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prove hardcore will never die, at the Phoenix. Doors 8 pm. $28.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. MY Toxic babY Screening of a doc on the nasty products babies are exposed to, followed by discussion. 7 pm. Pwyc. Centre for Social Innovation. womenshealthyenvironments.ca.
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la cleMenza Di TiTo Superstar soprano Measha Brueggergosman joins the cast of the Mozart opera about forgiveness. 7:30 pm. To May 1. $33-$166. Elgin Theatre. 416-872-5555. DirTY, Drunk anD punk Jennifer Morton launches her book about the Bunchoffuckinggoofs at the Garrison. 8 pm. dirtydrunkandpunk.com. proTeST barrick GolD A rally in support of communities affected by mining in Tanzania and Papua New Guinea. 10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre. protestbarrick.net.
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brilliant stage version of the Disney musical continues to roar in a revival at the Princess of Wales. 7:30 pm. To Jun 12. $20-$130. 416-872-1212. Don pYle Punk know-it-all launches Trouble In The Camera Club: A Photographic Narrative Of Toronto’s Punk History at the Garrison. 8 pm. $8 or free w/ book purchase. tinars.ca.
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trio releases a new album, Gloss Drop, in June. Hear it early at Mod Club. Doors 7 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. Joe roGan The comic and TV host headlines a show at Massey Hall. 8 pm. $35.50-$55.50. 416-872-4255. MixeD reperToire Robert Glumbek and Yvonne Ng perform a series of dances by acclaimed choreographers. At the Enwave to Apr 30. $22.50$33.50. 416-973-4000.
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i can’t help but take issue with your decision to give NDP candidate Andrew Cash a nearly full-page article this close to the election (NOW, April 14-20). Yes, Cash is a fine journalist, and, yes, he has great knowledge of civic issues and Toronto’s troubled relationship with the federal government. However, as a prospective politician, he must use other outlets, such as
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fine with Stephen Harper. By defeating Bill C-300, Harper’s trained seals voted to continue to allow no accountability for abuses by Canadian mining companies abroad. Bags of money continue to influence weak governments and divide communities to push mining projects. Companies will keep touting Harper’s “Canadian advantage” as long as they can write off rape and pillage as a cost of doing business. Alan Bailey Toronto
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regarding there but for fortune (NOW, February 17-23). This documentary on the life of folk singer Phil Ochs ends with words sung by another singer, Dave Van Ronk. He was a friend of mine. Ochs and this film touch all of us, whether you lived in 60s America or not. It was a controversial time in history when great strides were made. Ochs was true to himself and his art. He went wherever people on the ground gathered to make themselves heard. Susan Kavesh Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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Ford unmasked by Pride?
on quaia’s move to pull out of Pride (NOW Daily, April 15). Little Robbie Ford’s mask for his homophobia has been taken away. Without QuAIA as a scapegoat, it will be interesting to see how he handles funding for the Pride parade. I’m so looking forward to watching him squirm. Patrick Clobo
Positive in gay debate
it must be hard for any jewish leader to take on the Jewish Defense League, so I give the Canadian Jewish Congress and Bernie Farber credit even though I disagree with their take on QuAIA. Farber is gay-positive, which is more than we can say for others involved in the Pride debate. Pinchaloo
Viral on Harper
on shitharperdid.com (now, Daily, April 14). Yay, another website dedicated to bitching about Harper. Brilliant and long overdue. I was getting sick of NOW Magazine constantly running glossy/ puff-pieces on our PM! These types of attack websites are guaranteed to hurt Harper’s chances of getting re-elected. I mean, look how amazingly effective/viral the torontocannotafford. com website was. Cue the crickets. TeaPartyTO
Poll numbers a Con job
on passing on the polls (now Daily, April 19). Public opinion polls are increasingly unreliable. They are not keeping up with the technology. Most of them still only call land lines, whereas many young people today only have cellphones. This skews the numbers in the Cons’ favour, since younger voters with cellphones tend to vote more progresssively. From what I’ve heard, Ekos has the most upto-date technology and makes calls to cellphones – and it has consistently put Con numbers significantly lower than the other polls. Katiki
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everyone should drop their beefs with festivals at Queen’s Park (NOW Daily, April 15) and make Freedom Fest a peaceful start to the summer. The Freedom Fest is sure to blow minds. CommunityVisionary
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Did the Harper government conspire with U.S. authorities to keep the Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, in a U.S. jail? On Friday, April 15, Emery learned that his request to serve
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Tree hugging Hundreds of tree-loving volunteers braved the chill and snow squalls to plant 500 trees and shrubs in Earl Bales Park Sunday to kick off Earth Week events. Don’t you forget to celebrate Mother Earth, too.
Elephant love The Toronto Zoo signals that it’s open to moving its remaining elephants to a sanctuary stateside. The cost of expanding the existing cramped enclosure (some $45 million) may be too high to allow the zoo to keep the animals. The board meets to discuss the issue on May 12.
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Tim Hudak The provincial PC leader gets upstaged at an allimportant pre-election fundraiser by Benedict Baldy, aka former mayoral candidate and Liberal turncoat Rocco Rossi, causing some observers to wonder, Is Rock angling for Tim’s job? Nah.
Conservative pandering to ethnics A party bonehead sends an email to the Canadian Arab Federation asking for “someone... in an ethnic costume” to take part in a photo op with the PM at a campaign stop in Etobicoke Centre. Yes, this is the same CAF the feds pulled funding from. Story and slide show of counter-protest at nowtoronto.com.
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An Ontario court rules the feds’ medical marijuana access regs unconstitutional (again) and gives the government three months to clean up its act once and for all and stop denying the weed to those in need. The feds have appealed the decision.
Mayor Rob Ford’s anti-graffiti campaign prompts a message – and a dare – in the alley off Portland and Queen from local street artist Eryn Hill.
The highly anticipated (by some) launch of the right-wing news channel comes out of the box promising “straight talk” and delivers same old conservative talkshow pap sprinkled with a little red-scare McCarthyism for good measure. Yup, Sun TV is there for you.
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Ford keeps trash deal under wraps Mayor pulls end run on council in secretive bid to privatize garbage pickup By ENZO DiMATTEO
Call it illegitimate, irrational, ideologi cal – they all fit. The Ford admin’s plan to privatize garbage for 165,000 households west of Yonge, a draft version of which was released Monday (April 18), has all the makings of a juicy scandal waiting to happen. Yup, Ford keeps breaking the rules. The guy who rode in on the promise to clean up the “garbage” at City Hall now wants to award a $250 million contract to privatize waste pickup without a vote of council. Instead, the Bid Committee, a group stuffed with bureaucrats directly under Ford’s command, will have the final decision on who gets the lucrative gig. So your duly elected reps, ladies and germs, won’t even see the ink, never mind the fine print, on this whopper of a deal that no doubt will be chock full of incentives – and financial risks – for which taxpayers will pick up the tab. That’s been the experience of other jurisdictions that have privatized. But I digress. The fact that our elected reps won’t be involved in this decision is outrageous, of course. More importantly, it also leaves a lot of room for political arm-twisting behind the scenes, if you know what I mean. And Fordo likes to throw his political weight around when it comes to getting the public service to bend to his whims. It’s his way or the highway. But it gets worse, dear dutiful Ford fans. I’m speaking to you directly here because I know that many of you are concerned about holding politicians accountable. The job of deciding on
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any future extension of the contract will fall to one person: the general manager of works. You read that right. Perhaps this would be a good time to write the mayor to remind him of Madam Justice Bellamy’s findings in the MFP computer leasing scandal as it relates to the city’s tendering process. Or what happened last time the city tried to cut a garbage deal without a vote of council. That was during the great debate on whether to send our garbage to the Adams Mine in Kirkland Lake. We almost got stuck with an unlimited liability clause in that contract before it was killed. The official rationale for fast-tracking this contract: the mayor wants to get on with the job of saving taxpayers money – a whole $8 million, according to the city’s calculations – by the next budget cycle and before the current contract with city workers expires December 31. Denzil Minnan-Wong, the chair of public works, figures the voting public has no problem with Ford et al. circumventing the rules in this case because, well, garbage privatization was part of Ford’s election platform. By which I think the councillor means “respect for taxpayers.” Funny that, cuz from what we know about private garbage contracts in other jurisdictions, this one may end up costing more than it’s supposed to save taxpayers. The Fordists are already messing with the numbers on potential savings, claiming that most of the 300 workers who’ll be affected by the plan won’t have to be re-assigned under the
terms of the existing collective agreement because they’re temporary employees. They’re wrong about that. We’ve also been given different numbers on savings by the so-called experts who’ve reviewed the data. The Toronto Board of Trade says $114 mil; the C.D. Howe Institute $49 million; and now the city saying $8 million. Garbage contracts are highly technical documents. Hidden costs may be high. How will complaints be handled, for example? Will they be left up to the city, or to the company that’s hired? Who’ll be in charge of monitoring? Or will their be any monitoring at all? Will the contractor chosen be required to abide by the city’s Fair Wage Policy? The deal being contemplated by the city is for up to nine years. Most garbage contracts signed by other cities and the private sector are half that long – and for good reason. No one wants to be stuck in a deal they can’t get out from under when the contractors start jacking up their fees, as they invariably do. Only a handful of companies have the infrastructure and equipment to deliver the goods on a private garbage contract of the size being contemplated for Toronto. So it’s not like the city will get dozens of bids from which to choose. The prices competitors will be coming in with will be in the same ball-
park. Those in the garbage game don’t tend to undercut each other. In fact, they’ve been accused of collusion in the past. Whatever deal the city cuts, experience with privatization suggests that while there may be short-term savings in contracting out, in the long run publicly delivered services deliver more bang for the buck. The stats prove it. Toronto’s per ton costs of picking up waste are 30 per cent lower than the Ontario average. It’s not just a coincidence that the part of the city already under private contract, District 1 in Etobicoke, also happens to have the next-highest number of complaints (7,219 last year) of the four garbage districts, and the
area about to be privatized has the lowest incidence of complaints. Certainly, the trend in the U.S., from which the Ford administration takes most of its cues, is toward bringing contracted-out services like garbage back in-house. Research shows that a mix of private and public service delivery is the most cost-effective formula. A little more than half of the city’s waste services are privatized now. But those in charge at City Hall aren’t interested in the facts. The decision to privatize is based on ideology, not good business sense, unfortunately. What’s the mayor got to hide? This one’s not passing the smell test. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com
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Dundas West takes off Portuguese sports bars give way to club boom and nightlife on changing strip By BEN SPURR
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ast of lansdowne and west of Bat hurst , t ucked away among t he t ravel agencies and vacant st orefront s of Dundas West , is a new bar t hat a few mont hs ago was a lit t le-known wat ering hole in a quiet part of t own. One recent Sat urday night I head t here expect ing t o be met wit h a half-empt y room, but inst ead I’m confront ed by a 20-minut e lineup of fashionable, rowdy people out side. Once inside, I push t hrough t he jam-packed crowd (a MuchMusic host here, a local pop st ar t here) and head t oward t he washroom, only t o find an even longer lineup t here. Event ually t he backlog get s so bad t hat exasperat ed guys, feeling t he uncomfort able effect s of t he scores of cheap t all cans of PBR t hey have consumed, st art peeing in t he ut ilit y closet sink. Throwing dignit y t o t he winds, I regret t o say I soon join t hem. Things on Dundas West have changed in t he past few mont hs, and all indicat ions are t hat t hey’re going t o keep changing. For years, t his st ret ch has been dominat ed by Port uguese sport s bars, mom-and-pop driving schools and discount t ravel agencies, but t he once sleepy st reet is set t o become t he sit e of Toront o’s lat est bar boom. At a rough count , a dozen bars or rest aurant s and four art galleries have opened up on Dundas bet ween Ossingt on and Lansdowne in t he past t wo years. Est ablishment s like Unlovable, t he Hen House and Camp 4 are reliable places t o find t he int he-know part y set during weekend drinking hours.
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In t erms of t he physics of night life, Dundas West is a low-pressure zone perfect ly posit ioned t o absorb t he explosion from t he high-pressure Queen and maxed-out Ossingt on st rips. According t o t he Dundas West Business Improvement Associat ion, rent s are lower t han on eit her Queen West or Ossingt on, and at last count commercial vacancy rat es t here were close t o 20 per cent , making it a logical place for barkeeps t o set up shop. While jurisdict ions like New York Cit y have laws limit ing t he number of bars t hat can open on any single st ret ch, Toront o doesn’t . Despit e cont roversies over bar densit y, t here’s no consensus in favour of an overarching bylaw even among t hose who worry bars are t urning cert ain st reet s int o monocult ures. The dilemma, of course, is t hat bar booms can revit alize a dist rict but can also lead t o noisy, single-use neighbourhoods. Finding a place t o drink on Queen West is easy, but if you’re a local looking for a laundromat or a grocery st ore, good luck. And booms happen fast – so fast t hat former councillor Joe Pant alone felt compelled t o inst it ut e a yearlong ban on new bars and rest aurant s on Ossingt on in 2009, t o t he frust rat ion of local ent repreneurs. The ban, which ended last November, was an imperfect solut ion t o rapid development , and it ’s somet hing Pant alone’s
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successor, Mike Layt on, would like t o avoid on his st ret ch of Dundas. The ban “is a blunt inst rument ,” he says. “But it served t he exact purpose it should have. There was a t hreat of a very large club opening up in t he neighbourhood, and business and resident s bot h said [t hey didn’t ] want it . Unfort unat ely, it meant t here was a pause on businesses t hat people did want t o see come in.” The ult imat e upshot of t he ban was t hat cit y council draft ed new bylaws limit ing t he size of night clubs near resident ial areas. The new rules, enact ed last November, st ipulat e t hat clubs (wit h a night club designat ion, as opposed t o rest aurant ) can only open on t he ground floor of buildings, and t hat a new club wit h floor space exceeding 200 square met res must be 300 met res from resident ial zones. The bylaws will prevent Ent ert ainment Dist rict -st yle mega-clubs but don’t address t he problem of bar densit y. That ’s an oversight t hat frust rat es Councillor Adam Vaughan, whose ward encompasses t he hyper-dense Ent ert ainment Dist rict . “We have rules t hat spread out churches. We have rules t hat space out gas st at ions. We have rules t hat spread out rooming houses and group homes,” he says. “I can t ell you a concent rat ion of bars is a lot more dangerous t han a concent rat ion of churches.” The problem is, bars make a lot more money t han ret ail businesses
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of t he same size, and t elling landlords t hey can’t rent t o a bar owner if t here’s already a bar next door isn’t well received. “Landlords right ly argue, ‘It ’s my building. I should be able t o rent t o whoever I want ,’” says Vaughan. “‘Why should you force me t o rent it t o a greengrocer? Greengrocers don’t pay a lot of rent . I’m t he person who has t o pay t he mort gage and t he t axes.’” Though we’re st ill years away from being overrun by bars on Dundas West , Councillor Ana Bailão, wit hin whose ward most of t he Dundas st ret ch falls, says it ’s an issue she’s keeping an eye on. When asked what she t hinks about bringing a NYC-st yle densit y law t o Toront o, Bailão says, “I would support t hat .” But while she can’t st op new bars or rest aurant s from opening, she says, she can t ry t o ensure t hat t he ones t hat do aren’t disrupt ive. “The problem is t hat some of t hese places get t heir licences as rest aurant s but t urn int o night clubs at night ,” she says, arguing t hat venues seeking t o be considered eat eries shouldn’t get licences unless t hey have working kit chens. She support s t he cit y’s Est ablishment Rules and Regulat ions t hat , for example, forbids music from being heard on t he st reet . Crit ics of a densit y law say t hat it would hamper t he cit y’s night life, but Misha Glouberman, t he founder of t he Queen Beaconsfield Resident s Associa-
t ion, disagrees. “Unt il 20 years ago, Toront o wasn’t a part icularly fun place, so it hasn’t had a chance t o develop regulat ions t hat cont rol night life well. New York, Berlin, Mont real are all places t hat have had night life for a long t ime, so t hey’ve learned how t o regulat e bars.” A lit t le night life on Dundas West cert ainly wouldn’t be a bad t hing. Much of t he st reet west of Ossingt on could use a makeover. An influx of new bars wouldn’t t rouble Maggy Perry, who opened bar-cum-gallery Fount ain Inc. seven mont hs ago on t he sit e previously occupied by an unprofit able mort gage broker at Dundas and Dovercourt . “The neighbourhood’s t aking off really fast ,” she says. “I t hink it ’s going t o get very dense very quickly.” news@nowtoronto.com
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We need to get our heads out of the sand or see a worse outcome than last election By Klein ByAlice ALICE KLEIN it’s often said that stephen Harper is playing with the politics of fear. But even more profoundly, political players on both sides are lulling Canadians to sleep with an utterly false sense of security. Harper likes to boast about the country’s great economic fundamentals, but anyone who has looked at the price of gas today knows that we are definitely not okay. We’re already feeling energy inflation ramping up with every trip to the grocery store, and there’s no ceiling in sight. Republican-inspired populist politics is going places we compassionate Canadians never imagined. And Mayor Rob Ford is showing how it’s done. Five months after sweeping into office, Ford has cleaned out the city’s cupboards, and soon the furniture will be out the door. In Harper’s case, the affronts to evidence-based public policy and the country’s ethical and democratic underpinnings are so numerous, we can hardly keep track. Meanwhile, pundits fret that there are no issues. Actually, there couldn’t be more issues in this election campaign. The voting opportunity before us is a precious citizen moment. We cannot afford to waste it. But partisan progressives are once again trying to lull us into the same old thinking and voting that has empowered Harper for the last five years. When does the head come out of the sand? But there is great cause for hope. We’re in the middle of a new citizens’ movement popping up all over the country that is preaching to the unconverted for a change. And it might just turn things around. My particular contribution is with
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Project Democracy (entirely separate from NOW). Voters can use this website to keep from accidentally electing a Conservative. The riding predictions you see on projectdemocracy.ca are based on a model that uses the 2008 election results (with some exceptions noted in specific ridings) and current polling to help voters make informed choices on May 2. It must be remembered that there is a margin of error in all public opinion research, and projectdemocracy. ca uses public opinion polling to make its predictions. But knowledge is power even if it isn’t infallible. I use the term “cooperative voting” to describe the kitchen wisdom of this informed way of working together to get more seats for each opposition party. The site is fundraising now to do in-depth local polling in hard-to-call races as they emerge over the last days of the campaign. “Cooperation” is actually the hopeful watchword of the whole new movement that is emerging online and on the ground. It is a practical and engaging movement to encourage Canadians – citizens and politicians alike – to work together to create a people-centred, environmentally conscious political landscape that loves and nurtures democracy. Projectdemocracy.ca is just one expression of this citizen-spawned self-seeding. Together, these might change the game by motivating the wider civic engagement we need to win back our country’s democratic process. That’s the antidote to the partisan chest-thumping that has kept voters at home in droves in elections past.
The completely non-partisan leadnow.ca is out there beating the drum for the youth vote, and at the same time promoting a deceptively simple yet profound platform for progressives to rally around. Through an open-call, online participatory process, leadnow.ca has created a declaration we can sign onto. “We call for political cooperation to build a stronger democracy that protects our environment and creates economic opportunity while increasing equality,” it reads in part. That’s the election issue right there. That isn’t all they’re doing. Check out all the vote mobs across the country. Leadnow.ca’s campaign to stir the youth vote will put a smile on your day. But don’t underestimate them. The Conservatives sure didn’t when they tried to shut down campus voting at Guelph University last week. When Elections Canada announced there would be no more special campus balloting, the Conservatives did their own happy dance. But the activists at leadnow.ca have more surprises in store. Then there’s Pair Vote, which provides the quintessential new dating service for cooperative voters. If you are considering voting for a secondchoice candidate for the sake of blocking a Conservative win, pairvote.ca will find a voting mate for you. That partner will vote for your favourite party in his or her own riding right back at you. And here’s to all the groups and individuals like shitharperdid.com who are putting the “ha” in Harper to far better use. Opportunity is knocking. If we’re willing to change our partisan ways, we may be able to surprise the pundits, the politicians and the pollsters. 3 alice@nowtoronto.com
Canadians who are newly supporting the NDP are energized about the one truly forward-looking party By MICHAEL HOLLETT my question to the strategic voting gang is, So when are we allowed to vote for the NDP? The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, falsely being sold to voters as some kind of progressive, was simply stuffed in as head as they hustled Stéphane Dion, the guy who was being too progressive, out the door. The Liberal spin-masters might have had better luck with stonefaced, mighty-browed Iggy if they’d embraced his inner intellectual and sold him, à la Pierre Trudeau, by the size of his brain instead of making incredible claims about the immensity of his heart. Canada is not warming up to this cool leader. Meanwhile, Jack Layton was seen by many to be the winner of both the English and the French TV debates last week. And he is generally dubbed the most trusted leader by Canadians not already voting for Stephen Harper. The NDP is the most popular federalist party in many parts of Quebec right now, is battling for top spot in BC and is making noise in the rest of Canada. But here we are again being told to hold our noses and vote Liberal because they’re not as bad as the Conservatives – because if you don’t, nobody else will, and the Conservatives might finally steal their majority. We’re being told to vote for the Liberals when they haven’t made a compelling case for us to want to do it on their merits. The strategic voting clan only wants us to vote NDP when the Libs are a lock. I’m just not that cynical, and I don’t believe elections are a math problem. Sometimes results don’t add up, but breakthroughs happen, and real change occasionally takes place. Harper and Iggy are not that different. They’ve had us happily mired in a pointless war in Afghanistan. Liberals joined Tories to vote against funding for women’s choice organizations. The Liberals were in power for years, and a huge bloc of Toronto MPs did nothing. Remember the national daycare program, anybody? Astoundingly, Liberal MP Mario Silva completed a PhD from Oxford while serving as MP for his west-end Davenport riding – perhaps the most egregious example on the long list of do-nothing Grit MPs from Toronto. Telling progressive Canadians to vote Liberal to stop the Conservatives is cynical and simplistic. Many Canadians who are newly
supporting the NDP this election are energized and galvanizing around the one truly progressive party in this country that they can believe in rather than put up with. If we spend the last two weeks of this campaign looking for progressive candidates we can trust and not getting hustled into empty choices we might all be surprised to find ourselves waking up to a Canada we can believe in, too, on May 3. 3
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AgAinsT The currenT chAriTy concerT
(Camp Oochigeas) Music by Kevin Mac, Kill Giants and others. 8-10:30 pm. $15, adv $10. Cabin Five, 225 Richmond W. againstthecurrent.eventbrite.com. celebrATion oF gospel 2.0 (Japan relief) Concert with more than 10 performers. 8 pm. Donation. Suba, 292 College. 647-272-5067. deATh TrAck dolls kArAoke (Death Track Dolls) Benefit to get the roller derby team to the Montreal tourney. 9 pm. $5 or pwyc. Form Lounge, 593 Bloor W. deathtrackdolls.com. eAsTer ThursdAy beneFiT concerT (Toronto Humane Soc) Performances by Jamlimmat, Same Haze and Dennis Rojas. 10 pm. $25. Courthouse, 57 Adelaide E. wanttickets.com. sounds oF solidAriTy (UFCW Canada/Organization of Latin American Students) Latin music and dance. 7 pm. $18, stu $14. JJR Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. olas. sa.utoronto.ca. ToronTo To JApAn: hope blossoms (Doctors Without Borders/Japanese Red Cross/Second Harvest Japan) Performances by authors and artists including Margaret Atwood and Autorickshaw. 7:30-9:30 pm. $20-$100. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. torontotojapan.ca.
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The chAnging FAce oF publishing Panel discussion with authors Zetta Elliott, Neesha Meminger and Vivek Shraya. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416922-8744. currenT Trends in The chinese ArT mArkeT
Talk by Christie’s Michael Bass. 6 pm. $12, stu/ srs $10. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. reArTh dAy celebrATion Live music with Monkey Bunch, Kevin Fox and others, book signing with Frankie Flowers, a market, barbe-
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val of fashion, art and music showcasing more than 200 visual artists, fashion designers and performers. 6 pm-midnight. $30. 99 Sudbury. getfat.ca. Apr 26 to 29
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everydAy heroes FesTivAl Earth Week
screenings of eco mini-documentaries on TTC subway platforms. everydayheroesfestival.com. To Apr 24 rkeep ToronTo reAding Celebration of books with readings, talks, launches and more plus kids events. Free. Various libraries. torontopubliclibrary.ca. To Apr 30 27 ArTs FesT Festival celebrating the universal right to participate in arts and culture with visual art, dance, music and theatre events across the city. Free and ticketed cue and more. 5-9 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreenca. The end oF poverTy? Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779. minT Film FesTivAl Screening of Earth Keepers: A Survival Guide For A Planet In Peril, and two short films on nuclear power, and a Q&A with Anna Tilman from the International Insti of Concern for Public Health. 6:30 pm. $9, stu/ srs $7. Rainbow Cinemas Market Square, 80 Front E. 416-361-0466, mintff.org.
recenT developmenTs in The chinese ArT mArkeT Lecture by Chinese ceramics specialist Michael Bass. 6 pm. $12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. spring inTo deTox Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. sTAging susTAinAbiliTy Conference on how the arts engage questions of sustainability from cultural and ecological vantage points with speakers including artist/filmmaker David Buckland and Cirque de Soleil’s Gil Favreau. To Apr 22. $80-$100, stu $20-$30. York University Faculty of Fine Arts, 4700 Keele. Pre-register stagingsustainability.com.
unconFerence on The FuTure(s) oF ToronTo perFormAnce Members of the performing
arts community meet to share ideas. 10 am-6 pm. $10. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58. smallwoodenshoe.org. WATerliFe conFerence Curators and scientists
TheKeepTorontoReadingFestival offerstalksandreadingstoApril30. events. toronto.ca/celebrate27. To Apr 30 veggielicious More than 20 local restaurants offer deals on meatless meals that are eco-friendly and cruelty-free. veggielicious. ca. To Apr 24 vivA el TeATro Festival of plays in Spanish (with English translation), live dance and more. $20, pass $65. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. festivalinspanish.ca. To Apr 30 share research on freshwater and marine ecosystems around the world. 1 to 6 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5897, rom.on.ca/water.
Friday, April 22
Benefits
supporT AFroFesT concerT (Afrofest) Per-
formances by the Resolutionaries Marimba Band, Donné Roberts, Ruth Mathiang and Afrafranto. 8:30 pm. $20. Centre for Culture, Art, Media and Education, 918 Bathurst. musicafrica.org. omg divAs!!!2! (Camp Ten Oaks) Burlesque by Cinnamon Hearts. 9 pm. $10-$20. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. cinnamonhearts.ca.
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rAll AbouT peTs Training demos, a parade of breeds and more. Today 10 am-6 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Apr 24, 10 am-5 pm. $12, stu/srs $8, under 5 free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. allaboutpetsshow.com. AnTi-nucleAr reAcTion Pro-democracy flash mob for a nuclear moratorium and a citizens’ assembly to democratically decide our energy future. Noon-12:30 pm. Free. Queen’s Park. disTillery ArT mArkeT Artists, carftspeople and food artisans plus Artscape studio tours. Today and Apr 24, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. torontoartscape.on.ca. reAsTer eggsTrAvAgAnzA Egg hunt and
scramble, basket-making, adventure climbers and more. To Apr 24, 11 am-5 pm. $15, under 2 $6. Centre Island. centreisland.ca. good FridAy JusTice WAlk A walk through the downtown stopping at three Stations of the Cross with music and prayer. 2 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity (beside the Eaton Centre). goodfridaywalk.ca. liFe in The ciTy Virtual walk to explore the flora and fauna of the city with the Toronto Botanical Garden’s Liz Hood. 6-8:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rpArTy For The plAneT Celebrate an ecofriendly Easter with an egg hunt, animal activities and more. To Apr 25, 9 am-6 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.
Saturday, April 23
Benefits
keiichi TAnAAmi screening For JApAn (Can-
adian Red Cross) Retrospective screening of films by the Japanese animator. 8 pm. $8, stu $5. CineCycle, 129 Spadina (rear). tais.ca. mAssive chAriTy gArAge sAle (Victoria College) Clothing and more. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Victoria College Quad, 73 Queen’s Park. michael.cournoyea@utoronto.ca. pilATes ArThriTis FundrAiser (Walk to Fight Arthritis) Pilates mat/stretch class. Noon-1:15 pm. Donation ($20 sugg). Core Studio, 553 Queen W. hundreds@hotmail.ca.
