4 pm. Free w/ fair ad-

mission ($8-$12). Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. THe ins and ouTs of anal play All-genders workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. THe Joy of aBsTraCTion Art columnist Betty Ann Jordan identifies key areas and terms relating to abstraction in art. 1-2 pm. Free w/ fair admission ($8-$12). Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theartistprojecttoronto.com. sTudy and Go aBroad fair Seminars and info on post-secondary university options. 1-6 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. info@recruitincanada.com. TallGrass prairie of souTHern onTario Toronto Field Naturalists illustrated lecture. 2:30 pm. Free. Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org.

Art Gallery of York U, Fine Arts and Ian MacDonald. beitzatoun.org. real food for a CHanGe Talk on whether our food system can promote health by professor Rod McRae. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. voiCes risinG International Women’s Day event with live music and spoken word by Brenda MacIntyre, Lara Bozabalian and others. 5-8 pm. Pwyc. Underground @ York U, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/rights/iwd2011.htm.

Tuesday, March 8

Benefits

inTernaTional WoMen’s day open House

Book Club meets to discuss Dirk Hayhurst’s The Bullpen Gospels. 7 pm. Free. Opera Bob’s, 1112 Dundas W. 416-536-5585. HoW To drive your Man Wild Women-only workshop. 7-9 pm. $43. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

(Parkdale Anti-Violence Education Working Group) Infant massage demos, talks and more. Noon-8 pm. $5 sugg. All One Holistic Clinic, 141 Roncesvalles. 416-439-9769. kiTCHen sisTers (Sistering) Dinner prepared by chefs including Donna Dooher plus a silent auction. 6 pm. $500. Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, 85 Hanna. 416-926-9762 ext 243. THe vaGina MonoloGues (Nellie’s Shelter) Fundraising performance of the Eve Ensler monologue play. 7 pm. $15. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. cwse@utoronto.ca.

inTerroGaTinG aparTHeid: CaMpus as a siTe of resisTanCe Talks by Judy Rebbick, Abbie

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Monday, March 7

GeTTinG Booked Getting Blanked Baseball

Bakan and others. 7-9 pm. Free. U of T FitzGerlald Bldg, rm 103, 150 College. torontoapartheidweek.org. Jenin CineMa sCHool Interactive afternoon with Palestinian filmmakers. 12:30-2:30 pm.

Events

preserving workshop. 6-9 pm. $50. Parkdale Neighbourhood Church, 201 Cowan. Pre-register westendfood.coop. david Henry HWanG The playwright/screenwriter/librettist speaks with David Yee about his work, life and philosohies. 7 pm. $10, stu/ srs $5. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849.

inTernaTional WoMen’s day CeleBraTion

Evening of stories, entertainment and empowerment with keynote speaker Jean Augustine. 5:30-8 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746. THe keyHole sessions The racy life drawing group meets for a session with live models. 7:30-10:30 pm. $15. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. thekeyholesessions.com. MiCHael adaMs – BooMer iMpaCT The author and pollster discusses the impact ageing baby boomers will have on society. 7-9 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. saM sMyTH park: THree Creeks Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Kipling and Lake Shore. 416593-2656.

susTaininG BeauTies 2.0: aesTHeTiCs as an eCosysTeM serviCe Lecture by Elizabeth Mey-

er. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Daniels Faculty, 230 College. 416-978-5038. WoMen leadinG CHanGe International Women’s Day event with a screening of the documentary This Is My Witness. 7-9 pm. Free. YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. Pre-register jenny. cheadle@wchospital.ca.

WriTinG ronCesvalles: iMaGininG a neiGHBourHood Literary panel with authors Pat Capponi, Ray Robertson and Eva Stachniak. 6:30 pm. Free. High Park Public Library, 228 Roncesvalles. 416-393-7671.

Wednesday, March 9 JudiTH BuTler Israeli Apartheid Week lecture on the cultural and academic boycott. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St George. 416-9782011, toronto.apartheidweek.org. Can We feed THe World and save THe earTH? Lecture by professor David Tilman.

4:30 pm. Free. University College, rm 140, 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-3160.

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IWD turns 100

As women everywhere celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on Tuesday (March 8), Toronto hosts a series of events from cheap to steep. You can spend $5 at an info session on baby massage and benefit the Parkdale Anti-Violence Education Working Group (416-4399769), or shell out $500 on a culinary night to remember at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, with proceeds going to Sistering (416-926-9762 ext 243). Or you can take the middle road and see a production of Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, performed by 33 women and directed by Zebra Crossing’s Loretta Chen, a benefit for Nellie’s shelter for women. $15. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor West. cwse@utoronthe DesIgner as eco-regenerator Lecture by Berlin architect Barbara Hoidn. 6 pm. Free. OCADU Auditorium, 100 Mc Caul. goethe.de/ toronto. 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. InternatIonal WoMen’s Day celebratIon

Jazz, Egyptian and African dance, folk music and more with Brenda Lewis, Agha Norba and others. 7-9 pm. $10-$20 or pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 416-603-7915. oh, unfaMIlIar WorlD Five-week writing workshop with author Jenny Sampirisi. 6:308:30 pm. $120. Toronto New School of Writing, 283 College. Pre-register tnsow.com. sWaP Work abroaD Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel, 408 King W. 416-345-9726.

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Loretta Chen directs the Vagina Monologues March 8.

PressurIng for Peace

Should there be a cultural and academic boycott of Israel over the occupation? Academic Judith Butler explores the issue in her lecture, part of Israeli Apartheid Week. Butler, a member of Jewish Voice for Peace and author of a slew of publications including Undoing Gender and Frames Of War: When Is Life Grievable?, speaks Wednesday (March 9), 7:30 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St. George. toronto. apartheidweek.org.

Meet on MIssIng WoMen

There have been 582 cases of missing or murdered aboriginal women in the last few decades. Explore the ramificaWake uP! Café Scientifique discussion on

whether sleep is more important than we think. 6-8 pm. Free. Duke of York Pub, 39 Prince Arthur. cafescientifique.ca.

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Thursday, March 10

Benefits

reggae retro (Sir Sandford Fleming Academy

music program) Perfomances by Liberty Silver, Messenjah and others. 8:30 pm. $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Events

the art of ethIcs Talk by cultural theorist Jeanne Randolph. 2-4:30 pm. Free. OCAD, 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000. the InsIDer’s guIDe to gettIng PublIsheD

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tions at a two-day awareness conference featuring Amber O’Hare, Angel Wolfe (daughter of Brenda, a victim of Robert Pickton), police officer Kim Turner and others. Workshops focus on safety issues, self-defence and keeping the public focus. Today and tomorrow (March 3-4). Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Road. Pre-register 416-964-9087. Three-week workshop with Cynthia Good and others. 7-10 pm. $345. Riverdale Library 270 Broadview. Pre-register 416-675-5005. loW-IncoMe tax clInIc Low-income households get their income taxes done for free. 10 am-3 pm. Instit of Chartered Accountants of Ont, 69 Bloor E. Pre-register 416-962-1841. PublIc-PrIvate PartnershIPs Economics lecture by John Loxley. 7 pm. Free. Ryerson Oakham House, 63 Gould. b1evans@ryerson.ca. regeneratIon: voIces for canaDa PeaceWorks dialogue on concerns about democracy and climate change. 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-596-7328. york’s coMPlIcIty In aPartheID Isarael Apartheid Week discussion with video artist John Greyson and professor Paul Kellog. 7-9 pm. Free. Stedman Lecture Hall A, York Y, 4700 Keele. toronto.apartheidweek.org. 3

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10 Best

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DRINK UP

As the simulated digital world becomes all the more persuasive, there’s an understandable impulse to get real. Is it a coincidence that dudes are walking around dressed like lumberjacks at the same time they can’t see the forest for the texts? The new authenticity has brought us hipster knitting, nose to tail, Daptone and the cocktail revival. In centres like New York, London, San Francisco and even Vancouver, a loose movement of sleevegartered neo-traditionalists and technology-driven innovators is promoting time-honoured drinkmixing techniques, high-quality alcohol and fresh ingredients. Antique cocktail recipe books have moved from attics to eBay. Ice cubes have come under intense scrutiny, and the extraction of citrus oils has turned into performance art. Flips and sours have gone molecular. Now the gospel of the cocktail as a free-standing, self-respecting gastronomic entity has reached Toronto, a city that didn’t even issue its first cocktail licence until the middle of the last century. What does all this mean for

thirsty, discerning Torontonians? It means there’s a decent number of places where skilled people behind the bar can make you a really good drink full of quality ingredients that will cost you, justifiably, more than the average vodka soda. It also means that some people will get too caught up in the nerdology of it all – and then it could get pretentious. But cocktails may be resistant to that, because, after all, we’re talking about Strangers In The Night, tinkling ice and a stiff belt. Dean Martin never took notes. So pay down the Visa, put on your drinking shoes and go see what’s shaking. We've already scoured the town for the tastiest mixes. Here, in alphabetical order, are the best of the bunch, concocted by T.O.'s top bartenders.

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COCKTAIL FACTS: One of the ﬁrst modern cocktails to be named and recognized was the martini. It can be traced back to an 1862 recipe for the Martinez. It consisted of four parts sweet red vermouth to one THE

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DAVE MITTON

Where: Camp 4, 1173 Dundas West, at Ossington, 416-546-6780 How: 2 oz Bombay Sapphire gin, ½ oz Lillet Blanc, ¼ oz. Drambuie, Angostura bitters, Regans’ orange bitters. Stir on ice, serve straight up with a grapefruit twist. How much: $15 The experience: Bungalow 8, Cabin 5, Camp 4, Motel 6, I can’t keep up. And neither can customers here if they assume that this time-honoured tipple is named after Will Oldham instead of Bonnie Prince Charlie, aka the Young Pretender (which is also a great name for a drink). Etymology aside, 4’s BP is a goodie. Self-taught alchemist Joseph Tanner saw the mixological light on a number of visits to San Francisco. This study pays off nicely in this riff on an old country-clubber. Boozy density is the first impression. A couple more of these and you, too, may contemplate a Highlands rebellion or at least some Portuguese karaoke. Despite the drink’s oomph, there’s a soft side represented by the honey and heather of the Drambuie and the orange bitters. Soft oomph; now that’s bonnie.

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550

rob Dvorchik

Where: Rooftop Lounge, Thompson Hotel, 550 Wellington West, at Bathurst, 416-640-7778 How: 2 oz Belvedere vodka, 2 oz fresh lime juice, dash of Pernod. Shake over ice, strain into a glass containing 3 oz ginger beer and ice. Stir to combine. How much: $12 The experience: Given the crowds at the Rooftop, Rob Dvorchik needs to execute to a high standard at high speed. He’s “happy to serve classics well made,” which nicely sums up the 550, aka the Moscow Mule. While making the drink, he takes us to Mule school, re-

part gin, garnished with a cherry. "Professor" Jerry thomas tended the bar of the occidental hotel in San Francisco and reputedly made the drink for a gold miner on his way to the town of Martinez, which lay Where: The Harbord Room, 89 Harbord, at Robert, 416962-8989 How: ¾ oz Plymouth gin, ¾ oz green Chartreuse, ¾ oz Luxardo Maraschino liqueur, ¾ oz lime juice. Shake on ice, serve straight up. How much: $11 The experience: This concoction debuted at the Detroit Athletic Club in 1951, and after ingesting this drink, I felt very fit. Only the Harbord Room’s space restrictions prevented a brisk set of jumping jacks. This is an excellent example of what carefully considered ingredients will do for a drink. Plymouth delivers the surgical precision of great gin, the liqueurs usher in sweetness chaperoned by fruity depth and herbal intrigue. Fresh lime reiterates the bracing base spirit. Classic sweet-and-sour. The Harbord Room serves the Word in a delicate, dainty, etched coupe. That’s typical of Dave Mitton’s uniform standard of excellence. Wellresearched, expertly made drinks are dispatched with the avuncular aplomb befitting the Jay-Z of Toronto’s cocktail scene.

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Log Cabin

Dean Fletcher

galing us with the story of how the cocktail’s creation helped establish vodka in North America. Then he gets all Antiques Roadshow, advising on the collectibility of the original copper Moscow Mule cups. Love a drink with a story. The Pernod could walk all over this cocktail, but Dvorchik’s discreet hand keeps the assertive liqueur in check. With ginger beer astringency and lime levity, the 550 is a snappy refresher. You could imagine yourself at the Rooftop, poolside, downing a tray of them while gazing out over Toronto’s pale parabola of summer smog.

40 miles to the east. the recipe in thomas's 1887 bartender's guide called for old tom gin, sweet vermouth, a dash of maraschino and bitters as well as a slice of lemon and two dashes of gum syrup. Where: The Comrade, 758 Queen East, at Grant, 416-778-9449 How: 2 oz bacon-infused Crown Royal, ½ oz Martini and Rossi dry vermouth, a dash of maple syrup, Angostura bitters. Combine and pour over ice with an orange twist. How Much: $12 The experience: As Dean Fletcher says, “We’re not reinventing the wheel with this.” That a drink that lists bacon as an ingredient is now considered a standard and is served at a neighbourhood bar, albeit an extremely attractive, deluxe neighbourhood bar, indicates the influence of cocktail culture in the city. Is it only a matter of time before the regulars at Jack Astor’s start asking for Añejo in their Pomegranate Jackaritas? Probably not. But at the Comrade, they can tell you that the doublesmoked bacon came from Sanagan’s in Kensington Market, that they make their own ginger syrup and, it almost goes without saying, use all fresh fruit. Fletcher sees this commitment to quality as a matter of good business. “If people are going to take the time out of their day and plunk their money down, then it’s got to be good.” And it is: smoky and boozy, and the counter-intuitive dry vermouth lends the Log Cabin useful structure. NOW march 3-9 2011

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MAD MAN

SEELBACH MIKEY MORROW

FRANKIE SOLARIK

10 Best

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Where: Barchef, 472 Queen West, at Augusta, 416-868-4800 How: 2¼ oz Bulleit bourbon, ¾ oz cinnamon-infused Cinzano, ¼ oz maple bitters, ½ oz tobacco syrup. Stir on ice and serve straight up. How much: $25 The experience: This drink, its price, its concept, like Barchef itself, is divisive. Some people consider proprietor Frankie Solarik a Toronto cocktail innovator. Others see him as a

guy who takes his drinks a little too seriously. It is interesting that out of all the bartenders I spoke to, only Solarik calls himself a mixologist. And $25 drinks, no matter how tasty, are hard to swallow. But that Mad Man drink is seriously good. The dry-ice-like bubbling tobacco-scented mist that accompanies the drink I can do without. Ditto the tiny tobacco-and-cherry-jelly cubes served on Chinese soup spoons. But a complex, power-packed Manhattan

adaptation with a seamlessly integrated cigarsmoke-like burn? The first cocktail of the survey to prompt thoughts of food pairings? It’s a real standout and a testimonial to Solarik’s skills and extensive collection of house-made ingredients. Next time I’ll move off the Molecular side of the menu and back to the merely expensive drinks like those everyone else around town serves. That is, if I can find a space at the packed bar.

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SIMPLE SAKE

Where: Table 17, 782 Queen East, at Saulter, 416-519-1851 How: 1 oz Maker’s Mark bourbon, ½ oz Cointreau, Peychaud bitters, Fee Brothers bitters. Shake on ice, pour into a champagne flute, top with dry sparkling wine and an orange twist. How much: $14 The experience: Mikey Morrow’s been bartending for a long time, and reveals a likeable lack of pretension when he mentions he found this drink, named after a Louisville hotel, “while farting around on the internet.” I’ve imbibed at the Seelbach and it is worthy of emulation. Here, the virtues of the champagne cocktail format become readily apparent. The Seelbach verges on thirstquenching, and the relative neutrality of the wine allows the fruitiness of the drink’s other ingredients to shine through. Table 17 is admittedly more of a restaurant than a bar, but it does have a nice big piece of wood with stools in front of it and Morrow behind it. And it’s one of the few places in the east end where serious cocktailing is undertaken.

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JULIEN SALOMONE

Where: Boutique, 506 Church, at Maitland, 647-705-0006 How: 1 oz Tanqueray, ¾ oz Gekkeikan sake, ¾ oz lemon juice, ginger syrup. Shake, serve over ice with a lemon twist. How much: $8 The experience: Imagine if NeoCitran were both cold and yummy. Come summer, I suspect the Simple Sake will flow in great tidal currents across the deck of the Boutique patio. In the meantime, it’s a vivacious, light and reasonably novel harbinger of fair weather. Maybe it’s hopeless yokelism, but it also seems like the perfect drink to issue forth from bartenders Julien Salomone and Sebastian Moya, who obtained their considerable swizzling chops on the French Riviera. “I learned the classics back home,” says Salomone. “It was just like cooking.” That sort of je ne sais quoi is worth a meagre eight bucks all on its own.

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MOJO HANNAH

SANDY DE ALMEIDA

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SPICED CIDER

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COCKTAIL FACTS: Bobby “G” Gleason set the world record by mixing 253 cocktails in 60 minutes.

Where: Churchill, 1212 Dundas West, at Dovercourt, 416-588-4900 How: 11/3 oz Herradura Reposado tequila, 2/3 oz Amaro Nonino, 1/3 oz Aperol, 1/3 oz Campari. Shake on ice, serve straight up with a grapefruit twist. How much: $14 The experience: I would probably pay $14 for lukewarm Yop poured into a toothbrush glass if it were served by Sandy De Almeida. But more often than not this dynamic on-therocks star will be making you some of Toronto’s most thoughtfully creative and seriously delicious drinks. Case in point, the Mojo Hannah, named after the song by Betty Harris. (De Almeida hosts a soul night on the first Sunday of the month at Churchill.) It’s a variant on a variant, indicating De Almeida’s experimental bent. Because she bases her permutations on classic techniques and a thorough understanding of traditional ingredients, the drink reads like a standard. The Mojo is sweet, but with a radical herbal edge and an intensity that is typically De Almeidan. It’s also flavoured by a full “sheet” of shimmering grapefruit oil that De Almeida rains down the drink’s surface. She is to the twist what Chubby Checker was to the, uh, Twist. She’s only at Churchill Sundays. Thursdays she does her thing at Unit, Fridays and Saturdays it’s more basic drinks-slinging at the Gladstone.

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TEQUILA MANHATTAN JAN OLLNER

Where: Reposado Bar and Lounge, 136 Ossington, at Argyll, 416-532-6474 How: 1¼ oz El Jimador Añejo tequila, ¾ oz Martini and Rossi sweet vermouth, Angostura bitters, a squirt of lemon juice. Stir over ice, serve straight up with a lemon twist in a Gallianorinsed glass. How much: $14 The experience: Admittedly, substituting one spirit for another in a classic combination – tequila instead of whisky in a Manhattan – isn’t exactly revolutionary, but at Reposado it’s the quality of that substitution that deserves attention. If you want in-depth guidance in matters of the fermented agave, this sometimes romantic, sometimes boisterous, always cool Ossington original awaits. Sure, you’re familiar with El Jimador tequila, but wait a minute, the aged Añejo? Where’d they get that? It’s the smoky, vegetal depth of the tequila that makes this Spanish Harlem special just that much more sultry. Hard-asses could request a little ease-up on the vermouth, but they may be upsetting a delicate balance. Away from the bar, Jan Ollner’s a hardworking painter, but you may also partake of his artistry in a more fluid medium.

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DAVID HAWE

Where: Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen West, at Sorauren, 416-588-7750 How: 2 oz Mount Gay Extra Old rum, 3 oz cider, spiced honey, cinnamon, whole star anise, nutmeg, orange and a lemon twist. Combine and heat. How much: $11 The experience: While some may find the Swedish prison aesthetic of Parts & Labour a little unforgiving, the long, unadorned white bar offers an elegant blank slate for some serious beveraging. Among the betoqued team of shakers and stirrers are bros Rob and Matt Turenne. P&L has two hot drinks on the winter list, and McIntosh apple cider made in the basement. Respect. Served in a stemmed glass mug, the spiced cider’s layers execute a continuous slippery interplay on the palate. This drink could be too soft, but the spice and citrus, along with that hefty shot of amber rum, keeps things warm but not fuzzy. You’ll want to catch cold just so you can self-medicate.

