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Palestinian activist Riham Barghouti and writer Ali Abunimah. 7 pm. Free. OISE. toronto.apartheidweek.org. oppreSSion oF WoMen Cultural perspectives on violence: a panel with author Aruna Papp, radio host Nita Bawa and others. 7 pm. Free. Factory Theatre. factorytheatre.ca.

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Clements’s play about aboriginal people’s past and present continues at Buddies in Bad Times. 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$25. 416-975-8555.

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Benevolence reads with Jonathan Coe and Lorna Goodison at Harbourfront’s Lakeside Terrace. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. 416-973-4000. i MarcuS garvey Edgar Nkosi White’s play about the Jamaican-born activist’s life opens at the Papermill Theatre. To Mar 27. $15-$35. 416-533-1500.

electro-rockers are joined by the always excellent Juan Maclean at the Phoenix. 9 pm. $20. PDR, RT, SS, TW. Terry FalliS This year’s Canada Reads winner for The Best Laid Plans appears at the Barbara Frum Library. Free. 7 pm. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

plays the plain governess hired by the mysterious Mr. Rochester in this new adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. Opening day. T-pain The Auto-Tune-abusing superstar plays Sound Academy. 8 pm. $35. TM. Spin Evalyn Parry performs her show with music about women, cycling and freedom. To Mar 27 at Buddies in Bad Times. 8 pm. $16-$20. 416975-8555.

theque’s retrospective of the work of French actor Sandrine Bonnaire continues with this screening of Patrice Leconte’s intellectual thriller. 6:30 pm. $9.50-$12. 416-968-FILM.

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Keeping WaTer SaFe As part of the ROM’s Water: The Forum series, John Stager, Ontario’s chief drinking water inspector, explores the issues, both historical and current. 7 pm. $15. rom.on.ca/water.

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Rally takes on the fight to keep city services. Rally 11 am, march 1 pm, OISE Auditorium. Fair 1:30 pm, Ryerson. Free. iwdtoronto.org. +Janelle Monae The tuxedoloving pop star headlines CMW’s Indie Music Awards at the Fairmont Royal York. 8 pm. $30, free w/ wristband. cmw. net.

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in respect to chris faiers’s letter expressing his anguish over the absence of international intervention in Libya (NOW, March 3-9) – simply stated, there is no peace to keep. That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that many of those clamouring for intervention are the same folks who criticize Western governments’ interference in other countries’ affairs. While we are all aghast at Libyan armed forces killing their own people, the fact is that Libya is a sovereign nation. If we meddle there, where else do we meddle? Conor D. O’Hare

email letters@now toronto.com thanks for keeping the issue of the flagrant violation of our constitutionally guaranteed civil rights during the G20 Summit alive (NOW, March 3-9) and for putting it in the context of current world events. We should all keep in mind that those rights are meaningless unless enforced. Stephen Harper, Dalton McGuinty, Toronto police Chief Bill Blair and those under his command must be held accountable for their actions. Unlike many others, we have an opportunity (civic duty!) to rescind the

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i like charlie sheen’s show, Two And A Half Men, but Sheen’s persona off camera is too much. I don’t like blowhards even if they can “justify” it. Charlie was a “win ner” as the toppaid actor on series TV. But he made a bet, pushed it hard, lost and is now a “loser.” Maybe someone considers “win ning” getting a lot of attention, but I don’t. chris87654

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regarding devil in the details (NOW, March 39). It looks like this is the way events are going to play out at City Hall for the next few years. Councillors have a choice of cozying up to Ford’s inner circle or languishing in the hinterland. Have you noticed how the main stream media have stopped going to progressives for sound bites lately? Every politician knows elec tions are inevitable, and for those without media attention or power in the chamber, this term could be their last. Hugh

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on welcome back gigi (now Daily, March 3). Would you call a doctor to fix your sink? No. Why would you go to a pizza place bust ed for drugs to purchase your pot medicine? Oh, wait, because the cops are busting compassion clubs perhaps? Oh, well, we won’t be able to afford stupid things like pot busts in a few months, when the economic feces hits the fan. Stop Bill S-10

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we’re not sure if that was amazement or stunned denial on the faces of the mayor’s supporters in the council chamber Tuesday morning (March 8). But no one saw this coming: Rob Ford’s first notable defeat on a vote. It’s not quite the Ides of March for Ford. The vote in question was on a procedural matter, a motion by his deputy, Doug Holyday, to bring the matter of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) and the highly publicized resignations of its board last week over some $100,000 in spending irregularities before council. As a last-minute add-on to the council agenda, Holyday’s motion to oust the remaining members of the board – two tenant reps and Councillors Raymond Cho and Maria Augimeri are refusing to resign – required a two-thirds majority vote to officially be tabled for discussion. It lost 26-16. The Ford team moved quickly to contain the brush fire the vote sparked among media types. Maybe the vote wasn’t such a surprise to the Ford forces after all. Councillor Pam McConnell noted that members of the mayor’s staff were making their presence felt in the council chamber, perhaps trying to whip some votes on the issue – not a success, apparently. But a plan was quickly hatched to put Holyday’s motion before an emergency meeting of the executive committee later in the day. When deputants signed up by the dozen to make deputations there, the rules were changed again by Ford & Co. The matter of the TCHC board would be tabled before a special meeting of council Wednesday (March 9). At press time, the vote on the Holyday motion to abolish the current TCHC board had not been taken. But it’s unlike-

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ly the mayor would lose in the new normal at City Hall these days. Buoyed by polls showing him at higher approval ratings than even during the election, the mayor’s swagger around the chamber has acquired a badass Chicago hitch. Think Leroy Brown. Ford seemed unaffected by the setback Tuesday, save for one animated exchange with his brother and confidant, Doug, the councillor from Ward 2.It’s hard to know what the mayor was thinking, since media requests for comment from His Worship, even from the Fordfriendly Sun, were brushed off by the his press secretary, Adrienne Batra. The mayor did send out a tweet. “It’s unfortunate some councillors don’t want to discuss accountability at the TCHC,” he said. Curious, that bit about accountability, given the odd scene that had taken place in council earlier. Then, the mayor was asked to apologize by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam for comments he made in a speech to the Canadian Club of Toronto last week about “garbage” in the public service at City Hall. Ford refused even to acknowledge the question, leaning back in his chair with his hands clasped on his big tummy as if Wong-Tam didn’t even exist. What, me worry? Had the lemon-poppyseed muffins with secret “get along” ingredients baked by Councillor Mary Margaret McMahon given the mayor indigestion? In any event, Holyday, the guy ultimately served up to deliver the official party line on things TCHC-related, told me there’s no truth to the theory being floated by some on council that the mayor wants tenant reps removed continued on page 20 œ

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disagree about the efficacy of military intervention and the constraints needed if it is attempted. For starters, it’s not clear that everyone has the same concept of what enforcing such a zone would entail: is it just sky control? Or does it always entail an immediate bombing of the enemy’s air defense installations? Phyllis Bennis of the justice-oriented Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, thinks any such effort will inevitably lead to the latter – and that any move to control Libyan airspace is a potential disaster. What is being proposed, she says, is a

“Some progressives, including UBC international law expert Michael Byers, are urging the feds to contribute our underutilized air force to policing a no-fly zone over Libya. ”

“fantasy no-fly zone.” In the real world, she says, a no-fly resolution would definitely entail the destruction of Libyan anti-aircraft systems on the ground. “If you don’t, you risk having a plane shot down, and you have a pilot in Libyan government custody. Then you have special forces going in for a rescue – and then you are at war.” The real world, she says, doesn’t need another U.S. war in the Middle East. “There’s no question that the air attacks are happening. They are terrifying, and there have been casual-

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That’s certainly the assessment of Robert Naiman, policy director of Washington’s Just Foreign Policy, who argues in a recent piece that a no-fly zone has “little potential for good and

much for harm.” Naiman, who could not be reached at press time, stresses the potential f0or civilian casualties in imposing a no-fly zone. If there is to be one, he writes, it should be used only to protect uncontested rebel territory and be maintained by an Arab military force. Such a plan, he warns, should not be used to conquer Tripoli militarily when it’s apparent that the rebels can’t do this themselves. “If the political forces backing the

armed opposition want to reunify the country, they will likely have to negotiate with the forces backing Gaddafi,” he says. Paul Rogers, a prof of peace studies at England’s Bradford University best known for his columns in the online Open Democracy mag, agrees that the capital is a major problem. “I don’t think the opposition has the strength to defeat Gaddafi in the greater Tripoli area, so there is a risk of quite a long conflict, I’m afraid,” he says. And then there are the negative optics of a no-fly zone, even with a UN stamp. Only the Americans have the expertise, with aircraft carriers (particularly the USS Enter pr ise) andplanes

ready to go in a few days, says Rogers. Malta, as a potential launch pad is “tricky because of the size of the airport and its primary commercial use,’’ he adds. (This could put a damper on Canadian CF-18 participation.) Even John Pike, director of the military news org Global Security, in Washington, has his doubts. While the sheer presence of a UN-authorized, U.S.-implemented no-fly zone might quiet matters down, “the reality is that the Libyan air force is not

that big, not well trained, and its pilots aren’t very skilful.” Pike wonders why Libya has become such a major interventionist issue for the West when the Shia minority in Bahrain and the people of the conflict-ridden Congo, for instance, continue to suffer. He fears the prospect of foreign nations getting sucked into a lengthy civil war between the western and eastern regions of Libya (originally separate entities known as Tripolitania and Cyrenaica), both of which are well armed. It’s a skepticism also expressed by Hicham Safieddine, a Lebanese-born journalist who’s worked in Egypt and is now a PhD student at U of T in Middle East studies. Safieddine, who attends Libyan solidarity rallies, is uncomfortable with the notion of inter vention unless Gaddafi embarks upon mass killings. For him, that has not yet happened. “[A no-fly zone] will also give the U.S. and its allies a stake in the outcome of the revolution, which usually translates into economic, military, security and political control and exploitation of the country’s resources,” he says. The current focus on Libya represents “an attempt by Western governments, specifically the United States, to try to regain [legitimacy]” in the area. 3

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“No one is disputing the findings of the auditor’s report. What is very troubling is the flurry of reckless, ad hoc and knee-jerk activity that has taken place based on a leaked report.” CounCillor Janet Davis

tor’s response before firing what sounded like a warning. “If there is a leak traced back to your office, it’s on your watch.” Coincidentally, Grif fiths’s contract, which expires in De cember, and the hiring of an auditor general were separate items up for discussion on this week’s council agenda.

Councillor Mike Del Grande hopped to the auditor’s defence, say ing Mihevc and com pany were conducting an “inquisition” even though some among them, too, had been quoted in media re ports on the auditor’s findings. Well, that would include Del Grande himself, who appeared on Goldhawk Live Monday night. But

we digress. Councillor Janet Davis put the de bate in perspective. “No one is dis puting the findings of the auditor’s report. What is very troubling,” she said, is “the flurry of reckless, ad hoc and kneejerk activity that has taken place based on a leaked report.” And there’s the interesting ques

tion. How would the TCHC episode have unfolded if, say, Griffiths’s report had gone to the audit committee first, as per protocol? And if the TCHC board had not been put in the position of having to call a press conference to respond to a leaked document? The fact is, the employees respon sible for the spending transgressions had already been fired, and the audi tor’s recommendations had begun to be implemented by TCHC months earlier. But Ford pounced anyway, de manding the dissolution of the board and choosing to do his talking via the media rather than to the board di rectly. As former chair David Mit chell said, Ford’s actions made con tinuing to serve – for him and the seven citizen members who also re signed – “untenable.” That’s democracy Fordstyle. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

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Thursday, March 10 ST PATRICK’S DAY BREW MASTER’S DINNER

Irish-themed dinner with Joel Manning. 6:30 pm. $60. Mill Street Brew Pub, 55 Mill, bldg 63. 416- 681- 0338.

Friday, March 11 ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCHEON (Ireland Fund of Canada benefit) Irish entertainment MC’d by Seamus O’Regan, lunch and a reception. 11 am- 4 pm. $250. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. 416-367-8311, irelandfund. ca.

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Mortals entertain from 7 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416- 406-1301.

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Tuesday, March 15 ST PAT’S JAM SESSION 8 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416- 406-1301.

Wednesday, March 16 ODE TO IRISH CINEMA A World Of Shorts presentation. 7 pm. $6, stu/srs $4. National Film Board, 150 John. 416-973-3012, nfb.ca/ mediatheque. LISDOONVARNA MATCHMAKING DAY Meet with Paddy Matchmaker and singles dance with music by the Ceiligrassboys. 7 to 10 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416406-1301.

traditional Irish musicians Steafan Hannigan, Saskia Tomkins and Marsala Lukianchuk. 7:30 pm. $18-$20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. cairdeascanada.com.

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Day Celebration. Roy Thomson Hall, 8 pm. $59.50-$74.50. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416872- 4255.

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beginners dance lessons, limerick open mic (8:30 pm) and Irish dancers. Noon to 11 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416- 406-1301.

Day Party. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. LET THERE BE CRAIC! Everything Irish from noon to closing. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 ST PATRICK’S DAY PARADE Sean the Leprechaun Queen E. 416- 406-1301. AFTER PARTY Fynn’s Of charms the St. Patrick’s Day THE MAHONES St Patrick’s Temple Bar, 489 King W. Parade on March 13. Day. Doors 6 pm. $15. Tattoo 416-586-1331. Rock Parlour, 567 Queen W. rST PATRICK’S DAY PAinktickets.com. RADE The annual St Paddy’s Day parade THE MATADOR’S ST PADDY’S DAY MASSACRE starts at noon at Bloor and St George, heads The Nightmares and the Straight Razors perE on Bloor to Yonge, S on Yonge to Queen form. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. and W to Nathan Phillips Square. Free. POOR ANGUS St Patrick’s Day: Shamrock The topatrick.com.

House. 6:30 pm. Fynn’s of Temple Bar, 489 King W. 416-586-1331. RANT MAGGIE RANT St Patrick’s Day. 8:30 pm. $20-$22.50. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531- 6604.

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Designer Connie Chisholm, who created the chair on our January Design Issue cover, debuts a series of more sweet seats at MADE (867 Dundas West, 416-607-6384, madedesign.ca). Her show, Variations On A Chair, opens today (Thursday, March 10) and continues until April 30 in the store’s cooler exhibition space. A dining chair, a lounger and a counter stool are each constructed from two painted profile pieces, with a back and seat covered in a continuous sheet of veneer.

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The Coccolily collection (coccolily.com) is always a highlight at Montreal Fashion Week, and now you can find the line in Toronto at Shopgirls (1342 Queen West, 416-534-7467, shopgirls.ca). Eight cocktail styles ranging in price from $150 to $250 arrive at the store this Saturday (March 12). Look for mini lengths, colour blocking and a few great little white dresses.

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Fashion Week is right around the corner and so are all the off-site events that fill in around the official schedule. Check out lgfashionweek.ca to buy consumer tickets for the Fashion Design Council of Canada-produced calendar of shows at Heritage Court (Exhibition Place) from March 28 to April 2. And visit fashionincubator.com/shop to pick up a $60 pass to the final show for the Toronto Fashion Incubator’s New Labels competition at the Design Exchange (234 Bay) on April 14.

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Folic acid flap calls into question its healing virtues By elizaBeth Bromstein i was in a café the other day when I heard a woman say she’d been diagnosed as B12-deficient. “Really?” I said. “Me, too!” I’m a meat eater, but it’s often vegans who are afflicted since B12 is only found in animal products. But on further exploration I learned two things: first, there’s disagreement

over who’s deficient and what that means. And second, you can’t talk about B12 without dragging in folic acid, since the vitamin is needed for folate to metabolize. Except now, reports are linking too much folic acid and B12 to cancer. This is a bitch, because adequate levels of folate and B12 may regulate lev-

els of homocysteine, an amino acid associated with heart disease and stroke. And folic acid deficiency is associated with neural tube defects in utero; it’s recommended that pregnant women take doses as high as 5 mg daily. As a bonus, B12 may also play a similar protective role. What’s going on?

What the experts say “Both maternal and post-weaning folic acid supplementation in rat pups increased the risk of breast cancer in the offspring about twofold. Also, a Scottish study showed mothers given folic acid during pregnancy had, in 20 to 30 years, an increase in cancer deaths. But this study was methodologically flawed. Once a tumour is initiated, folic acid can promote a full-blown cancer; before a tumour is initiated, folic acid can prevent initial transformation. A 2009 study looked at people at risk for cardiovascular disease who were put on folic acid and B12; it found mortality went up with supplementation. B12 studies have been limited. We need to be careful about mothers and

women of reproductive age. What is recommended is 400 mcg of folic acid per day.” YOUNG-IN KIM, staff gastroenterologist, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto “Evidence from the 80s suggests that higher levels of B12 than those considered normal are impor tant for brain health. B12 and other Bs are depleted by stress. B12 and folic acid work together; there’s nothing folic acid is needed for that B12 isn’t needed for as well. But the balance in multivitamins is way off – there’s a lot more folic acid than B12. B12 is an orphan as far as research is concerned. Manufacturers aren’t aware that they need to balance their B12

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Dear Mr. Astrol-

oger: Like the god Prometheus, I stole fire from the gods and gave it to people who sometimes make awful use of it. As punishment, the gods chained me to a rock on the beach and arranged for an eagle to come daily to eat my liver. Luckily, the liver grows back every night. Unluckily, the eagle always returns to devour it again. I’m used to it by now; it doesn’t hurt as much as it once did. But I’m still eager to get out of my predicament. Any suggestions? Aries in Limbo.” Dear Aries: Your rescue is scheduled for no later than your birthday, possibly before. In the meantime, the best thing you can do to prepare for your release is to feel gratitude for all you’ve learned during your ordeal.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Your meditation

for this week comes from writer H.P. Lovecraft. “What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!” While that’s always good counsel, I think it’s especially apt for you right now. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’d be smart to evaluate your own worth based less on what job you do and more on who you are. Practise thinking this healing idea: The soulfulness you embody and express from moment to moment is the single greatest measure of your success as a human being.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 One of my fa-

vourite peculiarities about the English lan-

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guage is the idiosyncratic words it uses to characterize groups of specific animals. For example, the correct term for many owls gathered together is not “flock” but “parliament”: a “parliament of owls.” Likewise, we say a “rabble of butterflies,” a “prickle of hedgehogs,” a “shrewdness of apes,” and a “murder of crows.” If I had to come up with a comparable term for the human members of your tribe, it might be something like a “zeal of Geminis” or a “charm of Geminis” or a “romp of Geminis” or an “exaltation of Geminis.” All those words capture part of the glory that will be you, especially for the next few weeks.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 The roots of the

lotus are anchored in muck at the pond’s bottom. Its leaves float on the water, and its dramatic flower rises above on a thick stem. It’s an evocative plant that is featured in many ancient myths. For Buddhists, it’s an emblem of enlightenment: beauty ascending from the mud. In India, a thousand-petalled golden lotus symbolizes the miracle of creation. To the Egyptians, it represented rebirth. Even modern science has contributed to building the mystique of the lotus, having determined that its seeds can remain viable for many centuries. It’s not a fragile marvel! In the 16th-century Chinese folk tale Monkey, a teacher instructs the hero on how to achieve a long life. “Even amidst fierce flames,” he says, “the Golden Lotus can be planted.” For the foreseeable future, Cancerian, the lotus is your power object.

and folic acid. All Bs are needed in balance. Folic acid helps cells divide, as does B12. But the two aren’t fussy about which cells they divide, so if you have micro-tumours and cancer cells, it will help them divide the same as healthy cells.” AILEEN BURFORD-MASON, immunologist, nutritionist, Toronto “The connection between B12 and neural tube defects is less clear than the use of folic acid for prevention of neural tube defects. A number of studies show that women who have low B12 status when they get pregnant are at increased risk for having babies with defects, and others don’t show an association. But there are no

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clinical trials. And since B12 is usually given in a multivitamin, you have the issue of whether it’s the B12, the folic acid or something else that’s producing the beneficial effect. We’re still sorting that out. People of childbearing age rarely become B12-deficient if they have B12 in their diet. B12 deficiency can cause anaemia and, in severe forms, neurologic damage.” JAMES MILLS, senior investigator, epidemiology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, Maryland “The rate of shrinkage of the brain in normal elderly is influenced by a person’s B12 status: those with low-

felt they were crazy-making stressors that served no good purpose. But now maybe you will be motivated to stand on your head, cross your eyes and try to see how the tangy riddles might actually be used to untangle each other.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Despite the Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “Picture a very compli-

cated combination lock, one that requires dialing up eight different numbers to open,” writes Arianna Huffington. “You have seven of the numbers, but the lock still won’t open until you hit upon that final number. One-eighth may not seem as ‘big’ as seven-eighths, but without the final click of the combination, the tumblers won’t fall into place.” Sound familiar, Leo? In my astrological opinion, you have dialed up the first seven numbers but you don’t know what the eighth is yet; until you discover it, the lock will stay closed. Where should you look for the missing info? It’s now within your reach, and it wasn’t before.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In the coming

week, it’s very important that you stay out of other people’s hells – even if they invite you in with a big welcome, and even if you’re tempted to join them there in their infernos as a misguided way of proving your love. Be compassionate, Virgo, but don’t be manipulated or foolish. The best thing you can do to help others is to cultivate your own mental health with ingenuity, trusting in its radiant power to heal by example.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “Two paradoxes are better than one,” said physicist Edward Teller. “They may even suggest a solution.” I hope this gives you a glimmer of appreciation for the sparkling contradictions you’re surrounded by, Libra. It would be understandable if up until today you

wealth and renown he has accumulated during his influential career, musician Brian Eno is a big fan of raw simplicity. Speaking about R&B, soul music and psychedelia, he said, “These earlier eras of pop music were characterized not by the search for perfection but by bizarre enthusiasms, small budgets, erratic technique, crummy equipment and wild abandon.” Would you consider playing with that approach in the coming weeks, Scorpio? It’s not necessarily something you should do all the time, but right now I suspect it’s a formula for the most interesting kind of success.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Research

Digest Blog asked eminent psychologists to write about the theme “one nagging thing you still don’t understand about yourself.” One expert wondered why he always overestimates how much work he can get done. Another pondered the fact that he falls prey to his own irrational biases even though he’s well aware he has them. A third said he can’t fathom why it’s so easy for him to learn some things and so hard to learn others. What would your answer be, Sagittarius? This is an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to see if you can get to the bottom of a truth about yourself that has always eluded you. (To read the story, go here: http:// tinyurl.com/DontKnowYet.)

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 I suspect

that you will either be spectacularly right or breathtakingly wrong in the coming days. Which way it goes will all

normal B12 show twice the rate of shrinkage (atrophy) of those with high-normal levels. These effects occur well above the cutoff level normally used to define B12 deficiency. We did a randomized clinical trial in which we gave high doses of B12, folic acid and B6 to the elderly with mild cognitive impairment (MCI): the treatment reduced the rate of brain shrinkage by between 30 and 50 per cent. So the message is: if you want to protect your brain as you get older, make sure your B12 status is very good.” DAVID SMITH, professor emeritus of pharmacology, U of Oxford, founding director, Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA) 3

depend on whether you’re observing and responding to the actual events unfolding in front of you or are more focused on the images dancing around in your imagination. Of course, it’s always a good idea to get your biases and projections out of the way so you can see life as it really is, but it’s especially crucial now. So much is contingent upon your ability to be acutely perceptive and crisply objective.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 In the old

fairy tale, the character known as Rumpelstiltskin has the power to spin straw into gold. That skill has a metaphorical resemblance to the wizardry you could pull off in the coming weeks: transforming seemingly ordinary or worthless stuff into a valuable asset. Although your work might seem a bit miraculous and make some people wonder if you’ve used hocus-pocus, the fact is that it may at times feel tedious or extremely demanding to you. Be gutsy in your mastery of the intricate details, Aquarius. I’ll be thinking of you as the Gritty Magician.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 “Good things may come to those who wait – but they’re mostly just the things left behind by those who hustle and bustle.” That message was in the fortune cookie I got with my Chinese takeout food tonight. It happens to be a perfect fit for your current astrological omens, so I’m handing it over to you. In the coming week, I don’t recommend that you sit around patiently and watch how the trends ripen. I don’t think you should bide your time or be cautious in making a commitment. Be proactive, Pisces – maybe even gung ho. Carpe the freaking diem. 3 Homework: What do you want to be when you grow up? Testify at freewillastrology.com.

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Not long after Lady Gaga sang a duet rendition of her self-empowerment anthem Born This Way with a 10-year-old fangirl, she was covered in fake blood, clinging to a backup dancer’s leg and insinuating that Jesus was a bisexual asshole. Such is the dichotomous world of the pop provocateur, whose Monster Ball tour felt like a campy Broadway adaptation of selfhelp craze The Secret. In concert, Gaga is as hard-working a motivational speaker as she is a singer and dancer, regaling the largely female audience with lines like “release your inner fame” between aggressively choreographed numbers. She doesn’t yet have enough hits for an all-star set, so the anonymous club beats of earlier songs gave thrust to a loose narrative that ground to a halt during umpteen wardrobe changes. The highlight was the rousing piano ballad You And I, which showcased her forceful wail and bluesy delivery. “I never lip-sync,” she said. “You’d never pay your hard-earned KEVIN RITCHIE money to see some bitch be lazy for two hours.”

REVOLVER with PAINT at the Drake, Thursday, March 3. Rating: NNN French pop rock group Revolver’s charm lies in their filtering of British Invasion influences through a youthful French lens. But their Toronto debut came across as an industry showcase due to the early

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start time, venue and opening band. Too bad, given their potential. Four and a half years ago, they formed as a “pop de chambre” trio before adding a drummer to fill out their sound. At the Drake they showcased both sides, incorporating an acoustic segment into the set featuring two singer/guitarists and lots of backup vocals. Jerky, jangly French radio hit Get Around Town got young ladies in the front dancing, and Jérémie Arcache’s versatile cello parts – at times like a trebly bass, at times orchestral – were a subtle highlight. Local openers Paint made an effort to welcome Revolver to town but were unnecessarily loud and hustly. A roadie/guitar tech for a SARAH GREENE Thursday eve-ning show at the Drake? Come on.