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rbecome A knighT AT cAsA lomA Kids five
to 10 get knight training. 10 am-noon. $20$31. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. Pre-register 416-923-1171 ext 205/215. biblicAl burlesque Performances by Skin Tight Outta Sight, Drew Lily and others. 9:30 pm. $20-$30. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. biblicalburlesque.eventbrite.com. chrisTopher doyle The cinematographer talks about the film Chungking Express. 7 pm. $18.75, stu/srs $15. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. reArTh dAy celebrATions Create collaborative, environmentally friendly art and tour the site. Noon-4 pm. Free. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. eArTh dAy FesTivAl Eco-activities, a tree tour, green city workshop and more. 9 am-4 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca. reArTh dAy spring cleAnup Help clean up the area. 9:30-11:30 am. Free. Riverdale Farm, 201 Winchester. friendsofriverdalefarm.com. reAsTer TrAdiTions Egg-colouring, an egg hunt and more. Today and tomorrow noon-4
pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916. r”egg” ciTing hunT Traditional Easter egg hunt and treats. Today and tomorrow 11 am or 1 pm. $20, child $14.50. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. Pre-register 416-923-1171. mr And mrs hypnoTisT Live show. 9 pm. $10. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999.
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Protest Unilever’s policy of testing on animals (2-4 pm, Unilever Headquarters, 160 Bloor E) and join activists for public protest (7:30 pm, Yonge-Dundas Square). Free. wwail.org.
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Rally, art and workshops to raise awareness of the climate crisis. 10 am-5 pm. Pwyc. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. 647-869-6496, torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress.com. sAiling club open house Discover community sailing and learn about albacores, lasers and catamarans. Today and tomorrow 1-4 pm. Free. Westwood Sailing Club, 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). 416-461-2870.
uFos And governmenT-mediA mendAciTy: hoW Well Are you being lied To? Presenta-
tion by UFO disclosure research activist Victor Viggiani. 7:15-9:15 pm. Free. Conspiracy Culture, 1696 Queen W. conspiracyculture.com.
Sunday, April 24
Benefits
pilATes ArThriTis FundrAiser (Walk to Fight
Arthritis) Pilates mat/stretch class. 2:30-4:30 pm. Donation ($20 sugg). Shas, 329 St George. hundreds@hotmail.ca.
Events
The bruce TrAil neAr sToney creek Bus trip for a hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 9:30 am. $23. Meet at York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.org. dugWAy hill: AmericAn lAnding poinT, WAr oF 1812 Military geology walk. 6:30 pm.
Free. Queen and Roncesvalles. 416-593-2656.
rkhAlsA dAy celebrATions A parade and
activities celebrate the Sikh religion. 9 am-5 pm (parade to Queen’s Park starts 1 pm). Free. CNE Grounds. 416-524-7330. resTrAined loving All-genders workshop on rope bondage. 5:30-7:30 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. rolling sTones sunrise service Easter sunrise service with the Yonge Street Mission. 6:30 am. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. 416929-9614 ext 4222.
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The annual costume parade starts on Queen at Munro Park and proceeds west to Woodbine. 2-4 pm. Free. beacheslions.com.
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ToronTo Island sprIng BIrd Walk Tour to spot different species. 9 am-noon. Free. Rectory Cafe, Ward’s Island. 416-392-8192.
Monday, April 25
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doWnToWn ToronTo ghosT Tour Guided walking tour. Mondays and Wednesdays 7 pm. $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register richard@muddyyorktours. com.
Tuesday, April 26
Benefits
ralpha-BeT sprIng FundraIser (Alpha Alternative School) Music and dancing with Guiomar Campbell and Parabolica, Children’s Samba Squad and others plus a silent auction. 5:30-9:30 pm. $10, child $5. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. arT gems 11 (Creative Works Studio) Live and silent auctions of art, live on-site painting and more. 5:30 pm. $100. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. artgems.ca.
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BuIldIng successFul canadIan cleanTech companIes Canadian cleantech leaders share
their global success stories. 4:30-6 pm. Free. MaRS Centre, 101 College. 416-673-8100. FlIrTaTIon 101 All-genders workshop. 7-10 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900. FukushIma and chernoByl Greenpeace candlelight vigil commemorating the nuclear disasters. 8 pm. Free. Ministry of Energy, 900 Bay. natalie.caine@greenpeace.org.
The FundamenTalIsT mInd: chrIsTIan, JeWIsh and muslIm Lecture by professor Alan T
Davies. 1-3 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. geTTIng good aT BeIng Bad All-genders workshop on kink. 7:30-9 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934. a hIsTory oF marrIage Talk by author Elizabeth Abbott. 6 pm. $5. Riverdale Public Library, 370 Broadview. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com. my ToxIc BaBy Screening of a film on toxins in baby products and a discussion with the director/producer. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina.
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Earthlings, it’s spring, which means it’s time to pay homage to Mother Nature on Earth Day. A host of activities are on tap across the city (See Daily Events, page 24). Among them is the Earth Day Festival at Evergreen Brick Works on Saturday (April 23). Is there a better place than the Don Valley to commune with nature on the holiest of eco days? The fun starts at 9 am and goes to 4 pm. 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca for more information.
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The Church of the Holy Trinity (beside womenshealthyenvironments.ca.
paper TreaTmenTs: cusTomIzIng your WashI Talk and Q&A with washi artists.
7-8:30 pm. Free. Japanese Paper Place, 77 Brock. Pre-register 416-538-9669. parkdale sTreeT WrITers Writing group for youth 16 to 29 led by local authors, comic artists, filmmakers, hip-hop poets and artists. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. info@parkdalewriters.ca.
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Presentation and discussion with author Aldona Sendzikas. 7 pm. Free. Fort York, 250 Fort York. toronto.ca/culture/fort_york.htm.
Wednesday, April 27
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crescendo! geTTIng loud In supporT oF rpsm (Regent Park School of Music) Music
from Barenaked Ladies’ Jim Creeggan and others. 6:30-9:30 pm. $125. Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner Blvd. 416-364-8900. culTural leadershIp aWards (DareArts)
the Eaton Centre) is the place to be for Friday (April 22)’s Good Friday Justice Walk, featuring music, prayer and creative presentations. From the church, the annual walk for justice sets out on a jaunt through the downtown with stops at three Stations of the Cross. Celebrations get under way at 2 pm. 416-275-6059, goodfridaywalk.ca.
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They’re bringing out the big names for a massive gala benefit for earthquake and tsunami survivors in Japan. At Hope Blossoms, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje offer words and Awards gala with live entertainment by Break It Down and others, dinner, auctions and more. 5:30-10 pm. $300. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. darearts.com. kama readIngs (World Literacy Canada) Dawn Promislow, Andrea Gunraj, Jamie Zeppa and Neil Pasricha. 6:30 pm. $60. Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue. 416-977-0008, worldlit.ca. zen cIrcus gala (Now 4 Youth) Aerial hoop and silks performances, acro-yoga, circus challenges and more. 7 pm-midnight. $60. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. now4youth.org.
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davId BlackWood The printmaker talks about Newfoundland with journalist Rex Murphy 7-8:30 pm. $19.50, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Pre-register ago.net. canada voTes Post Carbon Toronto discussion on issues that are missing on the campaign trail. 7 pm. Free. Metro Hall, 55 John. meetup.com/postcarbontorontomeetup. enTrepreneurshIp 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm.
Focus on the planet and celebrate Earth Day April 23.
Autorickshaw music tonight (Thursday, April 21) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West). Proceeds go to the Japanese Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and Second Harvest. 7:30 pm. $20-$100. torontotojapan.ca. Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Pre-register marsdd.com/ent101.
The ImagIned cITy: navIgaTIng To The cITy aT The cenTre oF The map Talk by Amy Laven-
der Harris. 6:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. InTernaTIonal Folk dancIng All-levels class. 7:30-10 pm. $7. Koffler Centre School of the Arts, 4588 Bathurst. 416-638-1881 ext 4364. ray JayaWardhana The author talks about alien planets and our place in the universe. 7-8 pm. $15. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. lgBTQ agIng Community conversation for people 50 and over. 6:30-9 pm. Free. Sprint, 140 Merton. Pre-register 416-481-0669 ext 332. meThod acTIng Introductory class for all levels. 6-10 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-992-1267. proTesT Barrack gold Rally in support of impacted communities from Tanzania and Papua New Guinea. 10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. protestbarrick.net.
park’s trails Wednesdays and weekends. Free. rougepark.com/hike. ToronTo BaBel Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pmmidnight. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com. TravellIng europe Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel, 408 King W. 416-345-9726. TrIvIa nIghT Get out and play a game of Trivia. 8 pm. $2. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.
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musIc and prose For TIna and mose (Mose Scarlett and Tina Cohen) Performances by Ken Whiteley, Brent Titcomb and others. 8:30 pm. $22.50, adv $20. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. open house FesTIval (Child Soldiers Initiative/ Frontier College/Toronto Public Library) Writers and thinkers including Izzeldin Abuelaish, Jim Bryson and Karen Armstrong read from their work and talk. To May 1. randomhouse. ca/openhouse/index.html. sprIng Fever – Freshen up! (Habitat for Humanity – Toronto Women’s Build) Clothing and makeup demos for professional women. 6:45-8:30 pm. $20. Verity, 111 Queen E. eventbrite.com. WIld currenTs (Ride to Conquer Cancer) Fundraising concert. $10. Club Lambadina, 875 Bloor W. 416-451-1347.
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compleTe sTreeTs Forum Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation conference on designing streets for all users with speakers, workshops and more. Today and tomorrow. $150-$175, stu $125. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register torontocat.ca/ completestreetsforum2011. rock memoIr Book cluB – keITh rIchards & paTTI smITh Discussion on Richards’s book Life
and Smith’s book Just Kids. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8973. uFc experIence Ultimate Fight Club event with UFC athletes on hand. 11 am-8 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. 3
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Owner/chef Shant Mardirosian builds the Tower of Babel, or go for the Double Double Burger (right) at Burger’s Priest.
freshdish I’m not Canadian
Don’t come to the Canadian Pie Company (798 Queen East, at Boulton, 416-781-4743, thecanadianpiecompany.com) if you’re hoping to find the flaky Crisco-crusted fruit tarts that were popular in these Presbyterian parts some years ago. Instead, go to Erez and Keren Hadad’s newly minted Café Florentin spin-off if you’re a fan – a really big fan – of great slabs of cordon-bleu-quality puff pastry topped with a compote of locally grown blueberries ($5.50 slice/$25 whole). Single-serving shepherd’s pie ($7.95 with or without salad) might more accurately be described as a meatball vol-au-vent. Delish, absolument. Canadian, pas vraiment.
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Globe turns
Having recently rebranded Globe Earth as Earth Rosedale, Globe Bistro’s Ed Ho is about to transform Brad Long’s short-lived My Place into Earth Bloor West (2448 Bloor West, at Jane, earthbloorwest.com). The cavernous twostorey space – once home to the Fan sports bar, and a supermarket before that – features a similar locavore card and a massive rooftop terrace. Look for a mid-May launch in time for patio season. SD
Priest has a secret Hidden menu has the over-the-top goods at Burger’s Priest By STEVEN DAVEY nic or grass-fed. But that hasn’t stopped his competitors from digging through his garbage to find out. “They’ve tried bribing my delivery guys, so we now have our meat shipped in unmarked crates.” Seems like a lot of aggro over a quarter-pounder, right? Yes, until you’re about a third of the way through the Priest’s signature Double Double, when an epiphany occurs. Cue choir. This is a Whopper like no other, two coarsely ground and loosely packed 4-ounce cooked-mediumto-order patties (though they’re closer to 3 after the griddle) of the beefiest beef imaginable, gloriously glued together with a hosanna of melted processed cheddar. No pretentious multigrain sourdough bun to overpower this baby, but correctly absorbent WonderBread instead. Add bacon for a buck. Count me converted. The vegetarian option is called – what else? – The Option (both $7.99) and appears to be a pair of deep-fried panko-crusted portobello mushroom caps bonded with more Velveeta. And
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it’s no secret that the burger’s Priest makes a hamburger of Biblical proportions, part New York City’s Shake Shack, part California’s fun, fun, fun In-n-Out. No, the mystery is what’s in them. “The beef, the buns, the cheese – I keep it blank across the board,” says BP’s Shant Mardirosian. Unlike loquacious locavores who love to spill the beans, Toronto’s newly anointed burger king stays schtum on whether the meat he grinds fresh every day originates in Canada, the U.S. or Argentina, let alone if it’s orga-
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then there’s the Priest’s not-so-secret secret menu. Although it’s not officially advertised, the confidential card can be found on the four-seat lunch counter’s Facebook fan page. ’Course if you go to Secret Menu you get “It’s still a
secret.” Go to Photos and all is revealed. You’ll see the High Priest, a Big Mac clone built on a Double Double with an additional bun spread with faux Mickey D secret sauce. Watch how the Option becomes a Religious Hypocrite when paired with bacon and a Noah’s Ark when layered with campfire chili and cheese (all $8.99). Not enough cholesterol for ya? Replace the buns of a Double Double with grilled cheese sandwiches and get a Vatican City ($9.99). Squeeze the
Option’s deep-fried portobello into a Vatican and it becomes a Tower Of Babel ($14.99). Tell them you want your Double Double (with extra fried onions, $8.99) cooked Jarge-style (pronounced Jarz-sh) and they’ll fry it in ballpark mustard. Sounds terrible, tastes terrific. Can’t get enough? Then be sure to go for a 6x6 – six beef patties and six slices of cheese on a bun ($14.35). Take that, Dangerous Dan’s! And don’t forget to ask for “smoke” if you want a deep-fried jalapeño pepper added to anything. Lettuce, tomato, chopped onion and mayo are free. Only the Priest’s Yukon Gold fries ($3.29) disappoint, one visit pale and anemic, the next almost burned. “They’re the bane of my existence,” sighs Mardirosian. “It’s the uneven sugar content in the potatoes.” Another curse is the perpetual lineup. Go at lunch or dinner and the queue can snake halfway to the Coxwell Loop. Why, on Saturdays alone the Priest shifts 1,000 burgers. Maybe it’s time for a second, larger location to meet the demand? “I want to make sure this one is up and running first,” explains Mardirosian nonchalantly. “We get five or six requests for franchises a day.” 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com
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confused with the nearby Liberty Bistro, ex-Le Select chef Aidan Pascoe’s 30-seat postcard-perfect French café brings Gallic je-ne-sais-pas to the warehouse district. Unswervingly attentive service and value-minded mains guarantee lineups. Don’t miss the washrooms! Best: to start, baked-to-order croissants; follow with Crepe Quebecoise stuffed with Westphalian ham, scrambled free-range Mennonite eggs and aged Gruyére in maple syrup, sided with organic greens and grease-free potato rosti; meaty house burgers of veal, lamb and pork sided with fabulously crisp frites; house-baked cinnamon French toast in sticky pecan sauce. Complete brunches for $25 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $13. Open for brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm; lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 5 pm, dinner Thursday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm. No reservations at brunch. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. -Rating: NNNN✺
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Contemporary Italian bLack skirt GabardiNe 974 College, at Rusholme, 416-532ñ 372 Bay, at Richmond W, 647-352-3211, 7424, blackskirtrestaurant.com. After 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
making a splash at Wish, Rosa Gallé and Aggie Decina strike out on their own to bring old-school Italiana back to Little Italy. A charming room, engaging service and a card of Sicilian home-cooking add up to a trip back in time. Best: to start, white anchovies and garlic-chopped tomato on grilled baguette; barely grilled lamb speducci; panini like breaded veal in Decina-family tomato ragu dressed with Provolone and grilled hot banana peppers; veal ’n’ ricotta ravioli finished with butter, shaved parmigianno and fried sage; grilled New Zealand lamb chops in balsamic reduction sided with cheesy mashed ’n’ baked potatoes and sautéed rapini; tiramisu; pistachio cannoli. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a glass of Chianti. Average main $25/$13. Open Monday to Saturday 9 am to 10 pm. Lunch from 10 am, dinner from 5 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN
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FAT’s fantastic five Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week’s lineup is loaded with runway rule-breakers, but these designers stand out from the pack.
Heidi Ackerman and Lindsay Sinclair
FAT facts Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week (aka FAT) is fabulous and back for another style-subverting season, starting April 26. Our guide to its buzziest shows and off-the-runway antics guarantees you won’t miss a stitch of the action.
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April 26 to 29, 99 Sudbury (99 Sudbury). Day pass $25, week pass $70 in advance at MOOG Audio (442 Queen West), Nathalie-Roze & Co. (1015 Queen East), Method Lab (148 Augusta) and Shop Girls (1342 Queen West). $30 at the door. alternativefashionweek.com.
JESSICA CLAYTON
Tuesday, April 26, 9 pm: Math and fashion usually go together like, well, math and fashion, but that didn’t stop FAT vet Jessica Clayton ( jessicamaryclayton.com) from looking to Voronoi diagrams for design inspiration. The irregular geometric patterns are printed on synthetic and silk fabrics and stitched into a tight frock lineup that also includes swatches of handdyed cloth and angular seems. “They’re definitely dresses you wear to a party,” says Clayton in her Brockton Village studio. “But I try not to make them too pretty.”
Jessica Clayton
While few Alternative Fashion Week designers focus on the industry’s fall/ winter, spring/summer seasonality, Clayton’s collection is actually seasonless and designed to build her portfolio so she can pursue a design gig abroad. She’s set her sights on Stockholm. “I have my aesthetic down,” she says. “Now I need to be around the business side of things.”
COLLEEN BOOTH
Wednesday, April 27, 9 pm The swazer, an unstructured sweaterblazer hybrid in a fine knit or heavier yarn, has slowly crept into closets over the past few seasons, pulled out when a dinner jacket is too swanky but a cardigan won’t do. It’s also the centrepiece of Colleen Booth’s collections, representing the designer’s interest in softening the rigour of traditional men’s tailoring. “Everything is made from secondhand clothing chopped up to make the jackets, “says Booth. “I like suiting, but the idea is that guys are going to dance, laze around and maybe even sleep in this clothing.” Or even spin fire? Instead of using models for her FAT show, Booth cast performers who will light up and twirl their way down the catwalk. The front row needn’t worry about Colleen Booth
singed coifs, though. For the safety of the audience, Booth’s boys will be working with LEDs.
HEIDI ACKERMAN & LINDSAY SINCLAIR
Thursday, April 28, 8:45 pm Heidi Ackerman (heidiackerman.com) is best known for sculptural pieces and chunky knits, but there’s not an exaggerated shoulder or an ounce of wool in her new collection. Instead, a photo print fabric inspired by a Michal Maciej Bartosik light fixture at January’s Interior Design Show has been cut into softer shapes and topped with sheer mesh overlays or a billowing Tyvek jacket. “I usually do the stiff volume thing,” says Ackerman. “This time I tried to do something light.” The structure will come from partner Lindsay Sinclair’s accessories: headpieces, arm accents and spines made from waves of wood veneer. “We wanted to experiment with mixing fashion and industrial design together,” says Sinclair, who is studying the latter at OCAD. It mashes up well and guarantees the duo Ackerman’s usual spot on top of the Alt Fashion Week heap.
Friday, April 29, 9 pm There’s a stage shot of Juliette Lewis on Toxic Vision’s Facebook fan page that pretty much sums up designer Sharon Toxic’s take on fashion. Forget Lewis’s sorta-celeb status and focus on her blue do, rainbow eye shadow and TV vest with feathers shooting out from the shoulders above a mass of multicoloured ribbon. The look is righteously rock and roll, but the palette proves Toxic doesn’t take badass too seriously. “(My collection) is wild, shocking and unique. It’s bright and leopard-spotted and littered with metal,” wrote Toxic from Saskatchewan last week. “It’s for dreamers, eccentrics, the loud and proud, statement-makers and head-turners.” Toxic started her line seven years ago while still in high school and craving a creative outlet. Today she creates 20 pieces every week, uploading them to her Etsy shop (etsy.com/shop/ toxicvision), where they’re available for all of 10 seconds before being scooped up and shipped around the world to similarly free-spirited shit disturbers. 3
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not all the FaT fun is on the runway. Don’t miss these films and installations filling out the week. Fashion on film
In 2012, FAT’s organizers will launch an International Fashion Film Festival, and to build buzz for the event they’re previewing eight filmmaker-designer collaboration flicks between catwalk shows throughout the week. Labels featured include Zoran Dobric, Jessica Jensen, Pat McDonagh and Gaudet.
Zanete Auzina
The Dressing Room Project While LG Fashion Week watchers have to pass the time between runway presentations puffing ciggies and posing for street-style photographers, FAT offers up The Dressing Room Project, a series of stylish spaces in which artists explore clothing and vanity themes through performances and installations.
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The Teddy Bear Project Bid on one-of-a-kind stuffed bears stitched up by Alternative Fashion Week’s designers and artists, including the Deadly Nightshades, Kelly Henderson and Derek Liddington. Proceeds go to Sketch’s (sketch. ca) arts programs for homeless and at-risk youth. 3
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Boosting your intelligence quotient may be a mind game By elizaBeth Bromstein i took one of those online iq tests, and I failed. Or rather, my score was laughably low – under 100, which is supposed to be average. I blame the questions, which were all about logic
and math and stuff. What the hell do they know? There is, of course, debate over what “intelligence quotient” really measures. Some argue that IQ tests
merely measure how well people do on IQ tests. Still, can you boost your IQ level? Beyond herbal remedies like ginkgo biloba, which probably en hances concentration more than in
telligence, what else works? Certain nutrients like cho line are essential for brain health. But many believe it’s probably too late; most of what makes us brainy happened a long time ago, when we were tots.
What the experts say “IQ is a score on a test, but it’s come to be synonymous with fluid intelligence. Most IQ tests don’t measure this accurately, which is a huge problem. There are five principles that can help you increase intelligence. Seek novelty: Learning new things creates new connections in the brain. Challenge yourself: Once you learn how to do something to the point of mastery, move on to something else. Think creatively: This is different than taking up an art project. Thinking creatively refers to creative cognition, using both sides of your brain, switching back and forth between conventional and unconventional thinking. Think of multiple ways to solve one problem. Do things the hard way: Don’t over-rely on technology to do your thinking. Always using GPS for navigation instead of figuring it out yourself can hurt your spatial/ navigational ability. Network with other people: Expose yourself to new things, ideas, perspectives. Discussing ideas with other people can trigger new ways of thinking about a problem. ANDREA KUSZEWSKI,behaviour ther apist, Tallahassee, Florida
“It’s been known for quite a while that there is a relationship between being breastfed and growing up to do better in IQ tests. But these findings were always treated with caution because mothers from higher socioeconomic groups are more likely to breastfeed. When we do our statistical tricks called Propensity Score Matching to try to establish causality, scores are probably on the order of 2 or 3 points higher. That’s the difference between maybe being 10th or 12th in a class of 30 students. Not a huge difference, but when you think of the lengths parents are willing to go to enhance their children’s opportunities, they would often pay quite good money for interventions that would have a smaller effect than that.” MARIA IACOVOU, research fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, England “Transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) is a constant low current [delivered to the brain]. About half the people we give it to can’t even feel it, but they’re able to perform much better on the tasks they’re given. It prob-
ably acts as a stimulant to a small part of the brain, and that alters behaviour so people learn quicker and perform better. This is actually a very old technology that has only been studied very seriously in the last 10 years or so. In the end, we might develop something that could actually make people smarter.” VINCENT CLARK, professor of psycho logy, University of New Mexico “When they were eight years old, we looked at a group of children we’d followed since they were born. We measured their IQ by the standard method. We found a particular pattern: if they ate more foods high in fat and sugar at age three, they had a slightly lower IQ than if they ate less of that type of diet. It seemed the preschool diet at age three was more important than the later diet. Our other work shows that mothers eating fish in pregnancy is related to higher IQ. On a daily basis, what you’re eating can affect your concentration but I don’t think it will affect your actual IQ.” PAULINE EMMETT, nutritionist, Bristol University, England 3
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Drake Underground, Tuesday, April 12. Rating: NNNN Remember when you were 17 and sat cross-legged on the floor with your friends at shows? That was the scene at the Drake when Jersey singer/songwriter Sharon Van Etten took the stage, and she didn’t seem to mind. “Aw, look at you guys. This is so cozy,” she said, smiling at the seated. Van Etten’s songs have a low-key bedroom intimacy despite her cathartic vocal delivery and ’verbed-out guitar-strumming. She and two bandmates peppered the hour-plus set with gems from her Epic album (One Day was a standout), lesser-known oldies and nonstop anecdotes that endeared her to the large crowd. An extremely pregnant Julie Fader joined her for half a dozen tunes, adding harmonies that stunned and mesmerized as much as her massive belly. Though Van Etten has a penchant for moody ballads, openers Picastro were likely the real reason behind the sit-down. As dreary as dreary can be, the sleep-rock trio eked out atonal numbers from last year’s Become Secret, with singer/guitarist Liz Hysen wearily sigh-singing from a chair. You can’t blame her, though. Like Fader, she was 35 weeks pregnant. “I’m in the retarded phase,” she said, to CARLA GILLIS laughs. “I go to work and just stare.”
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Rating: NNNN After a rousing set by Toronto rap veterans (or legends, as some would argue) Citizen Kane and Mayhem Morearty – and an ex-
tended crowd-stoking by the tag team of DJ Law and hype man Big Norm – the duo of Fredro Starr and Sticky Fingaz finally took the stage at about 12:30 am. Onyx opened with Throw Ya Gunz, and within 30 seconds, Sticky Fingaz had hurled his tumbler into the audience, Fredro Starr had torn his shirt off, water bottles were being flailed wildly and the diminished space inside Sound Academy was thick with sour diesel smoke. While running through anthemic favourites like Shut Em Down, Last Dayz, Shifftee and Raze It Up, Onyx took time to banter with the crowd, offering an interlude over Mobb Deep’s Shook Ones Pt. II beat, lighter-light vigils to fallen rappers and stories of how Fredro once crashed the Hollywood premiere of 8 Mile in Timberlands and a hoodie. Twenty-some years deep, Onyx might still be the hardest group in the rap game. ANDREW RENNIE
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Rating: NNNN Austin’s Black Angels have seemingly taken the famous Salvador Dali adage “I don’t do drugs, I am drugs” to heart. While all of their music can be described as psychedelic, their current live show is a feast of sensory stimulation. From the moment they walked onstage to a recording of the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations and then blasted into their own Bad Vibrations, the band enveloped the crowd in cochlea-punishing volume and seizure-inducing strobe lights. There were times when Stephanie
Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen pleased the Phoenix dance floor Friday.
Bailey’s drumming was so loud, every beat felt like a punch in the chest. When it seemed like things couldn’t get any louder, keyboard player Kyle Hunt joined her on an additional floor tom. More than merely loud, Black Angels’ songs are tight – sometimes sexy, sometimes scary, often both. While singer Alex Maas doesn’t say much between songs, he commands attention every time he opens his mouth; when he screams, he sounds like he JOANNE HUFFA means it.
TONY ALLEN with PRINCE ENOKI’S INSECT ORCHESTRA at the Phoenix, Friday, April 15. Rating: NNN As the original drummer for Fela Kuti, Tony Allen helped define the Afrobeat sound, so he’s earned the right to indulge himself onstage. Still, music legend or not, building a two-and-a-half-hour set out of songs that often push the 10-minute mark can be taxing for listeners. Allen’s “one song, one idea” formula is static by design, purposely simplified to facilitate dancing. And while his eight-piece band’s repetitive horn riffs and call-and-responses occasionally blend together, his dynamic behind-the-beat technique saved the set from monotony. At times the drummer seemed to be doing different things with all four limbs without ever breaking a sweat. Not bad for a 70-year-old. The highlight came when the spotlight briefly shifted to soul crooner/keyboardist (and Funkadelic veteran) Amp Fiddler, whose jammy John Coltrane/Edwin Starr medley pushed the band’s sonic vocabulary.