RITZ MIXOLOGIST IS SHAKING UP THE SCENE

Get me an agent. I’ve got a script to sell. It’s about Moses McIntee, an Ontario farm boy who lands one of the most prestigious bartending jobs in the country. He learns discipline in the Canadian Forces, then sets off for the West Coast to seek his fortune. There’s booze in them thar hills, and McIntee decides to hitch his wagon to the bottle – only nobody will hire him except the Savoy on the corner of Vancouver’s Main and Hastings. Yup, in the war zone. But he claws his way up from the Downtown Eastside to eventually work beside Colin Turner at CinCin. He packs his shaker and heads back east to Hogtown. (Did you know it was called that even before Rob Ford?) Soon he’s climbing the T-dot cocktail ladder faster than a teenage macaque up a fig tree: Spoke Club, Nota Bene, Ame, Toronto Temperance Society, Paese. All the while he’s winning bartending competitions like hot bones at the craps table. And then – ta-da – he’s chosen as head bartender at the new Ritz-Carlton (181 Wellington West, at Simcoe, 416-585-2500), Toronto’s only five-star hotel. And he’s not even 30. Ritz-Carlton can lay claim to being one of the world’s leading luxury brands, and the action at the TOCA (TOronto CAnada) bar certainly conveys that impression. The contents of the raw bar alone appear to exceed the combined value of every vehicle I’ve ever owned. Nonetheless, McIntee greets me with the same professional affability he lavishes on every person who pulls up a padded stool. He obviously feels at home at the RC. “Throughout my career I’ve believed in standards of service,” he says. “The Ritz-Carlton is the first company I’ve worked for that backs that up. They just care – to the point of monastic discipline.” I’m guessing that the robes around here are pretty swell, but we turn our focus to more worldly matters as McIntee throws down a Pickled Prime Minister. It’s an audacious, delicious combination of pickled beets, pickled carrots, lemon juice and 2 ounces of vodka, all shaken and poured into a groovy Jetsons-esque glass. No, $16 isn’t cheap, but remember, you’re not puttin’ on GD the Delta Chelsea.

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Joe in the Big Apple There’ve been industry whispers, giddy tweets and unconfirmed blog entries about Joe Fresh opening a New York flagship since last autumn, and now the U.S. launch of Canada’s favourite cheap chic retailer is official. The brand is taking Manhattan in a big way this fall with an outlet on Fifth Avenue just north of Bryant Park. The renovated mid-century bank building will show off Joe’s apparel and the beauty line. For fans this side of the border, the company has also announced the opening of 20 more stand-alone locations in Canada this year.

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has seen a boom in interest from fash ion magazines and design blogs, all encouraging readers to incorporate a piece of it into their lives. If you’ve been swayed, this week end’s Artist Project Toronto could be where you take the plunge into col lecting. Two hundred independent art ists, including 25 emerging names, fill the Queen Elizabeth Building at Exhi bition place today (Thursday) through Sunday (March 36). In addition to largescale conceptual installations and a video art space, the show features art chats with Canadian Art publisher Melony Ward, Toronto Arts Council associate director William Huffman and the Art Stylists’ Manny

Neubacher and Anya Shor, a duo leading the movement of creative consuming. The Artist Project picks: Janice Colbert colour-blocks a vintage ironing board to create a sculptural wall piece, $1,600; you may have spotted Lynn Jackson’s copper wire elephant at January’s interior Design show, $1,500; cast 6, by architect Matthew Sweig, depicts a crumbling industrial landscape, $3,600. Look for: tonight’s opening preview from 7 to 10 pm, $25. Show admission $12, adv online $10, stu/srs $8. Hours: Friday noon to 9 pm, Saturday 11 am to 9 pm, Sunday 11 am to 6 pm.

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season gets into full swing this weekend and lasts through Mardi Gras next Tuesday night. Wherever you are, Taurus, I suggest you use this as an excuse to achieve new levels of mastery in the art of partying. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you’re the one that is most in need of and most deserving of getting immersed in rowdy festivities that lead to maximum release and relief. To get you in the right mood, read these thoughts from literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin. He said a celebration like this is a “temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and from the established order,” and encourages “the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms and prohibitions.”

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 When Bob Dylan first heard the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, he only made it through the first few tunes. “Turn that s– off!” he said. “It’s too good!” He was afraid his own creative process might get intimidated, maybe even blocked, if he allowed himself to listen to the entire masterpiece. I suspect the exact opposite will be true for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. As you expose yourself to excellence in your chosen field, you’ll feel a growing motivation to express excellence yourself. The inspiration unleashed in you by your competitors will trump any of the potentially deflating effects of your professional jealousy. CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Jungian story-

teller Clarissa Pinkola Estes says one of her main influences is the Curanderisma healing tradition from Mexico and Central America. “In this tradition, a story is ‘holy,’ and it is used as medicine,” she Check out our Real Estate & Rentals. told Radiance magazine. “The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better or to entertain you, although all those things can be true. The story is meant to take the spirit into a descent to find something that is lost or missing and to bring it back to consciousness again.” You need stories like this, Cancerian, and you need them now. It’s high time to recover parts of your soul that you have neglected or

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VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 I wouldn’t try to

stop you, Virgo, if you wanted to go around singing the Stone Roses song I Wanna Be Adored. I wouldn’t be embarrassed for you if you turned your head up to the night sky and serenaded the stars with a chant of “I wanna be adored, I deserve to be adored, I demand to be adored.” And I might even be willing to predict that your wish will be fulfilled – on one condition, which is that you also express your artful adoration for some worthy creature.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “The difference between the right word and the almost right word,” said Mark Twain, “is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” Because the difference between the right word and the almost right word will be so crucial for you in the coming days, Libra, I urge you to maintain extra vigilance toward the sounds that come out of your mouth. But don’t be tense and repressed about it. Loose, graceful vigilance will actually work better. By the way, the distinction between right and almost right will be equally important in other areas of your life as well. Be adroitly discerning.

My main concern is not in dealing with what’s going right, but rather in persevering through difficulty. – Scorpio in the Shadows.” Dear Scorpio: You have more than enough influences in your life that encourage you to be fascinated with darkness. I may be the only one committed to helping you cultivate the more undeveloped side of your soul: the part that thrives on beauty and goodness and joy.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Acupuncturists identify an energetic point in the ear called the spirit gate. If it’s stuck closed, the spirit is locked in; if it’s stuck open, the spirit is always coming and going, restless and unsettled. What’s ideal, of course, is that the spirit gate is not stuck in any position. Then the spirit can come and go as it needs to, and also have the option of retreating and protecting itself. I’d like you to imagine that right now a skilled acupuncturist is inserting a needle in the top of your left ear, where it will remain for about 20 minutes. In the meantime, visualize your spirit gate being in that state of harmonious health I described. CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 In his parody music video, Sickest Buddhist, comedian Arj Barker invokes a hip-hop sensibility as he brags about his spiritual prowess. Noting how skilled he is when it comes to mastering his teacher’s instructions, he says, “The instructor just told us to do a 45-minute meditation/but I nailed it in 10.” I expect you will have a similar facility in the coming week, Capricorn: tasks that might be challenging for others may seem like child’s play to you. I bet you’ll be able to sort quickly through complications that might normally take days to untangle. (See the NSFW video here: tinyurl.com/illBuddhist.)

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BARN BURNER and MONSTER TRUCK at the BoÑ vine Sex Club, Thursday, February 24. Rating: NNNN The Bovine’s stage has helped scores of loud bands find bigger audiences and venues, so it’s fitting that its 20th-anniversary series included some up-and-coming metal talent. Hamilton’s Monster Truck specialize in towering blues-tinged metal. Vocalist Jon Harvey has pipes like a young Chris Cornell, and the band’s driving sound – perfect for blazing down the highway in, say, a monster truck – benefits from stabs of organ and one of the tightest drummers in the game. The band has just released an EP recorded by Gus Van Go (The Stills, Priestess). Next up were Montreal Metal Blade signees Barn Burner, who have a rep as a thrash-metal party band back home. Wily-eyed vocalist/guitarist Kevin Keegan announced that they’ve been recording and were playing “a pile of new ones.” The band became a flailing mass of hair, sweat and screams as they played new material that stays true to what worked on their 2010 debut, Bangers, with technically ambitious riffs that are also immediately catchy. JORDAN BIMM

TENNIS at the Horseshoe, Friday, February 25. Rating: NNN It’s easy to discount the charming husband/wife duo Tennis as bandwagon-jumpers for being heavily influenced by 60s girl groups and surf music. But even if we won’t give them huge points for originality, they deserve credit for pulling off the sound better than

much of their competition. While others mix dark goth sensibilities into the beach-party vibes, Tennis go the opposite route. The preppy couple seem to take their style cues from Archie comics, and their tunes are unabashedly sweet. The only signs that they might not be as WASPy as their image suggests are the tattoos that peek out from guitarist Patrick Riley’s button-down shirt. Early in the set, vocalist Alaina Moore joked that they were in danger of getting a reputation for being too cute, so she introduced every song by saying it was about drugs. That only highlighted the issue even more, which was too bad; their strong chops don’t require distracting gimmicks. BENJAMIN BOLES

NEW COUNTRY REHAB, THE COPPERTONE and Ñ COWLICK at Steam Whistle Brewing, Friday, February 25. Rating: NNNN Hamilton’s Cowlick kicked off another edition of Steam Whistle’s Unsigned series with a set of visceral, pedal-pressing rock ’n’ roll, with guitarist Dylan Hudecki (ex-By Divine Right) and drummer Jackson Hudecki, joined by a new bass player and sister Kristen on backup vocals. They pulled out entertaining stage stops, like huddling around the drum kit before Dylan launched into an on-thefloor guitar freak-out. The Coppertone’s Amanda Zelina carried the rock torch further, prepping for her set by jumping up and down on the spot. It was hard to make out what she was singing, but her high-energy blues and emotional wails had the crowd moving.

Alt-country fiddle heroes New Country Rehab’s more acoustic sound suffered from a poor mix, but the group still put on a strong set that featured Springsteen, Hank Williams, Grateful Dead and CCR covers, plus originals from their new record. By the end, they had the crowd slow-dancing and making out to the old country SARAH GREENE song The Image Of Me.

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The last time the Smith Westerns played the Horseshoe, they drew barely enough fans to fill up the small dance floor in front of the stage. It was a different story this time. The crowd was crammed in shoulder to shoulder all the way to the back of the room, testament to just how much the young Chicago band’s excellent sophomore album, Dye It Blonde, has raised their profile. It’s not that they sucked before, but taking their glammed-up garage rock out of their parents’ basement and into a proper studio reveals a much better rock band than their promising lo-fi beginnings suggested. And live, they’ve improved significantly since we caught them a few months ago playing a loose and casual after-party gig at Parts & Labour following their opening slot for Florence. Yeah, there are still some rough edges and their stage patter was a bit juvenile, but their talent is undeniable. The crowd didn’t stop begging for an encore until a stage tech started dismantling the BB drum kit.

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Karkwa are a veteran rock band in Quebec, but in Toronto they’re still playing the role of up-and-comers. Since winning the 2010 Polaris Music Prize for Les Chemins De Verre (Audiogram), the Montreal indie rockers have enjoyed such a wave of exposure that it’s easy to forget they’ve been at it for 13 years. Hitting the road with Plants & Animals for their first proper tour of Ontario, they’re striking while the iron’s hot.

“It’s exciting but also kind of funny,” says lead singer Louis-Jean Cormier over the phone from Montreal. “On this tour we’re opening for Plants & Animals, but in Quebec they usually open for us.” That’s generally how the last six months have gone for Karkwa. With many English-speaking music fans just now discovering them, the band can’t rest on their laurels. In the next month alone they’ll play high-profile showcases at CMW, South By Southwest and

the Genie Awards, where they’ll team up with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in a tribute to Barney’s Version. They’re also nominated for a pair of Junos, including one for alternative album of the year. “We’ve had a lot more calls from English newspapers, magazines and radio, and to be honest it hasn’t been very easy,” confides Cormier. “When we came in [to Toronto] for the Polaris gala, many people told us, ‘Sorry I’m so bad in French.’ Now we are living the opposite. But we’re working hard to get better [at English].” If nothing else, Karkwa’s late-career

push will test how willing English Canada is to embrace a French band. While acts like Malajube and Coeur de Pirate have had modest crossover success, others like Fred Fortin are idolized in Quebec but virtually ignored in the rest of Canada. The language barrier is an undeniable obstacle, but, as Karkwa have stressed since the Polaris, the language of music is universal. “The lyrics are as important to us as the music,” Cormier says. “But when people are dancing and humming along, they don’t worry as much about understanding the words.” This echoes Polaris’s mandate, which aims to strip away all outside influences to pick a winning album based “solely on artistic merit.” An exercise in decontextualization, the prize resembls the shuffle function of iTunes, which places all songs on an

equal footing regardless of label, background and, yes, language. Of course that hasn’t stopped many pundits from seeing Karkwa’s Polaris victory as a calculated political move, but the band prefers to view it as a victory for their music alone. “I know that for many people we are now representing the francophone community of Montreal,” admits Cormier. “There are a lot of great artists singing in French here, and it’s good to make the rest of Canada a little curious about them. “Maybe we’re opening some doors or breaking frontiers, but that’s not our first goal. We just want to play our music like we’ve done for the last 13 years, and that’s what we’re going to keep doing.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Montreal singer/songwriter strips away the layers and discovers that smaller can deliver a bigger sound By BENJAMIN BOLES Mark berube and the patriotic few with olenka and the autuMn lovers at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, March 3). $10. garrisontoronto.com.

The tender, introspective tunes that Montreal chamber-folk singer/songwriter Mark Berube pens wouldn’t normally be described as “funky.” But that’s exactly what he pulled off with his Afrobeat-inspired single My Me Lady from his new album, June In Si beria (Aquarius). With an urgent groove reminiscent of Nina Simone’s See-Line Woman, the song takes his folk sound in a brand new direction yet still fits nicely into the album. “I realized toward the end of the sessions that I wanted to have one song that was more upbeat,” recalls Berube as his tour van rolls through the Maritimes. “My drummer, Pat [Dugas], and I started grooving on something and recorded it the very next day. “I’ve always loved songs that start with a groove and then impose a vocal melody on top. I want to explore more of that now. It’s funny how these little gifts come to you from out of nowhere and can spark a different trajectory.” Berube adds that he and his Patrio tic Few don’t usually write in the studio, since it’s too expensive. The rest of June In Siberia was written beforehand to take full advantage of recording to tape. The medium is preferred by many for its warmth, but recording on old equipment isn’t as cheap or as easy as going digital. “Digital recordings can get pretty darn close in terms of sound quality these days, but there’s also the psychological effect of recording to tape. You have to concentrate more. You get two or three takes and that’s it. I love that. [With digital] there’s a tendency to kill songs by going into Pro Tools and ‘perfecting’ them too much.” The smaller number of collaborators also contributes to the album’s pleasing immediacy and warmth. Unlike on

previous recordings, Berube kept the embellishments and cast to a minimum, focusing on the four-person lineup he takes on tour. While the swooping string sections are gone, the songs retain a large, lush sound, each instrument and voice captured in pristine detail. “Live, the songs transfer well. They pretty much sound like they do on the album. Sometimes it’s better to go

smaller than bigger. You get a stronger presence in the songs, which was basically the goal.” The added intimacy suits Berube’s songwriting style and highlights the skill of the Patriotic Few. As he’s done for the production, he’s pared back his lyrics, focusing less on big issues and politics and more on “domestic” narratives and everyday stories. Sometimes smaller really is bigger. 3

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LADY GAGA, SCISSOR SISTERS

Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), tonight (Thursday, March 3) An over-the-top pop extravaganza.

MARK BERUBE AND THE PATRIOTIC FEW, OLENKA AND THE AUTUMN LOVERS The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, March 3) See preview, page 41.

LEVON HELM, LUCINDA WILLIAMS

Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday and Saturday (March 4 and 5) A heavyweight roots-rocking twonight stand.

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JunoFest Drake Hotel 8:30 pm, $12, wristband $30. TM. March 26.

KARKWA, PLANTS AND ANIMALS

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (March 5) See preview, page 38.

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK: CANADIAN MUSIC FEST

Various venues, March 9 to 13 800 hot bands over five nights.

Footwork (425 Adelaide), Saturday (March 5) Intimate gig by a Chicago house hero.

METHOD MAN, OMAR LINX, JD ERA

Sound Academy $40. PDR, RT, SS, TM. March 31.

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, 10 YEARS Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $25$50. RT, SS, TM. April 3.

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.

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AIR CANADA CENTRE Lady Gaga, Scissor

Sisters 8 pm. ñ ALLEYCATZ Ascencion.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Haste the Day, the Char-

iot, My Children My Bride, On Burning Shores, A Plea for a Purging doors 5:30 pm, all ages. BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series Richard Underhill & the Allstars, Great Bob Scott, DJ Vania, DJ Mr Pete. C’EST WHAT Running Red Lights 9:30 pm.

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Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 16.

STEREOS, NEVEREST, ERIC SOLOMON

Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $22.50. RT, SS, TW. April 16.

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Opera House doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 21.

RAY LAMONTAGNE & THE PARIAH DOGS, BRANDI CARLILE, THE SECRET SISTERS Massey Hall 7 pm, $39.50-$79.50. RTH, TM. May 30.

THE BLACK KEYS, CAGE THE ELEPHANT

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THE WACO BROTHERS, BURLINGTON MALE WELSH CHOIR

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, JOB FOR A COWBOY

The Asexuals

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Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 15.

Opera House doors 7:30 pm, $30. RT, SS, TM. April 19.

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JONBOY LANGFORD & HIS SADIES, DEAN WACO, SKULL ORCHARD, THE GOOD FAMILY

FEMI KUTI

w/ members of Broken Social Scene, Royal Wood, the Order of Good Cheer and many more Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (March 5) See preview, page 44

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 50, for venue address and phone number.

Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $80. TM. April 12.

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $26.50-$35. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 18.

JUNOS DECADES SERIES: THE 00S

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BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND

out with this crew of ruffians, who got back together after a long hiatus for a well-received Pop Montreal gig in October. The first night also features a reunion show by local new wave rockers Stark Naked & the Fleshtones, while legendary Toronto punk band Groovy Religion open Saturday’s gig. At the Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Friday and Saturday (March 4 and 5), doors 9 pm. $20.

CROCODILE ROCK Sonic Playground 10 pm. CROWN & TIGER Tiger Bar Groove Labour Day,

Formalists, Neighbourhood Watch, Bulldog Skin, Mcgeezax Minions doors 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Revolver (pop/rock) doors 8 pm. THE GARRISON Album release Mark Berube and the Patriotic Few, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers 9 pm. See preview, page 41. GRAFFITI’S Carl Lorusso Jr, Steelgang ‘76 8 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Shabamzy, Boone Helm. HORSESHOE Neon Windbreaker, Low Level Flight, the Stormalongs, Morning Thieves 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE United Steelworkers of Montreal, Lee Harvey Osmond, Harlan Pepper doors 9:30 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Sing Leaf, Foxes in Fiction, Tangled Knots, Hakobune (electronic pop) 10 pm. THE PISTON The Swallows, Dany Laj 9:30 pm. RANCHO RELAXO The Holiday Crowd, the Speakeasies, Broken Bricks, Kevin Myles Wilson doors 9 pm. RIVOLI The Bliss Fiasco w/ Derek Miller, Danger Bees 9 pm. ROC N DOC’S Fraser Daley (R&B) 10 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Drunk Woman, Electric Shoes, Tiny Little Heart, Good Clean Feeling doors 8:30 pm. SLACK’S Onstage Thursday Nights Brent Buffan, Coco B, Elana Harte 8 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Women in Tragedy, Kosmo-

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DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/country) 8:30 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Bossa Tres (Brazilian

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HUGH’S ROOM CD release Kevin Fox 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL Local Motion, Rebekah Higgs. LOLA Johnny Bootz Open Jam 8 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 10 pm.

PRESS CLUB Ben Sures, Michelle Rumball. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass & Old-

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TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Mahavishnu Orchestra & Dave Holland Project 10 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots) 9 pm. THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (alt country) 9:30 pm.

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CHALKERS PUB Kirk MacDonald, Neil Swainson, Dennis Mackrel (sax, bass, drums) 7 pm. CHINA HOUSE Reg Schwager Quartet.

Molson Amphitheatre doors 6:30 pm, $27.50-$50. TM. July 7.

GIRL TALK

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $30-$40. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 8.

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

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Melodias Brasileiras Bill McBirnie, Don Thompson (flute, piano, bass) 5:30 pm. GATE 403 Les Petit Nouveau Mikko Hilden 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Roberta Hunt Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. HELICONIAN HALL Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau (violin, piano) 7:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Jazz Safari Swing Shift Big Band. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Jane Wood, Stephanie Chua 12:15-12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. REX Ron Westray Sextet 9:30 pm. ROSE THEATRE Aion Clark , KellyLee Evans (jazz/R&B) 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Bach: St John Passion The Mendelssohn

Singers & Festival Orchestra 7:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Simeon Abbott, Joe Sorbara, Nicole Rampersaud (jazz/experimental) 8 pm. THEATRE CENTRE Tom Waits tribute L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (cabaret/ circus/concert) 7:30 pm. TRANE STUDIO Moonlight At The Trane Reflect. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH The Galileo Project: Music Of The Spheres Tafelmusik 8 pm.

