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well done, now. i congratulate you on living up to the North American media benchmark in propagating fear and insecurity with your coverage of the recent nuclear disaster in Japan (NOW, March 17-23). I have zero vested interest in nuclear energy and am a plain-Jane citizen of Canada who would simply love to read some news that, god forbid, verges on the positive or maybe at least is simply informative. I will now spend

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germany and france have decided that their nuclear power growth is not going further. The cost is way too high in terms of the worst-case scenario. Not only is nuclear the most costly to build and maintain, but the price of something going wrong is also beyond any country’s budget. Our money should now be invested in wind turbines of all sizes: for skyscrapers, for street-light standards and for huge farms. Wind is renewable, wind is free, and the winds are getting stronger. But most important of all, a damaged windmill doesn’t melt down and fatally poison air, water, people, animals and plants. There is no recovery from that. Barbara Klunder Toronto

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23). It has been a while since I read such a bold and horrific review of a newly opened restaurant! It’s funny how people can have completely different experiences, and, unfortunately, one bad experi ence can result in such a negative implication for a newly opened res taurant in a lovely downtown neigh bourhood. I personally have been to Fanny Chadwick’s three or four times. I found the service extremely nice. It is true Fanny Chadwick’s did not anticipate such a huge presence from diners hours after it opened. We saw the lineups outside on the weekend. Give Fanny a break. Honestly, the crowds of people waiting at the door prove your review wrong. Maher Alami Toronto

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i have read few articles in any publication more offensive than Mi chael Hollett’s Stop The War On Public Services diatribe (NOW, March 1723). Wise people acknowledge the fact that to understand any issue, you must be able to appreciate many dif ferent perspectives. You need not agree with one’s opinion, but in order to advance intellectual discourse, we must try to understand why other positions have value. Hollett has done a great disservice to socialists. He is entitled to his opin ion, and many will find merit at least in the underlying message. But to call those of us with whom he does not agree “simpleminded” displays his incredible arrogance and, I am sorry to say, ignorance. NOW Magazine should encourage intelli gent debate regardless of ideology. Namecalling and gross generaliza tions only serve to question the legit imacy of his position. Conor D. O’Hare Toronto

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are jokes about japan’s tragedy tasteless – or, as Gilbert Gottfried be lieves – comic relief (NOW Daily, March 17)? This latest Gottfriedrelat ed stir reminds me of how he tried to crack 9/11 jokes when it was still too soon. People booed. Then he started on Aristocrats jokes. I’m a bit hesitant to jump and say he’s a terrible per son, even if what he said is disgust ing. Paolo Miguel Kagaoan Toronto

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liberal public safety critic Mark Holland is right (NOW, March 17-23). There should be an intervention plan to deal with addiction and mental health – not, as the Tories are proposing, a mandatory sentencing law. At the same time, some kind of incarceration is necessary for those who, after some time, do not respond to treatment. I say this as someone who has invested over three decades in TDSB schools and has seen some anti-social teenagers turn their lives around while some, for whatever reason, do not. v65magnafan

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thanks to adria vasil for slagging Modrobes (NOW, March 17-23). While her comments and research indicate that “eucalyptus lyocell” or “lyocell made from eucalyptus” are clearly the most sustainable new fabrics on the planet, Vasil seems to suggest that Modrobes is doing something wrong. I take great offence. Instead of congratulating an outstanding product offering by a Canadian company that takes risks, Vasil does the opposite, muddying the waters and confusing people because, well, actually I don’t know why. Maybe because we know our eco fabrics better than you do. Steven Sal Debus Founder/designer, Modrobes Toronto

Rap on Tech N9ne

honestly, joshua errett’s tech N9ne Jams For the Juggalos review from SXSW (NOW Daily, March 18) has to be one of the most ignorant and poorly written I’ve read in a long time. The modern rap fan has a great deal of respect for Tech, despite his Juggalo association. How good a rapper do you have to be for respect like that? Let’s not forget, Tech is appearing on Wayne’s new album. “Unpalatable”? I hate to sound unprofessional, but you’re just an idiot. Alfred Pusey

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A new planning study credits taller buildings for exponential growth downtown. Some 14,800 people have moved into the area bounded by Bathurst and the DVP south of Dupont in the last five years – the largest population increase in the core in 30 years.

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Scene Stealer What Greenpeace activists shut down environmental assessment hearings on the building of new nuclear reactors at Darlington When 9:02 am, Tuesday, March 2 Why Greenpeace says the proposed EA has “serious flaws”: there’s been no opportunity to discuss alternatives to nuclear power or the potential of a Fukushima-style disaster. Continuing Japan coverage, page 20.

Arts and culture advocates are taking heart from the fact that Mayor Rob Ford advocated raising arts funding during the election. But do they really believe Mr. “Respect for Taxpayers” is going to spend money fighting in court to keep the Billboard Tax for beautification projects? Crazy kids. The Superior Court upheld the legality of the tax earlier this month in a case launched by Pattison Outdoor, but said the city could only tax signs erected after April 2010. That decision effectively kills the tax, since 95 per cent of the city’s billboards were put up before that date. The planning committee debates the issue Thursday (March 24) and looks ready to piss away revenue from this tax.

Pimp my island “Western military deployment to Libya is a bit like asking the arsonist to put out their own fire.” Derrick O’Keefe, co-chair of the Canadian Peace Alliance, wonders if the West will ever learn lessons from failed invasions past after UN-backed air strikes in Libya. Read Ellie Kirzner’s take on the latest events on page 20.

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Unemployment rate for people with disabilities in Ontario – one percentage point higher than the national unemployment rate during the Great Depression.

First, Rob/Doug Ford and his ship of fools want to pave parkland; now sidekick Giorgio Mammoliti wants to pimp out the Islands as a red-light district. Wow, Islanders thought they had it bad with sound leaks from the Docks and noise from Porter Airlines. Don’t like ants invading your picnic? How about a nice pile of used condoms?

All eyes are on the federal NDP leader post-Tory budget (his moustachioed mug is on the front page of the Star and Globe) as he signals his party’s intention to go to the polls. Read Alice Klein, page 16.

BAROMETER Oak Ridges Moraine

The watershed above Toronto, which is supposed to be protected by a decade-old conservation plan, gets a strip torn out of its heart, literally: a 792-metre runway for two heliports.

Saving forests in Canada

The World Future Council releases its list of 16 nominees for the Future Policy Award for forest policy – and Canada’s not on it.

The RCMP

How do they ever get their man? A quarter of those in the ranks of Canada’s revered (by some) national police force are considered obese.

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as i head into central commerce Collegiate, I’m feeling a rush of emotion. It’s not only because I’m about to watch my niece play Anne in a production of The Diary Of Anne Frank, though normally that would get the tears flowing big time. I’ve just finished sitting shiva for my mother-inlaw, Eileen, who went to this high school. And I’m walking into the building holding the arm of my 93-year-old Auntie Ida. She was also a student here, as was my mother and my other aunt, Helen. Central Commerce celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. A school rep, hearing of the arrival of an elderly alumna, descends on my aunt, making her promise she’ll attend the official celebration coming up later in the year. “My picture’s up here somewhere,” she tells him. Then, to me, she says, “So’s Helen’s.” “What about my mother?” I ask. She looks me in the eye. “She didn’t stand first in her class.” Though I’m feeling a little raw, I have a little laugh at this. They compete with each other to this day – and they’re in their 90s. It was at this venerable collegiate that the rivalry deepened. And it was here that young girls, all of them with limited life choices, learned to

type and to master the art of penmanship. Days before my birthday, I always receive a card from Auntie Ida in an envelope addressed in the most exquisite handwriting. I figured out where my late mother-in-law went to school when I received my first note from her in the mail, written with the green pen she often used. “Wow, superb script,” I said to my partner, Leslie. “Did your mum go to Central Commerce?” When my own mother slowed down to the point where she could hardly walk, she was still able to

Here, girls with limited choices learned the art of penmanship. wield the pen. She addressed every invitation to my daughter’s bat mitzvah, her hand unbelievably steady, all the flourishes still there. We can measure progress, I suppose, in the fact that nowadays boys can type up a storm by the time they’re six. But the art of handwriting? It’s dying out with the generation of women who perfected it. Later, after the play, on the sidewalk outside the school, it hits me that I’ve received my last note in that gorgeous green script. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

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In contempt of Canada Harper’s prejudice, punishment and climate crime agenda are at odds with the majority By ALICE KLEIN

he timing drama is over and the spring election is definitely on. Thank goodness. I am one Canadian who couldn’t be happier to see an end to the Stephen Harper government’s giant fuck-you to the values of the majority of Canadians. I’m sorry, but strong language is called for. I am not talking about a government that has won a mandate to radically re-engineer the social fabric. That would be terrible, but I couldn’t cry about democracy. Two-thirds (63 per cent) of all voters voted against Harper and his Conservative party. Election results don’t lie. But the Harper government does. Oh, pardon me – evades, misinforms, denies, twists out of shape…. I’m talking about a political leader who has consciously taken pride in pursuing a path of prejudice, punishment and climate crime at odds with the documented thinking of most of the electorate. And then used deceit and cover-ups to make it happen. And the stuff he has gotten caught at is so outrageous it steams the brain. I mean, who would make this up? Do you remember the head of Stats Canada, Munir Sheikh, who had to resign rather than shore up Industry Minister Tony Clement’s misstatements about the statistical irrele-

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vance of the long-form census? By the way, StatsCan is a pillar of the knowledge base of democracy. It is one body that actually reflects us back to ourselves in ways not distorted by words and spin. But you would only want the facts if you actually wanted to govern for the people, as opposed to simply as you wished. Maybe the word “tyrant” is going too far, but it’s no stretch to say that Harper does have one big three-letter word in common with the leaders now being challenged in the Middle East: oil. The price of this little problem child has gone from $64 bucks a barrel when he first took power in January 2006 to about $104 today. And with everything going on, those prices are going in only one direction. For most, the equation is high prices paired with our greenhouse gases. We need environmental regulation, renewable development and energy efficiency for job creation, global competitive advantage, future price spike protection as well as climate control and life on earth. But the Conservative stimulus package snubbed the chance to create an estimated 150,000 more jobs in the green sector while allocating a quarter-billion of its slim eco-budget to funding carbon capture and storage research for tar sands developers. No wonder former Environment

“This government has shown no heed for the rule of anything but the Tory leader’s will. The list of examples is so long it hurts” minister Jim Prentice, who actually acknowledged the existence of climate change at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, had to step away. For the powerful oilmen who love Harper, high prices mean big money and big plans. And that’s exactly what the PM himself has coming into this election. Big money and big plans. Of course, big money opens one to certain classic temptations. Overspending your election limit is just one. Oops, Elections Canada caught you on that one just in time for this

round. Now, that’s irony in action. Two of the four members of the PM’s campaign crew who engineered the plot during the 2008 election – documented in a long Elections Canada investigation – to spend more on advertising than the laws of the land allow were actually appointed as senators to our highest chamber. Limits on campaign spending are just one more manifestation of our democratic way of life that Harper’s people don’t appreciate. This government has shown no heed for the rule of anything but the Tory leader’s will. The list of examples is so long it hurts (see box). Democracy gets no respect. I won’t repeat all the current acts of contempt on the table right now, because, thankfully, they’re getting lots of attention. But here’s a twisted example from memory lane that’s dropped off the radar. I wonder, will he get away with his command-andcontrol crap again? During the last election, Conservative candidates were actually directed by the party to avoid talking to the media and appearing at all-candidates meetings. I mean, that sounds unbelievable – but it’s standard-issue Harper. The same strategy was shockingly reprised recently when former Toronto police Chief Julian Fantino was muzzled by his party during the

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Vaughan by-election. He won. Harper is a bully. And if given more power, I wonder. We Torontonians have the horrific experience of the G20 still sticking in our craw. The event’s sugar daddy spent close to $1 billion for military-type might on our city streets. Of course, our situation is a piece of cake compared to what’s going on halfway around the world. People are standing up and fighting for democracy right now in a fashion that hasn’t been seen for decades, at least. But we are part of the matrix in ways we know – and ways we probably can’t fathom. After all, in the Conservative party, the people calling the shots have actually been caught plotting to purge the “dissidents” who won’t toe their line. Take diplomat Richard Colvin, hounded for telling the truth about the treatment of Afghan detainees by our forces. Or that troublesome Linda Keen, of the Atomic Security Commission, who refused to bow down on nuclear safety at the Chalk River plant way back at the start of Harper’s mandate. Somehow, right now, firing the nuclear watchdog seems beyond disturbing. The PM has taught us that democracy is even more fragile than we thought. We know the opposition party leaders and old political formulas aren’t going to pull the country back from the precipice we’re teetering on. Like others around the world, we the people will have to invent a way to make sure he gets the life lesson this time. 3 alice@nowtoronto.com

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“Unflappable” is a word often used to describe City Manager Joe Pennachetti. When David Miller handpicked him in 2009 to succeed Shirley Hoy, his was the only name on the short list before the executive committee. Pennachetti’s credentials are that impeccable. This week, though, some of those among the Milleristas who defended Pennachetti’s choice were left muttering to themselves. The subject of their dismay: what’s euphemistically being called the core service review, aka Mayor Rob Ford’s plan to hire consultants to advise on axing jobs at City Hall and what services can be cut or privatized. All of a sudden, the guy who pushed for new taxing powers for the city and won accolades for persuading bond rating houses to keep Toronto’s credit rating up – even while city spending was on the rise – is spearheading Ford’s cost-cutting agenda. Not sure what the bureaucrats in the east tower are drinking these days, but the cuts mantra Ford’s been chanting like a mad Buddha seems to have infected the bureaucracy as well. Yes master. Pennachetti’s turn is the clearest indication yet that the highest rungs of the bureaucracy have bent to the will of Ford & Co. Perhaps it was Ford’s threat right out of the blocks to fire the lot of them if they didn’t deliver on that zero property tax increase. How did it come to this? Meeting the public’s needs first and foremost, not the mayor’s bottom line, is supposed to be the job of the city’s top bureaucrat. Maybe I’m being naive, but Penna-

chetti is a public servant, after all. His job is to do the bidding of his political masters, but it’s also his job to offer his best advice, whether the mayor likes it or not. But playing along to get along has been an all too familiar pattern among senior staff when it comes to doing this mayor’s bidding, sometimes with farcical results. During the recent stir over the firing of the TCHC board, for example, no one in the city’s legal department thought to tell the mayor that it’s illegal under the province’s laws of incorporation for a board to put one person, Ford’s buddy Case Ootes, in charge of TCHC. No problem. A motion was rushed through council at the 11th hour to make the Ootes appointment happen. It’s doubtful Ford’s core service review of the city’s 44 departments will uncover any major financial surprises. The recently completed budget process found a modest $57 million in “efficiencies,” not the $1.7 billion proclaimed by the mayor during the campaign. And contrary to Ford’s suggestion that we’re afloat in gravy, these days each department’s performance is benchmarked to the nth degree. Let’s call Ford’s review what it really is: a pretext for shrinking the size of city government – I’m guessing by at least 15 per cent, a number Ford used during the campaign. That’s a number that means something like 7,500 jobs. How a sizable axe poised over the heads of staff at City Hall will affect morale remains to be seen. But already there are signs that whatever Ford’s endgame, it won’t be pretty. After all, there’s an ever-growing $774 budget

gap to bridge, thanks to the shell game he’s playing with the numbers. At his speech to the Canadian Club a couple of weeks back, the mayor made it clear that at least in his mind, there’s a lot of what he calls “garbage” at City Hall. In other words, out to the curb they go. A leaked memo from Pennachetti to department heads offering advice on how to deal with questions from staff about possible job losses provides no assurances. The nub of that missive: deny, deny, deny. And if that fails, remind workers there are collective agreements in place to cushion the blow – at least for now.

MAYOR’S NEW BEST FRIEND CHASES BIG CONTRACT City Manager Joe Pennachetti (right) makes a curious frontman for the mayor’s cost-cutting obsessions.

City Auditor Jeffrey Griffiths will have to wait a little longer to find out officially if his request for a new contract will be approved.

An attempt by the mayor to introduce the issue as an urgent motion for discussion in-camera at the last council meeting was defeated. But Griffiths’s reappointment seems in little doubt. He’s become the mayor’s new best friend after uncovering the misspending deeds by some Toronto Community Housing Corporation employees that touched off a firestorm a few weeks back. Questions on how his report on the TCHC was leaked to the press before council could debate it have been asked. Griffiths has denied he leaked it himself, or that he made the document available to the mayor’s office before the press got hold of it. That would be a no-no. Word is, Griffiths, whose contract expires in December, is seeking a three-year extension, but since info on personnel matters is supposed to be confidential, you didn’t hear that from me. 3

ISLANDERS SIC FORD ON PORT AUTHORITY OVER BACK TAXES While the mayor’s executive committee voted this week to release the hounds (hire consultants at a cost of $3 mil) to find cost savings in the city’s operations, there seems no urgency on Ford’s part to pick up the $43 million (by one estimate) in back property taxes owed by the Toronto Port Authority. There’s been no official response from the mayor’s office to a letter sent by CommunityAIR chair Brian Iler March 11 asking the mayor to apply his “considerable talent for getting things done” to collecting the money the TPA’s supposed to pay the city. TPA president and CEO Geoffrey Wilson reacted Monday (March 21) with a letter of his own to the mayor. In it, Wilson says CommunityAIR is overstating the “tax arrears” (his quotes, not ours) and that it’s a mischaracterization to say there’s “money owing” the city by the TPA. But Wilson doesn’t deny there’s a dispute. “Staff at the City and the Port Authority have the matter well in hand and there is every good reason to believe that this will be sensibly resolved soon,” Wilson writes.

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nologies that put too many layers between people and nature. I’ve been tough on tech for most of my adult life, but this is the first time it’s really hit me that almost all of it since the 1940s belongs on the critical list. Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, now facing trial before the court of

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all who desperately wanted air backup for the anti- Gaddafi rebels should get ready for serious mood swings. Our forces are taking on a mission over desert sands, the upshot of which no one can foretell, with an elastic mandate and the potential for a trail of civilian casualties. It’s a time, I think, to be forgiving

of those who can’t get a clear sense of how they feel about those cruise missiles streaking through the Libyan ether. A perusal of key North American commentators reveals that the dovish community is stunningly split on its no-fly zone assessments. Some hail the display of air muscle as the long-awaited arrival of a doctrine prioritizing humanitarian in-

world opinion, invites us to think of the inherently dangerous category of innovations described by sociologist Charles Perrow in his 1984 book, Normal Accidents: Living With High-Risk Technologies. These technologies are far more pervasive than nuclear power, though they share its origin

ter vention. In our country, the obligation to protect hovers in the national consciousness with the ghosts of Darfur and Rwanda and helps explains why the otherwise non-militarist NDP voted this week to send CF-18s, albeit with strong conditions attached. But all progressive supporters of this effort are angst-ridden. On Friday, I talked to the Canadian Arab Federation’s Mohamed El Rashidy, who said that while his org is “very wary of foreign intervention,” it could not ignore the civilian crisis that would unfold if Benghazi falls. “Sometimes grave situations leave you with two bad choices,” he said, “and you have to choose the lesser evil. I think a no-fly zone with expanded operations is a lesser evil.” Then again, on Monday, the Canadian Peace Alliance issued it’s statement: “Far from being a shining light in a humanitarian crisis, Western intervention is designed to maintain the status quo and will, in fact, make matters worse for the people there.” The complexity of all this, beyond tribal factionalism in Libya, is the fact that this rebellion is not a textbook people’s uprising. That was clear the minute demonstrators cracked open the arsenals and put themselves under the command of defecting officers. How a pro-democracy movement morphed into a military op will be the subject of future decoding. Let’s just say these aren’t

in military or space-age research (which amounts to the same thing). Almost all of them descend from World War II and the period just after, when a sense of potential was linked to the heady belief that humans were finally capable of breaking nature’s laws. The new era was, ironically, announced by the atomic explosions that hit Japan and the development of the “peaceful atom” that followed, creating unlimited energy out of a substance incredibly uncommon in nature: uranium. All modern corporate production is based not on stewarding but on confronting nature and its limits with a strategy of risk management. The aerospace industry defied the laws of gravity and perfected jet engines, while pilots “pushed the envelope” to break the sound barrier. In clothing, synthetic fabrics like nylon were tougher than natural fibres. In agriculture, nothing was off limits. As words like “pesticide” and “herbicide” (“cide” as in homicide and suicide) and “antibiotic” (antilife) suggest, many inventions came from wartime research on poisons. Chlorine-based cleaners and pesticides inherited their power from the chemical’s use as poison gas. The leap in farm production based on synthetic fertilizers violated the food equivalent of the law of gravity: the law of return (soil without chemicals needs time to lie fallow.) In popular culture, even the sense of “environment” lost its moorings. Instead of the “eco” in “ecology” and

the greatest conditions for the construction of a citizen-shaped society. Still, thousands of people are at risk – and you had only to hear a despondent Benghazi resident on CBC Radio last week as Gaddafi’s army circled the city, talking about his struggle to keep his children from panicking, to get the point. But while reporters dog North American pols about the goals of the mission, it’s evident that no one has a clear sense of the trajectory of all this. We should remind ourselves that the U.S. foresaw nothing of the killing field Iraq became when it invaded. As the ground fight continues, the U.S. has declared its part of the mission over and is gamely trying to manoeuvre NATO – or someone – to take over the command chair. It’s unlikely to be an Arab nation. Not that many hands clean enough to lead a NGZ democracy campaign. Saudi Arabia is too busy helping Bahrain bust up the freedom movement in Pearl Square. Yemen and Syria are killing their own activists, thank you. Maybe post-revolution Egypt or Turkey, but they aren’t budging. So the West’s in the pilot seat yet again. It’s easy to be charmed by the speed with which oppressed people turn revolutionary, but the nimbleness of strategic realignment these days feeds only cynicism. In 2009, the U.S. and Libya signed a defence cooperation and security-sharing pact opening the way for military

“economics,” environment and nature came to mean wilderness, an area humans don’t live in but might nevertheless choose to protect, if it doesn’t cause an eco-nomic problem. One difficulty with these technologies is that they moved at such speed that only computers – another war industry artifact, originally used to calculate missile trajectories – could track and “manage” them. Since computers by design go quickly through simplistic yes-no choices, they can proceed uncontrollably – the basis of Perrow’s book, in which he describes how the Three Mile Island nuke plant went berserk. Nuclear fallout continues to do its damage long after radiation leaks. Cesium-137 found in spinach near the Fukushima plant is said to have a half-life of 30 years. It’s the same story with the polluting aftermath of a raft of modern innovations. Two technologies dominant in food production bring agriculture to the precipice of runaway accidents on par with atomic ones: genetic engineering, which overrides nature’s species barriers, and factory farms, which use antibiotics to trump the physical needs of animals. Either could go critical at any point. Everyone has a sense that what’s happening in Japan is not only a tragedy but also a teachable moment. It remains to be seen whether we learn that too many of our innovations are built on some version of an earthquake zone. 3

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sales. One deal for armoured troop carriers floundered just months before the uprising. Imagine if.... That same year, Canada and Libya signed a memorandum of intent on nuclear power, including uranium processing. All just a reminder that foreign policy is sadly a self-interested calibration, not the reflection of a global commitment to social goals. Every time I hear about a coalition attack on Tripoli targets, I hold my breath. Precision strikes? Tell that to drone-terrified villagers in northwest Pakistan. Canadian Major- General Tom Lawson said the other night that the Libyan situation was so “fluid” there’s potential for hitting the wrong target. “To be clear,” he stressed, “we will aim for no collateral damage.” On Tuesday, March 22, it was reported that Canadian planes had already cut short a sortie because of civilian risk. Military analysts like Stratfor’s George Friedman have been warning that moving military targets and the need for hair-trigger responses could inflict substantial civilian casualties. And yet, if Gaddafi packs his bags for Venezuela tomorrow and the Benghazi daddy gets to take a holiday with his shaken kids, the air power spectacle will have served. Somehow I’m a doubter. I would say put your hands together and let them wring. 3 ellie@nowtoronto.com

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Designer Q&A Get to know Fashion Week’s newest faces via our well-styled version of the classic Proust questionnaire.

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Shawna Robinson and Natalie Sydoruk, LABEL (seenolabel.com) SHOW TIME March 29, 2 pm We will never design anything made out of… Prefab printed fabrics. We made that mistake once and saw the same print everywhere. The most inspirational item on our mood board this season is… A snapshot of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love kissing. The fashion slang we overuse most is…

We make a point of not saying “fierce” or “fabulous.” But we do say “I love it!” a lot. We admire the fashion career of… Marc Jacobs. We really admire fashion multi-taskers. Apparently fashion people don’t eat, but we can’t help pigging out on… A surprising number of tomato sandwiches, candy and coffee.

Ken Chow, Krane (kranedesign.com) SHOW TIME March 30, 5 pm Three words that describe my line are… Progressive, graphic, uniform. I will never design anything made out of… Vinyl, because it will not stand the test of time. If my line weren’t called Krane, it would be called… Kane.

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If I weren’t a designer, I’d be… An architect. Fall 2011 is all about… Greater sophistication in layering.

me on a Canadian website and ships them down. Fall 2011 is all about… Chunky knits.

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SHOW TIME March 31, 2 pm My favourite thing to design is… Leather jackets. When I need to blow off steam, I… Get a huge bowl of pho and a Heineken. The fashion slang I overuse most is…? “WERQ!” Totally kidding. I don’t think I use fashion slang. I admire the fashion career of… Jeremy Scott. I love that he’s from a small town and moved to New York to go to school. It makes me feel good about coming from a small town. If I weren’t a designer, I’d be a… A full-time musician. I love music. I’ve played piano and guitar, and I also fool around with DJ equipment quite a bit.

If I weren’t a designer, I’d be… Confused. Fashion design is the only thing I know how to do. Fall 2011 is all about… My first runway show at LG Fashion Week! 3

SHOW TIME: March 31, 7:30 pm I will never design anything made out of… Frog skin, because I hate frogs. The most inspirational item on my mood board this season is… A poster from the film Pan’s Labyrinth. The fashion slang I overuse most is… I revert to “ew”… when I don’t like something. Is “ew” fashion slang?

Heather Lawton (heatherlawton.com) SHOW TIME: March 31, 5 pm Three words that describe my line are… Avant-garde, dark, luxurious. The most inspirational item on my mood board this season is… A patched leather skirt. When I need to blow off steam, I... Hang with my hairless cat, Mr. Hairy. Apparently fashion people don’t eat, but I can’t help pigging out on… Ketchup chips. I can’t get them in New York, so my boyfriend orders them for

(clockwise from top) Natalie Sydoruk and Shawna Robinson, Chor-yin Choi, Heather Lawton, Sid Neigum, Ken Chow.