THE HOLIDAY CROWD with BROKEN BRICKS at Rancho Relaxo, Thursday, March 3. Rating: NNN Playing at the end of a disparate four-band showcase on a weeknight isn’t an ideal position for any band, but the Holiday Crowd mustered some energy at Rancho Relaxo. Led by singer Imran Haniff, the band is big on guitar jangle, with vocals that are reminiscent of Suede’s Brett Anderson or Morrissey. Opening song Painted Like A Forest brought the sparse but eager audience to stage front, where they remained throughout the Toronto four-piece’s short, sharp set. It’ll be interesting to see what the Holiday Crowd can do in front of a bigger crowd. Earlier, Broken Bricks impressed with tunes that played out like a

history of British pop music. Their lyrics are occasionally brought down by painfully obvious rhymes, but the young band has hooks JOANNE HUFFA and charm galore.

at the Music Gallery, Saturday, March 5. Rating: NNNN ÑSNOWBLINK

You’ve got to give Snowblink’s Daniela Gesundheit credit for having a lot of patience. Her debut album, Long Live (Out of This Spark), was actually recorded back in 2008 but has only now been officially released, after years of being sold at shows and on consignment at independent record stores. During that time, she moved from California to Toronto, fine-tuned her live performance and is finally in a good position to unleash her magical trippy folk pop on the world. The first thing you noticed walking into the church the Music Gallery calls home were tarot card, crystal ball and tea leaf readers set up at tables in the lobby, which definitely set a mystical mood. Ordinarily, Gesundheit performs in a duo with Dan Goldman, but for her CD release she bumped it up several notches with backup vocalists, percussion and an innovative lo-fi light show that made great use of overhead projectors, shadows and film clips. There’s no doubt she knows how to create an atmosphere, but that wouldn’t mean much if her delicate space pop tunes weren’t so gorgeous and mesmerizing. Imagine Feist’s more intimate ballads if she were prone to eating a ton of magic mushrooms. BENJAMIN BOLES

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The genre-bending upstart stole the show at the Grammys. Can she pull it off again at Cmw? By JASON KELLER

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to know janelle monáe as an artist, you have to understand a few things about her genetic composition. The future-funk diva will help you in this regard. When asked about sharing a stage in December with her hero Stevie Wonder, Monáe says his music is “part of my DNA.” Questioned about a seemingly exhausting year in which she shot to stardom thanks to her fantastical take on soul and rock and gave a show-stealing performance at this year’s Grammys, Monáe says her ability to stay emotionally balanced must be “part of my DNA.” The Atlanta-based singer recites this phrase in robotic tones, making the biological reference all the more curious. She sounds like HAL 9000 explaining its programming or, perhaps more appropriately, Cindi Mayweather. For the uninitiated, Mayweather is the central character in the bizarre narrative that weaves through the 18 tracks on Monáe’s cosmic soul full-length debut, The ArchAndroid (Suites II And III, Bad Boy). Therein, Monáe is a time traveller from the year 2719 whose DNA is used to clone Mayweather, an android freedom fighter. The androgynous droid violates The Rules by becoming romantically involved with a human, triggering a hunt for her capture. Mayweather represents “the other,” and as Monáe explains it, her oppression is a metaphor for our culture’s racial and sexual discrimination. A thrilling mixture of R&B, OutKast-style Atlanta funk, pastoral folk and glittery Judy Garland-like thea-trics, her music can’t be criticized for its lack of ambition. And as far as debuts go, it’s an outlandish way to introduce yourself. You have to wonder if anyone in Monáe’s camp – fretting

major label rep or concerned colleague – wanted to push the shutdown button on such heady sci-fi themes. “The only resistance that comes at me is the resistance I give myself,” Monáe says dryly. “I’m the only person who can make myself believe something isn’t going to work. So I deal with myself in that way. We have all these different voices saying, ‘Ah, don’t do that,’ and I just try to break through and do something that’s who I am.” Born in Kansas City, Kansas, she recalls growing up in an environment where drugs and violence claimed so many family members and friends that she eventually fled to New York City on a scholarship to the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. But Monáe never found her NYC groove, and after a few too many failed theatre auditions headed back south to Atlanta. If OutKast and their wild ideas could make it there, she felt certain that she had a shot. Living in a boarding house near the university, she sold demos to passing students. OutKast’s Big Boi caught her at an openmic night and shortly after put her on the Idlewild soundtrack. Two releases and four years of tuxedo-clad performances later, Monáe is one of the fastest-rising stars in music today. Staying true to her weirdness started well before The ArchAndroid. So did her obsession with the 1927 dystopian German film classic Metropolis, which inspired both the fulllength and Monáe’s first release, Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase), an EP launched in 2007 through Sean Combs’s Bad Boy label. If all this sounds a bit too far out and creative to be under Puff Daddy’s mainstream auspices, well, that’s because he’s had little or no say. Monáe does all the musical production and writing within the confines of her Atlanta record label/collective, the Wondaland Arts Society. “Music is our weapon,” the 25-year-old deadpans about WAS’s mission statement. “We consider ourselves individuals who want to break through race and gender,

which are barriers to reaching our goals. We want to create a different imprint.” When Arcade Fire pulled off their Grammy coup, Monáe was ecstatic. She lit up her Twitter with congratulatory messages, hailing it as a knockout victory for all independent artists in the music industry, including herself. Hold on. Considering that her record is on a major label (Bad Boy is distributed through Atlantic, a subsidiary of Warner), her attitude is a little confusing. Asked if she considers herself an independent, Monáe says, “Absolutely. I have my own label, and with every single we function as an inde-pendent label. Atlantic is a great partner. They’re so supportive. That’s the blessing in it all. “I was on tour with Arcade Fire. I love those guys, the way they work so hard, their do-ityourself mentality. That’s how I got on my way – do it yourself, selling CDs out of a trunk. “I’m so excited for Arcade Fire and Esperanza Spalding. She worked hard, writes all her own music, arranges. She’s groovy. Independent artists ruled the Grammys, and I’m inspired by that.” In May she’ll join forces with crooning MJ sound-alike Bruno Mars for a co-headlining tour dubbed Hooligans In Wondaland. Mars, a former child performer who scored major success with his slickly produced combo of hip-hop, R&B balladry and by-the-numbers love lyrics, comes off as pretty conventional compared to Monáe. This observation doesn’t go over well. She responds in the voice of an unfriendly robot ready to rip my throat out. “You feel like different artists can’t collaborate?” she asks scornfully. “That’s part of the reason why we are collaborating. We actually have a lot in common. We both love music and creating in a live environment. And he’s a good person. “That’s what’s wrong with your kind of thinking – it just works to segregate us.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

CMW picks Canadian Music Week’s been around since 1981 but in recent years has confused its branding a bit by renaming the music and film festival portion Canadian Music Fest. Essentially it’s the same thing, though, except that your CMF wristband ($75 for five days) doesn’t get you into the conference itself. It’s important to remember that while the wristband admits you to any show, most big-ticket events accept only a limited number of them, so plan on arriving really early. On the bright side, many of the hipper local bands are playing multiple gigs, so if you plan your week properly, you should be able to catch a bunch of great music.

LittLe GirLs, Makeout Videotape, Brian BorCherdt, rattaiL, aCtuaL Water, rituaLs, MausoLeuM The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, March 10) Hand Drawn Dracula and Unfamiliar present a great weirdo rock bill.

Yukon BLonde, MeMorYhouse, YounG eMpires, prussia

The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, March 10) CBC Radio 2 presents BC classic pop revisionists Yukon Blonde.

John aCquaViVa, Manzone & stronG, Joee Cons Cobra (510 King West), tonight (Thursday, March 10) Canadian house pioneer John Acquaviva pounds out some beats.

YounG GaLaxY, these eLeCtriC LiVes, iMaGinarY Cities, MiraCLe Fortress, the WiLderness oF ManitoBa Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), tonight (Thursday, March 10) See preview, page 38.

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The Opera House (735 Queen East), tonight (Thursday, March 10) A very eclectic bill of Canadian rock, hip-hop, disco, and pop.

LiVe near BeLLWoods

w/ Hooded Fang, Allie Hughes, Paper Lions, Olenka & the Autumn Lovers, Wilderness of Manitoba and many more Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music (821 Queen West), Thursday to Saturday (March 10-12 ) See preview, page 38.

kurt ViLe & the VioLators, J MasCis, JaMes VinCent MCMorroW

The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (March 11) See preview, page 39.

esBen & the WitCh, karkWa, kinGdoM, Bok Bok Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (March 11) See preview, page 39.

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w/ Janelle Monáe, Shad, Hollerado, Bombay Bicycle Club and many more Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Canadian Room (11 Front West), Saturday (March 12) See preview, page this page.

the russian Futurists, dinosaur Bones, the zooBoMBs, dieMonds

Baitshop Gallery (358 Dufferin), Saturday (March 12) Afternoon all-ages show, from glam metal to electronic pop.

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Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (March 12) A strong bill of garage rock, punk and high-octane blues.

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Canadian musiC week By BENJAMIN BOLES YOuNG GALAxY with THESE ELECTRIC LIVES, IMAGINARY CITIES, MIRACLE FORTRESS and the WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West) as part of CMW, tonight (Thursday, March 10), 8 pm. $15.50 or wristband/pass. cmw. net.

It must be incredibly nerveracking for a band to send its album across the ocean to Sweden to have the finishing touches added by a producer they’ve never met. Imagine the panic Young Galaxy felt after handing over their Shapeshifting (Paper Bag) bed tracks to Dan Lissvik, only to have him extend the deadline by more than six months. “He originally said he could do it in a month and half back in February,” says Stephen Ramsay from his Montreal home. “He kept telling us he hadn’t done much yet, and it got to a point where we started to worry. He’d play us little clips to get us excited but wouldn’t send us anything until it was done. He really kept the album close to his chest and put us through the wringer as a re sult.”

Ramsay and his partner vocalist/ keyboardist Catherine McCandless still haven’t met Lissvik in person, but they formed such a strong bond that they’re already planning more work together. Not a bad idea, as Shapeshifting is a major leap forward and bringing Young Galaxy critical acclaim. By ton ing down the bigroom rock vibe and beefing up the rhythm tracks, they’ve come up with a sleek electronic pop sound that’s regenerated the band. “Creatively, we feel restless all the time. I’m easily bored with myself. There were definitely times touring the last album when I was bashing away at my guitar and feeling bored. It’s a ter rible moment, but I think a lot of bands get to that point. “In a way, this album came from a place of being a fan of music. I was constantly listening to Dan’s project, Studio, and felt it was one of the better records of the last 10 years. I just had

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this strange intuition about him as a musician and felt like I needed to work with him.” After talking for hours and hours over Skype, Ramsay says he and Lissvik cultivated a “very strange modern friendship.” When a band reinvents itself three albums in, figuring out how to bring the new material to the stage becomes a challenge. Young Galaxy’s upcoming CMW gig will be only the second time they’ve performed the songs live, and, as Ramsay is starting to realize, a deli cate balance needs to be struck be tween recreating the record’s lush electronic textures and allowing some spontaneity to seep through. “If we just bashed out the songs like a rock band, I wouldn’t blame people for being disappointed. On the other hand, no one wants to see you just pressing play and miming a perfor mance onstage either.” 3

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Round up 18 of Canada’s most promis ing indie acts, squeeze them into a tiny venue over three afternoons, make the shows free and allages and what do you get? An event you might want to start lining up for stat. This year CMW has added a dedi cated allages series to its festival programming. Live Near Bellwoods, features intimate “living room” per formances by Allie Hughes, Pick a Piper, Olenka & the Autumn Lovers, Hooded Fang, Paper Lions, the Wilderness of Manitoba, Rich Aucoin, the Elwins and many others. “We did an allages unplugged series in Bellwoods Park for NXNE last year,” says the MuseBox’s Bobby Kimberley, who handpicked the bands, “and it was such a huge success that we’re basically taking the same con cept and putting it indoors – because March is cold.” Unlike the openair, lotsofelbow room Trinity Bellwoods series, Live Near Bellwoods takes place inside the

teensyweensy Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music (821 Queen West), where each band will play a strippeddown miniset. Expect some surprises and squishiness. Selfdescribed “weirdo pop prin cess” Allie Hughes plays a bunch of times during the festival (March 11 at Sneaky Dee’s, March 12 at the Ballroom, plus an instore March 13 at Sonic Boom), but she’s particularly looking forward to her living room ses sion (Thursday, March 10, 4:40 pm) at the Enjoyment of Music, a venue with which she’s more than a little familiar. “It’s where I work!” says Hughes, who teaches voice at the Institute. “My favourite job ever. The premise of the school is that there isn’t a curriculum. It’s just about enjoying music. I do technique with some, songwriting with others, pop songs, vocalises, music theatre.” For her show, she’ll play pareddown versions of a few songs, with guests including guitarist Thomas Gill and Kelly McMichael, whom Hughes describes as “the girl with the sexiest voice in Toronto.” “I get excited about intimate sets like this because it’s a completely dif ferent approach than the showy, over thetop live set I normally do with my band.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Kurt Vile has made music for as long as he can remember, but in a way his ca reer is just getting started. No longer the Childish Prodigy rising from the underground, he’s finally stepping into the limelight. Though the just-released Smoke Ring For My Halo is officially the Philadelphia psych-folk troubadour’s fourth full-length album, it’s his first done with the advance support of his label, Matador, and the first composed entirely of new material. “This is the record where I’m finally called up,” says Vile over the phone from his home in Philly. “A lot has changed for me in the last year or so, and maybe I’m not trying to prove myself as much any more. I’m just trying to make a good album.” Whereas Vile’s previous albums jumped chaotically from tight classic rock anthems to ambient drones to meandering acid jams, Smoke Ring showcases only his mellow, melodic side. Pristine production by music veteran John Agnello emphasizes Vile’s gorgeous, shimmering guitar work and wry, pensive lyrics. He credits the consistency in tone to increased means and time. His earlier albums were usually culled from old demos and previously written songs, but Smoke Ring was written and re-

From The xx’s nite-prowler rock to the poignant pub-step of producer James Blake, young British musicians have been getting quite moody lately. Now comes Brighton’s Esben and the Witch, a mirthless trio making waves with the cascading, atmospheric postrock found on their Matador debut, Violet Cries. Guitarist/ keyboardist Thomas Fisher talks to NOW in advance of the band’s CMW showcase at Wrongbar on Friday (March 11). Discussion of your band usually involves the term “goth.” Are you comfortable with that? Not overly. It’s a strange situation, be cause we don’t see our music as goth at all, a goths ourselves. Everyone seems to believe we have record col lections full of Bauhaus, This Mortal Coil and Cocteau Twins, but in actual fact we discovered these bands as a result of being compared to them. The video for Marching Song is quite violen t. How does it feel to see yourself looking beaten to a pulp? Quite gratifying and intriguing. The only other way to see yourself in that manner would be ridiculously painful. We were really happy with how the video turned out and the reactions it’s provoked.

corded within the span of a year. “The music’s more current than ever,” says Vile. “I recorded those last albums knowing I would shop them around. This time I knew I was on Matador, so I knew where I was going. I knew I could get a producer and I knew I could get into a studio. So why not?” There’s a reason he takes a slightly defensive tone when talking about his professional approach. Vile’s long, untamed hair, lethargic drawl and Zenned-out personality have turned him into something of a slacker icon. But the songwriter’s laid-back demeanour masks an obsessive work ethic and powerful drive. A musician since childhood, Vile was courting labels long before they started courting him. He admits to couriering homemade CDRs to his heroes in Sonic Youth, Animal Collective and Dinosaur Jr., all of whom have since invited him to open for them. Vile also plays on J Mascis’s upcoming album, Several Shades Of Why.

“It feels awesome,” he says. “These people were heroes to me, and now they’re like my friends. I feel like I can be a normal person [around them] and not act so star-struck, even though I totally still am.” Many reviewers are quick to link Vile to his influences. While he often struggles to find words to describe his own music, he pontificates about musicians like Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen with near-scholarly aplomb. “I’m an obsessive listener,” he admits. “When I’m getting into someone new, I don’t just listen to one or two albums. I read whole books about them and buy all their records and listen to them compulsively. It’s a thorough listening experience.” It’s always been Vile’s ambition to pursue music as a full-time job, and now that he has the chance, he’s taking full advantage of the situation. Not that he has much of a choice. “I had a baby between the last record and this one. If I tried to stop now, it’d probably be like shooting myself in the foot. Maybe I can take a break in a few years, but not right now.” 3

Your live show has a theatrical element. Was that developed over time? It’s something we’ve always aimed for. It’s harder at some times than others, particularly since we can’t fly in our artifacts. But we still attempt to create a sense of theatre through the perfor mance and pacing of the live set. Hopefully we achieve it. You’re getting hyped pretty hard these days. Do you feel you have something to live up to or prove? It’s helpful in that it means more people will listen to our music, which is fantastic, but it can distort their pre conceptions. [Hype] is something we

try to avoid and ignore as much as possible. There’s no way it can have a positive effect on your psyche, re gardless of whether it’s praising or damning. Is it easy to form a band in Brighton? Are there plenty of musicians around? There are indeed lots of musicians, but that’s no guarantee that forming a band will be easy. It’s an interesting place to be in a band because of how disparate the population is. There is no real scene, just lots of different but nonetheless excellent bands.

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Taking his band name from a Stone Roses song and boasting a pedigree that includes co-founding the High Dials and collaborating with the Black Angels, Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir makes music that’s both danceable and trippy. And while many bands can be described as “psychedelic pop,” few have a singer/ guitarist who can play a mean sitar. “I bought my first sitar in 1997,” Dhir says from his home in Montreal. “I’ve taken lessons since about 2000, 2001. I don’t know if I’ll ever be ready to perform classically professionally; you need a lot of focus. Pieces last 45 minutes. Pop songs are three minutes.” The Montreal quintet may be at the beginning of their career – their debut, The Seven Seas, came out in 2009, and The Glass Box EP (Maple) last year – but they’ve existed long enough for Dhir to have realized a long-standing dream: to share a stage with Scottish pop band Teenage Fanclub. “I was 13 years old when I discovered Bandwagonesque,” Dhir says, “and playing with them was one dream I thought I’d never achieve. It was the high point of my career so far.” At Rancho Relaxo (300 College) as part of CMW, Friday (March 11), 1 am. $10 or JOANNA HUFFA wristband/pass. cmw.net. music@nowtoronto.com

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Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon inspired a minor revolution with his Take-Away Shows for French music website La Blogotèque, a series of spontaneous one-shot performance clips that apply cinéma vérité principles to the music video format. Teaming with eight-piece Danish band Efterklang for what is billed as an “abstract documentary,” Moon proves that his style is just as suited to feature length. Filmed over four days at an island off the coast of Denmark, An Island is a stunning ode to music and its role in community and identity formation. Though Moon’s spontaneous fly-onthe-wall handycam work is meant to capture the authenticity of the fleeting moment, there’s a distinctive authorial voice at work. Mesmerizing digital footage of the island’s scenery and expository dialogue are intercut with sweeping live performance scenes set in the band members’ elementary school gym, high school auditorium and, in the film’s best set-piece, with their parents in their original practice space. It’s the perfect accompaniment to the eloquent grandiosity of EfterRICHARD TRAPUNSkI klang’s music.

Clash) to examine the rise and fall of forgotten pub rockers Dr Feelgood. They seem at first like an odd subject, but as we learn, punk owes a much bigger debt to this unruly workingclass rock band than previous accounts acknowledged. Instead of looking only at the band, Temple frames their story within that of the desolate industrial town of Canvey Island that gave birth to them. Their aggressive amphetamine R&B needs that context to really make sense, and Temple does a great job of painting a vivid picture of the dreary Thames locale. Since the band broke up before they really hit it big, there’s not a ton of archival film, and Temple was forced to illustrate the interviews with random stock footage. Sometimes this works, but it’s often distracting and clumsy and keeps the film from being as good BeNJAMIN BOLeS as it might be.

feel this pain CURe FOR PAIN: THe MARk SANDMAN STORy (Robert G. Bralver, David Ferino). 84 minutes. Saturday (March 12), 8 pm. Rating: NNN

This portrait of Morphine main man Mark Sandman is a fitting tribute to the charismatic talent who died of a heart attack while on stage in 1999. Morphine, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were a unique mix of drums, saxophone and Sandman’s

Oily origins OIL CITy CONFIDeNTIAL (Julien Temple). 104 minutes. Saturday (March 12), 1 pm. Rating: NNN In the third film in Julien Temple’s trilogy on 70s British rock, the director steps back from the punk focus of the first two (about the Sex Pistols and the

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Morphine’s bassist gets remembered in Cure For Pain: The Mark Sandman Story.

slide two-string bass, which created a unique, sexy groove and a perfect accompaniment for Sandman’s sultry vocals. This documentary tracks Morphine’s rise in the 80s and features appreciations from fans, including Ben Harper and Les Claypool. But what’s more fascinating is Sandman’s relationship with his family. He left home as a teenager and failed to fully reconnect with his parents, who couldn’t appreciate his artistry, never having seen him play. He was the third of three sons that his parents buried – a tragic narrative that almost takes over this movie. In fact, Sandman’s mother, Guitelle, who’s written a sad memoir, deserves SUSAN G. COLe a movie of her own.

hot heads MUSIC (Andrew Zuckerman). 52

minutes. Saturday (March 12), 10:15 pm. Rating: NNNN

Over 50 musicians – waist-up shots only – explain how they feel about making music while a low-fi generic soundtrack plays behind them. Sounds like a drag, but guess what? Music is one of the best talking-heads documentaries ever. That’s because Andrew Zuckerman has found a jaw-dropping range of artists from all genres to feature – from Ornette Coleman to Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, with Philip Glass, Ani DiFranco and the always smart Iggy Pop in between. Why name-check these five, actually? They’re all worth listening to as they riff on the subjects of inspiration, collaboration – when soundtrack writers, such as Danny Elfman, are particularly fun – performance and success. Zuckerman slyly begins the pic with artists who are rendered speechless by his request for a definition of music, obviously playing on the stereotype of the inarticulate musician. Then his passionate, honest, supremely intelligent subjects just blow us away. Plus, you can play a cool game of Name That Musician when each of SGC them first appears.

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Alanna Cherote, Adrian Wilson & Bedside Lights, Kim Churchill, Jack Carty, Eli Wolfe doors 7 pm. CFREE TIMES CAFÉ Maneli Jamal, Domestic Crisis Group, Emily Spiller, Mike Plagenz & Drew Sweet/December Fall Out, Kemal Evans Project 9 pm. CTHE GARRISON Little Girls, Makeout Videotape, Brian Borcherdt, RatTail, Actual Water, Rituals, Mausoleum doors 8 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL Indie Love Radio The Ruby Spirit, SparrowTales & Rajasi 8 pm. CGLOBAL VILLAGE BACKPACKERS Rob Moir doors 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S Nicole Christiansen, Jack Connelly, Alfie 8 pm. CTHE GREAT HALL Yukon Blonde, Memoryhouse, Young Empires, Prussia doors 9 pm. CHARD LUCK BAR Hot White Chocolate, Bravestation, the High Dials, Wool on Wolves, 1977 9 pm. CHARD ROCK CAFE Lillix, Vanessa Legacy, Miss Gold, Xylos, Chiara Young, Anita Prime doors 7:30 pm. CTHE HIDEOUT Butterfly Explosion, Funeral Suits, Halves, Sacred Animals, Autumn Owls, windings doors 8 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Kosher Dill Spears & Thomas 10 pm. CHORSESHOE Chart Attack Showcase The Wilderness, Rich Aucoin, Zeus, Still Life Still, Memphis, Molly Rankin, Modern Superstitions doors 8 pm. CLEE’S PALACE These Electric Lives, Young Galaxy, Imaginary Cities, Miracle Fortress, Wilderness of Manitoba doors 8 pm. See preview, page 38. LULA LOUNGE JUNO Awards: Reggae Retro Liberty Silver, Messenjah, Lazo, Jayson, Lillian Allen, Mountain Edge Band (reggae) doors 7 pm. CMITZI’S SISTER Laganza, Jean-Paul De Roover, the Folk, Kalle Mattson doors 9 pm. CMOD CLUB Crash Karma, Age of Daze, Birthday Boys, Metro 4, Paul Davidson doors 7 pm.

How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 54, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

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

Thursday, March 10 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park.

CANNEX WRECKROOM Trigger Effect, Hunter City Madness, Tupper Ware Remix Party, Crooked Valentine, Speak of the Devil doors 8 pm. CTHE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO Crash Parallel and Ash Koley doors 9 pm. BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles 9:30 pm. CBOVINE SEX CLUB FAME, The Isosceles Project, Assassinate the Following..., Endast, Dagoba, As You Like Me doors 8 pm. CBREAD & CIRCUS Andrew Cole, Our Friend & the Spiders, Drawn From Bees, the R.G. Morrison, Steph Macpherson doors 8 pm. CCADILLAC LOUNGE Six West, Lindsay Ell, Wagons, Val Halla, the River Junction Band doors 8 pm. CTHE CENTRAL Laurell, Andy Brown, Jill Hagen, David Blair, Mandippal doors 8 pm. CCHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA The Wandas, Neverending White Lights, Stone Parade, In My Coma, Venice Queen, Preachers Son doors 9:30 pm. CCLINTON’S Mathemagic, Vidulgi OoyoO, Idiotape, Your Favourite Enemies, Galaxy Express, Secret Broadcast doors 8 pm.

CCOMFORT ZONE Jodie Aysha, Empire ISIS, Diana Salvatore, Five Alarm Funk, Kai doors 8:30 pm. CROWN & TIGER Chiptune Groove & Tdot Comics Re-launch Deadbeatblast, Jefftheworld, Starpilot, BossFYTE, Oxyvlu doors 9 pm. CCZEHOSKI Kemal Evans Project, the Oh Wells, Marius, Current Swell, Loom, Old Crowns doors 8 pm. CDAKOTA TAVERN The Barr Brothers, Kevin Kane (Grapes of Wrath), Jen Lane, Billy the Kid, Lake of Stew, Ruth Minnikin 9 pm. CDRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Onra, Brandt Brauer Frick, Chateau Marmont, Piper Davis, Emanuel & the Fear doors 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Nights & Weekends 3 Strikes (pop/rock) doors 10:30 pm. CEL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS Freedom or Death, Wildlife, Amos the Transparent, the Parlotones, Birds of Tokyo, Acres of Lions doors 8 pm. CEL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS The Natural Shocks, the Autumn Portrait, the Paint Movement, My Little Cheap Dictaphone, Some Community, Familia 9 pm.

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quee Rose, Charlotte Cornfield doors 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. CSUPERMARKET In-Flight Safety, Michou, Sun Wizard, Tomi Swick, Louise Burns doors 7:30 pm. CTATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Ill Scarlett, Stereokid, Gloryhound, Texas Blood Money doors 8 pm.

CTORONTO INSTITUTE FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC Live Near Bellwoods

Hooded Fang, Wool on Wolves, Behind Sapphire, Allie Hughes, Paper Lions, Hands & Teeth doors 1:30 pm. See preview, page 40. CUNDERGROUND GARAGE Rococode doors 9 pm. CVELVET UNDERGROUND R.A.P.E. Tazer, Catl, the oOohh Baby Gimme Mores, Two Crown King doors 7 pm. CWRONGBAR Austra, Metz, Little Girls, Ell V Gore, Valleys doors 8:30 pm. CXS NIGHTCLUB Peter Jackson, Henri & Blues Underdog, Patrick Christopher, Mayhem Morearty, So Sick Social Club, Winnipegs Most Wanted, Gee Wunder, Riley, Boombox Saints doors 9 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic Night doors 7 pm. C’EST WHAT Running Red Lights (rock) 9 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Jon Travis (folk/pop) 10 pm. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/country) 8:30 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Zaac Pick (singer/songwriter) 9 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

Melodies Of Armenia Levon Ichkhanian Quartet, Mark Korven noon. GATE 403 Emily: The Blue Caller 5 to 8 pm. THE LOCAL Tiffany Hanus. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 10 pm. TEN FEET TALL Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 8 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots) 9 pm. THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (alt country) 9:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CHINA HOUSE Chase Sanborn Quartet. DOMINION ON QUEEN In Remembrance: A

Musical Tribute To Mean Steve Piano 8 pm. EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING Music In The Afternoon Aviv String Quartet 1:30 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THE-

ATRE Mozart’s Don Giovanni Opera Division of the U of T Faculty of Music 7:30 pm. GATE 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Aaron James (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). RESERVOIR LOUNGE Melissa Lauren, Nathan Hiltz, Ross MacIntyre, Ernesto Cervini 7 pm. REX CD release Barry Elmes. REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL R Murray Schafer World Premiere Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Eighth Blackbird (chamber ensemble) 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Justin Gray (solo Indian classical/Indo jazz) 8:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALTO LOUNGE Thurst DJ Rhubix. CENTURY ROOM Fam Glam Thursday DJ

Crunch (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

CCHEVAL Fashion Meets Music Bobby K

doors 10 pm.

CCOBRA LOUNGE John Acquaviva, DJs

Manzone & Strong, Joee Cons doors 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL Brandt Brauer Frick. FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY Remix Dance Party DJ Noble (electro) 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 MAISON MERCER The Immaculate Jed Dadson. MOD CLUB Popstars & Icons: Video Dance Party.

THE OSSINGTON More Times (hip-hop/soul/R&B). RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE deejayscoots (roots/

rock/reggae/hip-hop/soul/R&B/disco/electro/funk) 9 pm. WATUSI DJ Fathom, DJ Serious (hip-hop) 4 am.