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Friday, March 4 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Ascencion. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk). BOVINE SEX CLUB 20th Anniversary Series

Asexuals, Stark Naked & the Fleshtones, New/France, DJ Vania. DAKOTA TAVERN The Avenues (rock). DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Pilgrims of Brock (pop/ rock). DOMINION ON QUEEN Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues) 9:30 pm. EL MOCAMBO Say Hi, Blair & Yellow Ostrich doors 9 pm. THE GARRISON Revolution Love 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For The Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S The Stone Sparrows, Amorak 9 pm. THE GREAT HALL Rock The Globe: Global Youth Network Benefit Slightly Left, Drop Dead PinUps, Elos Arma & Everlea. HARD LUCK BAR Scooter’s Bash Speak of the Devil, the Hard Party, Kosmograd, Money Pie. HARLEM Syreeta Neal (soul) 7:30 pm. HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm. HORSESHOE Small Sins, Ketch Harbour Wolves, Order of Good Cheer 10 pm. KAPISANAN PHILIPPINE CENTRE Craftstock Festival The Elwins, Union Duke, the Box Tiger, LUM, Spirit Oak doors 8 pm. LEE’S PALACE Bombs, Maladies of Adam Stokes, Avery Island, Bloody Five doors 9 pm. LOLA The Mad Housewives 8 pm. MASSEY HALL Ramble On The Road Levon Helm, Lucinda Williams 8 pm. OPERA HOUSE L.I.V.E. Hip-Hop Festival DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammed, Joell Ortiz, Nomadic Massive, Freedom Writers 9 pm. PRESS CLUB Alun Piggins & the Quitters (rock & roll). RIVOLI Droppin Knowledge Eternia (hiphop) 9:30 pm. ROC N DOC’S Doorsmen (rock) 10 pm. ROCKPILE 5150 (Van Halen tribute). SILVER DOLLAR Ell V Gore, Rituals, Mausoleum (garage/goth) 9 pm.

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519 CHURCH STREET COMMUNITY CENTRE To Laos With Love: Fundraising Concert For The Hill Tribes Voces Poeticas 7:30 pm. FOGARTY’S Al Lerman (blues/roots) 8 pm. FOGO TAPAS BAR & LOUNGE Dale Luarca, Cody Cuisia, Melissa Bel, Emrah Kento, Down by Riverside and others 9 pm. GATE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Melanie Doane 8:30 pm. LOU DAWG’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm.

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anda, the Kindly Ones & Brian Allossery 10 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Sarah Greene 7:30 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB JP (folk) 10 pm. VILLAGE VAPOR LOUNGE Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DOWNTOWN For The

Children, By The Children 7:30 pm. BREAD & CIRCUS Jazz FM Jazz Safari Tim Turvey Ensemble (funk-fuelled jazz) 9:30 pm. CHALKERS PUB Kirk MacDonald, Neil Swainson, Dennis Mackrel (sax, bass, drums) 7 pm. GATE 403 James Brown Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. HELICONIAN HALL The Coffeehouse Collective Alison Melville, Tanya Chulochnikova, Alexander Gulin, Paul Jenkins, Laura Jones, Ben Stein (baroque music) 8 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Fern Lindzon (jazz) 7:30 pm. QUOTES Fridays At Five Bill McBirnie (flute) 5 to 8 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. REX Rich Underhill Trio 6:30 pm. REX Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm. THEATRE CENTRE Tom Waits tribute L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (cabaret/ circus/concert) 7:30 pm.

TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS GEORGE WESTON RECITAL HALL Viva España: Celebration Of

Classical Spanish, Argentinian & Cuban Music Ellen Annor-Adjei, Nathaniel Anderson-Frank, Jeffrey McFadden (piano, violin, guitar) 8 pm. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH The Galileo Project: Music Of The Spheres Tafelmusik 8 pm. WATERFALLS The Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 pm.

YORK UNIVERSITY ACCOLADE EAST BLDG TRIBUTE COMMUNITIES RECITAL HALL York University Brass Ensemble 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM Gaga VS Madonna DJ

Craig Dominic, Lady Fame, Donnarama 10 pm. BEAVER Tolerance DJs Cam Findlay, Elliott Jones, Andrew Wilson (industrial/minimal wave/EBM/synthpunk). BLONDIES Scissors Official GirlFight Afterparty & Benefit For Nellies Womens Shelter DJs Fawn Big Canoe, Sokes, Michie 10 pm. BUNDA LOUNGE Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace (Caribbean music/hip-hop/top 40). C’EST WHAT DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 9 pm. CLINTON’S Girl & Boys 90s Dance Party (90s pop/dance/rock/hip-hop) 10 pm.

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Saturday, March 5 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Lady Kane. BAr ItAlIA Al Webster 10 pm. Blue Moon Saprophyte, Xyphos, Adrene-

chrome, Quietus.

BovIne Sex cluB 20th Anniversary Series

Asexuals, the Ugly, Groovy Religion, DJ Ian Blurton. the centrAl Travis Caine, Ari Vais, Ryan Masters, Eric McCauley doors 7:30 pm. DAkotA tAvern Catl 10 pm.

DAve’S... on St clAIr Patrick J (pop/rock). DoMInIon on Queen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm.

DrAke hotel unDergrounD CD release Ken

Tizzard, Bad Intent doors 8 pm. the gArrISon Sports, BA Johnston, Raccoon Wedding, Hotkid. grAffItI’S Jack Marks & the Lost Wage$ 4 to 7 pm. hArD luck BAr Victim Party, Spitfist, Drunk Hussy.

horSeShoe Junos 40th Anniversary Decades Concert Series Brendan Canning & ñ Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Justin Rut-

ledge, Royal Wood, NQ Arbuckle, Sarah Slean, Dave Hamelin, the Order of Good Cheer and others 9:30 pm. See preview, page 44. hotel MontecASSIno Sweet XVñera Magazine Launch Joel Zambrano. lee’S PAlAce Plants & Animals, Karkwa doors 9 pm. See preview, page 38. MASSey hAll Ramble On The Road Levon Helm, Lucinda Williams 8 pm. MuSIc gAllery Album release Snowblink. oPerA houSe Pete Yorn, Ben Kweller, the Wellspring doors 8 pm. PhoenIx concert theAtre Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Oh Land doors 8 pm. rIvolI Mike Robbins. roc n Doc’S Deborah Magone (R&B) 5 pm. roc n Doc’S Wheat Kings (rock) 10 pm. rockPIle Crued (Motley Crüe tribute band). SIlver DollAr The Stables,the Cautioneers, Mittenz, Eamon McGrath 8:30 pm. the SIxth The Rizdales, the Innards Bros 9 pm. SonIc BooM In-store performance Plants & Animals 4 pm. SounD AcADeMy Mavado, the Gully Squad Band, Chase CrossStacious, Lindo P and others. SPortSter’S Nicola Vaughan 10 pm.

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t.S.t’S lAunch PAD Winterstock Music Festival

Caution Jam, Days of You, the Toast, Two Stone Throw (rock/folk rock) 7 pm, all ages. velvet unDergrounD Artful Vandelys, Rutherford, the Modern Twist 8:30 pm.

pop/rock

Folk/BluES/countRy/WoRlD

c’eSt whAt James Struthers 8 pm. DAkotA tAvern The Foggy Hogtown Boys (bluegrass) 4 to 7:30 pm.

fogArty’S Foggy Celtic Band 8 pm. gAte 403 Ken Yoshioka Trio (blues) 5 pm. hugh’S rooM Joni Mitchell Tribute Lori Cul-

len, David Matheson, Brian MacMillan, DK Ibomeika, Mia Sheard and others 8:30 pm. the locAl Big City Hicks. lou DAwg’S Friends Fest 2011. lulA lounge Salsa Saturday Ricky Franco, DJ Suave 10 pm. lulA lounge Mexican Carnival: El Fandanguito Cafe Con Pan (son jarocho) 1:30 pm. olD nIck Giles & Duff, Jennifer Brewer 10 pm. PreSS cluB Chris Gostling & the Tempo (folk rock). reBAS cAfé Moe McQuinty (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. rex Danny Marks (blues) noon. trAnzAc Southern croSS Calamity Royale & Her Minions, Justin Schwab 12:30 pm. trAnzAc Southern croSS Elfin Saddle, Khora, Picastro 9:30 pm.

Juno Decades: the 00s Until now, the Juno Decades concerts have likely been easy to book. Musicians both young and old love an excuse to celebrate the past, and they turned up in droves to celebrate Canadian music of the 80s and 90s. But since nostalgia requires distance, the 00s have been a harder sell. It’s admirable, then, that the organizers have managed to pack the bill with an impressive array of recent Canadian talent. Much of the credit goes to the Order of Good Cheer, the hard-partying locals who will act as house band for the evening. “We’ve played the Horseshoe so much lately that we must be at the top of their speed dial,” laughs the Cheer’s David Tysowski, whose band also plays the ’Shoe the night before (Friday, March 4) with Small Sins. Between Tysowski’s day job as head of promotions at Arts & Crafts, bassist Frank Guidoccio’s legendary backyard BBQs and guitarist Chris Greenough’s past in the band Pilate, they’ve amassed a remarkable Rolodex that they’ve dusted off for the event. Expect guest spots by members of Broken Social Scene, Zeus, the Stills, Justin Rutledge, NQ Arbuckle, Royal Wood, Sarah Slean and others. “Our set’s going to be an epic slice of Canrock history from the 00s,” boasts Tysowski. “We’ve come up with some never-done-before collaboration ideas. It’ll be a total blast.” Juno Decades Series at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (March 5). $20$25. HS, RT, SS, TM. NOW Talks: Great Canadian Music From The 00s, with Brendan Canning, Justin Rutledge and Royal Wood at the NOW Lounge (189 Church), tonight (Thursday, March 3), 7 pm. $5. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks.

Jazz/claSSical/ExPERimEntal

BeAch unIteD church Jazz Vespers Lara Solnicki, Ted Quinlan, Jon Maharaj 4:30 pm.

BeerBIStro The Gene Pool Boys (soulful

swinging jazz) 8:15 pm. BIrchMount PArk c.I. Beethoven & Bruckner Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Choral Society 8 pm. chAlkerS PuB Kirk MacDonald, Neil Swainson, Dennis Mackrel (sax, bass, drums) 6 pm. Dovercourt houSe The Swing Thing The Toronto Jazz Orchestra (swing lessons and dance) 7 pm. gAllery 345 Mosaic Ali Garrison, Joy Brown (jazz/opera/folk) 8 pm. gAte 403 Lowell Whitty Jazz Band noon to 3 pm. gAte 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. helIconIAn hAll Ludwig Van Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano Kai Gleusteen, Catherine Ordronneau (violin, piano) 7:30 pm. MIleS nADAl Jcc A Night Without A Moon Annie Gilbert, Marni Levitt Trio 8 pm. olD MIll Inn hoMe SMIth BAr Piano Masters Steve Koven Trio 7:30 pm. rex Chris Hunt Tentet 3:30 pm. rex Justin Bacchus 7 pm. rex Mark Eisenman Quintet 9:45 pm. roy thoMSon hAll Electronica Meets Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Mason Bates (electronica) 7:30 pm.

royAl conServAtory of MuSIc MAzzolenI hAll Discovery Series Afiara String Quartet 7:30 pm.

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Aspects Of Oscar: Oscar Swings Monty Alexander, Russell Malone, Houston Person 8 pm. SoMewhere there StuDIo Ken Aldcroft: In-Re-tro-Spective – Our Hospitality Ken Aldcroft Quartet (film and live score) 8 & 10 pm. ten feet tAll Sondheim Alex Samaras 8 pm. theAtre centre Tom Waits tribute L’Orchestre d’Hommes-Orchestres (cabaret/circus/concert) 7:30 pm.

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trAnzAc Southern croSS Zebrina (jazz/

world) 7:30 pm.

trInIty St. PAul’S church The Galileo Project: Music Of The Spheres Tafelmusik 8 pm.

york unIverSIty AccolADe eASt BlDg trIBute coMMunItIeS recItAl hAll The Garden Party: A York U Vocal Showcase 7:30 pm.

DancE muSic/DJ/loungE

Annex wreckrooM Remixed Saturdays 10 pm.

AuguStA houSe Reality Bytes DJS 4est, Lindz-

rox, Jrox, Daz & Juse (90s music). BeAver Love Saves The Day DJ Jaime Sin (disco/house). BoAt Chronologic (dance music from 1890 to 2011) 10 pm. clInton’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). cornerStone PuB DJ Dazz (R&R) 10 pm. crewS/tAngo zone DJ Craig Domonic 10 pm.5 DIMItrA’S BIStro DJ Viviana (salsa) 9 pm. DrAke hotel unDergrounD Peer Pressure doors 11 pm. DrAke hotel lounge Membersonly DJs doors 10 pm. eMMet rAy BAr DJ Sawtay (soul/hip-hop) 10 pm. fly DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Dwayne Minard 10 pm.5 foMo Mingle 9 pm. footwork DJ Sneak, Nitin, Mike Gleason, G.Cue doors 10 pm. fox & fIrkIn Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. gooDhAnDy’S Northbound Leather Fetish Party DJ Jimi Lamort doors 9 pm.5 guvernMent Roger Shah. holy oAk cAfe Get It Got It Good (R&B/hiphop/pop) 10 pm. InSoMnIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). levAck Block BAck rooM DJ Teezdale & Dougie Boom 10 pm. levAck Block front rooM DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm.

Maro Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

Mod Club UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse

Brown, DJ Dwight.

NaCo Gallery Cafe QueerBait DJ Shane

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The ossiNGToN Friendship DJ Hi Mom (post hip-hop/cold punk/disco dance).

ParTs & labour Religious Material DJ Scott

Cudmore (50s & 60s R&R). revival My Favorite DJ Starting From Scratch, Tyrone Solomon, Paul E Lopes, Jason Palma, Mike Tull, Aki doors 10 pm. rivoli Pool louNGe deejayscoots (reggae/ roots/rock/hip-hop/soul/electro/funk) 10 pm. sNeaky dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. The soCial Faktory Rico Tubbs doors 10 pm. suPerMarkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal. TaTToo roCk Parlour Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor Gen Y, DJ Stu (dance rock/retro) doors 10 pm. velveT uNderGrouNd DJ Joe (alt rock) 11:15 pm.

Sunday, March 6 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

aNNex WreCkrooM The Wonder Years, Man

Overboard, Handguns & Live the Story (pop punk) 7 pm, all ages. doMiNioN oN QueeN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. GraffiTi’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. horseshoe Telekinesis, Pepper Rabbit doors 8 pm. orbiT rooM Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. ParTs & labour Mikey Erg, Broken Neck, Direct Approach (pop punk/hardcore) 8 pm, all ages. roC N doC’s The Bottle Devils (rock) 9:30 pm. sNeaky dee’s The Dreadnoughts, the Resignators, Ghetto Blaster, Ruthless Ones (Celtic punk) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Cloak & daGGer Pub Scott McGrenere (folk/ pop) 9 pm.

duffy’s TaverN Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. GaTe 403 Back Alley Ringers (blues) 9 pm. GriNder Joel Sweet (folk/bluegrass) 1:30 pm. holy oak Cafe Barzin & Field Assembly (folk) 9 pm.

huGh’s rooM Lucy Kaplansky 8:30 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.

NaCo Gallery Cafe Flamenco Sundays Shirlita Pili & Dennis Duffin 8 pm.

PoGue MahoNe Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped

in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. Pour boy Pub Related 3 to 6 pm. Press Club Ross Neilson (blues). relish Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. rePosado Mariachi Sundays 7 pm. roC N doC’s Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 pm. suPerMarkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. TraNzaC souTherN Cross William & Polly 3 pm. TraNzaC MaiN hall Jane Eamon 7 pm. TraNzaC souTherN Cross The Spanish Waiter Mike Hopkins 7:30 pm. TraNzaC souTherN Cross Woodchoppers Association 10:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

beTTy oliPhaNT TheaTre New Music Concerts Jonathan Harvey, New Music Concerts Ensemble 8 pm. doMiNioN oN QueeN Jazz Jam 4 to 7 pm. duffy’s TaverN Ken Yoshioka (blues). eMMeT ray bar Jamie Ruben (jazz/pop) 9 pm. GaTe 403 Melissa Lauren Jazz Band noon to 3 pm. GaTe 403 Brownman Akoustic Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. GraCe ChurCh oN-The-hill I Will Sing Unto The Lord The Choirs Of Grace Church on-theHill 4 pm. heliCoNiaN hall Syrinx Sunday Salons: A Celebration Of Canadian Composers The Duke Trio 3 pm. our lady of sorroWs ChurCh The French Connection Victoria Scholars Men’s Choral Ensemble 7:30 pm.

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Royal ConseRvaToRy of musiC KoeRneR hall Acoustic Africa Habib Koité, Oliver

Reason, Hallows Die, Profaner 7 pm. dRaKe hoTel lounge Live Karaoke Shark Week (live band karaoke) doors 10:30 pm. dRaKe hoTel undeRgRound Elvis Monday People of Canada, Lauren Mann & the Fairly Odd Folk, Dusty Wallace, Azores, Unheimlich Manoeuvre (pop/rock) doors 9 pm. gRaffiTi’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Saloon 6 to 9 pm. haRlem CarolynT (R&B/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. hoRseshoe Pat Burns Tribute Bidini Band. old niCK M Factor Mondays Sonia Funk, James Struthers, Elana Harte 7 pm. RoC n doC’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9:30 pm.

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Rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Rex Laura Marks Group 3:30 pm. Rex Ugly Beauties 7 pm. Rex CD release Mark Segger Sextet (drums)

9:30 pm.

Roy Thomson hall Virtuoso Performances Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm. Mtukudzi, Afel Bocoum 7:30 pm.

Anthems Mississauga Choral Society 3 pm. Ten feeT Tall David Occhipinti Trio 3:30 pm. TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm. TRiniTy sT. Paul’s ChuRCh The Galileo Project: Music Of The Spheres Tafelmusik 8 pm.

yoRK univeRsiTy aCColade easT Bldg TRiBuTe CommuniTies ReCiTal hall The Garden Party: A York U Vocal Showcase 3 to 5 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BeaveR Bedroom Eyes DJs J Crosson, L Wild-

Open Jam Pete Eastmure 7:30 pm.

fRee Times Café Open Stage Signe Miranda 7:30 pm.

hugh’s Room Chinaberry Sidewalks Tour Rodney Crowell 8:30 pm.

The loCal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/

country) 9:30 pm.

TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss This Is Awesome 7

pm.

TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Open Mic 10 pm. The wilson 96 Steve Puchalski (country/rock)

9 pm.

Bovine sex CluB DJ Rockabilly Rob. CRews/Tango zone Creamed Sundays DJ Ana

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

Capella 10 pm.5 11 am to 5 pm.

henhouse DJs Debate Club 10 pm. insomnia DJ Lk (old-school hip-hop/disco/

funk).

The ossingTon Unltd Sunday Hajah Bug, Mantis.

TaTToo RoCK PaRlouR Tattoo Sundays: Trash Palace Industry Night 4Korners (old school/ rock mash-up/electro/dance). velveT undeRgRound DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

Monday, March 7 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

annex wReCKRoom Athiest, Last Chance to

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Parts & Labour launches new all-ages series Our cover story about the state of the city’s allages scene (February 24-March 2) was on the streets for just a few hours when Parts & Labour booker Mark Pesci announced on Twitter that the bar is launching a new series of teen-friendly shows on Sundays. We’ve had a positive, encouraging response from many promoters and bands (follow-up story to come), but P&L is the first to take action on the issue. The bar has hosted half a dozen all-ages shows in the past year, but plans to ramp things up.

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gRaffiTi’s Blackmetal Brunch DJ Murder Mike

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Bovine sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

goodhandy’s T-Girls Go Wild! DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

insomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). naCo galleRy Cafe Dirty Thirties (30s music). The ossingTon The Lion’s Den Julion (reggae). RoCKwood Mash Up Mondays DJs Crunch,

organ) 8 pm.

Tilt, Scratchez.