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Power showed more leg than signature sweatpants in her spring presentation of tailored tunics, cuffed shorts and ruffled minis in colourful batik prints. She topped this corsetand-skirt look with the line’s unifying element, a collection of twisted headbands. Buy the collection: The Bay (176 Yonge, 416-861-9111), Over the Rainbow (101 Yorkville, 416-967-7448) and Robber (863 Queen West, 647-351-0724).

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The PT runway may have been lined with glowing go-go platforms, but it was this fuchsia blouse and purple pants combo that shone brightest. The exaggerated collar and neon boater perfectly captured the collection’s disco take on resort wear. Buy the collection: Andrews (55 Avenue, 416-969-9991) Holt Renfrew (50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333) and Seventy Seven (77 Yorkville, 416-967-7700).

Here are four words to spice up your spring wardrobe: pink leather palazzo pants. Maybe capris, actually? Whatever you call them, Line’s dusty-rose-hued pair were the most memorable slacks of the season. Buy the collection: Aritzia (50 Bloor West, 416-934-0935, and others), Body Blue (199 Danforth, 416-778-7601, and other) and Want Boutique (1694 Ave-nue, 416-256-9268).

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Drew and Michael Thomas scaled back their presentation with an atonal score, bare white backdrop and simplified exits to showcase pieces like this perfectly modern white shirt dress, miraculously creating a sense of minimalism in the otherwise over-the-top Fashion Week venue. Buy the collection: Ruins (960 Queen West, 647-351-0960) and UPC Boutique (128½ Cumberland, 416-929-9209).

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alt health Bad news is sickening We need the info, but tragic stories rev our stress levels By elizaBeth Bromstein you know what really irks me? People who tell me they never read the news because it’s too negative. Don’t we, as citizens of the world, need to know what’s going on, even if it’s bad?

That said, wow, it’s been bad lately. Reports of the post-earthquake and -tsunami deaths in Japan really choke me up. But it’s not just hard to take in. There’s also so much more of it. News

used to be limited, but now we get it all day long from any number of sources. Does witnessing harm to people – through news reports or other violent images – have serious health effects? Can media make you sick?

What the experts say “What you watch is easily internalized. Your emotions [match] what you see. You start to worry about similar things happening to you. Physical illness is a likely result of too much exposure to this kind of news and entertainment. When physicians study the effects of stress on disease in a laboratory, they often use stressful movies as a stimulus. It’s a given that this is very efficient. Just watching a movie can cause stress reactions. Not everybody is going to get sick, but it’s a contributing factor; if there are other stressful conditions, it might just push you over the top.” JOANNE CANTOR, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin, Madison,

president, Your Mind on Media, Madi son, Wisconsin “We looked at the physiological responses of students in a lab setting before and after exposure to either a news or a comedy clip. After exposure to the news, levels of the stress hormone cortisol did not increase, but par ticipants reported a significant decrease in joy and an increase in restlessness. It may be helpful for future researchers to investigate the cumulative effects of watching the news in a natural setting. We also found that after watching a comedy clip, participants reported a decrease in tiredness, sadness, irritation, anx-

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Were you under the

impression that the sky is completely mapped? It’s not. Advances in technology are unveiling a non-stop flow of new mysteries. In a recent lecture, astronomer Joshua Bloom of the University of California described the explosion of wonder. One particular telescope, for example, detects 1.5 million transient phenomena every night, and an average of 10 of those turn out to be previously undiscovered. Reporting on Bloom’s work, Space.com compared astronomers’ task to “finding a few needles in a giant haystack night after night.” I see this challenge as resembling your imminent future, Aries. Mixed in with all the chatter and hubbub, there are some scattered gems out there – rich revelations and zesty potentials. Will you have the patience to pinpoint them?

interest to be generous toward you. The truth, as I see it, is that they will attract rewards for themselves, some unexpected, if they help you. So what’s your role in this dynamic? Be modest. Be grateful. Be gracious. At the same time, rake it all in with supreme confidence that you deserve such an outpouring.

ing of calling on a ghost to provide you with information, make sure you know how to banish it when you’re finished milking it. If you’re considering a trek into the past to seek some consolation or inspiration, drop bread crumbs as you go so you can find your way back to the present when it’s time to return. Catch my drift, Taurus? It’s fine to draw on the old days and the old ways, but don’t get lost or stuck there.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Nobel Prizes are awarded to geniuses in a variety of fields for work they’ve done to elevate science and culture. But have you heard of Ig Nobel Prizes? The Annals of Improbable Research hands them out to eccentrics whose work it deems useless but amusing. For instance, one recipient was honoured for investigating how impotency drugs help hamsters recover quickly from jet lag. Another award went to engineers who developed a remote-control helicopter to collect whale snot. In 2000, physicist Andre Geim won an Ig Nobel Prize for using magnetism to levitate a frog. Unlike all of his fellow honorees, however, Geim later won a Nobel Prize for his research on a remarkable substance called graphene (tinyurl.com/NobelGraphene). I think you’ll soon have a resemblance to him, Cancerian. Some of your efforts will be odd and others spectacular; some will be dismissed or derided and others will be loved and lauded.

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TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 If you’re think-

logical point of view, it’s a favourable time for people to give you gifts and perks and blessings. You have my permission to convey that message to your friends and associates. Let them know it’s in their

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sized about setting up a booth at the foot of an active volcano and creating balloon animals for tourists’ kids, now is an excellent time to get started on making that happen. Same is true if you’ve ever

iety and restlessness as well as an increase in relaxation and joy.” AMANDA J. RAGONESI, psychologist, Vancouver, Washington “[A researcher] compared clips of movies with in-your-face violence to control clips with equal amounts of movement – sport events, dancing. He determined that the brain response to the violent clips was quite different. These engaged the orbital frontal cortex to a much greater extent, suggesting that the violence engaged areas of the brain associated with emotional control. Does this mean someone exposed to violence in movies is going to be more sus-

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thought you’d like to be a rodeo clown in Brazil or a stand-up comedian at a gambling casino or a mentor who teaches card tricks and stage magic to juvenile delinquents. The astrological omens suggest that playfulness and risk-taking would synergize well right now. There’s even a chance that if you found a way to blend them, it would lead to financial gain.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 You’ve arrived at

a phase in your cycle when you’ll have the opportunity to scope out new competitors, inspirational rivals and allies who challenge you to grow. Choose wisely! Keep in mind that you will be giving them a lot of power to shape you; they will be conditioning your thoughts about yourself and about the goals you regard as worthy of your passions. If you pick people of low character or weak values, they’ll bring you down. If you opt for hard workers with high ideals, they’ll raise you up.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “There’s no key to the universe,” writes Swami Beyondananda. But that shouldn’t lead us to existential despair or hopeless apathy, adds the swami. “Fortunately, the universe has been left unlocked,” he concludes. In other words, Libra, there’s no need for a key to the universe! I offer you this good news because there’s a similar principle at work in your life. You’ve been banging on a certain door, imagining that you’re shut out from what’s inside. But the fact is that the door is unlocked and nothing is stopping you from letting yourself in.

ceptible to engaging in violence? No. But, it’s significant that aggressive, violent content affects these areas. This is an area to investigate further.” JOY HIRSCH, professor of functional neuroradiology, neuroscience and psychology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York City “Our study found an increase in salivary alpha-amylase, salivary cortisol and heart rate variability due to violent media viewing. Alpha-amylase and heart rate variability indicate im-

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 When you travel to Mozambique, the Ministry of Fish and Wildlife gives you a warning about the frequency of human encounters with lions out in nature. “Wear little noisy bells so as to give advanced warning to any lions that might be close by so you don’t take them by surprise,” reads the notice you’re handed. I’m certain, Scorpio, that no matter where you are in the coming week – whether it’s Mozambique or elsewhere – you won’t have to tangle with beasts as long as you observe similar precautions. So please take measures to avoid startling goblins, rascals and rogues. If you visit a dragon’s domain, keep your spirit light and jingly. If you use a shortcut that requires you to pass through the wasteland, sing your favorite nonsense songs as you hippety-hop along. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Few

things make me more excited than being able to predict good tidings headed your way. That’s why, as I meditated on your upcoming astrological aspects, I found myself teetering on the edge of ecstasy. Here’s what I foresee: a renaissance of pleasure... an outbreak of feeling really fine, both physically and emotionally... and an awakening of your deeper capacity to experience joy. Here’s your mantra for the week, generated by my friend Rana Satori Stewart: yum yum yum yum yum / yum yum yum yum yummy yum / yum yum yum yum yummy yummy yum yum.

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ported on two neo-Nazi skinheads from Poland, a married couple, who discovered they were actually Jews. It turned out that during World War II, the truth about their origins had been hidden by their parents for fear of persecution. Years later, when the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw informed them that

mediate effects of stress experiences, while cortisol increases require more serious stressors and longer stress exposures to emerge. It would be an extrapolation to conclude that violent media leads to sickness, because we have no direct data. On the other hand, stress experiences over extended periods may increase the likelihood that stress-related symptoms emerge.” ARNOLD LOHAUS, faculty of psycho logy and sports science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany 3 they were members of the group they had hated for so long, they were shocked. Since then, they have become observant Jews who worship at an orthodox synagogue. The new perspective you’ll be getting about your own roots may not be as dramatic as theirs, Capricorn. But I bet it will lead to a shift in your self-image. Are you ready to revise your history? (More info: tinyurl. com/Ex-skinheads.)

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logical colleague Antero Alli says that a lot of good ideas occur to him while he’s taking a shower. He also finds frequent inspiration while riding his bike. Why, then, does he not enjoy biking in the rain? He doesn’t know. I bring this up, Aquarius, because you’re entering a phase of your cycle when flashes of insight and intuition are likely to erupt at a higher rate than usual. I suggest you aggressively put yourself in every kind of situation that tends to provoke such eruptions – including ones, like maybe riding your bike in the rain, that you haven’t tried before.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 A Canadian man named William Treble once found over a thousand four-leaf clovers in a single day. Niamh Bond, a British baby, was born on the 10th day of the 10th month of 2010 – at exactly 10:10 am and 10 seconds. My friend Allan told me he was driving in suburbia the other day when two white cats bolted across the road right in front of him. And yet as lucky as all that might sound, it pales in comparison to the good fortune that’s headed your way, Pisces. Unlike their luck, which was flashy but ultimately meaningless, yours will be down-to-earth and have practical value. 3 Homework: What is the first thing you want? What’s the last thing? Are they related in any way? Testify at Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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half the room, your chances of scoring a walk-in are 50/50. Best: to start, baskets of epi baguette with whipped butter; starters like delicately battered artichoke hearts; fresh burrata with roasted olive-oil-soaked grapes; brodo-braised rabbit with wilted kale and toasted pinenuts; garlicky skewers of charcoal-grilled local lamb; substantial mains like slow-cooked meaty cannelloni beans with smoked fall-from-the-hoof pork hock and pasta ends; wild boar ragu with rubbery strips of tripe and mamma

mia meatballs over buttery coarse polenta; to finish, salty caramel sticky toffee. Complete dinners for $55 per person, including tax, tip and a cocktail. Average tapas $12. Open for dinner Saturday 6 pm to midnight. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN

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372 Bay, at Richmond W, 647-352-3211, thegabardine.com. The biggest thing to hit Bay Street since the black bloc, Alison Mackenna and Katherine Rodriques’s 50seat self-styled gastropub has taken the stock market set by storm. An unusually raucous room, a regulation comfort food card and polished if hectic service guarantee repeat customers. Best: the Ploughman’s Lunch – pork ’n’ sweetbread terrine wrapped in bacon, chicken liver pâté and rabbit rillettes, sided with house-made pickles, grilled baguette and hard-boiled eggs; iceberg lettuce wedges doused with buttermilk-blue cheese dressing, crumbled bacon and fried onions; macaroni and cheese with country ham; 7-ounce naturally raised cheeseburgers garnished with roasted tomatoes and sided with frites; burnt marshmallow ice cream sandwiches. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $30), including tax, tip and a pint. Average main $20/$14. Open Monday to Friday 8 am to 10 pm (breakfast to 10:30 am, full menu from 11:30 am). Closed Saturday, Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, tight entrance, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN

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950 Eglinton W, at Rostrevor, 416-7877423, stonebowl.ca. Bibimbap can be found at most Seoul food restaurants, but only Sam Lee and Janet Yun’s casual Korean cantina is dedicated to this meal-in-one rice casserole. And while Seoul food isn’t generally very veggie-friendly, this often innovative kitchen has much for even vegans to enjoy. Best: seven different versions all told, the traditional a bowl of shortgrain white rice garnished with seared sirloin, veggies – raw, wilted or slightly pickled spinach, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, burdock, daikon and seaweed – and a runny fried egg; the Seed, a dairy-free take with black sesame, sunflower, pumpkin and poppy seeds and grilled portobello over mirin-marinated brown rice, both in sweet house-made red pepper ‘n’ apple gochujang hot sauce. Complete meals for $18 per person, including tax, tip and a mug of barley tea. Average main $11. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 10 pm, Sunday 11 am to 8 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN 3

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The Strokes’ free SXSW show reached capacity at around 8 pm, when the metal barriers swung closed with an estimated 30,000-plus inside. But incoming fans still crowded the entrance and got increasingly agitated when told to stand back and keep cool, eventually jumping the fences and gates while event staff and police scrambled to keep control. If only Julian Casablancas were aware of the trouble he was causing. Then again, the Strokes frontman would’ve probably just shrugged. His affected cool demeanour was on full display as the New York combo played a robust headlining set of favourites and new cuts from their upcoming album, Angles. It’s been five years since their last release and even longer since they began carrying the new rock mantle, yet they commanded the stage like true rock stars. New York City Cops, Take It Or Leave It and even Juicebox from their maligned First Impressions album received huge cheers, while new tune Taken For A Fool sounds like a surefire entry into their arsenal of hits. A fence-jumping-worthy show if there ever was one.

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screaming about bad sound and leaving broken equipment in their wake. But Odd Future did the most damage with their music, metaphorically as well as actually tearing up every venue. At their sunset Fader Fort show, the members flipped back and forth from one end of the stage to the other, doing maybe 500 laps. They spun like Tasmanian devils, and the music

matched the chaos. Tyler was as ferocious on his new single, Yonkers. Another part of their appeal is how far they stretch their minimalist approach. No lights, no dancers, no hype men. Just raw energy. Kanye West, Diddy and Jay-Z came to town with SUV motorcades, scores of dancers and hype men and truckloads of props. Odd Future were on a different planet.

Big freedia For the second year in a row, the New Orleans sissy bounce queen somehow made rapping about asses seem still fresh and exciting.

nO JOy The Montreal shoegazers rocked out loud and proud, surprising us with much more energy than their dreamy recordings suggest. austra While the spooky goth overtones might not work for everyone, Toronto’s Katie Stelmanis stirred up a healthy amount of buzz around the festival. dOm I had little hope for these Wavvesesque (I know) pranksters before they took the stage at the Fader Fort but was pleasantly surprised to hear some musicianship under that layer of fuzz. Bahamas After watching so many bands struggle with laptops and complicated stage set-ups, it was impressive to see someone bring down the house purely on the strength of his guitar-playing and voice. continued on page 36 œ

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... AnD YOu WILL KnOW uS BY The TrAIL OF DeAD Didn’t these guys used to be an exciting guitar band? Down to only two original members, they seemed like a shadow of their former selves. rOKY erIcKSOn AnD The MeAT PuPPeTS This brief onstage collaboration consisted of two of the most haggardlooking dudes at SXSW. Loose, sloppy and obviously out of practice.

JuSTIn VernOn (aka Bon Iver) played a flurry of shows with his side project, Gayngs, and college band DeYarmond Edison and sang hooks for Kanye West. But they were all dull. BOScO DeLreY We see why Mad Decent signed this dubbed-out rockabilly weirdo, but the stage show still needs some work. LIL B Okay, I did the cooking dance – Lil B’s signature move – for most of the show, but the left-field Berkeley rapper failed to captivate the audience.

nITe JeWeL It’s nice that she’s working with DamFunk and has a pro backing band now, but too bad she bored everyone but the super-fans pressed up against the stage.

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At a festival with tons of temporary pop-up venues and bands playing several shows a day, tech problems are inevitable. But what divides the pros from the amateurs is how well they deal with disasters. In some cases, that’s what bumped up a show from good to memorable. Tune-Yards had to restart two songs after issues with Merrill Garbus’s loop pedal, but she handled it with such grace and confidence that the audience came away impressed rather than disappointed. After stopping one track 30 seconds in, she earned applause for telling the crowd they deserved better, and then proceeded to blow us away with a glitch-free rendition. Similarly, when Dan Deacon’s initial barrage of beats knocked out the power to his table of electronics, he

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rInGO DeAThSTArr The shoegaze revival act infuse some healthy garage rock energy into their recordings but just couldn’t pull it off live.

In recent years, many buzz-worthy bands have played a ridiculous number of shows at SXSW – sometimes more than a dozen in a few days. Though exhausting for the bands, this schedule makes it easier for them to break even and allows more people to hear them. This year, we kept running into musicians who told us festival organizers had started cracking down on bands with multiple bookings, sometimes demanding that they cancel surplus gigs. We presume the reason is that the bigger showcases will suffer if fans have lots of chances to catch a band. But from our perspective, only bands with significant buzz are going to get a multitude of bookings. Then there’s the flip side. When acts like the Strokes, DFA 1979 and Dan Deacon opt to play only one exclusive show, venues struggle to handle the demand and keep things from descending into chaos. A palpable buzz developed around the one-off shows, though, so more acts might want to consider taking the fewer-gigs approach, assuming appropriate venues and security are in place. Speaking of crowd control, maybe it’s time to consider holding SXSW in a week that doesn’t coincide with St. Patrick’s Day. The main strip has little to do with music any more and has become a holding pen for wasted college kids. When you come across hundreds of people in line for the promise of free booze but no one knows (or cares) who’s playing, that’s a problem. There are plenty of other places in the world that better suit the spring break crowd. beNjamiN boles

managed to flip the situation by turning the gaffe into just another part of his we’re-all-in-this-together routine. The crowd exploded once he got the machines running again. An airline damaged much of PS I Love You’s gear on the trip south, which was clearly frustrating for them. But instead of whining about broken guitar effects, Paul Saulnier unplugged his pedals and cranked his amp to an obscene level to make up for the busted fuzz pedals. Not everyone dealt with sound issues so well. Teen-rap terrors Odd Future barely got through three songs at their Billboard showcase before yelling at the sound tech about mic problems and storming offstage. Maybe they’re milking the immature angle a little too hard? beNjamiN boles

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Images Festival: West Of Zanzibar Toronto Underground Cinema 8:30 pm, $12-$15. RT, SS. imagesfestival.com. April 9.

PAUL POTTS

Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, $69.50. TM. April 15.

RAEKWON

The Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang Tour Opera House doors 9 pm, $29.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. April 15.

BASS DRUM OF DEATH

Velvet Underground doors 8:30 pm, $9. RT, SS. April 20.

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Cherry Bomb Live The Garrison 9 pm, $10. cherrybombtoronto.com. April 8.

The NYC-based house DJ was raised in Chicago, and brings a lot of that funky Chi-Town flavour to the decks wherever she spins. She’s got some seriously fierce energy behind the turntables, and always rocks the party. At Fly (8 Gloucester), Saturday (March 26), doors 10 pm. 416-410-5426. flynightclub.com.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20

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Sound Academy (11 Polson), Tuesday (March 29) Riff-loving hard rock heroes.

BONJAY, LA BOMBA, TOMBOYFRIEND, DJS DENISE BENSON, COZMIC CAT, DJ NINO BROWN

WIDE MOUTH MASON

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Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 8.

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Steelworkers Hall 8 pm, $10-$25. SS. April 1.

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (March 25) Hyped-up UK post-dubstep duo.

w/ Girma Wolde Michael’s Ethio Fidel, Canaille, Isla Craig Music Gallery (197 John), Friday (March 25) Celebration of Ethiopian and Eritrean jazz funk.

Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Friday (March 25) Drum ’n’ bass heavyweights party.

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ALLEYCATZ Stokes Band, the Truth, Khalel, DJ KC doors 8 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM Fo’Real: Menage A Troi doors 10 pm. AQUILA UPSTAIRS Alain Richer (acoustic rock). ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic Night S & Lafez (hiphop) 7 pm. BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles 9:30 pm. BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE WINE BAR Terrance Gowen (piano) 9 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Tonella, Modified, Buddy Black, DJ Cactus. CADILLAC LOUNGE Scott McCord & the Bonafide Truth 8:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Taylor Ashton, Zoe Guigeno 6 pm. C’EST WHAT Running Red Lights (rock) 9 pm. CLINTON’S MetheusBound, Celia Palli (indie rock). DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Nights And Weekends 3 Strikes (pop/rock) 10:30 pm. THE GARRISON Ken Mode, Vilipend, Crux of Aux, Purity Control 9 pm.

Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 23. Mod Club doors 9 pm, $18. PDR, RT, SS, TM. April 24.

UH HUH HER

Mod Club doors 6:30 pm, $21. RT, SS, TW. April 30.

THE DEATH SET, WIN WIN, MIGHTY ATOM

THIRD EYE BLIND

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $29.50. RT, SS, TM, UR. May 5.

SHARON JONES & THE DAPKINGS, BLACK JOE LEWIS

Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $25$32. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 12.

HUNTER VALENTINE, SICK OF SARAH, LUCAS SILVEIRA

Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TM. May 13.

PAN IC! AT THE DISCO, FUN, FUNERAL PARTY Sound Academy doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TM. June 5.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $29.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 15.

DEERHOOF, THE DODOS

NXNE Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $20. GT. nxne.com. June 16.

BOUNCING SOULS, ANTI-FLAG, THE FLATLINERS NXNE Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $20. GT. nxne.com. June 17.

HOT WATER MUSIC, A WILHELM SCREAM, MOCKINGBIRD WISH ME LUCK, SHARKS NXNE Opera House doors 5 pm, all ages, $22.50. GT. nxne.com. June 18.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, $52.60-$92.60. TM. June 23. Ben Harper, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $45$57.50. RT, SS, TM. July 5.

Steelworkers Hall 8 pm, all ages. TW. May 4.

GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Road Less Trav-

eled Documentary Series Launch Soul Motivators, DJ medicineman 7:30 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Stemm w/ Kodessa, FA, Manahan, Rathburn, Asleep Behind the Flame, On the Verge, Aetherborn. THE HIDEOUT The Light Brights, Snakeskin 9:30 pm. KOOL HAUS Nelly (pop/hip-hop) doors 8 pm, all ages. LAMBADINA Benefit For The Ride To Conquer Cancer Wild Currents, Hybrid Radio, DJ Atom Atomix, Dwight Tux, Paris Black, Denis Martel, Yonge Drama, Tee Angel and others 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE British Sea Power, A Classic Education (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm. METRO HALL SQUARE Juno Outdoor Block Party City and Colour, Hannah Georgas 7 to 11 pm. MITZI’S SISTER JUNO Weekend Party The Targets, Garage Baby, Ultimatemost High. THE PISTON Daniel Sky (pop/rock/hip-hop/ soul) 10 pm. PRESS CLUB Jimmy Byron (rockabilly roots) 9 pm. REVIVAL theMASHUP Blake Carrington, Wolf J, Unbuttoned, Lego Gang doors 7:30 pm. RIVOLI Native America North Showcase Christa Couture, Cris Derksen, Digging Roots, Eagle & Hawk, Leela Gilday (Aboriginal artists) 7 pm. SILVER DOLLAR CD release Armen at the Bazaar, Benefit of the Freeman, the Spoofs 9 pm. SLACK’S Onstage Thursday Nights Stella Panacci, Courage My Love, Elana Harte 8 pm.

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1964... The Tribute Mark Benson, Toddy Rainey, Tom Work, Terry Manfredi (Beatles tribute) 8 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Boyce Avenue, Alex Goot doors 7:30 pm, all ages. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Kevin O’Bath & Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Laffhappy.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE Christopher Bar-

ton (guitar) 6:30 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Greg Cockerill (folk rock/

American/roots) 10 pm. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic 8:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Alexander Brown’s Latin Power Jam 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Thursday Night Confidential GUH w/ Lonnie James 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S The Breaks, Reid Holland & the Sun Harmonic 8 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Thomas & Black Wall 10 pm. HORSESHOE The Skeletones Four, Medallions, Rival Boys, Old Crowns 9 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Greg Sczebel 8:30 pm. LIVING ARTS CENTRE Emerson Drive, High Valley (country). THE LOCAL Jake Chisholm (blues). LOLA Brian Cober (double slide) 9 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 10 pm. MAGPIE CAFE Jamboree The Sure Things 10 pm. MOD CLUB Noah & the Whale doors 8 pm, all ages. NOT MY DOG Draw The Outs (honest country) 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Brodie Dakin (acoustic/ folk/western swing) 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass & Oldtime 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Dani Nash Band 10 pm. THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (alt country) 9:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

GLENN GOULD STUDIO In A Grain Of Sand Via Salzburg, Evergreen Contemporary Gamelan Club 8 pm. JANE MALLETT THEATRE Music Toronto JulieAnne Derome (violin). METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Musif Of Tournemire. Noon At Met Richard Spotts 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). REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. REX Samuel Blais Group 9:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL Youthful Treasures Mississauga Children’s Choir noon. ROY THOMSON HALL Vaughan Williams Symphony 4 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Karen Gomyo (violin) 8 pm. SECOND CUP Old Town ARTbeat The Wellesley Street Consort (Renaissance music) 3 to 5 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Sketchpad Simeon Abbott, Joe Sorbara, Nicole Rampersaud (jazz/experimental) 8 pm. STATLER’S Donovan LeNabat 9:30 pm. TEN FEET TALL Jam Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 9 pm. TRANE STUDIO Dwayne Morgan 8:30 pm. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH Daniel Taylor Sings Bach and Vivaldi Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 8 pm.

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ALTO LOUNGE Thurst DJ Vivi Diamond. CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS DJ Odario (hip-hop/elec-

tro/party jams).

CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS Grill Cheeze Thurs-

CHINA HOUSE Mike Lewis. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist)

day DJ James Redi.

5:30-8 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Future Shock 2.0

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THEATRE Tim Hagans, U of T Jazz Orchestras (Jazz)

FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY Remix Dance Party DJ

7:30 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Metamorphosis Chris Donnelly (piano)

noon.

GATE 403 Myriad Ernesto Cervin 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Kristin Lindell Jazz Band 9 pm.

DJ Dopey 10 pm.

Noble (electro) 10 pm. MAISON MERCER The Immaculate Jed Dadson. MOD CLUB Popstars & Icons: Video Dance Party. THE OSSINGTON More Times DJ Nana (hip-hop/ soul).