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Lo-fi rock
Shotgun Jimmie East Coast rocker’s newfound buzz gets him fired up and blissed-out By CARLA GILLIS SHOTGUN JIMMIE opening for CHRISTINE FELLOWS at the Music Gallery (197 John), Tuesday (April 26), 7 pm. $20-$25. RT, SS, TW.
I first listened to the confident new album by Shotgun Jimmie, aka Jim Kilpatrick, while painting my basement, and it instantly made the task more enjoyable. Honest-to-goodness joy pumps through the 16 brief rockers and interludes on Transistor Sister, released on You’ve Changed last month. “That’s the way I’m feeling right now – truly, truly joyful,” says Kilpatrick over the phone from Welland, Ontario, where he’s in a basement rehearsing with his old Attack in Black buddies (and sometimes members of his touring band). “I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time. Things are really perfect for me.” So how did the Ajax-raised, Sackville, New Brunswick-based indie rocker come to find himself in such a place? For years he contributed to Shotgun & Jaybird albums, and released two solo discs in 2007 and 2009, yet none capture the laid-back yet rocked-out bliss heard on his latest. “I’ve always enjoyed playing music, but I haven’t felt this crazy exuberance for it until recently,” Kilpatrick admits. “I think it’s because it’s actually working in a business kind of way. That
probably sounds like a crappy thing to be excited about, but it’s a relief. It’s not as much of a struggle as it’s always been.” Written last year while touring Europe (and riding the rails through the Czech Republic), the album is climbing the college radio charts and putting Kilpatrick on the road for so long that he’s given up his apartment. Recorded in a pro studio – unusual for him – it merges elements of 90s East Coast slacker rock with the brevity and punch of Jay Reatard’s Blood Visions, which he calls a “masterpiece.” Even indie celebs are taking note. In a month, Shotgun Jimmie releases a split 7-inch (New Scotland) with Joel Plaskett, who joined him for an onstage duet at the Transistor Sister release show in Halifax. “I’ve also always wanted an audience and not really had one before,” says the down-to-earth Kilpatrick. “This is the first time that people seem truly interested in a totally different way. That’s what’s really got me fired up. “Now when I play there’s even more at stake. I look at every night as The Night. I constantly try new things so that each show is unique. All the musicians I surround myself with are highly experimental. It’s supposed to be kind of teetering, and it never gets stale.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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Mary Anne Hobbs Influential UK radio personality returns to the airwaves with a new prime-time slot By joanne hUffa
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1997 program The Breezeblock, which became simply Experimental Show in 2006. In this role, Hobbs focused on electronic sounds, including grime and dubstep. “I had 14 phenomenal years at the BBC, and have to thank them for all the freedom they gave me,” Hobbs enthuses over the phone from a Seattle hotel room. “But it was time to take my chances and see if I could elevate the whole game. “I wanted to see whether or not I could bring what I was doing out of the dead-of-night dungeon it was segregated in at the BBC. I felt like after everything we had proven with the show – consistently breaking artists – it was time to test myself.” The test will come in July, when she returns to XFM, the station where she made her radio debut in the 90s. She’ll have a prime-time, three-hour Saturday night slot, a far cry from the Thursday 2 am spot she held at the BBC. Hobbs’s desire to bring “music for art’s sake” to a wide audience has led
her to spin at festivals and in clubs, which she’ll do at Wrongbar’s Bassmentality event. The DJ, who started as a writer for British music tabloids Sounds and NME before co-founding Loaded magazine, has a steadfast belief that people want to be challenged. “I find myself arguing with management because so much of the media is dumbed down,” says the almost-47year-old. “They believe the younger generation can’t consume it unless it’s fed to them in bite-size pieces. That drives me insane. I remember when I was young and wanted stuff that was really inspirational. “I’ve spent the last year at Sheffield University mentoring 700 students. These kids are so bright, so sure of themselves. It’s validated something I’ve always known. I can now say to management, ‘You don’t need a focus group. I’ve just spent a year with 700 students, and they’re some of the brightest people I’ve ever worked with.’” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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The Fresh & Onlys San Francisco rockers continue to crank out releases at a feverish pace and have no intention of slowing down By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI THE FRESH & ONLYS with YOUNG PRISMS at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, April 21). $10. RT, SS, TW.
The Fresh & Onlys are on an artistic hot streak. With three full-length albums, a couple of EPs and myriad limited-edition 7-inches and compilation tracks to their name, the San Francisco quartet could easily be mistaken for a veteran rock band. In reality, they’ve only been making music together for three years. “We’re constantly writing, recording and touring,” explains bassist Shayde Sartin from the band’s van in Missouri. “Once you get comfortable, creativity starts to dwindle. You don’t grow by sitting around.” Urgency isn’t just their process – it’s part of the band’s DNA. They only
started in earnest once lead singer/ guitarist Tim Cohen purchased a Tascam 388 reel-to-reel machine that allowed them to record at home. Where some bands labour for months to make their recordings sound just right, the Fresh & Onlys capture and release everything as it comes. “Home recording is extremely liberating,” says Sartin. “You’re free to make mistakes because you’re not paying for studio time. We record all our ideas, bad or good, and sort it all out later. We have miles and miles of tape just sitting in our studio.” They left behind their home studio to record their latest album, Play It Strange (In The Red, 2010), but only in order to escape their comfort zone. It certainly seemed to help. The album tones down their less polished tenden-
cies and emphasizes their off-kilter melodic side. They recorded their soon-to-be-released EP, Secret Walls (Sacred Bones), in lead guitarist Wymond Miles’s studio, and it peels back even more fuzz to reveal their moodiest and arguably strongest set of jangly guitar pop yet. Given their stylistic diversity, their “garage rock” tag seems more of an agreed-upon misnomer than a useful genre descriptor. “Garage music definitely inspires us, but it’s just one very small side of what we do,” says Sartin. “Our key focus is on playing good melodies within good songs. Whatever genre that puts us into doesn’t really concern us.” It’s hard to blame them. When keeping up such a relentless pace, who has time to think? 3 music@nowtoronto.com
Jazz
Darren Sigesmund’s Strands II Septet Toronto jazz trombonist and former chef Darren Sigesmund is in the middle of a European tour, test-driving his newly cooked-up compositions. He’s getting set for a special concert skedded for the Al Greene Theatre featuring New York heavyweights Mark Feldman (violin) and Gary Versace (piano and accordion). The Galaxie Award-winning composer and player is no stranger to collaboration. Rolling Stones saxophonist Tim Ries appeared on 2009’s Junonominated Strands II. Sigesmund’s new songs include a brisk accordion piece with an AfroCuban groove and a touch of tango, an odd-metred tune inspired by Balkan music, and a Brazilian-guitar-influenced ballad featuring voice and violin. Improvisation remains at the heart of his work: “We try to make it a little different each time,” he says, “and tell a
story every time we solo.” Award-winning Venezuelan-Canadian vocalist Eliana Cuevas is playing an increasingly prominent role in the group. “I don’t want her to scatsing,” says Sigesmund. “I want her to bring her own concept to the music. There will be a part where she’ll improvise in Spanish.” Is it rare for a trombonist to be a bandleader? Sigesmund laughs, “Yes, it is.” Bassist Jim Vivian adds, “And rarely well done.”
Darren Sigesmund plays the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC (750 Spadina), Wednesday (April 27), 8 pm. $25 (students, seniors, artists SaRaH GREENE $20).
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THE FRESH & ONLYS, YOUNG PRISMS Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, April 21) See preview, page 37
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With Bob Wiseman, Jason Collett, Molly Johnson, Basia Bulat, Alana Bridgewater, Jim Cuddy and others TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West), tonight (Thursday, April 21) All-star disaster-relief show.
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DARREN SIGESMUND & THE STRANDS II SEPTET Miles Nadal JCC Al Green Theatre (750 Spadina), Wednesday (April 27) See preview, page 37.
MARY ANNE HOBBS, THE KILLABITS, ZEDS DEAD Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Wednesday (April 27) See preview, page 36.
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has emerged from a seven-year hiatus to tour again. No word whether this is their last kick at the can or if any new music will be released, but that hasn’t stopped them from selling out a four-show run in Toronto. At Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday to Sunday (April 22 to 24), doors 9 pm. All-ages matinee Sunday (April 24), doors 1 pm. $20. HS, RT, SS, TM.
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en & Waffles 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Permanent Bastards, School Damage, the Hunters, DJ Cactus. CADILLAC LOUNGE Scott McCord & the Bonafide Truth 8:30 pm. CLINTON’S EP release 20 Amp Soundchild, London Swagger (indie rock). CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ Renee K North & Marilee Yorston 10 pm.
DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Joan As Police Woman, Bahamas doors 8 pm. ñ DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Nights & Weekends
(pop/rock) doors 10 pm. ETON HOUSE The Unlikely Heroes (top 40/ rock) 8:30 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Cut Throat Kids, Courage My Love, Theset, Fire & Sound. HOLY OAK CAFE Ronley Teper & Kosher Dill Spears (funk) 10 pm. LEE’S PALACE CD release Ron Sexsmith, Ash Kohlie (folk/pop/rock) doors 8:30 pm. OPERA HOUSE Between the Buried And Me, Job for a Cowboy, Ocean doors 7 pm, all ages. PARTS & LABOUR The Fresh & Onlys, Young Prisms doors 10 pm. See preview, page 37. THE PISTON JJ Ipsen & the Paper Crown, Bellewoods, Samir Khan 10 pm. RANCHO RELAXO CD release Toolshed, Loki Da Trixta, Wordburglar, More or Les 9 pm. RIVOLI The Cunninghams, Burning Bridges, the Newsmen 9:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Quiet Revolution, Flying Fox & the Hunter Gatherers, Fires Of, Cowgirl Choir 9:30 pm. SONIC BOOM In-store performance Ron Sexsmith 6 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Toronto To Japan Fundraiser Bob Wiseman, Autorickshaw ñ Trio, Basia Bulat, Alana Bridgewater, Jim Cuddy, Molly Johnson, Jason Collett, James Parker and others 7:30 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Life Bitter Soul, Professor 9 pm.
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MAGPIE CAFE Jamboree The Sure Things (country/bluegrass) 10 pm.
MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo Band w/ Alec
Fraser, Shawn Kellerman, Gary Craig 9 pm. NOT MY DOG Draw the Outs (honest country) 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 9 pm. SLACK’S Michael George, Nicole Christian, Elana Harte 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass & Oldtime 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Phonemes, the Mountains & the Trees 10 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Christopher Barton (guitar, vocals) 6:30 pm, Terrance Gowen (piano, vocals) 9 pm. CHALKERS PUB Fingerstyle Guitar Concert Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola (guitar duo) 8 pm. CHINA HOUSE Peter Appleyard Quartet. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE
Songs Of Mahler And Strauss Artists Of The COC Ensemble Studio noon. GALLERY 345 Singers & Songwriters Anna Atkinson & George Meanwell 8 pm.
GATE 403 Daniel Van Kranendonk Jazz Duo (group from Denmark) 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Carissa Newfeld Jazz Duo 9 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists Quartet (Gypsybop jazz). REX Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. REX Heavy Weather (Weather Report tribute) 9:30 pm. RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Patti LuPone (Broadway tunes) 8 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO c_LR Allison Cam-
eron, Germaine Liu, Rampersaud 8 pm. TEN FEET TALL Jam Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 9 pm. TRANE STUDIO The Chewstick Collective 8 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
ANNEX WRECKROOM Subduction Normand Wellsley, the Future Collective, Dan Haid, Mad Hatter (drum & bass/dubstep) 10 pm. COURTHOUSE Luminary Easter Thursday:
benefit for Toronto Humane Society Jamlimmat, Sam Haze, Dennis Rojas doors 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Ice Machine Martial Canterel, Solvent, Brandon Sek doors 11 pm. FOOTWORK Tanner Ross, Jamie Kidd, James Teej, Nitin, Jeff Button 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus.com Party DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 GUVERNMENT/KOOL HAUS Decadence Axwell, Kaskade, Calvin Harris, Tiga, Boys Noize, Chris Lake. HENHOUSE Neverending Weekend DJ Poor Pilgrim 10 pm. INSOMNIA Martini Madness DJ Ron Jon (funk/ soul/house). LIVE TORONTO JRDN, DJ Couture, DJ Louie Temps (top 40/house/mash ups/hip-hop). MOD CLUB Popstars & Icons: Video Dance Party. NACO GALLERY CAFE Medicine 9 pm.5 THE OSSINGTON More Times (hip-hop/soul/ R&B).
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REVIVAL Do You Love House? Easter Edition DJs KOLN, Groove Institute, Tricky ñ Moreira, the Sno-Men, Richard Brooks, John-
ny Lopez, Jeff Graham and others 10 pm. RICOH COLISEUM Club Life Tour Tiësto, Wolfgang Gartner, Hardwell, Harvard Bass doors 7 pm. 751 DJ Jimmy Delinquent (punk rock) 10 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Petty Vs Springsteen Dance Party. SUBA Celebration For Gospel 2.0: Benefit For Japan 8 pm. SUPERMARKET What It Is! Kwame Younge & DJ Dave Campbell, DJ Sean Sax (soul) 10 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:30 pm.
Friday, April 22 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Riding Shotgun, Cousin Dog, Undadogg, Tiffany in Fashion, DJ Vania.
BREAD & CIRCUS Freeman Dre & the Kitchen
Party, Nick Teehan, Silbin Sandovar 10 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE The Sin City Boys. DC MUSIC THEATRE Skanky Punk Party Johnny Red Eyes, the Shivers all ages. EL MOCAMBO Quietus, Laugh at the Fakes, Tiger Star, Rivers Run Red, Possessed Steel doors 8 pm. ETON HOUSE Taxi (rock/top 40/dance) 9 pm. THE GARRISON Girls Rock Camp! Maylee Todd, Tomboyfriend, Planet Creature. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Caribbean Diaspora (reggae) 7 to 10 pm. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 8 pm. HARD LUCK BAR ARIA, Crashing Cars, One Man’s Opinion. HORSESHOE The Submarines, Nik Frietas, Matthews Brothers doors 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Eric Cheneaux doors 9 pm. MAGPIE CAFE Heartbeat Hotel, Foxes in Fiction (shoegaze/psychedelic/pop/rock) 10 pm.
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MONARCHS PUB Riff 7 pm. OPERA HOUSE Steve Ignorant’s Crass,
Goldblade, Class Assassins, Terminals ñ doors 8 pm.
RIVOLI Courtney Wells, Sunrise O’Sunrise, Dan Dwoskin 9 pm. ROCKPILE The Catalyst. SILVER DOLLAR Pkew Pkew Pkew, Dryheaves, Black Magick Fox, Hotkid, Hate Gang 10 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Lineup 10 pm.
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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
AQUILA UPSTAIRS Bill Colgate & the Urbane Guerillas (indie rock). ASPETTA CAFFE Capital H, Lake of the Woods, Itchy Bones, Wide-Eyed Tour Guide 7 pm. CAMERON HOUSE David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Tuxedo 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Frail Fragmets, the Fire Of. DOMINION ON QUEEN Havana To Toronto Safari (Afro-Cuban/Latin) 9 pm.
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collective concerts
www.collectiveconcerts.com
416-598-0720
friday april 29
tuesday
mod cLub
battles
april 26
the phoenix $
28.50 advance +ff • 19+
with
$15.00 advance - earLy show
bad
errors
manners saturday may 7 lee’s palace
cold cave & the entrance Band with
sunday may 1 sound academy
$ 22.50
advance ga • $ 33.50 vip • all-ages
phoenix concert theatre
st. aLbans, uK • xL recordings • $ 20.00 advance $17.50 advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+
the
little scream w/
antlers
thursday may 12 sound academy
daptone records • Brooklyn • soul
sharon
jones
shakespeare my butt 20th anniversary w/
mick thomas & wally
from austraLia’s weddings parties anything
sat may 7 @ massey haLL
8:00pm show • $ 29.50 - $ 49.50 advance @ ticketmaster 1-855-985-5000 & mh box office
may 17 thurs may 26 tuesday Lee’s paLace - 18.50 advance $
man guitar & the dap kings man wolf zoe
monday m ay 30
tues june 14 @ mod club
$20.00 adv • 9:00pm • 19+
an evening with
with
Joe lewis keating Black & the honeyBears saturday june 4
Lee’s paLace - $17.50 adv
shilpa ray & her happy hookers
w/ cheaptime
lullabye arkestra
great haLL - $20.00 advance
$25.00 advance & $32.00 adv vip • aLL-ages
tuesday august 2
sat june 4 @ Lee’s paLace
w/ TiTus Andronicus & FuTure islAnds
the soundtrack
8:00pm ~ $18.50 advance ~ 19+
phoenix concert theatre
sweden • oasis meets bunnymen who-ish anthemic mod rock
FridAy June 10 @ The Phoenix
beirut of our lives drive-by truckers with very special guest
owen pallett $ 32.50
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advance • 8:00pm • 19+
april 21-27 2011 NOW
$18.50
wednesday june 15 @ the phoenix $ 29.50
advance • athens, ga • southern rocK gods
ad va n c e • d o o r s 9 : 0 0 p m • 1 9 +
monday june 20 @ sneaky dee’s - $26.00 adv • aLL-ages • 6:00pm
title fight
touche amore & the menzingers
with the
beauties
advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS friday may 6 @ the dakota • $20.00 advance
tHurSday april 21 | $10.00
Sunday april 24 | $10.00 green party FundraiSer
rattlEsNaKE Janes Party
cHOIr Carina round + Josh CoCkerill cd release
clEtus carlylE atta Girl
Friday april 22 | $12.50 advance • nettwerk records indie pop
tune Joe perniCe yards
Saturday may 14 Saturday may 14 HorsesHoe tavern • $10.50 advance
dINOsaur
Sneaky dee’S • $8.50 advance
stEvE
bones raWlEs
Saturday april 23 - $15.00 advance - Blues rock & roll
wEdnEsday may 18 @ horseshoe tavern | $17.50 advance
wide mouth mason With
the stanfields (nS celtic punk)
horseshoe tavern | $15.00 adv
with
Sub pop • pernice brother’S alt country
the subMarines
NIK FrIEtas & tHE MattHEWs BrOtHErs
thurSday may 12
with
HorsesHoe tavern • $14.50 advance
ex-belvedere
baD astronaut may 29 Lee’s Palace |
Sunday may 22
jason the radio dept. Isbell
bEar hands
sunday
WitH
buke and gass
featuring
jOEy capE of lagWagON
Fri april 22 — Sun april 24
godspeed! damon & naomi portugal this will you black Destroy emperor the InvasIves hunx & vic ruggiero the man you monday april 25 | $15.00 advance • midwest emo post punk
appleseed Cast
15.00 adv
$
ex-drive by truckerS
WedneSday may 25 HorsesHoe tavern • $12.50 advance
friday may 27 Lee’S paLace • $15.00 advance
monday may 30 lee’s palace • $13.50 advance
WitH a great big pile of leaves
ex Galaxy 500
Wed april 27 | $11.50 advance
San Fran punk rock!
Hosted by BOOKIE (17th Year) tueSday april 26
tHurSday april 28 | $10.00 uof t fundraiSer
little city
FItNEss cluB FIascO Fri april 29 | $ 27.50 adv • 19+ dallaS texaS rockabilly punkS
amor De DIas (The Clientele)
Sat july 2 @ Lee’s palace | $10.50 adv
his punx
hearts uniCorns Gin Elvyn MartIN BIsI
sHaNNON & tHE claMs pEacH KEllI pOp
tHurS april 28 | $10.00 adv
Friday april 29 | $ 6.00
solo slackers ska
WedneSday
june 1
Horseshoe tavern $
11.50 advance • party rock
all shows sold out!
w/ tElEKINEsIs
quINtrON davId BazaN
& miss Saturday april 30 | pussycat Downtown Funk
$ 7.00
reverenD peyton’s
connection bIg Damn banD ex- peDro cool man cool monday may 2 | 16.00 adv the lIon Grandfatha Mantis & the shadow Monks WOOdEN IvOry
the monster trucK yacht bernadette & the north jONNy Mark kozelek acorn goddam . . and you will robots paper Bag recordS indie FoLk rock
teenage KicKs ( cd
release )
tueSday
june 14
Lee’s palace - $13.50 adv
friday June 3 & Saturday June 4
an evening with
drake underground | $20.50 adv
EvENINg HyMNs
feat. norman blake of teenage fanclub & euros childs of gorky’s Zygotic mynci
Saturday april 30 | $15.00 advance - montreal indie rock
malajube W/
library voices & whale tooth
Friday
july 15 HorSeSHoe tavern $ 15.00 advance
tueSday may 3 | $26.50 adv
friday July 8 & Saturday July 9 drake underground • $24.50 advance • 8:00pm
tHE dIrtBOMBs
thursday april 21 @ drake underground | $12.00 advance - 8pm doors
no cover!
Sunday may 1 - $11.50 advance - 7:30pm Show
lemuria
white wives • joyce manor • junior batt’es
WedneSday may 4
Saturday may 7
Sunday may 22
crystal
tHurS april 28 @ Sneaky dee’s | $11.00 adv
BaHaMas
grails
Sunday may 22 @ the garrison | $8.50 adv
sat june 11 @ El Mocambo | $10.00 advance
Joan as poliCewoMan Sneaky dee’S | $13.50 advance • 8:30pm
witH
two cow garagE
WitH james blackshaw
allo darlin’
stornaway 3tards horseshoetavern.com wildbirds joE the wooden & peacedrums birds Hot docS aFter SHoW - $5
thelonIous monster cElEBrIty rEHaB bob forrest
$8.00 advance
artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720
stilts
may 24
el mocambo - $11.00 adv
monday may 30
Sunday June 26
370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010
tueSday
brooklyn, Slumberland diy indie
drake underground | $20.00 advance
WitH yellow ostrich
$
horSeShoe tavern | $15.50 advance
Purdy
Sunday July 10 drake underground | $12.00 advance
know us by the trail of dead
Fri may 6 | SoLd out!
pEtEr bjorn & john
tHurSday may 12 | $17.50 adv neW york fat poSSum americana
surFer the felice BlOOd brothers with
Saturday may 14
shovels blakE & rope
James
SoLd out!
monday may 16 - $ 11.50 advance - vaudeville punk rock
world inferno friendship society artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com
leespalace.com
529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW april 21-27 2011
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mitzi’s sister RED Revue. reposaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Oz Noy Trio 9:45 pm. somewhere there stUDio Leftover
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Dora Keogh Joshua Cockerill, David Baxter
Band (country/rock).
DraKe hotel UnDergroUnD Raffaela Rose-
mary, Tim Moxam (folk/rock) doors 8 pm. James Joyce Open Stage Scott Barager (music, comedy, poetry) 4 to 7 pm. lambaDina Showcase Fridays & Open Mic: Canadian Headliners. loU Dawg’s It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm. lUla loUnge Salsa Friday Son Ache, DJ Jimmy Suave (salsa) 10 pm. 918 bathUrst Support Afrofest Concert The Resolutionaries Marimba Band, Donné Roberts, Ruth Mathiang, Afrafranto doors 7 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. soUthern accent Sugar Bush Maple Hoedown Soozi Schlanger, Peter Jellard 6-9 pm. tranzac soUthern cross The Opposite of Everything (folk) 7:30 pm. tranzac soUthern cross Michael Herring & Harley Card, Dave Clark, Silent Five 10 pm. Village Vapor loUnge Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
blU ristorante & loUnge Acoustic & Jazz
Sentiments @ Blu John Campbell (piano, singer) 7:30 pm. boiler hoUse Kush (feel-good instrumental/ electronic nu-jazz) 9:30 pm. chalKers pUb Fingerstyle Guitar Concert Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola 8 pm. the Flying beaVer pUbaret Sharron Matthews 8 pm. gallery 345 Chromaduo CD release Rob MacDonald & Tracy Anne Smith 8 pm. gate 403 Julia Cleveland Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Mandy Ebel & Jaga Juice 9 pm. Kingston rD UniteD chUrch Requiem Toronto Beach Chorale, Heather Jewson, James Levesque (mezzo soprano/baritone) 7:30 pm. metropolitan UniteD chUrch Lamb Of God: Music For Good Friday Metropolitan Festival Choir 7:30 pm.
Daylight Series Ken Aldcroft, Jonny Bakan, Jim Sexton, Heather Segger, Simeon Abbott, Steve Ward, Dan Gaucher and others 8 pm. st paUl’s basilica Good Friday Sacred Music For A Sacred Place Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Singers 7:30 pm. trane stUDio Caliban Arts Theatre Honors Luther Vandross Carlos Morgan & Band 8 pm. tranzac The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. waterFalls The Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
annex wrecKroom House Party Fridays (top 40/mashups/90s mixes) 10 pm.
boat Chronologic (dance music from 1890 to 2012 in chronological order) 10 pm.
bUnDa loUnge Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace, DJ
Fresh (Caribbean/hip-hop/reggae). clinton’s OMG Dance Party: Benefit For Uganda Relief Effort. comFort inn mermaiD loUnge Latin Fridays DJ Gene (merengue/salsa/bachata/rumba/ cumbia/cha cha) 9 pm. DraKe hotel UnDergroUnD The Hit Parade: The Groove Stew doors 11 pm. DraKe hotel loUnge DJ DB Cooper doors 10 pm. emmet ray bar DJ Step N’ Groove (funk/soul) 10 pm. Fly Fly College Night DJs Cole Stanley, Kevin Bailey 10 pm.5 FootworK Luv This City: Easter? We Don’t Even Know ‘Er! The Junkies, Alicia Hush, YM, D Pauze doors 10 pm. george’s play DJ Oscar (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 glaDstone hotel ballroom Phunk’d DJ Double AA, DJ RA, RKS 10 pm. gooDhanDy’s OMG Divas Burlesque DJ Todd Klinck doors 9 pm.5 henhoUse Stare Down DJs Melanie BristowHill, Frances Allin (punk/dance) 10 pm. holy oaK caFe Pop Lobster Dance Party (pop) 10 pm.
insomnia Funkin’ Fresh Fridays DJ Matty Ryce (house/breaks). leVacK blocK DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop) 10 pm. leVacK blocK bacK room DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm. miDpoint Fondle Em Fridays DJ NV (hip-hop/ funk/soul/rocksteady reggae). moD clUb Arcade Trentemøller doors 10 pm. naco gallery caFe Gayfinity DJs Leila P, Alex M (dancehall/disco/house) 10 pm.5 the ossington Sweat Pants DJ Coolin. the painteD laDy DJ Phantastik & Honey B Hind (old school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. parts & laboUr Raging Bull Diego Bros DJs (old school/hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. the piston DJ Ryan Gavel (motown/soul/ funk) 10 pm. riVoli pool loUnge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro). 751 Mustache Rides 10 pm. sUpermarKet Bad Friday! DJs Colleco, Ballistik, O-God & Mickey. VelVet UnDergroUnD DJ Misty (alt rock) 10 pm. woo’s loUnge Heart.Of.The.City DJs J-Class & Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10:30 pm.
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Saturday, April 23 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
alleycatz Soular (R&B/soul/funk). bar italia Al Webster 10 pm. boVine sex clUb Reunion Show The Groopies, Rackula, Stack & Large, DJ Ian Blurton.
caDillac loUnge Heads Up Lincoln 10 pm. Dominion on QUeen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm.