CloaK & daggeR PuB Carlie Howell Trio (jazz)

Tuesday, March 8

emmeT Ray BaR Dan Easty, Dickenson, Down-

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

9 pm.

ing & Ardelli (jazz) 9 pm. gaTe 403 Alex Coleman Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm. Rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm.

yoRK univeRsiTy aCColade easT Bldg TRiBuTe CommuniTies ReCiTal hall Music At Midday: Classical Instrumental Recital 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BeaveR Kicking And Screaming DJs Pat Ghostwolf, George Burt.

annex wReCKRoom Drummers In Exile (drum circle) 8 pm.

The avRo Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 9

pm.

Bovine sex CluB 20th Anniversary Series The Resignators (ska/reggae).

dominion on Queen Rockabilly Workshop 2 to 4 pm.

dRaKe hoTel undeRgRound Siskiyou,

“I’m looking to combine the all-ages Sunday shows I grew up going to at the X Club in Hamilton with the type of steady local support that the old Wavelength series provided,” says Pesci. “It’s a concept I’ve been working on for a while, but Carla Gillis’s article definitely helped spark a fire and get people talking.” Parts & Labour will begin with a couple of shows a month, with the goal of making the series a weekly event by the summer. If you’re a promoter or young band looking to get involved, email play@ Benjamin Boles partsandlabour.ca.

hoRseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nites: Pre CMF Kick Off The Liptonians, Acres of Lions, Royal Canoe, the Lines, Samantha Savage 8:30 pm. The PainTed lady Mardi Gras Heavyweights Brass Band (funk/jazz/R&B) 9 pm. Phoenix ConCeRT TheaTRe The Get Up Kids, Miniature Tigers, Brian Bonz doors 6:30 pm, all ages. The PisTon The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTudio Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Traplines 8 pm, all ages. wRongBaR Marnie Stern, Tera Melos doors 8 pm, all ages. yellow gRiffin Johnny Devil & the Screaming Demons (rock) 10 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

C’esT whaT Tanya Philipovich 10 pm. CloaK & daggeR PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

daKoTa TaveRn Peter Elkas (soul/folk the Weather Station, Chrome & the Ice ñ rock). ñ Queen (pop/rock) doors 8 pm. fogaRTy’s Mardi Gras JP Zydeco Band 8 pm. gRaffiTi’s Basic English 8 pm. gRossman’s Mardi Gras Party The Box Car Boys, Joyful Sinners 7 pm.

The founTain Badly Bent Bluegrass 9 pm.

gaTe 403 Julian Fauth (blues) 9 pm. hugh’s Room Chinaberry Sidewalks Tour Rodney Crowell 8:30 pm.

The loCal Ben Sures. oasis BanQueT hall Southside Mardi Gras

Jerome Godboo, Loco Zydeco, Chuch Jackson, Cheryl Lescom, Dinny’s Dixieland All Stars 6:30 pm. old niCK Open Mic Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. PRess CluB Toast & Jam Open Jam. RoC n doC’s Marshall Dane (new country/ pop) 9:30 pm. slaCK’s Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. suPeRmaRKeT The Ambient Ping: Fit The First Kalte & URM doors 8 pm. TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss The Swyves 10 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

dominion on Queen Corktown’s Django Jam 8:30 pm.

fouR seasons CenTRe foR The PeRfoRming aRTs Liszt’s B-Minor Sonata Alexander Seredenko (piano) noon.

gaTe 403 Donné Roberts Band 5 to 8 pm. Rex Jake Wilkinson Group 6:30 pm.

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collective concerts

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fri march 25 @ the phoenix

2nights 20venues 100+bands club crawl

$17.50

adv • all-ages & 19+ • $30 jf wristband

fri march 25 & sat march 26 phoenix • opera house • great hall • el mocambo • horseshoe • drake hotel • rivoli lula lounge • gladstone • wrongbar • garrison • lee’s palace • mod club • dakota hard rock café • hugh’s room • silver dollar • bovine • sneaky dee’s • delta monarch

friday march 25 opera house

saturday march 26 the phoenix $17.50 advance • all-ages / 19+

17.50 adv • all-ages / 19+ • 8pm goth punK roCK tripleheader w/ Mtl’s ariel $

die mannequin birthday massacre the great hall

dala $17.50

lee’s palace

horseshoe tavern

advance • 8:30pm

$13.50

advance • 9:00pm

adv • dustin Bentall

the johnstones saint alvia ska

monday april 4 @ lee’s palace $20.00 advance - victoria bc - punk legends

tuesday april 26

the mod club

$13.50

el MoCaMBo - $15.50 adv • 8:00pm

advance • all-ages • 6pm

the beauties these Kids justin rutledge said the whale luKe doucet wear crowns emm gryner d-sisive sirius-CBC radio 3 live-to-air

and friends

nq arbuckle jesse labelle • alyssa reid

el mocambo $17.50 adv the rivoli

the great hall

17.50 adv • 9:00pm

drake hotel $12.00 door

with jukebox the ghost

thursday march 31 the phoenix

tickets @ ticketmaster.ca rotate this. soundscapes • 19+

frank turner

born

grapes raghav basia georgas ruffians of wrath bulat $17.50

advance

lee’s palace $12.00 • 9:00pm

chic garmine

misteur valaire blues in d amos the transparent

lula lounge $17.50 adv • 7pm drake hotel

12.00 @ door

sound academy $25.00 advance or

new country rehab

horseshoe tavern $

young empires elliott pacifiKa roberto lopez brood 17.50 advance

bravestation

bovine $12.00 @ door • 9:00pm

jayme stone mighty popo

flash

lightnin’

hugh’s room $17.50 adv • 6pm dakota tavern $12.00 @ door

dogs laila biala sheep del barber the soujourners

monarch / delta chelsea hotel the garrison $12.00 door $

brett caswell & the marquee rose johnny max band 24th street Wailers whale tooth • the darcys 17.50 advance • 9:30pm

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advance • all- ages • 8pm doors

thursday april 21 @ Lee’s Palace - $25.00 adv

el mocambo

17.50 advance

gentleman husbands ladies of the canyon

the garrison $13.50 adv • 9pm gladstone pop Montreal presents

17.50 adv • 9:00pm

adrian ferrugia

julie fathead doiron fond of tigers

$30

chet doxas

felix strussi

monarch / delta chelsea hotel $

17.50 advance • 9:30pm

jim byrnes urban preacher

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haste the day Thursday march 3 annex wreckroom $17.50

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wednesday april 6 The greaT hall - $15.50 adv

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monday may 2 mod club

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surfer blood

friday

may 6

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sunday may 1 • sound academy

tamaryn

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freelance whales & the naked and famous

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black raveonettes 97’s angels horseshoe |

$ 22.50 advance ga

fri march 18 @ The Phoenix | $20.00 adv

My Children My Bride & the Chariot

lou Barlow performing Bakesale & harmacy

mon april 18 • sound academy

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Lee’s Palace $20.00 advance

sweden

$ 16.50 advance • 19+

peter, bjorn & john

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friday march 18 @ Lee’s Palace | $13.50 advance

thursday march 3 | $5.00

low level FlIgHt neon wIndBreakers tHe stormalongs mornIng tHIeves saturday march 5 | $20.00 adv

Junos 40th anniversary decades concert series songs oF the 2000’s

JUstin rUtleDge Kevin DreW & BrenDan canning of BroKen social scene seBastian from dfa 1979 royal wood order of good CHeer ian from Billy talent Dave from the stills neIl From Zeus Monday march 7 | $20.00 adv

paT Burns

TriBuTe wednesday march 9 | $5.00

BlaCk PHoenix orCHestra cHasIng aImee wagons • vIolent kIn wormwood scruBs $ 17.50

advance

friday march 4 | $10.00 adv

smaLL

friday aPril 1

elephant 6 Wire lee’S palace | $22.50 advance

with

hoLiday surprise Tour • new venue!

andronicus Foster sins TiTus The joy formidaBLe tHe friday apriL 1 @ horseshoe tavern | $14.50 advance

sunday apriL 3

Lee’s Palace | $10.00 advance

Ketch harBor Wolves orDer of gooD cheer sunday march 6 | $11.00 advance

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With pepper

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saturday apriL 2 @ horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance

saturday apriL 2 @ Lee’s Palace | $13.50 advance

The reAL mckenzies VancouVer, Bc - scottish celtic Punk

sunday apriL 3 horseshoe tavern

$14.50

Hosted by BooKie (17th Year) tuesday march 8

The LipTonians acres of Lions royaL canoe The Lines samantha savage smith sunday march 13 | $5.00 door

rat taIL schomBerg fair the Pack ad in media res the dirty 9s annUal chartattacK / horseshoe shoWcases saturday

advance - 19+

the greenhornes

Feat. members oF raconTeurs & dead weaTher

thursday apriL 7 @ Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance

people groUp love & le sanDs fri apriL 15 @ Lee’s Palace 13.50 advance - hopeless records

musTard pLug

liam finn sTeeLie With

dodger

saturday apriL 16 Lee’s PaLaCe | $13.50 advance

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$13.50

advance

King coBB

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feaTuring aLL memBers pasT & presenT

wednesday apriL 27 horseshoe tavern | $11.50 advance

san Francisco hardly art 50s doo Wop punk!

friday apriL 15 @ horseshoe tavern | $15.00 advance

his punx

thursday march 3 | $ 10.00

friday march 4 | $ 7.00

united steel worKers of monTreaL lee Harvey osmond + Harlan pepper

BomBs maladies of adam stokes Avery isLAnd Bloody five

saturday march 5 | SoLD oUT

wed march 9 | Can Music fest

plants & animals

lost cHord tHe mark InsIde Boxer tHe Horse make your exIt Future HIstory With kArkwA little BlaCk dress

joNboy LaNgford & hIS SadIES BomBay young BIcycle Zeus cuff gaLaxy die CLUB still life still The duKe mannequin tHe waCo BrotHers TuNE-yardS imaginary Cities DinosaUr Bones rich aUcoin thursday

marcH 10

Friday

marcH 11

wInter gLoveS fang memphis hooDeD gentlemen

molly ranKin HusBands moDern the sheep Dogs sUperstitions CHristina martin the WilDerness gloryhoUnD

marcH 12

jaKaLopE parlovr Inward eye ko • raH raH wIldlIFe

deano waco • sKuLL orchard • The good famiLy saturday apriL 16 @ horseshoe tavern | $15.00 advance burLingTon mALe weLsh choir

•••• ticket combo • $25 for both shows ••••

revoLver

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thursday march 17 | $10.00 adv wednesday march 23 | $13.50 adv

martIan awareness featuring

wiLLiam fiTzsimmons

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

370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

thursday may 12

With Buke and gass

miraCle fortress The jezeBeLs

saturday march 19 | $ 15.00 adv

electric White

SoutHern WHite traSH rock

fri march 4 @ el Mocambo | $10.00 adv

CowBell SIX say hi oklaHoma dreadnaugHts roCky Votolato thursday

march 3

drake underground

Paris France - Folk PoP

gheTToBLasTer + The resignaTors sun march 27 @ sneaky dee’s | $8.50 adv - 8:30 doors

Larry & hIS fLaSk tues apriL 5 & wed apriL 6 el Mocambo | $10.50 advance

tHe

civiL wars horseshoetavern.com mary margaret o’Hara

fri march 11 | Can Music fest

horseshoe tavern | $15.00 advance

sat march 12 | Can Music fest

sunday march 6 @ sneaky dee’s | $13.50 adv

no cover! wednesday march 16 | $13.50 advance

thurs march 10 | Can Music fest

wed march 23 @ the drake | $16.50 adv - 8:30 doors

say hi To your mom

paper Lions the Balconies

with

thurs march 31 @ sneaky dee’s

thursday march 17 |

saturday march 26 | $ 13.50 adv

formerly

with

matt pond

sunday march 27

drake underground | $13.50 advance

with

Blair & yellow ostrich

FIrkIn one moon duo sound $13.50

advance - doors 8:00pm

sAm amidon BLanK dogs san Fran Wooden shipps psych

sat apriL 9 @ el Mocambo | $10.50 adv

Monday apriL 11 @ the drake | $12.50 adv

wye royal Bangs joe pug oAk johN vaNdErSLIcE

wed apriL 20 @ horseshoe | $10.00 advance

$ 20.00

tuesday may 10 @ the drake | $13.50 adv

tuesday march 22 |

SpItfISt

BeautIes & FrIends Luke douceT

17.50 adv - sun Kil Moon/red house Painters indie folk rock

mark kozelek artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW march 3-9 2011

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$3.25 BREAKFAST • MON - FRI 11AM- 4PM Thursday MarCh 3

CREEPER WOMEN IN TRAGEDY KOSMOGRAD GOD STOPPER friday MarCh 4 (early)

FAVOURS THE BRAVE CD RELEASE SHORTLINE HERO THE ARCHIVES LIKE PACIFIC friday MarCh 4 (laTe)

METAL HEALTH HAIR METAL DANCE PARTY every saTurday

sHake a TaiL 60’s pop & soul sunday MarCh 6

THE DREADNOUGHTS THE RESIGNATORS GHETTO BLASTER RUTHLESS ONES Monday MarCh 7 (early)

sTePHen JeRZak Monday MarCh 7 (laTe)

Legends oF kaRaoke every wednesday

wHaT’s PoPPin’ 80/90’s hip hop party

MarCh 9-13

CaNaDiaN MusiC WEEK CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD brett caswell • huron SANDMAN VIPER COMMAND teenage kicks • golden isles hands & teeth • nash CHRISTIEN SUMMERS brave station • allie huges paper lions • dva’s meligrove band • make your exit men • lifestory monologue THE jUNCTION LOVE MACHINE brutal youth • skullians THE REBEL SPELL 50

march 3-9 2011 NOW

rex U of T Student Jazz 9 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm. trAnzAC Southern CroSS Peripheral Vision

(jazz improv) 7:30 pm. underdown puB James Morrison & Grant Curle (piano/bass) 9:30 pm.

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

CrewS/tAngo Industry Tuesdays DJ Quinces.5 goodhAndy’S T-Girls Go Wild! DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

repoSAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, March 9 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

c Annex wreCkroom Chastity, Meredith

Shaw, Mike D, Kenya Kondo, Chad Price 7:30 pm.

c Bovine Sex CluB Organ Thieves, This

Drama, Dead Messenger, Saigon Hookers, Iron League, Darlings of Chelsea, 9 pm. c CAdillAC lounge Dirty Penny, the Polymorphines, Tongue N’ Groove, Poor Young Things, Melanie Morgan 9 pm. c Cherry ColA’S roCk n’ rollA The Lines, Wolfheart, Monday Rose, the Targets, Daydreams for Dollars doors 9 pm. c Clinton’S Staylefish, M.T.L., Auresia, Magnum KI, Gruve doors 8 pm. CloAk & dAgger puB Scott Maynard & the Quiet Revolution (pop/folk) 10 pm. c CoBrA lounge Robot Bomb Shelter 10 pm. c CzehoSki Capital Stacks, Ania Soul, Dennis Passley, Cameron Scott Fraser, Morten Myklebust, Jodymoon 9 pm. c dAkotA tAvern Colin Moore, the Wildbirds, the Coppertone, Darlingside, Shane Chisholm, the Vanishers 9 pm. c drAke hotel underground In Medias Res, Epigram, Gabby Young, Half Moon Run 9 pm. c el moCAmBo downStAirS To Tell, Behind Sapphire, Eric Hutchinson, Michou, Cardinal Chase 9 pm. c el moCAmBo upStAirS Red October, Roads, Courage My Love, Lacerda, Distance Between Stars 8:30 pm. c the gArriSon Wild Domestic, Mortiboyz, the Cosmic Eye, Red Vienna, Biance doors 8 pm.

glAdStone hotel BAllroom Gentleman Reg, Creature, Rouge, Chris ñ Velan, Kevin Wong 7 pm. c

c hArd luCk BAr Kalle Mattson, the Wheat

Pool, Graydon James & the Young Novelists doors 8 pm. c the hideout INAMBUSH, the Yage Letters, Altan Urag, Eatliz, Kemal Evans Project doors 8 pm. c horSeShoe Black Phoenix Orchestra, Chasing Amee, Wagons, Violent Kin, Wormwood Scrubs doors 8:30 pm. c lee’S pAlACe Lost Chord, the Mark Inside, Funeral Suits, Make Your Exit, Future History, Little Black Dress. c mod CluB CMW Official Opening Party Breaching Vista, Desperate Union, Hail the Villain, Finger Eleven doors 7 pm, all ages. c neu+rAl Berlin Brides, PUSTKI, the Autumn Portrait, Clockwize Sound, Mackenzie First, Tailor Made Fable doors 7 pm. c operA houSe Beneath the Massacre, Cryptopsy, Disgust, Dissension, Fatality, Sykode, the Catalyst, Dush. c the pAinted lAdy Sacred Animals, MotherMoon, Snowblink, amberhaze, the Breezes doors 8:30 pm. c pArtS & lABour Dancing with Paris, Titan doors 8 pm.

phoenix ConCert theAtre Mother Mother, Birds of Tokyo, Whale Tooth, ñ Rococode 8 pm. c

c the piSton Adaline, David Vertesi, Daniel

Benjamin, Samantha Savage, Smokekiller doors 8 pm. c rAnCho relAxo Old Crowns, Alcoholic Faith Mission, Ryan Warner & the Moonlight Ride, Go for the Eyes, Lordy Lordy doors 8 pm. c rivoli The Airplane Boys, Royal Canoe, Rex Goudie, Lindi Ortega, Robyn Dell’Unto doors 8 pm. roC n doC’S Herve & Chris (R&B) 10 pm. c SupermArket Take Me to the Pilot, Everywhere, Running Red Lights doors 8 pm. c velvet underground Mad Anthony, Mad June, the Shanks, Phone Joan, the Archives doors 7 pm. c wrongBAr Murs, Ab-Soul & DJ Foundation, Tabi Booney doors 7 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

CAmeron houSe Josh Cockerill, Alfie Jurvan-

en, Bazil Donovan 6 pm. C’eSt whAt Autumn Owls 9:30 pm. emmet rAy BAr Luke Michielsen (singer/ songwriter) 9 pm. gAte 403 Joshua Goodman Jazz Band 5-8 pm. gAte 403 Teri Parker Jazz Band 9 pm. grAFFiti’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. groSSmAn’S Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. hollywood on the queenSwAy Latin Wednesdays Jay & Viv (salsa/meringue/bachata/ cumbia) 9 pm. living ArtS Centre The Celtic Tenors 8 pm. the loCAl Make Out Wednesdays Ron Leary Quintet (indie folk). lulA lounge Tiken Jah Fakoly (African reggae) 9 pm. preSS CluB Ben Sures, Nancy Dutra, Patrick Brealey (folk). rex Alan Hetherington (samba) 9:30 pm. roSe theAtre Kevin Fox & Barney Bentall (folk/pop) 8 pm. Silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm.

Venue Index 519 ChurCh Street Community Centre 519 Church. 416-392-6874. Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AlliAnCe FrAnçAiSe downtown 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. Alto lounge 582 Church. Annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416536-0346. AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. AuguStA houSe 152 Augusta. 416-977-8881. the Avro 750 Queen E. 416-466-3233. BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. BeACh united ChurCh 140 Wineva. 416691-8082. BeAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. BeerBiStro 18 King E. 416-861-9872. Betty oliphAnt theAtre 404 Jarvis. BirChmount pArk C.i. 3663 Danforth. 416-396-6704. BlondieS 1378 Queen W. Blue moon 725 Queen E. 416-463-8868. BoAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. Bovine Sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-5044239. BrASSAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. BreAd & CirCuS 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. BundA lounge 1108 Dundas W. CAdillAC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717. CAmeron houSe 408 Queen W. 416-7030811. CASA lomA 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171. the CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. Century room 580 King W. 416-203-2226. C’eSt whAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkerS puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. Cherry ColA’S roCk n’ rollA 200 Bathurst. ChinA houSe 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. Clinton’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CloAk & dAgger puB 394 College. 647436-0228. CoBrA lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004. College Street BAr 574 College. 416-5332417. CornerStone puB 537 College. 647-4307111. CrewS/tAngo 508 Church. 416-972-1662. CroCodile roCk 240 Adelaide W. 416-5999751. Crown & tiger 414 College. 416-920-3115. CzehoSki 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dAve’S... on St ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416657-3283. dimitrA’S BiStro 782 St Clair W. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416368-6893. doverCourt houSe 805 Dovercourt. 416-535-3847. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duFFy’S tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. enwAve theAtre 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. FogArty’S 3481 Lake Shore W. 416-2535500. Fogo tApAS BAr & lounge 1140 Winston Churchill Blvd (Mississauga). 905-287-7761. Fomo 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666. Footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. the FountAin 1261 Dundas W. 416-203-2311.

trAnzAC Southern CroSS soozimusictrio,

HOTCHA! 7:30 pm.

trAnzAC tiki room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm.

trAnzAC Southern CroSS Ghosteye, Chris

Dadge 10 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

AlleyCAtz Grayceful Daddies (swingin’ jazz/ blues/R&B) 8:30 pm.