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ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. ASPETTA CAFFE Rioting Reverb, Spacecraft 7

(rock) doors 8 pm. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB JunoFest Flash Lightnin’, Monster Truck, the Schomberg Fair, Bella Clava, DJ Vania 9 pm. BURROUGHES BUILDING Boarders Against Breast Cancer Fundraiser Parks & Rec, Human Bodies & Durt Stash doors 8 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Hot Rocks, Ride Em Cowboy (Stones tribute) 9 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Bidini Band 6 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Kayl Howran 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM David Celia & Brooke Miller. DAKOTA TAVERN JunoFest Del Barber, Sheep Dogs, Harlan Pepper 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL JunoFest Young Empires, Bravestation 8:30 pm. EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS JunoFest Grapes of Wrath, Chic Gamine, Peter Katz doors 9 pm. EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Funky Flavours Jenny Treehorn & the Brass Moustache (funk/soul/ Afrobeat) 10 pm. FOGARTY’S Brian Tyrell (rootsy pop rock) 8 pm. THE GARRISON JunoFest Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose, Whale Tooth & the Darcys 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For The Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. THE GREAT HALL JunoFest Royal Wood, Dala, Emm Gryner (singer-songwriter) doors 8:30 pm. HARD LUCK BAR The Oats, Motel English, Stemm. HARD LUCK BAR Bunker, NEWD. HARD ROCK CAFE JunoFest: UrbFresh Urban Music Showcase Eternia & Moss, Tonya P, Silver, Quanteisha Benjamin, Tony Anthony 9 pm. See preview, page 42. HARD ROCK CAFE The Dead Butterflies midnight. THE HIDEOUT Black List Manifesto, Ultra Violence 9:30 pm. HORSESHOE JunoFest 2011 Justin Rutledge, D-Sisive, Said the Whale, Catl doors 8 pm. LEE’S PALACE JunoFest Blues In D, Misteur Valaire, Amos the Transparent, Gloryhound 9 pm. LOLA Blood Orange 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE JunoFest Pacificka, Roberto Lopez Project, Jayme Stone, Jesse Cook doors 7 pm. MITZI’S SISTER JUNO Weekend The Targets, Marvelous Beauhunks, SHBTI, Laganza. MOD CLUB JunoFest Sweet Thing, the Balconies, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald doors 6 pm, all ages. OPERA HOUSE JunoFest Die Mannequin, Birthday Massacre, Ariel doors 8 pm. PARTS & LABOUR CD release The Two Koreas, Uncut, Biblical 10 pm. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE JunoFest The Planet Smashers, the Johnstones, Saint Alvia (ska) doors 8 pm, all ages. THE PISTON Ben Steveson & the Wondertones (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. THE PORT Mamabolo, the Caraways (pop rock) 9:30 pm. PRESS CLUB Bellevue, Tight Ship (rock) 9 pm. RANCHO RELAXO BF Soul, Close Encounters, Down by Riverside doors 9 pm. REVIVAL CD release The Sevenate, Sixes and Sevens, Dead Butterflies, Johnny Dead, Dirty to Filthy, the Faculty, Brain Cell Graveyard doors 8 pm. RIVOLI Junofest Raghav, Greg Scezebel (South Asian dance/R&B) doors 9 pm. ROCKPILE Sandman & Who Made Who (Metallica & AC/DC tribute). SILVER DOLLAR JunoFest Horsey Craze, the Meligrove Band, Germans, Queen Licorice, Lava & Ash 9 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S JunoFest Radio Radio, San Sebastian, the Coppertone 9 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Volbeat, the Damned Things, Hourcast doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Triangle Isosceles, DJs Caff, Jason Palma. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Hollowick, Frankie Whyte & the Dead Idols doors 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Kate Rogers (pop/ rock/folk) 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Ryan Driver Quartet (indie powerpop) 10 pm. UNDERGROUND GARAGE Eyepod Shuffle.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

HARRY MANX AND DAVID LINDLEY

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Irene & the Goodnights

(blues/R&B).

BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE John Campbell (piano) 7:30 pm. C’EST WHAT The Starfires, Michael Kaler (improvisational folk rock) 3 pm. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR A Murder of Crows (country/blues/western swing) 9:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Havana To Toronto Safari (Afro-Cuban-Latin) 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Janet Whiteway Band 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Slocan (oldtime bluegrass band) evening. JAMES JOYCE Open Mic Jam 4 to 7 pm. LOU DAWG’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm. MONARCHS PUB JunoFest Johnny Max Band, the 24 Street Wailers, Suzie Vinnick (blues) doors 9 pm. NOT MY DOG Sunday Wilde 9 pm. STATLER’S Julie Michels & Kevin Barrett 9:30 pm. VILLAGE VAPOR LOUNGE Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.

Fri. Apr. 1, 2011 8pm Koerner Hall Hear Harry Manx “Canada's most versatile and expressive blues player” (Billboard magazine), perform his poetic Indian-spiced blues grooves alongside “maxi-instrumentalist" (Acoustic Guitar) David Lindley’s mix of American roots music.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BOILER HOUSE Kush (feel-good instrumental/ electronic nu-jazz) 9:30 pm. GATE 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Real Time Jazz Ensemble 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO In A Grain Of Sand Via Salzburg, Evergreen Contemporary Gamelan Club 8 pm. HARLEM Jill Peacock (jazz/soul) 7:30 pm. HUGH’S ROOM JunoFest Laila Biali, the Sojourners, Kellylee Evans (jazz ) doors 6 pm. JANE MALLETT THEATRE Portraits: Adams, Glass & Pärt Angèle Dubeau & La Pieta 8 pm. MUSIC GALLERY New World Series: Ethio T.O. Girma Wolde Michael’s Ethio Fidel, Canaille, Isla Craig (jazz-funk of Ethiopia and Eritrea) doors 7 pm. OLD MILL INN Fridays To Sing About Peggy Mahon Trio 7:30 pm. QUOTES Fridays At Five John MacMurchy (saxophone) 5 to 8 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. REX Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm. REX CD release Tara Davidson Group 9:30 pm. ROSE THEATRE Heather Bambrick 8 pm.

ASPECTS OF OSCAR: OSCAR’S BLUES featuring Roy Hargrove and special guests

Sat. Apr. 2, 2011 8pm Koerner Hall Oscar Peterson knew deep in his soul how to swing and how to play the blues. Roy Hargrove leads an extraordinary lineup of musicians, including Roberta Gambarini, Ralph Moore, Jonathan Batiste, Christian McBride, and Willie Jones III, in a celebration of Oscar's life and blues music.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL The Glenn Gould School Opera 8 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Leftover Daylight

Series Cory Latkovich, Nilan Perera, Jenny Charlton and others 8 pm. ST THOMAS’S ANGLICAN CHURCH A Bach Celebration! Exultate Chamber Singers 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO CD release Lester McLean 8 pm. TRANZAC The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH Daniel Taylor Sings Bach and Vivaldi Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 8 pm. WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

AME Break For Love Mark Oliver, Chris La Roque (classic house) 10 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM House Party Friday (top 40/mashups/90s) 10 pm. ATELIER NOIR Champagne Fridays DJ Mensa (house/electro) doors 10:30 pm. BUNDA LOUNGE Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace (Caribbean music/hip-hop/top 40). CLINTON’S Dance Armstrong. COMFORT INN MERMAID LOUNGE Latin Fridays DJ Gene (merengue/salsa/bachata/rumba/ cumbia/cha cha) 9 pm. CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS Marco Orlic & Allister.

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The 2011 Juno awards with performances by arcade Fire, Broken social scene, Chromeo, down with webster, hedley, Johnny reid, sarah McLachlan and more, at the air Canada Centre (40 Bay), sunday (March 27), 7:45 pm. $99$213.75. TM. The show airs on CTV starting at 8 pm.

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iven the hot streak he’s been on for the past two years – and the 2011 Grammys on his shelf – it’s kinda cool that Boi-1Da can still get excited about the Juno Awards. With characteristic humility, the beatmaking producer from Toronto, born Matthew Samuels, says he’s honoured to be recognized in his home country. He has credits on records nominated in four categories at this year’s show: Eminem’s Recovery (international album of the year), Drake’s Thank Me Later (album of the year and rap recording of the year) and Drake’s Fireworks (songwriter of the year). For those keeping score, Thank Me Later was the eighth-highest-selling album of 2010. Recovery was number one. Boi-1da (pronounced Boy Wonder) produced Over, and Not Afraid, the lead singles on both. The latter has an astronomical 213 million-plus hits on YouTube. According to Samuels, those figures represent vindication. “Some people had doubts about me, thinking I was just lucky with the songs that were out before,” the 24year-old says. “But they can see now it’s something I really work hard at, that I put my heart into, and it’s paying off.” The seriousness of that statement is mitigated somewhat by the fact that he’s speaking from the parking lot of El Pollo Loco, a grilled chicken fast food chain in L.A., a city where he now spends a few months out of every year. Wherever he is, Boi-1da is busy. Currently, he’s banging out music for Akon, 50 Cent, Nicole Scherzinger, Game, Busta Rhymes and breakout UK rapper Tinie Tempah among others. His beats are all over Drake’s next album, Take Care, which he promises will lift the Canadian rapper to even greater heights. The fact that Drizzy is also hosting this year’s Junos is significant to the producer. Were it not for Forest Hill’s finest, 1da might still be slaving away over an Acer laptop in the basement of his family’s home. But it’s been a two-way street, for sure. Drake has definitely benefited from the lush sonic backdrop 1da has given him since 2006, when they met through a

oi-1da grammy award-winning producer Matthew samuels has taken the music industry by storm, cranking out hits for Drake, eminem and many more. still, the canadian beatsmith is thrilled at the possibility of going home with a Juno. By JASON RICHARDS utual friend, fellow Toronto-based m producerD10.Thatconnectionalmost didn’thappen,becauseoftherapper’s pastlifeplayingJimmyBrooksonthe colourfulhighschooldramaDegrassi: TheNextGeneration. “I was kind of skeptical,” Samuels says.“IknewhimfromtheTVshow, soIwaslike,‘Oh,thatguyraps?That’s weird.’” Drake quickly disabused the beatmakerofalldoubtswhenhesenthim asongcalledMoney. “Iwasblownaway.Hewasrapping aboutmoney,butnotlikeanyoneelse would. It was so relatable. His voice, flow,wascrazy.Isawthevisionfrom there.” Boi-1da was instrumental (ha) in helpingtherapperdevelopthatvision fromthegroundup.Heworkedonall three of Drake’s mixtapes, producing thetrackBestIEverHadfromhislast one,SoFarGone.Thetrackwasanunprecedented mixtape crossover hit, a “song of the summer” in 2009 that eventuallywentdoubleplatinum. LikeamenuitematElPolloLoco,it wasawrap.Drakehadarrived,andso hadBoi-1da. “My email was floodedsuddenly,”hesays.“I started getting text messagesandphone calls from publish-

ers. Everybody wanted to meet me andworkwithmeondifferentstuff, and get me in the studio. I took my first trip to L.A. when that started happening.” Fortunately, the producer had enough material to go around. And notjustthrowawaybeatseither,but a full arsenal of certified bangers. Boi-1da’s sound isn’t immediately recognizable like DJ Premier’s or Swizz Beatz’s, but certain signature elements recur throughout his productions:dancehallreggae’sbeloved air horns, bass kicks that drop like medicine balls, evocative lines of minor-chordmelody,asenseofnegative space that puts the lyrics front andcentre. ThesearethequalitiesthatpromptedDr.DretophoneBoi-1daandrave about his beats after hearing them fromStatQuo,oneoftheartiststhen signedtohislabel,Aftermath. For the young producer, who had been heavily influenced by Dre’s meticulous sound, it was about the closestthingtogettingacallfromGod. “Itwassurreal,like‘Ijusttalkedto Dr.Dre,’”hesays.“Itwasabriefconversation,butitdefinitelyhadmein thezoneforafewweeks.” Since then, he’s paid numerous visits to the doctor’s laboratory, which he describes as “better than

my little basement corner in every singleway.” But it was Boi-1da’s management team,notDre,whoputhimintouch withEminem.Throughsomekindof perfect alignment of the stars, Marshall Mathers had been working on Recovery,thealbumthatwouldmark his comeback, and looking to get awayfromthecarnivalesque,celebrity-dissing style that had become hisformulaforleadsingles. In the meaningful strings and scatteredsnaresthatranthroughthe beat for Not Afraid, Eminem heard theperfectsoundscapeforamature, inspirationalsongthatextolledarecommitment to the fundamentals: freedom from addiction, raising his daughter right and promising to makemusichisfanscouldrespect.In otherwords,someprettyheavyshit. Thefactthathisbeatwasanartisticturningpointforoneofthemost popularmusiciansintheworldisnot lostonBoi-1da. “He spilled his guts on that one,” Samuelssays.“Igotalotofpositive reactionsfromit,emailsfrompeople sayingthatsonginspiredthemtoget off drugs, stuff like that. Eminem hadtodothat.Itwastheperfectfirst single–notbecauseitwasmytrack, butbecauseit’swhatpeoplewanted tohearfromhim.”

Naturally,theproducerhadsome goodseatsattheGrammyAwardsin February, andbrought his oldersister,whogottositnexttooneofher favouriteartists,singerIndia.Arie. He made more connections that nightwithevenmorebig-nameartists, though it’s too early to talk about some of the upcoming work he’ll be doing with them. He does, however, have plans to assemble a collaborative “Boi-1da presents” albuminthetraditionofTimbaland’s ShockValueseries. He’salsodiscoveredhisfirstprotegé – Bizzle, a rapper who makes Christian hip-hop, but without beingcorny,theproducerinsists. “He’sliketheChristianversionof Kanye West.” I was dubious but found myself impressed when I heard an ambitious freestyle that piously attacks Jay-Z’s blasphemy, instructinghimto“carryaBible.” Consideringtheoutstandingrun he’s had, the producer is blessed himself. Now that he’s one of hip- hop’s production A-listers, I can’t help but ask 1da how much he’s chargingforbeatsthesedays,inthe eventthatIdecidetojump-startmy ownrapcareer.Turnsoutthey’rea littleoutofmypricerange. “Afajilliondollars.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

JunoFest picks Flash lIghtnIn’, Monster truck, the schoMberg FaIr, bella clava, DJ vanIa Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Friday (March 25) Hard rock and dark roots music.

Del barber, sheep Dogs, harlan pepper Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Friday (March 25) Folk, country and classic rock.

royal WooD, Dala, eMM gryner The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (March 25) Singer/songwriter triple bill.

eternIa & Moss, tonya p, sIlver, QuanteIsha ben JaMIn, tony anthony

Hard Rock Cafe (279 Yonge), Friday (March 25) See preview, page 42.

JustIn rutleDge, DsIsIve, saID the Whale, catl

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (March 25) Roots, hip-hop, pop and blues-punk.

one hunDreD Dollars, saMantha MartIn & the haggarD, rattlesnake choIr Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Saturday (March 26) See preview, page 42.

ellIott brooD, gentle Man husbanDs, huDDle anD secret guest

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (March 26) A Juno nominee is the secret guest.

reD Mass, teenanger, braDley boy

Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (March 26) Punk, psych and a one-man band.

classIFIeD, pete rock, kIDz In the hall Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (March 26) See preview, page 42.

junos 101

Drake

The Juno Awards haven’t been held in T.O. for a decade, and this year’s show has one of the strongest lineups of performers in its history, many of whom have appeared on our cover. The ceremony, telecast by CTV Sunday (March 27) at 8 pm, is hosted by Toronto hip-hop superstar Drake. In addition to the awards themselves, the institution takes over local clubs for JunoFest (see sidebar, this page), with more than 100 bands playing at 20 venues over two nights. Consider picking up a wristband to save on cover charges. There’s also the Juno Cup (see preview, page 42), which pits musicians against NHL greats in a clash of the titans. For music fans on a budget, the free Juno Block Party hits Metro Square tonight (Thursday, March 24), with City and Colour, and Hannah Georgas opening up. Also free is Juno

Fan Fare, Saturday (March 26) at MuchMusic (299 Queen West), where fans can meet their heroes and get their autographs. Continuing through November at the Bata Shoe Museum (327 Bloor West) is Juno Sole, where footwear worn by musicians like Paul Anka, Bryan Adams and Anne Murray will be on view. CanRock memorabilia lovers should check out the Juno Photography Exhibition at First Canadian Place (100 King West): images from the past 40 years of the awards, including some never-before-seen shots. For more Juno-related art, the AGO hosts The Juno Tour Of Canadian Art until August 31, featuring work selected by Juno nominees and winners alongside video clips of the musicians talking about their picks. Benjamin Boles

JulIe DoIron, FonD oF tIgers, graMercy rIFFs

The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Saturday (March 26) Guitar rock and experimental music.

holy Fuck DJ set, poIrIer, egyptrIxx. bonJay. DenIse benson

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (March 26) Eclectic program of electronic music. NOW march 24-30 2011

One Hundred Dollars

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By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI ONE HUNdREd dOLLARS with RATTLESNAKE CHOIR and SAMANTHA MARTIN & THE HAGGARd at the Dakota (249 Ossington) as part of JUNOfEST, Saturday (March 26), 9 pm. $30 wristband, $12 at door. TM.

HEATHER SMITH

Toronto’s One Hundred Dollars revere the icons of country music, but it’s misleading to call them a throwback band. “I don’t think we’re a throwback at all,” says lead singer Simone Schmidt from a secluded house in St. Thomas, Ontario, where the band sometimes practises. “We’re playing country music but interpreting it in a way that’s relevant to us. We don’t wear cowboy hats or boots, and we sing about contemporary issues and situations.” That’s what makes the band an inspired choice for this year’s JunoFest. Though they aren’t nominated for any awards, their ability to capture the current political zeitgeist using country music tropes makes them a quintessentially Canadian act. On their ongoing regional-themed 7-inch series, they examine issues related to individual Canadian cities without resorting to polemic. The most recent, Black Gold (which reappears in a new version on the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Songs Of Man), takes the classic country tale of a transient worker corrupted by his circumstances and repos-

eternia By KEVIN RITCHIE

ETERNIA & MOSS with TONYA P, SILVER, QUANTEISHA BENJAMIN and TONY ANTHONY at the Hard Rock Café (279 Yonge) as part of JUNOfEST, Friday (March 25), 9 pm. $30 wristband, $12 at the door. TM.

When Eternia hit the studio with Toronto hip-hop producer MoSS after meeting him at a concert in Winnipeg, the 26year-old MC found a musical partner who could push the energy and vivid, honest storytelling she’s best known for even further. So deep was their creative connection that, nine months after their Juno-nominated collaboration album, At Last (Fat Beats), dropped, she’s now grappling with separation issues. “In the last couple of months, I got hundreds of beats from all different types of producers. MoSS gave me, like, 10, and literally the minute he gave me them I wanted to write a whole album,” says Eternia (aka Silk Kaya) from her home base in Queens, New York. “There’s just something about them that plucks at my heartstrings.” One of his trippy boom-bap beats struck particularly deep, unearthing un-

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pleasant memories she’d long tried to erase. When she sat down to write what would become the recent single To The Future, blunt rhymes about sexual abuse and violence (“That same year, I was assaulted with a gun / These dudes locked me in a room / molested me for fun”) gushed out. “The violin kinda rips at you,” she says. “It’s haunting and it’s ripping you bare; that was the unspoken vibe of the track. Then I literally said, ‘What are all the skeletons in my closet that I don’t want my future husband to know?’ I’ll just tell them to the world.” Enough time has passed that she’s gotten distance from the song, and she’s using its video to raise awareness for Kids Help Phone and to draw attention to the crisis of self that young women often experience. “At the end I say [to my future husband], ‘Why would you wanna? I got problems, so go on,’ and that’s how I felt when I wrote it. “I don’t feel that way now. The song’s hopefully collectively releasing us of the burden, the guilt, shame, the demons, the lack of self-love.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

itions it in Fort McMurray’s oil-based economy. “There’s an interconnectedness between people who live where I live and people who live there,” Schmidt explains. “A huge number of people from here go to work there, and it affects their families’ home lives when they return. That’s how it relates to the character in the song, but on a deeper level it’s about the way we’re all connected through our shared resources.” On Songs Of Man, out in May on Outside, the band delves into the ballad tradition with a series of story songs written from different characters’ perspectives. Though specific and circumstantial, they speak to issues of the day. It’s no surprise that many have described the band as activists, but again Schmidt disagrees. “We’re just writing about what we see,” she says. “I think the notion that we’re an activist band speaks more to people’s fear of talking about reality than to anything about us.” It’s One Hundred Dollars’ refusal to be pigeonholed that makes them so palatable to non-country-music fans. Schmidt and guitarist Ian Russell even guest on Fucked Up’s upcoming punk opera, David Comes To Life. “I just don’t think we fit into any scene, country music or otherwise. We make our art the way we do, and that defies categorization.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

Classified By ANDREW RENNIE

CLASSIfIEd at Ricoh Coliseum (100 Princes’) as part of the JUNO CUP, Friday (March 25), 7:30 pm. $19.75. TM. And at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (March 26), 8 pm. $25. PDR, RT, SS, TM.

Sixteen years into his career, Enfield, Nova Scotia’s Luke “Classified” Boyd now sees things a little differently. His fiery passion for hip-hop hasn’t dimmed, but his priorities have shifted. Once an artist with a punishing tour schedule, Boyd has lately been devoting time to mentoring new acts and enjoying the company of his family. “The past few years have given me a lot to write about,” says Boyd on a cellphone somewhere in Nova Scotia. “Having a family and kids grows you.” He’s also been busy giving Kayo [Guevarra], the first signing to his Half Life record label, a push. “He’s soulful and funky, motivational and inspirational,” says Boyd about the Caribbean-born, Halifax-based musician. None of this is to say that Boyd’s own career has taken a back seat. This week he releases his 13th album, Handshakes And Middle Fingers, on Half Life/Sony. “Musically, I’ve been trying to step it up by bringing in live orchestras. I’ve been working with David Christensen, who writes arrangements for Symphony Nova Scotia. He’s given me a whole new avenue where the music can go once I think it’s finished.”

That partnership has resulted in some interesting new sounds. Lead-off single That Ain’t Classy incorporates brooding strings and is reminiscent of El-P’s early work, which Boyd cites as a favourite. “The album’s heavily influenced by what I grew up on,” he admits. “There’s a lot of 90s hiphop on there.” Handshakes And Middle Fingers will hopefully expand on the success of Classified’s acclaimed 2009 album, Self Explanatory, which included Oh... Canada, currently up for a Juno in the single-of-the-year category. To celebrate, he’s playing in Friday’s Juno Cup, which pits Canadian musicians against NHL greats at Ricoh Coliseum. The proceeds go to MusiCounts, a music education charity. “The first time I did it was in 2006, when they were just looking for people to play,” says Boyd, who usually plays centre or left wing. “I ran into Paul Coffey last year and he looked like he wanted to punch me in the face. I’m a bit nervous about this game.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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crAWford doWnstAirs Andrew Allsgoode. diMitrA’s Bistro DJ Viviana (salsa) 9 pm. douBle deuce sAloon Double Funk Friday

6 Assembalge 7/14/ Pop Stars 21/28 and Icons 19 A Rocket to the Moon 22 Trent Muellor 23 Biffy Clyro 30 Uh huh Her

DJs Public Relations & M-Chan (funk/breaks/ disco/jazz-funk) 10 pm. drAke hotel Itzsoweezee doors 11 pm. drAke hotel lounge DJ Dre-Bans 10 pm. eMMet rAy BAr DJs Step ‘N Grove (funk/soul) 10 pm. fly Dance Camp Megahits! DJ Mark Falco 10 pm.5 the flying BeAver DJ Carol Hylton. footWork Luv This City Addy, Deko-Ze, JayForce, Chris Ink doors 10 pm. fox & fiddle Wellesley Fiesta Friday DJ ShaqT (top 40/house/salsa). guvernMent BASS Week: Projek ViRAM Andy C, Ed Rush, Optical, Red One, Mystical Influence, Lush doors 10 pm. insoMniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Travis Robinson (house/breaks). kApisAnAn philippine centre The Sugar Bowl Documentary Benefit Party 7 pm. luxy nightcluB Diva Fridays DJ Jedi, DJ 4Korners. nAco gAllery cAfe Gayfinity DJs Leila Pee, Alex McClelland (dancehall/disco/house/gay beats).5 the ossington All Souled Out Big Jimmy Mills, DJ Silvermayne. the pAinted lAdy DJ Phantastik, Honey B Hind (old-school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. rAsputin vodkA BAr El Niño Mr Tunes 10 pm. rivoli pool lounge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro) 10 pm. suBA Intimate & Interactive Open Mic Andreena Mill doors 9 pm. tAttoo rock pArlour Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alternative/indie rock) doors 10:30 pm. this is london Manzone & Strong, Ovim, Ortemy doors 10 pm. WrongBAr Mount Kimbie, Jamie Woon doors 10 pm.

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Mod cluB MENEW 11 pm. Mod cluB Juno Fest These Kids Wear Crowns,

Saturday, March 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Lady Kane. AspettA cAffe Mass Assembly, Out for Glory, Xephyr (rock) 8 pm.

the AtriA Fuck The Facts (metal). BAr itAliA Al Webster 10 pm. Bovine sex cluB JunoFest Dead & Divine, Titan, Glass Amp, the Delinquints, ñ DJ Ian Blurton.

c’est WhAt Kirby 9:30 pm. convocAtion hAll Randy Newman 8 pm. crAWford doWnstAirs Reggae Party. dAkotA tAvern JunoFest One Hundred page 42

drAke hotel JunoFest Hannah Georgas, Meaghan Smith 8:30 pm.

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eArthship Keir Neuringer, Ensemble, Ghost

Eye 9 pm, all ages. el MocAMBo JunoFest Dean Brody, Ladies of the Canyon, Marshall Dane doors 9 pm. glAdstone hotel BAllrooM Junofest 2011 Adrean Farrugia, Chet Doxas, Felix Stussi doors 8 pm. grAffiti’s Dodge Fiasco (rock) 4 to 7 pm. grAffiti’s Russel Leon’s SSW Night evening. the greAt hAll JunoFest Basia Bulat, New Country Rehab & Kat Burns doors 8:30 pm. hArd luck BAr Slayer Party Agressor, Shotgun Rules, Hate Gang. hArd rock cAfe JunoFest Karl Wolf, D-Sisive, Elaine Lil’ Bit Shepherd, Ghettosocks, Lyndon John X 9 pm. hArleM Janelle Monique (soul) 7:30 pm. the hideout Ayses Unplugged, the Disco Rebels 9:30 pm. horseshoe JunoFest Elliott Brood, Gentleman Husbands, Huddle, and secret guest doors 9 pm. kool hAus Fabolous. lee’s pAlAce JunoFest The Beauties, Luke Doucet, NQ Arbuckle, Dustin Bentall doors 9 pm. Mitzi’s sister JUNO Weekend The Targets, Legendary Dirtbikers, SFH, the 905’s.