Friday, March 11 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park. CANNEX WRECKROOM DJ Ruffstuff, MC Ski-

badee, Marcus Visionary, Everfresh & Lush, XI doors 9 pm. CTHE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO Justin Nozuka, San Sebastian doors 8 pm. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk). CBOVINE SEX CLUB Voodoo Bunny, Black Mastiff, Monster Truck, the Pack AD, Molten Lava doors 8 pm. CBREAD & CIRCUS Makeshift Innocence, Krystle Dos Santos, Amy Heffernan, Seventh Rain, Alanna Clarke doors 8 pm. CCADILLAC LOUNGE Jo Hikk, Chad Brownlee, Hayley McLean, Bryce Pallister, Jerry Sereda, Andrea Ramolo, Jason Kirkness, Ryan Laird doors 8 pm. CTHE CENTRAL Jon Bryant, Erik Jorgensen, Eli Wolfe, Kim Churchill, After Runnymede doors 8 pm. C’EST WHAT CD release Mae Moore, Chris MacLean, Katey Morley (roots pop) doors 9 pm. CCHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA Courage My Love, Your Favorite Enemies, Gord Prior, Dean Lickyer, Dane Hartsell, Krissi Moses doors 9:30 pm. CCOMFORT ZONE Powers, Foxfire, the Wilderness, HotKid, Tennis System, Halves doors 7 pm. CCOURTHOUSE Genitorturers, Hanzel und Gretyl, Tiger Star (metal) doors 8 pm. CROWN & TIGER Mardi Gras Mix-Up For New Orleans Fundraiser The Deficits, My Friends & I, Maccie Paquette 9 pm. CCZEHOSKI Eva Aine, Mz. Chawls & the Wonderfuls, Kaya, Ashleigh Eymann, Patrick Lehman doors 8 pm. CDAKOTA TAVERN Seth Anderson, Racoon Bandit, Alcoholic Faith Mission, Grey Kingdom, Dave Hause, Rob Moir 9 pm. CDRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Holger, Pat Jordache, Technical Kidman, Olenka & the Autumn Lovers, Adam & the Amethysts doors 7 pm. CEL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS Les Breastfeeders, Random Recipe, Monogrenade, Amanita Bloom, Buddy McNeil & the Magic Mirrors doors 8 pm. CEL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS LT Shame & the Shamis Family, Rich London, Nukky Grissom, Pocket City, Skyler Danes doors 8 pm.

Danny Fernandes doors 9 pm. CHARD LUCK BAR Young Doctors in Love, Little Foot Long Foot, Bella Clava, Black Phoenix Orchestra, Trap Tiger doors 8 pm. CHARD ROCK CAFE What She Said, Calvin James, the Brilliance, Colorsound, Everlea, the Maddigans, Message Through Motion, Adelaie, Brendan DiStefano doors 7 pm. HARLEM Unbuttoned (pop/soul) 7:30 pm. CTHE HIDEOUT Static in the Stars, the Lines, the Damn Truth, the Sttandstills, Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, the On Fires doors 8 pm. HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm. CHORSESHOE Attack Showcase Gloryhound, Gentlemen Husbands, Cuff the Duke, Winter Gloves, Hooded Fang, the Sheep Dogs, Christina Martin doors 8 pm. CLEE’S PALACE Monster Truck, Parlovr, Bombay Bicycle Club, Dinosaur Bones, the Jezabels, the Coppertone doors 8:30 pm. CMASSEY HALL Melissa Etheridge, Serena Ryder doors 7 pm.

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CMITZI’S SISTER A Friend in London, Noel

Johnson, Katie Goes to Tokyo, Daniel Moir doors 9 pm. CMOD CLUB SENNHEISER LOUNGE The Sadies doors 7 pm. CNEU+RAL Carey Ott, Darrelle London, From Great Heights, Jenikz doors 6 pm. COPERA HOUSE Deer Tick, Middle Brother, Dawes doors 9 pm. CTHE PAINTED LADY Yunioshi, Berlin Brides, cultfever, Holger, Rocket Surgery doors 8:30 pm. CPARTS & LABOUR March Forth, Listener, Orphan Choir, Lost Chord doors 11 pm. CPHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Good Charlotte, Forever the Sickest Kids doors 6:30 pm, all ages. CRADIOLARIA Canadian Music Week: Class War Party! Benefit for St Christopher House Shing Shing Regime, Class War, Unknown Mizery, KDB, Hobo Banditos, Magnum KI, Fuckin’ Retards, RahZemos, Dynamic, Kue Rock, Black, School of Though, Home Grown,

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CRANCHO RELAXO The Motherlode, Adverteyes, Elephant Stone, Dora Alexander, Hot Panda, Pick A Piper, raised by swans doors 8 pm. See preview, page 40. CREVIVAL Maylee Todd & Pegwee Power, Gabby Young, GIRL, Chasing Eve, Roguesix doors 5 pm. CRIVOLI Sun Wizard, Humans, Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party, Treelines, Aidan Knight, Zaac Pick doors 8 pm. ROC N DOC’S Ozone Baby (rock) 10 pm. ROSE THEATRE Gino Vannelli 8 pm. CSILVER DOLLAR The BB Guns, Dirty Mags, Give Us the Daggers, Invasions, Catl, the Pining, the Strumbellas, Katie Moore doors 7:30 pm. CSNEAKY DEE’S DVAS, Make Your Exit, the Meligrove Band, Paper Lions, Allie Hughes, Bravestation, Christien Sumers, Nash doors 7:30 pm. SONIC BOOM In-store performance J Mascis, Pkew Pkew Pkew (Gunshots),

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CFAIRMONT ROYAL YORK HOTEL LIBRARY BAR Raghu Dixit, Dawson Reigns, Hey Romeo, Tenille, Chris Assaad, Marta, Jack Carty doors 7 pm.

CFAIRMONT ROYAL YORK HOTEL CANADIAN ROOM Canadian Radio Music Awards Stef

Lang, High Valley, JRDN, Down with Webster, Ash Koley. FOGARTY’S Brian Tyrell (rootsy pop rock) 8 pm. CFREE TIMES CAFÉ Ariane Mahryke Lemire, Layah Jane, Alanna Cherote, Zachary Lucky, JD Clarke doors 8 pm. CTHE GARRISON Take Me to the Pilot, Hope Atlantic, Imaginary Cities, the Liptonians, Del Barber, Les Jupes doors 8 pm. CGLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Neverending White Lights, Bobby Bazini, Andrew Cole, Stef Lang, Current Swell, Hello Beautiful, Kim Churchill, Sierra Noble, Justin Hines doors 8 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR The Gypsy Rebels 7 pm. CGLOBAL VILLAGE BACKPACKERS Anonymous Culture, Dalivaa, the Lytics, Cityreal, Philly Moves (hip-hop) doors 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For The Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. CTHE GREAT HALL J Mascis, Kurt Vile & the Violators, James Vincent McMorrow doors 9 pm, all ages. See preview, page 39. CGUVERNMENT Sean Kingston, U.G.O. Crew,

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Bombay Bicycle Club 3 pm. cSound AcAdemy Big Sugar, Wide Mouth Mason, the Stanfields, Desperate Union doors 8 pm. SouthSide Johnny’S Bare Rump (AC/DC tribute) 10 pm. cSupermArket Maylee Todd & Pegwee Power, Mookie & the Loyalists, the Treasures, Lindi Ortega, Rebekah Higgs, Chris Velan doors 7:30 pm. ctAttoo rock pArlour Jonas & the Massive Attraction, Live How You Live doors 6:30 pm.

ctoronto inStitute for the enJoyment of muSic Live Near Bellwoods Rich

Aucoin, Pick a Piper, Olenka & the Autumn Lovers, the Wilderness, Nash doors 1:30 pm, all ages. See preview, page 38. cunderground gArAge This Drama, These Electric Lives, Nightbox, windings, Kill Krinkle Club doors 9 pm. cVelVet underground Pkew Pkew Pkew (Gunshots), the Hippy Mafia, 85 East, Age of the Enemy doors 7 pm. cWrongbAr Kingdom, Esben & the Witch, Karkwa, Bok Bok doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 39.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

ASpettA cAffe PMS, Horses Won, Colin Brady

visors’ Orchestra 8 pm. boiler houSe Kush (feel-good instrumental/ electronic nu-jazz) 9:30 pm.

dAVe’S... on St clAir Sean Conway (country/

edWArd JohnSon building mAcmillAn theAtre Mozart’s Don Giovanni Opera Division

Band, Sour Diesel (rock) 8 pm.

blues/western swing) 9:30 pm. groSSmAn’S Ernest Lee’s Birthday Bash Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic (blues/rock). hugh’S room Paul Simon And Simon & Garfunkel Tribute Eliana Cuevas & Jeremy Ledbetter, Terry Gillespie, LAL, Michael Occhipinti, Lester McLean, Brian Kobayakawa Trio, Blair Packham, Ben Sures and others 8:30 pm. JAmeS Joyce Open Mic Jam 4 to 7 pm. lou dAWg’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm. lulA lounge Salsa Friday Cache, DJ Gio 10 pm. p.k. creek Back Alley Ringers (blues) 9:30 pm. preSS club Lucas Stagg (country).

richmond hill centre for the performing ArtS Crossing Cultures In Asia Without Bor-

ders: Benefit Concert for MS Patients of Kahrizak Charity Foundation Reza Manbachi, Amir Manbachi, Naghmeh Farahmand, Ed Hanley, Xiao Dong Wei, Ariel Balevi 8 pm. Sony centre for the performing ArtS Kodo Dummers of Japan 8 pm. underdoWn pub JP (folk) 10 pm. VillAge VApor lounge Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

ArrAymuSic Studio rm 218 Toronto Impro-

of the U of T Faculty of Music 7:30 pm. gAte 403 Bobby Hsu Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm 9 pm. glenn gould Studio Fantasies Sinfonia Toronto, Sara Buechner (piano). muSic gAllery Emergents III The Earwax Ensemble, VOWLS, Gates doors 7 pm. old mill inn home Smith bAr Fridays To Sing About Hazel Walker Trio 7:30 pm. QuoteS Fridays At Five Mike Malone 5 to 8 pm. repoSAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex CD release Barry Elmes. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

royAl conSerVAtory of muSic koerner hAll Scharoun Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic 8 pm.

trAne Studio Brownman Electryc Trio 8 pm. WAterfAllS The Jim Heineman Trio (jazz)

6:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge cbrAnt houSe Dave Campbell, Jon B doors 10 pm.

bundA lounge Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace

(Caribbean music/hip-hop/top 40). c’eSt WhAt DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 10:30 pm.

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ccheVAl Smash Tribute To Residents Under-

cover, M Kutz, Eric Enriquez doors 10 pm. clinton’S Disco Sucks Dance Party Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). ccobrA lounge Team Canada DJs, Henney V, the Fix doors 10 pm. comfort inn mermAid lounge Latin Fridays DJ Gene (merengue/salsa/bachata/rumba/ cumbia/cha cha) 9 pm. creWS/tAngo Zone Club Lite DJ Relentless.5 creWS/tAngo tAngoS DJ Roxanne Hector.5 dimitrA’S biStro DJ Viviana (salsa) 9 pm. double deuce SAloon Double Funk Friday DJs Public Relations & M-Chan (funk/breaks/ disco/jazz-funk) 10 pm. cdrAke hotel underground Edumacation Cosmo Baker, Rob Swift. drAke hotel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. duffy’S tAVern Positronics Jackrabitt, Azakite (electronic-based music made from lightening) 10 pm. emmet rAy bAr DJ Dazz (funk/soul) 10 pm. fly Grapefruit-20 DJ Shane Percy, DJ Aural, Mahogany Browne 10 pm.5 footWork LUV THIS CITY The Junkies, Nathan Barato, Jonathan Anrosa, Ricky Syfer, Baby Joel doors 10 pm. fox & fiddle WelleSley Fiesta Friday DJ ShaqT (top 40/house/salsa). george’S plAy DJ Oscar (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 goodhAndy’S Queer Idol DJ Todd Klinck doors 9 pm.5 inSomniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Skank Honto. leVAck block bAck room DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm. leVAck block front room DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop) 10 pm. luxy nightclub Diva Fridays DJ Jedi, DJ 4Korners. mArgret (alt) NIGHT DJ Dislexia.5

mod club LA Riots 10 pm. ñ nAco gAllery cAfe Criminals Of America DJ Senhor Frey.

the oSSington Dirty Talk (dance party). lA perlA HER DJs Kris Steeves, Mikey Apples,

OMGBLOG.COM doors 10 pm. riVoli pool lounge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro) 10 pm. tAttoo rock pArlour Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alternative/indie rock) doors 10:30 pm. tAttoo rock pArlour Good Charlotte AfterParty Benji Madden. thiS iS london David Penn & Abel Ramos. time nightclub Blend Harmonik Rage, Jeff Breen Vs Alex Freeplay, Chris Bosno Vs Ruby Jay. Woo’S lounge Heart.Of.The.City DJ J-Class, Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old-school) doors 10:30 pm.

Saturday, March 12 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

AlleycAtZ Graffitti Park. cAnnex Wreckroom Black Lungs,

ñcbAitShop gAllery ñ Citizens Arrest 8 pm.

The Russian Futurists, Dinosaur Bones, the Zoobombs, Diemonds doors 1:30 pm, all ages. cthe bAllroom boWl bAr biStro The Lines, Allie Hughes doors 1 pm. bAr itAliA Al Webster 10 pm. beit ZAtoun No Apathy! Mistake Makers, Young Feathers, the Holy Gasp (all-ages DIY punk matinee) 6 pm. cboVine Sex club Tupper Ware Remix Party, Diemonds, Dance Laury Dance, A Primitive Evolution, Teenage X, Mary Rose Obsession, LastDayHere doors 8 pm. cbreAd & circuS Maya Solovéy, Monika May, the Second Grace, Jasper Sloan Yip, Rehan Dalal doors 8 pm. ccAdillAc lounge Marshall Dane, Jo Hikk, High Valley, the Stellas, Tommy Gilham, Heather Longstaffe doors 7:30 pm. cthe centrAl Herc Magnus (Hollywood Assassyn), Steph Macpherson, Matt Stern, Maddy Rodriguez, Long Story Short doors pm. c’eSt WhAt CD release Aphrodite’s Bodice 9:30 pm. ccherry colA’S rock n’ rollA Crystal Kid, 40 Gun Flagship, McAlister Drive, the Lost Souls Club, Fairchild doors 9:30 pm. continued on page 48 œ

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saturday march 26

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the phoenix

17.50 advance • all-ages / 19+

die mannequin birthday massacre the mod club

$17.50

advance • 6pm • all-ages

horseshoe tavern $13.50

advance • 9:00pm

wed march 23

jeff martin Mod Club - $25.00 advance

( the

tea party )

wiTh jukebox the ghost

lee’s palace

ThuRSday march 31

the beauties

Tickets @ Ticketmaster.ca Rotate This. Soundscapes • 19+

$13.50

adv • dustin bentall

The phoenix

and friends

w/ with

grand analog & rault

the mod club

$13.50

advance • all-aGeS • 6pm

the great hall $17.50

advance

luke doucet

nq arbuckle

horseshoe tavern $ 17.50 advance

sweet justin rutledge these kids basia elliott brood thing said the whale bulat wear crowns the balconies & new country rehab michael bernard d-sisive hannah raghav royal greg sczebel eternia julie georgas SiRiuS-CbC Radio 3 live-To-aiR

gentleman husbands

jesse labelle • alyssa reid

the great hall $17.50

the rivoli $17.50 adv • 9:00pm

advance • 8:30pm

misteur valaire wood blues in d • gloryhound el mocambo

17.50 advance

uMaC & The hRC present

friday MaRCh 25

lee’s palace $12.00 • 9:00pm

dala • emm gryner

hard rock café $15.00 dooR

amos the transparent lula lounge

17.50 • 7:00pm

& moss

tonya p • silver • quanteisha benjamin • tony anthony

saturday MaRCh 26

karl wolf d-sisive

the garrison $13.50 adv • 9pm drake hotel

12.00 dooR

pop MonTReal presents

one hundred doiron fond of tigers dollars the dakota $12.00 dooR

el mocambo

17.50 advance

sneaky dee’s $12.00 dooR

radio radio san sebastian grapes of wrath pacifika the coppertone dean red mass horsey craze brody teenanger meligrove band laila biala classified ladies of the canyon bradley boy germans chik gamine

roberto lopez • jayme stone • mighty popo

silver dollar $12.00 @ dooR hugh’s room $17.50 adv • 6pm

the soujourners

/ delta chelsea hotel dakota tavern $12.00 @ dooR monarch $

CounTRy RooTS ShowCaSe

elaine lil’ bit shepherd ghettosocks • lyndon john x

silver dollar $12.00 dooR

sound academy $25.00 advance oR

fiRST 150 wRiSTbandS

wrongbar $12.00 @ dooR • 10:30pm

monarch / delta chelsea hotel

silver dollar $12.00 dooR

dj poirier fathead dearly beloved sheep dogs johnny max band bonjay • djs holy fuck jim byrnes manifest little hawk del barber 24th street wailers • suzie vinnick dj egyptrixx gladstone the bovine drake hotel bovine ferrugia dead & young empires flash adrian chet doxas elage diouf 17.50 advance • 9:30pm

17.50 advance • 9:30pm

urban preacher

12.00 @ dooR

bravestation

12.00 @ dooR • 9:00pm

lightnin’

scan it and get the official juno awards iphone app

17.50 adv • 9:00pm

hugh’s room

17.50 adv • 6:00pm

felix strussi sultans of string

$30

12.00 dooR

divine

wristband gets you access to all venues over 2 nights • ie - even sold-out shows will have space left aside for wristband entry

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$ 18.50 advance all-ages • 8pm doors

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17.50 adv • all-ages & 19+ • 30 JF Wristband $

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kid

With the BraiNs

wiTh

Thursday marCh 17 The mod club

the mod club

The johnsTones sainT alvia

ska

monday april 4 @ lee’s palace • $20.00 advance

friday april 15 @ Lee’s Palace | $13.50 advance - hopeless records

musTard plug

ska

$15.00

advance - all aGes / 19+

advance - all aGes

Thursday march 31

wednesday april 6

horseshoe | $17.50 advance ausTin Tx • alT blues soul

horseshoe | $23.50 adv

t he

old blaCk

Venue Change! all lee’s PalaCe TiCkeTs honoured

thursday march 24

sound academy - $17.50 advance +FF

boyce

97’s joe lewis avenue

teddy dodger thompson & The honeybears tuesday april 19 sat april 16 annex wreckroom w/

fri march 18 @ The Phoenix | $20.00 adv

TiTle fighT

Thursday marCh 31 $17.50

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with

The phoenix - $18.50 advance

terror $18.50

adv - metal double header

all-ages / 19+

t h e

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with

Tamaryn

raveonettes saturday april 2 @ the phoenix

sTiCk To your guns

$ 20.00 advance • Buddy holly meets Jesus & mary chain surfgothrock

tuesday april 26

el mocamBo - $15.50 adv • 8:00pm

mon april 18 • sound academy

8:00pm doors • all ages • $26.50 advance ga • $35 advance vip

wednesday april 20 @ Lee’s Palace | $15.00 adv

juniP

sweden / jose gonzalez

wiTh The aCryliCs

Cold Cave & The enTranCe Band wiTh

frank Turner

& whiTe wires

thurs may 26 lee’s palace - $17.50 adv

man wolf man tuesday may 17

lee’s palace - $18.50 advance

guiTar W/ cheaptime

Tuesday june 7 @ Phoenix | $20.00 adv - doors 8pm - 19+

yeasayer With smith

Westerns

sunday may 1 • sound academy $ 22.50 advance ga

Friday judleym8y

• $ 33.50 vip • all-ages

Friday april 29 @ mod cluB | $15.00 adv - 7pm

battles

march 10-16 2011 NOW

w/ TiTus Andronicus & FuTure islAnds

FridAy June 10 the Phoenix

8:00pm ~ $18.50 advance ~ 19+

sound a•cdoaors 8:00pm

all ages advance $ 30.00 ga & $ 40.00 vip

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • horSeShoe Front bar • SoundScapeS • rotate thiS saturday april 2 @ horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance

the jOy fOrmIDaBle

monday april 4

horseshoe tavern | $10.00 advance

cults zeus cuff the greenhornes lIam hayes the BOxer carll Rebellion fInn thurs march 10 | $17.50 adv

friday march 11 | $17.50 adv

AnnuAl ChArtAttACk.Com CmF-Shoe ShowCASe

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

the real mckenzies VancouVer, bc - scottish celtic punk

the DuKe still life still winter rich aUcoin gloves -------- @ 1:30am --------

memphis

hooded fang gentlemen husbAnds

horseshoe tavern

$14.50

AnnuAl ChArtAttACk.Com CmF-Shoe ShowCASe

die mannequIn

jakalope parlovr inward eye

canadian music fest

australian

bbq

12:00pm to 5:00pm

sunday march 13 | $5.00 door

rAt tAil schomberg fair the pAck Ad rivAl boys the dirty 9s monday march 14 | no Cover shoeless mondays

ko • rah rah Ask @ 11:15 pm @ 8:30pm-------@ 1:30am wildlife Jamie Robinson band -------- @ 2:30am -------- The auTumn PoRTRaiT wed march 16 | $13.50 adv PrinCeton nJ • Alt Comedy

Hosted by BOOKIe (17th Year) tuesday march 15

michael

the sweet mac aleRT The medic The maRk inside The John henRys Del BarBer

W/ nick flannagan

thursday march 17 | $10.00

wed march 23 | $13.50 adv

mArtiAn awareness FeAturing maRy maRgaReT o’haRa

showalter

wIllIam fItzsImmOns

friday march 18 | $ 6.00 saturday march | $ 7.00 no19 cover!

DecaDe juice Of capital salTysleep Radio stacks young runner claPTRaP liFe blown oPen artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720

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with

magic kids

thursday april 7

sunday april 3

Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance

advance - 19+

feat. members of racOnteurs & DeaD weather

monday april 18

sunday april 10 @ horseshoe $13.00

modeRn suPeRsTiTions -------- @ 8:30pm -------the sheep DOgs molly rankin chRisTina maRTin -------- @ 9:20pm --------------- @ 8:30pm -------the wilDerness -------gloryhound -------- @ 2:30am -------@ 2:30am --------

saturday march 12 | $17.50 adv saturday march 12 | $5.00 door

with

advance - austin tX - Lost highway

horseshoe | $13.50 advance

friday april 15 @ horseshoe tavern | $15.00 advance

thurSday april 28

jonboy langford & his sadies the acOrn The waco bRoTheRs horSeShoe tavern | $10.00 advance

DeanO wacO • sKull OrcharD • the gOOD famIly saturday april 16 @ horseshoe tavern | $15.00 advance burlington male welsh choir

april 30

horseshoe tavern $15.00

advance

sunday

may 29 Lee’s Palace |

lee’S palace | $17.50 advance

saturday

june 11

horseshoe tavern 13.50 advance - 9:00pm

friday

may 27

Lee’s Palace 15.00 advance

parlovr these electric lives the jezeBels miRacle FoRTRess mOnster trucK wilderness of manitoba cOppertOnes @ 9pm

the

gruff rhys firkin sound one thursday march 17 | $ 20.00

super furry animals • full band • hotel shampoo tour

portUgal the man

sneaky dee’s | $10.50 adv montreal ska Punks

hungarian celtic Punk

wed march 16 | $24.50 advance

with

advance - doors 8:00pm

cAve

singers liA ices

wed april 20 @ the Garrison | $14.00 adv

with

mAtt pond

monday april 4 @ the drake | $15.50 adv

tuesday april 12 @ the drake | $12.50 adv

friday april 8 @ el mocambo | $15.00 adv

thursday april 14 @ dakota | $11.50 adv

sharon van etten acid mother’s temple sean Rowe jessica lea mayfield

shIlpa ray & her happy hOOKers

thursday april 21 @ drake underground | $12.00 advance - 8pm doors

zola Jesus joan as policewoman

friday march 18 | $ 13.50 adv

holiday surprise tour

elephant

white six

saturday march 19 | $ 15.00 adv

SoutHern WHite traSH rock

the BeatDOwn Rocky voTolaTo cowbell flAtfoot 56 wed march 23 @ the drake | $16.50 adv - 8:30 doors

tuesday april 5 @ the drake

with

motorcyle clUB galaxy ImagInary cItIes DinosaUr Bones

the Balconies paper lIOns Johnny headband Bella clava mookie & the loyalists

sun march 20

$13.50

young bombAy

sat march 12 | $20.00 advance

15.00 adv

friday march 11 | $15.50 advance

malajUBe felice electric six sum the radio dept. brothers 41

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

saturday

thurSday may 12

thurs march 10 | $16.50 advance

one long show @ 10pm friday march 25 | Junofest $12.00 or $30 wristband

blues in d gloryhound misteur valaire with spitfist amos the transparent

oklahoma

tuesday march 22 |

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

maRk kozelek

thurs march 24 | $ 18.50 adv

saturday march 26 | Junofest $12.00 or $30 wristband

British april 22 the submarines john vanderslice seA james blake pOwer wire BaD astronaUt tuesday may 10 @ the drake | $13.50 adv

friday

beauties & friends luke doucet

friday april 1 | $ 22.50 advance

horseshoe | $12.50 adv

wednesday may 18 @ horseshoe tavern | $17.50 advance

saturday may 14 @ the rivoli | $20.00 adv

featuring

jOey cape

of lagwagOn

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

acTive child allo daRlin’ keren ann leespalace.com tues june 7 @ el mocambo | $10.00 advance

sat june 11 @ el mocambo | $10.00 advance

tues june 28 @ the drake | $16.50 advance

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alternative blues pop acid jazz rock hip hop urban neo soul usic indigenous m

Voices

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TXT CARBON PRESENTS

JUNO-NOMINATED ROCK ARTISTS

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cComfort Zone The Zoobombs, the

Mercy Now, Hands & Teeth, Mad Ones, Union City, ROADS, Catl doors 7:30 pm. cCZehoski PUSTKI, Domestic Crisis Group, Terra Lightfoot, MotherMoon, the Barr Brothers, Paisley Jura 9 pm. cDakota tavern The Schomberg Fair, Northcote, the Treasures, Cavaliers!, Dinner Belles, the Belle Game, Ariana Gillis doors 7:30 pm. cDrake hotel UnDergroUnD The Heartbroken, Carmen Townsend, Wool on Wolves, Fred Penner, Del arber doors 8 pm. cel moCambo Downstairs Humans, Kidstreet, MADRID, Piper Davis, Alcoholic Faith Mission doors 8:30 pm.