ChAlkerS puB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Parti-

celli (jazz) 8 pm.

dominion on queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm.

hArt houSe muSiC room Frank Horvat (solo

piano) 8 pm. mezzettA Brazilian Duo Bill McBirnie, Louis Simao (jazz) 9 pm. nAwlinS JAzz BAr The Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. rex Carissa Neufeld 6:30 pm.

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

the Avro DJ Damn Aykroyd (hip-hop/funk/ disco) 10 pm. BeAver Diamond Dogs DJs Chloe, Jackie (motown/rock). BrASSAii Les Nuits DJ Dlux, DJ Undercover 10 pm. CroCodile roCk 911 Wednesdays (retro/rock/ top 40/dance) 9 pm. george’S plAy DJ Jon 9 pm.5 goodhAndy’S T-Girls Go Wild! DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 hArlem Music Is The Answer DJ Ty Hale, Melanie Sutherland (R&B/hip-hop/reggae/soul/ pop) 8 pm. henhouSe Snakepit At The Henhouse DJ SVBB, DJ Yo Mama (queer dance party) 10 pm.5 inSomniA DJ O-God (house/reggae/mashups). the oSSington HumbleMania XV Live in Bellwoods. repoSAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. SneAky dee’S What’s Poppin’ (90s hip-hop party). wrongBAr Bassmentality Reso, the Killabits & Zeds Dead doors 11 pm. 3

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disc of the week

Pop/Rock

NNNN ñMOTHER MOTHER

ñR.E.M.

Collapse Into Now (Warner) Rating: NNNN 2008’s Accelerate gave R.E.M. fans some hope that they might be able to overcome their late-career slump, but its focus on loud rock guitars wasn’t exactly what most of us are looking for from the band. So it was with cautious optimism that we approached Collapse Into Now, their 15th (!) studio album. You can almost hear critics and fans all over the world breathing a huge sigh of relief. Collapse is a genuine return to form for the band, blowing away anything else they’ve done for more than a decade. There are still a lot of fuzz guitars,

but this time they’re balanced by enough jangly picking and mandolins that it still sounds like the R.E.M. we used to love. A lot of guest musicians are on board, but don’t pay too much attention to that. Without the liner notes, you’d have no idea that Peaches, Joel Gibb, Eddie Vedder and Patti Smith are shouting along in the background. Okay, Smith’s wail on album closer Blue is recognizable, but not obtrusive in the least. Collapse Into Now feels like a reunion with a dear old friend you lost touch with many years ago. Top track: That Someone Is You BENJAMIN BOLES

Eureka (Last Gang) Rating: Mother Mother found their way into radio rotation with Body Of Years, the biggest single from their last album, and though they’ve made no secret of their continued crossover ambitions, they also thankfully haven’t sanded the edges off their eccentric pop aesthetic. Like their Vancouver peers the New Pornographers, Mother Mother aim straight for the subconscious, cramming in as many earworms as humanly possible. And yet their unusual compositions avoid sugar rot. Beyond their hook-writing, their biggest weapon has always been their three-pronged co-ed vocal interplay, and here they take it to complex Dirty Projectors-like heights. The entendre-laden call-and-response in The Stand, the classic rock organ solo on Chasing It Down and the Buddy Hollyquoting chipped-and-screwed guitar riff in Problems make Eureka as catchy as it is quirky. Top track: Problems Mother Mother play the Phoenix March 9, as part of CMW. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

was written by someone three times her age and shouldering a lifetime’s worth of heartbreak. The groove and gutsiness of opener Rolling In The Deep highlight what she can do with all pistons firing, which they also do on second track Rumour Has It. But as the album progresses, maudlin tales of love-gone-wrong replace the sexiness and 21 loses steam, especially on a flaccid cover of the Cure’s Lovesong. Adele’s husky, powerful voice is what keeps you listening, but here’s hoping she experiences something besides betrayal before writing her next record. Top track: Rolling In The Deep Adele plays Kool Haus on May 18. JOANNE HUFFA

THE DEARS Degeneration Street (Phero-

LYKKE LI Wounded Rhymes (Atlantic)

FRI & SAT MAR. 4 & 5

WED-SUN MAR. 9-13

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Stark Naked & The Fleshtones, New/France

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Rating: NN On her sophomore album, Swedish pop singer Lykke Li can’t seem to shake the feelings of restlessness and heartache that marked her debut, Youth Novels. But this time around she’s less ambivalent about what it all means. While the minimal production and closely miked vocals on her debut emphasized the pop hooks and her fragile voice, Li and producer Bjorn Yttling (Peter, Bjorn & John) give listeners a more all-encompassing, if familiar, sound on Wounded Rhymes, nestling her vocals amidst girlgroup harmonies, psych organ and shambolic percussion. There’s conviction in the music – and some catchy choruses – but Li’s vocals aren’t always as convincing or varied as the emotional range she tackles: provocatively intimidating (Get Some), self-deprecating (Rich Kid Blues), resigned (Jerome). At worst, she’s woefully earnest, as on the flimsy gospel ballad Unrequited Love, and her 60s retro sound isn’t immune to clichés. (Cue the Be My Baby drum intro.) Top track: I Follow Rivers Lykke Li plays the Phoenix May 22. KEVIN RITCHIE

ADELE 21 (XL/Beggars) Rating: NNN

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There’s a maturity in 22-year-old British singer Adele Adkins’s voice that belies her youth. Her second record sounds like it

mone/Maple) Rating: NNN There was a time when the Dears were mentioned in the same breath as Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene as torchbearers for millennial Canadian indie rock. That notion sank along with a series of albums that failed to live up to the promise of 2003’s No Cities Left, but it hasn’t killed the band’s ambition. Regrouping their “greatest hits” lineup, the Dears go for broke once again on Degeneration Street, applying their put-itall-on-the-table approach to make their bulkiest, densest album yet. Clocking in at over an hour, it synthesizes all the band’s styles, from crunchy radio rockers (guitar hero Patrick Krief is a welcome return) to moody slow-burners. They’re clearly aiming for epic but more often accomplish exhausting. It’s admirable to see a band unselfconscious enough to present such unapologetically maudlin balladry (in a good way), but there’s only so much of it you can take in one sitting. Top track: Blood RT

Hip-hop

NNNN ñLUPE FIASCO

Lasers (Atlantic) Rating: Lupe Fiasco’s third album finally gets a release after two years in major-label limbo, which came to a head last summer when fans started a petition and protested out-

side Atlantic’s headquarters. Oddly, Lasers is Fiasco’s most commercial-sounding album – but think of it as club music with a conscience. The Chicago wordsmith wraps his skilful flow and incendiary rhymes about politics, social strife and race relations around feel-good club beats and massive, singalong choruses. In doing so, he effectively erases the invisible line that separates brain from booty. Occasionally the production is anything but subtle: hook singer Skylar Grey’s Rihanna-esque vocal turn on Words I Never Say; the trancey synths on Break The Chain. But when a lyric like “Limbaugh is racist / Glenn Beck is racist / Gaza Strip was gettin’ bombed / Obama didn’t say shit” leaps from a thundering bass line, you listen. Top track: Coming Up KR

Folk

BLACKEST CROW ñTHENNNN

Where Wild Birds Whistle (Merriweather) Rating: In an age when you can layer as many instruments as you like in the studio, it’s refreshing to hear a debut EP as naked as the Blackest Crow’s. On it, Hannah Naiman and Emily Adam harmonize a cappella on traditional songs and originals that sound almost as classic. With roots in the Flying Cloud Folk Club’s Young Folk Revue and family ties to Toronto’s folk scene, the Appalachian- and Georgian-choral-influenced duo sing slow, romantic ballads about lost and fleeting love, their voices floating together in close harmonies perfect for early mornings or late nights. Oh Behold incorporates Motherless Child, Pretty Bird (by Hazel Dickens) takes off while staying grounded, and Callum is a standout original. Here’s hoping for a longer follow-up that incorporates Naiman’s banjo and Adam’s cello. Top track: Callum SARAH GREENE

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Blessed (Lost High-

way/Universal) Rating: NNN Buttercup opens Lucinda Williams’s new album, and it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from the enduring American songwriter: a country-rockin’ kiss-off to some inconsiderate jerk who, in this instance, “sucked her dry.” Why does she keep getting involved with these types? We’re talking almost a whole catalogue of done-me-wrong tunes. As it turns out, Williams has been happily married for several years, and Buttercup is something of a ruse, the only song that treads such familiar ground. Williams is more observational than personal throughout Blessed, looking upon her downtrodden characters with sympathy and compassion. “You were born to be loved,” she sings repeatedly on Born To Be Loved, while the stripped-down Soldier’s Song could have made The Hurt Locker soundtrack. The latter is one of the few tracks (over)producer Don Was didn’t crowd with his army of studio musicians. Top track: Soldier’s Song Lucinda Williams plays Massey Hall Friday and Saturday (March 4 and 5). JASON KELLER

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with SECOND CITY’S KRIS SIDDIQI • Review of BILLY ELLIOT • Scenes on BAD DOG THEATRE’S FINAL SHOWS • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings COMEDY PREVIEW

Party on, Kris!

Actor and playwright Anusree Roy doesn’t want you to pity her Brothel #9 characters.

Improv ace hopes to cause a Riot By GLENN SUMI THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! written and performed by Rob Baker, Dale Boyer, Adam Cawley, Inessa Frantowski, Carly Heffernan and Kris Siddiqi, directed by Bruce Pirrie. Presented by Second City (51 Mercer). In previews, opens Tuesday (March 8) for a limited run, TuesdaySaturday 8 pm (plus Saturday late show 10:30 pm), Sunday 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

THEATRE PREVIEW

Sex and survival In her new play, Anusree Roy explores life in Calcutta’s brothels By JORDAN BIMM BROTHEL #9 by Anusree Roy, directed by Nigel Shawn Williams, with Roy, Ash Knight, Sanjay Talwar and Pamela Sinha. Presented by Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst). Opens tonight (Thursday, March 3) and runs to March 27, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Sunday 2 pm. $15-$40, Sunday pwyc. 416-504-9971.

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to rape you, and your life would be destroyed.’ “She said this with a straight face. If she actually did that, there would be no way for me to escape. Then she burst out laughing and said, ‘Oh come on, just drink some tea.’” Back in Toronto, Roy faced the new challenges of rehearsing as part of an ensemble, and under director Nigel Shawn Williams instead of her longtime collaborator, Thomas Morgan Jones. “The challenge for me in rehearsals is to separate the playwright from the actor. There are days when Nigel asks, ‘Would the playwright please leave the room?’ I always want to edit and rewrite. It’s a tendency I have to fight.” Roy hopes her play will humanize and in some way help the thousands of Indian women who – for a variety of reasons – become trapped in this way of life. “I want people to see the reality of the conditions people live in every day, and to figure out how they can help to change them. Not pity, though. That’s not what I’m after, or what they’re after either.” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

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a single disturbing image inspired Anusree Roy’s Brothel #9, her fourth and most ambitious show to date. “In 2007, I was on the bus heading home from rehearsing my first play when I imagined a woman running down the street, the back of her sari flowing in the wind. I instinctually thought, ‘She’s a sex worker. I know she is. I feel it in my gut.’” The play Roy was rehearsing at the time – Pyaasa, her debut solo show about the caste system in Calcutta – became a hit, winning her Dora Awards for writing and acting and establishing her as charismatic artist dedicated to exposing social problems in India. But she never forgot that vision of the woman running, and decided to turn her attention to understanding and depicting everyday life Calcutta’s brothel system. In the past, Roy has worked alone or with a partner, but here a cast of four

tells the story of Rekha (Pamela Sinha), a young woman sold into the shadowy brothel system embodied by her pimp (Ash Knight), a more experienced “den mother” (Roy) and a corrupt police inspector (Sanjay Talwar). To make the play as authentic as possible, Roy visited India three times to conduct first-hand research among a few of the estimated 60,000 women who work in Calcutta’s red-light district. Her first challenge was convincing her reluctant uncle to arrange for someone to take her to a brothel for the interviews. “I sat there and just listened to these women, who were kind, generous and open,” she says. “But then they would say, ‘You’re just coming here to steal our stories, aren’t you?’” Roy promised them that none of their stories would be in the play and she would only use facts she couldn’t find anywhere else – like hourly rates and the unwritten rules of the trade. One tense moment stays with her, however. “I was interviewing one woman, a ‘den mother,’ who told me, ‘Did you know that I can destroy your life?’ She said, ‘I would ask if you’d like to do research in my room, take some notes or photos, and you would get very excited and go into the room. The next thing I would do is send somebody in

it’s two weeks before the new Second City show, and Kris Siddiqi is thinking about Muammar Gaddafi. So far, there’s no sketch about the Libyan leader. “Gaddafi could be a pretty hilarious character,” says the writer and performer, looking laid-back in a Tshirt, jeans and trucker cap. “We’re trying to wrap our heads around this Middle East thing. And that’s almost exactly what it is – a Middle Eastern thing. It’s going on in Egypt, Libya, the north African states. This is the one kernel in the show that’s waiting to pop.” That’s the thing about a Second City show. Many sketches can be timeless, but if there’s something going on right in front of you, you’ve

got to comment on it. Consider their last show, Something Wicked This Way Comes, which broke box office records and has the cast a tad worried about the followup. (“We have to come up with The Empire Strikes Back!”) “Our first day of rehearsals for that show was literally the first day of the G20 conference,” says Siddiqi. “I was stopped by police on King and told I couldn’t get in.” Obviously, that influenced the show’s superb opening and closing bits about protesters and clamping down on freedom of speech. As the cast’s sole non-Caucasian, Siddiqi says he’s happy to use his ethnicity for a sketch – up to a point. In Second City For Mayor, his debut show, he turned the tables on expectations as a Pakistani taxi passenger who commented on the exotic food and habits of his Caucasian driver. “That was so funny, because my dad is from Pakistan and my mom is Canadian,” he says. He’s discussed the issue with Anand Rajaram – whom he replaced a few weeks before Second City For Mayor opened – and Darryl Hinds, two other non-white SC performers. “We talked about having control over playing brown guys,” he says. “How when you’re doing a brown character, it’s yours, it’s not someone placing it upon you. On the other hand, Rob Baker has a theory that all this is theatre and each of us should be able to play anyone: man, woman, any ethnicity or height.” Siddiqi, who’s raising a new child with SC alumnus Aurora Browne, got into improv through doing theatre at Northern Secondary. After studying film at U of T, he took improv classes at Bad Dog Theatre and Second City and was a Bad Dog regular until he got the call from Second City. The new show hasn’t been set yet, but Siddiqi tells me some sketches satirize baby boomers, zombies and yoga, which he’s recently taken up. But don’t look for anything about the city’s current mayor. “We had a show called Second City For Mayor, and we’ve already heard so much about him in the news,” says Siddiqi. “What else is there to say? It’s almost too easy.” 3

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Three sisters reunite over a family crisis ten years after a party drove them apart. (See story, page 56.) Previews to Mar 10. Opens Mar 11 and runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mats). $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. ToMbs oF The Vanishing indian by Marie Clements (Native Earth Performing Arts/Red Diva Projects). Three Aboriginal sisters and their mother deal with issues of identity and isolation after a forced relocation. Previews Mar 9. Opens Mar 10 and runs to Mar 27, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, Fri & Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

(U of T Arts Council Speakers in the Arts Series). The playwright speaks about his work, life and philosophies. Mar 8 at 7 pm. $10, stu/srs $5. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. The doMesTic crusaders by Wajahat Ali (Rasik Arts). Roundtable discussion follows a reading of this comedy about a Muslim-American family. Mar 3 at 6 pm. Free. Wychwood Library, 1431 Bathurst. rasikarts.com. gaga Vs Madonna (Two Jokers & A Queen/ Trevvieland). This tribute show features drag performers Lady Fame and Donnarama plus DJs. Mar 4 at 10 pm. $12. Annex Wreckroom, 794 Bathurst. theannexwreckroom.com. hard waYs/17.5 by Jason Cadieux (The Essential Collective). This double bill includes a black comedy about gambling addiction and a play about a woman’s tribute to her late husband. Mar 3 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy. 905-815-2021. MachoMer by Rick Miller (Living Arts Centre). Miller does voices from TV’s The Simpson’s in this solo comedic adaptation of Macbeth. Mar 8 at 10 am and 12:30 pm. $10. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. livingartscentre.ca. opera Talks (Canadian Opera Company). Members of the COC discuss how design elements contribute to the enjoyment of opera. Mar 3 at 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639. ouT oF characTer (Toronto Centre for the Arts). Rebecca Caine performs opera and musical theatre pieces. Mar 6 at 8 pm. $45$65. 5040 Yonge, George Weston Recital Hall. 416-872-1111, tocentre.com. suddenlY MoMMY! by Anne Marie Scheffler (Perfectly Norma Productions). Scheffler performs her solo comedy about motherhood. Mar 5 at 2 pm. $20. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. suddenlymommy.com. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler (U of T Centre for Women’s Studies & Education/ 360 Productions). Female monologists tell stories of intimacy. Mar 8 at 7 pm. $15 (proceeds to Nellie’s shelter). OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse.

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er’s death led to Jelly throwing the other two out of the house. Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa “Even with that climax, the characPalmer and Martha Ross, directed by ters had an optimism that was echoed Palmer, with Severn Thompson, MacDonin the ascension to the attic,” recalls ald and Ross (Theatre Columbus/Tarragon, Brewin, who inherited the reins of 30 Bridgman). Now in previews, opens Theatre Columbus from Cherniak and March 11 and runs to April 3, Tuesday-SatRoss. “They were all in the early phase urday 8 pm, matinees Saturday and Sunday of their respective careers, working 2:30 pm. $10-$46. 416-531-1827. hard and good at what they did.” In the intervening years, life has reunions are meant to be happy disappointed at least two of the three, occasions. But the gathering of the though they won’t admit it. Fine sisters is a more tortured affair. “Now, 20 years later, they find You might remember the trio of themselves in the basement of the sibs – professor Jojo, Bay Street workhouse, dredging up secrets that turn aholic and closeted lesbian Jayne and out to be mysterious and frightenconceptual artist Jelly – from their ing.” first outing, The Attic, The Pearls And Coincidentally, the collective crea3 Fine Girls, an award-winning 1995 tion’s two-year development process show by Theatre Columbus. was initially just as inexplicable for Actors Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie the team. MacDonald and Martha Ross, director “It took a year of workshopping to Alisa Palmer and Jennifer Brewin realize that the three had to go down have reassembled to look at the temrather than up,” nods Brewin ruefulpestuous family nearly two decades ly. later. Due to personal reasons, Cher“Part of what informs the path of niak has just been replaced by actor the show is that we’re all around the Severn Thompson. 50s mark in our lives; some have A mix of clown-inspired work lookcrossed that milestone, some are aping at family stresses and personal proaching it. What we’re playing with, traumas, Attic literally took the threein part, isn’t a fear of mortality, but some to the top floor of their house, rather a fear of letting go of all those where a blowup soon after their fathwondrously dysfunctional things we hold onto for some sort of comfort.” The audience can see the other four artists’ contribution to the show, but not Brewin’s. How would she define her job? “I guess I’d call myself a facilitator,” she responds, “keeping everyone working in a non-hierarchical process. In most theatre productions, someone is in charge of shaping the results, and everyone involved recognizes who that person is. “Here, it’s an open process, and I find myself managing the artists’ dif ferent ways of working and helping them communicate with each other. The result, we hope, is finding Theatre Columbus’s common ground withJennifer Brewin out choosing the easiest calls herself the show’s facilitator. idea.” 3

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(TEATRON Theatre). Tensions arise when two secular Jewish families from different cultures become neighbours in this comedy. 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. Happy DayS, a NEw MUSIcal by Garry Marshall and Paul Williams (Stage West). This musical is based on the TV sitcom. Runs to Apr 24, Tue-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $53-$88 (incl buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com. THE HUNT foR RED wIllIE by Ken Bourke (Toronto Irish Players). Locals seek a killer after a landowner is murdered in a remote part of Ireland. Runs to Mar 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.org. 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. 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. MaDaMa BUTTERfly by Giacomo Puccini (Toronto Opera Repertoire). Hearts and cultures collide in this Italian opera. Runs to Mar 5, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. 416-9788849, toronto-opera.com. THE MIDDlE placE by Andrew Kushnir (Canadian Stage). Kushnir’s script, based on interviews with residents and caseworkers in a Rexdale youth shelter, runs the gamut from hilarious to heartbreaking. Although it’s impossible to tell any one story in full, the performances and montage of articulate voices arouse empathy, and there’s nothing middling about that. 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 meet and mingle in an enchanted forest (see review, page 57). Runs to Apr 23, see website for schedule. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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) 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 (and Mar 14-15). $30-$40. Lower Ossington