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Thu mar 24

Tonella w/Modified, Buddy Black + dJ cactus fri mar 25 JunoFest Presents:

Flash lighTnin' w/Monster truck, the schoMBerg fair + Bella clava & dJ vania Sat mar 26 JunoFest Presents:

DeaD & Divine w/titan, glass aMp + the delinquints & dJ ian Blurton sun mar 27

DJ Rockabilly Rob mon mar 28

mooDy monDays with douglas fairBanks Jr. tueS mar 29 The Pink & Black Attack Presents:

subsTance w/hellBats (france) Wed mar 30 Rock 'N' Roll Rehab Presents:

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Dollars, Samantha Martin & the Hagñ gard, Rattlesnake Choir 9 pm. See preview,

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Jesse Labelle & Alyssa Reid (pop punks) doors 6 pm, all ages. noW lounge No Shame All-Ages Show Ruby Coast, Modern Superstitions, Army Girls, I EAT KIDS, doors 1 pm, all ages. operA house JunoFest: F.U.M.S. Benefit Concert Billy Talent, Cancer Bats, Black Lungs, Indian Handcrafts doors 7:30 pm. phoenix concert theAtre JunoFest Bedouin Soundclash, Grand Analog, Michael Rault doors 8 pm, all ages. the piston Steamboat (pop/rock/hiphop/soul) 10 pm. rAncho relAxo La Casa Muerte, the Black Void, Hospital Grade, Bombs doors 9 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rivoli JunoFest Dearly Beloved, Manifest, Little Hawk 9 pm. silver dollAr JunoFest The Red Mass, Teenanger, Bradley Boy, Action Makes, the Sphinxs 9 pm. sMiling BuddhA The Davey Parker Radio Sound, Terror Lake, the Auras. sonic BooM In-store performance PVT 4 pm. sound AcAdeMy JunoFest Classified, Pete Rock, Kidz In The Hall doors 8 pm, all ages. See preview, page 42. southside Johnny’s Guilty Pleasures (rock/ top 40) 10 pm. sportster’s Nicola Vaughan (rock) 10 pm. trAnzAc CD release The Quiet Revolution, Ronley Teper’s Lipliners (indie pop) 10 pm. trAnzAc Alias Dance Project Fundraiser Lev Lewis, Tavis Weir, Monica Kulling 9 pm. t.s.t’s lAunch pAd Folk Heros From Space (rock/folk) 10 pm, all ages. WrongBAr Warpaint, PVT & Family Band doors 7 pm.

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AquilA upstAirs Alec Fraser & Mike Daley (blues).

Blu ristorAnte & lounge Christopher Barton (guitar) 7:30 pm.

cAdillAc lounge Mary & Micky (country)

3:30 pm.

cAdillAc lounge Jim Armstrong & the Sonic Deli Band evening. cAMeron house front rooM Sue & Dwight 3:30 to 5:30 pm. cAMeron house BAck rooM Ashley Condon & Ria Mae (singer/songwriters). cAMeron house Lil Jimmies Chicken Pickers 6 pm. cAMeron house Jack Marks 10 pm. church of the holy trinity David & Goliath: An Earth Hour Evening Of Song And Story to Benefit Mariposa In The Schools and Echo Women’s Choir Echo Women’s Choir, Ken Whiteley, Chris Rawlings and others 7 pm. dAkotA tAvern The Foggy Hogtown Boys (bluegrass) 4 to 7:30 pm. dAve’s... on st clAir Slipstream of Your Mind. eMMet rAy BAr Box Full of Cash (country) 9 pm. fogArty’s Foggy Celtic Band 8 pm. the gArrison JunoFest 2011 Julie Doiron, Fond of Tigers, Gramercy Riffs doors 8 pm. glAdstone hotel Melody BAr Country Saturdays Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 7 pm. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque Sean Pinchin 8 pm. hugh’s rooM JunoFest Sultans of String, Elage Diouf doors 8 pm. the locAl Handsome Dan & His Gallimaufry, the Virgil Shockley. lou dAWg’s Every Note Counts: Sick Kids Fundraiser Eric Mattei, Monique Barry, Lonely Commotions, the McDales, L.A. Turcotte (acoustic) 9:30 pm. MonArchs puB JunoFest Fathead & Jim Byrnes, Urban Preacher (blues) doors 9:30 pm.

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Old Nick Marriane Mazur, Jennifer Brewer 10 pm.

The OssiNgTON Earth Hour Tich Maredza 8 pm. ROc N dOc’s Jerome Godboo Band, Eric Schenkman, Steve Pelletier, Al Cross 10 pm. TRaNzac sOuTheRN cROss Joe Hall 6:30 pm. TRaNzac Jamzac (folk) 3 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

aRcadiaN cOuRT Green Gala Sinfonia Toronto, DecaDance Band. BeeRBisTRO The Gene Pool Boys (soulful swinging jazz) 8:15 pm. de sOTOs Double A Jazz w/ Carlo Berardinucci (from Sinatra to Bublé) 8:30 pm. dOmiNiON ON QueeN East End Rockabilly Riot #9 Tennessee Voodoo Coupe, Christian D & the Hangovers, the Greasemarks, DJ Rockin’ Dave Faris doors 9 pm. gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Dave Rubel Jazz Band noon to 3 pm. gaTe 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm. liviNg aRTs ceNTRe Music Of Passion Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Gilbert, Richard Moore (piano, percussion). meTROpOliTaN uNiTed chuRch Shakespeare In The City Daniel Rubinoff, Benjamin Stein (music on the lyrics of Shakespeare) 7:30 pm. Old mill iNN hOme smiTh BaR Piano Masters Amanda Tosoff Trio 7:30 pm. pRess cluB Gypsylicious (Gypsy jazz) 9 pm. Rex Laura Hubert 3:30 pm. Rex Zach Brock, Matt Wigton, Fred Kennedy 7 pm. Rex Snarky Puppy 9:45 pm. sOmewheRe TheRe sTudiO Ken Aldcroft: InRe-tro-Spective – His Mistress Never Sleeps...A Tribute To Duke Ellington Ken Aldcroft Trio 8 pm. sT clemeNT’s chuRch An Evening Of Bach Cantabile Chamber Singers 7:30 pm. sT simON-The-apOsTle aNglicaN chuRch

Voices United Concert: Benefit for Justicia For Migrant Workers and the Mennonite New Life Centre Common Thread Chorus, Proyecto Altiplano (Latin American folk/modern) 7:30 pm. sTaTleR’s Alex Hopkins 9:30 pm. TeN FeeT Tall Jordana Talsky (jazz) 8 pm. TRaNe sTudiO Trane Studio 8th Anniversary Concert 8 pm. TRiNiTy sT. paul’s chuRch Daniel Taylor Sings Bach and Vivaldi Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 8 pm.

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FOOTwORk Coyu & Edu Imbernon, Anthony D’Amico, Iron Mike doors 10 pm. FOx & FiRkiN Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. guveRNmeNT dRiNk DJ Delirious & Vinny. hOly Oak caFe Born To Run DMC 10 pm. iNsOmNia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). lula lOuNge Salsa Dance Party Cafe Cubano, DJ Gio 10 pm. maRO Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems). mOd cluB UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. NacO galleRy caFe Tapette DJ Phil V (French dance hits) 10 pm. 99 sudBuRy Plugged Not Thugged Two Year Anniversary Schlachthofbronx, dubbel dutch, Billionaire, Mandelephant (electro/dubstep/dancehall/UK funky/bass) 10 pm. The OssiNgTON Friendship DJ Hi Mom!. The paiNTed lady DJ Salazar (funk/soul) 10 pm. paRTs & laBOuR Strangeways DJs Mark Pesci, Scott Wade (new wave/punk) 10 pm. RivOli pOOl lOuNge deejayscoots (roots/hiphop/reggae/soul/disco/electro/funk) 10 pm. supeRmaRkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdminal. TaTTOO ROck paRlOuR Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor Gen Y, DJ Stu (dance rock/retro) doors 10 pm. wRONgBaR JunoFest Holy Fuck DJs, DJ Poirier, DJ Egyptrixx, Bonjay, DJ Denise Benson 10:30 pm.

Sunday, March 27 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

aiR caNada ceNTRe The JUNO Awards

Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Chromeo, Down with Webster, Hedley, Johnny Reid, Sarah McLachlan and others 7:45 pm. dave’s... ON sT claiR John Campbell (pop/ jazz). dOmiNiON ON QueeN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am-3 pm. gRaFFiTi’s Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. gRaFFiTi’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. haRd luck BaR Violets & Viruses. The hideOuT Lakota Jonez, Joey Stylez, Derek Miller 10:30 pm. miTzi’s sisTeR Laura Hubert 5 to 7 pm. miTzi’s sisTeR JUNO Volunteers Appreciation Party The Royal Crowns. ROckpile Colour Colour. sNeaky dee’s Larry & his Flask, Sarah Blackwood (punk rock hillbilly) doors 8:30 pm. sOuThside JOhNNy’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

aQuila upsTaiRs Sunday Junction Jam The

New Mynah Birds, Michelle Rumball (mostly blues). cadillac lOuNge Songwriters Expo 4 pm. cameRON hOuse CD release Sunday Wilde, David West & Ronnie Hayward 6 to 8 pm. cameRON hOuse Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm. dRake hOTel uNdeRgROuNd Sam Amidon (indie folk) doors 8 pm. gladsTONe hOTel melOdy BaR Bluegrass Sundays Mark Roy & Houndstooth 5 pm. gRiNdeR Vide Geiger 1:30 pm. hOly Oak caFe Lake Vernon Drowning (folk) 9 pm. hugh’s ROOm Ken Whiteley’s Gospel Matinee Amoy Levy, Ciceal Levy, Samantha Martin, Marlene O’Neill, Bucky Berger 2 pm. The lOcal Dan Boniferro noon. The lOcal Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. The lOcal Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm.

T.O. music nOTes

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Death of the D’Urbervilles

The news we’ve long anticipated has arrived: the D’Urbervilles are calling it quits. The announcement came Monday, March 21, courtesy of the Guelph/Toronto band’s official Twitter feed. A link takes you to a splash page on the band’s official website, with a simple message: THE D’URBS ARE DEAD. A clock counts down to what we guess is a farewell show. The band’s demise won’t come as a shock to those following the career of lead singer John O’Regan. Once a side project, the lanky singer’s Diamond Rings DIY pop act has blown up to the extent that there’s little time left for the D’Urbervilles. He just wrapped a tour with Robyn, is now out with PS I Love You and hit SXSW last week. Meanwhile, bassist Kyle Donnelly moonlights as a member of Forest City Lovers, guitarist Tim Bruton plays with the Magic and drummer Greg Santilly plays in Slow Hand Motëm. The D’Urbervilles last Toronto show was at NXNE 2010, where they con spicuously sold off all of their merch at bargain bin prices. Still, the news directly contradicts what O’Regan told me in an interview for Spin ner just last week. The childhood friends, he said, were sit ting on an album’s worth of completed ma terial. Once O’Regan returned from tour, they would get together and hammer things out. It’ll be interesting to see if they release it or let it become the band’s great lost record. On the plus side, this definitely bodes well for the RichaRd TRapuNski future of Diamond Rings. lOu dawg’s Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford

& Darran Poole. lula lOuNge Salsa Brunch Party Luis Mario Ochoa’s Quarteto Tradicional (Cuban Son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm. NacO galleRy caFe Flamenco Sundays Shirlita Pili & Dennis Duffin 8 pm. NOT my dOg Allison Brown, Anna Atkinson, Erin Gignac, Danny Simmons & the Cowan House Ramblers 9:30 pm. The OssiNgTON Unlimited Sunday Hajah Bug & Mantis. The paiNTed lady Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit (country) 9 pm. phOeNix cONceRT TheaTRe Ellie Goulding (singer/songwriter) doors 8 pm. pOgue mahONe Cape Breton Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. pOuR BOy puB Soozi Schlanger & Robert David (Cajun/roots) 3 to 6 pm. pRess cluB Ross Neilson (acoustic blues) 9 pm. ReBas caFé Speak Music Showcase 1 to 4 pm. Relish Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. RepOsadO Mariachi Sundays 7 pm. supeRmaRkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic Jam 8 pm. TRaNzac sOuTheRN cROss Marianne Girard 5 pm. TRaNzac sOuTheRN cROss New & Used 7:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

BeTh TORah cONgRegaTiON In Chai Definition

Charity Concert for Chai Lifeline Varsity Jews (a cappella choir) doors 7 pm. clOak & daggeR puB Angela Morris Trio 9 pm. dOmiNiON ON QueeN Musical Theatre Cabaret 7 to 11 pm. duFFy’s TaveRN Ken Yoshioka (blues). emmeT Ray BaR Jeff Scarrott Trio (jazz) 9 pm.

FiRsT uNiTaRiaN cONgRegaTiON

The Age Of Enlightenment And Human Rights: Benefit for Amnesty International Windermere String Quartet 3:30 pm. gaTe 403 Victor Monsivais Trio noon to 3 pm. gaTe 403 Boxcar Boys Jazz & Swing Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Harley Card Jazz Band 9 pm. music galleRy ORMTA Artists In Concert: Student Scholarship benefit Anita Beaty, Nicole Bower, Judith deHaney, Juanne Hemsol, Carissa Neufeld and others 2:30 pm. Rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Rex Snarky Puppy 9:45 pm. Rex Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm. Rex Barbarella 7 pm.

ROyal cONseRvaTORy OF music mazzOleNi hall Sunday Afternoon Concert John Williams (guitar) 3 pm.

sOmewheRe TheRe sTudiO Lightsweetcrude

(raga fusion) 5 pm.

sOmewheRe TheRe sTudiO NOW Series Alaniaris (Greek) 8 pm. sTaTleR’s James Moyer 7 pm. TeN FeeT Tall Kingsley Ettienne 3:30 pm. TRiNiTy sT. paul’s chuRch Daniel Taylor Sings Bach and Vivaldi Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 3:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

BOviNe sex cluB DJ Rockabilly Rob. cRawFORd DJ Double O Swank (Motown). heNhOuse Sunday Best DJs Kieran & Rey 10 pm.

iNsOmNia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. 751 Big Shiny Sundays DJs SHEMCA & Sunshine 10 pm.

TaTTOO ROck paRlOuR Tattoo Sundays: Trash Palace Industry Night 4Korners (old school/ rock mash-up/electro/dance).

Monday, March 28 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

The ceNTRal Suzy Wilde & Steven Foster 10 pm. dRake hOTel lOuNge Live Karaoke Shark

Week (live band karaoke) doors 10:30 pm. dRake hOTel uNdeRgROuNd Elvis Monday Noah Mintz, Yuka, Edo and the Best, Hangtime, Distorsis, People of Canada 9 pm. dRake hOTel lOuNge Live Band Karaoke 86’D 11 pm. gRaFFiTi’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. The hideOuT Black Market 10:30 pm. miTzi’s sisTeR Domestic Bliss Big City Hicks, Alun Piggins. Old Nick M Factor Mondays Sarah Hiltz, Chasing Eve, Elana Harte 7 pm. OpeRa hOuse The Residents doors 8 pm. pRess cluB Drum & Bass (hip-hop) 9 pm. RaNchO RelaxO Sleep for the Nightlife, Falcon Arrow, Women in Tragedy doors 9 pm. Rex John Macleod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm. supeRmaRkeT First Rate People, Prince Caspian, Fitness Club Fiasco doors 8 pm. T.s.T’s lauNch pad In a Nuts Shell, Mike Collinson (rock/talk) all ages.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

cadillac lOuNge Krombacher Mondays

The Calrizians.

cameRON hOuse CD release Dave McCann & the Firehearts.

cameRON hOuse Betty Stew 6 pm. clOak & daggeR puB Jeff Kahl 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. The FOuNTaiN Badly Bent Bluegrass 9 pm. highway 61 sOuTheRN BaRBeQue Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm. The lOcal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/ country) 9:30 pm. lOla Calliopes Nest Ladies Open Stage 6 pm. TRaNzac sOuTheRN cROss This Is Awesome 7 pm. TRaNzac sOuTheRN cROss Open Mic 10 pm. The wilsON 96 Steve Puchalski (country/rock) 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

cameRON hOuse Cameron Review 10 pm. cameRON hOuse Back ROOm Steve Brockley

& Jack Marks.

emmeT Ray BaR Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 9 pm. gaTe 403 Marshall Olchowy Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gaTe 403 Chris Butcher Jazz Band 9 pm. haRlem Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/

jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. Old mill iNN Sound Of Jazz Dick Hyman, Peter Appleyard 8 pm. Rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. sOmewheRe TheRe sTudiO Idiot’s Avan 8 pm. sTaTleR’s AJ Stewart & Matthew Marcoccia 9:30 pm. TRiNiTy sT. paul’s chuRch Five Small Concerts Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra 7:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

alleycaTz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. BOviNe sex cluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

cRawFORd Vintage Monday DJ Fase (hip-hop). FuziON viziON lOuNge FML Mondays DJ Craig

Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall). iNsOmNia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). The OssiNgTON Calm As Ice Ice & Yolanda. The pisTON Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. ROckwOOd Mash Up Mondays DJs Crunch, Tilt, Scratchez.

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Tuesday, March 29

BrAssAii Jazz Night 6 pm. fOur seAsOns Centre fOr the perfOrming Arts riChArd BrAdshAW AmphitheAtre

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

Annex WreCkrOOm Drummers In Exile

(drum circle) 8 pm. the AvrO Love And Quick Fixes Clare Love (rock/folk) 9 pm. BlACk sWAn Honouring Our Own: Tribute to Jaimie Vernon The Kings, Terry Draper, Desmond Nathan, Blair Packham, Swedish Fish, Spare Parts, Swindled (rock/pop). BOvine sex CluB Substance, Hellbats. CAdillAC lOunge The Rattles (Beatles tribute). C’est WhAt Tanya Philipovich 9:30 pm. dOminiOn On queen Rockabilly Workshop 2 to 4 pm. grAffiti’s Marcus Walker 8 pm. hOrseshOe Nu Music Nite Drive Faster, Lordy Lordy, Sick Puppies 9 pm. mOd CluB Fair to Midland, Periphery, Scale the Summit, Pyramid Theorem (rock) doors 7 pm, all ages. the pAinted lAdy Stormalongs 9 pm. the pistOn The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. rAnChO relAxO Joe & Co, Maccie Paquette, the Oats doors 9 pm. sOmeWhere there studiO Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Teen Tits, Wild Wives 8 pm, all ages. sOund ACAdemy Queens of the Stone Age doors 8 pm, all ages. supermArket Comedy & Music Thunder Country 9 pm. trAnzAC sOuthern CrOss John Oswald, David Prentice, AaronLumley Wet Hair, 7:30 pm. yellOW griffin Johnny Devil & the Screaming Demons (rock) 10 pm.

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FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

CAmerOn hOuse Alejandra Ribera 6 pm. CAmerOn hOuse Luke Nicholson (alt pop) 10 pm.

ClOAk & dAgger puB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

dAkOtA tAvern Peter Elkas (soul/folk rock). gAte 403 Julian Fauth (blues) 9 pm. gAte 403 Ross Neilsen Blues Solo 5 to 8 pm. glAdstOne hOtel melOdy BAr El Blanco Col-

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

CrAWfOrd Southern Fried Tuesdays DJ Lilly

(blues/country/soul). insOmniA Soulful Tuesday D-Jay. repOsAdO Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, March 30 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

BOvine sex CluB Teenage X, Picture Sound. CAdillAC lOunge The Neil Young’uns 8:30

pm.

C’est WhAt Shawni Caspi 9:30 pm. drAke hOtel Gold Panda, Dam Mantle 10 pm. ñ grAffiti’s Kitgut Stringband 7 pm.

the greAt hAll CD release Andrea Ramolo, Sean Pinchin 9 pm.

the hideOut The Targets, the Undercovers

9:30 pm.

hOrseshOe Funksway, Lucian Thomas & the Livin Art, Fire X Fire, Stone Sparrows 9 pm. lOlA Shitkicker 8 pm. mitzi’s sister Steve Ketchen Band. mOd CluB Devotchka doors 8 pm. the pistOn Polynesean Bride, Nicholas Doubleyou & the B Squad, Dilly Dally. press CluB Pat Phillips (roots rock) 9 pm. rAnChO relAxO Drugs in Japan, Dead Sweeties, Cessna, the Motherlode doors 9 pm. sOund ACAdemy Thin Lizzy, Gloryhound doors 7 pm. supermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Dawn & Marra, the Oats Band, Leah Daniels doors 9 pm.

lective, Tim Bones, Plugz 8 pm. the hideOut Shawn Brady (acoustic) 10:30 pm. the lOCAl Jim Armstrong & Sonic Deli. Old niCk Open Mic Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. press CluB Press Club Toast & Jam (open jam) 9 pm. slACk’s Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. ten feet tAll FingerStyleGuitar.ca Open Stage 8 pm. trAnzAC tiki rOOm Toronto Folk Singers 6 pm. trAnzAC sOuthern CrOss The Deeep, Wet Hair 10 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

AlleyCAtz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ RandyNewmanNOW.qxd:Layout jazz) 8:30 pm.

Forgotten Melodies Fern Lindzon Quartet (jazz) noon. hOly OAk CAfe Aint Dirt (jazz) 9 pm. JAne mAllett theAtre Music Toronto MarcAndré Hamelin (piano) 8 pm. rex Jake Wilkinson Group 6:30 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm. sky lOunge Live At Sky Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble 7:30 pm. stAtler’s Chris Tsujiuchi 9:30 pm. tOrOntO Centre fOr the Arts Daniel Taylor Sings Bach And Vivaldi Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra 8 pm.

the Annex live Nuclear Fools’ Day: Music And Laughs With The Ontario Clean Air Alliance Mike Ford, Meghan Morrison, Richard Underhill, the Raging Grannies 7:30 pm. AquilA upstAirs Julian Fauth, Ken Yoshioka, Dave McManus (blues). grOssmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. hOllyWOOd On the queensWAy Latin Wednesdays Jay & Viv (salsa/meringue/bachata/ cumbia) 9 pm. hugh’s rOOm CD release LayahPage Jane (acous1/6/11 9:53 AM 1 tic) 8:30 pm.

the lOCAl Make Out Wednesdays Ron Leary Quintet (indie folk). the pAinted lAdy CD release Jessica Mitchell 9 pm. silver dOllAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm. terri O’s spOrts BAr Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Peter Solmes 8 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

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

ChAlkers puB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Parti-

celli (jazz) 8 pm.

ClOAk & dAgger puB Blake Howard (jazz/ pop) 10 pm.

dOminiOn On queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm.

emmet rAy BAr D-Boom (ambient electronic) 9 pm.

gAte 403 Chris Chekan Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Framework Collective 9 pm. mezzettA Roland Hunter Trio 9 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr The Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm.

rex Carissa Neufeld 6:30 pm. rex CD Release Danjam Orchestra 9:30 pm. riChmOnd hill Centre fOr the perfOrming Arts Brahms Requiem The Toronto Mendels-

sohn Choir 8 pm. rivOli Eros, Thanatos & The Avant-Garde: The Cabaret Series doors 8 pm. rOy thOmsOn hAll Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) 8 pm. sOmeWhere there studiO The Ghost Trio 8 pm. stAtler’s Bram Zeidenberg 9:30 pm. trAnzAC sOuthern CrOss Fred Spek’s Camp Combo (hipster vaudeville) 7:30 pm. trAnzAC sOuthern CrOss CD release Texting Mackenzie, Words Around the Waist 10 pm.

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

the AvrO DJ Damn Aykroyd (funk/hip-hop/ disco) 9 pm. CrAWfOrd Comeback Kid After Party/Pinned Up 60s Soul Party. glAdstOne hOtel melOdy BAr Granny Boots: Sexlife Canada 1st Anniversary Celebration DJ Triple-X (70s disco/80s new wave/Brit pop/00s electro) doors 7 pm. henhOuse Snakepit At The Henhouse DJ Max Mohenu (queer weekly dance party) 10 pm.5 insOmniA Old School Bobby T. the OssingtOn Brilliantine...The Impossible Night: Label Re-launch bash. repOsAdO Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. WrOngBAr BASSWEEK – Bassmentality Toddla T, Redlight, Untold, Zeds Dead. 3

venue index Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AltO lOunge 582 Church. Ame 19 Mercer. 416-599-7246. the Annex live 296 Brunswick. 416-9293999. Annex WreCkrOOm 794 Bathurst. 416536-0346. AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. ArCAdiAn COurt 401 Bay, 8th floor. 416861-6138. AspettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. Atelier nOir 510 King W. 416-214-9198. the AtriA 59 King E. 905-579-5777. AugustA hOuse 152 Augusta. 416-9778881. the AvrO 750 Queen E. 416-466-3233. BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. BeerBistrO 18 King E. 416-861-9872. Beth tOrAh COngregAtiOn 47 Glenbrook. BlACk sWAn 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. Blu ristOrAnte & lOunge 17 Yorkville. 416-921-1471. BOiler hOuse 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. BOvine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-5044239. BrAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. BundA lOunge 1108 Dundas W. BurrOughes Building 639 Queen W. 416-203-1334. CAdillAC lOunge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717. CAmerOn hOuse 408 Queen W. 416-7030811. the CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’est WhAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. ChinA hOuse 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. ChurCh Of the hOly trinity 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521. ClintOn’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. ClOAk & dAgger puB 394 College. 647-4360228. COllege street BAr 574 College. 416-5332417. COmfOrt inn 6355 Airport (Mississauga). 905-677-7331. COnvOCAtiOn hAll 31 King’s College Circle. 416-913-2428. CrAWfOrd 718 College. dAkOtA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-8504579. dAve’s... On st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416657-3283. de sOtOs 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. dimitrA’s BistrO 782 St Clair W. dOminiOn On queen 500 Queen E. 416368-6893. dOuBle deuCe sAlOOn 1168 Queen W. 416-537-1313. dOuBle dOuBle lAnd 209 Augusta. drAke hOtel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-6280330. eArthship 1345 Davenport. edWArd JOhnsOn Building 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. el mOCAmBO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emBAssy BAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. first unitAriAn COngregAtiOn 175 St Clair W. 416-924-9654. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. the flying BeAver 488 Parliament. 416759-1031. fOgArty’s 3481 Lake Shore W. 416-2535500. fOmO 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666. fOOtWOrk 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. the fOuntAin 1261 Dundas W. 416-2032311.