ñ cfairmont royal york hotel CanñaDian room

The Indies Janelle Monáe, Shad, Hollerado, Bombay Bicycle Club, Hannah Georgas, Desperate Union doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 38.

cfairmont royal york hotel library bar

Ingrid Gatin, Nadia von Hahn, Pedro Menendez Fusion Ensemble, Chantel Upshaw, Carey Ott, Paul Davidson doors 6:30 pm. cfree times Café Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose, Mackenzie First, Lindsay Eli, the Dirty 9s doors 8 pm. cthe garrison OPOPO, Mean Tangerine, M.T.L., Hungary Kids of Hungary, We Are the City, Shortwave doors 8 pm. cglobal village baCkpaCkers Charlotte Cornfield, the Einar Flaa Academy, After Runnymede doors 8:30 pm. graffiti’s The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm. graffiti’s Ian Philp, Steve Stanley, Bobby Sanderson. charD lUCk bar Nature Move Faster, the Ascot Royals, Lunic, L.Stadt, A Fish Called Piranha doors 8 pm. charD roCk Cafe DesiFEST Raghu Dixit, Jordan John doors 10 pm. harlem Treson (reggae/soul) 7:30 pm. cthe hiDeoUt Will Conquer, the Resignators, Go Back to the Zoo, Caracal, Brighter Brightest, Tonight Tonight, the Aesthetics doors 8 pm. chorseshoe Chart Attack Showcase Wildlife, Rah Rah, Die Mannequin, Jackalope, Parlovr, Inward Eye, KO doors 8 pm. chorseshoe The Aussie BBQ The On Fires, Stone Parade, Blue King Brown, Hungry Kids of Hungary, WAGONS, Drawn From Bees, Mayfield, Rocket Surgery, the Resignators doors midnight. Japanese CanaDian CUltUral Centre Akiko Yano, Skoop On Somebody 7 pm. clee’s palaCe Bella Clava, Johnny Headband, Electric Six, Paper Lions, the Balconies, Mookie & the Loyalists doors 8:30 pm. cmassey hall Down With Webster, Sweet

ONLY $14.99

Thing, the Envy doors 7 pm, all ages. cmitZi’s sister Line Spectra, Hey Brother, 1951, the North Lakes doors 8 pm. cmoD ClUb sennheiser loUnge Indies Afterparty DVAS, Bonjay, Candy Coated Killahz, DJ MRK doors 11 pm. cneU+ral Fast Romantics, Belgrave, Broken Ride, Cody doors 6 pm. copera hoUse Steve Ignorant’s Crass (Cancelled), Goldblade, Class Assassins, Terminals doors 8 pm. cthe painteD laDy White White Sisters, Les Handclaps, Kill Krinkle Club doors 8:30 pm. cphoenix ConCert theatre Jay Electronica doors 8 pm. cthe piston Spaceships Are Cool, the TANUKI Project, Violent Kin, Zea Mays, the MacHams doors 8:30 pm. press ClUb SHBTI (rock). cranCho relaxo The Skirt Chasers, Elizabeth, Parks & Rec, Writers Strike, the Shakey Aches, Trevor James & the Perfect Gentlemen, Urban Preacher doors 8 pm. crevival Art of Fresh, the Lytics doors 7 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rex Justin Bacchus 7 pm. crivoli The Golden Dogs, Three Sheet, Fever Fever doors 9 pm. crivoli The Town Heroes, Gloryhound, Jay Smith, Kim Wempe, Adam Baldwin, Jon Bryant, Ruth Minnikin doors 5 pm. roC n DoC’s Jessica Mondello (R&B) 5 pm. roCkpile The Agonist (metal). csilver Dollar Pop Montreal Showcase USA Out of Vietnam, the Peelies, Uncle Bad Touch, Shortpants Romance, Neon Windbreaker doors 10:30 pm. csneaky Dee’s MEN, Cherie Lily, Tayisha Busay doors 8 pm. csneaky Dee’s The Perfects, The Love Machine, the Junction, Lifestory: Monologue doors midnight.

ñ ñ

csony Centre for the performing

arts Janet Jackson, Mindless Behavior doors 7 pm, all ages. csoUnD aCaDemy Papa Roach, Buckcherry, My Darkest Days, Bleeker Ridge 7 pm, all ages. soUthsiDe Johnny’s The Remnants (rock/ top 40) 10 pm. csUpermarket Emmanual Jal, Patrick Christopher, Morgan Cameron Ross, Nikki Lang doors 7:30 pm. ctattoo roCk parloUr Jesse Labelle, Alyssa Reid doors 6:30 pm. ctoronto institUte for the enJoy-

ñment of mUsiC

Live Near Bellwoods Wilderness of Manitoba, Aidan Knight, Loom, the RG Morrison, Ingrid Gatin, Nadia von Hahn doors 1:30 pm, all ages. See preview, page 38. toronto UnDergroUnD Cinema Wake For The White Stripes doors 9 pm. t.s.t’s laUnCh paD Must Stash Hat (rock/ jazzy blues) 10 pm, all ages. cvelvet UnDergroUnD The North, Tiny Danza, Little City, Paint doors 7 pm. cwrongbar Teenanger, Ty Segall, Heavy Cream, The Pack AD, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (rock) doors 8:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

aspetta Caffe Keep You Honest, Montague Street (rock) 8 pm.

CMW SHOWCASE

FRIDAY, MARCH 11TH SHOWTIME 8:00 PM

TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR (567 QUEEN ST. W.) TEL: 416-703-5488

CaDillaC loUnge Mary & Micky (country)

CMW MARCH 9-13 OPEN til 4AM for CMW

Wed Mar 9

w/ Jokers of the Scene

Thurs Mar 10

w/ DJ Fathom, DJ Serious + DJ Kae Wonder

Fri Mar 11

w/ DJ MRK + DJ Mark Forman

Sat Mar 12

w/ DJ Barbie + DJ Vania

ALL EVENTS Doors: 11:00PM 19+ All wristbands accepted

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march 10-16 2011 NOW

110 Ossington Ave. 416-533-1800 www.watusi.biz

3:30 pm.

Cameron hoUse Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 6 to 8 pm.

Cameron hoUse front room Sue & Dwight

3:30 to 5:30 pm.

Dakota tavern The Foggy Hogtown Boys (bluegrass) 4 to 7:30 pm.

Dominion on QUeen Cross Eyed Cat (Chicago blues).

fogarty’s JP Zydeco Band 8 pm. glaDstone hotel meloDy bar Swamperella

(cajun/zydeco) 7 pm.

glaDstone hotel ballroom Toronto’s Big-

gest Purim Party Asaf Avidan & the Mojos (folk/rock/blues) 9 pm. highway 61 soUthern barbeQUe Mark ‘Bird’ Stafford 8 pm. the loCal Makita Hack & the Log Rollers (stringband). loU Dawg’s Eric Mattei (acoustic) 10 pm. lUla loUnge Salsa Dance Party Cafe Cubano, DJ Jimmy Suave 10 pm. mUsiC gallery Clara Venice (singer/songwriter/thereminist) 8 pm. continued on page 50 œ

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ROBERT

clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 48

GLASPER

Rex Layla Zoe 3:30 pm. Roc n Doc’s Fathead (blues) 10 pm. csilveR DollaR Blues At Its Best The Johnny

EXPERIMENT FRI. MAR. 18 • 8PM

Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front St. W. $30/$20 For Tickets Call 416.872.4255 or visit www.jazzcentre.ca thu mar 10 † 8pm † cmw presents

Max Band, the 24th Street Wailers, Bill Durst doors 5 pm. The sixTh Kristine Schmitt & Her Special Powers, Luther Wright & the Wrongs, the Good Right Arm Stringband 9 pm. Ten FeeT Tall Clela Errington Trio 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

the agency group showcase

Ill Scarlett

BeeRBisTRo The Gene Pool Boys (soulful swinging jazz) 8:15 pm. chalkeRs PuB Saturday Night Jaz Shannon Gunn Quartet 6 to 9 pm.

texaS Blood Money Gloryhound StereokId

eDwaRD Johnson BuilDing MacMillan TheaTRe Mozart’s Don Giovanni Opera Division

of the U of T Faculty of Music 7:30 pm.

fri mar 11 † 6:30pm † cmw presents

10pm † tattoo presents

In the lounge

sat mar 12 † 6:30pm † cmw presents

wax records presents

JeSSe laBelle & alySSa reId 10pm † tattoo presents

Toronto’s home of Roots, Country and Rockabilly

-1296 Queen STReeT WeST Thu Mar

10 9pm Canadian MusiC Week HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fri Mar Canadian MusiC Week

11 9pm

dJ Stu

RetRo 80’s & 90’s in the lounge sun mar 13 † 10pm

trash palace industry night

dJ 4 kornerS

10:30 doors Playing Hip Hop & Mash up Rock thu mar 17 † 6pm

st. patricks day

the MahoneS Live

get your Irish on! fri mar 25 † 10pm

Stars of

rock of aGeS & We WIll rock you Live fri mar 25 † 8pm † hyacinth presents

holloWIck

W/ frankIe Whyte & the dead IdolS

tattoo rock parlour 567 Queen Street West info@tattoorockparlour.com (416) 703-5488

march 10-16 2011 NOW

Serving until 4 am

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

12 3:30pm Mary & MiCkey sat Mar

MusiC Week 9pm Canadian Serving until 4 am

dJ trevor

Dance rock in the main room 10:30pm † tattoo presents

gaTe 403 Sabor Latin Jazz Band 9 pm. glenn goulD sTuDio Night Ride Nexus,

David Kent 7:30 pm. heliconian hall Rococo! The Musicians in Ordinary, Hallie Fishel, John Edwards (soprano, lute) 8 pm. olD Mill inn Fridays To Sing About Brenda Earle, Mike Downes, Anthony Michelli 7:30 pm. olD Mill inn hoMe sMiTh BaR Piano Masters Pat Collins & Mike Downes Trio 7:30 pm. olD nick Doctor Benton Jazz Trio, Jennifer Brewer 10 pm. Rex Raoul & the Bigger Time 9:45 pm.

Royal conseRvaToRy oF Music koeRneR hall The King’s Singers 8 pm. soMewheRe TheRe sTuDio Play For A Long

Time Holger Schoorl, Germaine Liu (guitar, percussion) 8 pm. TRane sTuDio Brownman Electryc Trio 8 pm. vicToRia college chaPel Fiddle Me This Scaramella (nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy, viola da gamba) 8 pm.

annex wReckRooM Remixed Saturdays 10 pm. ccheval Down With Webster Official Con-

BenJI Madden

lIverpool rMxd

to 3 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

JonaS & the MaSSIve attractIon rIval SonS (Good Charlotte) Dj Set w/ dj dwight 10:30pm † rock-a-teria presents

gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Noah Leilel ‘NLQ’ Jazz Quartet noon

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Whiskey JaCk TBa

CMW MarCh 9-13

CMW open 'til 4aM

Thu mar 10 Canadian Music Week & Jager Present:

Endast, FaME, thE IsoscElEs ProjEct, dagoba, assassInatE thE FollowIng, as You lIkE ME fri mar 11

Canadian Music Week & Jager Present:

ProtEst thE hEro, Voodoo bunnY, black MastIFF, MonstEr truck, Pack a.d., MoltEn laVa SaT mar 12 Canadian Music Week & Jager Present:

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dIEMonds, tuPPEr warE rEMIx PartY, dancE laurY dancE, a PrIMItIVE EVolutIon, tEEnagE x, MarY rosE obsEssIon, lastdaYhErE

mon Mar

Sun mar 13 Canadian Music Week & Jager Present:

sun Mar

13 4pm 14

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

tue Mar

The euphoniC open sTage

dj FathoM & thE rEbEl dj's, so sIck socIal club, ProMonIuM jEstErs mon mar 14

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

moody mondays wIth douglas FaIrbanks jr.

wed Mar

Wed mar 16

The neil young’uns

416-536-7717

cadillaclounge.com

Rock 'n' Roll Rehab kick-off PaRty! 542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com

THE OSSINGTON Thurs 10Th More TiMes Music to make you move hip hop, soul, booty, Rn B... Fri 11Th DirTy Talk Junk food dance party with your favourite girls... saT 12Th GooD Music w/ DJ Nana Bearthday Party Edition... sun 13Th Brass FacTs Toronto’s best trivia night, followed by: unliMiTeD sunDay Hajah Bug & Mantis present: Manjah Music... Tues 15Th avanT GarDen reaDinG series followed by: secreT MoDels Execution of Plan B... Wed 16Th Tich MareDza BanD live music, African dance party... 61 OSSINGTON AVE | 416•850•0161 | theossington.com

693 Bloor St. W 416-535-9541 WWW.CLINTONS.CA W of Bathurst THU 10 ◆ FRI 11 ◆

SAT 12 ◆

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK BANGS & BLUSH PRESENT:

DISCO SUCKS DANCE PARTY

SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL: Spinning 60’s Soul

Rock & Roll Dance Party DRINK, DANCE, GET MESSY W/ THE GIRLS OF BANGS&BLUSH SUN 13 ◆ MON 14 ◆ TUE 15 ◆ THU 17 ◆

KARAOKE NIGHT QUIZ NIGHT W/ Terrance Balazo ART BAR POETRY LADY N' GENTLEMEN, RUN FOR COVER

3rd Sunday of each month is The Psychic Brunch Clinton’s Is Looking For New Bands

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tHuRsDAY MARcH 10tH Gladstone Gallery: 5pM - 8pM Kids in the hood Opening ReceptiOn FRee Melody Bar: 8pM - 12AM tnc - indie LOve RadiO pResents the ruBy spirit, sparrowtales & rajasi FRee FRIDAY MARcH 11tH BallrooM: 8pM - 2:30AM cMW shOWcase neverendinG white liGhts & More $10/wRIstbAnDs Melody Bar: 7pM - 10pM the Gypsy reBels FRee Melody Bar: 10pM - 2AM KaraoKe w/ peteR stYles | FRee sAtuRDAY MARcH 12tH Melody Bar: 7pM - 10pM MiLL st. cOuntRy satuRdays pResent swaMperella FRee BallrooM: 9pM - 3AM tOROntO's Biggest puRiM paRty With asaf avidan & the Mojos $25/35 Melody Bar: 10pM - 2AM KaraoKe w/ peteR stYles | FRee sunDAY MARcH 13tH BallrooM: 2pM - 4:30pM tinaRs fOR tOts fiona sMyth $5 BallrooM: 8pM - 12AM cMW shOWcase will currie & friends $5 | wRIstbAnDs Melody Bar: 5pM - 8pM MiLL st. BLuegRass sundays pResents white squirrel sinners | FRee MOnDAY MARcH 14tH BallrooM: 8pM - 10:30pM the Me shOW KaleB roBertson $5-20 tuesDAY MARcH 15tH Melody Bar: 8pM - 12AM cOLORBLind BRian's Blues caMpfire FRee weDnesDAY MARcH 16tH Melody Bar: 7:30pM - 12AM gRanny BOOts touch FIlM scReenIngs | FRee

1214 queen st w 416.531.4635 www.gladstonehotel.com penny@gladstonehotel.com

cert After Party Andy Alias doors 10 pm. clinTon’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). ccoBRa lounge Adam K, Aadil doors 10 pm. 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. DisgRacelanD Everyone’s A DJ (16 novice DJs playing 20 min sets) 9 pm. cDRake hoTel unDeRgRounD Jamie Jones doors 7 pm. DRake hoTel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. el MocaMBo GTA Rollergirls Down ‘N Derby Wiggy Selecta, Dave Livingston, Cozmic Cat, D.A.M.O., Don Ritchie, DJ Remedy doors 9:30 pm. eMMeT Ray BaR DJs Forget the Flowers (indie rock) 10 pm. Fly Delice Dream Festival Pre-party DJ Mister Mola, DJ Jeremy Khamkeo, DJ Cole Stanley 10 pm.5 FoMo Mingle 9 pm. FooTwoRk Luna Stephan Bodzin VS Marc Romboy, Noah Pred & Jamie Kidd doors 10 pm. Fox & FiRkin Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. geoRge’s Play DJ Jon (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 gooDhanDy’s Jock DJ Geoff Kelleway doors 10:30 pm.5 holy oak caFe DJ Escapade (90s R&B). 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. cloT 16 Knotty Knights DJ Triple-X (CanCon) 10 pm. cMaison MeRceR Adam Kyron & Rob Friday, Max Vangeli doors 10 pm. MaRo Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems). continued on page 52 œ

THE DAKOTA TAVERN MUSIC WEEK Thu Mar 10 9-3am CANADIAN CMW Listings in NOW mag. Fri Mar 11 7-9pm LEON KNIGHT & THE NEON LIGHTS 9-3am CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 3am SPECIAL GUEST 4-7pm THE FOGGY Sat Mar 12 HOGTOWN BOYS 8-3am CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 3am SPECIAL GUEST 11-3pm BLUEGRASS BRUNCH Sun Mar 13

booking@sneaky-dees.com

$3.25 BREAKFAST • MON - FRI 11AM- 4PM Thursday MarCh 10 - CMF

AUDIO BLOOD SHOWCASE:

HANDS & TEETH 2:30 AM GOLDEN ISLES 1:30 AM TEENAGE KICKS 12:30 AM SANDMAN VIPER COMMAND 11:30 PM HURON 10:30 PM BRETT CASWELL & THE MARQUEE ROSE 9:30 PM CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD 8:30 PM

486 spadina ave. @ college

Saturday Supper Club Blues!

mar 12 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 5:30pm

DAWG FM Blues Bash

Jordan John, Bill Durst

every wedNesday

what’s poppin’ 80/90’s hip hop party

Mar 20 Mar 25 Mar 27 Mar 31 aPr 1

the beatdown Radio Radio LaRRy and his FLask moon dUo / bLank dogs oh no FoRest FiRes ReUnion show

Wed Mar 16

10pm

PETER ELKAS

10pm SHOTGUN

JIMMIE CD RELEASE

WITH GUESTS HURON

249 OSSINGTON AVE (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com

THE DaRCyS, Silly Kissers, Topanga, Heartbeat Hotel

gROUNDERS, BEEKEEPERS SOCIETy

CaTL,

INVaSIONS,

The Pining, Dirty Mags DaggERS, THE BB gUNS The Strumbellas, Katie Moore

UNCLE BaD TOUCH,

SHORTPaNTS ROMaNCE, THE PEELIES, Neon Windbreaker

THURSDAY MARCH 10

Jodie aysha Empire ISIS, Kai, Five Alarm Funk, Diana Salavtore Foxfire, Powers, HotKid, The Wilderness, Tennis System, Halves

THE ZOOBOMBS The Mercy Now, Catl

Mad Ones, Union City

CraZY strings

FRIDAY MARCH 11

gay

w/ SEXy MERLIN and VOWLS

suNday MarCh 13 - 9PM dOOrs

MONday MarCh 14

Tues Mar 15

THE RUSSIAN FUTURISTS,

DVAS 3 AM MAKE YOUR EXIT 2 AM THE MELIGROVE BAND 1 AM PAPER LIONS 12 AM ALLIE HUGHES 11 PM BRAVESTATION 10 PM CHRISTIEN SUMMERS 9 PM NASH 8 PM

Legends oF kaRaoke

HH H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H the Silver Dollar (7:30Pm-4am) H H H H thrS.mar.10 - The untold City presents H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H fri. mar. 11 H H White Girl records presents H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H Sat. mar. 12 (11Pm) - H H Pop montreal presents H H H H H H H H H H H H H H the Comfort ZoNe (7:30Pm-2am) H H H H H thrS. mar. 10 H H H H H H H H H H fri. mar. 11 H H H H H H H H H H Sat. mar. 12 from tokyo, Japan... H H H H H H H H W/ H H H H HaNDS & TEETH H H H H H H HigH lonesome Wednesday • 9:30pm H H H H H H H big CitY bluEgrass H H H fEaturing mEmbErs of H H thE foggY hogtown boYs H H & thE CrEaKing trEE H H string quartEt H H H H thu H H EP Release H H mar 17 H H H H H H CD release show fri mar 18 H H H H H H H H H H w/ H (Shake a tail) H H H H Sat mar 19 Late Night Live! H H H H H H H (NoRway) H H H H thu mar 24 CD release Show H H H H H H H H H H H H plus! @ 9:30 pm H H H HHHHHHHHHH H H H 9pm to 4am!!! H H H H H H fri mar 25 H H H H H H H Sat mar 26 montreal Garage Pysch H H H H H H H H H H BRaDLEy BOy @ 9:30 pm H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H HH

NeXt@CmW mar 10-12

PRESENT:

THE REBEL SPELL 1 AM DEAD CITY CITIZENS 12:15 AM MACHINE GUN DOLLY 11:30 PM SKULLIANS 10:45 PM BRUTAL YOUTH 10 PM

Mon Mar 14 10pm THE RATTLESNAKE CHOIR

JaCK DE KEYZEr

MUSEBOX & TRAVIS PORTER

THE PERFECTS 3 AM THE LOVE MACHINE 2 AM THE JUNCTION 1 AM LIFESTORY: MONOLOGUE 12 AM MEN 10:15 CHERIE LILY 9:15 PM TAYISHA BUSAY 8:30 PM

THE BEAUTIES 10pm

mar 19 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 7pm

Friday MarCh 11 - CMF

saTurday MarCh 12 - CMF

Feat.

THE JOHNNY MAX BAND TrEASA LEvASSEur,

SATURDAY MARCH 12

PURPLE HILL

Tusks, Dora alexander

DJ aaRON KNIgHT

BOyS WHO Say NO Donlands & Mortimer, LITTLE PONy

aRMEN at the BaZaaR w/ Benefit Of The Freeman THE SPOOFS

MELLIgROVE BaND

Horsey Craze, germans QUEEN LICORICE, LaVa&aSH

RED MaSS w/ Teenanger action Makes, The Sphinxs

416.763.9139 • silverdollarroom.com

MARcH 9-12

cANADIAN MUSIc WEEk

tickets & wrist bands at CMW.Net All ShowS +19 • wriSt BAndS And PASSeS AccePted only for ShowS oPen to the PuBlic. AttendAnce limited to cAPAcity.

thu mar 10 | drs 8pm | open to public

FocUS oN FrANcE

presented bY ubifrance

DUB INc, NINETEENSEVENTYNINE, YETI LANE, MARxS, NOONE fri mar 11 | drs 8pm | open to public music bc presents

ZAAc PIck, AIDAN kNIGHT, TREELINES TOP LESS GAY LOVE TEkNO PARTY, HUMANS, SUN WIZARD sat mar 12 | drs 9pm | open to public music noVa scotia

SLOWcOASTER, THE GOLDEN DOGS, THREE SHEET, FEVER FEVER, NIGHTBOx sun mar 13 | drs 8:30pm | $5

lAUGh SABBATh:

TAlENT ShoW with JAmES hArTNETT feat. TIm GIlBErT EVERY SUNDAY AT THE RIVOLI! WWW.lAUGhSABBATh.com

mon mar 14 | drs 8:30pm | pwYc ($5) mc NIck BEAToN MATT O’BRIEN BARRY TAYLOR DAVE MARTIN ALLISON DORE ROB BEBENEk AND MORE!

AlTdoTcomEdyloUNGE.com tue mar 15 | drs 8:30pm | pwYc ($5) ThE hEAdlINE SErIES FEAT: lAdySTAchE mc mArk dEBoNIS

with special guests THE BOOM THE REGULARS DIANA LOVE NEWSDESk WITH RON SPARkS & MORE!

Cmw NigHT 1

w/ ONRA

bRANDT bRAUER fRiCK + mORE

DOORS @ 8pm_$10

Cmw NigHT 2 w/ DjS ROb SwifT + COSmO bAKER + HOLgER + pAT jORDACHE + mORE

DOORS @ 7pm_$10

Cmw NigHT 3 w/ jAmiE jONES

+THE HEARTbROKEN

+ CARmEN TOwNSEND + wOOL ON wOLVES + mORE

DOORS @ 7pm_$10

RON HAwKiNS iN SUppORT Of THE DAViD SUZUKi fOUNDATiON

DOORS @ 9pm_$15

pOLARiS RECORD SALON #2: D-SiSiVE DOORS @ 7pm_fREE

SkETchcomEdyloUNGE.com wed mar 16 | 8pm | $5

hoTBoxxx INdIE NIGhT IN cANAdA

feat. Marcus White, Bear With Me, James Faulkner, Bluespoon, Jeffrey Beadle, Mars Rover, AG Hyde thu mar 17 | drs 8pm | $6

ThE AUTUmN PorTrAIT w/ Paint & Joel Battle Happy St. patrick’S DayS!

COMING SOON MarCh 18 ThE IdlErS MarCh 19 FooTPrINTS Mar 22 20,000 lEGS UNdEr ThE SEA

332 QUEEN ST. W. | 416.596.1908 | rivoli.ca

SKRATCH bASTiD

@ jUNO wEEK

SERViNg TiL 4Am

DOORS @ 11pm_$10 THEDRAKEHOTEL.CA/EVENTS TwiTTER.COm/THEDRAKEHOTEL 1150 QUEEN ST w TORONTO 416.531.5042

NOW march 10-16 2011

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clubs&concerts ñ MiTzi’s sisTer œcontinued from page 50

cMaro Maestro Fresh Wes, Undercover doors 10 pm. Mod Club UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. NaCo Gallery Cafe Sugar Bush DJ Rekha. Neu+ral 90s Party FAWN BC, CAFF (alt rock/ pop/hip-hop). The ossiNGToN Good Music DJ Nana. cParTs & labour Dance Party Showcase-Fucked Up DJ Set 10 pm. rivoli Pool louNGe deejayscoots (roots/ rock/reggae/hip-hop/soul/R&B/disco/electro/funk) 10 pm. rivoli Pool louNGe Bump’n Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/ disco/lovers rock/Latin/hip hop/boogie). sToNe louNGe Hosted by Janelle Monáe. The Main Ingredient DJ Mensa, Agile, DJ Sean Sax. 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. Tequila bookworM Hot Sauce: Assembly DJs Shingo, urbansteve, Jason Ulrich (tech house/ deep house/dubstep/bass music/left-field) 10 pm.

TheDrakehoTel.Ca/joBs

Good Luck at SXSW,

AUSTRA from all your friends at Check out Austra’s website at www.austramusic.com. Their debut album Feel it Break, with co-founder and lead singer Katie Stelmanis, drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf is set to be released May 2011.

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Sunday, March 13 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul cboviNe sex Club So Sick Social Club,

Promonium Jesters doors 9 pm. cboviNe sex Club Bovine’s Annual CMW Closing Party St Mandrew, Alixander III, Gingy, DJ Fathom, Isis doors midnight. cbread & CirCus Nate Daniels, Laura Jansen, Katie Goes to Tokyo, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party doors 8 pm. CadillaC louNGe Whiskey Jack 4 pm. cThe CeNTral The Friends & Other Strangers Showcase Legs doors 8:30 pm. drake hoTel David Suzuki Foundation Benefit Ron Hawkins (rock) doors 9 pm. cGladsToNe hoTel ballrooM Will Currie doors 8 pm. GraffiTi’s Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. GraffiTi’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. chard luCk bar Modernboys Moderngirls, Future History, the Cheap Speakers, Darrelle London, Craig Smith doors 8 pm.

Fair, the Pack AD, In Medias Res, the Dirty 9s doors 8 pm. Taxi Chain 5 to 7 pm. Mod Club Kalmah, Warcall, Bolero doors 7 pm, all ages. 918 baThursT Wavelength 516: CD Release Party The Deeep, Hybrid Moments, Eons 9 pm, all ages. coPera house Slow Motion Victory, Army of Us, Rosedale, Scotty Dynamo, the Change, All Day Daydreamers, Vintage Railway, Avery Island, the Compound, We Outspoken, Whosarmy, Maswuerade doors 5 pm, all ages. orbiT rooM Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. cThe PaiNTed lady Atherton doors 8:30 pm. cParTs & labour Kid Liberty, Rust Belt Lights, I Call Fives, !Attention 7 pm, all ages. The PisToN Bobby Dreadful 9 pm. craNCho relaxo Azores, Sadie Hell, Crimes in Paris, the Danger Bees, Smugshot doors 8 pm. roC N doC’s The Bottle Devils (rock) 9:30 pm. slaCk’s Yellow Brand Band (rock/pop/top 40) 6 pm. csNeaky dee’s The Rebel Spell, Machine Gun Dolly, Skullians, Brutal Youth,.

csoNy CeNTre for The PerforMiNG

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Janet Jackson, Mindless Behavior doors 7 pm, all ages. souNd aCadeMy Bright Eyes, the Mynabirds (indie folk rock) doors 7:30 pm, all ages. souThside JohNNy’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Cloak & daGGer Pub The Shinhackers (bluegrass) 9 pm.

dowNsview Park Three To Be: Kids Care Fair-

Benefit for Children’s Neurological Disorders Treatment and Therapy Sonshine & Broccoli, Kayla and others. GaTe 403 Cross Eyed Cat (Chicago blues) 9 pm. GladsToNe hoTel Melody bar Bluegrass Sundays White Squirrel Sinners (bluegrass) 5 to 8 pm. GriNder T.C. Folkpunk 1:30 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 Ouzo Power (rembetika) 8 pm. lula louNGe Salsa Brunch Party 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. Press Club Ross Neilson (blues). rebas Café Darin Parises (banjo) 1 to 4 pm. 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 St Patrick’s Weekend Celebration Cairdeas (traditional Irish music) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

aluMNae TheaTre Safe And Healthy Homes For Children: A Song Cycle For Jazz Orchestra Tiny Alligator Large Band 8 pm. duffy’s TaverN Ken Yoshioka (blues).

edward JohNsoN buildiNG MaCMillaN The-

aTre Mozart’s Don Giovanni Opera Division of the U of T Faculty of Music 2:30 pm. eMMeT ray bar Ashley Urqhart (jazz) 9 pm. fioNN MaCCool’s esPlaNade That Choir Ceilighs Amanda LeBlanc 8 pm. GaTe 403 Joel Diamond Jazz Duo noon to 3 pm. GaTe 403 Whitney Ross Barris Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

march 10-16 2011 NOW

rex Parker Abbott Piano Duo (jazz). rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm. rex Ugly Beauties 7 pm. royal CoNservaTory of MusiC MazzoleNi hall Discovery Series Andrew McCandless, Gordon Wolfe & the GGS Brass Ensemble 4 pm.

soMewhere There sTudio Lightsweetcrude

(raga fusion) 5 pm.

soMewhere There sTudio NOW Series John Oswald, Paul Newman, Nicole Rampersaud, Parmela Attariwala 8 pm. TeN feeT Tall Alex Goodman Trio 3:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

beaver Bedroom Eyes DJs J Crosson, L Wildman. cCheval She’s With Us James Doman, Jed

Harper doors 10 pm.