DraKe hotel Ben Gunning, Mantler (pop/rock) doors 8 pm. ñ graFFiti’s Dodge Fiasco (rock) 3 to 7 pm.
graFFiti’s The James Murdoch Band 8 pm. the great hall Easy Star All-Stars, Cas Haley (reggae) doors 8 pm.
harD lUcK bar Son of Bronto, the Dryheaves, Terminal Rage.
harD lUcK bar barcaDe loUnge Give, Mind-
set, Face Reality. horseshoe Wide Mouth Mason, the Stanfields, Is Before the Curtain doors 9 pm.
tHuRsDAY ApRil 21st Gladstone Gallery: 7pm - 11pm 20/20 Opening ReceptiOn | FRee Melody Bar: 9pm - 1Am Blocks RecoRding cluB pResents Black Walls & thoMas | FRee
SoundClash
FRiDAY ApRil 22nD Melody Bar: 7pm - 10pm cariBBean diaspora FRee Melody Bar: 10pm - 2Am karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee BallrooM: 10pm - 3Am phunk'd it's all Good Friday | $10 sAtuRDAY ApRil 23RD Melody Bar: 7pm - 10pm Mill st. countRy satuRdays pResents rae BillinGs | FRee art Bar: 7pm - 11pm resolvinG the “accidental WanderinG proBleM” Opening ReceptiOn | FRee BallrooM: 9pm - 2Am skin tight outta sight pResents BiBlical Burlesque | $20/30 Melody Bar: 10pm - 2Am karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee
Kool haUs Doorly doors 9 pm. ñRusko, lee’s palace Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the Sadies doors 9 pm. ñ mitzi’s sister Shadows Of Eastern Canada Tour The Joyful Sinners, Urban Preacher 9:30 pm.
moD clUb Biffy Clyro doors 7 pm. parts & laboUr Career Suicide, Face Reality, Mindset, Total Trash, Direct Approach (hardcore punk) 2 pm, all ages. phoenix The Game (hip-hop) 8 pm.
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the piston Hue, Parcs & Rec, Kevin Myles Wilson 10 pm.
riVoli Chris & Claire, Maps, Dovetails, the
Joint, Gypsy Chief Goliath, Dead Panorama, LaffHappy, Johnny Dead 7 pm. rocKpile Exciter. soUthsiDe Johnny’s Amanda Rose (rock/ R&B/pop) 10 pm. sportster’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm. toronto UnDergroUnD cinema Comic Book Fundraiser Opopo, the Wilderness, Babe, Secrettes doors 9 pm. t.s.t’s laUnch paD Meyend Tricks Memorial Mad III the Pill, Logic, Sweats, DJ Phame One (rap/hip-hop) 10 pm, all ages. VelVet UnDergroUnD Nightbox, Dinosaur Dinosaur 10 pm.
Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD
aspetta caFFe Aspettastock Battle Of The
Bands: Benefit for the World Wildlife Fund noon to midnight. caDillac loUnge Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm. cameron hoUse Smokey Witt 6 pm. cameron hoUse Jack Marks 10 pm. cameron hoUse bacK room Flowers of Hell. c’est what The Starfires (folk rock) 3 pm. eton hoUse Bohemian Blues (blues/Southern rock) 4 to 7 pm. glaDstone hotel meloDy bar Country Saturdays Rae Billings 7 to 10 pm. hUgh’s room CD release Suzie Vinnick 8:30 pm. the local Jessica Stuart Few. loU Dawg’s Don Campbell. lUla loUnge Salsa Saturday Roberto Linares Brown Orchestra, DJ Gio (salsa) 10 pm. naco gallery caFe Quique Escamilla Band (Latin pop/rock) 9 pm. not my Dog Silbin Sandovar, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, DJ Sir Real (folk) 9 pm. only caFé Catfish, Tom Dessen (blues/roots singer-songwriter) 8 pm. port creDit legion Music From The Last Night Of The Band Johnny Max, Tom Barlow, Chris Whiteley, Chuck Jackson and others 7 pm. rex Danny Marks (blues) noon. silVer Dollar Saturday Supper Club Blues John Mays 7 pm. soUnD acaDemy Fire Fete: The Return Of The Maddness Edition Bunji Garlin, Fay-Ann Lyons, the Asylum Band (soca). taps & tales Andy White (folk/pop). tranzac Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. tranzac soUthern cross Joe Hall 6:30 pm.
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Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
the assembly hall French Impressions:
Soirées With Debussy, Ravel & Poulenc The Neapolitan Connection 7 pm. blU ristorante & loUnge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Christopher Barton (guitar, vocals) 7:30 pm.
chalKers pUb Fingerstyle Guitar Concert Bucky Pizzarelli & Frank Vignola 7 pm. Dominion on QUeen All-Sax 4Tet 9 pm. eDwarD Johnson bUilDing Kathy Feng (piano) 1:15 pm. gate 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Toz Antonio G Piretti noon to 3 pm. gate 403 Thyron Lee Whyte Jazz Band 9 pm. heliconian hall The Oriole Duo Jacqueline Leung, Kaili Maimets (piano, flute) 7:30 pm. olD mill inn Piano Masters Gary Williamson, Dave Young 7:30 pm. rex Lester McLean Trio 7 pm. rex Oz Noy Trio 9:45 pm. silVer Dollar The Thing Is, Redwire Archangel (Balkan/jazz fusion) 10:30 pm. somewhere there stUDio The Starfires Parmela Attariwala, Michael Kaler, Braz King, Mark Segger, Steve Ward and others 8 pm. ten Feet tall Shannon Gunn 8 pm. trane stUDio Caliban Arts Theatre Honors Nina Simone Ania Soul & Band 8 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
annex wrecKroom Remixed Saturdays 10 pm. aUgUsta hoUse HIT International Monthly
Dance Party: Keep In Touch Volume 3 DJ eYe, Sam-urai, Jaybe (R&B/hip-hop/soul/dance/ reggae/top 40/electro) 9 pm. clinton’s Shake, Rattle And Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). DraKe hotel UnDergroUnD Evening Standard Membersonly DJs doors 11 pm. DraKe hotel loUnge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. emmet ray bar Funky Flavours Funk/Soul Dance Party DJ Brass Moustache, Jenny Treehorn (funk/soul/jazz) 10 pm. Fly DJ Hector Fonseca, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Danny White 10 pm.5 FootworK Hatiras, Robb G, Jed Harper, Status Brown, JT Audio doors 10 pm. Fox & FirKin Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. george’s play DJ Jon (Latin/top 40/house) 11 pm.5 glaDstone hotel ballroom Skin Tight Outta Sight: Biblical Burlesque DJ Sigourney Beaver (after-party dance) doors 9 pm. gooDhanDy’s Pansexual Sex Party DJ Todd Klinck doors 10 pm.5 holy oaK caFe Risky Business (80s) 10 pm. insomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). leVacK blocK bacK room DJs Dougie Boom & Teezdale 10 pm. leVacK blocK DJ Jerk Chicken (ol skool) 10 pm. li’ly Thoughtless/Sound Noah Pred, Talal & Zoi, Matthew & Marcos 11 pm. liVe toronto Live Life Saturdays DJ Couture, DJ Jedi (top 40/house/mashup) 10 pm. the ossington Pacific High. the painteD laDy DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/rock & roll) 10 pm. parts & laboUr Transmission DJs Scott Wade & Scott Waring (britpop/indie rock) 10 pm. reViVal Midnight Mix Skratch Bastid, P-Plus, J-Class (hip-hop/R&B/mashup/electro/ house/reggae). riVoli pool loUnge DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk). 751 Uncle Chris Rock Show & Mindbender. sneaKy Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm.
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sunDAY ApRil 24tH Melody Bar: 5pm - 8pm Mill st. BluegRass sundays pResents Marc roy & houndstooth FRee tuesDAY ApRil 26tH BallrooM: 7pm - 10pm tinaRs pResents “diversity and pluralisM in islaM" launch | $5, FRee witH bOOk puRcHAse Melody Bar: 8pm - 11pm sWeet latin rhythMs | FRee
Harbourfront Centre Music Awards
$10,000 in cash prizes!
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april 21-27 2011 NOW
weDnesDAY ApRil 27tH Melody Bar: 7:30pm - 10pm gRanny Boots pResents …for Michael v. sMith Book launch | FRee
Toronto’s hottest, independent artists and bands.
To apply: Go to sonicbids.com OR 1214 queen st w 416.531.4635 harbourfrontcentre.com/soundclash for details www.gladstonehotel.com
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693 Bloor St. W
FRI 22 ◆
20 AMP SOUNDCHILD EP Release Party W/ LONDON SWAGGER DANCE PARTY OMG 80s NEW WAVE VS. NOW WAVE
Proceeds to Uganda Relief Effort
SAT 23 ◆
SHAKE, RATTLE MOTOWN 60’S • POP & ROLL: SOUL & ROCK N’ ROLL
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Supermarket Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdminal. Sutra The Bridge DJ Triplet (ol’ skool hip-hop). tranzac main Hall Save The Tranzac Dance Party DJ Cool Adam 9 pm. tranzac SoutHern croSS 7" Release Party The Guayaveras 10 pm. VelVet unDerGrounD Soundshock Saturday DJ Joe.
Sunday, April 24 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
BoVine Sex cluB Bathurst Queens, Wrathriot, the Miscreantz, DJ Rob. clinton’S Toronto Independent Music Awards Showcase. DaVe’S... on St clair John Campbell (pop/ jazz) 6 pm. Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. Graffiti’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. HarD luck Bar An Evil And Enchanting Easter Celestia, Forteresse, Sylvus, Thantifaxath. Holy oak cafe Lowlands & Alex Lukashevsky 9 pm.
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HorSeSHoe Green Party Fundraiser Janes Party, Cletus Carlyle, Atta Girl 9 pm. lamBaDina Ride To Conquer Cancer Benefit Hybrid Radio, DJ Atom Atomix, Dwight Tux, Paris Black, Denis Martel, Yonge Drama, Tee Angel, Hallowchild and others 9 pm. lee’S palace Godspeed You! Black Emperor doors 1 pm (all ages), and 9 pm (19+). mitzi’S SiSter Laura Hubert 5 to 7 pm. moD cluB Dirty Vegas, Isis, DJ Medley (electronic) doors 9 pm. tHe painteD laDy Boogie Woogie Easter Party (rock & roll) 9 pm.
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caDillac lounGe Songwriters Expo 4 pm. cameron HouSe Jay Pollock 6 pm. cameron HouSe Kevin Quain 9 pm. free timeS cafe Sunday Evening Kitchen Party
Freeman Dre, Silbin Sandovar (folk) 8 pm. Gate 403 Lady N Gentleman Blues Band 9 pm. GlaDStone Hotel meloDy Bar Bluegrass Sundays Marc Roy & Houndstooth 5 to 8 pm. HarD rock cafe Sounds Like A Song (song & improv) 8 pm. lamBaDina Smash Sundays & Open Mic. lula lounGe Salsa Brunch Party Luis Mario Ochoa’s Quarteto Tradicional (Cuban Son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm. naco Gallery cafe Flamenco Sundays Shirli Pili, Dennis Duffin, Silvia Temis, Marc Tremblay 8 pm.
not my DoG Allison Brown, Anna Atkinson, Erin Gignac, Danny Simmons & the Cowan House Ramblers 9:30 pm. poGue maHone Cape Breton Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. reBaS café Speak Music Showcase 1 to 4 pm. reliSH Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. repoSaDo Lucas Stagg Band. SoutHSiDe JoHnny’S Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. Stout iriSH puB Celtic Session Traditional Irish Music & Dance 3 to 6 pm. Supermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic Jam 8 pm. trane StuDio CityFolk Live Launch 7 pm. tranzac SoutHern croSS Marianne Girard 5 pm.
T.O. music nOTes
See nowtoronto.com/daily/music for more music news and expanded versions of these stories.
Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental
Dominion on Queen Musical Theatre Cabaret
7 to 11 pm.
Drake Hotel lounGe The Elusive Casual (jazz)
doors 9 pm.
emmet ray Bar Kathryn Mirriam (jazz piano/ singer) 9 pm.
Gate 403 Tyler Thomson Jazz Band noon to 3
pm.
Gate 403 Bronman Akoustic Jazz Trio 5 to 8
pm.
lula lounGe Salon Noir: A Victorian Bohemian Cabaret 8:30 pm.
preSS cluB Justin Snikkar’s Asymmetrical Disposition & the Jazz Piztolz 9 pm.
rex Andrew Boniwell (piano) 7 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Band noon. rex Josh Cole 4TET (jazz) 9:30 pm. SomewHere tHere StuDio lightsweetcrude
Jason Steidman, Alexei Orechin, Jawari Bahar, Michael Kaler, Mark Segger (raga fusion) 5 pm.
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
annex wreckroom Pure Filth! WrongWun,
T.W.N., D Forreal, BCS (hard dance/jungle/ D&B/dubstep) 9 pm. GooDHanDy’S Decadance DJs Nik Red, San Fran doors 9:30 pm.5 inSomnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. tHe oSSinGton Unlimited Sundays Hajah Bug & Mantis. 751 Big Shiny Sundays DJs SHEMCA & Sunshine 10 pm. VelVet unDerGrounD DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.
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caDillac lounGe Surfin’ Rock’n Roll Mondays The Flying Bordelos, the Sisters of Mersey (surf twang). Drake Hotel unDerGrounD Elvis Monday (rock) doors 9 pm. Drake Hotel lounGe Late Night Mondays Bootknives (rock) doors 10 pm. Graffiti’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. Harlem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/soul/ jazz/Motown/latin) 8 pm. HorSeSHoe The Appleseed Cast, A Great Big Pile of Leaves doors 8 pm. olD nick M Factor Mondays Richard Maynard-Langedijk, Michael George Band, Elana Harte 7 pm. pHoenix concert tHeatre Duran Duran doors 7:30 pm. SounD acaDemy All Time Low, Yellowcard, Hey Monday, the Summer Set doors 5:30 pm, all ages. t.S.t’S launcH paD In A Nut’s Shell Mike Collinson (indy rock/talk) 9 pm, all ages. tHe wilSon 96 Esteban Puchalski & Co.
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NXNE launches second wave The second wave of bands for this year’s North By Northeast festival have been announced, and there are some significant names on board. This year’s big Saturday (June 18) free concert in Yonge-Dundas Square promises to shut down the streets again, this time for new wave legends Devo, which will likely be as beautifully bizarre as Iggy and the Stooges last year. Alongside them, Canadian synth pop pioneers Men Without Hats will encourage the crowd to do the Safety Dance. Classic SoCal punk takes over the outdoor stage Thursday (June 16) with appearances by hardcore supergroup OFF! and 80s pop-hardcore four-piece the Descendents. Yonge-Dundas mellows out Friday (June 17) with a Sirius Satellite liveto-air broadcast of sets by Canadian
Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental
emmet ray Bar Upside Down (jazz) 9 pm. Gate 403 Mboya Nicholson (piano) 5 to 8 pm. Gate 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. rex Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. rex John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30
cameron HouSe Betty Stew 6 pm. cameron HouSe James Murdoch 10 pm. cloak & DaGGer puB These Boots (folk/pop)
pm.
DaVe’S... on St clair The Monday Sessions
alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. tHe aVro Strictly Canadian DJ Bomarc
9 pm.
Open Jam Pete Eastmure 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. mitzi’S SiSter Big City Hicks. only café Sean Brown (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. tHe painteD laDy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. tranzac SoutHern croSS This Is Awesome 7 pm. tranzac SoutHern croSS Open Mic 10 pm.
indie rock heavyweights Stars and Montreal’s Land of Talk. Both have members who’ve played in Broken Social Scene, but then again, so do half the bands in Canada. The Yonge-Dundas shows wrap up Sunday (June 19) with 90s hiphop heroes the Pharcyde and Digable Planets. The free outdoor program is the cherry on top of the larger festival, which takes over the live club scene all week (June 13-19). Watch for gigs by buzz acts Dum Dum Girls, Chad VanGaalen, Twin Shadow, Shad, Art Brut, Ty Segall, Braids and many others. Early-bird prices are in effect for wristbands and passes until Monday (April 25) at nxne.com, where you can also view the rest of BenJamin BoleS the lineup.
Tuesday, April 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
annex wreckroom Drummers In Exile (drum circle) 8 pm.
tHe aVro Cindy Doire (rock/folk) 9 pm. c’eSt wHat The Sweet Mack (rock/soul/pop)
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
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(rare Canadian tunes from 1950-70) 7 to 11 pm. BoVine Sex cluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr. fuzion Vizion lounGe FML Mondays DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall). GooDHanDy’S T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 inSomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). tHe oSSinGton Brilliantine. tHe piSton Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. 751 Metal Monday DJ Lush 10 pm.
Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Workshop 2 to 4 pm.
pm.
GlaDStone Hotel meloDy Bar We’re Not
Popstars 8 pm. Graffiti’S The Doug Gorrie 3 8 pm. HorSeSHoe New Music Tuesdays The Invasives, Hearts Unicorns Gin, Elvyn, Martin Bisi 9 pm. lula lounGe Alpha-Bet Soup Fundraiser for Alpha Alternative School Guiomar Campbell, Parabolica, Children’s Samba Squad, Jenni Burke 6:30 to 9:30 pm. continued on page 46 œ
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Massey Hall James Blunt, Christina Perri 8 pm.
99 sudbury Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion
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Week NLP, TuZO, DJ Daniel Wilson 8:15 pm. PHoenix ConCert tHeatre Mogwai, Errors (sub pop) doors 8 pm. tHe Piston The Dead Tuesdays, Mercy Flight 10 pm. silVer dollar Toronto Halifax Pop Explosion Duzheknew, Long Long Long, Rattail, Cousins 8 pm. sneaky dee’s Krallice. tHe Wilson 96 Trish Robb (roots/rock) 10 pm.
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CaMeron House Michelle Rumball 6 pm. CaMeron House Friendly Rich 10 pm. CaMeron House baCk rooM Late Night With
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Cloak & dagger Pub Slocan Ramblers (blue-
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rs p, $, + Tickets: tinyurl.com/NXNE-Deerhoof-Dodos
grass) 10 pm.
gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. tHe loCal Scott Kemp Collective. MusiC gallery Christine Fellows, Shot-
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gun Jimmie (singer/songwriter) 7 pm. See preview, page 35. naCo gallery Cafe Story & Song Night 8 pm. only Café Acoustic Roots (singer/songwriter showcase) 8 pm. ten feet tall Fingerstyle Guitar Open Stage 8 to 11:30 pm. trane studio Acoustic Soul Open Mic 8 pm. tranzaC tiki rooM Toronto Folk Singers 6 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
art brut plus �uests
fridy, une od club
rs p, $ + Tickets: tinyurl.com/NXNE-ArtBrut
alleyCatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. brassaii Jazz Night 6 pm. doMinion on Queen Wayne Nakamura’s Django Jam 8:30 pm. gallery 345 Trio Atlantik 8 pm. gate 403 Norbert Botos Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Holy oak Cafe Aint Dirt (jazz) 9 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam Sly Juhas (jazz) 9:30 pm. rex Danny DePoe 6:30 pm. royal ConserVatory of MusiC koerner Hall Kalihstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and ARC Ensemble 8 pm.
bouncing souls �/ ni-lg +
E ltliners
fridy, une hoenix concert etre
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sky lounge Live At Sky Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble 7:30 pm.
soMeWHere tHere studio Andy Haas, Mat-
thew ‘Doc’ Dunn, Colin Fisher, Aaron Lumley, Brandon Valdivia 8 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross The Rent (experimental jazz) 7:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Drumheller 10 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
silVer dollar High Lonesome Wednesday:
8 pm.5
slaCk’s Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 8 pm. stout irisH Pub Blues Jam 9 pm. terri o’s sPorts bar Gary 17s Acoustic Open
beaVer Issues DJ LP (space disco) 10 pm. goodHandy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors
insoMnia Soulful Tuesday D-Jay. tHe ossington Secret Models. rePosado Alien Radio Gord C. 751 SK8 & Destroy DJ Dan Arget (skater rock party) 10 pm.
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pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
boVine sex Club Rock & Roll Rehab Volcanoless in Canada, People You Know.
CadillaC lounge The Neil Young’uns 8:30 pm. Clinton’s The Regulars, Battleplan (post punk).
Cloak & dagger Pub The Old Flames (rockabilly/pop) 10 pm.
drake Hotel underground Iguana New
Music Night Mark ‘London’ Spicoluk (rock) doors 8 pm. Hard luCk bar Woodbutcher, Solus, Portraits. HorsesHoe Hunx & His Punx, Shannon and the Clams, Peach Kelli Pop doors 8:30 pm. kool Haus Coheed and Cambria doors 8 pm, all ages. lula lounge Nick Buzz (Hugh Marsh, Martin Tielli, Rob Piltch, Jon Goldsmith) (pop/avant garde/classical/jazz) doors 7 pm. 99 sudbury Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion Week Babalao Stereo Club, Girl, DJ Daniel Wilson 8:15 pm. oPera House Symphony X, Nevermore, Powerglove, Blackguard doors 7 pm, all ages. tHe ossington HumbleMania Xtravaganza: Live In Bellwoods screening 10 pm. tHe Piston Ideoteque. steaM WHistle breWing Crescendo! Getting Loud In Support Of The Regent Park School Of Music Jim Creegan and others 6:30 to 9:30 pm. suPerMarket Wednesday Go Vote! New Music Series Darren Eedens, Broken Bricks, Parcs & Rec doors 8 pm.
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CaMeron House The Cameron Brothers Band
10 pm.
CaMeron House baCk rooM Signe Miranda’s
Veranda, Down by Riverside, Ben Rough 9 pm. CaMeron House Joshua Cockerill 6 pm. graffiti’s Bluegrass Wednesdays Deep River Band 8 pm. grossMan’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. HugH’s rooM Don Ross, Claus Boesser-Ferrari, Peter Kroll-Ploeger 8:30 pm. rHaPsody Continental Cuisine Gypsy Flame Showband. riVoli Ari Hest (singer/songwriter).
tHe flying beaVer Pubaret 488 parliament. 647-347-6567. footWork 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. tHe fountain 1261 dundas W. 416-203-2311. four seasons Centre for tHe PerforMing arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. fox & firkin 51 eglinton e. 416-480-0200. free tiMes Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078. fuzion 580 Church. 416-944-9888. gallery 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781. tHe garrison 1197 dundas W. gate 403 403 roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. george’s Play 504 Church. 416-963-8251. gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. goodHandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. graffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. tHe great Hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossMan’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. guVernMent/kool Haus 132 Queens Quay e. Hard luCk bar 812 dundas W. Hard roCk Cafe 279 yonge. 416-362-3636. HarleM 67 richmond e. 416-368-1920. HeliConian Hall 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. HenHouse 1532 dundas W. 416-534-5939. HigHWay 61 soutHern barbeQue 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. Holy oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HorsesHoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. HugH’s rooM 2261 dundas W. 416-531-6604. insoMnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JaMes JoyCe 386 Bloor W. 416-324-9400. kingston rd united CHurCH 975 kingston. 416-699-6091. kool Haus 132 Queens Quay e. 416-869-0045. laMbadina 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. leaside united CHurCH 822 millwood. 416-4251253. lee’s PalaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. leVaCk bloCk 88 ossington. 416-916-0571. li’ly 656 College. 416-532-0419. liVe toronto 332 richmond W. 416-599-5332. tHe loCal 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.
Stage Trevor Jones 8 pm.
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Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm.
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alleyCatz Graceful Daddies (swingin’ jazz/ blues/R&B) 8:30 pm. blu ristorante & lounge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu John Campbell (piano, vocals) 7:30 pm. tHe Central Michael Kleniec (jazz guitarworld music) 7:30 to 9 pm. CHalkers Pub Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm. doMinion on Queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. eMMet ray bar Derek Ullenboom (ambient electronica) 9 pm. gate 403 Alex Samaras Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Hatch Michael Siklos 9 pm. leaside united CHurCH Benefit Concert for Leaside United Church Warren Hill, Olivia Rox (jazz) 8 pm. tHe loCal Make Out Wednesdays The Ron Leary Quintet. Mezzetta Kye Marshall, Andy Scott (cello, guitar) 9 pm. Miles nadal JCC al green tHeatre Darren Sigesmund & the Strands II Septet 8 pm. See preview, page 37. naWlins Jazz bar The Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. only Café Jazz Response Unit (jazz trio) 8 pm. rex Amanda Tosoff 6:30 pm. rex Jack Zorawski 9:30 pm. roy tHoMson Hall Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.
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royal ConserVatory of MusiC koerner Hall Mozart Unlaced: Benefit for the Glenn
Gould School Young Artists Performance Academy 8 pm. soMeWHere tHere studio Kyle Brenders Quartet (experimental/jazz) 8 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
tHe aVro Mixtape Swap Volume 2 DJ Damn Aykroyds 10 pm. george’s Play Hump Day Dance Party DJ Jon (Latin/top 40) 9 pm.5 goodHandy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 HenHouse Snakepit DJ Jenny McNamee (queer dance party) 10 pm.5 insoMnia Bobby T (funky tracks on wax). rePosado Spy vs Sly vs Spy James Robertson. 751 Mad Punk DJ Justin 10 pm. Wrongbar Bassmentality Mary Anne Hobbs, the Killabits, Zeds Dead doors 10 pm. See preview, page 36. 3
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lou daWg’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294. lula lounge 1585 dundas W. 416-588-0307. MagPie Cafe 831 dundas W. 416-916-6499. Massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. MetroPolitan united CHurCH 56 Queen e. 416-363-0331. Mezzetta 681 st Clair W. 416-658-5687. MidPoint 1180 Queen W. Miles nadal JCC 750 spadina. 416-924-6211. Mitzi’s sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. MonarCHs Pub 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. MusiC gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. naCo gallery Cafe 1665 dundas W. 647-3476499. naWlins Jazz bar 299 king W. 416-595-1958. 918 batHurst 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. 99 sudbury 99 sudbury. not My dog 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. old Mill inn 21 old mill rd. 416-236-2641. old niCk 123 danforth. 416-461-5546. only Café 972 danforth. 416-463-7843. oPera House 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. tHe ossington 61 ossington. 416-850-0161. tHe Painted lady 218 ossington. 647-213-5239. Parts & labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. PHoenix ConCert tHeatre 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. tHe Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. Pogue MaHone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. Port Credit legion 35 Front n (mississauga). 905-278-1705. Press Club 850 dundas W. 416-364-7183. ranCHo relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. rebas Café 3289 dundas W. 416-626-7372. relisH 2152 danforth. 416-425-4664. rePosado 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. reViVal 783 College. 416-535-7888. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rHaPsody Continental Cuisine 10150 yonge (richmond Hill). 905-884-0305. riCHMond Hill Centre for tHe PerforMing
arts 10268 yonge (richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. riCoH ColiseuM 100 princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3900. riVoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roCkPile 5555 dundas W. 416-504-6699. roy tHoMson Hall 60 simcoe. 416-872-4255. royal ConserVatory of MusiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. silVer dollar 486 spadina. 416-763-9139. sky lounge 2680 skymark (mississauga). 905625-9896. slaCk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. sneaky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. soMeWHere tHere studio 227 sterling, unit 112. soniC booM 512 Bloor W. 416-532-0334. sound aCadeMy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. soutHern aCCent 595 markham. 416-536-3211. soutHside JoHnny’s 3653 lake shore W. 416-5216302. sPortster’s 1430 danforth. 416-778-0258. st Paul’s basiliCa 83 power. 416-364-7588. steaM WHistle breWing 255 Bremner. 416-3622337. stout irisH Pub 221 Carlton. 647-344-7676. suba 292 College. 647-272-5067. suPerMarket 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. sutra 612 College. 416-537-8755. taPs & tales 1282 danforth. 416-461-3020. ten feet tall 1381 danforth. 416-778-7333. terri o’s sPorts bar 185 danforth. tiff bell ligHtbox 350 king W. 416-599-8433. toronto underground CineMa 186 spadina. trane studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. tranzaC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. t.s.t’s launCH Pad 46 Hyde. Village VaPor lounge 66 Wellesley e. 647-2910420. Waterfalls 303 augusta. 416-927-9666. tHe Wilson 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. Woo’s lounge 10 dundas e, 4th floor. 416-9779966. Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.