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. the gArrisOn 1197 Dundas W. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdstOne hOtel 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635. glenn gOuld studiO 250 Front W. 416205-5555. grAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the greAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-8263330. grinder 126 Main. 416-901-0290. grOssmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-8690045. hArd luCk BAr 812 Dundas W. hArd rOCk CAfe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. 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. 416-5316604. insOmniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JAmes JOyCe 386 Bloor W. 416-324-9400. JAne mAllett theAtre 27 Front E. 416-3667723. kApisAnAn philippine Centre 167 Augusta. 416-979-0600. kOOl hAus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-8690045. lAmBAdinA 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. lee’s pAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000. the lOCAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lOlA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lOu dAWg’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. lulA lOunge 1585 Dundas W. 416-5880307. luxy nightCluB 60 Interchange Way. mAgpie CAfe 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. mAisOn merCer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. mArO 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. metrO hAll 55 John. 416-397-9887. 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. mOnArChs puB 33 Gerrard W. 416-5854352. musiC gAllery 197 John. 416-204-1080. nACO gAllery CAfe 1665 Dundas W. 647347-6499. nAWlins JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-5951958. 99 sudBury 99 Sudbury. nOt my dOg 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. nOW mAgAzine lOunge 189 Church. 416-364-1300. 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. the OssingtOn 61 Ossington. 416-8500161. the pAinted lAdy 218 Ossington. 647-2135239. pArts & lABOur 1566 Queen W. 416-5887750.

phOenix COnCert theAtre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. the pistOn 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. pOgue mAhOne 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. the pOrt 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270. pOur BOy puB 666 Manning. 647-343-7969. press CluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. quOtes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. rAnChO relAxO 300 College. 416-9200366. rAsputin vOdkA BAr 780 Queen E. 416469-3737. reBAs CAfé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. relish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. repOsAdO 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. 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. 416-8724255. rOyAl COnservAtOry Of musiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. seCOnd Cup 163 King E. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. silver dOllAr 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. sky lOunge 2680 Skymark (Mississauga). 905-625-9896. slACk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. smiling BuddhA 961 College. 416-516-2531. 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. spOrtster’s 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258. st Clement’s ChurCh 59 Briar Hill. 416483-6664. st simOn-the-ApOstle AngliCAn ChurCh 525 Bloor E. 416-923-8714. st thOmAs’s AngliCAn ChurCh 383 Huron. 416-979-2323. stAtler’s 487 Church. 647-351-0957. suBA 292 College. 647-272-5067. supermArket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. tAttOO rOCk pArlOur 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488. ten feet tAll 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. terri O’s spOrts BAr 185 Danforth. this is lOndOn 364 Richmond W. 416-3511100. tOrOntO Centre fOr the Arts 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388. trAne studiO 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. trinity st. pAul’s ChurCh 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. t.s.t’s lAunCh pAd 46 Hyde. undergrOund gArAge 365 King W. 416340-0365. velvet undergrOund 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. villAge vApOr lOunge 66 Wellesley E. 647-291-0420. WAterfAlls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. the WilsOn 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. WrOngBAr 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. yellOW griffin 2202 Bloor W. 416-763-3365.

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No Color (Frenchkiss) Rating: Anyone dissatisfied with the Dodos’ last album, Time To Die, should like No Color. Stripping away the antiseptic production and muddied instrumentation (they’ve lost the vibraphones and are back to a duo), the San Franciscans return to what they do best: playing acoustic folk rock with the energy and urgency of a punk band. Touches of strings and effects work as the dressing rather than the focus. Neko Case lends vocals to more than half the

songs, but she’s surprisingly easy to miss. More noticeable are the band’s busy percussion and off-kilter rhythms, turning relatively straightforward melodies into driving, idiosyncratic miniepics. It’s clichéd to remark on a duo’s ability to sound like a full band, but the Dodos’ virtuosic acoustic guitar playing and busy arrangements undeniably defy their numbers. Top track: Sleep The Dodos play the Phoenix June 16 as part of NXNE. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

Losing Sleep (Heavenly) Rating: NNNN Released in the UK last year but only now getting domestic release, Losing Sleep is Edwyn Collins’s first album since a brain hemorrhage put him in the hospital in 2005. Unable to play guitar but with his baritone voice intact, the former Orange Juice frontman delivers a surprisingly upbeat batch of songs that stands with the best of his recorded output. It’s fun to hear the man who was aggressively pop during the punk era sound as belligerent as he does on What Is My Role?, which also features vocals by the Cribs’ Ryan Jarman. Collins enlisted a number of other friends, too, including guitar and songwriting by Johnny Marr and Aztec Camera’s Roddy Frame. He’s used what could have been a tragic turn of events as fuel for a vibrant, engaging and often playful record. Top track: Come Tomorrow, Come Today JH

And Darnielle is becoming an increasingly subtle singer. String sections, brushed drums and, on High Hawk Season, backing vocals that recall the Jordanaires give the album a dynamic, varied sound and make it the Mountain Goats’ most surprising creation. Top track: Birth Of Serpents The Mountain Goats play the Opera House April 3. JOANNE HUFFA

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All Eternals Deck (Merge) Rating: The band John Darnielle started in 1991 as a solo lo-fi outfit that centred on his voice and acoustic guitar playing is now a trio free to explore dynamics and musical genres at will. And so, despite a track list that reads like a metal album – and with Morbid Angel’s Eric Rutan as one of the record’s four producers – All Eternals Deck covers a lot of ground. The lyrics, less reliant on the character studies (biographical and otherwise) found on his previous records, still relay 180311.ai vivid imageryAd_Now_1-5 but focus on moments in1 time rather than telling the whole story.

DURAN DURAN All You Need Is Now (SCurve/Universal) Rating: NN On Duran Duran’s 13th album, there’s some fun, new wave excess reminiscent of their heyday. But with few of the big choruses that made the old songs so appealing, there’s not much to hold your attention on repeat listens. Producer Mark Ronson adds all the bells and whistles, including frequent use of an unnecessary phaser effect on Simon LeBon’s voice. There’s nothing here that will draw in new, young fans, and seasoned listeners won’t likely appreciate the altering of one of the band’s key elements. About half of the 14 songs (the digital release has nine) bear an uncanny resemblance to past hits. Leave A Light On, for example, sounds an awful lot like the Rioera ballad6:16 SavePM A Prayer. Unfortunately, 3/15/11 these doppelgängers are the album’s best

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Gang) Rating: NNN If you’re one of those who initially branded the Two Koreas as a thinly veiled Fall tribute band, you’ll be happy to hear that they’ve progressed a lot since those early days. Yes, the majority of their musical references are still drawn from the post-punk period, but they’ve mashed them together into a sound they can call their own. Science Island sees the Toronto band cautiously embracing melody and writing some genuine pop hooks, but more in the Pavement sense than the Beatles. They’ve labelled their sound “glacial garage,” but that’s not particularly helpful. They’re not really garage rock, and while there’s a certain coldness to their distorted guitar tones, “glacial” suggests slower tempos and much more restraint. As easy as it would be to make a don’tquit-your-day-job joke, you don’t want to dismiss guys with this much potential too easily. Top track: Scared Straight The Two Koreas play Parts & Labour Friday (March 25). BENJAMIN BOLES

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We’re New Here (XL) Rating: Most of the world was caught by surprise last year when spoken word icon Gil ScottHeron reappeared on the scene 16 years after his last studio album with the mindblowing futuristic techno-blues album I’m New Here. When word started spreading that The xx’s resident electronic percussion whiz, Jamie xx (aka Jamie Smith), was remixing the entire album, you couldn’t help but fear the label was just trying to milk every last drop from the original. However, if you’ve been following Smith’s career closely, you know that the young producer has some impressive chops and takes his electronic music very seriously. Sure enough, We’re New Here is an adventurous journey through cutting-edge leftfield dance music, lifting ideas from across the last two decades of club and bedroom beats. It could easily stand on its own without Scott-Heron’s raspy vocals, but it’s the interplay between his worldweary lyrics and Smith’s youthful enthusiasm that makes this an essential companion piece to the original. No wonder Drake has brought Smith on board to help produce his next album. Top track: NY Is Killin Me BB

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Too Young To Be In Love (Hardly Art) Rating: NNNN Former member of sex-obsessed trash pop group Gravy Train!!!! Seth Bogart describes his band as “a girl group fronted by a gay guy who’s trying to sound like a girl.” This is his superb first studio album, the follow-up to 2009’s Gay Singles, a collection of self-recorded gay-teenager-in-love punk rock songs that, while good, came off as a comedy album due to Bogart’s relentless campy wit. Too Young To Be In Love leans less heavily on pervy wisecracks, with fantastic results. And the all-female band convincingly recreates the 60s sounds of juvenile delinquent girl groups like the Shangri-La’s and the Ronettes. Featured

(Jive) Rating: NNNN Britney Spears delivers 12 solid, singleworthy pop tunes on her seventh LP, an album so taut she should’ve called it Fat Free. Wannabe World Cup anthem Till The World Ends kicks things off with an aura of pounding, Euro dance euphoria. Spears dives into dubstep on the next two tracks, and then she’s full of curveballs, from flutes and whistles to vocal effects that humorously play up her nasal inflections. Less adventurous is her sex-on-thedance-floor lyrical fixation, so it’s those playful touches that set Femme Fatale apart from most cornball dance pop on the radio these days. Dr. Luke and Max Martin led Spears’s producer/songwriter army, but the secret weapon is Bloodshy & Avant, the team behind her 2003 smash, Toxic. The Swedes air out the clubby vibe with a pair of bang-on mid-tempo jams: the wistful Trip To Your Heart and pre-club party starter How I Roll – the pop song to beat in 2011. Top track: How I Roll KEVIN RITCHIE

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Wheel deal SPIN by Evalyn Parry, directed by

Ruth Madoc-Jones (Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander). To March 27. See Continuing, page 57 . Rating: NNNN

Evalyn Parry’s multimedia show about women and cycling feels at times like a series of seven-minute performance pieces patched together to make something larger. But the magnetic artist and her winning production team invest the work with such intelligence and playfulness, it’s hard not to be charmed. Outfitted at the outset like a carnival barker, Parry cycles through a series of songs and stories, from Miss Frances Willard’s 1895 instructions on how to learn to ride a bicycle to an account of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to ride around the world. Channelling her inner beat poet, Parry revels in the euphonious sounds of Londonderry’s (made-up) name, and then goes on to pun on the show’s title when she reveals the woman had a way with spinning the facts to suit her ends. There’s lots of fascinating informa-

tion here: about women’s restrictive clothing (they could barely show an ankle in the gay 1890s), the bicycle as a means of freedom and women’s purchasing patterns compared to their earning power. Things take a turn for the personal when Parry – who’s changed to more contemporary dress – recounts her own gay 90s as a young woman stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with a woman in Montreal. A gift of a bicycle becomes a symbol fraught with meaning, especially when tragedy hits. Completely confident and with an ethereally beautiful singing voice, Parry stumbles during this sequence (at least on opening night), as if unsure about its effect. But without it, the show – nicely directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones – would be a much colder affair. Beth Kates’s set and video design makes great use of bike shop paraphernalia and archival footage, while much of the show’s ambience comes from Anna Friz and Brad Hart plucking, pumping and ringing their bike-related instruments. What a great reminder to bring out you-know-what from winter hibernaGLENN SUMI tion.

by the company, directed by Trevor Schwellnus (Aluna Theatre). At the Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West). Runs to March 27. See Continuing, page 56. Rating: NNNN

Who knew that a non-narrative piece could be so emotionally stirring? Aluna Theatre’s Nohayquiensepa (No One Knows) takes as its inspiration the events in the Colombian town of Puerto Berrío, whose residents found bodies and body parts floating in the nearby Magdalena River. Moved by these unknown people, the townsfolk set up a mausoleum to their memory, sometimes naming the bodies and giving them histories. Director Trevor Schwellnus and his company use this starting point to create strong impressionistic episodes in both Spanish and English. The vital production, though, relies as much on Olga Barrios’s choreography, Thomas Ryder Payne’s sound design and Schwellnus’s striking design to make its emotional and political points. The visuals are especially exciting, a combination of projected text and imagery, energetic performances and live video shot by an overhead camera. The latter contributes to dual images of the performers (Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Lilia Leon, Victoria Mata, Beatriz Pizano, Chris Stanton and Mayahuel Tecozautla) as we sometimes watch them in a conventional, straight-on fashion and simultaneously see them from above. Just as impressive is the use of silhouettes against a screen: characters

increase or decrease in size as they approach or distance themselves from the backstage light source. Thus, a giant figure can overwhelm a tiny one, or several actors can create a multiheaded, multi-limbed creature attacking a helpless villager. One of the production’s themes is paramilitary violence against the innocent. As the text suggests, Canadian mining conglomerates are among those behind some of this activity, despite the companies’ denial of culpability. The poetic Nohayquiensepa begins and ends with a sense of ritual, dancing figures in white bringing candles and offerings to graves. The events depicted are hard to accept, but the work suggests change is possible. JON KAPLAN

Terrific Time THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE by William

Saroyan, directed by Albert Schultz (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). To April 16. See Continuing, page 57. Rating: NNNN

Despite a Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, William Saroyan’s deeply moving 1939 assess-

ment of American life remains relatively unknown. That’s why Soulpepper’s faithful remount of its acclaimed 2008 revival is so welcome: this is an important play that shows the power of understanding, generosity and interdependence in action – values we too often suppress. The action focuses on Joe (Joseph Ziegler, reprising his Dora-winning role), a mysteriously wealthy and eccentric street-level philanthropist who, by doling out cash from his table at a seedy San Francisco honky-tonk, tries to improve the lives of those around him. Surrounding Joe in the realistic bar are 20-plus characters – including a cop, a union worker, drunks, wealthy “society people,” prostitutes, struggling entertainers – all hoping for something better. The ensemble benefits from many veterans of the 2008 production, including Stuart Hughes, whose work as Kit Carson, the old, hard-drinking Indian fighter now out of time and place, also won him a Dora. Hughes expertly balances the reckless humour and implied sadness of this obsolete figure. However, the heart of this show is the paternal relationship between Joe and Tom (Kevin Bundy), his naive, awkward and childlike assistant, whom Joe is trying to marry to Kitty Duval (Karen Rae), a world-weary prostitute. Director Albert Schultz keeps the pacing slow and lifelike, and positions the audience as barflies-on-the-wall. Despite the work’s two-and-a-halfhour length, Schultz avoids tedium by playing up – especially in a chewing gum scene – Saroyan’s touches of comedy. A nice addition to the production is jazz vocalist Denzal Sinclaire, the saloon pianist, who adds live accompaniJORDAN BIMM ment throughout.

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Opening After AKhmAtOvA by Kate Cayley (Tarragon Theatre). An American interviews the son of a Soviet dissident and poet. (See story online at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Previews to Mar 29. Opens Mar 30 and runs to May 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mats). $23-$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. I (Cassy Walker). Walker performs her solo show about identity and the labels we use. Opens Mar 30 and runs to Apr 2, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10, Wed free, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca. LeAr (Idée Fixe/HATCH). Performance, music and film artists explore King Lear’s act of selfsabotage and the divided self. Mar 25-26 at 8:30 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Wheeler (Curtain Call Players). The wrath of a wrongfully convicted barber has brutal consequences. Opens Mar 24 and runs to Apr 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Mar 27 and Apr 2 at 2 pm. $24. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-703-6181, curtaincallplayers.com.

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(Harbourfront NextSteps/Dance Immersion) This urban dance-theatre story looks at three men from Africa, Jamaica and Canada. (See related story at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Mar 24-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $22-$32. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. zerO hOur by Jim Brochu (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). This solo show looks at the art, humour, temper and wit of Jewish artist Zero Mostel. Previews Mar 26-27. Opens Mar 28 and runs to Apr 16, Mon-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $40.50$64.50. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre. com.

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Brown (Angelwalk Theatre). Characters from a variety of eras live through defining moments in this series of vignettes. Previews Mar 30-31. Opens Apr 1 and runs to Apr 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$45. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-872-1111, angelwalk.ca.

music, talks, and readings of inspiring historical texts, with Kristen Thomson, RH Thomson and others. Mar 27 at 3:30 pm. $50-$100, stu/ srs $30. First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair W. 416-363-9933, aito.ca/node/133. bAcKstAge wIth rObert cushmAN (Holy Blossom Temple Stagecraft). The theatre critic talks to the Canadian Stage Company’s Matthew Jocelyn. Mar 24 at 7:30 pm. $15, stu $12. Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst. 416789-3291 ext 511, hbtstagecraft@gmail.com. the devIL ANd KAte by Anton Dvorák (Opera in Concert). Fairy tale and folk melodies mix in this comic opera. Mar 27 at 2:30 pm. $29-$40. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3667723, operainconcert.com. heNry rOLLINs: 50 (Goldenvoice/The Union). The punk rock legend performs a spoken word show. Mar 24 at 9 pm. $49.50. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. 416-870-8000. the hOurs thAt remAIN by Keith Barker (Foundry Theatre Co). A woman is haunted by the disappearance of her sister in this play reading. Mar 28 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Detour Bar, 193.5 Baldwin. firstdrafttoronto@gmail.com. ImPrOmPtu sPLeNdOr (National Theatre of the World). An improvised play is presented in the style of playwright Sam Shepard, with guest Tony Nappo. Mar 27, Playreading Series at 7:30 pm, show at 9 pm. $12. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. 1964... the trIbute (Sony Centre for the Performing Arts). This musical tribute recreates a 60s Beatles live show. Mar 24 at 8 pm. $38$68. 1 Front E, Toronto. 416-872-2262. OffeNsIve fOuLs by Jason Long (Roseneath Theatre). A relationship is threatened by racism in this preview performance. Mar 26 at 3 pm. Pwyc. 651 Dufferin, 3rd fl. roseneath. ca. syNthesIs (Queen West Art Crawl). Ten visual artists are paired with performing artists to create original works in this funder for QWAC. Mar 25 at 7 pm. $80. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. 416-516-8301, parkdaleliberty.com.

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I Marcus Garvey introduces viewers to a major figure in 20th-century black history, an activist who promoted PanAfricanism and influenced, among others, the civil rights and Rastafari movements. Too bad Edgar Nkosi The actors do their best to fill in White’s script is frequently twosketchy characters. Quancetia dimensional and overly earnest. Hamilton wins over the audience with As the story begins, Garvey (Richard her comedy in various roles, while Jack Stewart) arrives in England from JaGrinhaus gives humanity to a prison maica filled with the spirit of freedom, warden. In the play’s second act, Beryl wanting to redeem Africa for the black Bain as Garvey’s wife, Amy, reveals the diaspora. He later moves back to Jawoman’s attraction to the man as well maica and then to the U.S., where he as the orator. talks publicly about overt and covert It’s Stewart, though, who drives the slavery and the respect all humans show. While he isn’t always charisdeserve. matic, the actor gives a thoughtfulness Garvey becomes a spokesperson for and belief to Garvey’s speeches, both in the United Negro Improvement Assoprivate and on the podium. In fact, Garciation and is jailed by the FBI for mail vey’s soliloquies about his mission and fraud. Deported, he travels to other why he’s driven to act are the play’s countries, including Canada, spreading best writing; Stewart captures the his message of black self-reliance and man’s quiet fire and occasional doubts. improvement. The production’s other plus is its live Director Rhoma Spencer’s producmusic. Under the direction of Roger tion moves smoothly through the Gibbs, the five musicians, often points in Garvey’s life, but the narrainteracting with the actors, cover tive’s often episodic and thinly written. everything from African tunes and We get a quick look at other figures, melodies spirituals and1 24100artofTime_NOWad:Layout 1 Caribbean 3/18/11 4:03toPM Page but none are developed. JON KAPLAN pop standards.

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Continuing Billy Elliot thE Musical by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best ñ new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is

based on the 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Jul 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (GS) BrothEl #9 by Anusree Roy (Factory Theatre). Roy based this heartbreaking but realistic exposé of Calcutta’s brothel system on first hand research. While the subject matter is depressing, Roy’s writing is haunting, using four characters to accurately map out the power relationships that enable this form of modern-day slavery. Runs to Mar 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$40, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-5049971, factorytheatre.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) lE DoctEur MiraclE/l’hEurE EspagNolE by Georges Bizet/Maurice Ravel (The Glenn Gould School Opera). Artists of the vocal program and RC orchestra perform two one-act operas. Runs to Mar 25, Fri 8 pm. $20-$40. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W, Koerner Hall. 416-408-0208, rcmusic.ca. thE FaNtasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (Soulpepper). Soulpepper’s remount of this classic slice of Americana

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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) happy Days, a NEw Musical by Garry Marshall and Paul Williams (Stage West). This musical is based on the TV sitcom. Runs to Apr 24, Tue-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $53-$88 (incl buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com. i Marcus garvEy by Edgar Nkosi White (Theatre Archipelago/b current). This drama looks at the life and activism of the Jamaican national hero (see review, page 54). Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$35. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-533-1500, theatrearchipelago.ca. NNN (JK) thE lioN, thE witch & thE warDroBE by CS Lewis (Lower Ossington Theatre). The fairy tale is presented on stage. Runs Mar 26-27 at 11 am. $18. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lionwitchwardrobe.eventbrite.com. 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) MoNtparNassE by Maev Beaty and Erin Shields (Groundwater Productions). Art, voyeurism, nudity and ego are explored in this

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look at artist models of 20s Paris. Runs to Apr 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. MorE FiNE girls by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus). This disappointing sequel to the 1997 hit The Attic, The Pearls, And Three Fine Girls reunites the dysfunctional Fine brood at their family home, where they bicker, reminisce and avoid matters you just know are going to be revealed at the end. The plot is saddled with sitcom contrivances and the actors resort to shameless mugging. Runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. NN (GS) 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 coming-of-age trip. Runs to Mar 26, ThuSat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, mats pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, morroandjasp.com. NEw iDEas FEstival 2011 (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, worksin-progress and experimental theatre features plays and staged readings. Week 3 (to Mar 26): works by Rosemary Doyle, Nicholas Sgouros, Neale Kimmel, David Nicholson and Betty Jane Wylie. Runs to Mar 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm (readings Sat at noon). $15, pass $35, Sat readings pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. NohayquiENsEpa (No oNE kNows) by Trevor Schwellnus and Olga Barrios (Aluna Theatre). This multimedia dancetheatre piece explores how we react to the deaths of strangers (see review, page 53). Runs to Mar 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$30, stu/srs/Sun $15. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, alunatheatre. ca. NNNN (JK) papEr sEriEs by David Yee (Cahoots Theatre Company). Various situations examine how we use paper to create, amuse, define and communicate. Runs to Apr 9, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10-$30. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, cahoots.ca. paprika FEstival (Tarragon Theatre). This festival presents new works by emerging artists in theatre, live music, comedy, cabaret performances, staged readings and workshops. Runs to Mar 26, daily at 7 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. Free. 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, paprikafestival.com. piFF paFF pooF (Magicana). Magicians and a mischievous rabbit perform an interactive show for kids. Runs to Mar 27, Sat-Sun 3 pm. $25. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-913-9034, piffpaffpoof.com.

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SPIN by Evalyn Parry (OutSpoke Productions). Music, narration and projections ñ are used to portray the bicycle as an instru-

ment of social change (see review, page 53). Runs to Mar 27, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $20, stu $16. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNNN (GS) SPOTLIGHT.ITALY (Istituto Italiano di Cultura/ Canadian Stage). Italian music, dance, theatre and art are presented to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italy’s reunification. Runs to Mar 26, see website for schedule. $32. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-9213802, canadianstage.com/italy. THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE by William Saroyan (Soulpepper). Various characters speak of their dreams in a Depression-era San Francisco bar (see review, page 53). Runs to Apr 16, see website for schedule. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) TOMBS OF THE VANISHING INDIAN by Marie Clements (Native Earth Performing Arts/Red Diva Projects). Three native sisters, separated since childhood, rediscover their cultural and family roots in this moving look at the attempts of the American government to relocate native populations and employ sterilization programs to control minorities. There are flashes of humour, but much of it has a bitter aftertaste. Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, Fri & Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, nativeearth.ca. NNN (JK) 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. 416-8725555, ticketmaster.ca. NNNN (GS) THE WITCH OF EDMONTON by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford (Theatre @ York). The Jacobean drama is set in 1950s America and looks at how society treats nonconformists. Runs to Mar 26, nightly at 7:30 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $17, stu/srs $12. York University Accolade E Bldg, 4700 Keele, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/perform. WRITENOW! FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS (pivotal arts) theatre company). The final edition of this one-act play festival features works by Jon Nelson, Jessica Rose and Mark Tipps. Runs to Mar 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 and 8:30 pm. $12, twoshow pass $20. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. pivotalarts.ca. 3

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D.A. Hoskins visits The Land Of Fuck By GLENN SUMI THE LAND OF FUCK (A FABLE) choreography by D.A Hoskins. Presented by the Dietrich Group at the Workman Arts Theatre (651 Dufferin). Continues to March 27, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2 pm. $22$25, Saturday matinee pwyc. totix.ca.

who knew that getting turned down for a grant and having a minimeltdown could inspire a new work? But that’s exactly what happened to D.A. Hoskins. “It’s politics,” sighs the veteran choreographer. “Someone I knew was on the jury, and whenever that person is on a jury I don’t get a grant. “I remember being really angry in rehearsals afterwards and saying, ‘Everything’s so fucked up that I’m going to call my next work The Land Of Fuck.’”

That’s when the proverbial light bulb moment happened. Why not explore the various meanings of this once-taboo word whose letters are still replaced by asterisks in many publications? “It’s a word that covers everything,” says Hoskins. “It can be cynical or it can be used when you’re in love, it’s a noun or a verb. And as a gay man who grew up in a repressed environment [in North Bay], saying it had a lot to do with finding my liberty.” Hoskins created the piece for 10 dancers – now nine, since performer Susie Burpee left after discovering she was pregnant. “I’m trying to explore what each one of them brings,” he says. “For instance, Valerie Calam does a tap number. I’ve never done tap, but she’s been doing it since age four, and

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COPPÉLIA Ballet Jörgen presents the comedic

ACCELERATION 2011 School of Toronto Dance

Theatre presents the graduating class performing works by Conrad Alexandrowicz, Lucy Rupert and others. Opens Mar 30 and runs to Apr 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $19, stu/srs $15. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-967-6887, schooloftdt.org.

THE ANIMALS ARE PLANNING AN INTERVENTION The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents excerpts from Blue Ceiling Dance, Tiger Princess Dance Projects and more. Mar 26 from noon to 1 pm. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

love story ballet with choreography by Bengt Jörgen. Mar 27 at 2 pm. $20-$65. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-978-8849, balletjorgencanada.ca. THE EROS CABARET Rivoli presents music, dance and more by Anjelica Scannura, Shane McMackin, Winston Spear and others. Mar 30 at 9 pm. $12-$15. 332 Queen W. DancetoDanseFestival@hotmail.com. MICHAEL FLATLEY’S LORD OF THE DANCE Sony Centre for the Performing Arts presents a blend of traditional and modern Celtic music and dance. Mar 25-26, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$80. 1 Front E, Toronto. 416872-2262, sonycentre.ca.