Crews/TaNGo zoNe Creamed Sundays DJ Ana Capella 10 pm.5

fyNN’s of TeMPle bar St Patrick’s Day Parade

After Party. heNhouse DJ Dr Rocker (R&B/rock & roll/ soul/country) 10 pm. iNsoMNia DJ Lk (old-school hip-hop/disco/ funk). The ossiNGToN Unlimited Sunday Manjah Music. TaTToo roCk Parlour Tattoo Sundays: Trash Palace Industry Night 4Korners (old-school/ rock mash-up/electro/dance).

Monday, March 14 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

drake hoTel louNGe Live Karaoke Shark Week (live band karaoke) doors 10:30 pm. drake hoTel uNderGrouNd Elvis Monday Suzy Wilde, Witchever, Yuka, Dusty Wallace, Tenderlion, People of Canada (rock) doors 9 pm. GraffiTi’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. harleM Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/ jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. MiTzi’s sisTer Domestic Bliss Henry Taylor Band (jazz). old NiCk M Factor Mondays Emily Spiller, Katey Morely, Elana Harte 7 pm. Press Club Here & Now (hip-hop). roC N doC’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9:30 pm. T.s.T’s lauNCh Pad In a Nuts Shell, Mike Collinson (rock/talk) all ages.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

The Ceili CoTTaGe St. Patrick’s Week: HARP Monday CeiliGrass Boys (bluegrass) 7:30 pm. Cloak & daGGer Pub This Is a Parade! (folk/ pop) 9 pm. dave’s... oN sT Clair The Monday Sessions Open Jam Pete Eastmure 7:30 pm. free TiMes Café Open Stage Signe Miranda 7:30 pm. haMilToN PlaCe sTudio The Irish Rovers 7:30 pm. The hideouT Ol’ Savannah (old-time mountain music). hiGhway 61 souTherN barbeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm. The loCal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/ country) 9:30 pm. NoT My doG Les Catherinettes Andrea Ramolo, Samantha Martin, Allison Brown 10 pm. The PaiNTed lady Open Mic 9 pm. The wilsoN 96 Steve Puchalski (country/rock) 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

eMMeT ray bar Tara Davidson 9 pm. GaTe 403 Denis Schingh Solo 5 to 8 pm. GaTe 403 Sean Bellaviti Jazz Band 9 pm. old Mill iNN Love Me Or Leave Me: A Tribute To Nina Simone Kellylee Evans (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm. SomewheRe TheRe STudio Rafael Toral, Doc Dunn & Ayal Senior, Gastic Female Reflex 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BeaveR Kicking And Screaming DJs Pat Ghost-

wolf, George Burt. Bovine Sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Fuzion vizion lounge FML Mondays DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall). goodhandy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 inSomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). The PiSTon Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared 10 pm. RoCkwood Mash Up Mondays DJs Crunch, Tilt, Scratchez.

Tuesday, March 15 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

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

The avRo The Taste & the Pinecones (rock) 9 pm. C’eST whaT Tanya Philipovich 10 pm. haRd luCk BaR Bitter End, Hardside, Power

Trip, Planet Danger. The PiSTon The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. TRane STudio The Intentions w/ Lizzy Clarke, Dion Duporte 8:30 pm. yellow gRiFFin Johnny Devil & the Screaming Demons (rock) 10 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

CadillaC lounge The Euphonic Open Stage. The Ceili CoTTage St Pat’s Jam Session Ena 8 pm. Cloak & daggeR PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

dakoTa TaveRn Peter Elkas (soul/folk rock). The FounTain Badly Bent Bluegrass 9 pm. FouR SeaSonS CenTRe FoR The PeRFoRming aRTS RiChaRd BRadShaw amPhiTheaTRe

Fingers And Sticks Jamie Drake, Lily Ling (percussion, piano, accordion) noon. gaTe 403 Julian Fauth (blues) 9 pm. gaTe 403 Ross Neilsen Blues Solo 5 to 8 pm. gladSTone hoTel Colorblind Brian’s Blues Campfire (blues) 8 pm. gRaFFiTi’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. The loCal Dan Gorman. naCo galleRy CaFe Technicolor Music & Reading Series 8 pm. old niCk Open Mic Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. The PainTed lady Andrew Austin (folk/rock/ soul) 9 pm. PReSS CluB Press Club Toast & Jam Open Mic.

RoC n doC’S Marshall Dane (new country/ pop) 9:30 pm. SuPeRmaRkeT Heartstrings Live Brooklyn Pryce, People You Know, Broken Bricks, DJs Bangs & Blush 7:30 pm. Ten FeeT Tall FingerStyleGuitar.ca Open Stage 8 pm.

to 10 pm.

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hollywood on The QueenSway Latin Wed-

Jane malleTT TheaTRe Music Toronto Andreas Haefliger, Marina Piccinini (flute) 8 pm. Rex Jake Wilkinson Group 6:30 pm. Rex Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm. SomewheRe TheRe STudio Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Queen Victrola 8 pm. undeRdown PuB James Morrison & Grant Curle (piano/bass) 9:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

goodhandy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

inSomnia Soulful Tuesday D-Jay. The oSSingTon Secret Models, Execution of Plan B.

Cloak & daggeR PuB Scott Maynard & the Quiet Revolution (pop/folk) 10 pm.

gaTe 403 Roger Dorey (acoustic blues) 5 to 8 pm.

gRoSSman’S Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.

nesdays Jay & Viv (salsa/meringue/bachata/ cumbia) 9 pm. The loCal Make Out Wednesdays Ron Leary Quintet (indie folk). The oSSingTon Tich Maredza Band (African dance party). SilveR dollaR High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm. TeRRi o’S SPoRTS BaR Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage The Riverdale Kid (eclectic roots/pop) 8 pm.

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

ChalkeRS PuB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Par-

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Party Teenage X, Picture Sound, DJ Julian Swift. CadillaC lounge The Neil Young’uns 8:30 pm. dakoTa TaveRn CD release Shotgun Jimmie, Huron. haRd luCk BaR The All Night, Everyone Everywhere, Theset (pop/punk). hoRSeShoe Michael Showalter. lee’S PalaCe Sum 41 doors 8 pm. lula lounge Light Up The Night, Celebration Of The Life Of Toronto musician Cristina Taborda Anima Fado, Radio Belle, Parks & Rec, the Wilderness, Hands & Teeth, Human Bodies, the Cautioneers, Up North Kids 8 pm. mod CluB Rotting Christ, Melechesh, Hate, Abigail Williams, Lecherous Nocturne doors 7 pm, all ages. The PainTed lady The Calrizians (psychobilly/ soul/surf) 9 pm. The PiSTon Cindy Doire, Steve Brockley Band (pop/rock/soul) 9 pm. Rivoli Hotboxxx Indie Night Marcus White, Bear With Me, James Faulkner, Bluespoon, Jeffrey Beadle, Mars Rover, AG Hyde 8 pm. RoC n doC’S Spanking Brand New (R&B) 10 pm.

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The Ceili CoTTage St. Patrick’s Week: Lisdoon-

varna Matchmaking Day The CeiliGrassBoys 7

dominion on Queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pop) 9 pm.

Rio Comes To Toronto Humber Brazilian Jazz Project noon. gaTe 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. mezzeTTa Don Thompson, Reg Schwager (jazz) 9 pm. nawlinS Jazz BaR The Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. Rex Carissa Neufeld 6:30 pm. Rex Sheryl Bailey 3 9:30 pm. SomewheRe TheRe STudio Kyle Brenders Quartet (experimental/jazz) 8 pm.

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BRaSSaii Les Nuits DJ Dlux, DJ Undercover 10 pm.

geoRge’S Play DJ Jon 9 pm.5 goodhandy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar

doors 8 pm.5

guveRnmenT Markus Schulz. henhouSe Snakepit DJ Light Fires 10 pm.5 inSomnia Vinyl Wednesday DJ Chris Bosno (deep underground soul).

RePoSado Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. Sneaky dee’S What’s Poppin’ (90s hip-hop party).

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T.O. music notes Putting the “amp” in camp

Ten years ago, Rock ’n’ Roll Camp for Girls started up in Portland, Oregon, as a way to offer young female musi cians a welcoming entry into the typi cally boys’-club world of rock. Now, for the first time, Toronto is getting its own version thanks to two mem bers of the all-female Weezer cover band Sheezer. Alysha Haugen and Magali Meagher are behind Girls Rock Camp Toronto, a five-day summer camp where girls aged eight to 16 receive instruction from female musicians on playing an instrument, forming a band, songwriting and performing live. Instrument choices include guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and vocals, and the camp culminates in a

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showcase concert. “We were inspired to start a rock camp in Toronto after hearing about the other ones around the continent,” Haugen explains from a tour stop in Hamilton. “Being lady musicians who started playing at a young age, we know firsthand the benefits of playing in a band during those formative years. “It builds musical skill, character, self-confidence, conflict resolution and a community of mentors and peers. We’re excited to give

a generation of girls a safe space to rock out.” Girls Rock Camp Toronto takes place at the Tranzac (292 Brunswick) from July 18 to 23. Campers and volunteers can register at girlsrock toronto.org. The first in a series of fundraisers happens March 17 at the Gladstone (1214 Queen West), with Blocks Recording Club and Patti Cake. The camp is also accepting money and gear donations through its website. Carla Gillis

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Venue Index Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. ALTO Lounge 582 Church. Alumnae Theatre 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170. Annex Wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. Arraymusic Studio 60 Atlantic. 416-769-2841. Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. The Avro 750 Queen E. 416-466-3233. Baitshop Gallery 358 Dufferin, suite 117. 416-536-6000. The Ballroom Bowl Bar Bistro 145 John. 416-597-2695. Bar Italia 582 College. 416-535-3621. Beaver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. Beerbistro 18 King E. 416-861-9872. Beit Zatoun 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. Boiler House 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-5044239. Brant House 522 King W. 416-703-2800. Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. Bread & Circus 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. Bunda Lounge 1108 Dundas W. Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. The Ceili Cottage 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301. 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. Cheval 606 King W. 416-363-4933. China House 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. Cloak & Dagger Pub 394 College. 647-436-0228. Cobra Lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004. Comfort Inn 6355 Airport (Mississauga). 905-677-7331. Comfort Zone 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909. Cornerstone Pub 537 College. 647-430-7111. Courthouse 57 Adelaide E. 416-214-9379. Crews/Tango 508 Church. 416-972-1662. 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. Disgraceland 965 Bloor W. 647-868-5263. Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. Double Deuce Saloon 1168 Queen W. 416-537-1313. Downsview Park 35 Carl Hall. 416-954-0544. Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. Duffy’s Tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. Edward Johnson Building 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. El Mocambo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. Emmet Ray Bar 924 College. 416-792-4497. Fairmont Royal York Hotel 100 Front W. 416-368-2511. Fionn MacCool’s Esplanade 70 The Esplanade. 416-362-2495. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. Fogarty’s 3481 Lake Shore W. 416-253-5500. FOMO 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666. Footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. The Fountain 1261 Dundas W. 416-203-2311. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231.

Fox & Firkin 51 Eglinton E. 416-480-0200. Fox & Fiddle Wellesley 27 Wellesley E. 416-944-9369. Free Times Café 320 College. 416-967-1078. Fuzion 580 Church. 416-944-9888. Fynn’s Of Temple Bar 489 King W. 416-586-1331. The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. George’s Play 504 Church. 416-963-8251. Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Glenn Gould Studio 250 Front W. 416-205-5555. Global Village Backpackers 460 King W. 416-703-8540. Goodhandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. Graffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. The Great Hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. Grinder 126 Main. 416-901-0290. Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. Guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. Hamilton Place 50 Main W (Hamilton). Hard Luck Bar 812 Dundas W. Hard Rock Cafe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. Harlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. Hart House 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. Heliconian Hall 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. Henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. The Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. Highway 61 Southern Barbeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. Hollywood on the Queensway 1184 Queensway. 416-251-0288. Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. Hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. Insomnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. James Joyce 386 Bloor W. 416-324-9400. Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front E. 416-366-7723. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345. Lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. LeVack Block 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. Lot 16 1136 Queen W. 416-531-6556. Lou Dawg’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. Luxy Nightclub 60 Interchange Way. Maison Mercer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. Margret 2952 Dundas W. 416-762-3373. Maro 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. Massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. Metropolitan United Church 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331. Mezzetta 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687. Mitzi’s Sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. Music Gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. Naco Gallery Cafe 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499. Nawlins Jazz Bar 299 King W. 416-595-1958. NEU+RAL 349a College. 416-926-2112. 918 Bathurst 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. Not My Dog 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. Old Nick 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. Opera House 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. Orbit Room 580A College. 416-535-0613. The Ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. The Painted Lady 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. Parts & Labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. La Perla 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251.

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The Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. P.K. Creek 255 Dundas W (Mississauga). 905-306-1999. Pogue Mahone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. Press Club 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. Quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. Radiolaria 1166A Dundas W. Rancho Relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. Rebas Café 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. Relish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. Reposado 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington E. 416955-0887. Revival 783 College. 416-535-7888. Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. Roc n Doc’s 105 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-891-1754. Rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. Rockwood 31 Mercer. 416-979-7373. Rose Theatre 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800. Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. Royal Conservatory of Music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. The Sixth 1642 Queen W. Slack’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. Somewhere There Studio 227 Sterling, unit 112. Sonic Boom 512 Bloor W. 416-532-0334. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 1 Front E. 416-872-2262. Sound Academy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. Stone Lounge 783 College. Supermarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. Tattoo Rock Parlour 567 Queen W. 416703-5488. Ten Feet Tall 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. Tequila Bookworm 512 Queen W. 416504-2334. Terri O’s Sports Bar 185 Danforth. This Is London 364 Richmond W. 416-351-1100. Time Nightclub 81 Peter. 416-581-1118. Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music 821 Queen W. 416-504-5444. Toronto Underground Cinema 186 Spadina. Trane Studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. T.S.T’s Launch Pad 46 Hyde. Underdown Pub 263 Gerrard E. 416-927-0815. Underground Garage 365 King W. 416340-0365. Velvet Underground 510 Queen W. 416504-6688. Victoria College Chapel 91 Charles W. Village Vapor Lounge 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500. Waterfalls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. Watusi 110 Ossington. 416-533-1800. The Wilson 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. Woo’s Lounge 10 Dundas E, 4th floor. 416977-9966. Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. XS Nightclub 261 Richmond W. Yellow Griffin 2202 Bloor W. 416-763-3365.

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(Sub Pop) Rating: NNNN You wouldn’t expect a guy whose concerts involve stacks upon stacks of amps to be a king of understatement, but on his first official solo album J Mascis, erstwhile leader of Dinosaur Jr., offers a surprisingly subtle set of acoustic folk rock. Mascis famously referred to Dinosaur Jr.’s style as “earbleeding country,” yet without the piles of electric sludge, Mascis’s music is more in line with just country. Though his unmatched guitar prowess often overshadows his other tools, Several Shades Of Why highlights his startling talent as

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BEADY EYE Different Gear, Still Speeding (Beady Eye/Sony) Rating: NNN Despite the departure of his brother Noel, Liam Gallagher felt that Oasis wasn’t broken, just in need of a few small repairs. So with the band’s former bassist, Andy Bell, now on guitar and a new name slapped on like a fresh decal on an old road case, here comes Beady Eye, chasing that first musical high of Oasis’s debut, Definitely Maybe. If their only goal was a return to the basics of Oasis – which, as the tired but true criticism goes, owes so much to the Beatles catalogue – unambitious mission accomplished. Different Gear, Still Speeding is rife with the catchy, strum-intensive songs and nasal John Lennon impression the band was first known for. Kill For A Dream and The Roller wouldn’t sound out of place on (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? But nothing here is as spare or simple as Wonderwall. Top track: The Roller Beady Eye rock Sound Academy June 20. JASON RICHARDS HEARTBEAT HOTEL Cough Drops (in-

dependent) Rating: NNN Heartbeat Hotel made a wise decision in giving away their last LP, Fetus Dreams. With a sound reminiscent of über-hip

a songwriter. The guitar work, while still impressive, is much more purely melodic than his usual pedal-abusing mode (though he still throws in a few fuzz solos here and there). The singer’s famously lethargic drawl adapts flawlessly to the refined acoustic arrangements, and gorgeous vocal harmonies from guests Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) and Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) lend him a grace rarely found in his day job. Evidently, he’s no one-trick pony. Top track: Not Enough J Mascis plays the Great Hall Friday (March 11) at 11 pm as part of CMW. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI bands like Animal Collective and Braids, the only thing standing between them and the indie zeitgeist was a lack of ears. But while that album lacked cohesion by throwing together a bunch of criticcourting signifiers, their short follow-up EP goes in one direction: hazy, meditative psych-pop. The result is an effective united suite of songs rather than a haphazard collection of loose ends. Clocking in at under 15 minutes, it’s more a glimpse at where they’re going than a sign that they’ve arrived, but it’s still nice to see the evolution. Top track: Seeing Spots Heartbeat Hotel play the Silver Dollar tonight (Thursday, March 10) at 10 pm as part of CMW. RT

Transistor Sister (You’ve Changed) Rating: NNNN You can’t talk about the third Shotgun Jimmie album without mentioning Jim Kilpatrick’s lyrics. While most rock bands go for some mix of the poetic, surreal and emotive, the Sackville, New Brunswick, former member of Shotgun & Jaybird keeps things upfront and unmuddied. He loves beer and girls and the simple life, dammit, and comes off as likeable and genuine while telling us so. Solid indie rock songs that sometimes evoke Chad VanGaalen and Eric’s Trip prop up the narratives. The 16 tracks (some just experimental snippets) sail by in a breeze, with loose distorted guitar riffing atop laid-back drumming by Ryan Peters (Ladyhawk, Lightning Dust), unexpected and amusing flute parts and melodies that’ll follow you through the weekend. Lead track Late Last Year gets bonus points for its effective, non-traditional structure. Sure, the rhymes and average-guy vocal delivery occasionally veer toward dorky, but not enough to keep you from smiling and singing along. Top track: Late Last Year Shotgun Jimmie plays Wednesday (March 16) at the Dakota Tavern. CARLA GILLIS

MEN Talk About Body (IAMSOUND) Rating: NN Men’s debut full-length album with Le Tigre’s JD Samson on vocals is a conceptual dance pop record whose major themes deal with queer and leftist politics – not your standard chart-making fare. Unfortunately, the album’s only redeeming qualities arise from its conceptual elements. Originally a DJ project that turned into a full band, Men should’ve taken a cue from their friend Beth Ditto and pursued more current production trends and techniques. Instead, the album sounds slick yet redundant. Post-punk and dance influences are present, but the Brooklyn band never takes them far enough in any direction. Sadly, Talk About Body has the flat, dated electro-pop sound of Le Tigre, who are still a few years away from needing a rebirth. Top track: Simultaneously Men play Sneaky Dee’s Saturday (March 12) at 10:15 pm as part of CMW. KEVIN HEGGE

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Organ) Rating: NNN Vancouver’s Sun Wizard are three singer/ songwriters – Francesco Lyon, James Younger and Malcolm Jack – whose numerous influences seep into a sound best described as 70s-style pop with big ol’ riffs keeping things from getting too soft. On the mellower songs, the quartet (completed by drummer Ben Frey) takes on a country vibe that doesn’t always work to the band’s favour. But it’s the faster songs’ propulsive drumming – seemingly louder in the mix than on the average modern rock album – and inventive guitar lines that really stand out. Top track: Little Less In Control Sun Wizard play the Supermarket tonight (Thursday, March 10), 10 pm, and the Rivoli Friday (March 11), 2 am, both shows as part of CMW. JOANNE HUFFA

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Rating: NNN Madrid are one of those frustrating bands you really want to love, but they don’t quite manage to live up to the high expectations. To be fair, those possibly unreasonable expectations aren’t completely their fault – how can you blame them for consistently flirting with true greatness? And to their credit, we’re still willing to bet that they’ll eventually come up with that mind-blowing ambient pop album we’re convinced they have in them. Many of Original Message’s drifty shoegazer jams are quite good, and when their combination of synth washes and jangly guitars works, it’s impressive. It’s when they try for a more overt technorock vibe that they falter, too often sounding like they’ve borrowed keyboard sounds from cheesy 90s trance. They fare much better when they go for a less bombastic and more relaxed synth disco feel. Top track: Crystallic Madrid play the El Mocambo Saturday (March 12) at midnight as part of CMW. BENJAMIN BOLES

aren’t bad reference points for his sensitive, atmospheric soul-folk. Recorded solo by McMorrow in 2009 over a period of five months in a house by the sea, the textured result leaves the impression of more than one man at work. If I Had A Boat opens a cappella and swells like water, incorporating guitars, drums, banjo and piano; shuffling foot-stomper Sparrow And The Wolf beckons with a memorable chorus; and From The Woods!! takes an unexpected turn. It’s all quietly melodramatic, but at the core is McMorrow’s beautiful, reverb-drenched falsetto delivering real emotion. It’ll be interesting to see how he delivers the songs live. Top track: Sparrow And The Wolf James Vincent McMorrow plays the Great Hall Friday (March 11) at 9:15 pm as part of CMW. SARAH GREENE

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Rating: NNN Part of Montreal’s admirable roots rock scene, Katie Moore is known for her work in bluegrass girl group Yonder Hill and for her diverse collaborations with Patrick Watson and Chilly Gonzales. She’s blessed with a rare voice: an earthy yet floating timbre, a soothing and clear vibrato. As on her 2007 debut album, Montebello finds Moore mellow and sad. This works on the ambling Easy Send and Another Dollar but makes for a fairly homogenous listen. Things pick up with the catchy mid-tempo rocker Wake Up Like This and the Latin-inflected title track. Life can be lonely, and this is healing, quietly impressive soulful folk from some of Montreal’s best; the album features members of Plants and Animals, Josh Dolgin (Socalled), Joe Grass and Mike O’Brien, to name a few. The only thing missing is a bit more bite. Top track: Wake Up Like This Katie Moore plays the Silver Dollar as part of CMW Friday (March 11), 8 pm, and the Dakota on March 23. SG

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Rescuing lost voices New play resurrects the lives of First Nations people By NAOMI SKWARNA

Michelle St. John says when you lose your language, you lose your world view.

TOMBS OF THE VANISHING INDIAN by Marie Clements, directed by Yvette Nolan, with Michelle St. John, Falen Johnson, Paula-Jean Prudat and Nicole JoyFraser. Presented by Native Earth Performing Arts and red diva projects at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Opens tonight (Thursday, March 10) and runs to March 27, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. Pwyc-$25. 416975-8555. See Openings, this page.

“none of us speaks our own language,” says Michelle St. John. The two-time Gemini Award winner is talking about herself and her First Nations castmates in Tombs Of The Vanishing Indian. “We all have some words, but nobody can put a sentence together,” she says, smiling although the thought troubles her.

Marie Clements’s play sees St. John playing The Lone Woman, a part that has her speaking chiefly Gabrieliño. The near-extinct language of the Tongva may not be her own, but it’s a fitting theatrical surrogate for her own Eastern Algonquian dialect. For St. John, speaking Gabrieliño onstage involves peeling back the layers of colonization. “When you lose your language, you also lose your world view – your cosmology,” she says. Tombs also reveals one of the most insidious policies in American history. Set primarily in the 1970s, the play includes a narrative about the eugenics-based practice of sterilizing native women, often without their knowledge – a program that ended only in 1981. Sterilization was considered a

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Opening ‘ART’ by Yasmina Reza (Stage Centre Productions). The purchase of a pricey modernist painting tests the limits of friendship. Opens Mar 10 and runs to Mar 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-299-5557, stagecentreproductions.com. DISNEY ON ICE PRESENTS DISNEY•PIXAR’S TOY STORY 3 (Feld Entertainment). Characters from

the hit movie go on an adventure in this family ice show. Opens Mar 15 and runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 11 am and 3 pm. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. ticketmaster.ca. DON GIOVANNI by WA Mozart (U of T Faculty

means, says St. John, of easing poverty and overpopulation. “Horrifying, but it’s one of the many ways of making a people disappear.” Despite its grave subject matter, Tombs explores cultural and sexual control with some cheek. The actor also plays the mother of three estranged sisters whose parallel stories comprise Tombs’ main plot. Falen Johnson plays middle daughter Miranda, an aspiring actor who catches a break in Hollywood after being cast as a stock Indian princess type – a situation St. John is hip to, having moved to L.A. in the 90s for a time. “Miranda’s experience of Hollywood is similar to mine, and mine was 20 years later than hers. Nearly every series had its ‘Indian episode,’ where they’d have the wise old chief, or a young ingenue for the lead male character to flirt with. That place,” she laughs, “was not for human beings!” Although the theatre isn’t without its challenges, things aren’t as bad for native stage performers. This spring, St. John begins working with a cast of 49 other women (including Johnson) on Necessary Angel’s Tout Comme Elle as part of the Luminato Festival. Still, the question of disappearing First Nations is unavoidable. “Vanishing in Canada happened in many stages,” she says, “boarding school being the most protracted. Disease, war, starvation, relocation – full meal deal,” she adds with the tiniest ironic smile. St. John believes that the way to break that deal is through speaking the so-called dead languages and making known the generations lost through sterilization. “Invisibility can kill you,” she says, quoting Clements’s earlier play The Unnatural And Accidental Women. “My hope is that whoever chooses to see Tombs Of The Vanishing Indian learns that we’ve not disappeared.” 3

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Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood Improv comics, Roy Thomson Hall Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood will never forget their lines. The veteran comics are known for their on-the-spot brilliance on the hit TV series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and their combined credits include The Drew Carey Show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. On Friday (March 11), they bring their live improv act to Roy Thomson Hall, ready to riff on whatever suggestions you shout out. See Comedy Listings, page 60. Your show’s called An Evening With Colin Mochrie And Brad Sherwood. What other titles did you consider? Colin Mochrie: Colin!; Colin And Friend; The Incredible Mochrie And Brad; and of course, The Drowsy Chaperone. Brad Sherwood: Bare Naked MiddleAged Men; An Evening With Anne Murray; Cool Dude & Baldy. Rock stars often have special riders about green room requests. What’s on your list? Sherwood: Heat and running water.