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like the great actor and teacher Uta Hagen, I’m skeptical about updated Shakespeare: arbitrary shifts in time and place are often superficial stand-ins for creative vision. This, thankfully, is not the case with Soulpepper’s revival of the Bard’s classic comedy, which places the enchanted action in the Roaring 20s. So while Theseus and Hippolyta are dressed for a night out with Gatsby, director Rick Roberts stays true to – and absolutely nails – the most important elements of Dream: its fun and magic. Mike Ross’s spellbinding music immediately establishes a magical atmosphere, with the actors playing a combination of musical glasses, bells, strings, accordion and some strange thunderous percussion instruments. The introductory court scene feels a little straitlaced and slow, but once

the defiant lovers Hermia (Abena Malika) and Lysander (Ross) take to the fairy-populated forest, this show begins to shine. The spooky forest is creatively conjured by projecting green light through a collection of twigs, while costume designer Ken Mackenzie rightly makes the fairies a sinister and menacing presence; they dash around hissing, wearing Druid-like hoods. Ins Choi, though merely passable as the Athenian Duke Theseus, excels as Oberon, King of the Fairies, imbuing the role with wide-eyed intensity and great physical bravado. The magical fairy juice that causes the romantic confusion is wonderfully rendered by LED lights that appear to float – a breathtaking effect. Having Titania (Trish Lindström) seem to fly also contributes to the spectacle. However, the best part of the show is the comically ragtag group of actors who rehearse in the woods and perform for the court. Oliver Dennis’s hilarious Bottom, the shamelessly vain lead actor, evokes nearshow-stopping laughs during his drawn-out death scene. 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

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As someone who takes in a ton of theatre and dance, I thought I’d seen everything. But then came 2008’s Radio Play, which paired modern dance great Peggy Baker with Michael Healey, who’s known less for his physical grace than for his award-winning scripts (see below for the exact number) and acting. Now the two are back onstage, directed by Daniel Brooks, in what’s being called a “mutual autobiography in space.” See Openings, page 54. Your new show is called Are You Okay. So... are you okay? I will be at 8:52 pm, March 1, 2011. After our first audience. You’ve recently become the father of twins. How’s that working out? All day long they go on and on about how grateful they are. Speaking of working out... this is your second collaboration with Peggy Baker. What’s your chemistry like? She has an endless supply of various

kinds of tolerance; a must for any of my collaborators. Will there be dancing, as there was in Radio Play? More. And paradoxically, less. More out of Peggy, less out of me, more dance in total. At Ryerson, did you ever think you’d be dancing? I had my doubts, but my dance instruc tor, Russell J. Kilde, was absolutely certain. That I never would. How do you warm up? By asking Peggy Baker how her day has been so far. From a supine position. You’re pretty prolific. Has anything ended up in the trash can? Nope. The plays go straight from my head to the stage. It’s like pointing a garden hose. One that never, ever shuts off. The only thing that could mess it up is if I become conscious of how prolific I truly... Balls. Thanks a lot. Have you kept track of how many productions there’ve been of The

Drawer Boy? Not formally. Weirdest one? Well, the worst one: The English The atre of Vienna. Directed by the author. You’re writing a new version of G.B. Shaw’s On The Rocks for the Shaw Festival. Intimidating? For him or me? You’ve earned quite a few awards: four Doras for best new play, and a Governor General’s Award. Where do you keep them all? Ahem. Five Doras. [Kicked, The Drawer Boy, Plan B, Generous, Courageous.] We line up all the awards outside the nurs ery in case the kids stage a breakout. Those clowns are terrifying in the right light. Last play that made you laugh? SpiderMan, the musical. And I didn’t even see it. ...that made you cry? Death Of A Salesman, at Soulpepper. GLENN SUMI

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Thursday, March 3 THIS PARTY’S A RIOT Second City presents a new show poking fun at the ever-changing world we live in (see story, page 53). 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 Pete Zedlacher. To Mar 6, Wed-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat late show 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. LATE NIGHT CABARET Second City presents a monthly variety show with an adults-only edge, featuring acrobats, burlesque dancers, music and comedy. 11 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. LAUGHS @ TRACKS New Reach Creative presents stand-up w/ Azfar Ali, Faisal Butt, Bobby Roshdi, Riccardo Vendittelli, Joshua Elijah, Jonathon Schabl, Todd Van Allen and Ricky R Singh. 10 pm. Free. Tracks Brew Pub, 60 Queen E, Brampton. newreachcreative.com. SEX WITH JEREMY Comedy Bar presents longform improv w/ the Jeremy Birrell Show, Sex T-Rex, the Bitter End and Venezuela. Doors 10:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 3. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 3. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Graham Chittenden and Roy Daye. To Mar 5, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 70 Interchange Way. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Dana Alexander. To Mar 5, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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Nick Flanagan, Kathleen Phillips, Jon McCurley and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents a weekly show w/ improv by the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE SCENE Comedy Bar presents troupes, stand-up, long form and short films w/ Touch My StereoType, Eric Andrews, Pond and Ward, Edgewater Hotel and Frenzy. 7:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. $#*! MY MAYOR SAYS Second City presents

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Monday, March 7 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, Nile Seguin, K Trevor Wilson, Bryan Hatt, Marc Hallworth, MC Ron Sparks and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Coming Soon... w/ Hannah Hogan, Phil Robbins, Ned Petrie, MC Steve Scholtz and others. 11 pm. Free. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEANS & wIENERS Gladstone Hotel presents a comedy show. 7 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W, Art Bar. gladstonehotel.com. COMEDY @ THE CREEk New Reach Creative presents stand-up w/ Joshua Elijah, Azfar Ali, Bobby Roshdi, Nitish Sakhuja, Candace Lovett, Suzan Mazur, Faisal Butt and host Ricky R Singh. 9 pm. Free. P.K. Creek, 255 Dundas W, Mississauga. newreachcreative.com. DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a weekly game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

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sents the 3-on-3 improv tournament. To Mar 10, Tue-Thu 8 pm. $25. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. SkETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Vest of Friends, the Imponderables, Kathleen Phillips, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Ryan Belleville and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 3. YUk YUk’S DOwNTOwN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, March 9 THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOw The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly ñ variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com.

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, March 3 BROKEN PENCIL The lit mag launches its 50th

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star signs copies of The Rules According To JWoWW. 1 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca. GAIL VAZ-OXLADE The financial guru talks about her new book Never Too Late. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca.

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WEDNESDAY MAR. 9 7:30PM And a sequence in which Celia pulls out her pre-widowhood wardrobe vividly evokes her former vibrancy. Doctor sets the story in Toronto’s Portuguese neighbourhood near Dundas and Brock, a location she evokes with a loving specificity that adds to the book’s pleasure. This is a story of people trying to recover from what seem like irreparable losses. But it’s also about crosscultural connection (Ismail is South Asian, Celia Portuguese), the struggle of queer kids in immigrant families and the meaning of chosen family. SUSAN G. COLE 3 A winner. Doctor launches her book at the Gladstone Monday (March 7), when I’ll be interviewing her onstage. See Readings, this page. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.

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Mirjam Linschooten (free); Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal Courts ($22, stu $12.50), to Apr 3. Betty Goodwin, to Apr 24. Walter Trier, to Apr 25. Paterson Ewen, to May 22. David Blackwood, to Jun 12. Photos: Abel Boulineau, Mar 5-Aug 21. The JUNO Tour Of Canadian Art, to Aug 31. $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK U Centre for Incidental Activisms; photos: Gilberto Ante, to Mar 13, Conceptual Practice, Political Engagement And Institutional Change panel 5-7 pm Mar 4. Lost And Found: (Finding) Hidden Beauty In The ’Hood, to Mar 13. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Photos: Year Of The Rabbit, to Mar 11. Beauty, Identity, Pride: 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. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Thérèse Mastroiacovo, to Mar 6. 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789.

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CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM 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, to Apr 13. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sugar And Spice, to May 1. Betty Woodman, Mar 3-Jun 5. $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; Marilyn In Canada, to May 15. George McLean, to May 22. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen, Cabinet, to Mar 27. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Hyper Spaces, Mar 5-May 15, reception 2:30-3:30 pm Mar 6, Centennial Square, 120 Navy; The Birds And The Bees, Mar 5-Jun 5, reception 3:30-5 pm Mar 6, Gair-

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in an old, grainy photo of a demonstration, commenting on time, memory and the transience and persistence of political passions. Grandfather, Father And Son uses a more personal archive to tell an intergenerational tale of failure and perseverance: index cards exhibited on shelves didn’t help his grandfather locate books in his 8,000-volume library; his father stubbornly completed an unpublished mathematical book, its pages displayed in cases, during Israeli bombings; wall text tells us Mroué, who reads his short story on video, never wrote another after finding himself in the same situation as the family he describes, trapped in their apartment as their neighbourhood is shelled. An actor and playwright, Mroué turned to performance art and video in part to fly under the radar of Lebanese government censorship. His powerful voice is the art world’s gain. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

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about the value of apologies, the silence of those in power and the meaning of apologizing in the context of a Western audience. Mroué mines print media in Noiseless, a video in which a gradually disappearing photo of the artist illustrates text from missing persons notices in Lebanese newspapers, and With Soul, With Blood, in which he tries in vain to find traces of himself

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GEORGE NOLFI

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Why George Nolfi is the first director to make a great movie out of a Philip K. Dick story By NORMAN WILNER THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU directed by George Nolfi, written by Nolfi from a story by Philip K. Dick, with Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery and Anthony Mackie. A Universal Pictures release. 105 minutes. Opens Friday (March 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66.

i can’t share some portions of my interview with George Nolfi, director of The Adjustment Bureau. It’s not that they’re particularly juicy or controversial – they’d just risk spoiling the odd delights of his movie. “I have the same problem,” the director says, laughing, from New York City. Universal’s marketing strategy pitches The Adjustment Bureau as a clockwork thriller, but it’s a much nimbler film than that – an almost unprecedented mashup of romance, light comedy, political drama and conspiracy thriller, changing gears from scene to scene without ever slipping up. “It was a way to tell a story that I thought could be really fun and satis-

fying in the way Hollywood movies have to be,” he says, “but [also] get into some of the deepest questions humanity has asked itself since the beginning. ‘Why am I here? How do I fit into the grand scheme? Do I choose my own course in life, or do grander, bigger things choose it for me?’” And if someone else is guiding your destiny, what happens if you’d rather follow a different path? “You can think of that in a big philosophical-theological sense,” says Nolfi, “but you can also just see it as an artistic metaphor for obstacles and problems and pain and stress, all the things that stand in the way of our goals. I thought that would be a really interesting thing to try to do in a mainstream movie.”

The Adjustment Bureau stars Matt Damon as a New York senatorial candidate whose world is rocked when he meets the girl of his dreams (Emily Blunt) on election night – and then rocked further when he learns that a strange team of mysterious, officious suits is bent on making sure he never sees her again. Nolfi got to know Damon when they worked on Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve. “He’s kind of a national treasure,” Nolfi says. “I think he’s the best Everyman the industry has. He has this thing that makes you go, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s like that guy I grew up with, or the guy I’m going to go have a beer with at the bar,’ but at the same time, he can inhabit a character that’s

REVIEW THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (George Nolfi)

ñRating: NNNN After decades of near misses, someone’s finally made a great movie out of a Philip K. Dick story – by throwing out almost everything and spinning the concept in an entirely new direction. A nimble, genre-shifting hybrid of political drama, conspiracy thriller and romantic comedy, The Adjustment Bureau stars Matt Damon as a New York politician who meets the girl of his dreams (Emily Blunt) only to discover that a mysterious team of suits (led by John Slattery and Anthony Mackie) is bent on keeping him from ever seeing her again. Our hero’s immediate response to this cosmic predicament – pissy defiance, followed by an attempt to run away – is uniquely, wonderfully human, and it sets the emotional stakes for the rest of George Nolfi’s remarkable debut. The Adjustment Bureau is exactly what I needed after this miserable winter: a smart, resourceful picture that demonstrates that even the most ridiculous premise can be made to work if you get the tone right. NW

Matt Damon and Emily Blunt get romantic before running for their lives.

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full of self-deprecating humour, like in True Grit or The Informant! – he gains weight and has that pedophile haircut. He’ll go there.” The Adjustment Bureau turns a typically paranoid Philip K. Dick conspiracy story into a proper romantic fantasy. How did Nolfi crack the adaptation? “My producing partner brought me the short story,” he explains, “and said, ‘You know, this is a great premise – that fate is basically an agency of people who are operating behind the scenes all the time. What happens if somebody sees behind the curtain? How does he react?’ And he said, ‘What if you did it as a love story? A guy falls in love for the first time, and fate says, ‘Sorry, you were never supposed to meet her.’ And I just – it’s one of those few times in my whole career where I heard an idea and I was like, ‘I have to write that. I know what I want to do there.’” The trick was figuring out how to do it. “If you step outside a genre, you don’t have any mooring,” he says. “You don’t have any rules to follow – you don’t even have the ability to say, ‘Oh, let me just pop in a DVD and look at how this movie solved the problem.’ You just scratch your head and spend a lot of time sitting in coffee shops.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Having mined his own nation’s 1970s exploitation cinema wave for nostalgic gold in Not Quite Hollywood, Australian documentarian Mark Hartley casts his eyes to the Philippines for his follow-up, Machete Maidens Unleashed! It’s a slightly disingenuous pitch, though, since the bulk of the movies shot in the unstable island nation during the 60s and 70s were outsourced American productions. Frugal schlockmeisters like Roger Corman realized that the U.S. dollar could buy a lot more of everything in the Philippines, and found the sweltering jungles an ideal setting for monster rampages and women-in-prison movies. Assembling interviews with Corman, his stars and the filmmakers, Hartley conducts a delightful, briskly paced tour of the very finest exploitation tactics: constant nudity, lurid violence and cheesy political speechifying. These films were all sold to grindhouse audiences via blatantly misleading trailers cut by future auteurs Joe Dante and Allan Arkush, who turn up to offer a helpful tutorial on the value of inserting helicopter explosions and shower scenes from other movies to pump up whatever picture they were selling. Veteran character actors Sid Haig and Pam Grier offer highlights, telling stories out of school about improvised sex scenes, revolutionary subtexts and attempts to subvert gender expectations by empowering female characters – after first showing them brutalized and tortured. Demands of the market, you understand. NORMAN WILNER

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to bring back these people to society, back to the world. Society is never far [away]; should we be a part of it or not? I really like that question; it’s in all my films.” That’s an ultimately optimistic point of view, which might strike some as odd, considering the way Côté folds disturbing and confrontational elements into his narratives. His debut feature, Les Etats Nordiques (Drifting States), opens with a son ending his comatose mother’s suffering; his second, Nos Vies Privées (Our Private Lives), takes place in a rural cabin where two would-be lovers are stalked by something unseen and primal in the woods. Curling has its dark images, too: the father comes upon a gravely injured child by the side of the road, and his daughter discovers a cache of frozen corpses in the woods near their home. Côté doesn’t explain these images; he just lets them simmer in the larger narratives, using them for mood and tone more than plot development. “I like the viewer to work a little,” he says. “If you came there to just get answers, it’s totally ungratifying, you know? I need an active viewer, that’s for sure. If you get in that theatre without the intention of working a little, you’re in deep trouble.” It’s a stance that’s led to a few contentious Q&A sessions after the credits roll – and will again, most likely, when Côté attends the Cinematheque retrospective this weekend. “I’ve had my share of confrontations with the audience,” he says with a chuckle. “Some people really think I should provide much more answers than I’m providing; some people come to my defence – it’s always the same. I have to stand there, smile and make sure I’m friendly.” 3

Patrick Huard rides the 70s roller coaster in disco-powered Funkytown.

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DENIS CÔTÉ

Côté’s quirks

Quebec auteur Denis Côté wants you to work a bit to figure out his complex stories By NORMAN WILNER NEW AUTEURS: DENIS CÔTÉ at TIFF

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country and that’s it. Here, Ontario is like something to conquer.” Getting Côté’s films to bridge the two solitudes is complicated further by the somewhat complex nature of his work. He’s almost exclusively concerned with people who choose, rightly or wrongly, to remove themselves from the world. “These people, they don’t relate totally with society,” he says, “but society is right there, a few metres away. And the challenge of the whole film, the challenge of Curling, is how

denis côté is one of canada’s most intriguing filmmakers. In just six years, he’s established an international reputation with his austere, idiosyncratic studies of isolated characters and vaguely sinister situations. normw@nowtoronto.com He’s won two major prizes at the Locarno Film Festival and screened in the Director’s Fortnight at REVIEW Cannes. But Torontonians only CURLING (Denis Côté) hear of him when his films turn Rating: NNNN up at TIFF or land in Canada’s Top There’s more bowling than curling in Denis Côté’s odd little Ten. Despite strong critical supcharacter study, but don’t come to Curling expecting a port, none of Côté’s films has sports picture. opened here theatrically. Instead, it’s a formally rigid, visually stark tale of Until now, that is. Côté’s a father and daughter living in near-isolation in a fifth feature, Curling – a tiny Quebec town – two people who’ve retreated study of a fiercely prointo a very small space and can’t find their way tective father and his out. sheltered daughter living Jean-François (Emmanuel Bilodeau) works in self-imposed isolation odd jobs at a motel and a bowling alley, rein a tiny Quebec village buffing his co-workers’ attempts at conversa– gets a Toronto release tion. Meanwhile, tween daughter Julyvonne this week at TIFF Bell (Philomène Bilodeau) drifts into a world of Lightbox, alongside a her own, encountering strange things in the TIFF Cinematheque woods behind their house – a tiger, a quartet of retrospective of his frozen corpses – that may or may not be real. films. These sound like the trappings of a horror “You make films in movie, and in less confident hands Curling might Quebec and you always have gone in that direction. But Côté has different have this impression goals; he wants to show us the ways people protect that Toronto is that other the ones they love, and how that impulse can lead country, you know?” to an unnecessary withdrawal from the world. Côté says from his MontThere’s hope in this film; you just have to look real home. “If you’re BelNW for it. gian or whatever, your film Emmanuel Bilodeau will bowl you over as an isolated father in Curling. comes out in your whole

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70S PERIOD DRAMA

Catch disco fever Funkytown recalls the era of excess By SUSAN G. COLE FUNKYTOWN directed by Daniel Roby, written by Steve Galluccio, with Patrick Huard, Justin Chatwin and Sarah Mutch. 132 minutes. Some subtitles. A Maple release. Opens Friday (March 4). For venues and times, see Movies page 66. Rating:

NNN so what if the narrative is bloated? Funkytown takes you back to the 70s in beautiful ways. I’m not just referring to the meticulous art direction of this multistrand story set mainly in the Montreal disco Starlight. Yeah, the wide collars, flared pants and chunky shoes are all there, along with fromage for days in the home decor. And I got a real, er, charge out of seeing a Chargex card getting processed the old-fashioned way. But it’s the social history Funkytown captures that’ll keep your interest. Screenwriter Steve Galluccio (Mambo Italiano) sets his story as the Parti Quebecois is coming to power, disco (and all its accoutrements, including drugs) dominates the dance scene and AIDS hasn’t yet reared its devastating head. Bastien (Patrick Huard, in terrific form) is king of the scene, hosting radio’s most popular disco show as well as huge TV hit Disco Dance Party, where he has star-making power. Soon, drugs and his own ego start

getting the best of him. Into the mix Galluccio throws flamboyant gay trendsetting TV cohost Jonathan (Paul Doucet, who comes across as both obnoxious and sympathetic), closeted disco dancer Tino (Justin Chatwin), ambitious notso-supermodel Adriana (Sarah Mutch) and her overbearing manager, Nicole (Jocelyne Zucco). They all gather at Starlight – famous before Studio 54, claims Gilles (Raymond Bouchard), the corrupt entrepreneur who originally put up the money for the club and never lets his son (François Létourneau), who runs the place, forget it. There’s so much going on here that director Daniel Roby is forced to keep shifting the action with almost manic energy. And the moralism about drug use is a bit much. But when Gilles flips out about how the PQ’s going to fuck up his business (he’s not so happy when he has to change his marquee to Le Starlight either) or washed-up disco singer Mimi (Geneviève Brouillette) discovers punker Kiki and her all-girl band, you can appreciate how spectacularly Funkytown captures the moment. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

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Alex Pettyfer’s scarred and tatted Beast is a burden.