disc of the week
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Loud Planes Fly Low (Merge) Rating:
It’s sad that Kelly Crisp and Ivan Howard, the couple at the core of delicate North Carolina indie rockers the Rosebuds, split after five records. But as their romantic relationship was wilting, the duo kept writing and recording, and the result is another solid collection of dark and poppy tunes – the kind that won them their devoted following. The theme of stressed relationships
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FOO FIGHTERS Wasting Light (Sony) Rating: NNN Foo Fighters fans hoping for a back-tobasics hard rock album get exactly that with Wasting Light. Don’t take too seriously all the promotional hype about it being recorded in a garage to analog tape without the aid of computers – it’s as slick and stadium-ready as ever. Diehards will eat up the band’s seventh album, but it won’t win them any new fans. This kind of post-grunge stadium rock either appeals to you or leaves you cold. The formula is too well established, and they’re not interested in tinkering with it. We might be more excited if the pop hooks were as developed as the guitar crunch – this album’s all about the riffs. It sounds like fun was had in Dave Grohl’s garage, but this good album could’ve been great had they spent more time songwriting prior to plugging in and cranking up. Top track: Back & Forth BENJAMIN BOLES THE QUIET REVOLUTION Early
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Experiments In Time Travel (independent) Rating: NNNN Scott Maynard, a 20-year veteran of the local music scene, is best known for his work with Toronto’s Rock Plaza Central. But with that band on hiatus (just one festival show planned for 2011 while leader Chris Eaton focuses on his literary career), he’s using the time to get his Quiet Revolution solo project rolling. Recorded with eight players over a year, this exceptional debut has that refreshing, tossed-off, anything-goes quality of a side project but
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creeps into the lyrics (sung by both Howard and Crisp), but not in a gloomy, slit-your-wrists kind of way. The allure of the Rosebuds, always competent songwriters, is that a few times on every record they hit absolute gold (2008’s Life Like being their best). Here, it’s the spinetingling last half of Waiting For You, and the catchy-yet-downtrodden vocal melody of Go Ahead that will have you hitting repeat. Top track: Waiting For You JORDAN BIMM with Maynard’s hard-earned, well-honed songwriting chops front and centre. The 13 songs are brisk, teem with hooks and are effortlessly guided by Maynard’s steady hand and casually delivered vocals. Energetic clarinet-dotted pub rock front-loads the album (opener Why Not A Lobotomy is a standout), punky garage rock makes an appearance, and folk gradually takes over, ending with the banjodriven Golden Dawn, which could be a classic. Maynard’s not striving to do any one thing or be anyone else, and the honesty shines through. Top track: Why Not A Lobotomy Quiet Revolution play the Silver Dollar tonight (Thursday, April 21). CARLA GILLIS
J.J. IPSEN AND THE PAPER CROWN Entertainment Ordinaire (Label Fantastic!) Rating: NNN The debut full-length from Woodstock, Ontario’s J.J. Ipsen and his crew is bursting with geeky jazz-pop, Wurlitzer, proggy guitars and big horns. Delivered in a voice reminiscent of early Rufus Wainwright, Ipsen’s songs reference late Beatles and the Kinks. Paper Crown guitarist Justin Nace produced the album, and that band also includes members of the Two Minute Miracles and the Magic. Ipsen’s English lit background comes through in clever, sardonic vignettes about teenage love, suburban life and werewolves. Romping DaDaDa is full of handclaps (and, you guessed it, da-da-das), while Two Minute Miracle-like riffs surface in Crossword Puzzle Riddles. The music is heady almost to a fault; delightful bells and whistles obscure Ipsen’s voice at times. No doubt there’s a sweetheart buried somewhere inside the cynic. Top track: Norwich Avenue J.J. Ipsen & the Paper Crown play the Piston tonight (Thursday, April 21). SARAH GREENE BEN GUNNING ñ NNNN
Destructive/High Road 7-inch (New Scotland) Rating:
Ben Gunning packs more ideas into the two songs on this 7-inch than many bands do in an entire album. The Montreal-born, Toronto-based former Local Rabbit constantly takes the road-less-travelled approach to songwriting, bravely blending smooth jazz with R&B funkiness, pop melodies and lyrics that aren’t easily penetrated and are sung in his disarming, quirky, sky-high voice. It paid off on last year’s Mal De Mer, an ambitious concept album about a cruise ship employee, and continues on this 7-inch recorded single-handedly at Joel Plaskett’s Dartmouth studio (and released on his boutique label). Best are Gunning’s in-your-face effects and instrumentation that stop as abruptly as they start (like Destructive’s distorted opening riff) and the vocal melodies and harmonies that glue everything together and won’t leave you for days (like on the gentler High Road). The songs might be dense and cerebral, but their cumulative effect is simple, clear and satisfying. Top track: High Road Gunning plays the Drake on Saturday (April 23). CG
burner Look At Me Now, and that the music industry (including Justin Bieber and a third of the hip-hop community, who appear on the album) has given him a second chance. If you already didn’t like Brown – he would classify you as a “hater” – this album’s combination of lewd (Wet The Bed, No Bullshit) and saccharine (Next 2 You, Should’ve Kissed You) content, delivered in that gross, oozing cadence of his, will only aggravate you further. Top track: Look At Me Now JASON RICHARDS
Roots/Folk
DAVID PICCO (independent) Rating: NNNN Newfoundland-to-Toronto transplant David Picco from Jetset Motel reverts to his own name for his third album, recorded live over three days in St. John’s, with overdubs done in Toronto. Backed by Jetset Motel’s Jimmy Rose and Sheldon Kelly, as well as George Morgan on drums and Picco’s brother Chris on bass, guitar, organ and piano, he tackles grief, loss and love in an unhurried series of linked songs. The band’s gentle rootsrock vibe and Picco’s understated vocals have rightly inspired comparisons to Uncle Tupelo and Wilco, but the low melodies and lyric imagery recall Ron Sexsmith, the fingerpicked guitar Willie P. Bennett. Christine Bougie’s light, imaginative touch on the lap steel colours Kyp Harness cover True & Beautiful (Picco produced Harness’s new album), 20 Below’s got a great groove, and Your Guess Is As Good As Mine is just heartbreaking. Top track: Your Guess Is As Good As Mine David Picco plays the Dakota tonight (Thursday, April 21). SG
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On a Mission (Columbia) Rating: Katy B’s debut LP sees the 21-year-old UK songstress thoroughly exploring the faces of dance music, sounding fresh and effectively repurposed since her last North American outing. She lends her coy, inviting vocals to everything from deep house on Hard To Get, to dubstep on the title track, trip-hop (yes, really) on the fantastic Disappear and UK funky on Lights On with Ms. Dynamite. Katy B’s main appeal is twofold. First of all, she can sing. Her LDN falsetto sounds at home on pretty much everything. Second, she knows her audience – bassheads and R&B fans. By aligning herself with UK production heavyweights like Benga, Geeneus, Skream, Magnetic Man and DJ Zinc, Katy effectively closes the door on similar artists trying to replicate her sound. Also notable: On A Mission’s song arrangement is spot on and completely avoids the awkward transitions that can dog “genre-defying” projects. A must-have. Top track: Lights On ANDREW RENNIE
R&B
NNNN ñALEX WINSTON
Sister Wife (Heavy Roc) Rating: Detroit-born Alex Winston is a pop artist with a sunny sound and a fluttering soprano that sometimes recalls early Kate Bush. Her six-song debut mini-LP, co-produced by the Knocks and Charlie Hugall, is jammed with uplifting hooks that exude a sprightly, pastoral beauty. There’s a definite Americana influence, but that’s nicely accentuated by satisfyingly modern pop beats. Her songwriting has a charmingly understated sensibility, and the chorus on the title track glides along a lilting melody without coming off as too kooky. These days pop artist bio writers apply the term “operatic” to performers when there’s nothing overtly operatic or classical about their music. Those descriptors get applied to Winston, but in pop the highest-valued currency is catchiness, and she has plenty of cred in that department. Top track: Locomotive KEVIN RITCHIE
CHRIS BROWN F.A.M.E. (Jive/Sony)
Rating: NN If his latest album’s number-one Billboard debut is any indication, Chris Brown is the most beloved pariah in pop music. His marketing strategy for the record was especially clever for someone with an approval rating on a par with Muammar Gaddafi’s; the title’s an acronym for Fans Are My Everything, a go-for-broke dedication to the core audience (teenage girls and weirdos) that stuck by him even after the whole… you know. It helped that he rolled out F.A.M.E. with a string of slickly produced hit singles: Deuces, Yeah 3x and current roof-
= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks
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WOODY HARRELSON DECIDED TO WRITE A COMEDY ABOUT LOVE, FRIENDSHIP AND... A NAZI INSPIRED BY A PRE-CHEERS SUMMER JOB, THE VERSATILE ACTOR & ACTIVIST RETURNS TO PLAYWRITING
W By MICHAEL HOLLETT /Photos by DAVID HAWE woody harrelson is trying to talk me into taking a piss in public, and I’m not buying it. It’s a beautiful autumn day last September, and we’re just outside the U of T student union building on the grassy lawn in Hart House Circle at lunchtime, where dozens, if not hundreds, of earnest and eager students are moving across the greenery. “I’m not a heathen,” I shout to an impatient Harrelson as he points hopefully at the imagined cover of a nearby tree. I dash instead into the cozy confines of Hart House, looking to lighten my load and maintain some dignity in this Twitter and YouTube age. Harrelson gets lost in the sunshine and the serenity, dwelling on the ivy and the ideas that drape this quintessentially Victorian campus. As I re-emerge, he points to a sign for Hart House Theatre that peeks out of the leaves climbing the red brick building that has been my redemption. “Is that really a theatre?” asks Harrelson. “It sure is,” I say, convinced that we may
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have addressed one of Harrelson’s reasons for being in Toronto last fall. In town, as he often is, to promote a film at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Harrelson’s hidden agenda is to find a theatre to stage a play he’s had “three-quarters finished” for years. If he doesn’t find a venue, he might try L.A. for the production, though Harrelson has a bit of a theatre history in this town, having worked with actor/producer Marcello Cabezas, directing Kenneth Lonergan’s play This Is Our Youth here a few years ago. Harrelson has been touring Toronto live venues during his TIFF visit and isn’t satisfied that the theatres he’s seeing are appropriate for the scale of production he's envisioning for the first play he’ll direct and co-write in years. It’s Bullet For Adolf, and it opens tonight (Thursday, April 21) at this very Hart House Theatre. On this September day, though, it’s still just a gleam in Harrelson’s ever-gleaming, bright blue eyes as we try to find our way into the promising space. Eventually, we find a campus official who says yes instead of no and lets us into the
BULLET FOR ADOLF: ALMOST A COMEDY by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, directed by Harrelson, with Hyman, Brandon Coffey, David Coomber, Tashieka McTaggart. Presented by Harrelson and Children at Play Productions in association with Marcello Cabezas, Derrick Chua, Corey Ross/Starvox Entertainment and Hart House Theatre, at Hart House (7 Hart House Circle). Opens tonight (Thursday, April 21) and runs to May 7, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday 2 pm. $32, stu/srs $18. 416978-8849, bulletforadolf.com.
faded but fabulous room, and as we stomp down corridors into the hall’s guts, Harrelson’s heart races faster than our feet. “Holy shit, bro,” he mutters, and then we stumble into the auditorium to find a campus crew busy with final tech details before a dress rehearsal of their production of Richard III tonight. “Hi, I’m Woody,” says the infectiously smiling Harrelson, enthusiastically extending his hand to stunned members of the cast and
crew. They’ve been consumed by preparations for their big night, and now can't quite take in a surprise visit by an actor they’ve loved in TV’s Cheers and film’s Natural Born Killers, Zombieland and his Academy Awardnominated performances, most recently for The Messenger. “I love your theatre. What are you working on?” he asks with the familiarity of a colleague. Once filled in on the last-minute steps for the latest campus Shakespeare production, Harrelson commits to attending tonight’s rehearsal. And after seeing a performance on the hallowed Hart House stage, Harrelson is hooked, sealing the deal with a handshake. When he returns to Toronto for an unprecedented six weeks of rehearsal this spring, it’s to mount a semi-autobiographical play that has been gnawing at the artist for years. The play is set in the summer of 1983, a time that retrospect infuses with all kinds of meaning for Harrelson. It’s the moment, both real and fictional, just before a scraggy kid from the Midwest embarks on his New York continued on page 50 œ
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City adventure, and every detail of his life is about to change. That pivotal period makes for a compelling play and has made for a pretty compelling life for an actor best known for TV and film work but who really only dreamed of Broadway. Harrelson had just finished his theatre degree at Hanover College in Indiana when he and his best friend headed to Houston for construction jobs, economic placeholders until the two could try to take Manhattan. “He made me promise that if he got into Juilliard I’d move to New York with him and we’d be roommates and pursue our dreams, mine of theatre, his of making music,” says Harrelson this spring in Toronto as he sets about mounting his once barely imagined play. “I said sure. I mean, what are the odds? It’s really hard to get into Juilliard. And then he got accepted. “Up until then, I’d planned the long road to Broadway: some summer stock, then regional theatre, and then after that move to New York – a years-long prospect. “Instead, we were there right away, and less than 18 months from that summer I was turning down a lead in a Tony Award-winning Broadway play written by Neil Simon to take a role in the biggest show on television.” Harrelson had been shooting the film Wildcats with Goldie Hawn in L.A, and was set to return to New York and take over a role he’d been
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understudying when the main actor was fired. “They were calling me every day to get me to hurry back, and I’m psyched because I’m going to do Broadway – that was my dream. “And then this Cheers audition came up.” He’d walked out on a previous opportunity after – reluctantly – agreeing to audition for another TV role, a recurring character on Family Ties. After showing up for the tryout, Harrelson bolted, declaring, “I can’t do TV – sorry” and escaped, he hoped with no hard feelings. “The reason this was different was that everybody was telling me that Cheers was a great show. Everybody,” explains Harrelson. “I didn’t even have a TV, but when I did see it, I thought, ‘Wow, this is quality.’ “They filmed the show in front of a live audience. The whole texture of it was theatrical, with mostly one set. “And then you get little indicators in life, little arrows. One of them was that the character had the same name as me and was from Indiana, where I went to college. I begged them to name the college after the town where I went to school. At first they thought it was too regal, but eventually they gave in.” He got out of his Broadway contract, and the rest is TV history. “I can’t imagine my life now if I hadn’t taken that route,” he says. But even a good turn can lead to fears of a dead end.
“I could have been Gilligan. No, not even Gilligan – he was the lead. I could have been the Professor or something,’ says Harrelson, contemplating being trapped in the character that had become his career. “It’s just that when you feel like you have more to offer, it’s a little frustrating.” Six years into Cheers, Harrelson tried to make a dash back to his roots, writing and performing in a one-act play about basketball called Two On Two. It was quietly received, doing little to shake the hold of his Cheers character on Harrelson’s world. “If director Ron Shelton hadn’t taken a chance on me and cast me in White Men Can’t Jump, who knows where I may have ended up?” But consistently playing against type and with a talent that cannot be denied, Harrelson has no fear of being stuck in an acting corner and is taking another run at theatre, not as an escape but as a challenge in the midst of a flourishing career. “Every once in a while you want to see what you’re made of, and now’s that time for me. “I love a lot of the movies I’ve worked on. I’m really psyched about them and I got to use a lot of creativity and creative involvement beyond just standing on my mark and saying a line, so it’s been great. “But even with all that, I’m really a pawn in someone else’s game. I want to get across to people my image of things and my sense of what’s funny. I particularly want to make people laugh.” Bullet For Adolf is funny as hell. Harrelson gets huge laughs from the script and a cast of local amateur actors he’s moulded into an impressive ensemble. The play, though, is not without tension and disturbing plot twists. “Comedy comes from drama. It comes from conflict. There’s stuff where, if it were happening in real life, the characters wouldn’t be laughing. It’s intense. It’s dramatic, even heavy sometimes, but we can see it from the outside and laugh at it. “I feel like escapism is a valid thing. I’ve done a lot of it in my life, and I think that for 90 minutes or two hours it’s a pretty decent, noble desire just to want to make people laugh, to want people to escape, have a good time and forget their troubles.” Harrelson speaks fondly of watching writer Neil Simon and his regular director, Gene Saks, trying to wring every extra laugh they could from the Biloxi Blues script he’d eventually walk away from. And he lights up describing the Cheers cast, writers and directors constantly challenging each other to make the show the funniest it could be. “I honestly would prefer to do just comedies if I could pull it off, but I get offers of great scripts from great directors and what
what's Behind the naked woody?
woody harrelson explains why he stripped down for our cover
“I hope one day to play Rob Ford. I like playing anti-heroes, or in this case, a stone cold villain. Being a method actor, I'll have to start eating meat, hating bikes and enjoying censorship.”
am I going to do? I can’t say no.” But he acknowledges that going to the dark side has its costs. “The first time I took that plunge was in Natural Born Killers, and being in that mindset caused me some difficulties. I did some things I wish I hadn’t done in terms of just being more violent, more on edge.” Writer/director Oren Moverman got him to take on the challenging role in The Messenger that brought him his second Oscar nomination. And Moverman came calling again in the period between Harrelson’s discovery of the Hart House theatre and the play's opening this spring. It’s called Rampart, and in it Harrelson plays an evil renegade L.A. cop in a fact-based film set in the 1990s that opens later this year. “There’s no question that those challenges were there with this character, too. To film it, I had to go visit my shadow. I’d been dragging him behind me for a while. For Rampart, he gets to sit up front. “But I don’t really perceive him as a bad guy. I mean, he is, but I can’t look at him that way. You’ve got to think the guy you’re playing is awesome. Even if you’re playing a serial killer, you can’t relate to the guy as a serial killer – you have to relate to him as a human being who’s a serial killer. “For every part, you have to relate to the heart of the character. In Rampart, he’s a fucked-up guy, but you can tell his heart has been twisted. I think there is a lot of goodness brewing down there.” Harrelson co-wrote Bullet for Adolf with good friend Frankie Hyman, an eyewitness to the 1983 world at the centre of the play. Hyman was in the Houston construction crew that momentous summer, a worldly African American from New York full of advice for the naive Harrelson should he ever make it to the Big Apple. After promising to be friends for life, the two lost touch after Harrelson’s big break. “I hired private investigators to find him, but they had no luck. Finally, I was on the Tonight Show With Jay Leno and I said, ‘If anybody knows where Frankie Hyman is, please call the show.’ His brother was watching, and within 48 hours we were connected again. “He has a gift for the gab and he’s a good storyteller. That’s how he’s always been, so I knew he’d be able to write.” And after many stops and starts, the reunited friends have managed to bring their play and their stories to life in an unlikely location in a city Harrelson has grown to love. “I just love Toronto. I love the vibe here, and I think it’s a fantastic theatre community. I’ve seen some of the best things I’ve ever seen onstage here. Toronto is a wonderful proving ground for a play, and assuming all goes well, every new play I do I’m going to work it right here.” 3 michaelh@nowtoronto.com
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Deep in the Forests Actor returns to Wajdi Mouawad’s complex, poetic world By JON KAPLAN FORESTS by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau, directed by Richard Rose, with Dmitry Chepovetsky, Matthew Edison, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, David Fox, Sophie Goulet, Brandon McGibbon, Alon Nashman, Liisa Repo-Martell, Jan Alexandra Smith, RH Thomson and Terry Tweed (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Previews through Tuesday (April 26), opens Wednesday (April 27) and runs to May 29, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2:30 pm. $10-$46. 416-531-1827.
everyone loves a good mystery. Playwright Wajdi Mouawad ups the ante by adding a powerful personal note to his tales. His most recent works are about characters searching their family history and discovering shocking surprises a generation or two back. In Forests, the third script in a fourplay cycle, the teenage Loup investigates the cause of her mother’s brain tumour and unravels a cycle of mother-daughter stories that flows back seven generations. Epic? You bet. Its complexly woven narrative makes Mouawad’s earlier work, Scorched – one of the best plays of the past decade – seem like a short story by comparison. “Yes, it’s true that Wajdi’s work is challenging,” admits Sophie Goulet, who performed in the Tarragon’s staging of Scorched and returns to
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play a mother (Léonie) and her own daughter (Ludivine) in the Englishlanguage premiere of Forests. “It’s important to convey the gist of the characters and keep them straight, for ourselves as well as the audience. “He creates them using a poetic language that’s rare for a modern playwright. We’ve discovered the best way to think of them is as Greek archetypes who define themselves through resonant rhetoric and involved thought processes.” In fact Mouawad’s latest play, Des Femmes, in which he hoped to cast a convicted French rock star, is based on Sophocles. The bilingual Goulet likens Mouawad’s scripts to the plays she tackled in her three seasons at Stratford. She’s glad that the Tarragon’s Richard Rose directed both Scorched and Forests. “Richard understands Wajdi’s style, the way he structures his scripts. Richard orchestrates beautifully and never leaves you in the dark. At times I’ve felt that the storyline is like a Rubik’s cube in which it’s easy to get lost. Richard sees the overall picture and helps us find a through line.” Jumping back and forth in time, shifting cinematically from one generation to another in a single scene, Forests keeps adding successive layers of story and emotion to the play. “What’s striking is how Wajdi deals with history, the way he moves back-
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ward through this family’s tale in order to move forward with the narrative. It’s like peeling an onion to reach its essence.” Goulet’s two characters couldn’t be more different. Léonie lives with her two sisters in the Ardennes forest during World War I; her daughter, Ludivine, is a Resistance fighter in the Second World War. “Richard encouraged the actors playing the three sisters – I see them as a strange version of Chekhov’s characters – to develop animal alter egos, and of course mine is a lion. The result is that Léonie is a very physical character. “She’s a real contrast to the cultured Ludivine, who was abandoned by her mother and raised in a foster Catholic home. Ludivine has a subtlety of language that Léonie, who lives in her body, rarely demonstrates.” What about the play’s title? The performer thinks in fairy-tale terms. “A forest can be a place of mystery, of beauty as well as horror, like in Hansel And Gretel. It might be fearful if you don’t know where you’re going, but once you’re at peace with it you can make so many discoveries in this natural world.” Sounds like Goulet won’t get lost in these Forests. 3
Like an Emma Goldman for the 21st century, Sky Gilbert is worried that fucking isn’t part of the revolution. In his cerebral yet gripping The Situationists, he cleverly criticizes left-wing intellectuals for not extending their supposedly progressive politics into the realm of sexuality. The drama focuses on a pair of present-day self-described Situationists (adherents of a mid-20th-century movement that used subversive performance art to critique capitalism) who are struggling to plan a public spectacle. Jacques (Gavin Crawford), an uptight middle-aged French profes-
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Opening THE BACKSPACE PROJECT (Humber Theatre/
Chameleon Co-Op). Members of Humber College’s theatre program showcase new plays and a puppetry piece. Opens Apr 26 and runs to Apr 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $5-$10. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-675-6622 ext 3080. BULLET FOR ADOLF by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman (Children at Play Productions/Starvox Entertainment). Eight characters form friendships, share ideas and deal with secrets, betrayal and a blast from the past in 80s Houston (see cover story, page 48). Opens Apr 21 and runs to May 7,
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sor, and Lise (Haley McGee), his adoring assistant and former student, have their identity as radicals uncomfortably challenged by Yvon (Gil Garratt), a mischievous failed law student. Jacques’s robotic commitment to “business-like” self-regulation instantly clashes with Yvon’s sleeve-worn sexuality and produces an odd-couple dynamic that’s funny but also thoughtprovoking. The show’s biggest weakness is a meandering opening scene between Jacques and Lise, where basic details are slow to emerge. However, once Yvon is added into the mix, things get intense and wildly unpredictable. Crawford’s humorously exaggerated French accent waffles occasionally, but the cast is otherwise strong. The realistic set includes an interesting twist: the audience sits on either side of the stage, allowing one half of the audience to see the other through the action. Gilbert does a solid job of directing with both sides in mind. JORDAN BIMM
Haley McGee (left), Gavin Crawford and Gil Garratt find themselves in a sticky situation.
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Cheap thrills GHOST STORIES by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman (Mirvish). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge) for a limited run. $25$79. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 55. Rating: NN The West End hit Ghost Stories comes with a strong social media and wordof-mouth marketing campaign that uses phrases like “Keep telling yourself it’s only a show.” Frankly, it’s hard to forget that. Live theatre isn’t very effective at conveying horror. Campy thrills, maybe – witness the success of Evil Dead: The Musical. But movies, with their realistic gore and ability to make you dread what’s just off-screen are far better at exploiting that fear factor. So despite a few cheesy wafts of dry ice and some abrupt sound and lighting effects, this 80-minute wannabe is a non-starter. Here’s the plot: a chatty professor of parapsychology (Jason Blicker) delivers a lecture about people whose encounters with the occult have made him a believer in paranormal activity. These subjects (strangely, all male) include: a security guard (Jack Lange dijk) who discovers some strange goings-on at a warehouse; a teenager (David Reale) whose car conks out in the middle of nowhere; and a businessman and expectant father (Dar rin Baker) who discovers some un-
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Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32 stu/srs $18 (uofttix.ca). Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, bulletforadolf. com. CINdERELLa (La CENERENTOLa) by Gioacchino Rossini (Canadian Opera Company). The comic opera based on the fairy tale is performed in Italian. Opens Apr 23 and runs to May 25: Apr 23, 28, May 10, 13, 19 and 25 at 7:30 pm, May 1 and 22 at 2 pm, May 7 at 4:30 pm. $62$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. La CLEMENza dI TITO by WA Mozart (Opera Atelier). Measha Bruggergosman, Michael Maniaci and Kresimir Spicer perform the Italian opera seria. Opens Apr 22 and runs to May 1: Apr 22, 23, 26, 27 and 30 at 7:30 pm, May 1 at 3 pm. $33-$166. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, operaatelier.com.
THE COSMONaUT’S LaST MESSaGE TO THE WOMaN HE ONCE LOvEd IN THE ñ FORMER SOvIET UNION by David Greig (Can-
usual things about his home’s nursery. Most of the action consists of recreations of their “scary” stories. Writers Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman know that anticipating something is far more effective than showing it, and they also understand that humour goes a long way in easing the tension. Ironically, when the big reveals come, including an anticlimactic epilogue, they’re either silly or stupid. The all-Canadian cast doesn’t embarrass itself, though the actors are
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asked to deliver a few too many “eh”s to pander to a local audience. The naturalistic sets work fine, too, although the play would be way more spine-tingling in a site-specific setting – an actual warehouse, for instance, or a deserted alley. One of the show’s catchphrases – borrowed from a far superior pop culture phenomenon – is “The first rule of Ghost Stories is you don’t talk about Ghost Stories.” GLENN SUMI Gladly.
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adian Stage). Cosmonauts stranded in a space station and various people on earth all struggle, in their own way, to communicate. Opens Apr 21 and runs to May 14, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. FORESTS by Wajdi Mouawad (Tarragon Theatre). A teenage girl seeks the origins of her mother’s mysterious fatal illness in this drama about family and sacrifice (see story, page 51). Previews to Apr 26. Opens Apr 27 and runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mats). $23$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. THE MONUMENT by Colleen Wagner (ISOKO Theatre/Harbourfront World Stage). A soldier awaiting execution for war crimes is offered freedom by a mysterious woman. Performed in Kinyarwanda with English subtitles. Opens Apr 27 and runs to May 1, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$45. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. THE MUSIC OF GLEE TRIbUTE CONCERT (Sheridan College). Music theatre students present
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songs from the TV show. Apr 26-27 at 8 pm. $20. 1430 Trafalgar, Oakville. sheridanc.on.ca. THE PIRaTES OF PENzaNCE by Gilbert & Sullivan (Toronto Operetta Theatre). The operetta set on a pirate ship gets a staging. Opens Apr 27 and runs to May 1, Fri-Sat and Wed 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $52-$78. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com. SEaSON OF WRaTH aNd PLay (AfriCan Theatre Ensemble). This double bill of plays by Femi Osofisan features The Engagement and Flood! Opens Apr 21 and runs to May 1, Mon-Fri 8 pm, Sun 3:30 pm. $27, stu/srs $22. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. africantheatre.org.
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Loewe (Stratford Festival). King Arthur’s wife betrays him with his most trusted knight in this musical. Previews to May 30. Opens May 31 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/ srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. CaNdIda by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman must choose between her preacher husband and her poet lover. Previews to May 27. Opens May 28 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. THE GRaPES OF WRaTH by John Steinbeck (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Previews Apr 23-May 31. Opens Jun 1 and runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. My FaIR Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Shaw Festival). This musical is based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Previews to May 27. Opens May 28 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.