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of Music, Opera Division). A womanizing nobleman meets his match in this classic opera. Mar 10-13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $15. Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, MacMillan Theatre. 416978-3744, music.utoronto.ca. FOOLISH TALES FOR FOOLISH TIMES by David Powell and Ann Powell (Puppetmongers Theatre). Four stories about human blunders are told in this family puppet show. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 19, Mon-Sat 2 pm. $10-$12. 401 Logan, unit 219. 416-469-3555, foolishtales.eventbrite.com. HEAD A TETE by David S Craig and Robert Morgan (Theatre Direct). Two strangers who speak different languages take shelter under a magical tree. Mar 14-19, daily at 11 am and 2 pm. $10-$15. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. I MARCUS GARVEY by Edgar Nkosi White (Theatre Archipelago/b current). This drama looks at the life and activism of the Jamaican national hero. Previews Mar 11-15. Opens Mar 16 and runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$35. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416533-1500, theatrearchipelago.ca. THE LION, THE WITCH & THE WARDROBE by CS Lewis (Lower Ossington Theatre). The fairy

Mochrie: That Brad not be in the green room. It’s five minutes before your show begins. What are you doing? Mochrie: Deep breathing exercises, some light Pilates, 127 sit-ups and praying to Satan. Sherwood: Pacing backstage, singing Pants On The Ground. ... and five minutes after your show’s over? Sherwood: I return to pacing and singing Pants On The Ground. Is that bad? Mochrie: Giving Brad notes. What happens if one of you is sick? Mochrie: The other coasts and blames it on the sick one. Sherwood: I take DayQuil. Colin prefers mint tea and a coffee enema. Who’d you rather improvise with, Charlie Sheen or Mel Gibson? Mochrie: Charlie. His entourage is more interesting. Sherwood: Charlie. Mel is so “last year.” Which one of them would you rather have in the front row? Mochrie: Mel, because I’d feel bad about not improvising with him. Sherwood: Again, Charlie. Mel’s always on his cellphone leaving loud voice mails. If you joined the cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, what would you change? Sherwood: The thickness of the safety wires. Mochrie: I’d change the title to SpiderMan: Hey C’mon, How Bad Could It Be? ... or The Drowsy Chaperone. Message to Oscar co-hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway? Mochrie: Congrats on getting people to forget the Rob Lowe/Snow White Oscars. Sherwood: Keep Billy Crystal on speed dial.GLENN SUMI

tale is presented on stage. Opens Mar 15 and runs to Mar 20, Sat-Sun and Tue 11 am, WedFri 1 pm. (And Mar 26-27 at 11 am.) $18. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lionwitchwardrobe. eventbrite.com. MORE FINE GIRLS by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus). Three sisters reunite over a family crisis ten years after a party drove them apart. Previews to Mar 10. Opens Mar 11 and runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. MORRO AND JASP GONE WILD by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee (U.N.I.T. Productions). Two clown sisters go on a Spring Break trip. Previews Mar 15. Opens Mar 16 and runs to Mar 26, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, preview/mats pwyc (totix.ca). Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, morroandjasp.com. NEW CUSTOM (Graduate Centre for Study of Drama/Poculi Ludique Societas). Performance of a 16th-century Elizabethan comedy-drama created to promote Protestantism. Mar 11-13, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10. Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. 416-978-7986.

NOHAYQUIENSEPA (NO ONE KNOWS) by Trevor Schwellnus and Olga Barrios ñ (Aluna). This multimedia dance-theatre piece

explores how we react to the deaths of strangers. Previews Mar 13. Opens Mar 15 and runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20$30, stu/srs/Sun $15; Mar 18 gala $75. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, alunatheatre.ca. SPIN by Evalyn Parry (OutSpoke Productions). Music, narration and projections are used to portray the bicycle as an instrument of social change. Previews Mar 15 at 8 pm. Opens Mar 16 and runs to Mar 27, WedSat 8 pm. $20, stu $16, preview $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. SPOTLIGHT.ITALY (Istituto Italiano di Cultura/ Canadian Stage). Italian music, dance, theatre and art are presented to celebrate the 150th anniversary of reunification. Opens Mar 15 and runs to Mar 26, see website for schedule. $32. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416921-3802, canadianstage.com/italy. TOMBS OF THE VANISHING INDIAN by Marie Clements (Native Earth Performing Arts/Red Diva Projects). Three Aboriginal sisters and

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Bravo to Billy

Billy elliot’s moving story comes to life By GLENN SUMI BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL music by

Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall (Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions). At the Canon (244 Victoria) for a limited run. $36-$130. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 59. Rating: NNNNN

billy elliot the musical is one of the best new musicals of the millennium. It’s based on Stephen Daldry’s 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his northern England mining community. The setting is 1984, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s threats to close the state-owned mines have forced the workers to strike. Amidst all this, 11-year-old Billy (Cesar Corrales, who shares the role with Myles Erlick, Marcus Pei and

J.P. Viernes), who’s just lost his mom (Anne Tolpegin), accidentally stumbles into a ballet class run by the tough-as-nails Mrs. Wilkinson (Kate Hennig). He’s resistant at first, but curious, and soon shows real talent – enough to possibly audition for the Royal Ballet School. Still, he’s not stupid, keeping his classes a secret from his father (Armand Schultz), brother (Patrick Mulvey) and grandmother (Cynthia Darlow). The film’s director (Daldry) and screenwriter (Lee Hall) have stayed on for the adaptation, and it shows. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex. Hall’s dialogue is raw, crude and never sentimental, delivered in authentic accents that make every word sound defensive and belligerent. The miners’ plight isn’t just a backdrop but is woven brilliantly into the narrative. Except for a feel-good curtain call, there’s no pandering to an audi-

ence weaned on sunny Disney cartoon musicals. Elton John’s music doesn’t provide a single hummable tune, but the songs always serve story and character. Peter Darling’s imaginative choreography often says what the show’s characters can’t. In addition to the ballet, there’s plenty of tap dancing, used as much for its sonic effects (you can’t really “hear” ballet) as its across-the-board appeal. Song and dance can capture the imagination in a stage show in a way they can’t on film. One standout number finds Billy partnering with his imaginary future self (Samuel Pergande) to Swan Lake – a scene that works on so many levels it’s dizzying. The show’s cast is a dream. Dillon Stevens (who alternates with Jack Broderick) nearly steals the show as Billy’s friend, the proudly effeminate Michael. And Hennig grounds the work with her uncompromising turn as the no-nonsense dance teacher. But ultimately the show hangs on the success of its Billy, who’s in almost every scene and has to dance, act, sing and show a range of emotion that would defeat an actor three times his age. I can’t talk about the other Billys, but little Corrales is a wonder. Not only can the kid dance with a grace, power and concentration that will make your jaw drop, but he also captures Billy’s scrappy, guarded nature, showing a believable and heartbreaking mix of hope and insecurity. Although it’s ultimately about the power of art and the imagination to transcend daily life, Billy Elliot never tugs on your sleeve asking you to love it. But you will. 3

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their mother deal with issues of identity and isolation after a forced relocation (see story, page 56). Opens Mar 10 and runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, Fri & Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, nativeearth.ca. The Whole Shebang (Dreamwalker Dance Company/Harbourfront NextSteps). This performance on the theme of ‘The Village’ features artists, musicians, writers, dancers and more. Mar 11-12 at 8:30 pm. $38, stu/srs $22. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. The WhoreS by Charles Crosby (V-Day Toronto). Sex workers tell stories about their lives in this show based on real interviews. Mar 12-13, Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $15-$20. Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin. vdaytoronto.com. The WinTer’S Tale by William Shakespeare (Theatre Erindale). A jealous king puts his wife on trial. Previews Mar 10. Opens Mar 11 and runs to Mar 19, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Mar 19 at 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905569-4369, theatreerindale.com.

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Brutal Brothel broThel #9 by Anusree Roy, directed by Nigel Shawn Williams (Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst). To March 27. $15-$40. 416504-9971. See Continuing, page 59. Rating: nnn In her ambitious Brothel #9, Anusree Roy reveals the harsh realities facing thousands of women trapped in Calcutta’s sex trade. Based on extensive research and interviews, the play feels authentic but maxes out on depressing subject matter. Roy uses four characters to map the hierarchies of power that maintain this form of modern-day slavery. The story centres on Rekha (Pamela Sinha), a young woman sold to a brothel run by Birbal (Ash Knight). There she meets Jamuna (Roy), an older “den mother” resigned to this

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Stagecraft). The theatre critic talks to the Stratford Festival’s Dean Gabourie, Mar 10 at 7:30 pm; and to the Shaw Festival’s Jackie Maxwell. Mar 16 at 7:30 pm. $15, stu $12. Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst. 416789-3291 ext 511, hbtstagecraft@gmail.com. coupS D’archeT (Le Théâtre la Tangente). Dramatic readings of excerpts of works by Pascal Quignard are performed in French. Mar 10 at 7:30 pm. Free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014, alliance-francaise.ca. exTra-raTional (FADO). Iris Fraser-Gudrunas, Amy Lam, Lisa Visser and others perform multidisciplinary works about pop culture. Mar 12, ongoing performances 1-5 pm, evening show 7 pm. Eve pwyc-$10; day show free. Xpace, 58 Ossington. performanceart.ca.

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(Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives). Actor/comedian Leslie Jordan performs with host Miss Conception in this funder. Mar 12 at 8 pm. $125-$200. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Great Hall. 416-777-2755, clga.ca/lj. The me ShoW (Kaleb Robertson). Robertson performs his solo dance, drag, video and comedy cabaret about sexuality and gender. Mar 14 at 8 pm. $5-$20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, Ballroom. 416-531-4635.

way of life, and Salaudin (Sanjay Talwar), a corrupt police inspector and regular client who demands bribes from Birbal. As the play unfolds, tensions mount as Salaudin falls in love with Rekha and distances himself from Jamuna. Shawn Kerwin’s striking set makes great use of faded colours, hung linens and vertical space to convey the worndown Calcutta slum. Roy and director Nigel Shawn Williams centre the action around the brothel’s common area, a water tank and a modest kitchen, where negotiations over money and food capture the evolving relationships. The thick Indian accents might make some of the rapid-fire exchanges difficult to follow, but they add realism to the production. Roy’s convincing dialogue shows how a disturbing semblance of domesticity persists in this horrible environment. Listen to the ordinary details in Jamuna’s second-act monologue chronicling the terrible sacrifices she’s made to stay in the business. Unfortunately, Roy ignores tantalizing tidbits about her male characters – like Birbal’s dying wife and Salaudin’s Muslim faith. Roy deserves credit for documenting the many distressing nuances of brothel life, but after two hours of pain, suffering and cruelty, you reach JorDan bimm a saturation point. Anusree Roy (left) and Pamela Sinha brave brothel life.

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Passages (Looking Sea Collective/HATCH). Film, dance and music are used to weave together stories based on family correspondence. Mar 12 at 7:45 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. The PekiNg acrobaTs (Rose Theatre). Special effects, live music and Chinese acrobatics are combined in this spectacle. Mar 15 at 7 pm. $46-$66, child $18. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. safe aNd healThy hoMes for childreN by Caitlin Smith (Tiny Alligator). This song cycle for jazz orchestra tells a story about making decisions in a menacing world. Mar 13 at 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. tinyalligator.com. Trafalgar 24 (Driftwood Theatre). The 24hour play-creation festival culminates in the performance of six original works. Mar 11, doors 6:30 pm. $50. Trafalgar Castle, 401 Reynolds, Whitby. 905-576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com. The Walls are alive WiTh The souNd of Mad PeoPle (Friendly Spike Theatre Band). The

company presents development rehearsals of a new production about the CAMH Patient Built Wall. Mar 11 at 6:30 pm. Free. May Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge Ave. friendlyspike@primus.ca.

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Lewis Carroll (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People/Théâtre Tout à Trac). Puppetry and masks are used in this adaptation of the classic fairy tale (see review at nowtoronto. com/stage). Runs to Mar 19, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) aNgeliNa balleriNa The Musical by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre). Angelina and her friends dance to get a starring role in this all-ages show. Runs to Mar 19, Fri 4:30 pm, select Sat-Sun 1 pm (see website; additional shows Mar 14 and 15 at 1 pm). $29.50$49.50. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. angelinathemusical.com. are you okay (Peggy Baker Dance Projects/ Necessary Angel). Dancer Baker and playwright Michael Healey perform a dance/theatre piece about art and aging (see review, this page). Runs to Mar 13, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, peggybakerdance.com. NNN (GS) billy ellioT The Musical by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). A boy leaves boxing for ballet while his family struggles with economic troubles in small-town England (see review, page 57). Runs to Jul 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-

The eNslaveMeNT aNd liberaTioN of oksaNa g. by Colleen Murphy and Aaron Gervais (Tap-

estry New Opera). A young girl lured into sex trafficking escapes to Italy in this opera vérité, sung in Ukrainian, Russian and English. To Mar 10, Thu 7:30 pm. $25, stu $20. Ernest Balmer Studio, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 315. 416-5376066, tapestrynewopera.com. The faNTasTicks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (Soulpepper). Soulpepper’s remount of this classic slice of Americana stays faithful to the musical’s folksy story of a pair of young neighbours tricked into romance by their fathers’ phony feud. Lots of physical comedy and wonderfully rendered music theatre classics like Try To Remember and Soon It’s Gonna Rain make this enduring and endearing chestnut worth a second look. Runs to Mar 24, see website for days and times. $45$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) good MourNiNg Mrs broWN by Brendan O’Carroll (Mirvish). A feisty Irish grandma and her offspring play a trick on her brooding husband in this comedy. To Mar 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$75. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. a haMburger iN a PiTa by Nina Shenhav (TEATRON Theatre). Tensions arise when two secular Jewish families from different cultures become neighbours in this comedy. Runs to Mar 13, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs $19-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-781-5527, teatrontheatre.com. The loNg red road by Brett C Leonard (Column 13 Actors Co). Two brothers reunite years after a tragic accident led them to different paths. Runs to Mar 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $18. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, column13.org. luisa ferNaNda by Moreno Torroba (Toronto Operetta Theatre). Two men battle for a woman’s affection in this zarzuela. Runs to Mar 13, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $52-$78. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E, Toronto. 416-366-

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Just Okay are you okay by Michael Healey and Peggy Baker (Peggy Baker Dance Projects/ Necessary Angel). At the Factory Studio (125 Bathurst). To March 13. $20-$25. 416-504-9971. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNN Following in the Modernist footsteps of Leopold Bloom and Mrs. Dalloway, Michael Healey offers up a stream-ofconsciousness journey in Are You Okay. The added attraction in his show is the choreographic contribution of collaborator Peggy Baker. A shame the production occasionally trips them up. The hour-long performance concerns Healey’s trip from his home at Ossington and Queen (“a horrible

place to live if you’re over 26”) to his office at the Tarragon Theatre, where he’s writer-in-residence, and back again. Traversing the set, evocatively lit by Rebecca Picherack, Healey recounts his experiences negotiating traffic,

7723, torontooperetta.com. MahMoud by Tara Grammy (Pandemic Theatre). An Iranian engineer tells the story of his life while working as a cabbie in Toronto in this solo show. Runs to Mar 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, stu $20, Sun pwyc. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. pandemictheatre.ca. 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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat 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). Director Rick Roberts sets the Bard’s classic comedy in the Roaring 20s and nails the fun and magic at the heart of this enchanted tale. Creative use of LED lights, projections and eerie live music make the forest scenes visually striking, while the rag-tag group of actors rehearsing in the woods steal the show with hilarious physical comedy. Runs to Apr 23, see website for schedule. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm)

NeW ideas fesTival 2011 (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, worksin-progress and experimental theatre features plays and staged readings. Week 1 (to Mar 12): works by MP Fedunkiw, Brianne Hogan, Neale Kimmel, Niall O’Reilly and JP Larocque. Week 2 (Mar 16-19): works by Flora Stohr-Danziger, Richard Ballon, Francine Dick, Kelsey Blair and Betty Jane Wylie. Runs to Mar 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm (readings Sat at noon). $15, pass $35, Sat readings pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. The PossibiliTies by Howard Barker (University College Drama Program at U of T). Ten vignettes about beauty, pain, violence and sexuality unfold at an internet cafe. Runs to Mar 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George. uc.utoronto.ca/drama. The secreT gardeN by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon (Edinburgh Festival Theatre/Mirvish). This touring production of the 1991 musical based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel is certainly ambitious, but it’s hampered by scenes that awkwardly juxtapose time schemes, a cumbersome Rubik’s Cube of a set and merely adequate performances by the leads. Full of unmemorable music, it’s a tough sell to people unfamiliar with the book. Runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $40-$110. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NN (GS)

Peggy Baker and Michael Healey walk the walk in Are You Okay.

souTh Pacific by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Dancap/Lincoln Center Theater). ñ Love blooms on an island paradise during

WWII in this musical. Runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1 pm. $35$190. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. WiT’s eNd iii: love life (Sandra Shamas). Shamas’s third show to deal with living on a farm and getting older is also one of her best. Relaxed and completely confident, she tackles menopause, farming and (briefly) relationships with men. Her powers of description, physicality and affectionate impersonations are as vivid and funny as ever. Runs to Apr 3, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, ticketmaster.ca. NNNN (GS) year 25 vigil (Humber Theatre). Graduating students perform a work inspired by Margaret Atwood’s The Year Of The Flood, about a dystopian future society. Runs to Mar 12, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $17. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca. yelloW face by David Henry Hwang (Hart House Theatre/fu-GEN Asian Theatre). Mistaken racial identities collide with family, media and politics in this comedy. Runs to Mar 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. 3

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police and animals, noticing the subtle changes in the city and himself. He also, less successfully, voices the thoughts of another walk by Baker, who’s simultaneously dancing on the same stage, sometimes reflecting the content of Healey’s words but more often engaged in a more abstract dance. As expected from a writer of Healey’s calibre, there are many funny and profound observations – about inspiration, repetition and the myth of the Minotaur. The point of the exercise seems to be about an artist’s efforts to make sense of his or her world. But under Daniel Brooks’s direction, the sum of these two lives seldom adds up to something more, and composer/musician Debashis Sinha contributes even gleNN suMi less.

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$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (GS) broThel #9 by Anusree Roy (Factory Theatre). A young woman strives to take control of her life after she is sold to a Calcutta brothel (see review, page 58). Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$40, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) The diary of aNNe fraNk adapted by Wendy Kesselman (Shakespeare in Action). The story of a Jewish girl and her family hiding from the Nazis is adapted for the stage. Runs to Mar 13, see website for schedule. $15, stu/srs $12. Central Commerce CI, 570 Shaw. 416-7034881, shakespeareinaction.org.

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Thursday, March 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Evan Carter, Jeff

Schouela and host Jason Blanchard. To Mar 13, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY AT THE SWAN Black Swan Comedy presents Ralph MacLeod, Gene Abella, Jordan Kennedy and others. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, info@blackswancomedy.com. MARCH MADNESS Impatient Theatre Co presents the 3-on-3 improv tournament. 8 pm. $25. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. SH’LONG Black Swan presents short and long form improv w/ Sam Agro, JP Davidson, Jane Luk, Claire Markham, Evangeline Nitsopoulos, Gord Oxley and Jerry Schaefer. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd Floor. 416-469-0537. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT Second City presents a new show poking fun at the everchanging world we live in (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Tue-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm). $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. WEST END GIRLS: VIRGIN SUICIDES EDITION Poor John’s Café presents all-girl stand-up w/ Erica Scott, Daniela Saioni and brand new comics. 8 pm. Pwyc. 1610 Queen W. 647-435-2688. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Sean Proudlove. To Mar 13, Thu-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/WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 70 Interchange Way/ 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Friday, March 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 10. THE BEST OF THE FEST ENCORE SHOW

Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents ñ performances by SketchFest 2010 awardwinning troupes Falcon Powder, Deadpan Powerpoint and Reverse Oreo. 11 pm. $15. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, torontosketchfest.com.

AN EVENING WITH COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD SHERWOOD Roy Thomson Hall preñ sents a fully improvised night of comedy (see

Q&A, page 56). 8 pm. $29.50-$59.50. 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com. TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle presents stand-up w/ Rhiannon Archer, Brendan McKeigan, Mike Balazo, Julia Hladkowicz, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. texascomedymassacre2.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 10. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 10. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Johnny Gardhouse. To Mar 12, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 70 Interchange Way. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Martha Chaves. To Mar 12, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Saturday, March 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 10. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents family-friendly

improv and sketch. To Mar 19, Mon-Sat 11 am. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. BEERPROV Jim Robinson presents and hosts a short form improv competition. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. IMPROV DROP IN Black Swan Comedy presents a workshop with Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. 154 Danforth. info@blackswancomedy.com.

LAUGHING OUT LOUD... AND PROUD! Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives preñ sents a comedy benefit w/ actor/comic Leslie

Jordan and host Miss Conception. 8 pm. $125$200. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Great Hall. 416-777-2755, clga.ca/lj. SANDRA FRIGGINELLI & FRIENDS The Sal Feldman Talent Agency presents Bobby Knauff, Nile Seguin, Poetic Justice, Chris Locke, Susan Fischer, Christopher Sawchyn, Shelly Marshall and hosts Feldman and Frigginelli. 9 pm. $10. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. 647-883-6317.

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THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 10. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 10. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 11. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 11.

Sunday, March 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 10. BIG LAUGHS IN LITTLE ITALY Public presents

Bryan O’Gorman, Kathleen McGee, Chris Robinson, host Kris Bonaparte and others. 9 pm. Free. 596 College. 416-539-8890. LAUGH SABBATH presents Talent Show! w/ Tim Gilbert, Sara Hennessey, Chris Locke, Rebecca Kohler, Bob Kerr, Norm Sousa, Conor Holler, host James Hartnett and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents improv by the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE SCENE Comedy Bar presents stand-up, long form and short films w/ Dom Pare, Radio Vault, WMKR, Parker & Seville and the Boom. 7:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents a weekly comedy night w/ hosts Melissa Story and Jeff Clark plus musical guests. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 10.

Monday, March 14 THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Sat 12. ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents

Matt O’Brien, Barry Taylor, Dave Martin, Allison Dore, Rob Bebenek, Craig Fay, Monty Scott, MC Nick Beaton and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. COMEDY @ THE CREEK New Reach Creative presents stand-up w/ Sean Craig, Jon Hyatt, Craig Watkins, Phil Watkins, Tyler Brent, Azfar Ali, Rob Bebenek and host Ricky R Singh. 9 pm. Free. P.K. Creek, 255 Dundas W, Mississauga. 905-306-1999, 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.

HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK – OWN THE UNIVERSE Impulsive Entertainment presents Rul-

ers of the Universe, Is This Happening?, John Hastings, Mary MacDonald, Morgan Joy and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. impulsiveentertainment.com. IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com.

$#*! MY MAYOR SAYS Second City presents

current-events comedy about T.O. 7 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Matt Baram, Lisa Brooke and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. STAND-UP(STAIRS) Black Swan presents Andre Arruda, Nikki Payne, Steve Scholtz, Steve Tassie and host Todd van Allen. 10 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. SUPER ORGY IMPROV PARTY Black Swan Comedy presents an open improv jam w/ Ralph MacLeod and Matt McCready. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-9035388, info@blackswancomedy.com. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a weekly variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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Tuesday, March 15 THE AbSOlUTElY POSITIVElY COMPlETElY MADE UP SHOW See Sat 12. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its

students. 6:30 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, up and coming improv teams. 9 pm. $5. To Mar 1. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. SKETCHCOMEDYlOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Ladystache, the Regulars, Diana Love, the Boom, MC Mark DeBonis and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Nikki Payne, Dave Martin, Dave ñ Healey, Becky Bays, Luke Gordon Field, Sarah

Grange, Julie Kim, Ted Hollister’s Cow and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. SUPER lUCKY IMPROV SHOW Black Swan presents a Vegas-themed improv night w/ Matt McCready, Amy Zuch and Gary Chan. 8 pm. $7 or less (dice roll). 154 Danforth. superluckyimprov.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 10. THE TUESDAY NIGHT SPECIAl Drake Hotel presents stand-up w/ Brendan McKeigan, Ryan Maglunob, Michael Balazo, Kathleen McGee, Helder Brum, Gavin Stephens and host Ryan Horwood. 9 pm. $10. 1150 Queen W, Underground. 416-531-5042. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Tom Green. To Mar 16, Tue-Wed 8 pm. $27. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, March 16 AbSOlUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/ Jason Blanchard, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Anthony Ciarduli, Chris Cornish, Shawn B and host Herb Irving. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

THE AbSOlUTElY POSITIVElY COMPlETElY MADE UP SHOW See Sat 12. 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.

bREAKING POINT Collective of Black Artists

(COBA) and Harbourfront NextSteps present traditionally inspired contemporary dance, with works by Zab Maboungou, Charmaine Headley, BaKari E Lindsay and Julia Morris. Mar 11-13, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $27-$35, stu/srs $24-$30. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY IN INDIAN DANCE Kalanidhi Fine Arts and ñ Harbourfront NextSteps present perform-

ances by inDance, Ipsita Nova Dance Projects, Bageshree Vaze & Vineet Vyas, Sadhya Dance and others as part of the symposium and festival. Opens Mar 16 and runs to Mar 19, WedSat 8 pm (see website for symposium info). $30-$35, stu/srs $25-$28; festival pass $80-

$92. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, kalanidhifinearts.org. FUll STOP Hub 14 presents an installation/ dance performance with Marie-Josée Chartier, Colin Edwards, Tina Fushell and others. Opens Mar 15 and runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $22. 14 Markham. hub14fullstop.eventbrite.com. OlDER & RECKlESS MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents works by Keiko Kitano, Sarah Bild with Susanna Hood, Carol Anderson and others. Mar 12-13, Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill. 416-504-6429 ext 30. TORONTO SAlSA FESTIVAl presents workshops, competitions, performances and more. Mar 10-13, see website for details. Evening shows $20-$45; passes $99-$299. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. torontosalsafest.com. THE WHOlE SHEbANG Harbourfront NextSteps and Dreamwalker Dance

THE STAND UP UNDERDOWN COMEDY HOUR

Underdown Pub presents Kate Davis, Nick Beaton, Natalie Norman, Alexander Saxton, Jacob Duarte and host Timothy Allen. 10:30 pm. Free. 263 Gerrard E. 416-927-0815. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT See Thu 10. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Tue 15. 3 Company present a performance on the theme of ‘The Village’ with installation artists, musicians, video artists, writers, dancers and more. Mar 11-12 at 8:30 pm. $38, stu/srs $22. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Jill Knight, Kirk Hicks, Jeremy Johnson, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. corktowncomedy.com. THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. zeldas.ca. MICHAEl SHOWAlTER Horseshoe presents the actor/comedian in a live show. Doors 8:30 pm. $13.50. 370 Queen W. ticketmaster.ca. POURDON ME COMEDY NIGHT Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly show. 10 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. QUANTUM QOMEDY SHOWQASE Double Deuce Saloon presents stand-up w/ Adam Christie, Dom Pare, Ian Gordon, Joel Buxton, Marco Bernardi, Garrett Jamieson, Steph Tolev and host Phil Moorhead. 9 pm. Free. 1168 Queen W. 647-349-8245. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents stand-up w/ Steph Lisson and host Morgan George. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Gavin Stephens, Tim Mes, Kevin MacDonald, Sylvie Manaigre, Eric Clifford, Veronika Swartz, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

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ARE YOU OKAY Peggy Baker Dance Projects

and Necessary Angel present a dance/theatre piece about with choreography and dance by Baker (see review, page 59). Runs to Mar 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-5049971, peggybakerdance.com. NNN (GS) CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS Ryerson Theatre School presents performances by students of the Dance program. Runs to Mar 19, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18, stu/srs $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. ryersontheatre.ca. DON QUIxOTE The National Ballet of Canada presents its version of the archetypal romance story. Runs to Mar 13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Thu and Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$227. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca. 3

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Holz holds us BENEVOLENCE by Cynthia Holz (Knopf), 308 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating: NNN

this new novel by cynthia holz offers that beautiful combination of tension and tenderness. Renata, a therapist who specializes in phobias, has some issues of her own stemming from the death of a sibling when she was young and her failure to conceive. Her husband, Ben, is a transplant psychiatrist, someone who counsels those who’ve offered to give up their organs. His mother, Molly, has just taken in Saul, a lover 50 years earlier who may

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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, March 10 ANDRÉ ALEXIS Interview and discussion. 7 pm.

like shouting, “Don’t go there,” as you might in a horror movie. At other times, though, you just want to shake Ben and Renata. The pair are so unprofessional that you can’t believe they’re able to sustain their therapy practices. But in the end, Holz says more about human growth and connection than she does about weakness.

be Ben’s father, as a boarder. When Renata gets too involved with a pregnant client whose husband died in a train crash and Ben too close to a potential organ donor who seems too good to be true, the couple’s lives, and their marriage, begin to unravel. Holz is deeply skilled at conveying her characters’ emotional chaos. This isn’t a thriller by any means, but she knows how to make a reader feel very anxious. A dinner party at which Molly’s new tenant might spill the beans about the nature of their relationship is fraught. At times, Saul seems downright malevolent. There are moments when you feel

SUSAN G. COLE Holz reads as part of the Harbourfront Readings Series on Wednesday (March 16). See Readings, this page. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

Free. Reference Library Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MADRAS PRESS LAUNCH Readings by Lisa Foad, Derek McCormack and others. 6-8 pm. Free. Type, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973. JODI PICOULT Introducing her new novel, Sing You Home. 7:30 pm. $7. Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Reference Library, 789 Yonge. ticketweb.ca.