D.A. Hoskins hopes to deliver a WTF experience.

there’s a video of her on her Facebook page where she clearly stands out in her studio in Sault Ste. Marie.” Andrew Bathory, meanwhile, is better trained as an actor than as a dancer. “His nerve endings are different,” SERIES 8:08 presents a choreographic performance workshop featuring Alicia Grant, Jesse Dell/Jordana Deveau and others. Mar 26 at 8:08 pm. $10, stu $8. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. series808.ca. SRIYAH Nrityagram Dance Ensemble presents Indian dance. Mar 24 at 8 pm. $47-$54. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre. 905-305-7469. THREE BOYZ, THREE COUNTRIES & ONE DREAM

Harbourfront NextSteps and Dance Immersion present an urban dance story about three men from Africa, Jamaica and Canada. (See related story at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Mar 24-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $22$32. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. U OF T FESTIVAL OF DANCE Hart House Theatre presents a showcase by students performing a variety of dance styles. Mar 25-26 at 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

says Hoskins, who’s paired him with Danielle Baskerville in a duet where, as he puts it, they’re “springboarding off each other.” Last year was a tough one for Hoskins. His mother was diagnosed with cancer, and between gigs he spent every moment with her. That’s given him a new perspective. “I felt the planet slipping away from me. It’s important to appreciate our time with everyone. The experience has chilled me out, but it’s also allowed me to be more wild.” For The Land Of Fuck, he’s hired an Argentinean tango instructor to help the dancers in one sequence. For another, he’s outfitted the performers like Salvation Army band members. “We live on an absurd planet,” he says, “and I’m trying to create a sense of play and engagement. The Land Of Fuck is celebratory. This life is ours. And we can do whatever the fuck we want.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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Continuing THE LAND OF FUCK (A FABLE) The Dietrich Group presents a conceptual dance ñ work by DA Hoskins (see story, this page). Runs to Mar 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$25. Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin. totix.ca. OUT OF LINE York Dance Ensemble presents choreographies by Yvonne Ng & Robert Glumbek, Keiko Kitano and others. Runs to Mar 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio Theatre. 416-736-5888.

THEMES AND VARIATIONS/APOLLO/ RUSSIAN SEASONS National Ballet of Canñ ada presents two classical ballets choreo-

graphed by George Balanchine and a modern piece by Alexei Ratmansky. Runs to Mar 27, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$227. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, ballet.ca. 3

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Kris Siddiqi standing out amongst the hardworking cast. The writing needs sharpening, but the ballsy, improv-based finale – if it works – will generate lots of post-show buzz. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat late show 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. nnn (GS) yUk yUk’s DownTown presents comic/ actor/writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait in a live show (see Q&A, page 59). To Mar 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $45. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Friday, March 25 absolUTE CoMEDy See Thu 24. CoMEDy on ThE DanForTh Timothy’s World

News Café presents improv Dan’s Mix ‘95. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. ThE goD-awFUl CoMEDy show Centre for Inquiry presents atheist-friendly comedy w/ JP Hodgkinson. 8:30 pm. $5-$10. 216 Beverley. 416-971-5676, cfiontario.org. knoCkoUT CoMEDy nighT TKO’s Pub presents Marco Bernardi, Hoodoo Hersi, Luke Gordon Field, Dwayne Hill, Desiree Lavoy, Winston Spear, host Scott McCrickard and others. 10 pm. Free. 1600 Danforth. 416-466-1965. nakED FriDays John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv and sketch. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. This ParTy’s a rioT! See Thu 24. yUk yUk’s DownTown See Thu 24. yUk yUk’s VaUghan presents Chris Quigley. To Mar 26, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. yUk yUk’s wEsT presents Tim Steeves. To Mar 26, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Thursday, March 24

CANTI DI ª TERRA Special guest ensembles Constantinople and Barbara Furtuna take us on a voyage from the heart of the Mediterranean, and the mesmerizing vocal polyphonies of the sacred and secular songs of Corsica, to ancient Persia and medieval Europe. $10 tickets for ages 30 and under. Visit www.torontoconsort.org

absolUTE CoMEDy presents Ted Bisaillion, Mike Takacs and host Kevin Gasior. ñ To Mar 27, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm

(and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. gaME Playa ThUrsDays John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. hoT boX CoMEDy Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. laDysTaChE gonE wilD Comedy Bar presents sketch, stand-up and videos w/ LadyStache. 10 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. ThE ParkDalE CoMEDy EXPEriMEnT The Shop Below Parts & Labour presents Spencer Butt, Sara Hennessey, Kathleen Phillips, Chris Locke, the Sufferettes, host Conor Holler and others. 9 pm. $3. 1566 Queen W. partsandlabour.ca.

Saturday, March 26

ThE Pb anD J MarCh Two FoUr skETChProV show Bread & Circus presents Boyfriends &

absolUTE CoMEDy See Thu 24. ThE absolUTEly PosiTiVEly CoMPlETEly MaDE UP show Second City presents interactive,

Girlfriends, Chris Locke and others. 9:30 pm. $10. 299 Augusta. breadandcircus.ca.

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family-friendly improv and sketch. 11 am. $12. Sondra Piea presents improv w/ Anwar Ali, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. Carolyn Williamson, Jason Nery, Tim Poon, blaCk swan CoMEDy presents an Improv Tanya Sundar-Singh, William Nishri and hosts Drop-In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. Piea and Geoff MacDonald. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black $5. Comedy At The Swan w/ Carmine Lucarelli, Swan, 154 Danforth. spareheartsimprov.com. Gord Oxley, MacLeod and others. 8 and 10 pm. This ParTy’s a rioT! Second City’s latest Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416sketch revue doesn’t consistently live up to 903-5388, ralph@blackswancomedy.com. that title, but there are plenty of laughs. HighThE sUPErsTars oF CoMEDy Comedy Bar prelights include savage takes on greedy baby sents stand-up Pat MacDonald, 24075_LearHatch:Layout 1 an3/18/11 4:13w/PM Page 1 Josh Elijah, boomers, pretentious yoga instructors and Alex Pavone, Rob Bebenek, DJ Demers and awkward threesome, with Adam Cawley and

ASPECTS OF OSCAR: OSCAR’S BLUES featuring Roy Hargrove and special guests SAT. APR. 2, 2011 8PM KOERNER HALL Oscar Peterson knew deep in his soul how to swing and how to play the blues. Roy Hargrove (trumpet & ﬂugelhorn) leads an extraordinary lineup of musicians, including Roberta Gambarini, Ralph Moore, Jonathan Batiste, Christian McBride, and Willie Jones III, in a celebration of Oscar's life and blues music.

Sunday, March 27 absolUTE CoMEDy See Thu 24. ThE bEnCh John Candy Box Theatre presents

upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. laUgh sabbaTh presents the Goodbye Sara Hennessey live screening finale show/wrap party w/ Pat Thornton, Kathleen Phillips, Tim Gilbert, Conor Holler, host Hennessey and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. lEgEnDs oF ZElDa’s presents weekly improv w/ the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

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rEVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ Syrus Watson, Brian Francis, Ben Mathai, Keith Bonaparte, Keesha Brownie, Kevin Herod, Sterling Scott and host Kenny Robinson. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. ThE sCEnE Comedy Bar presents troupes, stand-up, long form and short films w/ Evan Desmarais, Chris Mysterion, PB and J, the Sequels and Rulers of the Universe. 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 new sketch every week w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. This ParTy’s a rioT! See Thu 24.

Monday, March 28 alT.CoMEDy loUngE Rivoli presents Sean Cullen, Eddie Della Siepe, Todd Van Allen, ñ Aaron Berg, Stephanie Tolev, Rhiannon Archer, MC Mark DeBonis and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. CoMEDy CabarET Charlotte Room presents stand-up w/ Aaron Berg, Julie Kim, Andre Arruda, Marco Bernardi, Chris Brazeau, Joshua Elijah, Joel Buxton, Pardis Parker, Gerry Hall, Chris MacLean and host Robin Crossman. 7:30 pm. Free. 19 Charlotte. 416-598-2882. DirTy bingo Zelda’s presents a weekly game

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Dave Merheje. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. superstarcomedy@hotmail.com. This ParTy’s a rioT! See Thu 24. ToUCh My sTErEoTyPE Comedy Bar presents videos, sketches, songs and improv w/ Anna Sudac, Dan Ramos, Jonathan Shatzky, Chelsea Larkin and others. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com. yUk yUk’s DownTown See Thu 24. yUk yUk’s VaUghan See Fri 25. yUk yUk’s wEsT See Fri 25.

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HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK – JAPAN RELIEF FUNDRAISER Impulsive Entertainment present

a benefit w/ improv by Big in Japan, sketch by Beggar’s Canyon, plus Patrick Haye, Jy Harris, 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. MONDAY NIGHT IMPROV JAM Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388. SAVED BY THE JOKES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. $#*! MY MAYOR SAYS Second City presents current-events comedy about T.O. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Jim Annan, Jan Caruana and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, March 29 HARD LUCK COMEDY REVUE Hard Luck Bar presents sketch, improv and stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box

Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Punch in the Box, Sean Cullen, Statutory Jape, Two Man No Show, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Reid Janiesse and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 24.

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These days, 80s stand-up great Bobcat Goldthwait has dispensed with the high-pitched voice and spends most of his time making indie films you probably haven’t seen but should. (Does 2009’s World’s Greatest Dad, starring Goldthwait’s pal Robin Williams, ring a bell? Didn’t think so.) The comic, who has a long association with Yuk Yuk’s, returns to the club for a rare set of headlining gigs this week. And maybe if you ask nicely, he’ll sign your VHS copies of the Police Academy films. See Comedy Listings, page 58. You’re spending more time making movies rather than doing stand-up. What made you return to the stage? There’s this warm feeling that only an audience can give you. It’s like a hug, but on the inside. Also, I ran out of money. So probably mostly that last reason. What have you missed about being on the road? Ethernet cables. In my house there’s just crazy 21st-century WiFi. It’s so soothing to plug into a wall like the pioneers did. What haven’t you missed? Drunk people who get backstage into my dressing room and hug me.

Any special green room rider? I actually just rewrote my rider last week, because I found out that it demanded Evian water, Tab, a fruit plate and a boombox. I don’t know who wrote that, but I do know what decade it must be from. Now it’s just coffee, water and a towel. You’ve been in the business for decades. How have comedy groupies changed? There are comedy groupies? I almost never see tits at my shows. According to Wikipedia, you’ve influenced stand-ups Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn and Mitch Hedberg. Have they ever thanked you? All three have sent cards at various times, but I would like something more substantial. Mini-muffin baskets would be nice. Gilbert Gottfried’s Japan jokes: yay or nay? Yay if it means I’m on Afflak’s call list – I’d love to get a piece of that. I’m surprised by it, though. I always thought Gilbert was Japanese. Apparently the film you’re now working on is called God Bless America. Will Sarah Palin like it? I’m not sure if she’ll like it, but she’s welcome to come to the set and get shot. I mean cinematically. Sort of. GLENN SUMI NOW march 24-30 2011

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NNN part mad scientist/inventor, part axe-smashing rocker, Gordon Monahan has worked for 30 years at the intersection of two out-there fields, avant-garde music and installation art. Monahan’s certainly earned the career retrospective, Seeing Sound (which includes shows at Barrie’s MacLaren Art Centre and Oshawa’s Robert McLaughlin and U of T’s Blackwood Galleries), but I’m looking for a deeper emotional resonance beyond pure sound play in my art viewing experience. Performances at his Meaford “Funny Farm” were reported to be wild, but this hasn’t translated into the gallery. Installations at the Doris McCar-

thy, plus a series of videos, convey the gist of Monahan’s interests: setting up self-generating music systems, often with aeolian, or wind-played, strings; intervening in sound production processes by repurposing instruments and manhandling or modifying audio equipment. A gently entertaining outdoor installation, A Piano Listening To Itself, involves six long wires running from the top of a building to the soundboard of a piano on the ground. Altered snatches of Chopin (the piece was commissioned by a Warsaw festival) that travel from MIDI devices down the wires have a delicate, musicboxy quality. It’d be fun to encounter this unexpectedly at some random location. Inside the gallery, soundscapes are more abrasive. Stereo Jingle is part of series in which speaker cases without speakers are rigged to play scratchy sounds generated by moving bits of

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6:30 pm Mar 24. Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. Toy Wonder, to Apr 9 (free). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Gordon Monahan, to Apr 13. 1265 Military Trail. 416287-7007. 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. 416586-8080. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Norman Rockwell and Kevin Rivoli, to Apr 25. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8. Life As A Legend: Marilyn Monroe; Marilyn In Canada, to May 15. George McLean, to May 22. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-8931121. MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen, Cabinet, to Mar 27. 952 Queen W. 416-3950067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Sublimation, to May 15 (Centennial Square, 120 Navy). The Birds And The Bees (Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lake-

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metal. For Piano Airlift, a video of a piano installation atop a cliff in St. John’s runs in a room where a shiny grand piano provides a soundtrack. For Theremin Pendulum, Monahan modified the electronic instrument’s antenna into a long ceilingmounted wire ending in an LED light that swings around the darkened room, forcing you to hug the walls as it produces odd, scream-like noises. I’m not sure what it all means, but the monograph essayists will undoubtedly cook up some art jargon to tell you. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

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thesis (benefit for Queen West Art Crawl), 7 pm, Mar 25 ($80). 6 Noble. 416533-3706, parkdaleliberty.com/synthesis. PREFIX Video: Rabih Mroué, to Apr 23. 401 Richmond W. 416-5910357. SNAP! 2011 Photos: benefit for AIDS Committe of Toronto, Mar 27 auction 7:30 pm. $90. National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. 416-340-9255. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Scott Conarroe, to Apr 2. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TORONTO FREE GALLERY Video: Forum Lenteng collective, Mar 25-Apr 16, reception 7-10 pm Mar 25. 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461. WARC Installation: Wanda Nanibush and Ariel Smith, Mar 26-Apr 23. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

shore E), to Jun 5. 905-844-4402. THE POWER PLANT To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?; Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, to May 29. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Position As Desired/Photographs From The Wedge Collection; Fryderyk Chopin & The Romantic Piano, to Mar 27. Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to May 13. 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, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Mar 30; Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape, to May 1. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Work In Process: UTM/Sheridan students, to Mar 31. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. VARLEY ART GALLERY Carol Wainio, to May 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main. 905-477-9511. 3

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the programmers of the 2011 Cinéfranco Film Festival must feel a little like pinballs; this is the second time the festival has relocated in as many years. After moving from the Royal in 2009 to the AMC in 2010, Cinéfranco has shifted back westward to the shiny hallways of TIFF Bell Lightbox. But despite the new digs, the festival is still the same, offering a cross-section of commercial French-language cinema from around the world that didn’t make it to TIFF and isn’t likely to land a Toronto theatrical run. The festival opens with Michel Rodde’s Impasse Du Désir (Friday, 6:45 pm, rating: NNN), a Swiss thriller that stars Rémy Girard, whom English Canadians know as a charming character actor and Quebecois worship as a god. The fairly conventional

set-up casts Girard as a therapist who learns of his young wife’s infidelity and sees an unbalanced new patient (Laurent Lucas) as a possible solution to his problem. Girard’s basically playing a more dynamic version of the Farley Granger role in Strangers On A Train, but it’s nice to see him swimming in darker waters. If you’d prefer him in a more conventional role, the night’s second feature, Marc-André Lavoie’s Tough Luck (Friday, 9:30 pm, unavailable for preview) lets him play to his hangdog strengths as a lonely Montreal writer assembling the story of his life for a dating service. Girard’s not the only actor cast against type: check out Isabelle Huppert in Copacabana (Tuesday, 9 pm, rating: NNN). Marc Fitoussi’s domestic dramedy casts the reliably intense star of The Piano Teach-

er, White Material and one crazy-ass episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Babou, a relentless nonconformist who’s shocked to discover her buttoned-down daughter (Lolita Chammah, Huppert’s actual daughter) doesn’t want her at her wedding. To prove she’s serious about settling down, Babou gets a real job selling time shares at the chilly Belgian seaside, but she’s not really built for the 9-to-5 life. Huppert’s not really built for light comedy either, but it’s fascinating to watch her feel her way through the role the same way Babou feels her way through the world. Quebec superstar Rémy Girard hits an Impasse.

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leads, a nice visual sensibility and a brisk pace. Cinéfranco’s documentary component includes Fadel Saleh’s Les Conspirationnistes (Saturday, 2 pm, rating: NN), a fairly superficial look at the allure of conspiracy theory. Using Toronto’s Conspiracy Culture shop as a focal point, it’s a jumble of YouTube clips, insistent talking-head interviews and – inevitably – the scene from The Matrix where Morpheus offers Neo the red pill. Whoa, right? The festival offers a master class with producer-director Driss Chouika at 11 am Saturday (in advance of the 1 pm screening of his film Crossed Destinies), an interview with U of T French history professor Eric Jennings at noon April 2 (preceding the 2 pm screening of Turk’s Head) and two free filmmaker round tables Sunday morning. The first, at 10 am, looks at the state of fiction features; the second, at 11:45 am, considers the distribution and marketing challenges facing documentaries. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Puri pure and simple India’s enduring star anchors East Is East sequel West Is West By SUSAN G. COLE WEST IS WEST directed by Andy DeEmmony, written by Ayub Khan-Din. 103 minutes. A D Films release. Opens Friday (March 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

REVIEW WEST IS WEST (Andy DeEmmony) Rating: NNNN It may pull at the heartstrings a little too manipulatively, but West Is West is made with immense skill. In 1999’s East Is East, Pakistani George Khan (Om Puri) and family adjust to their new life in Salford, Manchester. Here, George forces his son Sajid (Aqib Khan) – who’s being taunted at his Salford school and loathes his roots – to join him on a vacation to Pakistan. In his country of origin, George finds out it’s he who needs to learn a lesson. Director DeEmmony and lensman Peter Robertson compose a spectacular collision of dreary, grey Salford and vibrant Pakistan. And, as a man trying to return to the village he heartlessly abandoned, Puri is hugely compelling, able to evoke sympathy even when he’s behaving hypocritically. You don’t need to have seen the earlier film to appreciate this one. They don’t call it a crowdpleaser for nothing.

om puri, one of india’s most sought-after and iconic stars, has a riveting presence, and it’s in full view in his new release, West Is West. He plays George Khan, reprising his role as the Pakistani transplant he introduced in the 1999 hit East Is East. The star of nearly 200 films made in India and the West, including Charlie Wilson’s War and Deepa Mehta’s Sam & Me, Puri has his young costar Aqib Khan in tow as he promotes the sequel at TIFF last year. “Recently, Indian cinema has become aware that it has the potential to reach out to the world,” says Puri in his rich baritone, responding to a question about Bollywood’s surging popularity on this side of the ocean. “They didn’t make any attempt before because they had such a huge market back home. But we’re still making movies with song and dance and silly plots.” “But outside of India those movies are more for Indians living in new countries,” interjects Khan, interrupting the veteran. “People go to see them because they’re nostalOm Puri (left) and Aqib Khan gic for home.” play feuding father and son Khan plays George’s son Sajid, in West Is West. desperate to shed the ways of

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the old country. To change his mind, his father, George (Puri), takes him back to his home village. Though Sajid can’t stand his dad, Khan clearly grasps that Puri sets the standard for South Asian actors. “Acting with Om... I can’t say how it felt, it was so in the moment. I just watched him – the way he talked to people, the way he did things. He was a great role model.” Puri warns fans of East Is East that West Is West has less of the first film’s fish-out-of-water comedy. “This one has more drama and emotion. It was wonderful to see Linda Bassett back (as George’s wife) with the same chemistry.” Even in India, followers of Puri’s mainstream work may not recognize the names of many of his movies. That’s because there he’s the darling of the art house circuit, the go-to guy for artists making India’s version of indie films. “My first love will always be art films,” Puri says soberly. “It’s a pity that we consider cinema solely a source of entertainment. I don’t deny the entertainment part of it, but cinema is capable of doing so much more. Entertainment with a purpose makes so much sense. To concentrate only on the box office and how much money a film is going to make, to compromise keeping that in mind – that’s unhealthy.” 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

You bring real gravity to Hobo With A Shotgun. Was that a collective decision or something you came up with yourself? Jason [Eisener] in the beginning said, “The hobo must be [played] straight. He cannot go for jokes.” I tried [the other way] a few times – I couldn’t help myself – and it felt immediately out of character, funnily enough. He’s deadly serious when it comes to the things that matter to him. So we had to just stay there and keep that in mind. I had to be straight in the scene, but after the cut sometimes I just kept giggling and giggling because it was so pathetic and so crazy. You worked closely with the actor who played the hobo in the original [fake] trailer, didn’t you? David Brunt was the man [who both inspired the film and played the hobo in Jason’s two-minute short]. He was there for me to pick his brain and talk to him when I had the chance, and just hang out with him a little bit – study his movements, and study the damage that he carries with him. He’s such a clean guy inside – he loves nature, he loves the things that are good in the world, and he thinks they should have a chance. You’ve played replicants, psychopaths, knights, Nazis, vampires, blind ninjas, scientists... and now a hobo with a shotgun. That’s a pretty varied career. I think it’s dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn’t know it did [laughs]. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they’re not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don’t need those movies, because I don’t wanna do them. You do always seem to be enjoying yourself onscreen. I think it’s one of the last playgrounds in town. It’s a lusty and delicious craft, NORMAN WILNER and I like to work there.

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REVIEW HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (Jason Eisener) Rating: NNN Expanded from a fake trailer that screened in front of Grindhouse in its Canadian run, Hobo With A Shotgun is a lurid, gruesome, violent revenge thriller in the mode of Lloyd Kaufman’s cheesetastic 80s epic The Toxic Avenger. But instead of a radioactive nerd cleaning up the streets with a mop, Rutger Hauer’s nameless derelict takes pump-action arms against the corrupt scumbags who’ve taken over the small town into which he’s had the misfortune to wander. The movie’s all garish colour and spurting squibs, with the occasional burst of T&A titillation. As Mel Brooks once said, it rises below vulgarity, its pop-eyed villains gobbling drugs and torturing everyone who crosses their path. Seriously, the movie can’t go four minutes before someone starts throwing up or shedding body parts. Which makes the sight of Hauer giving an actual performance all the more surprising. He’s created a three-dimensional character in the middle of a live-action cartoon, and there are moments when his considered portrayal comes close to derailing the movie’s heedless energy. And then someone sets a school bus full of Nick Bateman sets out to children on fire, and everything’s all right again. NW hobble the hobo.

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THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS (Leanne Pooley). 84 minutes. Opens tonight (Thursday, March 24) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 72. Rating: NNN

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WIN WIN written and directed by

Tom McCarthy, with Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale and Alex Shaffer. A Fox Searchlight release. 105 minutes. Opens Friday (March 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

tom m c carthy has a moral dilemma he’d like to discuss. His new film, Win Win, stars indie icon Paul Giamatti as Mike Flaherty, a struggling New Jersey lawyer and part-time wrestling coach who has himself appointed the legal guardian of elderly Leo (Burt Young) for some quick cash to keep his practice afloat – and ends up taking in his charge’s moody teenage grandson (Alex Shaffer). Mike doesn’t care about Leo or his family – all he wanted was the stipend – but the kid turns out to be a gifted wrestler, turning Mike’s team from losers to winners. So here’s the thing: Mike’s ethical indiscretion puts his team and family in a better place. But he’s still a bad person for taking that step, isn’t he? “It’s a real credit to Paul’s performance [that we find the character sympathetic],” McCarthy says, easing into a couch on the film’s Toronto press stop. “There’s [some] duplicity in terms of the audience’s involvement, who they’re rooting for, because you root for him but at the same time you realize he’s gonna get his. And that’s gotta come, too. So it’s fun to watch the audience struggle with that a little bit and say, ‘Well, he’s a good guy, but….’” McCarthy knows a thing or two about duplicity, having played a Baltimore Sun reporter with a penchant for

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REVIEW WIN WIN (Tom McCarthy) Rating: NNNN Win Win is one of those movies that grows in stature as you watch it. It starts out as a lightweight dramedy perfectly attuned to Paul Giamatti’s uniquely agitated warmth – the guy can make panic attacks funny – and slowly accrues detail and emotional heft until we find ourselves somewhere very different. Giamatti plays Mike, a struggling New Jersey lawyer and wrestling coach who winds up taking in the grandson (Alex Shaffer) of an elderly client (Burt Young) – and discovering that the kid’s a wrestling prodigy. Mike’s good fortune is clouded by the fact that his guardianship of the boy’s grandfather involves an ethical stumble that could get him disbarred. Writer/director Tom McCarthy, who made The Station Agent and The Visitor, lets the story develop naturalistically, which means the first half skirts feeling aimless while Giamatti, Shaffer, Amy Ryan and Bobby Cannavale build their characters. Stick NW with them. It’s worth it.

fabrication in the final season of The Wire. (When he’s not writing and directing finely honed indie dramas like The Station Agent and The Visitor, McCarthy’s a working actor; you may remember him as John Cusack’s romantic rival in 2012.) The idea of good things resulting from morally questionable deeds is something McCarthy’s been kicking around for nearly a decade. “Andrew Fastow, the CFO at Enron, grew up 10 minutes from me,” he says. “I played soccer with his brother. Great family, the Fastows, terrific people. A lot of great things came out of the productivity and profit of that company – philanthropy, all these wonderful things. But all the good that came out of it, it’s not built on [anything] real. And when the cards came down, we had to pay for that. I thought that was a really interesting theme for this movie.” Win Win isn’t exclusively about a moral quandary, though. It’s also got a heart, embodied by Giamatti’s beleaguered coach taking Shaffer’s unsteady kid under his wing. Casting newcomer Shaffer, who’d never acted before, meant McCarthy got to watch that relationship play out both onand off-camera. “He’s an incredibly generous actor,” the director says of Giamatti. “He’s one of those guys who just picks up an energy and plugs in. And because Paul is such an unfussy actor – he’s focused, he does his thing, has fun – it was really helpful to Alex, because there wasn’t all this process. Everyone has his own approach to the work, but he kept it light. It was a huge help.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Take the Indigo Girls, add some early k.d. lang – when she was doing her crazed country and western thing – then magnify it 10 times over and you have New Zealand’s Topp Twins. What’s more, these sisters have always been out lesbians and fierce political activists, and neither fact has kept them from becoming one of their nation’s most popular acts. Canuck director Leanne Pooley’s doc tracks how Lynda and Jools Topp went from farm girls to energetic young buskers to performers playing to thousands at major venues. Interviews with luminaries like musician Billy Bragg, NZ satirist John Clarke and former prime minister Helen Clark unpack the Twins’ impact on the political and performance landscape. But watch them play and all you need to know about how the Topp Twins rose to the top comes though.