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bIbLICaL bURLESqUE (Skin Tight Outta Sight). The troupe performs a sexy and sacrilegious Easter show with members of Boylesque TO, Dew Lily, Slim Jim and others. Apr 23 at 9:30 pm. $20-$30. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen
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Doing the right thing isn’t easy, especially when cultural clashes give a moral ambiguity to actions. In writer/ director Christopher Morris’s emotionally charged Night, Western and aboriginal values are often at odds. Daniella (Linnea Swan), a Toronto anthropologist, arrives in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, to return the bones of Lamech, an Inuk man who has literally been shelved for years in an Ontario museum. Lamech’s granddaughter, Piuyuq (Tiffany Ayalik), and son, Jako (Jonathan Fisher), view Daniella’s “charitable” act from different viewpoints. Morris’s production grows in weight and seriousness. The comic tone of the early scenes – in which the dealings of Daniella and a white teacher with the Inuit characters turn the southerners into figures of satire – becomes tragic with the revelations con-
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cerning Piuyuq’s friend, Gloria (Reneltta Arluk), who can’t find a safe place either in her own culture or the Western world that encroaches on it. Performed in both English and Inuktitut (with surtitles), the show switches locations smoothly in a filmic, jump-cut style. The performances are first-rate, with Ayalik’s Piuyuq shifting from a glowing optimist to a fearful teen whose nightmares encroach on her waking life. Arluk’s shy, haunted Gloria, whose sad, ravaged life we can read in her expression, is equally strong. As Jako – angry with himself and the white people who have changed his world – and several other figures, Fisher gives one of his best performances. Swan’s physical work sometimes defines Daniella more strongly than her words do. Intentionally elegant movement sets her apart from those around her; she only realizes late in the play the paternalistic nature of her efforts to help Piuyuq’s family. Gillian Gallow’s set and costumes, Michelle Ramsay’s lighting and Lyon Smith’s sound turn the northern Canadian landscape into a character, alternately savage and nurturing, whose power must be treated with respect.
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CelebRATINg The lIfe Of CAyle CheRNIN
(Cayle Chernin Memorial Fund). This evening features screenings of the late actor’s work and more. Apr 25 at 8 pm. Free (donations to The Cayle Chernin Memorial Fund accepted). Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W. 416-516-2330.
CORONATION ST. STARS – AN AUdIeNCe WITh ‘The CROppeRS’ (Living Arts Centre). Cast
members Julie Hesmondhalgh and David Neilson tell stories in an interview-style theatre show. Apr 21 at 7:30 pm. $45-$79. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000.
fReNCh IMpReSSIONS: SOIReeS WITh debUSSy, RAvel & pOUleNC (Neapolitan Con-
nection). This musical salon features art songs, chamber music and dance. Apr 23 at 7 pm. $25. The Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. 416-231-0006, neapolitanconnection.com. fUCKINg STepheN hARpeR by Rob Salerno (Ten Foot Pole Productions). The journalist presents an election edition of his solo show. Apr 21 at 8 pm. $15 (partial proceeds to Toronto People With AIDS Foundation). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. tenfootpole.ca. heATheR’S STRINg TheORy by Barry ‘Jack’ Jenkins (Foundry Theatre Co). A young man deals with transitioning to female in this play reading. Apr 25 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Detour Bar, 193.5 Baldwin. firstdrafttoronto@ gmail.com. MR ANd MRS hypNOTIST (The Annex Live) Beth Bovaird and Paul Irving mix hypnotism and comedy. Apr 23 at 9 pm. $10. 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999, mrandmrshypnotist. com.
World Stage ends its season with The Monument, beginning April 27.
OMg dIvAS!!!2! (The Cinnamon Hearts/Ryan
G Hinds). The burlesque troupe performs to benefit Camp Ten Oaks. Apr 22 at 9 pm. $10$20. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. cinnamonhearts.ca.
pATTI lUpONe: COUldA, WOUldA, ShOUldA... plAyed ThAT pART (Richmond Hill Centre for
the Performing Arts). The Broadway star performs musical theatre hits. Apr 21 at 8 pm. $77-$85. 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811. ShARRON MATTheWS (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). The cabaret performer presents a musical show. Apr 22 at 8 pm. $15$20. 488 Parliament. brownpapertickets.com/ event/170991.
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Town crier OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder, directed by Joseph Ziegler (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill Street). To May 13. $28-$65. 416866-8666. See Continuing, page 55. Rating: NNN Thornton Wilder wrote Our Town to make theatre that didn’t “evade” audiences with excessive scenery or props. Soulpepper’s production, set against a brick wall with little scenery other than a few chairs and ladders, stays true to Wilder’s modest aesthetic, but that authenticity has the secondary effect of making this celebrated play seem too much like a time capsule. Set in the quaint turn-of-the-century town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire – the First World War barely a twinkle in the Stage Manager’s (Albert Schultz) eye – Our Town paints a moving portrait of a working/middle-class community, focusing on the neighbourly Gibbses and Webbs. NNN = Recommended, memorable scenes
Schultz leads us through approximately 15 years of town life, most notably the relationship between young George Gibbs (Jeff Lillico) and Emily Webb (Krystin Pellerin). America is on the cusp of change, moving away from the homogeneous and relatively innocent life that Grover’s Corners represents. As Mrs. Gibbs, Nancy Palk suggests strength even in the face of (what I perceive as) numbing domestic routine. Her desire to see Paris is heartskewering, as are Pellerin’s 11th-hour attempts to come to terms with the chasm between life and death. Joseph Ziegler’s direction gives the illusion of a busy town flush with activity. Within the simplicity of Shawn Kerwin’s set design, a clutch of black umbrellas adds visual pathos to the funereal final act. It’s the pat, valedictory quality that lessens this handsome production. Elegant, truthful and crowd-pleasing, Our Town seems to regret the loss of an outdated society. But what can we NAOMI SKWARNA learn from it now?
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Performance (Small Wooden Shoe/Canadian Stage/TAPA). Members of the performing arts community meet to share ideas. Apr 21 from 10 am to 6 pm. $10. Dancemakers Centre, 55 Mill, bldg 58. smallwoodenshoe.org.
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Continuing afTer akhmaToVa by Kate Cayley (Tarragon Theatre). A poem by a 30s ñ dissident in Stalin’s Soviet Union feels like a
heartless legacy to her young son. Thirty years later, a Western academic argues dif ferently with the son in Cayley’s subtle play, where small gestures and repressed emotion carry a great deal of weight. Director Alan Dilworth and a strong cast contribute to the production’s power. Runs to May 1, TueSat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2:30 pm. $23$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 4165311827, tarragontheatre.com. nnnn (JK) angelina Ballerina The musical by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre/Hit En tertainment). Angelina and her friends dance to get a starring role in this allages show. Runs to May 29, Sat 1:30 pm, Sun 11 am. $30$50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 4166428973, loweross ingtontheatre.com. as You PuPPeT by Jane McClelland and Mike Petersen (Hank’s Toy Box Theatre). Stuffed animals star in this adaptation of Shake speare’s As You Like It for ages 5 and up. Runs to Apr 21, see website for schedule. $10$20. Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, 165 Front E, Studio. 4168622222, lktyp.ca. BillY ellioT The musical by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is based on the 2000 film about a workingclass boy whose dreams of becom ing a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly de tailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and un compromising. 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 SatSun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 4168721212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) BuZZ (Theatre Passe Muraille). Projects in development by Andrea Donaldson and Anna Chatterton, Aviva ArmourOstroff, Jordi Mand and others are presented for audience input. Runs to Apr 22, ThuFri 7:30 pm. By donation. 16 Ryerson. passemuraille. on.ca.
WedSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2for1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 4163644170, alumnaetheatre.com. haPPY DaYs, a neW musical by Garry Mar shall and Paul Williams (Stage West). This musical is based on the TV sitcom. Runs to Apr 24, ThuSat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mat Sun 11 am. $53$88 (incl buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 9052380042, stagewest.com.
veteran returns to Juno Beach for the 60th anniversary of DDay in this solo show. Runs to Apr 24, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sun 2:30 pm. $25$35, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 4165049971, factory theatre.ca. JohnnY anD June (Port Mansion Entertain ment). This musical tribute show looks at the marriage of Johnny Cash and June Carter
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(The Pub Theatre Company). This interactive show takes a satirical look at the drinking culture. Runs to Apr 23, Sat 8 pm. $15. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. 18006506449, byebyeliver.com. calenDar girls by Tim Firth (Mirvish/Mani toba Theatre Centre). Members of a women’s club make a racy calendar to raise money in this comedy. Runs to May 28, Tue Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $30 $94. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 4168721212, mirvish.com. DiVing normal by Ashlin Halfnight (Red One Theatre Collective/Tuning Puck Coop). Three people wade through addiction, sex and disloyalty in this dark comedy. Runs to Apr 23, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, mat $15 (secureaseat.com). Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. redonetheatre.com. female imPersonaTor shoWs (Zelda’s). Divas from Broadway and film perform weekly. FriSat 9 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. ghosT sTories by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman (Mirvish/Lyric Hammersmith/Phil McIntyre Entertainments). This theatrical experience features stories based on inter views (see review, page 52). Runs to May 29, TueFri 7:30 pm, Sat 5 & 8:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $25$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 4168721212, mirvish.com. nn (GS) guineaPigging by Catherine Frid (Alumnae Theatre). A woman with an addiction looks for help at a drug testing lab. Runs to Apr 30,
tors 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. 4168668666, soul pepper.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) nighT by Christopher Morris (Human Cargo/Performance Spring Festival). The lives of an anthropologist and a teenage Inuk girl intersect during 24 hours of dark ness on Baffin Island (see review, page 53). Runs to Apr 24, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $25$35, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 4165049971, fac torytheatre.ca. nnnn (JK) our class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek (Studio 180/Canadian Stage Company). Slobodzianek’s moving, sometime horrify ing play follows the lives of 10 Polish villa gers – five Jewish, five Catholic – from child hood to old age, from the 1920s to 2000. At its best, the play questions the wrongs that can be done through both action and in action. Runs to Apr 30, MonSat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20$49, limited Mon pwyc. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 4163683110, studio180theatre. com. nnnn (JK) our ToWn by Thornton Wilder (Soulpep per). A stage manager paints a portrait of life in a small American town around 1900 (see review, page 55). Runs to May 13, see website for schedule. $45$65, stu $28; rush $5$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 4168668666, soulpepper.ca. nnn (Naomi Skwarna) Pinkalicious, The musical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to May 29, Sat 11 am, Sun 1:30 pm. $29.50 $39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Os sington. 4166428973, vitaltheatre.ca. romeo anD JulieT by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in Action). This adaptation for young audiences sets the story in a modern, culturally diverse city. Runs to Apr 21, see website for schedule. $15, stu/srs $12. Central Commerce CI, 570 Shaw. 4167034881, shakespeareinaction.org. The school for WiVes by Molière (Théâtre français de Toronto). Molière relies on a cen tral commedia plot here, that of an old man who loves a young woman who in turn loves a young man. There’s lots of humour in the staging, as director Diana Leblanc moves the story from Molière’s France to 40s Montreal, with Alain Doom in fine form as the aged, cuckoldfearing Arnolphe. Runs to Apr 23, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $33$57, stu/srs $28$57. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 4165346604, theatrefrancais. com. nnn (JK) she DiD WhaT?!!! (Famous People Players). The black light theatre company presents a musical based on a children’s book by Diane Dupuy. Runs to Apr 29, TueSat 11:30 am and 6 pm. $59.50, srs $52.50, child $39.95 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 4165321137, fpp.org. The siTuaTionisTs by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). Three characters look at applying Situationist principles to current issues while dealing with their own sexual tensions (see review, page 51). Runs to Apr 24, WedSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $16 $27, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 4169758555, bud diesinbadtimes.com. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) The skin of our TeeTh by Thornton Wilder (George Brown Theatre School). A serio comic look at the human experience and humanity’s resilience. Runs to Apr 23, see website for schedule. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 4168668666, youngcentre.ca. songs for a neW WorlD by Jason Robert Brown (Angelwalk Theatre). If music theatre song cycles are your thing, you’ll love this 90s classic that launched Broadway composer and lyricist Jason Rob ert Brown’s career. Rich lyrics and catchy tunes abound, while director Adam Lamb provides evocative interactions to comple ment each song. Well sung by a powerful ensemble of four, songs like Stars And The Moon and Just One Step nicely elicit a broad range of emotions. Runs to Apr 23, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25$45. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 4168721111, angelwalk.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) TangleD WeB: murDer BY DeTecTion (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Famous sleuths battle for the Detective of the Cen tury Award in this interactive show. Runs to Jun 25, FriSat 8 pm (dinner 6:30 pm; see web site for other shows). $40$83. 2026 Yonge. 4164867469, mysteriouslyyours.com. 3
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Brown Theatre School). This historical drama speculates on the last hours of Russia’s royal family, the Romanoffs. Runs to Apr 23, see website for schedule. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 4168668666, youngcentre.ca. i Think i can by Florence Gibson and Shawn Byfield (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People). Tap dancing is the key means of communication for a group of school kids in this lively production that showcases the work of some fine dancers and the comedy of Melody Johnson, playing a scienceob sessed, Scottish schoolteacher. Runs to May 5, see website for schedule. $10$20. 165 Front E. 4168622222, lktyp.ca. nnn (JK) Jake’s gifT by Julia Mackey (Juno Produc tions/Performance Spring Festival). A WWII
Cash. Runs to May 1, FriSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25$56. Port Mansion Theatre and Restaurant, 12 Lakeport, St. Catharines. port mansion.com. The lion king by Elton John and Tim Rice (Mirvish). The musical based on the Disney film returns. Runs to Jun 12, Tue Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 1 and 6:30 pm (no show May 24 & 31; see website for other times). $20$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 4168721212, mirvish.com. a miDsummer nighT’s Dream by Wil liam Shakespeare (Soulpepper). Direc tor Rick Roberts sets the Bard’s classic com edy 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 vis ually striking, while the ragtag group of ac
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Thursday, April 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents David Acer, Becky Bays, DJ Demers and host K Trevor Wilson. To Apr 24, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.
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Press Club 7 presents the final show w/ Rebecca Kohler, Kathleen McGee, Marilla Wex, Allison Dore, Sara Hennessey, Andrew Johnston, host Veronika Swartz and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. veronikaswartz.com. HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca.
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Bread & Circus presents Punch Drysdale, host Batman and others. 10 pm. $10. 299 Augusta. breadandcircus.ca. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! Second City’s latest sketch revue doesn’t consistently live up to that title, but there are plenty of laughs. Highlights include savage takes on greedy baby boomers, pretentious yoga instructors and an awkward threesome, with Adam Cawley and Kris Siddiqi standing out amongst the hard-
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working cast. The writing needs sharpening, but the ballsy, improv-based finale – if it works – will generate lots of post-show buzz. Wed-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 VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
Friday, April 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21. THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW Centre for
Inquiry presents atheist-friendly comedy. 8:30 pm. $5-$10. 216 Beverley. 416-971-5676. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21. TOKE & JOKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. $5. 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500.
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Saturday, April 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents interactive,
family-friendly improv and sketch. 11 am. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.
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Improv Drop In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. Comedy At The Swan w/ Carmine Lucarelli, MacLeod and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, ralph@blackswancomedy.com. 8-BIT IMPROV Vacantly Occupied presents improv with a video game twist. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN Full Blown Comedy presents stand-up w/ Sandra Battaglini, Jillian Thomas, Rhiannon Archer, Dave Merheje, Keven Soldo and Jon Schabl. Doors 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents its
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sents Nathan Macintosh, Dom Pare, Blair Streeter and others. 9 pm. Free. 596 College. 416-539-8890. COMEDY AT ARCHIE’S Archibald’s Pub presents a weekly show w/ host Liam Kelly. 8 pm. Free. 8950 Yonge, Richmond Hill. 905-889-0235. SOUNDS LIKE A SONG Hard Rock Cafe presents a weekly singing and improv show. 8 pm. Free. 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. 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 a new sketch show every week w/ guest hosts and music. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21. XXX EROTIC COMEDY NIGHT Zanzibar Tavern presents a show w/ host Fast Eddie Bizarria. 8:30 pm. Free. 359 Yonge. 647-831-4975.
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Monday, April 25 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Mark Forward, Heino, Rhiannon Archer, ñ Ben Miner, Destinee Browning, Ali Hassan, MC
Nathan Macintsh and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a weekly game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE FAMOUS & HEINOUS SHOW Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. 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, blackswancomedy.com. 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. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Jim Annan, Jan Caruana and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a weekly show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.
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Tuesday, April 26 COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents Dylan Gott, Kristian Reimer, Tim Golden, ñ Ron Josol, Gilson Lubin and host Matt Holmes.
9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. 416-488-3976. FAT KAT$ COMEDY Nola Belle and Joey Harlem present a weekly show. 9 pm. Free. Axis Gastropub, 585 Bloor W. 416-539-9009. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, up and coming improv teams. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fastpaced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ British Teeth, Fratwurst, the Sketchersons, Marco Bernardi, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber
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Stand Up Dance presents a bicyclepowered theatre/dance mashup by Meagan O’Shea. Previews Apr 22-24. Opens Apr 29 and runs to May 29, FriSun 8 pm. $10-$25. Hub 14, 14 Markham. 416-504-6429 ext 18, standupdance.com. SOLOS OF MY LIFE The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents dancer/ choreographer Sashar Zarif with Soheil Parsa and Katherine Duncanson. Apr 26 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. TEMPORADA Momentum Dance Toronto presents a collection of works about the seasonal shift to spring. Opens Apr 27 and runs to Apr 30, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. momentumdancetoronto.com.
School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Wednesday, April 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/
Jim Colliton, Dwayne Hill, Julie Kim, Joe Ianni, Ken Roche, Dave Shuken and host Matt Billon. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com. THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. zeldas.ca.
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DOWN WILL COME HARPER! (SIDE-PART AND ALL) Warm Summer Hotness presents sketch
comedy inspired by the PM and the election, w/ guests Glockenspiel Away! and Hannah Hogan. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapidfire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents stand-up w/ Damian Rudiak and host Brandon Trainor. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21. TORONTO’S INDIE COMEDY HOUR Catherine McCormick presents new independent comedians, musical acts and an open mic. 8 pm. Pwyc. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. 416-928-6777, indiecomedytoronto@ gmail.com.
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in laura letinsky’s after all, the evocative power of the photographic still life has a metaphysical dimension. Her compositions of discarded or used bouquets, fruit and cutlery lend a stark contemporary dimension to the traditional still life. These exquisitely controlled compositions show more signs of disarray than of order. Plates, napkins, cutlery, flowers and incongruous objects lie on tables in positions that suggest both the richness and precariousness of domestic space. Like some of the
best still life painters of the past, Letinsky imbues everyday things with larger, richer symbolic meanings. In Untitled 23, a table seems to be a narrow white band cutting across a void, a small round vase balancing precariously on the edge next to an uprooted flower and a curled grapefruit rind. Colour, light and placement are used to show how warmth and fragility are counterbalanced. There seems no possibility of taking pleasure in an object without being reminded that it could so easily vanish. The same is true in Untitled 2. Live and dried bouquets of flowers, standins for life and death, are placed matter-of-factly next to each on the rich
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BERKELEY CHURCH Art Gems 11 (benefit for Creative Works Studio), reception/preview 5:30-7 pm, auction 7-9 pm Apr 26 ($100). 315 Queen E. 416-4889989, artgems.ca.
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white surface of a tablecloth. A dead bird and the stain of an absent wineglass accentuate this interplay of presence and loss, delicately lit by what appears to be morning light. Letinsky’s use of objects to underscore the tension between things, desire and loss puts her in the realm of the metaphysical painters of the Flemish and Dutch tradition, though her starkness also brings to mind Spa-
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Domestic order verges on chaos in Laura Letinsky’s exceptional still life photographs.
A Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Exhibition May 1 - 31, 2011 Café Taste, 1330 Queen St. W.
wood, to Jun 12. C Photos: Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. The Juno Tour Of Canadian Art, to Aug 31. Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. $18, srs $15, stu $10, under 25 free to Apr 3, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-9796648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Performance documentation: Humberto Vélez, to Jun 26. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art, ongoing. The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Photos: Karen Henderson, to May 1. The Good Host group show, to May 22 (plus offsite at MOCCA, Metro Hall and Queen W btwn Dufferin and Shaw). Seeing Sound: Sound Art, Performance & Music 1978-2011, to May 22. U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. DESIGN EXCHANGE Laundry: Durham College students, to Apr 25. C Photos: Guy Tillim, to Jun 14. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-3636121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Purloined Stories group show, Apr 27-May 21, reception 6-9 pm (bus from Justina Barnicke 6 pm) Apr 27. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sugar And Spice, to May 1. Betty Woodman, to Jun 5. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price,
nish master Francisco Zurbarán. Her formal rigour is cut with a tendency towards complexity and dissolution. In every print, the rich symbolism of a constructed domestic order is forever frayed at the edges by a wild romanticism. It’s the rich tension between these elements that makes these photographs so intensely watchable. 3 art@nowtoronto.com
30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE It Takes Everyone To Know No One group show, to May 21, curator’s tour 5 pm, plus bus trip to Doris McCarthy Gallery 6-9 pm Apr 27. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. 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 Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to May 13. C Photos (Institute for Contemporary Culture): Edward Burtynsky, to Jul 3. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:309:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Sculpture: Kai Chan, to May 1. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape, to May 1. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Apr 27. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416599-5321. VARLEY ART GALLERY Painting: Carol Wainio, to May 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main. 905-4779511. YORK UNIVERSITY Staging Sustainability conference, to Apr 22 ($80-$100, stu $20-$50). 4700 Keele. stagingsustainability.com. 3
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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Photos: Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt, to Jun 1. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
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Damned dam PROGRESS by Michael V. Smith (Cormorant), 260 pages, $21 paper. Rating: NNN
the word “progress” has multiple meanings for Michael V. Smith. First, it’s an ironic reference to a mammoth dam project. Progress, maybe, but it also signals the death of a small town and forces long-time resident Helen to relocate her home. Her brother Robbie is making slow progress toward accepting his queerness. Returning to the hometown he left for reasons Helen wants to understand may allow him to close the closet door behind him.
And progress means money, enough of it so executives behind the dam want to hide an industrial accident Helen has witnessed so they can finish construction on schedule. Unfortunately, Smith mishandles this last narrative element. It’s the first sequence in the book, and a powerful one. Helen’s anxious drive through a town going through distressing changes is described in taut, evocative prose. Arriving at her mother’s grave, she sees in the distance a man falling into a pit, and goes into a full-scale panic. But Smith abandons that storyline to develop the relationship between
READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, April 21
WARD Poetry. 8 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org.
DAVID BEZMOZGIS Talking about his book The
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Free World. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. SHEILA HETI Talking about How Should A Person Be? 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. POETRY IN PARKDALE Clara Blackwood, John Oughton and others. 7 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. 416-393-7686.
Saturday, April 23 KAREN CONNELLY Discussing her writing with
John Miller. 2:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. SARAH SELECKY Reading from This Cake Is For The Party. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.
Monday, April 25 EDWARD HALLOWELL Talking about his book Shine: Using Brain Science To Get The Best From Your People. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.
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Poetry. 7 pm. Free. Locke Library, 3083 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
RANDY BOYAGODA/HISHAM MATAR/ALEXI ZENTNER Boyagoda reads from Beggar’s Feast,
Matar reads from Anatomy Of A Disappearance, Zentner reads from Touch. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terr, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. COACH HOUSE SPRING LAUNCH Books by Sean Dixon, Helen Guri, Kevin Connolly and others. 8 pm. Free. Revival, 783 College. chbooks.com. RAY JAYAWARDHANA Talking about his astronomy book Strange New World. 7-8 pm. $15, stu $8. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5797. KAMA READING (World Literacy benefit) Andrea Gunraj, Jamie Zeppa and others. 6:30 pm. $60. Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue. 416-9770008, worldlit.ca. JENNIFER MORTON Launching Dirty, Drunk And Punk in an interview with Bunchofuckingoofs lead singer Crazy Steve Goof. 8 pm. $5. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. tinars.ca. ANTANAS SILEIKA Talking about his book Underground. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MICHAEL V SMITH Reading from his novel Progress, with guests Zoe Whittall and others. 8 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 314531-4635.
the siblings. Robbie’s got a big, fat secret that he knows will devastate his sister, and Smith expertly builds the tension until the truth comes out. But what about that industrial accident? More than 100 pages go by before he returns to it. Early on, Helen makes a half-hearted attempt to interest a local journalist in the story, and that should have set the scene for any number of menacing threads that Smith could have woven into the narrative. Too bad. But Smith has a ton of talent, and the story carries a huge SUSAN G.COLE emotional charge. Smith launches Progress at the Gladstone on Wednesday (April 27). See Readings, this page. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com
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Coach House is Canada’s jewel among small presses, so pay attention to the iconic publishing house’s spring launch. The Wednesday (April 27) event at Revival features a new novel by Sean Dixon (The Many Revenges Flynn $22.95), Of Kip Flynn, about punkers’ battles with developers in Kensington Market, and Suzette Mayr’s Monoceros ($22.95), tracing the ripple effect of a Catholic schoolboy’s suicide, as well as new poetry from Helen Guri (Match, $17.95 ), and Gabe Foreman (A Complete Encyclopedia Of Different Types Of People, $17.95). SGC See Readings, this page.
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Audio clips from interview with ZACH BRAFF AND Q&A WITH ISABELLE BLAIS • HOT DOCS EARLY REVIEWS • Friday column • and more He’s smiling, but Zach Braff’s had many postGarden State directing gigs fall through.
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Actor tries to mix up his sensitive-guy image with indie flick By NORMAN WILNER directed by Deborah Chow, with Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbé and Julian Lo. A Filmoption International release. 92 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (April 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66.
zach braff is a pretty charming guy. He’s affable, he’s intelligent and he’s funny – and he’s also got that sensitivity thing going for him, having written, directed and starred in 2004’s proto-hipster drama Garden State. So perhaps you can understand why the former star of TV’s Scrubs would want to change up his image with a movie like Deborah Chow’s The High Cost Of Living. Braff plays Henry, a small-time Montreal drug dealer who finds himself drawn to Nathalie (Isabelle Blais), the pregnant woman he ran down in a hit-and-run. Charming or not, that’s a pretty terrible character to play. “That was the challenge of the whole thing,” says Braff, folding his lanky frame into a couch in the blue room at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in advance of the film’s red-carpet screening earlier this month. “Can you make this person at all likeable? I really just tried to have him be genuinely horrified at himself. He’s not a bad person; he’s just been led down a horrible path.” The film follows both characters as they struggle with the aftermath of the accident. Braff says he was im-
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pressed with Chow’s understanding of regret. “I think people can relate to wishing they could pause and go back, or reverse time,” he says. “Hopefully, most people don’t have anything as horrific as this, but we all have things in our lives where we go, ‘Oh, if I could just go back and switch that
one moment. Why did I do that?’ I think that’s very relatable.” I ask if he regrets not following up Garden State with another directorial venture. “I’ve been trying, man,” he says. “I’m going for the record for number of movies about to happen [that] fall through. I’m active on Twitter and
Facebook, and every third comment is ‘How come you haven’t made another movie?’ I find that very flattering, but the truth is, I’ve just had a number fall through.” Braff ended up channelling his creative energy into writing a stage play that will open off-Broadway this summer. “It’s called All New People,” he says. “A guy’s about to hang himself in a REVIEW beach house in the dead of winter in THE HIGH COST OF LIVING New Jersey, and through a set of cir(Deborah Chow) Rating: NN cumstances three strangers show up, I’m still not sure how The High Cost Of Living made it onto Canada’s Top Ten, stop him and spend the night getting let alone how it took the best Canadian first feature award at TIFF last year. It’s wasted together, celebrating his birthjust not very good. day with him. And it’s a comedy.” Deborah Chow’s stilted and increasingly scoff-worthy exercise in handHas he thought about just going wringing manipulation casts Zach Braff as a Montreal drug peddler who the no-budget route, buying an HD befriends a traumatized pregnant woman (Isabelle Blais) still carrying camera and making his own movher stillborn fetus after a hit-and-run. ie? What he’s not telling her is that he “That’s pretty much where I’m was the guy driving the car. headed,” he says. “Obviously, Blais and Braff do their best to if one of the things I’ve give real performances, but the got going comes tomechanics of the movie make it gether, I’ll do that, an uphill battle: Chow’s but my new plan is screenplay unfolds like a to make something linear version of one of for no money – Guillermo Arriaga’s maybe even the misery-porn scripts, with adaptation of this characters making play, because I illogical decisions for no could keep it very other reason than to small. I’m running out keep the plot moving in of patience with havever-gloomier directions. ing a zillion chefs in Isabelle Blais and Zach NW the kitchen.” 3 Braff try to deliver real performances – at a Cost.