CATHERINE GRAHAM/KEVIN HALLIGAN/DAVID HELWIG Reading and open mic. 8 pm. Free.

Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org. SETH Reading. Free. York U, ACW 206, 4700 Keele. 416-736-5158, yorku.ca/ laps/canwrite.

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pm. Free. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. chbooks.com.

Sunday, March 13

JONATHAN COE/CYNTHIA HOLZ/LORNA GOODISON Reading. 7:30 pm. $10, stu

SAMMY HAGAR Signing his memoir, RED: My Uncensored Life In Rock. 2 pm. Free. Chapters Festival Hall, 142 John. chapters.indigo.ca. JIM NASON/RUTH ROACH PIERSON Launch. 3-6:30 pm. Free.

Proof @ Intercontinental Hotel, 220 Bloor W. tightropebooks.com.

free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terr, 235 Queen’s Quay W. 416-973-4000. FRANKIE FLOWERS The gardening expert signs his book Get Growing. Noon. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca. MICHAEL SHOWALTER The comedian signs his new book Mr Funnypants. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. chapters.indigo.ca. 3

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stallation. Eyeballs, bloodshot, bleeding or vacant, stare as you wind Plant (231 Queens Quay West), from Frithrough smaller exhibits of implied day (March 11) to May 29, reception toor actual atrocities that lead to a raised night (Thursday, March 10), 6-10 pm. $6, platform where you can stand inside a stu/srs $3, free Wednesday 5-8 pm. 416giant eye overlooking the room. The 973-4949. Rating: NNN view doesn’t cut through the chaos so much as intensify it. it’s impossible to get through Hirschhorn withholds nothing, Thomas Hirschhorn’s Das Auge (The and some images of the torn casualEye) without feeling bloodied. ties of war, terrorism and the seal Hirschhorn, who’ll represent hunt may turn even the strongest Switzerland at the 2011 Venice Bien- stomach. His eye is indiscriminate: it nale, is known for works that are heav- does not register differences between ily indebted to radical contemporary what is pleasing and horrific. theory and use ready-made, lo-tech Nor is he interested in generating materials. Here he attempts to depict political outrage or moral horror to the many disjointed layers of our any particular end. Instead, he attacks media culture as a single nightmarish the idea of the agenda and representaterrain. tion at their philosophical roots, turnThe eye and the colour red domi- ing the unwieldy machinery of media 24061-AuthorsNOWad.qxd:Mar10 2/25/11 3:23 PM Page 1 nate the massive, claustrophobic in- and image propagation against itself.

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TOMMY EUROPE The personal trainer signs his new book the 10-Pound Shred. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca. CHARLES FORAN Talking about his biography Mordecai: The Life & Times. 3 pm. Free. Ryerson U Oakham House, 63 Gould. ryerson.ca/graduate/literatures.

BECOMING FEMINISTS Anthology launch. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, rm 2-225, 252 Bloor W. cwse@utoronto. ca.

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You’ll be seeing red at Thomas Hirschhorn’s Power Plant show.

With its Dadaist clutter, paranoia and relentless gore, Hirschhorn’s show – on its first North American stop in the renovated Power Plant – might not be for everyone. Beneath the visual hysteria, however, he consistently hides several subtle and intelligent conceits. The rows of empty plastic chairs with xeroxed faces affixed with packing tape, for instance,

are a beautiful visual metaphor for the society of the spectacle as envisioned by Situationist Guy Debord. Fans of French postmodern theorists will probably chuckle and nod knowingly at the many visual and theoretical puns. Others, however, might run for the nearest bathroom. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Sorting Daemons, Mar 10-May 1, reception 6 pm Mar 10 (bus from Gladstone 7-9 pm). 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. AGO Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten (free); Maharaja: The Splendour Of India’s Royal Courts ($22, stu $12.50), to Apr 3. Betty Goodwin, to Apr 24. Paterson Ewen, to May 22. David Blackwood, to Jun 12. $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK U Centre for Incidental Activisms; Gilberto Ante, to Mar 13, Inst for Community Inquiry performance 7-9 pm Mar 11. Lost And Found, to Mar 13. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Photos: Year Of The Rabbit, to Mar 11. Native North American Footwear; Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art, ongoing. Socks: Between You And Your Shoes, to Apr 3. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. DESIGN EXCHANGE Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. Toy Wonder, Mar 12-Apr 7 (free). $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, to Jun 5. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and

under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Ron Terada, to Mar 20. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen, Cabinet, to Mar 27. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. THE POWER PLANT Mona Hatoum, artist’s talk 7 pm Mar 15 ($12). To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?; Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mar 10-May 29, reception 6-10 pm Mar 10. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROM Position As Desired: Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:305:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Kai Chan, to May 1. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape, to May 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. U OF T ART CENTRE UC Collection; North Korean Images At Utopia’s Edge, to Mar 19. Work In Process: UTM/Sheridan students, to Mar 31. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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ART METROPOLE Gordon Lebredt, book launch 1-3 pm Mar 12. 788 King W. 416703-4400. ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY Serial Praxis group show, Mar 14-20. 38 Abell. artscapetrianglegallery.ca. CLARK & FARIA Photos: Stephen Waddell, to Mar 20. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-7031700. EDWARD DAY GALLERY Painting: Melissa Doherty and Jennifer Walton, Mar 10Apr 10, reception 6-8 pm Mar 10. Photos: Dianne Bos, to Apr 10. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540. GALLERY ONE Painting: Helen Frankenthaler, to Mar 31. 121 Scollard. 416-9293103. GALLERY TPW Video/projection works: Bring Your Own Beamer, 8-11 pm Mar 10. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. GALLERYWEST Installation: Evan Tyler and Sheri-D Wilson, to Mar 31. 1332 Queen W. 416-913-7116. INDEXG GALLERY Small Works From The Collection Of Malgorzata Wolak Dault And Gary Michael Dault; prints: Han Xu, to Apr 17. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. KWT CONTEMPORARY Painting/sculpture: Caroline deMooy, John Paul Robinson and Chris Langstroth, to Mar 26. 624 Richmond W. 416-646-2706. MERCER UNION Spiked Tea fundraiser, 2 pm Mar 12 ($60, two for $110). 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519. NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting/drawing: Stephen Appleby-Barr and Renie Spoelstra, Mar 10-Apr 2, reception 6-8 pm Mar 10. 451 King W. 416-205-9000. OCADU ONSITE Book/multimedia: Marian Bantjes, to Jun 5, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Mar 10. 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000. PAUL PETRO Painting: Stephen Andrews and Sandy Plotnikoff, to Mar 26. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. PREFIX Video/installation: Rabih Mroué, to Apr 23. Tania Bruguera, artist’s talk 7:30 pm Mar 10 ($10). 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. SHOW & TELL GALLERY Good Folks group show, to Mar 27. 1161 Dundas W. 647347-3316. SUSAN HOBBS Sculpture: Ian Carr-Harris, Mar 10-Apr 16, reception 7-9 pm Mar 10. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. XPACE Performance (presented by FADO): Extra-Rational, 1-5 pm, 7 pm Mar 12 (1-5 pm free, 7 pm pwyc-$10, performanceart.ca). 58 Ossington. 416849-2864. YYZ Installation: Aldexandre David, to Apr 2. Video: Ashley Guindon, to Mar 12. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

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Director’s gamble pays off Clio Barnard uses audio interviews and lip-synching to document her subject By NORMAN WILNER THE ARBOR directed by Clio Barnard, with Christine Bottomley, Manjinder Virk, George Costigan and Jimi Mistry. A KinoSmith release. 94 minutes. Opens Friday (March 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 67.

clio barnard is trying to bring Andrea Dunbar back to life. The English filmmaker’s new documentary, The Arbor, looks back at the Yorkshire playwright’s life and legacy. Dunbar stunned the London theatre community when her confrontational play about life in her working-class neighbourhood of Buttershaw, The Arbor, premiered in 1980. She’d started it when she was 15. Dunbar wrote a second play, Rita, Sue And Bob Too, which was later brought to the screen by Alan Clarke. Further projects were derailed by her alcoholism and the responsibilities of raising three children. In 1990 Dunbar suffered a brain hemorrhage and died on the floor of a local pub.

She was 29. Barnard spent two years getting to know Dunbar’s children, friends and colleagues for her documentary project, also titled The Arbor. She conducted hours of audio interviews. And then she turned them into something remarkable – a verbatim theatre piece in which actors lip-sync the words of the people they portray. “I’d made a film in 98 where I’d used lip-synching, but I didn’t really know about verbatim theatre,” Barnard says during a recent stop in Toronto at Doc Soup. “If you apply it to film, it makes you aware of the illusion instead of trying to kind of close the gap.” It’s a daring tactic, constantly drawing the viewer’s attention to the disconnect between the speakers and the speech. What Barnard does isn’t quite recreation and it isn’t quite documentary, but it demands our full attention, immersing us in the story in much the same way Barnard found herself immersed in her subject’s world.

handle the technical demands of lipsynching. And all the actors had to find their own way into their characters. “The actors made different choices,” Barnard says. “Manjinder [Virk] said, ‘I don’t want to over-analyze [Dunbar’s daughter] Lorraine,’ so she would ask me questions about her, but she had limits on how much she wanted to know. Whereas Monica Dolan, who played [family friend] Ann, went to Bradford and met Ann and spent time with her. It was demanding of the actors, because technically they had to be very accurate and learn everything very precisely.” Barnard’s happy with the results – but more importantly, so are the residents of Buttershaw, for whom she screened The Arbor before its UK release. “I was nervous about those screenings,” she says. “I don’t normally introduce the film, but I did there, and talked about the reasons why you might choose to make private grief public. The people on the Arbor who were not Andrea’s direct family have also responded really well to the film. There’s a real sense of ownership of the film, which I’m pleased about. That’s gratifying, that people feel it’s theirs in some way.” 3

“I went into the Arbor [developof Andrea’s.” ment] and met a woman called Casting actors to play Dunbar’s Gemma Norman, who was just brilfamily and friends was tricky. Wherliant,” Barnard says. “We got on very, ever possible, Barnard wanted to use very well. Her cousin is Andrea’s actors associated with Dunbar’s nephew, and through work, but they also had to be able to normw@nowtoronto.com her I met a whole network of peoREVIEW ple very quickTHE ARBOR (Clio Barnard) ly. A lot of the Rating: NNNN people you see Clio Barnard’s documentary looks at the artistic and emotional legacy of Yorkshire in the backplaywright Andrea Dunbar, who stunned the London theatre world with her conground are frontational works The Arbor and Rita, Sue And Bob Too, and died of a brain relatives hemorrhage at the age of 29, leaving three children behind. Barnard’s movie – also called The Arbor, after the Bradford housing estate in which Dunbar was raised – explores the relationship between the playwright and her environment, and the impact of her death on her children. Her daughter Lorraine bore the brunt of the loss; by her teens, she was a heroin addict and a prostitute, caught in a second wave of misery that arguably has a worse outcome than her mother’s story. Barnard presents the material as verbatim theatre: actors lip-synch to audio interviews with Dunbar’s family and friends. It’s a brilliant formal decision that shatters our preconceptions about documentary devices like talking heads and re-enactments and forces us to engage more directly with the subjects. Christine Bottomley gives life to someone in Andrea Dunbar’s world NW A powerful tale not easily shaken off.

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Maria Vacratsis (left) watches over Elana McMurtry in the powerful Small, Stupid, And Insignificant.

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Gray matter AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE

(Steven Soderbergh). 89 minutes. Opens today (Thursday, March 10) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 71. Rating: NNNN

FESTIVAL REVIEWS

Focusing on the Female Eye Last year a woman won the best-director Oscar. The next winner could be part of the Female Eye Film Fest. FEMALE EYE FILM FESTIVAL from Wednesday (March 16) to March 20 at Rainbow Cinemas Market Square (80 Front East), unless otherwise specified. See Indie & Rep Film, page 74 . femaleeyefilmfestival.com.

The Female Eye Festival takes the female gaze very seriously, in terms of both form and content. This year, look for an array of intriguing short films and some strange and challenging features. Here’s a sampling of what’s on tap – and keep in mind that the gala opening actually screens the second day of the festival.

Falls fascinates AMAZON FALLS (Katrin Bowen). 82 minutes. March 17 at 7 pm at the Carlton, followed by a director Q&A. Then continues in first-run at the Carlton from March 18. Rating: NNN

Here’s a pic that has an amateurish feel but aptly reflects its theme: life in the schlock-movie biz. Jana (April Telek) used to be a Bmovie star in a series of Amazon flicks, but she’s getting old, and that’s not a good thing in Hollywood. Worse still, she’s not prepared to accept the fact that her time is up. Her DJ boyfriend is a druggie leech, she’s working in a sleazy club where she gets big tips for doing who knows what, and she’s constantly fantasizing that the next audition will make her an indie star.

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Telek gives a performance that manages to be both over-the-top and believable, but the key to Amazon Falls is its commentary on the desperation of women seeking fame in all the SUSAN G. COLE wrong places.

Not Small at all SMALL, STUPID, AND INSIGNIFICANT (Valerie Buhagiar). 42 min-

utes. March 18 at 4:30 pm, as part of the International Filmmakers Series program. Rating: NNNN

character to shake things up. But fierce emotions and mesmerizing performances – the benefits of being directed by an actor – blend with the visual strategies to create a strangely beautiful and powerful movie. SGC More, please.

Highly stilted THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (Deborah Chow). 92 minutes. March 18 at 6:45pm. Rating: NN

hand-wringing manipulation from writer/director Deborah Chow. The movie, which was chosen as one of TIFF Cinematheque’s top 10 Canadian films of 2010, plays like a linear version of a Guillermo Arriaga misery-porn script, with characters making illogical decisions for no other reason than to keep the plot moving in ever-gloomier directions. Blais and Braff both try to give real performances, but the mechanics of Chow’s script make it an uphill battle. NORMAN WILNER

A Montreal drug peddler (Zach Valerie Buhagiar’s chosen the wrong Braff) befriends a pregnant title for this short feature. There’s woman (Isabelle Blais) still nothing small, stupid or insignificant carrying her dead fetus after about this film or its themes. a hit and run – without tellWith her sister Magda lying in a ing her he was the guy coma for three years, Marie driving the car – in (Tara Nicodemo) tries to this stilted and figure out whether Magincreasingly da’s or her own life is scoff-worthy worth living. Her mother exercise in (Maria Vacratsis) has no patience for Marie’s philosophical angst and refuses to give up on Magda. Better known as an actor, Buhagiar takes some experimental risks, projecting images on mirrors and walls (mostly of the family’s home movies), toying with the soundscape and bringing in a mysterious male Anna Mae Routledge (left) and April Telek play fame seekers in fest opener Amazon Falls.

I had breakfast once with Spalding Gray. It was the summer of 1992, and he was in Toronto promoting his first novel, Impossible Vacation. I interviewed him over waffles. It was sweet and odd and maybe a hair too intimate – much like his confessional style as a stage performer. In other words, it was exactly what I’d hoped the experience would be. Gray ended his life in January 2004, but director Steven Soderbergh and editor Susan Littenberg have resurrected the beloved actor and monologuist in a sort of performance collage. Soderbergh cast Gray in King Of The Hill and directed the film version of Gray’s Anatomy, so he knows his subject as well as anybody. Relying on archival recordings of live performances – most heavily Sex And Death To The Age 14 and Monster In A Box, which detail Gray’s childhood and adolescence and his struggles with his mother’s suicide and his own darker moods – Soderbergh assembles a summary performance, punctuated by the odd clip from a TV interview or home video to place a story in context. Gray’s material remains as funny, honest and joyous as it ever was, though of course our melancholy knowledge of his death undercuts some of the high points. But it’s lovely to have him back, if NORMAN WILNER only for a little while.

Everything obviously wasn’t all fine for Spalding Gray.

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Battle replay Battle los angeles (Jonathan Liebesman). 116 minutes. Opens Friday (March 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 67. Rating: nnn

Battle Los Angeles opens in the middle of a global alien invasion, with a load of Marines taking a moment to register the obliteration of downtown Los Angeles before throwing themselves into enemy territory. It’s a great way to start, but the picture doesn’t have the stones to follow through on the promise of a truly unconventional sci-fi flick. Director Jonathan Liebesman quickly turns back the clock so we can spend 20 minutes watching the characters lay out their prefab baggage before the aliens arrive. Wouldn’t it be great if a movie like this just hit the ground running? That’d be a much more daring proposition. Ultimately, this is an alien-invasion blockbuster designed for

those people who wondered why Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds was all flight and no fight. To redress that perceived failing, screenwriter Christopher Bertolini cribs his structure from another Spielberg picture, Saving Private Ryan, following a single platoon of soldiers on a rescue mission through enemy territory. But where Spielberg’s film works as a commentary on warmovie clichés, Battle Los Angeles merely recycles them. It’s all forward momentum, except when it pauses to let Aaron Eckhart’s world-weary staff sergeant deliver a generic motivational speech. And even that moment is

comfortably familiar, simultaneously superficial and satisfying, just like the John Wayne pictures this movie’s audience has never seen. norman Wilner

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Red Riding Hood

Mars Needs Moms

(D: Catherine Hardwicke, 109 min) We’ve always thought that Amanda Seyfried (Mamma Mia!, Letters To Juliet) would be good in a horror flick. Something about those great big eyes. Now she gets to sink her teeth into a stylish, scary film based on the Perrault fairy tale. Director Catherine Hardwicke knows how to get a lot of atmosphere from a modest budget; she directed the first Twilight, after all. And the talented cast – Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, newcomer Shiloh Fernandez and Julie Christie – should make the pic go down nicely.

(D: Simon Wells, 88 min) Berkeley Breathed is best known for his long-running comic strips, but he’s also written several picture books. Among them is Mars Needs Moms, about a boy who discovers how much he needs his mom after she’s abducted by aliens. Simon Wells directs an animated version starring the voices of Seth Green and Joan Cusack. If it’s a hit, maybe it’ll still be playing on Mother’s Day.

Amanda Seyfried cries wolf in Red Riding Hood.

Aaron Eckhart gears up for the serviceable Battle Los Angeles.

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Both open Friday (March 11). Screened after press time – see reviews March 11 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Gribble (voiced by Dan Fogler) and Milo (Seth Green) hit the mother lode.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of ﬁlm, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating. Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise speciﬁed. The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our ﬁlm times on page 71.

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(George Nolfi) is a nimble, genre-shifting hybrid of political drama, conspiracy thriller and romantic comedy. Writer/director Nolfi’s remarkable debut stars Matt Damon as a New York senatorial candidate who meets the girl of his dreams (Emily Blunt) only to learn a mysterious team of suits led by John Slattery and Anthony Mackie is bent on keeping him from ever seeing her again. It’s exactly what we need 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. 106 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Steven Soderbergh) 89 min. See review, page 64. (NW) Opens Mar 10 at 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 occasionally a lot of wine. If Leigh’s film feels unhurried, plotless and schematic, well, that’s kind of the point. During these naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, there are dramatic moments when minor discomforts and awkwardness, and even manifestations of class consciousness, threaten the couple’s strictly sustained pleasantness. As the conflicted and notably less educated friend who might make the wheels fall off life’s cycle, Lesley Manville delivers an awards-calibre performance masking pain and vulnerability with drunken eccentricity. 130 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

THE ARBOR (Clio Barnard) 94 min. See interview and review, page 63. NNNN (NW) Opens Mar 11 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 74).

BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel, looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Mont-

real 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

(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, Interchange 30, 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 EXPANDED REVIEWS BATTLE LOS ANGELES Michelle Williams denowtoronto.com (Jonathan Liebesman) liver superb, natural 116 min. See review, performances as the page 66. NNN (NW) endearing yet rough-around-the-edges Opens Mar 11 at 401 & Morningside, couple who long ago seemed perfect for Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colieach other but can now barely carry on a seum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park conversation without breaking a few 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres things. 120 min. NNN (RS) at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, QueenCarlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway sway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, ScotiaCEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel Arteta) features Ed bank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Helms panicking an awful lot as a smallYonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity. town insurance salesman who travels to BEASTLY (Daniel Barnz) is a miscalculated Iowa for a convention and finds himself modern adaptation of that fairy tale confronted with all the writhing debauchabout a beautiful girl and a vain monster, ery of the big city. But the sales-convenobviously meant to cash in on the craze tion-as-bacchanal thing was summed up for fantasy films about hormonal teens, in a few brief scenes in Up In The Air, and started by a certain chick-lit vampire serthe rest of the office details have been ies. But Beastly simply shows how Twilight covered at length by Helms himself on got it right. As Kyle, hexed with scar-tissue The Office. Director Arteta has assembled and some nifty tats, and Lindy, the idealisa terrific comic cast and simply left his tic girl he’s sweet on, Alex Pettyfer and actors hanging. You wouldn’t think it Vanessa Hudgens can’t conjure the sexual possible for John C. Reilly to give a bad intensity of Edward and Bella. It doesn’t performance as a glad-handing douchehelp that they have to choke on clunky bag, but he’s a constant annoyance here. dialogue about the “death of romance” 86 min. NN (NW) and an unsubtle screenplay that reeks of Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy laziness. The only person who comes out Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 of this mess looking good is Mary-Kate THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE Olsen, who clearly has some fun with her OF THE DAWN TREADER (Michael Apted) goth-flavoured witch. The rest of the movfinds the two youngest Pevensie siblings ie is just cursed. 97 min. N (RS) (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, whisked – along with their obnoxious Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town cousin (Will Poulter) – to the oceans of Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Narnia, joining King Caspian (Ben Barnes) Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, in a quest to find some missing lords and Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity restore balance to his magical land. That Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity is, until the movie drops all pretence of Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 entertainment and turns into Walden BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Media’s creepiest proselytization yet. 112 (John Whitesell) continues to drag the min. NN (NW) men-in-drag formula through the mud. In Empire Theatres at Empress Walk this second witless sequel, Martin LawCURLING (Denis Côté) is a formally rence reprises his role as FBI agent Malrigid, visually stark tale of a father colm, once again donning the muumuu and daughter living in near-isolation in a and rolls of latex as stereotypical Big tiny Quebec town. Jean-François (EmmanMomma, this time accompanied by his uel Bilodeau) works odd jobs at a motel rapper wannabe stepson, Trent (Brandon and a bowling alley, rebuffing his coT. Jackson). Witnesses to murder, the two workers’ attempts at conversation. fat-suit-clad men hide out in an Atlanta Meanwhile, tween daughter Julyvonne arts school for girls. It’s Some Like It Hot (Philomène Bilodeau) drifts into a world of with Lawrence and Jackson finding ways her own, encountering strange things in to make the cross-dressing antics as monthe woods behind their house that may or otonous as possible. There’s also a hapless may not be real. They’ve retreated into a attempt to bank on the popularity of Glee: very small space and can’t find their way girls in the art school frequently break into out. Côté wants to show us the ways musical numbers, and Trent chimes in people protect the ones they love and with his own freestyles. No one in the cast how that drive can lead to an unnecessary has any actual musical talent, though, withdrawal from the world. There’s hope which might be the only funny thing in this film; you just have to look for it. about this movie. 108 min. N (RS) Subtitled. 96 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum ScarTIFF Bell Lightbox borough, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, DRIVE ANGRY (Patrick Lussier) takes Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiaeverything that’s good about 1970s bank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale grindhouse movies – sun, sweat, muscle cars, sinister cultists, an undercurrent of BIUTIFUL (Alejandro González irreverent wit, unapologetic servings of Iñárritu) tracks small-time criminal sex and violence – and distills it into a and single father Uxbal (Oscar-nominated Nicolas Cage chase movie. In 3-D and Javier Bardem), who’s just beein informed everything! Cage has a great deal of fun that he’s dying. Super-intense, it’s not for tearing up the American South to rescue a everyone, just those who want to experibaby from apocalyptic cultists, with ence a terrific filmmaker and superb another pursuer known only as the Acperformer at the height of their powers. countant (William Fichtner) on his own Subtitled. 147 min. NNNN (SGC) tail. Amber Heard steals the picture as an Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queencontinued on page 68 œ

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THE ADJUSTMENT CURLING BUREAU Denis Côté’s odd Matt Damon and Emily Blunt play two people destined to be together in this genre-shifting movie based on a Philip K. Dick story. Silly premise, but beautifully executed.

little character study – it has all the elements of a horror ﬂick – focuses on a father and daughter living in nearisolation in a small Quebec town. Keep your eye on Côté.

ANOTHER YEAR

Unfairly neglected during North American awards season, Mike Leigh’s quiet, almost eventless ﬁlm looks at a year in the life of a couple nearing retirement, their friends and family.

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And this story, of seum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park all stories, is strong enough to work with16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres out the heroine also being a ninja. 84 min. at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy NNN (NW) Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Mar401 & Morningside, ket Square, Rainbow Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Promenade, Rainbow Scarborough, Colossus, Woodbine, Scotiabank EXPANDED REVIEWS Courtney Park 16, EglinTheatre, SilverCity nowtoronto.com ton Town Centre, Grande Fairview, SilverCity - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Mississauga, SilverCity Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, RainYorkdale bow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverTHE EAGLE (Kevin Macdonald) plays like City Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & unintentional softcore gay porn. Marcus Dundas 24 (Channing Tatum) is a 140 AD Roman solTHE GREEN HORNET (Michel Gondry) finds dier who, with his British slave Esca (Jamie Gondry and writer/star Seth Rogen collabBell), travels north of Hadrian’s Wall to orating on a big-budget update of a charretrieve his legion’s emblem, reportedly acter best known from a 1960s TV series. lost by his father years before. There, the The opening sequence belongs in a far tables are turned and Marcus is suddenly sharper picture, and the film’s climax is at the mercy of Esca. It’s not until the final built around a novel, thoroughly Gondryact that director Macdonald delivers the esque idea – though it’s preceded by one kind of adventure demanded by the genre. of the sloppiest car chases in memory, He’s not helped by Tatum, who mumbles made even worse by the added darkness his lines when he’s not squinting his baby imposed by the 3-D conversion process. blues at the horizon. 114 min. NN (GS) 118 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum ScarborTHE FIGHTER (David O. Russell) is the story ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton of working-class Massachusetts boxer Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg, who toils in Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 the shadow of his older brother Dicky HALL PASS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly) (Christian Bale), a former fighter who’s finds the makers of Dumb & Dumber and since spiralled into crack addiction. It’s is There’s Something About Mary trying to an underdog story that plays out just like reclaim the territory they ceded to Judd Rocky, only in this version Adrian has an Apatow in the last decade with a midlifeoutgoing personality and Paulie is on the crisis comedy about two dorky Providence pipe. 115 min. NN (NW) husbands (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, given a week off of marriage by their Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate). Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, InterThe Farrellys are attempting to court a change 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank slightly more mature audience, but they Theatre haven’t grown up themselves, They’re still casting their non-actor pals in supporting FROM PRADA TO NADA (Angel Gracia) is roles and paying absolutely no attention based on Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensto setting up shots, pacing scenes or even ibility, but even if you’re not familiar with building up momentum from one set the novel, this sometimes fun rom-com – piece to the next. The characters come in which two rich girls find them selves across as venal idiots rather than the fruspoor after their father dies – is as predicttrated souls they need to be for the jokes able as daybreak. 107 min. NN (SGC) to work, and the gross-out gags are so blaInterchange 30 tantly out of place that you have to wonFUNKYTOWN (Daniel Roby) has a bloated der why they’re even here – other than the narrative, but it spectacularly evokes the fact that the Farrellys just don’t know any era when the Parti Quebecois came to other way to make movies. N (NW) power, disco dominated the dance scene 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, and AIDS hadn’t yet reared its head. BasCarlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, tien (Patrick Huard) is king of the scene, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town hosting radio’s most popular disco show Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, as well as huge TV hit Disco Dance Party. Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, RainThere’s also gay TV co-host Jonathan, closbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, Silvereted disco dancer Tino and not-so-superCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & model Adriana. They all gather at the Dundas 24 Montreal club Starlight, bankrolled by HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY Gilles and run by the son he constantly HALLOWS – PART 1 (David Yates) is ridicules. Screenwriter Steve Galluccio nearly two and a half hours long, doesn’t (Mambo Italiano) has way too much going have an ending and introduces characters on here, and the moralism about drug use and situations that won’t pay off until the is a bit much. But when Gilles comments second half reaches theatres next sumthat the PQ’s going to fuck up his business mer – and none of that matters. This is the or washed-up disco singer Mimi discovers most satisfying and confident Harry Pota punk all-girl band, you can appreciate ter movie yet. 146 min. NNNN (NW) how spectacularly Funkytown captures Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30 the moment. Subtitled. 132 min. NNN (SGC) I AM NUMBER FOUR (D.J. Caruso) is a step Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Varsity backwards for Disturbia and Eagle Eye director Caruso, whose latest film feels GNOMEO AND JULIET (Kelly Asbury) crosslike a merely adequate sci-fi series pilot. es Shakespeare with Toy Story to transAlex Pettyfer plays John Smith, the fake pose the Bard’s timeless tale of young love name of an alien who hides out in a midto the back gardens of adjoining British western high school to escape detection homes, where the lawn ornaments of Mr. from another set of aliens who want to Capulet and Mrs. Montague have been at destroy the human race. As John discovers war for generations. The animation is his powers – glowing palms, superhuman bright and inventive, James McAvoy and strength, etc – as well as love (with Glee’s Emily Blunt are nicely matched as the tituDianna Agron), the evil aliens draw closer. lar lovers, and Jason Statham, of all

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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, 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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

INCENDIES (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

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

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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

Animated flick Mars Needs Moms hopes for stratospheric box office results this weekend.