They often play their original songs as comedy characters they’ve created and inhabit as if they were real – like high society matrons Dolly and Prue Ramsbottom, country yokels Belle and Bell Gingham, and my favourites, Ken and Ken, two guys the duo do with uncanny skill. In North America, entertainers seldom flaunt their passion for politics à la Topps. Pooley includes footage of the pair playing at anti-nuclear demos and actions against developments on Maori sacred land. Clark declares that without the Twins, New Zealand’s homosexual law reform could not have happened. A particularly harrowing sequence shows them at an antiapartheid demonstration in 1981, interrupting a rugby match between New Zealand and South Africa. The fans were not amused. The movie’s time frame gets confusing; without dates on stock footage, you’re not sure what year events take place. But Untouchable Girls is a terrific tribute to a unique phenomenon. And it’s not for lesbians only. The Topp Twins are New Zealand’s largest cultural export for good reason. SUSAN G. COLE

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Complex Copy CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami). 106 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN

Abbas Kiarostami’s relationship puzzler is the obverse of Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy’s delightful Sunset two-handers. That’s its major weakness. Watching two people talk to each other all night and fall in love is pure pleasure. Sitting in on a duo who spend the day in a state of disconnect is something else entirely. Juliette Binoche plays Elle, an antiques dealer who sits in on a lecture by James (William Shimell), author of a controversial art history book that suggests reproductions are as valuable as their originals. Obviously turned on, Elle asks James out for a day’s drive through Tuscany (typical of Kiarostami, large hunks of the film unfold in the car), and as they engage in uncomfortable discussions about life and art, the nature of their relationship grows murky.

William Shimell and Juliette Binoche talk around things in Certified Copy.

Have they met before? At times the gulf between them is huge, at others they seem strangely intimate. Is this a real relationship or a copy? Unfortunately, while Kiarostami enjoys playing with our expectations, the result isn’t always fun to watch. When the shifts in the level of the duo’s communication come across as silly or arbitrary, Kiarostami’s little game can be aggravating. But 2010 Cannes acting prizewinner Binoche gives the dialogue an unusual rhythm, evoking a sea of emotions: longing, anger, disappointment. And in three languages. It’s a spectacular SUSAN G. COLE performance.

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a MatteR Of size (Sharon Maymon, Erez

Donald). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (March 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN

Tadmor). 90 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN

Mixed Matter

Jailhouse blues

Music From The Big House marks a rare detour into documentary for director Bruce McDonald, but it suits him. McDonald’s camera follows Canadian singer Rita Chiarelli to Louisiana’s maximum-security Angola Prison, where she sings blues, soul and gospel numbers with the inmates. Steve Cosens’s artfully framed black-and-white images establish a bleak mood. McDonald takes his time getting to the music, first filling us in on the prison’s connection to the blues – Leadbelly was discovered there while doing time in 1933 – and accompanying Chiarelli as she talks to various lifers about their lives behind bars and the paths that led them there.

Music From The Big House comes into focus during its concert scenes.

The interview segments are awkward – the inmates are reluctant to discuss their crimes in detail, and McDonald doesn’t offer specifics until the very end of the film. Much of the film’s first half feels padded to fill the theatrical running time. The doc comes properly into focus in its second half once the concert gets under way and Chiarelli and her accompanists blaze through a mix of new songs and standards. They’re ragged and uneven, but they play with passion, and suddenly the idea of music as rehabilitation – or at least release – makes perfect sense. Who better to NORMaN wiLNeR sing the blues?

There’s an uneasy moment in A Matter Of Size when the film seems about to settle for easy, culturally awkward laughs at the idea of fat Israelis in sumo costumes. And then it pushes through that and finds something deeper on the other side. Having failed at various weight-loss strategies, four desperate friends in the town of Ramle join an obesity support group, to no avail. But when withdrawn Herzl (Itzik Cohen) takes a job at a Japanese restaurant and discov-

ers sumo culture, it gives everyone new purpose – or at least something to do. Directors Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor avoid the temptation to remake The Full Monty, focusing instead on how physical training forces the characters to confront their buried psychological issues. That said, the nuts and bolts of the plot could have used a little more thought. A subplot about Herzl hiding his sumo training from his new girlfriend (Irit Kaplan) grinds against both characters’ intelligence. NORMaN wiLNeR

A little unsteady at times, A Matter Of Size lands on both feet by the end.

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(D: Zack Snyder, 120 min) Watchmen director Zack Snyder has assembled some of Hollywood’s rising young female stars (Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung) for this actioner about an about-to-be-lobotomized girl in the 1950s who escapes from the asylum with her fellow inmates and then, of course, seeks bloody vengeance. Opens Friday (March 25). Screened after press time – see review March 25 at nowtoronto. Emily Browning gets set to deliver com/movies. her Sucker Punch.

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In Outside The Law, writer/director Rachid Bouchareb returns to the moral and political territory he explored in 2006’s Oscar-nominated Days Of Glory, reuniting three of its stars, Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem and Sami Bouajila. In the earlier film, they played North African recruits battling prejudice as well as Nazis while fighting for France in the Second World War. Here, they’re a trio of brothers in postwar France who join the Front de Libération Nationale to fight for Algerian independence. Bouchareb is firmly on the side of the Algerians, depicting the French as brutal, uncaring occupiers. Perhaps understandably, the movie’s early re-creation of a 1945 massacre in Sétif was a source of some discomfort at Cannes last year. There’s a tense action sequence involving an escape from a police station, but most of Outside The Law is concerned with driving home how badly the French treated Algerians. Bouchareb’s grim tale is pitched exclusively to an audience that already agrees with him; he makes no attempt to provide context or emotional stakes for viewers new to the story. There’s little complexity to the characters, or weight to the politics. For that, watch The Battle Of Algiers, still brilliant – and still sadly relevant – NORMaN wiLNeR after 45 years.

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old, and that’s not a good thing in Hollywood. 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. 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 wrong places. 82 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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(Mike Leigh) is a melancholic and affectionate film about a happy couple in their twilight years who routinely have less fortunate friends and family over for dinner, tea and occasionally a lot of wine. During these naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, the film observes the minor discomforts, awkwardness and even modern manifestations of class consciousness that threaten the couple’s strictly sustained pleasantness. 130 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

(George Nolfi) is a nimble, genre-shifting hyBARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a brid of political drama, conspiracy thriller radically simplified adaptation of Mordeand romantic comedy. Writer/director cai Richler’s final novel, looking back at Nolfi’s remarkable debut stars Matt the life and loves of a deteriorating Damon as a New York senatorial candiMontreal television producer (Paul Giadate who meets the girl of his dreams matti). Simultaneously ambitious and (Emily Blunt) only to learn a mysterious pedestrian. 132 min. NNN (NW) team of suits led by John Slattery and Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Grande Anthony Mackie is bent Yonge, Interchange 30, on keeping him from Kennedy Commons 20, ever seeing her again. Kingsway Theatre, VarEXPANDED REVIEWS It’s exactly what we sity nowtoronto.com need after this miserBATTLE LOS ANGELES able winter: a smart, (Jonathan Liebesman) resourceful picture that opens in the middle of the action, before demonstrates that even the most ridicudisappointingly rolling back the clock so lous premise can be made to work if you we can spend 20 minutes watching the get the tone right. 106 min. NNNN (NW) characters lay out their prefab baggage 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colibefore the aliens arrive. Wouldn’t it be seum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park great if a movie like this just hit the 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, ground running? But then, this is an alienGrande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Marinvasion blockbuster designed for people ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow who wondered why Steven Spielberg’s Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity War Of The Worlds was all flight and no Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkfight. Screenwriter Christopher Bertolini dale, Varsity borrows his structure from another SpielAMAZON FALLS (Katrin Bowen) has an berg movie, Saving Private Ryan, following amateurish feel, but it aptly reflects its a single platoon of soldiers on a rescue theme: life in the schlock-movie biz. Jana mission through enemy territory – though (April Telek) used to be a B-movie star in a Spielberg’s film was a commentary on series of Amazon flicks, but she’s getting war-movie clichés, and Battle Los Angeles is content to recycle them, rounding up a generic crew of grunts and dumping them into the CG mayhem. After that, it’s all forward momentum, except when it pauses to let Aaron Eckhart’s world-weary staff sergeant deliver a generic motivational speech. Simultaneously satisfying and superficial. 116 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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modern adaptation of that fairy tale about a beautiful girl and a vain monster, obviously meant to cash in on the craze for fantasy films about hormonal teens, started by a certain chick-lit vampire series. But Beastly simply shows how Twilight got it right. As Kyle, hexed with scar-tissue and some nifty tats, and Lindy, the idealistic girl he’s sweet on, Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens can’t conjure the sexual intensity of Edward and Bella. It doesn’t

help that they have to choke on clunky dialogue about the “death of romance” and an unsubtle screenplay that reeks of laziness. The only person who comes out of this mess looking good is Mary-Kate Olsen, who clearly has some fun with her goth-flavoured witch. The rest of the movie is just cursed. 97 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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(Darren Aronofsky) is a deliriously operatic tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman) who starts to lose her mind when she wins the role of the Swan Queen in a star-making production of Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. It’s a rich, weird experience – and a little over the top, which is the only way to make a movie this ambitious and impassioned. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN (Wuershan) is so garish and

overcooked that it’s impossible to digest. This antic, tongue-in-cheek take on Chinese mythology intertwines the tales of a piggish-looking butcher who lusts after a high-priced call girl, a chef out to avenge the death of his family and the powerhungry swordsman who got this whole ball rolling when he sought the finest black iron blade in Asia. Amidst all this are a brothel full of rapping courtesans, a Jabba the Hut-like Eunuch and countless animal fatalities. You may be amused by the sheer nuttiness on display, but that’s only because your senses have been butchered by commercial director Wuershan’s manic use of colour filters and choppy, sloppy editing. He throws everything but the kitchen sink at the screen, just hoping some of it will stick. Subtitled. 95 min. NN (RS) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Julian Napier) See review, page 69.

CEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel Arteta) features Ed Helms panicking an awful lot as a smalltown insurance salesman who travels to Iowa for a convention and finds himself confronted with all the writhing debauchery of the big city. But the sales-convention-as-bacchanal thing was summed up in a few brief scenes in Up In The Air, and the rest of the office details have been covered at length by Helms himself on The Office. 86 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami) 106 min. See review, page 66. NNN (SGC) Opens Mar 25 at Cumberland 4. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (David Bowers) See review, page 70.

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uses the latest technology to bring opera to the next level – not to mention a potentially new audience. And what better work to begin with than Georges Bizet’s lusty, dramatic warhorse about the sultry cigarette factory worker (Christine Rice) who seduces and then dispenses with one man, the stolid corporal Don José (Bryan Hymel), before taking up with another, the cape-wielding toreador Escamillo (Aris Argiris)? Francesca Zambello’s handsome, unshowy Royal Opera House production evokes the opera’s various settings nicely, the crowd scenes captured as if we’re traipsing around 19th century Seville, the more intimate moments as if we have direct access to the singers’

the shadow of his older brother Dicky (Christian Bale), a former fighter who’s since spiralled into crack addiction. It’s is an underdog story that plays out just like Rocky, only in this version Adrian has an outgoing personality and Paulie is on the pipe. 115 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

FuNkytowN (Daniel Roby) has a bloated

narrative, but it spectacularly evokes the era when the Parti Quebecois came to power, disco dominated the dance scene and AIDS hadn’t yet reared its head. Bastien (Patrick Huard) is king of the scene, hosting radio’s most popular disco show as well as huge TV hit Disco Dance Party. There’s also gay TV co-host Jonathan, closeted disco dancer Tino and not-sosupermodel Adriana. They all gather at the Montreal club Starlight, bankrolled by Gilles and run by the son he constantly ridicules. Screenwriter Steve Galluccio (Mambo Italiano) has way too much going on here, and the moralism about drug use is a bit much. But when Gilles comments that the PQ’s going to fuck up his business or washed-up disco singer Mimi discovers a punk all-girl band, you can appreciate how spectacularly Funkytown captures the moment. Subtitled. 132 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

thoughts and hopes. Rice’s freedomseeking Carmen is superb – completely in command of her sexuality, straddling men during her Habanera, writhing like a pole dancer during her Seguidille, yet spontaneous and truthful. (She actually tears up during José’s Flower Song and the doom-laden card scene.) Hymel is a better singer than actor, and Maija Kovalevska brings great dignity to her role as his smalltown sweetheart, Micaëla. But the real star is the 3-D, which may signal a new direction for the performing arts. Subtitled. 170 min. NNNNN (GS) Opens Mar 25 at Empire Theatres at Empress Walk; Mar 26, 1 pm, at Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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GNomeo aNd Juliet (Kelly Asbury) crosses Shakespeare with Toy Story to transpose the Bard’s timeless tale of young love to the back gardens of adjoining British homes. The animation is bright and inventive, but you do get the sense that someone has tried to Shrek up the script, offsetting the clever nods to Shakespeare with random pop culture references. 84 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Hall Pass (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)

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(Sylvain Chomet) finds the creator of The Triplets Of Belleville turning an unproduced script by Jacques Tati into a marvellously dry, rewardingly subtle comedy about an aging I AM NUMBER FOUR (D.J. Caruso) is a step French stage magician who befriends a backwards for Disturbia and Eagle Eye Scottish village girl and takes her with him director Caruso, whose latest film feels to a performance in the like a merely adequate big city. 80 min. NNNN sci-fi series pilot. Alex Pettyfer plays a (NW) EXPANDED REVIEWS humanoid alien hiding Carlton Cinema nowtoronto.com out in a midwestern INCENDIES (Denis high school to escape Villeneuve) sucdetection from another set of aliens. Cacessfully adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play ruso cleverly uses technology to advance Scorched, a multi-layered mystery set the plot, but the performances are uneven both in Canada and somewhere in the and the special effects underwhelming. Middle East. Villeneuve’s control over the 110 min. NN (GS) ambitious material, André Turpin’s vivid Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney cinematography, and committed performPark 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire ances make this modern-day Greek Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min. Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, ScotiaNNNN (GS) bank Theatre Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell I SAW THE DEVIL (Kim Ji-woon) pits KoLightbox, Varsity rean secret-service agent Soo-hyeon (Lee Byung-hun) against Kyung-chul (Choi MinINSIDE JOB (Charles Ferguson) takes sik), the dull-eyed monster who butchered a very complex subject – the story of his fiancée, equipping him with a GPS the global economic collapse triggered by tracker and shadowing him through subthe 2008 failure of several American urban Seoul in an infernal game of catch, financial institutions – and explains it in mutilate and release. The first two-thirds terms so easily understood that if you’re play as jet-black comedy, but it turns out not furious by the time you leave the both sadism and close-ups of spurting theatre, you were probably staring at the head wounds are subject to the law of floor with your fingers in your ears. Which diminishing returns, especially when the a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists only message behind them is that old saw and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. about how fighting monsters can turn a NNNN (NW) hero into a monster himself – particularly Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant if he resorts to using an actual saw.

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JANE EYRE (Cary Fukunaga) is yet another adaptation of Charlotte Brönte’s novel about the eponymous orphan-turnedgoverness, but this one is richly atmospheric and bolstered by the always watchable Mia Wasikowska in the lead. The script cleverly begins at Jane’s lowest point and then flashes back to her terrible childhood in scenes that are marred by some caricature turns. The main problem, though, comes in the wooden dialogue between Jane and her Byronic employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender). The rest of the cast works well, but apart from Wasikowska, the biggest star is Adriano Goldman, whose cinematography captures the look and feel of each of the settings, especially Rochester’s imposing home, with its creepy, creaking staircases and candlelit scenes worthy of a La Tour canvas. 118 min. NNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity 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) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, 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. Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube and maintains his loyal fan base through Twitter, making him a remarkable example of a celebrity born out of the social networking age. You don’t have to be a lovesick tween to get in tune with this doc. 105 min. NNN (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

KILL THE IRISHMAN (Jonathan Hensleigh)

stars Ray Stevenson as Danny Greene, a burly dockworker who slapped his way through the Cleveland underworld in the 70s and amassed enough power that he landed on the hit list of every rival organization in town. So people keep trying to blow him up, and he keeps surviving. That’s it – and it’s really boring, since Hensleigh does nothing to bring this utterly clichéd tale to life, either visually or emotionally. Greene’s a blustering jerk, his associates are one-dimensional gangsters and goons, and co-stars Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio and Christopher Walken don’t get nearly enough screen time. Everything this movie does, season two of The Wire did so much better. 105 min. N (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

LIMITLESS (Neil Burger) takes an intriguing “What would you do?” sci-fi premise and zigzags to some pretty unexpected places. Bradley Cooper plays Eddie, a shabby wannabe writer who chances upon a trial

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up its predecessor, but that’s only because the earlier movie set the bar high for modern kids’ comedies. After a rocky start, Rodrick Rules eventually takes shape and continues the franchise’s knack for relating to adolescent concerns with humour and candour without resorting to wizardry. Zachary Gordon reprises his role as Greg, the titular angst-ridden preteen who’s still dealing with popularity issues but now has a bigger dilemma on his plate. Mom wants him to bond with his meanspirited older brother Rodrick (Devon Bostick, allowed to shine this time drug that lets him use 100 per cent of his brain’s capacity. Within hours of taking his first pill, he’s polishing off his manuscript, and after a few days on the drug (which also helps him become a snappier dresser), he’s making big money on the stock market and attracting mogul Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) and a host of less savoury characters who want some of what he’s on. Director Burger has great fun visualizing the effects of the drug: colours become supersaturated, the camera zooms up and down its Manhattan locations with the speed of neurons. And although the film lurches, sometimes awkwardly, from comedy to thriller to romance (Abbie Cornish plays Eddie’s ex-girlfriend), Cooper holds his own with charisma, charm and (of course) natural intelligence. 97 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Brad Furman) is the cinematic equivalent of a decent airplane read – an easily digested page-turner that keeps you occupied but doesn’t really demand much. Michael Connelly’s novel about a wheeler-dealer defence attorney pulled into an increasingly nasty assault case works nicely as a big-screen thriller, and gives Matthew McConaughey a role ideally suited to his laid-back, Southern-fried vibe. Director Brad Furman moves the action along efficiently enough, making good use of some grimy Los Angeles locations. It’s entirely predictable, which becomes a bit of an issue in the second half, but McConaughey works pretty hard to hold our interest. 119 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 MARS NEEDS MOMS (Simon Wells) is an

oddly affecting if predictable animated film based on the Berkeley Breathed book.

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around). Sibling rivalry rarely comes across so empathetically in a movie that still resorts to pratfalls for chuckles. However, that’s the magic of the Wimpy Kid series: it gives in to childish gags but also remains quite mature when dealing with relationships that matter. 100 min. NNN (RS) Opens Mar 25 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24. After his strict mom (voiced by Joan Cusack) is abducted by aliens, Milo (“acted” by Seth Green but voiced by Seth Dusky) hitches a ride on the same spaceship and lands on the red planet, where he soon meets a 20-something earthling and a rebellious Martian. The trio set out to rescue Milo’s mom, but not before an exposition-heavy section where we learn how and why Martians need earthling moms to keep their female-led society going. The film’s look borrows heavily from WALL-E’s junkyard universe and Star Wars’ spaceship corridors, and the rendering of human faces is less creepy than it was in The Polar Express. But the characters’ expressions and voice work are lovely, especially leading up to the film’s climax. And there’s something satisfying about seeing a film that celebrates moms, who’ll likely be lugging their bratty kids to see this en masse during March break. 88 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

A MATTER OF SIZE (Sharon Maymon, Erez

Tadmor) 90 min. See review, page 67. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 25 at Grande - Yonge.

MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE (Bruce McDonald) 87 min. See review, page 67. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 25 at Carlton Cinema. NORA’S WILL (Mariana Chenillo) takes

place almost entirely in the Mexico City apartment of a suicide who’s left behind a complete list of instructions for her exhusband (Fernando Luján). Writer/director Chenillo aims for cantankerous dramedy but miscalculates the emotional stakes. Subtitled. 92 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge

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(Xavier Beauvois) dramatizes, in a subtle and respectful way, the story of 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

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longer protect them. It’s a quiet, implacable film, finding notes of grace in the steady progression toward a dreadful end. Subtitled. 117 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, TIFF Bell Lightbox

OUTSIDE THE LAW (Rachid Bouchareb) 138

min. See review, page 67. NN (NW) Opens Mar 25 at Cumberland 4.

PAUL (Greg Mottola) lets Simon Pegg and

Nick Frost – stars of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz – celebrate their inner geeks as a pair of English sci-fi nerds who stumble across an actual ET on a road trip through America’s most famous alienencounter sites. It’s up to them to help their new friend get home before the government can recapture him, which would be much easier if the slacker alien didn’t keep insisting they stop for beer and weed. Watching Pegg and Frost goof around with a CG alien is pleasantly charming, and the supporting cast – including Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio – is solid. The movie’s never more than the sum of its references, but if Paul doesn’t amount to anything more than a good time, it’s still a good time, right? 102 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

RANGO (Gore Verbinski) is a peculiar,

snappy and delightful riff on spaghetti westerns masquerading as a family movie. Johnny Depp voices the titular household lizard who gets lost and ends up marshalling a town full of colourful critters desperate for water. Rango bucks current conventions by staying 2-D, yet it’s filled to the brim with exhilarating scenery, texture and dimensions that make you exclaim “wow” – visual feats only Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E have achieved. And the lighting... That’s right, there’s lighting! Director Verbinski consulted with the Coen brothers’ regular cinematographer Roger Deakins to fill in light and shadows. As a movie made with new technology that innovatively resorts to oldschool techniques, Rango pushes the possibilities for animation ahead of 3-D. Take that, James Cameron. 107 min. NNNNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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TANGLED (Nathan Greno, Byron

Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland attraction come to life. The best performance is delivered by the animators of Maximus, a guardsman’s horse clearly modelled on Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive – but funnier, obviously, because he’s a horse. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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(Leanne Pooley) 84 min. See review, page 66, and Q&A with Lynda Topp at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNN (SGC) Opens Mar 24 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

TRUE GRIT (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) is

a lot of things, but quaint isn’t one of them. It’s mean as a snake, and has no illusions about the Glorious West. There’s a grave seriousness at the movie’s heart – it’s a story about the harshness of death, and the illusory promise of revenge and redemption. And if Jeff Bridges does end up snatching another Oscar away from Colin Firth this year, no one could possibly

hold it against him. 109 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra) is a

ludicrous, paranoid action movie with a decent budget and a sense of its own absurdity. After surviving a Berlin car crash, Liam Neeson’s doctor wakes up to discover someone has appropriated his identity, and must smash his way to the truth. The only weak link is January Jones. Some subtitles. 109 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM

(Tara Johns) is the story of an 11-year-old girl (Julia Stone) in 1976 Manitoba who decides that Dolly Parton is her birth mother and sets out to meet her at a concert in Minneapolis – forcing her adoptive mother (Macha Grenon) to come chasing after her. The actors are appealing, but writer-director Johns pads the slender story out to feature length with distracting subplots and dead-weight supporting characters; this would have been much stronger at about a third the length. 95 min. NN (NW)w Canada Square, Cumberland 4 3

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:00, 11:10 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:00 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:40 3:30 7:00 9:30 FriWed 12:40, 3:30, 7:05, 9:30 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:20, 2:30, 4:00, 5:10, 6:40, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 3:00, 4:10, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Fri 12:00, 2:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:50, 6:15, 7:30, 9:15, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:00, 2:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Tue 2:00, 2:50, 4:40, 6:15, 7:30, 9:15, 10:30 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat I AM NUMBER FOUR Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 I SAW THE DEVIL Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 12:50 1:50 3:30 4:30 6:20 7:20 9:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:50, 3:40, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:20 LORD OF THE DANCE 3D (G) Thu, Mon 7:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE ENCORE Sat 1:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:00, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 8:50 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:20, 4:20, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:15, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 SatSun 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) 1:30, 3:20, 4:10, 6:10, 7:00, 9:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:40 mat SUCKER PUNCH: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:00 mat THE WIZARD OF OZ (G) Sun 1:00

JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Sun, TueWed 12:35, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 Mon 12:35, 3:55, 6:55 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 WIN WIN (14A) 12:45, 3:05, 6:15, 9:05 Wed no 6:15

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

BEASTLY (PG) Thu 2:30 4:50 7:30 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat BLACK SWAN (14A) 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat CARMEN IN 3D (PG) Sat 1:00 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:35, 9:10 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:45 mat GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) 1:50, 4:05, 6:40 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat HALL PASS (14A) 2:05, 3:30, 4:55, 6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:50, 12:45 mat JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Wed 2:45, 10:45 KILL THE IRISHMAN 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:05, 12:45 mat THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:45 Sat-Sun 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:45 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:45, 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 MOOZ-LUM Thu 9:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, MonWed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 7:00, 9:45 Sun 10:45, 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:25, 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:25 TRON: LEGACY (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:35, 5:15, 10:35 UNKNOWN (14A) 1:30, 2:10, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:50, 11:35 mat

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I)

Midtown

INCENDIES (14A) 6:15, 9:45 OF GODS AND MEN Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:45, 9:00 Mon 9:00 THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS Thu-Sun, TueWed 12:45, 2:45, 5:00, 7:00 Mon 7:00 WHEN WE LEAVE (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 9:15

CANADA SQUARE (CE)

350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:00 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:20 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 10:05 FriSun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:40 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:50, 5:20, 8:40 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 FriSun, Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Mon 3:50, 6:45 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 6:25, 9:00 WEST IS WEST Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 WIN WIN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

VIP SCREENINGS

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 INCENDIES (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 2:05, 5:35, 8:45 Mon 2:05, 5:35

2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30 Fri 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:00 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 7:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:50 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20 MonWed 4:15 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:05 HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN 5:10, 7:30 Fri 9:45 Sat-Sun 3:00 mat, 9:45 INCENDIES (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Fri-Sun 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 6:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:45 Fri 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:45 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:20 THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM Fri 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Fri 6:50 Sat 4:10, 9:25 Sun, Tue-Wed 7:00 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu, Sat 7:00 Fri 9:25 Sun 4:30

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 FriSun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 1:05, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:15 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 7:05, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE ENCORE Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:40, 6:50, 9:25 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:05 3:50 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 4:50, 9:55 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45