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Director Rose Bosch wants a new generation of French people to learn something about the largest human catastrophe of the last century. La Rafle (The Roundup) tracks the 1942 arrest of 13,000 Jews in Paris, their subsequent internment in the Vélodrome, their stint in a nearby prison camp and, eventually, their shipment to Auschwitz. The story follows one family headed by a leftist dad (a soulful Gad Elmaleh) but centres on real-life Protestant nurse Annette Monod (Mélanie Laurent), who tries to give the prisoners some comfort, especially the children. Though the producers allege that every incident in the film actually occurred, Bosch gets a few things wrong. For example, the soldiers who separated children from their mothers in the internment camp were French, not German, as the film suggests. And you may not believe it possible, but Udo Schenk, in a terrible performance, manages to turn Hitler into a caricature. The film is beautifully made – perhaps too beautiful. The prisoners have that way-too-clean look, and you’d never know that most of the children were suffering from painful skin diseases such as impetigo. But the set piece in the Vélodrome is spectacular, and there’s no denying the SUSAN G. COLE tragic force of the story.
Jean Reno (left) and Gad Elmaleh re-enact a disturbing page from history.
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FIGHTVILLE D: michael tucker, Petra epperlein | USa | 85 min
Brutal. Bloody. Beautiful. Fightville throws us into the cage with Ultimate Fighting Championship competitors to reveal the raw power and focused determination it takes to emerge a champion. THU, APR 28 FRI, APR 29 TUE, MAY 3
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Actor and political satirist Sabina Guzzanti’s biting critique of government ineptitude, corruption and exploitation following the tragic 2009 earthquake that devastated L’Aquila has already been immensely controversial in Italy. Guess who’s the main target?
Are the minerals in your mobile phone contributing to the violence in eastern Congo? Filmmaker Frank Poulsen documents one of the world’s most notorious mines and exposes its links to the bloodshed that plagues the region.
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One hundred of the brightest kids from across the Islamic world arrive in Cairo for the world’s oldest Koran-reciting contest. Facing opponents nearly twice their age, three 10-year-old prodigies fight for their only shot at a brighter future.
Witness the incredible love story—and “pandrogyne” art project—of Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye. Inspired by Brion Gysin’s cutups, the film re-members the devoted couple’s transformation: a series of cosmetic surgeries undergone to more closely resemble each other.
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See complete fest schedule, early reviews and spotlight on Alan Zweig at nowtoronto.com/hotdocs.
Documenting the path to Oscar
10 Hot Docs hot tickets
The fest has increased the number of screenings this year, but you can’t expect to just drop in and get a seat. Avoid disappointment and get your tickets now for these big-buzz films. Then brag that you saw a film first at Hot Docs. For ticket info, see hotdocs.ca.
Morgan Spurlock, no stranger to selfpromotion, directs POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.
Becoming Chaz
(Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato) Sonny and Cher’s offspring transitions from Chastity to Chaz in this big-buzz doc centring not on the celebrity parents but on Chaz and his relationship to his very candid girlfriend. Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato helmed Party Monster, Inside Deep Throat and The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, so they’re used to dealing with controversial topics. Screens April 29, May 1 and 8
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Constance Marks) Everyone knows Elmo, but no one knows Kevin Clash, the creator and performer behind the little red guy. Constance Marks’s documentary – which has been building up buzz at the Sundance, SXSW and Full Frame festivals – introduces us to the man behind the Muppet. Screens May 6, 7 and 8
Bury The Hatchet (Aaron Walker)
What begins as a film about New Orleans’ indigenous communities becomes something else after Hurricane Katrina hits in this powerful doc filled with jazz and Creole music. Screens May 1 and 3
Albert Stainback roars in Fightville.
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
(Dori Berinstein) Last year, Hot Docs generated big buzz for Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work. This time around, the fest takes a look at another female entertainment legend, the inimitable star of Hello, Dolly! Yes, she’s still alive (and in her 90s). Screens May 2, 5 and 8
Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
(Rodman Flender) When Jay Leno decided to repossess The Tonight Show after tanking in prime time, Conan O’Brien found himself on a forced vacation from broadcast media. So he went on a multi-city tour of live performances, and director Rodman Flender (Leprechaun 2) tagged along for the ride. Screens April 30, May 1 and 2
Fightville
(Michael Tucker, Petra Epperlein) With Toronto getting ready to host its first Ultimate Fighting Conference, Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s bruising look at two up-and-coming mixed martial artists should be one of the hottest tickets at Hot Docs. (It’s also the only other movie playing on the festival’s opening night.) Screens April 28, 29 and May 3
Hell And Back Again Kevin Clash enjoys Being Elmo.
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(Danfung Dennis) We’ve had a lot of documentaries about the military experience in Afghanistan, but Danfung Dennis does
something different with the form, intercutting footage of a platoon of U.S. Marines with the gruelling stateside recovery of Sgt. Nathan Harris, wounded in an ambush during that tour. Screens May 3 and 5
POM Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
(Morgan Spurlock) He super-sized himself on a McDonald’s diet and scoured the globe (sort of) in search of Osama bin Laden. Now stunt documentarian and inveterate self-promoter Morgan Spurlock looks at the scourge of product placement in cinema – by making a movie that’s entirely financed by product placement. If you can’t get tickets, don’t worry; it’s set to start its theatrical run May 6, just a week after opening the festival. Screens April 28 and 29
Project Nim
(James Marsh) Director James Marsh follows his Oscar-winning Man On Wire with another incredible tale of New York in the 1970s: the story of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised among humans as part of a Columbia linguistics experiment to communicate with another species. You’re going to be hearing a lot more about this movie in the months to come. Screens May 5 and 6
How do you get your documentary to the Academy Awards? It’s all about visibility. Sure, you can count on the alchemy of strong reviews and a notorious subject to land you on Oscar’s short list – as Banksy did with last year’s prankish Exit Through The Gift Shop – but for the most part the rules are pretty much the same for docs as they are for studio features: orchestrate a festival premiere and get people talking. Hot Docs has a strong record of giving Toronto its first glimpse of future Oscar contenders. James Marsh’s Man On Wire played here in 2008 on its road to winning the Academy Award for best documentary feature – though technically its buzz started a few months earlier at Sundance. Other films that have picked up Oscar momentum at Hot Docs include Super Size Me in 2004, Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Murderball and Street Fight in 2005; Iraq In Fragments in 2006; No End In Sight
Team Coco fans will eat up Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.
Wiebo’s War
(David York) This portrait of eco activist Wiebo Ludwig, who did time for sabotaging oil wells near his land in the late 90s, has everything a great doc needs: a superb story that rewrites the script the media wrote about Ludwig at the time, a fascinating character in Ludwig himself, and terrific footage shot by his family as they encountered federal authorities and gas company executives. Screens April 30, May 3 and 7 NOW STAFF
Last year’s Hot Docs slate included Oscar nom Waste Land.
and War/Dance in 2007; and Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country in 2009. Last year, Hot Docs helped launch Gasland and Waste Land – though Oscar’s ultimate winner, Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, made its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF also makes a point of launching a few Oscar contenders of its own, including documentary feature winners Bowling For Columbine and The Fog Of War. That’s just how things go in this town. NORMAN WILNER
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money. These people want to move into other areas of entrepreneurship. But in many cases, they’re not very structured, they’re not very organized – so they actually liberate you a lot. You can get a lot done in that kind of environment. I can’t let you go without asking about the Psycho remake. It was dismissed at the time, but it’s such an interesting movie. It’s an art project. It’s a conceptual artwork. The film doesn’t matter; the film was just a by-product of the process. Van Sant has talked about how making the movie gave him licence to analyze the original from the inside out for months on end. Yeah, exactly. You know, when you copy from a master, you realize in that process... you gain a great deal of... what’s the word? Engagement and pleasure. It was an honourable process for us, a great pleasure. NORMAN WILNER
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Cinematographer, Chungking Express If you’ve never seen Chungking Express, you should line up for tickets to its limited run at TIFF Bell Lightbox, like, now. Wong Kar-wai’s giddy study of urban romanticism in 1990s Hong Kong is one of the key moments in Chinese-language cinema – a hastily produced movie that feels utterly alive in every frame. That’s largely due to the gorgeous imagery of Christopher Doyle, who will introduce the film’s 7 pm screening on Saturday (April 23). Born in Australia, the peripatetic cinematographer came to prominence working with Wong in Asia, but he’s collaborated with M. Night Shyamalan on Lady In The Water, Jim Jarmusch on The Limits Of Control and Gus Van Sant on his infamous remake of Psycho. From Los Angeles, Doyle discusses Chungking Express, the revitalization of Asian cinema and the appeal of revisiting a masterwork. Chungking Express was famously shot during a lull in the production of another film, the martial arts epic Ashes Of Time. How was that? Yeah, it was the quickie. I think it was a mixture of the frustrations of being in the desert for such a long time and, I guess, an economic need of some sort. And also just to sort of refresh oneself. And you shot it in your own apartment? I’d just moved there two or three months before, and it seemed like such a perfect metaphor. The physical and geographical location – it’s right on the edge of the entertainment district, but it’s also literally across the street from
the biggest “wet market” in Hong Kong. The continuity of time and place really focused our energy. And the energy of Hong Kong was very different than that of China at that time. It all kicked in. I was working in the day and sleeping on the floor at night, so I had a really tactile feeling for the film [laughs]. Hong Kong’s cinema was exploding at the time, keeping pace with the economic boom. And now China’s a financial superpower. Is that having a similar effect on its film industry? The Chinese film industry is the most booming industry in the world at the moment, because you have this fresh
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classes, get a part-time job and eventually attend college. But after his ambitious cousin Arya (Pedram Ziaei) introduces him to a few Persian-Canadian partiers, he’s soon distracted by allnight clubbing and drugs. Clunky writing and many
Lost clichés LOST JOURNEY (Ant Horasanli). 89 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (April 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN
More earnest after-school special than first-run feature, Lost Journey tells a cautionary tale about a young Iranian’s rocky assimilation into Canadian society. The only novelty for local audiences comes from a few glimpses of Toronto. Newly set up in his aunt and Reza Sholeh and Shiva uncle’s suburban home, Negar take a familiar strait-laced Pedram (Reza Journey. Sholeh) is set to take ESL
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CHUNGKING EXPRESS (Wong Kar-wai) Rating: NNNNN Made three years before Hong Kong’s handover to China, Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express now plays as a snapshot of the city and its inhabitants at a moment of personal and societal upheaval. Primarily, though, it’s a deeply romantic study of two broken-hearted police officers whose stories are only passingly connected. Officer 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) tries to power through his breakup angst with cans of pineapple and an obsession with a mysterious blond (Brigitte Lin). Elsewhere in the city, the misery of Officer 663 (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) leads a lovelorn female diner waiter (the wonderful Faye Wong) to sneak into his apartment while he’s out and do some light cleaning. Vividly engaged with Chinese pop culture, Chungking Express is unapologetically eccentric without being cloying or affected. (Quentin Tarantino was its biggest American fan, and it’s not hard to see why.) It’s a glorious visual experience, capturing Hong Kong as a playland of neon, smoke and sunglasses. And, yes, even if you own the Blu-ray, it’s worth seeing on the big NW screen at least once.
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Don’t Repeat REPEATERS (Carl Bessai). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (April 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NN
Groundhog Day for addicts. Two guys and a girl in a Mission, BC, rehab centre get simultaneous electrical shocks and, just like the Bill Murray comedy, find themselves trapped in a day that keeps repeating. One of them takes it as a licence for escalating violence. For all three, it’s the day they’re supposed to begin making amends to the people they wronged as addicts, step nine in their 12-step program. Kyle (Dustin Milligan) and Sonia (Amanda Crew) give it a shot. Mike (Richard de Klerk) doesn’t bother and, once their dilemma becomes clear, decides to turn it to his advantage. Drunkenness and robbery escalate to rape and murder. The idea makes a good metaphor
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loose narrative threads hamper the predictable script. Ant Horasanli is used to directing music videos, so the club scenes pulse with life, although when Pedram takes his first sip of vodka or hit of ecstasy, the camera angles and ominous score immediately tell us he’s about to enter Sodom and Gomorrah. The acting, though, is generally good. Sholeh is believable as the young naïf, as is Hamid Savalanpour as his corrupting buddy and Nasrin Javadi as his concerned aunt. Persian music star Andy Madadian plays Pedram’s ESL teacher, but he’s not asked to do much except smile and look helpful.
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Camera shy BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK (Richard Press). 84 minutes. Opens Friday (April 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NNN There’s lots of eye candy and plenty of fascinating tidbits about the fashion industry through the decades, but somehow Bill Cunningham New York never comes into focus. That may have something to do with its subject: the thin, energetic and squeaky-voiced octogenarian photographer best known for cycling across Manhattan and chronicling trends in the New York Times’ style section.
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Contrived Cats AfRICAN CATS (Keith Scholey, Alastair Fothergill). 89 minutes. Opens Friday (April 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: NNN The marketing material for Disneynature’s new Earth Day release, African Cats, frames the film as a “True Life Adventure” rather than a documentary. That’s probably a good idea. Where Earth and Oceans let audiences bask in gorgeous footage of the natural world – constructing the simplest of narrative frameworks around it – African Cats wants to tell a story. Directors Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill have shaped their footage
Richard de Klerk (left), Amanda Crew and Dustin Milligan are on a Mission.
for the recovery process and everybody’s need to move on with life, but this is only a so-so movie. There’s no shortage of action, but it never heats up very much as either drama or fantasy. That’s due to pedestrian dialogue, a pair of male leads who, while competent, look like actors, not addicts, and a climax that comes out of nowhere and makes no sense in terms of character or premise. Director Carl Bessai makes good use of the Mission locations but relies heavily on TV-style two-shots. ANdREW dOWLER
Cunningham lets director Richard Press sit in on editing sessions and follow him to shoots, but he generally hides behind his nervous smile. Has he ever had a relationship? What does religion mean to him? Although Cunningham cries after one of these questions, he remains a mystery. His instinct for what’s new and hot, however, is dead on – and he’s got a near encyclopedic memory of fashions he’s seen come down the runway, as various fashionistas attest to in warmhearted (and often spectacularly outfitted) interviews. Press attempts to add some tension by focusing on Cunningham and his aged neighbours’ impending eviction from their cramped rent-controlled studios at Carnegie Hall, but that doesn’t quite pay off. What’s ironic is that while the modest and principled Cunningham is obviously a key player in the fashion industry, he almost disappears into the background of his own film. GLENN SUMI (all shot on location at Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve) into the modern equivalent of the old Wonderful World Of Disney, following the parallel fortunes of an aging lioness and her cub on one side of a river, and a singlemom cheetah and five adorable cubs on the other. But it’s not enough to let things play out as they would on the savannah. The story needs rivalry, grudges and noble sacrifices, imparted to us in voice-over by Samuel L. Jackson. The animals aren’t allowed to be animals; they have to be characters in a larger, editorially created drama. The HD footage of the lions and cheetahs – and the rest of the Kenyan wildlife – is consistently stunning. But African Cats shouldn’t be taken seriously as a nature doc by anyone over the age of eight. NORMAN WILNER
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(George Nolfi) is a nimble, genre-shifting hybrid starring Matt Damon as a New York politician who meets the girl of his dreams (Emily Blunt) only to learn a mysterious team of suits led by John Slattery and Anthony Mackie is bent on keeping him from ever seeing her again. This smart, resourceful picture demonstrates that even the most ridiculous premise can be made to work if you get the tone right. 106 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity
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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
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leaves some thread dangling but deserves to be seen just for the risks it takes. Caroline (Kat Dennings) has just moved with her dad to a sleepy small town after her mother’s death. She’s smarter than everybody else at her high school and can’t connect with anybody but her history teacher (Josh Lucas). Writer/director Goldbach creates a strong sense of alienation as the kids do whatever drugs they can find, or invent, and a serial killer on the loose sets up a backdrop of growing terror. The big story here is Dennings, who’s compelling as the teenager trying to take control of her life – and the men around her. She’s a
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BATTle los Angeles (Jonathan Liebesman) is an alien-invasion blockbuster designed for people who wondered why Steven Spielberg’s War Of The Worlds was all flight and no fight. After 20 minutes of the characters’ prefab baggage, it’s all forward momentum, except for a generic motivational speech by Aaron Eckhart’s world-weary staff sergeant. Simultaneously satisfying and superficial. 116 min. nnn (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
cerTified copY (Abbas Kiarostami) is a psychological puzzler about the murky relationship between an antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche) and an art historian (William Shimell), revealed as they drive through Tuscany. Intriguing but also aggravating, its main virtue is 2010 Cannes acting prizewinner Binoche. Subtitled. 106 min. nnn (SGC) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge, Mt Pleasant
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BArneY’s Version (Richard J. Lewis) is a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel, looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Montreal television producer (Paul Giamatti). Simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian. 132 min. nnn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
(David Lickley) is a lovely, up-close look at young elephants in Kenya and orangutans in Borneo. The creatures, orphaned at an early age, have been brought to rescue centres where caregivers nurture and prepare them to return to the wild. While Morgan Freeman’s narration provides easy information suitable for small children, director David Lickley cuts between the two facilities every few minutes to take us through the process. The animals are fascinating and expertly photographed, with flawless and unobtrusive 3-D work making the experience more vivid. 40 min. nnnn (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24
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of a very good 1981 rom-com about a rich, drunk playboy who falls in love with a much poorer restaurant server but must marry the woman his parents have chosen or be disinherited. Russell Brand is funny, energetic and perfect casting for Arthur’s compulsive joke-making and loopy asides. Trouble is, he’s almost the only one allowed to be funny. The dry sarcasm of his live-in nanny, Hobson, is the right foil for Arthur’s addled self-indulgence, but her scenes seem rushed and Helen Mirren’s performance is surprisingly lacklustre. Greta Gerwig is merely winsome as Arthur’s beloved. 110 min. nn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade,
Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon pack a big trunk in Water For Elephants.
Water For Elephants (D: Francis Lawrence, 121 min) Twilight’s Robert Pattinson and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon star in this adaptation of the Sara Gruen bestseller about love under the big top.
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (D: Tyler Perry, 106 min) Director Tyler Perry dons the wig and attitude to play his alter ego, Madea, in the latest instalment of his comedy-dramas about an African-American family.
Textuality (D: Warren P. Sonoda, 94 min) Will & Grace’s Eric McCormack and Sex And The City’s Jason Lewis star in a film about text-messaging and relationships.
The Warring States (D: Chen Jin, 126 min) The Warring States is a Chinese historical epic that takes place from 475 to 221 BC. All films screened after press time – see reviews at nowtoronto.com/movies or in next week’s issue.
big star in the making. Cool Canuck indie tunes, too, especially the closing track by Metric. 98 min. NNN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES
(David Bowers) doesn’t quite live up its predecessor, but that’s only because the earlier movie set the bar pretty high for modern comedies about kids. This instalment deals empathetically with sibling rivalry, as the titular wimpy kid (Zachary Gordon) is forced to bond with his meanspirited older brother (Devon Bostick). Despite some childish gags, Rodrick Rules continues the franchise’s knack for candidly relating to adolescent concerns. 100 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale
GOOD FOOD, BAD FOOD (Coline Serreau)
has the makings of a great documentary. Director Serreau wants to examine the contrasts between factory-farmed, massproduced foodstuffs and sustainable food initiatives, an issue that’s going to become increasingly important in the coming decades. But her aggressively uncinematic approach – starting off with 15 minutes of academic talking heads and slowly folding in footage to illustrate their arguments – works against the urgency of her subject. I agree with just about every one of Serreau’s arguments; I only wish she’d articulated them in an interesting or engaging manner. Some subtitles. 113 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
HANNA (Joe Wright) stars Saoirse Ronan
as teen trained from birth in the mountains by her rogue agent dad (Eric Bana) to assassinate spy operative Cate Blanchett. Blanchett has a gas as the deliciously nasty baddie and almost steals the movie, but Ronan has enough charisma to hold her own as the strangely dispassionate killer avenging the death of her mother. The movie’s rife with plot inconsistencies. For example, the brilliant young assassin carelessly gives away information to the warm and toasty family who take her in when she’s on the run. But there’s great music by the Chemical Brothers and, thanks to the spectacular action sequences (the film is gorgeously shot), the story streaks along at breakneck speed. Pretty damn entertaining. 111 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (Deborah
Chow) 92 min. See interview and review, page 60. NN (NW) Opens Apr 22 at Cumberland 4.
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (Jason Eisener) is a lurid, gruesome, violent revenge thriller in the mode of Lloyd Kaufman’s cheesetastic 80s epic The Toxic Avenger, all garish colour and spurting squibs, with the occasional burst of T&A titillation – which makes the sight of Rutger Hauer giving an actual performance all the more surprising. There are moments when his considered portrayal comes close to derailing the movie’s heedless energy… and then someone sets a schoolbus full of children on fire, and everything’s all right again. 86 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre
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they come: the rebellious son of the Easter Bunny runs away to Hollywood, befriends an underachieving human and learns the value of being true to himself. All of those things do indeed happen, but they’re infused with a demented, genuinely subversive spirit that comes straight from star Russell Brand. (This may be the only children’s film to include a lightningquick reference to Roman Polanski’s rape
conviction.) Director Hill’s film credits include the first Alvin And The Chipmunks and second Garfield movie. I’m not sure how he got this one made, but whatever he had to do, it was worth it. 94 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Sylvain Chomet) finds the creator of The Triplets Of Belleville turning an unproduced script by Jacques Tati into a marvellously dry, rewardingly subtle comedy about an aging French stage magician who befriends a Scottish village girl and takes her with him to a performance in the big city. 80 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre
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(Susanne Bier) follows two families coping with matters of morality and vengeance. Christian (William Jøhnk Nielsen), full of fury after his mother dies, turns to revenge as a means of getting control over his life. He begins a friendship with Elias (Markus Rygaard), whose dad (Mikael Persbrandt) is off practising medicine in Africa – gorgeous sequences there – and who is the school bully’s prime target. After he takes care of Elias’s nemesis, Christian looks for bigger fish to fry. Persbrandt is superb as the good doctor trying to resist violence, and Bier expertly ramps up the tension in this intelligent meditation on masculinity, family and accountability. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film. Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) Varsity
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(Denis Villeneuve) successfully adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play Scorched, a multi-layered mystery set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. Villeneuve’s control over the ambitious material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day Greek tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
INSIDE JOB (Charles Ferguson) takes
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a very complex subject – the story of the global economic collapse triggered by the 2008 failure of several American financial institutions – and explains it in terms so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, you were probably staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant
INSIDIOUS (James Wan) finds the Saw franchise creators – director Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell – teaming up with Paranormal Activity producer Oren Peli for a story of a family plagued by spooky craziness. It’s more a reworking of Poltergeist than anything else, with beleaguered parents Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne spending a lot of time walking into rooms while something scary lurks just out of frame. The tension is nicely handled in the first half, but once it’s time to start paying off with proper horror, Wan falls back on the same imagery he always uses. If you’re terrified of Tiny Tim chart hits and visions of 1950s families in their Sunday best, this might be one of the most intense theatrical experiences you ever have. And if you’re not, well, it’s still way better than the one with the ventriloquist’s dummy. 92 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview,
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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. There’s lots of smouldering chemistry between Jane and her Byronic employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), but some of their dialogue feels clunky. Adriano Goldman’s camera captures the look and feel of each of the settings, with some candlelit scenes worthy of a La Tour. 118 min. NNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
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(Gregg Araki) takes a lusty dive into a frenzied mixture of hormones, stubble and end-times imagery. Sexually omnivorous film student (Thomas Dekker) plunges into a surrealistic underworld of young flesh, hot clubs and what appears to be an apocalyptic cult out to bring about the end of the world. (But, you know, in a hot way.) Writer-director Gregg Araki somehow lets us know it’s okay to just enjoy the ride. It’s unapologetically batshit crazy, but oddly satisfying – certainly far more so than a stylish, impenetrable head trip like Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales... or a self-important downer like Araki’s own Doom Generation. 86 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
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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, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
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MULRONEY: THE OPERA (Larry Weinstein) chronicles the rise and fall of Canada’s 18th prime minister with savage satire, broad performances (not to mention chin prosthetics) and some entertaining if derivative music. Writer Dan Redican, who also plays a faux historian, relishes recounting the scandals during the PM’s tenure, many re-enacted by fine Canadian actors like Seán Cullen and Susan Coyne lip-synching to their unseen operatic counterparts. Brilliant chameleon Rick Miller (MacHomer, Bigger Than Jesus) makes his Mulroney an almost sympa-
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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 longer protect
lighting. 107 min. NNNNN (RS) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
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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 alien-encounter sites. 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) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
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RIO (Carlos Saldanha) is at its best when depicting the spectacular beauty of Rio de Janeiro via artful use of aerial photography, animation and 3-D. Sadly, the movie seldom rises above the mildly amusing. Blu is a blue macaw, raised as a pet who never learned to fly. The last male of his species, he’s brought to Rio to mate with Jewel, the last known female. They’re stolen and escape, chained at the ankle. Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, who voice Blu and Jewel, are adequately chirpy, but the dialogue offers nothing special.A brisk pace and lively visuals keep things rolling along pleasantly enough. 96 min. NNN (AD) 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 SCREAM 4 (Wes Craven) reassembles sur-
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thetic figure, even as he power-shops to please wife Mila (Stephanie Mills), or, in one of the film’s nastiest sequences, croons Irish tunes with a forgetful Ronald Reagan (Joe Matheson) while a scheming Nancy (Janet Laine-Green) eyes our natural resources. Weinstein’s direction is brisk and energetic, and Alexina Louie’s music is blandly appealing, coming alive mostly in sequences that borrow from Carmen, La Bohème and (most memorably) the end of Dido And Aeneas. 100 min. NNN (GS) Apr 27 at 7 pm, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
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
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vivors of the self-reflexive series – Neve Campbell’s perpetually threatened Sidney Prescott, Courteney Cox’s pointy journalist-turned-author Gale Weathers and David Arquette’s easily distracted lawman, Dewey Riley – and brings the action back to Woodsboro for the last stop of Sidney’s book tour and the first stop on the ghost-faced killer’s comeback. The story offers the occasional nod to Facebook friends and text messaging, but screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Craven really just want to make the same movie all over again, with attractive teens getting creepy phone calls (there’s an app for that) and debating what they’d do if they were living in a movie. And this time, the frame of reference is shockingly limited; the only post-Scream film that gets a shout-out is my beloved Shaun Of The Dead, but that just points out how high the bar has been raised for self-aware horror these days. 112 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
SON OF THE SUNSHINE (Ryan Ward) is the magic-realist tale of a young Toronto man (Ryan Ward, who also directed and cowrote) with Tourette syndrome who undergoes experimental surgery to rid himself of the tics, only to find out that losing his affliction also means giving up his supernatural ability to heal the sick and dying. Every moment is agitated and abrasive, with Ward directing every last one of his actors to go as big as possible and piling on one self-consciously gritty element after another. 87 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema SOUL SURFER (Sean McNamara) turns the true story of Bethany Hamilton – the Hawaii teen who lost an arm to a shark and dedicated herself to getting back on her board as soon as possible – into a rote sainthood narrative. The vaguely Christian touches grow more questionable as Soul Surfer goes on, pitting AnnaSophia Robb’s blond, blue-eyed Bethany against a series of dark-haired or outright swarthy characters who dare to stand in her way. The worst thing about McNamara’s strategy is that he probably doesn’t realize how insidious it is; he’s just making a wholesome movie for wholesome people who really, really don’t want to think about what their entertainment means. 106 min. NN (NW)
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Markus Rygaard and Trine Dyrholm deal with life In A Better World.