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(Tom Hooper) turns the relationship between the stammering prince who would become George VI (Colin Firth) and his expat Australian speech trainer (Geoffrey Rush) into a charming little period piece. Director Hooper uses inventive staging and surprising visual choices to goose the straightforward material and brings out the best in Firth, Rush and co-star Helena Bonham Carter. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Mars Needs MoMs (Simon Wells) 88

min. See Also Opening, page 66. Opens Mar 11 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

John Adams’s contemporary opera about the historic 1972 visit by U.S. president Richard Nixon to try to open up diplomatic relations in China. 255 min. Mar 12, 1 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

No striNGs attached (Ivan Reitman) wrangles some very appealing actors (Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher), gives them some potentially entertaining things to do (have sex without commitment) and proceeds to play everything out well beyond the point of exhaustion. For a movie about people who have a great deal of sex, this is awfully frustrating. 110 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre Nora’s Will (Mariana Chenillo) takes

place almost entirely in a Mexico City apartment, where the title character lies dead on her bedroom floor, having committed suicide and left behind a complete list of instructions for the people who will find her, right down to a reminder not to over-salt the food in the fridge. Her exhusband (Fernando Luján) is thus stuck dealing with sanctimonious rabbis, put-

tering housemaids and distraught relatives, all of whom seem intent on interfering with his own awkward grieving process. Writer/director Chenillo aims for cantankerous dramedy but miscalculates the emotional stakes. Nora’s orchestrated suicide may have been a clever gimmick on the page, but on screen it’s a profoundly shitty thing to do. The movie keeps trying to brush it aside, but I couldn’t let it go. Subtitled. 92 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Rainbow Promenade

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(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. continued on page 70 œ

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Just Go With it (Dennis Dugan) finds Adam Sandler turning his lazy attentions to a remake of the 1969 farce Cactus Flower, playing a plastic surgeon who recruits his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) and her children as his fake family when his latest fling (Brooklyn Decker) proves to be more than a one-night stand. It’s 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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, 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 self-serious 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 Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity

ious villain-beats-hero premise, but it’s executed with parts cribbed from Shrek, Despicable Me, The Incredibles and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Will Ferrell is great as the insecure super-genius, and David Cross has fun as his talking-fish sidekick, but they’re trapped in a formula storyline. 96 min. NN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

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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, Kennedy Commons 20

(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 THE ROOMMATE (Christian Christiansen) solution. Franco is terrific as a guy with a rips off Single White Female without any powerful will to live. And yes, the climax is comprehension of what exactly as gruelling as it’s doing. Sara, a peryou’ve heard. 93 min. petually pouty fashionNNNN (NW) EXPANDED REVIEWS ista from Iowa, ends up Carlton Cinema, Internowtoronto.com rooming with Rebecca, a change 30, Kennedy Pasadena sociopath. The Commons 20, Regent movie is a limp thriller that banks its Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre frights on Leighton Meester’s Rebecca, RABBIT HOLE (John Cameron whose strained head tilts and gleaming Mitchell) tracks bereaved parents eyeballs are so overused that they verge Becca and Howie in a moving meditation on parody. 93 min. N (RS) on grief. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborare sensational, as is Dianne Wiest as ough, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Kidman’s mother. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30 SANCTUM (Alister Grierson) combines two RANGO (Gore Verbinski) is a peculiar, of executive producer James Cameron’s snappy and delightful riff on spacurrent interests – underwater exploraghetti westerns masquerading as a family tion and 3-D photography – for an intermovie. Johnny Depp voices the titular mittently entertaining adventure about household lizard who gets lost and ends trapped cave divers trying to find their up marshalling a town full of colourful way back to the surface. As a test run for critters desperate for water. Rango bucks low-light 3-D digital cinema, it’s a little current conventions by staying 2-D, yet it’s wobbly. As a movie, it’s considerably more filled to the brim with exhilarating scenso. 109 min. 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NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ColiCarlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Regent seum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy SWEET KARMA (Andrew Thomas Hunt) 86 Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Marmin. See review, page 74. N (AD) ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Opens Mar 11 at the Bloor (see Indie & Rep Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Film, page 74). Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity TANGLED (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidRED RIDING HOOD (Catherine Hardwicke) ly realized digital fantasy designed to look 109 min. See Also Opening, page 66. like a Disneyland attraction come to life. Opens Mar 11 at 401 & Morningside, Beach The best performance is delivered by the Cinemas, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, animators of Maximus, a guardsman’s Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, horse clearly modelled on Tommy Lee Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Jones in The Fugitive – but funnier, Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Marobviously, because he’s a horse. 101 min. ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow NNNN (NW) Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum ScarborFairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity ough, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre THE RITE (Mikael Håfström) stars Colin TRON: LEGACY (Joseph Kosinski) showO’Donoghue as an American seminary cases breathtaking visual designs: neon-lit student of little faith who goes to Rome to digital vistas and cool, sexy interiors that study exorcisms under Anthony Hopkins’s look like an Apple commercial directed by Jesuit priest. 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THE WAY BACK (Peter Weir) follows seven prisoners who escape from a Russian gulag in 1940 and walk across the steppe, the Himalayas and the Gobi Desert to freedom. The first half-hour depicting life in the gulag is devastating, but The Way Back feels more like an extreme travelogue than a coherently scripted film. 133 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema YOGI BEAR (Eric Brevig) won’t be spawning any new interest in the 50-year-old cartoon bear who parts campers from their “pic-a-nic” baskets. The new live-action movie featuring CGI renditions of Yogi and Boo Boo on a mission to save Jellystone has sly winks and tongue-in-check humour that may satisfy adults but are bound to go over a five-year-old’s head. 83 min. NN (RS) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30 3

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THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 OF GODS AND MEN Thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sat, MonWed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 9:30 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:45, 9:10 FriSat 12:55, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10, 11:25 Sun-Wed 12:55, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:45 late DRIVE ANGRY (18A) Thu 9:35 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:35, 9:05 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 12:40, 3:30, 7:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:35 3:50 6:40 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:30, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:05 Fri-Sat 11:15 late UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE)

I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 L.A. PHILHARMONIC LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Sun 5:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:00 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:15 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:40, 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 12:40, 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:10 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40, 2:30, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 TANGLED 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:50 THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Wed 7:00

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (14A) Thu-Sat 1:45, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:45, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15 Mon 6:00, 8:15 CURLING (14A) Thu, Sat-Wed 9:30 INCENDIES (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:15 Mon 7:15, 10:00 OF GODS AND MEN Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 4:50, 10:30 Mon 7:30, 10:30

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 7:10, 10:20 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:30, 5:00, 9:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:20, 10:05 FUNKYTOWN (18A) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 INCENDIES (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:20, 10:15 Mon 12:30, 3:50, 10:15 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20

VIP SCREENINGS

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) 12:45, 3:25, 6:15, 9:05 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 1:15, 5:15, 8:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 6:55, 9:45 SatWed 1:35, 4:25, 6:55, 9:45

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

BEASTLY (PG) Thu-Fri 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Sat-Wed 11:15, 12:00, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, MonTue 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Wed 7:45, 10:10 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 9:00 Fri 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 8:50 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 8:50 Mon-Wed 10:40, 11:30, 12:45, 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 8:50 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:40, 12:45 mat THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 SatSun 10:50 mat

HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 11:00, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu 2:45 5:15 8:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Thu-Fri no 12:15 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 4:15, 9:45 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:45, 7:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Thu 8:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 12:45 mat MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 SatWed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 SatWed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 MARS NEEDS MOMS AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Wed 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 MOOZ-LUM Thu-Fri 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:05 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 4:10 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:25 mat THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 SatSun 10:50 mat TANNU WEDS MANNU (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:45 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Wed 1:50, 10:20 TRON: LEGACY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 TRUE GRIT (14A) 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Fri 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:50, 11:45, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 10:50, 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15

Sun only 1:20 4:20 7:35 10:00 10:20 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:20, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 1:25, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:55 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:35 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sat, Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7:50, 10:40 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55

Metro

West End KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

Midtown

ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Thu 2:30 BIUTIFUL (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 4:45 THE FIGHTER (14A) Fri-Wed 9:35 THE ILLUSIONIST Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 11:00 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 4:15 TANGLED (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 9:20 Fri-Wed 2:15

CANADA SQUARE (CE)

QUEENSWAY (CE)

2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:20 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10 Fri 4:30, 7:40 Sat-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:40 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:15 Fri 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 SatWed 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 DRIVE ANGRY (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 SatWed 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 FUNKYTOWN (18A) Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 4:15, 6:45 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Sat-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 SatWed 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 UNKNOWN (14A) Fri 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Thu, Sun, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 9:20 Sat 4:10, 9:25 INSIDE JOB (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00 Sun 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

127 HOURS (14A) Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:20

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:30 1:20 3:40 4:20 6:40 7:20 9:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:50, 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu-Fri 12:05, 3:15, 6:25, 9:50 Sat 6:25, 9:50 Sun 12:05, 3:15, 9:50 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Tue 12:20, 1:00, 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 12:20, 1:05, 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:35 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:10 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 3:10, 9:05 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 3:25, 6:50, 10:20 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 1:35, 7:25, 10:25 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Wed 9:35 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 12:40 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 Thu 9:35 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Tue 1:05, 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 Wed 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 12:45, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 12:50, 3:45, 9:45 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 L.A. PHILHARMONIC LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Sun 5:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 12:15, 6:15 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:20 1:10 3:20 4:10 6:20 7:00 9:00 9:40

Fri-Wed 12:15, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:15, 6:55, 9:00, 9:40 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Wed 7:00

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 BEASTLY (PG) 12:50, 2:55, 5:10, 7:15, 9:40 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 7:05, 9:35 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 7:05, 9:45 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) 12:45, 2:45, 5:00 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 7:10, 9:35 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 1:25, 4:10 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:50, 4:50, 7:10, 9:15 RANGO (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20

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

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 6:40 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 6:40 Thu-Fri no 1:30 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 7:10 Fri-Wed 9:00 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 10:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:20 Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

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

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) 1:10, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:40 Fri-Sat 11:59 late BEASTLY (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20, 11:30 Sun 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (PG) Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:00 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:55 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40, 11:55 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:40 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 7:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 5:00, 10:20 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 11:50 late MEGAMIND (PG) Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:10, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:25, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20, 11:40 Sun 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20 continued on page 72 œ

259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:10 2:00 4:00 5:00 6:50 7:30 9:40 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:00, 3:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 6:20, 9:20 Wed 12:20, 3:20, 9:20 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) 12:00, 1:00, 1:50, 3:00, 4:00, 4:50, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:10, 10:00, 10:45 Sun only 12:00 1:00 1:50 3:00 4:00 4:50 6:10 7:00 8:00 9:10 10:00 10:45 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 2:20, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Wed 10:40 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 10:15 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon 1:10, 3:50, 10:30

NOW MARCH 10-16 2011

movie times Mon-Wed 12:00, 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20 SANCTUM (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 8:00, 10:45 YOGI BEAR (G) Mon-Wed 12:05, 2:10, 4:30

DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 8:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:00 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:30 Fri-Wed 9:20 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:10 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:10 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 RANGO (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05

11:00 mat 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:40 RANGO (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun, TueWed 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Mon 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Wed 11:35, 12:15, 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 THE RITE (14A) 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat THE ROOMMATE (PG) Fri 2:40, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Wed 11:45, 2:40, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 SANCTUM (14A) 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat TANGLED (PG) Fri 2:20, 4:50 Sat-Wed 11:45, 2:20, 4:50 TRUE GRIT (14A) 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat UNKNOWN (14A) 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Thu 1:30 mat, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat

GRANDE - YONGE (CE)

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE)

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:20 7:20 10:00 FriWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Thu-Fri no 1:30 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:30 6:30 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Thu-Fri no 12:20 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 4:30, 8:00 Fri 5:20, 8:40 Sat-Wed 1:50, 5:20, 8:40 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:35, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:05, 10:05 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 8:45 Fri 3:55, 6:45 Sat-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 4:40 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Thu-Fri no 1:40 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 9:55 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:10 7:10 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Thu-Fri no 1:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:40 6:40 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Thu-Sat no 12:40 L.A. PHILHARMONIC LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Sun 5:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 NORA’S WILL Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 Sat 6:20, 9:30 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 1:20, 3:45, 4:20, 6:55, 7:20, 9:55, 10:20 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00, 10:30 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat 7:25, 10:25 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 8:40 THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:30 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Tue 12:40, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:20 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 THE RITE (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 TANGLED (PG) Thu 1:25

GTA Regions

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4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) 12:10, 2:20 Wed no 2:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Wed 2:40, 10:30 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:40 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 1:20, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Wed 7:00

SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) 10:15 Thu 1:45 mat, 4:50 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 I AM NUMBER FOUR 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Sat-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50

Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 FriSat 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:20, 3:15, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 Sun-Wed 12:30, 1:20, 3:15, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:00 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:50, 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:00, 6:30, 8:50

MARCH 10-16 2011 NOW

SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:10, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:10 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 6:45, 9:30 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:05 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Fri-Wed 1:10 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:50, 9:45 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 7:05 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 1:15, 4:15, 9:55 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:45 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:35, 9:40 L.A. PHILHARMONIC LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Sun 5:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 RANGO (PG) Thu 4:10, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat, MonWed 12:30, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Wed 7:00

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

7 KHOON MAAF (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:45, 9:15 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 2:35 4:50 7:05 9:20 Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Thu-Fri no 11:50 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 2:05 4:35 7:10 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:35 mat CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 THE COMPANY MEN (14A) Thu 2:20 5:05 7:40 10:25 FriWed 2:20, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:20 mat DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Thu 2:40 mat, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 THE FIGHTER (14A) 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat THE GREEN HORNET (PG) Fri 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Sat-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 1:35 4:25 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun

Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:15 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 6:40, 9:30 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Wed 1:50, 4:20, 10:30 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:05, 9:40 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 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, 3:10, 6:00 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:20 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: NIXON IN CHINA ENCORE Sat 1:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 6:25, 7:15, 9:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 4:00, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 Wed 12:30, 3:10, 4:00, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:25 TANGLED (PG) Thu 12:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Wed 7:00

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Fri 3:00, 5:25, 8:30, 11:05 Sat-Sun 10:00, 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 8:30, 11:05 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 8:30, 11:05 BATTLE: LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri 2:05, 3:05, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:20, 11:10 Sat-Sun 10:05, 11:25, 12:35, 2:05, 3:05, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:20, 11:10 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:05, 3:05, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:20, 11:10 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 DRIVE ANGRY 3D (18A) Thu 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 9:05 Sat-Sun 10:05, 3:30, 9:05 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:45, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 Fri 6:15 Sat-Sun 12:45, 6:15 Mon-Wed 12:35, 6:15 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:15, 8:15, 10:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 Fri 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Sat-Sun 10:15, 12:45, 3:20, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 5:15, 10:35 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 8:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Sat 10:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 SatSun 10:10, 12:15 mat MARS NEEDS MOMS AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Fri 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 RANGO (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:50, 4:35, 5:20, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 Fri 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:40, 11:35, 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 2:50 5:30 8:10 10:45 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat

SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:15, 9:40 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 9:40 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 6:15, 9:40 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:15, 7:00, 9:45 DRIVE ANGRY (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Thu 9:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 L.A. PHILHARMONIC LIVE: DUDAMEL CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Sun 5:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:00 FriWed 12:40, 1:45, 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:05 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10

North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:50 6:55 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Thu-Fri no 12:20 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 BLACK SWAN (14A) Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 BLUE VALENTINE Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 Fri 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 COUNTRY STRONG (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 THE DILEMMA (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 6:25, 9:25 Sat-Wed 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 DUE DATE (14A) Thu 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 THE EAGLE (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 6:25, 9:25 SatWed 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 4:05, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:10 Sat-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:10 FROM PRADA TO NADA (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Fri 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1 (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:20 Fri 6:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:40, 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri 3:25, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 SatSun 10:35, 12:30, 1:20, 3:25, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:20, 3:25, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 LITTLE FOCKERS (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Fri 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:20, 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45

THE MECHANIC Thu 4:30, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 127 HOURS (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 PATIALA HOUSE (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Wed 12:15, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 RABBIT HOLE (14A) Thu 5:25, 7:55, 10:05 Fri 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Fri 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:25, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 THE RITE (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 3:55, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 9:50 THE ROOMMATE (PG) Fri 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Wed 2:55, 7:20, 10:05 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Fri 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 THE TOURIST (PG) Thu 4:30 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Thu-Fri no 1:25 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:35, 6:00, 9:45 Sat-Wed 12:25, 3:35, 6:00, 9:45 UNSTOPPABLE (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:55, 10:10 YOGI BEAR 3D (G) Thu 3:55 Fri 5:05 Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:45, 5:05 Mon-Wed 12:45, 5:05

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EXTRAS Making-of doc, individual episode docs, DIY zombie makeup demo. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Morning Glory (Paramount, 2010) D: Roger Michell, w/ Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN Financial insiders Henry Paulson (left), Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner don’t look guilty at all.

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(Sony, 2010) D: Charles Ferguson. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNN Charles Ferguson’s Oscar-winning documentary digs into the 2008 world financial collapse and makes a convincing charge of deliberate fraud by those at the very top of the banking industry. Ferguson covers the rise of banking deregulation and explains how the sub-prime mortgage bubble was structured and inevitably blew up. He demonstrates the paid collusion of the stock-rating companies, economists and industry regulators and backs it all up with telling interviews and archival footage of industry

Four Lions (eOne, 2010) D: Chris

Morris, w/ Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsay. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN

It’s amazing how much there is to laugh at in a subject that we take with such long faces. The lions of the title are self-proclaimed jihadis intent on blowing something up in central London. Three are of South Asian descent, but their voices make it clear that they’re all English. They are also classic British idiots, direct descendants of Monty Python. They’re full of belligerence, logical insanity and flat-out stupidity. Loving husband and good father Omar (Riz Ahmed) is the sensible straight man. He’s committed to mass murder, but he’s forever striving to rein in easily distracted Fessal (Adeel Akhtar), “thick as fudge” Waj (Kayvan Novak) and master of stupid rhetoric Bill (Nigel Lindsay), who punches himself in the face to prove that they should blow up a mosque. Director Chris Morris keeps the gags moving and in your face with a restless hand-held camera, while the cast plays it absolutely straight. Check out the background interviews in the extras for some social context, particularly in the conversation with Mohammad Ali Ahmad, busted for “preparing an act of terrorism.” EXTRAS Cast interviews, five on-set segments, background interviews, more. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

heavy hitters. The interviews put a human face on what at first seems like a dry story. These are smart, articulate people, but sometimes their faces tell a different story than their words. The movie, narrated by Matt Damon, zips right along on polished visuals and sharp cutting. You’ll need the pause button for the charts and more than one viewing to take it all in. The extras fill in more details and provide an address for an online study guide if you’re really serious. EXTRAS Director and producer commentary, making-of doc, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

The Walking Dead (Anchor Bay, 2010) Creator: Frank Darabont, w/ Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN The zombie apocalypse comes to TV with plenty of hard, gory action and morally complex character drama. Small-town deputy sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) wakes from a coma to find civilization wiped out, flesh-eating zombies shuffling around and his beloved wife and son among the missing. He sets out to find them and before long joins a small group of survivors led by Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal). The tension between survival at any cost and the need for some kind of social/moral order drives the drama. Much of it works through the conflict between Grimes and Walsh, both natural leaders but with very different temperaments and goals. Every character faces dilemmas, though, which often involve berserker brothers Merle and Darryl Dixon. Michael Rooker, as Merle, gives the show’s standout performance. He’s scarier than the zombies. Handsome visuals with epic scope, a sombre score and zombie slaughter played as hard work give the series a pervasive sense of doom and add weight to the drama’s weaker moments. If you’re into self-zombification, the extras’ demo provides a good primer on latex and makeup.

This could have been a fairly funny farce about the chaos of live TV broadcasting and the desperate hustle for ratings. But it’s sabotaged by a romance and crisis centred on the office family that feel like sitcom leftovers shoehorned in to satisfy someone’s lust for the warm fuzzies. Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is a character made for farce. She’s energetic, enthusiastic and smart, but socially and physically inept and blind to everything but her own drive to succeed. Hired as the executive producer for a low-rated network morning show, she brings in once-great reporter Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), who loathes his co-host (Diane Keaton) and everything the show stands for. McAdams pumps out the goofiness and charm for all she’s worth, but Ford blows her off the screen with his dry, slow delivery and obvious relish for playing a nasty snob. His scenes with Keaton are the comic highlights. Director Roger Michell and writer Aline Brosh McKenna’s commentary offers a nothing-special mix of production details and script changes. EXTRAS Commentary, deleted scene. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

An Island

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Sharktopus (Anchor Bay, 2010) Sublime stupidity rules as a toothed and tentacled terror trashes bikinied babes on the Mexican coast.

The Fighter (Alliance, 2010) Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winner Christian Bale star in this fact-based drama about the conflict between a boxer who wants to turn pro and the brother who trains him. Carlos (Mongrel, 2010) Olivier Assayas directs Edgar Ramírez in a three-part miniseries on the rise and fall of the famed 70s terrorist-for-hire.

Hereafter (WB, 2010) Clint Eastwood directs Matt Damon in a tale of three people whose lives intersect after they’ve all had strange experiences with death.

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mentaries. $10, free admission with CMW wristband ($85, adv $75). fRi 11 – Pickin’ And Grinnin’ (2010) D: Jon Gries. 2:30 pm. Go There Once, Be There Twice (2010) D: Gil Bettman. 5 pm. Quadrophenia (1979) D: Frank Roddam. 6:45 pm. Tommy (1975) D: Ken Russell. 9:30 pm. sAT 12 – Oil City Confidential (2009) D: Julien Temple. 1 pm. An Island D: Vincent Moon, and short film Eatliz–Lose This Child D: Merav and Yuval Nathan. 3:30 pm. Beyond The Black Rainbow (2011) D: Panos Cosmatos. 5:15 pm. Cure For Pain: The Mark Sandman Story (2011) D: Rob Bralver and David Ferino. 8 pm. Year Of The Bone D: Clyde Henry, and MUSIC D: Andrew Zuckerman. 10:15 pm.

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sAT 12 – Films that pertain to Nepal. Session A

$10, Session B $20; all day $25; gold pass $50. sAT 12 – Session A: In Three Years (2009) D: Govinda Siwakoti and The Last Race (2004) D: Subina Shrestha and Alex Gabbay. 11:30 am. Vhando (2010) D: Dipa Basnet, and The Rat Hunters (2009) D: Pradeep Kumar Sharma. 12:40 pm. In Search Of The Riyal (2009) D: Kesang Tseten. 2:15 pm. Session B: Pooja D: Deepak Rauniyar. 4:45 pm. The Struggle Within D: Manoj Raj Pandey, and Forgive! Forget Not! (2008) D: Pranay Limbu. 5:55 pm. Sherpas The True Heroes Of Mount Everest (2009) D: Otto C Honegger, Frank Senn and Hari Thapa. 7 pm.

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ñ(2010) D: Mark Hartley. 4:30 & 9:10 pm. Dogtooth (2009) D: Giorgos Lanthimos. 7 pm. fRi 11 – Another Year (2010) D: Mike Leigh. 4:15 & 7 pm. Sweet Karma (2009) ñ D: Andrew Thomas Hunt. 9:45 pm. sAT 12 – Tangled (2010) D: Nathan Greno and

Byron Howard. 4:30 pm. Another Year. 7 pm. Sweet Karma. 9:45 pm. suN 13 – Tangled. 2 pm. Another Year. 4:15 pm. Manhattan (1979) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. Delicatessen (1991) D: Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 9:05 pm.

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Greno and Byron Howard. 2 pm. Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Trader. 4:15 pm. Black Swan. 7 pm. The Fighter. 9:15 pm. WED 16 – Tangled. 2 pm. Tron: Legacy (2010) D: Joseph Kosinski. 4:15 pm. Black Swan. 7 pm. Another Year (2010) D: Mike Leigh. 9:15 pm.

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Lots of bad Karma SWEET KARMA (Andrew Thomas Hunt) Rating: N Except for one and a half okay moments, Sweet Karma lies dead in the water. Moment one is a rape that turns into a pencil killing. The onehalf involves a climactic surprise that needs a suicide to make it complete. The film is essentially a woman’s revenge flick. Karma (Shera Bechard) follows her sister from Russia to Toronto, killing as she goes, when the latter is hijacked into the sex trade. If you’ve seen Ms. 45 or I Spit On Your Grave, the genre’s acknowledged classics, you know how violent, bizarre, disturbing and/or titillating (provided you’re fairly

twisted) these flicks can get. Not here. The action is brief, unimaginative and ineptly executed. Between killings, guys with Russian accents hang around in cement-block motel rooms and apartments and bully unhappylooking topless women. Their acting is as nondescript as the sets, the score and the occasionally out-offocus camera work. Perhaps Karma is mute as a tribute to the silent heroine of Ms. 45, or maybe Bechard, a model from Kapuskasing, couldn’t handle the Russian accent. Either way, both she and we are spared that much more of the turgid dialogue. Opens Friday (March 11) at the Bloor Cinema. See listings, this page.

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Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 8 pm. sAT 12 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 5 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon, 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3, 6 & 8 pm. suN 13 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3 & 6 pm. MON 14-TuE 15 – Legends Of Flight. 10 am, 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3 & 6 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. WED 16 – Legends Of Flight. 10 am, 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3 & 6 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm.

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tival. See listings, this page. fRi 11 – Elle s’appelle Sabine (2007) D: Sandrine Bonnaire. 6:30 pm. A Nos Amours (1983) D: Maurice Pialat. 9 pm.

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Newly reno. 1 bdrm., TTC, prkg., no pets/smoke. Call 416-562-0889

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Comfortable 1 br in Little Italy. Grt Kitchen, Steps to College Street, TTC, parks and groceries. Sep. Entrance, free wifi & Cable. $950 For app't email crawford@publicinterest.ca

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Detached, 1 bedroom(s) 1 bathroom(s), 400 sq. ft. Washer, hardwood floors, tiled floor, utilities included, no dogs, no cats. $750 Call 647-857-0235

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