Metro

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

BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) 2:00 BIUTIFUL (14A) 7:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 12:10 Fri-Wed 9:35 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:00 INCENDIES (14A) 4:20 TANGLED (PG) Sat-Sun 10:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:35, 1:50, 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:45 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:20, 12:55, 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30, 9:45 BEASTLY (PG) 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Sat only 12:45 3:40 6:55 9:55 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:25 Fri-Sat, TueWed 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 Sun 4:45, 7:10 Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:45 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:45, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Wed 9:15 JANE EYRE (PG) Fri-Tue 12:55, 3:55, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 3:55, 7:15, 10:10 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 Fri, SunMon, Wed 6:55, 9:55 Sat 6:35, 9:35 Tue 6:55 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 9:35 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 FriWed 12:05, 3:05, 6:10, 9:10 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 LORD OF THE DANCE 3D (G) Thu, Mon 7:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE ENCORE Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 1:15 4:05 7:05 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:15, 6:55, 9:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:10, 1:10, 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 8:50 Sat, Wed 12:10, 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 8:50 Tue 12:10, 1:10, 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 8:50, 9:55 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 FriWed 1:45, 4:35, 7:30 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:40, 3:50, 4:40, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:35 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 6:10, 9:15 Fri-Wed 10:25 WEST IS WEST Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:35, 10:30

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:00 9:45 FriWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 LIMITLESS (14A) 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) 12:45, 2:50, 4:50 Thu 7:10, 9:15 PAUL (14A) Thu 1:25 4:05 7:05 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 RANGO (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) 6:50, 9:20 Thu 1:20 mat, 4:15 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30

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

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:50 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:00 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES 6:30, 9:10 Fri 3:50 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50 mat LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 SatSun 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE ENCORE Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 RANGO (PG) 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:10 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:00 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat, 4:20

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

BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:40 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30, 11:59 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50, 11:55 Sun-Wed 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 CARMEN IN 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 7:00 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 11:40 late I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:45, 2:30, 4:15, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00, 10:50 SunWed 1:45, 2:30, 4:15, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:50, 9:20, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:45 late UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Wed 8:00, 10:40

GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 3:30, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:35 Sat 6:20, 9:35 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:40 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 3:50 Sun 1:05 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 JANE EYRE (PG) 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:40 mat JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 3:50, 9:50 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 LORD OF THE DANCE 3D (G) Thu, Mon 7:00 A MATTER OF SIZE 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: IPHIGÉNIE EN TAURIDE ENCORE Sat 1:00 NORA’S WILL Thu 6:20, 9:30 PAUL (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:25, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 6:55, 9:55 Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 WEST IS WEST Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:50

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:10 4:00 7:00 9:45 FriWed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 10:10 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:40 4:10 6:50 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 FriSun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:20, 6:45, 9:05

MARCH 24-30 2011 NOW

Fri-Wed 4:15 Paul (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Rango (PG) Thu 12:50 3:30 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:20, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 6:45, 9:40 SuckeR PuncH (14A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 unknown (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30 THe wizaRd of oz (G) Sun 1:00

SilverCiTy yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

THe adjuSTmenT BuReau (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 3:20 BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 BeaSTly (PG) Thu 2:00, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 6:40, 9:40 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 gnomeo and julieT (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45 Hall PaSS (14A) Thu 6:15, 9:00 juST go wiTH iT (PG) Thu 4:40 limiTleSS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 FriSun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 6:45 Paul (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Rango (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 9:40 SuckeR PuncH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

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

THe adjuSTmenT BuReau (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:00, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:10, 9:45 BeaSTly (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:30, 8:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat gnomeo and julieT 3d (G) Thu 4:00, 6:25 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:40, 6:20 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:20 limiTleSS (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:35, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 12:50, 3:35, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:30, 9:55 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:15 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Paul (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Rango (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:00 SuckeR PuncH (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 unknown (14A) Thu 9:10

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

THe adjuSTmenT BuReau (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 6:35, 7:20, 9:35, 10:20 Big mommaS: like faTHeR, like Son (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 gnomeo and julieT 3d (G) 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 8:40 Hall PaSS (14A) Thu 1:15 4:15 7:15 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 HoBo wiTH a SHoTgun Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 juST go wiTH iT (PG) 12:55, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 limiTleSS (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 1:00, 3:25, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 maRS needS momS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 FriWed 1:15, 4:10 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 1:10 3:30 7:30 9:45 FriWed 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15 THe meTRoPoliTan oPeRa: iPHigénie en TauRide encoRe Sat 1:00

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

THe adjuSTmenT BuReau (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:35, 9:30 FriSun 1:45, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:40, 10:20 BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 BeaSTly (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS 3:20, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat gnomeo and julieT 3d (G) Thu 4:25, 6:45 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05 Hall PaSS (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:15 HoBo wiTH a SHoTgun 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:50 mat i am numBeR fouR Thu 9:15

juST go wiTH iT (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:35, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:45, 9:40 juSTin BieBeR: neveR Say neveR - diRecToR’S fan cuT 3d (G) Thu 9:05 THe king’S SPeecH (PG) Thu 3:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:30 limiTleSS (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 loRd of THe dance 3d (G) Thu, Mon 7:00 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Paul (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Rango (PG) Thu 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon 3:50, 4:25, 6:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 10:15 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:15 SuckeR PuncH (14A) 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat unknown (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:20 weST iS weST 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat THe wizaRd of oz (G) Sun 1:00

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

BaRney’S veRSion (14A) Thu 2:00 4:55 7:55 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:55, 7:55 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat BeaSTly (PG) 2:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat Black Swan (14A) Thu 2:05 4:35 7:05 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat THe BuTcHeR, THe cHef and THe SwoRdSman Thu 2:10 4:40 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:35 mat caRmen in 3d (PG) Sat 1:00 THe comPany men (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS 1:45, 2:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:45, 7:35, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:10, 12:00 mat THe figHTeR (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 i am numBeR fouR Thu 2:00 4:45 7:25 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:20 mat incendieS (14A) Thu 4:25 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat jane eyRe (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat THe king’S SPeecH (PG) Thu 2:00 4:45 7:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat Paul (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 3:00, 4:40, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:40, 12:30, 2:05, 3:00, 4:40, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Rango (PG) Thu 2:05 4:50 7:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 11:15, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 THe RiTe (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 SancTum (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 SuckeR PuncH (14A) 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:30 mat Tangled (PG) Thu 2:20 4:50 7:20 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat TRue gRiT (14A) Thu 2:30 5:10 7:45 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat unknown (14A) Thu 2:20 5:05 7:50 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat weST iS weST 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 12:35, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 BeaSTly (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:00 dRive angRy (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 HoBo wiTH a SHoTgun Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05 i am numBeR fouR Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 i am numBeR fouR THe imaX eXPeRience Thu 1:30, 4:15 juSTin BieBeR: neveR Say neveR - diRecToR’S fan cuT 3d (G) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:10, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sun 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 7:05, 10:10 Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 maRS needS momS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:20 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 THe meTRoPoliTan oPeRa: iPHigénie en TauRide encoRe Sat 1:00 Rango (PG) 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 4:00, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 Wed no 1:20 SuckeR PuncH (14A) Fri-Sun 12:35, 4:05, 7:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:25, 7:30, 10:15 SuckeR PuncH: THe imaX eXPeRience (14A) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 unknown (14A) 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THe wizaRd of oz (G) Sun 1:00

CourTney Park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 THe adjuSTmenT BuReau (PG) 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:15 mat BaTTle loS angeleS (14A) Thu 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10 Fri 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10,

11:05 Sat 11:00, 11:45, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 11:05 Sun 11:00, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 10:55 BeaSTly (PG) 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat caRmen in 3d (PG) Sat 1:00 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS 1:40, 4:40, 7:00, 9:25 Sat-Sun 11:20 mat Hall PaSS (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:00, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:40, 5:00, 10:05 HoBo wiTH a SHoTgun Fri 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:15 Sat 11:55, 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:15 Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00, 11:00 i am numBeR fouR Thu 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 juST go wiTH iT (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 THe king’S SPeecH (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 limiTleSS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 SatSun 11:10 mat maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:35, 5:45, 8:00, 10:40 Fri 12:10, 2:35, 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 Sat 11:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 Sun 11:00, 2:35, 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 maRS needS momS an imaX 3d eXPeRience (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:00, 9:10 Paul (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:40, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Rango (PG) 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat Red Riding Hood (PG) 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:20 mat SuckeR PuncH (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:10 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:00 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:45, 8:30, 11:00 SuckeR PuncH: THe imaX eXPeRience (14A) 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat unknown (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:20, 7:30

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

BeaSTly (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:15 diaRy of a wimPy kid 2: RodRick RuleS 3:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:30 mat jane eyRe (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 juST go wiTH iT (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 juSTin BieBeR: neveR Say neveR - diRecToR’S fan cuT 3d (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 THe king’S SPeecH (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:15, 9:20 THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 maRS needS momS 3d (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Paul (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Rango (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:55

Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 BaRney’S veRSion (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 Big mommaS: like faTHeR, like Son (PG) Thu 4:40 7:15 9:55 Fri-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:35, 2:10 mat Black Swan (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 Blue valenTine Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 3:35, 6:55, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:55, 9:45 caRmen in 3d (PG) Sat 1:00 cedaR RaPidS (14A) Thu 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Sat-Sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 THe dilemma (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:25, 9:25 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 due daTe (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 THe eagle (PG) Thu 6:25, 9:25 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 THe figHTeR (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 THe gReen HoRneT 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:40 HaRRy PoTTeR and THe deaTHly HallowS – PaRT 1 (PG) Thu 6:05, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 i am numBeR fouR 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:40 mat incendieS (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:40, 9:40 inSide joB (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50 jane eyRe (PG) 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat juST go wiTH iT (PG) Thu 3:40 4:15 6:25 7:10 9:20 10:05 Fri-Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:55, 12:45, 1:45 mat THe lincoln lawyeR (14A) Thu 3:25 3:55 6:15 7:00 9:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:55, 12:45, 1:45 mat liTTle fockeRS (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 THe mecHanic Thu 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 RaBBiT Hole (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Red Riding Hood (PG) Thu 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 4:50, 5:20, 7:20, 7:50, 9:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:45, 12:20, 2:20, 2:50, 4:50, 5:20, 7:20, 7:50, 9:55, 10:15 MonWed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 THe RiTe (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 Fri 3:35, 6:55, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:55, 9:45 THe RoommaTe (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 SancTum 3d (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sun 7:05, 9:50 THe Social neTwoRk (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Tangled 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 10:35, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 10:35, 1:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 THe TouRiST (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 TRon: legacy (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Fri 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 10:30, 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55

THe way Back (14A) 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:40 mat yogi BeaR 3d (G) Thu 5:05 Fri 3:50 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:35, 3:50 Mon-Wed 4:35

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festivals cinefranco film festival

national film board, 150 john (nfb); tiff bell lightbox reitman square, 350 king w (tbl). 416-599-8433, cinefranco.com

fRI 25-APR 3 – Festival of francophone cinema. $12, stu/srs $8-$10; festival pass ñ (10 tickets) $99. All films screened w/ s-t. fRI 25 – Impasse Du Desir (2010) D: Michel Rodde. 6:45 pm. Tough Luck (2010) D: MarcAndré Lavoie. 9:30 pm. Directors in attendance for both films. Both at TBL. SAt 26 – Crossed Destinies (2010) D: Driss Chouika. 1 pm (TBL). Les Conspirationnistes (2010) D: Fadel Saleh. 2 pm (NFB). Two Frogs In The West (2010) D: Dany Papineau. 3:30 pm (TBL). Sumbu Kalambay (2010) D: Vital Kasongo. 3:30 pm (NFB). Kigali Jerusalem (2010) D: Jérémie Fazel. 4:30 pm (NFB). Bacon On The Side (2010) D: Anne Depetrini. 6 pm (TB). In Gold We Trust (2010) D: Eric Besnard. 8:30 pm (TBL). SuN 27 – Masquerades (2009) D: Lyes Salem. 1 pm. Fracture (2010) D: Alain Tasma. 3:15 pm. L’Appât (2010) D: Yves Simoneau. 6 pm. Eight Times Up (2010) D: Xabi Molia. 8:15 pm. All screenings at TBL. MON 28 – Forever Shorts Program including Faits Divers (2010) D: Patrick Goyette, Le Mulot Menteur (2008) D: Andrea Kiss and others. 6:30 pm. Mammuth (2010) D: Gustave Kervem and Benoît Deléphine. 9:30 pm. All screenings at TBL. tuE 29 – Twice A Woman (2011) D: Françoise Delisle. 6:30 pm. Copacabana (2010) D: Marc Fitoussi. 9 pm. All screenings at TBL. wED 30 – Unleashed (2009) D: Raymond Vouillamoz. 8:30 pm. All screenings at TBL.

toronto silent film festival innis town hall, 2 sussex. 416-461-9287, torontosilentfilmfestival.com

wED 30-APR 7 – Silent films with live musical accompaniment. $13-$20.

wED 30 – Opening night: The Wild, The

Beautiful... And The Damned Part One:

Clichés n the ’hood WHITE IRISH DRINKERS (John Gray) Rating: NN Young Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) is a would-be artist with some serious talent but some bad influences, too: older brother Danny (Geoff Wigdor), a petty criminal who’s bent on taking Brian along for the ride, and father Paddy (Stephen Lang), an abusive drunk. If it all sounds familiar, that’s because you’ve seen better takes on the subject before. Writer/director John Gray, who grew up in 70s-era Brooklyn, attempts to do for his old workingclass Irish neighbourhoods what Boyz N The Hood did for Compton. But Gray’s attempt at a comingMaciste In Hell (1926) D: Guido Bregnone with live accompaniment by Andrew Downing & Ensemble, and shorts from the Lawless Days Of Europe 1896-1911. 8 pm. $15.

cinemas bloor cinema

506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com

tHu 24 – Network (1976) D: Sidney

ñLumet. 4:30 pm. David Lynch X 2: Wild At Heart (1990). 7 pm. Lost Highway (1997).

9:35 pm. fRI 25 – Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. 7:30 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:30 pm. SAt 26 – Black Swan (2010) D: Darren Aronofsky. 2 pm. Banff Mountain Film Festi-

of-age tale has a serious lack of conviction. He claims that real people and experiences inspired his story, but the sense of authenticity of many autobiographical movies is missing from these characters, who speak like they’ve been written for bad television. Gray tries hard to recreate the era by throwing in a whole lot of period references. Rocky Horror Picture Show gets a mention, and the plot revolves around a Rolling Stones concert. But that’s just window dressing for a screenplay that tries to be clever and funny but ultimately feels earnest and laboured instead. Opens Friday (March 25) at the RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI Royal. val World Tour. 7:30 pm. SuN 27 – Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. 2:30 pm. Black Swan. 6:30 pm. Waste Land (2010) D: Lucy Walker and Karen Harley. 8:45 pm. MON 28 – The Illusionist (2010) D: Sylvain Chomet. 4:30 pm. Black Swan. 7 pm. Waste Land. 9:10 pm. tuE 29 – Waste Land. 4:30 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. Black Swan. 9 pm. wED 30 – Annie Hall (1977) D: Woody Allen. 4 pm. The Canadian Harm Reduction Network presents I’m Dangerous With Love D: Michel Negroponte. Q&A with Dimitri Mugianis to follow screening. 6:30 pm. $10. Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential presents Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) D: Philip Kaufman. 9:30 pm.

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camera bar 1028 queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

SAt 26 – The Shipping News (2001) D: Lasse Hallström. 3 pm. Free.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiff.net.

tHu 24 – Bonnie And Clyde (1967) D:

Arthur Penn. 6:30 pm. JUNO Awards At 40: Escarpment Blues (2006) D: Andy Keen. Introduced by Sarah Harmer. 7 pm. JUNO Awards At 40: Festival Express (2003) D: Bob Smeaton and Frank Cvitanovich. Introduced by Richard Flohil. 9:45 pm. fRI 25 – Cinéfranco Film Festival. See listings, this page. Little Big Man (1970) D: Arthur Penn. 6:30 pm. JUNO Awards At 40: Oscar Peterson: Keeping The Groove Alive, and short film Begone Dull Care. Introduced by Kelly Peterson and Robi Botos. 7 pm. JUNO Awards At 40: Anvil! The Story Of Anvil (2008) D: Sacha Gervasi. Introduced by Alan Cross. 9:45 pm. SAt 26 – Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. 2 pm. Mickey One (1965) D: Arthur Penn. 5 pm. JUNO Awards At

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40: Blue Rodeo: In Stereovision (2004) D: Ron Mann. Introduced by Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor. 7 pm. Bonnie And Clyde. 7:30 pm. JUNO Awards At 40: Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2005) D: Lian Lunson. 9:45 pm. SuN 27 – The Woman In The Window (1944) D: Fritz Lang. 1 pm. The Miracle Worker (1962) D: Arthur Penn. 3:30 pm. The Left Handed Gun (1958) D: Arthur Penn.6:30 pm. MON 28 – Cinéfranco Film Festival. See listings, this page. The Missouri Breaks (1976) D: Arthur Penn. 6:30 pm. tuE 29 – The Woman In The Window. 6:30 pm. Alice’s Restaurant (1969) D Arthur Penn. 9 pm. wED 30 – The Free Screen: Landscape As Expression program including A Trip Down Market Street (1906) D: Miles Brothers, Side/ Walk/Shuttle (1991) D: Ernie Gehr and others. 7 pm.

fox theatre

2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

tHu 24 – The Illusionist (2010) D: Syl-

vain Chomet. 7 pm. The King’s Speech (2010) D: Tom Hooper. 8:45 pm. fRI 25 – Barney’s Version (2010) D: Richard J Lewis. 7 pm. True Grit (2011) Ethan and Joel Coen. 9:30 pm. SAt 26– Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) D: Kelly Asbury. 2 pm. Barney’s Version. 7 pm. True Grit. 9:30 pm. SuN 27 – Gnomeo & Juliet. 2 pm. Barney’s Version. 4 & 6:45 pm. True Grit. 9:15 pm. MON 28 – Barney’s Version. 6:45 pm. True Grit. 9:15 pm. tuE 29 – Barney’s Version. 6:45 pm. Black Swan (2010) D: Darren Aronofsky. 9:15 pm. wED 30 – Black Swan. 1 & 7 pm. Barney’s Version. 9:15 pm.

7 pm. Oxygene 3D (2007) D: Jean Michel Jarre. 9 pm. SAt 26 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm. SuN 27 – The French Line (1954) D: Lloyd Bacon. 3 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004). 5 pm. Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, accompanied by the soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by the soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. MON 28-wED 30 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 7 pm. Oxygene 3D. 9 pm.

revue cinema

400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

tHu 24 – The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell. 7 pm. Waste Land (2010) D: Lucy Walker and Karen Harley. 9:15 pm. fRI 25 – Black Swan (2010) D: Darren Aronofsky. 7 pm. True Grit (2010) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 9:10 pm. SAt 26 – High Park Nature Centre presents The Legend Of Pale Male (2009) D: Frederic Lilien. 1 pm. $5 suggested dontaion. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) D: Jon Chu. 4 pm. Black Swan. 7 pm. True Grit. 9:10 pm. SuN 27 – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. 2 pm. Black Swan. 4:15 & 9:10 pm. True Grit. 7 pm. MON 28 – Black Swan. 1 & 9:10 pm. True Grit. 7 pm. tuE 29 – The Book Revue with Geoff Pevere presents Out Of Sight (1998) D: Steven Soderbergh. 6:45 pm. True Grit. 9:45 pm. wED 30 – Bodies Of Work: Special effects with Gordon Smith presents X-Men (2000) D: Bryan Singer. 7 pm.

the roYal

608 college. 416-534-5252. theroYal.to

tHu 24 – Cosmonaut (2009) D: Susanna Nicchiarelli. 7 & 9 pm. ñ fRI 25 – Cosmonaut. 7 pm. White Irish Drinkers (2010) D: John Gray. 9 pm.

SAt 26 – White Irish Drinkers. 4:30 & 7 pm. Cosmonaut. 9:15 pm.

SuN 27 – Cosmonaut. 4:30 pm. The Keyhole

tHu 24-wED 30 – Continuous screenings,

Sessions Sex & Film Festival presents 9 Songs (2004) D: Michael Winterbottom. 7 pm. $12. White Irish Drinkers. 9 pm. MON 28-tuE 29 – White Irish Drinkers. 7 pm. Cosmonaut. 9:15 pm. wED 30 – White Irish Drinkers. 9:30 pm.

tHu 24-fRI 25 – The Nature Of Things: Geo-

toronto underground cinema

graham sPrY theatre

cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

logic Journey 2 (Along The African Rift). MON 28-wED 30 – The Nature Of Things: For The Love Of Elephants.

national film board 150 john. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque

tHu 24-wED 30 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. SAt 26 – Wild Sound Film & Screenplay Festival presents shorts including Unrepentant D: Jason Kempnich, Taught To Hate D: James Garcia and others. 7 pm. Free. wildsound.ca. wED 30 – Nordic Nights presents Falling Angels (2008) D: Heikki Kujanpää. Finnish w/s-t. 7 pm. Free.

ontario Place cinesPhere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioPlace.com

tHu 24-wED 30 – Closed for renovations till May 2011.

ontario science centre

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

tHu 24 – Legends Of Flight. 10, 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. fRI 25 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. SAt 26 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon & 4 pm. SuN 27 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. IMAX Hubble. 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon & 4 pm. MON 28-wED 30 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

tHu 24 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004).

186 sPadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

tHu 24 – Labyrinth (1986) D: Jim Henson. 7

pm.

wED 30 – Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) D: Don Coscarelli. 8 pm.

other films tHu 24-wED 30 –

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. tHu 24-wED 30 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. tHu 24 – South Asian Visual Arts Centre presents Monitor &: New South Asian Short Film and Video, including works by Vivek Shraya, Nahed Mansour and others. 7:30 pm. $10, stu $5. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. savac.net. fRI 25 – Cinema Politica presents a screening of Dishonoured Defied D: Azra Rashid, on women’s rights in Pakistan. Discussion w/ director to follow. 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org. Toronto Socialist Action presents the Rebel Film Series: Inside Job (2010) D: Charles Ferguson, about the 2008 global financial crisis. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. SAt 26 – Commffest Global Community Film Festival presents Voices To Remember D: Vladimir Bondarenko, a film on stuttering. Discussion w/ director to follow. 6 pm. Free. C’est What, 67 Front E. commffest.com. MON 28 – Trans Inclusion Group presents Madame Sata (2002) D: Karim Ainouz. 6:30 pm. Free. Centre for Women and Trans People, 563 Spadina. womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca. Short & Sweet TV presents short films. 8 pm. Free. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. shortandsweet.tv. 3

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dvd reviews Henckel von Donnersmarck, w/ Ange-lina Jolie, Johnny Depp. Rating: N; DVD package: NNN

Skyline (Alliance, 2010) D: Colin and

Greg Strause, w/ Eric Balfour, Scottie Thompson. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN

Skyline is War Of The Worlds done with five people in a condo and a $1.98 budget. This is fine if you’re a hardcore genre fan. Otherwise, not so much. Giant alien ships arrive and start

Coming Tuesday, March 29 Black Swan (Fox, 2010)

Natalie Portman plays a ballerina who goes into meltdown when she has to embrace her dark side to perform in Swan Lake.

Blow Out (Criterion/eOne, 1981) John Travolta stars in Brian De Palma’s murky, paranoid thriller about a

ñHow Do You Know

(Sony, 2010) D: James L. Brooks, w/ Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN Wit and complex characters make this one of the most likeable romantic comedies to come along in years. Olympic softball player Lisa (Reese Witherspoon) gets dropped from the team and doesn’t know what to do with her life. Matty (Owen Wilson), the pro ball player and party boy she’s dating, thinks she may be his dream girl. Blind date George (Paul Rudd) is smitten with her, but he’s newly fired and under

Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd Know how to be likeable.

indictment for fraud. Witherspoon gives Lisa an appealing mix of no-nonsense strength and

vulnerability. Wilson provides a sunny disposition, while Rudd reveals surprising backbone beneath his over-eager surface. All three play it straight, letting the humour emerge from the situations and writer/director James L. Brooks’s unexpected dialogue. Brooks’s commentary deals a little with dialogue, but more with tone. He also has revealing things to say about Jack Nicholson and Kathryn Hahn, who both shine in supporting roles. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, deleted scenes, outtakes. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

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Five minutes into his gushing commentary, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck explains that he wanted to make a movie where the audience could “just lie back and not think.” This may explain why there’s almost no story, humour or drama. The set-up promises Hitchcock-style light suspense: on the Paris-to-Venice train, Elise (Angelina Jolie) picks up naive American tourist Frank (Johnny Depp). She wants the cops and crooks on her trail to think that Frank is really absconded banker Alexander Pearce. Frank in peril ensues. Donnersmarck is specific about his disdain for the action. The rooftop chase, he tells us, is there purely to show off Venice. He does get some beautiful postcard shots, but the chase is a snore. By comparison, the climax is a coma that leaves our heroes nothing to do but stand around while someone else pulls their fat out of the fire. Jolie slinks around like a model missing her catwalk. Depp gives a good impression of a hapless sitcom dad and delivers the occasional mild joke. In the commentary, Donnersmarck says he thinks Jolie and Depp are wonderful. When he’s not raving about her beauty, or the architecture, he points out every joke that he thinks is funny but failed to get a laugh. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, ballroom sequence doc, alternate title sequence, outtakes. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

hoovering up humanity. Two guys, their girlfriends and a hanger-on try to survive when the monsters descend. The CG isn’t especially convincing, but the ships and monsters have an unusual teeth-and-tentacles look that suggests H.P. Lovecraft’s transdimensional horrors. They’re well used in a cool aerial battle and the action-packed final half-hour. Barring a few moments, the first hour wastes time on needless backstory and tries to generate scares from the aliens’ hypnotic white light. That’s not easy when acting, writing and directing are adequate at best. Directing brothers Colin and Greg Strause and writers Joshua Cordes and Liam O’Donnell all come from effects backgrounds, which may explain why their story ideas are rudimentary and the Strauses’ commentary leans toward the technical, but their enthusiasm, attitude and anecdotes make them worth a listen. EXTRAS Two commentaries, deleted, extended and altered scenes, more. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.

Mr. Nice (eOne, 2010) D: Bernard Rose, w/ Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

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Howard Marks isn’t known here, but he’s a culture hero to stoners across the UK. In the mid-60s, Marks came out of a coal mining town on a scholarship to Oxford, discovered the joys of dope and began smuggling hashish from Pakistan with the help of IRA fugitive Jim McCann. From then on, it was high living, bigger deals, abduction and life on the run with his loving wife and children until the law finally nailed him. Director Bernard Rose keeps his camera close on star Rhys Ifans, who paints a winning portrait of a likeable guy who just can’t stop dealing. Rose airs his opinions about Marks and cannabis on his commentary and explains how he managed such convincing period recreation on the cheap. EXTRAS Director commentary, Howard Marks commentary, cast and crew interviews, more. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles. soundman who inadvertently records a murder.

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The Ten Commandments (Paramount, 1956)