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Will contested Nora’s Will (Mariana Chenillo). 92 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN

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Beastly boring Beastly (Daniel Barnz). 97 minutes. Opens Friday (March 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: N

Meant to cash in on the craze for fantasy films about hormonal teens started by a certain chick-lit vampire series, Beastly merely shows how Twilight got it right. As Kyle, hexed with scar tissue and some nifty tats, and Lindy, the idealistic girl he’s sweet on, Pettyfer and Disney stalwart Vanessa Hudgens can’t

conjure up the sexual intensity of Edward and Bella. Shit, even Disney’s animated Belle and the Beast seem more eager for the red-light special than these two. It doesn’t help that the stars choke on Barnz’s clunky dialogue about the “death of romance” and an unsubtle screenplay that reeks of laziness. The only person who comes out of this mess looking good is Mary-Kate Olsen, who clearly has fun with her goth-flavoured witch. As for Pettyfer, well, his career just seems cursed.

Poor Alex Pettyfer is making himself a target for the same critics who shot holes through his performance two weeks ago in I Am Number Four, a movie I actually liked. The blond heartthrob with the chiselled face and smouldering stare stars in Beastly, a miscalculated modern adaptation of the fairy tale about a beautiful Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens are definitely not in the Twilight zone. girl and a vain monster.

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Nora’s Will takes place almost entirely in a Mexico City apartment, where the title character lies dead on the floor of her bedroom, preserved with dry ice. Nora has committed suicide, leaving behind a complete list of instructions for the people who will find her, right down to a reminder not to oversalt the food in the fridge. And so, on the eve of Passover, her exhusband, José (Fernando Luján), gets stuck dealing with sanctimonious rabbis, puttering housemaids and distraught relatives, all of whom

seem intent on interfering with his own awkward grieving process. In the first, pleasantly cantankerous half of Nora’s Will, the atheist José screws with the rabbis out of pure spite – ordering a forbidden pizza with ham, sausage and bacon to make it doubly blasphemous – and tries to determine whether an old snapshot he finds means Nora had an affair during their marriage. Later, José’s son and family arrive to complicate things further, and writer/ director Mariana Chenillo miscalculates the emotional stakes. Nora’s orchestrated suicide may have been a clever gimmick on the page, but onscreen it’s a profoundly shitty thing to do to her loved ones. The movie keeps trying to brush it aside, but I couldn’t let it go. NormaN WilNer

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connection in remote surroundings that finds beauty and power in the smallest of gestures – brewing coffee, making fish stew, teaching a child to snorkel. Don’t miss it. Subtitled. 73 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Mike Leigh) is the 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 occaTHE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (George sionally a lot of wine. If Leigh’s film feels Nolfi) 106 min. See interview and unhurried, plotless and schematic, well, review, page 63. NNNN (NW) that’s kind of the point. During these Opens Mar 4 at 401 & Morningside, Beach naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, there are dramatic moCourtney Park 16, Eglinton ments when minor Town Centre, Grande discomforts and awkSteeles, Grande - Yonge, EXPANDED REVIEWS wardness, and even Queensway, Rainbow nowtoronto.com manifestations of class Market Square, Rainbow consciousness, threatPromenade, Rainbow en the couple’s strictly Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity sustained pleasantness. As the conflicted Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity and notably less educated friend who Yorkdale, Varsity. might make the wheels fall off life’s cycle, Lesley Manville delivers an awards-calibre ALAMAR (Pedro González-Rubio) performance masking pain and vulnerabilwalks a fine line between documenity with drunken eccentricity. 130 min. tary and fiction with a delicately observed NNNN (RS) tale of a Mexican father (Jorge Machado) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt taking the young son (Natan Machado Pleasant, Varsity Palombini) he barely knows on a trip to a coral reef. González-Rubio wears four caps BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a as writer, director, cameraman and editor, radically simplified adaptation of Mordebut there’s nothing showy about his continued on page 68 œ modest, quietly beautiful study of human

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for water. Rango bucks current conventions by staying 2-D, yet it’s filled to the brim with exhilarating scenery, boasting textured images that make you exhale a big “Wow.” Only Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E before it have achieved such visual feats. A glass of whisky, called “cactus juice” for the kids, looks golden and syrupy. Grains of sand move individually. And the lighting.... That’s right, there’s lighting! The filmmaking team consulted with the Coen brothers’ regular cinematographer, Roger Deakins, to fill in light and shadows, which they brilliantly reproduced – on a Mac, no doubt. As a movie made with new technology that innovatively uses old-school

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Made in 2008 and shoved into limbo after playing Sundance and Cannes two years ago, I Love You Phillip Morris sneaks into a limited run at the Royal with virtually no advance notice. It’s not being released, it’s escaping. For some movies, that’d be a shameful thing. For this oddball little romance, it feels entirely appropriate. The film casts Jim Carrey as Steven Russell, a con artist who finds true love in a Texas prison with the eponymous inmate (Ewan McGregor) and then

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Ewan McGregor (left) and Jim Carrey find love and laughs in Phillip Morris.

does everything he can to spend the rest of his life with him in style. It’s the “in style” part that keeps getting him into trouble, as Steven’s increasingly outsized schemes – including landing himself a job as CFO for a Texas bank – have a way of imploding when someone notices his improprieties. It’s Carrey’s best role since Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, and he

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commits to it fully, bursting with unadulterated joy during Steven’s time with Phillip and sinking into misery when they’re separated. (McGregor’s pretty good, too, though his part requires him to spend a lot of time playing oblivious optimism.) Making their directorial debut, screenwriters John Requa and Glenn Ficarra go for bright colours, crisp editing and an antic musical score. You’d never know these were the same guys who wrote Bad Santa and the Bad News Bears remake for Billy Bob Thornton’s cranky ass. I Love You Phillip Morris is a gleeful ride through a ridiculous true story. It’s a shame its U.S. distributor got cold feet over all the gay stuff and put it on the shelf. Still, better late than never, NORMAN WILNER right?

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cai 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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 BEASTLY (Daniel Barnz) Some Like It Hot with 97 min. See review, Lawrence and Jackson EXPANDED REVIEWS page 65. N (RS) finding ways to make nowtoronto.com Opens Mar 4 at 401 & the cross-dressing antics Morningside, Coliseum as monotonous as posMississauga, Colossus, sible. There’s also a hapless Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, attempt to bank on the popularity of Glee: Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande girls in the art school frequently break into Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, musical numbers, and Trent chimes in Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, with his own freestyles. No one in the cast SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge has any actual musical talent, though, & Dundas 24. which might be the only funny thing about this movie. 108 min. N (RS) BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coli(John Whitesell) continues to drag the seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, men-in-drag formula through the mud. In Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre,

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(Alejandro González Iñárritu) tracks small-time criminal and single father Uxbal (Oscar-nominated Javier Bardem), who’s just beein informed that he’s dying. Super-intense, it’s not for everyone, just those who want to experience a terrific filmmaker and superb performer at the height of their powers. Subtitled. 147 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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(Darren Aronofsky) is a deliriously operatic tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman) who starts to lose her mind when she wins the role of the Swan Queen in a star-making production of Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. It’s a rich, weird experience – and a little over the top, which is the only way to make a movie this ambitious and impassioned. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance) charts the beginning and end of a marriage in heartbreaking but overly schematic detail. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams deliver superb, natural performances as the endearing yet rough-around-the-edges couple who long ago seemed perfect for each other but can now barely carry on a conversation without breaking a few things. 120 min. NNN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

CEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel Arteta) features Ed

Helms panicking an awful lot as a smalltown insurance salesman who travels to Iowa for a convention and finds himself confronted with all the writhing debauchery of the big city. But the sales-convention-as-bacchanal thing was summed up in a few brief scenes in Up In The Air, and the rest of the office details have been covered at length by Helms himself on The Office. Director Arteta has assembled a terrific comic cast and simply left his actors hanging. You wouldn’t think it possible for John C. Reilly to give a bad performance as a glad-handing douchebag, but he’s a constant annoyance here. 86 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

CURLING (Denis Côté) 96 min. See

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(Giorgos Lanthimos) is set largely in the remote home of a Greek family, where a couple (Christos Stergioglou and Michele Valley) have decided to raise their three children in near-total ignorance of the outside world. This results in repressed rage and some really inappropriate sexual development. Not the cheeriest subject for a movie, but somehow it plays. Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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THE EAGLE (Kevin Macdonald) plays like unintentional softcore gay porn. Marcus (Channing Tatum) is a 140 AD Roman soldier who, with his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), travels north of Hadrian’s Wall to retrieve his legion’s emblem, reportedly lost by his father years before. There, the tables are turned and Marcus is suddenly at the mercy of Esca. It’s not until the final act that director Macdonald delivers the kind of adventure demanded by the genre. He’s not helped by Tatum, who mumbles his lines when he’s not squinting his baby blues at the horizon. 114 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre 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

FUNKYTOWN (Daniel Roby) 132 min. See

review, page 64, and bonus Q&As at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNN (SGC) Opens Mar 4 at Varsity.

GNOMEO AND JULIET (Kelly Asbury) crosses Shakespeare with Toy Story to transpose the Bard’s timeless tale of young love to the back gardens of adjoining British homes, where the lawn ornaments of Mr. Capulet and Mrs. Montague have been at war for generations. The animation is bright and inventive, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are nicely matched as the titular lovers, and Jason Statham, of all people, voices the menacing Tybalt. But you do get the sense that someone has tried to Shrek up the script, offsetting the clever nods to Shakespeare with random pop culture references. And this story, of all stories, is strong enough to work without the heroine also being a ninja. 84 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles,

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(Patrick Lussier) takes everything that’s good about 1970s grindhouse 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! Cage has a great deal of fun tearing up the American South to rescue a baby from apocalyptic cultists, with another pursuer known only as the Accountant (William Fichtner) on his own tail. Amber Heard steals the picture as an embittered diner worker swept up in Cage’s mission. Seriously, why isn’t she a proper movie star yet? 104 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coli-

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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 Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

HALL PASS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)

finds the makers of Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary trying to reclaim the territory they ceded to Judd Apatow in the last decade with a midlifecrisis comedy about two dorky Providence husbands (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) given a week off of marriage by their wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate). The Farrellys are attempting to court a slightly more mature audience, but they 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 up momentum from one set piece to the next. The 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 – other than the fact that the Farrellys just don’t know any other way to make movies. N (NW) 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

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, Canada Square, 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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(John Requa, Glenn Ficarra) 98 min. See

review, page 66. NNNN (NW) Opens Mar 4 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 73).

THE ILLUSIONIST (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. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre

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(Denis Villeneuve) successfully adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play Scorched, a multi-layered mystery set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. Villeneuve’s control over the ambitious material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day Greek tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min. NNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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(Charles Ferguson) takes a very complex subject – the story of the global economic collapse triggered by the 2008 failure of several American financial institutions – and explains it in terms so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, you were probably staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant MP_Funkytown_NowFigureAd:Layout

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 a sloppy, unnecessarily cruel series of blandly photographed arguments and misunderstandings, with one dumb idea clunking artlessly against the next. 116 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, 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, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, 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

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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) 1401 28/02/11 3:24 PM 1 Colos& Morningside, BeachPage Cinemas, sus, 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

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(Mark Hartley) 85 min. See review, page 63. (NW) Opens Mar 4 at the Bloor (See Indie & Rep Film, page 73).

THE MECHANIC (Simon

West) finds Jason Statham squarely in his comfort zone, playing a no-bullshit assassin who helps a hotheaded youngster (Ben Foster) get over his father’s death by taking him on as his apprentice. Director West (Con Air, The General’s Daughter) works at a slower boil than usual, trusting his actors to carry their scenes without anything blowing up in the background. 92 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mis-

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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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

NORA’S WILL (Mariana Chenillo) 92 min. See review, page 65. NN (NW) Opens Mar 4 at Rainbow Promenade.

ñOF GODS AND MEN

(Xavier Beauvois) dramatizes, in a subtle and respectful way, the story of seven Cistercian Trappist monks who choose not to leave their Algerian monastery as the country tilts toward civil war in 1996, despite the knowledge that the government can no longer protect them. The monks see it as a test of their faith, and director Beauvois is clearly fascinated by their decision to remain in harm’s way, exploring it through the interactions between the monks and various outsiders and the very different conversations they have amongst themselves. It’s a quiet, implacable film, finding notes of grace in the steady progression toward a dreadful end. Subtitled. 117 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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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

thony 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) Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30

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rips off Single White Female without any comprehension of what it’s doing. Sara, a perpetually pouty fashionista from Iowa, ends up rooming with Rebecca, a Pasadena sociopath. The movie is a limp thriller that banks its frights on Leighton Meester’s Rebecca, whose strained head tilts and gleaming eyeballs are so overused that they verge on parody. 93 min. N (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Gore Verbinski) 107 min. See review, page 66. (RS) Opens Mar 4 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

THE RITE (Mikael Håfström) stars Colin O’Donoghue as an American seminary student of little faith who goes to Rome to study exorcisms under An-

THE ROOMMATE (Christian Christiansen)

SANCTUM (Alister Grierson) combines two of executive producer James Cameron’s current interests – underwater exploration and 3-D photography – for an intermittently entertaining adventure about trapped cave divers trying to find their way back to the surface. As a test run for low-light 3-D digital cinema, it’s a little wobbly. As a movie, it’s considerably more so. 109 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 continued on page 70 œ

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traction come to life. The best perform(David Finchance is delivered by the animators of er) turns the nuts and bolts of the Maximus, a guardsman’s horse clearly creation of Facebook into a thrilling, ripmodelled on Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugipling comedy of manners about male vantive – but funnier, obviously, because he’s ity, social mores and the utter impossibila horse. 101 min. NNNN (NW) ity of transparency in the modern age. It’s Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarbortremendously entertaining, an endlessly ough, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, clever creation myth produced with imYonge & Dundas 24 mense skill and peppered with great oneliners. 122 min. NNNNN TRON: LEGACY (Joseph (NW) Kosinski) showcases Carlton Cinema, Interbreathtaking visual deEXPANDED REVIEWS change 30, Kingsway signs: neon-lit digital nowtoronto.com Theatre, Regent Thevistas and cool, sexy inatre, Yonge & Dundas teriors that look like an 24 Apple commercial directed by Kubrick. Un-

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(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 gross-

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(Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland at-

fortunately, 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, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) is a lot of things, but quaint isn’t one of them. It’s mean as a snake, and has no illusions about the Glorious West. There’s a grave seriousness at the movie’s heart – it’s a story about the harshness of death, and the illusory promise of revenge and redemption. 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, Cumberland 4, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 January Jones, who is so bad she can’t even sell a scene where she flips through the pages of a book. Some subtitles. 109 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim) tracks Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, who collaborates with garbage pickers to create astonishing pieces and changes his subjects’ sense of themselves. Except that they all have to return to work in the landfill. Still, it’s a moving testimony to the power of art. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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 3

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:30 SatSun 1:40 mat, 4:30 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 6:40, 9:00 Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 SatSun 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:10 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 6:50, 9:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 7:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:10 Mon-Wed 7:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Fri-Wed 10:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:20 continued on page 72 œ

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

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:30 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 1:20, 1:50, 4:15, 4:50, 7:00,

NOW MARCH 3-9 2011

movie times œcontinued from page 71

JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:30 the Mechanic Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:45 Rango (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 the RooMMate (PG) Thu 1:00, 6:50, 9:30

Scarborough

Rango (PG) 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00 mat Unknown (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:20

401 & morNiNgSidE (CE)

North York

the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Beastly Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:05 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:20, 8:50 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 9:55 mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 gnoMeo anD JUliet (G) Thu 5:00 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 8:50 hall pass (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 monWed 3:50, 6:30 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:10 the king’s speech (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 the Mechanic Thu 5:10, 7:45, 10:00 Rango (PG) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 sanctUM (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:55 Unknown (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:00

EmpirE ThEaTrES aT EmprESS Walk (ET) 5095 YoNgE ST, 416-223-9550

Beastly 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:00 mat, 11:55 late Sun 1:00 mat Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sat 11:59 late DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40, 11:55 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 the eagle (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 the FighteR (14A) Thu 2:10 4:45 7:25 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 1:25, 2:40, 4:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35, 11:50 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:20, 7:50 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 5:00, 10:20 the Mechanic Thu 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Rango (PG) 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:25, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:45 late sanctUM (14A) 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:35 late sanctUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 tRUe gRit (14A) Thu 10:25 Unknown (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

graNdE - YoNgE (CE) 4861 YoNgE ST, 416-590-9974

the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat BaRney’s veRsion (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Fri, monWed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 BiUtiFUl (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Black swan (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 ceDaR RapiDs (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 gnoMeo anD JUliet (G) 3:50, 6:20, 8:45 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 hall pass (14A) Thu 4:30 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat incenDies (14A) Thu 3:30 6:30 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:20 mat JUst go with it (PG) Thu 4:00 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat the king’s speech (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Fri, monWed 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 9:50

SilvErCiTY FairviEW (CE)

FairviEW mall, 1800 ShEppard avE E, 416-644-7746 the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu 12:45 3:20 6:20 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 hall pass (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:40 the Mechanic Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15 no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Rango (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 the RooMMate (PG) Thu 9:35 Unknown (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 mon-Wed 12:45, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45

SilvErCiTY YorkdalE (CE) 3401 duFFEriN ST, 416-787-4432

the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Beastly Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Sun 12:00 mat the gReen hoRnet (PG) Thu 3:40 hall pass (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10

march 3-9 2011 NOW

785 milNEr avE, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

ColiSEum SCarborough (CE) SCarborough ToWN CENTrE, 416-290-5217

the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Don QUixote - Bolshoi Ballet live Sun 11:00 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu-Fri, mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 the gReen hoRnet (PG) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 hall pass (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:30 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:20 no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 the Rite (14A) Thu 4:25 7:25 10:25 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 the RooMMate (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat, mon-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 Sun 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 sanctUM 3D (14A) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 tangleD (PG) 1:25

EgliNToN ToWN CENTrE (CE) 1901 EgliNToN avE E, 416-752-4494

the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Beastly Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:00 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:25, 9:05 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 the eagle (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:25 the FighteR (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:55, 10:00 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 gnoMeo anD JUliet (G) Thu 4:35 Fri-Sun 1:15 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:40, 6:55, 9:10 the gReen hoRnet 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:25 the gReen hoRnet (PG) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:35, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 hall pass (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:15, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:05 monWed 4:05, 7:05 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Sun 9:55 mon-Wed 9:45 the king’s speech (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 the Mechanic Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:25 Rango (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:10, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:10, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 the RooMMate (PG) Thu 10:20 sanctUM (14A) Thu 6:45, 10:15 Unknown (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:10

kENNEdY CommoNS 20 (amC) kENNEdY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

7 khoon MaaF (14A) 2:30, 5:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat BaRney’s veRsion (14A) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Beastly 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat BiUtiFUl (14A) 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat Black swan (14A) 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat BlUe valentine Thu 4:40, 10:10 ceDaR RapiDs (14A) 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:05 mat the coMpany Men (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri, mon-Wed 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 1:55 2:40 4:35 5:20 7:15 8:00 9:50 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:55, 2:40, 4:35, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 9:55, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:20, 12:10 mat the eagle (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:25 the FighteR (14A) 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 2:00 4:00 4:45 6:45 7:30 9:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:15 mat incenDies (14A) 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 the king’s speech (PG) Thu 1:40 4:25 7:10 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat 127 hoURs (14A) Thu 1:55, 7:25 Fri, mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 patiala hoUse (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:40, 9:05 Rango (PG) 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 SatSun 11:15, 1:00 mat siRUthai (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 tRUe gRit (14A) 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat Unknown (14A) 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat

GTA Regions mississauga

ColiSEum miSSiSSauga (CE) SquarE oNE, 309 raThburN rd W, 905-275-3456

Beastly Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 the eagle (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 the FighteR (14A) Thu 12:40 3:20 6:20 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 the gReen hoRnet 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 the gReen hoRnet (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 haRRy potteR anD the Deathly hallows – paRt 1 (PG) Thu 2:45 6:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:40, 6:05, 9:40 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 i aM nUMBeR FoUR the iMax expeRience 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 12:20, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:00 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:00 the Mechanic Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Rango (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 6:25, 7:15, 9:20, 10:15 the RooMMate (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:25 sanctUM 3D (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 tangleD (PG) Thu 12:10 Fri-Wed 12:15 Unknown (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55