401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
Source code (Duncan Jones) casts Jake
Gyllenhaal as a soldier whose consciousness is injected into a “quantum rendering” of a terrorist attack on a Chicagobound commuter train, with eight minutes to figure out who planted the bomb in order to stop a second, larger strike. It’s a grabber of a premise, with similar themes to director Jones’s previous film, Moon – and many of the same flaws. Jones lays out the clues to key plot points so laboriously that we can figure them out well ahead of the characters, and the naive existentialism falls apart if you think about it for any length of time. Source Code is watchable in spite of itself, and Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan (as a fellow passenger) are great together. But it’s not nearly as clever as it thinks it is – especially in its final minutes. 93 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 Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
Sucker PuNch (Zack Snyder) aims for
pure spectacle in an amped-up tale of an institutionalized teenager (Emily Browning) and her fellow inmates (Abby Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung) battling their way through a series of pointless, video-gamey challenges. None of it makes much sense, but it’s not supposed to – it’s like a fugue state in there. 110 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre
TexTualiTy (Warren P Sonoda) 94 min.
See Also Opening, page 66. Opens Apr 22 at Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24.
The ToPP TwiNS: uNTouchable GirlS
(Leanne Pooley) uses footage of concerts and political actions to create a terrific tribute to singing twins Lynda and Jools Topp, out lesbians with radical politics who became New Zealand’s largest cultural export. 84 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
Tyler Perry’S Madea’S biG haPPy FaMily (Tyler Perry) 106 min. See Also Opening, page 66.
Opens Apr 22 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale.
uNkNowN (Jaume Collet-Serra) is a ludi-
crous, 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) Kennedy Commons 20
The warriNG STaTeS (Chen Jin) 126 min.
See Also Opening, page 66. Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
waTer For elePhaNTS (Francis Lawrence) 121 min. See Also Opening, page 66. Opens Apr 22 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.
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(Andy DeEmmony) features Om Puri, reprising his role as George, a Pakistani immigrant living in Manchester, who decides to take his roots-hating son for a vacation in the old country. A crowd-pleaser with a great performance from Puri. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20
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(Tom McCarthy) grows in stature while you watch, starting out as a lightweight dramedy about a struggling lawyer and wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) and slowly accruing detail and emotional heft. Writer-director McCarthy lets the story develop naturalistically, which means the first half risks feeling aimless while Giamatti and his co-stars establish their characters. Stick with them – it’s worth it. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
wiNTer iN warTiMe (Martin Koolhoven) looks like an old-time good-guys-versusbad-guys drama set in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village. But as the film unfolds, things aren’t so black-and-white, which is basically what high schooler Michiel (Martijn Lakemeier) has to learn. When he chases after a downed British plane, he winds up getting in over his head with the surviving pilot (Jamie Campbell Bower). Disgusted by his father, the village mayor,
whom he sees as a collaborator, Michiel is drawn to his more principled uncle (Yorick van Wageningen). Michiel’s coming-of-age story is handled with exquisite delicacy, and director Koolhoven keeps the tension high. But the conventional thriller aspects – and unlikely escapes – seem almost silly compared to what Michiel learns about human complexity and betrayal. Subtitled. 103 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Cumberland 4
wrecked (Michael Greenspan) gets off to
such a great start – a man awakens, pinned in the passenger seat of a car that’s crashed somewhere in a forest, with only his wits to save him – that it’s a shame to watch it slowly burn off its potential. The first 40 minutes play as a gripping survival thriller, with Adrien Brody’s amnesiac accident victim trying to escape the wreck with dwindling resources and limited mobility. But once the situation changes, things become markedly less interesting and Christopher Dodd’s script takes on the tenor of an old computer text game: go here, find this, try that. After Frozen, Buried and 127 Hours – which use static situations to explore and illuminate the people trapped inside them – Wrecked just feels pitifully underdeveloped. And the final scene is just dumb. 89 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
“A SPECTACULAR WONDER. Easily one of the year’s best films!” Jake Hamilton, FOX-TV/Houston
“A beautiful and captivating film that you will never forget!”
“A gorgeous romantic tale full of life, love and beauty.” James Rocchi, MSN Entertainment
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your hiGhNeSS (David Gordon Green)
does for 80s sword-and-sorcery fare like Deathstalker and The Sword And The Sorcerer what Hobo With A Shotgun does for the Troma oeuvre and MacGruber for the Cannon canon: it takes the piss out of it with irreverent good humour. It’s set in a mythological world where a layabout prince (Danny McBride, who co-wrote the film with Ben Best) reluctantly follows his vainglorious elder brother (James Franco) on a mission to save a maiden (Zooey Deschanel) from a dark wizard (Justin Theroux). It’s a challenge strapping warriors have faced ever since Arnold Schwarzenegger oiled up for the second Conan movie, and there’s definitely something perversely entertaining about watching Franco – and Natalie Portman! – running around waving swords and delivering some fairly twisted medieval dialogue. Not all of it works, but it’s slapped together with such dopey cheer that I didn’t mind sitting through it to see what came next. 101 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 3
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551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884
2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 10:20 Sat 3:55, 6:40, 10:20 Mon 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 HOP (G) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Tue 12:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:00 Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Tue 12:50, 3:45, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 9:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 RIO (G) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Wed 1:30, 3:50, 7:25, 9:50 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:30 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Tue 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9:05 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon 12:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Tue 12:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00
Metro
West End KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 2:45 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Fri-Wed 9:30 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Fri-Mon 11:00 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 12:30 7:15 Fri-Wed 2:45, 7:15 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 9:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) 5:00 RANGO (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 AFRICAN CATS Fri-Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 12:05, 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 6:55, 7:35, 10:00, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 9:05 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 Thu 9:10 HANNA (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 12:50, 4:15, 7:25, 10:10 HOP (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:15 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:35 4:30 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:15, 9:25 Fri-Wed 9:10 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:05, 6:05 RIO (G) Thu 12:00, 12:45, 2:35, 3:35, 5:10, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 10:15 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:35, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:30, 9:35 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Tue-Wed 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:40, 3:45, 4:35, 6:50, 7:30,
9:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:40, 1:40, 3:45, 4:35, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 4:35, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:40 Wed 12:40, 1:40, 3:45, 4:35, 7:40, 9:45, 10:40 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:35 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:20 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:00, 6:15, 8:55 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 2:00 5:00 7:40 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 ARTHUR (PG) 1:10, 6:55 Thu 4:10, 9:30 HANNA (PG) 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 HOP (G) 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 INSIDIOUS (14A) 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:35 RIO (G) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 SCREAM 4 (14A) 1:20, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriWed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:45
East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971
ARTHUR (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Tue 6:50, 9:30 Wed 9:30 HANNA (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Tue-Wed 6:40, 9:20 HOP (G) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Tue-Wed 7:10, 9:40 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 6:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 RIO (G) Thu 7:30, 10:00 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:30, 10:00 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:20, 10:00 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 9:20 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri, Sun-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50
North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550
ARTHUR (PG) 2:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Thu 1:10, 4:00 mat, 6:40, 9:10 INSIDIOUS (14A) 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 Thu 9:40 LA RAFLE 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Sat 11:59 late THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 RIO (G) 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:35 late RIO 3D (G) 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 SCREAM 4 (14A) 1:00, 2:20, 3:50, 5:10, 6:50, 8:00, 9:30, 10:40 Fri-Sat 11:50 late SOURCE CODE (PG) 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:25 late YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 9:40, 11:55 Sun-Wed 9:40
GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:05, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 1:05, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TueWed 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 CERTIFIED COPY (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 3:55, 6:55 DUM MAARO DUM Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 TueWed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 HANNA (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 HOP (G) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:25 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:35 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 9:40 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 Sat, Tue 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 Wed 3:45, 9:15 continued on page 72 œ
T:11.25”
“Marchesa Photo Parlour” by Walter Willems & Camilla Singh
T:9.833”
Bruno Billio, Dan McClure, Hughene Acheson and Marchesa Luisa Casati, played by Tara Aghdashloo.
Thank you to all our supporters for making MASSIVE PARTY a huge success. HUGHENE ACHESON & DAN McCLURE, Co-chairs
BRUNO BILLIO, Artistic Director White Ink
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Wed 9:00
COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217
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WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 WIN WIN (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, SunMon 1:15, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45
SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)
FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 HANNA (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:55 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 HOP (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 1:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:50 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 RIO (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu-Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30
SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432
AFRICAN CATS Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:20, 9:10 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 2:00 HANNA (PG) Thu 12:50 3:50 6:50 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 10:10 HOP (G) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 RIO (G) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriWed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10
Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226
ARTHUR (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 7:50, 10:15 Mon 7:45, 10:10 Tue-Wed 7:35, 10:00 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:45, 6:20 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:40 HANNA (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 HOP (G) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Mon 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 8:00, 10:20 Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 9:10 RIO (G) Thu 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:25, 2:45, 5:00 Tue-Wed 5:10 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:40, 10:00 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:15, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 6:00, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:15, 9:10 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:15, 6:10, 8:50 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:20, 8:50 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriMon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45
AFRICAN CATS Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:35 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 CATCH ME... I’M IN LOVE (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:20, 10:05 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 7:05, 9:55 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 12:55 3:45 7:05 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 RIO (G) Thu 12:30, 1:05, 3:10, 3:40, 6:30, 6:50, 9:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 6:30, 9:00 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:25 Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:25 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:35, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriWed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 1:25 4:10 6:55 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:35, 6:55, 9:45
EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 6:55 AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TueWed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:20, 6:15, 9:05 Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:15, 9:05 HANNA (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 HOP (G) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:00 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 Tue-Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 3:30, 9:45 RANGO (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:25 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:25 Tue-Wed 3:25 RIO (G) Thu 3:45, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 3:50, 4:50, 6:45, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:40, 9:20 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Thu 10:20 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriMon 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Sat, Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:25
KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:30 Fri-Mon 1:15, 7:00 Tue-Wed 7:00 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 DUM MAARO DUM 2:25, 5:40, 9:00 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat GAME (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:45, 9:00 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 HANNA (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:00, 12:00, 1:30, 4:20, 5:05, 7:00, 7:45, 9:40, 10:25 Mon 12:00, 1:30, 4:20, 5:05, 7:00, 7:45, 9:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:20, 5:05, 7:00, 7:45, 9:40, 10:25 HOP (G) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:00, 7:35 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20
JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 4:15, 10:05 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:10, 2:00, 7:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 7:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:00 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:30 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:30 PAUL (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:30, 5:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 10:25 RANGO (PG) 2:30 Thu 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 SOUL SURFER (PG) 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 11:25 mat SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Thu 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:50 THANK YOU (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:00, 2:20, 5:30, 8:50 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:30, 8:50 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:40, 10:10 THE WARRING STATES Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 TueWed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:05, 1:50, 3:55, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:20 Mon 1:05, 1:50, 3:55, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:50, 3:55, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:20 WEST IS WEST (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 WIN WIN (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 ZOKKOMON 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat
GTA Regions Mississauga
COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456
ARTHUR (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 BORN TO BE WILD 3D (G) 12:00, 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:15 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG) Wed 7:00 RANGO (PG) Thu-Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 Wed 3:35, 6:10, 9:00 RIO (G) 1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:25 Thu 12:05, 2:35 mat, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat only 1:05 4:35 7:00 9:25 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon, Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Tue 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:15, 1:25, 3:15, 4:25, 6:15, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 1:25, 3:15, 4:25, 6:15, 7:35, 9:30, 10:25 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:40, 3:50, 10:00 SUCKER PUNCH: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu-Tue 8:30 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriWed 12:45, 4:20, 7:25, 10:05 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00
COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)
110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 2:50, 7:35 AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 11:55, 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15 TueWed 12:05, 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15 ARTHUR (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 FriMon 11:55, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:45 HANNA (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 HOP (G) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 5:10, 10:05 RIO (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:40, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 RIO 3D (G) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Mon 11:15, 2:05, 4:35, 7:00, 9:20 Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:00, 9:20 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 2:25, 3:10, 5:05, 5:50, 7:45, 8:25, 10:25, 11:00 Fri-Sat 11:30, 12:35, 2:25, 3:10, 5:05, 5:50, 7:45, 8:25, 10:25, 11:00 Sun 11:30, 2:25, 5:05, 5:50, 7:45, 8:25, 10:25, 10:50 Mon 11:30, 12:35, 2:25, 3:10, 5:05, 5:50,
7:45, 8:25, 10:25, 10:50 Tue-Wed 12:35, 2:25, 3:10, 5:05, 5:50, 7:45, 8:25, 10:25, 10:50 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Mon 11:25, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Mon 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriMon 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 11:10, 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:50
SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373
AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TueWed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:15, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Sat, TueWed 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 HANNA (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 HOP (G) Thu 4:00, 4:50, 6:30, 7:15, 9:10, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:30, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00
North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001
AFRICAN CATS Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TueWed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:20, 6:35, 9:25 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 BORN TO BE WILD 3D (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:45, 6:00, 7:15 Fri-Mon 12:00, 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu, TueWed 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (R) Thu 9:05 HOP (G) Thu 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:25 Fri-Mon 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:25, 9:15 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 RANGO (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:35 RIO (G) Thu 3:35, 4:15, 4:45, 6:00, 6:40, 7:15, 8:30, 9:10, 9:45 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:15, 6:00, 8:30 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:20 RIO 3D (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:35, 9:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:10, 1:50, 4:10, 4:50, 7:05, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 5:00, 7:05, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:25, 9:50, 10:00 SOUL SURFER (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:25, 6:20, 8:50 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:35, 6:15, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 9:15 SUCKER PUNCH (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:15, 9:50 SUCKER PUNCH: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu-Tue 8:45 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) FriMon 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:45, 1:30, 3:45, 4:25, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 3:45, 4:25, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:15
ARTHUR (PG) Thu 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 FriSun 11:00, 1:40, 2:20, 4:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15 DUM MAARO DUM 6:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:35, 3:05 mat HALL PASS (14A) 4:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat HANNA (PG) Thu 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 FriSun 11:10, 1:05, 1:55, 3:50, 4:40, 6:35, 7:20, 9:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:35, 7:20, 9:25, 10:10 INSIDIOUS (14A) Thu 4:35, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:35, 2:20, 4:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 5:00, 6:50, 7:35, 9:30, 10:15 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 5:35 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:40 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Fri-Sun 2:10, 7:30 Mon-Wed 7:30 TEXTUALITY Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Tue 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Wed 4:55 THANK YOU (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05
RAINBOW PROMENADE (I)
PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 1:10 4:20 7:05 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 1:20, 6:45 HOP (G) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:00 RIO (G) 12:50, 2:50, 4:50, 6:50, 8:50 SCREAM 4 (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 7:15, 9:35 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:10 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) 1:30, 7:10 Thu 4:30, 9:30
West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590
ARTHUR (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:25, 9:10 Mon 12:40, 3:30, 6:25, 9:05 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:25, 9:05 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID 2: RODRICK RULES (G) Thu 3:25, 6:20 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:20 Tue-Wed 3:35 HANNA (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Mon 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 HOP (G) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:05 Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 9:15 PAUL (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 7:45, 10:25 MonWed 6:40, 9:10 RIO (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 RIO 3D (G) Fri-Mon 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 SCREAM 4 (14A) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Mon 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:10 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 10:35 Mon 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 3
Water For Elephants
INTERCHANGE 30 (AMC)
30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:40
Watch it Online Trailers for all films at
nowtoronto.com/movies 72
APRIL 21-27 2011 NOW
indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and How to find a listing
Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.
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How to place a listing
All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.
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Thu 21 – Miller’s Crossing (1990) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 4:15 pm. Incendies ñ (2010) D: Denis Villeneuve. 6:45 pm. Rue
Morgue Magazine presents An American Werewolf In London (1981) D: John Landis. 9:30 pm. rue-morgue.com. Fri 22 – Barney’s Version (2010) D: Richard J Lewis. 3:45 pm. Press for Truth presents Into The Fire D: Dan Dicks, an inquiry into the G20 Summit events in Toronto. 7 pm. Advance tickets from Conspiracy Culture, 1696 Queen W, 416-916-1696, pressfortruth.ca. Biutiful (2010) D: Alejandro González Iñárritu. 9:30 pm. saT 23 – The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) D: Brad Furman. 4 pm. Barney’s Version. 6:45 pm. Biutiful. 9:30 pm. suN 24 – Ethiopian film. 4 pm. Barney’s Version. 6:30 pm. The Lincoln Lawyer. 9:10 pm. MoN 25 – Biutiful. 4 pm. The Cayle Chernin Memorial: A Celebration Of Life, including screenings of her work, hosted by Deb Filler and David Gale. 7 pm. Free (donations accepted for The Cayle Chernin Memorial Fund). caylecherninmemorial. vonality.com. Tue 26 – Barney’s Version. 3:45 pm. Biutiful. 6:30 pm. The Lincoln Lawyer. 9:25 pm. Wed 27 – The Lincoln Lawyer. 4 pm. Barney’s Version. 6:30 pm. Biutiful. 9:10 pm.
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saT 23 – Amores Perros (2008) D: Alejandro González Iñárritu. 3 pm. Free.
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Thu 21 – The Free Screen: Ne Change Rien
(2009) D: Pedro Costa. 7 pm. saT 23 – Pete’s Dragon (1977) D: Don Chaffey and Don Bluth. 2 pm. In Conversation with Christopher Doyle on Chungking Express (1994) D: Wong Kar-wai. 7 pm. See first-run films, page 66. suN 24 – The Big Combo (1955) D: Joseph H Lewis. 1 pm. Tue 26 – The Big Combo. 6:30 pm.
repertory schedules
Lots of Room for discussion THE ROOM (Tommy Wiseau) Rating: N (movie); NNNNN (movie with Q&A) Oh hi, reader! Perhaps you’re wondering why we’re talking about The Room now. After all, Tommy Wiseau’s hypnotically abominable melodrama has been playing midnight shows at the Royal since the summer of 2009. But this week Wiseau himself is in town to introduce five screenings of The Room – two each on Friday and Saturday, and a third on Sunday – and to hold Q&As after each. And that means this shit just got real. Will some savvy audience member finally get Wiseau to reveal what the movie means? Can we expect some insight into what motivates his character Johnny, a San Francisco ladies’ man whose glad-handing ways mask a terror of abandonment? Might he explain his incomprehensible decision to
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Tommy Wiseau, pictured with Juliette Danielle, joins Royal Q&As this weekend.
shoot the film simultaneously in HD and 35mm, with two cameras locked together on a platform so neither shot is ever properly centred? Will he admit that The Room was never intended to be a comedy, and the only way he can save face is by convincing people they’re laughing with it rather than at it? Don’t expect any revelations. Journalists and bad-movie buffs
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Lewis. 6:45 pm. Black Swan (2010) D: Darren Aronofsky. 9:15 pm. Fri 22 – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011) D: John Chu. 2 pm. Gnomeo & Juliet (2011) D: Kelly Asbury. 4 pm. Another Year (2010) D: Mike Leigh. 6:45 pm. Incendies (2010) D: Denis Villeneuve. 9:15 pm. saT 23 – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. 2 pm. Black Swan. 4:15 pm. Another Year. 6:45 pm. Incendies. 9:15 pm. suN 24 – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. 4:15 pm. Another Year. 6:45 pm. Incendies. 9:15 pm. MoN 25 – Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. 2 pm. Gnomeo & Juliet. 4 pm. Another Year. 6:45 pm. Incendies. 9:15 pm. Tue 26 – Incendies. 6:45 pm. Another Year. 9:15 pm. Wed 27 – The Adjustment Bureau (2010) D: George Nolfi. 1:30 pm. True Grit (2010) D: Ethan and Joel Coen. 7 pm. Biutiful (2010) D: Alejandro González Iñárritu. 9:15 pm.
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Thu 21-Wed 27 – Continuous screenings
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150 John. 416-973-3012. nFB.ca/MediaTheQue
available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. Wed 27 – Free Favourites At Four: The Strangest Dream (2008) D: Eric Bednarski. 4 pm. Free.
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Thu 21 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.
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John Travolta plays a movie soundman who rescues a woman (Nancy Allen) from a crashed car driven by a presidential hopeful. The candidate dies, and his cronies launch a coverup, but the soundman has a gunshot on his tape – and a conscience. Cue the dirty tricks operative. The movie doesn’t have the sense of allpowerful, souldestroying evil that you’ll find in the great paranoid thrillers like The Manchurian Candidate or The Conversation, but it does deliver some
tense suspense sequences and a fair amount of De Palma’s trademark visual panache. John Lithgow, the black ops agent, and Dennis Franz, a sleazy photogra pher, outshine the stars. Travolta has some expressive moments but often seems to be trying too hard. Allen’s floozie accent sounds like one of the Three Stooges filtered through 40s noir. Extras highlights include an inter view with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown, who used it in Blow Out’s par ody slasher film and all 80 minutes of De Palma’s 1968 feature, Murder A La Mod, a daffy thriller that shows traces of Hitchcock, Rashomon and Harpo Marx plus the beginnings of De Palma’s own visual and thematic obsessions. EXTRAS De Palma, Allen, Brown interviews, on-set photos, De Palma fea-
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Colin Firth deserves his Oscar for The King’s Speech.
Corpsewalking is a real profession in China. When somebody dies far from home, corpse walkers prepare the cadaver and set out on foot with a white lantern. The body obediently follows. Magic and superstition are attached to the practice. You can read about it in The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China From The Bottom Up, Liao Yiwu’s excel lent collection of interviews on life at the bottom of society in China. Walking The Dead features a corpse walker and an entire village of sham bling stiffs. An alcoholic reporter and a distraught mother try to stay alive while they search for her daughter, who’s been buried alive. The lurching dead and those who run screaming from them are familiar territory. So is mediocre acting and oc casional lowbudget clumsiness, but the movie cranks out some surprises and a fair measure of tension because the zombies aren’t your typical brain eaters, the characters are more com plex than those the genre usually of fers, and the village setting is unique and creepy. Gorehounds will want more blood. Extras hounds will wish for something to explain how and why this particular CanadaChina coventure got made. Both groups will be disappointed. EXTRAS Widescreen. English audio and subtitles.
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What makes The King’s Speech so watchable is the layered nature of the man and his dilemma. Bertie, the Duke of York, must en gage in considerable public speaking, but he suffers from a stammer that causes him excruciating embarrassment, frustration and anger. He consults a speech therapist, a commoner of Australian des cent who isn’t big on proper deference. The stakes get higher when he ascends the throne to become George VI – a job he believes he cannot do – and England heads to ward WWII. Colin Firth delivers all this conflict ed emotion with remarkable English upperclass reticence. By contrast, Geoffrey Rush has a relatively simple ined products of 18thcentury English and European politics and culture. The book was satire. This version is low comedy, and it’s all about Gulliver (Jack Black), a mail room clerk who poses as a travel writer and gets stormtossed onto the island of the tiny Lilliputians. Their excessive formality provides the material for a couple of funny scenes. So does their response to Gul liver’s staging of scenes from Star Wars and Titanic. Mostly, though, Black pulls faces and goes through his inept rock star moves with all the comic grace of a windup doll, while all around him far
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job, but he brings Lionel Logue, the therapist, fully to life as an engaged professional, happy family man and disappointed Shakespearean actor. They are surrounded by the cream of English actors, including Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen, Derek Jacobi as the Archbishop of Canter bury and Timothy Spall as Winston Churchill. The story moves smoothly between the serious and the comic, the private and the public spheres. On his com mentary, director Tom Hooper discusses finding that bal ance, as well as unobtrusive techniques for changing de grees of intimacy and subverting the usual approach to films about the Royals. EXTRAS Director commentary, making-of interviews, cast and crew Q&A, two King George speeches, Lionel Logue doc. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles funnier actors twiddle their thumbs. The gag reel consists of one flubbed scene in which Black’s pants fall down. I gagged. EXTRAS Gag reel. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.
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wondered if my husband has unresolved mother issues. The idea of sexualizing a bodily secretion that’s designed solely for my infant? That seems a bit taboo. But now that I’ve had a baby, my reaction would be somewhat different.” How so? “It can be a challenge to feel intimate after childbirth and as sleep-deprived new parents,” said the new mom. “So I’d perhaps shrug and summon my new mom mantra: whatever works.”
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with men before, but I never really liked it – penises freak me out. My co-worker recently asked me to have a threesome with him and his boyfriend using a strapon. I’m intrigued. They’re both very attractive, and I would like to try it, if only for the story. But I’m worried that TWO penises will really freak me out. I also worry that my strap-on skills, while great for the ladies, would bore two 6-foot-2 gay men. Do you think I should do it? Can you recommend a way to get over my penis fear? Is it a bad idea to try this out with a co-worker? Intrigued But Scared I think you should do it – and you knew I would think you should do it, which leads me to believe that you wanna do it, otherwise you would’ve written to any one of the hundreds of don’t-do-it advice columnists out there. (Prudie would’ve made some great ass-fucking puns but almost certainly would’ve told you not to do it.) Office affairs can get messy – but the
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messes are likelier when the romantic stakes are high. There are no romantic stakes here, IBS, and as long as you’re both mature enough to separate your work relationship from your strap-on relationship, I don’t see why you shouldn’t satisfy your curiosity, theirs and mine. (I’m curious what their height has to do with anything.) As for your fears and insecurities: Tell the boys in advance that dicks scare you, let them know there might be some nervous laughter, and remind them before you start not to point those things at you. Then enjoy, take pics and send a full report – my readers are going to want to know how it went.
i spent a long tiMe in a relationship
with a wonderful man who had a very low libido. I know how challenging it can be when you are not sexually satisfied in a relationship. I have started seeing a new gentleman. After several weeks, he confided that he enjoys being defecated on. I told him I didn’t know that I could accommodate him but I didn’t think any less of him. He seemed relieved that I wasn’t judging him and genuine when he said he wouldn’t want me to do anything I was uncomfortable with. I am wondering if by denying this kink I am being unfair or, worse yet, leaving him feeling unsatisfied in the way my ex made me feel. He has not pushed it, but I want to know if my refusal to do this negatively impacts my GGG assessment. Clean Sheets Enthusiast No, CSE, it does not. People should be
understanding, indulgent and GGG – ”good, giving and game” – and a partner’s reasonable fetishes, kinks and quirks should be accommodated. A thing for feet or cross-dressing or bondage? Totally reasonable! Accommodate away! A thing for shit or animals or seitan? -Unfuckingreasonable. It’s wonderful – I suppose – that your boyfriend felt safe enough with you to share this info, and he’s probably thrilled that you didn’t, er, dump him on the spot. (Prudie could’ve come up with something better.) But the internet was invented expressly to remove guys like your boyfriend from the dating pool. Kink personal sites make it possible for people with unreasonable fetishes to find partners who share their unreasonable fetishes. That you’re still seeing him, and calling him a gentleman, is the best he could hope for from someone he didn’t meet on a shit and/or seitan fetish website.
i’M a 23-year-old Male who is bi-curi-
ous/pan-curious/post-gender-curious. I have recently found myself attracted to penises, but I don’t feel like I’m attracted to any specific men. If you showed me a cropped shot of a hard cock, I’d get aroused. If you showed me a picture of the whole guy, no arousal. Many of my friends are very into the post-gender/postmodern cultural studies mindset. In college, a time in my life when I felt no arousal looking at male genitalia, they mocked me for considering myself straight. I’m wondering if the disconnect of attraction toward the
male sex organ but not men is the product of simply training myself to break down the assumed straightness I’ve spent most of my life living. I am fairly picky, but I meet many women I am attracted to. I really like the general idea of having sex with a guy, just not any specific one. Am I just trying to be a sexual tourist? Am I valuing queerness for the sake of it? Maybe my trepidation toward sex with a man is from the general societal constraints put on male-on-male loving? Cock Observer Laments Disconnect Or maybe you’re straight. Lots of straight men like to look at cock, COLD, which is why there’s so much cock on display in porn created by and for heterosexual men. Straight men can identify with those hard cocks and live vicariously through them. But very few straight guys – no truly straight guys, many straight guys would argue – make the leap from admiring and/or being vicariously aroused by cock to actually sitting on one and/or finding other men attractive. Accept that you’re straight, COLD, pursue the women you’re attracted to and stay the hell away from heterophobic post-gender/postmodern/pan-sexual cultural studies majors whose immaturity, self-loathing and anger all manifest in a refusal to accept that a good guy can also be a straight guy. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net
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