CourTNEY park 16 (amC)

110 CourTNEY park E aT huroNTario, 888-262-4386 the aDJUstMent BUReaU (PG) 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Fri 12:05 mat Sat-Sun 11:50 mat Beastly 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35 Fri 12:15 mat Sat-Sun 11:25 mat Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Fri 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 11:00, 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 gnoMeo anD JUliet (G) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 5:45, 7:50, 10:00 Fri 1:15, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00 mon-Wed 1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00 gnoMeo anD JUliet 3D (G) Thu 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 mon-Wed 2:45, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 the gReen hoRnet 3D (PG) 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 SatSun 11:45 mat hall pass (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 10:45 Fri 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 11:00 Sat 11:45, 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 11:00 Sun-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 10:50 i aM nUMBeR FoUR Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:05 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 mon-Wed 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 i aM nUMBeR FoUR the iMax expeRience Thu 2:25 5:10 7:55 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat JUst go with it (PG) 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Thu 2:40 mat, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 2:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 11:55, 5:15, 10:35 mon-Wed 5:15, 10:35 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Fri 12:05, 5:15, 10:35 Sat-Wed 2:30, 8:00 the king’s speech (PG) 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat the Mechanic Thu 5:50, 10:40

no stRings attacheD (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Fri, mon-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Rango (PG) 2:00, 2:50, 4:35, 5:20, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 Fri 12:10 mat Sat-Sun 11:05, 12:10 mat the RooMMate (PG) Thu 3:35, 8:15 Unknown (14A) 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Fri 12:10 mat Sat-Sun 11:55 mat

SilvErCiTY miSSiSSauga (CE) hWY 5, EaST oF hWY 403, 905-569-3373

BaRney’s veRsion (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Beastly Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Big MoMMas: like FatheR, like son (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 BiUtiFUl (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 6:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:30, 6:15, 9:40 mon 6:15 Black swan (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 DRive angRy (18A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 monWed 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 DRive angRy 3D (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 JUst go with it (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR - DiRectoR’s Fan cUt 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:40 monWed 4:00, 6:40 JUstin BieBeR: neveR say neveR 3D (G) Fri-Wed 9:30 the king’s speech (PG) 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat the Mechanic Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Rango (PG) Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00 spike & Mike’s sick & twisteD Festival oF aniMation mon 9:30

North ColoSSuS (CE) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

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THu 3 – Blue Valentine (2010) D: Derek Cian-

france. 4:30 pm. 127 Hours (2010) D: Danny Boyle. 7 pm. The Social Network (2010) D: David Fincher. 9 pm. FrI 4 – Somewhere (2010) D: Sofia Coppola. 4:30 pm. 127 Hours. 7 pm. Machete Maidens Unleashed (2010) D: Mark Hartley. 9:15 pm. SaT 5 – Tron: Legacy (2010) D: Joseph Kosinski. 4:15 pm. Somewhere. 7 pm. Machete Maidens Unleashed. 9:15 pm. SuN 6 – Machete Maidens Unleashed. 2:30 & 7 pm. The Social Network. 4:25 pm. Somewhere. 9 pm. MoN 7 – Dogtooth (2009) D: Giorgos Lanthimos. 4:30 pm. Machete Maidens Unleashed. 7 pm. Tron: Legacy. 9 pm. TuE 8 – The Social Network. 4:15 pm. Machete Maidens Unleashed. 7 pm. Somewhere. 9 pm. wED 9 – Somewhere. 4:30 pm. Machete Maidens Unleashed. 7 pm. The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) D: Nicolas Roeg. 9 pm.

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SaT 5 – Lifeboat (1944) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 3 pm. Free.

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THu 3-FrI 4 – Human Rights Watch Film Festi-

val and Reel Artists Film Festival, see listings this page. SaT 5 – The Dark Crystal (1981) D: Jim Henson and Frank Oz. 2 pm. Les Etats Nordiques (2005) D: Denis Côté. 5 pm. Models (1999) D: Ulrich Seidl. 7:30 pm. SuN 6 – Toronto Irish Film Festival presents The Secret Of Kells (2009) D: Town Moore and Nora Twomey, and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (2008) D: Nicky Phelan. 12:30 pm. His & Hers (2009) D: Ken Wardrop, and Give Up Yer Aul Sins (2002) D: Cathal Gaffney. 3:30 pm. $12, srs/st $9.50, kids $5. Nightfall (1956) D: Jacques Tourneur. 1 pm. Nos Vies Privées (2007) D: Denis Côté. 3:30 pm. MoN 7 – Elle Veut Le Chaos (2008) D: Denis Côté. 6:30 pm. Shorts by Denis Côté including Les Lignes Ennemies (2010), Maite (2007), and others. 9 pm.

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Defending movie violations DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE at the Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina), Friday (March 4). See listings, this page.

Every movie ever made is someone’s favourite. Somewhere out there is a guy waging an internet campaign demanding a 3-D Blu-ray release for Metalstorm: The Destruction Of Jared-Syn, in which there is no storm of metal and Jared-Syn is not destroyed. People love what they love, and champion it proudly. So do critics, which is why we hate to see a picture resoundingly rejected by the public despite our praise. (Not that I could find any strong notices for Metalstorm, mind you.) TuE 8 – Nightfall. 6:30 pm. Carcasses (2009) D: Denis Côté. 8:30 pm. wED 9 – The Free Screen: Mantler’s Visual Music, including Friendly Witness (1989) D: Warren Sonbert, and other short films. 7 pm. Free.

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THu 3 – True Grit (2010) D: Joel and Ethan

Coen. 1:30 pm. The Fighter (2010) D: ñ David O Russell. 9:15 pm.

FrI 4 – 127 Hours (2010) D: Danny Boyle. 7 pm. Blue Valentine (2010) D: Derek Cianfrance. 9 pm. SaT 5 – Tron: Legacy (2010) D: Joseph Kosinski. 1:30 pm. Blue Valentine. 4 & 9:15 pm. 127 Hours. 7 pm. SuN 6 – Tron: Legacy. 1:30 pm. 127 Hours. 4 & 7 pm. Blue Valentine. 9:15 pm. MoN 7 – 127 Hours. 7 pm. Blue Valentine. 9:15 pm. TuE 8 – Blue Valentine. 7 pm. 127 Hours. 9:20 pm. wED 9 – Blue Valentine. 1:30 & 7 pm. 127 Hours. 9:20 pm.

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Defending The Indefensible, a new series launching Friday at the Toronto Underground Cinema, aims to change things up. Once a month, local critics will be offered the chance to redeem their favourite bombs before a presumably skeptical public. It’s my honour to kick off the series with Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s misunderstood psychological drama Alien Resurrection, introducing it at 7 pm and then defending its honour in a Q&A after the screening against Torontoist’s John Semley. At 9:30 pm we switch roles, as Semley presents Tom Green’s Dadaist dud Freddy Got Fingered and I do my best to explain why they should chase Green down with torches and pitchforks for his crimes against celluloid. IMAX Hubble. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. MoN 7-wED 9 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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THu 3 – Steppenwolf (1974) D: Fred Haines. 7

Four Lions. 9:15 pm. SuN 6 – Four Lions. 3 pm. The Keyhole Sessions: Secretary (2002) D: Steven Shainberg. 7 pm. I Love You Phillip Morris. 9:15 pm. MoN 7 – I Love You Phillip Morris. 4:30 & 7 pm. Four Lions. 9:15 pm. TuE 8 -wED 9– Four Lions. 7 pm. I Love You Phillip Morris. 9:15 pm.

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Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival presents Merry Go Round (2009) D: Clement Cheng and Yan Yan Mak. 7 pm. Cantonese w/ s-t. $15, stu/srs $12. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, reelasian.com. Pleasure Dome presents Enthusiasmic: Fourteen Films Of Love, Longing And Labour. 7 pm. $8. CineCycle, 129 Spadina (down the lane). 416-656-5577, pdome.org. SaT 5 – The Silent Film Series presents Edward Cline and Buster Keaton X 3: The High Sign (1921), The Baloonatic (1923), and Neighbours (1920). Silent films with live organ accompaniment. 7:30 pm. Free (donations to FaithWorks accepted). St John’s York Mills Church, 19 Don Ridge. 416-225-6611, stjohnsyorkmills.com. Ken Aldcroft In-Re-tro-Spective series presents a live soundtrack for silent film Our Hospitality (1926) D: John G Blystone and Buster Keaton. 8 & 10 pm. $12, adv $10. Somewhere There, 227 Sterling, unit 112. 416-530-0983. SuN 6 – Temple Emanu-El’s Eco Film Festival presents Living Downstream (2010) D: Chanda Chevannes, about cancer and our environment. 7:30 pm. By donation. 120 Old Colony. 416-449-3880. MoN 7 – Toronto Film Society presents a double bill: Troubled Waters (1936) D: Albert Parker, and They Were Sisters (1945) D: Arthur Crabtree. 7:30 pm. $15, less for students. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 416-785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com. 3

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pm. Blue Valentine (2010) D: Derek Cianfrance. 9:30 pm. SaT 5– Tangled (2010) D: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. 2 pm. 127 Hours. 4 pm. Another Year. 6:30 pm. Blue Valentine. 9 pm. SuN 6 – The Rebirth Of Buddha (2009) D: Takaaki Tshiyama. 1 pm. Tangled. 4 pm. Another Year. 6:30 pm. Blue Valentine. 9 pm. MoN 7 – Another Year. 1 & 6:45 pm. Blue Valentine. 9:15 pm. TuE 8 – Another Year. 6:45 pm. Carlos (2010) D: Olivier Assayas. 9:15 pm. wED 9 – Blue Valentine. 6:45 pm. Carlos. 9:05 pm.

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SaT 5 – I Love You Phillip Morris. 4:30 & 7 pm.

(1986) D: Don Bluth. 9:30 pm. FrI 4 – Defending The Indefensible Series, an exploration of films with local critics. Alien: Resurrection (1997) D: JeanPierre Jeunet. Defended by NOW film writer Norman Wilner. 7 pm. Freddy Got Fingered (2001) D: Tom Green. Defended by John Semley. 9:30 pm. $10 per film or $15 double bill. wED 9 – Fright Night: Freaks (1932) D: Tod Browning. 8 pm.

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THu 3-wED 9 – More than 5,000 NFB films

The series continues with a special April Fool’s Day presentation of MacGruber and Observe And Report (May 20), The Butterfly Effect (June 24) and Jennifer’s Body (July 29), among others. Don’t you want to see how this NorMaN wILNEr plays out?

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pm. L’Avventura (1960) D: Michelangelo Antonioni. 9 pm. SaT 5 – Best of the Hollywood Cartoon. 7 pm. SuN 6 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004). 5 pm. Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, accompanied by the soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by the soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. MoN 7 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 7 pm. Street Dance 3D (2010) D: Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini. 8 pm. TuE 8 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 7 pm. The Aviator (2004) D: Martin Scorsese. 8 pm. wED 9 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 7 pm. Last Tango In Paris (1972) D: Bernardo Bertolucci. 8 pm.

Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free. THu 3-FrI 4 – A Murder Of Crows. MoN 7-wED 9 – The Bear Man Of Kamchatka.

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THu 3 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. FrI 4 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 8 pm. SaT 5 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 1, 3 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon, 4 & 8 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. SuN 6 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm.

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THu 3 – Winds Of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers

& The Spirits Of The Forest (2009) D: Michael Ostroff. 7 pm. Four Lions (2010) D: Christopher Morris. 9:30 pm. FrI 4 – I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) D: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. 7 pm. Four Lions. 9:15 pm.

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best lines) show any warmth. On the commentary, Antin’s gushing sounds more heartfelt when he goes on about the lighting and mirrors, less so when the topic is cast and characters. EXTRAS Commentary, performances, bloopers. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

A young Tony Curtis enjoys the Sweet Smell Of Success.

along on playwright Clifford Odets’s smart, stylized dialogue and complex scenes, James Wong Howe’s mix of realistic and noir visuals and director Alexander Mackendrick’s sense of hustle and seamless blend of Broadway exteriors and studio sets. The extras are as good as it gets, including discussions of Odets’s approach to rewriting and Mackendrick’s theories of film drama that ought to be required reading in film schools. There’s also a lighting seminar from Howe; a look at Walter Winchell, the real-life inspiration for Hunsecker; a comparison of the movie with The Great Gatsby; and lots more. EXTRAS Commentary, two Mackendrick docs, Howe doc, Winchell doc, essay and short story booklet. Widescreen, b&w. English audio and subtitles.

Sweet Smell Of Success

TONIGHT MARCH 3 Join NOW’s Benjamin Boles in conversation with three 2011 JUNO nominees

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Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo

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(Criterion/eOne, 1957) D: Alexander Mackendrick, w/ Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNNNN The characters are slime, two of the worst human beings you will ever meet on screen. Vicious, powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) wants to break up his sister’s romance with a jazzman. He gives the task to Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), a small-time Broadway press agent for whom lies, blackmail, scheming and public humiliation are daily fare. Their mutual loathing gave the stars two of their best roles and makes fascinating viewing. All this and four subplots whip

Love And Other Drugs (Fox, 2010)

EXTRAS Cast and director interviews, pharmaceutical sales interview, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

This is the kind of movie that gives romantic comedy a good name. It’s smart, sexy, funny and centred on an unusual and believable romance between two people who, for once, are equally well developed. Hustling pharmaceutical salesman Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is all about money and sex. When Viagra hits the market, he gets lots of both. Artist Maggie Murdock (Anne Hathaway) has stage-one Parkinson’s disease. She wants lots of sex and absolutely no relationships. They’re perfect for each other until emotion rears its head, and then they run the other way. Gyllenhaal and Hathaway sparkle and suffer with great credibility and play off each other with flawless timing, and they’re not the whole show. The world of doctors, drug reps and casual sex gets some sharp satiric digs, and that hoary cliché, the heroine with the terrible disease, is made fresh again. The extras are brief and pointed: a few minutes on characters and working methods, some real-life background on selling pharmaceuticals. Check out the deleted scenes. They’re fun and add a bit to the story.

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Room In Rome (eOne, 2010) D: Julio Medem, w/ Elena Anaya, Natasha Yarovenko. Rating: NN; DVD package: none Two women spend the night in a hotel room. One is a long-time lesbian, the other a nervous first-timer. Between bouts of togetherness, they lie to each other about their lives. This sounds like soft porn, and it is, up to a point. The actors – Elena Anaya as Alba and Natasha Yarovenko as Natasha – are competent and occasionally quite good. They’re also very attractive, helped by painterly lighting that sculpts their bodies and fills the room with inviting shadows. There isn’t a touch of sleaze anywhere. The movie shifts tone for an emotionally engaging and mildly thoughtful climax. It doesn’t turn a so-so movie into a great one (not with this pretentious script and profoundly awful theme song) but Room In Rome at least reaches a higher standard than most erotica. No extras. A blooper reel would have been welcome. EXTRAS Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

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I’m a 41- year- old very attractIve,

happily married woman. My husband and I have been together for 15 years. When we first met, the sex was absolutely incredible. After we got married, the sex was good, not great. This was because we were busy raising our children. (My husband had custody of four-year-old twins from his first marriage when we married.) The reason I know our sex life suffered while we were busy raising the kids is that after the girls went off to college, things went right back to absolutely incredible. One night, we were talking about our sexual fantasies, and I confessed that since my mid-30s I’ve fantasized about being with a younger man. He told me that he’d be fine with me living out that fantasy if I would have a MFF threesome with him. I agreed, and we had the MFF threesome with a friend of mine. Here’s my question: How do I go about finding a gorgeous, college-age man? I thought about posting an ad on Craigslist, but you’ve said that most of the people on Craigslist are flakes and picture collectors. Do you have better suggestions for finding a straight college-age guy for a no-strings-attached encounter? I’m in the Pacific Northwest, if that makes a difference. Also, I’m a complete newbie to this, so I’d appreciate a rundown of all of the usual safety advice when meeting a stranger for sex. Mrs. Robinson Seeks Benjamin P.S. Here is my email address in case any of your gorgeous male college-age readers in the Pacific Northwest are interested: [e-mail deleted].

I don’t print the email addresses of readers looking for hookups, MRSB, as I am a professional advice columnist, thankyouverymuch, not a yentapimp for wannabe Mrs. Robinsons. (It also gives my lawyer fits. “What if you print this woman’s email address and this woman meets a nice young man who turns out to be Ted Bundy?” says my lawyer, who is old enough to remember who Ted Bundy was – and Mrs. Robinson – but somehow not too old to lawyer.) But save for asking me to print your email address in the column, MRSB, I approve of everything you and your husband are doing. Married olds everywhere should follow your example: you got through the lean years with decent if uninspired sex, you didn’t become bitter about all that decent if uninspired sex, you got back to indecent and inspired sex once the kids headed to college (which you were able to do because you didn’t let yourselves get bitter), and – most importantly – instead of freaking out and shooting down each other’s sexual fantasies, you’re helping each other realize those fantasies. Bra-fucking-vo. So how do you find the right young man? Trawl the net like all the other horndogs and get your husband to help. (You asked your friend to have that three-way, right? Your husband can place a few “hotwife” ads.) Yes, there are fakers and flakes on Craigslist – lots and lots – but there are some real boys to be had; there’s also FetLife.com and AshleyMadison.com and a million other hookup sites. Cast a wide net. Once you’ve found a potential Benjamin, make sure you know his real name, meet in

public, discuss safety (condoms) and sexual health (tested recently?), and be sure to let him know that someone else – someone heavily armed – knows where you are and who you’re with and when you’re supposed to be back. Here’s the tricky part: If you don’t get a good feeling when you meet in person – if he seems dodgy, if his pics lied, if he gives off a rape-y/serial-killer-y/lawyer-y-fit-vindicating vibe – don’t go through with it. P.S. Oh, what the hell: MRSB’s email address is j.e.robinson71@gmail.com. Have at her, Benjamins.

I’m a 24- year- old straIght male.

F or the past six months, I’ve been dating an amazing GGG girl. We have amazing sex. The other night, after a week of no sex, I came on to her in bed on Saturday night. She turned me down and said that she was okay with me masturbating on the other side of the bed so she could sleep. After a very unsatisfying orgasm, I told her I understood her need to sleep since we had an early engagement the next morning, but that this was difficult for me. She said we’d have great sex the next day, which we did. Which one of us needs to be GGG in this scenario, should it happen again? Fucking Early Engagement Botches Lovely Evening A week is a long time to go without at your age and at six months and pre-kids, I realize, but it sounds like the girlfriend more than made it up to you the next day. As for

who needs to be GGG in this scenario, should it happen again (and it will)…. GGG demands a little something of both of you. GGG requires you to stop whining about having to wait 24 whole hours for awesome sex, FEEBLE, and GGG requires her – if she isn’t completely exhausted (and it appears she wasn’t, as she was still awake when your “very unsatisfying orgasm” was over) – to come through with a loving assist when you’re desperate and she’s not feeling it, i.e., lie with you, talk dirty to you, stick a finger up your butt, whatever, for the five or 10 minutes it takes you to drain your sack.

I’m wrItIng to ask you to help me

s pread the word about an issue close to my heart. I am a 23-year-old woman without medical insurance who relies on Planned Parenthood. They have done so much for me. They have provided me with birth control, annual Pap smears that I can actually afford and emotional support that helped me get over an abusive relationship and sexual assault. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood. This isn’t just an attack on American women. Planned Parenthood educates the entire community about sexual health and sexually transmitted infections. I know I don’t need to preach to you. I plan to write to my senators about this, and I am encouraging everyone I know to do so. What I ask is that you mention this in your column as soon as possible. My Body, My Choice

Done and done, MBMC. We used to have a regular feature at Savage Love called Straight Rights Watch. It lapsed when the Democrats took the House in 2006 and political attacks on the sexual freedoms of straight people decreased. But the GOP is back in charge of the House and state houses across the country, and attacks on the sexual freedoms of heterosexuals – attempts to ban abortion, restrict access to birth control, destroy Planned Parenthood (which doesn’t just serve straight people), even make it legal to kill abortion providers (!!!) – are back, and so, sadly, is Straight Rights Watch. Hello? Heterosexuals? Your legislators need to hear from you, and they need to hear from you now. There’s an easy way to make your voice heard: Go to istandwithplannedparenthood.org and add your name to an open letter to Congress, then swing over to plannedparenthood.org, click Donate, and give what you can. CONFIDENTIAL TO MADISON, WISCONSIN: I’ve never been prouder of my connection to Madison than I am right now – and, hey, don’t let those lying bastards at Fox News get you down. To everyone else: meet the people who are taking a stand at youtube.com/ wethepeoplewisconsin.

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